title: Lili Bleeker

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Caroline Emilie "Lili" Bleeker (17 January 1897 – 8 November 1985) was a Dutch entrepreneur and physicist from Middelburg known for her designs and the manufacturing of optical instruments. In the era she grew up, it was the norm for women to become housewives whose chief roles were to perform domestic duties, but Bleeker did not want to conform to these standards. She wanted to pursue an education, and never married her life-long partner, Gerard Willemse, which was quite anomalous at the time. She would later emerge as one of the first women in the Netherlands to become a doctor in physics and mathematics. After earning her PhD, she founded a physics consultancy firm, which served as an influence for the formation of TNO, and extended her firm by establishing a small factory where scientific and optical instruments were produced.

Bleeker's firm took a huge hit due to the effects of the Second World War. Sales plummeted, she had to fire some of her employees and pay the ones who remained out of her own pocket. Bleeker, along with her partner Willemse, had to go into hiding due to her actions in successfully eluding Jews from the German Officers when they invaded her factory. She re-emerged her firm after the end of the war. Because of her actions in the war, Bleeker was awarded the Royal Distinction by the Dutch army, and was later granted a recovery loan by the government to open up a new factory in Zeist. Her company manufactured the optical instruments required for the development of the phase contrast microscope, which was invented by Frits Zernike who received the Nobel prize in 1953 for this invention, and held his patents on the design.

Early life and education
Lili Bleeker was born on 17 January 1897 as the youngest of 5 children to John Lambert Bleeker, a Lutheran preacher in that city, and Martha Gerhardina Döhne, a housewife. She grew up in Middelburg and showed great brilliance as a young child, so much so that she could skip her first primary school class.  Bleeker attended Lange Sint high school in Pietersstraat, Middelburg, the Netherlands and although she was a top student, she was discouraged by her mother from furthering her studies. However, Bleeker refused because she had her sights set on her education even though girls at that time where destined to perform just domestic roles.

In 1916, she enrolled at the University of Utrecht, a large research institution located in Utrecht, Netherlands to study physics and astronomy. Bleeker became a teacher at a secondary school for girls so that she could earn money to pay for her studies, but she herself regarded that job as unsuccessful because she felt that she was too young. So, as a result, she became a private tutor. In 1919, she became a laboratory assistant to various professors at the Utrecht Observatory Sonnenborgh, and on 1 January 1926 was named as sole head assistant On 5 November 1928 she earned her PhD in physics cum laude from Utrecht University with the reputable Professor Leonard Ornstein, who was impressed by her work under his supervision that he wrote recommendation letters describing her as 'very intelligent and well educated, both theoretically and experimentally.' Bleeker's Ph.D. thesis was on measurements of emission and dispersion in the series spectra of alkali metals, and the printing office responsible for printing her thesis was owned by the father of her fellow student and life partner, Gerard Willemse.

Career
On 5 June 1930, eighteen months after receiving her degree, Bleeker started a successful physical consultancy which advised companies and industries on scientific instruments. Her consultancy firm served as a model for the foundation of TNO in 1932. Later on, Bleeker opened a factory for the construction of scientific and optical equipment. Until 1936, the company's focus was on manufacturing hardware for the laboratory and precision electric measuring instruments. However, in 1936, Bleeker decided to start an optical workshop, and in 1937 started production on optical instruments. Her production spearheaded the optical industry in the Netherlands, which was previously nonexistent. In 1938, Bleeker entered negotiations with the Dutch military to develop binoculars for them. In 1940, The Netherlands entered World War II. Bleeker stopped production of binoculars in her factory because she did not want to produce any products for the German army. She did not stop production entirely in her factory, however. Bleeker developed microscopes for Dutch universities and their students. Bleeker also hid Jewish citizens in her factory, and eventually in 1944, someone told the German authorities about her doing so. She was able to successfully mislead the German authorities and successfully let the Jewish people in hiding escape, but Bleeker and her husband had to go into hiding. Her factory was closed down during that time. After the war, she opened a new factory, which was the first in the world to make the phase-contrast microscope invented by Frits Zernike.

Awards and honors
 There is a building at Utrecht University named after Bleeker.

References

1897 births
1985 deaths
Dutch women physicists
Utrecht University alumni
People from Middelburg, Zeeland
20th-century Dutch physicists
20th-century Dutch women scientists


title: LTTR

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LTTR is a feminist genderqueer collective with a flexible project oriented practice.  LTTR was founded in 2001 by Ginger Brooks Takahashi, K8 Hardy and Emily Roysdon. LTTR produces a performance series, events, screenings and collaborations. It also released five issues of an annual independent art journal between 2002 and 2006.

Philosophy & Practice
The collective is rooted in community and collaborative processes without hierarchy. LTTR is a shifting acronym; it started in 2001 as "Lesbians to the Rescue" and has since stood for phrases ranging from "Lacan Teaches to Repeat" to "Let's Take the Role."  LTTR is dedicated to highlighting the work of radical communities whose goals are sustainable change, queer pleasure, and critical feminist productivity.

In contrast to more dogmatic approaches to identity, LTTR takes a more fluid and questioning approach to identity and authorship. It seeks to create and build a context for a culture of critical thinkers whose work not only speaks in dialogue with one another, but consistently challenges its own form by shifting shape and design to best respond to contemporary concerns. According to Holland Cotter of The New York Times, "The idea of moving art out of the control of the professional art world underlies the thinking of many of the individuals and collectives associated with LTTR." LTTR's members have also used their bands, poster projects, workshops and sit-ins as media for exploring the political possibilities of feminist pop-cultural influence.

LTTR Journal
LTTR Journal has a zine aesthetic and contains a curated selection of theory, essays, and images including photography, drawings and prints. The inaugural issue of the collective's art journal was entitled "Lesbians to the Rescue," followed by "Listen Translate Translate Record," "Practice More Failure," "Do You Wish to Direct Me?," and finally "Positively Nasty."

It is produced collectively by many young gay and lesbian artists and feminists. The editorial debates of LTTR and decision making surrounding the printed journal were based on the idea of making a significant contribution to contemporary feminist genderqueer concerns. It was edited by consensus in long-process editorial sessions. Each issue was initiated with an international open call and through interpersonal relationships from within their communities. Each submission was considered independently and in regards to the working themes of the journal. Each issue included handmade artists' multiples and was published in a print run of 1000 copies. Ulrike Müller joined LTTR in 2005 and Lanka Tattersal was an editor and collaborator for issue 4.

As their project expanded, LTTR exhibited the journal at venues including Artists Space in New York City, the Generali Foundation in Vienna, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany.

References

External links

 Once More with Feeling Feminist Art and Pop Culture by Maria Buszek
 Dig Me Out article "Lesbians to the Rescue: A Social Model"
Authority control

Lesbian organizations in the United States
Magazines established in 2002
Publications disestablished in 2006
Queer magazines
Feminist collectives
Feminist art organizations in the United States


title: Balancing Act

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Balancing Act (, ) is a 2012 Italian-French drama film directed by Ivano De Matteo. It premiered at the 69th Venice International Film Festival, in which Valerio Mastandrea won the Pasinetti Award.  For his performance Mastandrea was also awarded David di Donatello for Best Actor.

Cast
Valerio Mastandrea: Giulio
Barbora Bobuľová: Elena
Maurizio Casagrande: Stefano
Rolando Ravello: Franco
Rosabell Laurenti Sellers: Camilla
Grazia Schiavo: Stefania
Antonio Gerardi: Pietro
Antonella Attili

References

External links

2012 films
Italian drama films
Films directed by Ivano De Matteo
2012 drama films
French drama films
2010s French films
2010s Italian films


title: List of Wagon Train episodes

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Wagon Train is an American Western television series that was produced by Revue Studios. The series was inspired by the 1950 John Ford film Wagon Master. It ran for eight seasons, with the first episode airing in the United States on  and the final episode on . Its first five seasons were broadcast on the NBC network and the remaining three on ABC.

Originally an hour-long program filmed in black and white, Wagon Train expanded to 90-minute color episodes in its seventh season, but returned to hour-long black and white for its eighth year. During its run, 284 episodes were broadcast, of which 252 were an hour in length and 32 were 90 minutes. Wagon Train was an immensely popular program during its original run. In the autumn of 1959, two years after its inception, it ranked as one of seven Westerns in the Nielsen top 10 in the United States. In the 1961–62 season, it surpassed Gunsmoke in popularity and ranked as the most popular program on American television.

Wagon Train revolved around the characters traveling to California from St. Joseph, Missouri, by a caravan of covered wagons. In its first three seasons and part of the fourth, the regular cast consisted of Ward Bond as Major Seth Adams, the trailmaster, Robert Horton as Flint McCullough, the scout, Terry Wilson as Bill Hawks, the ramrod, and Frank McGrath as Charlie Wooster, the cook. Ward Bond died of a heart attack on November 5, 1960, with the last seven episodes in which he appeared broadcast posthumously. An assistant scout, Duke Shannon, played by Scott Miller, was introduced two months later, in January 1961, and after another two months, a new trailmaster, Christopher Hale, played by John McIntire, took over the running of the wagon train in March 1961, replacing Major Adams.

At the end of the fifth season, in June 1962, Robert Horton left the series to pursue a career in musical theatre. In June 1963, the final episode of the sixth season introduced Michael Burns as teenager Barnaby West, who became a recurring character in the seventh season, which also introduced Robert Fuller as the new scout, Cooper Smith, joining Duke Shannon and ultimately becoming the wagon train's sole scout when Scott Miller left the series in April 1964, with the last episode of the 90-minute seventh season. McIntire, Fuller, Wilson, McGrath, and Burns carried the show through its eighth and final year.

Season overview

Episodes
Titles, credits, and air dates are taken from Wagon Train — The Television Series by James Rosin

Season 1 (1957–58)

Season 2 (1958–59)

Season 3 (1959–60)

Season 4 (1960–61)

Season 5 (1961–62)
Final season to air on NBC. Several season 5 episodes are in color.

Season 6 (1962–63)
First season to air on ABC.

Season 7 (1963–64)
All episodes in color and run for 90 minutes.

Season 8 (1964–65)
The final season reverts to black-and-white and runs for 60 minutes.

References
Footnotes

Bibliography
Primary:

Supplementary:

External links

Lists of American Western (genre) television series episodes


title: Take a Chance (1937 film)

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Take a Chance is a 1937 British comedy sports film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Claude Hulbert, Binnie Hale, and Henry Kendall. It depicts farcical events in the horse racing world.

