There are no statistics available for this player Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here Floriana’s Vilhena Band will be holding a unique concert at the Manoel Theatre This event will take place for a special occasion: the 150th anniversary since the founding of the Vilhena Band in 1874 entitled “150th Anniversary: An instrumental concert by the Vilhena Band” named after Grand Master de Vilhena – the same personality whose name was brought to the band itself This historic venue gives greater importance to this memorable event The band will be under the direction of Mro George Debono and will be accompanied by the Amadeus Chamber Choir and tenor Brian Cefai The presentation will be made by George and Elisa Cassar The programme includes a mix of music by famous classical composers as well as exclusive compositions for the Vilhena Band tickets can be reserved by contacting a committee Member or emailing on societadevilhena@gmail.com This concert will not only be an opportunity to enjoy high quality music but also to celebrate the musical heritage that this historical band continues to preserve to this day Metrics details Biogeographical regions (geographically distinct assemblages of species and communities) constitute a cornerstone for ecology Species turnover measures are often used to quantify spatial biodiversity patterns but algorithms based on similarity can be sensitive to common sampling biases in species distribution data Here we apply a community detection approach from network theory that incorporates complex We demonstrate the performance of the method by applying it to all amphibian species in the world (c 17,600) and a hypothetical data set containing a zone of biotic transition our approach tackles the challenges posed by transition zones and succeeds in retrieving a larger number of commonly recognized biogeographical regions This method can be applied to generate objective data-derived identification and delimitation of the world's biogeographical regions precipitation and their distribution over the year such as changes in land use and land cover (for example Sp3) occur in the generally recognized Bioregion X Species diversity is measured from five grid cells (numbered 1–5) Note that there is little geographical overlap between the species ranges (b) Diversity similarity (set measures) between grid cells which computes the similarity in number of shared species (the Jaccard index is shown here) Note that the distance between grid cell 1 and 5 is zero connectivity between grid cells is established through the species they contain grid cells 1 and 5 are ‘connected’ by a single step through one species (Sp2) which does not occur in either cell but occurs in other cells (2 and 4) occupied by species that also occur in cells 1 and 5 (Sp1 and Sp3 Here we present a data-driven approach that uses associational networks to minimize the problems described above and to extract more community level information from species occurrence data We show that this method can be used to successfully detect biogeographical regions in two well-validated empirical data sets: all amphibians of the world and all vascular plants of the United States of America The empirical data sets provide contrasting examples of how biodiversity data is currently available: they are aggregated at different scales (global and national) grain sizes (two degree grid cells versus US counties) and were constructed under different sampling methodologies We then further validate our method on a hypothetical data set containing a zone of biotic transition Our results are strikingly congruent with opinion based bioregions indicating that the network method developed here holds the potential to greatly improve the identification and delimitation of the world's biogeographical regions (a) Amphibian biogeographical regions of the world determined from geographical range data Similar colours indicate membership to a higher level clustering The analysis used a resolution of two degree grid cells (b) Species range limits coloured by region Geographically close and neighbouring regions were given contrasting colours to highlight boundaries and boundary mixing Each geographical range polygon was plotted with a low opacity (0.1) from largest to smallest on a global level so that regions with more species appear brighter Map of the USA showing how affinity decreases relative to an arbitrarily chosen county under (a) a network measure of distance and (b) a species similarity measure (here β-similarity) The colour gradient ranges from dark (high similarity) to light (low similarity) The network measure allows mid to narrow ranged species to contribute more strongly to the metric revealing sharper boundaries of biogeographical regions The maps show demarcations for three subsets of the USDA plant database: all native plants The left column was determined by the map equation (under the optimal number of clusters in each analysis) while the middle and right columns were determined by a similarity approach (optimal number of clusters and an arbitrarily finer scale delineation biogeographical regions were coloured differently to aid visualization (rather than reflect identify) the network approach captures with broad brushstrokes the patterns of the generally recognized biomes and biogeographical regions of the USA Although state-level biases are apparent from both methodologies they are strikingly more recurrent in the similarity approach To explore whether the similarity approach could be arbitrarily forced to unveil deeper structure, we also chose to visualize the partitions with 40 clusters selected, although this delineation is not optimal (Fig. 5 Some biogeographical structure becomes apparent at this level—the