title: Slamboree (1996)

abstract: The 1996 Slamboree was the fourth Slamboree professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). The event took place on May 19, 1996 from the Riverside Centroplex in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The key feature of the event was a Lord of the Ring tournament, in which wrestlers were randomly paired in Lethal Lottery tag team matches to qualify for a Battlebowl battle royal and the winner of that battle royal would earn a title shot at the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Diamond Dallas Page won the Battlebowl and earned the title of the Lord of the Ring. Aside from the Lord of the Ring tournament, three titles were defended on the card. In the main event, The Giant defeated Sting to retain the WCW World Heavyweight Championship after performing a Chokeslam. In the other title matches, Konnan retained the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship against Jushin Liger and Dean Malenko retained the WCW Cruiserweight Championship against Brad Armstrong.

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# Slamboree (1996)

The 1996 **Slamboree** was the fourth Slamboree professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). The event took place on May 19, 1996 from the Riverside Centroplex in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The key feature of the event was a Lord of the Ring tournament, in which wrestlers were randomly paired in Lethal Lottery tag team matches to qualify for a Battlebowl battle royal and the winner of that battle royal would earn a title shot at the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Diamond Dallas Page won the Battlebowl and earned the title of the Lord of the Ring. Aside from the Lord of the Ring tournament, three titles were defended on the card. In the main event, The Giant defeated Sting to retain the WCW World Heavyweight Championship after performing a Chokeslam. In the other title matches, Konnan retained the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship against Jushin Liger and Dean Malenko retained the WCW Cruiserweight Championship against Brad Armstrong.

## Storylines

At Uncensored, the WCW World Tag Team Champion Sting and Booker T defeated Road Warriors in a Street Fight to get Harlem Heat, a title shot for the WCW World Tag Team Championship against Sting and Lex Luger. Later in the night, Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage defeated Alliance to End Hulkamania, a team consisting of Four Horsemen and The Dungeon of Doom, in a Doomsday Cage match after Dungeon member Lex Luger hit Flair with a loaded glove. This sparked tension within the Alliance as the following night on *Monday Nitro* as Horsemen leader Ric Flair defended the WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Dungeon member The Giant and the match ended in a no contest after interference by Flair's Four Horsemen teammate Arn Anderson and Giant's Dungeon of Doom leader The Taskmaster. Anderson hit Giant with a steel chair and handed it over to Taskmaster and Giant assumed that Taskmaster hit him with it and then attacked his mentor, thus quitting the Dungeon. This also marked the beginning of a rivalry between Dungeon and Horsemen and the end of Alliance. His exit from the Dungeon was confirmed after he came to the ring with a new entrance music and defeated Dungeon member Big Bubba Rogers on the March 30 episode of *Saturday Night*. Jimmy Hart paid off Harlem Heat to let Giant compete against Sting on the April 1 episode of *Monday Nitro*. Later that night, Flair successfully defended his title against Luger. On the April 13 episode of *Saturday Night*, Flair teamed with Giant to pick up a victory against The American Males (Marcus Bagwell and Scotty Riggs). Two nights later on *Monday Nitro*, Flair and Giant challenged Sting and Lex Luger for the World Tag Team Championship but lost via disqualification. The following week, on *Monday Nitro*, Sting and Luger took on Flair and Giant in a title versus title match where Flair's World Heavyweight Championship and Sting and Luger's World Tag Team Championship were on the line. The match ended after Flair inadvertently threw a powder into Giant's face which was intended for Sting and Luger. This angered the Giant and set up a title match between the two on the April 29 episode of *Monday Nitro*, where Giant defeated Flair to win the title. This set up a match between Giant and Sting for the title at Slamboree. Sting began accusing Luger of his betrayal but Luger proved Sting of his loyalty and constantly challenged Giant for the title and got a title shot against Giant on the May 13 episode of *Monday Nitro*, which ended in a no contest after Sting prevented Giant from driving Luger with the announce table with a Chokeslam. Sting and Luger reconciled on the May 18 episode of *Saturday Night*.

## Event

Other on-screen personnel
| Role: | Name: |
| --- | --- |
| Commentators | Tony Schiavone |
| | Bobby Heenan |
| | Dusty Rhodes |
| Interviewer | Gene Okerlund |
| Ring announcers | David Penzer |
| | Michael Buffer |
| Referees | Randy Anderson |
| | Nick Patrick |

### Pre-show

Before the event aired live on pay-per-view, The American Males (Marcus Bagwell and Scotty Riggs) competed against Dungeon of Doom members The Shark and Maxx in a tag team match which aired on *Main Event*. American Males won after Maxx accidentally dropped Shark with a Clothesline while Shark was attempting a Powerslam on Riggs and Riggs fell on Shark for the pinfall victory. Shark attacked Maxx in retaliation, which resulted in the WCW World Heavyweight Champion The Giant performing a Chokeslam on Shark.

### Preliminary matches

The main theme of the event was a Lord of the Ring tournament for a WCW World Heavyweight Championship match at The Great American Bash, in which wrestlers were randomly paired in Lethal Lottery tag team matches to qualify for a Battlebowl battle royal. The opening match of the first round of the tournament featured Road Warriors on separate teams as Road Warrior Hawk and Booker T took on Lex Luger and Road Warrior Animal. Booker gained a near-fall on Luger by performing an axe kick. Luger began fighting with Hawk and a brawl took place during which Road Warriors united against Booker and Luger and then Luger left the ringside. The match ended in a double count-out and both teams were eliminated from the tournament.

Public Enemy (Johnny Grunge and Rocco Rock) faced Chris Benoit and The Taskmaster in the next match. Taskmaster held Benoit down on the table and Public Enemy delivered a *Drive-By* on Benoit through the table and Taskmaster moved out of the way. Public Enemy won as a result.

Steiner Brothers were separated in the next match as Rick Steiner was paired with The Booty Man against Scott Steiner and Sgt. Craig Pittman after Pittman applied a *Code Red* on Booty Man and he accidentally tagged Rick, allowing Rick to deliver a German suplex for the victory.

VK Wallstreet and Jim Duggan defeated The Blue Bloods (Lord Steven Regal and Squire David Taylor) after Duggan hit Taylor with a taped fist.

Dick Slater and Earl Robert Eaton, the third half of Blue Bloods, defeated Alex Wright and Disco Inferno after Slater hit Inferno with his cowboy boot while Inferno was dancing in the ring.

The next match saw Faces of Fear on separate teams as Meng and The Barbarian were paired with Hugh Morrus and Diamond Dallas Page respectively. Originally, Barbarian was set to team with Bobby Walker, but due to an injury to Walker, Page was a last-minute replacement. After a back and forth match, Meng delivered a savate kick to DDP and Barbarian delivered a *Kick of Fear* to Morrus and Faces of Fear simultaneously pinned DDP and Morrus. However, DDP put his foot on the rope and the referee counted Barbarian's pinfall. DDP and Barbarian qualified for the next round.

Fire and Ice (Scott Norton and Ice Train) defeated Big Bubba Rogers and Stevie Ray when Norton pinned Rogers after Rogers collided with Ray.

The final match of the first round pitted rivals Ric Flair and Randy Savage against Arn Anderson and Eddie Guerrero. Anderson attacked Savage before the match and Flair joined Anderson in assaulting him until Guerrero made the save. Flair and Anderson were allied with each other throughout the match despite being on opposing teams. Anderson turned on Guerrero by delivering a DDT, allowing Flair to pin him for the victory. Fire and Ice were randomly selected to perform in the Battlebowl battle royal without having to wrestle in the second round.

Dean Malenko defended the WCW Cruiserweight Championship against Brad Armstrong. Both men traded momentum throughout the match until Armstrong applied Malenko's own submission move, Texas Cloverleaf on Malenko but Malenko caught the ropes. Armstrong attempted the move again but Malenko caught him and delivered a fireman's carry gutbuster from the second rope to retain the title.

The second round of the Lord of the Ring tournament began with Dick Slater and Earl Robert Eaton beating VK Wallstreet and Jim Duggan when Eaton rolled up Duggan after Duggan and Wallstreet began arguing with each other.

Ric Flair and Randy Savage lost to Public Enemy by forfeit after Savage attacked Flair during his entrance as a retribution for Flair's attack on Savage in their earlier match.

Rick Steiner and The Booty Man took on Diamond Dallas Page and The Barbarian in the final qualifying match for the Battlebowl. Booty Man attempted to win the match with a high knee on Barbarian but got a near-fall and then rolled him up for the pinfall but Page delivered an elbow drop to Booty Man and Barbarian pinned him to win the match.

Konnan defended the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship against Jushin Thunder Liger in the second title match of the night. After trading momentum, Liger delivered a fisherman buster and Konnan delivered a whiplash slam for near-falls. Liger performed a *Ligerbomb* on Konnan but got a near-fall and then climbed the top rope and landed on Konnan, which allowed Konnan to deliver a *Splash Mountain* to retain the title.

The Lord of the Ring battle royal was the final match on the undercard and the match stipulated that the winner would earn a title shot at the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. The Barbarian eliminated Diamond Dallas Page but the referee did not see it and Page remained in the match. Rocco Rock charged at Barbarian but Barbarian tossed him over the top rope with a back body drop for the first official elimination of the match. Dick Slater then eliminated Earl Robert Eaton and the two continued to brawl with each other to the backstage area. DDP eliminated Scott Norton over the top rope. Ice Train and Barbarian dominated the opponents and then Train attacked Barbarian. The pinfall stipulation was quietly added into the match after DDP eliminated Johnny Grunge and then Train with *Diamond Cutter*. DDP and Barbarian exchanged moves and Barbarian attempted a diving headbutt on Page but Page avoided it and performed a *Diamond Cutter* to win the Battlebowl.

### Main event match

In the main event, The Giant defended the WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Sting. Sting tried to attack Giant as the match began but Giant overpowered his opponent and dominated him for the earlier part of the match. Giant tossed Sting out of the ring and tried to perform a Chokeslam on the announce table but Sting's tag team partner Lex Luger put Jimmy Hart in the place, preventing Giant from performing the move. Giant accidentally dropkicked the referee, allowing Sting to gain momentum as he delivered a *Stinger Splash* in the ring. Sting diverted his attention to Hart with a Stinger Splash but missed and then performed a diving splash on Giant for a near-fall. Sting applied a Scorpion Deathlock on Giant and then Luger and Hart began fighting for Hart's megaphone, during which Luger accidentally hit Sting with the megaphone and Giant capitalized by delivering a Chokeslam to retain the title.

## Aftermath

The title shot was revoked the next night on *Nitro*, after footage shown that Page was thrown over the top rope by The Barbarian and one foot touched the floor.

