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Will the sticker shock of these whopping price increases on life's basic commodities be the final straw in Iran that breaks the back of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs' theocratic regime? Are international economic sanctions finally working?
Prices in Iran rise after lifting of subsidies
The Iranian government's removal of decades-old subsidies for food and energy in an attempt to boost its troubled economy has spurred price increases on everything from fruit and vegetables to gasoline, generated work stoppages and emboldened the political opposition.
In Tehran, the nation's capital, taxi fares that officially were to rise by 10% shot much higher as drivers imposed their own price increases. Some truckers across the country refused to work, complaining of government threats to revoke their permits if they raised their prices to offset higher fuel costs.
Crews on ferry boats operating between Bandar Abbas port and Qeshm island in the Persian Gulf temporarily stopped working, complaining that the ticket prices set by the government had not gone up despite a four-fold increase in the price of fuel, the Mehr news agency reported.
The austerity measures, though long anticipated, have brought mounting public anger since they began Sunday. Government critics contend that they will hurt people with modest incomes while leaving the wealthy unscathed.
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Already, the prices of produce, diesel, gasoline, cooking oil, water and bread have risen dramatically. In downtown Tehran, the price of a loaf of brick-oven bread doubled overnight to 40 cents. Security forces have been deployed around the country in case public frustration boils over into civil unrest.
See also:
Iran Braces for Backlash as Subsidies Nixed
Iran deploys police as gas, food prices go up
Police in Iran streets as subsidies are cut
Subsidy reforms threaten legitimacy of Ahmadinejad
Iran opposition: 'Dark future' awaits the economy
Iran doubles price of bread with subsidy cut
Fuel prices in Iran rise as latest subsidy reforms begin
Ahmadinejad cuts Iranian subsidies, quadrupling the price of gas
Prices to soar as Iran cuts subsidies
Now, if your food prices doubled and your gas prices quadrupled overnight by order of your government, wouldn't you be a bit upset? Of course, the big question is whether the Iranian opposition can harness all this public frustration and whip it up into the overthrow of the Iranian regime, or will the Iranian regime, once again, crush the opposition and brutally repress the public anger?
You know, it would be nice if the Obama administration was paying attention here and seized this opportunity to support the Iranian opposition, unlike the last time there was a popular uprising in Iran, after the last Iranian elections, when Obama and the rest of his foreign policy Clown Posse basically ignored the Iranian opposition's pleas for help.
/then again, Obama's on vacation and heaven forbid that Lord Slacker should have to interrupt his vacation to help some peons in another country, far far way, it's golfing time!
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I've a confession to make. I've been using pdf's and pmf's without actually knowing what they are. The idea that I've been having so long is that density = area under the curve but if I look at it that way then a lot of times it didn't make sense when we refer to the mass of a random variable in discrete distributions. How can I interpret this? Why do we call mass or density instead of something else?
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After cooking up a five-course meal of chicken liver mousse, bone marrow, and red snapper, Boston chef Kristen Kish , 28, was crowned the winner of "Top Chef Seattle." She talks about winning the tasty title.
Q. What was it like hearing your name called and finding out you had won?
A. Hearing my name was obviously a huge shock. It still hasn't sunk in. I'm still waiting for that moment when it does. It feels absolutely amazing.
Q. What does it mean to you to win "Top Chef"?
A. I wanted to win from that very first day in Los Angeles. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it right and go all the way.
Q. What was the biggest challenge and biggest thrill for you?
A. The biggest challenge is definitely all of a sudden becoming known, no longer anonymous, which is interesting to deal with, but also exciting. So I guess that can kind of be the biggest thrill as well, is people recognizing me for what I'm doing and being generally interested in who I am as a person.
Q. Where do you see yourself going after this win?
A. I see myself hanging around, sticking with Barbara [Lynch] and we'll see where that takes me. I still have so much to learn and she is a great teacher. So, I'm definitely sticking around and eventually go out on my own.
Q. Coming from Boston, do you have any advice for aspiring local chefs?
A. Just be true to who you are as a chef. There are so many different influences and different restaurants around. When I was younger, I would try to emulate people who I thought were successful and good at what they do and that doesn't always work. So definitely stay true to yourself and what you enjoy cooking.
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MONTREAL - Two seasoned politicians. Two cities. Both on the edge emotionally.
One day after Quebecers elected a minority Parti Québécois government, two rivals were licking their wounds, sizing up what went right and wrong and mostly thinking about what's next.
As is often the case in these transitional moments for Quebecers in high office, the initial electoral fallout was tangible, personal and oh so cruel.
For one, defeated Liberal Jean Charest, it's the end of 28 years in public office including nine years as premier. He leaves despite his party's impressive finish in Tuesday's election: less than one percentage point behind the PQ in the popular vote.
Five more seats and he probably would have stayed, because leaving was not part of the plan he made clear during the election campaign.
Destined for a humiliating third-place finish by pollsters, Charest's Liberals stunned the province by bagging 50 seats compared with 54 for the winning PQ, 19 for the Coalition Avenir Québec and two for Québec solidaire.
Until Wednesday, Charest held the title of Canada's longest current serving premier.
For the other, the PQ's Pauline Marois, who worked and struggled 40 years to get where she is — where no woman has gone before — it's the start of something new.
Yet it's a debut rocked by an act of violence that made headlines around the world.
There was emotion in Marois's voice Wednesday when she meet the media for the first time in a Montreal hotel in her new title as premier-elect.
With her voice gone from the campaign, her eyes reddened by a lack of sleep, a clearly upset Marois, 63, admitted she was "profoundly affected," by the shootings at the PQ rally Tuesday.
But she added she has to move forward with plans to form a new government within two weeks.
"Even as a minority, I intend to get results for Quebecers," Marois said, adding the transition from a Liberal to PQ government will be "orderly and without upheaval."
She promised to act quickly on her big promises, using cabinet order by decree to abolish the university tuition increases and amend Law 12 (via Bill 78) controlling public demonstrations.
She wants to correct the loopholes in Bill 35 so companies convicted of fraud cannot obtain government contracts.
And she said she will go ahead and table a new rewritten and tougher Bill 101 to bar francophone adults from attending English CEGEPs and make French obligatory in small businesses with 10 to 50 employees.
She recognized the opposition parties probably won't agree with her on Bill 101 but said she believes a negotiated agreement can be reached — an indication that Marois might be ready to put some water in her wine on this front if the others are, too.
"I will go as far as I can," Marois said.
Marois confirmed — as part of the transition — that she had a "first cordial" phone conversation with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In the coming days, Marois will hammer together a list of things — based on existing consensus in Quebec — that the PQ wants to bring to the federal table.
That includes Quebec's opposition to the abolishing of the long-gun registry and changes to the young offenders act.
She did not mention the Conservative leader's reaction to the PQ's arrival in power and did not once mention the PQ's sovereignty plan.
"We do not believe that Quebecers wish to revisit the old constitutional battles of the past," Harper said in a statement.
"We believe that economic issues and jobs are also the priorities of the people of Quebec."
Two hours later, on the steps of the National Assembly in Quebec City, his voice choking with emotion, a tearful Charest was headed the other way — out the door — announcing he would be leaving politics as soon as Marois was ready to assume power.
His news conference was first class all the way, as he wished Marois good luck in her new functions and heaped praised on Quebec's public servants.
He said he and his family, which had urged him to give up politics before the campaign and have supported his highs and lows, reached a unanimous decision to leave.
"I announce my departure without any regrets," Charest said.
Among his accomplishments, Charest said he was proud of the leadership role Quebec played in the federation under his watch.
"We are blessed to have been born in this country, to share its wealth and to have each other," Charest said. "There is no other place where I would want to be."
Noting he will soon be a grandfather for the first time, Charest said nothing would have been possible without his wife and family.
And then he pronounced his final words before turning to walk past the five Quebec flags and back up the stairs: "Pretty soon, I'll be coming home."
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As Cuivre River's Green Power program marks its 12th anniversary, Manager of Administrative Services Kevin Hurd reflects on today's dynamic renewable energy marketplace. "When we started our program affordable options to support renewable energy were very limited," he says. Cuivre River's program, one of the first in Missouri, remains one of the largest in the state today.
"For an extra 2.5¢ per kilowatt-hour (kwh), our Green Power program remains a very affordable opportunity to purchase wind power with no investment, simply a 12-month commitment," he says. Members can order blocks of 100 kwhs of electricity generated by wind farms in our region. A single 100 kwh block costs an extra $30/year.
Wind energy is delivered to the cooperative grid each day it is available, at a fixed price per kwh that is higher than traditional energy. Other energy resources vary in price each day and are used when they are the most affordable option. (See 2015 Resource Summary.) "Since wind energy is more costly, we give members a choice about how much they want to secure for their own energy use," says Hurd. "We work to keep our wholesale power costs as low as possible for all of our members."
Cuivre River members purchase 38,600 kwhs of Green Power each month, representing annual sales of 463,200 kwhs — enough energy to power 29 homes for one year*.
Hurd is often asked why Green Power is more expensive. A key reason: most renewable resources are not available on demand. Power generated by these facilities must be backed by other generation resources to maintain a steady, reliable power supply. In addition, they are more difficult and costly to convert into usable electricity for delivery to the power grid.
Hurd says members' needs for affordable energy often trump the added cost. "Many members have worked to capture the 'greenest' kwhs of all - the ones they save by improving home energy efficiency," he adds. (See "Invest in Efficiency" on following page for some simple efficiency improvements.)
Although all kwhs look the same once they enter the transmission network, when Cuivre River members purchase Green Power, energy from renewable resources is delivered to the utility grid for them. "We cannot guarantee that the same electrons which leave a wind farm are delivered to your meter. However, we can guarantee that the amount you order will be delivered onto our power grid for you," says Hurd.
Members who wish to participate in open enrollment should place orders by April 22. Suppliers require three months' advance notice. New participants will begin receiving their Green Power July 1, and for the next 12 months. The extra cost, $2.50 per 100 kwh block, will begin to appear on your July electric bill. Multiple blocks may be purchased.
"Renewable energy advocates who want to generate energy by installing residential solar or wind systems for their homes face much higher costs," says Hurd. However, they do receive credit for any excess power they deliver to the grid. Cuivre River does not provide renewable energy incentives, but does provide information about net metering and Missouri's Easy Connect Act.
To enroll in Cuivre River's Green Power program call Manager of Member Services and IT Chris Ryan at (800) 392-3709.
For general information about renewable energy, visit dnr.mo.gov. For a copy of Cuivre River's guidelines to connect private residential wind or solar energy projects to the utility grid, contact Neal Harrell, (800) 392-3709.
*Based on 1,325 kwhs/month average 2015 residential use.


