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|March 14th, 2011, 02:03 PM
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The tile hypothesis
Putting aside some of the floor covering depicted which look really like seldjuks rugs (design, borders, era) or rugs from a different origin, and others examples looking like textiles, I have another hypothesis one can apply to the remaining ones.
When looking at the following picture, one can remark details of the depicted floor covering:
Annunciation, Siena, ca. 1345, formerly in Schlossmuseum, Berlin
Here the slit of the wall is prolonged on the ground
The tile hypothesis:
The inlaid tile was one of the great inventions of medieval craftsmen. Production of such tiles involved stamping the surface of an unfired slab of clay with a carved wooden block, impressing the design into the surface. The hollows were then filled with white clay.
The technique produced tiles that were both striking and durable, and had the particular advantage of being suited to mass production. Inlaid tiles, primarily used for floors, were made in quantity in England from the 13th to the 16th century.
Inlaid floor tiles (with decoration inlaid into their surface using contrasting coloured clay) were produced in England from at least 1237. During the 13th century they were used to decorate palaces and religious houses.
Ca.1280. This tile is a typical product of what is known as the Wessex School. This group of tilemakers was active in the later part of the 13th century, and produced tiles for a large number of sites throughout the region. Among these were the cathedrals of Salisbury and Winchester.
Ca.1270-1300. This 13th-century inlaid tile bears a double-headed eagle, the emblem of Henry III's brother, Richard of Cornwall. It was apparently found at a site in Lyme Regis. Tiles of the same design were used at Cleeve Abbey in Somerset, where a medieval tiled floor has survived almost intact at the site of the refectory. This heraldic design was among several first produced to commemorate the marriage in 1271 of Richard's son Edmund to Margaret de Clare.
Ca.1250-1300. The griffin combines the wings and head of an eagle with the body of a lion. The main source of inspiration for the portrayal of creatures was the Bestiary, a collection of descriptions of beasts to which Christian and allegorical interpretations were added.
Similar tiles depicting griffins were used to decorate the floors of royal apartments at Clarendon Palace, Wiltshire. At Clarendon tiles featuring lions and griffins were used in pavement dated between 1250-1252. Designs established at Clarendon were repeated at sites throughout the south-west of England and South Wales
Ca;1250-1300. Red earthenware with an impressed design of a lion and infilled with white slip and covered with a clear lead glaze.
Source: V&A Museum
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|March 14th, 2011, 05:04 PM
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Interesting theory, Yohann.
You are probably right on the Bestiary as source for these animals! I mean, not on the tiles only, but also on the carpets.
To my knowledge, though, there was no use of inlaid floor tiles in Italy in this period. Well, at least not in Tuscany, and most of these painters were Tuscans.
I may be wrong - I'm not knowledgeable about tiles… but I am Tuscan and I don't recall having seen such floor tiling or any records of them in different media.
|March 14th, 2011, 07:07 PM
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The idea of this thesis is, what is on the ground and which is neither a carpet, nor a textile must be the ground itself.
However, as you pointed out, it has been impossible for me to find pictures of tiled grounds in italian churches, I only found some in England.
Whatever the technique of pavement, tiled, mosaic, inlaid marble, there's absolutely no italian picture. If it was wood marquetery that could explain their disappearance, or, like in the initial theories it could also have been carpets or textiles.
At least the tile technique was employed in England, and there remain testimonys "in good condition for their age" in certain churches.
Otherwise there's no doubt about the medieval bestiary theory, I could post more related examples.
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|March 15th, 2011, 10:38 AM
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Hi Yohann and Filiberto,
You are pointing, Yohann, at a truly interesting detail in this Berlin Annunciation. This line on the ground is indeed puzzling.
The fact that there are only two alternating patterns, also speaks in favor of tiles in this case. I haven't found yet any better picture of that painting.
|March 15th, 2011, 12:01 PM
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Hi guys,
With time, change of temperature and humidity, the planks move. This breaks the – I don't remember how it's called in English, in Italian is the "preparazione": the layer with canvas, glue and gypsum underneath the color and, of course, the color itself. Notice that the color and the preparazione are gone for few millimeters on the sides of the line in the supposed "carpet" field.
A very common phenomenon (did I mention that, besides being Tuscan and Florentine, I am also - or rather I was - a restorer of paintings?)
|March 15th, 2011, 07:53 PM
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Hello Filiberto,
I thought about that, but I believed the separation belongs to the drawing itself because the slit stops before the edge.
When looking one more time, I've seen the slit stops before...the frame! You're right.
Anyway, I don't think we can so easily eliminate the tile hypothesis, when looking at the composition of this example:
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, ca. 1349
and this other one:
Lippo Memmi, Maria lactans,1340s, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
In such examples, the floor covering is apparently (if the pictures are not samples) distributed all over the ground in a squaring arrangement, and without any main border...
|March 15th, 2011, 08:46 PM
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Hi Yohann,
Two other examples of Renaissance floors with motifs, which in my (humble) opinion are indeed decorated tiles, perhaps of the type described in your post (no beasts though):
FIG a. Anonymous Spanish artist. 1380-1400 ? St Lazarus, Martha and Mary, Madrid
FIG b. P. del Pollaiolo, allegory of Faith, 1469-1470
Uffizi, Florence
In both cases one could still have a tiny doubt, for example due to the pseudo-kufic script in Pollaiolos painting. (But pseudo-arabic or -hebrew script was quite in fashion in early Renaissance painting)
However, in most cases tiles are much more easy to identify than that.
|March 15th, 2011, 10:38 PM
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Hello Pierre and Filiberto,
Pierre, the pedestal of your last picture makes me think about this one:
St. Louis of Toulouse Crowning Robert of Anjou 1317
I have a doubt about the opportunity to put such a pedestal on a rug or a textile in the real life, even in the XIVth c. when it was so rare and so expensive, tiles are more durable.
