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JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Peyton Manning might have a few years left in his record-breaking right arm.
Riding into retirement with another Super Bowl ring? Well, that's not even a thought for the Denver Broncos quarterback.
"If I can't produce, if I can't help the team, that's when I'll stop playing," Manning said Sunday. "If that's next year, maybe it is, but I certainly want to continue to keep playing."
The AFC champion Broncos arrived in New Jersey on Sunday night for the start of preparations for the big game next week against the Seattle Seahawks at MetLife Stadium. Manning, at a news conference aboard the Cornucopia Majesty cruise ship docked outside the team hotel, said he has no plans beyond next Sunday's Super Bowl.
HONOLULU (AP) — DeMarco Murray caught a 20-yard pass for a touchdown and Mike Tolbert plunged into the end zone for a 2-point conversion with less than 1 minute to give Jerry Rice a win over Deion Sanders in the first schoolyard-style Pro Bowl.
Baltimore's Justin Tucker missed a 67-yard field goal on the game's final play after missing a 66-yarder earlier in the game.
MIAMI (AP) — Tampa Bay Buccaneers executive Dennis Hickey was hired as general manager of the Miami Dolphins, ending an arduous search that lasted nearly three weeks.
Hickey has been with the Buccaneers for 18 seasons, including the past three as director of player personnel.
The hiring came after the Dolphins were rebuffed by several candidates.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — After winning the Australian Open, some players have jumped for joy into the Yarra River. Many pop champagne and indulge in late-night celebrations. Most set new goals and start thinking about the Grand Slams they want to win next.
Not so for Stan Wawrinka, who woke up Monday morning groggy but sober and still stunned he had beaten Rafael Nadal 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 to win his first Grand Slam title.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — In a tournament that was up for grabs, Scott Stallings hit a 4-iron worthy of a winner Sunday in the Farmers Insurance Open.
Stallings was in a five-way tie for the lead when he hit his second shot on the par-5 18th hole as hard as he could. It was enough to barely clear the water, and he took two putts from 40 feet for birdie and a 4-under 68 at Torrey Pines. That was enough for a one-shot victory when no one could catch him.
PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — Jessica Korda won the season-opening Bahamas LPGA Classic for her second tour title, holing a 6-foot birdie putt on the final hole to beat Stacy Lewis by a stroke.
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Danny Davis got the perfect boost on his way to Sochi — a win at the Winter X Games.
Davis showed signs he might give Shaun White a run in Russia, mixing old-school moves with huge jumps to score a 95 on Sunday and win the last major halfpipe contest before the Olympics.

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History of Modern Turkish painting
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This is a short history of Turkish painters from the mid-19th century to the present.
- 1 Beginnings
- 1.1 Mid-19th century to early 20th century
- 1.2 The "1914 Generation"
- 1.3 Müstakiller (The Independents)
- 1.4 "The Group D"
- 1.5 "Yeniler Grubu" (The Newcomers Group) late 1930s
- 1.6 "On'lar Grubu" (The Group Ten) 1947
- 1.7 "Yeni Dal Grubu" (The New Branch Group) 1959
- 1.8 "Siyah Kalem Grubu" (The Black Pen Group) 1961
- 1.9 Other
- 2 Museums and collectors
- 3 References
Turkish painting, in the western sense, developed actively starting from the mid 19th century.
Mid-19th century to early 20th century[edit]
- Osman Hamdi Bey (1842–1910)
- Şeker Ahmet Paşa (1841–1907)
- Hasan Rıza (1857−1913)
- Halil Paşa (c.1857–1939)
- Hoca Ali Riza (1864–1939)
The very first painting lessons were scheduled at "Mühendishane-i Berri-i Humayun" (Military School of Engineering) in 1793 mostly for technical purposes. Artists who formed the 19th-century art milieu were often from the military schools. Additionally, Christian and "Levantine" artists as well as foreign painters lived and contributed to the art milieu in Istanbul. Some Turkish artists of military background like Osman Hamdi Bey, Şeker Ahmet Paşa, Süleyman Seyyid, Halil Paşa were educated in arts abroad. Others, such as Hüseyin Zekai Paşa, Hoca Ali Riza, and Ahmet Ziya Akbulut were educated within the country.
"Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi" (School of Fine Arts) was established with Osman Hamdi's attempts in 1883. A new era was beginning in painting with the return of the artists from the West. Human figure in the western sense was being established in Turkish painting especially with Osman Hamdi Bey. Impressionism, among the contemporary trends, appeared later on with Halil Paşa.
The "Ottoman Painters' Society" was formed in 1909. The society started exhibitions in 1916 continuing till 1952 on a regular basis that would be remembered as "Galatasaray Exhibitions".
The "1914 Generation"[edit]
- Nazmi Ziya Guran (1881–1937)
Contemporary trends that emphasize figure start to appear gradually in Turkey with the "1914 Generation". Figure and composition entered the Turkish painting for the first time in the western sense with this generation. "Inas Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi" (School of Fine Arts for Girls) was founded for young women in 1914. Mihri Müşfik Hanım, Omer Adil and Feyhaman Duran were the first instructors.
A studio was built with army support in Şişli, a district of Istanbul, with Arseven's attempt in 1917. Hüseyin Avni Lifij's "Progress" and "War Allegory", Ibrahim Çallı's "Cannon Carrier", Mehmet Ruhi's "Stone Breakers" were the first examples of multi figured and large dimensional compositions realised prior to and following this period. Right after the Şişli Studio, the Vienna Exhibition was held in 1918, the first exhibition abroad.
Müstakiller (The Independents)[edit]
The young Turkish artists sent to Europe in 1926 came back inspired by contemporary trends such as Fauvism, Cubism and even Expressionism, still very influential in Europe, and they took a stand against the "1914 Generation" members. The important goals of this new group were, though not very absolute, pictorial design structure and linear foundation rather than impressionist colorism. The activities of the group under the name of "Independent Painters and Sculptors' Association", expanded with the participation of new artists in 1929. The association's founders were mostly painters
- Refik Epikman (1902-1974),
- Cevat Dereli (1900-1989),
- Şeref Akdik (1899-1972),
- Mahmut Cûda (1904-1987),
- Nurullah Berk (1906-1981),
- Hale Asaf (1905-1938),
- Ali Avni Çelebi (1904-1993),
- Zeki Kocamemi (1900-1959),
- Muhittin Sebati (1901-1932),
- İsmail Hakkı Oygar (1907-1975), ceramic artist
- Ratip Aşir Acudoğlu (1898-1957), sculptor
- Fahreddin Arkunlar (1901-1971), decorator
The group was later joined by Turgut Zaim (1904-1974), who integrated Turkish folk art into the new forms developed by Çelebi and Kocamemi.
