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In August 1908, a white mob attacked Springfield, Illinois’s Black community, destroying homes and businesses and lynching two Black men. National outrage over the violence helped spur the movement that created the NAACP the following year.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
| Simulcast of WPEI | |
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Broadcast area | Portland, Maine |
| Frequency | 95.5 MHz |
| Branding | 95.5 and 95.9 WPEI |
| Programming | |
| Format | Sports |
| Affiliations | |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Atlantic Coast Radio |
| History | |
First air date | 1993 (as WPME) |
Former call signs |
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Call sign meaning | similar to WPEI |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| 12160 | |
| Class | A |
| Power | 3,000 watts |
| HAAT | 139 meters (456 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 43°54′12″N 70°2′13″W / 43.90333°N 70.03694°W |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Website | www |
WPPI (95.5 FM) is a sports radio station in the Portland, Maine, area. The station is owned by Atlantic Coast Radio.
WPPI serves as a simulcast of WPEI (95.9 FM) in Saco. Both stations, in turn, mostly carry the same programs as WEEI-FM from Boston. Some local commercials take the place of Boston commercials, and some WEEI-FM game broadcasts are substituted with Fox Sports Radio. WPPI also carries Maine Black Bears football and ice hockey,[2] and Portland Pirates ice hockey.[3]
The 95.5 frequency began operations in 1993 as WPME, simulcasting a country music format with 96.7 WCME from Boothbay Harbor (now WBQA).[4] A year later, the station converted to an oldies format as WXGL-FM.[4] Atlantic Coast Radio purchased the station in 1999,[5] and in January 2000, the station switched to an adult album alternative format as WCLZ.[6] A few months later, WCLZ adopted a sports talk format, initially as a simulcast of WJAE;[7] the next year, the station took the call letters WJJB-FM.[8]
On August 25, 2008, 96.3 WLOB-FM was converted to a simulcast of WJJB (which WJAE had become by that time), resulting in WLOB's programming being heard only on the AM signal. This was part of a shuffle of Atlantic Coast Radio's FM stations as a result of the conversion of two of its stations, including WJJB-FM, on September 1, 2008 to simulcasts of WEEI.[9] Shortly after the completion of these format changes, 95.5's call letters were changed to WGEI (it had initially planned to use the WTEI call sign,[10] and for a week in September 2008 used the WUEI call letters[11]).
On April 1, 2009, WGEI converted to a simulcast of WLOB; it became WLOB-FM a few days later.[11] In August 2011, WLOB-FM returned to simulcasting WEEI. On September 7, 2011, WLOB-FM changed its call letters to WPPI.
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WPPI (95.5 FM) is a sports radio station in the Portland, Maine, area. The station is owned by Atlantic Coast Radio. WPPI serves as a simulcast of WPEI (95.9 FM) in Saco. Both stations, in turn, mostly carry the same programs as WEEI-FM from Boston. Some local commercials take the place of Boston commercials, and some WEEI-FM game broadcasts are substituted with Fox Sports Radio. WPPI also carries Maine Black Bears football and ice hockey, and Portland Pirates ice hockey.
The Wind Power Production Incentive, or WPPI, was a program of the Canadian Government that promoted the generation of electricity from wind power in Canada to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas that would otherwise enter the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels. During the five-year field trial projects were performed to test the performance based on various weather conditions. Provision of economic incentives was guaranteed for up to 1,000 MW of newly installed capacity by 2007. New installations in 2003 included the MacBride Wind Farm (75.9 MW) in Alberta, the North Cape Wind Farm Expansion (5.3 MW), and the Aeolous Wind Turbine (3 MW) in PEI, the Parc éolien du Renard (2.25 MW) in Quebec, the Cypress Hill Wind Farm Expansion (4.6 MW) in Saskatchewan, and the Ontario Place Wind turbine (0.75 MW) in Ontario. The government paid about half the excess cost of producing electricity from wind, compared to conventional sources, for the first 10 years of a project. The Canadian WPPI Program started in 2002 and ended on March 31, 2007, after a change of government. A different program partly replaced it. A wind farm costs about the same to build per watt of nameplate capacity as a coal-fired power station of similar rating, but the economies of scale are fewer for a wind farm due to the lower quantity of power produced over the life of a station. Depending on location, wind farms may produce nearly full power output only about 28% of the time, whereas a base-loaded coal-fired station runs at full output more than 85% of the time. The WPPI provided a direct subsidy per kilowatthour of wind energy produced, from 1.2 cents down to 0.8 cents depending on the startup date of a project. Measures were taken to distribute the incentive across the country. The total estimated cost of the program was (CDN) $260 million. The program lived a short 5 year life.
The PhotoPlus, formerly known as the PDN PhotoPlus International Conference + Expo, was an annual event held since 1983 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York. Designed for professional and advanced amateur photographers, Photoplus displayed recent advances in photography through a variety of exhibitions as well as photography and digital design seminars. The 2020 and 2021 editions were canceled due to COVID. In 2022, after the 2020 closure of parent magazine Photo District News, the event rebranded as CreateNYC powered by PhotoPlus and moved to the Duggal Greenhouse in Brooklyn. The event was owned by Emerald X which is also the owners of Rangefinder, WPPI, and The Portrait Masters.
Tamara Lackey is a professional photographer, speaker, author and program host from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her lifestyle photography, from children's portraits to celebrity portraits, has been published internationally. Lackey's work has been featured in media outlets, including Vogue, O – The Oprah Magazine, Town & Country, Parenting Magazine, Food & Wine, The Knot Men's Journal; in trade outlets; and on national television programs including NBC's The Martha Stewart Show and ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Lackey is a Nikon USA Ambassador, speaking on behalf of Nikon at conventions and programs, and she was the subject of a five-part web series on photographing children and family portraits, entitled Nikon Behind The Scenes. She also photographs commercial campaigns for the brand. Lackey was the recipient of the 2015 WPPI/Rangefinder Humanitarian Award, awarded on behalf of her charitable contributions and as the co-founder of a non-profit in support of orphaned children. She was presented with the 2014 WPPI Adorama Inspire Award. In 2008, Lackey released her first educational book for professionals, The Art of Children's Portrait Photography, which got favorable reviews. It went on to be re-published and translated into seven languages. Lackey teamed with Rex Ballard to produce Inside Contemporary Children's Photography, a 90-minute video released in January 2010. In 2010 Lackey worked with Kubota Image Tools to develop a Kubota Artist Series Style Book & DVD Tutorial, The Tamara Lackey Style Book, to instruct viewers on improving their own portrait and children's photography using "Kubota Actions" (proprietary Photoshop plugins). Lackey once again paired with Rex Ballard to develop a guide to help “everyday photographers” capture more from their life moments. Tamara Lackey's Capturing Life Through (Better) Photography teaches simple tips and tricks to improve basic point-and-shoot images. The book won the Booklist Editors' Choice Award in Media in 2011. Lackey has also presented internationally at industry workshops and events, which include delivering presentations on the Google stage, serving as a keynote speaker at the National Association of Professional Child Photographers' Retreat and participating as a panel judge for the Wedding & Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) International Print Competition. Lackey has co-produced and hosted multiple live broadcasts for CreativeLive.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →The Greenwood District.
