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- On the virtues of idleness 00:28
- Kanji of the day 09:17
- Summarizing reading 8-2-1 10:52
- The uses of darou: だろう 11:30
- Linux advocacy: not just preaching to the choir 13:07
- Philippine OSS news: NCC eGov Center for Excellence 20:17
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top - feedback On the virtues of idleness 00:28
Read Quitting the Paint Factory and reflect a bit on the space we should create in our lives. =)
top - feedback Kanji of the day 09:17 (JapaneseLessons:7)
|[It] sends [it] back.
|[It] sends back information.
|[It] sends back the corresponding information.
|[It] sends back the information corresponding to [that].
|The web server sends back the information corresponding to [that].
|When [it] is received, the Web server sends back the information corresponding to [it].
|When the request is received, the Web server sends back the information corresponding to the request.
|When a request is received from a Web browser, the Web server sends back the information corresponding to the request.
top - feedback Summarizing reading 8-2-1 10:52 (JapaneseLessons:8)
若者の日本語力が低下していること。きちんとした言葉を使う機会が減れば減 るほど、言語能力は低下するという原因。国語という日本語を積極的に勉強し なければならないということ。
Tip: For summaries, end sentences with nouns like こと or 原因.
top - feedback The uses of darou: だろう 11:30 (JapaneseLessons:9)
In writing, 本当のだろうか is preferred over 本当ですか. のでしょうか is the polite form.
Other uses of darou
|1. 推測 (guess, conjecture)
|2. 疑問 (question)
|3. 原因、理由の推測
|4. 主張 (persuasion)
top - feedback Linux advocacy: not just preaching to the choir 13:07
Graphical user interfaces have their advantages and disadvantages. While they present information in an easy-to-understand manner and make it easier for new users to start doing powerful things by hiding the details, this detail-hiding could also lull users into a false sense of competency. Although desktop users may not need to mind this problem that much if their computer was set up properly, administrators need to be careful about this. Administrator used to point-and-click tools may come to believe that Linux requires very little maintenance instead of being as vigilant as they should be. I know I'm not administrator material! <laugh>
Command-line interfaces can also be friendlier to power users than graphical user interfaces are because command-line interfaces are easier to script and automate. They make batch operations easier. For example, I _could_ use a graphical file explorer to rename files, but why rename files individually when a command like 'rename' lets me do that with a little typing?
You can't expect newbies to know about these little tips and tricks, though. So how will people learn these nifty shortcuts? That's where guides and gurus come in. Newbies can start with graphical interfaces so that they get used to the system. However, they should also remember that more is possible. Exploring the menus and the help often turns up interesting features you might not have learned about otherwise, and that's one way newbies can progress toward mastery. However, many things are not exposed through menus. If you read a Linux guide or ask a Linux guru for help, you may learn far more.
People can happily use Linux without recompiling their kernel or running programs off CVS. I feel, however, that every newbie should have someone to run to with questions, someone who'll occasionally pass on tips or remind them to do things like update their software. We need gurus to show us the power of the command-line, to inspire us by showing us the tips and tricks they've discovered over the years.
That's why Linux advocacy doesn't stop when you've convinced someone to use Linux, but rather continues as you show people how to do even more wonderful things.
E-Mail to ph-linux-newbie
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From JJ Disini:
The NCC launched its eGov Center for Excellence on Monday. Maybe I'm wrong but I think this is a signficant development in FLOSS adoption in government projects. Fore more info, see: http://disini.i.ph/blogs/disini/?itemid=22
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If happiness were a person, she would live in Dena Fishbein's house.
Nearly every surface smiles with swirls of Fishbein's hand-painted designs: Pink flowers curl their petals across an overstuffed sofa; delicate vines dance around a window frame. Whimsy welcomes guests through a sun-yellow entry, sits them down in the family room on clouds of white slipcovers crowded with bright pillows and coddles them into complete comfort.
To be sure, the Lafayette home of one of the most sought-after textile designers in the country is a commotion of color, yet in the most delightful way. Decidedly eclectic with a tinge of French country, the house is the inspiration for, and evidence of, Fishbein's passion for patterns -- stenciled on walls, painted on frames, sewn into drapes.
