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ST. Louis, Mo. – The St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC) has announced the 2011-12 All-Conference Men's Basketball Team and special award winners. Seniors KJ Hilliard and Markeith Brown claimed second-team hardware for the Panthers.
Hilliard, a senior guard from Belleville, Ill., played in 19 games for the Panthers in 2012. Hilliard was forced to overcome a string of early season injuries and managed to post 13.1 points and 5.2 boards per game in SLIAC play and earned his second consecutive post-season conference award ('10-'11, '11-'12).
Senior guard/forward combo Brown finished his GC career on high note garnering second-team All-SLIAC honors. Brown came off the bench to lead the Panthers in scoring with 13.6 points per game, and amassed over four rebounds per game in conference play.
Aside from the individual earnings, the Greenville College men's basketball squad received the Sportsmanship Award for the fifth consecutive year. The team Sportsmanship Award is given to the team whose players, coaches and fans best exhibit the principles of good sportsmanship.
Webster University's Stefan Whittingham was tabbed the SLIAC Player of the Year, while head coach Chris Bunch earned Coach of the Year honors. MacMurray College's Clayton Whitlock was also named the SLIAC Newcomer of the Year
The SLIAC also recognizes one individual from each team, selected by his coach and teammates, who throughout the season best displays the ideals for sportsmanship. The 2011-12 All-Sportsmanship Team includes Jon Lowry (Blackburn), Rian Nailor (Eureka), Yada Demisse (Fontbonne), Jose Garcia (Greenville), Luke Bishop (MacMurray), Matt Jones (Principia), Thomas Blakemore (Spalding), Jarrod Huskey (Webster) and Kelsey Weymuth (Westminster).
The 2011-12 All-SLIAC Teams are as follows:
Dustin Fritsch, Eureka (Jr., Forward)
Mark Lessen, Eureka (Jr., Center)
Jametrius Brasher, Spalding (Jr., Forward)
Roman Robinson, Webster (Jr., Forward)
Stefan Whittingham, Webster (So., Forward)
Julian Lott, Blackburn (Sr., Guard)
Markeith Brown, Greenville (Sr., Guard)
KJ Hilliard, Greenville (Sr., Guard)
Clayton Whitlock, MacMurray (Fr., Center)
Joe Prophet, Westminster (Jr., Guard)
Jordan Kindred, Eureka (Jr., Guard)
Clint Lee, MacMurray (Sr., Guard)
Brady Slagle, MacMurray (So., Forward)
Cody Bradfisch, Webster (Jr., Guard)
Verdis Lee, Jr., Westminster (Fr., Guard)
Mark Lessen, Eureka (Jr., Center)
Cody Best, MacMurray (Jr., Guard)
Thomas Blakemore, Spalding (So., Guard)
Jametrius Brasher, Spalding (Jr., Forward)
Hollis Edwards, Webster (So., Guard)


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ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Sylvia Fowles scored 14 points to lead Chicago to an 82-64 win over the New York Liberty on Friday night, clinching the Sky's first playoff berth in the team's eight-year history.
The Sky (19-8) have won four straight and six of seven, locking up their first winning record with a victory Tuesday at Washington. Chicago leads the Eastern Conference by 3½ games over Atlanta, which lost 74-64 to Washington.
Chicago led 38-33 at halftime and outscored New York 29-12 in the third quarter to take control.
Elena Delle Donne and Swin Cash scored 11 apiece for the Sky, who swept the five-game season series from the Liberty.
Plenette Pierson led New York (10-16) with a season-high 25. The Liberty have lost three straight to fall two games behind Washington for the final playoff spot in the East.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Monique Currie scored 15 points and Kia Vaughn had 12 points and 10 rebounds to help Washington end an eight-game losing streak against Atlanta.
Ivory Latta had 14 points for the Mystics (13-15), who opened the fourth quarter with a 14-1 run.
Washington had lost two consecutive games overall and dropped its previous three games to the Dream this season by an average of 13 points.
The Dream (14-10) lost their eighth straight road game despite Angel McCoughtry's 17 points.
PHOENIX (AP) — Tameka Johnson had 23 points and three assists to lead Seattle past Phoenix.
Tina Thompson added 18 points and seven rebounds for the Storm (13-13), who have won all four meetings with the Mercury (14-13) this season and have won four of their past five overall.
Candice Dupree had 17 points while Diana Taurasi added 16 points and seven assists for the Mercury, who lost for just the second time in six games under interim head coach Russ Pennell.
No. 1 draft pick Brittney Griner had 12 points and five rebounds for the Mercury.
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Liz Cambage had 20 points and eight rebounds and Glory Johnson added 15 points to lift Tulsa to victory over San Antonio.
Candace Wiggins added 16 points for the Shock, including two key free throws with 7.2 seconds to go that sealed the win.
The Shock (9-18) matched the team's highest victory total in their four seasons in Tulsa.
Shameka Christon scored 18 points off the bench to lead the Silver Stars (9-17), who are 1-6 in their past seven road games and 3-11 on the year outside Texas.


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§ 10. The Great Instauration.
Bacon intended that his Great Instauration or Renewal of the Sciences should be set forth in six parts. These, he enumerated as follows: (1) The Division of the Sciences; (2) The New Organon, or Directions concerning the Interpretation of Nature; (3) The Phenomena of the Universe, or a Natural and Experimental History for the foundation of Philosophy; (4) The Ladder of the Intellect; (5) The Forerunners, or Anticipations of the New Philosophy; (6) The New Philosophy, or Active Science. Of these parts, the last was to be the work of future ages; for the fourth and fifth only prefaces were written; the first three are represented by considerable works, although in none of them is the original design carried out with completeness. Latin was to be the language of them all. The
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which belongs to the third part, was written in English.
Bacon, as he said himself, took all knowledge as his province; his concern was not so much with particular branches of science as with principles, method and system. For this purpose, he sets out by reviewing the existing state of knowledge, dwelling on its defects and pointing out remedies for them. This is the burden of the first book of the
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In the second book, he proceeds to expound his division of the sciences. The principle with which he starts in his classification is psychological:
The parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of mans understanding, which is the seat of learning: history to his memory, poesy to his imagination, and philosophy to his reason.
The subdivisions of these, however, are based on differences in the objects, not in the mental faculty employed. History is divided into natural and civil. To the latter of these, ecclesiastical and literary history are regarded as subordinate (although made co-ordinate in the
). Poetry is held to be nothing else but feigned history, and is subdivided into narrative, representative and allusive or parabolical. But it is with the last of the three main divisions of learning that Bacon is chiefly concerned.
In Philosophy the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to nature, or are reflected or reverted upon himself. Out of which several enquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine philosophy, Natural philosophy, and Human philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character, of the power of God, the difference of nature, and the use of man.
But, as the three divisions all spring from a common root, and certain observations and axioms are common to all, the receptacle for these must constitute one universal science, by the name of
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Primitive or Summary Philosophy. Among the three divisions of philosophy, Bacons most important thoughts concern natural philosophy. One of his fundamental ideas is expressed by its distinction into two partsthe inquisition of causes, and the production of effects; Speculative, and Operative; Natural Science, and Natural Prudence. More subtle is the distinction of natural science into physic and metaphysic. The latter term is not used in its traditional sense, nor is it synonymous with what Bacon calls summary philosophy, which deals with axioms common to several sciences. Both physic and metaphysic deal with natural objects: physic with their material and efficient causes, metaphysic with their formal and final causes. Thus,
Physic is situate in a middle term or distance between Natural History and Metaphysic. For Natural History describeth the variety of things; Physic, the causes, but variable and respective causes; and Metaphysic, the fixed and constant causes.
