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Altering its position held earlier this spring, the US Air Force Academy this weekend unveiled a new sexual assault policy that rejects the confidentiality of victims reporting assault. In what appeared less an effort to confront the hostilities in academy culture that foster violence against women and more like an attempt to disprove charges "that reporting this type of crime will ruin a cadet's career," the policy mandates participation from criminal investigators, a chaplain, a nurse, and a cadet representative in every reported assault case, according to the Associated Press. Rape victim advocates say the changes will likely discourage victims from coming forward. "The best way to help a victim start to heal is by giving them choices about what they want to have happen,'' said Cari Davis, executive director of the Colorado Springs-based rape crisis center TESSA, according to the AP.
Meanwhile, a USA Today editorial last week questioned Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's selection of two panelists to oversee sexual assault policies at the academy. Joshiah Bunting III, as head of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), was a staunch opponent of women cadets at the publicly funded institution, calling their Supreme Court-ordered inclusion in 1996 a "savage disappointment." Last week, panelist Amy McCarthy said she doubted the truthfulness of the female cadets' allegations. "Due to the fact that many of the women making the allegations were involved with drinking, partying, strip poker, what I call high-risk behaviors, my personal opinion is that a number of these allegations or the veracity of these allegations may be suspect," McCarthy told AP Radio, as reported by the AP.
Media Resources: USA Today 6/3/03; Reuters 6/7/03; NY Times 6/7/03; Gazette 6/2/03; Denver Post 6/1/03, 6/4/03; Feminist Daily News Wire
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San Diego, Calif. - A commanding game four Titan victory forced a game five, but seven errors by Cal State Fullerton in the deciding game handed San Diego State a 3-2 (26-30, 30-27, 30-25, 15-30, 15-12) victory in a non-conference volleyball match at Peterson Gym Tuesday night.
Fullerton evens its record at 5-5 heading into next week's Big West Conference opener at Titan Gym while San Diego State improves to 8-2 on the year.
Brittany Moore had her third straight match with 20-or-more kills, posting her third consecutive double-double in kills (20) and digs (21) in the losing effort. She also added three aces and four block assists. Alex Wolnisty capped the Titans' one-two punch with a career-high 18 kills and a whopping .720 attack percentage, tacking on 3 blocks in the losing effort.
Lindsey Mahan's 16 kills paced a trio of Aztecs with 10-or-more kills, while Aime Cordeiro scooped a staggering 44 digs for San Diego's fifth straight win. Lauren Salisbury led all players on the floor with five blocks at the net.
Fullerton's Sarah Day finished the night by collecting 16 kills with setter Julie Geissert adding a season-high 62 assists.
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- As noted, Chris Jericho will be working with WWE through WrestleMania 29. It was reported he would be working a full schedule. PWInsider reports that Jericho will indeed be working some live events, even more as we get closer to WrestleMania 29.
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Given today's volatile stock market and sluggish global economy, more wealthy Americans are opting for alternative investment strategies, such as collecting high-profile art and jewelry. In turn, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said theft of such items has become a booming criminal enterprise.
Clearly, there is high "black market" demand for the nation's most valuable national treasures, as the FBI estimates total losses amount to $6 billion annually. The high school class ring of Elvis Presley, pictured here, is just one of many items the FBI is looking for.
In 1953, when Elvis Presley was in his senior year at Humes High School in Memphis, Tenn., his parents purchased the 10 karat gold ring for him. Stamped with his initial, "E," it was worn by the singer during the early '50s and kept in his jewelry box as a memento of his childhood until given to bodyguard Dave Hebler.
Eventually, collector Chris Davidson acquired the ring, along with a letter of authenticity from Hebler, for his Elvis-A-Rama Museum in Las Vegas. In March 2004, thieves rammed a stolen tow truck into the back door of the museum and made off with an array of memorabilia, including the classic ring, the FBI said.
Thousands of items of cultural and historical significance have been reported stolen to the FBI, so it's formed a special task force to recover the missing treasures. The Art Crime Team consists of 14 special agents, who are supported by three special trial attorneys for prosecutions. It maintains the National Stolen Art File, an online database that chronicles thousands of reported stolen items and is accessible to the public and law enforcement agencies alike.
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Attachments are the final category, and every gun can have two. These add new abilities and status effects to your guns, and they basically cover the category of universal passive buffs. For example, attachments can add flame, electricity, or stasis effects to your gun. They can add zoom functionality through scopes. They can even add healing effects. One such effect allows your partner to heal whenever you heal as long as you have the right gun equipped.
Though you can craft multiple guns, you can only carry two at a time. You can also never share guns with your co-op partners, just parts and blueprints. That being said, parts are never wasted. You can take parts off guns and swap them back and forth as much as you please. Even the rarest parts in the game are reusable, and once you have them in your inventory they are there to stay.
There is no rarity system in Dead Space 3. Item drops are actually standardized across enemy types. That being said, stronger enemies tend to drop better parts, though they drop them with the same frequency. Certain enemies in the game will be weak to certain guns, ammo, status effects, and more. Crafting the right gun for the right situation will be a big part of the game's strategy.
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Dead Space 3's gun crafting system is so incredibly complex that it seems to be the focal point of the game. There are so many different kinds of parts that there are literally thousands upon thousands of different guns you can create. It's a first for the Dead Space franchise, and for the survival horror genre as a whole. It will be interesting to see how this affects the mood and tone of the game in the final build.
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"Tuning" microalgae for high photosynthesis efficiency
Los Alamos scientist Richard Sayre of Bioenergy and Biome Sciences (B-11) and his team of researchers have recently developed more efficient microalgae.
Microalgae have large rates of biomass accumulation due to their high photosynthetic efficiencies. This makes them attractive candidates for producing green chemical feedstocks and biofuels, particularly oil-based aviation fuels. However, there remains a technical challenge before microalgae can be a commercially viable alternative to current methods of feedstock and fuel production. More productive algal strains must be identified and developed that out-perform current strains to harvest light energy for biomass production. The team's work in this area is reported in a paper published in the journal Algal Research.
Significance of the research
Photosynthetic efficiencies in microalgae cultures are two to three times lower than their theoretical potential due to differences in the fast rate of light capture and the much slower downstream process of photosynthetic electron transfer and carbon fixation. These bottlenecks dissipate a significant amount of the captured light energy as heat or fluorescence instead of driving the reduction of carbon dioxide to sugars.
Although microalgae with large light-capturing antennae are very efficient at capturing photons, they are not as productive in a dense population. The algae at the surface capture more light energy than they can use for carbon dioxide reduction. They dissipate the excess energy and shade the algae below the surface. In the wild, this gives the surface microalgae a competitive advantage. However, this phenomenon is not efficient in monoculture to produce biomass.
