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Many web design agencies are refusing to do unpaid design work before a contract is signed. This is not because it is damaging to them. It is because they believe it is damaging to their clients. But why?
On the surface asking a web design agency to produce some design concepts before you sign on the dotted line appears to be a good idea. After all, it allows you to assess the quality of their design work and see whether they have understood your brief.
However, if you scratch the surface of this once common practice, you quickly expose the flaws. Here are just five…
1. It costs everybody money
In order to remain in business every company needs to recover their cost of sale. This includes web designers. As speculative work is part of the sales process, they ultimately have to charge you for it. The web designer is forced to roll the cost of that work into the project if they win.
However, it is worse than that. The web designer also has to recover the cost of speculative design done for jobs he did not win. This means that if you choose to work with an agency that produces speculative design, you are paying for their failed sales pitches! Why should you be paying for other people's design work?
2. It is about selling not delivering
As somebody who used to produce speculative designs for years, I can tell you that doing this type of design work is not about delivering a solution the client actually needs.
Speculative design is about impressing the client and creating the 'wow factor'. The target audience is the client and not the end user.
Being a good web designer is about encouraging the client to make tough choices. A good designer will challenge your preconceptions and suggest better ways of meeting your business aims. However, they are not going to take that risk in the sales process. They will play safe, showing you what you want to see, rather than telling you what you need to hear.
The danger is that if you then hire this company the speculative design is adopted for your site. Ultimately you end up with a solution that fails to meet your businesses needs.
3. It is wasteful
Even worse than actually using a piece of speculative design is throwing it away. I have worked on many projects where the design work created as part of the sales process is discarded on project commencement.
What was the point of producing a piece of design only to discard it? Because ultimately you (the client) are paying for the design it is absurd that you would then choose not to use it.
Of course the reason you discard it, is because it is not fit for purpose. Not only was the design was created to sell, it is also largely uninformed.
4. It is uninformed
No matter how good the brief you distribute to agencies, they are still not going to have all the facts.
Good design comes from being well informed. The designer needs to understand business objectives, success criteria, brand personality, competition and numerous other factors in order to provide the right solution.
Most of all the design needs to emerge from an understanding of your users. Until the designer can interact and empathise with your users, he can produce nothing more than a superficial solution.
5. It ignores the collaborative nature of design
Finally speculative design ignores the collaborative nature of the design process. Good design is not just about a designer having a moment of inspiration and producing a master piece. Design is not the same thing as art.
Design is a collaborative process between the designer and the client. The designer may have the expertise in design aesthetics and usability, but the client knows their business and target audience.
If the designer works in isolation he cannot hope to produce a rounded design. Without mood boards, sketches and initial concepts there is no dialogue between client and designer. The design will only tell half the story.
To request speculative design is to deny your own importance in the process.
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So where does that leave you? If you should not ask for speculative design, how then can you assess the design skills of agencies?
The answer obviously lies in their portfolios. However, in my opinion it is about more than just looking at 'pretty pictures'. In order to know whether a design has been successful you need background information.
I recommend that where a portfolio piece is relevant to your sector or project, you request the contact information of the client. This provides you with the opportunity to speak to that client and find out how well the design fulfils their business objectives.
Speaking to the client also gives you the opportunity to find out more about the designers. Did they understand the brief? Did they provide positive suggestions? Did they deal with criticism well? Were they flexible and understanding of broader objectives?
Ultimately there is far more to be learned by talking to existing clients than requesting speculative design.


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Earlier, we reported — as much as we "report" anything — that ESPN.com "executive editor" John Marvel had left/been forced out of ESPN after an incident in the ESPN parking lot. Marvel apparently has his Finger On The Pulse Of The Sports World, because he saw the item and wanted to clarify some matters. First off, he denies any road rage story — as well as a few other rumors floating around — and says he's starting a new gig soon.
You can say what you want about ESPN and its editorial approach — it's subjective — the company has been very good to me.
He also notes that his title when he left was "vice president/editor-at-large," which sounds kind of like assistant TO the regional manager to us, but hey, we've been away from the office life for a while. (He switched from the executive editor position two years ago, he says.) He couldn't get into specifics about his departure from ESPN — honestly, non-disclosure agreements suck — but says, "that after nine years it was time to seek other journalistic challenges." So, there you have it; Marvel seems like a nice fellow, but we're still gonna be careful when we see him behind the wheel of a car, JUST in case.
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I'm getting ready to do Gamsat Ireland in March. I've been studying since October- mainly science.
I just did a prep genie exam, the free online download. I don't think it was very accurate. Has anyone else any comments on their products?
I'm an English graduate and my performance in section one of actual gmsat papers is around 65% to 75% correct, but with prepgenie I got 50% correct.
I have a feeling that they simply try to emulate the Gamsat questions without putting thought or effort into examining you, or preparing you.
Also, poor english and grammar, as well as a heavy physics and chemistry content in the sciences would suggest to me that these exams are a poor reflection of the real deal?
However, it has put a doubt in my mind as to whether my knowledge is the problem or the poor exam is the problem here? Any advice from peers or veterans???? I need it!!
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Hi dairede,
Ive been preparing for the AUS GAMSAT for a few months now and like you, i purchased preperation material from prepgenie.
I found using other materials such as gold standard, I was getting reasonably good marks for all sections, yet when I attempted the practice tests and questions, I got about 20%.
I was really disheartened, but as i went to correct them, I saw the answers were both unorganised, and in very poor english. Some answers were given for the wrong questions. Their explanations were poorly worded, and to me, seemed like there was no logic behind it. Going through a few more, i realised they are pretty much useless, and if anything, will cause you to lose heart in your ability and make you less confident thereby lowering your score (potentially).
I havent personally taken the GAMSAT myself yet, but going through the questions books sent by GAMSAT themselves, and more accredited companies/programs such as gold standard, ive seen that they are fairly similar in difficulty and structure.
I would stop using them altogether. Although it was a waste of money in my opinion, they are only hurting your confidence.
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|Conflict: Wars of Beleriand
|Date: F.A. 60
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|Outcome: Decisive victory for the Noldor
Noldorin forces from Hithlum, Himring, Nargothrond, and elsewhere in Beleriand
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The Dagor Aglareb, the "Glorious Battle",[1] was the third battle of the Battles of Beleriand.
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After the Dagor-nuin-Giliath the Noldor of Beleriand had wasted their chance to destroy Morgoth's forces quickly, and instead had been building their numerous realms and establishing contacts with the Sindar.
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As the Ered Engrin spewed forth fire, Morgoth sent forth numerous small bands of Orcs, which passed through the Pass of Sirion in the west and Maglor's Gap in the east. Fighting small battles along the way, they penetrated deep in West and East Beleriand, where they were destroyed by southern forces of the Noldor and Elves under Círdan of the Falas. In the east, Maedhros, Maglor and their brothers hunted down other roving bands of Orcs as they penetrated Maglor's Gap and operated in Ossiriand.
