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715_18	Macdonald was a guest character on My Name Is Earl in the episode "Two Balls, Two Strikes" (2007) as Lil Chubby, the son of "Chubby" (played by Burt Reynolds), similar to Macdonald's portrayals of Reynolds on SNL. On June 19, 2008, Macdonald was a celebrity panellist on two episodes of a revived version of the game show Match Game. On August 17, 2008, Macdonald was a participant in the Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget, performing intentionally cheesy and G-rated material that contrasted greatly with the raunchy performances of the other roasters.<ref>{{cite web \| title=Norm Macdonald's roast of Bob Saget remembered as 'one of the most brilliant pieces of comedy ever\|website=Independent.co.uk\|date=September 15, 2021\|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/norm-macdonald-bob-saget-roast-b1920258.html\|access-date=September 15, 2021}}</ref> In AT&T commercials around Christmas 2007 and 2008, Macdonald voiced a gingerbread boy in a commercial for AT&T's GoPhone.
715_19	In 2009, Macdonald and Sam Simon pitched a fake reality show to FX called The Norm Macdonald Reality Show where Macdonald would play a fictional, down-on-his-luck version of himself. The show was picked up and Garry Shandling was added to the cast, but it was cancelled halfway through filming. On the May 16, 2009, episode of Saturday Night Live, Macdonald reappeared as Burt Reynolds on Celebrity Jeopardy!, and in another sketch. On May 31, 2009, he appeared on Million Dollar Password. 2010–2012 Macdonald became a frequent guest on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien during its 2009 and 2010 run. He made frequent appearances on the Internet talk show Tom Green's House Tonight, and on May 20, 2010, was guest host.
715_20	In September 2010, Macdonald was developing a series for Comedy Central that he described as a sports version of The Daily Show. Sports Show with Norm Macdonald premiered April 12, 2011. Nine ordered episodes were broadcast. Macdonald's first stand-up special, Me Doing Stand-Up, aired on Comedy Central on March 26, 2011. On February 26, 2011, he became a commentator and co-host (with Kara Scott) of the seventh season of the TV series High Stakes Poker on Game Show Network. Early in 2012, it was reported that Macdonald was developing a talk show for TBS titled Norm Macdonald is Trending, which would see Macdonald and a team of correspondents covering headlines from pop culture and social media. Clips for the unaired pilot published by The Washington Post resemble a sketch comedy show in the vein of Back to Norm.
715_21	In June 2012, he became the spokesperson for Safe Auto Insurance Company. Along with television and radio commercials, web banners, and outdoor boards, the effort included a series of made-for-web videos. As part of the campaign, the state minimum auto insurance company introduced a new tagline, "Drive Safe, Spend Less." 2013: Norm Macdonald Live In 2013, Macdonald premiered the podcast Norm Macdonald Live, co-hosted by Adam Eget, streaming live weekly on Video Podcast Network and posted later on YouTube. It received positive notices from USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, and the "America's Comedy" website while the Independent Film Channel stated that while Macdonald remained "a comedy force to be reckoned with", and "did not quite disappoint," the show was "a bit rough around the edges." The second season of Norm Macdonald Live began in May 2014 and the third began in September 2016. Macdonald also joined Grantland as a contributor in the first two months of 2013.
715_22	2014–2020 In 2014, Macdonald unsuccessfully campaigned on Twitter to be named the new host of The Late Late Show after then-host Craig Ferguson announced he would be leaving. On May 15, 2015, Macdonald was the final stand-up act on the Late Show with David Letterman: during his set, which ended with him breaking into tears as he told Letterman that he truly loved him, Macdonald included a joke Letterman had told the first time Macdonald had ever seen him during a 1970s appearance on the Canadian talk show 90 Minutes Live, where a 13-year-old Macdonald had been in the studio audience. Also in 2015, Macdonald was a judge for the ninth season of NBC's Last Comic Standing, joining the previous season's judges, Roseanne Barr and Keenan Ivory Wayans and replacing fellow Canadian Russell Peters from 2014.
715_23	In August 2015, he succeeded Darrell Hammond as Colonel Sanders in TV commercials for the KFC chain of fast food restaurants. Macdonald was replaced by Jim Gaffigan in the role by February 2016. In September 2016, Macdonald's semi-fictional memoir Based on a True Story was published by Random House imprint Spiegel & Grau. It debuted at number 15 on the New York Times Best Sellers list for hardcover nonfiction, and made number 6 on the Best Sellers list for humour. Starting in May 2017, Macdonald started to move his comedy to a more reserved, deadpan style. On stage he has claimed to have "no opinions" and the minimalist delivery has been described by The A.V. Club as "reduc[ing] gesture and verbiage down to an absurd minimum." In March 2018, Netflix announced it had ordered ten episodes of a new talk show entitled Norm Macdonald Has a Show, hosted by Macdonald. The series premiered on September 14, 2018.
715_24	In September 2018, Macdonald sparked controversy after the publication of an interview in which he appeared to criticize aspects of the #MeToo movement and defend friends and fellow comedians Louis C.K. and Roseanne Barr. Macdonald's scheduled appearance on NBC's Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon was subsequently cancelled. In February 2020, Macdonald launched Loko, a dating app he co-created which relies heavily on video to make first impressions. Influences and views on comedy Macdonald said his influences included the comedians Bob Newhart, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Dennis Miller, and the writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov. Speaking about Canada's homegrown comedy industry, Macdonald reflected that he would have liked there to have been more opportunity for him to stay in the country early in his career, stating: Reflecting on the state of modern comedy, he bemoaned the influx of dramatic actors into comedy and comedians into dramatic acting.
715_25	Personal life In 1988, Macdonald married Connie Vaillancourt, with whom he had a son Dylan, born 1993. The couple separated in April 1999 and divorced later that same year.
715_26	He said his past gambling addiction had been initiated by a six-figure win at a craps table in Atlantic City. In an appearance on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast in 2011, Macdonald revealed that he lost all of his money gambling three times, and the largest amount he lost at once was $400,000. It was reported by The Times of London that he went bankrupt twice. As a poker player, his best live result was cashing for $20,915 in the $1,000 Bellagio Weekly Tournament, in July 2006. In the 2007 World Series of Poker, he came in 20th place out of 827 entrants in the $3,000 No-Limit Texas Hold 'em event, winning $14,608. He also frequently played live cash games as well as online poker. Macdonald stated in a 2018 interview that, prior to the ruling in United States v. Scheinberg, he would play up to 20 online limit hold'em games at once. "Since they went offline, it kind of saved my life. Because I was just grinding out and couldn't even sleep."
715_27	Death and legacy On September 14, 2021, Macdonald died from acute leukemia at a hospital in Pasadena, California, aged 61. He had been diagnosed nine years prior, though he disclosed his diagnosis to only a few close friends and family members, fearing that revealing his condition to the public would "affect the way he was perceived", according to his brother Neil.
715_28	Among those who expressed their sorrow over his death via social-media channels included comedians Conan O'Brien, Dave Chappelle, Adam Sandler, Joe Rogan, David Letterman, David Spade, Sarah Silverman, Artie Lange, Seth Rogen, Bob Saget, Jim Carrey, Bill Burr and multiple other fellow comedians, as well as musician Frank Stallone (whom Macdonald used repeatedly as a non-sequitur during Weekend Update) and former US Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (whom Macdonald played during his tenure at SNL). Both John Oliver and Lorne Michaels dedicated their victories at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards to Macdonald's memory. Fellow comic Dave Chappelle dedicated his 2021 comedy special The Closer in part to Norm Macdonald, as did Louis C.K. with his special Sorry''. Works Comedy TV series Literature Talk shows As performer Film Television Explanatory notes References External links
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716_0	Lowestoft railway station (formerly Lowestoft Central) serves the town of Lowestoft, Suffolk, and is the eastern terminus of the East Suffolk Line from and is one of two eastern termini of the Wherry Lines from (the other being ). Lowestoft is down the line from Norwich and measured from ; and is the easternmost station on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom. The station is currently managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates all of the trains that call. Services are typically formed by Class 755 FLIRT trains. According to Office of Rail Regulation usage figures for 2010/11, Lowestoft was, after Ipswich, and , the fourth-busiest station in Suffolk. Until the late 1960s the station was served more frequently, with regular express trains for holidaymakers in the summer to and from London Liverpool Street and local services to Great Yarmouth. However, as part of Greater Anglia’s new franchising agreement, services between Lowestoft and London will be reintroduced.
