Wendy Ann Lovell (born 11 August 1959) is an Australian politician. Born in Sydney, New South Wales, she was a newsagent before becoming involved in politics. She held numerous posts with the Liberal Party, and was eventually elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as a Liberal member for North Eastern Province in 2002. Following the re-organisation of the Legislative Council, in 2006 she was a successful candidate for Northern Victoria Region, winning re-election in 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022.

Lovell served as Minister for Housing and Minister for Children and Early Childhood Development from 2010 to 2014 in the Ballieu and Napthine governments.

From 2010 to 2014 Lovell served as Manager of Government Business in the Legislative Council and was Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the Legislative Council from 2007 to 2014. From 2014 to 2018 Lovell was the Opposition Whip in the Legislative Council. Following the 2018 election Lovell was elected Deputy President of the Legislstive Council.

In her early career Ms Lovell also held many Shadow Ministerial portfolios including: Shadow Minister for Women's Affairs December 2002 – February 2008, Shadow Minister for Consumer Affairs May 2006 – August 2007, Shadow Minister for Tourism May 2006 – August 2007, Shadow Minister for Country Victoria December 2006 – December 2010 and Shadow Minister for Housing December 2006 – December 2010.

In March 2022, Lovell made a speech in Parliament arguing public housing should not be built in wealthy areas, stating “There is no point putting a very low income, probably welfare-dependent, family in the best street in Brighton where the children cannot mix with others or go to school with other children or where they do not have the same ability to have the latest sneakers and iPhones.” Lovell's remarks attracted widespread condemnation.

References

1959 births
Living people
Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria
Members of the Victorian Legislative Council
21st-century Australian politicians
Women members of the Victorian Legislative Council
21st-century Australian women politicians
Ministers for Children (Victoria)


The Kodama state in physics for loop quantum gravity, is a zero energy solution to the Schrödinger equation (a linear partial differential equation that governs the wave function of a quantum-mechanical system).

In 1988, Hideo Kodama wrote down the equations of the Kodama state, but as it described a positive (de Sitter universe) spacetime, which was believed to be inconsistent with observation, it was largely ignored.

In 2002, Lee Smolin suggested that the Kodama state is a ground state which has a good semiclassical limit which reproduces the dynamics of general relativity with a positive (de Sitter) cosmological constant, 4 dimensions, and gravitons. It is an exact solution to ordinary constraints on background independent quantum gravity, providing evidence that loop quantum gravity is indeed a quantum gravity with the correct semiclassical description.  In 2003, Edward Witten published a paper in response to Lee Smolin's, arguing that the Kodama state is unphysical, due to an analogy to a state in Chern–Simons theory wave functions, resulting in negative energies. In 2006, Andrew Randono  published two papers which address these objections, by generalizing the Kodama state. Randono concluded that the Immirzi parameter, when generalized with a real value, fixed by matching with black hole entropy, describes parity violation in quantum gravity, and is CPT invariant, and is normalizable, and chiral, consistent with known observations of both gravity and quantum field theory. Randono claims that Witten's conclusions rest on the Immirzi parameter taking on an imaginary number, which simplifies the equation. The physical inner product may resemble the MacDowell–Mansouri action formulation of gravity.

References

Loop quantum gravity

Quantum states


The 1995 Queensland state election was held on 15 July 1995.

By-elections
 On 30 April 1994, Ted Malone (National) was elected to succeed Jim Randell (National), who had resigned on 31 March 1994, as the member for Mirani.

Retiring Members

Labor
Ed Casey (Mackay)
Pat Comben (Kedron)
Ken Vaughan (Nudgee)
Anne Warner (South Brisbane)

Candidates
Sitting members are shown in bold text.

See also
Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1992–1995
Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1995–1998
1995 Queensland state election
List of political parties in Australia

References
Psephos: Adam Carr's Election Archive - Queensland 1995
 Queensland Legislative Assembly (1995). Details of polling at general election held on 15 July 1995.
 Green, Antony. 1995 Election Totals and Electorate Results

Candidates for Queensland state elections


Duets is an album by jazz guitarists Joe Pass and John Pisano that was released in 1991. It was reissued in 1996 by Original Jazz Classics.

The sessions for Duets were based on producer Eric Miller's idea for Pass and Pisano to improvise to a video collage of National Geographic footage, cartoons, and movie clips.

Reception

Writing for AllMusic, music critic Steven MacDonald stated: "A pair of guitarists with a great deal of affection for each other's styles, showcased here in a set of delicate duets that allow both to shine equally. There's never any false flash or glamour, only charm and style." The JazzTimes review concluded: "Aside from the obvious rapport between the players, the blend of acoustic guitar and electric is a warm, happy one. It's another reminder of the void left by Pass' death."

Track listing
 "Alone Together" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 6:01
 "Baileywick" (Joe Pass) – 2:44
 "S'il Vous Plait" (John Pisano) – 2:38
 "Lonely Woman" (Horace Silver) – 3:38
 "Nina's Birthday Song" (Pass) – 4:20
 "You Were Meant for Me" (Pisano) – 4:19
 "Blues for the Wee Folk" (Pass) – 4:01
 "Satie" (Pisano) – 10:21
 "For Jim H." (Pass) – 6:11
 "Back to Back" (Pass) – 3:25

Personnel
Joe Pass – guitar
John Pisano – guitar

References

1991 albums
Joe Pass albums
Pablo Records albums


Frank Freeman (1861 – 13 October 1949) was a Canadian-American architect based in Brooklyn, New York. A leading exponent of the Richardsonian Romanesque architectural style who later adopted Neoclassicism, Freeman has been called "Brooklyn's greatest architect". Many details of his life and work are however still unknown, and Freeman himself has received little recognition outside academia. Many of his works have been demolished or otherwise destroyed, but most of those that remain have received New York City landmark status, either independently or as part of larger historic districts.

Life and career

Freeman was born in Hamilton, Canada West, in 1861. In the early 1880s, he arrived in New York, where he obtained a minor position in an architect's office while studying architecture. By 1885 he was a qualified architect, and in 1887 he established his own practice. Almost immediately he began attracting major commissions, one of the first being for the Hotel Margaret in 1888.

Freeman maintained offices in both Brooklyn and New York City, the latter in the Sun Building at 280 Broadway. While he designed buildings for clients in both Manhattan and Long Island and occasionally further afield, the great majority of his works were constructed in Brooklyn.

Freeman's early work was completed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, at which he is considered a master. After the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 however, Romanesque went out of fashion and Freeman quickly adapted to the new Neoclassical trend, completing a major commission in the genre, the Brooklyn Savings Bank, even before the World's Fair had ended. Freeman also sometimes incorporated elements of other styles into his works, such as Italian Renaissance, Beaux Arts and Colonial Revival, in an eclectic manner.

Freeman once headed the Clubhouse Committee of the Crescent Athletic Club (whose headquarters he designed in 1906), and he was a parishioner of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Brooklyn Heights. He died in 1949 in a convalescent home in Montclair, New Jersey at the age of 88, after a long illness. He was survived by two daughters, Miss Katharine C. Freeman and Mrs Dorothea F. Sellew.

Freeman's family discarded his papers and records just days before architectural historian Alan Burnham arrived to request them. Historians have thus been obliged to try to piece together details of his career from municipal records, a task that was still ongoing as late as 1995.

Critical appraisal

Freeman's work has received high praise from architecture critics, most notably from Norval White who called him "Brooklyn's greatest architect"—an accolade frequently repeated, and that other critics have judged as not unreasonable. His work in the Richardsonian Romanesque style in particular has been singled out for attention. The 19th century critic Montgomery Schuyler credited him with "the most artistic examples of the Richardsonian Romanesque in our domestic architecture", while a 1979 report by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission described his works in this style to be "among the finest built anywhere in New York City." He has been praised for his "fecund imagination" and "infinite versatility"—an example of the latter being his Brooklyn Savings Bank, a neoclassical design, considered by critic Francis Morrone to have been perhaps Freeman's finest work.

More generally, Freeman's "marvellously clear and direct" buildings "seem to speak to people, he gave them a sense of immediacy", according to historian Andrew Dolkart. Dolkart asserts that had Freeman practiced in Manhattan, "he'd be famous; but just because he worked in Brooklyn, no one's ever heard of him." Though Freeman was known to have been a prolific architect, many of his buildings have been demolished or destroyed, which further contributed to his lack of recognition. Furthermore, Dolkart told The New York Times in 1996 that it was difficult to find documentation for Freeman's buildings, due to the fragmented nature of Brooklyn building records. Many of Freeman's surviving works are now protected by landmark status.

List of works

The following tables list buildings known to have been designed by Frank Freeman. The first table is a list of extant works; the second a list of works that have been demolished or otherwise largely or wholly destroyed. Both lists are incomplete.

Buildings that still exist

Legend: Name=name of building; Address=address of building; Built=year building was completed (or remodelled, denoted by an "R" after the year); Style=architectural style. Styles include: RR=Richardsonian Romanesque; N=Neoclassical; E=eclectic; CR=Colonial Revival.

Buildings that no longer exist

Legend: Name=name of building; Address=address of building; Built=year building was completed (or remodelled, denoted by an "R" after the year); Style=architectural style. Styles include: RR=Richardsonian Romanesque; N=Neoclassical; E=eclectic; CR=Colonial Revival.

References

Bibliography
 American Institute of Architects (1992): AIA Architectural Guide to Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Long Island, Dover Publications, .
 Howard, Henry W. B.; Jervis, Arthur N. (1893): The Eagle and Brooklyn: The Record of the Progress of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Volume 2, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
 Lancaster, Clay; Gillon, Edmund V. Jr. (1980): Old Brooklyn Heights: New York's First Suburb, 5th Edition, Dover Publications, .
 Morrone, Francis; Iska, James (2001): An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn, Gibbs Smith, .

External links
 Adriana R. Kleiman research papers on Frank Freeman, circa 1900-1985 (bulk 1975-1985). Held by the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

1861 births
1949 deaths
19th-century American architects
20th-century American architects
19th-century Canadian architects
20th-century Canadian architects
Canadian emigrants to the United States


Ram Narayan began to record music when he played on three solo 78 rpm gramophone records for the British HMV Group in 1950 and recorded an early 10 inch LP album in Mumbai in 1951. Over the following decades Narayan had numerous solo recordings published.

Availability
Narayan's gramophone records and LP recordings are out of print. Three LPs were rereleased on CD: Volume 1, a partial rerelease of Ram Narayan en Concert, in 1989, and Inde du Nord in 1998 and Raga Puria Kalyan in 1999. Since the 2000s, the releases by Music Today, Nimbus Records, The Gramophone Company, Universal Music India, and Venus Records have become available in online music stores. The content of The Gramophone Company is available as streaming media from its successor Sa Re Ga Ma.

