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Our central focus for some time to come will undoubtedly be offensive: identifying specific organisations and individuals within the creationist movement; identifying what they actually stand for, the nature of their attack upon science, education, society and civilisation; and, the coordinated nature of this attack.
However, many of us are quite interested in evolutionary biology, and discussing recent discoveries is something which many of us certainly enjoy. Moreover, such discussions are more likely to pull people in peak their curiousity and their sense of wonder, and thus help make them more active members in the community which we are building.
As such, I have included a number of links on news in evolutionary biology. Some of the material is non-technical, other semi-technical and other material is technical. These links should help fascilitate such discussions in the days to come. Moreover, they should counter the creationist propaganda to the effect that evolutionary biology is just "Darwinism" and statements to the effect that evolutionary biology has been standing still for the past 150 years. Likewise, it will help to counter the argument that all evolutionary biology consists of are just stories - by actually showing that evolutionary biology is a thriving multi-disciplinary endeavor with many cutting-edge discoveries. Moreover, such cutting-edge discoveries may help to inspire many of the young into persuing a career in some discipline involving evolutionary biology.
To date, I have included blogs by scientists (but I have also included the blog of Carl Zimmer - a science writer for the NYT), journals in Britain, and journals outside of Britain - among other things. Currently, I am only including journals which have some open access material - since many people may not be able to afford very many subscriptions. The links are somewhat scattered given the categories. However, below are the majority of links to date related to new developments in evolutionary biology.
Blogs by Scientists:
Pharyngula - http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula - This is the highly acclaimed blog of PZ Myers. Science journal Nature has listed Pharyngula as the top-ranked blog written by a scientist. PZ is an American academic and outspoken critic of ID. We met him very recently in London
The Loom - http://www.scienceblogs.com/loom - Carl Zimmer is a science writer for the New York Times and author of several books
Evolving Thoughts - http://scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts - John Wilkins blog. John's focus in on the philosophy of biology and is quite active in the online community defending evolutionary biology.
Palaeoblog - http://palaeoblog.blogspot.com - Evolution. Extinction. Fossilization. Blog of Michael J Ryan, Ph.D.
Afarensis - http://scienceblogs.com/afarensis - This author's blog focuses on anthropology, evolution and science
The Daily Transcript - http://scienceblogs.com/transcript - Alex Palazzo's blog has a good mixture of molecular biology and personal views. His posts often involve cutting-edge material in evolutionary biology
evolgen - http://scienceblogs.com/evolgen - RPM's blog focuses on molecular population and evolutionary genetics and genomics
Stranger Fruit - http://scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit - John M. Lynch is an evolutionary biologist and historian of biology
Mike the Mad Biologist - http://scienceblogs.com/mikethemadbiologist - Mad rantings about politics, evolution, and microbiology
A Few Resources in Evolutionary Biology on the Web (primarily educational - for teachers, but with some news)
Understanding Evolution - http://evolution.berkeley.edu - for K through 16, brought to you by Berkley and the National Center for Science Education
Evolution Education Institute - http://www.evolutioneducation.org - A US professional development program originating in the Michigan Scientific Evolution Education Initiative. Lesson plans, links, articles and more.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - http://www.hhmi.org - is one of the world's largest philanthropies, supports considerable research in evolutionary developmental biology, supports education in evolutionary biology, and has newsletters as well as Sean Carroll.
The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive -http://www.stephenjaygould.org - biography, library reviews and interviews. One of the coauthors of punctuated equilibria theory, often a target of creationists and one of their more outspoken critics.
Scientific Journals list - http://www.biochemweb.org/journals.shtml - at BioChemWeb - http://www.biochemweb.org . A list of some of the journals which regularly include articles of immediate relevance to evolutionary biology, many of which are available on the web.
Online Journals in the UK of Relevance to Evolutionary Biology
Oxford Journals: Bioinformatics - http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org ; Journal of Heredity - http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org ; Molecular Biology and Evolution http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org; mutagenesis http://mutage.oxfordjournals.org ; Nucleic Acids Research http://nar.oxfordjournals.org (older articles are often available to the public as part of the Open Access Initiative)
Online Journals Outside the UK of Relevance to Evolutionary Biology
PLoS Journals (Public Library of Science Journals, US): Biology http://biology.plosjournals.org ; Computational Biology http://compbiol.plosjournals.org ; Genetics http://genetics.plosjournals.org ; Medicine http://medicine.plosjournals.org ; Pathogens http://pathogens.plosjournals.org ; One http://www.plosone.org (Articles are freely available to the public as part of the Open Access Initiative)
Journal of Biology http://jbiol.com published by BioMed Central. Open Access.
Molecular Systems Biology - http://www.nature.com/msb - published by Nature at http://www.nature.com. MSB is Open Access.
Undoubtedly there are many more links worth including. But this is a start. At some future point, we may wish to break up the links page into separate pages according to categories.
Last Update: 2006.10.22
Included PZ Myers' Pharyngula (which was already on the links page) and Carl Zimmer's The Loom.
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Several years back I went to a Halloween party dressed as Groucho Marx, specifically as his character Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the eccentric and barmy president of Huxley College from the classic 1932 film "Horse Feathers." I wore the cap and gown, a pair of baggy trousers, an ill fitted shirt, worn leather shoes; I painted on the moustache and the eyebrows. I did it up right. When I arrived at the party I found myself milling around the bar looking for some whiskey. Nearby was a crowd in their late 20's or early 30's dressed to the absolute nines. I suspect "glamorous perfection" (rented perfection?) was the concept behind their costumes, whatever it was, they hit it right. I sort of knew them from another party; I also knew they worked as grammar school teachers. I said hey and hello, they said hey and asked me about my costume.
"I'm dressed as Groucho Marx" I replied, cigar in hand.
They all blinked and dimly asked, 'Who's Groucho Marx?"
One of the saddest and most preposterous nights of my life, right at that moment I knew there wasn't going to be enough whiskey or conversation or beautiful women to keep me at this shindig for long, or this pin-brained world. Soon I said my adieus and I wandered back home dazed, stunned by it all … and I wonder why I'm depressed sometimes!
Anyway, today, October 2nd, is the birthday to a comic cultural icon, and the inspiration behind those novelty glasses, Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx. Happy 117th birthday Groucho!


