Tujh Sang Preet Lagai Sajna is an Indian soap opera broadcast on Star Plus channel. Produced by Balaji Telefilms, the series premiered on 3 November 2008 and ended on 5 February 2010.

Story
Balwant and Vikramaditya used to be best friends despite the fact that the latter was a land owner and the former was a farmer.

Their friendship was an example for everyone and they were inseparable until one horrible day.
Balwant's daughter Simran was supposed to marry Vikramaditya's son Sumer. But it turned out that Sumer was already married (and had a son with his wife Bindya). Sumer hadn't told anyone.

On the day of his proposed marriage to Simran, Sumer runs away to get Bindiya and tells Vikramaditya everything. Simran follows Sumer to tell him that she respects his decision and she does not want to marry him if he is already married. Simran is heartbroken as she has loved Sumer since her childhood but she swallows her pain in order to make him happy.

Balwant and Vikramaditya reach the train station, where Simran and Sumer are standing. A car runs over Simran. In a fit of rage Balwant's son Kuldeep shoots Sumer. Kuldeep goes to jail and the families become sworn enemies. Kaliganj (the village where they live) gets divided into two parts (Pratapgarh - Kishanganj) and separated by a border which no one can cross. One either belongs to Kishanganj (Vikramaditya's village) or Pratapgarh (Balwant's village).

Sumer's son Yug (one year old at the time) is sent to London to study and stay away from the enmity in the village. Kuldeep's daughter Vrinda (born on the day of the shoot-out) is considered unlucky in the family by everyone except Balwant, as her father (Kuldeep) went to jail and her aunt (Simran) died the day she was born.

20 years later
This led to Yug and Vrinda—two people whose families are sworn enemies—to fall in love. After several unpleasant encounters, they fall deeply in love. Yug and Vrinda can't live without one another, and they plan to marry. That is when they find out about their families hating each other. They decide to get rid of the enmity by reminding Balwant and Vikramaditya how they used to be such great friends. When that does not work, Yug comes to live at Vrinda's house pretending to be the best friend of Vrinda's cousin Teji. Nobody in the family, except for Vrinda and Teji, knows who Yug really is. He wins everyone's hearts and the family decides to get Yug and Vrinda married. That's when Balwant finds out who Yug really is. Yug and Vrinda run away. But they do not marry each other and come back within a day. They tell their families that they could have married if they wanted, and no one would have been able to do anything. They didn't because they truly love each other and want their marriage to happen with everyone's blessings. Balwant and Vikramaditya are untouched and they drag Yug and Vrinda home. Before leaving Yug says to Balwant, "Vrinda meri amanat hai, jisse mein aapke paas chodke ja raha hoon. Par mein usse lene jaldi aonga." (I am leaving Vrinda with you for a short while and I will come back to get her as she is only mine.)

This makes Balwant and Vikramaditya furious. They meet and make a plan to get Vrinda married to someone else in another village. But they tell Vrinda that she will marry Yug. Meanwhile, Vikramaditya sends Yug out on a business trip to London. Vrinda marries Rajbeer, who does not know about this plan. Yug finds out what happened and does not know what to do.

On the first night of marriage, Vrinda tells Rajbeer everything about her and Yug's love and their family's betrayal. She tells him that she thought she was marrying Yug and she cannot live with anyone else. Rajbeer (heartbroken) tells Vrinda that his grandmother is very ill and will only live about six months more. If Vrinda leaves Rajbeer, his grandmother will die right away. Vrinda agrees to stay in the house as Rajbeer's wife until his grandmother dies. Rajbeer promises that after six months, he will hand her over to Yug.

During these 6 months Vrinda and Rajbeer fall in love. But they do not admit it to each other because Rajbeer thinks Vrinda still loves Yug. She thinks that Rajbeer thinks of her only as a friend. On the day that his grandmother dies, Rajbeer gives Vrinda to Yug. But Yug tells them both that they belong together, as he used to see Vrinda's eyes filled with love for him but that love is now for Rajbeer and he does not want to get in the way of their happiness. Vrinda thanks Yug and leaves with Rajbeer. Seeing that they tore their children apart, Balwant and Vikramaditya end their enmity and become best friends again. Yug still loves Vrinda deeply but marries Bharti byn his grandfather's wishes. Yug tells Bharti that they will only stay friends as he will always love Vrinda. Yug had told Bharti all this before marriage but she wanted to marry him anyway because she loved him a lot.

At first it is shown that Bharti is a really sweet and beautiful girl who loves Yug deeply even though she knows about him and Vrinda. It is later revealed that Bharti is extremely jealous of Vrinda. Bharti is plotting to ruin Vrinda's life.

Vrinda gets pregnant and Bharti convinces Rajbeer that the child belongs to Yug, by showing him some pictures that show Vrinda and Yug embracing. (The pictures were taken when Yug was consoling Vrinda). The baby dies at the age of only one month in a kidnapping attempt. Vrinda is devastated and Rajbeer is furious. He thinks Yug is the cause of everything. He thinks Yug and Vrinda are having an affair. Rajbeer declares enmity with Yug and says that if Vrinda keeps any relation with Yug, he will consider her dead. Vrinda, who loves Rajbeer a lot, agrees to not keep any relation with Yug.

Two months later, Vrinda gets pregnant for a second time. As Vrinda returns from the clinic, she is nearly hit by a truck and is saved by Yug. Rajbeer comes at that moment and he sees Vrinda in Yug's arms. He thinks that Vrinda has still been meeting Yug and that this child, too, belongs to Yug and not him. He kicks Vrinda out of the house.

Yug tries to explain things to Rajbeer but that does not work so he goes to Vrinda (who is at the train station) to apologise. But Vrinda screams at Yug saying that every time Yug comes into her life, something goes wrong and if he wants to see Vrinda happy he should never show his face to her again.

Yug goes home, heartbroken, and he hears Bharti talking on the phone. He finds out how she was the one who showed Rajbeer the pics and ruined Vrinda's life and Yug gets furious. He confronts Bharti and screams at her saying there is so much difference between her and Vrinda, because Vrinda thinks about everyone else and Bharti only thinks about herself. Bharti screams at Yug saying that she did everything because she loved him. She wanted Yug to notice her but all he thought about was Vrinda. They divorce each other and Bharti goes away from everyone's life. The show takes an eight-year leap.

Eight years later

Rajbeer is now a huge business man like Yug used to be. Yug is nearly on the street because he refuses to do any business. Yug holds himself responsible for ruining Vrinda's life and wants to die as soon as possible. Rajbeer wants to ruin Yug financially and it seems to be working until Virnda comes back into their lives with her 8-year-old daughter, named Tulsi. Vrinda tells Yug that he had nothing to do with ruining her life, in fact he was the only one who stood by her. Relieved from his guilt, Yug goes back into business and gets back on top.

Rajbeer finds Vrinda and makes a deal with her. If she supports him with a court case (Vrinda is the eye witness and her statement could make Rajbeer's nephew go to jail) he will let her live with him as his wife. Vrinda agrees. Initially Rajbeer hates Vrinda and tries to do everything that he could to make her life miserable but he starts to soften up slowly. Tulsi, with the help of her "Yug uncle" brings her parents close together. But Rajbeer finds out about this and he yells at Tulsi saying that Yug is her father not him. Tulsi is hurt but Yug explains to her that her dad is just angry and they have to pacify him. But Tulsi starts crying and asks why Rajbeer does not accept her as his daughter and why did he tell her that Yug was her dad. Vrinda hears this whole conversation, and she is heartbroken that Rajbeer hurt her daughter. She decides she can't live with someone who hates her daughter so much so she decides to leave Rajbeer's house and she moves into an inidan colony.

At first Vrinda is happy living in the colony, but then some of the gossipy women of the colony start taunting Vrinda. They say that she has a daughter but no husband and that Tulsi is probably an illegitimate child, and that's why her dad does not come to see her. Vrinda is hurt by these comments and Tulsi is visibly disturbed by them. Vrinda decides that she will remarry so that no one will taunt Tulsi again. Vrinda asks Yug to marry her. Yug, still in love with Vrinda, says yes. Rajbeer finds out about the marriage and although he is insanely jealous he acts as if he does not care.

After a series of drama and misunderstandings, on the day of Yug and Vrinda's wedding, Rajbeer finally finds out the truth about what Bharti did, and how Vrinda was never unfaithful to him. He goes to the temple where Yug and Vrinda are getting married and begs for Vrinda's forgiveness and asks her to come back to him. Vrinda has forgiven Rajbeer and wants to go back to him, but she does not say anything as she does not want to betray Yug (who accepted her and stood by her when no one else would). Rajbeer takes Vrinda's silence as her way of rejecting him and he is just about to leave when Yug stops him. Yug says that although Vrinda will not say anything to him, he loves her so much that he can even read her silence and he can always tell what she is thinking and what she wants. He puts Vrinda's hand in Rajbeer's, symbolizing that they will always be together. Rajbeer welcomes Vrinda back into his house (with a clear heart), and apologises to Yug. Yug and Rajbeer become best friends again and they join their companies and start doing business together. Yug becomes the huge business tycoon that he used to be again and life seems perfect.  The sacred veil of the goddess in the temple flows over Yug and the girl as they stare in to each other's eyes. (This was exactly how Yug and Vrinda met for the first time.) Then they snap out of their eye lock and stand up straight. The girl introduces herself as Radha and Yug, mesmerised by her beauty (this is the first time Yug is mesmerised by anyone other than Vrinda) offers to drop her home. Radha accepts Yug's offer and gets into his car. While entering the car, Radha almost falls and Yug catches her. The show ends with Radha in Yug's arms, indicating that this is the start of a new love story.

As the credits roll, Rajbeer and Vrinda are shown playing with two more kids. Yug and Radha are shown getting married and then cradling their newborn son in their arms. So everyone lives happily ever after.

