title: Lowestoft

text: Several other employers have shed labour in recent years. The Sanyo plant in the town closed down in 2009 with a loss of 60 jobs, having once employed 800. The timber company Jeld-Wen closed its factory in the town in 2010.


title: Lowestoft

text: From the mid-1960s to the late 1990s, the oil and gas industry provided significant employment in the area. For many years the Shell Southern Operations base on the north shore of Lowestoft Harbour was town's largest employer. A decision to close the Shell base was finally made in 2003. Oil and gas is still a major industry.


title: Lowestoft

text: The town has made efforts to develop as a centre for renewable energy in the east of England. The non-profit Orbis Energy centre has been set up to draw business in the green-energy sector and features solar thermal heating. In April 2009, Associated British Ports announced that the harbour is to become the operations centre for the 500 MW Greater Gabbard wind farm, which when completed will be the world's largest offshore windfarm. The turbines will be located off the Suffolk coast and the Outer Harbour will be used to house the necessary operational support facilities. Other developments in the renewable energy sector include a prototype tidal energy generator being produced by local company 4NRG and wave power systems developed by Trident Energy.


title: Lowestoft

text: Rainbow Saver Anglia Credit Union, a savings and loans co-operative established in 1999 and operating throughout East Anglia, is based in the town. Hoseasons (now part of Awaze), a specialist in self-catering UK holidays, is also a large employment provider.


title: Lowestoft

text: The town centre is the main shopping area in Waveney district. The retail chain Marks & Spencer has a store. Chadds independent department store was founded in 1907, and after nearly 100 years trading in the High Street, was taken over in 2004 by the Great Yarmouth-based Palmers group. Specialist shopping areas, branded as The Historic High Street and the Triangle Market Place, have been developed on the northern edge of the centre. Several retail parks have appeared, the largest being North Quay Retail Park in Peto Way.


title: Lowestoft

text: Lowestoft is a traditional seaside resort, first developed as a bathing site in the 1760s. The coast has been called the "Sunrise Coast". The town's main beaches are south of the harbour, where two piers, the Claremont and South piers, provide tourist facilities, and the East Point Pavilion the tourist information service. The beach south of the Claremont Pier is a Blue Flag beach. Lifeguard facilities are provided during the summer and water sports take place along the coast. Tourism is a significant aspect of the town's economy.


title: Lowestoft

text: The town features two major attractions, the first being Pleasurewood Hills Theme Park, situated on the northern edge of the town, while the second is the Africa Alive! wildlife park, situated in the south at Kessingland. The town maintains a holiday park at Pakefield, operated by Pontins, and a small caravan site near its northern beach. The natural attractions of the Broads and the River Waveney on the west edge of the town, also attract visitors and been the site for boat trips and water sports events, with companies such as Hoseasons operating hire boats from Oulton Broad.


title: Lowestoft

text: Between 1996 and 2012, the town hosted a major air show during the summer, dubbed the Lowestoft Airshow. A major attraction, the two-day event took place in August, and featuring a wide range of aircraft including the Red Arrows, a Lancaster bomber, Spitfires and an Avro Vulcan. From 2004, it was run by Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival Ltd, a non-profit company, but suffered financial difficulties. In 2010, the event made a loss of £40,000 and raised concerns over its sustainability, whereupon further financial difficulties coupled with bad weather and low visitor numbers made the 2012 airshow the last before it was discontinued.


title: Lowestoft

text: Near the town centre is Lowestoft Maritime Museum, open from late April to late October, which has exhibits of maritime artefacts, an extensive collection of ship models and medals, marine art, fishing and the fishing industry, activities with the Royal Navy in WWII, and shipwrights' and coopers' tools.


title: Lowestoft

text: Lowestoft is among the more socially deprived areas in Suffolk, with Kirkley the county's most deprived ward, ranking 173rd most deprived in England out of 32,486. The area attracted European Union redevelopment funding. The Waveney Sunrise Scheme invested £14.7 million, funding transport improvements and tourist facilities such as fountains on Royal Plain, as stimulants. Regeneration company 1st East, which focused on the Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth areas, closed in 2011.


title: Lowestoft

text: Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft Enterprise Zone was announced in 2011 and launched in April 2012. The zone, developed by New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership, has six redevelopment sites across Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth. The bid for the zone in 2011 envisaged creating 13,500 jobs by 2036. It involved the Norfolk and Suffolk Energy Alliance and focused on developing the energy sector initially using tax incentives, simplified planning regulations and the provision of improved broadband internet services. The sites in Lowestoft are Mobbs Way, Riverside Road and South Lowestoft Industrial Estate.


title: Lowestoft

text: Associated British Ports, the operator of the Port of Lowestoft, published their Lowestoft Masterplan, which aims to regenerate the harbour and take advantage of renewable energy, including the new Lowestoft Eastern Energy Facility (LEEF) on the former SLP land at the outer harbour amongst other proejcts. The harbour is a focus of redevelopment proposals for Lowestoft through the Lake Lothing and Outer Harbour Area Action Plan, submitted in February 2011. The plan focuses on the redevelopment of brownfield sites in and around the harbour area to create jobs, particularly in the renewable energy and retailing sectors.


title: Lowestoft

text: The town has three theatres: the Marina, the Players (Lowestoft) and The Seagull. The 800-seat Marina, operated as a charitable trust, was restored and refurbished in 2012 and its cinema upgraded to digital in 2013. A small four-screen cinema, the independently owned East Coast Cinema, underwent modest refurbishment in late 2011 to upgrade facilities and allow 3D films to be shown. BBC Radio Suffolk broadcasts to the area from its studios in Ipswich. The local weekly paper is the "Lowestoft Journal", which is part of the Archant group. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has played regularly at the Marina Theatre since 2005.


title: Lowestoft

text: Lowestoft Museum, which holds a collection of Lowestoft Porcelain and artifacts describing the town's history, is in Nicholas Everett Park in Oulton Broad. There are some small museums in Sparrow's Nest Park in the north of the town, including the Lowestoft War Memorial Museum, the Maritime Museum and the Royal Naval Patrol Service Museum. The Heritage Workshop Centre is also located there. The "Mincarlo", the last surviving sidewinder trawler of the Lowestoft fishing fleet, can be visited at Lowestoft Harbour. The East Anglia Transport Museum holds a collection of buses, trams and trolleybuses in Carlton Colville.


title: Lowestoft

text: Lowestoft retains several narrow lanes with steps running steeply seawards, known locally as "scores". They were used by fishermen and smugglers and now feature in an annual charity race. The borough church, dedicated to St Margaret, is a Grade I listed building. In the town centre is Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, a Grade II listed building in the Arts and Crafts style and the most easterly Catholic church in the British Isles.


title: Lowestoft

text: Lowestoft's town-centre library contains a local-history section and a branch of the Suffolk Record Office. Lowestoft Hospital closed in 2016. Services are now provided by the James Paget University Hospital in Gorleston. The main burial grounds for the town are Lowestoft Cemetery and Kirkley Cemetery. The town is twinned with the town of Plaisir in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France to the west of Paris.


title: Lowestoft

text: Ness Point, the most easterly location in the United Kingdom, is located in the town close to a 126-metre wind turbine, known locally as Gulliver. At the time it was completed it was the country's tallest.


title: Lowestoft

text: At the most easterly point is a large compass rose, the "Euroscope", set in the ground to give the direction and distance to various cities in Europe.


title: Lowestoft

text: Belle Vue Park (Sparrows Nest) is the site of the Royal Naval Patrol Service memorial. The central depot for the service was in Lowestoft when it was mobilised in August 1939, on a site known as Sparrow's Nest, adjacent to the memorial. The memorial has the names of the 2,385 members of the service who died in World War II. Prior to this, it was the site of the "North Battery", which stood on the cliff and was constructed in around 1782.It was a four sided bastion set back from the cliff edge, housing four 18-pounder canon, with a guardhouse and magazine to the rear. All traces are now gone, minus two cannons with are now mounted around the memorial.


title: Lowestoft

text: Lowestoft Lighthouse, built in 1874 to the north of the town centre, stands 16 metres high at 37 metres above sea level, with a range of . It was automated in 1975. It is the United Kingdom's most easterly lighthouse.


title: Lowestoft

text: The first two lighthouses in Lowestoft were built in 1609 on the foreshore and candlelit, to warn of the dangerous sandbanks around the coast. These were the first constructed by Trinity House. The Low Light was discontinued in 1706 after sea encroachment, but re-established in 1730 in a form that could be easily moved in response to further changes to the Stamford Channel and shoreline. It was discontinued in August 1923. The High Light tower was rebuilt as the present lighthouse in 1874 with the intention of displaying an electric light, but when opened paraffin oil was used instead; not until 1936 was it electrified. The lighthouse, with two cottages originally for lighthouse keepers, is a Grade II listed building.


title: Lowestoft

text: Lowestoft Lifeboat Station, at the mouth of the outer harbour at the South Pier, is one of Britain's oldest, founded in 1801 and open to visitors throughout the year. The lifeboat is "Patsy Knight", a Shannon class lifeboat which replaced the Tyne class boat "Spirit of Lowestoft" in 2014. A former Lowestoft lifeboat was used during the Dunkirk evacuation of British forces from France in 1940. The South Broads Lifeboat Station, an inland RNLI station, operated at Oulton Broad in 2001–2011.


title: Lowestoft

text: Lowestoft Town Hall stands in the High Street. Various forms of local government have met or been based on this site since its establishment as a Town House and Chapel in 1570. In 1698 a new Town House was built, incorporating a 'corn cross' on the ground floor with the meeting chamber and chapel above. This in turn was replaced by the present building, designed by architect J. L. Clemence in 1857. The building houses the town clock and the curfew bell, which dates from 1644 and is rung each evening at 8 p. m. The building is a Grade II listed building.


title: Lowestoft

text: In 2012, Waveney District Council announced that it planned to leave the town hall and share Suffolk County Council's offices in Riverside Road. This occurred in 2015.


title: Lowestoft

text: Lowestoft railway station, originally Lowestoft Central, is centrally placed within walking distance of the beach and the town centre. It provides services to Ipswich on the East Suffolk Line and to Norwich on the Wherry Line. Both lines were originally part of the Great Eastern Railway and are operated by Greater Anglia. The suburb of Oulton Broad has two stations: Oulton Broad North station lies on the line to Norwich, while Oulton Broad South is on the line to .


title: Lowestoft

text: Lowestoft North railway station, originally operated by the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway, closed in 1970 with the Lowestoft to Great Yarmouth line. The site is now taken by the residential Beeching Drive.


