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After spending her eighth-grade and freshman seasons as a standout at Wellborn, she transferred to Anniston. But with the Bulldogs, she faced a new role as a sophomore — first player off the bench.
She no longer was one of the team's stars, but even so, she developed and wound up as Anniston's second-leading scorer.
"She learned the system," Bulldogs coach Eddie Bullock said. "At first, she was trying to figure us out and what plays we run and we were trying to get her in the mindset that we're in. She finally got it going in and she put up great numbers."
When her time as a starter came this past season, she produced plenty for Anniston.
The junior center averaged 23 points, 13 rebounds and four blocks a game. She helped the Bulldogs post a 28-5 record and the Northeast Regional semifinals.
As a result, she is The Anniston Star's Class 4A-6A Calhoun County girls basketball player of the year.
In addition, she made the Alabama Sports Writers Association's Class 4A all-state first team and was a finalist for 4A girls player of the year.
"I knew I was going to have to step up, pick up the slack and be the leading scorer on the team," Bolton said. "You just have to go into every game with confidence."
It was the confidence that Bullock instilled in his star player that helped her lead the team to the Northeast Regional, where Anniston lost to Madison County. But, just as her junior year outshined her sophomore season, she is working to make her senior year the best yet.
"We started grinding the day after we lost," said Bolton, who is drawing interest from Alabama, Auburn and Georgia. "It's hard going through the summer knowing we should have won. It's basically motivation for us. We know what we have to do.
"We know that we could have won state."
At the moment, Bolton is working on her ball-handling and dribbling skills. She figures that even though she is a center in high school, she likely will play forward or guard on the wing.
And yet, there's no telling how much more damage Bolton will do in high school before going on to the next level.
"I'm pretty sure she's going to put up better numbers next year," Bullock said. "I think she's capable of averaging anywhere from 30 to 35 points per game and about 20 rebounds. It's an obtainable goal and she can dominate.
"She can do it easily."
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The president is obliged by the Constitution to report to Congress on the state of the Union. In his 1862 message, President Lincoln aimed to rouse and re-inspire Congress after the terrible battle at Antietam in Maryland, the bloodiest conflict of the Civil War. He urged congress to ensure emancipation through a constitutional amendment. In the tradition of the time, this annual message was not read aloud by Lincoln but rather to the Senate by its Secretary and to the House by its Clerk.

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• 1953: USA overthrows democratically elected Prime Minister Mossadeq of Iran, then installs dictator Shah
• 1954: USA overthrows democratically elected President Arbenz of Guatemala 200,000 civilians killed
• 1963: USA backs assassination of S. Vietnamese President Diem.
• 1963-1975: American military kills 4 million people in Southeast Asia.
• September 11th, 1973: U.S. stages coup in Chile. Democratically elected President Salvador Allende assassinated. Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed. 5,000 Chileans murdered.
• 1977: U.S. backs military rulers of El Salvador. 70,000 Salvadorans and 4 American nuns killed.
• 1980S: US trains Osama bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill soviets. CIA funds $3 billion.
• 1981: Regan administration trains and funds "contras" 30,000 Nicaraguans die.
• 1982: US provide billions in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill Iranians.
• 1983: White House secretly gives Iran weapons to kill Iraqis.
• 1989: CIA agent Manuel Noriega (also serving as President of Panama) disobeys orders from Washington. So, US invade Panama and removes Noriega. 3,000 Panamanian casualties.
• 1990: Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from US
• 1991: US enter Iraq. Bush reinstated dictator of Kuwait.
• 1998: Clinton bombs "weapons factory" in Sudan, factory turns out to be making Aspirin.
• 1991: American planes bomb Iraq on a weekly basis. UN estimates over 500,000 Iraqi children die from bombing and sanctions.
• 2000-2001: US gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in "aid"
2001: 3,000 murdered in 9/11 attacks.
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Child prodigy
A child prodigy or Wunderkind is someone who, at an early age, develops one or more skills at a level far beyond the norm for their age.[1] A prodigy has to be a child, or at least younger than 18 years, who is performing at the level of a highly trained adult in a very demanding field of endeavour.[1][2]
The giftedness of prodigies is determined by the degree of their talent relative to their ages. Examples of particularly extreme prodigies could include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Teresa Milanollo in music, Bobby Fischer, Magnus Carlsen, Sergey Karjakin, Paul Morphy and José Capablanca in chess, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Shakuntala Devi, Srinivasa Ramanujan, John von Neumann and Terence Tao in mathematics, Pablo Picasso and Wang Ximeng in art, Paul Thomas Anderson in film direction,[3][4] and Saul Kripke in philosophy.[5] There is controversy as to at what age and standard to use in the definition of a prodigy.[citation needed]
The term Wunderkind (from German: "wonder child") is sometimes used as a synonym for "prodigy", particularly in media accounts. Wunderkind also is used to recognize those who achieve success and acclaim early in their adult careers.[6]
Memory capacity of prodigies[edit]
PET scans performed on several mathematics prodigies have suggested that they think in terms of long-term working memory (LTWM).[7] This memory, specific to a field of expertise, is capable of holding relevant information for extended periods, usually hours. For example, experienced waiters have been found to hold the orders of up to twenty customers in their heads while they serve them, but perform only as well as an average person in number-sequence recognition. The PET scans also answer questions about which specific areas of the brain associate themselves with manipulating numbers.[7]
One subject never excelled as a child in mathematics, but he taught himself algorithms and tricks for calculatory speed, becoming capable of extremely complex mental math. His brain, compared to six other controls, was studied using the PET scan, revealing separate areas of his brain that he manipulated to solve the complex problems. Some of the areas that he and presumably prodigies use are brain sectors dealing in visual and spatial memory, as well as visual mental imagery. Other areas of the brain showed use by the subject, including a sector of the brain generally related to childlike "finger counting," probably used in his mind to relate numbers to the visual cortex.[7]
Working memory/cerebellum theory[edit]
"My mother said that I should finish high school and go to college first."
Noting that the cerebellum acts to streamline the speed and efficiency of all thought processes, Vandervert[8] explained the abilities of prodigies in terms of the collaboration of working memory and the cognitive functions of the cerebellum. Citing extensive imaging evidence, Vandervert first proposed this approach in two publications which appeared in 2003. In addition to imaging evidence, Vandervert's approach is supported by the substantial award winning studies of the cerebellum by Masao Ito.[9]
Vandervert[10] provided extensive argument that, in the prodigy, the transition from visual-spatial working memory to other forms of thought (language, art, mathematics) is accelerated by the unique emotional disposition of the prodigy and the cognitive functions of the cerebellum. According to Vandervert, in the emotion-driven prodigy (commonly observed as a "rage to master") the cerebellum accelerates the streamlining of the efficiencies of working memory in its manipulation and decomposition/re-composition of visual-spatial content into language acquisition and into linguistic, mathematical, and artistic precocity.[11]
Essentially, Vandervert has argued that when a child is confronted with a challenging new situation, visual-spatial working memory and speech-related and other notational system-related working memory are decomposed and re-composed (fractionated) by the cerebellum and then blended in the cerebral cortex in an attempt to deal with the new situation.[12] In child prodigies, Vandervert believes this blending process is accelerated due to their unique emotional sensitivities which result in high levels of repetitious focus on, in most cases, particular rule-governed knowledge domains. He has also argued that child prodigies first began to appear about 10,000 years ago when rule-governed knowledge had accumulated to a significant point, perhaps at the agricultural-religious settlements of Gobekli-tepe or Cyprus.[13]
Nature vs. nurture[edit]
Some researchers believe that prodigious talent tends to arise as a result of the innate talent of the child, and the energetic and emotional investment that the child ventures. Others believe that the environment plays the dominant role, many times in obvious ways. For example, László Polgár set out to raise his children to be chess players, and all three of his daughters went on to become world-class players (two of whom are grandmasters), emphasizing the potency a child's environment can have in determining the pursuits toward which a child's energy will be directed, and showing that an incredible amount of skill can be developed through suitable training.[14]
But on the other hand George Frideric Handel was an example of the natural talent ... "he had discovered such a strong propensity to Music, that his father who always intended him for the study of the Civil Law, had reason to be alarmed. He strictly forbade him to meddle with any musical instrument but Handel found means to get a little clavichord privately convey'd to a room at the top of the house. To this room he constantly stole when the family was asleep".[15] Despite his father's opposition, Handel became a skillful performer on the harpsichord and pipe organ.[16]
See also[edit]
- Chess prodigy
- List of child prodigies
- List of music prodigies
- List of fictional child prodigies
- Gifted education
- Giftedness
- Heritability of IQ
- Late bloomer
- Malleable intelligence
- Savant syndrome
- ^ a b Rose, Lacey (2007-03-02). "Whiz Kids". Forbes. Archived from the original on 2012-12-16. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
- ^ Feldman, David H: "Child Prodigies: A Distinctive Form of Giftedness", National Association for Gifted Children, Gifted Children Quarterly., 1993, 37(4): 188-193.