In elaborating this view, Bacon covers ground traversed again in
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Both for its style and for the importance of the ideas which it conveys,
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ranks as Bacons greatest work. To its composition he devoted the most minute care. Rawley tells us that he had seen no less than twelve drafts of it in Bacons own handwriting, re-written from year to year. As it was at last published, its stately diction is a fit vehicle for the prophetic message it contains. The aphorisms into which the matter is thrown add impressiveness to the leading ideas, without seriously interfering with the sequence of the argument.
It is chiefly to
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that we must go if we would understand the message and the influence of Bacon. And this understanding will be facilitated if we distinguish, as he himself never did, between certain leading ideas which he, more than anyone else, impressed upon the mind of succeeding ages, and his own more special conception of nature and of the true method for its investigation.
Of those leading and general ideas, two have been already indicated. One of these is the belief in the unity of science. His classification of the sciences had in view not only their differences but, also, their essential oneness. The divisions of knowledge, he says, are like branches of a tree that meet in one stem (which stem grows for some distance entire and continuous, before it divide itself into arms and boughs). They are to be accepted rather for lines and veins, than for sections and separations.
The second of these leading ideas is the practical aim of knowledge. This is a constantly recurring thought, and is, in his own mind, the most fundamental; it is the first distinction which he draws between his own new logic and the old, and it was meant to characterise the new philosophy of which he claims to have made only the beginning.
The matter in hand is no mere felicity of speculation, but the real business and fortunes of the human race, and all power of operation. For man is but the servant and interpreter of nature; what he does and what he knows is only what he has observed of natures order in fact or in thought; beyond this he knows nothing and can do nothing. For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed. And so those twin objects, human knowledge and human power, do really meet in one; and it is from ignorance of causes that operation fails.
Bacons object was to establish or restore the empire of man over nature. This empire depends upon knowledge; but, in the mind of man, there are certain obstacles to knowledge which predispose it to ignorance and error. The doctrine of the tendencies to error inherent in the human mind is another of his fundamental thoughts. These tendencies to error he called
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images or phantoms by which the mind is misled. The name is taken from Plato and contrasted with the Platonic idea; and emphasis is laid on the difference between the idols of the human mind, which are abstractions that distort and misrepresent reality, and the ideas of the divine mind, which are the Creators own stamp upon reality, impressed and defined in matter by true and exquisite lines. This doctrine had long occupied Bacons thought; it was stated in the
where, however, the last of the four classes of idols is wanting; and it was completely set forth for the first time in
Novum Organum.
In the latter work, four classes of idols are distinguished: idols of the tribe, idols of the cave, idols of the market-place and idols of the theatre. Under these graphic titles, Bacon works out a doctrine which shows both originality and insight. The originality is conspicuous in what he says concerning the idols of the tribe. They are deceptive tendencies which are inherent in the mind of man as such and belong to the whole human race. The understanding, he says, is like a false mirror that distorts and discolours the nature of things. Thus, it supposes more order and regularity in the world than it finds, as when it assigns circular motion to the celestial bodies; it is more moved and excited by instances that agree with its preconceptions than by those that differ from them; it is unquiet, and cannot rest in a limit without seeking to press beyond it, or in an ultimate principle without asking for a cause; it is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections; it depends on the senses, and they are dull, incompetent and deceptive; and it is prone to abstractions and gives a substance and reality to things which are fleeting. The idols of the cave belong not to the race but to the individual. They take their rise in his peculiar constitution, and are modified by education, habit and accident. Thus some minds are apt to mark differences, others resemblances, and both tend to err in opposite ways; or, again, devotion to a particular science or speculation may so colour a mans thoughts that everything is interpreted by its light. The idols of the market-place are those due to the use of language, and they are the most trouble-some of all.
For men believe that their reason governs words; but it is also true that words react on the understanding; and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive.
Finally, the idols of the theatre are due to philosophical systems and the perverted rules of demonstration. In this connection, Bacon classifies false philosophies as sophistical, empirical and superstitious. In his amplification of this division, his adverse judgment upon Aristotle may be discounted; his want of appreciation of Gilbert is a more reasonable matter of regret; but, at bottom, his view is sound that it is an error either to fashion the world out of categories or to base a system on the narrowness and darkness of a few experiments.
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Earl Weaver penned his own epitaph.
"On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived,' " he once said.
Weaver, the Orioles' chain-smoking, umpire-baiting, tomato-growing manager who led the team to four American League pennants and the 1970 world championship in his 17 years here, died late Friday night while on a baseball-themed cruise. The Orioles confirmed his death Saturday morning but did not release a cause.
The Hall of Famer, who lived in Pembroke Pines, Fla., was 82.
"Earl Weaver stands alone as the greatest manager in the history of the Orioles organization and one of the greatest in the history of baseball," Orioles owner Peter Angelos said in a statement.


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We largely focus on the food during the holidays, because let's face it — it's usually the star! So why not accentuate the beautiful food with crowd pleasing serving bowls?
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"Always Put in a Recipe and Other Tips for Living from Iowa's Best-Known Homemaker" is optimistic even in the wake of sorrow, generous-spirited but not smug, humorous but not folksy, wise but not preachy, Evelyn welcomes the adventures and connections that each new day brings, and she masterfully shares them with her readers.
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The holiday season is a great time to teach kids about diversity and how to appreciate differences. Research the ways people celebrate Christmas in other countries and then share what you find with your kids this holiday season. Children will love learning about how other people celebrate Christmas because it is something they can relate to and will find interesting. Here are a few facts from TLC's Christmas Guide to help you get started:
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— In China, Christmas trees are called "trees of light" and are decorated with lanterns, flowers, and red paper chains.
— In France, Christmas Day ends with the traditional bûche de Noël, which is a cake made to look like a Yule log.
— In Mexico, homes are decorated with lilies and evergreens during the Christmas season.
— In England, children send letters to Father Christmas by tossing their letters into the fire to help their wishes go up the chimney.
Keep in mind that Christmas is a good time to remind kids that people also celebrate different holidays and have different holiday traditions in the United States. Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, for example, are two holidays you can talk to children about at this time of the year. Here is some basic information about Hanukkah and Kwanzaa from the History Channel to help you get started with your research:
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Hanukkah is an eight-day holiday celebrated by the Jewish community. Hanukkah usually falls in November or December and is often called the Festival of Lights. The lighting of the menorah, traditional Hanukkah foods (which are fried in oil), playing games, and exchanging gifts are just a few of the ways people celebrate Hanukkah.
Created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, Kwanzaa is a seven-day harvest celebration meant to help bring the African-American community together. Singing, dancing, storytelling, poetry reading, African drums, and traditional food are part of the celebrations that start on December 26. The Nguzo Saba, which are seven principles that embody values of African culture, are discussed and celebrated each of the seven nights.
The holidays are a great time to teach your kids about acceptance and diversity, but remember to reinforce what they learn throughout the year. Books, puzzles, and games about diversity will help teach kids about differences and will help them learn that it's okay to be different.
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Tickets Waiting for Obama at NHMS
Though White House staffers are officially calling it a "campaign visit," New Hampshire Motor Speedway Executive Vice President and General Manager Jerry Gappens can't help but wonder if President Barack Obama's real motivation for visiting the Granite State on Monday is to pick up his tickets to the LENOX Industrial Tools 301 on July 15.
The resourceful Gappens put some tickets in President Obama's name at the "Will-Call" window in the NHMS ticket office today, just in case the "Commander and Chief" wanted to witness the largest sporting event in New England.
Who could blame Obama for racing over to the speedway in his Secret Service Motorcade on Monday? By getting his LENOX Industrial Tools 301 tickets he could see first-hand one of America's most popular sports and all the top NASCAR stars as they compete in the 20th anniversary, celebrating the first Cup race at "The Magic Mile."
