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Three Days at Gettysburg, Part II
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In July 1863, Union and Confederate troops met in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and in three days forever changed the course of American history. Three of America's most renowned Civil War historians discuss one of the bloodiest and most haunting battles of the American Civil War.
Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man
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William Henry Seward was one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century: progressive governor of New York, outspoken federal senator, secretary of state during the Civil War and its aftermath, and a target of the assassins who killed Lincoln. Join us for an illuminating conversation about a complex and pivotal figure, Lincoln's closest friend and adviser, and an early architect of America's empire.
Screening and Discussion of Lincoln with Tony Kushner and Harold Holzer
Celebrating the release of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, the New-York Historical Society presents a screening of this monumental film followed by a conversation with screenwriter and playwright Tony Kushner and Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation with author Tonya Bolden
Celebrate the 150th anniversary of this essential part of American history with a special reading from Author Tonya Bolden! Hear Tonya, author of Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl, read from her new children's book Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty. Tonya will also be doing a Q&A, and signing copies of her book.
The Thirteenth Amendment
One of about thirteen manuscripts Lincoln signed in addition to the original, this copy belonged to Schuyler Colfax, House Speaker in 1863 and later Vice President under Ulysses S. Grant. According to Seth Kaller, president of Seth Kaller, Inc., who acquired the document for Mr. Rubenstein in a private transaction, and arranged its loan to New-York Historical, "this is the one that is directly traceable to a leader instrumental in the amendment's passage. It has not been displayed in New York for more than forty years."
The Draft Riots, Part II
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In the summer of 1863, in the simmering cauldron of New York City, tensions over the new Union draft law boiled over into a vicious, bloody, racially-motivated riot, the second-largest civil insurrection in American history after the Civil War itself. Experts examine the causes of the conflict, its sickening violence and the enduring legacy it left on New York.
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
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This program transports us to the 1963 centennial celebration of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation to explore how Americans made sense of the suffering, loss and liberation that had wracked the United States a century earlier. David W. Blight and Drew Gilpin Faust discuss how four of America's most incisive writers—including Robert Penn Warren, a white southerner who recanted his support for segregation, and James Baldwin, the searing African-American essayist and activist—explored the gulf between remembrance and reality.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
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This statuette, made in 1916, is the model for the colossal marble statue in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, of which Henry Bacon was the architect. From this statuette French made a model twelve feet high which was placed in the memorial. Both French and Bacon agreed it was much too small, so photographs eighteen and twenty fee tall were made and set up on the site. The sculptor and the architect agreed that the great pillared hall required the heroic size of twenty feet. The twenty-foot statue was completed in 1919 and installed in the Memorial the following year. The dedication took place on May 30, 1922.
Mrs. William Penn Cresson (Margaret French), daughter of the artist -original marble cut by Piccirilli brothers, NY for the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC.
Civil War Lecture with Randall Fuller Word for Word Non-Fiction at the Bryant Park Reading Room
In commemoration of the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Civil War, the Bryant Park Reading Room presents a lecture series by eminent scholars discussing their most recent works on the Civil War. In this program, author Randall Fuller will discuss From Battlefields Rising, his new book examining the profound impact of the war on 19th-century writers including Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Frederick Douglass, among others. This series is produced in partnership with the Bryant Park Reading Room and Oxford University Press.
Jane Schultz on The War within the War: Harriet Eaton and Civil War Nursing Word for Word Non-Fiction at the Bryant Park Reading Room
In commemoration of the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Civil War, the Bryant Park Reading Room presents a lecture series by eminent scholars discussing their most recent works on the Civil War. In this program, Jane E. Schultz, a leading expert on Civil War nursing, will discuss her book This Birth Place of Souls and examine one woman's critical role on the battlefields of Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. This series is produced in partnership with the Bryant Park Reading Room and Oxford University Press.