"The Group D"[edit]
While the "Müstakiller" (the Independents) opened the doors of contemporary trends in Turkey, we see a newly founding group which would give a greater support to these efforts and of which their effectiveness lasted until the 1950s: "Group D". Group members were:
- Abidin Dino (1913–1993)
The most significant distinction of "Group D" from the "Independents" was perhaps that they had gathered around a certain aesthetics with solidarity in determination to defend the new trends they wanted to bring in. "Group D" had not been representative of any particular view. They were open to anything new except Impressionism. The star of the Çallı generation faded away gradually after the "Independents" and "Group D" members had started to work at the Academy.
- Cemal Tollu (1899-1968)
- Bedri Rahmi Eyuboğlu (1911–1975)
Besides all this progress, from the beginning there had also been independent artists. Among these
can be counted.
Later on
- Adnan Coker (born 1927)
- Fahrunissa Zeid (1901–1991)
- Burhan Doğançay (1929-2013)
took place in this trend.
"Yeniler Grubu" (The Newcomers Group) late 1930s[edit]
formed by those who had a social realist understanding. After they opening of their "Harbour Paintings Exhibition", they had been remembered as the "Harbour Painters".
- Avni Arbaş (1919–2003)
"On'lar Grubu" (The Group Ten) 1947[edit]
formed by the students of Bedri Rahmi who started working basically by adding folkloric ornaments in their works and added a freshness to the art milieu
"Yeni Dal Grubu" (The New Branch Group) 1959[edit]
focusing on social reality.
"Siyah Kalem Grubu" (The Black Pen Group) 1961[edit]
The Siyah Kalem Grubu was centered around Cemal Bingöl's studio.
Turkish painting has continued to flourish since the 1960s, with an increasing rate of development, as evidenced by many new artists in many different styles.
Museums and collectors[edit]
Institutions and persons with collections of important Turkish paintings:
- Ankara Museum of Painting and Sculpture
- Doğançay Museum
- Istanbul Modern
- İzmir Museum of Painting and Sculpture
- Military Museum, Istanbul
- National Library, Ankara
- Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture
- Pera Museum
- State Art Galleries in many cities of Turkey
- Turkish General Staff Headquarters, Ankara
- Turkish Grand National Assembly, Ankara
Collectors and galleries:
- ^ "Huma Kabakcı Koleksiyonu". Humakabakcikoleksiyonu.com. Retrieved 2010-11-07.
- ^ "Link: Huma & Nahit Kabakci Collection Of Contemporary Arts". Yourartlinks.com. Retrieved 2010-11-07.


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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. The Rev. Bob Marrone was pained to see the steeple of his 137-year-old church shattered and strewn on the grass in the central Massachusetts town of Monson, yet he knows he's more fortunate than some of his neighbors who lost their homes after tornadoes tore through the state, killing at least four people and injuring about 200.
"I can see the plywood of roofs, and see houses where most of the house is gone," said Marrone, pastor of The First Church of Monson. "The road that runs up in front of my house ... There's so many trees down, it's completely impassable."
Residents of 18 communities in central and western Massachusetts woke to widespread damage Thursday, a day after at least two late-afternoon tornadoes shocked emergency officials with their suddenness and violence and caused the state's first tornado-related deaths in 16 years.
Sens. John Kerry and Scott Brown joined Gov. Deval Patrick on a helicopter tour of the damaged areas, including Springfield, the state's third-largest city. Kerry said it looked like a "blast zone" and was confident that federal disaster aid would be made available, particularly because of damage to businesses.
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Walker's father, Paul Walker Sr., and brother Cody, were snapped first visiting the Giorgio Armani store in Beverly Hills, and later Los Angeles' Forest Lawn Cemetery, as they've reportedly scheduled a small, relatives-only funeral for the late Varsity Blues star to be held this weekend.
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When you read in a brochure or advertising that your hotel is in "Montego Bay" be prepared to stay a few (or many) kilometers distant from town - Montego Bay is a common (and uggly) city taking proffit of a protected bay, with several beaches around it, and hotels spreading along almost 100 kilometers of coast.
To browse the beaches and have an idea of their quality, a car was needed, and... we didn't have it, so, we skipped Montego Bay beaches.Related to:
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- Eco-Tourism
There's plenty of things to do in and around MO Bay. I will highlight here some of the excursions available.
Dunn's River Falls:
Enjoy the scenery as you travel along Jamaica's north coast to OchoRios and then on to Dunn's River Falls, which has 600 feet of cascading falls. It's Jamaica's #1 attraction.
Black River Falls:
A scenic drive across the island, will take you to the wild and natural south coast. Take a boat ride along the Black River, Jamaica's longest river where you will explore mangrove swamps where you can see crocodiles and other native species in their natural habitat.
Dolphin Cove:
Swim with the Dolphins at Dolphin Cove in Ocho Rios.
Shops at Rose Hall:
30 retail stores including boutiques, restaurants, souvenir shops, art & craft, duty-free, jewellery, watches and gifts. A free shuttle is available from Sunspree every hour on the hour starting at 10:00 a.m.
Bamboo Rafting Experience:
A uniquely Jamaican experience. An expert raftsman guides you down the river aboard your personal bamboo raft.
Luminous Lagoon Tour:
The Luminous Lagoon is one of Jamaica's natural wonders. The Lagoon, surrounded by mangroves, emits a phosphorescent light when the water is agitated. Take a boat ride on the Laggon and as the water is disturbed, you will see eerie light illuminating the waters below.
These are just some of the excursions available. See your travel representative or Hotel Information Desk for more details and prices.
Rocklands Bird Feeding Station
This place is out of Montego bay, so you need a car or taxi. A beautiful place where the hummingbirds keep going back for food. So you just seat and wait for them. They will eat from your hand. Amazing experience. (No fix price, but min. 10USD)Related to:
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Richmond Hill Inn
The Richmond Hill Inn is located 500 feet above the city and offers fantastic views of the bay. It's a great place to have a picture made with your cruise ship in the background.