List of recordings

Footnotes

References

Discographies of Indian artists


I Spy is an American television series created by Edward Montagne and Phil Reisman Jr. and made by Rean Productions, Inc. and
Guild Films. It ran from 1955–56 for a total of 39 episodes and starred Raymond Massey as Anton, the Spymaster.

References

External links

I Spy at CVTA with episode list

1955 American television series debuts
1956 American television series endings
First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
Black-and-white American television shows


In philately a Die Proof is a printed image pulled directly from the master die for an engraved stamp.

As a stamp is engraved it is necessary to check progress and a series of proofs are printed or 'pulled' from the die. These are known as progressive or contemporary die proofs.

Progressive proofs also form part of the design and approval process for a stamp. Any changes made during this process turn the proofs into essays which may be identified retrospectively because they differ from the issued stamp. Die proofs for engraved stamps are normally printed under great pressure onto oversized card and, as they are printed from the master die, they are normally of high quality. By contrast they may also be printed on India Paper, a strong, thin, opaque paper. The proofs are not necessarily in the same colour(s) as the issued stamp. A proof on India or other paper mounted on a die-sunk card is known as a hybrid proof.

Once the die is completed, it is transferred multiple times to the plate from which the stamps are printed.

Any pulls from the master die after the stamp has been printed are known as posthumous die proofs and are normally produced for presentation purposes, as samples of the printer's work or to satisfy philatelic demand (demand for the item amongst collectors of stamps).

References

External links

1876 British Telegraph stamp die proof in the R.M. Phillips Collection at the British Postal Museum & Archive.
1913 Great Britain "Seahorse" die proof in the British Library Philatelic Collection.

Philatelic terminology


A mating plug, also known as a copulation plug, sperm plug, vaginal plug, or sphragis (Latin, from Greek σφραγίς sphragis, "a seal"), is a gelatinous secretion used in the mating of some species. It is deposited by a male into a female genital tract, such as the vagina, and later hardens into a plug or glues the tract together. While females can expel the plugs afterwards, the male's sperm still gets a time advantage in getting to the egg, which is often the deciding factor in fertilization.

The mating plug plays an important role in sperm competition and may serve as an alternative and more advantageous strategy to active mate guarding. In some species, such a passive mate-guarding strategy may reduce selection on large male size. Such a strategy may be advantageous because it would allow a male to increase reproductive success by spending more time pursuing new female mates rather than active mate guarding.

Composition

The mating plug of the Bombus terrestris was chemically analyzed and found to consist of palmitic acid, linoleic acid, oleic acid, stearic acid, and cycloprolylproline. It was found that the acids (without cycloprolylproline) were sufficient by themselves to create the plug. Researchers hypothesize that cycloprolylproline reduces female receptivity to further breeding.

Occurrence in nature
Mating plugs are used by many species, including several primates, kangaroos, bees, reptiles, rats, rodents, scorpions, mice, and spiders.

Use of a mating plug as a strategy for reproductive success can also be seen in a few taxa of Lepidoptera and other insects and is often associated with pupal mating. For example, to protect their paternity, male variable checkerspot butterflies pass a mating plug into the genital opening of females to prevent them from remating.

The Heliconius charithonia butterfly uses a mating plug in the form of a spermatophore that provides predatory defense chemicals and protein sources for developing eggs. It also acts as an anaphrodisiac that prevents other males from mating with the female. Similarly in Parnassius smintheus butterflies, the male deposits a waxy genital plug on the tip of the female's abdomen to prevent the female from mating again. It contains sperm and important nutrients for the female, and ensures that the male is the only one to fertilize the female’s eggs.

Most species of stingless bees, like Plebeia remota, are only mated once, and thus make use of mating plugs to store all the sperm they collect for future use.

Another species of insect that uses a copulatory plug is Drosophila mettleri, a Sonoran Desert Fly species from the Diptera family. These plugs serve as a means of male-female control during mating interactions.

A peculiar example of mate plugging occurs in Leucauge mariana spiders. Both male and female participation is required to create a mate plug. The male alone cannot create a functional plug. Female participation in creating a mating plugs, and her presumed benefit from them, have led to multiple studies of sexual selection on the sexual behavior of L. mariana.

In Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis, commonly known as red-sided garter snakes, males deposit a gelatinous copulatory plug to seal female snake's cloacal opening to prevent re-mating, leakage of the deposited sperm, and alters female pheromonal cues that attract mates.

See also
Bulbus glandis

References

Animal sexuality
Mating
Reproduction in mammals


Narayanapala is  also the name of the second Kamboja ruler of Bengal (later half of 10th century AD). He was elder son of Rajyapala Kamboj, the founder of the Kamboja Dynasty of Bengal and succeeded him to the throne after his death.

References

Rulers of Bengal
Kambojas


Graf Orlock is an American hardcore punk band formed in 2003 in Los Angeles, California, United States. They are named after Count Orlok from the 1922 film Nosferatu. The band consists of members of the hardcore punk bands Greyskull, Arctic Choke, Dangers and Ghostlimb, and employs audio snippets and script dialogue from action films such as The Terminator, Aliens and RoboCop in all their songs, which has led to the band being jokingly described as "cinema-grind". The band formed after guitarist Jason Schmidt and drummer Alan Hunter along with bassist Sven Calhoun and vocalist Kalvin Kristoff begun releasing EPs and split albums. In 2006, they started the Destination Time trilogy based on a screenplay that Schmidt and Hunter had been working on in university; the second instalment was the 2007 EP Destination Time Tomorrow which was listed at number 16 in Decibel Magazine's top 40 releases of 2007. Their latest album Crimetraveler was released in 2016 through Vitriol Records, a label run by members of the band and also featuring Ghostlimb, Robotosaurus, Owen Hart, Teeth, Dangers, Birds in Row and Totalt Jävla Mörker.

In October 2018, the band's label, Vitriol Records, announced a forthcoming album, Examination of Violent Cinema Vol. 1, which was released in December of that year. The album contains 12 songs based on the theme of criticism of recent motion picture releases.

Members
All members use multiple pseudonyms, but these names are most commonly used:

Current
"Bruce Da Deuce" – Bass (2011–present)
"Alan Hunter" – Drums (2003–present)
"Jason Schmidt" – Guitar, vocals, (2003–present)
"Karl Bournze" – Vocals (2008–present)

Former
"Sven Calhoun" – bass (2003–2011)
"Kalvin Kristoff" – vocals (2003–2008)
"Jeff Hermann"
"Ivan Somple"
”Michael Morningstar”

Discography
Studio albums
Destination Time Yesterday (2006)
Destination Time Today (2009)
Crimetraveler (2016)
Examination Of Violent Cinema, Volume 1 (December 2018)

EPs
Graf Orlock (2004)
Corpserate Greed (2004)
Destination Time Tomorrow (2007)
Doombox (2011)
Los Angeles (2012)

Splits
With Hurry Up and Kill Yourself (2004)
With Greyskull (2005)

See also
ArnoCorps
Austrian Death Machine

References

External links
Official website

American grindcore musical groups
Metalcore musical groups from California
Hardcore punk groups from California
Heavy metal musical groups from California
Musical groups from Los Angeles
2003 establishments in California
Musical groups established in 2003
American musical quartets
Level Plane Records artists


This list of tallest buildings in Dalian ranks skyscrapers in Dalian, Liaoning, China by height. The tallest building in Dalian is currently the Eton Place Dalian Tower 1

Dalian is the sub-provincial city in the Liaoning Province. It is the second largest city in Northeast China, with 6.2 million population and more than 3 million urban population.

With 19 buildings taller than 200 m, Dalian is ranked the 10th best skyline in China and the 33rd in the World.

Tallest buildings
This lists ranks Dalian skyscrapers that stand at least 140 m (460 feet) tall, based on standard height measurement. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts. Existing structures are included for ranking purposes based on present height. All the structures in this list has been topped, but some may not be ready to use.

Tallest under construction, approved, and proposed

Under construction
This lists buildings that are under construction in Dalian and are planned to rise at least 140 m (328 feet). Buildings that have already been topped out are not included.

Proposed
This lists buildings that are Proposed in Dalian and are planned to rise at least 140 m (328 feet).

References

External links
 Dalian Skycraper on Skycraperpage.com
 The World's best Skyline
 Dalian Skycrapers in Emporis.com
 Skyscrapers of Dalian on Gaoloumi (in Chinese)

Dalian
Skyscrapers in Dalian
Buildings and structures in Dalian


"Help Me Hold On" is a song by American country music artist Travis Tritt.  It was released in February 1990 as the second single from his debut album Country Club. It reached number 1 in both the United States and Canada, thus becoming Travis Tritt's first number-one hit.  The song was written by Tritt and Pat Terry.

Content
"Help Me Hold On" is a ballad telling of a failing relationship. In it, the male narrator asks his significant other not to abandon him, by confessing his mistakes.

Commercial performance
The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.  It has also sold 167,000 digital copies since it became available for download.

Music video
The music video was directed by Greg Crutcher. It begins and ends with an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show playing on the television set.

Personnel
The following musicians play on this track:
Gregg Brown – acoustic guitar
Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar, electric guitar solo
Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
Paul Franklin – steel guitar
Dana McVicker – background vocals
Mark O'Connor – fiddle
Michael Rojas – piano
Jim "Jimmy Joe" Ruggiere – harmonica
Steve Turner – drums, percussion
Kent Wells – electric guitar
Reggie Young – electric guitar

Chart positions

Year-end charts

References

1990 singles
Travis Tritt songs
Songs written by Travis Tritt
Warner Records Nashville singles
1990 songs


Baglan is a taluka (tehsil) in Nashik District in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Sometimes Baglan Taluka is unofficially referred to as Satana, because of that city's dominance within the taluka.

Geography
Baglan Taluka is located in the mountains of the Western Ghats.  Its principal river is the Mausam River (Mosam River) which is dammed at Haranbari Dam creating a large reservoir.

History
While now a backwater, Baglan was once the site of the Baglan Kingdom, the Bagul kingdom that existed from 1308 to 1619. The native people in the area were the Bhils and the Marathas, Mali.

