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Rogier van der Weyden
Rogier van der Weyden (Dutch: [roːˈɣiːr vɑn dɛr ˈʋɛi̯də(n)]) or Roger de la Pasture (1399 or 1400 – 18 June 1464) was an Early Netherlandish painter. His surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces and commissioned single and diptych portraits. Although his life was generally uneventful, he was highly successful and internationally famous in his lifetime. His paintings were exported – or taken – to Italy and Spain,[1] and he received commissions from, amongst others, Philip the Good, Netherlandish nobility and foreign princes.[2] By the latter half of the 15th century, he had eclipsed Jan van Eyck in popularity. However his fame lasted only until the 17th century, and largely due to changing taste, he was almost totally forgotten by the mid-18th century. His reputation was slowly rebuilt during the following 200 years; today he is known, with Robert Campin and van Eyck, as the third (by birth date) of the three great Early Flemish artists ('Vlaamse Primitieven'), and widely as the most influential Northern painter of the 15th century.[3]
There are few certain facts of van der Weyden's life.[4][5] What is known of him beyond this has been woven together from secondary sources, and some of it is contestable. However the paintings now attributed to him are generally accepted, despite a tendency in the 19th century to attribute his work to others.
Van der Weyden worked from life models, and his observations were acute, yet he often idealised certain elements of his models' facial features, and they are typically statuesque, especially in his triptychs. All of his forms are rendered with rich, warm colourisation and a sympathetic expression, while he is known for his expressive pathos and naturalism. His portraits tend to be half length and half profile, and he is as sympathetic here as in his religious triptychs. Van der Weyden used an unusually broad range of colours and varied tones; in his finest work the same tone is not repeated in any other area of the canvas; even the whites are varied.[6]
Early life and apprenticeship[edit]
Due to the loss of archives in 1695 and again in 1940, there are few certain facts of van der Weyden's life.[4] Rogelet de le Pasture (Roger of the Pasture) was born in Tournai (in present-day Belgium) in 1399 or 1400. His parents were Henri de le Pasture[7] and Agnes de Watrélos. He married around 1426, to Elisabeth Goffaert, and was made town painter of Brussels in 1436, and changed his name from the French to the Flemish format, becoming 'van der Weyden'.[5] The Pasture family had settled before in the city of Tournai where Rogier's father worked as a 'maître-coutelier' (knife manufacturer).
In 1426 Rogier married Elisabeth, the daughter of a Brussels shoemaker Jan Goffaert and his wife Cathelyne van Stockem. Rogier and Elisabeth had four children: Cornelius, who became a Carthusian monk, was born in 1427; a daughter Margaretha in 1432. Before 21 October 1435 the family settled in Brussels where the two younger children were born: Pieter in 1437 and Jan the next year.
From the second of March 1436 onwards he held the title of 'painter to the town of Brussels' (stadsschilder), a very prestigious post because Brussels was at that time the most important residence of the splendid court of the Dukes of Burgundy. On his move to Brussels, Rogier began using the Flemish version of his name: 'Rogier van der Weyden'.
Little is known about Rogier's training as a painter. The archival sources from Tournai were completely destroyed during World War II, but had been partly transcribed in the 19th and early 20th century. The sources on his early life are confusing and have led to different interpretations by scholars. It is known that the city council of Tournai offered wine in honour of a certain 'Maistre Rogier de le Pasture' on 17 March 1427.
However, on 5 March of the following year the records of the painters' guild show a 'Rogelet de le Pasture' entered the workshop of Robert Campin together with Jacques Daret. Records show that de le Pasture was already established as a painter.[7] Only five years later, on the first of August 1432, de le Pasture obtained the title of a 'Master' (Maistre) painter.[8]
His later entry into apprenticeship might be explained by the fact that during the 1420s the city of Tournai was in crisis and as a result the guilds were not functioning normally. The late apprenticeship may have been a legal formality. Also Jacques Daret was then in his twenties and had been living and working in Campin's household for at least a decade.
It is possible that Rogier obtained an academic title (Master) before he became a painter and that he was awarded the wine of honour on the occasion of his graduation. The sophisticated and 'learned' iconographical and compositional qualities of the paintings attributed to him are sometimes used as an argument in favour of this supposition.
The social and intellectual status of Rogier in his later life surpassed that of a mere craftsman at that time. In general the close stylistical link between the documented works of Jacques Daret, and the paintings attributed to Robert Campin and van der Weyden, are the main arguments to consider Rogier van der Weyden as a pupil of Campin.