Thingol refused to march besides the sons of Fëanor, and thus no help came from Doriath. The Laiquendi of Ossiriand fought no more battles after their leader had been killed in the First Battle of Beleriand, and they also played no part in the current struggle.
Meanwhile, the main force of the Orcs spewed forth from Angband across the plains to the highlands of Dorthonion, where the brothers Angrod and Aegnor held them off. Soon armies under Fingolfin and Maedhros counter-attacked on the plains of Lothlann and Ard-galen, from both east and west. The Orc armies were caught between the hammer and anvil of the two elven forces, with most of the Orcs being destroyed, and the remnant retreating towards Angband. The Noldor pursued them, and utterly destroyed what remained of their enemies within sight of the peaks of Thangorodrim.
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This was the first complete victory over Morgoth, and after it the Noldor maintained a close guard on Angband, beginning the period of watchful peace known as the Siege of Angband. This siege lasted some 400 years, but it could never be a complete investment because of the impassable Iron Mountains on the northern flank of Morgoth's fortress.
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Index of Names"
- J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Return of the Noldor"
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Trying to build my cousin an outlet for his creative genius. It will basically be a mashup of all the humorous things he does on the internet with posts about them on bowlofawesome.com
I want the design to be pretty clean and streamlined.
Other than that, the design is pretty much up to you. I like deep colors, and I like a dark main background. I want it to feel "fun" without being childish.
Everything should be pretty well specified in the "what I want" section, so I'll avoid too much detail here.
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- In the mockups, should read: Letting Sean loose on the interwebs
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- Tab text should be stylable through CSS; I want to be able to change the text on the live site.
- Mockups should have: Home, Archive, About, etc
- Divided by blocks of content
- Blocks of content should be vertically aligned, one right below the other, spanning the full width of the content area.
- There should be strong visual cues to indicate separation between content blocks.
- The page might have 0, 1, or 2 levels of tabs (this is different than the header tabs). Either a custom block should appear in the mockup to display these, or the first block should be designed to support these. Design should look good no matter how many levels of tabs there are.
- I expect to see how these tabs indicated in the design.
- Variations:
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- Block containing HTML and a floating image with caption
- Block containing one or more unordered lists
- Block containing a single quote, or a conversation-style group of quotes
- An image with caption
- An advertisement (eg a Google ad)
- I expect to see at least a couple of these variations show up in the content blocks
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- The layout I'm imagining can be seen as an example if you are unclear about the header/content separation I'm looking for as well as the content-specific tabs and clearly separated content blocks. This isn't an example of what I'm looking for in terms of design, just in terms of page structure.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The race for the White House remained in essentially a dead heat ahead of Tuesday's election but U.S. President Barack Obama holds a slim edge over Republican candidate Mitt Romney in the key state of Ohio, according to a Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll released on Sunday.
Nationally, of 3,805 polled likely voters, 48 percent said they would vote for Democrat Obama, while 47 percent sided with Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, the poll showed.
The results were similarly close in several swing states seen as determining the winner - Virginia, Colorado and Florida.
But in Ohio - perhaps the single most crucial swing state and where 18 electoral votes are at stake - Obama had 48 percent compared to Romney's 44 percent. On Saturday, Obama was ahead in Ohio by a point in the same poll.
"It's really a game of inches. It's extremely close, but things look pretty optimistic for Obama, I would say, if you do the electoral math," said Ipsos pollster Julia Clark.
"Looking over the last few days, Ohio does seem to be more comfortably on the Obama side."
All of the Reuters/Ipsos poll results on Sunday fall within the polls' credibility intervals, a tool used to account for statistical variation in Internet-based polling.
Obama and Romney have been in a neck-and-neck race for weeks. Over the weekend, both were making final appearances in a few crucial states, hoping to sway a shrinking number of undecided voters and to encourage their supporters to vote.
In Sunday's poll, they were tied in Colorado, which has nine electoral votes, and in Florida, which has 29, at 48 percent and 46 percent respectively, the online poll showed.
In Virginia, which has 13 electoral votes, Obama held on to a slim lead of 47 percent to Romney's 46 percent among likely voters.
"The popular vote is going to be really on a hair, extremely close, but I think the electoral college makes it more likely for Obama to be re-elected," Clark said.
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So it turns out that after Meg Whitman fired her housekeeper she informed her family and then... her campaign.
Whitman was already six months into running for governor. So the question is why didn't she reveal Nicky Diaz to the world before the Brown campaign (or their surrogate the famous "immigration" attorney Gloria Allred)?
Whitman, at the time, was faced with a dogfight of a primary campaign with then-Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner. Her opponent had one issue he thought would work against the billionaire candidate. Whitman had gone around the country campaigning for John McCain, and back then McCain was a proponent of "comprehensive immigration reform," which conservatives had a word for: "amnesty."
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I'm not sure what the campaign was thinking but it may have been this: Reveal to the world the Nicky Diaz situation and you will get slammed by the right for hiring an illegal immigrant, and you would get slammed by the left for identifying her and subjecting her to deportation (as Allred has done).
So they sat on it. So are conservatives still upset? Not as much I suspect. There is no better way to get sympathy from the right than to bring Allred into the picture. Plus, Whitman's story is different from that of Arianna Huffington's in 1994. Back then, Huffington knowingly hired an illegal immigrant, which was disclosed days before election day in husband Michael's effort to defeat Dianne Feinstein for Senate. Huffington lost.
So was Jerry behind this latest revelation? It is hard to imagine the campaign didn't know about it. The timing, days before voting by mail begins (they will start being mailed out today), suggests the issue was known about while ago and rolled out just in time.
The good news for Meg is that she has time to recover.
Most people who vote by mail, except the most partisan, don't fill out their ballots until a week before election day. And there is this: . Gloria Allred may have done something that, until now, was impossible: made people feel sorry for Meg Whitman. No longer is she just the billionaire candidate. Talk to anyone who has hired a housekeeper (and there are a lot of them in this newsroom) and they will express admiration that she went out of her way to find one who was a legal resident.
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In recent years a noticeable trend toward harmonizing the distinct worldviews of science and religion has become increasingly popular. This is due in part to public curiosity but also to the financial sponsorship of The John Templeton Foundation, which has poured a great deal of money into awards, fellowships, conferences, university courses, and publications. Despite marked public interest, many leading scientists remain skeptical that there is much common ground between scientific knowledge and religious belief. In this stimulating collection of articles on the subject, the editors have assembled the thoughts of scientists from various disciplines. Among the distinguished contributors are Sir Arthur C. Clarke (author of many famous works of science fiction); Nobel Prize Laureate Steven Weinberg (professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin); Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium); James Lovelock (creator of the Gaia hypothesis); Kendrick Frazier (editor of the "Skeptical Inquirer); Steven Pinker (cognitive scientist at MIT); Richard Dawkins (zoologist at Oxford University); Eugenie Scott (executive director of the National Center for Science Education); Owen Gingerich (Harvard astronomer); and many other eminent scientists and scholars. Among the topics discussed are the Big Bang and the origin of the universe, the nature of the "soul, " near-death experiences, and spiritualism.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans want no part of a U.S. military intervention in Syria, but there is a growing sense in Washington that President Barack Obama would face more political risks from a weak response to Syria's use of chemical weapons than from an attack on Bashar al-Assad's government.