There's another hypothesis besides the tiles one: It's also possible that certain floor decorations in paintings are imaginary and in tight relation with the scene, only created for its symbolic system value.
Please, have another look at the "Lippo Memmi, Maria lactans,1340s, Staatliche Museen, Berlin" for example. Is there anything else than symbols in this scene?
Here an interesting bestiary in english for you: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/bestiary.hti( in Maria lactans birds could be herons).
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|March 16th, 2011, 11:17 AM
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"well-fed animal" rug
Hi Yohann,
Simone Martini s painting (St. Louis of Toulouse crowning Robert of Anjou, Capodimonte, Naples) is indeed an interesting case: here the platform may be posed either on a rug, as suggested by R.E. Mack (1)) or on decorated tiles, but there is hardly any doubt that such rugs with parrots in an octagonal cartouche did exist.
Another example of this type of rug is shown in G. di Paolos painting «St Catherine before the Pope in Avignon» FIG a) and b).
Fig a) and
Fig b) Detail , rotated 180°
Giovanni di Paolo, St Catherine of Siena before the Pope Gregory XI in Avignon, 1460, Thyssen-Bornmisza. Madrid.(Date of painting questionable, but it was perhaps one of the many commissioned for the Saints canonization in 1461)
According again to Mack (2) «..the painter probably makes reference to the carpet with parrots... that chroniclers mention as constantly before the throne of Benedict XII in Avignon..to authenticate the setting of his painting...». Benedict, another Avignon Pope, was a notorious ruggie. Note that the parrot motif faces the enthroned Pope and not the visitors.
One can see a portion of a narrow and simple border.
I agree with you that painters must have (very often) introduced invented elements of decoration in their paintings, it is what we call «licence artistique»; Elements fully invented or closely inspired by objects in their possession or in possession of the people who ordered the painting (the latter being more likely in the case of the awfully expensive rugs of the Renaissance period).
(1). Rosamond E. Mack, Bazaar to Piazza, Islamic trade and italian art, 1300-1600, page 75.
(2). ibid. page 199, footnote #15
|March 16th, 2011, 05:39 PM
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Hi Yohann,
Lippo Memmi, Maria lactans,1340s, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Like this one
Giovanni di Paolo, Virgin with Child 1445, Detail MET New York
Or this
Sano di Pietro, Marriage of the Virgin, 1448 Vatican
And there's no doubt here: it's a representation of a carpet.
In Pierre's database there are two other paintings of Sano di Pietro with the same carpet.
It is possible that Lippo Lemmi had invented it and the other two artists copied him but it seems improbable to me.
Pierre, the Spanish painting could be very well a tiled floor example.
And the specimen in the Pollaiolo's work is very un-probable as a carpet, being made only by kufesque borders. I tend more to interpret it as an artist's license though, like in this Vincenzo Foppa's Virgin and Child, ca 1480
Where the horizontal border looks definitely wrong. Wronged by the painter or by the weaver? Or it was badly repaired? Who knows?
|March 16th, 2011, 06:35 PM
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Hello Filiberto,
"In Pierre's database there are two other paintings of Sano di Pietro with the same carpet."
Are the two examples of Pierre database also related to a virgin/Maria?
|March 16th, 2011, 07:14 PM
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Yes, they are!
|March 16th, 2011, 07:30 PM
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I don't want to count them now, but so they are at least 65% of the other paintings in the database up to the 16th century.
With the Virgin Mary, I mean…
|March 16th, 2011, 07:49 PM
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No need to count you probably have 100% of christians scenes before 1500 and 65% or more with the virgin Mary after 1500, of course!
I noticed that when you have a throne/enthronement/coronation/king there are eagles or lions decorating the floor (whatever the support) and if the scene relates a virgin/Mary and her son/marriage the long legged birds appear...
How do you explain this other phenomenon ?
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|March 17th, 2011, 09:14 AM
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Bonjour Yohann,
Yeah, my estimate of 65% was VERY conservative.
Like rugs, paintings contained a lot of symbols. Eagles, lions and thrones are normally associated with power. Long-legged birds, I don't know.
Let's have a look at your Bestiary which is very interesting, by the way, thanks for the link.
Here is what I (quickly) found:
Herons - The white feathers signify purity
Lion - Thus our Saviour, a spiritual lion, of the tribe of Judah, the root of Jesse, the son of David, concealed the traces of his love in heaven until, sent by his father, he descended into the womb of the Virgin Mary and redeemed mankind, which was lost.
Eagle - The word 'eagle' in the Holy Scriptures signifies sometimes evil spirits, ravishers of souls; sometimes the rulers of this world. Sometimes, in contrast, it signifies either the acute understanding of the saints, or the Lord incarnate flying swiftly over the depths then seeking once more the heights.
The word 'eagle' represents those who lie in ambush for the spirit. This is confirmed by Jeremiah, who says: 'Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven' (Lamentations, 4:19). For our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of heaven when wicked men do such things against us that they seem to exceed the very rulers of the air in their evil machinations.
The word 'eagle' also symbolises earthly power. Ezekiel says with reference to this: 'A great eagle with broad wings and long limbs, in full plumage, richly patterned, came to Lebanon. It took away the marrow of a cedar-tree, it plucked the highest foliage' (see Ezekiel, 17:3-4).
The usual problem with symbols – especially with the ones in rugs - is that they have so numerous meanings that is difficult to establish which one is the right one.
|March 17th, 2011, 03:05 PM
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"The usual problem with symbols especially with the ones in rugs - is that they have so numerous meanings that is difficult to establish which one is the right one".