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I again did a Rice Wholesale-Retail Business Plan per request of a Cavitena (Filipina). It's not a "pwede na yan" or copy-paste thing as I immersed, researched a lot and did actual field interviews. Most of the request came from OFW as they can use it to loan capital at OWA.
I can now provide a more detailed and updated Rice Wholesale-Retail Business Plan
Like what I did for other requesting party, I made it as realistic as possible and tailored made, reader friendly and you can already start with your business as there are step by step guide and pricing.
If you are going to pursue your desired business, I need to ask where are you base and where do you intend to establish your Rice Trading business?
I ask because the location is important. Price also fluctuates regularly.
Most who earlier requested are OFW as they are using it to acquire loan at OWA. I also receive request from Foreigners. Are you an OFW?
My Business Plan are far different from works of other maker ("tumbok mo agad through a step by step guide how to start right away. Kita mod din agad ang expenses and income as I did field research and actual operation study). I also visited miller suppliers plan and study variety sample as shown photos.
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- Moringa Cultivation and Processing Feasibility and Business Plan
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You're in good hands with Davos, he's going to keep you up to date and post a market thread for you! Thanks Davos!
You all take care and I'll post econimic observations here on occasion, you can follow my adventures on the Twisted Edge!
Take care, stay sharp if you're playing the markets - my guess the top of wave B comes pretty soon, as in the next few weeks, highest probability with large bearish divergences already in place.
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Avast Antivirus includes a range of Virus Scans to protect your PC against malware. While customizable settings are available for some scans, we recommend you only modify settings for temporary troubleshooting purposes. Refer to the instructions in this article to adjust scan settings for the following Virus Scans:
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- Targeted Scan: scans files or folders, similar to a Targeted Scan, but is only available from the Windows context menu when you right-click a selected file or folder in File Explorer or on your Desktop.
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- Boot-Time Scan: performs a scan of your PC for malware that is hard to reach after startup.
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On November 7, 2016 Oracle's acquisition of NetSuite became official, bringing together the reach of NetSuite's cloud ERP solutions for small to midsize businesses with the breadth and depth of Oracle's enterprise-grade cloud solutions for the back and front office.
To provide information on the combination of the two companies, Oracle Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd and NetSuite's leadership team held a webcast on Thursday, December 1, 2016 to describe how customers of all sizes can benefit from the combined resources of NetSuite and Oracle.
Through its digital transformation, Michael Gower says Rutgers University is finding cost-saving opportunities through lower cost of ownership, best practices through standardization, and enhanced security. (1:09)
In a discussion with Oracle Senior Vice President Rondy Ng, Djamel Benallal, the head of Orange's finance group solutions, talks about why the move to digital and Oracle ERP Cloud accelerates progress for everyone, and why corporate transformation is the topic rather than cost. (14:09)
In a conversation with Oracle Senior Vice President Rondy Ng, Qualcomm's Robert Loreto shares his Oracle ERP Cloud experience of deploying the solution in a complex, $25 billion global organization, why it was the right move, and how he showed the business value to drive continued momentum. (8:40)
NetSuite customer Snapchat relies on real-time information to make critical business decisions. Snapchat's Chief Strategy Officer Imran Khan discusses the Snapchat business and the importance of systems like NetSuite. (:45)
Alton Lane is an innovative provider of men's professional and social attire. Alton Lane's leadership team discusses their company's growing success with NetSuite. (2:48)
Daqri is an augmented reality company that creates three-dimensional graphics to transform the workplace. (3:13)
NetSuite customers and partners: Please use your existing contacts for support, professional services, and sales.
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Bucks' Boylan won't return as head coach
Milwaukee, WI – The Milwaukee Bucks decided not to offer Jim Boylan a new contract to be their head coach on Tuesday.
Boylan was promoted to interim head coach on Jan. 8 after Scott Skiles and the Bucks mutually decided to part ways.
"At this time we feel it's in the best interest of the organization to seek a new coach to lead our team," Bucks general manager John Hammond said. "We appreciate Jim's efforts not only in his time as head coach, but in his entire tenure as a coach in Milwaukee. On behalf of the Bucks organization, I thank Jim for his five years here and his many contributions on and off the court. We wish Jim and his wife, Jane, the best."
The Bucks compiled a 22-28 record under Boylan and made the playoffs as the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference. They were swept by Miami in the first round, however.
Boylan had been the lead assistant coach for the Bucks the past four seasons, joining the team after finishing the final 56 games of the 2007-08 season as the interim head coach of the Chicago Bulls, where he went 24-32.
Milwaukee will begin a search immediately for a new head coach.


