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B-RadB-rad Lange wrote: No longer can you roll up in your humpty, take up a free parking spot, crack a beer from the cooler in your car, lay your lines out all over the place and cuss someone for getting in your way.
Regulate, save your spot from the kooks and the fakers my b-rother from another m-other.
What about people showing up with signs on their cars advertising kook lessons on your beach?
Are you showing them love or what?
Some people got no respect anymore.
Keep it real chill.


text: With victories at some of cycling's biggest races, Greg Van Avermaet has earned the role of team leader at CCC Team. The 2016 Olympic road race champion and 2017 Paris-Roubaix winner had 41 wins heading into the 2020 season including two Tour de France stage wins, back-to-back Omloop Het Nieuwsblad titles, victory at E3 Harelbeke and Gent-Wevelgem, and an overall win at the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race. Van Avermaet's palmarès is bolstered by two stints in the yellow jersey at the Tour de France, most recently in 2018 when he held the jersey for eight days. Sheer determination to win races is the Belgian's signature, and his trademark victory salute has been a regular sight when the stakes are high.


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SEARS AT SUNDANCE: Sears is going to do its part to help the film industry and its fans relax while they're tooling around Park City, Utah, later this week.
For the first time, the retailer will be participating at the Sundance Film Festival by hosting a Shop Your Way Digital Recharge Lounge. Designed like a cozy lodge, it will be open for three days and will offer talent and media the latest fashions from Sears' top brands including Covington, Kardashian Kollection, Outdoor Life and NordicTrack.
The lounge will also feature a digital lab with iPads, computers, printers and Wi-fi for any guest seeking to "take a break from the festivities, get connected and recharge," the company said.
Sears hosted a similar lounge at Art Basel in December.


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Strategies to enhance peer feedback
Some strategies are particularly suited to younger students, where often the names that teachers have for these strategies provide a 'shorthand' way of communicating to students that they wish them to provide peer feedback.
For example:
In addition, teachers of all levels can also use the following strategies:
For younger students, it is easier and more effective to encourage oral rather than written feedback.
Two stars and a wish
Students identify two positive aspects of the work of a peer and then express a wish about what the peer might do next time in order to improve another aspect of the work. 'I want to give you a star for the start of your story and a star for the way you described the house. I wish that you will tell us more about Billy.'
Teachers model this strategy several times, using samples of student work, before asking the students to use the strategy in pairs on their own. They check the process and ask pairs who have implemented the strategy successfully to demonstrate it to the whole group.
Plus, minus and what's next?
Students comment on what was done well in relation to the success criteria, and also on what could be done better. This strategy may be better used after the students have become adept at using Two stars and a wish. This strategy can also be used as part of self-assessment, where students use 'What's next?' to set a personal learning target.
Warm and cool feedback
When students comment on the positive aspects of a peer's work, they are said to be giving warm feedback, and when they identify areas that need improvement, they are providing cool feedback. They provide hints on 'how to raise the temperature' when they give advice about how their peer could improve their work.
Traffic lights
Students green-light (using a green highlighter on the margin of the work) the work of their peer to indicate where the success criteria have been achieved, or amber-light where improvement is needed.
This strategy is best used on a work-in-progress, although it could also be used, with coloured sticky notes, to provide feedback on a final piece of work. The suggestions for improvement would then relate to the next occasion on which the students undertook work which required similar skills - writing or number skills, for example.
Using models or exemplars
Teachers demonstrate for students how they can match the work of a peer to an exemplar which most closely resembles its qualities. For example, for young students exemplars of handwriting which reflect a range of qualities (letters on/off line, no spaces/spaces between words, straight/crooked letters, mixture of upper- and lower-case letters etc.) can be displayed in the classroom and students asked to match the handwriting of the peer with the appropriate exemplar.
Students explain to the peer why they have selected this particular exemplar and, using other exemplars, explain what the peer needs to do in order to improve his/her handwriting.
Exemplars of various products (written and 3-D) can be displayed in the classroom for use both by individuals to self-assess and also by peers to provide feedback. If there is concern that providing a model will lead to copying or stifle imagination and creativity, the teacher might consider providing exemplars of parts of the product - for example, an effective introduction or an interesting use of media in an artwork.
When employing exemplars as a self-assessment strategy, students use the exemplars to help them articulate what changes they need to make to their own work in order to achieve the success criteria.
De Bono's Thinking hats
Because the Thinking hats encourage thinking from different perspectives, they can be used to focus students' feedback to their peers. Again, teachers model the use of the Thinking hats and train students in their use before asking them to use the hats as one of the peer feedback strategies.
The Yellow hat, for instance, encourages students to think about the 'good points' and to ask themselves questions such as 'Why will this work?' The Black hat urges caution and evaluation: 'Is this true? What are the weaknesses?' while the Green hat encourages creative thinking: 'Is there another way of doing this?' 'What would be better?' 'How else can this be done?'
Giving different students different hats can make peer feedback more focused and manageable for younger students. That way, each individual doesn't have to consider every aspect of the peer feedback but can concentrate on just one.
Using a rubric
For larger assessment activities conducted over a period of time, the rubric, which has been negotiated with students at the beginning of the task, can be used as the basis for paired discussions about progress. If students are very clear about the qualities of work implied by the various levels of performance described on a rubric, they can provide useful feedback to their peers.
If rubrics are to be (a) designed so they do capture the difference between levels of performance and (b) used effectively by students not only as a peer feedback tool but also as a self-assessment tool, then students need explicit teaching so they understand the differences between, for example, work which lists benefits as opposed to work which describes those benefits or explains them or evaluates them. An understanding of the language used by the rubric is essential.
Click here to access an example of a rubric for a letter-writing task for a Year 8 Geography class.
Helping students to decide how this rubric would be applied to a model letter would be a valuable learning activity.
The teacher:
- shows students a model of a letter written in response to this task
- goes through the language of the rubric with the students, unpacking any terms that they do not understand
- involves students in the process of using the rubric to provide feedback on the model letter.