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Hendrik Pot and Judith Leyster, Molenaer's wife, both copied Frans Hals in a stunning way and the former even imitated Daniel Mytens when he painted a portrait of King Charles 1st of England in 1632.
Gerrit van Honthorst was influenced by Molenaer and Ter Borgh who was also copied by Jacob Duck, Willem Duyster, Gaspar Netscher or Gabriel Metsu. These painters also painted works in the style of Gerard Dou.
Certain works attributed to van Honthorst were in fact painted by Molenaer while Dou had dozens of imitators, notably Slingeland, Godfried Schalken, Jan van Staveren, Dominique van Tol or Batholomeus Maton who all painted exquisite interior scenes with men wearing armours and women playing music in silk dresses executed with minute precision.
Willem van Mieris copied his father Frans quite faithfully and Frans van Mieris himself worked like Dou who in fact had been his master.
Jacob Ruysdael was copied by his nephew Salomon as well as by Gerrit van Hees, Jan de Vries, Isaac Koene or Gillis Neyts while some unscrupulous dealers sold works by Albert Everdingen in erasing his name and replacing it with that of J. Ruysdael or G. Rombouts whose style in fact was rather close to that of Hobbema.
Philip Wouverman was also an imitator of J. Ruysdael but was copied by his brother Pieter and by Joseph van Bredael who produced faked Wouverman and Brueghel works at the request of the dealer J. de Witte between 1706 and 1715.
Adriaen van Utrecht, August Querfurt, Nicholas Berchem and Conrad Decker also produced paintings that resembled those by Ruysdael.
Many Hobbema forged paintings were produced in Belgium between 1860 and 1880 while certain of his genuine works had their signature erased to be replaced by that of Decker during the 18th Century simply because this painter was much sought by amateurs at that time.
Many great masters copied works produced by their predecessors to improve their styles or to prove they were at least their equals. After several decades, many copies were mistaken with genuine works or sold by unscrupulous dealers as such.
Some artists also produced forgeries for fun or out of sheer jealousy to demonstrate that collectors were stupid. Others followed new trends set up by revolutionary artists and adopted their styles not knowing again that their works would then be attributed to those better sought by collectors.
For example the Carracci brothers founded an academy aimed at synthesizing the talents of Michelangelo, Correggio, Raphael and Titian. Other members of the Carracci family such as Francesco, Antonio, Paolo and Clovio limited themselves to copying the works of their illustrious parents. Today it is quite difficult to distinguish copies or genuine works produced by such painters.
Many painters were also inspired by the Carraccis such as Guercino and his pupils or followers like Schidone who produced many copies after Corregio, Antonio Crespi, Badalocchio, A. Milani, Piola, Viola and Alessandro Turchi making authentications quite uneasy to carry out.
The French painter François Perrier was employed by an artist in Rome to produce copies after old masters, which were sold afterwards as "genuine" by his unscrupulous patron and now experts have had the arduous task to correct many previous wrongful attributions.
The Dominican also produced many paintings after Raphael and Carracci and was himself much copied, notably by Leonello Spada.
Guido Reni also copied the Carracci brothers and many of his works were believed to have been painted by these artists. Still, a copy by Reni is today worth a lot on the market.
Jean de Boulogne, a gifted imitator of Caravaggio, copied a painting by Reni, which was eventually sold on the advice of Pierre Mignard as a genuine Reni to the brother of King Louis 14th. The monarch, who was eventually informed about such trick, finally said that Boulogne should have better tried to produce works believed to be by Reni rather than his own.
Mignard himself deceived his rival Le Brun with an imitation of Reni, an artist who in fact had a great influence over many 17th Century painters in France and in Italy.
Some of these painters, such as Andrea Pozzo, Carlo Maratta or Nicolo Berettoni produced works, which were eventually authenticated as being by Reni. Maratta was in turn copied by Luigi Gazzi and Lazzaro Baldi while Michel Corneille, a French painter, was accustomed to copying works by the Carracci brothers.
Another most copied artist was Caravaggio who had numerous followers such as Jean Valentin, Manfredi, Nicolas Régnier, G. Seghers, Evaristo Baschenis, Orazio Gentileschi, Domenico Tati or Ribera.
Luca Giordano was not only a copyist but also a much gifted forger. At 13, he used to copy works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Amerighi or Pietro da Cortona. Giordano notably sold many of these copies pretending they had been produced by such masters. He also sold a painting reputedly as by Bassano to King Carlos II of Spain and admitted later that it was a forgery but the monarch did not complain and praised him instead.
Giordano also painted a copy of a painting, "The Adoration of the Magi" by Dürer but his patron decided to sue him on learning of such trick. A Neapolitan court in charge of that case however congratulated Giordano who also had many imitators such as Frederico Crivelli, Anselmo Gabriel, Giuseppe Simonelli or Solimena.
Velasquez, the great Spanish master, copied elements from works by Titian or Michelangelo. Mazo, his son-in-law, completed some of his paintings and even copied a certain number of his works.
Mazo also copied works by certain great masters such as Tintoretto, Titian and Raphael and today specialists have been experiencing problems when it comes to authenticate works by these painters.
Other imitators of Velasquez were Carreno de Miranda, Juan de Alfaro y Gomez, Pablo Legote, Ginès de Aguirre, Alonso Cano or Andrea Sacchi.
In addition, the so-called journal written by Velasquez during his first trip to Italy was a fake.
Murillo on his part became a reknown painter after copying Old Masters such as Titian, Veronese, Rubens, Van Dyck and Velasquez. He worked under the influence of these masters until at least 1655.
Ignacio de Iriarte, Murillo's pupil, and Meneso Osorio, Pedro Nunes de Villa Vicenzio or Miguel Tobar then copied this master.
Other imitators of Murillo were Felipe de Leon, Germano Clorante, Tomas Martinez, Lorenzo Quiros, Joachim Cano, Jose Lopez, Gazon Gutierrez, Marquez, Aiguilar, Perez de Miranda and de Sarabia as well as Sebastiano Gomez, a black slave.
Murillo's mystical "Marriage of Saint Catherine", offered by Queen Christina of Spain to Pope Pius 9, was in fact a fake produced during the 18th Century as proved by an X ray examination carried out in the Vatican recently.
Pieter Paul Rubens had many pupils who had been specialising in painting backgrounds, costumes, fruit and elements in his works as a result of his demanding activity as a diplomat attached to the Spanish king. Some of his aides were Jan Fyt, Paul de Vos, Peter Snyders or Lucas van Linden.
Rubens himself copied many Italian masters during his first trip to Italy. He was notably a talented imitator of Michelangelo, Raphael, Tintoretto, Titian, Veronese and Cambiaso. He also made copies of his own works with the help of attendants. On the other side Ciro Ferri, a gifted imitator of Rubens, reputedly produced some 3 000 copies or fakes during his career.
Luca Cambiaso was also the victim of many forgers but he himself was a keen imitator of Raphael and Giulio Romano.
Caspar de Krayer produced paintings with the help of de Vadder and L. Achtochellings the Younger while Lucas Van Uden was David Teniers' close aide. Van Thulden added figures in paintings by Snyders and Jos de Momper while Erasmus Quellinus, a friend and disciple of Rubens, painted figures in the works of Seghers and Van Thielen and copied works by Jordaens. Mytens or Abraham Diepenbeeck copied Rubens whose main aides were Cornelis, Paul and Simon de Vos. One can therefore note that Rubens had left his mark over many painters during the 17th Century.
Jan Brueghel painted landscapes and flowers while Jan Wildens painted backgrounds and trees in many paintings by Rubens. Certain paintings by Paul de Vos or Jan Fyt representing dogs have also been attributed to Snyders. Jan Fyt was on his part much copied by Frans Werner von Tamm.
J. van Sandrart, Jacques Moermans, Willem Panneels, Frans Wouters, Schafteleven, Boeckhorst, Boeyerman, Gonzales Coques, J. Cossiers, Lucas Franchoys, Peter Strudel, Jacques Fouquières, J. van der Hoecke, P. van Heysebetten, Cornelis Schut, Antonis Sallaert, Pieter Thys, J. Thomas, P. Verhulst, Thomas Willeborts and V. Wolfvoet, who all worked for Rubens, also copied many works by this master who reputedly produced 3000 paintings, an unbelievable number in fact since he travelled a lot during his lifetime, notably for his diplomatic missions.
Snyders used to apply a secret signature representing a vase of flowers, including roses and irises, which appears in several paintings that were attributed to Rubens, and perhaps painted many works given as by the latter.
Rubens was said to have offered Snyders a partnership in 1610 on condition that all works sold would bear his signature. Today many paintings authenticated as by Rubens have been in fact considered to be by Snyders.
Rubens also took advantage of van Balen, who was Van Dyck's and Snyders' master. Several religious paintings by van Balen have thus been wrongly attributed to Rubens during the past two centuries.
Van Dyck was said to have painted some 2000 works, a considerable number given the fact that he died at 41. He also reportedly painted over 800 works that were attributed to Rubens and it has thus been quite difficult to determine how many paintings he really produced as well as how many were wrongly attributed. In addition, Van Dyck worked with Rubens during a certain time. Still, van Dyck himself was much copied by many 17th Century European painters.
Other imitators of van Dyck were Gainsborough and Rigaud and it is easily understandable that numerous copies produced by so many great artists were eventually considered as genuine van Dyck works two or three centuries later.
Jordaens, another good painter, used the services of Adriaen van Utrecht, Jan Wildens or Paul de Vos to paint figures in his paintings and many of his works were also attributed to Rubens.
Jordaens employed many aides as well to produce some enormous quantities of works commissioned by several European courts. These aides were Charles du Val, Pieter du Moulin, Jan Kergiter, Matthew Peetersen, Roger de Cuyper, Henrik Willemsen, H. Rockx, Guilliam de Vries, A. de Meyer, A. Snyders, Conrad Hanssens, Paul Goetvelt, Arnold Jordaens, Mercelis Librecht, Jan de Bruyn, H. Kerstens, H. Wildens, Daniel Verbraken, J.G Huybrechts, J. B. van der Broeck or G. Waldon.
During Teniers' lifetime many artists were used to copying his works simply in order to improve their own styles.
Teniers also lent his hand to the works of many of his pupils or colleagues and had himself many followers such as Mattheus van Helmont, Egbert van Hemskeerk, Hendrik Govaerts, B. van den Bossche, Jan Joseph Horemans, H.M Rokes called Sorgh, Theobald Michau, Beschey, Pieter Angelis, Apschoven, David Ryckaert, M. van Kessel, W. Dietrich, A. van Maas, Pieter van Laar and even P. Wouverman.
Bamboccio had many Flemish or Italian imitators such as Jan Miel, Jan van Ossenbeck, Thomas Wyck, M. A Cerquozzi, Philips and Pieter Wouverman while the latter reportedly burned several drawings and copies after Bamboccio on the eve of his death.
Meanwhile, many tapestries were produced with scenes after Teniers without the artist's consent.
Teniers apparently was amused, notwithstanding the fact that several copyists or manufacturers producing tapestries were promoting his name. He even was said to have gone as far as spreading the rumour of his death and scores of collectors and dealers reportedly rushed to his house to acquire his works at solid prices before Teniers reappeared as if he had resuscitated.
Frans Hals had also many imitators among his pupils and followers and Adriaen Brouwer painted several works that Hals sold with his own signature. Brouwer was then copied by Joos van Craesbeck and also by Teniers or Saftleven.
Dirk Hals found an imitator in Jacob Duck but also copied his brother Frans whose other followers were Salomon de Bray and Jan de Bray.
Adriaen Van Ostade was much inspired by Brouwer and was copied by his brother Isaac as well as by Jan Steen, Cornelis Dusart, Cornelis Bega or van Hoogstraten.
Meanwhile, Adriaen van de Velde, a pupil of Philip Wouverman, often painted figures in the works of Ruysdael and Wynants who himself also employed Wouverman to represent horses in his pictures.
Lingelbach notably requested the help of Beerstraten, J. Hackert, Hobbema, P. de Koninck, Jan Looten, F. de Moucheron or A. Verbom to complete his works.
A. van de Velde painted figures in the works of van der Heyden who also called upon Willem van de Velde to paint boats in his landscapes.
Albert Cuyp was often mistaken with H. de Meyer, Paulus Potter or A. Meulen. Abraham Calraet painted still lifes given to Albert Cuyp who himself influenced L. de Jongh or Govert Camphuysen.
During the 18th Century van Stry forged paintings by Cuyp, Hobbema and Potter whose works were then often believed to be by Berckheyde.
Many church interiors were indifferently attributed to Saenredam, Houckgeest, Hendrik van Vliet, Emmanuel de Witte, Both, Lingelbach or Berckheyde.
Karel Dujardin also imitated Potter and at the start of the 19th Century many dealers were selling copies or fakes in quantities. In addition, certain paintings were transformed even during the course of the 18th Century, notably some Dutch portraits heavily retouched and sold as 16th Century works.
It has been suggested that 2000 paintings by Rembrandt were now in the United States whereas the known works produced by this famous artist only exceed a total of 250.
The 26 Rembrandt paintings in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin and many among those in the Metropolitan Museum in New York have been considered as copies while only four works hanging in the Louvre Museum have been regarded as genuine.
Govaert Flinck also imitated Rembrandt as well as Murillo or Ferdinand Bol, one of his most talented disciples, whose ink drawings were often sold as by Rembrandt. Other imitators of the Dutch master were Philip de Kooning, Karel Fabritius, Jan Victors, Jan Lievens, who also copied Van Dyck, Cornelis van Haarlem, Heyman Dulaert, Salomon Koninck and later C. W Dietrich who also copied Alexander Thiele, van Ostade, Berghem, Ruysdael, Karel Dujardin, Salvator Rosa and Watteau.
There are many works by Dietrich now in the Dresden Gallery, which were previously attributed to other great masters.
A. de Vries, W. de Poorter, A. Verdoel, H. Heerschop, J.Ovens, Willem Drost or Nicholas Maes also copied Rembrandt.
These copies were produced during the 17th and 18th centuries but others are quite modern like a self-portrait in the Museum of Kassel. In addition there are hundreds of faked drawings attributed to Rembrandt throughout the world.
But there are also genuine works that have been retouched or transformed. For instance, Rembrandt's «Lesson of Anatomy» had been badly damaged in a fire and what had remained of it was later found in England though quite rearranged by an unscrupulous restorer.
Many forged Rembrandt works also appeared in some major exhibitions, notably in Amsterdam and Rotterdam in 1956 such as «The Painter in his studio» from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, «Young Girl in a local costume» from a collection in Cleveland, «The Studio» from the Glasgow Museum, «The Holy Family» from the Ludlow Collection, a landscape from the Montreal Museum, a «Monk reading» from the Museum of Helsinki, «Ann and Tobias», «The fight between Jacob and the Angel», «St John the Evangelist», all from the Boston Museum and Saint Bartholomew the Apostle, a fake produced during the 19th Century.
Another painter much copied was Vermeer of Delft whose works were sold during many decades as by Pieter de Hooch.
In fact there were several artists bearing the name of J. Vermeer during the 17th Century and it was Joshua Reynolds, a celebrated English painter of the 18th Century, who first discovered the existence of that mysterious master.
A list of 63 works by Vermeer was made up in 1866 but now only 41 or 42 have been authenticated as by his hand.
Several Vermeer paintings were sold as genuine between 1900 and 1945 as this rediscovered master had become the target of several forgers. As an example, the most sensational forgeries were produced by a painter called Hans van Meegeren.
In 1937, Abraham Bredius, a well-known expert, judged that a painting titled «The Pilgrims of Emmaus» was Vermeer's masterpiece, an opinion that prompted the Boymans Museum in Rotterdam to decide to acquire such piece.
Between 1939 and 1943 several experts claimed they had discovered other works by Vermeer, «The Blessing of Isaac», «Isaac Blessing Jacob», a head of Christ, «The Last Supper» and the «Adultery Woman».