As Obama's administration builds a case for a likely military action in Syria, several analysts said such a move probably would not have lingering negative consequences for the president at home - as long as the intervention was short-lived.
By declaring last year that Assad would cross a "red line" that could trigger a U.S. response if he used chemical weapons, Obama ensured that foreign foes and allies - as well as his Republican political rivals - would view any failure to respond as a sign of presidential weakness.
"Obama has to consider the implications for other policy areas if he fails to act," said William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who was a domestic policy adviser to President Bill Clinton. "Doing nothing - that is what would be devastating."
After the chemical attack near Damascus last week that killed hundreds of Syrian adults and children and injured many more, Obama "doesn't have that luxury," of inaction, he said.
Obama, who has long been wary of any involvement in Syria's civil war, and U.S. allies appeared on Tuesday to be carefully laying the groundwork for a coordinated military response.
Polls show large majorities of Americans, weary of more than a decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, strongly oppose a U.S. military mission in Syria. A Reuters-Ipsos poll last week found about 60 percent of Americans are against U.S. intervention in Syria, while just 9 percent support it.
More Americans favor intervention if Syria has used chemical weapons, but even that support has dipped as the situation in Syria has deteriorated, according to the poll.
However, U.S. military action typically sparks a surge of at least short-term support for their president's actions, as Americans rally around the troops.
"My prediction would be that public opinion would swing very quickly to support the military action in Syria," said Ipsos pollster Julia Clark. "The danger for Obama is if it becomes more prolonged."
On Capitol Hill, lawmakers have been sending mixed signals on Syria, arguably giving Obama more room to maneuver.
Republicans, led by Senator John McCain of Arizona, have criticized Obama for moving too slowly and called fora strong military intervention.
McCain suggested on Tuesday that a brief attack by cruise missiles, aimed more at sending a message to Assad than altering the course of Syria's civil war, could make the situation worse by allowing an emboldened Assad to claim that he had withstood an assault by the Americans.
Meanwhile, some liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans - including Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a potential 2016 presidential candidate - have opposed any U.S. intervention.
Obama faces the decision on Syria just as Congress prepares to return to Washington next week to renew a lingering budget fight over government spending and the federal debt limit.
Some Republicans are threatening another government shutdown if Democrats don't agree to deeper spending cuts, or to delay funding for the president's healthcare overhaul.
The intense focus in Congress on domestic policy issues means the impact of any short-term military action inSyria could be limited.
"It's one of those things that, however tragic, won't have any lasting political impact one way or the other," Republican strategist Rich Galen said of a short-term U.S. intervention in Syria.
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Issues relating to redemption in Wagner's Ring Cycle were examined at a recent ROH Insights Session, the final of four events taking a deeper look at the masterpiece.
Broadcaster Christopher Cook was joined by philosopher Michael Tanner and Richard Bell.
The panel discussed what they think happens after the end of the world at the climax of Götterdämmerung and who, if anyone, is redeemed at the end of the work.
At the event, Michael expressed the view that "Wagner thought when he began writing The Ring Cycle that love would save all. As he went on, he realized that in fact it ends up destroying all the characters". Richard said that, "what happens between the characters in The Ring shows that we as humans need redemption."
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The Orvis Company
The Orvis Company was founded in 1856 by Charles Orvis, in Manchester, Vermont, offering the finest fly fishing equipment. Today, Orvis is a family-owned retail and mail-order business specializing in high-end fishing, hunting, and sporting goods. After 150 years, Orvis is the oldest mail-order retailer in the United States!
97 Depot St, Manchester Center, VT 05255
Manchester Designer Outlets
Escape to Manchester Vermont
All of Vermont in One Beautiful Place
Manchester is the one place in Vermont where you can experience all of Vermont. No matter what the season, Manchester has everything you want to do or see on a trip to the Green Mountain State.
"One of the Top Shopping Getaways in New England"
Yankee Magazine's Reader's Choice and Editor's Choice for outlet shopping in New England. Save on designer fashions in the beautiful and historic walking village of Manchester Vermont.
1005 Hildene Rd, Manchester, VT 05254, USA
Hildene-The Lincoln Family Home
About Hildene
The Lincoln Family Home
His father was born in a log cabin and called from the humblest rank in life to preside over our nation during the most momentous period of its history. One generation later, Robert Todd Lincoln, the only child of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln to survive to adulthood, became Chairman of the Pullman Company, the largest manufacturing corporation at the turn of the 20th century. He built his Georgian Revival mansion in 1905 in the scenic village of Manchester. It became home to only Lincoln descendants until 1975, longer than any other Lincoln residence. It is the Great American Story.
We are a federally designated 501(c)(3).
930 SVAC Drive,, W Rd, Manchester, VT 05254, USA
Southern Vermont Arts Center
The mission of the Southern Vermont Arts Center is to serve the arts and the community by furthering art in all its aspects, with a foremost goal of education for artists, art students, and young people.
4070 Main St, Manchester Center, VT 05255, USA
American Museum of Fly Fishing
American Museum of Fly Fishing: www.amff.org
Fly Fishing History - Learn And Explore
The American Museum of Fly Fishing is the steward of the history, traditions, and practices of the sport of fly fishing and promotes the conservation of its waters.
Exhibitions On Display
We strive to create insightful and interesting exhibitions that will appeal to a broad audience of fly fishers, outdoor enthusiasts, and history buffs. We maintain a changing exhibition program in our Leigh H. Perkins Gallery so that our visitors learn more each year about the rich history of fly fishing.
Recreation Park Rd, Manchester Center, VT 05255, USA
Manchester Dog Park
We all know dogs and their love for sports, and aren't we glad to see them participate in the first ever Rio Dog Olympics. Dozens of dogs of different breeds, ages and sizes competed for medals at a private dog club in Rio. The events included agility, aquatic ball chasing, and aquatic jumping.
The games aim to bring together the pets and their owners to socialize with each other. The competition was open to all dogs regardless of skill or experience. Mima, a nine-month-old beagle, won gold in aquatic jumping!
410 Hunter Park Rd, Manchester Center, VT 05255, USA
Riley Rink at Hunter Park
Riley Rink at Hunter Park: www.rileyrink.com
Hunter Park is the home of Riley Rink and Hunter Fairgrounds located in central Manchester off route 7A north of the Town Hall. The Olympic size ice skating rink is home to youth and adult hockey leagues. We offer Public Skating, Stick & Puck and Pick-Up Hockey sessions, it is always best to check our daily schedule on our website, www.rileyrink.com. Our primary ice skating season is from the end of October through the very beginning of March. We also have the only DISC Golf in the area. Hunter Park is host to different events throughout the year: Tournaments, Concerts, Bingo, Trade Shows, Antique Shows, Private Events, Races, Pro-Am Games. Hunter Park is a family friendly safe facility. Enjoy our grounds for a wonderful walk or a healthy jog.
