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Serving Columbus, Dayton, Central' and Southwestern Ohio Vol. 43, No. 9 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1965 — 24 ADAR, 5725 |-ini'.i,'"i; •¦» 'I ¦:/l\ ¦I • I .'-i i to American 'ewlsh Idttals Refugee Expert to Speak at UJF Events Lt. Col. O.scar M. Liifshutz, U. S. Army Chaplain and a note<l authority on refugee problems, will speak at throe fUmd- rai.slng meetings this week in behalf of the 19G5 UJFC Campaign. The nr.«;t meeting wili be the Young Men's Division Workers Uall.v, Tuesday. March 2. 8 p.m., at the .lewi.sh Center. Gerald Friedman, division chairman and his vice-chairman. David Madison and Alan Weiler will be in charge of tho program The team captains are: Mark Feinknopf. Jr., Victor Goodman, Ben Zox. Richard Shenk. Victor Krupman. David Forman. Michael Block, Donald Kalz. Robert Garek, Preston Gurwin, Morton Rising. Robert Levenson and Leslie WeX- ner. The second meeting will be an Advance Gifts meeting. Wednesday, March 3. at Winding Hollow Coun- tiy Club. This will be a dinner meeting .sponsored by Isadore Top¬ per, an associate chairman of Ad¬ vance Gifts. Working with Mr. Topper are: Joseph Summer. Myer Mellman, Melvin Rackoff. Allen Gunder¬ sheimer. Jr.. Louis Ruben, Robert Greene. Theodore Simson and William Roth. The third meeting will be the Manufacturing, Scrap and Steel Section. Thursday. March 4. 8 p.m., at the home of the section chair¬ man, Sidney Blatt. Working with Mr. Blatt are his vice-chairman, Richard Lieberman, Charles Talis. Herbert Mcizlish and Martin Hoff¬ man. The workers are: Fred M. Levi, Sol Shaman, Reuben Abramson, Meyor Hoffman. Sam .Pearson. Bernard Newman, Harry Green¬ blott, Raymond Wells, N. I. Henkin, Bernard Arlov, Arthur Meizlish. Because ot his vast wartime and post-war experience in Europe with refugees and DPs, Col. Lifshutz was placed in charge of the Jewish sec- lion of "Operation Safe Haven" in llic winter of 1956, the program which brought Hungarian refugees The World's Week Compiled from JTA and WUP Reporh Lt. Col. Oscar Lifshutz into the United States on an emerg¬ ency basis by airlift. During the war Col. Lifshutz served in Belgium. France and Austria. In Austria he vyas desig¬ nated Advisor of Jewish Affairs to General Mark Clark, and dis¬ tinguished himself in his work on behalf of DPs and refugees of the post-war period. He has visited Israel several times and arranged religious pilgrimages for Jewish servicemen. It was during this tour of duty that Col. Lifshi.tz served as Army liaison officer for the removal of the remains of Theodore Herzl, founder of modern Zionism to Israel. He reestablished and reopened Iconflnuad on pag* 4) W.-ISHINGTON (.ITA)—The SUite Department indi¬ cated this week it disapproved of "private boycotts" by American Jews in protest against recent West German policies, referring to reports that some American Jewish businessmen were cancelling purchase orders for West Ger¬ man products and services. Tho protest campaign gained momentum when the head of anolher major apparel concern. Botany Industries, an¬ nounced in Now York that it would no longer buy goods in West Germany. It was the third such announcement this week. \V.-V.SHINGTON (JTA) — West German Amba.s.sador llonrich Knappstein indicated this week,, after meeting with Secretary of State Rusk, that the United States might inter¬ vene with Israel in the current Jerusalem-Bonn tensions. The envoy voiced disappointment aboul Israel's negative reactions lo the Bonn suspension of arms deliveries. He said West Germany had done "a great deal" for Israel. I'NITEJ) NATIONS (JTA)—The United States pledged this week to contribute $24,700,000 in cash and foodstuffs in 1965, to aid the Arab refugees being .sheltered and fed by the United Nations in four regions of Israel's borders, but warned that the UN agency performing this task r.iu.st effect ec<m<)mies, e.specially by "long-needed rectification" of its relief rolls. The American pledge and statement were made here at the UN's annual pledging conference, convened in the Gener¬ al A.s.sembly hall to rai.se funds for financing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. BONN (JTA)—West Gerrnan officials announced plans this week to issue an indictment charging ma.ss murder against Adolf llitler, who is generally believed to have com¬ mitted suicide in a flaming Berlin bunker in 1945 as the cily lay under Rod Army siege. The officials explained that they wanted to have the document on recoixi in event that the accepted report of Hitler's death turned out to be false and he tul-ned up after May 8 when the statute of limitations for prosecution of murder expires. Temple Israel Confers Human Brotherhood Award The designation, "Franklin County's Outstanding Example of Human Brolherhood" for the past year has boen conferred upon Rabi)! Harry Kaplan director uf iho B'nai B'rilh Hillol Foundation at Ohio State University, by the hoard of ti-ustoes (if Temple Israel upon the recommendation of ils honors com¬ mitteo, consisting of Marvin Glassman and William Kahn, co- thainnan; Daniel Cohen, William Glick, Mrs. Robert Greene, Mrs. Ailen Gundersheimer, Sr., i Louis Krakoff, Robert Levy, Ben Lurie. Joseph Summer. Rudolph Stern, Sol Zell. Mrs. Ben Zucl-- man; and Dr. Jerome D. Folkn and Rabbi Stephen A. Arnold officio. He will receive the citation Temple Israel at the Sabbath : i vice at 8 p.m. this evening. Fet ary 26. Dr. Jerome D. Folkman ' i" preach on: "The Wise-Hearted M and The Willing-Hearted." Each year during the month February as part of its observa of National Brotherhood Mor Temple Israel makes such a sei tion on the premise that "the po\ of human example is greater than any sermon or preachment."' Rabbi Kaplan is now celebrating ills 30th anniversary at the OSU Ilillel Foundation. It is one of the , (continued on paq« 41 PURIM mm ARTS COSTUME BALL AT JEWISH CENTER ON MARCH 6 The Purim Beaux Arts Costume BaU is the theme of the Jewish Center's sixth annual Winter dance to be held Saturday night, March B, al 0 p.m. in the Center auditorium. .limmy Lloyd and his orchestra will provide the music for Uic evening. Special entertainment has been planned and a late polite supper will be servetl. The price of admhssion is $3.50 per couple for Center mem¬ bers and $4.50 for non-members RabbI Harry Kaplan Mr. Avraham Negrin and Mrs. Raphael Benveniste, co-chairmen, .stated that tickets may be obtained from social commilttee members or by calling the Jewish Center, BE. 1-2731. Serving on the social com- nijllcc arc the following, who have helped develop the plans for this event: Joseph Altman, Julian Bar.- nett, Laddie Finke, Irving Fireman. Mrs. Marvin Fromm, Mrs. Robert Grad, Mrs. Martin Greenberg, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Grinblatt, Mr. and Mrs. Kalman Lazear, Mrs. Sam Levin. Mrs. Morris Mendel, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Modes, Mrs. John Mus¬ tacchi. Stuart Newpoff. Mrs. Mur¬ ray Peselnick. Mrs. Morton Rising. Mrs. Marvin Rose. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Stein, Mr. and Mrs. Ed¬ ward Tausk and Mrs. Herbert Urell. Everyone attending this Purim Beaux Arts Ball is asked lo wear an appropriate costume, and during the evening there will be judging for originality of design and execu¬ tion. A Grand March will precede the judging. According to Mr. Negrin and Mrs. Benveniste, and based on last year's reception of the costume ball, it is apparent many members in the community welcome this op¬ portunity to display creative and imaginative costumes. Chronicling The News Editorial 2 Teen Scene : 5 Society (i, 7 Synagogues (5, 7" Shopping Guide 8 Sports 10, 11 Real Estate 10 Erhard Defends West Germany's Actions Honn. (,1TA)—Chancellor Ludwig Erhard strongly defended this week bolh West Germany's arms aid to Israel, and the suspension of the last shipments of those arms, in a speech in tho liundestag which pointed to a renewal of the West German- lOgyplian crisis. Ho a,ssortc<l that current tensions in the Middle East had dovolopod not from West German military aid to Israel, but from Egyptian President Nasser's I invitation to Walter Ulbricht. East German Communist head of state, to visit Cairo. i He said that "our relations with Israel and the Jevyish world are' overshadowed" by Germany's Nazi past and that "the Arabs did not show any understanding of our special step toward the Jewish peo¬ ple." He said flatly that West Ger¬ many did not have to justify itself to anybody for giving aid to Israel. Hitting back at his German crit¬ ics, he said that all opposition leaders had known about the arms aid program. The agreement was made in 1962 and the heads of all the Parliamentary groups were in¬ formed, he said. He said that many counti'ies were sending arms to Is¬ rael and that West Germany mil¬ itary aid "was concluded in agree¬ ment with our Allies." He denounced Egypt, declaring that whoever made any agreement with Ulbricht was West Germany's enemy