## Results

| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1ME | The American Males (Marcus Bagwell and Scotty Riggs) defeated The Shark and Maxx (with Jimmy Hart) | Tag team match | 02:39 |
| 2 | Road Warrior Animal and Booker T vs. Road Warrior Hawk and Lex Luger ended in a double countout | Lethal Lottery tag team match | 06:54 |
| 3 | The Public Enemy (Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge) defeated Chris Benoit and The Taskmaster (with Jimmy Hart) | Lethal Lottery tag team match | 04:44 |
| 4 | Rick Steiner and The Booty Man (with The Booty Babe) defeated Sgt. Craig Pittman and Scott Steiner | Lethal Lottery tag team match | 08:21 |
| 5 | VK Wallstreet and Jim Duggan defeated The Blue Bloods (Lord Steven Regal and Squire David Taylor) | Lethal Lottery tag team match | 03:46 |
| 6 | Dick Slater and Earl Robert Eaton (with Col. Robert Parker) defeated Disco Inferno and Alex Wright | Lethal Lottery tag team match | 02:56 |
| 7 | Diamond Dallas Page and The Barbarian defeated Meng and Hugh Morrus | Lethal Lottery tag team match | 05:15 |
| 8 | Fire and Ice (Scott Norton and Ice Train) defeated Big Bubba Rogers and Stevie Ray | Lethal Lottery tag team match | 03:32 |
| 9 | Ric Flair and Randy Savage (with Woman and Miss Elizabeth) defeated Arn Anderson and Eddie Guerrero | Lethal Lottery tag team match | 04:04 |
| 10 | Dean Malenko (c) defeated Brad Armstrong | Singles match for the WCW Cruiserweight Championship | 08:29 |
| 11 | Dick Slater and Earl Robert Eaton defeated VK Wallstreet and Jim Duggan | Lethal Lottery tag team match | 04:08 |
| 12 | The Public Enemy (Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge) defeated Ric Flair and Randy Savage (with Woman and Miss Elizabeth) by forfeit | Lethal Lottery tag team match | 00:00 |
| 13 | Diamond Dallas Page and The Barbarian defeated Rick Steiner and The Booty Man (with The Booty Babe) | Lethal Lottery tag team match | 05:05 |
| 14 | Konnan (c) defeated Jushin Thunder Liger | Singles match for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship | 09:30 |
| 15 | Diamond Dallas Page won by last eliminating The Barbarian | Battlebowl to determine the #1 contender for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | 09:33 |
| 16 | The Giant (c) (with Jimmy Hart) defeated Sting (with Lex Luger) | Singles match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship | 10:41 |
| (c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match  ME  – the match was broadcast prior to the pay-per-view on *Main Event* | | | |

### Battlebowl eliminations

| Elimination no. | Wrestler | Eliminated by | Elimination move |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Rocco Rock | The Barbarian | Over the top rope via back body drop |
| 2 | Earl Robert Eaton | Dick Slater | Over the top rope via running boot |
| 3 | Dick Slater | N/A | Unknown |
| 4 | Scott Norton | Diamond Dallas Page | Over the top rope |
| 5 | Johnny Grunge | Diamond Dallas Page | *Diamond Cutter* |
| 6 | Ice Train | Diamond Dallas Page | *Diamond Cutter* |
| 7 | The Barbarian | Diamond Dallas Page | *Diamond Cutter* |
| Winner: | Diamond Dallas Page | | | | |

## InfoBox

| Slamboree (1996) | |
| --- | --- |
| Promotional poster featuring various wrestlers | |
| Promotion | World Championship Wrestling |
| Date | May 19, 1996 |
| City | Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Venue | Riverside Centroplex |
| Attendance | 7,791 |
| Tagline(s) | *What goes up Must come down...HARD!* |
| Pay-per-view chronology | |
| **Previous**
Uncensored **Next**
The Great American Bash | |
| Slamboree chronology | |
| **Previous**
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1997 | |


title: Smack Mellon

abstract: Smack Mellon is a non-profit arts organization located at 92 Plymouth Street, in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Smack Mellon supports emerging, under-recognized mid-career, and women artists through a highly regarded exhibition program, competitive studio residency, and technical support to realize new and ambitious projects.

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# Smack Mellon

**Smack Mellon** is a non-profit arts organization located at 92 Plymouth Street, in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Smack Mellon supports emerging, under-recognized mid-career, and women artists through a highly regarded exhibition program, competitive studio residency, and technical support to realize new and ambitious projects.

## History

Smack Mellon was founded in 1995 in Dumbo, Brooklyn by artist Andrea Reynosa and musician Kevin Vertrees in their live/work loft space at 135 Plymouth Street, #306 when the neighborhood consisted of abandoned warehouse buildings and a sparsely populated pioneering class of artist do-it-yourselfers. Since its inception the organization has produced numerous exhibitions, and presented the work of hundreds of artists in four different locations in DUMBO. In 1997 Smack Mellon founding Executive Director Andrea Reynosa brokered a partnership with the Walentas family and their company Two Trees Management for a temporary dedicated space at 81 Washington Street for the exhibition Lost and Found featuring the work of Harmony Hammond and emerging Brooklyn based talent. At that time, Two Trees had a number of vacant historic, industrial properties throughout DUMBO and was interested in providing their spaces to not-for-profit organizations to use for cultural programming. From 1999 to 2005 Smack Mellon occupied a Civil War-era iron foundry at 56 Water Street, which had been turned into a spice milling and grinding facility in the 1950s. Since 2005 Smack Mellon has been located at 92 Plymouth Street in a former coal-fired boiler house that provided steam for heat and power to several industrial buildings in the neighborhood.

## Exhibitions

Today, Smack Mellon’s Exhibition Program continues to advance public interest in the visual arts while providing opportunities for emerging and under-recognized visual artists whose opportunities for exhibition have been limited to realize ambitious projects. Smack Mellon enables roughly thirty artists each year - 60% of whom are women - to create and present large-scale work to the public in their 6,000 sq ft gallery. Smack Mellon features a wide range of work, including sculpture, installation art, painting, photography, film/video, and site specific projects. Smack Mellon provides opportunities for solo exhibitions to artists who do not have commercial gallery representation in NYC.

Previous exhibitions have included the critically acclaimed *RESPOND,* which was a direct response to the continued failure of the United States to protect its black citizens from police discrimination and violence, after learning of the grand jury's decision to not indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the death of Eric Garner.

Smack Mellon's exhibitions have received multiple rewards for best show during the Dumbo Art Festival. In 2013 Bryan Zanisnik's exhibition at Smack Mellon was awarded the prize of best exhibition; and the following year Saya Woolfalk's *ChimaTEK* won the award.

### Exhibition History

**2016** *Two Solo Exhibitions: Christine Sciulli ROIL and Nona Faustine White Shoes* \- January 9 - February 21;

**2015** *Karin Giusti / Michael Kukla* \- September 26 - December 13; *Story of a Story* \- June 13 - July 26; *Art Ready: Selected Work from the Artist Mentorship* \- May 20–24; *Erica Bailey / Yumi Janiaro Roth & Nadine Wasserman* \- March 14 - April 19; *RESPOND* \- January 17 - February 22

**2014** *Selin Balci / Tracey Goodman / Alison Owen* \- December 22 - January 4; *Saya Woolfalk / Vandana Jain* \- September 27- November 9; *FOODshed: Art and Agriculture in Action* \- June 7 - July 27; *In Plain Sight* \- March 15 - April 20; *Robert Hickman / Mónika Sziládi* \- January 18 - March 2

**2013** *Andrea Loefke / LoVid - November 23* \- January 5, 2014; *Shana Moulton / Bryan Zanisnik* \- September 28 - November 3; *Art Ready: Selected Work from the Artist Mentorship* \- May 22 -June 16; *The Hollow Center* \- March 9 April 21; *Janet Biggs / Aude Moreau* \- January 12 - February 24

**2012** *Adriane Colburn / Cheryl Molnar* \- September 29 - Nov 4; *Art Ready: Selected Work from the Artist Mentorship* \- June 6 - July 15; *Yoko Inoue / Jeanne Quinn* \- March 17 - April 22; *Tamara Gayer / Stephen Sollins / Heeseop Yoon* \- January 21 - March 4

**2011** *Rachel Beach / Isidro Blasco* \- September 24 - October 30; *Heat Island* \- June 18 - July 31; *David Henderson / Shannon Plumb* \- March 5 - April 10; SITE 92 : *Work Permit Approved* \- January 15 - February 20

**2010** *eteam / Charlotte Schulz* \- September 25 - November 21; *Condensations of the Social* \- June 19 - August 1; *Pawel Wojtasik / Marietta Hoferer* \- March 6 - April 11; *John von Bergen / Michelle Weinstein* \- January 16 - February 21

**2009** *Tracey Snelling / Michael Britto* \- November 21 to January 3; *Ellen Driscoll / Fernando Souto* \- September 26 to November 8; *Beauty Underfoot* \- June 20 to August 2; *Blane De St. Croix / Carlos Motta* \- March 7 to April 12; *Kirsten Hassenfeld / Jennie C. Jones* \- January 17 to February 22

**2008** *Wayne Hodge / Joanna Malinowska / Jessica Ann Peavy* \- November 22 to January 4; *Sarah Kabot / Shin Il Kim / Kwabena Slaughter* \- September 27 to November 9; *There is No Synonym for Hope* \- June 14 to July 27; *Jennifer Dalton / Rita MacDonald / Amanda C. Mathis* \- March 8 to April 20; *Site 92: Phase II* \- January 12 to February 24

**2007** *What is the Artworld Thinking* \- January 2007 to February 2008; *Infinitu et Contini: Repeated Histories, Reinvented Resistance* -November 17 to December 30; *Peter Dudek / Elana Herzog* \- September 29 to November 11; *Emerging Artists* \- June 9 to July 22; *Ledelle Moe / Letitia Quesenberry* \- March 24 to April 29; *Re-Generation* \- January 27 to March 11

**2006** *Legal Aliens* \- December 2 to January 14, 2007; *Mary Temple / Liza McConnell* \- September 30 to November 12; *I Can't Quite Place It...* \- June 3 to July 16; *Mind the Gap* \- March 18 to April 30; Site 92 - January 21 to March 5

**2005** *Multiplex 2* \- October 14 to November 27; *T-Zone* \- June 4 to July 17; *Fifteen Paces* \- April 2 to May 15; *On the Subject of War* \- February 12 to March 27; *Between Interconnectedness* \- December 4 to January 16

**2004** *9 x Smack Mellon, 2004 Studio Artists* \- October 15 to November 14; *Sunrise Sunset* \- June 5 to June 27; *Ricoh Gerbl / Robert Taplin* \- March 20 to May 2; *Multiplex* \- January 24 to March 7

**2003** *Big Cry Baby* \- November 8 to December 14; *Landslide* \- September 13 to October 26; *Outpost* \- June 14 to July 20; *Custom Fit* \- April 19 to June 1; *Raw* \- March 1 to April 6

**2002** *One Hand Clapping* \- November 30 to December 29; *The Omega Manual* \- October 18 to November 30; *Sacred Matter* \- September 7 to October 6; *Hash Brown Potatoes* \- June 15 to July 21; *Flay, Splay, Play* \- June 7 to July 12; *Rendez Vous* \- April 26 to June 26; *Eyestalk* \- March 9 to April 14

**2001** *Peppermint* \- December 1 to January 13; *Mir2* \- October 18 to November 18; *Barnstormers* \- August 8 to September 23; *Popular Mechanics* \- May 31 to July 8; *Simon Lee / Claire Lesteven* \- April 7 to May 13

**2000** *Significant Pursuits* \- November 18 to December 17; *Trajectories* \- September 28 to November 5; *White Hot* \- July 13 to August 20; *The Skin Game* \- April 8 to May 21

**1999** *Natural Histories* \- September 25 to November 7; *Red Square* \- May 1 to June 25

**1998** *Lost and Found* \- March 20 to May 22; *Chiaroscuro* \- September 12 to October 25; *Just Ripe* \- November 7 to December 20

## Artist Studio Program

The Artist Studio Program at Smack Mellon provides urgently needed studio space and career building opportunities to artists wishing to live and work in New York City. As rents continue to increase astronomically throughout the City, it is increasingly difficult, if not virtually impossible for artists to find affordable, appropriate studio space. In response to the studio crisis faced by artists in New York City, Smack Mellon's Studio Program provides much needed workspace, and financial and technical support to aid artists in the creation of new work. Smack Mellon receives over 600 applications for six available studios each year. Expenses, including museum admissions, transportation and food, are paid during the program.

## Education

Smack Mellon’s arts education initiative, Art Ready engages young people in a way no other arts education program does, it pairs students directly with working artists; the students learn first hand over the course of a school year what it is to be an artist in the artist’s studio. The program operates during the school year and includes a series of studio visits with emerging and established artists; a series of field trips to museums and galleries; 2-3 art workshops; and a four-month arts mentorship. Art Ready connects up to twenty high school students with ten diverse artists, to gain practical experience working with professionals in a variety of artistic disciplines. The program is free for students. Working as mentors, the artists provide professional and creative guidance as the students make decisions about their futures in the arts. Mentor/teaching artists also tutor the students in their creative process, introduce them to new ways of working, and engage them in continuous critical reflection. Art Ready truly prepares high school aged students for artistic careers and gives them practical experience working in a diversity of artistic disciplines.