The well-lived-in dwelling is also the subject of her latest book, "The Painted Home by Dena," taking readers on tour, offering fun craft ideas and shopping tips along the way (Fishbein's a regular at the Alameda Point Antiques Faire). The book even includes a cutout stencil in the back to get folks going on a project.
"I wanted to take people through our house, because it's living proof you can make a room beautiful and really personalized without spending tons of money," says Fishbein, seated on a zebra-patterned ottoman in her family room.
"There are some things you splurge on, but you can get a lot of things for very little cost at flea markets and tag sales and put your own spin on them -- a fresh coat of paint on a picture frame, reupholstering a chair, making it your own," she says.
Happy is as happy does
Her delightful residence also houses her craft studio and serves as the home base for Dena Designs, the company she founded with her husband, Danny, nearly 20 years ago. Since then, she's become an award-winning artist and textile designer with an impressive and ever-growing résumé: her home-decor, bedding, dishware, clothing and paper products are sold worldwide; she created and hosted the "Embellish This!" series on the DIY Network; she has a popular blog and syndicated column; and she's published several books on crafts, home decor and children's stories. You can even get "Dena" personalized checks.
She's now expanding her product line to include items for tweens and pets.
"Miles has modeled several things for me," she says, scooping up her little wirehaired dachshund.
With such a prolific artistic career, it's a surprise to discover that Fishbein didn't pick up a paintbrush until her early 20s. She grew up in Marin County, though her family moved many times, even to England at one point. She graduated from UCLA, then spent a year in New York studying architectural and industrial design. While there, she answered an ad for a job as a textile designer. "I'd never done that," she says, "but I figured I could paint some flowers as well as anybody."
Or better, as the following years of success demonstrate. Even now, all her creations begin with an original hand painting. She doesn't design on computers, but her three junior designers do; she jokes that she has "no idea what they're doing."
Embracing change
For the 18 years that Fishbein, her husband, two daughters, one son (all three now grown) and various dogs have lived here, the house has been a place of visual experimentation, of change, of adding new items, moving things around, taking some things away. And always painting.
"In our house, we're not afraid of change," she says. "It's a constant work in progress. I'm all about layering colors and patterns, experimenting with placement of pieces, kind of like an audition. I'll try this lamp out over here, but it might not make the cut, and I'll switch things up again."
She says she doesn't think twice about changing the color of a room.
"Paint is the easiest thing to change. Of course, it's a fine line to know when to stop," she says, laughing. "If it were up to me, I'd do too much. It's hard for me not to paint everything."
Virtues of patience
Many flea market pieces, personalized with Fishbein's paintbrush, dot the home. But she says it's not just a matter of rushing out and buying things willy-nilly. "You have to love something about a piece," she says. "Wait for that right thing to come along that has potential and that's something you want to live with. And make sure it has good bones. You don't want to put hours into decorating a chair that's going to break apart in a year or so."
She's also a fan of giving new life to old family pieces. In an office nook off the kitchen is a chair that belonged to her grandmother, the old upholstery now masked with a white slipcover with colorful appliqués of Fishbein's fabric designs.
Even her storage areas are decorated to provide an enjoyable visual experience. Drawer fronts in her walk-in closet pop with bright floral fabrics -- easily applied with brush-on fabric starch and just as easily removed. "Perfect thing for apartments," she says.
Fishbein is a master of glue guns and scissors, and her book offers 20 fun craft projects, from making paper medallions and decorating glass vases to using vintage salt-and-pepper shakers that add charm to curtain tassels.
Her advice to novice artists and crafters: Start small, practice with inexpensive pieces and enjoy the process. When you get comfortable, move on to bigger things.
"I've been doing this for 25 years, and by far the most important thing I've learned is not to be afraid to try something," she says. "My philosophy is all about our homes being a reflection of things we love, making it a place for friends and family to feel comfortable and happy."
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Our dear Karen lost her courageous battle with cancer Feb. 19.
