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It is irritating that every film mocked—from Alvin and the Chipmunks to Juno to The Dark Knight—is more clever than Disaster Movie. Film reference after film reference is paraded before the camera—without benefit of narrative structure, without rhyme or reason, and worse, without a shred of humor.
The "jokes" are limp and pathetic or stillborn, timing is ignored, performances are a not-so-giddy mug-fest. Audiences are left wondering when the freshman cast is going to learn the rudiments of performing. Production values are terrible, but whether this is intentional or not is difficult to say. Friedberg and Seltzer may have thought ersatz tornadoes and bouncing boulders are funnier than well-designed catastrophes. When a meteor plops on Lisa (Kim Kardashian), we do not know whether we are supposed to laugh or cry. Since neither she nor anyone in the cast has earned an atom of sympathy, indifference is the most appropriate response.
Sometime after a giggling tribute to Miley Cyrus, we begin to sense that there is a romance between Will (Matt Lanter), who cannot handle commitment (sound familiar?), and the beautiful Amy (Vanessa Minnilo), who follows him through arbitrary adventures waiting to hear the words, "I love you" (sound overly familiar?).
It is not enough that Jason Boegh in a dress looks like Sex and the City's Sarah Jessica Parker on steroids. He ought to say something funny, instead of mutely glaring at the camera like a potato bug. Indeed, much of the film is filled with uncomfortable silences where actors stare awkwardly into the void, apparently waiting for dialogue that never arrives.
In an effort to be shocking, the camera holds onto any image intended to be raunchy as long as possible, but since we have already seen this stuff in other, better films, it is all a big yawn. Where are the Farrelly Brothers when you really need them?
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Ive played dota And i was raged at by a kid (on mic) for not placing a ward on 'high ground' My first and last game.
DoTA is a terrible game with over-complicated mechanics, stupid graphics and everything is more difficult or annoying or over powered than it should be. It's hard to learn, even harder to be good at and no one wants to learn it because it's stupid anyways. League is noob friendly, easy to pick up for players new to MOBA's, looks much better...there's a lot of reasons why league is doing better. Basically the definition of "over-hyped."
Oh yer talking about the game itself. It feels like when I move my character up a ramp, he walk backwards. Overpowered pathing ftw
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Both player bases are EQUALLY as bad. But in different ways. The reason LoL is more popular is easy though. DotA 2 is a fairly new game(Note the 2) while LoL was F2P and gained a **** ton of populace for being the first of it's kind(HoN was p2p which ruined it). Riot was at the right place at the right time with a casual honest and fair F2P game. DotA 2 will have it's work cut out for it if it wants this kind of playerbase. I've also seen some scorn for DotA in the comments. Don't be elitists. DotA is a great game even if its with a steeper learning curve.
No. League is free, Dota2 is not. the end.
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Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary is in the Western Ghats close to the border of Tamil Nadu and Kerala states. Understand[edit]Parambikulam Tiger Reserve is situated at a distance of 89 kilometers from Palakkad and 44 km from Pollachi, adjacent to Anamalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu. Although Parambikulam belongs to the state of Kerala, it is accessible only via Pollachi in Tamilnadu. The Western Ghats mountain range along with Anamalai Hills and Parambikulam is currently under consideration for selection as an UNESCO World Heritage Site. History[edit]The park was started in 1973 and it has an area of 285 km². Landscape[edit]The park is thickly forested with bamboo and other such tropical wet and evergreen trees. The terain is hilly owing to it being a part of the western ghats. Flora and fauna[edit]The sanctuary includes 39 species of mammals, 16 species of amphibians, 268 species of birds, 61 species of reptiles, 47 species of fish, 124 species of butterflies and more than a thousand species of insects. The animals consist of lion-tailed Macaque, Nilgiri Tahr, elephant, tiger, panther, Wild boar, Sambar, Bonnet Macaque, Nilgiri Langur, Sloth Bear as well as Nilgiri Marten Small Travancore Flying Squirrel and Gaur which is the mascot mammal of Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary. Teak, Neem, sandalwood and other such trees contribute to the flora of he landscape. Climate[edit]The area falls under intense monsoon showers. The temperature varies from 20 degree Celsius to 27 degree Celsius. Get in[edit]Pollachi, Palakkad and Coimbatore are the nearest towns. From Palakkad and Coimbatore, you must go via Pollachi and Topslip to enter Parambikulam Tiger Reserve. By Air[edit]Coimbatore airport is the nearest international airport to Parambikulam - approximately 100 km (via Pollachi and Topslip). International flights to Singapore, Sharjah are available by Silk Air (A subsidary of Singapore Airlines), Air Arabia and Srilankan Airlines. Domestic airlines fly to Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and other Indian cities. By Bus[edit]There are only two buses from Pollachi to Parambikulam everyday. By Train[edit]Coimbatore Junction (85 km) and Palakkad Junction (100 km) are the nearest railway stations. At present, all train services in Pollachi-Coimbatore; Pollachi - Palani, Dindigul; Pollachi - Palakkad sections are stopped due the Meter Gauge to Broad Gauge conversions. Hope the Broad Gauge work will be over by 2011. After that, visitors will have direct train services until Pollachi. Get around[edit]By Car[edit]As there are only 2 buses per day, hiring taxis will be the viable option, if you want to cover both Topslip and Parambikulam on the same day. Though there are lot of tourist taxis from Pollachi, it may not be easy to get one during peak seasons or when film shootings happen around the town. It is therefore advisable to book your cab in advance and ask your tour guide or cab driver to pick you from Coimbatore Railway station, Airport, Bus terminus or Pollachi Bus Terminus. Talk[edit]Malayalam and Tamil are spoken but basic English is understood. Fees/Permits[edit]The visiting time is from morning 7:00 A.M to evening 6:00 P.M. Entry fee for light vehicles is Rs.50 and for heavy vehicles is Rs.150. A 3 hour van Safari will cost Rs. 150 per head. Private vehicles are not allowed inside the park unless you have booked your accommodation in Parambikulam in-advance. Van Safari is possible only when there are 20 people. If not you must buy the tickets for 20 people (Rs. 3000) and share it. Do[edit][add listing]
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A proposal to kill trout in South Fork Sixteenmile Creek in order to reintroduce native westslope cutthroat trout has been modified.
The South Fork is located east of Maudlow on the east face of the Bridger Mountains.
In a decision notice published on May 2, Fish Wildlife and Parks Region 3 supervisor Pat Flowers said instead that the agency will selectively remove rainbow trout and significantly hybridized fish and allow slightly hybridized fish to re-colonize the stream above a constructed fish passage barrier.
"Although FWP is confident that an introduced population could be successful after removal of the existing population and that FWP's preference under the initial proposal was to create a pure WCT population, FWP concedes that it is worth the additional time and expense in attempting to conserve and enhance the existing hybridized population," the agency wrote in its decision notice.
The project has an estimated price tag of $181,962 for construction of the fish passage barrier. The labor, materials and mileage costs were estimated at an additional $10,337 to implement the initially proposed action over five years. Trying to preserve the hybridized trout will cost an estimated $17,663. But if the revised work doesn't produce the desired results, the initial expenses will also be incurred, resulting in a total cost of about $28,000.
The work will be evaluated over the next three to six years. If the evaluation determines that selective removal is not effective, complete removal and re-introduction will be implemented.
FWP has partnered with the Gallatin National Forest on the project. Twelve comments on the draft environmental assessment were received. The change from the original proposal was based on concerns expressed by some downstream landowners.
Westslope cutthroats only occupy about 400 to 450 stream miles in the Upper Missouri River Basin — around 5 percent of their historic habitat. The Sixteen Mile project will increase that number by about 6 miles.


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In last month's column, I described interview techniques to implement after your firm has completed the proposal process. In this column,
I will drill down into the details of what makes an interview successful
to secure a project.
Bring bakery cookies to the interview to break the ice and allow time
for the team to get seated, get through the introductions, and exchange business cards. Realtors often suggest having chocolate chip cookies baking during open houses, and the same approach applies to having cookies in a conference room. If the client does not immediately take
a cookie, I would reach for one. Then the others will likely dive in.
Seating order
Your team can benefit from not having all power players seated at one end of the table or across from each other. Arranging seating is easy when the interviewers are already seated, or if they are taking a break between interviews and you can see their names on anything left at their seats. Having the firm principal seated at one corner and the senior client seated at the diagonal corner is the ideal scenario.
The role of interview principal
During your firm's meeting, the interview principal:
• Runs the interview for the firm, and is typically also the project manager.
• Starts the meeting and briefly introduces the team members by name, credentials, and functional role. A great tactic for the interview principal is to put his or her watch on the table to reinforce adherence to time parameters and demonstrate their project management skills.
• Says there will be time at the end for Q&A, but also explains that this should be a conversation, so questions along the way are encouraged.
• Notes the team's understanding of the project and asks about any additional items the client might want addressed.
