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sul set del videoclip di Roy Paci & Aretuska feat. Pau (Negrita)
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Roberto Luongo (born April 4, 1979) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played 19 seasons in the National Hockey League as a goaltender for the New York Islanders, Florida Panthers, and Vancouver Canucks. In 2022, Luongo was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Luongo is a two-time NHL All-Star (2004 and 2007) and winner of the William M. Jennings Trophy for backstopping his team to the lowest goals against average in the league (2011, with backup Cory Schneider). He was a finalist for several awards, including the Vezina Trophy as the league's best goaltender (2004, 2007, and 2011), the Lester B. Pearson Award as the top player voted by his peers (2004 and 2007), and the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's most valuable player (2007). Luongo is third all-time in games played as an NHL goaltender (1,044) and fourth all-time in wins (489). He employed the butterfly style of goaltending.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he played in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for the Val-d'Or Foreurs and the Acadie-Bathurst Titan, winning back-to-back President's Cups and establishing the league's all-time playoff records for games played and wins. Following his second QMJHL season, Luongo was selected fourth overall by the Islanders in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. After splitting his professional rookie season between the Islanders and their American Hockey League affiliate, the Lowell Lock Monsters in 1999–2000, he was traded to the Panthers. In five seasons with Florida, Luongo established team records for games played, wins, and shutouts; despite several strong seasons, however, the Panthers remained a weak team and were unable to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs during Luongo's initial stint with the team. During the 2006 offseason, he was traded to the Canucks after failed contract negotiations with the Panthers.
In his first season in Vancouver, Luongo won 47 games, and was runner-up for both the Hart Memorial Trophy (league MVP) and Vezina Trophy (best goaltender). Following his second year with the Canucks, he became the first NHL goaltender to serve as a team captain since Bill Durnan in the 1947–48 season. Luongo served in that capacity for two seasons before resigning from the position in September 2010. In the subsequent 2010–11 season, he helped the Canucks to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final but lost to the Boston Bruins. During his eight-year tenure with Vancouver, Luongo became the team's all-time leader in wins and shutouts. He returned to the Panthers during the 2013–14 season, where he spent the remainder of his career, qualifying for the playoffs with the Panthers only once during that time. He was the last active goaltender to have played in the NHL in the 1990s. Following his playing career, Luongo joined the Panthers' front office as an executive, ultimately winning back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2024 and 2025.
Internationally, Luongo has competed for Team Canada in numerous tournaments. As a junior, he won a silver medal at the 1999 World Junior Championships, while being named Best Goaltender in his second tournament appearance. Luongo won two gold medals at the 2003 and 2004 World Championships and a silver in the 2005 World Championships. He also won the 2004 World Cup championship and appeared in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin as a backup to Martin Brodeur in both instances. He succeeded Brodeur as Canada's starting goaltender during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, winning a gold medal. On January 7, 2014, he was named to the 2014 Canadian Olympic hockey team, where he won his second Olympic gold medal in a largely backup role to Carey Price.
2005-06 SP Authentic - Chirography
Total Cards: 28
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Champian Fulton Trio ( Champian Fulton, Alex Gilson, Armando Luongo)
Concert à Pléneuf-Val-André
Jazz à l'Amirauté
Juillet 2022
Champian Fulton Trio ( Champian Fulton, Alex Gilson, Armando Luongo)
Concert à Pléneuf-Val-André
Jazz à l'Amirauté
Juillet 2022
Sirya is a very young talented artist with Vietnamese origins. She was born in Turin on January 23rd 2002, she has been practising artistic gymnastics the age of four. She has already achieved very good results both in Italy and internationally, also in circus arts and particularly in aerial acrobatics.
Sirya, together with her family, is a street artist: she dances, recites and amuses passers-by with her amazing acrobatics. Sirya became aware very quickly that being an artist is really what she wants to be in her life. What she desires most is “delivering” her art in the streets, theatres, circuses of the whole world, with the aim of making people smile. When she was nine, she took part in the second edition of the Italian television program “Italia’s Got Talent”. After having gone through all the preliminary steps she eventually got to the final. Sirya, thanks to this television program lept to fame for some time and this gave her the possibility to meet important people in this field.
In December 2002, Sirya was admitted to “L’Accademia di Arte Circense” in Verona, where she attended with very good results. Despite her young age she decided to take on a big challenge, and moved to a new and far away town, miles away from her family, though she still managed to often meet her sister Nicole and her mother Marja for street art events.
Sirya’s specialised in different fields: acrobatics, handstand, aerial, dance and contortion. But she has also took part in the 2013 “European Juggling Convention” in Toulose, as a juggling performer.
On the street, unfortunately, “ tools” are very rarely available when you need them, therefore with a wheel on the ground and a crowd in a circle, the show can begin...
Sirya is young but a very determined artist, very mature for her age, but above all, very sentitive towards those who are less lucky then herself. In fact, The “Tip hat” money, apart from little expenses, goes entirely to local charities in Vietnam, where Sirya lived and performed for a year and had the opportunity to witness poverty and misery and to support the project
"Il Sogno di Marja".
Sirya is ambitious: her dream is to develop her skills as an artist and eventually join a big companies like the “Cirque du Soleil”. This will also hopefully enable her to help, in a more substantial way, her Vietnamese friends.
Being an artist means being part of a magical world, a world that you can create and edit according to your likings. It allows you to paint your days with the colours of your mood, to dance and sing at work, to play the music you like and to be yourself. It sounds so incredible, doesn’t it? Yes, it is. And every artist has their own story, here is mine... TBC
~ Sirya Luongo (Sya)
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London 🇬🇧 June 2018
Champian Fulton Trio ( Champian Fulton, Alex Gilson, Armando Luongo)
Concert à Pléneuf-Val-André
Jazz à l'Amirauté
Juillet 2022
Great women in Science History
Who was Hypatia?!
HYPATIA
Biography of a scientist and a symbol.
Hypatia (370-415 A.D.) lived in Alexandria (Egypt) in the 4th century. For fifteen centuries she was the only woman scientist in history and even today her fame comes second only to that of Marie Curie. She is the only woman to appear in books concerning the history of mathematics and astronomy, although she is mentioned more for the romanticism of her life and death than for other reasons.