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Toy Story 2 (3D)
|Original title: Toy Story 2 (3D) (2009)
|UK release: 22 January 2010
IMDb rating: 8,0 /10
Official summary
Ever wonder what toys do when people aren't around? Disney/Pixar's TOY STORY answers that question with a fantastic fun-filled journey, viewed mostly through the eyes of two rival toys- Woody, the lanky, likable cowboy, and Buzz Lightyear, the fearless space ranger. Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's heart, Woody plots against Buzz. But when circumstances separate Buzz and Woody from their owner, the comically-mismatched duo eventually learn to put aside their differences, and they find themselves on a hilarious adventure-filled mission where the only way they can survive is to form an uneasy alliance.
In the second installment, Buzz, Woody, and their friends return as Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggin, owner of Al's Toy Barn, kidnaps Woody. At Al's apartment, Woody discovers that he is a highly valued collectible from a 1950s TV show called "Woody's Roundup," and he meets the other prized toys from that show - Jessie the cowgirl, Bullseye the horse and Stinky Pete the Prospector. Andy's toys mount a daring rescue mission, Buzz Lightyear meets his match, and Woody has to decide where he and his heart truly belong.
Tom Hanks
Joan Cusack
Kelsey Grammer
Tim Allen
Don Rickles
John Lasseter
Writers: Pete Docter, John Lasseter
Producers: Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
Country: United States
Distributor: Walt Disney UK
Trailer added the: 25 January 2010
Official website: http://www.disney.com/ToyStory
Runtime: 2h49 (169 minutes)
Genre: Comedy Adventure Family Fantasy Animation Keywords: Toy Story 2 (3D) film trailer Read: 558


