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M&J Trimming Blogger's Challenge
Each blogger received a mystery box (pictured above) and we had free reign to use it however we liked. I have to admit, some of the materials had me totally stumped ... but I pulled it together in the end. Head over to the M&J Blog to check out all the blogger's projects (complete with instructions!).
Here's a peak at one of my projects...
M&J Challenge 2 post for a chance to win the same box of supplies.
13 comments:
- Holly said...
That turned out super cute! Good job :)
- June 28, 2011 9:45 PM
- Irēna said...
So lovely!!
- June 28, 2011 9:51 PM
- Tincha said...
Excellent! It turned out so cute! :)
- June 29, 2011 12:21 AM
- Greeneydmama said...
Anon isn't so original...same bot hit Meg of Whatever months ago, saying the exact same thing, same formatting and all ><. That being said, awesome wings!!!!! : ) Can't wait to see the rest! : )
- June 29, 2011 12:22 AM
- p.s.phyllis sews said...
Wow! You did a great job with the materials that you received! Can't wait to see what else you created....
I bet she will love those wings for quite a while.
- June 29, 2011 9:39 AM
- Randi~Dukes and Duchesses said...
You did a great job ... how fun to be part of that challenge! I'd love that. The box of goodies is beautiful.
- June 29, 2011 4:20 PM
- CraftCrave said...
Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [30 Jun 01:00am GMT]. Thanks, Maria
- June 29, 2011 8:02 PM
- Melissa said...
I'm so jealous you got to do the M+J trimmings challenge! You did a FABULOUS job with your goodies.
Also, thanks so much for adding me to your blog roll! What an honor!
- June 29, 2011 9:42 PM
- Angela said...
Darling! I love fairy wings.
- July 02, 2011 9:44 PM
- Fat Cat Crafts said...
I love those wings! You did such a great job on them. They're very cute!
- July 03, 2011 2:07 PM
- Carla(LoverofWords) said...
That is super cute. great job
- July 03, 2011 7:43 PM
- Manual said...
Amazing how could create something so cute with ordinary materials.
- August 12, 2011 4:56 PM
- moonsword said...
Love it! You really are a creative thinker...fabulous job! (I found you through TCB.) Cheers!
- August 14, 2011 4:41 AM


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One-year Prospective Observational Study of BMI Change Effect of 5-alpha Reductase Inhibitor in Korean BPH Patients
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|Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|One-year Prospective Observational Study of BMI Change Effect of 5-alpha Reductase Inhibitor in Korean BPH Patients
- body mass index [ Time Frame: after 1 year of treatment ]
|Study Start Date:
|May 2006
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|September 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
This study is a prospective, 1-year follow-up, observational study. We are planning to enroll 100 Korean patients with BPH. At each visit, patients' height, weight, abdominal circumference will be checked. Laboratory parameters including fasting glucose, HbA1c, serum testosterone, free testosterone, sex hormone-binding globulin, estradiol, maximum flow rate (measured by flowmetry) will be tested. Blood test will be performed twice (at baseline and at the end of study). 5mL of blood will be needed at each time from one subject. And total IPSS score will be evaluated after 1 year of treatment of 5 ARI. At every visit, use of above prohibited medicines and other medications will be investigated. In addition, any surgical procedures undertaken during study period will be asked and recorded.
Subjects of study will be allocated into 3 separate groups. Group 1 will be those taking 5 alpha reductase inhibitor (dutasteride) only for 1 year. Group2 will be those who switch from alpha blocker to dutasteride and take dutasteride for 1 year. Group 3 will be composed of those taking both alpha blocker and dutasteride for 1 year.
composed of
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|45 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male patients with symptomatic BPH
- Prostate volume of 30 cm3 or greater measured by transrectal ultrasound
- International Prostatic Symptom Score(IPSS) of 9 or greater
- Maximum urinary flow rate (Qmax) of 15ml/s or less
- No definite evidence of prostate cancer (on transrectal ultrasound, DRE, or etc.)
- Given Informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Post-void residual more than 250 mL
- History of cancer (including prostate cancer) or previous prostatic surgery
- Acute urinary retention within 3 months of enrollment
- Chronic alcohol abuser and heavy smoker (> 10 cigarettes/day)
- History of/current drug abuse including laxatives
- Any previous 5 ARI administration
- Type 1 DM or Type 2 DM regardless of treatment
- Clinically significant endocrine diseases at investigator's discretion including thyroid diseases.
- History of /current bulimia or anorexia nervosa
- Regular use of following prohibited medicines within 3 months prior to screening; A. Medicines which can affect salt/water retention such as diuretics, calcium channel blockers, gabapentin, pregabalin, etc B. Medicines which can affect body weight such as sibutramine, orlistat, phentermine, amphetamine, etc.
C. Anti-thyroid medication, thyroxine, cyproheptadine, tranquilizers, systemic corticosteroids, testosterone supplement, or other medications that are known to affect body weight or BMI
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00472251
|Korea, Republic of
|Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
|Seongnam-si, Kyunggi-do, Korea, Republic of, 463-707
|Principal Investigator:
|Sang Eun Lee, MD, PhD
|Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
|Responsible Party:
|Sang Eun Lee/Professor, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00472251 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|May 10, 2007
|Last Updated:
|July 20, 2011
Keywords provided by Seoul National University Hospital:
body mass index
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Prostatic Hyperplasia
Pathologic Processes
Prostatic Diseases
Genital Diseases, Male
5-alpha Reductase Inhibitors
Steroid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Hormone Antagonists
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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The pilots of Republic Airways voted to accept the International Brotherhood of Teamsters as their collective bargaining representative by a 68-percent margin, according to a tally taken in late June. After certification by the National Mediation Board (NMB), the Teamsters officially becomes the representative of the pilots of Republic Airways regional subsidiaries Chautauqua, Republic Airlines and Shuttle America, as well as low-fare unit Frontier.
In June Republic announced a plan to divest its majority stake in Frontier by the end of 2014 and give its pilots an equity stake in the company in return for pay and benefits concessions. However, the vote for the Teamsters consolidates all Republic Airways pilots into a single bargaining group. The pilots of Chautauqua, Republic Airlines and Shuttle America continue to work under a contract signed in 2003.
Negotiations for renewal of that contract, which became amendable in 2007, have entered federal mediation. The Teamsters win means all of Republic's pilot groups must now negotiate the terms of their amalgamation "at the appropriate time," according to the union. Nevertheless, Republic insists the union vote will not affect its restructuring efforts.


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No Penalty 18-Month CD Available At Asian Bank (PA)
Philadelphia-based Asian Bank is currently promoting a limited-time No Penalty 18-month CD (1.28% APY). The minimum deposit is $1k of new money, with a maximum deposit of $250k.
The promotional page states:
With our No Penalty CD, you will not be charged a penalty for early withdrawal.
You can withdraw your full balance and interest any time after the first 6 days following the date you funded the account.
Thanks to DA reader, terryb, for the Forum post about the No Penalty 18-month CD.
When I last wrote about Asian Bank, its market area was confined to the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The Bank's market area now includes most of southeast Pennsylvania, portions of south New Jersey, New York City, and northern Delaware.