title: Lowestoft

text: Buses in Lowestoft are mainly operated by First Norfolk & Suffolk, with Lowestoft bus station as the hub. They link the town with Norwich and Great Yarmouth and provide services within the town and to surrounding villages. The Excel X1 route runs a link to Peterborough. National Express Coaches stop in Lowestoft on the London–Great Yarmouth route.


title: Lowestoft

text: The main A12 road to London passes through Carlton Colville, Pakefield and Kirkley in the southern area of Lowestoft, ending at the town's harbour Bascule Bridge. It connects there to the A47 road, which runs around the centre of town, before exiting along Great Yarmouth Road, crossing the county border into Norfolk.


title: Lowestoft

text: A second road from the town centre, the A1044, links the town to Oulton Broad, via its second road crossing over Lake Lothing, and connects with the A146 that runs between Lowestoft, Beccles and Norwich. Both bridges can be raised if vessels need to pass through the harbour and Lake Lothing, though this can cause congestion in the town and routes can become gridlocked. a third crossing of Lowestoft Harbour is under construction. A southern relief road was built to divert traffic from the seafront, while a proposed pedestrian and cycle bridge is planned as an alternative crossing alongside the Bascule Bridge.


title: Lowestoft

text: Lowestoft's cycle network has routes that link areas to the town centre. About 12 per cent of residents cycle to work. The town is seen as "ideally suited" to cycling due to its relatively small size and flat landscape. Suffolk County Council aims to promote cycling by working with employers and schools and by funding a town-centre pedestrian and cycle bridge.


title: Lowestoft

text: Lowestoft has several primary and high schools, including four 11–16 high schools: Benjamin Britten Academy, Ormiston Denes Academy, East Point Academy and Pakefield High School. After reorganisation, all eight middle schools in the town closed in 2011 and Pakefield High School opened. Post-16 education is provided at Lowestoft Sixth Form College, which opened in September 2011 as part of the reorganisation, and at East Coast College (Lowestoft Campus), which offers a range of academic and vocational courses.


title: Lowestoft

text: East Coast College (Lowestoft Campus) provides some higher education courses through an affiliation to the University of Suffolk. Degrees were initially validated by the University of East Anglia and the University of Essex but are now validated by the University of Suffolk. The college also has courses in boat building and some to support the offshore and maritime industries that are major employers in the town. Other adult education courses are run by the County Council from a base at the town library.


title: Lowestoft

text: Lowestoft's sport clubs and facilities include Lowestoft Town Football Club at Crown Meadow and Kirkley & Pakefield Football Club at Walmer Road. Lowestoft Cricket Club plays at the Denes Oval sport ground. Other sport clubs include Waveney Gymnastics club and Rookery Park Golf Club.


title: Lowestoft

text: Lowestoft and Yarmouth rugby football clubalso has its Gunton Park home based in Lowestoft. Founded in 1879, it is one of the oldest rugby union clubs in England.


title: Lowestoft

text: East Coast Hockey Club is the town's field hockey side formed in 2019 as a result of a merger between Lowestoft Railway Hockey Club and Lowestoft Ladies Hockey Club. They play their home matches at East Point Academy.


title: Lowestoft

text: The town's main leisure centre, the Waterlane Leisure Centre, was redeveloped at a cost of £8 million in 2010–2011. Facilities include a gym and climbing wall as well as a 25-metre swimming pool with a movable floor. Lowestoft has a number of parks and recreation grounds.


title: Lowestoft

text: The Broads national park extends to Lowestoft on Oulton Broad. Water activities and boat tours can be taken here. Powerboat racing takes place throughout the summer, mainly on Thursday evenings. Fixtures are organised by the Lowestoft and Oulton Broad Motor Boat Club and can attract up to 1500 spectators. The Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club has its club house in Lowestoft harbour.


title: Lowestoft

text: The Elizabethan pamphleteer Thomas Nashe, a father of modern journalism and a primary source for the literary milieux of William Shakespeare, was born in Lowestoft in 1567. Robert Potter, poet and translator of Greek drama, was Vicar of Lowestoft until 1804. The 19th-century writer and traveller George Borrow lived at Oulton Broad for many years and wrote most of his books there. Lieutenant General Sir Edwin Alderson also lived at Oulton Broad, on a houseboat, and died in 1927 at the since-demolished Royal Hotel in Lowestoft, where he had been staying for his last month.


title: Lowestoft

text: Admiral Sir John Ashby, who commanded HMS "Victory" at the Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue in 1692, grew up in Suffolk and is buried in Lowestoft. A memorial is sited in St Margaret's Church. Admiral Sir Thomas Allin, a commander at the Battle of Lowestoft on 13 June 1665 was awarded a knighthood on 24 June and appointed an Admiral of the Blue squadron. He lived in a family house in High Street until his victories enabled him to move to a grander country residence, Somerleyton Hall. Vice Admiral James Dacres fought in wars against America in the 19th century and was born in the town. Claud Castleton VC of the Australian Army was born in Kirkley and Captain Thomas Crisp V.C., Royal Navy officer, was born in the town – one of the town's main roads is named after him. Robert William Hook, coxswain at the RNLI in Lowestoft from 1853 to 1883 and who has been credited with saving more than 600 lives in his career, with Lowestoft RNLI and with private companies. He was born in Lowestoft, lived and worked there all his life, and is buried in Lowestoft Cemetery.


title: Lowestoft

text: Sir Samuel Morton Peto, bought Somerleyton Hall in 1843 and has one of the town's main roads named after him. He was influential in developing the town's railway links and harbour. Sir Christopher Cockerell, inventor of the hovercraft, lived at Oulton Broad, and tested craft in Somerleyton at Fritton Lake. The astronomer Fiammetta Wilson was born in the town in 1864, with a birth name of Helen Francis Worthington. Economist Sir Dennis Holme Robertson was born in Lowestoft in 1890. He was educated on a scholarship at Eton, and read Classics and Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge before teaching at Cambridge University, working closely with Keynes. The philanthropist Howard Hollingsworth, co-founder of Bourne & Hollingsworth Department Store, visited Lowestoft in 1908 and later bought and renovated the burnt-out Briar Clyffe House and grounds on Gunton Cliff. He became a Lowestoft benefactor, and on the death of his friend Nicholas Everitt, bought his estate at Oulton Broad and gave it to Lowestoft for a public park. He was made the first Freeman of the Borough of Lowestoft in 1929. Roland Aubrey Leighton, fiancé of Vera Brittain, immortalised in her WW1 autobiography "Testament of Youth", lived with his family at Heather Cliff on Gunton Cliff.


title: Lowestoft

text: The composer Benjamin Britten was born in Lowestoft in 1913. He has been called "without a doubt the greatest English classical composer of the last century" and "the only person of real celebrity to have emerged from darkest Lowestoft." The Benjamin Britten High School and a small town shopping centre are named after him. The artist Mark Burrell (born in Lowestoft in 1957) has a studio in the town and often features Lowestoft's landmarks and local people in his paintings. He is a leading member of the North Sea Magical Realists.


title: Lowestoft

text: The children's author and illustrator Michael Foreman, born in 1938, spent his childhood in Pakefield, where his mother kept a grocer's shop. He went to Pakefield Primary School, and played on Hilly Green – stories of which are recorded in his book "War Boy". The author and illustrator James Mayhew lived in the town and studied at Lowestoft School of Art. Photographer George Davison was also born in Lowestoft. Jayne-Marie Barker, author of the Inspector Allen mysteries, grew up at Oulton Broad and has used Lowestoft as an inspiration for her books. Author Mark Dawson was born in the town.


title: Lowestoft

text: The comedian and actor Karl Theobald was born in Lowestoft, as were BBC Radio 4 newsreader and television presenter Zeb Soanes and DJ and BBC radio presenter Tim Westwood. Three founder members of The Darkness rock band were educated in Kirkley; some of their songs feature local landmarks or stories. Lil' Chris featured in Channel 4's "Rock School", filmed at Kirkley high school (now East Point Academy) and went on to a musical career. Leanne Mitchell, winner of the first "The Voice UK" series, lives in the town.


title: Lowestoft

text: Sports people associated with Lowestoft include the England football captain Terry Butcher, who was educated there, and Peter Wright, a Darts World Champion who spent formative years there. Others include former Ipswich Town goalkeeper Laurie Sivell, Norwich City defenders Paul Haylock and Daryl Sutch, former football player and manager Richard Money, New York Mets pitcher Les Rohr and Olympic Bronze medal-winning middleweight boxer Anthony Ogogo.


title: Lowestoft

text: The following individuals, military units, organisations and groups have received the Freedom of the Town of Lowestoft.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: The Bangkok Mass Transit System, commonly known as the BTS Skytrain ( "[BTS]"), is an elevated rapid transit system in Bangkok, Thailand. It is operated by Bangkok Mass Transit System PCL (BTSC), a subsidiary of BTS Group Holdings, under a concession granted by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) which owns the lines. The system consists of 62 stations along three lines with a combined route length of . The BTS Sukhumvit Line running northwards and south-eastwards, terminating at Khu Khot and Kheha respectively. The BTS Silom Line which serves Silom and Sathon Roads, the central business district of Bangkok, terminates at National Stadium and Bang Wa. The Gold Line people mover runs from Krung Thon Buri to Klong San and serves Iconsiam. The lines interchange at Siam station and Krung Thon Buri. The system is formally known as "The Elevated Train in Commemoration of HM the King's 6th Cycle Birthday" ().


title: BTS Skytrain

text: Besides the three BTS lines, Bangkok's rapid transit system includes the underground and elevated Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) lines, the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRT), and the elevated Airport Rail Link (ARL), serving several stations before reaching Suvarnabhumi Airport, and the SRT Red Lines of the State Railway of Thailand.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: Plans for mass transit in Bangkok began in the early-1980s. An early version of the Skytrain project was known as the Lavalin Skytrain because it was designed using the Vancouver SkyTrain as a model, adopting technology developed by SNC-Lavalin. Due to political interference, the concession with Lavalin was cancelled in June 1992, despite Bangkok's chronic traffic congestion. The Thai Government focused on increasing road and expressway infrastructure in an attempt to reduce the congestion. This had little impact as the number of cars on the road continued to increase dramatically. The routes considered as part of the Skytrain project would become the basis for the MRT system and are mainly underground. In the early-1990s, foundations and a viaduct for the Lavalin Skytrain were constructed in the middle of the Phra Pok Klao Bridge across the Chao Phraya River. The planned metro bridge remains unused but may become part of the MRT's future Purple Line.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: Another abortive attempt at building an elevated rail network was the Bangkok Elevated Road and Train System (BERTS), which was terminated in 1998 after only 13.77 percent had been completed.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: Shortly after it became clear that the Lavalin Skytrain had stalled, then-Governor Major General Chamlong Srimuang asked his deputy, Captain Kritsada Arunwong na Ayutthaya, to create a new feeder system with a route along Sukhumvit and Silom Roads. Krisda and his team from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) succeeded in finding a private investor. Krisda also convinced everyone concerned to allow the city supervise the project. Keeree Kanjanapas founded the Bangkok Transit System Corporation (BTSC) and it successfully financed the system and grew it from a feeder system to a full mass transit project. Thanayong Public Company Limited ) had a 28 percent stake in BTSC when the Skytrain began, and therefore in its early days the system was sometimes referred to as the "Thanayong Skytrain".