Hypatia became the symbol of the end of ancient science because mathematics, physics and astronomy progressed very little after her death. She lived in a period during which the Roman Empire was converting to Christianity and the sciences were considered heretical. She was educated by her father, Teone, mathematician and astronomer, who wanted her to become 'a perfect human being' in an age when women were often considered to be less than human!
Hypatia travelled to Athens and Rome where she made an impression for her intelligence and beauty. On returning to Alexandria she taught mathematics, philosophy, astronomy and mechanics and her house became a centre of intellectual activity. Unfortunately, none of her documents (mostly in the form of textbooks for students) have been preserved intact although it appears that part of her work was incorporated into the works of Teone.
The most important part of her work is to be found in the 13 VOLUMI DI COMMENTO ALL’”ARITMETICA” by Diofanto, considered to be the father of algebra. She also wrote a dissertation in 8 volumes on the 'Coniche di Apollonio' (by Apollonius of Perga, 3rd century, text which introduced epicycles and differentials to explain the orbits of planets). She was also interested in the study of conicals and wrote a dissertation on Euclides and Tolomeus. The 'Corpus Astronomico', a collection of tables concerning the heavenly bodies, is also attributed to Hypatia.
Hypatia was also interested in mechanics and technology: she designed scientific instruments, among which a flat astrolabe, an instrument to measure the level of water and an apparatus for its distillation and a brass hydrometer to calculate the density of liquids.
She was a pagan, a follower of a form of Neoplatonism that was more tolerant towards mathematics, and as such she was considered an heretic by the Christians. Persecution against Neoplatonists and Jews began in 412 a.D. when Cyrillus became patriarch of Alexandria. Hypatia refused to convert and to renounce to her ideas and in March 415 her life ended tragically in violence at the hands of a rampaging mob of Christian fanatics, who killed her for her “pagan” beliefs, some say at the instigation of St. Cyril of Alexandria.
Her death marked the end of neoplatonic teaching in Alexandria and throughout the Empire.
Although this outrageous crime has made Hypatia a powerful symbol of intellectual freedom and feminist aspiration to this day, it makes clear that the important intellectual contributions of her life’s work should not be overshadowed by her tragic death.
This is the astonishing life of Hypatia, famed throughout the Mediterranean world, a beauty and a genius, yet for 17 centuries ignored by history. As the Roman Empire fights for its life and emerging Christianity fights for our souls, Hypatia is the last great voice of reason. A woman of sublime intelligence, Hypatia ranks above not only all women, but all men. Hypatia dazzled the world with her brilliance, was courted by men of every persuasion and was considered the leading philosopher and mathematician of her age...yet her mathematics, her inventions, the very story of her life in all its epic and dramatic intensity, has gone untold.
Grandi donne nella Storia della Scienza
Chi era Ipazia?!
IPAZIA
Ipazia fu martire della libertà di pensiero e fulgido esempio dell’emancipazione femminile.
Ipazia (Alessandria d'Egitto, 370 – 415 d.C.), astronoma, matematica e filosofa, erede della scuola alessandrina, fu fatta massacrare dal vescovo Cirillo per mettere a tacere la sua sete di sapere e la sua libertà di pensiero. Antesignana della scienza sperimentale, studiò e realizzò l'astrolabio, l'idroscopio, il planisfero e l'aerometro. Nell'anno dedicato all'astronomia è legittimo chiedersi come potrebbe essere il mondo oggi e con quanti secoli di anticipo avremmo conseguito le conquiste moderne, se persone come Ipazia fossero state lasciate libere di esprimersi e di agire.
"Ad Alessandria d'Egitto, c'era una donna chiamata Ipazia, figlia del matematico Teone; madre natura la dotò, oltre della sua straordinaria intelligenza, di una incomparabile e incantevole bellezza, ottenne tantissimi successi nella letteratura e nella scienza da superare di gran lunga tutti i filosofi del suo tempo. Provenendo dalla scuola di Platone e di Plotino, lei spiegò i principi della filosofia ai suoi uditori, molti dei quali venivano da lontano per ascoltare le sue lezioni.
Facendo conto sulla padronanza di sé e sulla facilità di modi che aveva acquisito in conseguenza dello sviluppo della sua mente, non raramente apparve in pubblico o davanti ai magistrati.
Né lei si sentì confusa nell'andare ad una riunione di uomini. Tutti gli uomini, tenendo conto della sua dignità straordinaria e della sua virtù, l'ammiravano di più.
Fu vittima della gelosia politica che a quel tempo prevaleva, ma anche dell’ottusità religiosa dei cristiani dell’epoca che vedevano in lei, in quanto donna e per di più pagana, un essere inferiore e non degna di dedicarsi allo studio e alle Scienze.
Dopo la morte del vescovo Teofilo, la cattedra vescovile fu occupata, nel 412, da suo nipote Cirillo, di idee fondamentaliste, specie contro i novaziani e i giudei, che venne subito in urto col prefetto di quel tempo, il romano Oreste, amico di Ipazia e un tempo suo discepolo.
Cirillo, che mal sopportava la predicazione pagana di Ipazia, divenuta ad Alessandria la rappresentante più qualificata della filosofia ellenica, si convinse che l'ostacolo maggiore alla risoluzione della controversia fosse proprio lei.
Così egli istigò il gruppo fanatico di monaci cristiani detti parabolani ed eremiti della Tebaide, guidati da Pietro il Lettore, a togliere di mezzo Ipazia.
Dei sicari del vescovo Cirillo la aggredirono per strada e la scarnificarono con conchiglie affilate. I suoi resti furono dati alle fiamme nel Cinerone, dove veniva bruciata la spazzatura. E quel giorno i monaci esultarono con le parole di S. Agostino, per il quale la donna è solo 'immondizia'. 'Una macchia indelebile' nella storia del cristianesimo, così definì il suo assassinio lo storico Edward Gibbon. Era l'anno 415, il IV dell'episcopato di Cirillo.
Gli assassini rimasero impuniti. Oreste il prefetto chiese un'inchiesta; Costantinopoli non poté non concederla, e mandò ad Alessandria un tale Edesio, il quale non fece nulla, poiché si lasciò corrompere da Cirillo.