Optimizing the size of the light harvesting antennae for microalgae reduces light energy waste, allowing photons to reach algae below the surface. Photosynthesis can occur more uniformly throughout a culture. These experiments demonstrated the optimum antennae size for maximizing biomass production, as well as which gene to manipulate to produce this antennae size.
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By modulating the expression of the gene responsible for the synthesis of Chlorophyll b, the researchers generated algae with different light-harvesting antennae sizes. Cultures of algae with intermediate antennae sizes showed the highest rates of photosynthesis as measured by oxygen production. Under the high light intensities preferred for biomass production, cultures of the algae with intermediate antennae sizes grow more rapidly to higher densities than cultures with larger or smaller antennae.
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The Sayre team works to improve efficiency of algae for biomass production and ensure the safety of large-scale cultivation for the production of renewable fuel sources. The group that optimized the photosynthetic efficiency of microalgae includes Zoee Perrine (Phycal Incorporated), Sangeeta Negi (New Mexico Consortium), and Sayre (B-11 and New Mexico Consortium). The New Mexico Consortium is a nonprofit partnership of the three New Mexico Universities. The Consortium promotes scientific research and education collaborations with the Laboratory, which support the Lab's Energy Security mission area and the Materials for the Future science pillar. The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences-Photosynthetic Antennae Research Center supported different aspects of this research.


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Would you be brave enough to scale 27 stories? Nearly 100 adventurous individuals will put their endurance to the test Friday as they rappel 357 feet down the Seneca Niagara Casino for Over the Edge, a fundraiser put on by Special Olympics New York. To partake in this daring feat, participants were asked to raise at least $1,000, with all proceeds from the fundraiser benefiting the athletes of Special Olympics New York.
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Adaptation has the potential to reduce adverse impacts of climate change and
to enhance beneficial impacts, but will incur costs and will not prevent all
damages. Extremes, variability, and rates of change are all key features in
addressing vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, not simply changes
in average climate conditions. Human and natural systems will to some degree
adapt autonomously to climate change. Planned adaptation can supplement autonomous
adaptation, though options and incentives are greater for adaptation of human
systems than for adaptation to protect natural systems. Adaptation is a necessary
strategy at all scales to complement climate change mitigation efforts. [6]
Experience with adaptation to climate variability and extremes can be drawn
upon to develop appropriate strategies for adapting to anticipated climate change.
Adaptation to current climate variability and extremes often produces benefits
as well as forming a basis for coping with future climate change. However, experience
also demonstrates that there are constraints to achieving the full measure of
potential adaptation. In addition, maladaptation, such as promoting development
in risk-prone locations, can occur due to decisions based on short-term considerations,
neglect of known climatic variability, imperfect foresight, insufficient information,
and over-reliance on insurance mechanisms. [6]
The ability of human systems to adapt to and cope with climate change depends
on such factors as wealth, technology, education, information, skills, infrastructure,
access to resources, and management capabilities. There is potential for developed
and developing countries to enhance and/or acquire adaptive capabilities. Populations
and communities are highly variable in their endowments with these attributes,
and the developing countries, particularly the least developed countries, are
generally poorest in this regard. As a result, they have lesser capacity to
adapt and are more vulnerable to climate change damages, just as they are more
vulnerable to other stresses. This condition is most extreme among the poorest
people. [6.1; see also 5.1.7,
5.2.7, 5.3.5, 5.4.6,
5.6.1, 5.6.2, 5.7,
and 5.8.1 for regional-scale information]
Benefits and costs of climate change effects have been estimated in monetary
units and aggregated to national, regional, and global scales. These estimates
generally exclude the effects of changes in climate variability and extremes,
do not account for the effects of different rates of change, and only partially
account for impacts on goods and services that are not traded in markets. These
omissions are likely to result in underestimates of economic losses and overestimates
of economic gains. Estimates of aggregate impacts are controversial because
they treat gains for some as canceling out losses for others and because the
weights that are used to aggregate across individuals are necessarily subjective.
[7.2.2 and 7.2.3]
Notwithstanding the limitations expressed above, based on a few published estimates,
increases in global mean temperature9
would produce net economic losses in many developing countries for all magnitudes
of warming studied (low confidence6),
and losses would be greater in magnitude the higher the level of warming (medium
In contrast, an increase in global mean temperature of up to a few °C would
produce a mixture of economic gains and losses in developed countries (low 6),
with economic losses for larger temperature increases (medium confidence6).
The projected distribution of economic impacts is such that it would increase
the disparity in well-being between developed countries and developing countries,
with disparity growing for higher projected temperature increases (medium confidence6).
The more damaging impacts estimated for developing countries reflects, in part,
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Further, when aggregated to a global scale, world gross domestic product (GDP)
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of up to a few °C (low confidence6),
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(see Figure SPM-2). More people are projected
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increases of less than a few °C (low confidence6).
These results are sensitive to assumptions about changes in regional climate,
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and the methods used for aggregating monetary losses and gains, including the
choice of discount rate. [7.2.2]
The effects of climate change are expected to be greatest in developing countries
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YEARS of planning will be put to the test at the weekend when Northwich's one-way system faces a bridge closure.
Town Bridge, a Grade Two listed structure, will be closed for maintenance from 6pm on Saturday, June 7, to 4pm on Sunday, June 8.
During this time the gyratory system will be suspended to allow traffic to travel in both directions.
The Canal and River Trust will work overnight on Saturday to replace the oak threshold beams on the historic bridge then Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWAC) will resurface the road on Sunday.
Dave Clarkson, senior principal engineer with the Canal and River Trust, said: "I'm hoping it will all go smoothly – unlike the current road surface.
"The big challenge here, that both the Canal and River Trust and the council have been working closely in partnership on, is to work in the traffic management system that enables us to reverse the one-way system and ensure it's easy to implement.
"There was a long consultation between ourselves and the council when they first brought in the one-way system because it included two bridges.
"You can't take one bridge out and carry on working through with the one-way, so it makes it more interesting.
"We had a look at it from the point of view of something unforeseen occurring that caused one of the bridges to be locked off and us having to implement something quite quickly.
"We've done some fine tuning as we've approached these works.
"The proof will be in the pudding but I think the system we're going to implement will give us two-way running and avoid any significant diversion route."
The bridge, built in 1899, is a Grade Two listed structure so engineers also have to work closely with English Heritage and use original materials in any replacement work.
The hard wearing timber threshold beams last an average of 14 years, although with changes to the traffic flow caused by the gyratory this will be closely monitored in future.
