It was published in "Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies" (1981).

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## A Basic Record Library:The Fifties and Sixties

The lists that follow, dominated by standbys that have given me

pleasure for years, are for context--where my judgments are coming

the kind of scrutiny that went into the body of the book, and they're

less than comprehensive, based largely on albums in my non-collector's

not artists--great, listenable records as opposed to important ones,

because it differs from rock and roll only in stylistic rigor and

ignored country music because the styles only

began to merge fully in the '70s (honky-tonkers like George Jones and

Hank Williams--not to mention Country Jerry Lee--are/were more

rock and roll than Willie Nelson, but singer-songwriter Nelson is

Certain faves (More Chuck Berry, Aretha's

I Never Loved a Man) have been passed over to avoid duplication

There are twenty-five LPs from the '50s and

because those round numbers are about where

As suits what was basically a singles music, all but three of the '50s

selections are greatest-hits albums, most of them put together in the

I've omitted such classic multiple-artist compilations as 18

King Size Rhythm & Blues Hits (Columbia), You Must Remember

These (Bell), History of Rhythm & Blues Vol. 3

(Atlantic), Echoes of a Rock Era and Golden Goodies

(Roulette), and American Graffiti (MCA) in favor of twenty-five

forty-fives by artists whose LPs--if they exist at all--didn't

A lot of best-ofs show up in the '60s as well because

outside of the fab five--Beatles-Dylan-Stones-Who-Redding--great

The Big Bopper: "Chantilly Lace" (Mercury)

The Channels: "The Closer You Are" (Whirling Disc)

Danny and the Juniors: "At the Hop" (ABC)

The Del Vikings: "Come Go with Me" (Dot)

The Five Satins: "In the Still of the Night" (Ember)

The Gladiolas: "Little Darlin'" (Excello)

Screamin' Jay Hawkins: "I Put a Spell on You" (Okeh)

The Heartbeats: "A Thousand Miles Away" (Rama)

Ivory Joe Hunter: "Since I Met You Baby" (Atlantic)

Johnnie & Joe: "Over the Mountain, Across the Sea" (Chess)

Mickey & Sylvia: "Love Is Strange" (Groove)

Shirley & Lee: "Let the Good Times Roll" (Aladdin)

The Teenagers: "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" (Gee)

Chuck Berry: Chuck Berry's Golden Decade (Chess)

Chuck Berry: Chuck Berry's Golden Decade Volume II (Chess)

The Clovers: Their Greatest Recordings: The Early Years (Atco)

The Coasters: Their Greatest Recordings: The Early Years (Atco)

Bo Diddley: Got My Own Bag of Tricks (Chess)

Fats Domino: Fats Domino (United Artists)

The Drifters: Their Greatest Recordings: The Early Years (Atco)

The Everly Brothers: History of the Everly Brothers (Barnaby)

The Five Royales: The Five Royales (King)

Buddy Holly/Crickets: 20 Golden Greats (MCA)

Jerry Lee Lewis: Original Golden Hits--Volume One (Sun)

Little Richard: Little Richard's Grooviest 17 Original Hits (Specialty)

Ricky Nelson: Ricky Nelson (United Artists)

Carl Perkins: Original Golden Hits (Sun)

The Platters: Encore of Golden Hits (Mercury)

Elvis Presley: The Sun Sessions (RCA Victor)

Elvis Presley: Elvis' Gold Records (RCA Victor)

Jimmy Reed: The Ultimate Jimmy Reed (BluesWay)

Huey "Piano" Smith's Rock & Roll Revival (Ace)

Joe Turner: His Greatest Recordings (Atco)

Gene Vincent: The Bop That Just Won't Stop (1956) (Capitol)

Sonny Boy Williamson: This Is My Story (Chess)

Howlin' Wolf: Chester Burnett A.K.A. Howlin' Wolf (Chess)

The Beach Boys: Endless Summer (Capitol)

The Beatles: The Beatles' Second Album (Capitol)

The Beatles: The Early Beatles (Capitol)

The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol)

Bobby Bland: The Best of Bobby Bland (Duke)

James Brown: "Live" at the Apollo (King)

James Brown: "Live" at the Apollo Volume II (King)

Buffalo Springfield: Buffalo Springfield Again (Atco)

The Byrds: The Byrds' Greatest Hits (Columbia)

The Byrds: The Notorious Byrd Brothers (Columbia)

The Byrds: Sweetheart of the Rodeo (Columbia)

Ray Charles: Ray Charles' Greatest Hits (ABC)

Ray Charles: Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music (ABC)

Sam Cooke: The Legendary Sam Cooke (RCA Special Products)

Creedence Clearwater Revival: Willy and the Poor Boys (Fantasy)

The Drifters: The Drifters' Golden Hits (Atlantic)

Bob Dylan: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (Columbia)

Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home (Columbia)

Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia)

Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding (Columbia)

The Flying Burrito Bros.: The Gilded Palace of Sin (A&M)

Aretha Franklin: Aretha's Gold (Atlantic)

Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland (Reprise)

Jimi Hendrix Experience: Smash Hits (Reprise)

The Impressions: Vintage Years: The Impressions Featuring Jerry Butler and Curtis Mayfield (Sire)

The Kinks: The Kinks Greatest Hits! (Reprise)

The Lovin' Spoonful: The Best . . . (Kama Sutra)

The Mamas and the Papas: Farewell to the First Golden Era (Dunhill)

Martha and the Vandellas: Greatest Hits (Gordy)

The Miracles: The Miracles' Greatest Hits from the Beginning (Tamla)

Wilson Pickett: The Best of Wilson Pickett (Atlantic)

The Rascals: Time Peace: The Rascals' Greatest Hits (Atlantic)

Otis Redding: The Best of Otis Redding (Atco)

Otis Redding: The Immortal Otis Redding (Atco)

Smokey Robinson & the Miracles: Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (Tamla)

The Rolling Stones: The Rolling Stones Now! (London)

The Rolling Stones: Out of Our Heads (London)

The Rolling Stones: Between the Buttons (London)

The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet (London)

The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed (London)

Diana Ross & the Supremes: Anthology (Motown)

Sam and Dave: The Best of Sam and Dave (Atlantic)

The Shirelles: The Shirelles' Greatest Hits (Scepter)

Phil Spector's Greatest Hits (Warner/Spector)

Dusty Springfield: Dusty in Memphis (Atlantic)

The Temptations: The Temptations' Greatest Hits (Gordy)

The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve)

The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground (Verve)

Dionne Warwick: Golden Hits/Part I (Scepter)

The Who: The Who Sing My Generation (Decca)

Jackie Wilson: Jackie Wilson's Greatest Hits (Brunswick)

Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the '70s, 1980

In his 1967 column for "Esquire", music critic Robert Christgau called "My Generation" "the hardest rock in history". In 1981, he included its American version in his "basic record library". Richie Unterberger hailed the album as "the hardest mod pop" ever recorded in a retrospective review for AllMusic: "At the time of its release, it also had the most ferociously powerful guitars and drums yet captured on a rock record." Mark Kemp wrote of the record in "The Rolling Stone Album Guide" (2004):
 With its ferocious blend of grungy distortion, rumbling bass and percussion, and brutish vocals, "The Who Sings My Generation" became the blueprint for much of the subsequent garage rock, heavy metal, and punk. In contrast to debut albums from the Rolling Stones (whose take on Southern American rock & soul was fairly earnest) and the Beatles (who spread the word of rock & roll through sweet harmonies and easily digestible melodies), "My Generation" positively shoved at the boundaries of popular music. Townshend's fiercely original guitar experiments here predate the innovations of his later American rival Jimi Hendrix. The American edition of the album was included in "A Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings.


In 2013, Mozgovaya started working at the Voice of America.

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The following article is a reposting of a blog post by VOA director David Ensor and does not reflect the views of BBG Watch.

VOA Division Chiefs present Director David Ensor with an award for his service to Voice of America

It has been an honor to serve as the 28th director of the Voice of America.

The VOA team can be enormously proud of what we have accomplished together.

In the last four years, VOA has faced many challenges: from shrinking budgets, to propaganda broadcasts from Russia and China, to the rise of ISIS and an outbreak of Ebola.

VOA has also had to defend itself from sometimes ill-conceived legislative and internal reform proposals.

Yet VOA is keeping itself renewed to face the challenges of today's fast-changing media environment.