Asian Bank still has only one branch, which is located in the Chinatown neighborhood of Center City Philadelphia.
After seeing the expanded market area, I expected to see an online application; I was wrong. Opening a CD or Savings account can be opened in-branch or by downloading an application and returning it by mail or secure email. You can also contact the Bank to have an application mailed or emailed to you. Complete details are available on the Apply Today page.
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Asian Bank has an overall health rating of "B+" at DepositAccounts.com, with a Texas Ratio of 9.68% (excellent), based on December 31, 2016 data. In the past year, Asian Bank has increased its total non-brokered deposits by $29.2 million, an excellent annual growth rate of 28.11%. Please refer to our financial overview of Asian Bank (FDIC Certificate # 34759) for more details.
Asian Bank was established in June 1999 to serve as a community bank to the residents of Philadelphia's Chinatown. In the 18 years since opening its doors, Asian Bank's total assets have grown to over $170 million. The Bank's President and CEO, James Wang, was recently named by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia to its Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council. His three-year term will end in March 2020.
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When compared to the 263 similar length-of-term CDs tracked by DepositAccounts.com that require a similar minimum deposit and are available within the market area, Asian Bank's 18-month No Penalty CD APY is not that impressive, only ranking in the top 15. The real value lies in the No Penalty feature.
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Parents have breathed a sigh of relief after controversial plans for 20 flats outside a school were put on hold.
Worthing Borough Council's planning committee deferred a decision on the proposals to regenerate the Jolly Brewers pub in Clifton Road, Worthing.
Committee members cited "insufficient information submitted about the sustainability of the proposed building" behind the postponement decision and have requested further information.
Parents and children protested outside the meeting over the plans to build the flats so close to Heene First School.
Objectors say the plans would restrict play space options for the school and mean extra classrooms would have to be built on the school's current play area.
Campaigner Alan McKinney said: "The good thing about the decision is that we will have a bit more time to regroup and assess our options.
"We are going to get a petition together to try and speak at the next county council meeting and lobby education member Jeremy Hunt directly.
"We all thought it would get approved on Wednesday night so it was a slight shock it wasn't." It is expected the decision will now go back before the committee again on July 23.


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We've just now gone live w/ the first of a series of Facebook integration features:
1) you can choose to connect your BG account to FB for automatic login to our site whenever you're logged into FB.
2) as a bonus for helping us test out the feature: you'll get free points for connecting! if you're confused about what the points are you haven't yet signed up to our beta test -- and you can find out more and opt in here: advanced features beta group (which is where you'll find the account connection option).
3) if you decide to connect your account, you can opt to share/post to your FB wall whenever you want. specifically, whenever you post a topic/contest/poll, you'll have the option to post it to your FB as you post it here. (it's just a little checkbox that says "share with my Facebook")
for example, I've chosen to post THIS topic to my FB wall, effectively letting everyone in my FB know about what i've just posted here (linking them here, giving them the chance to reply and/or join).
once again: if you want to connect your accounts and get the points just opt into the beta group and you'll get the option to connect to FB.
wooo hooo!
doing it now!!
So those of us already in the beta should have this already right?
Also, is this retroactive to old posts or only with new posts?
Are you planning on syncing twitter or myspace as well? I won't be linking my facebook to BG, to many weirdos :P
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Seems cool but I don't like my friends and family knowing about bg :oops:
I won't do it.
I have been keeping BG a secret from people that I know IRL, and I plan to keep it that way.
I just connected them and then it immediately logged me out of bg because it said i wasn't on facebook :?
Signed up!
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So what does connecting with facebook really do? I kinda like the anonymity of my BG life. Not sure that I want it on facebook, kwim? If I choose to connect with face book, will all my irl friends be able to easily find me and my posts on BG?
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The Euro overnight interbank market and ECB's liquidity management policy during tranquil and turbulent times
We analyze the impact of the recent financial market crisis on the Euro Overnight Index Average (EONIA) and interbank market trading and assess the effectiveness of the ECB liquidity policy between 07/2007 - 08/2008. We extend the model of [QM06] by (i) incorporating the microstructure of the EONIA market including the ECB fine-tuning operation on the last day of the maintenance period (MP) and banks' daily excess liquidity, (ii) giving insight into banks' trading behavior characterized by an endogenous regime-switch and suggesting an efficient procedure to simulate the entire MP, and (iii) proposing a model for market distortion due to lending constraints which lead to a bid-ask spread for the EONIA rate. The model is calibrated by simulation fitting daily EONIA rates and aggregate liquidity measures observed between March 2004 and September 2008. Besides lending constraints we consider market segmentation and aggregate liquidity shocks as possible market distortions in the crisis period. For a calibration cross-check and for estimating the timing of the endogenous regime-switch we use panel data covering liquidity data of 82 Euro Area commercial banks for the period 03/2003 - 07/2007. With the calibrated model the ECB policy of liquidity frontloading is evaluated and compared with a reserve band system policy similar to the Bank of England's framework. We find that liquidity frontloading is a small scale central bank intervention which is capable of stabilizing interest rates in both frictionless and distorted markets. Simulations suggest that without frontloading the EONIA would have been, on average, 23 basis points above the policy rate (target); with frontloading, the overnight rate is, on average, on target. JEL Classification: E44, E52, G21
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Bolivia, Venezuela to Ink New Deal
La Paz, Oct 28 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian President Evo Morales announced that his government will sign an agreement with Venezuela allowing to commercialize textile products no longer benefited by tax preferences in the US.
Morales sustained the deal will be signed Wednesday in Caracas during a meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez.
The Bolivian president will meet with Chavez after having attending a trilateral summit today in the Ecuadorian city of Puyo.
During the Municipal Council's Session of Honor for the 460th foundation anniversary of La Paz, Morales pointed out the new market will be considerably larger than the one Bolivia had through the Andean Tax Preferences and Drug Eradication Agency (ATPDEA).
Today in Ecuador, Morales, Chavez, and Correa will also talk about oil prospecting projects, energy connection, and food production plans.


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Hey everypony! It's time for another great live episode of The Brony Show. This one is full of some awesome surprises, so if you haven't checked us out or have the time you really, really need to check it out. It's pure awesome. But that's not all. We also have a great interview with an awesome flash artist. We're also doing a fun commentary on the latest MLP episode and also our thoughts on the latest and interesting events in the brony community. Along with all the news, music, videos, and fun random insanity that is the show that you know and love. You can check it out live at 6PM PST or 9PM EST over at Http://thebronyshow.net and clicking on the bottom left Livestream button. Also check out the preshow an hour early for your favorite random DJ playing even more random PMV's. And stay after the show for our excellent aftershow with Crimson (Wow, there is a lot of pony here!)"
Monday, November 7, 2011 op 9:30 AM
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The Rev. Dawson Taylor, executive minister at Cathedral of Hope, has resigned to take a job in Florida.
Taylor, who's been in his position since 2011, said he heard about the opportunity at the Naples, Fla., Church of Christ congregation and decided to apply.
"It was too good of an opportunity to pass up," he said.
His new parish isn't primarily LGBT like COH, but he said that was an exciting aspect of taking the job.
