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Police: Man tries to rob bank of $1 in prison bid
NORTHERN CAMBRIA, Pa. (AP) — Police say a man tried to rob a Pennsylvania bank of $1 because he hoped to be sent to a federal prison nearby.
A police complaint says 50-year-old regular customer Jeffrey McMullen walked into an AmeriServ bank Friday in Northern Cambria and handed notes to tellers demanding a dollar.
The complaint was reported by The Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown (http://bit.ly/Qcdx17).
The complaint says tellers thought it was a joke. He then spoke with a new accounts employee and repeated he was robbing the bank for a buck.
Police say McMullen apparently wanted to be prosecuted federally so he could be taken to a prison in central Pennsylvania. Police could not immediately say why.
McMullen awaits a preliminary hearing. It isn't clear whether he has an attorney.


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I have to say – this awkward looking dude is probably my favorite of the pre-picked ones we have …
I just thought this was a cool image of the pumpkins all in a line.
Now – if only I had moved that plastic picnic table – this would be the coolest picture ever!
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My hand next to one of the biggest stems on a wolf ever!!!!
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Do you want to play the old DOS games or applications? I do and I believe that there are still lots of ex DOS users want to run their old applications.
It was my first opereting system and I think I used it at about 25 years ago if I'm not mistaken. I like to remember what I did before especially if I have good memories with it. Playing Digger, Test drive or Lemmings, typing with wordstar, database with Dbase III+, spreadsheet with Lotus 123 or Impress and some utility tools like PCTools or Locksmith. Put in the big floppy disc for booting and replaced it with another floppy disc with the program. Hard disc was very rare on that time. But, I tell you, you were very lucky if you have a PC on that time.
Well, that's all the folk. Now, there is a emulator named DOSbox that can do that. For more details about the DOSbox emulator you can read it in wikipedia.org
The installation is very easy.
Make sure you are connected to the internet.
Open your linux terminal and type: sudo apt-get install dosbox.
Installation will start automatically.


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The Wood ShowName: The Wood ShowDate: November 22, 2020Website: http://artisanbarn.orgEvent Description:The Inland Northwest is an area where there are many nationally known wood artists. This exhibition includes the best examples from Spokane to the Tri-cities and also including the Moscow/Pullman area. This extraordinary collection of work ranges from the traditional to the avant-garde. It also includes furniture and decorative items..
An opening reception Saturday, August 1, 1:00pm — 3:00pm, will give visitors an opportunity to get a first glimpse at the new exhibition and meet the artists.
A wooden art exhibit is featured every other year and is one of our most popular and well attended exhibitions at the barn. This exhibition features work from artists within a 100 mile radius of our area; we truly have extraordinary talent so close to home!
Work by 20 artisans will be featured this year.
Their exquisite art and other fantastic artist's creations will all be on display from Saturday, August 1 through August 30.


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The Brunch Dish: Benedict Colombiano at Macondo
Brunch menus to do your weekend right.
Growing up in a Hispanic family, Sunday breakfast often consisted of homemade arepas with scrambled eggs. The smell of sizzling diced tomatoes and scallions (my favorite additions) would waft from the kitchen into my bedroom, waking me up in the most comforting way. That memory is undoubtedly why I was so eager to try the Benedict Colombiano at Macondo on the Lower East Side. If it could bring me back to the flavors of home, I knew I risked developing a dangerous addiction. Luckily for me, brunch at Macondo is a decent deal--the entrees, though priced around $14, come with a complimentary drink. Not bad.
The Benedict Colombiano is simple in its composition, mimicking its traditional counterpart. A sweet yellow corn arepa replaces the English muffin, and a saffron lemon aioli is a welcome change from Hollandaise. The flavors and textures are far from simple, though. The arepa is made thicker than usual, and with less of a sear, acting more like a corn muffin with spot-on flavors that reminded me of home. The unctuous yolk and rich aioli play off each other nicely, benefiting from the lemon's subtle acidity. Complex? Definitely. Comforting? Even more so.
If the staff at Macondo makes one thing clear, it's that they take their food very seriously at all times of the day--not only will they make sure you know all about their "estilo libre latino," but they're also likely to ask you to discuss your thoughts on each course. They're a tad excessive in this department; but I'll let it slide for a good taste of home.
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Asdrubal determined to lift Indians to greater heights
Shortstop hopes to get club back to postseason in contract year
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Indians manager Terry Francona was struggling to fall asleep. Shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera was having the same problem. The weight of the loss to Tampa Bay in the American League Wild Card Game was too heavy to push away.
At around 2 a.m. on Oct. 3, Francona's cell phone buzzed.
It was a text message from Cabrera.
I know I can do more.
Francona replied.
Players like you, that's why I'm here. It's because of players like you, Cabby.
This is Cabrera's chance to do more. It is also possibly his final season in an Indians uniform, considering his contract expires at season's end and highly touted shortstop prospect Francisco Lindor is waiting in the wings. Early on this spring, Cabrera and Lindor have been spotted chatting during team stretch and interacting during workouts.
It has been a glimpse of the Tribe's present and future at shortstop.
Cabrera is not concerning himself with his future at the moment. What is foremost on his mind is doing all he can to distance himself from last season's personal struggles and the Wild Card loss, and giving everything he has to the Indians this year.
"Everything that happened last year stays in the past," Cabrera said. "I'm focusing on this new year for us, for the team, and trying to get better. It was tough for me. Not just for me, but for the team."
Mention the trade rumors that have seemingly followed Cabrera in each of the past three winters and the shortstop smirks. Such whispers bubbled to the surface again this past offseason, because the two-time All-Star is earning $10 million in a contract year.
"Every time I saw that I started laughing and said, 'Again?'" Cabrera said.
Indians general manager Chris Antonetti has never been shy about saying he will always be open to listening to trade offers for any of his players. Cleveland surely fielded questions about Cabrera this past winter, too. Antonetti was also quick to note that -- after all the reports, rumors and rumblings -- the shortstop was still with the Tribe.
Francona said he always saw Cabrera as a part of the 2014 formula.
"Wanting him back was everybody's preference," Francona said. "That's an easy one. He's a good player."
Cabrera has been a great player for the Indians in the past. Across the 2011-12 seasons, he posted a .272/.335/.443 slash line with 41 home runs, 67 doubles and 160 RBIs in 294 games. What Cabrera might lack in comprehensive defensive analysis, he has certainly made up for with jaw-dropping, highlight-reel plays. For his work at the plate in 2011, he earned a Silver Slugger Award.
Cabrera hit at a .226 clip through April, but rebounded with a .273 average across May and through June 3, when he sustained a strained right quad while running out a grounder at Yankee Stadium. After coming off the disabled list, Cabrera posted a .222 average through the final 78 games of the season. When the smoke cleared, his .242 average and .299 on-base percentage for the year were the worst marks of his career.
"I think I had some bad luck," Cabrera offers with a shrug. "I felt like I swung the bat good, but everything I hit was straight to people. That happens in this game. It's a tough game. It's not every year that you have good numbers."
Cabrera's comments are supported by the .283 batting average on balls in play, which fell well below the .319 mark he put up in the previous six seasons combined. Another positive came in his final 20 games in September, when he hit .300 with an .898 OPS. During that stretch, Cleveland went 16-4, clinching a spot in the playoffs in the process.