716_1	Facilities and services Lowestoft station is conveniently situated between the south end of the shopping area in the town centre and the north end of the sea front. Facilities at the station include and ticket office and machine, shelters, seating in the booking hall and toilets. The ticket office is staffed during the day. A pay and display car park is provided, as is a taxi rank and cycle storage. Local buses call at the station, which is a Plusbus location. On weekdays, the station sees an hourly service to via the Wherry Lines with an extra service in the morning peak. The services tend to be regularly timed, usually departing at around 50 minutes past the hour during the day. The final service usually departs at 2330. Saturday services follow a similar pattern with a reduced service on Sundays. The journey time averages 40 minutes.
716_2	The service to via the East Suffolk Line runs hourly following the opening of a passing loop at in December 2012. This usually leaves at 7 minutes past the hour. Sunday services run every two hours but depart at 5 minutes past each hour from the first train at 0805 to the last at 2005. The average journey time to Ipswich is around 1 hour and 30 minutes. Services the typical Monday-Saturday off-peak service at Lowestoft is as follows: History
716_3	Early days On 30 June 1845, the Lowestoft Railway and Harbour Company was incorporated to build a harbour and dock railway in Lowestoft. The scheme, which was promoted by Samuel Morton Peto, included a line from Lowestoft to the Yarmouth & Norwich Railway with which it formed a junction near Reedham. On 3 July 1846, the Norfolk Railway obtained a lease to construct the line, which it did by May 1847. The line was opened to goods on 3 May and to passengers on 1 July 1847. A second route was opened on 1 June 1859 with the completion of the Lowestoft and Beccles Railway which entered the town via a swing bridge over Oulton Broad, where a freight line branched off to the south bank of Lowestoft harbour. The new line connected Lowestoft with London, , and other places more conveniently without having to go via .
716_4	Lowestoft station opened on 1 July 1847. At the time of construction, the station was separated from the town on the clifftop by about ½-mile of green fields and farmland, although a new turnpike road (now known as London Road North) linked it to Lowestoft. Development was stimulated by the construction of the harbour later in 1847 and extension of the railway to a new fish market and cattle sheds. Initially, only two platforms were provided, but rebuilding took place in 1855 by Lucas Brothers when a more substantial and well-designed building was provided. The Italianate station is a fine example of their work, which also includes buildings such as the Royal Albert Hall, Liverpool Street station, York station and the Felixstowe Railway. In 1855, the station's roof burnt down and timber for the new roof was brought in from Scandinavia by Peto's North of Europe Steam Navigation Company. The main buildings were arranged in an L-shaped configuration, with the booking, enquiry and parcels
716_5	offices laid out on the north side bordering Denmark Road, the refreshment rooms were on the east side opening into Station Square and the toilets and bookstall were to the south. The concourse was covered by an overall roof which extended some way over the tracks and platforms to provide a small train shed.
716_6	With the arrival of the railway, Lowestoft's population doubled in 16 years to reach 10,000 and by the end of the century it had increased to 36,000. In 1849, Peto constructed the esplanade and the Royal Hotel was opened. The Norfolk Railway was taken over by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1848, which provided a Friday service of cheap trains to London from summer 1859, with Lowestoft coaches being collected at by expresses from Yarmouth.
716_7	Growth The Port of Lowestoft expanded rapidly to cover an area of in less than a century, which included over of quay dealing in commodities and nearly of quay dealing with fish traffic. This resulted in track and signal alterations between Lowestoft and Coke Ovens Junction in 1885 which were carried out by the Great Eastern Railway, which had taken over the Eastern Counties Railway in 1862. The two single lines from the junction were turned into double track, and an extra (third) platform was added at the station. Two new signalboxes were provided: one at Coke Ovens and the other on the north side of Lowestoft station. Engine sheds and a turntable were also provided.
716_8	The Great Eastern introduced the first direct services to and from London in 1863, with services leaving Bishopsgate railway station at 10.00am and taking 3¼ hours to complete the journey. On 1 June 1872, a new curve between Marsh Junction on the Yarmouth to Beccles Line and Swing Bridge Junction on the Yarmouth side of Haddiscoe High Level railway station enabled direct services between Lowestoft and via . The 1883 timetable shows eight stopping trains each way between Ipswich, Lowestoft and Yarmouth, with two or three services a day from London. A Mondays only service ran from Liverpool Street with stops at Ipswich, and Beccles. The first non-stop express between London and Lowestoft ran in summer 1900 and by 1904 non-stop runs were provided on a regular basis during the summer period. The traditional access to London was however by shuttle train connection out of the Yarmouth services at Beccles or by portions split and worked forward from there. Nine or ten passenger services to
716_9	Norwich operated on weekdays and four on Sundays in 1905, the frequency increasing to 12 each way on weekdays by 1921.
716_10	Holiday traffic to Lowestoft prospered, particularly after 13 July 1898 when the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Committee opened a new line from and Yarmouth South Town via , and to Lowestoft, where a second station serving the town, named , was opened. The opening of a second station in the town resulted in the main station being renamed Lowestoft Central in 1903. The Great Eastern sought to foster the holiday traffic by providing a bus service to Southwold from 18 July 1904 to January 1913 and also one to Oulton Broad. The increased naval activity brought on by the First World War saw the number of passengers using Lowestoft Central via the Norfolk & Suffolk double from a pre-war average of 25,000 per year to a near-record of 54,506 in 1918. The record was reached in 1919 when 63,859 used the station. In Summer 1924, a long-distance restaurant car express ran from Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield to Lowestoft and Yarmouth, while an all-year round service began operating to and from
716_11	York with portions for Lowestoft and Yarmouth dividing at Reedham. The journey to York took just over six hours, while Liverpool was reached in seven hours. A restaurant car was added to the York express by the early 1930s and the service remained in the timetable until the mid 1960s, although in its later years a buffet car was used instead. The Holiday Camps Express ran via Lowestoft to serve the holiday camps along the coast from 1934 to 1939 and then after the war until 1958. Another express, The Easterling, was introduced in June 1950 to run non-stop between Liverpool Street and Beccles where a portion would be detached for Lowestoft.
716_12	Goods traffic had been constant for many years. The chief materials brought into Lowestoft included coal (from Leicester and Melton Mowbray), bricks (to Lowestoft North), pipes, glass, sheet metal plates, flour, beer, grain and wheel-rims to be exported to the Netherlands. Goods sent out from Lowestoft included canned foods, wood cases and fish to London and Bury St. Edmunds. Between 1899 and 1914, a Travelling Post Office left the station at 2000 each evening, reaching Ipswich at 2340.
716_13	In 1914, a sleeper depot was opened on a reclaimed mud bank in Lake Lothing. It grew to cover and had a capacity of 450,000 sleepers as well as a wharf enabling ships to unload directly. Following the closure of Melton Constable Works in 1936, the depot became a centre for the construction of many items such as fenceposts and building parts, which were sent all over the LNER and Eastern Region. The depot, which had its own narrow gauge railway, incorporated a pre-cast sleeper depot which supplied over half of the Eastern Region with two or three special trains leaving it each week. In an average year, about 328,000 sleepers were dispatched with 10,600 tons of chairs and baseplates and many tons of small permanent way accessories. The activity continued until 1964 after which the land was used by Shell for offices, a helipad, supply ship berths and a stores complex. A siding serving Shell was closed later in the 1970s.
716_14	Decline As early as the 1930s, the fish traffic began to decline until there were only seasonal specials on the Norfolk & Suffolk in addition to the fish vans on the daily return goods trip. The fall in income from fish traffic was only partially replaced by the development of holiday camps along the coast. In addition, the drop-off in traffic on the line between Yarmouth and Lowestoft via the Haddiscoe curve resulted in its closure in 1934 and lifting in 1939. The service had not been as fast as trains on the Yarmouth-Lowestoft line and by the 1930s it was also facing competition from buses on the A12. Nevertheless, the summer timetable for 1939 still showed seventeen services each way, most of which were all-stoppers, while others were combined with Yarmouth services at Reedham before continuing to Norwich in a journey time of up to one hour and sixteen minutes.
716_15	During the early years following nationalisation, services on the Norfolk & Suffolk line were busy on summer Saturdays but less patronised at other times when a single push and pull unit hauled by a GER Class M15 or a GER Class G69 sufficed. Reliance on summer traffic was not enough and when British Railways started making losses from 1952 onwards, attention was turned to pruning the network by closing unremunerative lines. Thus in 1953 when major repairs to Breydon Viaduct were required, it was decided that Lowestoft could be adequately served during the summer season by diverted trains via Norwich Thorpe, and so the ordinary passenger and freight services were withdrawn as from 20 September. A good service nevertheless continued between Yarmouth South Town and Lowestoft, as well as a Saturdays through train from Birmingham. In May 1956, Prince Philip visited Lowestoft to open the new South Pier Pavilion and LNER Thompson Class B1 No. 61399 was used to haul the train from Wickham
716_16	Market Junction.
