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Leptotyphlops

Leptotyphlops is a genus of nonvenomous blind snakes, commonly known as slender blind snakes and threadsnakes, in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The genus is endemic to and found throughout Africa. Eleven species have been moved to the genus Trilepida, and other species have been moved to the genera Epacrophis, Epictia, Mitophis, Myriopholis, Namibiana, Rena, Siagonodon, Tetracheilostoma, and Tricheilostoma.

Description
Most species of Leptotyphlops look much like shiny earthworms. They are generally black, grey, or blackish-brown and their scales give them a segmented appearance. Their common name comes from the fact that their eyes are greatly reduced almost to the point of uselessness, and hidden behind a protective head scale. The species which are called thread snakes are so named because of their very narrow, long bodies.

Behavior
All blind snakes including those of the genus Leptotyphlops are burrowing snakes, spending most of their time deep in loose soil, typically only emerging when it rains and they get flooded out.

Diet
The primary diet of Leptotyphlops is ant and termite larvae.

Species

T) Type species.

References

External links

 
 iNaturalist page

 
Snake genera
Taxa named by Vivian Frederick Maynard FitzSimons
Drvo znanja

Drvo znanja (meaning Tree of Knowledge in English) is a Croatian popular science magazine targeting children published monthly (except in summer) by SysPrint. The magazine is based in Zagreb, Croatia.

History and profile
Drvo znanja was first published in 1998. The magazine targets the students attending the fifth through the eighth grades. It usually covers all topics related to curricula such as plants, animals, history, art, technology, science, earth, human body, atlas, sport and English (the magazine dedicates two pages to learning English). The number of pages in each article varies between 80 and 110 color pages. There are Drvo znanja casings in different colors (green, blue, black etc.). The magazine usually includes features such as a readers' mail section, CD, web-links, posters, quiz, news from the world (usually the latest results of researches).

References

External links

 

1998 establishments in Croatia
Children's magazines published in Croatia
Croatian-language magazines
Education magazines
Magazines established in 1998
Mass media in Zagreb
Monthly magazines
Popular science magazines
Youth magazines
Joseph Rosier

Joseph Rosier (January 24, 1870October 7, 1951) was a United States senator from West Virginia. Born in Wilsonburg, West Virginia, he attended the public schools and graduated from Salem College in 1895. In 1890, Rosier was a teacher of the village school at Bristol, West Virginia and was principal of the public schools of Salem in 1891 and 1892; in 1893 and 1894 he was superintendent of schools of Harrison County, West Virginia and was a member of the faculty of Salem College from 1894 to 1896. He was a teacher in the State normal school at Glenville, West Virginia from 1896 to 1897 and was a member of the faculty of the State Teachers' College at Fairmont, West Virginia from 1897 to 1900. He was superintendent of schools of Fairmont from 1900–1915 and was president of Fairmont State College, Fairmont from 1915–1945 and then president emeritus.

During the First World War, Rosier served as county food administrator (1917–1918) and was a consultant on education for the Works Progress Administration (1933–1937). 

On January 13, 1941 he was appointed as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Matthew M. Neely and took the oath of office on May 13, 1941, after the Senate resolved a challenge to the appointment. Rosier served from January 13, 1941, to November 17, 1942, when a duly elected successor qualified. Rosier was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the unexpired term, and resumed his former pursuits. He was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1946.

Joseph Rosier died in Fairmont in 1951. Interment was in I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Salem.

References

Joseph Rosier at The Political Graveyard

1870 births
1951 deaths
Democratic Party United States senators from West Virginia
Democratic Party members of the West Virginia House of Delegates
School superintendents in West Virginia
People from Harrison County, West Virginia
Salem International University alumni
Educators from West Virginia
Glenville State College faculty
Salem University faculty
Fairmont State University faculty
Senator Sid Buckwold Bridge

The Senator Sid Buckwold Bridge is a bridge that spans the South Saskatchewan River between west and east shore in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. It was built in 1966, on the same site as the original Qu'Appelle, Long Lake and Saskatchewan (later CN Rail) bridge. The bridge is part of the Idylwyld Freeway, for which the former CNR Bridge was torn down. The act of dynamiting the original piers of the CNR Bridge became something of a spectacle as demolition experts were unable to completely destroy them. At the time, the new bridge cost $1.5 million to build.

Construction of the bridge was one of several simultaneous, interconnected major projects that occurred in Saskatoon during the mid-to-late 1960s. Related projects included: the construction of the Midtown Plaza shopping centre and CN Towers office block which followed the demolition of the former CNR Station and the removal of the attending railyard and CNR Bridge; construction of the Saskatoon Centennial Auditorium (now called TCU Place) also on former railway land; and construction of the Idylwyld Freeway itself from 20th Street southwards to just south of Ruth Street where it joined with another late-1960s freeway project, the south east leg of Circle Drive.

Also known by its former name, the Idylwyld Bridge and, by locals, as the Freeway Bridge, the structure was renamed in honor of former mayor and senator Sidney Buckwold in 2001, following Buckwold's death. Buckwold served two non-consecutive terms as mayor between 1958 and 1971, the period of time in which the bridge planning and construction and the nearby inner-city redevelopment took place.