Because we were on an excursion from the cruise ship, we did not stay here, but management will let tourists come and use the facility for a $1 donation per person. In the 1700's the Inn was the property of the Dewars of scotch whisky fame.
Feel free to sit by the pool, roam the gardens, or enjoy a meal and libations in their terrace service area. Also feel free to pet the two german shepherds who lazily amble among the guests and visitors.
As with most places in Montego Bay, it was very affordable. We did not eat, but the menu had nothing above $8.00. Also, the drinks were very cheap as well. One round of nine drinks including beers, shots and mixed drinks was about $35 with tip.
If I was to have an extended stay in Montego Bay, I would definately stay here.
Downtown Montego Bay
We thought it a bit odd that we had been to Montego Bay four times and we had never actually seen any of the city but Sunset Beach is so far outside the center that it's not walkable and we really didn't have a reason to go there. But we decided to go on one of the shopping excursions so we could see a bit of the city and had our driver drop us there while everyone else was spending their money at the duty free stores.
The downtown area is bustling with people shopping and going about their business, even in the noon day heat. There are some interesting buildings as you walk along the main street (St. James I think), you can stop by Juici Patty or Stanley's for a patty, take a peek at one of the grocery stores or the outdoor fruit sellers. A lot more interesting than seeing yet another shop packed with tourist trinkets, that's for sure!
Picture 1-The Cage, used as a lockup for vagrants, drunks, runaways and plantation slaves who had not left town after the 3PM warning bell
Picture 2-local church
Picture 3-is she selling real dog tongue? And no mystery as to what love weed does
Picture 4-Scotch bonnets, don't underestimate their heat
Picture 5-house near the craft market
Glistening Waters
Glistening Waters is a cool natural attraction near Falmouth, about 20-40 minutes from Montego Bay depending on where you are staying. Our trip included pickup from our resort and a 35 minute boat ride out into the lagoon for $30 per person, the rep from Jamaica Tours quoted us a price of $51 but I believe that also included dinner. Admission if you get there on your own is $20.
There are several boats that hold about 30 people each and ours was packed, the best spot to sit in is on the side near the back so you can see the water turn a glowing shade of turquoise blue when the motion of the boat hits it. You can also see fish darting around the boat if you can look over the side.
The blue water is caused by microscopic organisms that live in a lagoon where the warm fresh water of the Martha Brae River meets the salt waters of the Caribbean that emit a phosphorescent light when the water is stirred up by the boat or by fish or by the humans that choose to go for a swim. Our guide, Jerry, told us it was one of four places in the world you could see this phenomenon, the others are Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and Indonesia. I wish I had brought a swim suit as Jerry told us a swim in these waters would shave 10 years off the ladies and add three inches of bamboo to the men!
I think the best time to see this place is actually during a rain storm, I imagine the impact of the rain on the lagoon would make it sparkle like a million gemstones. Hopefully all the development around the lagoon, a new cruise pier for one of the mega 6,000 passenger ships near Falmouth and an enormous hotel, won't destroy this fascinating piece of nature.
Kayaking on the Great River
We've done so many of the packaged tours from the resort or with a private guide that we had a little trouble finding something that we hadn't done but we did want to do at least one daytrip so we selected a kayaking trip on the Great River. After a 40 minute van ride through the country side, we were dropped at Chukka Tours' outpost on a section of the 57 mile long Great River where they launch several trips-tubing, kayaking and a canopy tour. Although there were quite a few people for the other two trips, we were on our own for the kayak trip, apparently everyone else was in the Jamaica spirit and didn't want to exert themselves too much, we saw the tubers as they were being pulled along the Great River drinking rum punch and they were clearly not even going to break a sweat.
This wasn't the greatest tour we've ever taken but it was enjoyable. One of our guides was a lot more affable than the other, his banter made the trip more enjoyable. We didn't really paddle all that far in our inflatable kayaks, much of the trip was stopping for photo ops, a short trip up to the orange groves to see some of the native flora and sample some of the very sweet oranges and a stop at the rope swing where you can take a dip in the River.
This wasn't a strenous tour at all and the water was not at all dangerous, a few mini rapids but otherwise very little current. If you've never been kayaking before, the guides would give you a briefing on how to do it. The tour pictures make it look much more exciting than it really was, maybe it is at different times of the year when the water levels are different. The only problem I had since I am used to more sturdy fiberglass kayaks was that I ended up turned around backwards a lot.
The guide had a water proof bag for my camera, the rest of our stuff was in a locker back at the base camp. We ended up waiting for the rest of the folks on the canopy tour for almost an hour, there's a gift shop, snacks and a bathroom for while you wait. Plus a herd of scrawny stray cats who are looking for scraps.
Zipline Adventur Tours
MOBAy is awesome especially if you want to try out an awesome excursion. Zipline adventure tours!
Their tour starts with a short safari ride up the mountain with an informative guide. Then your safety briefing. then a total of five traverses!! the first is 250ft, the next is 850 ft, and then a 900ft line. then you walk through a botanical garden and get to sample things that have been grown right there as well as sample a few liqueurs. then the fourth traverse is 750ft, and then a 250ft skybridge!! and last but certainly not least, is the longest zipline in the Caribbean, 1600ft!!!!
The sky-bridge is a cable and wood suspension bridge that is a safe walkway that takes you from the end of one traverse to the launch platform of the last one. It is just an extra feature they added so people can slow down for a moment and see the beauty of Jamaica!!!
The place is located in the small town of Lethe, which is just southwest of Anchovy and Montpelier
The price is around $89 US without transfer and around $103 US with transport from MoBay!
Those prices are estimated and may differ from different resort areas.
Their web site is zipline-tours.com and their phone # is 876-436-6296Related to:
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- Adventure Travel
Coach tours
Dunn's falls. An experience you wont have anywhere else! one and a half hours away. You ascend the falls holding on to people on either side of you. this allows balance and support. Careful of hurting your ankle. Wear plastic water shoes which are snug fitting. They tell you not to take your camera unless you want to get it wet! Leave all your belongings in the coach. Only wear your swimsuit.
croydon Estates. Coach tour which takes 1 and a half hours to get to. Plantation tour. See beautiful tropical fruit trees including banana, pineapple, noni, cotton etc. Coffee also grown here. Had a barbecue lunch. Perhaps that is where I got the parasite?