Synopsis
The cynical Richard Carfax develops a relationship with Cicely Burton, the wife of a race horse owner, in order to get inside information on a horse named 'Take a Chance' which is considered to be the favorite in an upcoming race. Her suspicious husband hires Alastair Pallivant, an incompetent tipster and part-time detective, to tail her and swears that he will scratch the horse from the race if he uncovers evidence about Carfax and his wife. Having his own private arrangement with a betting gang, Pallivant does everything he can to prevent the favourite from running. However, he encounters the equally determined Wilhelmina Ryde, a garage owner who stands to win heavily if the favorite rides to victory.

Main cast
 Claude Hulbert as Alastair Pallivant
 Binnie Hale as Wilhelmina Ryde
 Henry Kendall as Archie Burton
 Enid Stamp-Taylor as Cicely Burton
 Gwen Farrar as Lady Meriton
 Jack Barty as Joe Cooper
 Harry Tate as Sergeant Tugday
 Guy Middleton as Richard Carfax
 Kynaston Reeves as Blinkers Grayson

Production
The film was based on a play by Walter C. Hackett. It was made at Ealing Studios by the independent production company Grosvenor Films.

References

Bibliography
 Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
 Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

1937 films
British sports comedy films
British black-and-white films
1930s sports comedy films
British horse racing films
Films directed by Sinclair Hill
Ealing Studios films
Films set in England
British films based on plays
1930s English-language films
1930s British films


title: Global analysis

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In mathematics, global analysis, also called analysis on manifolds, is the study of the global and topological properties of differential equations on manifolds and vector bundles.  Global analysis uses techniques in infinite-dimensional manifold theory and topological spaces of mappings to classify behaviors of differential equations, particularly nonlinear differential equations. These spaces can include singularities and hence catastrophe theory is a part of global analysis. Optimization problems, such as finding geodesics on Riemannian manifolds, can be solved using differential equations, so that the calculus of variations overlaps with global analysis. Global analysis finds application in physics in the study of dynamical systems and topological quantum field theory.

Journals

 Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry
 The Journal of Geometric Analysis

See also

 Atiyah–Singer index theorem
 Geometric analysis
 Lie groupoid
 Pseudogroup
 Morse theory
 Structural stability
 Harmonic map

References

Further reading

 Mathematics 241A: Introduction to Global Analysis

Fields of mathematical analysis
Manifolds


title: VA-174 (U.S. Navy)

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VA-174 was an Attack Squadron of the U.S. Navy. It was established as Bomber Squadron VB-82 on 1 April 1944, redesignated as VA-17A on 15 November 1946, and finally as VA-174 on 11 August 1948. The squadron was disestablished on 25 January 1950. Its nickname throughout its life was the Battering Rams. A second, unrelated, squadron was assigned the VA-174 designation in 1966.

Operational history
15 December 1944: The squadron embarked on , along with other units of Carrier Air Group 82 (CVG-8200, and departed for Pearl Harbor, arriving there on 7 January 1945, following a stopover at NAS San Diego.
16 February 1945: VB-82 participated in the first carrierbased air strikes on Tokyo, flying sorties against installations at Mitsune and Mikatagahara Airfields on Hachijō-jima, Nanpo Shoto.
20–22 February 1945: Squadron aircraft provided air support for the invasion of Iwo Jima.
19 March 1945: Japanese naval vessels in the Inland Sea were attacked by VB-82 aircraft and other aircraft assigned to Task Group 58.1.
7 April 1945: Squadron aircraft participated in Task Force 58’s attacks on the Japanese battleship Yamato and her escorts in the East China Sea. The attacks resulted in the sinking of the Yamato, one cruiser and four destroyers.
March–May 1945: The squadron participated in preinvasion strikes on Okinawa and provided air support during the invasion of the island.
17 June–9 July 1945: The squadron was embarked on  for transit back to the US.

Home port assignments
The squadron was assigned to these home ports, effective on the dates shown:
 NAS Wildwood – 01 Apr 1944*
 NAAS Oceana – 15 Jun 1944*
 NAS Norfolk, East Field – 17 Sep 1944*
 NAS Quonset Point – 13 Nov 1944*
 NAS Kahului – 08 Jan 1945*
 NAS Alameda – 09 Jul 1945
 NAS Quonset Point – 01 Feb 1946
 NAAS Cecil Field – 01 Feb 1949
* Temporary shore assignment while the squadron conducted training in preparation for combat deployment.

Aircraft assignment
The squadron first received the following aircraft on the dates shown:
 SB2C-1C Helldiver – 01 Apr 1944
 SB2C-3 Helldiver – 22 May 1944
 SB2C-4E Helldiver – 17 Nov 1944
 SBW-4E Helldiver – Feb 1946
 SB2C-5 Helldiver – 01 Jul 1946
 SBW-5 Helldiver – Jul 1946
 AM-1 Mauler – 01 Mar 1948
 AD-3 Skyraider – Apr 1949

See also
 List of squadrons in the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons
 Attack aircraft
 List of inactive United States Navy aircraft squadrons
 History of the United States Navy

References

External links

Attack squadrons of the United States Navy
Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons


title: Clifford Palmer

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Clifford George Palmer was the Dean of Waikato from 1957 until 1974.

Palmer was educated at the University of New Zealand and ordained in 1933. After Curacies in Epsom and Croydon, he was the incumbent at the Bay of Islands. He was a Chaplain to the New Zealand armed forces from 1940 to 1945. When peace returned he was Vicar of St Thomas, Coventry and then of Christ Church, Whangarei.

References

University of New Zealand alumni
Deans of Waikato


title: Petr Novák

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Petr Novák may refer to:
Petr Novák (1945-1997), Czech rock musician
Petr Novák, Czech Paralympic athlete
Petr Novák (born 1982), Czech Olympic skier
Petr Novák (born 1996), Czech swimmer
Petr Novák (born 1988), Czech Greco-Roman wrestler


title: CMTX2

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Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy, X-linked 2 (recessive) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CMTX2 gene.

References

Further reading

Human proteins


title: Highway, Wiltshire

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Highway is a hamlet and former civil parish in Wiltshire, England, today within Hilmarton parish. The hamlet lies about  southeast of Hilmarton village and  northeast of the town of Calne.

History
A settlement of 15 households was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, and at this time most of the land was held by Malmesbury Abbey. In 1219 the manor (together with Bremhill and Foxham) was transferred to the Bishop of Salisbury, and by this time Highway was probably a chapelry of Bremhill, northwest of Calne.

The manor passed through various hands, including (from 1628) Sir John Glanville of Broad Hinton, a member of parliament who served as Speaker and as King's Serjeant. In 1936 the estate was inherited by Raymond Anthony Addington, 6th Viscount Sidmouth, and continues today as the family seat.

Highway was a large village, with a population of 148 recorded at the 1831 census. The village declined as Calne grew, with most inhabitants having left by the early 20th century. Today Highway is a hamlet consisting of the manor house, a farm, the former church and a small number of houses.

The only listed building is Stratton Cottage, formerly two cottages and now a house, which dates from the 17th century.

Church
Highway was a chapelry of St Martin's, Bremhill. St Peter's church was a 12th-century building but was too small for the 19th-century population, and was almost entirely rebuilt in 1866–67 to designs of William Butterfield at the expense of Archdeacon Harris, vicar of Bremhill. The new building had a simple rectangular plan with a south porch and was constructed in stone with a roof of stone slates; the western bell-turret was in timber and roofed in shingles.

Highway was transferred to Hilmarton parish in 1952, the name of the benefice becoming 'Hilmarton and Highway'. The church was confirmed as redundant in 1971 and became a private dwelling, described by Pevsner in 1975 as "recently converted".

Local government
The parish of Highway was a detached part of Potterne and Cannings hundred, surrounded by Kingsbridge hundred. The parish was merged with Hilmarton in 1890.

References

Hamlets in Wiltshire
Former civil parishes in Wiltshire


title: CMTX3

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Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy, X-linked 3 (dominant) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CMTX3 gene.

References

Further reading

Genes on human chromosome X
Human proteins


title: Sunny Franco

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Sunny Kathleen Franco (born 10 June 1997) is an Australian women's soccer player who plays for Newcastle Jets in the Australian W-League.

Club career
Queensland is known to have been producing players of calibre for the Matildas, from Sue Monteath to current captain, Clare Polkinghorne. Sunny Franco has retained this legacy as Matildas captain under the U17 contingent.

While the team is gearing up for the AFC U16s Girls Championships, Franco is headed for doubling as a World Cup qualifier and a major contender to represent Australia. The sixteen year player has fortified her position within the past year by producing remarkable goal scores in the Championship qualifiers last November in Manila.

Fast and quick to react, her yielding skill has been a result of her hard work training with a coach and undergoing a vigorous sprint-training. An aggressive midfielder reminding one of fellow Queenslander Tameka Butt, she is noted for her "pace, confidence on the ball, vision, technical ability, physicality and an eye for goal".

Brisbane Roar
In October 2014 she scored her first W-League goal against Melbourne. A month later she scored six goals in the AFC U-19 qualifier for Australia.

In October 2016, Franco returned to Brisbane Roar.

Manly United
Franco joined Manly United in April 2017.

Western Sydney Wanderers
Franco joined Western Sydney Wanderers ahead of the 2017–18 season.

Newcastle Jets
Franco returned to the W-League in December 2020, joining Newcastle Jets

Return to Brisbane Roar
In March 2021, following the conclusion of the 2020–21 W-League regular season, Franco joined Brisbane Roar ahead of the finals series.

Return to Newcastle Jets
Following the finals series of the 2020–21 W-League season, Franco returned Newcastle Jets, signing with them for the 2021–22 W-League season.

References

External links

1997 births
Living people
Australian women's soccer players
Brisbane Roar FC (A-League Women) players
Sydney FC (A-League Women) players
Western Sydney Wanderers FC (A-League Women) players
Newcastle Jets FC (A-League Women) players
A-League Women players
Women's association football midfielders
Soccer players from Queensland
Sportswomen from Queensland


title: NWSL Player of the Month

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The National Women's Soccer League Player of the Month is a monthly women's soccer award given to individual players in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). The honor is awarded to the player deemed to have put in the best performances over the past month by a panel selected by the league.

Selection
From 2013 to 2022, the winner was selected by the NWSL Media Association, an organization of journalists who regularly cover the league. Since 2023, the winner is selected by the NWSL Media Association and the league's broadcast talent.