and that the proposed visit to Cairo was "a hostile action." He stated categorically that all West German economic aid to Egypt would be stopped if Ulbricht visited Cairo as scheduled. He contended West German arms to Israel were a pittance compared to the "huge supplies" given to the Arabs by the Soviet countries. He denounced the "blackmail" of the Arab countries. Fritz Erler. leader of the oppo¬ sition Social Democrats, denied that his party had boen informed about the Israel arms aid and he lashed out at former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for his recent statement that if he were now Chancellor, there would be diplo¬ matic relations with Israel. Erler asked why Adenauer had not taken that step when he was Chancellor. Erler said many countries had diplomatic relations with both Is¬ rael and the Arab states, and there was no reason why West Germany alone should not find the possibil¬ ity of such relations with both the Arabs and Israel. Stressing that millions of Jews had been massa¬ cred by the Germans during World War II. lie said that it must be modern Germany's, aim to avoid a new massacre against a part of those Jews who survived. The debate took place against a background of reported shock in the West German government over the negative worldwide reaction lo the arms shipments suspension. West German officials also were perturbed by Israel's refusal to ac¬ cept economic reparations of any kind in place of the cancelled arms shipments. Israel meanwhile planned not to take any initiative in the "situation. Premier Eshkol did ndt immedl- i ately reply to a letter from Chan¬ cellor Erhard. urging talks to re¬ solve the impasse. Dr. Herman Hailperin HILLEL FORUM HEARS RABBI HAILPERIN ON RASHI Dr. Herman Hailperin. rabbi of the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh. Pa., and noted scholar and teacher, will be the speaker at the Hillel Forum. February 28, at 8 p.m. J Dr. Hailperin will speak on "Rashi and the Christian Scholars." This is the title of his most recent book based on the life of the fam¬ ous medieval commentator "Rashi" and his relationship with prominent Christian scholars of his age. Rabbi Hailperin is a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and is an adjunct pro¬ fessor of the History of Jewish Thought and Religion at Duquesne University. He was honored with the degree of Doctor of Divinity by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1957. In addition to his most recent woPk'j'Tiabbi Hailperin is the author of "A Rabbi Teaches." and several important monographs in -Jewish history. Rabbi Hailperin is the brother-in- law of Mr. and Mrs. Justin Sillman. and Mr, Abe Sdverman, of Colum¬ bus. The public, is cordially invited. "The Hate Peddler" — Israel's Hidden Danger By Marilyn Rosenthal (Marilyn Rosenthal, a 17-year-old honor student from Massapequa N.Y. wrote the following article which was inspired by an editorial cartoon which appeared in the Jewish Chronicle. Active in Junior Hadassah and a member of the 1964 Junior Hadjissah Summer In¬ stitute in Israel, Mariiyn presented this paper before a large gathering of Hadassah wonv-'n and girls.) Reva Shar, a member of the 1964 Hadassah Institute, mailed me a cartoon which appeared in the Ohio Jewish Chronicle on October 10. 11 depicts an Arab student. mounting the stef)s leading lo an "American College." In one hand is an attache case willi "Hate Israel" printed on it. Irt the other is a brief¬ case labelled "Lies About Jews." The cartoon is enlitled "The Hate Peddler." This situation, this contempt fur the American generosity which en¬ ables Ai-ab students lo study here, this obvious attempt to stir up pre¬ judice, is typical of recent Arab ef¬ forts in the U.S. But we live here. Our own uni¬ versities are being used lo foster the Arab cause. This time il is not up to the IsraeUs to counteract these efforts. It is. the responsibility of American Jews. While the Israelis can only de¬ nounce it and bring it to the UN or other appropriate organizations, the campaign slill goes on virtually unhindered. According lo a news release dated Oct. 22. UN Secretary-General Thant did not think it was neces- .sary "at this time" to call tlie .Security Council to act on the Arab summit meeting declaration which threatened the liquidation of Israel. If Ihis is the kind of side-step¬ ping we caji expect when Israel is I bluntly threatened with liquidation how can we expect action on the subtle propaganda tactics the "Hale Peddler" employs'.' My guess is we can't. We have to use a Uttle "Sabra' Stalegy." If the UN won't unplug its ears and uncover ils eyes, and since the IsraeUs are 6500. mUes away, American Jews must play Sabra. Playing Sabra. involves several requirements: impatience, Zionism and truth are the three main wea¬ pons. We use Impatience in refusing to wait for Eliahu to come down and smite the Arab students. Zionism is what motivates us to counter Ihe progaganda and to de¬ fend Israel and our fellow Jews. And finally, Trulh is our invin¬ cible ray gun which paralyzes, molls and emulsifies that smelly briefcase full of lies. All right, what are we going to do'? Most important, whore do we start'.' The trouble is, I don't know. But isn't it true thai we don't buy anything we know lo be defective'? Su it seems that the only way to .'•.op the sale of "Arab Ues" is to prove them defective. The only way to combat the sale of this "Ilolyland Dirt" is to sell our own (continued on p*g» 4} Agudas Achim Donor Event Sunday Night Features Buffet The social hall of Agudas Achim ' .Synagogue will be the setting for the' Agudas Achim. Sisterhood's 59th birthday celebration this Sunday evening, at 7:30 p.m. Decorations for the buffet-donor are in charge of Mrs. Bel-nard Ruben. Mrs. Syd¬ ney Berg and Mrs. Myer Mellrhan.i Sulic Harand, a musical drama¬ tist from Chicago, will portray "Funny Girl." the life of Fanny Brice. Miss Harand will be accom¬ panied by Marty Rubenstein. Reservations may be made for the evening with Mrs. Jack Sil¬ berstein, Mrs. Leon Schottenstein and Mrs. Alvin Worly. co-chairman of the evening, or Mrs. I. M. Harris, ticket chairman, or Mrs. William Nullman, treasurer. Mrs. Albert Beim, Mrs. Jack Kooperstein and Mrs. Robert Freedman are co-chairmen of the dinner. ' Attendance for the buffet dinner and the program "Funny Girl" is $2.50 per person, plus a donor con¬ tribution. Proceeds from the 59th donor birthday evening will be used for support of the Religious School and youth activities. (picture on page 4)
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January 07. 2014 3:48PM
John DiStaso's Granite Status: Shaheen camp poll focuses on her own job performance, Obamacare, Scott Brown, Jim Rubens
By John DiStaso, Senior Political Reporter
TUESDAY, JAN. 7: SHAHEEN IN THE FIELD. As the mid-term election year kicks off, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen's campaign has wasted no time getting into the field with a detailed poll of Granite Staters.
Colorado-based Luce Research is working on behalf of Friends of Jeanne Shaheen in conducting a lengthy survey gauging voters' views of her own performance and gathering opinions on declared Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jim Rubens and potential Senate candidate Scott Brown, the former Massachusetts senator who recently became a full-time resident of Rye.
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In another part of the survey, Mooney said, the caller asked her for open-ended comments on "the state of the country and the direction the country is going in. She typed it verbatim as I spoke and read it back to me."
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November 29, 2012 13:00 ET
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Nov. 29, 2012) - International Enexco Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:IEC)(OTCQX:IEXCF)(FRANKFURT:I6E) (the "Company" or "Enexco") is pleased to announce that further to its October 12, and November 16, 2012 news releases announcing a non-brokered private placement of Units at $0.50 per Unit for gross proceeds of $2,000,000, the private placement has been oversubscribed for aggregate proceeds of $2,350,000. All other information from the news release dated November 16, 2012 remains the same.
Denison Mines Corp. subscribed for 3,600,000 units of the Company (each a "Unit") at a price of $0.50 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of $1,800,000. If all of Denison's warrants included in the Units were exercised, Denison would own 5,400,000 shares of Enexco, which represents approximately 13.90% of the issued and outstanding shares of Enexco.
The proceeds from the private placement will be used for the exploration and development of the Contact Copper project in Nevada, to partially fund the Company's exploration activities on the Mann Lake uranium project (operated by Cameco Corp.) in Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin in 2013 and for general working capital.