- ^ Film, Total (2010-03-05). "Greatest Directors Ever - Part 2". TotalFilm.com. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
- ^ "Paul Thomas Anderson - Biography - Movies & TV - NYTimes.com". Movies.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
- ^ Charles McGrath (2006-01-28). "Philosopher, 65, Lectures Not About 'What Am I?' but 'What Is I?'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-01-23.
- ^ "wunderkind". Retrieved 2012-12-06.
- ^ a b c What makes a prodigy? By Brian Butterworth. nature neuroscience • volume 4 no 1 • january 2001
- ^ Vandervert 2007, 2009a, 2009b
- ^ Ito 2005, 2007
- ^ Vandervert 2009a
- ^ Vandervert 2009a, 2009b, in press-a, in press-b
- ^ Vandervert, in press-a, in press-b.
- ^ Vandervert, 2009a, 2009b, in press-c
- ^ Queen takes all - Telegraph.co.uk, January 2002
- ^ Kivy, Peter. Sounding Off: Eleven Essays in the Philosophy of Music. Oxford. p. 24.
- ^ Historical Dictionary of British Theatre: Early Period. Scarecrow Press. p. 186. ISBN 9780810880283.
Further reading[edit]
- Ito, M. (2005). Bases and implications of learning in the cerebellum—Adaptive control and internal model mechanism. In C.I. DeZeeuw & F. Cicirata (Eds.), Creating coordination in the cerebellum: Progress in brain research (Vol. 148, pp. 95–109). Oxford, England: Elsevier.
- Ito, M. (2007). On "How working memory and the cerebellum collaborate to produce creativity and innovation" by L.R. Vandervert, P.H. Schimpf, and H. Liu. Creativity Research Journal, 19, 35-38.
- Robinson, Andrew (2010). Sudden Genius?: The Gradual Path to Creative Breakthroughs. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-956995-3. Lay summary (24 November 2010).
- Vandervert, L. (2007). Cognitive functions of the cerebellum explain how Ericsson's deliberate practice produces giftedness. High Ability Studies, 18, 89-92.
- Vandervert, L. (2009a). The appearance of the child prodigy 10,000 years ago: An evolutionary and developmental explanation. The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 30, 15-32.
- Vandervert, L. (2009b). Working memory, the cognitive functions of the cerebellum and the child prodigy. In L. Shavinina (Ed.), The International Handbook on Giftedness (pp. 295–316). Netherlands: Springer.
- Vandervert, L. (2011). The evolution of language: The cerebro-cerebellar blending of visual-spatial working memory with vocalizations. The Journal of Mind and Behavior.32, 317-334.
External links[edit]
- "Notebook: Child Prodigies", "CBS News Online", YouTube, February 26, 2010.


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Q I recently acquired a Warn 5,000-pound winch, which does not work. I plan on fixing it and mounting it on my truck, an '82 Chevy 1-ton with 36-inch H1 wheels and tires. Once I bring this dead electric puller back to life, how can I help it survive while towing my seriously heavy Chevy from the muck? I was thinking that some sort of pulley would help.
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A Before you spend a dime on that winch, let us warn you (Get it? Warn you. Warn, like the winch. OK, sorry). Warn recommends that you use a winch with a rating 11/2 times the weight of your vehicle. I had the same truck as yours, and I know it weighed 6,600 pounds with 37-inch tires on it. That 5,000-pound winch of yours is about 4,900 pounds under Warn's recommended rating. The 5,000-pound winch is barely enough for something small like a Willys Jeep CJ or a Suzuki Samurai.
Either fix it and use it around the shop in the bed of the truck for pulling stuff like quads or boats aboard, or sell it and save up for something in the range of 9,500 to 12,000 pounds. Yes, a snatch block will increase the capacity of the line pull, but it also reduces the line speed and adds complexity and danger to the extraction with multiple winch lines.
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A Since wheel spacers push the mounting surface of the wheels out farther, unless you are adding the same amount of backspacing to the wheels to keep the tires at the same position outside of the framerails, I would say that, yes, they effectively reduce your towing and load capacity. If you figure that you are adding leverage to the wheel bearings, then you are in effect making them work harder to carry the same amount of weight. Exactly how much wheel spacers reduce the load and whether that is any concern is a question for a certified axle engineer. If you use wheel spacers that are not extremely wide, keep them properly torqued and check on them regularly, and they can be very reliable.
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Q I have a question regarding tires. I have a '99 4Runner with a 2-inch lift and the factory electric rear locker. I run 265/75/16 Terra Troopers, which is the largest size they have in that tire. It has been an excellent off-road tire in the snow, rain, mud, and any other two-track trails I can throw at it. On-road they are OK, but they do what I want them to do on the trail. I love the tire, but I am hoping for a little larger size next time, like maybe a 285/75/16, but they don't offer it.
I was reading your Sept. '10 issue and looked at your "Tow Behind Tires" article, and to my surprise you have the BFGoodrich tires mounted on your trailer with the same exact tread as is on my Terra Troopers. The only difference I can find is the name on the face of the tire. I am told that because of the tariffs they are no longer importing this tire. Can I buy a BFGoodrich "trailer tire" and put it on my 4Runner for tail duty? I drive my 4Runner to every trailhead, so it must be a safe tire too.
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A Yes, the BFGoodrich Commercial T/A tires we put on our trailer are a commercial truck tire, not a specific trailer tire. You can put these on your truck, and they do have an aggressive tread. I think I would recommend the BFG All-Terrain, Mud-Terrain, or Krawler if it were me since they offer a more aggressive tread.


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- Studio: Lionsgate
- Release Date: Jan 18, 2013
- Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eduardo Noriega, Forest Whitaker, John Patrick Amedori, Johnny Knoxville
- Summary: A drug cartel leader busts out of a courthouse and speeds to the Mexico border, where the only thing in his path is a sheriff and his inexperienced staff.
- Director: Ji-woon Kim
- Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Crime
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Positive: 13 out of 33
Mixed: 16 out of 33
Negative: 4 out of 33
It's a crackerjack B movie worthy of comparison to such stylishly low-down, smart-meets-dumb, hyper-violent entertainments as the 1997 Kurt Russell thriller "Breakdown," Clint Eastwood's infamous police bloodbath "The Gauntlet," John Carpenter's original "Assault on Precinct 13," and Arnold's own overlooked 1986 outing "Raw Deal."
Dig just a shade beneath the surface, trade in the text for the subtext, and a more interesting picture emerges – a little richer, sadder, almost poignant. Arnie is back again, yet now, as a storied immigrant nearing the end of his tale, he's become an odd sight to behold.
The movie comes up with a couple of tender moments that could pass for human, and a mano-a-mano climax in which the superhero of yore, the glint in his eye dulled but not extinguished, functions as a weirdly touching tyrannosaurus.
Jan 18, 2013The director does pull off a pretty magnificent cornfield car chase - two sleek vehicles cut through a thick, shaggy carpet of maize like souped-up harvesters, the movie's way of saying that the simple country life needn't be devoid of thrills. But Jee-woon takes too long to wrap things up, fumbling repeatedly on his way to an ending.
Kim doesn't sweat interweaving his story threads in any tightly controlled way. Just when the need-for-speed stuff really starts to gain traction, he'll shift for a surprisingly lengthy stretch to comic relief with the deputies and local wacko Johnny Knoxville.
[The Director] is especially good at integrating his New Mexico locations into the action, from a key combat scene on a bridge to a car chase that unfolds, with limited visibility, in a cornfield...Kim's handling of his first English-speaking cast isn't quite as assured, although everyone more or less gets by
Jan 17, 2013That's the thing about this corpse pileup of an action movie. It persistently tries to drag the audience down to its mindless level.