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The Adoption Program is our longest standing program. Through it, volunteers may earn a computer with 24 hours of volunteer time. There's information about this program on our website.
Volunteers in this program do many of our most critical day-to-day tasks, which largely do not require any prior knowledge of computers:
After adopters take the tour, they should each be given sheet listing Adoption Program Information. When they complete their 24 hours, volunteers are signed up for the FreekBox Adoption Class, where they will be united with their new computer and introduced to how it works. As part of the package, they also receive a year of tech support (assuming they have taken the class and do not substantially change the hardware or software).
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Indians earn series split vs. Team Victory
Posted: Friday, Jun 29th, 2012
BY: Aaron Crutchfield, Atascadero News
Aaron Crutchfield/Atascadero News • Atascadero High School alumnus Tanner Thompson puts the ball in play during Wednesday's North County Indians game against Team Victory.
TEMPLETON — With the way the Team Victory pitcher was dealing on Wednesday, an early 4-0 deficit proved to be too much to overcome for the North County Indians in what ended up a 6-2 loss.
It was only the team's second loss of the season against 15 wins.
"I hardly knew what to tell the guys," manager Dan Marple said after the game.
The Indians split the two-game midweek series against Team Victory, based in the Santa Clarita Valley, after a 10-0 win on Tuesday.
"We've had some close games after big scoring outputs," Marple said. "We were against a good ballclub and a good pitcher that goes nine innings. He was very effective, and he spotted his fastball and got ahead in the count, then threw the curveball and we were out in front of it."
The Indians scattered three hits throughout the first five innings.
The team finally got something going in the bottom of the sixth inning, when Mike Lovingston led off the game with a triple to deep right-center field. Ryan Rasolowski singled Lovingston home, eventually stealing second and third base. But those steals came as the Indians went from no outs to two outs, and he was left stranded at third base with an inning-ending groundout to shortstop.
The Indians finished with seven hits, but struck out nine times. No Indian reached base via walk, either.
Tyler Kollman reached on an error in the bottom of the ninth inning, and Brian
Mundell, who had doubled with one out, went to third, but a flyout that was too short to score Mundell made it two outs, and a game-ending groundout to short was the final nail in the coffin.
Meanwhile, Team Victory got its offense rolling a bit early, tallying three hits, a sacrifice bunt and a walk in scoring two runs in the top of the first inning, which proved to be all the run support needed. Three more hits led to two more runs in the second inning.
After a shaky first two innings, spot starter Cole Mauter settled down and pitched three scoreless frames.
"He was a little nervous," Marple said. "It was his first start. He's been doing a good job for us in relief, pitching two, three or four innings at a time. But when you give the pitcher the ball and say 'you're the starter,' sometimes they try to do too much, and that's what I think happened."
Mauter got the start because the Indians are playing 10 games in nine days, disrupting the pitching rotation. Marple said that after this weekend's two doubleheaders, the pitching is basically set for the rest of the season.
Team Victory tacked on a pair of runs in the ninth for the final margin.
Despite the loss, the Indians are still in a position of only needing to win one of their last 14 games to clinch a winning record in their first season in the North County.
"When I looked at the start of the season at the games we had lined up, 15-2 would have been icing on the cake," Marple said. "I couldn't be more pleased."
Tuesday's game was a little more positive for the Indians with a 10-0 score.
"We played a much better team than the score indicated," Marple said. "It was a fairly tight game until the fourth inning."
Mundell had a bases-loaded ground-rule double in the fourth inning for the Indians. But the big blow was from Paso Robles' Mac Stuart, who followed Mundell's double with a three-run blast over the left-center-field fence. It was Stuart's second home run of the season. He later added a double and finished the game 3-for-5 and just a triple shy of hitting for the cycle.
San Luis Obispo's Louie Carlos started on the mound for the Indians. After squirming out of trouble in the first when he walked two and hit one batter, Carlos settled down to allow only two hits in seven strong innings. But it was back in the first inning when Carlos really had to bear down and do some pitching. With the bases loaded and one out, he was able to get an inning-ending double play.
"Louie seems to move the ball more when he is a bit tired," Marple said. "As the pitch count rose, he became more effective."
Atascadero's Aaron Womack finished up the game on the hill throwing two scoreless innings. The Indians collected 14 hits with no errors.
The Indians' weekend series include a doubleheader on Saturday against Neptune Beach Pearl, with the first game starting at noon. On Sunday, the Indians are set to host the Menlo Park Legends in a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.
All games are played at the Vineyard Athletic Park in Templeton. For more information, call 835-6135 or go to www.northcountyindians.com.
Meagan Friberg contributed to this report.
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Almost four decades ago, during America's worst economic period since the Great Depression-- David P. Calleo, Harold Van B. Cleveland, Charles P. Kindleberger and Lewis E. Lehrman wrote the first edition of this book in 1976. Now, in 2012, one is tempted to quote the inimitable Yogi Berra: "This is d�j� vu all over again." The four essays by each contributor with a new foreword and afterword by Lewis E. Lehrman details how American and world prosperity depend on monetary reform, Federal Reserve reform, and restoration of international monetary order. Available Now on Amazon.com
Students of Abraham Lincoln know the canon of his major speeches — from his Lyceum Speech of 1838 to his "Final Remarks" delivered from a White House window, days before he was murdered in 1865. Less well-known are the two speeches given at Springfield and Peoria two weeks apart in 1854. They marked Mr. Lincoln's reentry into the politics of Illinois and, as he could not know, his preparation for the Presidency in 1861. These Lincoln addresses catapulted him into the debates over slavery which dominated Illinois and national politics for the rest of the decade. Lincoln delivered the substance of these arguments several times — certainly in Springfield on October 4, 1854, for which there are only press reports. A longer version came twelve days later in Peoria. To understand President Abraham Lincoln, one must understand the Peoria speech of October 16, 1854. It forms the foundation of his politics and principles, in the 1850s and in his Presidency. Available Now on Amazon.com
The True Gold Standard. Buy it... it is a compelling read and a compelling architecture for a way forward." � Lou Dobbs, Lou Dobbs Tonight - Fox Business News In the Newly Revised and Enlarged Second Edition There are a few lessons to take away. One lesson of this book is that, contrary to conventional academic opinion, the quantity of money in circulation is not the problem. The problem of monetary disorder is how money is issued. The True Gold Standard by Lewis E. Lehrman endeavors to answer these questions and more.


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Tell your special someone you love them this Valentine's Day with this one-of-a-kind heart card.
Tools and Materials
Heart template
Printer or copier
Craft knife or scissors
Bone folder
Sewing machine or needle and thread
Large sheet of red oak tag
Organza or other lightweight fabric
Craft glue
Large sheet of red paper
Double-sided adhesive
Double-sided tape
Embellishments, decorations, small handmade flowers
Floral tape
Frog closure
Personal photo (optional)
Card How-To:
1. Enlarge heart template 300 percent on a printer or copier. Print the template onto several sheets of paper and tape the pieces together to make one large template.
2. Trace full template onto a large sheet of red oak tag. With a bone folder, score oak tag on fold (dotted) lines.
3. Cut traced shape from oak tag. Fold the two flaps created by the folds in toward the center, creating the front "doors" to the heart card.
4. Cut a thin, lightweight fabric into 2-inch strips. Sew a running stitch along one side of each strip, about 1/2 inch from the edge.
5. Glitter the opposite edge (the edge without stitching) of the fabric strips.
6. To form a ruffle, pull the end of the running stitch thread while holding the end of the fabric strip, gathering the fabric.
7. Add a line of glue along the running stitch on the ruffles. Glue the ruffles around the outside edge of the heart doors. Hold down and apply pressure for a few seconds to secure.
8. Trace No. 2 heart from heart template on red paper, and cut out.
9. Apply double-sided adhesive to back of red paper heart No. 2 and trim excess.
10. Cut paper heart No. 2 in half.
11. Stick each paper heart half to each front door, hiding the stitched edges of the ruffles and lining up the heart halves in the center.
12. Trace No. 3 heart from heart template on organza fabric (iron fabric first, if wrinkled). Apply double-sided adhesive to one side of the fabric. Glitter the outside edges of this heart. Cut organza heart No. 3 in half. Stick each heart half to the center of each front door, over the red paper heart, lining up the heart halves in the center.
13. Add decorations and handmade flowers to the front of the card. Tip: To get a long stem on flower, wrap wire with floral tape and keep going until desired length is reached.
14. Use the No. 4 or No. 5 hearts from theheart template to create a pocket on the inside; fasten the bottom edges of the heart to inside of the card with double-sided tape. Place tickets or coupons inside the pocket. Affix a heart-shaped cutout of a photo to the front of the pocket, if desired.
15. Glue each side of a frog closure to each door; fasten the frog to secure the flaps closed.
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Tell your special someone you love them this Valentine's Day with this one-of-a-kind heart card.
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Just Write It! A Fantasy Author and His Impatient Fans
George R. R. Martin has now sold more than fifteen million books worldwide, and his readership will likely multiply exponentially after the launch, this month, of "Game of Thrones," a lavish HBO series based on "A Song of Ice and Fire." He is committed to nurturing his audience, no matter how vast it gets. "It behooves a writer to be good to his fans," he says. Still, a close relationship with one's audience has its drawbacks. As Martin puts it, "The more readers you have, the harder it is to keep up, and then you can't get any writing done."
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The Closer (TNT) — Season finale. Don't even think about commenting on Kyra Sedgwick's daughter (Sosie Bacon); she doesn't turn 18 until next March. Not that I'm keeping track of these things. Ha ha, I mean, why would I be interested in an attractive young woman named Bacon? Hey, look over there! *runs away*
The Sing-Off (NBC) — Live finale. I was dismayed by how many people I saw talking about this on Facebook. Stuff like that really makes me hate the Nazis. If they hadn't gone and ruined the idea of concentration camps, we could peacefully separate a capella groups from society.
Men of a Certain Age (USA) — Whoops, still haven't watched it. Oh well.
Ronna & Beverly (Showtime) — This pilot that wasn't picked up has been described as a Jewish "Absolutely Fabulous" and will air at midnight. I'm skeptical, but comedy geeks seem to be excited about it.
Intervention (A&E) — Some retard got hooked on drugs. Will his family be able to save him? No, probably not.
Monday Night Football (ESPN) — Giants at Redskins. I'll be watching at a bar, mourning the playoff losses of both my fantasy teams. Let's hear it for the losers' bracket!
Little Chocolatiers (TLC) — Just a reminder: this actually exists. Set your DVRs. The one-hour special will be restrained and respectful, as a story about little people making candy should be. Isn't that right, ROALD DAHL?


