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HTC U12 Plus vs Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus vs iPhone X vs Huawei P20 Pro: Price in India, Features, Specifications Compared
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Less than a week left to go for its launch and almost everything including the design, colour variants, specifications and even pricing of the HTC U12 Plus has leaked. From what we now know, this is truly a flagship contraption from the Taiwanese giant, and we can't wait to get our hands on this device once it launches. Now that we know so much about this device, we decided to pit it against the existing flagships of the industry to see exactly how it stands against its competition.
And so we have the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus, the iPhone X (review) and the Huawei P20 Pro which currently hold the title of being the flagships from their respective manufacturers. So how does the HTC U12 Plus fare against these behemoths? Let's have a look at the comparison of their specs and features to find out.
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HTC U12 Plus vs Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus vs iPhone X vs Huawei P20 Pro: Price In India
From the information we currently have, the HTC U12 Plus's price is expected to be roughly around Rs.50,000 for the 64GB variant and Rs. 55,000 for the 128GB model. Comparatively, the cheapest Samsung Galaxy S9 variant with 64GB of storage is priced at Rs 64,900, while the 128 GB and 256GB variants cost Rs. 68,900 and Rs. 74,000 respectively.
The Huawei P20 Pro is only available in a single, 128GB variant that costs Rs.64,999. Then we have the iPhone X which is still the most expensive smartphone in this list. It will set you back almost Rs. 86,240 for the 64 GB variant and Rs. 97,900 for the 256GB model.
HTC U12 Plus vs Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus vs iPhone X vs Huawei P20 Pro: Display, Design
The HTC U12 Plus is going to come with a 6-inch screen Super LCD 6 screen with QHD+ resolution (1440×2880 pixels), 18:9 aspect ratio, and 537 PPI pixel density. The slim-bezelled screen is capable of playing HDR content and comes with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection. The phone looks almost similar to the HTC U11 Plus with its Liquid Surface design-inspired back, and the squeezable frame is highly likely to return.
The Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus features a large 6.2-inch Super AMOLED panel with a resolution if 1440 x 2960 pixels, an 18.5:9 aspect ratio and has Gorilla Glass 5 for scratch resistance. The handset ends up with a PPI density score of 529. The S9 Plus touts an aluminium frame paired with toughened glass layers both at the front and the rear.
The iPhone X is equipped with a 5.8-inch AMOLED display that has an 1125 x 2346 resolution with a PPI density score of 458. There is the unavoidable notch at the top, while the phone itself feels pretty much like a smooth piece of glass sandwiching a metal frame.
The Huawei P20 Pro also gets a notched display, but the obstruction is considerably smaller when compared to that on the iPhone X. This is a 6.1-inch measuring AMOLED panel with a resolution of 1080 x 2240 pixels and an 18.7:9 aspect ratio that ends up with a PPI density figure of 408. This phone also has a glass back aesthetic that comes in interesting colour options.
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HTC U12 Plus vs Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus vs iPhone X vs Huawei P20 Pro: Hardware Specifications
The HTC U12 Plus will be equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, which will be paired with 6GB of RAM and 64GB or 128GB of expandable internal storage. For imaging, the handset will have a 12MP+16MP dual-camera setup at the rear, featuring UltraSpeed Autofocus 2 (phase-detection autofocus + laser autofocus), OIS, dual-LED flash, HDR Boost 2, and 4K video recording at 60fps. There will be two 8MP cameras at the front features Bokeh Mode, Live Makeup, HDR Boost, Screen Flash, AR stickers and 1080p video recording.
The Galaxy S9 Plus sold in India is powered by the Exynos 9810 SoC that integrates an octa-core processor. All three previously mentioned storage variants come with 6GB of RAM. The camera setup is comprised of a dual 16-megapixel + 20-megapixel setup at the rear and a 16-megapixel camera at the front.
The iPhone X ships with the Apple A11 Bionic hexa-core 2.39GHz chip which is pretty much the most powerful mobile chip currently out there. There is a dual 12MP+ 12MP rear-facing camera setup here with OIS for both and the ability to record 4K videos at 60fps. The front houses a 7MP sensor that can record 1080p videos at 30fps.
The Huawei P20 Pro is powered by the octa-core Hisilicon Kirin 970 SoC with Mali-G72 MP12 GPU for graphics. While not as optimised as the Snapdragon 845, it is still very powerful and can hold its own in daily usage. The P20 Pro gets a triple camera setup consisting of a primary 40-megapixel shooter, a secondary 20-megapixel black and white shooter, and a third 8-megapixel camera with f/2.4 aperture. The front camera is a 24MP sensor.
HTC U12 Plus vs Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus vs iPhone X vs Huawei P20 Pro: Verdict
This comparison might not entirely be fair considering all four smartphones here are in a league of their own. With enough money to spare, an Apple fanboy would always choose the iPhone X, while the same can be said for Android purists and the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus. Then we have the Huawei P20 Pro which might not have the same brand recall as the other handsets here, but still seems to offer some exceptional imaging prowess (at least on paper).
With that said, even if the HTC U12 Plus ends up being priced slightly higher than expected, it will still end up being relatively more affordable than any of the other smartphones mentioned here. We will have to save our final verdict until we get a chance to put this device through our full review before we can claim it to be the best option for you.
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Mathilde Rivas Toft (born 16 April 1997) is a Norwegian handballer who plays for Molde Elite.

She also represented Norway in the 2016 Women's Junior World Handball Championship, placing 5th.

Individual awards
 All-Star Right Wing of the IHF Junior World Championship: 2016

References

Norwegian female handball players
1997 births
Living people
Handball players from Oslo

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Top 25 R&D spin off companies announced
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SYDNEY, 8th March 2016 Refraction Media/ -- Science Meets Business [...]
About the National Innovation and Science Agenda
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull today announced the creation of a [...]
Science beats sport at the publishing industry's night of nights
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A pendulum conundrum – Foucault's Pendulum Experiment
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UNSW Bragg Student Science Prize winner Jessica Kitchen shares a pendulum conundrum story.
Beautiful science: winners of the BMC Ecology image competition 2015
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BMC Ecology is excited to announce the winners of its third image competition! We hope that you enjoy them...
Education Insider: Ben Newsome (Fizzics Education)
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Ben Newsome founded Fizzics Education around 2004 and now travels the country educating over 215,000 students a year about the wonders of science.
Education Insider: Steve Delaney
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Five challenges for science in Australian primary schools
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Simon Crook and Rachel Wilson outline some of the concerns that need to be addressed with the introduction of a national science curriculum in primary schools.
For Mother's Day, scientists reveal top 6 supermums found in nature
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A mother's support can be as vital to animals as it is to humans.
Big data's arrival in sport is changing the rules of the game
In sport we don't just want to know who won. We now want to know how to replicate success and then improve on it. And to do this, we're using data – and lots of it. The field of "big data" analytics has come to sport and athletics, with massive implications for sport as we know it.