## InfoBox

Smack Mellon
| Entrance to Smack Mellon on 92 Plymouth Street with the Manhattan Bridge in the background. | |
| --- | --- |
| Established | 1995 |
| Location | 92 Plymouth Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY 11201 |
| Website | http://www.smackmellon.org/ |


title: Sleeper (comics)

abstract: Sleeper is a comic book series written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips, published by DC Comics under their Wildstorm imprint. The series consisted of two twelve-issue limited series and the events of the first "season" served as a catalyst for the Coup d'etat line-wide crossover. Sleeper was set in the Wildstorm Universe and concerned the travails of Holden Carver, a covert operative who has been placed undercover in a villainous organisation led by TAO, a WildC.A.T.s villain from Alan Moore's run. It was a spin-off of Point Blank, a mini-series about Grifter from Wildcats and John Lynch from Genⁱ⁳ that was also written by Ed Brubaker.

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# Sleeper (comics)

***Sleeper*** is a comic book series written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips, published by DC Comics under their Wildstorm imprint. The series consisted of two twelve-issue limited series and the events of the first "season" served as a catalyst for the *Coup d'etat* line-wide crossover.

*Sleeper* was set in the Wildstorm Universe and concerned the travails of Holden Carver, a covert operative who has been placed undercover in a villainous organisation led by TAO, a WildC.A.T.s villain from Alan Moore's run. It was a spin-off of *Point Blank*, a mini-series about Grifter from Wildcats and John Lynch from *Gen13* that was also written by Ed Brubaker.

## Plot

Holden Carver, also known as The Conductor (although he prefers going by his real name), is placed undercover in Tao's criminal organization by John Lynch, the director of International Operations after being fused with an alien artifact that makes him impervious to pain, gives him a powerful healing factor, and allows him to store pain he receives and pass it on to others through skin contact. Holden hates these abilities and constantly wishes to be rid of them. Lynch falls into a coma after being shot by Grifter, leaving Holden with no link to the outside world.

He quickly rises through the ranks of Tao's syndicate and becomes one of his lieutenants, called "Prodigals". He falls in love with another Prodigal named Miss Misery and befriends Genocide Jones, a super-strong, bullet-proof member of Tao's organization. The series also focuses on Holden's internal struggle over whether or not there is a difference between his actions while serving Tao and his actions while serving Lynch.

Tao learns of Holden's true allegiance, and Holden is forced to live on the run. With the help of Peter Grimm, his most trusted Prodigal, Tao captures Holden and tells him that he is a survivor, past petty concepts like "good" and "evil". Beginning to believe Tao and seeing no other options, Holden rejoins Tao's organization, this time as a true criminal. As Season One ends, John Lynch miraculously awakes from his coma.

Coup d'etat comes to pass and the members of Tao's organization are forced into hiding so the Authority cannot discover them. Holden is now a full-fledged villain and a trusted Prodigal. While on a mission with his own band of Torpedoes (lower-level members of Tao's organization) called the Hounds, consisting of the eager-to-please Pit Bull (introduced in Season One) and the werewolf Blackwolf, Holden is contacted by an agent of John Lynch. Lynch wants Holden to leave Tao and defect back to I.O. He later presents Holden with a member of the alien race who built the artifact that gave Holden his abilities and promises that if he agrees to come back he'll rid him of his powers.

Holden then begins to play both sides against the middle, hoping he will be able to free himself of his obligations to Tao and Lynch and run away with Miss Misery. As this goes on, he tries to reform, despite knowing that he will never again be the man he thought he was before falling in with Tao.

At the end of Season Two, Holden Carver is left in a vegetative state. Lynch uses his gen factor powers to make the vegetative Holden believe that he is finally retired and living with Miss Misery and his ex-fiancée, Veronica St. James, on a tropical island. Holden ripped out Tao's tongue as a last effort to 'disarm' the main villain of the series before being handed over to Lynch. It is here that the story ends.

## Collected editions

*Sleeper* has been collected in a series of four trade paperbacks:

## Film

Tom Cruise and Sam Raimi were in the process of creating a movie adaptation of *Sleeper* with Warner Bros., in which Cruise may have starred and Brad Inglesby was to write the screenplay, but the project never came to fruition. In November 2013, the magazine *Variety* reported that Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Todd will produce the film and Shawn Ryan and David Wiener to pen the film.

## InfoBox

| *Sleeper* | |
| --- | --- |
| *Sleeper*, Volume 1, #1 | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Wildstorm (imprint of DC Comics) |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Two limited series, one-shot |
| Genre | Crime, spy, superhero, neo-noir |
| Publication date | March 2003 \- March 2004
April 2004
June 2004 - May 2005 |
| No. of issues | *Sleeper* #1-12
*Coup D'Etat: Sleeper*
*Sleeper: Season Two* #1-12 |
| Main character(s) | Holden Carver
John Lynch
Tao
Miss Misery |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Ed Brubaker |
| Penciller(s) | Sean Phillips (main series)
Jim Lee (*Coup D'Etat: Sleeper*) |
| Colorist(s) | Tony Avina
Randy Mayor
Alex Sinclair
Carrie Strachan
James Sinclair |
| Collected editions | |
| *Out in the Cold* | ISBN 1-4012-0115-6 |
| *All False Moves* | ISBN 1401202888 |
| *A Crooked Line* | ISBN 1401206182 |
| *The Long Way Home* | ISBN 1401206271 |
| *Sleeper: Season One* | ISBN 1401223605 |
| *Sleeper Season Two* | ISBN 1401224938 |


title: Small nucleolar RNA SNORA49

abstract: In molecular biology, Small nucleolar RNA ACA49 is a snoRNA, originally cloned in 2004 from a HeLa cell extract immunoprecipitated with an anti-GAR1 antibody. It has no identified target RNA.

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# Small nucleolar RNA SNORA49

In molecular biology, **Small nucleolar RNA ACA49** is a snoRNA, originally cloned in 2004 from a HeLa cell extract immunoprecipitated with an anti-GAR1 antibody. It has no identified target RNA.

## InfoBox

| Small nucleolar RNA SNORA49 | |
| --- | --- |
| Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of SNORA49 | |
| Identifiers | |
| Symbol | SNORA49 |
| Alt. Symbols | snoACA49 |
| Rfam | RF00562 |
| Other data | |
| RNA type | Gene; snRNA; snoRNA; HACA-box |
| Domain(s) | Eukaryota |
| GO | GO:0006396  GO:0005730 |
| SO | SO:0000594 |
| PDB structures | PDBe |


title: Small Town Deb

abstract: Small Town Deb is a 1941 teenage comedy by 20th Century Fox directed by Harold Schuster and starring Jane Withers and Jane Darwell. Withers had a story credit on the film under the pseudonym Jerrie Walters and costumes were made by Herschel McCoy.

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# Small Town Deb

***Small Town Deb*** is a 1941 teenage comedy by 20th Century Fox directed by Harold Schuster and starring Jane Withers and Jane Darwell. Withers had a story credit on the film under the pseudonym Jerrie Walters and costumes were made by Herschel McCoy.

## Plot

## Cast

## InfoBox

| Small Town Deb | |
| --- | --- |
| Directed by | Harold Schuster |
| Screenplay by | Ethel Hill |
| Story by | Jane Withers |
| Produced by | Lou L. Ostrow |
| Starring |  |
| Cinematography | Virgil Miller |
| Edited by | Alexander Troffey |
| Music by | Emil Newman
Mack Gordon
Harry Warren |
| Production
company | 20th Century Fox |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date | * November 7, 1941 (1941-11-07) |
| Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |


title: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

abstract: Smith, Gambrell & Russell is an international law firm originally founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1893. As of 2024, it has offices in eleven cities in the United States: Atlanta; Austin; Charlotte; Chicago; Jacksonville; Los Angeles; Miami; New York; Springfield; Tampa; and Washington, D.C. It also has three offices in other countries: one in London, England, one in Southampton, England, and one in Munich, Germany.

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# Smith, Gambrell & Russell

**Smith, Gambrell & Russell** (abbreviated **SGR**; also known as **Smith Gambrell**) is an international law firm originally founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1893. As of 2024, it has offices in eleven cities in the United States: Atlanta; Austin; Charlotte; Chicago; Jacksonville; Los Angeles; Miami; New York; Springfield; Tampa; and Washington, D.C. It also has three offices in other countries: one in London, England, one in Southampton, England, and one in Munich, Germany.

## History

Smith, Gambrell & Russell was founded in 1893, originally under the name "Alexander & Victor Smith", by two Atlanta lawyers named Alexander Smith & Victor Smith. In 1909, Alex Smith Jr. joined the firm, which was then named Smith, Hammond, & Smith. In 1939, E. Smythe Gambrell became a partner at the firm Gambrell & White. In 1948, Harold L. Russell became a named partner at this firm, which by then had been renamed Gambrell, Harlan, Barwick & White. Meanwhile, the law firm Smith, Hammond, & Smith had also been renamed multiple times; by 1949, it had been renamed Smith, Partridge, Field & Doremus. In 1966, this firm, now named Smith, Ringel, Martin & Lowe, merged with Cohen, Kohler, Barnwell & Chambers to form Smith, Cohen, Ringel, Kohler & Martin. In 1984, Smith, Cohen, Ringel, Kohler & Martin merged with Gambrell & Russell to form Smith, Gambrell & Russell.

### Recent mergers

In recent years, Smith, Gambrell & Russell has undergone multiple additional mergers. For example, on April 1, 2022, it entered the Chicago market for the first time by merging with Figliulo & Silverman, a Chicago-based law firm which focused on business and real estate disputes. Similarly, the following year, Smith Gambrell merged with Chicago-based law firm Freeborn & Peters. This increased Smith Gambrell's size from about 290 attorneys to about 400, and from 12 offices to 14. The resulting firm was estimated to have global annual revenues of approximately US$260 million. However, though this merger did not prevent Smith Gambrell's revenues from continuing to rise in 2023, it also led to a decrease in the firm's profits for 2023 compared to previous years. In 2024, SGR announced another merger, this one with ABL Law, a Jacksonville, Florida-based firm aimed at middle-market companies.

## Notable partners

Notable partners at Smith Gambrell include judge Elizabeth L. Branch, who was a partner at the firm before being confirmed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in 2018, and Leah Ward Sears, a current partner at the firm who was formerly Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court.

## Recognition

Smith, Gambrell & Russell has been repeatedly named to *U.S. News*'s Best Law Firms list, as well as the *American Lawyer*'s Am Law 200 list of highest-grossing law firms in the United States.

## InfoBox

Smith, Gambrell & Russell
| Headquarters | Atlanta, Georgia |
| --- | --- |
| Offices | 14 |
| No. of attorneys | Almost 400 |
| Key people | Stephen M. Forte (Managing Partner, Executive Committee Chairman) |
| Date founded | 1893 |
| Founders | Alexander & Victor Smith |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
| Website | sgrlaw.com |


title: Smith's wrinkled frog

abstract:
Smith's wrinkled frog, commonly known as Tasan eastern frog, Tasan frog, or Tha san frog,) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is found in western and southern Thailand; its range likely extends to Myanmar but it has not yet been recorded there.
Its natural habitats are primary rainforests near streams. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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# Smith's wrinkled frog

**Smith's wrinkled frog** (*Alcalus tasanae*), commonly known as **Tasan eastern frog**, **Tasan frog**, or **Tha san frog**,) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is found in western and southern Thailand; its range likely extends to Myanmar but it has not yet been recorded there. Its natural habitats are primary rainforests near streams. It is threatened by habitat loss.