• Uses "sign posts" to signal the second presenter while restating the person's name and functional role. Sign posting is a methodology used to transition cleanly from one presenter to another. The cues are visual and/or spoken and help reinforce team chemistry. As does smiling!
Image slideshows
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Body language
All team members must exhibit good body language. Don't place your hands in your pockets, don't jingle change or keys, and don't look at your notes while listening or speaking. When a team member is presenting, the rest of the team should look at the speaker and not glance at clients, or anyone or anything else. An occasional nod to support whatever a colleague is saying can be very effective. When presenting or responding to a question, make eye contact with each
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It is worth stating that you should always rehearse for an interview.
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Effectively using these techniques will demonstrate your team's great chemistry and help you win more work.
Richard N. Pollack, FAIA, FIIDA, writes a regular column for Contract on business practices in design and professional development. Pollack is the CEO of San Francisco-based Pollack Consulting, which supports firm growth and success through improved business development, winning presentation techniques, recruitment of top talent, business coaching, and ownership transition implementation.


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I'd like to know which is the best palm for cold hardiness. I think I'm in zone 6b, so you could suggest 7a palms that i could protect in the winter. |
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- Posted by tropicalzone7 7 (My Page) on Fri, Nov 25, 11 at 13:00
Needle palms would definitely be the best. There is a great difference in cold tolerance among palms of this species dependent on the age of the palm is and where it was grown. I would definitely be willing to spend the extra money on a larger palm from a state like NC, SC, or GA because they would be much more cold tolerant than a greenhouse grown specimen. Some nursuries sell needle palms that have seen temperatures in the single digits. The needle palm has been known to handle temperatures as low as 0F when mature with little damage. Its a palm that should be used much more frequently in zone 7's and will do well with just a bit of extra protection in your zone 6. Trachycarpus are probably the next most cold tolerant in my experience, but if you live where summers are warm (not in the pacific northwest) then Sabal Minors would also do great for you. Sabal minors are a bit less cold tolerant than Needle palms and they can get damage below 10F, especially when younger, but they can come back from cold temperatures if your summers are warm. Trachcarpus can handle much cooler climates so if you live in the Pacific Northwest, then that would probably be the best palm for you, along with needle palms. Trachys do great with hot summers also so they can grow well in the eastern states too! Heres a list of the few palms that I think could survive a zone 7 without protection added (a sheltered spot would be best and record cold winters could kill them if they arent given protection) - Trachycarpus fortunei - Trachycarpus wagnerianus (I wouldnt try it without protection) - Trachycarpus princeps (I wouldnt try it without protection) - Needle Palms - Sabal minors - Sabal lousiana - Sabal Birmingham I grow Trachycarpus Fortunei, Sabal minor, Livistonia, Butia, and Mediterranean fan palms with protection, but no problem at all. Good luck! |
Might as well get the hardy palm you like as you will need to protect any palm you plant. |
Alex, I have warm summers where I live, so sabal minors would be a good choice. |
- Posted by islandbreeze 6b MI (My Page) on Sat, Nov 26, 11 at 0:25
In my own experience, windmill palms work best, but do need protection. They can handle more cold than most palms, grow pretty quickly so they can recover from damage, they're relatively inexpensive, and they are trunking. They do need protection every winter, but I uncover mine as early as the beginning of March, and still haven't covered mine yet this year. Probably won't cover them until the beginning of December, depending on temps. Needle palms don't recover very well from bud rot, and neither do sabal minor, in my experience. |
In zone 6b/hot summer climates, Needles (Raphidophyllum hysterix) would work well. Might to best protect even them for the first season or two. Though, mine went through last Winter unprotected for the first season in the ground and survived. I must say, I am liking Needles much more than I used to. I have a nice clump developing in on the south side in the middle of a lawn area. They also put up with extreme heat in areas where that is a consideration. Also, I notice they really grew much faster in the ground than in a container. Unprotected too, I have Sabal louisiana--which does eventually develop some trunk even though it's probably considered 'trunkless'. (I have to say, over the years, my aesthetic appreciation for the trunkless species has increased.) You can also grow, with some protection, Trachycarpus fortunei (Common Windmnill), and Trachycarpus wagnerianus (Stiff Windmill).--Common Windmill is faster growing though. And depending on you soil conditions, drainage, protection,etc.., you might want to try a Chamaerops humilis (Mediterranean fan). They are fairly common, robust, and clumping. In a very bad winter you might suffer the loss of a few individuals but bet the clump would survive. But it would be important to protect the Med from winter wettness--an advantage for just about any of the palms. |
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Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Barclays Bank of Kenya Ltd., Kenya's biggest lender by market value, said third-quarter profit rose 11 percent on cost-cutting.
