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Pilar Barrios

Pilar Barrios (1889–1974) was an important poet of the black community of Uruguay and one of the founders of the Partido Autóctono Negro. He demonstrated in his poetry an understanding of the class-based racism in his society, and expressed hope that this could be overturned by the development of a racial consciousness (awareness of negritud) and renovation of education. He was optimistic in regards to this project, because he believed in the fundamental equality of people and races, as he expressed in his poems. One of his means of expression was the journal Nuestra raza, which he co-founded with his sister Maria in 1917. In 1937 he married Maruja Pereyra, an activist and fellow Nuestra Raza journalist.

With the publishing of Piel negra in 1947, he became one of only two black Uruguayan poets to be published in book form (the other was Virginia Brindis de Salas). As one of the most notable black intellectuals in the country, he was in contact with the larger world of black intellectual activity, corresponding with, for example, Langston Hughes.

References

Jackson, Richard. "The shared vision of Langston Hughes and black Hispanic writers", Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 15, No 3, pp. 89–92
Roberts, Nicole. "Añoranzas negras: la poesía negra uruguaya del siglo XX", Politica y Cultura, Autumn 2004, No 22, pp. 183–195

1889 births
1974 deaths
20th-century Uruguayan poets
Uruguayan male poets
Uruguayan male writers
Victory (church)

Victory Christian Fellowship of the Philippines, Inc., commonly known as Victory, is an evangelical multi-site church based in Taguig, Philippines. It is a member of Every Nation Churches.

History	
Victory was started by missionaries Steve and Deborah Murrell, who came to the Philippines in 1984 together with Ever Nation Churches co-founder Rice Broocks and 65 other American university students on a one-month summer mission trip. Since 1984, Victory has grown until it presently has churches in 60 Philippine cities. 

In 2015, Victory's Metro Manila church had 15 congregations, all with multiple services and locations, and many offering more than one language (English). The church has multiple locations and holds 94 services every weekend, each of them led by live preaching, training Filipinos to reach their cities, the nation, and the world. Over 10,000 leaders conduct small weekly discipleship groups.  Victory reported 80,000 members in Manila in 2015.

Discipleship and leadership training
Since its inception in 1984, the church encourages members to compassionately engage communities, intentionally establish biblical foundations, strategically equip believers, and continually empower disciples. Its primary vehicle for discipleship is the Victory group, a small group of people who get together, build relationships, and study the Bible.

Victory Worship
In 2014, Victory Worship released its first live worship album, Radical Love. Radical Love and its 2015 follow-up, Rise Heart, were certified Gold by the Philippine Association of the Record Industry, Inc. (PARI). On March 25, 2017, the group released Awit ng Bayan, its first full Filipino-language single; on June 1, 2017, Safe, its latest digital single, was released to radio and on digital formats. An extended play, For Your Purpose, was released on December 1, 2017. On March 16, 2018, it released its latest extended play, In Your Name.

Beliefs
As a member church of Every Nation Churches, Victory adheres to the statement of faith of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches.

See also
List of the largest evangelical churches
List of the largest evangelical church auditoriums
Worship service (evangelicalism)

References

External links
 
 Victory Worship
 Every Nation Movement

Christian organizations established in 1984
1984 establishments in the Philippines
Evangelical megachurches in the Philippines
Churches in Metro Manila
Cooper High School

Cooper High School may refer to:

Cooper High School (Abilene, Texas)
Cooper High School (Cooper, Texas)
Cooper City High School, Florida
Randall K. Cooper High School, Union, Kentucky
Robbinsdale Cooper High School, New Hope, Minnesota

See also

Cooper School (disambiguation)
Lubbock-Cooper Independent School District, Texas
Wittlich-Land

Wittlich-Land is a Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district Bernkastel-Wittlich, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is located around the town Wittlich, which is the seat of Wittlich-Land, but not part of the Verbandsgemeinde.  On 1 July 2014 it was expanded with the municipalities of the former Verbandsgemeinde Manderscheid.

Wittlich-Land consists of the following Ortsgemeinden ("local municipalities"):

 Altrich
 Arenrath
 Bergweiler
 Bettenfeld
 Binsfeld
 Bruch
 Dierfeld
 Dierscheid
 Dodenburg
 Dreis
 Eckfeld
 Eisenschmitt
 Esch
 Gipperath
 Gladbach
 Greimerath
 Großlittgen
 Hasborn
 Heckenmünster
 Heidweiler
 Hetzerath
 Hupperath
 Karl
 Klausen
 Landscheid
 Laufeld
 Manderscheid
 Meerfeld
 Minderlittgen
 Musweiler
 Niederöfflingen
 Niederscheidweiler
 Niersbach
 Oberöfflingen
 Oberscheidweiler
 Osann-Monzel
 Pantenburg
 Platten
 Plein
 Rivenich
 Salmtal
 Schladt
 Schwarzenborn
 Sehlem
 Wallscheid

 

Verbandsgemeinde in Rhineland-Palatinate
Spælsau



The Spælsau (Old Norwegian Short Tail Landrace, Gamalnorsk spæl Norwegian) is a breed of sheep from Norway. Many consider Spælsau to be the original breed of sheep in Norway, and it is one of the Northern European short-tailed sheep breeds. It is well adapted to the climate and was a domestic animal from the Iron Age. The spælsau stock is about 22% of the sheep in Norway. 