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Microscopic View of Ohm's Law
The current density (electric current per unit area, J=I/A) can be expressed in terms of the free electron density as
The number of atoms per unit volume (and the number free electrons for atoms like copper that have one free electron per atom) is
From the standard form of Ohm's law and resistance in terms of resistivity:
The next step is to relate the drift velocity to the electron speed, which can be approximated by the Fermi speed:
The drift speed can be expressed in terms of the accelerating electric field E, the electron mass, and the characteristic time between collisions.
The conductivity of the material can be expressed in terms of the Fermi speed and the mean free path of an electron in the metal.
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Microscopic View of Copper Wire
As an example of the microscopic view of Ohm's law, the parameters for copper will be examined. With one free electron per atom in its metallic state, the electron density of copper can be calculated from its bulk density and its atomic mass.
The Fermi energy for copper is about 7 eV, so the Fermi speed is
The measured conductivity of copper at 20°C is
The mean free path of an electron in copper under these conditions can be calculated from
The drift speed depends upon the electric field applied. For example, a copper wire of diameter 1mm and length 1 meter which has one volt applied to it yields the following results.
For 1 volt applied this gives a current of 46.3 Amperes and a current density
This corresponds to a drift speed of only millimeters per second, in contrast to the high Fermi speed of the electrons.
Caution! Do not try this at home! Dr. Beihai Ma of Argonne National Laboratory wrote to point out that the current density of 5900 A/cm2 in this example is over ten times the current density of 500 A/cm2 that copper can normally withstand at 40°F. So doing this in the laboratory might be too exciting. Thanks for the sanity check Dr. Ma.
(If you scale down the voltage applied so that the current is just 3 Amperes, current density 382 A/cm2, so that the copper wire will remain intact, the calculated drift velocity is just 0.00028 m/s. This would be more typical for working conditions in this wire. )
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Free Electron Density in a Metal
The free electron density in a metal is a factor in determining its electrical conductivity. It is involved in the Ohm's law behavior of metals on a microscopic scale. Because electrons are fermions and obey the Pauli exclusion principle, then at 0 K temperature the electrons fill all available energy levels up to the Fermi level. Therefore the free electron density of a metal is related to the Fermi level and can be calculated from
The number of atoms per unit volume multiplied by the number of free electrons per atom should agree with the free electron density above.
While these two approaches should be in agreement, it may be instructive to examine both for self-consistency.
Consider the element zinc with a tabulated Fermi energy of 9.47 eV. This leads to a free electron density of
From the Periodic Table, the density of zinc is 7140 kg/m3 and its atomic mass is 65.38 gm/mole. The number of atoms per unit volume is then
The number of free electrons per zinc atom to make these consistent is
This number is what we would expect from the electron configuration of zinc, (Ar)3d104s2 , so these two approaches to the free electron density in a metal are consistent.
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Shoppers: Beware of multiple shipping charges
- When ordering from TV or Internet%2C watch for multiple shipping charges
- One woman paid more in shipping charges than she did for the product
- The charges were made even though all the items came in the same package
Anyone who orders something off the Internet, TV or via a catalog usually expects to pay some sort of shipping and handling fee unless, of course, there's a special promotion.
But did you ever get charged three or four shipping fees when everything you ordered was sent in one package?
"I've ordered many things off the TV before and never had this problem before," said Blanche Mayer, 81, of Southgate, Mich.
She spotted a product called WaxVac on TV that promised to replace cotton swabs and gently suction dirt and wax from a user's ears. Mayer figured the cost with shipping would be less than $25.
Instead, the product that was supposed to clean her ears ended up cleaning out her wallet. She was talked into ordering more accessories. And she was charged $83.90, including all those unexpected shipping fees.
"Each item that was purchased was charged postage and handling," Mayer said. She rattled off two fees at $4.99 and two others that were $13.98.
All told, we're talking about $38 in fees for items that cost Mayer about $8 to ship back to the company. The ear wax softening drops, disposable tips, brushes and main product were not heavy. "They were as light as a feather," she said.
Consumer complaints about "shop-at-home and catalog sales" ranked No. 4 on the Federal Trade Commission's Top 10 complaint list. The top complaint was identity theft, followed by debt-collection complaints. Complaints about banks and lenders ranked No. 3.
We may be more comfortable about buying things at home. But there are some fees that will definitely get you angry, as Mayer was when she saw her bill. In the past, I've heard other consumers complain about skin-care products that had more shipping charges on each item — even though all the products came in the same box.
As someone who helped elderly parents for many years, I'll admit I quickly lose patience with products or procedures that add one more minute of confusion or heartache for the elderly. They just don't need it.
David Torok, director of planning and information at the FTC, said a wide range of complaints falls into that shop-at-home category:
• All the costs aren't disclosed, the product is never delivered, or the guarantee isn't much of a guarantee.
• Shipping and handling fees, particularly on health care products.
• Some "free" trial offers have ended up as "fee" trials — or deals that unexpectedly generate more fees by automatically signing you up for recurring shipments or services.
The trick here: Make sure you read each line of your credit card bill every month.
And yes, it's not always easy to spot bad deals.
"If you see a $7.99 charge on your credit card bill, you might blow right by it," said Bill Hardekopf, CEO of LowCards.com in Birmingham, Ala., a website that provides credit card information for consumers.
Hardekopf said he got stuck with a recurring-charge program himself once and didn't spot it right away.
The FTC has noted that some dishonest businesses often hide the terms and conditions of their offers in very small type or use pre-checked sign-up boxes as the default setting online.
Some companies may put conditions on returns and cancellations that are so strict it could be next to impossible to stop the deliveries and the billing.
Mayer's bill notes that WaxVac can be returned for a full refund within 30 days of receipt. But here's the trick in the wording on that statement — the refund is "less applicable postage and handling." Sure, they've got you for nearly $38 even if you ask for a refund — once they've added several non-refundable shipping and handling charges to one order that arrives in the same package.
Product Trend has received a series of complaints from consumers who have contacted the Better Business Bureau. The BBB lists WaxVac as one of the alternative business names. Other business names or products from Product Trend include Stretch Genie, Wraptastic, Furniture Fix and Comfy Cushion.
According to BBB files, the company has a pattern of complaints concerning advertising, sales and customer service issues. The BBB report noted that some consumers have had a hard time ordering just one item because the review process is difficult and larger orders seem to be automatically placed. Consumers also reported a hard time canceling orders.
Product Trend has a D rating on the Better Business Bureau's grading scale of A-plus to F. See www.bbb.org. The low rating is attributed to the length of time it has taken to resolve complaints, two complaints that were not resolved and the fact there were 281 complaints overall.
A representative from Product Trend did not comment on the fees or the Better Business Bureau report or Mayer's case. The most recent comment from a representative Wednesday was that the company had "requested the recording of the call" to review it.
Kathryn Lampron, legal affairs manager for Hampton Direct in Williston, Vt., said in an e-mail that she needed an opportunity to review that call before she could fully address my concerns.
"I've also requested a copy of the invoice that the customer received to review how the charges were broken out and ensure that the invoice coincides with what was ordered over the phone," she wrote in the e-mail. She noted that it can take the third-party call center as long as 10 days to provide call recordings.
While it's not always easy to find a resolution with billing practices, many experts recommend that consumers who are upset with practices at any company take some action anyway.
• Complain. Ask for refunds.
• Talk to the company first to try to resolve the dispute. Be persistent — even if someone says you agreed to some fine print that you never spotted.
Mayer contacted her credit card issuer to dispute the charges, and she said she's thankful that her bank is working with her. But she's going to keep an eye on her credit card statements, too — just in case any other charges pop up.
The FTC's Torok said some credit card issuers are more willing to deal with a dispute — if they've had a lot of complaints about a specific company. But consumer advocates note that speaking up can help when trying to get your money back.
Companies that have shaky practices are betting that consumers will just shrug off the loss — or possibly be too embarrassed to make their beef public. After all, who wants to admit having ear wax woes, really?
• Before you buy something online or elsewhere, check reviews online. But also be cautious about what you read online.
• The Federal Trade Commission notes that some scammers have been known to set up specialty sites that sell a particular type of product. But comments on those sites can be full of glowing reviews from shills who are compensated for their posts. It is also possible that negative reviews can be deleted.
• Contact the Federal Trade Commission at www.ftc.gov to understand your rights or file a complaint.
• Some consumers find success by posting complaints via Facebook, using Twitter to complain or filing complaints directly with the Better Business Bureau. See www.bbb.org.
• Keep paperwork and correspondence with a merchant, save e-mails, take notes on the phone, and make copies of warranties and confirmation of orders and delivery dates. Don't procrastinate; file a complaint with the merchant or a dispute with the credit card company as soon as possible.


