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Those Were the Days (Lady Sovereign song) | Chart | Chart
Chart (2007)PeakpositionUK Singles Chart101 |
Those Were the Days (Lady Sovereign song) | References | References
Category:2006 songs
Category:2007 singles
Category:Lady Sovereign songs
Category:Songs written by Dr. Luke
Category:Songs written by Lady Sovereign
Category:Song recordings produced by Dr. Luke
Category:Def Jam Recordings singles |
Those Were the Days (Lady Sovereign song) | Table of Content | Infobox song
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The Spell of the Circus | short description | The Spell of the Circus (1931) is a Universal 10-chapter movie serial. Francis X. Bushman Jr. played the trick horseback rider/hero Jack Grant. This is considered to be a lost film. |
The Spell of the Circus | Plot | Plot
Butte Morgan (villain) plans to take over a circus by marrying Maria Wallace, the daughter of the circus's owner. She, however, is interested only in the trick rider Jack Grant.. |
The Spell of the Circus | Cast | Cast
Francis X. Bushman Jr. (aka Ralph Bushman) as Jack Grant, the circus' cowboy rider
Alberta Vaughn as Maria Wallace, daughter of the circus' owner
Tom London as Butte Morgan, intends to take over the circus by marrying Maria
Walter Shumway as George Wallace, circus owner
Charles Murphy as Hank Harris
Monte Montague as Totto
Bobby Nelson as Bobby |
The Spell of the Circus | Chapter titles | Chapter titles
A Menacing Monster
The Phantom Shadow
Racing with Death
A Scream of Terror
A Leap for Life
A Fatal Wedding
A Villain Unmasked
The Baited Trap
The Terror Tent
The Call of the Circus
Source: |
The Spell of the Circus | See also | See also
List of film serials
List of film serials by studio |
The Spell of the Circus | References | References |
The Spell of the Circus | External links | External links
Category:1931 films
Category:1930s action adventure films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:Lost American action adventure films
Category:Universal Pictures film serials
Category:Films directed by Robert F. Hill
Category:Circus films
Category:1931 lost films
Category:1930s American films
Category:English-language action adventure films |
The Spell of the Circus | Table of Content | short description, Plot, Cast, Chapter titles, See also, References, External links |
Category:Zulu mythology | Cat main | Category:Zulu culture
Category:Bantu religion
Category:South African mythology |
Category:Zulu mythology | Table of Content | Cat main |
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Grenadier Island | '''Grenadier Island''' | Grenadier Island may refer to:
Grenadier Island, New York
Grenadier Island (Saint Lawrence River) in Ontario |
Grenadier Island | Table of Content | '''Grenadier Island''' |
Grace Under Pressure (John Scofield album) | Infobox album
| Grace Under Pressure is a studio album by jazz guitarist John Scofield. It features fellow guitarist Bill Frisell, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Joey Baron. Five of the ten tracks also feature a brass trio led by Randy Brecker. |
Grace Under Pressure (John Scofield album) | Track listing | Track listing
All tracks composed by John Scofield.
"You Bet" - 5:33
"Grace Under Pressure" - 8:23
"Honest I Do" - 4:23
"Scenes from a Marriage" - 8:50
"Twang" - 6:09
"Pat Me" - 5:59
"Pretty Out" - 7:10
"Bill Me" - 8:37
"Same Axe" - 3:01
"Unique New York" - 5:00 |
Grace Under Pressure (John Scofield album) | Personnel | Personnel
John Scofield – electric guitar
Bill Frisell – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Charlie Haden – bass
Joey Baron – drums
Horns (Tracks 3, 5–6, 8 & 10)
Michael Gibbs – arrangements
John Scofield – arrangements
Jim Pugh – trombone
Randy Brecker – flugelhorn
John Clark – French horn
Production
Steve Swallow – producer
John Scofield – co-producer
James Farber – recording, mixing
Chris Albert – assistant engineer
Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk (New York, NY)
Susan Scofield – administrative producer
Cynthia Cochrane – production coordinator
Steve Schenfeld – project coordinator
Mark Larson – art direction, design
Penny Gentieu – photography |
Grace Under Pressure (John Scofield album) | See also | See also
Marc Johnson, Bass Desires (1986) |
Grace Under Pressure (John Scofield album) | References | References
Category:1992 albums
Category:John Scofield albums
Category:Blue Note Records albums |
Grace Under Pressure (John Scofield album) | Table of Content | Infobox album
, Track listing, Personnel, See also, References |
Anne Neely | Short description | Anne Neely (born 1946Artnet) is a painter based in Boston, Massachusetts, and Maine. She paints abstract paintings with an emphasis on landscapes and nature.Alpha Gallery Biography. She uses paint to explore imagined landscapes.Danforth Museum, Anne Neely: Waterlines, 2010. http://www.danforthmuseum.org/Anne_Neely.html
Neely has won multiple awards for her work. She has had residencies abroad, such as the Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship Program in Ireland. The artist's work can be found in the collections of Armand Hammer Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Davis Museum and Cultural Center of Wellesley College, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, The Farnesworth Art Museum, Grenwald Center for Graphic Arts at UCLA, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, The Smithsonian's The National Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art.
