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I liked the location as I was there to shop and to attend business meetings. The staff were exceptionally attentive and helpful.
the pool and gym facilities, the room was very comfortable
Comfortable bed. modern design. Shower was not quite as luxurious as expected.
Courteous welcome from valet parking staff and convenience of being connected to the rest of the Crown complex.
The staff were friendly and efficient at check-in. The room was spacious and clean and had a lovely view of the city. The king bed was comfortable however the doona had a black mark on it and the sheet had a little tear (probably not what you would expect from a five star hotel).. Check out was a lengthy process but overall we had a pleasant stay. I didn't really like the 'make shift' wall between the bathroom and bedroom and there was no bath tub (we stayed in the Deluxe King Suite)
the facilaties were were good and the staff were helpful the room was not clean it had stains on the pillow covers and hair in the bottom of the shower this kind of thing turns myself and other buisness partners away from horels of this nature
The room
Good 5 star hotel, has enough facilities including in-door pool and health centre. 24 hours taxi queue is an advantage. Integration with the Casino and all facilities, outlets and restaurants. Do not have coffee specific shop as well as 7-11 type shop. This can be integrated with casino facilities
The rooms are excellent The room service food was average
the hotel is really good and the staffs are kind and helpfull. the location of the hotel is in the centre of the city which helps us save a lot of money.
The room was very comfortable and the staff were outstanding. Service was excellent and even allowed early check-in. Rooms are not cheap but well worth it if you want a bit of luxury. Outstanding views and great location as we were attending a function at Crown.
The hotel is good because its the city center and connected with the shopping mall and casino
That it was located in walking distance to everything that i needed! The in room breakfast was very over priced
I liked having the City at my fingertips. We had a 50th party to go to, so we came in early did some shopping first, then relaxed at a number of coffee shops.
All was good great nice room great location Reseption could not find reservation and not given a deluxe room as booked
Location was great . location of room overlooking the river and was fantastic
We Find it very Convenient The View from the room
good service clean rooms good views very welcoming staff i wouldnt have a problem staying again
the location the staff at hotel bar were rude and the linnen on the bed not comfortable.
easy access to crown entertainment centre.
It was comfortable and in a convenient location. Staff, service, facilities and location were very good overall. Although we booked for 4 nights with no changes to our original booking, we were asked by staff after 2 days what time we were checking out that day - a little puzzling? Also, our room rate included breakfast, but we were questioned about this each morning.
Good location The room smelled
close to the city centre, close to major places ie casino, easy to access trams and transport to major sporting events
The view n/a
Lovely room and easy access to everywhere
Effiecient services, great connection to Casino and Southbank, friendly staff. 25 Dollar for Internet are much too much - has to be free in hotels like this.
The crowd facilities are great having good restaurants, bars, the casino. Walking distance to the free zone tram which allows you to access Melbourne city center for sight seeing, restaurants, and shopping. beds were great pillows need improvement. Wifi in room not usable but was else where in facilities.
Room had everything you needed and nothing you didn't. Everything was of a very good quality. Breakfast was really good staff were polite. Pool was amazing. Good value for money. Shower pressure was a bit low.
Cleanliness of rooms, luxurious experience, views of city, proximity to casino and city
Large room and bathroom, especially the shower. Large TV and comfortable bed. We had room service for supper which was very enjoyable. I was disappointed with the breakfast restaurant. The food was very nice but the room lacked atmosphere. We were in an area without carpets so the chairs were noisy scraping accoss the floor each time we went to select another course. We were in a party of 10 so had a long table jammed against a wall which also made access awkward. Table service could have been better as we had to remove our own dishes and ask for tea/coffee etc.
Everything was at our finger tips and having high secruity I felt safe allowing the kids to go and watch the movies in the same complex. Shower could have had a scrub, and the cabbies had no idea where to go.
the view was absolutely incredible with floor to roof windows a bit pricey but the room/view made up for that
room sevice and staff, very good room was slightly not clean
The best thing about Crown Promenade is the location and also the beds, so comfortable.
Good size twin room with 2 x queen beds
great central location to transport and the city
Convenience of location, and level of security for entry/exit. nothing
well located by the casino and close to all Tram links no
close to the casino, stadium & city The shower screen (water went everywhere in the bathroom)
Excellent online booking process and experience with staff The appearance of walls in unit and hallways was a detraction and could use a new coat of paint.
The apartment was very close to the convention centre and we were there for a show so the location was extremelhy convenient. The traffice noise levels were very high and we had one night when other residents were also very noisy.
Rooms are lightly serviced during the week but not at all during weekends
Excellent location and service. Very tight car parking.
Hand rail required at bath tub.
service was very good way too noisey. walls thin and could hear everything in rooms next door. hear traffic from road and trains
they put up with a changing group of people in the apartment and with a lot of whims on the part of the inhabitants--all with good grace and if anything was requested reacted promptly probably a little overpriced compared to other similar apartment hotels-in terms of accommadations-in Melbourne, but only a little
The amazing view from our balcony and the staff were great! From reservations right up to Assistant Manager were all very helpful and courteous and polite. We had such a great stay, really cant fault anything.
Bed, View, Tidy room. Car park within hotel Room smelled like burnt toast, not bad by the time we returned at Midnight
Convenience to city and stadiums
Loved the location with views of the Casino and river, and a short stroll to shops and restaurants. Helpful staff made us very welcome. Very convenient. The mattress in the wardrobe made it extremely difficult to hang clothes.
Excellent location and good studio room with lovely views of the Yarra river. Lack of wi-fi facility and safety boxes in rooms.
Close to all facilities and transport around Melbourne No
The proximity to the Casino, quick access to trams and the overall feel of the hotel. Also, the balcony with views of Melbourne that even a lifelong resident was impressed with! Only that the temperature of the room was a little too high, we compensated by opening the balcony door to freshen up the room.
Central location, staff were quite informative, view over the yarra river and the crown casino water pressure and temperature during the shower
The firm did me a favor by letting me check in four hours early. After 27 hours on the airplane I was happy to see a comfortable bed. A+ proximity to South Cross Station, helpful and happy staff. You could feel they appreciated you chosing their hotel. Room #711 is directly across the hall from the house keeping staff service room entrance. This proximity produces a very high level of unwanted negative noise whenever anyone enters and/or exit the service room.
It was a spacious very comfotable room the staff were very friendly and helpfull. the room was exceptionally quiet even though in the middle of the city. we also enjoyed the old world charm combined with modern conveniences.
Close to the stadium for football Maybe it would be helpful to have staff who speak english serving breakfast
gorgeous old world charm, with high ceilings, a bit noisy from traffic, but would recommend, staff were very obliging! the only thing i could fault was the noise factor
Apartment was very spacious and quiet. Room service was prompt. Reception was small and personal. Television reception was fuzzy. Only one lift which was a little slow.
Room was fabulous and spacious. Service from all staff excellent. I liked the bar area and library. reception staff helpful. Good location. Pool etc great too. Poor service at breakfast when busy - more staff needed. Hotel should have more information/leaflets about things to do in Melbourne.
I enjoyed the breakfast. It was not 5 star. A five star hotel has more than one lift, has staff that say good morning, has a doorman who offers to carry bags and a room with a decent sized bathroom.
On arrival they were very helpful. We had a excellent that we eat in the room. I would to tell a story as well, when we left my wife left 750 AUD in the room. When only realized it after 6 hours. We phoned the hotel they came back to us and paid it into my account. Honesty was very good and we really appreciated it and for that we will go back.
Great Location. Clean and quiet. The spa could of been hotter.
Location Really noisy, unfriendly staff. Calling Spa to the facilities is disproportionate.The hotel does not deserve the rate paid.
central location, period building, breakfast being charged for beverages with breakfast when breakfast was included in the tariff lack of ventillation in the romm
Esperabamos unas habitaciones de diseño y con mobiliario nuevo, y encontramos la habitación bastante basica y con mobiliario anticuado, ademas habitación con vistas al pasillo de las demás habitaciones.
El servicio y las habitaciones no se corresponden con el precio que pagas
buena ubicación y facilidad para acceder y aparcar La habitación no tenía ventanas, la habitación que enseñan en la web no se parece en absoluto a la que tuvimos, el servicio de limpieza diario no era todo lo bueno que debería ser (recambio de toallas y jabones, limpieza en general del suelo, etc)


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Jerrold H.wrote a review of Stoic Merino Crew - Short-Sleeve - Men's on December 7, 2012
stoic is the best merino
Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I've tried several other brands and stoic is my favorite merino. Great softness, fit, and style. They get really soft after a few washes (but aren't bad out of the box either).
