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Christ Among the Doctors
Predella panel of an altarpiece; companion to John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art (Cat. 18), and a panel in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (1731/5)
Christ Among the Doctors
Predella panel of an altarpiece; companion to John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art (Cat. 18), and a panel in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (1731/5)
Giovanni Toscani (Giovanni di Francesco Toscani), Italian (active Florence), c. 1370-80 - 1430
Made in Florence, Italy, Europe
c. 1427-1430Medium:
Tempera and gold on panel with horizontal grainDimensions:
7 5/8 x 19 3/4 inches (19.4 x 50.2 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Painting
* Gallery 312, European Art 1100-1500, third floorAccession Number:
Cat. 19Credit Line:
John G. Johnson Collection, 1917
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The Virgin and Joseph, on the left, encounter the young Christ, who is seated on a raised platform in the temple, as he holds a discussion with the elders, who are seated on what appear to be drums of columns arranged in a circle.
The story comes from Luke 2:41-52. After Passover, which the Holy Family spent in Jerusalem, Mary and Joseph set off on the journey home, not noting the absence of the twelve-year-old Christ. After a day's travel they returned to Jerusalem to search for him, and after three days found Jesus in the temple, disputing with the elders, which is the moment shown in this panel.
In Tuscany this scene is found in only the most complete cycles of Christ's life. Trecento examples by Duccio (q.v.)1 and Taddeo Gaddi2 place Christ off-center and emphasize the dialogue between him and his parents. In the Johnson panel, however, Toscani follows Lorenzo Ghiberti's depiction on the first doors of the Florentine baptistery (installed on Easter Sunday 1424), in which Christ is shown on a raised platform in the apse of a basilican-style temple.3 Yet whereas in the Ghiberti version the contact between Christ and his parents has not yet taken place, in the Toscani interpretation Mary and Joseph have found Christ and seem to gesticulate in wonderment at what they encounter as he continues to talk to the elders.
A number of the other compositional devices Toscani has used come from Masaccio's (q.v.) mural painting Raising of the Son of Theophilus and the Chairing of Saint Peter (c. 1425-26)4 in the Brancacci chapel of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence. For example, Masaccio chose a circular arrangement for those who kneel around the enthroned Peter, and he also enclosed that scene with a garden wall inlaid with colored marble, beyond which plants could be seen.
Bernhard Berenson (1908), in reference to the Presentation (Philadelphia Museum of Art, John G. Johnson Collection, cat. 18), which he had previously seen in a photograph, ventured an attribution to Masaccio. However, he changed his mind in Johnson's 1913 catalogue, calling both predella panels the work of "some mediocre, fluent little man inspired by Masaccio, but showing affinities with Giovanni del Ponte and the 'Maestro del Bambino Vispo [Gherardo Starnina (q.v.)].'" He suggested that this artist might be Andrea di Giusto, an attribution that gained currency because of his documented relationship with Masaccio. Roberto Longhi (1940) also noted the panels' dependence on Masaccio, but associated them with Arcangelo di Cola da Camerino. It was Luciano Bellosi's 1966 reconstruction of Giovanni Toscani's oeuvre that made it clear that the paintings were by him.
The predella to which the Johnson panels belonged also included, as Bellosi recognized, the Adoration of the Magi (see Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Felton Bequest, 1966) in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. The inclusion of Christ Among the Doctors suggests that the predella formed part of a very complete cycle of the infancy of Christ. A fourth scene would probably have shown the Nativity, and depending on the size of the altarpiece, another panel may have depicted the Flight into Egypt or the Massacre of the Innocents.
Given that the Johnson and Melbourne panels formed part of a predella most probably depicting the infancy of Christ, it is likely that the main scene of the altarpiece would have been an Annunciation, which represents the moment of Christ's Incarnation. If this were indeed the case, it may have been the now-lost painting commissioned by Simone Buondelmonti, probably for the now-destroyed church of Santa Maria Oltrarno in Florence.5 A painting of this subject by Giovanni Toscani has been recently identified in the collection of Georgetown University (see Washington, D.C., Georgetown University, Gift of Maria Coleman) and may have been part of this commission.6 Its width is right for the total length of the total width of the three predella panels. The fact that his biblical namesake, Simeon, is shown wearing a halo in the Presentation provides further possible confirmation of this identification. Left unfinished at Toscani's death in 1430, the project was subsequently handed over to Giuliano d'Arrigo Pesello for completion. In her 1433 tax return the artist's widow claimed that she had still not been paid for her husband's work on the altarpiece, which was then in possession of a certain Nicolai Niccoli.7 This may have been the humanist book collector Niccolò Niccoli, who was associated with Simone's cousin Cristoforo, the archpriest of Santa Maria Oltrarno.
One other suggestion for the main section of the altarpiece, put forth by Bellosi (1966),8 is a painting (present location unknown) sold at Heberle in Cologne on November 5-6, 1901 (lot 2 [as Allegretto di Nuzi (q.v.)]), which consists of a central panel of the Virgin and Child with angels and two lateral panels, one depicting a female martyr saint and Saint John the Baptist and the other Saints Peter and Paul. The lateral panels are by Giovanni Toscani, whereas the central panel is by an anonymous Florentine artist working in the International Gothic style. This painter could have been one of Toscani's more conservative contemporaries, such as Giuliano d'Arrigo Pesello, who completed parts of the Buondelmonti Annunciation left unfinished at Toscani's death. Carl Brandon Strehlke, from Italian paintings, 1250-1450, in the John G. Johnson Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2004, pp. 426-429.
