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Black Cat Mountain Trail is a 3 mile lightly trafficked out and back trail located near Poland, Maine that features beautiful wild flowers and is rated as moderate. The trail offers a number of activity options and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use this trail.
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good and steep on the road in many places with a lovely view at the top to the right of the tower.
Good views for a quick walk. The first questionable `which way do i go' head to the right.
This trail is groomed in the winter so it makes for a good winter hike. You should wear microspikes as there are some icy sections. Winter views are better than summer.
Little hard in some spots but overall it was a good day.
The mosquitoes were relentless.
A fine hike for a fall day. A few notes: First of all, contrary to what it says here in the listings, this is NOT in Range Ponds State Park. It is several miles to west of there, on the other side of Maine Route 26. There is some parking off of North Raymond Road before the silver metal gate that guards the gravel road up which you will hike, or you can park on the shoulder, as I did. It is basically a hike up a gravel road--though there are a few places with old pavement on it too--to the broadcast tower at the top. The route is the one marked here with the red line, not the dashed line. Stay on the main gravel road (whch is very well maintained) at all intersections until the top. It is pretty easy to follow; the only slightly tricky place comes about ten minutes in where a dirt road continues straight and the gravel road goes to the right. Turn right to go up the gravel road. There are not many views along the trail, but the leaves were turning with beautiful yellows and reds, mainly from maples and oaks. The first 15 minutes or so are fairly flat, but then it becomes steeper until the summit. It took me about 40-45 minutes to reach the top. There's really no view at the broadcast tower, but follow a dirt road that turns right away from the tower that curves toward the eastern edge of the peak. There is a lovely view to the east from the end of that (though unfortunately painted graffitti on some of the ledges at the top). An enjoyable hike!
was an okay hike. not a lot to.look at on the way up, but, continue past radio tower for beautiful view. was very disappointed in the amount of trash along the trail and the broken beer bottles at the top. Probably won't hike this again , especially not with my dogs and kids.
A moderate climb to the radio tower at the top of Black Cat Mountain on a well defined gravel road. This trail is dog friendly but may be a little too steep for young children. There is limited parking at the entrance to the trail.


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How to Get Your Dog's Attention
We've all seen those dogs that hang on to their owner's every word, but if you don't happen to have one of those perfect pets, here's a great trick to get your dog to listen no matter what else he's up to.
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That's funny, I've never met a dog who hates walks.
My dogs hate to go for walks. If I said "walk" they would run and hide. Now if I said "treat" that would be a different story.
Sort of like using "marry me" and "free beer" back in college.
So true! Also, the words car ride, treat and cookie seem to work...come to think about it, saying the words "Wanna go....?" can get many pooches attention.
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That's why Craig raised his eyebrows, more in surprise, when I bought this sterling silver bracelet with semi-precious stones, at a local crafts fair. I loved all the different colored stones, and how they would match a lot of my work outfits. Score!
A few months later, it became really tarnished and I didn't want to wear it like that. How in the world was I going to get it clean?
I was organizing my cookbooks, and a sheet of paper fell out of one. It was a recipe I had printed for homemade jewelry cleaner, and had forgotten about. Perfect timing! All I needed was a bowl, foil, salt, baking soda and dish detergent. Why not? I decided to give it a try.
I inherited a few nice pieces of jewelry from my mother, and they are cherished treasures, like this coin necklace.
I thought this was a cool idea, and I wanted to share it with all of you. Do you have some jewelry that's looking a bit dull and tarnished? Give it a try!
DISCLAIMER: I can't promise you that this is fool-proof. I would hesitate to use this on gold or silver plate... one reviewer said it ruined the patina on her jewelry. I'll stick with using this on gold or silver only. There were lots of reviewers who said they loved it, so it's worth trying. Best of all, it's non-toxic and you can make it at home. There ya go!
A printable recipe card is at the end of this post, or you can view it on the original recipe site here.


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We are happy to report that our tree planting in the For�t de Soignes / Zoni�nwoud on 18 March was a complete success. More than 500 of you joined us and planted nearly 2,500 trees! Our heartfelt thanks to all you who came along or contributed. You can browse though some pictures of the event in our online album.
sunbeams tree planting 2011 - Mission Accomplished!
the sunbeams tree planting event on 20 March was a huge success. Thank you to everyone who pledged trees came along - especially the sunshine! A full report will be posted here soon. In the meantime you can see some photos in our picasa album - https://picasaweb.google.com/eu.sunbeams.eu/TPE2011# - check back regularly as we will be updating it with photos as they come in.
tree planting event 2011 - information pack
Following is some useful information in preperation for the tree planting event on 20 March 2011.
The tree planting event is organised by sunbeams with the technical assistance of the Flemish Forestry Association (VBV - Vereniging voor Bos in Vlaanderen) and the support of the King Baudouin Foundation (BreXpat), the Agency for Nature and Forest, and the Flemish Government.
The forest will be planted in the village of Oetingen, which is in the commune of Gooik, 20km west of Brussels.
The address of the site is Frankrijkstraat 10, however there will be limited parking in the adjacent streets so we encourage you to park in the town square (Kerkplein, 1755 Gooik - Lat. Long. 50?46'23.22"N 4?03'47.76"E or 50.77305334702715,4.063235521316528) which is a short walk from the site. The walking route will be signposted for you.
Public Transport
You can travel to the site on public transport from Brussels Station in an hours, using a train and 2 buses. Trains depart about every 2 hours.
You can use the De Lijn journey planner to plan your route.
The destination information is:
Aankomst gemeente: GOOIK
Straat: FRANKRIJKSTRAAT (OETINGEN)
Nr. 10
The event takes place between 10.00 and 16.00 on Sunday 20 March 2011 and you may come whenever suits you. Larger groups have been asked to co-ordinate their arrival with us to avoid too many people arriving at the same time. There will be a formal welcome for several dignitaries at 11.30.
Clothing & Footwear
We have arranged that it will not rain on Sunday and the temperature will be moderate, however please keep in mind that you will be in a field with long grass so please dress suitably and wear sturdy, waterproof footwear.
On arrival please go to the registration tents where you will be given the appropriate number of tags for your trees.
If you have not yet paid for your tree(s) please be prepared to pay with cash on the day. If you have made a transfer since Wednesday please bring a copy as proof of payment.
After registration you will be given a short demonstration on how best to plant your tree(s). The holes will be prepared in advance and spades will be available for your use.