"If the president wants to be part of our celebration then we have tickets printed, ready and waiting for him," said Gappens. "To my knowledge he is one of the few recent, acting presidents never to attend a NASCAR race in person. With the rich tradition of New Hampshire's 'First in the Nation Primary,' and great racing action here at' The Magic Mile,' this is a perfect place for him to come. You can't get more 'Americana' than a NASCAR race!"
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- Kagetsujō 華月帖 (Kagetsu's Album)
Illustrated book, shunga. Folding album. Woodblock-printed with slight colour. By painters of Kyoto and Osaka, particularly artists of the Maruyama-Shijō and related schools.
Producer name
- Print artist: Gan Ryo (岸良)
- Print artist: Gan Tai 岸岱
- Print artist: Hishikawa Kiyoharu 菱川清春
- Written by: Itō Genbei 伊東源平ヱ (Text and editor)
- Written by: Kamo no Suetaka 加茂季鷹 (Preface)
- Print artist: Kano Eigaku (狩野永岳)
- Print artist: Kawamura Kiho (河村琦鳳)
- Print artist: Maruyama Oshin (円山応震)
- Print artist: Mori Tetsuzan (森徹山)
- Print artist: Murakami Shodo (村上松堂)
- Print artist: Okamoto Tsunehiko (岡本常彦)
- Print artist: Ukita Ikkei (浮田一蕙)
- 1836
Production place
- Published in: Japan
- (Asia,Japan)
- Height: 278 millimetres (closed covers)
- Width: 160 millimetres (closed covers)
- Width: 320 millimetres (Open)
Curator's comments
This is the most important printed erotic illustrated book by painters of Kyoto and Osaka, particularly artists of the Maruyama-Shijō and related schools. It is a work of great subtlety, in terms both of the delicacy and reticence of the scenes of lovemaking -- depicted as discrete 'shadow pictures' -- and also of the technique, carefully gradated woodblock prints done entirely in shades of ink.
Certain of the pictures are said to be copied from old paintings secretly preserved in the collections of persons of high rank. Some printings of the book include a list of artist names at the back, which reveals the true identities of those who in the pictures only sign their images with secret nom-de-plumes (the list is not present in this copy). They turn out to be most of the leading painters of the various Kyoto schools, both traditional such as Kano and Tosa, and modern, such as Maruyama, Shijo and Yamato Revival. This hiding of identities may be because of a general reluctance in Kyoto to have erotic works associated with one's name; or else it may reflect prevailing conditions of censorship in the 1830s.
The very earliest printing, represented by the unique copy in the Nakano Mitsutoshi collection, includes at the end of the list of artists the name of the block carver, one Morigaki Isaburo 森垣伊三郎 (not apparently included in any other copy known to Prof. Nakano). This earliest printing has a title slip printed on cloth, which is positioned in the centre of the cover. Prof. Nakano's commentary (see below) is the most detailed to date and includes the following information.
The book was compiled by one Itō Genbei, of a family who held the hereditary position as the manager of the official lodgings for guests visiting the Bungo Taketa fief. Using the name Kireiken Toen, he was active as a flower master of the Shōgetsudō lineage in Kyoto and acquaintance of many famous men of letters of western Japan -- such as Tanomura Chikuden, Shinozaki Shōchiku, Rai San'yō and Kamo no Suetaka (who contributed the preface to the present volume). The title Kagetsujo, literally 'Album of Flowers and Moon', derives from another pen-name, Kagetsukin-ō, used by Kireiken. According to his own postscript, the occasion for compiling the volume was so that Kireiken could take it as a gift on a trip he was to undertake to Edo. No further details of this trip are known.
This copy, without the artist list, is apparently an early edition, confirmed by Prof. Nakano when he examined it (22 October 2011). There is great subtlety and refinement to the printing; the blocks appear relatively unworn; the printed 'seals' of each artist are done in a rich red colour that seems superior to the orange-red seen on the copies which appear to be later in date. (T. Clark, 7/2012)
Key to Kagetsujo (1836) artists:
Kano Eigaku
Maruyama Ōshin
Murakami Shōdō
Gan Ryō
Ukita Ikkei
Kano Eishin
Kawamura Kihō
Tosa Mitsufumi
Gan Tai
Hishikawa Kiyoharu
Mori Tetsuzan
Okamoto Toyohiko
The most detailed commentary on the work and its cultural background is found in Nakano Mitsutoshi, 'Kirei wakudeki', in Edo kyōsha den, Tokyo, 2007, pp. 439-493; esp. pp. 478-484. The copy illustrated is in Prof. Nakano's own collection.
Jack Hillier, The Art of the Japanese Book, London, Sotheby's, 1987, vol. 2, pp. 912-3, fig. 609 (this copy, ex-Biedermann; not Ravicz Collection as stated)
A full description and facsimile of the volume is given in Richard Lane, 'Kagetsu-jō – A Shijō shunga album', (Kikan) Ukiyo-e 65, Spring 1976, between pp. 88 and 125.
Dorit Marhenke & Ekkehard May, Shunga: Erotic Art in Japan, Heidelberg, Edition Braus, 1995, pp. 100-101 (Pulverer Collection, now Freer-Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian)
Chris Uhlenbeck and Margarita Winkel, eds., Japanese Erotic Fantasies: Sexual Imagery of the Edo Period, Amsterdam, Hotei Publishing, 2005, no. 87, pp. 214-215 (Pulverer Collection)
Shirakura Yoshihiko, Eiri shunga ehon mokuroku, Tokyo, Heibonsha, 2007, p. 126
There is a later copy in the Ebi Collection, Leeds (with integral list of artists): 25.5 x 16.5 cm (covers)This shunga album of shadow pictures, including copies of old paintings, was devised by Kireiken – a flower-arranging master who lived in Osaka. It has a unique sensibility and uses the shadow effects in a wonderfully delicate manner. In the past it was thought that the album was devised by Kamo no Suetaka, who wrote the preface, and that Kagetsu Kanno - Kirei was another of Suetaka's literary names. Recently, however, it has become clear that Kireiken was a name used by one Ito - Genbei, a samurai of the Bungo Taketa fief in Kyushu, who was the seventhgeneration proprietor of an official lodging house run by the fief (known as o-kyakuya). He was born in 1778 and in middle age, for reasons unknown, he left Taketa and went to Osaka. In 1823 he succeeded to the headship of the Sho - getsudo - Koryu - school of flower arrangement, taking the name Kireiken Toen III. Kireiken enjoyed many close links with leading literati of the day: in his native Taketa, with Hirose Tanso (1782–1856), Hirose Kyokuso (1807–63) and the painter Tanomura Chikuden (1777–1835); in Kyoto, with Kamo no Suetaka, Kagawa Kageki (1768–1843) and Rai San'yo (1780–1832); and in Nagasaki, with visiting scholars from China such as Jiang Jiapu (Jiang Taijiao, dates unknown; J. Ko- Kaho) and Jiang Yunge (Jian Xinyi, b. 1780?; J. Ko - Unkaku). From these last he learned the Chinese lute known as the gekkin (C. yueqin) and compiled an anthology of gekkin music in Japan. The present album was intended by Kireiken to be distributed by him as a gift among the various luminaries of the world of kyo - ka ('crazy verse') in Edo, formerly led by Ota Nanpo (1749–1823), when the occasion arose for him to visit that city. For this purpose he mobilized all the leading Kyoto artists of the day to provide the illustrations. A total of thirteen artists contributed, representing the Tosa, Kano, Maruyama-Shijo, Gan (Kishi), Mori and Yamato Revival schools. Later printings have a key at the back of the book which identifies the artists from the sobriquet used on each of the pictures. The printing blocks for this album survived into the Meiji era (1868–1912) and later printings are common. The British Museum copy is a delicate, early printing. The very earliest printing – a unique copy is in the Nakano Mitsutoshi collection – has Kireiken's actual vermilion seal impressed in nine places within the text and the printed inscription 'Block-carver Morigaki Isaburo - ' at the end of the book, otherwise not found in surviving copies. [NMi]
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Exhibition history
2013 3 Oct - 2014 5 Jan, London, BM, Shunga: Sex and pleasure in Japanese art, 1600-1900
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Acquisition date
Acquisition notes
Credit Line: Purchase funded by Richard de Unger and the Brooke Sewell Bequest. Each illustration bears the hand-impressed seal of the dealer Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906), who was primarily active in Paris after 1878. Two other unidentified collectors' seals. Said by the vendor to be ex-collection Eugene Biedermann, Switzerland. (Eugene Biedermann lent to Asia Soc. NYC/International Exhibitions Foundation exhibition Japanese Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries, 1980, curated by Jack Hillier; see p. 8.)
