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Public university
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A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. Whether a national university is considered public varies from one country to another, in Egypt, Al-Azhar University opened in 975 AD as the second oldest university in the world. In Nigeria Public Universities can be established by both the Federal Government and by State Governments, students are enrolled after completing the 8-4-4 system of education and attaining a mark of C+ or above. They are also eligible for a low interest loan from the Higher Education Loan Board and they are expected to pay back the loan after completing higher education. South Africa has 23 public tertiary institutions, either categorised as a traditional university or a comprehensive university. Almost entire national universities in Brunei are public universities and these are major universities in Brunei, University of Brunei Darussalam Brunei Technological University Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University There are 40 public universities in Bangladesh. The University Grant Commission is the body for all the public universities in Bangladesh. The universities do not deal directly with the government, but with the University Grants Commission, recently many private universities are established under the Private University Act of 1992. In mainland China, nearly all universities and research institutions are public and currently, the public universities are usually run by the provincial governments, there are also circumstances where the municipal governments administer the universities. Some public universities are national, which are administered by the central government. Private undergraduate colleges do exist, which are vocational colleges sponsored by private enterprises. The majority of universities are not entitled to award bachelors degrees. Public universities usually enjoy higher reputation domestically, eight institutions are funded by the University Grants Committee. The Academy for Performing Arts also receives funding from the government, the Open University of Hong Kong is also a public university, but it is largely self-financed. The Shue Yan University is the private institution with the status of a university. There are public and private institutes in Indonesia. The government provide public universities, institutes, high schools and academies in each province, the private educational institution usually provided by religious organizations, public organizations, and some big companies. In India, most universities and nearly all research institutions are public, There are some private undergraduate colleges, mostly engineering schools, but a majority of these are affiliated to public universities
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Financial endowment
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A financial endowment is a donation of money or property to a nonprofit organization for the ongoing support of that organization. An endowment may come with stipulations regarding its usage, the total value of an institutions investments is often referred to as the institutions endowment and is typically organized as a public charity, private foundation, or trust. Among the institutions that commonly manage endowments are academic institutions, cultural institutions, service organizations, the earliest endowed chairs were those established by the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius in Athens in AD176. Aurelius created one endowed chair for each of the schools of philosophy, Platonism, Aristotelianism, Stoicism. Later, similar endowments were set up in other major cities of the Empire. Today, the University of Glasgow has fifteen Regius Professorships, private individuals soon adopted the practice of endowing professorships. Isaac Newton held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge beginning in 1669, unrestricted endowment can be used in any way the recipient chooses to carry out its mission. Term endowment funds stipulate that all or part of the principal may be expended only after the expiration of a period of time or occurrence of a specified event. Quasi endowment funds must retain the purpose and intent as specified by the donor or source of the original funds, Endowment revenue can be restricted by donors to serve many purposes. Endowed professorships or scholarships restricted to a subject are common. Ignoring the restriction is called invading the endowment, but change of circumstance or financial duress like bankruptcy can preclude carrying out the donors intent. A court can alter the use of restricted endowment under a doctrine called cy-près meaning to find an alternative as near as possible to the donors intent, the restricted/unrestricted distinction focuses on the use of the funds, see quasi-endowment below for a distinction about whether principal can be spent. Academic institutions, such as colleges and universities, will control a endowment fund that finances a portion of the operating or capital requirements of the institution. In addition to an endowment fund, each university may also control a number of restricted endowments that are intended to fund specific areas within the institution. The most common examples are endowed professorships, and endowed scholarships or fellowships, in the United States, the endowment is often integral to the financial health of educational institutions. Alumni or friends of institutions sometimes contribute capital to the endowment, the endowment funding culture is strong in the United States and Canada but less pronounced overseas, with the exceptions of Cambridge and Oxford universities. Endowment funds have also created to support secondary and elementary school districts in several states in the United States. An endowed professorship is a position permanently paid for with the revenue from an endowment fund set up for that purpose
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Robert Winston
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Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston FMedSci FRSA FRCP FRCOG FREng is a British professor, medical doctor, scientist, television presenter and Labour Party politician. Robert Winston was born in London to Laurence Winston and Ruth Winston-Fox and his mother was Mayor of the former Borough of Southgate. Winstons polymath father died as a result of medical negligence when Winston was nine years old, robert has two younger siblings, a sister, the artist Willow Winston, and a brother, Anthony. For a brief time he gave up medicine and worked as a theatre director. On returning to medicine, he developed tubal microsurgery and various techniques in reproductive surgery. He performed the worlds first Fallopian tubal transplant in 1979 but this technology was then superseded by in vitro fertilisation, in 1973, Winston married Lira Helen Feigenbaum. He is a fan of Arsenal Football Club and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Garrick Club, the MCC, and the Athenaeum Club in London. He owns a classic 1930s Bentley, Winston joined Hammersmith Hospital as a registrar in 1970 as a Wellcome Research Fellow. He became an Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1975 and he was a scientific advisor to the World Health Organisations programme in human reproduction from 1975 to 1977. He joined The Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London as consultant and he was Director of NHS Research and Development at the Hammersmith Hospitals Trust until 1994. He was the president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science from 2004 to 2005 and he has published over 300 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. He was appointed to a new chair at Imperial College, Professor of Science and Society and he was Chairman of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Trust and chairs the Women-for-Women Appeal. This charitable trust which has raised over £80 million for research into reproductive diseases was renamed the Genesis Research Trust in 1997 and he holds honorary doctorates from twenty three universities. He is a trustee of the Royal Institution in London, and patron of The Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Winston holds strong views about the commercialisation of fertility treatment and he is also sceptical about the effectiveness of current methods for screening human embryos to assess their viability. As a traditional Jew with a background, he also presented The Story of God, exploring the development of religious beliefs. He presented the BBC documentary Walking with Cavemen, a major BBC series that presented some controversial views about early man but was endorsed by leading anthropologists and scientists, one theory was that Homo sapiens have a uniquely developed imagination that helped them to survive. Winstons documentary Threads of Life won the international film prize in Paris in 2005
