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South Carolina Educational Television
statewide South Carolina
Digital: see table below
.1: PBS (1970–present)
.2: Create/SC Channel
.3: ETV World
.4: SCETV PBS Kids
South Carolina Educational Television Commission
Sister stations
South Carolina Public Radio
September 29, 1963 (57 years ago) (1963-09-29)
Former affiliations
NET (1963–1970)
see table below
Transmitter coordinates
www.scetv.org
South Carolina Educational Television (branded as South Carolina ETV, SCETV or simply ETV) is a state network of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television stations serving the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is owned and operated by the South Carolina Educational Television Commission, an agency of the state government which holds the licenses for all of the PBS member stations licensed in the state. The broadcast signals of the eleven television stations cover almost all of the state, as well as parts of North Carolina and Georgia.
The network's primary operations are located on George Rogers Boulevard in Columbia, across from Williams-Brice Stadium on the campus of the University of South Carolina; SCETV operates satellite studios in Spartanburg, Sumter and Rock Hill.
1.1 Digital TV era
2 Commission
3 Network
3.1 Regional television stations
3.2 Digital television
4 Cable and satellite availability
5 Logos
5.1 SCETV original programming (current and past)
5.1.1 Television programming
SCETV's first telecast in 1958, from Dreher High School.
The state network began in 1957, after the South Carolina General Assembly authorized a study in the use of instructional television in the state's public schools. A studio was opened in the library of Dreher High School in Columbia. The first telecourses (a French course taught by Madame Lucille Turney-High and a geometry course taught by Cornelia Turnbull) aired on September 8, 1958 via closed circuit television.[1] By action of the South Carolina General Assembly, The South Carolina ETV Commission was created as a state agency and began operations on July 1, 1960, and by 1962 it extended closed-circuit, classroom television service to all 46 South Carolina counties.
In 1963, the Commission launched the first open-circuit (broadcast) educational station in South Carolina, WNTV in Greenville. One year later, WITV in Charleston signed on. Two years later, WRLK-TV in Columbia, made its debut. The network grew to eleven television transmitters covering all of the state. After years of receiving NET and PBS programs on tape delay, it entered PBS' satellite network in 1978. In 2000, SCETV broadcast the first digital television program in the state. Since 2003, the state network identifies on-air as simply "ETV."
Station identification for ETV HD (circa 2009).
The Commission entered public radio in 1972, when WEPR in Clemson signed on the air (WEPR later moved its city of license to Greenville). The state radio network eventually expanded to eight stations and was called the South Carolina Educational Radio Network (SCERN) until 2003, when it was renamed ETV Radio. While "ETV" generally refers to television, SCETV viewed "ETV" as a general brand name for both its radio and television properties. In 2015, however, the radio network rebranded as South Carolina Public Radio.
R. Lynn Kalmbach was selected as the network's project director in 1958 and led it until his death in 1965. Henry J. Cauthen became ETV's president and general manager and served in numerous leadership roles developing American public broadcasting, including chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Cauthen retired in 1997. Paul Amos took the helm as ETV's third president in 1998 until his death in 2000. Maurice "Moss" Bresnahan joined ETV as president and CEO from 2001 to 2008. David Crouch served as interim president in 2009. Linda O'Bryon served as president from 2010 to 2017. Anthony Padgett is the current president and CEO.[2]
Digital TV era
Despite the DTV Delay Act national transition extension to June 12, 2009, SCETV discontinued the analog signals of its 11 full-power stations February 18, 2009.
Each station's post-transition digital allocations and the FCC Repack Plan (2017) are as follows:
Call Letters
Initial Analog
Pre-Transition
Digital Channel[3]
Digital Channel
FCC Repack
Plan (2017)[4]
WNTV 29 9 9 8
WITV 7 49 7 9 (24)
WRLK-TV 35 32 32 33
WJPM 33 45 45 16
WEBA 14 33 33 21
WJWJ 16 44 44 32
WRJA 27 28 28 29
WNSC 30 15 15 34
WHMC 23 9 9 11 (28)
WRET 49 43 43 off-the-air
WNEH 38 18 18 26
On April 13, 2017, the FCC identified SCETV will be compensated $43.2 million to have WRET-TV go off-the-air as part of the Spectrum auction.[5] WRET will relinquish RF 43 and go into a channel sharing arrangement with WNTV, starting on January 23, 2018. On August 30, 2017, PBS Kids was added on new subchannel .4 and online.[6][7]
On October 31, 2017, SCETV submitted an application to change the digital terrestrial signal of WITV from channel 7 (VHF) to channel 24 (UHF); the changeover is scheduled to take place between May and July 2020.[8][9]
There are nine members of the ETV Commission. Eight are appointed by the Governor for six-year terms—one from each Congressional District and one from the State at-large who serves as Chairman. The ninth member is the State Superintendent of Education who is ex-officio.[10]
SCETV's television network consists of 11 digital transmitters that cover almost all of South Carolina, as well as eastern portions of Georgia (including Augusta and Savannah) and southern portions of North Carolina (including Charlotte and Asheville). SCETV's headquarters and main production facility is located in Columbia, with production facilities in Rock Hill, Spartanburg and Sumter.
Regional television stations
SCETV initially planned to make all eleven of its television stations capable of airing local programming. Four full-fledged stations were built and staffed in Beaufort, Rock Hill, Spartanburg and Sumter before the idea was abandoned in the early 1980s. After a massive reduction in force in 2004, the stations were downgraded to production facilities. In 2012, WJWJ-TV in Beaufort was converted into a repeater of the network.[11]
The original plan was for each station to carry callsigns of the form WxTV, but after WNTV and WITV signed on it was determined that there were not enough such callsigns available.[12] Beginning with the third station, WRLK-TV in Columbia, most of the remaining callsigns represent prominent officials who either supported SCETV or represented the station's coverage area.
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The SCETV stations are:
City of license
(other cities served)
(VC / RF)
Call letters' meaning
Public license information
WNTV Greenville 29 (PSIP)
8 (VHF) September 29, 1963 (57 years ago) (1963-09-29) 65 kW 377.8 m (1,240 ft) 34°56′28.6″N 82°24′37.6″W / 34.941278°N 82.410444°W / 34.941278; -82.410444 (WNTV) 61010 Profile
WITV Charleston 7 (PSIP)
7 (VHF); to move to 24 (UHF) January 19, 1964 (57 years ago) (1964-01-19) 20 kW 521 m (1,709 ft) 32°55′28.6″N 79°41′55.2″W / 32.924611°N 79.698667°W / 32.924611; -79.698667 (WITV) 61005 Profile
WRLK-TV1
"ETV Headquarters" Columbia 35 (PSIP)
33 (UHF) September 6, 1966 (54 years ago) (1966-09-06) R. Lynn Kalmbach (first general manager of ETV Commission)[12] 62 kW 315.7 m (1,036 ft) 34°7′7″N 80°56′12.7″W / 34.11861°N 80.936861°W / 34.11861; -80.936861 (WRLK-TV) 61013 Profile
WJPM-TV Florence 33 (PSIP)
16 (UHF) September 3, 1967 (53 years ago) (1967-09-03) James Pierce Mozingo III[13] (state legislator, 1935–72) 45 kW 242.4 m (795 ft) 34°16′48.1″N 79°44′34.4″W / 34.280028°N 79.742889°W / 34.280028; -79.742889 (WJPM-TV) 61008 Profile
WEBA-TV Allendale
(Aiken–Barnwell–Augusta, GA) 14 (PSIP)
21 (UHF) September 5, 1967 (53 years ago) (1967-09-05) Edgar Brown Allendale[13] 427 kW 241.3 m (792 ft) 33°11′15.7″N 81°23′49.2″W / 33.187694°N 81.397000°W / 33.187694; -81.397000 (WEBA-TV) 61003 Profile
WJWJ-TV2
"ETV Lowcountry" Beaufort
(Hilton Head–Hardeeville–Savannah, GA) 16 (PSIP)
32 (UHF) September 6, 1975 (45 years ago) (1975-09-06) James M. Waddell, Jr.[13] (state legislator, 1954–58, 1960–92)[14] 117 kW (STA)
385 kW (CP) 76.5 m (251 ft) (STA)
366.1 m (1,201 ft) (CP) 32°42′42.5″N 80°40′53.8″W / 32.711806°N 80.681611°W / 32.711806; -80.681611 (WJWJ-TV) 61007 Profile
WRJA-TV1
"ETV Sumter" Sumter 27 (PSIP)
29 (UHF) September 7, 1975 (45 years ago) (1975-09-07) R. J. Aycock[13] (state legislator, 1935–36, 1949–74)[15] 98.4 kW 364 m (1,194 ft) 33°52′51.9″N 80°16′15.7″W / 33.881083°N 80.271028°W / 33.881083; -80.271028 (WRJA-TV) 61012 Profile
WNSC-TV1
"ETV Carolinas" Rock Hill
(Charlotte, NC) 30 (PSIP)
34 (UHF) January 3, 1978 (43 years ago) (1978-01-03) North and South Carolina 403 kW 211.6 m (694 ft) 34°50′23.7″N 81°1′6.3″W / 34.839917°N 81.018417°W / 34.839917; -81.018417 (WNSC-TV) 61009 Profile
WHMC4 Conway
(Myrtle Beach) 23 (PSIP)
28 (UHF) September 2, 1980 (40 years ago) (1980-09-02) Horry County, Myrtle Beach, Conway 950 kW 229.6 m (753 ft) 33°57′2.5″N 79°6′30.5″W / 33.950694°N 79.108472°W / 33.950694; -79.108472 (WHMC) 61004 Profile
WRET-TV1,3
"ETV Upstate" Spartanburg 49 (PSIP)
8 (VHF)
(shared with WNTV) September 8, 1980 (40 years ago) (1980-09-08) Richard E. Tukey[16] (director, Spartanburg County Chamber of Commerce, 1951–79)[17] 50 kW 302.1 m (991 ft) 34°53′11.3″N 81°49′15.3″W / 34.886472°N 81.820917°W / 34.886472; -81.820917 (WRET-TV) 61011 Profile
WNEH Greenwood
(Anderson) 38 (PSIP)
26 (UHF) September 10, 1984 (36 years ago) (1984-09-10) 49 kW 229.8 m (754 ft) 34°22′20.3″N 82°10′4″W / 34.372306°N 82.16778°W / 34.372306; -82.16778 (WNEH) 60931 Profile
1. WNSC-TV (branded as "ETV Carolinas"), WRJA-TV (branded as "ETV Sumter"), and WRET-TV (branded as "ETV Upstate") are regional production facilities. The other six transmitters are full-time relays of WRLK (branded as "ETV Headquarters").
2. WJWJ-TV (branded as "ETV Lowcountry") previously maintained a regional production facility which was closed down in 2012.[11]
3. WRET-TV used the callsign WRTS-TV before sign-on.[16]
4. WHMC used the callsign WIIB before sign-on.[18]
SCETV offers four digital television services available over-the-air, and through the digital tiers of some cable television providers. ETV HD is the primary feed with high definition content from PBS and SCETV broadcast in the 1080i resolution format. The South Carolina Channel (SCC) carries the national Create service daily, with regionally produced documentary programs focusing on the Carolinas airing during the evening hours. ETV World (ETVW) provides live newscasts from Europe, notably from Germany's Deutsche Welle and the United Kingdom's BBC television networks, along with live coverage from the South Carolina State House. SCETV PBS Kids is the fourth channel, a 24/7 service also available online. SCC, ETVW and ETVK are transmitted in 480i standard definition.
PSIP Short Name
xx.1 1080i 16:9 ETV Main SCETV programming / PBS
xx.2 480i SCC South Carolina Channel (local documentaries / Create from 12 midnight to 8 p.m.)
xx.3 ETVW ETV World (PBS West Coast feed and block programming from BBC, DW-TV and NHK World)
xx.4 ETVK PBS Kids Channel
Cable and satellite availability
SCETV's television network is carried on nearly every cable television provider in South Carolina. Additionally, Rock Hill's WNSC-TV is carried on Charter Spectrum's systems on the North Carolina side of the Charlotte market.
On DirecTV and Dish Network, WRLK-TV, WNTV, WITV, WNSC-TV, WJWJ-TV, WEBA-TV and WJPM-TV are respectively carried on the Columbia, Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville, Charleston, Charlotte, Savannah, Augusta and Florence/Myrtle Beach local feeds. The South Carolina Channel, ETV World and SCETV PBS Kids have yet to be offered by satellite services.
South Carolina Educational Television logo, 1963
South Carolina ETV Network, first color logo, 1967
South Carolina ETV logo, 2016
SCETV original programming (current and past)
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Television programming
By the River[19]
Carolina Business Review (in conjunction with UNC-TV and WTVI in Charlotte)
Carolina Classrooms [20]