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Evolus to Report First Quarter 2021 Results and Provide Business Update
May 04, 2021 16:05 ET | Source: Evolus Evolus
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., May 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Evolus, Inc. (NASDAQ: EOLS), a performance beauty company with a customer-centric approach focused on delivering breakthrough products, announced today that it will report its first quarter 2021 financial results and provide a business update on Wednesday, May 12, 2021, after the close of the U.S. financial markets.
Management will host a conference call and live webcast to discuss Evolus' financial results at 4:30 p.m. ET that same day. A question and answer session will follow management remarks.
The dial-in numbers for the conference call are (866) 916-2317 for domestic callers and (703) 925-2662 for international callers. The conference ID is 7749489.
A replay of the call will be available following its completion through May 19, 2021. To access the replay, dial (855) 859-2056 for domestic callers and (404) 537-3406 for international callers and use the replay conference ID 7749489.
A live audio webcast of the call will be available on the Investor Relations page of the Evolus, Inc. website, https://investors.evolus.com. A replay of the webcast will be archived on Evolus' website for 30 days following the completion of the call.
About Evolus, Inc.
Evolus is a performance beauty company with a customer-centric approach focused on delivering breakthrough products. In 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Jeuveau® (prabotulinumtoxinA-xvfs), the first and only neurotoxin dedicated exclusively to aesthetics and manufactured in a state-of-the-art facility using Hi-Pure™ technology. Jeuveau® is powered by Evolus' unique technology platform and is designed to transform the aesthetic market by eliminating the friction points existing for customers today. Visit us at: http://www.evolus.com.
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Testimony Ends in Detroit Terror Trial
DETROIT – The government wrapped up its case Tuesday against four Arab Americans charged with running a terrorist "sleeper" cell, setting the stage for deliberations in the first U.S. trial of its kind since the Sept. 11 attacks.
It took more than two hours for U.S. District Court Judge Gerald Rosen (search) to finish jury instructions. Deliberations will begin Wednesday.
"This case is not about Arabs, this case is not about Muslims," Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith Corbett told the jury, noting how defense lawyers suggested prejudice is behind the charges. "This case is about terrorism."
Ahmed Hannan, 34, Karim Koubriti, 24, Abdel-Ilah Elmardoudi, 37, and Farouk Ali-Haimoud, 22, are charged with conspiracy to provide support to terrorists and another conspiracy count. They face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Hannan, Koubriti and Ali-Haimoud also face two fraud-related charges that carry up to 25 years in prison.
Ali-Haimoud is from Algeria (search) and the other three are from Morocco (search). All are legal immigrants and all are Muslim. The government has suggested they are Islamic extremists who wanted to bring about attacks in the United States and abroad in a plot hatched before the men arrived here in the late 1990s and 2000.
Among the evidence presented were false documents found during a raid of a Detroit apartment six days after the Sept. 11 attacks. Authorities also found a videotape the government says cases possible targets and a day planner that contains what witnesses said are sketches of an American air base in Turkey and a military hospital in Jordan.
Defense lawyers said the planner belonged to a now-dead mentally ill man who liked to doodle. They said the video, which includes scenes of Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., and the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, is an innocuous travelogue.
The defense also said the government built its case largely on the lies of a self-described con artist: Youssef Hmimssa, a former roommate of some of the men.
Hmimssa testified that Elmardoudi, the cell's alleged ringleader, told him about the possibility of massive attacks on the United States one month before the jetliner hijackings of Sept. 11. Hmimssa also said the men wanted him to make fake airport and FBI identification and that Koubriti wanted a license to haul hazardous materials.
Hmimssa described the men as extremists who wanted to support strikes, ship arms to the Middle East and smuggle "brothers" into the country. But he offered few details and some of the claims rest solely on his word.
Defense attorneys suggested the witness cooked up the terrorism allegations in a bid to win leniency. Hmimssa, a Moroccan in the United States illegally, is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to fraud-related charges in three states. He has admitted using aliases, engaging in document fraud and leading a credit card scheme that netted more than $180,000.
"He thinks that if he talks the same lie day after day it must be the truth," defense attorney William Swor said of Hmimssa. "This is a guy who every day of his life has persevered by lying."


How did young men become a Samurai Warrior in Feudal Japan?
These days, only special time travel will provide a chance of becoming a samurai warrior.
The samurai began as a class of warriors in feudal Japan and stayed in power through the 17th century. But even if you could transport back to the days of the samurai, chances are you wouldn't have measured up. Few did.
The honor of being a samurai was inherited, so unless you were a member of a certain elite class, you stood no chance of ever becoming a part of the ranks.
Within this hierarchy, you were expected to defend the land belonging to the aristocracy. You were given a special helmet and some armor, two swords, and a long list of what was expected of you.
If you failed to live up to this list and were dishonored in any way, you were then expected to kill yourself.
Being a samurai wasn't a lot of fun, but at least it was prestigious, and chicks dug them.
What is the difference between a Samurai Warrior and a Ninja?


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Today, on February 5, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden visited Stockholm Environment Institute as the new delegate of United Nations within the scope of "The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development". In late January, Crown Princess Victoria was appointed as a work group member of "Sustainable Development Goals 2030 Agenda" with a new mission by General Secretary of UN, Ban Ki-Moon.
What a great picture of Victoria pic #2 is! Gorgeous.
She is looking very well in this outfit. Nice smart maternity wear and suitable for a working mother - comfort and style.
Est ce que le bébé va naître avec une queue de cheval ?
Well....I'm looking forward to the time after this pregnancy, when she will be her old self again...!
I'm sure she is too.
Beautiful, healthy, elegant and confident as always.
O my, she really ready to pop. I've never been pregnant but i looks like a real heavy job, like Victoria she has to carry such a big belly!
To 9.12am Anonymous. I've been lucky enough to be both ! And know how hard it can be ! One thing it isn't is LOL !


