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Organisational Development: Creating High Performance Capabilities
When faced with increased market pressures and the unavoidable need for change, the first port of call for many organisations is to focus on the skills and capabilities of their people. Indeed, corporate training and development is a growing area. Research shows year on year double-digit growth since 2011 in corporate training spend. And whilst capability and skill development is an inevitable part of organisational development and effectiveness, the question however has to be, are we truly getting the returns on the investments being made? Is capability development meeting the needs of the organisation?
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Microsoft's Windows 8 "secure boot" feature is the controversy that just won't die, at least among Linux users.
Initial fears by the Linux community -- that Microsoft's requirements for secure boot on future Windows 8-based machines would thwart Linux use -- appear to be half-correct. The catch seems to be that Linux will have trouble dual booting on Windows 8 ARM-based hardware only. Unfortunately, Microsoft has added nothing new to clarify this confusing matter.
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Secure boot is part of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification. It's an optional security procedure in the UEFI spec that promises to address a security hole in current BIOS boot-up procedures. With secure boot, initial system-checking software can talk with the operating system, and it can ensure that malware doesn't get loaded when a computer starts by verifying a Certificate Authority. This process is seen as advance in security because antimalware software today typically does not check the BIOS firmware upon bootup. BIOS is considered old software technology, and it's static enough that it's like an open book for hackers to attach malware to systems in an undetected manner.
The Linux community has complained that Microsoft will make it difficult, or impossible, to dual-boot Linux on Windows machines by requiring secure boot. By requiring hardware makers to enable secure boot on Windows 8 machines, future use of Linux will be thwarted, they have argued. The Linux Foundation, along with Red Hat and Canonical, has described some alternative plans to Microsoft's secure boot requirement to address this potential problem.
Microsoft denied in a September blog post that using secure boot on Windows 8 PCs would prohibit dual boot to Linux. However, the company did indicate that users would have to turn off secure boot first before booting to Linux. They also claimed that OEMs had complete control over the decision to enable secure boot when producing new PCs.
This argument seemed somewhat settled until Computerworld author Glyn Moody noticed something a little different from Microsoft's line of argument on page 116 of Microsoft's "Windows Hardware Certification Requirements" for client and server systems, which bears a publish date of December 2011. On that page, it appears that Microsoft is telling OEMs producing ARM-based machines that secure boot is mandatory, whereas it can be disabled on non-ARM (x86) machines.
"On an ARM system, it is forbidden to enable Custom Mode. Only Standard Mode may be enable [sic]," the document reads.
"21. MANDATORY: Enable/Disable Secure Boot. On non-ARM systems, it is required to implement the ability to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup. A physically present user must be allowed to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup without possession of PKpriv. Programmatic disabling of Secure Boot either during Boot Services or after exiting EFI Boot Services MUST NOT be possible. Disabling Secure MUST NOT be possible on ARM systems."
"On an ARM system, it is forbidden to enable Custom Mode. Only Standard Mode may be enable [sic]," the document reads.
"21. MANDATORY: Enable/Disable Secure Boot. On non-ARM systems, it is required to implement the ability to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup. A physically present user must be allowed to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup without possession of PKpriv. Programmatic disabling of Secure Boot either during Boot Services or after exiting EFI Boot Services MUST NOT be possible. Disabling Secure MUST NOT be possible on ARM systems."
The reference to Custom Mode in Microsoft's document represents another option closed off to Linux users on ARM-based machines. With Custom Mode enabled, users can write their own signatures for custom loaders, but Microsoft is precluding that option for ARM systems. This point is explained in an excellent overview of UEFI by Woody Leonhard in this Windows Secrets story.
Microsoft Jan. 18 offered no comment on its Windows 8 certification requirements for ARM hardware and whether it indicates that secure boot is required on those systems. A spokesperson for Microsoft just pointed to the September blog post. However, based on Microsoft's requirements document, that blog post appears to mislead with regard to ARM hardware.
It could be argued that by using the word, "PCs," in the blog post Microsoft meant x86 machines only. However, that might amount to semantic quibbling given recent trends. Future ARM machines are expected to have multiple form factors. An ARM-based desktop model is part of the strategy for ARM Holdings, according to its CEO.