title: BTS Skytrain

text: Siemens, the supplier of the railway technology, and the Thai contractor, Italian Thai Development, built the system for BTSC. The "Skytrain" name was bestowed later by the press following the Vancouver example where the elevated metro had been named "Skytrain". Originally, the Skytrain depot was to be built underneath Lumphini Park, but due to widespread objections from Bangkok residents it was constructed on a parcel of land on Phahonyothin Road, replacing the old northern/northeastern bus terminal (Mo Chit). The current depot at Mo Chit is part of the proposed "Bangkok Terminal" project, where a large complex composed of a new regional bus terminal, park and ride facility, and other commercial development can be built directly above it.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: The Skytrain system was opened on 5 December 1999 by Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. It initially had lower-than-predicted ridership, with 200,000 passenger trips per day. Ticket revenue was only enough to meet the trains' operating cost, and not sufficient to service construction loans. The Skytrain's daily passenger numbers have steadily increased since then. On 9 December 2005, more than 500,000 single trips were made on the Skytrain on a single day for the first time. By September 2012, the Skytrain served around 600,000 passengers on an average day, increasing to 650,000 on an average weekday in 2013. A record 760,000 passengers traveled on Sunday, 22 December 2013, a day of mass political protest in Bangkok. The normal Sunday average is 400,000 passengers. The BTS had a fleet of 52 four-car trains (208 carriages) by 2017. 46 new four-car trains (184 carriages) were ordered to address growing capacity requirements of the existing lines to cater for the Sukhumvit Line extensions south to Kheha and north to Khu Khot. They were delivered from 2018 to 2020.<ref name="BTSG-AR2017/18"></ref>


title: BTS Skytrain

text: On March 5, 2020, the BTS made a song about the COVID-19 pandemic, as an antidote to the grim warnings about the coronavirus, showing the staff dancing and keeping hygiene.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: All of the system's stations are elevated and constructed on three levels. The street level provides access to the station proper via stairs and often escalators and lifts. Supporting utility equipment (generators, water tanks) are usually located at this level on traffic islands.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: The first elevated level of the stations contains the ticket booths, some small kiosk-like shops, and fare gates. The second level (and third at Siam station) is again accessed with stairs, lifts and escalators and contains the platforms and rails. With the exception of Siam Station, Ha Yaek Lat Phrao station and Samrong, the stations follow a side platform layout. Siam Station uses island platforms to facilitate cross-platform interchange between the two lines. The distances between doors are equal throughout the train, regardless of whether they are in the same or different cars, and the locations where the doors will be after the train has stopped are marked on the platform. The platforms are built to accommodate trains of six cars, but trains of only four cars are in operation. Security personnel are stationed at every platform and ticketing hall.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: Five Skytrain stations, Sala Daeng, Asok, Ha Yaek Lat Phrao, Bang Wa and Mo Chit, are interchanges with the MRT system. Saphan Taksin station is connected to the adjacent Sathon Pier where the Chao Phraya Express Boat services call. Many stations are linked by skybridges (overhead pedestrian walkways) to neighbouring buildings and public amenities.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: Platform screen doors (half size) are installed at On Nut, Phrom Phong, Asok, Chit Lom, Siam, Thong Lor, Phaya Thai, Victory Monument, Sala Daeng, and Chong Nonsi stations from 2014 to present . These will eventually be installed at all stations. The installation at Phrom Phrong station caused a software problem and a six-hour shutdown of all BTS services on 24 December 2013, leading to gridlock in the city.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: Fares are calculated according to distance. From 2007 a stored-value card called the BTS Smartpass was sold. In May 2012, this was replaced by a new stored-value ticket called Rabbit Card. Rabbit Card is an electronic payment card system that allows holders to pay for the fee of BTS and BRT with only one card. Rabbit Cards can also be used to pay for other services and restaurants that are associated with BTS.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: Single tickets can be purchased at ticket machines. The ticket is tapped on the way in, but inserted to be swallowed when leaving the paid area.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: The Mangmoom Card which is intended to be used on the Skytrain, MRT and Airport Rail Link was repeatedly delayed from its original 2015 launch date and is not currently valid on the BTS.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: At present, the three Bangkok train systems (Skytrain, MRT and Airport Rail Link) all require separate tickets to be purchased to travel around the network. This is considered a major oversight in the development.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: At its opening, the BTS had 23 stations on its two lines: 17 on the BTS Sukhumvit Line and 7 on the Silom Line, with both lines interchanging at Siam. Since then, 30 additional stations have opened on the Sukhumvit Line and 6 on the Silom Line, with the latest new 3 stations at Gold Line.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: In 2002, the cabinet of then Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra amended laws in order to allow private firms to finance the cost of operating the train system, while the government would undertake civil engineering works to build new extensions.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: On 18 October 2005, with no approval from the central government forthcoming, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) decided to fund and complete the Silom Line route extension to Krung Thonburi Station (S07) and Wongwian Yai Station (S08). Construction began on 13 December 2005 with completion originally expected within two years. However, problems with the tendering and installation of a new Bombardier open signalling system repeatedly pushed back the schedule. The extension finally opening on 15 May 2009. However, the single platform Saphan Taksin station which has only one track, has caused repeated delays during rush hour. In 2012, the BMA announced plans to demolish Saphan Taksin station in the future. There are now plans to construct new platforms and remove the bottleneck and keep the station which provides an important link between river boats. The plan includes redesigning the road bridges either side of the viaduct to fit the new station.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: A second extension, the 5.25 km On Nut station (E09) to Bearing station (E14) started construction in August 2006. The 4 billion baht extension was again funded by the BMA. The original scheduled opening date was mid-2009. However, an unusual, prolonged delay in the tendering of the contract for the electrical and signals resulted in a two-year delay. "The senior City Hall official responsible for making the purchase has apparently stalled the scheme over fears of being investigated if something went wrong with the purchase."


title: BTS Skytrain

text: The BTSC was contracted by the BMA to run the extension. Subsequently, the extension did not open until over two years later on 12 August 2011. The delay in opening prompted the BMA to offer free travel for this extension until the end of 2011 as compensation. A flat fare separate from the distance based fare normal in the BTS network was then charged for this section. However, distance based fares are now used for this extension.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: The third extension to the network, a 5.3 km, four station extension from Wongwian Yai (S8) to Bang Wa (S12) in Phasi Charoen District began construction in the 2nd quarter of 2011 with a deadline of the end of 2012. Only the stations had to be constructed as the viaduct had been completed some years prior. However, construction was delayed for many months by the Bangkok floods of late 2011. It eventually opened in stages. Pho Nimit opened on 12 January 2013, Talat Phlu opened on 14 February 2013, with the last two stations opening on 5 December 2013. For most of 2013, passengers changed platforms and trains at Wongwian Yai for a shuttle service to S09 and S10 as there was no turnout at S10 for through trains. Since the opening of the final section of the extension to Bang Wa station on 5 December 2013, this is no longer the case.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: Construction started in April 2012 for a , seven station extension from Bearing station (E14) to Samut Prakan Station (E23). The extension is being built by Ch. Karnchang. Two stations (E18 & E22) will be built at a later date. The extension was funded by the MRTA as it is outside BMA city limits. The extension was planned to open in 2017. In April 2013, the MRTA awarded Ch Karnchang the contract for track laying and electrical systems. Construction was completed in 2017, but arguments over who should operate the line delayed the opening. One station, Samrong opened earlier, on 3 April 2017. The full extension opened on 6 December 2018 and the BTSC has announced that the free travel concession on this section will continue until the new train sets arrive to allow for the new section to be fully functional.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: An 11.4 km, 12 station northern extension from Mo Chit station to Saphan Mai in Don Mueang District has been planned since the Sukhumvit Line opened. Originally, this extension was scheduled to be completed by 2008. However, due to a combination of changes in government, a prolonged environmental study, and problems with locating a suitable train depot, the extension has been continually delayed.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: In 2018, it was decided to finally build the missing Saint Louis (S4) station (originally named Sueksa Wittaya), the EIA was finalised in March 2019. Construction of the station began in August 2019 and by the end of 2019 had reached 25% progress. By August 2020, construction had reached 50% but was 30% behind schedule due to COVID related delays.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: BTS Group Holdings will tender to operate more BTS and MRT lines in the future through financing from its BTS Rail Mass Transit Growth Infrastructure Fund after it received approval from the Thai Securities and Exchange Commission in March 2013. The IPO raised US$2.1 billion, the largest in Thailand's history.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: A further 9 km, five station extension from Khu Khot station to Wongwaen-Lam Luk Ka station is planned to be constructed by 2029.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: After the opening of Wutthakat (S11) and Bang Wa (S12) stations 5 December 2013, the BMA announced a new proposal to further extended the Silom line by 7 km from Bang Wa (S12) station, by six stations to Taling Chan. At Taling Chan it would connect with the SRT Light Red line.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: A public hearing was held in 2015. Three route options were considered, with construction intended to start in 2017. Part of the basis for this further extension by the BMA is that it would provide proximate access to the Southern Bus Terminal. The BMA Transport and Traffic Office completed an economic evaluation of the extension in October 2018 which found a cost benefit ratio of 2.37. The study recommended that an EIA be completed in 2019 but this was delayed.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: The Silom Line is planned to be extended by one or two stations west along Rama 1 from National Stadium (W1) to link with the SRT Dark Red Line at Yot Se station. However, no time frame for this extension has been announced and this section of the SRT Dark Red Line will not be built until after 2022.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: Originally, the plan was to extend the Silom Line west from National Stadium into Chinatown, then north to Democracy Monument where it would then run west to Rattanakosin Island and Sanum Luang, tunnel under the river to the Thonburi side before terminating at Phran Nok. However, this plan was shelved in 2009 and much of this route has been replaced by routing changes to the planned MRT Orange Line.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: Some trains terminate early and resume travel in the opposite direction at Wat Phra Sri Mahathat, Ha Yaek Lat Phrao, Mo Chit (rare), Samrong, Krung Thon Buri BTS (Helper Train). This allows more frequent trains on the central sections of the lines without added investment in carriages.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: The BTS Skytrain uses two variations of electric multiple unit rolling stock. All operate on . All trains have four doors on each side per car, an air-conditioning unit, and LCD monitors for public announcement and advertising. Public announcements are spoken by actress Ratklao Amaradit. The power supply for all trains is at 750 V DC from the third rail.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: The rolling stock of BTS Skytrain, in use when the line opened in 1999, consisted of 35 Siemens Modular Metro trains from Siemens. These initial trains had three cars, two motor cars and one trailer in the center. The Sukhumvit Line used 20 trains, and the Silom Line had 15.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: After the 12 new car CNR trains were delivered for the Silom line in December 2010, the 15 Siemens trains on the Silom Line were transferred to the Sukhumvit Line.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: To increase capacity, in October 2010, BTSC ordered an extra 35 single cars from Siemens to make each train a four car set.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: These extra cars were progressively introduced into operation from November 2012 to March 2013, when all 35 sets of Siemens rolling stock finally became four car sets.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: The Silom Line cars have been modified to support a signaling system from Bombardier Transportation since the extension from Saphan Taksin to Wong Wian Yai.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: To serve the Sukhumvit Line Extension (East) BTSC ordered 22 new Siemens-Bozankaya EMU four-car trains from a consortium of Siemens and Bozankaya in May 2016.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: These trains were manufactured in the Bozankaya factory in Ankara, Turkey. Siemens supplied bogies, traction, braking and auxiliary systems and was responsible for project management, development, construction and commissioning of the trains. Siemens will also take on service and maintenance for 16 years.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: The first set of the new batch of rolling stock arrived in early August 2018 for testing and approval by the BTSC. These new trains increase capacity from 1,490 passengers per train to 1,573. As of the opening of the new Sukhumvit Line extension to Kheha Samut Prakan on 6 December 2018, only 3 sets of the 22 sets had been delivered. This resulted in a limited 10-minute frequency, shuttle service for the new extension as an interim measure until more rolling stock is delivered.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: In early 2008, the BTSC ordered 12 new trains (12 sets of four cars) from Changchun Railway Vehicles (EMU B class) to cater for the then soon to open Wong Wian Yai extension of the Silom Line. Their design was modified to the existing BTS's Siemens Modular Metro. The new trains were delivered late and only began service the Silom Line in December 2010. This was some 18 months after the Wong Wian Yai and Krung Thonburi stations were opened in May 2009 during which time there was severe overcrowding on the Silom line.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: These trains consist of two-motor cars and two-trailer cars (i.e., four-car trainsets) and feature LCD TVs for public announcements and advertising. An advanced digital voice announcement (DVA) and passenger information systems was installed.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: In September 2011, the BTSC ordered five more four-car trainsets of CNR rolling stock for 1.5 billion baht to prepare for the Silom Line extension to Bang Wa which was then due to open in December 2012. These five new train sets of rolling stock entered service on 29 November 2013 after the first two stations of the Silom Line extension to Bang Wa opened in January and February 2013, respectively. This second batch of CNR EMUs (B Class) differ slightly from the first batch in exterior fitting out such as with the LCDs screens, LED route displays, signage, and passenger communication units.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: In May 2016, BTSC has signed a contract to order 24 more four-car trains of CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles rolling stock to prepare for the Sukhumvit Line extension (North) and to cater for increasing demand, with expected delivery in 2018.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: It has delivered 24 of its cars to Mo Chit Depot. 24 cars are now operating its service on the Silom Line and Sukhumvit Line (Car 75–98)