"I'm kind of moving over back into my roots at a more traditional church," he said.
His last Sunday at COH is Nov. 17. He will start his new position Dec. 1
Taylor is the third pastor to resign this year. Senior Pastor Jo Hudson resigned suddenly in April and now teaches at Brite Divinity School. The Rev. Alejandro de la Torre, who headed the Cathedral's Latino ministry, resigned then as well to take care of his elderly mother in Mexico.


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On Saturday, July 23, 2016 at 9am we will be meeting at the PRCSF Headquarters to head to the project site located on Bobcat Trail. We will be completing a wildlife opening maintenance that was started by volunteers in May. There are a few pockets of small trees standing in this 3 acre opening that will be cut and stacked into brush piles to restore the opening for elk and whitetail deer.
All tools, safety gear, two extra chainsaws and full sets of PPE, food/water, and a free T-shirt will be provided for all volunteers. Please contact me with any questions you have about the project or location. RSVP below to volunteer for elk habitat!
- July 23, 2016 at 9am – 1pm
Pigeon River Country State Forest
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Thanks prasanth for this. Microsoft, long a proponent of keeping source code secret, plans to publish the source code to a critical part of its Palladium project to enhance security, a representative of the software giant said Monday.
The component--some thousands of lines of source code--is the basic foundation of the security proposed in Microsoft's project and, as such, is the linchpin for the software giant's trusted-computing platform.
"We will be publishing the source code because people will need to trust this," said Mario Juarez, group product manager for the Palladium project at Microsoft. "To get people to believe in what is happening in that little piece of code is critical."
On Monday, Microsoft took the wraps off its project, code-named Palladium, to design new hardware and software that could better guarantee the security of user data and let companies control data that they "own" while on a consumer's PC.
However, as part of the public push for acceptance of its technology, Microsoft plans to release the source code to the guts of the software component, called the "secure processing environment."
News source: ZDNet News - Change of heart? MS reveals source code


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Ethan A. Huff
Natural News [1]
April 2, 2013
A mysterious wave of animal deaths that kicked off at the start of 2011 is picking back up in China, where tens of thousands of farm animals and wildlife have turned up dead in the communist country's waterways in recent weeks. According to reports, the mass die-offs have affected mainly rivers and tributaries around the densely-populated Shanghai region, and the death count thus far includes tens of thousands of pigs, roughly 1,000 ducks, and at least five black swans.
According to a report issued by the Associated Press (AP) on March 22, a little more than a week after the first dead pigs were discovered, more than 10,000 pig carcasses had already been pulled out of the Huangpu River, which is a primary source of drinking water for the Shanghai region. Around the same time, more than 5,500 dead pigs were also removed from tributaries upstream in the provinces of Jiaxing and Zhejiang. (http://www.chron.com [2])
Following these discoveries, some hog farmers from around the area told news outlets that this seemingly inexplicable die-off is actually the result of black market swine dealers dumping their illicit stocks in the water to avoid getting caught. Local police, according to reports, have been cracking down on the growing underground swine trade, which involves the off-the-books sale of diseased or already-dead pigs to buyers who turn it into food illegally — pork products in China [3], according to the law, must be made from healthy animals.
Others are claiming the pig predicament is the result of an upsurge in industrial pig farms throughout the region, many of which are flouting the law by dumping substandard pigs [4] into the river rather than disposing of them properly. According to one government-controlled media outlet in China, the thousands of dead pigs being found right now in the Huangpu River are the result of "local pig farmers who lack awareness of laws and regulations."
(http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/13/world/asia/pigs-china-river [5])
Is China purposely killing off pigs to avoid pork inflation?
The liberty-lovers over at ZeroHedge.com, however, have a slightly different take on the situation in China. As you may recall, cattle ranchers and hog farmers all across the country had to bring many of their animals to slaughter early as a result of persistent drought conditions throughout the past several years. Initially, meat prices dropped significantly due to a glut of product on the market. But over time, prices began to rise as demand outpaced supply. (http://www.naturalnews.com [6])
How does this relate to China's current situation with all the dead pigs? According to a ZeroHedge.com writer who goes by the pseudonym of Tyler Durden, China is well aware of the fact that the U.S. Federal Reserve's ongoing money printing spree (quantitative easing) is going to affect the prices of goods and services in China, where U.S. debt holdings are extremely high. And all the excess liquidity created as a result of the expanded U.S. money supply will eventually trigger inflation in China, where a lot of U.S. dollars end up, and from where a lot of U.S.-destined products are exported.
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Since pork is China's most popular food product, the government there may very well be manipulating pork stocks to prevent this precious national asset from spiking in price and causing panic and chaos. By essentially grossing the Chinese people out with thousands of dead [7], floating pigs in Shanghai's water supply, government officials may be trying to temporarily thwart the inflation of pork prices by deterring people from buying it, at least for a little while.
"Pork prices in [China] were undergoing a seasonal decline after Chinese New Year, but the recent scandal has rotted demand," explains WantChinaTimes.com. "The Chinese government's guidelines on official conduct, including the restrictions imposed on holding official banquets, is another factor affecting pork demand, driving down prices to levels resembling a crash." (http://www.wantchinatimes.com [8])
When considering the fact that, of all the available meats on the market, pork is expected to rise in price at the fastest rate as we move into the future, Durden's hypothesis about the Chinese government's role in the mass pig deaths is definitely a possibility. But this widespread revulsion to pork cannot last forever, regardless of whether or not the Chinese government is actually involved in triggering it, and it does not explain all the other mysterious animal deaths that have also occurred recently.
Pigs, ducks and swans all turning up dead in China's polluted waters
It is no secret that China does not exactly have the best reputation for environmental stewardship and responsible industry practices. Besides being one of the most heavily-polluted nations in the world, China has also been responsible for causing some of the worst consumer product scares in recent history, including its export of children's toys tainted with lead, for instance, and infant formula contaminated with melamine. With these and many other scandals in mind, it is hardly surprising that pigs are not the only animals now turning up dead in China's polluted waters.
Just days after authorities had cleared out more than 16,000 dead pigs from the Huangpu River, roughly 1,000 dead ducks were discovered in the Nanhe River in China's southwestern territory, which is far from Shanghai. Just like with the pigs, authorities were quick to dismiss the possibility that the dead animals were any type of health threat to local residents. But according to reports, it is unknown precisely why these animals died.
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-21921145 [9])
Even stranger was the more recent discovery of five dead black swans floating in a pond at Anhui University, which is some 200 miles-or-so west of Shanghai. According to reports, the pond, like many other waterways in China, is heavily polluted with "oily water and garbage," which may be the simplest explanation as to why these birds all died at the exact same time. But like the ducks, authorities have yet to determine without a doubt how the swans met their fate. (http://www.danwei.com [10])
Sources for this article include:
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'Café de Flore' (unrated)
In 2011 Montreal, the DJ Antoine (Kevin Parent) is about to turn 40. He is successful, healthy, has two beautiful daughters and is in a loving relationship with Rose (Evelyne Brochu), who he is preparing to marry. In 1969 Paris, Jacqueline (Vanessa Paradis) is raising her son Laurent (Marin Gerrier), who was born with Down syndrome. She has read that the boy's life expectancy is 25, but she is determined he will live to be an old man, and she devotes her life to him.
