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Buck Pierce needs to stop. And Joe Mack needs to go.
That was the overwhelming message from respondents to this year's 10th annual Winnipeg Free Press/Calgary Herald Grey Cup Media Poll.
Print, radio and television reporters from across Canada who regularly cover the CFL were surveyed over the course of a week earlier this month and they were united on the subjects of Pierce and Mack like almost no other topic in the 25-question poll.
Asked what advice they would give to the beleaguered and oft-injured Winnipeg Blue Bombers starting quarterback, two out of three respondents recommended Pierce retire.
And respondents were even more united when asked if they thought Mack, the Bombers GM, deserves another year at the helm of the Winnipeg franchise. Fully 87.5 per cent of respondents said he did not, many of them emphatically so, with four different journalists responding 'Hell No!"
Only one other category in the survey received a more overwhelmingly uniform response — 90.2 per cent of respondents said they were very or reasonably confident the Saskatchewan Roughriders would have a new stadium built as scheduled by 2017.
Mack was also voted by respondents as having done the worst job of any coach or GM in the CFL in 2012. A write-in category, Mack was named on 38.2 per cent of responses, ahead of Ticats head coach George Cortez and former Edmonton GM Eric Tillman, who tied for second at 30.9 per cent. No other coach or GM received a vote.
The fact Mack won the worst job category over Tillman, who gave away Ricky Ray in the biggest single blunder of the 2012 season and was ultimately fired, suggests the Bombers GM has become the same kind of lightning rod for strong feelings around the country as he is here in Winnipeg.
The beleaguered Bombers GM also finished third in the biggest jerk in the CFL write-in category, garnering 11.9 per cent of the ballots. B.C. Lions defensive lineman Khalif Mitchell won that category with 28.6 per cent of the votes. Cortez finished second with 14.3 per cent.
Interestingly, the voters condemnation of Mack came in the same poll in which they voted one of his player acquisitions in 2012 — wide receiver Chris Matthews — as the second most likely CFLer to graduate to the NFL. Matthews received 16.7 per cent of votes in the write-in category, distant second to Hamilton receiver/returner Chris Williams, who garnered 42.9 per cent of ballots.
Another Mack acquisition in 2012 — running back Chad Simpson — also received multiple votes in the most-underrated player category, while Bombers cornerback Jovon Johnson tied for second in the most-overrated player category.
While the voters in 2012 didn't much care for Mack, they loved new Bombers head coach Tim Burke. Burke won the nice guy write-in category with 11.9 per cent of the ballots and finished in a tie for first with Saskatchewan field boss Cory Chamblin as the league's best quote in the coaching category.
Burke might want to share his secret with Bombers backup quarterback Joey Elliott. Despite playing in just half of the Bombers' regular season games in 2012, Elliott still won the "worst player quote" in the league category, garnering 10.5 per cent of the responses in a write-in category.
Welcome to the 10th annual Grey Cup Media Poll.
The Winnipeg Free Press and Calgary Herald earlier this month polled print, radio and television journalists who regularly cover the CFL. Surveys were sent out prior to the playing of the East and West semifinals and the responses were due last week, prior to the playing of last weekend's East and West Finals.
Forty-two journalists responded, an increase of 10 per cent over the 2011 response rate.
Here are their answers to 25 questions, with the percentage of vote each answer received:
1. Best player to get a quote from:
1. Nik Lewis 26.1
2. Henry Burris 14.3
3. Angus Reid 9.5
Behind the numbers: The reporters love him, but Lewis can run his mouth a little too far at times — witness last week's O.J. Simpson 'joke' he sent out on his Twitter account that prompted a fine from the CFL and led Lewis to donate his game cheque from the West final to a women's shelter to make amends.
2. Best coach to get a quote from:
1. Tim Burke/Cory Chamblin 26.1
3. Kavis Reed 14.3
Behind the numbers: It's interesting that all three of these guys posted losing records this season. There's something to be said for keeping your head — and your sense of humour — even when things are going badly.
3. Worst player to get a quote from:
1. Joey Elliott 10.5
2. Weston Dressler/Chip Cox 7.9
Behind the numbers: In defence of Elliott, it's not so much that his quotes are bad — he's actually very friendly and talkative. The problem is more that Elliott's quotes are often so divorced from reality, it leaves reporters wondering whether he's being deliberately dishonest or simply delusional.
4. Worst coach to get a quote from:
1. George Cortez 42.9
2. Marc Trestman 28.6
3. John Hufnagel 23.8
Behind the numbers: With Hufnagel and Trestman, you get the feeling as a reporter that they're holding back because they're weirdly paranoid. But with Cortez, you get the feeling he's holding back because he genuinely hates your guts. Hufnagel had won this category a record four years in a row heading into this season.
5. Next CFL player who could make it big in the NFL:
1. Chris Williams 42.9
2. Chris Matthews 16.7
3. Jovan Olafioye 9.5
Behind the numbers: Williams ran away with this category, which is interesting since many of the same voters selected another East Division receiver/returner, Toronto's Chad Owens, over Williams as the East Division nominee for Most Outstanding Player this season. Owens finished fourth in this category.
6. How confident are you that the Hamilton Tiger-Cats will open the 2014 season with their new stadium completely finished?
Very confident/reasonably confident — 54.8
Not very confident/never going to happen — 45.2
Behind the numbers: More than a few voters pointed out that the much better question than where the Ticats are going to play in 2014 is where are they going to play in 2013 now that Ivor Wynne Stadium is being demolished to make way for the new stadium. That answer finally emerged Tuesday with the announcement Hamilton will play most, if not all, of their games in 2013 at the University of Guelph.
7. How confident are you that the Saskatchewan Roughriders will have a new stadium in place by the 2017 season?
Very confident/reasonably confident — 90.2
Not very confident/Never going to happen — 9.8
Behind the numbers: Several voters pointed out that the people who are going to make a new stadium happen for the Riders — the politicians — are also among the team's biggest fans. It helps, in other words, when the guy paying the green is also wearing it.
8. Still on the topic of stadiums, which stadium needs upgrades or replacement the most (apart from the Hamilton and Saskatchewan facilities)?
McMahon Stadium — 46.3
Rogers Centre — 34.1
Percival Molson Stadium — 9.8
Behind the numbers: It's one of the mysteries of Canadian football that a city as awash in oil money as Calgary has a dump like McMahon as their marquee sports venue. Rogers Centre is simply way too big for Canadian football and there's still been no good explanation for why the Argos couldn't have cut a deal with FC Toronto to share 22,000-seat BMO Field. Molson Stadium is funky, cool and downtown, but it's not for everyone.
9. Your advice to Buck Pierce?
1. Retire — 66.7
2. Return in a backup capacity — 14.3
3. Get rid of the ball quicker, be more careful — 9.5
Behind the numbers: A few clowns made light of Pierce's ongoing health problems, but most offered expressions of genuine concern. "Think about your life in 20 years," urged one respondent. "Do you want to be able to pick up your grandkids one day," asked another.
10. Most overrated player?
1. Andy Fantuz — 23.8
2. Cory Boyd/Jovon Johnson/Henry Burris — 11.9
Behind the numbers: How the mighty have fallen. Fantuz has gone from the most coveted free agent last winter to the most overrated player in the league, while Johnson has gone from the top defensive player in the league in 2011 to the second-most overrated. And Burris threw 43 touchdown passes this year. Go figure.
11. Most underrated player?
1. Charleston Hughes/Dante Marsh/Hugh Charles — 9.8
Behind the numbers: Calgary QB Kevin Glenn finished alone in fourth with 7.3 per cent of the votes — a number that surely would have been higher if the voting was concluded after the West final, instead of before it.
12. The Nice Guy award: player/coach you'd love to sit down and have a beer with:
1. Tim Burke — 11.9
2. Anthony Calvillo/Mike Benevides/Geroy Simon — 7.1
Behind the numbers: Burke comes across as humble and self-deprecating and exactly what you'd expect from a guy who grew up in tiny Homestead, Iowa. The players love him, so do the reporters and the fact the national media anointed him the best quote in the league after just 10 weeks as Winnipeg head coach speaks volumes to how personable he really is.
13. Biggest jerk award:
1. Khalif Mitchell — 28.6
2. George Cortez — 14.3
3. Joe Mack — 11.9
Behind the numbers: With an opportunity to select anyone from a pool of about 500 players and coaches, it is a monument to Mitchell's disagreeableness that 28.6 per cent of the voters, acting entirely independently of one another, landed on his name. And here's something quirky — the fourth biggest jerk in the CFL in 2012 was someone you probably never even heard of — Saskatchewan offensive line coach Kris Sweet.
