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What is Quasimodo?
Quasimodo is the skeleton of a 37-foot male humpback whale that was found dead along the island known as Noman's Land, off the southern coast of Martha's Vineyard. He died in 1932 and has been hanging in the Museum since 1936. He originally hung next to the Lagoda in the Bourne Building and then was moved into the Jacobs Family Gallery when it opened in 2000.
How He Got Here
Quasimodo was towed ashore in Westport, MA, stripped and buried in the sand as a way to clean the bones. To check on the progress of this cleaning process, the bones were unburied and reburied twice.
Preparation and Display
Once the bones were cleaned, they were placed on the roof of the Museum for drying and bleaching by the sun. After three years the bones were assembled and displayed. Quasi has been moved and reposed three times as the layout of the Museum has changed.
Interesting Details
Female humpbacks give birth to a single calf every 2-3 years. When born, the calf is about 14 feet long and weighs between 1 and 2 tons. Most populations of humpbacks follow a regular migration route summering in polar waters for feeding, and wintering in tropical waters for mating and calving.
Their feeding and mating grounds are close to shore. Because they are slow swimmers, humpback whales were an easy target for whalers. Their populations have recovered slowly since they received protection in 1966 and again in 1985. Humpbacks are the most acrobatic of whales and are commonly seen on local whale watch trips. Their antics include breaching, lob tailing, spy hopping, and flipper waving.


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Football: Uefa hands out first financial fair play penalties
Uefa has imposed its first financial fair play sanctions by temporarily withholding prize money from 23 clubs for failing to comply with the rules.
Europa League winners Atletico Madrid, Malaga, Sporting and Fenerbahce are among those under scrutiny.
Clubs face further investigation because of overdue payments to other clubs, employees or tax authorities.
European football's governing body introduced the rules to force clubs to operate within their means.
The 23 clubs have been given a deadline of 30 September to prove that their finances are in order.
Teams playing in all Uefa club competitions have been monitored since the start of the 2011/12 season.
The are tasked with breaking even in 2012 and 2013 and being assessed during the 2013/14 season.
Clubs under investigation:
FK Borac Banja Luka (Bosnia)
FK Sarajevo (Bosnia)
FK Zeljeznicar (Bosnia)
PFC CSKA Sofia (Bulgaria)
HNK Hajduk Split (Croatia)
NK Osijek (Croatia)
Club Atletico de Madrid (Spain)
Malaga CF (Spain)
Maccabi Netanya FC (Israel)
FK Shkendija 79 (Macedonia)
Floriana FC (Malta)
FK Buducnost Podgorica (Montenegro)
FK Rudar Pjevlja (Montenegro)
Ruch Chorzow (Poland)
Sporting Clube de Portugal (Portugal)
FC Dinamo Bucuresti (Romania)
FC Rapid Bucuresti (Romania)
FC Vaslui (Romania)
FC Rubin Kazan (Russia)
FK Partizan (Serbia)
FK Vojvodina (Serbia)
Eskisehirspor (Turkey)
Fenerbahce SK (Turkey)
Comment number 112. Posted by winstone78on 12 Sept 2012 11:56
The Financial Fair play is basically done for one thing! So UEFA make more money! It doesn't benefit UEFA unfashionable clubs, with smaller fan bases doing well in European competition. They are basically trying to cement the success of the huge clubs who bring them in £$E. This rule is sickening for me! They have completely destroyed any chance of any small clubs and their fans getting success!
Comment number 111. Posted by MarcoHon 12 Sept 2012 05:55
The problem with UEFA having financial rules is that clubs have to be in European competition for it to matter. All the clubs at the lower end of Europe's top leagues can spend to their hearts desire knowing that they will never be in Europe anyway. A club on the cusp of being in Europe needs to balance the books just in case they get there.
Comment number 110. Posted by MaRsHyon 12 Sept 2012 03:48
109 - The idea is a joke, its just so as they can paper over the cracks and say they are doing something to stop clubs going bust, which is both unmanagable and impossible to stop. There are thousands of clubs that spend more than they generate and it is simply impossible monitor them all
Comment number 109. Posted by billcarson3on 12 Sept 2012 03:06
If uefa are not looking into the completely shady man city stadium deal then this whole idea is an absolute joke. How can an owner get away with paying his own club massive (and disproportionate) amounts of money as "sponsorship" from another company that his family own?
Comment number 108. Posted by MaRsHyon 12 Sept 2012 02:56
People seem to forget about the huge deals that MC had with Etihad over stadium rights and the huge sponsorship money that MU and Chelsea pull in means they can spend big anyway. The FFP rules are a bad idea and can be impossible to track in most cases, all it will do is keep teams where they are, meaning that it will be more difficult for teams like Everton and Sunderland to break into the elite
Comment number 107. Posted by paulon 11 Sept 2012 23:11
oh I'm not sure if i can comment?
but why have chelsea and man city spent so much ? sorry i forgot man u ... but they,ve never broken rules i'm sure
Comment number 106. Posted by paulon 11 Sept 2012 23:00
So there is no justice as we've always know Chelsea and the 2 Manchester clubs are too strong to be punished! So wait for it ! Anyone but the top clubs will be punished!!!!!!
Comment number 105. Posted by theargentinianjudgeon 11 Sept 2012 22:38
The reason Chelsea, CIty, United et al are not on the list is that these are clubs who have outstanding Tax bills and owe other clubs money. Not something that these clubs are accused of.
This was always going to be the most transparent and therefore easier FFP ruling to enforce.
Any punishment for overspending or living above your means, will not come into force until 2014.
Comment number 104. Posted by WelshHopefulon 11 Sept 2012 22:23
Why aren't Chelsea, Manchester United and Manchester City in the above group of fined clubs?
