A Brief Guide to the Rugby World Cup

The Rugby World Cup is held every four years and sees the top international rugby union teams compete for the William Webb Ellis Cup. Here’s a brief insight into the history of rugby union's biggest prize.

Although rugby union has been around since the 19th century, it was not until 1987 that the first Rugby World Cup took place. The tournament was jointly hosted by New Zealand and Australia and over 600,000 people attended matches played in both countries. There was no qualification process for the competition at this time and so the 16 competing teams were automatically split into four leagues of four teams.

Within each pool, teams played each other once and were awarded two points for a win, one point for a draw, and zero points for a loss. The top two teams at the end of the group stages then qualified for the knockout stages, which began with the quarter finals. The eventual winners of the first ever World Cup were New Zealand, who defeated France in the final.

The tournament has since continued with the same ‘group stage’ format, but, from the 1999 finals onwards, 20 teams compete instead of the previous 16. This change was accounted for with the creation of an extra pool.

The World Cup is hosted by a different country every four years and some of the hosts have included England, South Africa, France and Japan - with England being the tournaments home on three occasions.

There have only been four winners of the competition since its birth in 1987 with New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and England all getting their hands on the prized William Webb Ellis Trophy. It is the Kiwis, however, who boast the best tournament record - winning three finals (1987, 2011 and 2015) and coming runners up in one, when they were memorably defeated by post-apartheid South Africa in 1995, watched by Nelson Mandela.

The most recent World Cup was held in England in 2015 and a near two and a half million people attended matches played across 13 stadiums. The tournament was eventually won by New Zealand, who defeated Australia in the final. The next tournament is to take place in 2019, with Japan chosen as the hosts. This will be the first time an Asian country has hosted the finals and it will be incredibly interesting to see how the country reacts to the sport, with it becoming a burgeoning cultural pastime. Also of interest will be how the players adapt to the local climate.

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The Middletown Assembly of God will host the unveiling and Mission Dedication of Cristian Ostafi’s Glass Sculpture “The Face of Jesus”

Contact: Cristan Ostafi                              Cell: 908-461-6636

Middletown Assembly of  God 628 Palmer Ave Middletown New Jersey 07748

August 7 2016 in Middletown, New Jersey, The Middletown Assembly of God will host tContact: Cristan Ostafi                              Cell: 908-461-6636

Middletown Assembly of  God 628 Palmer Ave Middletown New Jersey 07748

August 7 2016 in Middletown, New Jersey, The Middletown Assembly of God will host the unveiling and Mission Dedication of Cristian Ostafi’s Glass Sculpture “The Face of Jesus”

The unveiling ceremony begins with Worship Service at 9:30 am, follow by Sculpture Unveiling and Mission dedication at 10 am and Dr Dan Coreea’s Sermon 10:30 am   

The artist, Cristan Ostafi, 59, of Holmdel, Monmouth County, grew up in Communist Romania and was blacklisted as a teenager because of his involvement with the arts. He was forced to escape along with wife Codruta the dictatorship in 1986, when they immigrated to the United States.

As a boy, Ostafi, grew up in a family of legalistic Baptists in Communist Romania that made him to revolt and stay away from any religion manifestation for many years.  In order to win de long argumentative discussions with parents, family and pastors, Ostafi studied and deeply analyzed the Old and New Testament.

At age 15, Ostafi joined the George Sabau’s  KinemaIkon Group for Avant-garde Visual Communication, which was under surveillance by the dictatorship communist regime. “The group served as a platform for free speech and the promotion of ideas subversive to mainstream art in this country,” Ostafi said, adding that the group became one of the catalysts for the 1989 Romanian Anticommunist Revolution.

Ostafi earned a master’s degree in Chemical Textile engineering from Polytechnic Institute in Jassy, Romania, in 1982. He went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Communication from Popular University (KinemaIkon) in Arad, Romania, in 1984.

Ostafi emerged as a leader of visual communication in the Moldavian city of Jassy. He was one of the founders of a student-run group that taught thousands of other students the art visual communication He also opened several photography shows, cooperated with anticommunist groups, created three short films that won national awards, authored books and directed plays in his native country.

But it was it was a dream in the night of  July 16, 1993, in Atlanta, Georgia, when God appeared to Ostafi in dream and announced his plan for Ostafi’s life. God gave Ostafi a dream of flying, free of Laws of Physics, and the power of touching people and make them fly. That morning, Ostafi woke up feeling a major transformation in the heart, Ostafi felt the real renovated Pace in his heart. Ostafi was very happy as a new man.  
Next year 1994, by the inspiration of Holy Spirit, Ostafi and his wife Codruta began “Project 153” a series of Christian  Abstract paintings with a new artistic media technique based on Bible (John 21:11) that changed recently in monumental mosaic stained glass sculptures.

On the night of November 9th 2015 at 11:42pm, Evangelist Jean Ann DiBenedeto of Deeper Conference wrote on Facebook the followings: “My brother, I was looking at that amazing picture of the stained glass Jonah - all I can say is WOW! Is there any possible way you can make a mosaic that looks like the face of Jesus?” With the synergy of colors perfectly balanced with visual liquidity of the forms, the sculpture is  proclaiming Jesus offering unconditional love and openness for salvation for everybody. “The Face of Jesus” is the answer of that late night request.