716_17	On 2 November 1959, passenger services on the Yarmouth-Beccles line ceased, partly due to the expense of maintaining the swing bridges at Beccles and St Olaves, and it was reported that the British Transport Commission wished to re-route the line's traffic via Lowestoft. However, although the Lowestoft-Yarmouth line was upgraded to take express traffic, including the lengthening of the station platforms, the London expresses to Yarmouth were sent via Norwich as from 18 June 1962. The line was subsequently recommended for closure in the Beeching report, together with the East Suffolk line from as far as Lowestoft. At this time, there was a daily pick-up goods service between Yarmouth South Town and Lowestoft but this ceased on 4 November 1967 and the same weekend the line was singled. The Yarmouth-Lowestoft line closed on 4 May 1970 but the East Suffolk line was reprieved by Barbara Castle on 29 June 1966. The closure of the Yarmouth-Lowestoft line and Lowestoft North station resulted
716_18	in the "Central" being dropped from Lowestoft's name as from 3 May 1971. The late 1960s also saw the platform awnings cut back, although the roof over the main concourse was left intact.
716_19	Dieselisation was gradually implemented in Suffolk from the 1950s onwards. It began in 1954 when many steam engines were withdrawn from the Lowestoft area, followed in 1955 by the introduction of the two and four car diesel railcar units for the short services. After June 1960, the East Suffolk line was only served by diesel trains. The last recorded steam hauled passenger train left the station in June 1962, although for a number of years afterwards Class B1s were allocated to Lowestoft during the winter months to provide steam heating for hauled stock prior to departure behind diesel locomotives. The next steam-hauled passenger train at the station was not until 4 May 2002 when BR Standard Class 4 2-6-0 No. 76079 headed 'The Easterling' from Liverpool Street via Norwich. By the early 1960s, steam engines had almost disappeared from Lowestoft and in September 1962 the engine sheds and turntable finally closed. Long distance through services were also cut down with the loss of the
716_20	through trains to Birmingham and York in late 1964 on the basis that Lowestoft did not have sufficient facilities for the storage and cleaning of coaches. The closure of the line between Lowestoft and Yarmouth South Town in 1970 saw the removal of the rails into platform 1. This section of the trackbed, as well as the siding which ran alongside, now forms part of the station car park.
716_21	Services on the East Suffolk Line consisted of eight or nine diesel multiple unit weekday workings to Ipswich, with a single InterCity train to London, supplemented by a second service on summer Saturdays. On winter Sundays, there were three services each way in the afternoon and evening. An hourly service was provided on the Lowestoft-Norwich line, with seven or eight trains each way on Sundays. The station continued to receive excursion traffic, mainly private charters by the Railway Development Society, as well as special services for football matches and Christmas shoppers. Present day
716_22	Direct London services The final direct London service of the British Rail era ran on 12 May 1984. On 26 September 1999, Anglia Railways reintroduced the service when the first service departed at 1005 drawn by one of Anglia's new Class 170 units. The weekday service left at 0656, arriving at Liverpool Street at 0931 and returning at 1900. Through Sunday services were withdrawn from the start of the summer 2000 timetable. As of December 2010 services to/from London via the East Suffolk Line and Norwich have been withdrawn.
716_23	1992 rebuilding Up until 1992 Lowestoft station retained many of its original features, including the wooden trussed ceiling, LNER clock and traditional departure boards. In 1992, alterations were carried out in the name of modernising and simplifying the structure; these involved removing some brickwork, refurbishing an area of the platforms, removing the station roof and canopies to create a new open, paved concourse and demolishing the bookstall and toilet block. In addition, a new toilet was provided for all passengers, trees were planted and interior alterations were carried out to the booking hall and office. The removal of the station's roof now provides no shelter for passengers from the North Sea wind. Although few amenities remain, the station does nonetheless retain a staffed booking office and ticket issuing machine.
716_24	Much of the original historical structure nevertheless remains, including one of the last original British Rail enamel signs in situ on its frontage, displaying "British Railways - Lowestoft Central". The original platforms 2 and 3 remain in daily use with platform 4 also available although not used for regular services; the platforms were not renumbered following the removal of platform 1. The station was a finalist in Railtrack's Station of the Year 1999. 2013 refurbishment In May 2012, the station was described by local MP Peter Aldous as a "blot on the landscape" and a "pale shadow of its former self". He called for its refurbishment to be included as part of the next Greater Anglia franchise.
716_25	In early 2013, work began on redeveloping the exterior of the station with £1 million of funding from Suffolk County Council. One aim of the redevelopment was to create a more efficient transport interchange with bus routes within the town. The works include the resurfacing of the car park and adjoining land to create 70 additional car parking spaces, as well as redesigning the taxi rank and installing modern bus shelters with electronic information boards. Initial discussions took place in mid 2013 to renovate empty units within the station, in particular the former café which was housed in the large structure facing Station Square, with the help of local groups. On 18 February 2014, Peter Aldous MP officially opened a "Bike & Go" outlet at the station.
716_26	Goods traffic Even by the late 1970s Lowestoft was still handling 25,000 tonnes of freight, an increase of some 18,000 compared to the mid 1970s. Goods consisted of domestic coal which was brought by train to a concentration depot at the end of Rotterdam Road, imported steel ingots which were sent on by rail, scrap metal exported to Spain by A. King & Sons and brought to Lowestoft by rail, imported Ford cars and container trains after an Orient Overseas Container Line ship was diverted from Felixstowe. The sleeper works was also producing around five wagon loads of concrete sleepers, posts and platform sections a day. Traffic declined in the 1980s as a result of national policies and trends, the withdrawal of vacuum-braked wagons leading to a loss in coal traffic and the increase in charges for imported steel resulting in this traffic moving to other ports.
716_27	There are still sidings to the station which are rarely used, although they no longer cross Station Square into the docks or across Commercial Road to what is today a car park and shop. Lowestoft remains a destination for specialised freight services which carry materials used in the offshore North Sea gas production industry. A wide variety of diesel locomotives have hauled these trains to over the years, including Classes 31, 37, 47, 58, 66 and 67. For many years, the frozen food industry in the area despatched much of its production by rail and in 1989, there was still a daily Speedlink service to the town. Little track rationalisation has taken place since the 1980s and the rail approach to the town is characterised by expanses of rarely used track. Proposed developments
716_28	Relocation of the station
716_29	Waveney District Council had previously indicated in April 2010 that the station should be relocated 40m to the west and 80m to the south in order to "strike the optimum balance between commercial viability, technical feasibility and acceptability in the eyes of key stakeholders and landowners". Relocation would "release a significant parcel of land for redevelopment in Peto Square between Denmark Road and Commercial Road", although it was said that "existing historic station buildings should be retained and integrated into any new development." Network Rail has objected to this policy on the basis that this would reduce the patronage of the station as was the case with , and and would incur substantial financial cost. Although the policy did not appear in the final version of the area action plan for Lake Lothing and the Outer Harbour Area, the document did nevertheless raise concerns as it purported to reduce the number of platforms at the station to two plus a siding for
716_30	excursion trains.
716_31	Direct Yarmouth services In January 2015, a Network Rail study proposed the reintroduction of direct services between Lowestoft and Yarmouth by reinstating a spur at Reedham. Services could once again travel between two East Coast towns, with an estimated journey time of 33 minutes, via a reconstructed north-to-south arm of the former triangular junction at Reedham, which had been removed in . The plans also involve relocating Reedham station nearer the junction, an idea which attracted criticism.
716_32	Motive power depot The first engine shed at Lowestoft was a two-road brick structure on the north side of the station with a turntable on a separate spur. It lay close to Denmark Road on the site of what was later the goods shed. The shed could only accommodate four locomotives and attracted complaints from local residents due to the smoke from the locomotives. New four-road sheds were built in 1882 at a cost of £5,650 on the north shore of Lake Lothing beyond what later became Coke Ovens Junction. The sheds were fine and ornate in the style of those at Yarmouth Vauxhall and with extravagant brick detail and a vast iron water tank supported by tall vaulting running the width of the shed. The turntable was first on a single spur alongside the yard but later was enlarged to and repositioned at the western boundary of the yard. In the 1930s, new coal handling and water softening plants were installed at a cost of £2,828.