Once you have planted your tree(s) you are welcome to stay and enjoy the atmosphere for as long as you like. Several organisations will have stands for you to visit, including: Reason2.be (bio-basket delivery, with hot soup to sample!), Brussels Gardener's Club (gardening), Jeugdbond Voor Natuur (Nature), Vogelbescherming Vlaanderen (Birds),
Tree Planting - CO2 Offsetting
As well as making Belgium greener, planting trees with sunbeams will help reduce your carbon footprint. Here are some facts about CO2:
- Europe produces the equivalent of 9 tonnes of CO2 per person per year (so everybody should plant 40 trees!)
- 1 tree represents roughly 0.2 tonnes of CO2 saved per year
- Which is approximately the CO2 produced by:
- 1 return flight Brussels-Dublin
- 1,000km in an average car (Volkswagen Golf)
- generating 350kWh of electricity � the average person in Belgium uses 2,263kWh per year (6.5 trees) whilst in Germany it�s only 1,533kWh (4.4 trees)
Please note that the figures above are only intended as a rough guide. The amount of CO2 produced various means varies greatly and the amount of CO2 absorbed by trees also varies based on species, location, age etc.
PRESS RELEASE: Belgians and Expats to Plant a Forest in One Day
WHAT: The 2nd Sunbeams tree planting event! As a contribution to the United Nations Environment Programme�s (UNEP) Billion Tree Campaign, Belgians and expatriates of all ages will join forces in Gooik on Sunday, March 20th, 2011 to plant a forest of several thousand trees in a single day. The initiative is organized by Sunbeams with the technical assistance of the forest association of Flanders or Vereniging voor Bos in Vlaanderen (VBV). This initiative is supported by the King Baudouin Foundation (BreXpat), the Agency for Nature and Forest, and the Flemish Government.
As well as planting a forest in Belgium, participants at this Sunbeams event will be making a financial contribution to the planting of a green corridor in the Republic of the Congo, a project organized by Jane Goodall�s Roots and Shoots program.
Media attending the event will be able to:
- Interview tthe EC Commissioner for Environment (Mr. Janez Poto?nik), the British Ambassador, (Mr. Jonathan Brenton), the Slovene Ambassador (Mrs. Anita Pipan), the founder and president of Sunbeams (Mrs. Ilke Pedersen-Beyst), the representative of UNEP (Mrs. Cecilia Morales), the director of the VBV (Mr. Bert De Somviele), and other key guests, including a delegation from the Slovenian Embassy who will be commemorating their national independence.
- Take human interest video or photographs of the event organizers, the site of the new forest, and event participants, including children from many Belgian and international schools actively planting trees together.
WHEN: 11.30 a.m. on Sunday, March 20th, 2011 (Official Welcome)
WHERE: Frankrijkstraat 10, 1755 Gooik.
WHO: Sunbeams is a not-for-profit association that helps people living in Belgium take practical steps towards living a more environmentally-responsible lifestyle.
The VBV (Vereniging voor Bos in Vlaanderen) is a key European participant in UNEP�s Billion Tree Campaign and has pledged to plant 1 million trees in Flanders. They provide the technical support to the Sunbeams event.
UNEP is the voice for the environment within the United Nations system. Its Billion Tree Campaign is a tree planting initiative that has already seen over 10 billion trees planted worldwide.
MORE INFO: www.sunbeams.eu, www.vbv.be, www.1miljoenbomen.be, www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign/
EU Environment Commissioner to Participate in Subeams Tree Planting Event on 20 March
The European Union Commissioner for the Environment, Mr Janez Potocnik, will be amongst the participants at the 2nd 'plant a forest with sunbeams' event, which takes place on Sunday 20 March 2011 in Gooik, 20km west of Brussels.The Commissioner will join other members and officials of the Slovenian community in Belgium to plant 50 Lime trees to celebrate Slovenian national day.
In March 2010 expats and Belgians came together for the first 'plant a fores't with sunbeams' event. Over 2,000 trees were planted in one day and are now bursting back into life with the return of spring.
This year we have secured a bigger plot of land and hope to plant many more trees. As well as having a tree panted in your name, participating at the event cancontribute to offsetting your carbon emissions. You can either come along to the event and plant your own trees, or let us plant the tree for you and dedicate it to you or somebody special. It's a great way to commerate a special event or remember someone special.
The event is open to all and full details can be found here.
Your can see coverage of last year's event here.
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sunbeams tree planting event - credit card payment
If you prefer to pay for your trees by credit card you may do so using paypal using the button below.
However in this case please note that, due to credit card processing fees, we have to add 10% to the cost of each tree.
Sunbeams Sprouting Workshop
Sunbeams is holding a free 'sprouting' workshop for anyone interested in learning how to sprout their own seeds
and beans for tasty, fresh and nutritious food that is easy to make at home.
Wednesday, 09 February 2011, 09:15 - 10:30
The workshop wil be held at:
International Montessori School,
Bergestraat 24,
3080 Tervuren
TPE 2011 Registration
Register now to reserve you tree(s) at the sunbeams Tree Planting Event on March 20th, 2011.
We are using 'Eventbrite' to handle registration for this event, after filling in the form below you will be taken their site to complete your purchase.
If you do not wish to pay by credit card, you can pay by bank transfer, or in cash on the day, by selecting 'show other payment methods' below.
[If the form below does not display properly, you can visit the event page here]
Sunbeams Nature Workshop - Birds in Winter
Sunbeams Nature Workshop - Birds in Winter
30. January, 13.00h - 16.00h,
For children aged 7 and up.
Fee: 15�
Learn how to identify birds that stay during the winter and how to attract them to your garden, nature walk with winter bird survey.
More information: www.lokilino.com


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I just got back from three days on the Ligurian coast with Mamma Parla. We were in the Cinque Terre mostly, where anchovies are a specialty. They are served grilled, stuffed, fried, salted, and marinated in lemon. The latter perparation, called acciughe al limone, is pictured above. Fresh anchovies are decapitated, gutted, and "cooked" in lemon juice overnight. The result is fresh and tangy. I recommend trying them at Trattoria "Da Billy" in Manarola and La Lampara in Riomaggiore.
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my favourite is the acciughe al limone. it's sad that lots of people turn their nose up at anchovies- but there are so many different ways of preparing them. maybe some ppl get put off after trying them on "pizza" from places like domino's or pizza hut!
I was never a big fan until visiting Cinque Terre where eating acciughe prepared so many different ways (loved al limone the best!)made a convert out of me.
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WHEN I heard the story of John Borling's poems, I thought of Samuel Johnson's quip about a dog that walks on its hind legs: it doesn't matter whether it is done well; the surprising thing is that it is done at all.