79 Elm St, Manchester Center, VT 05255, USA
Manchester Hot Glass
Manchester Hot Glass is a glass blowing studio & gallery open daily to the public. We are located in the beautiful historic Depot section of Manchester, Vermont. Stop in and shop our gallery, or call and book one of our popular Glassblowing classes! We offer a full line of beautiful hand blown glass & jewelry. Custom orders are our specialty, along with bridal party gifts & wedding registries.
Other services include glass & crystal repair.
We hope you make it off the beaten path of Manchester, Vermont to find us.
340 Recreation Park Rd, Manchester, VT 05255, USA
Dana L. Thompson Memorial Park
Manchester Parks: www.manchester-vt.gov/parks
The Dana L. Thompson Memorial Park, also known as the Rec. Park by local residents, was named in honor of Police Chief Dana L. Thompson, who was killed in the line of duty in 1972. The Park encompasses more than 88 acres, the newly erected Park House, 6 lane swimming pool, diving board and kiddie pool, three baseball diamonds, multipurpose athletic fields, three playgrounds for kids of all ages, one-mile walking path, a dog park that is owned and operated by the Manchester Dog Park (a not-for-profit organization), a skateboard park, outdoor basketball courts and three tennis courts. A trail in the northeast corner of the Park leads to Riley Rink and a trail in the southeast corner leads to Manchester Elementary-Middle School (MEMS) and downtown Manchester. Limited public WiFi is available near the Park House, including Applejack Field, Eckhardt Field and McClellan Field. Restrooms are available at the Park House, on the south side of the building. The Park is open daily until 10:00 PM and is located off of Bonnet Street (Route 30) on Recreation Park Road in Manchester Center.
24 Highland Ave, Manchester Center, VT 05255, USA
Tilting At Windmills Gallery
One of New England's largest fine art galleries, Tilting at Windmills features a broad selection of work by important regional, national, and international artists. While quality and visual appeal are paramount in choosing the artwork we offer,we also select with an eye towards investment and potential appreciation in value for our collectors.
Southern Vermont Arts Center Dr, Manchester Center, VT 05255, USA
Elizabeth De C. Wilson Museum
Opened in 2000 and designed by Hugh Newell Jacobsen, the Wilson Museum provides a contemporary, state-of-the-art exhibition space for visiting artists and exhibitions. The museum also serves as a secure repository for our Permanent Collection, featuring over 900 works by Luigi Lucioni, Ogden Pleissner, Grandma Moses, Lorenzo James Hatch, to name a few. Due to its value and size, exhibitions of the Permanent Collection must be specially planned and orchestrated.
4967 Main St, Manchester Center, VT 05255, USA
Gremlin Fine Arts & Framing
Gremlin Fine Arts Galleries is both a Brick & Mortar Art Gallery and an Online Art Shopping Experience. We are located in Manchester Center, Vermont which is in the heart of Southern Vermont's Winter Wonderland. Just a short drive from Stratton Mountain and Bromley Ski Center, we are certainly a destination for skiers and snowboarders all winter long.
Gallery founders Steven and Debbi Grossfeld have been dealing in vintage animation artwork over for 20 years. They are proud to have brought the collections of Maurice Noble and Art Davis to market as well as the collections of many other well known animators and studio executives. Steven helped curate the Mel Blanc art collection for presentation at auction for Superior Galleries in Beverly Hills. He was also the founder of Celmail, the online blog for animation art collectors. In the earlier years he wrote articles that appeared in "In Toon Magazine" as well as "Storyboard, The Art of Laughter." Debbi and Steven have also leant many of their own pieces of art to various authors who used the art to illustrate their texts.
Debbi spends much of her time these days in our Manchester Center, Vermont art gallery. She consults with clients whose needs vary greatly. Debbi has become quite an expert at tracking down hard to find or sold-out limited edition artwork. She is also our creative director and framing coordinator. If you need someone to design just the right picture frame and mats for your artwork, Debbi is our expert.
Gremlin Fine Arts Galleries has the world's foremost selection of Courtroom and Political Sketch Art. These works of art, done by the best artists of their genre are on display at our Manchester Center gallery as well. We exhibit literally thousands of original sketches and paintings by world class artists, many of whom have won Emmy Awards for their coverage of news events as well as awards from the New York Illustrator's Society and other groups. Our own Steven Grossfeld has been interviewed by over 30 newspapers, magazines and television networks regarding this art form and our unique collection.
Since our opening of our newest gallery in Manchester Center, Vermont we have been striving to acquire and offer the largest selection of Vintage Ski Posters. Proudly, we have single handedly help to decorate hundreds of area ski lodges, inns and winter homes with winter themed art that just isn't available anywhere in so vast a selection.
3556 Main St, Manchester, VT 05254, USA
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4952 Main St, Manchester Center, VT 05255, USA
Manchester Fine Art Gallery
Welcome to The Manchester Vermont Fine Art Gallery
A nationally recognized gallery of Fine Art, featuring selective works in oils from distinguished artists around the country and abroad. Our Fine Art Gallery has moved from Manchester VT to New Hope PA. Visit the new website!
4963 Main St, Manchester Center, VT 05255, USA
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4686 Main St, Manchester Center, VT 05255, USA
Comollo Antiques
Comollo Antiques: www.vtantiques.com
National Public Radio called us "Vermont's must see"! And look and see our CNN profile here
Stop and see why. Poke around and let us know what you think. Remember lots of stuff coming and going everyday, come and revel in the chaos with us!


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GURL wrote:Which kind of subject ? (if you know, that is...)
GURL wrote:Using Google, I was not able to find the Gigapan size and weight specifications...
klausesser wrote:Believe me - you´ll save a lot of labour (correction of lense´s/chip´s faults) and you´ll win a lot of quality!
The camera´s price-ranges are not so far apart that it really compensates the more of problems . .
best, Klaus
P.S.: i saw a gigapan-head on my last journey - i never would buy one. The Merlin head is much better at a comparable or even better price!!
gerardm wrote:The Newest canon -G9 was used with the teleconverter on xrez's yosemite project. The RAW files seem ok for a PS.
Aeriscera wrote:klausesser wrote:Believe me - you´ll save a lot of labour (correction of lense´s/chip´s faults) and you´ll win a lot of quality!
The camera´s price-ranges are not so far apart that it really compensates the more of problems . .
best, Klaus
P.S.: i saw a gigapan-head on my last journey - i never would buy one. The Merlin head is much better at a comparable or even better price!!
I'd like to move up to a DSLR although it's arguable that I don't even know how to use the camera I have already got, but for the moment, gigapan unit compatibility is the issue.
Thanks for the heads-up on the Merlin though - I will look for prices. I'm being offered a gigapan for $279.
klausesser wrote:The Merlin head starts at about 150.-€ w.o. tripod - coming from Austria.
GURL wrote:Automate robotic pano head inventor Donfrench exchanges with potential users on Max Lyons forum and the links it includes (Outbackphoto test, his own web site) are very interesting.
Aeriscera wrote:klausesser wrote:The Merlin head starts at about 150.-€ w.o. tripod - coming from Austria.