## InfoBox

| Smith's wrinkled frog | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Conservation status | |
|
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Ceratobatrachidae |
| Genus: | *Alcalus* |
| Species: | ***A. tasanae*** |
| Binomial name | |
| ***Alcalus tasanae***
(Smith, 1921) | |
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| Synonyms | |
| * *Rana tasanae* Smith, 1921 * *Ingerana tasanae* (Smith, 1921) | |


title: Small nucleolar RNA TBR2

abstract: Small nucleolar RNA TBR2 is a non-coding RNA (ncRNA) molecule identified in Trypanosoma brucei which functions in the modification of other small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs). This type of modifying RNA is usually located in the nucleolus of the eukaryotic cell which is a major site of snRNA biogenesis. It is known as a small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) and also often referred to as a guide RNA. snoRNA TBR2 belongs to the C/D box class of snoRNAs which contain the conserved sequence motifs known as the C box (UGAUGA) and the D box (CUGA). Most of the members of the box C/D family direct site-specific 2'-O-methylation of substrate RNAs. TBR2 was one of seventeen snoRNAs identified in Trypanosoma brucei by immunoprecipitation with anti-fibrillarin antibodies. Together with TBR12, TBR6 and TBR4 it is a part of snoRNA gene cluster that is tandemly repeated. These 4 snoRNA genes are transcribed as a polycistronic RNA transcript.

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# Small nucleolar RNA TBR2

**Small nucleolar RNA TBR2** is a non-coding RNA (ncRNA) molecule identified in *Trypanosoma brucei* which functions in the modification of other small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs). This type of modifying RNA is usually located in the nucleolus of the eukaryotic cell which is a major site of snRNA biogenesis. It is known as a small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) and also often referred to as a guide RNA.

snoRNA TBR2 belongs to the C/D box class of snoRNAs which contain the conserved sequence motifs known as the C box (UGAUGA) and the D box (CUGA). Most of the members of the box C/D family direct site-specific 2'-O-methylation of substrate RNAs.

TBR2 was one of seventeen snoRNAs identified in *Trypanosoma brucei* by immunoprecipitation with anti-fibrillarin antibodies. Together with TBR12, TBR6 and TBR4 it is a part of snoRNA gene cluster that is tandemly repeated. These 4 snoRNA genes are transcribed as a polycistronic RNA transcript.

## Other snoRNAs

## InfoBox

| snoTBR2 | |
| --- | --- |
| Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of Small nucleolar RNA TBR2 | |
| Identifiers | |
| Rfam | RF02786 |
| Other data | |
| Domain(s) | Eukaryota |
| GO | GO:0006396 ,GO:0005730 |
| SO | SO:0000593 |
| PDB structures | PDBe |


title: SmartCode

abstract: SmartCode is a unified land development ordinance template for planning and urban design. Originally developed by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, this open source program is a model form-based unified land development ordinance designed to create walkable neighborhoods across the full spectrum of human settlement, from the most rural to the most urban, incorporating a transect of character and intensity within each. It folds zoning, subdivision regulations, urban design, and basic architectural standards into one compact document. Because the SmartCode enables community vision by coding specific outcomes that are desired in particular places, it is meant to be locally calibrated by professional planners, architects, and attorneys. The SmartCode is not a building code. Building codes address life/safety issues such as fire and storm protection. Examples of building codes include the International Building Code (IBC), International Residential Code (IRC), and International Code Council (ICC) documents. In the discussion of Smart Growth as an alternative to urban sprawl, one key aspect often overlooked is the currently prevailing system of community development codes and standards that by design, whether intentionally or not, have promoted subdivisions and strip malls. To change these community settlement patterns to allow for land conservation and to promote traditional patterns of hamlet, village, town and city, new codes are necessary. The most comprehensive example of a code designed for this purpose is the SmartCode as described below.

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# SmartCode

**SmartCode** is a unified land development ordinance template for planning and urban design. Originally developed by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, this open source program is a model form-based unified land development ordinance designed to create walkable neighborhoods across the full spectrum of human settlement, from the most rural to the most urban, incorporating a transect of character and intensity within each. It folds zoning, subdivision regulations, urban design, and basic architectural standards into one compact document. Because the SmartCode enables community vision by coding specific outcomes that are desired in particular places, it is meant to be locally calibrated by professional planners, architects, and attorneys.

The SmartCode is not a building code. Building codes address life/safety issues such as fire and storm protection. Examples of building codes include the International Building Code (IBC), International Residential Code (IRC), and International Code Council (ICC) documents.

In the discussion of Smart Growth as an alternative to urban sprawl, one key aspect often overlooked is the currently prevailing system of community development codes and standards that by design, whether intentionally or not, have promoted subdivisions and strip malls. To change these community settlement patterns to allow for land conservation and to promote traditional patterns of hamlet, village, town and city, new codes are necessary. The most comprehensive example of a code designed for this purpose is the SmartCode as described below.

## Technical description

**Model Code** – The SmartCode is a model code, with metrics designed to create a generic medium-sized American city structured into walkable neighborhoods. The model code is freeware, a template meant to be locally customized by professional planners, architects, and attorneys.

**Form-Based** – The SmartCode is a form-based code. Conventional Euclidean zoning regulates land development with the most emphasis on controlling land use. Form-based zoning has been developed over the last twenty years to overcome the problems of sprawl created by use-based codes. Form-based zoning regulates land development with the most emphasis on controlling urban form and less emphasis on controlling land uses (although uses with negative impacts, such as heavy industry, adult businesses, etc. are still regulated). Urban form features regulated under the SmartCode include the width of lots, size of blocks, building setbacks, building heights, placement of buildings on the lot, location of parking, etc.

**Unified Land Development Regulation** – The SmartCode is a unified land development code that can include zoning, subdivision regulations, urban design, signage, landscaping, and basic architectural standards.

**Walkable Neighborhoods** – One of the basic principles in the SmartCode is that towns and cities should be structured as a series of walkable neighborhoods. Walkable neighborhoods require a mix of land uses (residential, office, and retail), public spaces with a sense of enclosure to create “outdoor rooms”, and pedestrian-oriented transportation design.

**Rural-Urban Transect** – The zones within the SmartCode are designed to create complete human habitats ranging from the very rural to the very urban. Where conventional zoning categories are based on different land uses, SmartCode zoning categories are based on their rural-urban character. All categories within the SmartCode allow some mix of uses. SmartCode zoning categories ensure that a community offers a full diversity of building types, thoroughfare types, and civic space types, and that each has appropriate characteristics for its location.

Though version 9.0 is only 50 pages, the SmartCode may replace conventional zoning, subdivision, and design regulations, making walkable mixed-use development legal by right.

The first city to adopt a SmartCode as a mandatory overlay for its downtown was Petaluma, California, in June 2003. The City of Miami adopted an exclusive citywide SmartCode in October 2009 and implemented it in May 2010. It is known as Miami21. It was calibrated by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company. Cities that have adopted SmartCodes as a parallel option to their conventional zoning include Gulfport, Mississippi, Pass Christian, Mississippi, and Montgomery, Alabama. In addition, scores of private traditional neighborhood developments (TND) have been permitted under transect-based codes that are essentially the same as Article 5 of the SmartCode.

The SmartCode also includes additional supplementary “modules” with specialized techniques. The SmartCode Sustainability Module was introduced by Jaime Correa from Jaime Correa and Associates, in the City of Miami; the SmartCode Light Imprint and Drainage Module was designed by Tom Low at the Charlotte office of Duany and Plater-Zyberk; the Environmental Standards Module has been produced by Doug Farr, in Chicago. Other Modules include: Natural Drainage Standards, architecture/lighting/sound and visibility and Hazard Mitigation Standards.

**SmartCode Resources and Education**

**A Few of the Calibrated SmartCodes**

**SmartCode Providers**

**Urbanism Resources**


title: We Live in Two Worlds

abstract:
We Live In Two Worlds is a 1937 filmed talk by British writer J. B. Priestley, in which he expounds on the benefits of cross-border trade and communications, contrasting such commerce with the military preoccupations of individual nations.
The film was directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, the second of seven that the writer and director made for the Swiss telephone company Pro Telephone Zurich between 1936 and 1939.

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# We Live in Two Worlds

***We Live In Two Worlds*** is a 1937 filmed talk by British writer J. B. Priestley, in which he expounds on the benefits of cross-border trade and communications, contrasting such commerce with the military preoccupations of individual nations. The film was directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, the second of seven that the writer and director made for the Swiss telephone company Pro Telephone Zurich between 1936 and 1939.

## InfoBox

| *We Live In Two Worlds* | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Directed by | Alberto Cavalcanti |
| Written by | Alberto Cavalcanti
Stuart Legg |
| Starring | J. B. Priestley |
| Cinematography | John Taylor |
| Edited by | Richard McNaughton |
| Music by | Maurice Jaubert |
| Production
company | GPO Film Unit |
| Release date | * 1937 (1937) |
| Running time | 29 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |


title: The Gold Smelters

abstract: The Gold Smelters, also known as the Barbican Frieze, Bryer's Frieze, Gold Refiners, or abridged as Gold Smelters, is an outdoor frieze relief by J. Daymond, installed along Aldersgate Street in London, United Kingdom. It was saved from a building demolished in the 1960s and re-erected in its present location by the Corporation of London in 1975.

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# The Gold Smelters

***The Gold Smelters***, also known as the ***Barbican Frieze***, ***Bryer's Frieze***, ***Gold Refiners***, or abridged as ***Gold Smelters***, is an outdoor frieze relief by J. Daymond, installed along Aldersgate Street in London, United Kingdom. It was saved from a building demolished in the 1960s and re-erected in its present location by the Corporation of London in 1975.

## Description

The medium relief depicts twelve figures engaged in gold refining trade, plus a cat. The relief is part of a large concrete block mounted on a brick plinth. A nearby plaque reads, THIS FRIEZE WAS REMOVED FROM NUMBER 53 AND 54 / BARBICAN WHEN IT WAS DEMOLISHED IN 1962 AND RE / ERECTED BY THE CORPORATION OF LONDON IN 1975 / NUMBER 53 AND 54 WERE THE PREMISES / OF W. BRYER & SONS GOLD REFINERS AND ASSAYERS / WHOSE TRADE IS DEPICTED IN THE FRIEZE. THE BUILDING / WAS ONE OF THE FEW WHICH SURVIVED WHEN THE AREA / WAS LARGELY DESTROYED BY INCENDIARY BOMBS IN / DECEMBER 1940.

## InfoBox

| The Gold Smelters | |
| --- | --- |
| The relief in 2014 | |
|  | |
| Artist | J. Daymond |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°31′17″N 0°05′50″W / 51.521394°N 0.097184°W / 51.521394; -0.097184 |


title: Mazouna

abstract: Mazouna is a town and commune in Relizane Province, Algeria. It was once the capital of the Ottomans' western province. It is known for its vintage mosque, Elzawya, which played the role of a well-respected school for teaching the Quran.

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# Mazouna

**Mazouna** is a town and commune in Relizane Province, Algeria. It was once the capital of the Ottomans' western province. It is known for its vintage mosque, Elzawya, which played the role of a well-respected school for teaching the Quran.

36°07′32″N 0°52′35″E / 36.12556°N 0.87639°E / 36.12556; 0.87639

## InfoBox

| Mazouna | |
| --- | --- |
| Commune and town | |
| Mazouna | |
| Nickname: Capital of Dahra | |
|  | |
| Mazouna | |
| Coordinates: 36°7′32″N 0°52′35″E / 36.12556°N 0.87639°E / 36.12556; 0.87639 | |
| Country | Algeria |
| Province | Relizane Province |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |


title: McCarter Theatre

abstract: McCarter Theatre Center is a not-for-profit, professional company on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. It was incorporated as a nonprofit in 1963. A two-time Tony Award winner, the McCarter’s legacy traces back to the theatre’s first performances in 1930. Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, Kaufmann and Hart’s You Can't Take It With You, and William Inge’s Bus Stop all had their premieres on the McCarter stage.