In 2014, her multimedia exhibition, Water Stories: Conversations in Paint and Sound, opened at the Museum of Science, Boston.Museum of Science: Water Stories Project. http://www.anneneely.com/pages/news.html One of the paintings "Offshore" can now be found in Alaska Airlines' San Francisco Lounge.
Neely was a teacher at Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts, from 1974 to 2012, where she also served as director of the Nesto Gallery twice.Milton Magazine, Fall 2012. http://www.miltonmagazine.org/?p=1172
In 2018 AGNI had released Issue 88 of their Journal where Neely was an art feature, responsible for the cover "Blackbird Fly" along with an essay "A Necessity: Fearful Symmetries". |
Anne Neely | References | References |
Anne Neely | External links | External links
Official website
Biography and works
Catalog for Mopang: Recent Paintings, at the Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
Category:People from Milton, Massachusetts
Category:Living people
Category:1946 births
Category:Painters from Massachusetts
Category:American abstract painters
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:20th-century American women painters
Category:21st-century American women painters
Category:21st-century American painters |
Anne Neely | Table of Content | Short description, References, External links |
Windsor Unified School District | short description | Windsor Unified School District or WUSD is the public school district in Windsor, California. The district serves 5,400 students from kindergarten through high school. Its 2013 API score was 776. |
Windsor Unified School District | Schools | Schools
There are 7 schools in the district:
Windsor High School (Grades 9-12)
Windsor Oaks Academy (Grades 10-12)
Windsor Middle School (Grades 6-8)
Cali Calmécac Language Academy (Grades K-8)
Brooks Elementary School (Grades 3-5)
Mattie Washburn Elementary School (Grades K-2)
In 2018/2019 School year it was decided that Windsor Creek Elementary School (Grades 2-3) will be closing because of lack of students. Grade 2 was transferred to Mattie Washburn Elementary School and Grade 3 was transferred to Brooks Elementary School.
Windsor Unified is also the lead agency in the North County Consortium, which serves students with special needs in 7 area school districts. |
Windsor Unified School District | Awards | Awards
Windsor Unified School District earned two California Golden Bell Awards from the California School Boards Association: the first in 1999 and the second in 2008.
Four of Windsor's schools have been recognized as California Distinguished Schools by the California State Board of Education.
2009: Windsor Middle School
2006: Brooks Elementary School
2005: Windsor High School
2004: Windsor Creek Elementary School
2001: Windsor Middle School
Windsor's alternative high school, Windsor Oaks Academy, was named a Model Continuation High School in 2012 by the California State Superintendent of Public Instruction. |
Windsor Unified School District | References | References |
Windsor Unified School District | External links | External links
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Windsor Unified School District | See also | See also
List of school districts in Sonoma County, California
Category:School districts in Sonoma County, California
Category:Windsor, California |
Windsor Unified School District | Table of Content | short description, Schools, Awards, References, External links, See also |
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Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation | unreferenced | The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation is a privately funded, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides academic scholarships to children of United States Marines and Navy Corpsmen. The Scholarship Foundation is the Nation's oldest and largest provider of need-based scholarship to military children. Their funding is provided by private supporters, including individuals, corporations, and other nonprofit foundations. The organization's mission is to "Honor Marines by Educating Their Children." |
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation | Work | Work
Since its founding in 1962, the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation has provided more than 40,000 scholarships, valued at over $125 million. Their scholarships provide access to affordable education for the children of Marines and Navy Corpsmen attending post-high school, undergraduate, and career technical education programs.
The Scholarship Foundation's scholarship reports that:
• 45% of recipients majors in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and health science majors (compared to 33% nationally)
• 50% are first-generation college students (compared to 33% nationally)
• 90% of recipients graduate or are on track to graduate (compared to 53% nationally)
In addition, the Scholarship Foundation has been recognized by the Better Business Bureau for satisfying 20 out of 20 standards for charity accountability, transparency, and sound financial management.
The Scholarship Foundation's awards are primarily need-based. Qualified applicants must be the child of a Marine or Navy Corpsmen, and their maximum family income must not exceed that of the current pay scale of a sergeant major.
