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Potawatomi still hopeful about bingo plan
Daily Chronicle - Oct 09 2:28 AM SHABBONA - An American Indian tribe that recently bought 128 acres of what it considers ancestral land issued a statement Friday saying it would continue to work with local officials to craft an agreement that would allow a bingo parlor on the site.
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Angel investors
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat - Oct 08 10:07 AM With the end of the technology boom, venture capital that once fueled Sonoma County's startup businesses has largely dried up. Now, entrepreneurs are looking to other funding sources, including local "angel" investors who typically provide smaller amounts of seed money to promising startups.
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Local aid benefits some more than others
Eagle-Tribune Online - Oct 10 6:49 AM Beware those - and we include gubernatorial candidates Deval Patrick and Christy Mihos among them - who worship at the altar of "local aid." There was a time when cities and towns were pretty much responsible for raising their own revenue through the property tax. Then came Proposition 21/2.
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Christian rock band Skillet eyes mainstream fans
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Oct 10 12:18 AM Christian rock band Skillet wants to expand into the mainstream market with an album that examines such topics as teen suicide and self-mutilation.
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Fix It: Bicycle path along Christina Parkway
The News Journal - Oct 09 12:42 AM PROBLEM: What a bicyclist says was once an attractive path along Christina Parkway in Newark has become an obstacle course, littered with the detritus of passing motorists: discarded papers, aluminum cans, plastic bags and even a broken hubcap. It's a "a totally neglected trash dump," says Frank Warnock Jr. "Riders are seen on it regularly. This is a downright disgrace ... Clearly this is the
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Music Review: Diddy Featuring Christina Aguilera - "Tell Me"
Blogcritics.org - Oct 07 8:38 PM Even though there's been a lukewarm response to Puff Daddy - I mean P. Diddy - I mean Diddy's return to rap music, there's quite the buzz surrounding his new single with Christina Aguilera called "Tell Me". Many people already recognize the track because it was used on an episode of Diddy's pet project, MTV's Making The Band 3 last season to gauge the girls' talents in the studio (even at the
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Belly Dancing
ABC 7 Chicago - Sep 01 9:19 AM Tired of the same old workout routine? Consider belly dancing. It sounds easy, but it's not.
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Simpson taking charge of her 'normal' life
CNN.com - Oct 09 7:35 AM LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- She's a pop singer, a pinup-worthy beauty and a paparazzi favorite, but Jessica Simpson insists she's just "a normal girl."
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Christine Ratcliff Burch
Hartselle Enquirer - Oct 09 7:23 AM Funeral for Christine Ratcliff Burch, 90, of Danville was Friday, Sept. 29, at 11 a.m. at Peck Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Jack Bailey officiating.
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Get into the groove with Garrick Davis
Inside Bay Area - 2 hours, 57 minutes ago PENINSULA-BASED singer-songwriter-guitarist Garrick Davis returns to Redwood City on Friday.
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El Chupacabra
Seattle Weekly - Sep 26 8:25 PM Cheap pints and $1 chips will give you the strength to inhale your steak burrito.
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AOL RED Signs Mobile Deal with MoMedia International to Distribute Chubby Butter Animated Cartoons Worldwide
Broadcast Newsroom - Oct 09 1:32 AM CANNES, France, BUSINESS WIRE -- AOL RED, the online home for teens, has signed a distribution deal with MoMedia International to offer a series of "Chubby Butter" cartoons to the international mobile marketplace.
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Chuck E. Cheese Takes a Front Seat to Education
[Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Oct 06 10:00 AM Chuck E. Cheese is more than just a fun-loving character that hangs out in his over-the-top playhouse. He does have a serious side when it comes to education.
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AFC Asian Cup Crunch time in Asia
FIFA - Oct 10 4:31 AM The race to the AFC Asian Cup 2007 finals reaches a critical stage on Wednesday as the continental contenders battle for the seven remaining coveted places in the penultimate round of the qualifying competition.
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Foundation Ends Long-Time Addiction Funding
About.com - Oct 08 9:52 PM For the past 20 years, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been an significant souce of private funding for many addiction treatment and prevention programs in the United States,...
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Stop bashing Catholics
The Oregonian - Oct 10 12:22 AM The editorial cartoon [by Jim Borgman of the Cincinnati Enquirer] depicting Congressmen Dennis Hastert and John Boehner as "bishops" ignoring a priest chasing a young boy (Oct. 6) is just one more example of Catholic bashing by The Oregonian.
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Father and Son To Be In Reds Booth Next Year
Fox 19 Cincinnati - Oct 09 1:21 AM The Cincinnati Reds are adding one of their own to the broadcasting booth. Reds radio play-by-play man Marty Brennaman will have some family in the broadcasting booth next year.
