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Recent years have seen much vocal skepticism about the validity of connoisseurship. This is, at least in part, the legacy of Erwin Panofsky, some of whose opinions seem to demand the exclusion of the act of viewing from the interpretive task. Less noticed, however, has been the widespread reaffirmation during these same years of the centrality of connoisseurship within the discipline of art history. As exemplified by the integrative approach of Ernst Gombrich, the work of art consists precisely in an equilibrium between our sensate and conceptual ex-periences of it. Connoisseurship, a specialized way of knowing, is associated with other forms of knowledge in an interconnected web of understanding—the whole cloth of the history of art. Connoisseurship, as in the French tradition chosen here as an example, brings one from the physical properties of the work itself to the delectation of the senses and of the mind.
A Dantesque theme of Justice is symbolized through a series of 21 frescoes of uomini fa-mosi, including two donne illustri, which were painted, with surviving inscriptions and dates, for the Sala del Consiglio of the Palazzo del Commune of Lucignano in the course of the fif-teenth century. From the beginning, the poet's view of the Law dominates the first triad of images commissioned for the legal chamber. Julius Caesar, Constantine the Great, and Noah appear as representatives of pagan antiquity, Christian history, and Hebrew history, respec-tively, but they were also selected for a more important reason: in late-medieval times, all three heroes were regarded as the founders of Rome. The Roman connection relates to the significance which Dante accorded Rome in terms of world history and world rule, while the figures' link with Janus, who precedes them, derives from Dante's larger appreciation of Italy as the fruit of the creation of Rome and the beginning of civiltas.
The miniature at the beginning of the "Office for the Dead" section from Charles d'Angouleme's Book of Hours depicts a defeated Centaur being ridden by a wild woman while two men and Death attack them furiously. The scene is somewhat problematic. The general understanding is that it represents a Centaur battling the Lapiths. However, the inter-pretation of the subject as purely mythological does not explain its inclusion in the "Office for the Dead". The article suggests that the miniature expresses the idea common since antiquity, of a contest between man and beast as a symbol of the struggle against dark forces. The Cen-taur and the wild woman form a single unit—the personification of vice in terms of Christian allegory. The private nature of the Book of Hours leads one to infer that Charles used the alle-gory of ths struggle with the Vices for his own political vendetta against his rivals, conveying in this enigmatic miniature his bitter enmity towards those who had wronged him.
Donatello's stucco reliefs and bronze doors for the Old Sacristy at San Lorenzo were com-missioned by Cosimo de' Medici and his brother, Lorenzo, to complete the decoration of the funerary chapel of their parents. The iconography of this sculpture establishes the sacristy as a family monument and clearly points to Cosimo's branch of the family as the ruling dynastic line of the Medici. The stylistic references in the doors to early Christian forms associate the Medici with the history of San Lorenzo, a building whose first dedication dates to the late fourth century, thus establishing their presence in this part of the city to which they had moved only in the late Trecento. The selection of saints on the Apostles' Doors metaphorically represents the Medici's importance in Florence and to the Papacy and, furthermore, suggests specific connections to the Council of Ferrara/Florence (1438–1439), which Cosimo had financed.
"Muscipula diaboli"? A Pseudo-Mousetrap in the Adoration by Lorenzo Lotto in Washington
The object on which Lorenzo Lotto signed and dated the Adoration of the Christ Child in the National Gallery in Washington, located in the lower right corner of the painting, has in the past been identified as a mousetrap. To this instrument — according to an old study by Meyer Schapiro — were attributed antidemonic powers of special symbolic significance re-lated to Christ's incarnation. Closer inspection, however, reveals that the object is simply a piece of wood with a mortise at one end, of the type that was used in the sixteenth century to hold the stand of a picture frame. Deprived of a precise symbolic meaning, this holder consti-tutes an ideal linking element between the figure of St. Joseph, the carpenter whose handi-work it evidently is, and the painter Lotto who put his own signature on it. Lotto's interest in Joseph, which remained constant throughout his career, is connected with the cult of the saint that developed in Italy at the beginning of the sixteenth century, particularly in Bergamo, the city in which Lotto lived for twelve years, painting the Adoration of the Christ Child there in 1523. The signature on the piece of wood is, moreover, an allusion to the skills and tools of the artist's craft.
Lorenzo Lotto 1506: The Asolo Altarpiece
In this study the author proposes that the Madonna in the altarpiece by Lorenzo Lotto in the cathedral of Asolo (signed and dated "LAVRENT.LOTVS IVNIOR M.D.VI"), which was previously thought to have been commissioned by the local Battuti Confraternity, may in fact be identified as Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Jerusalem, Cyprus, and Armenia, and Domina of Asolo. The author bases his conclusion on a comparison with the portrait of Caterina by Gentile Bellini, as well as on historical and social considerations. It is probable that the iconography is that of the Virgin Immaculate, to which the Queen is explicitly compared in a poem commissioned in her honor by the Duke of Milan. Some of the landscape elements may be interpreted both as symbols of the Immaculate Conception and as references to Caterina's personal history.
Vittore Carpaccio's Young Knight Reconsidered
Carpaccio's Young Knight in the Collection of Baron Thyssen-Bonemisza in Lugano is usually considered the first known independent full-length portrait in Italian painting, its model being variously identified and the painting dated from 1495 to about 1520. Since the mere physical evidence which the work offers appears ambigous, this study tries to unravel its mystery by focusing on one of its major symbolic motifs – the combat between the f alcon and the heron waged high above the young hero. The motif figures in two late-sixteenth-century Nuremberg emblem-books, where it seems to have originated in the work of Albrecht Dürer. Particularly the recto of fol. 12 of the so-called Prayer-book of Emperor Maximilian I (1515) shows a drawing which bears an amazing similarity, in both its overall conception and several conspicuous details, to the Lugano painting. This can be explained as follows: Dürer's drawing represents a recollection of the painting by Carpaccio which the German master saw on his second sojourn in Venice (1505–1507), and which consequently must have already been, if not completed, then in an advanced state. For reasons unknown, the painting re-mained unfinished or unsigned until 1510 (or even later). For that matter, the period of 1505–1507 provides terminus ante quem for the decisive stage in the gestation of Carpaccio's Young Knight in Lugano. Of necessity related to this is the need to revise its status of a straightforward portrait painting.