716_33	By October 1954 the shed boasted the following allocation: 6 K3s, 1 E4, 5 J15s, 3 J17s, 2 F4s, 6 F5s, 6 F6s, 3 L1s, 1 J67 and 1 J68. Prior to 1954, Lowestoft was home to the last F3 class No. 67127 which first entered service in 1893 and was condemned at Ipswich in April 1953. Coded 32C by British Railways, the shed was officially closed in September 1960, although visiting locomotives continued to use the shed until it reportedly 'closed completely' on 7 July 1962. After a period as a cattle quarantine station, the sheds were demolished in 1983. Harbour lines
716_34	North Quay A short single-track tramway was constructed by the Norfolk Railway from Lowestoft station heading eastwards across the A12 road to Lowestoft Fish Quay. A flagman was needed to cross the road and services were often hauled by small tank engines or Sentinels. In 1866, the line was replaced by conventional rails and over the next 60 years was extended to to reach the end of the North Pier which had been constructed in response to the expansion of the fishing trade at Lowestoft. The Great Eastern Railway and other railway companies invested greatly in the harbour and its infrastructure, although they were not constructed with the fishing industry in mind. By 1892, £320,000 had been invested in the harbour which covered where nearly 1,000 registered fishing boats. Herring catches from the North Sea contributed to the 50,000-60,000 tons of fish landed annually in the early part of the twentieth century, the bulk of which were sent by rail to London.
716_35	Fishing boats returning with their catches were moored alongside the pier on which were railway wagons ready to receive the fish. A spacious covered market was opened by the Great Eastern in 1865 by the North Pier, lit by gas lamps and with landing stages long. The extent of the fish traffic necessitated fishworkers' specials to Lowestoft from Scotland for the autumn herring season when Scottish women from as far afield as were brought down by the trainload to gut the herring and act as relief crew on the fishing boats. The Norfolk & Suffolk succeeded in capturing 5,000 tons per year of this fish traffic, around 10% of the total.
716_36	The fish trade suffered from continental competition and fish migration and ever decreasing quantities were shipped by rail as lorries were used for their transport. Traffic was lost to road not only because the prices were too high but also perhaps because transport by road saw fish rise to the top of the ice-packed containers in which they were shipped, whereas this did not happen on a smooth rail ride. Services eventually ceased in September 1973 at which time two vans of fish offal to be used as pet food were dispatched nightly. Although a new trade in whitefish developed and a new fish market opened in October 1987, rail plays no role in their transport.
716_37	South Side docks and Kirkley
716_38	The Lowestoft and Beccles Railway Act 1856 authorised a branch from a junction to the east of to South Side docks, as well as a short branch to a coal and goods depot at Kirkley. The line was known for a curious signal with an arm fixed at danger on both sides to warn drivers to take care. At Kirkley goods station, the single line fanned out into two groups of sidings: one on each side of the yard and both extending across Belvedere Road into the South Quay where wagon turntables were used to access the sidings. Another siding, reached only by turntable, ran parallel to the quay into Morton's cannery in Belvedere Road. When a Co-op factory opened, it was connected to the harbour line by a siding just east of a level crossing over Durban Road. South Side was worked according to the one engine in steam principle and horses were sometimes used for shunting. Outward traffic included joinery from Boulton & Paul's and cannery products, as well as confectionery and preserves mostly from
716_39	Mortons and the Co-op. Inward traffic comprised oil for the Co-op's factory boilers, timber for Boulton & Paul and steel for the Brooke Marine shipyard. The Kirkley branch was closed in 1966 and the South Side line beyond Durban Road followed on 6 November 1967 with tracklifting a year or so later. The rest of the line remained open until 31 December 1972 to serve the Boulton & Paul yard, by which time it had become somewhat of an anachronism. Extensive redevelopment of the area in the early 21st century obliterated most of the remains of the South Side lines and the industrial businesses which they served.
716_40	References Notes Sources Further reading External links Gallery of images on Railscot Railway stations in Suffolk Former Great Eastern Railway stations Greater Anglia franchise railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1847 Railway depots in England 1847 establishments in England Lowestoft
717_0	Großkarlbach is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location Großkarlbach lies near the western edge of the Upper Rhine Plain and flowing through it is the river Eckbach. It is in the northwest of the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration. In the municipality's west rise the hills of what was once called the Unterhaardt, which since the 1970s has been considered part of the new Mittelhaardt-Deutsche Weinstraße winegrowing region. Großkarlbach belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Leiningerland, whose seat is in Grünstadt, although that town is itself not in the Verbandsgemeinde. Neighbouring municipalities Clockwise from the north, these are Laumersheim, Gerolsheim, Weisenheim am Sand, Freinsheim and Bissersheim.
717_1	History Großkarlbach had a documentary mention as early as 768 in the Lorsch codex as Carlobach. Its name is described from its description as Dorf der Freien Karle (roughly “Village of free men”) and its location on the Eckbach. Since the municipality lay in the border area between Electoral Palatinate and territory held by the Counts of Leiningen, it was these two lordly houses that characterized Großkarlbach's history. Until 1969, the municipality belonged to the district of Frankenthal, which was abolished that year, and Großkarlbach was then assigned to the newly created district of Bad Dürkheim. Three years later came the assignment to the likewise newly created Verbandsgemeinde of Grünstadt-Land. Religion In 2007, 50.8% of the inhabitants were Evangelical and 20.6% Catholic. The rest belonged to other faiths or adhered to none. Politics
717_2	Municipal council The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman. The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results: Coat of arms The German blazon reads: In Grün ein silberner Wellenpfahl. The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Vert a pale wavy argent. The arms were approved by the now abolished Regierungsbezirk Rheinhessen-Pfalz in Neustadt in 1984, and they go back to a court seal from 1501. The “pale wavy” (wavy vertical stripe) is a canting charge for the placename's ending, —bach, which means “brook”. Culture and sightseeing
717_3	Monumental buildings In Großkarlbach, five of the formerly seven mills are still standing. The Dorfmühle (“Village mill”) has housed since restoration work was finished in 2007 the Mühlenmuseum Leiningerland (“Leiningerland Mill Museum”), the mayor's office and the municipal archive as well as meeting rooms for youth, seniors and conferences. Great wineries with their timber-frame houses characterize the municipality. Other points of interest are the 48 m-tall tower at the Evangelical church in the village centre and the pottery factory, where such things as flowerpots are made. In the contest Unser Dorf soll schöner werden (“Our village should become lovelier”), Großkarlbach won a bronze plaque in 1987.
717_4	Festivals In Großkarlbach, a few traditional festivals are held. Among them are the Kändelgassenfest (a wine festival) on the last weekend in July, the Kerwerummel in September (church consecration festival, or kermis) and a small Christmas market. Also worth mentioning is the Lange Nacht des Jazz (“Long Night of Jazz”), which first took place in 2002 and in 2006 was part of Federal President Horst Köhler’s Deutschland – Land der Ideen (“Germany – Land of Ideas”) campaign. Furthermore, there are many smaller events staged by local clubs. Economy and infrastructure Tourism and winegrowing The municipality lies near the German Wine Route in the holiday region of Leiningerland (the lands once held by the Counts of Leiningen). There are holiday homes and two hotels. The most important branch of agriculture is winegrowing. Transport Großkarlbach is linked to the Autobahn A 6 (Saarbrücken–Mannheim) through the Grünstadt interchange 5 km away.
717_5	Until 1939, Großkarlbach was the terminus of a narrow-gauge railway known locally as the Lokalbahn or Bembel. It ran by way of Dirmstein and Heßheim to Frankenthal and also had access to Ludwigshafen over tram tracks. Famous people Anton Spiehler (1795–1867) was a bishop's secretary, spiritual adviser and cathedral capitulary of the Bishopric of Speyer, assistant head seminarian and Summus Custos (Latin for Highest Keeper) of Speyer Cathedral. He served from 1819 to 1827 as Großkarlbach's Catholic parish priest. August Brehm (1854–1931) was cathedral capitulary, cathedral deacon and cathedral provost of the Bishopric of Speyer, as well as Honorary Papal Prelate, Monsignore and Privy Councillor of the Free State of Bavaria. He served from 1883 to 1889 as Großkarlbach's parish priest. References External links Großkarlbach near the German Wine Route Paul Fogerty: "the hottest new acoustic venues in the south of Germany" Bad Dürkheim (district)
718_0	Slam is an American basketball magazine in circulation since 1994. History Slam was launched in 1994 as a basketball magazine that combined the sport with hip hop culture at a time when the genre was becoming increasingly popular. It was founded by publisher Dennis Page at Harris Publications, and he hired Cory Johnson to be the first Editor in Chief. Its first issue had a cover story on Larry Johnson of the Charlotte Hornets (written by future Fortune editor Andrew Serwer) and a feature on University of California freshman Jason Kidd. Many of the magazine's lasting features, such as In Your Face, Slam-a-da-month, and Last Shot all began with that first issue.