Concurrently with Denison's purchase of Units, Denison and Enexco also entered into an ancillary rights agreement (the "ARA"). The ARA provides Denison with certain rights, for so long as Denison holds a minimum 5% interest in the issued and outstanding shares of Enexco. First, the Company shall cause one Denison nominee to be appointed to Enexco's Board effective upon the closing of the private placement, and will nominate one Denison nominee for election to the Board at any meeting of shareholders where directors are to be elected. Second, Denison has a pre-emptive right to maintain its shareholding percentage up to a maximum of 9.9% (on a partially exercised basis), subject to regulatory approval, if Enexco issues or proposes to issues any equity securities. Denison also has the right to subscribe for such number of shares sufficient to enable Enexco to meet its funding obligations under the Mann Lake Joint Venture Agreement in the event of a shortfall. The ARA also provides that Denison has the right to appoint one individual to Enexco's Technical Committee, responsible for providing technical input on the exploration and development plans for the Mann Lake Uranium Project in the Athabasca Basin in Saskatchewan.
In exchange, Denison has agreed in the ARA to vote its shareholding in favour of Enexco Management's proposals on matters of routine business and not to tender its shareholding to any take-over bid if Enexco's Board has not issued a recommendation in favour of the same.
Denison Mines Corp. is a uranium exploration and development company with interests in exploration and development projects in Saskatchewan, Zambia and Mongolia. As well, Denison has a 22.5% ownership interest in the McClean Lake uranium mill, located in northern Saskatchewan, which is one of the world's largest uranium processing facilities. Denison's exploration project portfolio includes the world class Phoenix deposit located on its 60% owned Wheeler River project also in the Athabasca Basin region of Saskatchewan.
The Company will pay $24,387.50 in finder's fees in connection with this closing, excluding Denison's subscription. All of the securities issuable in the placement are subject to a hold period ending on March 30, 2013.
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On behalf of the Board of Directors, I look forward to keeping you updated with our corporate developments.
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The continued growth of the aquatic farming industry depends on the development of nutritious feeds that maximize fish growth and health while minimizing the environmental impacts caused by uneaten feed and animal waste—a challenge that can only be met with updated information on the nutritional requirements of fish and shrimp. This report, the latest in a series of National Research Council reports on the nutritional needs of fish, evaluates the most recent scientific literature on the nutrient requirements of several commercially important species of fish and shrimp. The report also reviews the role of aquaculture feeds in determining the nutritional value of seafood to humans, and identifies critical research needs for better defining fish and shrimp nutrient requirements.
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- Topics such as the digestive physiology and metabolism of fish are reviewed to provide context for understanding how to use nutritional data in preparing feeds and applying appropriate feeding regimens to support efficient aquaculture production.
- Sustainable alternatives to the fish meal and fish oil found in many commercial aquaculture feeds are needed for aquaculture production to continue to expand as it has in recent years. However, fish meal and fish oil constitute important sources of nutrition in aquatic feeds, conferring desirable characteristics to the diet and health of the cultured organism, and ultimately to the consumer. The report reviews efforts to identify sustainable alternatives to fish oil and meal that still offer similar desirable qualities.
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A year ago, Tabby Tindell had a triumphant return in mind.
A year ago, Tabby Tindell had a triumphant return in mind.
Having missed close to a month of action with a hip avulsion, the high-scoring Trinity Catholic forward re-entered the Celtics' lineup in the FHSAA Class 2A regional final against Lake Highland Prep.
That night brings with it good and bad memories.
With a smile, she remembers that teammate Alyssa Eashoo scored all of Trinity's goals in a 4-1 win. And with a bit of a pained look, Tindell recalls that it was only five minutes of gametime before the muscle on her hip ripped right off the bone — a painful and premature conclusion to a comeback that never really got started.
Fast forward to now, and Tindell is fully healthy and playing like she's trying to make up for lost time.
Never was that more evident than Saturday night when she scored five goals between the game's seventh and 29th minutes in an 8-0 victory against visiting Keystone Heights in the regional semifinals.
"When that happened last season, I was on the sidelines just devastated," said Tindell, who will sign a national letter of intent with Florida Gulf Coast in February. "Watching my team play on without me was really hard. We got so close last year (losing to Jacksonville Bolles in the state semifinals), and we had a great group.
"Now, I'm healthy, and we're playing very well as a team. We think we can go a long way."
The numbers certainly agree with her.
The Celtics (17-2) outscored fellow District 2A-6 teams 84-0 in 2012-13, and haven't allowed a goal since defeating Winter Park Trinity Prep, 4-1, on Jan. 5. Against the Indians (18-4-1), Tindell had netted all five of her goals and her team was up 6-0 before Trinity Catholic keeper Taylor Mosley even touched the ball.
With all of the action seeming to take place on one side of the field, it's easy to question how Mosley keeps focused.
"I guess she might get a little bored," Tindell, the county's leading goal-scorer with 45, said with a laugh. "But she's alright. She stays ready."
For the moment, everything seems pretty much perfect for the Celtics as they prepare to travel to Lake Highland Prep on Tuesday for a rematch of the game that delivered both joy and pain to Tindell.
However, that doesn't mean coach Blendhel Elias is in any way feeling content.
With his team up 3-0 against KHHS at the 20-minute water break, Elias let the Celtics know he wasn't all that pleased.
"They were flat, making bad passes and had some miscommunications," Elias said. "I told them we needed to cut down on the turnovers.
"They responded well. The second 20 minutes were good."
And after Abbie Camargo scored at the 37-minute mark, Trinity went into the half with a 7-0 lead. It took all of 90 seconds into the second half for Eashoo to knock in her second goal of the night to bring about the mandated mercy rule finish.
Now, the Celtics are just three wins away from the state championship they covet. And after losing 1-0 to Jacksonville Episcopal on Saturday, last season's nemesis, Bolles, no longer blocks the path.
"We want to go all the way to the top," Elias said.
One year later, that's the ending Tindell's always wanted.


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The range of periodical cicadas, Magicicada spp. (Figure 1), covers most of the United States east of the Mississippi River and includes Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. Periodical cicadas lay their eggs on numerous tree species, favoring oaks, hickory, honeylocust, hawthorn, dogwood, apple, peach, pear, elm, ash, walnut and sycamore. Conifers appear to be free of attack.
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Periodical cicadas.
Figure 2
Egg slits on twig.
The adult female cicada uses a sawlike ovipositor to cut through the bark of twigs and branches, preferring those less than 1 inch in diameter, and forms a pocket in the wood where she inserts her eggs (Figure 2). She then will move forward, cutting a new pocket, and lay more eggs. This process may be repeated several times and may produce a continuous slit along the length of the twig. Leaves of the attacked branch can wither and turn brown, and smaller infested branches may break off the following year. Such damage can be serious to young transplanted trees in nurseries and orchards.
Cicadas are heavy-bodied, wedge-shaped insects that have large compound eyes and membranous wings held rooflike over the body. Periodical cicada adults range from 0.75 to 1.5 inches in length. They have a brownish-black body, unspotted from the top, and reddish colored eyes, legs and wing veins. They have a 13-year or 17-year life cycle.
After hatching, the nymphs drop from the twigs to the ground, enter the soil and begin feeding on sap from the roots. A nymph will remain underground at a depth of 2 to 18 inches until it is ready for its last molt. Before its final molt to the adult stage, the nymph will emerge from the ground, leaving a finger-sized round hole, and climb up the trunk of a tree, fence post or side of a house and attach itself with its claws. The exoskeleton will split down the middle of the back and the adult will gradually pull itself free, leaving the cast skin still attached to the substrate. The adults can live from five to six weeks.
Occasionally, the cicada nymph, just prior to its emergence, will construct earthen chimneys or towers above the soil surface. These towers are about 2--4 inches tall with a diameter of about 1.5 inches and are sealed at the top. This occasional tower-building habit of the nymph appears to be influenced by shallow soil, the proximity of the nymph to the surface, conditions of unusual warmth which brings the nymph prematurely to the soil surface, or excessive soil moisture. One may find a cicada tower surrounded by holes from which individuals emerged without making a tower.
Male periodical cicadas will begin "singing" shortly after their emergence (from late-May to early-July). This song, a mating call that is different for each species, is a rhythmical shrill that is produced by two drumlike membranes on the sides of the first abdominal segment. During outbreak periods the cadence of the male chorus can be quite loud and incessant. The singing begins at dawn and ceases at evening. As the temperature rises during the day the volume of the singing also increases.
There are two common types of cicadas in Missouri, the dog-day cicadas and the periodical cicadas. Dog-day, or annual cicadas are larger than periodical cicadas. They are blackish in color with a greenish margin to the wings and lighter markings on the thorax and abdomen. Their life cycle lasts from two to five years but, because of overlapping generations, some adults appear every year (usually July through September). The song of dog-day cicadas is similar to that of periodical cicadas but has less variation in the notes.