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Postgraduate education
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In North America, this level is generally referred to as graduate school. The organization and structure of education varies in different countries. This article outlines the types of courses and of teaching and examination methods. There are two types of degrees studied for at the postgraduate level, academic and vocational degrees. The term degree in this means the moving from one stage or level to another. University studies took six years for a degree and up to twelve additional years for a masters degree or doctorate. The first six years taught the faculty of the arts, which was the study of the seven liberal arts, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music theory, grammar, logic, the main emphasis was on logic. Once a Bachelor of Arts degree had been obtained, the student could choose one of three faculties—law, medicine, or theology—in which to pursue masters or doctors degrees. Because theology was thought to be the highest of the subjects, the main significance of the higher, postgraduate degrees was that they licensed the holder to teach. In most countries, the hierarchy of postgraduate degrees is as follows, in Scottish Universities, the Master of Philosophy degree tends to be by research or higher masters degree and the Master of Letters degree tends to be the taught or lower masters degree. In many fields such as social work, or library science in North America. Professional degrees such as the Master of Architecture degree can last to three and a years to satisfy professional requirement to be an architect. Professional degrees such as the Master of Business Administration degree can last up to two years to satisfy the requirement to become a business leader. These are often divided into academic and professional doctorates. An academic doctorate can be awarded as a Doctor of Philosophy degree or as a Doctor of Science degree, a doctorate is the terminal degree in most fields. In the United States, there is distinction between a Doctor of Philosophy degree and a Doctor of Science degree. In the second half of the 19th century, however, US universities began to follow the European model by awarding doctorates, in the UK, an equivalent formation to doctorate is the NVQ5 or QCF8. Most universities award degrees, usually at the postgraduate level
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Sheffield
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Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, its derives from the River Sheaf. With some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its industrial roots to encompass a wider economic base. The population of the City of Sheffield is 569,700, Sheffield is the third largest English district by population. The metropolitan population of Sheffield is 1,569,000, in the 19th century, Sheffield gained an international reputation for steel production. Known as the Steel City, many innovations were developed locally, including crucible and stainless steel, Sheffield received its municipal charter in 1843, becoming the City of Sheffield in 1893. International competition in iron and steel caused a decline in these industries in the 1970s and 1980s, the 21st century has seen extensive redevelopment in Sheffield along with other British cities. Sheffields gross value added has increased by 60% since 1997, standing at £9.2 billion in 2007, the economy has experienced steady growth averaging around 5% annually, greater than that of the broader region of Yorkshire and the Humber. The city is in the foothills of the Pennines, and the valleys of the River Don and its four tributaries, the Loxley, the Porter Brook, the Rivelin. 61% of Sheffields entire area is space, and a third of the city lies within the Peak District national park. The area now occupied by the City of Sheffield is believed to have inhabited since at least the late Upper Palaeolithic period. The earliest evidence of occupation in the Sheffield area was found at Creswell Crags to the east of the city. In the Iron Age the area became the southernmost territory of the Pennine tribe called the Brigantes and it is this tribe who are thought to have constructed several hill forts in and around Sheffield. Gradually, Anglian settlers pushed west from the kingdom of Deira, a Celtic presence within the Sheffield area is evidenced by two settlements called Wales and Waleswood close to Sheffield. The settlements that grew and merged to form Sheffield, however, date from the half of the first millennium. In Anglo-Saxon times, the Sheffield area straddled the border between the kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria, after the Norman conquest, Sheffield Castle was built to protect the local settlements, and a small town developed that is the nucleus of the modern city. By 1296, a market had been established at what is now known as Castle Square, from 1570 to 1584, Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Sheffield Castle and Sheffield Manor. During the 1740s, a form of the steel process was discovered that allowed the manufacture of a better quality of steel than had previously been possible
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South Yorkshire
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South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England. It is the southernmost county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region and had a population of 1.34 million in 2011 and it has an area of 1,552 square kilometres and consists of four metropolitan boroughs, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield. South Yorkshire was created on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972 with Barnsley as its county town. The Sheffield Urban Area is the tenth most populous conurbation in the UK, South Yorkshire lies within the Sheffield City Region with Barnsley also being within the Leeds City Region, reflecting its geographical position midway between Yorkshires two largest cities. South Yorkshire County Council was abolished in 1986 and its boroughs are now effectively unitary authorities. As a ceremonial county, South Yorkshire has a Lord Lieutenant, South Yorkshire was created from 32 local government districts of the West Riding of Yorkshire, with small areas from Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Although the modern county of South Yorkshire was not created until 1974, prehistoric remains include a Mesolithic house dating to around 8000 BC, found at Deepcar, in the northern part of Sheffield. The region was on the frontier of the Roman Empire during the Roman period, the main settlements of South Yorkshire grew up around the industries of mining and steel manufacturing. The main mining industry was coal which was concentrated to the north, there were also iron deposits which were mined in the area. The rivers running off the Pennines to the west of the county supported the industry that is concentrated in the city of Sheffield. The proximity of the iron and coal made this an ideal place for steel manufacture. Although Christian nonconformism was never as strong in South Yorkshire as in the towns of West Yorkshire, there are still many Methodist and Baptist churches in the area. Also, South Yorkshire has a high number of followers of spiritualism. It is the county that counts as a full region in the Spiritualists National Union. The review was abolished in favour of the Royal Commission on Local Government before it was able to issue a final report, the Royal Commissions 1969 report, known as the Redcliffe-Maud Report, proposed the removal of much of the then existing system of local government. Redcliffe-Mauds recommendations were accepted by the Labour government in February 1970, the Local Government Act 1972 reformed local government in England by creating a system of two-tier metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties and districts throughout the country. The act formally established South Yorkshire on 1 April 1974, although South Yorkshire County Council had been running since elections in 1973, South Yorkshire initially had a two tier structure of local government with a strategic-level county council and four districts providing most services. In 1986, throughout England the metropolitan county councils were abolished, the functions of the county council were devolved to the boroughs, joint-boards covering fire, police and public transport, and to other special joint arrangements
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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University Alliance