Oreste ottenne soltanto dei provvedimenti per arginare l'ingerenza politica dei vescovi nei poteri civili. Cirillo in seguito verrà addirittura santificato come esempio di sicura ortodossia.
Fu Damascio, filosofo neoplatonico (480/prima metà del sec.VI a.C.), quinto successore di Proclo nello scolarcato dell'Accademia, che per primo, nella Vita di Isidoro, incolpò Cirillo del delitto, arrivando addirittura a dire che prima di ucciderla le strapparono gli occhi dalle orbite, perchè aveva osato guardare e studiare il cielo e gli astri.
Nella Storia ecclesiastica dell'ariano Filostorgio, nato circa il 368 d.C. e dunque contemporaneo dei fatti narrati, si arriva a sostenere che l'assassinio non era opera di una amorfa folla fanatica, ma di quel clero cristiano che, ad Alessandria in modo particolare, voleva spadroneggiare su tutti.
Ipazia viene ricordata, ancora oggi, come la prima matematica della storia, anzi, fu la sola matematica per più di un millennio: per trovarne altre, da Maria Agnesi a Sophie Germain, bisognerà attendere il Settecento.
Ipazia era anche musicologa, medico e bravissima docente. Ad Alessandria d'Egitto insegnò nella celebre biblioteca fino a quando questo “tempio” del sapere antico fu distrutto dalle fiamme.
Secondo Mario Luzi, che a lei ha dedicato il poemetto “Il libro di Ipazia”, il suo è tra i 'nomi luminosi' della storia del mondo. Ma prima di Luzi, avevano scritto di lei Voltaire, Diderot, Leopardi, Proust, Pascal, Calvino. Eppure in Italia è tuttora sconosciuta.
Buon 8 marzo, a tutte le donne
A quelle che non hanno il dono di un sorriso
A quelle che non hanno una carezza sulla pelle
A quelle che non conoscono la dolcezza
A quelle che in silenzio subiscono la violenza.
A quelle che non possono sciogliersi i capelli al vento
Buon 8 marzo, a tutte le donne
A quelle che abbracciano con amore
A quelle che illuminano l’anima
A quelle che parlano dentro oltre lo sguardo
A quelle che sorridono con i colori dell’arcobaleno
A tutte quelle che danno energia alla libertà della vita
Michele Luongo
Happy Women's Day!
Sirya is a very young talented artist with Vietnamese origins. She was born in Turin on January 23rd 2002, she has been practising artistic gymnastics the age of four. She has already achieved very good results both in Italy and internationally, also in circus arts and particularly in aerial acrobatics.
Sirya, together with her family, is a street artist: she dances, recites and amuses passers-by with her amazing acrobatics. Sirya became aware very quickly that being an artist is really what she wants to be in her life. What she desires most is “delivering” her art in the streets, theatres, circuses of the whole world, with the aim of making people smile. When she was nine, she took part in the second edition of the Italian television program “Italia’s Got Talent”. After having gone through all the preliminary steps she eventually got to the final. Sirya, thanks to this television program lept to fame for some time and this gave her the possibility to meet important people in this field.
In December 2002, Sirya was admitted to “L’Accademia di Arte Circense” in Verona, where she attended with very good results. Despite her young age she decided to take on a big challenge, and moved to a new and far away town, miles away from her family, though she still managed to often meet her sister Nicole and her mother Marja for street art events.
Sirya’s specialised in different fields: acrobatics, handstand, aerial, dance and contortion. But she has also took part in the 2013 “European Juggling Convention” in Toulose, as a juggling performer.
On the street, unfortunately, “ tools” are very rarely available when you need them, therefore with a wheel on the ground and a crowd in a circle, the show can begin...
Sirya is young but a very determined artist, very mature for her age, but above all, very sentitive towards those who are less lucky then herself. In fact, The “Tip hat” money, apart from little expenses, goes entirely to local charities in Vietnam, where Sirya lived and performed for a year and had the opportunity to witness poverty and misery and to support the project
"Il Sogno di Marja".
Sirya is ambitious: her dream is to develop her skills as an artist and eventually join a big companies like the “Cirque du Soleil”. This will also hopefully enable her to help, in a more substantial way, her Vietnamese friends.
Being an artist means being part of a magical world, a world that you can create and edit according to your likings. It allows you to paint your days with the colours of your mood, to dance and sing at work, to play the music you like and to be yourself. It sounds so incredible, doesn’t it? Yes, it is. And every artist has their own story, here is mine... TBC
~ Sirya Luongo (Sya)
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London 🇬🇧 June 2018
Salle des fêtes de Droixhe, Liège, Belgium 17/10/2015.
Robert Jeanne qui a joué avec René Thomas.
Roberto Luongo gets today's spotlight for my Man Month series. SOOC
Incredible goalie and game...keep it going guys and Get 'er Done!
(taken May 15, Game 1 against San Jose)
Sirya is a very young talented artist with Vietnamese origins. She was born in Turin on January 23rd 2002, she has been practising artistic gymnastics the age of four. She has already achieved very good results both in Italy and internationally, also in circus arts and particularly in aerial acrobatics.
Sirya, together with her family, is a street artist: she dances, recites and amuses passers-by with her amazing acrobatics. Sirya became aware very quickly that being an artist is really what she wants to be in her life. What she desires most is “delivering” her art in the streets, theatres, circuses of the whole world, with the aim of making people smile. When she was nine, she took part in the second edition of the Italian television program “Italia’s Got Talent”. After having gone through all the preliminary steps she eventually got to the final. Sirya, thanks to this television program lept to fame for some time and this gave her the possibility to meet important people in this field.
In December 2002, Sirya was admitted to “L’Accademia di Arte Circense” in Verona, where she attended with very good results. Despite her young age she decided to take on a big challenge, and moved to a new and far away town, miles away from her family, though she still managed to often meet her sister Nicole and her mother Marja for street art events.
Sirya’s specialised in different fields: acrobatics, handstand, aerial, dance and contortion. But she has also took part in the 2013 “European Juggling Convention” in Toulose, as a juggling performer.