Part of the Consulting Symposium, join Consulting Connect for a panel discussion with employers to learn more about strategy consulting. This will be a great event to learn more about what strategy consulting is and to hear from some of the leaders in the industry.
This event is open to all undergraduate majors. There will be 50 chairs available and then standing room only.


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Giovanni Bellini: Pieta
One correspondent has accused me of injecting my Christian beliefs and sensibilities into my interpretation of Titian's "Sacred and Profane Love". Any consideration of the two women in the famous painting that sees them as Mary Magdalen must be rejected out of hand since the Renaissance is all about the revival of pagan antiquity.
I admit that I am a Roman Catholic but I have argued elsewhere in this blog that it is my argument that counts, not my religion. I did not paint the "Sacred and Profane Love", nor for that matter did I paint Giorgione's "Tempest". I have only interpreted both paintings as having sacred or religious subjects. It is the religion of late fifteenth and early sixteenth century Venetians that matters.
One example of contemporary Venetian belief can be seen in Giovanni Bellini's famous depiction of a "Pieta" or "Our Lady of Pity."
In "The Stripping of the Altars", a groundbreaking and exhaustive study of religious practice and belief in pre-Reformation England, Eamon Duffy noted the widespread devotion to the "Pieta." *
But the most distinctive manifestation of Marian piety in late medieval England was not devotion to the Joys, but rather to the Sorrows of Mary. This was of course a European rather than a merely English phenomenon, and was yet another aspect of the devotion to the Passion…
As it developed in the later Middle Ages the cult of the Sorrows of the Virgin, or the Mater Dolorosa, had a variety of functions, high among them that of serving as an objective correlative for the discharge of grief and suffering in the face of successive waves of plague sweeping through Christendom….
But the essence of the devotion was that evident in what is arguably its noblest expression, the 'Stabat Mater'. Here the Virgin's grief is presented, not as an end in itself, but as a means of arousing and focusing sympathetic suffering in the heart of the onlooker. In this literal compassion, this identification with the sufferings of Christ by sharing the grief of his Mother, lay salvation. (258-9)
Here is Duffy's English translation of the Stabat Mater.
Come then Mother, the fount of love, make me feel the force of your grief, make me mourn with you.
Make me weep lovingly with you, make me feel the pains of the crucified, as long as I shall live.
I long to stand with you by the Cross, and to be your companion in your lamentation.
Grant that I may carry within me the death of Christ, make me a partner in his Passion, let me relive his wounds.
For Duffy the "quest for a share in the sufferings of Christ, through identification with Mary, dominated the piety of Christian Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries...Mary was a natural focus for the attempt to realize for oneself the sufferings of Jesus, for she had stood by the cross, supported by John the beloved disciple when the rest of the Apostles had fled…." (260)
Every parish church contained an image of this Mater Dolorosa, for all were dominated by the Rood across the chancel arch, invariable flanked by the mourning figures of Mary and the Beloved disciple. Other images, however, proliferated to sharpen the point. Of these the most widespread was the Pieta, or image of Our Lady of Pity.
Images of Our Lady of Pity exercised a growing attraction throughout the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Lay people in increasing numbers left money in their wills to maintain lights before them, and sought burial near them. (261)
Most of these images have been lost. Many were destroyed during the Reformation. Many could be ugly, even gruesome. But the greatest artists could turn this scene of sorrow into an image of great beauty and meaning. Here is Giles Robertson's description of Bellini's "Pieta".**
To praise or even to attempt to describe the beauty of this picture seems an impertinence.… There is no overemphasis on the drama of grief here, but a deeply restrained rendering of the beauty of sorrow that makes this one of the great classic achievements of European art. The colour is muted: a blue so dark as to be nearly black for the mantle of the Virgin and the robe of St. John, a pale purplish pink for the Virgin's robe, and a light blue for St. John's mantle, while a touch of warmer colour is given by his auburn hair. The main emphasis of the lines of the figure group is starkly vertical and contrasts with the simple horizontal lines of the sarcophagus, the ends of which are not seen, and with the striations of cloud in the sky. (54)
There is a perfect balance here between means and intention. Giovanni has developed the traditional tempera technique, which he inherited from his predecessors in Venice, to the fullest possible extent. We may suppose that Giovanni himself recognized this work as a special achievement, for instead of the usual signature just giving his name he added in beautiful classical lettering on a cartellino on the front of the sarcophagus a Latin couplet:
HAEC FERE QVVM GEMITVS TVRGENTIA LVUMINA FROMANT
BELLINI POTERAT FLERE IOANNIS OPVS
"When these swelling eyes evoke groans this (very) work of Giovanni Bellini could shed tears."
Of course, the most famous Pieta is Michelangelo's work now in St. Peter's basilica in Rome. It is very likely that it was originally intended to be placed on a slab atop the grave of the French Cardinal who commissioned it. The genius of Bellini and Michelangelo was so great that you don't have to be a Christian to be moved by their work. But it is impossible to say that Christianity did not inspire the work of these and other great Renaissance masters. ###
*Eamon Duffy: The Stripping of the Altars, Traditional Religion in England, c. 1400--c. 1580. Yale, 1992.
**Robertson, Giles: Giovanni Bellini, Oxford, 1968.
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Renaissance Conference New Orleans
The South Central Renaissance Conference held it's annual meeting in New Orleans this year from March 8 to March 11. The Society numbers over 170 members and includes three subgroups: the society for Renaissance Art History, The Queen Elizabeth I society, and The Andrew Marvell society.
Altogether there were 47 panels usually consisting of three papers of no more than 20 minutes in length. This year quite a few papers were dedicated to Shakespeare and Elizabethan drama. Seven panels were dedicated to Art history. (To the left are some of the participants with me tieless in the back row)
I read my paper on Titian's "Sacred and Profane Love" on Friday morning as part of a panel entitled "Reading the Meanings of Renaissance Art in the Veneto." I thought my paper was well received by the fifteen or so attendees. Afterwards some told me that they found the Mary Magdalen interpretation convincing. During the question time a couple raised objections or thought further work was necessary, but I believe that all could now at least consider the Magdalen as a possibility for the identity of the two women in Titian's painting.
My paper had been preceded by two others. One by Jill Carrington (Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas) on "The Paired Altar Tombs of Barolomeo Sanvito and Bartolomeo Urbino in San Francesco Grande in Padua and the Effigy in Tombs of the Veneto." The other was by Jasmin Cyril (Benedict College, South Carolina) on "Carlo Crivelli's Madonna of the Cucumber: Sacred Image and Morphology." This latter paper was especially interesting to me because I have largely overlooked Crivelli in my work on Giorgione and Titian. Dr. Cyril's presentation included some beautiful images of Crivelli's work. She noted that the cucumber or gourd so prominent in Crivelli's many versions of the Madonna and Child was a sign of Resurrection.
My wife and I did attend some of the other sessions on Friday and Saturday including papers on such diverse subjects as "The Flea Hunt Reconsidered" by Yael Even of the University of Missouri—St. Louis, and "Francesco Colonna and Edward Burne-Jones: Love among the Ruins" by Liana De Girolamo Cheney of the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The former was a discussion of a genre of paintings that dealt with attractive young women searching in their bodices for the elusive flea. The latter discussed the interest of the nineteenth century Burne-Jones in Colonna's "Hypnerotomachia Polphilo," a work revered by Renaissance art historians but practically unreadable by anyone else. Actually, if it weren't for the woodcuts in Colonna's work, I don't think anyone would be interested.
The conference also featured an optional tour of the New Orleans Art Museum on Friday evening. A docent gave my wife and I a private tour of their excellent collection which seems strong in Asian and African art. They also have a good French section that includes a magnificent portrait of Marie Antoinette by Elizabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun done in 1788. The Italian Renaissance section was small but included some good things.
Portrait of Marie Antoinette.
I must confess that we skipped some sessions to tour New Orleans, a beautiful city that seems on the surface to have come back from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. We took the St. Charles Street Car past some beautiful old homes as well as the lovely campus of Tulane University.
New Orleans is the craziest city I have ever visited. Our excellent Hotel Monteleone was in the midst of the riotous French Quarter. Compounding the usual crush of tourists was a major college basketball tournament going on in the Superdome. The narrow streets were crowded with revelers from morning through the wee hours. New Orleans is one of the few cities that allow people to walk the streets with open drinks in hand.
It all came to a head on Saturday evening with a parade in honor of St. Joseph whose celebration had been moved up from March 19 to make way for the even larger St. Patrick's parade. The combined noise of marching bands, revving engines from the many exotic vehicles, and the crowd was deafening. It was a fitting end to a Renaissance conference for it brought to mind Venetian processions of old. On the one hand, there were statues of St. Joseph on gaily-colored floats, and on the other beautiful streetwalkers plying their trade.
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Titian: "Flora"
Is it possible that Titian's so-called "Flora" could be a representation of Mary Magdalen? In my interpretation of the "Sacred and Profane Love" I argued that Titian represented Mary Magdalen in two guises: first, as a beautiful courtesan contemplating the error of her ways, and second, as the penitent sinner of the apocryphal gospels.
Titian: Flora, c. 1515-20, Uffizi
Titian painted many versions of the Magdalen during his long career reflecting not only his own regard for the saint as a personal intercessor, but also the demands of his patrons for beautiful images of the female saint who was second only in popularity to the Madonna.