Borling's poems were tapped out in code, letter by letter, on the walls of a wretched cell in
It doesn't matter that "Taps on the Walls: Poems From the Hanoi Hilton" will probably not be taught in
Captives at the Hoa Lo prison, the notorious North Vietnamese prison and torture mill known to its inmates as the Hanoi Hilton, communicated using a popular alphabet grid:
You tap the number of the row, then tap the number across to reach the letter you want. So "poem" is (3,5) (3,4) (1,5) (3,2). For the letter K, use C or (2,6). Sometimes the verses were passed along in syncopated coughs; or a captive sweeping the prison corridor would scratch out the code with strokes of his bamboo broom. But mostly they were tapped on the walls. With practice, and using shortcuts, they could rap out up to 40 words a minute, Borling told me. If the inmates were caught tapping — and they were often caught — they were beaten.
After their first few years of isolated torment, the Hanoi Hilton captives were allowed to mingle, and they kept the verses alive by reciting them together.
I'm a great believer in the power of poetry — I once suggested poetry readings as a form of therapy for our sclerotic Congress — and so is Borling. Of course the tappers also shared intelligence about their captors, reminiscences of family back home, jokes and lots of prayers, but Borling said that for military men — men of "armored heart," he writes in the introduction to his book — poetry in particular entailed an opening of emotional channels that was painful and bracing. It forged bonds that helped the captives withstand the physical and mental agonies meant to break them. (The Hanoi Hilton made
In 2004 Borling ran as a moderate Republican — by then, already a hopeless task — in the primary race for a vacant Senate seat from
For his next act, Borling launched a campaign called SOS America that advocates a year of mandatory military service for all young American men. The conscripts would drill in small units, would augment the volunteer military, and could be called up later to assist with natural disasters. Borling sees it as a character-builder as much as a public service. He persuaded a congressman to introduce the idea as legislation, but it has gone nowhere. He scolds himself for getting distracted: "I should drop everything and work on this full time."
This column began as an excuse to tell you the story of those poems, tapped through the walls of purgatory. It's a pretty fine story unadorned. But I find it hard to resist reaching for a slightly bigger point.
Viewed one way, as Borling will be the first to tell you, his life is a series of defeats. Shot down over
He is amiably self-deprecating about his book, published at the urging of former comrades to mark the anniversary of their release. "Twenty-five percent doggerel," he said of his work, adding that the rest has been likened by friends to a kind of pre-hip-hop, fighter-jock rap. All he asks is that "people will be a little gentle with it."
"Life is made up of all kinds of approximations," he said, summing up. "You do the best you can under the circumstances."
Sometimes the best you can do is extraordinary, even heroic, but more often you are lucky if it is barely enough. It seems to me Borling's life is a tribute to the underrated virtue of perseverance — of just keeping on, and finding contentment in the effort.
Borling told me one of the readings that stuck with him from the humanities courses he took at the
"My view is that our job is to get the rock up and over the hill," Borling said. "And once you do, the rock rolls down the other side, and what do you see? You see another hill. The essence of life is really just pushing rocks."Continue reading the main story


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A Miami Gardens, Florida, man charged with mailing threatening letters that contained powder to the Broward County Courthouse and the Broward Sheriff's office was ordered held without bail on Friday.
Tarvess David Taylor was arrested after investigators found forensic evidence that connected him to the hoax letters. He was held without bail because he may still pose a threat to the community. Five envelopes he allegedly sent contained a powder, later found to be the cleaning substance Ajax, the Sun Sentinel reports.
Taylor also allegedly sent four expletive-filled anonymous letters that threatened himself and his family in October.
One employee who came into contact with the powder suffered a burning sensation on their hands and in the eyes, and the sheriff's office headquarters and the main county courthouse closed for a short period of time after the envelopes were found.
Taylor pleaded not guilty to five counts of making a hoax threat on Friday. Taylor was already facing multiple felony charges in state court due to an incident in December 2008 when he allegedly tried to run over a Pembroke Pines police office.
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The Lions are delighted that they have reached the target of £80,000 which will enable them to purchase a new state of the art laser eye machine for Harrogate Hospital
Around 500 sight-preserving laser eye treatments per year occur at Harrogate Hospital but with this new machine more people of all ages can be treated and ultimately prevented from going blind.
The new £80,000 machine will be more efficient than the one currently in use at Harrogate Hospital enabling patients to be treated more quickly and with less discomfort.
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Anri Sala, an Albanian artist living in Paris, has gained international attention for his video, animation and photographic works. With an emphasis on slowness, stillness, and intimate detail, Sala explores the interface of documentary and fiction. His painterly works elicit an undercurrent of tension that speaks to political and social realities, articulating loss and alienation through a specificity of place and cultural context that seems rooted in memory and history.
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Carolee Schneemann, a groundbreaking performance and multidisciplinary artist, has used film and video since the 1960s. Shattering taboos and redefining the notion of the erotic, she confronts sexuality, gender, and the social construction of the female body. Her seminal performances of the 1970s were as transgressive as they were influential. Schneemann continues to provoke, as she explores female sexuality in relation to art-making, ritual, and culture.
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Robert Smithson is recognized as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Smithson, who was born in 1938 and died in 1973, was a seminal figure in the art form that became known as earthworks or land art. He radically redefined notions of sculpture through his writings and projects. Among his most important and well-known works are Spiral Jetty (1970), a monumental earthwork located in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, and Partially Buried Woodshed (1970) at Kent State University in Ohio. Smithson's critical writings have had an equally profound impact on contemporary art and theory.
Michael Snow is recognized as one of the most important experimental filmmakers, as well as an accomplished visual artist and musician. His groundbreaking and influential 1967 film Wavelength is a key work in the history of structuralist cinema. In recent years Snow has been working with digital media, exploring electronic processes to further his rigorous investigations into the nature of representation and perception.
Squat Theatre—whose core members included Stephan Balint, Peter Berg, Eva Buchmuller, Peter Halasz and Anna Koos—was a major presence in the downtown art and theater world of New York, where the group lived and worked from 1977 until 1985. After emigrating from Budapest, Hungary, where their performances were banned, they lived and performed in a storefront on 23rd Street. Squat's radical theater questioned role playing, the act of spectatorship, and the boundaries between art and life, the fictive and the real.