Comment number 103. Posted by KelitcConneKtionon 11 Sept 2012 21:27
Should help to make the "top"European clubs even more unassailable.
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ORLANDO, Fla., March 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Orlando, Fla., is known for theme parks and sun, but beginning Monday, surgeons from countries such as South Korea, Chile, Turkey, and Italy will come to Orlando for a different reason. They will be attending the World Robotic Urology Symposium to learn the latest about robotic surgery.
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Oven temperature at 8:00am 425 degrees: Pan of blueberry muffins (elevated on a Tuscan Grill), a Chicago Style deep dish pizza - using left over ingredients from the previous evening, and a Stromboli. All turned out very well and golden brown.
I choose to elevate certain things to prevent burning the bottom:
Roasted Turkey - Stats:
Oven Temperature: 375 degrees (cheap oven thermometer on the floor) Actual floor temperature estimated at 400+ degrees. (I forgot to take that reading).
Door Temperature: 300
Turkey: 10.9 pound Butterball. Whole Onion and celery stuffed in both cavities. Rubbed with butter & seasonings. Wireless meat thermometer inserted into the breast.
Steel Roaster covered and elevated off the floor with a Tuscan Grill
Cook time: In at 1025 hours out: 1325 hours. 3 hours elapsed cooking time
Internal reading at 1105 hours. 30 minutes elapsed time: 160 Degrees. Wireless thermometer reinserted into the breast. New reading 93 degrees.
1325 hours wireless temperature reading 208 degrees. Second (handheld) meat thermometer confirms 208 degrees.
Note: Turkey is done at 175 internal breast temperature; 180 degrees in the thigh. Generally roasted at 15/20 minute per pound at 325 degrees.
I had to leave unexpectedly during roasting, but I speculate that it was done at about 2.5 hours of roasting.
Conclusion: Success! I'm glad I used a Butterball Turkey. The pre-brine must have saved the bird, because it wasn't dry. Covering the bird is necessary. It was nice and brown. I think because it was elevated, the dome heat played a significant role. Afterwards I did a pan of stuffing in a steel pan right on the floor for about an hour, and a pan of foccasia elevated on the grill. Both worked very well.
I elected to start roasting the turkey at 375 in thinking that I should compensate for temperature drop. But this wasn't the case. I speculate I could have waited until the oven dropped to 325 and roasted for a longer time.
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She was the wife of Mr.Vehbi Koc and Mother of the Rahmi Koc.The famous richest family of Turkey.When Sadberk Hanim Passed away her husband founded a Foundation and converted their old mansion as a museum.The museum includes collection of Sadberk hanim.
The Vehbi Koç Foundation Sadberk Haným Museum occupies two separate buildings. The original building is a three-story (plus an attic) wooden mansion that is generally believed to have been built in the late 19th century and whose architecture was inspired by European vernacular traditions. The building, constructed of wood and lathe-and-plaster on a masonry foundation, was known as the "Azeryan Yalýsý" or "Azeryan Yalý".
The building was purchased by the Koç family in 1950 and was used by them as a summer-house until the decision to convert it into a museum was taken in 1978. The conversion to a museum was carried out between 1978 and 1980 according to a restoration project that had been prepared by Sedat Hakký Eldem. It opened its doors to the public on October 14th 1980 with the Sadberk Koç collection on display.
The Azeryan Yalý occupies 400 square meters of space set in grounds measuring a total of 4,280 square meters in all. On the ground floor is a gift shop and a small tea room. The ceiling over the main entrance (which is no longer used) is decorated with plaster moldings inspired by ancient Roman architecture. Wooden stairways lead to the upper floors. The walls are painted so as to resemble veined marble. The centrally located main halls of the second and third floors and the rooms opening onto them are used for display purposes. The attic is used for storage and also contains offices and a library. The crossed wooden moldings decorating the exterior give the building a distinctive appearance quite different from that of its neighbors. It is because of these molded facades that the building was for a long time popularly known as the "Threaded Yalý".
In 1983 the Vehbi Koç Foundation purchased the Hüseyin Kocabaþ collection for the Sadberk Haným Museum. It was decided to purchase and restore a semi-dilapidated yalý adjacent to it to house these new acquisitions. The facade of this second yali, which is thought to have been constructed in the early part of this century, was faithfully reconstructed according to the original. The restoration project was prepared by Ýbrahim Yalçýn and the work, including the construction of the museum, took two years to complete. This museum, which was opened on October 24th 1988, was given the name the "Sevgi Gönül Wing". It houses works from the pre-Islamic period. In 1988 it was awarded the Europa Nostra award as an outstanding example of modern museum architecture and design.
This wing is completely constructed of reinforced concrete. The front is clad in wood while the side is clad in marble stucco treated to resemble wood. (This was done as a precaution against fire.) The building has three stories in the front and four at the back, including the ground floor on which are located a multi-purpose hall and conservation laboratory. Archaeological objects are displayed in chronological order on the main and other floors. The total exhibition space is 625 square meters. The entrance floor is paved in white Afyon marble while black Adapazari marble was used for the floors of the exhibition spaces and the stairs. All the exhibition areas are sealed off from daylight and the display cases are illuminated in keeping with modern museum techniques.
The earliest centuries of Islamic art are a period in which different cultural influences make themselves felt and in which a distinctive and original style eventually emerges into which new techniques have been incorporated.
Most of the metalware produced during the Early Islamic period consists of cast bronze vessels manufactured in Iran and Mesopotamia. In addition to ewers derived from Sasanian prototypes having a pear-shaped body and a palmette-shaped knob or a thumb-rest shaped like an animal-head, another type of ewer with a globular body, handles decorated with a row of beads, and a pomegranate-shaped thumb-rest was developed during this period.