Later on during the rule of Chatrapati Shivaji Raje Bhosale of the Maratha Empire, Baglan was a territory of major importance because of its proximity to the then flourishing and rich mughal market city of Surat. Maratha's were aware of this and used it to their advantage by capturing the area from Mughals and later on mounting a loot on Surat thrice. There are two main hill ranges in Baglan area the Selbari range is south of the Dolbari hill range. These two ranges run parallel to each other in east–west direction. Nhavigad, Tambolya hill and mangi-Tungi are located on Dolbari hill range. The Salher, Salota, Hargad, Mulher and Mora forts are located on Selbari range. All these forts were maintained to keep watch on the Burhanpur-Surat ancient commercial road. The road passes between the two hill ranges. The forts of Salher and Mulher in Baglan Tehsil were used as halting and storage points during Marathas march back to home after looting Surat. Beside this forts, Marathas were staying and used to store thing on small fort of Pisol ghat, near Nandin village, which is at end of Nashik district. The battle of Salher which is a milestone in the history of Maratha was fought here. the forts in this region are among the highest forts in Maharashtra. The forts are tough and demand high endurance from the trekkers.

Villages
Baglan taluka contains the following villages: Antapur, Anandpur, Bramhanpade, Avhati, Aarai, Askheda, Akhatvade, Ajmer Saundane, Ambasan, Bhakshi, Chuandhane, Dangsaundane, Dasvel, Dyane, Dasane, Devlane, Dodheshwar, Fofir, Jaikheda, Jaipur, Kakadgaon, Kersane, Karanjgavhan, Kikwari, Kikwari khurd, Koutikpade, Lakhamapur, Mangitungi, Mulher, Kandhane, Mulane, Munjwad, Nandin, Nampur, Pimpalkothe, Pingalwade, Sakode, Salher, Shemali, Sompur, Shripurwade, Karanjad, Tandulwadi, Taharabad, Antapur (shankar maharaj), Thengoda, Tilwan, Utrane, Nitane, Parner, Chirai, Bodhri, Bilpuri, Mahad, Virgaon, Aundane, Virgaonpade, Talwade, Bijorse, Lakhane, Karhe, Brahmangaon, Chaulher

and Vayagaon, Sarade, Kupakheda, Dyane, Bhadane, Pimpaldar, Darhane, Navegoan, Rahud, Kotbel, Gorane, Bijote, Tarsali, Bhandarpade, Vanoli
More nagar. Tungan, Aliyabad, Vadakhel, Jad, Golwad, Moholangi, Haranbari, Babhulane, Waghmba,
Dongrej, Maliwade, Pathawe, Sawargaon, Chinchpade, Bhildar, Tingri, kolipada

Tourism
Baglan has a number of temples, forts and natural sights that are tourist attractions. The forts of Baglan region attract trekkers who are fascinated by the toughness and endurance.

Temples
First of all the temple of "GRAM Daivat" Lord "YashwanthRao Maharaj" also Called As Dev Mamledar is a beautiful temple located in town at bank of Aram River during Safala Ekadashi grand fair is organised for above 15 days. There is a very Beautiful Lord Shiva temple called JWALESHWAR MANDIR at PARNER, around 18 km north of Satana, on the bank of Karanjadi river
Ram Mandir is a Hindu temple in Vayagaon, about  from Satana. About  from Satana is Mangi-Tungi, a hill with two prominent pinnacled peaks: Mangi, at  to the west; and Tungi,  high, to the east. Seven old temples are located on Mangi, and five on Tungi. There is a large temple with a high spire in the valley. There are numerous caves in the hills named after great saints such as Mahavir, Adinath, Shantinath, Parshwanath and Ratnatrya. Inside the caves there are over 300 statues to these various saints, with two large idols of Mahavir.  The area is considered sacred by both Hindus and Jains and enshrines images of Jain Tirthankaras in several postures including padmasana and kayotsarga. Sometimes, it is described as Siddha Kshetra, meaning a gateway to the state of enlightenment. A grand fair is held there annually during Kartik (September–October) where Hindus and Jains visit in large numbers to witness the grand rath yatra. The area around Mangi-Tungi is also an ideal spot for hiking.
Beautiful Temple of Lord Hanumana named as Shri Dangya Maruti Temple located at Taharabad Road, above 2 km from Satana. Along with this the famous fort Salher is in Baglan Taluka. Very Old and famous Hemadpanthi temple located in Deolane village about  from Satana.It is said that lord Krishna had died near mangi-tungi hence it is a sacred place for Hindus also.

References

Talukas in Maharashtra
Nashik district


The Tango Saloon is an Australian experimental tango band from Sydney, Australia. Their self-titled debut, a "tango-flavored album with a twist of spaghetti western", was released in 2006 by Ipecac Recordings, the American record label run by Mike Patton and Greg Werckman. It was described by Greg Prato of AllMusic (All Music Guide) as "a musical breath of fresh air in the often foul-smelling state of modern popular music". Three albums have followed, Transylvania (2008), Shadows & Fog (2012) and Suspicion (2015) featuring vocalist Elana Stone. In June 2007, the band was seen supporting Ipecac label-mates Peeping Tom on the East-coast leg of their Australian tour. Other notable performances include support for Mondo Cane at Sydney Festival 2012, and for Marc Ribot in 2015 (with The Mango Balloon).

Band members
The Tango Saloon's lineup includes a number of notable musicians, including drummer Danny Heifetz from Mr. Bungle and Secret Chiefs 3. Bandleader Julian Curwin plays on occasion in Monsieur Camembert, along with accordionist Marcello Maio and double bassist Mark Harris. Band members' other projects include Darth Vegas, Hermitude, Marsala and The Fantastic Terrific Munkle. Transylvania also features a guest vocal from Mike Patton on the track Dracula Cha Cha.

The list of members:

Live band:
 Julian Curwin – guitar, keyboards
 Marcello Maio – accordion, keyboards
 Sam Golding – tuba, trumpet
 John Hibbard – trombone
 Mark Harris – double bass
 Danny Heifetz – drums, percussion
 Jess Ciampa – percussion
 Elana Stone – vocals

Other musicians/guests:
 Shenton Gregory – violin, viola
 Christian Watson – alto & baritone sax
 Leonie Cohen – piano
 Svetlana Bunic – accordion
 Alon Ilsar – drums, electronics
 Luke Dubber – keyboards
 Martin Kay – clarinets
 Reuben Derrick – tenor sax
 Kory Horwood – double bass
 Jane Sheldon – vocals
 Brian Campeau – vocals
 Ilan Kidron – vocals
 Mike Patton – vocals

Other activities
In 2010, band leader Julian Curwin developed a stripped-back chamber version of The Tango Saloon, named The Mango Balloon, with a lighter sound adding lounge, exotica and continental jazz to the larger band’s tango/western blend. Aside from six members from The Tango Saloon, the recordings also feature special guests, bringing their own distinct flavour to the music - The Mango Balloon: Volume 1 (2010) with Eddie Bronson, Volume 2 (2012) with Brian Campeau, Volume 3 (2014) with Shenton Gregory, and Volume 4 (2017) with Matt McMahon. He also released Crossing (2018) with Jane Sheldon, and Midnight Lullaby (2020) with Stu Hunter, Lloyd Swanton and Jess Ciampa.

Discography

Studio albums

References

External links
 The Tango Saloon official website
 Romero Records
 The Tango Saloon at Ipecac Recordings
 The Mango Balloon at Rufus Records

New South Wales musical groups
Tango musicians
Tango music groups
Ipecac Recordings artists


Chokchai Chuchai (; born April 19, 1988) is a Thai professional footballer who plays for Nakhon Pathom United in the Thai League 2.

Honours

Club
Buriram PEA
 Thailand Premier League Champions (1) : 2008

Muangthong United
 Thai Premier League Champions (1) : 2009

Nakhon Pathom United
 Thai League 2: 2022–23

External links
 Goal.com
 Players Profile - info.thscore.com

1988 births
Living people
Chokchai Chuchai
Chokchai Chuchai
Men's association football defenders
Chokchai Chuchai
Chokchai Chuchai
Chokchai Chuchai
Chokchai Chuchai
Chokchai Chuchai
Chokchai Chuchai
Chokchai Chuchai
Chokchai Chuchai
Chokchai Chuchai


Naya Pala is  also the name of the third Kamboja ruler of Bengal (last quarter of tenth century AD).  He was younger son of Rajyapala Kamboj, the founder of the Kamboja Dynasty of Bengal and succeeded to the throne after death of Narayan Pala (of Kamboja line).  Naya Pala of the Kamboja line assumed the imperial title of Parameshvara paramabhattaraka maharajadhirAja Nayapaladeva.

References

Rulers of Bengal
Kambojas


Pat Kelman (b. Patrick Kelly) is a British film distributor, photographer, director, writer and actor. Born in Chelmsford, Essex, he was raised in Cornwall where he now lives after spending 20 years in London. He was trained at the University of London.

Film Distribution
In 2018 he set up a new UK film distribution company, 606 Distribution in association with film colleague David Maddison. The company has recently acquired the films Polina and Hannah for release in the UK.

Photography
In 2013 he established a photography business, utilising the visual and people skills he had gained through his directing and acting work to specialise in wedding and portrait photography.

Acting career
As an actor, he made his screen debut in Andrei Konchalovsky's 1997 television miniseries of The Odyssey, playing the role of Elatus. He has also been seen in the 1999 horror film Lighthouse, The Jump, The Bill, and was a regular artist in the long-running BBC sitcom My Hero.

Writing and directing
Encounters, his first film as writer and director which was produced by longtime collaborator Jonty Reason from Pittot Films, won Best Feature Film at the 2005 ReelHeART International Film Festival in Toronto and the 2005 Cheap Shot L.A. International Film Festival. The film also won the Delabole Slate Audience Award for Film of the Festival at the 2005 Cornwall Film Festival. Encounters was released on DVD by Celebrity Video Distribution in November 2009 under the international title Encounters: Speed Dating can Hurt

In 2007 he was funded by Cornwall Film, South West Screen and the UK Film Council to write and direct the short drama Pianissimo.

His most recent short film Francis was shown in March 2009 at the Angry Film Festival in Melbourne, Australia.

Francis was joint winner of the ReelTube category with Pat Kelman's other shorts The Letter Game and Elephant Boy at the 2009 ReelHeART International Film Festival.

External links

Pat Kelman Photography work featured on English Wedding Blog
Pat Kelman Photography

FRANCIS at the Angry Film Festival 2009
Encounters on Britfilms.com
Pianissimo on Britfilms.com
Flickernow.com report on 2005 Cornwall Film Festival
Interview with actor David Kershaw on working with Pat Kelman

References

1963 births
English male television actors
English screenwriters
English male screenwriters
English film directors
Living people
People from Chelmsford
People from Cornwall


Riverside Corner is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in  The Municipality of the District of East Hants in Hants County.