There are six species of periodical cicadas, three with a 17-year life cycle and three with a 13-year life cycle. Broods of cicadas (or groups of individuals that hatch/mature at about the same time) emerge in different years and have different geographic ranges. The 13-year cicadas are generally found in the southern United States and the 17-year cicadas in northern states, but there can be overlap and both life-cycle types may occur in the same woods.
Table 1 shows the occurrence and state distribution of the periodical cicada in Missouri.
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Occurrence and distribution of the periodical cicada in Missouri.
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I. Introduction
Gothic Art and Architecture, religious and secular buildings, sculpture, stained glass, and illuminated manuscripts and other decorative arts produced in Europe during the latter part of the Middle Ages (5th century to 15th century). Gothic art began to be produced in France about 1140, spreading to the rest of Europe during the following century. The Gothic Age ended with the advent of the Renaissance in Italy about the beginning of the 15th century, although Gothic art and architecture continued in the rest of Europe through most of the 15th century, and in some regions of northern Europe into the 16th century. Originally the word Gothic was used by Italian Renaissance writers as a derogatory term for all art and architecture of the Middle Ages, which they regarded as comparable to the works of barbarian Goths. Since then the term Gothic has been restricted to the last major medieval period, immediately following the Romanesque (see Romanesque Art and Architecture). The Gothic Age is now considered one of Europe's outstanding artistic eras.
II. Architecture
Architecture was the dominant expression of the Gothic Age. Emerging in the first half of the 12th century from Romanesque antecedents, Gothic architecture continued well into the 16th century in northern Europe, long after the other arts had embraced the Renaissance. Although a vast number of secular monuments were built in the Gothic style, it was in the service of the church, the most prolific builder of the Middle Ages, that the new architecture evolved and attained its fullest realization.
The aesthetic qualities of Gothic architecture depend on a structural development: the ribbed vault (see Arch and Vault). Medieval churches had solid stone vaults (the structure that supports the ceiling or roof). These were extremely heavy structures and tended to push the walls outward, which could lead to the collapse of the building. In turn, walls had to be heavy and thick enough to bear the weight of the stone vaults. Early in the 12th century, masons developed the ribbed vault, which consists of thin arches of stone, running diagonally, transversely, and longitudinally. The new vault, which was thinner, lighter, and more versatile, allowed a number of architectural developments to take place.
Although the earliest Gothic churches assumed a wide variety of forms, the creation of a series of large cathedrals in northern France, beginning in the second half of the 12th century, took full advantage of the new Gothic vault. The architects of the cathedrals found that, since the outward thrusts of the vaults were concentrated in the small areas at the springing of the ribs and were also deflected downward by the pointed arches, the pressure could be counteracted readily by narrow buttresses and by external arches, called flying buttresses. Consequently, the thick walls of Romanesque architecture could be largely replaced by thinner walls with glass windows, and the interiors could reach unprecedented heights. A revolution in building techniques thus occurred.
With the Gothic vault, a ground plan could take on a variety of shapes. The general plan of the cathedrals, however, consisting of a long three-aisled nave intercepted by a transept and followed by a shorter choir and sanctuary, differs little from that of Romanesque churches. The cathedrals also retained and expanded the loveliest creation of French Romanesque architecture, the chevetthe complex of forms at the east end of the church that includes the semicircular aisle known as the ambulatory, the chapels that radiate from it, and the lofty polygonal apse encircling the end of the sanctuary. The major divisions of the interior elevation of the Gothic nave and choir are likewise derived from Romanesque precedents. On the other hand, the tall attenuated piers of the ground-story arcade, the pencil-thin vaulting shafts rising through the clerestory to the springing of the ribs, and the use of the pointed arch throughout the whole edifice all contribute to those unique soaring effects that constitute Gothic architecture's most dynamic expression.
With the exception of the western facade, the exterior of the Gothic cathedral, with its towering buttresses and batteries of winglike fliers, is essentially an exoskeleton designed for the support of the vaults. The west front, on the other hand, was independently composed. The large parallelogram of the Gothic harmonic facade, surmounted by twin towers, reiterates in its triple portals and in its threefold vertical divisions the three aisles of the interior, and the large rose window above the central portal provides a magnified focus for the whole design.
A. Early Gothic Period
In France, during the first half of the 12th century, Gothic rib vaulting appeared sporadically in a number of churches. The particular phase of Gothic architecture that was to lead to the creation of the northern cathedrals, however, was initiated in the early 1140s in the construction of the chevet of the royal abbey church of Saint-Denis, the burial church of the French kings and queens near the outskirts of Paris. In the ambulatory of Saint-Denis, the slim columns supporting the vaults and the elimination of the dividing walls separating the radiating chapels result in a new sense of flowing space presaging the expanded spaciousness of the later interiors.
Saint-Denis led in the 1160s to the first of the great cathedrals, Notre Dame (begun 1163) in Paris, and to a period of experimentation in voiding the walls and in reducing the size of the internal supports. The addition of an extra story to the traditional three-story elevation of the interior increased the height dramatically. This additional story, known as the triforium, consists of a narrow passageway inserted in the wall beneath the windows of the clerestory (upper part of the nave of a church, containing windows) and above the large gallery over the side aisles. The triforium opens out into the interior through its own miniature arcade.
B. High Gothic Period
The complexities and experiments of this early Gothic period were finally resolved in the new cathedral of Chartres (begun 1194). By omitting the second-story gallery derived from Romanesque churches but retaining the triforium, a simplified three-story elevation was reestablished. Additional height was now gained by means of a lofty clerestory that was almost as high as the ground-story arcade. The clerestory itself was now lighted in each bay or division by two very tall lancet windows surmounted by a rose window. At one stroke the architect of Chartres established the major divisions of the interior that were to become standard in all later Gothic churches.
The High Gothic period, inaugurated at Chartres, culminates in the Cathedral of Reims (begun 1210). Rather cold and overpowering in its perfectly balanced proportions, Reims represents the classical moment of serenity and repose in the evolution of the Gothic cathedrals. Bar tracery, that characteristic feature of later Gothic architecture, was an invention of the first architect of Reims. In the earlier plate tracery, as in the clerestory at Chartres, a solid masonry wall is pierced by a series of openings. In bar tracery, however, a single window is subdivided into two or more lancets by means of long thin monoliths, known as mullions. The head of the window is filled with a tracery design that has the effect of a cutout.
Reims follows the general scheme of Chartres. But another equally successful High Gothic solution to the problems of interior design occurs in the great five-aisled cathedral at Bourges (begun 1195). Instead of an enlarged clerestory, as at Chartres, the architect of Bourges created an immensely tall ground-story arcade and reduced the height of the clerestory to that of the triforium. The brief interval of the High Gothic period is followed in the 1220s by the nave of Amiens Cathedral. The soaring effects, muted at Chartres and Reims, were taken up again at Amiens in the emphasis on verticality and in the attenuation of the supports. Amiens thus provided a transition to the loftiest of the French Gothic cathedrals, that of Beauvais. By superimposing on a giant ground-story arcade (derived from Bourges) an almost equally tall clerestory, the architect of Beauvais reached the unprecedented interior height of 48 m (157 ft).
C. Rayonnant Gothic Period
Beauvais was begun in 1225, the year before Louis IX, king of France, ascended the throne. During his long reign, from 1226 to 1270, Gothic architecture entered a new phase, known as the Rayonnant. The word Rayonnant is derived from the radiating spokes, like those of a wheel, of the enormous rose windows that are one of the features of the style. Height was no longer the prime objective. Rather, the architects further reduced the masonry frame of the churches, expanded the window areas, and replaced the external wall of the triforium with traceried glass. Instead of the massive effects of the High Gothic cathedrals, both the interior and the exterior of the typical Rayonnant church now more nearly assumed the character of a diaphanous shell.
All these features of the Rayonnant were incorporated in the first major undertaking in the new style, the rebuilding (begun 1232) of the royal abbey church of Saint-Denis. Of the earlier structure only the ambulatory and the west facade were preserved. The spirit of the Rayonnant, however, is perhaps best represented by the Sainte-Chapelle, the spacious palace chapel built by Louis IX on the Île de la Cité in the center of Paris. Construction began in the early 1240s, and the chapel was consecrated in 1248. Immense windows, rising from near the pavement to the arches of the vaults, occupy the entire area between the vaulting shafts, thus transforming the whole chapel into a sturdy stone armature for the radiant stained-glass windows.