Steina explores transformations of image, space and sound through a dynamic confluence of digital technologies, mechanical devices and natural landscape. After producing pioneering work with Woody Vasulka in the 1970s, Steina focused on the electronic interrelation and manipulation of sound and image. Fusing digital and "real" imagery to create layered spatial and temporal systems, she often uses pre-programmed devices to explore perception and vision.
An early advocate of community-based video as a tool for social change, George Stoney was a respected documentary film and video maker, an educator, and a pioneer of public access programs throughout the United States and Canada.
Skip Sweeney began experimenting with Moog Vidium visual synthesizers in 1968, producing improvisational, image-processed works before turning to the personal documentary form in the 1980s. In 1970, he was one of the founders of Video Free America, the San Francisco media art center.


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The history of the Academy goes back as far as 1824, the time of the founding of the Nineteenth Medical District of Ohio. Ohio was divided into 20 districts to facilitate the organization of district medical societies, designed to formalize both medical licensure and education. Cuyahoga and Medina counties constituted the Nineteenth Medical District. In 1859, the District was reorganized as the Cuyahoga County Medical Society. By 1893, there were three medical societies in Cleveland, including the Cleveland Medical Society, which existed side by side with the Cuyahoga County Medical Society from 1896 through 1902, when they united to form the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland.
Early records can be found under:
Cleveland Academy of Medicine (1867-1874) Constitution, Rules, Minutes
Cuyahoga County Medical Society (1859-1902) Constitution, Minutes, Account Book
Cleveland Medical Society (1893-1902) Constitution and By-Laws, Minutes, Treasurer's Account Book
The Archives of the Cleveland Medical Library Association is an extensive collection that encompasses the full history of the CMLA. It is housed in approximately 150 boxes and includes the Administrative Records, Board of Trustees Minutes, Annual Meeting reports, Committee Reports, membership rosters, 50th and 75th anniversary materials, and acquisitions information. The collection also includes architect's blueprints.
Members of the Cuyahoga County Medical Society made the first move toward the organization of a library association in 1893. It was proposed during a meeting in March 1893 that the three Cleveland medical societies unite on the planning of a library and in 1894 each donated books and funds. The Cleveland Medical Library Association (CMLA) was formed to provide Cleveland's medical community with an educational setting and to promote the science of medicine. The Library's collection grew rapidly and new facilities were necessary.
In 1924, Elizabeth Severance Prentiss made a substantial donation towards a new library building in the name of her former husband, Dudley Peter Allen, one of the Library's founders. The new building was completed in 1926 in University Circle. It remains the home of the Cleveland Medical Library Association, the Allen Memorial Medical Library and the Dittrick Medical History Center and Museum.
Begun in 1932 as an organization open to all physicians with an interest in the field of gastroenterology. Initially known as the Society for the Advancement of Gastroenterology, the organization became known as the American College of Gastroenterology during the 1954 annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Today, the ACG is very active in scholarly practice, teaching and research.
The collection, housed in six Hollinger boxes, includes minutes of Board Meetings (1932-1979), Board Meeting notices (National Gastroenterological Society, 1935-54; American College of Gastroenterology, 1954-79), correspondence and legal documents (1935-81). Also contains programs of annual meetings, postgraduate courses, and the ACG newsletter.
"The morning of November 9, 1941 promised at typical cold winter day in Chicago. Newspapers were filled with the news of foreign wars that in a few weeks would engulf the United States. At 56089 Blackstone Avenue near the University of Chicago, Rudolf Schindler was preparing to meet later that day with 16 physicians who practiced gastroscopy to decide if they wanted, or needed, a formal organization through which they and others could work for the recognition and improvement of gastroscopy." *
Schindler stressed the need for standards for training and practice, information sharing among physicians and control of instrument quality. The meeting was a success. The new organization was called the American Gastroscopic Club and by June 1942 there were 109 members. In 1961, the membership agreed to change the name to the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
The ASGE collection contains approximately 17.5 linear feet of material, including: early records of the American Gastroscopy Society (AGS) and the American Gastroscopic Club (AGC), ASGE Governing Board Meeting Minutes (1961-79), committee reports, Annual Meeting programs, Digestive Disease Week announcements/programs, membership rosters, correspondence and documents regarding government relations and health care policy.
*Taken from: Gerstner, Patsy "The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: A History", Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, supp., vol. 37, no. 2, 1991.
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The Committee deliberated.
Report from the Transport Sub-Committee [Air Transport
Industry] brought up and read.
Ordered, That the Report be read a second time, paragraph
by paragraph.
Paragraphs 1 and 42 read and agreed to.
Resolved, That the Report be the Eleventh Report of
the Committee to the House.-(The Chairman.)
Ordered, That the Chairman do make the Report to the
Ordered, That the Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence
taken before the Transport Sub-Committee be reported to the House.
[Adjourned till Monday 1 July at half past Four o'clock.


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A firm of accountants in the City with c.100 staff had their communications equipment on the top floor of their offices, just underneath the water tanks at the top of the building. A seal went on one of the tanks and it flooded the communications room, wiping out the telephone system, amongst other IT equipment. If effect, the company was no longer contactable. Fortunately, they had taken a Business Continuity Policy with Officefront. A simple call to the accountant's line provider requesting all calls to be forwarded to the dedicated number provided by Officefront meant that all inbound calls were being handled on a "business as usual" basis for the next 7 days when the new telephone system was installed.
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MOUNT PLEASANT, N.Y. -- NAIOP Connecticut & Suburban New York recently honored real estate projects in White Plains and Valhalla.
The commercial real estate development association honored the groups and projects on March 6 at the annual Night of the Stars Awards Gala. Former Stamford Mayor Michael Pavia was the host of the event at l'escale restaurant in Greenwich.
"Each year our NAIOP board selects and recognizes outstanding real estate stars and projects for their impact on the community, market adaptability, ingenuity and local contributions. We congratulate all our well deserved winners and finalists," said Brandon Hall of Forstone Capital and president of the NAIOP chapter.
The following are the winners and selected finalists for the real estate categories, courtesy NAIOP:
- Connecticut Lease: Winner: Save the Children in Westport, Conn; Finalists: HomeServe USA – Merritt 7 in Norwalk, Conn; Cannondale Sports in Wilton, Conn.
- Connecticut Project: Winner: Sound Development Group, Stamford; Finalists: Shippan Landing, Stamford, Conn; Norden Park in Norwalk, Conn.
- Westchester Lease: Winner: PepsiCo, Inc., White Plains, N.Y.; Finalists: Xylem Inc., Rye Brook, N.Y.; Jackson Lewis, White Plains, N,Y.
