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Comparisons with the all-time greats of Norwegian distance running set the narrative of stories in the domestic press when Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal first emerged as a 16-year-old in 2006.
But while Ingrid Kristiansen and Grete Waitz jointly set a formidable yardstick in the 1970s and 80s, the runner from Alesund on the west coast of Norway has never felt shackled by such parallels.
"I felt it not as pressure, rather a motivation I could also reach a world level in long-distance running," reflected the 23-year-old from her training base in Potchefstroom, South Africa.
"Of course I was compared with Ingrid and Grete; that was logical. Especially after I ran (and won) the Sentrumslopet (the 10km race held in the early summer in Oslo) in 31:29 when I was 17 years old. I was predicted to be the new Kristiansen."
"Both Ingrid and Grete are great role models for me. They have showed it is possible to come from Norway and run fast.
"But aside from that, I have always trained my way", she added, when asked if Waitz or Kristiansen, who between them set world records from 3000m up to the marathon, have played any role in her training.
"But our training principle is probably the same."
The 23-year-old used to combine competitive cross-country skiing with a burgeoning career on the track and until the end of her teenage years there was still a debate over which sport she would focus on.
Fortunately for athletics, she chose to focus solely on the latter in a competitive capacity although Grovdal, like Kristiansen, still incorporates it into her training programme during the icy Norwegian winters when running on the roads would often be sheer folly.
"I still use cross-country skiing a lot in the winter when I'm in Norway. I try to enter periods where I relieve my legs from running to avoid injuries. Since I'm good at cross-country skiing, I get great benefits from it and I will probably continue to do this."
A sizeable group of sprinters have spotted a gap in the market in the bobsled after calling time on their track careers but Grovdal doesn't harbour any aspirations to revert to cross country skiing; at least not for the moment. "I'm not thinking about starting cross-country skiing again, but one should never say never."
Copenhagen calling
The immediate focus is the 2014 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Copenhagen on 29 March and Grovdal has been preparing this winter at altitude in Flagstaff, Arizona, and in Potchefstroom, South Africa to get in optimum shape to achieve her primary objective of improving her best of 1:09:41.
Looking further ahead though, this race also marks a formative step in the transition up to the marathon which could be Grovdal's focus for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
"I do not have much experience with running the half marathon yet but it is certainly an important race on the way to Rio in 2016.
"The training I have done until now is more geared to the 10,000m and half marathon, not a marathon. I probably need more specific marathon training before I possibly run a marathon in Rio, but I do not think I'm a runner who needs to run many kilometres in my preparation," said Grovdal, who is running on average 160 kilometres in training per week.
"The most important thing for me is to keep injury free."
Injuries were one of the factors which forced Grovdal to abandon what looked a very promising career as a steeplechaser.
She set a European junior record and a still-standing world age-16 best of 9:33.19 in 2007 to gain qualification for that year's World Championships in Osaka, before a repeat appearance over the barriers in Berlin in 2009, the year she won both the European junior 3000m steeplechase and 5000m titles.
However, she suggested her career path was maybe always destined to follow the longer distances.
"Judging from my VO2 max tests and my threshold speed, I probably have a greater potential for long distances, so that's why the 5000m and 10,000m are my main priority now," explained Grovdal, who is also targeting a medal over 10,000m at the European Championships in Zurich this summer.
Stopping the steeplechase
The decision was understandably tinged with a bit of sadness but Grovdal takes a pragmatic assessment.
"Sometimes I miss it (the steeplechase). When I look at the level which has not been that high in recent years, I know I would have been capable of being a top steeplechaser as well, but it requires a lot of specific training and with my injuries, I think it's better to just keep it to running."
The roads haven't, as yet, been Grovdal's foremost priority but her personal bests are still eye-catching, such as her 1:09:41 half marathon performance in 2012.
"It's hard to say (how fast I can run for the half marathon) but I know I can improve a lot, and I've only run the distance once before. My personal best is from Oslo and I should run a lot faster on a faster course."
With tight turns and inclines at a premium, the course in Copenhagen is certainly conducive to fast times. Added to that, Grovdal has put together an injury-free block of training since September which further points towards a possible breakthrough performance on the roads at the end of March in the Danish capital.