In 1912, to prevent extinction of the breed, two breeding stations were established. Icelandic sheep were crossed through semen imported in the 1960s and 1970s. Finnsheep and Faroe Island sheep were also used in the breeding program.  This breed is raised primarily for meat.

Characteristics
Originally it is compact and lightly built and does not need much concentrated food. The meat has relatively little fat. The Spælsau gives rich milk, has a strong flock instinct, and manages well outdoors most of the year. But it is vulnerable to eye disease caused by eating the plant Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum). Wool colours include black and white but common among older types (Gamalnorsk and Villsau) are many variations and shades of grey (known as `blue`) and brown (known as `red`)

Adult ewes reach a live weight of  to .

Uses

It gives milk and meat of good quality. The wool is characterised through having two layers: An outer longhaired glossy undulating layer of wool protecting the underlying layer against wind and rain, and an underlying layer which keeps the sheep warm. The long protective wool which is used for weaving is traditionally spun into two-strand tightly-spun yarn instead of the usual three-strand type, resulting in a beautiful lustre.  This spælsau yarn was used in the Norwegian old tapestries from the Renaissance and Baroque times. The Viking ship sails were made from spælsau yarn. The wool was also in the old days used in clothing because it was light, stable and absorbed little moisture.

See also 
 Norwegian Elkhound
 Norwegian Lundehund
 Norwegian Forest Cat
 Icelandic goat
 Norwegian chicken landrace
 Old Norwegian Sheep

References

External links
Sheep-Isles

Sheep breeds
Sheep breeds originating in Norway
Sheep landraces
Out of the Cool

Out of the Cool is a jazz album by The Gil Evans Orchestra, recorded in 1960 and released on the Impulse! label the following year. The album was one of Impulse!'s first four albums, released together, and featured a gatefold design and high production values.

Background
Gil Evans recorded the album a short time after completing a six-week job at the Jazz Gallery club in New York City; the personnel was largely the same, with Elvin Jones being added.

Music
The first track, "La Nevada", was also recorded by Evans less than two years earlier for the album Great Jazz Standards; the version for Out of the Cool is given a consistent rhythmic structure by Elvin Jones playing shakers, giving the rest of the band greater freedom and leading to a less boppish version than the earlier recording. "Where Flamingos Fly" has a melody stated by trombonist Jimmy Knepper, and uses an earlier Evans arrangement done for vocalist Helen Merrill The music on this album was part of a move by Evans towards greater freedom in his compositions and arrangements, this "new work integrated the written and improvised, at times allowing the balance to shift imperceptibly".

Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested "Core Collection", calling it "Evans' masterpiece under his own name and one of the best examples of jazz orchestration since the early Ellington bands". After the album was re-issued in 2021 as part of Impulse!'s sixtieth anniversary celebrations, it entered the Billboard Jazz Albums Chart at No. 11.

Track listing
"La Nevada" (Gil Evans) – 15:38
"Where Flamingos Fly" (Elthea Peale, Harold Courlander, John Benson Brooks) – 5:14
"Bilbao Song" (Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 4:13
"Stratusphunk" (George Russell) – 8:04
"Sunken Treasure" (Evans) – 4:16
"Sister Sadie" (Horace Silver) – 6:57 (CD bonus track, not on original LP)

Tracks 2, 4 and 5 recorded on November 18 and 30, 1960; the remainder on December 10 and 15, 1960.

Personnel
Gil Evans – piano
Johnny Coles – trumpet (soloist)
Phil Sunkel – trumpet
Keg Johnson – trombone
Jimmy Knepper – trombone
Tony Studd – bass trombone (soloist)
Bill Barber – tuba
Ray Beckenstein – alto saxophone, flute, piccolo
Eddie Caine – alto saxophone, flute, piccolo
Budd Johnson – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone (soloist)
Bob Tricarico – flute, piccolo, bassoon
 Ray Crawford – guitar (soloist)
Ron Carter – bass
Elvin Jones – drums, percussion
Charlie Persip – drums

References
 

Gil Evans albums
1961 albums
Albums produced by Creed Taylor
Impulse! Records albums
Albums arranged by Gil Evans
Market Street

Market Street may refer to:
Market Street, Cambridge, England
Market Street, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
Market Street, George Town, Penang, Malaysia
Market Street, Manchester, England
Market Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Market Street, Oxford, England
Market Street (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, US
Market Street (San Francisco), California, US
Market Street (St. Louis), Missouri, US
Market Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Market Street (York), England
State Street (Boston), former name

See also
United Supermarkets, a supermarket chain in Texas that contains a division called Market Street
Market Street Bridge (disambiguation)
Market Street Metrolink station, a Manchester light-rail station
Market Street Railway (nonprofit), organization that supports the operation of the F Market streetcar line in San Francisco
Market Street Railway (transit operator), commercial streetcar and bus operator in San Francisco
Market Street subway in San Francisco, California
Market–Frankford Line, rapid transit line in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Market Street, a Lego building set in the Lego Modular Houses Theme series
Dorthe Holm

Dorthe Holm (born 3 July 1972) is a Danish curler from Kastrup.