During the German occupation of Holland another Vermeer titled «The Washerwoman» appeared on the market while in 1943, a group of art dealers from Amsterdam sold to the Rijksmuseum a painting titled «Christ in the house of Martha and Mary». After such purchase was made it was then rumoured that several paintings by Vermeer were in the possession of some Dutch dealers.
However many specialists started to cast doubts over these works after it had been discovered that they had all belonged to Hans van Meegeren, a modest artist. They then noticed that some of his paintings were closely similar in style to «The Last Supper» and «The Pilgrims of Emmaus».
It was also discovered that a banker in Amsterdam had been in touch in 1943 with van Meegeren who had met in his office a representative of the Goudstikker Gallery to whom he had sold «The Adultery Woman» for an important sum of money.
Suspected of being a collaborationist van Meegeren was arrested and jailed despite claiming he had had no pro-Nazi sympathies. He however admitted that he had painted the work sold to Goering and such disclosure disturbed specialists and those who had acquired those so-called rediscovered Vermeer paintings. Many among them could not believe van Meegeren especially as «The Pilgrims of Emmaus» and «Christ in the house of Martha and Mary» had been bought on the basis of opinions delivered by some important experts.
One thing is for sure, van Meegeren had acted out of revenge against Dutch art critics who had labelled him as a mediocre artist. He had closely studied the works of Vermeer and had found ways to produce perfect forgeries after determining what sort of colours and pigments the 17th Century Dutch master had used.
Van Meegeren was asked by Dutch justice to prove his claims and went on to paint a work similar to those he said he had produced. Such test was conclusive enough especially as during the course of their investigations Dutch police found that van Meegeren had also painted faked works attributed to Pieter de Hooch, Ter Borch or Frans Hals.
Van Meegeren was sentenced to a one-year prison term on October 12th 1947 but died of a heart attack less than three weeks later.
His fakes were analysed with great care and it was found that he had painted them on 17th Century paintings that he had rubbed off, the traces of which were discovered via X rays under the scenes he had produced. However, the most important indication proving the forgeries was that van Meegeren had used synthetic resins to produce these.
Still, Dr Van Beuningen, a Dutch collector, seized a court in 1952 to defend his view that the «Pilgrims of Emmaus» belonging to the Boymans museum and «The Last Supper», which he had acquired in 1941 were authentic Vermeer works.
Many 17th Century French painters copied Italian masters notably Simon Vouet who was much inspired by Titian and Veronese. Vouet himself was much copied by his brothers Aubin and Claude as well as by Michel Dorigny, his son-in-law, Jacques Blanchard, François Perrier, Claude Vignon or Michel Corneille.
Claude Vignon copied works by Martin Fréminet, a painter of the School of Fontainebleau while another imitator of Vouet was Eustache Le Sueur.
Nicolas Poussin copied Raphael, Giulio Romano or Valentin de Boullongne. After becoming famous, Poussin had several aides who helped him produce many paintings. His main pupils or followers were Gaspard Dughet, Nicolas-Pierre Loir, Jean Mosnier, Jean Dominique, Nicolas de la Fage, Jean Letellier or Francisque Millet.
Dughet's works were often mistaken with those painted by Poussin. On the other hand, Dughet was copied by F. Joachim Blich.
Nicolas Colombel, Pierre Le Maire, Jacques Stella, Charles Evrard, Jean de Troy, Antoine Ranc and even Charles le Brun were over-zealous imitators of Poussin.
Sébastien Bourdon reproduced works by Claude Gellée, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Bamboccio, Poussin, Veronese, Cerquozzi or Jan Miel. Gellée himself called on the assistance of Miel, J. Courtois or Francesco Allegrina da Gubbio to add figures in his paintings while Gian-Domenico Romano and Jan Both were among his best imitators.
Jacques Callot, a celebrated engraver, was copied by Jean Leclerc, Abraham Bosse or Claude Dervet.
As for the Le Nain brothers no one really knows who was the best artist between Antoine, Louis and Mathieu; perhaps Louis according to certain specialists.
Louis's works were often mistaken with those of Georges de La Tour while the Le Nain brothers had themselves some imitators, notably Jean Michelin.
De La Tour only became known during the first third of the 20th Century and many of his works had been previously attributed to French, Italian and Spanish masters such as Herrera, Murillo or Zurbaran.
Many paintings have now been authenticated as by La Tour whose style closely resembled that of Gerrit Honthorst.
Charles Le Brun, official painter to the French court, often copied old masters and worked with the assistance of many aides, notably his nephew François Verdier, Claude Audran and Charles de La Fosse.
Le Brun's main rival, Pierre Mignard, copied the works of Rosso, Primaticcio, Carracci and Guido Reni but was also copied by Charles Dufresnois.
Philippe de Champaigne had two main assistants, his nephew Jean-Baptiste and Nicolas Plattemontagne who adopted his style and thus created some confusion about the authorship of several works.
There is also much confusion regarding the works of a family of painters called Parrocel as there were 16 painters bearing that name and it's not always easy to distinguish between the true authors of many paintings.
Ignace Parrocel's works were mistaken with those by Pierre or Joseph-François Parrocel while Charles Parrocel copied Rubens, Van Dyck or Jacques Courtois.
Bernini was copied by Pierre Puget, Legros or Stefano Moderno. Meanwhile,16th or 17th Century enamel works from Limoges were copied by a 20th Century French artist who did not hesitate to add on his pieces the initials JL of Jean Laudin, one of the great 17th Century masters.
18th CENTURY COPIES
Nicolas Largillière, a famous portrait painter, was copied by his nephew Jacob van Schuppen while Hyacinthe Rigaud, his main rival, had many assistants to meet the demands of his patrons. His aides were notably Nattier, Gaspard Rigaud, Bailleul, Parrocel, Levrac-Tournières, de Launay, Leclerc and Ranc.
François Desportes often imitated Jan Fyt and Snyders. His son Claude and his nephew Nicolas copied his works quite often.
When Antoine Watteau first came to Paris he first worked as a copyist for a modest painter. He also painted numerous works representing Saint Nicholas before meeting Claude Gillot whom he imitated much in turn.
Watteau also copied works by Teniers and Rubens as well as drawings by Titian, Veronese, van Venne, Metsu, Rembrandt or Guido Reni.
Watteau himself had several imitators such as Jean-Baptiste Pater, Nicolas Lancret, Amigoni, C. Audran, Louis Autreau, Pieter Angellis and Bonaventura de Bar.
Meanwhile, J. B. Bernard, F. J. Chantereau, C.W.E. Dietrich, J. F. Lemoyne, Michel Ollivier, M. A. Houasse, Huet, Etienne Jeaurat, F. C. Janneck, P.A. Quillard, F. Octavien, André Portail and Philippe Mercier also copied Watteau while Antoine Pesne opened a studio, in fact rather a kind of factory, to produce paintings after that master.
De Troy, Charles Coypel and Gabriel de Saint-Aubin did not really produce faithful copies after Watteau but included elements from his paintings in their works.
Nattier also had many followers such as B. Nonnotte, N. Dupont, F.L Marteau, J. Valade, E. Jeaurat, Charles Natoire, Marianne Loir, J. B Le Prince, J. F Lagrenée, M. van Loo or J.F Delyen.
Several painters worked for the Versailles palace to produce works after studies by Nattier who also had F. H Drouais as one of his imitators.
François Boucher first copied the works of his master Lemoyne and then had many followers such as his own wife, who produced miniatures after his paintings, his son-in-law P. A Beaudoin, J. B Deshays de Colleville, , Challe, Charlier, Le Mettay, J. F Clermont, N. Hallé, J. B Huet, M. Jacques, L. Pariseau, J. B Le Prince, J. E Listard, F.M Queverdo, F. Guillaume, Oudry, Ozanne, Pierre Lelie, Pillement, L. D Soldini, Caresme, Ch. Eisen, Natoire, C. V Loo, Taraval, A. Lucas, J.B Bénard and even Hubert Robert.
Today, many modern faked Bouchet drawings produced on 18th Century sheets of paper have been flooding the art market.
Chardin, who produced many replicas of his works during his career, had no pupil except his son but was much copied notably by Anne Valayer-Coster, a certain Miss Harrison, Etienne Jeaurat, Lépicié or Aved.
Louis Tocqué, a pupil of Nattier, copied his master and Chardin while certain paintings by Louis Aubert were mistaken with works produced by the latter.
Many forgers sold some portraits by J. B Le Prince, Bachelier, Roland de la Porte, G. Voiriot, A. Labille-Guiard and F. Duparc as well as works by Chardin. For instance, Michel-Honoré Bounieu was also an artist whose style closely resembled that of Chardin.
During the second half of the 19th Century, J.B Mayno produced excellent copies after Quentin de La Tour.
Jean-Baptiste Greuze was another painter who had many followers, notably his daughter Anna, Constance Mayer, Prud'hon's mistress, and several other women artists such as E. Vigée-Lebrun, Caroline de Valory or Jeanne Philiberthe Ledoux. Other copyists of Greuze were E. Aubry, A. Borel, Bounieu, L. Galloche, J.B Hilaire, C. Hoin, A.P Mongin, P.A Wille, J.A Laurent, Danloux, Touzé, Vallin or Théolon.
During the mid 19th Century faked works sold as by Greuze were produced in quantities by an artist named Abrier while dealers were offering paintings by van Gorp or Debucourt as by this famous artist.
Debucourt himself was much copied at the start of the 19th Century while Jean-Honoré Fragonard, a brilliant painter who first worked under the influence of Boucher, also copied the works of old masters, notably Rubens and Poussin.
His wife Marie-Anne Gérard, and his sister-in-law Marguerite Gérard copied his works and produced miniatures, which were often attributed to him.
J.F Schall copied Fragonard's works as well as A. Callet, J. B Huet, C. Hoin or P.C Le Mettay while Camille Groult, a well known collector, used to produce faked drawings as good as Fragonard's original works.
Carle van Loo, a painter to the King, had many pupils who adopted his style, notably Françoise Duparc who managed to paint a copy of one of his works, which was so spectacular that, the master himself designated his own work as being a copy.
Constance Mayer first studied painting with Greuze, whom she copied much, before producing faked works sold as by Prud'hon with whom she lived.
Other followers of Prud'hon were Charles Le Boulanger de Boisfremont who completed his last work titled «Andromache», Edouard Rioult, Louis Hersent or Anatole Devosges.
In Italy, Gian-Battista Tiepolo was much copied by his son Domenico while Pietro Longhi was imitated throughout the end of the 19th Century.
Works by Canaletto and by his nephew Bellotto are often difficult to separate while many faked works by Guardi were produced during many decades.
W. Turner copied drawings by Canaletto and was imitated by Auguste Ravier and James Webb while 3,000 works attributed to Richard Parkes Bonington, who died at 26, have been circulating on the art market since 1850. Paul Huet was notably the main follower of Bonington whose father was the main forger of his works.
It must be noted that forgers became quite active during the 19th Century, especially after 1860 when the Bourgeois society started to collect art pieces on a much higher scale. In fact forgeries have always been multiplying as a result of increasing demands on the market.
During the 18th Century, sculptors imitated much their elders. E. M Falconet copied Coustou and Bernini when he produced the equestrian portrait of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg while C. Allegrain copied works made by his brother-in-law Pigalle. The famous Claude Michel called Clodion received the assistance of his brother Sigisbert and was much copied by a modest artist called Le Broc whose copies were often authenticated as genuine works by this master. Works by Pajou were copied by an artist named Visseaux during the late 19th Century.
Many forgers were also active in the field of ceramics as soon as during the 18th Century. From 1732 the manufacture of Samadet in southwest France produced copies of ceramic pieces from Moustiers, Marseille, Strasbourg or Sainceny.
The manufacture of Sainceny employed ceramists from Rouen who produced pieces similar to those executed in the manufactures in that city. Copies of Chinese Kien Long porcelain pieces were also produced in Sainceny.
The manufacture of Nyon specialised in producing porcelain copies of the Sax, Berlin, Furstenberg, Ludwigsburg, Lunéville, Niederwiller or Sèvres manufactures.
A 20th Century decorator named Henri Jung produced many faked 18th Century Sèvres pieces while the Samson studio sold thousands of good ceramic and porcelain copies throughout the 19th Century.
During the French revolution some 300 forgers of bank notes were executed while Napoleon's government did not hesitate to print faked notes from the Bank of England and the Bank of Russia to affect the economies of these countries. In addition, scores of forgers produced French gold coins before and after the French Revolution.
During the early 19th Century Jacques-Louis David employed many assistants, the works of whom he used to sign.
David himself extensively copied classical painters. While producing his first masterpiece, he borrowed many elements from a work painted by Jean-François de Troy and his «Leonidas» was inspired by an ancient cameo and by some sculptures produced by Giambologna.
His «Serment du jeu du Paume» (oath at the Jeu de Paume) also included elements from a painting by Carracci titled «Saint Francis and Two Saints» and from a work by Raphael, «The Parnassus».
David had some 50 pupils who copied his major works to satisfy official demands in France. One of them was Antoine Jean Gros who remained quite faithful to the spirit of his master. Other much active pupils were Vincent Girodet, Guillaume Lethière and Ingres who lent his brush much for the execution by David of the portrait of «Madame Récamier».
Pierre Franque, Biard, Rouget Langlois or Verdier also helped David produce several paintings or copied his works.
Other imitators of David were Bergeret, Camus, Cocheteau, Couder, Delafontaine, Desavis, Drolling, Forbin, Garneray, Granet, Gérard, Guillou, Guérin, Gautherot, Hennequin, Isabey, Lefèvre, Abel de Pujol, Richard, Revoil, Regnault, Riesener, Wicar, Vernet, Laneville, Georges Duvilliers or Langlois.
The celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya y Lucientes was also much copied, notably by Delacroix, Daumier and Manet.
Eugenio Lucas y Padilla imitated Velasquez and Goya also. His son Eugenio Lucas produced copies of works by Goya whose other followers were Estève and Leonardo Allenza y Nieto while even Goya's father-in-law Francisco Bayeu copied his works.
Jean-Dominique Ingres was also known to have copied scores of old masters, notably Raphael who inspired him much. He also copied 16th Century engravings when he painted his famous Turkish nudes.
Ingres once said he had no scruples copying old masters and was in turn copied by Mollez, J.P.E Balze and Chassériau.
Delacroix was copied by Andrieu, Mrs Dalton, his mistress, Emile Knoepfler and Chassériau.
Many faked Corot appeared in 1928 during an exhibition in London. These came from the collection of a certain Dr Jusseaume who reportedly owned over 2400 paintings by this artist.
During his lifetime Corot did in fact nothing to prevent certain artists from copying his works. Worse, he did not hesitate to sign many copies, which he judged interesting or just to please copyists.
In 1862, Frédéric Grobon inaugurated an agency specialising in the production of copies after Corot. These were produced by some good artists such as Jean Aubert, Amaury-Duval, Bida, Cabanel, Comte Calix, Dargent or Harpignies.
Other imitators of Corot were Dutilleux, Charles Desavary, André Julien Prévost, Désiré Trouillebert, Chintreuil, Victor Dupré, Alexandre Defaux, A. Anastasi, Ch. Lambinet, Adolphe Appian, Lavieille, F. Français, Madame Pecqueur, A. Bénouville, Norblin de la Gourdaine, Ravier, Caruelle d'Aligny, A. Fontanesi, V. Vignon, E. J Dumax, Prosper Marilhat, Poirot, Meszoly, Vernon, Latouche, J. Desbrosses, Damoye, Léon Fleury, Lessieux, Lapito, Delaberge, Lanoue, Comairax, E. Brandon, Hawkins, Richaume, Berthe Morisot, Daubigny, Jules Cognet or Harrison.
Géricault, an excellent painter of horses, was copied by Jean Gigoux, Philippe Ledieu, Wolmar, Michalowski or Luna.
C.F Daubigny was imitated by Pierre Herpin and his son Karl Daubigny while C. Troyon and A.L Barye were also the targets of forgers.
Before becoming a major painter of the School of Barbizon, Narcisse Diaz imitated Corregio. He was in turn much copied by P. Vernon, Gourdon, A. M Longuet or Victor Vincelet.