1. Alessandro Bagnoli, ed. Duccio: alle origini della pittura. Cinisello Balsamo (Milan), 2003. Exhibition, Siena, Santa Maria della Scala, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, October 4, 2003-January 11, 2004, postrestoration color repro. p. 215.
2. Florence, Galleria dell'Accademia; Andrew Ladis. Taddeo Gaddi: Critical Reappraisal and Catalogue Raisonné. Columbia, Mo., 1982, plate fig. 6b-5.
3. Richard Krautheimer in collaboration with Trude Krautheimer-Hess. Lorenzo Ghiberti. Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology, 31. 3rd ed. Princeton, 1982, plates 30-31.
4. Paul Joannides. Masaccio and Masolino: A Complete Catalogue. London, 1993, color plate 96.
5. On the church, see Walter Paatz and Elisabeth Paatz. Die Kirchen von Florenz: Ein kunstgeschichtliches Handbuch. vol. 3. Frankfurt am Main, 1952, pp. 155-59.
6. Miklós Boskovits in Luciano Bellosi with Laura Cavazzini and Aldo Galli. Masaccio e le origini del rinascimento. Milan, 2002. Exhibition, San Giovanni Valdarno, September 20- December 21, 2002, pp. 60, 72 n. 19.
7. Cited in Gaetano Milanesi. "Le vite di alcuni artefici fiorentini scritte da Giorgio Vasari corrette ed accresciute coll'aiuto de' documenti." Giornale storico degli archivi toscani (Florence), vol. 4, no. 3 (July-September 1860), p. 210: "Più quando morì Giovanni, lasciò una tavola d'altare, dentrovi la Nunziata. Non va compiuta: die'lla a compiere a Giuliano dipintore nel Corso. La detta tavola è di Simone Buondelmonte. Non è fatto mercato; è rimessa in Niccolaio Niccoli." (Moreover when Giovanni died, he left an altarpiece, with an Annunciation. It was not finished, and it was given to Giuliano, painter in the Corso, to finish. The said painting belongs to Simone Buondelmonte. He has not paid for it; it is being held by Niccolaio Niccoli.)
8. Bellosi knew only an old photograph of the painting in the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence. A photograph in the Witt Library, London, identifies it as having been sold at Heberle in 1901.
Bernhard Berenson. "La Madonna pisana di Masaccio." Rassegna d'arte (Milan), vol. 8, no. 5 (May 1908), p. 84 (cat. 18; possibly Masaccio);
Bernhard Berenson. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings and Some Art Objects. Vol. 1, Italian Paintings. Philadelphia, 1913, pp. 14-15, repro. pp. 240-41 (school of Masaccio, possibly Andrea di Giusto);
Raimond van Marle. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. vol 10. The Hague, 1928, p. 304;
Bernhard Berenson. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places. Oxford, 1932, p. 12;
Bernhard Berenson. Pitture italiane del rinascimento: catalogo dei principali artisti e delle loro opere con un indice dei luoghi. Translated from the English by Emilio Cecchi. Collezione "Valori plastici." Milan, 1936, p. 11;
Roberto Longhi. "Fatti di Masolino e di Masaccio." Critica d'arte (Florence), vol. 5, no. 34, fascs. 25-26, pt. 2 (July-December 1940), p. 183 n. 23 (Roberto Longhi. Edizione delle opere complete di Roberto Longhi. 14 vols. Florence, 1956-91, vol. 8, pt. 1, p. 55 n. 23);
John G. Johnson Collection: Catalogue of Paintings. Foreword by Henri Marceau. Philadelphia, 1941, p. 1 (Andrea di Giusto);
Bernhard Berenson. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places. Florentine School. 2 vols. London, 1963, p. 6;
Luciano Bellosi. "Il Maestro della Crocifissione Griggs: Giovanni Toscani." Paragone-arte (Florence), n.s., vol. 17, no. 193/13 (March 1966), pp. 49-50, figs. 29a, b;
[Barbara Sweeny]. John G. Johnson Collection: Catalogue of Italian Paintings. Foreword by Henri Marceau. Philadelphia, 1966, p. 2, repro. p. 114 (Andrea di Giusto);
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 204;
Dizionario enciclopedico Bolaffi dei pittori e degli incisori italiani dall'XI al XX secolo. vol. 11. Turin, 1976, pp. 135-36;
Philadelphia Museum of Art. Paintings from Europe and the Americas in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: A Concise Catalogue. Philadelphia, 1994, repros. p. 235.
Companion panel for Philadelphia Museum of Art, John G. Johnson Collection cats. 18 and 19
Predella panel of an altarpiece: Adoration of the Magi. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Felton Bequest, 1966.
* Works in the collection are moved off view for many different reasons. Although gallery locations on the website are updated regularly, there is no guarantee that this object will be on display on the day of your visit.