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University Alliance is an association of British universities which was formed in 2006 as the Alliance of Non-Aligned Universities, adopting its current name in 2007. Alliance institutions educate more than a quarter of students in the UK, including 27% of those on STEM courses and they deliver 40% of the UK’s sandwich degrees and maintain links with 19,000 businesses, including 13,000 SMEs. It is the only UK university association or grouping which is above benchmark on both access and retention of students, a large proportion of courses offered by Alliance universities are accredited by professional bodies. In 2015, University Alliance launched the Doctoral Training Alliance, the UKs largest multi-partner doctoral training programme building on its members research strengths, the initial programme in applied biosciences for health was followed in 2016 with a second programme, focused on energy. University Alliance has put forward proposals on lifelong learning, calling on the government to take steps to ensure people can benefit from opportunities at all stages of life. Its policy work has focused on the role of universities in supporting the UK’s industrial strategy and nurturing arts, culture. The association is headed by the Chair, Deputy Chair and the Treasurer who are elected, operational running on a daily business is overseen by the Chief Executive
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Association of Commonwealth Universities
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The Association of Commonwealth Universities represents 535 universities from 37 Commonwealth countries. It is the worlds first and oldest international university network, established in 1913, a UK-registered charity, the ACU has over 500 member institutions in developed and developing countries across the Commonwealth. Drawing on the experience and expertise, the ACU seeks to address issues in international higher education through a range of projects, networks. The Association of Commonwealth Universities is governed by its member institutions through an elected Council, as the ACU is a UK-registered charity, Council members also act as its Trustees. The ACU Council comprises up to 23 members,20 elected Council members, in 1912, the University of London took the initiative to assemble 53 representatives of universities in London to hold a Congress of Universities of the Empire. They decided they needed a bureau of information and its affairs would be handled by a committee representing universities at home and abroad. In 1913 the office opened as the Universities Bureau of the British Empire, in 1948 the name was changed to Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth, and in 1963 it changed to its current name. Dr Anastasios Christodoulou was the Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities from 1980 to 1996, in 1986, Queen Elizabeth II became patron of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. Currently 37 countries from the Commonwealth are represented in the Association
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Sheffield station
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Sheffield station, formerly Pond Street and later Sheffield Midland, is a combined railway station and tram stop in Sheffield, England, and the busiest station in South Yorkshire. Adjacent is Sheffield station/Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield Supertram stop, in 2010–11, the station was the 35th-busiest in the UK, and the 11th-busiest outside London. The station is currently being considered as an HS2 stop, the station was opened in 1870 by the Midland Railway to the designs of the company architect John Holloway Sanders. It was the fifth and last station to be built in Sheffield city centre, the station was built on the New Line, which ran between Grimesthorpe Junction, on the former Sheffield and Rotherham Railway, and Tapton Junction, just north of Chesterfield. This line replaced the Midland Railways previous route, the old road, to London, the new line and station were built despite some controversy and opposition locally. The Duke of Norfolk, who owned land in the area, insisted that the southern approach be in a tunnel, some years later the tunnel was opened out into a cutting. Sheffield Corporation was so concerned about the side of the city being cut off from the city centre that it insisted that public access be preserved across the railway site. The station and Pond Street Goods Depot opened on a damp, there were originally different passenger entrances for each class. The original station buildings have preserved and are between island platforms 2 to 5. The station was given two extra platforms and a new frontage in 1905 at a cost of £215,000, the enlargements consisted of creating an island platform out of the old platform 1 and building a new platform 1 and a new entrance. These works were overseen by the Chief Architect to the Midland Railway Charles Trubshaw, offices were built at the north end of the 300 feet long carriageway rooftop. A large parcels office was built to the south of the main buildings, two footbridges connected the platforms, the one to the north for passengers, the one to the south for station staff and parcels. The tracks were covered by two overall roofs, the older and larger spanned platforms 5 and 6, and an identical structure can still be viewed today at Bath Green Park railway station, the other platforms 1 and 2. Wartime damage put the roofs beyond economic repair, and so they were removed in the autumn of 1956, the 1960s saw the introduction of the Class 45 and Class 46 diesel-electric engines, known as Peaks. Sheaf House was built in 1965 adjacent to the station to house British Rails Sheffield Division headquarters, as part of the reconstruction of the area as the Gateway to Sheffield, it was demolished in early 2006. In 1970 Sheffields other main station, Sheffield Victoria, was closed and its remaining services and this was the third route used by the train of that name, originally it had run to London Marylebone. In 1972 the station was resignalled and its track layout remodelled, in 1984 British Rail introduced the High Speed Train to Sheffield on the Midland Main Line. The cross-country services had seen the introduction of the HSTs in 1982, on 21 December 1991, the station was flooded by the River Sheaf, which flows under it
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Ecclesall Road
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Ecclesall Road is a road in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, that runs for about 3.6 miles south-west from Sheffields city centre under the number A625. At Banner Cross, where the numbers reach 1001, the road name changes to Ecclesall Road South. Ecclesall Road, as a road, finishes at Whirlow. From the city centre to Banner Cross the road is home to many pubs, in the suburb of Ecclesall, one of the UKs wealthiest districts, the road is bordered by rather large properties. Ecclesall Road is itself noted for its vast range of restaurants, pubs, bars cafes and shops, the Ecclesall Road shopping area is mostly on the South side of the road, and also includes Hunters Bar and Sharrow Vale Road. As the road nears the City Centre, there is a large Marks and Spencers, gym, the north side of the road is residential, containing the Hannover Flats and the districts of Broomhall, The Groves and Ranmoor. It has a student population, mostly from Sheffield Hallam University. The road also runs past Endcliffe Park and close to Ecclesall Woods, Ecclesall Road was constructed in the early part of the 19th century, and was operated as a turnpike road by the Sheffield and Chapel en le Frith Trust—the first toll being paid at Hunters Bar. The tolls were abolished on 31 October 1884 and the house at Hunters Bar was demolished. In the early part of the 20th century the road was used by one of the tramway lines. This was one of the first tram routes to close, being abandoned in March 1954 despite a petition against its closure of 11,000 signatures
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Benjamin Haydon
