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Vizzini

Vizzini is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Catania, on the island of Sicily, southern Italy. It is located 60 km from Catania in the Hyblaean Mountains, on the most northwesterly slopes of Monte Lauro.

The commune territory is bounded by the comuni of Buccheri, Francofonte, Giarratana, Licodia Eubea, Militello in Val di Catania, Mineo.

History
Bidis, a Roman city mentioned by Pliny and Cicero, stood here in a territory that has been inhabited since prehistoric times.

The modern town developed in the Middle Ages around a now non-extant castle, as a fief of various lords, including the Chiaromontes and the Schittinos, although for many years it was also part of the royal domain.

In 1358, Roland of Sicily reconquered the area from Vizzini to Avola.

In 1415, the Jewish community of Vizzini was expelled by Queen Blanca, and was never permitted to return.

On the 14th of July, 1943 the town of Vizzini was liberated from fascist forces by the British military. Specifically, by that time Vizzini was occupied by a small detachment of forces from Nazi Germany. Britain's XXX Corps under General Montgomery consisting largely of M4 Sherman Tanks easily overpowered the small group of German tanks that were present in the town. The town had been in the American occupational zone and this caused some confusion when British forces liberated the town first.

Main sights
The Arab layout of the town is evident seen passing from Via Verga to Via San Gregorio Magno and proceeding as far as Largo della Matrice, a square with a modern statue of St Gregory in the middle and the Chiesa Madre (mother church) of San Gregorio Magno at one side.

The portal on the left flank of the church, in splendid 15th-century Gothic-Catalan style, probably derived from the old Town Hall, destroyed by the earthquake in 1693; in the interior there are late 18th century stuccos and a wooden ceiling by Natale Bonaiuto, as well as two paintings (The Martyrdom of St. Laurence and the Madonna delle Mercede) by Filippo Paladini (or Paladino), born in Florence about 1544. Another painting by Paladino, The Deposition (1607), is in the Chiesa del Convento dei Cappuccini.

Nearby is the church of Sant'Agata, rebuilt in the 18th century on the site of a previous 15th-century building and houses a pipe organ created around 1770.

The church of San Giovanni Battista was built in the 18th century. The stuccos decorating the interior are by Natale Bonaiuto.

The front of the church of Santa Teresa is said to be the setting for scenes from Cavalleria Rusticana, the libretto of which is based on the play of the same name by Giovanni Verga, who lived in Vizzini for a time.

The statue depicting the Madonna and Child (1527) in the Chiesa dei Minori Osservanti was sculpted by Antonello Gagini.

Religious buildings

 * San Gregorio Magno, chiesa madre.
 * Chiesa dello Spirito Santo
 * Santa Maria di Gesù and convent
 * San Vito
 * Santissima Annunziata
 * San Francesco di Paola
 * Santa Maria del Pericolo
 * San Sebastiano
 * Santa Teresa
 * Sant'Agata
 * Chiesa del Convento dei Cappuccini
 * Monastero Santa Maria dei Greci
 * Santa Lucia

Palaces and other buildings

 * Palazzo di Citta (early 19th century)
 * Palazzo Verga (family of the writer)(18th century)
 * Palazzo di città (municipio)(Town Hall Building)
 * Palazzo Cannizzaro
 * Palazzo Passanisi
 * Palazzo Cafici
 * Palazzo La Gurna
 * Palazzo Trao
 * Palazzo Gandolfo Maggiore

Culture
The writer Giovanni Verga used Vizzini as the setting for his Cavalleria Rusticana and Mastro Don Gesualdo, describing places and scenes that are still recognizable (the prickly pears of Cunziria, and in a sloping alley the house of the Trao family).

People

 * Giovanni Verga (1840–1922), Italian realist writer.
 * Lucio Marineo Siculo (1444–1533). Humanists Scholar at the University of Salamanca, Spain, teacher of translating Italian love poetry, Latin, and Greek lyrics into Spanish. Lived in the court of the Spanish kings Ferdinand and Isabel where he taught Joan Boscà i Almogàver.
 * Matteo Agosta (1922–1964) was an Italian politician who represented the Christian Democracy party in the Chamber of Deputies from 1958 to 1964.

Economy
The economy of the commune is mainly agricultural (cereals, prickly pears, vegetables, sumac). Other activities include handmade shoes and carpentry.

Transportation
Buses travel to and near Vizzini regularly from surrounding cities Catania and Ragusa. Major operators include AST and ETNA.

The railway station Vizzini-Licodia is situated 6 km outside the city in the frazione of Vizzini Scalo.

Events

 * Procession of "Sorrows" – Good Friday
 * "A Cugnunta" – Easter Sunday
 * "Ricotta and Cheese Festival" – 23, 24 and 25 April
 * Festival of San Giuseppe – 19 April
 * "Festival of Taste and Odours" – 2 June
 * Festival of San Giovanni Battista – 28 and 29 August
 * Events Verghiane – July / August
 * Festival of the Patron San Gregorio Magno – 2 and 3 September
 * "Rocksticana " – Rock music festival for emerging groups – September
 * Traditional "Festival of the Dead" – 30–31 October and 1 November
 * "Living Nativity" – December

Twin towns

 * 🇮🇹 Cerignola, Italy
 * 🇮🇹 Aci Catena, Italy
 * 🇮🇹 Livorno, Italy

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Minto (electoral district)

Minto was a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created by redistribution in 1999, and has formally existed since the provincial election of 1999. The riding is located in the centre of the City of Winnipeg.

Minto was created primarily from territory from the old St. James riding, with some additional territory from Wellington as well. In many respects, the riding may be regarded as a successor to the St. James riding which existed before 1999.

Minto was bordered on the east by Point Douglas, to the north by Wellington, to the south by Wolseley, and to the west by the current St. James riding.

The riding's population in 1996 was 20,479. In 1999, the average family income was $37,037, and the unemployment rate was 13.80%. Thirty-seven per cent of the riding's residents are listed as low-income, one of the highest rates in the province. Twenty-two per cent of families in the riding are single-parent.

Minto has an immigrant population of 33%, the highest in the province. Sixteen per cent of the riding's residents are Filipino, 7% Portuguese, 3% Chinese and 2% Italian. The aboriginal population in the riding is 14%.

Manufacturing accounts for 25% of Minto's industry, with a further 19% in the service sector.

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Mousehole

Mousehole (Porthenys) is a village and fishing port in Cornwall, England, UK. It is approximately 2.5 mi south of Penzance on the shore of Mount's Bay. The village is in the civil parish of Penzance. An islet called St Clement's Isle lies about 350 m offshore from the harbour entrance.

Mousehole lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). 27% of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park.

History
The first mention of the village of Mousehole is in 1283 and the first mention of Portheness is in 1267. Although usually thought of as the same place, a document from 1309 names Porthenys juxta Mousehole (i.e., next to Mousehole), implying two separate places. Compare with nearby Newlyn which is separated by a stream from Tolcarne and both were once considered individual places. There is also a 1339 document naming Porthengrous juxta Porthenes (harbour by the cross, next to the harbour by the island). If the amount of tax collected is indicative of how important a place was, in the 14th century, tax collected on the number of fishing boats from Mousehole was £5. Nearby Marazion paid £1 6s 8d, Newlyn £1, Penzance 12s and Porthgwarra and Penberth 12s. There were three medieval chapels, including the one on St Clement's island. In 1383 a chapel was dedicated to "the Blessed Virgin Mary" and was in ruins by 1414 due to storms. It was rebuilt around 1420 and finally destroyed during the Reformation. Another chapel was licensed in 1441 and dedicated to St Edward the Confessor.

Records show that pilchards were exported to France as early as 1302, and in the late 18th century there were five seines and 55 boats based in the harbour. In the 1880s there was still a drift pilchard fishery and in the autumn around sixty boats fished in the North Sea.

Along with Marazion, it was one of the principal ports of Mount's Bay until the 16th century. Before its decline as a major commercial centre, Mousehole also had a number of fairs and markets, including the charter for a market on Tuesdays, with a fair for three days at the festival of St Barnabas, granted to Henry de Tyes in 1292. Mousehole, like many communities in Mount's Bay, fell within the authority of the Manor of Alverton; all early charters, fairs etc. associated with Mousehole are associated with this manorial estate.