Winners

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2021

2022

2023

Multiple winners

The below table lists players who have won on more than one occasion.

See also

 List of sports awards honoring women
 NWSL Rookie of the Month
 NWSL Player of the Week
 NWSL Team of the Month
 NWSL awards
 NWSL records and statistics
 Women's soccer in the United States

References

Player of the Month
Association football player of the month awards
Awards established in 2013
Player of the Month
Lists of women's association football players
Association football player non-biographical articles


title: Baysgarth School

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Baysgarth School is a coeducational secondary school located in Barton-upon-Humber, North Lincolnshire, England.

The school was formed in 1975 from the merger of Barton Grammar School and Beretun Secondary Modern School, and is located over both former school sites.

Baysgarth is a community school administered by North Lincolnshire Council. Since 2006 the school has had a specialism in technology. School curriculum includes GCSEs, NVQs and ASDAN courses.

The school previously had a partnership with Brigg Sixth Form (which includes Sir John Nelthorpe School and The Vale Academy) to offer a wider range of sixth form courses over the three school sites. However Baysgarth School is no longer part of this consortium.

Notable former pupils
Peter D. Robinson, Presiding Bishop of the United Episcopal Church of North America
 Danielle Sharp (c2005-07)
Vanessa Winship, photographer

Barton Grammar School
Anthony John Clark, molecular biologist
Jamie Cann, Labour Party politician
Ted Lewis (writer), Crime Writer
Henry Treece, Poet (Taught at the school)

References

External links

Secondary schools in the Borough of North Lincolnshire
Community schools in the Borough of North Lincolnshire
Barton-upon-Humber


title: SPG9

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Spastic paraplegia 9 (autosomal dominant) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SPG9 gene.

References

Further reading

Proteins


title: Dwinell-Wright Company

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Dwinell-Wright Company and their White House brands of coffee and tea were the last and best known incorporation of one of the pioneers of the coffee roasting business in Boston, Massachusetts. James F. Dwinell started roasting coffee as Dwinell & Co. in 1845, and in 1879 he joined forces with Martin Hayward and George C. Wright to become Dwinell, Hayward and Co., which evolved to Dwinell-Wright Company in 1899 after the death of Mr. Hayward.

Dwinell-Wright eventually opened offices in Chicago, Illinois and Portsmouth, Virginia. The company ceased operations sometime between 1958 and 1960.

Trademark and advertising
Dwinell-Wright Company marketing materials often appear on auction sites that carry memorabilia, notably retail and wholesale decorated tins as well as advertising. The most common and apparently most popular materials include the image of a dapper gentleman enjoying a steaming cup of coffee above a quote attributed to Sir James Mackintosh who "...used to say that he believed the difference between one man and another was produced by the quality of the coffee he drank."

Among their frequent slogans: "None Better at Any Price" and "The Flavor Is Roasted In!" Beginning in the 1920s much of this marketing material was produced under the direction of George Crampton, a nephew of George C. Wright.

A consequence of using "White House" as its primary brand name for coffee and tea (and orange and grapefruit juice beginning in 1941) there are frequent references to Dwinell-Wright defending their trademarks or defending their use of them. For example, in 1942 the National Fruit Products Company challenged Dwinell-Wright's use of the "White House" brand even though Dwinell-Wright began using the trademark in 1888 vs. 1907 for National Fruit who refrained from challenging the use for 33 years afterward.

Logistics
The company employed the use of a 1914 Walker Electric Truck in Boston, primarily to haul coffee beans from off-loading ships on the waterfront to their warehouse, until 1960.

References

External links

Coffee companies of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in Boston


title: Thom Haye

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Thom Jan Marinus Haye (born 9 February 1995) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for  club Heerenveen.

A youth product of AZ's academy, Haye made his first-team debut in 2014, before moving on to clubs such as Willem II, Lecce in Italy, ADO Den Haag, NAC Breda, and Heerenveen.

Haye is of Indonesian heritage through his grandfather from North Sulawesi. He is also a Netherlands youth international, having appeared for the national team between under-15 and under-21 level. He was part of the team that won the 2012 UEFA European Under-17 Championship.

Club career

AZ
Haye was born in Amsterdam and is a youth exponent from AZ. He signed his first contract for AZ in February 2011. On 23 February 2014, he made his full debut for AZ in the Eredivisie against Ajax in a 4–0 away defeat, coming on as a 70th-minute substitute for Celso Ortíz. Haye scored his first professional goal in 24 September 2014, securing his club's advancement in the KNVB Cup in a 1–0 away win over EVV. He became a starter in the 2015–16 season, before making his debut in the UEFA Europa League in the 2016–17 season.

Willem II
On 19 June 2016, Haye signed a two-year deal with Willem II, after his contract with AZ expired. He made his debut on 6 August in a 4–1 home loss to Vitesse.

Lecce
On 31 May 2018, Haye signed a two-year contract with Italian Serie B club Lecce. He made his debut on 7 August, in the Coppa Italia match against Feralpisalò, which ended in a 1–0 win after extra time. He made his Serie B debut on 25 September, when he came on as a substitute in the second half of the 3–0 win against Livorno. Haye would go on to make 13 appearances in Serie B that season, which ended in promotion to Serie A.

On 2 September 2019, after having failed to make an appearance in the top flight, he terminated his contract by mutual agreement.

ADO Den Haag
On 12 September 2019, Haye returned to the Netherlands to join Eredivisie side ADO Den Haag on a two-year deal. He made his first appearance upon his return in a 3–0 away loss to Emmen on 27 September, coming on as a late substitute for John Goossens. He mostly appeared as a substitute during his six months with ADO.

NAC Breda
In January 2020, Haye was sent on a six-month loan to NAC Breda in the second-tier Eerste Divisie. He made his debut on 31 January in a 2–2 away draw against Excelsior.

Haye signed a permanent deal with NAC on 1 July 2020, penning a three-year contract.

Heerenveen
On 31 January 2022, Haye signed for Heerenveen for an undisclosed fee, on a contract until summer 2024. He made his debut for the club on 5 February as a starter in the 2–0 loss to Fortuna Sittard. He immediately impressed, growing into a key player in his first six months at the club. In 16 league appearances, he recorded five assists.

International career
Haye is a Netherlands youth international, having appeared for the national team between under-15 and under-21 level. He was part of the team that won the 2012 UEFA European Under-17 Championship.

Style of play
Haye started his career as an attacking midfielder but adapted to various positions as he progressed. During his two seasons with Willem II, he frequently operated as a left winger, utilising his strong and accurate right foot to cut inside from the flank. His versatility made him an exceptional utility player. As his career advanced, he transitioned to a more defensive role, primarily playing as a central midfielder.

Personal life
Haye is Indonesian descent from his grandfather who came from North Sulawesi.

Career statistics

Honours

International
Netherlands U17
 UEFA European Under-17 Championship: 2012

References

External links
Netherlands profile

1995 births
Living people
Indo people
Footballers from Amsterdam
Dutch men's footballers
Dutch expatriate men's footballers
Netherlands men's youth international footballers
Netherlands men's under-21 international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Amsterdamsche FC players
AZ Alkmaar players
Willem II (football club) players
US Lecce players
ADO Den Haag players
NAC Breda players
SC Heerenveen players
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Dutch people of Indonesian descent


title: George Fennell Robson

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George Fennell Robson (1788–1833) was an English watercolour painter.

Life
One of 23 children of John Robson (1739–1824) by his second wife, Charlotte, eldest daughter of George Fennell, R.N., he was born at Durham in 1788; his father, a wine merchant, was from Etterby, near Carlisle. He received instruction in drawing from a Mr. Harle of Durham. In 1806 he went to London with £5 in his pocket.

Robson began to exhibit at the Royal Academy in 1807, in 1810   landscapes in the Bond Street gallery of the Associated Painters, where he was a member, and in 1813 with the Society of Painters in Oil and Watercolours. At the anniversary meeting on 30 November 1819 he was elected president of the last society, for a year.

Robson was an honorary member of the Sketching Society, but weakness of sight prevented him from drawing at their evening meetings. A meeting of the society to say farewell to Charles Robert Leslie on his departure for America was held at his house, 17 Golden Square, on Thursday, 22 August 1833. On the following Wednesday he embarked on the S.S. James Watt, to visit his friends in the north, and was at Stockton-on-Tees on the 31st, suffering from inflammation. He died at his home in London on 8 September, and was buried in the churchyard of St. Mary-le-Bow in his native city of Durham.

Works

Robson published in 1808 a print of Durham, the profits of which enabled him to visit Scotland. In 1811 and 1812 he exhibited drawings of the Trossachs and Loch Katrine; and in 1814 published Scenery of the Grampians, with forty mountain landscapes, etched by Henry Morton after his drawings. From 1813 to 1820 he contributed, on the average, twenty drawings annually to the Oil and Watercolour Society's exhibition, mostly of the Perthshire highlands, but comprising also scenes from Durham, the Isle of Wight, and Wales.

When in 1821 the Society of Painters in Oil and Watercolours, now the Royal Watercolour Society of Painters, excluded oil paintings, Robson contributed 26 drawings to the exhibition of that year. Between 1821 and 1833 he exhibited 484 works there.

Robson's drawings, besides those of the Scottish highlands and of English cities, included views of the English lakes and Lake Killarney, Hastings, the Isle of Wight, and other places, mainly in Berkshire and Somerset. Of the ‘Picturesque Views of the Cities of England,’ published by John Britton in 1828, 32 are by Robson. That year he bought a drawing, by Joshua Cristall, from A Midsummer Night's Dream, cut out the groups, laid them down on separate sheets of paper, and got other artists, including George Barret the younger, to paint backgrounds to them. He exhibited two of these "compositions" as the joint work of Cristall and Barret; and offended Cristall.

From 1829 to 1833 Robson worked with Robert Hills, the animal painter. His main talent was for the treatment of mountain scenery under broad effects of light and shade.

Notes

Attribution

1788 births
1833 deaths
19th-century English painters
English male painters
English landscape painters
English watercolourists
English landscape artists
19th-century English male artists


title: SPG14

text:
Spastic paraplegia 14 (autosomal recessive) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SPG14 gene.

References

Further reading

Proteins


title: SPG16

text:
Spastic paraplegia 16 (complicated, X-linked recessive) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SPG16 gene.

References

Further reading


title: ZFYVE26

text:
Zinc finger, FYVE domain containing 26 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZFYVE26 gene.

