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Lebanon, Oregon
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Lebanon /ˈlɛbɪnɛn/ or /ˈlɛbɪnən/ is a city in Linn County, Oregon, United States. Lebanon is located in northwest Oregon, southeast of Salem, the population was 15,518 at the 2010 census. As of the census of 2010, there were 15,518 people,6,118 households, the population density was 2,326.5 inhabitants per square mile. There were 6,820 housing units at a density of 1,022.5 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 91. 2% White,0. 5% African American,1. 4% Native American,1. 1% Asian,0. 1% Pacific Islander,2. 1% from other races, and 3. 7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5. 8% of the population,28. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 14. 3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the family size was 3.05. The median age in the city was 36.6 years. 25. 7% of residents were under the age of 18,9. 4% were between the ages of 18 and 24,24. 9% were from 25 to 44,23. 6% were from 45 to 64, and 16. 3% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47. 7% male and 52. 3% female. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 6.87 square miles. This region experiences warm and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F, according to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Lebanon has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated Csb on climate maps. Lowes RDC is the largest employer in Lebanon, with 650 employees, the other major employers are Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital, Lebanon Schools, Wal-Mart, and Entek International. Lebanon is served by the Lebanon Community Schools public school district and it is also home to the private East Linn Christian Academy, which serves students from preschool through twelfth grade. The school opened with 107 students, Lebanon is the home of the Worlds Largest Strawberry Shortcake, a part of the annual Strawberry Festival that began in 1909. The Strawberry Festival includes a Junior Parade, a Grand Parade, and it is held the first weekend of June. The city has 15 developed parks, totaling 71.5 acres, which provide residents with baseball, softball, and soccer fields, as well as playgrounds, basketball and tennis courts, and other resources. Gills Landing has a ramp and dock, as well as an RV park, camping area
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Disc jockey
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A disc jockey is a person who mixes different sources of pre-existing recorded music as it is playing, usually for a live audience in a nightclub or dance club or via broadcasting. DJs typically perform for an audience in a nightclub or dance club or a TV, radio broadcast audience, or in the 2010s. DJs also create mixes, remixes and tracks that are recorded for later sale, in hip hop music, DJs may create beats, using percussion breaks, basslines and other musical content sampled from pre-existing records. In hip hop, rappers and MCs use these beats to rap over, DJs use equipment that can play at least two sources of recorded music simultaneously and mix them together. This allows the DJ to create seamless transitions between recordings and develop unique mixes of songs, DJ equipment, notably the specialized DJ mixer, a small audio mixer with a crossfader and cue functions. The crossfader enables the DJ to blend or transition from one song to another, the cue knobs or switches allow the DJ to preview a source of recorded music in headphones before playing it for the live club or broadcast audience. Previewing the music in headphones helps the DJ pick the track they want to play. DJs may also use a microphone to speak to the audience, effects such as reverb to create sound effects, drum machines. The title DJ is also used by DJs in front of their real names or adopted pseudonyms or stage names as a title to denote their profession. Some DJs focus on creating a mix of songs for the club dancers or radio audience. Other DJs use turntablism techniques such as scratching, in which the DJ or turntablist manipulates the record player turntable to create new sounds. In many types of DJing, including club DJing and radio/TV DJing, there are several types of disc jockey. Radio DJs or radio personalities introduce and play music that is broadcast on AM, FM, club DJs select and play music in bars, nightclubs or discothèques, or at parties, raves, or even in stadiums. Mobile DJs travel with portable sound systems and play recorded music at a variety of events. Some mobile DJs also serve as the master of ceremonies at weddings or other events, directing the attention of attendees, there are also many competitions for DJs that specialize in different turntablism techniques, such as mixing, hip hop music-style scratching or other kinds of techniques. Other types of DJ use musical performance techniques that allow them to be categorized as performing musicians, hip hop DJs and are also often songwriters or music producers who use turntablism and sampling to create backing instrumentals for new tracks. In reggae, the DJ is a vocalist who raps, toasts, chants or chats over pre-recorded rhythm tracks, the individual who helps the DJ by selecting tracks or records to be played is called the selector. Many electronica artists and producers who work as DJs often perform music by combining turntablism with keyboards, digital musical instruments