A Chef's Life (with Markay Media, Peabody 2013),[21] Emmy for Outstanding Directing Lifestyle/Culinary/Travel, 2014)[22]
ETV Classics
Expeditions with Patrick McMillan [23]
For Your Home[24]
Live at the Charleston Music Hall
Live coverage of the South Carolina State House
Making it Grow [25]
Palmetto Scene [26]
Reel South (in conjunction with UNC-TV and The Southern Documentary Fund) [27]
Historical: (partial)
Action Packed Cliffhangers (1980s series on the serials from the golden age of cinemas)
American Playhouse: Roanoak (mini-series, 1986) PBS
At Home Southern Style
Crucible of Empire: The Spanish American War (1999) Great Projects Film Company Inc. for PBS
The Day the Universe Changed (BBC series, presented by SCETV in the U.S., 1986) PBS
The Dooley and Pals Show (SCETV distributed the secular version of this children's series to PBS stations)
Enemies of War (2001) ITVS / PBS
Firing Line (produced by SCETV for PBS from 1971 to 1999)
Germans in America (four-part history series 2008) public TV (syndicated)[28]
Great Performances: The Consul (opera, 1977) PBS
Great Performances: Vanessa (opera, 1978) PBS
Great Projects: The Building of America (2002) Great Projects Film Company Inc. for PBS
Jobman Caravan
The Magic School Bus (Animated Nelvana/Ellipse production based on the children's book series; presented by SCETV and aired on PBS from 1994–1998), later moved to the Fox network.
Mary Long's Yesteryear (Mary Long died in 1998, but reruns continue on The South Carolina Channel)
NatureScene (nature walk series with hosts Rudy Mancke and Jim Welch, videography by Allen Sharpe, 1978–2003) syndicated, public television [29]
Palmetto Places
Piedmont Quiz Bowl - 1980s and 1990s (WRET-TV in Spartanburg)
Primary Colors: The Story of Corita (documentary on Corita Kent, 1990) PBS [30]
Priscilla's Yoga Stretches
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey (2001) Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/William Greaves/PBS
Sandlapper's Corner (Late 1970s children's educational show focused on South Carolina culture and history)
Six Gun Heroes (1980s series on the western stars from the golden age of cinema)
Studio See (SCETV's magazine-style children's show, seen nationwide on PBS in the late 1970s and early 1980s)
Under The Blue Umbrella (In-school program from the 1970s that dealt with a single-subject; nationally syndicated to PBS stations)
Under The Yellow Balloon (Similar to Blue Umbrella; from the early 1980s)
Voices and Visions (13-part poetry series, 2004) PBS [31]
^ ""In Our Schools" Features Finalists in Teacher of the Year Program". SCETV. April 9, 2013. Archived from the original on March 1, 2010. Retrieved April 26, 2013.
^ https://www.scetv.org/blog/etv/2017/scetv-names-new-president?page=&ref=blogs/tags/press-release
^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
^ "RabbitEars.Info: Repack Plan for South Carolina ETC". April 13, 2017. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
^ "FCC Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. April 13, 2017. p. 1. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
^ "Stations for Owner - South Carolina Educational Television Commission". RabbitEars.Info. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
^ "SCETV Kids Goes 24/7". August 31, 2017. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
^ "Modification of a DTV Station Construction, Permit Application #0000034488". Federal Communications Commission. October 31, 2017. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
^ https://www.scetv.org/about/repack. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ http://www.scetv.org/about/leadership/etv-commission
^ a b http://www.islandpacket.com/2012/02/02/1950600/wjwj-studios-close-for-financial.html
^ a b "A selection from a decade of visits to tower and studio sites in the Northeast and beyond". Fybush.com. Retrieved April 26, 2013.
^ a b c d "South Carolina Educational Television Commission Program Evaluation Report [July 2018]" (PDF). South Carolina House of Representatives.
^ "James Madison Waddell". The Greenville News. January 17, 2003.
^ "South Carolina Legislature Online - Member Biography". South Carolina Legislature.
^ a b "About ETV Upstate". South Carolina ETV. April 30, 2018.
^ Davis, Kathleen (April 30, 1998). "S.C.'s 'secret weapon' lures industry to area". Spartanburg Herald-Journal.
^ "WHMC Facility Data". FCCData.
^ "ETV Lowcountry". South Carolina ETV. June 15, 2018. Retrieved May 10, 2019.
^ http://www.scetv.org/television/programs/carolina-classrooms
^ http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/a-chefs-life-pbs
^ https://www.pbs.org/about/news/archive/2015/daytime-emmy-awards/
^ http://www.scetv.org/media-kit-expeditions-patrick-mcmillan
^ SCETV Presents
^ http://www.scetv.org/television/programs/making-it-grow
^ http://www.scetv.org/television/programs/palmetto-scene
^ https://www.scetv.org/program/reel-south
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 3, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2016. CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1063572C27BEE8D3
^ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/470740/Primary-Colors-The-Story-of-Corita/
^ https://www.learner.org/catalog/producers/vvcreators[permanent dead link]
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Lymphatic fluid takes detour
Using an imaging process, scientists from ETH Zurich are able to render lymphatic vessels visible, including newly formed ones (left in the picture, microscopic image). Credit: Steven Proulx et al. / Biomaterials
When tumours metastasise, they can block lymphatic vessels, as researchers from ETH Zurich have discovered using a new method. The lymphatic fluid subsequently has to find a new path through the tissue. Such "detours" could well be the reason why metastasis misdiagnoses can occur in hospitals.
A tumour alters the lymphatic system around it – and in a much more complex way than was previously assumed. Tumours are known to release messengers to trigger the formation of new lymphatic vessels. Researchers from ETH Zurich have now discovered that a metastatic tumour can also block lymphatic vessels completely.
The fact that the impact of tumours on the lymphatic system is so diverse underlines the importance of the lymphatic system in cancer and its spreading. Metastases form when cancer cells break away from the original tumour and are washed into a lymph node with the lymphatic fluid, where they can metastasise. As a team of scientists headed by Michael Detmar, a professor at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, has now revealed, if this metastasis grows it can block the lymphatic flow to the corresponding lymph node. As a result, the lymphatic fluid needs to find a new path through the tissue to another lymph node, effectively taking a "detour".
Nano marker substance for lymphatic tissue
The ETH-Zurich scientists made this observation in experiments on mice using a relatively novel, non-invasive imaging technique called near infrared imaging, which involves injecting a fluorescent substance into the body that "glows" in the shortwaveinfrared range if stimulated with laser light. Using an infrared camera, the radiation can be recorded and thus the distribution of the marker substance observed. Thanks to one such new substance developed on a nanometer scale by Jean-Christophe Leroux, also a professor at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, it is now possible to display lymphatic vessels specifically with near infrared imaging for the first time.
To produce the nano marker substance, the researchers combined fluorescent dye molecules with a series of other comparatively large molecules with a precisely defined diameter. In tests conducted on mice, a molecule diameter of eight to ten nanometres proved ideal to render the lymphatic vessels visible. "These molecules are large enough to be transported in the lymphatic fluid yet small enough not to be absorbed by the body's own scavenger cells and transported into the bloodstream," explains Detmar.
Method with benefits
The dye becomes conspicuous by glowing brightly. "We can illuminate anatomical details with it that you couldn't see in the past, such as the tiny lymph valves in the lymphatic vessels," explains Detmar. Because, according to the research to date, the new substance is not toxic and can be excreted back out of the body, it is just the ticket for use in humans in future. Clinical trials are already in the pipeline.
Another advantage over alternative imaging techniques, such as positron emissions tomography (PET): near infrared imaging is much more straightforward. Instead of being reliant on the infrastructure of central hospitals, one day we will be able to use the method anywhere with the aid of portable infrared cameras, even in small medical practices.
Metastases misdiagnoses
According to Detmar, the ETH-Zurich scientists' observation that the lymphatic vessels can be blocked by metastases through to the lymph nodes will have a major impact on cancer medicine. In oncology, the general view is that a tumour that metastasises does so in so-called sentinel lymph nodes, the lymph node into which the lymphatic fluid is conducted from the tumour. In order to detect these sentinel lymph nodes in breast or skin cancer patients, for example, a doctor injects a dye into the tumour. The first lymph node into which this dye is transported is regarded as a sentinel lymph node. During the subsequent biopsy, an expert can determine whether it is a metastatic node.
However, the scientists' work now reveals that this method is not foolproof. After all, if a metastasis in a lymph node blocks the lymphatic flow and the fluid is redirected to another lymph node, as it stands the doctor examines the latter for metastases. If this lymph node is not metastatic, a misdiagnosis can occur, according to which the patient does not have any metastases and thus does not receive the correct treatment. Detmar is convinced that near infrared imaging has a major advantage over conventional methods due to its high resolution: in many cases, the initial stages of the blocked vessels are visible with near infrared imaging.
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Archie Comics coming soon to Bollywood; to release as live-action film
Archie, Betty and Veronica will soon get an Indian avatar. Photograph:( WION Web Team )
PTI New Delhi, Delhi, India Mar 08, 2018, 02.44 PM (IST)
Archie Comics is getting a Bollywood treatment as the beloved characters from Riverdale High will soon be seen in a live-action, theatrical film.
The quartet of Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead will be reimagined with an all-Indian cast.
Archie Comics, in partnership with Graphic India, will put a desi twist to the characters created by Bob Montana and John L Goldwater, a statement read.
Archie Comics CEO Jon Goldwater said the team is excited to partner with Graphic India to bring Archie and his friends to Bollywood.
"Archie's lasting and growing presence in India made this move the logical next step as our stellar library of characters continues to expand into other media. It's a major moment for Archie and its fans around the world," Goldwater said.
Sharad Devarajan, Co-Founder & CEO of Graphic India, said the main four characters have been a source of inspiration for numerous Bollywood films over the years and it was time they got their film.
"These characters have held a special place in the hearts of Indians for decades and we have no doubt that the new Indian cast of Archie and the gang will be an exciting moment for the country," Devarajan added.
The production, which will be the first international comic to be translated for Indian screens, is in the early stages with an official release date to be announced.
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Q: Does $ \sum^\infty_{n=1} \frac{e^n \cdot n!}{n^n}$ converge? By ratio test,
$$ \sum^\infty_{n=1} \frac{n!}{n^n}$$
converges as the limit will become $e^{-1}$. If I add $e^n$ to it, the ratio test then fails:
$$ \sum^\infty_{n=1} \frac{e^n \cdot n!}{n^n}$$
How would I be able to show that this series is convergent/divergent?