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It's budget season on Beacon Hill again. And it's apt that it should coincide, roughly, with the run-up to area colleges' final exams. After a semester of lying around and drinking, the legislature now has to pull a week of harried all-nighters before it can knock off work for the summer.
In broad strokes, this year's House budget is big but not unduly wicked big, is unkind to out of state corporations, hates smokers, and offers, in Speaker Sal DiMasi's own estimation, "nothing spectacular about any new initiative." But you already knew that already.
So, in the interest of wrapping up the week with some semi-original reporting, here's a few of the more interesting budget skirmishes to keep an eye on in the upcoming weeks. Continue reading


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Price: $22.95
If you like to play with fibers and explore new techniques for adding color and texture, this is an excellent source of "how-to" information, featuring 27 techniques described by beautiful photographs and step-by-step instructions. Amaze yourself with the exciting fabrics you can fashion into a journal, a quilt, a wall hanging, a garment — whatever you desire. Methods are easy and intriguing:
- Watch spontaneous designs develop when you try lasagna painting, monoprinting, splash and puddle, and other unique techniques.
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ARLINGTON -- Abram Street though downtown won't be rebuilt for at least another four years, but city leaders are already beginning work to determine how the thoroughfare can better serve vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists.
Earlier this month the Arlington City Council approved a $55,000 contract to study how traffic downtown could be affected if Abram Street between Cooper and Collins streets were reduced from four lanes to three or two lanes. The traffic analysis, expected to be complete by the end of this year, will include models showing Abram with wider sidewalks, more landscaping, additional on-street parking, bike lanes and even transit stops."Everybody agrees it's not the most aesthetically pleasing roadway. With the Levitt Pavilion, improvements along Center Street and the new businesses coming, we need to upgrade the roadway to fit the environment it's in," said Keith Melton, Public Works and Transportation director.In 2008, Arlington voters approved nearly $22 million to rebuild Abram Street from Cooper Street to the Grand Prairie city limits. The road, previously a state highway, is in poor condition, Melton said.The work will be done in three phases, with the section from Texas 360 to the eastern city limits to be rebuilt and widened to six lanes first. That project is expected to go out for bid later this year.The section from Texas 360 to Collins Street will be rebuilt during the second phase, which includes construction of a new, higher bridge over Johnson Creek to prevent the roadway from flooding during storms, Melton said.That project is expected to go out for bid next summer or fall.Public opinionConstruction on the downtown section of Abram, however, isn't expected to begin until at least 2015, after the other two sections are completed, and would be finished by the end of 2016."We don't want to have all of Abram tore up at once," Melton said.After traffic analysis, the city expects to begin collecting public comments early next year on what the new roadway should look like --- such as what landscaping and pedestrian amenities residents and business owners want to see.More studying and planning are necessary, city leaders say, because the section of Abram that runs through downtown could have significant influence on redevelopment.Arlington anticipates spending roughly $4.4 million of the $22 million in bond funds on the downtown section.Downtown Arlington Management Corp., a nonprofit economic development agency that supports downtown businesses, is pushing for Abram to become more pedestrian-friendly. Downtown businesses and entertainment venues, such as the Levitt Pavilion across from City Hall, would benefit if visitors, college students and residents felt safer walking to them, said Tony Rutigliano, the group's executive vice president."For me and for most folks you talk to in downtown, Abram Street has become our Main Street. It's where the development is occurring," Rutigliano said.'Destination road'Right now, many people see Abram Street as just a way to get to Texas 360, Rutigliano said. The downtown group wants to see changes made where Abram could be closed down to traffic for festivities, such as Fort Worth does for the Main Street Arts Festival."It doesn't have the right feel for a downtown thoroughfare now. It's more of a pass-through road than a destination road right now," he said.Arlington resident Jerry Sanders, who works downtown, said he would prefer Abram to remain four lanes and added that he does not support adding designated bike lanes."The bikes shouldn't be allowed on the street," said Sanders, who was eating lunch at Twisted Root Burger Co. on Abram.Sanders said he feels cyclists are a hazard to motorists and are not financially supporting road repairs because they didn't have to pay taxes at the gas pump. "They take up the road. They run through stop signs. They use our roads, and they don't pay for it."Susan Schrock, 817-709-7578Twitter: @susanschrockHave more to add? News tip? Tell us