Mousehole, like Penzance, Newlyn and Paul, was attacked in the 1595 raid on Mount's Bay by Spaniard Carlos de Amésquita, the only surviving building being the 'Keigwin Arms', a local pub. Outside the Keigwin Arms (now a private residence) is a plaque with the wording "Squire Jenkyn Keigwin was killed here 23 July 1595 defending this house against the Spaniards".

20th century
Although a lifeboat had been available in Mount's Bay for many years, a new lifeboat station at Penlee Point, on the outskirts of the village, was opened in 1913. On 19 December 1981 the entire lifeboat crew of eight was lost during an attempted rescue in hurricane-force winds. The lifeboat was moved to Newlyn in 1983 but continues to be known as the "Penlee Lifeboat".

The village's harbourside was once the location of the Lobster Pot guest house, in which Dylan Thomas and Caitlin Macnamara spent their honeymoon after marrying at Penzance register office.

In 1936 the GPO Film Unit made The Saving of Bill Blewitt, a short film to promote the Post Office Savings Bank, featuring local postman Bill Blewitt.

Mousehole hosts a vibrant variety of festivals and community activities. It is known for its Christmas illuminations. Since 1981, every 19 December the lights have been turned off in memory of the victims of the lifeboat disaster. Tom Bawcock's Eve is a unique celebration held on 23 December each year to celebrate the ending of a famine in the 16th century by local resident Tom Bawcock. This festival is the inspiration behind the book The Mousehole Cat by Antonia Barber and the associated television productions. This festival is also the origin of stargazy pie, a mixed fish, egg and potato pie with fish heads protruding through the pastry. Mousehole also holds a small maritime festival every two years called 'Sea, Salt and Sail'.

Parts of the 1995 feature film Blue Juice were filmed in the village. The local community radio station is Coast FM (formerly Penwith Radio), which broadcasts on 96.5 and 97.2 FM.

Local government
Mousehole was part of the ancient parish of Paul, and from 1866 part of the civil parish of Paul. In 1894 Mousehole became part of Paul Urban District. The urban district was abolished in 1934 and Mousehole was absorbed into the municipal borough of Penzance. Penzance Municipal Borough was itself abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and Mousehole became part of the new Penwith District. The former borough was unparished until 1980. The unparished area was formed into a civil parish in 1980, and the new Penzance parish council elected to call itself a town council. Penwith District was abolished in 2009, and Mousehole now falls under the unitary Cornwall Council.

Sport
There is a football team based nearby named Mousehole A.F.C., currently playing in the Premier Division of the Western Football League.

Notable residents
Penwith is believed to be the last part of Cornwall where the Cornish language was spoken as the community language. Dolly Pentreath, popularly known as the last recorded speaker of Cornish, is often reported as being from Mousehole and as having a memorial in the village. In fact, she was from Paul (the parish of Paul historically included Mousehole).

A year after Dolly Pentreath died in 1777, Daines Barrington received a letter, written in Cornish and accompanied by an English translation, from a fisherman in Mousehole named William Bodinar stating that he knew of five people who could speak Cornish in that village alone. Barrington also speaks of a John Nancarrow from Marazion who was a native speaker and survived into the 1790s.

John Keigwin (1641–1716), a scholar in the Cornish language, William Carvosso (1750–1834), the Methodist, and Joseph Trewavas VC CGM (14 December 1835 – 20 July 1905) were also born in Mousehole.

Admiral of the fleet Sir Caspar John GCB (1903–1984) lived in Mousehole in retirement. The artist Jack Pender (1918–1998) was born in Mousehole and spent most of his career there. English writer and illustrator Michelle Cartlidge lives in Mousehole.

The potter Jack Doherty lives in Mousehole where he has his studio.

Media and literary associations

 * Charles de Lint, writer of many modern and urban fairy tales, set his novel The Little Country in the village of Mousehole.
 * The Mousehole Cat, a children's book written by Antonia Barber and illustrated by Nicola Bayley, is also set in Mousehole and based on the legend of Tom Bawcock and the continuing tradition of Tom Bawcock's Eve.
 * The local community radio station is Coast FM (formerly Penwith Radio), which broadcasts on 96.5 and 97.2 FM.
 * Mark Jenkin's film, Bait, was filmed in Mousehole. Bait tells the story of a fisherman battling to keep his way of life afloat in the face of gentrification.

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Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland Clinic is an American nonprofit academic medical center based in Cleveland, Ohio. Owned and operated by the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, an Ohio nonprofit corporation, Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 by a group of faculty and alumni from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The Clinic runs a 170 acre main campus in Cleveland, as well as 14 affiliated hospitals, 20 family health centers in Northeast Ohio, 5 affiliated hospitals in Florida, and cancer center in Nevada. International operations include the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi hospital in the United Arab Emirates and Cleveland Clinic Canada, which has two executive health and sports medicine clinics in Toronto. Another hospital campus in the United Kingdom, Cleveland Clinic London, opened to outpatients in 2021 and fully opened in 2022. Tomislav Mihaljevic is the president and CEO.

Cleveland Clinic is consistently ranked as one of the best hospitals in the United States. For the past twenty years in the fields of cardiology, heart, and vascular surgery, Cleveland Clinic has been ranked and regarded as the best and highest-performing hospital in the world. In 2018–2019, the U.S. News & World Report ranked Cleveland Clinic as the number 2 hospital in the Best Hospitals Honor Roll, as it was nationally ranked in 14 adult and 10 pediatric specialties. Cleveland Clinic conducts its pediatric operations through the Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital.

Cleveland Clinic's operating revenue in 2017 was $8.4 billion and its operating income $330 million. That year it recorded 7.6 million patient visits and 229,132 admissions. As of 2019, it has over 67,500 employees, a figure that includes over 17,000 registered nurses and advanced practice providers and over 4,520 physicians and scientists in 140 specialties. It is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, with which it started a physician-investigator medical training program: the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. Cleveland Clinic is also the teaching hospital for Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and Kent State University College of Podiatric Medicine. In addition, Cleveland Clinic has 1,974 residents and fellows in 104 training programs approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The Cleveland Clinic publishes the peer-reviewed journal Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation is the third largest doctors group in the United States with 15,330 medical professionals as of September 1, 2022.

Beginnings
The organization grew out of the surgical practice of Frank J. Weed (died 1891) at 16 Church Street on the near-west side of Cleveland. The practice was purchased by his two assistants, Frank E. Bunts and George Washington Crile. In 1892 they were joined by Crile's cousin, William E. Lower, and in 1897 the practice moved to the Osborn Building on Prospect Avenue, downtown Cleveland.

A four-story outpatient building was constructed, and Cleveland Clinic was dedicated at a private ceremony on February 26, 1921. It opened its doors two days later to the public and registered 42 patients. By April 1921, it had 60 employees, including 14 physicians and four nurses. In 1922 the founders purchased four private homes nearby for hospitalization, radiation treatment, and administration. A fifth house was acquired as a residence for patients with diabetes receiving insulin treatments. To meet rising patient volume, a 184-bed hospital was built in 1924, located at East 90th Street and Carnegie Avenue. A power plant, laundry, and ice plant were also built. A research laboratory was constructed in 1928.

Cleveland Clinic fire
On May 15, 1929, nitrocellulose x-ray films stored in the basement of the outpatient building ignited. An explosion sent a cloud of toxic oxides of nitrogen and carbon though the building. One hundred and twenty-three people, including John Phillips, one of the founders, lost their lives. A dozen investigating agencies were not able to determine what had caused the fire. Cleveland Clinic's own inquiry narrowed the possible causes down to spontaneous combustion caused by heat; a discarded cigarette or match; and contact with an extension cord light hung over a stack of films.

Philanthropist Samuel Mather formed a committee of 36 community leaders to help Cleveland Clinic reestablish itself in temporary quarters across the street. Patient care services resumed five days later. The 1921 building was completely renovated, and a new three-story clinic building, with a new main entrance, was added in 1931. All debts were repaid by 1941.