When a major rehabilitation project began on the bridge in 2019, crews discovered that approximately 350 tons of pigeon droppings were stuck to the structure. In addition to removing the droppings, the contractor was ordered to trap and humanely euthanize the 1500 pigeons roosting on the bridge. The plan to euthanize the birds drew criticism from wildlife advocates, and the city later stopped the use of 4-Aminopyridine for pest control. The construction project was completed in September 2020; the work done included repairing and resurfacing the bridge deck, and widening the pedestrian walkways.

See also 
 List of crossings of the South Saskatchewan River
 List of bridges in Canada
 List of bridges

References

External links
 Senator Sid Buckwold Bridge – Structurae

Bridges completed in 1966
Bridges in Saskatoon
Road bridges in Saskatchewan
Rhinoleptus

Rhinoleptus koniagui, also known commonly as Villiers's blind snake, is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The species, which is indigenous to West Africa, is monotypic in the genus Rhinoleptus. It is among the smallest snakes in the world. There are no subspecies that are recognized as being valid.

Geographic range
R. koniagui is found in West Africa in Senegal (Bonghari and Casamance) and Guinea (Kouroussa and Youkounkoun). The type locality given is "Guinée Francaise: Youkounkoun" (Guinea).

Habitat
The preferred natural habitats of R. koniagui are forest and savanna, at altitudes from sea level to .

Reproduction
R. koniagui is oviparous.

References

Further reading
Orejas-Miranda B, Roux-Estève R, Guibé J (1970). "Un nouveau genre de Leptotyphlopides (Ophidia) Rhinoleptus koniagui (Villiers)". Comunicaciones Zoológicas del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo 10 (127): 1–4. (Rhinoleptus, new genus). (in French).
Villiers A (1956). "Le Parc National du Niokolo-Koba 1 : V. Reptiles ". Mémoires du l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noir, Dakar 48: 143–162. (Typhlops koniagui, new species). (in French).

Leptotyphlopidae
Monotypic reptile genera
Reptiles described in 1956
Taxa named by Jean Marius René Guibé
Paul F. Schenck

Paul Fornshell Schenck (April 19, 1899 – November 30, 1968) was an American educator and politician who served seven terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1951 to 1965.

Early life and education 
Born in Miamisburg, Ohio, his family moved to Dayton, Ohio in 1908 where he graduated from Steele High School in 1917. He received two years of college training, and was a student teacher at Steele from 1917 to 1919. He then worked in the automotive service business from 1919 to 1923. After that practical training, he became an automotive training teacher and faculty manager of athletics at Roosevelt High School in Dayton from 1923 to 1929.

Political career 
He was the director of recreation for the city of Dayton from 1929 to 1935. In September 1935, during the Great Depression, he established his own real estate, mortgage loan, and insurance business.

He began his public service career when he was elected to the Dayton Board of Education, serving from 1941 to 1950 and president for seven years. He was vice chairman of the Dayton Safety Council in 1946 and 1947 and president of the Dayton Real Estate Board from 1947 to 1949..

Congress 
He was nominated by the Republican party to run for Congress from Ohio's third congressional district in 1950, but was defeated by incumbent Edward G. Breen. Breen resigned in 1951 due to health concerns, and Schenck was subsequently elected in a special election to the 82nd Congress to fill the vacancy. He was reelected to the 83rd and to the five succeeding Congresses (November 6, 1951 – January 3, 1965) but was defeated in 1964 for reelection to the 89th Congress.

Tenure 
Schenck, a member of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, introduced a bill in 1957 that would have prohibited the sale of vehicles discharging hydrocarbons in levels found dangerous by the Surgeon General. The bill never made it through Congress in that form. Still, it was a prescient statement at the time about the growing national concern over auto pollution. In 1959, President Eisenhower signed a modified Schenck Act. That law directed the Surgeon General to study the relationship between auto pollution and public health.

Schenck voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, and 1964.

Death
Paul F. Schenck was a Freemason Knight Templar and member of the Shriners (Antioch Temple).

He died in Dayton, Ohio in 1968 and is interred in Woodland Cemetery.

References

1899 births
1968 deaths
20th-century American politicians
People from Miamisburg, Ohio
Politicians from Dayton, Ohio
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio
School board members in Ohio
EGaming Review

egaming review  and EGRmagazine.com are related online gambling publishing brands covering online gambling industry news and regulation topics.

History and profile
egaming Review, (EGR Global) is the world’s leading B2B publisher and membership networking group for the online gaming and gambling industry, featuring consistent exclusive news, interviews and expert comment from the most influential people in the sector. The publisher is a part of With Intelligence and is headquartered in London.

The EGR website features up-to-the-minute coverage of breaking news, analysis and opinion from across the egaming industry. And as publisher of the industry’s only monthly B2B title and quarterly report for North America, EGR is also able to offer its readers more up-to-date insight on the big issues than any other egaming business publication.

EGR Global is also responsible for the annual Power 50 list of the top fifty most influential internet gaming companies, hosts the EGR Live event and presents the annual EGR Awards to gaming operators that it judges excel in their respective fields.

eGaming Review and EGRmagazine.com are owned by Pageant Gaming Media Limited along with four other sister brands— EGR North America, Marketing, Compliance and Technology.

References

External links
Official site

Business magazines published in the United Kingdom
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Game magazines
Gambling magazines
Magazines published in London
Magazines with year of establishment missing
Madame Sousatzka

Madame Sousatzka is a 1988 drama film directed by John Schlesinger, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It is based upon the 1962 novel of the same name by Bernice Rubens.


