Danny Brookwell (born 9 March 1993, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey, Wales) is a Welsh association football midfielder. He currently plays for Welsh Premier League side Caernarfon Town F.C., the Anglesey national football team and Wales C.
He joined the Royal Navy as a teenager and played for their Under-19 and Under-23 representative teams. At club level he has previously played for Menai Bridge Tigers, Llanfairpwll and Glantraeth.
Personal life
Brokwelll is the son of Malcolm and Karen and has two older sisters, Sheena and Lea. He was educated at Llanfairpwllgwyngyll Primary School and then at Ysgol David Hughes in Menai Bridge.
He joined the Royal Navy as a teenager and played for their Under-19 and Under-23 representative teams. At club level he has previously played for Menai Bridge Tigers, Llanfairpwll and Glantraeth.
Personal life
Brokwelll is the son of Malcolm and Karen and has two older sisters, Sheena and Lea. He was educated at Llanfairpwllgwyngyll Primary School and then at Ysgol David Hughes in Menai Bridge.
Fanya Ismail is a Kurdish chemist and inventor. She is the Chief Executive and Founder of Sol-Gel Coatings & Advanced Materials. She was a winner of the 2019 Innovate UK Women in Innovation Award for developing paper coating which can be used instead of plastics in coffee cups.
Early life and education
Ismail was raised in Kurdistan. She moved to the United Kingdom in 1995, where she was a graduate student at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). She worked on interactions between dye molecules and sol-gel matrices and was supervised by Nicholas J. Goddard.
Research and career
Ismail was award the 2019 Innovate UK Women in Innovation Award. She creates environmentally friendly coffee cups using sol-gel materials made from small molecules. Sol-gel materials have glass-like properties at low temperatures. Ismail was part of the Next Gen Cup Challenge and started the business Sol-Gel Coatings & Advanced Materials after meeting an Enterprise Europe Network advisor, who supported her in working with the University of Greenwich on smart coatings. The Enterprise Europe Network also assisted her to apply for a £5,000 award from Innovate UK to launch her company.
Ismail's company was awarded £50,000 by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to go towards developing and marketing their product as part of International Women's Day. She was congratulated on the award by Business Secretary Greg Clark MP. She told Kent Online, "From not being able to say many words in English when I got to this country to getting this award, it's amazing."
Early life and education
Ismail was raised in Kurdistan. She moved to the United Kingdom in 1995, where she was a graduate student at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). She worked on interactions between dye molecules and sol-gel matrices and was supervised by Nicholas J. Goddard.
Research and career
Ismail was award the 2019 Innovate UK Women in Innovation Award. She creates environmentally friendly coffee cups using sol-gel materials made from small molecules. Sol-gel materials have glass-like properties at low temperatures. Ismail was part of the Next Gen Cup Challenge and started the business Sol-Gel Coatings & Advanced Materials after meeting an Enterprise Europe Network advisor, who supported her in working with the University of Greenwich on smart coatings. The Enterprise Europe Network also assisted her to apply for a £5,000 award from Innovate UK to launch her company.
Ismail's company was awarded £50,000 by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to go towards developing and marketing their product as part of International Women's Day. She was congratulated on the award by Business Secretary Greg Clark MP. She told Kent Online, "From not being able to say many words in English when I got to this country to getting this award, it's amazing."
Mahnaz Badihian (pen name: Oba) is an American poet. She is most noted for her use of poetry to bridge the gap between western and eastern cultures.
She worked as a dentist for many years in Iowa City and often attended the Iowa Writers Workshop. She currently runs a multilingual (Persian, English, Italian) online magazine, Mahmag, as an outlet for new Iranian poets and for contemporary American poets.
Background and education
Badihian was born in Isfahan, Iran. Her parents are originally from Najafabad in the province of Isfahan. She did not grow up in one particular city in Iran due to the nature of her father's job.