Clr Lynn Riley, CWAC's executive member for localities, said: "We have worked closely with the trust to schedule this closure at a time when it will cause least disruption and we hope that implementing a temporary two-way system will help to keep traffic flowing."


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WAAAAY back in day, before Leslie hit full-hardon hipster stardom, BSD Minister of Propaganda Karl Marxxx and I hosted Leslie for Thanksgiving Dinner. She performed later that evening at Karl's dance party in DC. Not only did I have the distinct honor of hoisting Leslie's elegant avoirdupois on stage in a makeshift sling consisting of a meager leather belt and a single 2X4, she blessed by yiddishe momme bling with an official honorific and a handmade certificate: "Gypsy Lizard Coin Purse".
Naturally, Dale and I also found ourselves on stage, two of only three handpicked contestants-- despite the fact my googly eye jumpsuit doesn't technically qualify as a gem sweater. An eerie harbinger of season 4's penultimate final episode, the three of us were forced to provide backup choreography for Leslie's song "Gem Sweater". Sadly, Dale and I lost the opportunity to have our outfits officially blessed by Leslie. The other contestant, a bio-female in authentic LY attire, won the privilege (it helps to wear gold lamé tights and granny glasses). Honored all the same, Dale and I had other things planned for our (now sweaty) gem encrusted ensembles.
To watch Dale and I Kai Kai for real, check out our starring roles in Jake Deckard's cum-drenched cum-back skin-flick, "Dirty Director".
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From: Bruce Maccabee <firstname.lastname@example.com> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:45:03 -0500 Fwd Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 03:27:23 -0500 Subject: Re: Avebury Lights - Maccabee >From: Dave Baker <firstname.lastname@example.com> >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <firstname.lastname@example.com> >Subject: Re: Avebury Lights >Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:25:14 -0000 >>From: Roy Hale <email@example.com> >>To: <email@example.com> >>Subject: Avebury Lights >>Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 04:15:26 -0000 >>Dear colleagues, >>Whilst on a research trip to Wiltshire, this summer gone, I >>spent some time in Avebury stones. I took a few pictures that >>day, with my new Digital Camera. After getting back home, and >>downloading the images on to my PC, I noticed a very odd >>picture. Please click the link below to view this picture, and >>it's zoom images. >>http://www.thelosthaven.co.uk/AveburyLights.htm >>Your comments are welcome. >Hi, >After examining the picture - and it is interesting, by the way >- my guess is that the 'orbs' are some kind of reflection, such >as dust motes, airborne seeds (like dandelion) or even from the >puddle below. The 'orbs' all appear to be 'moving' in the same >direction, and fairly close to the camera. To me, they have that >same lack of depth of the famous Salem, Massachusettes photo >that was later shown to be reflections of inside lights on the window. >Course, that's only my opinion... See http://brumac.8k.com and click on 'Papers' and scroll down to 'The Orb Phenomenon' UFO UpDates - Toronto - firstname.lastname@example.com A UFO & Related Phenomena E-Mail List operated by Errol Bruce-Knapp UFO UpDates Archives are available at: http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates 'Strange Days...Indeed' - available 'live' via Windows Media Player 10:00 Eastern, Saturday nights at: http://cfrb.com/ Coming soon..... The Virtually Strange Nework
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Looking to fill up your Easter baskets with the kids this weekend? Hop on down to any of these fun-filled events to kick-off your Easter festivities.
•The Town of Porter Recreation Department will hold its annual hunt Saturday, March 23, at 11 a.m. at Stevenson Elementary School, 3745 Ransomville Road, Ransomville. The event is open to all Porter children age 11 and under. Special prizes will be awarded to those who find the golden eggs. The Easter Bunny will visit with goody bags.
•The New York Power Authority is celebrating the season by holding its annual "Spring Eggstravaganza" Saturday, March 23, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Power Vista, 5577 Lewiston Road.
•The volunteers of the SPCA of Niagara will hold an Easter egg hunt beginning at noon, Sunday, March 24, on the shelter grounds, 2100 Lockport Road, Wheatfield. Admission is free. In addition to the hunt, the event will feature face painting and an activity table. The event, open to children age 12 and under, will be held rain or shine. Prizes will be awarded.
•The Kiwanis Club of Lewiston is hosting its annual hunt Saturday, March 30, at Kiwanis Park in Lewiston. The hunt will begin at noon for children ages 11 and under. Prizes will be awarded.
•On Saturday, March 30, the Youngstown Lions Club will hold its annual hunt at Old Fort Niagara State Park near the Nature Center by the swimming pool. Sponsored by the Youngstown Lions Club, the hunt will start at 11 a.m. sharp. Children between the ages of 1 and 10 are welcome to participate.
The event is broken down into three age groups - children from 1 to 4 years of age; children ages 5 to 7; and children ages 8 to 10. There will be one winner chosen for each of these age groups who will receive a special prize. In addition, if a child finds a special egg he or she will win a distinctive prize. Children will be welcomed by the Easter Bunny and Louie the Lion. Candy will be provided for all participants. For more information, contact Event Chairman Lion Peter Kaminski at 716-745-7709.
•The Wilson Lions Club is holding its annual hunt at the Wilson Historical Society, 645 Lake St., on Saturday, March 30, with registration at 11 a.m. The hunt gets under way at noon. Additional activities include face painting and arts and crafts. Prizes will be awarded. For more information, call Lion Bob Hull at 716-751-6100.
•The fifth annual Easter egg hunt at the Niagara Arts and Cultural Center, 1201 Pine Ave., Niagara Falls, will take place on Saturday, March 30, from noon to 3 p.m. Last year more than 300 children were in attendance.
The event is free and open to the public for children up to 10 years old and all children must be accompanied by an adult. The event will feature photos with the Easter Bunny and registration starts at noon. The Easter Egg Hunt will start at 1 p.m. There will be many other activities, including face-painting, craft stations, a basket raffle and prizes for children of all ages.
For more information, contact Laurie Martelli at the NACC at 716-282-7530 or [email protected]. You can also visit the NACC website at www.thenacc.org.
•The Herschell Carrousel Museum at 180 Thompson St., North Tonawanda, is holding its "Egg-cellent" Easter event Saturday, March 30, from noon to 4 p.m. Children can learn about the history of the Easter bunny and participate in crafts, games and other activities. In honor of Dyngus Day don't miss a special performance by the Polish Dancers of Western New York, followed by an old-fashioned egg roll on the lawn. The event is open to the public at $5 per person.


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Trans Fats, Glutens Still Vex Bakers
Second-generation replacements have improved functionality, and second-generation food products have improved taste.
