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Thank you, good Louisvillagers.
And thank you too to all the people who volunteered but either couldn't make it or that I had to turn away. Your desire to volunteer and your support of Public Radio makes you awesome. It didn't hurt that we all had a rip-roaring good time. It was a little slow, so we filled the hours with laughter, pet pictures, and joshing around with the LPM folks. Thank you too, Louisville Grind, for feeding us in style.
(On air, they kept calling us the "Loueyville bloggers," so I don't think I'm going to be picking up any new traffic for the on-air thanks. That's fine. They've never gotten it right, actually. What do you think I should have them say? Usually I think they say "Loueyville.com," which makes me wonder if people think it's folks from Louisville.com who are volunteering. I guess it's my fault for picking a rather silly blog name and sticking with it all these years. I should talk to my marketing friends-- does the blog need to be rebranded? Sorry, just thinking "out loud" here.)
I'm tickled-- tickled, I tell you-- that LPM folks and I already decided that next pledge drive, we'll either take 2 slots or the Friday busiest slot. I don't like turning people away, and I definitely love the heck out of volunteering.
The pledge drive continues through Saturday. If you haven't renewed your membership or become a member this time around, please do so. The number is 502-815-6565. Or you can donate online at www.WFPL.org.
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Just after the Oscar nominations were read on Tuesday morning, Albert Brooks tweeted: "And to the Academy: "You don't like me. You really don't like me." The Drive star seemed to be a near-lock for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination, but his name wound up on the wrong side of the shortlist. "I got ROBBED. I don't mean the Oscars, I mean literally. My pants and shoes have been stolen," he continued to quip on Twitter. But Brooks' omission wasn't the only big shocker. Here are our top surprises and snubs:
See the complete list of Oscar nominations
Acting nominees: The past few years have seen a Michael Shannon here and a Maggie Gyllenhaal there, but this year's acting class features the most surprises — big and small — that we've seen in a while. After the Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe nominations came out, Melissa McCarthy's Supporting Actress nomination for Bridesmaids and Rooney Mara's for Best Actress for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo weren't that shocking, but Max von Sydow (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) for Supporting Actor? He only got a handful of critics' awards nominations and now joins Shannon and Gyllenhaal, among a few others, on the list of people who earned an Oscar nod without having first cracked the Golden Globe or SAG finals. Also joining that exclusive club? Gary Oldman, who at long last received his first — yes, first — Oscar nomination for Best Actor for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Unlike von Sydow, however, Oldman earned a BAFTA nod, which counts for a lot since Brits make up a huge portion of the Academy voting bloc. The Best Actor category also features a surprising fresh face in Demian Bichir (A Better Life). Both Bichir and McCarthy were snubbed by the Globes but nominated by SAG, proving once again that, of the two, the SAGs are a better predictor of the Oscar acting races. (It makes sense: Actors vote for both the SAGs and the Academy's acting awards). This year, 17 of the 20 Oscar nominees also received SAG nods.
Broad comedy: Speaking of McCarthy, many predictors thought she was unlikely to be nominated because Bridesmaids was too raunchy a flick for the stodgy old Academy voters' taste. But that perception is now officially changing (see also: Robert Downey Jr.'s nomination for Tropic Thunder three years ago). Unfortunately, Bridesmaids missed out on a Best Picture nod. Baby steps, people.
The Tree of Life: Terrence Malick's divisive drama about the origins of life had been snubbed for the majority of the awards season, but it managed to make it into both the Best Picture and Best Director races (Malick is an Academy favorite). That one-two punch is a deadly combo — especially with fewer directing slots than picture slots. (Only three films have won Best Picture without a Best Director nomination.) The Tree of Life is a love-it-or-hate-it kind of movie, and it's clearly the former with the Academy.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Producer Scott Rudin's schmaltzy, poorly reviewed adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's 9/11 drama made the Best Picture cut over his other better — and better-reviewed, even prematurely — book adaptation (Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) without much momentum. We probably should have seen it coming since the Academy loves Stephen Daldry (The Reader, The Hours, Billy Elliot — all Oscar-nominated films). The Brit, however, was excluded from the director lineup, preventing him from getting four Best Director nominations for his first four feature films.
Billy Crystal to host the Oscars for the ninth time
Albert Brooks: Like we said, the SAGs are the best indicator for Oscar success. Brooks' SAG snub for Drive was shocking then, but many believed he could overcome it since he had been giving Christopher Plummer (Beginners) a run for his money in precursor awards. Instead, the Academy went for the veteran in von Sydow. Fun fact: Both Plummer and von Sydow are 82, and if either wins, he would become the oldest acting Oscar winner in any category. Jessica Tandy, who was 80 when she won Best Actress for Driving Miss Daisy, currently holds the record.
Steven Spielberg: The two-time winner didn't earn a directing nod for War Horse, but perhaps most shocking is that The Adventures of Tintin, which he co-produced with lord of the Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson, was snubbed from the animated feature lineup after winning the Globe and the Producers Guild Award. Don't feel too bad for Spielberg: War Horse received a Best Picture mention, so he's nominated as a producer.
Shailene Woodley: The final Supporting Actress slot came down to Woodley (The Descendants) and McCarthy (neither earned both Globe and SAG nods like the other four women in the category). Woodley lost out in the end, despite starring in the more Academy-friendly film and being a young starlet. The Academy usually loves breakout young actresses, especially in the supporting race — recent nominees include Hailee Steinfeld, Anna Kendrick, Abigail Breslin and Saoirse Ronan, and of course, the youngest acting winner ever was Tatum O'Neal, who was 10.
Leo and Fassy: The Best Actor lineup was shaping up to be one of, if not the hottest ever, but Leonardo DiCaprio (J. Edgar) and Michael Fassbender (Shame) both failed to score nods. Were voters uncomfortable with Shame's NC-17 rating and the never-ending nudity? While we wish Fassbender made the shortlist, we're OK with DiCaprio's snub. His J. Edgar Hoover was adequate in an inadequate film, and we're glad he didn't make it in on his name — or Clint Eastwood's — alone, which happens more often than not with A-listers.
What surprised you the most? Who do you think deserved a nomination?

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Glad to be back with Giants, Torres reports early
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Try to imagine Andres Torres playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers. That's right, you can't.
Neither could Torres, though he said that the Dodgers were among the few teams that pursued him in free agency this past offseason. Torres, a popular Giant from 2009-11, re-signed with San Francisco for one year and $2 million after a subpar 2012 season with the New York Mets (.230 batting average, .664 OPS in 132 games).
