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Roman Shade
Brand: Levolor
Roman Shade
Brand: Levolor
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The Levolor Roman Shade gives your windows the look of luxurious fabric at an affordable price. Add depth and dramatic presentation to any room thanks to the beautiful folds of Roman shades, coupled with a huge palette of designer fabrics.Read More.
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The Levolor Roman Shade gives your windows the look of luxurious fabric at an affordable price. Add depth and dramatic presentation to any room thanks to the beautiful folds of Roman shades, coupled with a huge palette of designer fabrics. With a rich collection of colors, ranging from bold solids to neutrals plus a wide selection of patterns and silks, the Levolor Roman Shades offer the color and style you need for your decor. Find a number of other control and valance options to give you one of the most versatile shades available for a truly custom window treatment.
Install Time: 15 - 20 minutes
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Levolor Roman Shades are offered in two distinct styles to suit your taste.The flat fold offers clean and modern lines, while the Hobbled fold lends a richer feel with softly curving folds.
Cordlesscontrols remove clutter and create a cleaner design aesthetic.
Top-down/bottom-up provides more privacy and light control.
For wider windows, Continuous cord loop is recommended for easy operation.
The addition of decorative trims, fringes and scalloped hems is a creative way to add style to your shade. Scalloped hems add a tailored appearance, while trim or fringes outline the scallop.
To complete the coordinated custom look, choose the elegant fabric-wrapped optional valance.
For inside mounted shades, the manufacturer will deduct 3/8" for a better fit in your window. If you want room darkening options, you may consider an outside mount to block more light.
Comes standard with a color-matching metal valance.
Child Safety Information:
This product has accessible cords and is not recommended for windows where children or pets may be present.
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With SureFit™, a Blinds.com exclusive, we make sure you have complete peace of mind when measuring for any product we offer.
If you made a mistake measuring your blind, we'll remake it at no cost to you. You don't even pay for the return shipping of your old blind! You only pay if there's a difference in price between your old and new blind, or if the new blind requires a shipping fee (generally, this applies when it's over 94" wide).
Limit 1 remake per item; 4 remakes per household per lifetime (unless the error is ours, in which case, we'll make it right!). Same-product exchanges only, within 30 calendar days of receipt of package. Refunds are not offered under this guarantee. New blind must be the same product as the old blind and changes are restricted to only size and mount. Commercial orders do not qualify.
Product Specifications
Standard Blind Specifications
- Minimum Width: 17"
- Maximum Width: 144"
- Minimum Height: 18"
- Maximum Height: 120"
- Approximate Inside Mount Deduction: 3/8"
Mounting Requirements
- Minimum Inside Mount Depth (standard corded & corded TDBU): 5/8"
- Minimum Inside Mount Depth (cordless, ccl & cordless TDBU): 1/2"
- Minimum Inside Mount Depth (fully recessed - standard corded & corded TDBU): 2 1/4"
- Minimum Inside Mount Depth (fully recessed - cordless, ccl & cordless TDBU): 2 1/8"
- Minimum Outside Mounting Surface: 1 1/4"
Optional Upgrades:
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- Wooden Headrail with Valance
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- Decorative Hem with Trim
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Wootalyzer's Pricing Post! - The price of today's woot item is saved here for future reference------------------------------------------------------------Haan Sanitizing Garment Steamer$49.99 + $5 ShippingCondition: New*DISCLAIMER* Wootalyzer! is in no way affiliated with Woot!, and this post may not always be here!
normally $175
Amazon Review - 3 out of 5 stars
That totally looks like the slim and trim version of a dalek. EXTERMINATE!
I just got this in my Bunnies Ogling Carrots earlier this week... haven't used it yet but Amazon price is $170 with mixed reviews. Price alone looks like a great deal.
Haan.... not hand!
It looks like some kind of portable shower system to use on the go in 2035.
please do not misread this brand name and attempt to use this extremely hot device as a *hand* sanitizer.
Here is the actual product on the manufacturers site. Definitely a good price on woot! I might get one as a gift for my mother in law!
When it says not to steam garments while wearing them, that is NO JOKE! Talk about your hot tamales! Ouch.
I reactivated my WOOT account just to say: "speechless."
Would this be good for an RV-dwelling couple to alternate and space out laundry trips?
That's one hell of a pogo stick! It will be great for my Noid Costume
What kind of water does the machine require for optimal use? Per the manufacturer:
"While it is acceptable to use
regular tap water, if the tap
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we recommend you use
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CowboyDann wrote:That's one hell of a pogo stick! It will be great for my Noid Costume
That was such an awesome game! mmmm pizza
I bet this would be good to de-flea dog crates and bedding.
luvche21 wrote:That totally looks like the slim and trim version of a dalek. EXTERMINATE!
Just don't be confused about what you're getting; this is a Haan Sanitizing apparatus, NOT a hand sanitizing apparatus.
In for 1. My Woot shirts deserve the finest of care.
The reviews on Amazon re: the customer service for Haan are horrible!
I was going to push the giant button (I need a steamer) but they changed my mind.
The 5-star reviews seem suspect, too. It is the only review for one of them.
krumble wrote:The reviews on Amazon re: the customer service for Haan are horrible!
I was going to push the giant button (I need a steamer) but they changed my mind.
The 5-star reviews seem suspect, too. It is the only review for one of them.
This Looks Like a Portable, Wireless, Satellite-Enabled, woot-off Amber Light Strobe!
Here's the owners manual if there's any confusion.
Was interested until I read the bad reviews
If my clothes get infected by bedbugs in a hotel will this provide the steam necessary to keep my clothes instead of throw them out?
rolede wrote:Was interested until I read the bad reviews
Ditto. For $60 you can buy a steamer with much better reviews.
If anyone buys it, consider using Amex for double the warranty period.
I decided to take a chance on the steamer/sanitizer, given the substantial discount. So often my wrinkle-free shirts and pants are left in the dryer and become super wrinkly. If this helps with this problem, it will be well worth the purchase.
BB&B has a glowing review
For those of you who are thinking about trying a garment steamer for the first time:
I can't speak for this brand, but I purchased my first Garment Steamer from Woot! awhile back and have not touched my Iron since. It's so much easier for me to throw a shirt on a hanger, turn on the steamer, brush my teeth or finish other parts of my morninig routine' while the steamer ramps up (only takes about a minute or two) then quickly take any wrinkles out of the shirt. Since I wash my clothes in very small loads and am often too lazy to take then out of the clothes basket and fold them (one of the the luxuries of being single I guess) the steamer works out perfectly. I was on the fence for a long time on deciding to buy a garment steamer vs. the iron I have always used, now I will never go back to ironing.