John Ruskin in 1860 drew attention to Veronese's humorous and sympathetic use of do-mestic animals in his religious paintings. The paper begins with the example cited by Ruskin, the paintings commissioned for the Coccina family palace at the beginning of the 1570s. Veronese's humorous treatment of animals is a feature of his work from all stages of his career and, in the great Feasts, was combined with a feeling for decorum. The animals underline the narrative without distracting from the central message.
A comparable approach can also be found in Veronese's treatment of the programme and of the Olympian gods and goddesses in the fresco cycle of the Villa Barbaro at Maser. This approach is extended to his mythological paintings, where the eroticism of Giulio Romano is defused through a sense of wit, which was developed from an older Quattrocento tradition.
Caravaggio's contemporary Mannerist critics charged him with excessive naturalism and a lack of due regard for the antique, but a closer scrutiny of the artist's compositions reveals that several of them were based on Classical models, in some cases even referring to works which were known only from literary sources. Caravaggio frequently combined the study of the material vestiges of ancient art with a meticulous observation of nature — which to him was not an antithesis, but rather a necessary complement of the Classical tradition. The tracing of the antique inspiration of the Borghese Gallery Boy with the Basket of Fruit and the Boy with a Bunch of Grapes (formerly known as "Bacchino Malato"), of the Uffizi Bacchus, and also of the Capitoline St. John the Baptist with a Ram, the Uffizi Medusa, the Victorious Amor in Berlin-Dahlem, and the Sleeping Amor in the Pitti, provides not only a clearer insight into the meaning of each of these various pictures, but also a better understanding of Caravaggio's realism.
The Eyes of the Sinner: Observations on Rembrandt's 1636 Blinding of Samson in Frankfurt
One of Rembrandt's most fascinating early works is the large painting, dated 1636, called The Blinding of Samson, in the Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt. Until now, in dealing with this work art historical research has, for the most part, been limited to the plausible, though by no means definite, hypothesis that Rembrandt gave the painting as a present to Constantijn Huygens, secretary to the Stadholder, Prince Frederick Henry of Orange, to thank him for acting as intermediary between the artist and the court.
The focus of the present study, however, is on the iconography of the picture, since Rem-brandt broke significantly with post-medieval tradition in his representation of the subject. Thus, for example, in contrast to Rubens and his followers, Rembrandt not only shows the hero's capture but also — very graphically — the cruel act of his eyes being put out by the Philistines. Rembrandt used as a model for the prone Samson the figure in a copper engraving of 1566 by Cornelis Cort, after Titian's painting Tityus, now in the Prado.
In keeping with the biblical exegesis of contemporary reformist theologians, Rembrandt, who was apparently familiar with the popular preaching on this theme, stresses the moment of destruction of Samson's eyesight, which was seen as God's punishment for the whoring about with the pagan Delilah; it was his eyes that were struck because through them he had let him-self be led into sin by looking upon Delilah, thus delivering himself into her hands.
There are no serious technical, historical, and formal arguments against the possibility that five pictures ascribed to Joos van Gent were commissioned for the Gubbio studiolo of Duke Federigo da Montefeltro. The probable arrangement of its decoration is reconstructed here, and the cultural background, which determined the choice of the iconographical program, is discussed. The decoration, based on the Neoplatonic concepts of Ficino and Landino, appears to represent an encomium of the owner as having pursued a successful path to wisdom through action and through contemplation. Some formal peculiarities of the paintings are thus accounted for.


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Look at Your Job (or the Job You Are Seeking) from Your Employer's Point of ViewBy Harrison Barnes on Oct 10,2020
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Be the person you want to be; if you see yourself naturally going in a certain direction, then you must allow yourself to go that way. Be grateful for every little thing in your life, and you will position yourself to receive more good things. You must hold the correct mindset to achieve a successful life and career; "get your mind right", look at the world differently, and get away from your established ways of doing things.
There are two kinds of people; value creators and value extractors. Your career success will largely depend on your skill at either of these two things. Value extractors prefer an environment where value is already being created, while value creators look for areas of maximum opportunity. While value extractors seek stable careers, value creators seek to build up organizations rather than work within them. You need to decide if you are a value creator or extractor, commit to one or the other, and never look back.
It is important to have high standards. For the most part, life will pay any price you ask of it. The people who achieve the most in the world have incredibly high standards. It is like this with businesses as well. A great piece of machinery, or a great service, is like this because of the standards that are followed.
Concentrate on the process, not the results, in order to succeed in your career. Focus on the entire process of what you are doing, refine each step of that process, and make sure to constantly improve each step. Pay attention to the small, seemingly insignificant details, because they will add up to make a huge difference.
Your happiness and quality of life depend largely on the meanings that your ascribe to the things around you, so you must communicate with yourself in a way that makes you feel positive, not negative. You must interpret your life's events in a way that makes you feel good about yourself rather than otherwise.
In this article Harrison discusses the importance of keeping one's job secured, and how external factors affect job security. It is crucial for job seekers to choose the right kind of job, the right kind of organization, and to have the perfect pay-package for enjoying job security to the fullest. Professionals in high positions in an organization are more prone to getting chucked off rather than those in lesser positions. The complexity of an organization also plays a crucial role in hampering or promoting a sense of job security among different workers in an organization. Competitiveness in an industry is also a harbinger of increasing insecurity in jobs, as there is constant push-and-pull with regards to resources.
The secret to a happy career and life is realizing that we too need to love ourselves unconditionally. There is no other choice.
In this article Harrison discusses the reasons why the best executives are so highly paid. According to him the main reason for this is that exceptional executives are rare. A top executive has to make numerous decisions and calculations whilst taking every factor into account each day. There are very few people who have the capacity to organize people, increase productivity and profitability, all while facing criticism and driving a company forward. The survival and prosperity of a company depends on having people who can give good orders – and have them carried out by others. Those who can lead groups typically are the highest paid people inside corporations and groups. The highest paid executives are able to implement and get things done; the lowest paid typically are not able to do this.