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New senator holding meeting Feb. 8 at Port Orchard coffee shop
February 7, 2013 · 10:10 AM
New 26th Legislative District State Senator Nathan Schlicher, D-Gig Harbor, has set his "Coffee on the Corner" meeting from 2:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, at the Whiskey Gulch Coffee Co., 2065 Bay Street, Port Orchard.
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It is famous for its stunning scenery and traditional mud-brick buildings.
But environmentalists say Egypt's Siwa oasis is under threat as local people increasingly use modern materials, instead of the locally-sourced salty 'karshef' rocks to build with.
Karshef, made up of fossilized salt that settles on the shores of Siwa's salt-water lakes, is mixed with mud and water and used to construct low-rise buildings with thick walls and shallow foundations.
Wooden beams for the ceilings and palm thatch for the roof are the only other materials used.
Environmentalist Mounir Neamatalla came to Siwa in the 1980s and built an eco-lodge as part of a mission to conserve the cultural and environmental heritage of this part of Egypt.
"One of the most important issues that brought us here to Siwa was protecting the architectural heritage of the oasis. The oasis has a special architectural heritage and a way of building that is unique in the world. People here build with a material called karshef which is fossilized salt with mud. In recent years, only a small number of people have been interested in protecting this way of building and they continue to live in houses or create commercial buildings made of karshef, but most people have decided to go for steel and cement," he said.
Although the thick walls keep the buildings warm in winter and cool in summer, life can be uncomfortable in karshef housing. The mildest breeze blows sand from the walls and subsidence is commonplace.
The increased digging of wells by farmers and commercial water-bottling companies means the land is getting wetter, causing the soft karshef constructions to sink.
"The reason is firstly, the builders are not here anymore and the other reason is that the land has become more humid - before there was no humidity. So people abandoned karshef and started building with stone and now people no longer learn to build with karshef, they learn the modern techniques. The old technique is hard," said builder Amr Hamza Himeda.
Karshef constructions have to be built in stages, with each half-meter high section left to dry for a week before the next layer can be added.
It takes six months to build a one-story house and a year to build two floors.
Local landowner Hasan Kilany said permission to demolish traditional buildings and erect modern ones in their place was easy to come by.
And like other Siwans, he said he had opted to build his house with modern materials, which were cheaper and more readily available.
"These days, nobody builds with karshef anymore. The foreigners who come like karshef. They buy land and build with karshef. But because it's expensive, everyone here builds with bricks and cement," he said.
As Siwa's traditional buildings gradually disappear, environmentalists say that without government intervention, locally-sourced karshef will soon be used for nothing more than the building of tourist holiday homes.


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It was the first time we stayed at Santika Makassar. The lobby is nothing special, rather small. The front desk was just okay. The lady who served me could not read the situation that I just wanted to go to my room as soon as possible. She kept explaining about the hotel's facilities. The room was rather plain with standard... More
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- Enjoying beautiful views of the beach and Makassar City, Hotel Santika Makassar provides free Wi-Fi and a relaxing hot tub in its spa. Featuring a modern exterior, it also has a fitness centre and business centre.The contemporary air-conditioned rooms all come with a satellite TV. Some enjoy city views from a high floor. En suite bathrooms come with a shower.Hotel Santika Makassar is a 5-minute walk from Rotterdam Fort in Losari Beach. It is a 10-minute drive from Trans Studio indoor theme park and a 30-minute drive from Sultan Hasanuddin Airport.Kafe Kalosi serves Chinese and Continental dishes, as well as exotic Tana Torajan coffee. Barbecue parties, wine and cigars can be enjoyed at Spermonde Rooftop Lounge.Guests can request for laundry services, or make use of the hotel's meeting rooms. The front desk operates 24 hours. Room service is available. ... more less
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Generations meld over ice cream
My Grandpa, Millerd Van Donge — "Gramps" to all his grandchildren, moved here as a senior in high school from Cove, Ore., during the depression in 1929.
What's in a name?
I honestly never saw this coming. While I often publicly have fun at my own expense, it's typically of my own choosing. And this was not my choice, by any means.
'Deli Debi' dishes out great food, service
The manager of Harvest Foods' deli preaches respect and a strong work ethic.
Salads, picnic food or hot soup in the cold winter — certain foods just make you happy. The deli at Walla Walla's Harvest Foods can supply you with mood-lightening fare for all occasions.
Etcetera - 5/21/13
Although initially mentioned in an off-hand manner, 10-year-old Olivier Nicault took his jesting grandparents' invitation to finish his fifth-grade school year with them quite seriously.
'Anodyne' is a modern link to old-school 'Zelda' games
Wow, "Anodyne" sure took me by surprise. In fact, surprise is the word that I keep coming back to when I think about "Anodyne."
Persistent low pressure to fill Northwest with gloom
Think spring sunshine has finally taken hold in the Northwest? Think again. A deep, cold and unseasonably potent low-pressure system is forecast to drop south and east from northern British Columbia and position itself off the coast of northwestern Washington this week.
Out to pasture on a four-wheeler
"Ernie, how about taking a ride on the four-wheeler?" my nephew, Loren, asked me that warm summer day.
Bringing a new apple to stores everywhere
When I was young, my family ate a lot of Red Delicious apples. The apples were big and eye-catching, but in my opinion their eating qualities left something to be desired. Still, they gave us a reasonably economical and convenient fruit choice, and we were glad to have them.
Etcetera - 5/14/13
With planet exploration in mind, the Barcenas clan uprooted from its Walla Walla home in 2012 to embark on a grand two-year tour.
Valley residents get their warm-weather kicks at the pool
'What was your favorite childhood activity?" I asked my mom, Linda Mobley. Of course I already knew what the answer would be: the Nat.
For pets, Penrod Kennels is a day at the park
MILTON-FREEWATER — Penrod Kennels is a place where pets can go to be themselves.
Will work for brains?
Dear John, I enjoyed this past season of "The Walking Dead," and could not help but wonder what I would do in a zombie apocalypse. What piqued my curiosity the most was the times when zombies were used as tools by the humans. Would it be legal to own a zombie after they rise up from the dead?
Heat benefits plants, Stampede crowds, sales of Natty Boh
Now that your weatherperson has single-handedly derailed the ill-advised Rose Street reconfiguration plan with his hard-hitting commentary in last week's column, he has been urged by many to tackle other thorny and long-unresolved issues that continue to pester the world: Concerns such as the whereabouts of Jimmy Hoffa, long-standing animosities in the Middle East and the stunning inability of home plate umpires to call balls and strikes in any consistent manner — the last of which is possibly the most annoying of all.
The hole picture: When the earth gives that sinking feeling
Sometimes "solid rock" turns out to be anything but sturdy stuff.
The ups and downs of local ballooning over the years
One of the many benefits of springtime in Walla Walla is spotting hot air balloons in the sky first thing in the morning.
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National Resistance Movement (NRM) councilors in Bushenyi district are up in arms with the party secretariat protesting non payment of their money meant for facilitation during the 2011 general elections.
124 NRM councilors are demanding over 70 million shillings from the secretariat and the district party boss. Each of the councilors was supposed to get Uganda Shillings 500,000 to campaign for the party.
Since then, majority of the councilors have been complaining about the facilitation but with no positive response.
This has forced the aggrieved councilors to storm the office of the area resident district commissioner Gaston Maliro to express their dissatisfaction with the party for which they worked hard to win the polls. The party emerged victorious with 68% of the votes in the 2011 presidential elections and with over 220 seats in parliament.
In their petition handed over by Mrs.Twine Mutyaba alias Mama Kyama, the councilors accuse Hassan Basajjabalaba, the district NRM chairperson of deliberately refusing to meet them despite several requests.
Kakuru Katawire Benon, speaker Kyabugyimbi sub county council, alleges that last year, the party chairman only paid the Ishaka-Bushenyi municipality councilors where his young brother, Nasser Basajjabalaba was seeking election.
Basajjabalaba was later elected as MP but his election results were cancelled by the Court of Appeal over election bribery and he is now seeking re-election in the same constituency.
Alex Kiiza and Kamagara Winnie, the councilors representing Kyamuhunga and Nyabubare sub counties say they are ready to demonstrate and surrender their party cards if their money is not released immediately.
When contacted for a comment, RDC Maliro said he was in touch with the NRM Secretariat in Kampala to have the councilors paid but was not sure when the money would be released.
Basajjabalaba could not be reached as his known telephone numbers unavailable.