Acclaim in Brussels[edit]
The final mention of Rogier de la Pasture in the financial records of Tournai, on 21 October 1435, lists him as demeurrant à Brouxielles ('living in Brussels'). At the same time, the first mention of Rogier de Weyden places him as the official painter of Brussels. It is this fact that puts de la Pasture and van der Weyden as one and the same painter. The post of city painter was created especially for Van der Weyden and was meant to lapse on his death. It was linked to a huge commission to paint four justice scenes for the 'Golden Chamber' of Brussels City Hall.[9] Different properties and investments are documented and witness his material prosperity. The portraits he painted of the Burgundian Dukes, their relatives and courtiers, demonstrate a close relationship with the elite of the Netherlands.
The Miraflores Altarpiece was probably commissioned by King Juan II of Castile, since Juan II donated it to the monastery of Miraflores in 1445. In the holy year 1450 Rogier quite possibly made a pilgrimage to Rome which brought him in contact with Italian artists and patrons. The House of Este and the Medici family commissioned paintings from him. The Duchess of Milan, Bianca Maria Visconti, sent her court painter Zanetto Bugatto to Brussels to become an apprentice in Rogier's workshop. Rogier's international reputation had increased progressively. In the 1450s and 1460s humanist scholars such as Nicolas Cusanus, Filarete and Bartolomeo Facio referred to him in superlatives: 'the greatest', 'the most noble' of painters.
Van der Weyden died on 18 June 1464 at Brussels, and was buried in the Chapel of St Catherine in the Cathedral of St Gudulphe.[10]
No single work can be attributed with certainty to van der Weyden on 15th-century documentary evidence alone. However, Lorne Campbell has stated that three well-authenticated paintings are known, but each has been doubted or underestimated.[11] The best documented is The Descent from the Cross in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. Campbell points out that this painting's provenance can be traced in some detail from the 16th century. The Triptych of the Virgin or Miraflores Altarpiece, since 1850 in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, was given in 1445 to the Charterhouse of Miraflores near Burgos by John II of Castile; it was described in the deed of gift as the work of great and famous Flandresco Rogel. The 'Crucifixion', now in the Escorial Palace, was donated by Rogier to the Charterhouse of Scheut outside Brussels.[11] In his catalogue raisonné of Van der Weyden's, the Belgian art historian Dirk de Vos agrees with Campbell about the authenticity of these three paintings.[12]
Rogier's apprenticeship under Campin instilled a number of preoccupations, most noticeably his approach to feminine beauty, which was often expressed both through the elegant form of the model herself as well as her dress. Both painters positioned their models within strong diagonal lines, rendered either through headdress or folds of surrounding draperies or cloth. Both emphasised the vivacity of their model's character by contrasting them against dark flat backgrounds and throwing strong light from the near left hand side. Campbell compares Campin's Thief with Rogier's Prado The Descent from the Cross in their emotional depictions of anguish. In fact the resemblance was to such an extent -compare Campin's Portrait of a Woman's similarity to Rogier's Berlin portrait, that Campin's works were for a period attributed to Rogier's early career.[13]
Relatively few works are attributed to van der Weyden's relatively long career, but this does not mean he was un-prolific, more that it is likely that many have been lost. Nonetheless, he had a very well defined style, and the majority of the attributions are generally accepted.
Van der Weyden left no self-portraits. Many of his most important works were destroyed during the late 17th century. He is first mentioned in historical records in 1427 when, relatively late in life, he studied painting under Campin during 1427–32, and soon outshone his master and, later, even influenced him.[14][15] After his apprenticeship he was made master of the Tournai Guild of St Luke. He moved to Brussels in 1435, where he quickly established his reputation for his technical skill and emotional use of line and colour. He completed his Deposition in 1435, which as he had deliberately intended, made him one of the most sought after and influential artists in northern Europe and is still considered his masterpiece.
The fragment of London National Gallery The Magdalen Reading has been described by Campbell as "one of the great masterpieces of fifteenth-century art and among Rogier's most important early works".[16] Since the 1970s, this painting has been linked to two small heads in the collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon), of Saint Catherine and of St Joseph. It is now widely believed that these three fragments came from the same large altarpiece depicting the 'Virgin and Child with Saints', partly recorded in a later drawing now in Stockholm. At some unknown date before 1811, this altarpiece was carved up into these three fragments.[17][18]
Rogier's once most famous work, The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald, which survived until the end of the 17th century, consisted of four large panels representing the Justice of Trajan and Justice of Herkenbald. These were commissioned by the City of Brussels for the Gulden Camere (Golden Chamber) of the Brussels Town Hall. The first and third panels were signed, and the first dated 1439. All four were finished before 1450. They were destroyed in the French Bombardment of Brussels in 1695, but are known from many surviving descriptions, from a free partial copy in tapestry (Bern, Historisches Museum) and from other free and partial copies in drawing and painting. The paintings probably measured ca. 4.5 m each, which was an enormous scale for a painting on panel at that time. They served as 'examples of justice' for the aldermen of the city who had to speak justice in this room. The paintings were praised or described by a series of commentators until their destruction, including Dürer (1520), Vasari (1568), Molanus (c.1570–1580), and Baldinucci (1688).[19]
In his commissioned portraits, van der Weyden typically flattered his sitters. He often idealised or softened their facial features, allowing them a handsomeness or beauty, or interest or intelligence they might not have been blessed with in life. He often enlargened the eyes, better defined the contours of the face, and gave a much stronger jaw than the subject may have possessed in life.[20]
His vigorous, subtle, expressive painting and popular religious conceptions had considerable influence on European painting, not only in France and Germany but also in Italy and in Spain. Hans Memling was his greatest follower, although it is not proven that he studied under Rogier. Van der Weyden had also a large influence on the German painter and engraver Martin Schongauer whose prints were distributed all over Europe from the last decades of the 15th century. Indirectly Schongauer's prints helped to disseminate van der Weyden's style.