Growth of specialization
Cleveland Clinic built new operating rooms in the early 1970s to accommodate the growth of cardiac surgery. The Martha Holden Jennings Education Building opened in 1964, with an auditorium named for Dr. Bunts. A new hospital building (currently home to Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital) opened in 1966, and a research building opened in 1974 (demolished in 2007). A pathology and laboratory medicine building was constructed on Carnegie Avenue in 1980.

Willian S. Kiser, chairman of the board 1977–1989, led the development of a strategic plan to accommodate growing patient volumes in the late 1970s. This resulted in a group of buildings known as the Century Project. Completed in 1985, the Century Project includes a 14-story outpatient building (now known as the Crile Building) designed by architect Cesar Pelli.

In September 2014, the Cleveland Clinic opened the center for Functional Medicine, directed by Mark Hyman.

Research and education
The Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute (LRI) conducts biomedical research in a 480,000-square-foot building that opened in 1999, following a $16 million donation from Al and Norma Lerner in 1997, the largest single charitable donation made to the Cleveland Clinic up until that point. LRI hosts graduate student research through joint PhD programs in conjunction with nearby universities, including Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland State University (including an NIH-funded PhD program for minority and underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), Kent State University and the University of Akron.

In 2002, the Lerners eclipsed their previous gift and made a $100 million donation to establish the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine (CCLCM) within Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, opening in 2004. Physician researcher Eric Topol played an important role in securing the donation from the Lerner family. Topol served as Provost and Chief Academic Officer at CCLCM until 2006, when his position was eliminated amid controversy regarding his criticism of Vioxx and disagreements with other Cleveland Clinic leaders, including then-CEO Toby Cosgrove. CCLCM is a five-year medical school program affiliated with the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine with 32 students per class, each receiving a scholarship for full tuition and fees. While traditional MD-granting medical schools in the U.S. are four-year programs, the extra year in the program is dedicated to a year of research. The curriculum is notable for its lack of class rank, pre-clinical or clinical grading, or end-of-course examinations.

In 2019, Cleveland Clinic and Case Western opened the Samson Pavilion Health Education Campus on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic, a $515 million building project, amid a multi-million dollar joint fundraising campaign between CWRU and the Cleveland Clinic. The campus houses students Case Western Reserve School of Medicine (CCLCM and traditional MD programs), Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and Case School of Dental Medicine, all of which—with the exception of CCLCM—had previously held classes on the campus of CWRU and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. The move, announced in 2013, was a major contributing factor for University Hospitals to shift its name from University Hospitals Case Medical Center to University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center in 2016, as well as renegotiate its affiliation agreement with CWRU that same year.

Cleveland Clinic publishes the peer-reviewed Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine monthly, focusing on internal medicine, endocrinology, and diabetes.

Reputation
Cleveland Clinic is consistently regarded as one of the top hospital systems in the United States and in the world, and it is well regarded particularly in technological management systems.

Rankings
In 2020–2021, Cleveland Clinic was ranked as the #2 overall hospital in the United States by the U.S. News & World Report, behind the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. A total of 4,656 hospitals were considered in 12 main data-driven medical and surgical specialty areas and four additional specialty areas, collating data on patient safety, performance measures, and complication rates. Cleveland Clinic was found to be nationally ranked in 14 adult specialties and 10 children's specialties and was recognized as the #1 hospital in Ohio and in the Cleveland Metropolitan Area. It also achieved the highest rating possible in 9 specified procedures or conditions: abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, aortic valve surgery, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, colon cancer surgery, heart bypass surgery, heart failure, hip replacement, knee replacement, and lung cancer surgery. In addition, for the 14th year in a row, Cleveland Clinic was ranked as the #1 hospital in the United States for cardiology and heart surgery as a specialty. Similarly, in 2021, Newsweek named Cleveland Clinic the number 2 hospital in the world, behind Mayo Clinic.

In 2021, Gartner ranked Cleveland Clinic as the #1 healthcare supply chain.

In 2022, The American Hospital Association (AHA) partnered with the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development to engage the branding agency, Monigle, to conduct consumer research with 28,000 Americans to rank hospital brands °… on their performance in delivering a humanized experience". The Cleveland Clinic was ranked first, followed by two other Ohio systems. Other systems, including Johns Hopkins ranked 6th; Mass General, 11th; and the Mayo Clinic ranked 15h.

Safety
In a Kaiser Family Foundation review of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) data for hospital acquired conditions in 2014, Cleveland Clinic received an 8.7 score (1–10 possible, with 10 being the worst), in the bottom 7% of hospitals.

Between 2010 and 2013, CMS undertook an extensive series of investigations into the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, with at least a dozen inspections and follow-up visits triggered by patient complaints. An analysis of Medicare inspection data between 2011 and 2014 found that the Cleveland Clinic Foundation was one of at least 230 instances in which validated serious incidents—dubbed "immediate jeopardy" complaints—led CMS to threaten loss of ability to serve Medicare patients unless the problems were fixed immediately. Due to numerous serious ongoing safety violations, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation was on payment termination track for 19 months, placing at stake $1B in annual Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement. The citations were reported and analyzed in detail by Modern Healthcare, which posted some of the safety documents.

In its 2020 Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings, CMS gave a five-star rating to the Cleveland Clinic, as well as several community hospitals in the Cleveland Clinic system, including Fairview Hospital, Hillcrest Hospital, and Lutheran Hospital. In these ratings, Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital received a one-star rating.

During the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, administration at the Cleveland Clinic initially instructed employees that they were not allowed to wear face masks outside of patient care areas. The Cleveland Clinic stated they made this decision as they felt the current body of evidence at the time did not support their use. Other hospitals however require such masks. Later, with growing evidence of mask efficacy, this policy were revised and all staff members were required to wear cloth or protective masks. Masks were obtained from a variety of sources, including Amish and sports apparel manufacturers, among other suppliers.

In 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cleveland Clinic permitted its staff to be unvaccinated against COVID.

Locations
Cleveland Clinic operates 19 family health and ambulatory surgery centers in surrounding communities, a 1,000 bed multispecialty hospital and family health center in Weston, Florida, and two Cleveland Clinic Canada locations in Toronto, Canada. The system operates 11 affiliated hospitals in northeast Ohio, numbering 2,588 total beds. Additionally Cleveland Clinic operates five affiliated hospitals in Florida with 289 total beds, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi with 564 total beds, and London, United Kingdom with 185 total beds; for a grand total of 6,026 beds.

Ohio locations
Cleveland Clinic's main campus consists of 60 buildings on 170 acre near University Circle, in Fairfax, Cleveland.

In 1996, the Cleveland Clinic took over Fairview Health System centered on Fairview Hospital and serving the West Side of Cleveland and the western suburbs. In the same year, the Cleveland Clinic also took over the four-hospital Meridia Health System, absorbing Euclid Hospital in Euclid, Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights, Huron Hospital in East Cleveland, and South Pointe Hospital in Warrensville Heights. In October 2010, the Cleveland Clinic announced plans to close the Level II Trauma Center at Huron Hospital, prompting a joint lawsuit from the cities of Cleveland and East Cleveland, which was later dropped after the Clinic delayed closure plans. In 2011, amid criticism from residents and leaders in East Cleveland, the Clinic closed Huron Hospital, replacing it with a community health center and leaving the east side of Cleveland without a trauma center until University Hospitals opened a Level I trauma center in 2015. In May 2017 Cleveland Clinic reached an agreement to acquire the 150-bed Union Hospital in Dover, Ohio. In February 2021, Mercy Medical Center in Canton, Ohio became a full member of the Cleveland Clinic health system, while retaining its Catholic affiliation through sponsorship with the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine.