In the evolution of Gothic architecture, the progressive enlargement of the windows was not intended to shed more light into the interiors, but rather to provide an ever-increasing area for the stained glass. As can still be appreciated in the Sainte-Chapelle and in the cathedrals of Chartres and Bourges, Gothic interiors with their full complement of stained glass were as dark as those of Romanesque churches. It was, however, a luminous darkness, vibrant with the radiance of the windows. The dominant colors were a dark saturated blue and a brilliant ruby red. Small stained-glass medallions illustrating episodes from the Bible and from the lives of the saints were reserved for the windows of the chapels and the side aisles. Their closeness to the observer made their details easily distinguishable. Each of the lofty windows of the clerestory, on the other hand, was occupied by single monumental figures. Because of their often colossal size, they were also readily visible from below. Beginning in the 1270s the mystic darkness was gradually dispelled as grisaille glasswhite glass decorated with designs in graywas more often employed in conjunction with colored panels, while the colors themselves grew progressively lighter in tone.
D. Dissemination of Gothic Architecture
The influence of French Gothic architecture on much of the rest of Europe was profound. In France the scheme of Bourges, with its giant arcade and short clerestory, met with little response, but in Spain it was taken up again and again, beginning in 1221 with the Cathedral of Toledo and continuing into the early 14th century with the cathedrals of Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona, and Gerona. In Germany the impact of all phases of French Gothic architecture was decisive, from the early Gothic four-story elevation of the Cathedral of Limburg-an-der-Lahn (1225?) to the choir of Cologne Cathedral (begun 1248). Modeled on the Rayonnant choir of Amiens, the interior of Cologne exceeds in height even that of Beauvais.
Italy and England, however, are the exceptions to this pervasive French influence. The peculiarly Italianate idiom of the Gothic churches of Florence and the superficial reminiscences of the French Gothic facades on the cathedrals of Siena and Orvieto are but transitory phases in a development that leads from the Italian Romanesque to Filippo Brunelleschi and the beginnings of the Renaissance.
In England, French Gothic architecture intruded itself only twice, once in the 1170s in the eastern extension of Canterbury Cathedral and again in Henry III's Westminster Abbey (begun 1245), patterned on the general scheme of Reims, with Parisian Rayonnant modifications. Otherwise the English architects developed their own highly successful Gothic idiom. Rejecting the aspiring verticality and the functional logic of the French cathedrals, the English churches emphasize length and horizontality, replacing the French polygonal apse with a square east end that is sometimes further prolonged by a rectangular Lady chapel (a chapel devoted to the Virgin Mary, characteristic of English cathedrals). This extreme elongation often includes two separate transepts. The multiplication in the number of ribs, some of which are of a purely ornamental nature, is also characteristically English.
The first major phase of this insular architecture, the early English period, is well represented (except for the 15th-century tower and spire) by the Cathedral of Salisbury (begun 1220). The introduction of bar tracery in Westminster Abbey led to an astonishing variety in tracery design. This Decorated period, with its lavish ornamentation, also produced such poetic creations as the lovely Angel Choir (begun 1256) of Lincoln Cathedral, and was responsible as well for that unique masterpiece of medieval architecture, the astounding octagon (begun 1322) of Ely Cathedral, with its wooden lantern and tower soaring over the crossing.
III. Sculpture
Following a Romanesque precedent, a multitude of carved figures proclaiming the dogmas and beliefs of the church adorn the vast cavernous portals of French Gothic cathedrals. Gothic sculpture in the 12th and early 13th centuries was predominantly architectural in character. The largest and most important of the figures are the over-life-size statues in the embrasures on either side of the doorways. Because they are attached to the colonnettes by which they are supported, they are known as statue-columns. Eventually the statue-column was to lead to the freestanding monumental statue, a form of art unknown in western Europe since Roman times.
The earliest surviving statue-columns are those of the west portals of Chartres that stem from the older pre-Gothic cathedral and that date from about 1155. The tall, cylindrical figures repeat the form of the colonnettes to which they are bound. They are rendered in a severe, linear Romanesque style that nevertheless lends to the figures an impressive air of aspiring spirituality. During the next few decades the west portals of Chartres inspired a number of other French portals with statue-columns. They were also influential in the creation of that sculptural ensemble on the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, fittingly known as the Portico de la Gloria (completed 1188), one of the outstanding artistic achievements of medieval Spain.
All these proto-Gothic monuments, however, still retain a distinct Romanesque character. In the 1180s the Romanesque stylization gives way to a period of transition in which the statue begins to assume a feeling of grace, sinuosity, and freedom of movement. This so-called classicizing style culminates in the first decade of the 13th century in the great series of sculptures on the north and south transept portals of Chartres.
The term classicizing, however, must be qualified, for a fundamental difference exists between the Gothic figure of any period and the truly classical figure style. In the classical figure, whether statue or relief, a completely articulated body can be sensed beneath, and separate from, the drapery. In the Gothic figure no such differentiation exists. What can be discerned of the body is inseparable from the folds of the garment by which it is enveloped. Even where the nude is portrayed, as in the statues of Adam and Eve (before 1237) on the German Cathedral of Bamberg, the body is largely reduced to an
A. Emergence of Naturalism
Beginning about 1210 on the Coronation Portal of Nôtre Dame and continuing after 1225 on the west portals of Amiens Cathedral, the rippling surface treatment of the classicizing drapery was replaced by more solid volumes. In the 1240s, on the west facade of Reims and in the statues of the apostles in the Sainte-Chapelle, the drapery assumes those sharp, angular forms and deeply carved tubular folds that are characteristic of almost all later Gothic sculpture. At the same time the statues are finally liberated from their architectural bondage.
In the statues at Reims and in the interior of the Sainte-Chapelle, the exaggerated smile, almond-shaped eyes, and clustered curls of the small heads and the mannered poses result in a paradoxical synthesis of naturalistic forms, courtly affectations, and a delicate spirituality. Along with these manneristic tendencies and the increased naturalism, a more maternal type of the cult statue of the Virgin Mary playfully balancing the Christ child on the outward thrust of her hip made its first appearance on the lower portal of the Sainte-Chapellean image that in the ensuing centuries was disseminated in infinite variations throughout Europe.
B. Diffusion of Gothic Sculpture
Although northern France was the creative heartland of Gothic sculpture, as it was of Gothic architecture, some of the outstanding sculptural monuments were produced in Germany. Expanding on the French Gothic style, German Gothic sculpture ranges from an expressionistic exaggeration, sometimes verging on caricature, to a lyrical beauty and nobility of the forms. The largest assemblage of German 13th-century sculpture, that of the Cathedral of Bamberg, created under the influence of Reims, culminated about 1240 in the Bamberg Rider, the first equestrian statue in Western art since the 6th century. Although the identity of the regal horseman remains unknown, no other work so impressively embodies the heroic ideal of medieval kingship.
The influence of French Gothic sculpture in Italy was, like the architecture, more superficial and transitory than in Germany. This influence can indeed be aptly described as Gothicizing trends in the larger framework of the Italian proto-Renaissance that in sculpture began in 1260 with Nicola Pisano's marble pulpit in the Pisa Baptistry. Giovanni Pisano, the son of Nicola, was the first to adopt the full repertory of French Gothic mannerisms. Of great inner intensity and power, the statues of prophets and Greek philosophers he created about 1290 for the facade of the Cathedral of Siena are also the masterpieces of this entire Italian period.
Although during the later decades of the 14th century an ever-increasing number of Italian sculptors assumed the French Gothic mannerisms, again and again their works show the study of the classical nude and differentiate between body and drapery in a way that is the mark of the classical style. This Gothicizing phase had ended about 1400 with the advent of Lorenzo Ghiberti in Florence and the beginnings in sculpture of the full Italian Renaissance.
IV. Decorative Arts
In France throughout the 13th century the decorative arts were largely dominated by church art. The medallions that form the illustrations in the Bibles moralisées (Moralized Bibles) of the second quarter of the century frankly emulate the designs of stained glass. In Louis IX's Psalter (composed after 1255), the gables with rose windows that frame the miniatures were patterned after the ornamental gables surmounting the exterior of the Sainte-Chapelle. Beginning about 1250 the same courtly style informs both monumental statues and small ivory figurines. The elegant ivory statuette of the Virgin Mary and Child (1265?, Louvre, Paris) from the Sainte-Chapelle was modeled after the monumental statue from the chapel's lower portal. The colossal group of Christ crowning the Virgin Mary in the central gable of the west facade of Reims possesses all the intimate grace of the same subject depicted in two contemporary statuettes, also in the Louvre. Beginning in the 1260s the large metal reliquary shrines take the form of diminutive Rayonnant churches, complete with transepts, rose windows, and gabled facades (see Metalwork).
