West Midlands Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. Covering an area with nearly 2.9 million inhabitants, which includes the cities of Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton and also the Black Country; the force is made up of 6,495 Police Officers . In 2014 there were 7,162 officers, 611 are from a BAME background, supported by 3,131 Police Staff, 188 Special Constables and 506 Police Community Support Officers – with these 10,884 employees, this makes it the third largest force in England and Wales behind the Metropolitan Police and Greater Manchester Police; and the fifth-largest force in the United Kingdom after Police Scotland and Police Service Northern Ireland . The force is currently led by Chief Constable Dave Thompson. The force area is divided into ten Local Policing Units , each being served by four core policing teams – Response, Neighbourhood, Investigation and Community Action & Priority – with the support of a number of specialist crime teams. These specialist teams include CID, traffic and a firearms unit who provide a twenty-four-hour availability to attend reported incidents involving the use of firearms and knives. From comparative data published by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary for the twelve months up to September 2013, West Midlands Police recorded 62.93 crimes per 1000 population against an average for England and Wales of 61.39. Total recorded crime was down 3% on the same period the previous year against an average of a 3% fall nationally. Detection rates for the same period were 23% against a national average of 29% and victim surveys indicated 84.76% of victims were satisfied with overall service provided by West Midlands Police compared against a national average of around 85%. West Midlands Police is a partner, alongside Staffordshire Police, in the Central Motorway Police Group. The force is party to a number of other resource sharing agreements including the National Police Air Service.
Wesley House was founded as a Methodist theological college in Jesus Lane, Cambridge, England. It opened in 1921 as a place for the education of Methodist ministers and today serves as a gateway to theological scholarship for students and scholars of the Wesleyan and Methodist traditions from around the world. It was a founding member of the Cambridge Theological Federation, an ecumenical body of theological colleges in Cambridge which is affiliated to but independent of the University of Cambridge.
El nombre de Villa Pisani es compartido por una serie de casas de campo encargadas por la familia patricia Pisani de Venecia.[1] Sin embargo, Villa Pisani, generalmente se refiere a una gran villa del barroco tardío situada en la localidad de Stra, en la región del Véneto . Es el ejemplo más famoso de Villa Véneta ubicada en la Riviera del Brenta. El terreno que rodea la villa tiene una extensión de once hectáreas, y un perímetro de unos 1500 m.[2] Desde 1884 alberga el Museo Nazionale di Villa Pisani.
La Galería de Arte de Vancouver, en inglés original Vancouver Art Gallery , es la quinta mayor galería de arte de Canadá y la mayor de Canadá Oeste. Se encuentra en la calle Hornby, 750 en Vancouver, Columbia Británica. Su colección permanente posee cerca de 9.100 obras, incluyendo más de 200 trabajos de Emily Carr, el Grupo de los Siete, e ilustraciones de Marc Chagall. La VAG fue fundada en 1931 encontrándose inicialmente en la calle Georgia, 1145. En 1983 se trasladó a su actual ubicación en la calle Hornby. Fue reformada, con un presupuesto de 20 millones de dólares, por el arquitecto Arthur Erickson. La VAG tiene 3.846 km² de espacio para exposición y cerca de 9.000 obras expuestas, siendo la más importante exposición de trabajos de Emily Carr y poseyendo una importante colección de fotografías. La VAG se completa con una biblioteca, una cafetería y una tienda de souvenirs.
Hospital Militar de Val-de-Grâce (París)
El Val-de-Grâce es un hospital militar francés, situado en el V Distrito de París. Está situado sobre el antiguo huerto de la abadía con el mismo nombre, la cual comprende hoy la Iglesia de Val-de-Grâce, el museo del Service de santé des armées, la biblioteca central del Service de santé des armées, y la École du Val-de-Grâce, antigua École d'application du Service de santé des armées.
Unter den Linden en Berlín, Alemania, es el bulevar más tradicional y conocido de la ciudad. Desde sus principios hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial fue el centro neurálgico de la vida cultural berlinesa y el punto de encuentro de muchos ciudadanos.