Cleveland Clinic Akron General
Cleveland Clinic Akron General, formerly known as Akron General Medical Center, and commonly known as Akron Gen, is a nationally ranked, 511-bed non-profit, teaching hospital located in Akron, Ohio. In August 2015, the Akron General Health System joined the Cleveland Clinic Health System. Akron General includes Akron General Hospital, Visiting Nurse Service and Affiliates, Hospice of VNS, Akron General Lodi Hospital, the Edwin Shaw Rehabilitation Institute, and three health and wellness centers. As the hospital is a teaching hospital, it is affiliated with the Northeast Ohio Medical University and the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. Cleveland Clinic Akron General’s Paramedic Education Program was initiated in 1976 as a commitment to the community in providing pre-hospital care to citizen within Summit County and adjoining areas. The hospital is also an American College of Surgeons verified Level 1 Trauma Center, the one of three in the region and one of 11 in Ohio, the other two in Cleveland. Additionally, the hospital has a rooftop helipad to handle the emergent transport of critical patients to and from the hospital.

Cleveland Clinic Children's
Cleveland Clinic Children's (CCC) is a pediatric acute care children's teaching hospital located in Cleveland, Ohio on the main campus of Cleveland Clinic. The hospital has 389 pediatric beds and is affiliated with Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and Kent State University College of Podiatric Medicine. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout Cleveland and the wider northern Ohio region. Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital also sometimes treats adults that require pediatric care. The hospital is a few blocks away from the Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland.

Ohio regional hospitals

 * Akron General
 * Akron General Lodi Hospital
 * Avon Hospital
 * Children's Hospital for Rehabilitation
 * Euclid Hospital
 * Fairview Hospital
 * Hillcrest Hospital
 * Lutheran Hospital
 * Marymount Hospital
 * Medina Hospital
 * Mentor Hospital
 * Mercy Hospital
 * South Pointe Hospital
 * Union Hospital

Former Ohio hospitals

 * Grace Hospital (affiliate)
 * "Hope Hospital"
 * Huron Hospital
 * Lakewood Hospital

Cleveland Clinic Florida

 * Indian River Hospital
 * Martin North Hospital
 * Martin South Hospital
 * Tradition Hospital
 * Weston Hospital

Former Florida hospitals

 * Florida Hospital (North Beach)
 * Naples Hospital

Cleveland Clinic Nevada
In May 2010, Cleveland Clinic's Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health opened in a unique structure designed by architect Frank Gehry in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2018, the Indian River Medical Center in Vero Beach, Florida, and Martin Health, consisting of a hospital in Port St. Lucie and two hospitals in Stuart, Florida, joined the Cleveland Clinic system.

Cleveland Clinic Canada
In 2006, the Cleveland Clinic opened Cleveland Clinic Canada, a 26,000-square-foot outpatient clinic in downtown Toronto, offering both Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) and non-OHIP services. In 2017, Cleveland Clinic Canada acquired the Sports Medicine Specialists located in midtown Toronto.

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
An overseas location, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, opened in 2015.

Cleveland Clinic London
The organization began work renovating an historic building at 33 Grosvenor Place in central London, England, in 2018. Demolition of the interior of the six-story, 198,000-square-foot building allowed for the conversion to a hospital, with Cleveland Clinic London opening in March 2022.

Finances
In 2011 Cleveland Clinic was second on the Becker's Hospital Review list of top-grossing hospitals in the United States, with total patient revenue of $9.14 billion. The hospital posted $243 million operating income on $8 billion revenue in 2016. Operating income fell about 50% from 2015, which it said was due to shrinking reimbursements and rising drug costs. In 2017 its operating income was $330M on $8.4B in revenue.

In 2015, the Clinic's endowment stood at more than $12 billion. During the coronavirus pandemic, the Cleveland Clinic received a $199 million grant from the United States Department of Health and Human Services under the CARES Act, funding that was intended to prevent health care providers from going under. In 2019, the Cleveland Clinic reported having $7 billion in cash reserves, with investment profits of $1.2 billion.

In addition, Cleveland Clinic plays a significant role in the regional economy of Cleveland and the statewide economy. As of 2019, it is Ohio's largest employer, and generates $17.8 billion for the state.

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River 94.9

River 94.9 (callsign: 4MIX) is a commercial radio station that broadcasts to South East Queensland. The station opened in February 1990, and was formerly known as Star 106.9, which used to operate on the frequency now occupied by Nova 106.9. The station was previously owned by Rural Press & Bundaberg Broadcasters, forming part of the Star Broadcasting Network, followed by Grant Broadcasters.

As QFM
From its launch until 1997, QFM broadcast contemporary hit music format.

As Star 106.9
In 1997, QFM rebranded as Star 106.9, dropping a CHR format for a classic hits format.

Prior to the switch to 94.9, Star's callsign was changed from 4QFM to 4MIX, supposedly to block Australian Radio Network station 97.3fm from using the Mix positioner used by its sister stations.

As River 94.9
In 2001, Star FM upgraded their transmitter and moved to 94.9 MHz in order to better broadcast into Brisbane, avoiding interference of two other very strong signals – ABC Classic FM on 106.1 and triple j on 107.7. The move to 94.9 eliminated that problem, and, on the flipside, means the station has equal to better reach than the Brisbane radio stations towards the west and Toowoomba, with a large volume of advertisements for companies and stores in those regions. As part of the change, the station took on an adult variety format. 'Wild Nights', a dance music format licensed from Central Station Records based on community radio station Wild FM was added to the late night programming from the end of January 2001.

Despite broadcasting into part of the Brisbane area, the station is not officially counted in Brisbane ratings surveys, however 2017 saw the first ever Ipswich radio survey where River 94.9 dominated (26.4%)

In 2008, River 94.9 was the official broadcaster for South-East Queensland, of the Macquarie Radio Network's Olympic Radio Coverage. It was sold in May of that year to Grant Broadcasters by owners Fairfax Media, due to diversity rules controlled by Australian Communications and Media Authority, which prevents more than 2 licences overlapping into a market owned by the same group.

In November 2021, River 94.9, along with other stations owned by Grant Broadcasters, were acquired by the Australian Radio Network. This deal will allow Grant's stations, including River 94.9, to access ARN's iHeartRadio platform in regional areas. The deal was finalized on 4 January 2022. To comply with Australian Communications & Media Authority regulations that limit the number of radio stations an owner can have in one city, ARN is forced to sell 4KQ at some point in time.

River 94.9 simulcasts Nine News Queensland at 6:00 pm every weekday.

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The New World (2005 film)

The New World is a 2005 historical romantic drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick, depicting the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia, settlement and inspired by the historical figures Captain John Smith, Pocahontas of the Powhatan tribe, and Englishman John Rolfe. It is the fourth feature film written and directed by Malick.

The cast includes Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale, August Schellenberg, Wes Studi, David Thewlis, Yorick van Wageningen and John Savage. The production team includes director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki, producer Sarah Green, production designer Jack Fisk, costume designer Jacqueline West, composer James Horner and film editors Richard Chew, Hank Corwin, Saar Klein and Mark Yoshikawa.

The New World was a box-office failure even though it received many award nominations for Lubezki's cinematography, Kilcher's acting and Horner's score. The film was initially met with an only mildly positive critical response, although several critics later ranked it as one of the best films of the decade.

Plot
In 1607, Pocahontas, the adventurous daughter of Chief Powhatan, and others from her tribe witness the arrival of three ships sent by English royal charter to found a colony in the New World. Aboard one ship is Captain John Smith, sentenced to death for mutinous remarks, but once ashore pardoned by Captain Christopher Newport, leader of the expedition.

While the settlement's prospects are initially bright, disease, poor discipline, supply shortages, and tensions with local Native Americans, whom Newport calls "the naturals", jeopardize the expedition. Taking a small group upriver to seek trade while Newport returns to England for supplies, Smith is captured by Native Americans and brought before Chief Powhatan. After being questioned, the captain is nearly executed, but Pocahontas intervenes and he is spared.

Living as the Native Americans' prisoner, Smith is treated well, earning the tribe's friendship and respect. Coming to admire this new way of life, he falls deeply in love with Pocahontas, who is intrigued by the Englishman and his ways. The chief returns Smith to Jamestown with the understanding that the English are to leave the following spring, once their boats return.