This, Filiberto, is of course very unusual in a fact-obsessed Rugdom were capillo-tracted theories and feuding experts are virtually unknown
|March 17th, 2011, 11:43 PM
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hide and seek, show and tell
Hello to all,
Just few words...
In one hand, acknowledge that one would feel very uncomfortable in trying to establish from a reliable source, at least one meaning of the simplest symbol from a rug or a kilim. The symbolic system has been transmitted in a restrictive way.
In the other hand, and at the opposite, concerning the symbolic medieval (+/-occidental) system there are numerous reliable informations, the interpretation of meanings can differs from a person to another of course, but the guidelines are there.
The difference between the XIII-XIVth century and nowaday's technique and knowledge is vertiginous!
At this time, most of the people didn't know how to read, but they were used to access some knowledge and understanding through symbols, there was a transmission utility for that system.
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|July 4th, 2011, 01:57 PM
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|January 27th, 2012, 07:18 PM
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Dear All,
Just wanted to add the following text about tiles and rugs by Mr. Jan Pluis (a prominent scholar on tiles in the Netherlands) from the book "The Dutch tile, designs and names, 1570-1930" (Nederlands Tegelmuseum / Primavera Press, Leiden, The Netherlands, 1998, second edition). Page 31-35:
"Ornamental tiles 1560-1700
In Western Europe during the late middle ages, many buildings were erected in Gothic style. Monasteries, churces and the houses of the well-to-do often had floors of fired earthenware tiles. Red-firing floor tiles were either unglazed or were covered with a monochrome leadglaze or they had a decoration in relief or a white inlaid design. In Flanders, France, England, in the Northern Netherlands and Germany, these tiles were much used and were laid to form large 'tapestries' or 'carpets' of ornamental and/or figurative design.
In the third quarter of the 16th century, there was some cross-fertilisation of inlaid and tin-glazed (previously called 'maiolica') tile designs. Inlaid and relief patterns found their way onto maiolica tiles - or possibly vice versa?- during the second half of the 16th century (Van Dam, Tegel 12, 1984).
Ornamental tiles from the second half of the 16th century nearly always have a design painted in reserve against a dark background, producing an effect similar to that of inlaid floor tiles. Van Dam surmises that a number of floor tile makers switched over to the maiolica technique around 1550.
Although no examples remain of these early ornamental tiles installed on walls, it is likely that this was the case from abouth 1570 on. [...]
The traditional Italian system of surrounding a square, figurative tile with four elongated hexaganal tiles was abandoned in the middle of the 16th century. [...] The designs of this (pj: 1560-1600) period are purely ornamental ands show a mixture of renaissance and islamic styles, undoubtly influenced by the ornament books of the second quarter of the 16th century. One of the earlies of these was published by Francisque Pellegrin in 1530. His book had 62 pages illustrated solely with moresques and motifs derived from Moorish traceries printed in black on a white ground. Pellegrin, a native of Florence, worked a the court of the French king Francis I. At the time, there were numerous Islamic artists active in Italian cities and there was also direct trade contact between Venetian merchants and those of the Levant (notably Damascus). Because of this, Islamic designs and garland motifs became widely known. [...]
The star and cross shape goes back to the 13th and 14th century Persian tiles. At that time it was composed of individual star- and cross shaped tiles. In the 16th century this pattern was transferred to square tiles in Spain and later in Persia itself. Several tiles need to be placed together to obtain the star and cross design. [...] At the end of the 16th century the interest in figural designs increased again, and geometrical patterns gave way more and more to designs with, for example, animals and persons. By the middle of the 17th century ornamental designs only played a modest role in the total tile production. [...]
Carpets, tapestries and wallpapers
In common with tiles, carpets, tapestries and wallpaper are used to decorate walls and floors. Medieval tiled floors with a design in relief or inlay technique from the 12th and 13th centuries are often reminiscent of carpets. Rectangular areas of different patterns were laid adjacent to one another, separated by rows of plain tiles. These may have been inspired by Roman mosaics or by textile patterns. [...].
Best regards, Patricia Jansma
|January 28th, 2012, 05:29 PM
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Hi Patricia,
Thanks a lot for this interesting contribution! I shall try to find an on-line scan of Francisque Pelegrins (Or Francisco Pelegrino's) book, if possible. The illustrations should be of great interest, not only for scholars interested in tiles, like Mr Puis, but perhaps as well for ruggies.
Tile floors were ubiquitous in Renaissance painting, being much more frequent «studio props» than carpets or even than velvets and other precious textiles.
The following paintings feature tile floors with probable islamic influence, as those mentioned by Mr Puis, but painted as early as the second half of the fifteenth century:
The first example illustrates the «Livre dheures de Catherine de Cleves » (Anonymous, ca. 1450, Munster) and shows what might be the sainak motif (Most frequent on Turkmen ensi, and also found on some much older Anatolian rugs).
The later tile floor, with its pseudo kufic «borders», appears in several allegories painted by P. del Pollaiolo (Here, the Allegory of Faith, ca. 1470, Uffizi, Florence).
Best regards.