Avoid people with a negative worldview, and who are unenthusiastic about their jobs. Their negative energy will rub off on you if you allow it, and you will find yourself experiencing the same negative results and unhappiness as them. Seek out people who are succeeding and doing great things in their careers, and who love what they do. Learn to view your job and surroundings from the light rather than the dark side.
Every thought you have ultimately brings you closer to something positive or negative; you must therefore learn to control your thoughts, and direct them towards something positive. Negative experiences happen to all of us, but the worst thing you can do is let these things control your mentality instead of moving on.
Rely on facts and statistics rather than opinions; when you depend on mere opinions, you inevitably face disastrous consequences. You must understand the difference between facts and opinions, analyze both, and adopt the former while disregarding the latter to make productive decisions.
In this article Harrison discusses how your brain is the single greatest determinant of what will end up happening to you in your career and life. Many of the common problems that people suffer from, such as distraction, worry, anger and more, are often related to a brain malfunction. When your brain works right, then you work right. If your brain has trouble, then you are likely to have trouble. Focusing on what you love, being grateful and meditation can help your brain. There are psychological things that are likely influencing you, and there may even be organic things that are influencing what is happening with you. Getting to the bottom of your brain and what is going on inside of you may be among the most effective career moves you will ever make.
In this article Harrison discusses how persistent pursuit of something you believe in, against all obstacles, is one of the most important keys to success. So many of us just decide at some point not to push through and not to keep going even when a little bit of extra effort would push us through. The secret to being incredibly good at everything is pushing through and getting better and better when others around you are quitting. Even while hiring, employers want experts and people who are the best at what they are doing–they do not want dabblers. They want to hire the person who is incredibly committed to a job and has persisted against odds in one direction when others have given up.
The past does not dictate the future, so you should not use inductive reasoning to make conclusions about your life or career. Recognize when you are making incorrect conclusions based on past events, and switch to deductive reasoning in which you are not limited by the past. You will find your conclusions to be much more accurate, and you will succeed as a result.
A powerful sense of self will make all the difference in your life. You must understand that your sense of yourself and your capabilities come from inside of you, not from the external forces that have brought you to your current place in life. What you feel internally might be completely different from what the world is telling you, and you must learn to focus on the former rather than the latter.
In this article Harrison discusses how resisting change and not taking necessary and relevant action can be the biggest obstacles to a better career and better life. Resistance is something that prevents most people from ever changing. Resisting change can be highly damaging to your growth in your career and life. Instead of allowing your life to be controlled by external circumstances, choose to take action and bring about a change. Conduct a brutal self analysis if needed, to clear the blocks you have in your mind and to bring about change that is necessary. Most people give up. They do not persist. You need strategies and beliefs that will allow you to persist and persevere, so that you can change. The best strategy is to be focused, and this focus will help you overcome the resistance you face whenever you make an effort to begin changing.
If you want to rise to the top, you need to create as much value as possible. The message is also pretty simple: the more value you create, generally, the greater your fall will ultimately be when you stop creating value.
Pursue your own dreams and become the person that you want to be, rather than what others might want. Living life according to the wishes of others is meaningless, and will bring you neither happiness nor success. Others do not understand your capabilities, goals, and interests as well as you do, hence their opinions should be your least concern. Have faith in your own potential greatness, and you will develop the confidence to act upon it and be the person that you really want to be, achieving true fulfillment.
You are rewarded in direct proportion to the value that you deliver, meaning that you have to deliver in order to reach your full potential. You will provide more value to others when you are focused on giving. People who under-deliver view their jobs as being primarily about them, while those who over-deliver see their jobs as being about others. Strive to develop a reputation for delivering rather than under-delivering.
Businesses who understand what their clients want, rather than what they presume their clients want, tend to perform much better than their competitors. You must view your service from your client's point of view. In a job search you must view your potential employers as customer. You must find out what is important to your employer or interviewer, and you will stand out in your job search.
In this article Harrison explains how long-term enjoyment of life requires that we delay gratification until a later time. The most successful people in the world show the ability to delay gratification. Failure is the result of not delaying gratification. Not facing problems is something related to our ability to delay gratification. One of the most important things we can do is to confront a problem early. Ignoring problems is a simple expression of the unwillingness to delay gratification. Our problems will not disappear. The problems that we need to confront are a barrier to our future growth. It is in your best interest to delay gratification. The people who delay gratification are found to experience the most success in their careers and lives.
Working with a recruiter can open more doors, and help you can jobs more effectively than if you were tracking down openings on your own. A poor recruiter, however, can leave you even worse off than you were on your own. Be very careful about the recruiter with whom your work, and try to find one that specializes in your niche or field.
Despite the obvious advantages, getting jobs through a friend or relative may ultimately harm you. When you do so, you risk lowering your colleagues' opinions of you, who may see your connections as evidence that you lack the skills to get your position on your own merits. Nonetheless, there are situations in which it is acceptable to take advantage of such connections, but you must be on your guard; make sure that the job you get is a good fit, and one in which you would perform well regardless of your connections.
Repeat work is always more valuable to you than one-offs, however well-paid they may be. Companies succeed or fail depending on their ability to generate repeat business. Repeat work grants you more options and control over your life and actions. Even work with a lower salary, which might not initially seem appealing, can be beneficial if it promises repeat jobs.
In this article Harrison discusses the importance of concentrating on your work and not getting distracted. The true value of the best executives comes from their ability to concentrate and get things done. If you can concentrate for a long period of time on a single issue, you will improve the quality of the work that you do. The qualitative aspects of your work are incredibly important because they end up determining your outcome. Good companies and employers value people who are organized and think through issues when they are working on something. You need to concentrate. You need to give everything you are doing your full attention. You need to work hard and be focused.