Function

This gene encodes a protein which contains a FYVE zinc finger binding domain. The presence of this domain is thought to target these proteins to membrane lipids through interaction with phospholipids in the membrane. Mutations in this gene are associated with autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia-15.

References

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title: ZFYVE27

text:
Zinc finger, FYVE domain containing 27 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZFYVE27 gene.

Function

This gene encodes a protein with several Transmembrane domains, a Rab11-binding domain and a lipid-binding FYVE finger domain. The encoded protein appears to promote Neurite formation. A mutation in this gene has been reported to be associated with Hereditary spastic paraplegia, however the Pathogenicity of the mutation, which may simply represent a Polymorphism (biology), is unclear. [provided by RefSeq, Mar 2010].

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title: Larissa Crummer

text:
Larissa Rose Crummer (born 10 January 1996) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Brann in the Toppserien and the Australia women's national team, also known as the Matildas. She previously played for W-League clubs Melbourne City, Brisbane Roar FC, Sydney FC, and Newcastle Jets.

Early life
Raised in Tewantin, Queensland a suburb located in Australia's Sunshine Coast Region, Crummer began playing football at the age of 5.

Crummer scored 12 goals at the national titles in 2011 and was a member of the Brisbane Premier League-winning team Peninsula Power FC the same year.
She was a student at the Kawana Waters State College Football School of Excellence.

Club career

Sydney FC
At the age of 16, Crummer made her professional debut for Sydney FC during the 2012–13 season helping the team win the league championship playing primarily as a defender.

Brisbane Roar
The following season she returned to Queensland to play for Brisbane Roar for the 2013–14 season. She made 13 appearances for the club and scored one goal. The Roar finished fourth during the regular season with a  record. The team advanced to the semi-finals where they defeated Canberra United 2–1 but were defeated 2–0 by Melbourne Victory in the Grand Final.

Crummer returned to the Roar for the 2014 season and made ten appearances for the club. The team finished in sixth place during the regular season.

Melbourne City
In September 2015, Crummer signed with Melbourne City.
During the team's first match of the season against Sydney FC, she scored the team's first-ever goal in the 11th minute and followed with another in the last six minutes of the first half for a 6–0 win.
On 21 November, she scored a brace to help defeat her former team Brisbane Roar 4–0. On 6 December, she scored a brace against Melbourne Victory contributing to City's 4–0 win over the rival team and extending City's regular season record to .

In May 2016 Crummer signed on loan at Victorian NPLW club Alamein FC.

She returned to Melbourne City for the 2016–17 W-League campaign, but after making only three appearances her season was cut short by a foot injury in January 2017.

Crummer returned to Melbourne City for the 2017–18 W-League season. She appeared in 8 games and scored 3 goals as Melbourne City won their third consecutive W-League Championship.

Seattle Reign FC
In January 2017, Crummer signed with Seattle Reign FC, effective upon the conclusion of the 2016–17 W-League season. Due to injury she only appeared in four games for Seattle, scoring one goal. She was released by the club in February 2018.

Newcastle Jets
On 20 August 2018 Crummer signed a one-year contract to join the Newcastle Jets for the 2018-19 W-League season. Despite deciding in October 2019, to rehabilitate from a leg break with Newcastle Jets, a month later, it was announced she would miss the 2019–20 W-League season.

Return to Brisbane Roar
In February 2021, Crummer returned to Brisbane Roar.

Brann
In March 2023, Crummer transferred to Norwegian club Brann.

International career
At the age of 14, Crummer was called up to the Young Matildas. She made her debut for the Matildas and scored her first international goal against the Netherlands in March 2015. The same year, she was the youngest player on the team at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada where she made two appearances for Australia.

Crummer was again called in to the Matildas for the 2016 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, but she suffered a knee injury during a training match prior to the competition and was replaced on the squad by Ashleigh Sykes. She recovered in time to be named to the Matildas' Olympic squad, where she made two appearances as a substitute.

Crummer was named to the Australian squad for the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup, but she did not appear in any games. Australia finished Runner-up to Japan, and qualified for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Career statistics

International goals

Honours

Club
Sydney FC
 W-League Championship: 2012–13

Melbourne City
 W-League Championship: 2015–16, 2016–17
 W-League Premiership: 2015–16

Individual
 W-League Golden Boot: 2015–16
 W-League Young Player of the Year: 2015–16

References

External links

 Matildas player profile
 Melbourne City player profile
 Brisbane Roar player profile

1996 births
Living people
Australian women's soccer players
Sydney FC (A-League Women) players
Sportswomen from Queensland
Soccer players from Queensland
Brisbane Roar FC (A-League Women) players
Melbourne City FC (A-League Women) players
OL Reign players
Newcastle Jets FC (A-League Women) players
SK Brann Kvinner players
National Women's Soccer League players
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players
Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
A-League Women players
Australia women's international soccer players
Women's association football forwards
Olympic soccer players for Australia
Australian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States
Australian expatriate women's soccer players
Australian LGBT soccer players


title: Temporary foreign worker program in Canada

text:
The Temporary Foreign Worker Program (, TFWP) is a program of the Government of Canada that allows employers in Canada to hire foreign nationals. Workers brought in under the program are referred to as Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) and are allowed to work in positions that are not filled by Canadians. The aim was to address skill shortages and promote economic growth. Initially, the program was aimed at nurses and farm workers, but today it gives highly skilled and less skilled workers the opportunity to work in Canada.

History
Between 1993 and 2013, the total number of TFW more than doubled to 338,189 workers; between 2006 and 2014 alone, over 500,000 workers were brought into Canada under the program. When TFWP began in 1973, most of the individuals brought in were high-skill workers, such as medical specialists. In 2002, however, a "low-skilled workers" category was added, which now makes up most of the temporary foreign workforce. In 2006, the program was expanded, introducing fast-tracking for some locations. It was revised again in 2013, raising wages, charging employer fees, and removing the accelerated applications.

In 2018, the number of workers allowed increased by 36 percent and more than 17,600 permits were issued.

During the Covid-pandemic in 2020, the Canadian government, together with the TFWP, sought out to increase protection for foreign workers through protective legislation.

Employment
Apart from their temporary status, TFWs have the same employment rights as Canadian workers, and can phone a free 1-800 number for help. However, because of the way in which the Canadian residence of a temporary foreign worker is tied to an employer, some TFWs have said they have been treated worse than Canadian co-workers.

It is against Canadian federal rules to bring in temporary foreign workers if Canadian workers are available. For an employer to hire a TFW, or for a TFW to work in a company they started in Canada, they may need to obtain a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA). A positive LMIA or a confirmation letter grants permission to the employer who proves that there is a need for a foreign worker to fill the job as no Canadian worker is available and that such hiring will not negatively impact the Canadian labour market.

Foreign agricultural workers make up roughly 60% of all workers coming into the country under the TFWP.

Controversies

2013
In April 2013, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) began reporting on issues surrounding the hiring of temporary foreign workers.

On 6 April, CBC News reported that Canadian IT workers at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) were losing their jobs to replacement foreign workers, who were brought from India by outsourcing firm iGATE. Existing RBC employees trained their replacements before they themselves were laid off, causing their appeal to the media. Additionally in 2013, CBC found that, in Saskatchewan, 65% of recent newly created jobs were held by temporary foreign workers, and in Nova Scotia over one thousand employers had requested foreign workers.

CBC also reported that a Chinese company that owns a mine in British Columbia was attempting to import workers from China. According to the Huffington Post, one of the requirements of the job was the ability to speak Mandarin Chinese.

In October, Huffington Post reported that the Alberta Federation of Labour said foreign workers were displacing Canadian workers in Fort McMurray. The report claimed that 270 Canadian workers employed by a Toronto-based firm were to be replaced by foreign workers employed by an Italian firm. On 23 October, Global News reported that Farmers of North America, in Saskatoon, was helping farmers recruit TFWs in order to help them. The Canadian Federation of Agriculture reportedly estimated that Canada was in need of 30,000 seasonal and longer-term farm workers. Employment Canada acknowledged that there was a shortage of agricultural workers.

Political reaction
The move resulted in a strong negative reaction from the public, and garnered attention from the office of the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. Accordingly, Human Resources Minister Diane Finley issued a statement saying the situation is unacceptable if it is true.

RBC responded to the controversy by issuing a statement denying the charges and offering clarification of the situation. While a reported 45 employees lost their jobs, the bank nevertheless had indicated that they intended to expand this practice in the coming year.

In May, the TFWP was the focus of debate between the Conservative government and the NDP Official Opposition, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper was questioned at the House of Commons about the program. CBC reported that some employers were said to be abusing the TFWP by bringing in temporary foreign workers to areas where qualified local workers were collecting Employment Insurance (EI) benefits. During Question Period, Harper said that the government had addressed this issue before 2013, and that changes had been made to both the EI and TFW programs in order to address these issues. He stated that the NDP did not cooperate at the time in the introduction of the changes, and that NDP Members of Parliament requested more foreign workers in their own ridings.

2014
In January 2014, Employment Minister Jason Kenney pledged a second round of reforms citing employee frustration. In April, issues with the program came under scrutiny by CBC relating to the procurement of temporary foreign unskilled labour by McDonald's Canada. On 24 April, Kenney announced that the TWFP had been suspended for the food-services industry. It has since been renewed.

Microsoft
In December 2014, CBC reported that Microsoft Canada obtained an exemption from the federal government that will allow the company to bring in an unspecified number of TFW to British Columbia. The trainee foreign workers—most of whom would be from India and China—were to be hired without requiring Microsoft to look for Canadian workers who could fill the positions.

2017
In 2017, the Toronto Star conducted an investigation that revealed a large number of cases of incorrect accommodation, lack of access to medical care, violence and abuse.

See also
Guest worker program
Labour Market Impact Assessment
Live-In Caregiver Program
Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program
Temporary residency

References

External links
 Temporary Foreign Worker Program at the Government of Canada

Immigration to Canada
Labour in Canada
Political controversies in Canada
Foreign workers


title: SERPINB10

text:
Serpin peptidase inhibitor, clade B (ovalbumin), member 10 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SERPINB10 gene.

Function

The superfamily of high molecular weight serine proteinase inhibitors (serpins) regulate a diverse set of intracellular and extracellular processes such as complement activation, fibrinolysis, coagulation, cellular differentiation, tumor suppression, apoptosis, and cell migration. Serpins are characterized by a well-conserved tertiary structure that consists of 3 beta sheets and 8 or 9 alpha helices. A critical portion of the molecule, the reactive center loop connects beta sheets A and C. Protease inhibitor-10 (PI10; SERPINB10) is a member of the ov-serpin subfamily, which, relative to the archetypal serpin PI1, is characterized by a high degree of homology to chicken ovalbumin, lack of N- and C-terminal extensions, absence of a signal peptide, and a serine rather than an asparagine residue at the penultimate position.