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text: miyachan11 377 Posted May 25, 2012 HIGHLIGHT (하이라이트) Formerly known as 비스트 BEAST (Boys of the EAst Standing Tall) B2ST (Boys To Search For Top) BEAST Members: Name : YOON DOOJOON | 윤두준 | ユン・ドゥジュン尹斗俊 (Yǐn Dòu Jùn) Group Position : Leader, Vocalist, Rapper Date of Birth : July 4, 1989 Height : 178cm Weight : 66kg Blood Type: A Trained in : JYP Entertainment & Cube Entertainment Name : JANG HYUNSEUNG | 장현승 | チャン・ヒョンスン张贤胜 (Zhāng Xián Shèng) Group Position : Main Dancer, Vocalist Date of Birth : September 3, 1989 Height : 177cm Weight : 58kg Blood Type: B Trained in : YG Entertainment & Cube Entertainment He is part of the duo 'Troublemaker' together with 4minute Hyuna. Name : YONG JUNHYUNG | 용준형 | ヨン・ジュンヒョン龙俊亨 (Lóng Jùn Hēng) Original Name : Yong Jaesoon | 용재순 He changed his name into Yong Junhyung during his 6th Grade. Alias : Joker Group Position : Main Rapper Date of Birth : December 19, 1989 Height : 178cm Weight : 64kg Blood Type: O Trained in : XING Entertainment & Cube Entertainment Former member of the Kpop group 'XING' as Poppin' Dragon. Name : YANG YOSEOB | 양요섭 | ヤン・ヨソプ梁耀燮 (Liáng Yào Xiè) Group Position : Main Vocalist Date of Birth : January 5, 1990 Height : 170cm Weight : 56kg Blood Type: B Trained in : JYP Ent. & M-Boat & Cube Ent. Name : LEE KIKWANG | 이기광 | イ・ギグァン李起光 (Li Qǐ Guāng) Group Position : Vocalist, Main Dancer Date of Birth : March 30, 1990 Height : 170cm Weight : 58kg Blood Type: A Trained in : DSP Media & JYP Ent. & Cube Entertainment Before he became a BEAST member, he debuted as solo artist AJ (Ace Junior) on April 2, 2009 on M!Countdown. Name : SON DONGWOON | 손동운 | ソン・ドンウン[孙东云 (Sūn Dōng Yún) Group Position : Vocalist, Maknae Date of Birth : June 6, 1991 Height : 181cm Weight : 64kg Blood Type: A Trained in : JYP Entertainment & Cube Entertainment Label:Former: CUBE Entertainment ( 큐브엔터테인먼트 )Universal Music (MCA Music) Current: Around US Entertainment Korean Debut Showcase:October 15, 2009 (held at MTV GongGae Hall)Official Korean Debut Date:October 16, 2009 (Music Bank Debut Stage) as BEASTMarch 20, 2017 as HIGHLIGHTJapanese Debut Showcase:November 27, 2010 [Tokyo Big Sight (Tokyo International Exhibition Center)]Official Japanese Debut Date:March 16, 2011 (Release of the Japanese version of Shock)Official Fanclub:B2UTY / BEAUTY ( 뷰티 ) (pronounced as BEAUTY) It stands for:B2st and b2uty does not consist in gazing at EAch other, bUt in looking Together in the same localitY LIGHT (라이트) "Light" was chosen to express how fans are like a light that is always next to Highlight and shining a light on the group. BEAST: "It was decided upon in the hopes that we will continue to shine a light on each other and therefore shine even brighter." B2ST and B2UTY Official Color: Dark GrayOfficial website : http://www.playb2st.comDaum Fancafe : http://cafe.daum.net/playb2st/International Forum : http://www.b2strising.com/Official Youtube Channel : http://www.youtube.com/beastofficialBEAST Japan Official Fanclub Youtube Channel : http://www.youtube.com/user/BEASTandBEAUTYfcSoompi BEAST Fanclub : http://www.soompi.com/fanclub/beastSoompi BEAST Subforum Twitter Account : https://twitter.com/b2stlysoompi Soompi BEAST Thread 1 : LINK & Soompi BEAST Thread 2 : LINK Behind the achievements are their continuous failures… And that is the reason why they can shine even brighter.The dreams they lost in front of their eyes… the days they spent in depression. However, these were just an introduction in their journey for even more fame. During debut, a bit of the member's pasts were introduced. Doojoon, who was eliminated from M-net's reality program 'Hot Blood', the other members from that show are currently promoting as 2AM and 2PM. Hyunseung, who was eliminated from the final audition for Big Bang. Kikwang, who debuted as a solo artist under the name AJ. Yoseob, Junhyung, and Dongwoon had contributed 4 to 5 years of trainee times, hoping to become a star someday. Despite the fact that they were in the position to be called failures in the past, but now, they hold on strong foundation making up the K-POP industry. It can be clearly seen that the failures and pain had made each of the members stronger inside. Much like how the arrow will not go further if it isn't stretched back as far as possible, this group was able to improve even more through regrets. This is what made up BEAST.via GAON K-POP HIT CHART MAGAZINE CREDITS: CHOCHOPIE@PLAYB2ST (SOURCE); YONGISM@B2ST RISING (TRANS) THE GRAPHICS ARE EXCLUSIVE FOR SOOMPI BEAST THREAD ONLY. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE OUT. CREDIT PROPERLY WHEN TAKING OUT INFORMATION. THANK YOU.first post banners made by : babyseob other graphics made by : hoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Bills running backs coach Tyrone Wheatley knows a thing or two about being a role player in a running game. His biggest job in Buffalo will be to ensure that running backs Fred Jackson and C.J. Spiller know — and embrace — their roles.
"At the end of the day we want to win," Wheatley tells Chris Brown of the team's official website. "We want the Lombardi trophy. If you're a guy that's happy with being a team player and a role player and you get rings instead of individual accolades then you'll be happy with your role. . . . Do you want to rush for 2,000 yards and be home for the playoffs. Or do you want to rush for 500 yards and get a Super Bowl ring?"
With two highly-talented backs, Wheatley has plenty to work with.
"The options become limitless," Wheatley said. "The more you can do the better for you. That's my saying and these guys can do it all. They both have distinct skill sets, but they also present a different type of threat towards defenses."
One option that apparently won't be used extensively, if at all, is the presence of both players on the field at the same time.
"I would just say multiple," Wheatley said when describing the running attack. "I know that's kind of vague and it doesn't really clear things up, but we're a multiple set. We could do two-back, we could be one back. We could be single back, we could be shotgun. It's a multiple set."