The most important innovation in pottery-making was the application of the luster technique (which had originally been developed by Egyptian glassmakers) to pottery by Iraqi potters. In addition to sgraffito-decorated pottery in Iran, slip~decorated bowls begin incorporating Kufic inscriptions, stylized birds, and figures and palmettes in the Sasanian style make an appearance in the 10th century, especially in Nishapur and Samarkand.
Syrian and Egyptian glassmakers produced simple, undecorated wares for everyday use by means of manufacturing techniques dating back to Roman times. High-quality luxury items of cut glass decorated with luster and enamel were also produced however. Glassware decorated with relief-cut floral and figurative motifs and calligraphy in the Sasanian tradition were produced in Iran and Mesopotamia
During Ottoman times, a great distinction was made between the garments that women wore indoors and outdoors. Around the beginning of the 16th century, women's outdoor clothing consisted of ferace (overmantle), yaþmak (light-colored veil), and peçe (black veil). Winter overmantles were made of wool while those worn in summer were of silk. They had full sleeves and wrapped the body very loosely. Opening in the front, their lengths reached the ground. During the 18th century, trimmed collars were added to the overmantle. Over the years, the lengths of the "collars" varied, sometimes reaching as far as the lower hem as during the reign of Mahmud 11. During the second half of the 19th century skirt fronts were cut round and were fastened with a single button. Edges were embellished with pleating. Overmantle colors played an important role during Ottoman times: Muslim women wore red, blue, or green feraces while those worn by non-Muslim women were of paler shades.
Yaþmaks were made from a fine, soft, white fabric and consisted of two parts: one that was wrapped about the head covering it to the eyebrows and another that covered the lower part of the face to just the bridge of the nose.
The çarþaf, a baggy outer garment, is a fairly late addition to the Ottoman woman's wardrobe, having been introduced from Syria after 1872. Made from two long pieces of cloth joined together and fastened in pleats at the waist with a drawstring, it was worn together with a transparent veil over the face. This innovation did not always meet with approval; Sultan Abdiilhamid 11 for example expressly forbade the women of his palace to wear it. The baggy Çarþaf was in some cases replaced by a two-piece affair consisting of a skirt and cape.
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Born March 11 in Japan and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Raichlen graduated in 1975 from Reed College with a Bachelor of Arts in French literature. He received a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship to study medieval cooking in Europe, and was offered a Fulbright Scholarship to study comparative literature. He trained at Le Cordon Bleu and La Varenne cooking schools in Paris. Raichlen lives with his wife, Barbara, in Coconut Grove, Florida and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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Mashing up your favorite songs really does pay … 'cause "Glee" star Lea Michele just bought a new house in the L.A. area for $1.4 million. Don't stop believing!
Michele picked up the 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom house earlier this month. It features a solar-heated salt-water pool, a master suite with French doors and a custom bath with steam shower and tumbled Carrara marble (whatever that is).
The place also has a ton of closet space … you know … to fit the vast majority of "Glee" fans.
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Here is your 2011 NCAA Corvallis Regional Day 3 Recap.
Georgia 5 Creighton 4 (11 innings)
CORVALLIS, ORE. — Georgia stormed back to eliminate 25th-ranked Creighton 5-4 in 11 innings Sunday to advance to the regional championship round of the NCAA Corvallis Regional at Goss Stadium. Continue reading 2011 NCAA Corvallis Regional: Day 3 Recap


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Blue one, yeah. And I swear it could even heal/fix some stuff! I think vehicles, or maybe just the mutants.
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Blue one, yeah. And I swear it could even heal/fix some stuff! I think vehicles, or maybe just the mutants.
That Item Frame could be a screenshot.
Now if they were to despawn because of distance I would feel treated unfairly :( I mean the dash to the left over stuff after dieing is part of the fun.
Why do these sort of games only start updating AFTER there are good commercial alternatives appearing? Same with UFO AI...
I don't really agree, but hey, poking fun at notch? I am in.
Sadly, I can only Upgrade my system only by half and half instead of component for component. I.E. Just when I think of upgrading RAM/Mainboard, there are higher clockrates which makes it necessary to switch both, and then there is mainboard and CPU again...
Ha! If you want to make a game, you better think twice before using BSP Maps and Id Tech 1 as an engine.
Phew. This is a bit tough on me. Nobody minds if I am not holding my breath for this one, right?
I can't read this, it is Love MMO all over again D:
nah, kidding. But don't over use it please please.
You guys do know about diggles, right? You could take some ideas from that game. I dare to say that your game is kind of a spiritual successor to it, which is partly fault why I am so hyped about your game :D
And if that don't work: Use more chicken.
Too lazy as in they should put effort in the modding niche instead of other things like finishing the game or insert content?
I see that with mixed feeling, I'd rather have all possible energy first put in to the original project instead.
lol, you just confessed that your opinion can be buyed, I better be carefull if you suddenly start praising something xD
Acid-FPS, that's how I am going to start calling them. Now that the definition is out of the way: I still don't really feel like playing any other Acid-FPS than Quake Live. The HD and prettys is cool, but unless it has something really new/different gameplaywise, I guess I'll pass.
Mutators are noted down, didn't hit the spot.
Last time I checked-in in Facebook, I was still in control of what personal information I give away, and to whom.
Haha, First April, good one :D
Oh, it is the fourth already? Well, I guess I can get up my hope again :)
Frozen Synapse works similar I think.
Multiplayer is quite buggy, we had our fun yesterday with "respawning" blocks :D
I can't help but feel that this stage totally reminded me of canabalt :D
Looks interessting, want that bruce lee one :D
I'll be an astronoaught, a very naughty one as well :D
I don't feel like vote for a game I haven't kind of "executed", but I like the Iron Grip universe and there is a lack of decent tactical games like this, so here you go.