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This week in print: Elections in Venezuela and Mexico, crime in Honduras, Brazil's public-sector wages and the Falklands
MOST presidents running for re-election are mainly concerned with beating their opponent. Hugo Chávez must vanquish two adversaries: the challenger, Henrique Capriles, and cancer. This week's issue of The Economist explores how this most unusual campaign is shaping up. It also includes stories on Mexico's presidential election, crime in Honduras, public-sector wages in Brazil and a self-determination referendum in the Falkland Islands.
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Rihanna's Pricey New Album
By: Big 2 News Staff
Updated: November 1, 2012
The new C-D, "Unapologetic," comes in a "Diamonds Executive Platinum Box." It also includes a 40-page custom notebook from the singer containing lyrics and notes; a hand-written note to fans; a t-shirt; a U-S-B drive; a View Master featuring 3-D images of Rihanna and a few other items.
If you can't swing 250-dollars but don't want to settle for just the album, there's also a "Diamonds Deluxe Edition Box" for 75-dollars.
The album will be released November 19th.


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Requirements for the Undergraduate Certificate
The Undergraduate Certificate requires a total of eighteen (18) credits in courses chosen from an approved list, including one course in History & Social Science, one course in Religion & Culture, and additional elective courses. The coursework consists of:
1. Core Course
LCA 266, Topic: Introduction to the Middle East (J. Loewenstein). 3 credits.
LCA 2xx, Introduction to the Middle East. (Schamiloglu & Morgan or Center for Middle East Studies staff). 3 credits.
2. Language
The second semester of a Middle Eastern language taught at the UW-Madison (or the equivalent, to be determined by examination). Normally the Middle Eastern language chosen will be Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, or Turkish in the following course sequence:
Other Middle Eastern languages may be substituted with the permission of the undergraduate adviser. The credits for this requirement do not count towards the 18 credits required for the Undergraduate Certificate.
3. History & Social Science
Choose one course (3 credits) in History & Social Science. Click here for the approved list of course. 4. Religion & Culture
Choose one course (3 credits) in Religion & Culture.Click here for the approved list of courses.
5. Elective Courses Choose additional courses from the approved list of courses in History & Social Science (3. above), Religion (4. above), or Elective Courses this list to bring the total credits up to 18 credits . 6. Advanced Language Course as Elective Course
Students may also count towards the requirement for Elective Courses up to 3 credits of advanced Middle Eastern language taught at the 5th semester level or higher from the list. Appropriate courses (including selected topics courses) containing 25% or more Middle East content but not listed on the approved lists may be allowed as exceptions by permission of the undergraduate advise |
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$75.00Amy Bahrt kids scarves with animals are back. These knit scarves are warm, cozy and with various animals knit into the ends, they make bundling up fun and a little easier for toddlers. Each kids scarf is hand-made in NY and available with either an elephant, bunny, cat, zebra or dog knit at the end. Hand made in the USA. Hand wash cold, dry flat. Learn More -
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On 16th and 17th of May we will organise the third edition of Mobilism, the mobile web conference.
We have one speaker change: unfortunately Thomas Fuchs was not able to make it. We have found Remy Sharp willing to take over the slot and the topic: JavaScript frameworks in an increasingly mobile (and thus memory- and processor-challenged) world.