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Erotic illustrated book, shunga Folding album. Woodblock with slight colour. By painters of Kyoto and Osaka, particularly artists of the Maruyama-Shijo and related schools.
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Now that I have had the "pleasure" of filtering through numerous resumes looking to hire someone, my thoughts on certifications has evolved a little... Or it's probably more accurate to say that they have been solidified.
Anyone who is active in the community is well aware that the topic of whether to pursue your MCDBA or other certification is hotly debated. Are things a little too quiet in the office or on the discussion boards? Just throw out the "innocent" question of whether it is worth pursuing certification and things are certain to get lively for a while. It ranks right up there with abortion, evolution, and Sean Connery vs. Roger Moore as topics guaranteed to get the sparks flying.
As for the MCDBA, the argument often breaks down into the following points:
My tendency in the past has been to come down on the side of "certification doesn't guarantee you know squat about databases in real life, but it probably doesn't hurt to have it on your resume when you're looking for a job." And guess what? I was right.
Here's how the screening process goes at my company. I tell the HR person (recruiter) that I am looking to hire someone and I send her the advertisement that I wrote which contains all the acronyms and buzzwords we are looking for. (Note that MCDBA is never on this list.) The recruiter then makes sure I didn't break any laws, puts our corporate intro or conclusion on it and gets the word out. This may mean working with a Staff Augmentation firm or posting it wherever her experience indicates we tend to get the best responses. She collects the responses and filters out candidates based on non-technical issues. For example, if we get a resume from someone who is international and we are not planning on sponsoring, then she weeds those out. Or when we get resumes from people that do not include any of the acronyms I specified, out they go too. There are a handful of reasons that a candidate is immediately eliminated, and she does a great job of that. She also does a good job of running interference with the StaffAug companies that want to send us every person they have riding the bench, and asks me for clarification of requirements when necessary.
But what our corporate recruiter absolutely does NOT do is make judgments as to someone's technical acumen. That is left to me. And here is where we get back to the point of this post. I know plenty of people who have their certification but I wouldn't trust them to organize my pencil collection. And I know plenty of people who do not have certifications but are sheer geniuses in SQL Server. BUT, when I do not personally know the person whose resume I am reading, and I am narrowing my list down for the first round of calls, and I have two candidates who appear to be similarly qualified on paper, if one of them has the MCDBA and the other doesn't, then the certificate gets called before the non-cert.
But Mark! You just said that certifications don't guarantee that the person knows anything! Yes, I did say that, and I meant it. But once I have sifted out the unqualified and am down to the situation where, I am looking at resumes for similarly qualified people, I do give one bonus point to the person with the certificate. Now hear me, I did not say that I would call every person who has their MCDBA, regardless of their experience. I'm talking about candidates that are nearly equal in experience. The certificate earns a bonus point because I know this much... you are serious enough to spend the time and money to go through the testing process, and you not only persevered, but you prevailed. (How's that for a little alliteration?) And for all that hard work, your reward is that you get called before someone else who otherwise would be tied.
So, should you pursue the MCDBA or not? Well, that's up to you to decide but here are a few key considerations:
Those who really know me can tell you that it is the last one that would be the biggest consideration for me. Anything you do to learn more will help you grow and meet the needs of your current or a future employer. And that's what it's really all about, isn't it? Whether you can meet the need.
UPDATE: I stumbled across my own posting from four years ago on this topic. HA! I forgot I even wrote about it back then. But back then, I was an independent consultant. Now I'm a manager.
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LESTER, AL (RNN) For eight months, Patty Bullion has made it her full time job to reunite victims of the April Southeastern tornado outbreak with their memories.
Her Facebook page "Pictures and Documents found after the April 27, 2011 Tornadoes" became a gathering place for people to post pictures they found in the aftermath in the storm, as well as for victims to reclaim photos ripped from their homes, sometimes thrown hundreds of miles away.
Now that many of the victims have moved on from that day, she says it's time for her to move on, too.
Bullion will be shutting the page down in the next few weeks because she says pictures are no longer being claimed. She also says a lot of her emails have bounced back and that she's no longer able to get in touch with many of the people who have posted pictures.
"Somebody asked 'Why not leave it up?' I don't feel like it should be left up forever. These people's lives don't need to be forever displayed as a tornado victim," she said.
"I just feel like, for privacy reasons and to let people move on, those pictures don't need to stay out there forever. I wouldn't want something of mine out there for forever."
The page returned more than 2,000 pictures to their owners or, sometimes, family members of people who died in the tornado outbreak.
Bullion found and re-united the family of Maxine Chism with a picture of her and her late husband that hung in a frame on the wall of her home. Chism was thrown from the home during the tornado that touched down in Smithville, MS. She died from her injuries on May 20.
While the page is coming down, her mission to get people's pictures back to them will continue for a little while. In the next few months, she plans to personally travel to Phil Campbell, AL and Hackleburg, AL, some of the hardest hit areas, to let locals look through what's left of the pictures.
"I want to do that one last push because I have a large box of pictures and I want to do everything I can to get them home," she said.
The stories that have emerged and the people she's "met" through the page have interwoven themselves in to the fabric of her heart. She says the page has been a "huge success" and that she's met some lifelong friends through the project that she's poured days, weeks, and months of her life into.
"It went so much further than I ever thought it would. It's been a blessing," she said.
"I have put a lot of hours into it but it's been a labor of love and I have loved every minute of it. I was very blessed to have been a part of this."
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Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The (US - DVD R1)
Gabe reviews his 100th DVD, and finds this one hits a little too close to home...
Mr. Lazarescu lives in a run down flat in Romania, with three or four flea-infested cats. He's got a bit of a drinking problem, some ugly leg ulcers, and has gone through a surgery or two. When Mr. Lazarescu wakes up with a severe headache, and finds that he can't keep anything down, he calls for an ambulance. The ambulance takes its sweet time, and Lazarescu wanders over to his neighbours for some assistance. When they call the ambulance back, it finally shows, and the rest of Lazarescu's short life is spent shuttling from hospital to hospital in search of proper medical care. It seems nobody wants to deal with a sick old man with whiskey on his breath tonight.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (as defined by Webster) is: a psychological reaction that occurs after experiencing a highly stressing event (as wartime combat, physical violence, or a natural disaster) outside the range of normal human experience and that is usually characterized by depression, anxiety, flashbacks, recurrent nightmares, and avoidance of reminders of the event. Whether this film will cause such a reaction is dependant solely on the recent events in the life of the viewer.
I'm sure that a woman recently raped has an added aversion to a film like I Spit On Your Grave, and I've heard that Vietnam vets have real trouble dealing not only with films strictly about the conflict, but also from-the-shadows war films like Cameron's Aliens. The plight of being ill may not compare to these, but the feelings can be equally strong, and it took me two sittings to get through this film.