A timely post Klaus - I was just googling for the Merlin - without success - when this post arrived. Do you have a URL please?
Also, looking at an old thread about the Merlin elsewhere on this BB, it seems the Merlin is not self-contained in the sense that you need some sort of PC to control it. Is this right?
How to mount a D200 to the Gigapan unit.
OK, here is the scoop. The modifications only work with certain lens combinations and sometimes only to a certain degree of tilt. You need to minimize the torque on the elevation gearbox/servo or the servo will not hold.
I have good luck with the following as far as not causing slipping 10.5mm, Sigma 15mm, Sigma 60mm macro, Nikon 105mm macro with the lens not extended out for macro focus, and 500mm Samyang mirror lens. You have to find the sweet spot for balance when mounting all of these combinations. For the wide angle lenses, the camera is NOT moving about its lens nodal point so there WILL be stitching errors on close objects. The camera really needs to sit back a few inches to put the center or rotation in the sweet spot, but the servo will never be able to hold that torque. This has not bothered me so far as I have just been taking photos of distant objects.
I am using a $3 L bracket from True Value is all (really!), plus a remote IR setup for the D200, some nuts and bolts.
I mount the IR transmitter to the camera mount tray and let the button pusher push the transmitter. Sometimes I mount the reciever onto the tray or sometimes just leave it atop the camera. The transmitter just hangs from its power cord and strap (need to mount it somewhere but I like it hanging as it minimizes any vibrations.
When I use the 500mm lens I need to use mirror lock up and the Gigapan Unit can not do the double shutter push, so I just do the shutter releases manually (its an option under expert gigapan options on the units menu). You have to push 'next' on each frame on the gigapan unit.
To mount the L bracket I took out one of the four black screws on the elevator gear (the one next to where the thumb screw for the camera bracket) and using a longer screw mounted the L bracket here, and used the thumb screw next to it for additional support.
As I said, some lens combinations will overwhelm the servos holding power. It will slip. This is not hurting the Gigapan unit or its gears, its the servos electromagnets that are not able to hold so there is no damage being done to the gigapan unit (it will sound scary though, but its just like moving the unit when it is powered up). When the Gigapan powers down be careful that your camera does not crash into the unit as there will be no holding torque when its off.
I have also mounted a Glass Sigma 500mm lens to the unit, mounting the L bracket firmly to the Unit so no elevation rotation is possible and doing the elevation rotation by hand on the lens-Lbracket interface with a thumb screw holding the lens to the L bracket. Really need to minimize vibration with this heavy lens setup so mirror lock up is mandatory, strong tripod, etc. Its a heavy lens. I use the gigapan unit then just for horizontal movement of the lens (1.8 degrees field of view set on gigapan setup) and I have the lens rotated in its bracket so that the photo sequence will work with the gigapan stitcher (which is expecting top left down and accross to bottom right, so I rotate the camera90 degrees to the left and start with the bottom left, each row moving up to finish at top right, then the stitcher has no problems putting it all together like always).
klausesser wrote:Well - for a device that´s even more expensive than a Merlin . .
Aeriscera wrote:Interesting Beeloba! Thanks for that.
beeloba wrote:klausesser wrote:Well - for a device that´s even more expensive than a Merlin . .
I agree with you Klaus, this is a very difficult choice to make… I'm waiting for the DSLR gigapan head, but its a very long expectation since the public beta version is not even a final one.
beeloba wrote:I'd really love to see an exceptional view of Pultney bridge, not from the outside view, but a view took from the bridge's street itself, showing the shops… which is the most pleasant view of that old bridge.
beeloba wrote:I'm waiting for the DSLR gigapan head, but its a very long expectation since the public beta version is not even a final one.
GURL wrote:Klausesser, I'm sorry, but I don't agree with you.
Visiting www.gigapan.org is enough to see that Gigapan device is not a "no-go" (though not all displayed panos on this site were shot using the less expensive Gigapan prototype.)
Ditto for Auto Mate wich is not, as you said, "unsuitable for pano-photography". The test published by Uwe Steinmueller is just a proof of the contrary.
I certainly would not buy an Auto Mate because it would not fit my own needs. About the Gigapan light version, I don't know for sure. To argue the pro and cons of those heads for the kind of panos one shot and stitch is something very useful but, I presume, what you said slightly exceeded what you really think.
For motorized pano heads the common rule is to reach a compromise between what is possible and what is not. This includes the more expensive ones where compromises are a heavy weight and a high cost. This includes the less expensive ones where many more compromises are needed to reach a lower cost and a lower weight...
I hope this is not the beginning of a flame war:
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Dermot Mulroney will star alongside Nick Jonas and Isabel Lucas in the edgy thriller "Careful What You Wish For," Hyde Park-Image Nation and Troika Pictures announced on Tuesday.
Not for long, though. Mulroney is set to play Lucas' investment banker husband who dies suspiciously after she begins an affair with a high school student, played by Jonas, living next door.
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Elizabeth Allen ("The Vampire Diaries," "Aquamarine") is directing the film, being compared to "Basic Instinct" and "Body Heat," from a script written by Chris Frisina and Gregg Hurwitz. Principal photography is scheduled to begin in Charlotte, North Carolina on April 22.
Hyde Park's Ashok Amritraj will produce with Robert L. Stein, Michael A. Helfant and Bradley Gallo for Troika Pictures ("The Call"), as well as Kirk D'Amico.
Stuart Brown, Raj Singh and Kevin Frakes are executive producing for Merced Media Partners, while William Gallo and Dale Rosenbloom will executive produce with Phillip Cohen as co-executive producer for Troika Pictures.


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Obama for America announced Adrian Saenz as its national Latino vote director Wednesday, noting that outreach to Latinos here in Colorado is essential to the campaign's strategy for winning the state in 2012.
In a news release the campaign says Saenz will be tasked with maximizing voter participation in Latino communities that span Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Florida and Colorado.
Then-candidate Barack Obama received over 60 percent of the Latino vote in Colorado in 2008. But high unemployment — 13.2 percent among Colorado Latinos in 2010 — and failed efforts to pass immigration reform have some Latinos disenchanted with Obama.
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Chickpea, Tomato, and Spelt Soup
Spelt is an ancient whole grain native to southern Europe. It's packed with fiber and naturally higher in protein than wheat.
Place spelt in a medium bowl and cover with cold water. Let soak for 1 hour; drain.Advertisement
In a 5-quart Dutch oven or large soup pot, heat oil over medium. Add onion, carrot, celery, and garlic. Season with salt and pepper and cook for 5 minutes. Add bay leaves, paprika, cumin, saffron (if using), spelt, broth, and 1 cup water. Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer, and cook for 30 minutes or until spelt is tender.
Add tomatoes and chickpeas and cook for 20 minutes or until flavors have blended. Discard bay leaves. Sprinkle with chopped parsley before serving.
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Water. A vital nutrient, yet one that is inaccessible to many worldwide.
The World Health Organization reports that 780 million people don't have access to clean water, and 3.4 million die each year due to water-borne diseases. But an Israeli company thinks it can play a part in alleviating the crisis by producing drinking water from thin air.
