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Kennedy the Chaos Tiger
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If anyone threatens to disturb the peace of this world, to ruin the concept of life... let them know that they will soon learn the concept of death when I'm done with them!
— Kennedy, talking to Coffin
This character's sixstat code is 676457
When there is light, there is darkness. When there is fire, there is ice. When there is a cocky anti-hero, there is a calm hero. Welcome, folks, to the page of Mackenzie Hartley's counterpart, Kennedy McLeod!
Kennedy McLeod
"Don't think we're the same. I'd rather be trapped in that Emerald again then be confused with you."
Images by XophPsycho and Silverknight91, thanks!
Ken (by close friends), Konton (formerly), Chaos Mac (commonly, though people calling him this tick him off), Chronogazer, Chaos Menace, Chaos Mouse (by White), The Master of Chaos
As old as the Emeralds
Technically he's sexless, but his gender identity is male.
Chaos Energy-filled being that was infused with Macknezie Hartley's life force
Lawful Good
Angel Island
Hartley Mansions
Mackenzie Hartley (life-infused counterpart) Mackenzie's family (technically his relatives)
Kennedy is a fan of quietness, not liking terror unless he's the one causing it and he has a good reason to. He hates loud music, shouting, and all things that disturb him from doing quiet things.
He likes to read literature. Fanfictions, books, media, visual novels, if it's something he can read, then he will read it. He doesn't know why he likes reading so much, but he's very intrigued by it.
He also likes things that make you think. Puzzles, brain teasers, crossword puzzles, riddles, you name it. He likes to get "smarter" by doing this.
Loud music. Just... no! If you put on most of the songs on the RWBY soundtrack, he tell you to shut it off before you're even an attosecond into the song.
Loud things in general. While loud songs tick him off the most, if you're yelling at him, he won't yell back - he'll just tell you to talk in a normal voice.
Don't even get him started on dummies. He doesn't scoff at them, he doesn't make them feel terrible, but internally, he's going "How is a person like this even possible to be like this?!"
Schnee, Alexia, Terra, Scarlet, White, and Tina.
Mackenzie Hartley, Eggman & his robots, those who steal things like the Emeralds
Extreme Gearist (he dislikes the loud sounds, but hey, i's a good way to earn money)
Kennedy looks very similar to Mac, in which he has a Spanish-esque skin tone, bangless hair that droops down on the sides of his head, the build of a tiger, and a monkey-like tail. However, Kennedy's eyes are grey and are separate and not conjoined, the shags on the side of his head point upward, and his tail is more organized, with a slightly fixed posture.
Kennedy likes to wear cyan, fingerless gloves that Scarlet gave him because she thought that they'd make him look "cool." He has rather long black pants which he wears a LOT. He also wears a black, buttoned jacket that has a purple short-sleeve shirt underneath.
Kennedy is basically sane Mackenzie. He thinks things rationally instead of charging head-on. His calmness can turn into aggravation when annoyed, but he keeps his temper under control. At least, he tries. Sometimes he freaks out, but that's only when he's dealing with folks so annoying, he kinda has to.
He tries to be the best person he can be, almost always giving 100% in what he does. He is also compassionate to levels past a lot of people's - instead of only being kind to those in need, he's nice to pretty much everyone he meets. Even though he's very old himself, he still addresses strangers with the utmost respect.
Kennedy can take an emotional beating. He will not cry if ten bullies just keep on pounding - he'll simply glance at them and continue with his day. To him, bullies are just fools who make fun of others because they have nothing better to do in their lives.
As he was trapped inside the Master Emerald, he saw just what humanity was like - some people are so scared, scared to defend themselves. Because of this insight, he steps in whenever he sees anyone in trouble - even if they're people he hates. He can be seen as the calm big brother figure for many people.
He thinks that life is an amazing thing, to live freely without limits. He often dreams about thoughts or the future because the concept of living is just so fascinating to him.
Kennedy has one strength that is more than just kindness; common sense. He thinks things through, noticing possible effects, and then he does whatever he is trying to do. This is one of the main differences between him and Mac.
Of course, when there are strengths, there must be weaknesses also. Here are some of them that are very notable.
Kennedy isn't too nice, but he has some trouble letting people down. He has some trouble stopping people from making stupid decisions when he knows that he should stop them, unless it's so dangerous he can't help himself. Because of this, he prefers to go solo on things - he believes that while others are important, at times, they'll just weigh him down.
Kennedy is pretty cocky. Not so high that he's obnoxious, but high enough that he still thinks he's pretty good at things to at least think he's in the Top 10. While this doesn't affect his mindset too much, it can get him into trouble with other people who have this flaw.
He is also very charismatic and influential, able to persuade people to join a cause with good manners. He'll ask anyone if they would like a drink like a butler even if he isn't in a job as one, say "Sir" and "Miss" as seen above, and even sacrifice his own time just to help someone. He believes that to do good in the world and to make up for past sins, you have to be the best person you can be, for you can either leave a bad mark on the world, or make Mobius remember the tiger who always tried to help.
The reason Kennedy is so set on helping people is not only because he feels bad about his destruction as Konton. When Hikari, the positive Chaos Energy, was used to transform heroes and villains alike into super forms are to teleport them through space-time, Hikari learned more about their character - usually, their heroism. Because of that, Hikari was always wanted his own chance to contribute to helping the world, and because Hikari is a part of Kennedy, it transfers to him. All Kennedy wants is a perfect world, where he feels like he truly made a difference.
When reminded about Konton, however, Kennedy gets pissed off immediately. Like, even mentioning the green terror will cause Kennedy to completely shut down and become a lot more moody. He doesn't like being reminded of the one who got him into so much trouble; even though he's put it behind him, he'll send a gloomy aura if you remind him.
Kennedy, when he has nothing to do, will not be the one to strike up a conversation. If he's bored, the first thought that comes to his mind is to read a book or exercise, not to go hang out with his friends. Due to this, he is easily seen as the second-to-most "quiet one" of the cast, with the only person in front of him being Alexia the Hedgehog.
He is usually very patient with other people, but if annoyed to a large extent... just don't get near him, or else he'll give you the lecture of the decade. However, this doesn't happen a lot because of his willingness to give people a chance to see how stupid they're being.
Konton Chaos
Kennedy... wasn't always Kennedy. Before he was the energy of the Master Emerald in a spiritual/physical form - Konton, the King of Chaos, who was soon going to bring doom to this world.
At least, once he got freed. Inside him, two spirits were battling it out - one of them, Hikari, the positive energy, wanted to keep Konton inside the Master Emerald because he liked Mobius and didn't want it to be kablooied. Roxas, the negative energy, wanted to be set free and destroy this planet. They were both created due to the energy that people used when using any type of Emerald - Hikari, the positive energy, goes to them, while Roxas stayed and grew with every use.
Roxas kept growing, and Hikari stayed in the same spot, allowing Roxas to eventually be able to overpower Hikari. One day... Roxas won. It took millions of years, but he won. Konton was free from his chains, and with Roxas in control, he set out to wreak havoc on the worthless rock of a planet he was on.
Mackenzie and co. (Scarlet, Alexia, Terra, Team Sonic, and Team Dark) found out about Konton as soon as he was on the news. They had to figure out a way to stop him - but how?
Mac, being the hot-headed Bengal he is, decided to charge on through. The others, not wanting him to be killed, followed. But even with their combined efforts, Konton was too powerful. No one could stop him. The planet was doomed-
Wait. Mackenzie fired a blast of his pure life energy at Konton as a last resort, forever changing the King of Chaos. Due to the pure life force energy that was blasted at Konton fusing with him and pushing out some of the negative energy, his form was altered into a clothes-less version of the pic above, and before any comments were made, he passed out.
When he woke up, Aqua and Terra convinced everyone to go to their Wild Wind Village. After an absurd amount of Healing Elemental Rings (credit to Smash) were used, Konton was awake. The only thing was... he wasn't Konton.
It turns out, with Tails doing some math, that the life energy Mac put into Konton was just enough to knock one of the energy beings out - and luckily, the being that was out and banished inside the Master Emerald with almost no chance of escaping... was Roxas.
After hearing all of this, Konton, now infused with Mac's pure life energy and Hikari's positive Chaos energy, decided to take on a new leaf. He apologized for his destruction of the town, embarrassed. He told all of them his story and about Hikari. Mac, the most intent listener of the story, decided to take Konton under his leaf. He named Konton "Kennedy McLeod" (because Mackenzie means "son of Kenneth," which means "handsome," and Kennedy means "ugly head" and McLeod means "ugly") and saw him as someone he could morph into another him.
