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United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, often simply the United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC), was formed in 1881 by Peter J. McGuire and Gustav Luebkert. It has become one of the largest trade unions in the United States, and through chapters, and locals, there is international cooperation that poises the brotherhood for a global role. For example, the North American Chapter has over 520,000 members throughout the continent.

Early years
The union was created on August 12, 1881, by Peter J. McGuire and Gustav Luebkert. The two men organized groups for collective bargaining, and started a newspaper called The Carpenter to facilitate their idea of a national union. The Brotherhood held its first convention in Chicago in August 1881. The cornerstone of local and regional affiliations in support of common goals was laid out to show ways to maximize the unions bargaining potential. The immediate common goals were wage and hour demands, and death and sickness benefits. The union grew from its 1881 membership of 2000, to 50,000 by 1890, and 100,000 by 1900.

While Peter J. McGuire was a socialist, the union itself was non-political, refusing to endorse any political party or philosophy. It was not, on the other hand, apolitical: it supported legislation establishing the eight-hour day.

The union also struck to obtain the eight-hour day, calling a strike of its affiliates for May 1, 1886. The strike itself was ineffective and provoked a repressive response, particularly in Chicago, where police shot and killed two strikers two days later, leading to the Haymarket Riot the following day.

Even so, the strike gave the Brotherhood added visibility that led to increased membership. The union struck again in 1890, with similarly uneven results, but now facing the stiffened resistance of newly formed employers associations.

The Brotherhood admitted both black and white carpenters on an equal footing when it was first formed; one of the union's vice-presidents in its early years was L.E. Rames, an African-American carpenter from Charleston, South Carolina. In the South, however, the union often isolated black carpenters in segregated locals as a concession to the opposition of white carpenters and contractors. Local unions also often excluded black workers on a de facto basis. The union formally dissolved its segregated locals in 1963.

The union also faced fierce pressures from outside to exclude black carpenters: in 1919 supervisors from the Great Southern Lumber Company, the mayor of Bogalusa, Louisiana, and local businessmen affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, attacked and killed four union organizers who had attempted to organize black and white lumber mill workers. None of the attackers were convicted of any crimes.

Expansion and conflict
McGuire was forced out of office in 1901 by Frank Duffy and others after a scandal concerning his inability to account for all of the funds received by the union. Many rank and file members of the time suspected that McGuire was framed by elements within the growing bureaucracy of the Carpenters' Union, with whom McGuire had fought several political battles over their attempts to gain more power over rank and file/local union control.

McGuire's successors took a more aggressive stance toward other unions whose members were performing work that the Carpenters union either considered its own members' right to perform or saw as a threat to their craft traditions. The union waged jurisdictional strikes to claim work that other unions, such as the Machinists, Sheet Metal Workers and Electrical Workers claimed as theirs. The Carpenters used its size to win many of these disputes. After the death of president James Kirby in 1915, it frequently disaffiliated from the AFL's Building Trades Department to protest those decisions it lost.

In the decade that followed, the union fought off employers' efforts to impose the open shop, which would have made it very difficult for the union to maintain the standards and membership it had won. While the open shop drive may have stalled the Carpenters' growth during the decade, it did not cause the severe membership losses and wage cuts that other unions suffered.

In some areas, the union not only prospered, but elected its own leaders to public office. The head of the most powerful Carpenters local in San Francisco and the head of the San Francisco Building Trades Council, P.H. McCarthy was elected mayor of San Francisco in 1909, while unionists riding the wave of populist enthusiasm won office in many other communities. The union won wage and union protections similar to the Davis-Bacon Act during World War I.

The Carpenters fought these same open shop battles a second time, after the end of World War I, when employers tried to impose their "American Plan" in the centers of union strength, such as San Francisco and Chicago. While the employers were successful in some areas, the Carpenters came out of the 1920s with improved wages and relatively slight losses in membership.

Depression and change
The union lost more than half of its members in the first years of the Great Depression as construction dwindled to almost nothing. The Union at first opposed unemployment insurance, consistent with the conservative politics of the AFL and the deep-seated opposition of its President William Hutcheson to governmental intervention of any sort in labor and employment matters. The union eventually dropped its opposition to unemployment insurance by 1934.

The union also opposed industrial unionism, claiming the right to represent any workers who might perform framing or other traditional carpenters' duties in industrial settings. While the union made concessions to those unions, such as the United Mine Workers of America, that had already established themselves as industrial unions, it opposed any support for organizing workers in mass production industries or permitting such organizations to affiliate with the AFL unless they first surrendered their skilled trade members.

This dispute came to a head at the AFL's convention in Atlantic City in 1935, when Hutcheson interrupted a speech by a representative of the committee that was attempting to organize tire factory workers with a point of order. John L. Lewis, President of the Mine Workers, responded that Hutcheson's point of order was "small potatoes," to which Hutcheson replied "I was raised on small potatoes, that is why I am so small." Lewis left the podium and, after some more words, knocked Hutcheson down, then relit his cigar and returned to the rostrum. Lewis and a number of other unions left the AFL two years later to form the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

While the Carpenters disdained industrial unionism, they were willing to accept mass production workers into their own union, albeit as second-class members. The Carpenters had fought with the Wood Workers union chartered by the AFL for decades, claiming that any workers who planed wood products that were subsequently used in construction, such as doors, sashes, mouldings and the like, were performing carpenters' work and must be brought within its union. While the Carpenters had never made similar claims on work performed by sawmill workers, much less tried to organize them, the union successfully insisted that the AFL assign the newly created Sawmill and Timber Workers' Union to it in 1935. That forced marriage was not successful, as most of these workers soon bolted to form the International Woodworkers of America and to join the CIO several years later after a recognition strike.

Hutcheson ran the union without room for opposition to his administration; he revoked the charters of locals that opposed him or that he believed to be "communistic". He refused to permit the nomination of candidates to oppose him at the union's convention and named his own son, Maurice Hutcheson, First Vice-president in 1938. Maurice succeeded him on his retirement in 1952.

Hutcheson was a vocal opponent of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whom he denounced as a "dictator" while campaigning for his opponent, Alf Landon, in 1936. Hutcheson's conservative politics and his conflict with the CIO may have played some part in the government's decision in 1940 to charge Hutcheson and other union leaders for criminal violations of the Sherman Act in 1940. The government claimed that the union's traditional methods of protecting its members' work — jurisdictional strikes, resistance to work-displacing technology, and featherbedding — were illegal restraints of trade. The United States Supreme Court upheld the district court's dismissal of the indictment in the first prosecution brought by the government in United States v. Hutcheson,, ending any further prosecutions of the Carpenters.

The Carpenters found themselves in an unusual alliance with a coalition of other craft unions in Hollywood, the Conference of Studio Unions, led by Herbert Sorrell of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades. After a long and drawn out strike caused by a divide and conquer strategy of the producers, CSU found itself forced out of Hollywood, leaving the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees as the primary representative of back lot crafts.

Challenge from non-union contractors
The Carpenters, like other building trades, had not faced serious employer opposition since the 1920s. This changed in the 1970s as the Business Roundtable, made up of the heads of General Motors, General Electric, Exxon, U.S. Steel, DuPont and others, undertook a program to reduce building costs by replacing unionized with non-union contractors. The Roundtable also attempted to weaken the Davis-Bacon Act and other legislation that protected construction workers. The building trades, caught off guard and used to organizing from the top down, lost large amounts of work to non-union contractors in the decades that followed.

Recent developments
The International Union of Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers merged into the Carpenters in 1979, followed in 1988 by the Tile, Marble, Terrazzo, Finishers', Shopworkers' and Granite Cutters' International Union. In 1994, the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers affiliated with the Carpenters.

The Carpenters were formerly, like most other craft unions coming out of the AFL, a union that allowed its Locals substantial autonomy in bargaining and representing their members. The Carpenter's International began to consolidate Locals into a District Council system in 1988 and since the International Convention of 2000, a system of "Regional Councils" has been implemented, further reducing the number of districts and high ranking board members from 13 down to 10. While it may be debatable whether McCarron's vision is better or worse for the International Carpenters Union as a whole, they are one of only a very few International Unions in America whose membership has been maintained or grown while most other Unions have seen large declines in membership.

Consolidation of Locals was to address the regionalization of the contracting industry. The contractor who only worked within the local area was quickly becoming a thing of the past, while non-Union contractors were free to move their crews - experienced with the company's methods of operation - from job to job, Union Contractors could not move their workers beyond the borders of the District's jurisdictional boundaries without replacing their crews with new carpenters from the jurisdictional district outside the Contractor's home Council. Union contractors rightfully claimed the situation was making them less competitive than the non-Union crews, and the 50% rule was adopted. Union contractors may now use crews with one local Carpenter for each Company Carpenter on jobs outside their Region. The consolidation greatly expanded the boundaries of a Regional Council's jurisdiction and left the consolidated areas with a larger Council better able to compete with the growing non-Union segment of specialized contractors. Because of the pervasive protectionism practiced by the Locals, free movement of workers within a Council was only possible after this authority was taken from the Locals and given to the Councils in the 1991 UBC Convention.