References
Riverside Corner on Destination Nova Scotia

Communities in Hants County, Nova Scotia
General Service Areas in Nova Scotia


On My Own is the fourth and final studio album released on August 26, 2003 by hip-hop artist, Magic on Koch Records. The album features production from Magic, Mark in da Dark and Sinista as well as guest appearances by Curren$y.

Prior to the release of this album, Magic had just left No Limit Records to join Koch and On My Own was his second 2003 album. However, this album was released just 5 months after his previous album White Eyes. This is Magic's final album prior to his death on March 1, 2013.

Commercial performance
On My Own reached No. 54 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

Track listing
"And It Starts" – 1:12  (feat. Mr B)
"Tear It Up" – 4:22
"Do What U Do" – 2:50
"Knock It Down" – 3:13
"Wilyn'" – 3:04
"Lala" – 0:29
"International Gangstas" – 3:09  (feat. Curren$y)
"Wild Wayne" – 0:35
"Ninth Ward" – 4:03
"DJ Ro" – 0:27
"We Give You" – 2:58  (feat. Trouble)
"So Tired" – 4:54  (feat. Trouble)
"Down Here" (Skit) – 0:33
"Down Here" – 3:34
"My Life" – 3:06
"Time to Go" – 3:23  (feat. Da Bear)
"Short & Simple" (Skit) – 0:54
"Short & Simple" – 3:26  (feat. Detroit)
"Ya'll Don't Really Want None" – 2:45
"Detroit" – 0:12
"All I Do" – 3:10

Charts

References

2003 albums
Magic (rapper) albums
E1 Music albums


Virtuoso Live! is a live album by jazz guitarist Joe Pass that was released in 1991. It was reissued in 1995 by Original Jazz Classics.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow  wrote of the album "Through it all, Pass shows that he is one of the few guitarists who never needed other instrumentalists in order to form a complete group sound. Recommended."

Track listing
 "Stompin' at the Savoy" (Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb, Benny Goodman, Andy Razaf) – 4:53
 "Just the Way You Are" (Billy Joel) – 3:10
 "Eric's Smoozie Blues" (Pass) – 5:10
 "Beautiful Love" (Haven Gillespie, Wayne King, Egbert Van Alstyne, Victor Young) – 4:13
 "Daquilo Que Eu Sei" (Ivan Lins, Vitor Martins) – 4:29
 "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (David Mann, Bob Hilliard) – 4:34
 "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 5:34
 "Mack the Knife" (Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein) – 6:13
 "So What's New?" (Peggy Lee, John Pisano) – 8:48
 "(Back Home Again In) Indiana" (James Hanley, Ballard MacDonald) – 4:41

Personnel
Joe Pass – guitar

References

Joe Pass live albums
1991 live albums
Pablo Records live albums


The 2009 Hawaii Warriors football team represented the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as a member of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Led by second-year head coach Greg McMackin, the Warriors compiled an overall record of 6–7 with a mark of 3–5 in conference play, placing in a three-way tie for fifth in the WAC. Hawaii played home games at Aloha Stadium in Halawa, Hawaii.

Schedule

References

Hawaii
Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football seasons
Hawaii Warriors football


David Tobias "Theodore" Bamberg (aka Fu Manchu) (19 February 190419 August 1974) was an itinerant magician who traveled with his full evening magic show from the early to mid part of the 20th century. In Bamberg's autobiography, Robert Parrish wrote in the introduction that no other great illusionist could match Bamberg's skill. The Fu Manchu show was known for its comedy, drama, and color.

Bamberg was the sixth and final member of the Bamberg Magical Dynasty, a Dutch family of conjurers whose magical lineage was passed from each of the first-born sons.

Early life
Bamberg was born in Derby, the eldest son of Tobias Bamberg, who performed as "Okito", and his wife Lillian Poole, daughter of Charles William Poole, one of the brothers who ran the famous Poole's Myriorama traveling Diaroma show in England. His father was from the Bamberg Magical Dynasty, a Dutch Jewish family of magicians. During Okito's European tour, Poole became pregnant. She continued to assist him, hiding her pregnancy through her Chinese robe. While in Russia, Poole feared that she would give birth there. They cancelled their contracts in Russia and returned to England. On 19 February 1904, Poole gave birth to their first son. He was named David, and would have one brother and one sister.

Bamberg stayed with his grandfather for a year, but was reunited with his father when he fulfilled the postponed contracts in Russia. It was in Russia that Bamberg first appeared on the stage, at the age of four, as a little Chinese boy being produced from a cloth. It was on their way to Norway that Julius and Agnes Zancig met Bamberg. Agnes predicted accurately that he would follow in her footsteps, although no one else believed it at the time.

After his European contract was through, Bamberg's father was approached by American vaudeville agent Martin Beck. He signed a six-month contract to play the Orpheum Circuit in the United States. He brought Lily and David to America to fulfill the dates. With the money he made in Europe and America, he decided to quit show business and settle in New York. He opened up a magic shop on the corner of Broadway and 28th Street called Bamberg Magic and Novelty Company with Joe Klein. Here he created exclusive magic tricks for magicians such as Harry Kellar, Frederick Eugene Powell, Bernard M.L. Ernst, Samuel Leo Horowitz, and many other leading magicians residing in the United States.

Career
Bamberg performed his first trick in public when he was five years old at the Society of American Magicians meeting. It was a card trick in which he asked club president Harry Houdini to assist him. Bamberg later said that, "I venture to say that very few magicians ever had such a famous assistant." Bamberg said that he never went through the fireman/cowboy/aviator phase that most children his age went through. He constructed a toy theatre and envisioned being the world's greatest magician doing his big illusion show.

Business was bad and ready to close. Kellar convinced Bamberg's father to build illusions for the Thurston show, and Bamberg was to travel with the famous illusionist Howard Thurston and his show. In one point in the show, Thurston asked for the assistance of a boy and a girl. This was Bamberg's cue to jump up on stage. Here Thurston performed David Devant's trick, "Eggs From A Hat".

Howard taught young Bamberg his first card sleight. It was during this tour that Thurston presented Bamberg as his future successor. Thurston promised this to many magicians including Harry August Jansen aka "Dante". Bamberg had no doubt that one day he would be an illusionist with his own show. Through his father's connections, he met Houdini, Kellar, Horace Goldin, and the other leading magicians of the turn of the 20th century. In 1911, Bamberg's sister Dorothy was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and she was known as the Grand Rapid Baby.  Thurston was her godfather. The Bamberg family left the Thurston shortly after that and settled in Brooklyn, New York. It was there that Bamberg would sneak into his father's magic den by sliding under a bookcase. While there he learned from the books and magic tricks in what he called, "this magical paradise".

Syko the Psychic
In public school Bamberg was known as "the white-haired boy" because of his travels around the world. In the summer of 1917, at the age of 13, Bamberg became one of The Zancigs. He joined Julius Zancig, the world-famous telepathist and worked in partnership with him after Zancig's wife, Agnes, died. Zancig and his wife had been the most famous stage mentalists of their age. Bamberg, as "Syko the Psychic", learned their famous code and played the part of the blindfolded medium divining articles from the audience, solving mathematical problems, and ending with an impressive book test. He completed his education in America and went to England to further his studies, although this did not pan out, and he instead concentrated on becoming a professional magician. He attended performances at the Maskelyne family magic theatre at St. Georges Hall and watched all of the magicians who played there at the time.

Return to America
In 1921, Bamberg returned to the United States and appeared in various magical acts. He worked as an assistant to a Professor Seward who was a board walk astrologer in Atlantic City. When the Sawing a Woman in Half illusion craze hit, he found a broken down P. T. Selbit. David Bamberg traveled with one of Selbit's Divided Woman company in vaudeville. He worked as an extra in Hollywood.

He met Hilda Seagle who joined him in a mindreading via Zancig; the couple married on 2 November 1923. After working in night clubs during the Prohibition era, Bamberg went abroad again to pursue success. He presented his original comedy Shadowgraphy act in Vienna, then toured Europe. Bamberg also worked with his father, where he learned the "Chinese" act from the bottom up.

South America

Bamberg wanted to tour with his own show, but his father tried to dissuade him from doing so, suggesting he continue with his shadow act and not invite the stress of the big show. With his new wife Hilda, Bamberg had to find a steady job. He was working as Syko again doing sleight of hand and the shadow act in Bulgaria. It was through Ottokar Fischer in Vienna that Bamberg met the Great Raymond. He was asked to be his assistant for his tour through South America, and to bring a mechanic. The Wierner Magic club suggested a German by the name of Edmund Spreer. So the three of them, Spreer, Bamberg and his wife, left for Bahia, Brazil. When the Great Raymond left South America, Bamberg stayed. He tried to work with his shadow act, but to no avail. Then he heard that Harlan Tarbell was offering a course in magic. As Bamberg was unable to afford anything like that, he was sent the lessons free. With those lessons, he built up a successful act and found work in around that area.

Fu Manchu
With the advent of talking pictures, variety suffered. For Bamberg it was a choice between doing a big show or nothing. In 1928, he was in Argentina trying to fill dates when Dante brought his show to Buenos Aires. For 120 performances, Dante filled the Casino theatre, which impressed a film-distributorship executive named Walter Gaulke. He saw how much money a big illusion could bring in. By chance he saw David Bamberg hanging around the theatre and asked him if he could do such a show as Dante. Bamberg agreed and drew up the plans.

With Gaulke's backing, Bamberg toured the world as "Fu Manchu". His show was a success from the start. Eventually his productions became the most extravagant and superb show in the world. He was able to use the Fu Manchu name in places like South and Central America, the West Indies, Spanish Morocco, Portugal, and Spain. But, in March 1937 when he came back to the United States, he had to change his name to avoid a lawsuit. He was billed as "Fu Chan" when he played the Cervantes theatre in New York to a successful run.

Movie career
While performing in one of his own productions in Mexico, Bamberg was asked to star in three films. When the studio could not come up with scripts that satisfied him, he wrote them himself, and would eventually write and star in three more movies.

Planning on retiring, he was eventually urged to go back to the stage and created a new show called Crazimagicana. It premiered in February 1947 at the Teatro Nacional in Buenos Aires. The performance was a quick moving show using blackouts skits that were similar to vaudeville comedians Olsen and Johnson's Broadway revue, Hellzapoppin'. Bored with doing the same show every night, Bamberg eventually wrote a musical comedy called The Devil's Daughter. He wove into the script most of his illusions from past shows and reworked them into the plot. He reworked this play, tweaking it here and there, always having trouble with the second act. Then it finally dawned on him how to fix the problem, and he started the second act with a few new illusions instead of story and he felt it carried the plot story perfectly.