In his study of Titian's early career Paul Joannides discussed a painting of a young woman "often thought to be a portrait of a courtesan," and noted "an obvious link of mood and gesture with Giorgione's Laura." He wondered about the ambiguity of the action. Was the woman "opening her dress to reveal her breast, like Laura, or closing it in modesty"? He speculated that the woman might be " a Magdalene in a Mary and Martha," a subject "that would certainly have appealed to Titian, allowing him to contrast female types."* [95-6]
Joannides failed to note that the "courtesan" wore a multi colored shawl that was the same as the one worn by one of his Magdalens painted much later.
The similarities between this "courtesan" of the early Titian, Giorgione's "Laura", and the "Flora" are remarkable. All three have been seen as courtesans and all are disheveled or in the process of shedding their finery. Scholars agree that their exposed breasts make them idealized images rather than portraits. Also, any erotic aspects are offset by symbols of modesty and chastity.
No one has ever been able to make more than a guess about the subject of the "Flora". It was only in the mid-seventeenth century that a commentator attached the name of the Roman goddess of flowers to the beautiful woman in the painting. Although the name has stuck, modern commentators have brought forth objections and offered their own hesitant interpretations.
In 1980 Charles Hope introduced the painting in his catalog by noting that Titian "painted virtually no mythological pictures based in this way on ekphrastic texts, and none at all of comparable scale or importance." He added that while Venetian patrons might have been interested in erotic subjects, "they were relatively indifferent to classical precedent." **(61-2)
Hope looked in another direction for the meaning of the "Flora."
But there was also a distinctive and more pervasive local tradition of pictures in portrait format of anonymous pretty girls, either clothed or partially nude, which were no more than elaborate pin-ups…. The identity of the girl as Flora is established both by the flowers in her hand and by her costume, which is of the type worn by nymphs in contemporary stage productions….(61-2)
Although he remarked that the subject was treated with "extreme sensitivity and discretion," the painting was still a pin-up whose erotic implications are "central to its meaning." (62)
In a 2003 catalog of an exhibition at London's National Gallery, David Jaffe described the painting in this fashion.***(cat. # 11)
Flora is perhaps the supreme example of a genre developed in early sixteenth-century Venice showing 'belle donne', beautiful women, for the sake simply of their beauty. They were neither portraits—as such they would have seemed improper—nor did they usually have allegorical significance or mythological references….Titian did not invent the type, but developed the tradition represented by works such as Giorgione's 'Laura'….
The painting is a magnificent evocation of sensuality. The tumbling locks of hair, sometimes minutely described, trail down across her cheek and shoulder to her undergarment, which laps her breast and shoulder in undulating waves…before ebbing into the barely supported rose cloth which she gathers, or is perhaps discarding…
The image may be read as a generalized 'Venus' type. The flowers, perhaps roses, suggest identification with Flora.
In the catalog of the 2006 Bellini, Giorgione, Titian exhibition jointly sponsored by Washington's national Gallery and Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, Sylvia Ferino Pagden considered the Flora "the finest and most successful of all sensuous half-length female figures in sixteenth-century Venetian painting…." She noted its "Venus-like sensuousness" but pointed out the ambiguity of the subject.
If it was Titian's intention here to depict Flora, was he thinking of Ovid's goddesses or Boccaccio's courtesan? Or is his portrait an artistic blending of the two?...yet his Flora has more the demeanor of a goddess….her lack of attention to the viewer makes him aware of his own insignificance….
Titian's re-creation of the classical goddess, however, lacks any reference to antiquity, even in the drapery….Flora's chemise—usually seen merely peeking out from under a gown at the neck and sleeves but here serving as her main article of clothing overlaid by a cloth of brocade or damask—does not correspond to that of any classical figure and certainly not a Venetian bride,…# (226)
It should be noted that Titian's "Flora" bears little resemblance to the goddess of flowers. There are no flowers tumbling from her hair and her dress was depicted by Ovid as adorned with many colors.
Ferino-Pagden did identify the flowers in the hands of Flora as rose, jasmine, and violet and claimed that they provide "a key to interpreting her." However, she provided no further explanation. (For a close up of the flowers see link.)
In her study, "Nature and Its Symbols," Lucia Impelluso noted that "the jasmine has often been considered a flower of Heaven or a symbol of divine love." While usually associated with the innocence and purity of the Virgin Mary, it can often be seen "woven into garlands adorning the heads of angels and saints." Moreover, "if associated with roses, it can connote faith." ## (101)
The wild rose is also associated with Mary Magdalen. As far as the violet is concerned, Impelluso noted:
In the popular imagination, the little, strong-scented violet is a symbol of modesty and humility, and it was interpreted likewise by the Fathers of the Church as well.
I realize that the jasmine, rose, and violet that "Flora" holds in her hand could refer to some one else, but one should certainly at least suspect Mary Magdalen.
Giorgione's "Laura," Titian's early "courtesan," and the "Flora" could all be considered versions of Mary Magdalen, and not just pin-ups. One significant objection, however, is the absence in each instance of the jar of ointment that is always associated with the Magdalen. Later, Titian displayed it prominently in the "Sacred and Profane Love," as well as in his more obvious Magdalens.
Perhaps in this brief moment in time Venetian artists had come to believe that they could depict the essence of the Magdalen without resort to obvious iconographical symbols. Earlier, Giovanni Bellini had painted a Madonna and Child surrounded by two female saints. One is obviously Mary Magdalen but she is only recognized by her flowing red hair. ###
Giovanni Bellini: Madonna and Child with Female Saints
* Joannides, Paul: Titian to 1518, Yale, 2001.
** Hope, Charles: Titian, NY, 1980.
*** Titian, catalogue edited by David Jaffe, London, 2003.
# Brown, David Alan, and Ferino-Pagden, Sylvia, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting, Washington, 2006.
## Impelluso, Lucia: Nature and Its Symbols, translated by Stephen Sartarelli, Los Angeles, 2003.
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On March 9, 2012 I will present my interpretation of Titian's "Sacred and Profane Love" as "the Conversion of Mary Magdalen" at the annual meeting of the South Central Renaissance Society to be held this year in New Orleans.
Meanwhile, I thought to put up a few images here interspersed with commentary from Anna Jameson's chapter on Mary Magdalen in her "Sacred and Legendary Art." All citations are from v. 1 of the 1895 edition.***
Next to the Madonna, Mary Magdalen was the most popular female saint of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Around 1495 Giovanni Bellini's depicted her with the legendary Catherine of Alexandria, alongside the Madonna and Child. She stands to the right and her beautiful flowing red hair is enough to identfy her.
Mrs. Jameson believed that many of the attempts to depict the famous sinner/ saint were not so successful.
"As a subject for painting, it is rich in picturesque capabilities. It combines all that can inspire with all they can chasten the fancy; yet, when we review what has been done, how inadequate the result!....Where the penitent prevails, the saint appears degraded; where the wasted, unclad form is seen attenuated by vigils and exposed in haggard unseemliness, it is a violation of that first great rule of Art which forbids the repulsive and the painful.... On the other hand, where sensual beauty has obviously been the paramount home and idea in the artist's work, defeating its holiest purpose and perverting its high significance, the violation on the moral sentiment is yet more revolting. This is especially the fault of the later painters, more particularly of the schools of Venice and Bologna..." (341)
Below find her descriptions of different types of representation.
"When exhibited to us as the patron saint of repentant sinners, Mary Magdalene is sometimes a thin wasted figure, with long disheveled hair of a pale golden hue falling over her shoulders almost to the ground;... But not seldom the sole drapery is her long redundant hair." (348)
Signorelli
"But, in her character of patron St. Mary Magdalene was not always represented with the squalid or pathetic attributes of humiliation and penance. She became idealized as a noble dignified creature bearing no traces of sin or of sorrow on her beautiful face; her luxuriant hair bound in tresses round her head; her drapery rich and ample; the vase of ointment in her hand or at her feet, or borne by an angel near her. Not unfrequently she is attired with the utmost magnificence, either in reference to her former state of worldly prosperity, or rather, perhaps,…it was a common custom to clothe all the ideal figures of female saints in rich habits.... A beautiful instance may be seen in a picture by Signorelli, at Orvieto, where she is standing in a landscape, her head uncovered, and the rich golden hair partly braided, partly flowing over her shoulders; she wears a magnificent tunic embroidered with gold, over it a flowing mantle descending to her feet; she holds a vase with her left hand, and points to it with the right." (348)
Raphael: "St. Cecilia"
"In the St. Cecilia of Raphael, she stands on the left, St. Paul being on the right of the principal figure; they are here significant of the conversion of the man through power, of the woman through love, from a state of reprobation to a state of reconcilement and grace. St. Paul leans in deep meditation on his sword." (351)
Caravaggio: Martha and Mary
"There are two classes of subjects in which Mary Magdalene is richly habited, and which must be carefully distinguished; those above described, in which she figures as patron saint, and those which represent her before her conversion, as the votary of luxury and pleasure." (352)
"The Magdalene of Titian was so celebrated in his own time that he painted at least five or six repetition repetitions of it, and copies of engravings have since been multiplied. The eyes, swimming in tears, are raised to heaven; the long disheveled hair flows over her shoulders; one hand is pressed on her bosom, the other rests on the skull; the forms are full and round, the coloring rich; a book and a box of ointment lie before her on a fragment of rock. She is sufficiently woeful, but seems rather to regret her past life than to repent of it, nor is there anything in the expression which can secure us against the relapse.... His idea, therefore, of St. Mary Magdalene was the fusion of an antique statue and a girl taken out of the streets; and with all its beauties as a work of art--and very beautiful it is--this chef-d'oeuvre of Titian is, to my taste, most unsatisfactory." (355)