Detail of the Seven Sacraments Altarpiece (1445)
St. Ivo (c. 1450), oil on oak panel, 45 x 35 cm, National Gallery, London
Calvary or Crucifixion (1457-1464), oil on oak panel, 323,5 x 192 cm, El Escorial, Madrid
- ^ Deposition was taken by Philip II of Spain
- ^ Campbell, 9
- ^ Campbell, 7
- ^ a b Campbell (1998), 392
- ^ a b Kemperdick, Stephan, Jochen Sander, Bastian Eclercy, Maître de Flémalle, and Rogier van der Weyden. 2008. The Master of Flémalle and Rogier van der Weyden. Frankfurt am Main: Städel Museum. p. 67. ISBN 9783775722599.
- ^ Campbell, 11
- ^ a b Clarke, 44
- ^ Dirk de Vos, 51
- ^ Dirk de Vos, 53
- ^ Dirk de Vos, 63
- ^ a b Lorne Campbell, "The New Pictorial Language of Rogier van der Weyden", in Rogier van der Weyden, Master of Passions, ed. Campbell & Van der Stock, 2009, 32–64
- ^ Dirk de Vos, 232, 291
- ^ Campbell (2004), 19
- ^ "Rogier van der Weyden". National Gallery, London. Retrieved 25 December 2010.
- ^ Some of his work from this period was attributed to 'Rogelet de la Pasture'
- ^ Campbell 1998, 405
- ^ Campbell 1998, 394, 398
- ^ "Bust of 'St Catherine'?; Bust of 'St Joseph'". Museu Gulbenkian. 19 April 2009. Retrieved 28 July 2009.
- ^ Dirk de Vos, 58–60
- ^ Campbell, 15
- Campbell, Lorne. Van der Weyden. London: Chaucer Press, 2004. ISBN 1-904449-24-7
- Campbell, Lorne. The Fifteenth Century Netherlandish Schools. London: National Gallery Publications, 1998. ISBN 1-85709-171-X
- Campbell, Lorne & Van der Stock, Jan. Rogier van der Weyden: 1400–1464. Master of Passions. Davidsfonds, Leuven, 2009. ISBN 978-90-8526-105-6
- Clark, Kenneth. Looking at Pictures. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1960
- Davies, Martin. Rogier van der Weyden: An Essay with a Critical Catalogue of Paintings Assigned to him and to Robert Campin, London: Phaidon, 1972. ISBN 0-7148-1516-0
- De Vos, Dirk. Rogier van der Weyden: The Complete Works. Harry N Abrams, 2000. ISBN 0-8109-6390-6
- De Vos, Dirk. The Flemish Primitives. Amsterdam University Press, 2002.
- Dhanens, Elisabeth. Rogier van der Weyden. Revisie van de documenten. Brussels: Royal Academy of Belgium, 1995.
- Dillenberger, Jane. Style and Content in Christian Art. 2nd Ed. New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 1986.
- Kemperdick, Stephan. Rogier van der Weyden. Könemann, 2000. ISBN 3-8290-2571-8
- Marzio, Peter C. A Permanent Legacy: 150 works from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1989.
- Silver Larry. "EArly Northern European Paintings". The St. Louis Art Museum Bulletin, Summer 1982. ASIN B003O5E2RK
- Snyder, James. Northern Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, The Graphic Arts from 1350 to 1575. 2nd ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc. and Pearson Education, 2005.
External links[edit]
|van der Weyden's Crucifixion Triptych, Smarthistory
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rogier van der Weyden.