Within this new system, working Carpenters slowly lost the right to vote for their Local's Business Agents and Organizers, thus consolidating all power into the Regional Council's officers and leaving Locals and rank and file members to vote on Delegate to the intermediary Regional Councils. As the union began reorganizing its system of District Councils to give more power to Regional Councils, it consolidated Locals into fewer Charters and deprived local members of the right to vote on contract ratification, giving into the hands of the Regional Council Delegates as the contracts also expanded covering greater areas than a single Local. However, all contracts are voted on by the rank and file members of the various locals belonging to the Northern California Carpenter's Regional Council.

A Federal Court of Appeals first questioned, then approved the United States Department of Labor's failure to treat these Councils as "local unions" for purposes of the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act's requirements governing local union elections, the department has announced its intent to reconsider its existing regulations on this issue.

The Carpenters disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO in 2001, citing complaints about the National Federation's failure to follow up on its program to organize the unorganized. Other observers attributed the Carpenters' departure to its unhappiness with jurisdictional awards and other restrictions on its ability to raid the jurisdictions of other unions, as well as the AFL-CIO's uncritical and exclusive support of the Democratic Party.

Even after it left the federation, however, the Carpenters formed a temporary alliance, the New Unity Partnership in 2003 and the Change to Win Coalition with other unions — including SEIU, UNITE HERE, and the Laborers — to force the AFL-CIO to consider basic structural changes in order to facilitate organizing. In the summer of 2009, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters disaffiliated from Change to Win after the other affiliates in the Change to Win Coalition demanded the Carpenters cease raiding other Union's membership and allow Carpenter members basic democratic rights.

Presidents

 * 1881: Gabriel Edmonston
 * 1882: John D. Allen
 * 1883: J. P. McGinley
 * 1884: Joseph P. Billingsley
 * 1886: William J. Shields
 * 1888: D. P. Rowland
 * 1890: W. H. Kliver
 * 1892: Henry H. Trenor
 * 1894: Charles B. Owens
 * 1896: Harry Lloyd
 * 1898: John Williams
 * 1899: William Huber
 * 1913: James Kirby
 * 1915: William Hutcheson
 * 1952: Maurice Hutcheson
 * 1972: William Sidell
 * 1980: William Konyha
 * 1982: Patrick J. Campbell
 * 1988: Sigurd Lucassen
 * 1995: Douglas J. McCarron

General Secretary-Treasurers
From 1901 until 1995, the position was General Secretary.

 * 1881: Peter J. McGuire
 * 1901: Frank Duffy
 * 1948: Albert E. Fischer
 * 1957: Richard E. Livingston
 * 1978: John S. Rodgers
 * 1992: James Patterson
 * 1996: Andris Silins
 * 2019: Michael Capelli

Archives

 * United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America archives, 1840–2000, 640 linear feet. At the University of Maryland Libraries Special Collections.
 * United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 132 archives, 1925–2004, 27.50 linear feet. At the University of Maryland Libraries Special Collections.
 * Washington History Finding Aids provides finding aid to article subject from the Special Collections, Washington State Historical Society (WSHS)
 * United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America District Council, Seattle Records, 1918–1972. 8 cubic feet. At the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.
 * United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 131 (Seattle, Washington) Records, 1888–1960. 9 cubic feet.
 * United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 1289 (Seattle, Washington) Records, 1911–1958. 64 cubic feet.
 * Harry L. Carr Papers. 1962–1972. .42 cubic feet. Contains records from Carr's service as president of Carpenters' District Council, Seattle, Washington.
 * United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 1214 records at the Whitman College and Northwest Archives, Whitman College.

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Fictionalism

Fictionalism is the view in philosophy which posits that statements appearing to be descriptions of the world should not be construed as such, but should instead be understood as cases of "make believe." Thus, allowing individuals to treat something as literally true (a "useful fiction").

Concept
Fictionalism consists in at least the following three theses:
 * 1) Claims made within the domain of discourse are taken to be truth-apt; that is, true or false.
 * 2) The domain of discourse is to be interpreted at face value—not reduced to meaning something else.
 * 3) The aim of discourse in any given domain is not truth, but some other virtue(s) (e.g., simplicity, explanatory scope).

Two important strands of fictionalism are: modal fictionalism developed by Gideon Rosen, which states that possible worlds, regardless of whether they exist or not, may be a part of a useful discourse, and mathematical fictionalism advocated by Hartry Field.

Modal fictionalism is recognized as further refinement to the basic fictionalism as it holds that representations of possible worlds in texts are useful fictions. Conceptualization explains that it is a descriptive theorizing of what a text, such as the Bible, amounts to. It is also associated with linguistic ersatzism in the sense that both are views possible worlds.

Fictionalism, on the other hand, in the philosophy of mathematics states that talk of numbers and other mathematical objects is nothing more than a convenience for computation. According to Field, there is no reason to treat parts of mathematics that involve reference to or quantification as true. In this discourse, mathematical objects are accorded the same metaphysical status as literary figures such as Macbeth.

Also in meta-ethics, there is an equivalent position called moral fictionalism (championed by Richard Joyce). Many modern versions of fictionalism are influenced by the work of Kendall Walton in aesthetics.

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Tilopa

Tilopa (Prakrit; Sanskrit: Talika or Tilopadā; 988–1069) was an Indian Buddhist tantric mahasiddha who lived along the Ganges River. He practised Anuttarayoga Tantra, a set of spiritual practices intended to accelerate the process of attaining Buddhahood. He became a holder of all the tantric lineages, possibly the only person in his day to do so. In addition to the way of insight and Mahamudra, Tilopa learned and passed on the Way of Methods (today known as the Six Yogas of Naropa) and guru yoga. Naropa is considered his main student.

Life
Tilopa was born into the priestly Brahmin caste. He adopted the monastic life upon receiving orders from a dakini (female buddha whose activity is to inspire practitioners) who told him to adopt a mendicant and itinerant existence. From the beginning, she made it clear to Tilopa that his real parents were not the persons who had raised him, but instead were primordial wisdom and universal voidness. Advised by the dakini, Tilopa gradually took up a monk's life, taking the monastic vows and becoming an erudite scholar. The frequent visits of his dakini teacher continued to guide his spiritual path and close the gap to enlightenment.

He was born in either Chativavo (Chittagong) or Jagora in Bengal, India.

He began to travel throughout India, receiving teachings from many gurus:

 * from Saryapa he learned of inner heat (Sanskrit: caṇḍalī, Tib. tummo, inner heat);
 * from Nagarjuna he received the radiant light (Sanskrit: prabashvara) and illusory body (Sanskrit:  maya deha, Tib. gyulu) teachings (Cakrasaṃvara Tantra), Lagusamvara tantra, or Heruka Abhidharma;
 * from Lawapa, the dream yoga;
 * from Sukhasiddhi, the teachings on life, death, and the bardo (states between lives and consciousness transference/phowa);
 * from Indrabhuti, he gained wisdom (prajña);
 * and from Matangi, the resurrection of the dead body.

As advised by Matangi, Tilopa started to work at a brothel in Bengal for a prostitute called Dharima as her solicitor and bouncer. During the day, he was grinding sesame seeds for his living. During a meditation, he received a vision of Vajradhara and, according to legend, the entirety of mahamudra was directly transmitted to Tilopa. After receiving the transmission, Tilopa meditated in two caves, and bound himself with heavy chains to hold the correct meditation posture. He practised for many years and then met the mind of all buddhas in the form of Diamond Holder Vajradhara. He is considered the grandfather of today's Kagyu Lineage. Naropa, his most important student, became his successor and carried and passed on the teachings.

On the premises of Pashupatinath Temple, regarded as the greatest Hindu shrine in Nepal, there are two caves where Tilopa attained siddhis and initiated his disciple Naropa.

Six Precepts or Words of Advice
Tilopa gave Naropa a teaching called the Six Words of Advice, the original Sanskrit or Bengali of which is not extant; the text has reached us in its Tibetan translation. In Tibetan, the teaching is called gnad kyi gzer drug – literally, "six nails of key points"; the aptness of the title becomes clear if one considers the meaning of the English idiomatic expression, "to hit the nail on the head."