As Mac was teaching him things about modern culture (not like Hikari knew nothing about the planet), Kennedy started to morph into more than just a "counterpart" or a "copy." He was his own person - not Mackenzie, the jokster electrokinetic, not Konton, the Chaos Menace whose only emotion was destruction, not Hikari, who would have been a boring character, and definitely not Roxas - Kennedy! Kennedy decided that he wanted to change from himself, wanting to do two things - one being making up for his past sins, and the other helping those who couldn't help themselves. Hikari was saddened by all of the people in the world with dark intentions and the will to hurt people, and Kennedy was determined to stop them.
Kennedy went on to be a crime-stopping hero... even if it meant hurting the one person who changed him, Mackenzie Hartley, who was a vigilante/criminal.
Because half of Kennedy is made out of Chaos Energy, he is naturally someone who can manipulate it. Whenever he manifests it, he takes some of it out of his own defense and uses it to battle. However, it is possible to override it - if he uses too much energy, his defense goes down, and either he gets a lot weaker offense-wise (as seen in The Curse of Day in his battle against Mac) or his defense resembles on of a normal human's. He can recharge by resting or being near a power source (like the Chaos Emeralds), but it would take him about an hour to regain his normal energy output.
Kennedy also has the ability to sense energy in a near-precognitive way. If he senses you trying to put all of your effort into one attack, he's going to know that and put all of his effort into defending. Sensing energy also allows him to teleport - we'll get to that later. However, there are two major flaws to this ability also - one, if his opponent's energy output is too much, he can't sense it, and two, he relies on it far too much. It is very easy to psyche Kennedy out with an attack if you trick his senses. Kennedy has quite some skill with his power, however; he is able to sense when an opponent is holding back unless they release their full power quickly enough.
Kennedy has a few abilities that naturally comes with Chaos Energy - being able to stop or manipulate time or space. He is able to distort it in several ways -
one, he can use it to teleport a maximum of about three cities far, but doing that leaves him weak (as seen in TCoD), so he prefer to use short bursts of teleportation to confuse his opponent
two, he can use this to control both his own and others' gravity... and, to an extent, he can control his weight and mass and he can lift people a maximum of two meters off the ground
three, he can use it for telepathy and being able to speak with someone through their mind.
and four, he can use it to stop time completely. Though this is the most powerful of these abilities, it is also the most draining out of all of them, and if he's low on stamina, he might stop time and lose energy energy to not even be able to attack.
However, all of these use up some of his energy output so he cannot use two in conjunction.
Next, Kennedy can shapeshift... to a very limited extent. He hasn't been in his physical form for too long - as of now, he can only turn his arm into objects, and even then, he only knows how to turn it into one. Still, instead of trying to create many different forms of shapeshifting, Kennedy focuses on this one aspect - he can create his arm into an extendable purple energy blade. However, it is pure energy, and if you are able to overpower it, it will disappear from Kennedy's energy output.
Finally, a flaw/advantage Kennedy has is being able to control how much energy he releases at once. No matter how much he may look it, Kennedy does not have complete control of his energy output - his "base" form (for simplicity) is only about 50% control. If he lowers his control, then his irises, aura and attacks become green, and though he becomes a lot stronger (depending on how much energy he has to release in the first place), his defense truly suffers, and if you are able to land a string of attacks on him, you will most likely win. Lowering control is very risky, for another reason - if he allows himself to turn some of his neutral energy into negative Chaos Energy, then he shall have some of his former self, Konton in him, resembling a dark form. But where there is darkness, there is also light - if Kennedy gains more control over his energy output (and it is noticeably more difficult to gain than lose control) than he gains a purple aura and he gets a general stat boost. This is more akin to a super form, even though Kennedy would be stronger if he lost control.
Then, there is all of this "my existence is chained" crap he has to deal with. If Mac dies and his life force is completely erased, Kennedy dies - at least, the Mac part of him is separated from him and it traps Hikari in the Master Emerald again. However, if someone somehow got to destroy the Chaos Force, or at least the Lamak Zone's connection to it - that would cause the Hikari side of him to die, trapping the Mac side in Mac's mind. If both happen, he's dead. Like, dead for real. No way of bringing him back. You could also completely obliterate his particles to kill him, but not many people can do that.
Now, here's a counter-strength - Kennedy has a small healing factor. He can shrug off being stabbed in the heart, take ten shots to the brain, and regenerate a lost limb in three minutes, tops. However, as a counter-strength-counter, his healing factor can be overtaxed, causing him to heal much more slowly - or, in lethal cases, not heal at all. His healing factor is also completely dependent on Ken's remaining energy output, so when he loses all control of his energy output, his healing is non-existent.
Kennedy is a decently skilled hunter, and though he isn't the best, it doesn't matter all too much because he isn't an active hunter. Hunting is made easier for him because he has this "energy-sight" where everything he sees is neon green or white and he can see the energy flows in the air. This "energy-sensing" ability allows him to find trails of things. (Because of this, Kennedy can usually retrieve things he lost.)
Kennedy is fairly intelligent more of the time, using his wits to formulate plans and put them into action. He is very adaptable, and he can master things within a relatively short amount of time (for example, if he had three hours each day, he could learn Spanish in three months). However, one thing he lacks is the ability to be encouraging to people who aren't his friends - this is seen in Depths of Dimensions, where when medusa unleashes an outburst of how morality isn't black and white, Kennedy doesn't know how to console her.
Kennedy, after Mac taught him how to (with multiple faceplams being facepalmed), learned how to ride Extreme Gear. He's pretty good, too - his first races were terrible, but he started getting better, with his highest placing being second - and when he's not second nowadays, he's either fifth, fourth, or third.
Kennedy's reaction speed is crazy fast, being able to react to things very quickly by reading movements. This allows him to have very fast movements, and being able to counter attacks. Energy-sensing also assists with this ability.
Ignite (Sword Art Online)
Represents his relationship with Jana-Su.
Crossing Field (SAO; NateWantsToBattle)
It shows how he feels about his past.
Monochrome Memory (Seth's Theme)
It has a feel to it that represents Kennedy.
Nothing as of late, but eventally, Kennedy will meet Sonic and his friends and possibly become friends with them. As of now, though he's heard of them, he has no idea what they're really like.
Foes and Rivals
Dr. Eggman & his robots
Kennedy sees Eggman as a foolish threat. Robotizing all the citizens of Mobius isn't something he likes about Robotnik. Everytime the Doctor starts something, Kennedy works his hardest to shut it down. Too bad Eggman never quits... oh well. More beatings from Kennedy for him.
Mackenzie the Tiger
When Mac first introduced Ken to the great big world, Kennedy had a feeling Mac was going to try to mold him, so he openly tried to avoid Mac. This would create slight feelings of doubt between the two of them, and as time went on, Kennedy and Mac... didn't get along so great. In the beginning, Kennedy truly wondered if he was nothing but a carbon copy who didn't even deserve to be in the position he was in, and adding Mac onto all of that just made it a whole lot more difficult for him to move past these feelings. However, when Mac was busy confronting Luna, Kennedy could see that he wasn't all jokes and jerkiness - he also cared for people and things he believed him, and Ken had to give him credit for that. After the battle against Luna, the two were able to form a neutral bond.
In The Curse of Day, Mac takes Kennedy on an emotional rollercoaster, especially when he threatens to kill some of Kennedy's teammates, for he knew Mac would really do it if he had wanted to... and even moreso when Mac knocked out Alexia. Kennedy was wondering if that Mac he saw - the one who could actually be a, yet troubled, good person - was fake, but Mac revealed to him that the whole time, he just wanted to make up for his incompetence, and placing Kennedy in a situation he might not have wanted to be in. Kennedy was glad to see Mac had finally strayed away from the murderous sociopath attitude, and though he had unorthodox ways of communicating it, he knew Mac cared about him... and he did the same.
Even currently, the two commonly have their arguments and squabbles, with their conflicting personalities often causing them to fight. But still, the duo has a couple of good amount of happy moments they've shared, and they intend to have more as time goes on.