After returning from South Africa at the end of January, Grovdal plans to go to altitude again before Copenhagen. The one definite race on her itinerary is the Schoorl 10km in the Netherlands on 9 February where she will try to retain her title from last year which she won in gun-to-tape fashion.
This bold style of running, exemplified by her bold bid to lay down the gauntlet from the gun at the European Cross Country Championships last month, where she eventually finished fifth, has often been her preferred game-plan, particularly on the roads and at cross country
However, Grovdal isn't revealing anything about her race-day tactics in Copenhagen.
"You'll have to be there to see what tactics I'll choose!"
Steven Mills for the IAAF


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Despite rocky season, Brewers boast solid attendance
MILWAUKEE -- The Brewers expect to top 2.5 million in attendance this season, which would be their lowest total since 2006, but an acceptable figure given the team's tumult on and off the field, COO Rick Schlesinger said.
"My goal at the beginning of the year is always above that, but in light of the team performance and some of the other things going on, it's a reflection of [the challenges] we have accommodated," Schlesinger said.
Those challenges include a 64-82 record entering Saturday, injuries throughout the starting lineup and, most notably, Ryan Braun's season-ending suspension for violations of the Joint Drug Program. Braun's admission created public relations problems for the Brewers, which the club addressed in part by giving every fan who passed through the turnstiles in August a $10 voucher good for food, beverage, merchandise and tickets. Attendance topped 30,000 for all but one of the Brewers' August home games.
After drawing 39,665 fans on Friday night to open the season's final homestand, the Brewers ranked 13th of the 30 Major League teams with a 31,745 average attendance per home game, good for third among National League Central teams behind the Cardinals and Cubs, but ahead of the Reds and Pirates.
By filling Miller Park to a 73.8 percent capacity on average, they also ranked 13th in MLB and third in the NL Central.
"Given all the things we had to deal with, we're still above league average," Schlesinger said. "Obviously, I want to get back to the three [million mark], but team performance is a vast determiner of those numbers."


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Did you hear about the one with the long-bearded Charlton Heston-lookalike who chats with flaming bushes and uses his big honking stick to part the waters of entire seas? Well, scientists have found how the water-parting may actually have happened.
Using new computer fluid dynamics simulations, scientists at the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research have demonstrated that, indeed, the parting of the waters was possible under a specific set of conditions.
First, the team lead by NCAR's Carl Drews says that Moses and the children of Israel couldn't have been camped by the Red Sea, but in a lake next to the Mediterranean sea called the Lake of Tanis. The Red Sea is too big and deep to be parted by any known force of nature except, maybe, Steve Jobs. The lake of Tanis was created by a now-gone branch of the Nile River called the Pelusiac Nile.
Following the oceanographic data, the NCAR team created a model of the lake's basin and applied fluid dynamics to simulate the effects of strong winds. When a wind is strong enough and blows for a long enough time in the right direction, water inevitably recedes from the upwind shore, "exposing terrain formed underwater". This is known by scientists, and now you, as the wind setdown effect.
Using the computer simulation, they calculated that:
• a 100km/h easterly wind
• blowing for 12 hours straight
• could have exposed a 3-4km long and 5km wide land passageway.
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And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry, and the waters were divided.
Obviously, that's exaggerated unless they mean really mean that Moses stretched out his hand for 12 hours straight, getting cramps for the next two weeks and thundering bad mood.
Or maybe - maybe the scientists are wrong and the Lord actually cracked the sea open when Moses high-fived Him, so the children of Israel, the dinosaurs and Raquel Welch could escape from Yul Brynner and his Egyptian cronies.
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Lil Wayne has a lineup of star-studded support by his side.
The Young Money rapper, who suffered from a series of seizures this week, is surrounded by plenty of family and friends as he recovers at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles. According to reports, Nicki Minaj, Drake, Birdman and Los Angeles Clippers star Chris Paul have all stopped by to show their support.
MUST READ: Lil Wayne Is Hospitalized After Suffering Multiple Seizures
US Weekly reports Wayne suffered multiple seizures after drinking "too much sizzurp to get a better high."
TMZ first broke the story on Tuesday, and reported that the multi-platinum rapper was "unstable" and on his "deathbed."
"We're told Wayne is currently unstable, and has been placed in an induced coma. He is breathing through tubes," the website wrote on Friday.