Ah, forget what I wrote, the moddb folks thought that through. One of these days I'll understand how indidb and moddb connects.
Won't vote on the MoTy side, only IotY. Lets be fair ;)
Great that this mod is live again, here is my vote for the moty ;)
A weird to bad Review. And get with the times, you think indie folks get retail deals that easy? Not that it would make much sense anyway. There is paypal as a purchase option, maybe you don't need a credit card for that purchase. Or just get yourself one (so much for getting with times).
Last but not least, purchase options don't belong in a game rating. Even if you have to sacrifice a virgin on the fourth moon, if it is a good game, it is a good game. Those are topics on their own.
P.S.: Great for giving Managed Programming a chance, Can you tell us if you've gotten yourself a sourcecode license? And do you intend to write in jScript or in C#?


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REVIEW: Skinner completes all 11 of his passes
2008 CFN EagleBank Bowl Preview
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Player Profiles, Histories, & More
It's not a tough equation for
Navy and its style. If it
doesn't win the running battle
and it doesn't control the
clock, it's not going to win too
many games. Wake Forest
outgained the Midshipmen 239 to
221 on the ground and held the
ball for 30:07 to 29:53. The
talent level isn't there to beat
BCS conference teams if
everything turns out to be even.
Navy's offense sputtered a bit
in the first half, but the
defense did a great job of
holding the Demon Deacons down.
Once the running game didn't
control things in the second
half, the defense started to
wear down a bit and wasn't as
effective. Wake Forest had time
to prepare for the Navy offense
and the defense did a great job
of being disciplined, and the
offense was mistake-free in the
second half and Skinner was
flawless. Navy had to dominate
offensively and force turnovers
defensively and couldn't do
either. -
2) The play of the game: Wake
Forest's Alphonso Smith picks
off a lazy pass from Kaipo-Noa
Kaheaku-Enhada at the Wake 2,
late in the first half, with
Navy looking to build on its
13-0 lead. Had Navy increased
its lead to 16-0, Wake probably
would have stayed on the canvas.
The Demon Deacons were horribly
flat and listless for the first
26 minutes of play, but when
they got a get-out-of-jail-free
card, they finally began to care
about this contest. By the end
of the game, Wake--not Navy--was
flying around the field with
reckless abandon. One important
interception turned the tide in
RFK Stadium. -
3) Where was
Kevin Harris all season? Wake
Forest sure chose an odd time to
turn the junior into the
workhorse of the ground game.
After struggling all year to
establish a running game and
ranking 100th
nationally, the Deacons gave the
start to Harris in the EagleBank
Bowl, his first since 2006. He
responded by running for 136
tough yards, the school's
highest total in over a year, on
24 carries. While Harris doesn't
have the elusiveness of Josh
Adams or the big-play potential
of Brandon Pendergrass, he's got
a physical, north-south running
style that simply wore out the
Navy defense in the second half.
If Wake can solve its problems
on the offensive line, the
returns of Harris, Adams, and
Pendergrass in 2009 mean the
running game should get back to
being among the most productive
in the ACC. -
Richard Cirminiello
4) Even in defeat, the nation
got to see why first-year coach
Ken Niumatalolo is such a good
steward of Navy football. With
38 seconds left in regulation,
Navy trailed 29-19 but had the
ball at the Wake 32. It was at
this point that Niumatalolo made
the kind of move few coaches
(Mike Holmgren in Super Bowl XL,
cough, cough) are smart enough
to make. He ordered a long field
goal attempt. With a made kick,
Navy would have had half a
minute to recover an onside kick
and still mount an attempt at a
game-tying touchdown. While most
coaches chase the touchdown to
the very end of a game,
Niumatalolo thought about
winning (or at least tying).
Yes, the long field goal was no
good, but that shouldn't take
away from the quality of the
decision. Moves like that have
defined the first Polynesian
head coach to don the
headsets in FBS competition.
Navy will continue to win with
Ken Niumatalolo pacing the
sidelines in Annapolis. -
5). Now that Alphonso Smith and
Aaron Curry have completed their
brilliant careers in
Winston-Salem, look for junior
CB Brandon Ghee to be the next
star of the Wake Forest defense.
Overshadowed by his teammates
the last two seasons, Ghee
showed in the EagleBank Bowl why
pro scouts are already drooling
at the prospects of getting
their hands on him. A solid 6-0
and 191 pounds, he's got legit
4.3 speeds and a proven track
record as a top cover guy. A
game against Navy, however, also
shined a light on his ability to
defend the run and deliver the
payload. An intimidating hitter
by cornerback standards, Ghee
had six tackles and 1.5 tackles
for loss, while seemingly always
being around the ball. He's
already getting favorable
projections from NFL types, and
could shoot all the way up to
the first day if he returns to
school and spends a full season
as the headliner of the Deacon
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Tag Archives: Artists
Giulio Romano
Giulio Romano was one of the most important, versatile, and influential artists of the Italian late Renaissance style known as Mannerism. As the primary protégé of Raphael, he inherited his master's studio at the papal court following Raphael's death in 1520 and initially continued to work in Raphael's Roman High Renaissance style. But as his personal style matured, he became one of the great 16th-century Mannerist painters and architects. An artistic impresario in the service of Duke Federico Gonzaga in Mantua, Giulio built and decorated the Palazzo Te, one of the key monuments of Mannerism. His renown in the sixteenth-century was such that he was the only Italian Renaissance artist to be mentioned by Shakespeare, who called him "that rare Italian master." Wikipedia
Banquet of Cupid and Psyche, 1527-30
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Sherwin Of Prague
Sherwin isn't a professional artists. He simply enjoys his work. So do I.
I like Sherwin's drawings because he focuses on healthy, everyday men. His models are usually guys he knows and his friends. He gives us thoughtful images of men with that render the simple and complex nuances of the male body.
Sherwin was born in 1973 in Prague, where, after spending few years in south Bohemia, studied architecture at Czech Technical University in Prague. After graduating is when he discovered his love for figurative drawing.
He specializes in the male figure, finding the male physique very inspirational. Another reason he focuses on the male form is because he feels the female figure is explored and presented by many, many other artists.
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Chinese Artist Mu Boyan
Mu Boyan was born in 1976 in Jinan, Shandong Province of China. Mu graduated from the Sculpture Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts with master's degree in 2005. In 2003, Mu Boyan displayed his series work, "Bath Center" in the public bath house of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. It is said, that group of sculpture was accepted to make for a bath center a job for living. After that, Mu Boyan has concentrated continuously on portraying the images of a fat person.
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A Work of Art
Jean Delville was born in Louvain in 1867 and died in 1953. Delville considered art to play a key role in uplifting people from their blindness. He saw true artists as initiates who would present images which would teach and transform human nature. It is believed that Delville saw artists as priests and prophets.
The School of Plato, 1898
A beautiful work of art, no one could deny that. But is it also a statement?
Most of us have certain religious or spiritual beliefs. What many do not consider is that some of those beliefs are rooted in perspectives that were conceived in the minds of autocrats many centuries ago. We don't think about what has been left out of the Bible, or what may have been altered to fit the dogma of those autocrats. That dogma included the notion that the human body, and intimate male interaction, was shameful.
Perhaps it's time to contemplate a new perspective. Did Jesus see things differently from what we've been led to believe? I, for one, like to think so. The human body, in this case the male, is nothing short of miraculous creation. Is it possible Jesus saw it the same way, that He believed the body should be enjoyed and celebrated?
Here are closer views of the detail in Delville's painting:
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Homoerotic Art
From HUFFPOST, by David Leddick
Do You Hate Homoerotic Art? Is It the Art, or Is It You?
Did you think homoeroticism in art was just a late-20th-century phenomenon, that artists like Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Weber, and many others were something new under the sun?
When the European publishing house Bruno Gmünder asked me to create a new book of art featuring male nudes, for my introduction I decided to search for surprising works by well-known artists of the past. My new book is called Gorgeous Gallery and features more graphic and edgy art than do any of my past collections. But now that the collection is finished and ready to be published, I got to thinking: is this art really that edgy, historically speaking?
Maybe it only feels like it pushes the limits here in America, because of so much political hoo-ha from Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, and their noisemakers, as they flood the airwaves trying to frighten us all. I don't write political diatribes, but I am anti-prude.
If you follow my books and my blog, you know I am all about celebrating our new, 21st century — and rejecting those who want to pull us back into the past. I was born in 1930, and take it from me: we do not want to go back there. A lot of us over 65 don't avoid sex as we get older. (I call our group the "sextennials." Do you like my new term?) We don't yearn for the past. If everyone else did the same, wouldn't the world be better?
But are these "conservatives" really resisting a very modern trend, as they say they are? They should just forget it. We all might as well face it: homoerotic art did not break loose in the 20th century; it has been with us always, no matter how the art experts might choose to interpret it. Many in our society, and in the art world, do not like to admit that a work of art can be of a very high level and still be homoerotic — erotic, maybe, but homoerotic? Horrors! Sorry, we may be able to excuse those flat-fronted Egyptians, but all those Greek Eros representations created for centuries weren't made to turn on the ladies.
Sure, fine art can come under the heading of pornography if your definition of pornography is "sexually arousing." That's hard to deal with in the ever-so-repressive United States. Now porn is something that comes in a plain wrapper and that, more and more, you search for on your computer. Well, pre-Internet, you used to find these things on the walls of famous museums (you still do) and in public statues. Are you going to try to tell me that Michelangelo's "David" is not sexy in all that nakedness? Come on.
Since it is dawning on us that fine art can be sexy, and because we are in such a hyper-political frenzy, soon Republicans are bound to start demanding yet again that certain kinds of art be taken out of exhibits, claiming that the art is "offensive." The Smithsonian in Washington went through this song and dance not too long ago, and it just made them look silly and out of it.
Homoerotic Art Through the Ages
Certainly way back when, the ancients knew that art could turn you on. Of course, they probably didn't think of "fine art" and "popular art." They probably didn't even think of it as "art." The statues of naked young men that must have been everywhere in public places were certainly to honor the beauty of these young men. And in addition to their beauty, they were also sexual. Beauty and sex operate in the same area and on the same plane. And certainly we know that Greek men much admired the beauty and sexiness of younger men. Their pottery reveals that fooling around was an essential part of their culture. The Greeks, and later the Romans, did not, of course, have our contemporary notion that there is something wrong with sex and that it is inextricably locked in with feeling guilty. The fact that they had all those athletic meets where men wandered about naked tells you that the public liked to take a look — the public that did not include any women, who were all at home. However, the female nude was equally displayed in public as statuary, and certainly for the very same reasons. Sex was in the air, and all the time.
Depicting hot guys went very much out of style with the fall of the Roman Empire and those dark, dark ages that pretty much lasted until the Renaissance. But when in the 1400s in Italy they began to dig up those sexy statues, art got a whole new head start. Artists not only copied the work of the past but sometimes imitated it and tried to pass it off as from the earlier time. Michelangelo was much inspired by the classic period, and anyone who has closely observed the Sistine Chapel can see that it is jammed with paintings of very hot guys (and the women look very much like men). Art historians excuse this by saying women were not available to pose nude. I wonder.