According to Ken McLeod, the text contains exactly six words; the two English translations given in the following table are both attributed to him. Watts-Wayman translation

An earlier translation circa 1957 by Alan Watts and Dr. Alex Wayman rendered Tilopa's "Six Precepts" as
 * No thought, no reflection, no analysis,
 * No cultivation, no intention;
 * Let it settle itself.

In a footnote, Watts cited a Tibetan source text at partial variance with McLeod's in sequence and syntax, namely:
 * Mi-mno, mi-bsam, mi-dpyad-ching,
 * Mi-bsgom, mi-sems, rang-babs-bzhag.

Based on an "elucidation" provided by Wayman, Watts explained that
 * Mi-mno is approximately equivalent to the Zen terms wu-hsin (無心) or wu-nien (無念), "no-mind" or "no thought." Bsam is the equivalent of the Sanskrit cintana, i.e., discursive thinking about what has been heard, and dpyad of mimamsa, or "philosophical analysis." Bsgom is probably bhavana or the Chinese hsiu (修), "to cultivate," "to practice," or "intense concentration." Sems is cetana or szu (思), with the sense of intention or volition. Rang-babs-bzhag is literally "self-settle-establish," and "self-settle" would seem to be an almost exact equivalent of the Taoist tzu-jan (自然, pinyin: zì rán), "self-so", "spontaneous", or "natural".

Watts had studied Chinese, and Wayman was a Tibetologist and professor of Sanskrit associated with UCLA and later Columbia University.

Mahamudra instructions
Tilopa also gave mahamudra instruction to Naropa by means of the song known as "The Ganges Mahamudra," one stanza of which reads:

 * The fool in his ignorance, disdaining Mahamudra,
 * Knows nothing but struggle in the flood of samsara.
 * Have compassion for those who suffer constant anxiety!
 * Sick of unrelenting pain and desiring release, adhere to a master,
 * For when his blessing touches your heart, the mind is liberated.

Attachment and enjoyment
One of the most famous and important statements attributed to Tilopa is: "The problem is not enjoyment; the problem is attachment."

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Hartry Field

Hartry H. Field (born November 30, 1946) is an American philosopher. He is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University; he is a notable contributor to philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind.

Early life and education
Hartry Hamlin Field was born on November 30, 1946, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Adelaide (Anderson) and Donald Field. Field earned a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1967 and an M.A. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1968. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard in 1972 under the direction of Hilary Putnam and Richard Boyd.

Academic career
He taught first at Princeton University, and then at the University of Southern California and City University of New York Graduate Center before joining the NYU faculty in 1997, where he is currently Silver Professor of Philosophy.

Field was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and is also a past winner of the Lakatos Prize in 1986. He delivered the 2008 John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford. In 2012, he was appointed Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Birmingham in the UK.

Philosophical work
Field's first work was a commentary on Alfred Tarski's theory of truth, which he has worked on since 1972. His current view on this matter is in favor of a deflationary theory of truth. His most influential work produced in this period is probably "Theory Change and the Indeterminacy of Reference" (Journal of Philosophy, 70(14): 462–481), in which he introduced the concept of partial denotation.

In the 1980s, Field started a project in the philosophy of mathematics in support of mathematical fictionalism, the doctrine that all mathematical statements are merely useful fictions, and should not be taken to be literally true. More precisely, Field aimed to produce reconstructions of science that would remove all reference to mathematical entities, hence showing that mathematics is dispensable to science in opposition to the Quine–Putnam indispensability argument.

Much of his current work is in semantic paradoxes. In 2008, he gave the John Locke Lectures, entitled "Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability".

Books

 * Science Without Numbers, Blackwell, 1980
 * Realism, Mathematics and Modality, Blackwell, 1989
 * Truth and the Absence of Fact, Oxford University Press 2001
 * Saving Truth from Paradox, Oxford University Press, 2008

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Peter J. McGuire

Peter J. McGuire (July 6, 1852 – February 18, 1906) was an American labor leader of the nineteenth century. He co-founded the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America in 1881 along with Gustav Luebkert and became one of the leading figures in the first three decades of the American Federation of Labor. He is credited with first proposing the idea of Labor Day as a national holiday in 1882.

Early life
Born in New York City into a poor Irish Catholic family, he was a political activist before he became a trade unionist. He became a member in 1873 of a body known as the Committee for Public Safety, which was agitating for unemployment benefits. McGuire was arrested while occupying the office of the city's Police Commissioner, who had refused to grant them a parade permit. Shortly thereafter, he joined with Adolph Strasser, later president of the Cigar Makers' Union, to found the Social Democratic Workingmens Party of North America, a Lassallean socialist organization that proposed to achieve socialism through organization of a socialist party and the organization of trade unions. McGuire founded and edited a paper known as The Toiler, toured the United States lecturing for the party, and worked as a carpenter during the 1870s.

Work
McGuire believed that political organizing held more promise for advancing workers' rights than unionism did during this decade. He became deeply involved in the campaign for the eight-hour day and a member of the Greenback Labor Party after moving in 1878 to St. Louis, Missouri, where he continued to work as a carpenter and joined the Knights of Labor. He led a successful strike of carpenters in St. Louis for the eight-hour day.

With the collapse of the Greenback Labor Party, he became more committed to unionism. As a member of the Knights of Labor who disagreed with some of the labor policies of the Knights of Labor, he supported the creation of a separate labor federation. He attended one of the preliminary meetings that led to the organization of the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in 1881. McGuire served as Vice-President of the Federation and its successor, the American Federation of Labor, for most of the following two decades.

In the same year that McGuire called for founding of a national labor federation, he helped organize the convention of various carpenters' unions that formed the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America on August 8, 1881. The organization had a number of goals: to improve carpenters and working conditions by  protecting the craft from the incursions on their work made by new woodworking machinery that threatened to displace their work of making doors, sashes and other planed elements and to prevent the debasing of their craft by subcontracting, piece rates and other practices that divided the carpenter's work into smaller, less skilled functions. The Carpenters Union proposed to do this by controlling the supply of labor, organizing the entire industry and excluding non-union contractors from the market.

In order to do that, the union first had to either absorb or eliminate rival unions in the industry. This process took two decades to accomplish, as other organizations, such as the United Order of American Carpenters and the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, were just as protective of their jurisdiction. McGuire negotiated reciprocal arrangements with some unions, such as the Amalgamated Society, then later negotiated to absorb it within the Carpenters as a semi-autonomous entity within it. McGuire also negotiated jurisdictional agreements with other unions, such as the Shipwrights Union and the Wood Workers, with competing claims to work that the Carpenters claimed.

McGuire had been not only the only leader that the union had for its first twenty years, but nearly the entire organization for a good part of that time, paying union expenses out of his own pocket. That, along with his conciliatory attitude toward rival unions, gave rise to widespread opposition to his administration at the beginning of the twentieth century. His opponents demanded an audit of the union's records, which showed that approximately ten thousand dollars could not be accounted for. McGuire was arrested for embezzlement in 1901 and voted out of office in 1902.

At the 1902 Carpenters' convention, the last he attended, he addressed the delegates:

 * [A] man wears out like a piece of machinery. . . . I am not lost entirely in this world but I have had enough to wreck me physically, destroy me mentally.

McGuire died four years later, his death hastened by alcoholism. He is buried in Arlington Cemetery in Pennsauken Township, New Jersey.

Honors
In 2014, McGuire was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.

In August 2021, a group of rank and file union carpenters in Western Washington organized the Peter J. McGuire Group to push for a better contract and more transparency from the union leadership.

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Lambert Bos

Lambert Bos (23 October 1670 – 6 January 1717) (or Lambertus Bos or Lammert Bos) was a Dutch scholar, critic and forerunner of Tiberius Hemsterhuis.

Lambert Bos was born at Workum in Friesland, where his father, Jakob Bos, was headmaster of the school. His mother was Gerarda de Haan. He was baptised in the reformed church in Workum on 25 November 1670. He went to the University of Franeker (suppressed by Napoleon in 1811), and was appointed lector in 1697 and professor of Greek in 1704. On 28 February 1712 he married Feiktje Doeckes Sineda, the widow of the priest Gerradus Horreus, and earlier the widow of Dominic Camper. after an uneventful life he died at Franeker in 1717.

His most famous work, Ellipses Graecae (1702), was translated into English by John Seager (1830); and his Antiquitates Graecae (1714) passed through several editions. He also published ''Vetus Testamentum, Ex Versione lxx. Interpretum (1709); notes on Thomas Magister (1698); Exercitationes Philologicae ad loca nonnulla Novi Foederis (1700); Animadversiones ad Scriptores quosdam Graecos (1715); and two small treatises on Accents and Greek Syntax''.