Trip with a taxi into Montego Bay. Saw the gallery of West Indian Art. You can buy reasonable art (not only from Jamaica) Walked along the hip strip. You have to pay to use Doctor's beach. Forgot to see San Sharpe square!
Rose Hall Great house. Annie Palmer (white witch of Rose Hall) Have tour of the house. Beautiful grounds. Saw Annie's grave. Also saw the Barret's graves (Elizabeth Barret Browning the poet's family) I wander if Takoo and Millicent are buried there too!Related to:
- Eco-Tourism
- Road Trip
- Arts and Culture
Tropical Dreamer
We always end up on a catamaran/snorkeling cruise whenever we go somewhere warm, sometimes they are pretty raucous with a lot of people getting drunk, sometimes they are more laidback with people just out for a sail. This was our 2nd time on the Tropical Dreamer and the trip was almost identical to the 1st trip.
Tropical Dreamer tends more towards the raucous, booze cruise atmosphere, the crew is lively and the drinks flow freely, all kinds of rum based drinks and the ever present Red Stripe beer. While they won't let you drink until after you snorkel, the snorkeling stop isn't very far away from the dock at Sandals where the boat leaves from. After about 30 minutes of snorkeling, they sail onto Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville where you can use the slide or bounce on the trampolines or buy drinks in pretty multicolored souvenir cups before sailing off again back to Sandals.
The snorkeling stop is pretty good, no really unusual fish but a pretty good variety of the usual suspects. The waves were pretty high for our journey back to Sandals, I was surprised that no one got sick. The crew gives foot massages to all the ladies and a little dance instruction at the end.
The cost per person for booking through the resort was $65US.
River rafting on the Great River
After four previous trips to Jamaica, we had exhausted most of the daytrip options but we hadn't been on the Great River, so we opted to do this day trip from the resort. The day started with a 20 minute drive to the start of the rafting trip, a mile and 1/2 trip down the Great River on a wooden raft with a guide eager to please and eager to remind you that tips are how he makes his living. He gives me a foot massage with what he says is lime (David declined the foot massage), treats us to coconut milk sipped out of freshly cut bamboo straws, picks brilliant pink and red flowers "for the lady" and gives us some berries and bamboo with instruction on how to make them into a necklace.
Afterward we are served a bbq chicken lunch followed by a demonstration of how to make a pina colada from scratch with fresh coconut and pineapple and a little rum. Then we are loaded onto a tram pulled by a tractor through the "plantation" to see how a variety of local fruits are grown-pineapples, mangoes, limes and bananas.
The banana demonstration is especially interesting, you learn how the banana plant is used after the fruit is harvested for a variety of products. See the travelogue below for some more pictures and information
Road Side Huts
Along the road you will find plenty of Jerk Huts where you can stop for a bite to eat and a cold beer. Make sure you ask the locals for the best ones. For example, we asked our Taxi Driver, Henrry, for the best one & it just happend to be across our Hotel, the Holiday Inn Sun Spree in Montego Bay.
Bar Hopping
I did not go here, but I hear this is a place where tourist like to hang out and party. One of the passengers on our boat that did visit Margaritaville was so drunk off her arse we had to help her find her cabin on the ship (lol)!Related to:
- Cruise
Jamaican Bobsled Team
Incredible, isn't it? A caribean country with an olimpic bobsled team!! It only could happen in Jamaica!!
If you want to know more about the Jamaican Bobsled Team you can go to their pub in Gloucester Avenue, in Mo'Bay, where you can drink, eat and of course buy official staff from the olimpic team.
There is an real bobsled there, so you can also take some pictures.
Margaritaville in Mo'Bay
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|Guy of Anderlecht
Saint Guy of Anderlecht depicted as a pilgrim in a Book of Hours, c. 1484-1529
|The Poor Man of Anderlecht
|c. 950
Anderlecht, Belgium
Anderlecht, Belgium
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|12 September
|A peasant praying with an angel plowing a nearby field; a pilgrim with a book or with a hat, staff, rosary, and an ox at his feet
|Anderlecht, Belgium; against mad dogs; against rabies; bachelors; epileptics; horned animals; laborers; protection of outbuildings, stables, and sheds; sacristans; work horses
Saint Guy of Anderlecht (also, Guido, Guidon, Wye of Láken) (ca. 950–1012) was a Christian saint. He was known as the "Poor Man of Anderlecht."
Life and legend[edit]
Born to poor parents, he lived a simple agricultural life until starting as a sacristan in the local church. He remained so until persuaded to invest in a trading venture. When the ship carrying the cargo in which he had invested sank in the harbour, Guy believed he was being punished for being greedy and went on a pilgrimage, first to Rome as penance, and then to Jerusalem where he worked as a guide to other pilgrims. He died on his way home.
He is the patron saint of Anderlecht, animals with horns, bachelors, convulsive children, epileptics, laborers, protection of outbuildings, protection of sheds, protection of stables, sacristans, sextons, work horses; and is invoked against epilepsy, against rabies, against infantile convulsions, and against mad dogs.[1]
In iconography he is represented as a peasant praying with an angel plowing a nearby field or as a pilgrim with a book or with a hat, staff, rosary, and an ox at his feet.
His grave was said to have been found when a horse kicked it. Cabdrivers of Brabant led an annual pilgrimage to Anderlecht until the beginning of World War I in 1914. They and their horses headed the procession followed by farmers, grooms, and stable boys, all leading their animals to be blessed. The village fair that ended the religious procession was celebrated by various games, music, and feasting, followed by a competition to ride the carthorses bareback. The winner entered the church on bareback to receive a hat made of roses from the parish pastor.