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Tucker and Hemphill, Philadelphia, 1826 - 1838
Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
Hard paste porcelain, lead glaze, gilded decorationDimensions:
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Obama in Wisconsin: Al Qaeda has been decimated
**Written by Doug Powers
Earlier in Wisconsin, President Obama said this:
I was waiting for him to stop himself: "Did I say Al Qaeda has been decimated? I meant the economy… sorry." But it wasn't to be. Yes, Osama Bin Laden is dead, but making that synonymous with the decimation of Al Qaeda is not only ridiculous, but in light of recent events in Libya, outrageous and dangerous.
Using the obsolete definition of "decimated," Obama basically said Al Qaeda is at 90 percent strength. The modern meaning is "to destroy a great number or proportion of." The former isn't brag-worthy, and applying the latter is to exaggerate more than Joe Biden describing the size of the Romney/Ryan tax cut.
In addition to Libya, Al Qaeda and its affiliates are still very active elsewhere:
"Even as al Qaeda's leadership in Pakistan struggles to remain relevant, the terrorist threat we face has become more diverse," Olsen said. "Al Qaeda has turned to other groups to carry out attacks and to advance its ideology. These groups are based in an array of countries, including Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria and in Iraq."
Of particular concern is al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which operates in Yemen.
When Obama took office in 2009, AQAP was a newly formed affiliate, the result of a merger between al Qaeda forces fleeing Saudi Arabia and jihadists in Yemen. A locally focused group quickly became a more powerful al Qaeda franchise soon plotting attacks outside Yemen's borders.
First there was the failed attempt by a suicide bomber in the summer of 2009 to kill the Saudi prince who ran the country's counterterrorism campaign. By the end of that year, AQAP was behind the attempt by Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight as it approached Detroit on Christmas Day. Plans by AQAP to blow up cargo planes destined for the United States in 2010 and to put a suicide bomber aboard a passenger aircraft earlier this year were thwarted by U.S. and allied intelligence services.
UPI published this just yesterday:
Nearly a year after U.S. forces left the country there are signs al-Qaida is mounting a comeback in Iraq, a U.S. inspector general found.
U.S. combat forces left Iraq in December 2011 according to the terms outlined in a status of forces agreement. A quarterly report by U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen said the number of violent attacks in Iraq is up to levels not seen in more than two years.
The report said the civil war in neighboring Syria was contributing to regional instability.
"Domestic security also has declined amid regular reports of a reviving al-Qaida in Iraq," the report stated. "Overall in Iraq, violence this quarter was the worst in two years."
But after making an entrance today like the one in the video below, Obama wasn't about to go to the microphone and say "as evidenced by the Benghazi attack, Al Qaeda is still very much active." They say Team Obama's plan is to make him look more "presidential" now, and today in Wisconsin we saw Air Force One, a bomber jacket, confident jog, "Forward!™" signs (note the period has been replaced by an exclamation point for the final stretch) and teleprompters — reality can wait until after the election:
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Today's post is guest written by Exercise Blogga (Food Blogga's alter ego).
Good Morning! Did everybody have breakfast? Good.
Did everybody exercise? What? Why not? Don't you know:
- Exercise reduces your risk of cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes, and several cancers.
- Exercise helps you control your weight, improve your metabolism, and build muscle and bone strength to combat osteoporosis.
- Exercise alleviates stress, builds self-esteem, and helps you get a better night's sleep.
- Exercise will also make you look better in your bikini this summer. (Now have I got your attention?)
Weight bearing exercise refers to exercise in which your feet and legs are "bearing your weight," and your bones and muscles are working against gravity. Walking, jogging, and stair climbing are examples.
Resistance exercises refer to strength training such as Nautilus equipment or free weights (hand-held weights).
Of course, you should talk to your doctor before starting any exercise routine, especially if you have had bone fractures or have been diagnosed with osteoporosis.
For every positive reason to exercise, there are reasons not to, such as: I don't have the time, or I feel stupid going to a gym. Maybe I can help. I've been doing strength training and cardio 6 days a week at a gym for years now, and I love it. I didn't love it when I started, so here are my 7 personal tips for starting and maintaining a regular exercise program:
- Be realistic. You will fail if you set yourself up to fail. But you will succeed if you set achievable goals. Start slowly--perhaps 2-3 days a week.
- Be patient. Did you know it takes your brain about 3 weeks to develop a habit? That means if you can stick with an exercise plan for 3 weeks, the chances are pretty good you'll keep exercising.
- Select days and times you want to exercise and schedule it in just like you would any other important appointment.
- Resist giving in to the "I don't feel like exercising" feeling. Ask yourself, "What am I going to do instead?" If it isn't much better, then go work out, even it's just for 20 or 30 minutes.
- Do exercises you enjoy. If you hate running, then walk briskly. You'll be more likely to stick with it if you like it. Remember, however, that it's important to challenge your body with different exercises, so maybe 1 or 2 times a week, try something new like a spinning class or a few laps in the pool.
- Begin weight training with Nautilus equipment or free weights. Resistance training builds bone and muscle mass, makes you stronger, improves your metabolism, and helps burn fat even when you're not exercising.
- If you're a gym newbie, then consider hiring a trainer for 4 or 5 sessions to teach you the basics (many gyms offer this free with membership).
- Subscribe to a fitness magazine such as Women's Health or Muscle and Fitness, Hers.