Linking the two storylines in Café de Flore is the eponymous song. In Paris, Laurent listens to a jazzy piano version. In Quebec, Antoine prefers a groovy ambient cover to spin at dance clubs. Much as he did in 2005's C.R.A.Z.Y., writer-director Jean-Marc Vallée uses pop music liberally, sometimes to sublime effect, other times more subtly (Antoine's bedside alarm clock uses the clanging bells that opens Pink Floyd's Time). Sigur Rós plays when Antoine meets Rose, and the chorus swells at the precise moment they fall in instant love with each other.
Vallée uses film the way a DJ uses music: To make you see and feel the world exactly as he does. Café de Flore is told in non-chronological order, with flashbacks within flashbacks and narratives constantly jumping back and forth across decades. But there isn't a single moment in the movie when you're lost or confused. This is a picture that moves the heart more than it engages the brain. Recurring images, such as a shot of Antoine's ex-wife (Hélène Florent) driving her car in an agitated state or glimpses of a teenaged Antoine hanging around with his girlfriend and listening to The Cure, don't mean anything at first. Eventually, though, everything coalesces into an enormous wallop. One of the great pleasures of the movie is seeing how the entire lives and histories of these characters gradually come together bit by breathtaking bit..
In its final 20 minutes, Café de Flore takes a huge, quasi-spiritual turn, reminiscent of what Vallée did in C.R.A.Z.Y. It didn't work then, and it doesn't work this time either, requiring too large of a leap of faith from the viewer. But you can completely ignore the twist (it springs not from the director, but from the minds of one of the characters) and still walk away loving this ambitious, poignant movie. I've purposely avoided saying what Café de Flore is really about, because the central premise is resonant and touching but knowing too much would rob the reveal of its power. Vallée continues to prove he's a talent to watch, though. I can't think of another filmmaker who makes such technically complex, skilled pictures about such intimate matters. This is a gorgeous, flashy, widescreen epic, like Boogie Nights or Casino, about the most essential things in life: Family, friends and love. But most of all, love.
Cast: Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent, Evelyne Brochu, Marin Gerrier.
Writer-director: Jean-Marc Vallée.
Producers: Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin.
An Adopt Films release. Running time: 120 minutes. Vulgar language, sexual situations, nudity, adult themes. In French with English subtitles. Opens Friday Nov. 2 in Miami-Dade only: Coral Gables Art Cinema.


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Aston Villa's Matt Lowton has been tipped for a future England career by team-mate and Three Lions international Darren Bent.
• Hughes: Positive signs for Villa
Lowton, 23, joined Villa in the summer for a reported £3million, making a two-division leap from life in League One with Sheffield United.
The right-back scored a first competitive goal for the club against Swansea on Saturday, setting them on the way to their first Premier League victory of the season.
And club colleague Bent, 28, whose only goal so far this season came in the Capital One Cup victory over Tranmere, is predicting a big future for the youngster.
"Matt has settled in really well and he gives absolutely everything he has got in every game," Bent said. "I didn't know much about him before he joined us but he has been really impressive in training and in matches.
"In fact, it's hard to believe he has stepped up two divisions. I get the feeling we will be seeing a lot more of him in the coming months. It would not surprise me if he doesn't follow in the footsteps of another former Sheffield United player Kyle Walker, who was on loan here and is now England's first-choice right-back."
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Flora Jennings Small spent her life sharing her passion for dance.
Whether she was performing for Charles Lindbergh, teaching students at her dance studio or sewing costumes for the California Ballet Company, Mrs. Jennings Small embraced and promoted dance in San Diego for more than 80 years.
She danced at the 1924 opening of the Balboa Theatre in downtown San Diego, and nearly half a century later helped start the ballet company. In the intervening years, she opened a dance studio, married a Marine, survived the attack on Pearl Harbor and raised two daughters, who would also become immersed in the world of dance.
Mrs. Jennings Small died of cancer Nov. 1 in Chula Vista. She was 96.
She studied ballet through correspondence courses in the early 1920s and later commuted by train to Los Angeles to study with Russian dancer Theodore Kosloff. In addition to frequent performances at the Del Mar Hotel, she danced for Lindbergh at the Hotel del Coronado. In a 1973 interview with The San Diego Union, Mrs. Jennings Small said she loved dance so much that when she was a child she would get up at 5 a.m. to practice before going to school.
She started teaching dance when she was in her teens and was also performing regularly. Mrs. Jennings Small had two opportunities for world dancing tours, but both fell through. In the 1973 newspaper interview, she recounted that she was scheduled for a 1932 world tour with a Los Angeles dance company but shortly before leaving, she broke both ankles during a toboggan trip in the mountains. She later had a chance to dance abroad as a soloist, but the company's director died before the tour began. "I guess I was destined to remain in San Diego," she said.
Generations of San Diegans benefitted from the change of plans. She choreographed dance programs throughout the county and taught countless students at studios she opened in La Jolla, La Mesa and Paradise Hills.
She was born Nov. 8, 1912, in the Otay area to Ione and Alvah Downs. She grew up in the Bostonia area of El Cajon and attended Grossmont High School. She opened a dance studio in the 1930s and met a young Marine who came in to learn to waltz so he could impress a girlfriend. The Marine, Johnny Jennings, ended up marrying his dance teacher a year later.
By 1941, the couple had a baby daughter and had moved to Hawaii, where Jennings was stationed. After the Pearl Harbor attack, mother and child returned to San Diego, where Mrs. Jennings Small was among the many women who worked at Rohr Aircraft in Chula Vista. Her husband didn't return until a few years later.
In the 1950s and '60s, she was busy raising her two daughters, being president of their school PTA and active in the National City chapter of PEO, an international philanthropic, educational women's group. She also reopened her dance school in Paradise Hills.
"Dance was her passion since she was very young and it was part of her life until she died," said her granddaughter, Clarissa Palhegyi.
Mrs. Jennings Small encouraged and helped her daughter Maxine Mahon found the California Ballet Company. Another daughter, Marlene, was a dancer with the company. Mrs. Jennings Small also started the California Ballet Association and was on the board of trustees for 41 years. She helped design and sew costumes for the dancers for many years.
Longtime friend Robert Arnhym said Mrs. Jennings Small was a prominent part of San Diego's dance history. "She was one of the most visible ballerinas (in the early years). Her interest in dance in this community really kept it alive," Arnhym said. "She helped establish the (California Ballet) company and was a continuing donor."
She and her first husband were active volunteers with the dance company. He helped build sets, while she was the wardrobe mistress. A 1973 article in The Evening Tribune noted that she had stitched the 3,000th costume for the dance troupe. "I got into costuming as a necessity," Mrs. Jennings Small said in the interview. "When I was dancing, my mother and I made my costumes. When I began teaching, I needed costumes for recitals."
In addition to her dance activities, Mrs. Jennings Small was active in her church, St. John's Episcopal Church in Chula Vista. She taught Bible study classes and knitted scarves for veterans.