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Stanczyk sees that the good people of the PGSM are promoting a genealogical tour — The Historical Tour of Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Detroit, on Saturday, June 8th, begins at 2 p.m. They are commemorating the cemetery's founding (1888) and 125th Anniversary.
Check Out the Facebook page and albums. The Cemetery is located at:
17100 Van Dyke Detroit, MI 48234
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Ford's pony car on steroids, the 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350, is more than just a quarter-mile monster. Yes, the 5.2-liter V-8 can hustle it down the straight at a brain-melting pace. It's not the 526 hp, the 429 lb-ft of torque, or the 4.3-second zero-to-60-mph run that has us drooling—it's that Ford has finally built a muscle car that can hold its own through corners. True speed freaks can opt for the GT350R, which cuts 0.4 second off the zero-to-60 time. Both the GT350 and GT350R are 2017 10Best winners.


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Hello everyone, Happy New Year! It's Jane here and I hope you are all well and had a lovely Christmas.
Welcome to the first Delightful Wednesday of 2016 where Sandy and I bring you weekly inspiration with a monthly theme! This year it is all about colour and we are a little BLUE during January! J
My image is the gorgeous MASQUERADE MARY and I think she sits perfectly in my New Year celebration pop up box card. She is also available in a fabulous value set HERE with 3 other wonderful images. The sentiment I used is from the WINTER TICKETS SENTIMENT SET.
More details are on my blog.
Have a fun and crafty day!