Reporting to camp three days before position players are due, Torres said Tuesday that the Dodgers, Reds and Mets expressed interest in him along with the Giants. But Torres' loyalty to the organization and the city trumped all.
"I know that sometimes you have to move on, but I have to be realistic," Torres said. "San Francisco gave me the opportunity when I was in the Minors. I'll always appreciate it."


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(Pocket-lint) - When it comes to tablets, HTC has two. A 7-inch Gingerbread powered HTC Flyer, and the new 10-inch Honeycomb powered HTC Jetstream just announced in the US on AT&T.
Keen to see how Honeycomb works on the new 10-inch model and what it looks like in the flesh, Pocket-lint flew to Istanbul of all places, to have a play with the new tablet courtesy of Qualcomm.
In the flesh and the tablet is big, considerably bigger than the 7-inch Flyer, and more akin to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 - moving away from its original design ethos.
The front is dominated by the large screen, so much so that there are no buttons to distract with the Jetstream; instead you can use Honeycomb's on-screen button options to give you control. That said there is still just about enough room to give you a forward facing camera, as well as the respective logos of HTC and AT&T.
The WXGA HD display is bright and crisp, although by no means stand out stunning.
The sides are void of detail too with a simple power button LED light and headphone socket on the top; a micro USB charging port is situated on the bottom.
The rear of the device, thankfully, offers up more stuff. There is a speaker and an 8-megapixel camera for those moments you need to take a picture.
Inside and there's a Snapdragon 1.5 GHz dual core processor and LTE/HSPA connectivity. It will also support 1080p playback and capture.
It runs the Android 3.1 (Honeycomb) operating system and represents the first iteration of the HTC Sense user experience on Honeycomb.
Like the company's 7-inch offering, the HTC Flyer, the Jetstream will work with the company's stylus - the HTC Scribe - an optional digital pen accessory; although sadly Qualcomm didn't have one to hand for us to try out.
In the flesh and it's business as usual with the Jetstream, offering a very friendly Sense UI interface for those that love it along with the added benefit of Honeycomb and all it offers to Android tablet users.
Like the HTC Flyer - it uses the same innards - the Jetstream was quick and responsive to our commands and requests.
On the design front, it is a touch on the heavy side, and the brushed metal casing seems out of kilter with HTC's overall design ethos; something we suspect AT&T requested on seeing the Galaxy Tab back at the US phone trade show, CTIA, in March.
The HTC Jetstream is available in the US now, and although nothing is confirmed, is expected to make it to the UK at some point in the future.


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I don't know where this week has gone! I have been in Spain for a week and a half and if feels like just yesterday that I arrived. I have learned so much, met a million people, and am learning to adapt to the crazy Spanish schedule.
Welcome to Casa Sicilia! This is where I will be working for the next 3 months of summer. It is a gorgeous winery in the small town of Novleda, Spain. The farm was started in 1707 and currently has 80 hectares of a mix of wine and table grapes. They grow a mixture of Spanish varieties including Macabeo, Muscatel, Tempranillo, and Monastrel as well as more traditional varieties, Sauvignon Blanc, Merlot, and Syrah. Sebastian is the wine maker and winery director, and is originally from France. I am very grateful to have him as a boss, he has a great passion for what he does and has an incredible knowledge of viticulture and wine making. He and his family are the best hosts I could ever ask for. The only downside is that it is pretty difficult to learn Spanish from people who speak with a French accent!
Casa Sicilia is named after the house that was built in 1707 in the center of the farm. Since then it has been renovated. On the first floor is a restaurant, tasting room, and wine shop. Attached is a large ballroom for hosting weddings and other events. I live on the second floor of the house. I won't lie, it was pretty scary that first night but (knock on wood) I haven't seen any ghosts yet.
I work mainly in the bodega (winery), but also in the campo (vineyards) and a little in the tienda (store). Earlier this week I worked with Pascual, the Spanish enology intern, recording the floration stages of all of the vineyard parcels. Right now most have very few flowers left and the berries are developing. In the winery we have been busy mixing depositos (tanks) to create the coupage for the red wine. Here in Spain almost all of the wines are a blend of different varieties to make vino tintos and vino blanco. Yesterday we did a tasting of 13 different barrels the check their maturation and flavor. I learned that the barrel has a huge effect on the taste of the wine. There are barrels with the same wine but with different toasts and from various parts of France and they each tasted different. Some of my other jobs have been labeling bottles and moving wires in the vineyard. (Thank you mom and dad; who would have guessed that all of those days moving wires would have come in handy, I can keep up with any Española trabajadoro.) I have been very busy, but also had some time for sight seeing with Sebastian and his family. I learned a lot in the winery and will post more throughout the summer about all of the happenings in Casa Sicilia and España!


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Gravenhurst Farmers' Market
October 30, 2019 @ 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Every Wednesday (weather permitting) from May to October we'll be at the Gravenhurst Farmers' Market! Say hello, sample our products, and receive special show pricing!
This market has become one of Muskoka's most popular attractions. Locals as well as visitors from all over the world enjoy the fantastic fresh Ontario produce, arts and crafts, special events, and more!
Don't forget you can also explore a variety of Gravenhurst's shops and restaurants, or enjoy a swim and a relaxing picnic at one of the beautiful lakeside parks. After the market you can cruise Muskoka's world-famous lakes aboard the Royal Mail Ship Segwun, North America's only remaining fully-operational steamship.
A trip to the Gravenhurst Farmers' Market will make fond memories for all!
Here is an oldie but goodie picture of Andrew from many years ago at the Gravenhurst Farmers' Market!


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The CoppeTeX toolkit comprises a LaTeX document class, and BibTeX and Makeindex styles. Its document class allows the composition of MSc dissertations, DSc qualifying exams, and DSc thesis. The BibTeX style creates numbered lists of bibliographic references whose entries are sorted in the order they are cited. The Makeindex style helps to create sorted lists of abbreviations and symbols. There is still a mailing list where people can post questions concerning the distributed material, as well as TeX/LaTeX related problems.
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We went to 7 Peaks tonight for the Nu Skin summer party (Brandon's dad works there for those of you who don't know). They had the whole place rented out and we had a lot of fun. I only got my camera out once. Here is Mckinley snuggling up with her towel after some time spent in the wave pool.
Mckinley finally has a girl cousin close in age!!! My sister in law Jessica had a baby on Sunday. We didn't know what the gender would be and I am very happy that it's a girl. They are just 3 months apart. Mckinley and Mia. Hopefully they grow up to be best friends. Here they are taking a nap together in the hospital.