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Robertson was a Scotsman, his place of birth was Duns, Berwickshire. Last time I looked from my window in Duns, it was still in Scotland.

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I got the impression from my school geography books that a gorge has a river running though it while a canyon doesn't have one. Does having (or not having) a river make any difference to the definition of the terms canyon or gorge?

 * I dont think so, there is a river running through the grand canyon and the elora gorge, and most gorges/canyons at one point had rivers or streams running though them to create them.say1988

As far as I know, gorge is the more common name in canada, though the article makes it sem canyon is. At least in southern ontario there are a number of gorges, erlora gorge for example, and no canyons that I know of. Also what is a ravine? it is redirected here, is it a sinonym (jmkijkjkjty6gfthe same thing) or is there something tht makes something a ravine? say1988 14:51, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * presumably gorge redirects here, but I noted while looking something up that Chasm redirects to Rift, which isn't right; IMO it should redirect here, to canyon.Skookum1 (talk) 17:48, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Valles Marineris
Is it possible one could put in an image of this canyon on this page as well? If that is okay, how would I add the image along with the other pictures of the canyons? — Preceding unsigned comment added by FatalGravity (talk • contribs) 18:02, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

English canyons
Re: "Canyons often form in areas of limestone rock. Limestone is to a certain extent soluble, so cave systems form in the rock. When these collapse a canyon is left, for example in the Mendip Hills in Somerset and Yorkshire Moors in Yorkshire, England."

I've left this in place but I have misgivings about its accuracy or usefulness (even after I've changed the obviously incorrect Yorkshire Moors - not a limestone area - to the intended Yorkshire Dales). Does a strict definition of canyon include collapsed caves? Cheddar Gorge - presumably the intended example in the Mendip Hills - is (according to the Wikipedia article) not a collapsed cave anyway. What examples are intended in the Dales? Gordale Scar (also not, according to its article, a collapsed cave)? If these count as canyons (which I doubt) direct references would be more useful. Dave.Dunford 10:29, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, what is sonoma in the beginning of the article?

what affects things around Canyons

Deepest
By what measure is the Tsangpo the deepest gorge? I'm tempted to remove or drastically reword this unless there's a cite. In terms of the measure I just added (depth below highest peaks) it does not beat the Kali Gandaki. – Spireguy 23:44, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

'''what concerns me is that a popular choice as the worlds deepest Canyon the Cotahuasi Canyon a depth of approx 3354 meters isn't even mentioned, the title isn't specific enough does this include the Mariana trench? - Oct 2012 ''' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.12.68.231 (talk) 20:05, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Defile = Canyon?
Why does the Defile page redirect to the canyon page? Shouldn't defile get its own page since it has two vastly different definitions? Chris37599 (talk) 13:02, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Done (see Defile (geography). --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 13:39, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

What evidence is there that defile is ever used in the UK? After 55 years of living and travelling around the UK, and being a lapsed FRGS, I have never heard that term used. 143.159.64.177 (talk) 11:25, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

List of canyons and gorges needs splitting off
The lists in the article need splitting off to a separate article, and I don't see the point in distinguishing between gorges adn canyons because the meanings vary and are largely indistinguishable; the third section "things that ahve canyon-like features" is a useless designation; some river-articles will or do have the canyons and gorges categories also, e.g. where there is no reason to have a separate canyon article from the river one, e.g .Cayoosh Creek, Bridge River, Chehalis River, where the river definitely has/ is in a canyon but there is no formally named canyon, or no need for a separate article. The lists are also VERY incomplete...the discussion of gorges vs canyons is highly specious and subjective and should be just deleted, and there are so many ways a canyon can be formed that trying to define them by formation is really quite useless and also constitutes original research.Skookum1 (talk) 15:00, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Palo Duro canyon
The Palo Duro reference links to an undefined page. This is most likely an intended link to Palo Duro Canyon, but that is in Texas, not Arizona, and there is no record of Pueblo activity in Palo Duro Canyon. Perhaps this sentence should be removed? Ityllux (talk) 04:53, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

In Turkey
There's a canyon in Usak, TR. It's the second biggest canyon on the world. Not eighteenth or seventeenth... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.179.177.238 (talk) 18:23, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

box canyon link
The box canyon link just takes you back to the top of the canyon page. Do we not have a page for box canyons? 65.121.141.34 (talk) 18:57, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

 * Apparently there is no dedicated "box canyon" page. It's just a re-direct to canyon. I changed the "box canyon" link to italic text. Takeaway (talk) 11:30, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject
A WikiProject has been proposed for canyons; see here for details, please consider placing an opinion. Shannon talk   contribs   sign!  :) 15:47, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

"occasionally spelled cañon"
What the heck is that? Should we revise all the first lines in every article to show the foreign language spelling? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.185.84.11 (talk) 02:17, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
 * It's quite a common spelling in 19th Century and early 20th Century English, actually, and even turns up in UK English today....Skookum1 (talk) 19:15, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Putting it back in. BP OMowe (talk) 00:15, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Contradiction between this article and Ravine
The opening sentence here defines a canyon as a type of ravine. However, Ravine defines a ravine as separate from a canyon. Which is correct? Kansan (talk) 16:52, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

 * My dictionary of geography defines a canyon as "a steep walled gorge, ravine or chasm cut by river action in which the depth considerably exceeds the width" and "common in areas of low precipitation". It also says "some canyons are produced in limestone terrain by the collapse of roofs of underground streams".

 * So a "canyon" appears to be a type of "ravine" and should be a separate article. I am also not convinced that "gorge" should redirect here as it is defined as a "deep and narrow chasm with rocky precipitous walls" whereas canyons can be on a much larger scale. There is also a regional aspect to this: in that "canyon" tends to be used in arid regions, especially in the US, whereas the term gorge occurs more generally. HTH. --Bermicourt (talk) 17:08, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Europe is not a country
Europe is not a country. Did you know that? It seems you don't, whoever wrote the list of canyons. Why does it say "Blabla Canyon, Kosovo, Europe" but not "Grand Canyon, Arizona, United states, Northern America"? Skärpning! Fix it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.228.159.25 (talk) 13:19, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

 * The reason why only Kosovo is the exception in this list is because of the status of its international recognition. It is not (yet) recognised by the UN but at the same time it can hardly still be called part of Serbia after Kosovo declared its independence. The present wording in this article is a compromise reflecting the situation concerning Kosovo's status. - Takeaway (talk) 13:45, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Table?
These lists are silly? Why separate things according to the name ascribed to them (canyon vs. gorge) if there is no difference as per the article text. Could this list be presented as a table, affording some summary information about each and sorting abilities? Canyon dimensions are vague owing to unclear start/end locations varying depths, and so forth, but an approximation would help. Columns could include name, location (text), coordinates near center (geo tagged), length, depth, volume, and slope.

ke4roh (talk) 07:44, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Please define canyon
The article currently starts this way:

A canyon (occasionally spelled cañon) or gorge is a deep ravine between cliffs often carved from the landscape by a river.

But the wikilink to "ravine" starts out by saying

A ravine is a landform smaller than a canyon....

So what on earth is a canyon. There is a newly discovered canyon on Greenland in the news today that is apparently the largest on earth, but I still have no idea what the definition of a canyon is.68.144.172.8 (talk) 13:06, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Lists section - Split proposed
The "Lists" section now includes more than 140 canyons, and it forms what I think is a disproportionately large part of this article. (The rest of the artictle has only about 60 lines of text). I suggest that this list section should be moved to the article "List of canyons", which currently redirects to the "Canyon" article. Then the redirect should be deleted. GeoWriter (talk) 12:15, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm relatively new to this article and not a geologist, but I support the idea. Jbening (talk) 01:24, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Go ahead - be bold! Don't wait for lazy ppl ;) Brian W. Schaller (talk) 05:43, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

I have copied and pasted the list of about 140 canyons in this article to List of canyons and removed half of the examples in this Canyon article. I intend to remove more examples GeoWriter (talk) 23:30, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Good work. Thought you'd move them all, or almost all of them, along with the related images. If you're planning to keep a top 10 most notable per continent, here are my top picks:
 * Americas: Antelope, Canyon de Chelly, Canyonlands, Escalante, Copper, Grand, Niagara, Royal Gorge, Waimea, Zion (have visited all these & many others not listed here, but missed Copper)
 * Australia: Carnarvon, Geikie, Karijini, Katherine, Kings, Murchison River, Palm Valley, Purnululu & West MacDonnell National Parks (have visited all but Kings)
 * No opinion or experience with canyons in the other continents. Brian W. Schaller (talk) 04:35, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Contradictions regarding deepest canyon
In this article:

The deepest canyon in the world, the Indus Gorge

In the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon article:

[Yarlung] in Tibet, China, is the deepest canyon in the world

In the Cotahuasi Canyon article:

[Cotahuasi] in Peru is the deepest canyon in the world

So which is it? – 188.192.220.91 (talk) 21:06, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Who wrote this?
This is as poor a write-up as can be. Who in the world wrote this up? It reads like pure mumbojumbo.