After her husband of more than 50 years died in 1988, she married longtime family friend Frank Small in 1991.
Mrs. Jennings Small is survived by her husband, Frank; two daughters, Maxine Mahon of San Diego and Marlene Jennings of Seattle; a stepson, Clifford Small of Hawaii; a granddaughter; six stepgrandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Services were held Nov. 7.
The family suggests donations in Mrs. Jennings Small's name to The California Ballet Company, 4819 Ronson Court, San Diego, CA 92111.


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March is nearly upon us, and once again our thoughts turn to that American institution known as Spring Break when college kids take a well deserved break from their pursuits of higher education to partake in other cultural amusements like binge drinking and bikini contests. Here are a few humble music festival suggestions for this season.
Best Spring Break Spot Period.
There's no question that the wildest festival in this list is Ultra. Mami is one of the Spring Break universe hot spots. Hot bodies. Hot music. Hot weather. Were you looking for something else? Plus, Key West is a short drive away to lick your wounds after the blowout.
MFW Ultra Festival Guide
Best Spring Break With Your Coat On.
For those of you that can't stand lazing away on the beaches, it's time to head to the hills. Bring your skis and snowboards for a week in the Colorado Rockies. The ultimate apres-ski is a three day blowout — but with plenty of late night parties, you'll be hard pressed for those early morning powder days.
MFW Snowball Festival GuideÂ
Best Spring Break Festival South of the Border.
Maybe it's not the best idea to head into Mexico, but then again Spring Break isn't the time to consider details. The Vive Latino Festival provides the best excuse to throw back cervezas in Mexico City and an even better reason to go recoup at the beach for a few days. Just don't forget to get on that return flight.
MFW Vive Latino Festival Guide
Best Spring Break for Underage Drinking.
You can't beat crossing the border for the absolutely massive Canadian Music Festival in Toronto. There's 900 artists, 60 venues, and no problems with your fake ID.
MFW Canadian Music Festival Guide
Best Spring Break For Business School Majors.
You'll spend half your vacation getting there, but the Golden Plains Festival is prefect for you business school types. With no commercial sponsors, no commercial signage on site, no market stalls, and nothing being marketed to you for the whole long weekend you will finally be able to unplug.
MFW Golden Plains Festival Guide
Best Spring Break for Hipsters.
You could try to get into the crowded South by Southwest Festival, but we love the Treefort Festival in Boise, Idaho. You'll get a good chunk of the bands that performed at SXSW and can brag to your friends that Austin is "way too mainstream."
MFW Treefort Music Festival Guide
Best Spring Break for Artists.
Now there's another reason for heading down to New Orleans besides boobies and vomiting on Bourbon Street. Check out the latest edition of the BUKU Music and Art Project which features a chill fusion lineup of EDM, indie rock, and hip-hop.
MFW Guide for BUKU
Best Spring Break for Alternative Spring Breakers.
Take part of the week and build and house, but save some time to head to Phoenix and the McDowell Mountain Music Festival. Your ticket price goes to help out local children's charities and you get bands like Umphrey's McGee, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, The Roots, Yonder Mountain String Band, and Heartless Bastards. Everyone wins!
MFW McDowell Mountain Music Festival Guide
Best Spring Break Celebration of St. Patrick's Day.
Grab a glowstick and head to Los Angeles area for the the trippy Beyond Wonderland Festival. It's like Halloween, Spring Break, and St. Patrick's Day all rolled up into an enormous electronic dance music party.
MFW Beyond Wonderland Festival Guide
Best Spring Break for Letting Your Hair Down.
You hate the sun, taking your shirt off, and everything but metal makes you puke. Right across the pond is Hammerfest in Wales where you can headbang until it's time to head back to Harvard.
MFW Hammerfest Festival Guide


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Review of 'Beating Ana' by Shannon Cutts
Continuing with this week's focus on eating disorders, I wanted to post my review of Beating Ana: How to Outsmart Your Eating Disorder & Take Your Life Back by Shannon Cutts, who generously provided me with a free copy. Shannon founded a pro-recovery organization called MentorConnect and travels the country, doing lectures and presentations on eating disorders, recovery and related topics (you can find more info on her website, Key to Life). I highly, highly, highly recommend learning more about MentorConnect and getting involved.
Shannon struggled with anorexia and bulimia for 15 years. But Beating Ana doesn't focus on her long struggle. Instead, it focuses on mentorship and recovery. One of the things that tremendously helped Shannon's recovery was having a mentor along the way. That's sort of how I see Beating Ana: like a mentor that can help you, too, along your recovery. Shannon doesn't speak at you, but speaks to you with her book.
What I also love about this book is that it gives you the tools and inspiration to overcome your eating disorder. Shannon has been there; she gets it. She understands the ups, downs, triumphs, relapses and tough road to recovery. As she writes in the book, recovery isn't linear. It's a "holistic process," where you're constantly learning, healing and growing. Shannon doesn't sugarcoat this process, either.
Beating Ana is honest, raw and thoughtful. It's also uplifting, encouraging and motivating. The foundation of the book is that "relationships replace eating disorders" (also the foundation of MentorConnect). Which is so true since eating disorders flourish in secrecy and in shame. When you're isolated and alone, you have nothing to listen to but the voice of your eating disorder (stay tuned for more on the ED voice tomorrow). Beating Ana helps you fight that voice and emerge from your eating disorder.
The structure of the book is very unique. Shannon features correspondence from five women she's mentored throughout the years. Each chapter includes an email from one of the women, Shannon's response, a recovery workshop (basically an exercise for the reader to practice) and a life celebration affirmation.
Though I've never suffered from an eating disorder (low self-esteem, plummeting body image, disordered eating, shaky sense of self — yes, yes, yes, and yes, but not an ED), it still seems to me that readers will be able to relate to these emails. The women talk about various struggles, fears and worries, about being afraid to eat, thinking they can't recover, sick of trying, feeling fat and unattractive, relapsing, feeling ashamed. No doubt, you'll see some of yourself reflected back in their writings.
Each recovery exercise is thought-provoking and powerful and inspires reflection. Shannon features exercises that address addictions, finding the "key to life," relapses, feeling fat, eating, finding your own real voice and more. Another thing that I think will resonate with readers is her statement, "Recovery is not optional." She writes:
Recovery is not optional. It simply isn't. Without recovery, we will all die of our eating disorder. This is a fact. Eating disorders are lethal. Fatal. Heartless. All consuming.
Specifically, the book is divided into several parts:
Part One: "Welcome to Our World" includes Shannon's story and an introduction to the mentor model.
Part Two: "ED, A.A. and Me" builds on concepts from Alcoholics Anonymous. It begins with the First Step — acknowledging that you have an eating disorder and that you're powerless over it.
Shannon writes, "In your admission of powerlessness lies tremendous power. In admitting your own weakness, you gain the first real access to your own strength." In a section on the H.O.W. (Honesty-Openness-Willingness) of recovery, she writes:
We take action when we have the honesty to admit that things are still broken, despite our best efforts otherwise. We take action when we hold ourselves continually open to new techniques, remaining resolutely receptive to new sources of support and new feeds of information. We take action when we are willing, in each new moment, to try again.