We are keeping on track with the human communications revolution now underway, and doing it cost effectively.

Today, the Voice of America is reaching 172 million people a week at last count.

That is 49 million more than the 123 million estimate produced for the Broadcasting Board of Governors covering 2010, the year before I arrived.

That number may sound abstract but it represents something important: VOA has credibility and real global impact.

Back in 2011, when I first walked into the VOA newsroom, we were producing more than 70 news items a day, most of them based entirely on the wires.

That was the right model for VOA in past years, but not for the faster-paced news organization we must be today.

In 2015, VOA's language services also have access to the wires, and their journalism is of a higher standard than ever before.

The VOA News Center team is thus freer now to focus on original reporting – on journalism that makes us unique.

A new Managing Editor and her team are beefing up the Washington beats, moving to a "digital first" workflow, and creating partnerships with language service reporters where they can add special insight or sources.

A new Opinion page on the English website is providing readers with varied views curated daily from American newspapers and websites –

an ongoing example of the open debate that flourishes in our great democracy

One major challenge – and opportunity – we face today is an explosion of new media outlets and ways for people to get their news.

Mobile, social media, podcasts, desktop, Internet, direct-to-home satellite and of course radio – there are more of these sources than ever, and things are constantly evolving.

VOA is seizing the new opportunities with cutting-edge efforts like Dandalin, the new Hausa Service programming stream – audio, pictures, text – designed especially for the mobile device.

Four years ago, like many media organizations, we were still relative newcomers to social media.

Now, we're social media stars in many of our target countries.

VOA Indonesian, for example, has more than 2.3 million Facebook likes.

Our Khmer Service is independently ranked as Cambodia's biggest Facebook page, with nearly 1.6 million likes.

In China, some of our best pieces go viral, reaching tens of millions of Chinese before the censors can stop them.

In places like Africa, much of VOA's huge impact comes about because we broadcast not just in the important colonial languages such as English and French, but also in vernacular tongues, such as Kirundi, and Bambara.

As a result, we reach audiences well beyond the educated elites and, among them, many more women.

Right now the TV sector is where Voice of America is getting the most competition.

It is where governments like Russia, China, and Iran are putting their money.

It is also where our largest audience growth is underway.

Since I got here, we have started new television programs in Russian, Ukrainian, Farsi, Mandarin, Burmese, Urdu, Kurdish, Pashto, Somali, Dari, Creole, English – and many more.

Over the last four years, we have also seen big audience growth on satellite TV in one of the world's most challenging markets: China.

Since we moved more of China Branch resources to television, VOA Weishi has built an audience many times larger than it was four years ago — 75 percent of whom are under the age of 35.

In markets that are more open, we are building TV audiences through the affiliate model, and it may show the greatest promise for VOA's future.

In Latin America, Indonesia, Africa and elsewhere, we work closely with partner stations, producing content that audiences want.

Our daily news show Africa 54, anchored by Vincent Makori, includes reports from the award-winning Nigerian station Channels TV, which is rapidly expanding across the continent.

Channels TV uses live interviews with VOA correspondents in its prime time newscasts.

Even the Russian Service has been able to establish some relationships with online and over-the-air affiliate stations by providing what we call the Washington – or U.S. Bureau – concept.

In Somalia, VOA hosts Sahra Nur and Mohamed Olad reach more than half the population each week with their show Qubanaha – a 15-minute mix of U.S., international, and regional news, as well as local reports broadcast on Somali National TV, on satellite, and online.

Kurd Connection is another VOA affiliate model success.

So much so that we expanded the program from 20 minutes to 50 minutes at the request of our broadcasting partner, NRT TV, one of the region's most popular channels.

For these affiliates – as elsewhere in the world – we leverage our domestic reporting assets and correspondents to provide stations with what they would have, if they had a full-blown Washington Bureau.

We do stand-ups from our rooftop overlooking the Capitol – and from the White House, State Department — and we do them from the New York Stock Exchange.

We provide partner stations with something they cannot get otherwise: the U.S. perspective.

Since I've been here, VOA Operations has dramatically overhauled VOA's New York bureau, where Celia Mendoza now broadcasts to our Spanish Service affiliates from a beautiful set with skyline views of Manhattan.

Originally designed for the age of radio, VOA New York is now a vibrant TV and multimedia broadcast center.

We – and our colleagues at the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) – have also stepped up to the plate on modernizing our television infrastructure, opening a new TV master control, while identifying and setting aside millions of dollars in funding for the move to High Definition television (HDTV) that VOA must soon make if we are to remain competitive.

Nowhere has Operations played a bigger role than in helping get off the ground our ambitious co-production with RFE/RL – Current Time.

VOA host Natasha Mozgovaya shares duties with a network of reporters in the Russian-speaking region and in Prague, New York, and Washington – all brought together by Operations for a technically complex daily, 30-minute program offering viewers bordering Russia a balanced alternative to Moscow's disinformation.

And then there is radio – the foundation of VOA's nearly 75-year reputation for excellence.

We still use shortwave and medium wave to reach audiences in places like North Korea, Afghanistan, and Zimbabwe, but they are joined by more and more FM transmitters, and by mobile apps.

There is constant innovation in content as well.

We are targeting young people in Hausa with our new radio show Today and Tomorrow, where our hosts profile young achievers and discuss modern dating and other topics, on a shortwave program that is also available on Soundcloud and podcast on iTunes and Google Play.

When VOA started a call-in show last year about Afghan women's issues, the hosts decided only to take calls from women.

Men kept calling, but our hosts said – please pass the phone to your wife!

And now the show Najiba Noshaba is drawing floods of calls from women in once improbable places like the Taliban's southern heartland.

In the last two years, VOA Urdu host Shahnaz Aziz and her show My Story has connected hundreds of listeners with people who can help, whether it is reuniting a family in Kashmir or connecting a disabled teenager from Pakistan with a filmmaker in India.

Three years ago, our Pashto-language Deewa Radio started broadcasting on direct-to-home satellite.

Their "cheap and cheerful" simulcast – radio on TV – has built strong audiences as dish ownership continues to grow in the border areas of west Pakistan, especially among young people who increasingly get their news from television.

Earlier this year, VOA's Creole Service began simulcasting radio-on-TV on affiliates in Port-au-Prince, Cap-Haitian, and Saint-Marc.

They have been so successful that new businesses have signed up to advertise on Radio Tele Dynamic, because of VOA Creole's pull with the new television audience.

As Director, I have visited Mali, Nigeria, Ukraine, Pakistan and Myanmar, among others, and witnessed firsthand what extraordinary passion many in our global audience have for VOA's programming and, as a result, for America.

Whenever our bureaucratic problems seem overwhelming, I think of the people I met on those travels, and it all seems worth it.

Going forward, VOA and its parent organization, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, will continue to face many challenges:

– U.S. international broadcasting needs a better management structure with a fulltime, qualified leader – something the BBG fully recognizes and is working hard to achieve.

For America to respond adequately to the RTs and CCTVs of the world, the U.S. will need to fund our efforts appropriately.

It is time for our country to take international broadcasting – and public diplomacy generally – more seriously.

– There is a need too for constant vigilance against misguided attempts to restrict VOA from reporting independently and honestly on all the subjects that audiences want to hear about.

We at VOA are proud of our coverage of our own country, and are constantly looking for ways to make it better, but we also know that if VOA were ever to be limited by law to just covering U.S. news, many of our key audiences would turn elsewhere for information they currently get from us.

Our country would lose valuable influence around the world.

"Moving forward, VOA will continue to set a standard, to be widely emulated, for principled, objective and trustworthy journalism, based on the notion that the proper response to propaganda is honest reporting, not counter-propaganda.

It will reflect the conviction that if people have good information, they will make better decisions on matters that affect their lives.

Done properly, this will not only ensure a wider understanding of American values and viewpoints, but also enhance respect for the United States as a nation where truthfulness and fairness are highly valued."

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The long-range interests of the United States are served by communicating directly with the peoples of the world by radio.

To be effective, the Voice of America must win the attention and respect of listeners.

These principles will therefore govern Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts:

1. VOA will serve as a consistently reliable and authoritative source of news.

VOA news will be accurate, objective, and comprehensive.

2. VOA will represent America, not any single segment of American society, and will therefore present a balanced and comprehensive projection of significant American thought and institutions.