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Well, I've gone from this Super-Dooper tow rig......
To this:
1999 Chevy Suburban K1500 ... yes, I said 1500 (looks like a 2500)
14-bolt 9.5" semi-floater rear (not the 10.5" full-floater of the 2500)
3.42 gears
Much-hated and misunderstood 6.5L Turbo Diesel (just my style..... for example: My favorite step-child engines.... Vega 2300, Buick 215, Pontiac 301)
Seems the 1500 that got a torque-laden 6.5L TD, got some of the required 2500 goodies... but still kept the softer 1500 springs.
200+ mile trip home towing the Miata on a rented u-haul trailer (total about 4400 lbs) got 15.6 mpg at about 70-80 mph through the Kentucky mountains.
As you old regulars may recall..... I'm 51 years old and have never owned a truck. Many Jeeps, but never a real truck with a bed. Never felt the need. My trailers handled everything.... decently.
But let me tell you, EVERYONE needs a Suburban!!!!! Wow! What a difference!


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Luke Keller is a co-investigator on a team of scientists and engineers who produced an infrared camera for NASA's new airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). He finalized the optical design for the camera and leads development of the data analysis software. Keller also leads a team that is implementing upgrades to the new camera that will allow spectral observations enabling astronomers to measure chemical composition of astronomical objects. He serves on review panels for NASA and other scientific agencies.
Keller is part of a team using data from the Infrared Spectrometer on the Spitzer Space Telescope to study circum-stellar disks (dusty material orbiting young stars). Studying visible light and infrared spectra gathered at Earth- and space-based observatories has given him new insights into the chemical composition, physical characteristics, and formation of planetary systems.
Since 2004 Keller has implemented new methods for teaching large-enrollment introductory physics courses to non-majors. He is a co-investigator on an NSF-funded project to test classroom methods focusing on student learning of introductory physics and astronomy with group discussions and student-centered activities replacing traditional lecture-only formats.
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University of Texas at Austin
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The modern Battlestar Galactica TV series is arguably the best sci-fi action drama to ever be produced for television. Staring engaging characters brought to life by a talented cast, an impressive array of special effects, brilliant and emotional writing and a story featuring plenty of social commentary, Battlestar Galactica is no doubt one of the finest pieces of television in recent history.
Now, the drama and action continues in Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome. Previously conceived as a web series which was later edited to be the pilot to a possible on-going series (which was sadly passed over), Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome features everything that makes Battlestar Galatica great: interesting characters played by a talented cast, engaging action, impressive special effects and a story and setting that makes for great watching.
A prelude to the modern series, this 94 minute feature is set during the first Cylon War. Boot Lieutenant William "Husker" Adama, fresh from the Academy, is given his first assignment...and it's nothing less than flying a secret mission which will shape forever the way Adama understands the war with the machines. Traitors within the human contingent, robots with feelings and emotions, and frightening new organic and machine constructs which foreshadow the future series, Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome shows an interesting look back at a time before the modern series, at a time when a population of people were filled with hope and battle fervor, unaware that the war yet to be fought won't end for decades at the cost of millions of lives.
Staring Luke Pasqualino (The Borgias) as Lt. William Adama, Ben Cotton as Lieutenant Coker Fasjovik and Lili Bordán (Casino) as Dr. Beka Kelly, the film feature solid acting from an experience cast. With luck, we'll see more of the web episodes should the popularity of this home video release and the airing of the show gain popularity.
As for the film itself, both video and audio are impressive with a 1080p picture that keeps lines sharp, colors accurate and sharp. Kept in the film's 1.78:1 aspect ratio, there's no doubt this is beautiful to watch. Likewise, the audio too is impressive; DTS-HD 5.1 or Dolby Digital 5.1 with a home theater or Dolby Digital 2.0 for those with a regular TV. Audio effects fill the sound stage and ensures explosions, lasers, and the breaking, ripping and shredding of metal is everywhere.
As for special features, the disc includes a good amount of delete scenes (around 30 minutes) as well as a 20+ minute featurette, "Blood & Chrome: Visual Effects," which features producers and visual effects crew talking about the concept of the show as well as the show's impressive effects. Fans of the film will enjoy these as they expand the already insightful feature even more and provide some additional character building.
While not nearly as cerebral and thought-provoking as the modern series, there's no doubt Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome is engaging, visually impressive and fun. Hopefully, should the home video release do well, we'll see more of these characters in the future.
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome is available now on DVD and Blu-ray wherever fine home video is sold.
Be sure to check out a sneak peek at the Deleted Scenes and Bonus Features, below!
- Jess C. Horsley