On the street, unfortunately, “ tools” are very rarely available when you need them, therefore with a wheel on the ground and a crowd in a circle, the show can begin...
Sirya is young but a very determined artist, very mature for her age, but above all, very sentitive towards those who are less lucky then herself. In fact, The “Tip hat” money, apart from little expenses, goes entirely to local charities in Vietnam, where Sirya lived and performed for a year and had the opportunity to witness poverty and misery and to support the project
"Il Sogno di Marja".
Sirya is ambitious: her dream is to develop her skills as an artist and eventually join a big companies like the “Cirque du Soleil”. This will also hopefully enable her to help, in a more substantial way, her Vietnamese friends.
Being an artist means being part of a magical world, a world that you can create and edit according to your likings. It allows you to paint your days with the colours of your mood, to dance and sing at work, to play the music you like and to be yourself. It sounds so incredible, doesn’t it? Yes, it is. And every artist has their own story, here is mine... TBC
~ Sirya Luongo (Sya)
Thank you for viewing. If you like please fav and leave a nice comment. Hope to see you here again. Have a wonderful day 😊
London 🇬🇧 June 2018
Champian Fulton Trio ( Champian Fulton, Alex Gilson, Armando Luongo)
Concert à Pléneuf-Val-André
Jazz à l'Amirauté
Juillet 2022
Sirya is a very young talented artist with Vietnamese origins. She was born in Turin on January 23rd 2002, she has been practising artistic gymnastics the age of four. She has already achieved very good results both in Italy and internationally, also in circus arts and particularly in aerial acrobatics.
Sirya, together with her family, is a street artist: she dances, recites and amuses passers-by with her amazing acrobatics. Sirya became aware very quickly that being an artist is really what she wants to be in her life. What she desires most is “delivering” her art in the streets, theatres, circuses of the whole world, with the aim of making people smile. When she was nine, she took part in the second edition of the Italian television program “Italia’s Got Talent”. After having gone through all the preliminary steps she eventually got to the final. Sirya, thanks to this television program lept to fame for some time and this gave her the possibility to meet important people in this field.
In December 2002, Sirya was admitted to “L’Accademia di Arte Circense” in Verona, where she attended with very good results. Despite her young age she decided to take on a big challenge, and moved to a new and far away town, miles away from her family, though she still managed to often meet her sister Nicole and her mother Marja for street art events.
Sirya’s specialised in different fields: acrobatics, handstand, aerial, dance and contortion. But she has also took part in the 2013 “European Juggling Convention” in Toulose, as a juggling performer.
On the street, unfortunately, “ tools” are very rarely available when you need them, therefore with a wheel on the ground and a crowd in a circle, the show can begin...
Sirya is young but a very determined artist, very mature for her age, but above all, very sentitive towards those who are less lucky then herself. In fact, The “Tip hat” money, apart from little expenses, goes entirely to local charities in Vietnam, where Sirya lived and performed for a year and had the opportunity to witness poverty and misery and to support the project
"Il Sogno di Marja".
Sirya is ambitious: her dream is to develop her skills as an artist and eventually join a big companies like the “Cirque du Soleil”. This will also hopefully enable her to help, in a more substantial way, her Vietnamese friends.
Being an artist means being part of a magical world, a world that you can create and edit according to your likings. It allows you to paint your days with the colours of your mood, to dance and sing at work, to play the music you like and to be yourself. It sounds so incredible, doesn’t it? Yes, it is. And every artist has their own story, here is mine... TBC
~ Sirya Luongo (Sya)
Thank you for viewing. If you like please fav and leave a nice comment. Hope to see you here again. Have a wonderful day 😊
London 🇬🇧 June 2018
Sirya is a very young talented artist with Vietnamese origins. She was born in Turin on January 23rd 2002, she has been practising artistic gymnastics the age of four. She has already achieved very good results both in Italy and internationally, also in circus arts and particularly in aerial acrobatics.
Sirya, together with her family, is a street artist: she dances, recites and amuses passers-by with her amazing acrobatics. Sirya became aware very quickly that being an artist is really what she wants to be in her life. What she desires most is “delivering” her art in the streets, theatres, circuses of the whole world, with the aim of making people smile. When she was nine, she took part in the second edition of the Italian television program “Italia’s Got Talent”. After having gone through all the preliminary steps she eventually got to the final. Sirya, thanks to this television program lept to fame for some time and this gave her the possibility to meet important people in this field.
In December 2002, Sirya was admitted to “L’Accademia di Arte Circense” in Verona, where she attended with very good results. Despite her young age she decided to take on a big challenge, and moved to a new and far away town, miles away from her family, though she still managed to often meet her sister Nicole and her mother Marja for street art events.
Sirya’s specialised in different fields: acrobatics, handstand, aerial, dance and contortion. But she has also took part in the 2013 “European Juggling Convention” in Toulose, as a juggling performer.
On the street, unfortunately, “ tools” are very rarely available when you need them, therefore with a wheel on the ground and a crowd in a circle, the show can begin...
Sirya is young but a very determined artist, very mature for her age, but above all, very sentitive towards those who are less lucky then herself. In fact, The “Tip hat” money, apart from little expenses, goes entirely to local charities in Vietnam, where Sirya lived and performed for a year and had the opportunity to witness poverty and misery and to support the project
"Il Sogno di Marja".
Sirya is ambitious: her dream is to develop her skills as an artist and eventually join a big companies like the “Cirque du Soleil”. This will also hopefully enable her to help, in a more substantial way, her Vietnamese friends.
Being an artist means being part of a magical world, a world that you can create and edit according to your likings. It allows you to paint your days with the colours of your mood, to dance and sing at work, to play the music you like and to be yourself. It sounds so incredible, doesn’t it? Yes, it is. And every artist has their own story, here is mine... TBC
~ Sirya Luongo (Sya)
Thank you for viewing. If you like please fav and leave a nice comment. Hope to see you here again. Have a wonderful day 😊
London 🇬🇧 June 2018
Sirya is a very young talented artist with Vietnamese origins. She was born in Turin on January 23rd 2002, she has been practising artistic gymnastics the age of four. She has already achieved very good results both in Italy and internationally, also in circus arts and particularly in aerial acrobatics.