Career
Holm skipped the Danish women's team at the 2006 Winter Olympics. The team were the only athletes Denmark sent to the games, as such Holm carried the flag for Denmark in the opening ceremonies.

Holm has had a long curling career, which internationally began in 1987 at the European Junior Championships. By 1994, Holm had competed in six World Junior Curling Championships, winning bronze in 1993 and 1994. She skipped Denmark in 1993, and was the third for Angelina Jensen in 1994. At the 1992 Winter Olympics she was an alternate for the Danish team, when curling was just a demonstration event. The team finished in fourth place.

In 1994, Denmark won the European Curling Championships, and Holm played third for the team that was skipped by Helena Blach Lavrsen. After three unsuccessful trips to the World Curling Championships, Holm finally won a medal in 1997, a bronze, when she played second for Blach Lavrsen. She moved up to third later in the year, and won a silver at the European Championships. That same season she was playing second again, and she picked up a silver medal at curling's debut at the 1998 Winter Olympics. She also won a silver at that year's World Championships, followed by a bronze at the European Championships, as a third once again.

Holm wouldn't return to the international scene until 2002, at this point she was skipping the Danish team. As skip she won a silver at the 2002 European Championships, and a bronze in the 2003 and 2005 European Championships. At the 2006 Olympics, Denmark placed 8th.

Awards
 1991 - WJCC All-Star, Skip 
 1994 - WJCC All-Star, Third 
 1991 - WJCC Sportsmanship Award 
 1993 - WJCC Sportsmanship Award

External links

Danish female curlers
Curlers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
1972 births
Living people
Curlers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Curlers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Holm
Olympic silver medalists for Denmark
Olympic medalists in curling
People from Tårnby Municipality
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
European curling champions
Sportspeople from the Capital Region of Denmark
20th-century Danish women
21st-century Danish women
Joseph Bermingham

Joseph Bermingham (9 May 1919 – 11 August 1995) was an Irish Labour Party politician.

Bermingham was born in Castlemitchell, County Kildare. He was educated at the Christian Brothers school in Athy and the O'Brien Institute in Dublin. Bermingham worked as a shopkeeper before being elected in 1967 as a member of Kildare County Council. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Dáil Éireann at the 1969 general election and at a by-election in 1970. He was elected to the 20th Dáil as Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kildare constituency at the 1973 general election.

After the 1981 general election, Labour and Fine Gael formed a coalition government. Bermingham was appointed by the government to the position of Minister of State at the Department of Finance with responsibility for the Office of Public Works. He served in that post until early 1982 when the government of Garret FitzGerald fell in a vote on the budget. When a new Fine Gael–Labour Party coalition came to power after the November 1982 general election Bermingham returned to same position. He lost that position as part of a reshuffle in February 1986.

Bermingham resigned from the Labour Party in June 1986, which left the government parties in a minority in the Dáil. He did not contest the 1987 general election. He remained active in local politics and was elected to Kildare County Council in 1991 as an Independent.

References

 

1919 births
1995 deaths
Labour Party (Ireland) TDs
Members of Kildare County Council
Members of the 20th Dáil
Members of the 21st Dáil
Members of the 22nd Dáil
Members of the 23rd Dáil
Members of the 24th Dáil
Ministers of State of the 24th Dáil
Ministers of State of the 22nd Dáil
Politicians from County Kildare
New York State Rifle and Pistol Association

The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association (NYSRPA) is the U.S. state of New York's largest and oldest firearms advocacy organization. Established in 1871, the NYSRPA is dedicated to the preservation of gun rights, firearm safety and education, and shooting sports.  It is associated with the National Rifle Association of America ("NRA") and engages locally in many activities similar to the NRA.

Active members in the NYSRPA engage in many different activities.  The organization is engaged in legislation and political awareness campaigns in New York.  It sponsors and holds competitive firearm sporting events across the state.  Finally, it educates and supports various firearm activities of particular interest to juniors and women in the community.

Lawsuits
On January 29, 2013, NYSRPA filed a notice of legal claim against the highly controversial NY SAFE Act.

In a separate challenge, NYSRPA sued the City of New York on March 29, 2013, seeking to invalidate the city's restriction on transporting handguns outside of the city. The District Court ruled in favor of New York, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed. The Supreme Court of the United States granted NYSRPA's request to review the case, and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. City of New York was argued before the Supreme Court in 2019.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, a case challenging New York State's concealed carry permit system. Paul Clement, an attorney who represents NYSRPA, petitioned the Supreme Court to answer the question "Whether the Second Amendment allows the government to prohibit ordinary law-abiding citizens from carrying handguns outside the home for self-defense". The Supreme Court granted the petition on April 26, 2021, but re-framed the question to "Whether the state's denial of petitioners' applications for concealed-carry licenses for self-defense violated the second amendment". 

NYSRPA executive director Tom King objects to the state's gun law, which requires anyone seeking a license to carry a concealed weapon to demonstrate "a special need for self-protection." King said that violates his Second Amendment rights.