"That was really fun," said Cabrera, who is the last remaining member of Cleveland's 2007 playoff team. "I enjoyed that year like in '07. I think a little bit more than '07, because I started the season with the team."
That is what made the Wild Card Game hurt so much.
The city was energized and Progressive Field was packed. A sea of red greeted the Rays and created a raucous environment that stirred memories of the Tribe's glory days. Tampa Bay's Alex Cobb quieted the noise with a strong performance, slicing his way through the heart of the local nine.
In the bottom of the third inning, the Indians loaded the bases for Cabrera with one out. Facing a three-run deficit, it was a chance for the shortstop to play hero, erasing his season-long woes and keeping Cleveland's magical run alive.
Cabrera chopped into a rally-killing double play.
"That was a tough game," Cabrera said. "I felt bad that we lost that game. I had one situation with men in scoring position and I hit a ball for a double play. That happens in the game."
Cabrera -- banged up more than people realized, according to Francona -- spent the first month of the offseason resting. He then flew Nelson Perez, Cleveland's assistant strength and conditioning coach, to Miami and trained hard in the months leading up to Spring Training. Francona said the shortstop gained speed and agility, according to various tests over the winter.
Cabrera reported to camp thinner and motivated to help the Tribe pick up where it left off.
"We have a really good team," Cabrera said. "If we keep doing what we were doing last year, we'll be all right."
Francona thinks Cabrera will play a big part in making that happen.
"I don't think he was pleased with the way the year went," Francona said. "And I kind of think he felt like he was going to come in, and we all felt he'd come in, with something to prove. Even though he's been in the league [several] years, this is a big year for him, personally and for our team."


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In Praise of Longchen Rabjam
Translated by Adam Pearcey
Due to the kindness of Guru Padmasambhava, there have been many great holders of the teachings here in Tibet, the Land of Snows. There have appeared highly accomplished saints who were no different from the vidyadharas of India, the Land of the Aryas. Yet although there have been countless eminent scholars, none of them might be compared with the Six Ornaments and Two Supreme Ones of India in terms of wisdom and enlightened activity.
In later times there was the Omniscient One from Samy é, Longchenpa, who was the equal of the Jowo Kadampa gesh és in terms of his ethical discipline and practice of training the mind (lojong), and who was like Jetsun Milarepa in how he first served his teacher and then spent his life meditating in solitude on the guru's instructions.
On account of his total mastery of study and contemplation, his fearless eloquence and his achievements in explanation, debate, and composition, we might compare him to the likes of Sakya Pandita, the Lord of Dharma, or the precious Je Tsongkhapa.
How he reached the final accomplishment and arrived at the exhaustion of reality within the primordial state was just like the great Chetsun Seng é Wangchuk, Melong Dorj é, and others.
In terms of his ability to manipulate phenomenal existence and call upon the assistance of the oath-bound guardians, he was comparable to the great awareness holders of Nub. In keeping to the tenets of the pinnacle of all yanas and surpassing all the views and philosophies fabricated by the ordinary mind, he was like the great Rongzom.
If we consider the vast array of instructions he passed on in an oral lineage and the way he cared for the disciples who maintained his tradition, we might compare him to Sachen Kunga Nyingpo or Marpa Lotsawa.
His mastery over the conventional sciences and the way in which Sarasvati, the goddess of learning, lent power to his speech made him the equal of the lotsawas of the past. The way great clouds of blessings are amassed within his written instructions makes them identical to the profound Dharma treasures of the great tertöns. His perfect training in bodhichitta and his ability to benefit all those with whom he came into contact was reminiscent of Dromtonpa or the peerless Dakpo Lhaj é (Gampopa).
Other Tibetan scholars took as their basis the excellent Indian treatises but then added explanations based on their own clever ideas, with the result that on occasion their statements no longer accord with scripture or valid reasoning. In particular, the works of Nagarjuna and his successors have been fervently debated among Tibetans, with the assertions of earlier Tibetan scholars subjected to a great deal of presumptuous refutation and affirmation by later scholars. Yet the explanations of the Omniscient One remain true to the tradition of the Six Ornaments and Two Supreme Ones in their beginning, middle, and end.
Other Tibetan siddhas possessed only a few instructions from the oral lineage and then taught the holders of their tradition to meditate on selected instructions. Gyalwa Longchenpa, by contrast, was the master of countless teachings from profound transmissions. He possessed all manner of instructions, which had been passed down from vidyadharas and accomplished siddhas, from dakas and dakinis, or received directly from Guru Padmasambhava and so on. This meant he could lead the holders of his tradition to attainment by encouraging them to practice diligently those instructions for which they felt the greatest affinity.
Other learned and accomplished masters may have given complete teachings on particular instructions, but they did not have practices for all the teachings in their entirety. The Omniscient Guru explained all the teachings completely. He revealed the instructions for gaining supreme and common accomplishments in general, from the kriya- and charyatantras onwards, and all the tantras and pith instructions of Dzogpa Chenpo in particular, and so he is the true charioteer of the essence of clear light teachings.
In addition, his wisdom body has appeared in visions before those with great good fortune, granting them realization and so on.
In short, I believe Gyalwa Longchenpa to be the unique embodiment of the enlightened qualities of all the learned and accomplished masters of the Land of Snows. If you consider this honestly, you will find this to be just how it is, neither an exaggeration nor an understatement.
Gaining experience and realization through meditation-
That is common to all forms of pith instruction.
But gaining experience and realization through nonmeditation-
How could anyone fail to seize upon something so amazing?
Ha! Ha!
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The beginning of the paper On the foundations of combinatorial theory. VI. The idea of generating function (1972) link text says that
Since Laplace discovered the remarkable correspondence between set theoretic operations and operations on formal power series, and put it to use with great success to solve a variety of combinatorial problems, generating functions (and their continuous analogues, namely, characteristic functions) have become an essential probabilistic and combinatorial technique. A unified exposition of their theory, however, is lacking in the literature. This is not surprising, in view of the fact that all too often generating functions have been considered to be simply an application of the current methods of harmonic analysis.
Would someone explain the meaning of the paragraph in detail, please? Especially, what is
"the correspondence",
characteristic functions as continuous analogues of generating functions, and
the "current methods of harmonic analysis"?
Since I'm not familiar with harmonic analysis, I also wonder if "more current" methods in this discipline might aid solving combinatorial problems.


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On Friday, Oscar Pistorius was freed on bail as he awaits trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Though the magistrate did not judge him a flight risk, despite offshore bank accounts and access to a home in Italy, he was required to turn in his passport, and to check in regularly with police.
Pistorius, unable to return to his home, is staying with an aunt and uncle in a well-to-do Pretoria suburb. (It's not clear if this is the same aunt who is a famous criminal profiler.) And he's apparently chafing at the terms of his bail already: Pistorius's attorney is considering asking the court to ease some of his bail conditions.
The lawyer, Kenny Oldwage, told Bloomberg News:
"He just really wants to get on with his life."
Which is about the worst thing you can say about a guy facing a murder trial.


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(Biblical Archaeology) Ancient Rome was the superpower of its day. Yet, when the Romans conquered the tiny province of Judea and quashed the First Jewish Revolt in 70 C.E., it was actually a pretty big deal.