One of mine still didn't smell bad after 5 sweaty runs, with pretty bad treatment between them.

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LA's bad-ass female rock duo, Deap Vally was a highlight for us during last year's CMJ music festival, so we're glad and really hyped to see that Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards are slaying and kicking major ass with "Lies," their brand new video and single.
The energetic bluesy track feels like an adrenalin shot made-up of The Dead Weather, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin with some Joan Jett in the mix. The track packs major attitude and swag, so don't be surprised if you feel the urge to grab a leather jacket and start jammin on your air guitar.
Check it out!
"Lies" is taken from the duo's 4-track debut EP, Get Deap to be released in North America on April 9th.
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About the Book
Revelations is an auto biography that examines the human species and how I think we fit into the world. I am a documentary photographer and I have added many of my most prized images to express and display the beauty of the human spirit. It is a funny little book filled to the brim with sill- sarcastic observations and revelations that I have come to see as I have grown older and raised a child.
Features & Details
- Category Arts & Photography
5×8 in, 13×20 cm
172 Pages
- Publish Date Jan 12, 2010
- Tags Progressive movement, photo book, Iraq war protests, climate change, activist, auto-biography, liberal, politics, spirituality, Christianity, documentary, historical, Obama, inauguration
About the Creator
I have been a photographer for nearly 20 years and have owned my own business for about that. I started documenting the progressive movement in 2003, it was a succor and a passion. Now it is my lifes' work. I feel as though this is my legacy, it is what I will leave behind. There is nothing more beautiful to me than when one stands up for what they most believe. We are the small heroes. We are the change.
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KSA July 19th Third Thursday
Kendall Square Association
Thursday, July 19, 2012 from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Please join us for food, drinks, and conversation with KSA member host VMware. VMware will be demoing their mobile, cloud, and storage products and more! VMware will also spotlight, Tutoring Plus, a non-profit charitable organization, which provides free tutoring and enrichment programs to Cambridge youth.
*VMware has offered to validate parking for those attendees parking in the East Garage (off Broadway) just bring your garage ticket along which will indicate your parking July 19th at approximately 5:30 p.m.
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VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2008 revenues of $1.9 billion, more than 130,000 customers and more than 22,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest-growing public software companies. Vmware is headquartered in Palo Alto with R&D labs all over the world including Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Founded in 1964, Tutoring Plus of Cambridge mission is to support and encourage the academic, personal and social growth of youth in Cambridge, MA with the help of volunteers and community partners. Tutoring Plus has over 100 volunteers and mentors who weekly tutor and mentor youth at one of our tutoring centers or at one of our math and science enrichment programs. Tutoring Plus is a nonprofit, tax-emempt 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
When & Where
5 Cambridge Center
Thursday, July 19, 2012 from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
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The Kendall Square Association (KSA) advances Kendall Square's vibrant ecosystem through its convening power and vital programming. The KSA is the resource and the advocate for this, "the most innovative square mile on the planet." Made up of more than 170 diverse member organizations, the KSA works to tell their stories, connect them with their neighbors, and create a community where everyone can live, work, play, learn, and eat!
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The Clever Travel Companion's range of travel safety wear is available for ordering wholesale and we are actively looking for retailers worldwide to stock our gear. If you are interested in ordering wholesale please get in touch with us at firstname.lastname@example.com or fill out the form below to let us know more about how and where you plan to sell our gear.
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TEADAWORKS Festival
March 22-24
Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm, and Sunday at 2pm
Tickets are $20 general admission, $15 seniors/students
Attic Theatre
5429 W. Washington Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90016
Tickets can also be purchased at the Attic Theatre box office
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Arroz Con Spam y Bento:
The Adventures of Bad Sailor Moon, Cat Mom, and Barbie Girl
Featuring new works by Eriko Azuma, Lesley Asistio, & Sofia Barrett-Ibarria
Director/Dramaturgy by D'Lo
With additional mentorship from Leilani Chan, Alison De La Cruz, Shyamala Moorty, Ova Saopeng & Kristina Wong
Eriko, Sofia, and Lesley cook up a spicy concoction of three solo pieces that will take you on a provocative and sometimes frightening journey of sex, bra-stuffing, and coming to terms with our confusing loves for white men and Honey Boo Boo. Overbearing mothers deconstruct the so-called American dream, while their daughters struggle to find beauty in a world full of suffocating family members, boyfriends, and tv-show ideals. Hilarious and brutally honest super-heroines (us!) battle against Japanese-girl obsessions, opinionated aunties, and beauty-obsessed moms. Meet a promiscuous teen with a 4.0 GPA, a loud-mouthed, thong-wearing Cuban cousin, and a babysitter/Asian nightclub hostess who is currently looking for an American-citizen man, or a woman to marry.
TEADAWORKS, now celebrating its 11th year, is an artist incubator project that offers artists the opportunity to work intensively with collaborators to develop new works and reach the next level of excellence. This year's artists are working closely with internationally touring artists and director D'Lo to performances that explore gender identity and culture clash within immigrant families.
This project is made possible in part through a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs and individual donations through Kickstarter and TeAda.
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>General Running>Feeling Drained.....
I managed to get in what I considered a decent HM time in April and was hoping to build on that. However I rather stupidly went out and trained hard the next day on tired legs and managed to strain a calf muscle. After a short while I found I could still train up to 5 miles with no further pain so I started doing 5-mile doubles. This was going great and as I was off to the Canary Islands for 2 weeks I was very happy that I would still be able to train in lovely warm weather. I stuck with my 5-mile doubles plan until the second day of my holiday. There is a nice shady area outside my apartments that I have used in previous years to stop for a drink. Here it is – what's not to like?
I had just tipped my head back to take a drink when suddenly the ground gave way beneath me and before I could react I was 1 metre down a drain. Instant pain in my left ankle so I knew I had done something. The cockroaches were not nice but they were the least of my problems. I managed to drag myself out of the drain and hobble back to the apartments.
After a bit of frantic searching for numbers (Lanzarote = Spanish) we managed to phone for an ambulance and I went to the Arrecife hospital for an X-Ray. Luckily no break but I would need to be on crutches for 6 days and in plaster for 10 days. At least the pot would be off before we flew out as it can cause problems with insurance and fitness to fly.
Thankfully we were located near enough to the restaurants and bars to still enjoy our holiday. This is my leg after 10 days when the pot came off and the second picture is my elbow crutch in the drain showing the true depth.
Finally, this is me looking a whole lot happier 3 days after the cast came off. Our flight had been delayed due to UK airports being closed because of volcanic ash and we had been moved to a different town and hotel. So, all in all it was quite an eventful holiday. From 5-mile doubles I am now back down to 5-mile singles but feeling very lucky to be running at all.
3000 miles
Sub 19:00 for 5K 05-03-13 Clee Prom 5K - 19:00:66 that was bloody close!
Sub-40:00 for 10K 17-03-13 Gainsborough 10K - 39:43
Sub 88:00 for HM
The Logic of Long Distance
Yikes! Glad to hear you back running - scary to think how much worse that could have been.
Nice pics - especially that first one!
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away...(unkown) • Go With The Flow • Thyroid Support Group


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Our mobile lab educational program allows us to share our passion for art, music, and technology with adults and children throughout the central Ohio region. Our introductory and intermediate-level workshops give participants the opportunity to work with various open source platforms, robotics kits, DIY electronics and soft circuits, and more. Mobile lab instructors provide the materials, supplies, know-how, and encouragement for participants to create and innovate.
Some of our current and past workshops include:
- Build a Buzzbot
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- Make a Drawbot
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- Circuit Bending 101
- Intro to Processing
- Make a DIY Custom Bike Light
- Circuit Bending with Radio Frequencies
Our mobile lab educational program has been held at sites around Columbus such as The Wild Goose Creative, It Looks Like Its Open, and the Greater Columbus Arts Council.
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How do I register for a Fuse Factory workshop?
All of our upcoming workshops are listed along the right side of our website. To sign up for a workshop, click on the workshop title, which will take you to the workshop information page. At the bottom of the information page is a drop-down menu that lets you select the workshop option you want, then takes you to PayPal.
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Yes! The nice thing about being a mobile lab is that we can come to you, supplies and all. In addition to Franklin county, we are able to travel to Delaware, Licking, and Fairfield counties. If you are in one of these counties and are interested in having us offer a workshop in your area, please contact our Executive Director Alison Colman.