Cast and characters

 Puja Banerjee - Vrinda (married to Rajbeer; used to love Yug)
 Sandeep Baswana - Rajbeer (married to Vrinda)
 Kunal Verma - Yugandhar (married to Bharti; used to love Vrinda; now married to and loves Radha)
 Leena Jumani- Radha (loves and married to Yug; only shown in the last episode of the show)
 Yasir Shah - Siddharth ( Guest Appearance )
  Khushboo Singh - Bharti (used to be married to Yug; hates Vrinda)
 Aditi Bhatia - Tulsi (daughter of Vrinda and Rajbeer)
 Ananya Agarwal - Prerna (Babli's daughter, i.e. Rajbeer's niece)
 Chetan Pandit - Vikramaditya (Yug's paternal grandfather)
 Gautam Gulati - Teji (Radhika and Kushal's son; Vrinda's cousin)
 Sudhir Pandey - Balwant (Vrinda, Pooja, and Teji's paternal grandfather)
 Mayank Gandhi - Ashish (Gayatri's son; married to Babli; loves Bhumika; Yug's cousin)
 Garima Bhatnagar - Babli (married to Ashish; Rajbir's sister)
 Chahat Khanna - Frieda (married to Teji)
 Mihika Verma - Bhumika (loves Ashish; wants to marry him as soon as his plan is over)
 Abigail Jain - Geetika (Vrinda's friend)
 Papiya Sengupta - Parminder(married to Kuldeep; daughter in law of Balwant and; Vrinda's mom)
 Kanika Shivpuri - Preeto (married to Balwant;Vrinda, Pooja, and Teji's paternal grandmother)
  Deepak Qazir - Girdhari Kaka (Balwant and Vikramaditya's friend)
 Bindiya - (Yug's mother; widow)
 Kushal - (Pooja and Teji's dad; Radhika's husband; Balwant and Preeto's son; Vrinda's chachu)
 Gayatri - (Ashish and Neil's mother, Yug's bhua, Vikram Aditya's daughter; Babli's mother in law)
 Varun Kapoor -Neil (Gayatri's son; Ashish's brother; Yug's cousin)
 Karamveer - (Rajbir's brother, married to Sushma)
 Sushma - (Karamveer's wife; Rajbir's sister in law)
 Amma - (Sushma's mother; Karamveer's mother in law)
 Dimpy Ganguli as Dipika
 Rucha Hasabnis as Rashmi
 Hina Khan as Akshara
 Ragini Khanna as Suhana
 Pooja Gor as Pratigya

Production
The series premiered on 3 November 2008 replacing Kahanii Ghar Ghar Kii at a prime slot 10:00 pm (IST). Within few days of its premiere, the shootings and telecast of all the Hindi television series including this series and films were stalled on 8 November 2008 due to dispute by the technician workers of FWICE (Federation of Western India Cine Employees) for increasing the wages, better work conditions and more breaks between shootings. FWICE first took a strike on 1 October 2008 when they addressed their problems with the producers and production was stalled. A contract was signed after four days discussions and shooting were happening only for two hours content in a day then after which differences increased between them while channels gave them time until 30 October 2008 to sort it out. Failing to do so lead to protests again from 10 November 2008 to 19 November 2008 during which channels blacked out new broadcasts and repeat telecasts were shown from 10 November 2008. On 19 November 2008, the strike was called off after settling the disputes and the production resumed. The new episodes started to telecast from 1 December 2008.

Owing its average ratings since its inception, the series was given notice twice by the channel as of March 2009 and time until May 2009 IPL to improve its ratings. As it did not improve, it was moved to the afternoon slot in May 2009. Despite, it did not perform as expected and went off air on 5 February 2010.

Songs

References

External links
 Official Site

Balaji Telefilms television series
Indian television series
2008 Indian television series debuts
StarPlus original programming


Deckers may refer to:

Deckers (surname)
Deckers, Colorado, United States
Deckers Creek, a river in West Virginia, United States
Deckers Outdoor Corporation, a footwear manufacturer
In the fictional Shadowrun universe, computer hackers are known as "deckers"

See also
Decker (disambiguation)
Dekkers


Fusion is the ICT (Information and Communications Technology) for Development (ICT4D) movement of Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka, the leading NGO, serving over 15,000 villages. The name Sarvodaya is taken from the Sanskrit meaning of 'awakening (udaya) of all (sarva)', and roots back to the Gandhian ideals. Fusion, as implied by the true meaning of the word, envisages the fusion of the vision and mission of Sarvodaya into the broader development scenario, using Information and Communication technologies (ICT) as a common fabric. Thus, Fusion is identified as the ICT for Development (ICT4D) movement of Sarvodaya.

Fusion primarily, but not exclusively, works with the villages that have already been socially and economically uplifted through diverse community development programs carried out over a period of time. Thus they are better prepared to connect with the information age. For instance a community having a registered society, with a healthy track record of micro-finance activities is recognized as better prepared to interact with digital technologies.

Fusion partners with multiple institutions including the State (Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka), corporate, academic and civil organizations.

Vision
The project's vision is the e-Empowerment of rural poor communities.

Fusion's broader mission is founded on the following three pillars;
 Practice: keeping 'Community' first, and listening and recognizing the needs of the people, Fusion plans and implements programs as a response to their needs.
 Partnership: Fusion trusts and values the interdependence, sharing and sense of cooperation of the donors, educational establishments, state and corporate institutions that are carrying out the programs.
 Research: Fusion updates its development tools deriving information from the research. For instance, on one hand it seeks to adapt North-born technologies to the less well developed South. On the other hand, it strives to add value to indigenous wisdom and amplify the voices of the voiceless people of the South.

History
The program builds on the pioneering telecenter, that has been trialled by the Social Empowerment Program of Sarvodaya, in 1997, at a remote township (Kahawatta) of Ratnapura District, Sri Lanka.

Since it started it has progressed through a remarkable learning curve;
 Pilot testing and setting up of first ever Telecentre in Sri Lanka - 1997
 Formulation of Village Information Centre (VIC) concept and replication around the country - 1999
 First donor funded ICT program (by UNESCO Appeal) - 2003
 Initial partnership with Governments ICT program (eSriLanka) - 2003
 Developing Subsidy Voucher for the eSriLanka program - 2004
 Expansion of telecentre program with introduction of community scholarships (with Microsoft-UP) - 2004
 Beginning of ICT4D Research Program - ‘Virtual Villages; Socio-anthropological and technological study on last mile’ - 2004
 Setting up Telecentre Family Network (in collaboration with eSrilanka program) as an apex telecentre alliance - 2006
 Design and implementation of Agri-clinics as a farmer centric information delivery mechanism - 2006
 Sarvodaya-Fusion being elected as the Regional Coordinator for GKP (Global Knowledge Partnership) South Asia - 2006 May
 Launch of Sarvodaya-Fusion as a specialized ICT4D program of Sarvodaya - 2006 May

Programs

Village Information Centers (VIC)

Village Information Centers are simple community based libraries. Their unique features include:
 Simple, locally appropriate model
 Ability to adapt to diverse rural demands
 Community participation and ownership
 Ability to build community aspirations towards the digital age.

VICs are initiated by the youth leaders (volunteers) of rural villages. They are housed within low cost rural buildings, donated by the community. Some are maintained adjoining Sarvodaya Village Banks.

VICs accumulate and manage basic livelihood information related to health, transport, agriculture, education and governance.

There are VICs having enormous indigenous resources such as Traditional Medical Recipes (on Ola leaves), Indigenous crop harvest equipment, Storage systems, Traditional songs and books. Some VICs gather information related to local bio-diversity (birds, plant species etc.).

Telecentres

Telecentres are small units having a few computers and other ICT equipment located in rural districts. They provide internet access, ICT education and other IT services to rural communities.

The majority of the telecentres with which Fusion partners are owned by rural communities, (mostly sponsored by the State sponsored eSriLanka program). Fusion maintains a small network of telecentres to carry out pilot projects, the knowledge obtained from which can finally be adopted by the wider community.

References

Non-profit organisations based in Sri Lanka


The Man Higher Up: A Story of the Fight Which Is Life and the Force Which Is Love is a novel by the American writer Henry Russell Miller set in 19th century Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The novel tells the Horatio Alger story of Bob, an Irish-Catholic tenement waif who becomes a mill hand, a ward heeler, then mayor of Pittsburgh, and finally governor of Pennsylvania.

References

1910 American novels
Novels set in Pittsburgh
Bobbs-Merrill Company books


Awre for Blakeney railway station is a closed railway station in Gloucestershire, England, which served both the village of Awre and the town of Blakeney.

History

Opened by the South Wales Railway, the station was amalgamated into the Great Western Railway and this in turn was nationalised into British Railways on 1 January 1948. From 1868, it was a junction for the freight-only Forest of Dean Central Railway, and it was sometimes shown in timetables as "Awre Junction". The Forest of Dean line closed in 1949, though it was used as a siding to store wagons for some years afterwards. Awre station was closed to passenger and goods traffic in 1959, though a coal depot remained open until 1961.

The site today

Trains still pass the site on the Gloucester to Newport Line.

References

Further reading

External links
 Awre station on navigable 1947 O. S. map

Disused railway stations in Gloucestershire
Former Great Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1851
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1959
1851 establishments in England
for Blakeney railway station


Andrew Gray (died 1849) was a Democratic-Republican politician, a member of the Delaware Senate from 1817 to 1821. He was from Mill Creek Hundred, in New Castle County.

He was a trustee of the Academy of Newark, and in 1817 sponsored a bill to allow it to raise $50,000 by lottery in order to raise funds to establish a college. The lottery did not go ahead, and in January 1821 Gray sponsored a second bill to establish a college, as "Delaware College", to be funded by a tax on steamboats and stagecoaches. The prospect of these new taxes was exceptionally unpopular, and Gray was defeated by an anti-college "Independent Democratic" ticket in the 1821 elections by a 2-1 margin.

When Newark College was finally established in 1833, his three sons were sent there. He was appointed president of the trustees in 1839, succeeding Thomas Clayton, and was replaced by Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert in April 1841. After being ousted as president, he sought an investigation of the fledgling college, accusing the trustees of financial mismanagement. On February 14, 1843, he presented a petition, stating that the college had been effectively taken over by the New School Presbyterians, and that it was heavily in debt. In order to allow it to survive into the future, he argued, it should be closed until the income from the endowment was sufficient to maintain it; otherwise, the endowment fund would quickly be spent on operating costs until there was nothing left. After some debate; his petition was rejected, and the college remained open.

References

1849 deaths
Delaware state senators
University of Delaware people
Year of birth unknown
Delaware Democratic-Republicans


Hiram Harrison Lowry (May 29, 1843 – January 13, 1924) was an educator, Methodist clergyman and college president in China.

Early life

Lowry was born on May 29, 1843, in Zanesville, Ohio, to Hiram and Margaret née Speare. He graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University, and received the degrees of Bachelor and Master of Arts and Doctor of Divinity. In 1862–1863 Lowry served during the American Civil War in the ninety-seventh regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In 1867 he was ordained to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was sent out to China.