Schnee the Hedgehog
Kennedy likes Schnee's happy and excitable persona, for he knows that Schnee will always bring entertainment into the mix. The two contrast with each other a lot, and though they are both intelligent, they use their intelligence in different ways, which makes them closer, somehow. Schnee also trusts Kennedy enough to reveal her insecurities, such as her being afraid of not being special or if she was just weird, and Kennedy knows that he will try his best to help Schnee and allow her to move past these former feelings of fear.
Alexia the Hedgehog
Kennedy and Alexia go together like bread and butter, for they compliment each other very well. Alexia is a shy child, and honestly, she's a big softie, and Kennedy's protective older sibling-esque nature makes him feel the need to always be there for her. His care for Alexia is reciprocated, for Alexia also puts her own trust in Kennedy, and together, they often make it through their problems together.
Terra the Ocelot
These two have a lot of similarities that allow them to get along splendidly - them being mature and disciplined older sibling figures to the group causes them to have a good relationship. They work together well, and Kennedy will often help out with the village, knowing the burden of protecting something that you care about oh-so-much. They also share some hobbies, such as tennis - they actively play together. Kennedy's relationship with Alexia also helps.
Scarlet the Fox
When Kennedy had been reverted from Konton, Scarlet practically babysat him, refreshing his knowledge of the world and such. However, Kennedy would eventually become his own person, and he noticed that Scarlet didn't quite know what to make of him. As he truly got to know more about these people, however, he felt like he was able to connect with them more, especially Scarlet. The two are like siblings, showing a lot of care for each other even if they have quite different personas. Nevertheless, Scarlet will always show up when Kennedy needs help, and vice versa.
White the Rabbit
Kennedy and White can get along together pretty well. Even if they aren't together so much, they still manage to get along. Plus, Kennedy's friendship with Schnee inevitably means that he's going to be seeing White sometimes, and both of them are fine with that.
Tina the Bat
Tina has the air about her that seems to naturally want Kennedy to show her comfort... but she has to remind him constantly that she's not a kid, and - more importantly - he's not her dad. Despite this disconnection, the two have a pretty good relationship, as they are some of the more calm people of the large group. Kennedy knows Tina wishes everything would be normal, and he tries to show up for when things get strange.
Sephtis the Eagle
Kennedy and Sephtis don't have anything against each other - Sephtis just doesn't feel like he ever wants to be around him, as he has the calm figure in White and the exciting model in Mac. Though Kennedy feels bad for Sephtis' past, knowing that he was brought up a born killer, the two get along fine whenever they have to.
Jack the Fohuahua
Luna the Bunny
Kennedy truly is disgusted by Luna's behavior. The idea of killing was enough to put him off - one of the qualities about Mac and Scarlet that annoyed him. But when he was just the energy of the Chaos Force, he remembered Shadow, and his journey to defeat Black Doom... and how Black Doom and his species had such disregard for life, even if it was new. This fueled Kennedy to want to defeat Luna even more, and why he was so determined to help Mac stop what he thought was, and pretty much is, a monster.
"Perfection. I like it." -Achieving a S-Rank
"Good enough for me, I suppose." -Achieving an A-Rank
"It's better than nothing, which isn't saying much." -Achieving a B-Rank
"Hmph. I must do better the next time." -Achieving a C-Rank
"This was... not expected of me...." -Achieving a D-Rank
"Bah, this is worthless! How can this be?!" -Achieving an E-Rank
"People who make fun of you are like fire. A small amount you can just put out. If it grows stronger, you need more force. But if it eventually blazes so bright, you can't put it out yourself... that's when your friends, the firefighters, come to help you." -Kennedy's inspirational quote
"There's no way I'm going to let you take on one of your largest personal hurdles ever by yourself. It may not feel like it to you, but your devil-may-care attitude is going to get you killed, and that would be very unfortunate. I'm not leaving you behind, Mac, and that's a promise." -Kennedy when Mac told him he couldn't help in the battle against Luna
"I am not a toy to be used. I am not a robot to be programmed. My name is Kennedy McLeod, and if I want to do something, no one will stop me. Especially not you!" -Kennedy responding to Luna asking if he wants to be her servant if she spares his life
Kennedy's first drawing done by Xoph, thank you~
Kennedy drawn by N8 the Great (User:N8DASPAGR8IOZ, to be specific), thanks!
Ken by Trisell Chronos on the SFCW, thanks!
A battle image between kennedy and Xoph's character Xavis Pyrovolt. Thanks, Xoph!
A battle pic between Kennedy and Mac, thank you!
A group picture of Ken and his teammates by Lee!
Kennedy's Zero Energy Control form done by 40DagreezKelvin, thanks, dude!
Kennedy pic for Sonic Fan Universe: Dawn of the Equinox, a fan-imation being made by 40DagreezKelvin on the SFCW!
Ken's stat card for the previous aforementioned game.
Kennedy in a character select screen for DotE!
Ken's DotE icon.
Kennedy in a scale for DotE. In this, he is around 3'2, only an inch from his canon height.
Kennedy's outfit in DotE. In this, he wears a white jacket instead of a grey one.
Kennedy's emblem by Xoph.
Kennedy's Mystic Fever appearance, sketched by Skye! Thanks!
A colored version by GothicBandicoot! Nice job, Okami!
A picture of Kennedy from Unity; specifically, Home Bitter Home by Nitro, thanks!
Gift art of Mystic Fever Ken by Silverknight on the SFCW, thanks!
Art of MF Ken by CrimsonFlame, thanks soooo much!
I forgot to add this (how could I?!?!?), but this is an awesome piece by Xoph!
Oh my gosh, I didn't have this on either?! Anyway, this is another great piece by Lee!
Kennedy and his robotic arm done by Skye, thank you for this, it looks fantabulous!
Ken with his chibi teammates by the fantastic Lee!
Kennedy alongside several others by Xoph!
One could consider Kennedy a fusion of life and chaos; one could be correct.
Konton's voice actor is Doug Erholtz, and Kennedy's is David Vincent.
Kennedy has an Extreme Gear board called Seth.
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Archie L. McDaniel
Archie Lewis McDaniel, founder of McDaniel Hardware, was born in Cumberland County, North Carolina in 1880. He came to Fairmont in the early 1900's when it was called Ashpole and, in 1905, opened a bicycle and lawn mower business, later adding groceries and renting a larger building. He was one of three partners who formed Robeson Hardware Company, and for several years he travered for the J. W. Murchison Hardware Company of Wilmington.
In late 1925 he bought E. G. Floyd's hardware and continuously operated the store until his death in 1968. Mr. Archie had a large and diversified trade, partly due to having his son Wade open a watch sales and repair shop in the front of the store. In 1948 he built a two-story building near the railroad tracks on Main Street. They held a grand opening on July 17, 1948 where many door prizes were awarded and refreshments were served.
Photo credit: Susie McDaniel Swenson, used with permission
The hardware handled just about everything, selling plumbing supplies when galvanized pipe had to be threaded, electrical wire when it was cotton insulated, garden supplies, bicycles, lawn mowers and too much more than can be named.
Mr. Archie was active in civic and church affairs, was treasurer of Fairmont Lodge No. 528, A.F.& A.M. for 39 years, a charter member of the Fairmont Shrine Club, a town commissioner and a steward of Trinity Methodist Church. In 1954 the Civitan Club dedicated their Farmers Festival to him. In 1962 he was named to the original Southern National Bank local Board of Directors. He died May 25, 1968.
Evander McDaniel
E. V. McDaniel was born in Marion County, SC to Isham and Delight Hamilton McDaniel in 1868. He migrated to the Baltimore area near Ashpole in 1873 with his family. In 1899 he moved to Fairmont and went into business selling dry goods and fancy groceries. He moved into one of the first brick buildings downtown in 1904 and began his operation there. He soon expanded his business to include fertilizers and established himself as a well-known cotton buyer in the area.
McDaniel became mayor of Fairmont in 1913 and while mayor helped found Fairmont Light and Power Company which electrified the town that year. In 1914, with McDaniel as mayor, Fairmont added sidewalks to the downtown area. During the early 1920's he was Vice President of the First National Bank of Fairmont.
He married Zettie Griffin, daughter of Silas Griffin, in 1893, and together they had eight children, Worth, Ralph, Mark, Wilton, Christine, Mary, Margaret and Kathleen.
Photo credit: Trudy McDaniel Fisher, used with permission
Mr. McDaniel died on July 30, 1944 of a cerebral hemorage and was buried in Fairmont Cemetery.