- Believe me when I tell you, ladies, "You won't bulk up." You'd have to work out several hours every day, eat nothing but egg whites and plain fish, and have enough testosterone to grow a beard. I swear.
Eating well is an important part of any exercise plan, and protein drinks are a simple, healthy pre- or post-workout meal. Most protein smoothies are made with whey protein because it stimulates muscle growth and aids in recovery. If you're lactose-intolerant (like I am), then whey isn't an option since it's a by-proudct of cow's milk cheese.
I use soy protein instead; it contains all nine essential amino acids making it a "complete protein," and helps meet your body's needs in regards to building and maintaining muscle. Also, soy protein contains isoflavones which aid the body's absorption of calcium into bones and has been linked to a decrease in osteoporosis.
Soy protein is easily digestible and virtually tasteless (though flavored varieties are available). It is widely available at health food stores and organic markets such as Whole Foods. So why not give it a try?
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Place all ingredients in a blender and blend on high for 10-15 seconds until frothy. If you like it thinner, then simply add a little bit of water.
**I prefer both Organic Valley brand soy milk and Silk brand Soy Milk. Both are high in calcium and protein and taste great.
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Christians and the Welfare State
One thing that has happened in my mind as I reflected on the content of Kuo's book and on this discussion about "Red Letter" and "Black Letter" Christians is that I have continually been reminded of something I heard Tony Campolo say almost 10 years ago. He was talking about poverty and the need for the Church to be proactive in helping those who need it most. He said that for too long we have allowed the government to do what the Church ought to be doing, and that is to take care of "the least of these." We have installed a "welfare state" into our government - one that allows us to stop caring about actually engaging the poor and just allowing our tax dollars to do it for us.
And in that regard, what I am thinking is that both conservatives and liberals have allowed this to persist in our thinking and to undercut the work of the Church. Conservatives have decried the "welfare state" and asked for money through Bush's Faith-Based Initiatives so they can do it themselves, not realizing that money would hang like a carrot over their heads (and not considering if it was indeed ethical to take it at all). And liberals have allowed the "welfare state" to take on some sort of cult status as a fulfillment of the "Sermon on the Mount," thus helping liberal lawmakers to keep a strangle hold on disenfranchised voters, while pushing a morally corrupt social agenda. In this paradigm, both sides of the Christian aisle (so to speak) lose and neither is found to be fulfilling the "Great Commandment" or the "Great Commission."
Jesus did not call the Church to set up secular governments that would take care of the poor. He called the Church to feed the poor and take care of widows and orphans personally. And in doing so, to spread the message that "Christ is Lord," calling men everywhere to repent and believe. A "welfare state" ends up hindering this calling and hurting everyone in the process - the poor who are caught in the cycle of poverty, the low-income families who begin to despise those who use government money while they, themselves, struggle to make ends meet, the middle class who see many examples of corruption in the welfare system and begin to foster bitterness instead of developing compassion toward those less fortunate than themselves, and the rich who can buck their responsibilities to be good citizens because they know they are the ones footing the bill for the welfare state to exist.
This might sound harsh, but I think this is where the Church finds itself in the 21st century. What we must do as a Christian people is to stop letting the politicians do for us what we, ourselves, ought to be doing. For a better, more compassionate take on this, see an excellent article by Brent Thomas at his Colossians 3:16 site entitled, "Pure and Undefiled Politics?"


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In recent years, researchers in the messy world of biology have been able to build systems that function like the clean, binary switches on computer chips—and we've covered a number of reports in this area. Unfortunately, most of these share a significant limitation: they rely on proteins from bacteria that act as switches to turn genes on and off under specific conditions. We know about only a limited number of these genetic switches, which may set a severe limit on the number of logical operations we can string together inside a cell.
A paper in this week's PNAS describes a system that may allow us to get around this limitation. The new method takes a protein from a virus that infects bacteria and cuts it in two, making a pair of genes (A and B) that each produce part of the mature protein. The two parts then act as a biological version of an AND logic gate, with output (in the form of protein activity) present only when both A and B interact. When either or both A and B are missing, the output is off.
In biological terms, the inputs usually involve a simple molecule that can be sensed by proteins inside a bacteria. This paper, for example, used two kinds of sugars (arabinose and lactose). When the sugars are present, they attach to proteins inside the cell, activating genes that are controlled by those proteins. To make an AND gate, you need to design a bit of biology that can respond to both of these signals—it should be active only when both a gene regulated by arabinose and a gene regulated by lactose are each active.
This has been done in a variety of ways in the past, but the authors of the new paper (both faculty at Rice University) come up with a clever scheme for doing so. It's clever in part because it's so remarkably simple.
The uses of a T7 bacteriophage
The new work relies on a gene from a virus called the T7 bacteriophage that infects bacteria. Instead of relying on host proteins to ensure that its genes are turned into RNA (and thus into proteins), T7 carries its own gene for a protein that transcribes DNA into RNA. This gene, called (wait for it) T7 RNA polymerase, recognizes DNA sequences on the virus, sticks to them, and then starts copying the DNA nearby into RNA. If you move the sequences it recognizes somewhere else—into the bacterial genome, onto a construct you supply—it will start copying there instead.