718_1	Slams ownership has changed several times. Peterson Publishing bought Slam in 1998. The next year, Peterson was acquired by British publisher EMAP. In 2001, EMAP sold its US division to Primedia. When Primedia left the magazine business in 2007, Source Interlink acquired a majority of the company, including Slam, In August 2017. Slam was then acquired by an investment group led by Dennis Page (Founder and Publisher) and David Schnur (Executive Publisher). The new holding company is Slam Media Inc. based in New York City. The magazine carries advertising for basketball related products, street-wear clothing and hip hop music, and has been credited with helping to market hip hop culture and basketball as one.
718_2	Slam has published over 200 issues in its history, and has featured the biggest names in basketball on its cover, in articles, and on its famous SLAMups posters. To date, only two female athletes has ever appeared on the Slam cover – Chamique Holdsclaw in October 1998 and Maya Moore in the September/October 2018 issue. Kobe Bryant and LeBron James have appeared on a record seventeen covers. "A Basketball On Fire" was the 1st Slam magazine cover without a player in February 2012. The magazine is now available to international (non-US) NBA fans, with special editions printed in some territories (see below), and the addition of Slam to digital stores, such as iTunes (the remoteness/distance from the US of the subscriber has become a recurring theme in the letters section). Writers and editors
718_3	Editors for Slam Magazine have included: Cory Johnson (founding editor-in-chief) Russ Bengtson Darrylle T. Coston Anna Gebbie Tony Gervino Scoop Jackson Ben Osborne "Old" Dave Lewis (first managing editor) Dennis Page (publisher) Susan Price Khalid Saalam Lang Whitaker Ryan Jones Sam Rubenstein (Online Editor) Ryne Nelson Matt Caputo Tzvi Twersky Abe Schwadron Adam Figman Other notable Slam writers have been: Tom Scharpling Darrylle T. Coston Bethlehem Shoals Davy Rothbart Zack Burgess Tonya Pendleton
718_4	Magazine features "Trash Talk": readers give their love to Slam or share some beef they had with the last magazine, and selected letters are put in this section. "SLAMADAMONTH": a short article describing a slam dunk accompanied by a photograph of the play. This feature usually features a dunk performed by an NBA player, but has featured college players in the past. The first SLAMADAMONTH (Spring 1994 issue) featured Chris Webber dunking on Charles Barkley. "NOYZ": a series of one-line jokes commenting on recent basketball events, written anonymously. The first NOYZ column appeared in the March 1995 issue. "In Your Face": "Last Shot": a former back-page column documenting a game-winning shot during a game. This feature was discontinued after the January 2000 issue. "SLAM Magazine's top 75 NBA players of all time"—released in 2003. "SLAM Magazine Old School"—Released in 2005.
718_5	"What's My Name?": SLAM fans make nicknames for NBA players and if they win they get a prize from the slam vault. "The SLAM high school diary": In 1994, SLAM began a tradition of choosing a highly talented high school basketball player to keep a monthly diary recording their accomplishments as they moved toward playing college or professional basketball. Only LeBron James and Sebastian Telfair were not in their final ("senior") year of high school when they wrote the diary. The following players have been keepers of the SLAM diary: (current career status in brackets)
718_6	1995 – Stephon Marbury (NBA All-Star) and (CBA Champion) 1996 – Ronnie Fields (CBA Player) 1997 – Edmund Saunders (won an NCAA Championship with UConn in 1999) 1998 – Ray Young (CBA Player) 1999 – Mike Dunleavy, Jr. (NBA Player) 2000 – Andre Barrett (NBA Player) 2001 – Eddy Curry (NBA Player) 2002 – LeBron James (NBA All-Star and NBA Champion) 2003 – Sebastian Telfair (NBA Player) 2004 – Marvin Williams (NBA Player; won an NCAA Championship with UNC in 2005) 2005 – Eric Devendorf (NBL Player) 2006 – Thaddeus Young (NBA Player) 2007 – Kevin Love (NBA All-Star) 2008 – Tyreke Evans (NBA Player) 2009 – Xavier Henry (NBA Player) 2010 – Harrison Barnes (NBA Player) 2011 – Quincy Miller (NBA Player) 2012 – Shabazz Muhammad (NBA Player) 2013 – Andrew and Aaron Harrison (NBA players) 2014 – Tyus Jones (NBA Player) 2015 – Malik Newman (NBA G League player) 2016 – Jayson Tatum (NBA Player) 2017 – Mohamed Bamba (NBA player) 2018 – Zion Williamson (NBA player)
718_7	Trash Talk: Readers' letters to the editor are posted here, with occasional comments by the editor. Rookie Diary – The Rookie Diary is held by a new NBA rookie yearly, as they speak about their first experiences in the league: (rookie season team in brackets) 2002–03 – Drew Gooden (Memphis Grizzlies / Orlando Magic) 2003–04 – Carmelo Anthony (Denver Nuggets) 2004–05 – Andre Iguodala (Philadelphia 76ers) 2005–06 – Ike Diogu (Golden State Warriors) 2006–07 – Kyle Lowry (Memphis Grizzlies) 2007–08 – Joakim Noah (Chicago Bulls) 2008–09 – Eric Gordon (Los Angeles Clippers) 2009–10 – Jonny Flynn (Minnesota Timberwolves) 2010–11 – DeMarcus Cousins (Sacramento Kings) 2011–12 – Derrick Williams (Minnesota Timberwolves) 2012–13 – Bradley Beal (Washington Wizards) 2013–14 – Victor Oladipo (Orlando Magic) 2014–15 – Aaron Gordon (Orlando Magic) 2015–16 – D'Angelo Russell (Los Angeles Lakers)
718_8	SLAM Magazine cover athletes
718_9	Issue #1: Cover—Larry Johnson (May ’94) Issue #2: Cover—Shawn Kemp (October ′94) Issue# 3: Cover—Shaquille O'Neal (January ’95) Issue #4: Cover—John Starks (March ’95) Issue #5: Cover—Tim Hardaway & Latrell Sprewell (May ’95) Issue #6: Cover—Michael Jordan (July ’95) Issue #7: Cover—Grant Hill or Hakeem Olajuwon (September ’95) Issue #8: Cover—Penny Hardaway & Michael Jordan (November ’95) Issue #9: Cover—Allen Iverson or Charles O’Bannon (January ’96) Issue #10: Cover—Scottie Pippen (March ’96) Issue #11: Cover—Jerry Stackhouse or Damon Stoudamire or Magic Johnson (May ’96) Issue #12: Cover—Michael Jordan (July ’96) Issue #13: Cover—Alonzo Mourning (October ’96) Issue #14: Cover—Shawn Kemp (December ’96) Issue #15: Cover—’96–97 Rookie Class (February ’97) Issue #16: Cover—Dennis Rodman (March ’97) Issue #17: Cover—Grant Hill (April ’97) Issue #18: Cover—Allen Iverson (June ’97) Issue #19: Cover—Michael Jordan (August ’97) Issue #20: Cover—Scottie Pippen (September ’97)
718_10	Issue #21: Cover—Kevin Garnett & Stephon Marbury (October ’97) Issue #22: Cover—Rafer Alston (December ’97) Issue #23: Cover—Chris Webber (January ’98) Issue #24: Cover—Kobe Bryant (March ’98) Issue #25: Cover—New Jersey Nets: Cassell, Gill, Kittles, Van Horn, Williams (April ’98) Issue #26: Cover—Gary Payton (June ’98) Issue #27: Cover—Michael Jordan (August ’98) Issue #28: Cover—Michael Jordan (September ’98) Issue #29: Cover—Chamique Holdsclaw (October ’98) Issue #30: Cover—Penny Hardaway (December ’98) Issue #31: Cover—Stephon Marbury (January ’99) Issue #32: Cover—Allen Iverson (March ’99) Issue #33: Cover—Michael Jordan or Reggie Miller (April ’99) Issue #34: Cover—Shaquille O'Neal (June ’99) Issue #35: Cover—Vince Carter or Paul Pierce or Jason Williams (August ’99) Issue #36: Cover—Latrell Sprewell (September ’99) Issue #37: Cover—Lamar Odom (October ’99) Issue #38: Cover—Kevin Garnett (December ’99) Issue #39: Cover—Kobe Bryant or Shareef Abdur-Rahim (January ’00)