La Universidad de Westminster es una universidad pública del Reino Unido. Fundada en 1838 con el nombre de Institución Politécnica Real , fue la primera institución politécnica en el Reino Unido. La institución fue convertida en universidad en 1992, lo que significó que podría brindar sus propios títulos académicos. La mayor parte de la escuela se encuentra en la Regent Street dentro de la Ciudad de Westminster en el centro de Londres, con campus adicionales en Fitzrovia, Marylebone y Harrow. La universidad también cuenta con una sede adicional en Uzbekistán, en la cual funciona la Universidad Internacional de Westminster en Tashkent.[2] Las actividades académicas de la universidad están organizadas dentro de siete facultades, dentro de las cuales existen 45 departamentos académicos. La universidad cuenta con diversos centros de investigación a través de los diversos campos de estudios, incluyendo comunicaciones e investigación mediática, cuya investigación esta considerada dentro de las 40 mejores del mundo según QS World University Rankings. La Universidad de Westminster tuvo un ingreso de £170.4 millones en el 2012/13, de los cuales £4.5 millones provinieron del área de investigación académica. Westminster es reconocida especialmente por sus programas de periodismo, administración de empresas, ciencias sociales y ciencias políticas. Westminster es miembro de la Association of Commonwealth Universities, la Asociación de MBAs, la European Foundation for Management Development, la Asociación de Universidades Europeas, la Asociación Internacional de Universidades, entre otras organizaciones.
The Fralin Museum of Art is an art museum at the University of Virginia. Before 2012, it was known as the University of Virginia Art Museum. It occupies the historic Thomas H. Bayly Building on Rugby Road in Charlottesville, Virginia, a short distance from the Rotunda. The museum's permanent collection consists of nearly 14,000 works; African art, American Indian art, and European and American painting, photography, and works on paper are particularly well represented. The Fralin serves as a teaching museum for academic departments in the university, and serves the community at large with several outreach programs. Admission is free of charge and open to the public. In the spring of 2012, Cynthia and W. Heywood Fralin announced a bequest of their collection of American art to the museum. In honor of their gift and Heywood Fralin's service to the university and to the arts in Virginia, the Board of Visitors voted to name the museum The Fralin Museum of Art.
La Universidad de Sheffield es una universidad de investigación ubicada en Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Inglaterra.
The University of Plymouth is a public university based predominantly in Plymouth, England where the main campus is located, but the university has campuses and affiliated colleges across South West England. With 19,645 students, it is the 38th largest in the United Kingdom by total number of students . It has 2,915 staff.
University of Maine Museum of Art
Zillman Art Museum-University of Maine is an art museum in downtown Bangor, Maine. It is part of the University of Maine, which is located in nearby Orono, Maine. The University of Maine Art Collection was established in 1946, under the leadership of Vincent Hartgen. As the initial faculty member of the Department of Art and curator of the art collection, Hartgen's goal was to provide the people of Maine with significant opportunities to experience and learn about the visual arts and their diverse histories and cultural meanings. In the early 1980s, the University Art Collection became the University of Maine Museum of Art. Through the cooperative effort and vision of the City of Bangor and the University of Maine, the museum relocated in December 2002 to downtown Bangor where it has taken on a new role as a regional fine arts center. The facility was designed by the Boston firm, Ann Beha Architects, and now occupies the first floor of Norumbega Hall, a historic downtown building that formerly housed a department store. The Bangor facility, while allowing the museum to showcase a greater proportion of its collection, also enhances the arts scene of the region's largest city. The museum remains the only institution owned by the citizens of the State of Maine to house a permanent fine arts collection – one which has grown to a stature that makes it a nucleus in the state for historic and contemporary art. Consisting of more than 3500 original works of art, the collection is particularly strong in American mid-20th century works on paper. Contemporary highlights of the collection include works by David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Edward Hopper, Knox Martin, Pablo Picasso, and Edward Burtynsky. Additionally, the museum's permanent collection includes work by artists associated with Maine such as Berenice Abbott, Marsden Hartley, Winslow Homer, John Marin, Carl Sprinchorn, and Andrew Wyeth. In addition to making the University's collection more accessible to the public, the downtown location enables the museum to expand its educational programs beyond the confines of the Orono campus. In 2011, the museum was said to have one of the finest gallery spaces in the state.The museum hosts an annual calendar of exhibitions featuring contemporary artists and ideas. In 2011, the museum hosted its first national show, Photo National 2011. The exhibit featured 76 photographs by 34 photographers, including 11 from Maine. Among the museum's educational offerings are art camps for children lectures, special events, family programming, and educational classes and workshops for adults.University of Maine Museum of Art is part of the Maine Art Museum Trail, a circuit of eight art museums designed to highlight Maine's art history.In 2014, the museum renewed its lease to remain in the downtown location for an additional 17 years.