About 1300 the decorative arts begin to assume a more independent role. In the Rhineland, German expressionism gave rise to works of a marked emotional character, ranging from the statuettes of the school of Bodensee, such as that of the youthful seated Saint John tenderly laying his head on the shoulder of Christ, to the harrowing evocation of the suffering Christ in the plague crosses of the Middle Rhine. Later in the century the German sculptors were responsible for a new type of the mourning Virgin Mary, seated and holding on her lap the dead body of Christ, the so-called Pietà. In the second quarter of the century, Parisian manuscript illumination was given a new direction by Jean Pucelle. In his Belleville Breviary (1325?, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris), the lettering, the illustrations, and the leafy borders all contribute to the totally integrated effect of the decorated page, thereby establishing an enduring precedent for later illuminators. Of still greater significance for future developments is the new sense of space imparted to the interior scenes in his illustrations through the use of linear perspective. Pucelle had learned this technique from the contemporary painters of the Italian proto-Renaissance (see Illuminated Manuscripts).
V. Late Gothic Period
Paris had been the leading artistic center of northern Europe since the 1230s. After the ravages of the Plague and the outbreak of the Hundred Years' War in the 1350s, however, Paris became only one among many artistic centers.
A. Painting
As a result of this diffusion of artistic currents, a new pictorial synthesis emerged, known as the International Gothic style, in which, as foreshadowed by Pucelle, Gothic elements were combined with the illusionistic art of the Italian painters. Beginning in Paris in the 1370s and continuing until about 1400 at the court of Jean de France, Duc de Berry, the manuscript illuminators of the International Gothic style progressively developed the spatial dimensions of their illustrations, until the picture became a veritable window opening on an actual world. This process led eventually to the realistic painting of Jan van Eyck and the northern Renaissance and away from the conceptual point of view of the Middle Ages. Thus, even though the International style is sometimes described as Gothic, it nevertheless lies beyond the boundaries of the Gothic period itself, which by definition is also medieval.
B. Sculpture
Gothic sculpture, however, remained unaffected by the Italian proto-Renaissance. About 1400 Claus Sluter executed at Dijon for Philip the Bold, Duke of Bourgogne, some of the most memorable sculptural works of the late Gothic period. Eschewing the slender willowy figure style and aristocratic affectations of the 14th century, Sluter enveloped his figures in vast voluminous robes. In the mourners on the tomb (begun 1385, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon) of Philip the Bold, Sluter created out of drapery alone eloquent images of sorrow. In the statues surrounding the Well of Moses (1395-1403, Chartreuse de Champmol, Dijon) he transformed the Old Testament heroes into earthy Flemish patriarchs, whose realistic depiction nevertheless conveys a feeling of spiritual grandeur.
After Sluter's death in 1406, his influence spread from Burgundy to the south of France, to Spain, and later to Germany. By 1500, however, with Michel Colombe and the Mannerists of the school of Troyes in France and with Tilman Riemenschneider, Veit Stoss, and Adam Kraft in Germany, the era of Gothic sculpture drew to its close.
C. Architecture
In France, late Gothic architecture is known as flamboyant, from the flamelike forms of its intricate curvilinear tracery. The ebullient ornamentation of the flamboyant style was largely reserved for the exteriors of the churches. The interiors underwent a drastic simplification by eliminating the capitals of all the piers and reducing them to plain masonry supports. All architectural ornamentation was concentrated in the vaults, the ribs of which formed an intricate network of even more complicated patterns.
1. Flamboyant Style
Flamboyant architecture originated in the 1380s with French court architect Guy de Dammartin. The great surge in building activity, however, came only with the conclusion of the Hundred Years' War in 1453, when throughout France churches were being rebuilt in the new style. The last flowering of flamboyant architecture occurred between the end of the 15th century and the 1530s in the work of Martin Chambiges and his son Pierre, who were responsible for a series of grand cathedral facades, including the west front of Troyes Cathedral and the transept facades of Senlis and Beauvais cathedrals. Disseminated over much of the Continent, flamboyant architecture produced its most extravagant intricacies in Spain. In Portugal, during the reign of King Manuel I, from 1495 to 1521, it developed into a national idiom known as the Manueline style, marked by a profusion of exotic motifs.
2. Perpendicular Style
Spurning the flamboyant style altogether, the English builders devised their own late Gothic architecture, the Perpendicular style. The use of a standard module consisting of an upright traceried rectangle, which could be used for wall paneling and window tracery alike, resulted in an extraordinary unity of design in church interiors. The masterpiece of the style, the chapel of King's College (begun 1443), Cambridge, achieves a majestic homogeneity through the use of the new fan vaulting, the fan-shaped spreading panels of which are in complete accord with the rectangular panels of the walls and windows.
3. Secular Buildings
The list of important secular monuments in the late Gothic period is long. In Belgium the series of grand civic halls, some with tall belfried towers, begins very early with the great Cloth Hall (completed 1380, destroyed 1915) of Ieper and continues with such later town halls as those of Leuven (1448-1463) and Oudenaarde (1526-1530). In England and France the austere castles of the 12th and 13th centuries had been little affected by the ecclesiastical architecture. In the last quarter of the 14th century, however, the grim fortresses were gradually replaced by graceful châteaux and impressive palaces that sometimes were the source of important architectural innovations. The earliest monument in the flamboyant style, the large screen (1388) with traceried gables that surmounts the triple fireplace in the ancient Palais des Comtes at Poitiers, foreshadowed the pieced decorative gables on the exteriors of the flamboyant-style churches. In about 1390 the largest of all medieval halls, that of London's Westminster Palace, was provided with a magnificent oaken hammer beam roof that furnished the prototype for numerous similar roofs in the parish churches of English towns.
In France from the late 15th century to the 1520s, new châteaux in the flamboyant style were being built extensively, from Amboise (1483-1501) and Blois (1498-1515) on the Loire, to Josselin (early 16th century) in Brittany. The crowning features of their exteriors are those magnified versions of dormer windows, the lucarnes. Sometimes, as on the facade added in 1508 to the Palais de Justice at Rouen, the ornate lucarnes are each flanked by their own diminutive flying buttresses. Other regional styles of secular architecture also flourished, from the Venetian Gothic of the Doges' Palace (begun 1345?) and the Ca d'Oro (1430?) to the Tudor Gothic of Hampton Court (1515-1536) on the Thames and the Collegiate Gothic, which at Oxford lingered into the early 17th century. By this time on the Continent, however, the luxuriant growth of late Gothic forms had long since been replaced by the more intellectual and calculated architectural principles of the Renaissance.
See also Architecture; Romanesque Art and Architecture; Sculpture; Renaissance Art and Architecture.
Contributed By:
William M. Hinkle
Professor Emeritus of Art History, Columbia University.
"Gothic Art and Architecture," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2000
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How to know if you're dating or just hanging out
If you've ever spent time with someone and wondered, "Is this a date?" you're not alone. According to a recent study co-commissioned by dating sites christianmingle.com and jdate.com, the majority of singles are confused about what's a date and what's not a date.
Of the 2,647 singles surveyed, 69% reported that they were "at least somewhat confused as to whether an outing with someone they're potentially interested in is a date or not." 80% agreed that a one-on-one hangout "might" be a date, however it might not be. There's always the potential that someone might just want to be your friend.
Years ago, I remember an attractive male friend of mine asked me whether I'd like to hang out at his favourite bar with him. He introduced me to a few of his buddies who were there that night, but we spent most of the night drinking and talking, just the two of us. When he walked me home there was an awkward moment when I went to kiss him on the cheek, however he moved suddenly and I ended up kissing him on the ear. He responded by slapping me on the back and telling me, "Later, bro!" before disappearing down my block towards the subway. What I thought might be a date, clearly was me tagging along on "guys night out."
That experience took place during my university years when the line between friends and lovers often blurred. Now that I'm in my 30's, I just assume that if a guy is single and wants to go out for dinner, he's interested in more than just friendship. With that said, sometimes I still get it wrong. Judging by the above mentioned study, I'm not the only one. Is going over to someone's house to eat takeout, lounge around in your sweatpants and watch a marathon of Pretty Little Liars, considered a date? I hope not, but it very well might be.
Technology definitely plays a role in this confusion. As part of a study conducted by USA Today, when singles were asked whether texting has made it more difficult to determine whether an outing was an actual date, close to half answered yes. There's no doubt that texting has made dating more casual. Formal invitations have been replaced with late night "I'm at a bar. Wanna join?" texts that cater towards instant gratification. Add to that the growing prevalence of a culture of hook ups, the specifics of dating can be particularly confounding.
Here's my solution: Next time you're not sure whether you're on a date, just ask the other person. Yes, it may be awkward initially, but it might save you from kissing someone's ear.


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In May, Jan Egeland, the United Nations Undersecretary for Humanitarian Affairs, called a news conference in New York to declare publicly what he had been warning people about for some time: that the nation of Colombia had become "by far the biggest humanitarian catastrophe of the Western Hemisphere."