You can use this to sanitize your Dreamie bag from yesterday, after staying in a fleabag motel to save a couple of bucks that you spent on Woot!!!
Always looking for a miracle and I LOVE steamers for cleaning floor so I've used several of these over the years. Different brands and bars of steaming pressure, but similar results so I can say with some authority, it depends on what you own, want it for. For permanent press (no-iron stuff) it works. It's faster than an iron, you won't get 'pressed' look, but it's sufficient that no one thinks of you as unkempt.
If you have mostly cotton, linen, things that need some heavy pressing, deep wrinkles (anything BUT the no-iron stuff or polyester) forget it. It's a waste of time, effort, and money. Give up the dream no brand will work well. You need to invest in a new wardrobe and change your taste in clothing. That's why you see such a difference in reviews--it depends on what the reviewer is trying to steam and how set those wrinkles are. Put your clothes back in the dryer with a damp towel, if that removes most of the wrinkles a steamer will work. If not... give this woot a miss.
Would encourage people considering this purchase to actually find the "Jiffy Steamer J-2000" on Amazon and check out it's reviews just for kicks.
Compare with Jiffy!
Price and wattage on the Haan product is certainly tempting
check out the sunbeam steamer s1400:-)
No one has said "exSTEAMinate" yet? For shame...
Oh My Fruitful Garden YES! Hopefully my husband doesn't notice, he may not be able to resist! :D
Can I use this on my dogs and cats? What about on my turtle? Or my guppies? Or my canary?
Also, can I use it on my house plants?
Would this be effective on toenail fungus? How about for earwax removal?
I've been reading reviews of steamers for months and have found at least two of the following problems with every one (many brands of handheld and canister steamers):
1. Not enough steam to make a difference
2. Falls apart within a month
3. Spews boiling water
4. Leaks boiling water
5. Lousy customer service
There are many reported burns and even one fire.
I think my Roman Shades are destined to stay wrinkled forever, unless my steam iron will help while holding it upright. sigh.
Wouldn't you think at least one manufacturer could put together a product that works and doesn't harm the user?
I've had one of these (hann) for about 2-3 years now, it only takes 15-20 seconds to start to steam, and I have had zero issues with it. Would buy another if I could find a reason to do so....
I looks like Rosie from the Jetsons>>>NAKED! Ahhhhh! Cover her up for goodness sakes
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"This is a great treat from the grill," writes Carole R Fraser of North York, Ontario. "It's easy to prepare and everyone will ask for seconds. My family looks forward to it all summer long!"
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- 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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- 3 medium peaches, halved
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- In a small bowl, beat cream until it begins to thicken. Add the brown sugar, vanilla and lemon peel; beat until stiff peaks form. Cover and refrigerate until serving.
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Re: Give way when hoisting the main?
nolatom - thanks for the very helpful clarification, and your expansion to include the unanticipated consequence of becoming a "power vessel" as a last ditch effort to avoid collision.
As I said, You are definitely my first choice for lawyer should I ever need one! (Here's hoping I never do.... In which case I'll just buy you a drink should our paths ever cross :-)
Re: Give way when hoisting the main?
Nothing is certain in love, war, or how to apportion fault in most vessel collisions.
But starting up and using the engine as a "last ditch" maneuver to avoid, or try to avoid collsion is probably within the things Rule 17(b) means when it says "...if collision cannot be avoided by the action of the give-way vessel alone, she (meaining the stand-on vessel) shall take such action as will best aid to avoid collision".
So you may be wrong NOT to use engine if you could have, in what we call the "jaws of collision" or "in extremis". And if you guessed wrong about whether to turn this way or that "in extremis" even though it was an arguably reasonable "bail-out" try at the time (though maybe not in retrospect), the maritime law tends to look with a more understanding view of "error in extremis" when that error resulted from a tough choice with too little time to think about it, forced upon you by the other vessel (who should have given way much earlier) .
So a definite "maybe" to your very good question. But using your engine at the last second in such a crisis in order to turn away when everything before that was pure sail, "most probably" wouldn't change your pre-existing status as a sailboat for the application of the "sail over Power" provisions of rule 18
Re: Give way when hoisting the main?
Lesley - the only advise I can offer is be vigilant and assume nothing. One thing many folks forget is that you can avoidance some collisions by slowing down.
Re: Give way when hoisting the main?
jackdale - that one makes perfect sense to me. You are required to mark your position at anchor, as an obstacle to be avoided. You are going to need a working anchor light, or stand watch all night to alert other boats if your anchor light is non-functional for some reason.
I am mostly curious about what happens when you are doing your best to avoid a collision and one happens anyway due to the actions of another. It can get particularly hairy on a crowded river during weekends and holidays on the Chesapeake. As a result I avoid sailing at those times, rather than deal with boaters who have no idea what the ColRegs are, and the only radio station they have tuned is Top 40 blasting out loud enough that the entire river can marvel at their lack of taste in music.
Re: Give way when hoisting the main?
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nolatum - I want you for my attorney should I ever need one!
Legal question, out of curiosity: If the sailboat engaged gear and attempted to avoid collision, but the a$$hat ran him down anyway - who would be at fault then? Still 50/50? Sailboat didn't have a crystal ball to see what a$$hat was going to do and failed to engage power soon enough to avoid a madman intent on running him down?
Just curious. I grew up in a legal family, and in a lawfirm. But maritime law was never my speciality, and I realize how very little I know of maritime law.
Thanks in advance.
I know of one case where a sailboat at anchor without proper lighting was held solely responsible for a collision when hit be a powerboat.
Re: Give way when hoisting the main?
nolatum - I want you for my attorney should I ever need one!
Legal question, out of curiosity: If the sailboat engaged gear and attempted to avoid collision, but the a$$hat ran him down anyway - who would be at fault then? Still 50/50? Sailboat didn't have a crystal ball to see what a$$hat was going to do and failed to engage power soon enough to avoid a madman intent on running him down?
Just curious. I grew up in a legal family, and in a lawfirm. But maritime law was never my speciality, and I realize how very little I know of maritime law.
Thanks in advance.
Re: Give way when hoisting the main?
SeaLife - LOL! I love the surrender flag analogy.
And yes, I definitely steer clear of boats hoisting their sails, and make sure I'm well clear of other boats before I start to hoist mine. It's a given that something will go horribly wrong at the most inopportune moment.
It seems a perfect example of what is wrong with our entire tort legal system in the United States. Common sense and courtesy go out the window when there is a "letter of the law" involved. Regardless of the hair-splitting, it simply seems a matter of good seamanship to recognize another boat in a moment of difficulty, and obligingly respond.
Your ability to manoeuvre is restricted.
Plus you are waving a huge white floppy flag in surrender.