Water-Gen has developed an Atmospheric Water-Generation Units using its "GENius" heat exchanger to chill air and condense water vapor.
"The clean air enters our GENius heat exchanger system where it is dehumidified, the water is removed from the air and collected in a collection tank inside the unit," says co-CEO Arye Kohavi.
"From there the water is passed through an extensive water filtration system which cleans it from possible chemical and microbiological contaminations," he explains. "The clean purified water is stored in an internal water tank which is kept continuously preserved to keep it at high quality over time."
Energy efficient
Capturing atmospheric humidity isn't a ground-breaking invention in itself -- other companies already sell atmospheric water generators for commercial and domestic use -- but Water-Gen says it has made its water generator more energy efficient than others by using the cooled air created by the unit to chill incoming air.
"Several companies tried to extract water from the air," says Kohavi. "It looks simple, because air conditioning is extracting water from air. But the issue is to do it very efficiently, to produce as much water as you can per kilowatt of power consumed."
He adds: "When you're very, very efficient, it brings us to the point that it is a real solution. Water from air became actually a solution for drinking water."
The system produces 250-800 liters (65-210 gallons) of potable water a day depending on temperature and humidity conditions and Kohavi says it uses two cents' worth of electricity to produce a liter of water.
Civilian uses
Developed primarily for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Water-Gen says it has already sold units to militaries in seven countries, but Kohavi is keen to stress that the general population can also benefit from the technology.
He explains: "We believe that the products can be sold to developing countries in different civilian applications. For example in India, [drinking] water for homes is not available and will also be rare in the future. The Atmospheric Water-Generation Unit can be built as a residential unit and serve as a perfect water supply solution for homes in India."
Kohavi says Water-Gen's units can produce a liter of water for 1.5 Rupees, as opposed to 15 Rupees for a liter of bottled water.
Dirty water
Another product Water-Gen has developed is a portable water purification system. It's a battery-operated water filtration unit called Spring. Spring is able to filter 180 liters (48 gallons) of water, and fits into a backpack -- enabling water filtration on the go.
"You can go to any lake, any place, any river, anything in the field, usually contaminated with industrial waste, or anything like that and actually filter it into the best drinking water that exists," says Kohavi.
Major Alisa Zevin, head of the Facilities and Specialized Equipment Section for the IDF, says the unit is revolutionary for them.
"This unit gives logistic independence for the forces and make us ensure that we provide the soldiers high quality water," she says.
In 2013, the IDF took Spring to the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan devastated the island country and left 4.2 million people affected by water scarcity. The system filtered what was undrinkable water into potable water, and that is what Water-Gen hopes to accomplish elsewhere where the technology is needed.
"It's something as a Westerner you cannot understand because you have a perfect water in the pipe, but people are dying from lack of water," says Kohavi.
Although Water-Gen's developments aren't a solution for the water crisis, Kohavi believes that the technology can do for countries that lack clean water, such as Haiti, what it has done for the Philippines. It can be the technology used to not only to filter water, but to save lives.
"They could actually bring solution, perfect solution, to the people over there," says Kohavi. "For the kids ... They can use the technology to filter water in the field. People are going days just to carry water. And all our solutions can be an alternative for that."


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Rid your home of mild and mildew using nontoxic and affordable ingredients that eliminate any need for a scrub brush.
A proliferation of mold and mildew can be the hallmark of hot and humid summers. De-humidifiers help, and luckily there are many natural materials that can be used as a spray to kill mold and mildew. They are all an excellent substitute for less environmentally safe bleach.
Tea tree oil, an essential oil found in most health food stores, is expensive, but nothing natural works quite as well for mold and mildew. This broad-spectrum fungicide does have a strong smell, which usually dissipates within days, so use the following recipe on moldy ceilings, musty bureaus and rugs or moldy showers.
Combine 2 teaspoons tea tree oil and 2 cups water in a spray bottle, shake to blend, and spray on problem areas. Do not rinse. Makes about 2 cups and lasts indefinitely.
Grapefruit seed extract is also expensive, yet effective, but unlike tea tree oil, it is odorless. Create a spray by combining 20 drops grapefruit seed extract with 2 cups water in a spray bottle, shake to blend, and spray on problem areas and do not rinse. It makes about 2 cups, and lasts indefinitely.
Vinegar is another natural mold and mildew remedy and by far the cheapest. Straight vinegar reportedly kills 82 percent of mold, so pour some white distilled vinegar straight into a spray bottle, spray on the moldy area, and let set without rinsing if you can put up with the smell. It will dissipate in a few hours.
For light stains, dilute the vinegar with an equal amount of water. You can also prevent mildew from forming on the bottom of rugs and carpeting by misting the backs with full-strength white vinegar from a spray bottle.
Just because your plastic shower curtain or liner gets dirty or mildewed doesn't mean you have to throw it away. Try cleaning it in your washing machine with two bath towels on the gentle setting, adding 1/2 cup baking soda to your detergent during the wash cycle and 1/2 cup vinegar during the rinse cycle. Then let it drip-dry.
A bottle of 3 percent hydrogen peroxide can also work wonders on mold and mildew. Used on its own, pour the peroxide directly on the offending area and wipe it clean.
When garments are stained with mildew, make a paste of lemon juice and salt and rub it on the affected area, then dry the clothes in sunlight. Repeat the process until the stain is gone. This works well for rust stains on clothes, too.
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Deborah Norville is a two-time Emmy-award-winning broadcast journalist and television show host, a devoted wife and mother of three, an author of four books, a tireless charitable worker, and an avid seamstress, but she can also add home decorator to her list of accomplishments.
Deborah's days are spent in a New York City television studio where she recently celebrated her 12-year anniversary as anchor of the top-rated syndicated newsmagazine show Inside Edition. She has covered such diverse stories as a day in the life of a New Jersey tollbooth worker and the funeral of former President Ronald Reagan. She garnered national attention—and two broadcasting awards—when she spent a week as an inmate at a North Carolina penal institution known as the "toughest jail in America." Fans will remember her as a former cohost of NBC's Today show and as a reporter for CBS News.
Photography: Joe Standart
Demilunes (antique): Christie's Auction House, 212/636-2000.
Art over demilunes (antique, Bessler drawings); lamps: owner's collection.
Magnolia urns: Lexington Gardens, 212/861-4390.
Paint: custom.
Sconces: owner's collection.
Journalist and author Deborah Norville combined her grandmother's heirlooms with Swedish antiques in her casually elegant living room. As children, she and her sisters used to hide their Barbie dolls in the enormous blue-and-white vase.
Striped club-chair fabric: Christopher Norman, 212/644-4100, christophernorman.com, trade only.
Striped ottoman fabric: Brunschwig & Fils, 212/838-7878, brunschwig.com, trade only.
Gold-leaf lamp: Ann Madonia Antiques, 631/283-1878.
Bronze candlesticks; engravings: Sothebys, 212/606-7000, sothebys.com.