American Great Plains is cleanly separated from the American West although this bioregion unrealistically extends into the American Southwest desert The reconstruction based on these 40 clusters is also plagued by a number of boundaries coincident with the US state boundaries in the American midwest the Great Plains division becomes apparent as well as a clean separation of the Southwest desert from the American West a latitudinal boundary is evident in the Eastern Temperate Forests bioregion but also contains ample state-level biases The apparent lack of hierarchy in the data set is likely an issue of large grain and low scale (counties within a single country) such as a database produced from geographical coordinates Applied to the three USDA data sets of native plants the number of clusters selected as optimal by the map equation was 25 for all plants Because the algorithm that seeks the best partition is stochastic we ran it 1,000 times and selected the partition that minimized the scoring function in the map equation Broad similarities are evident across the network clustering results for all native plants, trees and non-trees (Fig. 5 the Everglades are only evident from the tree only data set The West Coast forms a separate bioregion under the analysis of all plants as well as all non-trees but the Pacific Northwest is omitted from this bioregion when only trees are considered the American Great Plains appear much smaller when only trees are considered These differences may reflect intrinsic biological differences among the data sets analysed (for example differences in ecological niche conservatism the southern deserts of Arizona and surrounding areas follow some rigid-state boundaries suggesting that large county sizes in the area obscure finer demarcation State-level biases are also evident in Lousiana for the native tree data Our network analyses of empirical and hypothetical data sets reveal important differences as compared with approaches based on species similarity These are not only quantitative in terms of resolution—that is the total number of regions identified—but also qualitative affecting both the areas and the boundaries of biogeographical regions because we followed their procedure for merging regions with <10 grid cells into the closest regions we interpret this difference as stemming from a fundamental difference in methodology—our approach clusters patterns of presence–absence relationships while theirs identifies clusters of grid cells with low distributional and phylodistributional turnover which similarly identifies Weber's line as the realm boundary between the Oriental and Oceanian faunas although it does not identify Wallace's line This suggests that Weber's line may be more robust and independent of methodology than Wallace's line using SDMs for bioregion inference could become conceptually circular If we are to understand how species cluster into distinct bioregions and how the boundaries of these bioregions relate to environmental gradients We cannot use SDMs to delineate the same bioregions that are then used to compare their correspondence with the environmental variables because these variables are already the major component of SDMs we argue that new methods for biogeographical delineation must be designed around the current challenges offered by real occurrence data—which are geographically and taxonomically biased but nevertheless constitute the most reliable evidence on where species occur Here we have provided evidence that the network approach presented here outperforms the current methods based on similarity they rely on robust and well-sampled species-level phylogenies (which are currently lacking for many organismal groups) and may introduce circularity when using the identified bioregions for measuring the degree of phylogenetic niche conservatism as shifts in bioregions are commonly associated with speciation events can be subsequently used to shed light on the temporal origin evolution and phylogenetic relatedness of bioregions remain in order to further advance bioregionalizations: New methodologies for bioregion delineation need to be reproducible and transparent about their assumptions They should offer measures of reliability regarding the number and boundaries of species clusters identified for example through bootstrapping techniques the delimitation of the same bioregion may be more or less robust along different edges they should be regularly validated through ground truthing More than a century after the first biogeographical regions were proposed8 we may now have enough data to delimit the world's biogeographical regions in greater detail than Wallace could ever envision illustrates that new methodologies play a crucial role in this process and that network methods offer a new set of exciting tools to classify delimit and better understand biodiversity We first build the network to be clustered and then we choose the best clustering algorithm to infer bioregions tolerance to specific climatic and environmental variables ecological interactions) as well as the region's physical features (for example A more complicated pattern is the number of joint occurrences, where two species occupy the same two localities. This can be measured as the number of four paths that complete a loop (Fig. 2a) These relationships can be combined to reveal properties of geographical ranges the number of 3-paths between a species A and locality B divided by the number of 2-paths exiting from species A is the fraction of co-occurrences of species A that also occupy locality B By setting up the machinery to capture ‘higher-order’ patterns we can detect complex patterns of presence-absence The adjacency matrix A of this network formally expresses species