text: Home Online catalogues Art on Paper. Recent Acquisitions 84. Anonymous (English School, eighteenth century) Memento Mori (The Dead Soldier), c. 1780 The painting1 rendered by this print is still an unsolved mystery. Long held to be a Velázquez – it entered the British collections under this name2 –, and today believed to be the work of an unidentified Neapolitan Baroque painter, it is graced with a timeless prestige. This composition drew the attention of a great many artists in the nineteenth century, particularly when it was about to change hands on the occasion of the Pourtalès sale.3 Our mezzotint, in all likelihood the work of a late eighteenth-century English artist, confirms that the fascination for this work goes way back, probably to the time when it was still held in the Spanish royal collections.4 By taking a few liberties with the original work, the engraver proved himself an inspired interpreter. He omitted the second skull, which in the painting is beside the youth's head, along the right side. The bubbles – symbols of the evanescence of human life – in the foreground of the painting are also missing in the print. The branch upon which the oil lamp is hanging, its flame only recently extinguished, does not appear explicitly in the print, which gives the impression of a hovering, ghostlike lamp. Lastly, the artist chose a squarer format and eliminated almost entirely the few landscape elements present in the painting. The utterly bare composition of our print emphasises the universal significance of this memento mori. Mezzotint, or mezzotinta, was invented in the early 1640s (see cat. no. 74). Unlike the other engraving techniques, which go from light to dark, this one proceeds in the reverse, the engraver beginning to work up his plate with a rocker – a steel blade with small teeth –, giving it a rough texture that will retain the ink. To produce the variety of shades ranging from grey to white, the artist then applies a burnisher and a scraper to gradually flatten certain parts of the plate, for the ink to adhere only partially.5 This process creates the impression of seeing the motif surface, which stands out against a deep and velvety black ground. The evocative power of this print owes a great deal to the convergence of form and meaning, the artist utilising the most effective technique for conveying his pictorial intention. In the eighteenth century mezzotint became such a specialty of Cross-Channel engravers that it was soon dubbed "the English manner". The author of this print, an excellent technician, subtly blending his palette of greys, carved out the volumes and created a stunning chiaroscuro. In associating mezzotint with etching, he was able to very distinctly outline the edges of the lamp, the armour plates and the wavy contours of the sword hilt. Our print, which is extremely rare, is probably one of the first impressions of the plate, before lettering. MNG 1Italian School (Naples?), A Dead Soldier, 1630s, London, National Gallery, inv. no. NG741 (oil on canvas; 104.8 × 167 cm); see Michael Levey, National Gallery Catalogues. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Schools, London 1971, pp. 148-149; and http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/research/a-dead-soldier. 2After its purchase at the Pourtalès sale, Paris, hôtel Pourtalès, 27 March 1865 and following days, no. 205 ('Velasquez: […] This handsome painting, whose subject is not known, formerly adorned one of the palaces of the King of Spain, where it was designated (no one knows why) under the title Dead Roland Orlando muerto'). 3Manet was probably thinking of this composition – that he knew through a photo or a print – when he painted his Dead Toreador, c. 1864, Washington, National Gallery of Art, inv. no. 1942.9.40 (oil on canvas; 75.9 × 153.3 cm); see Sandra Orienti, The Complete Paintings of Manet, London 1970, p. 93; and https://www.nga.gov/Collection/collection-search.html; as Thoré-Burger remarked in his commentary on the Salon of 1864 where the work was on exhibit (Salons de W. Burger. 1861 à 1868, Paris 1870, pp. 137-138). The following year, the Belgian etcher Léopold Flameng (1831-1911), a friend of Thoré-Burger, engraved the Pourtalès collection painting in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts of 1865, under the traditional title Dead Roland. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam holds a copy of this etching, inv. no. RP-P-1910-3218. 4According to J.J. Dubois, Description des tableaux... de M. le Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier, Paris 1841, p. 53, whose words are repeated in the entry of the Pourtalès sale catalogue (see note 2). 5Nadine Rogeaux, 'Wallerant Vaillant (1623-1677). Premier spécialiste de la gravure en manière noire', Nouvelles de l'Estampe 177 (2001), p. 21.

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You can create a great textured accent wall using stone, brick or tile just as you would use paint. Select a faux or natural stacked stone or brick veneer for the easiest way to transform any room in your home.
Hand-painted Tiles with Marble Tiles
The main features in this bathroom are the unique arches and patterned wall tiles. One arch highlights the hand-painted narrow tiles while the other one frames a large mirror.
- The arches are fashioned from the same marble tiles that cover the walls.
- A marble counter top repeats the white color.
- The floor features wide plank flooring finished in a gray color.
Marble Floors and Walls
Another popular bathroom decor trend is to cover both floor and walls with tiles. This classic bathroom is created by using marble tiles on the floor and walls. The most stunning design aspect of this bathroom is the marble walls. Using small square tile shapes is a great shape contrast to the larger floor tiles. The marble wall tiles cover three-fourths of the wall for an elegant finish.
In this bathroom design, the remaining wall space and ceiling are painted the same color. You could opt for an accent color on these two spaces. Much depends on what you wish to be the focal point of a bathroom design like this one.
Brick Accent Wall
This kitchen features an orange brick accent wall. You may decide that this wall treatment is more suitable to your kitchen design. A modern design is an ideal style for this type of unique brick color.
- Select the best color for your brick accent wall that goes with your color palette.
- Choose real or faux brick veneer.
- If you can't find brick the color you want, such as a teal, an easy fix is to paint over plain brick.
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Add warmth to a den by creating a wall of stone. Select a wall with no or few breaks, such as windows or walls for the best overall effect. When choosing the kind of stone or rock, consider your overall décor colors.
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If the color palette of your den is warm colors, such as yellow, gold red, orange or brown, then go with an equally warm colored stone or rock. There are many stones and rock available either real or faux that will add the depth of warmth to your den. Some of the stones include:
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Hi everyone,
Here's hoping you had a fantastic Easter break with friends and family and that you may have had a 'little' time for crafting!!!
It's my turn on the Off the Rails Blog for a tutorial and I decided to show you a few techniques for creating a background on an Art Journal page. These techniques can be used on layouts and off the page projects like Canvases as well etc.
First i'd like to show you the finished Art Journal double page that I created using the April moodboard.
Firstly! head off to your local op-shop or trash and treasure markets...grab a few old books and sheets of music to use as a base for an interesting background. Just check the book for 'racy' scenes....if you know what I mean, I ended up with such a scene stuck on a page a while back and only noticed at the last minute, first time i had to censor my art journal ....lol!
Gesso strips of the book pages to your page in the desired area, in the end it was about approximately 1 inch thick.
Wait til your gesso'd book pages are dry then grab your favourite stencils or masks, I used a WOW Words or Whatever Stencil and a Crafters Workshop stencil. The Words or Whatever stencil I specifically chose due to the flow of movement in the pattern, like a wave across my page, exactly what I wanted. I used 'Snow White' Colour Blast Texture Paste to leave a shimmery white wave of colour across my page, perfect for a watercolour resist technique!
Here I am completing the 2nd page with the first stencil, I tried to match the pattern from the other side so it looks like a flow from one side to the other.
After drying after the first layer, we are ready for the second layer and second stencil. I used a different coloured texture paste called 'Bling' by Colour Blast Australia. I placed it in several areas across the page. The third colour paste is called 'Deep Water' by Colour Blast. Love those awesome shimmery texture pastes which can be found here - http://colourblastaust.com.au/
In the next photo you will see the different results from the multi layering of the stencil and different coloured texture pastes.
The next step and technique that I have used is a 'masking fluid' pen, I have used the pen to create flowing lines and words 'be creative' in the background (use this pen or masking fluid to resist any liquids, let the masking fluid dry thoroughly, then you are ready to add your watercolour paint, sprays or distress stains. For my Art Journal page I used Tim Holtz distress stains in lines up and down the pages spraying with water on top to blend them slightly. Once dry I then sprayed a few shimmer sprays over the top in gold and white.
Once the colours have dried to your satisfaction, it is time to remove the masking fluid. Gently rub with an eraser or your finger or get a steel craft knife and gently lift the end of each line or word and remove the masking fluid which has dried to like a rubbery consistency.
Below are some close - ups of how I finished off the page, some light stamping, a piece of chipboard and a fussy cut hummingbird stamped image plus the application of microbeads in different colours using Gel Medium. Also I sprayed over the top of the whole coloured section with gold shimmer spray.
You can see from the photos above that the masking fluid has added gorgeous white lines and patterns which draws the eye across the page from the left to the right where the hummingbird is situated and the end of my title of Be Happy, Just Love, Be Creative, One of a Kind and Dream....
Well that's it for my Art Journal Background technique tutorial, i hope to see you try a page or two for yourself. Time to get messy!!!
Elisa Ablett