- La exposición Rogier van der Weyden - Lorne Campbell on the 2015 exhibition at the Museo Nacional del Prado
- Centre for the Study of Fifteenth Century Painting in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège – complete bibliography on Rogier van der Weyden and his circle since 1984
- Gallery of works by Rogier van der Weyden
- The Netherlandish Diptych Unfolded – Exhibition on Netherlandish Diptychs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington including Van der Weyden's diptych of Philippe de Croy
- Petrus Christus: Renaissance master of Bruges, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Rogier van der Weyden (see index)


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On Monday morning came the long awaited news. Luka Modric was gone. The bags and suitcases which were long since packed were finally put to good use as he officially made the move from the old, slightly tatty, homely feel of White Hart Lane to the vast, wonderful, intimidating cathedral that is the stadium of Real Madrid which no Englishman can pronounce properly.
The feeling amongst most Spurs fans that I've encountered is not so much anger as relief he's gone. This summer and last summer hasn't been a 'saga' as you'll see it termed in the press (sagas are surely stories about love, romance, death, betrayal, that sort of stuff. Not a case of an employee wanting to move from one organisation to another) but has seen weeks upon weeks of newspaper articles, blog posts, Twitter rows, innuendo and waffle.
Modric has been keen to leave for a while. Taking off my replica Spurs 1984 UEFA Cup final shirt, I can see why. As good as Spurs have been the last few seasons, we were never going to be good enough for Lil' Luka. Modric is good enough to play for any side in the world. With the exception of Barcelona he'd start for any team in the world. He's that good a player. Good enough to win league titles and Champions League titles, which Spurs frankly are a million trillion miles from doing.
Aside from King Ledley, I've never seen a better player at the Lane. I was only born in 1992 so I never saw Hoddle, Ardiles, Gazza, Waddle, even Klinsmann or a peak Teddy Sheringham. But I've seen the likes of Bale, Berbatov, Ginola, a veteran Sheringham, and Modric comfortably outshines them all.
I've never seen a player as comfortable on the ball as Luka was. The ball really did look stuck to his feet. You'd see a hairy-arsed defensive midfielder look to tackle him and 'welcome' him to the game with an over-aggressive challenge designed to hurt the player more than win back possession. Luka would calmly move away from the 'passionate' (i.e dangerous) opponent with the minimum of movement and plonk the ball perfectly to a teammate's instep.
If you watch great sportsmen, they almost always look to have time. Watch say Viv Richards bat, he always looks as if he has about half an hour to decide what shot to play and how to play it. Look at the great players, how they always look to have time and space which inferior players simply don't have. Modric has that magical ability to find time and space that us mere mortals can only dream of.
I am perhaps unlucky to have born in an era where the likes of Ben Thatcher, Steffen Freund, Gary Doherty and Anthony Gardner clearly spelt out the concept of a Spurs player's second touch always being a mistimed, clumsy tackle. But truly Modric had great passing, superb ball control, time and space and the ability to dictate a game that few other midfielders I've seen have had. I feel he'll be a big asset to Real Madrid.
It almost feels like a shame that after being such a brilliant player for Spurs, that him leaving should be felt with not anger or real sadness but relief that he's finally gone. There has been the odd berk saying he's overrated because 'he doesn't score enough or get enough assists'. Modric indeed was notoriously poor in front of goal and wasn't a prodigious provider of assists.
But his game isn't about scoring goals or playing through balls for strikers to run on to. His game is about keeping possession and knitting his team's play together. If he had scored goals and got a sackful of assists, he'd have left Tottenham long ago and would be widely regarded as one of the best, if not the best midfielder in the world.
Mostly, now he's gone, there's a feeling of relief that finally all the newspaper talk about his future will cease. That all the wannabe bloggers and fake 'ITK' agent accounts can stop popping up on Twitter timelines with made up nonsense about Modric. That we no longer have a prized, expensive commodity who wasn't actually playing.
Also we now have reportedly £30m more to spend on new players, with Fulham's Moussa Dembélé seemingly the first player on the shopping list. This money is badly needed. Andre Villas-Boas not only needs money for some strepsils and beard trimmers but reinforcements on the pitch. A replacement for Modric in midfield is needed to partner guitar playing, kung-fu kickin', defensive midfielder maestro Sandro. Brad Friedel in goal isn't well suited to AVB's defensive high line while a striker or a winger would also be handy. Dembélé put in a great shift at Old Trafford at the weekend and will be an excellent addition, as would rumoured arrival of Hugo Lloris.
Whether Modric's departure will be good or bad for Spurs is totally dependent on the players who replace him. If Spurs do a Dalglish and spend large sums on mediocre players (not the defending a player found guilty of racist abuse bit) losing Modric will be a disaster. But if we copy Newcastle's blueprint, buy wisely like they did after selling Andy Carroll, we should see that reflected in improved performances on the pitch. Lloris and Dembele would be a good start.