3. VOA will present the policies of the United States clearly and effectively, and will also present responsible discussions and opinion on these policies.

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In 2000, Mozgovaya left "Vesti" and became a correspondent for "Yediot Ahronoth" newspaper, covering a broad spectrum of issues in Israel and all over the world. During the presidency of Vladimir Putin, Mozgovaya contributed extensive coverage of the Russian opposition. Meanwhile, she anchored the investigative report TV program "Special Department" on Channel 9, the cultural shows "Osim Ruach" on Channel 1 and "Ha-boker ha-Shvii" on Channel 2.
 From October 2007 she presented the nightly newscast on Channel 9 and starred in the documentary series "Tmol Shilshom", that engages in the history of Israel from 1948, each part dedicated to a different year in history of the country. Although working most of the time in Hebrew, her reports in Russian from the Palestinian territories and Israel were published in various magazines and newspapers in Russia, and one of her blogs was chosen twice as "the best blog" in Russian blogosphere and the "Best Journalistic Blog in Russian" by Deutsche Welle in 2004.
 In 2008, Mozgovaya left "Yedioth Ahronoth" to become the Washington Bureau Chief for "Haaretz" newspaper in Washington, D.C.. She was a frequent lecturer on Israel and Middle Eastern affairs in various U.S. universities, communities and think-tanks. She left "Haaretz" in 2012.


Mozgovaya was hosting the daily "Current time" TV show.

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# 'FAREWELL' post from Voice of America director David Ensor

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In a "FAREWELL" post on his official Voice of America blog, VOA director David Ensor tosses barbs at members of Congress for what he described as "ill-conceived legislative and internal reform proposals."

BBG Watch reposts David Ensor's "FAREWELL" post as a service to our readers.

The following article is a reposting of a blog post by VOA director David Ensor and does not reflect the views of BBG Watch.

VOA Division Chiefs present Director David Ensor with an award for his service to Voice of America

It has been an honor to serve as the 28th director of the Voice of America.

The VOA team can be enormously proud of what we have accomplished together.

In the last four years, VOA has faced many challenges: from shrinking budgets, to propaganda broadcasts from Russia and China, to the rise of ISIS and an outbreak of Ebola.

VOA has also had to defend itself from sometimes ill-conceived legislative and internal reform proposals.

Yet VOA is keeping itself renewed to face the challenges of today's fast-changing media environment.

We are keeping on track with the human communications revolution now underway, and doing it cost effectively.

Today, the Voice of America is reaching 172 million people a week at last count.

That is 49 million more than the 123 million estimate produced for the Broadcasting Board of Governors covering 2010, the year before I arrived.

That number may sound abstract but it represents something important: VOA has credibility and real global impact.

Back in 2011, when I first walked into the VOA newsroom, we were producing more than 70 news items a day, most of them based entirely on the wires.

That was the right model for VOA in past years, but not for the faster-paced news organization we must be today.

In 2015, VOA's language services also have access to the wires, and their journalism is of a higher standard than ever before.

The VOA News Center team is thus freer now to focus on original reporting – on journalism that makes us unique.

A new Managing Editor and her team are beefing up the Washington beats, moving to a "digital first" workflow, and creating partnerships with language service reporters where they can add special insight or sources.

A new Opinion page on the English website is providing readers with varied views curated daily from American newspapers and websites –

an ongoing example of the open debate that flourishes in our great democracy

One major challenge – and opportunity – we face today is an explosion of new media outlets and ways for people to get their news.

Mobile, social media, podcasts, desktop, Internet, direct-to-home satellite and of course radio – there are more of these sources than ever, and things are constantly evolving.

VOA is seizing the new opportunities with cutting-edge efforts like Dandalin, the new Hausa Service programming stream – audio, pictures, text – designed especially for the mobile device.

Four years ago, like many media organizations, we were still relative newcomers to social media.

Now, we're social media stars in many of our target countries.

VOA Indonesian, for example, has more than 2.3 million Facebook likes.

Our Khmer Service is independently ranked as Cambodia's biggest Facebook page, with nearly 1.6 million likes.

In China, some of our best pieces go viral, reaching tens of millions of Chinese before the censors can stop them.

In places like Africa, much of VOA's huge impact comes about because we broadcast not just in the important colonial languages such as English and French, but also in vernacular tongues, such as Kirundi, and Bambara.

As a result, we reach audiences well beyond the educated elites and, among them, many more women.

Right now the TV sector is where Voice of America is getting the most competition.

It is where governments like Russia, China, and Iran are putting their money.

It is also where our largest audience growth is underway.

Since I got here, we have started new television programs in Russian, Ukrainian, Farsi, Mandarin, Burmese, Urdu, Kurdish, Pashto, Somali, Dari, Creole, English – and many more.

Over the last four years, we have also seen big audience growth on satellite TV in one of the world's most challenging markets: China.

Since we moved more of China Branch resources to television, VOA Weishi has built an audience many times larger than it was four years ago — 75 percent of whom are under the age of 35.

In markets that are more open, we are building TV audiences through the affiliate model, and it may show the greatest promise for VOA's future.

In Latin America, Indonesia, Africa and elsewhere, we work closely with partner stations, producing content that audiences want.

Our daily news show Africa 54, anchored by Vincent Makori, includes reports from the award-winning Nigerian station Channels TV, which is rapidly expanding across the continent.

Channels TV uses live interviews with VOA correspondents in its prime time newscasts.

Even the Russian Service has been able to establish some relationships with online and over-the-air affiliate stations by providing what we call the Washington – or U.S. Bureau – concept.

In Somalia, VOA hosts Sahra Nur and Mohamed Olad reach more than half the population each week with their show Qubanaha – a 15-minute mix of U.S., international, and regional news, as well as local reports broadcast on Somali National TV, on satellite, and online.

Kurd Connection is another VOA affiliate model success.

So much so that we expanded the program from 20 minutes to 50 minutes at the request of our broadcasting partner, NRT TV, one of the region's most popular channels.

For these affiliates – as elsewhere in the world – we leverage our domestic reporting assets and correspondents to provide stations with what they would have, if they had a full-blown Washington Bureau.

We do stand-ups from our rooftop overlooking the Capitol – and from the White House, State Department — and we do them from the New York Stock Exchange.

We provide partner stations with something they cannot get otherwise: the U.S. perspective.

Since I've been here, VOA Operations has dramatically overhauled VOA's New York bureau, where Celia Mendoza now broadcasts to our Spanish Service affiliates from a beautiful set with skyline views of Manhattan.

Originally designed for the age of radio, VOA New York is now a vibrant TV and multimedia broadcast center.

We – and our colleagues at the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) – have also stepped up to the plate on modernizing our television infrastructure, opening a new TV master control, while identifying and setting aside millions of dollars in funding for the move to High Definition television (HDTV) that VOA must soon make if we are to remain competitive.

Nowhere has Operations played a bigger role than in helping get off the ground our ambitious co-production with RFE/RL – Current Time.

VOA host Natasha Mozgovaya shares duties with a network of reporters in the Russian-speaking region and in Prague, New York, and Washington – all brought together by Operations for a technically complex daily, 30-minute program offering viewers bordering Russia a balanced alternative to Moscow's disinformation.

And then there is radio – the foundation of VOA's nearly 75-year reputation for excellence.

We still use shortwave and medium wave to reach audiences in places like North Korea, Afghanistan, and Zimbabwe, but they are joined by more and more FM transmitters, and by mobile apps.

There is constant innovation in content as well.

We are targeting young people in Hausa with our new radio show Today and Tomorrow, where our hosts profile young achievers and discuss modern dating and other topics, on a shortwave program that is also available on Soundcloud and podcast on iTunes and Google Play.

When VOA started a call-in show last year about Afghan women's issues, the hosts decided only to take calls from women.

Men kept calling, but our hosts said – please pass the phone to your wife!

And now the show Najiba Noshaba is drawing floods of calls from women in once improbable places like the Taliban's southern heartland.

In the last two years, VOA Urdu host Shahnaz Aziz and her show My Story has connected hundreds of listeners with people who can help, whether it is reuniting a family in Kashmir or connecting a disabled teenager from Pakistan with a filmmaker in India.

Three years ago, our Pashto-language Deewa Radio started broadcasting on direct-to-home satellite.

Their "cheap and cheerful" simulcast – radio on TV – has built strong audiences as dish ownership continues to grow in the border areas of west Pakistan, especially among young people who increasingly get their news from television.