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Following its acquisition of a HoloLens headset, ahead of its release in the UK at the end of November, IMG has been increasing its expertise in the field of Mixed Reality (MR).
Augmented Reality (AR) creates a live direct or indirect view of the real world and augments it with computer-generated input such as sound, video, graphics or location based data.
Examples of AR work completed with IMG include delivering instructions in the workplace using tablets and wearable technology, and dramatically cutting the time taken to produce modular building panels through the use of projection technology to show exactly where components need to be fixed, instead of the assembly worker having to use a ruler and pencil.
Virtual Reality (VR) uses software-generated images, sounds and other sensations to replicate a real or imaginary environment with which the user can interact.
Here, examples of IMG's work include using HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets to create simulations that allow a wearer to practice assembling products using virtual components before doing the task for real. The systems mimic real world physics enabling users with no technical know-how to use the system.
Mixed Reality allows users to see and move 3D holographic virtual articles in the real world.
Delegates at a recent conference on future manufacturing technologies at the AMRC were shown how they could move a full sized holographic image of a robot around its Factory 2050's shop floor and put the robot through its paces.
"HoloLens technology allows you to work out where the robot needs to be to serve a number of machines that are already on the factory floor," says AMRC Augmented Reality Technical Fellow, Chris Freeman, who leads IMG's work on Digitally Assisted Assembly.
"You can move the holographic image of the robot at the flick of a finger, put it through its paces and checking it will do what you want it to do, safely, before you have even bought the robot, let alone started bolting it to the floor."
Another demonstration using the HoloLens and the internet-based video telephone system Skype, showed how an expert could provide help directly to an engineer in the field.
The HoloSkype system not only shows the expert exactly what the engineer can see, but allows them to show the engineer what to do by drawing arrows or transmitting text that can be seen by the engineer on their HoloLens headset.
"We are assessing the HoloLens for its suitability to create proof of concept applications for automated assembly tasks and in-line support assistance. For technologies like these, the ultimate goal is that they will be used for digitally assisted assembly techniques assisting engineers and technicians to improve quality and create efficiencies by reducing rework, scrappage and concessions," said Chris Freeman.
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Music Friday: Straight No Chaser's Viral '12 Days of Christmas' Captures the Spirit of the Season
Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you the coolest songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the lyrics or title. With Christmas only two days away, we bring you one of YouTube's most popular Christmas song videos of all time — Straight No Chaser's witty and masterfully arranged rendition of "The 12 Days of Christmas." To date, the original version of SNC's "12 Days" has been viewed more than 20 million times.
As everyone knows, the jewelry reference in this holiday favorite comes on the fifth day of Christmas when "my true love gave to me, five golden rings."
The a cappella group's "12 Days" is famous for its clever infusions of other songs, such as "I Have a Little Dreidel" and Toto's "Africa." SNC's version of the popular Christmas song was inspired by a 1968 comic arrangement of the song by Richard C. Gregory, a faculty member of The Williston Northampton School in western Massachusetts.
Originated on the campus of Indiana University in 1996, Straight No Chaser is truly a grassroots, internet-inspired phenomenon. The 10-man group owes its worldwide fame to a video of its 1998 performance that was first posted to YouTube eight years later. That video went viral and caught the attention of Atlantic Records CEO Craig Kallman, who signed the group to a five-album deal in 2008.
Straight No Chaser is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary and supporting its I'll Have Another... Christmas Album with live shows in Indianapolis, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Honolulu and Maui. The album, which was released in October, sits at #12 on the U.S. Billboard Holiday Albums chart, having peaked at #4.
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During major championship tournaments like the U.S. Open and Wimbledon, it's tennis superstars like Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer that garner the most attention.
And for good reason—they're not only some of the fittest athletes in the world, but to rise to the top of their field they've had to develop the perfect combination of speed, agility, power, strength, and quickness to track and return some of the trickiest shots in the game.
But there's another set of elite athletes on the hard court to whom you probably haven't been paying as close attention, yet their training requires the same level of focus on explosive speed, power, and dexterity during a match.
Enter: the ballpeople.
Tasked with ensuring that the game runs smoothly, the ballpeople are required to squat, crawl, and quickly sprint on and off the court to gather up wayward balls and hand out towels to sweaty tennis legends—and trust us, it's not easy. In fact, it's a job that you have to seriously train for if you want any hope of making it through the tryouts.
If you have aspirations to become a ballperson, it's important to focus on exercises that'll boost your lateral quickness, according to Reebok speed and agility expert Luis Badillo Jr.
Kick off your training with these five drills, developed by Badillo with ballpeople specifically in mind, to improve your speed and agility skills both on and off the hardcourt.
Drill 1: Getting off the line quickly
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Directions: Set up a standard agility ladder, and run through it with high knees, focusing on pulling your knees to your chest.
"Exaggerated movements like high knees help you practice technique so you're ready for the real situation when it comes," says Badillo. This particular drill will teach you "to stay light on your toes while moving fast, which is crucial to developing speed starting from a crouched position."
Drill 2: Picking strays up on the fly
Directions: Set up two cones about eight feet apart. Run by them, staying low enough to tap the top of the cones with your hand as you pass them.
"Staying low is important so you can pick up balls without breaking your stride," Badillo explains. It's crucial because you don't want to waste time running upright and then have "to bend down to pick up the balls."
Drill 3: Sprinting across the court
Directions: Set up hurdles a few feet apart across the length of the court, and sprint over them as fast as you can.
"The hurdle is for explosiveness, or how fast you can get your feet off the ground," Badillo says. This drill is particularly useful because it "teaches you to achieve maximum speed over a short distance."
Drill 4: Stopping on a dime
Directions: Set up two cones about four feet apart. Run two ovals around them, then continue your run across the length of the court.
"Ballpeople have to be comfortable changing direction quickly," Badillo explains. When performing this drill, you want to make sure to "lean forward and keep your center of gravity low so you can take sharp turns without falling down."
Drill 5: Picking up multiple balls at once
Directions: Set up a ladder, and place two tennis balls on either side, evenly spaced apart. Run through the ladder with two feet in each box and then two feet out, picking up the balls as you pass them.
A large part of a ballperson's job is to pick up many tennis balls at once, so it's important to practice hand and arm dexterity while running quickly on and off the tennis court.
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Even while keeping the possibility of creating a grand alliance live, the BSP has dismissed any possibility of getting into an alliance at this juncture prematurely. While speaking to the party workers at a party conference conducted at the party headquarters in Lucknow, the BSP supremo, Mayawati, citing the failed alliance experiments which happened in 1993 and 1996, said that the party should be prepared to contest the upcoming general election in their own ground. It is announced that when the party made an alliance with SP in 1993, the SP's Muslim voters voted for the Congress party. The BSP leader has also reminded its supporters that when the party supported the Congress in 1996, the Congress's Muslim votes went to the SP and the upper caste Hindu votes were absorbed by the BJP. It is identified that in both these instances the parties which got into the alliance with the BSP was benefitted from the alliance extensively, but the process considerably reduced the support base of the BSP and adversely affected the confidence gained by them among its voter base. Anyway, it is learned that the Dalit party has now revamped their managerial framework by dismantling several committees and reorganising it with fresh leaders. It seems that the party has identified their weak point that its structure is overcrowded with a segment of Dalit so it is making some other sections of the Dalit community difficult to get into its key positions.
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The Precautionary Boil Water Advisories that had been in place for Clark Memorial Library in Carolina and The Village on Chopmist Hill in Glocester have been lifted. Hundreds of Rhode Island youngsters held a Kick Butts Zombie Walk throughout downtown Providence at present to name on leaders to raise the minimum legal age for all tobacco product gross sales to 21 and to take additional steps to help prevent tobacco-associated disease and deaths. Inadequate processing permits for the survival of the toxin that can cause Botulism.
The analysis included extensive nationwide surveys and focus teams among youth, including research in Rhode Island to deliver a local perspective to the marketing campaign. The campaign will begin running in Rhode Island later this month and will proceed by way of the end of February 2019. Ads will run on quite a lot of TV and social media retailers, which have been chosen to best reach the target market of 18 to 34-yr-olds. The marketing campaign in Rhode Island will drive people to additional resources via Truth Initiative (opioids.thetruth.com) and to info on the State's major overdose prevention web site, PreventOverdoseRI.org.