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This product contains 3966 kilocalories/kilogram or 338 kilocalories per cup ME (metabolizable energy) on an as fed basis (calculated).
Chicken, brewers rice, chicken meal, brown rice, corn gluten meal, oatmeal, chicken fat, natural chicken flavor, dried beet pulp (sugar removed), dried brewers yeast, salmon oil, soya oil, potassium chloride, salt, flaxseed, DL-methionine, choline chloride, sodium tripolyphosphate, Vitamins [dl-alpha tocopherol acetate (source of vitamin E), L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C*), biotin, d-calcium pantothenate, niacin supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3 supplement, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), vitamin B12 supplement, riboflavin supplement (vitamin B2), folic acid], salmon meal, dried egg powder, magnesium oxide, Trace Minerals [zinc proteinate, zinc oxide, ferrous sulfate, copper proteinate, copper sulfate, manganese proteinate, manganous oxide, sodium selenite, calcium iodate], marigold extract (Calendula officinalis L.), L-carnitine, preserved with natural mixed tocopherols, rosemary extract and citric acid.
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Crude Protein Minimum 27.0%
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Crude Fiber Maximum 3.7%
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Inadequate meat content, low quality grains, controversial filler
The first ingredient in the food is a named meat product but is inclusive of water content (about 80%). Once that is removed, as it must be to create a dehydrated product, the ingredient will weigh around 20% of its wet weight. Ingredients are listed in order of weight, and the dehydrated ingredient would probably be more accurately placed much further down the ingredient list. It is highly unlikely that this ingredient makes any significant contribution to the overall meat content of the food. The true first meat ingredient is a meat meal, 3rd on the ingredient list. This is too low to give us any confidence in the meat content of the food.
The main grain and primary ingredient in the food is brewers rice, which is a low quality grain and byproduct. Further grains are rice, corn and oatmeal. Rice and oatmeal are decent quality grains, but corn is another low quality ingredient. It is a difficult to digest grain that is commonly associated with allergy problems. Corn Gluten Meal is the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm. In plain English, that bit of the corn leftover after most of the nutritious bits have been removed.
Beet pulp is controversial filler which appears to be used in large quantities in this food. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
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Take a break from your studies and join NAMI in the Cardinal Cafe!
Date: November 5, 2019 - November 5, 2019
Time: 8 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Location: Cardinal Cafe and Fishbowl (Located in Michaelhouse)
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MomoCon has filled the campus of Georgia Tech in downtown Atlanta with cosplayers, and video game fans are there in force. Check out characters from Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Miles Edgeworth, BioShock, Brutal Legend, and more!
It was nice to see a couple of games represented that you don't normally see that often being cosplayed. Sure there were Stormtroopers, FF characters, and an overwhelming number of Kingdom Hearts characters, but for every two costumes I expected there was one that took me by surprise.
Take Jak, for instance. Considering the last time a major game was released in the series, he's probably had that outfit for a while, but it's still nice to see that sort of dedication.
I wish the shot of Eddie Riggs from Brutal Legend and his roadie had come out a little better. I thought the hats were a nice touch.
In case the blue, sign-wielding people are flummoxing your brain-meats, that's a pair of Prinny Rights protestors. Considering their main obstacle is Etna, I don't see them living very long.
As I was taking the photo of Ash from Pokémon, this little red-haired girl ran up and yelled at him, "You ruined my bike and abandoned me!" Reunions like that always make me a little Misty-eyed.
My favorite picture of the bunch? Spider-Man eating lunch. My camera accidentally went off while I was trying to view the photos I had taken so far, and Spider-Man eating lunch is the end result.
Now I'm heading back to MomoCon for day two, which includes a panel by a man who will likely faint dead away from nervousness, possibly crushing people in the crowd. I'll let you know how that goes.


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Mark wrote:From my school years I would have to say that this statement is way off of the mark.
What I found was not that they chose not to go after the thick-skinned folks,
but they rather chose not to go after the folks who would beat the tar out of them.
of course, teaching your child to do that will get them expelled these days...
which, all in all might not be a bad thing as it would lead to homeschooling them.
There's a strong correlation between who's confident and who can beat a bully in a fight. Nonetheless, I found that bullies wouldn't bully anyone who fought back, regardless of who would win in such a fight. Still, 'standing up for oneself' very rarely ever involved actual fist-fighting.


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'Byzantium' Rated R: 118 minutes
"I am Eleanor Webb. I throw my story to the wind." So says the ancient child-woman played by Saoirse Ronan in "Byzantium." In a sense, that's what director Neil Jordan and screenwriter Moira Buffini do too, allowing this moody but convoluted century-hopping reinvention of the vampire myth to drift in too many meandering directions before it finally comes together with a semblance of focus in the concluding stretch.
The film is handsomely made, shot by Sean Bobbitt with a blend of gritty naturalism and shadowy storybook fantasy, and a widescreen frame often painted with striking images. It also benefits from Javier Navarette's lush score. But Jordan's return to territory he traveled in "Interview with the Vampire" and to a lesser extent "The Company of Wolves" is sluggish and lacking in bite. It has neither thrills nor suspense.
Buffini makes a promising choice by taking a route closer to that of Anne Rice than of Stephenie Meyer or Charlaine Harris, respectively authors of the "Twilight" and "True Blood" series. But her screenplay for "Byzantium" lacks the clarity, depth of character and robust story sense the writer brought to "Tamara Drewe" and "Jane Eyre." While Buffini adapted the new film from her 2008 young adult play "A Vampire Story," the script has more of a novelistic sweep, attempting to cover too many plot strands across two time periods and struggling to find a consistent tone. Troweling on voiceover at every turn doesn't help.
Born in 1804 yet forever 16, Eleanor is first seen living on a drab council estate where she endures the pain of her haunted past by writing the story of her life that can never be told, disposing of it page by page. The melancholy teen kills only those who seek the release of death. She displays no visible fangs, just a retractable pointed thumbnail to make the first incision.
First described by Eleanor as her muse, Clara (Gemma Arterton), is the polar opposite of the younger girl. While Eleanor is intensely still, introspective and burdened by secrets, Clara is volatile and trashy. A lap-dancer with a temper, Clara is chased down by a mysterious agent (Thure Lindhardt), who she promptly beheads with a garrote. Obviously not for the first time, she tells Eleanor to pack for a hasty move.