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Here you will find all that's going on for young people aged 11-18. We have two gathering places each week for different ages. Scroll below to find out about each one.
For 11-14's
Sunday @ 9.15am or 11am
Exalt is all about figuring out how to live life as a follower of Jesus day to day, week to week.
Join us as we kick off each week in style, with creative worship, crazy games and a chance to ask the questions that bug you. Sunday morning at St Paul's Ealing is the place to be!
Upper Room
For 15-18's
Sunday @ 9.15am or 11am / Third & Fourth Sundays
Upper Room is a space for us to have conversations, ask questions about life and grow in faith together.
Wednesday Night Live
For all high school aged young people
Years 7 – 9
@ 5.30pm – 7.15pm
We've got Xbox, Wii's, board games, table tennis, tuck shop and drinks flowing, mixed up with some space to spend time with God and head off into guys and girls groups to finish up.
Years 10 – 13
@ 7.45pm – 9.30pm
We've got loads of time to hang out and catch up, making space to encounter God and hear honest, down to earth teaching.
Our Team
Izzy is our Youth Pastor, get in touch with her if you have any questions about St Paul's Youth.


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ajschicago posted a topic in Audio, Navigation and SYNCThe rear speakers in my 2016 w/ the THX system are almost inaudible when you have the fade settings set to "0" or the mid-point on the adjustment screen. Since it was only recently I ever sat in the back when the radio was on, I have no idea if this is how it has always been since I took possession a year ago. You can manually set the fade to where you hear them when listening at a normal volume, so it doesnt appear to be bad speakers. Further, I brought the car into my local dealer for unrelated small issue that turned out to be a fuse. I asked them to look at the speaker issue as well and the dealer explanation was inconclusive. The new service manager didn't have the info on hand when I was picking up the car (after 5 days) and was clearly a non-technical person. She told me they were going to order a new "radio" (her words, !!!) and call me when it came in. That was over 2 weeks ago, haven't heard a thing. Since it took them 4 days to find a blown fuse and come up with this non-diagnosis, I'm really not looking forward to taking it back for something so minor. Overall, this service department has been a real disappointment. That said, has anyone else noticed this in their MKZ? Could it just be how the balance/fade is programmed? Thanks.
Dannyh posted a topic in Audio, Navigation and SYNCI have a 2008 Lincoln MKZ with the standard factory radio. I went to a junkyard and found a cool factory lincoln radio which was touch screen and carried a navigation system. After taking out my base model radio and installing the new cooled looking radio I noticed that most of the wires plugged right in! The radio works great... other than the fact that I have no control of the volume. After going back to the parts yard I noticed the other vehicle having one extra plug that my car did not possess. This plug consists of two solid gray wires, one solid purple wire, and a yellow wire with a purple line... could this 4 wire plug be the issue of no volume control? Everything else seems to work great. Not a knob or command issue as the volume does appear to be giving command on the screen. The audible sounds remains at a constant high volume. Any ideas?! Anybody have some sort of wiring diagram I could follow to possibly figure out where this extra plug is supposed to go?! Thanks, Dan


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By Diego Molano
Thirty-four year old Chilean director Sebastián Silva has received numerous accolades throughout his skyrocketing career. Among his most acclaimed films is 2009's La nana / The Maid which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Few days ago, he stuck around after a special Cinema Tropical screening of his new film, Crystal Fairy, to answer a Q&A from a buzzing audience.
Tell us about the process of the film. How did Crystal Fairy come about?
Crystal Fairy was something that really happened to me twelve years ago in Chile. Me and my best buddy wanted to take mescaline down in the desert. At the Whalers concert in Santiago we met a woman from San Francisco that had hairy armpits and she actually went by the name Crystal fairy. And I invited her to tag along but then we regretted it. But when we were there, in Copiapo, and she was there and she was getting attacked by the gypsies and we had to adopt the fairy, exactly like the movie. The only fiction thing was that there was no confrontation between me and her. We were actually really good friends. Everything was smooth and fun the entire trip. The movie is based on a true story, what I learned from that experience was compassion. I actually cried for her pain when she told that story. And I felt that the birth of compassion was so important in a young adult and it was such a new feeling. But I kept it there on my computer desktop forever. But it was something I wanted to do, not necessarily a movie, I didn't know what it was.
Then two years ago we were planning on making Magic Magic and Michael Cera, whom I'd previously worked with on a web series for HBO, he read Magic Magic and he really loved one of the roles. He asked me if he could do it, and I adapted the character for him. So, I got the financing and he moved to Chile because the character had to speak really fluent Chilean, not just Spanish. So I told him to go stay with my family. And he was with my family for three months. Then I went down there and we supposedly got the money but then it got delayed again, and I'd kinda foreseen that so I spoke with Gabby Hoffman, who I'd also worked with on this other HBO short. I told her maybe Magic Magic wasn't going to get done immediately, but maybe she'd be down to do this road trip movie, ten days, with Michael Cera and my brothers – no food, no make up. And she said yeah. So she came down. Michael Cera agreed, and I wrote just an outline, twelve pages. And we took off to the desert; we filmed it with a lot of improvised dialogue. But everything was pretty clear, because I'm pretty controlling and the directions were really specific for each actor. Right after we finished editing Crystal Fairy the money for Magic Magic was right there, so we shot it immediately.
You had worked with one of your siblings in The Maid. Is that harder or easier to work with three of them in this film?
I wanted to work with only Augustin, the same kid that was in The Maid. But he's so bad at auditions. So I tried with Champa, the oldest in the film, and he was great. But I felt bad and had all my brothers in there. But it worked great. Production wise, it worked – it was great to have three kids that all looked alike and had such great chemistry. It's great to work with family, since you can bully them around, no sympathy. I wanted them to be themselves, especially that scene around the fire—those are actually there fears. Except Michael (Cera) we rehearsed that he was going to say sharks, just to fuck with Crystal Fairy.
There's this flash moment with Michael Cera that felt almost like a horror movie. What is that?
I love when people ask about that. You know, most people don't notice or forget it. That's a frame from The Exorcist. And there's no real meaning behind it, except as an homage to YouTube videos. You know, like videos that have something really cute, and you're staring at it and all of a sudden a really haunting image pops up.
What happened to the real Crystal Fairy?
I hope she is alive. I mean, it's a possibility, people die. I've tried googling her but I don't remember her real name—her real name wasn't Isabelle. She was a dominatrix, so I've looked up "Crystal Fairy Domintatrix" and the weirdest things come up. We showed the film at the San Francisco Film Festival, and we gave her a shout out you know, "Crystal Fairy, wherever you are, fly to us we are looking for you." But yeah, I have no idea how to find her. I think she'll come around when the movie comes out.
Why did you have such an abrupt ending?
Um, there were other alternative endings. There was one ending we tried where she's walking away but instead of just going behind the rocks she flies away and Michael is so scared starts throwing rocks at her, and it didn't work. I mean, the real story is, we had breakfast and she took off with another batch of Chilean guys. I mean, it wasn't so abrupt, she said goodbye. We were eating eggs and free styling rap and she just took off to another adventure. But I mean, for me, the ending is, both characters had a pretty specific journey. They're in a completely different place from where the story started. She shares her real name, and eats cookies, and Jamie cried for somebody else pain.
Why did you decide to put an American in the film? Was there an American with you on your trip?
Michael is actually playing me. Uh… I'm a nice guy. I was really driven to get the cactus but… I guess it's that Michael is Canadian, and he speaks English. It made sense that he'd be American, an American drug fanatic, and he'd invite an American girl. I guess there's some sort of political message to have American guys behave the way that they did in the foreign country. But politics are so intrinsic to any story that I didn't even pay attention to that. I mean I was just treating them as people. I kinda forgot about language.
Did you read The Doors of Perception?
Yes I've read it. I'm pretty open about the fact that I've tried a lot of drugs. I think that we're not painting mescaline as a party drug. There are so many drugs that aren't party drugs. Its been characterized as a drug movie, but I think its more of a friendship movie, and it happens to have mescaline in it.
I love the use of sound, especially when he starts to feel the effects of the mescaline. Can you elaborate on that?
That is the only moment where I put the audience in one of the characters mind. Almost everything else is from outside. We see Crystal Fairy playing with the shells or the guys playing games or saying "genes are so weird". The panic attack that Michael taps into, I thought it was good for the audience to feel the fear in that moment because he'd been so insensitive with Crystal Fairy. E had to be really careful because I didn't want to go as far as having the audience feel the high if the characters. I guess we broke the rules in that moment. We wanted the audience to have a very objective view.
Crystal Fairy opens in theaters and on demand on Friday, July 12.