H.O.W. are you going to overcome your eating disorder?
If at first you do not succeed, get up, get up, get up, and try again!
Part Three: "ED at the Movies" draws from several movies as inspiration for the workshop exercises. These are the films that helped Shannon in her recovery.
In one exercise that explores the prison of your eating disorder, she suggests watching The Man in the Iron Mask and The Shawshank Redemption and asking yourself the following questions afterward:
1. What are the benefits to staying in prison?
2. What are the benefits of breaking out of prison into freedom?
3. Do you believe that freedom is something you can have and hold?
4. What will it take for you to be able to accept and maintain your own freedom from your eating disorder?
Part Four: "ED On My Mind" provides "the key techniques from my own recovery work that proved strong enough to break the hold my eating disorder had over my mind and my life — forever." Here, she talks about priorities, relapses, seeing the big picture and learning about yourself.
At the end, Shannon talks in greater detail about mentoring. She lists the guidelines for being a mentor and a mentee and discusses the power of mentoring.
Overall, I think that Beating Ana is a valuable supplement to treatment. If you're in recovery currently, you might want to check it out. If you're a psychologist or any kind of specialist who works with patients who have eating disorders, I recommend telling them about it.
It's inspiring and relatable. It doesn't expect you to "just get over it" (like Shannon talks about in one of the sections). It gives you concrete tools. It gives you the opportunity to read about stories from other sufferers, and maybe see yourself. It opens up the rewarding world of mentorship. And it helps you realize that you are not alone, and recovery is possible.
Here's more information about the book:
Interview with Shannon on the blogs To Be Beautiful and Tales of a (Recovering) Disordered Eater.
About the book on Shannon's website with a free excerpt you can download.
If you've read this book, how did you like it? What techniques have helped you in your recovery?
Tartakovsky, M. (2010). Review of 'Beating Ana' by Shannon Cutts. Psych Central. Retrieved on September 26, 2017, from https://blogs.psychcentral.com/weightless/2010/03/review-of-beating-ana-by-shannon-cutts/


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- Serves 10-12
- Takes 20 minutes to make, plus 6 hours' chilling
- 75g butter, melted, plus extra for greasing
- 250g HobNobs biscuits
- 250g vanilla fudge
- 300g mascarpone
- 400ml double cream, softly whipped
- 250g strawberries, quartered
- 2 tsp icing sugar
- 1. Lightly butter a 23cm springform cake tin. Pulse the biscuits to crumbs in a food processor. Add the melted butter and pulse until combined and clumped together. Tip into the base of the tin and press down evenly. Chill.
- 2. Meanwhile, put 200g of the fudge in a large bowl and melt in a microwave for 1 minute on High, until it forms a soft paste (or alternatively melt in a pan over a very low heat). Cool slightly. Beat the mascarpone in a bowl with a wooden spoon until soft, add to the melted fudge and mix until combined. Gently fold in the whipped cream.
- 3. Chop the remaining fudge into small chunks and stir into the filling. Spoon over the chilled biscuit base, smoothing the top. Cover and chill for 6 hours or overnight – the fudge will set the cheesecake.
- 4. Meanwhile, put the strawberries in a bowl and toss with the icing sugar. Set aside to macerate for 20 minutes.
- 5. Once the cheesecake is set, run a knife all around to loosen and remove the springform collar. Slide onto a serving plate and spoon over the strawberries to serve.
Per serving (based on 12): 512kcals, 40.9g fat (25.1g saturated), 3.9g protein, 34.2g carbs, 24.7g sugar, 0.5g salt
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January 1st, 2015
I started off my sexual experiences with a major lie, which I regretted since 1998. It was my first sexual experience and I was confused afterwards. Wasn't sure what to feel, how to feel, or if I did the right thing by not waiting until marriage. I asked someone to help me figure out my feelings and he told me to tell my first, I was raped. I felt guilty, even now. Fast forward years past a decade and through a miracle, I was able to apologize to my first last year. All it took was a simple real name, instead of an alias, on a Paypal transaction. I am not sure what God was doing or what lesson he was trying to teach but I got to say I'm sorry.
Then, I met the ex-husband, in 1999. Even thought I am an introvert, I still desire company. I lied to him. Come visit me and you can get this or that sexual act, even though I did not mean it. I also believed his lies of how he was single and had no kids. I found out he lied about the kids shortly before we got married. I found out he lied about being single after I moved to second shift at my job.
I lied about my STD status for part of 2005. I couldn't admit I had an STD. I was still faithful to the ex when I was diagnosed. I knew he was cheating, but having and admitting to an STD was out of the question. I didn't tell my sex partners from Feb 2005 to around August 2005.
I told one dude, he was good in bed, when he wasn't. He remembered and irritated me about it, until I had to come clean.
Or the dude, who wanted me to help him get a car. I had no job, but a checkbook. I didn't have enough money in that account to cover his down payment. God was on my side because the check was never cashed. Dude was able to get his truck without messing me up. I believed his lies of us being together, moving in together, starting a business together.
I hate lying to folks. Kills what few conscience cells, I have left. After a while, I just started being honest, too honest, with people. I didn't care if it hurt their feelings or not. Tact is not my friend, most times.
You will be a one-time fuck. I will never call you again. Nothing you can say or do can change my mind.
Of course, you have men, who believe you and men, who think their penis is the greatest thing in the world. I will be instantly mesmerized by their touch and call them back. HA. Needless to know, they were being compared to the greatest two of all time, who are both tied for #1. Was it fair? No, but that's how it was.
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Looking for a job that matches your skills with your personal beliefs and commitments? Consider applying at a nonprofit. According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics, there are 1.6 million nonprofit organizations registered with the IRS in the United States. They also say that 9 percent of all wages and salaries in this country come from nonprofits.
There are opportunities for employment at nonprofits. Not just your local or national charity organizations, nonprofits include 501c3 organizations, private charities, private foundations, chambers of commerce, hospitals, fraternal organizations, civic leagues and many more.
Nonprofits are good fits for people who are passionate about charities, and about religious, civic or other causes.
It takes a special kind of person to fit into the nonprofit culture. TechSoup (techsoup.org), which bills itself as the technology place for nonprofits, states on its website: "Many people working in the nonprofit sector find the experience rewarding and fulfilling." But, it adds, "Working in the nonprofit sector, however, is not without its stresses. Nonprofit salaries tend to be lower, the issues dealt with can seem overwhelming, and many organizations are under incessant fiscal constraints."
Grace Armstrong, chief executive officer of NonProfit Leadership in Tampa, Fla., said nonprofit employees have certain characteristics: "They are less focused on the bottom line and more on the greater good. These people are often warm, creative and solution driven."
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If you are still in high school or college, contact your career service adviser. Professional organizations in your field often list job openings, including those in nonprofits.
And, of course, there are the help-wanted ads in newspapers and other publications, online job boards and social media sites, including LinkedIn and Facebook.
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I wonder if anyone has a truck/van that they are willing to use to transport some stuff to the Refuge. A lovely PAS reader wants to unload this stuff, and Refuge doesn't have a suitable van. Can anyone help with that?