They land in a sleepy coastal town where Eleanor insists they've been before, seeing visions of herself on the beach among a gaggle of Georgian-era schoolgirls. Clara picks up morose Noel (Daniel Mays), who has inherited a boarding house called Byzantium and run it into the ground. Passing Eleanor off as her sister, Clara moves them in, then dispatches a local pimp and recruits his girls, repurposing the old hotel as a brothel.
Eleanor, meanwhile, has formed a cautious attachment with Frank (Caleb Landry Jones), a sickly youth with stringy hair whose leukemia medication causes him to bleed profusely when injured. His fragility and proximity to death make him a perfect match for Eleanor, who shares her story for the first time, ostensibly as an exercise for a writing class. (An unbilled Tom Hollander plays the teacher who gets unwisely intrigued.)
Where the film gets seriously bogged down is in the muddy flashbacks to the same location two centuries earlier. Clara is transformed from poor waif to harlot by sinister Navy captain Ruthven (Jonny Lee Miller), despite the efforts to intervene of his kinder, gentler lieutenant, Darvell (Sam Riley). There's much back and forth as we learn that Clara gave birth to a daughter (guess who?), placed in an orphanage while her consumptive mother kept whoring to pay for her upkeep.
We learn that Clara violated the rules of the exclusively male, class-conscious vampire order - archly named "The Pointed Nails of Justice" - whose goons have been pursuing the female outlaws ever since. But the backstory generally is far less involving than the present. (David Rooney/The Hollywood Reporter)


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The Green Bay Film Society will present the next International Film of the semester on Wednesday, February th at 7:00 pm in the auditorium of the Neville Public Museum.
The Last Days of Immanuel Kant
(France, 1994)
Based on an 1850s essay by Thomas De Quincey, this little-known drama chronicles a short period in life of the great professor/philosopher in his native Konigsberg, leading up to his 1804 demise at age 80. The story looks more at the great thinker's odd, obsessive lifestyle than it does his philosophies. Kant, truly a "mad professor," had himself on a rigid daily schedule. At night he slept in a mummy-wrap while during the day he imbibed tremendous amounts of coffee at rigidly prescribed intervals. The whole town was expected to keep a respectful distance when Kant took his daily walks. Melodrama enters the philosopher's life after his loyal servant for the past thirty years suddenly leaves.
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Is your preschool-age child potty trained all day long, but consistently wetting the bed at night? It's a common problem, and there's no shortage of consternation among Circle of Moms members as to why their 3, 4, and 5-year-olds can exercise bladder control for 12 or more waking hours every day, then routinely wet the bed while they sleep.
The answer is often fairly simple.* When kids are in deep sleep, they often don't feel their bladders filling up, and if they don't experience the sensation of fullness, they don't wake up and know they need to go to the bathroom. There's even evidence to suggest that kids who sleep lightly don't wet the bed as often. Regular bed-wetters (who are deep sleepers) often don't wet the bed when they're at a friend or relative's house, precisely because they're unconsciously worried about this and sleeping lightly.
Circle of Moms member Jennifer, whose son wets the bed regularly, reports that her pediatrician says that nighttime bed-wetting isn't considered a problem until age seven. But even though it isn't a medical problem, neither kids nor parents enjoy it, and tend to welcome anything that might help!
Here are some great ideas for encouraging all-night dryness, all suggested by weary Circle of Moms members who got tired of midnight bedding changes.
1. Don't Withhold Liquids
While the conventional wisdom is to withhold liquids before bed (Ashley S. is among several moms who suggest no liquids for about 2 or more hours before bed), some moms proclaim the exact opposite tactic to be much more effective. (As Circle of Moms Jan G. says, "Cease holding back liquids, in fact encourage water at bed time.") With something in their bladders before sleep, the reasoning goes, kids will have more opportunities to experience fullness while they sleep and to practice getting up and going to the bathroom. RoundUp parenting expert Sharon Silver agrees; in a post about potty training regression, (, she suggests loading a child up with liquids before bed to give him the "opportunity to be successful as often as possible."
Jennifer's sister bought a blanket that beeps when it gets even slightly wet, and, over the course of about four weeks, this helped her son wake up in time to make it to the bathroom. Amy B. suggests a clip alarm as an alternative: these little gizmos attach "inside the underwear, and go off with the slightest little amount of liquid."
3. A Potty Next to the Bed
Janine H. put a potty in her son's room, right beside his bed, so that if he does wake up with a full bladder, he doesn't have far to go. She also wakes him up before she goes to bed — several hours after he's fallen asleep — to remind him to pee, and this has helped a lot in their efforts to stay dry for the rest of the night.
4. Voiding Twice Before Bed
Nicole D. also suggests what her doctor calls a "double-void" — asking her little one to pee twice in a row before bed. The bladder doesn't always empty completely the first time around, and this technique has worked wonders for her four-year-old.
Moms are also quick to remind that there's almost always a gap between daytime and nighttime dryness. It typically takes between six months and a year to fully achieve the transition. So, in addition to these three techniques, which might help speed the process, also remember to have patience. As Brandi K. says, "'When they are ready, they will stop.'"
* Note that if the problem is persistent, you should have your child evaluated by a pediatrician for underlying physical causes.
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Welcome to the Mathematics Department on Pace University's New York City Campus. We provide a wide spectrum of mathematics and statistics courses, which incorporate a carefully designed mix of applied and theoretical components. Many of the courses are part of the University core curriculum, fulfilling degree requirements for various majors. A common educational objective is to demonstrate the power and beauty of mathematics and provide our students with the logical reasoning, quantitative, and analytical thinking skills necessary to compete in today's complex global environment. We constantly strive to improve the knowledge acquisition of our students through continual refinement of the instructional process.
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The Weston High School baseball team stood atop the South-West Conference mountain last year after securing a 7-0 victory over Pomperaug in the championship game. The Trojans finished the season with an impressive 20-4 record and will now wear the bulls-eye on their backs as the rest of the conference contenders looks to dethrone the champs.
Leading the title chase will be a pack of contenders in Bunnell, Notre Dame-Fairfield, Masuk and Pomperaug. The name of the game in baseball is pitching and all these contending teams have strong pitchers atop their rotations to keep them in games. If the coaches around the league are correct in their early predictions for the season, there will be plenty of low-scoring games.
"That first run could be very important this year," said Pomperaug coach Mike Eisenbach. "You are going to want to put the pressure on the other team early. "There's a lot of good pitching this year. It looks like a wide open race with Bunnell being the favorite."