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The Italian Sausage Ravioli and Osso Bucco Ravioli products don't have the USDA mark of inspection on the packaging. These items were shipped to retail locations in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Botulism may cause weak point, dizziness, double vision and hassle speaking, swallowing, or respiration. People experiencing these signs should seek medical attention. Consumers with questions in regards to the recall can name the Pinnacle Foods Consumer Care office at .
Hospitals in Rhode Island are required to report all suspected, non-deadly opioid overdoses inside 48 hours to RIDOH.
The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) is advising members of the public to take precautions when in Potter Pond in South Kingstown after five individuals have been treated within the emergency department over the previous three days for jellyfish stings.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has despatched out an alert with the identical message for customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.
The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) advocate lifting the advisory restricting recreational actions at Georgiaville Pond in Smithfield.
Members of the media with questions in regards to the recall can contact Janice Monahan, Pinnacle Foods' director of corporate communications, at . Other speakers on the event, in addition to Director Coit and Dr. Alexander-Scott, were Jeanine Silversmith from the Rhode Island Environmental Education Association, and Mary Lorusso-DiBara from the Lyme Newport Support Group. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) celebrated Rhode Island for having immunization charges which are among the many highest in the country for several vaccines in different age groups at their most up-to-date National Immunization Conference. The settlement follows a review by RIDOH of 4 reported incidents involving Rhode Island Hospital sufferers throughout February and March 2018.
This concerned focus teams and pre-testing of ideas with Rhode Islanders to measure attitudes about prescription opioid misuse and dependence. In addition, Rhode Island shall be instrumental in the analysis of the national campaign to find out whether the messages are shifting information and attitudes about prescription opioids.
The incidents concerned patient identification and procedure verification. Anyone who comes into contact with untreated water from Sisson Pond ought to rinse their pores and skin with clear water as quickly as potential, bathe, and wash their clothes. People must also not ingest untreated water or eat fish from Sisson Pond. Since pets can be affected by exposure to algal toxins, owners mustn't permit pets to drink this water or swim in the water. The Meat Ravioli and Prosciutto & Provolone merchandise subject to recall bear institution quantity "EST.9501" inside the USDA mark of inspection.
Rhode Island has a 24-7 Hope and Recovery Hotline to get folks connected to remedy and recovery sources. By calling STOP, Rhode Islanders can talk to a licensed counselor in English or Spanish. More details about treatment and restoration, as well as overdose knowledge, is available at PreventOverdoseRI.org. The campaign was developed using a knowledge-pushed strategy with extensive formative analysis to inform the message improvement.
"Substance use disorder has an impression on the affected person in addition to their family and the neighborhood at massive," stated Rebecca Boss, MA, the Director of the Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities & Hospitals. "This campaign on opioid misuse clearly demonstrates the devastating impact of this epidemic. We are hopeful that it offers yet one more immediate which reminds these affected that habit is disease, recovery is possible, and therapy is available." Rhode Island is currently the only state to invest in a significant native media purchase to ensure larger attain and frequency of these marketing campaign messages. Through this partnership with Truth Initiative®, Rhode Island was chosen as a web site for some of the formative analysis used to develop the marketing campaign.
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Museum Puri Lukisan is proud to announce an exclusive, collector's edition of only 50 numbered copies of Lempad of Bali.
Each copy is cased in a beautiful handmade leather slipcase with a parchment painting with a framed parchment painting using real gold leaf and cinnabar. The page ends are gilt in pure gold. Each copy is numbered on the side by laser etching 1/50 to 50/50.
By: Soemantri Widagdo et. al.
I Gusti Nyoman Lempad, who died in 1978, is an acknowledged icon of Balinese art with a reputation that is unsurpassed. Considered one of the first modern Balinese artists, Lempad's contribution to the development of Balinese art during its most revolutionary period, from 1930 to 1945, is not his only achievement. Prior to the 1920s he was renowned for his innovations in architecture. After the 1920s he began drawing and became famous for his line drawings that were a futuristic adaptation of figures from the wayang pantheon.
Recognizing his son's artistic talent before the age of 10, Lempad's father Gusti Mayukan, an undagi or traditional Balinese architect, put his young son to work assisting him on his many building projects. In his teen years, Lempad and his father sought political asylum with the royal family of royal family of Ubud at Puri Ubud, after fleeing their home kingdom of Belahbatuh, south of Ubud. Their timing was perfect as Puri Ubud was in the process of rebuilding, and their skills were welcomed. This began a long relationship, still lasting until today with Puri Ubud.
Lempad was instrumental in the development of the Pita Maha artists' collective that was formed in 1936 by the king of Ubud, Tjokorda Gede Agung Sukawati, and foreign artists Walter Spies and Rudolf Bonnet. Pita Maha monitored the progress of a new and developing genre of art, Balinese modern traditional art, while forging new national and international markets for local paintings and woodcarvings. Not only was Lempad responsible for a new style of Balinese art aesthetics that featured elongated and distorted figures, he also adopted a sense of space into his compositions that was new and invigorating. He carefully utilized empty areas of white paper in his works that emphasized the brilliance of his figurative line drawings, while the balance of composition then became essential. Lempad was also a master sculptor of temple statues, masks, a maker of wayang puppets, and an expert in the making of cremation towers and sarcophagi. He also helped in designing and building the Museum Puri Lukisan from 1953 to 1955, Ubud's oldest and most important art museum.
It was Lempad's natural imaginative and innovative ability in expressing old stories anew, along with the strength of his flowing, pure and defined lines that revolutionized Balinese art. At the time Balinese paintings were characterized by crowded compositions in which part of the surface of the canvas was covered with narrative information and motifs. Lempad introduced a space into his compositions that was aesthetically fresh and strong.
"Lempad of Bali" is the first comprehensive catalogue of the artist's life and work. At 400-plus pages with about 500 images and reproductions of drawings from the 1930s to 1970s, it features biographical and interpretive essays by scholars and close observers of Bali's arts and culture, including Bruce Carpenter, John Darling, Hedi Hinzler, Kaja McGowan, Adrian Vickers, and Museum Puri Lukisan curator Soemantri Widagdo. Other institutions participating in the book include the Library of Congress, the American Museum of Natural History, the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Leiden University, Leiden Ethnographic Museum, Delft Nusantara Museum, Vienna Ethnographic Museum, Cornell University, the Gallery of New South Wales and Sydney University.
While his contribution to the development of Balinese art and architecture, Lempad gained much attention from the local art community as well as from foreign anthropologists, researchers and artists who lived in Bali during the 1920s and 1930s. Over his lifetime Lempad completed a body of work that has since been unmatched, and now it's finally time to recognize his matchlessness.
This Limited Collectors Edition of only 50 with laser etched numbering on the gilt (real gold) page edges with real leather slipcase and a framed hand colored and gilt painting on the cover is a one-time opportunity to collect the ultimate book Bali's first modern artist.


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Forest City Enterprises Inc. (NYSE: FCEA, FCEB) reports that its third-quarter earnings nearly tripled, as they rose to $26 million, or 51 cents a share, from $8.9 million, or 18 cents a share, in the year-earlier period. Forest City CEO Charles Ratner said the increases in net earnings and revenues in the latest third quarter were the result of the strength and diversification of the company's commercial, residential and land development portfolios. "This growth has been driven by 12 property additions in fiscal 2003 and the maturing of properties that we added to our portfolio in fiscal 2002," Mr. Ratner said. "Our Land Development Group, which includes our Denver Stapleton and Chicago Central Station projects, has continued its strong performance in 2003, most recently with a large land sale in Fort Myers, Fla., during the third quarter."


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"The legislation comes as the California senator is on Joe Biden's shortlist for vice president. Will her climate bona fides satisfy progressives?"
"When Sen. Kamala Harris of California and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced climate "equity" legislation on Thursday, climate activists saw it as a hopeful sign of Democratic unity less than three months before a hugely consequential election with both the White House and the Senate up for grabs.
The two star Democrats first unveiled the Climate Equity Act in draft form more than a year ago, when Harris was running for president. The formal introduction of a new and improved version comes as the California senator is vying to become Joe Biden's choice as his vice presidential running mate in the race to unseat President Donald Trump, whose failed handling of the coronavirus pandemic has sent his already low approval ratings tumbling.