However, Wayne's camp have refuted those allegations. Cash Money president Mack Maine took to Twitter to set the record straight, stating "we will be releasing an official statement shortly but don't believe the nonsense about comas and tubes to breathe…that's false!" The added that the rapper is "alive and well."
Antonia "Toya" Wright, Wayne's ex-wife, expressed her anger over the reports on her Instagram account. "It would be a much better world if people would just stop and think before they spread RUMORS," she wrote. "Have you considered all the people you are really hurting with your lies???? #kids #family #friends."
Next, rapper and friend T.I went on a Twitter rant about the alleged exaggerated reports. "Just holla'd @my Lil bruh Tunechi…& he skraight! TMZ some f-$%X#k-niggaz for reporting that hoe-a$s-s#@$%it!!! That man daughter is like mines. That $&*!t surely got his mama hurtin,his kids hurtin,& he got true to da game patnas like me & Othas who ready to RIDE bout all da f-$%X $&*!," he wrote.
On Friday, Lil Wayne tweeted, "I'm good everybody. Thx for the prayers and love."
There's no news yet on when Wayne will be released.
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Here are some gift-giving tips from doctors at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the American Academy of Pediatrics:
- Read all warning labels carefully and consider a child's age, interests and skill levels when buying toys.
- Choose toys with sturdy construction and avoid those with sharp edges and points.
- Choking is one of the leading causes of toy-related deaths, and most of these choking deaths are due to tiny balls, latex balloons and small magnets. Any toy that will be accessible by children under age 3 should not have any parts that are smaller than 1 inch in diameter and 2 inches long, because these can lodge in a child's mouth or throat.
- Avoid toy jewelry that may contain lead or cadmium, both of which can be harmful to children.
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1942 : Vice Admiral Halsey named new commander of the South Pacific1942 : Vice Admiral Halsey named new commander of the South Pacific
On this day in 1942, Vice. Adm. William F. Halsey replaces Vice Adm. Robert L. Ghormley as commander, South Pacific.
The man nicknamed "Bull" by the press began his military career as a destroyer commander during World War I. Halsey was made a captain at the age of 53, earned his naval aviator's wings, and was promoted to vice admiral in 1940. But it was the bombing of Pearl Harbor that would mark out his future for him. Halsey's task force was one of the few functioning battle groups left after the destruction of so much of the American fleet, placing him in the position of making the unpredictable and aggressive strategic decisions for which he would become renowned.
In 1942, he led surprise attacks on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands and supported the American reinforcement of troops on Samoa. It was his task force (a temporary organization of a fleet for a specific operation) that carried the 16 B-25 bombers for Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Tokyo in April 1942. By this time, Halsey's reputation for being where the action was had made him arguably the most famous American admiral of the war. And so it is ironic that he missed two major Naval engagements: the Battle of the Coral Sea (his fleet was not strategically positioned to participate) and the Battle of Midway (a severe case of dermatitis put him out of commission).
But by October 1942, Halsey was back just in time to be appointed commander of South Pacific operations by Admiral Nimitz, who wanted Vice Admiral Ghormley replaced. (Ghormley had suffered several defeats militarily and severe cases of indecision and anxiety personally.) Brilliant work in the capture of the Solomon Islands and New Guineas led to Halsey's promotion to full admiral. His career continued to strike awe in his admirers and terror in his enemies, as he succeeded in destroying the Japanese fleet in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, and commanding U.S. forces in the operations that led to the capture of Okinawa and the surrender of the Japanese there.
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A symposium on "The Role of Science and Technology in African Development" is planned for 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4, at the Fields Center, 58 Prospect Ave.
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The Ashura protests showed a more radicalized, programmed and guided style of protest than any other ones before it. At the same time the State controlled Bassidj and suppressive garrisons were also on maximum alert and organisation being directly lead by the Supreme Leader himself.
There were how ever analysis sourced by Iranian state run sites and also elements working in social media on the internet that suggested unprecedented violence by the people to the suppressive agents hence leading to provocation of blood shed.
(They meant to conclude that protesters should not defend themselves against bullets and knives and cycles)
We like to deduct that having seen this clip and many others of the same protest, it is evident that the organised propaganda to depict the uprising as a provocation of violence (instead of self defence when is necessary ) is not a realistic one; in this clip people were shot and killed first by plain cloth agents ant the crowed only disarmed the aggressive agents amidst all excitement .