occurrences we order first by species (1...n) and second by grid cells (n + 1...n + m) producing a square matrix with n + m rows and n + m columns where B is the binary presence–absence matrix in which rows are taxa and columns are localities The upper left block and lower right block in this matrix are zeroes because species cannot occur in species and localities cannot occur in localities The square of the adjacency matrix A gives the co-occurrence matrix C between taxa as the upper left square or number of co-occurrences between pairs of species and the matrix of shared species S as the bottom right square or number of shared species between the pairs of grid cells where elements in the upper right and lower left squares of the matrix are zeroes because 2-paths are exclusively between two species or between two localities Total paths of length i between nodes can be expressed by raising the matrix to the ith power new measures can be derived and tools from network theory can be readily applied In the next section we apply a common clustering algorithm to this bipartite network The map equation is a general approach that It then randomly chooses a species found in that grid cell examines the geographical range of that species and selects a grid cell at random within its geographical range It repeats this process iteratively and exhaustively In biota with substantial biogeographical structure the algorithm would spend long time intervals within 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The Swedish attacking midfielder tore his ACL on June 10 during Sweden’s European Championship qualification match against Spain. It was a major shock for Krasnodar had finished third last season and will enter the Champions League in the third round of qualifying It is a bit like a poker online game for Krasnodar. Losing one of their best cards they now hope that reshuffling the deck by signing Tonny Vilhena will help the club qualify for the Champions League The 24-year-old Tonny Vilhena joins Krasnodar after scoring six goals and seven assists in the Dutch Eredivisie last season. Furthermore, Vilhena was on the pitch in 95% of Feyenoord’s overall playing time this season and involved in 17% of the club’s goals he played in a more central role for the Dutch side Whereas Claesson likes plays almost like an inverted playmaking winger Tonny Vilhena sits much deeper in the field More of a quarterback than an attacking midfielder he still likes to get involved when his side wins the ball and rushes forward At the same time, both players are capable of playing on the left flank. Going by the Wyscout heatmap Tonny Vilhena often operates in the same areas as Claesson. But whereas Claesson seems to primarily operate in the final third Tonny Vilhena covers both the final third but also the area between the box and the middle line Hence, Tonny Vilhena almost provides an upgrade in that regard on the left-flank. A player capable of operating both defensively and offensively. That, in turn, could allow head coach Murad Musaev to switch his formation from his prefered 4-3-3 to a 3-5-3 in which Vilhena could play almost like a wing-back In fact, in Claesson, Krasnodar are losing their most productive player. Vilhena and other squad players like Shapi Suleymanov could go some way to compensate in the loss of production Furthermore, in Vilhena Krasnodar add another important element to their passing game. The short-pass buildup with quick attacks is, in fact, an important part of the DNA for this Krasnodar side under Musaev Tonny Vilhena played 46.47 passes per 90 minutes last season which would rank him third among Krasnodar’s attacking players only Kristoffer Olsson completed more passes (86.26% per 90 minutes) than Krasnodar’s new Dutch signing Hence, Tonny Vilhena will not be a one-to-one replacement for the injured Claesson. 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Log In The Netherlands international helped to nudge his side a step closer to the Eredivisie title with a well-taken effort against Heerenveen Feyenoord are closing in on the Eredivisie title with Tonny Vilhena aiding their cause with a fine strike against Heerenveen on Sunday the 22-year-old has emerged as a key figure at De Kuip His value was highlighted out on the road in Feyenoord’s latest outing WATCH: Kluivert opens Ajax account With a little over 20 minutes of the contest remaining A clever first touch took him towards the penalty area and away from defenders with the space then opening up for him to drill a powerful effort into the bottom corner With Ajax dropping two points in a 1-1 draw at Excelsior Feyenoord are now six points clear at the top of the table as they chase down a first Dutch top-flight crown in 18 years the previous buildings were in a very degraded state and completely demolished to allow for an updated successor the scheme is comprised of three separate rectilinear volumes which vary in dimension depending on their relationship to the topography articulation on the façade was carefully considered with nuances in window details and balconies the multi-family structure consists of two and three-bedroom dwellings an outdoor pool and roof deck take advantage of expansive views of the urban coastal context the southwest façade and its corresponding floors step down to follow the sloping topography images by joão morgado | all images courtesy of vitor vilhena arquitectura the primary entrance is located on the southeast side of the block and accesses a central courtyard and the main circulation core living rooms are directed toward the street while bedrooms and kitchens are oriented towards the interior of the building balconies extend from upper level living spaces images by joão morgado the main entrance