Earlier this year, VOA's Creole Service began simulcasting radio-on-TV on affiliates in Port-au-Prince, Cap-Haitian, and Saint-Marc.

They have been so successful that new businesses have signed up to advertise on Radio Tele Dynamic, because of VOA Creole's pull with the new television audience.

As Director, I have visited Mali, Nigeria, Ukraine, Pakistan and Myanmar, among others, and witnessed firsthand what extraordinary passion many in our global audience have for VOA's programming and, as a result, for America.

Whenever our bureaucratic problems seem overwhelming, I think of the people I met on those travels, and it all seems worth it.

Going forward, VOA and its parent organization, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, will continue to face many challenges:

– U.S. international broadcasting needs a better management structure with a fulltime, qualified leader – something the BBG fully recognizes and is working hard to achieve.

For America to respond adequately to the RTs and CCTVs of the world, the U.S. will need to fund our efforts appropriately.

It is time for our country to take international broadcasting – and public diplomacy generally – more seriously.

– There is a need too for constant vigilance against misguided attempts to restrict VOA from reporting independently and honestly on all the subjects that audiences want to hear about.

We at VOA are proud of our coverage of our own country, and are constantly looking for ways to make it better, but we also know that if VOA were ever to be limited by law to just covering U.S. news, many of our key audiences would turn elsewhere for information they currently get from us.

Our country would lose valuable influence around the world.

"Moving forward, VOA will continue to set a standard, to be widely emulated, for principled, objective and trustworthy journalism, based on the notion that the proper response to propaganda is honest reporting, not counter-propaganda.

It will reflect the conviction that if people have good information, they will make better decisions on matters that affect their lives.

Done properly, this will not only ensure a wider understanding of American values and viewpoints, but also enhance respect for the United States as a nation where truthfulness and fairness are highly valued."

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In 2000, Mozgovaya left "Vesti" and became a correspondent for "Yediot Ahronoth" newspaper, covering a broad spectrum of issues in Israel and all over the world. During the presidency of Vladimir Putin, Mozgovaya contributed extensive coverage of the Russian opposition. Meanwhile, she anchored the investigative report TV program "Special Department" on Channel 9, the cultural shows "Osim Ruach" on Channel 1 and "Ha-boker ha-Shvii" on Channel 2.
 From October 2007 she presented the nightly newscast on Channel 9 and starred in the documentary series "Tmol Shilshom", that engages in the history of Israel from 1948, each part dedicated to a different year in history of the country. Although working most of the time in Hebrew, her reports in Russian from the Palestinian territories and Israel were published in various magazines and newspapers in Russia, and one of her blogs was chosen twice as "the best blog" in Russian blogosphere and the "Best Journalistic Blog in Russian" by Deutsche Welle in 2004.
 In 2008, Mozgovaya left "Yedioth Ahronoth" to become the Washington Bureau Chief for "Haaretz" newspaper in Washington, D.C.. She was a frequent lecturer on Israel and Middle Eastern affairs in various U.S. universities, communities and think-tanks. She left "Haaretz" in 2012.
 In 2013, Mozgovaya started working at the Voice of America.


On May 25th 2019, SCCA announced they will be returning to Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2021.

(meta data) TITLE: Back to Indianapolis Motor Speedway for 2021 Runoffs - Sports Car Club of America

## Back to Indianapolis Motor Speedway for 2021 Runoffs

Road Racing, Runoffs, ClubRacing, Super Tour

(Note: Watch video of announcement at SCCA Inc. Facebook page)

Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) and Sports Car Club of America® (SCCA®) announced today that the annual SCCA National Championship Runoffs® will return to the road course at IMS Sept. 25-Oct. 3, 2021, for the 58th running of the unique championship motorsport event.

Mike Cobb, SCCA President/CEO, said this will be only the second time in Runoffs history that the event has been staged at IMS.

The first visit occurred in 2017 and was a massive success for both IMS and SCCA.

"Back in 2017, we felt pretty sure the Runoffs at Indianapolis Motor Speedway would be a 'hit' with SCCA road racing competitors, but that event exceeded even our wildest dreams," Cobb said.

"It was the largest event in Runoffs history, with 969 entries, and produced both great racing and great memories.

The community welcomed us with open arms, and it was just an absolutely wonderful experience for our Club.

We simply couldn't wait to return to that legendary facility, and I'm confident our return in 2021 will be just as exhilarating for all involved."

J. Douglas Boles, president of Indianapolis Motor Speedway and a former SCCA competitor, noted that the histories of IMS and SCCA are intrinsically linked.

Many SCCA racers have gone on to compete at the Indy 500, with Mark Donohue and Bobby Rahal currently the only drivers to earn both a Runoffs title and Indy 500 win during their careers.

"There are many drivers, owners and crew who started in SCCA competition and later went on to compete at the Indianapolis 500 over the years," Boles said.

"Hosting the SCCA National Championship at Indianapolis Motor Speedway remains a natural fit for both organizations and offers those actively involved in motorsports the opportunity to compete at the Racing Capital of the World."

While the SCCA looks forward to the 58th Runoffs at IMS in 2021, SCCA Vice President/COO Eric Prill said racers are currently qualifying for the 2019 Runoffs being held for the first time ever at VIRginia International Raceway Oct. 8-13 in Alton, Virginia; followed by the 2020 Runoffs to be conducted at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

However, today's announcement about returning to IMS will certainly create a great deal of excitement within SCCA's racing community.

"For many of us involved in motorsports today, Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indy 500 were the spark that ignited our dreams and passion at a young age," said Prill, who also won the 2017 F Production SCCA National Championship race at Indianapolis.

"Just the opportunity to drive a race car around this hallowed facility in the tire tracks of our heroes is something that many of us spent our lives dreaming about.

And to be able to do it at an iconic and unique event like the Runoffs -- where a year, or in some cases a lifetime's effort culminates with the checkered flag while crossing the Yard of Bricks -- is a magical combination."

In 2014, the Runoffs began an annual rotation, moving around the country with the goal of hitting "bucket list" tracks.

Deanna Flanagan, SCCA's Director of Road Racing, said that goal has been achieved as the last several years have seen the Runoffs make appearances at world-class facilities throughout the United States.

"Before 2014, SCCA would conduct its Runoffs at the same venue for multiple years in a row," Flanagan said.

"That was the case starting back in the 1970s with what is now Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta and continued at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Heartland Motorsports Park and Road America.

Since beginning the annual rotation, the Runoffs has also made stops at other historic tracks, including WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Daytona International Speedway, Sonoma Raceway and a trip to VIRginia International Raceway this October.

Conducting the Runoffs at a new venue each year presents logistical challenges, but the track staff and community around IMS were wonderful to work with previously, and I'm confident the next Runoffs at the Speedway in two years will be just as memorable and meaningful as the first."

The Runoffs, which caps the Summit Racing Equipment SCCA Road Racing program each year, has evolved into what is now commonly agreed to be the pinnacle of American motorsports.

Since 1964, SCCA has crowned national champions with the winner-take-all, single race Runoffs format through dozens of separate races over three days.

Tracks that have hosted the Runoffs include: Riverside International Raceway (1964, 1966, 1968), Daytona International Speedway (1965, 1967, 1969, 2015), Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta (1970-1993), Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (1994-2005, 2016), Heartland Motorsports Park (2006-2008), Road America (2009-2013, 2020), WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca (2014), Indianapolis Motor Speedway (2017, 2021), Sonoma Raceway (2018) and VIRginia International Raceway (2019).

The Sports Car Club of America®, Inc., founded in 1944, is a 67,500-member motorsports organization that incorporates all facets of autocross, rally and road racing at both Club and professional levels.

With headquarters in Topeka, Kansas, the SCCA annually sanctions over 2,000 events through its 116 Regions and subsidiary divisions.

Much of the SCCA's activities are made possible with support from the following Official Partners: Hagerty, the Official Insurance Partner of SCCA; Hawk Performance, the Official Brake Products of SCCA; Sunoco, the Official Fuel of SCCA; and Tire Rack, the Official Tire Retailer of SCCA.

To learn more, please visit www.scca.com.

Jonathan Weisheit wrote May 29, 2019 19:11

Put us on the raceway, maybe I'll go, that would be a show.

It's not Watkins Glen, It's not Road Atlanta, It's not VIR, it's not Road America, it's not even Sonoma ,

In short it's not one of the great US road racing venues.