A: We have by Stirling's Approximation that
$$\frac{e^n\cdot n!}{n^n}\geq \frac{e^n}{n^n}\cdot \sqrt{2\pi}\cdot  n^n\cdot \sqrt{n} \cdot e^{-n}=\sqrt{2\pi }\cdot \sqrt{n}\underset{n\rightarrow \infty}{\not\rightarrow} 0.$$

A: Note that
$$\frac{e^n \cdot n!}{n^n}\to \infty$$
but it is sufficient to prove that
$$\frac{e^n \cdot n!}{n^n}\ge 1$$
indeed
base case

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*$n=1 \implies  e \ge 1$

induction step

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*$\frac{e^{n+1} (n+1)! }{ (n+1)^{n+1} }=\frac{e (n+1)n^n }{ (n+1)^{n+1} }\frac{e^n \cdot n!}{n^n}\ge e\frac{n^n }{ (n+1)^{n} }=\frac{e }{\left(1+\frac1n\right)^n  }\ge 1$

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R.I.P. DEANNA DURBIN
reposted from 2006 (with slight alterations)
About twenty years ago the L.A. Times published an amazing article about Deanna Durbin. One of their writers---could it have been Kevin Thomas?---found himself in the French Village where Durbin resides. They didn't know one another, but he decided to affect an unannounced pop-in. He rang the bell, or pulled the chain, or rapped with the knocker. . .or whatever, and a moment later the door was answered by someone immediately recogniseable. Doubtlessly Durbin! She was perfectly okay with the unannounced intrusion, and the writer spent the rest of the afternoon with her as she lived her daily life, went shopping in the market, etc. Worth checking out the article on-line or wherever.
I was at songwriter Lew Spence's 2006 birthday party here in L.A. about a half-year back---the one where Pinky Winters sang AND accompanied herself on piano---and had a delightful conversation with writer-actor-director George Furth. He told me that he happened to be pretty good friends with Durbin. There were about a half-dozen others in the conversational circle (all much younger than Furth and myself), and nary a one of them had ever heard of Durbin. Not even a single, "I think I once heard my mother. . .." Somewhat ironically, even as I write this, Durbin is a very well-known and revered artist in the former Soviet Union where pretty much, I am told by reliable persons, nearly everyone knows who she is.
For the record, my favorite Durbin movie is "Christmas Holiday," where she plays piano in a whorehouse and falls in love with Gene Kelly who turns out to be a psychopatic killer and is mowed down in a hail of gunfire, after which she goes into a church and sings Ave Maria. The End! Directed by the great Robert Siodmak, who helmed this one between making "Phantom Lady" and "Cobra Woman". . .the same year, 1944!
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY WITH DEANNA DURBIN AND GENE KELLY! Clearly wartime movie patrons thought they getting a festive holiday musical romp. Instead, can you just imagine their utter shock, dismay and even occasional vomitation as they stumbled out of theaters after viewing this deceptive film noir? The film in which Durbin intro'd Frank Loesser's "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year."
It's a safe bet that this sub rosa film noir was responsible for at least a few suicides amongst unforewarned filmgoers. ("Momma went to the Bijou and never came back.")
One of several failed attempts image reconstruction for the star. Finally, in 1949, she packed it in and moved to France, lived happpily everafterward, and was never heard from professionally again. Like Garbo, Jo Stafford and only a handful of others, she knew to quit while she was ahead (well. . .almost).
Happy Birthday, Sir Duke
photo by Ted Williams
From my memoir, Early Plastic
"The next time I went was a Sunday morning, at the very beginning of a day's worth of Duke Ellington Apollo Theater stage shows. He didn't come on until the set was nearly over at around 12:30 pm, but at least he showed (jazz musicians are notorious for knowing the existence of only one eleven o'clock per 24 hours). I didn't have the good sense to appreciate being in the presence of legendary tappers Teddy Hale and Bill Bailey, who preceded Ellington that day and who I foolishly thought of as being something boring and passe that I had to sit through to get to the Duke. This was a common attitude of the day that, for a time, threatened to kill off this great indigenous American art form."
Can't even recall the name of the movie at the Apollo that day. Angel Baby? Probably split after the Ellington set.
Anita Gravine update
Jazz singer Anita Gravine's new web site
Department of amplification
A couple of weeks ago I wrote on this blog that the only time I had ever been fired from a job was at a recording studio in New York more than a half-century ago. Not true. I forgot. This morning I remembered another gig from which I was also bounced. It goes something like this.
A quarter-century (or so) ago, I worked for a presti-di-ji-ja---oh, hell, magician---by the name of Richard J. Potash (aka: Ricky Jay) at something called the Mulholland Library of Conjuring and the Allied Arts in Los Angeles (a snooty way of saying "Magic Museum"). He hired me as an assistant librarian at the place solely because I happened to know who the mid-19th century professional French farteur, Le Petomane, was. No other reason. Whether I could type or spell was not even a consideration.
I could probably fill a book with (mostly) negative recollections about the year or so I was in Potash's employ. One particlar remembrance I have is of a CBS summertime (lowest viewership expected) TV not-so-special in which he, ahem, starred. His tarsome forte was doing tricks by throwing playing cards at things. The show was shot at some restored film theater in the wilds of Orange County. All I can actually recall about the affair is that the later videotaped punch-ins for botched tricks must have cost nearly as much as the actual production itself.
Basically, I was canned as the result of doing my job properly---Potash eventually won some kind of major award as the result of my actions---which pissed him off no end. The incident happened to mark one of the few times in my life when I responded with a comeback of which I still remain somewhat proud. No l'espirit de l'escalier for me. I said to him, "May you die of cancer without me." I then turned on my heels and (I can only call it) flounced out of his office. I still have no idea of from where my response cameth. Alas, if what I meant by my outburst was a curse upon the life of the near-morbidly obese Potash, it seems not to have worked. It appears that there is a new documentary about/with him of one sort or another. Twelve viewers on IMDB have, so far, awarded it a 3.3 stars rating out of a possible 10. Thus, perhaps, giving his good buddy, playwright David Mamet (The Anarchist, Phil Spector, etc), a run for Potash's money in the recent boxoffice-bombs sweepstakes.
I forget but I never forgive.
"Welcome" to youtube
Dusty post redux
(updated blog post from 3/2/2005)
Dusty Springfield died in 1999. She was born on this day in 1939. Were Dame Dusty (she was knighted by the Queen of England mere days before her passing) still among the living, she would be 74.
Fourteen years later, I retain sense memory of the news flashing across Dusty's fan sites on the internet, only moments after her passing. At the time, I happened to be spinning [at hundreds of rpms per second] a CD Springfield track, "Morning," ("The morning, so sad; the morning so beautiful. . .") when the unhappy but not unexpected news came.
The singer's fans are a loyal lot. Most of those Dusty sites and boards still bustle with posthumous news, i.e., rumors of a biopic, a rose named after her, etc. But of this legion, I am probably one of the relative few who ever saw her perform live, much less received a message from her on an answering machine. Let me explain:
In 1980 I was writing for the late, lamented L.A. Hearst newspaper, The Herald-Examiner. Mostly I was relegated to reviewing and interviewing events and people that others either didn't care to write about or else knew nothing. I joked about the job and called it "Schlock Patrol." But most of it was mercifully right down my alley, especially the chance to review a Springfield concert (8/22/80) at L.A.'s Greek Theater. It was a Friday evening event; the review appeared the following Monday. Here's what I wrote, along with some added 2005 comments by me in brackets. I'll get to the phone message, afterward.
"Long overdue for a stateside performance, the once-reigning [wish I hadn't used that "once"] queen of blue-eyed soul, Dusty Springfield, took to the stage Friday evening at the Greek Theater as opening act for dithyrambic singer/composer Peter Allen. She [Springfield, that is] has not performed in the United States in eight years, and never in L.A. [where did I get that?. . .not true] ; after the encores and flurry she generated, her decidedly low profile is more a mystery than ever. For Springfield, almost as seminal a '60s rock force as Aretha Franklin, was in fine form as she ripped and roared through an enthusiastically received 15-song set [I was so high on excitement at finally seeing Springfield "live," it's a wonder I was even able to count to 15].
It wasn't until the singer plunged into her grab bag of hits ("The Look of Love," "Son of a Preacher Man" etc.) that much of the less-than-capacity [could you puh-leese be a bit more specific?] audience comprehended the magnitude and pervasiveness of Springfield's to contribution to pop music over the past decade-and-a-half; but as if to dispel charges of antiquarianism the singer chose to open her presentation ["presentation"? Goddeses do not phone ahead, and they definitely DO NOT "present"] with a recent hit (not hers) "At Midnight" [well, whose then?, you dribbling, indistinct scribbler]. Though there were already many Springfield aficianados at the Greek, clearly a great many others were won over to her Ben Webster-ish scoop-de-doop vibrato [must hang on to my jazz creds at all cost].
Utilizing a 15-piece back-up crew, she sveltely strutted and karate-chopped her way through this one [meaning "Almost Midnight"?] in a manner totally unlike the way she might've during the good old days when she was the No. 1 female British pop/rocker [and that "good old days" style consisted of. . .?]