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On Dec. 16, 2011 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a bulletin outlining proposed polic ies and the approach it intends to pursue for defining Essential Health Benefits (EHB). Per the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), beginning on Jan. 1, 2014, non-grandfathered Individual and Small Group plans offered inside and outside the Exchanges must cover the EHB. In addition, PPACA prohibits the use of lifetime and annual limits on the dollar amount of EHB.
In developing the regulation, HHS stated that its aim is to balance comprehensiveness, affordability, and States flexibility. It is, therefore, proposing to allow each State to select an existing health plan as a "benchmark" to establish the services and items included in the Essential Health Benefits package for 2014 and 2015.
States will choose from one of four health insurance plan options as a benchmark:
- the largest plan based on enrollment in any of the three largest small group products in the State
- any of the three largest State employee health plans
- any one of the three largest Federal employee health plan options
- the largest HMO plan offered in the State's commercial market
HHS will propose that the default for States choosing not to set benchmark wll be the small group plan with the largest enrollment in the State. For 2016 and beyond, HHS would reassess the proposed benchmark process.
The bulletin did not address cost sharing, e.g., deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance, which will be covered in future guidance. Cost sharing rules will determine the actuarial value of the plan. It also does not address how this state-by-state approach is to be applied to the ban on lifetime and annual limits for plans that cover people in multiple States.
However, the bulletin did affirm that Essential Health Benefits must include items and services within the following 10 categories:
- ambulatory patient services,
- emergency services,
- hospitalization,
- maternity and newborn care,
- mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment,
- prescription drugs,
- rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices,
- laboratory services,
- preventative and wellness services and chronic disease management, and
- pediatric services, including oral and vision care.


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1. | Godot | ||
Is mentioned in Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot" as the man/thing the two main characters are waiting for. Unfortunately the flake never shows up, so consequently nothing happens in the play. Like "Seinfeld" this is the play about nothing.
No one knows who or what Godot actually is, and no one will ever know. (Excerpt from play)
ESTRAGON: Let's go. VLADIMIR: We can't. ESTRAGON: Why not? VLADIMIR: We're waiting for Godot. |
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A gifted yet noobie prosecutor in the game series "Ace Attorney". More Specifically "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 3" Godot always wears a mask over his face because if he was ever to loss it he would not be able to see. He always drinks coffee, and its always black. He is famous for long and beautiful speeches. In the game he wants revenge on Phoenix for unknown reasons. Gamer: Hey! Have you played Ace Attorney 3? The new prosecutor Godot is awesome
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nothing, or the wait for something that is never going to happen i'm waiting for godot
4. | Godot | ||
A way of saying 'God' without being slapped in the face by a religious woman. Oh My Godot, She actually talked to me!


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With our deserted beaches and pristine rainforest, this is one of the worlds most breathtaking locations and a perfect backdrop to view one of the worlds most spectacular phenomena.
The eclipse will be visible in Tropical North Queensland from Innisfail in the south to Bloomfield in the north. For further details download the Astronomical Society of Queensland 2012 total eclipse fact sheet.
Daintree Views Unique rainforest accommodation ideal for an intimate tropical wedding, a romantic honeymoon hideaway or the perfect choice to introduce the family to this amazing & world famous eco destination. Click here for online bookings at Daintree Views.
Thornton Beach House & Bungalows Holiday house sleeps up to six (from $250pn), and one bungalow sleeps two ($85pn) still available. Directly opposite Thornton Beach - only 20 steps from doorstep to sand! 3 night minimum. Click here for online bookings at Thornton Beach Bungalows. Jungle Surfing Canopy Tours View the eclipse from above the rainforest canopy on Platform 2!! Exclusive Jungle Surfing tour for eight persons maximum. Viewing glasses & champagne breakfast included - once in a lifetime opportunity! Email firstname.lastname@example.com for further details Paddle Trek Kayak Adventures Paddle out into Cape Trib Bay, watch the sun rise out of the ocean and watch the solar eclipse from your kayak. Champagne breakfast on return. Viewing glasses included. Click here for online bookings for Paddletrek.


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THIS week The Advocate analyses the seasons of the four WHK NTFL clubs not participating in this year's Greenham grand final. Today we look at East Devonport.
Place: Fourth
Record: Eight wins, 12 losses
Grade: C
Despite finishing with a winning record less than 50%, the Swans made major improvements on the field after ending 2011 with only one win.
New coach Daniel Freshney recruited well in the off-season, adding quality players to help complement talent already available at the club.
A come-from-behind win at Smithton in the last round sealed a finals berth for the club.
Its reserves and under 19s also finished in the top four.
A tardy start against Penguin in the semi-final cost the Swans any chance of an upset win, but the team showed plenty of character to limit the damage in the second half.
The team should aim for nothing less than a top three finish in 2013.
The good
Similar to Smithton, the Swans' playing list has plenty of top-line players who would walk onto any NTFL club's list.
Leading the way is full- forward Nick Milbourne who enjoyed another stellar season with 89 goals.
His contested marking ability against much taller opponents was a joy to watch.
Brodie Sheehan capped off a great debut season by taking out the NTFL best first year player award.
The bad
After a win against Penguin in round one, the Swans failed to register another win against any of the top three teams for the remainder of the season.
Losing five games by less than three goals showed the team could get itself into a winning position, but several last quarter fade-outs proved costly.
The ugly
At times the old East Devonport reared its ugly head with opposition teams able to pile on multiple goals with ease.
Latrobe registered 74 and 93-point wins against the Swans, both at Girdlestone Park, but the worst performance was saved for round 18 when Wynyard took them to the cleaners to the tune of 145 points.
What it needs
With the majority of their list already committed for 2013, the Swans will be looking to top up their list with one or two recruits.
Another key forward to complement Milbourne would be handy, with Adrian Partridge (24 goals) struggling with injuries and Sam Borlini (21 goals) their next highest goal kicker.