The Scholarship Foundation cites the mounting toll of the War on Terror, the rising costs of education, and the maturation of a new generation of Marines as an urgent call for increasing support.
Scholarship applications are accepted January 1 - March 1, annually, via the Scholarship Foundation's website: www.mcsf.org |
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation | Origin | Origin
The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation began by helping one child. In New York City in 1962, a group of service-minded Marines, led by Brigadier General Martin F. Rockmore, learned that a Marine World War II Medal of Honor recipient could not afford to send his child to college. Concerned, General Rockmore and his peers organized a charity ball that December, which raised $1,500 (1962 dollars); at the Ball, these funds were awarded as a scholarship to a single student. The annual charity ball, known as the New York Leatherneck Ball, continues to this day, and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2012. The original event has inspired numerous balls, galas, golf tournaments, and other fundraisers across the country. Today, the Scholarship Foundation, with the assistance of volunteers across the country, hosts more than 35 fundraising activities annually. |
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation | Special Commitments | Special Commitments
Through its "Heroes Tribute for Children of the Fallen" and "Heroes Tribute for Children of the Wounded" scholarship programs, the Scholarship Foundation has made special commitments to the sons and daughters of Marines and Navy Corpsmen whose parent has been killed or wounded in combat. |
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation | Leadership | Leadership
The Chairman of the Scholarship Foundation's Board of Directors is Lieutenant General George J. Trautman III USMC (Ret.). Lieutenant General Robert R. Ruark USMC (Ret.) has served as the President and CEO of the Scholarship Foundation since 2017. Lieutenant General Stephen G. Olmstead served as Chairman of the Scholarship Foundation's in 1990s. |
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation | Location | Location
The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation is located in Alexandria, Virginia. |
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation | External links | External links
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation
Category:Organizations based in Alexandria, Virginia
Category:Educational foundations in the United States
Category:Organizations associated with the United States Marine Corps
Category:Organizations established in 1962 |
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation | Table of Content | unreferenced, Work, Origin, Special Commitments, Leadership, Location, External links |
Wikipedia:Vested interest | : | For Wikipedia guidelines on people editing articles on topics they are personally, financially, or ideologically connected to, see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. If you are looking for Valued images, see Wikipedia:Valued pictures. Or you may be looking for Wikipedia:No vested contributors.
Editors who are heavily involved with the editing of a particular article may have a vested interest in the outcomes of decisions relating to that article, such as merge or deletion requests. This does not mean that such editors' arguments should be dismissed as arising from a conflict of interest.
Beware of using the argument of "vested interest" in content disputes: Discuss the issue, not the editor; and never suggest a view is invalid simply because of who its proponent is.
What is a vested interest?
Editors who spend a particularly large amount of effort on specific pages on Wikipedia may have an emotional attachment to the work they have done. This may result in a bias towards one side or the other in debates concerning those pages.
Editors with vested interests should certainly not'' be excluded from such debates: the perspective of the editors involved in an article is one that ought to be allowed, and indeed should probably be represented in most debates. (This is why, for instance, deletion tags must be placed on pages listed for deletion, so that the editors of those pages can see them).
It is not generally considered important for an editor to disclose a possible vested interest when participating in a debate. If another editor believes that a vested interest of another user should be considered, they should be careful to:
remember to assume good faith and remain civil;
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explain the relevance of the vested interest to the argument, so as to not make an ad hominem argument; and especially
not confuse a vested interest with a WP:COI-type conflict of interest issue, which is much more serious. |
Wikipedia:Vested interest | See also | See also
Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
Wikipedia:Ownership of articles |
Wikipedia:Vested interest | Table of Content | :, See also |
Cathcart circle | # | Redirect Cathcart Circle Lines |
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Category:Dukes of Grafton | Portal | Grafton
Category:FitzRoy family
Category:Illegitimate branches of the House of Stuart |
Category:Dukes of Grafton | Table of Content | Portal |
Hamilton Castner | short description | Hamilton Young Castner (September 11, 1858 – October 11, 1899) was an American industrial chemist. |
Hamilton Castner | Biography | Biography
He was born in Brooklyn, New York and educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, then at the Columbia University School of Mines. He left without a degree and in 1879 joined his brother, E. B. Castner, as a consulting chemist. He left this business around 1884 and worked to devise a process for manufacturing aluminium by reducing aluminium chloride with sodium. Sodium was relatively expensive at that time and Castner devised a process of producing it by the reduction of caustic soda with carbon, a much cheaper process. He failed to interest American industrialists and travelled to England in 1886. ()
In 1887 his process helped to lead to the formation of the Aluminium Company in England which produced aluminium of high purity. However, in 1889 it was rendered obsolete by a much cheaper electrochemical process. Castner's only asset then was his cheap sodium and he worked to develop uses for this, including the manufacture of sodium peroxide, a bleaching agent, and sodium cyanide which was used in the gold mining industry.