14. CFL coach/GM who did the best job with his team in 2012:
1. John Hufnagel — 42.9
2. Scott Milanovich — 19.0
3, Mike Benevides — 16.7
Behind the numbers: Kudos to the voters who overwhelmingly gave the nod to Hufnagel even before his Stampeders advanced to the Grey Cup with a win over B.C. With all kinds of injuries to deal with this season — most notably at starting quarterback — the folks in Calgary think this season might go down as Hufnagel's finest hour.
15. CFL coach/GM who did the worst job with his team in 2012:
1. Joe Mack — 38.2
2. George Cortez/Eric Tillman — 30.9
Behind the numbers: Every single vote in this category this year went to one of these three men. And what a race to the bottom it was between the guy who gave away Ricky Ray, the guy who missed the playoffs despite a starting quarterback who threw 43 touchdown passes and the guy who... well... Joe Mack.
16. The next general manager of the Edmonton Eskimos is:
1. Ed Hervey — 45.2
2. Kavis Reed — 21.4
Behind the numbers: Remember when the Eskimos used to be considered a model CFL franchise, on the field and off? Yeah, us neither.
17. Eric Tillman's next job?
2. Ottawa — 23.8
3. Winnipeg — 9.5
Behind the numbers: Tillman also got two votes for going on unemployment insurance and two votes for going into sales (used cars, snake oil). Most specific prediction for Tillman's future? "Winnipeg, around mid-August, 2013."
18. With Rough Riders apparently not available, what should the new Ottawa franchise be named?
We got 26 different answers, many of them along a theme tweaking Saskatchewan for refusing to allow the new Ottawa franchise to reclaim their old name. A sampling: "Gentle Riders, Ride Roughers, Ruff Ryders." The second funniest answer: "Roughriders." The funniest answer (from two voters): "Blue Bombers."
19. Pet peeve about the CFL?
Wow, do reporters like to whine. In no particular order: lousy closed practices, lousy no yards, lousy discipline, lousy crowds, lousy game-times, lousy availability, lousy fans voting for lousy all-stars, lousy video reviews, lousy salary disclosure, lousy Argos coverage in Toronto, lousy eight teams, lousy media relations directors, lousy crossovers and lousy commercials. Oh, and lousy reporters.
20. Does Joe Mack deserve another year in Winnipeg?
Yes — 12.5
No — 87.5
Behind the Numbers: Four different voters actually cast their ballot as, "Hell No!" and a bunch of others just made their one-word answer all uppercase, "NO."
You be the GM lightning round:
— Backup QB Ottawa should pick if the expansion draft were held today:
1. Mike Reilly — 45.2
2. Adrian McPherson — 16.7
3. Kevin Glenn — 11.9
— One game for the championship, your coach would be:
1. Marc Trestman — 85.0
2. John Hufnagel — 12.5
3. Cory Chamblin — 2.5
— One game for the championship, your QB would be:
1. Travis Lulay — 52.5
2. Anthony Calvillo — 35.0
3. Ricky Ray — 12.5
— Kicker you'd most trust on a 40-yarder to win the championship:
1. Paul McCallum — 50.0
2. Rene Paredes — 23.9
3. Luca Congi — 11.9
— First Canadian you'd sign if all were available:
1. Jon Cornish — 45.2
2. Andrew Harris — 30.9
3. Josh Bourke — 7.1
— First import you'd sign if all were available:
1. Travis Lulay — 50.0
2. Chad Owens — 14.3
3. Chris Williams — 11.9


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Problem with ISDN on c2600.
- Bronze, 100 points or more
I see a very strange problem with our ISDN slot on c2600 and can't somehow explain it.
If I connect a normal ISDN phone the line is working perfectly but if I connect ISDN port on our router then ISDN status shows:
#sh isdn status
Global ISDN Switchtype = basic-net3
ISDN BRI1/0 interface
dsl 0, interface ISDN Switchtype = basic-net3
Layer 1 Status:
Layer 2 Status:
Layer 2 NOT Activated
Layer 3 Status:
0 Active Layer 3 Call(s)
Active dsl 0 CCBs = 0
The Free Channel Mask: 0x80000003
Total Allocated ISDN CCBs = 0
and I can't start a connection, I've tried with help of "isdn test call", it shows an error like "no B chanel available"
If I make an incoming call to the telephone number of that ISDN line then the status of the line changes to "MULTIPLE_FRAME_ESTABLISHED" and I can use the line just normal for Dialer connections.
After some period of time (sometime is hours, sometimes is only a minutes) the Line status goes again to "DEACTIVATED" and Dialer connection doen't work until I place an incoming call.
The ISDN Hardware is:
BRI S/T - 2186 WAN daughter card
Hardware revision 1.3 Board revision A0
Serial number 19923810 Part number 800-01833-03
FRU Part Number WIC-1B-S/T=
BRI configuration:
interface BRI1/0
description isdn-backup
no ip address
encapsulation ppp
dialer pool-member 3
isdn switch-type basic-net3
isdn point-to-point-setup
isdn outgoing display-ie
no cdp enable
router version is 2600-advipservicesk9-mz.124-2.T.bin
I can see the same problem on two different locations, where we use this type of hardware.
Please give some advise. may there is a kind of "keepalive" for BRI interfaces?


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BUCHAREST, Romania -- Twenty-three years after communism collapsed, the Palace of the Parliament, a gargantuan Stalinist symbol and the most concrete legacy of ex-dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, has emerged as an unlikely pillar of Romania's nascent democracy.
And while it remains one of the most controversial projects of Ceausescu's 25-year rule -- albeit one that has gradually found a place in the nation's psyche -- it's also now an attraction, visited by tens of thousands of travellers every year.
The palace, so big it can be seen from space, tentatively opened its doors in early 1990. Described by some as a giant Stalinist wedding cake, it's the world's second-largest administrative building after the Pentagon, at 350,000 square metres.
Parliament and the constitutional court are housed inside, along with the South-East European Law Enforcement Centre, which fights crime, smuggling and fraud. Just days before Christmas, Parliament members met inside to vote on a new government. But over time the palace has become as much a magnet for glamorous events and celebrity photo-ops as it is a site for government affairs.
Brides pose in front of the yellow-stoned facade, while weddings, balls, movies and fashion shows and shoots take place inside. It's hosted celebrities -- Michael Jackson moonwalked in front of the building after a news conference, Colombian pop star Shakira sang outside in the pouring rain, and Hollywood actor Ethan Hawke attended a ball there to raise money for disadvantaged children. Visiting politicians have included former U.S. president George Bush, Russia's Vladimir Putin, and in October, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who made a speech to 16 European prime ministers.
On his 90th birthday in October 2011, former King Michael attended his first parliament sitting there in six decades, calling on Romanians to continue to build democracy. British TV producers even drove cars in the palace's underground tunnels to show how cavernous it was."
Construction on the grandiose project began in the early 1980s, when food rationing and power cuts were common. Some 9,000 homes were demolished, residents were given just days to vacate their homes, churches and synagogues were razed or moved, and two mountains of marble were hacked down for the 84-metre high palace to be built.
Ceausescu designed the palace to house the government and parliament after the devastating earthquake of 1977 in which swaths of buildings crumbled in the capital and more than 1,500 people died.
A semi-literate son of a peasant, Ceausescu was nothing if not ambitious: He wanted the new building to withstand any earthquake and last 500 years.
A million Romanians, including thousands of soldiers, were enlisted to work around the clock on the construction, painstakingly carving huge oak, elm and cherry doors and sculpting giant crystal chandeliers for marble rooms almost as big as athletic fields. Today's tours sample only parts of the building and last just one to two hours, but it would take a day to visit all the rooms and almost an hour just to walk around the perimeter.
The palace is perched atop a man-made hill at the end of the United Nations' boulevard that is deliberately one-metre wider than the famous Champs Elysees in Paris. Outside, the European Union, NATO and Romanian flags flutter.
Anca Petrescu, who was appointed chief architect of the project in 1978, recalled Ceausescu visiting one day, looking at some columns inside the building, and saying, "Those flowers decorating the columns are not equal."
"I never noticed that," Petrescu recalled. "I was exhausted and the others were petrified." The men in his entourage assured Ceausescu that the columns were identical, and Petrescu added, "We all swore that it was OK." But he ordered someone to climb a ladder and measure them, and determined that one flower "was one centimetre shorter than the others. We could not believe our ears."
Petrescu insists Buckingham Palace and Versailles were her artistic inspirations, not North Korean architecture, even though Ceausescu sent architects on a visit to Pyongyang to study architecture there after he was inspired during a 1971 visit. She says it's neo-classic in style, while others diplomatically call the style "eclectic."
"This building ended up so big due to a technical reason," she insisted. "There were supposed to be three big institutions in here: the presidency, the executive and the legislative corps, and round the back that's where the protocol and reception section were meant to be. It's basically a mega city that's why it's this large."
She said if Ceausescu -- who was tried and executed Dec. 25, 1989 -- were alive to see what had become of it, he "would make the sign of the cross" -- a Romanian expression that means he'd be horrified.