Mrs. Jameson did not approve of Titian's voluptuous penitent sinner but she did admire Raphael's version for a church in Bologna done at about the same time as Titian's Sacred and Profane Love. In this version she looks out at the viewer as if to say, "If I could do it, so too can you,"
Raphael: detail of MM
"Many have well represented the particular situation, the appropriate sentiment, the sorrow, the hope, the devotion; but who has given us the character? A noble creature, with strong sympathies and a strong will, with powerful faculties of every kind, working for good or evil,--such a woman Mary Magdalene must have been, even in her humiliation; and the feeble, girlish, commonplace, and even vulgar women selected as models…by throwing up their eyes and letting down their hair, ill represent the enthusiastic convert or the majestic patroness." (374)###
***For more modern studies of the Magdalen see Susan Haskins, "Mary Magdalen, Myth and Metaphor, NY, 1994, and Katherine Ludwig Jansen, "The Making of the Magdalen, Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages", Princeton, 2000.
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A few minutes later Decker was answering a question about his offensive coordinator, Adam Gase, being a head coach one day. He was giving exactly the boring response you'd expect ("He definitely has all the tools … Right now I know he's focused on finishing this season strong."), while ten feet in front of him, a woman with a giant foam finger is jumping up and down in front of a camera, asking Decker to marry her and "put a ring on it!" She means the foam finger. This sequence seems like a good snapshot of what media day's all about, a festival of canned answers and corny gimmicks.
For me, it all started on a bus at 7:30 a.m. to Newark, sitting next to an Israeli reporter and across from writers from Wisconsin and Erie, Pennsylvania. We got to the Prudential Center by 8:45 a.m. and quickly found out that there was no Wi-Fi — or if there was, we couldn't find it.
This made work more complicated yesterday, and it was a very New Jersey way to kick off the New Jersey portion of Super Bowl week. I started to complain about this for a second before immediately realizing it's impossible to complain about Wi-Fi access without sounding like the most obnoxious person on earth. Whining about Wi-Fi access might be the whitest complaint possible. We should all do our best to avoid this.
This has become as much a media day staple as all the athlete clichés. Every year, there's a handful of people who dress up as the zany guys looking to shake things up and have a little fun and … I think I can pretty much guarantee that if you're the type of person who loves these costumes, we could never be friends.
I'm sure they're all probably nice people … but still. This year, there was a guy from Denmark dressed as Waldo, somebody dressed up as George Washington, the Nickelodeon reporter above ("Pick Boy"), and probably some others I'm forgetting. This will never end — people wear the costumes to get attention, and it totally works — but that doesn't mean we have to like it. It's like the guy at a bar who tries so hard to look fun that he kinda just makes everyone sad. At media day or anywhere else, don't be that guy.
Every year at media day there's someone with a beard who becomes a star of the proceedings. This year we had Max Unger from the Seahawks and the Steelers' Brett Keisel, a giant beard superstar from a few years ago, who showed up this time to promote Head & Shoulders.
Is this different from the costume people?
Nope! Giant beards are every bit as consciously ridiculous; the only difference is that giant beards will never not be awesome to see in person. Or on TV. Or in pictures. Or anywhere.
Country boys, hipsters, men, women, children, adults. Everyone loves beards. And that's why Brett Keisel got paid to go to media day this year. I can't grow a beard without it getting super disgusting after about seven days, but anyone who can grow one should definitely do it. You'll brighten people's lives on a daily basis.
Every table in the media dining room — also known as the New Jersey Devils' practice rink in the Prudential Center — had a centerpiece advertising famous products of New Jersey. There was Bon Jovi, Jack Nicholson, Albert Einstein, Joe Theismann, and all kinds of other luminaries of the Jerz. I was ready to make fun of this, but then there were also handwritten notes from local elementary schoolers welcoming us to Newark for the day, imploring us to have a great time, and saying how proud they were to be hosting the NFL. I instantly felt awful for laughing at this state that's proud of Joe Theismann. Kids are so much more convincing than Chris Christie.
Of course it was you, Golden Tate.
Not really a lesson, but still. Good to know.
If you've never seen the show Black Mirror, you should check it out. (Emily Yoshida has a primer over here.) It's a show from England about the unintended consequences of technology, and how it eventually leads to all kinds of nightmarish scenarios for human beings, without us entirely realizing the nightmare as it happens. Every episode is a self-contained worst-case scenario that's dramatic and entertaining, and by the end, disturbingly realistic.
Anyway … Terio was at media day — because of course he was — and he might be the best example we have so far of a Black Mirror episode playing out in real life.
A 6-year-old kid gets famous because of a six-second video that goes viral, and his family sees the opportunity to capitalize on his fame and starts dragging him around the country. Social media chronicles this entire journey and everyone quickly realizes it's pretty messed up to drag this obsese little kid out of school on a promotional tour, but people keep tweeting about it so he stays famous and the whole cycle continues.
Seahawks players — and Jets cheerleaders, and reporters, and everyone, basically — were legitimately thrilled to see him walking around media day Tuesday afternoon, but yeah. Save Terio. Free Terio. Stop Terio. And if you have no idea what we're talking about in this section, you're probably better off. Just know that we should all be terrified of how active he's going to be at All-Star Weekend in New Orleans in two weeks.
Look at the crowd around him. Richard Sherman commanded as big an audience as anyone Tuesday, maybe even bigger than Peyton Manning. His interview after the 49ers game was part of his career-long heel turn, and it's never worked better than it did after the NFC title game. He's now in the biggest game in America, on the same level as Peyton, one of the biggest celebrities sports has.
Screaming into America's living rooms was a great business decision, and that's something people will definitely point out to you all week. Except there's one caveat. This really only works if you're Richard Sherman.
There are legitimate criticisms you can make of the interview and his whole persona, but he's handled everything since the initial interview better than anyone could have imagined, to the point where many of his critics now look stupider than ever. From pointing out the obvious coded racism in some of the reactions, to making nice with Erin Andrews, to media day, where he deftly sidestepped any trash talk that could've turned into an actual distraction before Sunday's game. There's a good chance he could've turned into a problem — or worse, a punch line — this week.
He's still the same guy who will talk trash and piss off people for the rest of his career; he's just much harder to criticize, because he's so impressive when he's not trying to piss people off. Somehow he's able to have it both ways, where he's polarizing enough to be famous, but not actually hated by anyone who's actually paying attention.
… and then know exactly where the line is, and when to tone it down and remind people that it's all a game. I wish more athletes were as entertaining as Sherman, but watching him the past 10 days, I'm pretty sure almost any other athlete would've screwed this up.
Halfway through the Broncos media session I was milling around looking at all the podiums with guys like Decker, Trevathan, and Wesley Woodyard, noticing how few stars the Broncos really have. This is when I wandered over to Orlando Franklin's podium — Franklin's an offensive tackle — and heard him talking about his upbringing.
This is how I found out about Orlando Franklin. He's the starting offensive tackle who grew up in the Scarborough area of Toronto, and he was too poor to pay his own bus fare to get to youth football games, and he used to say "I can't wait to go to jail for the first time" when he was younger. That happened twice before he was 16. Then came the pep talk from his older brother, and eventually Franklin turned the corner and started dedicating himself to football. He went from Toronto to the University of Miami, and now he's in the Super Bowl.
Media day is stupid and overwhelming as a spectacle and that's how the NFL can feel a lot of the time. Especially the Super Bowl. But the people at the center of this are actual humans, and humans with some of the most incredible stories you will find anywhere. If you can tune out the massive surrounding noise and listen to them, it can get pretty amazing. This is also true of people anywhere, and for like 30 seconds Tuesday we got a reminder of all that.
Then the topic turned to Toronto mayor Rob Ford wearing Franklin's jersey last week, and what he thought of that. Franklin, for the record, is just happy he's a Broncos fan. Media day!
Peyton is the best. He's basically your dad, and he knows it. When they asked him about opponents listening to the Broncos' signs, he bemoaned how advanced on-field microphones had gotten, and said the only way he could ever get them turned down is to start talking bad about Roger Goodell and the NFL. Peyton doesn't seem like he'd be funny, and that's what makes it so much better when he actually is.
I can't stand watching him play, and I'm pretty sure he has annoyed me as a player ever since Madden incorporated his OCD audibles into gameplay and I learned to hate those audibles forever, but as a regular dude, he's sincere, and self-deprecating, and goddamnit you just can't not love him.
Favorite media day moment: reporter/older woman asked Manning for hug. He got out of chair, off dais, hugged, back to chair & questions.
Media day is such a mess that if you spend the day there, you'll almost definitely walk out without really remembering anything. Except Marshawn Lynch. We started the day with rumors that he'd skip everything entirely and earn a $100,000 fine. Instead, he showed up for exactly six minutes of the Seahawks' media session. They stuck him on the far end of the stadium, because he didn't want a podium, and I missed the six minutes entirely.
It was legendary. It's like he was speaking in yearbook quotes. "I'm just 'bout that action, boss" single-handedly got me fired up for Super Bowl. "I ain't never seen no talking win me nothing" should be our answer to stupid questions everywhere. "Lay back, kick back, mind my business, stay in my own lane" is the American Dream and should be printed on money.
And in the end, the only thing I'll always remember from my first media day is the one guy who talked the least, and someone I never actually saw in person. For an event that makes no sense in 10 different ways, that's pretty much perfect.