Karen is pre-deceased by her father, Ian Gordon, and survived by her three beloved children; her mother, Betty Gordon; sister Linda Powell (Greg) and their children; and sister Dianne Vanstone (John) and their children.
Karen fought her cancer with dignity and incredible strength and died peacefully at St. George's Hospital in Tooting. A celebration of Karen's life will be held at 2:30 p.m. today at St. Mary's Church Wimbledon, England, followed by a reception at Cannizaro House. Interment will follow in Lachute, Quebec at a later date.
If family and friends so desire, memorial contributions are gratefully accepted in memory of Karen Gordon Lampl to the following: The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity (www.royalmarsden.org) - please specify with donation directed to support pancreatic cancer research - or St. George's Hospital Charity (www.givingtogeorges.org.uk) - please specify with donation directed for the benefit of patients and staff of the Stroke Unit.


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An online portfolio website is an excellent way for business owners and freelancers to get their work, skills and client cases in front of potential customers. The word portfolio simply means a bag for carrying loose papers, however, it has many meanings depending on how it is used. In relation to web pages, a portfolio design is typically defined by a popular and often used grid style layout of images of same size. Clicking on a portfolio item often takes visitors to a special page designed to present a client case, a project or a product. For website owners portfolio page templates therefore can be used to present business critical content in a great looking fashion and in a way that is easy for the users to navigate. Portfolio website typically also include special designs for contact pages, team member presentation and so on.
Most bloggers will probably agree that WordPress is an excellent choice for blogging. In addition, when it comes to showing off creative work by designers, photographers etc. it turns out that WordPress has great potential as well. Today many creative professionals have realized this and they use WordPress as the engine for building an online reputation. The ease of use of WordPress, the high number of portfolio style themes and plugins available for building a professional portfolio website makes the decision easy.
However online portfolios come in many different visual styles and with different features so it is a good idea to be clear on the requirements before choosing a theme to set up a portfolio website. I will provide some tips and guidance in this article along with an updated collection of the best WordPress portfolio themes I have been able to find. Keep in mind though, that there are many ways to set up an online portfolio. Besides WordPress I believe Tumblr is an interesting platform to check out and there are also some cool tumblr themes for portfolio sites you can use to get set up fast. In addition, it is an option for creative individuals to use popular portfolio communities like DeviantArt and Bhance to set up a showroom online.
This article provides a list of magnificent free and premium portfolio themes for WordPress and I am sure it will help you get started. Most of the really good themes for building a WordPress portfolio are not free, but certainly you can find great themes that won't cost anything. Still the premium portfolio themes sometimes comes with features that makes your life a bit easier, like regular updates and support. This allows you to focus on your business and creating a cool portfolio. If you need to add portfolio capabilities to an existing theme, I recommend you look for some portfolio or gallery plugins.
Keep in mind that WordPress themes with responsive layouts are really hot right now because they allow your visitors to see a perfect website/portfolio no matter what device they use. Responsive themes use media queries to deliver layouts that match smartphones, tablets etc. Many of the themes we selected for this article are fully responsive. This post is continuously updated with more useful WordPress portfolio themes and all links are checked!
Disclosure: Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links and I will earn a commission if you purchase through those links (at no extra cost to you). I recommend that you do your own independent research before purchasing any product or service. This article is not a guideline, a recommendation or endorsement of specific products.
Now to the 2014 Portfolio Theme Collection
I have categorized this article into three sections as some may be looking for free themes while others go for premium only. If you think that a great portfolio is missing let me know by leaving a comment. If you are new to portfolios make sure to check out the tips for choosing a WordPress portfolio theme at the end of this post.
- Premium WordPress Portfolio Themes
- Free WordPress Themes for online Portfolios
- Tips for choosing a website portfolio template
Premium WordPress Portfolio Themes 2014 Compilation
Buying a premium portfolio website templates for building a WordPress based online portfolio is typically the safe direction go go in. You get support and updates for the theme and this can turn out to be essential in the building phase, but even more in the future. Keep in mind thought that there are no guaranties. Theme vendors may not be around forever, but compared to a free theme you are typically safe.