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At about 2:59 p.m., a Florida Highway Patrol trooper attempted to initiate a traffic stop on a northbound Chevrolet Cavalier in the area of Broadway for illegally tinted windows. The driver of vehicle failed to stop, fleeing northbound at a high rate of speed, according to FHP officials.
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A video clip posted by the Drudge Report that has since gone viral which shows an Obama supporter semi-incoherently blathering about how she is voting for Obama because the government gave her a free phone tragically underscores how the state exploits dependency by offering poor people trinkets while simultaneously stealing their entire economic future.
Once you have recovered from the hilarity of the video clip, the awful truth behind it begins to sink in. While this Obama voter screeches about her government-provided cellphone, Obama has been busy screwing the poor at every turn.
To clarify, the "Obama Cell Phone" program has provided 269,000 poor Americans with free phones and monthly service at a cost of over $1.6 billion dollars to the taxpayer, a figure that keeps rising every year.
The video harks back to a 2008 clip during which an Obama voter gushed about how Obama's election victory meant she no longer had to worry about paying her mortgage or filling her car with gas.
The delusion that these people are living under knows no bounds.
Under Obama that the poor have got poorer. Poverty levels have increased to levels approaching the 1960′s.
Obama didn't pay for your mortgage, he bailed out the mortgage companies, the predatory lenders, the big banks, and then the Federal Reserve paid them not to lend.
Obama didn't pay for your gas, but he did pay for General Motors to ship your jobs to China.
Obama gave the green light for Ben Bernanke to engage in QE Infinity – driving up gasoline prices and driving down the value of the dollar. Under Obama, the cost of living has soared.
The only people benefiting from Obama and the Fed's economic holocaust are the super rich who are invested in the casino stock market.
The gap between rich and poor has never been greater than under Obama. The fraction of growth for the top one percent grew at 95 per cent under Obama compared to 65 per cent under Bush.
Obama has screwed the poor.
But forget all that — "Everybody got Obama phone!"
While their entire economic future has been sold down the river, these people have allowed their votes to be bought by a free phone.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.


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Nick's Pizza, Forest Hills
On Sunday I found myself in Forest Hills, Queens, on a typography tour led by Paul Shaw, a calligrapher, typographer, and lettering instructor at Parsons. Forest Hills? I had no idea it was such a hotbed of typographic wonders—so I had no idea what typefaces or lettering we'd be in for there. I did, however, have a pretty strong idea what I'd be doing for lunch after the tour: Nick's Pizza.
For me, "Forest Hills" and "Nick's" have been pretty near synonymous for years, since it's usually talked about when New York's pizza biggies are named. "Blah blah blah, Nick's is awesome. He does a coal-oven-like pie in a gas-fired oven. Blah blah blah."
Heck, I've said those things before. But I hardly make it out to Forest Hills, so while I was there, I wanted to see if the place was as good as I remembered.
I'm wondering if the expansion of the Nick's empire—the location in Manhattan, along with Adrienne's and Dean's, etc.—has taken its toll on the flagship. It's a good pie, but it was missing some oomph.
As far as the type tour goes, we learned that, contrary to popular belief, the subway system does not feature Helvetica exclusively as a typeface, and we saw some great examples of lettering on various monuments in the area. I also snapped some pix of the following pizzerias, though the tour moved so quickly from one stop to the next that I didn't have time to hit them up.
This place looked like it would have been burned out, but a quick peek in the window told me it was still operating. Most people use ellipses incorrectly, especially on blogs and in emails and IMs, but I've never seen a set used in a business name like this before. Note the use of a dingbat between Pizzeria and Restaurant. Shaw would later point out to us a similar instance on a monument, where he said it was a convention used in applying lettering to a tight space—to squeeze in more characters per line, the letterer would eliminate spaces and place a dot between words to connote word breaks. Oh, the R in restaurant here needs to be aligned with the baseline.
I liked the cut-out lettering on the bench, but the sign is kinda meh. A & J was charging $1 a slice in honor of its 25th anniversary on Sunday.
Not much to say about the signage here.
This section of Forest Hills was great. I loved the suburban feel of the area, with little corner strips of businesses tucked in to match the Tudor architecture of the neighborhood. This and Sorisi were my favorite pizzerias as far as looks go.
Nice neon work. The actual awning, not so much.
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When will the next recession hit?
It's been more than nine years since the Great Recession officially ended, and the U.S. economy is about a year away from passing the 1990s expansion to become the longest in the nation's history.
"This has understandably raised concerns that the clock is running down on the expansion and the next recession is around the corner," J.P. Morgan economists Michael Feroli and Ben Jarman wrote in a research note last week. Indeed, a solid majority of 60 private-sector economists polled by The Wall Street Journal in early May said that the next recession will arrive in 2020, and another 22 percent said it would come in 2021.
Writing in The Washington Post, economist Jared Bernstein offers a warning to those focused on the timing of the next downturn — and to policymakers: "Worry less about when the next recession is coming and worry a lot more about what we're going to do about it."
Bernstein has made this point before, but it's worth repeating: Whenever the next recession comes, the U.S. will be entering it with far less perceived space to enact fiscal policies to counteract the downturn. Entering the past six recessions, Bernstein says, the ratio of public debt to GDP has averaged about 30 percent. When the next recession hits, that ratio will almost certainly be more than twice as high, exacerbated by recent tax cuts and spending increases.
That, in turn, makes it much more likely that politicians won't act as aggressively to lift the economy out of its funk. "Pointing to the elevated debt level, they'll devote too few resources to programs like infrastructure or subsidized jobs that go beyond the automatic stabilizers, like unemployment insurance," Bernstein writes, pointing to recent research that showed just how perceptions of "fiscal space" affected responses to recessions.
Among Bernstein's recommendations for preparing for the next recession is "to replace the tax cuts with a plan that stabilizes and reduces the debt in periods of full employment, to have more (perceived) fiscal space when we need it." But you tell us: Are the odds of that happening better or worse than the chances that, say, the Mets win the World Series this year?