China

On October 10, 1867, Lowry arrived with his wife, Parthenia Nicholson, in Foochow, where they labored till 1869. In 1869 he was sent to Peking, where the foundations of the work of the North China Mission was laid. In 1870, Lowry built up the first Methodist church in Northern China, the Asbury Church (today the Chongwenmen Church in Beijing), named after the American Methodist Bishop Francis Asbury. From 1873 to 1893, Lowry served as superintendent of North China Mission (until it became the North China Annual Conference) and since 1914 president of Huiwen University (), the precursor of Yenching University (). From 1894 until it became a union institution, he was president of Huiwen University, later be part of Yenching University, where he trained thousands of young Chinese who are now active in Christian work, in business, the professions and in government.

Lowry retired in 1922 and died in Peking on January 13, 1924. He was survived by six children: George Davis Lowry, Edward Kinsley Lowry, Fanny May Lowry, Grace Ernestine (Lowry) Hooper, Ernest Wilbur Lowry, and Mabel Annetta (Lowry) Dobson.

References
 Shavit, David (1990): The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary
 History of Chongwenmen Church
 "Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad 1924;" "US Consular Registration Certificates 1910;" "US Passport Applications 1916" via Find a Grave.

1843 births
1924 deaths
Ohio Wesleyan University alumni
Methodist writers
Christian missionaries in Fujian
Methodist missionaries in China
American expatriates in China
American Methodist missionaries


Georg Zundel (May 17, 1931 – March 11, 2007) was a German physicist, entrepreneur, and peace politics committed philanthropist.

Georg Zundel was born in 1931 as the only son of Georg Friedrich Zundel and Paula Zundel. He became a physicist and gained an international reputation especially in hydrogen bonding research. He founded companies and was always committed to agriculture and forestry. Peace politics, Georg Zundel was particularly involved through the establishment of the Berghof Foundation, Foundation for Conflict Research, for which he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2003. Zundel was married and had three children. He lived with his family in Salzburg until his death in 2007. His grave is located in Haisterkirch near Bad Waldsee.

Childhood and youth

Georg Zundel spent his childhood and youth on his parents' estate, the "Berghof" near Tübingen, and on the family farm in Haisterkirch, Bad Waldsee. His appreciation of agriculture stemmed from this experience in times of food shortages. At the same time, Zundel was confronted at a young age by an environment marked by political and economic tensions through his parental home. His mother Paula Zundel was the daughter of the entrepreneur Robert Bosch. His father Georg Friedrich Zundel was married in his first marriage to the women's rights activist Clara Zetkin. As a painter of large-scale workers' portraits, he had caused a sensation at the turn of the 20th century. Due to the war, Georg Zundel was not able to graduate from high school until 1952, whereupon he began studies in physics at Universität München. Before and during his studies, he traveled through Italy and Greece by motorcycle in 1951 and 1952. In 1955, he and a friend conducted a nine-month journey in a converted Unimog from Stuttgart via Afghanistan to India and back.

Scientific career

After interrupting his physics studies, which he had begun in Munich in 1955/56, for a study visit to Frankfurt am Main, Zundel received his doctorate from the University of Munich in 1961. There he was also habilitated in 1967 and appointed university lecturer in 1972. From 1974 to 2006, he was an associate professor of biophysical chemistry at the University of Munich. During this time he supervised 39 doctoral students.

As a scientist, he contributed to hydrogen bonding research, with the "Zundel cation" H5O2+ being one of his most famous discoveries. His scientific work includes over 300 publications in international journals on topics of physical chemistry and biophysics.

The focus is on hydrogen bonds and their investigation using the infrared spectroscopy method. Depending on the bond strength of the acceptor and donor side, such bridges show up in the infrared spectrum over several hundred wavenumbers (3500 to under 650 cm−1) or between wavelengths of 2.7 and over 10 micrometers a continuous absorption. It is attributed to the fact that the bridging protons, caused by the easy polarizability of the charge between the donor and acceptor side, cover a broad spectrum of absorption frequencies in the fluctuating environment in the infrared wavelength range. The absorption is observed both in aqueous acidic solutions, whereby the H5O2+ ions that are formed are the basic unit, and in alkaline solutions , where it is the charge fluctuations in the H3O2− structure. Furthermore, continuously absorbing bridges are also observed in biological systems, where proton donor and acceptor can exist in different forms, for example between the nitrogen atom of a amine group and the oxygen atom of a phosphate group.

Transcending the boundaries of the Cold War, Zundel always understood science as a universal task. In the early 1960s, he was one of the first exchange researchers at a natural science institute in Moscow. Soon after, his postdoctoral thesis "Hydration and Intermolecular Interaction. Infrared Investigations with Polyelectrolyte Membranes" in both English and Russian. At the beginning of the 1970s, he intensified his cooperation, especially with Polish colleagues, for which he was appointed honorary member of the "Polish Chemical Society" in 1985.

Entrepreneurial activity

Zundel became involved as an entrepreneur by founding the "Physikalisch-Technisches Laboratorium Berghof GmbH" in 1966. Its goal was to commercially exploit research results in the fields of electrochemistry, membrane filtration and plastics technology. The company became the nucleus of the Berghof group of companies. Many years of innovation and development resulted in a wide range of products in the fields of automation, filtration, photonics, laboratory technology and environmental technology. Today, the Berghof group of companies comprises six subsidiaries with locations in Eningen, Tübingen, Ravensburg, Mühlhausen, Türkenfeld as well as Leeuwarden in the Netherlands.

Zundel also broke new ground in agriculture and forestry. In the Malta Valley of Carinthia, he acquired a forestry operation covering about 3,000 hectares. The development and intensive reforestation of this high mountain forest represented a new challenge for him. Experiments were carried out with the introduction of North American Douglas firs, which also produce growth at altitudes above the existing tree line.

Zundel modernized the "St. Georgshof" in Haisterkirch near Bad Waldsee, an arable and dairy farm that had now been in the family for over eighty years. He recognized the importance of alternative energys early on and set up a first biogas plant on the farm as early as 1981; in the meantime, an output of 50 kilowatts of electricity is generated. In this sense, Zundel was also involved in the field of solar energy in many ways very early on.

Philanthropic activities

His family background enabled Zundel to realize charitable projects.

In the mid-1960s, against massive opposition, he had a student dormitory built in Tübingen to remedy the then acute housing shortage among students.

He was also concerned with the donation of the Kunsthalle Tübingen, opened in 1971, by his mother Paula and his aunt Margarete Fischer-Bosch.

Zundel's most significant philanthropic contribution, however, was his commitment to peace and conflict research. In his childhood and youth, he had been directly confronted with the horrors of war and the National Socialist dictatorship, which instilled in him the search for ways to resolve conflicts without violence. Politically, Zundel became involved in 1949 against the Rearmament of the Federal Republic. In 1958-1961 he participated in protests against the discussed arming of the Bundeswehr with nuclear weapons.

The decisive milestone of his commitment, however, was the establishment and sustained support of the Berghof Foundation for Conflict Research in 1971, which was chaired by Dieter Senghaas for thirty years. Through his foundation, Zundel became the most important private sponsor of this then still young branch of research to this day. Among the most important projects of the foundation include the Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Transformation, founded in 1993 in Berlin as a branch of the Munich foundation, and the Institute for Peace Education in Tübingen (founded 1976, since 2002 in the Georg-Zundel-Haus), which has received increasingly sustained funding since 1977. Both institutions have been able to acquire a nationwide and international reputation thanks to Zundel's continuous and flexible support.

In 1966 he was involved in the founding of the Society for Responsibility in Science.

His commitment to peace was recognized in 2003 under Johannes Rau with the award of the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

References

Further reading
Autobiography: „Es muss viel geschehen!“ Berlin, Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte Dr. Michael Engel, 2006.

External links
zundel.at – website on Georg Zundel, by his son/s
berghof-foundation.de – Berghof Foundation for Conflict Studies, BFCS
berghof.com – Berghof Group

1931 births
2007 deaths
German physical chemists
Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany


Killer Meteors, (Chinese: 風雨雙流星) (or The Killer Meteors, Jackie Chan vs. Wang Yu) is a 1976 kung fu Hong Kong action film, directed by Jimmy Wang Yu and Lo Wei. Since then, it have become a cult film.

Overview
Jackie Chan plays Immortal Meteor, who terrorizes a small town in Hong Kong. Killer Weapon (Jimmy Wang Yu) sets out to stop him.

Cast
 Jimmy Wang Yu as Killer Weapon
 Jackie Chan as Immortal Meteor

See also
 Jackie Chan filmography
 List of Hong Kong films
 List of martial arts films

References

External links

1976 films
1976 action films
1976 martial arts films
Hong Kong action films
Hong Kong martial arts films
1970s Cantonese-language films
1970s Hong Kong films


Grome is an environmental modeling package developed by Quad Software dedicated for procedural and manual generation of large virtual outdoor worlds suitable for games and other 3D real-time simulation applications.

History
After more than two years of internal developing, the program was first launched on  as version 1.0. It immediately started to be used by various professional game studios and independent developers. Version 1.1 was launched on  adding various optimizations, pen tablet support and more flexibility by introducing user defined data sets. Following this was version 1.2 on  which optimized existing fractal tools and added new ones, extended import and export with new data formats and introduced the Grome scripting language for automated tasks.

Major release, 2.0, was introduced on  with many new additions. With this new version, Grome becomes a more complete outdoor editing platform by introducing editing of water surfaces, vegetation and other decoration layers. 64bit processing was introduced to take advantage of large amounts of RAM and 64bit CPUs. With this version, Quad Software announced the availability for customization work for professional studios that need a specific Grome version for their projects.

The Grome 3.0 version was launched on  bringing road networks editing, support for per-pixel materials, optimization tools for mobiles and low-end hardware and other new tools. A new updated, version 3.1, was launched on October 12, 2011 with focus on optimization. A further update, version 3.11, was made on September 12, 2012, fixing various issues and improving the SDK.

Main features

General
Easy to use user interface, with shortcuts available for every operation. Real-time preview on multiple customizable hardware accelerated viewports. Presets system for tool parameters.

Terrain editor
Supports unlimited terrain size using custom data swapping mechanism to hard disk space. Terrain made of multiple terrain zones supporting variable resolution and automatic border stitching.

Procedural heightmap generation using fractal, terracing and erosion tools. Possibility to create and assign multiple layers of heightmaps for each zone.

Manual editing of heightmap layers using selection layers and brushes. Flexible brush system that allows custom orientation, mask, strength, directions and pen tablet pressure. Elevation, terracing and fractals brushes.