But Valentina Lupan, one of 2,000 architects who worked on the project says Ceausescu "was demented. Why did he want the biggest building? Like Hitler, like Mussolini, dictators love architects. Trust me on this. They, the dictators, imagine themselves as architects of the new world."
Tourists tend to rave about the sheer scale of the building rather than the architectural beauty.
"The inside is fabulous," said Dean Edgar, a resident British businessman.
"You have no idea the immense size of the rooms inside, there's marble everywhere, ornate furnishing, ornate tapestry, truly an incredible building. I don t think it's particular pretty but it's big, it's impressive.' "
-- The Associated Press
CEAUSESCU'S PALACE: Bucharest, Romania, http://www.palatulparlamentului.ro . Open daily 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (last admission 3:30 p.m). Admission between $10 and $15 for a guided tour. (Price varies depending on how long and complex the tour is; check in advance as not all tours are available every day or year-round.) Tours are offered in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Romanian and last up to two hours. Maximum group size is 25.
GETTING THERE: It's 25 kilometres from the Bucharest airport.
HOTELS: Most foreign visitors stay at the Ceausescu-built hotel behind the palace, now a Marriott, called The Grand, http://www.grandhotel.ro or via http://www.marriot.com .


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The Triumphs of Fame, Time, and Eternity
about 1450
Francesco Pesellino, Italian (Florence), 1422-1457
Tempera and gold on panel, 42.5 x 158.1 cm (16 3/4 x 62 1/4 in.)
Genre: European Art, Paintings, Furniture
Location: Early Italian Room
Accession Number: P15e5.2
In characteristic fashion, Bernard Berenson paid court to his patron, complimented her discernment, and spurred her acquisitiveness and rivalry with other collectors. Gardner was indeed lucky to get the two Pesellino panels since in the latter half of the nineteenth century, dealers and collectors had raised the demand for Renaissance painted wedding furniture. The cassone panels feature five parade floats, forming a grand procession that culminates in a celestial vision of God at the end of time. The imagery derives from Petrarch's fourteenth-century allegorical poem, The Triumphs of Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Eternity. In his letters to Gardner, Berenson singled out the final tableau for praise, but he referred to it as the triumph of Religion rather than Eternity; presumably this substitution of titles was calculated to appeal to Gardner's deepening piety. Religious sentiment mingled with courtly love proved irresistible, so it's no wonder that Berenson also deliberately tailored his description of the first panel to include the triumph of "Chivalry" rather than Petrarch's more conventional Fame. With such coded language, Isabella Stewart Gardner and Bernard Berenson shaped history through imagination and fantasy; they engaged with the Renaissance past through scholarship, research, and travel, but they also enjoyed the role-playing of a good costume drama!
Source: Cristelle Baskins, "'Rare and Wonderful' Marriage Pictures," in Eye of the Beholder, edited by Alan Chong et al. (Boston: ISGM and Beacon Press, 2003): 64-67.
Collection of the art dealer Samuel Woodburn (1783-1853), London. (with museum no. P15e5.1)
Purchased by Campanari at the auction of the late art dealer Samuel Woodburn (1783-1853), London, Christie, Manson & Woods for £52.10s on 9-11 June 1860, lot 17 (as Piero di Cosimo; as "the Return of the Medicis [sic] Family"; with museum no. P15e5.1)
Collection of the Italian paintings collector Rev. Walter Davenport Bromley (d. 1862) (with museum no. P15e5.1)
Purchased by the art dealers Colnaghi & Co., London at the auction of the Italian paintings collector Rev. Walter Davenport Bromley (d. 1862), London, Christie, Manson & Woods for £175.5s on 12 June 1863, lot 72 (as Piero di Cosimo; with museum no. P15e5.1)
Purchased by Mrs. J.F. Austen, Capel Manor, Horsmonden, Kent, from the art dealers Colnaghi & Co., London for about £300 before 1893. (as Piero di Cosimo; with museum no. P15e5.1)
Purchased by the art dealers Colnaghi & Co., London from Mrs. J.F. Austen, Capel Manor, Horsmonden, Kent and the Austen estate for £6,000 on 15 December 1897. (as Pesellino; with museum no. P15e5.1)
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealers Colnaghi & Co., London, through the American art historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959), December 1897, for £8,000 (as Pesellino; with museum no. P15e5.1)
- Christie, Manson & Woods. Catalogue of the very celebrated & valuable series of capital pictures, by the greatest early Italian Masters, formed under singular advantages, by that distinguished Connoisseur, the late Samuel Woodburn, Esq. (London, 9–11 June 1860), lot 17 (as Pietro di Cosimo; as "The Return of the Medicis [sic] Family")
- Christie, Manson & Woods. Catalogue of the celebrated collection of pictures, of the Rev. Walter Davenport Bromley (London, 12-13 June 1863), lot 72 (as Piero di Cosimo)
- Exhibition of Early Italian Art from 1300 to 1550. Exh. cat. (Royal Academy of Arts: London, 1893-94), no. 129, ill. (as Piero di Cosimo)
- Constanza J. Ffoulkes. "Le esposizioni d'arte italiana a londra." Archivio storio dell'arte 7 (1894), p. 168 (as universally accepted as Pesellino)
- Claude Phillips. "Early Italian Art at the New Gallery." The Magazine of Art 17 (1894), p. 146 (as Pesellino)
- Werner Weisbach. "Review of Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance a Berlin." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 20 (1898), p. 158 (as Pesellino)
- Bernard Berenson. The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance with an Index to Their Works, 2nd ed. (New York, 1900), p. 130 (as Pesellino)
- Mary Logan [Berenson]. "Compagno di Pesellino et quelques peintures de l'ecole [Part 1]." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 26 (July 1901), p. 18 (as Pesellino)
- Werner Weisbach. Francesco Pesellino und die Romantik der Renaissance (Berlin, 1901), pp. 71-83, 129 (as Pesellino)
- Catalogue. Fenway Court (Boston, 1903), p. 11. (as Pesellino)
- Herbert P. Horne. "Letter to the Editor." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 10 (November 1906), pp. 131-32 (as Pesellino; as formerly in the Woodburn, Davenport Bromley and Austen collections)
- William Rankin. "Cassone Fronts in American Collections." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 9 (1906), p. 288. (as Pesellino)
- Herbert P. Horne in Werner Weisbach in John La Farge and August F. Jaccaci. Noteworthy Paintings in American Collections 1 (New York, 1907), pp. 133-35. (as Pesellino; as painted on the occasion of the marriage of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici to Lucrezia Tornabuoni in 1448; as listed in the Medici Palace inventory of 1492)
- Werner Weisbach in John La Farge and August F. Jaccaci. Noteworthy Paintings in American Collections 1 (New York, 1907), p. 127-29. (as Pesellino)
- Paul Schubring. Cassoni: Truhen und Truhenbilder der italienischen Frührenaissance. Ein Beitrag zur Profanmalerei im Quattrocento I (Leipzig, 1915), no. 267. (as Pesellino; as from about 1445)
- Frank Jewett Mather. The Portraits of Dante (Princeton, 1921), p. 57, pl. 47. (as Pesellino; as about 1450; as including a portrait of Dante)
- E.S.S. "The Miracle of Saint Silvester, Francesco Pesellino, Florentine, 1427-1457." Bulletin of the Worcester Art Museum 17 (April 1926), p. 4. (as Pesellino)
- Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 244-57. (as Pesellino; as painted on the occasion of the marriage of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici to Lucrezia Tornabuoni in 1448; as listed in the Medici Palace inventory of 1492)
- Alfred Scharf. "Zur Kunst des Francesco Pesellino." Pantheon (July 1934), pp. 213, 220, ill. (as Pesellino)
- Stuart Preston. "The Triumphs of Petrarch" in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), p. 11. (as Pesellino)
- Morris Carter. "Mrs. Gardner & The Treasures of Fenway Court" in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), p. 58. (as Pesellino)
- Bernard Berenson. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places. Florentine School 1 (London, 1963), p. 167. (as Pesellino)
- Gail Black. "Notes, Records, Comments." Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 6, no. 27 (3 Mar. 1963), pp. 1-2.
- William N. Mason. "Notes, Records, Comments." Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 6, no. 39 (26 May 1963), pp. 1-2.
- George L. Stout. "Repair in Retrospect." Fenway Court (Nov. 1966), pp. 9-15, ill. 10, 12.
- Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), p. 162. (as Pesellino)
- Lutz S. Malke. Die Ausbreitung des verschollenen Urbildzyklus der Petrarcatrionfi durch Cassonipaare in Florenz. Unter Berücksichtigung des Gloriatriumphs. PhD diss. (Freie Universität: Berlin, 1972), pp. 102-110. (as Pesellino; as similar to Triumphs by Apollonio di Giovanni)
- Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 176-78. (as Pesellino; as painted on the occasion of the marriage of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici to Lucrezia Tornabuoni in 1448; as listed in the Medici Palace inventory of 1492)
- Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), pp. 94-95, 105-107, 108-109, 123, 159, 294.