Sirya, together with her family, is a street artist: she dances, recites and amuses passers-by with her amazing acrobatics. Sirya became aware very quickly that being an artist is really what she wants to be in her life. What she desires most is “delivering” her art in the streets, theatres, circuses of the whole world, with the aim of making people smile. When she was nine, she took part in the second edition of the Italian television program “Italia’s Got Talent”. After having gone through all the preliminary steps she eventually got to the final. Sirya, thanks to this television program lept to fame for some time and this gave her the possibility to meet important people in this field.
In December 2002, Sirya was admitted to “L’Accademia di Arte Circense” in Verona, where she attended with very good results. Despite her young age she decided to take on a big challenge, and moved to a new and far away town, miles away from her family, though she still managed to often meet her sister Nicole and her mother Marja for street art events.
Sirya’s specialised in different fields: acrobatics, handstand, aerial, dance and contortion. But she has also took part in the 2013 “European Juggling Convention” in Toulose, as a juggling performer.
On the street, unfortunately, “ tools” are very rarely available when you need them, therefore with a wheel on the ground and a crowd in a circle, the show can begin...
Sirya is young but a very determined artist, very mature for her age, but above all, very sentitive towards those who are less lucky then herself. In fact, The “Tip hat” money, apart from little expenses, goes entirely to local charities in Vietnam, where Sirya lived and performed for a year and had the opportunity to witness poverty and misery and to support the project
"Il Sogno di Marja".
Sirya is ambitious: her dream is to develop her skills as an artist and eventually join a big companies like the “Cirque du Soleil”. This will also hopefully enable her to help, in a more substantial way, her Vietnamese friends.
Being an artist means being part of a magical world, a world that you can create and edit according to your likings. It allows you to paint your days with the colours of your mood, to dance and sing at work, to play the music you like and to be yourself. It sounds so incredible, doesn’t it? Yes, it is. And every artist has their own story, here is mine... TBC
~ Sirya Luongo (Sya)
Thank you for viewing. If you like please fav and leave a nice comment. Hope to see you here again. Have a wonderful day 😊
London 🇬🇧 June 2018
R.I.P. Big King (2018 - 2022)
Luongo Square, Federal Hill - Providence, Rhode Island
I'll never forget the way this restaurant - called Big King - described itself on its website. Which is fortunate, because the restaurant and website are now gone. The description read:
"Small, weird restaurant serving food that's raw, grilled over charcoal, and fried in small batches."
That's it. Nothing more in the way of a description.
Big King could afford to be enigmatic, though, because its chef-owner, James Mark, won a James Beard Award the year before he opened it. The restaurant achieved legendary status locally and garnered national acclaim in its brief existence. Based on my sole visit here in 2019, I'd say the accolades were well-deserved.
Champian Fulton Trio ( Champian Fulton, Alex Gilson, Armando Luongo)
Concert à Pléneuf-Val-André
Jazz à l'Amirauté
Juillet 2022
Sirya is a very young talented artist with Vietnamese origins. She was born in Turin on January 23rd 2002, she has been practising artistic gymnastics the age of four. She has already achieved very good results both in Italy and internationally, also in circus arts and particularly in aerial acrobatics.
Sirya, together with her family, is a street artist: she dances, recites and amuses passers-by with her amazing acrobatics. Sirya became aware very quickly that being an artist is really what she wants to be in her life. What she desires most is “delivering” her art in the streets, theatres, circuses of the whole world, with the aim of making people smile. When she was nine, she took part in the second edition of the Italian television program “Italia’s Got Talent”. After having gone through all the preliminary steps she eventually got to the final. Sirya, thanks to this television program lept to fame for some time and this gave her the possibility to meet important people in this field.
In December 2002, Sirya was admitted to “L’Accademia di Arte Circense” in Verona, where she attended with very good results. Despite her young age she decided to take on a big challenge, and moved to a new and far away town, miles away from her family, though she still managed to often meet her sister Nicole and her mother Marja for street art events.
Sirya’s specialised in different fields: acrobatics, handstand, aerial, dance and contortion. But she has also took part in the 2013 “European Juggling Convention” in Toulose, as a juggling performer.
On the street, unfortunately, “ tools” are very rarely available when you need them, therefore with a wheel on the ground and a crowd in a circle, the show can begin...
Sirya is young but a very determined artist, very mature for her age, but above all, very sentitive towards those who are less lucky then herself. In fact, The “Tip hat” money, apart from little expenses, goes entirely to local charities in Vietnam, where Sirya lived and performed for a year and had the opportunity to witness poverty and misery and to support the project
"Il Sogno di Marja".
Sirya is ambitious: her dream is to develop her skills as an artist and eventually join a big companies like the “Cirque du Soleil”. This will also hopefully enable her to help, in a more substantial way, her Vietnamese friends.
Being an artist means being part of a magical world, a world that you can create and edit according to your likings. It allows you to paint your days with the colours of your mood, to dance and sing at work, to play the music you like and to be yourself. It sounds so incredible, doesn’t it? Yes, it is. And every artist has their own story, here is mine... TBC
~ Sirya Luongo (Sya)
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London 🇬🇧 June 2018
January 20, 2017 Henrik Sedin scores his 1000th point. Only the 85th player in NHL history, and the first in Canuck history, to do so. He is only the 18th player to do it all with playing for just one team - The Vancouver Canucks!
R.I.P. Big King (2018 - 2022)
Luongo Square, Federal Hill - Providence, Rhode Island
I'll never forget the way this restaurant - called Big King - described itself on its website. Which is fortunate, because the restaurant and website are now gone. The description read:
"Small, weird restaurant serving food that's raw, grilled over charcoal, and fried in small batches."
That's it. Nothing more in the way of a description.
Big King could afford to be enigmatic, though, because its chef-owner, James Mark, won a James Beard Award the year before he opened it. The restaurant achieved legendary status locally and garnered national acclaim in its brief existence. Based on my sole visit here in 2019, I'd say the accolades were well-deserved.
Champian Fulton Trio ( Champian Fulton, Alex Gilson, Armando Luongo)
Concert à Pléneuf-Val-André
Jazz à l'Amirauté
Juillet 2022
With 14 Gold medals in the Winter Olympics 2010 in Vancouver, Canada has topped the most Gold medals won by any country in a Winter Olympics. Wow.