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title: ODO Riga

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ODO (Russian: ОДО) was a sports club in Riga, then Latvian SSR, with teams in bandy and ice hockey. It was only active for some years, but managed to come second in the Soviet bandy championships in 1953. The club played in the ice hockey league Soviet2.

References

Bandy clubs in Latvia
Bandy clubs in the Soviet Union
Bandy clubs established in 1950


title: British Weihaiwei

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British Weihaiwei or Wei-hai-wei, on the northeastern coast of China, was a leased territory of the United Kingdom from 1898 until 1930. The capital was Port Edward, which lay in what is now the centre of Huancui District in the city of Weihai in the province of Shandong. The leased territory covered  and included the walled city of Weihaiwei, Port Edward just to the north, Weihaiwei Bay, Liu-kung Island and a mainland area of  of coastline running to a depth of  inland, an area roughly coterminous with the Huancui District of modern Weihai City. Together with Lüshunkou (Port Arthur) it controlled the entrance to the Bohai Sea and, thus, the seaward approaches to Beijing.

Background to the British lease

The port of Weihaiwei served as the base for the Chinese Beiyang Fleet (Northern Seas Fleet), founded in 1871 during the later years of the Qing dynasty in China. In 1895, Japanese land and sea forces captured the port in the Battle of Weihaiwei, the last major battle of the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895. The Japanese withdrew in 1898.

After Russia leased Port Arthur from China for 25 years in March 1898, the United Kingdom pressured the Chinese government into leasing Weihaiwei, with the terms of the treaty stating that it would remain in force for as long as the Russians were allowed to occupy Port Arthur. The British fleet took possession and raised its flag on 24 May 1898.

The British used the port primarily as a summer anchorage for the Royal Navy's China Station and as a health resort. It also served as an occasional port of call for Royal Navy vessels in the Far East (very much secondary to using Hong Kong in southern China). Other than for military matters, local administration remained under Chinese control, and the port itself remained a free port until 1923.

At the start of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, the commander of the Royal Navy's China Station was initially ordered to withdraw his ships from Weihaiwei to avoid Britain being drawn into the conflict. However, fearing that the Imperial Russian Navy might use Weihaiwei as a safe haven, the Japanese government successfully pressured the British to return their fleet. During the war, correspondents covering the conflict used the port as a telegraph- and radio-transmission station; it also served as a source of contraband shipping for blockade-runners bringing supplies into Port Arthur.

After the Japanese victory over Russia in 1905, Japan took possession of Port Arthur. Britain extended its lease over Weihaiwei until 1930; the Japanese occupied Port Arthur from 1905 to 1945.

British rule in Weihaiwei

The War Office were responsible for the territory as it was envisaged that it would become a naval base similar to British Hong Kong. As such, the first Commissioners of Weihaiwei were appointed from the British Army and based themselves in Liu-kung Island. At the beginning of the lease, the territory was administered by a Senior Naval Officer of the Royal Navy, Sir Edward Hobart Seymour. However a survey led by the Royal Engineers deemed that Weihaiwei was unsuitable for a major naval base or trading port. In 1899, administration was transferred to a military and civil commissioner, firstly Arthur Dorward (1899–1901), then John Dodson Daintree (1901–1902), appointed by the War Office in London. The territorial garrison consisted of 200 British troops and a specially constituted Weihaiwei Regiment, officially the 1st Chinese Regiment, with British officers. In 1901, it was decided that this base should not be fortified and administration was transferred from the War Office to the Colonial Office which allowed for civilians to be appointed as the Commissioner.

In 1909, the then Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Frederick Lugard, proposed that Britain return Weihaiwei to Chinese rule in return for perpetual rule of the New Territories of Hong Kong which had also been leased in 1898. This proposal was never adopted.

Weihaiwei was not developed in the way that Hong Kong and other British colonies in the region were. This was because Shantung Province, of which Weihaiwei was part, was inside Germany's (and after World War I, Japan's) sphere of influence. It was normal practice for British colonies to be administered under the provisions of the British Settlements Act 1887. However, Weihaiwei was actually administered under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act 1890 which was the law which granted extraterritorial powers over British subjects in China and other countries in which Britain had extraterritorial rights. The reason for this was that as a leased territory, subject to rendition at any time, it was not considered appropriate to treat Weihaiwei as if it was a full colony.

In exchange for recognizing British Weihaiwei, Germany demanded and received assurance from Britain through Arthur Balfour that Britain would recognize a German sphere in Shantung and not build a railway from Weihaiwei into the interior of Shantung province.

The nickname British sailors gave to this port was "Way High"; it was also referred to as Port Edward in English.

During British rule, residences, hospital, churches, tea houses, sports grounds, post offices, and a naval cemetery were constructed.

Commissioners

The Commissioner of Weihaiwei () was the head of government for the British leased territory of Weihaiwei between 1898 and 1930. Until 1902, the first Commissioners of Weihaiwei were members of the British Army before civilians were appointed to the role. A Civil Commissioner was appointed in February 1902 to administer the territory. The post was held by Sir James Stewart Lockhart until 1921, where he oversaw the renaming of the civil seat of the Commissioner from Matou (lit. "wharf" or "port") to Port Edward and started to develop the territory as a holiday resort for British expatriates.

As the position was not a full Governorship, it afforded the holders more authority as they did not have to consult any territorial legislative or executive councils when making decisions or passing ordinances. The Commissioner of Weihaiwei was also responsible for representing the territory overseas.

After Lockhart, Arthur Powlett Blunt (1921–1923) and Walter Russell Brown (1923–1927) were appointed Commissioners in Weihaiwei. The last Commissioner was the sinologist Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston (previously tutor to the last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi) who served from 1927 to 1930.

Commissioner's flag

The Commissioners of Weihaiwei initially used a Union Jack with a Chinese imperial dragon from the flag of the Qing dynasty as their flag. When Lockhart arrived as the first civil commissioner, he wrote to the Colonial Office requesting that the dragon be replaced by Mandarin ducks as he felt it was inappropriate to use a Chinese national symbol on a British flag. King Edward VII approved the new design as well as the creation of a civil flag of Weihaiwei in 1903.

List of commissioners

Below is a list of the military and civilian commissioners of Weihaiwei.
1898–1901 Major-General Sir Arthur Robert Ford Dorward
1901–1902 Commander John Dodson Daintree
1902–1921 Sir James Stewart Lockhart
1921–1923 Captain Arthur Powlett Blunt (acting)
1923–1927 Walter Russell Brown
1927–1930 Sir Reginald Johnston

Postage stamps and currency

No special postage stamps were ever issued for Weihaiwei. Just as in other treaty ports, Hong Kong stamps were used. From 1917, these were overprinted with the word "CHINA". Revenue stamps of Weihaiwei were issued from 1921. There were never any special coins or banknotes issued for circulation in Weihaiwei. The various currencies in circulation in China at the time were used; the Hong Kong dollar was also used.

The following Chinese banknote issuers issued banknotes for circulation in Weihaiwei under British administration;

The Bank of Communications - from 1914 to 1927.

The Bank of China - in 1918.

The National Industrial Bank of China - in 1924.

These all have WEIHAIWEI overprinted in black on them.

Army and police

The Weihaiwei Regiment was formed in 1898 with Lieutenant-Colonel Hamilton Bower as its first commanding officer and served in the Boxer Rebellion. The regiment was ordered to be totally disbanded in 1906 by Army Order No. 127 of 1906.

Some of the soldiers were retained as a permanent police force with three British Colour Sergeants commissioned as police inspectors. In 1910 the police force comprised three European Inspectors and 55 Chinese Constables. Previously the force had comprised one Chinese sergeant and seven constables under a District Officer.

During World War I the British recruited the Chinese Labour Corps in Weihaiwei to assist the war effort.

During the seamen's strike of 1922 in Hong Kong, the colonial government sent two European police officers to Weihaiwei in September of that year to recruit the first of about 50 Weihaiwei men as Royal Hong Kong Police constables. After completing six months' training in Weihaiwei, the recruits were posted to Hong Kong to maintain law and order in March 1923. The Weihaiwei policemen were known as the D Contingent in the HKP, and their service numbers were pre-fixed with letter "D" to differentiate them from the European "A", Indian "B" and Cantonese "C".

At the end of 1927, the Chinese police were replaced by Indians.

High Court

In 1903, the British established a High Court of Weihaiwei. The judges of the court were chosen from individuals serving as a judge or Crown Advocate of the British Supreme Court for China in Shanghai. The three judges of the court from 1903 to 1930 were:

 Frederick Samuel Augustus Bourne (1903–1916), Assistant Judge of HBM Supreme Court for China
 Hiram Parkes Wilkinson (1916–1925), Crown Advocate of HBM Supreme Court for China
 Peter Grain (1925–1930), Assistant Judge, and from 1927, Judge of HBM Supreme Court for China

The Commissioner could also exercise judicial powers if the judges of the court were not available.

Appeals from the High Court for Weihaiwei could be made to the Hong Kong Supreme Court, then finally in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. It appears that no appeal was ever heard in Hong Kong.

Initially, the Crown Advocate for China, Hiram Parkes Wilkinson served as the Crown Advocate for Weihaiwei. When Wilkinson was appointed judge in 1916, Allan Mossop took over as Crown Advocate for Weihaiwei. Mossop later became Crown Advocate for China in 1926.

Return of Weihaiwei

Weihaiwei was returned to Chinese rule on 1 October 1930 under the aegis of the final Commissioner of Weihaiwei Sir Reginald Johnston who previously had been a District Officer and a Magistrate in Weihaiwei. The last Commissioner of Weihaiwei flew the flag of the Republic of China alongside the Union Jack during the transitional day. Following the return of Weihaiwei to China, the Chinese replaced the British Commissioner role with their own version of the Commissioner as Weihaiwei became a Special Administrative Region of China; later, the  was created. However, the Chinese government leased the island of Liu-kung Tao (Liugong Island) to the Royal Navy for ten years; effective control came to an end following a Japanese military landing on 1 October 1940.