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SEOUL: U.S. buyout firm KKR & Co said it has agreed to buy auto parts and materials businesses from South Korea's LS Group for 1.05 trillion won ($943 million) - a deal that follows its purchase of Nissan Motor supplier Calsonic Kansei last year.
KKR will create a joint venture with LS for LS Automotive, an auto parts electronics maker, and will additionally buy an affilate that makes copper foils for large capacity lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles.
KKR will own a 47 percent stake in the joint venture for LS Automotive, which makes switches, interior lamps and other auto parts for Hyundai Motor and other global automakers as well as top-tier suppliers like Continental and Delphi.
It will make its proposed investment from its US$9.3 billion Asian Fund III.
Also Read: Volkswagen profit jumps as core brand pushes cost cuts, models
In November, KKR & Co said it would buy Calsonic Kansei for up to 498.3 billion yen ($4.5 billion) in its biggest deal in Japan.
($1 = 1,113.0100 won) (Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)


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Mark Foxx is an old school German boy. Blonde, hairless, muscular and a real pig.
During rides with his motorbike, he regularly gets horny. He stops somewhere in nature to let his lust run wild.
Most of the time he wears his metal cockring which is also dildo. While on his bike the streets rattles the metal and excites the velvety cunt and gives him cascades of horniness at every turn.
Even today. He leans against an old building, spreads his legs and strokes his fingers over the cold metal in his ass. When he turns around, you finally see his fat cock getting beaten. But before he jerks off he pulls on the leather gloves. Nothing makes the pig as very hot as leather on his skin. Although the cameraman has the rule of not touching the pig, he spits in his mouth to show him where it belongs.
At the climax, Mark squirts the slimy sperm on his leather divide.
The gay porn video starring Mark Foxx is online at CazzoClub on 07.27.17


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The story of how Celeb Boutique accidentally tweeted the above comment is not all that important to the Aurora shooting. Obviously. But the company's post-tweet spin reminds me of something.
We are incredibly sorry for our tweet about Aurora - Our PR is NOT US based and had not checked the reason for the trend, at that time our social media was totally UNAWARE of the situation and simply thought it was another trending topic – we have removed the very insensitive tweet and will of course take more care in future to look into what we say in our tweets.
Outsourcing! Wasn't it a few years ago that we were all talking about how outsourcing would affect the Obama-Romney race? (UPDATE: Twitter readers encourage me to point out that the company itself is based in the U.K., which mitigates the situation quite a bit. Still, don't farm out your PR to people who don't know the market like you do!)


text: Through a Parent's Eyes By Heather SubbaFebruary 8, 2010 641 February 8, 2010 Life is full of choices. One of the most monumental choices we make is selecting the person with whom we will spend the rest of our lives. Marriage impacts not only the two people who join in marriage but also their families. As I've recently come to realize, this choice also impacts future generations of a family. Heather Subba with her son. Becoming a parent has changed both how I understand my own parents and how I feel about being Jewish. My parents did everything they could to raise my brother and me in a Jewish home. I spent much of my childhood years in a Reform temple, I became a bat mitzvah and I was confirmed at the age of 17. My parents actively participated in leadership positions in our synagogue and they always integrated Jewish values, customs and traditions in our family life. Naturally, they had always assumed that my brother, Adam, and I would marry Jewish people. Sometimes our choices do not always reflect the path that has been laid out for us, and we follow our own intuition, passion and sense of who we are. Adam married a woman who was raised as a Catholic, and I married a man who was raised as a Hindu. My parents felt disappointed and hurt by our choices. I think they felt they did something wrong and somehow blamed themselves. After all, didn't we turn our backs on Judaism by choosing to marry two people who weren't raised as Jews and who weren't interested in converting to the Jewish faith? Furthermore, by making these choices, weren't we also rejecting the values that we grew up with? In addition to the hurt they felt, my parents also believed that Adam and I were breaking with tradition and that our lives would be made more complicated by marrying outside of the Jewish faith. In my first two years of marriage, I didn't experience the difficulties that my parents had forecasted. This was probably because our choices as a married couple were mostly about the two of us. My husband participated in Jewish holiday gatherings as I navigated the Hindu festivals that he grew up with. The bond of loving each other made crossing the cultural barriers far from insurmountable. However, now that we have a child, I think I understand my parents better, and I also think I understand myself better. First, I understand the hurt and humiliation that my parents felt when we chose to marry non-Jewish individuals. I understand this because now I can see through a parent's eyes. I see how a child is the central light of his parent's world and how a child gives his parents an endless amount of motivation to be better people. I also understand how a child's happiness rests in the hearts of his parents. When you raise a child to be a certain way, you can't imagine this child to be any other way. While I may not envision my child only being Jewish, I do envision him following a certain path. If he chose to radically sway from the path we are forging as a family, I would, of course, feel disappointed and I would, of course, question what we had done wrong to cause him to stray from our beliefs. Yet, at the same time, I recognize that staying true to one's family isn't always the same thing as staying true to one's self. I understand that it is not always possible to explain why every decision is chosen and why it is sometimes necessary to break with tradition. I also understand how difficult and even painful these decisions can be for both the individual and for the family that the individual belongs to. I have gained a deeper sense of understanding my parents' views regarding interfaith marriage. Yet I can also feel a renewed spark for my faith that I thought had completely been extinguished. When I look at my son, I imagine him at his bar mitzvah. I see him dressed smartly in a tailored gray suit accented with a red shiny tie and proudly wearing his kippah. He is standing on the bimah, carefully holding the Torah for the first time. My visions of my son becoming a bar mitzvah are based on my own memories of my life's rites of passage. In this way, I feel connected to my parents and to the home I was raised in. I also feel connected to my grandparents and my great-grandparents and to all the Jews in our family who held the Torah for the first time as they became a bar or bat mitzvah. I feel a dual sense of pride in both my heritage and in the man that my son is becoming. My child has brought the being part of Judaism back to me, even if I am not always practicing it. I may choose not to always practice Judaism, but I can never choose not to be Jewish. Though I chose to marry outside of the Jewish faith, I can also choose to share Judaism with my son. Just as my parents taught me about the rituals and traditions in Jewish life, I will teach my son. He, too, may choose a different path from the one we are laying out for him, but that's part of the two-fold nature of decisions. We may make a lot of choices that don't always follow what our parents want for us, but choices are as much about acceptance as action. While certain choices may lead us down different paths, the traditions and culture of our families will always bring us home. About Heather Subba Heather Subba lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two children. She works in the field of educational publishing. View all posts by Heather Subba →