Device makers at the Consumer Electronics Show the week of Jan. 16 mostly displayed tablet devices running Windows 8, according to a Computerworld article. However, Microsoft has argued in previous direction statements about enabling "create" kinds of experiences on tablets with its next-generation operating system. The idea is to make tablets akin to PCs in computing power.
Microsoft's "Windows Hardware Certification Requirements" for client and server systems is offered as a guide to hardware builders, but they are likely to construe the word "must" in it as similar to contractual language. Barring any clarification from Microsoft, it looks like future users of Windows 8 on ARM-based computers won't have an option to boot to Linux on their tablet or ultrabook computers.
Microsoft also published a December 2011-dated document called "Windows Hardware Certification Requirements" for devices. However, this 943-page document apparently does not discuss any secure boot requirements.
The Software Freedom Law Center offers interesting speculation about why the secure boot requirement is different between the two platforms (x86 and ARM). The group, which advocates for the use of software without any proprietary restrictions, suggested in a blog post that Microsoft would have angered Windows XP or Windows 7 users if it had blocked the use of those OSes on future x86 hardware, whereas there's no previous hardware support legacy to worry about with forthcoming Windows 8 on ARM systems.
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Neither do I see WHY someone bying a MS Win running device should have to dual boot it with Linux. Just let them buy Adroid devices right away?
Many people who use their grey matter prefer Linux, not only 'servers and routers'
It's of course perfectly ok on desktop, only MS trolls will always say something else. Well, it really doesn't matter. MS is in the corner of their own greed and pathetic imitations of what OS should be.
If they continue their current path, then even the biggest MS supportes will abandon it. I really hope MS releases that Metro obscurity soon. Can't wait for that mistake to happen. :)
When will these linux heathens learn that Bill Gates invented computing when he wrote Windows. It is the ONLY thing that computers need to run for our Bosses.
"It will fail again, as it has done in the past.."
I don't know about your country, but here you can't buy a laptop without paying the Microsoft tax, unless it's an overpriced apple. Now all their lawyers and marketers are after locking up tablets.
The reason it is an issue, Luke, is that Microsoft is trying to get a lock on tablets. Tablets are the new laptop. Many of the first generation of tablets have been made with ARM processors and run the Android OS (built on a Linux kernal). If a technically capable consumer wants to change the OS on their tablet now, they can. If manufacturers of Windows 8 based tablets using the ARM processors comply with the Microsoft "guidelines", that will not be possible. Even consumers that are not technically savvy might want to convert their tablets to Android (or another OS built on a Linux kernal) by having a technician do the work for them. It's all in the "apps", and right now Android and Apple's iOS have most of them. So Microsoft is trying to corner the tablet OS market with an anti-competitive hardware certification requirement.
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BOSTON — The Patrick administration is moving once again to close the remaining mental health beds at Taunton State Hospital, which Health and Human Services Secretary John Polanowicz said will grow jobs in the region while maintaining the number of beds in the state.
The Legislature has previously blocked the administration's move to transfer the 45 beds from Taunton to the new Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital. "I think you saw that was very unpopular down in the southeast region," Rep. Angelo D'Emilia, R-Bridgewater, told Polanowicz at a budget hearing in Watertown on Monday.
"It's a broader conversation around the reuse and increase of programs that are going into that Taunton facility, trying to make that parcel a much more productive and vibrant place," said Polanowicz, who said the state has identified six new programs for the southeast — including a program for people who have committed sexual crimes — and Taunton Mayor Thomas Hoye Jr. is interested in a parcel of the property for a new elementary school.
"I am interested in a small portion of currently unused land for the purpose of an elementary school, but in no way, shape or form am I in favor of both closing Taunton State Hospital and acquiring unused land," Hoye said. "It's unfortunate that Secretary Polanowicz is using my desire to acquire surplus unused land for an elementary school as a justification for his desire to close Taunton State Hospital. I have been involved with the fight to keep Taunton State Hospital open for many years, and I will continue to lead the fight now."
Polanowicz said the Department of Mental Health's transfer from Taunton to Worcester would preserve the state's 626 beds and "support the full implementation" of a "nationally recognized" hospital. "Because of its design, WRCH provides patients with evidence-based treatment and a multitude of rehabilitation options in a state of the art environment," Polanowicz said at the Perkins School for the Blind.