Dusty launched a consciousness-raising [did I really write that?] hit medley which included, among others, "Wishin' and Hopin'" and "You Don't Have to Say You Me." Also offered up [and Goddesses also do not "offer"] were a few items ["items". . .gakkkk] from the widely-acclaimed 1969 album, Dusty in Memphis---her last effort before an inexplicable mid-career recording sales slump began to plague her in a manner somewhat akin to soul man Al Green's fall from public favor. But Dusty is definitely of the moment, and so the real crowd pleaser was her last (but one) encore, a heavily-desaccharinized re-tooling of the top-billed Allen's "Quiet Please, There's a Lady on the Stage." If headliner Peter Allen is your cup of musical meat, he too woulda' knocked your socks off Friday; but his real contribution was the smashing "Welcome-back, Dusty" party thrown that night." ###
After the concert, there was a party, but if Springfield attended I didn't see her. And that was fairly much that until Tuesday morning when I arrived at the paper to learn that Springfield had phoned and wanted to speak with me. The person who took the message also captured the gist of what Springfield wanted to talk to me about: She wished to thank me for the kind words, etc. Never had THAT happen before. She left her number. I phoned her back, got a machine, and left my number. Then, a couple of days later I came home to find a message on my machine, which I saved and still have around here somewhere at Oblivion Towers. But that is the closest I came to talking with her. Just as well. ME: "Humadahumada. . ." if you catch my drift.
Since Springfield's brave, valiant, Margaret Sullavan-like passing in 1999, there have been several biographies about her. All of which, to one degree or another, paint a rather harrowing picture of Dusty's private life. And finally explain the "mystery" (see above review) of why she had maintained such a low profile throughout much of the '70s. Hard to believe, but when she performed that killer and obviously very expensive act at the Greek, in fact Springfield was living in Rape-at-High-Noon downtown Hollywood, only a couple of steps up from bag lady (not that there's anything wrong with that). During the last decade or so of her life, she did finally get her offstage act together as well; alas only to be gobsmacked with a diagnosis of terminal breast cancer five years before her death. (Seeeee! I told you there was no god.)
Fortunately, the act she performed at the Greek that night was captured for posterity. . . sort of. For it is virtually the same show she'd performed only a few months earlier before the Royal Family at a charity performance at London's Royal Albert Hall; same backup personnel, almost the same repertoire, identical arrangements. I think she might have even been wearing the same gowns. The video concert opens with Dusty's backup group singing---in essence, for the Queen---"The Bitch is Back." That's my Dusty!
I'm not sure if a video of the affair is commercially available at the present time [there is now in 2013], but I have never witnessed a more crazed, over-the-top audience. Think of a Springsteen concert, then double the fervor. Even the Queen was rattling her jewelry. Like I say, Springfield was flat broke at the time, but she died a quite wealthy woman, who left a significant sum in her will for taking care of her surviving and beloved cat, Nicholas. What a Dame!
Petite Vallee Madeleine
Michael Feingstein's latest entry in his enjoyable and informational Great American Songbook series on PBS reminded me of a relatively brieft but highly memorable part of my life. When I first moved to NYC in the early sixites (I was the Marie Curie of U.S. middle-class runaways), the first job I had was as an intern recording engineer at the once great (but even then, shadow of its former self) studio, Empire Broadcasting.
Feinstein's latest was about the great days of radio and the part played by outfits such as Empire in preserving whatever bits and shards of sound that have managed to survive from that three-decade broadcasting epoch. By the time I arrived there, the place was reduced to recording things like stenography instruction tapes, remakes of the old Farting Contest comedy (?) record, and the occasional commercial for its one big remaining account, Robert Hall Clothes (do they still exist?).
In the course of this week's Feinstein episode, a discussion about the well-known overweening egomania of one-time radio superstar Rudy Vallee ensued. This, too, reminded me of Empire Broadcasting. To wit: One day on the job, I heard a loud commotion emanating from the reception area. It rurned out to be Vallee, arriving for a gig, and furious over our teen receptionist, and soon-to-be nunnery novice, not knowing who he was. Next, turning on his heels, the onetime highly famous (now not so much so) singer stormed out of the place and could still be heard shouting---even after the elevator doors had closed: "I'M RUDY FUCKING VALLEE!" Proof once more that, as C.B. DeMille remarked in Sunset Boulevard, "A hundred press agents working overtime can do horrible things to the human spirit." And that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Empire was the only job from which I was ever fired. . .for general ineptitude. My sacking was topped off by Mrs. Kelaher, the owner, heaving a giant metal reel of two-inch recording tape at me as I made my final exit.
Michael Feinstein's "Songbook" series features much footage of him flying about the country in a private jet and digging through various obscure sound archives, all the way down to dumpsters, searching for precious aural artifacts. It's---as the saying goes---dirty work, but someone has to do it. If I could, I would. As Jim Ameche might have said: "Don't miss a single episode of this exciting program."
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Jonathan Winters R.I.P.
I remember Winters' first network TV appearance EVER. Per usual, I was staying home from school, allegedly sick. And on the Garry Moore daytime show, Moore intro'd this brand new comedian from Dayton, Ohio. Winters then came on and proceded to thoroughly and absolutely KILL (that's comicspeak). So much so that at the end of his turn, Garry invited him back for the very next day's broadcast. Naturally, I was "sick" again the next day. I did that a lot. I was a TV baby, and I LOVED the new-ish medium. School? Feh! If it was a choice between seeing Jonathan Winters on his SECOND TV shot, or else learning how to diagram a sentence. . .fergit it. No contest! Who can EVER forget Winters' "World's Oldest Living Airline Stewardess"? Just read the NYT J.W. obit in which Jonathan describes his alcoholic salesman father as "a hip Willy Loman." Now, I ask you, how hip is that? In the early sixties my friend Ken Weaver and I almost never spoke to one another in anything but Winters argot.
The next big thing?
Jacob Collier is a mere 17 years old. He also sings straight ahead standards and plays first rate jazz piano and bass. (Cute, too.) When I first checked him out on youtube at the suggestion of a friend, it seemed somewhat improbable to me that the culturally bereft U.S. was any longer capable of turning out young talent of the first water like this. A bit of googling disclosed to me that I was---alas and perhaps---correct. Collier is London-based.
There are approx. 15 clips of him on youtube, including a couple of duets with his mother who plays excellent jazz violin. My guess is that he will be able to blow Justin Bieber, JayZ et al and their ilk out of the water in the near future. No CD yet, but even as I write this post, I would surmise that a management team is working overtime to figure out the best way to launch Collier.
This cheers me up!
Thinking about VDP
When I first met Van Dyke Parks it really wasn't all that long after his first great Warner Bros Records period. I was writing for the rock rag, Fusion. Or maybe it was Zoo World, or ROCK, or Rolling Stone or. . .? I was to visit VDP's abode for an interview with him (I'm not sure it was ever published). I asked him on the phone where he lived. He told me, "Melrose Hill," of which---being fairly "new" to L.A.---I had never heard. (He doesn't live there anymore.) See link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose_Hill,_Los_Angeles
"Where's that?," I asked. He replied: "Oh, just a shriek away from rape at high noon." Which was the sad truth and yet couldn't have been a more apt set of directions. For when I turned east off of godforsaken Western Avenue, I found myself in an almost rural (and beautiful) back country, mile square (or so) section that I could never have dreamed existed in this otherwise totally low-beat, slummy area of Hollywood. In other words, just "a just a shriek away from rape at high noon." I still remember his description from all those decades ago. Parks and his wife even had a small working farm in their large backyard. Talk about anomalous!
Some time earlier in this century I spoke with Van Dyke on the phone when I interviewed him about arranger, the late (let's call him) Michael Drink, for a Japanese music mag. Parks was completely open about Drink's homosexuality which was, it turned out, a closely guarded secret on the part of the latter's family. Van Dyke volunteered the info without my even asking. Up until then, I had no idea. I didn't write about it in the mag. That sort of thing is still not done in Japan, but it turned out to be the key that unlocked a number of other mysteries about Drink, who is a bit famous in Japan, but not in the U.S. For example, Drink arranged many hundreds of tracks, but only conducted on a handful of occasions. Turns out he was fearful of being "spotted" as gay by the old boy network of mostly men's men studio players ("How about those Miami Dolpins!?" Nudge nudge.)
Parks wasn't outing ('member "outing"?) Drink. It just never crossed Van Dyke's mind to be secretive about something that was so crucial to Michael's artistic inscape. A couple of years later, in a U.S. mag, I DID allude to Drink's death of HIV and the family went totally nuts. Threats of lawsuits and (stopping just this side of implied) violence, i.e. "We know where you live."
Van Dyke called my house a few months ago and even though I had not spoken to him on the phone for several years, he immediately recognized my voice, i.e. he asked: "Bill, may I speak with David." He is the only person I've ever encountered telephonically who can tell our voices apart. Talk about having a good ear!