NO Soul at all just a piece of black top built inside a truly amazing and beautiful raceway.

Would be nice if the course used more of the REAL IMS than just the 1-2 short chute and the front straight yard of bricks.

The hallmark of IMS is its four turns and the 2017 course used none of them.

I'll be interested to see what the entry rules will be.

Last time out SRF2 and SRF3 were separate classes, but now all national racers are in SRF3 so the competition will be tighter to make the big show.

Michael L Cummings wrote May 25, 2019 17:29

I though that we were going to be coming back toward the West.

I plan on going to VIR because of the fact that I have never been there before.

I may have to pass on another trip to Indy.

So much for the promised rotation. Figures

Double check that math my friend... 2014 Laguna, 2018 Sonoma, wait until 2022 is announced before you decide the "promised rotation" is broken. ;)

#### Indianapolis SCCA Runoffs Course Layout Revealed

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The Club Racing program is a road racing division where drivers race on either dedicated race tracks or on temporary street circuits. Competitors require either a regional or a national racing license. Both modified production cars (ranging from lightly modified cars with only extra safety equipment to heavily modified cars that retain only the basic shape of the original vehicle) and designed-from-scratch "formula" and "sports racer" cars can be used in Club Racing.   Most of the participants in the Club Racing program are unpaid amateurs, but some go on to professional racing careers. The club is also the source for race workers in all specialties.
 The annual national championship for Club Racing is called the SCCA National Championship Runoffs and has been held at Riverside International Raceway (1964, 1966, 1968), Daytona International Speedway (1965, 1967, 1969, 2015), Road Atlanta (1970–1993), Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (1994–2005, 2016), Heartland Park Topeka (2006–2008), Road America (2009-2013, 2020), Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca (2014), and Indianapolis Motor Speedway (2017). In 2018, the Runoffs will go back west to Sonoma Raceway. In 2019, the race will be held at Virginia International Raceway a track where the race has never been held. It was announced on June 15, 2018 that the Runoffs would go back to Road America in the year 2020.


The announcement was made during the 2019 Indianapolis 500 weekend.

(meta data) TITLE: Back to Indianapolis Motor Speedway for 2021 Runoffs - Sports Car Club of America

## Back to Indianapolis Motor Speedway for 2021 Runoffs

Road Racing, Runoffs, ClubRacing, Super Tour

(Note: Watch video of announcement at SCCA Inc. Facebook page)

Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) and Sports Car Club of America® (SCCA®) announced today that the annual SCCA National Championship Runoffs® will return to the road course at IMS Sept. 25-Oct. 3, 2021, for the 58th running of the unique championship motorsport event.

Mike Cobb, SCCA President/CEO, said this will be only the second time in Runoffs history that the event has been staged at IMS.

The first visit occurred in 2017 and was a massive success for both IMS and SCCA.

"Back in 2017, we felt pretty sure the Runoffs at Indianapolis Motor Speedway would be a 'hit' with SCCA road racing competitors, but that event exceeded even our wildest dreams," Cobb said.

"It was the largest event in Runoffs history, with 969 entries, and produced both great racing and great memories.

The community welcomed us with open arms, and it was just an absolutely wonderful experience for our Club.

We simply couldn't wait to return to that legendary facility, and I'm confident our return in 2021 will be just as exhilarating for all involved."

J. Douglas Boles, president of Indianapolis Motor Speedway and a former SCCA competitor, noted that the histories of IMS and SCCA are intrinsically linked.

Many SCCA racers have gone on to compete at the Indy 500, with Mark Donohue and Bobby Rahal currently the only drivers to earn both a Runoffs title and Indy 500 win during their careers.

"There are many drivers, owners and crew who started in SCCA competition and later went on to compete at the Indianapolis 500 over the years," Boles said.

"Hosting the SCCA National Championship at Indianapolis Motor Speedway remains a natural fit for both organizations and offers those actively involved in motorsports the opportunity to compete at the Racing Capital of the World."

While the SCCA looks forward to the 58th Runoffs at IMS in 2021, SCCA Vice President/COO Eric Prill said racers are currently qualifying for the 2019 Runoffs being held for the first time ever at VIRginia International Raceway Oct. 8-13 in Alton, Virginia; followed by the 2020 Runoffs to be conducted at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

However, today's announcement about returning to IMS will certainly create a great deal of excitement within SCCA's racing community.

"For many of us involved in motorsports today, Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indy 500 were the spark that ignited our dreams and passion at a young age," said Prill, who also won the 2017 F Production SCCA National Championship race at Indianapolis.

"Just the opportunity to drive a race car around this hallowed facility in the tire tracks of our heroes is something that many of us spent our lives dreaming about.

And to be able to do it at an iconic and unique event like the Runoffs -- where a year, or in some cases a lifetime's effort culminates with the checkered flag while crossing the Yard of Bricks -- is a magical combination."

In 2014, the Runoffs began an annual rotation, moving around the country with the goal of hitting "bucket list" tracks.

Deanna Flanagan, SCCA's Director of Road Racing, said that goal has been achieved as the last several years have seen the Runoffs make appearances at world-class facilities throughout the United States.

"Before 2014, SCCA would conduct its Runoffs at the same venue for multiple years in a row," Flanagan said.

"That was the case starting back in the 1970s with what is now Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta and continued at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Heartland Motorsports Park and Road America.

Since beginning the annual rotation, the Runoffs has also made stops at other historic tracks, including WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Daytona International Speedway, Sonoma Raceway and a trip to VIRginia International Raceway this October.

Conducting the Runoffs at a new venue each year presents logistical challenges, but the track staff and community around IMS were wonderful to work with previously, and I'm confident the next Runoffs at the Speedway in two years will be just as memorable and meaningful as the first."

The Runoffs, which caps the Summit Racing Equipment SCCA Road Racing program each year, has evolved into what is now commonly agreed to be the pinnacle of American motorsports.

Since 1964, SCCA has crowned national champions with the winner-take-all, single race Runoffs format through dozens of separate races over three days.

Tracks that have hosted the Runoffs include: Riverside International Raceway (1964, 1966, 1968), Daytona International Speedway (1965, 1967, 1969, 2015), Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta (1970-1993), Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (1994-2005, 2016), Heartland Motorsports Park (2006-2008), Road America (2009-2013, 2020), WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca (2014), Indianapolis Motor Speedway (2017, 2021), Sonoma Raceway (2018) and VIRginia International Raceway (2019).

The Sports Car Club of America®, Inc., founded in 1944, is a 67,500-member motorsports organization that incorporates all facets of autocross, rally and road racing at both Club and professional levels.

With headquarters in Topeka, Kansas, the SCCA annually sanctions over 2,000 events through its 116 Regions and subsidiary divisions.

Much of the SCCA's activities are made possible with support from the following Official Partners: Hagerty, the Official Insurance Partner of SCCA; Hawk Performance, the Official Brake Products of SCCA; Sunoco, the Official Fuel of SCCA; and Tire Rack, the Official Tire Retailer of SCCA.

To learn more, please visit www.scca.com.

Jonathan Weisheit wrote May 29, 2019 19:11

Put us on the raceway, maybe I'll go, that would be a show.

It's not Watkins Glen, It's not Road Atlanta, It's not VIR, it's not Road America, it's not even Sonoma ,

In short it's not one of the great US road racing venues.

NO Soul at all just a piece of black top built inside a truly amazing and beautiful raceway.

Would be nice if the course used more of the REAL IMS than just the 1-2 short chute and the front straight yard of bricks.

The hallmark of IMS is its four turns and the 2017 course used none of them.

I'll be interested to see what the entry rules will be.

Last time out SRF2 and SRF3 were separate classes, but now all national racers are in SRF3 so the competition will be tighter to make the big show.

Michael L Cummings wrote May 25, 2019 17:29

I though that we were going to be coming back toward the West.

I plan on going to VIR because of the fact that I have never been there before.

I may have to pass on another trip to Indy.

So much for the promised rotation. Figures

Double check that math my friend... 2014 Laguna, 2018 Sonoma, wait until 2022 is announced before you decide the "promised rotation" is broken. ;)

#### Indianapolis SCCA Runoffs Course Layout Revealed

On a mostly rainy Tuesday back in August of 2016, the Sports Car Club of America hosted a half-dozen Club racers at Indianapolis Motor Speedway to test multiple road course layouts for the...Read more

#### Spec Miata Under The Lights At Daytona Highlights 2015 SCCA Runoffs Schedule

Spec Miata will run under the lights on Tuesday for qualifying and their Friday race, while each class will race alone.