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Bob Seger postpones Kansas City show at the Sprint Center among a slew of others
Bob Seger announced Tuesday that he was under doctor's orders to postpone nearly two dozen shows to "attend to an urgent medical issue concerning his vertebrae." The postponed shows include an Oct. 14 stop at the Sprint Center.
The press release offered no more information on Seger's condition. The postponement includes shows starting with an Oct. 5 show in Greenville, S.C., through a Nov. 17 show in Chicago.
Seger previously performed in Kansas City in March 2015, a show at the Sprint Center. His history in Kansas City goes back to the mid-1970s, when he played at Kemper Arena, Municipal Auditorium and a place called Fairyland Park.
Seger also postponed a Sept. 30 show in Columbus, Ohio. His last performance was at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh on Sept. 28.
On Nov 17, Seger is scheduled to release "I Knew You When," his 18th studio album, which will be dedicated to his friend and fellow Detroit musician Glenn Frey, who died in 2016.
Rescheduled dates will be announced. Tickets for the postponed show will be redeemed at the rescheduled show. Refunds are available at point of purchase.
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Word on the Street: computer links
Two men with Fresno ties who build rocket engines for a living have turned their expertise to something the rest of us can relate to: golf.
Ron Tanouye and Pascal Okpo recently opened GolfTEC Improvement Center in Fresno, in addition to their day jobs at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Inc., which has contracted with NASA to build the space shuttle engine, among other jobs.
The GolfTEC franchise uses sensors and motion-evaluation computers to help golfers improve their swing.
A small harness worn on the torso and hips records golfers' movements. The moves are compared to the swings of 150 touring professionals.
Coaches help clients work on their game skills.
Okpo, a native of the Ivory Coast, came to the United States as an exchange student and attended California State University, Fresno.
Tanouye frequently visited relatives in Fresno County during his childhood. Both now live in the Valencia area.
GolfTEC is at the northeast corner of Cedar and Nees avenues. The franchise joins existing golf instruction offered at most golf courses.
The business will celebrate its grand opening, which is open to the public, beginning at 10 a.m. Thursday.
A ribbon cutting will be followed by free test runs of the equipment.
Plugging a gap
Officials of Gap Inc. have decided what to do with a portion of the 216 acres they bought from the city of Fresno in 1997 for $2.
The retailer plans a 1.9-megawatt solar system -- enough to power 350 houses -- on 5 acres. The system will help power the company's adjacent 2 million-square-foot distribution center.
The system is to be financed and operated by MMA Renewable Ventures and will generate power for 20 years through a contract with Gap. It will supply about 7.4% of the plant's electricity needs, spokeswoman Melissa Swanson said.
The system will consist of more than 5,000 panels on a track, which follows the sun to maximize efficiency. Swanson said the system is being installed on land that is otherwise undevelopable.
Holding steady
With little industrial property under development, the vacancy rate for that type of real estate is staying stable at 6% in Fresno and 8.5% in Visalia, a commercial real estate company reported.
Grubb&Ellis/Pearson Realty said demand for space under 10,000 square feet has slowed, but the recent sale of a 40,000-square-foot warehouse on 5 acres in Tulare is indicative of the heightened activity in properties ranging from 20,000 square feet to 60,000 square feet.
As a result, land prices suitable for those types of projects are escalating.
Additionally, the company said in a quarterly report, non-ag businesses are sniffing around, interested in converting cold storage and packinghouses and similar real estate into other types of uses.
"These facilities often include large high-quality buildings, suitable for conversion, at attractive prices. Some are rail served at levels that allow for demolition and reconstruction," Pearson officials said.
The perfect package
Fresno State is responding to a need spawned by consumer demand for conveniently packaged vegetables, fruit, meat and other foods.
The university is developing courses that will train people to use the latest in automated equipment and encourage development of more food processing businesses closer to where the food is harvested -- in the most productive agricultural region in the world, the San Joaquin Valley,
The courses will be offered by the Industrial Technology Department.
"Economically, this brings more employment opportunities for businesses in the Central Valley, because students now don't have to leave the Valley to be educated in this specific field," said Sandra Witte, associate dean for the College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology.
Due to its rich and diverse landscape, California is the top agricultural producing state, and, as a result, it also is the largest food processing employer in the United States, said N. Premchand Mahalik, assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Technology.
Witte said the university already has "the cultivation and harvesting aspects on the school farm, along with the marketing of our products through the Farm Market and the development of new products through our food science program. This program completes other aspects that are crucial to the agricultural industry and fills in the pieces we were missing."