"It also allows us to invest $6 million in new adult community-based services, identified as an important area of need by the independent consultant to the Mental Health Advisory Committee, and which will create approximately 100 additional state positions in the southeastern part of the state."
— Taunton Gazette staff contributed to this report.


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Professor Ravi Bapna, founding academic director of University of Minnesota's Social Media and Business Analytics Collaborative (SOBACO), will present "Building a Socially Savvy Brand in a Data-Rich Hyper-Connected World" at the next Brand Matters on March 26 at 7:30 a.m. in the Carlson School of Management's 3M Auditorium.
As the adage goes, customers define your brand more than you do. And in today's hyper-connected, data-rich world, marketers have unprecedented access to what customers are saying--about their likes and dislikes, their interests, habits, and experiences. So how can companies use data from the social graph to build better brands and marketing campaigns? The most effective techniques go well beyond counting "likes" and followers. In his talk, Bapna will provide insight into the science of social networks, including how they can be studied and used to business advantage.
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck had nothing but praise and warm wishes for her co-panelists on "The View" on Wednesday, her last day on the show after a decade.
On Tuesday, Hasselbeck announced she would be departing the ABC daytime show for Fox News, where she'd be joining the morning program "Fox & Friends."
For her final broadcast, which was the day after the news broke, Hasselbeck took a few moments to emotionally thank everyone on the show, from executive producer, Bill Geddie, to Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar and the absent Sherri Shepherd. But she had special words for Barbara Walters, the grande dame of "The View."
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Hasselbeck joined "The View" when she was just 25 years old.
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Some of the variety of events we've already tried include: Canoeing around the Toronto Islands, Wine tasting, Comedy Shows, (http://www.meetup.com/TorontoTNT/events/24008391/) Karaoke, Paintballing, Board game bonanza at Snakes & Lattes , Exploring the Scarborough Bluffs, Picnicking at Christie Pits, Medieval Times, Bowling, Discovering Ontario Place , Winterlicious restaurant on top of the world , Movie+dinner night at heart of downtown, Volleyball+BBQ at Woodbine Beach (http://www.meetup.com/TorontoTNT/events/30688301/), Costume Parties, Mystery Room, Archery Tag, Soft Ball, Movie Nights, Game Nights, Bowling, Pool, Comedy Shows, Improv, The Dating Game and Trying new ethnic cuisines (http://www.meetup.com/TorontoTNT/photos/1993281/).
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Director: Andrés Muschietti
Running time: 110 mins Released: 22nd February 2013
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About Mama
A mother's love proves to be an unbreakable and terrifying force in this creepy horror. Five years after they disappeared into the woods with their father, sisters Victoria (Megan Charpentier) and Lily (Isabelle Nelisse) are found by a rescue party sponsored by their uncle Lucas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). They are caked in mud, aggressive and feral. It is decided that Lucas and his girlfriend Annabel (Jessica Chastain) can have custody of them if a welfare clinic can also monitor their behaviour. This displeases the girls' aunt, but Lucas is determined to give them a stable home. Annabel is less enthusiastic as she has never wanted children. As the girls slowly open up to their doctor and new family, Annabel realises that a vengeful and possessive spirit has followed them from the woods.
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1727 - 1804 Venice)
Punchinello with the Ostriches, ca. 1800
Signed and numbered 811
Pen in brown ink and wash over black chalk on white laid paper
Design: 11 11/16 x 16 5/16 in. (29.6 x 41.5 cm)
Sheet: 14 x 18 5/8 in. (35.5 x 47.3 cm)
R. T. Miller, Jr. Fund, 1955
Late in his life Domenico Tiepolo drew over one hundred ink and wash drawings that invent and illustrate the misadventures of Punchinello. Oberlin's drawing is one of several in the series that show the much-loved low-life character interacting with animals, in this case an ungainly ostrich.
Born on the streets of Naples, Punchinello became a standard character in the largely improvisational commedia dell'arte by the early seventeenth century. His obligatory physical features included a humpback, round belly, long beaklike nose (a reference to his descent from a chicken or turkey), tall conical hat, and baggy white clothes. Although he appeared in an endless array of different roles--from lascivious servant to Turkish pasha--he always remained Punchinello, a coarse, lecherous, and gluttonous trickster.2 Punchinellos were also ubiquitous on eighteenth-century Venetian streets and squares, hawking wares, appearing in puppet shows, and cavorting in the annual Carnival.
