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Forest Hills Central High School
Forest Hills Central High School is located in Ada Township, Michigan, near Grand Rapids. It is one of three high schools in the Forest Hills Public Schools system. The district also includes Forest Hills Eastern High School and Forest Hills Northern High School. History Forest Hills Central High School (originally "Forest Hills High School") became the first high school of the newly formed Forest Hills School District in the fall of 1958. The doors opened in September with only freshman and sophomore students. The first graduating class was 1961. The school was memorable for its campus style construction consisting eventually of thirteen separate buildings, including an auditorium added in 1977. The classroom buildings were long hallways, which connected five or six individual rooms. Michigan winters were not amenable to the open campus and the constant walks outside from building to building. In addition, the student population continued to grow, and the buildings began to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids is the largest city and county seat of Kent County, Michigan, United States. With a population of 198,917 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census and estimated at 200,117 in 2024, Grand Rapids is the List of municipalities in Michigan, second-most populous city in Michigan. The Grand Rapids metropolitan area has a population of 1.16 million and a combined statistical area population of 1.5 million. Grand Rapids is situated along the Grand River (Michigan), Grand River approximately east of Lake Michigan and is the economic and cultural hub of West Michigan. A historic furniture manufacturing center, Grand Rapids is home to five of the world's leading office furniture companies and is nicknamed "Furniture City". As a result of the numerous micro and craft breweries, many with notable reputations nationally such as Founders and New Holland which are known globally, Grand Rapids is also known as "Beer City USA". Due to the prominence of the Grand River, many l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meteorologist
A meteorologist is a scientist who studies and works in the field of meteorology aiming to understand or predict Earth's atmosphere of Earth, atmospheric phenomena including the weather. Those who study meteorological phenomena are meteorologists in research, while those using mathematical models and knowledge to prepare daily weather forecasts are called ''weather forecasters'' or ''operational meteorologists''. Meteorologists work in Government agency, government agencies, private consulting and research services, industrial enterprises, utilities, radio and television stations, and in education. They are not to be confused with weather presenters, who present the weather forecast in the media and range in training from journalists having just minimal training in meteorology to full-fledged meteorologists. Description Meteorologists study the Earth's atmosphere and its interactions with the Earth's surface, the oceans and the biosphere. Their knowledge of applied mathematics and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Web Archive
The WARC (Web ARChive) archive format specifies a method for combining multiple digital resources into an aggregate archive file together with related information. These combined resources are saved as a WARC computer file, file which can be replayed using appropriate software such as Webrecorder#ReplayWeb.page, ReplayWeb.page, or used by archive websites such as the Wayback Machine. The WARC format is a revision of the Internet Archive's Heritrix#Arc_files, ARC_IA File Format that has traditionally been used to store "Web crawler, web crawls" as sequences of content blocks harvested from the World Wide Web. The WARC format generalizes the older format to better support the harvesting, access, and exchange needs of archiving organizations. Besides the primary content currently recorded, the revision accommodates related secondary content, such as assigned metadata, abbreviated duplicate detection events (see §7.6 "revisit"), and later-date transformations. The WARC format is ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Grand Rapids High School
East Grand Rapids High School is a public secondary school located in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. It serves grades 9–12 for the East Grand Rapids Public Schools. Athletics The EGRHS Pioneers compete in the Ottawa-Kent Conference. School colors are blue and gold. The following Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) sanctioned sports are offered: *Baseball (boys) **State champion – 2009 *Basketball (girls and boys) **Boys state champion – 1950 *Bowling (girls and boys) *Cross country (girls and boys) **Girls state champion – 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2018, 2019 *Debate **State Champion – 1997 *Football (boys) **State champion – 1976, 1983, 1993, 1995, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 *Golf (girls and boys) **Boys state champion – 1939 (tie), 1950, 1951, 2005 **Girls state champion - 1979, 1999 *Ice hockey (boys) *Lacrosse (girls and boys) **Boys state champion – 2007, 2008, 2009, 2017, 2018, 2021 **Girls state champi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Pie (film)
''American Pie'' is a 1999 American coming-of-age teen sex comedy film directed and co-produced by Paul Weitz and written by Adam Herz. The film's main ensemble cast includes Jason Biggs, Chris Klein, Alyson Hannigan, Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Tara Reid, Mena Suvari, Eddie Kaye Thomas, and Seann William Scott, with Eugene Levy, Shannon Elizabeth, Chris Owen, and Jennifer Coolidge in notable supporting roles. The story follows a group of high school classmates who make a pact to lose their virginity before they graduate. After the success of Wes Craven's horror teen film '' Scream'' (1996), Herz began developing the script for ''American Pie'', originally titled ''Untitled Teenage Sex Comedy That Can Be Made For Under $10 Million That Most Readers Will Probably Hate But I Think You Will Love''. A bidding war between major film studios ensued, and Universal Pictures won the film's rights in 1998. First-time directors Chris and Paul Weitz were attached as dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ann Arbor News