on the southeast façade accesses the central courtyard image by joão morgado balconies also open to the interior courtyard images by joão morgado the glazed stair court is visual connected to the central courtyard images by joão morgado interior spaces include numerous outdoor views image by joão morgado and offers expansive views of the coastal landscape image by joão morgado portugal project dates: 2011-2012 building area: 2605 sqm site area: 879.5 sqm client: santos da terra real estate investments architect: vitor vilhena arquitectura / vitor vilhena mario espinha photography: joão morgado Able-bodied models Cleo Pires and Paulo Vilhena appear in controversial spread in support of Paralympics Vogue Brazil has come under fire for a spread in its September issue to commemorate the beginning of the Paralympic Games in Rio who appear to have disabilities — Pires has her right arm amputated the disabilities are mere Photoshop illusions — both Pires and Vilhena are able-bodied the models are also pictured with two Paralympic athletes whose disabilities they were digitally altered to resemble — table tennis player Bruna Alexandre and sitting volleyball player Renato Leite Done with the support of the Brazilian Paralympics Committee and the athletes themselves, the spread was created “to attract visibility to the Special Olympics and highlight the relevance of Brazilian disabled athletes in the panorama of the national sport,” according to the magazine’s Instagram The campaign was implemented because reportedly only 20 percent of tickets to the Paralympic Games the well-meaning campaign has drawn ire from those who feel that actually disabled models — perhaps like the athletes in question — should have been given the opportunity and the space to model in the shoot themselves “There’s no shortage of disabled people to take the place of spokesperson in these adverts and show society that yes, they exist and they deserve as much space in the media as us,” said feminist writer Natália Belizario, according to The Telegraph Disabilities charity Scope spokesperson Richard Lane told Huffington Post UK that it was “hard to understand why Vogue Brazil felt the need to use models who aren’t disabled in a Paralympic photoshoot The magazine has missed the perfect opportunity to celebrate Brazil’s talented Paralympians as sporting equals It’s so rare to see positive and powerful representations of disabled people in the media.” The backlash has gotten to and is not sitting well with Pires who came up with the idea for the shoot along with creative agency Africa The actress took to her Instagram to defend the shoot according to the Telegraph: “We lent our image to generate visibility Conde Nast did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s requests for comment architect Ricardo Carvalho and Joana Vilhena have adapted for residential use the old factory that stands on a long and narrow lot between Rua da Boavista and Rua D the building has had different uses over time related to industry and the service sector and in recent years it was the seat of UAL’s faculty of architecture consists of two elementary actions: the conservation of the historic building and the insertion of a new volume both the internal concrete structure and the design of the façade remain The new addition is a lightweight volume of white steel This respectful expansion made it possible to preserve the formal unity and give major flexibility to the interior spaces In the body of the original building a green courtyard organises the internal circulation and provides natural light The large roof terrace was covered with terracotta to create a sense of continuity with the historic roofs of the city in an urban location in transition between the historic city and the new neighbourhoods represents for the architect proof that “every city is an urban programme covered with the fragmentary scribbles of its past” and website in this browser for the next time I comment Abitare.it e Style.corriere.it rifiutando tutti i cookie di profilazione ad eccezione di quelli tecnici necessari Naviga il sito di Abitare.it con pubblicità profilata e senza abbonarti By subscribing you will reject all but technical cookies on Iodonna.it By clicking "accept" you will allow to process your personal data by us and third parties and be able to browse Abitare.it website without a subscription The Floriana Local Council will this Sunday host the annual event Ġenna ta' Ġonna showcasing the locality in a way that many might not typically experience.  This year's event will feature 30 activities with the main focus centred around Ġnien il-Mall The Civil Protection Department will also be present exhibiting their vehicles and offering live demonstrations Floriana’s unique underground railway station will be open to the public offering a glimpse into Malta’s railway history Visitors will also have the opportunity to explore the bell towers of the Archipresbyteral Church of St which houses seven paintings by Mattia Preti guided tours of Floriana's heritage will be available including highlights such as the Wignacourt Water Tower a historical re-enactment will portray the founding of Floriana The annual 'Ġenna ta' Ġonna' event is being held this Sunday This will be complemented by exhibitions of classic cars and World War II memorabilia A vintage bus tour will also take visitors to key historical sites such as the Notre Dame Gate and the King George V Recreational Grounds inviting visitors to explore its museum and crypt there will be a procession by the Kappella San Publju Martri accompanied by the band of Società Filarmonica Vilhena Football enthusiasts can also visit the honours hall of Floriana FC The event will begin at around 10:00 am and is expected