The Punchinello character intrigued the artistic Tiepolos for decades: he appears in Giambattista's drawings of the 1730s and '50s 3 and two of his etchings in the Scherzi di Fantasia;4 and in Domenico's paintings and drawings of contemporary life (for example, A Dance in the Country, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and The Minuet, Paris, Musée du Louvre, both of the mid-1750s); as well as in his frescoes for the Tiepolo family villa at Zianigo (now at Ca' Rezzonico, Venice).5
Sometime around 1800 Domenico returned to the subject with gusto, and created the 104 wash drawings for the Divertimento per li ragazzi (Entertainment for Children).6 This masterful series presents a multitude of Punchinellos in a loosely structured tale of Everyman, which begins with the hatching of Punchinello's father from a huge turkey egg, and ends with an apparition of Punchinello's skeleton rising from the grave. The order of the drawings has been much studied, with some authors proposing a roughly chronological order, and others grouping the drawing by subject.7 The Oberlin drawing, number 81 in the series, follows several drawings in which Punchinello interacts with camels, donkeys, monkeys, and cattle. Byam Shaw classifies it along with drawings illustrating "His Adventures in Strange Countries," while Vetrocq classifies it among the "Scenes of Childhood and Family Life."8
In the Oberlin sheet Punchinello closely examines the wing and belly of a large ostrich strutting across the center of the scene. Punchinello perhaps compares himself (descended from a fowl) with this awkward bird, or contemplates some unknown future action of humorous consequence. A group of wealthy, somewhat vacuous onlookers dressed in sixteenth-century costume watch the interaction from beyond the balustrade. Behind them is a statue of Ganymede the Fair, who, with his eagle, offers a high-art counterpart to Punchinello the Ugly, with his earthbound ostrich and his roots in popular culture.9 The intended location of this scene--park, circus, or exotic land--and its meaning are still unknown.
Noting that "nothing could illustrate better the promiscuous use of pictorial models in Domenico's work," Byam Shaw has published several sources for the Oberlin drawing.10 The large ostrich is based on the ostrich depicted in Giambattista's Africa fresco in the staircase in the Residenz, Würzburg, or a related drawing; both fresco and drawing were done about 1752-53.11 The ostrich and chick to the left relate to a pen and wash drawing by Domenico (Paris, Fondation Custodia) and to his earlier chalk study (Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlung der Staatsgalerie, Sammlung Schloss), which is itself based on an etching by Stefano della Bella.12
The spectators derive either from Giambattista's frescoes for the Villa Contarini alla Mira (1749/50; now in the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris) or from Domenico's drawing of the same (collection Sir Brinsley Ford).13 The largely obscured statue at the far left comes from a drawing by Domenico in the Lehman Collection, New York,14 while the Ganymede is based on a drawing by Domenico in the Beauchamp Album.15
The Oberlin drawing demonstrates Domenico's distinctive use of wash. He painted the background with a soft-edged, atmospheric, wet-in-wet wash in pale brown tones. Once the background had dried, he created the richly varied textures (note especially the feathers and foliage) by controlled placement of drops, dribbles, and strokes.
As a group, the Divertimenti drawings are a nostalgic celebration of what must have been for Domenico a pleasurable lifestyle. By 1800, however, Neoclassical style had replaced the taste for the Baroque work of the Tiepolos, and the French had assumed control of the Venetian Republic. Perhaps Domenico drew these Punchinellos for the purpose suggested in the series title, to divert himself and the children who lived near the villa at Zianigo, where he spent his waning years.
J. S. Wilker
Born in Venice on 30 August 1727, Giovanni Domenico Maria Antonio Tiepolo was the fifth child and oldest surviving son of the prodigious Baroque painter Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Tiepolo (1696-1770). Domenico trained in the Tiepolo workshop during the 1740s, where he drew copies of drawings and paintings by his father and others, and served as assistant on major commissions of the shop. His first independent work was a series of twenty-four canvases for the Oratory of the Crucifixion of San Polo, Venice (1747-49). During these years, he also developed as a master etcher (seem AMAM invs. 41.12 and 72.96).