Canadian has just won -- the most important Gold Medal – ice Hockey, beating its arch-rival, the US 3:2. The winning goal scored by Sidney Crosby, in an overtime nail-biting game. It was a closely fought match between the country that won the most medals at the Vancouver/Whistler Games and the little guy to the north that won the most golds.
Canada also won the Gold medal for the women ice hockey.
Way to go CANADA… Eh!
O Canada!
Our home and native land!
Read more: here
Image graphics from an image on www.ctvolympics.ca/
2017 is been a roller coaster ride, have gone through some of the toughest period of my career but at the same time have seen a sheer light of prospects. A TBT display of a work I was proud to be involved.
Model: Cara H Model-Actress
Dress:Sherry Anne Cascayan
Makeup:Natalie Luongo
Hair: Ohana Angela
Sirya is a very young talented artist with Vietnamese origins. She was born in Turin on January 23rd 2002, she has been practising artistic gymnastics the age of four. She has already achieved very good results both in Italy and internationally, also in circus arts and particularly in aerial acrobatics.
Sirya, together with her family, is a street artist: she dances, recites and amuses passers-by with her amazing acrobatics. Sirya became aware very quickly that being an artist is really what she wants to be in her life. What she desires most is “delivering” her art in the streets, theatres, circuses of the whole world, with the aim of making people smile. When she was nine, she took part in the second edition of the Italian television program “Italia’s Got Talent”. After having gone through all the preliminary steps she eventually got to the final. Sirya, thanks to this television program lept to fame for some time and this gave her the possibility to meet important people in this field.
In December 2002, Sirya was admitted to “L’Accademia di Arte Circense” in Verona, where she attended with very good results. Despite her young age she decided to take on a big challenge, and moved to a new and far away town, miles away from her family, though she still managed to often meet her sister Nicole and her mother Marja for street art events.
Sirya’s specialised in different fields: acrobatics, handstand, aerial, dance and contortion. But she has also took part in the 2013 “European Juggling Convention” in Toulose, as a juggling performer.
On the street, unfortunately, “ tools” are very rarely available when you need them, therefore with a wheel on the ground and a crowd in a circle, the show can begin...
Sirya is young but a very determined artist, very mature for her age, but above all, very sentitive towards those who are less lucky then herself. In fact, The “Tip hat” money, apart from little expenses, goes entirely to local charities in Vietnam, where Sirya lived and performed for a year and had the opportunity to witness poverty and misery and to support the project
"Il Sogno di Marja".
Sirya is ambitious: her dream is to develop her skills as an artist and eventually join a big companies like the “Cirque du Soleil”. This will also hopefully enable her to help, in a more substantial way, her Vietnamese friends.
Being an artist means being part of a magical world, a world that you can create and edit according to your likings. It allows you to paint your days with the colours of your mood, to dance and sing at work, to play the music you like and to be yourself. It sounds so incredible, doesn’t it? Yes, it is. And every artist has their own story, here is mine... TBC
~ Sirya Luongo (Sya)
Thank you for viewing. If you like please fav and leave a nice comment. Hope to see you here again. Have a wonderful day 😊
London 🇬🇧 June 2018
Champian Fulton Trio ( Champian Fulton, Alex Gilson, Armando Luongo)
Concert à Pléneuf-Val-André
Jazz à l'Amirauté
Juillet 2022
Champian Fulton Trio ( Champian Fulton, Alex Gilson, Armando Luongo)
Concert à Pléneuf-Val-André
Jazz à l'Amirauté
Juillet 2022
Champian Fulton Trio ( Champian Fulton, Alex Gilson, Armando Luongo)
Concert à Pléneuf-Val-André
Jazz à l'Amirauté
Juillet 2022
A collaboration I did last summer with some of the best crews of Vancouver and the project got published on the Oct issue of Standout Publications. Finally, I got the mood and time to upload them here. The team includes: Model: Cara H Model-Actress Designer: Sherry Anne Cascayan MUA: Natalie Luongo
Hair design: Ohana Angela Magazine: Standout Publications
"Hey Louie, I'm going to score on you later."
Historic night when Henrik Sedin scores his 1000th point against old buddy Roberto Luongo.
Sirya is a very young talented artist with Vietnamese origins. She was born in Turin on January 23rd 2002, she has been practising artistic gymnastics the age of four. She has already achieved very good results both in Italy and internationally, also in circus arts and particularly in aerial acrobatics.
Sirya, together with her family, is a street artist: she dances, recites and amuses passers-by with her amazing acrobatics. Sirya became aware very quickly that being an artist is really what she wants to be in her life. What she desires most is “delivering” her art in the streets, theatres, circuses of the whole world, with the aim of making people smile. When she was nine, she took part in the second edition of the Italian television program “Italia’s Got Talent”. After having gone through all the preliminary steps she eventually got to the final. Sirya, thanks to this television program lept to fame for some time and this gave her the possibility to meet important people in this field.
In December 2002, Sirya was admitted to “L’Accademia di Arte Circense” in Verona, where she attended with very good results. Despite her young age she decided to take on a big challenge, and moved to a new and far away town, miles away from her family, though she still managed to often meet her sister Nicole and her mother Marja for street art events.
Sirya’s specialised in different fields: acrobatics, handstand, aerial, dance and contortion. But she has also took part in the 2013 “European Juggling Convention” in Toulose, as a juggling performer.
On the street, unfortunately, “ tools” are very rarely available when you need them, therefore with a wheel on the ground and a crowd in a circle, the show can begin...
Sirya is young but a very determined artist, very mature for her age, but above all, very sentitive towards those who are less lucky then herself. In fact, The “Tip hat” money, apart from little expenses, goes entirely to local charities in Vietnam, where Sirya lived and performed for a year and had the opportunity to witness poverty and misery and to support the project
"Il Sogno di Marja".
Sirya is ambitious: her dream is to develop her skills as an artist and eventually join a big companies like the “Cirque du Soleil”. This will also hopefully enable her to help, in a more substantial way, her Vietnamese friends.