Earlier this week The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, one of the family of Carnegie Museums, announced a special happening for what would have been the artist's 85th birthday. In cooperation with a church and a technology partner, the museum established a 24/7, night vision enabled live on the web camera feed at Andy Warhol's grave to capture and perhaps protect the grave of one of America's most well known and celebrated artists.
In the course of my service as an art, culture, and museum soldier, I probably have attained the rank of First Lieutenant. Maybe it's a Brevet rank only, and I am really just a sergeant doing 1st Lt. things because all the 1st and 2nd Looies are dead. This has crossed my mind. Rank of any kind has its privileges, and one of those has been I have met some of the leading Andy Warhol scholars in Pennsylvania, the home state to an artist most often associated with New York City. How Pennsylvania clings to its sons and daughters is also interesting to me. New York could lay claim to Andy, but Pennsylvania, at least for now, has won the battle in the culture wars to keep Andy close to home. Scholarship about Andy is plentiful, and I have met more than a couple of people who met Andy somewhere along the line.
So here's where I tell you I am some kind of expert on Andy Warhol or Pop Art, right? I don't know if I'd go that far. I know more than the Average Bear about Andy Warhol, and I've given it a few days to have an opinion about the spectacle that is a live feed of a celebrity grave. It is a little creepy, but like one of the scholars I know might say, "That's SO Andy!" She never met him. She doesn't and didn't approve of his approach to making art. She projects her own morality onto Andy's. All of this seems like it would fall in the negative column, but for the most part, her scholarship is, taken with the pill that is knowing her, a very good start to understanding Andy Warhol, the last half of the 20th Century in America, and the looming threat of celebritization that is now our daily evening menu on television.
An author and curator I know well would fall into nearly the opposite camp, and she would say, "Andy would have been embarrassed to death by this." She, too, brings her own gentle problems to the task of figuring out who Andy was. I think she would prefer to go back in time and hug him to writing about him. Yet she knows hugging him would have made him feel like a plank of wood on an alien planet with voluptuous probes wrapping around his bony parts. The damp warmth of a human embrace might have melted Andy on this planet.
One of the collectors I know who met Andy would probably say, "I don't know what Andy would have said about this – unless it was his idea. Then he would just snow you about it anyway." If you ever heard Andy being interviewed or talking about his art, this is probably the wisest piece of insight you'll ever get about Andy Warhol. The former director of the Warhol museum, Tom Sokolowski, would probably come pretty close to the same conclusion although there'd be more swearing and a better delivery.
Andy was profoundly strange and creepy. He was incredibly self conscious, but he was also highly self aware. Andy was, in fact, spiritual and clingy about his strange-outside-of-Pennsylvania ethnic Catholicism. He loved his mother. He ate tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich every day for lunch. He liked getting one over on the art world, and mostly he wanted to be liked and was lonely. This sounds to me like he was just like the rest of us. I'm not sure even he bought completely into the idea that "In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." Andy's minutes are longer than mine.
The camera at his grave captures fame seekers, art mourners, weirdo worshipers, museum people on pilgrimages, and curious kids. Most cemeteries and graveyards are lonely places; families don't hop in the station wagon and go see grampa's grave on a Sunday afternoon after Mass and lunch these days. They used to. Those were different times.
Museums, motorcycles, art, pop culture, literature, Gen X, history, politics, baseball, Pennsylvania. I direct the activities of Pennsylvania's statewide museum association. I am like Mad Max driving a mini van with properly installed car seats.
I admit to being transfixed by the feed. It seems strange to me now but a lot of visitors seemed to get something positive from it. Then I thought about how we visited relatives' graves after church on Sundays as a kid. It wasn't creepy at all. It was uplifting and a bonding experience for my family.
get off my (museum) lawn!