Other teams like Brookfield, Immaculate, Newtown and Oxford (the defending Class S state champion) could also find themselves in the mix if its young talent matures quickly on the field.
5 Teams to Watch
Bunnell: The Bulldogs graduated only three players from last year's team and are at the top of many coaches' lists as the early favorite to take the SWC title. Coach Scott Szturma is blessed to have junior pitchers Ronnie Rossomando and Justin Lasko coming back to take the ball. They combined for all 14 of the Bulldogs' wins last year. "We have two No. 1 pitchers," said Szturma. "We're going to rely on them." The team will also get help from All-State second baseman Cam Belliveau, a senior whom Szturma considers the best defensive second baseman in the state. The Bulldogs will also rely on senior shortstop Matt Alcantara, senior pitcher/right fielder Darek Wojenski and senior outfielder/DH Jeremy Proto.
Oxford: The Wolverines went 18-7 last season and capped it off by winning the program's first Class S state championship. "It was great last year," said coach Brian Hourigan, who has been with the program since it started six years ago. "It was a big confidence boost. We had the biggest turnout at tryouts this year." Three starters return in senior pitcher/1B Kyle Chudoba, senior pitcher/outfielder Dan Kudej and junior shortstop Dale Keller. Chudoba went 7-0 last year with a 1.97 ERA and Keller hit about .350 with 22 RBIs from the No. 3 spot. Kudej went 3-1 on the mound.
Weston: The Trojans claimed the SWC title and all the rest of the conference is well aware that they are bringing back double trouble in the form of twin brothers Asher Lee and Ethan Tyson. Asher Lee earned All-State honors last year as a pitcher/shortstop and Ethan earned All-State honors as a catcher after his sophomore season. Asher Lee will miss the first few game due to a back injury that occurred during basketball season, according to coach Frank Fedeli. The team has five starters back. Joining the Tyson brothers are senior pitcher/center fielder Greg Kaeser, junior third baseman Adam Parks and junior left fielder Peter McGlone.
Pomperaug: The Panthers reached the SWC championship game for the fourth straight season and hope that the return of three pitchers will lead them deep into the playoffs again. Senior hurlers Luke Frering, Justin Mayer and Cooper Mooney are all back to lead the Panthers' rotation. "All three of them have good stuff," said Pomperaug coach Mike Eisenbach. "It's just a matter of them being consistent for us." The Panthers will also rely on returners such as senior first baseman Sam Rubinstein, senior center fielder Jake Wilson, senior outfielder/designated hitter Eric Walsh, senior catcher Jack Yule, senior pitcher Ted Butterly and junior middle infielder Nate Zappone.
Immaculate: The Mustangs managed only four wins last year, but could be headed for a big bounce back under longtime coach Tom Neville. The reason for optimism for Neville is a strong pitching staff that has looked good in the preseason. "We have our whole pitching staff back," said Neville. "They can all throw strikes and look very comfortable." Seniors Mike Fredette, Ryan Preusse, Tom Zielinski and C.J. Espinal lead the staff. Fredette, a lefty, relies on a good breaking ball. Preusse has been throwing a good cut fastball and Zielinski throws a good fastball. Junior Marcus Espinal is another pitcher/third baseman that has looked good early and senior John Cartagena will play at shortstop.
5 Players to Watch
Cam Belliveau, Bunnell: As a junior second baseman he helped lead the Bulldogs to the Class L and SWC quarterfinals. He batted .500 with 39 hits, 18 RBIs and 5 runs scored. He earned All-State and All-SWC first team honors. Belliveau has committed to play for the University of Hartford next year.
Ronnie Rossomando, Bunnell: The junior flamethrower finished with six wins last year and is considered to be the best in the conference according to the coaches. The 6-foot-5 Rossomando has already committed to UConn and his fastball reaches the low 90s. "He's a super competitor and a great kid," said Szturma.
Mike Davis, Newtown: The Nighthawks are getting a big boost from the return of the senior 6-foot-5 starter. Davis, who has already committed to play at Quinnipiac next year, missed all of last season after tearing an ACL during basketball season. Davis started for the Nighthawks as both a freshman and sophomore and will guide a young team that is looking to return to the SWC playoffs after missing out last season.
Chris Rubis, Masuk: The Panthers are one of the favorites to contend for the SWC title and Rubis is a big reason why coaches think it can happen. Rubis batted cleanup last season and hit a little over .400, according to coach Ralph Franco.
C.J. Espinal, Immaculate: Espinal missed last season for academic reasons, but the senior pitcher's return should provide a big boost for the Mustangs. He was 3-0 during his sophomore year at the varsity level and is expected to bat third, according to Neville. "He throws hard and has a good breaking ball," said Neville. "He's very smooth."
5 Games to Watch
New Fairfield at Bethel, April 15: Both teams lost in the quarterfinals of last year's SWC tournament and are hoping to get back to make more noise this year. A quick start by either team could lead to big things later in the season.
Bunnell at Pomperaug, April 15: These may be the best two teams in the conference and this early season clash will get the attention of the league. This could easily be a 1-0 or 2-1 game with the pitching talent on the mound.
Masuk at Newtown, May 5: These two rivals have high hopes for this year and love to earn bragging rights no matter when the game is played.
Oxford at Weston, May 14: The defending SWC champ will host the reigning Class S champion. Both teams should once again be in the mix for playoff spots.
Pomperaug at Weston, May 20: The Panthers have to wait until late May before they get another chance at the team they lost to in last year's SWC title game. This matchup could have major implications on seeding for the tournament.
Around the conference
Kolbe Cathedral: The Cougars return to varsity baseball for the first time in 10 years under coach Tyrone Kingwood, who served as the junior varsity coach last season. Kingwood has 19 players on the roster that has been playing a junior varsity schedule the past four years. "The kids are committing to the program and buying into what I'm selling," said Kingwood. "We are just looking to get that first win right now."
Notre Dame-Fairfield: The Lancers have strong returning pitchers in senior Spencer Baset and sophomore Dillon Stimpson. Basset also filled in at shortstop and third base -- finishing with a .464 batting average. Stimpson finished with a 7-3 record. Also helping out will be seniors Mark Komorani (first base), Collin Cegelka (cenetr field), Matt Lasky (catcher) and Matt Moffat (left field).
New Fairfield: The Rebels went 10-12 last year and were the eighth seed in the SWC tournament. The team will rely on junior pitchers Nick Roberti, Nick Gallagher and Nick Gilroy. Seniors Zach Farias (catcher) and Joe Hicks (center field) are also expected to do well, according to coach Joe Garbowski. Juniors Anthony Latassa (shortstop) and Antonio DiMaggio (outfield) will also contribute.