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When it comes to early years checks, indeed even your health visitor check-ups you will likely hear the terms gross and motor skills mentioned. We help explain what these are and how you can help your little ones develop theirs.
Fine motor skills are the type of movements you might call small movements. Things like buttoning up a shirt, using a zipper, using your finger and thumb in a pincer action to pick something up, or using a knife/fork/spoon. Fine motor skills include using the fingers, toes, the tongue wrist and even lips.
Described as big movements i.e. sitting, standing, walking, rolling, balancing and so on, gross motor skills are equally important and focus on the feet, legs, arms and torso areas. These skills are important for every-day activities such as moving around, playing sport and games with friends, going to the toilet independently and more.
Your child's personal child health record (their Red Book) will have some basic information about developmental milestones and a place for you to record when they achieve certain milestones. There's no specific timeline parents should be "aiming" for as all guidelines are just that, guidelines.
It is important to remember that just because J at baby group can do something or T from the nursery has a skill perfected that your child "should" too. All children are different and develop at different speeds. They are all fabulously individual. Being individual some children simply find some things easier than others or learn new skills faster or slower than others.
From an early age babies and children start to develop motor skills through playing, from grasping a rattle to using a crayon to colour in.
Sticker books (placing stickers in the right place) and colouring in books.
Working with a range of construction toys, putting things together.
Games which require hand/eye co-ordination such as fishing games.
Practicing walking/running/skipping and climbing (for example at a soft play centre or at the park/in the garden).
Fitting shaped pieces into corresponding holes/places.
Learning doesn't need to be boring, far from it!
Your health visitor will give you an idea of what they would expect to see at during your child's reviews and they will discuss with you if they feel that your child may benefit from some additional aid to help them achieve the skills they will need for the future. If this is the case they will help you arrange a referral to someone who would be able to work with you and your little one on a 1-1 basis.
If you have any concerns or worries, do speak to your health visitor or GP if appropriate.
Generally speaking, children simply do things in their own way and to their own timetable. If they need a little helping hand then no worries, this isn't uncommon and there are people who can help.