Sometimes a film is a little too real for us to enjoy. Personal history and feelings can make anyone relate passionately to a film others do not, and sometimes makes us resent what others loved. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu may have been too personal for me to act as a valid source of constructive criticism, and I'll warn you of that right now.
I've spent the last two and a half years in and out of a hospital (I'm on the six month schedule these days, so thankfully much more 'out' than 'in'), and no matter how professional and caring my doctors and nurses were, the experience was nothing short of traumatic. Watching a likable and frail character die in the halls of these sterilized pre-morgues in such a realistic manner brought back too many awful memories. This film is so utterly realistic I even began to smell those corridors, those plastic gloves, those sanitized sheets, the stench of illness. This is not a Hollywood hospital, with cool blue lighting, sexy, well-groomed and infinitely passionate doctors, or bizarre medical inflictions. This is the real thing, in a struggling country that hasn't the money, time, or patience to deal with everyday illness.
I also may have identified a little too much with our main character, Mr. Lazarescu. He shares a passing resemblance with my Grandfather, whom I lost almost exactly one year ago, rather suddenly. Papa didn't die alone, nor did he live in squalor, but I wasn't there to see him in his last months, and I didn't see him die. For all my overactive imagination knows it happened just like this.
I don't want to come off as a whiny brat here, but I think my feelings should be clear from the offset; my experience with this film is probably not the average one.
The question is, can I put aside these irrational feelings, and repeat the Last House on the Left mantra, 'it's only a movie, it's only a movie, it's only a movie....'? Or maybe I shouldn't. Maybe this should be a sort of catharsis for someone like me. My most clinical reading of the film is that it is a very good one. Director Cristi Puiu has gone to great lengths to create utter realism here, with his shaky camera, minimal cutting, real life dialogue, and some of the most believable actors you'll ever see. It's like some jerk heard that his aging neighbour was feeling very ill, and decided to film his slow and discerning death. Puiu makes the viewer an active member in the drama, and even if the feeling can be an uncomfortable one, the success is undeniable.
The film is toted as a black comedy, though had I not been told that I probably wouldn't have thought for a second to categorize the film as such. Fight Club is a black comedy, Election is a black comedy, even Happiness is a black comedy. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is simply real life. The people one meets in real life can be pretty sarcastic and dry, and I know from experience that doctors and nurses can be the driest and most sarcastic on the block. The problem is that when one assumes the film's title is an indication of its outcome, one gets the feeling that the caretakers are actually just being unnecessarily mean to Lazarescu. The only real dark irony I found in the film was the fact that Lazarescu has alcohol on his breath, which leads every specialist to the same initial conclusion.
At about the middle of the film I stopped feeling afraid and started to get pissed off. I know this is a fictitious re-enactment, but the utter lack of concern for Lazarescu's well being really started to get to me. Though the film is about two and a half hours long it really gets moving once Lazarescu leaves his house for the first hospital. If properly motivated, one can run quite an effective emotional gambit while watching the film. When I realized I'd just sat through an hour and a half of hospital deliberation without checking the clock I realized that the film was truly special, and it wasn't just my personal history getting the best of me.
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is shot like a documentary, on a low budget utilizing only locations and location lighting. It doesn't look great, but it's not supposed to. The DVD is anamorphically enhanced, and has very little digital noise or compression issues. The prevalent grain and occasional colour inconstancies can only be blamed on the source material, and had there been too much attempted correction here the film may've lost some of its realism.
The audio follows the suit of the video. For the most part this is a mono film, but Tartan has still done their best to mix things into effective DTS and Dolby Digital tracks. There is some ambient sound, such as hospital patrons, passing cars, etc, but the surround channels are mostly inactive. The only instance I noticed of a real sound system work out was during the scenes where Lazarescu goes to his neighbours for assistance. Someone in his apartment complex can be heard listening to very loud and bassy music.
There aren't a lot of extras on this disc, but they managed to answer most of my questions. The director interview is very informative, and a fine substitute for an audio commentary, as Cristi Puiu has a tendency to ramble. The film was a product of three inspirations, states Puiu. The first cause came when Puiu decided to make a series of low-budget, independent films in his native Romania, sort of like his own version of Denmark's Dogma 95 totem. The second inspiration came when he developed a vile but relatively harmless syndrome that landed him in a hospital. After his stay he developed a severe case of hypochondria. The final inspiration came from an actual news story involving the death of an elderly Romanian man who was sent away from every hospital in town and left on the side of the road by a distraught EMT.
The follow up interview with Dr. Fred Berlin gives an invaluable American professional's perspective on the film. Berlin makes a good case for standardized health care, and is sure to note that America's health care system, though flawed, has improved over the years. He seems to honestly think that the film would make a good learning tool for increasingly warn down and apathetic doctors in every country. I kind of wished he'd taken a little more definitive stance against the problems of the US health care system, but understand that he probably wouldn't want his comments on a foreign film DVD to bite him on the ass later in his professional career.
The disc is completed with a series of Tartan USA trailers.
I took this film very personally, and can't guarantee that other viewers will get as much out of it as I did, but this is an amazing little motion picture. If you're looking for a good time, stay away, I'd even say that those in search of a black comedy should stay away. The only joy one will get out of this in the end is the satisfaction of watching something with real merit. I suppose the young guys out there can also have the satisfaction of looking at impossibly beautiful young Romanian nurses and doctors, but most of them aren't acting very lovable. The DVD isn't anything too special, but the features are meaty enough, and an over the top A/V presentation may've actually proved detrimental to the spirit of the film.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Clavius Member Join Date: January 2004 Location: United States Posts: 223
Wow, thanks for the great review on this one! It sounds like truly remarkable piece of work. That being said, I'm not sure I'd be able to sit through this one for many of the same reasons you described, having an uncle who recently went through very much the same scenario. I totally feel for your point of view.
Even as a "dark" or "black" comedy, I still don't see what one could possibly find remotely humorous about watching some poor old man get screwed to death by the medical system.
Movies can be a powerful trigger of good and uncomfortable or bad memories. For instance, my mother can never watch the movie Scrooged again. You see, when we saw in the theater during it's initial release, her mother had just passed away and been creamated about 4 months earlier. This was a nice light escape for her and she was enjoying it right up until the end when Murray is being creamated alive in the casket. She got so upset she ran out of the theater and to this day, even commercials for it on TNT during the holidays make her uneasy.
Even as a "dark" or "black" comedy, I still don't see what one could possibly find remotely humorous about watching some poor old man get screwed to death by the medical system.
Movies can be a powerful trigger of good and uncomfortable or bad memories. For instance, my mother can never watch the movie Scrooged again. You see, when we saw in the theater during it's initial release, her mother had just passed away and been creamated about 4 months earlier. This was a nice light escape for her and she was enjoying it right up until the end when Murray is being creamated alive in the casket. She got so upset she ran out of the theater and to this day, even commercials for it on TNT during the holidays make her uneasy.
Shawn Fitzgerald Member Join Date: March 2004 Location: United States Posts: 344
I caught this during a one week run in Boston this past summer. An amazing film, but whoever stated this was a black or any sort of comedy should have their head examined.
mikey mike Member Join Date: March 2006 Location: Yemen Posts: 256
happy 100th Mr. Powers. hope the other reviewers chip in to buy you a chapagne or a stripper
David Blackwell Senior Member Join Date: February 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,831
I still have to watch the DVD. I have just been busy with other DVDs. Thanks for the review. I only skimmed it for now and hope to come back and read it all the way through a little later.
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,721
Thanks everyone!
Dustin Member Join Date: March 2006 Location: United States Posts: 553
How many years did it take you to reach 100, Gabe?
You're something that us young ones look up to. I'm about to start on my 28th... ha.
You're something that us young ones look up to. I'm about to start on my 28th... ha.