You must seek to understand the different beliefs of the people around you. Everyone holds their own unique set of beliefs, and attempts to question or change them will only work to your peril. Therefore, you must seek out and work with people who share your beliefs. When people perceive you as having beliefs similar to their own, they will be much more likely to accept you and you will ultimately achieve more career success and happiness.
When a company can no longer survive, all of its jobs disappear; a good manager's job, then, is to ensure the company's survival. As a good manager, you need to truly be on the side of the company and dedicated to its continuance; the more the company succeeds, the more you will grow along with it. Good managers care about what happens to their organization, but the best managers focus continually on the organization's progress and best interests.
The best way to attain your goal is through small, incremental steps on which you can build. Establish a routine, and make sure you are consistently working towards some kind of goal. Start small, and always build upon what you have done before. Most people fail to achieve their goals because they believe everything should happen quickly and at the same time, instead of progressively building upon their past achievements.
Make sure that you are involved in groups that focus on positive things. Your success in life depends on your ability to focus on the outcomes you want, and the focus of the groups with which you associate will in turn shape your own focus. You must endeavor to always choose groups with a positive focus.
In this article Harrison explains how you can ensure success in your career by externalizing your opponents. Your job is like a game; if you work hard, play by the rules of the company and are seen as part of the team you will be viewed as a valuable player for the company. The most significant part of any game is the presence of an opponent. Don't look for an opponent among your co-workers. Never speak negatively of your team members. Instead, concentrate on the external opponents. External opponents bring you and the team closer as you work towards a common goal. In order for you and your company to succeed it is important to have an external opponent. Harrison advises people to consistently work hard and not participate in the politics. This is a sure way to score big in your career.
In this article Harrison discusses how people who stand for something always do better than those who do not. Companies who stand for something always do better than companies who do not. The most successful companies not only stand for something, but they are completely consistent with their core principles. This is what keeps them going and this is what makes them successful. One of the largest problems that people have in their careers is when they diverge from what they are good at. When you do not stand for something, you divert from your true strength. Everything begins to crumble and slowly fall apart when you are not doing something that you are really good at. The biggest success comes when you stand for something and are good at it.
The most successful people never slow down, and do not allow themselves to get too comfortable. Everyone works to achieve their goals, but failure comes when they decline the amount of effort they put forth after having achieved these goals. When people get too comfortable, they cease to put in the additional effort to progress further and consequently fail. People who succeed in the long-term constantly seek challenges, make room for further growth, and demonstrate their ability to take up further responsibility.
You need to provide people what they want, otherwise you will not have a job. Although they might not always be the most desirable kinds of jobs, certain jobs always exist because they provide services that people will always require. The only secret to continual employment is to provide a service that people always need; if you do this, and nothing else, you will always find yourself employed. Give people what they want.
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Today, at Computex 2011, Viewsonic unveiled the ViewPad 7X, an Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet. It will have the distinction of being the first 7 inch Honeycomb tablet.
It comes with a 7 inch display with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels and is powered by a dual core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, presumably clocked at 1 GHz. It also offers HSPA+ connectivity and a set of cameras. It weighs only 380 gms, exactly the same as the Galaxy Tab.
Besides the ViewPad 7X, it also showcased the ViewPad 10Pro, which is one of the 10 Intel tablets we mentioned in an earlier post.
It has a 10.1 inch display and comes with a 1.5 GHz Intel Oak Trail processor. It comes with Windows 7 Pro and Android 2.2 with fast switching, which allows you to switch between the 2 OSes without rebooting. It has 32 GB internal storage and a 3500 mAh battery.
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Try not to have a vagina in Mississippi unless you want men named Bubba referring to an entire state's worth of women regressing to coathanger abortions as "starting somewhere."
There wasn't even really one of those distractions or BS tactics employed by Governor Phil Bryant and co. to cover up the fact that this is all about a conservative vendetta against women's choices—you know, when they're like "this is about helping the women" or "LOOK, WHAT'S THAT OVER THERE!" Frankly, dude made no bones about wanting to put the kibosh on abortions in Mississippi back in April when he signed the law, which requires anyone performing abortions at the state's only clinic to be an OB-GYN with privileges to admit patients to a local hospital. Bryant and legislators who pushed the new law argue that if a woman has issues at the clinic, it would be safer if she would be able to be accompanied by her clinic doctor to the hospital rather than being handed off to a new doctor. Thanks to red tape, this is harder than it seems, and failure to comply with the mandate requires immediate shutdown.
Bryant has said frequently that a cornerstone of his campaign is getting Mississippi "abortion-free." They're not wasting any time, either! The Health Department is heading over to check out the clinic tomorrow, and if it's not complying with this new law (which, given the short amount of time to prepare, the clinic has already said they won't be), they have 10 days to rework their organization to Health Department standards and will be judged before a hearing 30 days later.
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He didn't hit much, but boy could he pick it. Jack Wilson, fan favorite.
There was angst about it when it happened but it was time for Jack to go. He had been banged up the year before and hasn't played a full season since. The return was pretty good, four prospects plus Ronny Cedeno. I know Cedeno has a lot of detractors and rightfully so. I've been one of them. But there is a real lack of quality shortstops around the majors right now. Getting rid of Ian Snell was a bonus here.
Now if only they could have pulled the trigger on the rumored Wilson for Jair Jurrjens swap the year before…
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I Know That My Redeemer Lives (New Era)
All glory to His name!
My Savior, still the same.
What joy this sentence gives:
I know my Savior lives.
All glory to His name!
My Savior still the same.
He lives! I know He lives.
"I know that my Redeemer lives.
I know that my Redeemer lives!"
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Music: Lewis Edwards
Arranged By: Ralph Woodward
Artist: Arr. Woodward
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Composition Date: 2000-01-01
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Well, this first day of leadership is starting out swimmingly. Sorry about the "Cermony" stuff in the first headline. Great start!
Anyway, wanted to just give you a little intro and keep you updated on how this first post-Leitch week will go. Since it's a short week and the bearded kid from CBS Sportsline's still filling out his paperwork, there won't be any major changes this week.