title: BTS Skytrain

text: The first years of operations saw limited ridership. The line had few direct ramps into malls and lacked escalators. Little by little, while escalators were installed and side bridges added, patronage increased. The opening of Siam Paragon Mall in 2004, at the time Thailand's most luxurious mall, boosted crowds at the system's central Siam station. The redevelopment of the Ratchaprasong and Siam districts as well as new "skywalks" fostered growing accessibility.


title: BTS Skytrain

text: Ridership grew steadily with incremental expansion of the lines, and at peak hour, the trains sometimes depart without being able to take all waiting passengers. Average daily ridership first surpassed 200,000 in June 2001, 300,000 in November 2003, 400,000 in March 2006, 500,000 in August 2011, 600,000 in August 2013 and 700,000 in November 2017.


title: Murder of Vicki Lynne Hoskinson

text: Vicki Lynne Hoskinson (February 2, 1976 – c. September 17, 1984) was an 8year-old American girl who disappeared in Tucson, Arizona while riding her bicycle to mail a birthday card to her aunt, and was eventually found murdered. Her abductor, Frank Jarvis Atwood (January 29, 1956 – June 8, 2022), was traced through witness testimony and physical evidence, which the abductor alleged in a later appeal was planted on his car. Seven months later, Vicki's remains were found in a desert area away and Atwood was found guilty of first degree murder. He was sentenced to death and was executed by lethal injection on June 8, 2022.


title: Murder of Vicki Lynne Hoskinson

text: On Monday, September 17, 1984, Vicki asked and received permission from her mother, Debbie Carlson, to ride her bicycle to a mailbox to mail a birthday card to her aunt. This was the first time Carlson had allowed any of her children to go out on their own, previously using the buddy system. After 20 minutes, Carlson sent Vicki's 11-year-old sister Stephanie to look for her; Stephanie found Vicki's bicycle lying on the side of the road a few blocks away, and one block from the elementary school. Carlson placed Vicki's bicycle in her car trunk and called the Pima County Sheriff's Department. Detective Gary Dhaemers responded, and a few hours later a command center was set up.


title: Murder of Vicki Lynne Hoskinson

text: Not long after Hoskinson's abduction was publicized, a tipster reported seeing a young girl matching the victim's description in a store, accompanied by an adult woman. A composite sketch was created of the girl's companion, but eventually, police determined the sighting was unrelated to the abduction of Hoskinson.


title: Murder of Vicki Lynne Hoskinson

text: After interviews with possible witnesses, Sam Hall, a coach at an elementary school, stated he saw a suspicious-looking driver parked in a vehicle in an alley beside the school on the day Vicki disappeared. Hall had been supervising a group of students at play when he noticed a suspicious vehicle. According to Hall, the driver was making strange gestures and was struggling with the manual gearshift lever. He memorized the license plate, ran to his car to get a notepad and wrote it down. He later gave it to the police after hearing Vicki was missing. A little girl said the driver made an obscene gesture to her as he cruised by her house. Another saw the driver back into a telephone pole.


title: Murder of Vicki Lynne Hoskinson

text: The trace on the license plate led to a 28-year-old Los Angeles man named Frank Jarvis Atwood. Agents ran a background check and found kidnapping and child molestation charges. Atwood was out on parole in California for sexual abuse of an 8-year old boy. They went to the address where Atwood's vehicle was registered. It was the home of Atwood's parents, Frank Jarvis Atwood Sr., a retired army brigadier general, and his wife, who was more protective of their son. A few hours later, Atwood called his parents stating his car had broken down in Texas and he needed money wired to get it fixed. His mother wrote down the address in Kerrville, Texas, where Atwood awaited a new transmission. His father copied the information and drove to a nearby payphone and reported the address to the FBI. FBI agents in Texas detained Atwood and his traveling companion, James McDonald, at the mechanic shop on September 20 and impounded the car.


title: Murder of Vicki Lynne Hoskinson

text: During questioning, Atwood told investigators he was in Vicki's neighborhood on September 17, the day she disappeared, staying in a nearby park. About 3:00 pm, he left to buy drugs and returned to the park about 5:00 pm, but did not say where he was during the two-hour period. McDonald corroborated Atwood's story and told investigators that he and Atwood had an argument in the park about 3:00. After that, Atwood left for two hours and returned with bloodstains on his hands and clothing. Atwood told McDonald he got into a fight with a drug dealer and stabbed him. Investigators found two men who claimed Atwood spent two nights in their trailer. One of them, known as Mad Dog, claimed Atwood's clothes and hands were bloodstained, and that they had suggested Atwood get rid of his clothes. Atwood told them that he stabbed a double-crossing drug dealer.


title: Murder of Vicki Lynne Hoskinson

text: While no physical evidence in the car could be linked to Vicki's person, accident reconstruction experts matched pink paint on the front bumper of Atwood's vehicle to the color of the paint on Vicki's bike, and traced damage to the car's gravel pan to one of the bike's pedals. Traces of nickel plating from the bumper were also found on the bike. Returning to the site where the bike was found, investigators discovered damage to the mailbox post about 12 inches above ground, consistent with the height of Atwood's sports car, and believed this to be the spot where the car allegedly struck Vicki's bike at a slow speed. Atwood's clothing from the day of Vicki's disappearance was never recovered.


title: Murder of Vicki Lynne Hoskinson

text: Ten days after Vicki's disappearance, Atwood was arrested and charged with one count of kidnapping. A month after Vicki's disappearance, Atwood was extradited from Texas to Arizona to answer the charge against him. On December 3, 1984, Atwood pleaded not guilty to kidnapping charges.


title: Murder of Vicki Lynne Hoskinson

text: Because of the publicity of the case in Tucson, the trial was moved to Phoenix. Jury selection took almost 6 weeks.


title: Murder of Vicki Lynne Hoskinson

text: On April 12, 1985, a hiker found a small human skull in the Sonoran Desert near Tucson, about from where the bike had been found. The skeleton had been scattered by animals. Due to the state of the remains, the cause of death could not be determined, nor whether the child had been sexually abused. Dental records confirmed they were Vicki's remains. Traces of adipocere found on the skull fixed the time that the body had been placed in the desert to within 48 hours of Vicki's disappearance.


title: Murder of Vicki Lynne Hoskinson

text: Atwood's trial began in January 1987. He was found guilty of first degree murder on March 26, and was sentenced to death on May 8, 1987. During his years on death row, Atwood had, as described by Hoskinson's mother, "gotten married, been baptized in the Greek Orthodox Christian church, obtained two associate degrees, a bachelor's degree in English/pre-law and a master's degree in literature. He has written six books, five of which have been published. He's also working with people on the outside to create a website". He claimed that police tampered with the evidence found on his car, and that no physical evidence had been found placing Vicki in his car. His appeals for judicial re-review of his case were denied.