- Graham Hughes. Renaissance Cassoni: Masterpieces of Early Italian Art. Painted Marriage Chests 1400-1550 (London, 1997), pp. 96-99, 185, ill. (as Pesellino; as two of the finest paintings illustrating Petrarch's Triumphs)
- Edith Wyss. "A 'Triumph of Love' by Frans Francken the Younger; from Allegory to Narrative." Artibus et historiae 19 (1998), pp. 49-50, pl. 8. (as Pesellino)
- Karl S. Guthke. The Gender of Death: A Cultural History in Art and Literature (Cambridge, 1999), p. 70, pl. 7
- Edith Wyss. "Matthäus Greuter's Engravings for Petrarch's Triumphs." Print Quarterly 17 (December 2000), pp. 348-49, pl. 126b.
- Cristelle Baskins. "Triumph: An Introduction" in Cristelle Baskins et al. The Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Sarasota: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 2009), pp. 4, 10.
- Alan Chong. "The American Discovery of Cassone Painting" in Cristelle Baskins et al. The Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Sarasota: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 2009), pp. 66, 77, 79, 91, 96 (as Pesellino; as purchased from Mrs. Austen by Colnaghi for £6000)
- Robert Colby. "Triumphs of Time, Fame and Eternity" in Cristelle Baskins et al. The Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Sarasota: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 2009), pp. 104-109, no. 4. (as Pesellino; as erroneously linked to the 1448 marriage of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici to Lucrezia Tornabuoni)
- Nathaniel Silver. "Creating a Renaissance Painter: Pesellino, Connoisseurship and the Romantik." I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 18 (Fall 2015), pp. 16-20, 26, 33, 36, pl. 7.


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Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I met a woman from another department on another floor at my Christmas party and we hit it off. We had quite a few drinks together. Then we were glued to each other all night, slow dancing. She even sat on my knee for a few minutes and kissed my ear. She'd had quite a bit to drink. At one point she beckoned me down the hall and into a bathroom nobody seemed to be using, with a door you could lock. We got into a hot and heavy necking session. OK, it was way more than necking. And then she got her coat, fell into a cab, and went home. Now, here's what's driving me crazy. At work the last two weeks, she treats me as if I don't even exist. I have run into her a dozen times and she looks right through me. She wasn't THAT drunk on the free booze at the party that she doesn't know who I am now. Even if she never touches me again, I still want to be friendly, but she won't even answer to hello. What can I do to get her attention and ask her why she's being so cold? — Getting Mad Now, Winnipeg
Dear Getting Mad: People notice when two employees are bombed and squeezing each other on the dance floor, and then end up in a locked bathroom for half an hour. Now this woman is sober, she knows what she did, and a few people may have bugged her about it. She wants to reclaim her reputation at work, so she's pretending it didn't happen. What the two of you did at the Christmas party was unwise politically, but now it's all over for her. That ship has sunk. Take your cue from her, and give her the deep freeze right back. You didn't know her before the party and you don't know her now, aside from a few minutes with her in a locked room, powdering whatever. She should be pleasant but businesslike to you, but she isn't. Have you been stalking her floor at work? Stop, if you have. You apparently didn't run into her before the party, and you don't need to keep running into her accidently-on-purpose now.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I have a New Year's resolution. I want more sex with my own wife. I discussed it with her yesterday. She is not feeling the love, believe me. We have three kids and she sees sex as a dangerous activity. Yet, she won't get her tubes tied. I don't want to get a vasectomy because I don't want to be de-sexed psychologically like my dad was after his vasectomy. When I mentioned it, my wife became very angry. She said, "Haven't I given you three sons already? What more do you want?" That's not the POINT and she doesn't get it! I am living in a sexually dead marriage in my 30s, with hardly any sex and affection. I feel like a meal ticket half the time. She hasn't worked a day since we were married, and she was six months pregnant. — Unloved and Fed Up, S. St. Vital
Dear Unloved: It's not about the birth control! She could get an IUD. You could get over yourself about the vasectomy by chatting for half an hour with a counsellor. Your wife could use the pill and you could use a condom. If people want to have sex, they will take care of the egg-and-sperm details. Your wife just doesn't want to have sex with you because the idea doesn't appeal to her. Why is she really turned off? You know some of the answers but you need to ask two questions: "What do I do to turn you off me as a person and as a sex partner?" and "Does it hurt when we have sex?" That's another big turn off which you could address with lubricant and an effort to start enjoying each other again outside the bedroom. The thing that's often so dismal about married sex is how sex is considered a given, and that often means nobody's trying — the couple doesn't dress up sexually for each other, light candles, go out on dates, have fun, laugh, neck, hold hands, or make angels in the snow. So screw up your courage and ASK your wife the big questions tonight.
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Your invitation sets the mood for your Halloween party, so make sure it works with your overall party concept. I'm a big fan of the old fashioned paper invite and this one was perfect for my Vampire-inspired fete for Halloween.
Greet the adult guests as they join the party with one of my Vampire Kiss cocktails. It's a bloody good way to start the night!
Don't forget the kids! Serve this festive mocktail made of apple cider and gingerale to the younger crowd to make sure they get into the Halloween spirit as well!
Keep the menu for your Halloween party simple, yet chic. Foods like sliders and spring rolls are easy to make and can be made festive by displaying them on Halloween platters with spooky embellishments like mini-plastic spiders. To stay on budget reuse an old platter by wrapping it in orange duct tape and topping with a Halloween-cut out.
A fabulous Halloween cake doesn't have to be expensive! Bake a red velvet cake, coat with cream cheese icing and then use my tips to create a vampy cake that's guaranteed to impress guests.
Gummi worms aren't only a perfect accent to the kids' mocktail - they're also a super easy snack to add to your Halloween table. Adults will enjoy indulging in these as well!
Pink or red Cockscomb is a fresh, fun accent for mini jack-o-lanterns. This flower has a texture that looks like brains, so the pumpkin will look like its "brains" have been exposed!
To make a really special Halloween centerpiece, add a simple arrangement of "Blood" red roses to the center of a painted pumpkin. As a final touch, embellish with store-bought cobwebs stretched over the blooms.
Once of the easiest ways to spook up your party space is with cobwebs! Cover bookshelves, tables, ceilings and furniture with this inexpensive accent to mimic the feel of a haunted house.
Red decorations are a great alternative to the usual orange ones you find at most Halloween parties. Not only does the color keep with the vampire-theme, it's also makes a statement on a budget.
Reuse the red candles you have on hand from Christmas or Valentine's Day. Simply embellish with some Halloween themed decals or stickers to make them pop!
Fit for a vampire, red tablescapes are also budget-friendly. Dig into your Christmas or Valentine's Day decorations and find that red tablecloth! Add some cobwebs with mini-spiders and a jack-o-lantern to the spread to create a Halloween feel without banking the bank.
Handmade trick-or-treat bags are a fun craft for kids and will also save you money. These candy corn treat bags are simple and inexpensive, but so festive!
Halloween gets a fresh, fun makeover when you use red in your design rather than orange, but with my tips and ideas, it stays festive! Happy Halloween!
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Great Reference Site to Help the Environment
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I came across this site today for the National Parks Service of Kings County, Washington. It is full of information we can all use for "green" or environmentally kind methods to employ when doing constructions, purchasing building supplies (including carpets, paints, electronics, oils, etc.) or recycling. Its worth taking a look, here's the link:
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When I traveled through europe bidets were in every hostel/hotel i stayed at. You think baby wipes are great? How about a powerwash up the arse? next house i buy will have one of these.
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Southern California, USA
Who is your favorite fashion designer and why?
I've always been in awe of the fabulous Coco Chanel. She was the first to say FUCK what men what women to wear! She went for designs that were comfortable and classic. She was against the norm and stood up for real women out there. It's incredible that her designs can be worn to this day. I believe plus, real, curvy (what ever you want to call us) women are at the point in time were we are standing up and saying screw what the industry thinks we should be wearing…we'll wear what we want!
What is the one fashion accessory/item you can't live without?
Aghhh…don't throw stones but I cannot live without my black leggings! I love that I can pair them with anything in my closet and feel comfortable and chic.
If you were allowed to create a beauty product, what would it be and what would you name it?
I would create a lipstick. I can see it being a bright shade of red with a hint of pink. I would call it "Beware: Curves Ahead!"
If you only had 10 minutes to pack for a fashion extravaganza in your favorite city, what would you bring and where would it be?
I would pack my fave leggings, over-sized tee, leather jacket, black pumps, mixed jewelry and head out to punk/rockabilly bar in L.A to dance the night away.
Do you live by a fashion philosophy or quote? What is it?
It's not really a fashion quote but it can be applied to being yourself. "The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."


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Congressional negotiators are reportedly moving towards a limited budget agreement that would avoid another government shutdown but generally fails to pursue substantial fiscal reforms.
A budget conference committee was given until this Friday to come up with a belated compromise plan to fund the government in Fiscal 2014, which began Oct. 1. Hopes have focused largely on private talks between House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.).
While details remained uncertain early this week, the developing deal would reportedly raise the sequester-level discretionary spending caps for two years and offset the increase with fee hikes, broadcast spectrum auctions and higher contributions from federal workers to their retirement plans.
This agreement would allow the appropriations process to go forward in a more regular manner than in the crisis environment of recent years. But it would simply kick many critical issues – from revamping the tax code to reforming the entitlement programs – down the road.
In addition, the plan would not curb the projected growth of the federal debt or address the need to raise the statutory debt limit by early next year.
"That this can be declared a victory is an indicator of how low the process has sunk," Robert L. Bixby, executive director of The Concord Coalition, told The Washington Post. "They haven't really done anything except avoid another crisis."
Even this low bar may prove to be too high as some lawmakers in both parties have registered objections to certain parts of the reported deal.


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Did you know?
The ancient art of tracking is being revived at Samara, through its Tracker Academy.
Samara Private Game Reserve is in the Great Karoo – a somewhat unusual setting to have a bush lodge.
In some ways it resembles the customary savannahs further north. There are flat-topped trees, there is waving grass, there are antelope roaming the plains. In other ways it is utterly different.
Instead of lions, there are cheetahs – plenty of them. Instead of hyenas, there are bat-eared foxes and cheerful, scorpion-hunting meerkats. Instead of umbrella trees, there are spectacular white-barked shepherd's trees. And you'd be unlucky not to see an aardvark.
Crush the narrow leaves of Karoo bushes in your fingers and you'll smell something resembling rosemary, lavender, sage or thyme. These are the bushes the sheep eat in the Great Karoo, and the reason why this land used to be a series of sheep farms until it was bought by Sarah and Mark Tompkins, and rehabilitated.
It's a semi-desert, but with high levels of biodiversity. There's a whole different ecology here, and it's fascinating to uncover. What is equally enthralling is the spaciousness of it all. You'll be pampered, you'll sleep in crisp, fine linen and eat the best food, but the greatest luxury lies in resting your eyes on far horizons and to have nothing to do except exactly what you want.
The rhythms are different here. If you'd like to go for a wander instead of a game drive, why not? If you see one of the old farmhouses that still dot the landscape while on a drive, why not explore it? You could spend hours taking macro photographs of succulents, or just sitting in a comfortable chair on the shaded verandah with a book, lifting your head occasionally to watch the mountains change colour.
The Karoo, as you'll soon learn to appreciate, is a profoundly restful place.
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How to get here
The closest large airport is at Port Elizabeth, some three hours' drive away. Take the R75 from Port Elizabeth towards Graaff-Reinet, but just before you get there, turn right onto the R63 to Pearston and Somerset-East. Turn left after 7km at the St Petersburg sign. Alternately air charters can be arranged, or ask for a transfer.
Best time to visit
In the Karoo, the weather can be extreme. It's very hot in summer and often snows in the mountains in winter. Spring (August to November) and autumn (March to May) are more temperate.
Tours to do
You're not far from the historic town of Graaff-Reinet and the spectacular Valley of Desolation. It's easy to book a tour.
What will it cost
Samara is a luxurious, five-star lodge, and costs accordingly.
Length of stay
A two to three night stay would be ideal.
Where to stay
You have a choice of the stylish Karoo Lodge, the Manor (which caters for the exclusive use of up to eight guests) or the slightly more rustic but utterly charming Mountain Retreat.
What's happening
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A9 TV; 15 November 2011
(About the news that every 80 minutes an American soldier who returns home after serving in Iraq or Afghanistan suffers depression and tries to commit suicide, and about a video tape showing American troops in Afghanistan amusing themselves by mistreating a sheep)
These people are crazy. People like that can do anything. They can kill themselves or other people. Classic crazies. That is what comes of a Darwinist, materialist education. These idiots will cause America terrible problems. America must first of all renounce Darwinist, materialist education and adopt a form of education that teaches the existence of Allah. It must teach the dead-end nature of materialism and the falsity of Darwinism. If it does not do that, such tragedies will come one after the other. Someone who does not believe in Allah or the hereafter, who does not love Allah, will feel himself to be totally without responsibility. And then they turn out to be sadists like that. Materialist thinking does not regard human beings as human at all. It regards them as things, objects. So they have no love, and are cruel.
(About the usefulness of Mr. Adnan Oktar's activities aimed at eliminating the tension between Israel and Iran – Shimon Peres recently made a statement saying that time was running out for Iran. But now he has issued a different statement, saying he is opposed to a military intervention against Iran, recommending economic and political sanctions instead, and using the words "I do not advise an immediate military operation to prevent Iran building a nuclear bomb.")
A military operation would be totally wrong, not a humane action. It would be highly illogical. An action aimed at bringing them to heel would be quite irrational. What does Iran care about an economic embargo and things like that? The thing to do is show them love, peace and brotherhood. The countries of the region must watch over and protect one another. We all believe in the same Allah. We believe in the one Allah. We must improve democracy, human rights, freedom of thought, mutual respect and love of art and science in the region, and thus eradicate that tension. What is the first thing needing to be done? To eliminate Darwinism and materialism. Materialism is ruining the region, ruining Israel. Fanaticism, bigotry and radicalism cause the same damage. We must break these twin horns of the dajjal [antichrist]. Education is needed to eliminate extremist thinking. And education comes from being allies, coming together and talking. The other way, you get a different extremism developing in every country. There is one extremism in Iran and a different one in Israel. And the extremists then take that opportunity to kill one another. Yet if extremism is eliminated, there will be no more problem, insha'Allah.
(In answer to the question, "Why will Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) not be married?")
How do I know? Bediüzzaman Said Nursi never married, as you know. Jesus the Messiah (pbuh) was not married. He never married for his 30 years. Insha'Allah. Hazrat Maryam (pbuh) was not married. I mean, he could marry; it is all a matter of a person's will. Animals have no free will. But human beings do. They use their intelligence. They act in line with the Qur'an. Physical desires are easy. It is not as hard to control them as people think. My apologies, but foolish people rather exaggerate it. What are earthly passions? Someone shoots someone else. "I followed my desires," he says. He has actually gone along with satan. Someone commits and armed robbery and says, "Satan tempted me." He just followed his earthly desires. Those desires go hand in hand with satan. Insha'Allah. The hadith says that "Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) will have no children." It does not say he will not marry. Just that he will have no children. It says he will have no children and no descendants. That is what we are told. One account says, "All the imams will have a child to continue their line." "But the last spiritual teacher, Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) will have no children," he says. Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) will have no children. That is a precaution of Allah's, because the Day of Reckoning is imminent. Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) not being married and not having children are separate matters. That is what I gather from that. I understand it to mean he will not be married, insha'Allah.
From the hadiths of our Prophet (pbuh):
"Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) will go to Jerusalem," he says in a hadith. That is in destiny. "He will maintain his struggle until people return to the truth."(Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi `Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntadhar, p.23) He says he will constantly preach the word. What is the truth? Allah. "A caliph will appear from my Ummah in the End Times (a spiritual leader of Muslims), and he will distribute many goods without even counting them." (Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi `Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntadhar, p. 23) No writing it all down in ledgers, but giving it away by the handful, masha'Allah.
People who act out of logic sink themselves. People who act out of logic become polluted and dark. But people who act out of conscience are highly attractive. Logic looks like it will bestow some kind of advantage on people, as if it will be very accurate. Logic pollutes people. It darkens them and drags them down. But conscience makes them fertile and lovely. It always looks as if people will lose out when they act from conscience. But in fact, they always win in the end, insha'Allah. But one has to be patient, of course. Patience is very important, and a characteristic of Muslims. You cannot have good conscience if you have no patience. Patience and good conscience go hand in hand.2011-12-27 10:13:24


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Hackerspace Demo Night is a monthly demonstration of awesome projects by Hackerspace members. Admission is free and open to all.
The next Hackerspace Demo Night will happen on Tuesday, September 18th, 2012 at 7:00pm.
What's being demoed tonight:
- Make your own glow-in-the dark worms! (Patty)
- How to make tuning capacitors for NMR/NQR imaging (Allen M.)
- Cooking steaks underwater with the sous vide method (Devin)
- How we built Hackerspace's new RFID door lock system (cvk + Ian)
- A Ruby tool for ebook publishing (Chris L.)