Perhaps another reason why Modric leaving has been a sombre rather than angry affair is the fact that Spurs fans have suffered far worse in the past. The Sol Campbell shambles was horrific. The club's one and only world class player, the pride of the club, leaving for the hated local rival for free when he could have been sold for record amounts. That was bad. I'm not sure any club in history has ever felt as bad about a transfer as Spurs did that off-season. It was both humiliating and soul-destroying.
By comparison, Modric leaving is nothing. It's not even as bad as when Dimitar Berbatov left. Berbatov was a wonderful player who virtually went on strike to force a move to Manchester United while Spurs in typical fashion beat Roma 5-0 in pre-season, raised hopes of a top four finish then garnered two points from our first eight league games.
Modric at least played after Spurs refused to sell him last year and then left for a club not in England. It's the lightest of breezes compared to the devastating tornado that was Campbell moving up the Seven Sisters Road to play in red and white rather than blue and white.
Had Modric left for Chelsea like he was purported to last summer that would have been a real kick in the bollocks. Our best player leaving for Chelsea after they beat us 5-1 in the FA Cup and knocked us out of the Champions League would have been like having your missus cheat on you then taunt you by having a naked photo of her lover on your bedroom wall. Modric in Madrid, well away from England, won't be haunting us twice a season. As a fan, thank god for that.
Modric may have behaved poorly at the end, not going on a pre-season tour to America and sitting out our season opener against Man United last season. But part of me doesn't blame him for that. I knew, he knew, Levy knew that he had outgrown Spurs and it was only a matter of time until he left.
A better team offering three, four times his current salary were out there for him. Most people I think would be a pain in the backside if it meant getting a better job that paid four times more than what you were currently getting. That's not 'football these days' as some deluded Talksport moron might say, harking back to the halcyon days of player loyalty that hardly existed or only did due to a shameful lack of basic rights for footballers. That's just life.
Mostly, I'm happy that Modric has gone. Happy that he and Spurs can move on, happy that Spurs now have money to spend in the last week of the transfer window with Daniel Levy controlling the purse strings, and ever so slightly happy for Luka.
My affection for him has been tempered by him not being a willing participant in Tottenham's last two pre-seasons, but four seasons of him bestriding the Spurs midfield like a colossus despite only being 5 ft 7 and having a face like Gail Platt outweigh his obvious hankering for a transfer the last two seasons. He's a magnificent player who's contributed significantly to some of my greatest moments as a Spurs fan over the last few seasons.
Bye bye Luka. You will be missed. And thank god you're not playing for Chelsea.
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6 Responses to "The relief of Luka Modric's departure"
Nice article, well said.
Disagree totally with this point of view. Modric did the same as Berba – he went on strike & refused to play for us, even though we were paying him a fortune to do so.
His performances last season were not up to scratch – started well but faded (not the only one though).
Doesn't even compare to Campbell – the two situations are worlds apart & not worth mentioning in the same article.
Bottom line is: LM refused to play for MY team. Anyone who does that loses all my sympathy. Bring in someone who wants to play & for heaven's sake, put a clause in their contact that if they refuse to play, they must pay us back a years wages.
Good riddance, end of.
Bloody good article very good read totally agree. Now as long as we spend the cash on top quality replacements its all good LLORIS,WILLIAN,DEMBELE,would be ace and Mountio as an added bonus please mr Levy COYS
I bet you still have a picture on your wall. Yes he was a good player but not that good see the stats. There have been far better players before, and will be now he has gone.
It was as much down to him as anyone why we did not make 3rd place. Hope he has a nice warm jumper for the bench.
Shame you were born so later if you d seen Hoodle.Ardiles,Villa etc then you would now how far down the list of all time greats he comes
We can tell you're a youngster cos no madric doesn't get slightly close to some of the spurs greats of yesteryear. He was a good player but rarely changed a match on his own with a moment of genius. I read somewhere that he produced the most assists to the players who produced the goal assists which kind of sums him up well! Good luck to the little fella and hope spurs meet him soon in the CL.


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Despite participation by 36 countries, no new nations have been added to the program since 2008. This is not due to lack of interest. In fact, key American allies such as Poland have emphasized that obtaining membership is a vital priority.
Current law, however, prevents the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from adding new countries with a visa refusal rate greater than 3 percent until DHS develops and implements a system to biometrically track the departure of foreign visitors from U.S. airports. DHS has had enormous difficulty implementing this system and is not likely to meet the mandate in the near future, making expansion of VWP nearly impossible.
Hinging VWP expansion on deployment of a biometric exit system makes little sense. Only a small number of VWP travelers actually become overstays—the very problem that biometric exit purportedly helps to prevent. In fact, the overall VWP participant overstay rate is estimated to be around 1 percent.
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The Secure Travel and Counterterrorism Partnership Act would take action on both of these fronts, replacing visa refusal rates with overstay rates and decoupling biometric exit from VWP expansion.