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Sean Pecknold is a filmmaker from Seattle, now based in Los Angeles, CA. He is a dual US / Canadian citizen, and proud of both. He won the 2012 UK Music Video Award for best animated video for "The Shrine / An Argument" for Fleet Foxes. He has directed other music videos for Grizzly Bear, Beach House, and Here We Go Magic, as well as commercial work for Ikea, Sony, BBC Knowledge, Dreamworks & Smartwater. Sean is a proud recipient of a Young Gun Award from the Art Director's Club of America. He is currently finishing work on an animated series made possible by an Artist Initiative grant from the art and technology company VSCO.
He currently releases animation collaborations at the ongoing series The Unknown.
He is one half of Sing-Sing in Los Angeles with Adi Goodrich.
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August 10, 2017
I'm All Ears!
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Treasury prices erased a decline and the U.S. dollar lost ground Tuesday after the S&P/Case-Shiller index on home prices showed that, on a seasonally-adjusted basis, home prices fell in August. The data followed a turn lower in U.S. stock futures after some key industrial companies released their quarterly earnings and outlooks. The euro EURUSD, -0.0542% recovered from a deeper decline to buy $1.3928, down slightly from $1.3934 in North American trade late Monday. The dollar index DXY, +0.05%, which measures the U.S. unit against a basket of six major currencies, stayed up at 76.137 from 76.082 Monday. Yields on 10-year notes TMUBMUSD10Y, -1.92%, which move inversely to prices, erased an earlier increase to trade little changed at 2.24%.
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Going places do not just mean setting your foot in a new place, taking pictures here and there using your 360 kamera, and just see the sights. I honestly suggest you get the best 360 camera to capture only the best.
Wandering goes deeper than that. It aims to inform you about how it is to be exactly there, like a local. To immerse in the culture, to learn more about the history that carved what it is today, to speak the language they use, to eat the dishes that might be new to you, and to know more about the people.
A big part of learning about a place is through its art. This form transcends many meanings depending on who is looking into it. In most cases, it leaves every traveller yearning for more. It sticks in the memory. Sometimes even, it became deeply rooted in out hearts.


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Topic: "MSPnet Academy - Challenges in the CS classroom: Perspectives from students with learning and attention disorders"
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MSPnet Academy Discussion
March 1st - March 14th, 2018
"MSPnet Academy Webinar: Challenges in the CS Classroom: Perspectives from Students with Learning and Attention Disorders"
(Webinar recording will be available March 2nd)
Webinar Description: Efforts to expand K-12 computer science (CS) education opportunities across the U.S. include the new AP Computer Science Principles (CSP) course, designed to attract a wide range of learners and broaden participation in the study of CS. An important step in diversifying participation in CS broadly involves understanding the range of challenges students face in the CSP course, and finding ways to address those challenges to support learning for all. Such work is especially critical for increasing participation of students with learning and attention disorders, who are underrepresented in STEM fields. This webinar describes findings from an NSF-supported study exploring ways educators and curriculum developers can make CSP more accessible for these students who learn differently. The study, carried out by education researchers at Outlier Research & Evaluation at UChicago STEM Ed, University of Chicago and expert practitioners at the Wolcott School (a college-preparatory school for students who learn differently), documented the learning experiences and challenges of twelve students enrolled in the 2016 - 2017 CSP course, using Code.org's CSP curriculum. During the presentation, researchers will share specific aspects of the course that students noted as especially challenging, and students' identified reasons for those challenges. We will close by sharing some strategies educators can use to make CSP more accessible for this student population.
CSP and students who learn differently
posted by: Sarah Wille on 3/1/2018 3:18 pm
Note, we have adjustment recommendations that apply to each Code.org CSP lesson, as well as general recommendations that can be used in any high school CS class. These recommendations generally address activities that require students to engage in reading and writing activities, discussions, collaborative work, longer-term projects, and programming activities.
Amy and I look forward to continuing the discussion with everyone.


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Looks like Showcase is getting a jump on the competition, and Shaw really does seem to be trying to turn Showcase into a big player. Here's some highlights of things which will be happening over the next could of weeks:
- Burn Notice (Season 3) starts Tuesday August 30th (10pm)
- Royal Pains (Season 2) starts Wednesday August 31st (10pm)
- Warehouse 13 (Season 3) starts Thursday September 1st (10pm)
- Lost Girl (Season 2) starts Sunday September 4th (9pm)
- Covert Affairs (Season 2) starts Sunday September 4th (10pm)
They are already airing Haven (Season 2), so they've got a lot of stuff going on. Important things to note, if you're watching in HD on Shaw at least, those 10pm times above are a lie, as there is no western ShowcaseHD, so all those shows air at 7pm, and Lost Girl airs at 6pm on Sundays. The shows during the week actually air at 7pm and 9pm (10pm and midnight eastern). If you're not watching in HD then then times are correct in their ads, etc…
If you're paying attention you'll notice that it's Royal Pains season 2, even though Showcase didn't air season 1 (I think Global did last year), it's Warehouse 13 season 3 even though other seasons aired on Space or CityTV, so it might be weird to join mid-series if you haven't otherwise been watching. Both shows air on US networks which don't have a Canadian equivalent or broadcast partner.
The others are continuations of series which have aired previously on Showcase.
One really cool thing worth mentioning is that Lost Girl will have 22 episodes in it's second season, which is way above the typical specialty channel order of at most 13.
So if you don't still have series recordings set up, now is the time to get on that, and BREAK!*
* "and BREAK!" is a reference to the film Fired Up! definitely not one of the world's best movies, but funny and if you've seen it you'll know how hard it is to not use that phrase after watching the movie.


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Obligatory Starting a New Job Post
Whenever you switch jobs, there is a trend to blog about it. Along with that, there is a formula involved: announce, give history, praise current position, talk up new position, and finally recruit for your new company. So, as not to disappoint - and not to deviate from the formula, here I go... I've been working for, what I fondly refer to as $largecompany for around four years now. I started just as they were forming a new User Experience group lead by Stephen Anderson. Over the years, the group morphed and grew - and I've now been managing the group for a awhile.
What's great about starting with a brand new group is that you get to introduce the world of design, usability, and user experience to a fresh group of developers, project managers, and business analysts. And we did just that.
Four years later, and a re-org from technology to marketing, everyone from the marketing managers down to the developers ask for, talk about, and request our help and guidance. We've gone from "let make this functional", to "how can we make this better for our users". And that's a great thing.
Over the past four years, I've also fully enjoyed the people and culture at $largecompany. I've been apart of UX weeks, Hack Days, Dev Houses, speaker series, intern programs, World Usability Days, and more. They truly work to make $largecompany a great place to be employed.
Add to that all the great people I've met over the years - I've never worked anywhere where I've had so few "political" office issues. Which is a good thing - it leaves you to focus on doing great work.
With that, there was an opportunity too big to pass up. A traditionally brick-and-mortar company in the area, looking to compete and win in the digital space.
GameStop based in Grapevine, TX has over 6,000 retail locations worldwide and over the last 12 months, they've had over 9 billion in sales. That's a lot of video games (of which I've purchased my fare share).
Here's what's going on at GameStop:
- Thanks to Kongregate's traffic (which they just acquired) , GameStop now has another 10 million unique visitors a month to its already-popular web site. (link)
- TIME Magazine Selects Kongregate as One of the Best US Websites of 2010 (link)
- The new store is a model for how GameStop will marry online games with packaged goods. It has downloadable and Flash-based games on a web-connected PC. It has reward program kiosks, big displays for watching demos, and all sorts of other technology. (link)
- Based on the used inventory and trade in comp improvements seen over the last few weeks, we project that the used products category will increase between 7% and 9% in the third quarter. (http://seekingalpha.com/article/221383-gamestop-ceo-discusses-q2-2010-results-earnings-call-transcript?source=thestreet)
- During Q3, we will begin rolling out a buy online, pickup in store program, fully implement our royalty program on the web, incorporate the sale of Microsoft and Sony Digital add on content including STOA, full game downloads and launch our enhanced user social commerce features. (link)
- ...we are seeing a tremendous participation. We called out the number of transactions that include a PowerUp number. That gives us great visibility when over 50% of the transactions have a PowerUp number associated with them. So we can look at that consumer behavior pretty well. (link)
- ...In the last few weeks alone (8/2009), the company opened up a casual games digital storefront to enhance its PC games online storefront, appointed a new head of digital media, and claimed that it would become the world's biggest digital aggregator. (link)
- total market cap of all public games companies globally had reached $105 billion (link)
GameStop is a publicly traded company (GME), and also owns http://gameinformer.com/
A lot is going on at GameStop, as well as the gaming industry in general.
My new role will be Director of User Experience at GameStop, and I'm excited to be involved many of the things mentioned above - as both a UX Designer, and a lifelong gamer.
I have to mention, GameStop is close to my heart - I actually worked at Software ETC (which eventually became GameStop) while in college, and have held gaming as a hobby since playing games on my dad's Atari.
From a professional standpoint, moving to a consumer site is also something I've wanted to do for awhile. In my recent past, I've been working on "expert" productivity applications - and had a buffer between me and the final product. GameStop puts me much closer to having a strong positive impact on the final product.
Last in the formula, ...recruitment! Are you interested in any of the above? Do you want to work with some of the greatest video game brands in the world? A new team is currently being formed, and you could be part of it!
We're going to be working on a mix of design, user experience, e-commerce, social networking, user generated content, gaming... just about everything! We're helping to shape the future of a great brand.
Check out the job posting: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=1071759
And if you're a GameStop fan, don't hesitate let me know if you feel something is broken, I just might be able to fix it ;-)
Last, if you're interested in gaming - check out my new gamer news twitter account @gamerposts.