Meet the artist and team after the service in the art gallery exhibiting paints and sculpture of Ostafi’s.   
he unveiling and Mission Dedication of Cristian Ostafi’s Glass Sculpture “The Face of Jesus”

The unveiling ceremony begins with Worship Service at 9:30 am, follow by Sculpture Unveiling and Mission dedication at 10 am and Dr Dan Coreea’s Sermon 10:30 am   

The artist, Cristan Ostafi, 59, of Holmdel, Monmouth County, grew up in Communist Romania and was blacklisted as a teenager because of his involvement with the arts. He was forced to escape along with wife Codruta the dictatorship in 1986, when they immigrated to the United States.

As a boy, Ostafi, grew up in a family of legalistic Baptists in Communist Romania that made him to revolt and stay away from any religion manifestation for many years.  In order to win de long argumentative discussions with parents, family and pastors, Ostafi studied and deeply analyzed the Old and New Testament.

At age 15, Ostafi joined the George Sabau’s  KinemaIkon Group for Avant-garde Visual Communication, which was under surveillance by the dictatorship communist regime. “The group served as a platform for free speech and the promotion of ideas subversive to mainstream art in this country,” Ostafi said, adding that the group became one of the catalysts for the 1989 Romanian Anticommunist Revolution.

Ostafi earned a master’s degree in Chemical Textile engineering from Polytechnic Institute in Jassy, Romania, in 1982. He went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Communication from Popular University (KinemaIkon) in Arad, Romania, in 1984.

Ostafi emerged as a leader of visual communication in the Moldavian city of Jassy. He was one of the founders of a student-run group that taught thousands of other students the art visual communication He also opened several photography shows, cooperated with anticommunist groups, created three short films that won national awards, authored books and directed plays in his native country.

But it was it was a dream in the night of  July 16, 1993, in Atlanta, Georgia, when God appeared to Ostafi in dream and announced his plan for Ostafi’s life. God gave Ostafi a dream of flying, free of Laws of Physics, and the power of touching people and make them fly. That morning, Ostafi woke up feeling a major transformation in the heart, Ostafi felt the real renovated Pace in his heart. Ostafi was very happy as a new man.  
Next year 1994, by the inspiration of Holy Spirit, Ostafi and his wife Codruta began “Project 153” a series of Christian  Abstract paintings with a new artistic media technique based on Bible (John 21:11) that changed recently in monumental mosaic stained glass sculptures.

On the night of November 9th 2015 at 11:42pm, Evangelist Jean Ann DiBenedeto of Deeper Conference wrote on Facebook the followings: “My brother, I was looking at that amazing picture of the stained glass Jonah - all I can say is WOW! Is there any possible way you can make a mosaic that looks like the face of Jesus?” With the synergy of colors perfectly balanced with visual liquidity of the forms, the sculpture is  proclaiming Jesus offering unconditional love and openness for salvation for everybody. “The Face of Jesus” is the answer of that late night request.

Meet the artist and team after the service in the art gallery exhibiting paints and sculpture of Ostafi’s.   

Author Mark Smith Releases New Forex Trading Book

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About “Forex Beginners: Proven Step-by-Step Strategies for Making Money in Forex Trading”:

That is the book which was written by Mark Smith It offers the helpful information including about the forex basics and also the strategies with the steps of the forex trading. Every info there is expressed in the interactive and easy to understand way.

Get this book here : https://www.amazon.com/Forex-Beginners-Strategies-Affiliate-Marketing-ebook/dp/B01JAT53F8/

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A fun way of learning is considered crucial for children’s cognitive development because if they can enjoy the excitement of learning since early in their life, they will continue to love learning activities for the rest of it. The preschool education mobile app for preschool children that Kindergarten designed is to engage children in fun learning activities and to develop their affection of learning.

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This kids alphabets app is specifically designed to help preschool children learn alphabets and improve their alphabet writing and reading skill. The app’s most significant feature is its tracing letters mode. In this mode, children not only stare the screen to read all letters of the alphabet, but also learn to write all of those letters by tracing each letter—both in uppercase and lowercase—using their finger. There is a visual aid in the form of green and red dots as well as professional voice assistance that helps ensure correct tracing. By using this mode, letter writing practice will be much more engaging and exciting than it used to be.

The alphabet is often the first thing that preschools children learn. If they can learn it enjoyably, they eventually can learn everything in their life also with enjoyment. This kids ABC app will help them achieve such goal.

About Kindergarten

Kindergarten is an app developer (Orit K.) for Android and iOS apps and games since 2010.

Kindergarten devotes itself to developing educational apps that help children master basic learning skills. Kindergarten has developed some of the most exciting learning apps that include Write ABC app and Simple 3D Shapes Objects Games, which support VR technology. To learn more about Kindergarten and all apps that it develops, contact Kindergarten at kindergarten.office@gmail.com.


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