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Cinderella Not Exactly the Belle of the Ball
Port Folio Weekly - Oct 09 11:10 PM There were tutus and tiaras, little girls with garlands in fifth position, and guest artists with lovely technique, but Virginia Ballet Theatre s Cinderella at the Roper Theatre needed much, much more to convince us that this is indeed a professional ballet company, able to hold its own with the other excellent arts groups in Hampton Roads.
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The Cinderella in danger
Al Bawaba - Oct 10 7:58 AM Egyptian actor Muna Zaki portrays the late Egyptian legend Souad Hunsi, known as Egypt s Cinderella, in a new television drama The Cinderella, that tells her life story.
circumcision
Trends In Paediatric Circumcision And Its Complications In England Between 1997 And 2003
Medical News Today - Oct 09 12:12 AM Circumcision has been deemed a ritualistic practice with a relatively uncommon medical indication requiring implementation. Despite recent data regarding the rate of UTI, most believe that if it is to be done, it should be religious or truly medical. This study by Cathcart et al stated, "It has been suggested that too many English boys undergo circumcision. [click link for full article]
circus
Pilsen Hosts Italian Family Circus
NBC 5 Chicago - Oct 09 9:54 AM The Pilsen community was treated to a special series of performances by a world-reknown Italian circus over the weekend.
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Dresden Disco
antiMUSIC - Oct 08 5:35 PM (punkbands) Tourmates Panic! At The Disco and The Dresden Dolls have teamed up to make a video. The Las Vegas band feature in the video to The Dresden Dolls' new single 'Backstabber' after the two groups toured the US together.
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JWRC: Citroen: Meeke must win.
Crash.Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Sport - Oct 09 9:23 AM Citroen Sport's customer competition manager, Yves Matton believes that Kris Meeke must take the win and the maximum ten points in Turkey this weekend if they are to stand any hope of defending the C2 S1600's JWRC title success from last season.
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Spanish Civil War Volunteers Revisit Battlegrounds
NPR - Oct 08 4:41 PM Five aging American veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigades are expected at a reunion of the International Brigades who fought in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. They will revisit the battlegrounds where they made their ill-fated stand against Fascism. Thousands of foreign volunteers -- or brigadistas -- fought in the civil war, a conflict that presaged the great battles of the 20th century.
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Clematis to fire up fire-rescue benefit
Palm Beach Daily news - Oct 07 9:17 PM Clematis by Night will be smokin' when Firefighters Night gets under way Thursday. America's Female Firefighters will be at the event, featuring rock and roll by the Chad Hollister Band from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Group members will sell their organization's 2007 calendar.
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Chlamydia Cases On Rise In Austin
KXAN 36 Austin - Oct 08 9:16 AM Some doctors say they're seeing a resurgence of sexually transmitted diseases in certain groups of people. In fact, the Centers For Disease Control are even recommending people from ages 16 to 64 get tested for HIV. But that's not the only disease they're concerned about.
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St. Mary s Class of 1956 reunites for golden anniversary
Times Leader - Oct 09 12:04 AM The 50th anniversary reunion of St. Mary s High School Class of 1956 was held Sept. 2, 2006, at The Knights of Columbus, Luzerne. From left are: Patricia Flynn Gryskevicz, Gloria Stancavage Lyons, Helen McCabe Seerey, Anna Marie Censullo Birk, Theresa Novak, Patricia Bastiani Guiliano, Patricia Hennessy Kalinowski, Marion Coach Kasko, Mary Alice Flynn Hannon, Mary Dougherty Monahan, Victoria
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No joke: Robin Williams takes on politics in film
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Oct 09 6:56 PM To hear comedian Robin Williams tell it, politics as usual in the United States is no laughing matter, even if he makes a lot of jokes about it in his new movie "Man of the Year."
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Not up to code
Detroit News - Oct 09 11:17 PM A shli Walker rifled through a rack of designer T-shirts at a suburban Washington boutique one recent afternoon, pondering which one she should buy and wear the next day to high school: the big black one that read "TRUST ME ... I'M SINGLE," or the snug white T-shirt emblazoned with "I KNOW WHAT BOYS WANT"?
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Platinum Cleopatra
Moldova.org - Oct 09 1:57 AM The electronic edition of Evenimentul Zilei editorial informs that Cleopatra Stratan, the girl that celebrated her 4th birthday on Friday, October 6, daughter of Pavel Stratan, received a platinum disk from the Cat Music recording studio. The distinction was given to the little one because her album, entitled At the age of 3 , has sold more than 40.000 copies. The little singer had her debut
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Network
The Minnesota Daily - Sep 15 6:06 AM Net: Well, not ours, since we're asexual. It's fun for us; that's the real reason we do it. On a different note, how's a commuting girl supposed to meet people?!