References

External links
Official Website
Firearms Database

1871 establishments in New York (state)
Gun rights advocacy groups in the United States
Organizations based in New York (state)
Organizations established in 1871
Q10 (temperature coefficient)

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The Q10 temperature coefficient is a measure of temperature sensitivity based on the chemical reactions.

The Q10 is calculated as:

 

where;  
 R is the rate
 T is the temperature in Celsius degrees or kelvin.

Rewriting this equation, the assumption behind Q10 is that the reaction rate R depends exponentially on temperature:

 

Q10 is a unitless quantity, as it is the factor by which a rate changes, and is a useful way to express the temperature dependence of a process.

For most biological systems, the Q10 value is ~ 2 to 3.

In muscle performance

The temperature of a muscle has a significant effect on the velocity and power of the muscle contraction, with performance generally declining with decreasing temperatures and increasing with rising temperatures. The Q10 coefficient represents the degree of temperature dependence a muscle exhibits as measured by contraction rates. A Q10 of 1.0 indicates thermal independence of a muscle whereas an increasing Q10 value indicates increasing thermal dependence. Values less than 1.0 indicate a negative or inverse thermal dependence, i.e., a decrease in muscle performance as temperature increases.

Q10 values for biological processes vary with temperature. Decreasing muscle temperature results in a substantial decline of muscle performance such that a 10 degree Celsius temperature decrease results in at least a 50% decline in muscle performance. Persons who have fallen into icy water may gradually lose the ability to swim or grasp safety lines due to this effect, although other effects such as atrial fibrillation are a more immediate cause of drowning deaths. At some minimum temperature biological systems do not function at all, but performance increases with rising temperature (Q10 of 2-4) to a maximum performance level and thermal independence (Q10 of 1.0-1.5). With continued increase in temperature, performance decreases rapidly (Q10 of 0.2-0.8) up to a maximum temperature at which all biological function again ceases.

Within vertebrates, different skeletal muscle activity has correspondingly different thermal dependencies. The rate of muscle twitch contractions and relaxations are thermally dependent (Q10 of 2.0-2.5), whereas maximum contraction, e.g., tetanic contraction, is thermally independent.

Muscles of some ectothermic species. e.g., sharks, show less thermal dependence at lower temperatures than endothermic species

See also 
 Arrhenius equation
 Arrhenius plot
 Isotonic (exercise physiology)
 Isometric exercise
 Skeletal striated muscle
 Tetanic contraction

References 

Ecological metrics
Chemical kinetics
Rick Roder

Rick Roder is an author, editor, consultant, and educator specializing in baseball rules and umpiring. He attended the Joe Brinkman Umpire School in 1987 and was a professional umpire from 1987 to 1996. His umpiring experience included the Pioneer League (1987), Midwest League (1988-1989), Texas League (1990 and 1992), Southern League (1991), Pacific Coast League (1993), International League (1994), and American Association (1995-1996). He was the head rules instructor at the Brinkman school from 1990 to 1995 and co-authored the only complete re-write of baseball's professional rules (commonly known as the "Jaksa/Roder Manual") with fellow instructor Chris Jaksa. Roder has authored three other books on rules and umpiring. He is also the author of Frontiers of Faith: A History of the Diocese of Sioux City and We Are Called: A History of St. Mary's Parish, Remsen, Iowa.

Roder is a graduate of Newman University (formerly Kansas Newman College) in Wichita, KS, where he was a pitcher for the Jet's baseball team.

External links
rulesofbaseball.com

Living people
Minor league baseball umpires
Newman University, Wichita alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
The Aldridge Sisters

The Aldridge Sisters, Sheila and Sherry Aldridge, are an American singing act that appeared on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1977 to 1982.

The sisters and their family
Sherry Aldridge (born December 1, 1951) and Sheila Aldridge (born July 18, 1956) grew up in North Carolina. Their parents are the late Talton Aldridge and Jacqueline Goins Aldridge.

Performing career
Sheila and Sherry started out singing in church, holiday pageants, nightclubs, high school plays and also performed in community theater, winning many musical and theatrical accolades. While looking for their big break in show business, they both worked as flight attendants for a major airline.

The Aldridge Sisters first auditioned for Lawrence Welk in 1977 when he and his musical family held a concert in nearby Nashville; although impressed, there weren't any openings at the time. It wasn't until three more auditions in the following months that they were asked to appear on the show as guest stars, after that initial appearance on national television followed by the resignation of Tanya Welk., they were hired as regulars. Not long after that, they were teamed with Roger and David Otwell, another newly hired sibling act to form the musical act of The Aldridge Sisters and Otwell Twins. It was a hit with live audiences and viewers alike.

Since the Welk show, the sisters appeared on television shows including Dinah Shore, Hee Haw and the Welk reunion special Milestones and Memories for PBS. They also have been an opening act for Bob Hope, George Burns and have performed at casino resorts in Atlantic City, Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe, and toured with fellow Welk alumni in the concert series Forever Blowing Bubbles.

Discography 
Sheila and Sherry recorded a Christmas album, The Gift, with the Billy Andrusco Trio.