Hercules – Portfolio & Business WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
Hercules is a WordPress theme for setting up a clean and professional business portfolio website. The theme is offers a modern design with a responsive layout. There are plenty of options and page building blocks available to set up your own unique site, including 15 custom page templates, 7 custom widgets, 100 shortcodes, 8 post formats: Standard, Aside, Gallery, Link, Image, Quote, Audio, Video, responsive sliders, animated circular and rectangular progress bars
Flexible Responsive WordPress Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO
This cool portfolio template is form ElegantThemes. Flexible offers a clean, modern minimalistic portfolio and business style design for WordPress websites. The theme comes with a filterable , Ajax powered multi media gallery that can be sorted into different categories without reloading the page. It also has color control panel in which you can customize the color of your fonts and backgrounds. It is also has a font customizer and supports all major browsers.
Fuse – Responsive Portfolio – MORE INFO
With fuse you get a responsive portfolio website template with a design that meet the highest standards. It is modern, clean and professional. The theme includes the Pixelgrade shortcode plugin and I am sure you will love this when you build up your pages.
Digital – MORE INFO
With Digital you get a minimalistic portfolio design with a left side navigation style. The theme is well suited for creative designers with a need for sharing work and skills online. You get two portfolio templates, one that includes all portfolio items at once and one that supports infinite scroll. There is both a featured slideshow feature and a portfolio slider.
Origin WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
This is another interesting portfolio website template that uses images to tell a story. It is very responsive that it will look and work great on mobile devices. It also maximizes the WordPress theme customizer in which it gives you full control over the color of your theme. This is really a great theme of choice for persons who would like to put up a photography or portfolio site.
Mozzy – MORE INFO
Mozzy is a cretive premium portfolio theme for WordPress with an advanced portfolio feature. The theme both support fixed width and full width slider on the front page and includes portfolio items in a nice filterable grid layout.
Reveal WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
Reveal is a great responsive portfolio website template for WordPress with a minimalistic design and a cool filterable portfolio grid. Theme theme include a shortcode slider, page templates and more.
Stardust – Multi-Purpose Portfolio WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
Stardust is a multi-purpose theme for WordPress with portfolio focus. It offers a large array of useful features you can apply into your creative process. You have more than 30 portfolio styles available, cool parallax effects, animated page transitions and more. The theme have a clean and simple responsive design that will wow your visitors.
dePosito Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO
With dePosito from ThemeShift you get a elegant and minimalistic responsive portfolio WordPress theme. The theme is based on FrameShift, a new modern WordPress options framefork, and this makes setting up on a professional portfolio website a breeze. Ready to show off your work!
Gridster – MORE INFO
Gridster is a left-handed navigation and sidebar theme with a portfolio or gallery style focus. The theme is cool for photographers, designers and other creative professionals with a need for showing off skills online.
ExploraSky OnePage/MultiPage Retina-Ready Responsive Theme – MORE INFO
The single page website style is trendy and works really well for simple and creative online portfolios. Explora is a single page portfolio template and it comes with a very clean design. In this theme you get a page builder to help you set up advanced page layouts without coding. There are also many useful shortcodes you can use to add dynamic content where ever you like on your page and posts.
Ilaria WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
With Ilaria you get a creative clean WordPress portfolio style theme. The theme is designed to be customized to your needs with many features and shortcodes. Ilaria is a good match for freelancers, agencies, designers and creative people.
Grand Grid – MORE INFO
With Grand Grid you can create a unique portfolio grid layout to showcase your work and skills. The theme have many other cool features such as the premium LayerSlider, tons of shortcodes, custom post formats and more.
Filtered WordPress Portfolio Template – MORE INFO
With Filtered you get a pure WordPress portfolio solution with a clean and elegant design. The theme is fully responsive and prepared for making mobile visitors happy. The portfolio function is filterable and looks great.