She had an early talent for writing and remembers when she was in fourth grade her teacher held a special meeting with her mother to tell of Badihian's advanced literary ability at only ten years of age. Badihian graduated from the girl's high school Behesht Aeen. She went on to become valedictorian of her registered nurse degree and continued to receive a Bachelor of Science in nursing education from Pahlavi University. She taught nursing at the University of Kermanshah. However, throughout her nursing studies, she continued to write and was editor of her nursing school's paper, Mehr.
Badihian left Iran in 1979 with her husband who had received a scholarship to study at Johns Hopkins University. During this leave from Iran, she studied for a master's in Sociology from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. Then she went on to receive her D.D.S. from University of Iowa Dental School, where she became acquainted with the Iowa Writer's Workshop. In 2012 Mahnaz received her MFA in Poetry from Pacific University in Oregon.
Badihian is a poet and translator whose work has been published into several languages worldwide, including Persian, Turkish, Italian, and Malayalam. She attended the Iowa Writer's workshop with a focus on international poetry while practicing as a dentist in Iowa City. Her publications include two volumes of poetry in Persian and a best-selling translation of Pablo Neruda's Book of Questions into Persian. Her first English language book is a critically acclaimed book of original English language poetry, From Zayandeh Rud to the Mississippi. She has an awarding winning selection of poetry (XIV Premio Letterario Internazionale Trofeo Penna d’Autore, Tornio) translated into Italian by Cristina Contili and Pirooz Ebrahimi. Currently, she resides in Northern California where she runs an online multilingual literary magazine, MahMag.org, in an effort to bring the poetry of the world together. She presented a paper on erotic literature by Iranian women in the Diaspora at the American Comparative Literature Association's 2008 annual conference. In 2012, she completed an MFA in poetry from Pacific University. Her most recent publication is a bilingual volume of poetry edited with Jack Hirschman called Saplings Arise: Protest of the Pen, which presents poems from over 30 Iranian poets in Iran and in the Diaspora inspired by the 2009 uprisings. She is also an active member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade of San Francisco
.
Bibliography
*Nafas-e Eshq Dar Daman-e Bad, Ketab Corp (Los Angeles, California), 1999.
*Pablo Neruda's Book of Questions : Translation into Persian, Simorgh Publishing (Mission Viego, California), 2000.
*Sedaye Robob Sherei Dasht, Simorgh Publishing (Mission Viego, California), 2004.
*Poesie Scelte Mahnaz Badihian, Edizioni Penna D'Autore (Torino, Italy), 2007. Translations by Pirooz A. Ebrahimi and Cristina Contilli.
*Saplings Arise: Protest of the Pen" CC Marimbo (Berkeley, CA), 2013. Translated by Mahnaz Badihian, Edited by Jack Hirschman.
*Like This! Hear Rumi's Work by International Poets Jack Hirschman (English) And Mahnaz Badihian . One Little Indian Publishing. 2016.
She worked as a dentist for many years in Iowa City and often attended the Iowa Writers Workshop. She currently runs a multilingual (Persian, English, Italian) online magazine, Mahmag, as an outlet for new Iranian poets and for contemporary American poets.
Background and education
Badihian was born in Isfahan, Iran. Her parents are originally from Najafabad in the province of Isfahan. She did not grow up in one particular city in Iran due to the nature of her father's job.
She had an early talent for writing and remembers when she was in fourth grade her teacher held a special meeting with her mother to tell of Badihian's advanced literary ability at only ten years of age. Badihian graduated from the girl's high school Behesht Aeen. She went on to become valedictorian of her registered nurse degree and continued to receive a Bachelor of Science in nursing education from Pahlavi University. She taught nursing at the University of Kermanshah. However, throughout her nursing studies, she continued to write and was editor of her nursing school's paper, Mehr.