#### VIRginia International Raceway Named 2019 Runoffs Venue

The Sports Car Club of America® has officially announced the 2019 SCCA® National Championship Runoffs® will be held October 8-13 at beautiful VIRginia International Raceway (VIR) in Alton,...Read more

#### Sonoma Raceway Named 2018 Runoffs Venue

Sonoma Raceway Named 2018 SCCA National Championship Runoffs Venue

The Sports Car Club of America® has officially announced that the 2018 SCCA® National Championship Runoffs® will be held...

#### Hoosier Super Tour Added as Premier Club Racing Series

Hoosier SCCA Super Tour added in 2017 as Premier Club Racing Series

New Program Allows for U.S. Majors Tour Changes to Benefit Racers, Organizers

TOPEKA, Kan. (Oct. 14, 2016) -- Sports Car Club of America has announced the...

The Club Racing program is a road racing division where drivers race on either dedicated race tracks or on temporary street circuits. Competitors require either a regional or a national racing license. Both modified production cars (ranging from lightly modified cars with only extra safety equipment to heavily modified cars that retain only the basic shape of the original vehicle) and designed-from-scratch "formula" and "sports racer" cars can be used in Club Racing.   Most of the participants in the Club Racing program are unpaid amateurs, but some go on to professional racing careers. The club is also the source for race workers in all specialties.
 The annual national championship for Club Racing is called the SCCA National Championship Runoffs and has been held at Riverside International Raceway (1964, 1966, 1968), Daytona International Speedway (1965, 1967, 1969, 2015), Road Atlanta (1970–1993), Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (1994–2005, 2016), Heartland Park Topeka (2006–2008), Road America (2009-2013, 2020), Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca (2014), and Indianapolis Motor Speedway (2017). In 2018, the Runoffs will go back west to Sonoma Raceway. In 2019, the race will be held at Virginia International Raceway a track where the race has never been held. It was announced on June 15, 2018 that the Runoffs would go back to Road America in the year 2020. On May 25th 2019, SCCA announced they will be returning to Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2021.


At the end of the season, the new owners changed the name of the FireAntz.

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1960 Coliseum Dr. Fayetteville, NC 28306

# Fireantz Rebrand, Become the Fayetteville Marksmen

Fayetteville Marksmen > Blog > News > Fireantz Rebrand, Become the Fayetteville Marksmen

Fayetteville, N.C- The Fayetteville Fireantz have announced that, effective immediately, their name will change to the Fayetteville Marksmen.

The team will continue to compete in the SPHL, and play its home games at Crown Coliseum.

To not only own a professional hockey team, but to provide the people of Fayetteville a real community asset," owner Chuck Norris noted.

"And we wanted a name that paid homage to the history of this town, and Fort Bragg, which is home to many of the elite fighting soldiers in the world."

The logo, which features a Carolina Red Fox with an "M" in his forehead above the blocked words "Marksmen" also carries significance to the team, and the community of Fayetteville.

"The fox identifies with the Marksmen, as it is indigenous to the area, but is also wild, cagy, and ferocious-characteristics showcased on the ice.

And, much like the team, the fox exhibits a softer, cuddly side for kids, school events, and non-profit atmospheres," team President Jeff Longo said.

"With the community involvement, our mascot will be a role model for kids in Fayetteville, and help bring attention to fundraising initiatives and provide entertainment at every game."

The move has been well received by those with information of the change prior to Friday's announcement, including SPHL Commissioner, Jim Combs.

"While we are respectful of the work of Howard Bullard, we are excited that Chuck is looking to grow hockey in Fayetteville, while paying homage to the military history of the region, and carrying on the great tradition of the Fireantz," said Combs.

"Combined with the experiences of Jeff, the on-ice product will prove to be an exciting environment for the fans of Fayetteville and the SPHL," Combs added.

The Marksmen will showcase their new jerseys and mascot later this summer.

Be sure to stay tuned to Marksmen on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and online at www.Marksmenhockey.com.

For media inquiries, contact Ben Garrod at 910.438.4169 or via email at bgarrod@marksmenhockey.com.

On February 13, 2017, Jeffrey M. Longo was hired as the general manager. Later in the 2016–17 season, Longo and local entrepreneur Chuck Norris purchased the FireAntz from the seven-person ownership group, Cape Fear Pro Hockey.


The new name is the Fayetteville Marksmen.

(meta data) TITLE: Fireantz Rebrand, Become the Fayetteville Marksmen – Fayetteville Marksmen

1960 Coliseum Dr. Fayetteville, NC 28306

# Fireantz Rebrand, Become the Fayetteville Marksmen

Fayetteville Marksmen > Blog > News > Fireantz Rebrand, Become the Fayetteville Marksmen

Fayetteville, N.C- The Fayetteville Fireantz have announced that, effective immediately, their name will change to the Fayetteville Marksmen.

The team will continue to compete in the SPHL, and play its home games at Crown Coliseum.

To not only own a professional hockey team, but to provide the people of Fayetteville a real community asset," owner Chuck Norris noted.

"And we wanted a name that paid homage to the history of this town, and Fort Bragg, which is home to many of the elite fighting soldiers in the world."

The logo, which features a Carolina Red Fox with an "M" in his forehead above the blocked words "Marksmen" also carries significance to the team, and the community of Fayetteville.

"The fox identifies with the Marksmen, as it is indigenous to the area, but is also wild, cagy, and ferocious-characteristics showcased on the ice.

And, much like the team, the fox exhibits a softer, cuddly side for kids, school events, and non-profit atmospheres," team President Jeff Longo said.

"With the community involvement, our mascot will be a role model for kids in Fayetteville, and help bring attention to fundraising initiatives and provide entertainment at every game."

The move has been well received by those with information of the change prior to Friday's announcement, including SPHL Commissioner, Jim Combs.

"While we are respectful of the work of Howard Bullard, we are excited that Chuck is looking to grow hockey in Fayetteville, while paying homage to the military history of the region, and carrying on the great tradition of the Fireantz," said Combs.

"Combined with the experiences of Jeff, the on-ice product will prove to be an exciting environment for the fans of Fayetteville and the SPHL," Combs added.

The Marksmen will showcase their new jerseys and mascot later this summer.

Be sure to stay tuned to Marksmen on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and online at www.Marksmenhockey.com.

For media inquiries, contact Ben Garrod at 910.438.4169 or via email at bgarrod@marksmenhockey.com.

On February 13, 2017, Jeffrey M. Longo was hired as the general manager. Later in the 2016–17 season, Longo and local entrepreneur Chuck Norris purchased the FireAntz from the seven-person ownership group, Cape Fear Pro Hockey. At the end of the season, the new owners changed the name of the FireAntz.


Herbert and Mahut were playing at the Australian Open in January.

Mahut/Herbert Complete Career Grand Slam With Australian Open Title | ATP Tour | Tennis

Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert have become the eighth men's doubles team to complete the Career Grand Slam.

# Mahut/Herbert Complete Career Grand Slam With Australian Open Title

First team to win all four majors since the Bryan brothers in 2006

Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert became the eighth men's doubles team in the sport's history to complete the Career Grand Slam of all four major championship crowns on Sunday afternoon by clinching their first Australian Open trophy.

The fifth-seeded Frenchmen defeated No. 12 seeds and 2017 champions Kontinen and Peers 6-4, 7-6(1) in one hour and 38 minutes to add to their 2015 US Open, 2016 Wimbledon and 2018 Roland Garros titles.

The tandem hit 14 winners to 25 for Kontinen and Peers, but their greater consistency on serve proved to be the difference on Rod Laver Arena.

"We knew when we won Roland Garros that it was the one missing, so for sure it added maybe a special motivation when entering this tournament," said Herbert.

"I think we wanted it, but we also wanted to be good on court in each match and we focused on the game, and that's why maybe today we could achieve what we achieved here at the Australian Open."

"Today, I didn't have it in mind, because I thought I was sure it would have been really difficult to play if I was just focused on just to win this tournament, because it was the one missing," said Mahut.

"I was just focused on the game, just focused on what I have to do on court to be good, because in front of us we had a really good team to beat."