Net income climbed to 6.11 billion shillings ($62.6 million), or 1.93 shillings per share, from 5.49 billion shillings, or 1.73 shillings per share, a year earlier, the Nairobi-based bank said in a statement published in the Standard newspaper today.
Operating expenses fell 16 percent to 10.7 billion shillings. Net interest income dropped to 12 billion shillings from 12.1 billion shillings, the bank said.
The company's shares fell for the first session in nine, dropping 1 percent, or 15 cents, to 15 shillings, as of 9:45 a.m. in Nairobi.
Kenya bank assets rose 5.3 percent to 2 trillion shillings in the third quarter, the Central Bank of Kenya said in a statement on its website on Oct. 28.
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Lawmakers consider expanding electronic monitoring of pretrial detaineesMONTPELIER With the number of pretrial detainees far exceeding what the state has budgeted for, lawmakers are seeking ways to reduce the numbers, including an expansion of electronic monitoring.
About 415 people are currently in Vermont jails as they await trial. Many are held because they cannot post bail. Some are being held without bail because they are a risk to the public or because there is cause to believe they may not attend future court proceedings, officials told the Joint Legislative Corrections Oversight Committee on Monday.
The Department of Corrections has only budgeted for about 300 such detainees, however. The additional detainees are costing the state money, but also contributing to a space crunch in Vermont prisons thats causing some inmates to be incarcerated out of state.
Several factors have led to the increase, including broad sweeps in three communities Bennington, Springfield and St. Albans in which dozens of alleged drug dealers were rounded up and arrested by police. Many of them were initially held in jail pending further court action.
Committee Chairwoman Rep. Alice Emmons, D-Springfield, said the aggressive effort to eradicate the drug trade in Vermont will keep the detainee population high.
If we continue to have drug sweeps throughout the state and theres high gang activity throughout the state, then its fair to say that our high detainee numbers will still be there, Emmons said.
Electronic monitoring, the use of ankle bracelets fitted with GPS tracking devices, could be one solution. Nathan Lavery, a fiscal analyst with the Legislatures Joint Fiscal Office, said he is currently reviewing the states existing monitoring program. He provided the committee with information Monday showing that a GPS-enabled ankle bracelet costs the state about $5 per day to monitor.
Several obstacles are in place, however.
Sen. Dick Sears, D-Bennington, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and vice chairman of the Corrections Oversight Committee, said exactly who would monitor pretrial defendants is an issue. The DOC is not currently responsible for pretrial detainees who are not ordered held by a court, he said.
If theyre just released on bail or conditions, its not Corrections problem. It becomes Corrections problem when they get incarcerated, Sears said. We could make it Corrections problem, I just dont know if we want to. ... I dont know how to reduce the population unless you do something like that.
Others raised concerns Monday about GPS monitoring. Chief Administrative Judge Amy Davenport said judges in Vermont are reluctant to use the devices because they can be removed.
Unfortunately, it just doesnt give judges a lot of confidence that it works, she said. A lot of that is based on anecdote and I dont even know if its based on anecdote from this state.
And Bram Kronickfeld, executive director of the Vermont Department of States Attorneys and Sheriffs, noted that pretrial defendants can only be held in jail if they are considered to be a flight risk or a danger to the public. Allowing defendants held for those reasons to be released with an ankle bracelet could result in damage to public safety, he said.
Additionally, the state is unlikely to see any significant savings, because any time served by a defendant before trial is taken off of their sentences if they are convicted, Kronickfeld said.
The idea that you could save a significant amount of money by lowering pretrial detention may be flawed in that one of the things that happens at sentencing is people get credit for time served, he said. You may just be moving time to the end.
Defender General Matthew Valerio spoke in favor of expanding electronic monitoring. He said the bracelets can be removed, but officials know pretty quickly when they are removed.
Judges and prosecutors have not embraced the latest technology, though, which is significantly better than it used to be, he said.
Its become almost a religious thing. You either believe in it or you dont, Valerio said. I almost feel like the Department of Corrections is a little more accepting of the technology if somebody would order it. But it has not been adopted by the states attorneys or the courts.
Still, You arent going to have a zero failure rate. There are going to be failures and that has to be accepted that thats part of the process, Valerio said.
Sears said lawmakers will continue to discuss alternatives to incarceration for pretrial defendants.