Last years
David Bamberg made and lost many fortunes, always living for the moment and never able to save his money wisely. He did regain much of it by keeping his show running until on 19 March 1966 in Buenos Aires, aged 61, he gave his last full evening show. He retired and opened a magic shop there. In March 1972, Bamberg was admitted to the hospital for ten days and had to be put on oxygen; he reportedly stopped smoking. In a magic magazine, The New Tops, Argentine magic dealer Vernet wrote that Bamberg's typical day was to walk "at the intersection of Riobamba and Bartolome Mitre streets. There he sat facing north in a position from which he could see his shop and read an English newspaper or magazine while sipping his coffee and milk. Once inside Fu Manchu's Magic Center, he sat alone at a green-clothed table, leaning on his elbows waiting for someone to come in."

On 19 August 1974, David Bamberg died, aged 70. According to tradition among magical organizations, members of the Argentine Society of Magicians broke a wand at a memorial services for the last of the Bamberg dynasty. He had one son, Robert, who did not become a professional magician.

Legacy
On 28 February 1965, Bamberg finished his first draft of his autobiography and sent it to many magician friends. Eventually the manuscript was divided into two books, Oriental Magic of the Bambergs by Robert Albo, Erick Lewis, and David Bamberg; and Illusion Show by David Bamberg.

A young boy in Cuba named Cesareo Pelaez saw shows by Fu Manchu and later, when he came to the United States, formed a magic production in the Bamberg tradition. On 20 February 1977, in Beverly, Massachusetts, Pelaez aka "Marco" presented Le Grand David and his own Spectacular Magic Company for weekend performances. "Marco", along with Seth the Sensational and David Bull as Le Grand David, presented a spectacular revue in the style of the Fu Manchu show. The vaudeville-inspired stage show continues to this day, after 35 years, honoring the tradition once carried by Bamberg.

After retiring and settling down in his shop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bamberg spent much of his time teaching and coaching magicians of the next generation. One of the magicians he taught was an adolescent Marcelo Contento. Contento learned shadowgraphy from Bamberg, and was the only person to fully do so. He went on to tour worldwide with his own shadow act which he developed from what he learned from Bamberg. However, the talent ended there, as Contento was diagnosed with a form of brain cancer and died before his son grew old enough to learn it from him.

Selected filmography
 The Museum of Crime (1945)

References

External links

1904 births
1974 deaths
English magicians
English people of Dutch descent
People from Buenos Aires
People from Derby


"Lover Come Back to Me" is a 1985 single by English pop band Dead or Alive, produced by Stock Aitken Waterman. It was released as the second single from the band's second studio album, Youthquake, and the single mix features slightly different instrumentation to the album version but is generally the same. The single peaked at No. 11 in the UK, No. 3 in South Africa, No. 5 in Switzerland, No. 21 in Germany, No. 13 in Australia and No. 75 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

In addition to the standard 7" and 12" formats (the latter of which included a sleeve which could be opened up in to a poster), a fan-shaped picture disc was also released in the UK. The B-side to the single was "Far Too Hard", a song from the band's debut studio album.

As with "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)", the song was re-recorded in 2003 for the band's retrospective compilation album Evolution: The Hits.

Critical reception
The single generally received positive reviews, being described as "appealing" by Ira Robbins while Ned Raggett of AllMusic said, "When Burns commands at the end of the chorus, 'Kick it right down, right down!' it's as memorable as mass media pop of any stripe ever gets."

Track listing

Chart performance

References

External links

1985 singles
1985 songs
Dead or Alive (band) songs
Epic Records singles
Songs written by Pete Burns
Song recordings produced by Stock Aitken Waterman
Songs written by Tim Lever
Songs written by Mike Percy (musician)


Harry Oliver White (6 January 1895 – 4 September 1987) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Glanworth, Ontario and became a farmer by career. White served in World War I with the 63rd Field Battery, Canadian Expeditionary Force.

He won five consecutive elections at the Middlesex East riding from the 1945 federal election through the 1958 election. After completing his fifth term, the 24th Canadian Parliament, White left federal politics and did not seek another term in office.

He died in 1987 and is interred in Westminster, Ontario.

References

External links

1895 births
20th-century Canadian farmers
Canadian military personnel of World War I
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs
1987 deaths


Stuff the Magic Dragon is the official mascot of the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA). His name is a play on the Peter, Paul and Mary song "Puff, the Magic Dragon", and the basketball slang term "stuff" (which means to either slam dunk or reject a slam dunk shot).

Biography
Stuff the Magic Dragon, described as "the tallest dragon in Orlando's history," was introduced in a giant egg on Church Street in 1989, where Dave Raymond, the original Phillie Phanatic, portrayed him for his "birth". He was "originally the Magic's #1 pick in the supplemental dragon back draft, directly out of clown college." Stuff is said to live in the Dragon's Lair at Orlando's Amway Center and has his own play area, "Stuff's Magic Castle" on the promenade level. Many think that Stuff is a copy of the Philly Phanatic, but the two mascots were made by the same company, Acme Mascots (Harrison/Erickson), which made many popular mascots including the retired Yankees mascot "Dandy", the Hornets mascot Hugo, and Montreal's Youppi!. According to original Magic general manager Pat Williams, various other mascot ideas were thrown before the dragon, including a rabbit, a wizard and a magic bean.

Appearance
Stuff is a neon green dragon with a blue uni-brow, two teeth on his muzzle, two antennae with stars on his head, a blue and pink mane that goes from his head to his tail, black shoes with star decorations, and pink wings on the sides of his head and on his arms. Stuff also has yellow party blowers that inflate and deflate that come out of his muzzle that represent "fire" that comes out of dragons' nostrils. He is recognizable with his white Magic jersey with his logo on the front, but also has jerseys that come in black and blue. During the 2010 playoffs, Stuff appeared with royal blue fur instead of his trademark neon green fur.

Antics
Stuff comes out on the court pre-game to do a skit and toss out T-shirts; during the game, he often ventures around in the stand and does more skits during breaks and between quarters. Most skits can be from a trampoline dunk show (by himself or with the Orlando Magic Flight Crew), a pump-up session with giant signs, break-dancing in the middle of the court, or dancing to a song compilation. A special song made for the mascot plays during his entrances. He also makes grand entrances during special events like the playoffs or opening night where he comes down from the rafters on a zip line or bungee. He also has two air-mascot counterparts, Air Stuff and Air Stuff Jr., and has a miniature mascot of him named Mini-Stuff. He gained nationwide popularity when he was featured on "The Tonight Show", hosted by Jimmy Fallon, during a dance off with their mascot, Hashtag the panda, during a week-long special in Orlando. He also made headlines when he proposed to Kate Upton.

Stuff is also the host of the annual "Celebrity Mascot Games" that takes place each year at the Amway Center. Each year, mascots from North America come to Orlando and compete in Olympic-style games while being in different colored teams. The Mascot Games were made for the non-profit organization, "New Hope For Kids", to raise money and attention for them. The games started in 1992 at the old Amway Arena and have continued annually ever since, with exceptions in 2013 (the games took a hiatus due to lack of a new partnership for the company), 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2023 (due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

During his career, Stuff has been seen with many other sports mascots at numerous mascot-oriented events. Each year, about 4-5 mascots (locally and across the country) come to Orlando and do opportunities for pictures and meet and greets pre-game and during the game. Stuff and his mascot guests also do special skits, which normally include a mascot dunk show, a halftime skit, and a short number from the mascots' air counterparts. .

Stuff has recently received more popularity after the NBA All Star Game's Verizon Slam Dunk Contest, where he assisted Magic player Aaron Gordon during the event. He won the NBA Mascot Conference's Mascot of the Year award in 2016.

Awards
Mascot of the Year – 2016, 2017

References

External links
Stuff's Lair
Magic Blog: Stuff Happens

National Basketball Association mascots
Orlando Magic
Dragon mascots


Trigger Trail is a 1944 American Western film directed by Lewis D. Collins and starring Rod Cameron.

Premise
A cowboy (Rod Cameron) intervenes when greedy businessmen try to trick homesteaders into forfeiting their land.

Cast
 Rod Cameron as Clint Farrel
 Fuzzy Knight as Echo
 Eddie Dew as Sheriff Bob Reynolds
 Vivian Austin as Ann Catlett
 Ray Whitley as Gilroy
 Lane Chandler as Slade
 George Eldredge as Rance Hudson
 Robert 'Buzz' Henry as Chip Kincaid (as 'Buzz' Henry)
 Davison Clark as Silas Farrel
 Michael Vallon as Bender
 Richard Alexander as Henchman Waco (as Dick Alexander)
 Jack Rockwell as Joe Kincaid
 Budd Buster as Tug Cattlet
 The Six Bar Cowboys as cowhands / musicians (as the Bar-Six Cowboys)

See also
 List of American films of 1944

External links

1944 films
1944 Western (genre) films
Universal Pictures films
American Western (genre) films
Films directed by Lewis D. Collins
1940s English-language films
American black-and-white films
1940s American films


The Old Scholars Football Association is an Australian rules football competition in southern Tasmania, Australia.
The competition currently stages an eighteen-round roster season which is cut to a top four at the end of the roster series for a four match finals series played according to the McIntyre system, culminating in the grand final.

History
The former Tasmanian Amateur Football League (Southern Division) known also as the Southern Amateurs split into two divisions at the start of the 1981 season, forming a District division and an Old Scholars division.
In 1987, the clubs in the TAFL (Old Scholars Division) broke away to form the Old Scholars Football Association.
With the admission of the Richmond Football Club in 2001 and Channel Football Club in 2009, the competition saw the loss of New Town Old Scholars in 1995 and The Friends' School Old Boys Football Club (formed in 1934) in the 2005 season.