Plot
Bengali immigrant Sushila Sen (Shabana Azmi) lives in London with her son Manek (Navin Chowdhry), who is musically gifted. She supports them both as a caterer of Indian food, while Manek studies the piano with Madame Sousatzka (Shirley MacLaine), who is a Russian-American immigrant. Madame Sousatzka, while highly talented, never succeeded as a pianist and thus lives through her students, particularly talented ones such as Manek. Manek is soon forced to choose between Madame Sousatzka and his mother, who both compete for his attention.

The Russian pianist and teacher Madame Maria Levinskaya (died 1960) inspired the character of Madame Sousatzka.

Cast
 Shirley MacLaine as Madame Sousatzka
 Navin Chowdhry as Manek
 Shabana Azmi as Sushila
 Peggy Ashcroft as Lady Emily
 Robert Rietty as Leo Milev
 Twiggy as Jenny
 Leigh Lawson as Ronnie
 Lee Montague as Vincent Pick

Accolades

Availability
The film was released in U.S. theaters on 14 October 1988. Some time after its theatrical run, the movie was released on videocassette by MCA Home Video in 1989. The movie was released on DVD in the U.S. by Universal Studios Home Entertainment under their Vault Series banner on 28 August 2014.

A region 2 DVD was released by Network in 2007 (catalogue nr. 7952723). The extras are a trailer and some production stills.

Notes

References

External links
 
 Madame Sousatzka at the British Film Institute
 
 
 
 

1988 films
1988 drama films
British drama films
British Indian films
Films shot at EMI-Elstree Studios
Films directed by John Schlesinger
Films featuring a Best Drama Actress Golden Globe-winning performance
Films with screenplays by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Universal Pictures films
Films based on British novels
Films set in London
Alliance Atlantis films
Canadian drama films
1980s English-language films
1980s Canadian films
1980s British films
Anosmin-1

Anosmin-1 is a secreted, EM associated glycoprotein found in humans and other organisms responsible for normal development, which is expressed in the brain, spinal cord and kidney. Absence or damage to the protein results in Kallmann syndrome in humans, which is characterized by loss of olfactory bulbs and GnRH secretion leading to anosmia and hypothalamic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. Anosmin-1 is coded by the KAL-1 gene, which is found on the X chromosome. Anosmin-1 is 100 kilodaltons and is expressed on the outside of cells. Because of this and because of its contribution to normal migration of nerve cells, a role in the extracellular matrix has been postulated.

Function
During neural crest cell development, anosmin-1 plays a role in cranial neural cell formation by spatiotemporal regulation.
Secreated anosmin-1 enhances FGF activity by promoting FGF8-FGFR1 complex formation, whereas inhibits both BMP5 and WNT3A activities. 
As a results, orchestrated regulation of FGF, BMP, and WNT by anosmin-1 control EMT and MET during neural crest cell development. 
In human retinal pigment epithelial cell (RPE), the expression of anosmin-1 is regulated by TGF-β which remain to be investigated.

Structure and pathology
Anosmin-1 is encoded by a gene ANOS1 (earlier called ADMLX, KAL, KAL1, KALIG1). In human it is located on the X chromosome at Xp22.3 and is affected in some male individuals with Kallmann syndrome. This gene codes for a protein of the extracellular matrix named anosmin-1, which is involved in the migration of certain nerve cell precursors (neuroendocrine GnRH cells) during embryogenesis. Deletion or mutation of this gene results in loss of the functional protein and affects the proper development of the olfactory nerves and olfactory bulbs. In addition, neural cells that produce GnRH fail to migrate to the hypothalamus.

Clinically, mutation results in the X-linked form of Kallmann syndrome. Individuals with Kallmann syndrome experience anosmia (lack of smell) and do not go through puberty (hypothalamic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism).

ANOS1 is made of 14 exons and spans 120-200 kilobases. Mutations of ANOS1 may account for 14% of the cases of familial Kallmann syndrome and 11% of male sporadic cases.

References

External links 
  GeneReviews/NCBI/NIH/UW entry on Kallmann syndrome
 NextBio.com
 GenAtlas

Proteins
Acanthophoenix crinita

Acanthophoenix crinita is a species of palm which is endemic to Réunion.

This palm was first described as Areca crinita by French naturalist Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent in 1804 and classified by German botanist Hermann Wendland in its own genus Acanthophoenix in 1867.

In his 1995 checklist of seed plants, Rafaël Govaerts considered A. crinita to be a synonym of Acanthophoenix rubra, as did Govaerts and John Dransfield in their 2005 checklist of palms.  However, in his revision of the genus, N. Ludwig recognised A. crinita as a separate species.

References

crinita
Endemic flora of Réunion
Palms of Réunion
Association of Old Crows

The Association of Old Crows is an international nonprofit professional organization specializing in electronic warfare, tactical information operations, and associated disciplines headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. 
Its mission is to "advocate the need for a strong defense capability emphasizing electronic warfare and information operations to government, industry, academia, and the public."

History
The name "Old Crows" emerged from the first use of electronic warfare in World War II to disrupt Axis communications and radars. Allied equipment and operators were known by the code name "Raven". Common jargon changed the name to "Crows" and those engaged in the profession became known as "Old Crows".

Activities
The organization draws expertise and information from its members, a pool of thousands of individuals including technology specialists and actual military personnel. It is involved in advancing electronic warfare and information-gathering techniques, disseminating information on these topics, and supporting the education of personnel in related scientific matters.