Chronic and intractable warfare among paramilitaries, the army, cocaine traffickers and leftist guerrillas has so wreaked havoc on the countryside that, Egeland pointed out, 2 million of its 36 million inhabitants had become refugees. This made Colombia the country with the largest number of displaced people after only Congo and Sudan. Many of the displaced, he went on to say, had fled to shantytowns on the outskirts of Colombia's cities, thereby joining a larger Third World flight of the rural dispossessed into poverty and despair on the edges of cities. In Colombia, refugees have settled in shantytowns like one outside Cartagena, where, Egeland noted, 10,000 people are "floating in a sea of sewage and garbage." With few prospects for either jobs or education, the young and the unemployed in these slums had turned to crime or become easy recruits as gunmen for left-wing guerrillas and rightist paramilitaries.
Colombia's problems are of long standing and are deeply tied into the country's tortured and violent history. They do not appear to be amenable to quick fixes–especially military ones. Colombia is already awash in guns. More and bigger guns aren't likely to bring the country's warring parties any closer to a peace accord. But over the past few years, while the world's attention has been transfixed by events in Iraq, the United States has become deeply involved in a military buildup in Colombia and is rapidly becoming more so. At present, the United States has some 400 military personnel in Colombia as well as another 400 of the increasingly ubiquitous civilian contractors. And in March the Bush Administration announced its intention to request authority from Congress to double the number of military personnel to 800 and raise the number of civilian contractors to 600. This is part of the Administration's effort to renew, in 2006, "Plan Colombia," a program under which the United States has already spent some $3 billion (more than 75 percent of it on military aid). On the eve of the Iraq war, Colombia was the third-largest recipient of American aid after only Israel and Egypt.
The goal of Plan Colombia is to stem the nearly $40 billion-a-year flow of cocaine to the United States, 80 percent of which comes from Colombia. In the aftermath of 9/11, glib analogies were made in Washington between cocaine, terrorism and Osama bin Laden. Colin Powell declared Colombian insurgents "terrorists with a global reach" and said they posed a threat to US interests. What had been strictly an antidrug campaign was thus, by a deft use of the terrorism trump card, transformed into a counterinsurgency campaign. But nothing is easy about cocaine in Colombia, and eradicating–even slowing–cocaine growth there is a formidable task. Indeed, if cocaine remains pervasive in Colombia, it's arguably because of the failure of American drug policies elsewhere in Latin America. Until the early 1980s, coca growing was largely confined to the Andean countries of Peru and Bolivia, where it is indigenous (and where its leaves are chewed to ward off hunger and exhaustion). But US-led eradication efforts in those countries led to the spread of coca production in Colombia, where it fuels several insurgencies that have grown to the point where they now control large swaths of Colombian territory.


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The quality of mercy is in the news these days, with the commutaion of Scooter Libby's jail sentence. Today, the Los Angeles Times urges clemency for John Walker Lindh, in an editorial titled "Free Our Talib". Lindh is serving a 20-year sentence in federal prison as a result of a plea bargain. The Times argues that Lindh never took up arms against American soldiers and didn't, really, do anything seriously wrong:
Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft called him an "Al Qaeda-trained terrorist," and the charges against Lindh originally included conspiring to commit terrorism. Those charges were dropped, however, and Lindh today is serving time not for any act committed against the United States, but for violating a Clinton-era presidential order that prohibits providing "services" to the Taliban. Lindh, who converted to Islam as a teenager, joined the Taliban before Sept. 11, not after; he did so to fight the Northern Alliance, not the United States. Lindh never took up arms against this country. He never engaged in terrorism; indeed, his commitment to Islam leads him to oppose the targeting of civilians.
This is the version of the facts that Lindh's family has promoted in its campaign to get him released from prison. The Times swallows it whole; but it is misleading at best. The grand jury's indictment of Lindh is here. The charges against Lindh included the following:
* In or about June and July 2001, LINDH remained at the al-Farooq camp and participated fully in its training activities, after having been told early in his stay at the camp that Bin Laden had sent forth some fifty people to carry out twenty suicide terrorist operations against the United States and Israel.
* In or about June or July 2001, LINDH met personally with Bin Laden, who thanked him and other trainees for taking part in jihad.
* In or about June or July 2001, LINDH swore allegiance to jihad.
* After learning about the terrorist attacks against the United States on or about September 11, 2001, LINDH remained with his fighting group. LINDH did so despite having been told that Bin Laden had ordered the attacks, that additional terrorist attacks were planned, and that additional al Qaeda personnel were being sent from the training camps to the front lines to protect Bin Laden and defend against an anticipated military response from the United States.
* From in or about October through early December 2001, LINDH remained with his fighting group after learning that United States military forces and United States nationals had become directly engaged in support of the Northern Alliance in its military conflict with Taliban and al Qaeda forces.
* In or about November 2001, LINDH's fighting group retreated from Takhar to the area of Kunduz, Afghanistan, and ultimately surrendered to Northern Alliance troops. On or about November 24, 2001, LINDH and other captured fighters were trucked to Mazar-e Sharif, in Afghanistan, and then to the nearby Qala-i Janghi ("QIJ") prison compound.
* On or about November 25, 2001, LINDH was interviewed in the QIJ compound by two Americans, CIA employee Johnny Micheal Spann and another United States Government employee, who were attempting to identify al Qaeda members among the prisoners.
* On or about November 25, 2001, Taliban detainees in the QIJ compound attacked Spann and the other employee, overpowered the guards, and armed themselves. Spann was shot and killed in the violent attack. After being wounded, LINDH retreated with other detainees to a basement area of the QIJ compound. The bloody uprising took several days to suppress.
* From on or about November 25, 2001 though on or about December 1, 2001, LINDH remained in the basement area of QIJ with other Taliban and al Qaeda fighters until their recapture. (In violation of 18 U.S.C.


text: Okay well here is a question for you, I have been in a long discussion with Igor regarding suexec vs lsapi php security... Because we are using CageFS the user can only see their own files... but if you use suexec then and attacker can delete a customers site and or easily add malicious code to their files. Because CageFS already provides the benefit of preventing a user from accessing the other users files, couldnt we just cage php lsapi and not use suexec here is Igor's response: You can check with LiteSpeed regarding doing LVE/CageFS without suexec. I believe they might be able to do CageFS without suexec, as they still terminate apache request after it served the request. Either that or add a suexec ForceUID option just like you have the forcegid option... that way even though we are in suexec mode the user can be forced to something different than the user that owns the files..... this way it since suexec already work in cagefs it would be a no brainer to prevent deletion of files But isnt it true that LVE controls dont work in suexec mode? so wouldnt my above recommendation of CageFS +php lsapi work with LVE???


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To: National Desk
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life and President of the National Pro-Life Religious Council, will be available for comment from Friday, January 20, to Tuesday, January 24, at various events in the Washington, DC, area.
A frequent guest on programs such as Larry King Live, Good Morning America, and The O'Reilly Factor and regularly quoted in newspapers across the country, Fr. Pavone has been at the forefront of pro-life activism and education in the United States. He was with Terri Schiavo in her final moments and was an outspoken advocate for her life.
Fr. Pavone will speak at the March for Life Convention, the American Collegians for Life Conference, the John Paul II Cultural Center, the National Memorial for the Pre-Born and Their Mothers and Fathers at the Russell Senate Office Building, and the Republican Capitol Hill Club.
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.


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Teen Dies Following Car Accident Involving LA Laker Lamar Odom
It's a double dose of bad news for Lamar Odom.
A 15-year-old boy who was in a car accident last week involving the Los Angeles Lakers star has died.
Odom was in New York to attend a cousin's funeral when a car he paid for to shuttle him around during his trip crashed into a motorcycle, which, in turn, hit the 15-year-old victim. A driver Odom hired was behind the wheel at the time.
The boy reportedly suffered severe head injuries and emergency surgery couldn't save him. He died last Friday.
Odom, who is also known for his reality show documenting his marriage to Khloe Kardashian, is said to be "devastated" by the boy's death. On his Twitter page, Odom reacted to the tragedy by writing, "Thank you for your support and prayers! My thoughts and prayers are with the young boys family."
Kardashian also took to Twitter, adding, "My heart/soul goes out 2every1 in pain from any suffering. Pray 4 all of the angels surrounding us constantly. May our spirits stay strong."
Kardashian, who was in New York with Odom for his visit, was not in the car when the accident occurred.


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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Veterans Affairs Department has long resisted disability claims from service members who said chemical residue left in Vietnam War-era planes that were used to spray defoliants over Southeast Asia caused them severe illnesses, including cancer.
This summer, a panel of independent scientists will try to determine whether those veterans could have been exposed to the toxins in defoliants, including Agent Orange, at a level that would be dangerous to their health.