Were serious about the idea that more people could be monitored if its 24-hour monitoring. Currently, we only know, maybe a day after, that they were out-of-bounds. With the 24-hour real time monitoring thats available, if you had somebody monitoring it youd know immediately if they werent at work or werent where they were supposed to be, he said.
The state is already using electronic monitoring on a very limited basis, according to Sears.
Statewide theres only two people on electronic monitoring. Come on. Give me a break, he said. Its bizarre.
The Legislature would have to approve funding for the up-front costs of implementing additional electronic monitoring if it is expanded.
Theres a real savings there as long as you could continue to protect public safety and make sure that (defendants) appear in court, Sears said.MORE IN Vermont NewsMONTPELIER The first Legislature in the country to pass an aid-in-dying law may revisit the... Full StoryMONTPELIER Gov. Full StoryGroveman to head Full Story -
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In this updated and retitled article (an earlier version being titled "The Functional Regulation of Finance"), I examine how we should think about regulating a dynamically changing financial system. Being tethered to the financial architecture at the time it is promulgated, most financial regulation is temporally flawed. Even assuming the regulation is meaningful at that time, it quickly can become outmoded without ongoing monitoring and updating.
It may be more effective to tie the regulation of a dynamically changing financial system to the system's functions, which are less time-dependent than any specific financial architecture. This article constructs a functional framework for analyzing and designing financial regulation. Such regulation should have two goals: to correct market failures that impair the ability of the financial system's underlying components—its firms and markets—to engage in funding and in the risk-management, behavior-monitoring, and information-processing functions related to funding; and to protect the capacity of the financial system, as a "system," to serve as a network within which funding and its related functions can be conducted.
Using this framework, the article first identifies, and examines how "microprudential" regulation could help to correct, critical market failures within the financial system. The article also shows why some of these markets failures cannot be completely corrected, and explores the consequences—both efficiency-related and systemic—of those inevitable failures. Thereafter, the article analyzes how "macroprudential" regulation could help to protect the financial system's network functions.
Although macroprudential regulation would ideally work ex ante by eliminating the triggers of systemic shocks, the inevitable microprudential failures, coupled with structural vulnerabilities of the financial system that can trigger systemic shocks, make that impracticable. Certain of these vulnerabilities are almost universally common to finance because of their efficiency benefits. For example, maturity transformation—the asset-liability mismatch that results from the short-term funding of long-term projects—reduces funding costs, even though it increases the potential for defaults. Similarly, limited corporate liability encourages equity investment in firms but it can motivate risky corporate conduct. Other vulnerabilities are intrinsic to the very nature of the financial system.
Because regulation cannot eliminate all the triggers of systemic shocks, macroprudential regulation should also work ex post to protect the financial system's network functions by mitigating the harm from systemic shocks that inevitably will occur. That involves breaking the transmission and limiting the impact of those shocks. Although some risk factors that influence the transmission and impact of systemic shocks are known, the transmission mechanisms cannot all be identified. Regulation therefore cannot completely break the transmission of systemic shocks.
Finally, the article explores ways to limit the impact of systemic shocks, effectively stabilizing the financial system when so impacted. This could be done in at least two ways: by requiring systemically important financial firms and markets to be more internally robust, and by providing appropriate liquidity to those firms and markets. Financial regulation has traditionally focused on the former—exemplified by laws requiring deposit-taking banks to be robust, usually through capital and solvency requirements. Since the financial crisis, the United States and other countries are beginning to also subject "systemically important" non-bank financial firms to these types of requirements.
Viewing macroprudential regulation from a functional perspective, however, reveals greater regulatory flexibility. Traditional financial regulation is inflexible because it implicitly, and confusingly, conflates microprudential and macroprudential regulatory goals. Firm-specific capital and solvency requirements are intended to protect the components of the financial system, and thus are microprudential. But traditional financial regulation imposes those requirements for macroprudential purposes also: if all systemically important firms are required to be robust, fewer should fail—and therefore the financial system should be less likely to fail.
That logic is true insofar as it goes, but it has two flaws. First, it is difficult to determine in advance which firms are systemically important. Because firm-specific capital and solvency requirements are not always economically efficient, imposing those requirements on all potentially systemically important firms is wasteful. Second, firm-specific requirements ignore financial markets, which increasingly are sources of systemic risk. A better macroprudential regulatory approach might be to provide liquidity to firms and markets if and when needed to protect the financial system's network functions.