The climate legislation, which has been the subject of extensive community outreach by Harris and Ocasio-Cortez over the last year, would create an Office of Climate and Environmental Justice Accountability within the Office of Management and Budget and require the government to consider the impact of any environmental legislation or regulation on low-income communities."
Ilana Cohen reports for InsideClimate News August 6, 2020.
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Conservation ahead of new exhibition reveals surprising element to Royal Collection painting
Isack van Ostade (1621, Haarlem - 1649, Haarlem), A Village Fair with a Church Behind, 1643. Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015
LONDON.- From street vendors peddling food to singers performing to a crowd, a 17th-century Dutch painting in the Royal Collection captures all the rustic charm of a village fair. But work undertaken by Royal Collection Trust conservators ahead of a new exhibition opening at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace next month has revealed that all was not quite as it seemed. Painstaking cleaning of the painting has uncovered a squatting figure relieving himself in the foreground, hidden for more than 100 years under overpainted shrubbery.
Painted in 1643, A Village Fair with a Church Behind by Isack van Ostade is one of 27 works going on display in the exhibition Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer. It was acquired in 1810 by George IV, when Prince of Wales, and hung in the Middle Room at Carlton House, the Prince's London residence on Pall Mall. Inventories of Carlton House in the Royal Archives show that the coarse, comic depictions of peasant life in A Village Fair with a Church Behind would have been entirely to the future king's taste.
It is believed that the offending figure was painted over in 1903, when the work, which by then hung in the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace, was sent for treatment by an art restorer. The modified painting, perhaps now more in tune with Edwardian sensibilities, was returned to the Picture Gallery, where it hung for several more years. A similar alteration had been made to A Village Revel by Jan Steen, 1673, also acquired by George IV and in the Royal Collection. The painting shows a group of country people drinking and brawling outside an inn, symbolising human folly. Conservation revealed that the tavern sign was originally painted with an image of a man with his buttocks exposed, which at some point had been overpainted with a bull's head.
Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures and curator of the exhibition said: 'Dutch artists often include people or animals answering the call of nature partly as a joke and partly to remind viewers of that crucial word 'nature', the inspiration for their art. Queen Victoria thought the Dutch pictures in her collection were painted in a 'low style'; two years after her death perhaps a royal advisor felt similarly'.
Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer, opening on 13 November, brings together some of the finest 17th-century Dutch paintings in the Royal Collection, including 'The Music Lesson' by Vermeer. Created during the Dutch 'Golden Age', these works represent a high point in genre painting, ordinary scenes of everyday life rendered in extraordinary detail. Many of the works included humorous or moralising messages for the contemporary viewer to decode.
Johannes Vermeer (Delft 1632-Delft 1675), A Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman, 'The Music Lesson', c.1662-5. Oil on canvas, 74.0 x 64.6 cm (support, canvas/panel/str external). RCIN 405346. Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015
A Lady at the Virginal with a Gentleman entered the Royal Collection in 1762 as a work by Frans van Mieris the Elder owing to a misreading of the signature. Indeed, the name of the artist was not correctly identified until 1866 by Théophile Thoré. During the late seventeenth century the picture had been in collections in Delft, Vermeer's home town, including that eventually sold on 16 May 1696 by Jacob Dissous which had twenty-one paintings by the artist - the largest group of such works assembled by a single individual. A lady at the virginal was subsequently acquired by the Venetian artist, Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, in 1718 either in Amsterdam or The Hague. Pellegrini's collection was bought by Consul Joseph Smith, who in turn sold his own collection to George III. By such a route did one of the greatest Dutch pictures in the Royal Collection arrive and to a certain extent the initial oversight regarding its importance has been more than adequately compensated for by the amount of scholarly attention that it now receives.
Paintings by Vermeer - of which there are only thirty-four - are difficult to date and any chronology has to be based on an interpretation of style and complexity of composition. A lady at the virginal was undoubtedly painted during the 1660s, but it is not possible to be more specific although there is at present a consensus of c.1662-4. The composition is characterised by the rigorous use of perspective to draw the eye towards the back of the room where the figures are situated - the young woman rather surprisingly seen from the back. The viewer is at first more aware of the jutting corner of the table, the chair and the bass viol than of the figures themselves, whose privacy is thereby protected. The back of the room, dominated by the virginal comparable with those made by Andreas Ruckers the Elder, is like a grid of verticals and horizontals into which the figures are carefully locked. Light is admitted through the windows on the left and fills the room, casting only soft, subtle shadows. A striking feature of the composition in this part is the mirror on the wall where the slightly blurred reflections include the young woman's face, part of the table and the legs of an artist's easel. The implication of this glimpsed easel is that Vermeer shares the same space as the figures he is depicting, but as a result of this artifice he is also, like the viewer, standing outside that space. In fact, as Alpers has observed, Vermeer's composition is based on exclusion. Many of the elements, particularly at the back of the room, are seen only partially, as though indicating 'the appearance of the world as ungraspable'.
The inscription on the lid of the virginal, MUSICA LETITIAE CO[ME]S / MEDICINA DOLOR[IS], means 'Music is a companion in pleasure and a balm in sorrow.' It suggests that it is the relationship between the man and the young woman that is being explored by the artist, but what stage that relationship has reached is impossible to say. The fact that there are two musical instruments implies shared pleasures and a potential harmony, which is also indicated by the rapt expression on the man's face as he listens to the young woman or sings as she plays on the virginal. That some aspect of love is the presiding theme can be deduced not only from paintings by Vermeer's contemporaries, such as Metsu, but also by the presence in A lady at the virginal of the picture of Roman Charity (Cimon and Pero) by Dirck van Baburen on the wall in the background on the right. This is the story of how the imprisoned Cimon was nourished by his daughter Pero, symbolising the ideal of Christian charity both physically and spiritually. It is known that Vermeer's mother-in-law, Maria Thins, owned such a painting and Vermeer did use another painting by this artist in the background of two of his other pictures. The vase on the table is placed below Roman Charity and so with regard to that picture may be an additional correlative for the young people in the room.
The mood of the present interior by Vermeer is created as much by the careful selection of so few objects as by the confrontation of the two figures in whose plight, in the words of Lawrence Gowing, 'there rests, as gentle as the air itself, an allegory of liberty and bondage, an allegory, as the inscription informs us, of the pleasure and melancholy of love'.
Signed on the bottom of the frame of the painting on the extreme right: IVMeer (IVM in monogram)
Catalogue entry from Royal Treasures, A Golden Jubilee Celebration, London 2002
Provenance: Jacob Dissius before 1696; acquired c.1718 by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, probably in the Low Countries; bought in 1742, possibly from Pellegrini's widow, by Joseph Smith, from whom bought by George III in 1762
Gabriel Metsu (Leiden 1629-Amsterdam 1667), The Cello Player, c.1658. Oil on canvas, 62.9 x 48.2 cm (support, canvas/panel/str external). RCIN 405534. Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015
A young woman descends a staircase dangling a page of sheet music from her right hand. She looks down at a young man tuning a cello. He is seated in front of a spinet and rather incongruously wears a hat. Above is another young man looking on at the proceedings from an arched landing. The young woman's pet dog greets her at the bottom step. Close examination supported by technical evidence indicates that the artist changed his mind about the decoration on the wall immediately above the spinet. At first he placed a picture in that area, the right half of which included a nude figure while the left half may have been concealed by a partially drawn curtain. He then painted this out by applying a thin layer of grey pigment, but a later restorer misread this passage for a hanging map such as that appearing in The Listening Housewife by Nicolaes Maes (Royal Collection). This visual confusion has since been corrected.
The subject of The Cello Player is love: the choreographed poses of the two figures, the emphasis placed on the shared pleasures of music, and the presence of the dog are the usual ingredients of such a scene. The disconsolate observer, whose pose is traditionally related to melancholy, is perhaps a frustrated lover. The underlying sense of dalliance, so knowingly portrayed in the somewhat languid entrance of the young woman into the room, would also have been underscored by the painting hanging above the spinet if the artist had chosen to retain it.
Signed on the sheet of music held by the girl: 'G. Metsu'
Catalogue entry adapted from Enchanting the Eye: Dutch paintings of the Golden Age, London, 2004
Provenance: Purchased by George IV from Sir Thomas Baring as part of a group of 86 Dutch and Flemish paintings, most of which were collected by Sir Thomas's father, Sir Francis Baring; they arrived at Carlton House on 6 May 1814.