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I don't know about you but the start of a new year always puts things in a different perspective for me.
I'm more motivated to reach my goals, I'm driven and full of this renewed zest for life that the start of a new year seems to inevitably bring.
All this is well and good.
However, there's another thing that starting a new year always brings me, one that is less great.
The feeling of needing things.
That craving for all the things I don't have yet.
Maybe it's a by-product of all the holiday gifts I got that I love but didn't know I needed before I actually got them. I don't know.
I'm a minimalist at heart and I have very few things (compared to other North American people that is) but I still have too many -must haves- occupying my mind's space.
It may seem inconsequential but the time I use dreaming of those things I want is actually detrimental to me.
People often say that the only way to get what we want, whether it is a specific object or an intangible goal is to focus on it with an eagle like obsession.
I'm all for vision boards and other derivatives but I have come to realize that having them can be dangerous. Staring in the face everyday what we don't have yet is focusing on what we lack.
I don't want to be obsessed with what I don't possess. I want to feel the abundance of what life has already given me.
Getting rid of our material possessions may be hard but losing the mindset of always wanting is a lot harder.
There's a lot of things I want for myself this year, material and non-material. However I cannot be focused on my goals if I'm constantly working with an image of all the things I want in the back of my mind.
So I have come to a logical conclusion.
In 2017 I am going to start getting rid of all the things I don't have.
Who's with me?
Do you have wants and desires that keep you from enjoying the here and now?
I'd love to know your thoughts in the comments.
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Last week, I had the absolute pleasure of shooting Shelly & Daniel's engagement session on a cold, windy day in Boulder. Their wedding will be at the FABULOUS Della Terra Chateau in Estes Park this summer, and I can't wait to shoot there again! This engagement session was a ton of fun, and their enthusiasm and excitement (despite to frigid temps) was contagious. We realized toward the end of the shoot that we had kind of an unintentional retro storefront theme going on... love it! Thanks so much guys! I had so so much fun moving around heavy restaurant tables & playing around in abandoned amphitheaters with you :)
Ohmigosh... we were in the process of crossing the street when I looked back over my shoulder and saw this excellent Mexican restaurant glinting in the sunlight and I made us all turn around. I don't know who Juanita is, but I'm kind of in love with her for having such a sweet storefront. Haha... it was perfect. And now I really want to go someplace warm and sunny :)