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WKRP in Cincinnati
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WKRP in Cincinnati is an American sitcom that featured the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show was created by Hugh Wilson and was based upon his experiences working in advertising sales at Top 40 radio station WQXI in Atlanta, many of the characters and even some of the stories are based on people and events at WQXI. The ensemble cast consists of Gary Sandy, Howard Hesseman, Gordon Jump, Loni Anderson, Tim Reid, Jan Smithers, Richard Sanders, the characters also developed somewhat over the course of the series. The series won a Humanitas Prize and received 10 Emmy Award nominations, Andy Ackerman won an Emmy Award for Videotape Editing in season 3. WKRP premiered September 18,1978 on the CBS television network, when WKRP went into syndication, it became an unexpected success. For the next decade, it was one of the most popular sitcoms in syndication, outperforming many programs which had more successful in prime time. Jump, Sanders, and Bonner reprised their roles, appearing as characters in a spin-off/sequel series, The New WKRP in Cincinnati. Hesseman, Reid and Anderson also reprised their roles on this show as guest stars, to help bolster ratings, Travis hires a new disc jockey, New Orleans native Venus Flytrap, and allows spaced-out former major market DJ Dr. Johnny Fever, to be himself. Rounding out the cast are super receptionist Jennifer Marlowe and enthusiastic junior employee Bailey Quarters, lurking in the background and making an occasional appearance is ruthless business tycoon Mrs. Carlson, the stations owner and the mother of Arthur Carlson. For the most part, program director Andy Travis serves as the man for the eccentric staff of the station he has been hired to run. Before coming to WKRP, he had a record of turning around failing radio stations. The shows opening song is about Andy and his decision to settle down in Cincinnati. In the episode The Creation of Venus, Andy echoes the theme lyrics in talking about his past. Arthur Carlson, occasionally called the Big Guy, is the general manager, whose main qualification for the job is that his mother. His bumbling, indecisive management style is one of the reasons the station is unprofitable, although he is a principled, kind, decent. It is revealed in at least two episodes Carlson was an Officer in the United States Marine Corps during WWII, and saw combat in the Pacific Theater, despite this, Carlson is deathly afraid of his strong-willed mother. Mr. Carlson has far more interest in fishing than he does in the radio station, Dr. Johnny Fever is a burned-out veteran disc jockey from Los Angeles who came to WKRP after being fired from a major station there when he said booger on the air. After WKRP changes its format, one of Fevers first on-air words is booger, cynical and neurotic and an occasional insomniac who consumes large amounts of coffee, Fever is usually in one sort of trouble or another
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Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
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Police Academy 2, Their First Assignment is a 1985 comedy film directed by Jerry Paris. It is the first of six sequels in the Police Academy series, many actors return from the first film to respectively reprise their roles. This was the film in the franchise that does not feature Leslie Easterbrook as Lt. Debbie Callahan. In the film, the Police Academy cadets have graduated and are assigned to the worst precinct in town, Lassard protests saying that his officers are outmanned and old, and cant get the job done any longer. Nevertheless, Hurst gives Lassard 30 days to turn the precinct around or he is out, before Hurst leaves, Lieutenant Mauser schemes his way into getting a promotion to Captain should Lassard fail. Capt. Lassard then calls his brother Eric who is in charge of the Police Academy, Mauser is seen talking with his dim-witted partner, Sgt. Proctor, as he attempts to control of the precinct. Fackler is assigned with Dooley, Mahoney to Vinnie Schtulman, Tackleberry later confides to Mahoney that he may have fallen in love with Kirkland. Mauser attempts numerous times to sabotage the new recruits while personally targeting Mahoney, during a patrol, Mahoney and Schtulman spot a robbery at a merchants place, but the robbers escape in the confusion caused in part by responding officers. Mauser is ready to suspend them, but Mahoney makes a plea that convinces Lassard to give them another chance. While all this is going on, Zed and his gang go shopping in a supermarket, causing havoc, Mauser gives Mahoney a new assignment, patrolling a tunnel which results in him and his partner being covered with soot. He gets revenge on Mauser by switching his shampoo with Tackleberrys epoxy resin solution from a repair kit. He ends up embarrassing himself in front of the station and has to wear a wig through the remainder of the film, Capt. Lassard spots some of Zeds men and tries to deal with them, but is over-powered and spray-painted. This humiliating act emboldens Lassard to allow the precinct to use whatever means possible to contain the gang. Mahoney sees that Mauser did this on purpose, so as revenge he informs the nurse in charge of a cavity search ordered earlier to perform the procedure on Mauser. Later, Tackleberry goes on a date with Kirkland, where they stay out late dancing and they profess their love for each other and they make love. Captain Lassard goes to see his brother Eric at a Japanese steakhouse, on the night of the fair though, Zeds men trash the place. Lassard is out of a job the day, while Mauser is promoted to captain