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Published: January 2, 2008 at 11:28 AMThanks for all the pictures. It always ceases to amaze me to see all of the subtleties that go into building those floats.
Published: January 3, 2008 at 2:24 AMI was at mile 3 and was impressed with the stamina of many of the bands and float walkers. A couple of floats needed some assistance from the towing organizations that attend each event. I was in an enclave of USC supporters that were not impressed with the fighting Illini and went all out for our local boys. The El Savadoran group was well supported and I was really impressed at the precision of the band from Japan. They did some moves that I have only witnessed form college organizations. The Bejing float had quite a security group traveling with them, but the crowd seemed to be very appreciative of their presentation. The Marine band received a standing ovation, the only group to receive the support of the entire crowd. I missed the excellent rope skills of Monty Montana. I would love to hear form others that were at different sections of the parade to see if the reactions were any different.


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I am an Elephant
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by Stu Bykofsky - http://go.philly.com/byko
I am an Elephant
I was not born for your amusement any more than you were born for mine.
If you see me in the zoo, and especially in the circus, which arrived here yesterday, I am not there willingly.
I was kidnapped and carried far, far away from my home and my family. I might have been an adult, but was more likely a baby when captured. Some "brave" hunter might have killed my mother - who could be dangerous - and sold me to a zoo or circus as an orphan.
Elephants have large families, as you may know, each headed by a female. When a female is born into the family herd, she never leaves.
Closely and happily, we travel together, eat together, play together, rest together. For elephants, every herd is a "village" in which the baby is cared for by its mother, and her sisters, and her mother. Being connected to family is as much a part of our being as our floppy ears. It harms us to be separated from our family. Can you understand that?
Do you think I cannot feel loneliness and despair?
As you may know, we elephants grieve for our dead. We mourn for our family. Being disconnected from our family is like death for us.
That is what we suffer when we are captured, and kidnapped, and sold.
I am an elephant.
I know you love seeing me, in the circus or in the zoo.
I know some of you feel that, "It isn't a circus without elephants," or, "It isn't a zoo without elephants."
You are thinking about yourself - what you want, what you like.
Please think about me.
I am an elephant.
Do you think I was born to be chained to a stake, when my spirit cries to cross vast savannas? Do you think I was made to be pushed into cramped circus railway cars, to be hauled around the country like furniture?
I perform for eight minutes for your pleasure, then spend endless hours in misery.
Some zoos try hard to accommodate my physical and psychological needs, but few succeed.
My first need is spiritual and that was crushed when they stole me from my family in Africa.
In Africa, my numbers are dwindling as poachers slaughter my kind for a few pounds of ivory.
Imagine killing a majestic, five-ton animal for scraps of ivory. Does that offend your sense of decency?
And yet you don't think twice about the slow death of imprisoning me in a barren cage.
You believe letting your children get close to a captive elephant will make them appreciate me. Must that come at my expense? Can't they learn from videos, DVDs and Web casts, without my suffering?
Can't you teach them about the dignity of living animals by leaving us alone?
When you and your children see me do a circus "trick," you are delighted.
You don't ask yourself, "How did they make that elephant stand on his head?" I never stand on my head in the wild.
Was it positive reinforcement, as Ringling says? Was it through abuse, as undercover videos have shown?
I am an elephant.
My second need is for physical stimulation, by walking. My long legs are built to move. I walk a dozen or more miles a day, when I am free to.
No circus, and few zoos, give me what I need.
And still I hear you want to see me in a zoo, you want to see me perform circus "tricks."
You want to see me because you love me, you say.
If you love me, don't do this to me.
I am an elephant. *
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The Pakistani Taliban have threatened journalists over the torrent of negative media coverage the group received after they attempted to assassinate a 14-year-old schoolgirl named Malala Yousufzai.
Several Pakistani and international news organizations have required extra security precautions after they received threats from militants that one news executive stated were "specific" and directed against named individuals, reports The Guardian.
A journalist in the region of Swat, where the Malala Yousufzai shooting took place, has even been given a guard of police after they received a written warning that said police had "credible information that you are on the hit list of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Swat."
Coverage of Malala's attempted killing, which the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan have taken credit for, has been unrelenting. Rana Jawad, Islamabad bureau chief at Geo News, stated, "Undoubtedly this is the worst press the TTP has ever had, there is no doubt."
Jawad added that he believes Pakistani media coverage of the shooting has been "sustained, purposeful, and focused." Jawad explained that the Taliban-related organization demanded that news organizations provide "balanced" coverage since the first day after the shooting, meaning that they wanted the media to give prominence to the Taliban's justification for the attack on the 14-year-old girl.
The Daily Beast notes that the attack by the Pakistani Taliban on Malala Yousufzai has provoked massive public outrage in Pakistan and Afghanistan, even with people who have sympathized with the militants in the past. Mullah Yahya, who was a high-ranking Afghan Information Ministry official back in the 1990s, stated:
"First of all, attempting to kill a 14-year-old girl is a low act. Second, claiming responsibility for it is a sign that the [Pakistani] Taliban are not aware of the media's importance. I have seen more anger against the religious elements in the past week than in all my 40 years of life."
Roman Malik, Pakistan's interior minister, stated that the government has posted a $1 million bounty on the Pakistani Taliban spokesman, Ehsanullah Ehsan, who has claimed responsibility for the shooting of Yousufzai.
Pakistani Taliban commander, Jihad Yar has argued that death threats against the media are justified, because "99 percent" of the reporters on the story are simply using the shooting as an excuse to attack the Taliban. Yar stateD:
"For days and days, coverage of the Malala case has shown clearly that the Pakistani and international media are biased. The Taliban cannot tolerate biased media."
Along with saying that the threats against media are just, Jihad Yar also doesn't apologize for the attempted assassination of Malala Yousufzai, saying, "We have no regrets about what happened to Malala. She was going to become a symbol of Western ideas, and the decision to eliminate her was correct."


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I stupidly deleted C:\Users\MyName\ntuser.dat. Now when I try to log on to my account, I get the message "The Group Policy Client service failed the logon." I am now logged on to my Administrator account to post this message. All of my files that I use daily are in the MyName account. I deperately need to be able to access the MyName account. How can I restore the ntuser.dat file?
After posting this, I checked C:\Users\MyName\ntuser.dat and saw that it is now listed after I rebooted the computer, but I still cannot login to my account.


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By Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON Makeshift bomb attacks by insurgents — common in Iraq and Afghanistan — are on the rise in other countries, prompting concerns by military experts that the tactic is becoming the weapon of choice by terror groups worldwide.
There are 200 to 300 improvised explosive attacks each month outside Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the British Triton Report. Triton is part of the consulting firm HMS Ltd., which provides counter-IED training for the U.S. government and other governments and businesses. The IED threat outside Iraq and Afghanistan increased steadily in 2006 and 2007 and is on a pace to exceed those numbers in 2008, said Irene Smith, a spokeswoman for the Pentagon's Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO).
PENTAGON: New MRAPs saving troops' lives
About 600 IEDs explode each month in Iraq, according to the U.S. military. There were 64 bombings in Afghanistan in February, the Triton report said, including a suicide attack that killed more than 100 with an IED in Kandahar on Feb. 17.
"We've got to beat this weapon system because the enemy is using it for a strategic reason: to change our decisions," said Army Lt. Gen. Thomas Metz, who leads JIEDDO. "What you don't want to happen is for that number to go to 2,000 or 3,000 around the world outside of Afghanistan and Iraq."
Terrorists realize the IEDs can have more impact than attacks with small weapons, Smith said. "Things that go boom draw more attention than things that go bang," she said in an e-mail.
The Triton report detailed how terrorist groups hide IEDs in balls and children's toys, notably in Colombia and the West Bank.
IED technology can be adopted easily elsewhere, says Michael O'Hanlon, a military analyst and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. "This is the urgent threat facing us now," he said. "It's one of the few things capable of defeating us."
Last year, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Russia and Nepal were among the countries with the most IED activity outside Iraq and Afghanistan, according to JIEDDO, which relies on the Triton report for data on attacks. Among the IED attacks in February, included in the report:
•Sri Lanka: On Feb. 2, an IED killed 20 people and injured 80 at a bus stop.
•Somalia: On Feb. 3, a bomb blew up a bus in Mogadishu, killing five and wounding 10 others.
•India: On Feb. 8, guerrillas killed two members of Indian security forces and wounded four others with a makeshift bomb. On Feb. 27, an IED strapped to a bicycle killed one and wounded 14. Bomb attacks in India have doubled since 2006, the report said. The report cites 15 attacks in February.