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PROFILES IN UMBRAGE: A noted editor was on the phone recently discussing the American Society of Magazine Editors, the industry's main professional club, whose board is comprised of 18 rotating editors in chief from magazines as varied as Redbook and BusinessWeek.
The mention of ASME, whose most sacred duty is handing out the annual National Magazine Awards, got an eye-roll from the editor.
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ASME's board meets on a semiregular basis, brainstorms about ways to promote the industry, and tinkers with their Ellies.
"They peck around like chickens at everything until it becomes uninteresting," the editor quipped.
Griping about ASME and its ways is a time-honored ritual in the corridors of Condé Nast and Hearst and Time Inc. Though editors kill for one of their awards, for their prestige and bragging rights, the organization that hands them out, composed of their peers, gets about as much respect as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
This time, months before this year's nominees are revealed — the deadline for submissions was Tuesday — the organization had already earned the scorn of numerous editors in chief.
The latest flare-up has been festering since October.
ASME's board, whose current members include Self's Lucy Danziger (the new president), BusinessWeek's Josh Tyrangiel and Chris Anderson, formerly of Wired, came up with a new set of rules for the awards as they shrunk the total number of categories to include both print and digital.
In the process, seven categories, most prominently profile writing, were scrapped and lumped with existing categories. The board was not expecting a push-back — it perceived the awards had become bloated at 32 categories, and that the awards ceremony is always so endless anyway.
David Granger, whose Esquire just published a bonkers profile of Megan Fox, was understandably apoplectic.
In November, he fired off an e-mail to Sid Holt, ASME's chief executive officer, and forwarded it to other high-profile editors.
"I cannot imagine what you and the board were thinking," Granger wrote. "See any of dozens of examples of the HUNGER for long-form magazine writing all over the Internet and all over the world: It's not just Longform and the Atavist and Byliner — for God's sake, Buzzfeed is now trying to assign lengthy magazine-style stories."
In his view, profile writing deserved its own slot because it is "a more important category of magazining [sic] than any other," Granger wrote. And besides, if trimming was necessary, there were other, less-relevant categories.
"Most readers would have no idea what you mean by public interest," he argued, referring to another category. "This is a mistake and you need to rectify it before unalterable damage is done."
David Remnick, Jim Nelson, and Tina Brown were just a handful of the editors who later conveyed their frustration with the board, though presumably Buzzfeed wasn't dragged into the skirmish.
When reached this week, Nelson also invoked an awards show metaphor to explain his concern. "I think for people who care about this a lot, it feels like killing Best Actor to get five more minutes of ceremony time," he said in an e-mail.
In killing profile writing, it seems the board failed to read its members and inadvertently picked a sacred cow.
Though introduced a relatively short time ago, in 2000, profile writing over the years became a reliable winner for a handful of titles, including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and Esquire, which has picked up three awards alone in the category in the last decade.
The decision to consolidate the awards meant that profile writing would be lumped with the much larger, and more competitive, feature writing category, lowering everyone's chances to squeak by into the five possible nominees.
Holt, while promising to take up the issue at the board's next meeting, argued back in a response to all members.
"In the 13 years the category has existed, only 20 magazines have been nominated and only eight have won it, three of them two or more times," Holt wrote.
At the board's Dec. 4 meeting, some board members argued to keep profile writing, while others voted to get rid of the category. After "a long and passionate conversation," Holt said, the board stuck by its original call.
Yet it compromised in expanding the number of finalists in feature writing and reporting to seven, from five, and allowing magazines to nominate three instead of two entries in each category. Holt did some math and said there were 225 fewer entries but the average number of submissions per category increased by 10 percent.
"The feeling was the fewer number of categories increases the value of the awards. There are 14 Pulitzers. Twenty-five magazine awards is a sufficient number of awards to celebrate our business," Holt told WWD.
Paraphrasing another board member, he said, "The National Magazine Awards are not T-ball."
Granger, who was in Milan this week for the men's shows, disagreed. "I felt strongly enough about it that I hurriedly shared my thoughts with three or four dozen editors in chief," he wrote WWD. "The vast majority of them wrote to ASME, asking them to reverse the decision. The board met to reconsider but did not reverse. I still believe it is a mistake."
Cue the next round of ridicule for April, when the Ellie finalists are revealed.


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Needed for this Kosher Recipe
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- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 2 carrots, chopped
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 4 cups chicken or vegetable (for vegetarian) stock
- 2 (15 ounce) cans black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 (8.75 ounce) can whole kernel corn (or use fresh corn from 2 corn on the cob)
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 (14.5 ounce) can stewed tomatoes
- juice of one small lime (optional)
How to Make this Kosher Recipe
In large saucepan, heat oil over medium heat; cook onion, garlic, and carrots, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes or until onion is softened. Add chili powder and cumin; cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Add stock, 1 can of the beans, corn, and pepper; bring to boil.
Meanwhile, in food processor or blender, puree together tomatoes and remaining can of beans; add to pot. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes or until carrots are tender. You can control the thickness by reducing or adding the amount of stock.
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When Chris Illuminati's wife left him home alone with their new baby boy, Evan, for the first time, she handed him lengthy instructions.
The list inspired Illuminati to write down a snarky message summarizing everything he needed to do on a Post-it note. Something along the lines of: "Feed baby. Change baby. Don't feed baby to cat."
This dad started writing down more smart-aleck notes and then got the idea to photograph them and launch a Tumblr blog called Message with a Bottle.
Now, this aptly titled blog features dozens of witty musings (and rants) from this stay-at-home father's everyday life. The humor is dry, biting and often laugh-out-loud funny. A few good ones:
Someone asked me if I carried pics of wife and kids in my wallet. Of course, I do. It helps remind me why there is now money in it.
I'm going to laugh my *a– off when my kid comes home with his first crush and her name is Katniss.
Parenting is a terrible job when you think about it. Long hours, no pay, the boss is moody and demanding and the benefits don't kick in until years later. Ehh, at least my coworker is hot.
Illuminati has become a celebrity in the online world with thousands of fans on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. News sites and blogs ranging from the Huffington Post to Today Moms have shared his story and notes.
"There are hundreds of thousands of parents out there just like me," he told the Huffington Post. "Parenting sucks a good majority of the time, but we all accept that fact, and move on with our lives. I've also learned no matter what I do I'm screwing up my kid in some way. So I stopped trying to be perfect."
Does he have a favorite note? "I love them all equally. Choosing favorites would be like choosing a favorite child. I could never do that," he told Today Moms. "That's a lie. I like one kid way better than the other."
Illumanti's son is now age 4 and he and his wife also have a nine-month-old who's providing plenty of new fodder for Post-it notes.