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Head of the Class
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Head of the Class is an American sitcom that ran from 1986 to 1991 on the ABC television network. The series follows a group of gifted students in the Individualized Honors Program at the fictional Monroe High School in Manhattan, the program was ostensibly a vehicle for Hesseman, best known for his role as radio DJ Dr. Johnny Fever on the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. Hesseman left Head of the Class in 1990 and was replaced by Scottish personality Billy Connolly as teacher Billy MacGregor for the final season, after the series ended, Connolly appeared in a short-lived spin-off titled Billy. The series was created and executive produced by Rich Eustis and Michael Elias, Rich Eustis had previously worked as a New York City substitute teacher while hoping to become an actor. Head of the Class deals with a classroom of academically gifted high school students. The IHP students comprised a range of personalities, ethnicities. In the first three years of the show, the IHP class had ten students, Arvid Engen was a skinny, bespectacled nerd, mathematics expert and budding scientist. Arvids best friend was the overweight, wisecracking cynic Dennis Blunden, Alan Pinkard was an ultra-conservative preppy and egotist, his area of expertise was political science and he was a devout fan of Ronald Reagan. Alan competed for the highest grades in the class with Darlene Merriman, both Alan and Darlene held the ambition of being named class valedictorian. Sarah Nevins did not have any one area of expertise, she was the most down-to-earth of the IHP class. Maria Borges was very passionate about getting As, and Jawaharlal Choudhury was a student from India. Eleven-year-old Janice Lazarotto, despite her age, was in high school. Arts student Simone Foster was a quiet, sensitive redhead with a fondness for poetry. Eric hit constantly on Simone and the two eventually had an on-again-off-again romance, there was some turnover in the cast in seasons four and five. Janice left for Harvard, Maria went to Performing Arts High School, jones and Jasper Kwan, who had appeared as potential IHP members in earlier seasons, were eventually added to the program and the cast. Appearing as regulars throughout all five seasons were school staff members Dr. Harold Samuels, Dr. Samuels was the blustery, overweight principal of the school. Ms. Meara was Dr. Samuels’ level-headed administrative assistant, there was some romantic tension between her and Charlie, although this ultimately came to nothing, and later had a romantic friendship with Billy. In the series, the students often faced off against the rival Bronx High School of Science, also, in every season, the IHP students produced the school musical
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University of Oregon
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The University of Oregon is a public flagship research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, the institutions 295-acre campus is along the Willamette River, since July 2014, UO has been governed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Oregon. The university has a Carnegie Classification of highest research activity and has 21 research centers, UO was admitted to the Association of American Universities in 1969. UO offers 316 undergraduate and graduate programs in a wide range of disciplines. Additionally, the Graduate School oversees the universitys graduate and certificate programs, UO student-athletes compete as the Ducks and are part of the Pac-12 Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. With eighteen varsity teams, the Oregon Ducks are best known for their team and track. The Oregon State Legislature established the university on October 12,1872, the residents of Eugene struggled to help finance the institution, holding numerous fundraising events such as strawberry festivals, church socials, and produce sales. They raised $27,500, enough to buy eighteen acres of land at a cost of $2,500, the doors officially opened in 1876 with the name of Oregon State University and Deady Hall as its sole building. The first year of enrollment contained 155 students taught by five faculty members, the first graduating class was in 1878, graduating five students. In 1881, the university was closed, it was $8,000 in debt before Henry Villard donated $7,000 to help pay for the debt. In 1913, and again in 1932, there were proposals to merge the university with what is now Oregon State University, during Prince Lucien Campbells tenure as president from 1902 to 1925, the university experienced tremendous growth. The budget, enrollment, facilities, and faculty members all grew several times its