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Ol' Eagle Eye, Matt Gregory, caught a change that I had anticipated. The Local OneBox has been upgraded to the same format as the other OneBox results. The Onebox display, in general, was upgraded earlier in the week in the week to match the mobile display. Note that the user now needs to click into the photo to see more. Whether part of the change or not, fewer review sites are now showing as well.
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MIDLAND, Tex. — In a global collapse of oil prices five years ago, scores of American oil companies went bankrupt. But one field withstood the onslaught, and even thrived: the Permian Basin, straddling Texas and New Mexico.
A combination of technical innovation, aggressive investing and copious layers of oil-rich shale have transformed the Permian, once considered a worn-out patch, into the world's second-most-productive oil field.
And this transformation has apparently inoculated Texas against its traditional economic enemy, the boom-and-bust cycle pegged to oil prices.
Even now, with prices still far below their peak, the Permian is bursting with production and exploration, and the biggest concern is how to create more capacity to get all that oil to market.
The shale-drilling frenzy in the Permian has enabled the United States not only to reduce crude-oil imports, but even to become a major exporter for the first time in half a century. Its bounty has also empowered the United States diplomatically, allowing it to impose sanctions on Iran and Venezuela without worrying much about increasing gasoline prices.


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Can anyone tell me how the services are for children with autism is in Portland. I am looking at a possible move out there and would like to know what other peoples experience with social workers and treatment centers in the area. Please let me know. This will be the deciding factor on whether or not i will move in the area. Thank you for your help
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'The Bachelorette': Desiree accepts Chris' proposal
Photo: ABC
Who would have thought that after having her heart broken last week by Brooks, Desiree would choose between Drew and Chris.
Drew was dismissed on an Antigua beach and he walked away heartbroken.
Desiree welcomed Chris and they shared time before the final test, meeting Desiree's family.
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If you're too young to remember when "Embrace of the Vampire" came out then I'm sorry for you. The 1995 flick where Alyssa Milano pretty much just got busy with anyone who came on screen was pretty much the deviant's "Titanic" when I was younger. But good news for the youth of today. A remake of the film is in the works and filming has officially begun with Sharon Hinnendael in the staring role. 99% sure Milano will not be making a surprise cameo in the film.
Oh Halle Berry, where did we go wrong? Not "we" like Halle Berry and I were ever an item. Not that I can confirm at least. I say no comment on the subject. You can draw your own conclusions. But I mean where did we go wrong that you won an Oscar just over ten years ago and now you're starring in "The Hive" which just landed the WWE as its co-financier and co-producer. What's next, Halle? Cinamax porn!? Actually that would be pretty cool.
"Screaming in High Heels" is a new documentary that tells the tale of 2 of the biggest B-movie scream queens of the 80's. Originally edited for TV the full on unrated version of the film will finally see the DVD treatment on August 28th of this year. It'll be a nice walk down memory lane for me to hear Linnea Quigley, Brinke Stevens and Michelle Bauer talk about the films that made me the man I am today. I should probably hate them shouldn't I.
Craig Bierko has been confirmed for the cast of "Scary Movie 5". I think we'll all sleep a little better tonight.
Ready your tissues, it's about to get emotional up in here...
Eric Powell, creator of "The Goon" comic recently took to his blog to set the record straight on the current status of the big screen adaptation of the book. Despite rumblings around the net the movie is still very much going to happen and the production company behind it is currently looking for funding. I don't know if that means they're having bake sales or something but honestly that doesn't sound too good.
If you're as excited about ABC's "The River" as I am then you're honestly not that excited. It's on Tuesdays. I already have shows on Tuesdays. I'm not even sure I can work it into my schedule. The new website that just launched for it isn't really helping either. Sure it's all animated and crap and sure it's like a fun game but seriously, there's going to be DVR conflicts out the ying yang for this thing.
I love me some Linnea Quigley, I don't care what age. Alright that sounds kind of creepy but the news here is that the lipstick queen will be showing up in "1313: Cougar Cult". The film is set to go direct to DVD (shocker) on February 7th and revolves around a group of college guys who get a summer job working for three older women who actually turn into cougars. I think that's a pun, or a play on words, or a haiku.