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Increasing Public Appreciation, Understanding and Conservation of the Landscape and the Archaeological Heritage of Europe
Archaeology can be so fascinating – digs in nice and exotic places, meeting new people and experiencing new cultures, teaching students and learning from students, telling stories about the past to the public.
But I am sitting in my office in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) today and trying to cope with our new website. The old one was hacked a while ago to be used for DoS attacks on another server so we had to take it offline. We used that opportunity to refresh the old page so now I am working on tinkering the new site a bit, adding content here and there, trying to find mistakes and replacing some placeholder images with pictures from the project before the site will go live again as soon as the provider has managed the domain transfer.
Sounds all rather boring but in the end it's exactly part of the things I like so much in archaeology: teaching and telling stories! And the background of the webpage of course is the project ArchaeoLandscapes Europe (ArcLand), funded by the EU culture programme for 5 years (sept 2010 – sept 2015) to foster all kinds of remote sensing and surveying techniques, to spread the knowledge all over Europe within the archaeological community and of course also to the broader public. It's about telling the public that archaeology is more than a dig in a temple in the jungle or an investigation of a pyramid. It's also – and mainly (?) – about understanding the history of a landscape and the people that lived in it, it's about trying to find out how people could cope with their environs and which traces they left – and it's about finding these traces. From the air (aerial archaeology, LiDAR, satellite imagery) and from the ground (geophysics, field walking) and in all cases non-invasive.
And yes, this is absolutely fascinating – and it brings me to many nice (though not always exotic) places where I meet new people and old friends, where I experience new and well known cultures and where I have the opportunity to tell the stories that are relevant within the framework of the project. It is talking to archaeologists who know a lot about the remote sensing and surveying techniques and learning a lot from them, it is talking to students to make them aware of the fantastic options of these techniques and it is talking to the public to share the fascination that I still feel when I look at a newly discovered site on an aerial image, on a landscape palimpsest on a LiDAR scan or on the hidden subsoil feature visible in the geophysical data.
I really feel very happy when I can see that the grants that our project provided helped students and young researchers to experience new techniques, to exchange knowledge and expertise with other people and to meet people from different areas of Europe to widen their (cultural) perspective. And I am happy to see that all these activities have always been a lot of fun for all those that have been involved.
Sure, it's a EU project which means that there is a lot of administrational work to do. The EU is supporting us with a lot of money and I can understand that they want to make sure that this money is well spend. Still, I am swearing a lot over time sheets and lists of invoices and all that. But that is a very fair price for all the options this support offers to many people all over Europe and abroad! And it shows that Europe is more than a bunch of bureaucrats that only care about the bend of bananas to be imported into the EU! Seeing all these people from the Baltic to the Iberian Peninsula, from Ireland to the Balkan getting together, learning from each other , exchanging ideas and enjoying themselves at our workshops, at our conferences or when visiting our travelling exhibition really makes me feel the the idea of a joint and peaceful Europe is worth all that money.
So all in all, working on a webpage is not that bad, it's raining outside anyway, so I am sitting in my dry office and I know that the work that I am doing is one tessera in the large archaeological mosaic. Watch out for our webpage http://www.archaeolandscapes.eu to go live again hopefully soon!


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SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown persuaded Californians to back his November tax initiative, and now they are rewarding him with a record high job-approval rating along with new faith in the state's fiscal future, according to a poll released Wednesday from the Public Policy Institute of California.
The poll finds Brown's job approval has hit 48 percent after the passage of Proposition 30, the initiative that raised the statewide sales tax by a quarter cent and raised income tax rates for people who make more than $250,000 a year. The Democratic governor's approval rating is up from 42 percent in October and a low of 34 percent in February and March of 2011.
Nearly half of Californians surveyed by PPIC said they feel better about the state's budget situation because of Proposition 30. That rate of optimism mirrors the sentiment before the recession hit California. Twenty-three percent said the passage of Proposition 30 has made them more pessimistic about the budget, and 28 percent said it has not changed their views.
Californians are even giving the state Legislature improved grades, sending lawmakers' job approval rating to 34 percent among all adults, surpassing 30 percent for the first time since January 2008.
Still, a combined 94 percent of Californians still believe the state budget situation is a problem — 68 percent call it a "big problem," while 26 percent say it is "somewhat of a problem."
The survey also found that although voters were willing to raise some taxes on the November ballot, a record high number of adults, two-thirds, said they oppose extending the sales tax to services that are not currently taxed. They also oppose raising the vehicle license fee, PPIC found.
"It's certainly likely that they feel that they have made some progress on the budget now and they want to see government spending responsibly what they have as opposed to asking voters for more taxes," said Mark Baldassare, president and chief executive of PPIC.
Likewise, Californians still strongly back Proposition 13, the landmark voter-approved initiative that limits property taxes, despite talk by some lawmakers of tinkering with it. Sixty percent of adults said it has been mostly a good thing for the state, while 31 percent said it has been mostly bad.
Six in 10 adults say the public policy decisions voters make through the initiative process "are probably better than those made by the governor and state Legislature," the pollsters said.
Baldassare said the biggest surprise he found was that respondents from around the state and different demographic groups now believe the state will be a better place to live in 2025 than it is now — or at least that there will be no change. Only Republicans remain pessimistic. A majority of that group believe California will be a worse place to live, the poll found.
PPIC surveyed 2,001 California adults by landline and cellphone from Nov. 13-20. The poll has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points among all adults.


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Students raise money for care packages for troops
More than $4,500 raised for Yellow Ribbon Support Center
Students in the Edgewood High School/ Butler Tech junior marketing class raised money and donations for the Yellow Ribbon Support Center. The non-profit organization that has sent more than 21,000 packages to our troops serving in harms way since 2004.
The students collected more than $4,500 worth of items in less than a month. Their teacher got the idea from an Edgewood graduate currently serving overseas. He contacted her and said his platoon was in need of hygiene items. She turned it into a contest for the students. The idea fit in well with their business curriculum. The students had to contact local businesses and solicit money to buy items to send overseas.
"The students did a phenomenal job, so much better than what I ever expected them to do. They worked with a lot of community businesses to receive donations," said Jennifer Chilman, teacher at Edgewood High School.
Students were divided into four teams. Chilman told the 40 students to be creative, and use their contacts within the community, and forge those relationships, and it paid off.
They bought a wide array of personal hygiene items such as shampoo and shaving cream, as well as other non-perishable items and treats, such as Pop Tarts, peanuts, cookies and candy.
Students boxed up the items Wednesday to give to the Yellow Ribbon Support Center.
Keith Maupin, from the Yellow Ribbon Support Center, helped pack up the donations. He'll create care packages to ship out to service members.