to run until 8:30 pm concluding with the final concert by Kantera Floriana is home to numerous businesses and individuals who rarely get the chance to fully appreciate the beauty and heritage the town has to offer please register for free or log in to your account The architects stripped right down to the structural elements (image: Fernando Guerra/FG+SG) Destruction was preservation at the new home of the Museum of Design and Fashion Ricardo Carvalho & Joana Vilhena Arquitectos took a 1950s bank in the historic centre of the city and sandblasted it to within an inch of its life The reason for what Carvalho describes as this “selective destruction” is that the original Banco Nacional Ultramarino – a Viennese-style repository of Portugal’s colonial wealth – was bought in 2004 by another bank and subjected to a crass corporate makeover When the local heritage body found out what was happening it was too late Most of the period detailing had been destroyed the only way to restore its dignity was to blast away any trace of the new fit-out notably a marble counter which swerves through the ground floor the new interior borrows the language of construction: shelving is held together with dry wall brackets the curtains are made of construction site covers and the floor is covered in road paint In this landscape sit Eames chairs and John Galliano gowns – a tiny portion of Francisco Capelo’s 2,500-piece design collection There’s a beautiful quality of light in the galleries One reason for this is that the building occupies an entire block and has long windows along all four sides – a factor that also makes one very aware of the city outside which has been turned into a giant glow lamp only the ground and first floors have been converted but the rest of the building will be made ready next year Asked whether he took his cue for the design from Lacaton and Vassal’s stripped Palais de Tokyo in Paris I was actually inspired by some of the old factory buildings at Donald Judd’s Cinati Foundation in Marfa Texas.” Only this is even more destructive The marble steps remain in the stairwell (image: Fernando Guerra/FG+SG) Tejo Remy’s Landenkast drawers shrouded in construction covers (image: Fernando Guerra/FG+SG) The celebration period of the feast of St Publius has also witnessed the inauguration of the restoration project on Floriana’s Vilhena Fountain The restoration of the fountain was carried out by the Department of Public Works through a 200,000 euro investment This monument enjoys the highest grade of protection Project Coordinator Marvienne Camilleri explained that the restoration works included interventions on the pedestal which had not worked for many years and did not retain water The architect added that the fountain is now fitted with new water and lighting systems Investment was also made in a new system of security cameras to safeguard the area Parliamentary Secretary for Public Works Omar Farrugia stated during the inauguration that this monument is not just a symbol of Floriana residents The Parliamentary Secretary reiterated the commitment of the Department of Public Works to continue working on other similar projects in order to safeguard the national heritage Ilu jaħdem bħala ġurnalist mill-2014 f'diversi kmamar tal-aħbarijiet il-ġrajjiet kurrenti u rrapporta diversi avvenimenti barra minn Malta jippreżenta l-programm 'Insights' u 'Ħadt l-Aħbar' fuq TVMnews+ identifiably white in compliance with regional building codes consists of two unique volumes connected by a transparent glass corridor contains the bedrooms and services and is oriented to the south to face the pool and finds shade under the deep overhang of the roof structure the other component is an angular construction that contains a carport and all the leisure functions polished exposed concrete defines the roof plane contrasting the more sterile white-washed walls a courtyard with an olive tree intrudes on the block offering moments where the exterior makes its way to the interior two volumes connected by a glass hall image © joao morgado | all images courtesy of vitor vilhena low house in a flat landscape with 400 olive trees image © joao morgado bedrooms facing south image © joao morgado offices and garage area image © joao morgado courtyard between two volumes image © joao morgado connecting glass corridor image © joao morgado interior glass corridor image © joao morgado walkway between kitchen and living room image © joao morgado large closing door separates the two spaces image © joao morgado kitchen and living room image © joao morgado office and library to the left side image © joao morgado work space and bookshelf image © joao morgado connection detail image © joao morgado south-facing facade and pool image © joao morgado Sassuolo's Maxime Lopez (R) vies with Salernitana's Tonny Vilhena during a Serie A football match between Sassuolo and Salernitana in Reggio Emilia Sassuolo's Emil Ceide (R) vies with Salernitana's Tonny Vilhena during a Serie A football match between Sassuolo and Salernitana in Reggio Emilia Referee Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi (2nd R) is seen before a Serie A football match between Sassuolo and Salernitana in Reggio Emilia Referee Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi (2nd R) is seen during a Serie A football match between Sassuolo and Salernitana in Reggio Emilia Referee Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi is seen during a Serie A football match between Sassuolo and Salernitana in Reggio Emilia Referee Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi (R) is seen during a Serie A football match between Sassuolo and Salernitana in Reggio Emilia Referee Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi (L) is seen during a Serie