Smith discovers the settlement in turmoil and is pressed into accepting the governorship, finding the peace he had with the Natives replaced by privation, death, and the difficulties of his new position. Smith wishes to return to Pocahontas but dismisses the idea, thinking of his time among the Native Americans as "a dream". The settlers dwindle throughout the brutal winter, and are saved only when Pocahontas and a rescue party arrive with food, clothing, and supplies.

As spring arrives, Powhatan realizes that the English do not intend to leave. Discovering his daughter's actions, he orders an attack on Jamestown and exiles Pocahontas. Repulsing the attack, the settlers learn of Pocahontas's banishment. The English sea captain Samuel Argall, while on a trading expedition up the Potomac River, convinces them to abduct Pocahontas from the Patawomecks as a prisoner in order to negotiate with her father in exchange for captive settlers, but not for their stolen weapons and tools. Opposing this plan, Smith is removed as governor, but renews his love affair after Pocahontas is brought to Jamestown. Captain Newport returns, telling Smith of an offer from the king to lead his own expedition to find passage to the East Indies. Torn between his love and his career, Smith decides to return to England. Before departing, he leaves instructions with another settler, who later tells Pocahontas that Smith died in the crossing.

Devastated, Pocahontas sinks into depression. Living in Jamestown, she is eventually comforted by a new settler, John Rolfe, who helps her adapt to the English way of life. She is baptized, educated, and eventually married to Rolfe and gives birth to a son, Thomas. She later learns Captain Smith is still alive, news to which she has a violent reaction; she finds herself rejecting Rolfe and retreats to her loyalty to Smith, thinking fate spared his life and they are to be reunited. Rolfe and his family are given a chance to travel to England. Arriving in London and sharing an audience with the king and queen, Pocahontas is overwhelmed by the wonders of this "New World".

She meets privately with Smith, who admits he may have made a mistake in choosing his career over Pocahontas. He says that what they experienced in Virginia was not a dream but instead "the only truth". Asked if he ever found his Indies, he replies, "I may have sailed past them." They part, never to meet again. Realizing Rolfe is the man she thought he was and more, Pocahontas finally accepts him as her husband and love. The couple make arrangements to return to Virginia, but Pocahontas falls ill and dies near Gravesend. Rolfe still decides to return to Virginia with Thomas.

The film ends with images of the young adult Pocahontas and her young son happily playing in the gardens of their English estate. Rolfe, in a voice-over, reads a letter addressed to their only son about his deceased Native American mother, who is heard to say, "Mother, now I know where you live," with concluding images of nature in the New World.

Cast

 * Colin Farrell as Captain John Smith
 * Q'orianka Kilcher as Pocahontas (Matoaka, Rebecca Rolfe)
 * Christopher Plummer as Captain Christopher Newport
 * Christian Bale as John Rolfe
 * August Schellenberg as Chief Powhatan (Wahunsonacock)
 * Wes Studi as Opechancanough
 * David Thewlis as Edward Wingfield
 * Yorick van Wageningen as Samuel Argall
 * Ben Mendelsohn as Ben
 * Raoul Trujillo as Tomocomo
 * Brían F. O'Byrne as Lewes
 * Irene Bedard as Pocahontas's mother (Nonoma Winanuske Matatiske)
 * John Savage as Thomas Savage
 * Alex Rice as Patawomeck's wife
 * Jamie Harris as Emery
 * Janine Duvitski as Mary
 * Thomas Clair as Patawomeck (Japazaw)
 * Michael Greyeyes as Rupwew
 * Kalani Queypo as Parahunt
 * Noah Taylor as Selway
 * Ben Chaplin as Robinson
 * Eddie Marsan as Eddie
 * Billy Merasty as Kiskiack
 * Roger Rees as Virginia Company Representative
 * Jonathan Pryce as King James VI & I
 * Alexandra W. B. Malick as Queen Anne

Development
Terrence Malick began work on the script for The New World in the late 1970s. After The Thin Red Line, Malick worked on a film about Che Guevara and his failed revolution in Bolivia. When financing had yet to come through, Malick was offered the chance to direct The New World and left the Guevara project in March 2004. Production on The New World was underway by July of that year.

Filming
The New World was the first collaboration between Malick and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki. The film was notable for its emphasis on authenticity, from location, settings and costumes to the casting of Native American actors and extras who were trained by Blair Rudes, professor of linguistics at UNC-Charlotte, to speak a form of the extinct Powhatan language (a type of Virginian Algonquian) reconstructed for the film by Rudes. Some footage was also filmed at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, England. Principal photography wrapped after three and a half months in November 2004.

Post-production
The film was originally set to be released in November 2005, but release had to be postponed. Malick was still editing the footage he had shot. He is well known for editing his films up until the last minute, often trimming his films and leaving entire characters out of the final print, as is the case with The Thin Red Line. In early December, a 150-minute version was shown to critics for awards season consideration. It was released for a week from Christmas to New Year's Day in two theaters each in Los Angeles and New York to qualify for the Academy Awards.

For the film's wide release, which began on January 20, 2006, Malick re-edited the film, cutting it to 135 minutes, but also adding footage not seen in the first release. He altered some of the film's extensive voiceovers to clarify the plot. Substantial changes were made to the first half-hour of the picture, seemingly to speed the plot along.

Music
The musical score for The New World was composed by James Horner. He worked first from the script and then from edited scenes. As the film was re-edited, more changes to the score were required. Because Malick's editing was extensive and involved reordering or dropping passages or inserting sequences, much of Horner's score was not used. For the final version, Malick used sections of Horner's music along with the prelude to Wagner's Das Rheingold, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23, and other pieces. Horner and Glen Ballard wrote and recorded the song "Listen to the Wind", sung by Hayley Westenra, for the closing credits, but this too was unused.

Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 63% based on 191 reviews, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Despite arresting visuals and strong lead performances, The New World suffers from an unfocused narrative that will challenge viewers' attention spans over its 2 1/2 hours." Review aggregator Metacritic gave the film a score of 69 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "D+" on an A+ to F scale.

Roger Ebert awarded the film a full four out of four, arguing that "what distinguishes Malick's film is how firmly he refuses to know more than he should...The events in his film, including the tragic battles between the Indians and the settlers, seem to be happening for the first time." He also lauded Malick as a "visionary". Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle hailed the film as "a masterpiece", while others such as Ty Burr of The Boston Globe, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, Richard Corliss of Time, and David Ansen of Newsweek gave positive reviews.

On the other hand, Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post faulted the film for being "stately almost to the point of being static", while Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal criticized it as "sluggish", "underdramatized", and "emotionally remote". While its release was timed for consideration for the awards season, it was nominated only for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for Emmanuel Lubezki at the 78th Academy Awards.

In November 2009, Time Out New York ranked the film as the fourth best of the decade, saying, "The particular power of this tone poem comes from how quietly resigned both characters are to their fates, as if they sense a guiding hand in their every action. The final passages of Malick's idyll, after Pocahontas takes a fateful ocean journey, are the finest work of his career, most notably in his portrayal of the princess's death and transfiguration—a shattering five-minute sequence that never fails to move." In January 2010, Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle designated it the number one film of the decade:"Terence Malick's one-of-a-kind film, about the life of Pocahontas and the dawn of American history, contains some of the best filmmaking imaginable – some of it beyond imagining. I have seen it at least five times and have no idea how Malick knew, when he put it all together, that the movie would even make sense. It's difficult to write a great short poem. It's difficult to write a great long novel. But to write a great long poem that's the size of a great long novel – one that makes sense, doesn't flag and is exponentially better than the short poem or the long novel ever would have been – that's almost impossible. Malick did it. With images."The French film magazine Cahiers du cinéma ranked the film as 9th place in its list of best films of the decade 2000–2009. Film and television critic Matt Zoller Seitz has said it is his favorite film.