718_11	Issue #40: Cover—Chris Webber & Jason Williams (March ’00) Issue #41: Cover—Vince Carter (April ’00) Issue #42: Cover—Allen Iverson or Jason Kidd (May ’00) Issue #43: Cover—Shaquille O'Neal & Kobe Bryant (June ’00) Issue #44: Cover—Steve Francis (August ’00) Issue #45: Cover—Shaquille O'Neal (September ’00) Issue #46: Cover—Tracy McGrady (November ’00) Issue #47: Cover—Tim Duncan (December ’00) Issue #48: Cover—Stephon Marbury (February ’01) Issue #49: Cover—Rasheed Wallace or Jerry Stackhouse (March ’01) Issue #50: Cover—Michael Jordan or Michael or Michael (April ’01) Issue #51: Cover—Vince Carter (May ’01) Issue #52: Cover—Alonzo Mourning (June ’01) Issue #53: Cover—Chris Webber (August ’01) Issue #54: Cover—Shaquille O'Neal (September ’01) Issue #55: Cover—Allen Iverson (November ’01) Issue #56: Cover—Michael Jordan (December ’01) Issue #57: Cover—Los Angeles Clippers: Brand, Odom, Miles (February ’02) Issue #58: Cover—Kevin Garnett (March ’02)
718_12	Issue #59: Cover—Baron Davis or Paul Pierce (April ’02) Issue #60: Cover—New Jersey Nets (May ’02) Issue #61: Cover—Dirk Nowitzki (June ’02) Issue #62: Cover—Sebastian Telfair & LeBron James (August ’02) Issue #63: Cover—Shaquille O'Neal (September '02) Issue #64: Cover—Tracy McGrady (November ’02) Issue #65: Cover—’02-03 Rookie Class (December ’02) Issue #66: Cover—Kobe Bryant (February ’03) Issue #67: Cover—Gary Payton (March ’03) Issue #68: Cover—Allen Iverson (April ’03) Issue #69: Cover—Yao Ming & Steve Francis (May ’03) Issue #70: Cover—Jason Kidd or Chris Webber (June ’03) Issue #71: Cover—LeBron James (August ’03) Issue #72: Cover—Tim Duncan (September ’03) Issue #73: Cover—Carmelo Anthony (November ’03) Issue #74: Cover—Kobe Bryant (December '03) Issue #75: Cover—Phoenix Suns or Detroit Pistons (February ’04) Issue #76: Cover—Jermaine O'Neal or Karl Malone (March ’04) Issue #77: Cover—Kevin Garnett or Allen Iverson or Shaquille O'Neal (April ’04)
718_13	Issue #78: Cover—LeBron James (May ’04) Issue #79: Cover—Kenyon (June ’04) Issue #80: Cover—Class of 2004 High School Stars (August ’04) Issue #81: Cover—Chauncey Billups (September ’04) Issue #82: Cover—Shaquille O'Neal (November ’04) Issue #83: Cover—Tracy McGrady or Steve Francis (December ’04) Issue #84: Cover—Allen Iverson (February ’05) Issue #85: Cover—Amare Stoudamire (March ’05) Issue #86: Cover—LeBron James (April ’05) Issue #87: Cover—Dwyane Wade or Ray Allen (May ’05) Issue #88: Cover—Vince Carter (June ’05) Issue #89: Cover—San Antonio Spurs or Ben Wallace (July ’05) Issue #90: Cover—Ron Artest (August ’05) Issue #91: Cover—Tim Duncan, Manu Ginóbili and Robert Horry (September ’05) Issue #92: Cover—Steve Nash (November ’05) Issue #93: Cover—LeBron James (December ’05) Issue #94: Cover—Shaquille O'Neal & Dwyane Wade (February ’06) Issue #95: Cover—Sebastian Telfair or Dwight Howard (March ’06) Issue #96: Cover—Allen Iverson (April ’06)
718_14	Issue #97: Cover—Kobe Bryant (May ’06) Issue #98: Cover—Chauncey Billups or Dirk Nowitzki (June ’06) Issue #99: Cover—Greg Oden (July ’06) Issue #100: Cover—Michael Jordan (August ’06) Issue #101: Cover—Dwyane Wade (September ’06) Issue #102: Cover—Gilbert Arenas or Chris Paul (November ’06) Issue #103: Cover—Ben Wallace or Amare Stoudamire (December ’06) Issue #104: Cover—Vince Carter or Chris Bosh (February ’07) Issue #105: Cover—Carmelo Anthony (March ’07) Issue #106: Cover—LeBron James (April ’07) Issue #107: Cover—Allen Iverson (May ’07) Issue #108: Cover—Phoenix Suns (June ’07) Issue #109: Cover—Dirk Nowitzki or Shaquille O'Neal (July ’07) Issue #110: Cover—Greg Oden & Kevin Durant (August ’07) Issue #111: Cover—San Antonio Spurs (September ’07) Issue #112: Cover—OJ Mayo (November ’07) Issue #113: Cover—Kevin Garnett (December ’07) Issue #114: Cover—Kobe Bryant (February ’08) Issue #115: Cover—Carmelo Anthony & Allen Iverson (March ’08)
718_15	Issue #116: Cover—Three LeBrons (April ’08) Issue #117: Cover—Michael Beasley or Eric Gordon or Derrick Rose (May ’08) Issue #118: Cover—Dwight Howard (June ’08) Issue #119: Cover—Boston Celtics (July ’08) Issue #120: Cover—Chris Paul (August ’08) Issue #121: Cover—Paul Pierce (September ’08) Issue #122: Cover—Michael Beasley, Derrick Rose, and OJ Mayo (November ’08) Issue #123: Cover—Kobe Bryant or Greg Oden or LeBron James or Dwyane Wade or Kevin Garnett (December ’08) Issue #124: Cover—Deron Williams or Chris Paul (February 2009) Issue #125: Cover—Allen Iverson (March 2009) Issue #126: Cover—Kobe Bryant (April 2009) Issue #127: Cover—Dwyane Wade (May 2009) Issue #128: Cover—John Wall/Lance Stephenson or Ricky Rubio/Brandon Jennings (June 2009) Issue #129: Cover—LeBron James vs. Kobe Bryant (July 2009) Issue #130: Cover—Michael Jordan (August 2009) Issue #131: Cover—Kobe Bryant (September 2009) Issue #132: Cover—Carmelo Anthony (November 2009)
718_16	Issue #133: Cover—Shaquille O'Neal & LeBron James (15th Anniversary Issue, December 2009) Issue #134: Cover—Dwight Howard or Kevin Garnett or Kevin Durant or The Lakers: Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum (February 2010) Issue #135: Cover—Brandon Jennings (March 2010) Issue #136: Cover—Kobe Bryant (April 2010) Issue #137: Cover—Kentucky Wildcats: John Wall, Patrick Patterson, DeMarcus Cousins, Eric Bledsoe, and Coach John Calipari (May 2010) Issue #138: Cover—Atlanta Hawks: Al Horford, Joe Johnson and Josh or Oklahoma City Thunder: Jeff Green, Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook (June 2010) Issue #139: Cover—Michael Jordan (July 2010) Issue #140: Cover—LeBron James or Dwyane Wade (August 2010) Issue #141: Cover—Kobe Bryant (September 2010) Issue #142: Cover—LeBron James or Dwight Howard (November 2010) Issue #143: Cover—Derrick Rose (December 2010) Issue #144: Cover—John Wall (February 2011) Issue #145: Cover—Chris Paul or Rajon Rondo (March 2011)
718_17	Issue #146: Cover—Kobe Bryant (April 2011) Issue #147: Cover—Blake Griffin or Amar’e Stoudemire (May 2011) Issue #148: Cover—Miami Heat: LeBron James and Dwyane Wade or Carmelo Anthony or Derrick Rose or Los Angeles Lakers: Kobe Bryant and Lamar Odom (June 2011) Issue #149: Cover—Anthony Davis, Michael Gilchrist, and Austin Rivers (July 2011) Issue #150: Cover—Allen Iverson (August 2011) Issue #151: Cover—Dirk Nowitzki (September 2011) Issue #152: Cover—Derrick Rose (November 2011) Issue #153: Cover—North Carolina Tar Heels: Harrison Barnes, Kendall Marshall, John Henson, Tyler Zeller, and Dexter Strickland (December 2011) Issue #154: Cover—A basketball on fire (February 2012) Issue #155: Cover—Kevin Durant (March 2012) Issue #156: Cover—Blake Griffin and Chris Paul (April 2012) Issue #157: Cover—Ricky Rubio and Kevin Love or Jeremy Lin (May 2012) Issue #158: Cover—LeBron James & Dwyane Wade or Derrick Rose or Kevin Durant or Kobe Bryant (June 2012)
718_18	Issue #159: Cover—LeBron James (July 2012) Issue #160: Cover—Anthony Davis (August 2012) Issue #161: Cover—LeBron James (September 2012) Issue #162: Cover—Carmelo Anthony (November 2012) Issue #163: Cover—Dwight Howard (December 2012) Issue #164: Cover—Dwyane Wade (February 2013) Issue #165: Cover—Memphis Grizzlies: Marc Gasol, Rudy Gay, Zach Randolph, Tony Allen, and Mike Conley, Jr. (March 2013) Issue #166: Cover—Blake Griffin or Russell Westbrook (April 2013) Issue #167: Cover—Jabari Parker & Andrew Wiggins (May 2013) Issue #168: Cover—LeBron James (June 2013) Issue #169: Cover—Kyrie Irving (July 2013) Issue #170: Cover—LeBron James or Kobe Bryant or Michael Jordan (August 2013) Issue #171: Cover—LeBron James (September 2013) Issue #172: Cover—Derrick Rose(November 2013) Issue #173: Cover—Stephen Curry (December 2013) Issue #174: Cover—Paul George (February 2014) Issue #175: Cover—Kobe Bryant (March 2014) Issue #176: Cover—Damian Lillard (April 2014)