The first change you'll notice is the death of "About Last Night." I know many of you come to this website each morning wholly dependent upon that post to give you a heads-up on three quick snippets from the world of sports that you probably saw on Sports Center 500 times already, but it's had its last night. ( "About Last Night" is sooo "About Last Century." ) Awful Announcing's "Your Morning Video Wake Up Call" will, essentially, be the new "About Last Night." Makes sense, right? Fonzi.
Throughout the week I'll keep you updated on additions and subtractions from the site that may pop up here and there. If you have any questions, concerns, suggestions, column ideas, scathing insults about my mom, please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Actually, if you want to insult my mother, just use the comments section below. She reads it often and comments under the handle "Token_Tennis_Fan."
Also: wannabe commenters. Please email Rob Iracane who is still deputized Combudsman until ESPN decides that Le Anne Schreiber is no longer pulling her saddlebags and poaches him to police their content.
Oh, and sadly, Brian Baldinger is no longer contributing to Deadspin. He's had a great run here, but typing just causes his pinky to swell too much.
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Recipe from Marlene Tuder in Jay, Okla.
Prep Time: 10 min
Total Time: 4-5 hrs
6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, halved
1 can condensed cream of chicken soup, undiluted
1 can sliced mushrooms, drained
1/2 cup chicken broth
1 tsp dried tarragon
1 T Worcestershire sauce
1 clove garlic, minced
1. Place the chicken in a 5 qt slow cooker.
2. In a small bowl, combine the soup, mushrooms, broth, tarragon, Worcestershire sauce and minced garlic, and pour over chicken.
3. Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours or until chicken juices run clear.
Yield: 6 servings
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Adam Jones hit a pair of solo homers and Jonathan Schoop launched a tiebreaking, two-run shot that sent the Baltimore Orioles over the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 on Wednesday night.
Schoop's drive in the seventh inning off Brandon Gomes (2-2) put the Orioles ahead 4-2.
Jones hit leadoff homers in both the second and fourth off Cesar Ramos. It was his fourth multihomer game.
David DeJesus homered for the Rays, who have dropped the first two games of a three-game series and are 0-4 overall against the Orioles this season.
Ryan Webb (1-0) went 1 1-3 scoreless innings for the win. Tommy Hunter struggled for the second straight game, pitching the ninth for his 10th save.
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OTTAWA - Only four of Canada's 521 severely wounded Canadian veterans might be eligible to receive up $10,000 per month in allowances and benefits under the Conservative government's beefed-up veteran's charter.
Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino recently cited the dollar figure to illustrate the Conservative government's generosity towards ex-service members.
"The seriously injured veteran is eligible for thousands of dollars each month, up to and including after age 65," Fantino told the Commons veterans committee last month.
"In some cases, a veteran can receive over $10,000 a month in financial compensation. This is in addition to two major tax-free award payments totalling in excess of up to a half-million dollars."
However, statistics released by Fantino's own department show payments of that size would be rare indeed — and maybe even purely theoretical.
The vast majority of the wounded —92 per cent — collect far less each month under the permanent impairment allowance, the permanent impairment supplement and the earnings loss benefit.
Also, according to the department, the calculation of the $10,000 figure includes the monthly Canadian Forces pension, a payment that's made whether a soldier was injured or not.
Calculating precise amounts can be a head-spinning exercise, given the cross-section of benefits, stipends and supplementary payments available to all veterans.
Asked how many wounded soldiers receive anything close to $10,000 per month, department officials would only say the figure represents a "scenario" of a severely wounded major released after 27 years of service and that four soldiers receive the top tier of allowances.
They did not answer the question directly.
"The amount of financial support provided to a veteran is based on an individual calculation that considers their unique circumstances including factors such as pre-release salary, years of service, and the degree of injury, illness," spokewoman Janice Summerby said in an email.
Rank, pre-release salary, number of years of service and severity of injury all go into the calculation, she said.
Figuring out what the average wounded veteran receives is also difficult, but the numbers range between $4,000 and $6,000 per month, departmental figures suggest.
But officials say those numbers do not take into account ancillary benefits such as vocational rehabilitation, treatment assistance or the lump-sum award for pain and suffering, which can be paid in monthly instalments.
David Pierce, a spokesman for the minister, said Fantino stands by what he said.
"Minister Fantino accurately stated that a seriously injured veteran is eligible for thousands of dollars each month and in some cases, the veteran's income may exceed $10,000 a month," Pierce said in an email.
"Canadians and veterans need to know that the government of Canada provides a full suite of benefits available to injured veterans and their families which consist of robust monthly payments; significant financial upfront benefits as well as rehabilitation, educational and medical support to help transition to civilian life."
But outspoken veterans advocate Sean Bruyea said the comment leaves the public with the impression that ex-soldiers, many of them who lost limbs, have somehow won the lottery.
"It's an attempt to cast veterans as greedy and as whiners and complainers," said Bruyea, best known for his long privacy battle with the federal government after his personal medical information was leaked.
"The thinking is they should have nothing to complain about and I really hope the public doesn't accept this lie that veterans are getting $10,000 per month."
The pre-release salary is key to the calculation, Bruyea said.
In order to get anywhere near the top tier, the wounded veteran would not only have to be severely disabled and missing multiple limbs, but also be a senior officer, Bruyea noted.
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Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces the incorporation of new parallel computing technologies by NVIDIA into its infrastructure. In order to enhance client protection still further, the Company has started to use the highly efficient NVIDIA Tesla S1070 which is based on multi-core graphics processors.
NVIDIA Tesla GPUs are based on CUDA, NVIDIA's computing architecture that enables its GPUs to be programmed using industry standard programming languages and APIs. Kaspersky Lab uses the Tesla S1070 1U GPU system to accelerate the intellectual services that define the similarity of files. The similarity services enable the identification of new files and define which file, or file groups, most closely resemble the unknown program received by the Company's antivirus lab.