Journal of Electromagnetic Dominance (JED)
First established in 1977 as the Journal of Electronic Defense, the organization publishes the JED as a monthly magazine of military science covering developments in the fields of electronic warfare, signals intelligence, electronic intelligence and communications intelligence. The magazine serves as the official media outlet of the Association, and is headquartered in Gainesville, Florida. 

In May 2020, the magazine was renamed from the Journal of Electronic Defense to the Journal of Electromagnetic Dominance to reflect its broader mission of "thinking in terms of an EM Domain and a wide-ranging, enterprise-based strategy for EMS Operations (EMSO)."

References

External links 
 Official site
 Association of Old Crows - List of Chapters
 Association of Old Crows Australian Chapter

Organizations based in Alexandria, Virginia
Electronic warfare
Information technology organizations
Organizations established in 1964
1964 establishments in Virginia
Jacques de Lacretelle

Jacques de Lacretelle (14 July 1888 in Cormatin, Saône-et-Loire – 2 January 1985) was a French novelist. He was elected to the Académie Française on 12 November 1936.

Bibliography
 1920  La vie inquiète de Jean Hermelin  (Grasset)
 1922  Silbermann (novel)  (Gallimard)
 1925  La Bonifas  (Gallimard)
 1925  Mélanges sur l'amour et les livres, terminés par un envoi  (Gallimard)
 1926  Trébuchet. Mort de la jalousie  (La Lampe d'Aladin)
 1926  Lettres espagnoles  (Gallimard)
 1926  Quatre études sur Gobineau  (La Lampe d'Aladin)
 1927  Aparté. Colère. Journal de colère. Dix jours à Ermenonville  (Gallimard)
 1927  Aperçus  (Marcelle Lesage)
 1927  Rêveries romantiques. Dix jours à Ermenonville. Le rêveur parisien  (Stendhal)
 1927  Virginie, ou les manies  (Champion (Édouard))
 1928  D'une colline. Quatre jours à Bayreuth  (Les Cahiers Libres)
 1928  L'âme cachée, nouvelles  (Gallimard)
 1928  Quatre nouvelles italiennes  (Lemarget)
 1928  Album napolitain  (Hazan)
 1928  Études  (Librairie Picard)
 1929  Histoire de Paola Ferrari  (Flammarion)
 1929  Le retour de Silbermann  (Gallimard)
 1930  Amour nuptial  (Gallimard) - Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
 1930  À la rencontre de France  (Trémois)
 1930  Le demi-dieu ou le voyage en Grèce  (Grasset)
 1930  Pressentiments  (Les Quatre Chemins)
 1931  Luce, ou l'enfance d'une courtisane  (Trémois)
 1932  Les Hauts Ponts. I. Sabine  (Gallimard)
 1933  Les Hauts Ponts. II. Les fiançailles  (Gallimard)
 1934  Les aveux étudiés  (Gallimard)
 1935  Les Hauts Ponts. III. Années d'espérance  (Gallimard)
 1935  Les Hauts Ponts. IV. La monnaie de plomb  (Gallimard)
 1936  L'écrivain public  (Gallimard)
 1936  Qui est La Roque ?  (Flammarion)
 1938  Morceaux choisis  (Gallimard)
 1939  Croisières en eaux troubles, carnets de voyage  (Gallimard)
 1940  Le Canada entre en guerre. Choses vues  (Flammarion)
 1941  L'Heure qui chante  (Le Milieu du monde)
 1945  Libérations  (Brentano's)
 1946  Idées dans un chapeau  (Le Rocher)
 1946  Le Pour et le Contre  (Le Milieu du monde)
 1953  Une visite en été, pièce en quatre actes  (Gallimard)
 1953  Deux cœurs simples  (Gallimard)
 1958  Paris. Présentation de Jacques de Lacretelle. Photos de Jacques Boulas  (Hachette)
 1959  Les Maîtres et les Amis. Études et souvenirs littéraires  (Wesmael-Charlier)
 1959  Le tiroir secret  (Wesmael-Charlier)
 1963  La galerie des amants, Anthologie de lettres d'amour (I)  (Librairie académique Perrin)
 1964  L'amour sur la place, Anthologie de lettres d'amour (II)  (Librairie académique Perrin)
 1964  Portraits d'hier et figures d'aujourd'hui  (Librairie académique Perrin)
 1974  Journal de bord  (Grasset)
 1977  Les vivants et leur ombre  (Grasset)
 1981  Quand le destin nous mène  (Grasset)

External links
 
  L'Académie française

Notes

1888 births
1985 deaths
People from Saône-et-Loire
Prix Femina winners
Members of the Académie Française
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners
French male novelists
20th-century French novelists
20th-century French male writers
A-umlaut

A-umlaut may refer to:
Ä, the letter A with an umlaut
Germanic a-mutation, a historic sound change in Northwest Germanic languages
 Å
Dean's Blue Hole



Dean's Blue Hole is a blue hole located in The Bahamas in a bay west of Clarence Town on Long Island and is the world's second deepest, after the Dragon Hole in the South China Sea, with a depth of .

