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.
Villa Pisani, detta anche la Nazionale, è uno dei più celebri esempi di villa veneta della Riviera del Brenta; sorge a Stra, in provincia di Venezia, e si affaccia sul Naviglio del Brenta. È oggi sede di un museo nazionale, che conserva opere d'arte e arredi del Settecento e dell'Ottocento. La villa comprende 168 stanze e copre una superficie di 15.000 metri quadrati. Sin dal Cinquecento le famiglie più nobili di Venezia scelsero le rive del fiume Brenta per insediarvi le loro ville. All'inizio, quest'ultime erano legate all'attività agricola e poi, invece, ridisegnate per assecondare la dilagante “smania della villeggiatura” goldoniana. Le sponde del fiume, una volta contenuto il problema delle piene che poteva recare danni disastrosi, offrivano ai veneziani una campagna facilmente raggiungibile e coltivabile, ed anche una via d'acqua per i commerci con Padova. Questo binomio determinò nel tempo il formarsi di uno dei paesaggi storici veneti più caratterizzati da importanti ville con giardini, barchesse e broli. Tra Seicento e Settecento i proprietari di queste si sfidavano per dare enfasi e sfarzo alle ville, ormai viste come la scenografia per le molte feste che vi si tenevano nella bella stagione. L'importanza e la fama della Riviera crebbero sia in Italia che in Europa come possono dimostrarlo gli scritti di Padre Vincenzo Coronelli pubblicate nel 1709, di Johann Cristopher Volkamer del 1714 e poi, alla metà del secolo dei Lumi, di Giovanni Francesco Costa. I primi due testi trasportano a Stra la prima villa di proprietà della stessa famiglia Pisani detta di Santo Stefano.
La villa Giustiniani-Cambiaso o semplicemente villa Cambiaso è una storica dimora nobiliare del comune di Genova. Con accesso da via Montallegro, nel quartiere residenziale di Albaro, l'edificio è corredato da un parco pubblico, una porzione ben più ridotta del vasto parco che anticamente circondava la villa quasi fino a raggiungere il mare, fortemente ridimensionato dall'espansione urbanistica del quartiere di Albaro negli anni trenta del Novecento. L'antica dimora nel 1921 passò al Comune di Genova; oggi di proprietà della Fondazione Carige, è sede della Scuola Politecnica dell'Università degli Studi di Genova.
The Vancouver Art Gallery is an art museum located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Situated in downtown Vancouver, the museum occupies a 15,300-square-metre-building adjacent to Robson Square, making it the largest art museum in Western Canada by building size. Designed by Francis Rattenbury, the building the museum presently occupies was originally opened as a provincial courthouse, before it was re-purposed for museum use in the early 1980s. The building was designated as the Former Vancouver Law Courts National Historic Site of Canada in 1980. The museum was opened to the public in 1931 in a building designed by architectural firm Sharp and Johnston. The museum expanded its first building once in 1950, before plans were undertaken to move the institution to the former provincial courthouse building. The museum was relocated to the provincial courthouse in 1983. Plans were undertaken by the museum in the late 2000s and 2010s to relocate the institution to a new facility in Larwill Park. The Vancouver Art Gallery's permanent collection serves as a repository of art for the Lower Mainland region, and has approximately 12,000 works by artists from Canada, and around the world. In addition to exhibiting works from its collection, the museum has also organized, and hosted a number of travelling arts exhibitions.
Hôpital d'instruction des armées du Val-de-Grâce
L' hôpital d'instruction des armées du Val-de-Grâce', o HIA Val-de-Grâce) è un antico ospedale militare francese situato nel V arrondissement di Parigi. Sorge sull'antico orto dell'Abbazia di Val-de-Grâce, che ancora oggi include la chiesa di Notre-Dame di Val-de-Grâce , il museo du service de santé des armées, la biblioteca centrale del service de santé des armées, e la scuola di Val-de-Grâce, anticamente « école d'application du service de santé des armées ».
Unter den Linden è un viale di Berlino, nel quartiere Mitte.
L'università di Westminster è un'università pubblica del Regno Unito. Fondata nel 1838, con il nome di Royal Polytechnic Institution, fu la prima istituzione politecnica del Regno Unito.
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.
L'Università di Sheffield è una università britannica con sede a Sheffield nello Yorkshire.
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.
L'Università di Londra è un'università federale fondata nel 1836, costituita da 31 affiliati: 19 college e università e 12 istituti di ricerca. Conta circa 135.000 studenti ed è quindi la più grande università nel Regno Unito e comprende alcune tra le più prestigiose del mondo. L'università fu fondata con un regio decreto legge, il quale creò la federazione unendo la London University ed il King's College .
L'Università di Liverpool è un'università pubblica del Regno Unito, situata a Liverpool, in Inghilterra; nota per essere una delle sei red brick university, le università fondate nel XIX secolo nelle maggiori città britanniche.
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 University of Greenwich è un'università britannica con tre campus locati nel sud-est di Londra e nel nord del Kent. Il campus principale è situato presso la vecchia sede dell'Old Royal Naval College, a Greenwich. Il rettore è Garry Hart.
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."