The best news for the Bills is that, if one of the two backs is injured, the other can carry the load. And the one thing anyone who follows the NFL knows about the running back position is that running backs eventually will be injured.


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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Lehigh Construction Group, Inc. (Lehigh) hereby renew the Alliance agreement signed on May 15, 2003. OSHA and Lehigh continue to recognize the value of collaborative efforts to achieve workplace safety. OSHA and Lehigh remain committed to cooperative and proactive efforts to advance workplace safety and health. In renewing this Alliance, OSHA and Lehigh recognize that OSHAs State Plan and Consultation Project partners are an integral part of the OSHA national effort.
OSHAs Alliances provide parties an opportunity to participate in a voluntary cooperative relationship with OSHA for purposes such as training and education, outreach and communication and promoting a national dialogue on workplace safety and health. These Alliances have proved to be valuable tools for both OSHA and its Alliance participants. By entering into an Alliance with a party, OSHA is not endorsing any of that partys products or services; nor does the Agency enter into an Alliance with the purpose of promoting a particular partys products or services.
In addition, the implementation team will continue to meet on a regular schedule to track and share information on activities and results in achieving the goals of the Alliance. OSHA will afford the opportunity for representatives of the Occupational Safety and Health State Plan Association and the association of state Consultation Projects to participate as well.
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Essendon chairman Paul Little has described his club's decision-making in the days before the launch of last year's unprecedented doping investigation as misguided.
The Bomber boss who replaced David Evans, one of the many casualties of the AFL's drugs scandal, said Essendon's agreement to provide "various authorities . . . unfettered access . . . perhaps could have over-complicated a process that didn't need to be quite that complicated."
In February 2013, well before he stood down due to ill health, Evans was part of the hierarchy that oversaw Essendon's crucial decision to cooperate with a contentious joint investigation by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority and the AFL.
The arrangement granted the AFL access to ASADA interviews concerning Essendon and permitted the sharing of highly sensitive information that, in other circumstances, would have remained solely in the hands of the national anti-doping authority.
While AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou termed the joint investigation set-up a "template" for the future in an interview last August, it has had numerous critics and could yet be an aspect of the unresolved saga that is tested in court.
Speaking before Essendon's Anzac Day clash with Collingwood, Little reflected on the matter that ruined the club's 2013 season and brought a raft of sanctions:
"I have this view that maybe self-reporting didn't work all that well for us, because we gave away all of our leverage, we gave away all of our own rights to control a situation," Little told Triple M radio.
"And I think whilst self-reporting allowed the various authorities . . . unfettered access to the football club, to individuals and to everything else, I just think it perhaps could have over-complicated a process that didn't need to be quite that complicated."
Two days before the Australian Crime Commission released an explosive report on drug use and organised crime in sport, in February 2013, Essendon announced it was effectively opening itself up to authorities for investigation. Little acknowledged on Friday that "we were guilty of some of the lesser charges", but lamented how the club needlessly lost control over aspects of the investigation. "I just think that in any situation you have got to retain some sort of control over your own destiny and we didn't have that," he said.
Essendon was sanctioned heavily by the AFL last August but the possibility of players receiving ASADA infraction notices remains.
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UPDATE: New Mountain Finance Corporation Announces Pricing of Primary Offering of 2M Shares of Common Stock and Secondary Offering of 4M Shares of Common Stock on Behalf of Selling Stockholder
New Mountain Finance Corporation (NYSE: NMFC) announced today that it has priced an underwritten primary offering of 2,000,000 shares of its common stock and a concurrent underwritten secondary offering of 4,000,000 shares of its common stock on behalf of a selling stockholder, New Mountain Finance AIV Holdings Corporation ("AIV Holdings") at a public offering price of $14.30 per share. The closing of the offering is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to take place on March 25, 2013. In connection with the offering, AIV Holdings has granted the underwriters for the offering an option to purchase up to an additional 900,000 shares of the Company's common stock.
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SAS has unveiled new analytic software that will help business users analyze and visualize massive amounts of data in near-real time and share the results with others via the Web or iPad mobile devices. SAS Visual Analytics "focuses on handling large volumes of data and creating visuals on the data, all done with a point-and-click approach from a mouse pad," Randy Guard, SAS vice president for product management, said during a virtual press conference. SAS Visual Analytics allows users to create standard reports and dashboards and publish them to an Apple iPad and, in the future, to Android mobile devices, Guard said.
The speed of in-memory architecture is what gives users value, said Dan Vesset, program vice president of market business analytics research for IDC. "Organizations can explore huge data volumes and get answers to critical questions in near-real time," Vesset said.
SAS Visual Analytics, however, offers both the speed of in-memory and self-service capabilities, which eliminates users having to wait for IT-generated reports, Vesset added.
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Business users have to be able to drill through data while at the same time the IT staff needs to manage data as a corporate asset, SAS' Guard said. With Visual Analytics, each time business analysts or users want to create reports, they don't have to call IT for a new table, index or cube — it is all self-service, Guard noted.
The core of SAS Visual Analytics is the SAS LASR Analytic Server, which allows the software to run on low-cost, industry-standard blade servers. "SAS LASR Server is not a relational database or [Microsoft] SQL-dependent," Guard said. It is purpose-built to handle analytics and drive all visuals back to the client, he added. LASR Server is built on a highly scalable architecture using commodity blade servers, which range from as low as four blades up to more than 100 blades. The servers can scale depending on volume of data and number of users, Guard said. SAS Visual Analytics could be applied in government agencies in much the same way it can be used to solve business problems. For example, for a retailer involved in a marketing campaign, SAS Visual Analytics could allow analysts to look at all data from online sales, stores, external demographic information and social media to provide "next-best-offer recommendations" for customers, SAS officials said. The software could be deployed to help government agencies get a handle on the vast amounts of structured and unstructured data being collected. Various agencies at federal, state and local levels have accumulated massive amounts of data on such varied topics as pollen in trees, water quality, disease patterns, transportation infrastructure, weather statistics and satellite photography, according to a recent article on big data in Government Computer News. If tools are developed to integrate these massive datasets across governmental boundaries and make them efficiently searchable, unexpected benefits may emerge, industry experts said. SAS Visual Analytics includes:
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Beware the leaves beneath your feet
For they have watched you all year 'round
the ones who make the rustling sound.