References

External links

Landforms of the Bahamas
Sea caves
Marine geology
Underwater diving sites in the Caribbean
Long Island, Bahamas
Sinkholes of North America
Charles Snelling (figure skater)

Charles Frederick Theodore Snelling (born September 17, 1937 in Toronto) is a Canadian former figure skater. He is the 1954-1958 & 1964 Canadian national champion and the 1957 World bronze medalist. He is the youngest ever men's Canadian national champion, as he was 16 at the time of his win in March 1954. He graduated from the University of Toronto Schools.

Snelling placed 8th at the 1956 Winter Olympics. In 1958, he retired from skating to attend medical school at the University of Toronto, but after graduation he returned to competitive skating and competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics. In 2005, he was inducted into the Skate Canada Hall of Fame. He lives in Vancouver, B.C. He is a retired burns and plastics specialist.

Results

References

 
 Skate Canada: Canadian Championships

1937 births
Living people
Canadian male single skaters
Olympic figure skaters for Canada
Figure skaters at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters from Toronto
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
301st Military Intelligence Battalion (United States)

The 301st Military Intelligence Battalion is located in Phoenix, Arizona.

Lineage
 Constituted 6 June 1949 in the Organized Reserve Corps as Headquarters, 301st Military Intelligence Platoon.
 Activated 22 June 1949 at Austin, Texas
 Reorganized and redesignated 1 September 1950 as Headquarters, 301st Military Intelligence Battalion.
 Organized Reserve Corps redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve.
 Battalion Inactivated 23 February 1953 at Austin, Texas
 Redesignated 16 September 1988 as Headquarters, Headquarters and Service Company, 301st Military Intelligence Battalion, and activated at Pasadena, Texas(organic elements concurrently constituted and activated)
 Battalion inactivated 15 September 1997 at Pasadena, Texas
 Activated 16 April 2005 with headquarters at Phoenix, Arizona

Mission
The 301st Military Intelligence Theater Support Battalion (301st MI TSB) is a MIRC-aligned Reserve Intelligence Battalion focused on providing highly trained intelligence Soldiers to facilitate and integrate into military units mobilized around the world. The 301st also trains and prepares for mobilization as a support battalion, focusing on the Pacific Theater under the 500th MI BDE.

301st currently provides training and specialization in the following Intelligence Sections:
All-Source, Counter-Intelligence, Human Intelligence, Signals Intelligence, Geospatial Intelligence, and Technical Intelligence.

Unit structure
The 301st MI (TSB) is made up of four companies:
 Headquarters/Headquarters Detachment: Includes the primary Command Staff, Shops, Logistical and Mechanical support staff.
 Alpha Company: Consists primarily of All-Source, Geospatial, and Signals Intelligence Soldiers with the Emphasis of Fusion Intelligence.
 Bravo Company: Consists of All-Source, Geospatial, Counterintelligence, Signals, and Human Intelligence Soldiers.
 Charlie Company:

Honors
 Campaign Participation Credit: Alpha Company – Iraqi Service Streamer
 Decorations: none

References

External links
 Unit Facebook Page
 http://www.inscom.army.mil/MSC/500MIB/301st.html
 http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/mi/0301mibn.htm 
 http://unitpages.military.com/unitpages/unit.do?id=104929

Organizations based in Phoenix, Arizona
301
Torsten Gutsche

Torsten René Gutsche (born 8 June 1968, in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996).

Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993; K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1991, K-2 1000 m: 1995, K-2 10000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1990).

References

External links
 
 

1968 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Eisenhüttenstadt
People from Bezirk Frankfurt
German male canoeists
Olympic canoeists for Germany
Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Germany
Olympic silver medalists for Germany
Olympic medalists in canoeing
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Recipients of the Silver Laurel Leaf
Juan Cruz

Juan Cruz may refer to:
 Juan Cruz (baseball) (born 1978), Dominican pitcher
 Juan Cruz (director) (born 1966), Spanish screenwriter and film director
 Juan Aubín Cruz Manzano (born 1948), Puerto Rican politician and mayor of Manatí since 1977
 Juan R. Cruz (born 1946), Puerto Rican aerospace engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
 Juan Lazo Cruz (born 1977), Salvadoran football midfielder
 Juan Cruz (footballer, born 1992), Spanish footballer
 Juan Cruz Bolado (born 1997), Argentine footballer
 Juan Cruz (footballer, born 2000), Spanish footballer
 Juan Cruz Real (born 1976), Argentine footballer and manager

See also
The Monkey King (miniseries)

The Monkey King, also known as The Lost Empire, is a 2001 television miniseries produced by NBC and the SciFi Channel. It is a contemporary take on the classic 16th-century novel Journey to the West. It stars Bai Ling, Thomas Gibson, Russell Wong, Eddie Marsan, and Randall Duk Kim. The miniseries was directed by Peter MacDonald and written by Asian American dramatist David Henry Hwang.

Plot 
Nicholas Orton (played by Thomas Gibson) is an American businessman who has lived in China for several years. He has a chance encounter with a beautiful Chinese lady (played by Bai Ling) who says that he is the only one who can save the world from reverting five-hundred years. He is unswayed by this until many modern buildings begin disappearing before his eyes. This mystical lady (revealed later as Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion) transports him to a portal which offers entrance, through the teachings of Confucius (played by Ric Young), to the ancient Chinese underworld.