- Westchester Project: Winner: Life Time Fitness in Harrison, N.Y.; Finalists: New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y.; Westmed Medical Group in Purchase, N.Y.
- Developing Leader: Winner: Clark Briffel, Reckson a Division of SL Green based, White Plains, N.Y.; Finalists: Justin Shaw, JCS Capital LLC based in Stamford, Conn.; Rob Scinto, R.D. Scinto, Inc. based in Shelton, Conn.
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Community Outdoor Recreation and Environment Program (C.O.R.E.)
Dewdney Elementary School's CORE program is designed to motivate children to engage in their natural surroundings through an adventure and discovery-based curriculum. Our goal is to get kids outside discovering, inquiring and learning. Research increasingly supports the health, engagement, socialization and academic benefits of learning and interacting with the environment. Whether it is worm-composting, hiking, puddle-jumping, exploring aboriginal herbs, building snow caves, examining ecosystems under a microscope or gardening, children will have the opportunity to make connections between their outdoor experiences in the natural world and their classroom learning.
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Look, horses!
We went to Otaniemi today, to the Startup Sauna co-working space, and while my husband worked there I spent time reading a book. It's quite an interesting place with many different areas for meetings, some of them even look like sauna! =D
I already drew a fanart for The Seafarer's Kiss. ^^
It'll be posted here later.
At Robert's Coffee (Otaniementie 9).
At one of the library spaces.
What a cool chair!
And then we went to see horses living nearby (Tapiolan Ratsastuskoulu, Tekniikantie 8). One horse was at the stables, peeking from the window cutely. And four more were outside. There was a very juicy-looking grass growing near their paddock, so of course I threw some of it to them. And then! One of the horses started stealing the grass from other horses, especially from the brown one, chasing it away.
"Could you please give me more grass?"
"Mine was stolen."
"Thank you."
The brown horse figured out eventually that eating the grass stalk by stalk was dangerous, because the grey thief always stole it. So, the brown horse started carrying all of it in its mouth away from the grey horse and eating it faster.
The thief!
"Now why would you accuse me of such things?"
The other two horses who didn't participate in the grass drama.
"I so did not steal any juicy grass that was very delicious!"
"I'm so misunderstood."
That pink spot though!


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PS4 Update Adds Support for Sony Wireless Headsets
Posted: 09:59AM
Author: gebraset
A new system update will be available to download tonight for PlayStation 4 owners, labeled as firmware version 1.60. The update brings support for Sony's wireless headsets, such as the Pulse and Pulse Elite, as well as to the newly announced Gold Wireless Headset that launches early next month. The Sony Gold Wireless Headset offers custom audio modes for specific PlayStation games, customizable faceplates, and a microphone that features noise cancelling technology. Just like the Pulse headsets from Sony, the Gold Wireless Headset offers 7.1 virtual surround sound. The wireless headsets that are being supported on the PlayStation 4 due to the new firmware update connect via USB and plug directly into the console.
No other information has been provided surrounding the PlayStation 4 version 1.60 update, such as if the console will now play CDs or allow for 3D Blu-ray playback.
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Minecraft Mod Development Book
As you may have noticed, there weren't that many new tutorials released by me in a few weeks now. I have not been doing nothing during this time. A few weeks ago I was approached by an editor at Pearson Education asking me if I wanted to write a book about Minecraft Mod Development. This is a great opportunity for me, because I really enjoy writing things related to Minecraft and programming. Therefore, I accepted and am now writing a book. This means there will not be as many tutorials anymore, because I will focus on the book a lot.
It also means there are going to be some changes to what exactly will be in the tutorials. Until the book is published, I will keep creating tutorials about the basic things. When the book is out, it has to be updated to new versions of Minecraft and Forge which I will be working on very frequently. Because of this I will not have enough time to also keep maintaining the basic tutorials on the website. This doesn't mean I will quit writing tutorials on this website, however. Once the book is out this website will be filled with more difficult topics which are not included in the book.
I will keep you all updated on the progress of the book, when it will be ready for purchase and perhaps some other things.
TL;DR I will be writing a book about Minecraft mod development. The tutorials will stay, but only cover advanced things once the book is out.
The title of the book is going to be: Sams Teach Yourself Minecraft Mod Development in 24 Hours. It can be found on Amazon right here.


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Peter H. Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and launching large incentive prizes to drive radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. Best known for the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight, the Foundation is now launching prizes in Exploration, Life Sciences, Energy, and Education. Diamandis is also the co-Founder & Executive Chairman of the Singularity University, a Silicon Valley based institution teaching graduates and executives about exponentially growing technologies and their potential to address humanity's grand challenges.
Along with fellow Big Think expert Steven Kotler, Diamandis is co-author of the New York Times best selling hardcover book Abundance—The Future Is Better Than You Think which was #2 on the NYTimes List and #1 on Amazon. Their latest book is titled Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World.
Diamandis has founded or co-founded many of the leading entrepreneurial companies in this sector including Zero Gravity Corporation, the Rocket Racing League and Space Adventures. He also counsels the world's top enterprises on how to utilize exponential technologies and incentivized innovation to dramatically accelerate their business objectives. Dr. Diamandis attended MIT where he received degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering, as well as Harvard Medical School where he received his M.D. Diamandis' personal motto is: "The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself!"
Look out, Amazon. The virtual clothing store of the future will offer a unique shopping experience that blows our current setup out of the water.
Exponential technologies are rapidly shifting the way we live and do business, says Singularity University's Peter Diamandis. Those who learn to take advantage of them are sure to ride the wave to extraordinary...
Entrepreneur Peter H. Diamandis discusses his work with the new company Human Longevity Inc., which seeks to extend the healthy human lifespan.
Uber is an example of an exponential company that harness technology to revolutionize whole industries.
Every year, Peter Diamandis ruminates on the kinds of technology ready to leap from "deceptive" to "disruptive." In this video, he explores virtual reality as an innovation ready to take the leap.
We humans are those simple individual life forms that are beginning to bring technology into our bodies, whether it's the cell phone or eventually brain/computer interface.
The challenge we have in a democracy is that we can change our minds depending on which party is in power.
Constrains, willingness to fail, willingness to take big risks and rapid iteration are absolutely fundamental to innovation.
Peter Diamandis: It's really when you combine AI & Robotics together that you have magic happening.
The issue is learning the best questions to ask and learning how to interact once you have the knowledge to create new knowledge.