A football match between Sassuolo and Salernitana in Reggio Emilia A combination who scored a whopping 95.6% dressage score despite two rider memory lapses are now heading for the national semi-finals British-based Portuguese rider Luis Filipe Vilhena and Secret Secret won the four-year-old class at Beechwood Equestrian Centre on 3 June Luis told H&H he and Secret had already qualified at Hickstead in May, despite the fact he had been injured for three months and only got back on the stallion the week before the show so took him to Beechwood for the experience And he added that the morning of the show did not go entirely to plan “I keep my horses in the field – all my stallions live out together and people tell me I’m crazy but they’re happy and I like to see them in the field – and I’d been teaching all the day before and that day a guy changed something and broke the hose,” he said “I got him in on the Saturday to give him a bath because he was really dirty but I couldn’t I was running late so I just had to brush him quickly put him on the horsebox and take him to the show.” Luis was a bit late arriving so just tacked up – “I put the numnah on and it got dirty straight away!” – and went into the warm-up “I thought ‘Just enjoy the horse’,” he said and the connection was amazing; it was like we were dancing together.” “And that’s not the first time it’s happened I don’t compete that much – I don’t even know where the letters are – as what I like is teaching horses and people to grand prix although I am enjoying competing a bit more now.” Luis said the score is “one of those things I still don’t really believe” – and he is determined to remember the test for next month’s semi-final, in hopes of qualifying for the final at the British Dressage National Championships in September “It probably won’t happen again – although you may see this horse at an Olympic Games!” he said “It was a once-in-a-lifetime thing; I’m still on cloud nine.” Southampton have spoken to Feyenoord about midfielder Tonny Vilhena. The 20-year-old has come through the Dutch side's youth academy. His father is from Angola while his mother is from the Holland - choosing the latter to represent internationally. He has represented his country up to under 21 level and was a key player for coach Ronald Koeman during his time at the club - before he took the reigns over at Southampton last summer.  The talented midfielder has featured 16 times in all competitions for the Rotterdam-based club this season.  Vilhena is the third Feyernoord starlet that Koeman is keen to bring to St. Mary's. Up-and-coming Dutch centre halves Terence Kongolo and Sven van Beek are also being targeted for summer moves. Southampton enquire about Feyenoord midfielder Tonny VilhenaCommenting on this article has endedNewest{{#isModerationStatus}}{{moderationStatus}} An 18th-century painting depicting Grand Master Vilhena with pages sourced from the Grand Master’s Palace in Valletta is currently on display in an exhibition at Spain’s Museo Naval de Madrid through a collaboration with Heritage Malta entitled The Mark of Jorge Juan − The Legacy of an Enlightened Scientist marks 250 years since the death of one of the most brilliant sailors in the Spanish Navy’s history Jorge Juan’s mark remained indelible in fields such as politics contributing extraordinarily to the Enlightenment thought of his time this exhibition in the Spanish capital offers a wider all-encompassing analysis of this outstanding figure His connection to the Order of St John in Malta is explored in the first of these units which narrates his journey to the island of Malta as a young boy in 1722 to join the Order in which he rose through the ranks to become a page to the grand master in 1725 an oil on canvas painting at the Grand Master’s Palace in Valletta depicting Grand Master Antonio Manoel de Vilhena with pages was identified as a very plausible depiction of a young Jorge Juan based on his known time frames within the Order eventually leading to its loan by Heritage Malta to the Museo Naval de Madrid This painting was executed by Maltese artist Enrico Regnaud to celebrate the grand master’s bestowment of the blessed sword and hat by Pope Benedict XIII which were blessed in St Peter’s on Christmas Eve of 1724 and arrived in Malta on May 3 The exhibition will run until the end of March. For more information, click here the richness of the topography lies in it’s contained flatness a feature that the portuguese architect seeks to capture with the stark white planes of the building the L-shaped plan serves to maximize the building’s exposure to the south-light and sun-soaked mountainous views a ‘privileged contemplation of the landscape’ by carefully developing the volumes of space according site and program these planar volumes follow the subtle lines in the landscape while creating their own complexity with panoramic cut outs approach to the house, greeted by the swimming pool image © joao morgado | all images courtesy of vitor vilhena the cut outs dot the landscape with warm yellow squares image © joao morgado the entry is carefully carved into the plane keeping with the overall language of the built form image © joao morgado situated on a sloping site that mimics the lines on the landscape image © joao morgado solid and void are balanced according to program and ideal views of the site image © joao morgado a total respect for the site’s visual resources was the objective of the project image © joao morgado traditional tile floors keep the house cool in the summer image © joao morgado framed views of the landscape image © joao morgado To commemorate the 300th anniversary of the accession of Grand Master Antonio Manoel De Vilhena MIDI will be hosting two lectures on the architectural legacy of this popular and benevolent Grand Master on Sunday June 19 from 10am till noon at the chapel dedicated to St Anthony of Padua at Fort Manoel.  