Novel texture layering system that allows different shading methods, variable resolutions and images per terrain zones. Creation of images based on brushes or procedural generation based on slope, direction, altitude, external shape files and erosion flowmaps.

Object editing
User defined format system using Grome SDK plugins.
Spawn objects individually or using brushes with custom orientation and area of effect. Tag, categorized, search and replace tools for objects.

Gizmo and numeric object transformation tools for translation, scaling and rotation. Possibility to group object for transformation around common pivot. Groups can be saved to disk and later restored.

Object-terrain linking mechanism that allows snapping objects to terrain and moving objects along ground surface.

Road editing
Starting with version 3.0 road placement and manipulation was introduced. Control of road geometry generation, resolution, banking and intersections is now possible while real-time road/terrain interaction computation is done using the GPU.

Water editing
Real-time water rendering using pixel lighting, bump mapping and masking for smooth shoreline transitions. Generation of water layers masks with brushes or based on terrain heights. Coloring and lightmapping of water based on terrain texture layers.

Decoration layers
Allow rendering of massive population of decoration objects and grass blades. Animated grass effects to simulate wind and characters walking through. Generation with brushes or automatically based on terrain slope, orientation and altitude.

Software development kit (SDK)
Offered for every Grome client to allow integration with their engine/application pipeline. Allows saving and loading from custom formats, define new mesh formats and automatic responses to various editing events. Comes with source code for all default plugins and documentation. Out-of-the-box, Grome has the default plugins to include support for COLLADA, XML, DTED, shape files, 16bit RAW, BT and all major images formats.

Licensing
Grome 3.0 is currently licensed under two different prices, the same base version being offered to individuals and small developers under a reduced price. Professional companies benefit from premium support and dongle based protection. Normal builds offer file based activation per computer.

Customization program
Starting with version 2.0, Quad Software publicly announced the availability of customization work for companies. In the way professional studios can obtain customized builds as part of under-contract projects. Examples of previous developed customized modules were presented, among them being road editing, AI navigation mesh generation and a more advanced lightmapper.

Graphite Renderer
Graphite is a real-time outdoor rendering library created by Grome developers to allow easy integration of Grome scenes into any 3D engine and graphical application. The renderer is designed to be flexible and supports DirectX rendering API. It is offered for free in binary form for non-commercial usage for all Grome clients, while paid licenses are offered to professional studios allowing source access and commercial usage.

Grome scenes gallery

See also
 3D computer graphics software
 Heightmap
 List of level editors
 List of 3D graphics software

List of supported engines:
 OGRE
 OpenSceneGraph
 Torque (game engine)
 Unity (game engine)
 Unreal Engine

References

External links
 Grome Editor Homepage
 Customization Program
 Graphite Library

2007 software
3D graphics software
Environmental science software


Easyway is a Portuguese punk rock band founded in 2000. They have released three albums.

History
In 2001, Easyway, made a seven track demo, via this and live performances the band grew in the Portuguese underground scene.
At the end of Summer 2001 the original drummer, Rodrigo, was replaced with Danilo Warick (who previously played in a metal band called Sacred Sin).

They began work on a first album, Forever In A Day in 2003 (in Lisbon). After the recording the guitar player, Miguel Marques, went to Los Angeles to mix the album. The album was produced by Cameron Webb (who previously worked with Limp Bizkit, Staring Back, Social Distortion and Danzig).

Discography
 Forever In A Day - 2004
 Can You Keep A Secret? - 2006
 Laudamus Vita CD+DVD - 2010

References

Portuguese punk rock groups


Frogham  may refer to:

Frogham, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Frogham, Kent, United Kingdom


A demijohn is a container for fluids used in brewing.

Demijohn may also refer to:

 Thom Demijohn, a joint pseudonym used by authors Thomas M. Disch and John Sladek for their satirical novel Black Alice
 Demijohn Lake (Ontario), a lake in Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada


Roger Le Geyt Hetherington  (1908–1990) was a British civil engineer.

Hetherington was born in London on 20 December 1908, the eldest son of Sir Roger Gaskell Hetherington and his wife Honoria Ford.  In 1921 Hetherington entered Highgate School. Hetherington held a Master of Arts degree and was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 22 July 1940. His professional career as a consulting civil engineer was with Binnie and Partners. He was elected a first class member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers in 1960 and later became a member emeritus. He was asked to become the president of the Society in 1979 but declined on the grounds of poor health. Hetherington served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers from November 1972 to November 1973. and was appointed CBE in the 1974 Birthday Honours. He married Katharine Elise Dawson in 1945 and had a single daughter.

References

Bibliography

External links
Roger Hetherington at Rootsweb

British civil engineers
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers
People educated at Highgate School
1908 births
1990 deaths


StatXact is a statistical software package for analyzing data using exact statistics. It calculates exact p-values and confidence intervals for contingency tables and non-parametric procedures. It is marketed by Cytel Inc.

References

External links
 StatXact homepage at Cytel Inc.

Statistical software
Windows-only proprietary software


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Georgea Regout (born 26 July 1969) is an actress living and working in Los Angeles.

Biography
Regout was born in Belgium to a Belgian father and Austrian mother. They grew up in Brussels, Belgium, and Vienna, Austria. After studying in Switzerland they lived in Paris, France, for two and half years, where they worked for several fashion houses, amongst others as a model. They also were a guest student for history of art at the École du Louvre. Regout fluently speaks German, French and English, as well as Spanish and Italian.

After having lived in Paris, Regout studied to become an actor in Munich, Germany.

During their studies, they played in Nathans Tod, written and directed by George Tabori, at the Bayrisches Staatsschauspiel in Munich. After working at the Weilheimer Theatersommer under Cordula Trantow and the Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss (1995–96), Regout moved to Berlin, where they appeared in several theaters, Sophiensaele and Schillertheater-Werkstatt being two of them.

Regout had first appearances on TV in Series as Klinik unter Palmen (1998, ARD), Edel & Starck (2002, Sat1) and Alarm für Cobra 11 (2003, RTL).

In 2004, Regout co-hosted the TV show Style SOS (Pro7) in nearly 200 episodes.

From 2005 until 2007, Regout starred in 645 episodes of the Sat1-Telenovela Verliebt in Berlin (based on Betty la fea from Colombia) in the role of fashion designer Hugo Haas. The series, which belongs to the most successful ones in more recent German TV history, was awarded with the Deutscher Fernsehpreis (German TV Award) and the Golden Rose of Lucerne. Verliebt in Berlin aired very successfully in several European countries, amongst others in France (TF1). The theme of this series also served as a base for the US TV hit show Ugly Betty, co-produced by Salma Hayek.

After that, Regout starred in the musical Elixier at the Komödie Dresden, Germany, in the role of Hagen, one of the leading parts, music composed by Tobias Künzel.

In February 2009, they joined the TV show Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love) on recurring basis in the role of Eduard von Tepp.

Regout appeared amongst others in movies like Walk on Water (directed by Eytan Fox, Israel, 2004), as well as Suck My Dick (2001) and Agnes and His Brothers (2004), both directed by German film director Oskar Roehler.

In 2014, Regout starred as the ‘Son’ in Adam Rapp’s Pulitzer Prize short - listed, NOCTURNE, which garnered great reviews including from the Los Angeles Times.

Regout is vegan. They are a practicing Zen Buddhist. Regout is trans non-binary and uses they/she pronouns.

References

External links

 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-review-nocturne-at-the-other-space-the-actors-company-20140212-story.html
 https://www.instagram.com/artkillsgallery/?hl=en

People from Brussels
21st-century Belgian actors
Belgian expatriates in Germany
1969 births
Living people
Belgian television actors
Belgian non-binary actors
Belgian transgender people
Transgender actors
Transgender non-binary people
Belgian people of Austrian descent


Diana Saravia Olmos is a Uruguayan notary and political figure.

Background and previous political alliances

While the National Party's Aparicio Saravia was a collateral family forebear, she is a former Deputy, and former supporter of 'Pachequismo' and subsequently the Ballistas within the Colorado Party (Uruguay). She was formerly seen as politically close to Jorge Pacheco Klein, who, however, left the country in 1998.

Current political alignment with Pedro Bordaberry Herrán

In 2008 Saravia adhered to Pedro Bordaberry Herrán's 'Vamos Uruguay' grouping within the Colorado Party. Partly given her family background and her past association with 'Pachequismo', she is thus thought to add to the potential of 'Vamos Uruguay' to attract support beyond the Colorado Party's traditional electoral backers.

References

See also
 Politics of Uruguay
 Colorado Party (Uruguay)#Post 2004: defeat at polls and rise of Pedro Bordaberry
 Pedro Bordaberry#Bordaberry and Riversita resurgence

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Uruguayan people of Portuguese descent
Uruguayan notaries
Members of the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay
Uruguayan women jurists
Colorado Party (Uruguay) politicians
21st-century Uruguayan women politicians
21st-century Uruguayan politicians
20th-century Uruguayan women politicians
20th-century Uruguayan politicians


The Raven is a fictional superhero character who first appeared in the Ace Comics title Sure-Fire Comics. He is based on the pulp hero "The Moon Man" published by Periodic House, the pulp publisher connected to Ace Comics.

Publication history
The Raven was inspired by the pulp hero Moon Man, created by Frederick C. Davis, published in Ten Detective Aces magazine. At least the first story was based on the first Moon Man story. His companions are Lola Lash, the daughter of the police chief, and his chauffeur Mike.

The Raven first appeared in Sure-Fire Comics #1 (June 1940), as did Lash Lightning.

According to Jess Nevins' Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes, "the Raven's enemies are corrupt bankers, racketeers, the police (led by Police Chief Lash, who loathes the Raven), and the odd costumed villain such as the Eel".

In 2008, The Raven (now renamed Mr. Raven to avoid a trademark conflict with DC Comics) appeared in flashback in Project Superpowers #0; in the one-shot Project Superpowers: Chapter Two Prelude, it's stated that Mr. Raven will appear in this line as a member of a team called The Super-Mysterymen (presumably named after the Ace title Super-Mystery Comics).

In 2018, publisher Pulp 2.0 put out a complete collection of Raven stories, The Raven Collection.

Fictional biography

Ace
In 1940, New York City Detective Sergeant Danny Dartin, tired of seeing criminals manipulate the law to escape justice, became a masked vigilante called The Raven and acted as a modern "Robin Hood", stealing money from criminals and redistributing it to the poor. He was aided in this by Lola Lash, the police chief’s daughter.