Second-generation replacement of trans fats and the removal of glutens continue to dominate product development activity in the baked goods category of the food industry.
Yes, gluten free. While many observers (ourselves included) have been waiting several years for this trend to live up to expectations, it finally may be hitting stride.
While there are "only" an estimated 2 million people in the U.S. with celiac disease, there are millions more who are either undiagnosed or who have diet sensitivities that are leading them to avoid glutens. And their numbers are growing as there is evidence, though far from convincing, that gluten may be connected to such wide-ranging maladies as autism, multiple sclerosis and attention deficit disorder.
If you watch TV's "The View," you've heard Elisabeth Hasselbeck, one of the co-hosts, talk about how removing wheat from her diet ended years of intestinal agony. She even wrote a book: "The G-Free Diet: A Gluten Survival Guide."
There have been gluten-free products for a decade or more, but most came from small bakers. In the past year or so, however, the big guys have joined the fray.
Just before the end of last year, General Mills launched a web site, www.liveglutenfreely.com, to highlight its gluten-free products and to provide consumers with gluten-free recipes and information on how to buy and live without the problematic protein.
"One of the most frequent inquiries our customer service department receives is 'What products are gluten-free?' " says Katie Lay, marketing manager of General Mills' Health and Wellness division. "Consumers should always consult product labels prior to purchase, but our new website can give them 24/7 access to information about General Mills' gluten-free products. We also created an electronic newsletter by the same name that consumers can subscribe to. Gluten-free product information and gluten-free recipes will be sent directly to their inboxes."
Prior to launching www.liveglutenfreely.com, General Mills created a line of Betty Crocker gluten-free dessert mixes. The company's Yoplait yogurt, Larabar fruit and nut bar, Betty Crocker Fruit Snack and Chex cereal product lines all contain several gluten-free items.
While General Mills is not alone, none of the biggest food processors is so heavily promoting or developing such products. The words "gluten" and "gluten-free" turned up zero hits on the web sites of all the other top 10 U.S. food companies (admittedly, many don't have any products containing glutens). Zilch for Kellogg Co., despite its baked-goods portfolio. Nestle USA points out "almost all the Wonka candies are gluten free except for Oompas and the Wonka Bar," and Libby's 100% Pure Pumpkin is naturally gluten- free (and there's a recipe for making a gluten-free pumpkin pie). Kraft has a Balance Fruit & Nut Energy Bar that's gluten-free.
ConAgra Mills' Eagle Mills All-Purpose Multigrain flour is a natural, whole-grain blend of the company's "Ancient Grains flours" — amaranth, millet, quinoa, sorghum and teff — as well as brown rice and tapioca starch. The gluten-free flour contains five of the six grains dubbed the "super six" by Melinda Dennis, nutrition coordinator at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Celiac Center, for their high vitamin and fiber content. The proprietary blend was formulated to achieve optimal texture, flavor, appearance and functionality in a variety of grain-based foods.
Ingredient suppliers are helping out with the gluten-free trend. Gum Technology Corp. (www.gumtech.com), Tucson, Ariz., recently discovered new uses in baked goods for its Coyote Brand Stabilizer ST-101, a blend of xanthan gum and guar gum.
Gluten mixed with water will produce an elastic and porous web, which is capable of trapping the gas bubbles that leavening agents produce allowing the product to rise. Stabilizer ST-101 is a natural gum blend that can replace that functionality in baked goods.
Gum Technology has found other bakery uses for ST-101. It binds moisture (reducing staling), improves cell structure, increases dough pliability and improves freeze/thaw stability. "It works well in everything from soups to baked goods," says Sarah Martin, Gum Technology's R&D chef. "It's a blend that seems to have been around forever but we keep finding new ways to use it."
Dow Wolff Cellulosics' (www.dowwolffcellulosics.com) Methocel gluten replacer is a cellulose-based fiber providing moistness throughout the shelf-life of baked goods, preventing collapse during baking and avoiding the gas or bloating effects associated with many other sources of fiber.
Market research firm Datamonitor has recorded a steady increase in the past decade in the number of new products with a gluten-free claim: from 0.7 percent in 2000 to 10.4 percent last year.
"Gluten free has had a huge run-up since around 2005 -- the numbers have doubled since that time period," says Tom Vierhile, director of Datamonitor's Product Launch Analytics. "And the growth from 2008 to 2009 is also impressive since gluten-free should have been showing signs of age at that time. You would not know it from the numbers."
The top categories, in order, for gluten free food products in 2009, based on the number of new product reports making that claim were:
- Other Savory Snacks (snack mix, puffed snacks, some fruit snacks, trail mix and more)
- Cookies
- Cereal Bars
- Potato Chips
- Wet Cooking Sauces
- Pasta
- Sugar Confectionery
- Chocolate
- Bread and Rolls
- Baby Snacks
- Seasonings
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if my english seems to be rough, excuse me, it is.
my question
in the phonetics guide of this book there is written that ZETA is pronounced like ZD in Ahura-MaZDa
but, i'm sorry, is that TRUE?
as i think now, it is not!!!!
is that situation common in english tradition of pronouncing AncientGreeek? or, may be, contemporary people do not pronounce this letter so?
lo que pasa es que in our (soviet and russian) books and grammars ZETA
is pronounced DZ
it is logically: p+s is psi. k+s is ksi and t+s must be TS
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If you have allergies, you may find that they affect your body in different ways. Allergy-related conditions generally involve the head (eyes, nose, mouth, throat, and ears), the lungs, the stomach tract, or the skin, all of which are involved in the body's frontline of defending itself from foreign substances. Different allergy-related conditions may occur together because they involve shared passageways in the upper respiratory tract. Also, people with allergies often have more than one of these conditions because of their hypersensitive immune systems. For example, many people with asthma also have allergic rhinitis ("hay fever").
Allergic rhinitis, commonly referred to as "hay fever," affects 30 - 60 million people annually in United States. The term "rhinitis" means inflammation of the lining of the nose. Common symptoms include stuffy and runny nose, itching, and sneezing. (There are other potential causes of these symptoms unrelated to allergies, like the common cold.) Allergic rhinitis can be seasonal or year-round, depending on what you are allergic to Some people think that "hay fever" happens only during warm months, often not realizing that symptoms they have in the winter are due to allergic rhinitis. Read more about allergic rhinitis.
Asthma is a chronic lung disease where the airways narrow, resulting in coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, or chest tightness. Pollen and other allergens can trigger asthma. In many patients with asthma, however, an upper respiratory tract infection like a cold or exercising may trigger an asthma attack. Read more about asthma.