In 1890 Castner devised a new method for producing very pure caustic soda by the electrolysis of brine in a rocking cell containing mercury. This process also produced the useful by-products, chlorine and hydrogen. When Castner came to patent his process he found that a similar patent had been lodged by Karl Kellner in Germany and that this had been made over to the Solvay Company in Belgium. In order to avoid litigation, Castner's Aluminium Company combined with the Solvay Company to form the Castner-Kellner Alkali Company and they built a large works in Runcorn, Cheshire. The Castner-Kellner process is still in operation in Runcorn today.
Castner suffered from tuberculosis and died in 1899 in Saranac Lake, Franklin county, New York state. He left his estate to his wife, Cora Marion Richter, and his sister, Mary Albaugh. He did not have any children. |
Hamilton Castner | See also | See also
Castner Medal |
Hamilton Castner | References | References
Category:1858 births
Category:1889 deaths
Category:Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Category:Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Category:19th-century American chemists
Category:19th-century American inventors
Category:19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
Category:People from Runcorn
Category:Tuberculosis deaths in New York (state) |
Hamilton Castner | Table of Content | short description, Biography, See also, References |
Ho-Kwang Mao | Short description | Ho-Kwang (Dave) Mao (; born June 18, 1941) is a Chinese-American geologist. He is the director of the Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research in Shanghai, China. He was a staff scientist at Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science for more than 30 years. Mao is a recognized leading scientist in high pressure geosciences and physical science. There are two minerals named after him, Davemaoite and Maohokite. |
Ho-Kwang Mao | Biography | Biography
Mao was born in Shanghai in 1941. His father, General Mao Sen (毛森), was a high-ranking official of the intelligence department of the Republic of China. When Mao was seven years old, he moved to Taiwan with his family, fleeing with the rest of the government of the Republic of China to the province. Mao received his BS from National Taiwan University in 1963. Mao further pursued his studies in the United States, and obtained MS in 1966 and PhD in 1968 from the University of Rochester, New York.
From 1968 to 1972, Mao did his postdoctoral research at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW). From then on Mao has spent his career at Geophysical Laboratory as a senior staff scientist.
In 2013, Mao founded Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research in his birthplace, Shanghai. He takes the director role at the center and leads a group of international scientists to tackle world-class scientific challenges. The center has a Nature index of 17.68 in 2021 and was on an increasing trend since 2016.
Mao has three daughters - Cyndy, Linda, and Wendy. His youngest daughter, Wendy Mao, is a professor of geological sciences at Stanford University. |
Ho-Kwang Mao | Research | Research |
Ho-Kwang Mao | Achieving high pressure and pressure calibration methods | Achieving high pressure and pressure calibration methods
Mao is one of the most prolific users of the diamond anvil cell for research at high pressures. Although at the time the claim was controversial, his work with Peter M. Bell is now generally accepted as being the first verified static pressure in excess of 1 Megabar.
Mao and colleagues first calibrated ruby fluorescence pressure scale to 80 GPa and this method has been widely used in almost every diamond anvil cell experiments. This work has been cited by 3921 times as of Jan 15, 2022, according to google scholar.