The first lecture will be conducted by Prof Conrad Thake an architectural urban planner and architectural historian Spiteri an author of several books and studies on the military history and fortifications of Malta.  The public will also have the opportunity to view the restoration works carried out to date and enjoy the fort and all it has to offer.  Built in the early years of 1700s by the Grand Master Antonio Manoel de Vilhena of the Knights of St John and restored to its former glory by MIDI plc in the early years of 2000 Fort Manoel has stood majestically overlooking Marsamxett Harbour as a fine example to Malta’s baroque architecture since the early 18th century The restored Fort is a gem of French military architecture designed by the Knight’s architect Charles François de Mondion Bookings for the lectures can be made via e-mail info@midimalta.com or telephone 2065 5500. Doors open at 9:30am and close at 1pm. To view comments, please register for free or log in to your account. I am a student reading for a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in history of art. As part of my thesis I am researching and compiling a catalogue of the known portraits and representations of Antonio Manoel de Vilhena, 66th Grandmaster of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jersusalem, Rhodes and Malta, under the tutelage of Keith Paul Sciberras. Since my dissertation requires that I also include portraits or representations of the grandmaster that are within private collections in the Maltese Islands, I am kindly asking anyone who has within their private collection a portrait or representation of this grandmaster to – if they deem it appropriate – contact me. Utmost confidentiality will be applied according to the ethical guidelines of academic research while any given information will be used solely for the purpose of this research. All help will be duly acknowledged. If anyone wishes to contact me they can do so on these numbers: 99090790, 21485456, or on this e-mail address: carlos.bongalais.13@um.edu.mt. both Tottenham Hotspur and AS Roma are keen on signing the Dutch international in the months to come The 23-year-old has been in fine form recently He scored 13 goals and assisted six in a 44-game campaign This season he has done most of his impressing with the national team Vilhena has been in fine form for the Netherlands helping them to their recent renaissance under Ronald Koeman He managed him in Rotterdam and made him an integral part of the team Southampton desperately tried to reunite the pair As reported by the Daily Mail, Southampton bid £3 million for the player on deadline day in February 2015 Vilhenna was unsettled at Feyenoord since the departure of Koeman and the Saints wanted him on the cheap the Dutch side wanted £5 million and Southampton could not get a deal together Vilhenna eventually went on to rebuild his career with Feyenoord and now is beginning to attract the attention of some of Europe’s best clubs Southampton must now wish they had snapped him up when they had the chance How can a state entity act in this manner - dishing out concessions with no competitive tenders no permits and with such a lack of transparency “In the name of fairness and transparency the people must know if Heritage Malta is favouring someone and Faced with the masses of information and the acceleration of the cycles of communication and capital how can we outline the movements that give meaning to the most recent decade of the 21st century make us illusorily believe in an eternal present and in an apparent proximity that contains an indestructible distance an exhibition for the Reena Spaulings Fine Art NY/LA gallery the aim is to find traces of the real in the exacerbated display of images The thread running through the works presented is the introduction of punctuations that interrupt narratives associated with imagistic consumption devices This reflection gives us clues about the media structures that define economies of power as is the case of the works 1 Escaping is just engaging in another platform (2019) and 7 Media creates the world it claims to merely show us (2019) by Georgie Nettel or even Donate to the Tate (The Beatles) (2015) by Merlin Carpenter it is important to underline the mechanisms of construction of human memory versus technological devices such as the work Being and/or Time (2013-2016) by Ken Okiishi where the artist presents a digital diary of 24 frames per second all the images having been captured on his iPhone over three years in New York a chronological compilation of relevant world events (between January 2010 and December 2014) together with personal reflections by Bjarne Melgaard Underpinning the reflective frameworks on hyper-information/hyper-communication and their attendant mechanisms of surveillance and power Rialto6 presents the solo exhibition Eixo-Próprio by Pedro Barateiro The artist focuses on the relations of the body of the artist and the viewer as external/internal media in which these can materialise in non-linear narratives where image and word intersect in a poetic and political sense a set of videos conceived without a script and presented at Rialto6 on the days of the exhibition The artist also presents three works: the installation The Astronaut Metaphor (2013) and a sculpture that gives the exhibition its title: Eixo-Próprio (2021) Barateiro explores the absorption and unconscious reproduction of the models that subject us to their visibility «the panoptic eye that sees everything» is laid bare by the artists from their own systemic interior introducing spaces of