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NLCS-bound Mets to take close look at Cliff Floyd's injured foot
Slam! Sports - Oct 09 6:21 PM NEW YORK (AP) - Cliff Floyd's injured left foot will be the focus when the New York Mets work out Tuesday ahead of the NL championship series opener against St. Louis, and general manager Omar Minaya acknowledged it would be a risk to keep the outfielder on the roster.
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Town shuts down art school
The Little Elm Journal - Oct 09 2:22 PM A classroom of art students learned this week what happens when their teacher colored outside the lines. Code enforcement and police officers located illegal drugs and health and safety violations at Art-A-Rama on Monday that resulted in the school's closure Tuesday.
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For Actors in 'Shortbus,' There's Just No Faking It
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Chloe Hanslip, Wigmore Hall, LondoN
Independent - Oct 10 2:49 AM Prodigies come; prodigies go. The latest British hope, violinist Chloë Hanslip, has been receiving a lot of publicity of late. At 19, she's now neither child prodigy nor the great performer she may yet become. But the omens are good. In a Wigmore concert promoting the vastly valuable International Music Seminar (IMS) Prussia Cove, Hanslip was among equals even if the programme was designed to
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Missouri Baptists fight cloning/embryonic stem cell measure
BPNews.net - Oct 09 2:04 PM JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP)--Missouri Baptists have stepped up their attack on the controversial embryonic stem cell measure that is facing voters in the November general election.
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Chris-Craft Industries is a privately held American manufacturer of civilian powerboats based in Sarasota, Florida. The company was founded in the late 19th century by Christopher Columbus Smith and became famous for its mahogany hulled powerboats of the 1920s through the 1950s.
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Contents
- 1 History
- 2 Chris-Craft Industries Today
- 3 Chris-Craft/United Television
- 3.1 Former Chris-Craft/United television stations
- 4 External link
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History
Smith built his first wooden boat in 1874 when he was 13 years old. He soon began to build more boats and joined his brother Henry in 1881 to begin producing boats full time. In 1910, the brothers joined with other partners to form the Smith Ryan Boat & Engine Company. The company name was changed to Chris-Craft in 1924.
The Detroit area company became well known for their sleek racing boats in the 1910s and 1920s. Chris-Craft sold high end powerboats to wealthy patrons such as Henry Ford and William Randolph Hearst. In the late 1920s, Chris-Craft extended its market into the middle class when it became one of the first mass producers of civilian pleasure boats. The company began assembly line production at their Algonac, Michigan plant dramatically lowering productions costs. Until then, most powerboats had been built by hand.
In 1927 the company introduced the Cadet, an affordable 22' runabout. At the time, the domain of speed boats was largely confined to the wealthy. Its innovative advertising campaign promised a piece of "the good life" to the growing American middle class. The fact that the company sold its boats on installment made them among the first powerboats available to the general population.
The Great Depression robbed many Americans of discretionary income and Chris-Craft sales suffered. The company introduced a line of low priced powerboats to stay solvent. By 1935, a 15.5' Utility boat could be bought for as little as US$406. During World War II, the company produced small patrol boats and launches for the U.S. Navy.
After the war, Chris Craft introduced an all new lineup of civilian pleasure boats just in time for the massive American consumer expansion of the 1950s. That decade marked the height of company prestige and the brand name Chris-Craft became virtually synonymous with pleasure boating. The company offered 159 different models and was the sales leader in many categories of small civilian powerboats.
The company sold high end boats to famous customers and Hollywood stars such as Dean Martin, Katharine Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis Presley. Their boats were often made from the finest mahogany and were considered to be among the best available. They were also easy to operate, a must for their "weekend sailor" owners. In some circles, owning a Chris-Craft was considered de rigueur. Even their lower priced boats were considered to be of high quality, often featuring such luxury items as a liberal use of as mahogany, teak, and brass.
The company continued to be independent until it was acquired by Shields & Company and National Automotive Fibers in 1960. They renamed the company Chris-Craft Industries, Incorporated.
Between the 1960s and 1980s, Chris-Craft lost market share as competitors with more innovative designs and less expensive manufacturing techniques such as fiberglass hulls came on the scene. Chris-Craft ended production of its last mahogany hulled boat, the 57' Constellation, in 1971.