Damask club chairs; damask sofa; Belgian clock; fireplace urns; sconces (original to house); blue-and-white vase; gilt mirror; accessories: owner's collection.
Coffee table; chair in front of window; club chairs; ottoman; rug; paint; drapery; slipper chair; striped chair fabric: owner's collection.
Detail of the damask sofa in the living room.
Deborah sewed many of the pillows, curtains, table skirts, and slipcovers found in the house, and she plans to pass her skills down to her young daughter. "For me, making stuff makes me feel good," Deborah says. "I get a real sense of accomplishment through crochet, needlepoint, and smocking."
The dining room is dominated by the hand-painted panoramic mural, which is original to the 1929 house.
Drapery: Cowtan & Tout, 212/647-6900, cowtan.com, trade only.
Sconces (original to house); dining table; dining chairs; urn: owner's collection.
Table-skirt fabric: Decorators Walk, 212/415-3955, fschumacher.com, trade only.
Rug: Patterson, Flynn & Martin, 212/688-7700, trade only.
Striped silk fabric on chair seats: Christopher Hyland, 212/688-6121, trade only.
Mural: original to house.
A closer look at the dining table's antique silver and cut crystal.
The master bedroom is done in shades of green and cream.
Drapery, dust ruffle and canopy fabric: Nobilis, 800/464-6670, trade only.
Trim: Robert Allen, 800/333-3777, robertallendesign.com, trade only.
Bedside tables: Julia Gray Ltd., 212/223-4454, trade only.
Lamp; desk: owner's collection.
Club-chair and ottoman fabric: Hinson, 212/688-5538, trade only.
Fabric on small chair by fireplace: Nobilis, 800/464-6670, trade only.
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Rasha's story is unfortunately typical of girls in Iraq: She was married off against her will at age 13.
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If you want to know what the Arab Awakening is all about, hang out with teenagers in Tunisia for an afternoon.
Indonesia, Palestine (West Bank/Gaza): VIDEO: Let youth lead the way
This week marks the start of the Global Citizen Corps (GCC) International Youth Gathering in Doha (July 23-28), where they'll discuss five key issues that are central to the GCC curriculum: environment and climate change, education, food
Indonesia: I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When I was young and all the kids in my class wanted to become a doctor or an engineer, I wanted to be a diplomat.
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My name is Angus Millar and I volunteer at the Edinburgh headquarters of Mercy Corps for two hours every week. To get a better understanding of the agency, I have decided to interview various staff members here.
Secretary of State for International Development travels to Edinburgh to meet young Scots
Last Friday, Mercy Corps took a group of three high school pupils to meet Andrew Mitchell, the Secretary of State for International Development at the Scottish Parliament.
Global Citizen Corps explores education and gender
In Western countries, the importance of education is always made clear and is valued to a large extent. The Scottish government's decision in maintaining free higher education in spite of the recent recession proves how much we treasure education and believe that it should be accessible to all.
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Jess Row is the author of the novel Your Face in Mine and two collections of short stories, The Train to Lo Wu and Nobody Ever Gets Lost. His first collection of essays, White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination, will be published in the US next year by Graywolf. In 2007, he was one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists.


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Finn "accountable" in civil court. Now how about the canonical?
Today in The New York Times, Laurie Goodstein provides an excellent summary of the evidence that led to the conviction of Kansas City, Missouri Bishop Robert Finn, noting that he is the first bishop in the U.S. to be held "accountable" for his failure to report a credible allegation of abuse to authorities. That accountablility, limited to a short, suspended term of probation, will leave him with a clean record when it's completed.
I'm not sure that's "accountability" for a failure of this magnitude--and if you doubt Finn's full knowledge of Father Shawn Ratigan's behavior, just read Goodstein's account of the submitted testimony that both prosectuion and defense agreed to. What is still lacking is Finn's canonical accountability. In short, we must wonder why the man is still the bishop of Kansas City.
As canonist and former National Lay Review Board member Nicholas Cafardi points out, both in his interview with U.S. Catholic and in comments to Religion News Service's David Gibson, there is ample evidence that Finn violated canon law, specifically canon 1389, which provides for removal of a bishop for dereliction of duty. (Recall, for example, that even after Finn had assigned Ratigan to a women's monastery as chaplain, he still allowed Ratigan to preside at youth event liturgies connected to the monastery.) Since the norms on sex abuse adopted by the U.S. bishops in 2002 have the force of canon law, and Finn clearly violated them, I see no reason why he shouldn't be removed on those grounds, as I argued in my August 2010 column.
Finn intends to stay the course--a sign to me that he is still really missing the magnitude of his failure here--and the bishop in charge of the church's response ot sex abuse, Joliet's R. Daniel Conlon, says, according to RNS' Gibson, that he didn't have all the facts of the case to comment specifically. (Really? Just read the newspaper! Or the public documents admitted to court.) I think it's safe to say, however, that there won't be any public pressure from the U.S. hierarchy for Finn to resign.
Too bad, because Finn's resignation, especially if he initiated it himself, would be the best thing for the church in the U.S. and for his diocese. Finally we would have a bishop who, instead of expressing "regret . . . for the hurt these events have caused," would instead admit that he made a mistake that fatally undermines his ministry as a bishop. Perhaps after such a conversion, he could devote the rest of his life to convincing his brother bishops to do the same.


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So after this tournament and when the next IPL comes around, who do you think will have increased/decreased in value because of their performances in the 20-20 WC?
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So after this tournament and when the next IPL comes around, who do you think will have increased/decreased in value because of their performances in the 20-20 WC?
Wasn't Umar Gul one of the cheaper players after being the best bowler in the last WC? Could it be different this time?
You'd bloody well hope so, given he has arguably been the best bowler in this tournament.
Parnell will make some money while Dilshan might break a few records.
Shake up is after next IPL, I believe. Unless there's a dramatic turn around in the performances of some of the players next year, looks like:
Going south: Ishant, Uthappa, Kaif (unless KKR decide to beef up their Indian batting), Flintoff,
Going up: Kumble, Hayden, Gilchrist, Warne, Yuvraj, Yusuf, Irfan, Dilshan, DeVilliers, RP,
Based on T20 WC performance.
Up: van der Merwe, Gul, Mendis, Bravo, Afridi, Dilshan, AB, Younis Khan
Down: Morkel, Oram, Collingwood, Dhoni, Smith
New names: Simmons, Parnell, Udana, McCullum
would be interesting how much razzaq fetches if hes allowed in
Most of the blokes who are curretnly playing in the IPL already have 3 year contracts with their respective franchises, so most of these blokes get the same amount of money during the period of their contract, so fluctuations in form won't really effect their salaries for now.
Though likes of Parnell, Guptill, Afridi, Gul, Mohd.Amir, and other such blokes, who don't have a contract with the IPL yet, are set to rake in lots of money.
Indian public hardly cares for such trivialities. There is a huge section of fans here who cheer for Pakistan when they play some other country than India (yours truly included).The decision was completely political and need not necessarily reflect the Indian public's attitude towards Pakistani cricket.