freedom within digital A Decade that Exploded and Eixo-Próprio are on view at Rialto6, in Lisbon, until July 30. Master in Art and Glass Science (FCTUNL & FBAUL She is a resident artist in the collective Atelier Concorde Collaborates with national and foreign artists Her work has an interdisciplinary character and focuses on themes associated with origin scientific and philosophical constructions of reality Subscribe to the Newsletter (EN Version)! I accept the Privacy Policy Subscribe Umbigo Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art gallery brings Lawrence Weiner to Lisbon in Around the World an exhibition that shares its name with a work made in 2020 by the artist whose intention is to think about location based on an imaginary line of reference The artist displays works that are geographical statements on location in relation to the equator the line that divides the Earth into two hemispheres PLACED ABOVE THE EQUATOR/COLOCADO ACIMA DO EQUADOR – it’s important to underline the term «placed» which points to the randomness of location as if it were a common diagnosis made in relation to the world (geographical below to the left or to the right of the equator located according to the conceptual line that divides the world Bartomeu Marí writes in the exhibition text: «The work invites us to be aware of the finitude of the world of our freedom and desire to move.» Affirmative sentences that remind us of our own relationship with location «The artist has stated that his works’ creation is not site-specific but will be welcomed and understood in a specific context» All the works will be understood in different ways depending on the context but this is an exhibition whose concept is based This exhibition could be presented anywhere in the world but would that the be reality of Western artistic creation A work is not site-specific when it was not conceived especially for a venue when we talk about the rooms that may be excluded from the exhibition network is the Northern Hemisphere’s art scene not exclusive to the Northern Hemisphere Around the World is the chance to see Lawrence Weiner’s work – a remarkable artist in the conceptual art context of the 1960s – through a disruptive work that questions contemporary existence itself one of Weiner’s most recognised works about his intentions while we see the most recent exhibition in Lisbon And we think about the assertiveness of a visual work in the current media context of Western society To be or not to be seen is the most recent version of being or not being to be or not be before something or someone who recognises us Around the World is on view at Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art until October 30. she has a Master's in Critical Curatorship and Theories of Art by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and a degree in Plastic Arts – Painting by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto In 2018 she launches the first issue of Dose magazine of which she is co-founder and editor and in 2020 she founds the studio space for artists o.estúdio in Bonfim having already contributed articles to several publications To commemorate the 300th anniversary of the accession of Grand Master Antonio Manoel de Vilhena MIDI plc recently hosted two lectures on the architectural legacy of this popular and benevolent grandmaster at the chapel dedicated to St Anthony of Padua at Fort Manoel The first lecture was conducted by Conrad Thake His presentation was followed by that of Stephen Spiteri author of several books and studies on the military history and fortifications of Malta Thake gave an overview of the architectural legacy of Grand Master Anton Manuel de Vilhena in the Maltese islands.  During the magistracy of Grand Master De Vilhena several major architectural and urban projects were undertaken which included the total remodelling of the entrance area to the walled citadel the foundation of Floriana as a residential town, Casa Leoni in Santa Venera and the Manoel Theatre in Valletta.   Thake also referred to various welfare state projects founded by De Vilhena such as the Conservatorio and Ospizio in Floriana He also mentioned the evolution of the baroque architectural style in Malta.    Spiteri spoke about the vast array of fortification projects undertaken during De Vilhena’s magistracy The Grand Master’s 14-year rule effectively witnessed modernisation and the completion of many of the ambitious defensive schemes that had been set in motion in course of the previous centuries to defend Valletta and the islands’ harbours settlements and shores – a legacy succinctly captured in the first two lines of the Latin inscription crowning the entrance into Fort Manoel – Ad Val Securitatem (for the protection of the City of Valletta and the greater security of the state).  Spiteri showed how the fortified landscape as it is familiar to us today (with the exception of Fort Tigné Fort Chambrai in Gozo and the coastal entrenchments erected in the 1760/1970s) came largely together in the course of De Vilhena’s magistracy The many escutcheons which once bore De Vilhena’s coat-of-arms and adorned the ramparts and gates of the fortified city of Vittoriosa the Naxxar and Ta’ Falca entrenchments and Ras il-Qala Battery (Gozo) all stand monument to the scale and magnitude of the fortification works undertaken during the grandmaster’s reign and his unstinting commitment to the defence of the Hospitaller realm the public also had the opportunity to view the restoration works carried out by MIDI at Fort Manoel where one of the most important French military architects of the time who among other projects was responsible for the design and development of Fort Manoel please register for free or log in to your account.