Nero Responsive Portfolio Photography Theme – MORE INFO
Nero is a powerful portfolio theme with 10 useful portfolio templates included with filterable content. You can also create galleries and password protect them. The theme is responsive and the image grids adapt well to small screens. There is a skin manage er 11 skins to choose from. It is possible to add music to the home page and pages of the site. The theme also support full screen youtube and vimeo videos. You will find many useful building blocks to make your site unique such as shortcodes, custom post types and more.
Timedrop – A WordPress Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO
TimeDrop is a multi-purpose theme with a great design for building online portfolios. The theme includes a page builder with 9 page building blocks that will give you a lot of flexibility and power to set up unique pages. The theme is responsive, have tons of shortcodes, custom widgets, slider function and more.
Mineral – Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
Mineral comes with a light and clean design that will allow full focus to the posrtfolio items. Theme theme have several portfolio options and will be a great pick for photographers, artists, designers and the like. You will find 5 post formats in this theme also to make variations and adjust the look and feel over time to your needs. To feature content there are 2 images sliders in the theme.
Folo | Premium Responsive Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO
Folo is as simple and minimal as you can get. It is a clean and simple theme for creating responsive WordPress portfolio websites.
Ink WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
Another clean, simple elegant theme for WordPress that is packed with tons of features suitable for building a beautiful website. this theme has an animated filtering for your portfolio, button shortcodes, custom widgets, custom background for individual pages, slideshow shortcode, Google web fonts, works on all major browsers and it very responsive that it adapts to any screen resolution.
ideo – Minimalistic WordPress Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO
Portfolios with minimal design makes great space for the content and often visitors find them easier to navigate. Ideo have been designed with this in mind and takes it is a clean and light theme with a masonry grid for the portfolio layout. Ideo comes with a page builder and this gives you great flexibility to layout your own page layouts in a snap. You get two header styles, 6 footer layouts, 3 sliders, lots of custom post types and other nice features. You even get WooCommerce support and will be able to set up a professional online shop as part of the portfolio website.
Capiton – MORE INFO
Capiton is a very clean and minimalistic designed portfolio style theme for WordPress. The theme have 4 styles includes for either fixed or wide layout and light or dark look and feel.
Showy – Bold & Flat Portfolio – MORE INFO
Showy is a flat, clean and simple portfolio theme for WordPress. It is mobile ready and comes with a cool filterable portfolio solution. You can choose from 3 portfolio styles/layouts.
Fox – WordPress Retro Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO
The Fox is a clean responsive WordPress that is loaded with awesome features. This theme comes with a great retro style suitable for persons who would like to showcase their works on Dribble. It also has Google map shortcode, 4 built in widgets, social media icons, contact form 7, custom options panel, lots of shortcodes, easy to set up and change color backgrounds, well documented and included in this package is a Nivo Slider Plugin!
Riviera – Portfolio WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
This portfolio theme have a cool set of options for making customizations of the design and page layouts. First of all it comes with a pleasant design that will fit well for a creative portfolio website. However, the page builder and the WP theme customizer can help you make adjustments quite easily to make your site look just as you want. There is a meaty shortcode collection packed into the theme as well and this gives you even more building blocks to choose from. Getting visitors to contact you is important and no worries – with Riviera you get a form builder solution to get the form set up in no time. There are also 2 slider included to help you feature your content.
Vertue – Clean And Minimal AJAX Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO
Another clean minimal responsive Ajax portfolio theme suitable for someone who would like to showcase their works online. Loaded with awesome features perfect for your needs. It has a full theme customizer support, smooth AJAX portfolio, responsive that it adapts to desktop/tablets and mobile devices, has custom templates and widgets and many more!
Board – WordPress Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO
Board is a responsive clean and classic theme for WordPress used to create a stunning beautiful portfolio or blog site. Included in this package are shortcode plugin, portfolio plugin, contact form 7, board logo PSD and many more!
Artiste: Professional Portfolio WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
This is another interesting theme that focuses on showcasing your work on potential clients. It has a clean minimal design, has full localization support, 3 custom widgets, simple theme options, shortcodes generator, layered PSDs for customization, and a detailed documentation.