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Brian Anderson got his wish to be traded, and in the process, the White Sox apparently have added a valuable veteran piece to their bench for the playoff push over the next two months. Anderson, 27, was traded to Boston in exchange for Mark Kotsay and cash considerations on Tuesday. Kotsay, 33, is a .281 hitter with 110 home runs and 614 RBIs over 13 Major League seasons. He batted .257 with one homer and five RBIs in 27 games for the Red Sox in 2009 before being designated for assignment on July 24.
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Sox trade Brian Anderson to Boston for Mark Kotsay
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Statisticians have teamed up with experts in agriculture in order to study a number of challenging questions, including chemical pesticides, hydrogeology, veterinary sciences, genetics, and crop management. Statisticians are involved in studies ranging from small laboratory experiments to large projects conducted over many hundreds or thousands of square miles. They work on data from the smallest scale of organisms, like viruses and bacteria, to plants, insects, animals, and humans. They work with scientists from fields such as bacteriology, genetics, biochemistry, dairy science, environmental studies, entomology, plant sciences, rural sociology, veterinary medicine, wildlife, and ecology.
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2. I'm tracking my HD areas. No matter how I set it up, it gives me the same numbers for space used in each of the folders I'm tracking (root, home, media), even though each has different files/folders inside them. Can somebody point out how my code is incorrect?
3. I'd also like to track my entire HD space from Conky. I've got one hard drive, with WinXP on the initial primary, on the C: drive. When I partitioned the HD, I created a 2nd primary for the EXT4 file system, and then a logical area for the swap file. What's the code to go into Conky to show either the entire HD size, or at least the Windows partition information?
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${voffset 2}media: ${goto 57}${fs_used /media} / ${fs_size /media}${goto 140}${fs_free_perc /media}% ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,50 /media}
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Project objective is to develop, demonstrate and validate a generic automation system for factory logistics in modern factories based on advanced Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV).
Today, automation is only marginally applied to factory logistics. In fact, transportation of raw materials and final products from/to storage and shipment points usually requires manually operated forklifts. The use of robotic Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) in factory logistics is not yet widespread in manufacturing plants. For this reason, factory logistics is not well integrated into the modern manufacturing processes so far.
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* After the horrible self mutilation of my hair, I am happy to report that after a three hour marathon session at the salon, that it is mostly back to normal. I had a gift card to one of those really trendy spa/salon places where only people with origami creations for hair work. The woman who did my hair did not judge me, but more than once asked me if I would ever cut my own hair again. I'm fairly certain that I learned my lesson and will never ever ever again cut or color my own hair. I can't make any promises because sometimes if I forget to take my meds for a few days, I do strange things (like cut my own hair or actually wash the dishes by hand or other such nonsense) but I'm hoping I will be able to restrain myself. The finished result looks like this (which, by the way, it feels sooooo weird taking a picture of myself- I mean really, really, awkward) :
Also- this gray shirt and pink scarf have become my winter uniform. It is currently the only thing that I can get on since I have also outgrown my spanx- therefore seriously limiting my wardrobe. I need an intervention. You know it's bad when you outgrow your spanx and your underwear.
* Miles' eye is healing beautifully after surgery! He still looks like himself which makes me so happy. He's having surgery on the other eye tomorrow. I'm trying to prepare myself for how awful the experience will be, but also focusing on how awesome it will be when he can see out of both eyes! I watched a ptosis surgery on youtube which was a huge mistake. I've learned that NO good can come of watching your own or your child's upcoming surgeries on youtube. It will freak you out. I don't recommend it.
* Our foster care certification classes start in just 3 1/2 weeks! I'm so excited I can hardly stand it!
* On Saturday night I hosted the MRG gal pals for a Christmas party. I tortured myself trying to get the house presentable. If you ever come to my house to spend the night you will totally be sleeping on Sponge Bob and Hello Kitty sheets. I make no apologies for that. And, of course, when you are having company, something unexpected always happens- like the toilet exploding that takes up a huge chunk of your day. (For the record- I hate all crises that involve toilets.) I also spent too much time on pinterest which has me convinced that I need to be able to make things like cute foods and serve festive drinks and make my home look like a homemade Pottery Barn catalogue. My best attempt was brownies out of the box and ordering food from the restaurant down the street and buying a plastic tablecloth that looked like lace. Faux lace. What will they think of next? Anyway- a wonderful time was had by all. I only have seating for four in my living room so there were women sprawled out all over the floor, laughing and having a grand time. I think laying on the floor laughing until your cheeks hurt is the best way to spend an evening. Ironically, a regional women's magazine is doing a piece on our group that is scheduled to run in their January issue which just cracks me the heck up- being as how our group doesn't "do" anything but drink cocktails and giggle. It will be interesting to see how they spin the story of how all of us strangers who met on the Internet became fast friends who do things like text each other during childbirth and colonoscopy prep.
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* I am reading Ashley Judd's memoir, All That Is Bitter and Sweet, and it is changing my life. I've tried to tell her how much I love it and tried to get her involved in our Congo stuff so many times on twitter that I'm fairly certain she thinks that I am a stalker. Let's face it. I am. My next plan of action is to make a giant sign for her at the next home UK basketball game (she's a HUGE fan) with my phone number on it. It will say "Ashley! You and I can be BFFs! Call me!" I am just nutty enough to think it will work. But truly, it is a great book about advocacy and world issues and dealing with personal demons. I highly recommend it.
* Noah's school Christmas play is on Thursday. His one and only line is "V IS FOR VIRGIN!" which he is practicing hundreds of times a day with serious gusto. There is a LOT of virgin talk going on round these parts, which to me, is hilarious coming from a five year old. I am ever so proud.
* We finally put up our Christmas tree. It is 93% homemade, tacky, kid created ornaments and I wouldn't have it any other way. My favorite little part of the tree are the Congolese and American flags that Sadie made.
...And a certain little wild man got to put the star on top of the tree this year.
* Our twelve days of Christmas kindness (our family's Christmas service project tradition) kicks off today. We may be a little bit derailed since one of the children is flaked out on the couch with pink eye. (Isn't that just what you want going around when another of the kids is having eye surgery tomorrow?) Perhaps we will be ministering to the nurses at the doctor's office? Be on the lookout for lots of posts on ways to get your kiddos of any age involved in giving back. It is one of the things that we do that I look most forward to every single year.
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
Streak Struck Down!
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- AnonymousJune 20, 2010 at 12:37 AM
Joe - Tough loss today, but we've got Santana going tomorrow and I'm optimistic. Let's take the rubber game!ReplyDelete
I love the two-pagers for the huge, important series - if the Mets make the playoffs, will you grace us with more two-page spreads? I really hope so. Mets have to make the playoffs first, though. Also, great work over at ESPN! Really clever stuff, and excellently done!
- AnonymousJune 20, 2010 at 1:32 AM
Thank you for your sketches...as I said on Facebook, your sketches always make me smile, even after a loss (and that's when I really need one!) I'm hoping you get to draw another "Happy Santana" face on Sunday! LGM! Thanks, Joe!ReplyDelete
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