And George, Chris tells me I'm going to meet her next Wednesday. She's coming to our wrapping party.....
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Yes, thanks Lynley - we're looking at this too.
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Um. I don't know!
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Aha! They said they had a lawyer on board....
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thanks Anthea
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Morgan you can just put money in their account, if you like.
Use Jackie as the reference: it's ASB 12-3076-0489694-00
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It is, George. They've had a new Co-ordinator for the last year, and she's doing absolute wonders. She loves the women so very much, and is very passionate about advocating for them.
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Oh Jo. That would be amazing. It's an ongoing need, the small stuff that no-one ever thinks about so that would so kind x
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Please Jackie, don't assume that scorn (or blame) is being heaped on anyone
Scorn/blame is heaped on young women when they are raped. When JT and Willy interviewed "Amy", they questioned her in such a way as to reiterate the blame/shame culture.


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Condottieri and the
Great Equestrian Statues and Paintings
of the Italian Renaissance (and a Roman Emperor)
"A condottiere (plural condottieri) was the holder of a military condotta (plural condotte), or contract, for the raising and leadership of troops. While condotte were being issued by Italian cities and states as early as the second half of the twelve hundreds as a means of recruiting a part of their armies, it was only in the later years of the thirteen hundreds that ........ read more
Venetian Doge Foscari (1373 - 1423 - 1457), one of the more belligerent Venetian Doges, employed three larger than life Condottieri to help him achieve his military ambitions - particularly against Milan. The end result was that Venice was bankrupted but left with two magnificent equestrian statues. In fact the statues were another technical triumph of Renaissance technology as they were the first full sized equestrian statues to be made in Europe since the end of the Western Roman Empire, 1000 years earlier. Why not three? Well, F B da Carmagnola was executed for treason and got no statue.
in Venice - Andrea de Verrocchio - Equestrian Statue of Condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni
Photo: Carolyn Fletcher, June 2007
Photo: Carolyn Fletcher
Antipodean connection - 500 years later, in 1940, the Italian battle cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni was engaged and sunk by the Australian battle cruiser HMAS Sydney in the Mediterranean. Later in WW II, the Sydney herself disappeared with the loss of her entire crew of 645 men, after an engagement in the seas to the west of Australia. Her wreck was located on the sea bed in March 2007.
IN VENICE: The equestrian statue of Condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400 - 1475 (75)) who was a native of Bergamo, where the Capella Colleoni - "the jewel of Lombard Renaissance architecture" - is to be found. He fought for Venice against Milan, and vice-versa, several times, ending up with Venice and a lot of money, which are two reasons why this statue by Andrea del Verrocchio (1435 - 1488) is there. Colleoni paid for the statue in his will, on the condition that it was erected in front of San Marco.
Why then is it in the Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo? Well, that's where the Scuola Grande di San Marco is ...... probably not the "San Marco" the man had thought he was paying for! The mechanics of the statue are more advanced than in Donatello's work below, as the horse is balanced on three legs and more clearly in movement, but the bare head of Gattamelata is regarded as a more skilled piece of human sculpturing (and makes him look a more sensitive creature as well).
and in Padova - Donatello's Equestrian Statue of Condottiere Erasmo da Narni, called Gattamelata
Padova: The Basilica of Franciscan Sant'Antonio (lived c1195 - 1231 (36)) - the Patron Saint of the Lost (hence the huge number of pilgrims)
IN PADOVA: The equestrian statue of Venetian Condottiere Erasmo da Narni, called Gattamelata ("the honeyed cat") (c.1370 - 1443 (73)), which is to be found alongside St Anthony's enormous basilica. Donatello (1396 - 1466) took ten years to complete (in around 1450) this magnificent work, which is not surprising when you realize that it was the first major equestrian statue to be made in Europe since before the end of the Roman Empire one thousand years earlier (and he was working on stuff in the basilica at the same time).
NOWHERE: There is no equestrian statue of Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola (c1380 - 1432 (52)), the third of Doge Foscari's great Venetian Condottieri. He too fought for the Sforzas of Milan then changed sides to Venice and was put in charge of the Venetian army fighting Milan. What seemed to be a lack of an appropriate sense of urgency was interpreted by Doge Foscari as treason, and he had Carmagnola executed at the age of 52 (his two contemporaries lived affluently into their 70s).
NO HORSE: Federico da Montefeltro (Duke of Urbino) 1422 - 82 (60) was one of the most skilled and ruthlessly focussed of the Condottieri of the 14 hundreds, but his preferred image was that of Renaissance Scholar rather than horseman and slaughterer.
The Magi Balthazar in Benozzo Gozzoli's "Procession of the Magi", frescoed between 1459 and 1462 in the Chapel of the Magi in the Palazzo Medici in Florence. The face of Balthazar was probably modelled on Byzantine Emperor John VIII Palaeologus. The head of the horse is thought to have been modelled on a bronze horse's head from late antiquity, which was owned by Lorenzo the Magnificent (and is now in the Florence Archaeological Museum).
IN SIENA (Above and Right): Simone Martini's (1284 - 1344) famous fresco of Condottiere Guidoriccio da Fogliano, panoramared across the whole of the end of the medievally huge Sala di Mappomondo - the main hall of the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. The otherwise historically obscure Sienese warlord immortalized by Martini, is seen pictured in 1328 on his way to make a forceful point to the governor of the castle of Montemassi after putting down some local revolts around there. Whatever it was he was doing, the painting leaves the viewer in no doubt as to his determination!
This was probably the first major Italian secular (i.e. non religious) and landscape paintings of the Middle Ages, and Martini was paid to go to the scene so he could get the landscape right. There is also some good stuff for military historians including tents and a monster catapult in the right hand castle (which itself was built specially for the siege).
A recent mystery has been the discovery underneath this work of another fresco that has been dated by some to after Martini's death ...... Scope for a good medieval detective yarn there!
A Sienese illustration of 1468 showing on the right mercenaries being paid, and on the left some other people being paid! The bank queue has a long tradition behind it !
BACK IN FLORENCE - Beside the North door of the Duomo is this huge frescoed monument to the 1400s Condottiere Niccolo da Tolentino (Nicolò Mauruzi, aka "il Tolentino"), by Andrea del Castagno (1419 - 1457 (38)). Tolentino is a picturesque town in Le Marche with a nearby, fairly ordinary by Cistercian standards, Cistercian Abbey - Chiaravalle di Fiastra. Castagno also painted unmounted Condottieri as part of his Nine Famous Men and Women cycle.
On the other side of the Duomo door is the monument to the English soldier Sir John Hawkwood (1320 - 1394 (74)) (aka Condottiere Giovanni Acuto - the Italians could not pronounce "(H)awkwood"), the most famous of the foreign Condottieri, who had arrived in Italy to pillage and loot along with several hundred other English adventurers who had been declared redundant by Edward III courtesy of a lull in the Hundred Years' War, and who spent the final 17 years of his life in the service of Florence. The huge fresco - 8.2M high and 5.15M wide (see pic below left to get an idea of just how big this is!) was painted in 1436, 42 years after Hawkwood's death, by Paolo Uccello (1397 - 1475 (78)).