The panel hosts the first of a series of closed meetings and public hearings on May 15. If it finds a link, the service members could be eligible for tax-free disability compensation up to several thousand dollars a month.
That's something Wes Carter, a retired Air Force major who is leading the crusade, believes is long overdue.


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The quieter half of the former Jon & Kate Plus 8 couple is back! Kate Gosselin is set to return to a small screen near you on March 11th.
Entertainment Tonight is reporting Kate will be returning to The View for another guest hosting gig come Thursday, March 11th. This is nothing new for Kate as she previously guest hosted the show for three days back in September, 2009.
Still in the works is Kate's new TLC show that will solely feature Kate minus her eight children. Instead, Kate will be featured "trying different jobs and tasks and showing how she performs in different environments." The new TLC series is set to debut sometime during the spring or early summer.
In addition to Kate, ABC confirms other guest co-hosts will include Meghan McCain, Valerie Bertinelli and Victoria Beckham.


text: Shooting: Story Story Posted 06-12-2012 No 1 With A Bullet 'Friends of NRA' host Jesse Duff shows shooting isn't 'just a guy thing' By: Joe Walljasper, Columbia Daily Tribune Republished with permission from the Columbia Daily Tribune HALLSVILLE, Mo. — As a girl growing up in Georgia, Jessie Duff used to tag along with her father to the shooting range. She just watched. Nothing against shooting or hunting, but that was boy stuff. She was into cheerleading. At age 15, she changed her mind. "Eventually, I just got tired of sitting on the sidelines and decided to shoot with him," she said. That first pull of the trigger led to a career as a professional shooter, a gig on "Friends of NRA" on the Outdoor Channel and a marriage to her TV co-host. Gunfire has been very, very good to her. Her husband, former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher and avid bowhunter Matt Duff, was the one watching and taking photos from a safe distance while Jessie blasted away at targets with her 9 mm Taurus 1911 pistol during the first day of the Bianchi Cup World Action Pistol Championships in late May. "I'm sure one of these days I'll enter a competition just to see how bad she beats me," he said with a laugh over the crackle of shots at the Green Valley Rifle and Pistol Club. Jessie Duff is the two-time defending female champion of the Bianchi Cup, which annually draws the best shooters in the world to Mid-Missouri. As shooters discussed their rounds under the hot sun, German mixed with Kiwi mixed with Southern drawl. Duff hopes to add to the melting pot by introducing more women to the sport through the "Friends of NRA" television show and her success in competitions. "It is very, very intimidating for women or young girls to get into it unless they have an avenue like their dad taking them to the range, and even then, to come to big matches and compete is still very intimidating for the ladies," she said. "That's one thing that I hope is coming across in our show. "Even if it's not competitive shooting — if it's hunting, outdoors, anything — they're seeing you can be a female and do it and be successful. It's not just a guy thing." Duff got off to a good start, leading the women's field with a 478-34 out of a possible 480-48 (the first number is targets hit, the second is shots in the black and is used as a tiebreaker) in the Practical event, in which competitors have to unholster their guns and shoot targets in a matter of seconds from distances of 10, 15, 25 and 50 yards. It is one of four components to the Bianchi Cup, along with Barricade, Moving Target and Falling Plate. Whoever has the best overall score is crowned the champion. Duff repeated her 2011 performance by winning the Colt Speed Event, and finishing second to Julie Golob in the Ladies Division. This was her fourth Cold Speed Event win. Duff realized her hobby could become her career about seven years ago when Team Glock signed her. In March she signed a deal to be the captain of the Taurus team. Duff shoots in 15 to 18 competitions per year, and her success put her on the radar of a production company looking for a woman to join Matt Duff for a new show called "Friends of NRA," which would highlight the organization's grass-roots programs. Matt Duff, who appeared in seven games for the Cardinals in 2002, was already hosting hunting shows "Major League Bowhunter" alongside Chipper Jones of the Atlanta Braves and "Buck Commander." Jessie and Matt had never met until their screen test. Suffice to say, they had chemistry. Asked how long it took for her to know that they would be more than co-hosts, Jessie replied, "Five minutes. Not even that." The show, which airs at 9 p.m. Sunday nights, premiered in January 2011. Thirteen months later, they were married. She enjoys bowhunting with him, but she has yet to convince him to compete in an action pistol competition. He joked that he didn't want to disgrace the family. "I'll keep wearing on him," she said. "He'll eventually give in." Men's Open winner Defending champion Doug Koenig was the overall winner in the Open Division of the 33rd MidwayUSA and NRA Bianchi Cup National Championship. The competition drew 253 competitors from more than 10 countries around the world.Koenig shot a score of 1920-182x, using Hornady® 110 grain XTP® bullets in his 38 Super pistol to win his 14th title. "I shot under a one-inch group at 50 yards using Hornady bullets," Koenig said. "You can't ask for more than that when you're competing at the preeminent shooting event like the Bianchi Cup." 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I'll cut to the chase....I HAVE A HUGE RIB HUMP!
It bugs me when I lay down, sit down, lean against something, etc. I want it to be less visible to reduce pain and so I can feel better about myself. I think my surgeon has the wrong idea, he wants me to wait a while (April 2004) until I get to see if again. He wants me to recover from my operation, which was in August 2002, and wants to see if I still want surgery to help it.
The thing is he thinks I want it fixed because I hate the look of it, and he's right, that is part of the reason. But having it there is uncomfortable. Can you imaging feeling the springs in your matress press against only one part of your back, ouch!
The surgery we are (mainly he) is considering is "pure cosmetic" surgery to help reduce the look of my rib hump. Apparently there will be a LOT of pain but I am prepared. I've already suffered the pain of a broken rib and my first scoliosis surgery, don't think that I'm not prepared for this. Has anyone gone through this, or anything similiar?
Does anyone actually have a rib hump??


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Susac shines in Scottsdale's dominant win
Ahead in the count, 3-0, against Glendale starter Michael Lorenzen on Monday, Andrew Susac watched a fastball go past for strike one. It had been a good pitch to hit, but after the first three pitches had badly missed the plate, Susac was willing to wait.View Full Game Coverage
Ahead in the count, 3-0, against Glendale starter Michael Lorenzen on Monday, Andrew Susac watched a fastball go past for strike one. It had been a good pitch to hit, but after the first three pitches had badly missed the plate, Susac was willing to wait.View Full Game Coverage
His patience paid off as Lorenzen threw him another fastball, this one higher in the zone. Susac didn't take this one. He swung and drove the ball to right-center field for a two-run home run, giving Scottsdale a three-run lead in the second inning.
"I tried not to do too much with it and it ended up being a home run," Susac said. "That's how the game works sometimes."
Susac's home run proved to be the difference Monday as the Scorpions defeated the Desert Dogs, 5-1, at Scottsdale Stadium. They have won three games in a row in the Arizona Fall League.
Susac said he has been working on a small adjustment to make his hands quicker to the ball. It worked against the Desert Dogs and he finished the night 3-for-4.
"I got in good counts, and it was just one of those days I put the bat on the ball," Susac said.
Scottsdale also got a solid night from center fielder Mason Williams. The Yankees' No. 2 prospect went 1-for-3 with two runs, two walks and a stolen base.
While Susac shined at the plate, the Scottsdale pitchers also had a good night throwing to him. Right-hander Aaron Northcraft set the tone with three scoreless innings to start the game. The Braves' No. 10 prospect struck out four batters and allowed two hits.
After a pair of subpar outings, Monday was Northcraft's best start in the AFL.
"He did a great job establishing his fastball early," Susac said. "That's what he wanted to do coming into this game. His sinker was good and its life was there."
Glendale scored its lone run in the eighth inning against right-hander Jeurys Familia. After the Desert Dogs loaded the bases thanks to two walks and a single, Familia threw a wild pitch with two outs, allowing Marcus Semien to score.
The Desert Dogs threatened again in the ninth inning, loading the bases with two outs against right-hander Cody Satterwhite. But Eddie Rosario flew out to right field to end the game.
While Northcraft had his best start of the fall, Lorenzen continued to struggle in the AFL. He gave up four runs on eight hits in 3 2/3 innings against Scottsdale. The Reds' No. 6 prospect has given up 15 runs (14 earned) and 19 hits in 9 2/3 innings this fall.
Even though Lorenzen wasn't at his best, his ability was still evident. Like so many other days in the AFL, the Scorpions saw a parade of some of the top pitchers in the Minor Leagues.
Susac said he is enjoying the challenge of playing against so many top prospects on a daily basis.
"The talent is the best in the country," Susac said. "I'm having a great time. This is a great place to be. It's a true contest of the best of the best."
Teddy Cahill is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @tedcahill.