"Sinusitis" refers to inflammation of the nasal sinus cavities, which are hollow spaces in the bones of the skull located behind the nose and eyebrows. Sinusitis (either acute or chronic) can be caused by infection, allergic inflammation, nasals polyps, or bone structure abnormalities, which interfere with the draining of the sinuses. Symptoms may include facial pain, headache, stuffy and runny nose, discolored mucus (yellow or green) draining from the nostrils, cough, diminished sense of smell, bad breath, fever, or pressure in the ears. Read more about sinusitis.
The term "otitis media" means inflammation of the middle ear, often due to colds or allergies. The inflammation often leads to ear infections. Early signs are ear pain and discomfort. Children may have trouble sleeping, lose their appetite, or show signs of irritability. Otitis media occurs most often among infants and young children because their inner ears are less developed and at an angle where bacteria and other irritants can easily enter through the throat. Read more about otitis media.
Conjunctivitis is an inflammation of the lining of the eye. Symptoms include red, itchy, and tearing eyes. Conjunctivitis can be caused by allergies or infection. Seasonal allergic conjunctivitis is common and usually occurs with allergic rhinitis. Like the nose, the eye is easily irritated by airborne allergens in the environment. Allergic conjunctivitis usually affects both eyes, while conjunctivitis from a bacteria or viruses affects only one eye at a time. Read more about conjunctivitis.
Dermatitis is inflammation of the skin. There are several types of dermatitis that are allergy-related, including atopic dermatitis (also called "eczema") and contact dermatitis. Atopic dermatitis usually appears in the first few years of life as a recurring itchy rash. Contact dermatitis appears as an intensely itchy, red, and blistery rash after contact with an allergen, like poison ivy.
Hives, also called urticaria, appear as red, itchy, raised welts on the skin that look like mosquito bites. Acute urticaria is often an allergic reaction to food or drugs and often lasts only a few days. Acute urticaria begins soon after exposure and affects 10 - 20% of people at least once in their life. Chronic urticaria can last longer than 6 months and is typically not related to allergies. The cause is often unknown. Read more about hives.
Anaphylaxis is a life-threatening condition that requires immediate emergency medical treatment. Anaphylaxis is an immediate immune system reaction during which histamine and other chemicals are released all over the body. If not treated right away, anaphylaxis may cause shock or death. The most common non-medication allergens that cause this type of reaction include insect sting venom, peanuts, tree nuts, and shellfish. Read more about anaphylaxis.
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Fifty years after the Roswell crash, terminal patients are being mysteriously cured . . . Robert Clark has to find out why before it's too late for his dying wife. Can the mysterious figure he sees leaving the hospital one night give him the answer? The search begins, but someone doesn't want the secret discovered. ...


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U.S. nuclear oversight too lax
Titled "The NRC and Nuclear Power Plant Safety in 2011: Living on Borrowed Time," the UCS report indicates
...that owners of atomic plants too often either close an eye to problems or fail to adequately address ... safety lapses at nuclear power facilities in the United States...
...the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) ... found 15 cases of safety equipment problems and security shortcomings at 13 nuclear plants last year, calling that number "high.""But the agency too often does not live up to its potential, and we are still finding significant problems at nuclear plants that could too easily trigger a serious accident."The group said that lax NRC oversight has allowed some problems to fester for decades, and found that 47 nuclear reactors — nearly half of the 104 nuclear plants operating in the United States today — still do not comply with fire regulations established by the NRC in 1980 and amended in 2004.It also said that there are 27 reactors with inadequate protection against earthquakes. [emphasis mine]
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We learn now that even as the Japanese government was reassuring its citizens that Fukushima posed no immediate danger, they were worried about multiple meltdown there in al of the reactors and cooling pools.
The Demonic Reality of Fukushima
However, as the New York Times revealed Monday, Edano and his colleagues at the highest levels of the Japanese federal government were actually worried about a worst-case scenario, a "demonic chain reaction" of atomic reactor meltdowns spreading catastrophic amounts of deadly radioactivity from the three operating units at Fukushima Daiichi (as well as multiple high-level radioactive waste storage pools there), to the four operating reactors and pools at Fukushima Daini (just 7 miles south, which itself avoided catastrophe thanks to a single surviving offsite power line; several offsite power lines were lost to the earthquake, and all diesel generators were lost to the tsunami), to the operating reactor and pool at Tokai (much closer to Tokyo). Regarding such a nightmare scenario, eerily similar to what Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa depicted in Dreams, the New York Times reported:
"We would lose Fukushima Daini, then we would lose Tokai," Mr. Edano is quoted as saying, naming two other nuclear plants. "If that happened, it was only logical to conclude that we would also lose Tokyo itself."
Similar false reassurance here in the US also continues. Consider the NRC's updated safety study for example.
Despite all this, NRC's SOARCA — by assuming almost all radioactivity will be contained during an accident, any releases will happen slowly and in a predictable fashion, that emergency evacuation will come off without a hitch, etc. — claims that casualties will be low, or even non-existent. Such false assurances fall flat on their face in light of the lessons learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe, including the new revelations...[emphasis mine]
Some would like to shut down all of the obsolete US nuclear reactors similar to those which caused such problems.
Can Fukushima's Spent Fuel Pools Catch Fire?
Short answer: YES. Any Mark I design spent fuel pool which loses power for two weeks is in danger of catching fire, because the Zircaloy containing the fuel pellets will burn in air when heated. The Sandia National Laboratories video shows their tests of how Zircaloy burns. Once burning, it's so hot that water can't put it out.
The main concern is that a seismic event could cause the Fukushima 4 spent fuel pool to leak. In the US we could forestall similar tragedy by removing spent fuel rods from our own Mark I spent fuel pools. The Nuclear Industry isn't interested because it's more costly for them to make us safe.
Flood Threat To Nuclear Plants Covered Up By Regulators, NRC Whistl...
The NRC covered up knowledge of unacceptable risks to nuclear power plants downstream of dams. The lead author of the heavily redacted report would know what's hidden under the blank rectangles.
The numbers, such as (b)(4), refer to the Freedom of Information Act exemption used to justify that redaction.
Richard H. Perkins, a reliability and risk engineer with the agency's division of risk analysis, alleged that NRC officials falsely invoked security concerns in redacting large portions of a report detailing the agency's preliminary investigation into the potential for flooding at U.S. nuclear power plants due to upstream dam failure.
In addition to the Oconee facility, the report examined similar vulnerabilities at the Ft. Calhoun station in Nebraska, the Prairie Island facility in Minnesota and the Watts Bar plant in Tennessee, among others.