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Have fun discovering Glasgow with a self-guided, heritage walk with a treasure hunt theme from Curious About!
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This is a 2.5-3 hour tour that will take you around all the main sites of the city, giving you an excellent opportunity to find out about Glasgow's rich history and culture!
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Good Move Glasgow run Health Walks right across the city which are suitable for all ages and abilities!
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Invisible Cities offer friendly walking tours of Glasgow that showcase some of the city's historical landmarks and explore the social projects that make the city what it is!
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Come and join us at Stirling Distillery as our team take you on a virtual tour and tasting from the comfort of your own home!
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Local artist Lee Robertson has been working on 'Love Letter to Glasgow' an exhibition which was due to be held in Sogo Arts on the Saltmarket, he's now taken his exhibition online!
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Alzheimer Scotland's Dementia Advisor is now delivering free, interactive and informative online Dementia Friends information sessions throughout East Renfrewshire.
Move More is a programme of physical activity, advice and support for people at all stages of the cancer journey, contact the Macmillan East Ren team and find out how to get involved.
Invisible Cities offer family friendly guided walking tours of Edinburgh that showcase some of the city's historical landmarks and explore the social projects that make the city what it is!
Explore the furniture, fashion, textiles, lighting, ceramics, and printed material that defined Mid-Century Modern in this exhibition on now at Dovecot Studios!
Edinburgh's deepest secret, the Real Mary King's Close is buried deep beneath the Royal Mile... a warren of hidden streets that has remained frozen in time since the 17th Century!
Traverse is delighted to present brand new, specially created, pieces from nine Young Writers online, with performers filming in their own homes under lockdown conditions.
Check out ComputerXplorers SEScotland's online kids computing clubs, the perfect way to learn the latest technologies and develop invaluable tech skills.
YogaBellies Edinburgh North is holding LIVE classes, starting from Wednesday 5th August and bookings are now open!
Pregnancy Pilates helps to reduce those aches and pains, keep you active and benefit from some social time with other expectant women.
Join Sam Mace Wellness for an online weekly Pilates class for the over 60's and strengthen your back and core, rebalance your body and improve posture through re-alignment!
Through a combination of art, literature, advertising and movies, this exhibition highlights smoking as a social practice, focusing on the period from the 1800s onwards.
Tenement Through Time is a new, innovative and interactive exhibition which explores tenement life in New Lanark between 1881-1971!
Under The Trees is offering the chance for families to undertake the John Muir Award with them. It's a fantastic outdoor learning award, and is easy to achieve - even under our current situation!


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The studies on Melencolia I which have been written up to now, have focused on the iconography of the engraving. Despite the efforts undertaken by several generations of inves-tigators the results remain full of contradictions. The present article tries to search for melan-choly content in reading the artistic structure of Dürer's work. The composition of the engrav-ing makes it impossible to build on its basis the coherent iconographical whole. This results from the very nature of melancholy, which is an undecidable state of the human mind. Dürer tried to depict directly melancholic emotion. He also tried to create the allegorical vision of melancholy. However, he failed to relate the two artistic modes of representation because he was unable connect the undecidable aspect of the composition with he allegory, the latter re-quiring clear and precise rendition.
Titian's renderings of Saint Sebastian, a standing male nude figure, have prompted critical comments typical of response to his art. Praised for their naturalism, the figures seem made not of pant but of flesh; along with such praise, however, went an implicit censure for the lack of artfulness. The most celebrated and copied of these saints is the dynamically posed martyr of the Averoldi polyptych in Brescia. Another type appears among the gathering of saints in the altarpiece Titian painted for San Niccolo ai Frari, now in the Vatican. More mod-est in pose, even retardataire in its somewhat ungainly contrapposto, this figure too enoyed a certain reputation. In 1530 Titian sent a Saint Sebastian as a gift to Frederico Gonzaga, a painting he himself apparently considered a relatively unambitious production. A picture re-cently come to light in New York may be that canvas. In it the Saint Sebastian of the San Niccolo altarpiece has been isolated in an impressively painted landscape – a format anticipat-ing that of the more rhetorically posed Saint John the Baptist that Titian painted for Santa Maria Maggiore.
The article proposes that the landscape in Giovanni Bellini's St. Francis in Ecstasy in the Frick Collection, New York, shows the Heavenly Jerusalem, a motive which originated in the North, although it is patterned loosely after Assisi. The cave serves to identify the saint with Jerome, so that it acts as the vehicle of salvation well in advance of Bosch and Patinir. While the scene has multiple resonances of meaning, the author further suggests that the likely subject is St. Francis seeking inspiration from the heavens as he is about to compose the Canticle of the Sun at San Damiano.
Giorgione's Tempesta represents a positive meditation on the theme of unrequited love, inspired chiefly by Jacopo Sannazaro's Arcadia but also by the songs, sonnets and strambotti of other writers composing in emulation of Petrarch. The foreground reveals a melancholy poet, rejected by his beloved, and Mother Earth, mythic anima of the landscape, who consoles him in a dream. And the landscape itself, alive with multivalent, associative metaphors, expresses the thoughts and emotions stirring in the protagonist – a device essential to Petrarchan lyricism but wholly foreign to the humanistic theory of painting, Ut picture poe-sis, which requires pose, gesture and facial expression for the communication of psychological values. To recognize these lyrical mechanism in Giorgione's poetics is to explain why his imagery has resisted interpretation and to grasp the true dimensions of his achievement in the Tempesta.
Mario Equicola and Dosso Dossi
If the humanist Mario Equicola delivered the iconographic programme for the paint-ings of the Camerino d'Alabastro of Alfonso I in Ferrara, it seems important to study his ideas in his Instituzioni and Delia natura d'amore. The whole fresco and one major painting in the Camerino was painted by Dosso Dossi, inspired by the academic philosophy of Equicola. The influence of Equicola is evident in the selection of the narrative subjects, as well as in some formal, artistic choices.
This examination of the unusual role of Hell in Michelangelo's Last Judgment centres on the curious fact that the "Cave of Hell" is placed directly above the altar in the Sistine Chapel while at the same time figures of the damned are also being propelled towards "Hell" proper, which is apparently located offstage to the right.
A possible explanation is related to the depiction in the fresco of Christ as a beardless "Apollonian" type of sun symbol or deity. In Christian Neoplatonism Christ is commonly analogized to the Sun. The discussion of this concept in the writings of the Neoplatonist Mar-silio Ficino is traced back to the ultimate source of Plato himself (Republic 6), where the sun deity analogy is significantly combined with Plato's most famous metaphor of the Cave (Re-public 7). The conclusion reached in the article is that the "Cave" in the Last Judgment is re-lated, as part of the overall scheme of the fresco, to Plato's Cave, which it in fact represents.
In his 1564 Adoration of the Kings Bruegel depicts the Old King in what seems a tra-ditional reverential attitude. But the strange and deformed face and the white wild hair throw some doubt on the devotional attitude. A careful examination of the Old King's rich costume reveals meanings of wickedness and symbols of sin interweaved in the rich brocade design and embroidered in the border of his royal robe. Bruegel follows here Bosch's system of hid-den symbolism, developing an unusual iconographical language by using a traditional medie-val vocabulary combined with mythological references. Although Bosch's Epiphany might have been Bruegel's "source of inspiration", his own version is transformed. It is not only completely secular, but also much more pessimistic. In Bruegel's Adoration the Kings form part of the forces of evil, and bow falsely before the Lord.
This article demonstrates that Anthony van Dyck was indeed sensitive to expressive content in his Genoese portraits by explicating the overlooked multi-layered meanings and contextual framework of his celebrated Portrait of Elena Grimaldi, Marchesa Cattaneo (1623, National Gallery of Art). Van Dyck's mission here was to pay a supreme compliment to a noblewoman; thus his likeness can best be understood in the context of contemporaneous Petrarchan panegyrics, feminist treatises, and country-house poems that – glorify grand ladies. Like the authors of these works, the painter wields conventional rhetorical devices and hyper-bolic vocabulary to heighten his image of womanhood. In this regard, the – Marchesa's Moor-ish servant, like his counterparts in period literature and in Titian's Laura Dianti, Van Dyck's own Henrietta of Lorraine, Mignard's Duchess of Portsmouth, and Bonnarfs Dame, enhances the lady's status and serves as a black foil to her patrician whiteness.
This essay argues that the painting's visual language conveys ironic messages about the relationship of the elite group of medical men to the executed criminal. Other Rembrandt works close in time, as well as inherited schemata, assist an interpretation which seeks to bal-ance the strong emphasis placed by W. S. Heckscher and W. Schupbach on Dr. Tulp's contri-bution to the iconography. The painting is also interpreted within the context of Reformation themes.
Published here as a Rembrandt for the first time The Sacrifice of Isaac is revealed as a late large-scale work. Previous discussion on the painting had been limited to those who had not seen it, resulting in a good deal of speculation.
The evolution of Rembrandt's composition is traced through the already known etch-ing of 1655, the roundel in the background of the London Old Man as St. Paul and the drawing at Compiegne. The attribution is supported by overwhelming stylistic and technical evi-dence, relating the painting.