References

Musical groups from Knoxville, Tennessee
20th-century American women singers
20th-century American singers
American girl groups
Country music groups from North Carolina
Country music groups from Tennessee
Country music duos
Lawrence Welk
Musical groups established in 1977
Sibling musical duos
Ralph Townsend (headmaster)

Ralph Douglas Townsend (born 13 December 1951, in Nedlands, West Australia) is an educational consultant. He was Chairman of  Prep Schools Trust (2017-2022) and Special Adviser to the President of Keio University and President of Keio Academy of New York (2017-2021).  He currently serves on the International Development Group of the Jesuit Refugee Service. He was Headmaster of Sydney Grammar School (1989–1999),  Oundle School (1999–2005), and Winchester College (2005–2016).

Career

After brief teaching appointments at Dover College and Abingdon School, he proceeded to further study at Oxford University. He was first Senior Scholar at Keble College of Oxford University, then a Junior Research Fellow, Tutor and Dean of Degrees at Lincoln College, where he was the Anglican chaplain. He resigned from this post in 1985 when he decided to join the Roman Catholic Church.

He took up a teaching post at Eton College in 1985. He left as Head of Personal Education in 1989 to become Headmaster of Sydney Grammar School. While in Sydney, Townsend was Patron of the Australian Musicians' Academy and President of the New South Wales Classical Association. After ten years in that post, he returned to England to become Headmaster of Oundle School.  In 2005, he was appointed Headmaster of Winchester, the first Roman Catholic to hold that post since the English Reformation. In 2011 he was invested a Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
 
He has written books, articles and reviews in the areas of church history, westerns, religious literature and education.

Townsend has been a Governor of Terra Nova School, Cheshire, 1999–2003, Old Buckenham Hall School, Suffolk, 1999–2006, Ardvreck School, Crieff, Scotland, 2000–2005, Ampleforth College, North Yorkshire, 2003–2006, Bramcote Lorne School, Nottinghamshire, 2003–2005, Mowden Hall School, Northumberland, 2000–2007, Worth School, West Sussex, 2004-2010 and 2016–2019, The Pilgrims' School, Winchester,  2005–2013, St Swithun's School, Winchester 2005–2013, St John's School, Beaumont, 2007-2016, and Charterhouse School, 2016–2019. From 2005 to 2011 he was a Trustee of the United Church Schools Trust and an adviser to the United Learning Trust. From 2008 to 2016 he was a Governor of Midhurst Rother College and from 2014 to 2019 a Trustee of St George's House Windsor Castle. He was a governor of UWC Dilijan College 2008–2018.

References

External links

 Winchester College Website: The Headmaster

University of Western Australia alumni
Alumni of the University of Kent
People educated at Scotch College, Perth
Australian headmasters
Sydney Grammar School headmasters
Headmasters of Winchester College
Fellows of Lincoln College, Oxford
Living people
1951 births
Knights of the Holy Sepulchre
Headmasters of Oundle School
Staff of Abingdon School
Teachers at Eton College
Justin Bryant

Justin Bryant (born August 24, 1966 in Melbourne, Florida) is an American writer and former soccer goalkeeper.

Youth and college
Bryant grew up in Florida, and attended Radford University in Radford, Virginia.  While at Radford, he played on the men's soccer team from 1984 to 1986.

Soccer
Bryant elected to pursue a career as a professional soccer goalkeeper.  In 1987, he moved to England and signed with Boreham Wood FC. He made his debut in a 3–0 win against Leatherhead on March 12. While playing for Borehamwood, he had an extended trial at Brentford FC and played as a trialist in several friendlies. He returned to the U.S. that same year to play for the Orlando Lions of the recently established American Soccer League.  In 1989, he moved to Scotland to play for Dunfermline Athletic but was unable to obtain a work permit. In 1990, he returned to Boreham Wood FC, where he made 23 appearances for the reserve team.  In 1995, he spent a single season with the Cocoa Expos in the U.S., making over 20 first-team appearances. The Expos reached the USISL Premier League final, where they lost 3–1 to the Richmond Kickers.

Writing
In 1996, Bryant decided to give up his playing career, and moved to Elon College and completed his bachelor's degree in English. The college then hired him as the assistant coach for the women's soccer team.  Based on an idea for a book he had conceived while visiting his father in South Africa, he wrote a novel, Season of Ash, published in 2004 by ENC Press, and has continued to write, producing short fiction published in such literary journals as Thin Air, Chiron Review, The Rockhurst Review, and Snowbound. His work has also been anthologized by Gorsky Press, Spotted Cow Press, and Key Porter Books. He has written about soccer for XI Quarterly, The Howler Magazine, Green Pitch Magazine, Red Issue, and Bookable Offense. He is a graduate of the MFA Creative Writing program at New York University, where he did his thesis with E. L. Doctorow. He currently writes a column in Goalkeeper Magazine. In June 2013, Bryant published his second book, the autobiographical "Small Time: A Life in the Football Wilderness", documenting his travails as a young, professional goalkeeper. He lives in Raleigh, NC with his partner Sarah and their two rescue dogs, Roxy and Bryce.