Condottiere Muzio Attendolo Sforza (1369 - 1424 (55)) (right) was a farmer from Romagna who became a sought after condottiere through service to the Angevin Kings of Naples, took the name "Sforza" (the (en)forcer), but did not live to see his son Francesco finish the "rise from nowhere" by becoming Duke of Milan.
A few of the other names you may come across:
The Baglione Family (Perugia / Umbria)
The Visconti Family (Dukes of Milan - see above)
The d'Este Family (Dukes of Ferrara from 1240 to 1597)
The Malatesta Family (Rimini) (Especially Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta 1417 - 68)
The Gonzaga Family (latterly Dukes of Mantua)
San Giorgio and his nag c1546 in the Scuola di San Nicolo dei Greci next door to the Venetian church of San Giorgio dei Greci, which in the renaissance years was the largest Greek church outside Greece.
The Knights Templar were formed in 1118 in the wake of the First Crusade. The Templar seal shows two armoured knights riding on one horse - illustrating their vow of poverty and complete lack of consideration for horse welfare. The knights also ate in pairs - using one bowl between two. By the time they were closed down in 1312 by King Philippe le Bon and Pope Clement V they were richer, better fed, unchaste, and had more horses.
Matthew Paris (c1200 - 1259 (59)), Benedictine monk illustrator, sketches the Templar seal and piebald pennant.
Illustration from "Illustrated History of the Knights Templar" by James Wasserman
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The Emperor Charlemagne (c745 - 768 - 814 (69)) who all too briefly "got Europe together" before the wheels fell off again. This little statuette, only 27 cm high, is dwarfed by its display case and surroundings (above) in the Louvre in Paris. There is a school of thought that the king is in fact Charlemagne's grandson, but whoever it is it's the only contemporary lifelike image of anyone (or horse) from the early Middle Ages still in existence.
It also seems to be about the only equestrian thing of any note to have survived in Europe from the period from the height of the Roman Empire (Marcus Aurelius, below) to the Renaissance (Donatello's Gattamelata, above).
If you think that Charlemagne (if it is he) looks a bit big for the horse, he was certainly a relative giant for his times (around six foot three tall, and with an unusually high pitched voice they said), and the horses were smaller in those days! Interesting also that there are no stirrups, though they had been quite widespread in Europe for a hundred years or so.
Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121 - 161 - 180 (59))
More powerful than all of the above combined, the Philosopher Emperor Marcus Aurelius was the last of the five so called "Good Emperors" of the Roman Empire at the height of its power and prosperity. They were Nerva (30 - 96 - 98 (68)), Trajan (53 - 98 - 117 (64)), Hadrian (76 - 117 - 138 (62)), Antoninus Pius (86 - 138 - 161 (75)), and Marcus Aurelius (121 - 161 - 180 (59)), and were the first emperors who each had no blood tie with his predecessor. All but one ruled for around 20 years.
By the standards of his day, Marcus Aurelius was a lenient and humanitarian ruler, except with Christians, whom he regarded as enemies of the state. His is the only cast equestrian statue to survive from classical times, only because the good (by then Christian) citizens of Rome mistakenly thought it was of Constantine (288 - 337), the founder of Constantinople and latterly the first Christian Emperor.
The larger than life statue stood for centuries outside the Pope's Seat and Major Roman Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano. Michelangelo took a great interest in it and was instrumental its restoration and removal in the 1500s to the central piazza of the Capitoline Hill Museums which he had designed. More recently the statue has finally been given shelter in the museum proper, and replaced by an unconvincing replica in the piazza. in 2005 it could only be seen from the outside and through a sheet of reflective plate glass, which gave the viewer an unattractive mix of Marcus A and reflected buildings, but at least this pic gives an idea of how big it is.
Another visitor (this time to Paradoxplace as well) kindly tells us that as of early 2008 our man and his nag have been moved "inside a beautiful dedicated atrium with a glass roof - and you can walk around him at your leisure".
After the end of the Western Roman Empire just before the year 500, it would be almost a thousand years before anyone in Europe would make anything comparable again.
This marble bust of Marcus Aurelius is in the museum at Ephesus in Turkey.
Whilst on campaign against the barbarians, Marcus Aurelius, a trained stoic philosopher, jotted down some thoughts about life and death, which have come down to us in the form of a book called "Meditations" - a most interesting read
...... (continued from top) ... such contracts became the main method of raising armies in Italy. The companies, often made up largely of foreigners (many of whom had been left "unemployed" by the temporary cessation of the Hundred Years War around the time of the Black Death in 1348), which dominated Italian warfare for much of the thirteen hundreds, were normally employed under contract, but they were surprisingly democratic in their organization, and the contracts with employing states were signed by representative groups of leaders. By about 1370 individual military commanders had largely gained control of the companies and had become the sole contractors for their services. From this moment onwards the vast majority of condottieri were Italians and they dominated the military scene in Italy throughout the fourteen hundreds.
The nuclei of the companies which condottieri contracted to provide were normally kept permanently in being and augmented for specific contracts and campaigns by recruitment of additional rank and file. The condottiere, therefore, was invariably a man of substance possessing estates and permanent income which enabled him to maintain his principal followers between contracts and recruit rapidly from amongst his own tenants and dependants. These socio-economic conditions were of more importance than military reputation in dictating the size of the contract which a condottiere could obtain, and hence his prestige and reputation. Many of the leading condottieri were either independent princes like the Gonzaga lords of Mantua or the Este lords of Ferrara, or were members of extensive landowning families like the Orsini or Dal Verme.
The main strength of the condottiere company lay in its 'lances', a term which describes not only the main weapon of heavily armed cavalrymen but also the group of attendants who supported them. However, during the fourteen hundreds, condottieri began to take an increasing interest in infantry as an essential support to their cavalry, and a number of leading captains also possessed some artillery. While it would be wrong to see a willingness to experiment and innovate as an outstanding characteristic of the condottieri, there were among them some major military personalities. Men like Francesco Sforza, Bartolomeo Colleoni and Federico da Montefeltro had European reputations in the mid-fourteen hundreds, and in the Wars of Italy many of the most successful leaders of the French and Spanish armies in Italy were Italian condottieri.
Undoubtedly the contract system of service tended to breed a sort of military individualism which weakened the cohesion of a large army, but in fact by the fourteen hundreds the system did not mean that condottieri changed their employment with every contract. The Italian states were among the first in Europe to develop permanent armies, and most Italian condottieri settled into a pattern of routine renewals of increasingly long-term contracts with one or other of the states. There remained the exceptional figures whose reputations, and whose control of what amounted to large private armies, prompted political ambitions and made them targets of increasingly tempting offers from potential employers. But at this level the condotta took on some of the characteristics of a diplomatic alliance, and a switch of allegiance has to be seen in terms of international politics rather than individual infidelity. In formal terms the condotta system and the role of the condottiere as a leader of cavalry survived throughout the fifteen hundreds. But the declining importance of cavalry in war and the growing political domination of France and Spain in Italy meant an end to their political role and a decline in social prestige."
Source: The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of the Italian Renaissance
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