This ought to be rewritten in simple comprehendable English. 2601:545:100:1AE0:A9DD:759:64DB:135F (talk) 18:02, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

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Conservative Party (United States)

The Conservative Party in the United States refers to various state parties that have no connection with one another and that support conservatism in the United States.

Multi-State/National level
There never has been an active national political party in the United States that used the name "Conservative."

The Conservative Party USA (organized January 6, 2009) is a 527 organization at present. However, it is organized to build and administer state political party affiliates of the national Conservative Party USA, (15 affiliates - 2021) after which it will obtain ballot access to operate as a national political party. Conservative Party USA is a United States service mark.

The American Conservative Party was formed in 2008 and then decommissioned in 2016. It does not claim any members who ran for or held political office.

Although not called a "Conservative Party", the Republican Party follows the conservative ideology. The Constitution Party and American Independent Party follows the Paleoconservatism ideology.

Connecticut
In the late 1830s and early 1840s, state-level candidates were put forward on a Conservative Party line, although they were not successful. Some of these candidates, such as Elisha Phelps, had previously been associated with the National Republican Party.

Illinois
A conservative party in Illinois was established in 2018, largely to support State Senator Sam McCann's run for governor.

New Jersey
Voters in New Jersey may choose to register in the New Jersey Conservative Party (CP-NJ). As of February 2019, there are 10,610 registered members.

New York
The Conservative Party of New York State, founded in 1962. New York state's party has elected two men to the United States Congress:
 * James L. Buckley, senator in the 94th Congress (1971–77), who caucused with the Republicans;
 * William Carney, representative in the 96th, 97th, 98th, and 99th congresses (1979–87), who also caucused with the Republicans.

Virginia

 * Conservative Party (Virginia, 1834)
 * Conservative Party (Virginia, 1867)
 * Conservative Party of Virginia (1965-1969).

Washington
See Conservative Party of Washington

Reconstruction-Era South
In the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, former Whigs in several Southern states formed parties with the "Conservative" or "Democratic-Conservative" name. Eventually they all merged into the Democratic Party, among them:
 * Conservative Party (South Carolina)
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Pierre Bosquet

Pierre François Joseph Bosquet (8 November 1810 – 5 February 1861) was a French Army general. He served during the French conquest of Algeria and in the Crimean War of 1853-1856; returning from Crimea he was made a Marshal of France and a Senator.

Biography
Bosquet was born in Mont-de-Marsan, Landes; he entered the artillery in 1833 and a year later went to Algeria. Here he soon made himself remarkable not only for technical skill but the moral qualities indispensable for high command. Becoming captain in 1839, he greatly distinguished himself at the actions of Sidi-Lakhdar and Oued-Melah. He was soon given the command of a battalion of native tirailleurs, and in 1843 was thanked in general orders for his brilliant work against the Flittahs.

In 1845 he became lieutenant-colonel, and in 1847 colonel of a French line regiment. In the following year he was in charge of the Oran district, where his swift suppression of an insurrection won him further promotion to the grade of general of brigade, in which rank he went through the campaign of Kabylia, receiving a severe wound. In 1853 he returned to France after nineteen years' absence, a general of division.

Bosquet was amongst the earliest chosen to serve in the Crimean War, and at the Battle of Alma his division led the French attack. When the Anglo-French troops formed the siege of Sevastopol, Bosquet's corps of two divisions protected them against interruption. Referring to the Charge of the Light Brigade, Bosquet muttered the memorable line: C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre: c'est de la folie ("It is magnificent, but it is not war: it is madness"). His timely intervention at the Battle of Inkerman (5 November 1854) secured the victory for the allies. During 1855 Bosquet's corps occupied the right wing of the besieging armies opposite the Mamelon and Malakov. He himself led his corps at the storming of the Mamelon (7 June), and at the grand assault of 8 September he was in command of the whole of the storming troops. In the struggle for the Malakov he received another serious wound.

At the age of forty-five Bosquet, now one of the foremost soldiers in Europe, became a senator and a Marshal of France, but he was in poor health, and he lived only a few years longer. He was awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur and the Order of the Medjidie 1st Class.

Decorations

 * Légion d'honneur
 * Knight (15 May 1838)
 * Officer (10 December 1849)
 * Commander (7 August 1851)
 * Grand Officer (21 October 1854)
 * Grand Cross (22 September 1855)
 * Médaille militaire (1 November 1855)
 * Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (UK) (3 January 1856)
 * Crimea Medal (UK)

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Saviours' Day

Saviours' Day is a holiday of the Nation of Islam commemorating the birth of its founder, Master Wallace Fard Muhammad (W. D. Fard), officially stated to be February 26, 1877. It was established by Elijah Muhammad.

History
The Community of Imam Warith Deen Mohammed (American Society of Muslims) observed a similar celebration, observed on the last weekend of February. Warith Deen Mohammed (son of Elijah Muhammad) changed the name of the celebration to Survival Day in 1976 and then to Ethnic Survival Day from 1979 to 1980 and made it a week long celebration. The change formed part of his rejection of his father's portrayal of Fard as a divine savior.

Warith Deen Mohammed eventually discontinued the celebration of Survival Day for his community and eventually returned to the celebration of Saviours' Day with the emphasis being on the history of the Nation of Islam and Elijah Muhammad and not W. D. Fard. Warith Deen Mohammed re-instituted Saviours' Day for his community on Feb 26, 2000, after joining the Nation of Islam's Saviours' Day that year.

Louis Farrakhan reconvened Saviours' Day in 1981 when he reestablished the Nation of Islam under his leadership. Under Farrakhan's leadership, the annual commemoration has become a three-day gathering with speakers, seminars and workshops. Since 2010, it has included a Dianetics Auditor graduation ceremony, overseen by officials from both the Nation and also the Church of Scientology. Under Farrakhan, Dianetics has been advocated publicly since 2010, and it has been embraced by his followers, over a thousand of whom are now trained in Dianetics auditing.

When Elijah Muhammad started the celebration, he called it Saviour's Day. Farrakhan moved the apostrophe, changing it to Saviours' Day to add Elijah Muhammad as a saviour along with Master Fard Muhammad.

Other, smaller Nation of Islam communities not related to Minister Farrakhan also hold Saviour's Day celebrations.

Spelling
The Nation of Islam uses the British spelling version of the word saviour, rather than the American spelling savior. The Nation of Islam under Louis Farrakhan's leadership places a possessive apostrophe at the end of the word, emphasising the plural to indicate that “Black men and women must be the ‘saviours’ of themselves and their communities.” This plural form of the spelling was announced in 1983 to represent that responsibility. However, the original spelling with the apostrophe before the "s" is also used.

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Walthamstow Stadium

Walthamstow Stadium was a greyhound racing track in the London Borough of Waltham Forest in east London. It was regarded as the leading greyhound racing stadium in Britain following the closure of White City in 1984. The stadium closed on 16 August 2008.

Crooked Billet
In the early part of the 20th century the Myrtle Grove sports ground was built and used by the Walthamstow Grange Football Club from 1908. By 1929 the ground hosted greyhound racing for the first time and was known as the Crooked Billet Greyhound and whippet track (named after the nearby Crooked Billet public house). The track was an independent track, unaffiliated to a governing body. In 1931, William Chandler, a bookmaker by trade, decided to build on the existing independent track. Chandler also had shares in the Hackney Wick Stadium.

Opening
It cost Chandler £24,000 to buy the site and the Art Deco parapet entrance was built in 1932 with the clock tower and totalisator board being designed by Thomas & Edge Ltd. builders of Woolwich. The grand official opening was on Monday 19 June 1933, opened by Jack Kid Berg and in which aviator Amy Johnson presented a trophy as a guest.

Pre-war history
From 1931 to 1943 the stadium underwent three major rebuilds as Chandler strove for the perfect stadium. The kennels and paddock were situated between the third and fourth bends with a veterinary room and trainers room at either end. Between the first and second bends was the Senior Club sandwiched by two stands. The back straight had one large covered stand but the home straight had another Senior Club which was located under the upstairs ballroom and dance band. There were two tea rooms and a wet and dry bar in the main grandstand and sixteen tote buildings. The track was 440 yards in circumference and was described as the slowest and most difficult course in London. The hare was an 'Inside Sumner' and there was an artesian well near the fourth bend used for watering the track.

