Simpsons producer Bill Oakley said, " The Simpsons has transplanted Mad magazine.

Oakley Court has been refurbished and is now a hotel.

The eyewear and fashion wear company Oakley also frequently denotes the material used for many of their eyeglass nosepieces and earpieces, which has the unusual property of increasing tackiness and thus grip when wet, as unobtanium.

It also has 14 elementary schools: Commerce, Dublin, Glengary, Mary Helen Guest ( formerly known as Decker ), Hickory Woods, Keith, Loon Lake, Maple, Meadowbrook, Oakley Park, Pleasant Lake, Twin Beach, Walled Lake Elementary, and Wixom.

Incorporated in 1933 on land originally purchased from the Union Pacific Company by the early settlers in the land sale of the 1880s, Oakley has maintained its small town charm as primarily an agricultural community.

Oakley has one of the largest group of General Pervez Musharraf supporters in the United States.

Oakley has a weekly newspaper, The Oakley Graphic.

The Palace Theatre in Oakley has been featured in People magazine and ABC World News after the establishment reopened in 2003 after being forced to close indefinitely two years prior.

She has lived in London since 1992 when she was invited to play Annie Oakley in Irving Berlin's musical Annie Get Your Gun.

The Society for New Communications Research, in 2008, also recognized UIS with their Award for Excellence in Online Reputation Management. Each year since 2001, the Sloan Consortium has offered one award for " Most Outstanding Achievement by an Individual in Online Learning "-the 2002 award was given to Professor Emeritus Ray Schroeder, the 2003 award was given to Visiting Research Professor Burks Oakley, and the 2006 award was given to the UIS James J. Stukel Distinguished Professor, Karen Swan.

The hamlet of Addingrove now no longer exists and its chapel has long since fallen into disrepair, but Addingrove Farm still exists and is south-east of Oakley.

Oakley, like many English settlements, has its first written mention in the Domesday Book in 1086.

Like many other English villages, Oakley has in recent years lost its Post Office, shop, surgery and filling station.

The village has a football club, Oakley United.

In northern Scott County, K-4 has its origins at US 83, heading east toward Healy, and US 83 traverses through rolling farmlands until reaching Oakley, the seat of Logan County.

A lifelong scholar, Oakley has held visiting research appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D. C. During the academic year 1999-2000, he held the Sir Isaiah Berlin Visiting Professorship in teh History of Ideas at Oxford University.

Francis Oakley has written extensively on topics pertaining to medieval and early0modern intellectual and religious history and to American higher education, and is the co-editor of three volumes as well as the author of some fourteen books.

Oakley has served for many years on the boards of various non-profit organizations in the arts and higher education, among them the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art ( MASS MoCA ), the American Council of Learned Societies ( board chair 1994-97 ), the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute ( board president 1998-2005 ), and the National Humanities Center ( board chair 2004-7 ).

This notion holds at least in so far as it has found favor among some historians and philosophers ( e. g., the historian Francis Oakley and the philosopher Michael B.

But by selling inflated oil stock, he has cheated the wrong men-Stephen Bradley, an American professor at University of Oxford, Dr Robin Oakley, a Harley Street physician, Jean-Pierre Lamanns, a French art dealer with a gallery in London, and James Brigsley, heir to an earldom.

Heart of Chicago is a neighborhood located in the southwest corner of the Lower West Side community area, and has an Italian restaurant strip on S Oakley Ave.

; Episodes listed are those Oakley has been credited as writing or co-writing

During Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein's period as showrunners, they found that as they aged, Homer seemed to become older too, so they increased his age to 38.

Duane became employed as a session musician at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and began to assemble the group that would become The Allman Brothers Band-Duane and Dickey Betts on guitars, Berry Oakley on bass guitar, and Butch Trucks and Jai Johanny " Jaimoe " Johanson on drums.

On the flight home Oakley penciled the first outlines of what would become the Chopper onto the back of an airmail envelope.

Remembering the melody during the October 1971 sessions that produced most of the third side of what would become Eat A Peach, Allman laid down the track, joined only by Dicky Betts and bassist Berry Oakley, though Oakley's part would be mixed out of the final version, leaving the number as a duet for the two guitarists.

But Oakley " lost his sparkle " and started drinking heavily during what was to become his last year in life.

In December 2008, machinima. com signed fifteen experienced television comedy writers — including Patric Verrone, Bill Oakley, and Mike Rowe — to produce episodes for the site.

Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, the showrunners for the seventh and eighth seasons, believed that every season of the show should contain an episode starring Sideshow Bob.

In the following offseason, the team acquired point guard John Paxson and on draft day traded with the Cavaliers for the rights to power forward Charles Oakley.

Popular power forward Charles Oakley, who had led the league in total rebounds in both ' 87 and ' 88, was traded on the eve of the 1988 draft to the New York Knicks along with a Round 1 draft pick used by the Knicks on Rod Strickland for center Bill Cartwright and a 1st round draft pick which the Bulls used to obtain center Will Perdue.

Then, she receives wonderful news: her uncle ( for whom she was named ), Charlie Oakley ( Joseph Cotten ), her mother's younger brother, is arriving for a visit.

Foothill Ranch is notable for such company headquarters as Oakley, Inc., Wet Seal, Emergen-C, Kaiser Aluminum, and ProBoards.

The city was named for William Oakley, the proprietor of a 19th century stagecoach station located at a spring currently located about 2 miles west of the present townsite known as Oakley Meadows.

Today, many people remark that Oakley is the very last " Mayberry " left in America, and frequently visited for its Victorian homes.

The museum exhibits also mention the local posse members brought in for jurisdictional reasons, Bienville Parish Sheriff Henderson Jordan ( 1896 – 1958 ) and his chief deputy and successor as sheriff, Prentiss Oakley.

* Bill Oakley, former co-executive producer and head writer for The Simpsons and Mission Hill

It was named for Judge Oakley of Dutchess County, New York, a relative of one of its citizens.

Oakley is most famous for its annual rodeo, held each year on the Fourth of July weekend.

Exiled Irish patriot Thomas Addis Emmet and Thomas J. Oakley argued for Ogden, while William Wirt and Daniel Webster argued for Gibbons.

He played for the Raptors from 1996 – 1998, before being traded to the New York Knicks in exchange for Charles Oakley ; after which the Knicks became the first 8th seed to make it to the NBA Finals during the 1998 – 99 NBA season.

Approximately 70 Jericho fans met in Oakley on September 14 – 16, 2007 for the first Jericho convention, called Jerichon 2007.

Peters won her second Tony for her performance as Annie Oakley in the 1999 revival of Annie Get Your Gun opposite Tom Wopat.

Playing Jane's friend, Annie Oakley, Buffalo Girls was nominated for an Emmy award.

The day after the earthquake, the only staff members who turned up for work were Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein.