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CONNEXIS regards the following publications as highly interesting for our existing clients as well as outside visitors. These studies and papers provide valuable and up-to-date insight into the latest trends in CSR & ESG.
- CSR Europe & GRI: Implementation of EU CSR Directive in the EU Member States
- The World Economic Forum (WEF): Global Risks Report 2017
- The World Economic Forum (WEF): Global Risks Report 2016
- The World Economic Forum (WEF): Global Risks Report 2015
- The EEA: State and Outlook of the European Environment (SOER) 2015
- The GSIA: Global Sustainable Investment Review
- Nature: Business Culture and Dishonesty in the Banking Industry (Dec 2014)
GRI, CSR Europe and Accountancy Europe issued a new report that outlines the principal elements of the 28 Member States' laws, and provides insights on the direction non-financial reporting is headed in Europe. "The Non-financial Reporting Directive signals a new beginning in leveraging the transformative power of transparency." said GRI Chief Executive, Tim Mohin. Full report.
In its 12th edition the Global Risk Report continues to be driven by geo-political risks (large-scale international migration) as well as climate change related matters. Full report.
In its 11th edition the Global Risk Report continues to be driven by geo-political risks (large-scale international migration) as well as climate change related matters. Full report.
Geo-political risks have moved to the top of the perceived risks in the latest report by the World Economic Forum. 'Interstate conflict' is now perceived as the most likely risk, with 'Extreme weather events' and "Failure of national governance' in places two and three. In terms of impact respondents now regard Water crises' as the No1 risk, with 'Infectious diseases' and 'Weapons of mass destruction' on ranks two and three. Full report.
The European Environmental Agency has published its latest report State and Outlook of the European Environment 2015 (SOER 2015). Roughly half way between the start of European Environmental policy in 1970 and the strategic target of 2050 the EEA concludes that much has been achieved, but a lot more remains to be done. Full report.
In February 2015 the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA) released their 'Global Sustainable Investment Review' for 2014. In their third report the GSIA finds that assets managed under SRI criteria have grown significantly faster than non-SRI assets since 2012. According to GSIA more assets (58.8%) are now managed under SRI criteria in Europe than under other professional management criteria. Full report.
In their recent study at the University of Zurich (published in the journal Nature, Volume 516, December 2014) researchers Alain Cohn, Ernst Fehr and Michel Maréchal asked 128 employees of a large international bank (50% from a core banking function, 50% from back-offices) to toss a coin in a private environment and report their results. Positive results were rewarded with $20 per event (max. $200). On average, bank employees behaved just as honestly as the control group from non-banking professions. However, once their banking background was rendered salient, a significant portion of bank employees became dishonest. This effect is specific to bank employees because control experiments with employees from other industries and with students show that they do not become more dishonest when their professional identity are rendered salient. Full report.


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There is an air of celebration in the Receptional office today after a fantastic, and successful, night at the UK Search Awards.
Dressed in their black tie finery, several representatives of Receptional attended the award ceremony at the Bloomsbury High Top and did not come home empty handed.
When last month's shortlist was announced we were honoured to have received an outstanding nine nominations across eight categories, including Best Small PPC Agency and Best Small SEO Agency.
The ceremony, hosted by comedian, Jason Manford, started with a drinks reception followed by a three course meal, leading onto the actual awards. The atmosphere was fantastic, buzzing with the energy of all the industry professionals that filled it.
We are pleased to say that Receptional managed to come home with TWO of the nine awards we were nominated for, those awards were:
Best Cross Device Campaign: Joining the dots between desktop mobile and telephone for a 1600% increase in leads for Gracewell Healthcare
The winner of Best Cross-Device Campaign is @Receptional. Congratulations guys! #uksearchawards
— UK Search Awards (@uksearchawards) November 30, 2016
Best Small PPC Agency
The winner of Best Small PPC Agency is @Receptional. Congratulations team! #uksearchaward
— UK Search Awards (@uksearchawards) November 30, 2016
This is an excellent achievement for a smaller agency. Receptional's managing director, Justin Deaville, said "We are delighted that all of our hard work over the past 12 months has been recognised. We have fantastic clients – who trust in our work. These awards are a recognition of their efforts as well as ours."
A big well done to the whole of Receptional for their hard work and to the other winners of the night.

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How To Start A Pool Service Cleaning Business In Florida
Many cleansing supplies or household merchandise can irritate the eyes or the throat or trigger headaches or other well being issues. As I talked about in my cleansing routines above, I vacuum cupboard door fronts and vents and curtains, and although I take the credit score, this is the little guy that does the soiled work for me! In an business where service workers are often exploited, Cooperative Cleaning stands out as a home cleansing company dedicated to responsible employment practices. Glass Cleaner – Make a cleaner by including 1/eight cup of white vinegar to 1 cup water.
On paper what occurs also works well as skeletons come out of the closet and the stakes get larger as Tom nears the truth, however in the case of delivery on display screen, it all falls apart. Tossing the blackened pad into the trash that first time was very satisfying – such a superb job I did cleansing my ground! It labored for me. Place the brown paper bag down on the wax, place the iron on the bag. To answer your questions, I combined one part cleaning soap and one half vinegar in a sprig bottle.
Aside from utilizing green cleaners, many cleansing providers go as green as they'll through the use of rags or microfiber cloths as a substitute of paper towels, and mop heads that may be washed as an alternative of being thrown away. Some folks recommend utilizing salt as a light abrasive to help in the cleaning course of. I actually have additionally found that it additionally works really well on cleansing your automobile tires and wheel covers. The microwave will virtually clear itself whenever you boil one cup of water and one cup vinegar inside.
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Native and Civilian Forces of Malvolion Circa 995.M41 to 998.M41
Commanding Officer; Adeptus Arbites Judge Executus 1st Class. Hugo Klavin
When the Lamenters reached Malvolion the world was already doomed. As the brethren started to descend in their drop pods to give support to the 50th Mordian and other Regiments and attempt to stem the tide of the invasion it was already too late to save the world. Malovion was a rich agricultural world with masses of bio-mass waiting to be consumed for a hungry Hive Fleet Kraken and the Lamenters had to attempt to deny it being able to feed. Inquisitor Draco leading the Ordo Xenos forces present and in overall command of the operation immediately took command of the civilian militia and seconded the Adeptus Arbites Contingent present on Malovion to his own forces.
The Adeptus Arbites upon Malovion were a recent addition to the world, having only arrived five years prior at the request of the senior Administratum Adept on the planet. An oversight in the Imperial bureaucracy had left the planet with only a moderate tithe of agricultural harvest and within the space of two decades, rich land barons that had been selling the excess harvest had begun to enforce their own frontier justice upon each other. The Administratum at first unconcerned with such things soon took an active role when an entire seasons worth of harvest was sabotaged and put to the flame only three days before the harvesting began. Disgruntled wealthy land owners were now indulging in their own private wars, hiring mercenaries and even bribing units of the PDF and Imperial Guard Garrison to fight on their payrolls.
It was into this situation that Judge Executus, Hugo Klavin and 150 judges and support personnel were dispatched to the planet to return it to law and order and more importantly full production for the Imperium. Hugo had been a Arbiter for over six decades in which he had served with distinction on several planets. His conviction record of 226 guilty findings handed down within one hour of a civilian riot on the Gurtile Space Station still stands as a record for the sub sector.
When an opportunity came for Hugo to take a Judge Executus role on Malvolion he immediately petitioned for such an challenge to serve the Emperor. Within the year he was dispatched with a specialist team of judges used to fighting mercenary lackeys to Malvolion with a mandate to bring the world to order at any cost. A seemingly impossible task.
When he arrived on Malovion, Hugo immediately sent Judges to the three most powerful Land Baron estates and bid the leaders them join him at the Administratum Central Complex the following day. When the Land Barons arrived, they bought with them the bribed and corrupt PDF and Imperial Guard as bodyguards, one Baron even had the sheer nerve to bring his own personal Chimera resprayed in pure gold, that he had acquired from the PDF. As the Barons assembled Hugo announced their arrest for the misappropriation of Imperial Property and demanded their surrender. The three barons laughed at Hugo until their personal communicators began to chatter that plasma lance strikes were being recorded at their compounds descending from the sky like bolts of the sun turned molten. The Barons screaming in protest were then dragged to the City Jail. Meanwhile the Mordian 50th Heavy Infantry Regiment had begun landfall and the outmatched PDF quietly returned to their barracks and would later be almost retrained to a man with several large scale dismissals of troops, as the first Leman Russ thundered into the Central City Plaza and took up a defensive position opposite the jail.
When news arrived of the Tyranid threat, it was Hugo who immediately sprang into action directing civilian forces and attempting to establish evacuation centres at central locations. It was by his efforts in the few hours warning that many of the farmers of Malvolion were able to make their escape from the doomed planet. When the Tyranids finally made landfall, Hugo and the Central City Arbites Garrison took their places on the hurriedly created barricades surrounding the Adminstratum building and they took a heavy toll on the Tyranids before sheer numbers overwhelmed their position. When last seen Judge Executus Hugo Klavin was emptying solid shot rounds from his trademark assault shotgun calmly into two advancing Tryanid Warriors before they fell upon him slicing the Arbite in two from the waist.
Authors Note; These figures if you are unfamiliar with them are all RT edition circa 1987, produced by GW during the first incarnation of WH40k. I own a large ammount of figures, but only the Arbites are part of my Malovion Force. The Imperial Guardsman are usually there as conscripts for my Tallarn Imperial Guard Army. (Hence the different bases).
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Adeptus Arbites Prefecture and Malvolion PDF
Posted by Zenos at Sunday, February 06, 2011
Labels: Characters, Fluff, Guard, Inquistion
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Very nice use of RT minis! And I'm liking the descriptions!ReplyDelete
Thanks, the fluff salutes certain old school concepts and designs. The Necromunda Las Cannon, the Spider design lasgun and comet chest plate.. are all referenced specifically to either the 8th Necromunda Spiders or Warhammer Fantasy. I sometimes now get wtf? they arent GW figures... especially from younger kids.ReplyDelete
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|Santa is talking to Banta about married life.
"You know," he says, "I really trust my wife, and I think she has always been faithful to me. But there's always that doubt."
Banta says, "Yeah, I know what you mean."
A couple of weeks later Santa has to go out of town on a business tour. Before he goes, he gets together with Banta.
"While I'm away, could you do me a favor? Could you watch my house and see if there is anything fishy going on? I mean, I trust my wife but there's always that doubt."
Banta agrees to help out, and Santa leaves.
Two weeks later he comes back and meets Banta, "So did anything happen?"
"I have some bad news for you," says Banta.
"The day after you left I saw a strange car pull up in front of your house. The horn honked and your wife ran out and got into the car and they drove away. Later, after dark, the car came back. I saw your wife and a strange man get out. They went into the house and I saw a light go on, so I ran over and looked in the window. Your wife was kissing the man. Then he took off his shirt and then.... they turned off the light."
"Then what happened?" says Santa.
"I don't know. It was too dark to see."
"Damn, you see what I mean? There's always that doubt."


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Donations to the Clinton Foundation tanked in 2015 amid allegations that Hillary Clinton used the billion-dollar charity to siphon seven-figure donations from foreign governments and corporations, who received favorable government actions while Clinton was Secretary of State.
The Clinton's troubled charity received $108 million in donations in 2015, down from a $172 million haul in 2014, according to the organization's tax records.
The Clinton's seven-figure speech income collapsed, too, from $3.6 million in 2014 to $357,500 in 2015, the New York Post reports.
Allegations of corruption at the Clinton Foundation—first reported by Breitbart News Editor-at-Large, Clinton Cash author, and Government Accountability Institute president Peter Schweizer—spurred more than a year of headlines and hard questions for Hillary Clinton and her presidential campaign.
As Clinton was set to announce her White House bid, the New York Times published a 4,000 word exposé detailing specifically how in 2010 then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton approved the sale and transfer of 20 percent of U.S. uranium output to the Russian government.
I guess this goes to prove that if the C.F. no longer has the influence to engage in "pay-for-play" schemes that benefit the donors, the latter has wised up and decided that they have nothing to gain by making being benevolent.
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Some of the donors may have decided it was easier to avoid giving to the Clintons so they could stay out of the spotlight. The donors may have decided they would be buying more trouble than influence once critics began looking at the Clintons' books.
I'm going to guess the donations will plummet since Hillary's presidential chances appear to be gone permanently. It's hard to sell something you no longer have.
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Baseball's Greatest Cheaters
In baseball, just as in the stock market, every decline is interrupted by occasional spirited rallies, which convince the gullible that all will soon be well. Although in practice, we recommend using a bat with a smaller sweet spot to train you into hitting the ball with the right spot on the bat. The issue is that some people think that replay should only be used in important games like a one game playoff to determine a division winner or every game in the playoffs. In this article, we will explain the complex game of baseball, review some of the basic rules and the equipment used and lay out the geography of a baseball field. In 1845, the history of baseball took a turning point when Alexander Cartwright and the members of his New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club formed the first rules for the modern game of baseball.
There is something magical about the game of baseball; the smell of the grass, the heat of the sun on your back, the taste of the leather string on your cowhide mitt, the crack of the bat, and the excitement of the play. Dubbed the Father of Baseball, Cartwright created a list of codes to be adhered by all baseball players.
Don't the leaders of these professional sports realize that they have tainted and in some respects ruined the future of sports like major league baseball. This game was brought by immigrants to North America, where the modern version developed By the late 19th century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States. Diagram of a baseball field (the term diamond may be used to refer to the square area defined by the four bases or to the entire playing field).
With MLB baseball gambling you must analyze every game and analyze the baseball gambling odds, you should also consider the factors that could affect the outcome mentioned in this article. There have been many styles of baseball caps throughout the years, ten different styles were advertised in 1888 in Spaulding's Base Ball Guide. Unlike most games, a running clock does not limit the length of a baseball game. Women's baseball's rules evolved from the men's baseball rules, with a few small changes. Baseball is an extremely unique brand that represents something much deeper than athletes gallivanting across a field, tossing a ball about.
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Created in 2003, kelsch blue is a craft company specialized in the elaboration of French natural products bound(connected) to the atmosphere and to the well-being.
Our typified and original scents evoke all the east traditions (the magic of Christmas, the balconies decorated with flowers in Alsace, the tart in quetsches, jam of cherry plum, the grilled hazelnut ..)
These fragrances are declined in the form of candles, of flavors(perfumes) of atmosphere, perfumed wood: the orange gingerbread, the cinnamon quetsche, the geranium peppers black and good others else will make you dream and travel in the country of the memories(souvenirs).
The mark(brand) kelsch blue(bruise) protects your environment and your skin. Rich in essential oil and biological plant extracts, without coloring nor conservative(curator) and not tested on animals, our products are!
Alsace, renowned for its culinary art, its traditions and its lifestyle, is largely neglected in terms of botany (a source of well being, not exploited often enough).
Why not bring out this spirit of "Alsatian nature" through the active components of plants, essential oils, and hydrolates, along with their legends?
(An example of an Alsatian legend given with each product appears in this dossier.)
Our beautiful region asks only to be discovered and courted by tourism, a tourism sensitive to the "ecological" notion of our biotope.


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How to get to OkrugFly into Split (SPU), 4 mi (6.5 km) from the heart of Okrug. Brac Island (BWK) is the next closest major airport, 26 mi (41.8 km) away.
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Minister of Transport and Communications Anne Berner will visit Japan on 14–16 November 2016. In Japan, she will be accompanied by a business delegation put together by Finpro. Cities to be visited during the trip are Tokyo and Nagoya.
The cross-cutting theme of the visit is the digitalisation of transport. The aim is to market Finnish expertise in automated transport systems and promote Finnish-Japanese cooperation in automated driving and related testing. Also on the agenda are exports of the Finnish marine cluster, cooperation in the Arctic sea areas and expertise in unmanned shipping.
Minister Berner will have meetings at Japan's Ministry for Internal Affairs and Communications, Cabinet Office, and Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
She will speak at a seminar in Tokyo arranged by the Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP) of Japan. The seminar will focus on connected and automated driving systems. Minister Berner will also speak at an event that discusses cooperation between Finland and Japan in the fields of shipping and arctic regions.
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It is quite possible that sector 0 of your drive is just about readable sometimes and unreadable sometimes. If data is important for me, I wouldn't tax the drive any further. The only time I would run the drive is for cloning with ddrescue and that if I don't want to turn the job to professional data recovery..
If you do not mind taking a risk and wouldn't mind running the drive once or twice, I would suggest that you download the trial version of Getdataback Simple https://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm and scan your drive with it. If it finds your partition and shows the files in it, you can preview the files and check the integrity. If happy you have to buy a licence for, I think $70, to copy the files to another drive. All risks are borne by you.
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Boots No7 products earn Good Housekeeping Seal
NORWALK, Conn. — U.K. health and beauty retailer Boots, whose branded products are available in the United States at Target, Ulta and ShopBootsUSA.com, and at Shoppers Drug Mart in Canada, announced that four of its No7 products have received the Good Housekeeping Seal by the Good Housekeeping Research Institute.
The Boots No7 products that received the seal include:
No7 Protect & Perfect intense beauty serum;
No7 Intensive line filler;
No7 Advanced Renewal Anti-Aging Glycolic peel kit; and
No7 Protect & Perfect hand cream SPF 15.
Prior to earning the Good Housekeeping Seal, the No7 products won in Good Housekeeping's 2010 Anti-Aging Awards, winning in four respective categories, including Best Anti-Aging Serum and Best Instant Wrinkle Smoother.
"The No7 brand is the result of in-depth research and development driven by consumer insights on aging," stated Stephen Lloyd, CEO of Boots Retail U.S.A. "All products are extensively tested individually and as part of a skin care regime, working closely with a number of dermatology experts and universities to continually make new strides in skincare technology. Receipt of the Good Housekeeping Seal reinforces the brand's commitment to developing anti-aging products that are backed by science."
The No7 Protect & Perfect intense beauty serum in particular, lauded for its super-intensive formula, received a perfect score for firming in Good Housekeeping's first-ever Anti-Aging Awards, which tested 90 products in more than 3,000 lab tests with more than 800 volunteers, the company stated.
Introduced in 1909, the Good Housekeeping Seal is one of the first and most recognizable consumer emblems; its clearance standards set the benchmark for product integrity both in the beauty industry and beyond, signifying the product bearing the Seal has been tested and works as promised. Per the Good Housekeeping Research Institute's criteria, all products that have earned the Seal carry a two-year limited warranty.
Prestige makeup sales garner solid gains, NPD reports
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. — Total sales of prestige makeup experienced healthy gains during the first five months of the year, thanks to trends in dramatic eyes, soft lip shades and bold and bright nail colors, according to new beauty market research by NPD.
Year-to-date — January through May — total prestige makeup sales increased by 9% to $1.4 billion in U.S. department stores, according to the market research company. For the month of May alone, makeup posted its strongest dollar performance (+11%) in the last three years.
Prestige makeup segments (face, eye, lip, sets, other color and nail) all posted healthy sales gains in the first five months. The biggest growth in the prestige makeup category came from the smallest segment (representing only 1% of prestige makeup dollar share). The total nail category, consisting of base coats/top coats, color enamel and nail care, soared 57% in dollar sales, versus January through May 2010. Popular shades year-to-date were a toss between such feminine colors as pink and such mysterious, gothic-like shades as black.
The eye segment gained nearly 10% dollar growth during January through May 2011, compared with the same time period in 2010. Subsegments, such as eye shadow and mascara, both grew 11% in dollar sales, while eyebrow products grew 10%. In mascara, all the products with benefits showed growth. The two benefits that experienced the largest growth in mascara were volume and definition, growing 17% and 14%, respectively.
"The trend in makeup today is all about accentuating. The return in popularity of eye products comes with a shift from strong or playful colors and all-purpose mascaras to products that subtly punctuate and dramatize features around a flawless and yet natural-looking face," NPD VP and senior global industry analyst Karen Grant said.
"The triple play is in eye shadow, eyebrow and mascara. Eyes are defined by eye shadows in nude to neutral shades, offset by defined brows and emphasized with full, striking lashes. This return to sophisticated, subtle drama, which we began to see in the latter half of 2010, plays upon fashion, as well as perfectly complementing the natural trend in face products," Grant added.
In the first five months, lip color posted double-digit dollar growth of 13%, compared with the same time last year, while the once very popular lip gloss segment increased only 1% in dollar sales. Pink was the dominant color, garnering most of the lip color growth in the first five months of the year.
"As consumers continue to gradually emerge from the great recession, the current sentiment among women seems to be 'celebrate your girlhood.' Pink, pink and more pink continues to lead the way in both lip and nail color. The popularity of lip color, a category that had struggled for most of the past decade, suggests that even younger consumers are now seeing these products as a fashionable option to gloss," Grant said.
Kiehl's Since 1851 celebrates anniversary with global initiative
NEW YORK — Kiehl's Since 1851 is celebrating its 160th anniversary with the establishment of "Kiehl's Gives," an ongoing global initiative to promote philanthropy, in partnership with Julianne Moore, Pharrell Williams and the Scissor Sisters.
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, (born
Dec. 7, 1598, Naples, Kingdom of Naples [Italy]—died Nov.
28, 1680, Rome, Papal States), Italian artist who was
perhaps the greatest sculptor of the 17th century and an
outstanding architect as well. Bernini created the Baroque
style of sculpture and developed it to such an extent that
other artists are of only minor importance in a discussion
of that style.
Early years
Bernini's career began under his father, Pietro Bernini, a
Florentine sculptor of some talent who ultimately moved to
Rome. The young prodigy worked so diligently that he earned
the praise of the painter Annibale Carracci and the
patronage of Pope Paul V and soon established himself as a
wholly independent sculptor. He was strongly influenced by
his close study of the antique Greek and Roman marbles in
the Vatican, and he also had an intimate knowledge of High
Renaissance painting of the early 16th century. His study of
Michelangelo is revealed in the St. Sebastian (c. 1617),
carved for Maffeo Cardinal Barberini, who was later Pope
Urban VIII and Bernini's greatest patron.
Bernini's early works
attracted the attention of Scipione Cardinal Borghese, a
member of the reigning papal family. Under his patronage,
Bernini carved his first important life-size sculptural
groups. The series shows Bernini's progression from the
almost haphazard single view of Aeneas, Anchises, and
Ascanius Fleeing Troy (1619) to strong frontality in Pluto
and Proserpina (1621–22) and then to the hallucinatory
vision of Apollo and Daphne (1622–24), which was intended to
be viewed from one spot as if it were a relief. In his David
(1623–24), Bernini depicts the figure casting a stone at an
unseen adversary. Several portrait busts that Bernini
executed during this period, including that of Robert
Cardinal Bellarmine (1623–24), show a new awareness of the
relationship between head and body and display an ability to
depict fleeting facial expressions with acute realism. These
marble works show an unparalleled virtuosity in carving that
obdurate material to achieve the delicate effects usually
found only in bronze sculptures. Bernini's sensual awareness
of the surface textures of skin and hair and his novel sense
of shading broke with the tradition of Michelangelo and
marked the emergence of a new period in the history of
Western sculpture.
Patronage of Urban VIII
With the pontificate of Urban VIII (1623–44), Bernini
entered a period of enormous productivity and artistic
development. Urban VIII urged his protégé to paint and to
practice architecture. His first architectural work was the
remodeled Church of Santa Bibiana in Rome. At the same time,
Bernini was commissioned to build a symbolic structure over
the tomb of St. Peter in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The
result is the famous immense gilt-bronze baldachin executed
between 1624 and 1633. Its twisted columns derive from the
early Christian columns that had been used in the altar
screen of Old St. Peter's. Bernini's most original
contribution to the final work is the upper framework of
crowning volutes flanked by four angels that supports the
orb and cross. The baldachin is perfectly proportioned to
its setting, and one hardly realizes that it is as tall as a
four-story building. Its lively outline moving upward to the
triumphant crown, its dark colour heightened with burning
gold, give it the character of a living organism. An
unprecedented fusion of sculpture and architecture, the
baldachin is the first truly Baroque monument. It ultimately
formed the centre of a programmatic decoration designed by
Bernini for the interior of St. Peter's.
Bernini next supervised the
decoration of the four piers supporting the dome of St.
Peter's with colossal statues, though only one of the
latter, St. Longinus, was designed by him. He also made a
series of portrait busts of Urban VIII, but the first bust
to achieve the quality of his earlier portraits is that of
his great patron, Scipione Cardinal Borghese (1632). The
cardinal is shown in the act of speaking and moving, and the
action is caught at a moment that seems to reveal all the
characteristic qualities of the subject.
Bernini's architectural
duties increased after the death of Carlo Maderno in 1629,
when Bernini became architect of St. Peter's and of the
Palazzo Barberini. By this time he was not only executing
works himself but also having to rely on assistance from
others as the number of his commissions grew. He was
successful in organizing his studio and planning his work so
that sculptures and ornamentations produced by a team
actually seem to be all of a piece. Bernini's work, then and
always, was also shaped by his fervent Roman Catholicism (he
attended mass every day and took communion twice a week). He
would agree with the formulations of the Council of Trent
(1545–63) that the purpose of religious art was to teach and
inspire the faithful and to serve as propaganda for the
Roman Catholic Church. Religious art should always be
intelligible and realistic, and, above all, it should serve
as an emotional stimulus to piety. The development of
Bernini's religious art was largely determined by his
conscientious efforts to conform to those principles.
Under Urban VIII Bernini
began to produce new and different kinds of monuments—tombs
and fountains. The tomb of Urban VIII (1628–47) shows the
pope seated with his arm raised in a commanding gesture,
while below him are two white marble figures representing
the Virtues. Bernini also designed a revolutionary series of
small tomb memorials, of which the most impressive is that
of Maria Raggi (1643). But his fountains are his most
obvious contribution to the city of Rome. The Triton
Fountain in the Piazza Barberini (1642–43) is a dramatic
transformation of a Roman architectonic fountain—the
superposed basins of the traditional geometric piazza
fountain appearing to have come alive. Four dolphins raise a
huge shell supporting the sea god, who blows water upward
out of a conch.
Bernini's early
architectural projects, however, were not invariably
successful. In 1637 he began to erect campaniles, or bell
towers, over the facade of St. Peter's. But, in 1646, when
their weight began to crack the building, they were pulled
down, and Bernini was temporarily disgraced.
Patronage of Innocent X
and Alexander VII
Bernini's most spectacular public monuments date from the
mid-1640s to the 1660s. The Fountain of the Four Rivers in
Rome's Piazza Navona (1648–51) supports an ancient Egyptian
obelisk over a hollowed-out rock, surmounted by four marble
figures symbolizing four major rivers of the world. This
fountain is one of his most spectacular works.
The greatest single example
of Bernini's mature art is the Cornaro Chapel in Santa Maria
della Vittoria, in Rome, which completes the evolution begun
early in his career. The chapel, commissioned by Federigo
Cardinal Cornaro, is in a shallow transept in the small
church. Its focal point is his sculpture of The Ecstasy of
St. Teresa (1645–52), a depiction of a mystical experience
of the great Spanish Carmelite reformer Teresa of Ávila. In
representing Teresa's vision, during which an angel pierced
her heart with a fiery arrow of divine love, Bernini
followed Teresa's own description of the event. The
sculptured group, showing the transported saint swooning in
the void, covered by cascading drapery, is revealed in
celestial light within a niche over the altar, where the
architectural and decorative elements are richly joined and
articulated. At left and right, in spaces resembling opera
boxes, numerous members of the Cornaro family are found in
spirited postures of conversation, reading, or prayer. The
Cornaro Chapel carries Bernini's ideal of a
three-dimensional picture to its apex. The figures of St.
Teresa and the angel are sculptured in white marble, but the
viewer cannot tell whether they are in the round or merely
in high relief. The natural daylight that falls on the
figures from a hidden source above and behind them is part
of the group, as are the gilt rays behind. The Ecstasy of
St. Teresa is not sculpture in the conventional sense.
Instead, it is a framed pictorial scene made up of
sculpture, painting, and light that also includes the
worshiper in a religious drama.
In his later years, the
growing desire to control the environments of his statuary
led Bernini to concentrate more and more on architecture. Of
the churches he designed after completing the Cornaro
Chapel, the most impressive is that of Sant'Andrea al
Quirinale (1658–70) in Rome, with its dramatic high altar,
soaring dome, and unconventionally sited oval plan. But
Bernini's greatest architectural achievement is the
colonnade enclosing the piazza before St. Peter's Basilica.
The chief function of the large space was to hold the crowd
that gathered for the papal benediction on Easter and other
special occasions. Bernini planned a huge oval attached to
the church by a trapezoidal forecourt—forms that he compared
to the encircling arms of the mother church. The
freestanding colonnades were a novel solution to the need
for a penetrable enclosure. The piazza guides the visitor
toward the church and counterbalances the overly wide facade
of St. Peter's. Bernini's oval encloses a space centred on
the Vatican obelisk, which had been moved before the church
by Sixtus V in 1586. Bernini moved an older fountain by
Maderno into the long axis of the piazza and built a twin on
the other side to make a scenographic whole. The analogies
to Bernini's oval plan of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale are
fascinating, as are the differences in meaning and function.
Bernini's most spectacular
religious decoration is the Throne of St. Peter, or the
Cathedra Petri (1657–66), a gilt-bronze cover for the
medieval wooden throne (cathedra) of the pope. Bernini's
task was not only to make a decorative cover for the chair
but also to create a meaningful goal in the apse of St.
Peter's for the pilgrim's journey through the great church.
The seat is seemingly supported by four imposing bronze
figures representing theological doctors of the early
church: Saints Ambrose, Athanasius, John Chrysostom, and
Augustine. Above, a golden glory of angels on clouds and
rays of light emanates from the Dove of the Holy Spirit,
which is painted on an oval window. The cathedra was
produced about the same time as the piazza, and the contrast
between these two works shows Bernini's versatility. Both
works were done for the Chigi pope, Alexander VII (1655–67),
who was one of Bernini's greatest patrons. The tomb that
Bernini designed for Alexander VII (1671–78) was largely
executed by his pupils.