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Researchers and teachers find common ground in Princeton labs
Three area high school teachers have been working side-by-side with
Princeton scientists this summer investigating solutions to the world's
energy problems.
For eight weeks they have been part of a program called Research Experience for Teachers. The program's main thrust is to give teachers real-life lab experience that will inspire and inform their teaching when they return to their high school classrooms in the fall. But by all accounts the lab researchers have learned as much from the teachers as the teachers have learned from the researchers. In one case, a teacher invented a device that reduces the cost of an important piece of lab equipment from $60,000 to $30.
Michael Ireland, who teaches physics and precalculus at Perkiomen School in Pennsburg, Pa., has been commuting an hour and a half every morning to work in the laboratory of assistant chemistry professor Stefan Bernhard. Bernhard's lab is trying to use sunlight to coax hydrogen out of water cheaply and abundantly enough so that it might one day replace fossil fuels as a source of energy.
Working in Bernhard's lab, both this summer and last summer, Ireland
said he has learned a tremendous amount about how real research is done
-- for example, he has learned the importance of communication and
collaborative problem solving among lab partners.
But Ireland also has made enormous contributions to Bernhard's lab, chiefly in the form of an oxygen sensor that can measure quickly and reliably how much oxygen has been released from water.
Ireland built his sensor using a semiconductor chip from Texas
Instruments, off-the-shelf parts from RadioShack and a small block of
aluminum, which he hand-machined.
Ireland's sensor takes measurements just as sensitively and nimbly as the commercially manufactured sensor in the lab.
"Basically I took a bunch of big expensive equipment and made it a lot more portable," said Ireland.
He also made it very cheaply. Total cost of the lab sensor: $60,000. Total cost of Ireland's: $30.
"His background enabled him to do things we were unable to do," said Bernhard, whose team uses Ireland's oxygen sensor on a regular basis. This summer Ireland has been developing a hydrogen sensor as well.
Also participating this summer in the Research Experience for Teachers are Deborah Cretsinger, who teaches chemistry at East Brunswick (N.J.) High School, and Steve Whittington, who teaches chemistry at St. Joseph High School in Metuchen, N.J. The outreach program is sponsored by the Princeton Center for Complex Materials, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials.
While Ireland has been working on creating hydrogen as a fuel, Cretsinger and Whittington have been in the labs of two professors -- Jay Benziger in chemical engineering and Andrew Bocarsly in chemistry -- who are collaborating to develop fuel cells that reliably and efficiently convert hydrogen or other alternative fuels into electricity.
"Fuel cells have been around for a long time and you can easily build one," Benziger said. "The problem is that they are fickle."
Benziger has had Cretsinger explore the elastic properties of the polymer nafion, which acts as a membrane for the fuel cells developed by Benziger and Bocarsly.
For her research this summer, Cretsinger has created a lab project for her own students, which involves clamping a weight onto the bottom of dog-bone shaped pieces of the transluscent nafion and seeing how long they take to stretch under different conditions.
"Kids want to know how the chemistry I am teaching them applies to real-life situations," said Cretsinger, "They are particularly interested in alternative fuels, so this is a great way to get their attention."
Meanwhile in Bocarsly's lab, Whittington has been adding small particles -- titanium oxide nanotubes -- to the nafion in an effort to make it act as a more efficient membrane. This fall Whittington will take back to his students a demonstration fuel cell that he assembled in Bocarsly's lab. It is a re-creation of the very first fuel cell, invented by Sir William Robert Grove in 1839.
Bocarsly has long understood the benefits of working with teachers. He is former co-director of Partners in Science, a program that preceded the Research Experience for Teachers.
"The idea of integrating high school teachers into a real research group doing cutting edge science has worked exceptionally well," said Bocarsly. "There are real, demonstrable benefits."
A study several years ago by Jay Dubner of Columbia University, also a co-director of Partners in Science, found that the test scores for students whose teachers participated in summer lab programs were significantly higher than scores of students whose teachers had not.
Daniel Steinberg, director of educational outreach for the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, said that this summer's program was unusual in that all of the teachers were working on projects so closely related to the field of hydrogen energy, giving them a lot of common ground. "I scheduled a lot of lunch meetings so that the teachers could talk together about their research experiences and exchange ideas for new teaching strategies," he said. "They weren't just trading war stories. They learned a lot from one another."
Program participants receive a weekly stipend to make it easier for them to forego other summer work. Pending continued funding, organizers will begin reviewing applications from teachers for next summer's program in January.