When Orton (soon to be named The Scholar From Above) reaches the other side of the portal, he finds that his studies of Confucius will come in handy for the path that lies ahead. Orton's first action is to rescue Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, from the mountain in which he has been imprisoned for centuries. Wukong travels with Orton in his quest to save the original manuscript of Journey to the West from retroactive destruction; if the story itself is erased from history, all of the people who were ever inspired by the lessons it teaches will be worse off, and history will permanently change for the poorer. They are later joined by Zhu Bajie (Pigsy) and Sha Wujing (Friar Sand) to help them on their way.

Reception
Robert Bianco of USA Today called it "silly and confused." Variety called it "tedious" and said "all the strong technical work comes across as the outer shell of an empty nut."

The ratings for the miniseries were poor; it recorded one of the lowest ratings ever for a miniseries on NBC. Critics said it was due to oversaturation of special-effects-driven miniseries dropping in popularity.

Release
The film is available on DVD and videocassette. There was also a novelization of the miniseries by Kathryn Wesley released under the title The Monkey King.

References

External links

Works based on Journey to the West
2001 films
2000s adventure films
2000s American television miniseries
American fantasy adventure films
2000s American science fiction television series
2000s English-language films
Films directed by Peter MacDonald
Sonar Entertainment miniseries
Sword and sorcery films
Television shows based on Journey to the West
American fantasy drama television series
2000s American films
Sant Jaume d'Enveja

Sant Jaume d'Enveja is a municipality in the comarca of the Montsià in Catalonia, Spain. It is situated in the southern half of the Ebro Delta, on the right bank of the river. The municipality was created in 1978: previously the territory formed part of the municipality of Tortosa.
It is linked to Amposta by a local road, and to Deltebre on the opposite bank by a service of barges.

The town was established relatively recently in the 1860s. This is due in part to the formation of the delta over the last few centuries from the river's sedimentary deposits.

The town's economy is centred on agriculture, principally rice cultivation, along with a strong tourist industry. The tourism sector has seen an expansion in recent years based on the attractive countryside offered by the River Ebre Delta national park and its biodiversity. There is a lighthouse on the island of Buda.

Sant Jaume d'Enveja became part of the Montsià in the comarcal revision of 1990: previously it formed part of the Baix Ebre.

Villages
Balada, 10 
Els Muntells, 495 
Sant Jaume d'Enveja, 2787

References

 Panareda Clopés, Josep Maria; Rios Calvet, Jaume; Rabella Vives, Josep Maria (1989). Guia de Catalunya, Barcelona: Caixa de Catalunya.  (Spanish).  (Catalan).

External links 
Official website 
 Government data pages 

Municipalities in Montsià
Populated places in Montsià
Matthew Stafford (politician)

Matthew Stafford (c. 1852 – 12 June 1950) was an Irish businessman who served for four terms in Seanad Éireann, over a period of ten years. He was nominated by the Taoiseach to the 2nd Seanad in 1937, the 3rd Seanad in 1938, 4th Seanad in 1943, and to the 5th Seanad in 1944. He only spoke twice in his time there. He took part in the abortive 1867 rebellion and as a sniper in the 1916 Easter Rising.

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1850s births
1950 deaths
Businesspeople from County Dublin
Fianna Fáil senators
Members of the 2nd Seanad
Members of the 3rd Seanad
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Members of the 5th Seanad
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Nominated members of Seanad Éireann
Mandarin Training Center

Mandarin Training Center  (MTC; ) is a Chinese as a second language institution run by National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) in Taipei, Taiwan and located at NTNU Daan Campus.

History
MTC was founded in 1956. It was briefly known as the Center for Chinese Language and Culture Studies from 2002 to 2004. There are courses in Chinese calligraphy, Chinese martial arts, and traditional music and theater. Courses are offered in three-month quarterly terms throughout the year. This system enables international students to engage in intensive language study during their summer breaks and within single semesters. The MTC sponsors travel, hosts speech contests, and stages workshops and performances.

In September 2016, NTNU and the Ministry of Education launched the Office of Global Mandarin Education at the university.

Enrollment
Over 1000 students from over 70 countries enroll for studies each year at the Mandarin Training Center. Since 8 April 2013, people unable to attend MTC have had MTC Online as an option. The center's alumni association, the MTCAA, has been in existence since 1998.

Notable alumni
Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky - Hungarian sinologist
Richard Bernstein - American journalist
March Fong Eu - American politician
Andrew Fastow - former CFO of Enron
Howard Goldblatt - American literary translator
Imre Hamar - Hungarian scholar of Chinese studies
Ryutaro Hashimoto - former Prime Minister of Japan
Jon Huntsman, Jr. - former United States Ambassador to Singapore from 1992 to 1993, and China from 2009 to 2011
Koichi Kato - former government minister of Japan
Pierre Ryckmans - Belgian-Australian writer, essayist and sinologist
Kevin Rudd - former Prime Minister of Australia
Chie Tanaka - Japanese model and actress
Richard Vuylsteke - President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong
Stephen H. West - American sinologist
Pierre Marsone - French sinologist

See also
International Chinese Language Program (ICLP) at the National Taiwan University
Chinese Language Center (CLC) of National Dong Hwa University (NDHU)
Mandarin Learning Center (MLC) at Chinese Culture University
List of Chinese language schools in Taiwan
Chinese as a second language
Huayu Enrichment Scholarship

References

External links
Mandarin Training Center 
Mandarin Training Center Alumni Association 
Mandarin Training Center Online  
National Taiwan Normal University

1956 establishments in Taiwan
Educational institutions established in 1956
Academic language institutions
Language schools in Taiwan
Schools of Chinese as a second or foreign language
National Taiwan Normal University
The Infidel (album)

The Infidel is an album released in 1991 by Doubting Thomas, two-thirds of the members of the group Skinny Puppy. The project has been called "music for imaginary films". It was originally released in 1991 by Wax Trax! Records (bought 1992/93 by TVT Records), but has since gone out-of-print. It was re-released in 2007 by cEvin Key's Subconscious label, as a "20th anniversary edition" packaged with their Father Don't Cry EP and other bonus tracks.