History seems to repeat itself, because after all those male nudes were on view, both in art and around town, suddenly the Catholic popes insisted that a lot of fig leaves be painted over the offending male regions. Some popes even sent off crusading mobs to chop off the winkies from sexy statues. But it is still obvious that these men were supposed to be sexy. They didn't all have to have their clothes off. Anyone who has read the graphic novels of Teo Jodorowsky has seen that he imagines an affair between the pope of that period and Michelangelo, even depicting the two men in bed repeating the pose of God creating Adam with a touch of his finger.
When we move on to the period of Peter Paul Rubens, who painted a ton of work with the assistance of helpers, we see religious paintings still offering us homoerotic titillation. In his "The Enthroned Madonna Surrounded by Saints" there is a near-naked saint in the foreground being given some special attention by an admirer/persecutor in black armor. The saint seems to be relishing it. This kind of naked image was certainly to show off somebody with a great and sexy body. And again, I don't think it was for the ladies of the time.
The French Revolution brought another burst of interest in naked men in paintings, harking back to the distant Greek past. The men who led the revolution loved being likened to those long-ago heroes. Painters like David and Girodet and Girard created a large number of works for public view with lots of naked guys. Girodet's "Revolt in Cairo" has a central figure of a splendid, nude Egyptian guard defending his swooning leader, almost every square inch of his fabulous body on display. Most of the artists of that time were trained in Rome, and their training included much viewing of the male nude (which is rumored to have taken place in their homes quite often).
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MSc Technology Enhanced Learning
You will be taught through a series of lectures and seminars and supported by Study Guide resources, which include preparation for and follow up to teaching activities. This directed independent work is an important part of the course, while lectures enable the ideas of each module to be considered. Seminar work will enable you to develop your understanding of these ideas and discuss them in a range of professionally relevant contexts. Activities in seminars include a variety of active learning approaches including discussion, group work, presentations, question and answer sessions, and individual tasks. Preparation for the assignment will involve wide reading and critical reflection on the main concepts of the programme.
You will take four taught modules (each worth 30 credits): two specialised core modules in Technology Enhanced Learning, a research method module, and an optional module. In addition, there is a supervised dissertation (60 credits).
The specialised core modules are:
Improving Computer Education
This module will give you an appreciation of industrial software development practices so that you can help teachers develop better strategies for selecting the type of technology to use in an educational setting, and to help them apply and use realistic case studies that support computing education.
21st Century Technology
In this module you will explore the different ways of understanding the origins, limitations, and possible consequences of the educational uses of technology.
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Now it's time to make the interlace TV lines, the alternating horizontal lines that identify a television as being a hooky device from the past as it turns out. Anyway notice right here inside the Layers palette, there is a layer called Orig Line that's the original line upon which we are going to base our interlacing lines. I want you to press the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac and click the Eyeball in front of this layer so that we are seeing only this layer and nothing else inside the composition.
Then I want you to zoom into this image, quite a bit actually you want to zoom pretty far in. So that we can see this 3 pixel tall line as it turns out, go ahead and get your rectangular marquee tool here. And then start dragging right at the top of the line like this and notice it's 1, 2, 3 pixels tall. So I want you to move your cursor 1, 2, 3 more pixels down so that you get 3 pixels worth of green line and 3 pixels worth of transparency that checkerboard pattern by the way indicates the transparent portion of the layer.
Now don't worry about the fact that I haven't and you don't need to either, I haven't selected the entire width of the line. It's only important that you get just a little bit of it, any width will do as it turns out. The height is the more important element. So as I say you want to make sure that you select all the line height wise and 3 pixels below it and just to confirm that your Selection Outline is exactly 6 pixels tall, I would like you to bring up the Info Palette. And for me I am going to click on this little (i) icon here on the right side of my screen, you could also choose the Info Command from the Window menu or press the F8 key.
And then notice you will see a W and H value, the W value being the width of your selection, you don't care about that as it turns out and height value being the height of the selection, and that should be 6 pixels that's very important. Alright so once you have gotten the selection outline the right size, go ahead and press the F8 key in order to hide the Info Palette. Then I am going to go up to the Edit menu and I am going to choose this command right here Define Pattern which will define the selection as a repeating pattern. And I will call this pattern interlacing and click OK in order to accept it.
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A sandbox game is a game with a nonlinear game play mode. That's the textbook definition.
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Build, buy, craft (ok I hate crafting, but the facility should be there for others to make me things to buy, lol), set up my own businesses for profit and/or freight commodoties to other towns to trade for profits, research new things to make, gather resources. Tame my own riding mounts and pets, explore anywhere I want in a world not run on rails, have NPCs remember me and my good/bad actions to shape my storyline. That's just for starters.
Eve Online is the one and only game I've found that approaches that, though not in every regard obviously. If there was a Fantasy MMO equivalent made by the same company I'd drop all other games and play that.
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Joined: 10/04/10
For me, a Sandbox is akin to playing with lego. The developers give you the pieces and you build what you want. The limit is my imagination.
A themepark is going to lego land.
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Originally posted by Orenshii
Those are mechanics and they can be used in any type of game. It's the implementation that determines the difference.
World PVP - Done for leaderboards and rankings, it's a themepark feature. As part of a larger territorial control system that affects the game economy and politics it now has sandbox style gameplay to it.
Skill progression - Done with class restriction, it's a themepark feature. Done as an open-ended system allowing players to fit the character to their playstyle/interests it becomes more sandboxy.
Rocks that run out of ore - Kind of a crazy thing to bring up, but again it's something that is just a mechanic that can be used for systems in either direction.