In 2018, 400 GPa was achieved by his team and a detailed description of pressure loading and distribution, gasket thickness variation, and diamond anvil deformation was reported. |
Ho-Kwang Mao | Towards metallic hydrogen | Towards metallic hydrogen
Mao is a pioneer in experimentally exploring the possible metallic hydrogen phase under high pressure. His work on solid hydrogen starts in 1988, where he reported single-crystal structure of hydrogen up to 26.5 GPa. He later published a review paper on transitions in solid hydrogen in 1994. In 1996, his team's work suggested a more compressible solid hydrogen than previously thought. More recently in 2019, his team published results on single crystal diffraction of the lightest material in the world, hydrogen, up to 254 GPa and revealed isostructural electronic transitions in solid hydrogen at around 220 GPa. |
Ho-Kwang Mao | [[Superconductivity]] | Superconductivity
In 1987, Mao and a colleague at the Geophysical Laboratory, Robert Hazen, identified the composition and structure of the first high-temperature superconductor to have a critical temperature above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen. |
Ho-Kwang Mao | Iron peroxide in Earth's interior | Iron peroxide in Earth's interior
Mao discovered formation of FeO2Hx from goethite FeOOH or from iron-water reaction under Earth's lower mantle conditions. The novel FeO2Hx phase processes a pyrite structure. Since this phase can contain varied amount of hydrogen, it would have important implications for the deep water cycle. |
Ho-Kwang Mao | Honors and awards | Honors and awards
1979, Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
1979, the Mineralogical Society of America Award
1987, Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
1989, the P. W. Bridgman Award, from the AIRAPT International
1990, the Arthur L. Day Prize, from the United States National Academy of Sciences
1993, Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences
1994, Academician of the Academia Sinica, Taiwan
1994, Fellow of the American Physical Society
1996, Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
1996, Fellow of the Geochemical Society
2002, Chinese government Friendship Award
2005, the Balzan Prize for Mineral Physics (with Russell J. Hemley)
2005, the Gregori Aminoff Prize, from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
2005, the Roebling Medal, from the Mineralogical Society of America
2007, the Inge Lehmann Medal, from the American Geophysical Union
2008, Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of London
In 2021, davemaoite, a mineral found only in the deep mantle of the earth, was named after Mao. It is estimated to make 5–7% of the Earth's lower mantle. |
Ho-Kwang Mao | References | References |
Ho-Kwang Mao | External links | External links
CV and publications
Carnegie Institution for Science
Category:1941 births
Category:Living people
Category:American geologists
Category:Chinese emigrants to the United States
Category:Fellows of the American Geophysical Union
Category:Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Category:Foreign members of the Royal Society
Category:Members of Academia Sinica
Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Category:National Taiwan University alumni
Category:Scientists from Shanghai
Category:University of Rochester alumni
Category:High pressure science
Category:Taiwanese people from Shanghai
Category:Fellows of the Mineralogical Society of America |
Ho-Kwang Mao | Table of Content | Short description, Biography, Research, Achieving high pressure and pressure calibration methods, Towards metallic hydrogen, [[Superconductivity]], Iron peroxide in Earth's interior, Honors and awards, References, External links |
Wikipedia:Peer review/Calgary/archive1 | [[Calgary]] | Calgary
Already a Good Article about a large Canadian city, request feedback for improvement toward Featured Article. --Qyd 18:24, 7 March 2007 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Peer review/Calgary/archive1 | From [[User:Dzubint | From Thomas Dzubin
The History section needs expansion, although perhaps nothing really happened in the city before the 1973 Oil Embargo :-) Even a single sentence for each decade between 1900 and 1970 would be an improvement. I also think that the 1988 Olympics should be highlighted somehow instead of being buried inside the Sports and recreation section. Other than that, it is quite a good article. I wish the Saskatoon article was in similar shape. Thomas Dzubin Talk 20:09, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Emphased the olympics in the sports sections (they are also mentionead in the lead and history section). Will probably have to dig out something for 1900-1050 history.--Qyd 20:41, 7 March 2007 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Peer review/Calgary/archive1 | From [[User:Arch26 | From Arch26
I also think that the economy and politics sections leave something to be desired. All that's really in economy is basically a list of large companies. It doesn't talk much about the city's various industries and their development. The gov't and politics section is a lot better than before, but there is not enough about local politics. Personally, I don't think there needs to be much added to history or the two sections that I mentioned, but they definitely need to be summarized better. I think that the bulk of the information for these sections should go into sub-articles. --Arch26 06:24, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Added some numbers and statistics for economy. What other aspects can be mentioned? maybe taxation? tourism? For local politics, some words on property taxes? city departments? should the List of mayors of Calgary, Alberta be mentioned there? --Qyd 15:37, 12 March 2007 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Peer review/Calgary/archive1 | From [[User:Thivierr | From Rob
A few single-sentence paragraphs, could be removed or merged, starting with "A resident of Calgary is known as a Calgarian."
Also the sections "Local media", "Other names", and "Sister cities" are to short to be sections. "Other names", and "Sister cities" seem to trivial to be sections.
Some transitory stuff could be removed, like "One growing alternative movement was recently active during the 2000 World Petroleum Congress demonstrations ...". As the years march on, such specific events and dates, look out of place, and irrelevant.
The "Government and politics" section has, at this moment, has only one citation. The rest is uncited. The opinions, are largely unattributed. The whole article needs more citations, and where appropriate, attribution in the body of the article (e.g. who stated what opinion).