Willem van Mieris (Leiden 1662-Leiden 1747), The Neglected Lute, c.1708. Oil on panel, 47.2 x 38.8 cm (support, canvas/panel/str external). RCIN 405543. Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015
The subject of this painting is one in which Dutch painters were well versed by the beginning of the eighteenth century, when The Neglected Lute, which was acquired by George IV with the collection of Sir Francis Baring, was painted. A direct comparison can be made with the paintings by Gerard ter Borch and Gabriel Metsu, although A lady at the virginal with a gentleman by Vermeer (Royal Collection) is also pertinent. The scene is one of seduction, combining the pleasures of taste, love and music in a suitably grand interior. The man is encouraging the woman to drink whilst her lapdog barks at the black servant entering the room through an arch. The oysters - recognised for their aphrodisiacal qualities - are moist and delicately coloured. The decoration in the room includes some fictitious sculpture, almost a trademark for Willem van Mieris, comprising a statue possibly of the young Bacchus and a relief of gambolling putti. Great care has been lavished on the texture of the various surfaces - the sheen of the silk-satin; the fibres of the carpet; the reflective qualities of silver, glass, wood and mollusc. Above all, there is the theatrical treatment of the light that not only picks out the principal figures, but also creates a feeling of recession into the shadowy background. There is an almost operatic feel to the intensity of highlight striking the underside of the looped curtain at upper left that is reflected across to the cushion covering the stool on the right.
Van Mieris painted variations on this theme, including The lute player of 1711 in the Wallace Collection, London. He reused the models in other compositions: the man in Children's Games of 1702 in the Wallace Collection and the girl in a number of pictures, including An old man and a girl at a vegetable and fish shop. It is possible that the male model is a self-portrait of the artist.
Jan Steen (Leiden 1626-Leiden 1679), A Woman at her Toilet. Signed and dated 1663. Oil on panel, 65.7 x 53.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/str external). RCIN 404804. Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015
The painting is an outstanding example of Jan Steen's art in all respects. The elaborate treatment of subject-matter reveals a profusion of references that would have been readily recognisable to his contemporaries, attesting to the painter's intelligent use of symbolism.
A young woman is shown partially undressed, with an unlaced jacket, putting on a stocking. A lapdog lies on her unmade bed, by which there is a chamber pot, and her shoes are scattered on the floor. The figure is alluring and looks straight out at the viewer with an inviting expression. Seduction is her intent. The viewer, however, is kept out of the room itself, which lies beyond an imposing arched doorway imbued with classical features. Two columns with Corinthian capitals rest on bases decorated with cartouches, whilst the arch itself is adorned with swags and a weeping cherub. There is a marked and deliberate contrast between the interior and the exterior, to the extent that this is clearly to be read as an allegorical painting.
The arched doorway is a threshold that no sensible person should cross, however strong the temptation. The arch represents moral probity emphasised by the symbolism of the sunflower (constancy), the grapevines (domestic virtue) and the weeping cherub (chastised profane love). Once in the room, the viewer is confronted by a host of vanitas objects: a lute with a broken string, a skull intertwined with a vine, a candle with the flame extinguished, and a jewellery box with its lid wide open. These all signify the transient effects of misdirected sensual pleasure. Even the act of pulling on a stocking had a clear message which is found in the emblem book by Roemer Visscher, Sinnepoppen (1614): namely that impetuous behaviour such as pulling on a stocking too quickly could result in its being holed, just as yielding to sensuality could lead to ruin. Steen implies that to pass through the arch would be to risk the loss of virtue. There is, therefore, a sense in which the interior amounts to pagan love and the exterior to spiritual love.
The artist's ingenuity does not end with the images, but extends to word play: the Dutch word for stocking (kous) used as slang meant fornication and the Dutch word for chamber pot (piespot) used in conjunction with kous (i.e. pieskous) was in slang a pejorative word for women. Similarly, to appreciate the significance of the artist's signature on the column it is necessary to realise that 'steen' in Dutch means 'stone'.
On a technical basis, the quality of the painting is remarkable for the treatment of the light, particularly in the room itself, and in the meticulous depiction of the still-life objects (the bed, the floor, the ceiling, the chandelier) and the foreshortening of the door.
Signed on left-hand column: JSteen (JS in monogram) and dated on right-hand column: 1663
Provenance: Acquired by George IV in 1821
Adriaen van Ostade (Haarlem 1610-Haarlem 1685), The Interior of a Peasant's Cottage. Signed and dated 1668. Oil on panel, 49.1 x 41.2 cm (support, canvas/panel/str external). RCIN 404814. Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015
The interior of a peasant's cottage is one of van Ostade's greatest paintings. It is in complete contrast with those representations of bourgeois figures by artists such as de Hooch or Metsu. Having begun by focusing on the rowdiness and boorishness of peasants, by the 1650s van Ostade had chosen to develop a more sympathetic depiction of peasant life. Here he shows a mother holding up a doll for her child to play with, watched by a doting father. An older child eats from a bowl on a stool, closely observed by a dog. The eye then begins to take in all the other details of family life strewn across the floor - the shopping basket, the laundry basket, the children's elaborate chamber pot, the broom, various games, the walking frame. The light comes through the latticed windows on the left, as in van Ostade's earlier picture on a similar theme. At the top an open window suggests that it is summer; it is echoed by the open cupboard door. This is a spacious composition combining a successful application of perspective that leads the eye back into the deeper recesses of the room, tonal nuances that create a sense of atmosphere, and an extraordinary accumulation of realistic detail. The range of objects painted by van Ostade in order to re-create this peasant interior is formidable. The concentration of light on the principal figures is such that only gradually does the viewer realise that there are other figures in the shadowed recesses of the room.
Van Ostade's composition is reminiscent of The Holy Family by Rembrandt (Louvre, Paris) of 1640 and further knowledge of Rembrandt is displayed in van Ostade's etching of a peasant family of 1647. As in Rembrandt's works, it is van Ostade's powers of empathy that bring great distinction to a painting such as The interior of a peasant's cottage, and in many respects collectors in the eighteenth century regarded van Ostade's achievement as comparable with Rembrandt's. It was his degree of realism that impressed artists and collectors of the nineteenth century, although from that moment his reputation began to decline. The painting was in the Smeth van Alphen collection in Holland in the early nineteenth century and was acquired by George IV in 1811.
Signed and dated over the fireplace on right: Av. Ostade/1668 (Av in monogram)
Provenance: P.de Smeth van Alphen, his sale, Amsterdam 1810; bought P.J.Lafontaine, his sale, Christie's, 12 June 1811 (59); but apparently bought privately by Lord Yarmouth for the Prince Regent; received at Carlton House 13 June 1811
Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635-81), A Girl Selling Grapes to an Old Woman, c.1655. Oil on panel, 44.0 x 35.4 cm (support, canvas/panel/str external). RCIN 406607. Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015
A Girl Selling Grapes is an early work by van Mieris, dating from the mid- to late-1650s. It is to be presumed that all the produce shown in the picture has been grown on a smallholding and is being sold by the girl from her wheelbarrow on a house-to-house basis. Such compositions can be found in the work of Dou (The Herring Seller of 1654 in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich) and Metsu (The Herring Seller in the Musée Fabre, Montpellier, and Old Woman selling Fish of c.1660, Wallace Collection, London) where the models are also very similar. It is unlikely that there is any allegorical meaning in the picture, although the different kinds of fruit and vegetable are no doubt intended to refer to the fertility of the Dutch soil and the development of horticulture.
Signed lower left: 'F.v. Mieris'
Provenance: In France during the eighteenth century, in the Choiseul collection (when engraved), Prince de Conti, d'Arveley, and Calonne collections. Purchased by George IV from Sir Thomas Baring as part of a group of 86 Dutch and Flemish paintings, most of which were collected by Sir Thomas's father, Sir Francis Baring; they arrived at Carlton House on 6 May 1814.
Pieter de Hooch (Rotterdam 1629-Amsterdam 1684), A Courtyard in Delft at Evening: a Woman Spinning, 1657. Oil on canvas, 69.3 x 53.7 cm (support, canvas/panel/str external). RCIN 405331. Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015
This is a precious record of a moment when De Hooch and Vermeer were both working in Delft evolving a distinctive style; the evidence of dated works (like this one) suggesting that De Hooch was making the running. De Hooch's reputation was certainly enhanced by the 'discovery' of Vermeer in the 1860s, but he was already a sought-after name in the time of George IV: the two paintings by him in the 1819 Carlton House inventory were both correctly attributed and impressively valued (CW 85, 405951 at 700 guineas; this one at 400 guineas).
A Courtyard in Delft, acquired by George IV in 1829, is one of de Hooch's earliest treatments of the theme, dated 1657 on the evidence of a signed and dated copy (Private Collection). It is also one of the most atmospheric in the portrayal of the shadows filling the foreground. Thus, de Hooch contrasts the seated figure seen in shadow with the standing figure who is walking from the sunlight into shadow. On the vertical axis there is a similar shift from the bright blue sky overhead to the darker tones in the lower half.
The viewer is invited to enter what is essentially a private world. Both women are preoccupied by their simple domestic tasks. Even so, this private space partakes of a more public context. On the right beyond the house can be seen two towers: the taller one that of the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church), where William the Silent, the founder of the Dutch Republic, is buried, and the smaller one that of the Stadthuis (Town Hall). Another important feature of A courtyard in Delft is the close observation of the buildings, both as regards the materials from which they are constructed and the tonal relationships (especially the reds) of their silhouetted forms. Most convincing is the patchy distribution of the whitewash on the brick and the different types of mortar and pointing seen in a varying light. The gabled house flanking the tower of the Nieuwe Kerk can be made out in other courtyard paintings by de Hooch, adding to the sense that the artist devised his compositions within a tightly knit area that he knew intimately.
Signed lower left corner: 'P.D. HOOCH'
Ludolf de Jongh (Rotterdam 1616-Hillegersberg 1679), A Formal Garden: Three Ladies Surprised by a Gentleman, c.1670-79. Oil on canvas, 60.1 x 74.75 cm (support, canvas/panel/str external). RCIN 400596. Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015
De Jongh is best known for courtyard or garden scenes, closely resembling the late work of Pieter de Hooch. This is a perfect demonstration of the way in which prosperous Dutch merchants became aristocrats in the latter part of the century, especially after the French invasion of 1672. There is a similarity between this palace garden and its occupants and those depicted in moralizing scenes at the beginning of the century, such as Steenwyck's Figures on a Terrace (Royal Collection). The main difference is that de Jongh's figures are not 'Spanish Brabanters' but an equally parodied type, which replaced them towards the end of the century: imitators of French fashion. Furthermore, the palace gardens of Steenwyck and his contemporaries were imaginary and impossible, whereas the present one may be imaginary, but is certainly possible. This is the kind of country house, built in the classical style and with a rectilinear formal garden, which became fashionable after the construction of the Huis ten Bosch ('House in the Woods') near the Hague in 1645-55, the royal summer palace and sort of patriotic shrine to the Stadtholder, Frederick Henry of Orange.
There may be something similarly patriotic here, for this scene does not seem to be mocking courtly indolence in the same way that Steenwyck (and others) did. The garden is designed like a fort, with high hedges defended by a magnificent replica of the Borghese Gladiator, catching the evening sun. This perhaps expresses the heroism of the aristocratic owner who, we are lead to imagine, protected the Dutch Republic and made it safe for Dutch maidens to gather roses like the Three Graces. The man here wears a sword, which is much less common for civilians in Holland during this period than it was in other countries, where it was the ubiquitous badge of a gentleman. He starts forward so abruptly that his hat has fallen off; is he coming to protect or to steal a kiss from the women? This is a 'gallant' scene; the word, as universal in European languages as 'conversation', has two meanings exactly describing this combination of arms-bearing courage and attentive courtship depicted here.
Text adapted from The Conversation Piece: Scenes of fashionable life, London, 2009
Provenance: Acquired by George IV before 1806
Gerrit Dou (Leiden 1613-75), The Grocer's Shop. Signed and dated 1672. Oil on panel, 48.5 x 35.3 cm (support, canvas/panel/str external). RCIN 405542. Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015
Dou was born at Leiden. He was a pupil of Rembrandt from 1628 until the latter moved to Amsterdam, probably in 1631. Dou rarely travelled outside Leiden, although he was invited to England by Charles II. He was a genre painter and founder of the school of the so-called fijnschilders (fine painters). His style was greatly admired and his work was much sought after in his own day. A number of pictures, for example, were sent to Sweden for the collection of Queen Christina. His reputation lasted into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The Grocer's Shop by Dou is a late work, warmer in tone, richer in colour and more expansive in style than A girl chopping onions (Royal Collection), painted nearly thirty years earlier. Dou had first essayed this theme in 1647 (Paris, Louvre). Its origins lie in sixteenth-century market scenes undertaken by artists such as Joachim Beuckelaer and Pieter Aertsen, but Dou here combines several of his favourite motifs, particularly his desire to create a pictorial illusion. The scene is incorporated within a stone arched window with a ledge. Below is a sculpted relief of children playing with a goat, in the style of François Duquesnoy. The same relief occurs in The Poulterer's Shop (National Gallery, London), which is close in date to the present painting. Although Dou uses an illusionistic device, he in fact distances the viewer from the scene by positioning objects in the foreground and on the ledge. There is, too, a strong sense of narrative, which is not limited to the two principal figures, but extends to the background where a woman (looking directly at the viewer) holding a coffee pot is about to leave the shop, whilst behind her another customer is being served. At this late stage of his life Dou does not differentiate his brushwork so that all the textures are treated evenly - including the impressionistically rendered curtain on the right.
The type of shop that Dou depicts is eminently respectable and indicates the great success that the Dutch nation had in trading. Market stalls and pedlars still existed, but shops put commercial transactions onto a more formal basis and Dou's compositions have a distinctly domestic feel to them, as though a deliberate extension of the home. The Dutch economy can be seen here at work. He has depicted a general store that sells eggs, dairy products, bread and meat products. There are also exotic goods that show how open the Dutch economy was to imports. The lemons on the ledge are on a blue and white oriental ceramic dish; there are sponges hanging in the arch; and special confections are in a jar on the ledge. At the centre of the arch are poppies used for making syrup, but also associated with apothecary shops. There is in all of this a sense of changing fashion and an opening up to French influence detectable in the style of dress, as well as in the choice of comestibles.
Inscribed lower right: 'GDOV [GD in monogram] 1672'
Provenance: Comte de Choiseul, Paris, by 1754; Choiseul-Praslin sale, Paris, 1793; bought Paillet; purchased in Paris by William Buchanan, 1817; Thomas Thompson Martin, from whom purchased by the Prince Regent, 21 June 1817.
Willem van Mieris (Leiden 1662-Leiden 1747), An Old Man and a Girl at a Vegetable and Fish Stall. Signed and dated 1732. Oil on panel, 38.7 x 32.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/str external). RCIN 405946. Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015
An old man and a girl at a vegetable and fish shop by van Mieris was acquired by George IV in 1805, and is a 'niche' composition as developed by Dou. The same illusionistic devices are used here - the stone arch with a ledge and a sculpted relief below with a looped curtain in the arch. Similarly, the artist destroys the illusion by placing objects in the immediate foreground. Immense effort has been lavished on rendering the textures of the different goods on display: dried herrings, gingerbread, walnuts on the ledge; mushrooms and dried fish suspended on either side of the arch; golf clubs and apples in front of the ledge; with additional fruits and gingerbread figures within the shop itself. The painting of the different types of baskets, metal containers and fabrics is a virtuoso display of pictorial skills. A touch of humour is provided by the rat (invisible to the figures in the shop) munching away at an apple at the lower edge, and human interest by the old man and the young woman who engage in their own private dialogue. Even if the brandishing of the clay pipe has erotic overtones, the old man's gesture indicating the weights on the ledge is difficult to interpret.
The sculpted relief is reminiscent of that used by Dou in several of his compositions and recurs in other paintings by Willem van Mieris - for example The Dairy in the Staatliche Museen, Kassel, of 1705 and The Grocer's Shop in the Mauritshuis, The Hague of 1717. Another relief of tritons and nereids was also used by the artist (see, for example, A woman and a fish-pedlar in a kitchen, 1713, in the National Gallery, London). Since Willem van Mieris is known to have made designs for reliefs, it is likely that he used his own imagination rather than copying specific examples.
It has been suggested that The Greengrocer in the Wallace Collection, London, might have been a pendant to the present picture.
Signed and dated top left corner: 'W. van Mieris Fect Ano 1732'
Provenance: Acquired by George IV when Prince of Wales in 1805
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