title: Murder of Vicki Lynne Hoskinson

text: In April 2021, Atwood was one of twenty Arizona death row inmates who had exhausted all their appeals. On April 6, 2021, Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced that his office was seeking to file an execution warrant for Atwood. As he was convicted of his crime before November 26, 1992, he would be allowed to choose either lethal injection or gas inhalation as his preferred method to die. Atwood did not elect a method, so it defaulted to lethal injection.


title: Murder of Vicki Lynne Hoskinson

text: On May 3, 2022, the Arizona Supreme Court set an execution date for Atwood for June 8, 2022. Clemency was unanimously rejected on May 24, 2022.


title: Murder of Vicki Lynne Hoskinson

text: Atwood was executed by lethal injection at the state prison in Florence, Arizona, on June 8, 2022. In his last statement, Atwood maintained his innocence and did not apologize to the family of Vicki Hoskinson. He was pronounced dead at 10:16 am.


title: Murder of Vicki Lynne Hoskinson

text: After her daughter's murder, Debbie Carlson became a victims' rights activist. She helped establish a victims' advocacy group called "We the People"; worked for the passage of Arizona's Victims' Bill of Rights, which was passed in 1990; and helped institute Southern Arizona's Amber Alert system in 2000.


title: Greg Bryk

text: Gregory Michael Bryk (born 19 August 1972) is a Canadian film and television actor. He has appeared in numerous films and television series and is best known for his reoccurring roles in "ReGenesis" (2004–2008), "" (2011–2012), "Bitten" (2014–2016) and "Frontier" (2016–2018).


title: Greg Bryk

text: He is also known for his role in the 2018 video game "Far Cry 5", which he portrayed the game's lead antagonist Joseph Seed through performance capture. He reprised the role in "" (2019) and "Far Cry 6" (2021).


title: Greg Bryk

text: Bryk graduated from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts in drama. While attending Queen's, he was a member of the football team as a linebacker. During his time on the team, he helped the Gaels win the 28th Vanier Cup.


title: Greg Bryk

text: Bryk met his wife, Danielle Bryk, while both were studying English literature at Queen’s University. The couple has 3 children together, his elder son Dempsey, who is also an actor, son Billy, and daughter Ella.


title: Morning Joe

text: Morning Joe is an American morning news and liberal talk show, airing weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on the cable news channel MSNBC. It features former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough reporting and discussing the news of the day in a panel format with co-hosts Mika Brzezinski (whom Scarborough married in November 2018) and Willie Geist, among others.


title: Morning Joe

text: "Morning Joe" began as a fill-in program after Don Imus' "Imus in the Morning" was canceled. Former Florida Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough, then host of the primetime MSNBC program "Scarborough Country", suggested the idea of doing a morning show instead. He put together what would become "Morning Joe" with "Scarborough Country" executive producer Chris Licht and screenwriter John Ridley. On April 9, 2007, the show debuted as one of a series of rotating programs auditioning for Imus's former slot, with Scarborough joined by co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Ridley. Scarborough had personally asked Brzezinski to co-host with him the night before the first audition, while she was a "cut-in" presenter during MSNBC's primetime schedule on a freelance basis.


title: Morning Joe

text: Ridley quickly dropped out as main co-host but continued as a regular guest, while Willie Geist was tapped as co-host. The program permanently took over the slot in July 2007, though the decision was not officially announced until October that year.


title: Morning Joe

text: During the first quarter of 2009, "Morning Joe" earned higher ratings in the age 25-54 demo category than CNN's competing program, "American Morning". It still had fewer viewers overall. Both programs finished behind Fox News's "Fox & Friends" during the same time period.


title: Morning Joe

text: By March 2010, the show's ratings remained behind those of "Fox & Friends", but surpassed its other cable competitors "American Morning", "Morning Express with Robin Meade", and "Squawk Box".


title: Morning Joe

text: "Morning Joe" continues to regularly place second in total viewers and younger demographic to "Fox & Friends", ahead of other cable news competitors including CNN's "New Day". However, "Morning Joe", like MSNBC overall, ranked behind CNN's counterpart programming during short stints in 2013.


title: Morning Joe

text: As the program has risen in age, its focus has shifted partly toward enterprise journalism: Scarborough and Brzezinski provide exclusives from the United States Congress, the US State Department, and the White House.


title: Morning Joe

text: On May 4, 2017, an MSNBC spokesperson confirmed that Scarborough and Brzezinski were engaged to be married.


title: Morning Joe

text: Their style in running the show was then parodied by "Saturday Night Live" with Kate McKinnon and Alex Moffat.


title: Morning Joe

text: In May 2017, for the first time in the program's history, "Morning Joe" attracted an average of over 1 million daily total viewers for the month.


title: Morning Joe

text: In February 2022, MSNBC announced that the show would be extended with a fourth, 9 a.m. hour beginning April 4. The extension of the show replaces "MSNBC Reports" with Stephanie Ruhle, after Ruhle moved to MSNBC's late-night program "The 11th Hour".


title: Morning Joe

text: On March 10, 2022, MSNBC announced that it would offer on-demand episodes of the show, among others on Peacock.


title: Morning Joe

text: A radio version debuted in December 2008, carried on WABC in New York City and other Citadel Media owned and operated stations. Scarborough and Brzezinski host this version, which also replays highlights from the day's television show. For legal reasons, this version is called "The Joe Scarborough Show". Scarborough claims that, at least on WABC, the show beat the "Glenn Beck Program" in the New York City radio market's Arbitron ratings. However, despite acceptable ratings, the radio version was put on hiatus in April 2010. Scarborough intends to bring back the show in a revised three-hour version at an undisclosed time in the future.


title: Morning Joe

text: On July 27, 2009, Willie Geist began hosting a new 30-minute show, "Way Too Early". It aired on MSNBC at 5:30 a.m. Eastern Time as a lead-in to "Morning Joe". Geist left the program in October 2012 when he co-hosted the third hour of NBC's "Today." He is currently a co-host of "Morning Joe". The program was revived in September 2020 with Kasie Hunt who left a few months later for CNN. As of 2021, the program is hosted by Jonathan Lemire.


title: Morning Joe

text: On August 8, 2016, the existing early morning program "First Look" airing at 5:00 a.m. was expanded into the former timeslot of "Way Too Early" and retitled "Morning Joe First Look", retaining segments from the latter program and presumably to feature some continuity with "Morning Joe" itself.


title: Morning Joe

text: On January 9, 2008, the morning after Hillary Clinton's surprise victory in the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary, Matthews appeared on the show and said of Clinton, "I'll be brutal, the reason she's a U.S. senator, the reason she's a candidate for president, the reason she may be a front-runner is her husband messed around. That's how she got to be senator from New York. We keep forgetting it. She didn't win there on her merit."


title: Morning Joe

text: The comments, widely reacted to as sexist and unfair, were criticized by such diverse media figures as Bill O'Reilly, Joy Behar, and Gloria Steinem. They also led to protests outside NBC's Washington, D.C. studios, as well as a joint letter of complaint to NBC from the National Organization for Women, Feminist Majority, and the National Women's Political Caucus. Matthews apologized for the comments on the January 17, 2008, edition of his own MSNBC program, "Hardball".


title: Morning Joe

text: On November 10, 2008, Scarborough read the word "fuck" on air while reading from a story about then-President-elect Obama's incoming Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. Once he realized his mistake, Scarborough repeatedly apologized for his slip of the tongue, and explained that he had meant to say "the F word" instead. The next day, MSNBC instituted a seven-second delay for "Morning Joe".


title: Morning Joe

text: In another incident on , then "Time" editor-at-large Mark Halperin commented that the president came off as "kind of a dick" during the previous day's press conference. The word aired uncensored, despite the seven-second delay, when a producer failed to press the button that would have "bleeped" it. Halperin issued an on-air apology immediately following a commercial break. The White House subsequently complained to MSNBC about Halperin's remarks, and on June 30, 2011, Halperin was temporarily suspended from appearing on MSNBC for "slurring" the President. He returned as a guest a couple of weeks later.


title: Morning Joe

text: On December 30, 2008, Brzezinski's father and former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski appeared as a guest to discuss the unfolding Israel–Palestine crisis. Scarborough stated that Yasser Arafat was offered everything he wanted at the 2000 Camp David Summit. This statement provoked Zbigniew to reply, "You know, you have such a stunningly superficial knowledge of what went on that it's almost embarrassing to listen to you." Subsequently, the phrase "stunningly superficial" has become something of a running gag on the show.


title: Morning Joe

text: Beginning on June 1, 2009, "Morning Joe" was presented as "Brewed by Starbucks", with the sponsor's logo incorporated into the show's logo. Although the hosts previously consumed Starbucks coffee on air "for free", in the words of MSNBC president Phil Griffin, it was not paid placement at that time. The Starbucks sponsorship of "Morning Joe" ended in 2013.


title: Morning Joe

text: On June 3, 2009, "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart mocked the Starbucks sponsorship of the program, showing several clips of the "Morning Joe" cast prominently displaying and complimenting Starbucks products as well as an interview with Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. Scarborough responded that his intent in discussing the sponsorship was sarcastic, and he suggested that Stewart and his "90 writers" did not understand the joke. On June 8, Stewart feigned embarrassment over missing their alleged sarcasm, claiming, "At the time, I thought your jokey manner was just a way of sublimating your shame over the discomfort you feel deep in your soul after extinguishing the last smoldering embers of any of your program’s journalistic bona fides. But now, I realize that that wasn't the case!" On June 9, Scarborough fired back, referring to Stewart as "a very, very angry guy with a Napoleonic complex". The next day, Stewart and correspondent John Oliver again responded with a skit, involving Stewart impersonating Napoleon and Oliver impersonating an even shorter Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington. After the routine, Stewart joked that he hoped that this would be the end of the feud, since continuing it was becoming expensive for the show.


title: Morning Joe

text: During the Obama administration, Joe Scarborough sought to distance himself from certain elements in the Republican Party. He criticized Republicans such as Rush Limbaugh who celebrated President Obama's failed bid to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago saying that "Republicans have gone off the deep end." On the October 8, 2009 edition of his radio show, Limbaugh fired back by saying that Scarborough was "doing his best impression of [...] a neutered chickified moderate". Scarborough responded the next day on "Morning Joe", faulting Limbaugh for uncritical loyalty to George W. Bush during the president's tenure in office. Scarborough specifically said that Limbaugh had put his "testicles in a blind trust for George W. Bush for eight years".