Fall has brought them death and now
thousands fall onto the ground
You may blow and you may rake
But they'll return to seal your fate
So hold a hand and peal your eyes
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If the lawn you cross, you hear a crunch
it just may be that you're their lunch
Don't slip and fall, they'll wrap you tight
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Building Volunteer Projects in Ghana
- Placement location: Small villages in the Akuapem Hills
- Role: Helping to construct and renovate buildings for local communities
- Accommodation: Host family
- Price: From
- What's included? Food, accommodation, transfers to and from our specified airport, transport to and from work where required, travel and medical insurance, personal webpage, induction and orientation, 24/7 support
- What's not included? Flights, visa costs, spending money
- Length of placement: From 1 week
- Start dates: Flexible
Whether you are on a gap year, summer placement or career break, if you want to get your hands dirty and see physical results from your placement overseas, our Community Building Project may suit you.
Volunteers are based in the Akuapem Hills, just over an hour north of Accra. You will join a team of Projects Abroad volunteers and local people constructing and renovating simple buildings in the local communities.
Voluntary Building Project in Ghana with Projects Abroad
Within many areas of Ghana thousands of families live in inadequate accommodation and children go to school in crumbling buildings. Our building project allows them to move to new, better-quality homes and for children to receive an education in secure, new classrooms.
The buildings are usually made from mud bricks that are produced using a press, some mud and water, then left to set hard in the sun. Volunteers help with this process and also with building the walls, plastering and painting the houses and schools. Each building takes an average of one month to construct.
In addition to the basic project, you may also help with landscaping the surrounding area, painting local schools and renovating classrooms in schools already built. Volunteers even built a library for Kwamoso village school.
Volunteering on the Community Building Project in Ghana
By working with local people who will ultimately benefit from the buildings, this is a great opportunity to get involved in a rural project and become an integral part of an African community. Our full-time regional coordinators live nearby and visit the placements regularly so you'll always have full support from Projects Abroad too.
Building work takes place in the morning to avoid the hot midday sun, so you'll have plenty of time to get involved in Ghanaian life. Many volunteers get involved within the local community by helping in the kindergarten class, or playing football with some of the school children once the building work has finished for the day.
You can join the Building project in Ghana for one, two or three weeks if you don't have time to join us for four weeks or more. This project has been selected by our local colleagues as being suitable for short term volunteering for both the host community and the volunteer Although you will gain a valuable cultural insight and work within the local community please be aware that you may not be able to make the same impact as someone volunteering for a longer period.
"Yes the volunteers provide welcome helping hands on the building site; enabling the projects to reach completion before the rains come and wash any unfinished structures away, but the projects would not be possible in the first place without the money coming from volunteers' fees through Projects Abroad. These not only help to supply tools and materials to the building site but extend beyond the building site into the communities we are placed in. For a rural family, reliant on agriculture and market forces to make a living, a steady income from taking a volunteer into their home can also make a real difference to their lives, as can the seemingly small amounts of money the volunteers themselves bring with them and spend in the community."
Catherine Hughes
Building volunteer in Ghana


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NIWOT — Perhaps it was only fitting that Friday night's Niwot-Centaurus boys basketball game be settled the way it was.
In a matchup of the bottom two teams from the 4A Northern League, neither squad seemed to know how to win.
Niwot, depleted by sickness, ended up with a 56-53 home victory, but only after frittering away most of the 13-point lead it held halfway through the fourth quarter.
And Centaurus, which hasn't won since Dec. 11, let a good opportunity for a big comeback victory slip through its grasp in an awkward way.
After the Warriors had crept within 56-53 and then forced a turnover in the final 20 seconds, they apparently tied the game when Steven Jordan drained a 3-pointer from the right corner.
But that was before one of the officials animatedly waved off the trey, signaling that CHS coach Brandon Gullicksrud had called a timeout before the ball left Jordan's hands.
Centaurus couldn't re-create the magic in the final 12 seconds after the timeout, and Lance Matosky's 3-point attempt just before the buzzer bounced off the back rim to send the Warriors to their 14th loss in a row.
"The guys battled and they made plays, but the way it played out, this is one I'll ruminate over for a while," said Gullicksrud, who's in his first season as CHS' head coach. On the pivotal possession "it looked like we were kind of hung up and didn't have a look that was going to develop, so I called the timeout there. Clearly, in retrospect, we would have let it play out. … I'm certainly going to think about this one for quite a while.
"It's been hard losing certainly, and tonight is going to be a really tough one to swallow."
On the other hand, Niwot breathed a sigh of relief after having such a close call after leading 53-40 in the middle of the fourth.
"We were just trying to keep our composure," said senior Forrest Lee, who led the Cougars with 15 points. "We had quite a few turnovers (five in roughly the last two minutes) that turned into (Centaurus) buckets, but we managed to keep the lead and get the win."
Niwot coach Travis Maron, whose team (8-13, 3-9 in league) has won three of its last four after being 5-12, was just happy to fend off Centaurus (3-18, 0-12). In playing just six men due to flu and bronchitis, the Cougars had just enough to eke out the win, beating Centaurus for the fifth straight time.