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Chemical Composition and Source Contribution of Particulate Matter Emitted During Injection of Biosolids into an Agricultural Field in Ohio, USA
Article first published online: 24 JAN 2013
DOI: 10.1002/ep.11734
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Bhat, A. and Kumar, A. (2013), Chemical Composition and Source Contribution of Particulate Matter Emitted During Injection of Biosolids into an Agricultural Field in Ohio, USA. Environ. Prog. Sustainable Energy, 32: 1234–1239. doi: 10.1002/ep.11734
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This article focuses on quantification of the chemical composition of particulate matter (PM) emitted during the injection of biosolids on a farm field near Toledo, Ohio. In the summer of 2009, field sampling was done during the three stages of the biosolids application. The collected filter papers were analyzed to identify the elemental composition. Chemical composition of the PM was determined using ICP-OES. The receptor modeling using the positive matrix factorization (PMF) was used to identify and characterize the source profiles contributing to the emissions. The chemical analysis showed that the biosolids application enriched the concentration of macronutrients and micronutrients that were essential for growth of vegetation. Industrial source, dust/soil, biosolids, and ambient/background were the sources identified using the PMF modeling. The contribution of each source to the elemental concentration was also determined. The biosolids source contributed significantly to the emissions of aluminum (85%), cadmium (59%), chromium (96%), nickel (45%), lead (49%), and silicon (62%). In the future, the biosolids source profile derived in this study will be helpful when applying these findings in related work. © 2013 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog, 32: 1234–1239, 2013


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good news, i´m in i made it in berlin to study game design. Donßt ask why, they did something wrong and accidentally sent me a negative answer instead of a posititive
uberhappy now, since i have a plan for the next years, no more worries about that.
I´m hanging around alot, actually i planned to do nothing when i get accepted, but thats just stupid and i have to much fun while painting. (I made this idiotic plan during the end time of my application and wanted to take a break, so now you know why i came up with that)
funny fact1, i got the mail 2nd of july, and looked at it on 4th guess on which day i had to confirm? - 4th of july, lots of luck
fun fact 2: 4th of july- independece day...maaaan i felt soo free
during the time i thought i didn´t made it to berlin i lurked around A LOT!!! JOBS, INTERNSHIPS, Freelance jobs etc. etc.
So i applied on some freelance jobs and made some examples for an ipad game developer: cartoon and chunky style....
so, samples here, they belong to me and not the company, so i guess I can upload them
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Geiler Typ, Gratz!
Wo hast du den iPad Developer gefunden? :>
July 15th, 2011 #393
@tawnos: hier auf CA in der job section
workin from time to time over the day, I should ask if i can show what i am working on
some speedies over the last couple of days, nothing special...just paintin around, actually 2 of 3 pictures suck hard
shotgun concept for slot5 :
and 2 traditional painings, first one is my first oil painting ever -another selfportrait i looks better in real life
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Na mein Lieber
Bin so derbe neidisch wieder, dass du jz doch noch genommen wurdest!
War jz noch ne Zeitlang dabei mich um studiengänge zu kümmern, und jedes Mal wenn die HTW mal wieder was bei Facebook zeigt, werd ich n bisschen traurig >.<
Ich find die shotgun derbe nice, weiter so!
Ich fang jz auch mal wieder an....
August 10th, 2011 #395
@tawnos: good to hear that you start again schade, dass es nicht geklappt hat :/
work is going along with the client, working on anatomy, but i´m too lazy to upload anything traditional.
so here are 2scraps. don´t do a lot for private use
and a cannon for scifi game i´m working on
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Hey dude! Ich bin heut wahrscheinlich irgendwie an dir vorbei gegangen, hab eure Game Design Versammlung gesehen, aber ich konnte dich von deinen Selbstportraits noch nicht 100% ausmachen... Ich hatte zwar nen Verdacht, aber ich wollte auch nicht irgendwen falsches ansprechen ^^
October 5th, 2011 #398
: D tawnos wie cool, ich wäre einfach der größte gewesen(von der körpergröße + locken^^) hättest du doch jemanden angelabert.
wir sind do und fr. wieder bis 9:45 vor dem raum.
ja meine selbstportraits sind echt schäbig ps. trag mittlerweile auchnoch so ne schwarze brille, die ist praktisch auf keinem selfportrait drauf.
was machste denn nun? studierst du an der htw computer engeneering? stand in deinem sketchbook was von? vllt sieht man sich mal!
OK, so much in german, update again, started studying today, and it was pretty cool, and so are my classmates
no updates for the last couple of weeks, went to vacation and took things slow.
started drawing again now, hope to update more often soon (well i will definitley do so)
holidays, played around with photoshop, took some shots of my brother while starting with his kite from beach.
back to drawing:
qucik, colour study which srsly sucks, upload it anyway, maybe i get some good critique of you
started drawing mechs, here are the first good results:
good evening peeps
October 5th, 2011 #399
cool update.. where did you go man? been so long since u updated!
those bot designs look cool as always!
keep it up m8 and keep updatin plx
My Sketchbook
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Also wenn du ca. 2 Meter groß bist, standen wir grad am Fahrstuhl nebeneinander. Du warst dann mit so nem Mädel und ich mit 2 Typen, und wir sind dann doch zu Fuß gegangen?
November 2nd, 2011 #401
I really like that spacship in the last post.
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November 2nd, 2011 #402
Great sketchbook!
I love the machines, they are very elaborate.
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November 19th, 2011 #403
Hey dude it's Dylan from a few years back if you still remember. Hope you and Jatherip are doing well, your stuffs getting better keep it up!
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February 3rd, 2012 #404
crapcrapcrap, no update for a long time. busy with university, no time to upload^^ (since i am using photobucket now, it aint take too much time from now on - in contrary to the attachment manager...yoou know what i mean )
@alex eh - how could I forget - amazing times! jatherip is atm in africa trying to help the poor.
@voodoo mama - thanks!
@kidult - thanks, really appreciate that!
@tawnos, hat ja doch noch geklappt^^
@rbeek: thanks
i just post some drawings and paintings. started 3D modelling with zbrush + modelling analog.
here is a quick overview over the last weeks.
allways studies
some 60 - 90 sec. drawings, love them.
any suggestions on this one???
February 3rd, 2012 #405
Nice stuff love the clay dude
the exploding car could use some more contrast around the explosion.
"IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, TRY, TRY AGAIN." - Teachers Manual -
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Einstein -
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February 3rd, 2012 #406
awesome, dude! and as i already told you, the maquette is tight !
finishing the last one will give you aaaaalot EXP's! so, go for it !
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February 3rd, 2012 #407
Great Sketchbook. Your spaceships sketches are looking great. If I have a suggestion it would be to push one of your design to a more finished state. And also try to make your presentation plate more attractive.. Later you could work on a whole illustration of that same spaceship evolving in a specific context which would sell better your design...
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February 3rd, 2012 #408
Hey Herrleerzeichen,
bin grad auf dein Sketchbook gestossen und muss sagen sehr cool.
Bin froh dass mittlerweile auch viele Deutsche hier posten, das heisst die Industry kann sich warm anziehen
Viele Grüße aus München,
Risen from the Dead
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February 9th, 2012 #409
Quick update exams in a few days - running out of time.
Bakker, thanks alot - used it.
@basti , thanks for the overpaint i´ll hang in there.
@patram, thanks, you are absolutley right - i should take my time
@destroyer, danke
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photostudy + quick sketch in class.
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February 18th, 2012 #410
Finally updates again! Neat stuff : )
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February 19th, 2012 #411
Neat? that´s cute, thank you :-*
finally vacation, guess they are going to be pretty awesome lots of drawing @home in my hometown.
thus i finished the little figure and had to do a little report with lots of WIPs, want to share it with you blablabla
but first: one day left to work on this oldie: first time i really worked with textures...did so much stuff wrong/stupido - I learned a lot ...even though still looks a little bit shitty I guess there is too much detail/texture at the wrong places.
here we go:
here the WIPs and Final Maquette:
Have a good day!
February 21st, 2012 #412
February 21st, 2012 #413
I love the sculptures. Awesome expression in that little guy's face, haha!
February 22nd, 2012 #414
awesome sculpting, my friend!
The final moa illustration lacks some variety in terms of color. Especially the buggy in the middle needs to stand out more. Also, think about tuning down those textures a little bit, they don´t blend in very well at the moment.
March 13th, 2012 #415
@KibaKiri: thanks for the comment,yup so true...you don´t want to know how hard i fought with those colours :/ need to do studies...
@lastgen: thanks for the comment
no updates lately, have drawn a lot of animals and stuff traditionally, maybe i will scan the stuff later. no time atm. (i will probably never scan them )
however stuff for school i am currently working on, videomoodboard, i want to introduce the watcher to a giant hangar. it´s most about showing big scale and epicness^^
trying to keep the perspektive simple to animate it later (only a spaceship flying through the hangar)
first of all: storyboard.
concept of the spaceship (showing us the hangar)
March 13th, 2012 #416
It´s not really obvious what is happening in the storyboard, but I guess it was only a temporary capture of your ideas. In that case... it´s very functional
I really like the profile view of the spaceship, reminds me of the big mommaships from the matrix movies.
The depth is definitely there and I´m looking forward to the result!
March 13th, 2012 #417
Haha good for him,, hope your both doing well. Lot's of improvement dude!
March 13th, 2012 #418
I'm looking forward to the finished video, dude! The design of the spaceship seems to be quite flexible in terms of movement - digging it, aswell as the landing image!
March 14th, 2012 #419
@Kira: thanks, no time to make it look good, it´s actually just for me, but i thought it might be interesting to show it.
love matrix and the stuff - fanboy of george hull and the visual team around matrix. ^^
some pictures are stuck in my head...maybe letting it out is the best way to create new more innovative stuff next time
@Alex, haha, jap, seeing your still painting, too good to see!
@basti: thanks!!! your words and seeing your stuff(especially layers) only make this possible. tried some interior about 1/4 year ago - didn´t manage to do it now i do. thanks for comment and stuff!
no painting yesterday, instead doing stuff for university, this is going to be a challenging race
so here´s stuff from today, speeding up a little, whish i could spend more time in every image...
March 27th, 2012 #420
heeey ya
quick update, busy week, totally messed up the video, maybe i´ll upload it later. though i learned alot especially about after effects. so i´m fine with it.
quick update: these are the final images.I edited all of them in after effects afterwards.
2nd part are some studies from the book: the art of animal drawing by ken hultgrenn. pretty good book, love it. I remember i used to draw a lot of animals as a kid, so time to refresh som knowledge.
comments and crit highly recommended about the spacepaintings put some effort in them.
(images in the order i put them in the videomoodboard)
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A City Without Cars: New York's Recovery from Automobile Dominance
Originally published by Metropolis Magazine as "Playing in Traffic", this article by Jack Hockenberry delves into the relationship between man and vehicle, illustrating the complex dynamic created in New York – a city with over 2.1 Million registered vehicles. Contrary to the car-centric schemes of New York's infamous former Master Planner Robert Moses, Hockenberry argues that the city is the "negative space" while vehicles are obscured by our unconscious.
It is a curiosity of modern urban life that the more cars crowd into cities, the more they become invisible. It's a great feature that comes standard on any model these days. Unfortunately we can't control it from the driver's seat—however much we would like to wave our hands and watch through our windshields as gridlocked cars disappear, liberating us from traffic imprisonment. The invisibility I am speaking about only works if you're a pedestrian or bicyclist. The number of motorized vehicles parked or driving at any given moment on the streets of New York City is astounding. An estimated 2.1 million are registered in the city, according to the state's Department of Motor Vehicles. Yet we never fully register them visually when we're walking on the streets. The city is the negative space and that is how our eyes increasingly navigate urban landscapes. Everything around the cars and trucks gets knitted together by the eye and, even though the vehicles are present, we have gradually learned to ignore them unless we're standing in the direct line of moving traffic.
Spatial Relations Take Centre Stage in MoMA's Newest Architectural Exhibition
What influence do art and space have on the contemporary architectural design process? MoMA's most recent exhibition on architecture and design Conceptions of Space strives to answer this question. Themed under the umbrella of spatial relations, Curator Pedro Gadanho ruminates on the subject in a broad and philosophical sense. The exhibition delves into the topic using an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating research from French philosopher Michel Foucault on the subject of the expanded field. The exhibition aims to explore the relationship between the development of space and its deep-seated roots in the creative arts.
Fourteen Tower Proposals Unveiled for Controversial Brooklyn Bridge Park Development
New York City have released images of fourteen tower proposals as part of a controversial scheme to bring affordable housing to the 85 acre Brooklyn Bridge Park, originally designed by Michael van Valkenburgh and realised in 2004. The schemes, designed to be located on "two coveted development sites" on Pier 6, have been actively met with strong opposition from local community members. The park and surrounding area has seen a number of interesting recent regeneration proposals, from an 11,000ft² beach beneath the Brooklyn Bridge to a triangular pier proposed by BIG. Read on to see the proposals in detail, including those by Asymptote, Pelli Clarke Pelli, Davis Brody Bond, and Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG).