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Q: SQL Server using incorrect plan In our application we have the following tiers for data processing:

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*.NET orchestration application that works out which SSIS packages to fire

*SSIS packages that do much of the work and call Stored Procedures

*Stored procedures to perform calculations and read/write data where SSIS data flows are not appropriate

One stored procedure runs in 40 seconds if executed from SSMS, and approximately the same time if the SSIS package is called manually.
If however, the SSIS package is called by the .NET app, then the query takes more than 14 hours to run, and flat lines all processors.
Looking at the execution plans, it seems that if the procedure is run from SSMS or the SSIS package is fired manually and then calls the procedure, SQL Server uses a sensible plan based on current statistics.
However, if the SSIS package is called from the .NET app, then SQL server create a new plan, using totally the wrong statistics. The following things made no difference:

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*Updating stats

*Clearing the cache

*Restarting the instance

*Setting WITH RECOMPILE on the procedure execution

We fudged resolution by using a MAXDOP hint in the query, but my question is this:
What would make SQL Server produce a totally different plan, based on totally incorrect statistics when called with the same parameters and same data through the method I described?

A: It looks like you have mostly answered your other questions in your monologue, and the things that made a difference are the standard list of things to do to force a recompile after being afflicted by parameter sniffing.
To answer your last question, the one marked my question is this:

What would make SQL Server produce a totally different plan, based on totally incorrect statistics when called with the same parameters and same data through the method I described?