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On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Dovecot uses the OpenLDAP library. By default, the CA must be installed under the directory specified in the TLS_CACERTDIR option found under /etc/openldap/ldap.conf (default value is /etc/openldap/certs). After copying the CA, you'll need to run "c_rehash ." inside the directory, this will create a symlink pointing to the CA.
This should report "Verify return code: 0 (ok)".
Both of these have their own advantages and disadvantages.
LDAP as userdb and other common LDAP query settings.
hosts: A space separated list of LDAP hosts to connect to. You can also use host:port syntax to use different ports.
If multiple LDAP servers are specified, it's decided by the LDAP library how the server connections are handled. Typically the first working server is used, and it's never disconnected from. So there is no load balancing or automatic reconnecting to the "primary" server.
Connect to ldap port (389) and use STARTTLS command. Use tls=yes to enable this.
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It's possible to use SASL binds instead of the regular plaintext binds if your LDAP library supports them. See the sasl_* settings in dovecot-ldap-example.conf. Note that SASL binds are currently incompatible with authentication binds.


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Kayak fishing: Big thrills on a small budget
Gary Garth
Special for USA TODAY
KENTUCKY LAKE — The rivulet that feeds the creek that spills into a bay that's large enough to swallow 10 football fields before joining this nearly mile-wide reservoir is barely knee-deep, narrow as a cave, and overshadowed by a willow tree older than most of the humans who have seen it.
There is no discernible current.
Thanks to my boat, an Old Town Predator PDL, which is both a mechanical marvel and the simplest of watercraft, I am beyond reach of the bass boats and other power rigs that are plying the bay and main lake points in search of bass and crappie.
The water near the bank is nervous, a good indicator of fish activity. A roll cast from my 8-foot, 5-weight fly rod misses the mark. The popping bug lands on the fringe of the mud bank then sloughs into the water. A tug on the line. Nothing. Again. Nothing. Another twitch and the water boils as though I'd tossed in a brick.
For an instant, the fish and I are connected. Then only a slack line and an accelerated heartbeat. A few paddle strokes and the boat glides quietly to where the creek begins to meld into the bay and is flanked by a flooded grassy flat and where the water depth ranges from feet to inches and holds the promise of more fish.
Kayaks (and canoes) aren't new, of course. They have been used by fishermen and hunters for thousands of years and were the original water vehicles for indigenous peoples across much of the globe. It's easy to see why. Few tools match the simplicity and function of a kayak, whether it's in original form — skins stretched over a wooden frame — or the latest incarnation, a polyethylene molded boat complete with rod holders, rudder and a pedal propulsion system like the Predator's PDL.
While kayaks have been around for millennia, they have recently enjoyed a surge in popularity among sport fishermen.
Reasons vary but include practicality, price and simple fishing pleasure.
"Kayak fishing is just more fun for me," said Michigan-based angler Dave Mull, who owns a 17-foot, 75-horsepower bass boat, which he's used once in the past year in favor of his kayak fleet. "A kayak's stealth and low profile let you get right up on fish — I've caught bass that I've made eye contact with. Kayaks also let you get into places that (power) boats can't go."
Mull prefers a Hobie-model kayak and owns two, the 11-foot Outback and the larger 14-foot Pro Angler, which, like Old Town's Predator series, was designed specifically for fishermen. And, like the PDL model, Hobie's Outback and Pro Angler employ an optional foot-powered drive system (you can of course still paddle).
"Being able to propel the boat with my legs allows me to move around a lake and fish at the same time," explained Mull, who is regular competitor in kayak fishing tournaments. "Which is a huge advantage over paddle-powered craft when it comes to fishing."
Lee McClellan's preferred angling target are stream-bred smallmouth bass. A few years ago he traded his one-person pontoon boat for a kayak and has never looked back.
"I finally got a kayak for the ability to cover more water in a stream but I also use my kayak for flat water fishing in small lakes," said McClellan, who frequently fishes the waters near his Frankfort, Ky., home.
"Stealth is one of the great advantages of kayak fishing, too," he added. "I can sneak up on shallow water bass in a small lake or the backwaters of large reservoirs where large boats can't go."
Best bargain in fishing boats
Compared to the cost of a fully rigged bass boat, which can range from $10,000 to more than $70,000, the price of a kayak is relative pocket change. Prices start at around $300 for a simple no-frills boat to around $3,000 for a top-end model designed with the angler in mind.
The suggested retail for the Old Town Predator PDL, for example, is $2,800. The Hobie Pro Angler 12 is around $3,200.
The suggested retail for the Vapor 10, the entry-level boat of the Old Town fishing fleet, is $399.
"Lower expense is the reason a lot of guys and gals are getting into kayak fishing," noted Mull. "You can get a really nice new fishing kayak and set it up for fishing with rod holders, a tackle and storage box and even fish-finder electronic sonar and GPS for less than a thousand dollars — a lot less if you buy a used kayak, and there are lots of those available as anglers are constantly upgrading."
David Hadden, the watercraft brand manager for Johnson Outdoors, which owns Old Town Canoes and Kayaks, agrees buyers at all price points will find good options.
"Everybody has a budget," said Hadden, who became addicted to fishing from kayaks and canoes as a young man. "If you have a $500 budget, pick the best boat you can for $500," he said. "But if you have more budget to spend I think some of the items you get as you go up are very important.
"Hands-free fishing, to me, is one of the biggest opportunities for an angler," he continued. "And we're seeing a lot of people go up to a hands-free fishing boat. But I think what you want is to get the maximum amount for your budget as possible."
Fishing kayaks are now available for nearly every niche and angling market.
Tennessee-based Jackson Kayak offers several boats in their fishing fleet but recently began targeting a specific fishing market with their Mayfly, a paddle-powered kayak designed for fly fishermen.
The Mayfly was introduced earlier this year. Sales have been brisk, according to Damon Bungard, product manager for Jackson Kayak and a former whitewater kayaker turned kayak angler.
"Fly fisherman, just like other fishermen, have unique needs, with the line management being the most important," said Bungard. "And the Mayfly was designed specifically for the fly fisherman."
Bungard agrees that a kayak gives an angler access and perspective that is missing from a bass boat or other power rig. But he says the two tools aren't mutually exclusive.
"Fishing from a kayak is just fun," he said. "And fishing kayaks let you get in and out of places the boats just can't go. But I know a lot of guys who have bass boats with kayak cradles so when they get to the right spots they can work an area then get back in their boats and move on."
Life jackets save lives
While kayak models and fishing techniques vary, there is one thing everyone agrees on: Life jackets save lives. But they only work if you're wearing one.
Do so, advise the experts.
"It's just smart to wear a personal flotation devise," said Bungard. "There are far too many accidents that just flat out wouldn't happen if (paddlers) were wearing a PFD."
"It's the most essential thing," added Old Town's Hadden. "There is no lure, bait, rod or reel that's more important than a life vest. Anglers have to understand that. No matter how good of a swimmer or waterman you are. You never outgrow a life jacket. It's the most important thing you can take on any fishing trip."
Choosing a kayak
Fishing from a kayak is a fun and economical way to get on the water. Some things to consider when choosing a boat:
"When I'm talking to someone about a kayak I usually ask them where they like to fish most of the time and what do they like to fish for," said Damon Bungard, product manager for Jackson Kayak. "Because fishing kayaks have evolved to the point where you have everything from kids' boats to really big adult boats. You have river boats. You have long-distance paddling boats. You have boats that prioritize standing. You have boats that prioritize storage. There is really every flavor out there."
Price is another consideration, of course. Old Town Canoe and Kayak's David Hadden advises buyers to get the most boat they can for their budget.
"When I'm doing a seminar and people ask, 'For $300 or $400 what's the best thing I can get to change my fishing?' I tell them it's a $300 or $400 kayak," Hadden said. "If they ask me the same question and their budget is $1,200 it's a $1,200 Predator. If they have $3,000 it's a Predator pedal."
Hadden adds that anglers should not overlook canoes, the tool used by early explorers wherever waters flowed.
"Fishing kayaks are very popular and, honestly, it's the best fishing experience," he said. "But there is something about a canoe. I love paddling a canoe."
Some kayak and canoe dealers offer on-the-water test drives, which Dave Mull highly recommends, especially for novice paddlers. Mull is owner/operator of Black River Kayak Adventures in Paw Paw, Mich., and an experienced kayak tournament angler.
"Go to kayak dealer that allows test rides and try out as many kayaks as you can to see how each will fit what you like to do and — equally important — (physically) fit you so that you're comfortable sitting in it," he said. "Do you prefer pedaling to paddling? Are you going to be fishing in a lot of shallow areas that could damage a foot drive or at least make you want to take it out of the water? Do you want to stand up and fish? Try as many kinds as possible until you find what suits you best."