External links
 Bio page at ENC Press
 Bio page at Freebird Writing Workshops in Brooklyn
 2012 Audio Interview With XI Quarterly Magazine
 1995 Radio Interview
 Small Time: A Life in the Football Wilderness
 Small Time: 2013 Interview with Sky Sports Magazine
 NC State Bio

21st-century American novelists
American historical novelists
1966 births
Living people
American men's soccer players
Men's association football goalkeepers
American Soccer League (1988–89) players
Orlando Lions players
Cocoa Expos players
American soccer coaches
Boreham Wood F.C. players
Radford University alumni
New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science alumni
American male novelists
21st-century American male writers
Radford Highlanders men's soccer players
The History and Adventures of an Atom

The History and Adventures of an Atom is a novel by Tobias Smollett, first published in 1769.  The novel satirises English politics during the Seven Years' War.

Summary
The novel is an it-narrative, narrated by an atom in the body of a London haberdasher, who is the purported editor of the novel. The atom describes events it witnessed in ancient Japan, which are in fact allegories for British politics at the time of the novel's composition.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham appears as Taycho, and other politicians, monarchs and nations under a light disguise of made-up names. It includes some comments on the Kingdom of Great Britain's growing problems with its American colonies.

Many "keys" have been published to decode which characters are meant to represent real people.

Publication history
The book was published anonymously in 1769.  Smollett's authorship of the book has been disputed, but it is generally included and discussed among his works.

The first scholarly edition of the book was published in 1988, edited by Robert Adams Day and O. M. Brack Jr.

Reception
Writing in 1821, Sir Walter Scott wrote, "The chief purpose of the work (besides that of giving the author the opportunity to raise his hand, like that of Ishmael, against every man) is to inspire a national horror of continental connexions."

References

External links
  Complete online text (public domain)
The History and Adventures of an Atom

1769 novels
Novels by Tobias Smollett
British political novels
Seven Years' War
18th-century British novels
Novels set in Japan
Works published anonymously
Japan in non-Japanese culture
Roosevelt Park Zoo

The Roosevelt Park Zoo is a zoo in Minot, North Dakota. It is the oldest zoo in North Dakota.

The zoo is open year-round with limited hours during the winter. New big cat habitats for lions, Amur Tigers, and Amur Leopards respectively have been built recently to replace the outdated feline house built after the flood of 1969.

History

Early years 
Roosevelt Park Zoo opened in 1921 and the first animal exhibition featured the American Bison.

Management 
In 1970, the zoo was separated from the city-owned Roosevelt Park and the Greater Minot Zoological Society was created to operate the zoo. Today, the zoo is part of the Minot Park District and the GMZS still exists as a 501-c charity to support the zoo.

Floods 
The flood of 1969 caused every bird and animal to be moved from the zoo, which led to the redesign of the zoo grounds. A foot bridge, a feline house, and a new bear den were constructed.  The 2011 Souris River Flood caused the animals once again to be relocated from the zoo.  Due to cleanup efforts on the grounds and buildings, the zoo did not open for the 2012 season. The Zoo re-opened on May 4 of 2013.

References

External links 

Zoos in North Dakota
Buildings and structures in Minot, North Dakota
Tourist attractions in Minot, North Dakota
Zoos established in 1921
1921 establishments in North Dakota
Heikki Liimatainen

Heikki Liimatainen may refer to:

 Heikki L, real name Heikki Liimatainen, Finnish musician
 Heikki Liimatainen (athlete) (1894-1980), Finnish runner
Boyd Tackett

Boyd Anderson Tackett (May 9, 1911 – February 23, 1985) was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas.

Biography
Tackett was born near Black Springs in Montgomery County in southwestern Arkansas.  He moved with his parents to Glenwood, Arkansas, and attended public school; afterwards, he matriculated at Arkansas Polytechnic College at Russellville (1930–1932), continued at Ouachita College in Arkadelphia (1932–1933), and graduated in 1935 from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville.

After being admitted to the bar, Tackett practiced law in Glenwood, Murfreesboro, and Nashville, Arkansas, until he was elected in 1936 to the Arkansas House of Representatives.  He also served as the prosecuting attorney of the 9th Judicial Circuit of Arkansas until 1943, when he enlisted in the United States Army. Tackett served as a corporal in the Signal Corps until his discharge in 1944, when he resumed his law practice in Nashville.

In 1948, Tackett was elected as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arkansas's 4th District as a Democrat to the 81st and 82nd Congresses. He did not seek reelection to the House  in 1952 but instead lost his bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to Francis Cherry. Tackett returned to Texarkana and his law practice, where he remained until retirement in 1980.

Tackett lived again in Nashville, Arkansas, from 1983 until his death two years later.  He was interred there at Restland Memorial Park.

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University of Arkansas School of Law alumni
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Douglas–Coldwell Foundation

The Douglas–Coldwell Foundation is a left-wing Canadian think tank devoted, in the words of its slogan, to "promoting education and research into social democracy." It was founded in 1971, and is based in Ottawa.

The Foundation was named for and inspired by Tommy Douglas, the first federal leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971, and M. J. Coldwell, leader of its predecessor Co-operative Commonwealth Federation from 1942 to 1960. Both had desired a Canadian counterpart to the Fabian Society.

In 1987, it merged with the Ontario Woodsworth Memorial Foundation of Toronto, named for Coldwell's predecessor as CCF leader, J. S. Woodsworth.