Give way when hoisting the main?
Courtesy and common sense seem to be the best rules to follow. I have sailed in Maine most of my life, only in the Chesapeake the last couple of years.
Seem to be lots of Asshats in the Chesapeake. Or those who feel "entitled". Lots of nice people too about 80/20. 80 nice 20 Asshat. Given the boating population in the Chesapeake vs Maine I guess I am more likely to run into more of the 20%
Yet I never had these issues in Maine.
Re: Give way when hoisting the main?
And yet once again I am compelled to point out that we are not talking about driving our cars here. There is no such thing as "right of way." In this context, it does not exist. There is a stand-on vessel, and there is a give-way vessel. In any case, both vessels always have equal responsibility to avoid a collision.
Re: Give way when hoisting the main?
Originally Posted by RobGallagher View Post
Here, in MHO is the kicker regarding the engine running but engaged or not engaged and what that means:
You engine is running, not engaged, you are raising sail.
The asshat is coming at you whilst you are raising sail and refuses to give way.
You call him on the VHF and inform him that you cannot make way, ask him to give way.
He declines.
You both collide. You are each 50% at fault.
Why? He could have given way and chose not to. You could have engaged the engine and given way but chose not too.
(a) Nothing in these Rules shall exonerate any vessel, or the owner,
master or crew thereof, from the consequences of any neglect to comply
with these Rules or of the neglect of any precaution which may be required
by the ordinary practice of seamen, or by the special circumstances of the
(b) In construing and complying with these Rules due regard shall be had
to all dangers of navigation and collision and to any special circumstances,
including the limitations of the vessels involved, which may make a
departure from these Rules necessary to avoid immediate danger.
To be ever more clear, there is no such thing as right or wrong as long as there is no collision. If there is collision, unless you are sleeping, at a dock, in a marina, or moored in a special anchorage, be prepared to take some % of responsibility.
Everything else is just talking points.
Quite true, there is no "right of way into collision" Rule 17(b) makes this crystal clear. But up until that "extremis" situation where you have to bail out despite being "stand-on", one of those vessels is privileged, the other burdened. Let's turn to the raising sail guy with engine in neutral, what is he under the rules? sail? sail and motor? motor only? restricted in ability to maneuver? Not under Command? hard to tell from a distance, especially for non-sailors--hence the rules advise/require lights and day shapes to let someone know, and common sense says use the VHF and a loud hailer for people close whom you want to inform.
How'd mister raising-sail get to where he is, by motor? the one he just took out of gear? I say motorboat. By sail? (let's say jib was up first, hence the headway to have gotten to where he is) then he's a sailboat, and asshat is give-way if he's a powerboat and stand-on if he's a sailboat on starboard tack and not overtaking you. Drifting, no sail up? He's treated like a motorboat then, give way to asshat on your starboard side. Sail half up but still luffing, no headway, no steerage? Then you remain what you were before you hauled on the halyard. (hint: if you're drifting and have means of propulsion but they are not being used, you're still underway and you have to comply with the rules, and the Rules make you have to be SOMETHING, not nothing). Is he legally restricted in ability to maneuver, hence privileged? No way, see the discussion above in this thread. Is he Not under Command? No, he has the means to maneuver.
Asshat is going to have partial fault at least under rule 17 for proceeding into a collision he couldve steered out of regardless of whether he was stand-on, but the above distinctions will determine if you will also have partial fault, or possibly none (and yes, it does happen, not often but it does).
See how simple and easy to discern this is (not!)? That's why courtesy and early indication of what you are going to do (by both vessels) is "the carpet on life's floor". Please roll it out, and thank those who rolled it out for you. And sailors (most of us anyway) seem to be better at this than the remaining boating public, with the exception of commercial mariners.
Sorry to get technical about this--maritime attorney and license holder, and part-time sailing instructor, so i do this for a living, I can't help myself ;-) And no criticism of anyone else's view is intended, except to just say what I think the rules are. And ultimately they are about what you can convince a judge they are, in an individual case. Which tends to be about educating the judge.
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It's hard not to think of Napa Valley when thinking of California wines. The region is, after all, the one that brought world recognition to California wine making. The area was settled by a few choice wine families in the 1960's who bet that the wines of the area would grow and flourish. They were right. The Napa wine industry really took off in the 1980's, when vineyard lands were scooped up and vines were planted throughout the county. A number of wineries emerged, from large conglomerates to small boutiques to cult classics. Cabernet Sauvignon is definitely the grape of choice here, with many winemakers also focusing on Bordeaux Blends. Whites are usually Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.
Notable FactsWithin the Napa Valley lie smaller sub-AVAs that lend even more character specifics to the wines. Furthest south is Carneros, followed by Yountville, Oakville & Rutherford. Above those two is St.-Helena and finally, just granted an AVA, Calistoga. These areas are situated on the valley floor and are known for creating rich, smooth Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Chardonnay. There are a few mountain regions as well, nestled on the slopes overlooking the valley AVAs. Those include Howell Mountain, Stags Leap and Mount Veeder. Wines from the mountain regions are often more structured and firm, benefiting from more time in the bottle to evolve and soften.
About California
The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs.