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Romano's Macaroni Grill es una cadena de restaurantes estilo italiano, de comida ocasional con sucursales en los Estados Unidos, Puerto Rico, México, y Canadá.

El primer restaurante fue fundado por el Philip J. Romano en Leon Springs, Texas, el 19 de abril de 1988. Brinker International tiene los derechos de franquicia desde el 22 de noviembre de 1989.

El 8 de agosto de 2007, Brinker International, anunció que comenzaría a explorar comprador para la compañía que posé 230 sucursales. Si encuentran comprador, Macaroni Grill, sería la primera de las marcas de Brinker en venderse.

Actualmente la sucursal Romano's Macaroni Grill más grande es el restaurante ubicado en San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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The National City acquisition by PNC was the deal by PNC Financial Services to acquire National City Corp. on October 24, 2008 following National City's untenable loan losses during the subprime mortgage crisis. The deal received much controversy due to PNC using TARP funds to buy National City only hours after accepting the funds while National City itself was denied funds, as well as civic pride for the city of Cleveland, Ohio, where National City was based.

Pre-merger history
Both PNC and National City's corporate histories date to the mid-19th century. National City was founded as the City Bank of Cleveland in 1845, while PNC was founded in longtime Cleveland rival, Pittsburgh, as the Pittsburgh Trust and Savings Company, in 1852. Both banks would later receive national charters under the National Banking Act, with National City being able to print U.S. currency until the United States Treasury assumed operations in the 1920s. Both would have strong bases in their home markets, although PNC would until the 1980s be dwarfed in Pittsburgh by Mellon Bank (now The Bank of New York Mellon) and the massive influence of the Mellon family.

Both banks began interstate expansion in the 1980s, with the two eventually competing in Cincinnati and Louisville by the end of the decade. In late 1992, PNC announced plans to acquire Youngstown, Ohio-based Ohio Bancorp. PNC later backed out of the deal, and National City acquired Ohio Bancorp instead in 1993, with the same branches and even some employees of Ohio Bancorp still employed with National City at the time of the PNC deal.

Although PNC would never enter the Cleveland market on its own before the National City deal, National City did enter Pittsburgh in late 1995 with its acquisition of Pittsburgh-based Integra Bank, putting it in third in market share behind PNC and Mellon, and eventually second after Mellon sold off its retail banking division to RBS-owned Citizens Financial Group in 2001.

As early as 2003, there were talks of a potential PNC-National City merger down the road, with National City being the surviving entity. However, PNC CEO & Chairman Jim Rohr, a Cleveland native who would later orchestrate PNC's acquisition of National City, insisted at the time that PNC was not for sale.

National City problems
The downfall of National City began in 2007 when the United States housing bubble began to burst, and consumers defaulted on subprime mortgages. Although National City was otherwise healthy on paper, the mortgage business was dragging down profits into losses, with CEO Peter Raskind even fearing that the bank might fail. National City then put itself up for sale in March 2008.

Adding to the bank's problems, The Wall Street Journal reported on June 6, 2008, that National City had entered into a memorandum of understanding with federal regulators, effectively putting the bank on probation.  Terms of the confidential agreement, entered into a month earlier with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (which regulates nationally chartered banks), were not known.

On June 10, 2008, National City Corp. confirmed that it had reached agreements with regulators "regarding capital levels, risk-management practices and other aspects of its business." The company stated that there had been no material developments in these areas since these memorandums of understanding were signed in April and May 2008.

By October 2008, National City was in serious sale discussions following the failure of Washington Mutual and the forced sale of Wachovia to Wells Fargo. Among the publicly known front-runners were Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp, Toronto-based Scotiabank, and eventual buyer PNC. Scotiabank, which has long stayed out of the U.S. market unlike its Canadian rivals, was considered the best option for the local government since Scotiabank didn't have a pre-existing presence in the United States, allowing most of the National City operations to stay in Cleveland. Although National City and PNC had minimal overlap, the close proximity of Cleveland to Pittsburgh meant massive layoffs in both cities.

Wells Fargo, Fifth Third Bank, and crosstown rival KeyBank all also expressed interest in National City, with Fifth Third even offering to move its corporate headquarters to Cleveland from across the state in Cincinnati if it were to buy National City. Like U.S. Bancorp, Fifth Third had a redundant footprint with National City, while Wells Fargo (even after its acquisition of Wachovia) had virtually no overlap with National City at all. KeyBank and National City had very little overlap outside Ohio, although some branches in Northeast Ohio would've likely required divesture.

Takeover by PNC

In early October 2008, PNC had offered a deal with National City, but backed out. Combined with Scotiabank's decision to once again not enter the U.S. market, National City began preliminary merger talks with U.S. Bancorp.

Meanwhile, the U.S. government began to issue out TARP funds from the $700 billion bailout plan to banks to help stabilize their funds and issue out loans again. On October 23, 2008, when the National City board of directors were about to decide on the U.S Bancorp deal, PNC made an 11th hour offer to buy National City and be its white knight. The following day, after National City was denied TARP funds by the U.S. government, they accepted PNC's offer at about $5.2 billion in stock. The acquisition was a stock purchase transaction completed before the end of 2008.

The deal initially made PNC the largest bank in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Kentucky, as well as the second largest bank in Maryland and Indiana. It greatly expanded the PNC presence in the Midwest as well as entering the Florida market. Pittsburgh, Louisville, and Cincinnati were the only three markets before the acquisition deal that both banks had a major presence in. Overall, the deal made PNC the fifth-largest bank in the United States. After the acquisition, PNC conducted a review of National City's balance sheet and took write-offs and reserves of $12.6 billion on the loan portfolio, indicating how severe the problems were at National City.

Criticism
While some Clevelanders didn't like the fact that National City was being taken over by a Pittsburgh-based rival because of the longstanding NFL rivalry between the two cities, many of the reactions to the PNC-National City deal involved the fact that TARP funds were used by PNC to buy National City.

U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich of Cleveland unsuccessfully fought against the merger, arguing that National City's TARP funds application was never seriously considered, PNC actually took National City's own allotment of TARP funds in addition to its own, and the effects on the local economy. In addition, National City was the only one of the 25 largest U.S. banks eligible to receive TARP funds to be denied TARP funds, with Omaha, Nebraska-based Lauritzen Corporation (ranked 37th nationally) being the next-largest bank denied funds. (Banks owned by foreign companies such as Citizens, HSBC Bank USA, and TD Bank, N.A. were automatically disqualified from receiving TARP funds.) Many Cleveland-based local businesses also had an unsuccessful grassroots movement to save National City.