Current OSFA clubs

Timeline

Premiership winners

Tasmanian Amateurs Old Scholars Division
1981 – Hutchins'
1982 – Old Hobartians Association (OHA)
1983 – Hutchins'
1984 – Dominic Old Scholars (DOSA)
1985 – Tasmanian University
1986 – Dominic Old Scholars (DOSA)
Old Scholars Football Assoc
1987 – Dominic Old Scholars (DOSA)
1988 – Old Hobartians Association (OHA)
1989 – Friends'
1990 – Friends'
1991 – Friends'
1992 – Tasmanian University

1993 – Tasmanian University
1994 – Dominic Old Scholars (DOSA)
1995 – Dominic Old Scholars (DOSA)
1996 – St Virgil's
1997 – Friends'
1998 – St Virgil's
1999 – Dominic Old Scholars (DOSA)
2000 – Hutchins'
2001 – St Virgil's
2002 – Hutchins'
2003 – Hutchins'
2004 – Richmond
2005 – Richmond
2006 – Hutchins'
2007 – Hutchins'

2008 – Old Hobartians Association (OHA)
2009 – Richmond
2010 – Hutchins'
2011 – Old Hobartians Association (OHA)
2012 – Hutchins'
2013 – Dominic Old Scholars (DOSA)
2014 – Hutchins'
2015 – Richmond
2016 – Tasmanian University
2017 – Richmond
2018 – Dominic Old Scholars (DOSA)
2019 – Dominic Old Scholars (DOSA)
2020 – Old Hobartians Association (OHA)
2021 – Old Hobartians Association (OHA)
2022 – Hutchins'

2016 Ladder

2017 Ladder

2018 Ladder

2019 Ladder

2020 Ladder

Notes

External links
 Old Scholars Football Association website
 Tasmanian University Football Club website
 Old Hobartians Association website
 OSFA Sporting Pulse page

Australian rules football competitions in Tasmania
Sports leagues established in 1987


RantMedia was an independent media organization and serves as the host company for various audio and video projects by James O'Brien and Sean Kennedy, including RantRadio.  RantMedia has also distributed content via torrent, various video hosting services, private download, and viral physical media dispersement since its inception in 1999.  The final airdate was January 3, 2019.

Media outlets

RantRadio
RantRadio was a commercial-free SHOUTcast Internet radio station that began broadcasting from Langley, British Columbia, and has been 24 hours a day, 7 days a week since January 3, 1999.  Its first broadcast was four days after SHOUTcast was officially announced, making RantRadio one of the oldest SHOUTcast radio stations.  RantRadio is not supported by sponsorship or advertising and gets permission from all of its artists played to broadcast their work without charge.  All shows on the website are covered by Creative Commons. This license allows a user to freely copy, distribute, transmit and host content in any way as long as it is not used for a commercial purpose.

Contributors to RantRadio include Sean Kennedy, Art "Smokehouse" Lindsey, "2 the Ranting Gryphon", Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins.  Listening base is worldwide, with fans tuning in as far away as Switzerland.

Milestones
 July 26, 2000 - Corporate buyers approached O'Brien and Kennedy with an offer to buy the station and were thrown out (a non-disclosure contract prevents the co-founders from discussing the details).
 July 3, 2002 - RantRadio reaches 5,000 measured listeners
 April 11, 2003 - Art "Smokehouse" Lindsey, III was appointed by O'Brien and Kennedy to function as program director of RantRadio.
 November 17, 2003 - RantRadio split into three separate streams of punk, industrial and talk, each with specialty shows catering to each respective format.
 January 3, 2009 - The 10-year anniversary RantMeet event was held at VanCity theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia.
 January 3, 2019 - The 20-year anniversary "send-off" was aired on YouTube.

RantTV
RantTV started after Nullsoft released their video streaming format and broadcaster tools and has been broadcasting 24 hours a day since June 15, 2003.

Currently in rotation on RantTV are shows such as old episodes of SKTFMTV, current and past episodes of Patrolling with Sean Kennedy, as well as many other original shows viewer-created for broadcast on RantTV such as Storm The Wire, Obsoleet, RedOctagon Television, Lore's lectures, and R4nger5: Back of Beyond.

RantPrint
RantMedia's Internet counterculture 'zine PA1N is written and maintained by the Rant community.  Rant has self-published a limited edition run of 250 copies of the paperback The Bloodstained Rabbit and later The Scabbed Wings Of Abaddon by Kennedy.

RantCommunity
The RantMedia Community is an online forum which has replaced the original RantRadio forums, and also some blogging and workflow management (based upon the drupal package).  This section also has a few external links to services provided by some of the fans and volunteers of community, such as the deviantART group for artwork pertaining to RantMedia and Life with Sean, a comic series based on the personalities of RantMedia (drawn by Lindsey).

Audio works

Rants & "What The Hell?!?"
The first regular radio show on RantRadio, hosted by Kennedy, was called What The Hell?!?, a round-robin current events discussion recorded and broadcast. Early on, in what became part of a regular feature on the show, Kennedy performed over 100 "rants", spoken word pieces each two to four minutes long, which were characterised by both Kennedy's rapid, enthusiastic style of speech and the editing style of O'Brien, the producer and a co-host of What the Hell?!?. Both the show and these rants touched on topics to do with survivalism, computer culture, and social issues such as suicide and the questionable need for government to protect people from themselves.  Kennedy is quoted describing the show as "Denis Leary, Jello Biafra, and Dennis Miller hopped up on coke trying to kill each other with shovels while Hunter S. Thompson does play-by-play commentary."  What the Hell?!? finished with its 122nd show on April 29, 2001.

The Sean Kennedy Radio Show
Beginning January 14, 2002, Kennedy became the co-host of The Sean Kennedy Radio Show, along with O'Brien, who again acted as the show's producer. The show ran for 79 episodes up through July 14, 2003, during which time Kennedy started his antagonistic stance towards Scientology and branded his following as "Wogs", in reference to the diametrical opposite of the followers of Scientology.

Tales From The Afternow
Tales From The Afternow is a Cyberpunk Internet radio serial drama started by Kennedy on June 24, 2002. The show is portrayed as a series of audio diary entries made from a future Dystopia, in which copyright legislation has been applied to all areas of life, adversely affecting the civil rights of the protagonist.  Tales From The Afternow's first-person narration, combined with sound effects, create a future universe in which the fictional Independent Librarian Dynamic Sean Kennedy the Sixth interacts and observes the world around him, while "remembering" and reminiscing about that which has come before.  In doing so, he also tells stories from "before his time" including several "legends" that offer alternative views on religion, government, and society as it has developed.  References to arcologies, the term "Corpolitical" (Kennedy's often used portmanteau of "corporation" and "political") suggesting that government is synonymous with business, and the concept of the Internet deified as Server are some of the hallmarks of this series.

RantSpeak
RantSpeak was a show broadcast live Sundays at 10pm with hosts O'Brien and Lindsey, and had call-ins from fans around the world.  The show ran for 43 episodes from January 18, 2004 to January 2, 2005, until it was effectively replaced by NewsReal the next day.

NewsReal
NewsReal was a weekly news broadcast recorded by Kennedy and broadcast every Monday on RantRadio.  The show was recorded the previous Thursdays in front of a "live" worldwide avatar audience in Second Life, inside a virtual "studio" on the property owned by the group Rant Media Voice.  In addition to its syndicated broadcast, NewsReal had the unique capability to be seen "firsthand" in Second Life from anywhere with Internet access while actually being recorded, complete with Kennedy's avatar sitting behind a desk on a set specially created in cyberspace for this purpose.  The show was one hour and takes the form of Kennedy addressing and commenting on current news and events mostly submitted by his readership and fan base.  Generally, a news blurb from each of several categories is addressed with a counterculture bend, and emphasis is placed upon watchdogging the Corpolitical and observing technological advances coupled with ethical failures.  It began on January 3, 2005 as a daily broadcast and switched to a weekly format from January 2006 to present, except for a seven-month hiatus from June 19, 2006 to January 14, 2007.  As of June 2009, NewsReal is syndicated on seven radio stations including RantRadio Talk and available on three podcasts, and aired live on Second Life at Node Archers (Coord: 155,74,666) and on pirate shortwave radio 6673.3 kHz. Sean Kennedy ended the show in 2011 at show 500 in order to focus on his new project, Mermanaut.

Pirate Party Radio
Pirate Party Radio was a weekly audio show broadcast every Thursday with host James O'Brien. The show focused on news stories relating to Pirate Party platform issues and is the official radio show of Pirate Party of Canada, United States Pirate Party and endorsed by the Pirate Party UK.

Notable audio broadcast appearances
 January 19, 2007 - Tales From The Afternow episodes 1 through 15 are played on terrestrial radio station CFMU on the show Twilight of the False Gods, episodes 25 through 38.

Video works

SKTFMTV
Each episode of SKTFMTV (Sean Kennedy The Fucking Man Television) is a combination of video clips documenting Kennedy's activities. Generally the show consists of social commentary, survivalist activities, and interactions with unusual religious or social groups. Thirteen episodes have been created so far.

The Sean Kennedy TV Show
This was a spinoff from the radio show, and ran for 20 episodes in 2003 from July 21 to December 22. Each show had a live audience, and a number of guests, usually musicians or adherents to an esoteric subculture.  Amid discussions of conspiracy and alternative media, the show reported news that doesn't get covered by mainstream media.

Patrolling with Sean Kennedy
Begun in June 2004, this series deals with the lifestyle and preparation of an adherent to the Survivalist subculture, from an intentionally ironic and occasionally humorous perspective. The series intersperses the methods and equipment of a survivalist with a number of social commentaries, similar to Kennedy's earlier rants.  The first season concentrates mainly on basic survival gear called "kit" and how to use it, interspersed with tips for a healthy mind and body, set in a rural environment, while the second season looks at the interaction between the survivalist and the rest of society in an urban environment, blending the survival mindset with the advantages of technology. A third season was in production, but has been put on hold. In the meantime, editing has begun on Patrolling Season 2.5, which will feature clips filmed between season 2 and 3.

Tales from the Afternow

'Tales from the Afternow: Little Rocks' is an animated short based on the second episode of 'Tales from the Afternow' radio series written by Sean Kennedy. The film was animated by film maker David T. Krupicz and produced by James O'Brien of RantMedia, it has been shown at many film festivals but is yet to have been released publicly.

Notable video broadcast appearances
 May - September 2005 - Patrolling with Sean Kennedy aired on Berkeley TV Channel 28.
 August 14, 2009—present - Patrolling with Sean Kennedy aired weekly on Controversial TV in the UK and Ireland via Sky.

People of RantMedia

James O'Brien
James O'Brien (born October 3, 1973), known by his online moniker Cimmerian, films and edits all official videos as well as performs, records, and produces official radio shows under RantMedia.  He hosts Pirate Party Radio, co-hosts NewsReal and also sings lead vocal in the Electronica band Porn on Beta.

Sean Kennedy

Sean Kennedy (born October 23, 1973) is a Canadian author of horror novels with mythical and cyberpunk themes, and the primary voice of Internet radio and television shows hosted by RantMedia. The characteristic outro heard at the end of most of his shows is "My name is Sean Kennedy, and I am The Fucking Man."