BAR readers are familiar with the Judea Capta coins issued by the emperors to celebrate the Roman victory over the Jews,a but new projects are shining a light on some of Rome's most famous monuments and the important role of the defeated Jews in the distant city.
Restoration work was set to begin in December on the iconic Colosseum, Rome's first all-stone amphitheater, which could seat upwards of 50,000 spectators for its gladiatorial bouts, animal hunts and mock naval battles. The work, expected to conclude in mid-2015, will include the cleaning and restoration of the familiar arcaded façade, the creation of a services center, and the restoration of numerous galleries and underground spaces.
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Parks and Recreation
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Castle Rock is known for its small-town charm, family-friendly community events and abundant parks, open space and trails. Established in 1977, the Parks and Recreation Department served a population of merely 2,000. Through robust community planning, nearly 65,000 residents now enjoy 95 miles of trails, 53 well-planned parks - including the reimagined Festival Park - and just under 6,000 acres of open space that define the region's most prominent features.
According to recent U.S. Census data, Castle Rock is the 7th fastest growing city in America, which tasks the Department with being a dynamic, progressive agency. We achieve community-driven strategic direction using interactive planning as our foundation. 2017 Community Survey results documented that maintaining strong parks and recreation services is nearly equal to ensuring public safety as the top strategic initiative. National publications like Money magazine, American City and County and others have listed Castle Rock as a great place to live and raise a family, and Douglas County is the second healthiest community in the nation.
The annual operating and capital budget for the department is approximately $18 million. Staff consists of 55 full-time employees and nearly 500 seasonal employees. In addition to parks, open space and trails, the department manages a robust volunteer program, two full-service recreation facilities, a maintenance service center, a championship golf course, a state-licensed preschool, inline hockey and tennis courts, a disc-golf course, natural and synthetic-turf athletic fields, indoor and outdoor pools and three splash pads. Beginning last fall, residents are now able to enjoy the reimagined Festival Park at the heart of Downtown Castle Rock.
Each year, we host hundreds of special events, cultural opportunities, programs and activities for families, youth and adults. Through partnerships, we offer zip lines and adventure courses at Philip S. Miller Park and recreational opportunities at the Rueter-Hess Reservoir. We strive to ensure all have access to recreation through our Adaptive Recreation and scholarship program sand promote health and wellness through high-quality fitness programming, equipment, personal training options and self-directed recreation opportunities.
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The Parks and Recreation Commission typically meets the third Wednesday of each month at 5 p.m. at the Millhouse at Philip S. Miller Park, 1381 W. Plum Creek Parkway.
The Castle Rock Parks and Trails Foundation works to enhance Castle Rock's parks, trails and recreational spaces. We believe these amenities make Castle Rock unique, and as a community, we can make our recreational spaces even better.
The Public Art Commission identifies priorities and goals concerning the acquisition of art for public buildings and parks within the Town. Appointees shall be residents and / or artists in the metro community. Meetings are typically held the second Thursday of each month at Town Hall, 100 N. Wilcox St.
Seven Best of the Best Awards from Colorado Community Media
- Family Entertainment Center - Miller Activity Complex
- Golf Course – Red Hawk Ridge
- Gymnastics – Castle Rock Recreation Center
- Live Music Venue - Amphitheater at Philip S. Miller Park
- Park – Philip S. Miller Park
- Summer Camps (kids) - Summer Camps at the MAC
- Swimming Pool/Waterpark - Castle Rock Recreation Center
Town of Castle Rock Parks and Recreation announced as the 2018 National Gold Medal Award winner!
Each resident of Castle Rock is moved by something different. Perhaps you're moved by the feeling of triumph in the eyes of a determined runner as she finishes her first ultramarathon at the Castle Rock Trails Festival; or by the joyous smile of a four-year-old getting his first hit off his coach's pitch; or maybe it's by the community's rally behind those hurting in the face of tragedy; or it's the communal wave of carefree teenagers singing along with their favorite band during a concert at the Amphitheater. Whatever it is that moves you, the residents of Castle Rock, one thing is certain: each of those things that moves you, is what moves us.
Your voices move us to strive for excellence, and those efforts paid off. The Town of Castle Rock Parks and Recreation Department was honored with the highest achievement attainable in its profession, the National Gold Medal Award!
"Receiving the Gold Medal award is a true testament to the successful collaboration between active residents and community leadership," Parks and Recreation Director Jeff Brauer stated. "We celebrate this recognition with the community we serve and are honored to provide world-class facilities and programming that enhance the quality of life in Castle Rock. This shared vision drives our department to be the best in our profession, the orchestrator of fun and the heart of our community."
Founded in 1965, the Gold Medal Award honors communities in the U.S. which demonstrate excellence in parks and recreation through long-range planning, resource management, volunteerism, environmental stewardship, program development, professional development, and agency recognition. Applications are separated into seven classes, with five classes based on population, one class for armed forces recreation, and one class for state park systems awarded on odd-numbered years.The Town of Castle Rock was named one of four finalists earlier this year in the Class IV category, which serves populations of 30,001 – 75,000. Other Class IV finalists included the Centerville-Washington Park District of Centerville, OH; the City of Waukesha Parks, Recreation & Forestry Department of Waukesha, WI.; and the Lombard Park District of Lombard, IL.
A panel of five park and recreation professionals reviewed and judged the application materials, including the video at the top of this page, from each of the finalist organizations. Judges are chosen for their considerable experience and knowledge in parks and recreation on both the local and national levels.
The Castle Rock Parks and Recreation Department has been a finalist for the National Gold medal twice, and the national winner in 2012.
2015 CAPRA Accreditation
The Department was accredited in 2015. The Commission for Accreditation of Park and Recreation Agencies (CAPRA) recognizes park and recreation agencies for excellence in operation and service. Charged with providing high-quality services and experiences, park and recreation agencies across the United States turn to CAPRA Accreditation as a credible and efficient means of achieving these goals, while providing assurance to the public that the agency meets national standards of best practice.
2012 and 2018 National Gold Medal Winner
The National Recreation and Park Association Gold Medal Award honors communities nationwide that demonstrate excellence in long-range planning, resource management and agency recognition. Each agency is judged on its ability to address the needs of those it serves through the collective energies of residents, staff and elected officials.


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Having a baby changes your body. Here's some advice to help you feel comfortable with your body.
Physical problems after pregnancy
There may be physical problems after having a baby.
They can be related to pregnancy or birth, or the things you do while caring for young children, such as lifting and bending.
For some problems, you can do a lot to help yourself. For example, if you have a leaky bladder (incontinence) or a heavy feeling between your vagina and anus, you may need to strengthen the muscles around your bladder by doing pelvic floor exercises.
Also, if you have back pain, you may need to learn how to look after your back and do some exercises to strengthen it.
If a physical problem is bothering you, ask a GP or health visitor for help at any time. They can advise you and the GP can refer you to a specialist if necessary.
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Your postnatal check at around 6 to 8 weeks after the birth of your baby is a good time to talk to the GP about any physical or mental health problems you've had since the birth.
Find out more about what happens at your postnatal check.
Separated stomach muscles
It's common for the 2 muscles that run down the middle of your stomach to separate during pregnancy. This is called diastasis recti, or divarication.
The amount of separation can vary. It happens because your growing womb (uterus) pushes the muscles apart, making them longer and weaker.
The separation between your stomach muscles will usually go back to normal by the time your baby is 8 weeks old.
