#universities in Liverpool

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AVOID THIS RENTAL IN LIVERPOOL. MY SISTER HAVING ISSUES WITH THE TWO OWNERS. 🤬

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University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England // Nov 13th 2006 // Jenni

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I got accepted into a University!

🎊 Exciting news: I've been accepted to one of the two universities I applied to! I really doubted that I could even get into THE university of my city since they are harder to get into with higher grades for the entry requirements, but I think I only got in because of my apprenticeship experience. For example, if I had went straight to applying at the university at age 18, I wouldn’t have gotten in. I even thought when I was younger “oh I couldn’t ever apply because that’s for the smart smart people” BUT I GOT IN and I’m not even maths smart!

So, thank you God that I studied coding when I was studying Biology, Chemistry, Maths during my last two years of school. Although I had to drop out due to health reasons, thank you God for the opportunity to learn how to build websites and explore Python while working as a call centre agent. Thank you God for the confidence to apply for an apprenticeship, even though I didn't complete my schooling! Thank you God for helping me complete the apprenticeship with a pass mark and then continue working there as their Junior Web Developer. And thank you God for helping me randomly apply to these universities and I got a place!

My journey has been filled with challenges and opportunities, and for that, I am grateful!

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returning to this app to post one of my biggest achievements (left) and one of sebastian stan's biggest achievements (right) 🫶🏽

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All smiles

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The Beatles AU set in The Monkees TV show where they're four teens struggling to make ends meet while doing odd gigs and getting into shenanigans

[dawnbrush-skylines]

'The Victoria Building'

Artwork by Dawnbrush Skylines

The Victoria Building is a historic old building in Liverpool. It was completed in 1892, and it originally served as the main building for the University of Liverpool. It features a lovely red brick and terracotta facade, with intricate detailing and a distinctive clock tower. Inside, the building houses various facilities, including lecture halls and exhibition spaces.

The Victoria Building has a rich history that reflects the growth of higher education in Liverpool. It was built in the late 19th century during a time when the University of Liverpool was expanding its facilities to accommodate an increasing number of students.

The design by Alfred Waterhouse is notable for its elaborate Gothic Revival style, which was quite popular during that era. Over the years, the Victoria Building has undergone renovations and restorations to preserve its architectural integrity while adapting to modern educational needs.

Today, it is not only a functioning part of the university but also a venue for public events and exhibitions, further enriching the cultural landscape of Liverpool. The building stands as a testament to the city's commitment to education and its historical significance in the development of the university system in the UK.

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realized chris is wearing the same sweatshirt in these two

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[torksmiths]

been actively trying to induce a beatles hf in myself lately and not sure how it’s going. remains to be seen

[get-back-homeward]

The chapter of Royston Ellis meeting the Beatles is so wild.

He first hits on George at the Jacaranda. George responds to this with a casual “oh, you’d love my friends” and brings him to Gambier Terrace:

Also dropping into the Gambier Terrace pit was a special guest, Royston Ellis, “King of the Beatniks.” The bearded bard, who featured in TV documentaries and press articles whenever an offbeat teenage angle was needed, was in Liverpool to read his poetry at the university on June 24/25, and he swiftly found himself drawn into the Beatles’ company. The conduit was George, who (with nothing else to do while John, Stu and Paul were in school) was hanging around the Jac when the wandering coffee-bar poet traipsed in, drawn by hip radar to “the happening place.” Avowedly “trying everything,” Ellis was an active bisexual in this period of his life and he took an immediate fancy to George: “He looked fabulous with his long hair and matelot-style striped T-shirt, very modern, which is why I deliberately spoke to him. I was nineteen and he was seventeen and we clicked right away.”15

George took Ellis, his typewriter and his duffel bag back to Gambier Terrace to meet John and Stu. A rapport was quickly established and Ellis was invited to “crash” for a few days—yet another occupant for the filthy back room.