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# McCarter Theatre

**McCarter Theatre Center** is a not-for-profit, professional company on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. It was incorporated as a nonprofit in 1963. A two-time Tony Award winner, the McCarter’s legacy traces back to the theatre’s first performances in 1930. Thornton Wilder’s *Our Town*, Kaufmann and Hart’s *You Can't Take It With You*, and William Inge’s *Bus Stop* all had their premieres on the McCarter stage.

## History

Built as a permanent home for the Princeton University Triangle Club (who continue to perform at McCarter) with funds from Thomas N. McCarter, class of 1888, McCarter Theatre opened on February 21, 1930, with a special performance of the 40th annual Triangle show, *The Golden Dog*. One of its stars was Joshua Logan, then a junior, and sophomore James Stewart was in the chorus; both went on to international fame.

During the 1930s, McCarter gained popularity as a pre-Broadway showcase, due to its large seating capacity, its 40-foot proscenium stage, and its short distance from New York. Thornton Wilder's *Our Town* had its world premiere at McCarter, as did George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's *You Can't Take It with You*, James Thurber and Elliott Nugent's *The Male Animal* (starring Gene Tierney), Philip Barry's *Without Love* (starring Katharine Hepburn) and William Inge's *Bus Stop* (starring Kim Stanley and Elaine Stritch).

McCarter hosted the Princeton University Concerts for fifty years before they moved to Richardson Auditorium. The Philadelphia Orchestra began these concerts at McCarter in 1932, and the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, Rudolf Serkin, Jascha Heifetz, Myra Hess, Zino Francescatti, and Gregor Piatigorsky followed, among others.

The first dancer to perform there was Ruth St. Denis, who appeared in a solo evening on March 7, 1930, and returned that same fall with Ted Shawn and the full troupe of the pioneering Denishawn dancers. Few others of significance followed, except for a single performance in 1935 by the American Ballet"– the first troupe of dancers assembled in this country by an émigré Russian choreographer named George Balanchine.

In the post World War II years, Broadway dropped out-of-town try-outs, so that the theatre could no longer be self-supporting. In 1950, Princeton University and the Triangle Club agreed that the university should take acquire the building and assume responsibility for its operating costs. The season 1960–1961 saw the establishment of a new company producing original work under the artistic direction of Ellis Rabb. Actors in the new company included Rosemary Harris, Donald Moffat, Frances Sternhagen, and Edward Asner.

In 1963, Princeton University transferred its direct operation of McCarter to the McCarter Theatre Company, which was separately incorporated at that time. Executive Director Milton Lyon was followed most notably by Arthur Lithgow, Michael Kahn, and, in the role of artistic director, Nagle Jackson and Emily Mann. Mann's tenure as artistic director was notable for its emphasis on new work with playwrights including Athol Fugard. McCarter commissioned the production and premiered the performance of *Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike* by Christopher Durang, which went on to win the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play.

In the 1990s and early 2000s McCarter underwent major renovations and expansions including construction of a smaller second theater adjacent to the main auditorium (the Roger S. Berlind Theater, named for the Princeton graduate and producer), allowing two productions to be mounted simultaneously.

Artistic Director Sarah Rasmussen was appointed in late 2020; Executive Director Martin Miller joined the theatre in 2023. McCarter publicity claims that 100,000 community members participate in the company’s work every year, among them 6,000 students.

It is a member company of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance.

## Theater series

Under former Artistic Director Emily Mann, noteworthy productions include the premieres of new plays by Athol Fugard, Edward Albee, Nilo Cruz, Christopher Durang, Regina Taylor, Beth Henley, Dael Orlandersmith, Steven Dietz, Marina Carr, John Henry Redwood, Eric Bogosian, Theresa Rebeck and Emily Mann. Many, including *Having Our Say*, *Anna in the Tropics*, *Crowns*, *Valley Song* and *Yellowman*, have gone on to be some of the most frequently produced plays in the American theater. In addition, McCarter is recognized for its re-investigations of the classic canon, including Stephen Wadsworth’s adaptations of plays by Marivaux, David Leveaux’s production of *Electra*, featuring Zoë Wanamaker, and Emily Mann's adaptations of Anton Chekhov’s *The Cherry Orchard* and *Uncle Vanya*.

Two of its 2006–2007 productions, *Translations* and *Radio Golf,* moved to Broadway, where they were nominated for Tony Awards.

## InfoBox

McCarter Theatre Center
| The entrance of McCarter Theatre Center | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Address | 91 University Place
Princeton, New Jersey
United States |
| Coordinates | 40°20′39.51″N 74°39′38.53″W / 40.3443083°N 74.6607028°W / 40.3443083; -74.6607028 |
| Public transit | Princeton (NJT station) |
| Owner | Princeton University |
| Operator | McCarter Theatre Center |
| Type | Regional theater |
| Opened | February 21, 1930 |
| Website | |
| www.mccarter.org | |


title: Vocea României Junior season 2

abstract: The second season of the Romanian reality talent show Vocea României Junior premiered on June 8, 2018 on Pro TV with Andra, Inna and Marius Moga as coaches.

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# Vocea României Junior season 2

The **second season** of the Romanian reality talent show *Vocea României Junior* premiered on June 8, 2018 on Pro TV with Andra, Inna and Marius Moga as coaches.

## Coaches and presenters

CoachesAndra InnaMarius Moga

### Hosts

The hosts remained the same as in the previous season: Mihai Bobonete and Robert Tudor.

### Coaches

The coaches remained the same as in the previous season: Andra, Marius Moga, Inna.

## Selection process

IașiCluj-NapocaTimișoaraclass=notpageimage|Cities where the pre-selections were held.

Pre-selections took place in the following cities:

| Date | Audition venue | Location |
| --- | --- | --- |
| May 20, 2017 | Hotel Internațional | Iași |
| March 27, 2017 | Hotel Golden Tulip Ana Dome | Cluj-Napoca |
| June 3, 2017 | Hotel NH | Timișoara |
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## Teams

Colour key:

* Winner
* Finalist
* Eliminated in the Semi-final
* Eliminated in the Battles

| Coaches | Top 27 artists | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andra |  | | | | | |
| | Maya Ciosa | Ștefania Alexa | Ioana Neagu |
| | Luana Prodea | Tudor Oancea | Ingrid Boengiu |
| | Andreea Stoica | Emilena Istrate | David Ștefan |
| Marius Moga |  | | | | | |
| | Maria Popa | Arthur Horeanu | Mario Eduard Tudor |
| | Ștefania Hotca | Dan Ioan Bultoc | Mara Oancea |
| | Larisa Shahzada | Renata Jäger | Mădălina Turtureanu |
| Inna |  | | | | | |
| | Olivia Alexandru | Rebeca Onete | Vlad Bilous |
| | Daria Selaje | Andrei Șerban | Denair Bali |
| | Andy Nicholas Neagu | Mudy Marei | Laura Arion |
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## Blind Auditions

Colour key

|  | Coach hit his/her "I WANT YOU" button |
| --- | --- |
|  | Artist defaulted to this coach's team |
|  | Artist elected to join this coach's team |
|  | Artist eliminated with no coach pressing his or her "I WANT YOU" button |
|

### Episode 1 (June 8)

The first episode of The Blind Auditions aired on June 8, 2018.

| Order | Artist | Age | Hometown | Song | Coach's and contestant's choices | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| | | | | | Andra | Moga | Inna |
| 1 | Arthur Horeanu | 12 | Arad | "Tainted Love" |  |  |  |
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| 2 | Ana Giulia Dancă | 8 | Roman | "Zig-Zagga" |  |  |  |
| 3 | Ingrid Boengiu | 12 | Bucharest | "Mad About You" |  |  |  |
| 4 | Larisa Shahzada | 12 | Bucharest | "Unconditionally" |  |  |  |
| 5 | Daria Selaje | 7 | Petroșani | "Over the Rainbow" |  |  |  |
| 6 | Andy Nicholas Neagu | 9 | Bârlad | "Come with Me Now" |  |  |  |
| 7 | Ștefania Alexa | 10 | Bacău | "Oops!... I Did It Again" |  |  |  |
| 8 | Mario Niculescu | 11 | Târgu Jiu | "The Phantom of the Opera" |  |  |  |
| 9 | Carmen García del Valle | 10 | Málaga, Spain | "Uncover" |  |  |  |
| 10 | Andrei Șerban | 12 | Alba Iulia | "Great Balls of Fire" |  |  |  |

### Episode 2 (June 15)

The second episode of The Blind Auditions aired on June 15, 2018.

| Order | Artist | Age | Hometown | Song | Coach's and contestant's choices | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| | | | | | Andra | Moga | Inna |
| 1 | Ioana Neagu | 12 | Bucharest | "Gangsta" |  |  |  |
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| 2 | Amalia Guțu | 8 | Bălți, Moldova | "Oh! Darling" |  |  |  |
| 3 | Vlad Bilous | 10 | Topoloveni | "Amintire cu haiduci" |  |  |  |
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| 4 | Beatrice Iordăchescu | 11 | Bucharest | "Rise Up" |  |  |  |
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| 5 | Lavinia Roxana Stroe | 13 | Ciochina | "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" |  |  |  |
| 6 | Mădălina Turtureanu | 13 | Chișcăreni, Moldova | "Girl on Fire" |  |  |  |
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| 7 | Stelian Șoldan | 12 | Bucharest | "Imagine" |  |  |  |
| 8 | Olivia Alexandru | 12 | Piatra Neamț | "Smells Like Teen Spirit" |  |  |  |
| 9 | Luana Prodea | 12 | Sibiu | "Bird Set Free" |  |  |  |
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| 10 | Ilona Andreea Necula | 10 | Buzău | "Price Tag" |  |  |  |
| 11 | Ștefania Hotca | 12 | Satu Mare | "Million Reasons" |  |  |  |
| 12 | Tudor Oancea | 13 | Bucharest | "Say You Won't Let Go" |  |  |  |

### Episode 3 (June 22)

The third episode of The Blind Auditions aired on June 22, 2018.

| Order | Artist | Age | Hometown | Song | Coach's and contestant's choices | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| | | | | | Andra | Moga | Inna |
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| 1 | Rebeka Daniel | 13 | Cluj-Napoca | "Flashlight" |  |  |  |
| 2 | Denair Bali | 11 | Cluj-Napoca | "Whataya Want from Me" |  |  |  |
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| 3 | Emma Niculae | 10 | Bucharest | "Whole Lotta Love" |  |  |  |
| 4 | Mara Oancea | 12 | Suceava | "Toxic" |  |  |  |
| 5 | Maya Ciosa | 13 | Brașov | "Back to Black |  |  |  |
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| 6 | Maria Adăscăliți | 9 | Piatra Neamț | "Once Upon a December" |  |  |  |
| 7 | Dan Ioan Bultoc | 13 | Bucharest | "Stay with Me" |  |  |  |
|
| 8 | Izabela Ciudin | 12 | Piatra Neamț | "Firework" |  |  |  |
| 9 | Andreea Stoica | 11 | Bucharest | "Memories" |  |  |  |
|
| 10 | Stephen Ionuț Moisă | 13 | Piatra Neamț | "Shape of You" |  |  |  |
| 11 | Rebeca Onete | 12 | Bucharest | "Nobody's Perfect" |  |  |  |
|
| 12 | Maria Nazaret | 13 | Bicaz | "At Last" |  |  |  |
| 13 | Mario Eduard Tudor | 8 | Bucharest | "De-ai fi tu salcie la mal" |  |  |  |
|

### Episode 4 (June 29)

The fourth episode of The Blind Auditions aired on June 29, 2018.

| Order | Artist | Age | Hometown | Song | Coach's and contestant's choices | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| | | | | | Andra | Moga | Inna |
| 1 | Renata Jäger | 11 | Târgoviște | "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" |  |  |  |
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| 2 | Denis Costea | 11 | Brașov | "Nobody but Me" |  |  |  |
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| 3 | Andra Ghiță | 10 | Pitești | "Tu n-ai avut curaj" |  |  |  |
| 4 | Emilena Istrate | 12 | Craiova | "When We Were Young" |  |  |  |
| 5 | Ahmet Mudy Marei | 12 | Bucharest | "Sugar" |  |  |  |
|
| 6 | Denisa Fulop | 11 | Acățari | "Rise Like a Phoenix" |  |  |  |
| 7 | David Ștefan | 11 | Bucharest | "In the Name of Love" |  |  |  |
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| 8 | Liza Gîlcă | 10 | Bucharest | "The Greatest" |  |  |  |
| 9 | Laura Arion | 13 | Chișinău, Moldova | "Neon Lights" |  |  |  |
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| 10 | Ilinca Dinu | 11 | Bucharest | "Zombie" |  |  |  |
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| 11 | Paula Both | 10 | Ploiești | "Lost on You" |  |  |  |
| 12 | Maria Popa | 13 | Giurgiu | "Je suis malade" |  |  |  |

## Battles (July 6)

After the Blind auditions, each coach had 9 contestants for the Battles, which was broadcast on July 6, 2018. The coaches reduced their teams to one-third. Contestants who won their battles would advance to the Semifinals.