The foundation has underwritten biographies of Douglas, Coldwell, Clarence Gillis, Stanley Knowles, and Grace MacInnis, and scholarships and lectureships at Canadian post-secondary institutions. The foundation also gives out yearly grants totalling up to $25,000 for projects supporting its mandate of "promoting education and research in social democracy."

The foundation is a registered charitable foundation, contributions to which are tax-deductible in Canada; it accepts memberships and solicits donations from individuals and organizations in the general public. While predominantly associated with NDP members and activists, and concerned in part with the history and future of the party, it is an independent group with no administrative connection to any political party.

Tommy Douglas was the foundation's first president. Trade unionist Kalmen Kaplansky led the think tank in the 1980s and 1990s.Tessa Hebb served as president from 1995 to 2005, followed by David Mackenzie, David White and David Mackenzie again until 2016. Former NDP senior advisor Karl Bélanger became president of the foundation in November 2016.

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Apache Strike

Apache Strike is a 3D helicopter game first released for the Macintosh in 1987.

Gameplay
Its objective is flying an Apache helicopter through a rudimentary hidden line-rendered cityscape in order to destroy the enemy's strategic defense computer. Enemy helicopters and tanks are encountered and must be shot down along the way.  The Apache's position is shown in an onscreen map as well as bearing and distance to the defense computer. Some game events are presented in digitized speech by the Lifelike In-board Narrative Damage Assessment computer, or LINDA.

The intro music bears more than a passing resemblance to the Airwolf helicopter TV series theme.

Reception
Compute! in 1989 called the PC version of Apache Strikes graphics "sparse but colorful", noting that it was among the few inexpensive games supporting VGA graphics. The magazine recommended the game to those who "just want to blow some bad guys out of the sky without having to think too hard".

References

Computer Chronicles: Computer Games (1987.) Includes video reviews of Beyond Dark Castle and Apache Strike with Silicon Beach development V.P. Eric Zocher

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Truesdale Lake (New York)

Lake Truesdale is a lake located in the hamlet of South Salem, part of the Town of Lewisboro, in northern Westchester County, New York. The  lake is just under  long and about  across at its widest point. The primary water flow into the lake comes from the swamp on Pumping Station Road in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

The lake was created in 1927 by damming a stream and flooding Hoyt's pond and surrounding swamp. Two homeowners' associations (Truesdale Lake Property Owners' Association - TLPOA, and Truesdale Estates Association - TEA) manage the lake and maintain two beaches available to their members.

References

External links
 Truesdale Lake website
 Truesdale Lake Fact Sheet
 Truesdale Lake Fact Sheet alternate location

Lakes of Westchester County, New York
Lakes of New York (state)
Baden gulden

Baden used the South German gulden as its currency from 1754 until 1873. Until 1821, the Gulden was a unit of account, worth  of a Conventionsthaler, used to denominate banknotes but not issued as a coin. It was subdivided into 50 Conventionskreuzer or 60 Kreuzer landmünze.

In 1821, the first Gulden coins were issued, equal to the previous Gulden and subdivided into 60 Kreuzer. Between 1829 and 1837, the Thaler was the currency of Baden, worth 100 Kreuzer.

In 1837, Baden joined the South German Monetary Union and readopted the Gulden as its currency, again worth 60 Kreuzer. The new Gulden was equal to the earlier Gulden and was worth four sevenths of a Prussian Thaler.

In 1857, the Vereinsthaler was introduced to Baden but the Gulden, worth four sevenths of a Vereinsthaler, continued to be the chief unit of currency until 1873, when the German Mark was introduced at a rate of 1 Mark = 35 Kreuzer.

History of Baden
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Modern obsolete currencies
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1873 disestablishments in Germany
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William Hubbell

William Hubbell may refer to:

William Spring Hubbell (1801–1873), politician
William Stone Hubbell (1837–1930), U.S. Army captain
Bill Hubbell (1897–1980), baseball pitcher
Andris Bērziņš (Latvian Prime Minister)

Andris Bērziņš (born 4 August 1951) is a Latvian politician born in Riga. He served as Prime Minister of Latvia from 5 May 2000 to 7 November 2002. He is a member of the Latvian Way political party.

Career 
He served as minister of labor from 1993 to 1994, deputy prime minister and minister of welfare from 1994 to 1995, and mayor of Riga from 1997 to 2000.

Andris Bērziņš is an Honorary Member of The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.

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1951 births
Living people
Politicians from Riga
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Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way politicians
Prime Ministers of Latvia
Ministers of Welfare of Latvia
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Deputies of the 10th Saeima
Mayors of Riga
University of Latvia alumni
Reception (astrology)

In astrology, reception is a condition where one planet is located in a sign where a second planet has astrological dignity--for example, a sign which the second planet rules or in which it is exalted, or where the second planet is the triplicity ruler.

In such a case, the first planet is said to be "received" by the dignified planet, and this relationship was seen by ancient and medieval astrologers to function in a similar way to that of host and guest.  The dignified planet is strong, and hence provides support and assistance to the second planet which falls within its purview.

Sometimes this relationship is mutual—that is, each planet is in each other's sign of dignity. This condition is called mutual reception or "exchange of signs" and can be very beneficial to both planets.