Brookfield: The Bobcats, who finished 9-11 last year, return seniors Ryan Rivas (catcher/first base), Kevin O'Connor (outfield) and Chris Flood (third base). Also coming back is junior Tom Caravetta (catcher), sophomore Austin Reich (third base). Freshman lefty pitcher Alex Johannsen has looked good, according to coach Dan McKee.
Bethel: The Wildcats will look to senior pitchers Matt Liquori and Dan Simonelli to keep a young roster in games this year. Senior outfielder Logan Whelton-Pane returns to add punch to the lineup.
Stratford: Mick Buckmir, a 1983 graduate, takes over the program after serving as the junior varsity coach the past two seasons. The Red Devils will rely on senior Nick DiIulio (pitcher/first base), senior Brandon Russo (pitcher), junior Sam Breiner (catcher), senior Joe Marsan (shortstop) and sophomore Jack Duffy (pitcher/infield). "We are going to have to be a scrappy, blue-collar bunch," said Buckmir.
Newtown: The Nighthawks are looking to bounce back after missing the SWC playoffs last year. Seniors Austin Raftery (catcher), Virgil Procaccini (pitcher/shortstop), Greg Hennessey (center field) and Garrison Buzzanca (second base) are the top returners.
New Milford: The Green Wave will be looking to bounce back from a 6-14 season behind seniors Mike Davlos (pitcher/third base), Anthony Gesualdi (third base/catcher), Jarrod Gesualdi (second base), Liam Heslin (first base). Jacob Mejias (outfield/pitcher), Liam Merritt (catcher), Jake Pitser (pitcher), Cormac Roberts (second base) and Brett Waldron (pitcher/outfield).


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In 2011, LaGuardia Community College celebrates 40 years of opening the doors of higher learning to all. By challenging expectations and daring to do more everyday, LAGCC is at the forefront of momentous shifts in the landscape of higher education in the 21st century.
LaGuardia Community College thanks The LaGuardia Institutional Archives for contributing not only archival material but also historical knowledge and unparalleled dedication to the College's 40th Anniversary projects and displays.
Looking into the Future
Then AND Now: The LaGuardia and Wagner Archives
The LaGuardia and Wagner Archives has always set itself apart from other repositories. Unlike others that lock their collections in cold rooms where few venture, ours has always opened its rich collections to faculty and students and those outside the College community. Now it is taking another bold step by reaching out to an even larger audience via the Internet.
But, like every LaGuardia innovation, it all began when a member of the College community asked, "What if?"
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LAGCC Naming Ceremony December 5, 1970
December 5, 1970 is a day that marks a special moment in LaGuardia Community College's proud history: The College's naming ceremony took place, establishing Community College Number Nine as Fiorello H. LaGuardia Community College, in honor of New York's most popular mayor, "The Little Flower." LaGuardia was the first community college created within CUNY to be named after such a prestigious historical figure. From the beginning, and in more than name only, we were destined to be unique.
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LaGuardia's M-E Link 40th Anniversary Timeline and Poster Exhibit
Students in Humanities Professor Tom Regan's HUN180 Introduction to Intercultural Communication urban study course attended the opening reception for the latest installment of LaGuardia's M-E Link 40th Anniversary Poster Exhibit in September, and afterwards viewed the College's timeline exhibit on display in the E building lobby. Using the 40th anniversary exhibits as a teaching tool, Professor Regan had the students write essays on what they saw and what they learned from the displays. The following quotes are a selection from their classwork.
"…the poster exhibit takes us back in the past. Photos help the students to understand the history of LaGuardia. We can find many pictures of New York's leaders and supporters. Besides this, the posters demonstrate the real evidence of LaGuardia's guiding principle: to the doors of higher education to all." Ilona Palomeque
Tune-in to the 40th Anniversary special edition of "LaGuardia News"
The show was written, produced, directed, and edited by Media Studies and New Media Technology students: Holly Celentano, Gary Alvarez, Ammanni Mselle, and Shante Boyd, under the inspiring supervision of WebTV station manager, Tom Seymour. The students have devoted much of their time and energy to their roles on the news team, while taking classes full-time this term, AND holding down part-time jobs.
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As Vasari told the story, he was encouraged to write the Lives by Paolo Giovio (1483/6–1552), a major literary figure who specialized in biographical history. Giovio, a Pliny enthusiast, collaborated with Vasari on every phase of preparing the first edition of the Lives and influenced Vasari to adopt the model of Pliny's Natural History. Although Vasari denigrated the Roman precedent, Pliny's biographies of artists were the primary model for his enterprise. Vasari organized the proems of the Lives in a variety of ways that depend on the Natural History. He took up a number of Pliny's theoretical positions. In addition, Vasari adopted Pliny's schematic, but comprehensive, history of art told through the lens of collected biographies of artists who were generally organized by school and by a master-pupil sequence and structured to reveal the technical development of Italian art.
This essay analyzes the text of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists across both editions in order to reconstruct the history of landscape painting in Italy as Vasari tells it. First, the advancements made in landscape within each of Vasari's three eras of art are elucidated, with attention being paid both to landscape painters Vasari particularly praises, and to the innovations in media, technique and content that he notes in each period. Second, after Vasari's chronology for the invention, development, and final perfection of landscape painting is set forth, the study examines the striking changes made between the 1550 and 1568 editions of the Lives, suggesting these changes show two things: Vasari's in creasing awareness of Northern European contributions to landscape painting, and his desire to establish Italian painters as preeminent in the invention and continued practice of the genre. Taken together, the history of landscape painting Vasari chooses to tell, and the modifications he makes to this history, show the importance of landscape painting in the Lives as a marker both of a painter's dexterity and of his ingenuity.
Giorgio Vasari: The Carrying of the Body of Christ
This essay examines the iconography of one of Giorgio Vasari's first paintings The Carrying of the Body of Christ of 1532. The study consists of three parts: (1) the reconstruction of the history of this painting; (2) an artistic analysis of the classical and Mannerist influences employed by Vasari in the painting; and (3) a suggested iconological interpretation of the image.
In The Carrying of the Body of Christ, Vasari depicts through the mediation of Christ's death a visual testimony of salvation for the Christian devotee. In the creative realm, Vasari composes a new artistic fusion: the imitation of antiquity with Mannerist aesthetic. This artistic mutation creates a new invention in the depiction of the istoria of the passion of Christ. In the spiritual realm, the istoria of the carrying of the holy body is a transitory time from the descent from the cross to the deposition, and His interment.