title: Morning Joe

text: The "Morning Joe" interview with actor and comedian Russell Brand, a segment in the episode that aired on June 17, 2013, went viral on the internet. He was there to promote his forthcoming stand-up comedy tour "The Messiah Complex". After the three interviewers (host Mika Brzezinski and contributors Katty Kay and Brian Shactman) repeatedly intercut the interview with personal observations of their guest—bantering among themselves whether they were able to understand his accent, referring to him in the third person, and calling him "Willy"—Brand protested at being talked about "as if he wasn't present and [as if he was] an extraterrestrial" before taking the interview over with a scathing commentary on what he perceived as a lack of professionalism and manners demonstrated by the interviewers. He appeared to confuse them with his direct, plain-speaking rebuke. In a final apparent attempt to offer an olive branch of humor to Brzezinski, Brand quipped "this woman is a shaft grasper" after she appeared to nervously stroke her water bottle.


title: Morning Joe

text: Early in 2016, the show and its hosts were criticized for their support to then-candidate Donald Trump; Matt Taibbi described the hosts as "lapdogs" and their relationship as "brown-nosing". The criticism was further exacerbated by a hot mic recording published by Harry Shearer on his podcast, where Scarborough and Brzezinski discuss with Trump the positive coverage of him, and the possible questions the candidate could get in their upcoming interview.


title: Morning Joe

text: In late June 2017, a conflict erupted between the hosts of "Morning Joe" and President Trump. On the morning of June 29, the president posted a series of tweets mocking Scarborough and Brzezinski, with his comments about the latter widely condemned as misogynistic. The hosts responded with an op-ed in "The Washington Post", in which they described White House officials warning them of a negative article that would be published in the "National Enquirer" if they refused to apologize for their coverage of Trump. Although the initial tweets received negative responses from both Republican politicians and political commentators including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Trump retaliated on July 1 with another tweet describing Scarborough as "crazy" and Brzezinski as "dumb as a rock".


title: Highway Thru Hell

text: Highway Thru Hell is a Canadian documentary TV series that follows the operations of Jamie Davis Motor Truck & Auto Ltd., a heavy vehicle rescue and recovery towing company based in Hope, British Columbia. Quiring Towing, Aggressive Towing, MSA Towing, Mission Towing and Reliable Towing are also featured in the series. The show focuses on the hardships of operating along the highways of the BC Interior, especially the Coquihalla Highway (Coq).


title: Highway Thru Hell

text: "Highway Thru Hell" was created by Mark A. Miller, Kevin Mills, and Neil Thomas. Thomas met one of the heavy rescue operators for Jamie Davis Motor Truck & Auto after Thomas' moving truck broke down on Highway 5 in the summer of 2010. In the early winter of 2011, cameraman Mills and executive producer Miller dropped in on Davis' company while passing through Hope. The idea of a show about heavy recovery was discussed. The winter of 2010–2011 had been a record-setting season for Davis' business, and he expressed a desire to change the public's perceptions about his industry.


title: Highway Thru Hell

text: In his review of "High Arctic Haulers", another reality-TV series produced by Great Pacific Media, Jim Bell of "Nunatsiaq News" described the formula used by this and similar shows: "Rugged teams of blue-collar heroes, mostly male, struggle against bad weather, bad luck and other hardships to transport the necessities of life ..."


title: Highway Thru Hell

text: "Highway Thru Hell" debuted on Canada's Discovery Channel on Tuesday, September 4, 2012. Steep hills, lethal drop-offs, killer rockslides, and the worst weather in a decade captivated audiences, resulting in the most-watched series premiere in the channel's history.


title: Highway Thru Hell

text: The second season premiered on September 3, 2013, and included 13 new episodes, as well as four re-edited Season 1 episodes featuring new content, factoids, and viewer tweets.


title: Highway Thru Hell

text: After Season 2, competition in the Hope area became more intense, causing Davis to seek out new territory, and expand his business (and fleet) along Alberta Highway 63. In Season 3, Davis is seen dealing with the stresses of business expansion, especially as senior drivers step into managerial roles in his absence, and sometimes leave chaos in their wake. As an active avalanche season occurs on the Coquihalla, the issue of post-traumatic stress disorder is tackled by the series, as some drivers encounter difficult situations. Al Quiring's family business, Quiring Towing, is featured more prominently in this season.


title: Highway Thru Hell

text: Filming for Season 4 took place in British Columbia and Alberta during the winter of 2014–2015, when the days-long Hope Ice Storm occurred. Davis' company is split into two "camps", and he sometimes calls in his brother's company, Aggressive Towing, for backup. Mission Towing, a family business including generations of tow-operators, headquartered in British Columbia's Fraser Valley, is first featured in this season.


title: Highway Thru Hell

text: Season 5 kicked off on September 13, 2016, with an episode depicting a teary-eyed Davis selling his beloved rotator. Quiring Towing tackles some difficult excavator recoveries in British Columbia's nasty peat bog, and Davis' crew suffers some near-misses.


title: Highway Thru Hell

text: In Season 6, Davis closes his company's Alberta offices, shrinking his operation to Hope and Chilliwack, British Columbia. In an effort to make his business more lean, Davis begins buying and restoring older equipment to add to his fleet, such as a vintage 22-ton Holmes Python wrecker.


title: Highway Thru Hell

text: Season 7 began airing on September 4, 2018. At Davis' yard in Hope, classic Holmes tow trucks – some nearly half a century old – are replacing newer, costlier wreckers. For Davis, the vintage trucks are more than just a passion; they represent survival. Under pressure to reduce costs and stay competitive, Davis is confident he and his crew can tackle some of the toughest jobs – on and off the Coquihalla – using an older, rebuilt fleet. Colin McLean is back in Hope as lead driver, but since he has driven some top-of-the-line hydraulic trucks, Davis' "old iron" takes some getting used to. The seventh season sees some of the younger generation stepping up, with Cary Quiring one of the first to respond to a


title: Highway Thru Hell

text: on the Coquihalla, and Dylan Greenwood of Mission Towing taking the lead on some big wrecks and recoveries in the Fraser Valley. Reliable Towing, out of Merritt, makes its debut in the second half of Season 7, first responding to a small wreck of a truck and trailer with pigs inside, and then to a six-semitrailer crash on the Coquihalla, north of Merritt. Mudslides and rockslides contribute to a tough time for recovery crews all around. The season ends with a tearful goodbye as Davis sells HR 117 to Reliable which adds the truck to their Mission fleet.


title: Highway Thru Hell

text: Season 8 opens with the winter of 2019 and the Hope Mudslide which almost destroys Davis' yard and buries The Coq in 20 feet of mud cutting off access to Merritt and Abbotsford. Davis buys a new Mack Anthem and dubs it HR 127 to close out the season.


title: Highway Thru Hell

text: Season 9 begins with Davis hiring Greg to drive HR 127 and marks the return of TR 37 to service which was under repairs in Davis' shop at the end of Season 7 to get a new motor. The season ends with the return of Colin and the passing of Ken Monkhouse who died in May 2020. Davis tries to get Colin back by ordering HR 130 but ends up selling HR 126 to pay for the truck. Quiring Towing is profiled as Quiring shows us his hobby of recovering and restoring old bulldozers and excavators and several recoveries featuring Quiring using his dozers to recover wrecks and trapped machinery from the peat bogs following the landslides.


title: Highway Thru Hell

text: Season 10 opens with Davis buying Columbia Towing out of receivership and acquiring some of his former trucks back which he sold to them at the end of Season 3 when he closed Alberta and opening a new yard in Golden. Davis also gets Brandon back who now works for a flagging crew out of Golden. Mission is forced to bring out all their trucks and even ask for help when a logging truck goes over the edge. Jr. joins the Davis crew as a swamper and Davis announces his projects for the year. The COVID-19 Pandemic forces Davis to lean back his operation as mandates go into effect. The Season ends with Davis teaming up with Aggressive to recover a truck that went over the edge, Davis in Ely, Nevada buying one of his project trucks and a used boom for 47, and Davis in LA buying HR 56 from the LA Fire Department and adding it to his fleet. The Rotator is also profiled recovering two wrecks after its arrival from LA, a lumber truck that went off the road in the same spot another one did in Season 6, a logging truck that went over the edge in Fraser Canyon, and a tanker which almost causes a chemical spill. Davis also reminisces on 10 years of Highway Thru Hell on the air.


title: Highway Thru Hell

text: On October 10, 2016, the pilot for "", a spinoff series set in Ontario, aired on the Discovery Channel. The first season of "Heavy Rescue: 401" debuted on January 3, 2017.


title: Ranjeet

text: Ranjeet Bedi (born 13 September 1942 as Gopal Bedi) popularly known as Ranjeet, is an Indian actor and film director born in Jandiala Guru near Amritsar (Punjab), best known for his work in Bollywood. He has mostly played villain roles in over 200 Hindi films. Ranjeet has also played a positive character in the TV series "Aisa Des Hai Mera". He has also worked in a number of Punjabi films namely "Rab Ne Banayian Jodiyan" and "Man Jeete Jag Jeet".


title: Ranjeet

text: Ranjeet's real name is Gopal Bedi. Besides acting in over 200 Hindi movies, he has also done a television serial "Aisa Des Hai Mera" and a couple of Punjabi films.