In The Guardian, John Patterson writes that The New World "doesn't have fans, just fanatics":

"This decade hasn't been up to much, movie-wise, but I am more than ever convinced that when every other scrap of celluloid from 2000-2009 has crumbled to dust, one film will remain, like some Ozymandias-like remnant of transient vanished glory in the desert. And that film is The New World, Terrence Malick's American foundation myth, which arrived just as the decade reached its dismal halfway point, in January 2006.... The New World is a bottomless movie, almost unspeakably beautiful and formally harmonious. The movie came and went within a month, and its critical reception was characterised for the most part by bafflement, condescension, lazy ridicule and outright hostility.... Its siblings are to be found throughout movie history and across all national and stylistic boundaries, from the silents to Jean-Luc Godard, James Benning and Stan Brakhage, or in Winstanley and Barry Lyndon. Its cultural hinterland is made up not just of other movies, but of Buddhism, ethnography and naturalism, Wagner, Mozart and the structural forms of classical music, Malick's enthusiasm for bird-watching, and a helping of Heidegger and Kant... It is both ancient and modern, cinema at its purest and most organic, its simplest and most refined."

In a contribution to The cinema of Terrence Malick: Poetic visions of America, film scholar Mark Cousins writes, "By the end of The New World, it seemed to me, I had experienced something like a Bach's Mass in B minor or a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was about rapture and the end of rapture. It showed me seeing. It made me sensible."

In a 2016 international critics' poll conducted by the BBC, The New World was voted the 39th-greatest film since 2000.

Historical accuracy
Most scholars agree that there was no romantic relationship between Pocahontas and Smith. She would have been 12 years old in 1608 when they were said to have first met. The film also depicts Pocahontas's marriage with Rolfe as being more peaceful and socially accepted than it was historically.

Home media
A third, 172-minute version, dubbed "The Extended Cut", was issued by New Line on DVD in October 2008. It contains new scenes and expansions to other scenes. The 135-minute and 172-minute cuts are widely available on DVD worldwide, with the 172-minute cut also released on Blu-ray. The 150-minute version was released commercially only twice—as a Digital Download briefly available to buyers of the US "Extended Cut" DVD in 2008, and on DVD in Italy as part of Italian distributor Eagle Pictures's 2-disc set, containing both the 150-minute and 135-minute versions of the film.

On July 26, 2016, all three cuts were released on Blu-ray and DVD in the United States by The Criterion Collection with the 172-minute extended cut from a new 4K digital restoration supervised by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and director Terrence Malick.

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Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College

Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education (SAHE) Deemed to be University, formerly known as Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College (VRSEC), is a Deemed to be University located in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India. It offers Undergraduate Education (UG) in Engineering and Postgraduate Education in Engineering, Business Administration, and Computer Applications. This institution is the first private institution to offer Engineering Education in the United Andhra Pradesh and was the first private institute to offer PG Programmes in Engineering in the year 1977. It was approved to be an Autonomous Institution by University Grants Commission (UGC) in the year 1977 and it was approved to be a Deemed to be University by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in the year 2024.

Background
SAHE Deemed to be University is an educational institution run by Siddhartha Academy of General & Technical Education, better known as Siddhartha Academy.

SAHE is the first private institution in Andhra Pradesh that signed a MoU with National Forensic Sciences University, Ahmedabad. It is offering programmes on Forensics Science from 2024.

Siddhartha Academy of General & Technical Education came into being in the year 1975 with a Corpus Fund of Rs. 25 lakhs (Rs. 2.5 million). It was registered as a Society under the Societies Registration Act in the same year. The Academy says that its main objective is "to establish and run educational institutions offering education at all levels in the fields of general, technical & professional education".

As of 2024, Siddhartha Academy is running three Intermediate (10+2) Colleges, three Degree Colleges (offering Non-Technology UG & PG courses), a Deemed to be University, two Engineering Colleges, a Medical College, a Dental College, a Pharmacy College, two Nursing Institutions, a Law College, a College of Education (offering B.Ed courses), a Hotel Management College, and two Schools.

Location
The institution is located on 24.05 acre of land in Kanuru on the outskirts of Vijayawada city, at a distance of about 8 km from the city center, on the Vijayawada-Machilipatnam Highway (NH 65).

Campus
The college has about 7000+ students, 350+ faculty (150+ Faculty with Ph.D.s & 100+ Faculty pursuing Ph.D.s), and 200+ technical and supporting staff. Extracurricular opportunities include NCC, NSS, Students Chapters of IEEE, Social Clubs, and Sports & Games.

Academics
The institute is a Deemed to be University. The institute offers various UG and PG academic programs leading to the award of degrees such as B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA, and MBA with English as the medium of instruction. The programs are conducted in the Semester System and each semester provides for a minimum of 90 instructional days. The regulations in respect of the academic program of study are prepared and approved by the Academic Council, the highest academic body in the institute. The curriculum for the program of study is prepared by the respective board of studies and approved by the Academic Council.

TIFAC-CORE
TIFAC-CORE in Telematics is a collaborative effort of TIFAC (representing the government), SAHE, and private companies. The center was launched on 1 February 2009.

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Minto may refer to:

Antarctica

 * Mount Minto (Antarctica)

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 * Minto, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
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Canada

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United Kingdom

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People

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PFA Young Player of the Year

The Professional Footballers' Association Young Player of the Year (often called the PFA Young Player of the Year, or simply the Young Player of the Year) is an annual award given to the young player who is adjudged to have been the best of the season in English football. As of 2021, players must have been aged 21 or under as of 1 July immediately preceding the start of the season; in the past the age limit has been 23, which led to criticism in the media over whether a player who was 24 years old at the end of the season could really be considered "young" in footballing terms. The award has been presented since the 1973–74 season and the winner is chosen by a vote amongst the members of the players' trade union, the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA). The first winner of the award was Ipswich Town defender Kevin Beattie. The current holder is Arsenal player Bukayo Saka, who won the award on 29 August 2023.

Although the award is open to players at all levels, all winners to date have played in the highest division of the English football league system. In 2018 Ryan Sessegnon of Fulham became the first player from outside the top division of English football to be nominated for the award. As of 2023, only Ryan Giggs, Robbie Fowler, Wayne Rooney, Dele Alli and Phil Foden have won the award on more than one occasion. Only seven players from outside the United Kingdom have won the trophy, compared with fifteen winners of the main PFA Players' Player of the Year award. Although they have their own dedicated award, players aged 21 or under at the start of the season remain eligible to win the Players' Player of the Year award, and on three occasions the same player has won both awards for a season.

A shortlist of nominees is published in April and the winner of the award, along with the winners of the PFA's other annual awards, is announced at a gala event in London. The players themselves consider the award to be highly prestigious, because the winner is chosen by his fellow professionals.

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The award has been presented on 50 occasions as of 2023, to 45 players. The table also indicates where the winning player also won one or more of the other major "player of the year" awards in English football, namely the PFA Players' Player of the Year award (PPY), the Football Writers' Association's Footballer of the Year award (FWA), the Premier League Player of the Season award (PPS), the Premier League Young Player of the Season award (PYPS), and the PFA Fans' Player of the Year award (FPY).

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Georgetown University Student Association

The Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA) is the undergraduate student government of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The GUSA bylaws state that the organization's mission is "to (i) empower Hoyas by giving them control over resources, (ii) improve the student quality of life, (iii) safeguard Hoya rights, (iv) involve Hoyas in the governance of the University, and (v) ensure that the University conducts itself in an ethical and responsible manner."

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The Executive Branch is made up of a President and Vice President, elected by the undergraduate student body each November to lead for the following calendar year, as well as a staff whose size and structure is largely up to the discretion of the President and Vice President. Since 2023, the executive staff has been restructured and expanded to address many issues raised by members of the undergraduate student body. Membership on cabinet staff, executive staff, and general staff positions is application-based and open to all undergraduate students. The President and Vice President also appoint student representatives to a variety of external boards and committees, and all executive staff positions and external board appointments are subject to review and confirmation by the Senate. * Due to a change in election timelines, beginning in 2022 the GUSA Executive serves for a calendar year rather than a school year

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The Judicial Branch is made up of a 3-person Constitutional Council, which oversees all internal GUSA disputes and is charged with the stewardship of the GUSA Constitution.