After you have had your baby, you can check the size of the separation with this simple technique:
- Lie on your back with your legs bent and your feet flat on the floor.
- Raise your shoulders off the floor slightly and look down at your tummy.
- Using the tips of your fingers, feel between the edges of the muscles, above and below your belly button. See how many fingers you can fit into the gap between your muscles.
Do this regularly to check that the gap is gradually getting smaller.
If the gap is still obvious 8 weeks after the birth, contact the GP as you may be at risk of back problems. The GP can refer you to a physiotherapist, who will give you some specific exercises to do.
Regular pelvic floor and deep stomach muscle exercises can help to reduce the size of the separation between your stomach muscles. It's also important to stand up tall and be aware of your posture.
Pelvic floor muscle exercises
Pelvic floor muscle exercises strengthen the muscles around your bladder, vagina and bottom. This can help to stop incontinence, improve prolapse and make sex better too.
You can do these exercises lying down, sitting or standing. With practice, they can be done anywhere and at any time:
- Squeeze and draw in your bottom as if you're holding in wind.
- Squeeze around your vagina and bladder (urethra) as if you're stopping the flow of urine or squeezing during intercourse.
- Long squeezes – hold for as long as you can, but no longer than 10 seconds, then relax.
- Short squeezes – quickly squeeze the muscles and then let them go immediately. Do this until your muscles get tired.
Aim to build up to 10 repeats of each exercise, at least 3 times a day.
It's important to keep breathing normally while you do these exercises. Make sure you don't pull in your stomach when you squeeze.
Sitting on the toilet can be a good reminder to do your exercises. Just make sure you do them after you've finished.
Visit the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists website for more tips to strengthen your pelvic floor.
Stomach exercise
This exercise can help you tone your stomach muscles:
- Lie on your side with your knees slightly bent.
- Let your tummy relax and breathe in gently.
- As you breathe out, gently draw in the lower part of your stomach like a corset, narrowing your waistline.
- Squeeze your pelvic floor muscles at the same time.
- Hold for a count of 10, breathing normally, then gently release.
Repeat up to 10 times.
Ways to ease back pain
These practical tips may help to relieve an aching back:
- while feeding your baby, sit with your back well supported and straight. Put a small pillow or cushion behind your waist to support your lower back. Make sure your feet can reach the floor
- kneel or squat (do not bend your back) to do tasks that are near the floor, such as picking up toys or bathing your baby
- change a nappy on a raised surface. You could kneel on the floor next to a sofa or bed. Never leave your baby unattended on a raised surface, in case they fall off
- keep your back straight and bend your knees when lifting
- Keep your back straight when you push your pram or buggy. Or, carry your baby in a well-fitting sling
More on your wellbeing after birth:
- Coping with stress after having a baby
- Keeping fit and healthy after a baby
- Managing sleep and tiredness
Page last reviewed: 04/10/2019
Next review due: 04/10/2022


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Philippe Van Nedervelde
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Philippe Van Nedervelde represented the Foresight Nanotech Institute in Europe from 1997 through 2014. He did so primarily by means of multimedia presentations throughout Europe to audiences of all sizes and compositions (academic, business, governmental, civilian); by interfacing with the media; by representation at European Union level events such as EU parliamentary hearings and through assistance and support to US Foresight Executives when they visit Europe for presentations etc.
Thanks to an innate gift for languages and his life-long study of their associated cultures —not counting 6 and 5 humanities' years of Latin and Ancient Greek respectively, Philippe is a five-fold polyglot and presently adding Russian — Philippe takes special care to represent Foresight with particular cultural sensitivity to Europe's at times significantly culturally divergent nations.
As a regular (keynote) speaker at conferences and other events/occasions, he focuses his public education and communication efforts on making these complex multi-faceted technologies understandable, especially to lay audiences.
Reflecting his active concern for maximizing the upside and minimizing the possible downsides of powerful emerging technologies and nanotechnology in particular, in 1999, as an active member of the Monterey Working Group on Molecular Nanotechnology (MNT) Research Policy Guidelines, Philippe co-authored the Foresight Guidelines on Molecular Nanotechnology, a proposed self-regulation tool for the nanoscience field and the burgeoning nanotechnology industry intended to assure that research, development and market deployments in this rapidly developing field proceed safely and responsibly.
With the benefit of the perspective of his military experience regarding defensive strategies against WMDs — Philippe completed Special Officer-Training in Nuclear-Biological-Chemical (NBC) weapons, defense & countermeasures in his capacity of Belgian Army Reserves Officer — he is also particularly concerned with the mitigation of the WMD-related and other national and international security risks deriving from emerging NBIC technologies.
In January 2004, Philippe was invited and participated, in his capacity as an international expert on emerging innovative technologies including nanotechnology, in a select Experts-Consultation External Working Group on Unconventional Security Threats, organized in Washington D.C. by the Strategic Assessments Group (SAG) of the US Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Intelligence. The SAG is the Intelligence Community's focal point for providing integrated assessments of long-term political, economic, military, and technology trends in key regions of the world. As such, it runs a program involving outside experts with intelligence community analysts to promote the exchange of ideas and knowledge.
Both as a public speaker and entrepreneur, Philippe's work is motivated by a passionate desire to service and assist the aspirations of societies, organizations and individuals for perpetual self-improvement and enhancement of their performance all-round through a cautious, judicious yet committed and determined application of emerging powerful technologies, in particular nanotechnology, bio-technology, information technology and cognitive technologies, a.k.a. the technologies of the NBIC convergence.
On the for-profit side of his activities, since the early 90's Philippe's primary business and profession is in online interactive 3D graphics, a.k.a. networked or multi-user Virtual Reality or "tele-virtuality". In particular he is the award-winning founder, CEO and majority-owner of E-spaces, his VR production house specialized in online multi-user VR world and communities for business, governmental, education and consumer audiences.
E-spaces has delivered well over 50 online VR and (interactive) 3D graphics projects. Major international customer-list includes NASA, UNESCO, the European Commission, Flemish Government, Ericsson Business Networks, Nokia and IBM. E-spaces has its HQ in Belgium, with production studios in various locations in eastern Europe as well as a satellite sales office in Los Angeles, CA.
Even within his for-profit activities which are not directly related to nanotechnology, Philippe endeavors to contribute to the development of the broad field of nanotechnology. In 2001, he created, NanoVisions, an individually branded department of his E-spaces company, dedicated to 3D animations (interactive & pre-rendered) visualizing nanotechnology in general and aspects of molecular manufacturing and molecular-scale nano-devices in particular.
NanoVisions consolidates and seeks to further develop E-spaces' pre-existing efforts in nanotechnology computer graphics visualizations, such as those for the Machines Alive (1998), an international TV documentary about nanotechnology, produced by Interworld Productions, LLC (Seattle, Washington) as well as the Beyond Man (1999 & 2004) documentary by Votnik Productions (Brussels, Belgium).
A self-confessed unrepentant serial-entrepreneur, Philippe was the driving force behind — so far — two early nanotechnology business start-up initiatives. Eutactix (1997) focused on manufacturing and marketing a range of low-cost SPMs starting with an entry-level SPM for students formulated as an USB-peripheral for PCs and notebooks. NanoVironment (2000), an environmentally-themed nanotech start-up, was conceived to focus on applying nano-scale filtering technology to the cleaning of polluted top-soils, waste waters and possibly also desalination.