Terraforming - in most cases, this is the definition of sandbox, as nothing is more sandboxy that building things in the sand. :)
Life without hunting mobs - Yes, there's probably some themepark MMOs where you don't kill things to progress. In most, though, you'd have to actively work against the design of the game to do it, as the game is made to lead you along a path of killing.
BTW, can you give examples of the themepark style MMOs with terraforming and skill-based systems? It would go a long way toward showing you how each is implemented and what systems they support.
Something to remember is that there are both themepark and sandbox features in every MMO. They are two of the three main components that make up an MMO, social being the third. Each game tends to lean more heavily toward one or two of the three components with the other feature(s) being only a minor part of gameplay.
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To me, the definitive sandbox game is Minecraft. You can modify the terrain and build anything, anywhere. Sky cities, underwater cities, under mountain cities, or blimps. There are very few limits within the confines of the game and Minecraft is still a game in itself, unlike Garry's Mod or Second Life where the user isn't so much playing a game as using an application to build stuff that may or may not be part of a game.
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Joined: 6/10/07
a sandbox to my definition contains three very apparent things.
1.) a massively open world. Few or no invisible walls. The world includes unique and varied landmarks, climates, flora and or fauna. The world seems alive and vibrant < aka not like tor>. Now i have to be careful here cause some theme parks do a really excellent job of making their cubed worlds feel very immersive and alive so the open world also means little to no instancing.
2.) player crafting/enonomy...it doesn't have to be as conveluded and boring as eve..but crafting should play a role in that the game doesn't just shovel gear at players. Crafting can encompass simple resource gather and recipies to constructing player housing or vehicles.
3.) non instanced player housing...now bare with me because in some genres it make sno sense to have a house...aka surivial mmo etc. However when housing IS implemented it should act as its own metagame, providing community access, it's own niche economy etc. It can be minimalistic or very involved. This ties into user generated content and crafting providing other avenues of economic success.
4.) open world consensual pvp....where alot of sandboxes fail regardless of whether others want to admit it is open world non consensual pvp, Part of a sandbox is immersion..but punishing players with full loot loss is just a real retardant to player retention.there are a few exceptions where risk should be incurred to offset gankfesting.
those to me are the basic pillars of a sanbox. there is the option for a hybring sandbox/themepark mmo, hwever it shoudl not strongarm people into questing or gear grinds. The ones that got the most right in these discussion points in my eyes are vanguard and SWG. To me eve regardless to how much many on here love the game failed. Yes it has a strong player base but it presents a space mmo as a cold, ravenous world with little inclusion of the dreaded casual player. I was a casual player in swg for the life of the game...i never felt pressured to loging for hours on end to mine something, or grind skills and the environment never intentionally put me to sleep...it was space in a realisticsetting but fun. Vanguard truly had player housing done right....the closest theme parks come to me is free realms and eq2...maybe a close thirdrift. Even though free realms is instanced they have the ability to display your housing to the public, and the building toold are very intuative.
so say we all
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Joined: 4/15/07
Means nothing to me...to be fair Theme park means nothing to me either...I game where I find fun..
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I'm increasingly convinced that 'sandbox' just has to mean 'my game is better than your game' in some obscure ancient language, because frankly that's the only meaning it has the bulk of the time it's used around here.
Every single one of the games routinely trotted out as 'sandboxes' are so similar to the much-derided 'themeparks' that the amount of effort and handwaving that goes into trying to draw distinctions quickly surpasses the laughable. And games that might meaningfully be called 'sandbox' -- a category pretty much limited to Second Life, Minecraft, Gary's Mod, et al -- are inevitably barely what you can reasonably call games exactly because of their sandbox nature.
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Joined: 3/05/07
Sandbox = NO Bloody instances..
10+ years ago when instancing first came about, it seems like the right thing to do, but now.. I think it was a Pandor's box.. I think instancing has caused more harm to MMORPG gaming then anything since.. I also believe that having limited raid sizes and lockouts also damaged the brand.. Everything today just feels like a closed world of lobby games.. :(
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Originally posted by Orenshii
That's simply because a true sandbox game does not exist. We are so entrenched in our old ways that's progress is slower then it needs to be. The idea of a game in which you simply play your part is what a sandbox is. You don't do what your told, you do what you want within a world with laws made by the hands of men. The only difference between a sandbox and life is how comprehensive the system is. It's calls a sandbox because of that. They called WoW a world all the time, didn't make it one.
If a butterfly learnt to speak, to live in human society, paid its bills, had a job, lived in a fancy house and married a human, is it human?
Now what if that same butterfly knew how to write code better than any human and had years of experience in the game industry, would that make it a game designer?
If u wouldn't let a construction worker design your house, then why let a programmer design your world?
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Originally posted by Rydeson
I don't view the fact that they are instances to negate the mechanics and content within. I agree, that often instances are used to insulate scripted content for themepark gameplay, but not all instanced areas are designed for that purpose.
What are your thoughts on the housing instances in Free Realms? They're basically big rooms for building and constructing content to play on and around with other people. Another example would be the housing instances in Puzzle Pirates, which are another customizable environment for player events and gatherings.
Both are instances designed to accommodate creative gameplay and foster interactive gameplay, two goals that are common to sandboxed focused content.
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I first heard the word "sandbox" used to describe games like GTA. The thought was that instead of giving you a set path to follow, the developers were giving you a virtual "sandbox" to play around in and see what happens. Interestingly, I think this could apply to just about any MMO by that loose, older definition. These days, in the context of MMOs, it seems to specifically refer to games that stray from the kind of tacit (or occasionally overt) pathing that many MMOs provide. These MMOs are often described as "themepark" games. Yes, you can do whatever you wish in them, but there are specific benchmarks you need to hit to progress, scripted quests that appear exactly the same for every single player in the game ("attractions," if you will), and an "endgame," which is reached when one has traveled the full path of their characters evolution from start to an arbitrarily set finish point (max level, max stats, max gear etc).