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Ko gives caddie the boot
THE par-five ninth at the US Open might be the hole that fractured Lydia Ko's relationship with caddie Jason Hamilton.
Ko has split with the Australian, who has carried her clubs since the end of the 2014 season, culminating in 13 titles including two major wins.
The New Zealander's coach David Leadbetter revealed to Radio Sport that Ko and Hamilton separated last week, which has affected her during a recent form slump.
"I think that's been on her mind a little bit. The reasons are a little uncertain at the moment. They felt they weren't getting on together. It wasn't acrimonious in any way," Leadbetter told Radio Sport.
Ko took on Hamilton, who previously worked with former world No.1 Yani Tseng, at the start of last year after auditioning eight caddies.
She will use a couple of temporary caddies for the remainder of the 2016 season.
A double-bogey that blew Ko's lead at the US Open might be the reason behind the break-up. Ko held a one-shot lead going into the hole but recorded a seven on the par five before going on to finish in a tie for third with a final-round three-over 75.
"Sometimes I've found with young players they can become too reliant on their caddie," Leadbetter said.
"At the US Open I felt she should have won that tournament and I think she made a poor decision and I think she relied on her caddie to make it. A lot of times, more experienced players will make a decision and go for it. I think she got talked into a shot on the ninth hole, a par five where there was no way she should have gone for it. She should have laid up and she made a double (bogey) on the hole."
American Brittany Lang won the tournament after beating Sweden's Anna Nordqvist in a controversial three-hole playoff.
Hamilton told GolfChannel.com: "She told me in the clubhouse after the round (at the KEB Hana Bank Championship in South Korea) that she felt like now was a good time to make a change.
"She said she thought it would be good to get a different set of eyes out there."
"These things happen, it's part of the game."
The world No.1's been unable to hit her usual lofty heights of late, with just one top-five finish from her last five tournaments. She produced her worst result of 2016 on the weekend after finishing well back in South Korea in a tie for 51st.