Then Ellis hits it off with John and Stu and wants them as a backing band:

Ellis says he developed a particular rapport with John and Stuart and that they discussed poetry, art and London. When he left, they spoke of doing it again sometime: “We were talking about how I wanted a band to come to London and back me on my Rocketry performances, and they were thrilled at the idea.” Art school studies finished the following Friday, July 1, marking the end of Stu’s fourth year and John’s third and last because the college was waving him goodbye. The exam results, when they came through on August 1, were just as expected: John failed and was out, Stuart passed the NDD, for which he received a certificate. The option was there for him to do a fifth year and attain the highest available qualification, the Art Teacher’s Diploma (ATD), akin to a degree and entitling him to become a teacher … but both he and John were pondering a period as prospectors, and doing something again with Ellis was a definite possibility.

So much so, Ellis is responsible for the first* two mentions of the band in the newspaper:

As for Ellis, so much was he enthused by the possibility of appearing with them again that he soon got the Beatles their first mention in a music paper. It was the July 9 edition of Record and Show Mirror, where a supercilious little article about “the bearded sage of the coffee bars” ended “he’s thinking of bringing down to London a Liverpool group which he considers is most in accord with his poetry. Name of the group? ‘The Beetles’”

….A born publicist, Royston Ellis knew how to manipulate a follow-up, writing a letter for publication that clarified a point in the first. He expressed his intention to find a group that would join him on TV appearances with Bert Weedon and the Shadows, and reiterated, “For some time I have been searching for a group to use regularly, and I feel that the ‘Beetles’ (most of them are Liverpool ex-art students) fill the bill.”

John and Stu decide to go to London on their own to join Ellis…but then chicken out:

By July 10, at the end of his three-year art school vacation, John had arrived at a key decision in his life: he would try to earn his living from the guitar. “I became a professional musician the day I got a red letter from the art college saying ‘Don’t bother coming back next September,’ ” he later said.31 Cyn would remember, “John decided that this [music] was very definitely the life for him. All the ideas that everyone else had for him of making an impact on the art world faded into the back of beyond with incredible rapidity, and with almost no regret at all. Aunt Mimi was distraught. Her view of his future couldn’t have been blacker at that time.”32

These events coinciding, it seems John and Stu decided to head south and hang out with Royston Ellis. Allan Williams is emphatic on the matter: he says John and Stu “split the Beatles and went down to London.”33 Norman Chapman would remember Stu asking him for a lift through the Mersey Tunnel one day so he (or he and John) could hitchhike to London—“They wanted to go down to London and become involved in this poetry-music scene.” Beat poets led a nomadic life by definition. Ellis lived for periods in all sorts of places, but his main base was still his parents’ house, at 31 Clonard Way, Hatch End, Pinner, Middlesex, a pleasant detached villa with the name Denecroft. This was the address he gave John while staying at Gambier Terrace. When Ellis arrived home one day his mother said he’d missed a visit from his “beatnik friends from Liverpool.” He never knew how many or who had come, but—as insane as it appears—John and Stu (and/or as Ellis always thought—hoped—George) had hitched the best part of two hundred miles, taken the trouble of locating his house in leafy Metroland, not stayed or left a message and then gone home again, never returning or making further contact. It makes no sense, but there it sits, illogical and incomplete.

Allan Williams remembers them being “back in Liverpool within a week, because it didn’t work out,” at which point the Beatles “reformed” as if they’d never been away. With bookings only every Saturday, it’s conceivable they did all this without missing one, and perhaps that was always the intention. However, while three independent witnesses (Ellis, Williams and Chapman) all remember something happening, none of the Beatles ever mentioned it—though in their interviews they talked with candor about everything. So it must remain in doubt, an intriguing puzzle unlikely to be solved.

There are two additional curiosities that may or may not be incidental. One is that, in the last days of July, a group of Liverpool art school students, apparently including John and Stu, went to London (or tried to go) to see a Picasso exhibition at the Tate Gallery. Second, and most fascinatingly, a set of photographs taken at this very time (mid-July 1960) in Stu and John’s studio-bedroom-slum at 3 Gambier Terrace includes several people they knew but not John and Stu themselves—perhaps because they were on the Hatch End trip. It was published on July 24 in the national Sunday rag the People in a sensation-splash headlined THIS IS THE BEATNIK HORROR. It’s as if a man on a flaming pie was pointing down at Flat 3, Hillary Mansions, Gambier Terrace, Liverpool 1. In six months, three Beatles moved in and the fourth was hanging out, the nation’s best-known beat poet had come here to get them high, and now, when a Fleet Street journalist and photographer were looking to substantiate a load of old tosh about dirty beatniks—reportage that could have been cooked up anywhere in the country—they landed in Stu and John’s room.34