Perkins was the lead author of that report, which was completed in July of 2011 -- roughly four months after an earthquake and subsequent tsunami flooded the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, cut off electric power to the facility and disabled all of its backup power systems, eliminating the ability to keep the reactors cool and leading to a meltdown.
The report concluded, among other things, that the failure of one or more dams sitting upstream from several nuclear power plants "may result in flood levels at a site that render essential safety systems inoperable." High floodwaters could conceivably undermine all available power sources, the report found, including grid power, emergency diesel backup generators, and ultimately battery backups. The risk of these things happening, the report said, is higher than acceptable.
"The totality of information analyzed in this report suggests that external flooding due to upstream dam failure poses a larger than expected risk to plants and public safety,"...
Perkins wrote in his letter. "The redacted information includes discussion of, and excerpts from, NRC official agency records that show the NRC has been in possession of relevant, notable, and derogatory safety information for an extended period but failed to properly act on it. Concurrently, the NRC concealed the information from the public." [emphasis mine]
Twenty-Three Nuclear Power Plants Found to Be in Tsunami Risk Areas
"The first vision of the global distribution of civil nuclear power plants situated on the coast and exposed to tsunamis" conducted by a team of scientists found that
Despite the fact that the risk of these natural disasters threatens
- practically the entire western coast of the American continent,
- the Spanish/Portuguese Atlantic Coast
- and the coast of North Africa,
the Eastern Mediterranean and areas of Oceania, especially in South and Southeast Asia are at greater risk due to the presence of atomic power stations. [emphasis mine]
Showdown at San Onofre: Why the Nuclear Industry May Be Dealt a Big...
Two stricken California reactors may soon redefine a global movement aimed at eradicating nuclear power.
They sit in a seismic zone vulnerable to tsunamis.
Perched on an ocean cliff between Los Angeles and San Diego, the reactors' owners cut unconscionable corners in replacing their multi-million-dollar steam generators. According to Russell Hoffman, one of California's leading experts on San Onofre, inferior metals and major design failures turned what was meant to be an upgrade into an utter fiasco.
Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric have unofficially thrown in the towel on Unit 3. But they're lobbying hard to get at least Unit 2 back up and running. Their technical problems are so serious that they've asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to let them run Unit 2 at 70% capacity. In essence, they want to "see what happens" without daring to take the reactor to full power.
The NRC has expressed serious doubts.
San Onofre's owners are desperate to get at least Unit 2 back on line so they can gouge the ratepayers for their failed expenditures.
The fiasco at San Onfre is being replayed at rust bucket reactors throughout the US. Progress Energy poked some major new holes into the containment at the Crystal River reactor it was allegedly fixing.
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A group of classmates will get together later this month for a bittersweet reunion to help an old friend.
Editor's note: The contact number for information on the fundraiser has been corrected.
A group of classmates will get together later this month for a bittersweet reunion to help an old friend.
Bruce Hemmingway, son of former Jacksonville City Clerk Bill Hemmingway, was returning to his Raleigh area home on April 12 after dinner with a friend. Both on motorcycles, Hemmingway and his friend, Tim Croom, were hit at an intersection � both were injured, but the wreck left Hemmingway a quadriplegic. It was an abrupt life change for a man friends described as active, lively and outgoing.
�He was such an active guy,� longtime friend Brad Padgett said. �He was working every day and loving life.�
A fundraiser and motorcycle ride is being planned for June 22 in Jacksonville to help support the family that has had a longtime presence in the area.
Padgett, like many of Hemmingway�s other friends, met him while growing up in Jacksonville in the 1960s and 1970s. Hemmingway, along with another long-time friend, John Starzinski, took every opportunity they had to hit the beach when school let out at Jacksonville High.
�We lived for surfing,� Starzinski said. �We�d get out of school and say �let�s go surfing.��
But it was Hemmingway�s love of life and others that friends brought up most frequently when talking about him.
�Bruce is always jovial and friendly,� said former classmate and friend Sabrina Guy. �He always has a positive attitude.�
Hemmingway and his friends kept in touch and remained friends after graduating, gathering for reunions and celebrating milestone birthdays. Most of them, though, went their own ways. Hemmingway moved out to the Raleigh area and started a printing business. But, when word of Hemmingway�s accident came out, the reaction seemed to be the same.
�I just thought, �Why Bruce?�,� Starzinski said. �Bruce is the kind of guy this isn�t supposed to happen to. Why do the good guys always get hurt?�
Padgett said he was floored, and Guy said she was devastated.
�(Hemmingway and his wife, Vicki�s) lives will never be the same,� she said.
Guy, among others, found out through one of Hemmingway�s closest friends: Elena Sosa. Like Starzinsky, Padgett and Guy, Sosa grew up with Hemmingway and went to Jacksonville High, graduating with Hemmingway in 1977. After a long stint in Southern California, Sosa moved back to Eastern North Carolina to be near her father a couple of weeks before Hemmingway�s accident. Sosa was planning for a visit from Hemmingway and his wife when she heard about the wreck.
�Your first instinct is to ask �is he still alive,�� said Sosa. �Tears were shed.�
Sosa visits Hemmingway at WakeMed in Raleigh every Thursday and says that Hemmingway is already starting to make progress; though the process has been and will be difficult for everyone involved.
�You rub his arm or his shoulder and you know he can�t feel it,� said Sosa.
Sosa said the Hemmingways have had to close up their business of 17 years and remodel their home to make it handicapped accessible. There�s already been a fundraising event held in the Raleigh area on the Hemmingway�s behalf, and the �Prayers for Bruce� Facebook page has more 1,000 members. But Sosa believed Hemmingway�s old stomping grounds needed to support the family as well.
�The Hemmingways are such a big part of this town,� Sosa said. �I had to do something.�
Sosa �got the ball rolling� on the Team Hemmingway fundraiser and motorcycle ride and has been recruiting old friends to rally around Hemmingway and his family, a task that has been keeping Sosa busy.
�This is like a full time job now,� she said.
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We are a new green healthy restaurant that needs a menu board redesign.
People looking for tasty food that doesn't tax the environment. And, maybe even some healthy choices :)
You will see from the pictures that I have provided that there are 10 - 16"x16" spots for your design to be spread amongst. (This contest is for the menu in the restaurant, not on the website)
I basically want each existing picture to be combined onto panels (no more than 4 pictures of the menu items per panel) and then you will also design panels next to the picture panels where the description of those pictured menu items will be.