Being an artist means being part of a magical world, a world that you can create and edit according to your likings. It allows you to paint your days with the colours of your mood, to dance and sing at work, to play the music you like and to be yourself. It sounds so incredible, doesn’t it? Yes, it is. And every artist has their own story, here is mine... TBC
~ Sirya Luongo (Sya)
Thank you for viewing. If you like please fav and leave a nice comment. Hope to see you here again. Have a wonderful day 😊
London 🇬🇧 June 2018
Coachwork by Autodromo
Chassis 0272M
Estimated : € 3.700.000 - 4.500.000
RM Sotheby's
Place Vauban
Parijs - Paris
Frankrijk - France
February 2018
Built by Ferrari in early 1953, this 166 MM, chassis no. 0272 M, was sold new to its first owner Dr Alberico Cacciari of Pinnazzio di Castelfranco, Italy. He registered the car in Modena with registration number MO 29583. The fifth of 13 166 MMs built for 1953, 0272 M features unique spider coachwork, though its specific builder remains a mystery. Most historians agree that the body was designed by Aurelio Lampredi and is believed to have been built by Ferrari itself.
The 166 MM’s first event was the 1953 Giro di Sicilia, followed two weeks later by the Mille Miglia wearing race 514. At the helm was Cacciari alongside R.H. Bill Mason, father of the Pink Floyd drummer and noted Ferrari collector Nick Mason. During this time, the car was also used in the production of the 1953 Shell movie about the Mille Miglia, which was directed by Bill Mason. The pair placed 56th overall and 3rd in class, exceptional for such a gruelling event. There, several details on the car were changed, including fitting a full-width windshield and a slightly revised grille amongst other changes. A handful of these features changed again by September 1953, when 0272 M raced at the 1st Gran Primio Supercortemaggiore. Throughout his ownership in the 1953 season, Cacciari entered 10 hill climbs and events in Italy such as Coppa d’Oro Siracusa. Cacciari proved to be a consistent driver, regularly placing within the top 10 at events around Italy and on some occasions was raced multiple weekends in a row.
For 1954, the 166 MM was sold to its second owner, Alberto Luongo of Rome. Prior to Luongo’s purchase in 1953, the 166 MM must have suffered a small racing accident, as the shape of the nose has changed, which is evident in period pictures. It was raced at the 1954 Mille Miglia by Emmanuel de Graffenried and G. Parravicini, bearing 556. While the car was entered in the Mille Miglia under the Scuderia Ferrari name, it was used exclusively by MGM Studios for its movie The Racers, and both de Graffenried and Parravicini drove the car as stuntmen. The star role was played by Kirk Douglas who won the Mille Miglia as ‘Gino Borgesa’, and in the movie the car was identified as ‘Spyder Burano’, not as Ferrari. As a result of filming, 0272 M failed to finish the race. Much of the driving during the actual race was done by John Fitch and Kirk Douglas himself.
Afterwards, 0272 M was exported to California where additional work on The Racers was undertaken. Upon completion, all of the cars used in the film were sold to Tom Carstens of Tacoma, Washington. Carstens sold 0272 M to Pete Lovely, also of Tacoma. At that time, the car was painted white and gold. Lovely continued to race the 166 in 1955 and 1956, later selling it to Pat Piggott, also of Washington. After being shown at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in 1961, the following year, it moved east to Massachusetts where it was owned by a trio of owners before being acquired by Ferrari enthusiast Ed Niles and moved back west to Los Angeles.
Niles brought the car to the Monterey Historics at Laguna Seca in 1976 where it was driven by Larry Krane and returned once again to Pebble Beach. Over the course of the next several years, the car retuned to Pebble Beach and Monterey frequently, never shying from the Northern California car scene. Passing through the hands of Dane Prenovitz, the car was acquired by collector Ed Davies and shown at the 1993 Cavallino Classic and Ferrari Club of America Annual Meet and National Concours.
After competing and showing in the Ferrari Historic Challenge and the Cavallino Classic in 2000 with Jean Sage, the car was later sold to John Megrue of Connecticut who brought 0272 M back to its native Italy to campaign the Ferrari in the Mille Miglia Storica in 2008, 2009 and 2010. The car was also shown at numerous concours events, including at Le Belle Macchine d’Italia in Pennsylvania in 2011, winning Best of Show, as well as the Amelia Island and Greenwich Concours in 2017.
As confirmed by marque historian Marcel Massini, it retains all of its original mechanical components, including the frame, engine, gearbox, rear axle, steering box and all carburettors, all accounted for on copies of the factory build sheets. The nose has recently been returned to its original configuration as it was in 1953 and the bodywork is said to be 80 percent original. Metallurgic tests have been undertaken at 20 different points on the chassis and welding by a German specialist at a cost of €15.000. His 97-page certificate proves that all steel on the car is correct in age, quality, and dimensions and complies with factory specifications of the frame producer Gilberto Colombo (GILCO). Italian Ferrari historian Andrea Curami called 0272 M in his 2008 Mille Miglia Yearbook ‘one of the most original early racing Ferraris in existence!’
Furthermore, the car received a complete engine rebuild in addition to a number of mechanical upgrades undertaken to increase overall drivability for vintage events. This includes an electronic ignition, upgraded alternator and auxiliary electric cooling fan, and the five-speed gearbox has been updated to be fully synchronized, amongst other modifications. All of these changes are reversible and the car can easily be converted back to original specification.
A 166 MM is truly a joy to drive, reliable, smooth and with plenty of horsepower on tap channelled through its mighty V-12 and five-speed gearbox, it remains highly eligible to events around the world, including not only the Mille Miglia, but also the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique. Eminently usable and with a fascinating history, this would be an exceptional acquisition to show, drive and enjoy at concours or vintage racing events.
Salle des fêtes de Droixhe, Liège, Belgium 17/10/2015.
Robert Jeanne qui a joué avec René Thomas.
Friendly Fire. Tryamkin hits Hotdog Bo Horvat in the head with a puck.
Historic night when Henrik Sedin scores his 1000th point against old buddy Roberto Luongo.