Colour key

|  | Artist won the Battle and advanced to the Semi-final |
| --- | --- |
|  | Artist lost the Battle and was eliminated |

| Coach | Order | Winner | Song | Losers | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Marius Moga | 1 | Arthur Horeanu | "Bohemian Rhapsody" | Dan Ioan Bultoc | Ștefania Hotca |
| Andra | 2 | Ștefania Alexa | "We Don't Talk Anymore" | Tudor Oancea | Andreea Stoica |
| Inna | 3 | Rebeca Onete | "Where Is The Love?" | Andy Nicholas Neagu | Andrei Șerban |
| Marius Moga | 4 | Maria Popa | "Issues" | Mădălina Turtureanu | Mara Oancea |
| Andra | 5 | Ioana Neagu | "Chained To The Rhythm" | David Ștefan | Emilena Istrate |
| Inna | 6 | Vlad Bilous | "The Lazy Song" | Daria Selaje | Denair Bali |
| Marius Moga | 7 | Mario Eduard Tudor | "Crazy" | Renata Jäger | Larisa Shahzada |
| Andra | 8 | Maya Ciosa | "Side to Side" | Ingrid Boengiu | Luana Prodea |
| Inna | 9 | Olivia Alexandru | "Counting Stars" | Laura Arion | Mudy Marei |

## Semi-final (July 13)

The semifinal was broadcast on July 13, 2018. The 9 remaining contestants in the three teams performed. From each team, the coach's choice artist would be qualified for the grand finals.

| Coach | Order | Artist | Song | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Inna | 1 | Rebeca Onete | "Here" | Eliminated |
| | 2 | Olivia Alexandru | "Show VMAs" | Advanced |
| | 3 | Vlad Bilous | "Wonderwall" | Eliminated |
| Marius Moga | 4 | Maria Popa | "Greatest Love of All" | Advanced |
| |
| | 5 | Arthur Horeanu | "Human" | Eliminated |
| 6 | Mario Tudor | "Creep" | Eliminated |
|
| Andra | 7 | Ioana Neagu | "Jealous" | Eliminated |
| | 8 | Ștefania Alexa | "Call Me Maybe" | Eliminated |
| | 9 | Maya Ciosa | "Like I'm Gonna Lose You" | Advanced |
|

## Final (July 20)

The final was broadcast on July 20, 2018. Each contestant performed three songs: one solo, one duet with their coaches, and one duet with a guest artist.

| Coach | Artist | Order | Solo song | Order | Duet song (with coach) | Order | Duet song (with guest artist) | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|
| Inna | Olivia Alexandru | 1 | "Royals" | 8 | "Tu și eu" | 5 | "Praf de stele"  (with Adrian Despot) | Finalist |
|
| Marius Moga | Maria Popa | 4 | "Derniere Danse" | 2 | "Atat timp cat iubesti" | 7 | "Nobody's Perfect"  (with Alina Eremia) | Finalist |
|
| Andra | Maya Ciosa | 6 | "I'm Sorry" | 9 | Andra songs mashup | 3 | "Semne"  (with Connect-R) | Winner |
|

## Results per artist

Team's colour key   Team Andra   Team Moga   Team Inna Result's colour key   Artist received the most public votes   Artist was eliminated   Finalist

Results per artist
| Contestant | | Battles | Semifinal | Final | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | Maya Ciosa | **Safe** | **Safe** | **Winner** |
|  | Maria Popa | **Safe** | **Safe** | Finalist |
|  | Olivia Alexandru | **Safe** | **Safe** | Finalist |
|  | Ștefania Alexa | **Safe** | **Eliminated** | Eliminated
(Places 4–9) | |
|  | Ioana Neagu | | **Safe** | **Eliminated** |
|  | Arthur Horeanu | | **Safe** | **Eliminated** |
|  | Mario Eduard Tudor | | **Safe** | **Eliminated** |
|  | Rebeca Onete | | **Safe** | **Eliminated** |
|  | Vlad Bilous | | **Safe** | **Eliminated** |
|  | Laura Arion | **Eliminated** | Eliminated
(Places 10–27) | |
|  | | Denair Bali | **Eliminated** |
|  | | Ingrid Boengiu | **Eliminated** |
|  | | Dan Ioan Bultoc | **Eliminated** |
|  | | Ștefania Hotca | **Eliminated** |
|  | | Emilena Istrate | **Eliminated** |
|  | | Renata Jäger | **Eliminated** |
|  | | Mudy Marei | **Eliminated** |
|  | | Andy Neagu | **Eliminated** |
|  | | Mara Oancea | **Eliminated** |
|  | | Tudor Oancea | **Eliminated** |
|  | | Luana Prodea | **Eliminated** |
|  | | Daria Selaje | **Eliminated** |
|  | | Andrei Șerban | **Eliminated** |
|  | | Larisa Shahzada | **Eliminated** |
|  | | David Ștefan | **Eliminated** |
|  | | Andreea Stoica | **Eliminated** |
|  | | Mădălina Turtureanu | **Eliminated** |
|

## InfoBox

| *Vocea României Junior* | |
| --- | --- |
| Season 2 | |
|  | |
| Hosted by | Mihai Bobonete
Robert Tudor |
| Judges | Andra
Inna
Marius Moga |
| Winner | Maya Ciosa |
| Winning coach | Andra |
|  | |
| Release | |
| Original network | Pro TV |
| Original release | June 8 (2018-06-08)
July 20, 2018 (2018-07-20) |
| Season chronology | |


title: VINSON

abstract:
VINSON is a family of voice encryption devices used by U.S. and allied military and law enforcement, based on the NSA's classified Suite A SAVILLE encryption algorithm and 16 kbit/s CVSD audio compression. It replaces the Vietnam War-era NESTOR (KY-8/KY-28|28/KY-38|38) family. These devices provide tactical secure voice on UHF and VHF line of sight (LOS), UHF SATCOM communication and tactical phone systems. These terminals are unclassified Controlled Cryptographic Items (CCI) when unkeyed and classified to the keymat of the key when going secure. VINSON devices include:
  - KY-57
  - KY-58
  - KY-68
  - KY-99a (MINTERM)
  - KY-100 (AIRTERM)
  - KYV-2
  - FASCINATOR VINSON is embedded into many modern military radios, such as SINCGARS. Many multi-algorithm COMSEC modules are also backwards-compatible with VINSON.

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# VINSON

**VINSON** is a family of voice encryption devices used by U.S. and allied military and law enforcement, based on the NSA's classified Suite A SAVILLE encryption algorithm and 16 kbit/s CVSD audio compression. It replaces the Vietnam War-era NESTOR (KY-8/KY-28|28/KY-38|38) family.

These devices provide tactical secure voice on UHF and VHF line of sight (LOS), UHF SATCOM communication and tactical phone systems. These terminals are unclassified Controlled Cryptographic Items (CCI) when unkeyed and classified to the keymat of the key when going secure.

VINSON devices include:

VINSON is embedded into many modern military radios, such as SINCGARS. Many multi-algorithm COMSEC modules are also backwards-compatible with VINSON.

* Advanced Narrowband Digital Voice Terminal (ANDVT) system for low bandwidth secure voice communications that replaced VINSON.


title: Trimaran Capital Partners

abstract: Trimaran Capital Partners is a middle-market private equity firm formerly affiliated with CIBC World Markets. Trimaran is headquartered in New York City and founded by former investment bankers from Drexel Burnham Lambert. Trimaran's predecessors were early investors in telecom and Internet businesses, most notably backing Global Crossing in 1997. Trimaran also led the first leveraged buyout of an integrated electric utility. Since 1995, Trimaran and its successor entities have invested approximately $1.6 billion of equity in fifty-nine companies through transactions totaling more than $10 billion in total value. In addition, Trimaran's debt business has managed approximately $1.5 billion of leveraged loans across four collateralized loan obligation vehicles. Since 2006, one of its co-founders, Andrew Heyer, lead a spinout of a portion of its team to form Mistral Equity Partners In 2008, the two remaining managing partners entered into a venture with Nelson Peltz’s Trian to create a new debt-focused business development company. The firm is named for the trimaran, a multi-hulled boat consisting of a main hull and two smaller outrigger hulls. The firm's principals had used nautical terms to describe their predecessor entities including argosy, a merchant ship, or a fleet of such ships and caravelle, a small, highly maneuverable, two- or three-masted ship.

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# Trimaran Capital Partners

**Trimaran Capital Partners** is a middle-market private equity firm formerly affiliated with CIBC World Markets. Trimaran is headquartered in New York City and founded by former investment bankers from Drexel Burnham Lambert. Trimaran's predecessors were early investors in telecom and Internet businesses, most notably backing Global Crossing in 1997. Trimaran also led the first leveraged buyout of an integrated electric utility.

Since 1995, Trimaran and its successor entities have invested approximately $1.6 billion of equity in fifty-nine companies through transactions totaling more than $10 billion in total value. In addition, Trimaran's debt business has managed approximately $1.5 billion of leveraged loans across four collateralized loan obligation vehicles.

Since 2006, one of its co-founders, Andrew Heyer, lead a spinout of a portion of its team to form Mistral Equity Partners In 2008, the two remaining managing partners entered into a venture with Nelson Peltz’s Trian to create a new debt-focused business development company.

The firm is named for the trimaran, a multi-hulled boat consisting of a main hull and two smaller outrigger hulls. The firm's principals had used nautical terms to describe their predecessor entities including argosy, a merchant ship, or a fleet of such ships and caravelle, a small, highly maneuverable, two- or three-masted ship.

## History

Trimaran Capital Partners was founded in 2000 by former Drexel Burnham Lambert and CIBC World Markets investment bankers Jay Bloom, Andrew Heyer, and Dean Kehler. The firm traces its roots back to the 1995 creation of the CIBC Argosy Merchant funds, a series of merchant banking investment funds managed on behalf of CIBC, and before that to the 1990 founding of the boutique investment banking firm The Argosy Group.

### The Argosy Group

The Argosy Group was a New York-based boutique investment bank founded in February 1990, and is Trimaran's earliest predecessor. Founded as a 9-person advisory firm by Bloom, Heyer, and Kehler, Argosy was one of several private equities and investment banking firms to spring up in the wake of the collapse of Drexel Burnham Lambert. Before Drexel, the three bankers had all worked together at Shearson Lehman Brothers. Kehler and Bloom had worked together previously at Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb and were joined by Heyer when Lehman was acquired by Shearson/American Express. The Argosy team had been involved in many of the most prominent high yield financings of the preceding two decades, for companies including RJR Nabisco, Beatrice Foods, and Storer Communications.