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Positive: 29 out of 45
Mixed: 10 out of 45
Negative: 6 out of 45
Jan 19, 2013My official review of "The Last Stand" can be summed up into a single word: America! Now I know you're asking "Stamp, what does America have to do with The Last Stand?", and I'm glad you asked, Jeeves. My thesis is as follows. "The Last Stand", Arnold Schwarzenegger's newest theatrical release, and The Great United States of America go hand in hand because of the ridiculously good-looking and super fast Corvette( America's sports car); Arnold, himself, is an American dream come true; and because of U.S. citizens taking up arms to make a last stand against evil. Pun intended, although I'm not sure if it counts because that's what the title is talking about. Moving on, I left the theater entertained, motivated, and grateful to live in a great country. Last but importantly, they mention Jesus. Let's take a moment for a standing ovation for Jesus. Our lives are better for it. In conclusion, I officially award "The Last Stand" with my first ever Stamp Of Approval.… Expand
Jun 4, 2013"Well to say The Last Stand is a comeback vehicle? i hope not, but the odds have it. Arnold is back in full swing as a gun toting sheriff ready to kill. With a few exceptions. "The Last Stand" proved to be quite, the exciting and intense action film." B… Expand
May 22, 2013Anyone remember The Hunter? It turned out to be Steve McQueen's final screen appearance, playing a bounty hunter, in a rather generic action thriller, with some pretty good action sequences inserted. I thought of that film while watching this I think they share a cornfield car chase, I may be wrong), because, it too, is a generic thriller, with a few good action sequences. Arnold does his Arnold thing, squinting and creaking out his dialogue, with nods to his age. Knoxville plays the village idiot (typecasting?), with a thing for heavy artiliary. The major dissappointment is that I was expecting something a bit wilder from Kim Ji-woon, along the lines of John Woo's American debut, Hard Target. But hey, cranked up, with a few beers on a warm spring evening...? It'll do just fine.… Expand
Feb 12, 2014I felt a little lost in this movie. Don't get me wrong I thought it was actually pretty good but it bounced back from humor and seriousness that made it hard to know when to take it seriously. Other than that is just a good old fashion action movie with Arnold, how could that go wrong?… Expand
Jan 28, 2013Some parts of the movie were really painful to watch, but if you're looking for an action flick devoid of any plausible storytelling, go see this movie.… Expand
Apr 30, 2013A small time sheriff is called up to the plate when an escaped fugitive tries to drive through his town......and of course he steps up to the plate with his rag-tag bunch of deputies and puts on a great "Last Stand". The story line is as painfully dull as the characters and the dialogs and the acting. There are a few good action scenes and car chases, but other than that, Arnold's great comeback is nothing more than big giant muscular cliche.… Expand
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This property is a real hidden "gem", just a stone's throw away from the St. Julien appellation and stars such as Lagrange and Gruaud Larose. We're happy to keep the secret because it means more wine for us! Owner Francois Nony, whom we got to visit with during our recent trip to Bordeaux, delivers a great 2009. A blackcurrant and cassis-like nose leads to a classic Medoc earthy finish. This wine is well-balanced with a freshness of fruit that is a hallmark of this vintage. It should age well for 5-10 more years. A real bargain!
Listrac's deep gravel soils rival the best of the Haut-Médoc, and this prominent Listrac château makes its wine to a classified growth standard, with the flavors of new oak well-integrated into this dark purple, powerful wine.-- Ben Giliberti
Throw this impressive, full-structured wine into a blind tasting of St.-Emilion Grand Cru, and don't be surprised if it beats out one or more of the big boys. It tastes considerably more expensive than its modest price would suggest. To the massive 2005 Côte Montpezat, which was one of our favorite petit chateaux of that great year, the 2009 adds an element of fruity succulence, which is the hallmark of the remarkable 2009 vintage. Deep ruby in color, with dark, roasted fruit, shaved cedar, and new oak prominent on the nose and on the palate, this concentrated wine begs for further cellaring, but is quite delicious now (decant 45 to 90 min. in advance).
JADE JAGGER DESIGNS CROIX DE BEAUCAILLOU LABEL!Calvert Woodley is proud to be one of a handful of retailers in the US selected by Chateau Ducru Beaucaillou to offer the newest brainchild of its innovative, art-loving owner, Bruno Borie.Bruno commissioned noted designer Jade Jagger, daughter of Mick and Bianca, to create an elegant label for Croix de Beaucaillou, his superb "second wine." Bruno told Decanter magazine, "I really admired the work that Jade Jagger did … and we liked the idea of the daughter of a Rolling Stone working on Beaucaillou." Apropos when you realize that Beaucaillou means 'beautiful stones' in French.The re-design of the Croix de Beaucaillou label will commence with the 2010 vintage but as a pre-cursor, Bruno and Jade have made available extremely limited supplies, in large format bottles, of the sensational 2009 vintage with the new label.Quantities are limited!Bruno has made it a personal project to raise the level of quality of Croix de Beaucaillou and he wanted to re-design the label to showcase the uniqueness of the wine. Not your typical "second wine," Croix de Beaucaillou is sourced from its own dedicated vineyards to give it a more consistent quality. It undergoes the same rigorous selection as the grand vin but comes from younger vines than Ducru which makes it more approachable at a younger age. Having now tasted the wine at the chateau two years in a row we can say without hesitation, "Mission accomplished!"
The home of Château Chasse Spleen and numerous other excellent Châteaux sharing the name "Poujeaux," the commune of Moulis has some of the finest, deep gravel ridges in Bordeaux, outside of the famed Margaux commune. In contrast to its very supple 2008, Dutruch Grand Poujeaux has produced a startlingly powerful 2009, with deep, smoky flavors of baked cherry confit, cassis, Provençal herbs. A concentrated, impressive wine that will clearly reward 5 to 7 years of cellaring.-- Ben Giliberti


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Wellborn will have to hit the round for about three hours to reach Red Bay, its first-round opponent. Woodland has a trip as long to Tanner. Weaver will have to travel nearly that much to get to Hamilton for its opening game.
Cleburne County has to go about 2½ hours to Madison County, and Handley faces a drive of more than four hours to reach UMS-Wright for a first-round game.
This may be the best way to do it competition-wise, but in glancing at the matchups, wouldn't it have been better to adjust the pairings? It wouldn't have taken much. If the AHSAA had the Region 1 in each classification pair with Region 2 for the playoffs, Region 3 pair with 4, Region 5 with 6, and Region 7 with 8, these local schools wouldn't be spending nearly as much for gas to get to football games.
Weaver would travel to Geraldine, which is almost two hours away less than Hamilton. Wellborn could've been paired with Montgomery Academy, which is about an hour closer than Red Bay. Cleburne County could've shaved about 45 minutes by going to Guntersville rather than Madison County.
Woodland would travel about an hour to Lanett, rather heading so far North to Tanner. And as for Handley, any change at all in the bracket would've meant a shorter drive. Handley finished fourth in Class 4A, Region 3, and in the current bracket, that means it must face the champion of Region 1, UMS-Wright. But the champions of Regions 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 are closer to Handley.
Certainly, it's unfair to bash a whole system based strictly on the plight of Weaver, Wellborn, Woodland, Cleburne County and Handley, but it's enough to make you wonder.
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Once you move to abortionland, there's no moving back. Once you start thinking hard about abortion, it touches everything—it's like a new lens that you see the world through. I can turn any conversation into a conversation about abortion. I see the links to it everywhere—in poverty, the social safety net (or lack thereof), education levels, unemployment, race, urban-rural divides, gender relations, religion, and just about every other dimension of modern life.
I moved to abortionland almost five years ago, when I began working on the National Abortion Federation's hotline. I'd been pro-choice my whole life, and I'd been interested in abortion politics for a long time, but this was brand new. I did options counseling, I looked up clinics and gave out their phone numbers, I talked about money with all kinds of women. I stayed after my shift ended almost every day, thinking I could take just a few more calls and help just a few more women before going home.


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Flavourful, easy dressing for salads or use as a marinade for grilled meat and vegetables
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In my house, we call this "DH's Incredible Drinkable Dressing." I love it that much. Creamy like Ranch with about 1000 more taste bud parties.