Shot – Full Ajax Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
With Shot you get a photo intensive and very creative portfolio style WordPress theme. It is a perfect match for photographers and designer that work on a online showroom. There are 3 backgrounds styles – image, video and slider. There is a HTML5 music player included. Also in Shot you will find 5 page templates, map options for the contact page and more.
Punch – Responsive Portfolio WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
Another premium WordPress theme that has impressive animations suitable in showcasing your awesome work. This theme has superfast framework, SEO optimized, fully responsive that it adapts to any mobile devices, has shortcode generator, 400+ Google fonts and extensive documentation. Aslo included in this package is a Demo content and demo theme options for easy customization.
BIR – Responsive Creative WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
Bir is a dark and elegant WordPress theme for building classic and creative portfolio websites. The theme offers a filterable portfolio function, responsive design, 8 color schemes, text slider and more.
Roya – Responsive AJAX Portfolio WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
Another cool responsive portfolio theme that has a dynamic Ajax for loading contents. It is packed with awesome features like super fast loading, custom contact page, 8 color variations and CSS3 animations. This is a really must see theme!
Workspace – MORE INFO
Workspace is a responsive theme perfect for business/portfolio sites. It has custom widgets, custom page templates, SEO ready and works on all major browsers! one thing more, it has an advanced control panel in which you can take full control or your theme.
Foxy Portfolio – MORE INFO
Foxy is another portfolio theme with a clean and simple design. The featured image and recent work slider for the front page are cool featured with a great design. The drag and drop home page builder makes it simple to create your own website layout using this theme. The portfolio features in Foxy support the option to password protect portfolios. Theme theme includes support for custom sidebars and have useful custom widgets in the package.
MediaBook – Multimedia WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
Cool and a bit different portfolio WordPress theme with accordion style photo gallery. This theme focuses on photography with support for retouching projects, movies and texts. It has a dynamic content loading, Global loop Showcase system, multimedia content and custom gallery colors for zoomed view.
Pipes, A Super-duper Customizable WordPress Theme – MORE INFO
Another cool theme for WordPress that uses some eye catching animations and effects. This theme is packed with awesome features that will really suit your very needs some of this are unlimited color schemes, unlimited portfolios, child theme support, translation ready and much more!
Footage – A Photo & Video Production Theme – MORE INFO
Footage is a cool unique WordPress theme that displays your photos, projects and images in a unique and awesome way. It also supports all kinds and type of photo orientation . It has 2 skins + unlmited colors, easy gallery management, unique portfolio layout and Ajax contact form.
Free WordPress Portfolio Themes
Choosing to go for a free portfolio website template is a good solution for startups with a low budget. There are many good free options available and if you are an OK with taking care of technical issues and minor updates, you are often safe. Major updated to WordPress is common though and sometimes break free themes.
Spun – MORE INFO
Spun is a very minimalistic portfolio theme with a cool image grid using rounded images. The theme is responsive and lightweight.
Launch – MORE INFO
Launch is a sweet little theme for the personal blogger who likes to blog in style. Provides support for your own self-hosted video, audio, images, galleries, asides, links, quotes and of course good old standard posts.
FontFolio – MORE INFO
FontFolio is a cool free theme designed especially for building a creative online portfolio. The grid and masonry based layout used in this theme will make sure you can display your work the cool way. The theme works with latest versions of WordPress.
Photo Theme Responsive – MORE INFO
Another minimalistic free theme for WordPress that have been specially designed for photographers with a need for displaying their work online. It is a fully responsive theme that it works well on mobile and tablets.
Foto WordPress Portfolio Template – MORE INFO
With Foto you get a clean and simple theme for setting up an online portfolio. You can set up custom background and menus and use the sticky post slider. The theme have easy to use theme settings. Included in Fot oyou find a full-width template.
Touchfolio – MORE INFO
With Touchfolio you get a very simple and responsive theme for WordPress with a optimal focus on showin off image content online. It is responsive which means it adapts to mobile and desktop screens. The theme use latest web technology and use a skinning based system on LESS, has two types of portfolio and multiple gallery pages.