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,721
You're on a better role than I was for a while there. I've been with the site about 2 years now. I think my signature join date is correct.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 12th September 2006
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS 5.1 Romanian, Dolby Digital 5.1 Romanian
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Extras: Interview with the Director, Interview with Dr. Fred Berlin, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Cristi Puiu
Cast: Ion Fiscuteanu, Luminita Gheorghiu, Gabriel Spahieu, Doru Ana, Dana Dogaru, Florin Zamfirescu, Clara Voda, Adrian Titieni
Genre: Comedy and Drama
Length: 153 minutes
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Temperatures in the 70s, a nice home crowd and a 4-2 victory – what better way for the Mexico girls soccer team to begin their season.
Mexico came up with two goals in the first half and two in the second half in the victory over Father Tolton Trailblazers of Columbia. The Trailblazers scored both their goals in the second half of the match.
Juniors Bailey Reed and Keagan Riddick scored the goals for Mexico. Reed scored the two goals in the first half, while Riddick scored the two in the second half including the game winner in the 74th minute of the match. Reed, Riddick, Lauren Ralls and Abby Dick all had one assist.
"It is always good to start the season off with a win," stated MHS Coach Brad Ellebracht. Tolton is a new program in its second year, and have a "huge upside."
The Lady Bulldogs went up by two goals in the first half, but as the second half wore on the Trailblazers kept throwing more and more players forward and ended up scoring two goals in about two minutes to tie up the game. The Lady Bulldogs regrouped and came back to claim the victory.
"Obviously, we were pretty disappointed with that sequence (Trailblazers two fast goals), but we responded well and came back to get two in the last 10 minutes," said the MHS coach.
Ellebracht stated there is a lot of areas the team showed some room for growth, and showed the potential to get better in those areas.
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The Wanted Dish Dirt on 'Chelsea Lately'
What better place for the U.K.'s The Wanted to dish dirt than on 'Chelsea Lately?' The feisty late-night hostess with the mostest, Chelsea Handler, grilled the guys on everything from their ages to their drinking habits to their accents, to hilarious responses.
First things were first. The outspoken Handler asked the guys how old they are, knowing one of them (Nathan Sykes) is underage. "Age of consent?" Max George asked, cheekily. Oh, those Brits!
Handler then pointed out that Sykes "looks a little like Justin Bieber." Ever humble, Sykes laughed, "If somebody did something horrible to his face, possibly." Don't be so hard on yourself, mate!
Handler kept asking the blokes questions in part just because she loved hearing them speak. "I like the British accents, this is real cute!" She even made Siva Kaneswaran prove to her on how his Irish accent is different from the rest of the group's British ones.
The guys said that they came to Handler's show in Los Angeles from Las Vegas, where they performed. "We did a lot of things there," Kaneswaran said. "Yeah, a lot of things we can't remember," Tom Parker added. Parker even revealed that they "somehow wound up" in Hugh Hefner's Playboy suite! We'd love to know exactly how that went down, wouldn't you?
Soon, Handler was ready to talk business. She faux-contritely asked who wrote their song, 'Glad You Came,' and pointed out the innuendos within it. She also inquired about The Wanted's formation. "Were you arranged by some sort of Simon Cowell?" Handler asked.
"She was much hotter than Simon Cowell," Jay McGuiness said. "A woman mastermind."
When their song 'Glad You Came' on 'Glee' was brought up, the guys revealed their excitement … Or lack there of. "My sister went mental," Sykes said. "She was screaming on the phone, she went absolutely crazy." When the band showed little enthusiasm for the feature, Handler deadpanned, "So, you're all straight." Way to stereotype, Chels!
The guys revealed that they do have a big gay following and that they often perform in gay clubs. They love all their fans, but they love performing at gay venues for an interesting reason, according to Parker: "It's a great place to pick up girls." McGuiness explained, "It's like having 500 wingmen, because once they know that we're nice and we're singing songs that they like, they're like, 'Okay,' to their girlfriends, 'these guys are alright.'"
Another thing they do performing when they're not flirting? Imbibing. When Handler asked if the guys drink before they perform, Parker admitted, "Sometimes too much." He pointed at McGuiness and said, "We were doing a club the other day in L.A., and I've never seen someone sway so much while trying to sing in my entire life." A sheepish McGuiness laughed, "It was in time to the beat, it counts."
The guys looked like they were having a lot of fun with the outspoken Ms. Handler. Based on what we've heard of their exploits so far, we can't wait to hear what dirt they dish on their arena tour — and maybe soon on Justin Bieber!
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SAN FRANCISCO - When it comes to making Android phones, Samsung seems to suck up most of the profits and all the buzz. Meanwhile, HTC quietly produces phones every bit as capable and sometimes considerably more handsome.
The latest example is the HTC One, about to go on sale in the U.S. After using the device for a couple of weeks, I'm impressed. Yet it may get lost amid the massive marketing blitz for Samsung's Galaxy S4, which arrives later this month.
If so, that will be a shame. The One is a standout on a number of fronts.
In looks, it's a beaut, with a sharp, vivid 4.7-inch screen bracketed by excellent stereo speakers that enhance both looks and sound.
The aluminum back is gently bowed and the phone is just a third of an inch at its thickest point, making the One feel great in the hand despite the size. At five ounces (143 grams), it's substantial without being heavy.
The One runs "Jelly Bean," the latest version of Google's Android software, though HTC overlays it with a home-screen interface called BlinkFeed that brings in information from a customizable list of news, social-media and other sources.
The One is also among the initial handful of phones that's supposed to be compatible with Facebook's new Home software, giving you the option of replacing news of the world with news of your friends.
About the display: HTC brags about its pixel density, 468 per inch, which exceeds the Retina display on Apple's iPhone 5 (326 ppi). What it doesn't tell you is the irrelevance of the claim, because the human eye can't distinguish differences beyond about 300 ppi in a device held six to 12 inches away.
It's worth mentioning because even as the One is perpetuating the resolution wars, it's trying to puncture another common comparison: what it calls "the megapixel myth" surrounding cameras.
Without getting too geeky about it, the number of megapixels isn't nearly as important to the quality of a photo as camera- and smartphone-makers have made it out to be.
In the case of the One, HTC says its advanced sensor and signal processing result in better-looking photos that require less light; it says its four-megapixel images are the equivalent of eight- or 13-megapixel shots on other, more conventional cameras.
The photos I took were clear and sharp, even in a darkened room. Less impressive, at least to me, was a feature called Zoe that allows you to shoot shareable three-second videos.
Even after talking to HTC, I couldn't figure out why I'd ever want to do this.
While the One has a quad-core Qualcomm processor and is capable of running on LTE - by far the speediest 4G network technology - which carrier you choose will make a huge difference in your perception of how fast it is.
Verizon Wireless, which has the biggest LTE network, so far isn't offering the One. At AT&T, with the second-widest LTE coverage, the One will cost $200 on a two-year contract for a model with 32 gigabytes of storage, or $300 for 64.
Sprint is, for a limited time, offering new customers the 32-gigabyte model for $100 - a terrific deal on a phone like this - but the company has barely begun to deploy LTE, so you're likely to find yourself on its older, slower 3G network.
T-Mobile, which recently announced plans to junk the two- year-service requirement as well as the practice of subsidizing the cost of its phones, hasn't publicly announced a price. In any event, T-Mobile is even further behind in LTE than Sprint.
Because my test model was a Sprint version, and the carrier's LTE service has yet to reach my area, I wasn't able to get a full read on battery life. Still, I was easily able to go more than a day on 3G, leading me to believe you shouldn't have a problem getting through a full day on a more power-hungry LTE connection.
The One is packed with a number of other features, some useful, others less so. A built-in infrared blaster lets it double as a TV remote control. It also has a Near-Field Communications (NFC) chip, which will soon, eventually, someday or never - pick one - become indispensable for stuff like mobile payments. And it supports the latest version of Bluetooth for low-power wireless connectivity.