Badihian left Iran in 1979 with her husband who had received a scholarship to study at Johns Hopkins University. During this leave from Iran, she studied for a master's in Sociology from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. Then she went on to receive her D.D.S. from University of Iowa Dental School, where she became acquainted with the Iowa Writer's Workshop. In 2012 Mahnaz received her MFA in Poetry from Pacific University in Oregon.
Badihian is a poet and translator whose work has been published into several languages worldwide, including Persian, Turkish, Italian, and Malayalam. She attended the Iowa Writer's workshop with a focus on international poetry while practicing as a dentist in Iowa City. Her publications include two volumes of poetry in Persian and a best-selling translation of Pablo Neruda's Book of Questions into Persian. Her first English language book is a critically acclaimed book of original English language poetry, From Zayandeh Rud to the Mississippi. She has an awarding winning selection of poetry (XIV Premio Letterario Internazionale Trofeo Penna d’Autore, Tornio) translated into Italian by Cristina Contili and Pirooz Ebrahimi. Currently, she resides in Northern California where she runs an online multilingual literary magazine, MahMag.org, in an effort to bring the poetry of the world together. She presented a paper on erotic literature by Iranian women in the Diaspora at the American Comparative Literature Association's 2008 annual conference. In 2012, she completed an MFA in poetry from Pacific University. Her most recent publication is a bilingual volume of poetry edited with Jack Hirschman called Saplings Arise: Protest of the Pen, which presents poems from over 30 Iranian poets in Iran and in the Diaspora inspired by the 2009 uprisings. She is also an active member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade of San Francisco
.
Bibliography
*Nafas-e Eshq Dar Daman-e Bad, Ketab Corp (Los Angeles, California), 1999.
*Pablo Neruda's Book of Questions : Translation into Persian, Simorgh Publishing (Mission Viego, California), 2000.
*Sedaye Robob Sherei Dasht, Simorgh Publishing (Mission Viego, California), 2004.
*Poesie Scelte Mahnaz Badihian, Edizioni Penna D'Autore (Torino, Italy), 2007. Translations by Pirooz A. Ebrahimi and Cristina Contilli.
*Saplings Arise: Protest of the Pen" CC Marimbo (Berkeley, CA), 2013. Translated by Mahnaz Badihian, Edited by Jack Hirschman.
*Like This! Hear Rumi's Work by International Poets Jack Hirschman (English) And Mahnaz Badihian . One Little Indian Publishing. 2016.
Bright Scholar Education Group, (formerly Country Garden Education Group) is a Chinese K-12 education group, which was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Foshan. As of November 30, 2018, Bright Scholar was running 68 schools including private kindergartens, bilingual schools and international primary and secondary education schools across China.
As of September, 2016 the company is the largest provider of international and bilingual schools in China in terms of student enrollment numbers, up to a 41,423 average over the first three months of 2019.
Some of their featured schools include:
Guangdong Country Garden School (1994; Foshan, Guangdong)
Phoenix City International School (2003; Guangzhou, Guangdong)
Jurong Country Garden School (2013; Zhenjiang, Jiangsu)
Ningxiang Country Garden School (2014; Changsha, Hunan)
Country Garden Silver Beach School (2015; Huizhou, Guangdong)
Huaxi Country Garden International School (2015; Guiyang, Guizhou)
Lanzhou Country Garden School (2016; Lanzhou, Gansu)
As of September, 2016 the company is the largest provider of international and bilingual schools in China in terms of student enrollment numbers, up to a 41,423 average over the first three months of 2019.
Some of their featured schools include:
Guangdong Country Garden School (1994; Foshan, Guangdong)
Phoenix City International School (2003; Guangzhou, Guangdong)
Jurong Country Garden School (2013; Zhenjiang, Jiangsu)
Ningxiang Country Garden School (2014; Changsha, Hunan)
Country Garden Silver Beach School (2015; Huizhou, Guangdong)
Huaxi Country Garden International School (2015; Guiyang, Guizhou)
Lanzhou Country Garden School (2016; Lanzhou, Gansu)