From 1750-53 Domenico, along with his brother Lorenzo (1736-1772), helped his father complete commissioned frescoes in Würzburg at the Residenz of the prince-bishop Carl Philipp van Greiffenclau. In this project his work blended almost imperceptibly with that of his father, but he also produced independent canvases for private patrons and many drawings. Domenico also created a well-known series of etchings imaginatively illustrating the Flight into Egypt (see AMAM 72.96). In 1753 the three Tiepolos returned to Venice. Domenico continued to collaborate with his father, and emerged as the family specialist in monochrome frescoes and genre painting. Domenico's appreciation of the "theater" of contemporary Venetian life is revealed in frescoes in buildings in and around Venice (for example, at the Villa Valmarana ai Nani, outside Vicenza, and at the Tiepolo family villa at Zianigo, near Mirano), and in several easel paintings of this period.
In 1762 Giambattista was called to Spain to work for Charles III, again accompanied by and relying heavily on his sons. Returning to Venice after his father's death in 1770, Domenico continued to paint, make prints, and draw prolifically. The late drawings were executed in several lengthy series, or variations on a theme, devoted to religious, mythological and exotic subjects; Venetian contemporary life; and Punchinello, the artist's final and crowning achievement.
Domenico died of fever in Venice on 4 March 1804.
General References
Byam Shaw, James. The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo. London, 1962.
Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman. Exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 1996.
Wolk-Simon, Linda. Domenico Tiepolo: Drawings, Prints, and Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1997.
Sale London (Sotheby's), 6 July 1920, in lot 41 (complete Divertimenti set of 104 drawings; £650 to Colnaghi)
With P. & D. Colnaghi, London
Collection Richard Owen, Paris (1920-21)
Collection Countess Wachtmeister, Paris
Sale London (Sotheby's), 15 December 1954, lot 108 (four from set sold at this sale: two for £300, and two, including lot 108, for £700)
With Richard Zinser, New York, from whom purchased in 1955
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 1921 (complete Divertimenti set). No cat.
Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1956. Drawings and Watercolors from the Oberlin Collection. 11 March - 1 April. No cat.
New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., 1959. Great Master Drawings of Seven Centuries >. 13 October - 7 November. Cat. no. 42.
Minneapolis, University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1961. The Eighteenth Century. 24 January - 7 March. Cat. no. 90.
Kenwood, London County Council, 1962. An American University Collection: Works of Art from the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio. 3 May - 30 October. Cat. no. 51.
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1966. Treasures from the Allen Memorial Art Museum. 21 July - 11 September. No cat.
Birmingham, Ala., Museum of Art, 1978. The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates. 8 January - 19 February (also shown at Springfield, Mass., Museum of Fine Arts). Cat. no. 120.
Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum, 1979. Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings. 2 September - 6 October (also shown at Stanford University Museum of Art). Cat. no. 25.
Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum, 1996. Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman. 15 January - 9 March (also shown at Udine, Castello di Udine). Cat. no. 174.
Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos: Giambattista and Giandomenico. Exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago, 1938, pp. 46-49.
Francis, H. S. "Six Drawings from the Life of Pulcinella [sic] by the Younger Tiepolo." Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin 26 (1939), pp. 46-49.
Hamilton, Chloe. "Catalogue of R. T. Miller, Jr. Fund Acquisitions." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 16, no. 2 (Winter 1959), cat. no. 72; no. 3 (Spring 1959), ill. p. 253.
Byam Shaw, James. The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo. London, 1962, cat. no. 93, mentioned pp. 53, 58 n. 1.
Stechow, Wolfgang. Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolors in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. Oberlin, 1976, p. 70, fig. 139.
Vetrocq, Marcia E. Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings. Exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 1979, pp. 29, 86-87, cat. no. 25, ill.
Gealt, Adelheid M. "The Courtship, Marriage and Other Exploits of Punchinello." ARTnews 78, no. 9 (November 1979), p. 134, ill. p. 135.
Corsaro, Frank. The Love for Three Oranges: The Glyndebourne Version. New York, 1984, pp. 55-57.
Gealt, Adelheid. Domenico Tiepolo, The Punchinello Drawings. New York, 1986, pp. 90-91, cat. no. 33.
Pedrocco, Filippo. Disegni di Giandomenico Tiepolo. Milan, 1990, p. 90, pl. 37.
Gealt, Adelheid, and George Knox. Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman. Exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 1996, p. 235, no. 174.