title: Ranjeet

text: He shot to fame after playing a negative role in the film "Sharmeelee". Sunil Dutt had recommended his name after liking his performance in "Sawan Bhadon" and "Reshma Aur Shera". Ranjeet had come to Mumbai to play the lead role in "Zindagi Ki Rahen", which was shelved. He went ahead to establish himself as a leading villain in the seventies and early eighties.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: The 2021 season was the Pittsburgh Steelers' 89th season in the National Football League, their 22nd and final season under general manager Kevin Colbert and their 15th under head coach Mike Tomlin. They failed to improve upon their 12–4 record from 2020 and failed to win their division in back to back years for the first time since 2016–2017. However, they did make the playoffs in consecutive years for the first time since 2014–2017 after defeating the Baltimore Ravens, combined with the Las Vegas Raiders defeating the Los Angeles Chargers, and the Jacksonville Jaguars upsetting the Indianapolis Colts, all of which took place during the Sunday games of Week 18. However the Steelers were defeated in the first round of the playoffs by the Kansas City Chiefs 42–21.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: For the first time since 2009, center Maurkice Pouncey was not on the roster, as he announced his retirement on February 12. Also, for the first time since 2011, guard David DeCastro was not on the roster, as he was released by the Steelers on June 24. It was also quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's final season with the Steelers as he announced his retirement on January 27, 2022, after 18 seasons with the team. A 6-time Pro Bowler, Roethlisberger led the Steelers to 12 playoff appearances and 3 Super Bowl appearances, winning 2 of them in 2005 and 2008 respectively. He also retired as 5th all-time in passing yards, and was the last remaining active quarterback from the 2004 Draft class.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: It was also the final season that the team’s home stadium was known as Heinz Field, as it was announced that the naming rights were bought by Michigan-based insurance company Acrisure in a deal initially reported on July 11, 2022 after Kraft-Heinz, who owned the original rights to the stadium’s name since its grand opening in 2001, decided not to sign a new deal with the Steelers, officially ending its 21-year business arrangement, renaming it Acrisure Stadium in the process. The decision to rename the stadium has been received overwhelmingly negatively by Steelers fans.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: On February 15, the NFL announced that the Steelers would face the Dallas Cowboys in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game on Thursday, August 5, at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio. The game kicked off at 8:00 p.m. EDT, televised by Fox. The Steelers were represented by former head coach Bill Cowher and safeties Troy Polamalu and Donnie Shell. The Steelers and Cowboys were scheduled to play in the 2020 Hall of Fame game; however, the game, the annual Hall of Fame enshrinement, along with the entire 2020 preseason, were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Hall of Fame game between the Steelers and Cowboys was rescheduled for 2021. The Steelers ended up defeating the Cowboys by a score of 16–3.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: The Steelers started their season on the road against the Bills. The first half was all Bills scoring when Tyler Bass kicked a 37-yard field goal to make it 3-0 in the first. In the second quarter, they made the halftime score 10-0 when Josh Allen found Gabe Davis for a 3-yard touchdown pass. After halftime, the Steelers went to work, with Chris Boswell scoring 2 field goals in the third quarter, from 24 and 20 yards out, to make it 10-3 and then 10-6. In the fourth quarter, the Steelers would take the lead when Ben Roethlisberger found Diontae Johnson on a 5-yard touchdown pass to make it 13-10. Miles Killebrew then blocked a punt and Ulysees Gilbert III returned it 9 yards for a touchdown to make it 20-10. The Bills drew closer when Bass kicked a 23-yard field goal to make it 20-13. The Steelers responded with a 45-yard field goal from Boswell to make it 23-13. The Bills then once again came within a touchdown when Bass kicked a 42-yard field goal to make it 23-16. The Bills then tried for an onside kick. However, JuJu Smith-Schuster would recover the kick, sealing the Steelers' victory.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: After a tough road win, the Steelers headed home to face the Raiders. In the first quarter, Raiders kicker Daniel Carlson kicked a 46-yard field goal to get his team on the board 3-0. They would make it 6-0 in the second quarter when Carlson kicked a 33-yard field goal. The Steelers took the lead when JuJu Smith-Schuster ran for a 3-yard touchdown to make it 7-6. However, the Raiders took the lead back when Carlson kicked a 41-yard field goal to make it 9-7 at halftime. The Raiders increased their lead in the third quarter when Derek Carr found Foster Moreau on a 9-yard touchdown pass to make it 16-7. The Steelers then came within 2 points after Ben Roethlisberger found Najee Harris on a 25-yard touchdown pass to make it 16-14. The Raiders then pulled away when Carr found Henry Ruggs III on a 61-yard touchdown pass to make it 23-14. Chris Boswell then kicked a 56-yard field goal to bring the Steelers within 6, 23-17. The Raiders were able to seal the victory with Carlson's 45-yard field goal to make the final score 26-17.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: With the loss, the Steelers fell to 1-1. They lost to the Raiders at home for the first time since 2009.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: After a tough loss, the Steelers stayed home for Round 1 against the Bengals. The Bengals scored first in the first quarter for their only score when Joe Burrow found Tyler Boyd on a 17-yard touchdown pass to make it 7-0. The Steelers tied it up in the second quarter when Ben Roethlisberger found Pat Freiermuth on a 4-yard touchdown pass to make it 7-7. The Bengals took the lead back when Burrow found Ja'Marr Chase on a 34-yard touchdown pass for a 14-7 halftime lead. After the break, the Bengals went back to work in the third quarter, scoring twice: Evan McPhearson kicked a 43-yard field goal to make it 17-7, followed by Burrow's third touchdown pass of the day (and second pass to Chase) to make it 24-7. In the fourth quarter, only the Steelers would score with Chris Boswell's 26-yard field goal to make the eventual final score 24-10.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: With the loss, the Steelers fell to 1-2. Coupled with wins by the Ravens and Browns, they finished the week in last place in the AFC North. The team lost their second straight game to the Bengals, losing to them in Pittsburgh for the first time since 2015.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: After a tough home loss, the Steelers traveled west to take on the Packers. The Steelers scored the only points in the first quarter when Ben Roethlisberger found Diontae Johnson on a 45-yard touchdown pass to make it 7-0. However, the Packers would take the lead in the second quarter by making it 14-7 by way of Aaron Rodgers 1-yard touchdown run, followed by a 23-yard touchdown pass to Randall Cobb. The Steelers shortened the lead to 4 when Chris Boswell kicked a 53-yard field goal. The Packers moved up by a touchdown after Mason Crosby kicked a 26-yard field goal to make it 17-10 at halftime. In the third quarter, it was all Packers as Crosby made a 29-yard field goal, followed by Rodgers' second touchdown pass to Cobb from a yard out to make it 27-10. The Steelers scored the only points of the fourth quarter with Najee Harris's 1-yard touchdown run to make the final score 27-17.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: After a third straight loss, the Steelers returned home to face the Broncos. It was a back-and-forth game in which Roethlisberger posted his first game of the season with more than one touchdown pass. The game saw Pittsburgh up 24–6 at one point before Broncos quarterback Teddy Bridgewater passed for two touchdowns in the 4th quarter. The Steelers then extended their lead to 27–19 by way of Boswell's 43-yard field goal. With under a minute left, the Broncos drove down deep into Steelers' territory. Bridgewater threw the game-losing interception to cornerback James Pierre, sealing the Steelers' victory and snapping their 3-game losing skid.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: With the win, the Steelers improved to 2–3. Unfortunately, any celebration was muted as the team later learned the full diagnosis of the midgame injury sustained by JuJu Smith-Schuster; a dislocated shoulder from a hit delivered by Kareem Jackson, which was initially believed to have ended his season. Smith-Schuster, however, would heal quicker than originally anticipated and make a surprise recovery and return to the lineup just in time for the playoffs.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: After a tough home win, the Steelers stayed home for a Sunday Night duel against the Seahawks, who would be missing Russell Wilson after he suffered a finger injury the previous week. After a scoreless first quarter, the Steelers went up 14-0 at halftime in the second after Ben Roethlisberger found Najee Harris on a 5-yard touchdown pass, followed by Eric Ebron's 1-yard run for a touchdown. After the break, the Seahawks were able to get on the board in the third when Alex Collins ran for a 3-yard touchdown to make the score 14-7. Chris Boswell then increased the Steelers' lead when he kicked a 27-yard field goal to make it 17-7. The Seahawks came within 3 when Geno Smith found Will Dissly on a 1-yard touchdown pass to make the score 17-14. Then in the fourth quarter, they tied the game when Jason Myers kicked a 40-yard field goal at 17-17. The Steelers retook the lead when Boswell kicked a 52-yard field goal. However, with seconds left in regulation, Myers would kick a 43-yard field goal to tie the game at 20-20. In overtime, T. J. Watt forced a Geno Smith fumble recovered by Devin Bush that would lead to Boswell kicking the 37-yard game-winning field goal to make the final score 23-20.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: Coming off the bye week, the Steelers headed to Cleveland for game 1 against the Browns. In the first quarter, the Browns scored when Chase McLaughlin kicked 30-yard field goal to make it 3-0 for the quarter's only score. The Steelers tied the game up at 3-3 when Chris Boswell kicked a 31-yard field goal. This was the score at halftime. After the break, the Browns would retake the lead when D'Ernest Johnson ran for a 10-yard touchdown to make it 10-3. The Steelers then came within a point later on in the quarter when Najee Harris ran for an 8-yard touchdown (with a failed 2-point conversion) to make it 10-9. In the fourth quarter, the Steelers scored the only points when Ben Roethlisberger found Pat Freiermuth on a 2-yard touchdown pass (with another failed 2-point conversion) to make the eventual final score 15-10.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: With their third straight win, the Steelers were able to snap their 2-game losing streak to the Browns and improve to 4-3.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: After a tough road win, the Steelers headed home to take on the Bears. They would score the first quarter's only points when Najee Harris ran for a 10-yard touchdown. They made it 14-0 in the second when Ben Roethlisberger found Pat Freiermuth on a 4-yard touchdown pass. The Bears were able to get on the board before halftime when Cairo Santos kicked a 30-yard field goal to make the score 14-3. In the third quarter, the Bears scored again as Santos made it 14-6 with a 22-yard field goal. However, the Steelers pulled ahead by double digits as Roethlisberger and Freiermuth hooked up again on a 10-yard touchdown pass (with a failed PAT) to make it 20-6. In the fourth quarter, the Bears shortened the lead to 7 when Darnell Mooney ran for a 15-yard touchdown to make it 20-13. The Steelers then pulled away as Chris Boswell kicked a 54-yard field goal to make it 23-13. The Bears then answered by coming within 3 when DeAndre Houston-Carson recovered a fumbled punt return by Ray-Ray McCloud and returned it 53 yards for a touchdown to make it 23-20. But the Steelers increased their lead to make it 26-20 when Boswell kicked a 52-yard field goal. The Bears then took the lead when Justin Fields found Mooney on a 16-yard touchdown pass to make it 27-26. But the Steelers came back to take the lead yet again when Boswell kicked a 40-yard field goal to make it 29-27. With seconds left, the Bears tried for a 65-yard field goal from Santos, however the ball would fall several yards short of the goal post and miss, sealing the win for the Steelers.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: With their fourth straight win, the Steelers improved to 5–3. They have now won 19 straight home games on Monday Night Football and are now 215–0–2 in franchise history when leading by 14 or more points during the fourth quarter of a home game. This was the team's first win against Chicago under Mike Tomlin; the Steelers lost the first three such meetings.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: After a tough win at home, the Steelers stayed home for a game against the Lions. The Steelers scored the only points in the first quarter when Mason Rudolph found James Washington on a 9-yard touchdown pass to make it 7-0. In the second quarter, the Lions were able to tie it up at 7-7 when Jermar Jefferson ran for a 28-yard touchdown. The Steelers moved back into the lead when Chris Boswell kicked a 20-yard field goal to make it 10-7. However, the Lions would tie it up again at 10-10 when Ryan Santoso kicked a 20-yard field goal at halftime. In the third quarter, the Lions took the lead when Godwin Igwebuike ran for a 42-yard touchdown (with a failed PAT) to make it 16-10. Though, the Steelers came within 3 when Boswell kicked a 23-yard field goal to make it 16-13. In the fourth quarter, the Steelers managed to tie the game up at 16-16 when Boswell kicked a 51-yard field goal. The game would go into overtime with both teams failing to score, securing a tie.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: With the tie, the Steelers fell to 5-3-1. It was good enough for the team to hold onto second place in the AFC North.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: After the unfortunate tie at home against the Lions, the Steelers traveled to Los Angeles for a game against the Chargers. The Steelers were able to score 3-0 when Chris Boswell kicked a 36-yard field goal. The Chargers made it 7-3 when Austin Ekeler ran for a 6-yard touchdown. They would make it 14-3 when Justin Herbert connected with Ekeler for a 10-yard touchdown pass. The Steelers came within 4 when Ben Roethlisberger found Diontae Johnson on a 10-yard touchdown pass to make it 14-10. The Chargers moved ahead by a touchdown when Dustin Hopkins kicked a 30-yard field goal to make it 17-10 at halftime. The Chargers would add to their lead in the third quarter when Herbert and Ekeler connected again for a 17-yard touchdown pass, making the score 24-10 and then 27-10 when Hopkins kicked a 41-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter, the Steelers came closer when Boswell kicked another 36-yard field goal to make it 27-13 and then 27-20 when Najee Harris ran for a 1-yard touchdown. Though, the Chargers moved ahead by a couple touchdowns again when Ekeler ran for a 5-yard touchdown for a 34-20 lead. The Steelers put up 3 straight scores to take the lead: Roethlisberger found Eric Ebron on a 5-yard touchdown pass, shortening the lead to 34-27, followed up with Roethlisberger connecting with Pat Freiermuth on a 5-yard touchdown pass to tie the game at 34-34, followed by Boswell's lead-taking 45-yard field goal to make it 37-34. However, the Chargers moved back into the lead with Herbert's 53-yard touchdown pass to Mike Williams for a 41-37 game. The Steelers got the ball back, but couldn't move the ball any further as Roethlisberger was sacked twice, sealing the Chargers' win.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: After a tough loss, the Steelers traveled to Cincinnati for Round 2 against the Bengals. The Bengals scored first in the first quarter when Joe Burrow ran for an 8-yard touchdown to make it 7-0. They made it 10-0 when Evan McPherson kicked a 31-yard field goal. The Steelers got on the board later on when Chris Boswell kicked a 40-yard field goal to make it 10-3. Though, the Bengals would score 31 consecutive points to make it 41-3, before Ben Roethlisberger found Pat Freiermuth on a 15-yard touchdown pass to make the final score 41-10.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: With their third straight loss to the Bengals, the Steelers fell to 5-5-1 and were swept by the Bengals for the first time since 2009. The 31-point deficit is the largest margin of loss against the Bengals since Week 2 of the 1989 season, which also ended with a final score of 41-10.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: After being swept by the Bengals, the Steelers returned home for Round 1 against the Ravens. After a scoreless first quarter, the Ravens scored first in the second when Devonta Freeman ran for a 3-yard touchdown to make it 7-0. Chris Boswell was able to get the Steelers on the board at halftime when he kicked a 53-yard field goal to make it 7-3. In the third quarter, the Ravens scored the only points when Justin Tucker kicked a 35-yard field goal, putting his team up 10-3. In the fourth quarter, the Steelers came within a point when Ben Roethlisberger found Diontae Johnson on a 26-yard touchdown pass (with a failed PAT) to make it 10-9. Though, the Ravens made it a 4-point game when Tucker kicked a 28-yard field to make it 13-9. The Steelers then scored twice to take a 20-13 lead after Boswell kicked a 43-yard field goal and then Roethlisberger connected with Johnson again on a 5-yard touchdown pass. The Ravens then made it 20-19 when Lamar Jackson found Sammy Watkins on a 6-yard touchdown pass (with a failed 2-point conversion). The Ravens then tried for an onside kick, but it would be recovered by the Steelers, sealing the victory.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: With their third straight win over the Ravens, the Steelers improved to 6-5-1 and third place in the AFC North.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: After a tough home win over the Ravens, the Steelers traveled to Minneapolis for a Thursday Night game against the Vikings. The Vikings were able to jump out to a 29-0 lead through the third quarter before the Steelers scored 3 straight times to make it 29-20. Kirk Cousins then found K.J. Osborn on a 62-yard touchdown pass to make it 36-20. The Steelers scored the final points of the game when Ben Roethlisberger found Pat Freiermuth on a 15-yard touchdown pass (with a successful 2-point conversion) to make the final score 36-28. However, the Steelers final drive ended in an incompletion allowing the Vikings to escape with a win.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: With the loss, the Steelers fell to 6-6-1. With the Browns' win over the Ravens on Sunday, they fell to last place in the AFC North.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: After another tough loss, the Steelers headed home for a game against the Titans. In the first quarter, the Titans made it 10-0 with Ryan Tannehill's 1-yard touchdown run followed by Randy Bullock's 26-yard field goal. In the second quarter, the Steelers managed to get on the board when Chris Boswell kicked a 36-yard field goal to make it 10-3. The Titans went up 13-3 before halftime when Bullock kicked a 32-yard field goal. In the second half, it was all Steelers, with a Ben Roethlisberger 1-yard rushing touchdown and three more Boswell field goals, making the final score 19-13.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: With the win, the Steelers improved to 7-6-1. A Ravens loss later in the day brought the Steelers within one-half of a game of the division lead.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: After a tough win at home, the Steelers traveled to take on the Chiefs. Throughout the first 3 quarters, the Chiefs managed to jump out to a 30–0 lead before the Steelers finally got on the board when Chris Boswell kicked a 34-yard field goal with 3:34 to go in the third. In the fourth quarter, the Chiefs then scored a couple more field goals from Elliot Fry: from 34 and 30 yards out to make it 36–3. Ben Roethlisberger then found Diontae Johnson on a 15-yard touchdown pass to make the final score 36–10.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: After a tough road loss, the Steelers headed home for Game 2 against the Browns. After a scoreless first quarter, the Steelers were able to get on the board in the second after Ben Roethlisberger and Diontae Johnson connected on a 5-yard touchdown pass to make it 7-0. They would make it 10-0 at halftime when Chris Boswell kicked a 22-yard field goal. In the third quarter, the Steelers went up 13-0 after Boswell kicked a 30-yard field goal. The Browns got on the board later on in the quarter, when Baker Mayfield found David Njoku on a 3-yard touchdown pass to make it 13-7. The Steelers however, pulled away again as Boswell kicked a couple field goals: from 50 and 48 yards out to make the score 19-7. The Browns then shortened the lead to 5 when Mayfield found Harrison Bryant on a 1-yard touchdown pass to make the score 19-14. However, the Steelers were able to secure the victory when Najee Harris ran for a 37-yard touchdown, making the final score 26-14. The game was significant for reasons outside of the playoff hunt, as it was widely expected to be the last home game for QB Ben Roethlisberger. Throughout the game, the Heinz Field crowd broke out in chants for Roethlisberger, who gave an emotional interview after the game and circled the field thanking the fans before leaving with his family.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: With the win, the Steelers improved to 8-7-1 and second place in the AFC North and also remained in the AFC playoff hunt. They would also sweep the Browns for the first time since 2017.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: The Steelers ended their season in Baltimore for Round 2 against the Ravens. In the first quarter, the Steelers scored the only points when Chris Boswell kicked a 28-yard field goal to make it 3–0. The Ravens tied it up at 3–3 in the second quarter when Justin Tucker kicked a 24-yard field goal. This would be the score at halftime. In the third quarter, the Ravens moved into the lead when Latavius Murray ran for a 46-yard touchdown to make it 10–3. The Steelers then came within 4 when Boswell kicked a 40-yard field goal, making the score 10–6. The Steelers retook the lead in the fourth quarter when Ben Roethlisberger found Chase Claypool on a 6-yard touchdown pass to make it 13–10. Tucker then tied the game up at 13–13 with a 46-yard field goal. In overtime, the Steelers were able to drive down the field and eventually Boswell was brought out to kick the game-winning 36-yard field goal to win the game 16–13. Head coach Mike Tomlin recorded his 162nd win with the Steelers, surpassing his predecessor, Bill Cowher's record of 161 wins to become the 2nd winningest head coach in franchise history, only behind Chuck Noll, whom coached the team from 1969-1991.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: With the win, the Steelers finished the regular season at 9–7–1 and swept the Ravens for the second straight season, and also eliminated them from the playoffs.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: The Steelers clinched a playoff berth due to their victory over the Ravens in conjunction with the Jaguars' defeat of the Colts and the Raiders' defeat of the Chargers on Sunday Night Football.