T7 RNA polymerase therefore makes a good output. When it's active, you can use it to turn on a variety of genes, thus coordinating a significant response to your logic. But how do you get T7 RNA polymerase to respond to the two different inputs required for an AND gate? You break it in two.
Scientists who were studying T7 RNA polymerase had found that, during purification, it would sometimes get cut into two different pieces, one about four times the size of the other. Either of the parts on its own is inactive, but if you put them together they stick, and the resulting aggregate is active (that is, it would bind to the appropriate DNA sequences and start making RNA, albeit at a slightly slower rate than the intact protein).
It turns out this also works if the two parts are encoded by completely separate genes. You can encode the larger T7 RNA polymerase fragment in a gene that responds to arabinose and the smaller fragment in a gene that responds to lactose. A functional T7 RNA polymerase will only be present when both sugars are present, so you've made your biological AND gate.
By putting a fluorescent protein under the control of T7 RNA polymerase, the authors were able to show that this worked as expected. The cells glowed green only when both sugars were added.
That on its own is pretty good, although not so much better than some previous work in the field. The great part of this system is its flexibility. Because T7 RNA polymerase has been studied extensively, researchers have identified a variety of mutations that alter the protein's ability to bond to specific DNA sequences. A single change in the right location can thus switch T7 RNA polymerase from sticking to (for example) a sequence that includes GACG to one that includes the sequence GCAT. Other changes in the T7 RNA polymerase can alter the sequence it recognizes even further.
Instead of relying on different proteins for every logical operation you need to do (which will quickly exhaust your supply of tractable proteins), you can now build up logic using different forms of T7 RNA polymerase, each recognizing a somewhat different sequence. This doesn't necessarily help with alternate logic operations, like NOT, but having a larger array of potential tools can only make designing biological circuitry easier.
PNAS, 2013. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1220157110 (About DOIs).


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Take a new look at toile
Take a new look at toile, the traditional fabric that designers are revising with verve. First, a mini-history lesson. Originating in 18th-century Ireland, toile de Jouy (named after a French town) is a traditional fabric once reserved for window treatments or upholstery. Historically, the fabric featured monochromatic pastoral etchings in a repeated pattern against a cream or white background. Reaching the height of its American popularity during the Colonial Era, toile has at times been considered outdated, stuffy, and so not chic.
Well, a new style era has dawned, and toile is once more ready for its close-up. Technology now allows artists to create highly unique, colorful, and personal patterns that blow the stuffy old designs out of the water. Even renowned decorator Charles Faudree couldn't keep two of his loves—King Charles spaniels and everything French—separate for long, designing his own doggy-themed toile for Vervain called Cavalier Toile. With a lasting style that has become so customizable, toile is here to stay.
In this master suite, blue-and-white toile fabric by Hinson & Company was used for wall coverings, bedding, and furniture, creating a peaceful mood. The upholstered headboard is illuminated by sconces from Circa Lighting and accented by a painted wood arch. A blue-and-white needlepoint rug by Stark Carpet introduces a simple grid design underfoot.
Toile & Gingham Bedroom
In this guest room, toile encloses the bed niche with a contrasting black-and-ivory pattern. Coordinating gingham graces the headboard and lines the bed curtains. A large clock, once mounted on a public building, reflects the fabric's hues. A woven grass rug and tiled flooring underneath add texture to the space.
Feminine Lavender Toile
Fit for a princess, this guest suite features walls upholstered in a luscious lavender-and-lime toile that is repeated on the bed curtains. Lilac details throughout the rest of the room carry the toile's hue while incorporating some shimmer and sheen, like the satiny pillows and bedside table.
Custom Blue Toile Bedroom
Designer Joan Peters couldn't find just the right toile pattern for this Massachusetts showhouse guest bedroom, so she designed it herself. The pretty blue-and-white pattern depicts 48 icons of the Massachusetts peninsula, including the Provincetown Monument, lighthouses, and beach dunes.
"This room has a lot of light streaming in," says Joan. " It's impossible to use too much toile because it's so light and airy. It makes a statement but doesn't overwhelm the space."
Accent Toile
Toile can also be used as an accent piece rather than the main event. This master bedroom is "a complete retreat," says designer Eric Cohler. Walls and headboard, both covered in chocolate-brown fabric, blend together, leaving room to ramp up the contrast with creamy bed linens. Custom demilune bedside cabinets with shagreen inserts and mercury-glass tops add a bit of contemporary glamour.
Charming Green Toile Guest Room
Cocooned in green toile, this retreat has rustic charm and color to spare. The pattern covers the walls throughout and extends down to the matching bedskirt. Adding a dose of blue and white keeps the colors from becoming too saturated.
Color-Happy Toile
Toiles are monochromatic no more. An Asian-themed wall covering from Stark sets the stage for a lively mix of fabrics and patterns. The rug is from Michaelian & Kohlberg.
Royal Blue Toile Bedroom
Designer Mary Douglas Drysdale decked out this spare bedroom in intense blue-and-white toile. Reversed from its traditional white backdrop, this fabric breaks the rules and encases the space as the bed cover, bed curtains, and wall covering.
Brown & Cream Bedroom
Cream and chocolate tonal patterns dominate this space. Classic toile dresses the windows, while a damask weave by Scalamandré adorns the bed, creating movement in an otherwise quiet room.