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- 1 large purple eggplant
- Olive oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 2 c. marinara sauce, homemade or premade
- 1 c. Parmesan cheese, grated
- 1 c. Mozzarella cheese, grated
- 12 Basil leaves, julienned
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees
2. With a potato peeler, remove the skin of the eggplant. Drizzle with extra virgin olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
3. On a sheet pan, place eggplant in oven for about 15 minutes, or until the eggplant is soft and almost falling apart with a fork. Remove from oven and let cool.
4. Slice the eggplant into ¼ inch slices. Increase oven to 375 degrees.
5. Take out 2 ramekins. Layer an eggplant slice, about 2 tbs. marinara, 1 tbs. Parmesan, and about ¼ c. mozzarella, and a few basil leaves. Repeat until ramekins are filled (about 2-3 layers each).
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Mariotto di Nardo, Italian, ca. 1394-ca. 1424
Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1410-1420
Tempera on panel
12 3/8 x 20 5/8 in. (31.4 x 52.5 cm)
R. T. Miller, Jr. Fund, 1943
A typical example of International Gothic style as interpreted by Florentine painters at the beginning of the fifteenth century, the Adoration of the Magi is one of Mariotto di Nardo's most sophisticated and accomplished works, and was perhaps realized with the assistance of the premier
figural sculptor of the time, Lorenzo Ghiberti.
The Adoration of the Magi was recognized as the work of Mariotto di Nardo by F. Mason Perkins and Wilhelm Suida (in manuscript opinions) at the time of its purchase by the AMAM in 1943, an attribution that was subsequently confirmed by Marvin Eisenberg1 and Miklos Boskovits.2 The size, horizontal wood grain, and shape of the panel, which has been trimmed on all sides though not within the borders of the original picture field, indicate that it was painted as part of an altarpiece predella. Eisenberg correctly identified a panel representing the Adoration of the Shepherds3 (formerly in the Lanckoroncki Collection, Vienna), as a companion to the Oberlin panel and from the same predella. The original picture fields of the two panels are the same size and shape.4 Additionally, both panels preserve traces of identical punch patterns along the margins of their gold grounds and in the haloes of the principal figures, and are closely related to each other stylistically.
As was noted by Eisenberg, it is unusual to encounter scenes of both the Adoration of the Magi and the Adoration of the Shepherds within a single early quattrocento Florentine predella. In those cases where they are found together,5 there are usually other scenes from the infancy of Christ6 either in the other predella panels or in the altarpiece above. Though no such panels are known that might have completed the Oberlin/Lanckoroncki predella, it is possible that they originally stood together beneath Mariotto di Nardo's altarpiece of the Annunciation now in the Galleria dell'Academia, Florence.7 The Academia Annunciation is of an appropriate size to have accommodated the Oberlin and Lanckoroncki panels in its predella, and it relates well to them in style and quality. It is also one of the few paintings by Mariotto di Nardo to experiment with an architectural perspective (in the dais of the Virgin's throne) as ambitious as that of the shed covering the manger in the Oberlin Adoration of the Magi.
The extremely high quality of the Oberlin Adoration of the Magi, its adventurous spatial construction and figural contrapposti, and its subtle light effects make precise dating of this panel difficult, as Miklos Boskovits observed, since it stands out as an anomaly within the artist's oeuvre. Boskovits tentatively suggested that Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455) may have collaborated on the painting's design or execution.8 Ghiberti is known to have worked for Mariotto di Nardo on a commission in Pesaro around 1400,9 and appears to have assisted him again (or to have been assisted by him) on the design of the stained glass window of the Assumption of the Virgin for Florence Cathedral in 1404/5.
That Ghiberti may have been involved in the realization of the Oberlin Adoration of the Magi is highly plausible. Certainly the painting is indebted to Ghiberti's bronze relief of the same subject on the north door of the Baptistry in Florence, and it displays a more complete understanding of Ghiberti's formal innovations than does any other work by Mariotto di Nardo. If Boskovits's hypothesis is accepted, then the Oberlin Adoration of the Magi assumes the role of a significant document in charting the development of pictorial style in early Renaissance Florence.
L. Kanter.
The standard source for the life of Mariotto di Nardo is Colnaghi's Dictionary of Florentine Painters10 where it is claimed that he was the son of a Florentine stonecutter, maestro Nardo di Cione, about whom it is known only that he was employed in 1380 and 1381 in Siena and Volterra. Recently, however, Ladis has suggested that his father was the painter Nardo di Cione (d. 1365),11 which would establish Mariotto as heir to one of the most distinguished artistic dynasties of Florence, and in part explain his inordinate popularity and influence in the years immediately before and after 1400. The earliest documented reference to Mariotto di Nardo is a contract of 1394/95 to paint an altarpiece for San Donnino a Villamagna, although a Madonna and Child dated 1393 (Sta. Cristina a Pagnana) can be securely attributed to him on stylistic grounds. That his career most likely began at least a decade before this has been deduced, by Boskovits,12 from the regularity of commissions he received in the 1390s from the Opera del Duomo (the board of works of the Cathedral) in Florence, indicating his status as a well-established master by that time. Boskovits's deduction may now be confirmed by the death date of his putative father.
Mariotto di Nardo appears to have assumed the role of one of the principal masters of Florence following the death of Agnolo Gaddi in 1396,13 and to have retained that distinction even into the first decade of the fifteenth century. Among his assistants and followers may have numbered as important an artist as Lorenzo Ghiberti, who later claimed credit in his Commentari for Mariotto's designs for the stained-glass window of the Assumption in the central oculus of Florence Cathedral (1405). Although the frequency and prestige of his commissions in Florence continued unabated until about 1416, when he painted an altarpiece for the oratory of the Bigallo, Mariotto worked increasingly for provincial patrons in his later career and depended increasingly on the intervention of assistants in the execution of both his large- and small-scale works. Mariotto's last will and testament is dated 24 April 1424, and it may be presumed that he died shortly afterwards.
Collection Marchese Franzoni, Genoa
With N. Acquavella, New York (by 1940) from whom purchased in 1943
New York, Acquavella Gallery, 1940. Italian Paintings: XIV and XV Century. 22 April - 22 May. Cat. no. 19.
Zanesville, Ohio, Art Institute, 1948. Paintings of the Adoration of the Magi. 1 - 31 December. No cat.
New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., 1954. Paintings and Drawings from Five Centuries: Collection Allen Memorial Art Museum. 3 - 21 February. Cat. no. 18.
Chapel Hill, N.C., William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, 1961. An Exhibition of Mediaeval Art. 28 April - 20 May. Cat. no. 5.
Eisenberg, Marvin J. "A Partial Reconstruction of a Predella by Mariotto di Nardo." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 9, no. 1 (Fall 1951), pp. 9-16.