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Transit planners and lovers wax romantic about the virtues of transit oriented development as well as the potential of current and future urban areas to support successful public transportation. However, as Yonah Freemark at the Next American City points out, such development is only successful for cities that have sufficient urban density. Freemark discussed the early 20th century idea and development of streetcar suburbs and why they no longer have their streetcars and whether we will make the same mistakes again with current light rail developments. (My partner shared this column with me)
Aaron Renn argued last week on the Urbanophile that metropolitan areas with populations of less than about two million inhabitants don't necessitate the kind of high densities urbanists often promote. Citing the example of Columbus, Ohio, Renn suggested that because these regions are small enough in area to make commuting from one end to the other by car possible within a short amount of time, creating dense, walkable neighborhoods focused around a "huge, packed, downtown core" is not absolutely necessary.
In some ways, his argument rings true: for those driving private automobiles, neighborhoods like the former streetcar suburbs may be ideal. For businesspeople hopping from one side of the region to the other ("to lunch"), driving in medium-sized cities works fine.
On the other hand, for everyone else—the young, the old, the poor, the sick—such neighborhoods provide no alternatives. You can't easily walk to school or to the store or to the senior center when you live in a streetcar suburb. Nor can transit operators provide adequate service, since densities are too low to make frequent buses possible.
This discussion plays on something conceptually obvious, that to have successful transit there must be a critical mass of people relying on the service or else it is bound to fail. No government can afford to run buses or trolleys down thoroughfares on a frequent basis when they will be largely empty most of the time. Moreover, with insufficient density and a lack of commercial destinations for residents transit will be underutilized.
However, that idea may not be as obvious as it seems. I cannot count how many times I have been waiting for the Green Line trolley in Boston when I have heard fellow riders complain and wonder out loud why the MBTA is not more like New York's MTA. The simple answer is that New York City subways are large, convenient and frequently running because they service a lot of people in a small area in densely populated Manhattan. Clearly, boarding a trolley with 12 other people in Brookline is incredibly dissimilar from joining hundreds at Columbus Circle.
Therefore, there are many cities that may have large populations that are insufficiently dense to provide the kind of transit service that gives people reason to give up their cars. In my mind for these borderline and unqualified urban areas there are at least three solutions if transit is to be developed.
1) Local, state and federal policy can encourage zoning changes to allow for greater density before building transit systems.
2) Communities can simultaneously adopt policies restricting the presence of cars per household and/or parking spaces to emphasize transit usage and car sharing. In this fashion only households which desire to utilize transit will move into these communities, rendering both density and transit-dependent density.
3) Perhaps the least feasible of the ideas, but I will continue to push for pod transit in the suburbs. I still believe a linkable pod system that utilizes public thoroughfares but simultaneously allows for the malleability of personal motor transit in suburban locations has a reasonable future.
As oil prices go up and American population continues to escalate we will want to develop successful transit systems. In order to do so we must develop the housing and parking policies that correspond to make both viable.


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Watch live on CSN-TV as Chris Sale takes the hill as the Sox are hosted by the Dodgers today at 3:05 p.m. CT. Rookie closing candidates Addison Reed and Hector Santiago will be throwing their second game in back-to-back appearances, while Matt Thornton and Jesse Crain also are scheduled to pitch. Brent Lillibridge will be at 1st base. Gameday | Boxscore
UPDATE: It was the Chris Sale show baby! 7 striKeouts (3 of them were against Matt Kemp) and 0 walks in 6 innings. And Spring Training strikeouts and walks matter.


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I was given these by my Aunt and I searched the internet and can't find any history about them .
The one on the left say " Soda Water" on top and under that is
" Property of Coca Cola Bottling Co 6 fl Oz". It says patented June 1926
The bottom is stamped Boise Idaho
The one on the right only says "7 flu oz
Property of Coca Cola bottling company Walla Walla Wash..
The bottom is marked 20 oval with a diamand over it followed by a 9 and under that is 4463-G.


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Yay Iron Kingdoms! Which system? Any system? Would probably look at playing a Cygnarin storm mage.
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One of the best arguments for building your own PCs is that you make the decisions regarding parts, which means you don't have to scrap the whole system or buy sub-standard hardware from the manufacturer when it is time to upgrade. This is especially true for gaming rigs. Dell, one of the biggest offenders when it comes to this issue, has announced that proprietary parts like power supplies and motherboards will be a thing of the past.
Apparently, pressure from critics and competing devices like the Blackbird 002 from HP prompted the change— which is also evident in their decision to offer support NVIDIA's dual-card SLI or AMD's dual-card CrossFire cards. They have even taken an extra step towards openness by offering support for NVIDIA's Enthusiast System Architecture. The first gaming PC to feature these upgrades will be the "affordable" new XPS 630, which starts at $1249. [Maximum PC]


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The example to the right shows the advantages of using a deep base primer with a darker color. In the panel at right, no primer is used. This leaves the gray stripe underneath visible when the topcoat is applied.
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While everyone in Washington continues to deal with this whole debt crisis thing, an interesting thing happened in Israel that could easily slip under the radar. At least for a while, as this is pretty atrocious, so hopefully news will spread and people will start to understand what's up over there.
The article headline pretty much tells it all: Israel Bans Boycotts Against the State.
See, Palestinians have called for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israel and Israeli companies by Palestinians and their international supporters. However, this legislation makes it illegal for any Israelis or Israeli organizations to join in that movement, which aims to end the occupation and oppression of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Any proponent of peace and justice living in Tel Aviv, Haifa, or anywhere Israel feels it can impose its might.
In the U.S., we value free speech as the foundation of a democratic country, but here we have Israel, the country many claim to be the only "true" democracy we can count on in the Middle East, clearly imposing limits on speech, in particular speech that criticizes the state, perhaps the most sacred of speech needing protection.
How much longer can the U.S. unconditionally support a country that continues to oppress such a large group of people, now adding to the tally of the oppressed the ranks of those within its borders who also want to push for the equality and freedom Palestinians deserve? I hope not too long, but the way things are these days, I really have no idea.


text: DjacobCaine 0 Posted November 6, 2013 Hey everyone, I just received a PODHD500 in the mail and I'm having a bit of trouble with direct recording. I'm using a Dell with an Intel Celeron with 1.70 GHz, 4 gigs of ram, and windows 8. I dialed in a good djent tone and wanted to test it with a drum track I had in Reaper. I haven't had any latency issues with reaper since I did a system recovery on the computer, hell this morning I was messing around with a djent setup that included about 8 plugins and there were no problems. I attempted to record with the POD and everything seemed to be going well during the recording until I played it back and noticed that my guitar playing was milliseconds off of the actual drum track, I even tried the same thing with audacity and experienced the same issue. Can anybody offer any advice or give me an ultimatum on the situation? Im running guitar > Pod > Computer Via USB > DAW Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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More than 20 years after his feature film debut, Nine Inch Nails founder Trent Reznor is taking on his second role, this time as a blood-sucking freak.
Reznor, who last week won an Oscar for Best Score for "The Social Network," will play the vampire who kills the mother of our 16th president in "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," according to EW, confirming earlier reports from Badass Digest. Reznor he will also score the film.
The last time Reznor appeared in a movie, it was as a member of a the fictional band The Problems in the Michel J. Fox film "Light of Day." You can spot him on stage playing keyboards in the clip below.
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He joins a cast that already includes Benjamin Wlaker as Lincoln, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Mary Todd, Dominic Cooper as Abe's mentor, Henry Sturgess and Anthony Mackie as a character called Will.
Director Timur Bekmambetov plans to start shooting this summer with an eye toward a 2012 release.