text: With this year coming to a close I wanted to review the season, what has happened to the team, and what may lie ahead. This is my first attempt, so please be gentle. After reaching the World Series last year, the team had great aspirations for this season, especially keeping the team mostly intact and adding Sheffield. Unfortunately, it didn't play out as we've all hoped: While team managed to stay relatively injury-free last year, this year was a different matter. Rogers, Tigers' 17 game winner from the previous season and team's pitching leader missed most of the season with an ailment. Sheffield, who was really hot, injured his shoulder, and after missing a chunk of the season came back not at full strength and his hitting suffered significantly. Instead of hitting the ball out of the ballpark as he did prior to injury, he kept hitting pop ups and his batting average slipped over 40 pts. Rodney and Zumaya, who kept the bullpen together last year, missed a part of the season with injuries, and it took them a while to get back into shape.Last year Tigers received outstanding pitching from Bonderman and Robertson. While both guys started out on a high note, Robertson began struggling in a pretty bad way and had to miss some time with tired arm. He came back after that but for the most part was ineffective. His ERA is up by about a run after continuously dropping ever since his first year with Detroit. Bonderman was great during the first half of the season, and he was one of the main reasons Tigers were able to stay on top while the offense struggled in the early part of the season. However, later it was a different story. The guy went from stud to dud and after having a 10-1 record in the middle of July with an ERA of 3.5 he ends year early with elbow problems with an 11-9 record and 5.01 ERA. His ERA comparatively to the last season went up by about a run. This was significant, considering that those two combined for 27 wins last season and gave the team about 70 more innings pitched.Nobody stepped up beyond Verlander, Bonderman, and Robertson. Miller didn't look ready, and Jurrjiens is too young.Tigers lost significant production from Craig Monroe (.255 28hr 92rbi in 2006) and Brandon Inge (.253 27hr 83rbi). Monroe slipped so much that team waived him and traded him for virtually nothing to Cubs. Marcus Thames, given a chance in the outfield, proven that he is not an everyday player Tigers hoped he could become and the outfield was filled by committee of Thames, Rayburn, Maybin, and Perez. Clearly, Maybin is not ready for the majors yet. Perez, while hitting for a high average this season, has shown no power. And Rayburn is not the best defensive outfielder out there. Inge's defense remained top notch and that's what saved his roster spot because his offense practically evaporated. Tigers tried Mike Hessman at 1st and 3rd. The guy has tremendous power to the pull field, but he's not making enough contact and strikes out way too much.Tigers didn't get much production from Sean Casey at 1st. While he's hitting close to .300, he shows that he has no power left with only 4hr and 52rbi on the year.Tigers have no backup catcher. Rabelo was more or less adequate hitting-wise, but he struggled calling the games.The team seemed unable to get a clutch hit to win tight games. Last year they won a lot more of those.Leyland's magic seems to have disappeared. If every move he made last year happened to be the correct move for the situation, there were many questions about the moves he made this year. Seemed like he would pull a pitcher too early from the game, or leave a pitcher in for too long. Sometimes there were questions about the lineup for the game. I guess, this is a different season.All those reasons contributed to the slide that team could not stop and slid right out of contention for the playoff spot, punctuated by the 3-game sweep by Indians in Cleveland, where Tigers led in every game. The offense wasn't able to add runs when they had a pitcher on the ropes, and the pitching staff wasn't able to hold the leads. I say all in all it was a fairly successful season, especially considering all the injuries that team had to play through. They were still in the middle of the playoff race with a couple of weeks left in the season. The fans seem to have come back, especially with Tigers being the only show in town during the summer months. The team is planning to add more seats to accommodate increased attendance. Now, onto the next season. The team should remain in contention for the foreseeable future with the players in place. Dombrowski has done a tremendous job assembling this team and he has more work to do to address the issues at hand. I want to look at Tigers roster position-by-position: 1B – Casey is gone. The team needs some power at that position. It is possible that Guillen would move to that spot, and that would be preferable by me. By moving Carlos to 1B, Tigers should be able to keep him and his knees healthier. His knees also limited his range at SS and he's been making more errors and less plays on the ball. 2B – Polanco is here to stay. The guy is true professional. He is one of the best hitters in baseball. He set a record for the errorless games played in a row. He will most likely remain in #2 spot in the lineup 3B – This is a tough one. Brandon Inge needs to get some serious batting practice in. He also needs to clear his head. The guy is clearly one of the best, if not the best defensive 3rd basement in the MLB, but he needs to hit to stay in the lineup. Mike Hessman is not an answer either at 3rd or 1st. He strikes out too much and doesn't make enough contact. I would assume that Brandon will have a short leash next season. SS – Another open question. Do Tigers acquire a SS and move Guillen to 1st or do they acquire a 1st baseman and keep Guillen at SS? The only option on the roster to fill the SS position is light-hitting Santiago, whose bat will most likely keep him out of the lineup. CF – This is one of the positions on the team where there are no questions. Granderson had a great season. He increased his batting average, hit more home runs, drove more runs in, he stole many more bases while being caught only once. He cut down on his strikeouts by about 20%, and while it still remains an issue, he will work on it and should improve. Because of that I don't think he should be in a leadoff spot. The guy with power who has a tendency to strike out is not your ideal leadoff hitter. I know those are hard to come by, so Granderson may spend another year in that position. RF – Magglio finally plays up to his contract. If Sheffield stays healthy, Ordonez may be right in the middle of the MVP races. Unfortunately with Sheffield injured, Magglio didn't have many runners to drive in and his production tapered off somewhat closer to the season end. Despite that, he still hits for high average and leads MLB in batting average. LF – either the team is going to sign a free agent or it will be the same "by committee" approach. Leyland said that if the committee can save enough money to spend on a marquee free agent, he's all for it. He likes Rayburn and he also likes Thames, but as a part-time player. C – Tigers will probably pick up the option on Pudge since they have nobody else. And while he is on the decline, his numbers are still more than adequate for a catcher position and he's still on the top of the game defensively. He keeps himself in such a great shape that his stamina should not come in question. Hopefully, Wilson will be back next year to give Pudge more of a break. DH – Sheffield needs to get healthy and into the form he showed in May and June. He'll be an everyday designed hitter next year. SP – Tigers have 3 guys who will be in the rotation next season – Verlander, Bonderman, and Robertson. Beyond that it is all open. The team is seriously considering bringing Rogers back, obviously depending on his health. It may not be a bad move, but the team should look at the FA market to see if possibly a better option is available. The team needs veteran pitching presence to lead all the youngsters. Bonderman, still an enigma. He's shown enough promise, but hasn't shown that he can be consistently good. He needs to hone his off-speed pitches if he is to become a good consistent starter. Not sure what Robertson's exact issues are, but he needs to be better. He's one of the guys who always get low run support for some reason, but he needs to pitch better. Verlander is the ace of the staff right now and he should only get better. The 5th spot in the rotation is wide open. I am not sure whether Miller or Jurrjens for that matter will be ready next season. Miller needs an off-speed pitch badly since hitters just sit at his fast balls. Jurrjens is very young and another year in the minors wouldn't hurt. He may be more ready for the major leagues than Miller at this time. RP – Byrdak and Seay should be back as left-handed relievers. Rodney and Zumaya will be counted on even more next season. Hopefully they can stay healthy and display the same form they came back to close to the season's end. Durbin could be a middle reliever. The question is what is going to happen with Jones. I think team would like to bring him in for another year, but he may get a 2-year offer from another team that Tigers wouldn't be willing to match. Also, they may want to bring him in a different role, even though he said that prefers to close. Zoom may be ready to step into the closer's role next season. I don't know what is going to happen with Grilli. He started poorly, but he had to pitch a lot more than was prudent due to the fact that starters struggled. He's been much better towards the end of the season. How does that play out I am not sure. Farm system – I don't see anyone in the minors that the Tigers could count on to produce the next season. Shelton has been a big disappointment down at Toledo. There are a few guys in the A and AA levels that could be contributing in a year or two, but nobody who could help next season. Look for Tigers to be active during the offseason. Ilich also said that his wallet is still open. The Tigers need a power-hitting left hander. They struggled mightily against the right handers all year long. If Tigers can address their needs adequately, they should be on the top again next season.