•Venezuela: On Feb. 24, a bomb blew up outside the national Chamber of Commerce building in Caracas, killing a police inspector.
•Thailand: On Feb. 27, anti-government militants killed a person with a bomb buried in a roadway. Four people were wounded.
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Kevin Zegers Marries Jaime Feld in New Jersey: Report
Kevin Zegers is officially off the market.
The 28-year-old actor tied the knot with longtime love Jaime Feld on Saturday in New Jersey, in front of family and friends that included Julianne Hough, Sophia Bush and his Mortal Instruments: City of Bones co-star Lily Collins, Us Weekly is reporting.
Zegers proposed to Feld, a talent agent, back in April.
"I took Jaime out for a walk in the morning with our dog and went down to the beach and proposed," the Canadian actor told Entertainment Tonight at the time. "We've been together for six years, so I've been through a lot with her."
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Berwick - Beaconsfield had a similar proportion of pre-schoolers and a higher proportion of persons at post retirement age than the City of Casey in 2011.
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Enough is enough is enough. Starz topper Chris Albrecht at first was just going to shut down Overture and its home video arm Anchor Bay. (Founded in November 2006, Overture Films has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Starz LLC, which is a unit of Liberty Media Corp and which Albrecht runs along with the Starz Entertainment premium television business and the Starz Media production and distribution company.) Then he gave Chris McGurk and Danny Rosett months and months to find a buyer. But the time came today not to drag out this painful endgame. So Albrecht formally announced the departures of the Overture CEO and COO. Only patsies like the trades would believe the duo jumped before they were pushed over "strategic differences". I've learned that the duo were told they would be fired if they didn't resign first. Albrecht issued this terse statement: "I want to thank Chris and Danny for their dedication and hard work in building the studio from the ground up, and wish them well in their future business endeavors." Now Peter Adee, president of worldwide marketing and distribution and new media, will oversee day-to-day operations of Overture. I'll write more about the past, present, and future of Overture in a bit.
Starz Pushes McGurk And Rosett Out Of Overture As Chris Albrecht Takes Control
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so…does that take Overture and ABE off the market? Are they going to keep the units?
I don't understand why they wouldn't just shut down Overture — yet I also don't understand why they would have considered shutting down Anchor Bay.
More feet to drop for sure and soon I presume…
Well, the smartest thing about all of this is that Peter Adee is now running day to day operations, whatever that means. Regardless of what it is, Peter is, and always has been, the smartest, most capable and most human executive over there. If you have ever had the chance to work for him, I am sure you will agree wholeheartedly. He is a great, great, smart guy.
Agreed. He's the real deal.
This could be bad news for LET ME IN.
LET ME IN, should have never been made. If you saw the original, you should never try to remake perfection.
Sad day for employees and the future of Overture, but you could see this one coming within hours of its original announce. The model of "you create it and we distribute it" just isn't sustainable on its own.
Any idea what's going to happen to Anchor Bay?
Overture might be a failure as a studio but Anchor Bay holds lots of value in the home video market that was under valued by Starz, which was first shown by the removal of the Anchor Bay name to only have them bring it back months later. If LionsGate was smart they'd be quick to buy the Anchor Bay library as it would go well with their current catalog of titles.
Who gets another golden parachute?
Adee Do.
You silly people!!!
Movies don't get made because they are good movies….
Movies get made because somebody is making money on making them … no matter how they are made.
Good or bad – it doesn't matter to Hollywood.
It's all about how much you can make BEFORE it hits the screen – not afterward. (And then if it does well afterward, you come out looking like a genius too)
But the real point was the money you made in making it before it hit the screen, that's what people here admire you for … (and not in the money it made or loss after it got made).
That's the way the system works like it or not.
Only the truth will change that …
well, at least they put peter adee in charge, for whatever happens next. he's always been the smartest and most talented exec at that place. if you haven't had the chance to work for him, you've missed out – he is a great boss and a great man.
Time tells all truths….Chris and Danny were never equiped to run a studio. Both of them should have never had oversight of any creative choices…They both are bussneiss execs and not film guys. Danny spent allmost all his carear as a accountant and Chris spent his carear moving from company to comapny before any body could know who he was. Never did he pick films without a seasoned production exc….Joe Roth,Casy Silver, Michael nathanson….Left on his own look at his record…
Agreed. Neither were equipped or talented to make creative decisions. They hired 2 vanilla brother producers to run development and then never let them do their jobs and subsequently fired them and didn't bring anyone new in. Nice. So who was running development? 3 dgirls that prance around the office and gossip all day. Great work team overture.
Sad if Anchor Bay goes away, they've been a long time strong supporter of movies. I remember several Anchor Bay video releases I was excited about — most importantly the Evil Dead flicks and the Disney ones like Black Hole that got full, extras-filled releases with widescreen video / DVDs.
Great news! The Bernie Madoff (McGurK) and his 'mini me' Rossett are finally gone from the most laughed at pseudo studio in town. Now Starz can finally turn it into what is should be — a smaller version of Focus.
Malone has no clue what he's doing, neither does Albrecht. These two are tv people, tv people should never own, or try to own a theatrical and video company.
Sell it, move on. AB is not making money. Overture, never did. Run by two people with bad taste and no idea on how to market a film. (Horrible head of marketing who is in charge lol WTF)
Sell it and move on. Stop punishing us.
is there another story out there? please reply ro all. thanks
What's going to happen to Film Roman? I heard a rumor that Phil Roman is trying to buy it back.
All sorts of mismanagement here. But the biggest problem is that they never had a hit. And the decline in video margins has been a killer.
Still, there was a good base to build on with AB but their model was flawed. Just letting AB release films is one clue to dysfunction.
But one hit, like Summit, would have covered up lots of errors.
Too bad. Lot of good people at AB.
Is Starz selling Starz Animation and Film Roman? Do they have any assets? It will be interesting to see what happens to Anchor Bay and Film Roman
So because Danny knows how to count he's not a "film guy?" Nonsense. Danny has taste, discernment, a love of film and a willingness to back tough but interesting projects. Talk with him about film and you'll soon know that he's far more a "movie guy" than a great many people who started out as "creative execs." To think otherwise because of his business background is myopic.
A Fan.
PS., McGurk? Maybe not so much.
The best thing to come out of this is Peter Adee gets mentioned and takes the helm even if the ship is sinking. He is a class act, a funny guy and one of the most down to earth film executives in the business… second only to Ron Meyer. In Difficulty lies opportunity and I hope he finds it.
I wonder if they're going to close Film Roman if they can't find a buyer?
I concur regarding Peter Adee, he is a class act! And even if Danny was a money man he always had the passion, wish him all the best!
Overture seemed to suffer from an identity crisis. It could not decide whether to be an indie studio (The Visitor and Sunshine Cleaning) or be a major studio (Law Abiding Citizen and The Crazies).
And it also doesn't help that they didn't seem to want to spend the cash to develop themselves and movies.
EVERY mini-major seems to suffer from the same identity crisis. I suppose to them it's more like having your cake and eating it too.
These posts are off base. McGurk and Danny are great guys and good people. Overture was on a roll recently. This is not a good thing. They will do something new as Chris is a brilliant strategy guy and Danny does film agreements better than anyone. Not good for Overture, or what's left, because it was a nice workplace under their leadership. Adee is ok but cannot run a business. Danny and Chris hired him after he got fired from 4 other studios for being to much of a suck up to producers. Thats the truth.
Chris was a bad choice from the start, but he snowed the guys at Liberty into thinking he actually knew what he was doing. I told the old COO about his track record at Disney but he had already drunk from the koolaid. Leave the movie making to those that know how to do it instead of allowing the numbers crunchers to try their hand at it. At least Liberty has had a great tax write off.
Chris is as smart as they come and made a lot of people a lot of money at MGM. At Overture, if you look at it, they did about the same level as Focus did. Danny and Chris always told it like it is to people who don't always like to hear that. Some hated them for it and are bitter. Some respected them for it.
A lot of harsh comments. From what I have heard, Overture emplyees really liked these guys and were happy to be there with new jobs when the business was falling apart. Rosett produced Capote and ran production and McGurk is a business guy who helped rebuild and sell MGM for billions before Harry Sloan and his minions then destroyed the Company. They did hardly any movies, like 5 or 6 a year for just a couple of years. Seems like somebody just didnt want to give the film business a chance. It takes years.