So when people are clamoring for a "sandbox" MMO, I think they're often asking for less game, more virtual world.
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Lok.. I'm all for housing instancing in games.. In fact I love how EQ2 did it, and wish they went either further then they did.. I think there sould be 10+ different options of houses, and guild halls.. SWG had a great concept, but due to minimal restrictions and guidelines it was abused.. When i was refering to instance I was only thinking of that overused overplayed dungeons and raids.. Crafting should be open world as well and restrictive like it was in EQ (with a few tweaks)
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Originally posted by Rydeson
Yeah, the dungeon and raid instances solved several 'social' problems while introducing a whole new set of problems of their own. :)
There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
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It's tough to describe what a sandbox should be without dropping game titles. Like if I were to explain what's necessary for a sandbox to be successful, I'd say SWG or Ultima Online. These games had their flaws, of course. But you cannot take away the fact that these games taught us the meaning of "Sandbox". It is creating a game that gives the players the tools to create their own content. (A bunch of RP tools, Housing, Economy, Unrestricted skills/classes, and most importantly to develop mechanics for players to always be able to mold their own fun. Hence the term "sandbox".
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"Ideas are worthless. The only currency that holds any weight is the ability and drive to execute."
I prefer the k.i.s.s. philosophy.
Sandbox is a game with no quest hubs (although there may still be thousands of quests).
People try to over-define sandbox by adding things like pvp and player housing. Just clouds the issue.
Luckily, i don't need you to like me to enjoy video games. -nariusseldon.
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A Sandbox MMO has NO defined goals. It is a world where players are given the tools to make thier own fun (you know, like a sandbox). Ultima Online at launch was a sandbox. There were no levels, there were no quests. There were just players and creatures in a world and players invented their own fun and their own goals within the world.
"The MMO where everything's player-made and the points don't matter."
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Sandbox game for me is a game where you do what you want to do and not what other people wants you to do.
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Gaming should be about fun, not gender equality.
For me sandbox means go anywhere and do whatever you want (within reason) and still feel like you are progressing.
In other words quest hub, level bracketted zones are not sandbox.
Now to have that you usually need no levels, or less emphasis on levels, and more on skills and attributes.
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Joined: 3/04/08
"Sandbox" is an inprecise term that is virtually meaningless. It is about as descriptive a term as "nice."
It is often used here to describe games that emphasize elements that are generally time-consuming, unrewarding and appeal to a small sub-set of gamer for whom micromanaging detail is fun. The more painfully detailed the crafting is and the more interior-decorating options available, the better and the more likely the game is to be annointed with the S word. A certain amount of harsh treatment of the player--especially with severe death penalties--also seems to be a required component...perhaps S&M has more mass appeal than I had ever imagined.
It is also a catch-all term used to describe games that don't feature whatever the communiity currently thinks are bad things in evil themeparks: classes, levels, quests, instances, heroism, quick-travel and, god forbid, LFG tools. In other words, there is a large amount of retro nostalgia thrown into the use of the word. A desire to return to the early days of MMOs when none of those things existed and MMOs were alledgedly more fun because of it. There were damn good reasons why all of those themeparky things were created but never you mind...they're evil.
The term has also become shorthand for some unscrupulous savy marketers as a new way to say "new and improved!" Never mind, the cheesy dated graphics and incomplete pre-alpha releases... graphics are for scrubs and "features" are for carebears!


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Mario Kart 8 becomes the fastest selling game on the Wii U
Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U is a smash hit for Nintendo, with the kart racing title becoming the fastest selling title in the history of the Wii U console. Mario Kart 8 has sold over 1.2 million copies since it launched on May 29 in Japan, and May 30 in the US and Europe.
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Tetris turns 30
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GOG announces its own DRM-free Steam-like service
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Oculus Rift exclusive game called Lucky's Tale in the works
The Oculus rift VR headset has created quite a stir in the gaming industry as people have become very excited at the thought of gaming with a virtual reality headset. A new game is in the works that will be an Oculus Rift exclusive title and it comes from the man who co-created Words with Friends, Paul Bettner.
The game is a third-person platforming adventure called Lucky's Tale and it will be displayed at E3. "Virtual reality--I mean truly accurate, comfortable virtual reality--is the most important thing to happen to interactive entertainment in decades," Bettner said in a statement. "I know it sounds like exaggeration, but it's impossible to explain what this is like to someone who hasn't experienced it for themselves. Your brain is convinced that you are somewhere else, that you are in another world. I have worked my entire career to get to this moment, to create something like this."
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Popular mobile game Temple Run tops 1 billion download mark
Popular mobile game Temple Run from Imangi Studios has been downloaded more than 1 billion times since it was released in August 2011, according to company officials. Originally developed by three people, the game has seen continued success as casual gaming still increases even higher in popularity.
Gamers have run more than 50 trillion meters in the game, playing 32 billion games, according to Keith Shepherd, co-developer of the game.
It's possible Imangi Studios, which has seen great success with Temple Run 1 and Temple Run 2, could develop a third game in the future. However, the studio currently has other mobile games currently in development, so no public announcements have been made just yet.
Sony PSP shipments to end in Japan after nearly a decade
The Sony PSP is a portable game console that has been around for years. The console originally shipped to try and put a dent in the reign of the Nintendo DS portable. Sony proved unable to really compete with the Nintendo DS, but the PSP was reasonably popular.
After nearly ten years, Sony has now announced that the PSP is no longer shipping to Japanese retailers. The final shipments of the portable will be made this month and no more will follow. Sony does expect to continue offering the PSP in other Asian countries for a while longer.
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