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1 Using Rules in GHC
GHC's rewrite rules (invoked by the RULE pragma) offer a powerful way to optimise your program. This page is place for people who use rewrite rules to collect thoughts about how to use them.
If you aren't already familiar with RULES, read this stuff first:
- The relevant section of the GHC user manual
- Playing by the rules: rewriting as a practical optimisation technique in GHC. This paper, from the 2001 Haskell workshop, describes the idea of rewrite rules.
1.1 Advice about using rewrite rules
- Remember to use the flag -fglasgow-exts and the optimisation flag -O
- Use the flag -ddump-simpl-stats to see how many rules actually fired.
- For even more detail use -ddump-simpl-stats -ddump-simpl-iterations to see the core code at each iteration of the simplifer. Note that this produces lots of output so you'll want to direct the output to a file or pipe it to less. Looking at the output of this can help you figure out why rules are not firing when you expect them to do so.
- You need to be careful that your identifiers aren't inlined before your RULES have a chance to fire. To control this we add an INLINE [1] pragma to identifiers we want to match in rules, to ensure they haven't disappeared by the time the rule matching comes around.


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Physicians at Cornell University say have succeeded in building a replica of the human ear that looks and acts like a real ear. And that's good news for the thousands of children born with congenital ear deformity every year and those who have lost an ear to accident or cancer.
They did it with the help of a 3D Printer. Instead of ink, this printer uses a gel made of living cells. Once these ears were put together, they continued to steadily grow cartilage to replace the bio-material used to mold them.
Replacement ears are now constructed out of a Styrofoam-like material with a base sometimes made by harvesting a rib from the patient. That surgery can be painful and very scary for young patients. For these replacement ears, a combination of a laser scan and panoramic photo is used on the patient and it only takes 30 seconds to complete Plus it it only takes a week to make these new ears.
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The Venetian Works of defence between 15th and 17th centuries
Permanent Delegation of Italy to UNESCO
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The system composed by the Venetian Works of defence between 15th and 17th centuries is the proposed nomination of a serial transnational site to the World Heritage List; it is representative of the more complex defensive system, designed and built by the Serenissima Republic of Venice in order to control its territories and the commercial routes leading to the East.
The site extends for more than 1.000 km from the Pre Alps of Lombardy to the Eastern coast of the Adriatic, in the area between the western outpost (Bergamo, Italy) and the Bay of Kotor (Montenegro). Between the Stato di Terra (State of Land: Lombard-Venetian) and the Stato di Mare (State of Sea: Croatia, Montenegro), this unique and ancient enclave bears nowadays significant examples of the Venetian fortifications, important testimony of the interaction among peoples and, more in general, of the culture expressed by Venice in the world.
The components of the nominated property summarize the most representative expression of the defensive system –still evident at present- conceived as a real network, where any fortified element played a precise role within a wide and unitary project. The Serenissima Republic of Venice, in fact, tests and completes in a vast territory a new defensive system – technically recognized as "alla moderna" ("modern style")- characterizing the period of time between XV and XVII century.
During the first phase, that can be considered as "transitional", Venice undertakes a series of interventions and experiments, revealing the evolution from the medieval warfare techniques to the new and modern defensive systems (end of XV century). But it is in XVI century that the most advanced Venetian military structures see their maximum diffusion as they were to resist the newly invented firearms. Finally the XVII century is characterized by the completion of the previously started works and by the improvement of the defensive techniques, which represent as a whole outstanding examples of the new military architecture.
The site is composed by a series of complex fortified systems (Bergamo), forts (Fort of Sant'Andrea in Venice), and fortified cities designed ex novo (Palmanova), or based on the reconstruction of existing structures (Peschiera del Garda). These structures are still highly connoting the urban and geo-morphological context they are in.
This extraordinary operation conducted by Venice at a such vast territorial scale was carried out thanks to an impressive circulation of professionals, the fortifications' architects themselves and of a consistent heritage of treaties; at the same time, regulations, social models and new type of governance led Venetian culture to merge with the cultures from the Eastern Adriatic sea and from here, by land, to the East: all territories where numerous and various material and immaterial evidences of the Venetian centuries-old presence remain.
Because of this variety of aspects, the nomination proposal is representative of a system formed by a series of components which are interdependent from one another and, at the same time, constitute systems with their own precise and recognizable connotation.
Nom(s) de l'élément/des éléments constitutif(s)
1.c Name(s) of the national component part(s)
1.d State, Province or Region
1.e Coordinates
Fortified city of Bergamo
Italy, Bergamo
Defensive system of Peschiera del Garda
Italy, Peschiera del Garda
City fortress of Palmanova
Italy, Palmanova
Defensive system of the Venetian Lagoon: Arsenal,
Fort of Sant'Andrea, Fortified Octagons, Fort of San Felice
Italy, Venice and Chioggia
Description de l'élément/des éléments constitutif(s)
Italy: Fortified city of Bergamo, Defensive system of Peschiera del Garda, City fortress of Palmanova, Defensive system of the Venetian Lagoon.
In order to achieve the most complete representativeness of the site, the selection of the Italian components with Bergamo, Peschiera del Garda and Palmanova, is representative of the most significant fortifications in the State of Land, while the lagoon defensive system (Venezia-Chioggia) represents the connection between the mainland and the State of Sea, here represented by the components of Croatia and Montenegro.
Fortified city of Bergamo
Under the Venetian rule since 1428, Bergamo represented the more western urban outpost of the inland domain; therefore Venice decided to strengthen the existing fortifications in order to defend the commercial routes along the trans-alpines commercial routes leading to the centre of Europe and to preserve the arms and artifacts trafficking between the iron mines of Bergamo and the Arsenal of Venice.
After rejecting some projects because considered too expensive, Venice decided in 1561 to fortify the high part of the city, partly reshaping the existing walls following the project by General Sforza Pallavicino. The works proved to be complex and caused the demolition of most of the Villages outside to the walls and of the most beloved religious monuments.
After 30 years of intense work the walls were completed and extended for more than 5000 meters, encircling most of the high city following a north-west south-east sloping (from 438 to 250 meters) and accessible through four urban doors. Its shape, adapted to the hills, is significantly different from other wall curtains inspired by theoretical ideal forms (Palmanova first, Peschiera del Garda).
In fact the wall curtain is continuous but composed by lines all converging to 11 bulwarks and 5 platforms in a series of spallarms, curtains, tenailles, all different.
Two external structures are connected to the walls: the existing fort linked to the north-west bulwarks by a covered passage and the Fort of San Domenico on the opposite side.
Summarizing, it is an articulated and complex defensive structure that demonstrates Venetian engineers will to adopt solutions not always compatible with the coeval treaties, but inspired by the peculiarities of the places, which suggest planning solutions.