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Delicious thick, creamy, low fat, low cal, veryyyy garlicy salad dressing.
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Vinaigrettes are perfect as salad dressing, a dipping sauce for steamed vegetables, and a marinade for lean cuts of meats.
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Use this to dress your salad or as a dipping sauce for cut vegetables. Don't like cilantro? No problem, just swap it out for Italian parsley or dill.
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This makes a good, creamy salad dressing with a real kick. Without the peppers, this makes a great base for any very low calorie salad dressing. You will not be disapointed if you use real Greek Yogurt; there is no substitute. The amount of Chipotle pepper I add to this gives it a very substantial kick. I like it this way, you may want to experiment with less at first. I use the same base for a creamy caesar dressing for my wife, leaving out the chipotle pepper and adding more garlic and 2 tsp of Worcester sauce. It's great fresh, but even better after it sits in the fridge a day or so letting the flavors meld.
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I fell in love with tzatziki the first time I tried it and was on a quest to find the recipe that included those ingredients that pleased my particular palate best. This recipe is low-fat, high-protein, nutritious, smooth, Mediterranean, refreshing, light, and hopefully the best you've ever had!
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If you like ranch, you'll LOVE this easy and healthier alternative.
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Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Frank Adderley and Fire-Rescue Chief Robert Hoecherl will meet the public Thursday in an event hosted by the city.
As federal authorities investigate the hard landing of a US Airways jet in Philadelphia that was supposed to fly to Fort Lauderdale, some of the 149 passengers who evacuated the flight described their frightening experiences Friday.
When Daniel Cox heard the bang of gunfire Saturday night, he ran outside his home on West Country Club Circle and saw his neighbors' front door was wide open.
Police in Miramar will soon have their own collection of video evidence recorded with sophisticated technology at murder scenes, traffic crashes and fires.
A suspect wanted in the slaying of his girlfriend fatally shot himself Thursday on Interstate 95 as police tried to detain him, officials said.
A tractor trailer holding about 125 gallons of fuel caught fire, exploded and closed traffic from 1:30 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. today on Sugarloaf Key, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said.
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The FBI's Miami division has a new leader with an international profile.
Vandals armed with cans of spray paint have targeted public and private properties in Weston since November 2013, the Broward Sheriff's Office said Wednesday.
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A 10-year-old boy who told police a teacher made him use his bare hands to clean out a urinal clogged with wet paper is having a tough time coping, a police official said Thursday.
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Sixways has been a source of little joy for Worcester fans this season, with the bottom side entering 2014 without a win in the league and ten points clear of safety.
A must-win clash this weekend against 11th-placed London Irish offers the Warriors an enormous chance to kickstart their season and close the gap between themselves and safety heading into the second half of the campaign.
Commenting on the high morale in the squad, with the signing of Cardiff Blues back-row Andries Pretorius also confirmed on Friday, Ryan believes his team have improved in recent weeks despite failing to win.
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A World Class Collection in the South
The New Orleans Museum of Art, the city's oldest fine arts institution, has a magnificent permanent collection of almost 40,000 art objects. The collection, noted for its extraordinary strengths in French and American art, photography, glass, and African and Japanese works, continues to grow. The five-acre Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at NOMA is one of the most important sculpture installations in the United States, with over 60 sculptures situated on a beautifully landscaped site amongst meandering footpaths, reflecting lagoons, Spanish moss-laden 200-year-old live oaks, mature pines, magnolias, camellias, and pedestrian bridges.
NOMA continues to exhibit, interpret and preserve works of art from ancient to modern times. Paintings, drawings and prints, and decorative arts survey the development of Western Civilization from the pre-Christian era to the present. Reflecting its rich historic and cultural heritage in New Orleans, NOMA has formed a comprehensive survey of African and French art. Among its French treasures is a group of works by the French Impressionist Edgar Degas who visited maternal relatives in New Orleans in the early 1870s and painted just 20 blocks from the Museum. NOMA's collection of works by masters of the School of Paris includes paintings and sculptures by Picasso, Braque, Dufy and Miro, among others.
NOMA has developed a unique Arts of the Americas collection, surveying the cultural heritage of North, Central and South America from the pre-Columbian period through the Spanish Colonial era. This collection is especially rich in objects from the great Mayan culture of Mexico and Central America, and in painting and sculpture from Cuzco, the fabulous Spanish capital of Peru. An important part of the Museum's display of American art is a suite of period rooms featuring 18th and 19th century furniture and decorative arts
As it has for a century, the New Orleans Museum of Art continues to be a gathering place for all those seeking to share the beauty of this extraordinary collection or world art and learn from it. NOMA engages, educates and enriches the diverse populations within, and drawn to, the New Orleans area.
European Art
Italian Collection French Collection Impressionism to 1945 Dutch and Flemish Collections
The Italian Collection
NOMA's Italian painting collection from the early Renaissance through the 18th Century is particularly distinguished. A group of panel paintings in tempera with gilded backgrounds, some as early as the 1300s, includes Bartolomeo Vivarini's altarpiece of the Coronation of the Virgin.
Although oil painting was invented in the north of Europe, it was the Venetian painters who first understood the potential of this new technique for brilliance of color, light and texture. Portraits by Lorenzo Lotto and Tiepolo show off this virtuosity with oil paint, as well as an insight into the subjects of the portraits that carries across the centuries.
From Genoa comes Luca Cambiaso's sumptuous treatment of the female nude in the Allegory of Venus and Earthly Vanity. The melodrama of Death Comes to the Banquet Table by Giovanni Martinelli is heightened by the sharp contours and clarity of form that were typical of Florentine painting of the 17th Century.
The French Collection
NOMA's emphasis on the French painting collection reflects the traditional taste of New Orleans which was originally a French city. Landscape paintings, from the sublime sunset of Claude Lorrain's Ideal View of Tivoli to the fashionable Park of St. Cloud by Hubert Robert, has been an abiding interest of French artists. Charming rococo scenes by François Boucher and Charles Joseph Natoire are visitor favorites.
By far the largest and grandest painting in these galleries is Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Lebrun's Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, which was commissioned by the King's younger brother, the Comte d'Artois. Marie's husband, King Louis XVI, is resplendent in Antoine-François Callet's portrait documenting the last years of the ancien régime.
NOMA is fortunate to have an important oil sketch for Baron Gros's most famous painting, Pest House at Jaffa, which depicts a controversial episode of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Always aware of the propagandistic power of his image, Napoleon reportedly insisted that the artist present him in a more heroic pose in the final version.
French fascination with an exotic vision of North Africa is represented in genre paintings of chess players and snake charmers by Gérôme. His contemporary colleague William-Adolphe Bouguereau was immensely popular for works like Whisperings of Love in which is one of NOMA's most popular paintings.
Impressionism to 1945
NOMA has a personal tie with Impressionist art, especially because of Edgar Degas' family connections with the city. Degas spent a few months his mother's native city of New Orleans in the winter of 1872-1873. In fact, you can visit the Degas House, which is near NOMA at 2306 Esplanade Avenue. During his stay, Degas painted a portrait of his cousin Estelle Musson, who was nearly blind, as she arranged flowers in a vase. This painting is currently on display on the second floor of NOMA.
Degas' Impressionist colleagues, including Monet, Pissarro and Renoir, are also well-represented in NOMA's collection. Paintings by their immediate successors, such as Post-Impressionist artist Gauguin, also grace the walls of the Impressionist galleries.
In addition to the Impressionist gallery, Fauves, Expressionists, Cubists, and explorers of abstraction offer one of the most exciting aspects of the collection. Outstanding canvases by Braque and Picasso, Vlaminck, Derain, Roualt, Chagall, Kandinsky and Kirschner, are on view. Complementing these is a choice group of works by their Spanish contemporaries, Juan Gris and Joan Miró.
The Dutch and Flemish Collections
Dutch and Flemish artists were celebrated for their command of detail and faithful depiction of nature. This can be seen in Marinus van Reymerswaele's The Lawyer's Office, which refers to an actual lawsuit filed in 1526. The documents of this court case are recorded with amazing precision on the background wall.
Also in this vein of realism is the Serpents and Insects by Ottho Marseus van Schrieck who practiced an odd branch of still life tradition developed by Netherlandish painters; he raised the reptiles and rare insects himself in a vivarium, and copied them from life.