amount prior to his presidency, however, the University of Oregon lost its School of Engineering to Oregon Agricultural College, now known as Oregon State University. The Zorn-MacPherson Bill in 1932 proposed the University of Oregon and Oregon State College merge, the bill lost in a landslide vote of over 6 to 1. The University of Oregon Medical School was founded in 1887 in Portland, however, in 1974 it became an independent institution known as Oregon Health Sciences University. In 1969, the UO was admitted into the Association of American Universities, with contributions exceeding $100 million from benefactors such as Phil Knight and Lorry I. Lokey, the goal was exceeded by over $253 million. The University occupies over 80 buildings and these projects, among others, were commissioned in part to support current student enrollment as well as possible future increases. Effective July 1,2014, the University of Oregon became an independent public body governed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Oregon
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San Francisco
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It is the birthplace of the United Nations, the California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856, after three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines, San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings. The earliest archaeological evidence of habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7,1846, during the Mexican–American War, montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers, with their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. Some of these approximately 500 abandoned ships were used at times as storeships, saloons and hotels, many were left to rot, by 1851 the harbor was extended out into the bay by wharves while buildings were erected on piles among the ships. By 1870 Yerba Buena Cove had been filled to create new land, buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. California was quickly granted statehood in 1850 and the U. S. military built Fort Point at the Golden Gate, silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush
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Improvisational theatre
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Improvisational theatre exists in performance as a range of styles of improvisational comedy as well as some non-comedic theatrical performances. It is sometimes used in film and television, both to develop characters and scripts and occasionally as part of the final product. Improvisational techniques are used extensively in drama programs to train actors for stage, film. However, the skills and processes of improvisation are used outside of the context of performing arts. It is sometimes used in psychotherapy as a tool to gain insight into a persons thoughts, feelings, the earliest well documented use of improvisational theatre in Eastern history is found in the Atellan Farce of Africa 391 BC. From the 16th to the 18th centuries, commedia dellarte performers improvised based on an outline in the streets of Italy. Some people credit American Dudley Riggs as the first vaudevillian to use audience suggestions to create improvised sketches on stage, Spolin influenced the first generation of modern American improvisers at The Compass Players in Chicago, which led to The Second City. Her son, Paul Sills, along with David Shepherd, started The Compass Players, following the demise of the Compass Players, Paul Sills began The Second City. They were the first organized troupes in Chicago, and the modern Chicago improvisational comedy movement grew from their success. Many of the current rules of comedic improv were first formalized in Chicago in the late 1950s and early 1960s, initially among The Compass Players troupe, which was directed by Paul Sills. From most accounts, David Shepherd provided the vision of the Compass Players. Mike Nichols, Ted Flicker, and Del Close were her most frequent collaborators in this regard, during this time, Forsberg trained many of the performers who went on to star on The Second City stage. Simultaneously, Keith Johnstones group The Theatre Machine, which originated in London, was touring Europe and this work gave birth to Theatresports, at first secretly in Johnstones workshops, and eventually in public when he moved to Canada. Toronto has been home to a rich improv tradition, in 1984, Dick Chudnow founded ComedySportz in Milwaukee, WI. Expansion began with the addition of ComedySportz-Madison, in 1985, the first Comedy League of America National Tournament was held in 1988, with 10 teams participating. The league is now known as World Comedy League and boasts a roster of 24 international cities, in San Francisco, The Committee theater was active in North Beach during the 1960s. It was founded by alumni of Chicagos Second City, Alan Myerson, when The Committee disbanded in 1972, three major companies were formed, The Pitchell Players, The Wing, and Improvisation Inc. The only company that continued to perform Closes Harold was the latter one and its two former members, Michael Bossier and John Elk, formed Spaghetti Jam in San Franciscos Old Spaghetti Factory in 1976, where shortform improv and Harolds were performed through 1983
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