Defensive system of Peschiera del Garda
Peschiera represents a unique example of adaptation of geometrical military schemes to an outstanding geomorphological context, characterized by the presence of the river and the lake. Its position –at the entrance of the river Mincio, on the south shore of the Garda lake- was strategic for the defense of the Venetian territories on the Garda at risk of attack by the Empire; it also played an important role as a link to other Venetian cities such as Bergamo, Brescia and Orzinuovi.
Conquered by the Venetians in 1441, Peschiera was redesigned following the ambitious project of the complete substitution of the preexisting medieval walls. The project, proposed by the Governor Guidobaldo II della Rovere, was approved by the Senate in 1549 thanks to the known military skills of the Superintendent Giulio Savorgnan. The project encircles the existing city and the portion of river in it, within a set of almost pentagonal walls, considered ideal for a fortress. The curtain of walls has five bulwarks, three on the south-western side and two on the opposite side.
These two entities of the city were connected on the south side by a masonry bridge sustained by 5 sets of arches ("voltoni") across the Mincio. On the opposite side, open to the lake, the curtain is interrupted in order to let the ships enter. The medieval walls were destroyed and replaced by the internal beltway; the fortress was conserved and included in the new walls made of stone. The part of lake between the fortress and the settlement was used as port and then covered only at the beginning of XVII century, creating the square of the castle.
The old hamlet became a real city and strengthened its urban identity in the western insula, where the noblest fortifications are, such as Palazzo dei Provveditori (Palace of the Superintendents) in a little square by the internal part of the river Mincio, Piazza San Marco, which faced directly the sea, as the capital city's.
City fortress of Palmanova
Palmanova represents an outstanding example of the bond between the most advanced military techniques and the new planning concept developed in the Renaissance by architects fond of the "humanistic" component.
The idea of building ex-novo a city fortress to close the eastern defensive line of the State of Land, started to take off around the first half of XVI century, thanks to the important technical opinion of two influent personalities of the Serenissima: Duke of Urbino Captain Francesco Maria della Rovere, and the General Superintendent of the Fortresses Giulio Savorgnan, In 1593 a selected team of experts chose the area where the new fortified centre had to be built: a virgin land in a strategic position between Udine and the sea.
The fortress' shape is a star of nine spears (nine bulwarks), deriving from the one designed by Savorgnan himself for Nicosia (Cyprus).
According to the most advanced ideas of the Renaissance, the construction followed a unitary project with specific operative solutions, such as the expropriation of areas and the planning regulation. This absolutely innovative result testifies the clients' effort in order to create not only a fortress but a real city; in this sense the three main urban elements (the doors, the radial streets and the square) were connected to each other are despite the opinion given by the military engineers.
Following this project the three doors were opened right in the middle of the walls between two bulwarks –the weakest point- and directly connected to the radial streets toward the central square. It was possible then, as the Segretary of Superintendent Barbaro wrote to the Senate on 18th February 1594, to appreciate «la bellezza della dirittura delle strade, che risponde da ogni porta alla Piazza Grande, ed anco sino all'altro capo della città, che farà meravigliosa vista a chi vi entrerà» («the beauty of the straight roads, all leading form each door to the Main Square and to the other side of the city, which will be beautiful to watch for everyone who will be entering it»).
Clear fortification objectives and, at the same time, the geometrical perfection of the streets layout, the obvious stage and perspective effects of the city structure reveal the will to follow the Renaissance urban utopic precepts.
Defensive system of the Venetian Lagoon, Venice and Chioggia
Venice was the capital, the management and logistic centre of the whole system and presented a particular defensive situation, since it was sufficiently protected by its own lagoon; therefore the military interventions were concentrated on strengthening the more vulnerable parts, that are not in the city but at the openings separating the lagoon from the sea.
Within this complex defensive system, the most representative and best conserved elements are: the fort toward the entrance of the Lido, once called Castelnuovo (Fort of Sant' Andrea) defending the northern side, the fortified Octagons located near the focal point of the lagoon and toward south the Fort of San Felice (now in the Municipality of Chioggia).
The project for the Fort of Sant' Andrea by the architect Michele Sanmicheli (started in 1543) reshapes part of the preexisting castle as the core of the new radical intervention. From this building on, 40 embrasures (cannoniere) follow one another in a span of 300 meters on the water. The architectural effect is astonishing and oversteps the mere military function (that is to be able to hit moving targets, such as an enemy ship approaching the port), it is in fact at the same time a real monumental entrance to the city. Moreover this important fort was helped by the overlooking Fort of San Nicolò –which hosted the troops, stables and powder kegs and had other military related functions- whose traces have been canceled by the radical transformation happened over time.
As protection to the entrance to the lagoon in proximity of Chioggia, the modern fort of San Felice replaced the preexisting XIV century tower (Torre della Lupa, Wolf Tower), while the definitive arrangement of the entire lagoon complex was defined in XVII century with the realization of the two forts –Malamocco and San Pietro in Volta- almost disappeared today and the so called "Octagons", a series of minor fortifications still located along the lagoon canal toward Venice.
Justification de la Valeur Universelle Exceptionelle
The Venetian works of defence between 15th and 17th centuries represent an exceptional and unique example of defensive and unitary project (at a transnational scale today) realized and managed in a period of time and in a geographical area, the Republic of Venice's territories, highly characterized by a certain lively way of think and action, that was able to elaborate and spread its culture with its own personal language.
The site shows, through its fortifications, designed and built by the most famous architects and military engineers of the time, the exceptional and enormous economic and design effort of the Venetian Republic, giving the vastness of the territory and the different morphological and functional conditions of each domain. These aspects made necessary to develop many typological solutions –whose most representative examples form the serial site- which constitute the diversified scenery of isolated forts, defensive systems and fortified cities, by the sea and on land.
These material evidences are closely connected to commerce, wars, strategic politic alliances and, above all, to the high management skill that allowed the Serenissima to assert itself as a big power in the Mediterranean for a long time (XI-XVIII centuries) and to have a leading power in the geo-political scenery between the West and the East.
During the first half of 1400, Venice was a great power with important terrestrial and maritime domains: it controlled the maritime and terrestrial routes that linked the Adriatic to the core of Europe, it dominated a big part of the Mediterranean, creating one of the widest Italian State, in which ancient Rome's, Greek and Byzantine cultural models were taken as inspiration. Venice in fact, asserted itself as "the new and true Rome" and "the alternative to Byzantium". Also arts and literature helped to support the myth and the image of Venice as an essential authority, recognized by the western and the eastern world.