Though the Italian Renaissance was unfolding far away and the North had their own distinctive style, a significant number of Northern artists made the voyage across the Alps. They returned home profoundly impressed by their encounter with Michelangelo and the classical heritage, as can be seen in Maerten van Heemskerk's Apollo and the Muses.
Spanning more than six centuries, the New Orleans Museum of Art's collection of paintings includes notable examples from the major national schools. The display is especially rich and varied in the French and Italian galleries, as well as those devoted to modern painting.
In the 1930s the great American collector and philanthropist Samuel H. Kress presented the museum with the first of what would become a gift of more than thirty paintings. The Kress gift formed the core of what has grown into a splendid survey of Italian painting from the early Renaissance to the 18th Century.
The subjects of French paintings include kings and queens, aristocrats and peasants, mythologies and luminous landscapes. Highlights of NOMA's permanent collection include a grand portrait of Marie-Antoinette by Madame Éisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun, and a sublime landscape by Claude Lorrain. The Dutch and Flemish collections are particularly outstanding for subjects from everyday life, exquisite still lifes, mythology and religious pictures.
Paintings by Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Jean-Leon Gérôme, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin represent the innovative vision of 19th Century French artists. The collection provides an opportunity to study all the major movements of modern painting, from Impressionism and Post-Impressionism to the exploration of abstraction.
Prints and Drawings
NOMA's Prints and Drawings collection is comprised of almost 7000 individual prints, books, portfolios and unique works on paper, the majority of which were executed by noted l9th and 20th century European and American artists.
20th century American drawings and prints have long been a major component of the department's holdings. These include fine earlier examples by Arthur B. Davies, Gustave Baumann, Milton Avery, William Zorach, George Bellows, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley and Reginald Marsh, and post-war works by Jasper Johns, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Jim Dine, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana, and Chuck Close. NOMA also holds prints and drawings by artists who lived or worked in New Orleans, from Childe Hassam, Jules Pascin, George Overbury "Pop" Hart and Caroline Durieux to Elizabeth Catlett, Charles White, Robert Gordy, George Dureau and John T. Scott, a MacArthur laureate.
NOMA is home to an impressive array of prints and drawings by European artists. Included in the Muriel Bultman Francis Collection alone are distinguished l9th century masters such as Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cezanne, Jacques Louis David, Edgar Degas, Eugene Delacroix, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Odilon Redon and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; and 20th century artists such as Georges Braque, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso.
The Prints and Drawings department also is home to extraordinary graphic suites such as Matisse's Jazz or George Rouault's Miserere, and livres d'artiste including Marc Chagall's Fables and Fernand Leger's Cirque. NOMA also boasts an impressive body of modern British prints by David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, Gillian Ayres, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Patrick Caulfield, Elizabeth Frink, Gerald Laing and Richard Hamilton.
Decorative Art
Glass Silver Portrait Miniatures Meissen Porcelain French Ceramics Furniture American Art Pottery
A magnificent and comprehensive collection of glass objects is the single greatest strength of the New Orleans Museum of Art's Decorative Arts Department. The glass collection is ranked among the top five in the United States and covers the history of the glassmaker's art from its ancient Egyptian origins through contemporary studio glass. The NOMA glass collection presently numbers more than 12,000 objects.
The Decorative Arts Department of the New Orleans Museum of Art has magnificent examples of silver artistry. Among these are the Elinor Bright Richardson collection of English silver, which features works by the great Paul Storr, the Gross Collection of English silver covering works from the 17th Century through the 19th Century, and the Jolie and Robert Shelton Collection of Martelé American Art Nouveau Silver.
A Portrait Miniature is a small, portable painting designed as a memento of a beloved or admired person. The history of this art form began in 16th Century England and continued to be fashionable both in England and on the Continent throughout the next three centuries. In the mid-19th Century, the 400-year tradition of portrait miniatures fell into decline with the invention of photography. The majority of NOMA's Portrait Miniature collection is from the notable Latter-Schlesinger Collection.
In 1997, the New Orleans Museum of Art received one of the most significant gifts to the Decorative Arts collection in NOMA's history: the H. Lloyd Hawkins, Jr. Collection of nearly 350 works by the renowned Meissen Porcelain Manufactory of Saxony, Germany.
Contemporary audiences may not comprehend the mania for porcelain set off by the development of the formula for true or hard-paste porcelain at Meissen in late 1709. Among royalty and aristocrats, the possession of porcelain immediately became one of the major status symbols of the 18th Century, second only to owning an appropriate palace as a mark of rank and privilege.
Mr. Hawkins' fascination for Meissen figures was certainly akin to that of the 18th Century collectors. He was presented the important Meissen allegorical set of The Four Elements as a gift in 1954. Over the next several decades, Mr. Hawkins acquired nearly 450 figures and groups. He was entranced by the virtuosity of the work and intrigued that the Meissen factory created an entirely new European art form when it introduced its now-celebrated figures.
French ceramics is another strength of NOMA's collection, with a major emphasis on the porcelains of Paris from circa 1770 to circa 1870. The Paris porcelain collection at NOMA is the only one in the United States to survey the entire century-long history of these distinguished wares. Three areas of secondary concentration within the category of French ceramics are the Brooke Hayward Duchin Collection of nineteenth-century Palissy wares, Sévres porcelain of the eighteenth through the early twentieth century, and the Stern Collection of porcelain veilleuses which is focused upon the nineteenth century.
NOMA's furniture collection includes important examples of 18th and 19th century American furniture and a small group of exquisite 18th century French pieces.
Highlights include The Rosemonde E. and Emile Kuntz Rooms, exhibiting choice examples of America's fine and decorative arts heritage in New Orleans. The rooms were first conceived by Felix H. Kuntz [1890-1971], the Dean of Americana. His brother Emile N. Kuntz was charged with constructing and furnishing the rooms as a memorial to their parents. The rooms were completed by Mr. Kuntz's widow, Karolyn K. Westervelt, and daughter, Rosemonde K. Capomazza de Campolattaro.
The second greatest area of concentration in NOMA's Decorative Arts collection is American art pottery from circa 1880 to 1960, with notable strengths in the areas of Newcomb, Rookwood and Fulper Pottery. The collection numbers about 800 examples representing the production of American art pottery from coast to coast.
The Decorative Arts Department of the New Orleans Museum of Art is the largest division of the permanent collection, with more than 15,000 works of art. The collection ranges from antiquity to the present and from a myriad of cultures and continents.
The single greatest departmental strength is that of glass. The glass collection is ranked among the top five in The United States and covers the history of the glassmaker's art from its ancient Egyptian origins through contemporary studio glass. The NOMA glass collection presently numbers about 12,000 objects.
American Art Pottery
The second greatest area of concentration is American art pottery from circa 1880 to 1960, with notable strengths in the areas of Newcomb, Rookwood and Fulper Pottery. The collection numbers about 800 examples representing the production of American art pottery from coast to coast.
French Ceramics
French ceramics is another pillar of NOMA's collection, with a major emphasis on the porcelains of Paris from circa 1770 to circa 1870. The Paris porcelain collection at NOMA is the only one in the United States to survey the entire century-long history of these distinguished wares. Three areas of secondary concentration within the category of French ceramics are the Brooke Hayward Duchin Collection of nineteenth-century Palissy wares, Sévres porcelain of the eighteenth through the early twentieth century, and the Stern Collection of porcelain veilleuses which is focused upon the nineteenth century.
Another important area is English and Continental portrait-miniatures. The bulk of that collection consists of the notable group in the Latter-Schlesinger Collection of over two hundred examples, dating from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth century.
Furniture and More
Other facets of the Decorative Arts at the New Orleans Museum of Art include 18th century and 19th century American furniture; English ceramics, including the distinguished Irving Gerson Collection of Wedgwood, and the Geraldine Colby Zeiler Collection of Belleek porcelain; the H. Lloyd Hawkins, Jr. Collection of Meissen porcelain figures, the Elinor Bright Richardson collection of English silver, which features works by the great Paul Storr; and the Gross Collection of English silver covering works from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century.