Herbert and Mahut became the first team to complete the Career Grand Slam since Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan secured their set of major titles at Wimbledon in July 2006.

The 2019 champions are also the second all-French pair in the Open Era (since April 1968) to lift the Australian Open trophy, following in the footsteps of Michael Llodra and Fabrice Santoro.

MEN'S DOUBLES TEAMS TO COMPLETE CAREER GRAND SLAM

Pierre-Hugues Herbert/Nicolas Mahut (FRA)

*Ken McGregor and Frank Sedgman are the only doubles team to complete the calendar-year Grand Slam in 1951.

Kontinen and Peers both saved three break points in their first service games, but the pressure mounted and successive groundstroke winners helped Herbert and Mahut break Kontinen's serve for a 5-4 advantage.

Herbert saved four break points at 1-2 in the second set, before Peers saved two break points — courtesy of two backhand errors — in a 16-point game.

Three successive errors from Kontinen and Peers at the start of the tie-break, gave Herbert and Mahut the upper hand en route to an historic victory.

The two teams are now tied 2-2 in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series.

Rod Laver and Roy Emerson, the only two players in the sport's history to capture all four major singles championships twice, presented the trophies on the main stadium at Melbourne Park.

Afterwards, Novak Djokovic, who is attempting to make history today against Rafael Nadal by lifting a record seventh Australian Open singles crown, came out onto court to congratulate Herbert and Mahut.

Herbert and Mahut are now 13-6 in tour-level finals, including six ATP Masters 1000 crowns.

"When I had to choose a partner when [Michael] Llodra retired, then I had no doubt that I had to play with Pierre-Hugues," said Mahut.

"Because I was sure we'd have so much success.

Then after five years, we learned about each other.

We spent so much time on court, out of the court.

As I said on court, I love him like my brother."

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Professional career.:2019: Career Grand Slam.


Herbert and Mahut won the Career Grand Slam in men's doubles after defeating Henri Kontinen and John Peers in the final.

Mahut/Herbert Complete Career Grand Slam With Australian Open Title | ATP Tour | Tennis

Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert have become the eighth men's doubles team to complete the Career Grand Slam.

# Mahut/Herbert Complete Career Grand Slam With Australian Open Title

First team to win all four majors since the Bryan brothers in 2006

Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert became the eighth men's doubles team in the sport's history to complete the Career Grand Slam of all four major championship crowns on Sunday afternoon by clinching their first Australian Open trophy.

The fifth-seeded Frenchmen defeated No. 12 seeds and 2017 champions Kontinen and Peers 6-4, 7-6(1) in one hour and 38 minutes to add to their 2015 US Open, 2016 Wimbledon and 2018 Roland Garros titles.

The tandem hit 14 winners to 25 for Kontinen and Peers, but their greater consistency on serve proved to be the difference on Rod Laver Arena.

"We knew when we won Roland Garros that it was the one missing, so for sure it added maybe a special motivation when entering this tournament," said Herbert.

"I think we wanted it, but we also wanted to be good on court in each match and we focused on the game, and that's why maybe today we could achieve what we achieved here at the Australian Open."

"Today, I didn't have it in mind, because I thought I was sure it would have been really difficult to play if I was just focused on just to win this tournament, because it was the one missing," said Mahut.

"I was just focused on the game, just focused on what I have to do on court to be good, because in front of us we had a really good team to beat."

Herbert and Mahut became the first team to complete the Career Grand Slam since Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan secured their set of major titles at Wimbledon in July 2006.

The 2019 champions are also the second all-French pair in the Open Era (since April 1968) to lift the Australian Open trophy, following in the footsteps of Michael Llodra and Fabrice Santoro.

MEN'S DOUBLES TEAMS TO COMPLETE CAREER GRAND SLAM

Pierre-Hugues Herbert/Nicolas Mahut (FRA)

*Ken McGregor and Frank Sedgman are the only doubles team to complete the calendar-year Grand Slam in 1951.

Kontinen and Peers both saved three break points in their first service games, but the pressure mounted and successive groundstroke winners helped Herbert and Mahut break Kontinen's serve for a 5-4 advantage.

Herbert saved four break points at 1-2 in the second set, before Peers saved two break points — courtesy of two backhand errors — in a 16-point game.

Three successive errors from Kontinen and Peers at the start of the tie-break, gave Herbert and Mahut the upper hand en route to an historic victory.

The two teams are now tied 2-2 in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series.

Rod Laver and Roy Emerson, the only two players in the sport's history to capture all four major singles championships twice, presented the trophies on the main stadium at Melbourne Park.

Afterwards, Novak Djokovic, who is attempting to make history today against Rafael Nadal by lifting a record seventh Australian Open singles crown, came out onto court to congratulate Herbert and Mahut.

Herbert and Mahut are now 13-6 in tour-level finals, including six ATP Masters 1000 crowns.

"When I had to choose a partner when [Michael] Llodra retired, then I had no doubt that I had to play with Pierre-Hugues," said Mahut.

"Because I was sure we'd have so much success.

Then after five years, we learned about each other.

We spent so much time on court, out of the court.

As I said on court, I love him like my brother."

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Herbert and Mahut were playing at the Australian Open in January.


Mahut/Herbert Complete Career Grand Slam With Australian Open Title | ATP Tour | Tennis

Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert have become the eighth men's doubles team to complete the Career Grand Slam.

# Mahut/Herbert Complete Career Grand Slam With Australian Open Title

First team to win all four majors since the Bryan brothers in 2006

Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert became the eighth men's doubles team in the sport's history to complete the Career Grand Slam of all four major championship crowns on Sunday afternoon by clinching their first Australian Open trophy.

The fifth-seeded Frenchmen defeated No. 12 seeds and 2017 champions Kontinen and Peers 6-4, 7-6(1) in one hour and 38 minutes to add to their 2015 US Open, 2016 Wimbledon and 2018 Roland Garros titles.

The tandem hit 14 winners to 25 for Kontinen and Peers, but their greater consistency on serve proved to be the difference on Rod Laver Arena.

"We knew when we won Roland Garros that it was the one missing, so for sure it added maybe a special motivation when entering this tournament," said Herbert.

"I think we wanted it, but we also wanted to be good on court in each match and we focused on the game, and that's why maybe today we could achieve what we achieved here at the Australian Open."

"Today, I didn't have it in mind, because I thought I was sure it would have been really difficult to play if I was just focused on just to win this tournament, because it was the one missing," said Mahut.

"I was just focused on the game, just focused on what I have to do on court to be good, because in front of us we had a really good team to beat."

Herbert and Mahut became the first team to complete the Career Grand Slam since Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan secured their set of major titles at Wimbledon in July 2006.

The 2019 champions are also the second all-French pair in the Open Era (since April 1968) to lift the Australian Open trophy, following in the footsteps of Michael Llodra and Fabrice Santoro.

MEN'S DOUBLES TEAMS TO COMPLETE CAREER GRAND SLAM

Pierre-Hugues Herbert/Nicolas Mahut (FRA)

*Ken McGregor and Frank Sedgman are the only doubles team to complete the calendar-year Grand Slam in 1951.

Kontinen and Peers both saved three break points in their first service games, but the pressure mounted and successive groundstroke winners helped Herbert and Mahut break Kontinen's serve for a 5-4 advantage.

Herbert saved four break points at 1-2 in the second set, before Peers saved two break points — courtesy of two backhand errors — in a 16-point game.

Three successive errors from Kontinen and Peers at the start of the tie-break, gave Herbert and Mahut the upper hand en route to an historic victory.

The two teams are now tied 2-2 in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series.

Rod Laver and Roy Emerson, the only two players in the sport's history to capture all four major singles championships twice, presented the trophies on the main stadium at Melbourne Park.

Afterwards, Novak Djokovic, who is attempting to make history today against Rafael Nadal by lifting a record seventh Australian Open singles crown, came out onto court to congratulate Herbert and Mahut.

Herbert and Mahut are now 13-6 in tour-level finals, including six ATP Masters 1000 crowns.

"When I had to choose a partner when [Michael] Llodra retired, then I had no doubt that I had to play with Pierre-Hugues," said Mahut.

"Because I was sure we'd have so much success.

Then after five years, we learned about each other.

We spent so much time on court, out of the court.

As I said on court, I love him like my brother."