In parallel to other enterprises, Philippe is currently preparing two sibling NBIC convergence ventures: the Nexus NBIC Directory and XLR8 TV.
Philippe holds a master's degree in communication as well as a post-graduate degree in Media and Information Science from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. As no teaching body was offering such courses yet at the time, Philippe is a self-taught 2D and 3D user-interface designer and interactive media content producer, both disciplines which were at the core of his interactive media technologies consultancy with which Philippe started his multimedia and VR/i3D development and production career.
On a somewhat more personal note, you may be interested to know that sooner or later, Philippe consistently turns his hobbies into professional concerns, be they for-profit or non-profit. With that in mind, his past and current hobby interests include (in no particular order): spaceflight; astronomy; personal flight (Philippe flies his own two paramotors); wearable computers; augmented reality; personal computing; 3D computer games; 3D user-interfaces; Judo photography; guitar-playing; public speaking; human performance enhancement technologies; food-supplements; Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno (NBIC) Convergence technologies; "hard" science-fiction novels & movies; transvergent cosmonomy; innovative remote collaboration technologies, including live audio-visual 3D avatars; multi-sensorial immersion technologies including visual, auditory and tactile/kinesthetic/proprioceptive (force-) feedback; auto-stereoscopic, stereoscopic and free-air interactive display technologies.
Philippe is the proud father of two sons: David (1996) and Thomas (1997).
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CHICAGO -- With two converted infielders playing the corner outfield positions and a new center fielder, the Mets understand how important their outfield defense is. Especially when their runs are at a premium.
"That's one of the reasons why [Rick Ankiel is] here," manager Terry Collins said of his newly acquired center fielder. "It allows us to platoon out there with he and [Juan Lagares], who are both very good defenders. When your right fielder now is a converted infielder and the left fielder is a converted infielder, you've got to be aggressive. You've got to take some of those fly balls. Hopefully, we put them in the right spots."
There are clearly still some growing pains, as in Thursday's win over the Cardinals, when Ankiel hesitated on a two-out hit by Pete Kozma that fell in for an RBI double. But Collins said that third-base coach Tim Teufel and first-base coach Tom Goodwin work on how to best configure converted infielders Lucas Duda and Jordany Valdespin when they're in left and right field, respectively, to give them all the help they can.
Collins expects Valdespin, who played 15 games in the infield last year but has been used primarily as an outfielder this season, to be tested this weekend at Wrigley Field, where right field can be a challenge.
"It all depends how that wind's blowing," Collins said. "If that baby's blowing out here, you can't play deep enough. But I give [Valdespin] a lot of credit -- he does take a lot of fly balls during batting practice, and if we have to, we'll get him out of there if we think that's going to pose a problem. But we've got to get a lead."
Entering Friday, the Mets had scored 165 runs, which ranks them 21st in the Majors. They've scored three runs or fewer in eight of their last 10 games and in 13 of their last 19, prompting Collins to field a lineup more suited to score than perhaps defend.
"When you're not scoring, you've got to get some offense in there," he said. "I hate to give up defense, but defense right now isn't helping us very much. We've got to find some ways to score some runs."


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At a certain level of complexity and obligation, sets of blocks can easily go from fun to tiresome to assemble. Legos? K'Nex? Great. Ikea furniture? Bridges? Construction scaffolding? Not so much. To make things easier, three scientists at MIT recently exhibited a system of self-assembling cubic robots that could in theory automate the process of putting complex systems together.
The blocks, dubbed M-Blocks, use a combination of magnets and an internal flywheel to move around and stick together. The flywheels, running off an internal battery, generate angular momentum that allows the blocks to flick themselves at each other, spinning them through the air. Magnets on the surfaces of the blocks allow them to click into position.
Each flywheel inside the blocks can spin at up to 20,000 rotations per minute. Motion happens when the flywheel spins and then is suddenly braked by a servo motor that tightens a belt encircling the flywheel, imparting its angular momentum to the body of the blocks. That momentum sends the block flying at a certain velocity toward its fellow blocks (if there is a lot of it) or else rolling across the ground (if there's less of it). Watching a video of the blocks self-assembling, the effect is similar to watching Sid's toys rally in Toy Story—a little off-putting to see so many parts moving into a whole at once, unpredictably moving together like balletic dying fish.
Each of the blocks is controlled by a 32-bit ARM microprocessor and three 3.7 volt batteries that afford each one between 20 and 100 moves before the battery life is depleted. Rolling is the least complicated motion, though the blocks can also use their flywheels to turn corners, climb over each other, or even complete a leap from ground level to three blocks high, sticking the landing on top of a column 51 percent of the time.
The blocks use 6-axis inertial measurement units, like those found on planes, ships, or spacecrafts, to figure out how they are oriented in space. Each cube has an IR LED and a photodiode that cubes use to communicate with each other.
The authors note that the cubes' motion is not very precise yet; one cube is considered to have moved successfully if it hits its goal position within three tries. The researchers found the RPMs needed to generate momentum for different movements through trial and error.
If the individual cube movements weren't enough, groups of the cubes can also move together in either a cluster or as a row of cubes rolling in lockstep. A set of four cubes arranged in a square attempting to roll together in a block approaches the limits of the cubes' hardware, the authors write. The cubes can even work together to get around an obstacle, rolling over each other and stacking together World War Z-zombie style until the bump in the road has been crossed.
The researchers who assembled the project write that the cubes' design is scale-independent—it could serve as the basis for a system of millions of tiny cubes or a bunch of really big ones. MIT compares their future potential to the liquid steel of Terminator II, but mobile cubes could also be used more generally for repair situations like patching up buildings or bridges in emergencies, for instance.
The authors note that for the same flywheel speed and volume scale, a single large block could generate more torque than a same-sized assembly of many small blocks. In the future, the group hopes to implement bi-directional flywheels that will save the cubes some effort for certain kinds of motion and give them more versatility.
So commercial self-assembling pieces are a long way off. That's just as well. If we unboxed Ikea cabinets only to have the pieces start inching and flopping toward each other… well, the world is not ready for that yet.