As the conflicts encouraged by the emerging European powers and the Ottoman Empire increased, the sites vital to preserve and control the commerce on land and the maritime routes and to assure the wellbeing of the Republic, became vulnerable.
For all these reasons a big project on vast scale was put in place in order to assure the growth and the socio-cultural development of the Venetian settlements and it took the Republic all the following century to complete it. Therefore it was very important to guarantee the safety of the territories: the first experiments by architects and engineers designated by the Serenissima to create a "new art of fortifications", involving both the military architecture and the very own structure of the cities themselves, which remoulded urban layouts and existing buildings.
The application of these new methodologies and techniques made Venice a dominant figure in the cultural debate concerning "modern style" fortifications, theoretically discussed by Francesco di Giorgio Martini in his famous Renaissance treaties and by Leonardo da Vinci: their relationship with Venice is well documented by many historical sources.
The skills and the building techniques were exported from the mainland territories to the maritime domains. Designers, materials and professionals, moved from the Republic of Venice and went working in the Venetian properties in the Adriatic.
The new unified vision of the defensive system based on the modernization of the fortification techniques, had Venice as its "heart and soul", the domains on the inland as its ramparts and the coastal cities as the nodal points of a communication network to sustain the territorial and commercial policies of the Republic.
Criterion (ii): the complex of the venetian defensive works is an outstanding example of the interchange of influences and values between Venice and the diverse civilizations located along the Adriatic sea from the Middle Age and more intensively between XVI and XVII century. The exceptional administrative and managerial skills of the Republic of Venice allowed to spread the most advanced knowledge about fortifications, arts and, more in general, social models. This was channeled by a number of workers, operative tools, construction materials and arts in general and it is finds its more tangible and more complete testimony in the proposed defensive works
Criterion (iii): the site is representative of a varied heritage that testifies the Venetian cultural tradition and had its core in the Adriatic "Gulf", mainly between XV and XVII century. The defensive structures and the landscape around them -carefully designed by the architects of the Serenissima- have kept their integrity or are still legible in their layouts, characterizing the facies of the proposed sites. Moreover the uniqueness and the outstanding value of the Venetian culture is testified by the rich publishing production with its worldwide known treaties, the presence in this area of cultural heritage objects referring to the city Capital and the numerous letters bearing witness of the communication between Venice and its faraway domains. All these written documents, conserved in many archives and collections, allow to retrace in details the fortunes of Venice. Beyond all the architectural and archive heritage, an endless and peculiar documental heritage, still perfectly conserved, contribute to assert the outstanding nature of the Venetian defensive system.
Criterion (iv): the site is an outstanding example of defensive system generated by a unitary project and conceived to guarantee the safety of the maritime commerce and to protect the domains from invasions. Since the Venetian sites were particularly desirable, a branched communication network had to be established over a wide transnational territory. The generating element of the whole project was the use of the new fortification techniques experimented by the Venetian professionals after the widespread introduction of gunpowder and firearms: these advanced results became outstanding examples of "modern style" ("alla moderna") fortifications, as exemplar models for next realizations.
Déclarations d'authenticité et/ou d'intégrité
The authenticity of the serial system is guaranteed as every element has conserved visible, in different shapes resulting from different typologies, the architectural, planning and landscape choices connected to the defense project wanted by the Serenissima. The structural features of the architectures have maintained their integrity, in the shapes and in the materials, although with a different function. Moreover one of the widest archive heritage in Europe testifies these extraordinary realizations.
In fact the documental sources, both written and cartography, perfectly match with the real places and significantly validate the influence of the Republic of Venice in the culture of the Adriatic sea between XV and XVII century.
The ensemble of the defensive works is a system, which includes the most significant examples of the different defensive typology connected by terrestrial and maritime routes along which commerce flourished, in a unitary territory comprising the State of Land and the State of Sea of the Republic of Venice.
Justification de la sélection de l'élément/des éléments constitutif(s) en relation avec la future proposition d'inscription dans son ensemble
Fortified city of Bergamo: it represents the most western point of the whole system, that is the defensive outpost designed to protect the Venetian "Stato di Terra" (State of Land) from the attacks coming from north-west Europe. The typology is an exceptional example of fortified system, articulated and very complex, perfectly adapted to the hilly morphology of the site.
defensive system of Peschiera del Garda: it was a strategic site to control the Garda lake basin, longed for by Charles V and foothold for other Venetian forts located beyond the Mincio river. It represents a unique example for the adaptation of the site to the most advanced design criteria of the time (pentagonal shape) and for the exceptional lacustrian-fluvial geomorphological context.
city fortress of Palmanova: within the Venetian defensive project it represents a strategic point to neutralize the Ottoman attacks coming from the Balkans. Typologically it is the most significant and mature example of ideal fortified city of the entire system; in fact the newly founded city was built based on a unitary design by the Venetian technicians after the experimentations implemented in Greece and Cyprus.
defensive system of the Venetian Lagoon, Venice and Chioggia: it was the core of the idea, the management and development of the entire cultural phenomenon. The lagoon represented the 'natural' defence of Venice against the attacks from the sea; that's why the defensive system was so "light" and located along openings on the shores that separate the lagoon from the sea.
Comparaison avec d'autres biens similaires
In order to underline the outstanding values expressed by The Venetian Forts of Defence between 15th and 17th centuries in the Eastern Mediterranean a comparative analysis with other sites already inscribed on the World Heritage List and similar in theme and characteristics was carried out.
The main features of the nomination proposal were taken as criteria for comparison, classified in a hierarchic order (as shown below by Figure 1.) which allowed to progressively restrict the selection and highlight the uniqueness of the Venetian works of defence.
As further verification, the previous results were confronted with the selection of sites obtained from a criteria comparison. Finally, among the sites already on the WHL for the criteria (ii) (iii) (iv), the serial ones concerning defensive works were chosen.
The comparison showed three sites that could be confronted with the Venetian works of defence: Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites (Gambia), Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions (Ghana), Fortifications of Vauban (France).
Theme and seriality: each case has a variety of fortified structures, realized to guarantee the defense of the territories of particular economic interests. The Venetian works are the most significant and numerous "modern style" fortifications, spread all over the Mediterranean basin.
System and/or route: the African sites are representative of a route along which the cultural interchange among different geographical realities developed. Except the Fortifications of Vauban (which are not located along a waterway)- Ghana, Gambia and Venice exploited a waterway –river or lake- as a generator element of each route (the river Gambia, the Gulf of Guinea, the Mediterranean).
Unlike the others, the Serenissima Republic of Venice built its cultural, economic and territorial primacy on the sea, controlling for centuries the Mediterranean basin.