Though hugely amusing, the feature had one unfortunate side-effect: because the address was given (a “three-roomed flat in decaying Gambier Terrace in Liverpool”) and some of the occupants (“well-educated youngsters”) were named, the landlord gave the tenant, Rod Murray, notice to quit. On August 15, everyone—Rod, Diz, Ducky, Stuart, John and sundry other bodies who’d joined them—would be out on the street.

—Mark Lewisohn’s Tune In, Ch 15 (May 31–Aug 15, 1960)

And Lewisohn is just like yup nothing to see.

So what the hell happened here? Was it just a school trip? Or was it a deliberate split?

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Sosok Mohamed Salah, Kikis Islamofobia di Inggris lewat Amal, Aksi, dan Prestasi

Kisah spritual atlet muslim dunia kali ini mengangkat sosok Mohamed Salah. Selain menjadi striker haus gol, kehadiran Salah sebagai pesepakbola muslim di Liga Inggris ternyata bisa mengubah pandangan orang terhadap Islam.

Mohamed Salah sangat dikenali di Liverpool, Inggris, dan bahkan berbagai negara. Striker yang akrab disebut Mo Salah ini membuktikan lewat sepak bola perbedaan agama bukan masalah untuk menciptakan kedamaian. Tren islamofobia di Inggris pun mulai dikikis Mo Salah lewat amal, aksi, dan prestasinya.

Daratan Eropa, termasuk Inggris telah lama mengalami gejala islamofobia terlebih dipicu maraknya aksi terorisme di sejumlah tempat.

Islamofobia dipahami sebagai "rasa takut dan kebencian terhadap Islam, dan oleh karena itu, juga kepada semua muslim," serta merujuk pada praktik diskriminasi terhadap muslim dengan memisahkan mereka dari kehidupan ekonomi, sosial, dan kemasyarakatan suatu bangsa.

Sepak terjang Mo Salah bersama Liverpool secara tidak langsung turut mengurangi virus islamofobia yang selama menjangkiti masyarakat Inggris, juga di kancah Eropa. Selain di gelanggang sepak bola, Mo Salah selama ini juga secara tidak langsung mengkampayekan Islam moderat lewat perilku dan juga tindakan dakwahnya.

Gaya dakwah Mohamed Salah sedikit mampu melawan rasialisme endemik di sepakbola Inggris perlahan dan pasti sedikit mengurangi Islamofobia yang menjangkiti Inggris atau Eropa sejak lama.

Apa saja aksi Mo Salah yang bisa dipahami sebagai bentuk ‘dakwah’ dalam menyebarkan Islam moderat di arena sepak bola? Salah satunya dalam berbagai kesempatan Mo Salah tertangkap kamera selalu memanjatkan doa sebelum pertandingan.

Pesepakbola berusia 27 tahun ini juga kerap melakukan sujud syukur setelah mencetak gol. Alhasil, orang jadi penasaran dengan kebiasaan Salah tersebut. “Selebrasi dengan bersujud seperti berdoa atau berterima kasih pada Tuhan atas apa yang telah saya raih. Saya selalu melakukan itu sejak lama dan di mana pun saya bermain,” tutur Salah dilansir dari website klub Liverpool.

Selebrasi dengan sujud syukur Mo Salah awalnya terlihat biasa bagi masyarakat Inggris. Namun bagi para pecinta sepak bola, aksi Salah tersebut dianggap unik. Mengapa harus bersujud usai menciptakan gol? Apa makna dan pesan di balik selebrasi tersebut?

Para fans Liverpool kemudian mulai mencari tahu tentang makna selebrasi yang selalu dilakukan oleh pemain bernomor punggung 11 itu. Sujud merupakan salah satu gerakan wajib dalam ibadah salat agama Islam. Bagi Salah, sujud yang dilakukannya bukan sekadar menggaungkan gerakan wajib dalam salat, melainkan sebagai ungkapan syukur.