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2007:29 Intercomparison of Cement Solid-Solution Models
Many concepts for the geological storage of radioactive waste incorporate cement based materials, which act to provide a chemical barrier, impede groundwater flow or provide structural integrity of the underground structures. Thus, it is important to understand the long-term behaviour of theseInnehållstyp: Publikationer
2007:32 Low pH Cements
Concrete and cement are used in constructions as well as in conditioning of waste in repositories for radioactive waste. The development of low pH cements for use in geological repositories for radioactive waste stem from concerns over the potential for deleterious effects upon the host rockInnehållstyp: Publikationer
2007:30 Modelling the Interaction of Low pH Cements and Bentonite
Concrete and cement are used in constructions as well as in conditioning of waste inrepositories for radioactive waste. It is well known that in the hyperalkaline conditions (pH > 12) of standard cement pore fluids, there is potential for deleterious effects upon the host rock and other EBSInnehållstyp: Publikationer
2007:21 On tentative decommissioning cost analysis with specific authentic cost calculations with the application of the Omega code on a case linked to the Intermediate storage facility for spent fuel in Sweden
The aim of this applied study has been to demonstrate how a cost calculation is done in a systematic way. The framework of the project has been limited to older nuclear installations in Sweden. Furthermore, it may be envisaged that the process of making regular estimates of all the parametersInnehållstyp: Publikationer
2007:02 Stakeholder involvement in Swedish nuclear waste management
This report have attempted to show the development of stakeholder involvement in the siting of a final repository for Sweden's spent nuclear fuel as resembling something other than a straightforward linear process of improvement and refinement. Stakeholder involvement has developed, over theInnehållstyp: Publikationer
2007:03 Variability and Uncertainties of Key Hydrochemical Parameters for SKB Sites
An important part of the site investigations conducted by the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB) is the characterisation of groundwater chemical conditions in the deep bedrock environment where a final repository for spent nuclear fuel is planned to be located. This work isInnehållstyp: Publikationer
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Nicolas Poussin
|Nicolas Poussin
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Self portrait by Nicolas Poussin, 1650
June 1594
near Les Andelys, Normandy, Kingdom of France (now France)
|19 November 1665
(aged 71)
Rome, Papal States (now Italy)
|Known for
|Notable work
|Et in Arcadia ego, 1637–38
Nicolas Poussin (French: [nikɔlɑ pusɛ̃]; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. His work is characterized by clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. Until the 20th century he remained a major inspiration for such classically oriented artists as Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Paul Cézanne.
He worked in Rome for a circle of leading collectors from there and elsewhere, except for a short period when Cardinal Richelieu ordered him back to France to serve as First Painter to the King. Most of his works are history paintings of religious or mythological subjects that very often have a large landscape element.
Early years
Nicolas Poussin's early biographer was his friend Giovanni Pietro Bellori,[1] who relates that Poussin was born near Les Andelys in Normandy and that he received an education that included some Latin, which would stand him in good stead. Early sketches attracted the notice of Quentin Varin, a local painter, whose pupil Poussin became, until he ran away to Paris at the age of eighteen. There he entered the studios of the Flemish painter Ferdinand Elle and then of Georges Lallemand, both minor masters now remembered for having tutored Poussin. He found French art in a stage of transition: the old apprenticeship system was disturbed, and the academic training destined to supplant it was not yet established by Simon Vouet. In Paris, Poussin was impressed by Italian art he viewed in the royal collection, and studied engravings after Raphael and Giulio Romano.[2]
He attempted to travel to Rome, but after reaching Florence he was forced, perhaps by ill health, to return to Paris.[3] In 1622 he met Giambattista Marino, the court poet to Marie de Medici, at Lyon. Marino employed him on illustrations for a projected edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses.[4] These "Marino drawings" preserved at Windsor Castle are among the very few identifiable works of Poussin executed before his arrival in Rome.[5] Marino took him into his household, and in 1624 enabled Poussin (who had been detained by commissions in Lyon and Paris) to rejoin him at Rome. It has been suggested that it was this early friendship with Marino, and the commissioning of illustrations of his Ovidian poetry, that founded, or at least reinforced, the prominent eroticism in Poussin's early work.[6]
In Rome
Poussin was thirty when he arrived in Rome in 1624. At first he lodged with Simon Vouet.[7] Through Marino, he had been introduced to Marcello Sacchetti who in turn introduced him to another of his early patrons, Cardinal Francesco Barberini. Financial difficulties arose with the departure to Spain of Barberini, accompanied by Cassiano dal Pozzo, the antiquarian and the Cardinal's secretary, who later would become a great friend and patron. However, their return from Spain in 1626 stabilized Poussin's position, with renewed patronage by the Barberini and their circle. Two major commissions at this period resulted in Poussin's early masterwork, the Barberini Death of Germanicus (1628), partly inspired by the reliefs of the Meleager sarcophagus,[8] and the commission for St. Peter's that amounted to a public debut, the Martyrdom of St. Erasmus (1629, Vatican Pinacoteca), indebted to designs on the same subject by the contemporary Baroque painter, Pietro da Cortona.[9] He fell ill at this time and was taken into the house of his compatriot Jacques Dughet, where he was nursed by Dughet's daughter, Anna Maria, who Poussin married in 1630. His two brothers-in-law were artists and Gaspard Dughet later took Poussin's surname.[10]
During the late 1620s and 1630s, he experimented and formulated his own style. He studied the Antique as well as works such as Titian's Bacchanals (The Bacchanal of the Andrians, Bacchus and Ariadne, and The Worship of Venus) at the Casino Ludovisi and the paintings of Domenichino and Guido Reni.[11] At the same time, the Roman Baroque was emerging: in the 1620s Cortona was producing his early Baroque paintings for the Sacchetti family; Bernini, having established his reputation in sculpture, was designing the great bronze baldachin in St. Peter's; and an ingenious architectural imagination was emerging in works by Borromini.
Poussin became acquainted with other artists in Rome and tended to befriend those with classicizing artistic leanings: the French sculptor François Duquesnoy whom he lodged with in 1626; the French artist Jacques Stella; Claude Lorraine; Domenichino; Andrea Sacchi; and joined an informal academy of artists and patrons opposed to the current Baroque style that formed around Joachim von Sandrart.
At the time the papacy was Rome's foremost patron of the arts. Poussin's Martyrdom of St. Erasmus for St. Peter's was Poussin's only papal commission, secured for him by Cardinal Barberini, the papal nephew, and Poussin was not asked again to contribute major altarpieces or paint large scale decorations for a pope.[12] His subsequent career depended on private patronage. Apart from Cardinal Francesco Barberini, his first patrons included Cardinal Luigi Omodei, for whom he produced the Triumphs of Flora (c 1630–32, Louvre); Cardinal de Richelieu, who commissioned various Bacchanals; Vincenzo Giustiniani, for whom he painted the Massacre of the Innocents (uncertain early date, Museé Condé, Chantilly);[13] Cassiano dal Pozzo who became the owner of the first series of the Seven Sacraments (late 1630s, Belvoir Castle); and Paul Fréart de Chantelou, with whom Poussin, at the call of Sublet de Noyers, returned to France in 1640.
In France
Louis XIII conferred on him the title of First Painter in Ordinary. In two years at Paris he produced several pictures for the royal chapels (the Last Supper, painted for Versailles, now in the Louvre), eight cartoons for the Gobelins tapestry manufactory, the series of the Labors of Hercules for the Louvre, the Triumph of Truth for Cardinal Richelieu (Louvre), and much minor work.
In 1642, disgusted by the intrigues of Simon Vouet, Fouquières and the architect Jacques Lemercier, Poussin withdrew to Rome. There, in 1648, he finished for de Chantelou the second series of the Seven Sacraments (Bridgewater Gallery), and also his noble Landscape with Diogenes (Louvre). This painting shows the philosopher discarding his last worldly possession, his cup, after watching a man drink water by cupping his hands.[14] In 1649 he painted the Vision of St Paul (Louvre) for the comic poet Paul Scarron, and in 1651 the Holy Family (Louvre) for the duc de Créquy. Year by year he continued to produce an enormous variety of works, many of which are included in the list given by Félibien.
He suffered from declining health after 1650, and was troubled by a worsening tremor in his hand, evidence of which is apparent in his late drawings.[15] He died in Rome on 19 November 1665 and was buried in the church of San Lorenzo in Lucina, his wife having predeceased him. Chateaubriand in 1820 donated the monument to Poussin.