What Happened to Manhattan's Lowline Project?
In 2011, the Tribeca-based design duo of James Ramsey and Dan Barasch proposed a radical project to transform an abandoned subterranean trolley terminal in Manhattan's Lower East Side into an underground park filled with natural light and vegetation, eventually proving their design with a full size mock-up of their design for light-capturing fiber-optic tubes. Since then, they haven't had nearly the same level of publicity – but that doesn't mean they aren't still working. This article by The Architects' Newspaper catches up with Ramsey and Barasch as they attempt to make their $50 million project a reality by 2018. Read the full article here.
Foster + Partners Unveils New Images of 425 Park Avenue
Foster + Partners has released new images of 425 Park Avenue in New York, the project which turned heads in 2012 when videos of the four competing architects presenting their proposals were released to Youtube. The new images show a slightly altered design for the glazed entrance, where a mezzanine on either side replaces what was originally a double height space in the entire lobby. The new images also give a glimpse into the building's interiors, where curtain glass walls make the most of spectacular views across Manhattan and Central Park. Read on after the break for all the images.
AA Studio Designs Redevelopment of Disused Dock Building
AA Studio have revealed their plans for the development of Brooklyn's iconic New York Dock Company building, transforming the 230,000 square foot structure into a mixed-use complex of six commercial spaces on the ground floor, 70 residential loft apartments, and a rooftop deck and gardens above.
The design aims to be as faithful to the original structure as possible, retaining the existing poured concrete columns and walls and exposing the high concrete ceilings. As one of the earliest structures to use the technology, the retention and celebration of these features is a key aspect of the building's conservation.
Read on after the break for more on the design
Four Freedoms Park: Louis Kahn's "Ancient Temple Precinct" in NYC
Built four decades after Louis Kahn's death, New York City's Four Freedoms Park - the architect's posthumous memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt and his policies – is becoming one of the architect's most popular urban spaces. In a recent article for the Guardian, Oliver Wainwright investigates what he describes as perhaps Kahn's "best project". Wainwright's spatial description of the monument is interweaved by fragments of Kahn's personal history, building up a picture of a space with "the feel of an ancient temple precinct" and "a finely nuanced landscape". Although Gina Pollara, who ultimately realised the plans in 2005, argues that Four Freedoms Park "stands as a memorial not only to FDR and the New Deal, but to Kahn himself", can a posthumous project ever be considered as an architect's best? Read the article in full here.
VIDEO: How The Living's Mushroom Tower Was Built
Our friends at The Creators Project have shared with us an awesome video of the latest MoMA PS1 installation: Hy-Fi. Designed by The Living, who have – in a fascinating move – recently been acquired by Autodesk, the tower's many organic, biodegradable bricks are grown from a mushroom root in five days, with no energy required and no carbon emissions. In fact, the tower will be composted after MoMA PS1′s summer program is over. Learn more about this ingenious tower from the creator David Benjamin in the video above. And check out more images of the tower after the break.
Alcohol and Urbanism, a Case Study: Breaking New York City's Open Container Law
If there is one thing to be learned from the unsuccessful prohibition period of the 1920s, it is that we, the people, will go to great lengths to exercise our right to drink alcohol in the company of others. Our determined forefathers could have simply enjoyed a small-batch bathtub brew in the comfort of their own homes, but instead they established a system of secret places to congregate and consume collectively, even under threat of federal prosecution. Though it is no longer a felony to consume alcohol, New Yorkers are still pushing the legal limits of drinking with others, challenging the open container laws that prohibit public drinking.
Drinking is a recreational activity. It is a means of stepping beyond the realm of normal perception and seeing things differently, in the metaphorical sense (though sometimes a literal one). It is an act of recreation and repose, the parallel of peering at passerby from a park bench. In New York City, as in most of the United States, it is illegal for any person to possess an open container of an alcoholic beverage in any public place, "except at a block party, feast or similar function for which a permit has been obtained." Rarely do individuals have the resources for a block party or occasion for a full-scale public feast. More likely, they simply seek to crack open a can with neighbors on their front steps or with friends in Central Park, thereby enjoying a beverage in one of the country's most vibrant and diverse public spheres for a mere penance. Unfortunately, that is not a legal option. Even the outdoor space we own is not completely open to our discretionary use: a resident cannot drink on his own stoop because it is "a place to which the public or a substantial group of persons has access."
Disaster Relief Housing For The Next "Superstorm"
With hurricanes Sandy and Katrina etched into recent memory, the need for post-disaster relief housing is now. New York City and Garrison Architects have developed a modular, prefabricated housing system to relieve displaced citizens during the next "superstorm." At only 40′ by 100′ long, they can squeeze into the city's smallest corners – all while having kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and storage spaces. The prototype is on display in Brooklyn – but you can see the entire design at the A/N Blog.
2014 MASterworks Awards for Design Excellence in NYC
The Municipal Art Society (MAS) of New York announced their list of honorees for the 2014 MASterworks Awards last week. These annual awards are dedicated to buildings, completed the year previously in the city of New York, that exemplify a high standard of design, and make a significant contribution to the city's urban environment. This year, all of these projects are located outside of the city center and cover a wide range of programming, from an African-American heritage museum, to a pencil factory addition.
Vin Cipolla, president of MAS said that "the 2014 MASterworks winners strike a great balance between groundbreaking design and historic preservation. We are thrilled that all the winners this year are in the outer boroughs, proving that design excellence is happening throughout the city." See the full list of winners here, or take a look at the five major category winners after the break!
Tadao Ando Designs Luxury Residential Building in New York
Tadao Ando has unveiled designs of his latest project, a 7 story luxury residential project in Manhattan. The building at 152 Elizabeth Street is Ando's first in New York, and includes his signature design features of simple cubic forms, polished in-situ concrete and curtain glass.
More on 152 Elizabeth Street after the break
Prodigy Network Announces Winners of 17John Crowdsourcing Competition
Prodigy Network have selected the winners of the crowdsourcing design competitions for their 17John 'Cotel' in New York, including winners for the design of the public interior spaces and the private rooms. The Cotel concept is intended to meet the changing needs of the modern business traveler; providing living spaces somewhere between a long-term apartment and a short term hotel, but also flexible spaces that can be used for work and meetings.
The crowdsourced competitions were run via Prodigy Network's Design Lab website, and judging was conducted with a mixture of public voting and jury selection. "The winners of the 17John competition were intuitive to the needs of travelers, creative in the interactive spaces and understood the function of extended stay residences," said Prodigy Network Founder Rodrigo Nino. Read on after the break to see the winning proposals.
Frick Collection to Expand With New 6 Story Gallery
Yesterday the Frick Collection announced its plans for a 6-story extension to its gallery in New York, designed by Davis Brody Bond. This article by Robin Pogrebin in the New York Times outlines the details of the extension, as the Frick adds itself to the list of post-recession cultural building projects – a list which includes the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Miami's Pérez Art Museum. The article also outlines the challenges the Frick will have in expanding its landmarked 1914 building. Read the article in full here.
OMA & BIG among 6 Winners in Rebuild By Design Competition
Yesterday, US Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan announced OMA, BIG and four other teams as the winner of "Rebuild by Design", a competition aimed at rebuilding areas affected by Hurricane Sandy focusing on resilience, sustainability and and livability.
In total, HUD have allocated $920 million to the six projects in New York, New Jersey and Long Island to enable the completion of this vision.
Read more about the winning schemes after the break
10 Fires That Changed Architecture Forever
With no casualties, last week's fire at the Glasgow School of Art, which caused significant damage to parts of the building and gutted Charles Rennie Mackintosh's canonical library room, will be remembered as a tragic event that robbed us of one of the best examples of Art Nouveau of its time. The intention of the Glasgow School of Art is to restore the building in the hope that in generations to come, the fire will be all but forgotten, a strategy which has been largely well received by the profession.
However, in the case of other fires things have not gone so smoothly: for millennia, fire has played a big role in determining the course of architectural history - by destroying precious artifacts, but often also by allowing something new to rise from the ashes. Read on after the break as we count down the top 10 fires that changed the course of architectural history.
Apple Taps Bohlin Cywinski Jackson to Revamp Historic NYC Building
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and Eckersley O'Callagha, both longstanding collaborators of Apple's flagship stores, has been commissioned to transform a 93-year-old former United States Mortgage and Trust Company building on Madison Avenue into the chain's next New York City store. Though little has been released about the design, the store's grand opening is planned for 2015. More information can be found here.


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HOUSTON (ICIS)--The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging the 2013 requirements of the US Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), just two days after the American Petroleum Institute (API) filed a similar lawsuit in the DC Circuit Court.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established the RFS as a federal mandate that requires certain amounts of renewable fuels be blended into the US fuel supply. The 2013 rule was finalised in August.
The AFPM lawsuit echoed the API's concerns that the 2013 requirement was issued months after the statutory deadline of November 2012.
Additionally, the AFPM said it has simultaneously petitioned the EPA to waive the cellulosic biofuel requirement of 6m gal (23m litres).
It urged the court to put an end to the EPA's "retroactive application" of the RFS, which "confounds refiners' ability to comply with the law".
"AFPM has taken issue with EPA's reliance on data that was not available for public comment and its use of a methodology for setting cellulosic biofuel requirements that is shrouded in secrecy and continues to overestimate the amount of cellulosic fuel that will be produced and available for compliance," the trade organisation said.
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Two independent research groups have identified separate gene expression profiles in peripheral blood that can predict survival in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). One team, led by researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR, U.K.) identified a nine-gene expression signature in the peripheral blood of prostate cancer patients that identified those with aggressive castration-resistant disease, and could further distinguish between those CRPC patients with low overall survival (averaging 9.2 months) after treatment, and longer survival that averaged at nearly two years.
A second set of published studies, reported by researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine's Tisch Cancer Institute, identified a six-gene expression profile in the peripheral blood of CRPC patients that separated patients into two risk groups: a low-risk group with median survival of over 34.9 months, and a high-risk group with a median survival of just 7.8 months. Interestingly, the differential expression profiles identified in both studies indicated that dysregulation of the immune system may play a role in the aggressiveness of CRPC.
Additional studies are already under way to further validate the six-gene signature in CRPC patients, and evaluate whether it remains stable during the whole course of a patient's illness, and the predictive ability of the signature in patients with prostate cancer who are treated using immune-based therapies.
"Blood from patients with prostate cancer contains mRNA expression information that is prognostic in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer," concludes Johann de Bono, M.D., who heads the prostate cancer targeted therapy team at the ICR. "Expression array analyses of blood merits further assessment in predictive and pharmacodynamic biomarker studies for new anticancer drugs including immune therapies."
Professor de Bono et al describe their findings in a paper titled "Prognostic value of blood mRNA expression signatures in castration-resistant prostate cancer: a prospective, two-stage study." The Tisch Cancer Institute team's work, headed by William K. Oh, M.D., is reported in a paper titled "A whole-blood RNA transcript-based prognostic model in men with castration-resistant prostate cancer: a prospective study."
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St. Ann Techie Trot 5K Run/Walk Volunteer Sign-up
Lena Martinez
Saturday, June 7, 2014 from 6:00 AM to 12:00 PM (CDT)
Who's Going
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Sara Haughty
San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
Luke Picard
London, United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom
Rick Vespucio
Florence, Italy
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Website: http://stann5krun.weebly.com/
Date & Location:
Saturday, June 7, 2014
5K: 8:00 a.m.
registration begins at 6:30 am
packet pick up: Wednesday June 4th from 5-7PM
Have questions about St. Ann Techie Trot 5K Run/Walk Volunteer Sign-up? Contact Lena Martinez
When & Where
Winterhoff Park
Saturday, June 7, 2014 from 6:00 AM to 12:00 PM (CDT)
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Information Technology Services
Bethel University has a site license for Sophos Anti-Virus, which is installed on all Bethel owned computers. Bethel Community members looking for anti-virus software should reference the information below as our site license does not cover personal computers. On top of virus protection ITS recommends that you keep your Operating System up-to-date and to follow Bethel's Internet Security guidelines.
If you are looking for free anti-virus
software to install the Help Desk
suggests using Microsoft Security Essentials.
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If you are looking for free anti-virus software to install the Help Desk suggests using Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition.
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