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40-676: Rhodes was born in Kent, England in 1978. Her education includes a BA Honors degree from the University of Wales, Newport . She was most notably involved in the post-production of cult Indie hit Cop on the Edge IX: A Prelude to Justice , a full-length underground movie spoof produced by Coten Films and directed by Edward Keaton, who at the time was studying under the tutorage of British Filmmaker Allan Niblo at Newport Film School ; Niblo later went on to produce cult movies such as Human Traffic . Released locally,

80-436: A choice of standard or en-suite facilities. En-suite halls were arranged into flats of five rooms whilst the standard halls had approximately 15 residents per floor. Bedrooms were centrally heated and equipped with furniture, whilst hall kitchens were equipped with standard kitchen appliances. The university had a sports centre housing a large sports hall, a gym/fitness suite and outdoor pitches and courts. The university library

120-717: A concept which was initially well received by the Minister's Office. In July 2012, Newport and Glamorgan announced talks to create a new University for South Wales, citing the opportunity to: "build on their respective strengths to develop a new, entrepreneurial model of higher education across south Wales". The university was dissolved on 11 April 2013 absorbed into University of Glamorgan and renamed University of South Wales . In response to Cardiff Metropolitan's opposition to its involvement in any merger plans, Leighton Andrews (a strong proponent of mergers ) threatened to forcibly dissolve Cardiff Metropolitan and hand its assets over to

160-505: A much higher silver content and regained their pre-debasement value. Shillings were minted during the reigns of every English monarch after Edward VI, as well as during the Commonwealth , with a vast number of variations and alterations appearing over the years. The Royal Mint undertook a massive recoinage programme in 1816 , with large quantities of gold and silver coin being minted. Previous issues of silver coinage had been irregular, and

200-656: A newspaper ( NewsPort ), magazine ( newtwo ), TV station (NTV) and radio station (Radio Noize), all of which students managed and ran. As well as weekly social events and club nights, the union organised Freshers' Fortnight, Freshers' Fayre, Re: Freshers Week, RAG (Raising and Giving Week) and the May Ball which has previously had headline acts including Supergrass , Girls Aloud , Electric Six , Scouting for Girls , The Zutons and Feeder . (View University of South Wales for further alumni ) Shilling (British coin) The British shilling , abbreviated "1s" or "1/-",

240-410: A number of shillings and pence was widely used (e.g., "19/11" for nineteen shillings and eleven pence). The form ss/– was used for a number of shillings and zero pence (e.g., "5/–" for five shillings exactly). The first coins of the pound sterling with the value of 12d were minted in 1503 or 1504 and were known as testoons. The testoon was one of the first English coins to bear a real (rather than

280-501: A representative) portrait of the monarch on its obverse, and it is for this reason that it obtained its name from an Italian coin known as the testone , or headpiece , which had been introduced in Milan in 1474. Between 1544 and 1551 the coinage was debased repeatedly by the governments of Henry VIII and Edward VI in an attempt to generate more money to fund foreign wars. This debasement meant that coins produced in 1551 had one-fifth of

320-668: A variety of lectures for two shillings per quarter to study subjects including "The Pursuit of Attainment and Knowledge" and "Popular Superstition". The institution was later formed as Gwent College of Higher Education by a merger of the Caerleon College of Education (the former Monmouthshire Training College), the Newport College of Art and Design and the Gwent College of Technology in 1975. All three former institutions had established regional and national reputations, most notably

360-782: The Prince of Wales's Division played a fanfare from the top of the university clocktower and balloons were released in the faculty colours. In May 2004, the University of Wales College, Newport secured Privy Council approval to use the title University of Wales, Newport, as a full constituent of the federal university. On 1 August 2011, the university was restructured, creating two new faculties, each containing three schools: The Faculty of Arts and Business The Faculty of Education and Social Sciences The Centre for Community and Lifelong Learning (CCLL) continued to be based in Tredegar and focused on

400-630: The Welsh Assembly Government operating through Newport Unlimited , the urban regeneration company for the city. The campus is situated on the western side of the River Usk in the city centre and it was the first phase of an intended £50m development for the university. It housed the Faculty of Arts and Business whilst the Caerleon campus housed the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences. The campus

440-557: The College of Art with many of its students gaining commissions from the BBC and other major organisations in light of the college being among a select number of art colleges in the country awarded Diploma in Art and Design status. The college became an affiliated institution of the University of Wales in 1992, being admitted as a university college in 1996 where there was a ceremony at which trumpeters of

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480-504: The Newport Film School, founded by John Grierson in 1966 and producing many award-winning film-makers since then. The 2010 CILECT Congress (the international association for film and television schools) unanimously voted in Newport Film School as a full member – only two of the ten new applicant schools for full membership were given this accolade. The accommodation facilities on the Caerleon campus consisted of 661 rooms with