718_19	Issue #177: Cover—Jabari Parker or Joel Embiid (May 2014) Issue #178: Cover—Kevin Durant (June 2014) Issue #179: Cover—LeBron James (July 2014) Issue #180: Cover—Vince Carter (August 2014) Issue #181: Cover—Kawhi Leonard or Anthony Davis (September 2014) Issue #182: Cover—'14-15 Rookie Class (November 2014) Issue #183: Cover—LeBron James (December 2014) Issue #184: Cover—John Wall (February 2015) Issue #185: Cover—Kyrie Irving (March 2015) Issue #186: Cover—Stephen Curry or Damian Lillard (April 2015) Issue #187: Cover—Kentucky Wildcats Men's Basketball Team (May 2015) Issue #188: Cover—Houston Rockets: James Harden or Golden State Warriors: Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson or Atlanta Hawks: Jeff Teague (June 2015) Issue #189: Cover—Andrew Wiggins (July 2015) Issue #190: Cover—Kobe Bryant (August 2015) Issue #191: Cover—Stephen Curry (September 2015) Issue #192: Cover—LeBron James (November 2015) Issue #193: Cover—Stephen Curry (December 2015)
718_20	Issue #194: Cover—James Harden (February 2016) Issue #195: Cover—DeMarcus Cousins or Kristaps Porziņģis (March 2016) Issue #196: Cover—Russell Westbrook (April 2016) Issue #197: Cover—Kawhi Leonard or Jimmy Butler (May 2016) Issue #198: Cover—Kyle Lowry, DeMar DeRozan and Drake (June 2016) Issue #199: Cover—Ben Simmons (July 2016) Issue #200: Cover—Michael Jordan or Allen Iverson (August 2016) Issue #201: Cover—LeBron James (September 2016) Issue #202: Cover—Karl-Anthony Towns (November 2016) Issue #203: Cover—Kevin Durant & Stephen Curry (December 2016) Issue #204: Cover—Steven Adams, Russell Westbrook and Victor Oladipo (February 2017) Issue #205: Cover—Damian Lillard (March 2017) Issue #206: Cover—Kyrie Irving (April 2017) Issue #207: Cover—Joel Embiid (May 2017) Issue #208: Cover—Isaiah Thomas (June 2017) Issue #209: Cover—LeBron James or Stephen Curry (July 2017) Issue #210: Cover—Zion Williamson (August 2017)
718_21	Issue #211: Cover—Lonzo, LiAngelo & LaMelo Ball or Stephen Curry & Kevin Durant (September 2017) Issue #212: Cover—Markelle Fultz, Lonzo Ball, Josh Jackson, Dennis Jr., Jayson Tatum & De'Aaron Fox or Michael Porter Jr. or Marvin Bagley III (November/December 2017) Issue #213: Cover—Draymond Green or Devin Booker or CJ McCollum (January/February 2018) Issue #214: Cover—Anthony Davis & DeMarcus Cousins or Trae Young (March/April 2018) Issue #215: Cover—Donovan Mitchell or Klay Thompson or DeMar DeRozan (May/June 2018) Issue #216: Cover—Deandre Ayton or Luka Dončić or Ben Simmons (July/August 2018) Issue #217: Cover—Maya Moore or Cole Anthony or Andre Iguodala, Klay Thompson, Stephen Curry, Draymond Green & Kevin Durant (September/October 2018) Issue #218: Cover—Jayson Tatum or RJ Barrett (November/December 2018) Issue #219: Cover—Stephen Curry (January/February 2019) Issue #220: Cover—LeBron James or Kemba Walker (March/April 2019)
718_22	Issue #221: Cover—Dwyane Wade or D'Angelo Russell or Kobe Bryant (May/June 2019) Issue #222: Cover—Zion Williamson or Ja Morant or LaMelo Ball (July/August 2019) Issue #223: Cover: Kawhi Leonard or A’Ja Wilson & Liz Cambage or Lou Williams (September/October 2019) Issue #224: Cover: Zion Williamson, Jrue Holiday, Brandon Ingram & Lonzo Ball or Karl-Anthony Towns, Devin Booker & D'Angelo Russell (November/December 2019) Issue #225: Cover: Bam Adebayo, Jimmy Butler & Tyler Herro or Trae Young or Jalen Green, Sharife Cooper & Josh Christopher (January/February 2020) Issue #226: Cover: Paige Bueckers or Lou Williams, Montrezl Harrell & Patrick Beverley or Jayson Tatum, Kemba Walker, Marcus Smart, Jaylen Brown & Gordon Hayward (March/April 2020) Issue #227: Cover: Ja Morant or Marc Gasol, Kyle Lowry, Serge Ibaka, Og, Anunoby, Pascal Siakam, Fred VanVleet & Norman Powell (May/June 2020)
718_23	Issue #228: Cover: Zion Williamson or Sue Bird or LeBron James, James Harden, Kawhi Leonard, Jayson Tatum, Joel Embiid, Giannis Antetokounmpo & Luka Dončić (September/October 2020) Issue #229: Cover: LeBron James & Anthony Davis or Chris Paul or Breanna Stewart (November/December 2020) Issue #230: Cover: Jamal Murray or Luka Dončić (February/March 2021) Issue #231: Cover: Jalen Green, Emoni Bates or Sabrina Ionescu (April/May 2021) Issue #232: Cover: Julius Randle & RJ Barrett, J. Cole or Skylar Diggins-Smith & Nneka Ogwumike & Sue Bird & Diana Taurasi (June/July 2021)
718_24	Most cover appearances As of SLAM 228: LeBron James (26) Kobe Bryant (22) Allen Iverson (14) Michael Jordan (13) Shaquille O'Neal (11) Most NBA team cover appearance As of SLAM 228: Los Angeles Lakers (36) Chicago Bulls (24) Miami Heat (22) Cleveland Cavaliers (16) Philadelphia 76ers (16) Golden State Warriors (15) Global editions SLAM China SLAM Magazine Philippines (launched in July 2011) References External links SLAM Online Sports magazines published in the United States Ten times annually magazines Basketball magazines Magazines established in 1994 Magazines published in New York City
719_0	New Zealand competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's twenty-third appearance as an independent nation at the Summer Olympics, having made its debut at the 1920 Games and competed at every Games since. The New Zealand team consisted of 199 athletes, 100 women and 99 men, across twenty sports, the first time New Zealand was represented by more women than men at the Summer Olympics.
719_1	The New Zealand team collected a total of 18 medals, four gold, nine silver and five bronze, at these Games, surpassing a record of 13 gained at both the 1988 and 2012 Summer Olympics; it also exceeded High Performance Sport New Zealand's (HPSNZ) target of 14 medals for the Games. Athletics (track and field) and sailing led the sports with four medals each, with three medals in each of canoeing and rowing, and one medal in each of cycling, golf, rugby sevens and shooting. Rowers Mahé Drysdale, Hamish Bond and Eric Murray, and sprint canoeist Lisa Carrington successfully defended their Olympic titles, while sailors Peter Burling and Blair Tuke ran away in the 49er class standings and secured their gold-medal victory before the final two races. New Zealand women won the majority of the medals (11), the second time this has happened in the nation's Olympic history (the first was in 1952).
719_2	Medal tables Unless otherwise stated, all dates and times are in Brasília time (UTC−3), fifteen hours behind New Zealand Standard Time (UTC+12). \| width="78%" align="left" valign="top" \| Golfer Lydia Ko (b. 24 April 1997), pole vaulter Eliza McCartney (b. 11 December 1996) and rugby sevens player Terina Te Tamaki (b. 1 May 1997) became the first teenaged women to win an Olympic medal for New Zealand, beating the previous record set by 21-year old Jean Stewart at the 1952 Summer Olympics. In addition, Nikki Hamblin was awarded a Fair Play award by the International Fair Play Committee for her actions in her 5,000m heat. \|style="text-align:left;width:22%;vertical-align:top;"\|
719_3	Delegation The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) confirmed a team of 199 athletes, 99 men and 100 women, to compete in twenty sports. It is the largest delegation New Zealand has sent to the Olympics, surpassing the 184 athletes who were sent to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The nation participated in four more sports than 2012: while not qualifying any competitors in boxing, New Zealand qualified competitors in golf and rugby sevens (both new to the 2016 Games), diving, gymnastics and wrestling. Also missing from the 2016 team is the men's football squad, having been disqualified after fielding an ineligible player in the Olympic qualifying tournament. Rowing had the largest delegation with 36 competitors; diving, judo, taekwondo and wrestling had the smallest delegations with only one competitor each.