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In addition to tremendous public diplomacy benefits and economic boons for businesses in the United States that depend on travel and tourism, one of the most compelling reasons to promote the expansion of VWP to qualified countries is that the program has become a vital counterterrorism tool.
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Excellent, so who is using this to dev WebOS Apps? anyone? Can Apps for iOS / Android be easily made into WebOS apps if developed with Enyo, If so why is there very little appearing in our App Store?
Seems to me that the WebOS eco-system is about to run out of momentum, and the combined fanboy power that we have (and I still rock a Pre 3), is not doing anything but keeping the memory alive!
There's a very real danger that Enyo will not be relevant to WebOS unless devs use it to make WebOS Apps.
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Can apps for iOS / Android be easily made into webOS apps if developed with Enyo 2? Look at the supported platforms
webOS is in tier 2 (supported at lower priority), so that must be possible with some difficulties, but in mobile app development nothing is easy.
Android 4+ (PhoneGap) and iOS 5+ (PhoneGap) are in tier 1 (supported at high priority) but that wasn't your question.
open webOS will be in tier 1, too.
The only people that have made iOS and Android apps with Enyo are former and current webOS developers porting their apps to other platforms. There's literally no Enyo app out there that was built specifically for iOS or Android...unless someone knows something the rest of the world doesn't.
The problem is:
1) Most developers for other platforms use their native SDKs in order to fully and immediately leverage the capabilities of the platform, instead of relying on PhoneGap (which Enyo needs). PhoneGap is almost always behind by a full version from iOS because they need to update their codebase each and every time a new iOS version comes out in order to catch up with its featureset when it can. And still it can't support everything.
2) Even if the developer decides not to use the native SDKs, there are are already a great number of other frameworks that are more robust and offer much more flexibility. Appcelerator Titanium, PhoneGap w/jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, etc. And because of the giant communities behind each of those, that's where the development mindshare goes.
Enyo has as much an uphill climb to build that community as Open webOS does when it comes to being successful. Right now, they're both young projects but the competition is already entrenched, highly robust, and have massive communities.
(Ironically, jQuery Mobile actually supports more of webOS in its top tier alone than Enyo does through all of its tiers.)
This is why you aren't seeing an avalanche of Enyo-based apps on webOS, much less other platforms. On the latter, nobody's building them right now. It's that simple.
I tried myself to write and install a proof-of-concept app (not a complete app) on my Android device, and discovered that Enyo 2 does NOT need PhoneGap on Android (I don't know about iOS). You can use a WebView (a View that displays web pages) instead.
Enyo 2 is available under the Apache v2 license, which is very good.
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After being locked in a bottoming formation for nine quarters, the Construction Pipeline increased in 2013 to 3,020 Projects/382,958 rooms, a Year-Over-Year (YOY) increase of 10% by projects and 12% by rooms. It's the first YOY double-digit increase since before the recession.
The volume bounce from the 2Q11 bottom is significant because it starts the second leg of the new real estate cycle where Pipeline growth is expected to steadily increase as single asset and portfolio selling prices are now at record highs, signaling the point where it will be cheaper to build new hotels than to buy existing ones.
The improvement in developer and investor sentiment is stimulated both by the industry-wide recovery of operating and profitability statistics and a slowly improving lender environment in a sluggish economy that still functions considerably below potential.
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Ninety percent of the Pipeline is made up of select service properties. Practically all are branded, in urban center and Suburban locations in the largest markets and are under 200 rooms. Most are prototypical branded projects, which generally enter the Pipeline in the Scheduled to Start in the Next 12 Months stage and get into the ground quickly. Scheduled to Start in the Next 12 Months is up 35% by projects and 42% by rooms YOY. Projects Under Construction have increased 26% by projects and rooms YOY. There are fewer Luxury and "big box" convention hotels with long development timelines in the Pipeline. For this reason, the Early Planning stage continues to fall and has yet to bottom. It shows a YOY decrease of 16% by projects and 13% by rooms.
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Internal Pipeline Metrics on the Increase Annual Construction Starts, which were 759 Projects/ 87,169 Rooms in 2013, have nearly doubled since the 2010 bottom but are still 50% less than the peak established in 2007.
For NPAs into the Pipeline, in 2013 there were 1,377 Projects/ 167,126 Rooms announced. Although NPAs are up 38% over the 2011 bottom, they are 59% below the 2007 peak.
Looking Ahead The overall economic recovery from the Great Recession has been slow and sluggish. The fall from the previous peak was so significant and the financial crisis so deep and wide-spread that the recovery, although consistently uptrending, is probably running about two years behind the pace of recovery for other recessions. Although the economic metrics monitoring recovery are uptrending slowly, the metrics for economic growth remain stagnant.