This meeting will be held at our new downtown location, 101 SE 2nd Pl, Ste 100, Gainesville, FL 32601. (We are located in the basement level of the Sun Center, in the former location of the club Wise Guys. Our entrance is on the south side of the building, near the large arch at the north end of the main parking lot, beneath the large green awning.)


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Think outside the gluten free cereal box.
breakfast pumpkin polenta photo by vsimon
In a jiffy, stir up some steamy delish-ish-ness.
You can also make a bigger batch and keep it in the fridge for a few days. It will thicken over time, just add some water to thin. Warm in the microwave or on the stovetop.
Breakfast Pumpkin Polenta
|serves 1
|metric measures
|1/4 cup cornmeal
|35 gm
|1 cup water
|240 ml
|¼ cup pumpkin
|60 gm
|2 teaspoons dark brown sugar
|8 gm
Dried cranberries and walnuts to garnish.
Mix cornmeal and water in a saucepan. Traditional polenta recipes say to bring the water to a boil, and carefully whisk in the cornmeal. Don't do that, you are sure to get lumps.
Completely stir the cornmeal into the water BEFORE you turn on the heat.
Add pumpkin to the mix.
Bring to a simmer, stir constantly. Cook until thick, about 5 minutes. Guaranteed- no lumps!
You can read the morning paper as you stir if you must multi task.
Put into serving bowl. Top with dark brown sugar, dried cranberries, and walnuts. How often do you garnish your breakfast? I do it every time I have some version of cereal. I like the extra texture and flavor.
Appreciation for inspiration for this simple delight goes to Jes at VeganMofo III. Check out her post for more up line credits. Jes shared her version in the Go Ahead Honey, It is Gluten Free pumpkin issue at Life, Gluten Free.


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Broken sausage tastes as good as unbroken. And that looks delicious!
+1. Broken or unbroken, those sausages all look fine.
My favorite sausage vendor wasn't in their usual spot at the farmer's market yesterday. I hope they're still around, as they've won a couple of dozen provincial awards over the past 15 years and I feel like ordering some of their sausages after reading this post.


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- Almond Meal: Almonds are notoriously healthy nuts providing a good amount of manganese and vitamin E, as well as a healthy serving of monounsaturated fats in each 1/4 cup serving. Not only do almonds have a healthy boost of protein, they are also very low in carbohydrates. Eating whole almonds is terrific, but did you know that adding almond meal to your baking and cooking can bring the health benefits of almonds to your diet, as well as cutting back on carbohydrate consumption? Replacing 1/4 cup of white flour in your baking with almond meal will add wonderful texture and flavor and reduce the carbohydrate load. These days, baked goods using exclusively almond meal can be found all over the web for those that need to watch their sugars. Bonus: Almond meal makes a great coating for fish and chicken in place of flour or cornmeal.
- Coconut Flour: Once consigned to the category of nutritional no-no's, coconut has seen a resurgence in popularity due to new studies that have found it to be a highly nutritious food. While everything made from coconut may not be good for you, some coconut products are very good for you. Coconut flour is one of these mind-bogglingly nutritious foods. A single 2 Tbsp serving of coconut flour delivers 5 grams of fiber! The light flavor allows coconut flour to blend seamlessly into sweet or savory baked goods. Like almond meal, coconut flour has a low carbohydrate load, making it ideal for people who must manage their carbohydrate intake. Coconut flour is gaining in popularity, but it is still a tricky flour to bake with. We recommend starting with some recipes to get the hang of it, as it requires an unusual amount of liquid to balance out the high amount of fiber. Adding 2 Tbsp to a protein rich smoothie is a great way to get a little more fiber into your diet. Bonus: Like almond meal, coconut flour also makes a wonderful coating for chicken, fish or other proteins in place of regular flour or cornmeal.
What super foods would you add to this list?
Using Flaxseed Meal as an Egg Replacement:
Flaxseed meal makes a great egg replacement for muffins, quick breads and other baked goods with a heartier texture. It does not work as well for recipes with a lighter texture such as a white cake or sugar cookies (it will likely work, but the texture will be different and some visual appeal may be lost). It also does not work very well in egg-heavy dishes such as quiches, stratas and frittatas. Use this formula to substitute for one egg. Double for two eggs, triple for three eggs, and so on…
1 Tbsp Flaxseed Meal
3 Tbsp Water
Combine flaxseed meal and water and allow to sit for about 5 minutes. Add this ingredient to your recipe as you would the eggs.
Making Chia Gel:
2 Tbsp Chia Seed
1 cup Water
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The Galaxy found themselves playing in a rechristened stadium Wednesday night. They're still trying to find themselves as a contender in the 2013 season. | 100% SOCCER BLOG
Having lost three of their previous four games, the Galaxy were back home with forward Robbie Keane and defender Todd Dunivant back in the starting lineup. But they also had midfielders Robbie Rogers and Rafael Garcia making their first starts of the season, and the Galaxy could only move in fits and starts in a 0-0 tie at StubHub Center.
Coach Bruce Arena paired Keane with Landon Donovan at forward, hoping to recapture the scoring touch the two provided late in last season's championship run.
Rogers played on one wing and Gyasi Zardes on the other but after an early flurry, the Galaxy (6-6-3) had trouble mounting an attack.
That's not too surprising considering the Timbers (6-1-9) are simply the toughest team top beat in the league so far this season. They entered the game with a 13-game unbeaten streak, having won six of those games while compiling 14 goals on the road, the most in MLS.
After settling in, Portland began to control much of the first half but the teams combined for only nine shots in the opening half.
The Galaxy had the best chance in the 55th minute. After a scramble in front of the goal, defender Tommy Meyer lobbed a ball into the box that glancved off Rogers' head. The ball went forward and Donovan couldn't reach it, the ball bounced and tapped off the right goal post but the Timbers were able to clear it away.
Reserve midfielder Colin Clark, who replaced Rogers in the 69th minute, got a chance of his own in the 78th minute but his shot was stopped by former Galaxy goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts.
The Galaxy kept threatening the longer the game went but couldn't find a breakthrough.
Meyer was in the starting lineup because Omar Gonzalez was resting after his stint with the U.S. national team.
Keane, back from his duty with Ireland, had scored a hat trick for the Galaxy the last time he played for them, but he and Donovan had trouble connecting against Portland's stingy defense.
The Galaxy were also without midfielder Marcelo Sarvas, who was suspended for the match for yellow card accumulation.
The newest member of the Galaxy, veteran midfielder Pablo Mastyroeni, was on Arena's roster for the game but didn't see any action until the 91st minute, when he was sent in for Garcia.
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For more than six years, former Sgt. Kyle White knew he had been nominated for the Medal of Honor.
On Tuesday, he will finally receive the nation's highest award for valor, and, along with it, a sense of relief.
"Finally, our story can be told," he said. "These guys were the best of us. To me, it's important that their names are known. This is only one story, and this was more than six years ago. Since then, hundreds more sacrifices and hundreds other stories are out there."
Five soldiers and one Marine were killed on Nov. 8, 2007, during a deadly enemy ambush in Afghanistan's Nuristan province.
White, then a specialist with 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, is being honored for repeatedly running the gauntlet of enemy fire to get to the wounded and fallen. When the shooting stopped and night fell, White, who was barely 20 years old, cared for his wounded brother, called in steady radio reports, directed security and guided in close-air support until the medevac birds were able to come and evacuate the wounded and the dead.
President Obama will present the Medal of Honor to White during a White House ceremony Tuesday.
"I do not consider myself a hero," White said. "To me, the real heroes are the ones I fought with that day."
White will be the seventh living service member to receive the Medal of Honor for actions in Afghanistan or Iraq. Seven service members were posthumously awarded the medal for their actions in those wars.
White also will be the second soldier from 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment to receive the nation's highest valor award for actions in Afghanistan.
Former Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta was the first living service member to be honored for his actions in Afghanistan or Iraq. Giunta and White deployed together in the same battalion in May 2007 for a 15-month deployment to some of the toughest parts of eastern Afghanistan.
On Nov. 8, 2007, the soldiers, along with Marine Sgt. Phillip Bocks and the Afghan soldiers he was advising, set out for Combat Outpost Bella after a meeting with the villagers in Aranas.
The patrol made its way up a steep hill toward a trail that would lead them back to COP Bella, when, about 30 minutes into their journey and right after part of the patrol rounded a spur, "the ambush started," White said.
White, who was the radio telephone operator for the platoon, was walking with Capt. Matthew Ferrara, the platoon leader, forward observer Spc. Kain Schilling, and Bocks.
That headquarters element was quickly separated from the rest of the platoon, which was in front, and the Afghan soldiers who were bringing up the rear.
The first shot came in like "a single pop."
"Then two pops, and then the whole valley lit up," White recalled. "RPGs were coming from it seemed like everywhere."
White began shooting back.