Niwot led all the way from the end of the first quarter on, but that didn't mean much when it turned into a nail-biter at the end.
"It was just one of those weird things where you look up and say, 'Wow. It's really close,'" Maron said. "It wasn't pretty by any means, those last four minutes of the game, but we scratched it out."
As usual, Niwot did it with a balanced attack. The Cougars' top five scorers for the season average within 1.5 points of one another. And on Friday, joining Lee in double figures were Kyle Kolakowski (12 points), and Nate Merriman and Clarke Colwell (11 apiece).
Juniors Trey Puckett (16 points) and Kyle Taudien (11) provided the spark for Centaurus, particularly late in the game.
With the victory — and its late-season surge — Niwot may have kept alive its hopes of making the state playoffs.
"To have any shot, we probably need to win Tuesday" at home against Greeley Central, Maron said. "We've been up and down and had our struggles, but hopefully we've done enough down the stretch to give ourselves at least a shot."
In the final week of the regular season, besides hosting Greeley Central on Tuesday, the Cougars will be at league-leading Broomfield on Friday. Centaurus will host Broomfield Tuesday and play at Greeley Central on Friday.
Niwot 56, Centaurus 53
At Niwot HS
Matosky 1 2-2 5, Puckett 6 3-5 16, Taudien 5 1-2 11, Jordan 2 2-3 7, DeVries 4 0-1 8, Lopez 1 0-0 3, Milano 0 2-2 2, Wilkinson 0 0-0 0, Koch 0 1-2 1. Totals 19 11-17 53.
Hart 1 0-0 3, Lee 6 2-4 15, Merriman 2 6-8 11, Kolakowski 4 3-6 12, Colwell 5 0-0 11, Bounds 2 0-0 4. Totals 20 11-18 56.
Score by quarters:
Centaurus 6 19 7 21 — 53
Niwot 12 21 9 14 — 56
3-point field goals — Centaurus (4): Lopez, Matosky, Jordan, Puckett; Niwot (5): Hart, Lee, Merriman, Kolakowski, Colwell. Total fouls — Centaurus 14, Niwot 13. Fouled out –none. Technical foul — Jordan.


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StTrop Holiday necesitaba un nuevo diseño de tema de wordpress y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 7 diseños de 3 diseñadores freelance.
Best Holiday
I'm an italian guy launching a site to rent some family bungalows in a resort by the sea in French Riviera, close to Saint Tropez Bay. I own an online travel agency and before I was working in seo and content management for a travel portal. Best Holiday is a startup in the existing resort and will open for customers next easter 2010. Saint Tropez bay in Cote D'azur is a famous place in south french riviera. The exact place is Port Grimaud. A small village of canals by the sea.
We have already a basic pdf flyer with a logo (can be revisited), some pictures, preference for aquamarine colors (aqua green), examples of similar sites.
Best holiday is a new bungalow rental company which rents family accomodation mobile homes in "Praires de la Mer" by the sea resort.
Praires de la Mer resort is a large 3 star holiday village by the sand beach with many bars, disco, animation team, amenities, bicycles, skate park, tennis etc
Port Grimaud is the nearby town made of canals and tipical fisher houses for the upscale boat owners.
Famous Saint Tropez is near and the whole sea bay takes its name.
French Riviera is the whide region,the south east of France, also called Cote d'Azur.
It's an existing holiday market we're entering.
The resort is an holiday village by the sea existing from many years (formerly was a camping). On the Resort there are some bungalow rental companies. Best Holiday is a new one of these.
The customers will be families or couples from all over Europe.
Mainly Italy, England, France, Germany , Czech rep., Poland, Holland...
Site is going to be multilanguage with the use of the csm and pluging you may suggest. (En, Fr, It, De, Cz). For SEO purposes text is going to be text, not graphic (apart logo etc).
Children are welcome: A little happy fox is going to be mascotte of the company.
The resort site is :/www.riviera-villages.com/prairiesdelamer-presentation_gb.html
Competitors sites are:
We require a site design that is going to be coded for wordpress or joomla (accept suggestions).
Site is going to be multilanguage (cms plugin) on the doman stholiday.com .
Slogan: Confort by the sea in Saint Tropez Bay, Port Grimaud.
Claim: Smart family holidays by the sea in French Riviera.
Main categories are going to be divided by: Accommodation, Enjoy, Nature, Riviera blog
Main "call to action" links are going to be: Book online & prices, Guestbook, Share, Contact us.
Bottom links: about us, safety, guarantee, booking conditions, privacy
Main categories are going to have subpages, not required in the design, but mentioned here because the links may have graphics or sub text to understand what we mean:
Accommodation is going to describe the 3 kind of bungalows we rent and the resort overall...
Enjoy is going to describe the resort hits like the sand beach, sea activities, animation, concerts...
Nature is going to describe the resort which is a large secure private area with little roads among the nature, small rivers, bridges, bungalows..
A space for a couple of special deals or offers is required on home page. Examples: Win a weekend, Get our fox mascotte, Free kids
Colors: aqua marine greens and cyans. Important: bungalow photos are important and should be possible to update easily.
Please see the attached files and brochure. The logo can be revisited.
I like color shades, vectorial graphic, styles like I find in the sites connected Mashable


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Preserving the Green River and America's other wild places
By Michael Brune
Guest Commentary
Last month, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet celebrated the Fourth of July in classic American style: by taking his family on an outdoor adventure. This one, though, happened to be on protected public lands. Along with a diverse group of conservation stakeholders, the Bennets rafted down the Green River through the spectacular Dinosaur National Monument.
As he drifted past the red rock walls of Lodore Canyon, the senator was following a trail blazed by the giants of the early conservation movement. But had history turned out differently, his trip would have been impossible.