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Benjamin Robert Haydon was an English painter who specialised in grand historical pictures, although he also painted a few contemporary subjects and portraits. His commercial success was damaged by his often tactless dealings with patrons and he was troubled by financial problems throughout his life, which led to several periods of imprisonment for debt. He gave lectures on art, and kept extensive diaries that were published after his death, at an early age he showed an aptitude for study, which was carefully fostered by his mother. At the age of six he was placed in Plymouth Grammar School, and at twelve in Plympton Grammar School, reading Albinus inspired him with a love for anatomy, and from childhood he wanted to become a painter. Full of energy and hope, he left home, on 14 May 1804, for London and he was so enthusiastic that Henry Fuseli asked when he found time to eat. In 1807, at the age of 21, Haydon exhibited, for the first time, the painting he entered, The Repose in Egypt, was bought by Thomas Hope a year later for the Egyptian Room at his townhouse in Duchess Street. This was a start for Haydon, who shortly afterwards received a commission from Lord Mulgrave. That same year, he took on his first pupil, Charles Lock Eastlake, Haydon was fascinated by the Elgin Marbles, and believed that they provided evidence that ancient Greek artists had studied anatomy. The income was not enough to pay off all his debts, much of what he saw there disappointed him, he described Raphaels Transfiguration, a painting he had particularly wanted to see, as small & insignificant. On returning to England, he produced Christs Entry into Jerusalem, while painting another large work, the Resurrection of Lazarus, his financial problems increased, and he was arrested but not imprisoned, the sheriff-officer taking his word for his appearance. In October,1821, he increased his commitments when he married Mary Hyman, in 1823 Haydon spent two months imprisoned for debt in the Kings Bench Prison, where he received consoling letters from leading men of the day. While there, he drew up a petition to Parliament in favour of the appointment of a committee to inquire into the state of encouragement of historical painting, which was presented by Lord Brougham. During 1825, following an agreement for his support with his lawyer, Thomas Kearsey, Haydon turned, rather unwillingly, to portrait painting. His works in the genre were, however, attacked in a review in Theodore Hooks weekly newspaper John Bull. Haydon later blamed the article for his loss of clientele, following a second period of incarceration at the Kings Bench Prison in 1827, he painted the Mock Election inspired by an incident he had witnessed there. The picture was bought by King George IV for £500, encouraged by this success, he painted a companion picture, Chairing the Member, returning to the prison to make drawings of some of the inmates. A third painting of contemporary life showed the audience at a Punch and his hopes that the king would buy this work were disappointed, a setback he blamed on the actions of the Keeper of the Kings Pictures, William Seguier. Curtius Leaping into the Gulf, and Uriel and Satan, as a supporter of parliamentary reform, he had the idea of painting a grand canvas of a meeting on Newhall Hill, addressed by Thomas Attwood, leader of the Birmingham Political Union
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National Centre for Popular Music
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The drums, whose tops were built to rotate in to the wind, no longer rotate and have been left pointing in various directions. The unusual building has acquired a number of nicknames including the curling stones, drums. Two other drums were called Perspectives and Making Music, the final drum was used to show music around the world, but was supposed to accommodate changing exhibitions - this never happened as the museum closed. The interactive exhibitions were developed with the Philips electronics firm, the ground floor contained office space, a shop, a bar, a cafe and a further exhibition space. Access to this floor was free, with only the top floor forming the museum, ticket prices were about £21 for a family of four. It was hoped to have attracted 400,000 visitors a year, after seven months,104,000 visitors turned up - mostly out of initial curiosity. At this point on October 18,1999, the buildings owners Music Heritage Ltd, the company was to be liquidated in that November if administration was not successful. It was saved in the interim although it was owing £1. 1m to 200 creditors, the estimates for visitors per year was reduced to 150,000. Martin King, the executive who took over from Stuart Rogers. It became a music venue for a period from July 2001 and then being taken over by Sheffield Hallam University from September 2003. It is now the universitys Students Union, Sheffield is not sexy, Nebula, vol 4, issue 3. Students move in September 2003 University buys the building in February 2003 Becomes live venue in 2001 Creditors meeting in November 1999 Debt in October 1999 Opening of the centre
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University of Sheffield
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The University of Sheffield is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Sheffield is a multi-campus university predominantly over two areas, the Western Bank and the St Georges. The university is organised into five academic faculties composed of multiple departments, Sheffield was placed 84th worldwide by The QS World University Rankings 2016. In 2011, Sheffield was named University of the Year in the Times Higher Education awards, the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2014 ranked the University of Sheffield 1st for student experience, social life, university facilities and accommodation, among other categories. There are seven Nobel Prize laureates amongst Sheffield academics, six of which are its alumni or former staff, the University of Sheffield was originally formed by the merger of three colleges. Firth College then helped to fund the opening of the Sheffield Technical School in 1884 to teach applied science, the only major faculty the existing colleges did not cover. The Sheffield Technical School was founded because of concern about the need for technical training, particularly steelmaking in Sheffield. The three institutions merged in 1897 to form the University College of Sheffield by Royal Charter, Sheffield was the only large city in England without a University. Steelworkers, coal miners, factory workers and the people of Sheffield donated over £50,000 in 1904 to help found the University of Sheffield and it was originally envisaged that the University College would join Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds as the fourth member of the federal Victoria University. In July 1905, Firth Court on Western Bank was opened by King Edward VII, St Georges Square remained the centre of departments of Applied Science, and the departments of Arts, Medicine and Science moved to Western Bank. Sheffield is one of the six red brick universities, the universities founded in the major industrial cities of England. In 1905, there were 114 full-time students, and the first Hall of Residence, the number of students increased to a short-lived peak of 1,000 in 1919. During the First World War, some of the subjects and courses were replaced by teaching of munitions making. Rather than from a centre, the university has expanded since the 1920s from two ends, the Firth Court on Western Bank and the Sir Frederick Mappin Building on the St Georges site. In 1943, the University Grants Committee announced that universities in the UK should look forward to expansion in the years after the Second World War, Sheffield predicted a 50% increase in student population but the university was unprepared for such growth. There was pressure on the university to expand since the student numbers had increased from around 1,000 to 3,000 by 1946, the university then grew slowly until the 1950s and 1960s when it began to expand rapidly. Many new buildings were built and older houses were brought into academic use, Student numbers increased to their present levels of just under 26,000. At the same time in the 1950s, the university was expanding at other sites, from the 1960s, many more buildings have been constructed or extended, including the Union of Students and St Georges Library
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Millennium Gallery
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The Millennium Gallery is an art gallery and museum in the centre of Sheffield, England. In 2011, the gallery was listed as the 15th most-visited free attraction in the country by Visit England and it is managed by Museums Sheffield. The gallery has two permanent collections, two exhibition spaces, space for corporate events and weddings, and a cafe and shop. Eminent Victorian scholar John Ruskin established a collection of material he hoped would inspire Sheffields workforce at the newly founded St Georges Museum, Walkley, Sheffield in 1875. The gallery displaying it was refurbished in 2011, to more frequent rotation of items from the collection which is too large. The Craft & Design gallery is an exhibition space intended to build on the tradition of the Ruskin. The special exhibition space is the largest in Sheffield and was designed to major touring exhibitions from national partners such as the V&A
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Imperial College London