I have no idea what these ramblings mean but Nicolas Cage wants to remake "The Wicker Man"... in Japan... and have "Ringu" director Hideo Nakata direct it... and have the main character be a ghost this time. No sarcastic comments here, folks. Someone needs to help this guy.
Some new artwork and an adorable featurette have popped up online for the A&E adaptation of Stephen King's "Bag Of Bones". The mini series tells the story of a grief stricken father dealing with the loss of his wife while dealing with a bitter custody battle. As you might expect the show takes place in Maine, which if you haven't visited before I suggest you drop what you're doing and head there now. The foliage... I can't even to begin to describe the foliage.
Ron Jeremy and Linnea Quigley star in a new film "Girls Gone Dead" which just so happens to have a new poster available for viewing. I'm not sure there's any other information you really need to know about the movie. Alright fine... I'm a giver. The flick tells the story of a group of college students going wild on spring break while a serial killer roams the area surrounding their vacation home. See, you're still focusing on the porn stars aren't you.
I think it would be a hoot to see Vince McMahon at the Oscars but I'm not going to hold my breath. But maybe, just maybe, the WWE funded "No One Lives" which revolves around a group of criminals who find themselves hunted by a killer will get some Oscar buzz. There's little to no chance of that ever happening but a gal can dream can't she.
I love me a Zombie comedy. Alright I really liked "Shaun of the Dead", the others I've seen have been kind of crap. But here's some new stills from "Dead Before Dawn 3D", which has none other than piranha expert Christopher Lloyd on it's cast list. I'm willing to be open minded here. But that's just the kind of guy I am.
So the story is floating around today that "Harper's Island" on CBS is officially canceled. Of course, since it was basically a summer filler miniseries, I'm not sure how people thought it had a chance of being "picked up" anyway. Besides, wasn't everyone dead at the end? Oooops... spoiler!
"Anchor Bay" has picked up "Grace" for a DVD release and limited theatrical run. The indie has been blazing up the festival circuit lately, and Anchor Bay seems like a logical place for it to find a home. It's an extremely limited release, only hitting a few theaters in NY and LA, but if you live in those areas you just might have the chance to see it on the big screen. The film is about "a mother who brings her dead fetus to term, and gives birth to a child with an appetite for blood".
After numerous stumbles along the way, the comic adaptation "HACK/SLASH" has a new director. Frederik Bond will be replacing Todd Lincoln as the helmer. The film will supposedly begin shooting by the year's end. "HACK/SLASH" deals with a sexy young woman who travels the country, taking on homicidal maniacs and serial killers along the way.
"Zombieland" has a poster, and it's pretty sweet.
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First lady plants White House garden for spring
Salad using lettuce from Michelle Obama's garden could be served up in just a few weeks.
The first lady on Thursday planted lettuce and other crops in her garden on the South Lawn of the White House, with an assist from schoolchildren from Washington, D.C., and several school districts around the country.
Two varieties of wheat were planted for the first time: club wheat and bread wheat.
The lettuce should be ready in a couple of weeks. The wheat will need until at least July to grow.
Other crops now growing in the garden are spinach, kale, Swiss chard, endive, potatoes, radishes, garlic, fennel, broccoli, cauliflower, collard greens and herbs, along with raspberries, blueberries, strawberries and an apple tree.
"Are you ready to go?" the first lady asked the kids after she met them at the garden on a crisp, sunny afternoon.
Students who attend school in Bradenton, Fla., Somerville, Mass., Knox County, Tenn., and Milton, Vt., were invited, she said, because their districts are doing "such wonderful things" to put in place new federal nutrition standards for school lunches.
The first lady personally planted rows of wheat, spinach and kale, with help from a few students. Other students planted the remaining crops, with an assist from White House staff members. Also helping were military veterans in training for careers in sustainable agriculture.
Mrs. Obama planted the garden in 2009 to help launch her campaign against childhood obesity and encourage healthier eating. She says involving children in the growing of fruits and vegetables makes it more likely that they will eat them, too.
The garden so far has produced more than 3,000 pounds of food. The White House gives some to a local soup kitchen.