"I dumped my first magazine, and when I went to reload it, I put the new magazine in, and nothing," he said.
White was knocked unconscious by an incoming RPG. He woke up facedown on the trail.
"I picked my head up two inches from the ground, and an enemy round hit the rock right in front of my face," he said.
White continued to fire at the enemy, and he soon saw Schilling had been hit in the shoulder.
"There were so many rounds coming in around us, it was incredible," White said.
As the bullets zipped by his head and rang in his ears, White ran about 20 feet down the trail toward Schilling.
He tied a tourniquet to the specialist's arm and made sure he hadn't been hit anywhere else.
White then returned to the fight, running through "a few" magazines before Schilling yelled to him that Bocks had been hit.
White dashed out to Bocks, and "you could see sparks all around Kyle," Schilling said. "He glowed from the ricochets."
Bocks was about 10 meters away, "but it might as well have been a mile," White said.
White grabbed Bocks by the carry handle on the top of his body armor and dragged him as far as he could.
Bocks had been shot at least twice, and White, using his body to shield Bocks from the enemy fire, tried to stop the bleeding as best he could.
"I worked on him until he was no longer with us," White said.
White then ran back to Schilling, who was yelling for him.
"Right as I turned around I saw a round go right through his left knee," White said.
White rushed back to Schilling's side. He was out of tourniquets, so he ripped off his belt and tied it down on Schilling's leg.
White then realized his and Schilling's radios were dead, and he began looking around to try to locate the other soldiers.
"That's when I saw Capt. Ferrara," White said.
He was facedown and not moving. White low-crawled to him, under fire, but Ferrara was dead.
White moved back to Schilling's location, and by this time, an interpreter and an Afghan soldier were there as well. Both Afghans were wounded, so White tended to them.
Once he made sure they were OK, White decided he needed to find a working radio and checked to see if Bocks' radio was still working.
"I pulled the hand mic out of his armor, and as I was bringing it up to my head, a round went through the hand mic and blew it out of my hands," he said. "Luckily I was the RTO and I knew how to operate the radio pretty well."
White then began relaying situation reports and updates to the operations center at COP Bella.
"At this point, it gets pretty foggy," White said. "I've heard myself on the radio directing fire support and stuff like that, but I don't remember."
As he worked the radio, White pieced together that the other element of the patrol had jumped off the side of the trail and tumbled down a cliff to a riverbed below. They were pinned down, and White decided he would try to link up with them.
"I tried to do that when night fell," he said. "I picked [Spc. Schilling] up, put him on my shoulder, and I tried to move him, but it was too painful for him. I had to lay him there, and this is where we stayed."
The men stayed there for hours, waiting for the medevac birds to reach them.
"It seemed like nighttime was the longest," White said.
All of the Americans on that patrol were killed or wounded, White said.
Fourteen soldiers were awarded the Purple Heart, one the Distinguished Service Cross, one the Silver Star, four the Bronze Star with V device, and two the Army Commendation Medal with V device for their actions that day.
White spent a few days in the hospital at Bagram Air Base before he was allowed to return to the U.S. for the funeral of his best friend, Cpl. Sean A. Langevin, 23. Langevin was one of the five soldiers killed that day.
White then returned to Afghanistan to finish out the deployment.
White left the Army in July 2011. He graduated in December with a bachelor's degree in business administration and now lives and works in Charlotte, N.C.
As he prepares for the White House ceremony, White said the Medal of Honor doesn't belong to him.
"It wasn't just me on that trail," he said. "It's everyone who was there. It's their award. One of the responsibilities I feel is being a voice for those we lost, making sure their names are known and their stories are told."


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Saint Leo Volleyball Coach Talks about His Year-Round Love for Volleyball
TAMPA, Fla. – Saint Leo Volleyball Head Coach Sam Cibrone was recently featured on Our Team – Tampa Bay discussing his different ventures, including the Lions, which he tackles during each year. The show is aired on a weekly basis on digital channel 8 Prime and produced by OUR TEAM Network.
The main topic of discussion centered around the recent Florida Prequalifier Volleyball Tournament at the Tampa Convention Center in Downtown Tampa. During the interview with Tampa sports anchor Dave Reynolds, Cibrone is asked about how his Saint Leo Lions will look to rebound from a sluggish year in 2010 and what they will improve upon in 2011.
OUR TEAM and 8 Prime have partnered to launch a brand new sports and community channel dedicated to local sports and events. The programming will be a mixture of weekly half-hour shows and specials as well as event coverage. The primary focus will be celebrating amateur athletes and the community organizations that support them. Show highlights and viewer participation can be found at 8primesports.com.
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by Dr. Johnny Benjamin on May 09, 2012 at 10:00 am ET
[IMG]http://mmajunkie.com/dyn/images/executives/dr-johnny-benjamin-3.jpg[/IMG]As doctors learn more and more about the devastating effects of brain injuries, MMA fighters have more and more to consider about their chosen profession.
In fact, MMAjunkie.com medical columnist and consultant Dr. Johnny Benjamin has some advice for fighters who have experienced two knockout losses in a fairly short amount of time. That includes UFC heavyweight Pat Barry.
In our latest installment of "Ask the Fight Doc," Dr. Benjamin explains why a little time off could help not only the fighters' health, but also their winning percentage.
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Doc: Why, during UFC on FOX 3, did you say on Twitter that you'd like to see Pat Barry take a year off?
I think about player/fighter safety in many ways other than merely the cost of the activity to the player/fighter's personal well-being.
I've often stated I think particular fighters need to take a year off from contact due to the amount of head trauma they've recently received. A perfect example is UFC heavyweight Pat Barry, who has experienced two spectacular KO losses since June 2011. (This is not intended to be disrespectful toward him in any way.)
The year off would provide an opportunity for his brain to heal without the continued insult of smaller (sub-concussive) blows that are a routine part of MMA training. Highlight-reel KTFOs and "Knock Out of the Night" performances get most of the attention for obvious reasons, but if you only focus on these events, you're missing the real story.
One of the things that we are learning in concussion management is that all of those routine head knocks that no one ever thinks about actually accumulate over time and are very, very important. The brain has an "injury meter," and every time it takes a significant jolt, the needle rises. Current thinking is that there is a continuum based on accumulated force directed at the brain. At some point (currently poorly defined) symptoms occur (concussion), and as the accumulation of force grows, temporary (MTBI-minimally traumatic brain injury) then permanent damage (CTE-chronic traumatic encephalopathy) occurs.
If we give the brain rest, the injury meter will slowly drift back down to a more normal level. A year is roughly the average amount of time nervous tissue needs to heal; after 12 months – for better or worse – it is what it is.
I'm no statistician, but I'm fairly proficient with basic math. So I approached the issue from a different perspective.
What does suffering a KO or TKO do to a fighter's performance in the near future?
I looked at the experience of the UFC in 2011.
During this past year, there were roughly 260 fights and 76 KO/TKOs sustained. I know that all knockouts are not created equally, but both TKOs and KOs usually include a significant amount of pummeling to the head. So for sake of simplicity, I will lump them together.
The average win percentage of UFC fighters prior to them experiencing a KO/TKO was roughly 63 percent. The (very likely post-concussion) fighters who have gone on to fight again within one year have seen their win rate plummet to approximately 44 percent.
Simply put: Returning to fight within the first several months after a KO/TKO costs the fighter approximately 20 percent to their win percentage. Granted, it's a small sample size, but it's telling.
I have a question for fighters who have recently experienced a KO/TKO: Why hurry back?
The down-and-dirty stats reveal that you are much more likely to lose than win. Furthermore, training and fighting only delay your recovery – or worse, hasten you along the path to permanent brain injury, CTE.
I understand you want to get back in there as quickly as possible, but if you're not likely to perform well, then what's the point? Who needs another L?


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Chapter 8
Making The Change
At one point, I actually believed that I was dying, or that I had already died, and gone to hell. I had no idea how long I was there, or how long I had been screaming in pain, or even where I was. From time to time, I would hear the same voice talking to me. Voices and sounds still sounded distant to me.
"Your family was buried today, I wish you could have gone to the funeral, to say goodbye." I couldn't place their voice, I had no idea who they were, but there was something comforting about their voice.
I couldn't see anything, the world was blurred out, it hurt to even open my eyes. Crying was what I wanted to do, but I couldn't with out it feeling like knives cutting down my cheeks. My tear ducts burned, with each tear. My Mum, Dad and Tori laying there, dead, flowed around in my mind, over and over, making my whole body tense as I wanted to cry more. Screaming didn't reduce the pain, it just makes me want to scream even more.
"It will all be over soon, you will be at peace.." I felt someone brush my hair out of my face.