Legacy
Student government has been involved throughout its history in the establishment, expansion, and improvement of a plethora of student resources and services. This legacy includes the Georgetown University Transportation Shuttles (GUTS) system, which was founded in 1974 and expanded several times since then through the work of student government, and campus dining, whose improvement has been a focus of student government for decades. Other initiatives include:

 * The Georgetown University Lecture Fund, which was founded by Student Government in the 1970s and became an independent organization in 2005
 * The GeorgetownOne Card (GoCard), in whose 2001 creation GUSA played a pivotal role
 * The Collegiate Readership Program, a GUSA initiative which provided students with free copies of major newspapers from 2008 to 2015, and 2023 onwards
 * The Summer Fellows program, which was founded by GUSA in 2009 and now provides free on-campus summer housing to low-income students under the auspices of the Georgetown Scholarship Program (GSP)
 * Currently known as the Summer BRIDGE Housing Program from 2023 onwards
 * The Student Advocacy Office (SAO), which was founded by GUSA in 2012 and continues to provide assistance to students navigating the university's disciplinary systems
 * The Georgetown University Farmer's Market, which was organized by GUSA in 2018 and continues under its own board every Wednesday during the school year
 * The Georgetown Student Mental Health Fund, which was organized by GUSA in 2018 with an initial contribution from GUSA, the Student Affairs Office, and an anonymous donor, helps fund students who are referred to off campus specialists from the Counseling and Psychiatry Services, ongoing funding is being supported by the Division of Student Affairs
 * The Georgetown Disability Cultural Initiative, which welcomed its first Associate Director, Dr. Amy Kenny, in the summer of 2022 and later became the Disability Cultural Center in Fall 2023
 * Other notable groups that the Georgetown University Student Association has founded over its duration include:
 * Students Advocating for Food Equity (SAFE)
 * The Georgetown University Coalition for Worker's Rights (GUCWR)
 * Inter-Academic Council (InterAC)
 * The Hoya Hub

Perhaps the most famous service established by student government is Students of Georgetown, Inc., also known as "The Corp", which was founded by SG President Roger Cochetti and Vice President Nancy Kent in October 1971. Until the early 1990s, the board of The Corp remained under the control of student government and the activities of the two organizations were closely linked.

In addition to improving student resources and services, student government at Georgetown has long played a central role in the allocation of resources to student activities. This has been the case since at least the 1970s, but a notable change occurred in 2001 when a GUSA-led effort successfully established a "Student Activities Fee" to be collected from all students as part of undergraduate tuition, and disbursed to all student organizations by GUSA itself. Today, GUSA allocates more than $1 million per year to eight advisory boards, which in turn allocate their funds to over 300 student organizations.

Student government has traditionally remained focused on student life, but at times the organization has also contributed its voice to political debates on campus and around the country. In 1997, for example, GUSA vocally supported the controversial addition of crucifixes to university classrooms. And in 2011, GUSA President Mike Meaney organized a group letter from more than 100 student body presidents to President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner urging a bipartisan compromise on the national debt ceiling.

Georgetown University Athletic Association: 1874 to 1920
The earliest form of student government at Georgetown was the Georgetown University Athletic Association, which formed in 1874 in order to coordinate athletics amongst the students of Georgetown College. The Athletic Association was relatively informal in its structure and duties until 1889, when students drafted a constitution and began annual elections. Its leadership consisted of three elected students –– the Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer –– as well as the managers of each athletic team and a Jesuit advisor who held the symbolic title of "President". That symbolism was soon relinquished, however, and by 1900 the student leader of the Athletic Association was called its President. The Association's duties were almost entirely athletic in nature; it coordinated schedules for athletic practices and games, managed the sharing of athletic equipment, and raised funds in order to support activities related to athletics and school spirit.

The Athletic Association was also called "The Yard" interchangeably, in likely reference to the College Yard in which athletic games were played. Its annual leaders were thus referred to as the Yard President, Yard Secretary, and Yard Treasurer.

The 3 Student Councils: 1920 to 1969
In 1920, a College Student Council was formed with representatives from each class year. The Athletic Association continued to exist for the limited purpose of coordinating athletics, but the College Student Council supplanted it as the most important and authoritative elected body of the College and thus assumed the title "The Yard". Unlike the Athletic Association, the Student Council's duties were wide-ranging, including advocacy for student interests and the coordination of social life in the College. Students in the College continued to elect three executives each year –– the Yard President, Yard Secretary, and Yard Treasurer –– who oversaw both the old Athletic Association and the new College Student Council.

In 1940, the students of Georgetown College approved a new constitution for the College Student Council which included representation for the College's most significant student organizations alongside the representatives of each class. Over the next thirty years, the organizations represented on the Council would include the Georgetown College Journal, the Collegiate Club, the Glee Club, The Hoya, the International Relations Club, Mask and Bauble, the Philodemic Society, the Sodality, the Washington Club, and WGTB Radio.

Around the same time that the College Student Council was formed in 1920, the students of the newly-established School of Foreign Service (SFS) founded an SFS Student Council. Like its original College counterpart, the SFS Student Council included representatives from each class year as well as the whole school and took on a variety of responsibilities including advocacy and social life. When the School of Languages and Linguistics was founded in 1949 and the School of Business in 1957, their student bodies were incorporated into the SFS Student Council's representative infrastructure. By the early 1960s, the group was called the "East Campus Student Council" or "Walsh Area Student Council" to reflect the fact that its constituency now included three undergraduate schools but that all three schools were located on Georgetown's "East Campus" (the block between 35th and 36th Streets NW, on which the Walsh Building stands).

At some point in the 1940s or 50s, the students of the Nursing School founded the Nursing School Student Council, which, like its SFS counterpart, included class representatives and school-wide elected officers but not representatives of student organizations. The first women to hold elected office in student government at Georgetown did so on the Nursing School Student Council, since the school was originally open only to women.

Administrative collaboration and social interaction between Georgetown's five separate undergraduate schools began to increase in the 1950s and 60s, and by the mid-60s there was an unprecedented sense of shared community amongst students of the five schools. Students also began to recognize the practical benefits of university-wide collaboration on the issues that affected students in all schools equally. As a result, several attempts were made throughout the 1960s to unify the three disparate student councils. Unification efforts were finally successful in March 1968, when a referendum passed among the constituencies of all three student councils. In December 1968, students from all schools elected 40 delegates to a constitutional convention, which was charged with drafting a structure for the new, unified student government. The convention released its plans within a few months, and the first university-wide student government election was held in May 1969.

Student Government (SG): 1969 to 1984
Simply called the Student Government (SG), the new unified institution included a President and Vice President elected by the entire student body, and a Senate with 5 students elected from each school and 5 from each class (40 in total).

Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA): 1984 to present
In 1984, students replaced the SG with the Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA), a new institution that over time came to be loosely based on the tripartite structure of the federal government of the United States. GUSA's executive branch included a President and Vice President, elected annually by the student body. Its legislative branch consisted of a 16-person Assembly, with 4 representatives from each class year––thus eliminating the last vestiges of differentiated representation for the five schools. After 1990, GUSA also had a judicial branch, consisting of a 3-person Constitutional Council empowered to resolve constitutional disputes within the student government.

The GUSA Constitution has been amended three times:

 * In March 1990, students replaced the original GUSA Constitution with a shorter, more streamlined document. They also created a Constitutional Council.
 * In October 2006, students replaced the Assembly with the Senate, a larger body made up of representatives from geographic districts across Georgetown's campus.
 * In February 2018, students voted to maintain the Senate's larger size but return it to a system of representation based on class year, rather than geography.