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Imperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom. Its founder, Prince Albert, envisioned an area comprised of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Natural History Museum, Royal Albert Hall, the Imperial Institute was opened by his wife, Queen Victoria, who laid the foundation stone in 1888. Imperial College London was granted a charter in 1907. In the same year, the joined the University of London. The curriculum was expanded to include medicine after merging with several medical schools. In 2004, Queen Elizabeth II opened the Imperial College Business School, Imperial is organized through faculties for Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Business. The main campus is located in South Kensington, the universitys emphasis is on emerging technology and its practical application. Imperials contributions to society include the discovery of penicillin, the development of fibre optics, Imperial is consistently ranked among the top universities in the world. In 2017, it ranked 8th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 9th in the QS World University Rankings, in 2015, Imperial was also ranked the most innovative university in Europe, and in 2017 as the 5th most international university in the world. Staff and alumni include 15 Nobel laureates,2 Fields Medalists,70 Fellows of the Royal Society,82 Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and 78 Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences. The Great Exhibition in 1851 was organised by Prince Albert, Henry Cole, Francis Fuller and other members of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. The Great Exhibition made a surplus of £186,000 used in creating an area in the South of Kensington encouraging culture and education for everyone. Its founder, Prince Albert, envisioned an area composed of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Natural History Museum, Royal Albert Hall. Several royal colleges and the Imperial Institute merged to form what is now Imperial College London, as a result of a movement earlier in the decade, many politicians donated funds to establish the college, including Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone and Robert Peel. It was also supported by Prince Albert, who persuaded August Wilhelm von Hofmann to be the first professor, William Henry Perkin studied and worked at the college under von Hofmann, but resigned his position after discovering the first synthetic dye, mauveine, in 1856. It is considered the highest honour given in the chemical industry. The Royal School of Mines was established by Sir Henry de la Beche in 1851, developing from the Museum of Economic Geology and he created a school which laid the foundations for the teaching of science in the country, and which has its legacy today at Imperial. The Royal College of Science was established in 1881, the main objective was to support the training of science teachers and to develop teaching in other science subjects alongside the Royal School of Mines earth sciences specialities
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College and university rankings
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College and university rankings are rankings of institutions in higher education ordered by various combinations of various factors. Rankings have most often conducted by magazines, newspapers, websites, governments. In addition to ranking entire institutions, organizations perform rankings of specific programs, departments, various rankings mostly evaluating on institutional output by research. Some rankings evaluate institutions within a country, while others assess institutions worldwide. The subject has produced much debate about rankings usefulness and accuracy, the expanding diversity in rating methodologies and accompanying criticisms of each indicate the lack of consensus in the field. The variety of academic rankings provide an overview and insightful overlook of different academic institutions on composite capabilities in academia. For rankings of United States universities in particular, see Rankings of universities in the United States, several organizations produce worldwide university rankings, including the following. The ranking is funded by the Chinese government and its purpose was to measure the gap between Chinese and world class universities. In the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities there are no Chinese universities in the first 100 of 500 places, ARWU rankings have been cited by The Economist magazine. It has been lauded for being consistent and transparent based on an article, the education ministers of France, Norway and Denmark traveled to China to discuss and find ways to improve their rankings. ARWU does not rely on surveys and school submissions, among other criteria, ARWU includes the number of articles published by Nature or Science and the number of Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists. Harvard has topped the ranking for years, one of the primary criticisms of ARWUs methodology is that it is biased towards the natural sciences and English language science journals over other subjects. This Saudi Arabia-based consulting organization has published rankings of world universities since 2012. This university ranking is owned by the French consulting company and rating agency SMBG and it ranks masters and MBA in its 9 geographical regions. G-factor ranks university and college web presence by counting the number of only from other university websites. G-factor is an indicator of the popularity or importance of each universitys website from the perspectives of other institutions. The annual U. S. News Best Global Universities rankings were produced to provide insight into how universities compare globally. The Best Global Universities rankings also provide insight into how U. S. universities – which U. S. News has been ranking separately for more than 30 years – stand globally
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Times Higher Education World University Rankings
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Times Higher Education World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Times Higher Education magazine. The publisher had collaborated with Quacquarelli Symonds to publish the joint THE–QS World University Rankings from 2004 to 2009 before it turned to Thomson Reuters for a new ranking system. It is considered as one of the most widely observed university measures together with Academic Ranking of World Universities and it is praised for having a new improved methodology but undermining non-English-instructing institutions and being commercialized are the major criticisms. Times Higher Education chose to partner with educational and careers advice company QS to supply the data, the publication developed a new rankings methodology in consultation with its readers, its editorial board and Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters will collect and analyse the data used to produce the rankings on behalf of Times Higher Education, the first ranking was published in September 2010. In fact, the surveys of reputation, which made up 40 percent of scores, and its clear that our research measures favored the sciences over the humanities. He went on to describe previous attempts at peer review as embarrassing in The Australian, The sample was too small. THE published its first rankings using its new methodology on 16 September 2010, the Globe and Mail in 2010 described the Times Higher Education World University Rankings to be arguably the most influential. The inaugural 2010-2011 methodology contained 13 separate indicators grouped under five categories, Teaching, research, citations, international mix, the number of indicators is up from the Times-QS rankings published between 2004 and 2009, which used six indicators. A draft of the methodology was released on 3 June 2010. The names of the categories and the weighting of each was modified in the final methodology, the overall ranking score was calculated by making Z-scores all datasets to standardize different data types on a common scale to better make comparisons among data. The reputational component of the came from an Academic Reputation Survey conducted by Thomson Reuters in spring 2010. The survey gathered 13,388 responses among scholars statistically representative of global higher educations geographical, the magazines category for industry income – innovation came from a sole indicator, institutions research income from industry scaled against the number of academic staff. The magazine stated that it used this data as proxy for high-quality knowledge transfer, the Times stated that articles published in 2009–2010 have not yet completely accumulated in the database. The magazine announced on 5 September 2011 that its 2011–2012 World University Rankings would be published on 6 October 2011, at the same time, the magazine revealed changes to the ranking formula that will be introduced with the new rankings. The methodology will continue to use 13 indicators across five categories and will keep its fundamental foundations. Teaching and research will each remain 30 percent of the overall score, however, a new international outlook – staff, students and research will be introduced and will make up 7.5 percent of the final score. One 2011–2012 indicator, the public research income, will be dropped