The use of Tesla S1070 by the similarity-defining services has significantly boosted the rate of identification of unknown files, thus making for a quicker response to new threats and providing users with even faster and more complete protection. During internal testing, the Tesla S1070 demonstrated a 360-fold increase in the speed of the similarity-defining algorithm when compared to the popular Intel Core 2 Duo central processor running at a clock speed of 2.6 GHz.
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As Edward Snowden's international travels continue to dominate the news cycle, on Tuesday evening Piers Morgan invited Drew Pinsky to the program, asking the famed addiction medicine specialist to offer his insight into the mindset of arguably the most sought after man in the world.
"The one thing I can tell you, it's not an addiction to something like a high, of a high risk, that sort of thing. Addicts do do that. Addicts are the sort of thrill-seeking population. I see no evidence of anything like this in this guy," said the man more-widely known as Dr. Drew. "There is probably more something to do with his relationship with authority."
Pressed by the host to suggest that the man who leaked details of the NSA's data-mining program is celebrating his new-found global fame after a life spent mired behind a computer screen, and Pinsky succumbs to the possibility:
"To be fair, we are purely speculating and just talking off cuff on this guy," the host of HLN's "Dr. Drew" qualified. "Yeah, I think there might be something to that. People these days, how else do you make your splash? First time in history fame as an antonymous motivator has shown up when you ask young people what they want to do with their lives."
Meanwhile, on the heels of Tuesday's news that Starbucks will begin posting calorie counts, Pinsky offered his opinion from a medical perspective:
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The host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show "Loveline," Pinsky then shared information that Morgan was not at all pleased to hear, as he insisted that the masses have to "say no to the yummy."
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Regarding Edward Snowden: It is not the place of a private to reveal the plans of war to the enemy when he disagrees with those plans. A private does not know enough and has not been appointed that authority by elected officials. Snowden's case is no different. Our system is less than perfect but is better than any other, given our population. The process of American representative democracy is that we entrust elected officials with the power to make decisions regarding which aspects of our homeland security plans to reveal to the enemy. Snowden is different from a reporter, or any other citizen that might have discovered the information, in that he promised to remain silent when he was entrusted with secrets of national security. Snowden is as much of a traitor as a soldier that reveals his platoon's strategy to the enemy in exchange for fortune or out of arrogance. He should be tried and executed, as such. I think he will get rich from this. I believe that was his real motivation.


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In the hot and sticky Japanese summer months, staying cool can be a challenge. However, a resurgence in traditional suteteko (say stet-eh-ko) is making it a little bit easier. Fear not — these aren't your grandpa's long johns! Contemporary sutekeko are pants made of light-weight, breathable material and fall just below (or above) the knee. Once a boutique item (that we spotted a year ago), they are now available from major retailers like Uniqlo as well as dedicated shops. Great for lounging around the house, walking your dog or even on a first date if you dare . . . If it doesn't go well, at least you'll have the peace of mind knowing it wasn't because of your sweaty legs.
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Monday's Google Doodle reminds us that it's the 180th anniversary of the birth of John Venn, the English logician whose simple drawing of overlapping circles became a trademark tool of the social sciences.
Yes, yes, Venn diagrams can teach math and business concepts and management lessons.
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"What are you going to do, turn off the internet?"
A combination of Moore's law and Android will bring down corrupt and authoritarian regimes over the coming years, Eric Schmidt declared at a Google conference on Privacy today. The former Google CEO turned exec chairman and company ambassador also appeared to maybe rule out the firm becoming involved in the creation of facial …
... via the new Google Ballotbox (beta) app. Google promise that while they will receive all the votes they won't look at them other than to count them Meanwhile in another announcement Google announces politically profiled adverts so companies can pitch their offers to people likely to be of the political persuasion that would be likely to buy the products!
Responding to audience questions on apparent apathy about politics in the West despite the free flow of information, Schmidt suggested Westerners had become lazy, forgetting that people had died fighting for the liberties we enjoy.
Far too true. In the last month we've seen people celebrate the death of "Due Process"; we've shown willingness to abandon the building blocks of Freedom in Habeus Corpus and Right to Free speech, all because some boogeyman of the week is giving us nightmares....
Maybe we simply don't deserve to be free.
Interesting point here I think, namely that it takes two to tango. The "freedoms" we have today have certainly been paid for in blood, but only against others who were witholding those freedoms in the first place. Apart from being on the victorious side, who is to say that our freedoms are more worthy than some of the things that were replaced by these freedoms. Maybe to you they might be, but not to everyone. For example, I am pleased with the freedom of homosexuals to be able to be openly homosexual with state protections from persecution. However many people out there would prefer the freedom to prevent homosexuals from openly practicing - indeed some would like the freedom to be able to righteously kill homosexuals in God's name without fear of government interference.
You say people have celebrated the death of due process, however it is likely in future times people consider our idea of due process to be barbaric, primitive and grossly oppressive (locking people up for ages before trial, forcing victims to go through their torment as examples). Still worth shedding blood for?
What you think of as freedom of speech is neither free nor compatible with everyone else's view. We can bring out the trite "shouting fire in a crowded cinema" example as a starting point, but how far does freedom of speech count when contrasted with things like official secrets, libel, fraud etc.
In the middle ages, peasants were free to go through life knowing that their church and lord would provide for them and protect them, and then some bastard separated church from state and some had the gall to celebrate this - and in years to come people will look at our freedoms today and despair for us, for exactly the opposite reasons you are doing so now.
How about a system that tracked and profiled the activities of a country's citizens. With only a small amount of information, you could determine their age, address, and roughly approximate their political views. Who were they visiting? What papers do they read. Something the old East German Stasi had to pour away the country's limited income to achieve is now easily achieved: just control your nation's backbone connection, and catch the analytics data as it flies past. Truly, it's a glorious new age, especially now that the citizens stay connected to the networks when they leave their homes too.
One more time, for the slow kids in Mountain View: Technology is an instrument, not an actor. Knives are technology. You, as the sentient human bieng holding the handle, can choose to stab your family, or you can cook a nice meal for them. It's your choice, the knife has no say in it.