Modern and Contemporary
Modern European Art Modern & Contemporary American Art
Highlights of NOMA's European modern paintings include outstanding examples of the important art movements of the 20th Century: Fauvism, Cubism, Die Brücke, Blaue Reiter, School of Paris, Surrealism and l'art brut.
Fauvism burst onto the Paris art scene with the 1905 Salon d'Automne. The artists were dubbed fauves, or "wild beasts" for their bold, subjective use of color. Kees van Dongen, one of the original Fauves, is represented with his work Woman in a Green Hat. NOMA's collection of works from the Fauvist movement also includes Maurice de Vlaminck's The Seine, André Derain's Landscape at Cassis, and Georges Braque's Landscape, l'Estaque. Braque, along with Picasso, was one of the most important figures in the development of 20th Century art because of his role as a founder of the Cubist movement in 1908, shortly after he completed Landscape, l'Estaque.
Pablo Picasso's work is characterized by continuous radical change. After his Blue and Rose periods of 1901-1907, Picasso joined with Braque in developing the wholly new artistic style called Cubism. He once stated, "I am always a Cubist," but Picasso never ceased to explore the expand the pictorial possibilities that emerged in the Cubist Revolution. Later, Picasso merged political and psychological tension and anguish into much of his work.
The Cubism movement is also evidenced in sculpture, such as Jacques Lipchitz's Bather, which allows the exploration of cubism from all sides and angles.
Amedeo Modigliani was the epitome of the bohemian, left-bank artist of the School of Paris, enjoying the city's cafés and nightlife. His controlled design and individually mannerist mode was unique in the Parisian art world of the day, which was largely preoccupied with Fauvism and Cubism.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a founding and dominant figure of Die Brücke, or The Bridge, a group of German Expressionist artists who put great emphasis upon the instinctive, spontaneous and subjective. Die Brücke artists expressed their strong emotional attitudes toward their subject matter in a forceful style.
Wassily Kandinsky was the initial practitioner of non-objective art and a founding member of Blaue Reiter [Blue Rider], the second Expressionist group movement in Germany. Kandinsky's Search for Several Circles demonstrated his fascination for the circle, the form which he believed "points most clearly to the Fourth Dimension."
Henri Matisse was another giant of 20th Century art, ranking with Picasso in the quality and quantity of his production. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and papier découpés, works using paper cut-outs which Matisse called "drawing with scissors." The work Jazz is from one of his eight illustrated books which rank among his most outstanding achievements.
The Surrealist Movement is well-represented in NOMA's collection by such works as Max Ernst's Gulf Stream, with his signature creative rubbing techniques, Joan Miró's Portrait of a Young Girl, and René Magritte's Witty Fantasy, The Art of Conversation.
Jean Dubuffet's art fits into no particular school or movement, and continually challenges the traditional aesthetic of the beautiful. Dubuffet came to create what he called l'art brut, or "raw art," in which ordinary and banal subjects are exploited to shock the viewer out of accepted aesthetic responses.
NOMA's collection of American Modern and Contemporary art ranges from the Impressionism of Mary Cassatt to the modernism of Georgia O'Keeffe, from the Abstract Expressionism of Jackson Pollock to the dynamic and varied work of contemporary artists. Also noteworthy is the Museum's Photography Collection, Prints and Drawings Collection, and the planned Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden which encompass many 20th Century treasures.
Among the visionary and generous donors who have contributed fine art to NOMA's 20th Century collections, in addition to the Besthoff Family, are Mrs. P. Roussel Norman, the late Muriel Bultman Francis, the late Victor K. Kiam, and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation.
Georgia O'Keeffe developed a highly individualistic style in her paintings of sprawling desert landscapes and unfolding flowers. Her work is distinguished by her ability to distill the essence of natural forms through the use of simplification and soft color.
Marsden Hartley experimented with the range of European art movements from Post-Impressionism to Cubism to German Expressionism. In The Ice Hole, Maine, Hartley uses a stitch-like brushstroke influenced by the Post-Impressionist Swiss painter, Giovanni Segantini.
Ralston Crawford was a notable participant in the development of American modernism. His work, based upon observation, emphasized the two-dimensionality of the canvas and demonstrated the balance, indeed tension, between abstraction and representation.
Jackson Pollock was the most famous Abstract Expressionist or "action painter" of his generation, exerting a tremendous influence in the New York art world. Pollock is known for drizzling and flinging different kinds of paint, the work of art being created through the action of his own body movements.
Joseph Cornell is an enigmatic figure in 20th Century art. He lived an almost hermetic life but created miniature, magical assemblages inspired by Surrealist concepts of poetry. Radar Astronomy is one of Cornell's several boxes on the theme of space.
Milton Avery, who began his career as a commercial artist, is known for both the style and highly personal content of his work. He is considered, along with O'Keeffe and Hartley, to have forged an indigenous modern American artistic idiom.
Robert Gordy, one of the Louisiana artists who achieved national prominence during the 1970s, featured abstracted female figures in a two-dimensional, decorative landscape in many of his pieces. Gordy is also known for integrating positive and negative space in a pattern within each of his works.
NOMA's collection of 20th Century European and American painting and sculpture is comprehensive and covers virtually all the major art movements on both continents for the past 100 years.
Asian Art
NOMA's Japanese collection includes three hundred Japanese screen and scroll paintings dating from the Edo period (1615-1868) into the early 20th Century. Of special significance are numerous paintings in the Nanga, Maruyama-Shijo, Rimpa and Zen traditions of Edo painting, including such masters as Ike Taiga, Matsumura Goshun, Hon'ami Koetsu and Hakuin Ekaku.
The Museum's collection of Chinese ceramic art includes examples from the Neolithic to the end of the imperial era, exploring the earthenware, stoneware and porcelain traditions in China. Highlights in this rich collection include a fine selection of Song ceramics and an outstanding collection of blue and white wares from the Yongzheng and Qianlong eras of the Qing dynasty. Enameled wares, including those intended for export, comprise another important aspect of NOMA's collection.
The arts of India represent NOMA's newest area of collecting. The Museum houses a significant and growing collection of the tribal and village arts of India, particularly those from the Khond tribes and arts from the Karnataka region. The tradition of appeasing local deities in the Karnataka region, known as Bhutas, result in the creation of large bronze masks and breastplates, and the carving of large wooden statues for the local temples, and are a highlight of NOMA's Indian collection.
The Asian Art collection at the New Orleans Museum of Art is one of the most distinguished in the Gulf South. The richness, variety and breadth of the arts of China, Japan and India are showcased in the Museum's renowned holdings. The collection includes objects which range in date from the Neolithic to the contemporary, and include screens and scroll paintings, miniatures, calligraphy, woodblock prints, ceramics, bronzes, jades, and the decorative arts of East Asia and the Indian sub-continent.
The New Orleans Museum of Art has collected the arts of Asia almost since the inception of the institution. In 1914, the bequest of a large collection of Chinese jade and hardstone carvings from the Morgan-Whitney family marked the first donation of a collection to the new institution, and marked an auspicious beginning to NOMA's collection of Asian art. Since that time the Museum has focused primarily on the collection of Chinese ceramics, Japanese Edo-period painting, and the sculptural art of India.
Louisiana Art
19th Century 1900 - 1945 Contemporary
With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and statehood in 1812, Louisiana formally became a part of the emerging American republic. Many Louisiana natives however, still considered themselves part of the earlier French and Spanish cultures, beginning the evolution of the American-European hybridization of Louisiana culture.
Portraiture dominated Louisiana painting in the first half of the 19th century. Unlike the aristocratic 18th century portraits, portraits in the 19th century reflect the more bourgeois appearance of the burgeoning middle class – proper but not ostentatious. The demand for portraits grew with the increasing antebellum prosperity, and artists flocked to the area to seek their fortunes. Many of these import artists travelled from Europe, especially France, due to the long-standing ties between that country and Louisiana. Two of the most successful and talented were Jacques Amans and Jean Joseph Vaudechamp, and their restrained neo-classic style of French art became popular with Louisiana patrons and artists alike.
Another influence on the character of Louisiana culture was that of the indigenous population. Indian ideas were an indispensable source for early settlers trying to adapt to the region, and this assimilation was mutual, as illustrated by Alfred Boisseau's Indians Walking Along the Bayou. A hybridization of culture can be seen in this work, for the child carries Indian implements, the man carries an American rifle, and the clothing is Indian in style but cut from European or American fabrics.