520-543: The University of Wales, Newport merge to create a single post-92 university in South East Wales. The plans proved to be highly controversial, with Cardiff Metropolitan opposing any merger, citing the lack of a business case, concerns that the new institution (which would be the largest campus university in Britain) would simply be too big to manage properly, and the 'predatory' attitude of Glamorgan. Newport, however, welcomed

560-483: The alternative reverse inscription EXURGAT DEUS DISSIPENTUR INIMICI , meaning "Let God arise and His enemies be scattered", becoming QVAE DEVS CONIVNXIT NEMO SEPARET , meaning "What God hath put together let no man put asunder" after 1604. A slang name for a shilling was a "bob" (plural as singular, as in "that cost me two bob"). The first recorded use was in a case of coining heard at the Old Bailey in 1789, when it

600-505: The coin had a value of five new pence , and a new coin of the same value but labelled as "five new pence" or "five pence" was minted with the same size as the shilling until 1990, after which the shilling no longer remained legal tender. It was made from silver from its introduction in or around 1503 until 1946, and thereafter in cupronickel . Before Decimal Day in 1971, sterling used the Carolingian monetary system (" £sd "), under which

640-437: The coins feature the denomination XII printed next to the portrait of the king. Elizabeth I and Mary I shillings are exceptions to this; the former has the denomination printed on the reverse, above the coat of arms, and the latter has no denomination printed at all. Some shillings issued during Mary's reign bear the date of minting, printed above the dual portraits of Mary and Philip . Early shillings of James I feature

680-465: The end of 1946 for similar reasons, exacerbated by the costs of the Second World War . New "silver" coinage was instead minted in cupronickel , an alloy of 75% copper and 25% nickel. Beginning with Lord Wrottesley's proposals in the 1820s there were various attempts to decimalise the pound sterling over the next century and a half. These attempts came to nothing significant until the 1960s when

720-519: The largest unit was a pound (£) divided into 20 shillings (s), each of 12 pence (d). Although the coin was not minted until the 16th century, the value of a shilling had been used for accounting purposes since the early medieval period . The value of one shilling equalling 12 pence (12 d) was set by the Normans following the conquest ; before this various English coins equalling 4, 5, and 12 pence had all been known as shillings. The notation ss/dd for

760-455: The last issue, minted in 1787, was not intended for issue to the public, but as Christmas gifts to the Bank of England's customers. New silver coinage was to be of .925 ( sterling ) standard, with silver coins to be minted at 66 shillings to the troy pound. Hence, newly minted shillings weighed 2 ⁄ 11   troy ounce , equivalent to 87.273 grains or 5.655 grams . The Royal Mint debased

800-514: The movie won the coveted student award for getting the crew the most suspensions from using the University film equipment. Rhodes currently lives in Orange County , California , with her husband Criss 6, former bassist of glam metal band Pretty Boy Floyd and Mötley Crüe tribute band True 2 Crue. After graduating from the University of Wales, Rhodes was hired to write official movie novelizations for Black Flame , an imprint of BL Publishing ,

840-410: The need for a currency more suited to simple monetary calculations became pressing. The decision to decimalise was announced in 1966, with the pound to be redivided into 100, rather than 240, pence. Decimal Day was set for 15 February 1971, and a whole range of new coins was introduced. Shillings continued to be legal tender with a value of 5 new pence until 31 December 1990. Testoons issued during

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880-505: The new university formed by Glamorgan. Cardiff Metropolitan still demanded more evidence before committing to further talks and, in November 2012, Leighton Andrews withdrew a consultation on plans to force a merger. The university opened a new £35 million campus in Newport's city centre formally on 10 January 2011. The project was a collaboration between the university, Newport City Council and

920-478: The past, present and future of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the information security industry. She was recently credited as a contributor/editor of the first non-fiction book produced by the cyber division of the company, Finding Beacons In The Dark: A Guide to Cyber Threat Intelligence , a practical guide to cyber threat hunting. University of Wales, Newport The University of Wales, Newport ( Welsh : Prifysgol Cymru, Casnewydd ),

960-477: The plans, providing they created a genuinely new institution. Professor Stephen Hagen, appointed Acting Vice-Chancellor by the Newport Board from 1 June 2012 to lead the merger upon the sudden resignation of Dr Peter Noyes, circulated a proposal for the new university to focus on entrepreneurialism, generating start-ups, equipping students with entrepreneurial skills and supporting the industries of South Wales,

1000-562: The portrait usually flipping left-facing to right-facing or vice versa between monarchs. The reverse features the escutcheon of the Royal Arms of England , surrounded by the inscription POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEVM , or a variant, meaning "I have made God my helper". Henry VIII testoons have a different reverse design, featuring a crowned Tudor rose , but those of Edward VI return to the Royal Arms design used previously. Starting with Edward VI

1040-525: The publishing arm of UK gaming giant Games Workshop . Between 2004–2010, Rhodes penned eight original novels and movie-based novelizations for BL Publishing to support her post-university travels around America. Inspired by the colorful local characters she met in Hollywood, she wrote her first original novel Dante's Girl at the age of 28, the first part of a three-book series following the life of supernatural crime-fighter Kayla Steele. Her supernatural trilogy