In addition to his large
works, Bernini continued to produce a few portrait busts.
The first of these, of Francesco I d'Este, duke of Modena
(1650–51), culminates his revolution in portraiture. Much of
the freedom and spontaneity of the bust of Cardinal Borghese
is kept, but it is united with a heroic pomp and grandiose
movement that portray the ideals of the Baroque age as much
as the man.
Trip to France
Bernini went to Paris in 1665, in what was his only
prolonged absence from Rome. The trip was made in response
to invitations that for many years had been extended to him
by King Louis XIV, and the purpose was the design of a new
French royal residence. By this time, Bernini was so famous
that crowds lined the streets of each city along the route
to watch him pass. His initial reception in Paris was
equally triumphant, but he soon offended his sensitive hosts
by imperiously praising the art and architecture of Italy at
the expense of that of France. His statements made him
unpopular at the French court and were to some degree
responsible for the rejection of his designs for the Louvre.
The only relic of Bernini's visit to France is his great
bust of Louis XIV, a linear, vertical, and stable portrait,
in which the Sun King gazes out with godlike authority. The
image set a standard for royal portraits that lasted 100
Later years
Bernini's late works in sculpture are inevitably
overshadowed by his grandiose projects for St. Peter's, but
a few of them are of outstanding interest. For the Chigi
Chapel in the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome, he
carved two groups, Daniel in the Lions' Den and Habakkuk and
the Angel (1655–61). These works show the beginnings of his
late style: elongation of the body, expressive gesture, and
simplified yet emphatic emotional expression. The same
characteristics are already found in the figures supporting
the Throne of St. Peter and culminate in the moving Angels
for the Sant'Angelo Bridge in Rome, which Bernini
redecorated with the help of assistants between 1667 and
1671. Pope Clement IX (1667–69) so prized the Angels carved
by Bernini that they were never set up on the bridge and are
now in the church of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte in Rome.
The redecorated Sant'Angelo
Bridge leading across the Tiber forms an introduction to the
Vatican, and Bernini's other works—the piazza, Scala Regia,
and the baldachin and cathedra within St. Peter's—form
progressively more powerful expressions of papal power to
support and inspire Roman Catholic pilgrims to the site.
Bernini completed one more decoration in St. Peter's in his
last years: the altar of the Santissimo Sacramento Chapel
(1673–74). The pliant, human adoration of the angels
contrasts with the timeless architecture of the bronze
tabernacle that they flank and typifies Bernini's late
style. In his last years he seems to have found the
inexorable laws of architecture a consoling antithesis to
the transitory human state.
Bernini's greatest late
work is the simple Altieri Chapel in San Francesco a Ripa
(c. 1674) in Rome. The relatively deep space above the altar
reveals a statue representing the death of the Blessed
Ludovica Albertoni. Bernini consciously separated
architecture, sculpture, and painting for different roles,
reversing the process that culminated in the Cornaro Chapel.
In that sense, the Altieri Chapel is more traditional, a
variation on his church interiors of the preceding years.
Instead of filling the arched opening, the sculpted figure
of Ludovica lies at the bottom of a large volume of space,
and is illuminated by a heavenly light that plays on the
drapery gathered over her recumbent figure. Her hands weakly
clutching her breast make explicit her painful death.
Bernini died at age 81,
after having served eight popes, and when he died he was
widely considered not only Europe's greatest artist but also
one of its greatest men. He was the last of Italy's
remarkable series of universal geniuses, and the Baroque
style he helped create was the last Italian style to become
an international standard. His death marked the end of
Italy's artistic hegemony in Europe. The style he evolved
was carried on for two more generations in various parts of
Europe by the architects Mattia de' Rossi and Carlo Fontana
in Rome, J.B. Fischer von Erlach in Austria, and the
brothers Cosmas and Egid Quirin Asam in Bavaria, among
Howard Hibbard
Encyclopædia Britannica
Pope Urban VIII
Oil on canvas, 67 x 50 cm
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
David with the Head of Goliath
Oil on canvas, 75 x 65,5 cm
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
Saint Andrew and Saint Thomas
c. 1627
Oil on canvas, 59 x 76 cm
National Gallery, London
Portrait of a Boy
c. 1638
Oil on canvas
Galleria Borghese, Rome
We have already encountered
Gianlorenzo Bernini as an architect. It is now time to
consider him as a sculptor, although the two aspects are
never far apart in his work. As in the tabernacle for St.
Peter's, a strong relationship can often be discovered
between Bernini's and Hellenistic sculpture. If we compare
Bernini's David with Michelangelo's and ask which is closer to the Pergamum
frieze or The Laocoon Group, our
vote must go to Bernini. His figure shares with Hellenistic
works that unison of body and spirit, of motion and emotion,
which Michelangelo so conspicuously avoids. This does not
mean that Bernini is more classical than Michelangelo. It
indicates, rather, that both the Baroque and the High
Renaissance acknowledged the authority of ancient art, but
each period drew inspiration from a different aspect of
Bernini's David, obviously,
is in no sense an echo of The Laocoon Group. What makes it
Baroque is the implied presence of Goliath. Unlike earlier
statues of David, Bernini's is conceived not as one
self-contained figure but as half of a pair, his entire
action focused on his adversary. Did Bernini, we wonder,
plan a statue of Goliath to complete the group? He never
did, for his David tells us clearly enough where he sees the
enemy. Consequently, the space between David and his
invisible opponent is charged with energy—it "belongs" to
the statue.
Bernini's David shows us
what distinguishes Baroque sculpture from the sculpture of
the two preceding centuries: its new, active relationship
with the space it inhabits. It rejects self-sufficiency for
the illusion of presences or forces that are implied by the
behavior of the statue. Because it so often presents an
"invisible complement" (like the Goliath of Bernini's
David), Baroque sculpture is a tour de force, attempting
essentially pictorial effects that were traditionally
outside its province. Such a charging of space with active
energy is, in fact, a key feature of all Baroque art.
Caravaggio had achieved it in his St. Matthew, with the aid
of a sharply focused beam of light. Indeed, Baroque art
acknowledges no sharp distinction between sculpture and
painting. And as we have seen, the two may even be combined
with architecture to form a compound illusion, like that of
the stage.
Gianlorenzo Bernini.
David. 1623. Marble, lifesize. Galleria Borghese, Rome
In fact, Bernini, who had a
passionate interest in the theater, was at his best when he
could merge architecture, sculpture, and painting in this
fashion. His masterpiece in this vein is the Cornaro Chapel
in the church of Sta. Maria della Vittoria, containing the
famous group called The Ecstasy of St. Theresa.
Theresa of Avila, one of the great saints of the Counter
Reformation, had described how an angel pierced her heart
with a flaming golden arrow: "The pain was so great that I
screamed aloud; but at the same time I felt such infinite
sweetness that I wished the pain to last forever. It was not
physical but psychic pain, although it affected the body as
well to some degree. It was the sweetest caressing of the
soul by God."
Bernini has made this
visionary experience as sensuously real as Correggio's
Jupiter and Io. In a different context, the
angel would be indistinguishable from Cupid, and the saint's
ecstasy is palpable. The two figures on their floating cloud
are illuminated (from a hidden window above) in such a way
as to seem almost dematerialized in their gleaming
whiteness. The beholder experiences them as visionary. The
"invisible complement" here, less specific than David's but
equally important, is the force that carries the figures
heavenward, causing the turbulence of their drapery. Its
divine nature is suggested by the golden rays, which come
from a source high above the altar. In an illusionistic
fresco by Guide-baldo Abbatini on the vault of the chapel,
the glory of the heavens is revealed as a dazzling burst of
light from which tumble clouds of jubilant angels. This celestial "explosion" gives force to the thrusts
of the angel's arrow and makes the ecstasy of the saint
Gianlorenzo Bernini.