The "Government and politics" focusses too much on global, federal, and provincial politics, and barely mentions municipal politics. --Rob 03:30, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Added some refs for provincial politics. I guess you're right about other names and sister cities. Should those be deleted, or merged somewhere else? sister cities merged maybe into local politics? --Qyd 15:37, 12 March 2007 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Peer review/Calgary/archive1 | Table of Content | [[Calgary]], From [[User:Dzubint, From [[User:Arch26, From [[User:Thivierr |
Independent Workers Union of Ireland | Short description | The Independent Workers Union of Ireland (IWU) is a trade union in Ireland with its headquarters in Cork City. It was formed by Irish workers dissatisfied with the trade union movement in Ireland which it states, has "become nothing more than an arm of the state and management." It has over 1,000 paying members organised in 7 Branches in Ireland and is affiliated to the ideals of early Irish trade unionists such as James Connolly and Jim Larkin. It is not affiliated to the main Trade Union Umbrella body the ICTU. |
Independent Workers Union of Ireland | Campaigns | Campaigns
The IWU and its members campaigned against the Treaty of Lisbon and continue to campaign vigorously against austerity measures. |
Independent Workers Union of Ireland | Iceland | Iceland
In 2023, IWU was involved in a protracted industrial dispute with Metron Stores Ltd, the Irish franchisee of Iceland Foods. In January 2023, the Republic of Ireland branch of Iceland Foods UK transferred its operations to Metron Stores Ltd, and over the following months, a series of payroll issues developed that led to workers going unpaid. This, in the context of doubt and uncertainty about the brand's future, and a number of other grievances related to governance, pay and conditions, led to widespread dissatisfaction among the employees. In May, the IWU successfully balloted its members at a number of Iceland stores in Dublin for industrial action, with strike action taking place the following week.
After a series of further developments, including a product recall by the FSAI, Metron Stores sought the protection of the courts and entered examinership in May. A number of stores were closed throughout the country with many workers being placed on temporary lay-off. In response, workers occupied several stores with the support of the IWU in a widely publicised national dispute lasting for over 90 days. The IWU continued to negotiate with the examiner demanding the reimbursement of the workers for all outstanding payments, including redundancy payments. In September 2023, Metron Stores entered liquidation and all of the remaining stores in the Republic of Ireland were closed.
The IWU's industrial campaign was supported by actor Liam Cunningham. A number of politicians raised concerns and queries in Dáil Éireann, including criticisms of the government for failing to intervene in the situation. The President of the IWU, Cristina Diamant, articulated a number of political demands as part of its campaign, including calls for increased funding for WRC inspections of working conditions, as well as new regulations to prevent strategic bankruptcy from being utilised to the expense of workers. |
Independent Workers Union of Ireland | References | References |
Independent Workers Union of Ireland | External links | External links
IWU Youth Bebo page
Category:Trade unions in the Republic of Ireland
Category:Trade unions established in 2002
Category:National trade union centres of Ireland
Category:All-Ireland organisations |
Independent Workers Union of Ireland | Table of Content | Short description, Campaigns, Iceland, References, External links |
Ibrahim Nasrallah | Short description | Ibrahim Nasrallah (; 2 December 1954), the winner of the Arabic Booker Prize (2018), was born in 1954 to Palestinian parents who were evicted from their land in Al-Burayj, Palestine in 1948. He spent his childhood and youth in a refugee camp in Jordan, and began his career as a teacher in Saudi Arabia. After returning to Amman, he worked in the media and cultural sectors till 2006 when he dedicated his life to writing. To date, he has published 15 poetry collections, 22 novels, and several other books. In 1985, he started writing the Palestinian Comedy covering 250 years of modern Palestinian history in a series of novels in which each novel is an independent one; to date 13 novels have been published in the framework of this project. Five of his novels and a volume of poetry have been published in English, nine in Persian, four works in Italian, two in Spanish, and one novel in Danish and Turkish.
Nasrallah is also an artist and photographer and has had four solo exhibitions of his photography. He won nine prizes, and his novel Prairies of Fever was chosen by the Guardian newspaper as one of the most important ten novels written by Arabs or non-Arabs about the Arab world. Three of his novels were listed on the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for the years 2009, 2013, and 2014. In 2012 he won the inaugural Jerusalem Award for Culture and Creativity for his literary work. His books are considered one of the most influential and best seller Arabic books, as new editions are released frequently and many young readers are attracted to his books.
In January 2014, he succeeded in summiting Mount Kilimanjaro in a venture that involved two Palestinian adolescents, a boy and a girl, who have lost their legs. The climb was in support to a nongovernmental organization dedicated to providing medical services to Palestinian and Arab children. Nasrallah wrote about this journey in a novel entitled The Spirits of Kilimanjaro (2015). In 2016, Nasrallah was awarded the Katara Prize for Arabic Novels for this work.
His novel The Second Dog War was awarded the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (Arabic Booker) for 2018.