For now, the One is the state of the art in Android phones - at least until next week's Samsung debut. And unless the Galaxy S4 proves to be very, very good, it may remain so after next week, too.


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Helianthus or sunflowers (from the Greek: ήλιος, Hēlios, "sun" and ανθός, anthos, "flower") L. /ˌhiːliˈænθəs/[2] is a genus of plants comprising about 70 species[3] in the family Asteraceae, all of which are native to North America except three species in South America. The common name, "sunflower," also applies to the popular annual species Helianthus annuus, the common sunflower.[4] This and other species, notably Jerusalem artichoke (H. tuberosus), are cultivated in temperate regions as food crops and ornamental plants.[5]
The genus is one of many in the Asteraceae that are known as sunflowers. It is distinguished technically by the fact that the ray flowers, when present, are sterile, and by the presence on the disk flowers of a pappus that is of two awn-like scales that are caducous (that is, easily detached and falling at maturity). Some species also have additional shorter scales in the pappus, and there is one species that lacks a pappus entirely. Another technical feature that distinguishes the genus more reliably, but requires a microscope to see, is the presence of a prominent, multicellular appendage at the apex of the style.
There is quite a bit of variability among the perennial species that make up the bulk of the species in the genus. Some have most or all of the large leaves in a rosette at the base of the plant and produce a flowering stem that has leaves that are reduced in size. Most of the perennials have disk flowers that are entirely yellow, but a few have disk flowers with reddish lobes. One species, H. radula, lacks ray flowers altogether.
The domesticated sunflower, H. annuus, is the most familiar species. Perennial sunflower species are not as popular for gardens due to their tendency to spread rapidly and become invasive. Whorled sunflowers, H. verticillatus, were listed as an endangered species in 2014 when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a final rule protecting it under the Endangered Species Act. The primary threats are industrial forestry and pine plantations in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. They grow to six feet tall and are primarily found in woodlands, adjacent to creeks and moist, prairie-like areas.[6]
Sunflowers are usually tall annuals, that grow to a height of 50–390 centimetres (20–154 in).
The rough and hairy stem is branched in the upper part in wild plants but is usually unbranched in domesticated cultivars.
The petiolate leaves are dentate and often sticky. The lower leaves are opposite, ovate or often heart-shaped. The upper leaves are alternate and narrower.
They bear one or several to many wide, terminal capitula (flower heads), with bright yellow ray florets at the outside and yellow or maroon disc florets inside. Several ornamental cultivars have red-colored ray florets; all of them stem from a single original mutant.[7] During growth, sunflowers tilt during the day to face the sun, but stop once they begin blooming. This tracking of the sun in young sunflower heads is called heliotropism. By the time they are mature, sunflowers generally face east.[8]
Helianthus species are used as food plants by the larvae of many lepidopterans.
- Helianthus agrestis Pollard – southeastern sunflower – FL GA
- Helianthus ambiguus Britt. – WI MI OH NY
- Helianthus angustifolius L. – swamp sunflower – TX + FL north to southern IL + Long Island
- Helianthus annuus L. – common sunflower, girasol (Spanish) – most of USA + Canada
- Helianthus anomalus S.F.Blake – western sunflower – NV UT AZ NM
- Helianthus argophyllus Torr. & A.Gray – silverleaf sunflower – TX NC FL
- Helianthus arizonensis R.C.Jacks. – Arizona sunflower – AZ NM
- Helianthus atrorubens L. – purpledisk sunflower – LA AL GA FL SC NC TN KY VA
- Helianthus bolanderi A.Gray – serpentine sunflower – CA OR
- Helianthus × brevifolius E.Watson – TX IN OH
- Helianthus californicus DC. – California sunflower – CA
- Helianthus carnosus Small – lakeside sunflower – FL
- Helianthus ciliaris DC. – Texas blueweed – WA CA AZ NM NV UT TX OK CO KS IL Tam Coah Chih Son
- Helianthus cinereus Small – MO KY IN OH
- Helianthus coloradensis Cockerell – prairie sunflower – CO NM
- Helianthus cusickii A.Gray – Cusick's sunflower – WA OR CA ID NV
- Helianthus debilis Nutt. – cucumberleaf Sunflower – TX to ME; MI
- Helianthus decapetalus L. – thinleaf sunflower – eastern USA; Ont Que
- Helianthus deserticola Heiser – desert sunflower – AZ NV UT
- †Helianthus diffusus Sims – MO†
- Helianthus dissectifolius R.C.Jacks.
- Helianthus divaricatus L. – woodland sunflower or rough woodland sunflower – eastern USA; Ont Que
- Helianthus × divariserratus R.W.Long MI IN OH CT
- Helianthus × doronicoides Lam. – TX OK AR MO IA MN IL KY IN OH PA MI NJ VA
- Helianthus eggertii Small - Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee
- Helianthus exilis A.Gray – CA
- Helianthus floridanus A.Gray ex Chapm. – Florida sunflower – LA AL GA FL SC NC
- Helianthus giganteus L. – giant sunflower – eastern USA; most of Canada
- Helianthus glaucophyllus D.M.Sm – whiteleaf sunflower – TN SC NC
- Helianthus × glaucus Small – scattered locales in southeastern USA
- Helianthus gracilentus A.Gray – slender sunflower – CA
- Helianthus grosseserratus M.Martens – sawtooth sunflower – Great Plains, Great Lakes, Ont Que
- Helianthus heterophyllus Nutt. – variableleaf sunflower – Coastal Plain TX to NC
- Helianthus hirsutus Raf. – hairy sunflower – central + Eastern USA, Ont
- Helianthus × intermedius R.W.Long – intermediate sunflower – scattered locales in USA
- Helianthus laciniatus A.Gray – alkali sunflower – AZ NM TX Coah NLeón
- Helianthus × laetiflorus Pers. – cheerful sunflower, mountain sunflower – scattered in eastern + central USA + Canada
- Helianthus laevigatus Torr. & A.Gray – smooth sunflower – GA SC NC VA MD WV
- Helianthus lenticularis Douglas ex Lindl. CA TX
- Helianthus longifolius Pursh – longleaf sunflower – AL GANC
- Helianthus × luxurians (E.Watson) E.Watson – Great Lakes region
- Helianthus maximiliani Schrad. – Maximillian sunflower – much of USA + Canada
- Helianthus membranifolius Poir. – French Guiana
- Helianthus mollis Lam. – downy sunflower, ashy sunflower – Ont, eastern + central USA
- Helianthus multiflorus L. – manyflower sunflower – OH
- Helianthus navarri Phil. – Chile
- Helianthus neglectus Heiser – neglected sunflower – NM TX
- Helianthus niveus (Benth.) Brandegee – showy sunflower – CA AZ; Baja California, Baja California Sur
- Helianthus nuttallii Torr. & A.Gray – western + central USA + Canada
- Helianthus occidentalis Riddell – fewleaf sunflower, western sunflower – Great Lakes region, scattered in southeastern USA
- Helianthus × orgyaloides Cockerell – CO KS
- Helianthus paradoxus Heiser – paradox sunflower – UT NM TX
- Helianthus pauciflorus Nutt. – stiff sunflower – central USA + Canada
- Helianthus petiolaris Nutt. – prairie sunflower, lesser sunflower – much of USA + Canada
- Helianthus porteri (A.Gray) Pruski – Porter's sunflower – AL GA SC NC
- Helianthus praecox Engelm. & A.Gray Texas sunflower – TX
- †Helianthus praetermissus – New Mexico sunflower – NM†
- Helianthus pumilus Nutt. – little sunflower – CO WY MT UT ID
- Helianthus radula (Pursh) Torr. & A.Gray – rayless sunflower – LA MS AL GA SC FL
- Helianthus resinosus Small – rescindot sunflower – MS AL GA SC NC FL
- Helianthus salicifolius A.Dietr. – willowleaf sunflower – TX OK KS MO IL WI OH PA NY
- Helianthus sarmentosus Rich. – French Guiana
- Helianthus scaberrimus Elliott – SC
- Helianthus schweinitzii Torr. & A.Gray – Schweinitz's sunflower – SC NC
- Helianthus silphioides Nutt. – rosinweed sunflower – Lower Mississippi Valley
- Helianthus simulans E.Watson – muck sunflower – southeastern USA
- Helianthus smithii Heiser – Smith's sunflower – AL GA TN
- Helianthus speciosus Hook. – Michoacán
- Helianthus subcanescens (A.Gray) E.Watson – Manitoba, north-central USA
- Helianthus subtuberosus Bourg.