The Ecstasy of St. Theresa. 1645-52. Marble, lifesize.
Cornaro Chapel, Sta. Maria della Vittoria, Rome
Gianlorenzo Bernini. The
Ecstasy of Saint Therese (details)
Marble, height 350 cm
Cappella Cornaro, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome
The Cornaro Chapel.
18th-century painting.
Staatliches Museum, Schwerin, Germany
To complete the illusion,
Bernini even provides a built-in audience for his "stage."
On the sides of the chapel are balconies resembling theater
boxes, where we see marble figures, depicting members of the
Cornaro family, who also witness the ecstasy. Their space
and ours are the same and thus part of everyday reality,
while the ecstasy, housed in a strongly framed niche,
occupies a space that is real but beyond our reach. Finally,
the ceiling fresco represents the infinite, unfathomable
space of Heaven. We may recall that The Burial of Count
Orgaz and its setting also form a whole embracing three
levels of reality. There is nevertheless a profound
difference between the two chapels. El Greco's Mannerism
evokes an ethereal vision in which only the stone slab of
the sarcophagus is "real," in contrast to Bernini's Baroque
theatricality, where the distinction nearly breaks down
altogether. It would be all too easy to dismiss The Ecstasy
of St. Theresa as a superficial, melodramatic display, but
Bernini also was a devout Catholic who believed (as did
Michelangelo) that he received his inspiration directly from
God. Like the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, which he
practiced, his religious sculpture is intended to help the
viewer achieve complete identification with miraculous
events through a vivid appeal to the senses.
Bernini was steeped in
Renaissance humanism and theory. Central to his sculpture is
the role played by gesture and expression in arousing
emotion. While no less important to the Renaissance (compare
Leonardo), these devices have an apparent abandon that seems
anticlassical in Bernini's hands. However, he essentially
adhered to the Renaissance concept of decorum and calculated
his effects very carefully, varying them in accordance with
his subject. Unlike the Frenchman Nicolas Poussin (whom he
admired), Bernini did this for the sake of expressive impact
rather than conceptual clarity. Their approaches were
diametrically opposed as well. For Bernini, antique art
served as no more than a point of departure for his own
fertile inventiveness, whereas for classicists like Poussin
it provided a reference point that acted as a standard of
comparison. It is nevertheless characteristic of the
paradoxical Baroque that Bernini's theories should be far
more orthodox than his art, and that he sometimes sided with
the classicists against his fellow High Baroque artists,
perhaps out of professional rivalry, despite the fact that
his sculpture has much in common with the paintings of
Pietro da Cortona.
Gianlorenzo Bernini.
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children
Marble, height 132,1 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gianlorenzo Bernini.
Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius
Marble, height: 220 cm
Galleria Borghese, Rome
Gianlorenzo Bernini. Apollo
and Daphne
Carrara marble, height 243 cm
Galleria Borghese, Rome
Gianlorenzo Bernini. Apollo
and Daphne
Carrara marble
Galleria Borghese, Rome
Gianlorenzo Bernini. The
Rape of Proserpina
Marble. height 295 cm
Galleria Borghese, Rome
Gianlorenzo Bernini. The
Rape of Proserpina
Marble. height 295 cm
Galleria Borghese, Rome
Gianlorenzo Bernini. The
Rape of Proserpina
Marble. height 295 cm
Galleria Borghese, Rome
Gianlorenzo Bernini. The
Rape of Proserpina (detail)
Galleria Borghese, Rome
Gianlorenzo Bernini. Truth
Carrara marble, height 277 cm
Galleria Borghese, Rome


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Orthodontic treatment is highly predictable and immensely successful. Depending on the severity of the malocclusion (bad bite) or irregularity, orthodontic treatments may occur in either two or three distinct phases.
The benefits of correcting misaligned teeth are many. Straight teeth are pleasing to look at and greatly boost confidence and self esteem. More importantly, properly aligned teeth enhance the biting, chewing and speaking functions of the jaw. There are several types of irregularities, including:
The Phases of Orthodontic Treatment
Generally, orthodontic treatment takes between six and thirty months to complete. The treatment time will largely depend on the classification of the malocclusion, the type of dental devices used to correct it and the perseverance of the patient.
Here is a general overview of the three major stages of treatment:
Phase 1 – The Planning Stage
The orthodontist makes an exact diagnosis in order to realign the teeth in the most effective and expedient way. The first several visits may comprise of some of the following evaluations:
Phase 2 – The Active Phase
All of the above diagnostic tools will be used to diagnosis and develop a customized treatment plan for the patient. Next, the orthodontist will recommend custom orthodontic device(s) to gently move the teeth into proper alignment. This orthodontic appliance may be fixed or removable. Most commonly, traditional fixed braces are affixed, which utilizes individual dental brackets connected by an archwire. Lingual braces are also fixed, but fit on the inside (tongue side) of the teeth to make them less visible.
Removable devices are an alternative to fixed braces. Examples of removable devices include the Invisalign system, headgear and facemask. These devices are designed to be worn for a specified amount of hours each day to expedite treatment.
Whatever the orthodontic device, the orthodontist will regularly adjust it to ensure adequate and continual pressure is being applied to the teeth. It is essential to visit the orthodontist at the designated intervals and to call if part of the device breaks or becomes damaged.
Phase 3: The Retention Phase
When the teeth have been correctly aligned, fixed braces and removable devices will be removed and discontinued. The most cumbersome part of the orthodontic treatment is now over. The orthodontist will next create a custom retainer. The goal of the retainer is to ensure that the teeth do not begin to shift back to their original positions. Retainers need to be worn for a specified amount of time per day for a specified time period. During the retention phase, the jawbone will reform around the realigned teeth to fully stabilize them in the correct alignment.
If you have any questions about orthodontic treatments, please contact our office.
Given my own fears, I regularly attempt to actualize "dental anxiety". I can't really come up with something solid anymore thanks to Dr.
M and his team.
I'm always completely calm during my twice-a-year cleanings and exams.
Dianne is comforting and thorough as she gently reminds me to floss. A reminder I must hear again and again...and again. (Yes, it is like quitting smoking. Thank you Mr. Hedberg. I'm working on it.) His reception staff is equally as professional. They are all very welcoming and well-prepared to deal with anxious patients.
Dr. Modjtahedi is beyond professional. I still cannot fathom how he completely removes all pain from any surgical procedure or cavity filling.
He's an ace. He is one of the few professionals that I will gladly trek through the amazon to visit on a semi-annual basis. He has managed to remove my trepidation for the last five years. I'd recommend him to anyone.
Here's to a full set of teeth. Unless I don't start flossing.
Keith S. Long Beach, CA - 2/21/2010
After years of being dragged to dentists all over Little Saigon, I was convinced that I had an absolute fear of all dentists. Quite frankly, it was pathetic how terrified I was of them.
I found Dr. Modjtahedi through 1-800-DENTISTS, and within the first half hour of meeting him, felt completely at ease. "OOOH," I realized, "I'm not scared of dentists. I'm just scared of medical practitioners who have no idea what they're doing!"
Because I had avoided the dentist for awhile (and before that had had bad work done), there were several things that needed to be fixed. Every staff member was extremely caring and professional; They weren't over-crowded or over-worked, and really seemed to enjoy their jobs. Dianne, the hygienist, was great. She, along with everyone else, was extremely knowledgeable and helpful. I felt comforted knowing that these professionals kept up to date on the latest advancements in their fields. Also, they really took their time. I was never kept waiting, or rushed through an assembly line of anxious patients.