It always amazes me how many of these posts sound like they are from frustrated and unemployed entertainment wannabees. You wonder whether, at 9pm when their mommies are tucking them into bed like they have done for the past 45 years, whether these geeks whine to mommy about the studio people who passed on their limp scripts for the 100th time? Pathetic, vengeful, hateful LOSERS! It's tough out there whiners! Get used to it. Now kiss mommy good night and go to sleep.
Great post! I always thought most of these anonymous posters were failures in this business with time on their hands. Whatever the outcome at Overture you had many people with good intentions who started a company out of nowhere and tried to succeed in brutal times. All these new companies except Summit are going under. These haters should get out of bed and do something positive…after Mommy changes the sheets!
I'm beyond shocked that Ryan Kavanaugh didn't have a quote along with Chris. Publicity whore without a quote on his new company? Shocking
Sad to see the death of Overture. It was a noble idea and at least a lot of people held new jobs for 3 years when everyone else in the industry was being let go. For just releasing The Visitor, it was worth it. Good luck to Chris and Danny and Peter and Robert and the rest.


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La Crocetta
Gesù Pellegrino
San Basilio
San Domenico al Maglio
San Francesco de'Macci San Francesco al Tempio
San Francesco Poverino (oratory)
San Giuseppe
San Marco
San Niccolò del Ceppo
San Pier Maggiore (demolished)
San Pierino (oratory)
San Procolo
San Remigio
San (Michele a San) Salvi
San Tommaso d'Aquino (oratory)
Santa Croce
Santa Maria degli Angeli
Santa Maria degli Angiolini
Santa Maria dei Candeli
Santa Maria della Croce al Tempio
Santa Maria in Campo
Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi (de'Pazzi or Cestello)
Santa Teresa
Santa Verdiana
Santi Jacopo e Lorenzo
Santi Simone e Guida
Santissima Annunziata
Spedale degli Innocenti
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The convent of La Crocetta, more formally known as the Monastero di Santa Croce, got its nickname from the small red cross the nun's wore on their robes, was founded by Suor Domenica da Paradiso, in 1511. Formally approved by Pope Leo X in May 1515, building work was finished by 1519, with the financial help of Cosimo de 'Medici. Expanded and renovated by Giulio Parigi in 1612, work which included the building of the corridors over the road which still remain (see right). From the late 16th Century into the first half of the 17th the convent was a notable centre of musical performance.
Suppressed in 1808 the complex has been put to various legal, medical educational uses in the years since, briefly returning to religious use in 1816, it was used in the years that Florence was the capital of Italy (1865-1871) as the Court of Auditors, the nuns having been moved, with the relics of their founder, to the via Aretina, to the east of Florence, where they remain.
The former convent and church are now,
following renovation work in 2008/9, used
by the University of Florence. The Hotel Morandi alla Crocetta
incorporates the nun's chapel.
The original buildings in the late 16th
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Also known as the Oratorio dei Pretoni. Formerly the church of San Salvatore and belonging to the confraternity of that name, until in 1312 it became a hospice for elderly priests and pilgrim clerics and was dedicated to San Jacopo. Modernised for the Medici 1585-88 by architect Giovanni Antonio Dosio. At this time were painted the three altarpieces and a fresco cycle Scenes from the Life of Christ (1590) by Giovanni Balducci. Suppressed by Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo in 1785.
Contains the tomb of Arlotto Mainardi, the parish priest of San Cresci a Marcoli between 1426 and 1468. The subject of a famous painting by Il Volterrano (Baldassare Franceschini) The Parson's Jest (see below), he was famous for his sense of humour. The inscription on the tomb reads 'Piavano Arlotto had this sepulchre made for himself, and for anyone who wants to join him'.
Originally the hospital of San Sebastiano, founded in 1464 for victims of the plague on land granted to the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova. Later used by two Franciscan orders of nuns (from Santa Maria a Montedomini and Santa Maria a Monticelli). Following the suppression of the two convents in 1810 they were merged and redesigned in a neo-classical style as a hospice for the elderly in the early 19th Century by Giuseppe del Rosso, becoming a workhouse in 1860, then being known as the Pia Casa di Lavoro.
The church of the Monticelli was deconsecrated during the 19th Century rebuilding, being divided into two floors and becoming a dormitory.
The other church, which had belonged to the Montedomini, which had been consecrated in 1573, was retained. It has a vault painted with The Virgin holding her Child out to San Francesco by Agostino Veracini in the 18th Century, and a nun's gallery, not surprisingly. It became a parish church in 1816. It is also said to house a large wooden Crucifix and a copy of the Madonna of the Harpies by Andrea del Sarto. There's also The Death of San Romualdo by Giuseppe Grifoni, from S. Maria degli Angeli.
A wing of the hospice used as a military hospital from 1894-1938 has painted decoration by Galileo Chini. The complex is now partly also used by the University.
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An action-packed Martyrdom of Santo Stefano (1597) by Ludovico Caldi (Il Cigoli) commissioned by Zaccaria Tondelli for this church, is in the Palatine Gallery in the Pitti Palace.
Founded in 1332 by Basilian monks, known as Ermini (Armenians). At the end of the 15th Century it was used as a hospice by the Congregation of the Priests of the Holy Ghost - a glazed Della Robbia terracotta roundel with a (headless) white dove on the wall facing Via San Gallo is a relic of this time. Various alterations until taken over in 1939 by the Seventh Day Adventist Church. The last renovation was in 2008.
A Dominican convent built around 1297 for the nuns that had come to Florence from San Jacopo in Ripoli in 1292. The façade was decorated with a fresco by Fra Angelico. Suppressed in 1808, the complex became a military hospital in 1838. In 1930 the church was made into a lecture hall. The whole complex saw major restoration work in 1982. Currently it houses the Military Centre for Forensic Medicine and a museum of Military Medicine.
The cloisters
The larger of the two cloisters, built between 1560 and 1580, is visible from the via Cherubini, the wall on the fourth side of the cloister having been pulled down in 1924 to make this possible. In the same year a Monument to the Fallen Doctor was created by sculptor Henry Minerbi and installed in the centre of the cloister. It commemorates the Italian doctors who were killed in World War 1, with bronze figures cast from the metal of the Austrian guns, melted together with the medals of medical officers.
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Biagio D'Antonio's Madonna and Child with Saints of c.1470, now in Budapest. Vasari attributed the altarpiece, then still in this church, to Andrea del Verrocchio. Only with the publication of a monograph on Biagio d'Antonio by Roberta Bartoli in 1999 was the cat truly set amongst the pigeons, attribution-wise.
Cosimo Rosselli's Saint Catherine with saints and nuns, now in the National Gallery of Art of Scotland in Edinburgh is accepted as coming from here despite the lack of documentary proof.
A hospital was founded here in 1335 by the Macri family, with an attached convent and a church known as San Francesco al Tempio. It was run by the Poor Clares, providing refuge for battered wives.
1704 the church was rebuilt with the assistance of the Medici under the
direction of Giovan Battista Foggini, and decorated with frescoes by Pier
Dandini. It lost its great altarpiece by Andrea del Sarto, The Madonna
of the Harpies, which the Grand Prince
Fedinando had moved into his private apartment in Palazzo Pitti, and which
is now in the Uffizi. Over the door of the church are the words Auxilium
christianorum (Help of Christians) i.e. the Virgin. The church is now
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Andrea del Sarto's Madonna of the Harpies (see right) signed and dated 1517. Begun on May 14 1515, the date of the contract signed with the Poor Clares of the convent of San Francesco de'Macci, who had commissioned the painting. Now in the Uffizi, it was in the Tribune there in 1785, having been acquired by Ferdinando de' Medici in 1704 in exchange for his paying for rebuilding work here. The painting is named for the strange figures carved into the pedestal, which Vasari identified as harpies but which aren't. It is also unusual in having the putti grasping the Virgin's legs and the direct gazes of Saints Francis and John the Evangelist. The Christ child is oddly beefy too, with a strange smile on his face.
The Confraternity of St Joseph, founded in 1405, met in a small oratory near the Ospedale del Tempio. A miracle-working painting of The Madonna and Child on the corner of via San Giuseppe brought them sufficient offerings to pay for the present building. The church was designed, according to Vasari, by Baccio d'Agnolo. Building began in 1519, consecration followed in 1522 and the work was completed in 1583. In that year the complex passed from the Confraternity to the Friars Minim of San Francesco di Paola. In 1754 the interior was frescoed by Sigismondo Betti and Pietro Anderlini and in 1759 a new façade was built. When the Friars Minim were suppressed by Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo in 1784, the convent was put to other uses and the church was made a parish church. The doorway, possibly based on a design by Michelangelo, was added in 1852. The decorated oratory and campanile were added in 1934 to the original designs by Baccio d'Agnolo.