The same can be said for the industry's operating and profitability metrics and for the Construction Pipeline too – recovering, but not growing as hoped for. The key to economic growth for the next few years is enacting job creation policies that would boost the GDP growth rate over 3%. It's also the key to increasing guest room demand which will ultimately spark development activity.
A few economic hurdles remain: further implementation of the Dodd Frank rules and a potential slowdown in emerging markets. With the decks clearing, the hope is that economic growth will become the agenda for the current Congress and the platform for aspiring political candidates.
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They're the soundtrack to your most vile nightmare; the sounds dancing in the minds of serial killers across the land. They're the band your parents forbade you to see; the band that made your mom cry; the band that made you kick your baby sister with a steel boot toe, pierce your genitals, slash your wrists, scar your forearms and snort riddlin. Scream till your nipples pop. No one will hear you. They're HEIDNIK and they want you for an anal probe. Hailing from the steamy bowls of Philadelphia, PA, HEIDNIK is the band destined to rule your world. Having shaped a cult following with a mere 4-song demo of grind-ridden filth HEIDNIK is built upon the sheer principal of pummeling all in its path. They're more than a band. They're a religion that will make you strip naked, shit in the woods and cover yourself in vanilla bath gel or at least that's what they hope.
My first confrontation with the underground makers of crust came on a cold, October night days before Halloween. A Halloween house party brought me to a foreboding area of Philly where needles run rampant but people don't (they're all cracked out and carelessly strewn across park benches). Intrigued by the HEIDNIK hype I traveled 2 hours to a house unfamiliar to me. Upon entering I was met with the foreboding faces of Halloween, non of whom I knew. A girl dressed as a botched abortion patient, a bloodied baby doll swinging from between her legs, blood splattered all over her all-white clothing, welcomed me to this house of horrors and led me to the basement where I was told to wait. There were men dressed as woman and women dressed as men and sea monsters and priests and me, dressed as a school girl harlot with antlers, felt somewhat out of place and threatened.
Drunken revelers moved about as I wondered when the band would come for me. The abortion girl seemed assuring. "They'll be here soon" she whispered then closed the door. One red light played the role of luminance in this lonely, musty basement. Instruments and amplifiers lined the walls, cobwebs hung from the ceiling and an abandoned refrigerator threatened to open its doors to reveal packaged body parts and Budweiser. Alone in a basement, waiting for HEIDNIK. This is where I would die I was sure.
As if by divine intervention, a figure appeared to me. Clad in black plastic pants, a Bride-of-Frankenstein wig, gauntlets and a menacing smile, vocalist, Little Bitch, welcomed me. "I didn't think you would come." He said. How did he know I was coming? With corpse paint masking his identity and blood dripping from his goat -t, he took my hand and led me to a room I hadn't noticed upon my initial tour of the basement. The room was cozy and somehow disconnected to the rest of the house though bone chillingly cold. He motioned to a sofa in the corner and we sat. His blue eyes pierced me. He could see through me. I placed a tape recorder on the coffee table and lit a clove cigarette. Swallowing hard I began my dig for a better understanding of a band that'd somehow kidnapped my soul. But why serial killers? Gary HEIDNIK was from the same part of Philadelphia as us. Little Bitch began, Norway, Philly. He is our guiding light and inspiration and the reason we're alive. No other serial killer could even come close to comparison. Gary HEIDNIK was more than a serial killer, he was a divine being, a god in human flesh if you will. His words were commanding and goose bumps crept up my spine. His voice was steady and monotone. Perhaps we should start at the beginning. December of '99 was the actual forming of the band. Three of the original members, Hot Sausage, Chinstrap, Fat Fuck, were already in a hard core band called Frontline. He paused to adjust his sack and light a Winston, When they broke up, those three decided to move onward and Rhinestone Cowboy and I joined and became what we are. We had one member change. Fat Fuck went AWOL and White Bo took over on bass. We all knew each other from previous bands and decided it was time to join forces and rawk out. His words are gentle and somehow soothing. How could this mild mannered grind sage churn such gutting tunes? We're a highly volatile combination of grind, death, hard-core and stoner rock, he quips still toying with his package seeming slightly miffed by the snugness of his plastic pants. With just the right amounts of homosexuality, porn, shitting, nudity, dirt, drug abuse and what trash to make everyone happy. HEIDNIK is brewed with Brutal Truth, S.O.D., Cryptopsy, O.J. Simpson, Deicide, Jack Kevorkian, Napalm Death, mass killings, beating crack whores, pick-up trucks, fast food, alcohol, porn. Little bitch seems pleased by his own words. He pauses our interview to find more alcohol returning quickly with beer. If we could be our own food group we would be beer. he proclaims simultaneously belching. I hand him a freshly rolled, THC-laden somethingerother. He accepts with an appreciative smile. Pimping one four-song demo, HEIDNIK are all about needless violence, killings and crust. Now legendary songs Epilepsy, Duct Tape and a Knife, Peoplegettinghurt.com and Monster Under Your Bed are convulsive, threatening and eerily subliminal. 'Duct Tape and a Knife' is all about Gary HEIDNIK. We added a bit of HEIDNIK (the band) idealism to the plot. Gary HEIDNIK was a man who was serious about his work here in Philadelphia, Little Bitch rants happily invigorated by our joint session. He had a lot of things going on in his mind. So do we. He killed people too. 'Epilepsy' is a lovely little poem about human insanity, he continues. It combines the thoughts of just some everyday 'Joe Fuck-Up' going postal and murdering hundreds of people and just the mindset of what HEIDNIK portrays live and in our music. With the sudden trend in school shootings among other acts of senseless violence, does it really do the band justice to fill the ears of our youth with even MORE to leave them desensitized by gore. Do you think parents claiming that music from the likes of bands like HEIDNIK influence kids to engage in haphazard acts of bloodshed? I ask. My words are non-existent to him as he angrily scratches an irritated part of skin between his ass cheeks. Do you smell that? thrusting his finger towards my nostrils. I think I accidentally shit myself. It itches like a motherfucker. Not knowing how to reply to this, I sit and let him itch on taking another hit.