Poussin left no children, but he adopted as his son Gaspard Dughet (Gasparo Duche), his wife's brother, who became a painter and took the name of Poussin.
Throughout his life Poussin stood apart from the popular tendency toward the decorative in French art of his time. In Poussin's works a survival of the impulses of the Renaissance is coupled with conscious reference to the art of classical antiquity as the standard of excellence. His goal was clarity of expression achieved by disegno or 'nobility of design' in preference to colore or color.[16] Perhaps his concern with disegno can best be seen in the line engraved copies of his works; among the many who reproduced his paintings, some of the most successful are Audran, Claudine Stella, Picart and Pesne.
Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work.[17] Et in Arcadia ego, a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right), exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composition, idealized shepherds examine a tomb inscribed with the title phrase, which is usually interpreted as a memento mori: "Even in Arcadia I exist", as if spoken by personified Death. According to art historian Christopher Wright, Poussin intended his figures to "display the most distilled and most typical attitude and emotion for the role they were playing", but he was concerned with emotion "in a generalized and not specific way ... Thus in both compositions of Et in Arcadia Ego (Chatsworth and Louvre) the theme is the realization of death in life. The specific models hardly matter. We are not intended to have sympathy with them and instead we are forced by the artist to think on the theme."[17]
Poussin is an important figure in the development of landscape painting. In his early paintings the landscape usually forms a graceful background for a group of figures; later he progressed to the painting of landscape for its own sake, although the figure is never entirely absent. Examples are Landscape with St. John on Patmos (1640; Art Institute of Chicago) and Landscape with a Roman Road (1648; Dulwich Picture Gallery).[18]
The finest collection of Poussin's paintings is at the Louvre in Paris. Other significant collections are in the National Gallery in London; the National Gallery of Scotland; the Dulwich Picture Gallery; the Musée Condé, Chantilly; the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; and the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Poussin was a prolific artist. Among his many works are:
- Some of the paintings by Poussin at the Louvre, Paris:
- The Inspiration of the Poet (1629–1630)
- The Plague at Ashdod (1630)
- Les Bergers d'Arcadie (late 1630s)
- The Judgment of Solomon (1649)
- The Blind Men of Jericho (1650)
- Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice (c.1650)
- The Adulteress (1653)
- The Four Seasons (series; 1660–1664)
- A few of Poussin's other paintings:
- Adoration of the Golden Calf (National Gallery, London)
- The Crossing of the Red Sea (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)
- Nymphs and a Satyr (1627; Cleveland Museum of Art)
- The Return of the Holy Family to Nazareth (1627; Cleveland Museum of Art)
- Holy Family on the Steps (1648; Cleveland Museum of Art)
- Cacus (St. Petersburg)
- The Testament of Eudamidas (Copenhagen)
- Hymenaios Disguised as a Woman During an Offering to Priapus (1634)[19]
- Tancred and Erminia, second version (Barber Institute, Birmingham)
- The Rape of the Sabine Women (1636)
- The Destruction of Jerusalem (1637)
- Hebrews Gathering Manna (1639)
- A Dance to the Music of Time (1639–1640; Wallace Collection, London)
- The Continence of Scipio (1640; Pushkin Museum, Moscow)
- Ecstasy of Saint Paul (1643; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida)
- Moses Rescued from the Waters (1647)
- Eliezer and Rebecca (1648)
- The Funeral of Phocion (1648; National Museum Cardiff)
- Landscape with Polyphemus (1649)
- Seven Sacraments (two separate series, see main article for details as to locations)
- The Flight into Egypt (1657; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon)
Poussin has been called "the springboard for the greatest French artists from David to Matisse" by Michael Kimmelman, who says "his work, in its lucidity, intelligence and measured sensuality, exemplifies what makes French art French".[20]
Initially, Poussin's genius was recognized only by small circles of collectors. (In the two decades following his death, a particularly large collection of his works was amassed by Louis XIV.)[21] At the same time, it was recognized that he had contributed a new theme of "classical severity" to French art. His style was imitated by many of his contemporaries, and influenced the work of French artists such as Jacques Stella and Sébastien Bourdon, the Italian painter Pier Francesco Mola, and the Dutch painter Gerard de Lairesse.[22]
Poussin's example remained a strong influence on the academic tradition in European painting until the late 19th century.[23] Jacques-Louis David resurrected a style already known as "Poussinesque" during the French Revolution in part because the leaders of the Revolution looked to replace the frivolity and oppression of the court with Republican severity and civic-mindedness, most obvious in David's dramatic canvas of Brutus receiving the bodies of his sons, sacrificed to his own principles, and the famous Death of Marat. Benjamin West, an American painter of the 18th century who worked in Britain, found inspiration for his canvas of The Death of General Wolfe in Poussin's The Death of Germanicus.[24]
Throughout the 19th century, Poussin, available to the ordinary person's gaze because the Revolution had opened the collections of the Louvre, was inspirational for self-reflexive artists who pondered their own work methods. Cézanne, who was described in 1907 by Maurice Denis as "the Poussin of Impressionism",[25] was quoted as saying that he wanted to "re-do Poussin over again after nature".[26] Georges Seurat was another Post-Impressionist artist who admired the formal qualities of Poussin's work. Also appealing was the eroticism of some of Poussin's classicizing subjects.
In the 20th century, art critics have suggested that the "analytic Cubist" experiments of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were founded upon Poussin's example.[27] In 1963 Picasso based a series of paintings on Poussin's The Rape of the Sabine Women. The work of Jean Hugo was also influenced by Poussin.
The most famous 20th-century scholar of Poussin was the Englishman Anthony Blunt, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, who in 1979 was disgraced by revelations of his complicity with Soviet intelligence.[28]
Today, Poussin's paintings at the Louvre reside in a gallery dedicated to him.
Venus and Adonis - Poussin - 1624 - Texas, Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum.jpg
Venus and Adonis, 1624, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
Cephalus and Aurora - Poussin - 1627-30 National Gallery, London.jpg
Cephalus and Aurora, 1627, National Gallery, London.
Acis and galatea - Poussin -1629 - Dublin National Gallery of Art.jpg
Acis and Galatea, 1629, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
Diane et Endymion 1630 Detroit Institute of Art.jpg
Diana and Endymion, 1630s, The Detroit Institute of Arts.
Nymphe chevauchant un bouc - Nicolas Poussin - The Hermitage Museum.jpg
Venus, a Faun and Putti, 1630s, The Hermitage Museum, St-Petersburg.
The Adoration of the Golden Calf, 1633–1634, National Gallery, London.
Nicolas Poussin - Le Passage de la mer Rouge.jpg
The Crossing of the Red Sea, 1633–1634, National Gallery of Victoria.
See also
- ↑ His Lives of the Painters was published in Rome, 1672. Poussin's other contemporary biographer was André Félibien.
- ↑ Thompson et al. 1992, p. 7.
- ↑ Wright 1985, p.250.
- ↑ Brigstocke.
- ↑ Chilvers 2009, p. 496.
- ↑ Standring 2009.
- ↑ In a census of 1624 (Friedlaender).
- ↑ In the Barberini inventory; now at Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The Meleager sarcophagus seen by Poussin is that now in the Capitoline Museums.
- ↑ Blunt1958, pp. 85–88.
- ↑ Blunt 1958, p.55.
- ↑ Blunt 1958, pp. 54–59.