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Herbert and Mahut were playing at the Australian Open in January. Herbert and Mahut won the Career Grand Slam in men's doubles after defeating Henri Kontinen and John Peers in the final.


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Angela Missoni is the creative director and president of Missoni, her family's knitwear brand known for its psychedelic patterns and multi-coloured zigzag designs.

The brand sold a minority stake to private equity firm FS Mid-Market Growth Equity Fund in June 2018, but Missoni remains president of the company.

Missoni began her professional life running a children's nursery and did not enter the fashion industry until her children were school age.

At this time, she launched her own label and, after a few seasons at her label, she took over from her mother as creative director of Missoni, debuting her first line for the brand in 1997.

Her designs and attitudes reinvigorated the label and placed it back in the fashion zeitgeist, marking the start of a period of commercial success lasting well over a decade.

Missoni's designs and her further development of the brand, along with the accompanying press, largely enabled the company's expansion into the hotel industry and lucrative collaborations with companies such as San Pellegrino and Target.

Angela's daughter, Margherita, is being groomed as her successor, working on the label's younger M Missoni line, along with accessories and swimwear lines.

"Now that she's more involved, I realise that she has all the qualities necessary to be able to do it.

I'd like to eventually have a second life, like my mom had [with Missoni Home, to which her mother moved in 1997], I saw this renewal of her enthusiasm late in life, and it was very different, a different pace.

Let's call it a 'Part II,'" Missoni told Harper's Bazaar.

Missoni was born in 1958 in Milan. She is the third child of Ottavio and Rosita Missoni.


In 1997, she took over from her mother as creative director of the family brand.

Missoni was born in 1958 in Milan. She is the third child of Ottavio and Rosita Missoni. In 1993, Missoni started her own label.


A very well-known trench magazine in the 21st century is the Wipers Times.

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Soldiers have always used dark humour as a way of coping with the grim realities of war.

A good example of this is 'The Wipers Times', one of the finest of many trench publications produced on the Western Front during the First World War (1914-18).

The Templer Study Centre is an excellent research resource for exploring the history of the British Army and learning more about its impact on the wider world.

In July 1917, the British and French launched a massive offensive near the Belgian city of Ypres.

The bitter struggle that followed came to symbolize the horrors of trench warfare.

### Hellfire Corner: A sign of the times

One of our most iconic First World War objects is the signboard used to mark the infamous 'Hellfire Corner', a busy and dangerous junction near Ypres.

In 1917, Germany adopted a defensive strategy on the Western Front to counter the growing strength of the Allies.

Despite launching several offensives, and suffering heavy casualties, the Allies achieved mixed results.

In September 1916, the face of battle changed forever.

On an unsuspecting enemy, Britain unleashed its new secret weapon - the tank.

The 1916 Somme offensive was one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War.

But it provided the Army with a tough lesson in how to fight a large-scale modern war.

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The Wipers Times is the periodical of the British Sherwood Foresters.

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Soldiers have always used dark humour as a way of coping with the grim realities of war.

A good example of this is 'The Wipers Times', one of the finest of many trench publications produced on the Western Front during the First World War (1914-18).

The Templer Study Centre is an excellent research resource for exploring the history of the British Army and learning more about its impact on the wider world.

In July 1917, the British and French launched a massive offensive near the Belgian city of Ypres.

The bitter struggle that followed came to symbolize the horrors of trench warfare.

### Hellfire Corner: A sign of the times

One of our most iconic First World War objects is the signboard used to mark the infamous 'Hellfire Corner', a busy and dangerous junction near Ypres.

In 1917, Germany adopted a defensive strategy on the Western Front to counter the growing strength of the Allies.

Despite launching several offensives, and suffering heavy casualties, the Allies achieved mixed results.

In September 1916, the face of battle changed forever.

On an unsuspecting enemy, Britain unleashed its new secret weapon - the tank.

The 1916 Somme offensive was one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War.

But it provided the Army with a tough lesson in how to fight a large-scale modern war.

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A very well-known trench magazine in the 21st century is the Wipers Times.


A 193 million dollar contract for Trophy was awarded to Leonardo DRS in June 2018.

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# Abrams tanks get new round of Israeli-made 'shields' to fend off anti-tank weapons

#### Marines fire an M1A1 Abrams tank during a low-light live-fire exercise near Kankaanpaa, Finland, May 16.

In order to counter the proliferation of anti-tank weapons, the U.S. Army has been exploring options for an active protection system that uses sensors, radar and computer processing to lock on and knock down incoming rocket propelled grenades and anti-tank guided missiles.

Taking steps in that direction, the Army has awarded a $193 million contract to Leonardo DRS for the Trophy Active Protection System in support of the M1 Abrams main battle tank's "immediate operational requirements," according to a June 26 news release.

The Trophy system was developed by an Israeli firm — Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. — and their long-standing partner, Leonardo DRS.

Rafael currently fields "some 1,000 systems to all major Israeli ground combat platforms," according to the release.

Trophy is possibly the only combat-proven active protection system on the market.

Variants of the system have been filmed intercepting shots fired on Israeli armored vehicles on the Gaza strip dating back to 2014.

Trophy's active protection system works by using a radar to detect and classify incoming rounds.

The system tracks the threat, computes parameters necessary to intercept it, and transmits the alert to the tank's crew.

If the incoming round poses a danger, the system launches countermeasures to intercept it before it strikes the tank.

The contract was first announced by the Pentagon on June 15, but lobbying for this type of active protection system began much earlier.

In a June 2017 hearing, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told Congress there remains a "critical need" to develop systems that can defeat the various shaped-charge weapons increasingly fielded in conflicts around the world.

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"Right now, there are only two countries whose industries produce these complete systems ...

one of them is friendly, and one of them is not so friendly," Milley said, referencing Israel and Russia.

####### The Trophy Active Protection System outfitted onto an Abrams tank.

Naturally, the Army wound up procuring an active protection system from Israel, rather than Russia.

Milley said in the June 2017 hearing that the Army was working with the "friendly country" to test the system and ensure it fits U.S. armored vehicle designs.

"We intend to field those to first responding units, and we will eventually field them throughout the force, for the entire Army: Guard, reserve and active," Milley said.

"We, the United States, are working very, very fast to have the industrial base produce some systems."

In October, it was announced that the Trophy system would be urgently fielded to a brigade's worth of Abrams tanks in the European theater.

By the time active protection systems are fielded to the total force, "we think the U.S. commercial solutions will be available, and we'll probably put it up at that point for competitive bid when we expand it to the entire Army," Milley said last June.

####### Trophy Active Protection Systems come in two main configurations: Trophy Heavy Vehicle and Trophy Medium Vehicle.

This chart provides a breakdown of specifications for each variation.

The Israeli-based firm echoed Milley's intention to produce their active protection system in the United States.

"Rafael has provided protection solutions to U.S. service members for over two decades via lifesaving passive and reactive armor on vehicles such as Bradley, Stryker and AAV7.

We are excited to continue to do so with [Trophy]," said Moshe Elazar, executive vice president and head of Rafael's land and naval division.

"The majority of [Trophy] components are manufactured by the American defense industry, and we are excited by the opportunity to increase manufacturing in [the United States], including for Israeli systems," Elazar added.

Under the terms of the contract, Leonardo DRS will provide the Army with the Trophy systems, countermeasures and maintenance kits.

Since the introduction of active protection systems, newer anti-tank weapons have also been fielded, such as the Russian-made RPG-30.

"The novelty of the Russian [RPG-30] is that two rockets are fired at the target at the same time," a defense industry official told TASS, a Russian state-media agency.

"One is a so-called 'agent provocateur' 42 mm in caliber, followed a bit later by a primary 105-mm tandem warhead rocket."

In 2012, however, Israeli news outlet Arutz Sheva reported that Rafael was fielding a counter to the RPG-30, known as "Trench Coat," to supplement the existing Trophy system.

Trench Coat reportedly consists of a 360-degree radar and launches 17 projectiles, one of which would ideally strike the tandem missile.

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He previously served as an Air Force combat controller.

Kyle's reporting focuses on U.S. Army leadership, recruiting, operations, training, personnel and funding.

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Acquisition and tests by the United States.

Trophy has been evaluated with extensive testing on a Stryker vehicle for possible adoption by the US Army, and a Canadian LAV III. The Army tested the Trophy system in 2017, to be fielded within two years as an interim capability until the Modular Active Protection System (MAPS) program produces a system.