See also

 China–United Kingdom relations
 British Empire
 Chinese Labor Corps - coolies were recruited from Weihaiwei during World War I
 British Hong Kong
 Portuguese Macau
 Guangzhouwan (1898–1945), French leased territory in China administered as part of Indochina

Notes

Further reading

 Atwell, Pamela (1985). British Mandarins and Chinese Reformers. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.

External links

1898 establishments in the British Empire
1930 disestablishments in China
China–United Kingdom relations
Former British colonies and protectorates in Asia
Royal Navy bases outside the United Kingdom
Royal Navy shore establishments
Former countries of the interwar period
1930 disestablishments in the British Empire
1898 establishments in China
States and territories established in 1898
States and territories disestablished in 1930


title: Neta Bahcall

text:
Neta Bahcall (; born 1942) is an Israeli astrophysicist and cosmologist specializing in dark matter, the structure of the universe, quasars, and the formation of galaxies.
Bahcall is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University.

Early life and education
Neta Assaf Bahcall was born in 1942. When she was growing up in Israel she initially wanted to go to medical school. However, not being the child of a doctor, she would not be able to. She received a B.S. in physics and mathematics at Hebrew University in Israel in 1963.  In 1965, she received her Master's in physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science.  In 1970, Bahcall received her Ph.D. in astrophysics at the University of Tel Aviv.

Career
From 1970 to 1971, Bahcall was a research fellow in physics at the California Institute of Technology.  The same year she received her Ph.D., she began working at Princeton University, where she has been a full-time astrophysics professor since 1989.  Between 1971 and 1983, she was a research assistant to a senior research astrophysicist.  From 1983 to 1989, she was the chief of the General Observer Support Branch and the head of the Science Program Selection Office at the Space Telescope Science Institute, where she chose which science programs would have access to the Hubble.  She was also the director of the Council on Science and Technology of Princeton from 2000 to 2008.

Through the use of the Hubble Space Telescope she has mapped the location and structure of various galaxies. One of her most important contributions to the field of astrophysics was her calculations of the mass of the universe.

In 1997, Bahcall was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.  She has been a lecturer for numerous organizations including the Nobel Symposium in Stockholm in 1998.  Bahcall has been a longtime member of and vice president of the American Astronomical Society from 1995 to 1998.  Bahcall has also been a member of: the National Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee (2003–2007), the Space Telescope Institute Council (1993-1997), the U.S. National Committee to IAU (1998-2004), the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (1990-1995), the American Institute of Physics Committee on International Relations (1990–1993), and was the chair of the AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy (1983).  She received an honorary doctorate from Ohio State University in 2006.

Personal life
Neta was married to John Bahcall, who was also an astrophysicist and professor at Princeton, until his death in 2005. The two were frequent collaborators, publishing over 20 refereed papers as co-authors. John and Neta Bahcall had three children, all of whom earned doctorates in the sciences.

When asked about her religious views and belief in God, Bahcall stated: "I am not very religious, but am very Jewish... I combine the science that I do with the religion's question about God in the sense that all the laws of physics that created the Universe and the enormous amount of beauty in the Universe represent the connection to God."

Awards and honors
 Elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020
 The Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Prize, Harvard University (2013)
 Distinguished Research Chair, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ontario, Canada (2009 -2013)
 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Science, Ohio State University (2006)
 Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA (elected 1997)

Selected works

References

External links
 Neta Bahcall's Princeton homepage

1942 births
Living people
American women astronomers
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Jewish American scientists
Israeli Jews
Fellows of the American Astronomical Society
21st-century American Jews


title: George Robson

text:
George Robson may refer to:

George Robson (racing driver) (1909–1946), English-American auto racer, winner of the Indianapolis 500 in 1946
George Robson (rugby union) (born 1985), English rugby union player
George Fennell Robson (1788–1833), English painter
George Robson (footballer, born 1905) (1905–1982), English footballer
George Robson (footballer, born 1897) (1897–1984), English footballer


title: Barbara Barlow

text:
Barbara Barlow is an American pediatric surgeon who was the first woman to train in pediatric surgery at Babies Hospital, present-day Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. She has also reduced the amount of injuries for inner-city children through her research and efforts to educate the public on prevention of accidents.

Early life and education

Barlow was born in a rural town in Pennsylvania in 1938. Her mother returned to school and obtained a degree in Psychology in 1954 after her father's death in order to become a guidance counselor and assistant professor and support Barlow and her sister. From her mother, Barlow learned the importance of and found the inspiration to work hard in life. Barlow went on to study Psychology at Vassar College in New York and then attended the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and earned her M.D. degree in 1967. She then received a training fellowship at Babies Hospital Columbia University Medical Center, where she was the first woman to ever train in pediatric surgery there.

Career

While completing her residency in the Bronx, Barlow noticed the severe lack of quality pediatric care in the area. She was inspired to provide children living in lower socio-economic areas with the same care that middle- and upper-class children received. One thing she particularly noticed was the number of preventable accidents the children in the area suffered from. Upon researching, she found that the injury rate for the Bronx and surrounding area was twice the national average. She also found that the most severe accidents were caused by falls from windows. She was one of the key figures in a New York City ordinance that required landlords to install window guards and participated in the educational campaign "Children Can't Fly," which warned parents about the risk of children falling from high-rise building windows. The campaign, which was created in the early 1970s, created a law that stated in apartments where small children live, there must be window guards. Also, the campaign employed nurses to go and check on children who were reported to have fallen. The nurses also are able to help the parents in dealing with the situation and provide advice to prevent it from happening again. Within the Bronx district, the reported number of falls has decreased by 50%. Injuries due to children falling out of windows in the Washington Heights neighborhood decreased by 96 percent by 1981.

The conditions of community spaces, such as school playgrounds in the Harlem neighborhood and streets where young children frequently played after school, were also a concern of Barlow. In 1988 she began work on improving Harlem's playgrounds with the help of a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation by working with an architect to design low-cost playground equipment. Also in 1988, she helped create the Injury Prevention Program at Harlem Hospital Center. This program helped to decrease the occurrence of injuries in children. The program was able to help lower the rate of injuries in children by improving education, building better playgrounds, and also providing supervised mentors to watch the children. She has continued her work on injury prevention in children for the past 15 years. Since 1991, Harlem has gotten 40 plus new playgrounds and numerous new after-school activities are offered through community organizations.

Barlow also founded "Injury Free Coalition for Kids," through which she has been able to ensure that similar programs are operating in cities across the nation, such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia. The "Injury Free Coalition for Kids" has implemented Injury Prevention Programs in 42 different trauma centers. This program helps promote safe ways for children when playing outside. The program also brings more medical professionals into an area where injury is prone in order to reduce the rates of injury. She continues her work through the National Association of Children's Hospitals.

Barlow is now retired. Her last position was a professor in epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York.

Honors and awards
Barlow has received multiple awards for her "Injury Free Coalition for Kids" Program. She was the recipient of the CDC Foundation Hero Award in 2011. She has also been recognized and given awards from many different organizations such as the American Hospital Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the National Safety Council, the American Trauma Society, and the American Public Health Association.

Publications
The following is a list of publications Barbara Barlow has contributed to during her medical career.

 "A brief history of Forging New Frontiers, the annual conference of the Injury Free Coalition for Kids."
 "Epidemiology of bone fracture across the age span in blacks and whites."
 "A comparative analysis of serious injury and illness among homeless and housed low income residents of New York City."
 "Motor vehicle injury, mortality, and hospital charges by strength of graduated driver licensing laws in 36 States."
 "Race and ethnic differences in a multicenter study of home safety with vouchers redeemable for free safety devices."
 "Motor vehicle occupant injury and related hospital expenditures in children aged 3 years to 8 years covered versus uncovered by booster seat legislation."
 "Forging new frontiers."
 "National injury-related hospitalizations in children: public versus private expenditures across preventable injury mechanisms."
 "Twenty-year trends in fatal injuries to very young children: the persistence of racial disparities."
 "Improving access to comprehensive injury risk assessment and risk factor reduction in older adult populations."
 "A national program for injury prevention in children and adolescents: the injury free coalition for kids."
 "Preventing injury and injury-related disability in children and adolescents."
 "Community childhood injury surveillance: an emergency department-based model."
 "A benefit-cost analysis of the Harlem hospital injury prevention program."
 "Impact of a cancer screening program on breast cancer stage at diagnosis in a medically underserved urban community."

References

1938 births
Physicians from Pennsylvania
American pediatric surgeons
Living people
Women surgeons
Vassar College alumni
Albert Einstein College of Medicine alumni
Columbia University staff
21st-century American women physicians
21st-century American physicians


title: 2008–09 VMI Keydets basketball team

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The 2008–09 VMI Keydets basketball team represented the Virginia Military Institute during the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Keydets were coached by Duggar Baucom in his 4th year at VMI, and played their home games at Cameron Hall. It was VMI's 5th season in the Big South Conference and the Keydets' 101st season of basketball.

VMI opened the year with an upset over the Kentucky Wildcats in Rupp Arena on November 14, 2008, by a score of 111–103. After losses to Virginia and Jacksonville State to drop their record to 4–2, VMI then went on a ten-game winning streak and won their first six conference games before falling to Liberty 91–80, in what was the first sellout in the 27-year history of Cameron Hall.

After finishing the regular season with a 22–7 mark, VMI cruised through their first two Big South tournament games, beating Coastal Carolina 96–76 in the quarterfinals and besting Liberty 78–58 in the semifinals. The Keydets ultimately fell to Radford 108–94 in the Big South Championship game, ending their season at 24–8. The 24 wins in a season were the school's second-most all-time, trailing only the 1976–77 team who 26 wins en route to a Sweet 16 appearance.

Roster

Schedule

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References

VMI Keydets basketball seasons
Vmi
VMI Keydets basketball team
VMI Keydets basketball team


title: Bosque (disambiguation)

text:
A bosque is a forested area that forms on the flood plains of a river or stream; typically in the southwestern United States, from a Spanish word for woodlands.

Bosque may also refer to:

Business, media and entertainment
 Bosque (journal), a scientific forestry journal published by the Southern University of Chile
 Bosque (programming language), designed and developed by Microsoft
 "Bosque", a 2022 song by No Money Enterprise featuring Bently, Vita and Redback

Places
 Bosque River, Texas, U.S.
 Bosque County, Texas
 Bosque, New Mexico, Valencia County, U.S.
 Bosque School, a preparatory school in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, U.S.