Track listing

Personnel

Doubting Thomas
 cEvin Key – synthesizer, programming, drums, percussion, guitar, vocals, sampling, radio, machinery, TV, tapes, bass, production, engineering, mixing, digital editing, reconstruction on SSL Screensound
 D.R. Goettel – synthesizer, sampling, programming, TV, tapes, piano, sound source simulator, bass, production, engineering, mixing

Additional musicians
 Naomi McCleod – vocals on "I.D.L."

Technical personnel
 Dave Ogilvie – production, engineering, mixing
 Brian Gardner – mastering
 Tom Ellard – co-engineering on "The Run" and "Come in Piece"
 Brian Shanley – original sleeve design
 Simon Paul – special edition sleeve design
 Anthony Valcic – additional editing on "Father Don't Cry (Ext.)"
 Brad Vance – digital transfer, analogue mastering
 Marc Raemar – digital editing, reconstruction on SSL Screensound

References

Doubting Thomas (band) albums
1991 albums
Gavara

Gavara is a term used to refer to three different Telugu-speaking South Indian communities.

 Gavara is a trading community and is a sub-caste of Balija. They are present in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The Telugu-speaking Gavara community of Tamil Nadu is related to Balijas and is also known as Kavarai. The often use the title Naidu. Gavara Balijas are distinct from both Gavara Komatis and the Gavara caste of former Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh.
 Gavara is also the name of a Komati sub-caste. They are a trading community. Gavara Komatis are distinct from Gavara-Balijas as well as the Gavara caste of former Visakhapatnam district.
 Alternatively, Gavara is also the name of a small caste mostly present in former Visakhapatnam district (present-day Anakapalli and Visakhapatnam districts) and in some parts of the former Godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh. They are not related to Balija caste. They are predominantly agriculturists and are also involved in petty trade.

References

Social groups of Andhra Pradesh
Blackwood Brothers

Blackwood Brothers may refer to:

 Blackwood (publishing house), 1804–1980, a Scottish publisher and printer
 The Blackwood Brothers, an American southern gospel quartet
Many a New Day

"Many a New Day" is a song from the 1943 musical Oklahoma!, written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. It was introduced by Joan Roberts in the original Broadway production. In the 1955 film, the song is performed by Shirley Jones and appears on the soundtrack album.

"Many a New Day" is sung by Laurey immediately after Curly McLain leaves the scene with Gertie Cummings. Laurey ostensibly does not care that Curly is with a new girl, though it is obvious she is hurt, especially as shown by the slow restatement of the final lines at the end.

The song, like many of its era and like many others by Rodgers and Hammerstein, follows some variant of the Verse + AABA structure, a traditional song layout from the Tin Pan Alley era. Also true to form, the economically constructed melody spans only a ninth. The sequence-driven B section ("Never have I wept into my tea," etc.) is exemplary of Rodgers' writing, and similar progressions can be found in songs such as "I Cain't Say No”.

In the intro verse, Laurey sings about what she does after a romance, to prove that she is not upset.

"I'll snap my fingers to show I don't care,
I'll buy me a brand-new dress to wear.
I'll scrub my neck and I'll brush my hair,
And start all over again."

References

External links
Oklahoma! on IMDb

Songs from Oklahoma!
Songs with music by Richard Rodgers
Songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Shirley Jones songs
It's a Scandal! It's a Outrage!

It's a Scandal! It's a Outrage! is a song from the 1943 musical Oklahoma!. It was first performed on Broadway by Joseph Buloff.

Traveling salesman Ali Hakim has just been pushed into marrying Ado Annie Carnes by her father, Andrew Carnes. Hakim's character is described as Persian, but is based on a Syrian peddler character in Lynn Riggs's 1930 play Green Grow the Lilacs, and was commonly perceived by audiences as an Ashkenazi Jewish character due to the stereotypes he embodies.

In the musical, Hakim is the type of character who would flirt with forty women, but would prefer marriage only over being shot. Feeling trapped, he sings with the men of Oklahoma of how tricky and dirty girls are in getting husbands, using their fathers (with their guns) as backups. The song ends with the men declaring a revolution and then having their plans thwarted by women, who come in and drag them away.

During the song, he compares humans to chickens ("A rooster in a chicken coop is better off'n men, he ain't the special property of just one hen!") and tells of the dangers of being caught flirting ("If you make one mistake when the moon is bright, then they tie you to a contract so you make it every night!").

Hakim only sings two lines of the song; the rest is spoken. The name of the song contains a grammatical error ("a Outrage," instead of "an Outrage") deliberately as Hammerstein wrote his scripts phonetically to indicate dialect.

This song from the original stage musical was not included in the 1955 film version, but is used briefly as underscoring for Ali's appearance.