The Argosy Group focused on debt underwriting, private placements, sales and trading, proprietary special situation investing, and restructuring advisory assignments for highly leveraged companies. Argosy created a niche raising high yield debt.

### Acquisition by CIBC

In April 1995, CIBC's investment banking subsidiary, then known as CIBC Wood Gundy announced the acquisition of The Argosy Group,

The acquisition of Argosy marked an aggressive push by CIBC into the U.S. investment banking business. Prior to that point, CIBC had never done a junk bond deal. Argosy's three major principals had worked on some of the biggest junk bond deals of the 1980s while at Drexel Burnham Lambert. The 52 Argosy employees that CIBC acquired would constitute the core of what would become CIBC's High Yield Group and the CIBC Argosy Merchant Banking funds that were responsible for, among other things, the $2 billion windfall that CIBC would earn from its early investments in Global Crossing. The Argosy principals also managed two collateralized debt obligation vehicles known as Caravelle Funds I and II.

With the acquisition of Argosy in 1995 and Oppenheimer & Co. in 1997, the center of gravity of CIBC's investment banking operations began to shift toward the United States. CIBC's High Yield Group began to develop a reputation for financing complex leveraged buyout transactions and worked closely with several of the leading private equity firms. CIBC provided financing for many of the leading private equity firms of this period including: Apollo Management, Hicks Muse, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Thomas H. Lee Partners, and Willis Stein & Partners.

Bloom, Heyer and Kehler took on increasing responsibilities within CIBC World Markets. Ultimately, as Vice Chairmen of the bank and co-heads of Leveraged Finance, the three Argosy founders had responsibilities for leveraged loan and high-yield sales, trading and research, debt private placements, restructuring advisory and financial sponsor coverage. They were also responsible for the creation and management of multiple special situations investment funds and collateralized debt obligation funds, and the creation of a major leveraged finance business in the U.K. In the aggregate, these businesses had several hundred employees in the United States, Canada and the U.K.

### Investment in Global Crossing (1997–1999)

In 1997, the CIBC Argosy Merchant funds backed Gary Winnick and his telecom venture, Global Crossing, which embarked on a project to build optical fiber cable connections under the ocean between Europe and North America. Bloom, Heyer and Kehler, the heads of the CIBC Argosy Merchant funds and all former Drexel bankers, were former associates of Winnick from his days in the 1980s as a salesman at Drexel Burnham Lambert under Michael Milken. They were also instrumental in providing Global Crossing with $35 million in equity financing before the company went public. CIBC would ultimately realize a gain estimated to be $2 billion from its relatively small equity investment in Global Crossing, making it one of the most profitable investments by a financial institution in the 1990s. The investment is also thought to have personally generated millions of dollars for Bloom, Heyer and Kehler.

CIBC's investment in Global Crossing provided a considerable boost for its investment banking operations in the U.S. and for Bloom, Heyer and Kehler. In fact, CIBC's gain on its investment in Global Crossing would represent more than 20% of the bank's profits in 2000. Trimaran was founded in 2000, effectively on the back of the success of the Global Crossing investment. In April 2001, Trimaran closed on a $1 billion fund with capital provided primarily by CIBC.

### Spinout from CIBC World Markets (2000–2002)

The investment banking operations of CIBC World Markets reached their peak in 1999 and 2000, when the bank cracked the top ten of U.S. issuers of high yield bonds and the top twenty in mergers and acquisitions advisory. From 1995 through 2000, the High Yield Group at CIBC World Markets had grown to more than 120 and had raised more than $80 billion of high yield debt. Following the crash of the dot-com bubble and the shutdown of the high yield markets in late 2000, CIBC World Markets began to suffer a series of setbacks. In July 2001, the *Wall Street Journal* profiled CIBC World Markets, chronicling the rapid decline of the bank from the peaks of Wall Street's league table rankings.

At the same time, the High Yield Group was restructured with the original Argosy Group founders focusing their responsibilities on their new Trimaran Capital Partners fund and the older CIBC Argosy Merchant funds. Bloom, Heyer and Kehler were succeeded by managing directors Edward Levy and Bruce Spohler, who had worked previously at Argosy and Drexel, together with Bill Phoenix.

By 2002, as a result of these developments, the CIBC implemented a strategy to reallocate resources and capital away from the riskier CIBC World Markets division in favor of its retail operations. As part of this reallocation, and in an effort to reduce conflicts between the bank's principal investments and its financial sponsor clients, the Trimaran operations would subsequently spinout completely from CIBC World Markets. Trimaran Capital Partners became independent of CIBC in February 2006

### Investments (2002–2005)

Although Trimaran had made some investments in telecom and internet startups in 2000 and had also made investments in companies such as Iasis Healthcare and Village Voice Media, the bulk of its capital from its $1 billion 2001-vintage private equity fund was uninvested after its first year and a half.

From the end of 2002 through mid-2005, Trimaran actively pursued new investments. In December 2002, Trimaran partnered with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. to purchase the transmission business subsidiary, ITC Transmission, from DTE Energy. In 2003, Trimaran completed a number of leveraged buyouts including Reddy Ice (with Bear Stearns Merchant Banking), Norcraft (with Saunders Karp & Megrue)

Trimaran made a series of investments in 2004 including: jewellery retailer Fortunoff, specialty apparel retailer Urban Brands (Ashley Stewart clothing) and auto parts manufacturer Accuride Corporation. In 2005, Trimaran would add Charlie Brown Steakhouse, which would later acquire Bugaboo Creek Steak House in 2007. Trimaran would also make investments in Jefferson National and Broadview Networks among others.

## Successor entities

Trimaran initially attempted to raise a third, $1.25 billion fund in 2004, but existing limited partners expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the firm had not fully invested its existing fund and had yet to produce sufficient realizations to merit a new commitment. Although Trimaran is still in operation managing its existing investment funds, the key professionals in the firm have embarked on a number of different ventures.

### Mistral Equity Partners spinout (2007)

Following the failure of Trimaran to raise its third fund, in March 2007, Andrew Heyer, one of the three founders of Trimaran, left the firm to launch a new buyout firm. Mistral Equity Partners was founded with a team from Trimaran to make investments in the consumer and retail industries. Mistral successfully raised an approximately $300 million fund

Trimaran Capital Partners III has a preliminary target range of $700 million to $1 billion. Trimaran plans to raise an interim $300 million to make deals happen while beating the bushes for money for the larger fund. Fundraising for both is slated to start later this year, according to a source close to Trimaran. Without Heyer, Trimaran was never successfully raised.

Mistral formed a partnership with the Schottenstein family, which has acquired well-known retailers such as American Eagle Outfitters, DSW Shoe Warehouse and Filene's Basement. The family made an equity commitment to the new Mistral fund, and Jay Schottenstein assumed a part-time advisory role with the firm.

### Joint Venture with Nelson Peltz / Trian Partners (2008)

Trimaran Partners, Jay Bloom and Dean Kehler, co-founders and managing partners of the private equity firm, have reportedly struck out on a venture with the Nelson Peltz-led hedge fund Trian Partners, investing in distressed corporate bonds, bank loans, and possible loan-to-own opportunities. The move, reuniting a former team from Drexel Burnham Lambert, does not signal an end to Trimaran, which will continue on as an independent entity. Bloom and Kehler had founded the PE firm in 1995. The jump back to corporate credit is not big leap for Bloom and Kehler. At Trimaran, the pair also oversaw Trimaran Advisors, which invests in below investment-grade corporate debt. David Millison, also a Drexel alum, had managed those funds for Trimaran as the chief investment officer. He is not expected to be joining Bloom and Kehler in the new venture. Bloom and Kehler have been paired off for much of their respective careers. Prior to Trimaran, both Bloom and Kehler had served as co-heads of the CIBC Argosy Merchant Banking Funds, the PE arm of CIBC World Markets.

## InfoBox

Trimaran Capital Partners
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|  |
| Industry | Private equity |
| Predecessor | The Argosy Group |
| Founded | 1990 |
| Founder | Jay Bloom
Andrew Heyer
Dean Kehler |
| Successor | Trian Acquisition Corp.
Mistral Equity Partners |
| Headquarters | 1325 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York, U.S. |
| Products | Leveraged buyouts, Growth capital, Venture capital |
| AUM | USD 3.1 billion |
| Parent | CIBC World Markets (prior) |
| Divisions | Trimaran Fund Management, Trimaran Advisors |
| Website | www.trimarancapital.com |


title: Packing Things Up on the Scene

abstract: "Packing Things Up on the Scene" is a song by Brooklyn-based band Radio 4. It was released as the second single from their 2006 album Enemies Like This. A music video was also released, with director Tim Sutton.

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# Packing Things Up on the Scene

"**Packing Things Up on the Scene**" is a song by Brooklyn-based band Radio 4. It was released as the second single from their 2006 album *Enemies Like This*. A music video was also released, with director Tim Sutton.

## Track listing

**Mini CD**

1. Packing Things up on the Scene (Radio Edit)
2. Pretty Good Lie

**7" vinyl**

1. Packing Things up on the Scene (Album version)
2. Take Anything

**12" vinyl**

1. Packing Things Up On The Scene (The Loving Hand remix)
2. Packing Things Up On The Scene (The Loving Hand instrumental)

* All tracks available for download on iTunes.

## Music video

The song features a music video, directed by Tim Sutton. In the video, the band starts playing in a room among some young people on sofa, watching on TV, an army incident in the streets of an unspecified city. After, the band members go out to the streets and see a lot of people laying on the floor, suffering from some wound. They go back to the room they were before, and the young people are also laying on the floor, fainted. The video ends with the closing of the TV screen.

## InfoBox

| "Packing Things Up on the Scene" | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Single by Radio 4 | |
| from the album  *Enemies Like this* | |
| Released | October 2006 |
| Recorded | 2006 |
| Label | Astralwerks/EMI |
| Songwriter(s) | Anthony Roman, Greg Collins, P.J. O'Connor, Dave Milone, Gerard Garone |
| Radio 4 singles chronology | |
| "Enemies Like this"
(2006) "**Packing Things Up on the Scene**"
(2006) "As Far as the Eye Can See"
(2007) | |


title: SmartCentres

abstract: SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust is a Canadian real estate investment trust, based in Vaughan, Ontario. It specializes in retail real estate, especially power centres. Almost all of its malls have Walmart as a tenant; SmartCentre's logo features a family of penguins with shopping bags. SmartCentres cobranded Penguin Pickup with Walmart at a lot of the SmartCentres locations, to merge Bricks & Mortar and e-commerce. It is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, with a market capitalization of about $4.74 billion as of February 2019.

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# SmartCentres

**SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust** is a Canadian real estate investment trust, based in Vaughan, Ontario. It specializes in retail real estate, especially power centres. Almost all of its malls have Walmart as a tenant; SmartCentre's logo features a family of penguins with shopping bags.

SmartCentres cobranded Penguin Pickup with Walmart at a lot of the SmartCentres locations, to merge Bricks & Mortar and e-commerce.

It is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (symbol SRU.UN), with a market capitalization of about $4.74 billion as of February 2019.

## History

Former logoA SmartCentre in MontrealSmartCentre in Richmond Hill, OntarioSmartCentre in Markham

SmartCentres was founded in 1994 by Mitchell Goldar, as **FirstPro Shopping Centres**. It was renamed SmartCentres Inc. in 2006. In 2015, it was taken over by Calloway REIT, which then renamed itself SmartREIT. It changed its name to SmartCentres REIT in 2017.

As of 2011, SmartCentres had opened a new mall once every 3 weeks for its history. As of 2015, it had developed 50 million square feet of space.