It's hard to imagine now, but back in the 1950s, the Bureau of Reclamation was pushing hard to build a pair of dams on the Green River, within the national monument. David Brower, the first executive director of the Sierra Club, led opposition to the plan. A key strategy was to take both legislators and reporters to the monument so they could see firsthand what was at risk. Brower did what Sierra Club has always been proud to do: help people connect with special wild places.
Once the American public and lawmakers saw the rare and exciting opportunity for recreation and solitude that the area could provide, they were energized. The monument was saved from being flooded.
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YANGON (Reuters) - The Myanmar military will observe a ceasefire in its fight with ethnic Kachin rebels with effect from Saturday, state television reported, but rebels would not immediately commit to uphold the truce.
President Thein Sein issued the ceasefire order to the military hours after a parliamentary motion calling for a ceasefire was unanimously passed.
Twenty months of fighting between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and Myanmar's military has displaced tens of thousands of people and raised doubts about the sincerity of reforms aimed at ending decades of ethnic tensions in Myanmar, also known as Burma.
The announcement from the state Information Committee said the ceasefire would take effect from 0600 on Saturday but only applied to the Myanmar army, the Tatmadaw, in the La Ja Yang area where fighting has been fiercest.
"In order to let the tension lessen in an armed conflict, both parties need to stop fighting. The Kachin Independence Army is urged to instruct their troops not to attack the Tatmadaw," the broadcast said.
The chief of the KIA's negotiation team, Sumlut Gam, said the announcement was "good to hear" but the KIA would hold off discussion of Myanmar's ceasefire order until Saturday. He had been unaware of the broadcast.
The KIA withdrew soldiers from the La Ja Yang area after a successful offensive by Myanmar's troops, said Mark Farmaner, director of the human rights group Burma Campaign UK.
"The offensive has ended because they won the battle, but they are trying to spin that they are responding to parliament. Praising the Burmese government for ending this offensive would be praising them for winning a battle where they also killed civilians," he told Reuters.
Colonel James Lum Dau, a KIA spokesman based in Thailand, said government forces were only four miles away from the town of Laiza and in a position to occupy the KIA stronghold and headquarters of the Kachin Independence Organisation.
"The ceasefire is an artificial ceasefire agreement, until the day they start to shoot again," Lum Dau told Reuters by telephone. "They talk about peace, but it's just for show, for the outside world. It's meaningless."
The ceasefire order comes a day after China rebuked Myanmar over the fighting, which began in June 2011 when a 17-year-old ceasefire fell apart. The conflict has escalated since December, with the military shelling and conducting aerial attacks on the Kachin.
China called for a ceasefire in response to an artillery shell that flew over its border on Tuesday. It was the second such incident since late December.
China's response suggested growing impatience in Beijing with the Myanmar government's campaign against ethnic Kachins.
The ceasefire motion was tabled by Daw Dwebu, a Kachin member of parliament, said Thein Nyunt, another lawmaker.
Lower house speaker Shwe Mann told parliament it would not discuss the proposal but rather directly seek the decision of the house by vote, Thein Nyunt told Reuters.
Myanmar's half-century of military rule ended in early 2011 when a quasi-civilian government came into power. A quarter of parliament's seats belong to the military.
New York-based Human Rights Watch last week accused the Myanmar army of "indiscriminately" shelling the town of Laiza in Kachin state, killing three civilians.
The United States also called for a ceasefire and new peace negotiations.
Writing by Paul Carsten; Editing by Rosalind Russell


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Named Academic All-Ivy League ... Crew in the B division for an eighth-place finish at ISCA Women's National Championship ... Finished fifth in the A division with 15 single-digit finishes in 17 races, leading the Crimson to a seventh-place finish at ICSA New England Women's Championship ... Crew of the B-division boat for a sixth-place finish at Boston Dinghy Club Cup ... Tallied wins in the A division to help the Crimson to a fourth-place showing at the St. Mary's Women's Intersectional ... Member of the B-division team, helping the Crimson to an 11th-place finish at Atlantic Coast Championship ... Crew of the fourth place B-division boat in to help Harvard finish second at Erwin Schell Trophy ... Won the A division at Stu Nelson Trophy regatta ... Crew for the B-division boat for every race to help Harvard to a ninth-place finish at the Hatch Brown Trophy ... Helped the Crimson to victory with a fourth-place finish in the B division at Steadman Hood Trophy ... Crew in the B-division boat for a third-place finish to help beat out 19 teams for second place at the Harry Anderson Trophy.
Sailed the A division to a 10th-place finish that helped the Crimson secure seventh overall at the ICSA women's National Championship … Selected as the NEISA Women's Sailor of the Week for March 22 … Finished second in the A division of the New England Women's Championship … Earned first-team All-NEISA accolades as a crew … Sailed to A-division first-place finish at the St. Mary's Women's Intersectional ... Finished second in the A division at the Victoria Coffee Urn propelling Harvard to third overall … Helped Harvard finish sixth at the Stu Nelson Women's regatta with a fifth-place A-division finish … Tallied only 25 points in eight races to win the A division at the Mrs. Hurst Bowl.
Sailed with Emily Lambert to a ninth-place A-division finish at the ICSA Women's Nationals … Helped Harvard finish second at the New England Women's Championships with a second-place A-division finish … Finished second in the A division as Harvard finished sixth overall at the Women's Emily Wick/Sloop Shrew … Sailed during the Crimson's first-place finish at the Horn Trophy … Finished third in the B division at the Victorian Coffee Urn … Finished fourth in the A division at the Women's Regis Bowl helping Harvard finish second overall … Sailed to a fourth-place finish in the B division at the Hood Trophy … Her fourth-place A-division finish helped Harvard finish fourth overall at the Antonia Schuman.
Before Harvard
Attended The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.