References 

Songs from Oklahoma!
Songs with music by Richard Rodgers
Songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
1943 songs
Rodney M. Love

Rodney Marvin Love (July 18, 1908 – May 5, 1996) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a one-term U.S. Representative for Ohio's District 3 from 1965 to 1967.

Early life and career 
Rodney M. Love was born in Dayton, Ohio, where he graduated from Steele High School in 1926. He was graduated from the Ohio State University, class of 1930, and then attended the University of Dayton Law School where he was graduated in 1933.

Love was admitted to the bar in 1933 and commenced practice in Dayton. In 1941, he became chief deputy in Montgomery County, Ohio probate court, a position he held for four years. He was appointed judge of that probate court in 1945 to fill a vacancy, and was subsequently elected in 1946 to fill the partial term and reelected in 1948 and 1954. Love resigned from the bench in 1960 to return to his private law practice.

Congress 
Rodney M. Love was elected as a Democrat to the 89th United States Congress (January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1967), but was unsuccessful as a candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress.

Later career 
In the 1960s, he spoke out against hatred and bigotry. He worked for mental health issues, serving as a Dayton chairman of the Ohio Mental Health Association's chapter and affiliation committee.

Love was elected to Montgomery County (Ohio) Common Pleas Court in 1968 and reelected in 1974, serving until 1980. In retirement, he served by appointment of the Ohio Supreme Court as an active judge.

Death
Rodney M. Love suffered a stroke in Dayton in 1993 and died May 5, 1996, in Mesa, Arizona.

Sources

 Denger, Laurie. "Judge Love Dies; He Was Called 'One Of A Kind'" Dayton Daily News, May 7, 1996, page 1B.

1908 births
1996 deaths
Democratic Party members of the Ohio House of Representatives
Politicians from Dayton, Ohio
Lawyers from Dayton, Ohio
University of Dayton alumni
Ohio State University alumni
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20th-century American politicians
20th-century American judges
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio
Maurice E. Dockrell

Maurice Edward Dockrell (6 October 1908 – 9 December 1986) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who was elected to Dáil Éireann at ten successive general elections, serving as a Teachta Dála (TD) for thirty-four years. He has been described as "a Protestant with a Unionist pedigree".

The second son of Henry Morgan Dockrell, he was born on 6 October 1908 at 1 Herbert Park, Dublin. He was educated at St Andrew's College, Dublin; and Trinity College Dublin, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce in 1930. In the same year became a director of Thomas Dockrell, Sons & Co. On his father's death in 1955 he assumed the position of chairman and managing director.

He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael TD for the Dublin South constituency at the 1943 general election, and re-elected at the 1944 general election.

After constituency boundaries were redrawn in 1947, Dockrell was returned at the 1948 general election for the Dublin South-Central constituency, which re-elected him on five further elections. He was then elected twice as a TD for Dublin Central, at the 1969 and 1973 general elections. He stood for Dublin South-Central at the 1977 general election but lost his seat in the Fianna Fáil landslide of that year.

From 1960 to 1961, he was the Lord Mayor of Dublin. During his term of office he raised the hackles of some Protestants when, in a gesture of ecumenism, he kissed the ring of the papal legate to the Patrician celebrations in June 1961. Always keen to build bridges between Ireland and Britain, he paid an official visit to London in June 1961, when he laid a wreath at The Cenotaph, a gesture later described in his Times obituary as ‘an act of piety that involved some political risk’.

His father, Henry Morgan Dockrell, and his brother, H. Percy Dockrell were also Fine Gael TDs. His grandfather, Sir Maurice Dockrell, had been a Unionist MP before independence.

His son Henry Morgan Dockrell was elected to Dublin City Council in 1967. His grandson Maurice Dockrell was co-opted onto Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council in 2020, making him the fifth generation of the family to serve either at national or local level.

During a 1975 debate on reform of the country's conservative laws against contraceptives, he is alleged to have said "I'm for it, but I'm past it".

See also
Families in the Oireachtas

References

 

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Lord Mayors of Dublin
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Lonely Room

"Lonely Room" is a tune from Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1943 musical Oklahoma!, sung not too long after "Pore Jud Is Daid.”

"Lonely Room" is Jud Fry's declaration that he will get out of his smokehouse and get Laurey Williams to be his own. He states how tired he is of the dirtiness of his smokehouse and how he longs for a girl of his own. Rodgers’ ability to describe character through music is highlighted by the chromatic sound and the adventurous dissonant intervals.
 
Sung by Howard Da Silva in the original Broadway production, the song was omitted from the 1955 film adaptation, though an instrumental version is heard briefly during the dream ballet. It was restored for the 1980 and 1998 Broadway and London revivals.

In popular media
Lonely Room is performed by Jesse Plemons during the closing scene of the 2020 film I'm Thinking of Ending Things.

References

Songs from Oklahoma!
Songs with music by Richard Rodgers
Songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
1943 songs
List of Louisiana metropolitan areas

The U.S. state of Louisiana has a total of nine metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs); 30 of Louisiana's sixty-four (64) parishes are classified as metropolitan. According to the 2010 United States census, these parishes had a combined population of 3,340,667 (74.8% of the state's population). Based on a July 1, 2009, population estimate, that figure had increased to 3,356,913 (74.7% of the state's population).

The following table lists Louisiana's metropolitan areas, ranked by population as of the 2020 American Community Survey's census estimates program.

See also 

 Louisiana statistical areas

References

 
 
Metropolitan areas