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Night-Light Paintings. Georges de La Tour and St. Augustine
The author recalls works with night scenes of artists in the Cinquecento and the Seicento, and their different approaches to them. Then he deals with works following the Neo-Platonic concept of Grace (Guercino, Saraceni, Poussin in his drawings) and especially the ones for which the candle may be thought of as the symbol of intelligence (Adam de Cos-ter, Gerard Seghers, but especially Terbrugghen, Stomer, Jacomo – formerly identified with Trophime Bigot – and Georges de La Tour). Linking the meanings in various works of these artists, the author gradually reconstructs on Augustinian theological reasoning.
From the point of view of ethics Terbrugghen seems to be cynical, Stomer stoic, while Geor-ges de La Tour, from his way of teaching and his aspiration to the purity of the Primitive Church, seems to be close to Port-Royal. In the artists the theme of St. Sebastian healed would seem to refer to the concealing of the faith, quite precisely one of the key notes i the story of the Saint.
1) The Toledo Lot and His Daughters and Its Possible Author. Some Considerations about the Cavallino Exhibition in Cleveland
During the Cavallino Exhibition in Cleveland (1984) many doubts came up about the at-tribution of the Lot and His Daughters (Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio), to Bernardo Cavallino. The stiffness of the composition as well as other artistic characteristics analyzed in this paper would seem to exclude Cavallino as the possible author. Either F. Guarino or A. Beltrano appear to be a more probable attribution.
2) The Ruffo Triumph of Galatea
The Triumph of Galatea included in the Bernardo Cavallino Exhibition in Cleveland (1984) appears to be hitherto lost but well documented painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, formerly in the Ruffo collection in Messina, painted ca. 1648. As in the Columbus Bathsheba, it would seem to be a product of direct collaboration between Artemisia and Neapolitan paint-ers, in this case Bernardo Cavallino. The overall composition and the figure of Galatea are Artemisia's work; the tritons as well as dolphins are Cavallino's. After leaving the Ruffo col-lection in the late seventeenth century the painting was cut and adapted to fit a different frame. The painting was inspired by Raphael's Galatea and was a source of inspiration for some later Neapolitan compositions, like paintings by Luca Giordano and Paolo de Matteis. Furthermore some iconological corrections have been proposed: the Triumph of Galatea by de Matteis from Pommersfelden is re-identified as the Marine Venus.
3) The Sleeping Venus and Cleopatra by Artemisia Gentileschi
A stylistic analysis of two paintings by Artemisia contributes to determine a chronol-ogy for her oeuvre. The Sleeping Venus with Cupid is to be dated after her stay with Orazio Gentileschi in Genoa, and after her visit to Venice, but before her arrival in Naples, i.e. about 1627–1630. Interesting because of its rarity in Artemisia's work is the symbolical landscape with the temple of Venus.
The Cleopatra betrays some Ribera influences and because of this it is to be dated to the first year of Artemisia's stay in Naples, i.e. about 1630–1632.
Both paintings are also interesting from the iconographic point of view, representing themes dear to Artemisia, where women heroines play the main role, and where the female protagonists are exalted by purely artistic means, and this is also the case for the Ruffo Galatea.
The Integrating Power of Humanism. The Philosophy of Conrad Celtis, the German Humanist par excellence. An Iconological Study of Dürer's and Burgkmair's Engravings
Interpretations are given for the Philosophia woodcut made by Dürer for the Amores (Nuremberg 1502) of Conrad Celtis and the single-leaf Imperial Eagle woodcut made by Burgkmair (1506–1507) in collaboration with Celtis. Solutions are proposed to some icono-graphic riddles in connections with woodcuts, for example the Greek letters in the Philosophia and the judgment of Paris in the Imperial Eagle. The sources are discussed with respect to form and content and an attempt is made to show that they represent the essence of German humanism about 1500. This kind of humanism aims at encyclopedic education, at the integra-tion of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance or, in other words, of the best of knowledge of all time and does not separate the humanities from mathematics and science. Humanism meant – at that time – much more than that and is not identical with the so-called studio humanitatis program (grammar, rhetoric poetry, history, and moral philosophy). It fa-vors more Platonico Pythagoraicoque kind of experience in the various fields of study.
Sixteenth century Italian mannerist paintings, characterized by juxtaposed figures in angular poses with limbs and torsos flattened in the picture, have had these elements ex-plained as a result of extensive copying of Roman relief sculpture in the artist's studio. Figural elongation, although frequently an element of such paintings, could not be explained in this way. It is suggested in this study that figure distortion is reflective of an esthetic attitude reinforced by the studio convention of copying cast shadows. The scientific studies of cast shadows by Leonardo da Vinci demonstrate that the circumstance under which an object and its shadow are of uniform size and shape are so rare that the shape is almost always never a true image. Comparison of prints of the artist's workshop from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries indicate a change from studying shadows in directed artificial light to working in the suffused light of day.