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With imagination in full gear, three-year-olds are entering a peak period for pretend play. And they LOVE to ask questions—about everything! Have fun encouraging self-expression and rich, exploratory play for your increasingly independent three-year-old.
She likes dressing up or pretending she's someone else
He loves to move and does not care to be still
She's reassured to hear that people love her
He begins to compare and contrast himself with others
Basic ball play—like catching or kicking a ball—can improve balance and coordination
He can throw a ball a short distance and can catch it if it's thrown directly in his arms
She starts drawing faces and people
He can make balls, sausages and figures out of play dough
Her squiggles begin to look like writing
He shows sympathy for storybook characters
I recommend a variety of toys for learning, not just those labeled as such. In some way, all toys have some learning benefits. In fact, you'd be amazed by what children can learn from even the most basic toys.
Play helps children learn about themselves and their understandings of their expanding physical and social worlds.Play gives children opportunities to figure out how things work, how to get along with others and to try on new roles.


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Leprosy patient Satnarayan Singh, 86, sits outside his shop at a leper colony in New Delhi, India, Feb. 5, 2014.
Although India has made great strides against leprosy over the years, the stigma of the disease is as intractable as ever, hindering efforts to eliminate the disease entirely.
Worldwide, the number of new leprosy patients has dropped from around 10 million in 1991 to around 230,000 last year.
Of these, 58 percent were to be found in India, according to the World Health Organization.
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An Indian woman suffering from leprosy eats food at a leper colony in New Delhi, Feb. 16, 2014 .
People continue to hide their diagnoses from families and loved ones out of fear they will be ostracized. Employers regularly turn away people who have had the disease, even if they've been treated and cured. Many struggle to get driver's licenses and other routine documents. Even the disease-free children of leprosy patients are shunned.
An Indian man suffering from leprosy helps a leprosy-affected woman at a leper colony in New Delhi, Feb. 16, 2014.
Public health centers across the country have launched campaigns describing leprosy as the world's "least contagious communicable disease." Health workers are trying to spread the word that leprosy is not hereditary and does not spread through normal contact.
An Indian suffering from leprosy writes note in his office at a leper colony in New Delhi, Feb. 16, 2014.
The deformities that are the hallmark of leprosy contribute to the fear surrounding the disease, a chronic bacterial infection that often lies dormant for years before attacking the body's nerves and slowly causing numbness. Hands and feet eventually claw inward and serious injuries often go unnoticed because no pain is felt. Often fingers and toes are lost due to injuries and sores. Scientists believe it is spread through droplets from coughing or sneezing during prolonged contact with someone infected, but they are still not completely sure.
Indian men suffering from leprosy sunbathe at a leper colony in New Delhi, Feb. 5, 2014.
Also called Hansen's disease, leprosy has been curable since the 1940s thanks to antibiotics, and the worst physical deformities can be avoided if it is caught in time. About 95 percent of people have a natural immunity.
Leprosy patient Uttam Kumar has his dressing changed at a leper colony in New Delhi, Feb. 20, 2014.
The Indian government is stepping up its fight against the disease, assigning additional health workers to 209 districts seen as high endemic areas in 16 states. But that won't end the pain and stigma that leprosy brings to patients and their families.


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My morning started off to a beautiful day. The warmth of the Sun had come out and I was enjoying being at the home on wheels and basking in a glorious morning. The dogs, cats & Sparky the goat were outside. I enjoyed my morning coffee outside just basking in the beauty surrounding me. I had done some bible study, had my morning chat with God and thanking him for all the wonderful blessings I've been given throughout my life.
Mommy and Me when then and now!
The past few days they had been taking out the corn here by our home one wheels and spilt several piles so the critters and I were scooping it up to use later. It had been a beautiful day and I was enjoying myself and the serenity that was surrounding me. DH pulled up with my cousin Bobby in his truck and I had no clue why he was here and then I got the news. My Mommy had left this earth and gone to heaven! I knew deep inside that it was only a matter of time but I had myself in denial. I had convinced she was going to fight and win just as I myself am trying to do. I know she is much better off and we are blessed she didn't suffer. She got to go to Old Settlers Day and came home and laid her head down on the kitchen table (her favorite spot) and went to sleep and didn't wake back up. I'm devastated, I'm hurting and right now I'm struggling to hold it together. I am normally a strong person but I'm just not sure how I will get through this. I have been very blessed that the past several years since I stopped traveling I got to be very close to her and we enjoyed many wonderful memories together. I am truly thankful for that but right now my heart is breaking.
My mommy holding me on our trip a year ago to Branson
Her new baby Minnie that given to me and I surprised her with her gift as she had been wanting a new addition to the family. She loved her and I'm thankful Pop's will have Minnie to keep him company now.
Mom and Pops, Pops adored her and he will be as lost as I will be.
One of her last few outings and as you can see she had lost so much weight
Her smile lit up the room and she was so much fun and we were always laughing and having fun
our last family reunion and this picture is of my oldest son and his children who she adored. The last picture was taken 04/2015 at my youngest son Gabe's wedding which Mommy enjoyed helping with. I know in time God will heal my broken heart but apart of it will always be empty and aching for her. Mommy may you spread your wings and fly high. Your with many you love and I know your in heaven and we will meet up again some day until then I will never forget you and you will always remain in my heart and thoughts. I Love You and I was honored to be your daughter!!!
RIP my dear sweet Mommy. 05/09/1946 –10/08/2016