''The Ann Arbor News'' is a newspaper serving Washtenaw and Livingston counties in Michigan. Published daily online through MLive.com, the paper also publishes print editions on Thursdays and Sundays. History Original publication Published in Ann Arbor under various names from 1835 to 2009, ''The News'' was part of Booth Newspapers, owned after 1976 by Advance Publications. ''The News'' was published in the afternoons Monday through Friday and in the mornings on weekends and holidays. It published special sections throughout the year. The newspaper ended its 174-year print run on July 23, 2009. The publisher blamed the loss of classified advertising revenue (which moved to Craigslist), and noted "the seven-day-a-week print model just is not sustainable here. We have very low home ownership. The population is transient and young. Those demographics have worked against us." Website ''The Ann Arbor News'' was replaced by a website, AnnArbor.com, which carried daily news stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Barbara (TV Series)
''Santa Barbara'' is an American television soap opera that aired on NBC from July 30, 1984, to January 15, 1993. The show revolves around the eventful lives of the wealthy Capwell family of Santa Barbara, California. Other prominent families featured on the soap were the rival Lockridge family, and the more modest Andrade and Perkins families. The serial was produced by Dobson Productions and New World Television, which also served as distributor for the show in international markets. ''Santa Barbara'' was the first series for New World Television. ''Santa Barbara'' aired in the United States at 3:00 PM Eastern (2:00 PM Central) on NBC in the same time slot as ''General Hospital'' on ABC and ''Guiding Light'' on CBS and right after '' Another World''. ''Santa Barbara'' aired in over 40 countries around the world. It became the longest-running television series in Russia, airing there from 1992 to 2002. ''Santa Barbara'' won 24 Daytime Emmy Awards and was nominated 30 time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guiding Light
''Guiding Light'' (known as ''The Guiding Light'' before 1975) is an American radio and television soap opera. ''Guiding Light'' aired on CBS for 57 years between June 30, 1952, and September 18, 2009, overlapping a 19-year broadcast on radio between January 25, 1937, and June 29, 1956. With 72 years of radio and television runs, ''Guiding Light'' is the longest-running American soap opera, ahead of ''General Hospital''. When the show debuted on radio in 1937, it centered on Reverend John Ruthledge and people whose lives revolved around him. The "Guiding Light" in the show's title originally referred to the lamp in Ruthledge's study that people used as a sign for them to find his help when needed. When the show transitioned to television in the 1950s, the Bauers, a German immigrant family first introduced in 1948, became the focus of the program. Other core families were introduced over the show's run, including the Norrises in the 1960s; the Marlers and the Spauldings in the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Zimmer
Kimberly Jo Zimmer (born February 2, 1955) is an American actress, best known for her role as Reva Shayne on the CBS soap opera ''Guiding Light''. For this portrayal, she has won four Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Career Zimmer's career began with stage work; an early television role was her portrayal of the character of Bonnie Harmer on ''One Life to Live'' in 1978. In 1979, she was tapped to replace Kathleen Turner as Nola Dancy Aldrich on '' The Doctors''. (She later appeared opposite Turner in the 1981 film ''Body Heat'' in a plot that addressed similarities in their appearance.) For much of her stint, she was the show's leading lady, but left the show in July 1982 on a maternity leave, escorted off the show by her real life husband, A.C. Weary, who played Nola's newest conquest. She would return one last time later in the year for the funeral of her former mother-in-law, Mona Croft. She had a brief return to ''One Life to Live'' from F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wisconsin Supreme Court
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is the Supreme court, highest and final court of appeals in the state judicial system of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In addition to hearing appeals of lower Wisconsin court decisions, the Wisconsin Supreme Court also has the option to take original jurisdiction of cases, and serves as a regulator and administrator of judicial conduct and the practice of law in Wisconsin. Justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court are elected. The two most recent elections (2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court election, 2023 and 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election, 2025) received national attention. They both broke records for the most expensive judicial elections in U.S. history. Location The Wisconsin Supreme Court normally sits in its main hearing room in the East Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin. Since 1993, the court has also traveled, once or twice a year, to another part of the state to hear several cases as part of its "Justice on Whee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Ziegler
Annette Kingsland Ziegler (born March 6, 1964) is an American jurist serving since 2007 as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. She is generally regarded as part of its conservative wing. Ziegler served as the chief justice from 2021 to 2025. From 1997 to 2007, she served as a Wisconsin circuit court judge in Washington County. Early life and education Ziegler was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Joyce and Rex R. Kingsland, and graduated from Grand Rapids's Forest Hills Central High School in 1982. She received a bachelor's degree in business administration and psychology from Hope College in 1986, and a Juris Doctor from Marquette University Law School in 1989. While in law school she was a staff editor of the Marquette Law Review, as well as a recipient of the Dean's Award. Early career After graduating from law school, Ziegler was admitted to the State Bar of Wisconsin in 1989. Before serving in the judiciary, she worked as a federal prosecutor, an assistant United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretchen Whitmer
Gretchen Esther Whitmer (; born August 23, 1971) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 49th governor of Michigan since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, she served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2001 to 2006 and in the Michigan Senate from 2006 to 2015. Whitmer was born and raised in Michigan. She graduated from Michigan State University with a bachelor's degree in communication in 1993 and a Juris Doctor degree in 1998. Her political career began in 2000 when she was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives. In 2006, she won a special election to the state senate, serving in that chamber until 2015, and became its first female Democratic leader from 2011 to 2015. In 2013, Whitmer gained national attention for a floor speech during a debate on abortion in which she shared her experience of being sexually assaulted. For six months in 2016, she was the prosecutor for Ingham County. Whitmer was elected gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