The company's ownership changed several times during the next several decades until it was purchased by partners Stephen Julius and Stephen Heese in 2001.
Chris-Craft Industries Today
The company currently offers eight models ranging from 22' to 43' with MSRPs starting at around US$60,000. The management plans to continue to expand the model range in the future.
The Chris-Craft name and distinctive look of its mahogany hull has become such American icons the boat has been used in numerous films. The boat was featured in the House Boat, Donavan's Reef, Back to School, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Godfather II, On Golden Pond, The Dirty Dozen, and Striking Distance. A Chris-Craft also made an appearance in the film Pearl Harbor, but experts note that the film, set in 1941, anachronistically featured a 1950's era Capri.
Chris-Craft/United Television
Chris-Craft in the broadcasting business
In the late 1950s, Chris-Craft expanded its business portfolio with television broadcasting. Chris-Craft purchased its first TV station, KCOP in Los Angeles, in 1957. Two years later KPTV in Portland, Oregon, was acquired. Chris-Craft owned only these two stations for nearly a quarter-century (they were joined by a Minneapolis station for eight years) before merging them with three stations owned by United Television in 1981 (see chart below). United Television then became a subsidiary of Chris-Craft Industries, and the group (which also went by the name BHC Communications) became one of the country's leading operators of independent television stations.
In January 1995, Chris-Craft/United affiliated all of its independent stations with the newly-launched United Paramount Network, which it co-owned (50 percent) with Viacom. Chris-Craft however, suffered financial losses attributed to UPN, and in 2000, Viacom bought out Chris-Craft's share of the network. Shortly thereafter, Chris-Craft announced that it was getting out of broadcasting. Viacom (which had just completed its purchase of CBS), as expected, entered the bidding war. Many people thought Viacom would end up getting the stations. However, Viacom lost out to News Corporation's Fox Television Stations Group, a sale which closed in 2001.
Former Chris-Craft/United television stations
| Current DMA# |
Market |
Station |
Years Owned |
Current Affiliation |
| 1. |
Secaucus, N.J.-New York City |
WWOR-TV 9 |
1993-2001 |
My Network TV affiliate owned by Fox |
| 2. |
Los Angeles |
KCOP 13 |
1957-2001 |
My Network TV affiliate owned by Fox |
| 5. |
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose |
KBHK-TV 44
(now KBCW) |
1982-2001 |
UPN affiliate owned by CBS Corporation
(to become CW in Sept. 2006) |
| 13. |
Phoenix |
KUTP 45 1 |
1985-2001 |
My Network TV affiliate owned by Fox |
| 15. |
Minneapolis-St. Paul |
WTCN-TV 11
(now KARE) |
1964-1972 |
NBC affiliate owned by Gannett Company |
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KMSP-TV 9 2 |
1981-2001 |
Fox owned-and-operated (O&O) |
| 19. |
Orlando - Daytona Beach |
WRBW 65 |
1998-2001 |
My Network TV affiliate owned by Fox |
| 23. |
Portland, Oregon |
KPTV 12 |
1959-2001 |
Fox affiliate owned by Meredith Corporation |
| 24. |
Baltimore |
WUTB 24 |
1998-2001 |
My Network TV affiliate owned by Fox |
| 35. |
Salt Lake City |
KTVX 4 2 |
1981-2001 |
ABC affiliate owned by Clear Channel |
| 37. |
San Antonio |
KMOL-TV 4 2
(now WOAI-TV) |
1981-2001 |
NBC affiliate owned by Clear Channel |
Footnotes:
- 1 KUTP is the only station built and signed-on by Chris-Craft/United.
- 2 KMSP-TV, KTVX, and KMOL-TV were owned by United Television prior to its merger with Chris-Craft in 1981.
External link
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Potawatomi still hopeful about bingo plan
Daily Chronicle - Oct 09 2:28 AM SHABBONA - An American Indian tribe that recently bought 128 acres of what it considers ancestral land issued a statement Friday saying it would continue to work with local officials to craft an agreement that would allow a bingo parlor on the site.
Dollar Climbs as Investors Seek Safer Assets After Nuclear Test
Bloomberg.com - 1 minute ago Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar climbed to an eight-month high against the yen on speculation North Korea's first reported nuclear bomb test will prompt Japanese investors to buy assets they perceive as safer, including U.S. Treasuries.
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Crumpler pursues former sure-handed form
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Pumpkin Fest returns Saturday
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Bush picks up Saints with punt-return TD in come-from-behind win over Bucs
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Agency promotes Indian art
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Holiday Bazaars--The giving season
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Kenya: Lost Allies That Could Cost Kibaki the Presidency
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