A new explanation of The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (1915–1923) and the reasons why this work remained unfinished. Two spatial planes and their conflict. Unrealized figure of a Juggler intended to become a counterpart to the Bride. The unsolvable conflict between the two planes. Genealogy of the Bride from the por-traits of Duchamp's sisters. The work was to became a luminous event. Symbols of the circular movement in the ready-mades and in the Bride. Duchamp's metaphysical despair expressed in the ready-mades after 1916. Dada as "a metaphysical approach". "Parareligious" character of Duchamp's artistic experience. Duchamp's surrealism and his arrangements of surrealistic exhibitions – attempts at creating an environment. Inaccessible space and the symbols of the "Given". Duchamp – a martyr to the absolute. The social position of an artist. "Revolution of an ascetic type".
Polish artists, Stanisław Wyspiański, Wojciech Weiss, Józef Pankiewicz, Jan Stanisławski and others, met briefly with Japanese art, mainly through woodcuts, in the Paris of the 1880s (only Jan Fałat and K. Frycz traveled to Japan). More substantially they learned about it in Cracow thanks to the friendship with the greatest collector ever of Japanese art in Poland – Feliks Jasieński, nicknamed "Manggha", an outstanding personality, writer, and critic. In 1901 he brought to Cracow a large collection, particularly of Japanese prints, gath-ered in Paris. Soon he became a promoter of Polish "Nipponism" but he transferred not so much orientalism as some western ideas about the Orient. Polish artists could not comprehend Japanese works and in imitating them mostly limited themselves to using Japanese accessories. Only Wyspiański, Fałat and Stanisławski were free of dissension. There are two reasons why Japanese art was so strange and difficult. In fact this art as presented to Polish eyes, was born of a mythical time of everlasting present, strictly in a non-historic time. The Poles totally caught up in history, perpetually fighting to regain their political freedom, could not feel that kind of time. Besides, Japanese culture was based on the knightly Samurai code and the val-ues in this culture were expressed through "perfect" forms. Polish artists up to their necks in bourgeois-Catholic tradition could not understand Japanese relationship to art as something spontaneous and disinterested.
Writings on Art (with an Introduction by PIETRO MONTANI)
In 1937 S. M. Eisenstein was working on one of his comprehensive and most system-atic theoretical works on the subject of montage. In this book, unfinished and in part unpub-lished, Eisenstein asserted that montage occurs in various artistical fields other than cinema (literature, poetry, architecture, sculpture, painting, music), in order to show that in all of them there are certain principles at work, that cinema was bound to accept and adapt to. The essay we have extracted from this book is an analysis of the Portrait of Ermolova by V. Serov (1905, Tretiakovskaya Gallery), and shows that its composition is based on a sequence of 4 "shots" as it were of the figure from 4 angles. Depending on which of these angles the ob-server is looking at, his emotional reaction will be different. eisenstein then compares Serov's kind of composition with that of other painters (Repin, Surikov, Ivanov, Delaunay).
In his introduction Pietro Montani, editor of the Italian translation of S. M. Eisenstein's Works (Marsilio, Venice), has reconstructed the main theoretical themes of the book the text is taken from, and illustrates the importance that this essay on Serov should have for a definition of the principles of montage.


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CTC Witches' Curse Challenge Ride & Sportive - 9 September 2012
CTC Witches' Curse Challenge Ride & Sportive - 9 September 2012
The next round of the 2012 CTC Challenge Rides and Sportives series takes place in the Lancashire town of Clitheroe on Sunday 9 September.
The long route may only be 68 miles but it contains over 7,500 feet of climbing with 15 recognised climbs.
The shorter 45 mile route still has nearly 5,000 feet of climbing which is much more than your average longer distance event.
If the climbing takes it's toll on the day fear not as the courses have been designed so that no point is more than 10 miles from start/finish.
Both routes will be fully signed, timed, have mechanical support on route and at the HQ. There will be broom wagon following, well stocked feed stops and a snack on your return to the finish. It is all included in the entry fee of £17 for CTC members and £27 for non members.