References

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Technical factors of Western astrology
Timeline of first Earth observation satellites

The timeline of first Earth observation satellites shows, in chronological order, those successful Earth observation satellites, that is, Earth satellites with a program of Earth science. Sputnik 1, while the first satellite ever launched, did not conduct Earth science. Explorer 1 was the first satellite to make an Earth science discovery when it found the Van Allen belts.

1950s

1960s

See also
List of Earth observation satellites

References

Claude LaFleur's The Spacecraft Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Astronautica

Earth science satellites
Lists of satellites
Fraubrunnen District

Fraubrunnen District is a constitutional district along of the 26 districts in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. Its capital is the municipality of Fraubrunnen. The district has an area of 124 km² and consisted of 27 municipalities.  

From 1 January 2010, the district lost its administrative power while being replaced by the Emmental district, whose administrative centre is 	Langnau im Emmental. Since 2010, it remains a fully recognised district under the law and the Constitution (Art.3 al.2) of the Canton of Berne.

 Population is as of December 2007, includes population and area of Ballmoos which merged into Jegenstorf in 2010

References

Former districts of the canton of Bern
Chahinkapa Zoo

Chahinkapa Zoo is an  zoo in Wahpeton, North Dakota. Opened in 1933 on land that had been purchased in 1903, it is the first zoo built in North Dakota. It is open May through October and by appointment during the winter. It features over 200 animals ranging from gibbon apes to Bengal tigers and White rhinos.

Chahinkapa Zoo has been accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) since 1995. The zoo lost its accreditation in 2021.

History

Wahpeton purchased the land for Chahinkapa Park from the federal government in 1903. In 1933, the town established a Park Board with R.J. Hughes as director, and started the zoo with just a few animals.

In the 1960s, the zoo was moved to its current location, occupying   at the North end of Chahinkapa Park. The Chahinkapa Zoo Association was formed in 1974 to help plan and raise money for the zoo, and by 1984 a master plan had been developed.

In 1989, the Rodger Ehnstrom Nature Center was opened as the center of educational activity in the zoo. The zoo hired its first director in 1994, and was accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) in 1995.

In April 1997, the zoo was flooded, but all animals were safely evacuated and the zoo reopened at the end of May. Subsequently, a levee was constructed to protect the North side of Walpeton (including the zoo) from 500 year flood levels. The zoo was renovated at this time with new exhibits, paths, and a petting zoo.

Animals

The zoo is home to more than 200 animals representing about 100 species.

Primates at the zoo include orangutan, white-handed gibbon, black-handed spider monkey, black-and-white ruffed lemur, ring-tailed lemur, crowned lemur, and cottontop tamarin. Grazing mammals include Bactrian camels, plains zebras, southern white rhinos, llama, alpaca, American bison, Dall sheep, and elk. Other mammals include Bengal tigers, snow leopards, fossa, grizzly bear, cougar, bobcat, river otters, and red kangaroos.

Birds at the zoo include bald eagle, red-tailed hawk, rough-legged hawk, turkey vulture, black vulture, great horned owl, eastern screech owl, peregrine falcon, Indian peafowl, pheasants, ducks, Australian black swans, and peafowl.

Reptiles at the zoo include American alligator, red-tailed boa, Burmese star tortoise, sulcata tortoise, radiated tortoise and leopard tortoise.

Carousel

The Prairie Rose Carousel is a restored 1926 wood carousel built by Spillman Engineering for Lee Funland in upstate New York. It has twenty jumping horses arranged in two rows, and two chariots. Music is provided by band organ #125 from the Johnson Organ Co., itself being an excellent example of a twentieth century Calliope. The carousel is now housed in a climate controlled pavilion.

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Chittaranjan Avenue

Chittaranjan Avenue, more commonly C.R. Avenue (Formerly Central Avenue), a principal north-south thoroughfare in Central-North Kolkata. It starts from Beadon Street (Dani Ghosh Sarani/Abhedananda Road) crossing (Girish Park) in the north and ends at Chowringhee Road-Bentinck Street Junction (Esplanade) in the south. The road is renamed after Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, a nationalist politician and freedom-fighter of India. North of Beadon Street crossing, Chittaranjan Avenue becomes Jatindra Mohan Avenue.

Significance

The road is arterial in maintaining north to central and vice versa connection in Kolkata. The road remains always busy. A major portion of the Kolkata Metro Line 1 runs beneath this road. Several important places are on this road, including Beadon Street crossing, Girish Park, Vivekananda Road crossing, Jorasanko, Mahajati Sadan, MG Road crossing, Kolkata Medical College, All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Bowbazar, Khirode Vidya Binode Avenue-Dr. Lalit Banerjee Sarani crossing, B.B. Ganguly Street crossing, Ganesh Chandra Avenue crossing, Chandni Chowk and Esplanade.
This thoroughfare (earlier known as the 'Central Avenue') was built by the Calcutta Improvement Trust during the inter-war period. The process included massive displacement of populations in the central city. Social dislocations during the street-building process found expression in contemporary urban conflicts.

Operation
The road is bi-directional throughout the day. Certain crossings are however unidirectional, that is, in certain crossings vehicles can turn only in a specific direction and the other direction-turning is a punishable crime.

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Streets in Kolkata