Other uses
 Bosques de las Lomas, a section of Mexico (City), D.F., United Mexican States
 Ulmus parvifolia 'UPMTF', a Chinese Elm cultivar sold under the marketing name Bosque

See also
Bosquentin, France
Bosquet, a formal plantation of trees
Buskett Gardens, a woodland area in Malta
El Bosque (disambiguation)
Basque (disambiguation)


title: Mahindra Lifespaces

text:
Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd. is an Indian real estate and infrastructure development company headquartered in Mumbai, India. The company was founded in 1994 and is part of the Mahindra Group. The company is engaged in residential developments under the Mahindra Lifespaces and Happinest brands; and integrated cities and industrial clusters under the ‘Mahindra World City’ and ‘ORIGINS by Mahindra World City’ brands. The company has developed properties in Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Delhi NCR, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Bengaluru.

History
GESCO Corporation Limited was incorporated as a Private Limited Company on 16 March 1999 which was converted to a Public Limited Company on 18 August 1999. GESCO was originally the real estate division of Great Eastern Shipping and was spun off into an independent company in April 1999. In 2001, GESCO Corporation and Mahindra Realty & Infrastructure Developers Ltd (MRIDL) demerged the realty and infrastructure divisions of MRIDL and merged it into GESCO. In 2007, the Company name was changed from Mahindra GESCO Developers Limited to Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd. (MLDL)

Mahindra World City, Chennai jointly developed by the Mahindra group and the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation, is corporate India's first operational private special economic zone (SEZ).

Board of directors
The Board of Directors of the company is headed by Arun Nanda, chairman of Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd. and Mahindra Holidays & Resorts (I) Ltd. Other members of the Board of Directors include Arvind Subramaniam, Anish Shah and Ameet Hariani, Bharat D. Shah and Amrita Verma Chowdhury hold the position of independent directors.

Projects (residential)

Current Projects
Mahindra Luminare is a Pre-certified IGBC platinum rated residential project launched by Mahindra Lifespaces Developers Ltd. in 2015. The project is located in Gurgaon, Sec. 59.
Mahindra Bloomdale is a residential project being developed over 25.25 acres of land in the MIHAN area of Nagpur and has been certified by the Indian Green Building Council.
Mahindra VICINO is a residential project located in Andheri East, Mumbai and has been certified by the Indian Green Building Council.
Mahindra Roots is located in the Kandivali East region in Mumbai and has been certified by the Indian Green Building Council.
Mahindra Happinest Kalyan is a project built under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana by Mahindra Lifespaces Developers Ltd. The project is spread over 9 acres.
Mahindra Happinest Palghar is a housing project built under a joint venture between Mahindra Lifespaces and HDFC Capital Advisors. The project is spread over an area of 8 acres off the Basawat Pada Road in Nandore.
 Mahindra Happinest Boisar is a housing project by Mahindra Lifespaces, located in the Boisar suburb of Mumbai. The project is spread over 14 acres of land.
 Mahindra Happinest Avadi is a full-fledged housing project launched by Mahindra Lifespaces in compliance with the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. It is located in Chennai, and spreads over 13.22 acres of land.
 Mahindra Aqualily is a residential project situated inside Mahindra World City, a 1,500-acre township in Chennai. The residences have been planned across four phases.
Mahindra Lakewoods is a residential project situated inside Mahindra World City, a 1500-acre township in Chennai located at Chengalpet Taluk, Kancheepuram. The project is developed over 9.33 acres and has a Gold certification from the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC).
Mahindra Antheia is situated in the Pimpri-Chinchwad region of Pune. This project has received pre-certification with an IGBC gold rating and spans across 16.5 acres. The construction of Mahindra Antheia C3 was successfully completed on March 30, 2023.
Mahindra Windchimes is a residential project located near the proposed IIM-Bengaluru and Hulimavu Metro Phase 2 station in Bengaluru. The project is built over an area of 5.85 acres and has a Platinum certification from the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC).

Integrated cities

Developed in 2002, Mahindra World City is known as India's first integrated business city. It also happens to be the first IGBC Gold (Stage 1) certified Green Township in the country and corporate India's first operational SEZ. The Mahindra Group promotes it in partnership with Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO). Spanning over 1,500 acres, MWC Chennai comprises multi-sector Special Economic Zones (SEZs), Domestic Tariff Area (DTA), Residential and Social Zones.
Mahindra World City, Jaipur (MWCJ) is a strategically located integrated business city spread across 3000 acres providing access to North and West markets. It is Asia's 1st and the world's largest project to reach Stage 2 of C40 Climate Initiative, a global benchmark for creating sustainable, carbon positive cities of the future. MWC Jaipur is a joint venture between Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd. and the Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation Ltd (RIICO). It consists of a Multi-Product Special Economic Zone (SEZ), a Domestic Tariff Area (DTA) and Social & Residential Infrastructure Zones.

Industrial cluster

 ORIGINS by Mahindra World City is a planned industrial cluster that has been developed together by Mahindra World City, Chennai and the Sumitomo Corporation, Japan. The cluster is the first IGBC Platinum Pre-certified project in Tamil Nadu and is being developed over a total area of 600 acres. The project has completed its phase of over 300 acres. The multi-sector industrial cluster will feature large and medium MNCs that operate in multiple domains including automotive, logistics, engineering, medical devices, aerospace and defence among other sectors.
 ORIGINS by Mahindra World City, Ahmedabad is IGBC Gold Pre-certified Industrial Cluster and is developed by Mahindra Lifespace Developers Limited in strategic partnership with International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank. The Industrial Cluster will be developed over an area of 340 acres. The multi-sector industrial cluster focuses on attracting large and medium global companies across engineering, automotive, renewable energy, pharma and medical devices, plastics and packaging, food processing, aerospace & defence and logistics among other sectors.

Awards and recognition
2015

 Awarded Mint Strategy Award for construction, real estate and steel

2016

 Porter Prize For Excellence In Governance by India's National Competitiveness Forum (NCF)
 Mahindra Lifespaces was also ranked 2nd in Asia, in the ‘Diversified’/’Listed’ category of real estate companies, in the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmarking (GRESB) report.

2018

 Construction World Architect & Builder Awards 2018, One of India's top builders

2019

 Ranked 17th in the list of Great Places to Work in India, in the ‘Mid-sized Companies’ category by GPTW
 fDi Global Free Zones of the Year 2019 - bespoke award in deployment of technology

2020

 fDi Global Free Zones of the Year 2019 - bespoke award in Sustainability
 One of India's Top Builders at the 15th Construction World Architect & Builder Awards 2020

The Mahindra Teri Centre of Excellence
The Mahindra Teri Centre of Excellence was developed to reduce the footprint of the real estate industry and to influence the real estate industry and its value chain to move towards innovative and sustainable development.

Sustainable Leadership Housing Coalition
MLDL is one of the founding members of the Sustainable Housing Leadership Consortium (SHLC), a private sector-led consortium founded in 2016.

Green Army Initiative
Mahindra Lifespace initiated its 'Green Army' initiative in 2014 which aimed to increase awareness of sustainable living habits among children. The program identifies children as primary change agents of the future and educates them on sustainable living habits and choices.

Mahindra World City Jaipur
MWC Jaipur is a joint venture between Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd (MLDL) and Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation (RIICO). In 2015, MWCJ became the first project in Asia to receive Stage 2 Climate Positive Development certification from the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40).

References

External links

Real estate companies based in Mumbai
Indian companies established in 1994
1994 establishments in Maharashtra
Real estate companies established in 1994
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange
Mahindra Group


title: Alan Tarbuck

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Alan Tarbuck (born 10 October 1948) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger for Everton, Crewe Alexandra, Chester, Preston North End, Shrewsbury Town, Rochdale, and Bangor City.

Honours
with Crewe Alexandra
Football League Fourth Division fourth-place promotion: 1967–68

References

1948 births
Living people
Footballers from Liverpool
English men's footballers
Men's association football wingers
Everton F.C. players
Crewe Alexandra F.C. players
Chester City F.C. players
Preston North End F.C. players
Shrewsbury Town F.C. players
Rochdale A.F.C. players
Bangor City F.C. players
English Football League players


title: Arabian horse (disambiguation)

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The term "Arabian horse" may refer to:

 Arabian horse, a breed of horse originating from the Arabian Peninsula
 Arab (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse foaled in 1824
 Arabian Horse (album), a music album by GusGus

See also
 Part-Arabian, the general term for horses crossbred with Arabian lines
 Anglo-Arabian, a crossbred with Thoroughbred lines considered a separate breed in some nations
 Arabian Horse Association (AHA), a national organization in the United States that is the breed registry for Arabian horses


title: Teresa Bandettini

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Teresa Landucci Bandettini (also known by her Arcadian name Amarilli Etrusca; 11 August 1763 – 6 April 1837) was an Italian dancer, composer of extemporaneous verse, and poet, who is remembered as the Figurante Poetesca ("literary ballerina").

Life
Born in 1763 to Benedetto Bandettini and Maria Alba Micheli in Tuscany in the city of Lucca, Bandettini came from a humble background. She was an orphan by the age of seven and was first heard of as a dancer using the name "Amarilli Etrusca".

After Bandettini married Lucchese Pietro Landucci, whom she had met in Imola in 1789, her career shifted from dancing to improvisation. Her specialty was to create and deliver verse on the spot from random suggestions supplied by an audience willing to pay to witness her emotional delivery and the creative process. Bandettini's talents led to her finding a patron in Count Ludovico Savioli. He paid for an early poem concerning the "Death of Adonis" to be not only printed but to be illustrated by Francesco Rosaspina. Bandettini was a composer of extemporaneous verse, and a poet. Not surprisingly with her dancing background, she was known as the literary ballerina (Figurante Poetesca).  Although there were two publications of her improvised verses published in 1801 and 1807, Bandettini preferred to publish poetry that she had spent more time composing.

Legacy
Within Bandettini's lifetime she was acknowledged as an important writer. The noted Italian poet Maria Maddalena Morelli, also known as Corilla Olimpica, dedicated some of the last of her poetry to Bandettini.
There are a number of paintings of Bandettini including an oil by Angelica Kauffman. Kauffman was a member of the Italian literary Society known as the Arcadian Academy. Kauffman respected Bandettini skills, and created the portrait which she gave to her in 1794. In 2002 it was discovered that the young composer Niccolò Paganini had dedicated six long lost sonatas to her. She died in Lucca in 1837.