On 13 January 1938 the track raced under National Greyhound Racing Club rules for the first time. In 1941 the stadium introduced its first major competition, called 'The Test'. The trainers and greyhounds attached to Walthamstow were situated in kennels to the north called 'The Limes' in Sewardstone Road not far from Epping Forest. Walthamstow were unusual in the fact that they hired several female trainers at the time; a practice attributed to the influence of Frances Chandler (the wife of William's son Charles). Frances was a leading greyhound owner in the industry. Female trainers employed during the period mentioned included Mrs F Deathbridge, Meg Fairbrass, Miss J Griffiths and Mrs B Lark. Wartime champion greyhound Ballynennan Moon won the Stewards Cup and broke the track record in 1942.

Late 1940s
As the war ended the stadium hosted Winston Churchill as he addressed 20,000 people when canvassing support for re-election. A major event called the Grand Prix was inaugurated in 1945 and later became a classic race. Towards the end of 1946 William 'Billy' Chandler died leaving equal shares of the business to his children. Charles became the new Managing Director, Victor snr (whose son is Victor Chandler) and Jack were concentrating on their bookmaking businesses and Ronnie was training greyhounds in Ireland. The industry and Walthamstow experienced an extraordinary boom in business with tote turnover in excess of £7 million in 1946.

In 1948 the track had their first English Greyhound Derby finalist in Doughery Boy and two more female trainers Noreen Collin and Miss K Sanderson joined in 1950. Joe Coral (founder of Coral Empire) stood as a track bookmaker before branching into betting offices in the sixties. In 1952 the neon lighting greyhound sign was added to commemorate the 1952 Coronation, the same year the land which housed the Salisbury Hall Manor House (once owned by Henry VIII) was purchased by Chandler, demolished and used as the car park for the stadium.

1950s and 1960s
Tom 'Paddy' Reilly, Dave Geggus and Barney O’Connor became three very prominent trainers at the track and in the industry; Reilly replaced Noreen Collin in 1953. Other trainers at the time were Jack Durkin, Kevin O'Neil and Reg 'String' Marsh. In 1963 the track introduced a closed circuit television system and in 1965 chromotography (a drug testing unit) was first used at Walthamstow in their purpose built lab. In 1968 the bends were sanded and banked producing a much faster surface than all-grass.

1970s
In 1971 a new stand with a restaurant and an escalator were added. Charles Chandler (1976) and his brother Victor Chandler (1977) both died, bringing uncertainty as to the future of the company. Charles Chandler Jr. was made the new chairman and Percy Chandler the new managing director. Victor Chandler Jr. inherited a 20% stake but sold his share concentrating on the bookmaking business. The Greyhound Racing Association held a third share in the track but had to sell to alleviate their debts. Suddenly it became apparent that an interested party could acquire a 52% stake and have the controlling interest. Coral and Ladbrokes expressed an interest but Charles Jr., Percy and Frances Chandler spent over £400,000 to withstand the takeover attempts and buy the track outright.

1980s
Racing Manager (RM) Ray Spalding left to be replaced by Tony Smith in 1983 with Chris Page as assistant RM. Charley Chan's nightclub was built under the clock tower totalisator board in 1984 and a new generation of trainer included Jim Sherry, Dick Hawkes and Kenny Linzell. Also in 1984 a nightclub called Charlie Chan's was opened within the foundations of the clocktower. It closed permanently in November 2007. In 1986, one of the leading trainers in the country had just joined Oxford Stadium but switched to Walthamstow after receiving a late job offer. Less than a year later Baggs trained Signal Spark to the 1987 English Greyhound Derby crown, remarkably the first time the track had achieved the accolade.

A fourth major event was introduced in 1987, called the Arc. After Barney O'Connor died in 1988 further trainer appointments included Ernie Gaskin Sr. in 1988 and John Coleman in 1989. Walthamstow became the leading track in Britain and in 1988 tote turnover figures were £16,355,089.

1990s
Chris Page became Racing Manager and a second Derby triumph arrived when Slippy Blue won the 1990 event. Page recruited Linda Mullins who went on to win five Greyhound Trainer of the Year awards. The track earned their first Bookmakers Afternoon Greyhound Service contract and John Coleman won the trainers championship. Another leading trainer called Paul Young arrived during 1996. In 1998 the Racing Post sponsored the Racing Post Festival at the track. Trainer Linda Jones was appointed in 1999, and would be Greyhound Trainer of the Year twice.

Final years
Linda Mullins retired with the trainers going to her son John, Ernie Gaskin Sr. retired in 2005 with the kennels being taken over by his son Ernest Gaskin Jr. and Mark Wallis took over from Linda Jones. Despite the success the directors agreed to the sale of the company's freehold property to a development consortium led by Yoo Capital and K W Linfoot plc. Formal contracts were exchanged. The final race was held on Saturday 16 August at 11pm, the winner being trap two 'Mountjoy Diamond'.

Speedway
Motor cycle speedway racing was staged at the Walthamstow Greyhound Stadium in Chingford Road in 1934 and between 1949 and 1951. Between 1949 and 1951 the team, known as the Walthamstow Wolves, raced in the National League Second Division with moderate success. The team included ex-England international George Newton. At that time all the other London clubs, Wembley, Wimbledon, West Ham, Harringay and New Cross raced in the First Division. The sport left the stadium in the 1950s owing to declining attendance and complaints of noise from local residents. The track was covered in tarmac for easier maintenance of the dog track.

Stock car racing
Stock car racing took place at many greyhound and speedway tracks. Between 1962 and 1968 Walthamstow Stadium was home to BriSCA "Senior" F1 and "Junior" F2 stock cars.

On 29 March 1968 the Spedeworth promotion took over the running of racing at Walthamstow with their Superstox, Stock Car, Hot Rod, Banger and Midget Racing. The promotion continued there until the end of the 1974 racing season.

Decline and closure
It could be said that if a person from the East End of London refers to "going down the dogs", they were probably going to the dog track at Walthamstow or Romford Greyhound Stadium. There were once 33 greyhound tracks in London, but only Romford and Crayford remained after Catford closed in 2003 and Wimbledon closed in 2017.

The directors of Walthamstow Stadium Limited agreed to the sale of the company's freehold property at Walthamstow Stadium to a development consortium led by London and Quadrant. They claimed falling profits and attendances forced the sale. Formal contracts were exchanged and completed in 2008. The final race was held on Saturday 16 August 2008, the winner being 'Mountjoy Diamond'. Numerous unsuccessful attempts to buy or lease the stadium back from developers were subsequently made.

On 8 May 2012, the application for housing on the site was approved by four votes to three. On 30 October 2012, Mayor of London Boris Johnson approved the plans for housing. The stadium buildings were demolished and were replaced with 292 new homes, but the Grade II-listed front facade remains.

In February 2016, the 1930s neon lights were turned on for the first time since the stadium's closure in 2008, following a £100,000 restoration.

Television
The stadium appears as one of the location settings for an episode of the television New Tricks. Titled Eyes Down for a Full House, the episode centred around the story of a missing greyhound and a possible murder. It was broadcast by the BBC on 5 June 2005 as the sixth episode in the second season of the show.

The Circuit
1944-1974 (525 yards), 1951-1955 (not held), 1975-2007 (475m)

Post Metric records

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Bosquet (surname)

Bosquet is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Alain Bosquet (1919–1998), French poet
 * Don Bosquet (born 1948), Rhode Island–based cartoonist
 * Joseph Bosquet, chemist and palaeontologist at Maastricht, Belgium
 * Pierre Bosquet (1810–1861), Marshal of France
 * Bosquet (composer), 14th-century French composer

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Birth Year
1915 says IMDb (as do lots of other sources which more than likely derive from IMDb) but according to a people search on Intelius, there is an Alicia Rhett, previously from Charleston, South Carolina, currently aged 94, which indicates she was born 1916. Crisso (talk) 01:58, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

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Gone With the Wind
In the article it is said Mrs. Rhett might be the oldest surviving cast member. But Shep Houghton, who played the "Southern Dandy", was born June 4th, 1914. According to a couple of sources (including the imdb) he is alive, too. Therefore Mrs. Rhett can't be the oldest cast member... --Aristeides (talk) 19:18, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

I just found out that, at least until Sept. 2011, the oldest surviving cast member, was Shirley Chambers (1913 - 2011). I got her dates from ImdB. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.199.201.64 (talk) 00:05, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

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Bill Xia
Seems to be a scurrilous fantasy by some person exhibiting some century-old obsessions about homosexuals, transsexuals, etc. and perhaps wanting to offend some real-world person called Bill Xia. Meanwhile, googling for "bill xia michael jackson" turns up nothing. Anyway, looks as if it was posted to disrupt something or other, and if so would qualify as a speedy -- Hoary 06:13, 2005 Feb 23 (UTC)


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Peter Foy

Peter Foy (11 June 1925 – 17 February 2005) was the stage flying effects specialist who founded "Flying by Foy", most widely known for its work flying actors in the play Peter Pan.