An ogre of a man stomps down the stairs and bum-rushes our meeting area. He's clad in a 3-sizes-too-small, tattered, hot pink t-shirt reading "Wildwood", a picture of a sunset backing the chipped decal letters. Leopard, spandex pants barely shroud his genitals as he manages to wedge a heaping wad of sausage meat between the spandex and his skin just above his crotch area. I think I just shit myself, he quips proudly unaffected by my presence. I realize it is guitarist Hot Sausage in all his sausage loving glory I did too dude. Little Bitch jumps from the couch digging deep within his crack to excavate some sort of scent and color to woo his band mate. I made skid marks I think. Little Bitch seems pleased. I'm confused and amused all at the same time.
Quit trying to talk to your kids so much. Just beat them more. Little Bitch demands. Confused by his comment, I realize he's referring to my question from earlier before butt scratching; poop flinging and sword fighting re-sculpted the vibe of things. Feeling as though the tone in the room is just a wee bit too amped, a share in my freshly packed peace pipe. Little Bitch accepts with glee. You know something? Fuck that, he snaps. I don't even want people to memorize my lyrics. That's not the basis of our music, he continues referring back to the explanation of some of the band's lyrics. We don't have sing-alongs and finger pointing chants. Our lyrics don't mean shit. It's all about the music. That's how we feel. Maybe someday we'll print lyrics but I doubt it.
Beyond the obscenity, clever costumes and total recklessness, there' just no denying the fact that HEIDNIK is perhaps one of the most pit inducing, raging, innovative works of grind-core magnificence to grace the planet since Brutal Truth's Extreme Conditions... You know, one time I coughed up a bog 'ol blood clot in some green shit he volunteers. I was sick. It kind of twitched when it hit the floor. I actually tripped and slid through it across the floor while I was singing.
Pleased that the interview was back on track, I wanted to gag. But it's the absolute insanity and unpredictability of their live performances that makes HEIDNIK virtual legends in their own time.
They rarely use the stage and have no mercy on anyone who stands in their way. We talk about previous performances and I remind him of the fan who ate his own vomit on tape for the band and the over-enthused, slightly drunken fan who stripped nude during a performance before Little Bitch tied a string to the fan's penis and walked him around the room. Memories. Every show we've ever done has been mayhem starting with the first show we ever played, he says with pride. We have pretty much broken something of ours (equipment, each other etc) and the places around us (mirrors, glasses, mics). We don't go in with the sheer purpose of wrecking shit. We jus go kind of nuts, make the pit and give people something to dance around. We normally have some kind of nudity, vomiting, bloodshed, switching of instruments, beer throwing or some such shit going on. Wait till the HEIDNIK home video comes out. As the hours pass, we realize that the band is about to perform. Little bitch, stoned, drunk and bewildered by my interest in his band, rises from the couch. I need to go find my sausage before I play but thank you. He grabs my hand, squeezes hard. I tell him I'm staying for the show. Only if you get naked and drink beer with us afterwards. I graciously agree. Heidnik is currently preparing to release a new demo and will perform at this spring's Grindfest on April 29th at CGBGs in NYC. Catch then live with MORTICIAN, EXHUMED, DEEDS OF FLESH, DISGORGE (CA), DISGORGE (MEXICO), ABORTED, SEVERE TORTURE & more! www.cbgb.com For more information contact: firstname.lastname@example.com


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