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I have a sentence in a book that goes like 甘い匂いのするまっきいろな花です。It is a kids book, so everything is in kana. I'm having trouble figuring out the bolded part. It talks about a dandelion in the context, so I assume that きいろ is 黄色(yellow), what is this (まっ) then?
Google suggests that it might be following 甘い匂いのする真っ黄色な花です。and translates this (真っ) part as "straight". Can someone explain how this truncation happens?
Also, where to look up the grammar for "のする"?


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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for the mini address. It was very well put but I am afraid I am not quite sure how to respond to it because changes at the border are in a state of flux. That is the best we can say. Nothing has been formulated to really exclude or include different aspects of trade with the U.S.A. The latest information I have is that it continues to be our largest trading partner, so I guess things are not going too bad between America and Canada.
House of Commons Hansard #119 of the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was environmental.


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New Rijksmuseum Opens to the Public in April 2013 Following a Ten Year Transformation
Nov 15, 2012, 07:00 ET
AMSTERDAM, November 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
- Masterpieces from Rembrandt to Rietveld will be seen in a new light as one of the world's greatest art collections is revealed in a striking sequence of 80 galleries
- Over 8,000 works of art will go on show telling the story of Dutch art and history
After ten years of rebuilding, renovation and restoration, the new Rijksmuseum will open on 13 April 2013. Never before has a national museum undergone such a complete modernisation.
The transformation of the Rijksmuseum provides an opportunity for a major re-presentation of the museum's world-famous collection, much of which has not been accessible to the public for a decade. For the first time, visitors can follow a chronological sequence of 80 galleries displaying 8,000 works of art and objects that tell the story of 800 years of Dutch history seen in an international context, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Only Rembrandt's celebrating masterpiece, The Night Watch, will be returning to its original setting.
More than 30 galleries are dedicated to the glory of the Golden Age when the young mercantile republic led the world in trade, science, military exploits and the arts. At the heart of this will be the magnificently restored Gallery of Honour, presenting world-famous works of art by Frans Hals, Jan Steen, Johannes Vermeer and Rembrandt van Rijn.
Spanish architecture firm Cruz y Ortiz arquitectos has turned the 19th-century building into a bright and spacious museum for the 21st century, with an impressive new entrance, state-of-the-art facilities, restored galleries, and a new Asian Pavilion. The architects have recreated the clear layout conceived by the museum's original architect, Pierre Cuypers, and have restored the high, spacious, late 19th century galleries to their former glory. An outdoor exhibition space and renovated garden have also been added.
The French interior architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte has selected an interior colour scheme inspired by Pierre Cuypers palette for the building, and has designed and chosen furnishings for the gallery including the display cases, plinths, lighting and furniture.
The museum is currently installing the 8,000 works of art and historical objects into the new building. The last work to be moved will be Rembrandt's The Night Watch.
The Rijksmuseum is the only major national museum in the world that will be open to the public 365 days a year.
SOURCE Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam


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