Technical Data
The drawing is executed with line and wash in brown ink, probably bister, on heavy laid,antique white paper. A second, red-orange color used on the Punchinello masks at the right. The trembling line, characteristic of Domenico, is applied with a pen; in some architectural elements, he appears to have used a straightedge. The freely sketched underdrawing, which in places has little to do with the final surface image, is in black chalk. The watermark is Graduated Triple Crescents, present in many of the Punchinello drawings.16 The sheet is in good, fresh condition, with moderate surface soiling and a few foxmarks in the margins.
1. Signed in brown ink lower left: Domo Tiepolo f; numbered in modern purple pencil upper left: 81
2. See Marcia E. Vetrocq, "Domenico Tiepolo and the Figure of Punchinello," in Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings (exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 1979), pp. 19-33.
3. See George Knox, "The Punchinello Drawings of Giambattista Tiepolo," in Interpretazioni veneziane: studi di storia dell'arte in onore di Michelangelo Muraro, ed. David Rosand (Venice, 1984), pp. 439-46.
4. A. Baudi de Vesme, Le Peintre-graveur italien (Milan, 1906), nos. 21 and 29.
5. On the frescoes, see Filippo Pedrocco, Giandomenico Tiepolo a Zianigo (Villorba, 1988). For a review of earlier Venetian depictions of Punchinello, see Marcia E. Vetrocq, "Domenico Tiepolo and the Figure of Punchinello," in Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings (exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 1979), pp. 25-28.
6. On the series, see James Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo (London, 1962), chapter 6; Marcia E. Vetrocq, Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings (exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 1979); Adelheid Gealt, Domenico Tiepolo, The Punchinello Drawings (New York, 1986); and Adelheid Gealt and George Knox, Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman (exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 1996), pp. 56-58, 216-37. A date of around 1800 is generally accepted for the series. James Byam Shaw (op. cit., pp. 57-58) comes to this conclusion on the basis of compositional elements and costume. The discovery of a date of 1797 on a wall in the Punchinello room at the villa at Zianaga also supports a date of about 1800 for the drawings; see Adriana Mariuz, in Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman (exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 1996), p. 35.
7. The drawings were initially numbered in ink by the artist in the upper left-hand corner, but many of these numbers have been abraded and replaced with numbers in modern pencil, as is the case in the Oberlin drawing. A further difficulty in ordering the set is the dispersal of the drawings. A photographed set in the collection of Sir Brinsley Ford, London, which has numbers on the back, has been used to establish an order that is perhaps the closest to Domenico's intent; see Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman (exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 1996), p. 216, and the checklist on pp. 244-47.
8. James Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo (London, 1962), p. 56; Marcia E. Vetrocq, Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings (exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum, 1979), p. 37.
9. In number 47 of the series, presumably drawn earlier, Punchinello is depicted as Ganymede riding the eagle.
10. James Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo (London, 1962), cat. no. 93, pp. 93-94.
11. The painting, in which the ostrich is depicted along with elephants, monkeys, camels, and pelicans, is reproduced in Max H. Freeden and Carl Lamb, Das Meisterwerk des Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: Die Fresken der Würzberger Residenz (München, 1956), pp. 93, 95. The drawing is reproduced in Zeichnungen von Giambattista, Domenico und Lorenzo Tiepolo (exh. cat., Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 1970), pl. 88.
12. Both drawings are reproduced in Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman (exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 1996), the first on p. 235 (under cat. no. 174), and the second on p. 186, cat. no. 116. For della Bella's etching, The Ostrich Hunt, see Phyllis Dearborn Massar, Stefano della Bella: Catalogue raisonné by Alessandre de Vesme (New York, 1971), cat. no. 732.
13. The fresco is reproduced in Massimo Gemin and Filippo Pedrocco, Giambattista Tiepolo: I dipinti, opera completa (Venice, 1993), cat. nos. 362-63. On the drawings see James Byam Shaw, "Two Drawings by Domenico Tiepolo, and a note on the date of the Frescoes at the Villa Contarini-Pisani," The Burlington Magazine 102 (December 1960), pp. 529-30.
14. James Byam Shaw and George Knox, The Lehman Collection. Vol. 6, Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings (New York and Princeton, 1987), pl. 135.