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School Spotlight:
Friday, December 9th, 2011Humboldt Elementary in Dewey, Arizona
Immense amounts of pressure continue to build for schools throughout America. Achieving higher levels of performance from students and teachers alike is a sentiment that relentlessly rings in the ears of educators. Tests are added, funds and teachers are taken away, but the expectations for the answer to the equation remains unchanging … better performance, better students, better schools. Under the most ideal situation, educating students can be a daunting task. Mix in everything else our educational system is facing and the task seems downright undo-able. That is why State of the Re:Union's School Spotlight takes delight in featuring a Bright Spot school, Humboldt Elementary in Dewey, Arizona. In great American fashion, the school, staff and educators have found a way to help their students achieve greatness. (To read the full article, click here.)
Within the past six years, Humboldt Elementary found itself at the threshold of being named one of Arizona's "underperforming" schools, a title many schools have a hard time losing. However, determination helped those at Humboldt Elementary pull itself up by the bootstraps and begin its journey to become the highest performing school in Arizona, despite poverty levels and large class sizes.
According to Bright Spot, it was after a major initiative launched in 2005 that students' reading scores shot up, assisting them to their current ranking. Humboldt's Principal Cole Young attributes the school's success "to highly trained teachers and support staff, as well as better use of student data and guided reading."
Through the Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS) teachers were trained to learn how to identify each students' level of reading and learning. Each student is assessed within the first week of school where teachers and staff can pinpoint students in need of intervention and at what level. A system of reading programs is set in place and followed, allowing teachers to monitor individual progress.
Ask teachers and they will most likely say that this level of attention per student is very hard to manage, especially with an average class size of 30. But the highly-trained teachers and staff at Humboldt do not make allowances for this as an excuse. They are dedicated to helping each child succeed, regardless of circumstances. And so far, it has worked, and worked well.
In addition to their teachers, the students at Humboldt Elementary stay motivated with a number of tools and strategies: guided reading strategies, Reading Counts (a competitive reading leveled program), and a zealous principal who'll stop at nothing to help keep students' momentum going. "Principal Young offers abundant rewards such as shaving his head and subjecting himself to a dunking booth if students meet reading goals. This year, if Humboldt students reach [their goal], Principal Young promises to eat insects."
With caring staff showing this level of dedication, it is no wonder that a school with every excuse to fail – poverty and all of the hardships accompanying it, and large class sizes to boot – is not only surviving, but thriving. Humboldt serves as a beacon of hope for all schools, but especially those that are underfunded and overworked; and, unfortunately, many schools seem to fall into that category. It is always a pleasure to find schools, administrators and staff who go the extra mile, and grin as they do so.
Is there a school in your community taking similar measures to ensure quality education for all students? Perhaps you've heard of a great program or organization working to assist schools and students overcome learning gaps and/or funding needs? Or ever more, maybe there is a special way your community school rallies to keep their students motivated. Whatever the case, of course we want to know. You can give us the scoop in the box below.


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Space Exploration: Serpens Sector is an upcoming RPG by Metal Beetle Ltd. It's a work in progress, but you can download a development preview now.
In SE:SS, you are tasked with charting the long-abandoned Serpens Sector, a region of space reached through a wormhole near Earth. Each star system you visit brings you an encounter with something - aliens, ancient ruins, other humans and many dangers. The map and encounters are chosen at random for each game, which means that each game plays out differently. I release new previews every once in a while and I'm very interested in any feedback - so once you've tried it out, head over to the forum and tell me what you think - or use the feedback form. You can also follow the game's development on Twitter. The base game will be free and there will be expansion packs for sale. Screenshots
2011-11-23: SE:SS Update
So with my company winding down, I thought now would be a good time to do an in-depth post about what's going on with Space Exploration: Serpens Sector. We've all seen this: an indie game is grandly announced, makes a lot of progress initially, and gets to a playable stage. You play it, you like it, you eagerly anticipate updates. But then the time between updates starts getting longer, and the updates get more terse. Eventually, there are long stretches of no activity at all. Then, there is a post insisting that the project "isn't dead". That's usually the last update you ever get. I really don't want SE:SS to be another instance of this. So why, exactly, have you seen no updates for the past year and a half? Two years ago, in October 2009, I quit my day job at Linguamatics to finish SE:SS. I had savings to last me to the end of the project, and some contract work lined up. Two days later, I had RSI so bad I basically couldn't type anymore. I proceeded to limp through to finishing dev 10, months behind schedule, working as fast as I could, maybe an hour a day. By that point my money was running out, so I switched to spending that hour doing contract work. Since then, I have been slowly and unsteadily improving. Today I can work for maybe four hours a day on average, if I space them out through the day. Of all the things that I tried to improve the RSI (or whatever it is I have, exactly), the one thing that worked the best is exercise, so I try to get in enough of that as well. So that's one reason for the lack of updates. The other has more to do with my own foolishness. You see, I have been working on other projects. Things like my Java4k entry, Which Fish?, Kobold Pit, Project Fruitbat, and, um, an entire OCR engine. So why didn't I spend this time on SE:SS? When I first started putting up a feedback form for the game, I thought this would be a great way of receiving bug reports and knowing what people thought of the game. What I didn't realise was that I'm frankly pretty thin-skinned, and really could not cope with some of the feedback I got. Now, for the Internet, even the most negative feedback was rather mild. It wasn't "I will track you down and gut you like a fish," more "This game sucks. You should change it around completely. Make it 3D. And massive multiplayer. And about ponies." The vast majority of the feedback was much more polite than that, and a lot of it was very constructive. So the stupid thing I did was that I got really defensive over the exact way I'd written the game - even bad design decisions I'd made on the spur of the moment at half past midnight. People told me again and again that the game's responses were too random. I hid behind a succession of justifications for why it had to be like that instead of realising that for a game to actually work, there has to be a clearly visible link between the player's action and the game's reaction, and there simply wasn't in many instances. Send out a well-chosen crew to explore ruins? Bang! One of them dies. Send out a single trembling archeologist to hunt prayer monkeys? She captures them with ease. This is frustrating, but I'd decided that "in real life, this is just how it works", evidently forgetting that I was making a game. I felt that I didn't want to do a game based on the ideas of whoever sent me the most strident emails (even though I'd asked for them, even though a lot of the feedback was very constructive). I had also made he mistake of rather heavily promoting the game as nearly done, with a clear release schedule it was now impossible to meet. So I ended up pretty much not working on SE:SS at all. And when I worked on other things instead, I tended to talk about them almost furtively, since they were using up time I "ought" to be spending on the game. The game on my hard drive is somewhere between dev 10 and dev 11 right now: dev 10 with some combat mode enhancements (like a tractor beam) and one or two more encounters. There is obviously a temptation to just ditch the project and do something completely different. Concentrate on my other projects. Start making a new game based on one of the myriad ideas I've had since I started working on SE:SS, um, four years ago. But actually, I don't want to. Not out of stubbornness or out of a sense of owing the completion of the game to others, but because I actually really like the game. I take dev 10.5 (so to speak) out of its dusty toolshed every once in a while and just play it. And I really like playing it. I have fun. I like the graphics, the sound, the setting, the characters. After a year of perspective, I've realised that I should make the best game I can, not the game I'm least worried about people disliking. I'm the developer, so if I don't think ponies are a good theme for the game, it won't be about ponies. By doing that, I can also let myself see where there are real problems, like the aforementioned frustrating randomness. This has been a pretty long and maybe slightly over-sharing post. The short version is that I haven't worked on SE:SS because of RSI, and because of not coping with others' expectations. So when will you see the next dev release? Not quite yet, I'm afraid. I have been tying up loose ends (like shutting down my unnecessary company), but I'm not there yet, and dev 10.5 needs more work before it's worth putting out as an update. I also absolutely do not want to make promises about a schedule. And I'll be working on other things too, and will actually write about them, and link to them properly. I want to remain kind of stealthy for now, and only give a firm date on release when I have on my computer a beta version of the game, ready to be released save some typos and minor bug-fixes. It will be done when it's done. And it will be.
2010-08-20: Happy 2nd birthday, Metal Beetle
Metal Beetle Ltd is now two years old! If you follow the Space Exploration: Serpens Sector news or twitter feed, I'm sure it won't have escaped your notice that it's been very quiet. This is not something I wanted to happen, but three things conspired to make it so: moving house, my ongoing wrist/shoulder problems, and running out of savings. This last one has meant that for the past couple of weeks, I've been doing contract work every hour I could safely spend at my computer. This isn't a situation I want to be in. I want to finish SE:SS. I have a to-do list for the core engine 41 items strong, half a dozen ship designs waiting to be used, and entire notebooks filled with plans for encounters. As with any half-finished large project, what you can see now is only a small proportion of all the work that went into it, and I desperately want to finish the game and show you the rest. The Internet is littered with dead projects which were never officially abandoned but simply saw their update frequency decline, with some routine entry from 2002 the last sign of life, after which point the author presumably lost interest entirely. I assure you that this is not what's happening here. But while I'm only capable of an hour or two of work a day, my first priority - putting food on the table - takes up all of that capacity. I am pursuing more avenues to get this fixed, and there are some promising signs from a new exercise regime. So eventually, SE:SS will be completed. But you and I are going to have to be more patient than originally planned. Finally, if you have any questions, head over to the forum where I'll be happy to give (perhaps somewhat terse) answers.
2010-06-15: Status Update
Things have been rather quiet around SE:SS central lately, so I thought I'd just reassure you that I'm still alive, and so is the game project. I haven't been working on it in an attempt to finally cure this chronic wrist-and-shoulders problem, but work will resume!
To tide you over, here's a preview of the new Fleet HQ. The model's only partly done, as there will also be an inner docking ring, and more detail on the modules: |