In depicting this theme, Vasari invites the viewer to also reflect on the transformation of the Christian church after the Sack of Rome in 1527. The selected moment in the painting is of great significance. It is a pause before burying the precious body of Christ. For the carrying of the body to its resting place, Vasari composes a visual silence and a spiritual suspended movement for viewers to meditate on mortality, but with the hope of salvation through Christ's death.
Giorgio Vasari: Restoration of The Carrying of the Body of Christ
This essay explains the process of restoration employed in the cleaning of The Carrying of the Body of Christ of 1532, at the Museo di Casa Vasari. Careful documentation is provided not only on the physical process of the restoration of the painting, but also on the stylistic contributions that Vasari imprints in the early stage of his artistic career. With the employment of reflectographic diagnostics highlight, new discovery and observations were noted in the manner in which Vasari approaches the application of painting and compositional design. Traces of a preliminary drawing were discovered under the painting. This process of composing a painting would become an indispensable technique in Vasari's artistic production, as discovered in the restoration of the Wedding of Ester and Ahasverus of 1548 at the State Museum of Medieval and Modern Art (Museo Statale d'Arte Medioevale e Moderna) of Arezzo.
The removal of heavy layers and stratified coats of paint, which made the pictorial surface dull, unveiled a bright and colourful palette. This rich pictorial surface reveals Giorgio Vasari's assimilation of artistic manifestations of the Cinquecento art.
New Documents on Giorgio Vasari's House in Arezzo
"Di Giorgio Vasari e delle sue pitture che sono in Arezzo" is an unpublished manuscript dated around 1834, drawn up by the painter Raimondo Zaballi who documented Vasari's work preserved in the city. Of particular interest is the detailed description of the paintings by Giorgio Vasari in his house of Borgo San Vito and its restoration work carried out by the same Zaballi in 1827.
Linking this to some unpublished source documents kept in the Vasari Archive and reviewing the critical success of the paintings in his Arezzo home, proposals are put forward on the dating of the paintings in the Camera delle Muse and in the Room of Fame and the Arts. Likely, in this last room there existed a pictorial decoration from the period preceding Vasari, dating from the first half of the seventeenth century, not attributable to Zaballi. The paper concludes with an unprecedented and unusual discovery of a date on a detail of the frescoes in the Sala del Trionfo e della Virtu.
The Frescoes of Giorgio Vasari in the Sala dei Cento Giorni: Framing, Personifications and Theatricality
Through a specific study of the sparimento of the frescoes painted in the Sala dei Cento Giorni by Giorgio Vasari in 1545 for cardinal Alessandro Farnese, this paper intends to emphasise the problem of the function of margins in this decorative cycle.
Art historians have generally drawn attention to the narrative scenes painted in the frescoes, whose subjects illustrate the episodes from the pontificate of Paul III. The present study, on the contrary, focuses on the margins of those representations. In Vasari's frescoes, the peripheral painted architecture is populated with personifications of virtues. The distribution of these significant figures within the fake architecture ensures the effectiveness of the rhetorical system – planned by the historian Paolo Giovio – centred on Paul III as ideal pope.
This framing structure is, in fact, comparable with a theatrical bocca di scena that encircles the painted storie. The relationship between Vasari frescoes and contemporary theatre architecture has been already pointed out in previous studies of the subject; but the parallel is not simply a morphological one. The relationship is also relevant in the narrative sections of the frescoes: they do not show actual events of the pontificate of the Farnese pope, but rather present his likely deeds related to the Aristotelian concept of verisimilitude. Reconsidered by L. Castelvetro in the 1570s, this notion becomes central in the theory of Poetics but also in the development of modern drama. Vasari's sparimento participates in and activates the iconographical programme devised by Giovio, adding to it a supplementary dimension in pointing out the illusionistic power of Painting and Theatricality. On the walls of the Cancelleria, histories (exempla virtutis of the Farnese pope) become History taking advantage of the framing structure and the figures placed within it.
Giorgio Aretin Invenit: Observations on Vasari's Designs for Prospero Fontana
In Cinquecento art, the fundamental principle of any artistic activity was drawing (disegno). For Giorgio Vasari disegno involved practical and theoretical considerations. During the span of his artistic career, the Aretine artist found himself more than in one occasion in the role of a "modern designer" – an inventor of figurative repertoires and of entire compositions, which originally were created by others artists or patrons.
This type of artistic activity as a "modern designer" was not limited to the creations of drawings, or inventions from his collaborates, e.g., the imprese in the decoration of Palazzo Vecchio, but also included the labour of supervising artistic initiatives of other artists, who were not active in his bottega. A clear example is the case of the Bolognese Prospero Fontana, who during his artistic career engaged in a privileged relation with Vasari. From their collaboration, Prospero assimilated complex artistic notions as well as artistic repertoires in the formation of his work. This essay traces aspects of their collaboration, paralleling them with readings in Vasari's Lives. The goal is to reveal Vasari's thoughts on the process of exchanging drawings among artists as in the example of Michelangelo and Sebastiano del Piombo.
Botanical and Zoological Symbolism in Giorgio Vasari's Paintings
Vasari was a refined artist of the Cinquecento, who – after the restrictions imposed by Savonarola during the Republican period – rediscovered nature in his paintings. While scientists and collectors of his time investigated nature for taxonomical reasons, Vasari examined plant and animal symbolism with a deep political and emblematic purpose. For example, the amphibious turtle depicted in the Room of the Elements in Palazzo Vecchio is an imaginary animal, celebrating Cosimo de' Medici's power on land and sea. In the Siege of Monteriggioni (Salone dei Cinquecento) a flowered plant of mullein (Verbascum) serves as an apotropaic amulet for the protection of artillerists and Florentine soldiers.
Caravaggio's early biographers presented him as an artist who had no theory, who painted exactly what he saw without regard for the idealizing tradition of the High Renaissance. Bellori went so far as to state that Caravaggio "lacked invenzione, decorum, disegno, or any knowledge of the science of painting". As late as the early twentieth century, he was considered to be an artist whose chief aim was to defy tradition and authority. Not until 1955, with Friedländer's Caravaggio Studies, did a scholar systematically argue that Caravaggio both respected and responded to the work of many exemplary artists, including Michelangelo and Dürer.