Public interest in art waned mid-century as epidemics and the economic depression caused by the Civil War and Reconstruction strangled New Orleans. In the last quarter of the 19th century, however, New Orleans became the visual arts center of the "New South" as both formal and informal arts organizations flourished and provided a cohesive climate for artistic creation. Portraiture's predominance was gradually supplanted by landscape and genre painting. The technological advances and increasing popularity of photography were also a factor in the declining demand for more expensive painted portraits.
The popularity of landscape painting was encouraged by the young nation's westward expansion and interest in previously unknown vistas and natural wonders. Louisiana artists, beginning with Richard Clague, developed an indigenous school of landscape painting that combined "luminosity" with a simple and direct pictorial naturalism.
The work of Achille Perelli and George Viavant illustrates the unusual contribution Southern artists made to the tradition of still-life painting. Images of dead game and fish, characterized by extremely precise tromp l'oeil (fool-the-eye) detail and vivid coloration, became a staple of late 19th century academic painting in New Orleans. This tradition had become popular prior to the Civil War and remained so, valued as trophies by sportsmen and as souvenirs by tourists.
The most compelling genre subjects were those events that took place along the banks of the Mississippi River. Because their character is primarily narrative, these scenes are not marked by a strong stylistic identity. However, the general development in painting at this time was towards looser, more fluid brushwork and a brighter palette. In depicting the waterways, the land and its inhabitants, 19th century Louisiana artists further refined the concept of the South as a clearly identifiable entity in American life. This concept would come to concern artists more and more in the early twentieth century.
In the early 20th century, Louisiana artists continued to define the character of the South and develop a Southern aesthetic. Earlier generations of artists, believing the South was isolated and unique, retreated to romanticism and nostalgia. Later generations, however, welcomed the inevitable changes of modern forces. Establishing contact with other regions, these artists explored the issue of a Southern aesthetic in a larger, less provincial context.
Many Louisiana artists continued to favor landscape painting but no one genre dominated. Indeed, creative options were expanded by the establishment in 1890 of the Newcomb College School of Art. Its pottery and crafts enterprise intended to provide employment for women at a time when they had few opportunities in the commercial world.
The most influential figures in Southern art at this time were the Woodward brothers, William and Ellsworth. Although born in Massachusetts, the Woodward brothers made New Orleans their home and devoted themselves to promoting Southern culture and art – as artists, teachers and administrators. Ellsworth Woodward was the first Dean of the Newcomb School of Art and a founding trustee of the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art [now NOMA].
During this period, Southern artists practiced a variety of styles ranging from the most conservative to the most experimental. The landscapes that remained popular illustrate the American version of Impressionism. William Woodward's paintings embody this so-called "genteel" Impressionism which retains the exuberant brushwork and vibrant colors of French Impressionism, but is tamer and more low-keyed with decorative overtones.
International and frequently controversial avant-garde art movements were introduced to New Orleans by the Arts and Crafts Club, founded in 1921. Through the organization, Southern artists were kept abreast of the struggle between representation and abstraction occupying the larger art world. This conflict is manifest in the work of Will Henry Stevens, a professor at Newcomb College, whose paintings may be divided into two distinct categories: representative landscapes bearing the structural influence of Paul Cézanne and color/form abstractions recalling the work of Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee.
Modern and contemporary Louisiana artists continued the area's rich and diverse arts tradition. John McCrady, who came to be aligned with the Regionalist art movement during his early career, returned to his Louisiana roots and found the subject of African-American life in the South to be of particular interest. McCrady later established an art school in New Orleans' French Quarter and trained many of the next generation of artists. During the 1950s, New Orleans-born Fritz Bultman exhibited regularly with the New York School of noted Abstract Expressionists. A number of contemporary artists living and working in Louisiana during the 1970s achieved national prominence, including Robert Gordy, Ida Kohlmeyer and Jim Richard. Important figures who are still active include Lin Emery, known for metal kinetic sculptures, and John Scott, whose works often refer to his African-American heritage and to the strong musical culture of New Orleans. A popular favorite in the Contemporary Louisiana galleries is a painting from George Rodrigue's Blue Dog series.
From its earliest exploration and settlement by the French and Spanish, to its strategic location and commercial importance over many centuries, Louisiana has been a significant center for culture and the arts. New Orleans was already a thriving art center by 1910 when Isaac Delgado, a successful sugar broker, offered funds to the city to be used for the creation of "a temple of art for rich and poor alike." The city had a community of art enthusiasts, so Delgado's offer was met with great enthusiasm. The Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, later to become the New Orleans Museum of Art, was completed in 1911.
NOMA's collection includes an outstanding survey of Louisiana art from the 19th and 20th centuries, and includes important works by contemporary artists. The art communities of New Orleans and Louisiana continue to flourish, and many of NOMA's treasured artworks have been donated to the Museum by generous Louisiana individuals and families.
African Art
The NOMA collection of tribal arts from sub-Saharan Africa is considered one of the most important half-dozen collections of its type in American art museums. NOMA's commitment to collecting African art is half a century old, dating back to 1953. During the past thirty years, NOMA has made a concentrated effort to develop a comprehensive collection of African art.
The most significant donation to NOMA's collection was a group of 140 African works bequeathed in 1977 by New York collector Victor K. Kiam. Many of these sculptures, superb examples of their particular type, made NOMA's holdings one of the strongest in the United States. Since this milestone event, NOMA has continued to expand the African collection through purchases, gifts and additional bequests.
The collection contains in-depth strengths of the major art-producing peoples such as the Bamana, Dogon, Baule, Yoruba, Fang, Tabwa, Luba, Bembe and Chokwe. Among the Yoruba objects are three rare sculptures by the great carver, Olowe of Ise, and two by Areogun of Osi-Ilorin. Also notable is an 18th century shrine figure of Onile, one of seven extant large bronzes from the Ogboni Society.
The collection also boasts valuable ancient terracottas from the kingdoms and cultures of Nok, Sokoto, Benin, Akan, Djenne and Bankoni and exquisitely carved architectural elements from the Yoruba, Dogon, Bamana, Fang peoples and the Kedjom-Keku and Benin Kingdoms. The collection contains masks, figures (reliquary, shrine, ancestor, initiation), textiles, storage and utility vessels, prestige objects, furniture, costumes, marionettes, jewelry and musical instruments made of a fascinating variety of materials including wood, ivory, stone, terracotta, cloth, beadwork and various metals, including gold.
In 2011, NOMA published a comprehensive book of the museum's permanent African collection called Ancestors of Congo Square: African Art in the New Orleans Museum of Art which is celebrates NOMA's prestigious collection and offers new scholarship from 50 of the leading experts around the world. The book available in the Museum Shop.
Since the 1970s, NOMA has built an extensive collection of photographs that represents a wide range of achievement in that medium from the 1840s to the present. Today the collection comprises over 8,500 works with images by some of the most significant photographic artists including Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Ilse Bing, William Eggleston, and Edward Steichen, among many others.
The collection includes examples that reflect photography's international scope, from an 1843 view from his hotel window in Paris by William Henry Fox Talbot to a view of Mount Fuji by Kusakabi Kimbei, but it is particularly strong in work about New Orleans by regional and national photographers such as E. J. Bellocq, Walker Evans, Clarence John Laughlin, and Robert Polidori.
NOMA is dedicated to presenting the photography collection in exhibitions, publications and educational programs and to continuing to build the collection to better reflect recent scholarship on the history of photography. Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs is responsible for the care, development, and interpretation of the collection.
Oceanic Art
The New Orleans Museum of Art's collection of tribal arts from Oceania focuses on art works from Polynesia, Melanesia and Indonesia.
The connection features an 18th Century temple figure collected by Captain James Cook on his third voyage to the Hawaiian Islands in 1779. The primary function of the temple figure was to protect sacred precincts and, therefore, they are made to appear aggressive, even threatening. The tall, complex headdress, carved in a series of knobular projections, surmounts the figure.
Other notable works in the Polynesian collection include a nephrite pendant [hei tiki] from the Maori peoples of New Zealand, an Easter Island wood standing male figure [moai kava kava], a Samoan Island wood club and a Fiji Island whale tooth necklace [vuaseisei]. From the Marquesas Islands, Fatu Hiva, is a wood standing male figure and two bone toggle switches [ivi po'o].