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The Czech gala premiere of the film Anthropoid about the 1942 operation to assassinate senior Nazi Reinhard Heydrich has taken place at a Prague cinema. Director and co-writer Sean Ellis attended the screening, as did one of its stars Cillian Murphy and several Czech members of the cast of the movie, which was shot in the Czech capital. It focuses on the daring assassination of Heydrich in Operation Anthropoid, which was led by Czechoslovak parachutists Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. Relatives of the two war heroes were also invited to the premiere.
Miloš Zeman has granted his third presidential pardon since being appointed in 2013. The recipient of the pardon was charged with obstructing justice but suffers from brain damage caused by a stroke and did not understand why he was facing trial. The request for clemency was made by the state attorney. Prior to his election President Zeman said he would only grant pardons in very exceptional cases. In 2013 he transferred the power to conduct clemency proceedings to the minister of justice, saying he regarded it as an unnecessarily monarchical element of the constitution.
ANO would come first in general elections with 28.5 percent support, suggests a new opinion poll published by the CVVM agency on Tuesday. The party's coalition partners the Social Democrats would place second on 23 percent, the survey conducted this month indicates. The Communists would be the choice of 15 percent of respondents, ahead of the Civic Democrats with 9.5 percent backing and the Christian Democrats and TOP 09, who would tie on 6.5 percent, according to the CVVM poll.
The Czech football manager Karel Jarolím has picked 20-year-old Sampdoria striker Patrik Schick for two upcoming World Cup qualifiers against German and Azerbaijan. Schick has made just one appearance for the senior international side. Meanwhile midfielder Milan Petržela and centre back Tomáš Sivok have returned to the Czech squad. The Czechs – who drew in their opening qualifier against Northern Ireland in Prague – face Germany away on October 8 and Azerbaijan at home three days later.
Ice hockey coach Vladimír Růžička has received a fine of CZK 400,000 after being found guilty of embezzling CZK 500,000 intended for his then club Slavia Prague. If Růžička, who denies any wrongdoing, fails to pay the fine he will face 16 months in prison. The verdict may be appealed. As a player Růžička was part of the Czech team that won gold in the Olympics while as a trainer he has led the national side and spent nearly 15 years at Slavia.
A case involving the hoisting of a giant pair of red boxer shorts over Prague Castle is set to return to the Prague 1 District Court, Czech Television reported on Tuesday. An appeals court upheld an action taken by the state attorney's office against a previous ruling by the District Court dismissing the case. Three members of the art group Ztohoven are accused of disorderly conduct, criminal damage and theft for illicitly removing the presidential flag above Prague Castle and replacing it with the red shorts last September in protest at the policies of President Miloš Zeman.
A number of events are being planned to mark what would have been the 80th birthday of Václav Havel. On the actual anniversary of the late playwright and president's birth on October 5 a gathering is set to take place on Prague's Wenceslas Square, while 80 figures from public life and the arts world are set to appear on four stages at a tribute at the city's Lucerna Palace on October 15. Meanwhile the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation in the US will present Burmese writer Ma Thida with its first annual Disturbing the Peace Award at the Bohemian National Hall in New York on Wednesday.
Karel Schwarzenberg says it is highly likely he will stand for election to the Chamber of Deputies as the electoral leader of TOP 09 in Prague next year, iHned.cz reported. Mr. Schwarzenberg, who turns 80 next year, previously led the party and is its honorary chairman. He said he would not stand for president in elections in early 2018, saying he had lost once – to incumbent Miloš Zeman – and that was the end for him. TOP 09 chairman Miroslav Kalousek said the Schwarzenberg noble family had been serving the country for 700 years and his party colleague was continuing that tradition.
The Czech Republic and Slovakia are holding a joint training session on their common border to test coordination and communication in the event of the need to renew border checks due to the migrant crisis. Over 300 police officers, 140 soldiers and 30 customs officers have been stationed along a 250km stretch of the border and are conducting random checks of vehicles and people. The operation, which affects 11 border crossings, is to last for 24 hours. Similar training sessions are due to take place on the country's borders with Austria and Germany.
The Slav Epic cycle of paintings by Art Nouveau painter Alfons Mucha will be displayed in Tokyo as of March 2017 within events marking the Year of Czech Culture held in Japan on the 60th anniversary of the renewal of diplomatic relations between the two countries. In mid-2017 the collection of 20 paintings will move to China where it will be shown in three prominent museums in the course of the next twelve months. According to Prague Gallery director Magdalena Juříková the loan contracts should be signed within a few months. The Gallery must also acquire an export permit for cultural heritage items issued by the Czech Culture Ministry. Art experts have warned that the Asian tour presents a high risk the paintings could be damaged not just by transport and handling but due to the high temperatures and humidity in this part of the world.


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Not all bugs destroy crops and carry disease. From pollinators to bugs that eat the pests, here's a guide to the good guys and the bad guys.
1. Bees: Bee pollination is estimated at $15 billion annually in crop value, but our bees have been disappearing lately. The phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder has devastated hives across the country. U.S. beekeepers report losing one-third of their colonies this year.
2. Lady beetles: In the Midwest, these predators are best known for their appetite for soybean aphids. But beetles come in many colors with many insects on their menu. Among the pests they devour include mites, whiteflies and small caterpillars.
3. Ants: The lowly ant can be an important predator of other insects. Even fire ants, not everyone's favorite, can keep caterpillars from becoming a problem.
4. Asian cockroach: An unlikely hero, but this flying insect feeds on the eggs of moths and butterflies as well as pests that cause problems for cotton growers.
1. Mosquito: Among the most serious of insect pests, mosquitoes carry a variety of diseases from the West Nile virus and encephalitis to malaria. They can be found in just about every part of the United States.
2. Corn rootworm: The Corn Belt's No. 1 enemy for decades. While the latest treatments involve biotech seed with the pesticide built in, there are always concerns about insect resistance.
3. Emerald ash borer: These wood-boring beetles were discovered in Michigan in 2002. They are blamed for killing 70,000 ash trees in Detroit alone, and it's spreading through the Midwest and eastern United States.
4. Soybean aphid: Before these bugs arrived, soybean farmers didn't spend a dime on insect control, said Kevin Steffey, University of Illinois Extension entomologist. Now they do.


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Finance Minister P Chidambaram, who has talked about a stable tax regime during his meetings with foreign investors in the last two days, has said that the argument for taxing the very rich "a little more" should be considered.
"I believe in stable tax rates. However, I must concede that there is an argument…that when the economy requires, when the government requires more resources the very rich should willingly pay a little more.
"That is not to say that tax rate should not be stable. I think we should have stability in tax rates but we should consider the argument whether the very rich should be asked to pay a little more on some occasions," he told a television channel.
However, he hastened to add, "But that is not a view I am expressing. That is simply an argument that I have heard and I am repeating."
Chidambaram said tax rates that were announced in 1997 (in the Budget he had presented then), have remained and have survived four governments and four finance ministers.
On the Budget to be presented next month, he said the Budget is not drawn up keeping an election in mind. "The election is a good 14 months away from the Budget. The Budget will be a responsible budget".
The Finance Minister said if on February 28 he could show that the government has kept fiscal deficit below 5.3 per cent and if Budget estimates show that the next year's fiscal deficit will be below 4.8 per cent, then he can show a healthy growth in revenues over next year.
"I think that is the time when rating agencies should consider moving us from... I mean improving the outlook and then improving the rating," he said.
Several experts including chairman of Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) C Rangarajan have underlined the need for imposing higher rates of taxes on super rich.
On Wednesday, Wipro Chairman Azim Premji had said the suggestion for taxing the super-rich was a "politically" correct thing to do, but expressed doubts whether the government will actually implement the proposal.
India taxes income at three rates - 10 per cent, 20 per cent and 30 per cent. These rates were fixed in 1997.


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(There is an environment variable, WINEDIB, which can be set with
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needing the DIB engine are run. To permanently enable it, use regedit:
In "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DIB Engine" create a string named
"Enabled" with value "Y".)
These options can be used together.
This requires fontforge and webcore-fonts.
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AfriGeneas Genealogy and History Forum Archive
Re: African American coal miners
In Response To: African American coal miners ()
WOW! I visited your site and this is great. I am the grand-daughter and great grand-daughter of coal miners. My family (and many other families) migrated from Pittsylvania County, VA and surrounding areas to West Virginia. We settled in Coopers/Bramwell, WV (Mercer County), which at the time had the greatest number of millionaires per capita in the entire US. The coal industry was BOOMING! Everyone in my family on my mother's side was a coal miner or drove a truck for the coal company or worked on the railroad thanks to the coal company. Our little village was owned by the Millcreek Coal and Coke Company. My grandfather worked at the Pocahantas Coal Mine in Bossevain (spelling, not sure) which a coal mine on the Virginia side. Mercer County WV borders VA. Our family has a lot of ties to the coal mines. My grandfather eventually died of black lung disease from the mines. I have more info that I can share. Let me get my files together and I will send you names of people and coal mines.
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How to dirty a font
Questions and postings pertaining to the usage of ImageMagick regardless of the interface. This includes the command-line utilities, as well as the C and C++ APIs. Usage questions are like "How do I use ImageMagick to create drop shadows?".
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"xc:lightblue" creates an image.
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Thanks. I hadn't seen that, my bad.
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xc: is the same as canvas: and is the command to create a new image of some color and size as specified by -size and x:"somecolor".
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Nice. I added "xc:white", and it worked. Maybe the script at http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/#dirty_print could be changed accordingly.
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opps my bad.. I removed the xc: from the example.. The lightblue did not matter because of the threshold so I removed some of the useless options and went a little too far.
Example is now...
Example is now...
Upload make take a little time to get though web caching
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Thanks a bunch, Anthony!