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Check out some great exercises you can do as a team
Valentine's Day is right around the corner, and for most people that means a romantic dinner and gifts of chocolate, candy, or other sugar-filled sweets. But you aren't most people, and doubling your daily intake of sugar isn't your idea of a good time. Still, you want to keep this Valentine's Day romantic, right? You just want to do it on your terms.
At Promax, we get where you're coming from. No need to sacrifice a nice intimate evening just because you don't fall into the "chocolate roses" target demographic. So we've put together a list of some of the best exercises you can do together on Valentine's Day, in place of all those empty calories.
- We'll start off slow with the dynamic lunge. Stand facing your partner, about an arm's length apart, and hold each other's hands. Romantic, right? Lunge forward with your right leg as your partner lunges backward with their left leg. Reverse the motion, lunging backward with your right leg as your partner lunges forward with their left. Not incredibly challenging, but lunges are one of those exercises every beginner thinks they've got down, until they actually try them.
- Next we have the wheelbarrow pushup, which allows one of you to work on your upper body, while the other works leg muscles, and you both work your core. Start at the top of a pushup, and have your partner hold your feet in their hands. Brace your core, and do as many pushups as you can while maintaining your form. As you lower yourself down, your partner should simultaneously lower into a squat, keeping his or her arms straight. And once you're done? Switch it up and hold onto your partner's legs while they do pushups.
- You can also try the pull and release seated row. For this one, you'll need the complicated piece of workout equipment known as a beach towel. Sit facing your partner with the bottom of your feet touching, knees slightly bent. Each of you will grasp one end of the towel, and perform a back and forth tug of war, keeping your back straight and maintaining good posture. Pull the towel into your midsection, and then squeeze your lats hard as your partner begins to pull in the opposite direction. Use a three-count to coordinate your pull and release.
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Dear friends and readers,
I would like to focus this newsletter on the theme of patience. By way of explanation: I do not think that I have any special experience in this field, and I do not intend to offer you a treatise on the subject. But I recognize that we are facing multiple invitations to patience, so that it is just as well to face them with open eyes; to contemplate their fruits with joy, when they come; and to exercise patience precisely when we do not know how to manage our impatience...
1. Patience and IT novelties
Where shall I begin? I should say, with your patience, when, for one or two days, between Christmas and the New Year, you may have tried to open our website or send us an e-mail, and found that this was not possible. We were transferring the Library's Data Processing Center (CED, Centro Elaborazione Dati) to a new location with more spacious premises, so as to be ready to support the future development of our activities, and specifically to be able to house the digitized images of the Library's manuscripts and other materials. To be sure, we have been patient for a long time before reaching this goal which we have had in mind for years, and we are very happy that the wait has finally been rewarded and the goal achieved. I would like to thank those whose work has allowed us to make this difficult step forward: our superiors; the staff of the CED, which has operated with care and skill, and many others. We may truly say, in this case, that our patience was not in vain!
However, I must immediately add a clarification: more than a goal achieved, this is in fact a step towards a new departure, and our patience is already being put to the test again. What, indeed, has become of the major digitization project which has been announced many times already? On 21 October the Enzo Hruby Foundation, well-known for its work in the field of security in cultural collections, announced its contribution to ensuring the security of new buildings for the CED and of the premises where digitization will be performed. The media learned of this step forward and announced it as if we were going to digitize the eighty thousand manuscripts all at one go... Here, too, patience is advised, without denying, however, that something is indeed moving. In particular, the digitization of over two thousand Latin manuscripts of the Palatino collection has begun, thanks to a multi-year project generously supported by the Library of the University of Heidelberg. Other projects, including an initial, two-year phase of the global project (which has been prepared and piloted for some time now) are imminent, but I will announce them in the future, in agreement with the institutions involved.
In the meantime, I confirm that the Vatican Library has made the choice of preserving its digital reproductions in the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS), a non-proprietary format which is extremely staightforward and was developed several decades ago by NASA. It has been used for over forty years to preserve data from space missions and, during the last decade, also in astrophysics and nuclear medicine. I mention it here, not in order to bore you with overly technical details, but in order to point out that our choice has been noted also on the website of NASA itself [Vatican Using FITS to Preserve Manuscripts] and has received broad support among researchers dealing with digital conservation. We hope – though we realize that this prospect will again require a great deal of patience – that FITS will one day be accepted and certified as an international digital conservation standard.
The website of the Library is also being deeply restructured, in particular the catalogue section. In the coming weeks the new search platform will finally make its appearance, with thoroughly refurbished graphics and now including, in addition to the previously available catalogues for individual materials, also a specific catalogue for the incunabula and one for the archives (with a first set of data), as well as offering a unified search for the integrated catalog of all the materials in the library.
In addition, from within the Library, it is now possible to access various materials via intranet, namely a first batch of digitized manuscripts (in particular some volumes which can no longer be consulted directly for conservation reasons), and some electronic research tools (repertoria, periodicals, databases and e-books). We have observed that an ever greater number of readers is making use of these resources, and we intend to develop them further.
In these days we are also introducing into our website the possibility of making donations directly on line with a credit card (or via bank transfer). In the coming months – including some time set aside for patient waiting! – we will proceed to allow this type of payment also for the purchase of books published by the Library and for photographic reproductions. I am convinced that these innovations, by simplifying procedures, will be appreciated by the users of our website.
2. Publications
Turning now to publications, I wonder how much patience has been required of the editors, Francesco D'Aiuto and Paolo Vian, and their collaborators, to complete the Guida ai fondi manoscritti, numismatici, a stampa della Biblioteca Vaticana, which is now in print, but was begun back in 1999. It comprises no less than 1555 pages, including more than 500 pages of indexes, distributed in two mighty volumes (Studi e Testi, 466-467). In the Preface, the editors say that they are "deeply aware of the incompleteness and inadequacy of this tool, which aims to be a gateway to the many facets of a reality so great, vast and complex" as the Vatican Library with its various collections. But they also express the hope "that, despite all its limitations, the volume can be useful, and are convinced, above all, that in the future it will be perfected, completed, superseded by subsequent editions, which will be a mirror of the constantly changing reality which is a living library "(p. 8). For now, neither they nor we are thinking of future editions; but we congratulate them for the result: it is certainly a valuable "Guide" for the many who come to the collections of the Library and will be glad to be led by the hand into "a brief history [...] with precise instructions on the consistence, the events, the catalogues and the bibliography" (p. 7). We have been awaiting this publication for some time, whether with impatience or with resignation or with justified understanding; now it is here for our use!
It will be immediately followed by the Proceedings of the conference on "The Vatican Library as a Place of Research and as an Institution at the Service of Scholars", which was held in November 2010 (Studi e Testi, 468). We are delighted to have been able to promptly collect the contributions of the speakers and to offer our readers the results of those days of study regarding our institution and of shared joy about the reopening of the Library.
Also in preparation for the coming months are a volume of the Numismatic Cabinet and one of the Cabinet of Prints and Engravings. In the first, entitled Aurea Roma, which is to be published in co-edition with the Italian Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Giancarlo Alteri sketches the urban history of Rome through the papal medals, as suggested by the subtitle La storia urbanistica di Roma attraverso le medaglie papali. In the second, entitled The Papal Collection of Photographs at the Vatican Library (Documenti e riproduzioni, 12), Sandra Phillips introduces us to the knowledge of the important Photographic Collection of the Vatican Library. As we await the arrival of these publications with patience – naturally –, I would like to point readers to the list of our publications in our website; and remind them that in our homepage, in the section entitled "News Bookshop", our new publications are mentioned as they appear.
3. The Salone Sistino
In the press conference held on September 13, 2010, in the Sistine Hall of the Library, on the occasion of the reopening of the Library, it was announced that that room would in the future return to use as an additional reading room for printed books. In the past months, thanks to the generous involvement of the architect Paolo Portoghesi, we have been able to design its interior, with new shelving and work desks for scholars, and the refurbishment of the existing shelving. In the coming months, we expect to install the double glass wall separating the Salone Sistino from the galleries of the Vatican Museums. To make this work possible, we have received the initial generous support of the Fondazione Prosolidar (the Italian national foundation of the banking sector, made up of the labor organizations and the Associazione Bancaria Italiana in support of charity projects), which has found a way to bring together, under a single charitable initiative (L'ultima Lira), institutions which provide emergency relief (Emergency, Terre des hommes, UNHCR) and the Vatican Library. The joining together into an unusual but promising alliance of initiatives respectively addressing social and cultural issues is extremely significant.
Thanks to the humanistic spirit that has characterized it since its founding, the Vatican Library is an institution capable of universality and of encounters with humanity, and for this very reason finds its place next to institutions of international solidarity in a unique and convergent "alliance for man" . The reopening of the Sistine Hall will still require work and patience; but I do not think I need to insist further on these things...
4. People and donations
Already in the last Newsletter I mentioned our little ones which give cheer to the families of our staff. I would like to update the list, noting the arrival of Marta, Gabriele, another Gabriele, Pietro and Ruggero; and I am almost tempted to continue with the names of grandchildren and of so many other children...
Instead, I turn now to the grown-ups, to express our congratulations to Marco Buonocore, Head Archivist of the Library, whom the Pope appointed, on July 20, 2011, to be President of the Pontifical Roman Academy of Archaeology. Also, on December 22, Pope Benedict conferred the honor of "Cavaliere di Gran Croce dell'Ordine di San Gregorio Magno" on Stefano Righetti, the Library's Bursar, the honor of "Cavaliere dell'Ordine di San Gregorio Magno" on Luciano Ammenti, our Information Services Coordinator and CED Director, and on Marco Bargellini, Head of the Housing Services Office of the Governorate of Vatican City State. We have long awaited these awards, as a grateful reminder of the Library's renovation works which were completed in the fall of 2010. Here again, our patience has been happily rewarded.
5. Greetings and best wishes
I fear that I have tested your patience by dint of my own reflections on the theme of patience. But, as I write my closing greetings, I feel the need to touch on a point which has been in my thoughts: what of the patience we exercise towards our own selves? It is a patience full of expectations and wishes. Each one of us has projects and hopes, all of which bring their own lot of patience and waiting (and sometimes also of worry, anxiety or disappointment ...). However, I wish to maintain a positive perspective, that of constructive patience; above all, I do not want to impose a rigid pattern on everything, for I recognize that every constructive freedom is in movement towards an ideal, knowing how to face challenging waits and also how to receive their fruits with gratitude when they appear.
I would like to offer you a text which I refer to often and which can perhaps set the tone for the Christmas which has just been celebrated by Christians. It is a passage from the Commentary to Psalm 118 (VIII, 7) by Ambrose of Milan (ca. 340-397), in which the author comments upon the expression used by the Apostle Paul in his Second Letter to the Corinthians (6:16): I shall live among them and (as Ambrose accurately translates) in them I shall stroll. Here is his comment: The others complain about the small size of their fields; in you God has a large estate where he says that he strolls, i.e. that he finds the spaciousness of a large house, he who holds the entire world in his hand. The world is narrow, but you are for him an ample home. This is a very great aspiration, which echoes the paradise in which God walked in free intimacy with the man and the woman he had created (cf. Gen 3.8). My personal wish for each one, for the year just begun, is to advance with the necessary patience and - for that very reason – to be able to build many good and beautiful things, in ourselves and with many others...