Project Superpowers
At some point after World War II, Mr. Raven was imprisoned in the mystical Urn of Pandora, along with many other crime-fighters, by the misguided Fighting Yank; decades later, the Urn was broken and the heroes freed. Mr. Raven, along with seven other heroes (including Captain Courageous, Lash Lightning and Lightning Girl, Soldier Unknown), Vulcan and the Sword, was then recruited to form a team called The Super-Mysterymen, whose purpose is not yet known.

References

Dynamite Entertainment characters
Golden Age superheroes


"Arab Money" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Busta Rhymes, released as the lead single from his eighth studio album Back on My B.S. (2009). The song features production and vocals by fellow New York City-based rapper Ron Browz.

Music video
The music video debuted on BET's 106 & Park on December 2, 2008. It is directed by Rik Cordero. It features cameos from Rick Ross, Spliff Star, DJ Drama, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana, DJ Khaled, Akon, Gorilla Zoe, Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, N.O.R.E., Lil Wayne, Kardinal Offishall, Ace Hood, Shawty Lo, Paul Wall, E-40, Jadakiss, Swizz Beatz, T-Pain, Wiz Khalifa, Mack Maine, Tyga, Triple C's, Will Smith and many others.

New York City businessman and philanthropist Ali Naqvi stars as the Arab prince of the music video. Ali is actually of Persian and Indian descent. Ali, friend of Busta Rhymes, was invited to appear in the music video. Ali is Founder and Chairman of MindShare Ventures Group. The song makes reference to Yasser Arafat and Al-Waleed bin Talal.

The music video for the 1st part of the remix was released on February 25, 2009. Just like the original, it was directed by Rik Cordero in front of a green screen. T-Pain is not featured in the video, and the chorus is changed back to the original. Any Arabic words were not used. T.I., Birdman, & Cedric The Entertainer make cameo appearances in the video.

The music video for the 2nd part of the remix was released on February 27, two days after the 1st part of the remix's video. Just like the original, it was directed by Rik Cordero in front of a green screen. Reek Da Villian is not featured in the video.

In other media
The song is heavily featured in the 2009 video game Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony as the favorite song of the eccentric property developer Yusuf Amir and also appears on the in-game radio station the beat 102.7.

Remixes
The song was officially remixed three times by Busta Rhymes, with different guest appearances accompanying each version.

Part 1
The first part of the remix features Ron Browz, P Diddy, Swizz Beatz, T-Pain, Akon and Lil Wayne. The song was released on Thanksgiving Day (November 27, 2008).  Ron Browz, T-Pain, Akon and Lil Wayne all use the Auto-Tune effect in it.

Also, in this part, Busta Rhymes does the main part of the hook differently and Ron Browz pronounced Arab money differently with an accent on the "A"s. Therefore,   would be pronounced  . Unlike the original, actual Arabic is used in the chorus and by the artists in their verses:

Chorus: "Bismillāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm. Al ḥamdu lillāhi rabbi l-'ālamīn"
Translation: "In the name of God, most Gracious most Merciful. All Praise is due to God, Lord of the worlds.
The chorus used in video is the same chorus as the original.
Busta Rhymes: "As-Salamu Alaykum Warahmatullah Wa Barakatu"
Translation: "May Peace and blessings of God be upon you" (A Greeting)
What was used in the video: "While I stack another billion and give it to the block fool"
Diddy: "Al hamdu lillah"
Translation: "All Praises to God"
What they  rhymed the phrase with: "With my billions pilin'"
Swizz Beatz: "Habibi"
Translation: "My Love (Masculine Form)"
What they rhymed the phrase with: "While she feedin' me linguine"
Akon: "Bismillāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm"
Translation: "In the name of God, most gracious most merciful."
What they rhymed the phrase with: "Straight cash when I come in, let me exchange the currency cause it's all foreign"

This version was planned for inclusion on Ron Browz's as-yet-unreleased debut album, Etherboy, but the album was shelved.

Part 2
The second part of the remix features Ron Browz, Reek Da Villian, Rick Ross, Spliff Star, N.O.R.E., & Red Cafe. The song was released on December 13, 2008.

Part 3
The third part of the remix features Ron Browz, Juelz Santana, Jim Jones, & Jadakiss. The song was released on December 21, 2008. This remix is the only one to not feature a music video.

Two other versions of the song were produced, the first one featured the rapper Pitbull and the second featured Rick Ross

Track listings
Digital download
Explicit
 "Arab Money" – 2:47
Clean
 "Arab Money" – 2:47

U.S. Promo CDS
 "Arab Money" (Radio) – 2:47
 "Arab Money" (Dirty) – 2:47
 "Arab Money" (Instrumental) – 2:47
 "Arab Money" (Acapella Clean) – 2:37
 "Arab Money" (Acapella Dirty) – 2:37

Charts

Controversy in the United Arab Emirates and other Arab communities

Arab Money ignited controversy, particularly from Muslim communities. The released remix came with even stronger negative reaction, as it quotes lines from the Quran, which (in such a form) is deemed forbidden in most Arab countries. DJ Steve Sutherland of Galaxy FM was suspended temporarily when he played the song and listeners complained. In response, Busta stated:
Sometimes, people like to twist things. We ain't mockin' the culture. We ain't tryin' to be disrespectful. Ain't no racism going on right here. If you listen to the song, you see that we are actually acknowledging the fact that the Arabian culture, a Middle East culture is one of the few cultures, that value passing down hard work riches that's been built amongst the family. It would be nice if a lot of other cultures did the same thing. Feel me? So, I would like for it to be like that in my culture where we could build things to the point where we got so much that we don't need to rely on other cultures to contribute majorly in a financial way, or in whatever other way, to societies, communities or whatever governments we might live in. So, we are actually biggin' up the culture. At the end of the day, I want to be like that. I think a lot of us want to be like that.

References

2008 singles
Busta Rhymes songs
Ron Browz songs
Song recordings produced by Ron Browz
Dubai in popular culture
Songs about cities
Songs written by Busta Rhymes
Cultural depictions of Yasser Arafat
Songs written by Ron Browz
Music video controversies
Music videos directed by Dale Resteghini


The London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LT&SR) 2100 Class was a class of 4-6-4T steam locomotives.  Eight were built in 1912, the year the Midland Railway took over the LT&SR, to the design of Robert Harben Whitelegg.  Hence, they were numbered in the Midland numbering system as 2100–2107, and none received a name.  The Midland gave them the power classification 3P.  All subsequently passed into LMS ownership in 1923.  They were all withdrawn 1929–1934, and all were scrapped.

References

 Bob Essery The London, Tilbury and Southend Railway and its Locomotives, OPC (2001)

External links
Locomotives by Beyer Peacock & Co. Ltd. - page35

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4-6-4T locomotives
Beyer, Peacock locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1912
Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain
2′C2′ h2t locomotives

Scrapped locomotives


Sweet Nothin's is a 1959 song by Brenda Lee written by Ronnie Self. It peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 12 on the Hot R&B Sides chart, in 1960. The song (as Sweet Nuthin's) also charted on the UK Singles Chart in 1960, peaking at No. 4, marking Lee's first appearance on the UK chart.

Musician and producer David Z adapted Brenda's vocals in this song to produce the distinctive backing vocals in "Kiss", the smash hit for Prince. Lee's voice from "Sweet Nothin's" was sampled in Kanye West's song "Bound 2" on his 2013 album Yeezus, which in turn was sampled by Sigma in their 2014 song, "Nobody to Love", which also uses the same vocal sample from "Sweet Nothin's" as "Bound 2" does.

In popular culture
The song was used in a 1985 TV commercial for Molson Canadian beer in Canada.

References

1959 singles
Brenda Lee songs
1959 songs
Rockabilly songs
Songs written by Ronnie Self


Four vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Seaflower:

  was a 16-gun brig-sloop purchased in April 1782 that the , under Jean Dornal de Guy, captured near Bencoolen on 29 September 1808.
 HMS Seaflower was a 16-gun brig-sloop listed in 1809, and sold on 1 September 1814.
  was a 4 gun cutter launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 20 May 1830 and broken up at Charlton, scrapping completed on 8 October 1866.
  was an 8 gun training brig, launched at Pembroke Dockyard on 25 February 1873. Converted to a floating workship in January 1904, the ship was sold at Charlton on 7 April 1908.

References

Royal Navy ship names


Té Bheag () is a blended Scotch whisky made by Pràban na Linne Ltd in Scotland. It is one of Sir Iain Noble's Gaelic Whisky range, which has its headquarters at Eilean Iarmain on the Isle of Skye.

See also
 List of whisky brands
 List of distilleries in Scotland

External links
 Pràban na Linne

Isle of Skye
Blended Scotch whisky


Puja Banerjee, also sometimes credited as Pooja Bose or simply Pooja, is an Indian actress who appears predominantly in Bengali films and Hindi television. She is well known for playing Vrinda in the show Tujh Sang Preet Lagai Sajna, which aired on Star Plus. She participated in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (2014), Comedy Nights Bachao (2015) .

Career
After starting her television career with Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki (2008), Banerjee was seen in the romantic show Tujh Sang Preet Lagai Sajna, in which she played the role of a simple Punjabi girl, Vrinda.

She made her debut in the Telugu film titled Veedu Theda. She has also acted in the film Macho Mustanaa, with Hiran Chatterjee (formerly called Macho Mustafaa), but the title was changed due to objections from Muslim clerics regarding the use of the word "Mustafaa". She won a role in Raja Chanda's film Challenge 2, starring Deepak Adhikari and Sujit Mondal's film Rocky, starring Mahaakshay Chakraborty. Another unconfirmed movie is Diwana Holo Mon, opposite Hiran Chatterjee.

Banerjee participated in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7, where she was credited as Puja Bose. Her choreographer was Rajit Dev, who is also the chief choreographer to Vaibhavi Merchant.

From 2015 to 2017, she appeared in Comedy Nights Bachao. Banerjee later joined the cast of Zee TV's Qubool Hai playing the role of Afreen. She also played Yasmine in Razia Sultan which aired on &TV. In 2016, she participated in Bigg Boss Bangla and Comedy Nights Live.

In 2017, she played Mehak in Dev which also starred Ashish Chaudhary and Sumona Chakravarti. She returned to the show in 2018 with season 2. In 2019, she participated in Kitchen Champion 5 and Khatra Khatra Khatra followed by playing Makdina in Vish. In 2020, she played Vaishno Devi in Jag Janani Maa Vaishno Devi - Kahani Mata Rani Ki.

In 2022 after a hiatus of two years Banerjee returned to acting with StarPlus's Anupamaa's prequel web series Anupama: Namaste America as Ritika.