Electric Watermelon & Green Toile
A vibrant toile of acid-green and red livens up the upholstered footboards, bed linens, and lofty window curtains in this Chicago teen's room. Bold colors update the modest pattern with a twist: The toile itself is sweet and feminine, yet the wild palette lends pizzazz. A collection of whimsical hot air balloon prints hangs on the far wall. Twin beds allow the bedroom to double as a guest room.
Contrasting Toile
A space does not have to be drenched in toile to be noticed. Soothing lavender walls provide a pretty contrast to black-and-cream toile, which is used sparingly for maximum impact.
Colorful & Sunny Toile
Zesty yellow fabrics from Lee Jofa and Schumacher brighten a guest bedroom. An array of colors pulled from the fabric's design appears in decorative spools of thread. Walls are painted white so as not to detract from the lively toile's impact. In addition to the four-poster bed by Hickory Chair, a daybed under the eaves offers a cozy sleeping space.
Masculine Toile Wall Covering
There's no question that toile makes a decorative statement with its delicate sketch-like forms rendered on an expansive field, but usually the impact is one of softness. Designer Michael Burg emboldened that effect by covering this gentleman's bedroom in not one but two layers of black-and-ivory toile, lined in flannel for a weighty, masculine appeal. The mohair-upholstered bed, sea grass floor covering, and glazed ceiling add texture.
Colonial Toile Bedroom
Back-and-white toile wraps this room in traditional comfort. Clean-lined bed linens, plantation shutters, and a pair of convex mirrors back up the American Colonial motif. Tall bookshelves make the space even cozier.
Blue-and-White Toile Bedroom
Blue-and-white toile wraps this bedroom in soft serenity. A toile ceiling-mounted crown lined in a coordinating print surrounds the tufted toile-covered headboard. The sprig of mistletoe hanging over the bed is a traditional nod to the holidays.
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Blue-and-White Toile Sitting Area
Here soothing toile extends to the bedroom's cozy seating area, with window treatments obediently following suit. To add a bit of unexpected variety, the floor is covered in playful leopard print carpet.
Radical Lime Green Bedroom
The wild lime green palette of this bedroom is a humorous twist on the bygone formality that toile used to represent. Here, the only conventional detail is the straight-laced bedside table.
Mixed Patterns in Blue & White
Four different patterns play in blue and white in this master bedroom. Toile is used at the headboard, balanced by clean lines on the checked bedspread and plaid bolster pillow. Setting boundaries with a simple color palette helps to keep the various patterns from appearing too busy.
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As I have been remembering and writing about hiking, and travels in my van, I have been reminded of something I haven't thought about for sometime. That something is how well I managed without much 'stuff.' When hiking, I carried everything on my back. I had a variety of clothing, a long sleeved shirt, a short sleeved shirt, one hiking skirt, one pair of tights, one set of rain gear (pants and jacket), two pair of socks, one pair of shoes, and a ball cap. For colder weather (New Hampshire and Maine) I added a winter ski jacket, wool cap, and gloves. That's it, one of everything I needed. The bedroom was a thin pad and a sleeping bag, kitchen a plastic bowel and spoon and one coffee cup, plus liter container for water. The medicine chest was anti-bacterial ointment and a few band aides and the repair kit consisted of duct tape. Personal hygiene was taken care of by TP, baby wipes, toothpaste, floss, and a toothbrush. Oh, I should add that I had a bandanna that doubled as washcloth and at times a towel.
The nature of these necessary items changed when I began traveling and living in my minivan, but everything fit inside. My dishes, cookware, and everything connected with a kitchen, except the food, fit in one large plastic tub. My clothes, summer and winter, fit in two smaller ones. I also traveled with a rather large library, as I am unable to forgo reading or books. And I had picture albums also. But now, stuff is again creeping back into my life. I have been an apartment dweller for over two years now, swearing after I finished the last thru-hike in 2007, that I would never go into the woods again (knowing full well I did not mean it).
I look around this efficiency apartment and see of all things, a bread machine, a microwave, on loan from the landlady, more dishes and glasses than I can use although I still drink my coffee out of the same plastic mug, and two shelves of spices I don't use. Hanging up are baseball caps, a collection of purses, many more books, a box full of earrings, and worst of all, two closets, which are full of coats and other clothing. In my defense I will add that I volunteer in a thrift store and it is hard to pass up a cashmere sweater for fifty cents, maybe up to $3.00. But I'm beginning to feel I have lost something, freedom maybe. And how many coats do I really need? Not as many as I have.
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This post is an introduction to how you can easily use the Design Manager alongside the web design tools you're most comfortable with to define your company's online brand using the strong content-management capabilities system that is SharePoint 2013.
With SharePoint 2013, you can brand your SharePoint publishing site using the web technologies you know, the tools you like, and the devices you want, making it easier than ever before to get started as a SharePoint designer or developer. And for current SharePoint pros, don't worry. The work you've put in learning SharePoint thus far is still very applicable and your knowledge of the SharePoint Publishing Page model is still incredibly useful.
This post provides an overview of how you can easily use the SharePoint 2013 Design Manager and Device Channels alongside the web design tools you're most comfortable with to define your company's online brand. While keeping the same page rendering infrastructure, we've made three major enhancements to how you brand a SharePoint Publishing site.