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New York
5 November 2008
Property from the Alex Hillman Family Foundation
Price realised
Giorgio De Chirico (1888-1978)
Composition métaphysique
signed 'g. de Chirico' (upper left); signed again 'giorgio de chirico' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
31 7/8 x 21¼ in. (81 x 54 cm.)
Painted in 1914
Galerie Paul Guillaume, Paris.
Paul Eluard, Paris (acquired from the above, 1934).
London Gallery, London.
Sir Roland Penrose, London.
Gordon Onslow-Ford, San Francisco and New York (by 1943).
Richard S. Zeisler Collection, New York.
John L. Senior, Jr., New York.
New Gallery, New York.
Alex and Rita Hillman, New York (acquired from the above April 1956).
Gift from the above to the present owner, 16 October 1968.
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C. Zervos, Histoire de l'art contemporain, Paris, 1938, p. 384 (illustrated; titled and dated Portrait of the Arist, 1910).
Dictionnaire abregé du surréalisme, Paris, 1938, p. 39 (illustrated; titled Portrait of the Artist).
'Giorgio de Chirico: Mystery and Creation,' in London Bulletin, October 1938, p. 13, no. 2 (titled Portrait of the Artist).
R. Melville, 'The Visitation 1911-1917,' in London Bulletin, June 1940, pp. 7-8.
J.T. Soby, The Early Chirico, New York, 1941, pp. 30-32 (illustrated, pl. 9; titled Self Portrait).
R. Gaffé, Giorgio de Chirico: Le Voyant, Brussels, 1946, pl. 2
(illustrated; titled and dated Self Portrait 1910).
J.T. Soby, Giorgio de Chirico, New York, 1955, p. 183 (illustrated, p. 67 (titled Self Portrait).
J. Sloane, 'Giorgio de Chirico and Italy,' in Art Quarterly, 1958, pp. 12 and 15 (illustrated).
'Metafisica, dada e surrealismo,' in L'arte Moderna, 1967, no. 55, p. 15 (illustrated).
W. Rubin, Dada and Surrealist Art, New York, 1968, p. 117, no. 104 (illustrated, p. 96; titled Self Portrait).
'Peinture metaphysique,' in Encyclopedia universalis, Paris, 1972, no. 2 (illustrated in color, pl. 11; titled Metaphysical Composition Self Portrait).
W. Schmied, De Chirico: Leben und Werk, Munich, 1980, p. 286, no. 23 (illustrated in color, p. 135, no. 5; titled Metaphysical Composition Metaphysical Self-Portrait).
M. Fagiolo dell'Arco, Giorgio de Chirico: Il tempo di Apollinaire, Paris 1911-1915, Rome, 1981, p. 135, no. 58 (illustrated; titled and dated Metaphysical Composition, 1914).
M. Fagiolo dell'Arco, L'opera completa di de Chirico 1908-1924, Milan, 1984, pp. 90-91, no. 60 (illustrated; titled and dated Metaphysical Composition (Self-Portrait), 1914).
T. Minemura, De Chirico, Tokyo, 1986, p. 19 (illustrated in color). M. Calvesi, ed., Giorgio de Chirico: Pictor optimus, exh. cat., Palazzo delle Esposizione, Rome, 1992, p. 34 (illustrated, p. 33; titled Composizione Metafiscá).
E. Braun, Manet to Matisse: The Hillman Family Collection, Seattle and London, 1994, pp. 50-52, no. 8 (illustrated in color, p. 53).
P. Baldacci, De Chirico: The Metaphysical Period 1888-1919, Boston, 1997, p. 239, no. 61 (illustrated in color).
M. Holzhey, De Chirico: The Modern Myth, Cologne, 2005, p. 23 (illustrated in color; titled Metaphysical Still-life).
Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Exposition internationale du surréalisme, January-February 1938, no. 34 (titled Portrait of the Artist).
London, London Gallery, Giorgio de Chirico 1911-1917, October-November 1938, no. 2 (titled Portrait of the Artist).
New York, The Art of This Century Gallery, Masterworks of Early de Chirico, October-November 1943, no. 2.
Bennington College, Surrealist Art: An Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture 1913-1946, April 1960, no. 4 (titled Self-Portrait).
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Rousseau, Redon and Fantasy, May-September 1968 (titled Self-Portrait).
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Giorgio de Chirico, April-May 1970, pp. 15 and 27, no. 11 (illustrated, pl. 11; titled Metaphysical Composition).
Hanover, Kestner Gesellschaft and Paris, Museée d'art moderne, Giorgio de Chirico, July-October 1970, p. 62, no. 9 (illustrated, p. 36; titled Metaphysical Self-Portrait).
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Paitnings, Drawings and Sculpture from the Alex Hillman Family Foundation, April-May 1972 (titled Self-Portrait).
Laramie, The University of Wyoming Art Center, The Hillman Collection, November 1972 (titled Self-Portrait).
Jacksonville Art Museum and Corpus Christi, Art Museum of South Texas, The Alex Hillman Collection, October 1973-January 1974, no. 17 (titled Self-Portrait).
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Modern Portraits: The Self and Others, October-November 1976, no. 16 (titled Self-Portrait).
London, Hayward Gallery, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, January-March 1978, p. 20, no. 1.8 (illustrated in color; titled Self-Portrait).
Venice, Palazzo Grassi, La pittura metafisica, 1979, p. 50, no. 16 (illustrated, pl. 16; titled Self-Portrait).
Austin, The University of Texas; Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Museum of Art; St. Petersburg, Museum of Fine Arts; Lawrence, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas; Huntington Gallery; Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center; Williamsburg, Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary and Ames, Brunnier Gallery and Museum, Iowa State University, Selections from the Collection of the Alex Hillman Family Foundation, January 1979-November 1985.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; London, Tate Gallery; Munich, haus der Kunst and Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, De Chirico, March 1982-April 1983, no. 15, p. 149 (illustrated; titled Self-Portrait).
The Brooklyn Museum, Exhibition of Works from the Alex Hillman Family Foundation, February 1986-January 1987.
The Brooklyn Museum, Modern Masters: French Art from the Alex Hillman Family Foundation Collection, June-August 1988.
London, The Royal Academy of Arts, Italian Art in the Twentieth Century, January-February 1989, no. 46 (illustrated in color; titled and dated Self-Portrait, 1913).
Phoenix, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Paintings and Drawings from the Alex Hillman Family Foundatio, December 1991-May 1992.
The Fondazione de Chirico has confirmed the authenticity of this painting and have recorded it in their archives under the number 0030-09-08OT.
*This lot may be exempt from sales tax as set forth in the Sales Tax
Notice in the back of the catalogue.