"Recent Research." The Burlington Magazine 94 (1952), p. 85.
Hamilton, Chloe. "Catalogue of R. T. Miller, Jr. Fund Acquisitions." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 16, no. 2 (Winter 1959), cat. no. 30; no. 3 (Spring 1959), ill. p. 193.
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance Florentine School. Vol. 1, The Phaison Press, London, Great Britain, 1963, pp. 132.
Stechow, Wolfgang. Catalogue of European and American Paintings and Sculpture in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. Oberlin, 1967, pp. 102-3, fig. 7.
Boskovits, Miklos. "Mariotto di Nardo e la formazione del linguaggio tardo-Gotico a Firenze negli anni intorno al 1400." Antichita Viva 7, no. 6 (1968), pp. 28, 30-31.
Fredericksen, Burton and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Mass., 1972, pp. 121, 272, 614.
Boskovits, Miklos. Pittura fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento, 1975, pp. 395, 398.
Technical Data
The painting has been removed from its original context as the predella to an altarpiece. The poplar panel has been thinned and cradled, and the corners cut at a 45-degree angle. The cradle itself was thinned and freed in 1951, possibly to halt a system of checks that had appeared at the back of the panel. The paint surface, stabilized by a layer of linen fabric applied between the panel and gesso ground layer, was not affected. Remnants of a gesso barb around the perimeter of the panel indicates that the painting originally had an engaged wooden frame. The paint medium is egg tempera, with localized oil glazes and gold leaf in the sky and haloes. Green copper resinate pigment, used in the fore- and background vegetation, has darkened considerably. There are old losses in the roof of the shed, and in the face of the kneeling Magus, but the paint surface is generally intact.
1. Marvin J. Eisenberg, "A Partial Reconstruction of a Predella by Mariotto di Nardo," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 9, no. 1 (Fall 1951), pp. 9-16.
2. Miklos Boskovits, "Mariotto di Nardo e la Formazione del linguaggio tardo-Gotico a Firenze negli anni intorno al 1400," Antichita Viva 7, no. 6 (1968), pp. 21-31.
3. 30.5 x 52.2 cm, Cracow, Wawel Castle, inv. 7941; illustrated in Marvin J. Eisenberg, "A Partial Reconstruction of a Predella by Mariotto di Nardo," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 9, no. 1 (Fall 1951), figs. 2 and 5. This painting was first attributed to Mariotto di Nardo by Osvald Siren, "Early Italian Pictures in the University Museum, Göttingen," The Burlington Magazine 26 (1914-15), p. 108. It was subsequently ascribed to Agnolo Gaddi by Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. 3 (The Hague, 1924), p. 556 n. 1, but restored to Mariotto di Nardo by all subsequent authorities. On the Lanckoroncki collection, see Jerzy Miziolek, "The Lanckoronski [sic] Collection in Poland," Antichita Viva 34, no. 3 (1995), pp. 34-34, 47 n. 71.
4. The Lanckoroncki panel had at one time been enlarged to a regular octagon by the addition of pieces of new wood at the top and bottom that were painted--in an inappropriate oil medium--with extensions of the sky and foreground landscape.
5. As in the set of six predella panels by Mariotto di Nardo in the collection of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres.
6. The Annunciation, Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt, Massacre of the Innocents, or Dispute in the Temple.
7. Tempera on panel, 137 x 136 cm, Florence, Galleria dell'Academia, inv. 463; from the church of San Remigio (until 1842) in Florence; Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, 1842-1933; Academia since 1933. W. and E. Paatz, Die Kirchen von Florenz, vol. 5 (Frankfort, 1953), pp. 12, 18, n. 38, almost certainly correctly identified it as the painting in San Remigio attributed to Orcagna by Vasari, Vite de'piu eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori (1568), ed. G. Milanesi, vol. 1 (Florence,1878), p. 607. It is unclear whether the Academia Annunciation is complete in its present format (its Gothic frame is a modern reproduction) or whether it was once flanked by panels representing full-length standing saints, as in the altarpiece of the Annunciation with Saints Nicholas and Julian by Mariotto di Nardo and Rossello di Jacopo Franchi in the Museo Civico, Pistoia. It is therefore uncertain whether the predella that hypothetically stood beneath it comprised only two panels, or might have been completed with further narrative scenes, possibly illustrating the lives of the attendant saints above.
8. No documented examples of Ghiberti's work as a painter, however, are known which could be adduced for comparison. Miklos Boskovits, "Mariotto di Nardo e la Formazione del linguaggio Tardo-Gotico a Firenze negli anni intorno al 1400," Antichita Viva 7, no. 6 (1968), pp. 21ff.
9. Mario Salmi, "Lorenzo Ghiberti e Mariotto di Nardo," Rivista d'arte 30, (1955), p. 147ff.
10. Sir Dominic E. Colnaghi, Colnaghi's Dictionary of Florentine Painters (London, 1928, reprint Florence, ca. 1986), p. 172.
11. Andrew Ladis in Erling Skaug, Punch Marks from Giotto to Fra Angelico, vol. 1 (Oslo, 1994), p. 280 n. 42.
12. Miklos Boskovits, "Sull'attivita giovanile di Mariotto di Nardo," Antichita Viva 7, no. 5 (1968), pp. 3-13.
13. Miklos Boskovits, "Mariotto di Nardo e la formazione del linguaggio tardo-gotico a Firenze negli anni intorno al 1400," Antichita Viva 7, no. 6 (1968), pp. 21-31.


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Gordon Ramsay might be able to rescue Cobble Hill's Mama Maria's restaurant on "Kitchen Nightmares" tonight, but he might not be able to save the chicken livers and scallops risotto.
These two Ramsay-inspired creations have been hanging on for dear life since Ramsay revamped the menu in June.
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- Towering property on the beach with great ocean views
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All the hallmarks of an upscale beachfront hotel can be found here, including multiple restaurants, sweeping ocean views, and family-friendly activities. What makes the Sheraton Waikiki stand out is its sheer size -- it has a slew of features, including bustling shops and nightlife venues packed with both guests and Honolulu locals. The location, amenities, and views are hard to beat, but they come at the cost of sometimes overwhelming crowds. Service is generally good, but with over 1,600 rooms and so many guests, it's not always timely. Those looking for a more relaxed stay may find it at the comparable, Outrigger Reef On The Beach, a slightly cheaper alternative on the same prime stretch of sand.


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What Is The Ultimate Summer Car With A Full Roof?
Even though the first official day of summer is still over three weeks away, Memorial Day weekend has always signified the beginning of the season for us. With this in mind, we wanted to take a look at the ideal summer vehicle with a twist.