As of February 2023, Kennedy has written five novels (The Scabbed Wings of Abaddon, published in 2007, Immersion: 2086 published on January 1, 2016, Hardwired Faith, published in 2017, Kaizen Sanctuary, published in 2017, and Heresy's Champion, published in 2018,) as well as a short story collection (Ambient Reports: 2087 published on September 1, 2016,) a novella (The Bloodstained Rabbit, released on June 27, 2005,) and the short story The Locksmith, which was adapted to comic form by Marc Rødskov in January 2009.

Cult followings

KULT
KULT (Kennedy's Uber Leet Terrorists) was an organization spawned by Kennedy's anti-establishment rants, described as an ungoverned network of "digital-wet-wired-cyber masons with shovels" who recognize "the dark cyber-world that is coming."  As of September 2000, more than 1,000 new visitors logged on to the KULT website each day.  Members were divided into "klans" and one went so far as to receive a tattoo of the KULT symbol on his chest. Another got a tattoo of her symbol on her wrist.   The group was disbanded among great controversy in 2001, remnants of the membership regrouped into several splinter sites, all of which subsequently dissolved by the early 2010s.

Advocacy

SOCAN Tariff 22
RantRadio was particularly active in trying to repeal SOCAN's Tariff 22 proposals for 2003.  Such a move would have called for a minimum fee of C$0.25 per listener per month, plus 10% of advertising revenue if that exceeds the minimum rate.  The proposed NRCC Tariff 22 was eventually withdrawn April 16, 2008.

References

External links
 RantMedia Official website
 RantRadio Official website
 RantTV Official website
 RantRadio on SHOUTcast

Internet radio in Canada
Creative Commons
Cyberpunk media
Talk radio stations
Industrial music


By-elections for the Croatian Military Frontier districts that had been incorporated into the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia in 1881 were held over three days between 19 and 21 April 1883.

Results

Elected representatives

References

Elections in Croatia
Croatia
1883 in Croatia
Elections in Austria-Hungary
April 1883 events
Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
Election and referendum articles with incomplete results


En Vivo (English Live) is the sixth album by Mexican pop singer, Ana Gabriel. It was released on 1990. This album reached No. 1 in the Billboard Latin Pop Albums. It has sold 4,3 million worldwide, so far, this made her the first female singer in Spanish language in concert to accomplish that. This was her first live material and was nominated for Pop Album of the Year at the Lo Nuestro Awards of 1992.

Track listing
Tracks:
 En la Oscuridad - 04:39
 Mar Y Arena - 03:18
 Amor - 04:14
 Es el Amor Quien Llega - 03:45
 Pecado Original - 03:24
Quien Como Tu - 03:29
 Ay Amor - 03:06
 Destino - 03:55
 Hasta Que Te Conocí - 03:39
 Propuesta - 03:21
 Solamente Una Vez - 02:31
 Ni Un Roce (featuring Rosana) - 04:37
 Y Aquí Estoy - 03:43
 Soledad - 03:47
 Simplemente Amigos - 03:31
 Hice Bien En Quererte - 04:46

Album chart
This release reached the No. 1 position on the Billboard Latin Pop Albums chart, her third album to top the chart.

See also
List of number-one Billboard Latin Pop Albums from the 1990s

Album certifications

References

Ana Gabriel live albums
1990 live albums
Spanish-language live albums


Avondale  is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Municipal District of West Hants.

References
Avondale on Destination Nova Scotia

Communities in Hants County, Nova Scotia


This list of tallest buildings in Qingdao ranks skyscrapers in Qingdao,  in Shandong, China by height. The tallest building in Qingdao is currently the Qingdao International Finance Centre  which rises 249 m (816 feet).

Qingdao is the second and a sub-provincial city in Shandong Province, with total of 7.5 million in population and nearly three million in the urban area, it is the richest city in Shandong Province.

With four buildings taller than 200 meters, Qingdao is ranked 12th best skyline in China and 45th in the World.

Tallest buildings
This lists ranks Qingdao skyscrapers that stand at least 120 m (394 feet) tall, based on standard height measurement. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts. Existing structures are included for ranking purposes based on present height. All the structures in this list has been topped, but some may not be ready to use.

Tallest under construction, approved, and proposed

Under construction
This list buildings that are under construction in Qingdao and that are planned to rise at least 100 m (328 feet). Buildings that have already been topped out are not included.

References

External links
 Qingdao Skycraper on Skycraperpage.com
 The World's best Skyline
 Qingdao Skycrapers in Emporis.com
 Skyscrapers of Qingdao on Gaoloumi (in Chinese)

Qingdao

Buildings and structures in Qingdao


"I'm Gonna Be Somebody" is a song written by Jill Colucci and Stewart Harris, and recorded by American country music artist Travis Tritt.  It released in May 1990 as the third single from his debut album Country Club. It reached No. 2 in the United States, behind Shenandoah's "Next to You, Next to Me", while it became his second No. 1 hit in Canada.

Content
The song is a moderate up-tempo describing a young male named Bobby, who lives in a lower-class community with rather difficult economical issues. Bobby is an aspiring young singer and musician whose lifelong dream is to have a successful career in the music business; however, people in his community beg to differ and advise Bobby to instead choose a more realistic source of income, as they believe a career in music is not a good option. Bobby quietly ignores their advice and continues his quest to pursue his dreams and prove all of the nonbelievers wrong. A decade passes before Bobby finally achieves those dreams; he is now one of the most successful recording artists (presumably in country music) with a top concert tour and number-one radio singles to his credit. Bobby eventually performs a summer homecoming concert; and during his performance, he happens to hear a singing voice coming from the front row of the audience, which is said to be another young male who has exactly the same dreams and ambitions that Bobby once had long ago.

Personnel
The following musicians play on this track:
Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar
Wendell Cox – electric guitar solo
Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar
Jack Holder – electric guitar
Dana McVicker – background vocals
Mark O'Connor – fiddle
Bobby Ogdin – piano, keyboards
Jim "Jimmy Joe" Ruggierre – harmonica
Steve Turner – drums, percussion
Reggie Young – electric guitar

Chart positions

Year-end charts

References

1990 singles
Travis Tritt songs
Songs written by Jill Colucci
Warner Records Nashville singles
Songs written by Stewart Harris
1990 songs


Upper Falmouth  is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Municipal District of West Hants.

References
Upper Falmouth on Destination Nova Scotia

Communities in Hants County, Nova Scotia
General Service Areas in Nova Scotia


The Central Diocese of the Polish National Catholic Church is a diocese of the Polish National Catholic Church that includes New Jersey, part of New York, eastern Pennsylvania, and parishes in California, Colorado, and Maryland. The cathedral of the Central Diocese is St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Cathedral in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The diocese comprises 41 parishes divided into five seniorates: Scranton, Plymouth, Philadelphia, New York/New Jersey, and Mohawk Valley. For each seniorate, there is appointed an Administrative Senior, who is a priest of the diocese charged with responsibilities throughout the area of the seniorate.

Bishops
Bernard Nowicki is the current bishop ordinary of the Central Diocese, being consecrated on September 14, 2012. He succeeded John Mack, who returned to the Buffalo Pittsburgh Diocese where he had previously served as an auxiliary bishop.  Mack was consecrated a bishop on November 30, 2006. Mack succeeded Anthony Mikovsky, who was elected the Prime Bishop of the Polish National Catholic Church at the General Synod held in October 2010. Mikovsky succeeded Casimir J. Grotnik as bishop of the Central Diocese. Grotnik died on December 9, 2005. Grotnik succeeded Anthony Rysz who retired at the age of 75.  The constitution and laws of the Polish National Catholic Church provide for the mandatory retirement of bishops.

Notes

External links
Central Diocese of the Polish National Catholic Church Official Website
Saint Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Cathedral
Blessed Virgin Mary of Czestochowa National Catholic Church

Catholicism in Maryland
Catholicism in New Jersey
Catholicism in New York (state)
Catholicism in Pennsylvania
Polish-American culture in Maryland
Polish-American culture in New Jersey
Polish-American culture in New York (state)
Polish-American culture in Pennsylvania
Polish National Catholic Church dioceses


John Evans Knowles (30 November 1914 – 18 December 2011) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. Born in North Walsingham Township, Ontario, he was a farmer by career.

He was first elected at the Norfolk riding in the 1957 general election and re-elected for second term in the 1958 election. In the 1962 election, Knowles was defeated by Jack Roxburgh of the Liberal party. Knowles was also unsuccessful in unseating Roxburgh in the 1963 and 1965 elections.

Knowles remained active in late 2008, providing comment to local media on that year's federal election. He died after a short illness in 2011.

References

External links

1914 births
2011 deaths
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
20th-century Canadian farmers
People from Norfolk County, Ontario


Ryan Keith Perry (born February 13, 1987) is an American retired Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Detroit Tigers and Washington Nationals.

Amateur career
Born in Pomona, California, Perry played collegiate baseball at the University of Arizona. While at Arizona, he pitched alongside future Tigers teammate Daniel Schlereth. In 2007, he played collegiate summer baseball for the Orleans Cardinals of the Cape Cod Baseball League, where he was named a league all-star, and earned the save in the annual all-star game.

Professional career

Detroit Tigers
Perry was drafted by the Detroit Tigers with the 21st overall selection in the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft. At the end of 2008 Baseball America named him the Detroit Tigers second best prospect, behind Rick Porcello. On April 1, 2009 it was announced that Perry would make the opening day roster for the Tigers for the 2009 season.

On April 8, Perry made his major league debut against the Toronto Blue Jays. He threw a scoreless eighth inning in the Tigers' 5–1 victory.

On June 8, Perry was sent to the Toledo Mud Hens when Jeremy Bonderman came off the disabled list.

He began the 2010 season as a middle relief pitcher for Detroit. He recorded his first career win May 1 against the Los Angeles Angels by pitching two-thirds of an inning.

On June 10, Perry was placed on the 15-day disabled list with right biceps tendinitis.
After rehab in Toledo, he was called back up on July 3.

Perry posted a 3.79 ERA over  innings in Detroit as a rookie, walking 38 and striking out 60. He recorded two saves the following season, allowing 55 hits over  innings, but his strikeout rate fell precipitously, a trend that continued in 2011 and beyond.

After starting the season with a 12.19 ERA through 13 appearances, Perry was optioned to Toledo on May 28, 2011 to make room for spot starter Andrew Oliver.

Washington Nationals
Perry was traded by the Tigers to the Washington Nationals for Collin Balester on December 9, 2011.

Return to Detroit
On February 27, 2015, the Tigers signed Perry to a minor league contract. He was released by the Toledo Mud Hens on June 9.