This Composition métaphysique by Giorgio de Chirico comes with an especially impressive resumé of modernist credentials. The title refers to the signature style of the artist--his philosophical contemplation of the "solitude of signs", a highly intuitive and personal approach to painting that set him apart from the prevailing modes of Cubism and Futurism. De Chirico formulated these ideas in Milan and Florence during 1909-1911, and then perfected this style in Paris during his stay there in 1911-1915, before returning to Italy during the First World War. According to Paolo Baldacci, de Chirico painted this canvas in March-May 1914; he noted that "The year 1914 was a period of intense activity for de Chirico, a happy and almost frenetic time. He produced thirty-five of the most important paintings of his entire career, nearly every one a masterpiece, and the majority of them prior to the outbreak of the war (3 August 1914) (op. cit., p. 211). Of the sixty-six recorded paintings that de Chirico painted during his Paris sojourn, two-thirds are presently in public institutions. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, holds the largest concentration to be found anywhere of de Chirico's pre-war Paris pictures, with nine in all.
This painting possesses, moreover, a remarkably distinguished provenance. Paul Guillaume became de Chirico's first dealer in 1914 and represented him for the next twenty years. He acquired this work under the terms of his contract with the artist not long after it was painted. It remained in Guillaume's collection until his death in 1934, when his family sold it to Paul Eluard, the greatest of the French surrealist poets. Eluard's interest in this picture reflected the great esteem his circle accorded to de Chirico's early metaphysical canvases. Thereafter this painting became the property of Sir Roland Penrose, the renowned British collector, artist, Picasso biographer and writer on modern art. Composition métaphysique then made its way to San Francisco in the early 1940s, where it belonged to another surrealist, the expatriate British painter Gordon Onslow Ford. The painting resided in two New York collections during the early 1950s, before Alex and Rita Hillman acquired it in 1956.
While there is much that is known about this painting, there are two things which remain mysteries. The first is the painting's original title, as the artist would have conceived it--this has gone unrecorded. For many years this painting was known as Portrait de l'artiste par lui-même ("Self-Portrait"), the title which Eluard gave to it, reflecting the typically surrealist point-of-view that a portrait may be less a physical likeness of its creator than it is an amalgam of his fetishes. Eluard also owned an important manuscript written by de Chirico during his Paris stay, which is quoted on several occasions below. The current generic title came into use during the Milan exhibition of 1970, and most de Chirico specialists have since adopted it.
The second mystery is the meaning of this picture. De Chirico did not refer specifically in his writings to any of the imagery in the composition. Various commentators have offered their interpretations, highlights of which are mentioned below, but while all have certainly contributed to a wider understanding of the painting, none has constructed a thoroughly convincing and comprehensive exegesis. In the process of becoming familiar with de Chirico's metaphysical paintings, one realizes that the artist intended no single, precise interpretation, and it is indeed in the very nature of his work that none is possible. As de Chirico inscribed in Latin across the lower edge of a self-portrait he painted in the spring of 1911 (fig. 1): Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est?--"And what shall I love if not the enigma?"
De Chirico arrived in Paris with his mother on 14 July 1911, just three days after his 23rd birthday. His brother Andrea Alberto, a musician, composer, writer, and painter who went by the professional name Alberto Savinio, was already living there. The artist's earliest significant Paris paintings date from the winter of 1911-1912 (Baldacci, no. 15-17). De Chirico painted his most celebrated arcades, piazzas and towers during the next year and a half (Baldacci, nos. 18-23, 29-41; no. 23: fig. 2, and no. 32: fig. 3). He made his public debut with three paintings in the 1912 Salon d'Automne, including the 1911 self-portrait (fig. 1), which he had brought from Italy. He also sent pictures to the Salon des Indépendents the following spring, and in October 1913 he held an exhibition of thirty works in his own atelier. Among the few reviews he received was a notice by the poet, critic and avant-garde man-for-all-seasons Guillaume Apollinaire, who referred to his "strangely metaphysical paintings," thus naming de Chirico's unusual subjects for the public. In early 1914, Apollinaire advised Paul Guillaume, a young man who was about to open his first gallery, to represent the artist who painted the mysterious and melancholy piazzas. De Chirico and Apollinaire became good friends, and the painter rewarded the poet's accolades with a famous portrait (Baldacci, no. 71; fig. 4), which he painted soon after the present painting was completed.
Drawing on the late 19th century philosophy of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, the celebrated piazza scenes project a typically fin de siècle mindset of melancholia and ennui. They perhaps are more successful in suggesting the aura of mystery than in stating any deeper profundity. The stronger and more genuinely modern aspect of these paintings is de Chirico's conception of space and form, his manipulation of austerely flat, unadorned facades and ambiguous distances, for which he devised inconsistent and unsettling perspectives by employing multiple vanishing points.
Toward the end of 1913 de Chirico experienced an epiphany which altered his iconography and made his painting more innovatively modern--as modern in its play of imagery and pictorial format as a Picasso or Braque cubist collage. He dreamed that two enormous artichokes made of iron appeared to him in a piazza. They appear in several paintings done in late 1913 and early 1914 (Baldacci, nos. 42, 47 and 48 [fig. 5]). This vision suggested that objects might easily be divested of their normal context, or removed from the logical systems of sense and perception that ordinarily determine their meaning, so that they may exist in multiple associational guises. De Chirico described this phenomenon in the Eluard manuscript:
"A revelation can be born of a sudden, when one least expects it, and can also be stimulated by the sight of something--a building, a street, a garden, a square. When a revelation grows out of the sight of an arrangement of objects, then the work which appears in our thoughts is closely linked with the circumstance that has provoked its birth. One resembles the other, but in a very strange way" (quoted in J. T. Soby, op. cit., p. 245).
In a 1919 text, as artist looked back on this experience, he observed that "By deduction it is therefore possible to conclude that every object has two appearances: one, the current one, which we nearly always see and that is seen by people in general; the other a spectral or metaphysical appearance beheld only by some rare individuals in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction (quoted in J.T. Soby, op. cit., p. 67).
De Chirico called this revelatory principle the "solitude of signs" and proceeded to investigate this idea in pictorial terms. He embarked on a new series of paintings in the spring of 1914 (Baldacci, nos. 58-75; no. 63: fig. 6), including the present Composition métaphysique, in which objects--common or otherwise--converge and interact in the outdoor space of the piazza, as he imagined in his dream of the iron artichokes.