Personal life
In 2020, she married her Tujh Sang Preet Lagai Sajna co star Kunal Verma. In October 2020, Banerjee and Verma became parents to a baby boy and named him Krishiv.

Filmography

Television

Web series

Music videos

References

External links

Living people
Actresses in Bengali cinema
Bengali television actresses
Indian television actresses
Actresses from Kolkata
1987 births


"You Talk Too Much" is a 1960 single by New Orleans singer Joe Jones.

Background
It was written by Fats Domino's brother-in-law, Reginald Hall. Domino passed the song on to Jones who performed it during his club act. Jones recorded the song for the New Orleans-based Ric Records in New York City in 1960. It was produced by Sylvia Vanderpool Robinson who was half of the duo Mickey & Sylvia, but she was not credited for the session. The lyrics describe a significant other of the lyricist, who talks excessively about things and people the former never sees or hears.

Initially released by Ric in July 1960, the record caused legal issues with the New York City-based Roulette Records because Jones had previously recorded a version of the tune under contract with Roulette. In October 1960, the labels reached an amicable settlement in which Roulette bought the master recording from Ric. The disk switched labels on the Billboard charts where it peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100 and No. 9 on the Hot R&B Sides.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Covers
James & Bobby Purify released a version of the song on their 1975 album, You & Me Together Forever.

References

1960 songs
1960 singles
James & Bobby Purify songs
Roulette Records singles


Leland Sanford Austin (born March 26, 1986), better known by his stage name Yung L.A. or Da Boi Lay, is an American rapper from Atlanta. He is perhaps best known for his debut single "Ain't I", which peaked at number 47 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and at number seven on Billboards Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Austin's second single, titled "Futuristic Love (Elroy)", features American singer Ricco Barrino and was released in 2009.

Music career

2008–2011: Mixtapes and Futuristic Leland
In 2008, Austin was signed to American record executive T.I.'s Grand Hustle Records, after fellow Atlanta artist Young Dro found and brought Austin to the label. On April 12, 2008, Austin released his debut mixtape Offset Shawty. On November 25, 2008, Austin released his debut single, titled "Ain't I"; it features appearances from his fellow Grand Hustle label artist Young Dro and T.I., it went on to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 47 and be certified platinum by the RIAA. On December 13, 2008, it was announced and confirmed that Austin had signed a label deal with Interscope Records and he was working on his debut album, titled Futuristic Leland. On December 28, 2008, Austin released his mixtape titled The Matrix.

On January 10, 2009, Austin released his first collaboration mixtape titled Black Boy Swag, White Boy Tags with Young Dro. On April 7, 2009, Austin released his second single titled "Futuristic Love (Elroy)"; it features Ricco Barrino, though it did not match the success of "Ain't I" it charted on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop chart at number 55. On June 2, 2009, Austin released his mixtape titled Lamborghini Leland. On November 5, 2009, Austin released his mixtape titled I Think I Can Sing. On December 14, 2009, Austin released his second collaboration mixtape, titled Batman & Robin (Superhero Language), with fellow Atlanta artist J Money aka J.Futuristic.

On February 24, 2010, Austin released his mixtape titled Crush Da Block. On February 24, 2010, Austin released his mixtape titled Suntrust Leland.

In early 2011 it was revealed that Austin had parted ways from Grand Hustle and was dropped from Interscope. It was also the shelving of his debut album Futuristic Leland. On September 16, 2011, Austin released his mixtape titled Crush Da Block 2.

2012: Check
In a March 27, 2012, interview Austin said he was "dropped from Interscope because my [second] single didn't match the success of the first one". He also said that he wished to leave Grand Hustle Records, that the label had failed him professionally by not following up his hit "Ain't I" with the release of his album, and failed him personally by ignoring him when he was hurt and had asked for their help and by entangling him in disputes that didn't involve him and had begun before he joined the label.

On November 27, 2012, Austin released his debut album titled Check; it was distributed by independent Atlanta based record label U-Digg Music Group.

2014–present: name change, mixtapes and TBA album
On November 19, 2014, Austin released his third collaboration mixtape titled Batman & Robin 2 (Superhero Language) with fellow Atlanta artist J Money which is a sequel to their first collaboration mixtape Batman & Robin (Superhero Language).

On February 5, 2015, it was revealed that Yung L.A. was working on a new mixtape titled Expensive Language. On March 27, 2015, Austin released his mixtape Expensive Language. Also on March 27, 2015, during an interview, Austin revealed that he had signed to record producer Zaytoven's label Zaytown USA. On August 7, 2015, Austin released a collaboration mixtape with the production team 808 Mafia titled 3 Way: 80Lay Mafia, and a second collaboration mixtape with producer's Zaytoven and Cassius Jay titled 3 Way: Dripset. Also on August 7, 2015, Austin released a third mixtape titled 3 Way: Foreign Water.

Controversy
In February 2011 Austin had the logo of a local record label tattooed on his face after a conversation with the label's CEO Big Bank Black. Black's brother Alley Boy, the label's co-CEO, demanded that Austin remove the tattoo because he wasn't signed to the label and wasn't given permission to use the logo. Austin countered that Alley Boy lacked the authority to make such a demand because Big Bank Black, not Alley Boy, was "the real CEO" of the label. He did though have a Los Angeles Dodgers logo tattooed over it two weeks later. Austin was set up and viciously assaulted by Alley Boy and members of his label; whether he was beaten before covering the tattoo or after wasn't known.

In April 2011, Austin was arrested for criminal damage to property and released on bail.

Discography

Check (2012)

Awards

BET Awards
2009
 Best Collaboration for "Ain't I" (Nominated)

References

External links

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1986 births
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The Packers Radio Network is a broadcast radio network and the official radio broadcaster of the Green Bay Packers, fully under the team's control in regards to technical productions and on-air personnel. The network's flagship is iHeartMedia's WRNW in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and its coverage is also heard nationwide through NFL Game Pass, Sirius XM, and TuneIn.

The team's play-by-play announcer is Wayne Larrivee, with former Packer center Larry McCarren providing color commentary since 1995. Former Packers fullback John Kuhn serves as the network's sideline reporter.

History
The Packers radio network was previously with WTMJ, which has broadcast the games since November 24, 1929, and was the former flagship station of Journal Communications until the E. W. Scripps Company and Journal completed their broadcast merger and publishing spin-off on April 1, 2015 (Good Karma took over WTMJ's operations on November 1, 2018 upon Scripps' second withdrawal from radio). It was one of the few arrangements where a team's flagship radio station was not based in their home market and the local station served as a network affiliate only, as WTMJ's signal to Green Bay and most of Wisconsin's population centers is city-grade. Meanwhile, the rights for Packers games in the Green Bay are held by Midwest Communications's WIXX, with Midwest Communications acquiring the Fox Cities rights to the team in 2022 for WYDR, resolving an oddity in the network where former Fox Cities affiliate WAPL transmits from the same tower site as WIXX.

In situations where Milwaukee Brewers baseball playoff games conflicted with Packers games (WTMJ and Good Karma Brands originate that team's broadcasts as the Brewers Radio Network) in September and October, WTMJ's FM sister station WKTI (94.5) originated the games in Milwaukee, with other stations in the Packers Radio Network continuing to determine how to carry both games, depending on whether they have a sister station to broadcast both games.

Though its broadcasts began in 1929, WTMJ did not begin paying the Packers for broadcast rights until 1943; it paid the team $7500 to broadcast the season. In the early 1930s, there was no exclusive right given to broadcast games, and WHBY, then based in Green Bay, often sent its own announcers to call the game. From 1933 to 1936, three additional stations carried WTMJ's radio broadcasts of Packer games: WLBL in Stevens Point (a non-commercial station owned by the state commerce department decades before the creation of Wisconsin Public Radio), WTAQ in Green Bay and WKBH in La Crosse. WSAW in Wausau and WJMS in Ironwood, Michigan started carrying the feed in 1937.

On October 27, 2021, the Packers announced that its longtime association with WTMJ would end at the end of the season, and that it had signed a deal with iHeartMedia to make sports radio station "The Game", WRNW (97.3), the team's new Milwaukee radio affiliate in 2022. Packers broadcasts already aired on iHeartMedia stations in Madison, Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and Moline, Illinois. Production of the Packers Radio Network had been transferred from WTMJ to the team in 2018.

Extended technical details
Two internal Part 15 radio stations are operated within the area surrounding Lambeau Field during Packers home games, utilizing a Federal Communications Commission special events low-power television license which allows the team's station partner to operate on the channel space that makes up VHF television channel 5 (not to be confused with WFRV-TV). The first features the Packers Radio Network play-by-play, along with public address and scoreboard announcements, providing the game call to those in attendance without the delay experienced by the uploading of the network feed via satellite. Another station carries the game's television network audio, also in sync with the PA/scoreboard. Both feeds are on non-standard FM frequencies below 87.5 FM MHz which require purchase of a special radio tuner from the team's pro shop to listen to that signal clearly (though it can also be received on a consumer radio/handheld television which can receive analog TV channel 5, or an extended Japanese band FM tuner which tunes below 87.5 FM), though it is audible with cross-channel interference from Wisconsin Public Radio's WPNE at 87.5 FM on regular tuners.

WIXX is considered an additional "primary" station in the network. This designation only truly comes to use in the later stages of the NFL Playoffs if the Packers make it to the NFC Championship Game and the Super Bowl, where WIXX is allowed to carry the Packers Radio Network local call. All other network stations, including those licensed to communities in the Fox Cities, must carry the national Westwood One call instead in line with NFL rules, which included WAPL in the past, despite transmitting from the same tower site as WIXX.

Programming format and announcers
Its primary programming consists of broadcasts of Packer home and away games to a network of 56 stations in Wisconsin, the U.P., Iowa, North Dakota, and South Dakota, along with a two-hour pre-game show and three-hour postgame show which allows listeners to call, email, or text in a sports talk format about the finished game. Wayne Larrivee has been the play-by-play announcer since 1999, while former Packer center Larry McCarren has worked as the color commentator since 1995. Both Larrivee and McCarren contribute to the team's television programs, in addition to work with Spectrum News 1 statewide, WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee and WGBA-TV in Green Bay, where McCarren was sports director from 2013 until 2015 when he began to focus exclusively on his Packers network duties.