SharePoint still maintains its master pages and page layouts in ASP.NET, but now you can also design your master pages and page layouts in HTML, including using HTML snippets of SharePoint controls. In the background, SharePoint creates the corresponding ASP.NET file that it wants but that you get to ignore.
In the past, you could use CSS and JavaScript to style your site, but now those are fully integrated into your SharePoint web development experience. We did a lot of work with HTML previewing so you can style the HTML directly rather than having to use the server to see it. And if you do preview on the server, you can do so in the context of any SharePoint page of your choice!
Because we aren't assuming any SharePoint knowledge on your part, we have the Design Manager to help walk you through the branding of your publishing site. This Design Manager provides a wizard-like experience to give you SharePoint development guidance side-by-side with entry points for you to view and work with your design files. Each of the steps also has its own documentation article on MSDN:
Customizing the design of your site is more than converting HTML into ASP.NET. To help you be successful in creating your site, popular placeholders are ready and waiting for your content. When it comes to page layouts, we inserted all the page fields that are unique to the content type you choose--this way, creating your SharePoint design files turns into a matter of editing and tweaking rather than creating.
With the Snippet Gallery, you have a good starting point for adding SharePoint functionality to your site. For those of you familiar with previous versions of SharePoint, think of this as the set of controls that you'd access from SharePoint Designer--but a bit more than that. The Snippet Gallery provides an HTML version (including, in many cases, a static preview to show you what you're working with while you edit your file in something like Dreamweaver split view) of a set of common components--including all Web Parts from the Web Part gallery. For each snippet, you get to tweak its properties and simply copy it into your HTML master page or page layout, and in the background, SharePoint turns it into the ASP.NET control it requires.
Figure 1. At the top of the page of the Snippet Gallery is a ribbon of all the snippets. The body of the page has the snippet's description, properties and HTML code, plus a live preview. Every master page has the same snippet gallery, which is slightly different from that of page layouts--and the snippet gallery of a page layout depends on its content type (because the page fields change).
People are no longer simply accessing your website with their mouse on their desktop or laptop. It is a multi-device world out there: tablets, phones, and Surfaces, oh my! How do you create an experience for your users so that their screen size is best utilized? Optimized for touch-based devices? In SharePoint 2013, Device Channels help you present your site in the way best suited to whatever device a visitor is browsing from.
As the designer, you get to think about what the experience of your site should be on all different form factors, differentiated by user agent substring assigned to up to 10 different channels. Each channel can target multiple devices. For example, you can have one channel for both Windows Phones and iPhones because they are of similar screen size, and a separate channel for the iPad. You can use a different master page and CSS per channel, and you can also target content to particular channels, all while having the exact same URL (which is great for usability and search engine optimization).
By using the Device Channel infrastructure, you get the opportunity to use Device Channel Panels, which is a great asset for content targeting. Content that you put inside one of these panels is rendered only on the channels you specify based on server-side logic, which decreases the page load time and the number of bytes sent over the wire. Combining these panels with a responsive CSS design makes for a faster and more streamlined user experience.
Rather than having different channels based on screen size as in the previous example, you could have an "iOS" substring-based channel that captures iPads, iPhones, and iPad minis and sends a single master page that loads different CSS based on what screen resolution the device is. For example, if you were the Windows Phone team, you could target iOS devices and create a panel to advertise Windows Phone.
Figure 2 and Figure 3. Side-by-side design mockups of the browser and mobile experiences for a news site based on the Cross-Site Collection Publishing feature, using responsive CSS, Device Channel Panels, and a display template that changes the appearance of Content Search Web Part results based on Device Channels.
This post was an introduction to how you can easily define your company's online brand using the tools you're most comfortable with and SharePoint 2013's strong content-management system. To learn more, go check out all the content our documentation writers have written for you on MSDN. The articles Build sites for SharePoint 2013, Overview of Design Manager in SharePoint 2013, and Develop the site design in SharePoint 2013 are some great starting places. Happy designing!
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Did Bullying Lead to UK Teen's Suicide?
A 16-year-old high school student from the United Kingdom has taken his own life and his mother says he committed suicide because he was the victim of anti-gay bullying by girls who harassed him for two years, the British newspaper the Sun reports.
Anthony Stubbs went missing in November, not long after his 18-year-old girlfriend, Charlotte Mason, gave birth to their daughter Lilly. He told Mason that he was going to his mother's home but he disappeared until authorities found his body on Jan. 14 in the woods near his family's home in Leyland, Lancashire, which is in North West England.
Stubbs hanged himself and although he left behind a note, it did not explain why he took his own life. The teen's mother, Denise Machin, however, says anti-gay bullying lead to her son's tragic death.
"Anthony was getting bullied by girls for two years. He would get shouted 'gay boy' at, get slapped in the face, come home with his school jumper ripped and even got his phone stolen. He would be upset but pick himself up and go back the next day," Machin, 34, said. "I spoke to his teachers about it, but Anthony begged me not to get involved because it was making it worse and he'd get embarrassed."
Even though girls bullied Stubbs about his sexuality, he had been with Mason for two years. But Machin says their relationship only gave the encouraged the harassers.