Information can't set someone free; it is inanimate.This constant personification of "information" really bugs me. Information doesn't "want" to be free, any more than my last year's tax return wants to go and see a movie this weekend. Nor does a big pile of information promote freedom. I can keep a stack of books on medicine in my house, but that won't make me a doctor.
It's the mass delusion of people who can't understand their fellow human beings trying to re-cast society in a way that takes other people out of the loop: you're not important anymore, only the information trail you leave behind you is important, because that's what I can measure and record, and index. Well, I'm more than that. And so are you.
Information can't rise up against a repressive regime; that takes living, thinking people, willing to sacrifice their own safety for the benefit of others, and Google being there or not is incidental; if it weren't there, people would use something else to organise themselves. (I can't see how AdWords or page-rankings figure in the typical struggle for freedom, but perhaps with the full nauseating text of the speech it would become clearer). The point is: it's the will that's important; with that, the means will follow.
So the Iranian and Egyptian revolts used Twitter? big deal. The American Revolution used the postal service and hand-carried messages. If a technology was there, it was used. By Schmidt's logic, without pens there would have been no Declaration of Independence. Sorry Eric, without pens, the declaration of independence would have been written in crayon, or carved out of wood, but it would have still been written, or memorised and repeated.
"But we're google, we must be important - look at our page ranking!". Well, in the living, breathing world, you're not that hot. You sell advertising, you are a luxury. Live with it.
Sorry about the rant, but Schmidt really gets on my wick.
That deserves a standing ovation!
Mr Schmitt is the personification of the corpulent, greedy businessman turning people's stats into nothing but cold hard cash without a single consideration about any living, breathing thing on this planet. Greed for green is everything.
As I have said before, he is the 21st century version of the wicked, dark-satanic mill owners of the 18th and 19th century.
Are you sure technology isn't an actor? We 'chose' to expensively reshape our towns and change our habits when cars were invented, but there's no way we weren't going to do that. So what real choice did we have? We use technology but it also ends up using us.
As we do more online, and more mass data is available about the population, it must be possible to categorise us more and more finely. We don't see the big picture, but a modern Stasi's computers could. And who refined the technology they would need? Google. Schmidt is just guessing about the future, like the rest of us.
"He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future."
Orwell, amongst other political commentators, observed that the control of information allows the few to control the many. It is undeniable that freedom of communication (and therefore information) makes it increasingly difficult for a powerful individual or a state to filter that information in order to influence people.
Whilst a state can use the flow of information to profile its population, this isn't much use if a large proportion of your population is gaining access to precisely the kind of information which you dan't want them to have.
Ultimately, the increasing freedom of access to information, opinion and likeminded individuals will always be a force of good.
"Ultimately, the increasing freedom of access to information, opinion and likeminded individuals will always be a force of good."
You are assuming that "likeminded individuals" have good intentions. Neo-Nazi groups (I hereby play my "get-out-of-Godwin" card), paedophile "rings", terrorist organisations and sex-slavers all organise using internet tools. As do charities, support groups for rare diseases, humanitarian organisations and human rights advocates.
The tool is amoral, you can use it as a force for good or evil, but it is you who decide, not the tool.
It's this decision that's important. The internet lets you select very precisely what you see and don't see, so if you're not careful it just confirms the opinions you already hold, rather than challenge them. A pretty tiresome example of this is the endless political discussion threads where both sides can pull out huge numbers of "proof" articles that are then decried by the other side as black propoganda or fabrication, as shown by an equal but opposite rebuttal...
@ "Law of Unforseen Consequences"
The cars point is interesting, because it does show that this thinking isn't new. The 1950s and 1960s were characterised by an obsession with accommodating motor traffic to the detriment of all other city users: the Birmingham Bull Ring, the San Francisco Embarcadero Freeway and (thankfully uncompleted) London Ringways are all examples of the collective madness. Actually, you really need to look up the London Ringways, or the original plan for Glasgow's motorways. The idea of carving motorway through cities like this is insane, but it nearly happened.
No, it's not an exact parallel, but it was the elevation of a technology above the people it was meant to serve. But again, it's not the technology that does this, it's people, so in awe of the shiny thing that they forget what's really important.
I know I'm a cynical person by nature (well, at least when it comes to dealing with stuff like this) but it truly amazes me how easy Google keeps using loaded words and phrases like "do no evil, openness, freedom" and now even "democracy". While in the end all of that is simply no more powerful than Google's own whims and mood. And we all know what drives a company.
What even scares me more is how fanatical some people can become the moment when we're talking about Google or their products. I know its easy to really like something and only natural to focus on the good parts and somewhat leave the bad parts out, but when it comes to tech guys I'm amazed how many don't seem to be able and relevate things a little here and there.
Like for example the discussion of Google not opening the source code to the latest Android.... "Its open source because the OOS policy they're using allows them to do so". Whatever happened to "do no evil" I wonder? Sure; following the policy by the letter allows you to pull certain stunts, perfectly legal too. But whatever happened with "going by the 'spirit'" (or intention) of the policy instead? THAT is something you'd see someone do who really values the basic things which that OOS policy stands for.
Democracy? More like cheap propaganda to me. In the end its all about one thing: money. I don't hold that against them, don't get me wrong, but I do start to question their motives and means ever so more often these days.
Google may very well turn out to become that what we feared with Microsoft in the days.
At the risk of fanning the flames, I don't see the lack of open-source Honeycomb as a harbinger of doom. Basically Google forked the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) for tablets, and isn't open sourcing that fork. They claim that they will merge the next release "Ice cream sandwich" of their fork back into AOSP, and though you're free to disbelieve them if you like I reckon they probably will do that.
While it would be nice to have Cyanogen et al based on Honeycomb, I don't particularly mind waiting for something Google say is ready.
As for your other points, Google is certainly in a powerful position and thus it's worth keeping an eye on. And it's certainly made its fair share of mistakes and will do so in the future.
I'll never understand the mentality of all these big corporation haters.
They do everything FOR MONEY! Oh god, no! Run for the hills!
Of course they do, we all know this. This is a good thing because this makes them predictable.