- ↑ Wright 1985, p.18.
- ↑ There is a first sketch in the British Museum
- ↑ Wright 1985, p. 211.
- ↑ Wright 1985, p. 254.
- ↑ Pace.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Wright 1985, p. 13.
- ↑ Poussin and The Heroic Landscape by Joseph Phelan, retrieved December 17, 2009.
- ↑ New layer discovered in French masterpiece
- ↑ Kimmelman 1996.
- ↑ Wright 1985, pp. 255, 261.
- ↑ Wright 1985, p. 11.
- ↑ Thompson et al. 1992, p. 54.
- ↑ Facos 2011, pp. 32, 53.
- ↑ Russell 4 November 1990.
- ↑ Thompson et al. 1992, p. 52.
- ↑ Wilkin.
- ↑ see Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt: His Lives. Picador USA 2003.
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- Blunt, Anthony (1958). Nicholas Poussin. Phaidon.
- Brigstocke, Hugh. "Poussin, Nicolas". Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. (subscription required)
- Chilvers, Ian (2009). The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 019953294X.
- Facos, Michelle (2011). Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art. New York: Routledge. ISBN 1136840710.
- Friedländer, Walter (1964). Nicolas Poussin: A New Approach. New York: Abrams. 1964. OCLC 2922468
- Kimmelman, Michael, "When Poussin Drew for Himself", The New York Times", 23 February 1996. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
- Pace, Claire, "Disegno e colore". Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. (subscription required)
- Russell, John (4 November 1990). "Art View; Back and Forth Between Poussin and Cezanne". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
- Standring, Timothy. "Poussin's Erotica", Apollo (magazine), 2009-03-01. Retrieved 28 May 2009.
- Thompson, James, Poussin, N., & Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1992). Nicolas Poussin. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 50 (3), pp. 1, 3–56, OCLC 27763575
- Wilkin, Karen (January 1995). "The 'High Art' of Nicolas Poussin". The New Criterion on line. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
- Wright, Christopher (1985). Poussin Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Hippocrene. ISBN 0-87052-218-3
Further reading
- Blunt, Anthony (1966). The Paintings of Nicolas Poussin: A Critical Catalogue. London: Phaidon. OCLC 349831
- Blunt, Anthony (1967), Nicolas Poussin, Pallas Athene, ISBN 1-873429-64-9<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- Cropper, Elizabeth and Charles Dempsey (1995). Nicolas Poussin: Friendship and the Love of Painting. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0-691-05067-6
- Keazor, Henry (1998). Poussins Parerga. Quellen, Entwicklung und Bedeutung der Kleinkompositionen in den Gemälden Nicolas Poussins. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg. ISBN 3-7954-1146-7
- Keazor, Henry (2007). Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665. Taschen, Hong Kong, Köln, London et al. ISBN 3-8228-5319-4/ISBN 978-3-8228-5319-1
- Mérot, Alain (1990), Nicolas Poussin, Abbeville Press, ISBN 1-55859-120-6<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- Serres, Michel (1995). Genesis (Grasset). Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-08435-7. OCLC 31937184
- Thuillier, Jacques (1995). Nicolas Poussin. Paris: Flammarion. ISBN 2-08-012440-4
- Thuillier, Jacques (1995). Poussin before Rome: 1594-1624, translated from the French by Christopher Allen (1995). London, New York and Chicago: Richard L. Feigen & Co. ISBN 1-873232-03-9
- Unglaub, Jonathan (2006). Poussin and the Poetics of Painting: Pictorial Narrative and the Legacy of Tasso. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-521-83367-7
- Paris 1960. "Poussin peintre: retrospectif". Galvanized the renewed interest in Poussin.
- Fort Worth 1988. "Poussin: The Early Years in Rome: The Origins of French Classicism".
- Paris 1994. "Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665" Grand Palais.
- New York City 2008. "Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions". Metropolitan Museum of Art; Poussin's landscapes.
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According to a just-released study, eighth-grade students in more than half of the U.S. states performed better than the international average on a test in science. In math, eighth-graders in 36 states outperformed the international average.
On the other hand, even students in top performing states were significantly outperformed by their counterparts in South Korea, Singapore, and Thailand.
I imagine that the results of this study will provide fuel for both sides in the debate over the desirability of national standards.
But how meaningful are comparisons between the performance on tests of U.S. students vs. students in countries like South Korea? I believe they are of limited utility, given the diversity — linguistic, ethnic, and cultural — that exists in the U.S.
South Korea's population is about 16 percent of that of the U.S. And, as Neal McCluskey of the Cato Institute points out that, far from experiencing an increase in its immigrant population, as the U.S. has done so conspicuously, South Korea is losing migrants. Ethnically, South Korea is almost completely homogeneous. Linguistically, everyone speaks Korean.
There is also the matter of family structure. I don't have data about this for South Korea, but unless childhood pregnancies, absent fathers, and divorce are rampant there, one is comparing apples and oranges if one evaluates the quality of instruction in the two countries based on test scores.
It isn't just comparisons to Asian countries that suffer from an inability to account for diversity. Finland (with a population 2 percent the size of ours) was the top finisher in a 2006 assessment called PISA. According to McCluskey's paper, Finland has a net migration of 0.68 immigrants per 1,000 people. In America, the number is 4.31.
Finns account for about 93 percent of the Finnish population, while ethnic Swedes account for about 6 percent. In the U.S., the population is still mostly white, but 13 percent African-American, 15 percent Hispanic, and 4 percent Asian.
Finally, again according to McCluskey's paper, 91 percent of Finns speak Finnish. Only 82 percent of Americans speak English.
Germany — whose performance on most international tests is roughly comparable to that of the U.S. — makes for a better comparator than South Korea and Finland. But it too is significantly less diverse. Germany has about half the number of immigrants per capita as the U.S. 92 percent of its population is German. And German is the only native language spoken in Germany.
My point is not to defend education in the U.S. I simply want to question the utility of, and the need for, comparisons to foreign countries.
The American left tends to base calls for reform it desires (which invariably means more government control) on statistics that are driven by social factors it either supports, abets or ignores. For example, we are urged radically to reform our health care system based in part on statistics such as a high rate (compared to other prosperous nations) of infant mortality. Yet, these statistics surely have much to do with the breakdown of family structure and the habits and behavior of those who become pregnant in America.
Like our health care system, our education system could do with reform. But reform should not be driven by statistics that understate the quality of instruction by failing to account for the social situation in America, including the social situation that results from our immigration policies.


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One Phillies fan predicted this, and counted down each batter — starting before Halladay even took the mound. Can we retire the concept of jinxes yet?
Are you sick of Halladay perfecto stories yet? Maybe this one will be different, because it predates the actual game. One anonymous ESPN.com user, nicknamed "dtboy1234," started a message board thread called "Roy Halladay Perfect Game Alert." His first post, at 7:16 pm, went up just as Doc took the mound for the bottom of the first. It read, simply, "27 batters to go."
dtboy1234 kept it updated each inning, in relative obscurity. Then, around the sixth inning, other users began to take notice. As dtboy1234 counted down the batters, the thread filled up with people trying to jinx it, claiming he had retroactively edited his posts, and claiming Halladay had thrown to many pitches and should be taken out. (Seriously.)
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THIS THREAD IS EPIC!!! Did he just predicted a perfect game? Yes he did! Unreal...
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