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Labour Party (UK)
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The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Labour later served in the coalition from 1940 to 1945. Labour was also in government from 1964 to 1970 under Harold Wilson and from 1974 to 1979, first under Wilson and then James Callaghan. The Labour Party was last in government from 1997 to 2010 under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, beginning with a majority of 179. Having won 232 seats in the 2015 general election, the party is the Official Opposition in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the party also organises in Northern Ireland, but does not contest elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly. The Labour Party is a member of the Party of European Socialists and Progressive Alliance. In September 2015, Jeremy Corbyn was elected Leader of the Labour Party, the first Lib–Lab candidate to stand was George Odger in the Southwark by-election of 1870. In addition, several small socialist groups had formed around this time, among these were the Independent Labour Party, the intellectual and largely middle-class Fabian Society, the Marxist Social Democratic Federation and the Scottish Labour Party. In the 1895 general election, the Independent Labour Party put up 28 candidates, Keir Hardie, the leader of the party, believed that to obtain success in parliamentary elections, it would be necessary to join with other left-wing groups. Hardies roots as a lay preacher contributed to an ethos in the party led to the comment by 1950s General Secretary Morgan Phillips that Socialism in Britain owed more to Methodism than Marx. The motion was passed at all stages by the TUC, the meeting was attended by a broad spectrum of working-class and left-wing organisations—trades unions represented about one third of the membership of the TUC delegates. This created an association called the Labour Representation Committee, meant to coordinate attempts to support MPs sponsored by trade unions and it had no single leader, and in the absence of one, the Independent Labour Party nominee Ramsay MacDonald was elected as Secretary. He had the task of keeping the various strands of opinions in the LRC united. The October 1900 Khaki election came too soon for the new party to campaign effectively, only 15 candidatures were sponsored, but two were successful, Keir Hardie in Merthyr Tydfil and Richard Bell in Derby. Support for the LRC was boosted by the 1901 Taff Vale Case, the judgement effectively made strikes illegal since employers could recoup the cost of lost business from the unions. In their first meeting after the election the groups Members of Parliament decided to adopt the name The Labour Party formally, the Fabian Society provided much of the intellectual stimulus for the party. One of the first acts of the new Liberal Government was to reverse the Taff Vale judgement, the Peoples History Museum in Manchester holds the minutes of the first Labour Party meeting in 1906 and has them on display in the Main Galleries. Also within the museum is the Labour History Archive and Study Centre, the governing Liberals were unwilling to repeal this judicial decision with primary legislation
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Andrea Hirata
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Andrea Hirata is an Indonesian author best known for the 2005 novel Laskar Pelangi and its sequels. Hirata was born in Gantung, Belitung, while he was young, his parents changed his name seven times. They eventually settled on the name Andrea, while the name Hirata was given by his mother and he grew up in a poor family not far from a government-owned mine. Hirata started his education with a degree in economics from the University of Indonesia. Hirata released Laskar Pelangi in 2005, the novel went on to sell five million copies, with pirated editions selling 15 million more. It also spawned three sequels, Sang Pemimpi, Edensor and Maryamah Karpov and he also worked at the telecommunications company Telkom Indonesia, eventually quitting to focus on writing. In 2010 the international rights for the Laskar Pelangi tetralogy were bought by American agent Amer & Asia, afterwards, Hirata opened a library in his hometown. By 2010, he was spending weekends in Belitung and weekdays in Java and he later published his first English-language short story, Dry Season, in Washington Square Review. That same year, he spent three months attending a writers workshop at the University of Iowa and that year he was a speaker at the Byron Bay Writers Festival
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Kid Acne
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Kid Acne is an artist, illustrator and hip-hop musician. He was born in Lilongwe, Malawi in 1978 and he grew up in Lutterworth, Leicestershire and currently lives and works in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. He spent his years painting graffiti, creating fanzines and making limited run records on his own Invisible Spies imprint. Nowadays, his artwork can been seen throughout the world – both inside and outside of galleries and his signature style has adorned products for leading brands such as Prada, Kenzo, Elle, Kid Robot, Brompton and Warp Records. In 2014 Kid Acne collaborated with Dr Katie Edwards, an academic at The University of Sheffield, as part of the project, Kid Acne painted a mural version of his work The Birth of Hip Hop on the side of the Old Junior School in Sharrowvale, Sheffield. He also created a new rap, The Universe Rap, for the project, Kid Acne has released a number of records sporadically over the years. His first release was in 1997 under the name Mongrels alongside DJ Benjamin on their own DIY label, in 2000 they changed the label name to Invisible Spies before Acne issued his first solo 7 single, Squirrel Hunters as the prelude to his debut LP, Rap Traffic. Kid Acnes 2nd album, Council Pop was released in late 2003 preceded by a 12 of the track Radio Music, both Rap Traffic and Council Pop were produced by UK graffiti stalwart and nocturnal beat constructor, Req One. 2007 saw the release of Kid Acnes 3rd LP, Romance Aint Dead, beats once again programmed by Req One, with production handled by Ross Orton. Mastered and cut by Rob Gordon, the album has been praised with significant critical acclaim and was released internationally in 2008. The lead single, Eddy Fresh was released in Autumn 2007, complete with Gescom Remix and promo video directed by fellow artist, Acnes live show consists of Benjamin, Clev Cleverley and Chase Rockwell. He is a bombastic stripey horse with an obsession and an insulin dependant sidekick. Zebra Face first appeared in a comic strip in Kid Acnes Velcro Grass fanzine in 1995. Generating mild interest amongst the UK fanzine scene at the time, Zebra Face then became a fanzine of his own before the duo working on a book. Zebra Face is currently being made into an animated series for Channel 4. 2012 Stand & Deliver / C. A. V, / Swiss Embassy, London, UK1998 Graffiti Bastards 2 / Custard Factory, Birmingham, UK1996 Graffiti Bastards / Custard Factory, Birmingham, UK Denotes solo show Allmusic. com, Biography Discogs
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Blue Peter
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Blue Peter is a British childrens television programme, shown currently live on the CBBC television channel. A significant part of British culture, it first aired in 1958 and is the longest-running childrens TV show in the world. Although the show has a title and theme, it is a magazine/entertainment show containing viewer and presenter challenges. During its history there have been many presenters, often consisting of two women and two men at a time, the current presenters are Barney Harwood, Lindsey Russell and Radzi Chinyanganya. The show is produced mainly in a studio, but there is also a garden, often referred to as the Blue Peter Garden. The programme has featured a number of pets, currently a tortoise called Shelly makes appearances from time to time. Most programmes are broadcast live, but usually include at least one filmed report, There will also often be a demonstration of an activity in the studio, or a music or dance performance. Between the 1960s and 2011 the programme was made at BBC Television Centre, and often came from Studio 1 and this enabled Blue Peter to include large-scale demonstrations and performances within the live programme. From the September 2007 series, the programme was broadcast from a fixed set in Studio 2. However, from 2009 the series began to use the studios once more. The show is famous for its makes, which are demonstrations of how to construct a useful object or prepare food. Trace also used the line And now for something completely different, time is also often given over to reading letters and showing pictures sent in by viewers. Over 4,000 editions have been produced since 1958, Blue Peter was first aired on 16 October 1958. The Blue Peter is used as a signal, indicating that the vessel flying it is about to leave. Hunter Blair also pointed out that blue was a favourite colour. The first two presenters were Christopher Trace, an actor, and Leila Williams, winner of Miss Great Britain in 1957, the two presenters were responsible for activities which matched the traditional gender roles. As broadcasting historian Asa Briggs expressed it in 1995, Leila played with dolls and they were supported on occasion by Tony Hart, an artist who later designed the ship logo, who told stories about an elephant called Packi. It was broadcast every Friday for fifteen minutes on BBC TV, over the first few months more features were added, including competitions, documentaries, cartoons, and stories