title: 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers season

text: In quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's final NFL game, the #7 seeded Steelers traveled to take on the #2 seeded Chiefs. Both teams would go scoreless in the first quarter before the Steelers scored first in the second quarter with T. J. Watt's 26-yard fumble return for a touchdown. Though, the Chiefs scored 3 straight touchdowns before halftime, making it 21-7. In the third quarter, they made it 35-7 after a couple more touchdowns. Though, the Steelers shortened the lead to 21 when Ben Roethlisberger found Diontae Johnson on a 13-yard touchdown pass, making it 35-14. The Chiefs then pulled away when Travis Kelce threw a 2-yard touchdown pass to Byron Pringle to make it 42-14. The Steelers then scored the remaining 7 points from Roethlisberger to James Washington to make the final score 42-21.


title: My Favorite Things (song)

text: In the original Broadway production, this song was introduced by Mary Martin playing Maria and Patricia Neway playing Mother Abbess. Julie Andrews, who played Maria in the 1965 film version of the musical, had previously sung it on the 1961 Christmas special for "The Garry Moore Show".


title: My Favorite Things (song)

text: In 2004 the movie version of the song finished at No. 64 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.


title: My Favorite Things (song)

text: John Coltrane played a fourteen-minute version in E minor as the title track of an album recorded in October 1960 and released in March 1961. It became a jazz classic and a signature song for Coltrane in concert, also appearing on "Newport '63" in 1963.


title: My Favorite Things (song)

text: Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass released a version in 1969 as a single from their 1968 album, "Christmas Album". It reached No. 45 on the "Billboard" 100. Lorrie Morgan's version appeared in 1994 and again in 1999 at No. 64 and No. 69, respectively, on the Hot Country Songs chart after she recorded it for her 1993 album, "Merry Christmas from London".


title: My Favorite Things (song)

text: In 2019, Ariana Grande based her song "7 Rings" on the melody of "My Favorite Things". The song topped the charts in fifteen countries.