By the 1980s, Caravaggio had ceased to be seen as an unlettered artist. Instead, scholars began to consider his familiarity with texts by contemporary theologians and writers of the ancient world. I propose another literary source for Caravaggio: Vasari's Lives of the Artists. Vasari applied to visual artists the familiar ancient formula of biography – the lives of famous men as examples to be imitated by the reader. Interspersed throughout his book are comments on works of art and issues related to contemporary art theory. In short, the Lives was for artists a sort of textbook on fame and how to achieve it.
When Caravaggio arrived in Rome in 1592, he was virtually penniless and without a patron. His early paintings, made for the open market, were for the most part still-life arrangements and genre scenes. I propose that Caravaggio was, instead, competing on his own terms with artists whose fame was assured; to this end, he responded to passages in Vasari's Lives. In several instances, Caravaggio's early works reflect Vasari's descriptions of paintings by artists as illustrious as Leonardo and Raphael – sometimes more closely than they reflect the paintings themselves.
Jacopo Bassano's Flight into Egypt in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena is a work of unparalleled sophistication. The Holy Family's escape from Herod implies movement and Jacopo's continuity of rhythm propels the figures forward despite the seeming hesitancy of the three young boys accompanying them. They have been described as careless and profligate youth. This article looks again at these travellers and their role in The Flight into Egypt.
The travellers do not appear in the biblical text, but are mentioned in the apocrypha and were commonly found in depictions of the event. Jacopo included travellers dressed as shepherds in both his earlier versions of the theme (Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa and Toledo Museum of Art). The journey they have embarked on cannot be any easy one, for the road they travel unshod is covered in small sharp stones. The Holy Family's arduous journey and the patience with which they met adversity were held as exemplars that pious Christians were encouraged to imitate in their own passage through life. Through spiritual meditation a Christian might become 'an armchair traveller' as he internalized the events of Christ's infancy and Passion. Pietro Contarini's poem Christilogos peregrinorum, written shortly after 1513, recounts how the author and three of his friends dressed as shepherds and accompanied the Holy Family into Egypt so that they might recover the true spirit of religion and bring it back to Venice. It is surely not coincidental that Joseph serves as the shepherd's interlocutor, since he was venerated throughout the Veneto as a protector against military attack and invasion. However, the suggestion that Jacopo emphasized Joseph's role as La Serenissma's protector by basing his likeness on Doge Andrea Gritti is unfounded. Titian's portrait bears only a superficial resemblance to Jacopo's Joseph in the Toledo and Pasadena pictures. Titian's picture was painted at least fifteen years after Gritti's death and around a decade later than the Jacopo's two pictures. From the mid-1540s Jacopo repeatedly used a drawing of a local peasant as a template for his depictions of Joseph.
In the Pasadena picture the travellers are accompanied by an angel with magnificent birdlike wings. In a sermon published in 1495, Fra Roberto Caracciolo asked why Christ would need a guardian angel. He concluded that a guardian angel was sent to point the way towards Christ's Crucifixion and the promise of redemption and encouraged the listener to join the caravan of the stalwart travellers. In the Pasadena picture the angel points towards a tree stump, which is used as a visual premonition of Christ's Passion. The shepherds at first glance seem to be false pilgrims who do not heed his gesture; one releases four cockerels from a basket while another selfishly guzzles the Holy Family's provisions. However, cockerels were associated with Christ's Resurrection and the promise of life after death. Like Saint Peter, who denied Christ three times before the cock crowed but later repented, this traveller may become a true pilgrim following the path that leads towards salvation. Likewise, his companion, who greedily drinks from a pilgrim's flask, can be linked to the idea of salvation and redemption. His flask evokes the wine of the Eucharist and Christ's sacrifice while his lance recalls the story of Saint Longinus, the soldier who pierced the side of Christ before deciding to follow in his footsteps.
As Fra Roberto explained, to follow the Holy Family on their pilgrimage prepares each of us for our own pilgrimage towards death. Jacopo's Flight into Egypt is the pictorial equivalent of Fra Roberto's sermon. It is a visual homily that asks the viewer to seek out the significant meaning of details. Its imagery reflects the changing religious climate of pre-Tridentine Italy; a time fuelled by fervent debate and passionate preaching. It is within this context that the picture's didactic role as a meditative guide to the central mystery of the Eucharist can be best understood.
By emphasizing the violent confrontation between rushing warriors and a victim fallen to the ground, Raphael's Expulsion of Heliodorus and Titian's Death of Saint Peter Martyr respectively, established the paradigm of vivid-dynamic images imbued with rhetorical ornaments, especially enargeia. Such amplification of violence and affective impact directly recall Ciceronian oratory, that eloquent dialectic which Renaissance Rome perfected as a form of imperial propaganda and Venice inherited as a symbol of her new role as Nova Roma. Thus, the most animated and heroic inventions in the ouvre of Raphael and Titian can be analyzed through figures of speech which were recognized as intrinsic to painting already by the contemporary learned viewers.
Through an interdisciplinary study of ancient and early modern visual and verbal metaphors, this essay analyzes the role of enargeia in the representation of vividness and dynamism in those scenes in which the violent action seems to reoccur, according to the promises of the trope itself, before the beholder's eyes. Raphael and Titian changed the connotation of mimesis from resemblance to existence, from imitation to animation.
For the wedding of King Sigismund August of Poland to Catherine of Austria in 1553 the bridal suite at Wawel castle was adorned with a set of Flemish tapestries. The decoration was immediately described by Stanisław Orzechowski in his Nuptial Panagyricus. Owing to several factors he could not see the figural tapestries well enough, so not all the details in his ekphrasis could be accurate. However, he rallied his vast classical erudition and imitated (in fact, emulated) a number of ancient sources, in particular the Tablet of Cebes. The material, workmanship and realism of the arrases were lavishly praised. The author's visual culture was probably based on his extensive knowledge of classical literature. Although Orzechowski admitted that the nude First Parents depicted there aroused wanton members of the public, all of the scenes in the Garden of Eden series provided the royal couple with beneficial moral teachings.
To account for this paradox, a vast number of ancient, early Christian and Renaissance literary sources have been studied here in an attempt to find such an interpretation that would turn the alluring nudes to the moral benefit of the beholders. The justification could be found in the doctrine best expressed by St Augustine in his City of God. The impeccable nudes of Adam and Eve set before the bride and groom an ideal example of innocent marital feelings, recommended by Orzechowski to Sigismund August. According to Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, a secretary to the king, lascivious scenes could thus become 'the material to exercise virtue'.