This painting hangs in the Lobby of The Regency. I have long enjoyed looking at it. I'm not sure who the artist is. There's a signature in the lower right corner but I turned up nothing when I googled the letters the way I read them ~ "Aldrd(or l)oonor." ??? Ah ha! Mary (merripat) found it! The artist's name is Aldo Luongo!
Taken at The Regency, Laguna Woods, California. © 2015 All Rights Reserved.
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I attended a hockey game where we boo'ed the home team, a referee, and a (b)linesman, and gave the opposing goal tender a standing ovation and cheered him throughout the night. LOUUUUUUUU!!!!
Champian Fulton Trio ( Champian Fulton, Alex Gilson, Armando Luongo)
Concert à Pléneuf-Val-André
Jazz à l'Amirauté
Juillet 2022
Coachwork by Autodromo
Chassis 0272M
Estimated : € 3.700.000 - 4.500.000
RM Sotheby's
Place Vauban
Parijs - Paris
Frankrijk - France
February 2018
Built by Ferrari in early 1953, this 166 MM, chassis no. 0272 M, was sold new to its first owner Dr Alberico Cacciari of Pinnazzio di Castelfranco, Italy. He registered the car in Modena with registration number MO 29583. The fifth of 13 166 MMs built for 1953, 0272 M features unique spider coachwork, though its specific builder remains a mystery. Most historians agree that the body was designed by Aurelio Lampredi and is believed to have been built by Ferrari itself.
The 166 MM’s first event was the 1953 Giro di Sicilia, followed two weeks later by the Mille Miglia wearing race 514. At the helm was Cacciari alongside R.H. Bill Mason, father of the Pink Floyd drummer and noted Ferrari collector Nick Mason. During this time, the car was also used in the production of the 1953 Shell movie about the Mille Miglia, which was directed by Bill Mason. The pair placed 56th overall and 3rd in class, exceptional for such a gruelling event. There, several details on the car were changed, including fitting a full-width windshield and a slightly revised grille amongst other changes. A handful of these features changed again by September 1953, when 0272 M raced at the 1st Gran Primio Supercortemaggiore. Throughout his ownership in the 1953 season, Cacciari entered 10 hill climbs and events in Italy such as Coppa d’Oro Siracusa. Cacciari proved to be a consistent driver, regularly placing within the top 10 at events around Italy and on some occasions was raced multiple weekends in a row.
For 1954, the 166 MM was sold to its second owner, Alberto Luongo of Rome. Prior to Luongo’s purchase in 1953, the 166 MM must have suffered a small racing accident, as the shape of the nose has changed, which is evident in period pictures. It was raced at the 1954 Mille Miglia by Emmanuel de Graffenried and G. Parravicini, bearing 556. While the car was entered in the Mille Miglia under the Scuderia Ferrari name, it was used exclusively by MGM Studios for its movie The Racers, and both de Graffenried and Parravicini drove the car as stuntmen. The star role was played by Kirk Douglas who won the Mille Miglia as ‘Gino Borgesa’, and in the movie the car was identified as ‘Spyder Burano’, not as Ferrari. As a result of filming, 0272 M failed to finish the race. Much of the driving during the actual race was done by John Fitch and Kirk Douglas himself.
Afterwards, 0272 M was exported to California where additional work on The Racers was undertaken. Upon completion, all of the cars used in the film were sold to Tom Carstens of Tacoma, Washington. Carstens sold 0272 M to Pete Lovely, also of Tacoma. At that time, the car was painted white and gold. Lovely continued to race the 166 in 1955 and 1956, later selling it to Pat Piggott, also of Washington. After being shown at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in 1961, the following year, it moved east to Massachusetts where it was owned by a trio of owners before being acquired by Ferrari enthusiast Ed Niles and moved back west to Los Angeles.
Niles brought the car to the Monterey Historics at Laguna Seca in 1976 where it was driven by Larry Krane and returned once again to Pebble Beach. Over the course of the next several years, the car retuned to Pebble Beach and Monterey frequently, never shying from the Northern California car scene. Passing through the hands of Dane Prenovitz, the car was acquired by collector Ed Davies and shown at the 1993 Cavallino Classic and Ferrari Club of America Annual Meet and National Concours.
After competing and showing in the Ferrari Historic Challenge and the Cavallino Classic in 2000 with Jean Sage, the car was later sold to John Megrue of Connecticut who brought 0272 M back to its native Italy to campaign the Ferrari in the Mille Miglia Storica in 2008, 2009 and 2010. The car was also shown at numerous concours events, including at Le Belle Macchine d’Italia in Pennsylvania in 2011, winning Best of Show, as well as the Amelia Island and Greenwich Concours in 2017.
As confirmed by marque historian Marcel Massini, it retains all of its original mechanical components, including the frame, engine, gearbox, rear axle, steering box and all carburettors, all accounted for on copies of the factory build sheets. The nose has recently been returned to its original configuration as it was in 1953 and the bodywork is said to be 80 percent original. Metallurgic tests have been undertaken at 20 different points on the chassis and welding by a German specialist at a cost of €15.000. His 97-page certificate proves that all steel on the car is correct in age, quality, and dimensions and complies with factory specifications of the frame producer Gilberto Colombo (GILCO). Italian Ferrari historian Andrea Curami called 0272 M in his 2008 Mille Miglia Yearbook ‘one of the most original early racing Ferraris in existence!’
Furthermore, the car received a complete engine rebuild in addition to a number of mechanical upgrades undertaken to increase overall drivability for vintage events. This includes an electronic ignition, upgraded alternator and auxiliary electric cooling fan, and the five-speed gearbox has been updated to be fully synchronized, amongst other modifications. All of these changes are reversible and the car can easily be converted back to original specification.
A 166 MM is truly a joy to drive, reliable, smooth and with plenty of horsepower on tap channelled through its mighty V-12 and five-speed gearbox, it remains highly eligible to events around the world, including not only the Mille Miglia, but also the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique. Eminently usable and with a fascinating history, this would be an exceptional acquisition to show, drive and enjoy at concours or vintage racing events.
When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide; And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up: Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes; As one incapable of her own distress, Or like a creature native and indued Unto that element: but long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death.
-For my one and only.
model:fiammamua:nadia luongo art-director , assistant: linda lucia.