Interior and art highlights
Aisleless and baroque with three deep chapels on each side and a full-width choir with a hanging crucifix over the high altar. The frescoes on the barrel-vaulted ceiling and over the choir are by Sigismondo Betti, with trompe l'oeil architectural perspectives by Pietro Anderlini. The flooring had to be remade after the flood of 1966, the pavement of the first chapel on the right (see below) giving an idea of the flooring destroyed by the flood. The choir and inner facade have nine canvases by Francesco Bianchi Buonavita dated 1650. The marble high altar was made in 1930. Two works by Santi di Tito. A damaged Madonna and Child by Taddeo Gaddi which, along with a carved wooden Crucifix, belonged to Santa Maria della Croce al Tempio, is mentioned but wasn't in the church on either of my two recent visits. And the rectangular painting that is in the central chapel on the right, where the Gaddi should be, looks to have been fitted in by chipping bits out of the existing stone frame. But one chapel does contain that rare thing - a 20th Century fresco, done in 1933-4 and very flood damaged.
An oratory belonging to the Compagnia di San Niccolò which was established in the 14th Century, this church was built for them in 1561.
The Crucifixion of 1610 by Francis Curradi over the high altar replaced a Crucifixion with Saints Nicholas of Bari and Francis from around 1430 by Fra Angelico, which is now in the Museo di San Marco. In 1734 the ceiling was painted with stories of St. Nicholas by Giovanni Domenico Ferretti and Pietro Anderlini. Paintings by Giovanni Antonio Sogliani depicting the Visitation and St. Nicholas with Two Members of the Confraternity of 1521 were used as standards by the company carried at the head of processions.
Restoration work began in 2009 and continues, or at least the sign is still up (May 2013).
The oratory passed to the confraternity of San Pietro Maggiore, founded in 500, in the 16th Century. In 1783 it became a parish church, taking the name of the demolished church San Pier Maggiore, but was deconsecrated in the next century. It is now home to the Dante Alighieri Society, which promotes Italian culture and runs language courses.
Above the front door,
which is the entrance to the cloister, is a glazed terracotta lunette of
The Annunciation between two hooded brothers by Santi Buglioni
Probably built before 1000, the church here was given to Benedictine monks from the Badia by the bishop of Florence in 1064, being originally dedicated to the saints Proculus (of Pozzuoli, a bishop of Verona in the 4th Century) and Nicomedes. Rebuilt in Romanesque style in the 16th Century, when the orientation was reversed, this being the church with the altar at the west end we see today. The building was then renovated from 1739 to 1743, when it was acquired by the Confraternity of Sant'Antonio Abate dei Macellai, one of the four brotherhoods known as buche, which were known for flogging, strict discipline, and night-time prayer meetings. The other three such brotherhoods were at the churches of San Jacopo sopr'Arno, San Girolamo and San Paolo.
The church was suppressed by the Grand Duke Leopold I and deconsecrated in 1778, with its art mostly moved to the Badia. In 1786 it was sold to Cardinal Gregorio Salviati. From 1934 the church was used by Giorgio La Pira, a local politician who later served two terms as mayor, to celebrate masses for the poor - the Messa dei Poveri - at which food and money were given to the homeless and the sick (see photo below right). These masses much later moved to the Badia and the church fell into disuse. The church was heavily damaged during the 1966 flood and closed, and then a portion of the roof fell in in June 2005, with accusations flying that the Salviati family had been refused permission to carry out restoration work which might have prevented the collapse. The roof was later rebuilt. In recent years there have been unsuccessful attempts to purchase the church by a nearby hotel and by the Bargello Museum to use as exhibition space.
San Procolo Healing a Boy by 18th Century painter Gaetano Piattoli is said to be still over the main altar. Most of the other, more major, works of art previously in the church have long since been removed. 14th Century ceiling frescoes covered over in the 18th Century works are said to have been discovered when some of the roof collapsed in 2005.
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Three panels from a dismembered altarpiece by Pacino di Bonaguida, Saint Nicholas, Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Proculus, now in the Galleria dell'Accademia, may once have been located here.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Madonna and Child with Saints Nicholas and Proculus, a triptych painted in 1322 for this church. The central panel was presented as a gift to the Uffizi in 1959 by Bernard Berenson. The wings of the altarpiece had been there since the previous century. Also the famous Four Stories from the Life of Saint Nicholas of 1332, also by Ambrogio, which were probably placed around a large portrait of the saint, have been in the Uffizi since 1919.
Fresco fragments, showing the heads of a young saint and an old saint (1350-55), by Giottino, from the Ridolfi chapel here, are now in the museum of the Ospedale degli Innocenti.
A sweet Lorenzo Monaco Annunciation with
Saints Catherine, Anthony Abbot, Proculus, and Francis, (see right) is
now in the Accademia. It ended up there via the Badia and has recently been restored. The Saint Proculus
depicted is the 4th Century knight saint of that name, not the 6th Century bishop. They are both said to be buried in
the same tomb, though, in San Procolo in Bologna, and share the same
feast day (June 1st). A roundel of The Prophet Isiah, convincingly
argued to be from one of the circular voids in the lateral pinnacles,
is in the Feigen collection.
Built in the 11th century by the Vallombrosan Order as part of an abbey complex. Partly destroyed during the 1529 Siege of Florence, and reconstructed as it was, except for the portico, built in a 16th century style. A single aisle, Latin-cross design with a rectangular apse. The church is said to contain the early 15th Century frescos from a tabernacle once sited at the other end of the via San Salvi, said to be by Lorenzo di Bicci, or his son Bicci, or both.
The refectory
Another story goes that the same defenders who were
destroying everything that could be used by the besiegers in the 1529
mentioned above, and who had
partially destroyed the church, knocked down a wall to get into the
convent but when faced with Andrea's Last Supper were so lost in
admiration that they could not destroy it and, in fact, rebuilt the wall
that they had already knocked down, the better to secure the painting.
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In the via della Pergola, near an Arte della Lana house and by the grape pergola that gave the road its name, the Congregazione dei Contemplanti was founded by a Dominican friar from San Marco. In 1568 the Mannerist painter Santi di Tito became a member and designed a chapel for the Confraternity which was dedicated to St. Thomas Aquinas. He also created the altarpiece of The Crucifixion and St. Thomas Aquinas (see right), now in San Marco. The vestibule has ceiling paintings from 1782 by Grix and Stagi. The oratory's ceiling was decorated in 1710 by Rinaldo Botti, with the Glory of St Thomas painted by Camillo Sagrestani and Ranieri del Pace. In the 17th Century the oratory became a hospice for pilgrims but was suppressed in 1775. It was recently reconsecrated and services are now held here again.
Supposedly built on the site where Saint Ambrose himself stayed in 393, the church here was first documented in 988, but was probably older, the 5th Century has been suggested. It has been much rebuilt, notably in the late 15th Century. The apse end, with its triumphal arch, as well as the baroque altar, was designed in 1716 by Giovanni Battista Foggini, with the gothic façade added in the 19th Century, replacing the less-ornate gothic original.
Very much a used church, due to its proximity to the market and busy shopping streets, but also a church proud of its frescoes. It's wide and aisleless with an open timber roof. Four lovely chunky dark grey Renaissance altars down each side. On the right as you enter a detached fresco of the Deposition by Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, large and in good condition, along with its sinopia (background drawing), it was found behind the third altar.
The first chapel on the right, just after Cronaca's tomb slab in the floor, has a very faded fresco, the second has the lovely Madonna del Latte by an unknown master of the 1360s, described as School of Orcagna, it was once thought to be by Agnolo Gaddi. She is flanked by Saints John the Baptist and Bartholomew. The third chapel has a dark an anonymous altarpiece, the fourth a bright Madonna and Child Enthroned.
By the steps is another, smaller Madonna and Child attributed to Giovanni di Bartolomeo Cristiani, and facing you, in the right-hand side chapel behind the organ, is a lovely recently-restored triptych of the Madonna and Child with Saints Cosmas and Damian attributed to Lorenzo di Bicci, with four more saints in the flanking panels (see right).
A pair of crowded works of 1832/3 by Luigi Ademollo flank the high altar where altarpieces by Filippo Lippi and Masaccio and Masolino once stood.