The answer is that the plan cache is very specific about SET settings that are in effect on the session that is presenting the query. A different SET setting could need a very different plan, such as the setting SET ANSI_NULLS.  Very likely, your connection from SSMS has different settings from what your .Net application.  This is easily verifiable by using SQL Server Profiler to trace for Existing Connections and Login Audits, which show you the SET settings.
The effect is that the seemingly same query will result in a Cache Miss and a new one has to be created, which will be somewhat based on the parameters being presented to SQL Server for this instance of the query.


Notes:Was Darwin wrong about the sexual allure of the peacock's tail? A controversial study has found no evidence for the traditional view – practically enshrined in evolutionary lore – that peahens choose their partners depending on the quality of the peacocks' tails.
Mariko Takahashi and Toshikazu Hasegawa at the University of Tokyo in Japan studied peacocks and peahens in Izu Cactus Park, Shizuoka, from 1995 to 2001.
They judged tail quality in two ways – first by simply measuring tail length, and secondly by taking photos of each male during the tail-fanning display ritual and counting the number of eyespots. Next they examined whether females chose mates with the best-quality tails.
During the seven years of observation, Takahashi's team observed 268 successful matings. But surprisingly, they found that females mated with poor-quality peacocks as often as with "flashy", high-quality males.
They conclude that the peacock's train is not the object of female sexual preference – contradicting Darwin's theory of sexual selection.
Takahashi points out that growth of the peacock's train is dependent on the absence of oestrogen rather than the presence of testosterone. She says this undermines the assumption that the train is a sexual signal.
"Until now, who cared that the peacock's train was under oestrogen control?" Takahashi says.
Link to the fact that what we call a peacock's tail is actually its train.
In fact, this could be nice. We could do the train/tail thing, and then ask Fred's question. With forfeits for tail AND train.
Picture researchers, can we find a pic of a peacock with a particularly grand looking train and a particularly rubbish looking tail?
Surely all they've managed to do there is prove that peahens aren't swayed by either total length of the train (so size isn't important, after all) or number of eyespots. They may still be making choices based on the train, just examining some other quality of it.


This is a wonderful vintage Tammis Keefe scarf of Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. It features historic locations in town, like the Henry Ford Museum and the Stephen Foster Memorial.
Made of lightweight China silk with machine stitched edges. The scarf is brown with yellow, off-white & black illustrations of landmarks. I misplaced the measurement and will add it a little later. Sorry for the inconvenience!
I don't really know how old the scarf is; it's probably from the 50s.
In very good condition with no damage or flaws.


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A zöldkő (greenstone) olyan, nem palás megjelenésű, zöld színű, általában finomszemcsés metamorf kőzet, mely kisfokú metamorfózison (T=300–500 °C, p=3–8kbar) ment keresztül.

Zöld színét a benne előforduló klorit, aktinolit, epidot és ritkábban pumpellyit okozza. Használható önálló kőzetnévként, vagy a benne előforduló ásványok megjelenése és mennyisége alapján pontosabb kőzetnév is adható (például klorit-epidot szirt).

Ásványos összetétele, genetikája
Általában bázisos magmás kőzetek regionális metamorfózisa révén keletkezik. Jellegzetes elegyrészei: aktinolit, klorit, epidot, albit.

Rokon kőzetek
 zöldpala

Zoldko


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Blackstone Sues Over Scotched US$265M Hotel Deal, Buyer Citing Coronavirus
Main Photo: The Homewood Suites by Hilton at San Francisco Airport
Location: Nine hotels across California
Name: Various including Homewood Suites, San Francisco Airport and Residence Inn, San Diego.
No. of Keys: TBA
Seller: Blackstone Real Estate Advisors
Buyer: Should have been KS Development, an Arcadia-based real estate investment firm, a subsidiary of Kam Sang Co.
Kam Sang Company is a major player in real estate development. Established in 1979 by current President and CEO Ronnie Lam, the corporation claims millions of square feet in prime real estate and is currently acquiring several other valuable and strategic properties.
Theu are involved in their developments, from project conceptualisation, investment, development to construction and their properties are managed directly by Kam Sang Company.
Kam Sang's portfolio includes hospitality, retail, residential, restaurants, and mixed-use. Hotels and residential properties include, The Embassy Suites in Glendale, The Sheraton Hotel in Anahiem, Courtyard Marriott in Baldwin Park, Residence Inn by Marriott in La Mirada, Rancho Cielo Estates in Rancho Sante Fe.
Six limited liability companies that trace back to Blackstone Real Estate Advisors, an affiliate of the mammoth New York City-headquartered company, filed a lawsuit Thursday against KS Development after they terminated a deal to buy nine hotels across California.
The lawsuit says that there was nothing in KS Development's contract affording the buyer to abandon the deal due to an economic downturn, which has specifically ravaged the hotel industry with coronavirus-related travel bans and stay at home orders.
"Deteriorating market conditions" are of "no consequence" to the purchase agreement, according to the complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
The Blackstone plaintiffs want to keep the $9 million escrow deposit plus interest that KS Development put down, and also get damages for the defendant's alleged breach of contract.
KS Development agreed to buy nine hotels from entities controlled by Blackstone in January, from the Homewood Suites by San Francisco airport to a Residence Inn in San Diego and
three hotels in Thousand Oaks, with the multi-property deal slated to close by April 1.
According to the complaint, KS Development grew nervous in February that it could not get sufficient acquisition financing due to coronavirus lending jitters, prompting Blackstone offering to extend the closing date to June in exchange for another $1 million escrow deposit.
KS Development did not agree to Blackstone's extension. According to a court exhibit, KS Development wrote a March 18 letter to Blackstone stating, "Buyer understands that the operations, occupancies, and revenues have significantly changed as a result of the COVID-19 virus since the time that the agreement was executed," and that Blackstone should have accordingly provided KS Development revised revenue projects.
Blackstone fired back with a missive the next day, stating that while it is true "occupancy and revenue have dropped considerably since the onset of Covid-19 coronavirus," the seller was only under obligations to maintain the hotel's operations, which it had been doing, and did not have a duty to provide new financial statements.
KS Development responded by instructing the escrow agent, First American Title Insurance Company, to hold on to its $9 million, and indicated that the deal would be terminated.
The sale's dramatic unravelling comes at a time of extraordinary uncertainty for the hotel industry. Early projections from the National Hotel and Lodging Association, an industry trade group, found that hoteliers are losing $200 million in revenue each day because of the coronavirus, and that there might be one million layoffs nationally at hotels.
THPT Comment: Oh dear this leaves the door open to many such cases…Bet the Barclay brothers were please that their deal for The Ritz went through last week.
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