Portfolio Press – MORE INFO
Portfolio Press is a free WordPress portfolio template for showing your photography, art, creative stuff online. It contains a blog template as well to and therefore will fit well into a creative blog site. It has a feature rich options panel and a support format for easy customization.
Simple Grid Theme Responsive – MORE INFO
With Simple Grid you get a unique free grid based theme with a responsive layout. The theme simply adapts to both mobile and desktop screens. It is best suited for creatives who would like to show off their projects, designs and other work to potential clients online.
The Unstandard – MORE INFO
Another free theme for WordPress. The Unstandard is a cool two column portfolio style WordPress theme with three widget enabled zones. It has a custom background support, custom nested menus support, and five color options.
Tips and guidance for choosing a WordPress portfolio theme in 2014
Before you choose a theme for your WordPress portfolio I recommend you review my advice below:
- Business continuity: Look for recent updates, support, ratings and comments: While I try, my best to keep this article up to date there is always a risk that themes are suddenly not supported any more.
- Know your requirements: Start with making a list of portfolio features your solution will need to meet – and maybe make a simple sketch. This will make your life much easier once you start comparing the many available portfolio themes.
- In addition, you will not risk choosing a theme or plugin that will not work in the end. Read on to learn about what features you may not know that you need.
- Portfolio features in theme or plugin: When looking for a theme to set up a portfolio using WordPress there are actually two options. You can look for WordPress themes with build in portfolio page templates. This is a great option if you are able to find a theme with the right look and feel. If you have found a great simple WordPress theme that fits your business needs perfectly but it lacks on the portfolio capabilities you can often find plugins that easily extend WordPress with the ability to easily build and maintain galleries and portfolios.
- One or multiple portfolios and flexibility regarding placement? Some themes for building WordPress portfolios have limitations regarding where portfolios can be placed and how many can be added. This may be OK depending on your needs, but the portfolio layout is a powerful design element that can be inserted successfully on many pages, including the front page of a website. Portfolio solutions that allow developers to insert the portfolios using WordPress shortcodes is typically recommended for advanced users.
- Portfolio navigation options. Some portfolios use light boxes when the images are clicked, some take the user to a portfolio page, and some allow the developer to configure exactly what should be the action, e.g. opening an external link. Depending on what function the portfolio section have within your WordPress site this may be one of the most important things to get right.
- Responsive mobile ready portfolio or not: if you take mobile users serious you should consider to build a responsive portfolio. You see, portfolios are really hard to navigate in a small screen because they are typically set up with a fixed width. A responsive grid makes the portfolio columns adapt to the screen size.
- What data sources will be needed to fill the portfolio? Some solutions require portfolio elements to be added as custom post types where text and photos are added. Others can pull in regular posts and pages from WordPress and it can be really useful. Finally, there are solutions that can create portfolio pages from external data sources.
- Do you have requirements for filtering and categorization? Many portfolios have filtering by tag built in making it simple for users to focus on elements that are important and relevant to them.
Portfolio layouts have many shapes. While most portfolio themes for WordPress have several column layouts included (1,2,3,4 etc. columns) it is also important to consider if you need flexibility related to showing / hiding text titles, descriptions etc.


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As I approached the church's exit lane, a woman in an SUV began to accelerate into the oncoming traffic, which, in this case, consisted of me. I could see the back of the woman's head and a cell phone plastered to her ear as she looked the other way and pulled into the main street. I punched my horn, alerting her to our imminent collision.
She looked in my direction, hit the gas pedal and flipped me the bird.
Heaven help us if she learned that in parochial school.
In its audacity and veniality, the incident was disappointingly routine. Just another 21st-century commute, navigating the shoals of intemperate drivers with more cylinders than sense.
But in its audacity and excess, it underlined one of the critical shifts in the erosion of civility. Even when we are demonstrably in the wrong, our default position is to attack. When a stranger censors, the best defense is an aggressive offense, the more coarse the better.
The co-founder of Johns Hopkins University's Civility Initiative insists civility among Americans is plummeting, a view confirmed by a majority of Americans. "We are both ruder and more civil than in times gone by," Pier M. Forni told The New York Times.
