The Bend Elks are an amateur baseball team from Bend, Oregon.
The team is a founding member of the wooden-bat West Coast League, a collegiate summer baseball league in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia that began play in 2005. The Elks play their home games at Vince Genna Stadium. The team began play in 2000, and holds most of the league attendance records. In 2010 the Elks made the final round of the WCL playoffs for the first time, and set the highest in-league attendance in history. In 2011 the Elks again set the attendance record, besting their earlier record partway through the season.
The Elks' most notable alumnus is current New York Yankees outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury, who played for the team in the summer of 2002. The two other MLB Elks-alumni are Brian Barden and Eric Sogard.
The Elks are the latest in a long history of semi-pro and minor-league teams to call Central Oregon home. From the late Seveties until the mid Nineties, Vince Genna Stadium hosted affiliates of the Angels (including a young Kurt Russell), the A's, the Phillies, and the Rockies, generally as part of the Northwest League. However, by 1998 the stadium lacked a main tenant team.
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE; also often known as the Elks Lodge or simply The Elks) is an American fraternal order and social club founded in 1868. It is one of the leading fraternal orders in the U.S., claiming nearly one million members.
The Elks had modest beginnings in 1868 as a social club for minstrel show performers, called the "Jolly Corks". It was established as a private club to elude New York City laws governing the opening hours of public taverns. After the death of a member left his wife and children without income, the club took up additional service roles, rituals and a new name. Desiring to adopt "a readily identifiable creature of stature, indigenous to America," fifteen members voted 8–7 in favor of the elk above the buffalo. Early members were mostly from theatrical performing troupes in New York City. It has since evolved into a major American fraternal, charitable, and service order with more than a million members, both men and women, throughout the United States and the former territories of the Philippines and the Panama Canal.
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The Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset (ELKS), formerly known as Linux-8086, is a Unix-like operating system kernel. It is a subset of the Linux kernel, intended for 16-bit computers with limited processor and memory resources such as machines powered by Intel 8086 and compatible microprocessors not supported by 32-bit Linux.
ELKS is free software and available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It can work with early 16-bit x86 (8086, 80186 and 80286) computers like IBM PC compatible systems, and in virtual 8086 mode, a feature of the 32-bit Intel 80386 and later CPUs found in newer machines. Another useful area are single board microcomputers, intended as educational tools for "homebrew" projects (hardware hacking), as well as embedded controller systems (e.g. Automation).
ELKS also runs on Psion 3a and 3aR SIBO (SIxteen Bit Organiser) PDAs with NEC V30 CPUs, providing another possible field of operation (gadget hardware), if ported to such a platform. This effort was called ELKSibo.
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"Bend" is a song by Australian musician Chet Faker, released as a digital single in Australia on 19 June 2015 through Future Classic.
Faker announced a new Australian tour and premiered the song on the Matt and Alex show on Triple J on June 17. During the interview Faker said the song was intended to be on his debut album Built on Glass, but was ultimately replaced by "To Me". Faker said, "Ever since it got cut from the album it's just been sitting on my iTunes, sitting there looking at me. Usually when I cut a song after a few months I'm like 'yeah cool, that song's dead' but it's been annoying me... [so] it was either never going to be put out, or now, with this tour." "I recorded it in 2013 and kinda wanted to put it out since. It's always felt like a part of Built on Glass and since [the upcoming Australian] tour is the sort of live 'director's cut' of the album it made sense to release this before it lost context."
In heraldry, a bend is a band or strap running from the upper dexter (the bearer's right side and the viewer's left) corner of the shield to the lower sinister (the bearer's left side, and the viewer's right). Authorities differ as to how much of the field it should cover, ranging from one-fifth (if shown between other charges) up to one-third (if charged alone). The supposed rule that a bend should occupy a maximum of one-third of the field appears to exclude the possibility of two or three bends being shown together, but contrary examples exist.
A bend can be modified by most of the lines of partition, such as the bend engrailed in the ancient arms of Fortescue or in the more modern examples of Cleethorpes Borough Council, England, and the bend wavy in the ancient coat of Wallop, Earls of Portsmouth of the modern Picard, Canada.
The usual bend is occasionally called a bend dexter when it needs to contrast with the bend sinister, which runs in the other direction, like a sash worn diagonally from the left shoulder (Latin sinister means left).