During this time, I also had to have some oral surgery done. I was extremely nervous about this, but Dr. M referred me to a colleague at Newport Medical Center who did a good job (Hey, sticking a needle in my arm without me even realizing it was pretty damn nice). Later, when I had complications due to dry sockets, I paged Dr. M in the middle of the night.
He called me back within minutes.
Getting care at Bijan Family is not cheap, but it's not outrageous either.
Of course, they don't misdiagnose you on purpose and subject you to painful, unnecessary (and often harmful) "treatments" just to claim the insurance.
They treat you with respect, and always keep you informed with honest information. Unfortunately, I have become one of those uninsured Americans.
But that hasn't stopped me from recommending Dr. M and his staff to anyone who asks.
LASTLY: If you are someone who hates needles, Dr. M is the dentist for you.
His competence alone was enough; It made me realize that lot of fear was dissipated just by finding a doctor to trust. I was surprised, however, when he jiggled my cheek as he numbed me. On top of being slightly amused, I hardly felt a thing!
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Six New Technologies That Will Change Dermatology
Six developments – daylight photodynamic therapy, body sculpting, better laser treatments for tattoo removal, marketing of home-use fractionated lasers for skin rejuvenation, novel lasers for vascular malformations, and light-based multiphoton microscopy as an alternative to conventional histopathology – will have significant impact upon dermatologic practice, Dr. Christopher B. Zachary predicted in a keynote address at the World Congress of Dermatology.
Savvy patients will increasingly be asking their dermatologists about them, added Dr. Zachary, professor and chair of the department of dermatology at the University of California, Irvine.
Several of these advances fall within cosmetic dermatology, a field he vigorously defended. Showing before-and-after facial photos of a middle-aged woman who appeared 10-15 years younger following skin resurfacing with an ablative laser, Dr. Zachary asserted, "You can dramatically change people's lives with this therapy.
"When this lady's at work, she's surrounded by younger women who want her job. So, this therapy has social and economic benefits," he said. "I know that some of you in the audience might think that aesthetics is sort of a Cinderella sister to mainstream dermatology, but it's important. We're going to live longer, hopefully, and we want to look good – because in this culture, that's important."
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8 IO Module Controller (CM-M8K64-A)
This is our big controller, with tons of IO and memory. It is 90mm x 50mm, and can run up to 8 IO modules on the edge connector plus it has a Network Expansion/Raspberry Pi compatible 26-pin connector that can be used for smaller projects or for building out networked systems. It is useful as a one size fits all controller for starting out projects without being restricted by resources.
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Includes EM-001ETHUSB Ethernet and Full Size USB expansion module.
System Specs:
- Main Controller (MK64FN1M0VLQ12) - NXP Kinetis K64F 120MHz ARM Cortex m4 32-bit microcontroller with DSP and Floating Point, Integrated Ethernet, 1024KB Flash, 256KB RAM
- OpenSDA/DAPLink Controller (MKL26Z128VFM4) - NXP Kinetis KL26Z (or 27Z) for simple program flashing via USB
- OX164 164-Pin Card Edge Connector - supporting 8 Atomo IO Modules plus base system functions
- OX26N 26-Pin Expansion Connector - Network Expansion, Raspberry Pi compatible connector, and general purpose expansion header
- MicroSD Connector - 4-bit SDHC
- RTC - Button Cell Battery Holder and 32KHz RTC crystal
- Reset Switch
- 6 LEDs - 3 controlled by the main controller and 3 controlled by the OpenSDA controller
- External USB 4-pin connector - standard 2.54mm connector for adding an external USB jack for installation in larger systems (perfect for 3D printers or other equipment where a microUSB would get whacked)
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Our Story
Sensitive Planet is 'the enlightening marketplace' as we seek to bridge the yogic wisdom of Sages through products and services which support our lifestyle and achievements while reducing stress in today's dynamic social and work environments. We focus to promote and sell tools of consciousness, well-being, harmony, and healing through ancient yogic wisdom.
Each product from Sensitive Planet is designed to support the modern-day yogi lifestyle and every single product has been hand-selected by our yogi founder- Nandhiji.
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Staying true to the yogic philosophy of "Dana" - generosity and the practice of giving back, - each and every purchase from Sensitive Planet helps fund our hearts vision: our 501c3 Non-Profit, Ariven Community.
The Ariven Community is our vision for global animal sanctuaries where old cows and oxen are rescued from slaughter and brought to our farms where they can live out a happy and peaceful rest of their life. Their dung helps us create the most beneficial and nutrient-rich biodynamic soil to grow healthy, NON-GMO, Organic produce. And, a portion of each harvest goes to feeding the needy.
Within each farm/sanctuary, we are building a yoga community around it to help empower ourselves, the environment and the animals. This is a vision of common sense & action for us to enact basic compassion & dharma on global scales. Our intent is a world where- humanity embraces 'ahimsa', supreme peace & non-violence towards any life; where hunger on our planet is abolished; where we are sustained by healthy and holistic vegetarian food supplies; and whereas a global spiritual community, we are One.
About The Founder- Nandhiji
Nandhiji is a mystic, yogi, visionary, humanitarian, artist, ecstatic chant musician, author, and teacher.
Nandhiji shares the rare wisdom and teachings of the seldom-revealed source of yogic wisdom of the Siddha Sages, the liberated mystics of South India.
Nandhiji was gifted with a childhood experience of the Divine when he was four years old. Later as a young adult, while leading an active life of family, he was initiated through a death experience by his first Guru, and his journey into the mystical realm of the Siddhars as a yogi began.
After years of seeking "wholeness" through connection with the inner world, Nandhiji woke up to understand his highest purpose: to uplift humanity in consciousness. Nandhiji's experiences ranged during these times from firm yogic resolve in undertaking pilgrimages to sacred temples and hidden sanctuaries across India, to epic adventures in the spiritual wilderness of South India, to sojourns in forest shrines and caves—all under the guidance his Gurus, and through yoga, worship, meditation and solitude, to attain the wholeness to know his purpose and serve in the doings.


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Firefighters with the St. George Fire Department are escorting Santa around the area starting Saturday.
The annual Santa parades feature Santa atop a St. George fire engine, followed by vehicles collecting food for the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank and toys and donations for the Christmas for Challenged Children, a faith-based group that helps make Christmas merrier for children facing chronic or life-threatening medical issues.
Residents in the St. George Fire Protection District are asked to have donations bagged and ready by the door "so when you hear the truck coming down your street you can hand it to the appropriate volunteer," a news release from the department said.
For information about where Santa will visit Saturday and Sunday, visit StGeorgeFire.com or visit the department on Facebook.
"Unfortunately, since Santa and his sleigh drivers are on-duty firefighters, who may have to leave the parade route to respond to emergency calls, we cannot break the parade route down in any more detail than to identify the weekend they will be in a given subdivision," the release said.


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Our Moonlight Revels: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in the Theatre
University of Iowa Press, 2002
Paper: 978-0-87745-829-6 | Cloth: 978-0-87745-592-9 | eISBN: 978-1-58729-250-7
Library of Congress Classification PR2827.W59 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification 822.33
Many ingenious theatrical worlds have been created for the fairy world of A Midsummer Night's Dream, from the baroque to the postmodern. This is the quintessential play for understanding the ways in which scenery, costumes, music, lighting, and playing spaces affect our experience of Shakespeare. A Midsummer Night's Dream also proves to be extraordinarily responsive to the cultural winds of each era, easily circulating a variety of sometimes competing social interests.