WRNW is the current Milwaukee station airing Learfield coverage of Wisconsin Badgers sports, and its sister stations WOKY (920) and WRIT-FM (95.7) already handle conflict situations between the Badger football and men's basketball teams, giving the Packers contractually-steady coverage throughout the season on WRNW on a full-market FM signal (through full-market stations and FM translators of AM stations and migration of AM stations over to full-power FM stations, Packers play-by-play has shifted to that band throughout the network, as with most of the league's teams). The shift away from WTMJ (whose transmitter is based in the Racine County community of Union Grove, de facto giving Racine and Kenosha a very strong signal) also compelled the team to add a Racine/Kenosha station to the network for the first time in WRJN to make up for WRNW's transmitter position being stronger to the north in the market than the south.

Announcers
Russ Winnie: 1929–1957
Ted Moore: 1958–1969
Jim Irwin: 1969–1998
Gary Bender: 1970–1974
Lionel Aldridge: 1975–1979
Max McGee: 1979–1998
Larry McCarren: 1995–present
Wayne Larrivee: 1999–present

Station list

Blue background indicates low-power FM translator.

References

National Football League on the radio
Radio Network

Sports radio networks in the United States


Deertrees Theatre is a performing arts center located in Harrison, Maine, United States. The theatre was founded by the distinguished opera director and singing coach Enrica Clay Dillon in 1936 and is now owned and operated by the non-profit Deertrees Foundation. As home to the Deertrees Theatre Festival, the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival, the BackStage Gallery, and the Salt Lick Cafe, Deertrees is one of the most active summer theatres in the Northeast.  Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Maine Register of Historic Places, it is sanctioned by the Actors' Equity Association as "a small professional house."

The Theatre
Designed in the Adirondack style by Harrison G. Wiseman and built by George Locke of Bridgton, the theatre was constructed of rose hemlock harvested on the property.  The proscenium arch was made from whole tree trunks and the beams, doors, trim, and light fixtures were all hand-carved. The building was designed so the entire auditorium with its pitched floor could be detached from the stage end and moved forward allowing an extra section with more seating inserted. It boasted a thirty-member orchestra pit, stage dimensions identical to the Metropolitan Opera House, and the best technical equipment of any theatre outside of New York. Two large barn doors located behind the stage could be opened for an authentic forest backdrop. Whether by chance or design, the theatre also had near-perfect acoustics. More than sixty years after the theatre first opened, Christopher Hyde, classical music critic for the Maine Sunday Telegram, theorized that the tight sheathing of rough hemlock and pre-stressed posts and beams created the effect of a large stringed instrument able to transmit vibrations efficiently without echoes or reverberation.

History
The theatre's gala opening on August 15, 1936, featured a reading from Cyrano de Bergerac  by the classical actor, Walter Hampden. Only two more productions were presented that summer but the following season Deertrees became a fixture on the straw hat circuit by presenting four different plays and a musical comedy with a cast of professional actors in repertory under the direction of Ms. Dillon. However, in 1938 the theatre failed to open and when Deertrees reopened in the summer of 1939 it was under the auspices of the noted Broadway producer Bela Blau

Advertising "A New Play - A New Broadway A Star Every Week."  Blau imported an entire Broadway cast from New York City every week including such stars as Ethel Barrymore, Tallulah Bankhead, Edward Everett Horton, Dame May Whitty, and Rudy Vallée. A young David Merrick was a jack-of-all-trades apprentice and credited on several playbills as being the associate producer and the then unpublished Helene Hanff worked in the box office. Local talent augmented smaller roles as the need arose. In addition to the theatre, Blau operated a school for theatrical designers headed by Raoul Pene Du Bois.

Following the death of Bela Blau in the autumn of 1940, Ms. Dillon returned to her first love, opera. She inaugurated The Deertrees Opera Company with the young Edwin McArthur (later replaced by Karl Kritz) as musical director and George Wells as scenic and lighting designer. The company consisted of some 12 to 15 young singers including Astrid Varnay, Phila Tharpe, and Elizabeth Caron and was a forerunner to the great opera-training programs to come to America some fifty years later. The Deertrees Opera Company continued into the summer of 1942 but with the United States in the war, after a Red Cross/U.S.O Benefit concert on August 31, the theatre went dark. In 1946, Ms. Dillon announced the re-opening of Deertrees Theatre for a "Summer Festival of Opera and Drama;" however, by mid-summer, Ms. Dillon's health had deteriorated to the extent that she was unable to continue working and, on October 9, 1946, her brilliant career ended and the theatre closed.

In 1949, New York attorney A. L. Sainer assumed responsibility for Deertrees and reopened the theatre under the management of his brother-in-law, actor/director Robert Harris. Mr. Harris ran Deertrees as an Equity repertory company, assembling casts from Broadway and Hollywood that included Peggy Allenby, Helene Reynolds, Margot Stevenson, Ferdi Hoffman, and William Tregoe. The internationally recognized designer Richardson Harrison Senie was appointed Scenic Artist and Cy Roossin, the Production Manager. The company presented mostly light comedies and farces such as For Love or Money and Petticoat Fever but the schedule also included dramatic productions of The Heiress, The Glass Menagerie, and Payment Deferred. In 1951, Harris returned to Hollywood and, once again, the theatre went dark.

In August 1953, The Boothbay Playhouse Corporation, headed by Sherwood Keith, purchased the theater. As a step toward stimulating local theatres and decentralizing the American Theater from New York, Keith introduced a policy of utilizing community theatre groups. For two years, Mr. Keith presented outstanding repertory companies from throughout New England but the second season, after a gala opening night starring Mr. Keith and his wife in The Four-Poster, did not meet with great success and in 1956 he sold the theatre to Mrs. Aya Sholley.

Mrs. Sholley appointed Emily Perry Bishop as resident director and brought in a small resident stock company to present a diverse program of dramas and matinees for children.  However, by 1959, falling attendance and increased expenses had taken their toll, and in 1960 and 1961, the theatre failed to open.

In 1962, Deertrees Theatre once again took a premiere place on the Summer Theater circuit.  Under new management, the theatre pursued a policy of resident players, as well as guest stars, most of whom were drawn from television. Ann B. "Schultzy" Davis opened the season in Everybody Loves Opal while Shirley Knight, rock idol Fabian, Allen Case, and John Saxon were some of the other performers making appearances. However, the enthusiasm did not last, the theatre closed at the end of that year, and it did not re-open for two years.

In 1965, Mrs. Sholley presented her alma mater, Boston's Emerson College, with the deed to Deertrees. Under the direction of Dr. Michael E. Rutenberg the theatre was operated as part of the Emerson College Center for the Performing Arts, a division of the College set up for the purpose of allowing students the opportunity to operate a summer theatre as well as take the usual academic courses. Among the students associated with Deertrees during these years were Paul Kreppel, Andrea Martin, and Ron McClartney. Emerson continued the project through 1969 when it sold the property to a former student, David Maturi.

Maturi and his Coventry Theatrical Community continued to use Emerson students for cast and technical crew and produced programs of comedies and musical comedies, including The Odd Couple, Mame, Cabaret, and Sweet Charity; at least the last three of which featured  Cecilia Hart, then billed as Ceci Hart, in the roles of Agnes Gooch, Sally Bowles, and Charity Hope Valentine, respectively.  However, once again failing attendance and increased expenses caused the theatre to close in 1971.

After three years of being closed, a former student of Enrica Clay Dillon, Judith Ritter purchased the theatre. The 1975 season opened with a resident opera company performing Mozart's Così fan tutte - not coincidentally, the last opera Enrica Clay Dillon produced before her death - and for the next three years, the theatre rotated between theatrical and operatic programs with "Twilight Pop Concerts" held on Sundays. In 1977, the Maine Opera Association made Deertrees it's official home.

In 1979, Frank Best leased the theatre from the Ritters and formed the Deertrees Performing Arts Festival as a non-profit corporation. However, his plans for three productions by the Maine Opera Guild, a professional theatre company, and a series of concerts ranging from bluegrass to ragtime failed to materialize and the theatre closed.

By the mid-1980s, the theatre had been abandoned and considered a relic from a bygone era.  The town of Harrison foreclosed on the property and there was a consideration of burning the building as an exercise for the local fire department. Fortunately, a group of concerned citizens led by Dr. Al Mills and Sally MacAuslan undertook the rescue of the theatre and formed the Deertrees Foundation to restore the building and grounds. In 1990, the theatre once again opened.

Mission and current operations
The mission of Deertrees Theatre is to provide a diverse selection of quality cultural opportunities and to present entertainment of the highest professional standard at affordable prices and in a manner that upholds the illustrious tradition of this theatre.

Deertrees Theatre is currently open each year from late June until early September and presents an eclectic mix of legitimate theatre, opera, music of all genres, comedy, and children's programs.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Cumberland County, Maine

Notes

Further reading
Hanff, Heleene. Underfoot in Showbusiness.  New York: Harper, 1961.
Harrison Historical Society.  Bicentennial History of Harrison, Maine, 1905-2005.  Penobscot: Penobscot, 2005.

External links
Theatre website

Buildings and structures in Cumberland County, Maine
Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine
Performing arts centers in Maine
Tourist attractions in Cumberland County, Maine
Harrison, Maine
National Register of Historic Places in Cumberland County, Maine


John McCormick is a Wall Street Journal reporter based in Chicago who covers national politics and government. He followed Barack Obama's presidential bid from its start in February 2007 and traveled with the candidate to nearly 40 states while working for the Chicago Tribune. Obama and McCormick developed a friendly rapport during the campaign. In August 2008, McCormick asked Obama if he was still "shopping" for a vice president. Obama's rebuke was, "John, how long did it take you to think of that question?"

On Nov. 7, 2008, during the Q&A portion of a news conference  carried live on all major U.S. television networks, the then-president-elect allowed a handful of reporters to ask questions. Then, looking at the list of potential questioners on his podium, Obama smiled and called out, "Where is John McCormick?". McCormick's question was about the Senate seat Obama was vacating and whether he had any advice for the Illinois governor who, by statute, would be naming Obama's successor in the U.S. Senate.

A testier exchange  took place on Dec. 16, 2008, when the reporter asked Obama about a list of favored potential replacements for his senate seat that had reportedly been given by his aides to then Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The Washington Post made mention of the exchange in a column by Dana Milbank.

McCormick worked for Bloomberg News from 2009 until 2019, when he joined the Wall Street Journal.

Early life and education

McCormick was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is a 1987 graduate of Roseville Area High School and 1991 graduate of the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota).

Since his teenage years, McCormick has been an FCC-licensed amateur radio operator. His station includes a tower with a five-element yagi on the top, connected to an ICOM IC-756PRO transceiver. He is a skilled contester and DXer and active on most ham frequencies.