Coming back up the left hand side we begin with the highlight Cappela del Miracolo, to the left of the apse (see below right) with its fresco of The Legend of the Miraculous Chalice by Cosimo Rosselli. It contains portraits of Rosselli's Florentine contemporaries, including a self-portrait in a black beret to the extreme left. The ceiling is also frescoed by Rosselli with the Four Doctors of the Church. Also in this chapel is a marble tabernacle by Mino da Fiesole made to house the miraculous and venerated phial of blood. The legend says that on 30th December 1230 a chalice which had not been cleaned was the next day found to contain blood rather than wine by Uguccione, the parish priest. (The abbess at the time was sister Tada - hence the conjuror's expression when a trick succeeds - 'ta-da!' ) This Eucharistic miracle made the church a place of pilgrimage. The supposed miracles include plague prevention in 1340.
Mino's tomb slab is in the chapel too. Next is the sinopia (see detail right).
The fourth chapel on the left has a dingy Saint Anthony Abbot with Tobias and the Angel by Raffaellino del Garbo, with an Annunciation above, the third has a Madonna and Child with Saints by Rosselli. Next is a wooden sculpture of Saint Sebastian by Leonardo del Tasso, with a roundel of The Annunciation attributed to the workshop of Filippino Lippi above and the sculptor's tombstone in the floor in front. The second altar has a Visitation by Andrea Boscoli and the first a damaged fresco of The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian by Agnolo Gaddi. Lastly on this side, as you return to the entrance, on the wall is a Madonna and Child with Angels and Saints by Alesso Baldovinetti.
Another of the tombs of 15th and 16th Century artist here is that of Andrea del Verrocchio who died in Venice in 1486 and was returned here. Francesco Granacci, apprentice to Ghirlandaio and friend of Michelangelo, is also buried here. The paintings and fresco fragments here are mostly well labelled, even if these are all a bit eccentrically translated.
Lost art
Filippo Lippi Coronation of the Virgin (see below right) was commissioned for Sant'Ambrogio in 1441 by Francesco Marenghi, who is painted praying on the right under St John the B's right hand, and paid for in 1447. It remained here until 1810, when it was stolen. It was later sold to the Accademia, from which it was transferred to the Uffizi in 1919. The frame is lost but a predella panel showing the Miraculous Infancy of Saint Ambrose (involving bees supping honey from his lips) is in Berlin (but not to be found in the Gemäldegalerie when I was there). On the left is supposed to be a self-portrait of Filippo Lippi in the garments of a Carmelite monk (looking out at us under the lily pot on the left). This painting is described at length in lines 344-389 of Robert Browning's poem Fra Lippo Lippi, published in 1855 in his collection Men and Women.
Masolino and Masaccio Madonna and Child with Saint Anne. Painted probably around 1424 for the high altar here. Masolino painted Saint Anne and all the angels except for the top right hand one, painted by Masaccio who is also responsible for the Madonna and Child. At the Uffizi since 1919.
Botticelli's dark Madonna and Child with Six Saints was transferred (and was then thought to be the work of Ghirlandaio) to the Accademia in 1808, and then to the Uffizi in 1946.
The Madonna of Sant'Ambrogio by Andrea
del Sarto, mentioned by Vasari, is long lost.
The origins of the church and convent of Sant'Egidio (St Giles) are unknown, but are thought to have been Romanesque. The original complex, centred on the church of Sant'Egidio, had been run by the Frati Saccati, (Friars of the Sack) a mendicant order, suppressed by the Council of Lyons in 1274, whose Prevençal saint the church was named for. Papal suppression didn't prevent the remaining friars living out their lives in the order, which remained here until at least 1286. The land and buildings thereby became available and were acquired to become the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, which was founded in 1288 by Folco Portinari, the father of Dante's Beatrice.
The hospital expanded during the 14th Century, but the first rebuilding of
the church came following the old church's destruction in 1418, when it was enlarged,
to designs by Bicci di Lorenzo, and new painted decoration
This work was implemented by the then spedalingo (hospital prefect)
Michele di Fruosino da Panzano, who also commissioned the fresco (see
far below left) of Pope Martin reconsecrating the church in 1420. The present appearance of the church is the result of a 16th century
restructuring, attributed to a plan by Bernardo Buontalenti (1528-1608)
and carried out by Giulio Parigi in 1611. The 15th century frescos that
decorated the walls were covered by four classical altars in pietra serena
(two on either side). The steps in front of the high altar, partly due to
Buontalenti are of the same period. The baroque balustrade, which blends
stylistically with the altar in patterns of semi-precious stones is
later period. Facing the steps are the tomb-stones of the Portinari
family. The ceiling decoration is the result of the collaboration between
Giuseppe Tonelli who took care of the painted architecture and Matteo
Bonechi who added the figures. (First half of the 18th Century).
Lost art
An almost square Annunciation panel by the Master of the Straus Madonna (c.1395-1405) from the hospital is in the Accademia.
Fra Angelico's Coronation of the Virgin, painted around 1435, and mentioned by Vasari in his description of Sant'Egidio, has been in the Uffizi since 1948. Two predella panels are in San Marco.
A great six-panel cycle of frescoes (1439-1470) of The Life of the Virgin, commissioned by the Portinari family and highly praised by Vasari, which decorated the choir of the church was begun between 1439 and 1445 by Domenico Veneziano, with Piero della Francesca and Bicci di Lorenzo as his assistants. They painted three scenes, with Andrea de Castagno adding three more opposite between 1451 and 1453. The final unfinished panel was completed, around 1461, by Alessio Baldovinetti. All of it is now lost, with only some unrevealing decorative panels remaining, as well as a sinopia (underdrawing) by Domenico Veneziano of a nude woman with perspective lines, these fragments being now installed in the refectory of Sant'Appollonia. It is said that the cycle's depiction of hospital patrons was also a celebration of Cosimo de'Medici's flight from Florence in 1433, as many of the Medici partisans who engineered his escape from prison were depicted.
It is during their painting these frescoes that Andrea de Castagno (according to Vasari) murdered Domenico Veneziano. He writes that Blinded with envy of the praises he had heard of Domenico's talent, Andrea determined to be rid of him. He considered various ways of killing him, and one of them he put into action as follows. One summer evening, as was his custom, Maestro Domenico took his lute and made his way out of Santa Maria Nuova, leaving Andrea there drawing in his room. Andrea had declined his invitation to join him on a walk, saying he had some urgent drawing work to do. So Domenico went off and pursued his usual rounds of pleasure in the city. But on his way back, unknown to him, Andrea was waiting round a street corner, and with some lead weights he smashed both Domenico's lute and his stomach with one blow, and also struck him violently on the head with them. Then he ran off, leaving Domenico half dead on the ground, and returned to his room in Santa Maria Nuova, and leaving the door ajar he sat back down at the drawing he had left. Stirring stuff, but unfortunately it has been proven that Veneziano lived for four years after the death of Andrea.
The Adoration of the Magi, a hugely influential altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes (see photo right) has been in the Uffizi Gallery since 1900. (Along with some other pictures it had for a while been in the house in via Bufalini where Ghiberti had his workshop.) It was commissioned by Tomasso Portinari, a Medici agent working in Bruges whose family had long been major patrons of this church and hospital, and was painted around 1475. It was commissioned to go over the high altar, the choir having been decorated with scenes from the life of Mary (see paragraph above) but without one depicting the nativity. Portinari and his wife and children are depicted on the wings of the altarpiece. It is the largest Flemish altarpiece ever painted - wider even than the Ghent Altarpiece. It came by sea from Bruges to Pisa and then up the Arno to Florence, where 16 men were employed to carry it from the harbour, through Porta San Frediano, to Sant'Egidio. It arrived in Florence on 28th May 1483 and replaced an older work by Lorenzo Monaco, painted around 1420/22 and now lost, but possibly depicting the same subject.
Also lost is an altarpiece painted between 1434 and 1439 by Zanobi Strozzi for the Chapel of St Agnes here. Botticelli's Madonna and Child with St John and Two Angels painted for the hospital, having been previously ascribed to Filippo Lippi.
John Henderson - The Renaissance Hospital
Contains much about the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova and hence Sant'Egidio, especially in Chapter 4, the chapter dealing with hospital churches.
Martin V consecrates Sant'Egidio in
Celebrations following the Reconsecration of Sant'Egidio in 1420 by
Bicci di Lorenzo, a fresco which
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Dating back at least to the 14th century, the church and its attached monastery belonged to the Augustinian nuns of Candeli. The church was completely rebuilt in 1704 by Giovanni Battista Foggini in an elegant late-baroque style. with a ceiling fresco by Niccolò Lapi. The monastery was suppressed in 1808 and rebuilt by Giuseppe del Rosso as the Royal Lyceum. Later used as a home for poor boys and as a Carabinieri barracks. The church is deconsecrated.