In his richly detailed, beautifully illustrated history of Shakespeare's most popular play—the first comprehensive study of A Midsummer Night's Dream in the theatre—Gary Jay Williams covers four hundred years of landmark productions in Europe, the United States, and Canada as well as important opera, dance, and film adaptations. Williams shows how the visual and musical vocabularies of production can be read as cultural texts and how these meditative texts determine this play's available meanings from generation to generation. His account, then, is the story of our imaginative and astonishing uses of Shakespeare's play.
Many famous theatre artists have been drawn to this play, and many of their productions have been turning points in theatre history. Williams offers detailed theatrical and cultural analyses of the productions of David Garrick, Ludwig Tieck, Elizabeth Vestris, Charles Kean, Harley Granville-Barker, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Max Reinhardt, Peter Brook, Liviu Ciulei, and other artists. His engaging, intelligent study will be invaluable to scholars and teachers of Shakespeare and theatre history and to professional directors, designers, critics, and actors.•The Wedding-play Myth and the Dream in Full Play
•Shakespeare Absolute: Fairies, Gods, and Oranges in Purcell's Fairy Queen
•"Signor Shakespearelli"
•The Scenic Language of Empire
•These Antique Fables . . . These Fairy Toys"
•The National and Natural Dream
•The Dream of Modernism: The "New Hieroglyphic Language of Scenery" and the Theology of the Text
•The Dream of Modernism: The Sacred and the Secular
•Postmodernism: "The Fierce Vexation of a Dream"
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JPMoms is an on-line extension of a face-to-face community of parents in Jamaica Plain and immediately adjacent neighborhoods of Boston. Created in 2003, this grass-roots list was organized by JP mothers who wanted to stay in touch as their babies outgrew the Jamaica Plain New Moms' Support Group. Although our group was started by mothers, JPMoms is open to parents (mothers, fathers, and guardians) and expectant parents living in Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, West Roxbury, Roxbury, Hyde Park and Mission Hill.JPMoms aims to promote an open, accepting, and supportive space for parents to connect with the local parenting community. The on-line community of JPMoms is a resource where local parents and expectant parents ask and answer questions, share concerns, provide support, and exchange information related to parenting. Since the listserv represents a geographic community of parents, member interactions are similar to the way a group of parents would interact at a playground, school open house, or community picnic. All posts are signed with the poster's first name and child or children's first initial and approximate age. Members are encouraged to actively participate in discussions, answer questions, and provide information and support to other community members.The group is not open to individuals who want to join to promote events, services or products, nor is it open to those who wish to use JPMoms for marketing or research. JPMoms is not open to nannies and daycare providers unless said providers are parents of small children and reside in our designated geographic area. We ask child care providers and all local business owners to wear their 'parent hat' when participating on JPMoms, not a 'business' hat.
Upcoming Events
Little bookworms (at the MSPCA)
An animal-themed book is read to toddlers. An animal from the shelter is also brought in to visit. www.mspca.org/storytime. Free; donation appreciated.
JFCS New Parents Support Group JP
Do you have a new baby under one? Would you like to meet other parents? Parents are invited to come with their infants. Our groups are free. Registration is not necessary, please come when you can.Group is offered by the Center for Early Relationship Support and meets every Wednesday at 1:30 PM at Curtis Hall in JP.
Baby Cafe-Free Breastfeeding Support
nurse practitioner/IBCLC run group runs every Friday, 10-12. Snacks, support, sibs/spouses welcome
Baby Cafe: A free resource for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers at South End Community Health Center
Baby Cafe is a place to find support from specifically-trained staff and to Share experiences with other moms. No appointment is needed. Refreshments, comfortable seating, and open forum discussion. Welcome to all!
Kids Drumming at Spontaneous Celebrations
Our new drum leader offers fabulous percussion classes and workshops on Saturday mornings at our community center. Ages 1-10. $5 suggested donation.


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We all know that Moms are probably the least photographed members of the family. We are either take the photos, wiping the noses, putting the shoes back on, feeding a baby…you get the idea. But every mom deserves to be a part of the photos every now and then. And when the crazy years of raising children are done, wouldn't she cherish to have those moments back…captured forever in priceless photos?
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The Red Fly Team and their kids.
Red Fly Studio – January 2007
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Will's career started at Sega back in 1991, making simple games for the Game Gear and Sega Genesis where he helped ship half a dozen titles in as many years. The highlight: working on the overkills, vendettas, and sudden deaths for
Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side, voted most violent game of that year and more recently listed as number one on IGN's top ten list of best gore effects. Hell yeah!
Will moved to Austin in 1997 to work at Origin Systems on Wing Commander Prophecy and eventually moved to Sony to sculpt environments for Star Wars Galaxies. But after spending seven years working on MMOs Will is ecstatic to once again work on console games, where the games are at their most creative, and there is no such thing as player housing.


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Al Jarreau – Live At Montreux, 1993 – Eagle Records ER203992, 71:02 ****:
A sure-footed musical exploration by Al Jarreau at his peak.
(Al Jarreau – vocals; Paulinho Da Costa – percussion; Steve Gadd – drums; Eric Gale – guitar; Marcus Miller – bass; Philippe Saisse – synthesizer; Joe Sample – keyboards; Patches Stewart – horns; Stacy Campbell, Sharon Young, Jeff Ramsey – backing vocals)
Early in his career, a jazz critic described Al Jarreau as "a singer with an orchestra in his throat". When this album, Live At Montreux, was recorded on July 6,1993 at a performance at The Montreux Jazz Festival, Jarreau was 53 years old and in full control of his vocal facilities. The set list was a stroll through material with which Jarreau was fully familiar, yet also had a number of tunes that were new to his repertoire. Additionally the back-up band had a number of stellar and accomplished musicians, including drummer Steve Gadd, bassist Marcus Miller who been an integral part of one of Miles Davis' groups, and keyboardist Joe Sample who was one of the founding members of the 1960 hard-bop band The Jazz Crusaders.
Jarreau persuasively begins the outing with his 1981 hit "We're In This Love Together" with the opening funky piano work from Joe Sample who stays with the tune throughout. Jarreau's vocal swoops and dives right through the number in fine form. The audience reaction to this number confirms its status as the centrepiece to his 1981 platinum selling-album Breaking Away. The next offering, "Try A Little Tenderness", is ballad that had been around since the early '30s, and was covered by a plethora of artists including Bing Crosby. The most recent popular version was by Otis Redding in 1966, but Jarreau brought a new feel to the tune that had an emotional yet up-beat vibe.
"Mas Que Nada" was written by Brazilian Jorge Ben Jor but popularized by Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66. Jarreau understands the Brazilian ethos attached to the number, and delivers a scintillating scat rendition that shows his versatility to delve into the tune's intricate rhythmic structure. In 1955, Buddy Johnson penned "Save Your Love For Me" in a blues mode with lovely ascending and descending chord changes. Jarreau captures Johnson's intentions with his own heartfelt version, including his trademark vocal gymnastics. Patches Stewart delivers fills in and around Jarreau's vocal, with some tender muted trumpet.
For the final track of the session, the original Joe Sample R&B hit for The Crusaders in 1972, Put It Where You Want It was updated with a lyric from Jarreau and entitled "Puddit". Remaining true to its original underpinnings, Jarreau, the band, and the backup singers rock it out to great effect.
TrackList: We're In This Love Together; Try A Little Tenderness; Summertime; We Got By; Mas Que Nada; She's Leaving Home; You Don't See Me; Save Your Love For Me; Your Song; Alonzo; Puddit ( Put It Where You Want)
—Pierre Giroux
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