1080-460: The reign of Henry VII feature a right-facing portrait of the king on the obverse. Surrounding the portrait is the inscription HENRICUS DI GRA REX ANGL Z FRA , or similar, meaning "Henry, by the Grace of God, King of England and France". All shillings minted under subsequent kings and queens bear a similar inscription on the obverse identifying the monarch (or Lord Protector during the Commonwealth ), with

1120-410: The silver coinage in 1920 from 92.5% silver to 50% silver. Shillings of both alloys were minted that year. This debasement was done because of the rising price of silver around the world, and followed the global trend of the elimination, or the reducing in purity, of the silver in coinage. The minting of silver coinage of the pound sterling ceased completely (except for the ceremonial Maundy Money ) at

1160-413: The silver content of those minted in 1544, and consequently the value of new testoons fell from 12d to 6d. The reason the testoon decreased in value is that unlike today, the value of coins was determined by the market price of the metal contained within them. This debasement was recognised as a mistake, and during Elizabeth's reign newly minted coins, including the testoon (now known as the shilling), had

1200-408: The union. Alongside this sabbatical team full-time and part-time staff were employed to assist in the operation of the union and part-time officers, team captains, society presidents and student managers who all worked alongside their studies to assist the union. Newport Students' Union provided a range of sports teams, societies and entertainment for students to get involved in. The union also housed

1240-678: The university's work to widen participation within the Heads of the Valleys and the wider Gwent region. CCLL was also a key deliverer of the UHOVI (Universities, Heads of the Valleys Institute) project in partnership with the University of Glamorgan and Further Education Colleges. Along with the University of Glamorgan and Cardiff Metropolitan University , it was proposed by the Welsh Government that

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1280-600: The world of the Los Angeles heavy metal scene. It was published as part of an anthology of new horror writers in The End of the Line: An Anthology of Underground Horror by Rebellion Books. Rhodes currently works at BlackBerry Limited as Principal Threat Research Publisher of two digital publications: ThreatVector , an award-winning cybersecurity blog, and PHI Magazine , BlackBerry's bi-annual print publication focusing on

1320-518: Was a unit of currency and a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1 ⁄ 20 of one pound , or twelve pence . It was first minted in the reign of Henry VII as the testoon , and became known as the shilling, from the Old English scilling , sometime in the mid-16th century. It circulated until 1990. The word bob was sometimes used for a monetary value of several shillings, e.g. "ten-bob note". Following decimalisation on 15 February 1971

1360-550: Was a university based in Newport , South Wales , before the merger that formed the University of South Wales in April 2013. The university had two campuses in Newport, Caerleon on the northern outskirts of the city, which was subsequently closed during July 2016, and a £35 million campus on the east bank of the River Usk in Newport city centre which opened in 2011. In 2012 the university

1400-497: Was described as cant , "well understood among a certain set of people", but heard only among criminals and their associates. In the Gambia, white people are called toubabs , which may derive from the colonial practice of paying locals two shillings for running errands. An alternate etymology holds that the name is derived from French toubib , i.e. doctor . To "take the King's shilling "

1440-555: Was open seven days a week and computer suites were open 24 hours a day. Newport Students' Union was the union representing all students at the university. From the moment students enrolled they were automatically a member of the Students' Union. It was intended that for every year of every course there should have been at least one course representative. The union was run day-to-day by a team of sabbatical officers – students who were taking an extra year or year out from their studies to develop

1480-547: Was part of a major redevelopment of Newport city centre. The old city campus at Allt-yr-yn was closed and demolished. The university had been involved in higher education since 1841. In 2009, it was rated the number one university in Wales for enterprise education by the Knowledge Exploitation Fund. The School of Film, Photography and Digital Media taught a documentary photography degree programme as well as housing

1520-693: Was ranked 111th out of 120 UK universities in the Guardian League Table for university rankings, 105th out of 116 in The Complete University Guide and 104th out of 116 UK universities in the Times Good University Guide . Newport had been involved in higher education since 1841. Originally a mechanics' institute , set up to provide further education for workers and tradesmen, it was based in Newport's Town Hall on Commercial Street . Working men and women were able to attend

1560-406: Was set on the streets of Los Angeles and was published by Solaris Books , an imprint which focuses on science fiction , fantasy and dark fantasy novels and anthologies to showcase both established and new authors. The series was distributed to the U.K. and U.S. booktrade via local divisions of Simon & Schuster . Her most recent fictional work was a short horror story, Crazy Train , set in

1600-453: Was to enlist in the army or navy, a phrase dating back to the early 19th century. To "cut someone off with a shilling", often quoted as "cut off without a shilling" means to disinherit. Although having no basis in English law, some believe that leaving a family member a single shilling in one's will ensured that it could not be challenged in court as an oversight. A popular legend holds that

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