I screamed, and tried to slapped their hand away. From time to time, they would say things to me, like "This won't change who you are, Cody." "You can still follow your dreams." They even kept me informed of what was going on in the world. "They're still looking for the person that killed your family, it's a pity that they'll never find them." "It's sunny outside today, it must be the first time for nearly a week."
Death would have been better, if someone had taken a knife, and stabbed it straight through my heart, I would have been happy, it would have ended my pain. I many not have been happy with my old life, I may have fought with Tori and wished I had different parents, but I wouldn't have wished death on them. My last thought, was of them. It was something that we'd never actually done, we was having a picnic in a meadow, laughing, and joking like nothing had happened.
"Mum, Dad, Tori.... I love you..." I muttered, before I woke up in a new life.
I looked around the room, everything looked so much brighter, there was a really strong smell of hygiene products. I could read ever word in the fine print, on a leaflet on the other side of the room. By the looks of it, I was in a hospital room, there was a guy stood near my bed. He was pale and blonde, if I was into that look, I'd have been attracted to him, but I wasn't.
"Cody, how are you feeling?" he asked. I recognised his voice, he was the guy that talked to me from time to time.
"It was you that talked to me!" I said, with a surprised tone.
"Ah... yes, I thought that it would make the change easier for you, if you was reminded of your human life," he replied, with a slight smile.
I was actually speechless, because I had no idea what he was talking about. Human life? I am a human, dumbass! Change? What am I going to change into a sparkly frickin' butterfly? I settled for one question.
"Who are you?"
"My manners, I'm Dr Carlisle Cullen," Carlisle replied.
"What the frick happened to me?" I demanded.
The pain had been frickin' washed off me, I felt absolutely nothing at all. I did have an aching throat though, it burned with thirst. I clasped my hand against my throat, and tried to climb out of the bed. I noticed that there wasn't any beakers of water around. What kind of frickin' hospital is this?
"Well, you're a vampire. The three that killed your family was also vampires," Carlisle replied, awkwardly.
"You've got to be frickin' kidding me?!" I said, expecting it to be some kind of joke. I expected him to burst out laughing, but he didn't.
"Now, we have to talk about diet. If you want to drink human blood, I could get you some..." Carlisle began. He seemed a bit awkward about the idea. I did notice, that his eyes was golden just like Nayte's.
"Like those sick frickin' dumbasses, that killed my parents? No thanks!" I snapped.
I didn't want to be like them, they disgusted me, that I was now like them. I regretted going shopping that day, because I would have been there when they attacked the house. They would have gotten me first, because I would have been sat on the front porch. I would be dead right now, instead of a immortal blood sucker.
Carlisle let out a sigh of relief. "I had hoped you'd choose that option," he said, less awkward now. "I'll give you time to get dressed, then I'll take you on your first hunt for animal blood."
Carlisle turned to walk out of the room, when I asked, "Are you one to?"
He turned, and nodded his head. I smiled slightly. If he could be a vampire, and work has a doctor, and be a damn good one, then maybe I wouldn't turn into a complete monster like the three that had ruined my life. I noticed that my clothes was actually on top of the bedside cabinet, with my studded bracelets on top of them.
As I got dressed, I wondered if Nayte was a vampire to. I also wondered if there was more vampires in this town, other than the five that I knew about, including me.


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Texas-based CompuCom Systems Inc. is relocating its headquarters to Indian Land, bringing a $41 million capital investment and creating 1,500 jobs over the next five to seven years.
It's the largest single job announcement in Lancaster County history, said Gov. Nikki Haley's office.
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Central Wire Inc. will spend $2 million expanding its Lancaster County manufacturing operation, creating 18 new jobs at the plant off Riverside Road.
The Lancaster facility, at 1552 Cedar Pines Lake Road, now employ 32 workers. The expansion will add two state-of-the-art welding wire manufacturing lines.
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CLEMSON – More Southeastern peaches will be grown organically thanks to a $1 million federal grant awarded to Clemson University.
Clemson pomologist Juan Carlos Melgar and pathologist Guido Schnabel are tying paper bags on peaches as they grow on trees, an unconventional method of protecting them from insects and disease while reducing reliance on pesticides. The peaches are bagged when the fruits are young and small.
Springs Memorial Hospital went live Tuesday with a telemedicine program for its intensive and critical care units that gives patients access to doctors through a television screen 24/7.
With the push of a button, a patient or hospital staffers can have a two-way conversation with a doctor within 60 seconds.
Springs Memorial has 10 ICU rooms and 10 CCU rooms, which are now all equipped with a television screen and ceiling camera.
Lancaster City Council passed a rezoning request Tuesday night to allow a construction company office and warehouse to locate at 305 E. Arch St.
The vote to change the zoning from R-10 (Residential) to B-2 (Neighborhood Commercial) was unanimous. While property owner James Boswell had originally requested a B-3 (General Commercial) rezoning to also allow the sales and service of golf carts, city council opted for the B-2 classification.
Gayle Adams tried her first Kono cone-shaped, soft-crust pizza several years ago while vacationing in Singapore because she was hungry and in a hurry.
"I saw a pizza I could eat while I kept shopping," she said. "And it tasted really, really good, too."
At the time, she was a program analyst for VSE Corp., which provides engineering and technical support services for the U.S. military.
Many people have a misconception that Medicare is free healthcare coverage for when they reach age 65.
That is far from the truth.
This column spells out some of the common costs that are associated with Medicare, to show future Medicare recipients what they might expect when they enroll. For a more detailed explanation of each of these parts of the program, visit Medicare.gov.
For 29-year-old personal trainer Jenny Starnes, fitness training isn't all about big muscles and flexing. It's about building women's self-confidence while living a healthy lifestyle.
Starnes began Muscles and Mascara, a personal-training business, six months ago and currently trains 25 clients out of T.J.'s Fitness in Kershaw and Big Wayne's Gym in Lancaster and Rock Hill. She charges $30 each one-hour, one-on-one training session for women.
The father-son duo that opened Marco's Pizza in Six Mile Commons near Walmart last year opened a second Indian Land location last week.
Mike and Andy Hunter's new store at 8348 Charlotte Highway is also boosting the local economy by adding up to 30 jobs. The new restaurant, which opened Aug. 8, is run by general manager Sean Hagan, who helped open the Hunters' first store here.
If you think a personal chef is only for the rich and famous, think again. Southern Wisteria owner, Jackie Starnes, is out to change your mind and maybe even bring her culinary skills to your table.
Based in Kershaw, Starnes turned a personal passion into a business. For the last seven years, she's been providing personal chef service, catering and making custom baked goods. She's now ready to offer her service to more folks in Lancaster County.
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ASCO Annual Meeting
May 16, 2012
A new analysis of a large survey showed that many primary care providers (PCPs) are not familiar with the long-term side effects of four types of chemotherapy commonly used to treat breast and colorectal cancers. It is important for cancer survivors to have lifelong follow-up care to watch for long-term side effects (also called late effects), and survivors often visit PCPs for ongoing follow-up care after cancer treatment ends. This study highlights the importance of communication between oncologists, PCPs, and cancer survivors to make sure survivors receive appropriate follow-up care and treatment for any long-term side effects.
Previous results from this survey, called the Survey of Physician Attitudes Regarding the Care of Cancer Survivors (SPARCCS), showed that many PCPs feel that they do not have the general knowledge and confidence to care for cancer survivors. In the new analysis of this survey, researchers focused on the PCPs awareness of common late effects of treatment, including heart problems, peripheral neuropathy (nerve problems), early menopause, and second cancers, for four commonly used breast and colorectal cancer drugs.
Researchers found that among the PCPs surveyed, 55% knew that heart problems are a late effect of doxorubicin (Adriamycin). Furthermore, about 27% knew that peripheral neuropathy is a late effect of paclitaxel (Taxol), and about 22% knew that peripheral neuropathy is a long-term side effect of oxaliplatin (Eloxatin). For cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan, Neosar), about 15% of PCPs knew that early menopause is a late effect, and about 17% knew that second cancers are a risk. For the oncologists surveyed, knowledge of the late effects ranged from 62% to 97% for the four drugs.
What this means for patients
"While we strongly encourage patients to be aware of the treatments they receive and their side effects, it is vitally important that oncologists relay this information to patients' primary care providers so their risks can be appropriately managed throughout their lives," said lead author Larissa Nekhlyudov, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and internist at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Boston, Massachusetts. "At the same time, our findings highlight the need for ongoing education among all physicians who care for cancer survivors, including oncologists, about the potential late effects of treatment." Talk with your doctor during and after treatment about creating a summary of the treatment you received, the possible long-term side effects, and the recommendations for follow-up care.
What to ask the doctor
- What type and stage of cancer did I have?
- What treatments did I receive?
- What are the long-term side effects from treatment?
- Who will be coordinating and managing my follow-up care?
- Could you provide a written treatment summary?
- How can any late effects be managed?
For More Information
ASCO Cancer Treatment Summaries