In 2020 he became the first Arabic writer to be awarded the "Katara Prize" for Arabic Novels for the second time for his novel "A Tank Under the Christmas Tree". |
Ibrahim Nasrallah | Poetry | Poetry
Love is Wicked, 2017.
A Ray of Light Between Two Nights, 2012.
If I were a maestro, 2009
Flute Chamber, 2007
Mirrors of Angels, 2001
In the Name of the Mother and the Son, 1999. (, Arab Scientific Publishers, 128 pages, 2010)
The Book of Death and the Dead, 1998
Verandahs of Autumn, 1997.
Volume of Poetic Collection (1980-1993), 1994
The Fox’s Scandal, 1993 (Published in English).
Green Wood, 1991
Storms of the Heart, 1989
The River Boy and the General, 1987
The Last Dialogue a Few Minutes Before the Killing of the Sparrow, 1984
No’man Recovers His Color, 1984
Morning Songs, 1984
The Rain Inside, 1982 (, Curbstone Books, 126 pages, 2009)
Horses are Overlooking the City, 1980 |
Ibrahim Nasrallah | Novels | Novels
Prairies of Fever, Arabic edition 1985; English edition by Interlink 1993 (), Italian edition by Edizioni Lavoro 2001, Hebrow edition by Hed Arzi in 2001, and Danish edition by Underskoven in 2006
Terrestrial Waves, 1988
The Barking Dog (Aw), 1990
Just the Two of Us, Arabic edition 1992, Italian edition by Ilisso under the title Dentro la notte 2004, and English edition under the title Inside the Night () by The American University in Cairo Press, 2007
The Guard of the Lost city, 1998
Balcony of Delirium, 2005
Balcony of Snow Man 2009
Balcony of Disgrace 2010
Balcony of Abyss 2013
Balcony of Paradise 2014
The Second Dog War 2016
"Short Story Writer's Tragedy" 2021
Palestinian comedy covering 250 years of modern Palestinian history (12 novels)
Birds of Caution, 1996.
Eraser Child, 2000.
Olive Trees of The Streets, 2002.
Safe Weddings, 2004. (, Arab Scientific Publishers, 2009)
Under the Midmorning Sun, 2004. (English , Arab Scientific Publishers, 2009)
Time of White Horses, 2007. Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, , Nancy Roberts (translator), American University in Cairo Press (Publisher), 512 pages
Lanterns of The King of Galilee, 2012.
Spirits of Kilimanjaro, 2015. 4 Arabic editions.
Bells Trilogy: Keys' Shadows, An Autobiography of an Eye, A Tank Under the Christmas Tree, 2019.
My Childhood So Far, 2022
Nasrallah has also written poetry for children in two collections:
Good Morning Children, 1983.
Good Things Called Home, 1984.
As a writer and editor he has also published literary works about other Arab writers and poets which include:
The Book of Writing: That is Life…That is Color (Testimonies about Writing), . Author. 2018
The Flying Autobiography; Less than an Enemy. More than a Friend. Author. 2006
The Defeat of the Victors: The Cinema between Creativity and Market Demand. Author. 2000
Portraits of Being: Cinematic Reflections, 2010.. Author. 2000
The Art and the Artist: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra’s writings about fine art (editor) 2000.
The Complete Poetry Collection of The Palestinian Poet Ahmad Hilmi Abdul-Baqui, (Researcher and Editor), 2002.
Nasrallah is a regular contributor to several to the main newspapers in the Arab world.
He is also a painter and photographer. He has contributed to several exhibitions and had his own photography shows entitled The Autobiography of an Eye in 1996, and Under Two Suns: Images and Words in 2004, The Life of the Dead Sea a participation at the fifth Gwangju Biennale – South Korea 2004.
Many academic theses handled his poetry and novels. The following dealt exclusively with his works:
Nasrallah also had poetry reading at several cultural centers in metropolitan cities such as Paris, Rome, Venice, Frankfurt, Berlin, and cities in England Denmark, Switzerland and the United States of America ...., not to mention numerous literary activities in almost all Arabic capitals. Nasrallah also gave lectures and poetry readings at many of the local Jordanian universities as well Arabs and European universities. His work has attracted attention among critics and international academia with 10 books of literary criticism, 15 PhD dissertations, and around 45 master's theses studying his work. |
Ibrahim Nasrallah | Awards | Awards
In April 2018, he won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction award for The Second War of the Dog.
In 2020 he won the Katara Prize for Arabic Novels for the second time, for his novel A Tank Under the Christmas Tree.
In 2018 he won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his novel The Second Dog War.