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Prince Albert enters nationals with tonnes of pluses to lean on
|The Prince Albert Northern Bears should play with no fear at Esso Cup.
When the Prince Albert Northern Bears hit the ice at Esso Cup, they should skate like they have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
The Bears open play at the female midget AAA national championship tournament on Morden, Man., on Sunday, when they take on the host Pembina Valley Hawks, who are also the Manitoba champs.
Prince Albert has been in a holding pattern since sweeping a best-of-three Western regional playdown series at the Art Hauser Centre against the Hartney, Man., based Westman Wildcats on April 1. The Bears are heading to the national championship tournament for the first time in team history.
Pembina Valley clinched the Manitoba title on March 19, and they since participated in a pair of exhibition games against a pair of junior women's teams that are based out of Winnipeg. The last of those was held on April 14 in Morden, Man., where the Hawks thumped the Manitoba Blizzard 6-0.
The Esso Cup contains a field of six teams from across Canada. They play each other in a round robin, and the top four teams advance to the playoff round. The semifinals are held on April 28, and the bronze and gold medal games are both slated for April 29.
|Brooke Hobson is the Bears fearless leader.
All the teams at Esso Cup are good, and the squads at this year's event won't know how they stack up against each other until they start playing each other.
When the Bears take the ice at this year's Esso Cup in Morden, Man., they should just go out and rock and roll with no fear. Prince Albert built a 22-6 regular season record and a perfect 11-0 in the post-season by flying at opponents with four lines that all have speed. They also have a solid group of defenders and two goalies that can help transition play up ice or shut things down in the defensive zone.
The Bears, who are riding a 15-game winning streak, have many huge positives that are on their side. The biggest intangible is their culture is really good.
When you see the players interact with each other at practice, in games or away from the rink, the family feeling is strong. You can tell the players care for each other a lot, and that aspect alone will win you a lot of games.
Head coach Jeff Willoughby and his staff done a tremendous job in creating an atmosphere that allows their players to succeed.
The Bears players are all good and have all contributed to their team's success. All have grown immensely over the 2016-17 season.
|Abby Soyko topped the Bears in regular season scoring.
She also has the right type of confidence in herself and her team. On top of all that, Hobson, who had 11 goals and nine assists in 24 regular season games, is invested emotionally in the Bears program having played five full seasons with the team. The skilled rearguard will move on to play with the Northeastern University Huskies women's team in Boston, Mass., in the fall.
|Centre Kate Ball piled up the points on a high-scoring line.
In the Western regional series clinching game, Anderson tipped home a point shot from defender Jordan Ashe with two minutes to play to break a 6-6 tie and deliver the Bears to a 7-6 victory over the Wildcats. The Bears were down 6-3 in that contest in the third period before they rallied back for victory.
The Bears also have a great double punch in goal with Brooklyn Elek and Ryan Fontaine, and both have rotated starts throughout the regular season and post-season. As teams that make the playoff round will play seven games in seven days at Esso Cup, it is huge asset to have to goalies that can carry the load and rotate starts through the event.
|The Bears hope to celebrate a number of goals at Esso Cup.
With that said, you never know how strong the rest of the field could be.
Still, the Bears have had a highlight filled season. Sweeping away the Saskatoon Stars in the Saskatchewan Female Midget AAA Hockey League championship series was one highlight, because the Stars had won the SFMAAAHL title the two previous seasons.
The other highlights were playing in front of an estimated crowd of 1,000 in Prince Albert in their Game 1 win at the Western regional and an estimated crowd of 1,200 in their Game 2 win. Those attendance figures are almost unheard of for female midget AAA hockey.
They bested the crowds of just under 800 that attended each of the three games of the 2014 Canada West women's hockey final at the Rutherford Rink, when the University of Saskatchewan Huskies downed the U of Regina Cougars 2-1 in a best-of-three set.
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After UT received the Notice of Allegations from the NCAA on Wednesday, the question remains, what's next?
Specifically, what's going to happen to coach Bruce Pearl and the men's basketball program?
The allegations against Pearl detailed in the notice are severe and troubling.
Pearl's contract was voided soon after the university was made aware of Pearl and his assistant coaches misconduct. He is currently coaching without a contract. Yet why is Pearl still coaching at UT?
The answer is simple.
Just look up at the rafters in Thompson-Boling Arena. Or take a walk through Pratt Pavilion.
In six seasons, Pearl has made Tennessee men's basketball a national powerhouse. Just last year, the team reached the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament for the first time in the program's history.
But should Pearl's success on the basketball court make up for his transgressions off it?
No, of course it shouldn't.
While it would be naive to believe Pearl's win-loss record doesn't help his job status, hopefully it's not the deciding factor whether he coaches in Knoxville beyond this season.
Pearl's future as coach at Tennessee should be based on if he can keep the basketball program as one that competes for championships on the court and represents the university in a positive light off of it.
If Chancellor Jimmy Cheek, athletic director Mike Hamilton and whoever else is involved in the decision process can't be certain that's the case, the men's basketball program needs to go in a new direction, starting with a new head coach.
Ultimately, a decision to part ways with Pearl shouldn't be based on his lying to the NCAA, getting his assistant coaches to do the same and trying to get a recruit's father to go along with their story.
Tennessee already punished Pearl for those actions. He was docked $1.5 million and banned from off-campus recruiting for a year in September 2010. That was UT's punishment then. Severe enough or not, the university handed down the penalties it felt were warranted by Pearl's actions, knowing the NCAA was going to eventually bring serious allegations against Pearl his staff.
"We anticipate potential unethical-conduct charges to be levied against coach Pearl and several members of our coaching staff," Hamilton said in a press conference on Sep. 10, 2010. "As a result, we've decided that it's necessary to take serious and proactive action to deal with this misstep in judgment."
"... People make mistakes, and we all make them. I've made them. I make plenty. Bruce made one mistake in this incident, and he came forward to correct it. I'm glad he's our basketball coach. This is a tough time, but we're going to get through it together as an institution, as a basketball staff and as an athletics staff."
However, that tough time got even tougher for UT on Wednesday when the notice of allegations revealed Pearl and associate head coach Tony Jones had impermissible contact with a recruit just four days after the Sep. 10 press conference to announce Pearl had lied to the NCAA.
Still, for Pearl, he knows his actions have put a black eye on him, the men's basketball program and the university. The implications won't be known until some time after the school goes before the NCAA Committee on Infractions in June, but Pearl knew in September there would be consequences for his actions.
"I will serve as an example for the NCAA," he said. "There is greater scrutiny that is taking place in intercollegiate athletics right now, and in the long run this is going to be good for intercollegiate athletics."
Tennessee is now left with the question, is the men's basketball program, and more importantly the university, better in the long run with or without Bruce Pearl?
That question alone should decide Pearl's fate at Tennessee.