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Yorkshire Carnegie
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Yorkshire Carnegie are an English rugby union club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, who play in the RFU Championship. The club was founded in 1991 as Leeds RUFC, in 1998, the club merged with Leeds Rhinos to form Leeds Rugby Limited, also known as Leeds Tykes. In 2007, Leeds Metropolitan University bought a 51% stake in the club and changed the name to fit with the sport department. At the end of the 2008–09 season, ownership of the club passed back into the hands of Leeds Rugby, in 2009–10, they only received 60% of a full share of Premiership revenues. Headingley has a tradition of rugby which started back in 1877, after several youngsters became interested in rugby after watching Leeds St. Johns and their first game was in November against the Saints second team. Union was centred around a church club, the original rugby union team was Leeds St Johns and it played at the Militia Barracks ground before moving to Cardigan Fields. The Headingley name was adopted in 1878 and Cardigan Fields was used for rugby and cricket. On 5 January 1884, England played Wales there and won 5–3 with a crowd in the region of 2,000 in attendance. In 1888, the Cardigan Estate was sold at auction and Lot 17a was purchased by a group of Leeds citizens, Lot 17a became what is now Headingley Stadium. Leeds St Johns played their season under that name in 1889–90, before becoming the football section of Leeds Cricket, Football. With Headingley still being completed, Leeds first game was staged at Cardigan Fields, the first game at Headingley was played on 20 September 1890, when Manningham were beaten by one try and one dropped goal to nil. Leeds were founder members of the Northern Union when it broke away from the Rugby Football Union in 1895, Leeds début in the Northern Union was a 6–3 victory at Leigh on 7 September 1895, the inaugural day of the new competition. However, this saw the demise of the Leeds club which split into two, the part that was to become the Rugby League club in 1895-6 stayed at the Headingley ground and Headingley RUFC was reborn in 1891, eventually finishing up in 1902 in Clarence Fields, Kirkstall. Two other internationals were played in Leeds before the split between Union and League, against Ireland and Scotland, both ending in defeat. In 1889, Headingley was disbanded when Leeds St. Johns moved into the area, built Headingley Rugby Stadium, however, Headingley bounced back and found fixtures outside Yorkshire, in 1901 their fixture list including a game against the famous Blackheath Rugby Club. Roundhay were formed in 1924 and moved to their ground at Chandos Park in the 1930s, forty internationals have played for one team or the other perhaps the best known being Peter Winterbottom, Ian McGeechan and Chris Rea, who played for Headingley. Former Scotland coach Frank Hadden also had a spell at Headingley, brian Moore played for Roundhay before his move to Nottingham and selection for England. Leeds RUFC was founded in 1991 after the merger of Roundhay and Headingley, Morley RFC was also invited to join, the new club played their first match on 1 September 1992 against Hull Ionians
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Richard Caborn
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Richard George Caborn is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Central from 1983 to 2010. Caborn was a member of the Government for ten years, serving as the Minister of Sport from 2001 to 2007 and he was later appointed by Gordon Brown as the Prime Ministers Ambassador for Englands 2018 World Cup Bid. He began an apprenticeship in 1959 and became a convenor of shop stewards at Firth Brown in 1967 where he worked as a fitter. He was elected as the Vice President of Sheffield Trades Council between 1968–1979 and he became a governor of the BBC for three years in 1975. He is a member of the Co-operative Party and of Amicus, in 1979, he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for Sheffield, where he remained until 1984. Caborn joined the frontbench under Neil Kinnock in 1988 when he became a spokesman on Trade and Industry. After the 1992 general election he became the chairman of the Trade and he was also a strong supporter of English regional government, but after negative responses from referendums in the north of England in 2004 this was dropped by government. He then moved with the position at the Department of Trade. He became a Member of the Privy Council in 1999, in relation to the Wembley Stadium rebuilding project, he announced in October 2005, They say the Cup Final will be there, barring six feet of snow or something like that. Caborn was seen as an ally of John Prescott, running his campaigns for the deputy leadership of the Labour Party in 1992. He also ran Prescotts campaign for deputy and leader in 1994. He was a supporter of Arthur Scargill during the 1984–1985 miners strike. In March 2003, Caborn supported Tony Blair in voting for the controversial Iraq war, on 30 December 2005, Caborn publicly announced his support for capped wages in British football. On 28 June 2007 it was announced he would step down as Minister for Sport to become an ambassador for Britains possible 2018 World Cup bid, in this role he will oversee the appointment of the bids senior team and liaise between ministers and the Football Association. He will also play a key role in lobbying FIFA, Caborn announced on 13 September 2007 that he would stand down at the next general election. In March 2010 he faced accusations in The Sunday Times linking him to the Lobbygate affair, during his time as Minister of Sport he ran in many marathons and fun runs. He has been married to Margaret Hayes since 21 May 1966, and they have a son and he enjoys a round of golf to relax and he is an avid supporter of Sheffield United football club. Notes References Department for Culture, Media and Sport – Rt Hon Richard Caborn MP official profile Guardian Unlimited Politics – Ask Aristotle, Richard Caborn MP TheyWorkForYou
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Mr. Scruff
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Andrew Andy Carthy, better known by his stage name Mr. Scruff, is a British electronic music producer and DJ. He lives in Stretford, Greater Manchester and studied art at the Psalter Lane campus of Sheffield Hallam University. Before he could make a living from his music alone, he worked as a shelf stocker in the Hazel Grove branch of Kwik Save and his stage name was inspired by his scruffy facial hair as well as his trademark loose-lined drawing style. He has been DJing since 1994, at first in and around Manchester then nationwide and he is known for DJing in marathon sets, his eclectic musical taste, his love of a nice cup of tea, and the quirky home-produced visuals and animations associated with his music. In an interview he said, It’s about putting a lot of effort in, I get annoyed if I don’t take risks. In his twenties Mr. Scruffs first 12 vinyl, Hocus Pocus, was released on the small Manchester-based label Robs Records, subsequent singles and his first album followed, released on Robs Records subsidiary Pleasure Music. After a brief spell working with Mark Rae, he moved to the larger Ninja Tune label and subsequently released the albums Keep It Unreal and Trouser Jazz. His most notable hit, Get a Move On, is built around Birds Lament by Moondog and has used in several commercials ranging from Lincoln and Volvo automobiles to France Télécom. The song also samples Shifty Henrys Hyping Woman Blues and led to a renewal of interest in Henrys compositions. In 2004, Mr. Scruff released Keep It Solid Steel Volume 1 and these mixes are designed to recreate the eclectic genres one would expect to hear at a Mr. Scruff club night. In November 2006, Ninja Tune confirmed that the 8th Solid Steel record would be mixed by J Rocc, other Solid Steel mixes have been released by fellow Ninja Tune artists including The Herbaliser, Hexstatic, DJ Food and Amon Tobin. He has an array of remixes to his name, and has also produced tracks for others – notably Echo of Quiet. Niko returned the favour, appearing on the track Come Alive from the Trouser Jazz album. Having performed regularly at The Big Chill Festival in Eastnor Castle deer park, Ledbury, Herefordshire, he was asked in 2006 to select the tracks for the compilation album, Big Chill Classics. July 2008 saw the release of Southport Weekender Volume 7, an album released in the Southport Weekender series, recorded in a purpose-built holiday village in Southport. The first disc was mixed by German nu jazz DJs Jazzanova, Scruffs contribution is a mix of soul music. In 2008, a new independent record label, Ninja Tuna, was founded, Mr. Scruffs most recent singles and the album Ninja Tuna were all released on the new label. A US-only release of the album on mp3 came with 10 additional tracks from the Ninja Tuna recording sessions, a CD version of this supplementary album was released in the UK in February 2009