"The couple did find it tough - Charlotte would even be teased with people shouting things like, 'You're going out with a faggot'," she said.
In Stubbs' note, he writes to his mother that no one should walk over her.
"Well, I'm gone but not completely. I will be watching over you and making sure you make the right choices," the note reads. "And don't forget me, I'm in heaven looking down. Please don't grieve and try to move on as best you can, I love you all so very much.'
He also wrote to his 4-year-old brother Oscar and says he should grow up to be a "tough" guy and that he could have his Xbox.
Machin admits, however, that she even had doubts about her son's orientation.
"To me he always seemed to have camp mannerisms and I always had my suspicions he could be gay," his mother said.
She found out that her son was flirting with boys on the Internet but didn't bring it up with him.
"He was still with Charlotte and I was worried he was confused about his sexuality," Machin said. "I kept it to myself as I didn't want to embarrass him or scare him off talking to me."
But when Stubbs told his mother that he was going to be a father, she decided to share her doubts with.
"He shouted that he wasn't gay and loved Charlotte, but eventually confessed he might be bisexual," she recalls. "I told him I knew he loved his girlfriend but that he needed to be honest with her."
When Stubbs disappeared, Machin and Mason found a strange text on the teen's phone and it turned out to be from a male.
"Anthony was obviously experimenting, finding out who he was," Machin said.
When Stubbs' daughter was born, Machin said things were getting better and he was very happy.
"He and Charlotte looked so in love so I thought maybe he had just been going through a difficult time and had come to terms with his sexuality," she said. "He was doing so well at school and looking forward to going to college. He wanted to get a good job and do everything he could for Lily and Charlotte. He was such a talented boy. He would compete in school talent contests and wanted to be an actor or in the media. He had his whole life ahead of him. He was so smart and funny."
Machin did add, however, that she believed her son was "good at hiding how he really felt and making everyone believe he was OK."
Nevertheless, Machin says she is "happy" that Stubbs left a note and she can take comfort in the fact that "he is happy now."
"I think his feelings for the same sex left him struggling to know what to do about it. I think it got on top of him - coping with these feelings, being a dad and being good to Charlotte. I think there should be someone in schools to support teenagers who may be going through this confusion."


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TRAINING: Getting ready for this fight has been a little different than the ones in the past; I've been cutting weight instead of trying to put weight on. I get up at 430 every morning to get to the gym by 5 to get my cardio in. It's been really easy getting up at that time because of my teammate named Travisio. He's a 20lb rooster. At 430 every morning, like clockwork, he starts crowing away! He's one of my most reliable teammates for sure. Haha... After my cardio I head back home for my breakfast that my wife has so kindly prepared so I can eat as soon as I get home and relax for a couple hours before my 1030 training session. That usually consists of mitt work and technical training (working on our game plan and putting myself in the worst possible scenarios, then getting out of them). After morning training, it's back to the house to eat again. Unfortunately, what used to be a small snack for me is now my full lunch... then it's more down time to let the body recover and get ready for my 4pm session. During this time I usually surf craigslist and backpage looking at guns, trucks, and quads that I can't afford, lol. (We all do it!!!!). Evening practice is where the hard sparring, takedowns, and ground work all get put together, and where you find out if you're a real man or just a eunuch who talks a lot (that's a dude with no balls for those who don't know). After practice the team takes a few minutes to talk about the training and how we can further improve. Then...you guessed it...it's off to the house to eat. Dinner is the crappiest meal of the day for me, because it's usually just a chicken breast and broccoli and spinach...boring!! Then it's family time, where I'm able to let my kids beat on me and my wife kiss on me. Then off to bed to rest up and get ready to do it again!!!!
When and why did you start training for fighting? I started training to fight about eight years ago when I went into a gym where Don Frye was preparing for a fight in Pride. I was a big guy who was a body for Don to beat on and I just kept coming back. I couldn't get enough of it.
What ranks and titles have you held? I held the heavyweight belt for Rage in the Cage, All Powers Combat, Don't Blink Entertainment, and for WFC.
Do you have any heroes? My greatest heroes would be my grandpa and my dad, who taught me to never give up and never give in no matter how tough things get, and to always be able to adapt and overcome.
What does it mean for you to fight in UFC? I'm both honored and excited to be fighting in the UFC. I grew up watching it and nobody can argue that it's the King of all MMA organizations. I realize a select few make it to this point and now that I have, I need to prove I belong among the greatest fighters in the world.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? I did go to college to get both my EMT and my Paramedic certification. I have countless hours of medical training through the Fire Department. As far as degrees go, I think I'm only two core credits away from an associates degree.
What was your job before you started fighting? I was and still am a full-time Firefighter/Paramedic for the Tucson Fire Department. I've been with TFD for ten years now.
Specific accomplishments in amateur competition? I had one amateur fight. I won by a 13 second KO and moved on to fight professionally.
Specific accomplishments in pro competition? I have held four heavyweight titles, each in different organizations. I fought for the IFL and have gone 2-0 under the Strikeforce banner, both by TKO.
Ranks in any martial arts styles: Rank of "Awesomeness" in Griggs' Freestyle Fighting.
Favorite grappling technique: head and arm choke
Favorite Striking technique: hit 'em in the head....HARD! Changes even the best fighter's gameplan.
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