It isn't something to be hating or something to use as an insult as so often is done. It is a good mark, it makes their motivation and actions very clear and very well known. Our course of action shouldn't be to belittle them for seeking money, but to encourage that and then cease to give them money when they do things we don't like.
If you want to see really scary, try to find out exactly what motivates a government. There is no clear and universal answer, therefore we can't predict them. That makes them dangerous!
tl:dr; Companies aiming for money is a good thing, it makes them predictable and controllable.
Says the company who until very recently had extensive investments in China...
And whilst they may like to hype up their man Wael, better not forget that he was Google's representative doing business-as-usual in a totalitarian country which happily used browser history and IP tracing to consign people to summary imprisonment and torture.
I was quite amused to read an article about how Google's Android would bring down authoritarian regimes around the world on the same day as reading another article that noted that Google's Orkut is the most popular social networking site in the PRC because Facebook is blocked there.
Really, now; Google ought to be responsible to its shareholders, and say only nice things about authoritarian regimes. At least that's what the other large companies seem to do.
"However, he insisted that Google had learned its lessons the "hard way" about ensuring it put users', and governmental, concerns about privacy at the heart of its policy making process,"
Governmental concerns about privacy presumably revolve around the irritating nuisance that we still expect to have some. But not to worry - it won't be long before a new generation comes up that has never known what it is. Some future Schmidt will be able to say of those who knew what privacy was, "They're also dead because they were alive 100, or 500 years ago."
Better go - the woman on my telescreen is telling me to get off El Reg and do some work.
I was only born at the beginning of the 70s. But I remember the following revolutions, reformations, or rebellions happening in "Western" countries:
Poland: the Solidarity strikes in 80s.
Germany: fall of the Berlin wall and the Iron Curtain in 1989.
Hungary: ditto with Iron Curtain.
Latvia/Lithuania/Estonia: line of hands across all three countries, standing up against the full weight of the USSR.
Spain: death of Franco, followed by democracy (and reactionary coup quashed by Juan Carlos I).
Portugal: coup of 1974, followed by elections.
Argentina: ruling junta overthrown after losing the Falklands war.
Chile: democracy returned to country by Pinochet, the man who took it away in the first place. Then he finds his "immunity" stripped away slowly. At the end of his life, he is put on trial for the atrocities of 1975.
East Timor: honorary Westerners - very much influenced by Portuguese culture- became independent in 1975, immediately swallowed by Indonesia, lost at least 100,000 people in the process, spent more than 20 years fighting for independence, and finally got it in 1999.
Schmidt lives in a world where "West" equals the US, the UK, other English speaking countries, and possibly France at a pinch. His heroes are probably founding fathers like Washington - safely dead and thus easy to be deified beyond all proportion. This allows him to slag off the kids of today as a bunch of lazy tossers.
But he's wrong. There are heroes and heroines in the West - people who risked their lives for democracy in my lifetime. Many of them are still alive. And most are like you or me.
"Like for example the discussion of Google not opening the source code to the latest Android.... "
Google isn't opening the source for 3.0 because it was rushed to beat ipad2 and is therefore broken and that they're embarrassed with it. They have publicly stated that 3.1 will be open source from day one.
Thanks for being a MS troll.
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Indiana State University will create its own flight academy that will operate from Terre Haute International Airport, officials announced Friday, following action by the university's governing board.
Indiana State trustees gave university officials the authority to negotiate and enter into a contract calling for the airport to renovate a facility to provide classroom, office and hangar space in exchange for a four-year lease by the university.
"Our Professional Aviation Flight Technology program has always been a high quality program and one of the best in our region. The establishment of the ISU Flight Academy will enable the program to become even more distinctive and more attractive to potential students," said Jack Maynard, Indiana State's provost and vice president for academic affairs.
The university's aviation technology department will manage the daily operations of the new flight academy, which officials hope will be available to students starting next fall, said Harry Minniear, chair of the department. The university will have a fleet of airplanes to train ISU's student pilots.
"We think this announcement will help with the increased recruiting and retention efforts of our students and create opportunities for our management students as far as internships and experiential learning are concerned," Minniear said.
For nearly 40 years, Indiana State has teamed with Brown Flying School, which operates out of Sky King Airport north of Terre Haute as well as Terre Haute International, to train student pilots. The aspiring hopefuls at Indiana State are able to practice on several flight simulators at the university, while Brown Flying School instructors would take the students to the skies.
"We have a great relationship with Brown Flying School," Minniear said. "They have been with us for many, many years, and we wouldn't be where we are today without the friendship and professional relationship that we've had with Brown Flying School and the Brown family."
While the partnership with Brown Flying School has served Indiana State and its students well, the university needs to offer its own flight academy to remain competitive and ensure that students can learn by having access to the most up-to-date technology , said Maynard. Indiana State has one of the few professional pilot programs that does not have a flight academy, he noted.
Indiana State officials first considered the possibility of operating a university-owned flight academy about five years ago, although discussions became serious two years ago, Minniear said. Several different factors played a role into the timing of the decision, including the market for aircraft, which currently favors consumers, he said.
Minniear emphasized that the university will seek pre-owned aircraft, though they will be modern airplanes featuring the most current technology, such as modern cockpits with different computer technology that might not be available in older aircraft. The planes will be used solely for flight instruction and will not be for use by faculty or other university personnel, he said.
The new flight academy will allow the university to have greater oversight of flight operations, Minniear said.
"These new opportunities will give our pilots the ability to train in high technology aircraft," he added. "It helps to better prepare our students for the types of jobs that they'll be pursuing in the aviation world once they graduate."
Terre Haute International Airport did not have space available for Indiana State to house a potential flight school until a location recently became available. ISU officials have been in preliminary discussions with multiple service providers that are needed to support the new flight academy.
"The new Indiana State University flight academy will not only include modern airplanes but additional renovations that will provide the space needed for a 21st century flight school," said Bradford Sims, dean of the College of Technology at ISU. "We are excited to partner with the Terre Haute International Airport to support future economic growth."
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