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With the signing of S.1086, the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 into law, now the focus will shift to ensuring that those across the country which these changes will directly impact, are aware of when and how this law will affect them. In order to assist states and child care resource and referral agencies across America, Child Care Aware of America will be providing resources to help provide a better understanding of what's in the law and what changes are going to be necessary to be made.
In addition to our four-part CCDBG Moving Forward Webinar Series, which focused on implementation and concluded in early-November, Child Care Aware of America is excited to share new resources on CCDBG, including:
NEW RESOURCES for Implementation of new CCDBG Law:
CCDBG Moving Forward Resources:
One-Pagers/Subject Briefs:
Summary and Background
Timeline for Implementation
Impact on Child Care Resource and Referral Services
The Quality Set-Aside
Quality Rating and Improvement Systems
Health, Nutrition, and Obesity Prevention
CCDBG Moving Foward Webinar Series Slides:
The history and current status of S.1086
What S.1086 means for families & child care providers
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Funding, appropriations, & timelines for implementation
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Ortiz said he didn't hear a pop. "I think I'll be all right," he said, but was pretty grim-faced as he left.SoSH: Bobby Valentine said that Ortiz has an Achilles injury and would miss several days. Ortiz was not using crutches.
Last August Ortiz missed nine games with bursitis in the same (right) heel. Have a suspicion this is related
He wasn't sure if it was going to get out, so he was going to score. It went out, he went to slow down, and pop. It's that Achilles. You know he's had the heel, where the Achilles attaches in the back of the heel. I guess he's had it in the past. ... David's a little upset and a little sore, but it doesn't look like he pulled anything or tore anything. It's probably going to be some days, though. ... We're not going to lose him for long, it doesn't look like. We've been playing short all year; no need to start anything new now. We're prepared for it. We're battle-ready.


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(Sembene is the Dean of African cinema).
The Zimbabwe International Film Festival opened its 9th anniversary recently in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare with a promising lineup of an eclectic mélange of films from more than 40 countries.
Film lovers feasted from August 26 to September 4 on more than 100 recent films, from the Indian Bollywood dish, to the Nigeria's Nollywood African movie staple, the strong film culture of Poland and to the slushy romances of Hollywood films. "In creating the seventh art, filmmakers have the power to create or animate an idea and make it into something that becomes real,� said Rumbi Katedza, the festival director. "Movies capture our hearts and imaginations, nourish our soul, challenge our intellect and document our stories."
Solid support from the corporate world coupled with support from the diplomatic community and other partners has enabled the ZIFF to stay afloat and showcase different films from various cultures bringing the beauty of diversity to Zimbabwe again. Already showing at various venues, among other films, Zozo from Sweden, a film about a character named Zozo who grows up in Beirut and leads a normal family life despite a raging civil war. Tragedy strikes one day and Zozo is torn from his family and is forced to survive on his own. His only hope is to get himself to his grandparents in Sweden, for him an unknown and strange new land. The film presents highly terrifying real and timely subject matter.
Moolaade (Protection) is another strikingly powerful film directed by veteran African film maker Ousmane Sembene in which he uses the contentious issue of female circumcision in Africa to aptly illustrate the eternal tug-of-war between progress and tradition. These two films are showing at the Vistarama in the capital.
Among the 100 films shown, there was Sara (2006), a film from Ethiopia directed by Helen Tadesse. It's about the world of a fun-loving and precocious seven-year old girl which comes crashing down when her mother dies suddenly. Her stepfather commits himself to raising her and subsequently becomes her jailer. This powerful and shocking drama highlights seven years in the life of a young girl who is sexually abused by her step father and is unable to escape as her family and friends turn a blind eye.Â
From South Africa, there was The Silent Fall (2006) a film about the ravaging Aids epidemic and the challenges it brings, Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon a story about refugees who flee wars from other countries to settle in city of gold, Johannesburg and Faith's Corner, a powerful story from the award winning team that produced Sarafina that looks at Faith and her two young sons who live in an abandoned BMW in a squalor settlement. From other parts of the world, there was My Name is Eugene (Switzerland), Mistress of Spices (UK), Girls from Ipanema (Australia), Queen Size Beauty (Benin), Lost Children (Germany), Shika (Kenya), Freedom for Money (Pakistan), A Common Thread (France), Mountains of Light (Cuba), Splendid Season (China), My Beautiful Smile (Senegal), God Sleeps in Rwanda (USA) and Women At the Table (Zimbabwe).
From Zimbabwe, there was Evil in Our Midst (2006) a searing indictment of child sexual abuse and the impunity of the wealthy and powerful. It explores the myth that surrounds sexually abusing virgin girls to cure HIV/AIDS. Short films from Zimbabwe also include Chipo Changu, a story about a traditional healer who claims he can cure Aids but who things go wrong for him when his daughter falls in love with one of his Aids patients. It stars Sam Mtukudzi, a son of Zimbabwe's most celebrated musical icons Oliver Mtukudzi. From the USA, there was Happy Birthday directed by Csaba Bereckzy, a short film about a tragic tale of a young girl's memories of abuse and Sarang Song directed by Tamika miller and Adisa Khepra about making tough choices between love and or the student protest movement of the 1970s.
It was encouraging that the festival also ran workshops of animation, acting, digital technology and the internet, copyright and other educational programs for film artists and others in the industry. "Our broader vision remains to creatively and innovatively link the annual film festival with the production of short films, the film forum interchanges and the educational programs," said Rachel Kupara, a trustee of ZIFF. The closing and awards ceremony, featured live performances and fireworks at the Westgate Shopping Mall Cinema Court in Harare.
Tsiko is The Black Star News' Southern Africa correspondent based in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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What is "The way to freedom" about?
Aug 29
The novel series "The Way to Freedom" is the story about how modern civilization is being destroyed, by the destruction of the financial system and its core element, money, as the trends of ever increasing private and public debt keep accelerating, ignoring the warning sign provided by repeated crises. A Professor in economics, with a group of his former students, fights against this trend in order to reinstate an alternative monetary system based on gold, protecting private savings and property, and thereby individual freedom.
Do you want to see a glimpse of the action of the novels? Watch the Youtube video trailers!
Video Trailer for The Way to Freedom Part 1: Golden Crisis
Video Trailer for The Way to Freedom Part 2: Money's Creative Destruction
The Way to Freedom is published by Golden Vision Media LLC: http://www.goldenvisionmedia.com/
The author of The Way to Freedom is Carl Kyler: http://www.carlkyler.com/
Tags: Austrian economics, Bobby Cheston, Carl Kyler, Classical economics, Cornelius Hazelton, individual freedom, Jessica Frostby, Laura Dalaghan, Mark Lomack, Montgomery Benson, Novel, Pete Bagnelli, Philosophy of Objectivism, romantic realism, sound money, the way to freedom