This article does not claim that its functional framework for analyzing and designing the regulation of a dynamically changing financial system can, or necessarily should, drive the enactment of actual law. The intention, rather, is to provide a set of regulatory ordering principles with which real-world financial regulation can be compared, whatever the existing financial architecture. Current regulatory approaches are often viewed, for example, as an assortment of "tools" in a regulatory "toolkit." This article's framework not only informs the use and limits of these tools but also reveals at what stages, and for what purposes, financial regulation more generally should operate. Additionally, the framework helps us decide between competing regulatory objectives and reduces the potential for regulatory arbitrage. The result should be a financial system that is more resilient than at present, with components that function more efficiently.
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With the new addition to the bunch of test graphics cards being the Radeon X800XL from last month, testing is taking a little longer these days and we didn't get a chance to swap our X1800 over to an X1900.
This is our top priority though for the next set of Catalyst drivers. While most of the performance increases revolve around the X1900, we will see if the high-end X1800 gets any boost in speeds along with our other cards.
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Historic NYC Post Card Exhibit at Davis Family Library
Who would guess that an artist born and bred on a Vermont farm would create some of the most iconic postcards of New York City? Rachael Robinson Elmer's ground-breaking "Art-Lovers New York" postcard series is currently on exhibit at the Middlebury College Davis Family Library, on the upper level, through April 17th, 2015. The exhibition, […] Continue reading
Middlebury women take a snowy ride up to Ripton, ca. 1940s
In this clip, members of the Women's Forum of Middlebury College load up holiday gifts into a truck parked behind Forrest Hall, en route to the Meeting House in Ripton, VT. Upon their arrival in Ripton, local children run (and slide, trudge, and sled) to meet them. The Middlebury women, joined by a costumed Santa, […] Continue reading
A phonograph record on a post card? A professor throws a curveball at Special Collections.
Recently Paul Sommers, Paige-Wright Professor of Economics, stopped by the archives with an unusual item: he had purchased a "melody card" online, a paper phonograph record first manufactured in the 1930s, most notably on cereal boxes or as inserts in magazines. His postcard reads: Play this record on the PHONOGRAPH, 78rpm speed manual. Prof. Sommers doesn't have a record player that […] Continue reading
We were greatly shocked with the news…
During a recent visit to the archives by Professor Ellie Gebarowski-Shafer's Religion 130 class, The Christian Tradition, students plowed through 214 years of Middlebury College missionary history with College Archivist Danielle Rougeau. Amid the pages of 19th century cursive was this diary entry by Mary Martin, wife of a missionary to China and grandmother of Mabel Martin (later […] Continue reading
Students learn the craft of medieval papermaking
Well, to be specific, medieval paper was actually parchment, made from animal hides, rather than trees and literally all of our knowledge of the Middle Ages was preserved on skins made from calves, sheep, or goats. To better understand the chemistry, art, and labor of parchment, Middlebury College's Special Collections & Archives, together with Professor Eliza Garrison's Medieval […] Continue reading
Don't forget to write your mother, circa 1932
Our own Professor of Psychology at Middlebury College Barbara Hofer writes about the modern day iConnected Parent, constantly in contact with their College-bound kids through cell phones and Skype…well, the archives recently exposed something of a connected parent, but from over 80 years ago. Here's a letter from October 18, 1932. The mother of Charles Edward Stevenson, Jr., Class of 1936, […] Continue reading
Summer Language Schools, looking back
Explore our newest online archive: Middlebury Language Schools. This collection includes archives from Middlebury's Summer Language Schools, which began in 1915. When completed, the collection will include all the annual bulletins from 1915 through 2007, a history of the Language Schools up to 1975, annual reports, photographs, and scrapbooks. Continue reading
Vintage Robert Frost on film
Luckily, 16 mm film, common from the 1920s through the 1960s, is relatively durable stuff. This particular reel of film, which sat in the Middlebury College archives for over forty years, depicts Robert Frost for two glorious, full color minutes. For the first time in nearly half a century (thanks to a film preservation lab in Philadelphia), […] Continue reading
Civil War letters from the Middlebury College Archives featured on VPR.
Last week Jane Lindholm from Vermont Public Radio visited the Middlebury College Archives to find out more about a recent gift of Civil War letters. To listen to the story and see more images, visit the VPR web site here!
Reading Rowland Out Loud
Recently, while digitizing some song recordings from the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection, we discovered an undocumented recording of a man reading from Rowland E. Robinson's book Uncle Lisha's Shop: Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. We recognized it as a Robinson story because of the characters mentioned, so we searched the online version of […] Continue reading