In 2016, he won the Katara Prize for Arabic Novels for his novel The Spirits of Kilimanjaro.
In 2012 he won the inaugural (Jerusalem Award for Culture and Creativity) for his literary work.
The prestigious Sultan Owais Literary Award for Poetry in 1997, a prize for Arab language poets.
Three awards from the Jordanian Writers Association for the best volume of poetry.
The Tayseer Sbool prize for his novels in 1994.
The Arar literary Award, for Jordanian and Arab poets, Jordan, 1991. |
Ibrahim Nasrallah | Political persecution | Political persecution
In June 2006, Nasrallah's fourth collection of poetry Nu’man Yastariddu Lawnahu (Anemone Regains Its Colour) first published in 1984, was suddenly banned in Jordan, while Nasrallah faced charges of insulting the state, inciting dissension and reporting inaccurate information to future generations.
In an interview with The Guardian, Nasrallah commented on the charges he was facing by saying: "I was completely shocked,I did not know how to respond. All I could think of at that moment was that I needed to finish the book I was working on before things got worse. But I was unable to continue writing. I was confused and angry and also afraid." |
Ibrahim Nasrallah | References | References
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Rodney Anderson (Wyoming politician) | Short description | Rodney "Pete" Anderson (born July 9, 1931) is an American politician. He served as a Republican member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, representing the 10th district. |
Rodney Anderson (Wyoming politician) | Biography | Biography
Anderson was born in Kimball, Nebraska. He attended Bethel College from 1949 to 1950, John Brown University from 1950 to 1951, and the University of Wyoming from 1951 to 1953. He worked as a farmer/rancher, and served in the 82nd Airborne Division from 1953 to 1955.
Anderson was the President of Anderson Livestock from 1965 to 1996, and President of D.R.W. Incorporated from 1970 to 2004. He was a member of the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1992 to 2010. He served as Majority Whip in the State House from 2001 to 2002. He served as Chairman of the Revenue Committee and Select Water Committee.
Anderson and his wife reside in Pine Bluffs, Wyoming. |
Rodney Anderson (Wyoming politician) | See also | See also
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Rodney Anderson (Wyoming politician) | References | References |
Rodney Anderson (Wyoming politician) | External links | External links
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Battle of Patan | Short description | The Battle of Patan was fought on 20 June 1790 between the Maratha Kingdom of Gwalior supported by the Peshwa & Holkar and the alliance formed by the Rajput Kingdoms of Amber, Kingdom of Marwar supported by Mirza Ismail Beg who betrayed Mahadji and joined the Rajput army in exchange for a promise of money. The battle resulted in a decisive Maratha victory. |
Battle of Patan | Battle | Battle
It was Ekadashi and therefore the Hindus did not participate in the fighting. However, the Muslim soldiers on both sides continued their skirmishes. During a skirmish, some Pindaris of Sindhia stole cattle from Ismail Beg and Ismail hurried to rescue them However, Gopal Bhau with 2,000 of his horsemen joined the fight, resulting in a one hour skirmish which Ismail Beg, through his personal valour was able to fend off. This skirmish resulted in open fire between both sides. Gopal Bhau sent his men against the Rathors who were stationed in the centre. Bhau's squadron, through their hit and run tactics, led the Rathors into a trap where Boigne shot them down and then bayoneted the surviving horsemen. Boigne, after defeating the Rathors, immediately turned his guns towards Ismail and shot his men down. Ismail was not able to return fire and his men fled, followed by Ismail himself. Abdul Beg and Alaya Matlab also abandoned the field and their men. The only event worth noting was the Rathor charge against the Maratha right wing. The 4,000 strong Holkar contingent was saved by swift reinforcements sent by Gopal Bhau. The Jaipur Nagas were forced into their positions by the two battalions sent by Boigne. De Boigne, after routing the centre and left wings of the alliance, turned all of his forces to the right. The Rathors were soon surrounded and routed. |
Battle of Patan | Aftermath | Aftermath
Pitted against European armed and French trained Marathas, Rajput states capitulated one after the other. The Marathas managed to conquer Ajmer and Malwa from Rajputs. Although Jaipur and Jodhpur remained unconquered. The Battle of Patan effectively ended Rajput hopes for independence from external interference. Historian Sir Jadunath Sarkar notes:
From the day of Patan (20th June 1790) to the 2nd of April 1818 when Jaipur entered into protective subsidiary alliance with the British government, lay the gloomiest period in the history of Jaipur kingdom.
His victory increased Scindia's influence with the Peshwas (Maratha Prime Ministers) in Pune, the seat of Maratha government and firmly established Maratha influence in Rajputana. |
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