Unitary project: the sites of Ghana and Gambia give a partial vision of the more spread phenomenon of the slavery, which involved more civilizations (Portuguese, English, Dutch, …), more Countries at an international level and many other navigation routes.
In fact the Gambia nomination presents an inhomogeneous design, testified by military and civil architectures, converted in time; the Ghana site shows a higher level of typological uniformity of the fortifications, which are however all located along the Guinea Gulf. As for the French site, it can be stated that the fortification of Vauban are not located along an itinerary, as for the previous cases. Whereas the completeness in the representation of the series and so in the unitary project which generated it, can be underlined in the proposed Venetian defensive works.
The wide and articulated route in which the Venetian works have been selected, even in the complexity of the historical events, is highly representative of the Venetian culture and the defensive project of the Serenissima only.
In conclusion, the nomination proposal for The Venetian works of Defence between 15th and 17th centuries is very dissimilar from the abovementioned sites, because it is representative of the domination of a single civilization, the Venetian, spread in a multitude of Countries, all represented here, where its exceptional design and constructive knowledge was declined following the local language and habits and developed along a single route.
The uniqueness of the Venetian system is also shown by the typological variety of the military architecture; in fact the selection of sites means to underline the excellencies of the "modern style", that are all those artifacts built between XV and XVII century by the main experts of the time. Each work (fortifications, walls, fortified city, …) played a precise role within the overall system, with a typology that followed the morphologic context. All these aspects concur to create a rich palimpsest of typological solutions, not found in other sites.
The state of conservation of the Venetian site still guarantees the legibility of the system at a macro and micro scale, not so visible in the Gambia and Ghana sites. In this sense represent an exception the fortification of Vauban, which are perfectly conserved and with a high typological and settlement variety.
The architectural typology conceived by Vauban represents a fundamental moment in the European military engineering, already experimented by the technicians of the Serenissima in the Mediterranean basin, where the Venetian culture's spread involved not only the defensive apparatus, but more in general the socio-economic and settlement development.
To synthesize, from the comparison with the other sites on the WHL, emerges the outstanding values born by the Venetian defensive works, given their international scope, their seriality and the unitary project, which is deeply represented by the site.
From the comparison with the other sites on the World Heritage List, emerges the outstanding character of the Venetian defensive works, given the international scale, the seriality and a unitary planning completely represented by the site.


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Art Talks is part of The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University's twice-annual intensive residency for students in the Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts program, when visiting artists, critics, curators and art historians from throughout the art world are welcomed to campus.
The Art Talks lectures will be held daily January 7-10, 2013, from 7 to 9 p.m. in Kenmore Classroom Bldg. 565 at Boston University, Room 101, Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.
During the residency of the MFA in Visual Arts low-residency program, MFA students from across the country are brought together to engage in seminars and critiques, as well as lectures by writers, faculty and guest artists. Students spend the remainder of the year working one-on-one from home with AIB Faculty Advisors – all accomplished, working artists.
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Cornelia Lauf is a writer, editor, and curator, with a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University. She teaches at IUAV, University of Venice, and is co-founder of Three Star Books, Paris.Tuesday, January 8 - Matt Saunders Matt Saunders works between paintings, photographs, and films. His recent projects include a month-long collaboration with the Harvard Film Archive and solo exhibitions with Marian Goodman Gallery, Blum & Poe, Harris Lieberman, and at the Renaissance Society in Chicago. Recent group exhibitions include the 2012 de Cordova Biennial in Lincoln, MA, the 2011 Sharjah Biennial, and exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Aspen Museum, and Deutsche Guggenheim. His work is represented in several public collections, including the Whitney, Guggenheim, MoMA and MFA Boston. As a writer, he is an occasional contributor to Artforum and other magazines.Wednesday, January 9 - Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev in conversation with Helen MolesworthCarolyn Christov-Bakargiev will engage in a conversation about dOCUMENTA (13) with Helen Molesworth, the Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston.Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is a curator, author, and researcher into artistic practices, the histories of art, and the politics of aesthetics. She was Artistic Director of dOCUMENTA (13) and the 16th Biennale of Sydney, Chief Curator at the Castello di Rivoli Museum for Contemporary Art, and Senior Curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate in New York. Her books include William Kentridge, Arte Povera, and for dOCUMENTA (13) the 100 Notes–100 Thoughts series.Thursday, January 10 - Beth Campbell Known for her drawings, sculpture, video and architectural interventions, Beth Campbell creates works that challenge the notion of a physical world beyond our perception. Drawing upon philosophy, phenomenology and psychology, Campbell choreographs spaces, crafts uncanny objects, and maps thought. Using the guise of the everyday, the work reveals startling complexity: Forms repeat and stutter. Mirrors become portals. Interiority is externalized.Campbell's museum exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of Art. Her work is included in Whitney Museum and MOMA collections. She has received a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Louis Comfort Tiffany Memorial Fellowships.
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Keith Center hosts discussion on the constitutionality of Michigan's Proposal 2
DETROIT (Jan. 23, 2012) — Wayne State University Law School's Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights will host a discussion titled "Michigan Prop 2: The Constitutionality of Prohibitions on Affirmative Action" on Thurs., Jan. 26, 2012, from 6-7:30 p.m. in Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium.
The full en banc panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit will hear the challenge to Proposal 2 on March 7, 2012. A similar challenge will be heard on February 13, 2012, by a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Shanta Driver and George Washington, two of the leading attorneys representing the plaintiffs in these cases, and Monica Smith, who has led many of the organizing efforts to defend affirmative action, will speak at the Wayne Law event.
Driver, a 2002 graduate of Wayne Law, is national chairperson of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and to Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary (BAMN). Washington, a 1973 graduate of Harvard Law School, was a lead attorney in the case challenging the original takeover of the Detroit schools and has represented AFSCME, the UAW, the Teamsters and many other labor organizations. Smith, a 2009 graduate of Wayne State Law School, has led organizing efforts to win support for the challenges to Michigan's Proposal 2 and California's Proposition 209.
"The constitution guarantees equal protection under law, but Michigan took two steps backward with the adoption of Prop 2," said Peter Hammer, professor of law and director of the Keith Center. "We will never achieve true equality in this country if we continue to pretend that race or gender do not matter, or that we live in a truly color blind society. To deny the real ways that race continues to matter is to pursue equality in form but not in fact."
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The Keith Center honors the life and legacy of Judge Damon J. Keith, civil rights icon, one of our country's leading jurists and a 1956 Wayne Law alumnus. By developing programs and opportunities that promote his vision of equality and justice under the law for all people, the Keith Center is advancing learning at Wayne Law, encouraging community engagement, and promoting civil rights in one of the most culturally rich and diverse cities in the United States. For more information, visit http://keithcenter.wayne.edu/.
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