There was also criticism from National City shareholders. The deal was described as a "take-under," meaning the purchase price was below National City's market value. Shareholders felt that they were being undervalued for their National City stock. Eight National City stockholders received a settlement from PNC on July 31, 2009. Under terms of the settlement, investors dropped their claims in return for the release of more than 400 pages of documents in Delaware State Court.

Nonetheless, the deal was approved by shareholders of both banks on December 23, 2008, and finalized on December 31, 2008.

Aftermath
In the case of Pittsburgh, the two banks had significant overlap to the point it would pose antitrust issues in Western Pennsylvania since both banks had the top two market shares in the Pittsburgh region. As a result, the United States Department of Justice required PNC to sell off 50 National City branches in the Pittsburgh area and 11 more branches in and around Erie to competitors. Wells Fargo, KeyBank, and Fifth Third—which had inquired about acquiring National City as a whole and in the case of Fifth Third at the time had existing branches in Pittsburgh—were all interested in buying the National City branches. JPMorgan Chase, Huntington Bancshares, First Niagara Bank and locally based FNB Corporation (who would later buy Fifth Third's Pittsburgh area branches in 2015 when Fifth Third left the market) were also in discussions for the branches, with Huntington and FNB, like Fifth Third, having existing branches in Pittsburgh.

On April 7, 2009, PNC reached a deal with Buffalo-based First Niagara Bank to buy 57 of the branches. First Niagara officially took over those branches on September 8 after the signs were changed over from National City during Labor Day Weekend. The branches not purchased by First Niagara were the four in Crawford County, Pennsylvania that PNC had to divest; of those four, one branch in Titusville was sold to Emclaire Financial Group while the other three (one in Conneaut Lake, the other two in Meadville, including the branch inside Walmart) were sold to Marquette Savings Bank. Although employees at the branches being sold off were retained (First Niagara, in fact, established a regional office in Pittsburgh at 11 Stanwix Street near National City's Pittsburgh headquarters at 20 Stanwix Street, adding more jobs there.), there were still heavy layoffs at National City's headquarters in Cleveland.

Because of the significant overlap in Pittsburgh that remains, PNC closed seven National City branches & five PNC branches on November 6, 2009, and later closed two more PNC branches on April 23, 2010, with the accounts at those branches being moved to the nearby PNC branch that will remain. As part of the agreement to buy the 57 National City branches from PNC, First Niagara has the right of first refusal to buy the National City branches PNC closes. Despite the branch closures and the sale of others to First Niagara, PNC still ended up with a 46% market share in Pittsburgh, over three and a half times the market share of second-place Citizens Financial Group with 13%. By July 2012, PNC's market share in Pittsburgh increased to 48%, more than the rest of the top ten banks in Pittsburgh by deposits combined; it further increased to a virtual 50% by October 2013. By the time Bank of America announced plans for an organic expansion into Pittsburgh in January 2018, PNC's market share in the area had slipped to 42.8%.

Although experts had expected more TARP funds to be used by stronger banks to buy out weaker rivals, no more deals were ultimately done involving TARP funds.

Conversion to PNC
The National City name, as expected, lasted well into 2009 since it would take PNC some time to integrate the two banks together. PNC began to phase out the National City name in favor of PNC on November 7, 2009, starting with Pennsylvania (where the two had the most overlap), Florida, and the Youngstown & Steubenville, Ohio regions. That day also saw the rebranding of National City Mortgage into PNC Mortgage and NatCity Investments fully merged into PNC Investments. In addition, National City's bank charter was merged into PNC's, effectively having the retail banking branches having yet to convert being legally known as PNC Bank, N.A., d/b/a National City Bank.

The conversion of National City to PNC was completed in June 2010, in the following phases:

February 19, 2010 Central & Southern Ohio (including Cincinnati, Dayton, and the state capital of Columbus), Southeastern Indiana, and all of Kentucky.
April 12, 2010 Northern Ohio (including National City's home market of Cleveland, Akron, Canton, and Toledo) and all of Michigan.
June 14, 2010 The rest of Indiana and all of Illinois, Missouri, and Wisconsin.

Legacy
Despite becoming the largest bank in Ohio upon acquiring National City, PNC has since slipped to second-largest in the state behind Fifth Third Bank, and for several years was neck-and-neck with third place Huntington Bancshares for the second-place spot. Much of the losses for PNC came in Cleveland, where many Clevelanders left PNC upon the April 2010 conversion of National City in the area for other banks, most notably KeyBank, which became the Cleveland market's largest bank by deposits. While National City was Cleveland's top bank at the time of PNC's acquisition, PNC slipped to fourth overall in the area behind KeyBank, locally owned Third Federal Savings & Loan, and Citizens's Charter One brand. PNC has, however, been able to regain some of the losses back, and is currently second in the Cleveland market behind KeyBank. In 2011, PNC opened a museum dedicated to the history of National City within National City's former headquarters in Cleveland. With the 2016 announcement that Huntington would acquire FirstMerit Bank, PNC slipped to number three in market share in both Ohio and specifically Cleveland, with Huntington taking over for Fifth Third as the largest bank in Ohio. By 2020, US Bancorp was Ohio's largest bank by deposits, having grown their deposits in the interim through organic growth while Fifth Third remained second, Huntington slipped to third, and PNC slipped all the way to sixth behind KeyCorp and JPMorgan Chase, a far cry from National City's heyday.

Outside of Greater Cleveland, PNC's acquisition of National City has been considered a success by experts. The move allowed PNC to experience growth in Chicago, and was able to use the Florida footprint acquired from National City to expand in the Southern United States. In 2011, PNC expanded its Florida presence by acquiring branches from BankAtlantic in the Tampa Bay Area, and later acquired the Atlanta-area branches of Flagstar Bank and, in a major expansion in the South, RBC Bank from the Royal Bank of Canada. Since the RBC deal was completed, PNC had been mentioned as a possible buyer of Regions Financial Corporation and/or SunTrust Banks (prior to the latter bank's acquisition by BB&T to form Truist Financial) in order to boost its Southern presence. Despite the speculation, PNC wouldn't make a major acquisition after RBC until it acquired BBVA USA in 2021, which strengthened its Southern presence and gave PNC a presence in the Western United States to make it a truly national bank.

PNC ultimately paid back its TARP funds in full in February 2010 while the National City conversion was still underway. However, it required the bank to sell its Global Investment Servicing division to BNY Mellon in order to have the funds to buy back its shares.

First Niagara Bank, which had mostly been a semi-regional bank within Western New York before acquiring the National City branches in the Pittsburgh area that PNC had to divest, used the National City branches it bought as a launching pad to expand into other markets, acquiring banks in Philadelphia and New England before acquiring HSBC Bank USA's Upstate New York branches. In 2015, KeyBank acquired First Niagara, bringing the former National City branches into the fold that it tried to acquire from PNC.

It can be argued that one of the biggest benefactors of the PNC-National City deal long-term was a bank with no connection to the deal at all: FNB Corporation. Once a community bank under the First National Bank name in nearby Mercer County, Pennsylvania, FNB gradually grew its branch and deposit network to become Pittsburgh's third largest bank within striking distance of catching Citizens, eventually moving its headquarters to Pittsburgh and growing its network to several states and becoming a partner of the Pittsburgh Penguins.

References

External links

 National City Corporation
 PNC Bank
 National City/PNC Customer "Transition" Website

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Subprime mortgage crisis
2000s in Cleveland
2008 mergers and acquisitions


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Q: Set background image to a div in LWC I am findiing Divs dynamically in my LWC component using data-id and that works. But when i am trying to set background image, it says.cannot read of property style of undefined. here is my code:
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    data
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         console.log('target'+this.target);
         this.target.getelement().style.backgroundImage= this.result[i].Offer_Image__c;
      }

any hrlp wil be appreciated.

A: You need to update the property so it is wrapped in the url syntax required by CSS:
event.target.style.backgroundImage = `url(${this.result[i].Offer_Image__c})`;

Also, getelement is not required, as demonstrated above.

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A: Use the background-image in the getter.
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Hello, Like to work on Indian GK. Indian Politics. Copy Writing Research Writing I'm Interested to work with you.
Having fairly sound knowledge of politics in India alongwith command over the language makes me the most suitable candidate for the project.
I'm a good researcher. I'll research for your topic and give you a real facts about it on time. I just need more specific details about your topic to search for.