15. Sale the earl of Beauchamp Album, London (Christie's), 15 June 1965, lot 143.
16. Reproduced in Jacob Bean and Felice Staemplfe, Drawings from New York Collections. Vol. 3: The Eighteenth Century in Italy (Greenwich, Conn., 1971), fig. 16 in Watermarks, unpaginated. See also Edward Heawood, Watermarks mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (London, 1950), no. 867 (slightly smaller).


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Stanton homers twice, Marlins beat Nationals 8-5; Harper extends hit streak to 9 at-bats
JUPITER, Fla. – Giancarlo Stanton homered twice, including a drive high off the hitters' background screen in center field, to help the Miami Marlins defeat the Washington Nationals 8-5 Tuesday.
Bryce Harper singled in each of his first two times up to extend his streak of consecutive at-nats with hits to nine, He walked in the fifth, then left the game.
Harper is hitting .476 (30 for 63) with three homers and 14 RBIs.
Stanton's homers, his first since Feb. 26, gave him three in the exhibition season. They were his first since returning from the World Baseball Classic.
Chris Valaika and Chris Coghlan also homered for the Marlins.
Roger Bernadina homered for the Nationals, who scored three unearned runs with the help of two errors..
Dan Haren alllowed five runs and seven hits — including four home runs — in six innings. Henderson Alvarez gave up four runs — one earned — and five hits in five innings.


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Parents will soon have more access into their child�s education as revealed at the Lenoir County School Board meeting last week.
Parents will soon have more access into their child�s education as revealed at the Lenoir County School Board meeting last week.
One item on the agenda was a report by Technology Coordinator Charles White and Data Coordinator Shelia Heath on the progress of the home base project.
White and Heath have been working since December with the Department of Public Instruction on a massive student information warehouse.
�There are several interconnecting applications branching off of home base,� White said.
One of the branches is the Student Information System and its subcategory of PowerSchool, White said. Under PowerSchool are applications for teachers, administrators, substitutes and parents. The system allows teachers to take attendance and compile grades. Teachers were trained on how to use the new system in May.
The Parent Portal will allow parents to see their child�s attendance records, grades and requirements for graduation, Heath said. After polling principals, it was decided to open up the Parent Portal after the first nine weeks of school.
Information will be sent out to parents with the first report card.
�There will be a how-to guide for parents and in-person instruction,� White said. �Details for the exact timing of the training still needs to be decided.�
The other branch is the Instruction Improvement System, which will allow teachers to do data analysis placement and share lesson plans with teachers from across the state, White said. Its subcategories of N.C. Education Evaluation System and Schoolnet, which teachers will use to do evaluations, have not yet been implemented.
�We did not want to overwhelm teachers,� White said.
Training in those categories will be held at a later date.
In the other item on the agenda, Brent Williams, executive director of operations for Lenoir County Schools, made a presentation to the board clarifying a new transfer policy set up by the N.C. High School Athletic Association.
The policy, which became effective Aug. 1, allows students who do not have a bona fide change of address to apply for a waiver in order to immediately be eligible to participate in athletics, Williams said. The old transfer policy required a student to sit out 365 days if transferring without a bona fide change of address.
Conditions include special medical needs, academic reasons, issues with parental custody or other hardships, Williams said.
�The student must meet the criteria and prove that the transfer request is not on the basis of athletics,� Williams said. �Everything is on a case by case basis.�
If denied, students can appeal to the NCHSAA, Williams said.
In other business, Superintendent Stephen Mazingo announced that 800 backpacks of school supplies were distributed to Lenoir County students in the days leading up to the start of the new year. Mazingo also noted that the first day of school went smoothly and enrollment in the district was up by 60 students.
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David William Donald Cameron (pronunciation: /ˈkæmərən/; born 9 October 1966) is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. Cameron represents Witney as its Member of Parliament (MP).
Cameron studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford, gaining a first class honours degree. He then joined the Conservative Research Department and became Special Adviser to Norman Lamont, and then to Michael Howard. He was Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications for seven years.
A first candidacy for Parliament at Stafford in 1997 ended in defeat, but Cameron was elected in 2001 as the Member of Parliament for the Oxfordshire constituency of Witney. He was promoted to the Opposition front bench two years later, and rose rapidly to become head of policy co-ordination during the 2005 general election campaign. With a public image of a young, moderate candidate who would appeal to young voters, he won the Conservative leadership election in 2005.