Notable alumni
Many notable individuals in business, politics, religion, and the arts began their careers in Georgetown's student government, including:

 * Condé M. Nast (C 1894), Secretary of The Yard in 1892–93 and founder of the Condé Nast publishing empire
 * Matthew R. Denver (C 1891), Vice President of The Yard in 1891–92 and a member of Congress from Ohio
 * James P. B. Duffy (C 1901), President of The Yard in 1900–01 and a member of Congress from New York
 * Philip A. Hart (C 1934), President of The Yard in 1933–34 and a Senator from Michigan
 * George H. Guilfoyle (C 1935), President of The Yard in 1934–35 and a Roman Catholic Bishop
 * Richard J. McCooey (C 1952), President of The Yard in 1951–52 and founder of Georgetown restaurants 1789, The Tombs, and F. Scott's
 * Joseph R. Baczko (F 1967), Treasurer of the East Campus Student Council in 1965–66, President of Blockbuster Entertainment, and founder and President of Toys "R" Us
 * Frank A. Keating (C 1966), President of The Yard in 1965–66 and Governor of Oklahoma
 * William J. Clinton (F 1968), freshman class president in 1964–65, sophomore class president in 1965–66, and the 42nd President of the United States
 * William Doyle (C 1972), freshman representative to The Yard in 1968–69 and Chair of the Georgetown University Board of Directors
 * Jack W. Leslie (F 1976), President of the Student Government in 1974–75 and Chairman of Weber Shandwick and the U.S. African Development Foundation
 * David L. Goldwyn (C 1981), President of the Student Government in 1980–81, Assistant Secretary of Energy from 1999 to 2001, and National Security Deputy to the US Ambassador to the United Nations from 1997 to 1998
 * S. Fitzgerald Haney (F 1990), President of GUSA in 1989–90 and Ambassador to Costa Rica
 * Stephanie H. Sandlin (C 1993), Chair of the GUSA Assembly in 1992–93, a member of Congress from South Dakota, and President of Augustana University
 * Richard R. Heitzmann (B 1994), President of GUSA in 1993–94 and co-founder of venture capital firm FirstMark Capital
 * John P. Cronan (C 1998), President of GUSA in 1997–99 and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, formerly Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice's Criminal Division
 * John Glennon (C 1999), President of GUSA in 1998–99 and Headmaster of Georgetown Preparatory School
 * Mohammed bin Hamad Al Thani (F 2009), first President of GU-Q SGA in 2006–07 and Managing Director of the Qatar Supreme Committee for the 2022 FIFA World Cup

GU-Qatar Student Government Association (GU-Q SGA)
The Georgetown University in Qatar-Student Government Association (GU-Q SGA) is an annually elected, student-run governance association that works to represent the student body of Georgetown University in Qatar and liaise with university administrators. In addition, The President of SGA chairs the Student Liaison Commission (SLC), and The Vice President chairs the Student Activities Commission (SAC). The SGA has 11 members, replaced annually. An executive group made up of the President, the Vice President, and the Public Relations Officer guide and preside over the functions of the SGA. A core group of 8 members represents the interests of the student body, with two representatives from each undergraduate class. The SGA meets on a weekly basis and discusses the issues or concerns raised by the student body. The President is also a member of the Dean's subcommittees for various issues such as the Dean's subcommittee for sustainability. The introduction of the Red Square, a replica of the famous Red Square in Georgetown University's main campus in Washington D.C., was a result of an initiative of the SGA led by President Malak Elmoh (SFS-Q '21).

Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (SFS-Q '09), the first President of the SGA was elected in 2006. The official title of the President was changed to Student Body President and Head of SGA, as per the Fourth Amendment to the GU-Q SGA Constitution which was signed and approved by President Kurian in April 5,2023.

The former Presidents of the Student Government Association include,

The Senate of GU-Q SGA is made up of two class representatives from each batch at GU-Q. They work alongside the SGA President and the executive board to accomplish and meet the student needs. Apart from representing students within GUQ, the SGA also represents them in the Education City Student Government Association(ECSGA),an initiative started by President Hadi Darvishi in 2009 combining the Student Governments of various universities in Education City. In 2022, under the leadership of President Kurian, GU-Q SGA hosted a meeting of the ECSGA at Georgetown University in Qatar. This was the first meeting of ECSGA after four years. GU-Q SGA also holds strong connections with Georgetown University Student Association(GUSA) and Georgetown University Graduate Student Government (GradGov),as part of the ‘One Georgetown’ initiative by President Kurian.

In 2024, under the leadership of President Abdelhady (then Chief of Staff), GU-Q SGA established an Academic Council with cooperation from their counterparts in Washington D.C.

President Kvaratskhelia was selected as the student speaker for the Georgetown University MSFS Commencement exercises in 2024.


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Just a note to let you know that a category you created, Category:Unionists (Scotland) is up for deletion. See the discussion here - Categories_for_deletion. Catchpole 17:08, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Alen, I also nominated Category:Scottish nationalists for deletion. Please see the same page. Ta. --Mais oui! 17:32, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Category and such
Greetings! First, I wanted to tell you that I found your attempt to establish a Scottish nationalists and unionists category interesting and it made me learn the allegiance of some I did not know about, as far as the project had the time to go. I'm still not sure whether I agree on the verdict, but I enjoin you to "listify" the project. Maybe a distinction could be made so the list includes only non-politicians, to address the "you'll have to list all SNP MSPs" issue.

Second, I know that you were the one who answered my request for more info on Jack McConnell's policies. I'm still wondering: what are the major acheivements (and disapointments) of his administration? Any notable legislation?

Finally, I have some questions about the Scottish independence and nationalist movement. Would you be willing to try to answer some? As someone from Quebec, I, as many here, look at the developments in Scotland with great sympathy and admiration. And I will never forget when I heard the message of a Scottish politician sent to the Parti Québécois National Congress of 2000 that called the SNP and the PQ "nos partis frères" (our brother parties), said (if I remember well) that Scots would come to Quebec for inspiration after Quebec sovereignty and calling Quebec and Scotland "nos deux nations" (our two nations). A message from one Alex Salmond. --Liberlogos 05:11, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

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Scotland and Quebec
Hi Alen! I'm the Quebecer who wrote you earlier about the possibility of asking you questions about the Scottish independence movement. I never got around to it since I had a mountain of things to do and troubles to deal with. Thanks for all the good words and you willingness to shed more light on the subject. If you have any time now, I would like to send you my questions via email (which I would prefer). I see you have not made it possible to join you by email through Wikipedia so you could simply use the "Email this user" function at the left on my profile. I see the SNP is still in the lead. Impressive; congrats. But, what will be the open options for the cause without a majority of pro-independence MSP's at Holyrood?

So, it is refreshing (and encouraging) to witness this in our sister nation since here, the independence movement took a bit of a beating in our last elections, in March. Many reasons can be brought up, some that contradict others! So, this last election made me, once again, see similarities between our two situations. As people spoke of the possibility of a first minority government in 129 years (we still got the old British First-past-the-post thing, despite much demand for reform), commentators discussed much of the problem of a PQ minority government having to somehow find support within the ADQ (nationalist without being for independence) members of the National Assembly. And we now have a "left of the left" party (Québec solidaire) that is a player on the scene while also being for independence, at the left of the PQ social democrats (like Solidarity, SSP and Greens with the SNP). I do find it reassuring that our nationalist movments tend to gravitate more to the progressive side, which has surprised some Europeans I spoke to like an Italian and a Frenchwoman, used to a rightist, more closed nationalism.

Here, people in the independence movement that are relatively well-informed are aware of what's happenning in Scotland and follow it with interest. And there is some mainstream media attention, mostly in the written press, but I feel it still isn't covered as much as it would deserve, as it might also be be on your end about our affairs (we did get the thing about Blair's using scare tactics by saying Montreal had lost economic power because of the "separatist threat", though - it's much more complex than that). There are exceptions. For example, I uploaded this on YouTube, which was originally shown on federal public television. I don't like the conspiracy theories around this, but still, our mainstream media is much controlled by people opposed to independence. Also, it is a general problem, which is that we simply do not have enough of an "inter"-nationalist view of humanity, politics and information. That is one of the reasons why I plan on creating a website dedicated to international politics and cultures, especially centered on independence and progressive nationalist movements of non-sovereign peoples. And, with current events, it would center even more on Scottish affairs. Your answers will therefor be highly helpful. If you have any other ideas about other people or ressources that could help me have clear sum-ups of Scottish affairs, you can give them to me. And I would be quite happy and honored to answer any questions you may want to ask about Quebec affairs. --Liberlogos 18:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

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