- Helianthus tuberosus L. – Jerusalem artichoke, sunchoke, earth-apple, topinambur – much of USA + Canada
- Helianthus × verticillatus Small – whorled sunflower – AL GA TN
- Formerly included[9]
- Flourensia thurifera (Molina) DC. (as H. thurifer Molina)
- Helianthella quinquenervis (Hook.) A.Gray (as H. quinquenervis Hook.)
- Helianthella uniflora var. uniflora (as H. uniflorus Nutt.)
- Pappobolus imbaburensis (Hieron.) Panero (as H. imbaburensis Hieron.)
- Viguiera procumbens (Pers.) S.F.Blake (as H. procumbens Pers.)
- ^ a b "Genus: Helianthus L.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2011-01-06. Retrieved 2011-02-22.
- ^ Sunset Western Garden Book. Leisure Arts. 1995. pg. 606–607.
- ^ Helianthus. Flora of North America.
- ^ Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 6th ed. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. 2007. p. 3804. ISBN 0199206872.
- ^ RHS A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 1405332964.
- ^ Remillard, Ashley (August 4, 2014) "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Issues Final Rule Protecting Three Flowers" Endangered Species Law and Policy Blog, Nossaman LLP
- ^ Heiser, C. B. The Sunflower. University of Oklahoma Press. 1981.
- ^ http://homeguides.sfgate.com/sunflower-move-73855.html
- ^ a b The Plant List, search for Helianthus
- ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps


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Ever receive a note that inspired you? You probably took great care of that letter and maybe even tucked it away somewhere so you wouldn't forget about it. And while keeping it safe and sound is a great idea, why not frame it for a little daily inspiration!
I framed a few notes and letters — not for lack of anything to put on the wall (in fact, I have the opposite problem). I like to be reminded of a few choice mementos and what a better way to enjoy them than by framing them?! When on display, not only do I get pleasure seeing them on a daily basis, but they're sure to pique guests interest. A great conversation piece at parties, notes and letters communicate stories and sometimes a little insight into the letter owner. Mixing one or two framed pieces into a photo wall or bookshelf gives any space an offbeat but oh-so-charming vibe.
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OK, so I've been married for awhile now but I am dying to step my tootsies into another gorgeous gown these days. I blame it 100% on all of the SMP gorgeousness I stare at daily. For instance, when I see a bride in a gown like this one shoulder wonder that is just so perfectly elegant, I have a craving to stick my noggin' through that show-stopper neckline. Are you with me on this? The entire affair, captured by Michelle Reed Photography, is equally as lovely and completely worthy of an afternoon spent in the full of gallery images, promise.
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Mr. and Mrs. James and Lauren Colantoni were married in a quiet outdoor ceremony at The Club at Renaissance in Fort Myers, Florida on April 30th, 2011. Among the 140 guests who attended were the couple's closest friends and family, all excited to be there to celebrate this very special day.
Lauren donned a luxury wedding gown designed by Romona Keveza, with a simple bun, diamond earrings that were passed down from her mother as her "something borrowed," and a diamond statement bracelet. Jimmy and Lauren both decided they wanted a wedding that was "classic with a flare" and reflected their personalities and style.
Before the ceremony, there was worry that it would rain, as the clouds were ominous and dark. However, right before the chairs were about to be moved indoors, the sun peaked through the clouds, and the threat of rain disappeared. Lauren was told later than night that the sun came up over the hill behind them as the couple said their vows, painting a picture-esque backdrop for the perfect fairytale moment.
After the ceremony, guests were invited to enjoy cocktails and butler-passed hors d'oeuvres during cocktail hour while overlooking the gorgeous golf course and peaceful sunset. A string trio, The Vanderbilt Strings, set the mood by playing some of the couple's favorite songs by The Beatles, Stevie Wonder and Frank Sinatra.
The reception began as the 21-person wedding party was introduced as guests looked on, laughed and danced along to music provided by DJ Adam Epistein of 84 West Studios. Tables were dressed in ivory tablecloths with ivory hydrangeas in tall, cyclindrical vases, each surrounded by small round candles that set the romanic mood.
The night turned out to be absolutely perfect, and Lauren and Jimmy could not have had a more meaningful event.
Wedding Photography: Michelle Reed Photography / Floral Design: JH Designs / Wedding Dress: Romona Keveza / Hair & Makeup: Studio RK / Wedding Venue: The Club at Renaissance / Wedding Cake: The Club at Renaissance / Wedding Ceremony Music: The Vanderbilt Strings / Wedding Reception Music: Adam Epstein of 84 West Studios / Ceremony Chairs: Creative Events & Rentals


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Twitter is my favorite social media platform, but I have to confess I am a little OCD and ritualistic when it comes to my Twitter experience. Most of these processes involve ways to clean up my tweet stream, but others are the ways I engage and interact. It might seem a little odd to some people, but it works out well for me.
Here are five of my weird OCD Twitter rituals:
1. TwitCleaner
On the first of every month, I religiously run TwitCleaner to clear the noise from my stream. It's the quickest way to unfollow suspected bots, people who post too many duplicate links, people who post only links, and people who have little or no interaction with their followers.
2. ManageFlitter
Every Monday morning I run Manage Flitter to see who unfollowed me so I can return the gesture and unfollow those who have inactive Twitter accounts. I'm always able to weed out between 30-60 followers that way. Perhaps it seems petty to unfollow those who've done the same to me, but I am a strong believer in two-way interaction.
3. Morning Tweets
I tweet every morning from 7:30am-8:30 am with my morning coffee (excepting weekends and vacation). I like to be able to to catch up with anyone who personally interacted with me since bedtime the night before and allows me to keep a strong level of engagement with my most active followers.
4. Evening Tweets
I tweet every night from 8:45pm-9:45 pm (excepting weekends and vacation), because I work a regular 9-5 job during the day and my "mom" job after school, and this allows me to catch all the tweets I might have missed earlier in the day. I don't like my tweets to go unnoticed, and I know my followers appreciate a reply. Sometimes I miss a few people, because I have a lot of activity in my mentions feed, but I try to be diligent in catching up with everyone.
5. Retweets
During my morning and evening tweet sessions, I make sure to retweet at least 20 followers each during both times from my main Tweet stream. I specifically select followers I haven't had recent interaction with in awhile to let them know I haven't forgotten them and to show a little extra love to the followers who have helped me with retweets and website visits. I also spend this time reaching out and interacting with people I might not have tweeted with in awhile.
Of course, there are times I am able to tweet a little during the day, but it's not often. With my weird OCD Twitter rituals in place, I feel like I'm on top of things most of the time. I have different routines for Facebook, G+, Pinterest, LinkedIn, etc., but those are posts for another time.
How about you? Do you have any OCD Twitter rituals? Assure me I'm not too crazy by sharing them in the comments!
This post by Amberr Meadows has been syndicated with permission from her and Jim Dougherty , on whose blog the post first appeared.


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