Partial works

References

 Emilio De Tipaldo, Biografia degli italiani illustri, Tipografia di Alvisopoli, Venezia, 1837
 E. Castreca Brunetti, Aggiunta alla Bibl. Femm. Ital. di P L. Ferri, Roma, 1844
 Verona, Donne Illustri d'Italia, Colombo, Milano, 1864
 Maria Bandivi Buti, Enciclopedia Biografica e Bibliografica Italiana, Ist. Ed. It., 1941–1942
 Greco, Biblioteca Femminile Italiana del XIX Secolo, Venezia, 1875
 N. Costa Zalessow, Scrittrici italiane dal XIII al XX secolo. Testi e critica, Longo 1982
 M. Zaccan, Figure di Donne in Alcuni Testi del XVI Secolo, Appendici III, Venezia 1983
 Alberto Macchi, Irene Parenti, atto unico teatrale tra realtà e ipotesi (Note), AETAS, Roma 2006

1763 births
1837 deaths
Italian women poets
Italian female dancers
Italian ballerinas
18th-century Italian ballet dancers
19th-century Italian ballet dancers
18th-century Italian women
19th-century Italian women
Members of the Academy of Arcadians


title: Dark Day (Fred Anderson album)

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Dark Day is an album by American jazz saxophonist Fred Anderson recorded live in 1979 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and released in a small batch on the tiny Austrian Message label. The performance was part of a series of AACM concerts presented by the museum. Anderson's Quartet features long-time partner trumpeter Billy Brimfield, bassist Steven Palmore and young drummer Hamid Drake, who contributes the piece "The Prayer", later retitled "Bombay (Children of Cambodia)".

The album was reissued on CD by Atavistic in 2001 as part of their Unheard Music Series with a bonus CD including an unreleased master recorded at Verona Jazz 1979, only four days after the Chicago concert.

Reception

In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states about the Atavistic reissue "these two dates on a pair of very reasonably prices CDs, with great sound, are gifts rescued from the islands of obscurity, and should be listened to with the awe and wonder they inspire."
The Penguin Guide to Jazz says that "Dark Day is the definitive Anderson performance, sombre and cutting by turns, packed with muscular phrases but also strangely tender and vulnerable."

Track listing
All compositions by Fred Anderson except as indicated
 "Dark Day" - 18:40
 "Saxoon" - 11:32
 "Three On Two" - 18:07
 "The Prayer" (Hamid Drake) - 10:55

Atavistic reissue CD 2 Live in Verona
Recorded live May 19, 1979 at Palazzo Della Gran Guardia, Verona, Italy.
 "The Bull" - 16:32
 "Three On Two" - 31:46
 "Dark Day" - 25:12

Personnel
Fred Anderson - tenor sax
Billy Brimfield - trumpet
Steven Palmore - bass
Hamid Drake - drums, tablas

References

1979 live albums
Fred Anderson (musician) live albums
Atavistic Records live albums


title: Berk Uğurlu

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Berk İbrahim Uğurlu (born 27 April 1996) is a Turkish professional basketball player for Beşiktaş of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). Standing at 1.92 m (6 ft. 3  in.), and weighing 87 kg (192 lbs.), he plays at the point guard position.

Professional career
Uğurlu signed first professional contract with the Turkish club Fenerbahçe in 2012. On 23 February 2014, in a Turkish Super League win over Aliağa Petkim, he helped his team to win the game, with a 4 points, 8 assists, 3 rebounds, and 3 steals performance.

On 3 July 2017 Uğurlu was loaned to Pınar Karşıyaka for the 2017–18 season.

On 25 June 2019 he signed a 3-year contract with Tofaş of the Turkish Basketball Super League (BSL).

On 27 June 2023 he signed with Beşiktaş of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) for a second stint.

Turkish national team
Uğurlu was a member of the Turkish junior national teams. While playing for Turkey's junior national teams, he won gold medals at the following tournaments: the 2012 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, the 2013 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, and the 2014 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship. He also one Bronze medals at the 2015 FIBA Under-19 World Championship, the 2015 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, and the 2016 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship.

References

External links
 Berk Uğurlu at draftexpress.com
 Berk Uğurlu at eurobasket.com
 Berk Uğurlu at euroleague.net
 Berk Uğurlu at fiba.com (archive)
 Berk Uğurlu at fiba.com (game center)
 Berk Uğurlu at tblstat.net

1996 births
Living people
Fenerbahçe men's basketball players
Karşıyaka basketball players
Point guards
Basketball players from Istanbul
Beşiktaş men's basketball players
Tofaş S.K. players
Turkish men's basketball players


title: Alan Bradshaw

text:
Alan Bradshaw (14 September 1941 – 18 October 2020) was an English professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Blackburn Rovers, Crewe Alexandra, and Macclesfield Town.

Career
Born in Blackburn, Bradshaw joined his hometown team and scored in the club's 1959 FA Youth Cup final victory over West Ham United in Blackburn's only win in that competition. In September 1962, Bradshaw scored in his Rovers first team debut in a 4-2 defeat away to Wolverhampton Wanderers, and made 10 further appearances for the club, scoring twice, before leaving for Crewe Alexandra in 1965. He also spent time with Loughborough College in the early 1960s.

Bradshaw was later a youth team coach at Blackburn and managed local clubs Great Harwood, Padiham, Clitheroe and Chorley.

Honours
with Crewe Alexandra
Football League Fourth Division fourth-place promotion: 1967–68

References

1941 births
2020 deaths
Men's association football midfielders
Blackburn Rovers F.C. players
Crewe Alexandra F.C. players
English Football League players
English men's footballers
Loughborough University F.C. players
Macclesfield Town F.C. players
Footballers from Blackburn


title: Rechargeable fuel battery

text:
Rechargeable fuel batteries are a new type of rechargeable battery that researchers have developed which uses electrodes in liquid form. This type of battery can either be recharged or the liquid electrodes can be replaced.

These batteries could allow electric cars to travel 500 miles before recharging. Replacing the liquid electrodes could only take a few minutes while recharging batteries takes much longer. These batteries don't have the problems of short circuits and overheating. The downsides are that nanoparticles degrade quickly, the technology is new and needs more development, they need to focus on cheaper production, and refilling stations would cost a lot to build.

See also
List of battery types
Comparison of battery types
Flow battery

References

Battery types
Rechargeable batteries


title: Mick Gannon (English footballer)

text:
Mick Gannon (born 2 February 1943) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender for Everton, Scunthorpe United, Crewe Alexandra, and Altrincham.

References

1943 births
Living people
Footballers from Liverpool
English men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Everton F.C. players
Scunthorpe United F.C. players
Crewe Alexandra F.C. players
Altrincham F.C. players
English Football League players


title: Darkey Flat massacre

text:
The Darkey Flat Massacre is a massacre of Aboriginal Australians by European settlers that supposedly took place some time in the 1840s. There is no eyewitness, first-hand, or clear documentary evidence relating to the massacre and there is some doubt as to whether it actually occurred.

References

Darling Downs
History of Queensland
1845 in Australia
Massacres of Indigenous Australians


title: Nokia Lumia Icon

text:
The Nokia Lumia Icon (originally known as the Lumia 929) is a high-end smartphone developed by Nokia that runs Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 operating system. It was announced on February 12, 2014, and released on Verizon Wireless in the United States on February 20, 2014.  It is currently exclusive to Verizon and the U.S. market; its international counterpart is the Nokia Lumia 930.

On February 11, 2015, Verizon released the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system and Lumia Denim firmware update for the Icon. On June 23, 2016, Verizon released the Windows 10 Mobile operating system update for the Icon.

Primary features
The primary features of the Lumia Icon are:
 5in 1920x1080 AMOLED 441 PPI touchscreen display
 Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 Processor
 2GB of LPDDR3 RAM
 20 MP PureView camera with Carl Zeiss optics and pixel oversampling
 Optical Image Stabilization
 2160p (4K UHD) video recording at 30fps
 Quad microphones with noise reduction
 Wireless AC Wi-Fi
 4G LTE support
 Microsoft Cortana Voice Assistant with "Hey Cortana" voice activation (with Lumia Denim update)

Availability
The phone was released for sale exclusively through Verizon in the United States for $199.99 with a 2-year contract or $549.99 with no contract.  The Lumia Icon has almost identical internal specifications to the larger Nokia Lumia 1520 with the primary difference being that it has a smaller screen of 5 inches compared with the Lumia 1520's 6 inches.

The Nokia Lumia 930, released in April 2014, is nearly identical to the Icon in both appearance and specifications. However, the 930 uses GSM radios and comes with Windows Phone 8.1 and the Cyan firmware, and is the worldwide variant of the Icon.  While the 930 has since been updated to Denim (which contains the Windows Phone 8.1 Update), Verizon previously faced criticism for not releasing the Cyan update for the Icon. Now that Verizon Wireless has updated the Icon directly to Denim, skipping Cyan, the OS and firmware distinctions have largely been eliminated.

Naming

While in development, the Nokia Lumia Icon was known by its model number. Early development screenshots and prototype accessories referred to the phone as the Lumia 929.  This was in keeping with Nokia's previous branding practice of assigning a corresponding number to the place where the phone would sit in Nokia's lineup, with higher numbers indicating higher-end models and lower numbers indicating lower-end products.  Upon release, the phone kept the model number 929, but was the first Lumia to utilize a name other than its model number for branding.

Reception
The Lumia Icon received fairly positive reviews, with some reviewers calling it the best Windows Phone released, praising the phone's camera quality, display, and overall speed but detracting its being locked to one carrier and having a camera with a slow transition time between taking photographs. Reviewers were split on the design of the phone, with some praising its metal build quality as solid and premium, and others criticizing it for being too utilitarian and conservative.

Brad Molen of Engadget called the Lumia Icon "the solid high-end Windows Phone that we've wanted for a long time. It has an amazing display, great performance and solid imaging capability, but its exclusivity to Verizon will severely limit its appeal." and Mark Hachman of PCWorld said "If you’re an app fiend, you’d still be better off buying an iPhone or Android phone, which dependably receive third-party apps. But the Icon and Lumia 1520 are clearly the best Windows Phones on the market. Deciding between them simply depends on which size you prefer." Christina Bonnington from Wired said that the best Windows Phone ever still disappoints, and mentioned poor call quality as one of the detractors, but praised the solid build quality, inclusion of wireless charging, and powerful processor.

See also

Microsoft Lumia
Nokia Lumia 1520
Nokia Lumia 930

References

Microsoft Lumia
Nokia smartphones
Mobile phones introduced in 2014
Discontinued smartphones
Windows Phone devices
PureView