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Rising majestically above the Piazzetta San Marco, this Gothic fantasia of pink-and-white marble is a majestic expression of Venetian prosperity and power. Although the site was the doge's residence from the 10th century, the building began to take its present form around 1340; what you seen now is essentially a product of the first half of the 15th century. It served not only as the doge's residence, but also as the central administrative center of the Venetian Republic.
The Palazzo Ducale took so long to finish that by the time it was completed, around 1450, it was already a bit out of fashion. It barely predates the main gate of the Arsenale, built in 1460 in fully conceived Renaissance classical style. The Venetians, however, even later on, were not disturbed by their palazzo's dated look. In the 1570s the upper floors were destroyed by fire and Palladio submitted an up-to-date design for its reconstruction, but the Venetians refused his offer and insisted on reconstruction "come era, dove era" (as it was, where it was).
Unlike other medieval seats of authority, the Palazzo Ducale is free of any military defenses—a sign of the Republic's self-confidence. The position of the loggias below instead of above the retaining wall, and the use of pink marble to emphasize the decorative function of that wall, gave the palazzo a light and airy aspect, one that could impress visitors—and even intimidate them, though through opulence and grace rather than fortress-like bulk. Near the basilica you'll see Giovanni and Bartolomeo Bon's Gothic Porta della Carta (Gate of the Paper), built between 1438 and 1442, where official decrees were traditionally posted, but you enter the palazzo under the portico facing the water. You'll find yourself in an immense courtyard that holds some of the first evidence of Renaissance architecture in Venice, like Antonio Rizzo's Scala dei Giganti (Stairway of the Giants), erected between 1483 and 1491, directly ahead, guarded by Sansovino's huge statues of Mars and Neptune, added in 1567. Though ordinary mortals must use the central interior staircase, its upper flight is the lavishly gilded Scala d'Oro (Golden Staircase), also designed by Sansovino in 1555. The palace's sumptuous chambers have walls and ceilings covered with works by Venice's greatest artists. Visit the Anticollegio, a waiting room outside the Collegio's chamber, where you can see the Rape of Europa by Veronese and Tintoretto's Bacchus and Ariadne Crowned by Venus. Veronese also painted the ceiling of the adjacent Sala del Collegio. The ceiling of the Sala del Senato (Senate Chamber), featuring The Triumph of Venice by Tintoretto, is magnificent, but it's dwarfed by his masterpiece Paradise in the Sala del Maggiore Consiglio (Great Council Hall). A vast work commissioned for a vast hall, this dark, dynamic piece is the world's largest oil painting (23 by 75 feet). The room's carved gilt ceiling is breathtaking, especially with Veronese's majestic Apotheosis of Venice filling one of the center panels. Around the upper walls, study the portraits of the first 76 doges, and you'll notice one picture is missing near the left corner of the wall opposite Paradise. A black painted curtain, rather than a portrait, marks Doge Marin Falier's fall from grace; he was beheaded for treason in 1355, which the Latin inscription bluntly explains.
A narrow canal separates the palace's east side from the cramped cell blocks of the Prigioni Nuove (New Prisons). High above the water arches the enclosed marble Ponte dei Sospiri (Bridge of Sighs), which earned its name in the 19th century, from Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Reserve your spot for the palazzo's popular Secret Itineraries tour well in advance. You'll visit the doge's private apartments, through hidden passageways to the interrogation (torture) chambers, and into the rooftop piombi (lead) prison, named for its lead roofing. Venetian-born writer and libertine Giacomo Casanova (1725-98), along with an accomplice, managed to escape from the piombi in 1756; they were the only men ever to do so.
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- Hours: Apr.--Oct., daily 8:30--7; Nov.--Mar., daily 8:30--5:30. Last entry 1 hr before closing. "Secret Itineraries" tour in English 9:55, 10:45, 11:35
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