Born in London, England, he began in show business as a child actor, and in one of his roles (as a Sea Witch in Where the Rainbow Ends) was called upon to fly. After serving in the Royal Air Force as a Navigator and Entertainment Officer, he began working for the British company that had flown him, Kirby's Flying Ballets, and sailed to New York in 1950 to stage the flying sequences for Peter Pan starring Jean Arthur. He flew many of her successors in the role, including Mary Martin, Sandy Duncan, and Cathy Rigby.

Other productions for which he created flying sequences included I Love Lucy, Men into Space, The Garry Moore Show, Hanna Barbera's Jack and the Beanstalk with Gene Kelly and The Flying Nun on television; Fantastic Voyage, Funny Girl, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Hair and The Wiz in movies; It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, The Who's Tommy, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Angels in America, The Lion King, Disney's Aida, and Dracula, the Musical on Broadway; and touring productions of the Ice Capades.

An innovator, Foy constantly tinkered with improvements and invented new systems of staged flight for both greater freedom of movement and greater safety.

Jean Arthur's Peter Pan was flown on a Kirby pendulum system with a compound drum, the standard method of flying actors for more than 100 years. But Foy became increasingly dissatisfied with the performance of the flying equipment, which he felt limited stage flight to little more than "nervous stunts or a series of static tableaus". He wanted to create flying sequences that looked more natural and soon began to develop new equipment that would allow actors' movements to be more easily synchronized with music and seamlessly integrated into the action of the play.

By the time he returned to New York, four years later, to fly Mary Martin in the new musical version of Peter Pan, Foy had invented a new system, the "Inter-Related Pendulum", which utilized two suspension points, each controlled by a separate operator. The Inter-Related Pendulum made possible spectacular, highly controlled, free flight, but required operators with a high degree of skill and precision, as the performer's weight passes from one suspension point to the other. The system also required a minimum 40 feet of grid height to produce a natural-looking, effective pendulum swing.

He founded Flying by Foy in 1957; in the 1960s he branched out from Broadway to Las Vegas shows.

Throughout his lifetime, Foy applied his mechanical ingenuity to the challenge of safely flying performers in a variety of different and often difficult circumstances. He solved the problem of flying actors in low height situations (such as little theatres and tent shows) with his invention of the Floating Pulley in 1958. While this development was highly effective, the device was often visible to the audience. His determination to preserve the "magic" of theatrical flight led to his introduction of the "Track-On-Track" system in 1962-63, which allows two operators to independently control the performer's lift and travel in flight.

Foy's "Multi-Point Balance Harness", developed for the swimming sequences in the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, featured adjustable points of attachment, enabling the actors to maintain any position in flight.

Foy holds patents, in both the United States and the United Kingdom, for a number of flying devices and flying systems, including an advanced form of Track-On-Track developed specifically for the Ice Capades, which he called the "Inter-Reacting Compensator". This system was utilized in the first fully motorized, integrated touring truss flying system, built for the 1977 Ice Capades' "Flying Ballet".

He died in Las Vegas, Nevada.

At the time of his death, "Flying by Foy" was producing the flight effects for two Broadway-bound shows: Spamalot and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Recent Broadway projects involving "Flying by Foy" include: Mary Poppins, Billy Elliot the Musical, Equus, You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W Bush, American Idiot, and Priscilla Queen of the Desert.

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Pastorale

Pastorale refers to something of a pastoral nature in music, whether in form or in mood.

In Baroque music, a pastorale is a movement of a melody in thirds over a drone bass, recalling the Christmas music of pifferari, players of the traditional Italian bagpipe (zampogna) and reed pipe (piffero). Pastorales are generally in 6/8 or 9/8 or 12/8 metre, at a moderate tempo. They resemble a slowed-down version of a tarantella, encompassing many of the same rhythms and melodic phrases.

Common examples include the last movement of Corelli's Christmas Concerto (Op.6, No.8), the third movement of Vivaldi's Spring concerto from The Four Seasons, the Pifa movement of Handel's Messiah, the first movements of Bach's Pastorale (BWV 590) for organ, and the Sinfonia that opens part II of his Christmas Oratorio as an introduction to the angelic announcement to the shepherds. Scarlatti wrote some examples in his keyboard sonatas, and many other composers in the transition between the baroque and classical eras, particularly French (Marc-Antoine Charpentier, 8 sets, H.479, H.482, H.483, H.484, H.485, H.486, H.492, H.493), used this technique. Rossini famously included a Pastorale section in his  William Tell Overture. The Italian pastorale Tu scendi dalle stelle, sometimes called "Carol of the Bagpipers" (Canzone d'i zampognari), is a widely popular Christmas carol by St. Alfonso Liguori, and Pietro Yon's Gesù bambino is another.

The Swedish poet and performer Carl Michael Bellman's song collection Fredman's Epistles contain several pastorales, including Liksom en Herdinna, högtids klädd (Like a Shepherdess, Solemnly Dressed), which begins with a near-paraphrase of the start of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux's French guide to the construction of pastoral verse.

Pastorales are still played in the regions of Southern Italy where the zampogna continues to thrive. The pastorale can be played by a solo zampogna player, sometimes also accompanied by the piffero (also commonly called a ciaramella, pipita, or bifera), which is a primitive key-less, double-reed, oboe-type instrument.

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User talk:123GHFGG

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --Rje 06:10, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Kerman province

Dear lord, I love wikipedia. An earthquake happened here, so I click the link (because it has a pretty map) and I learn that the best oranges in Iran are grown here.

I mean, honestly, would I have EVER learned that otherwise? --Golbez 06:10, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Will the price of oranges in Iran go up as a result of the earthquake ? Hmmm... :-) -- PFHLai 05:02, 2005 Feb 24 (UTC)

 * Actually, Iranian fruits taste wickedly delicious. It has something to do with growing them in an oasis. Ive seen Iranian oranges the size of grapefruits! Iran exports fruits to all countries in the Persian Gulf as a result of the high quality of their fruits.--Zereshk 03:23, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

vandalism by the unregistered user
he said: (cur) (last) 17:52, 14 February 2007 83.250.67.40 (Talk) (HMM SORRY ASSHOLE I HAVE STUDIED IRAN FOR 12 YEARS AND I AM IRANIAN SO I KNOW THIS MORE THAN YOU) and also vandalized, kerman, Esfahan, Hamedan and Markazi as well as the Georgian language page. The kid thinks 12 years of study on Iran is enough. But even if he has studied 12 years on Iran, it seems that his ability to learn has been limitted. Despite the available sources oin each pages he thinks that he is right. This guy is poursuing an agenda, probably he wants to bring ethnic tension in Iran. Be careful of these types. As for his insults: I think it is apt to add this to his vandalzing behavior and ban this user. Babakexorramdin 18:26, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

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Pejman, Mohammed AKA Azerbaijani, I warn you DO NOT VANDALIZE THE PAGES. Keep a look at these maps, and the link about the music in kerman, before you vandalize. It is very annoying what you are doing. It cost so much energy. Do you have the intention to create ethnic tensions? Your actions are towrads this goal. I again warn you. If you have something, do it in real life, not a vandalizing crusade in order to destabalizeIranian society. Babakexorramdin 12:42, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Kerman is the largest Province of Iran. Please do not post wrong information on the internet! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.191.248.125 (talk) 22:33, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Duplicate Article
It looks like we have two separate articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerm%C4%81n_Province and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerman_Province which are duplicates of eachother. Requesting Admin assistance in deleting one of them.

Xonus (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 07:38, 24 June 2011 (UTC).

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved per request. - GTBacchus(talk) 17:25, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Kermān Province → Kerman Province – per WP:COMMONNAME and USEENGLISH

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Rockdale, Iowa

Rockdale, Iowa was a small unincorporated village formerly located just south of Dubuque, Iowa between Dubuque and Key West, Iowa. The village was situated on the Catfish Creek in Dubuque County, Iowa, and was the site of one of the first mills in the state of Iowa.

In 1834 or 1835 David Hutton and his son built a mill built of logs. Initially the mill was known as "The Catfish Mills." In 1839 the mill was sold. James Pratt and Walter Manson purchased the mill in 1840, and they renamed the mill "Rockford Mill." They replaced the original log building with a frame building four stories high. This mill could produce 90,000 bushels of wheat annually, and the flour produced was equal in quality to the flour produced in St. Louis, Missouri. As a result, the mill enjoyed a monopoly in the upper Midwest until the establishment of other mills. Pratt and Manson would operate this mill for the next 25 years. During this time Rockdale was a crossroads for farmers in the area.