Most of these metaphysical still-life cityscapes share several significant characteristics. In a canvas of vertical format, the foreground space is a steeply tilted incline, almost like a ramp, that directs the eye to an elevated horizon, beyond which the perspective reverses itself, and plunges downward, although only the tops of buildings, towers, and smokestacks on the other side are visible. A few paintings show full daylight, but in most the scene is set in dark shadow, twilight or growing darkness, which suggests their out-of-the-ordinary, oneiric state. The bizarre assembly of objects-- some are instantly recognizable, while others are difficult to decipher--varies from picture to picture, with some things making repeated appearances, taking on a different context and suggesting new affinities in the presence of their changing neighbors. James Thrall Soby, director of the Museum of Modern Art and author of a landmark 1955 monograph on the artist, delved into some of the symbolism in the present painting:
"The Self Portrait [Eluard's title] testifies to de Chirico's rising interest in the symbolic efficacy of objects and signs; it includes plaster feet, a tubular form which might be either a fallen tower or musical instrument somewhat like a recorder, an egg, a St. Andrew's cross and two factory chimneys. To the painter-critic, Gordon Onslow Ford, lecturing on de Chirico's early art, these objects symbolize the artist's progress through life. The plaster toes are read as representing de Chirico's babyhood, when his toes played a major part in his visual experience. The painter advances in age, symbolically, as we move from the foreground to the background of the canvas. Thus the factory chimneys were described by Mr. Onslow Ford as symbols of adult virility, incomplete (i.e. cut off) in the right chimney, triumphant in the left one. The St. Andrew's cross on the wall represents de Chirico's aspiration to faith and knowledge; the egg, his renunciation and retreat from reality" (op. cit., p. 67).
Meyer Schapiro approached Composition métaphysique as "a series of dualities", of crossed and contrasted pairs of elements--the two smokestacks, the pair of feet--"which express the artist's conception of his own conflicted nature." (quoted in F. Daftari, Giorgio de Chirico: A Self-Portrait, New York, 1976, p. 25). Baldacci has pointed out that the large X stands for the unknown, and continued to explain more specifically:
"I think de Chirico is also referring to two specific passages by Nietzsche in which the philosopher alludes to the condition of modern man who must face the loss of the reassuring 'center' and slips toward the 'X', that enigmatic labyrinth whose fascination and seductiveness, that Nietzsche calls 'the delight in an X,' which is 'so great in such more spiritualized men that this delight flares up again and again like a bright blaze over all the distress of what is problematic, over all the anger of uncertainty'" (op. cit., p. 237).
The "tubular" object, which Soby suggested is a fallen tower or musical instrument, is more likely a scroll which has been rolled and stored in a protective cylinder. Joseph Sloane considered the scroll to be a record of the past, while the egg embodies the hope of rebirth (in "Giorgio de Chirico and Italy," Arts Quarterly, 1958, vol. 21, p. 15). The pair of looming chimneys is an allusion to industrialization and the impact of modernity. Sloane believed that de Chirico was referring in this painting to the Risorgimento, the reunification of Italy during the 19th century. He noted that Giuseppe Garibaldi, the most famous of the movement's leaders, was wounded in the foot in 1862 during the battle of Aspromonte. Baldacci disagreed with this idea, however, and countered:
"... Such a reading would not be in keeping with the rest of the painting, Apart from being a 'sign' like any other, albeit even more disorientingly enigmatic than usual, the plaster feet, whose peculiar disposition suggests a dance step, probably allude to the 'lightness of foot' with which Nietzsche frequently exhorts the reader to allow his thoughts to dance. The scroll refers to the world as 'text,' an amalgam of signs and metaphors which we can penetrate only through the dance of [Nietzsche's] 'the gay science'" (op. cit., p. 237).
De Chirico was pondering the "elusiveness" as well as the "solitude" of signs, for he understood the impossibility of deciphering them, or perhaps in finding any ultimate meaning in them at all. He wrote: "To live in the world as in an immense museum of strange things, of course, variegated toys that change their appearance, which we as children sometimes break to see how they are made inside, and, disappointed, we discover they are empty" (quoted in M. Fagiolo dell'Arco, exh. cat., op. cit., 1982, p. 31). In the great metaphysical still-life compositions of 1914, de Chirico went further out on a philosophical limb than he would ever dare go again, and embraced multiplicity and uncertainty with the careless ease of a man who believed he could walk on water. In the Eluard manuscript, de Chirico expounded, with a voice that echoes Nietzsche's Zarathustra:
"What is needed above all, is to rid art of all that has been its familiar content until know; all subject, all idea, all thought, all symbol must be put aside. To have the courage to give up all the rest. There is the artist of the future: someone who reonounces something every day, whose personality daily becomes purer and more innocent. The revelation we have of a work of art, the conception of a picture must represent something which has sense in itself, has no subject, which from the point of view of human logic means nothing at all. I say that such a revelation (or if you like, conception), must be felt so strongly, must give us such joy or such pain, that we are obliged to paint" (quoted in J. T. Soby, op. cit., p. 246).
The metaphysical compositions of 1914 mark the path of de Chirico's most daring philosophical and pictorial adventure. They were a sudden, revelatory, and--as such moments must inevitably transpire--a fleeting phase in his painting, which is recognized today as constituting the "great noon-tide" (to use Nietzsche's term) of his enduring modernist achievement. These paintings are the essential pictorial statement of a bold assertion that de Chirico made in the Eluard manuscript: "There are more enigmas in the shadow of a man who walks in the sun than in all the religions of the past, present and future" (quoted in ibid., p. 245).
(fig. 1) Giorgio de Chirico, Autoritratto, 1911. Sold, Christie's New York, 11 May 1995, lot 126. BARCODE 25995282
(fig. 2) Giorgio de Chirico, La nostalgie de l'infini, autumn-winter 1912. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. BARCODE 25995299
(fig. 3) Giorgio de Chirico, Piazza con Arianna (Ariadne), summer-autumn 1913. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. BARCODE 25995305
(fig. 4) Giorgio de Chirico, Portrait de Guillaume Apollinaire, April-June 1914. Musée d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. BARCODE 25995336
(fig. 5) Giorgio de Chirico, La conquête du philosophe, early 1914. The Art Institute of Chicago. BARCODE 25995312
(fig. 6) Giorgio de Chirico, Le mauvais génie d'un roi, spring-summer 1914. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. BARCODE 25995326
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4.1 Blown density is used to develop loose-fill coverage charts. Data for blown density vs thickness is used in the development of a variable blown density presentation for loose-fill insulation.
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