The Brotherhood from which the church takes its name was founded in 1343 was initially based by the old Prato Gate where there was a gallows. There was also a hospital of the Knights Templar, from which the order derived its name. This first church was built in 1361 but was destroyed to clear the ground outside the walls during the Siege of Florence. The Brotherhood moved inside the walls and in 1424 established a group called The Blacks who accompanied prisoners from the Bargello or Stinche prisons to the gallows outside the gates. They were dressed in black and hooded, and flagellated themselves (and were hence dubbed Battuti). At their head they carried a crucifix now kept in the nearby church of San Giuseppe.
The Brotherhood was suppressed in 1785 by the Grand Duke Peter Leopold of Tuscany at the same time as he abolished the death penalty. The church was deconsecrated. It reportedly contains paintings from the 16th to the 19th Centuries, including a cycle of frescos once attributed to Bicci di Lorenzo, later to the Master of Signa, an anonymous pupil of his.
Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi
The Pazzi name was added after a Carmelite nun from the Pazzi family, who had lived with the nuns when they were resident at what is now San Frediano. When possessed of the holy spirit, she would speak at such a rate as took eight novices to transcribe her utterances. She was also known to pour boiling wax on her arms and lie naked in thorns. She was canonized in 1669 and is buried here.
In the chapter house, reached through a tunnel at the end of the right aisle, is a fine landscape-dominated three-panel fresco of The Crucifixion and Saints (1493-96) by Pietro Perugino, which was commissioned by Dionigi and Giovanna Pucci.
Lost art
A monastery that was founded in 1628 by the Discalced (barefoot) Carmelites, dedicated to the Saint Teresa of Avila, one of the founders of the order. It was built to a design by John Coccapani, who also designed the baroque church. Suppressed in 1808 and 1865. Initially used to house the homeless, with the nuns still in charge, it became a prison in 1866. Enlarged in 1875, the complex was damaged by the flood of 1966. With the creation of the Sollicciano prison a competition was announced in the early 1980s for projects that would result in community use of the buildings. Nothing came of this, and the building still houses low-security prisoners, with a small part also currently being used by the University of Florence's Faculty of Architecture.
The baroque church has a central plan with a dome topped by a hexagonal lantern.
Anna Maria Redi (Saint Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart) lived here from 1764 to 1770. She was from the family of Francesco Redi, the famous physician of Arezzo, and entered the monastery young, soon after finishing her education at Sant'Appolonia. She died, and was buried, here at the age of 23. Her body had become swollen and disfigured by the disease that killed her but days later she had appeared to be miraculously incorrupt and as if she was merely sleeping.
A convent founded in 1395 by notary Niccolò Manetto for Vallombrosan nuns from his birthplace. Restoration of the existing buildings and the building of a church took five years. It was originally named for both San Giovanni Gualberto and Santa Verdiana, the latter a nun from Castelfiorentino who lived for 34 years, in the early 13th Century, walled up in a cell there together with the two snakes which got into her cell towards the end, but whose presence she never revealed. For Giovanni Gualberto's story see my entry for the church of Santa Trìnita.
More building work in 1425, thanks to the nuns' dowries and income from land left by Manetto. The convent was further enlarged in 1462, with a cloister built, with Medici money, some say Cosimo the Elder but it's more likely to have been his son Giovanni. Further work was carried out during the 16th and 17th Centuries, including the acquisition of works by Pier Dandini, Pietro Sorri, Fernando Melani and Vincenzo Meucci .
In 1589 a cult developed here around a miracle-working terracotta sculpture of the Madonna and Child.
Following suppression in 1808 there were plans to turn the complex into an abattoir and then a women's prison, which it became and during WWII was used by the fascists to imprison female partisans. In 1983 the prison at Sollicciano was finished and the inmates then here were moved there. It was then sold to the university and is now used by the Faculty of Architecture.
Lost art
The Baptism of Christ by Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci originally in the church of San Salvi, was transferred to the church here. In 1810 it was moved to the Accademia and then into the Uffizi in 1959.
The church was attached to the Franciscan convent of Santa Chiara, founded in 1363, which occupied the whole block to the via dei Conciatori. Consecrated in 1448, later damaged repeatedly by floods, it was rebuilt in 1542 by architect Antonio Lupicini and contained 'great works of art', we are told.
The interior has a nun's gallery. After the
Napoleonic suppression in 1808 the church and convent was assigned to the
company of Librai e Stampatori (booksellers and printers), so becoming
known as the Chiesa dei Librai. The convent was used as a
laboratory and later the church was deconsecrated and used for storage,
falling into a deplorable state, it was reported. It is said that it currently still
houses a printing press.
There was a small oratory here by around 1191, built in vineyards owned by the monks of the Badia Fiorentina. A church replaced the oratory in 1209 and was enlarged in 1243. Consecration followed in 1247 when the building was designated a parish church. It was badly damaged when the Arno flooded in 1557. The archbishop of Florence, Alessandro Marzi Medici, elevated its status to that of a priory and named Giovanni Niccolai as its first prior in 1608, a post he held until his death in 1642. Niccolai fortunately came from a wealthy family and so initiated renovation work on the church. By 1619 a new high altar of Carrara marble was added and the choir stalls and presbytery were completely renovated under the patronage of Niccolai and Bartolomeo Galilei, a relative of Galileo, a Knight of Malta, and steward to Leopoldo de' Medici. This work, by the architect Gherardo Silvani, did not include the facade but did rsult in the destruction of tombs, chapels and 14th Century frescoes. The final stage of Silvani's renovation (the gilt green ceiling) was completed in 1665. The floor of terracotta tiles and pietra serena is patterned to reflect the design of the ceiling and was restored after the 1966 flood. The church is currently used by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
In 1294 the newish silk merchants' guild, the Arte di Por San Maria, named for the road where most of them had their shops, was given responsibility for the care and education of Florence's orphans and foundlings. The two existing homes were found inadequate by 1419 and in that year a bequest by Francesco Datini enabled the guild to acquire land in near the church of Santissima Annunziata and they set about demolishing the ramshackle buildings on the site. The commission to design the spedale, named for the Innocents massacred by Herod, went to Brunelleschi, a goldsmith who'd only the sacristy in San Lorenzo to his name thus far. He began with the loggia, which was to prove influentially and is still impressive. His Chiostro degli Uomini (men's cloister) and the long Chiostro delle Donne (women's cloister) are also highlights. In 1427, following the completion of the loggia, Brunelleschi left, and the work continued under Francesco della Luna. The spedale opened in January 1445 and ten days later the first foundling - called Agata Smeralda - arrived. There were 90 children by the end of the first year and 600 by the 1460s. Many were the children of female slaves - most prosperous families had at least one such domestic slave, the labour shortages following the plague of 1348 only making the situation worse. Children were mostly left at night, initially in a basin beneath a window to the right of the entrance, where a woman waited listening at the window above. Around 1660 a wheel (which can still be seen, behind a grill) at the left end of the loggia, was installed, and was used until 1875.
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Botticelli's early Filippo Lippi-inspired Madonna and Child with an
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COLUMBUS, Ohio Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said tailback Chris "Beanie" Wells will not play when the third-ranked Buckeyes take on Ohio on Saturday.
Wells injured his right foot in last weekend's 43-0 victory over Youngstown State. He has not practiced with the team this week and has spent much of the time wearing a protective boot.
"Beanie won't go this week," Tressel said Thursday afternoon. "I feel good about his progress, but it wasn't enough progress to practice through yesterday."
Asked if he worries that Wells may not be available when the Buckeyes play at No. 1 Southern California on Sept. 13, Tressel added: "No, not at all. Not at all. But that's easy to say today."
The junior running back was considered one of the top contenders for the Heisman Trophy behind returning winner Tim Tebow of Florida. Despite several nagging injuries last year, Wells rushed for 1,609 yards and 15 touchdowns.
Ohio State has not allowed him to speak with reporters since he was injured, although he was quoted as saying by a team spokesman that he was relieved that X-rays had not shown any broken bones. He was seen walking between meetings at the team's practice facility on Tuesday, carrying the protective boot while gingerly making his way in stockinged feet.
Running backs coach Dick Tressel, Jim's older brother, said on Wednesday night that Wells had not been permitted to have contact, or to even put weight on his injured foot.
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