719_4	For individual sports, the NZOC's overarching selection policy meant it would only consider selecting athletes that were proven capable of making the top 16. For team sports, the NZOC would only consider selecting teams proven capable of advancing beyond the first round. Seventeen-year-old gymnast Courtney McGregor is New Zealand's youngest competitor, while 62-year-old equestrian dressage rider Julie Brougham is the oldest competitor. Forty-one competitors (20.5 percent) are of Māori descent, including 17 of the 24 rugby sevens players.
719_5	A number of past Olympic medallists returned, including defending champions: Valerie Adams (women's shot put), sailors Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie (women's 470 class), flatwater canoeist Lisa Carrington (women's K-1 200m), and rowers Mahé Drysdale (men's single sculls), and Hamish Bond and Eric Murray (men's pair). Sailors Peter Burling and Blair Tuke, who won silver in 2012, were selected as co-captains of the New Zealand team, with Burling acting as flagbearer for the opening ceremony. \| width=78% align=left valign=top \| The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games by sport and gender. Note that unused reserves in field hockey, football, and rugby sevens are not counted as competitors: Officials In December 2012, Rob Waddell was appointed New Zealand's chef de mission for the 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2016 Summer Olympics.
719_6	Funding High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) invested NZ$158.6 million in elite-level Olympic sports and athletes over the 2013–16 funding cycle, of which $104.0 million was core funding to national sports organisations, while the remaining $54.5 million was mainly in the form of grants and tertiary scholarships to individual athletes. These totals includes funding for non-Olympic and Paralympic events such as world championships and the Commonwealth Games. Funding breakdown per sport was as follows: Athletics (track and field) New Zealand athletes achieved both the IAAF and Athletics New Zealand qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event): The NZOC confirmed the first batch of track and field athletes on 22 April 2016, with Beijing 2008 silver medallist Nick Willis, javelin thrower Stuart Farquhar and two-time shot put champion Valerie Adams going to their fourth Olympics. Track & road events Men Women
719_7	Field events Canoeing Slalom New Zealand canoeists qualified a maximum of one boat in each of the following classes through the 2015 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships. The NZOC named the slalom canoeing squad on 15 April 2016. Sprint New Zealand canoeists qualified one boat in each of the following events through the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and the 2016 Oceania Championships. Six paddlers on the sprint canoeing team were named on 31 March 2016, including defending Olympic K-1 200-metre champion Lisa Carrington. Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal) Cycling Road New Zealand riders qualified for the following quota places in the men's and women's Olympic road race by virtue of their best national ranking in the 2015 UCI Oceania Tour (for men), and top 22 in the 2016 UCI World Ranking (for women).
719_8	Track Following the completion of the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, New Zealand riders accumulated spots in both men's and women's team pursuit, and men's and women's team sprint, as well as both the men's and women's omnium. As a result of their place in the men's and women's team sprint, New Zealand was assured of its right to enter two riders in both men's and women's sprint and men's and women's keirin. The NZOC confirmed the first four cyclists on 7 April 2016. Sprint Team sprint Qualification legend: FA=Gold medal final; FB=Bronze medal final Pursuit Keirin Omnium
719_9	Mountain biking New Zealand qualified one mountain biker for the men's Olympic cross-country race, as a result of his nation's seventeenth-place finish in the UCI Olympic Ranking List of 25 May 2016. One additional spot was awarded to the female mountain biker, who won the cross-country race for New Zealand at the 2015 Oceania Championships. With Olympic selection criteria requiring riders to show top eight potential, the NZOC decided to only nominate one mountain biker to the Olympic roster, who was Sam Gaze for the men's cross-country event. BMX New Zealand riders qualified for one men's quota place in BMX at the Olympics, as a result of the nation's eleventh-place finish in the UCI Olympic Ranking List of 31 May 2016. BMX rider and rookie Trent Jones was selected to the NZ Olympic roster on 10 June 2016. Diving
719_10	New Zealand has received an invitation from FINA to send a diver competing in the women's individual springboard to the Olympics, based on her results at the 2016 FINA World Cup series. Equestrian New Zealand equestrians qualified a full squad in the team eventing competition through the 2015 Asia and Pacific Eventing Championships in Boekelo, Netherlands. One dressage rider was later added to the squad by virtue of a top finish from Asia & Oceania in the individual FEI Olympic rankings. New Zealand's equestrian team was named on 27 June 2016. Jock Paget withdrew on 5 August 2016 after his horse, Clifton Lush, cut its cheek at the Rio stable and did not recover in time for the event. Reserve Tim Price and his horse Ringwood Sky Boy subsequently replaced Paget in the individual and team eventing. Dressage Eventing "#" indicates that the score of this rider does not count in the team competition, since only the best three results of a team are counted. Field hockey Summary
719_11	Men's tournament The New Zealand men's field hockey team qualified for the Olympics by having achieved the next highest placement in the 2014–15 Men's FIH Hockey World League Semifinals, among the countries that had not qualified yet for the Games. Team roster Group play Quarterfinal Women's tournament The New Zealand women's field hockey team qualified for the Olympics by having achieved a top four finish at the second stop of the 2014–15 Women's FIH Hockey World League Semifinals. Only three nations qualified through this route, but South Korea had already secured qualification as continental champions and Brazil failed to meet IOC and FIH criteria to qualify as host nation, opening places up for the fourth-placed teams. Team roster Group play Quarterfinal Semifinal Bronze medal match Football Women's tournament
719_12	The New Zealand women's football team qualified for the Olympics by winning the 2016 OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, after Papua New Guinea withdrew from the second leg in Auckland. Team roster Group play Golf New Zealand entered three golfers (two males and one female) into the Olympic tournament. Danny Lee (world no. 40), Ryan Fox (world no. 184) and Korean-born Lydia Ko (world no. 1) qualified directly among the top 60 eligible players for their respective individual events based on the IGF World Rankings as of 11 July 2016. Cathryn Bristow (world no. 443) also qualified but was not selected. Gymnastics The NZOC confirmed three gymnasts to compete on 11 May 2016, marking the first time that New Zealand gymnasts have competed at the Olympics since 2000, and New Zealand's largest gymnastics team since 1964.
719_13	Artistic Russian-born Mikhail Koudinov and Christchurch's Courtney McGregor claimed their Olympic spots each in the men's and women's apparatus and all-around events, respectively, at the Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro. Men Women Trampoline For the first time in Olympic history, New Zealand qualified one gymnast in the men's trampoline by virtue of a top six finish at the 2016 Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro. Judo New Zealand qualified one judoka for the women's lightweight category (57 kg) at the Games. Darcina Manuel earned a continental quota spot from the Oceania region as New Zealand's top-ranked judoka outside of direct qualifying position in the IJF World Ranking List of 30 May 2016. She was confirmed by the NZOC on 17 June 2016. Rowing
719_14	New Zealand qualified ten out of a possible fourteen boats for each of the rowing classes listed below. The majority of the rowing crews confirmed Olympic places for their boats at the 2015 FISA World Championships in Lac d'Aiguebelette, France, while a women's single sculls rower had added one more boat to the New Zealand roster as a result of a top three finish at the 2016 European & Final Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland. The crews had to have also competed at the NZ Rowing Championships, held in Lake Karapiro, to assure their selection to the Olympic team for the Games. The rowing team was named on 4 March 2016, featuring 2012 Olympic champions Mahé Drysdale in men's single sculls and Hamish Bond and Eric Murray in the men's pair. On 1 July 2016, the Russian men's quadruple sculls boat was disqualified due to a doping violation, resulting in New Zealand gaining the men's quadruple sculls slot as the next-best non-qualifier.
719_15	For the first time in Olympic history, New Zealand rowers participated in the men's lightweight four and the women's eight. Men Women Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage Rugby sevens Men's tournament The New Zealand men's rugby sevens team qualified for the Olympics by having achieved one of the top four places at the 2014–15 Sevens World Series. Teddy Stanaway withdrew due to injury, he was replaced by Lewis Ormond. The travelling reserves were Liam Messam and Sione Molia. The New Zealand team lost its tournament opening game against Japan; this was the country's first loss against Japan in any rugby discipline. Sonny Bill Williams received an injury in that match and missed the rest of the tournament, being replaced by Molia. Team roster Group play

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