References

External links

1987 births
Living people
Baseball players from Pomona, California
Major League Baseball pitchers
Arizona Wildcats baseball players
Orleans Firebirds players
Detroit Tigers players
Washington Nationals players
Gulf Coast Tigers players
Lakeland Flying Tigers players
Toledo Mud Hens players
Syracuse Chiefs players
Harrisburg Senators players


The Heron Rookery in Porter County, Indiana, was set aside to protect the nesting grounds of the great blue heron (Ardea herodias).  In 1980, the Indiana State Department of Correction transferred  to the National Park Service in exchange for  of land at Hoosier Prairie.  In 1982, the Youth Conservation Corp constructed the trail and parking at the east side of the unit on County Road 600 E.

Location
Pine Township in Porter County, Indiana.  The east parking area, which is better developed, is reached from U.S. 20 near the Town of Pines.  Taking County Road 500 E, southward about  to County Road 1400 N.  Turning east on 1400 N,  to County Road 600 E.  South about  you’ll find the parking lot.

The rookery is also accessible from Chesterton, Indiana, from State Route 49 and Indian Boundary Road.  At Indian Boundary Road (County Road 1275 N), turn east and follow Indian Boundary Road  east to County Road 300 E.  At the T, turn north a short distance and take the first road east, Country Road 1300 N.  CR 1300 N ends at Country Road 450 E, , and the west parking area for the rookery is just to the right corner of the intersection.

Trail
The most enjoyable season to visit the rookery is when the great blue herons are nesting.  From the east parking area, you can follow the trail northwards to the East Arm Little Calumet River.  Across the river on the north bank is the rookery.  Annually, these great birds return to nest.  The great blue heron is the largest of the North American heron families.  They stand  tall and have a wingspan of .   It is best to visit with a ranger on a guide walk as the birds can be hard to find, high in their nests. If you continue west along the trail, you’ll follow the Little Calumet River for over a mile through a hardwood forest.

The herons roost in the eastern end with its tall sycamores.  As you move towards the west, the woods become denser with beech, tulip poplars and maples.  Here, there are a variety of smaller birds, including kinglets, wood thrushes, woodpeckers, and warblers.

Terrain
The soils through this part of Porter County are Whitaker-Milford-Del Rey soils, consistent with the hypothesis that this area was an embayment of Glenwood phase of Glacial Lake Chicago (Ancestral Lake Michigan). (Chrzastowski and Thompson, 1992)  The soils are nearly level and somewhat poorly drained.

Along the Little Calumet, the soils are fluvaquents.  They are deep, somewhat poorly drained, particularly on bottom lands. They do have a moderate ability to hold water, but with only a moderate organic content.  These types of soils remain mostly in forest as they are not well suited for crops.  For use as pastures, they would need to be protected from flooding.  In addition, these soils are not well suited for roads, construction or septic systems.  Thus along the river way, little has been developed as farms or housing.

Most of the adjacent areas are made up of Bourbon, sandy loam.  Large tracts parallel the river on both sides. They are nearly level, deep, but poorly drained soil.  They have an increased ability to move water downward or laterally with a high organic matter content. They are subject to seasonally high water.  Thus, it is better not to visit the rookery after a heavy rain fall or during winter and spring rainy seasons.  This area has remained a tree lot as it was not adequately drained for other uses.
Sebewa soils act as drains across the surround Bourbon soils to the river.  Nearly level but slightly depressed below the surrounding soils.  They are very poorly drained and are often have standing water.  Larger tracts of this type of soil can be used for row crops, but not the limited sizes found in the rookery.

References

External links
U.S. National Park Service: Indiana Dunes National Park Heron Rookery

Protected areas of Porter County, Indiana
Indiana Dunes National Park
Nature reserves in Indiana


The Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour is a department in the Government of New Brunswick.  It is responsible for "ensuring the New Brunswick workforce is competitive by making strategic investments in people through innovative programs, services and partnerships."  It also oversees the province's public universities and colleges, the provincial student loan system, labour and adult learning and literacy.

The department was created as the Department of Post-Secondary Education and Training on February 14, 2006 when Premier Bernard Lord restructured the New Brunswick Cabinet. It was created by merging the former Department of Training and Employment Development with the post-secondary education branch of the Department of Education.  It was renamed the Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour by Premier Shawn Graham when he took office as organized labour had questioned why there was no "labour" minister.

Between 2017 and 2018 the apartment was administered by two ministers, a Minister of Post-Secondary Education and a Minister of Labour, Employment and Population Growth. Following the 2018 election, in which Blaine Higgs took power, the department returned to being run by a single minister.

Ministers

See also
Department of Post-Secondary Education and Training (New Brunswick)

References

Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour
Changes to cabinet and departments aimed at helping province achieve new goals

Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour
New Brunswick
New Brunswick


Dondon is a town in Haiti.

Dondon may also refer to:

 Anyuy River (Khabarovsk Krai), also known as the Dondon, a tributary of the Amur River in Russia
 Stéphane Dondon (born 1977), a French basketball player
 Dondon Ampalayo (born 1963), a Filipino retired basketball player
 Dondon Hontiveros (born 1977), a Filipino basketball player

See also
 Domdom (disambiguation)
 Don't Don, an album by Korean boy band Super Junior


Sphragis is a Greek word for "seal". It may refer to:

 Sphragis (literary device), an explicit authorial statement in which an author identifies themselves
 Mating plug, a gelatinous secretion used in the mating of some species


Raymond Fred "Bub" Weller (August 7, 1902 – June 3, 1953) was an American football player who played college football for the University of Nebraska and played five years and 60 games of professional football in the early years of the National Football League (NFL).  Weller was unanimously selected for All-American honors at the tackle position in 1922. Weller was  and weighed  during his years as a professional football player.

As a football player in Nebraska, he is credited with having "a large hand in the stunning defeat" of Notre Dame in 1922.  After his performance against Syracuse, eastern sports writers called Weller's performance the "greatest defense game we ever saw."  And in a game against Kansas Aggie, he was credited with being "in on practically every play, breaking thru time after time and harassing if not blocking a passer."  Weller was selected as a first-team All-American on the teams selected by both Walter Eckersall of the Chicago Tribune and  Fred A. Hayner of the Chicago Daily News.  He was also named to Billy Evans' 1922 National Honor Roll.

In 1937, the Nebraska Legislature created within the Nebraska Safety Patrol, and Weller was appointed as the chief officer of the new force. Weller had previously served as a highway engineer and later became the state's Chief Highway Engineer.  Weller personally ran the training camp for the safety patrol recruits.  In an October 1937 profile of Weller's training practices, Weller noted, "The rain and cold have held us back but the men are already pretty well toughened up. ... They have their morning run and calisthenics, jiu jitsu is plenty tough but the men can stand pretty tough workouts and another couple weeks will find them in the pink." In November 1937, 44 patrolmen under Weller's supervision were assigned to the field with the mission of reducing the number of motor-vehicle accidents on Nebraska's highways.

During World War II, Weller left the Safety Patrol to serve in the military.

References

External links
 Bub Weller's NFL.com profile
 Erdal Can Alkoçlar

1902 births
1953 deaths
American football tackles
Chicago Cardinals players
Frankford Yellow Jackets players
Milwaukee Badgers players
Nebraska Cornhuskers football players
St. Louis All-Stars players
People from Seward, Nebraska
Players of American football from Nebraska


Sermphan Khumthinkaew (Thai เสริมพันธ์ คุ้มถิ่นแก้ว  ), is a Thai futsal Defender, and currently a member of  Thailand national futsal team.

He competed for Thailand at the 2004 and 2008 FIFA Futsal World Cup finals.

References

Sermphan Khumthinkaew
1981 births
Living people
Sermphan Khumthinkaew
SEA Games medalists in futsal
Competitors at the 2011 SEA Games
Sermphan Khumthinkaew


Tondon is a town in western Guinea.

Tondon may also refer to:

Tondon, a district in North Toraja Regency, Indonesia
Tondon river, or Dondon, another name for Anyuy River (Khabarovsk Krai), Russia
Butadon, also read as Tondon, a pork equivalent to the Japanese beef dish Gyūdon

See also

Tonson (surname)


Ekkapan Suratsawang (Thai เอกพันธ์ สุรัตน์สว่าง), is a Thai futsal Striker, and currently a member of Thailand national futsal team.

He competed for Thailand at the 2008 FIFA Futsal World Cup finals in Brazil.

References

Ekkapan Suratsawang
1986 births
Living people
Ekkapan Suratsawang
SEA Games medalists in futsal
Competitors at the 2007 SEA Games


Benjamin Cope (Ben) Thompson (11 April 1924 – 23 March 1998) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. Thompson served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada.

He was first elected at the Northumberland riding in the 1957 general election and re-elected there in the 1958 election. Thompson left federal politics after completing his second term, the 24th Canadian Parliament, and did not campaign in the 1962 election. He died of cancer on 23 March 1998.

References

External links

1924 births
1998 deaths
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Lawyers in Ontario
Politicians from Toronto
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs
20th-century Canadian lawyers
Deaths from cancer in Ontario


Ekkapong Suratsawang (Thai เอกพงษ์ สุรัตน์สว่าง  ), is a Thai futsal striker, and currently a member of the Thailand national futsal team.

He competed for Thailand at the 2008 FIFA Futsal World Cup finals in Brazil.

References

Ekkapong Suratsawang
1986 births
Living people
Ekkapong Suratsawang
Ekkapong Suratsawang
SEA Games medalists in futsal
Competitors at the 2007 SEA Games


Rainbow (Waiānuenue) Falls is a waterfall located in Hilo, Hawaii. It is  tall and almost  in diameter. The falls are part of the Hawai'i State Parks. There is no fee to see the falls.

At Rainbow (Waiānuenue) Falls, the Wailuku River rushes into a large pool below. The gorge is blanketed by lush, dense nonnative tropical rainforest and the turquoise-colored pool is bordered by beautiful, although nonnative, wild ginger. Monstera is also in abundance.  The falls are accessible via Wailuku River State Park, Waiānuenue Avenue, coordinates , and are best seen from the park's viewing platform.

Known in the Hawaiian language as Waiānuenue (literally "rainbow water"), the falls flows over a natural lava cave, the mythological home to Hina, an ancient Hawaiian goddess.

Rainbow Falls derives its name from the fact that, on sunny mornings around 10am, rainbows can be seen in the mist thrown up by the waterfall.

See also
 List of Hawaii state parks
 Akaka Falls
 Umauma Falls

References

External links

Wailuku River state park official website

State parks of Hawaii
Waterfalls of Hawaii (island)
Hilo, Hawaii