### Relationship with Calloway REIT

In 2003, SmartCentres (then FirstPro) began to sell some of its malls to Calloway REIT, then a small REIT based in Calgary, to raise additional funds for construction. Its first transaction was the sale of nine malls for $100 million in November 2003. In 2004, 12 malls were sold for $300 million. In 2005, it sold 35 malls for $1.1 billion. This transaction doubled the size of Calloway, and led to Goldar greatly increasing his control and equity stake in Calloway. In 2006, SmartCentres sold 16 properties, worth $1 billion, to Calloway. In 2008, it sold 6 malls for $375 million.

In 2015, SmartCentres was formally taken over by Calloway REIT for $1.1 billion. As a result of the deal, Calloway acquired 24 properties.

### Controversies

SmartCentres has been involved in a number of controversial developments, often because of its close association with Walmart. In the late 2000s, there was considerable opposition to a SmartCentres plan to build a power centre in eastern Toronto. The plan was eventually turned down by the Ontario Municipal Board. In 2009, its shopping mall in Salmon Arm, British Columbia was delayed because of environmental concerns. The mall was eventually built in 2013.

## Properties

SmartCentres properties are generally suburban power centres, with Walmart as a lead tenant. As of 2016, 72% of SmartCentres properties were anchored by Walmart, with Walmart responsible for 26% of rent and 42% of area. However, in recent years, SmartCentres has been diversifying into more urban and mixed-use properties. For instance, SmartCentres is one of the main developers of the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, a planned central business district for Vaughan, Ontario, a Toronto suburb, where a bus terminal serving a subway station is named after the company, who contributed funding to its construction. SmartCentres is also the main developer of StudioCentre, a mixed-use development in the Leslieville neighbourhood of Toronto. SmartCentres has also considered converting some of its properties into warehouse space.

As of 2017, SmartCentres had 154 shopping centres and $9.4 billion worth in assets. 60% of its revenue was from Ontario, 15% was from Quebec, 9% was from British Columbia, and the other 16% was from the rest of Canada.

### Penguin Pick-Up

A number of online delivery pick-up locations, called Penguin Pick-Ups, are located in SmartCentres properties (the locations are owned by Mitchell Goldhar, the SmartCentres chairman, and use the SmartCentres penguin motif). As of January 2018, there are 76 such locations. The original locations were primarily suburban, but some newer locations have been located in urban areas, including some co-branded with Walmart. The locations principally exist to lower Walmart's delivery costs; Walmart charges for home delivery, but only charges a reduced fee for delivery to a Penguin Pick-Up.

## InfoBox

SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust
|
|  |
| Company type | Public |
| Traded as | TSX: SRU.UN<br>S&P/TSX Composite Component |
| Industry | Real estate |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Founder | Mitchell Goldhar |
| Headquarters | Vaughan, Ontario, Canada |
| Key people | Mitchell Goldhar (Executive Chairman & CEO) |
| Revenue | $728 million CAD (2016) |
| Total equity | $4.74 billion CAD (2019) |
| Number of employees | 300 (2016) |
| Website | http://www.smartcentres.com |


title: The Gold Rush Is Over

abstract: "The Gold Rush Is Over" is a song written by Cindy Walker, sung by Hank Snow, and released on the RCA Victor label. In April 1952, it peaked at No. 2 on Billboard's country and western juke box chart. It spent 18 weeks on the charts and was ranked No. 10 on Billboard's 1952 year-end country and western juke box chart and No. 13 on the year-end best seller chart.

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# The Gold Rush Is Over

"**The Gold Rush Is Over**" is a song written by Cindy Walker, sung by Hank Snow, and released on the RCA Victor label (catalog no. 20-4522). In April 1952, it peaked at No. 2 on *Billboard*'s country and western juke box chart (No. 4 best seller and jockey). It spent 18 weeks on the charts and was ranked No. 10 on *Billboard*'s 1952 year-end country and western juke box chart and No. 13 on the year-end best seller chart.

## InfoBox

| "The Gold Rush Is Over" | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Single by Hank Snow | |
| from the album  *The Singing Ranger* | |
| B-side | "Why Do You Punish Me (For Loving You)" |
| Released | 1952 |
| Recorded | 1951 |
| Genre | Country |
| Length | 2:17 |
| Label | RCA Victor |
| Songwriter(s) | Cindy Walker |
| Hank Snow singles chronology | |
| "Music Makin' Mama from Memphis"
(1951) "**The Gold Rush Is Over**"
(1952) "Lady's Man"
(1952) | |


title: WGLD (disambiguation)

abstract:
WGLD may refer to:
  - WGLD, a radio station licensed to Manchester Township, Pennsylvania
  - WGLD-FM, a radio station licensed to Conway, South Carolina
  - WCOG (AM), a radio station licensed to Greensboro, North Carolina, which held the call sign WGLD from 1985 to 1994
  - WJJK, a radio station licensed to Noblesville, Indiana, which held the call sign WGLD from 1997 to 2005
  - WMKS, a radio station licensed to High Point, North Carolina, which held the call sign WGLD from 1975 to 1985

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# WGLD (disambiguation)

**WGLD** may refer to:

* WGLD, a radio station (1440 AM) licensed to Manchester Township, Pennsylvania
* WGLD-FM, a radio station (93.9 FM) licensed to Conway, South Carolina
* WCOG (AM), a radio station (1320 AM) licensed to Greensboro, North Carolina, which held the call sign WGLD from 1985 to 1994
* WJJK, a radio station (104.5 FM) licensed to Noblesville, Indiana, which held the call sign WGLD from 1997 to 2005
* WMKS, a radio station (100.3 FM) licensed to High Point, North Carolina, which held the call sign WGLD from 1975 to 1985


title: WCPK

abstract: WCPK is a Spanish Contemporary Christian formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Chesapeake, Virginia, serving the Southside of Hampton Roads. WCPK is owned and operated by Hosanna Media Christian Group, Inc.

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# WCPK

**WCPK** (1600 AM, *La Voz de Dios 1600*) is a Spanish Contemporary Christian formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Chesapeake, Virginia, serving the Southside of Hampton Roads. WCPK is owned and operated by Hosanna Media Christian Group, Inc.

## InfoBox

WCPK
|  | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Broadcast area | Southside of Hampton Roads |
| Frequency | 1600 AM kHz |
| Branding | *La Voz de Dios 1600*
("God's Voice 1600") |
| Programming | |
| Format | Spanish Contemporary Christian |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Hosanna Media Christian Group, Inc. |
| History | |
| First air date | 1967 |
| Former call signs | WCPK (1967–1987)
WJQI (1987–1996)
WFOG (1996–1997)
WCPK (1997–Present) |
| Call sign meaning | "Chesapeake" |
| Technical information | |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 64003 |
| Class | D |
| Power | 4,200 Watts daytime
23 Watts nighttime |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°48′10.0″N 76°16′58.0″W / 36.802778°N 76.282778°W / 36.802778; -76.282778 |
| Links | |
| Public license information |  |
| Webcast | WCPK Webstream |


title: WCPR-FM

abstract: WCPR-FM is a radio station licensed to Wiggins, Mississippi. Its transmitter is located in Saucier, Mississippi, on a 466-foot tower at 50,000 watts of power. WCPR plays primarily rock and alternative music. The station's signal reaches far west to Covington, Louisiana, far east to Mobile, Alabama, and far north as Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

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# WCPR-FM

**WCPR-FM** (97.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Wiggins, Mississippi. Its transmitter is located in Saucier, Mississippi, on a 466-foot tower at 50,000 watts of power. WCPR plays primarily rock and alternative music. The station's signal reaches far west to Covington, Louisiana, far east to Mobile, Alabama, and far north as Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

## History

### US98/97-9 CPR

The station started out with a country music format as US98 from 1994–1995. On September 20, 1995, the station dropped country for Active Rock as "Real Rock 97.9 WCPR" and became the first new rock station on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. WCPR was founded and conceived by New Orleans Radio veterans Kenny Vest, Scot Fox, and Weerd Wayne Watkins. Vest, Fox, and Kyle Curley are all original staffers that are still at the radio station today, 28 years later.

In 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016, WCPR was nominated for a RadioContraband Rock Radio Award for "Small Market Radio Station of the Year"

In July 2014, station owner, Triad Broadcasting was sold to Alpha Media along with sister stations, WXYK, WGBL, WQBB and WTNI

In December 2018, Alpha Media announced that it would be selling its Gulf Coast cluster to local Mississippi broadcast company, Telesouth Communications Inc, who already owns WOSM, The Biloxi affiliate of its Supertalk Mississippi network in the market. The FCC approved the sale on February 12, 2019, and closed on March 1, 2019.

30°37′01″N 89°08′02″W / 30.617°N 89.134°W / 30.617; -89.134

1. "Facility Technical Data for WCPR-FM". *Licensing and Management System*. Federal Communications Commission.

## InfoBox

WCPR-FM
|  | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Broadcast area | Biloxi-Gulfport, Mississippi |
| Frequency | 97.9 MHz |
| Branding | 97.9 CPR Rocks |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Format | Active rock |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | TeleSouth Communications Inc |
| Technical information | |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 72194 |
| Class | C2 |
| ERP | 50,000 watts |
| HAAT | 142 meters |
| Links | |
| Public license information |  |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 979cprrocks.com |


title: WKGO

abstract: WKGO is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Murrysville, Pennsylvania, serving the Eastern suburbs of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. It carries an easy listening radio format. WKGO is owned and operated by Broadcast Educational Communications, Inc., a not-for-profit 501(c)3 corporation. The studios and offices are on Lincoln Highway in North Versailles. The transmitter is off Turkey Ridge Road in Murrysville. As of December 19, 2019, WKGO is simulcast on KQV in Pittsburgh.

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# WKGO

**WKGO** (88.1 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Murrysville, Pennsylvania, serving the Eastern suburbs of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. It carries an easy listening radio format.

WKGO is owned and operated by Broadcast Educational Communications, Inc., a not-for-profit 501(c)3 corporation. The studios and offices are on Lincoln Highway in North Versailles. The transmitter is off Turkey Ridge Road in Murrysville.

As of December 19, 2019, WKGO is simulcast on KQV (1410 AM) in Pittsburgh.

40°31′12″N 79°39′28″W / 40.5201°N 79.6578°W / 40.5201; -79.6578

## InfoBox

WKGO
|  | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Broadcast area | Eastern suburbs of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area |
| Frequency | 88.1 MHz |
| Branding | Easy 88.1 KGO |
| Programming | |
| Format | Easy listening |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Broadcast Educational Communications, Inc. |
| Sister stations | KQV |
| History | |
| First air date | 1994 (as WRWJ) |
| Former call signs | * WLGV (1993) * WRWJ (1993–2016) |
| Technical information | |
| Facility ID | 26527 |
| Class | A |
| ERP |  |
| HAAT | 92 meters (302 ft) |


title: WKGT-LP

abstract: WKGT-LP is a radio station licensed to North Adams, Massachusetts, United States, the station serves the Pittsfield area. The station is owned by Gospel Train Ministry.

text:
# WKGT-LP

**WKGT-LP** (104.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to North Adams, Massachusetts, United States, the station serves the Pittsfield area. The station is owned by Gospel Train Ministry.

## InfoBox

WKGT-LP
|  | |
| --- | --- |
| Broadcast area | Pittsfield, Massachusetts |
| Frequency | 104.7 MHz |
| Programming | |
| Format | Gospel |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Gospel Train Ministry |
| History | |
| Former frequencies | * 107.1 FM (2003–2013) * 104.3 (2013–2015) |
| Technical information | |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 133361 |
| Class | L1 |
| ERP | 100 watts |
| HAAT | −155 meters (−509 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°41′53.00″N 73°7′47.00″W / 42.6980556°N 73.1297222°W / 42.6980556; -73.1297222 |
| Links | |
| Public license information | LMS |