Club Sport League Venue Founded Titles Outside the Northeast Corridor and stretches of track in Southern California and Michigan most Amtrak trains run on tracks owned and operated by privately owned freight railroads Freight rail operators are required under federal law to give dispatching preference to Amtrak trains Some freight railroads have been accused of violating or skirting these regulations allegedly resulting in passenger trains waiting in sidings for an hour or longer while waiting for freight traffic to clear the track the railroads' dispatching practices were investigated in 2008 resulting in stricter laws about train priority Subsequently Amtrak's overall on-time performance went up from 74.7% in fiscal 2008 to 84.7% in 2009 with long-distance trains and others outside the NEC seeing the greatest benefit the Missouri River Runner jumped from 11% to 95% becoming one of Amtrak's best performers the Texas Eagle went from 22.4% to 96.7% and the California Zephyr with a 5% on-time record in 2008 went up to 78.3% This improved performance coincided with a general economic downturn resulting in the lowest freight-rail traffic volumes since at least 1988 meaning less freight traffic to impede passenger traffic in 2018 Amtrak began issuing report cards grading each host railroad based on the railroad's impact on on-time performance the first report card issued in March 2018 includes one a (given to Canadian Pacific) and two Fs (given to CN and Norfolk Southern). The National Railroad Passenger Corporation more commonly known as Amtrak runs the intercity rail line Crescent through metro Atlanta twice daily with one train heading towards New Orleans and the other headed towards New York All trains make a scheduled stop at Peachtree Station in northern Midtown Atlanta but it is also possible for arrange for trains to stop in Gainesville Georgia as well, Geography and nomenclature Australia (424), The 1996 Summer Olympics relied heavily on commercial sponsorship the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company was the exclusive provider of soft drinks at Olympics venues and built an attraction known as Coca-Cola Olympic City for the Games. 7.2 Housing Lovejoy pop 6,422, Monroe pop 13,478 Agriculture The oldest of those research institutes is a nonprofit research organization referred to as the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) GTRI provides sponsored research in a variety of technical specialties including radar electro-optics and materials engineering Around forty percent (by award value) of Georgia Tech's research especially government-funded classified work is conducted through this counterpart organization GTRI employs over 1,700 people and had $305 million in revenue in fiscal year 2014 the other institutes include: the Parker H Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience the Georgia Tech Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute the Institute of Paper Science and Technology Institute for Materials and the Institute for People and Technology, Heard Growing dissent Georgia county and city public school systems are administered by school boards with members elected at the local level as of 2013 all but 19 of 181 boards are elected from single-member districts Residents and activist groups in Fayette County Georgia sued the board of commissioners and school board for maintaining an election system based on at-large voting which tended to increase the power of the majority and effectively prevented minority participation on elected local boards for nearly 200 years a change to single-member districts has resulted in the African-American minority being able to elect representatives of its choice. 12 Further reading Zimbabwe (13) The Braves have retired eleven numbers in the history of the franchise including most recently Chipper Jones' number 10 in 2013 John Smoltz's number 29 in 2012 Bobby Cox's number 6 in 2011 Tom Glavine's number 47 in 2010 and Greg Maddux's number 31 in 2009 Additionally Hank Aaron's 44 Dale Murphy's 3 Phil Niekro's 35 Eddie Mathews' 41 Warren Spahn's 21 and Jackie Robinson's 42 which is retired for all of baseball with the exception of Jackie Robinson Day have also been retired the color and design of the retired numbers reflect the uniform design at the time the person was on the team excluding Robinson, Gymnastics ? ? ? ? ? Atlanta is home to professional franchises for four major team sports: the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League and Atlanta United FC of Major League Soccer the Braves who moved to Atlanta in 1966 were established as the Boston Red Stockings in 1871 and are the oldest continually operating professional sports franchise in the United States the Braves won the World Series in 1995 and had an unprecedented run of 14 straight divisional championships from 1991 to 2005 the Braves have a new home as of 2017 having moved from Turner Field to Suntrust Park which is in the Atlanta Metropolitan area 10 miles (16 km) northwest of downtown Atlanta in Cumberland/Galleria Georgia. . Georgia 400.svg State Route 400 Mableton (CDP) 37,115, Blizzard has also worked to create an AI-based cameraman that can follow the action of the game as well as select key instant replays During regular season matches Blizzard employs a team of about 80 to 100 people to manage the game and its broadcast; this includes on-screen hosts and interviewers play-by-play announcers or "shoutcasters" "overseers" who use the AI cameraman and monitor a match from several different angles to present the best view for audiences and broadcasting and technical support Among those Blizzard has brought on to shoutcast matches include Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles Erik "DoA" Lonnquist Matt "Mr X" Morello and Mitchell "Uber" Leslie Blizzard released a special Overwatch League app in early January 2018 just prior to the start of the first season to provide schedules results highlights and other details about the League's progress. .
Legal segregation was ended by passage of federal legislation in the 1960s According to the 1960 census the proportion of Georgia's population that was African American was 28%; hundreds of thousands of blacks had left the state in the Great Migration to the North and Midwest New white residents arrived through migration and immigration Following support from the national Democratic Party for the civil rights movement and especially civil rights legislation of 1964 and 1965 most African-American voters as well as other minority voters have largely supported the Democratic Party in Georgia in the decades since the late 20th century the conservative white-majority voters have increasingly supported Republicans for national and state offices; 70/21 90/32 The Overwatch League is owned by Blizzard Entertainment and run under the Major League Gaming organization which is also owned by Blizzard's parent company Activision Blizzard the Overwatch League plays out similar to most North American professional sports leagues in which all teams play scheduled games against other teams to vie for position in the season's playoffs rather than the approach of team promotion and relegation more commonly used in other esports leagues the league currently features twenty teams split between two divisions, 17 Further reading 6.6 Sports Marietta Daily Journal.
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