"Itu sesuatu seperti berdoa atau berterima kasih pada Tuhan atas apa yang telah saya terima, tapi ya, itu hanya berdoa dan berdoa untuk menang. Saya selalu melakukannya sejak masih kecil, di mana pun," kata Salah dikutip dari CNN Inside The Middle East.

Tanpa disadari, penggemar sepak bola di Eropa mulai menggali lebih dalam soal sujud dan Islam. Dan perlahan, islamofobia di daratan Benua Biru itu mulai terkikis.

Sebelumnya, masyarakat di Inggris dan Eropa masih memandang Islam dan penganutnya sebelah mata. Stigma negatif tersebut tak terlepas dari maraknya aksi terorisme yang erat dilekatkan ke organisasi Islam.

Belum lagi, terjadi gelombang pengungsi ke Eropa yang didominasi umat muslim. Mereka melarikan diri dari negara-negara yang tengah dilanda perang, seperti Irak, Suriah, dan Afghanistan.

Inggris dan negara lainnya di Eropa pun jadi ikut memusuhi muslim. Bahkan, ada sentimen kalau orang putih Eropa akan menghadapi ancaman eksistensial. Banyak orang pun beranggapan kalau Islam adalah kekerasan, tidak bisa diasimilasi, dan rentan terhadap terorisme. Dari situ munculah apa yang dinamakan islamofobia.

Saat itulah Salah hadir dengan keyakinannya sebagai umat muslim yang menentang islamofobia yang berkembang di Inggris dan Eropa. Prestasi dan selebrasinya di lapangan hijau menjadi senjata untuk melawan stigma negatif yang kadung lekat dengan Islam dan penganutnya.

Menurut penelitian dari Departemen Sains Politik Universitas Stanford, kebiasaan Mo Salah yang selalu berdoa dan bersujud di pertandingan sepak bola, juga didukung perilaku baiknya, berdampak besar bagi orang-orang terkait Islamophobia.

Hasil riset yang sama juga menyebutkan bahwa tingkat kejahatan terhadap seorang muslim di Inggris turun hingga 18,9% sejak Mo Salah merumput di Premier League bareng Liverpool.

William Marble, seorang peneliti di Universitas Stanford, mengatakan, ada dua penjelasan spekulatif yang bisa menjelaskan kenapa angka kejahatan terhadap orang muslim di Inggris menurun.

“Pertama karena orang-orang mungkin lebih toleran. Kedua, banyak orang-orang bicara soal Mohamed Salah. Dia diterima dengan baik di sini (Inggris) dan orang melihat bahwa dari Mohamed Salah, Islam ternyata tak seburuk yang selama ini mereka kira,” ujarnya.

Tak hanya itu, fenomena Mo Salah juga membuat ketertarikan publik Inggris pada Islam meningkat. Bahkan, salah satu kalimat dalam yel-yel klub sepak bola itu yang terkenal adalah,

“If he scores another few then I’ll be Muslim too.”

("Jika dia menciptakan gol-gol baru, aku pun akan menjadi Muslim").

Di luar lapangan hijau, Salah juga selalu tampil sebagai pribadi yang bersahaja dan humble. Sikap ini yang kemudian memberikan dampak positif terhadap cara pandangan orang-orang terhadap Islam.

Pesona Salah di lapangan dan sikapnya sebagai ‘anak baik’ pun perlahan mengubah wajah Islam di pikiran banyak orang Eropa. Betapa tidak, sebagai bintang lapangan hijau, Salah tidak menggunakan obat-obatan, tidak tampil berlebihan, ataupun meminum alkohol. Perilaku yang selaras dengan ajaran agama yang dianutnya.

Dalam sebuah selebrasi kemenangan, Salah bahkan menghindar ketika rekan satu timnya mulai melakukan champagne spray. Dia bahkan tak ingin terkena cipratan minuman haram tersebut.

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[medbyelena]

just heard liverpool med decisions came out and ucas isn't working...

[heyyouupintheskylearningtofly]

i hate majoring in history why did i do this