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CRS: Turkmenistans Attempted Coup: Repercussions and U.S. Concerns, March 7, 2003
From WikiLeaks
About this CRS report
This document was obtained by Wikileaks from the United States Congressional Research Service.
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Wikileaks release: February 2, 2009
Publisher: United States Congressional Research Service
Title: Turkmenistans Attempted Coup: Repercussions and U.S. Concerns
CRS report number: RS21384
Author(s): Jim Nichol, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
Date: March 7, 2003
- Abstract
- Turkmenistans President Saparamurad Niyazov announced on November 25, 2002, that assassins had just tried to kill him, and alleged that several prominent expatriate oppositionists had been aided at least tacitly by neighboring countries in hatching the attempted coup. This latter accusation has led to diplomatic and military tensions with Uzbekistan and strong denials of involvement from Russia and other governments. The United States, international human rights organizations, and others have raised strong concerns about apparent human rights abuses committed by the Turkmen government in pursuing the coup plotters.
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Personalized "Saints Fan" Baby's First Christmas Ornament
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Well, it's been a while, and I've been working on and off with this, sometimes working a little more than I should, and at other times not touching it for at least a week or so.
Since I have now amassed at least one collection of textures, and have fooled around with styles enough to create a scratch-up of what I can do here, I am officially bringing this thing into the light as an official project.
As such, I present to you:
Mr. Project Deluxe, Super Edition with Additional Interactive Gameplay (Experimental)
This is intended to become a total conversion, with high-res textures, and entirely new aspects to gameplay.
Currently, there are about 28 new textures, including unfinished switch textures which are looking promising.
There are also a good two scoops-worth of 3d objects, including lighting fixtures, a terminal-like control panel thing, furniture, an interactive vending machine (works via Lua), and some seemingly-2d objects which are just flat 3d objects given texture (ie puddles, posters, decals, etc...)
I have constructed one ridiculous level which was used to test all of these items on the go, and it looks like a piece of crap, but I have learned a lot about what I want to do and how I will do it. I doubt I will release this level, but I will construct a reasonable demo, and release it when appropriate.
No demo, but I do have some limited and vague screenshots to show you from the aforementioned ridiculous level:
Now, you may note some overlays on these screenshots. All the while I have been fooling with textures, 3d stuff, and mapping, I have also been spending an ungodly amount of time teaching myself all about the wonders of Lua, and have made a crude and awful script to show off my results. You may be thinking "Oh man, not another poorly implemented RPG-esque shoot-em-up...", and your fears would be right, but only if I knew enough about Lua to implement that kind of abomination.
Yes, there are some RPG like features, but nothing worse than say, Deus Ex, or any of the games before it. Unless I am able to magically create a lot more items instead of just altering them with MML (and somehow create a navigable inventory with items to be used on demand), I won't be able to create a real RPG-esque conversion, and the overlays provided in Lua are not quite up to the task either. As it stands, the closest I will get would be to add a kind of slapdash Rogue-like inventory and interaction system to the game. (Not that such a thing all by itself isn't tempting...)
But, moreover, I have used the power of Lua to add another layer of interaction on to the original model of Marathon-style play, and allow for a host of actions to take place while the player is not holding a weapon. Similar to Visual Mode's use of the microphone key to switch modes, hitting the mic key now disarms the player, and engages the secondary action mode. In this mode, there are two status displays which indicate the current actions possible with either of the player's two hands (and possibly a third status overlay for the player's 21'st appendage, should we include a Hot Coffee mod...). In secondary action mode, you can hit the weapon switch keys to switch between modes, and then when you hit the microphone key again, you will have your weapon return to your hand again.
I also figured out how to make the vending machines vend a specific item (later I will try to figure out a way to make it work more like a real vending machine, giving a variety of choices at different prices...) in the right place, regardless of what direction it is facing. Trigonometry actually is useful kids, study hard!
I implemented a better use for extravision, namely by creating a fictional high-grade synthetic drug which will fuck the player up for some time.
I even went so far to include a scheme to award the player XP for killing various monsters, which isn't hard with Lua at all. If I could master the wonders of tables, it would all fall together perfectly and in less lines, but unfortunately I am still learning, and have not the skill with Lua which some developers in our community have.
Here is the complete experimental Lua file, zipped for her pleasure. You can use it as is, (I've included the shit() cheat in there so you can play around and see how things work), or just take it apart and remark upon how shitty it is. Many aspects are dependent on a bunch of MML I have made to support certain features, and I will iron out what goes where when I write a clean version to go with the demo map.
Lua File: [attachment=2571:kurinn01.lua.zip]
In any case, I really could use some help making this thing happen...
- Textures: I have been having fair success with this myself, but am not entirely confident in all aspects of my technique.
- 3d Models: Not all the software or skill required is present within myself.
- Scripting: Well, figure that out for yourself after looking at the Lua script above.
- Mapping: It's slower than molasses in January.
- Sounds, Music, etc: I have no fucking clue what I am doing. Yay!


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Campaigning against the influence of creationism in the UK Science Classroom
Moderator: Moderators
CHartsil wrote:Just make a secondary account. I make accounts all the time.
a_haworthroberts wrote:I tried to send the following 'private' message to Chartsil but I am having technical difficulties:
"Accusatory bigot Sorensen.
Emails sent to Bob, Curtis and others:
" ... Meantime I just sent this private message (it's no longer private!) to CHartsil who runs 'The Question Evolution Project Debunked' on Facebook (sent via the BCSE website):
"Accusatory bigot Sorensen.
On his main Facebook page he's claiming: "Interesting that when posts are shared, he leaves off the comments (except on pictures, can't ignore the captions). "We don't censor."So, by omitting what we say, he is censoring us. Hypocrisy in action."
But when I clicked upon one of Sorensen's images on your page I then was able to read Sorensen's text (which is what I assume he means by 'comments'). Either he is lying or he has not yet made this discovery ...
https://www.facebook.com/Piltdown.Super ... =3&theater
Perhaps Curtis might wish to reconsider his Facebook comment "Nailed him"?"
"Click on the Ashes to Ashes image here and see what comes up on your screen.
Of course you will never ever apologise for being wrong. This is bcc'ed to several original recipients.""
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Open Session Manager
Available in: ArcFM (Session Manager toolbar), ArcFM Viewer for ArcGIS Engine (Session Manager toolbar)
Enable: No session currently open
Session Manager may be opened from ArcMap by clicking the Open Session Manager button on the Session Manager toolbar. It may also be accessed as a standalone application in the Bin folder of the ArcFM directory. For example, D:\Program Files (x86)\Miner and Miner\ArcFM Solution\Bin\ProcessManager.exe. If you open Session Manager as a standalone application, the Open Session button will not be visible.
- Open Session Manager by clicking the Open Session Manager button on the Session Manager toolbar in ArcMap or access it as a standalone application.
- If you have Workflow Manager installed, you may select which extension you'd like to access: Session Manager, Workflow Manager, or both. If you have only Session Manager installed, skip to step 3.
- Enter your login information in the Login screen and click
Login. If you are logging into an Oracle or SQL database, a user name
and password are required. If you are connecting to an Access database,
only a user name is required. If you are logging into a secure Access
database, enter the correct user name and password for the database
on the Process Framework login screen. IMPORTANT: If you are using a secure Access database, the *.mdw file must have the same name as the Process Framework database and must be stored in the same directory.
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Jioio's Restaurant owner sentenced in tax evasion case
Jeanean Smith sentenced to probation, home detention, tax returns with penalties and interest
The owner of two Jioio's Restaurant locations in Latrobe and North Huntingdon who pleaded guilty in July to income tax evasion was sentenced Wednesday.
The U.S. Attorney's Office said Jeanean C. Smith, 47, was sentenced to five years of probation, including one year of home detention. She could have faced a maximum of five years in prison.
U.S. District Judge Gustave Diamond also ordered Smith to file tax returns, including penalties and interest.
"Prior to imposing sentence, Judge Diamond stated that defendant's personal circumstances and the need to run her business in order to repay the IRS outweighed any need for a Sentencing Guidelines sentence of imprisonment," the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a written statement.
Smith skimmed cash from restaurant sales, resulting in a total tax loss of $438,661 from filing false tax returns from 2006 to 2009, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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There was an old miner named DaveThat's right. I'm talking about necrophilia. More specifically, animal necrophilia.
You have to admit
He hadn't much wit
But look at the money he saved!
Davian behavior has undoubtedly been observed for some time, but it first sparked scientific interest in 1960, when Robert Dickerman observed a male common ground squirrel in flagrante delicto with the corpse of another squirrel. The corpse was in a typical "flexed" mating position, which Dickerman speculated had triggered a mating reflex in the randy male.
After this initial report, references to Davian behavior died off for a period (Ha! Get get? Get it?). However, in 1988, Philip Lehner reported an interesting and somewhat disturbing incident involving Mallard ducks. During this incident, five drakes (male Mallards) got jiggy with the corpse of a Mallard hen that had just been pecked to death by two geese. Apparently, avians males of all sorts are rather notorious for their surprisingly Catholic sexual tastes; one study (for which, unfortunately, I cannot find a direct link) by Martin Schein and Edgar Hale found that male turkeys were willing to mount simple model heads of female turkeys.
|So . . . what's your sign?
Of course, Mallards appear to be particularly indiscriminate about their sexual partners. In a 1995 case at the Natuurmuseum Rotterdam, Kees Moeliker observed the first recorded case of gay avian necrophilia. Moeliker heard a loud thump against a glass window. When he went outside to investigate, he found one Mallard dead on the ground and the other vigorously enjoying the whole situation. Altogether, the enjoyment lasted 75 minutes and only ended through Moeliker's interruption. The incident won Moeliker an Ig Nobel prize for improbable research and spawned a yearly celebration: Dead Duck Day.
|That duck sure has a strange way of honoring the dead
However, the title of king for Davian behavior has to go to the lowly anuran (frogs and toads). As reported by the blog Tetrapod Zoology, during the mating season male anurans are well-known for gripping passing objects in a tight "breeding clasp". Aided by rough pads or spines under the forearms, these clasps may last days or even weeks. The anurans are also not known for being very discriminating, grabbing anurans from other species, or even more inappropriate objects, such as human hands. Or, as the following picture shows (and as I have alluded to in a previous post), dead salamanders.
|What are you looking at?
This propensity to grab any old object in a tight copulatory grasp has gotten some species of anuran into trouble; as reported by Walter Meshaka, individual Cuban tree frogs and southern toads have been observed attempting to mate with females that have already been crushed by passing automobiles.
Of course, no post on animal necrophilia would be complete without a Youtube video or three. As you can see, there's plenty of anecdotal evidence for Davian behavior in animals besides anurans, Mallards, and ground squirrels. And before you even mention it, I'll leave the sexual quirks of humans for another time.


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Each year scores of Laborers are injured because safety measures were either ignored or improperly followed.
Always remember to wear the proper personal protective equipment (PPE) on the job. When there is movement overhead you need to wear a hard hat. Work boots, safety glasses, and vests are typically required and, depending on noise levels, hearing protection may be necessary. Fall protection is required whenever working at heights of 6 feet or greater (10 feet on scaffolds) and be sure to use respiratory protection when working around toxic dust or chemicals. Other hazards include electrical, slips, trips, and musculoskeletal injuries.
Laborers employed in highway work zones face hazards that include motor vehicles speeding by at 55 to 75 miles-per-hour, just inches from their work space. But let's not forget that workers are at equal risk for being struck by construction vehicles and equipment in the work zone. This is particularly applicable to Laborers because so much of our work is on foot. Be aware of "blind-spots" behind construction vehicles and always wear high-visibility apparel. Take precautions when working around excavators and backhoe loaders and be knowledgeable of the necessary measures needed to avoid excavation hazards and cave-ins. Remember, the same rules apply for maintenance and utility work zones.