La Universidad de Londres es una célebre institución de educación superior con sede en la capital británica. No es una universidad tradicional sino una federación voluntaria de 19 colegios universitarios totalmente independientes en el ámbito académico y administrativo, los cuales a su vez colaboran de manera proporcional en el presupuesto del sistema y en el sostenimiento de once institutos. La universidad es la tercera más antigua de Inglaterra y nació para dar educación a aquellos ingleses que por motivos religiosos no podían asistir a la Universidad de Oxford o a la Universidad de Cambridge, que solo admitían alumnos anglicanos a principios del siglo XIX. Con la unión de varios colegios londinenses y después de varias colectas, la universidad se constituyó oficialmente en 1836. En 1878 se convirtió en la primera universidad en el Reino Unido en admitir mujeres y para 1908 se había convertido en la universidad más grande del país. Actualmente cuenta con más de 116 000 alumnos.
La Universidad de Liverpool está ubicada en la ciudad de Liverpool, Inglaterra, Reino Unido y forma parte del Russell Group.
University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art
The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art is a visual arts institution that is part of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums and its director is a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors. Since its inception, the museum has partnered in many teaching programs and research projects with the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, and for several decades has sponsored the annual MFA show as well as the faculty exhibitions. Faculty from the SAAH and elsewhere, and graduate students on campus have curated shows at the Museum that are closely linked with their research, courses, and seminars. The teaching mission of the UIMA embraces the curriculum of the University of Iowa and extends throughout the state.
The University of Huddersfield is a public research university located in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It has been a university since 1992, but has its origins in a series of institutions dating back to the 19th century. It has made teaching a particular focus of its activities, winning the inaugural Higher Education Academy Global Teaching Excellence Award, and achieving a Teaching Excellence Framework Gold Award, both in 2017. Its chancellor Prince Andrew, Duke of York resigned in 2019 following an interview concerned with allegations against him of sexual abuse and his connections to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and amid student protests against him.
La Universidad de Greenwich es una universidad inglesa situada en el barrio homónimo en Londres, Inglaterra. Tiene alrededor de 25 000 estudiantes.
Leiden University Library is a library founded in 1575 in Leiden, Netherlands. It is regarded as a significant place in the development of European culture: it is a part of a small number of cultural centres that gave direction to the development and spread of knowledge during the Enlightenment. This was due particularly to the simultaneous presence of a unique collection of exceptional sources and scholars. Holdings include approximately 5,200,000 volumes, 1,000,000 e-books, 70,000 e-journals, 2,000 current paper journals, 60,000 Oriental and Western manuscripts, 500,000 letters, 100,000 maps, 100,000 prints, 12,000 drawings and 300,000 photographs. The library manages the largest collections worldwide on Indonesia and the Caribbean. Furthermore, Leiden University Library is the only heritage organization in The Netherlands with three registrations of documents in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. "Est hic magna commoditas bibliothecae ut studiosi possint studere" —Josephus Justus Scaliger"The greatest advantage of the library is that those who want to study, can study."