Professional career

During his senior year of college, McCormick interned at the Minneapolis-based Star Tribune newspaper. About a month after graduation, he started a job at the Rochester Post-Bulletin in southeastern Minnesota, where he covered police, courts, local government, before being assigned to cover the Minnesota Legislature and state government in St. Paul.

In 1997, he moved to The Des Moines Register, where he initially worked as a business reporter and then became the paper's first computer-assisted reporting coordinator. He also helped cover the 2000 Iowa caucuses and was one of two Iowa Poll writers.

McCormick was hired by the Chicago Tribune in 2002. There, he has done investigative and project reporting, and has covered major news stories in Chicago and across the Midwest, including the 2002 fatal plane crash of Sen. Paul Wellstone in northern Minnesota. In 2003 and 2004, he was on a team of reporters who covered the presidential campaign.

In 2007, McCormick won the Chicago Tribunes Beck Award for Outstanding Profession Performance with another reporter for a year-long series on teen driving fatalities that led to changes in Illinois law. In 2009, he won the Chicago Tribune's Beck Award for Domestic Reporting with two other reporters for coverage of Obama's campaign.

After being promoted to the Tribunes Washington Bureau, McCormick resigned from the newspaper in July 2009 to join Bloomberg's Chicago Bureau.

McCormick left Bloomberg in May 2019 to join the Wall Street Journal as a Chicago-based national political reporter.

References

External links
 McCormick's WSJ stories

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Year of birth uncertain
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Year of birth missing (living people)


The Daily Independent may refer to:
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See also
 The Independent, a daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom
 The Independent (Bangladesh newspaper), a daily newspaper published in Dhaka, Bangladesh
 Irish Independent, Ireland's largest daily newspaper
 Independent Tribune, a newspaper published in Concord, North Carolina, USA
 Marin Independent Journal, formerly the San Rafael Daily Independent in California, USA
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The Peruvian version of Reyes de la pista (The Kings of the Dance floor) is a spin-off or continuation of the successful reality television musical  "Bailando por un Sueño" being the premiere date of November 15, 2008, hosted by Gisela Valcárcel The programs will be broadcast on Saturdays at 10 pm (−5 GMT) by Panamericana Television live from the studios Monitor, located in the Lima district of San Borja

Concept and schedule
Reyes de la pista is a musical realityand then direct "Dancing for a Dream ", where they face in a dance competition eight couples who occupied the first four places in the first two seasons of that show. Each pair is made up of a "dreamer" and a famous or "hero". The pair won under this program will be a prize of 30769 dollars and represent the Peru in Second International Dance Championship''', which will possibly take place in Argentina year 2009.Reyes de la pista, like his predecessor, will be part of theprime time''on Saturday Panamericana Television, will air from 10:00 pm, lasting about two hours and a half, and also include the transmission of micro daily news from Monday to Friday throughout the regular programming of this television channel.

Jury
 Joaquin Vargas (Theatre director, Television producer and director of the new virtual version of Nubeluz)
 Morella Petrozzi (professional dancer)
 Carlos Cacho (Make-up artist for television and Host)
 Pachi Valle Riestra (professional dancer)

Participants

Peruvian reality television series
2008 Peruvian television series debuts
2000s Peruvian television series
Panamericana Televisión original programming


Edward Edwards (1812–1886) was a British librarian, library historian, and biographer. He was an important figure in the establishment of free libraries in the United Kingdom. He died and is buried in Niton on the Isle of Wight.

Early life and work
Edwards was born in Stepney (London) on 14 December 1812. His father, Anthony Turner Edwards, was a builder and apprenticed his son to this trade at the age of fourteen. There is no record of Edwards' education and early employments. However, it is known that he attended the King's Weigh House chapel, where he was influenced by Rev. Thomas Binney. Also, Edwards received private lessons from Edwin Abbott and was--as was his teacher--a member of a German reading circle of the Marylebone Literary and Scientific Institution.

In the 1830s, Edwards developed interests in education, library science, and industrial art. The wide range of these pursuits may be traced to the frequency of Edwards's presence at functions of the Society of Wranglers, a radical art and literary discussion club. Among the members of this society were George Godwin, Henry Hayward, and Margaretta Hayward, sister of the latter and future wife of Edwards.

After his father's business went bankrupt in 1832, young Edwards seems to have depended entirely on the financial compensation of his research and writing. In 1836 he published anonymously a pamphlet, in which he argued against various restrictions which at that time made education only accessible to a small elite. Later that year, Edwards published an open letter to Benjamin Hawes, who had sat on the parliamentary select committee on the British Museum. The letter contained numerous suggestions for the improvement of the museum library, including the proposal of longer opening hours to extend the use of the library to a wider class of person. As the letter caused much discussion in the academic world, a second edition of the letter was printed privately in 1839.

Being a co-founder of the Art Union of London, Edwards was soon appointed its honorary secretary. In 1840, however, Edwards had to leave the union in disgrace, having squandered over £300 of its funds.

After some time of research in France, Edwards published a work on engravings by the process of Achille Collas. When Edwards returned to London, he was also asked by James Macarthur to help him with the research for his account of New South Wales. Edward's name did not appear in connection with the work, even though it was presumed that he wrote large parts of it.

On 11 June 1844, Edwards married Margaretta Hayward, who he had met at the Society of Wranglers.

Association with the British Museum
Meanwhile, Edward's open letter about improving the library of the British Museum had attracted the attention of authorities, with the result that when Edwards applied to Antonio Panizzi in 1838, the Museum's newly elected keeper of printed books was inclined to hear him out. In 1839, Edwards joined the staff and became a supernumerary assistant in the printed book department, for especial employment on the new catalogue ordered by the trustees. Together with Panizzi, John Winter Jones, Thomas Watts, and John Humffreys Parry, Edwards worked on the ninety-one rules for the formation of this new catalogue. Besides that, Edwards Edwards was assigned to the duty of cataloguing the Thomason collection of tracts and pamphlets printed during the English civil war, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods.

By the late 1840s, Edwards focused his attention on the statistics of libraries and on comparative librarianship. His results---which were often published in the Athenaeum---were criticised by other librarians as largely unreliable. A Mr. Watts, Edwards's colleague and one of his biggest opponents, wrote a series of corrective letters (also published in the Athenaeum) in rebuttal of Edward's articles, using the signature "Verificator". Nevertheless, Edwards had also gained supporters, the most prominent of which being William Ewart, who had also been involved in the Art Union of London and whose committee on free libraries in 1850 originated the Public Libraries Act.

Association with the Manchester Free Library
The librarianship of the first important free library established under Mr. Ewart's act was offered to Edwards, who was happy to accept as his superiors at the British Museum were frequently dissatisfied by his work ethic. Edwards accordingly became the first librarian of the Manchester Free Library soon after he was dismissed from the museum's library in 1850. During his time at the Manchester Free Library Edwards developed a classified catalogue which was published in 1855 in the form of a letter to Sir John Potter, chairman of the library committee. It was not long, however, until the management became aware of Edwards' frequent absences and his conduct of private research during work time which finally lead to his dismissal in 1858.

Later life

Having been dismissed by two libraries in less than a decade, Edwards turned towards science, both in the fields of literature and librarianship. Aside from the works listed below, he also wrote several articles for the 8th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Edwards' biography of Sir Walter Raleigh has been praised particularly for the second volume, because it contained for the first time a complete edition of Raleigh's correspondence. The first volume containing the memoir, however, appeared almost simultaneously with that of James Augustus St. John and "it was remarked with surprise that each biography appeared to be deficient in whatever gave interest to the other, and that the two would need to be blended to produce a really satisfactory work".

From 1870 to 1876 Edwards was engaged to catalogue the library of Queen's College, Oxford, which marked a happy period in his life only disturbed by the death his wife in 1876. On the formation of the Library Association in 1877 Edwards was proposed as its first president, but had to refuse due to deafness. Nevertheless, Edwards accepted working at the Bodleian Library from 1877 to 1883, calendaring the Carte papers. The Library Association elected Edwards as an honorary member in 1882; in the same year, he was asked to revise the articles Newspapers and Post Office for the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

After Edwards was dismissed from his engagement at Oxford due to economic shortages, he retired to Niton, Isle of Wight, and occupied himself with projects for a second edition of his Memoirs of Libraries, with great alterations and improvements.

Edwards spent his final years in poverty and was taken in rent-free by Rev. John Harrison, a Baptist minister, after having been thrown out for non-payment of rent. In November 1885, he got lost on an excursion and was found after several days "in a state of hypothermia sheltering inside a roofless building next to St. Catherine's Oratory and afterwards developed pneumonia". He found dead in his room on 7 February 1886, and was buried in the graveyard of the local Church of England church on 10 February. His grave remained unmarked until 1902 when his biographer Thomas Greenwood paid his debts and erected a monument over his grave.

Selected works

 Edwards, Edward (1836): Metropolitan university. London: Effingham Wilson, Compton and Ritchie.
  Edwards, Edward (1836): A Letter to Benjamin Hawes, Esq. M.P. London: Effingham Wilson.
 Edwards, Edward (1837): The Great Seals of England. London: Henry Hering.
 Edwards, Edward (ed.) / Collas, Achille (1837): The Napoleon Medals. London: Henry Hering.

 Edwards, Edward (1839): Remarks on the Minutes of Evidence Taken before the Select Committee on the British Museum. London: Privately printed.
  Macarthur, James (1837): New South Wales. London: D. Walter.
 Edwards, Edward (1840): The Administrative Economy of the Fine Arts in England. London: Saunders and Otley.
 Edwards, Edward (1859): Memoirs of Libraries. London: Trübner & Co.
 Edwards, Edward (1864): Libraries and founders of libraries. London: Trübner & Co.
 Edwards, Edward (1864): Chapters of the Biographical History of the French Academy. London: Trübner & Co.
 Edwards, Edward (1866): Liber Monasterii de Hyda. London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer.
 Edwards, Edward (1868): The life of Sir Walter Ralegh. [London]: Macmillan.
 Edwards, Edward (1869): Free town libraries. London: Trübner & Co.
 Edwards, Edward (1870): Lives of the Founders of the British Museum. London: Trübner & Co.
 Edwards, Edward (1870): Lives of the Founders of the British Museum. London: Trübner & Co.
 Edwards, Edward / Hole, Charles (1885): A handbook to the literature of collective biography. Brittain: Ventnor.

References

Attribution:

External links

 Open Library. Works by Edwards

English librarians
English biographers
Employees of the British Library
1812 births
1886 deaths