The greatest concentration of significant art produced in the South Pacific Islands is found on Papua New Guinea, particularly in the Sepik, Yuat, Karawari and Ramu River regions. The fact that approximately 800 different languages are spoken by the three million people living in the area leads to a constant state of tribal warfare. As a result of the complexity of interrelationships between these various cultures, it is often easier to sort and identify their artistic endeavors by geographic region instead of by individual tribal names.
The Batak, consisting of six ethnic groups numbering three million, live in the mountainous highlands of Northern Sumatra, isolated by rugged, deep river gorges and impenetrable forests. This detachment from outside influences has kept their culture relatively pure for centuries, but over the years, Christianity, Islam, and Dutch colonialism have made inroads upon the Batak.
Influential in Karo Batak society are magician-priests, called guru, who have extensive knowledge of the ancient religion and can perform a variety of useful practices and rituals. During their professional duties, the guru often use magic wands made of a tall bamboo or wood staff surmounted with single or multiple figures. It is believed that the magical powers of these wands include the ability to ward off evil, make rain, cause death, and guarantee the fertility of crops, animals and humans. NOMA's collection of Batak artifacts also include a shell and brass necklace and a large wood helmet mask.
Other fascinating objects in the collection include a fine cotton ritual weaving [tampan] from Sumatra, a 19th century bone carve weaver's pick from the Dyak peoples of Borneois, a Lombok betal nut pestle and a seated male ancestor figure [adu] from the Nias Islands.
Art of the Americas
United States of America Native America Latin America
The New Orleans Museum of Art's permanent collection includes noteworthy works by American artists from the 18th Century to the present day. John Singleton Copley, represented at NOMA by his Portrait of Colonel George Watson, was the most skilled artist practicing in the American colonies before the Revolution. Benjamin West, a trend-setter in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, forecast both the Neo-Classic and Romantic movements in his paintings. Renowned portrait artists Charles Willson Peale, Thomas Sully and Gilbert Stuart are also represented with important works. A highlight of the collection is John Singer Sargent's elegant Portrait of Mrs. Asher Wertheimer, painted in 1898.
NOMA's collection of 20th century American art ranges from the Impressionism of Mary Cassatt to the modernism of Georgia O'Keeffe, from the Abstract Expressionism of Jackson Pollock to the dynamic and varied work of contemporary artists.
The Southwestern United States has been the homeland of indigenous peoples for more than 10,000 years. Over the millennia, drastic changes occurred in the natural environment, producing the semi-arid desert and mountainous terrain we know today. Important innovations introduced from Mexico made life in the harsh environment easier, particularly agriculture, weaving and ceramics.
By 1000 A.D., the population had increased and migrated to ceremonial and administrative centers where ambitious agricultural and building projects were focused. Painted pottery for ceremonial as well as utilitarian use became an important and abundant aesthetic medium. These great builders and artists are now commonly referred to as the Anasazi culture.
NOMA's collection includes many fine examples of Native American art works from the Anasazi era through contemporary Pueblo peoples who are their descendants and the Northwestern Coast peoples of British Columbia.
pre-Columbian America
"pre-Columbian" refers to the many cultures that existed in the Americas from Mexico to Peru before the Spanish conquest in 1521. Highlighting the cultures of West Mexico, the Maya region, and Central America, the Museum's collection introduces the viewer to the splendour and diversity of pre-Columbian artistic expression.
The varied environmental zones of Mesoamerica gave rise to numerous and diverse civilizations. Underlying this diversity, however, was a shared cultural co-tradition spread through trade and inter-colonization. Included in this common tradition were an accurate astronomical calendar, various religious and political concepts, and architectural and artistic trends.
Ceramic and stone sculptures seem most frequent, but painting, fresco, textile and metallurgy were all highly refined. The various pre-Columbian cultures all created objects with ritual or funerary purpose.
Colonial Latin America
In 1492, the first documented encounter between Europe and the Americas took place with the accidental arrival of Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus on the island of Hispaniola. This event initiated nearly four centuries of colonization in the Americas by various European powers. While the conquest of the Americas decimated the region's indigenous population, a unique culture emerged which integrated elements from Europe, the Americas, and beyond.
The Spanish Crown colonized a large part of the American continent, which is now known as Latin America. As a result of the booming local economy, the cities of Colonial Spanish America—Lima, Cuzco, Bogotá, Quito, Potosí, and Sucre—developed into major centers of artistic production and trade. Each city had its own style, though certain design elements permeated every region of Spanish America. Colonial Latin American Art is characterized by its distinctive representation of Christian imagery, as well as ornate gilding and framing in the baroque style. Colonial Latin American art was largely produced by anonymous artists who were primarily mestizos, individuals of mixed indigenous and European descent.
NOMA houses an impressive collection Colonial Latin American art, hailing mainly from the Andean region. This collection includes several hallmarks of the Colonial Latin American artistic canon, such as an armed angel painting, several large-scale "statue" paintings of the Virgin Mary, polychrome sculpture, furniture, and silverwork.
The New Orleans Museum of Art has developed a unique Arts of the Americas collection, surveying the cultural heritage of North, Central and South America. The Latin American collection ranges from the pre-Columbian period through the Spanish Colonial era and is especially rich in objects from the great Mayan culture of Mexico and Central America, and in painting and sculpture from Cuzco, the fabulous Spanish capital of Peru. The Native American collection includes works of art from the ancient Anasazi peoples to Indian artists and artisans still working today. NOMA's collection of art from the United States provides a fascinating overview of the nation's cultural history in paintings, decorative arts, and sculpture from the 18th century to the present day.


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Austria v Germany: Preview
Germany striker Miroslav Klose is looking to continue his impressive scoring streak against Austria and is confident the team will be better in front of goal than their opening World Cup qualifier.
The players were criticised for not scoring more in Friday's 3-0 win over minnows the Faroe Islands but tomorrow's opponents are expected to be less defensive, something which should suit Klose.
He has scored five goals in four victories against their neighbours and is now just four short of Gerd Muller's national record of 68.
Klose did not score against the Faroes and he is keen to move on, telling reporters: ``During a game like that, there is a switch in your head which you press many times, without success.
``Against Austria we will have more room but we will have to show our best football to get by down there.''
After Friday's win coach Joachim Low called on his players to be more clinical in front of goal and he expects them to get more of a chance in Vienna.
``This is another game against another backdrop,'' he said.
``There won't be 10 players standing around the penalty area as against the Faroe Islands.
``What I have seen of Austria is that they play far more structured than two years ago.
``They have players with self-esteem, who regularly play in the Bundesliga and other leagues and among the driving forces are (Stuttgart's) Martin Harnik and (Werder Bremen's) Marko Arnautovic.''
There are nine players in the Austria squad who play in the Bundesliga, with Harnik having been born in Hamburg.
He scored 17 goals for Stuttgart last season but knows many things will have to go in Austria's favour in order to beat Germany.
``There is no secret formula. We have to have a very good day and they have a somewhat poorer one,'' he told Kurier.
``The Germans are beatable but it is by no means easy.''
Coach Marcel Koller has been in charge for almost a year and his methods appear to be bringing the best out of the squad and they are unbeaten in their last four friendlies.
``We have a good core together and now also in quality in depth,'' added Harnik.
``I believe that the individual players have performed very well and that we now have a coach who brings together the strengths.''


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JPMorgan Chase remained the largest U.S. bank by asset size for the first quarter of 2013, according to financial research firm SNL Financial.
JPMorgan Chase retained the top spot from the 4th quarter of 2012, with $2.389 trillion in total assets, followed by Bank of America with $2.17 trillion in total assets, Citigroup with $1.88 trillion and Wells Fargo with $1.43. No other banks had more than $1 trillion in assets.
The "big four" banks were followed by BNY Mellon, U.S. Bank and HSBC North America, as the top 7 remained unchanged from the fourth quarter of 2012. PNC moved up one spot to eighth, switching places with Capital One. TD Bank rounded out the top ten, replacing State Street Corp., which fell to 11th.
The largest jumps in the top 50 included Chicago-based BMO Financial Corp., moving up to No. 19 from No. 21, and Pasadena, Calif.-based East West Bancorp Inc., jumping to No. 48 from No. 50, according to SNL.
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