Operations at the Rockdale Mill were temporarily halted due to the Rockdale Flood. The mill would eventually start producing flour once again. In 1878 the mill burned to the ground. Thomas Watters Jr. rebuilt the mill as a stone structure. He changed the name to the South Dubuque Mill. J.F. Gondolfo would purchase the mill in 1885. He made repairs, and the mill continued to produce flour for a number of years. In 1901 the mill would be leased out to a company that ran the mill for the next 14 years. In 1915 the mill was finally shut down. For a time it was used as a dairy barn until it was destroyed by fire in 1927.

The village would eventually grow to include a saloon, hotel, stores, blacksmith shop, several homes, and a post office. The villagers built a Methodist church built out of logs in the 1830s. In 1874 the present structure was built at 1500 Old Mill Road with red brick. The Rockdale Methodist Church still stands and, along with its Cemetery at the side and back, is still in use today.

Rockdale's population was 132 in 1902, and was 85 in 1925.

The Rockdale Flood
On July 4, 1876, Rockdale would be the site of one of the worst flooding disasters in the history of the area. For most of the day those living in the area celebrated the 100th anniversary of the nation. As night approached the celebrations wrapped up. Around 10 p.m. a light drizzle began falling. Soon this drizzle turned into a downpour of rain. The Catfish Creek soon jumped out of its bank and broke the mill dam which was upstream of the village.

The resulting wall of water – which was estimated to be 20 feet deep and hundreds of feet wide – swept through the village. By the time the flood was over, the mill and one house would be the only buildings still standing. In Rockdale forty-two people died in the flood, while in Dubuque only one person died. Survivors were found in the tree tops where the flood waters had swept them. Charles Thimmesch – a local barkeeper – survived with an incredible tale of escape. He had climbed on the roof of the post office after warning others of the flood. Thimmesch escaped by swimming naked to higher ground with his money in his mouth. As a result of the destruction, the village was never the same. Most of the people living in the village had died during the floods.

John and Frances Howell wrote home to family in England from USA in a letter of July 12, 1876: "... The crops here will not be good here, there has been so great falls of rain that has done a vast deal of damage. I dare say your Brother Joe can remember Cat Fish Mill. On the 4th July, the great day of rejoicing all over America, at night set in such violent a storm of rain as was ever known here. by Catfish Mill there was a little village of 12 or 13 houses. all had been at the great rejoicings and came home tired and returned to rest, and all families drowned in a few hours after. 39 men, women, and children, all but a young man and one family who were saved almost miraculously. their house turned on one side and was stopped by a big tree. they clung to the rafters with their heads just above water and held on until help came to them. I cannot sleep well for thinking of those dear children. The house was knocked to fragments and up to the 8th, 31 dead bodies were found. Hundreds of people have been to see where they stood. But the mill, which was built of large stone, turned the flood on one side and is still alright. You may conject what a flood, 25 feet deep, came rushing down and swept all away. There is a great deal of damage done at many places and the Rail Roads washed away, and many persons lost their lives. This year appears to be a year of great floods and fires. ..."

The family that survived the flood was the Gustav A Horn family headed by Gustav and Helene Augusta Dettmer. They had five children: Emeila C (born 1862), Bertha Helene (b. 1864), Ida (b. 1866), Caroline (b.1868) and Albert A (b.1872). Gustav immigrated from Dosenau, Schleswig-Holstein. They had the general store in Rockdale. He planted Lombardy Poplar trees on their property in memory of his childhood home in Germany. The elder Horns always intended to return home to Germany. When the flood waters rose, they scrambled up into the attic rafters. With the water just below them, the little boy, Albert became confused, and said to his father, "But Papa, I don't want to go back to Germany". The story, handed down the generations, was that they were the only family to survive in its entirety, and that Lombardy trees were the only thing that saved them. Gustav had a sketch that he drew of his childhood home that also survived the flood, albeit with flood mud on it.

Aftermath
Along with the floods, the shutting down of the mill and eventual construction of highways for automobile traffic would mean the end of Rockdale as a crossroads. The highways built all bypassed the Rockdale area. The Rockdale area was annexed by the city of Dubuque, and is now entirely within the city. While some local commuter traffic passes through the area due to Kelly Lane being nearby, most traffic uses U.S. Highway 151 and 61 and completely bypasses the area.

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Ljuboten

Ljuboten (Serbian and ) or Luboten (Luboteni) is a peak of the Šar Mountains located on the border between Kosovo and North Macedonia. Its elevation is 2498 m.

Ljuboten, although not the highest peak of the range, is somewhat isolated from the rest of the mountains, making it visible from both Pristina and Skopje.

The majority of Ljuboten, the north, north-west, east, and south-east sides are located within Kosovo. On the Macedonian side of the peak there is a mountain house called Ljuboten, as well as Shija Ljubotenska ("Ljuboten's Neck"), Kozja Karpa ("Goat's Rock"), Shiljast Kamen ("Pointed Rock"), and Rogacevski Korita.

Ljuboten is a popular destination for mountain climbers in Europe. The mountain is covered with pastures along with rocky outcroppings. Livadh Lake in Kosovo and a few sheepfolds are near the peak. In winter there is usually over a meter of snow. The mountain house at Ljuboten is located in the foothills of the peak, connected with a road to Vratnica.

US soldiers stationed at Camp Bondsteel near the city of Ferizaj colloquially named the peak "Big Duke". The meaning behind the name is not known.

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User talk:Metju~enwiki

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Root Canal
Thanks for your corrections. These are needed! I want to get this right, so bear with me.

Your comments one-by-one:

cavity must be wide open

 * Easy to fix

drill seems funny

 * Should it be like this?

 * http://www.animated-teeth.com/root_canal/root_canal_exposure_an.gif

endo-instrument is file not needle

 * See: http://www.animated-teeth.com/g_root_canal_ans.gif

 * http://www.everlastdental.com/images/file.jpg

 * Do you mean the tip is not slanted?

rubber filling must be till end of canal

 * Easy to fix

Root Canal changed to molars
Hey there, See my new version at root canal. The Photo Of The Day editor is interested in your final sign off on this more detailed submission. Mind giving a renewed support??? Thanks. jk 01:43, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Hello again - still waiting on your objections for the image. I'm happy to make any changes you'll need to change your vote to support. Thanks!

Thanks for the comments. The rough spot you're pointing out is modelled on the molar Xray. See how the drilling is wider than the filing areas? Check it out. I'll change the rubber filling soon. jk 18:03, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Username change
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Feel free to add it to your userboxes if you like it (and if you actually contribute). Happy Easter. Daniel Šebesta (talk • contribs) 22:27, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Medicine portal
Hi! I saw that you are maintainer of medicine portal. Now I took this job. Realizing that you haven't made an edit on the portal for half a year, if you don't mind, I removed you from the list. Sorry for that. If you want to continue the job, we could work together. Now I've worked on the portal, and it is nominated for featurd portal. :) Regards, NCursework 18:59, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

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SGI Origin 350

The SGI Origin 350 is a mid-range server computer developed and manufactured by SGI introduced in 2003. Their discontinuation in December 2006 brought to a close almost two decades of MIPS and IRIX computing.

Hardware
The Origin 350 is based on the NUMAflex architecture, where a system is constructed from a varying number of modules connected together using the NUMAlink3 interconnect via cables. A system can consist of 2 to 32 processors, 1 to 64 GB of memory and 4 to 62 PCI-X slots. For systems with more than 8 processors, a 2U NUMAlink module is required for routing. Modules for disk storage and further PCI slots were also available. Multiple modules are coordinated at power up by an L2 controller which communicated to the modules via USB ports. The L2 controller was an external PowerPC computer running Linux with console, USB, modem and Ethernet ports.

Compute module
The 2U compute module contained the processors, memory and four PCI-X slots on two buses. Each compute module features an IP53 node board, which contains two or four MIPS R16000 microprocessors clocked at 600 or 700 MHz with 4 MB of ECC L2 cache, eight DIMM slots for 1 to 8 GB of ECC memory, a Bedrock ASIC serving as the crossbar for enabling communication between the processors, memory and PCI-X slots.

Two variants of the compute module exist, the base compute module and the system expansion compute modules. The difference between these two models is that the inclusion of a SCSI disk drive and an IO9 input/output card is mandatory in the base compute module, but optional in the system expansion compute module. The IO9 input/output card connects to a PCI-X slot and provides SCSI interfaces for two internal disks, an external SCSI port, audio I/O and a 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet connection.

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