This event also sees the launch of the new Shimano Test Wheel Fleet, giving entrants an opportunity to try out Shimano's top end wheels during the sportive for free just register and hopefully you are lucky to get your choice of wheels for the ride.
Entries are limited to 400 this year and there are just a few places left so book your place online today!
For more details and to download the routes take a look at the CTC Challenge Rides website.


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hamlet wrote:I am breezing in here only for a moment to point out that, while folks like Protia and JNyusa may have faced discouragment in their lives and professions (which is very bad, don't get me wrong), men/boys face something just as bad in many ways. We are trained from childhood that we are expected to be certain things and if we are not, we are unmanly. Try being an administrator/secretary and having a Y chromosome.
That's true enough, but note that Secretaries make way less than Bosses. Little girls are expected to be one, Little boys the other. That's kind of what we're talking about, the way gender stereotyping shunts people into different roles. I'd also say that I think this is much less now than it used to be, and hopefully is continuing in decline, but we can't discount it's reality.


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I've sometimes thought it might be a good idea to go through all our religious literature and cross out the word, "God" and substitute, "Love." But then again, that might mislead people who have wholly inadequate notions of Love and similar notions of God, so that for them, "God has got to be more than that!" Or, "Yes, God is love, but that is not the whole story."
Well, it is the whole story. God is Love. Is God nothing else besides? Is He not, for example, also Just?
He is, but the question assumes that justice and Love are two different things. For us human beings, in our fallen state, they indeed often are two things, but in God they are one because they are perfect, and nothing is "just" unless it is an expression, an application, of Love. That is why Justice, for God, requires not punishment, but restoration.
God is also Truth, but there is nothing true that is not Love. Neither is there anything good, nor worthy, nor mighty, nor creative, nor beautiful, nor immortal, nor all-knowing, that is anything different from Love. Love is that beside which there is none other.
So I was relieved and grateful to find this in Olivier Clement's book, On Human Being: A Spiritual Anthropology, page 43. The author is discussing how communion in God on the one hand doesn't destroy our unique personhood, but affirms it, yet on the other hand, does not admit of any separation or duality:
Personal existence has a 'vertical' dimension, a desire to be plunged into the fullness of God. And this fullness is not a solitude but an ocean already alive with the movement of infinite love. The depth is not an unrelieved gloom; it contains reciprocal activity, interchange, the presence of the other, while duality is avoided in the communion of the Three in One. The depth itself suggests the inexhaustible character of the Persons and of their love. We can now say boldly, 'God is love', without fear of blaspheming by appearing to trivialize.
So maybe it wouldn't be all that bad to cross out "God" and write in, "Love."
And it came to pass, that at midnight
the LORDLOVE smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that [was] in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Now THAT would give us a lot to think about, wouldn't it? And yet, this is how we must learn somehow to interpret the passage.
The letters in the "spokes" of Christ's halo say, in Greek, He Who Is, recalling God's Name as revealed to Moses: YAHWEH, I am the 'I am'. Here, crowned with thorns, is Yahweh.


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Please attach the report as a file (do not copy-paste the contents) and include the last few steps you took before the game crashed in your post.
Please also include your VideoSettings.cfg file as an attachment or zip it together with CrashReport.txt. Do not set it to read-only, or if you have done that in the past unset it and boot the game once again; we need to see what settings the game is using or trying to set due to your configuration, if any.
If possible, also please include a DxDiag log (type in DxDiag in the Windows Start Menu and use the "Save All Information..." button to save a log).
Things to try before you post:
- Setting FAST_TEXTURE_TRANSFER = 0 in your VideoSettings.cfg file.
On Game Freeze: (includes game remaining in Task Manager after exit)
1. Download and install Process Explorer.
2. Run it while the game is running and frozen.
3. Find NBA2K15.exe, right-click, Create Dump, Create Minidump.
4. Find the DMP file that you saved and compress it (7-zip recommended).
5. Attach it in a reply, and please mention what the situation was where the game froze.
Any unrelated messages will be deleted. No bug reports, no "when is this coming", nothing that isn't simply a crash report or a freeze memory dump or a reply to a suggestion I made to you to try and alleviate the issue.
Thank you for the cooperation.