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Eric Dancer
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Sir Eric Dancer KCVO CBE KStJ is a British businessman and formerly Lord-Lieutenant of Devon. Dancer was born in Sheffield in 1940, after moving to Devon in 1980 he attained the Diploma in Company Direction at Exeter University. His career has been in industry, with over 30 years at Board level of which the last 20 were as Managing Director of Dartington Crystal, prior to his retirement in 2000. In 1998 he was appointed Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Devon, in 2001 he received an Honorary Doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University and in 2002 was commissioned Honorary Captain Royal Naval Reserve. Honorary Doctorates of Law and Business were conferred by Exeter and Plymouth Universities respectively in 2010,15 June 1991 - Dancer was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1991 for services to business and training. Sir Eric Dancer was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Business from Plymouth University, Sheffield Hallam link Devon County Council
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Richard O'Dwyer
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Richard ODwyer is a British computer programmer who created the TVShack. net search engine while a student at Sheffield Hallam University. In May 2011, the U. S. Justice Department sought to extradite ODwyer from the UK in relation to the website. The site did not host any infringing media, but American authorities said it contained indexed links to media hosted on other sites, the Southern District Court in New York charged ODwyer with conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and criminal infringement of copyright. ODwyers lawyer Ben Cooper opposed extradition, stating that the site acted as a mere conduit, Ben Cooper also argued that any criminal prosecution should be brought in the UK, as TVShack was not hosted on American servers. On 13 January 2012, UK District Judge Quentin Purdy rejected those arguments, the extradition order was approved by UK Home Secretary Theresa May in March,2012, and ODwyer launched an appeal. On 28 November 2012, it was announced that ODwyer had signed a deferred prosecution agreement to avoid extradition and he was ordered to pay a fine of £20,000 and remain in contact with a US correctional officer over the next six months. In return, the United States would drop all charges, lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, the judge, called the outcome very satisfactory, adding, It would be very nice for everyone if this was resolved happily before Christmas. ODwyer now works as an independent software consultant and racing driver, while he was a student at Sheffield Hallam University, ODwyer created TVShack. net in December 2007. The website contained indexed links for movies, television, anime, music, the site FAQ included the disclaimer, TV Shack is a simple resource site. All content visible on site is located at 3rd party websites. TV Shack is not responsible for any content linked to or referred from these pages, on 30 June 2010 U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials seized seven domains for violations of Federal criminal copyright infringement laws. This action was authorized by a warrant issued by the Manhattan Federal Court following a request by the U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Besides ODwyers TVShack. net, the other domains involved were Movies-Links. tv, FilesPump. com, Now-Movies. com, PlanetMoviez. com, ThePirateCity. org and ZML. com. TVShack was, along with five other websites, described as a website, providing access or links to other websites where pirated movies. The seventh website, ZML. com, was described as a cyberlocker, the domain seizure was undertaken by the Complex Frauds and Asset Forfeiture Unit of ICE in partnership with the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center. Assistant United States Attorneys Thomas G. A, brown, Rebecca Rohr, Joseph Facciponti, Jason Hernandez, and Michael Ferrara, were in charge of the investigation. Within four hours of the TVShack. net domain seizure, TVShack was moved to the TVShack. cc domain, in late November 2010, roughly five months after the initial seizure, a second operation saw a total of at least 82 domains seized by ICE. ODwyer was visited by UK and U. S. police at this time, ODwyers mother said her son had shut down the website the next day
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Kelly Holmes
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Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE is a retired British middle distance athlete. Holmes specialised in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events and won a medal for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She set British records in events and still holds the records over the 600,800 and 1000 metre distances. Inspired by a number of successful British middle distance runners in the late 1970s and early 1980s and she joined the British Army, but continued to compete at the organisations athletics events. She turned to the athletics circuit in the early 1990s and in 1994 she won the 1500 m at the Commonwealth Games. She won silver in the 1500 m at the 1998 Commonwealth Games and bronze in the 800 m at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Holmes won the 1500 m at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and the 800 m bronze at the Munich European Championships that year. The 2003 track season saw her take silver in the 1500 m at the World Indoor Championships and the 800 m silver medals at the World Championships and first World Athletics Final. She took part in her final championship in 2004 — she turned in a double gold medal-winning performance at the Athens Olympics. For her achievements she won awards and was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005. She retired from athletics in 2005 and has made a number of television appearances. She participated as a contestant in the 2015 series of Bear Grylls, Holmes was born in Pembury, Kent, the daughter of Derrick Holmes, a Jamaican-born car mechanic, and an English mother, Pam Norman. Her mother,18 at the time of her birth, married painter and decorator Michael Norris, Holmes grew up in Hildenborough, Kent, where she attended Hildenborough CEP School, and then Hugh Christie Comprehensive School in Tonbridge from the age of 12. Her hero was British middle distance runner Steve Ovett, and she was inspired by his success at the 1980 Summer Olympics, in the Army, she was initially a lorry driver in the Womens Royal Army Corps, later becoming a basic Physical Training Instructor. Holmes then elected in June 1990 to attend the first course to be run under the Armys new Physical Training syllabus, although militarily quite young, Holmes athletic prowess was impressive and she was encouraged to attend the course selection for full-time transfer to the Royal Army Physical Training Corps. Holmes eventually qualified as a Sergeant Class 1 PTI, although she remained in the Adjutant Generals Corps after the disbandment of the WRAC in 1992. At another event, she competed in and won an 800 metres, a 3000 metres, for several years she combined athletics with employment in the Army, until increased funding allowed her to become a full-time athlete in 1997. At least once, she considered suicide, but she sought help from a doctor and was diagnosed with clinical depression. While she could not use anti-depressants because it would affect her performance,2004 saw Holmes arrive at a major competition, the Athens Olympics, with no injury worries for just about the first time in her career