But that, of course, depends on what you mean by "times gone by." In the 16th century, one ate with one's hands, usually from a common bowl, picked one's teeth at the dinner table and, long into the 19th century, customarily shared a hotel bed with a stranger. As late as 1832, Frances Trollope complained of the "incessant, remorseless spitting of Americans," and personal hygiene was, at best, indifferent.
When people talk about the demise of civility, they generally mean the deterioration of manners from the early-to- mid-20th century among a certain social class. Advances in living standards — more square-feet per home, more cars per garage, and more appliances per capita — are insignificant if not accompanied by improvements in social behavior.
Does it matter whether you can fit 5,000 songs on your iPod if you can't get along with your next-door neighbor?
For most of history, technical advancement initiated social improvements — scientific advances led to increases in disposable income, which led to higher levels of personal conduct. But in the 21st century we have developed an inverse relationship between technological advances and social customs. The more avenues we have for communication — cell phones, e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, texting, YouTube — the worse we seem to be at it. It may be that the plethora of social networking has led us to look at society as just another slice of spam to be deleted.
Judith Martin, a.k.a. "Miss Manners" has noted that when we complain about the loss of civility, what we mean is that we expect people to be more civil to us, and not necessarily the other way around. Increasingly, researchers have begun to calculate the costs of perceived incivility in how it affects, for instance, our performance at work.
In "The Cost of Bad Behavior," by Christine Pearson, the Arizona management professor discovered that incivility was rampant in the workplace and that most, or 60 percent, of that rudeness came from those above them. This, too, is a shift. It used to be that those of higher income and rank were recognizable for their courtesy; now they are distinctive for their boorishness.
In Pearson's survey, half of the 9,000 managers and workers she surveyed said they decreased their performance on the job as a result of the rudeness. It is a paradox, she said, of contemporary management: Managers expect their employees to treat their customers with respect, while employing very little of it on their own.
When my father died of a massive heart attack six years ago, my brother was working for a prominent financial service firm in Boston. Not one of his hundreds of co-workers showed up to my father's funeral, nor did they send condolences to my brother. Within a month, my brother left the firm for a lower-paying job.
It was not, he said, that he wanted to punish his colleagues, merely that he did not want to spend so many of his waking hours with people who had no heart.
And that, of course, is the whole point of civility. It is not surprising that after Joan Didion's husband died, the most obliging words of comfort were supplied by Emily Post.
Etiquette proceeds from the notion that we view others as moral, vulnerable beings, worthy of our consolation and respect. That is the real lubricant of a social network that we dismiss at our peril.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) -- Having exhausted his original depth chart at quarterback, Maryland coach Randy Edsall has turned to true freshman linebacker Shawn Petty to direct the offense Saturday against Georgia Tech.
Wearing No. 31, Petty will be asked to run, pass and hand off the football. His top priority, however, is to simply make it to the end of the game without getting hurt.
The Terrapins (4-4, 2-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) have already lost four quarterbacks for the season because of injury -- C.J. Brown, Perry Hills, Devin Burns and then Caleb Rowe last Saturday in a defeat at Boston College.
Georgia Tech (3-5, 2-3) has dropped three of four -- including a 41-17 bashing last week by Brigham Young. It's the first meeting between the teams in College Park since 2007.
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It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a chance to see President Barack Obama inaugurated into his second term, but now some of the local students who went on the trip say they didn't get what they were promised. (WRDW-TV)
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a chance to see President Barack Obama inaugurated into his second term, but now some of the local students who went on the trip say they didn't get what they were promised.
The trip was more expensive than originally advertised, and not all 20 students were able to attend the event.
"I was excited and ready to go," said a senior at Butler High.
Jacques Nipper is in his last year at Butler High. He figured there was no better way to celebrate his senior year than with a trip to the inauguration.
"I was very anxious to go and see the president," Nipper said.
Sadly, he didn't get a chance to meet or even see President Obama take his second term. Even though he didn't get what he was promised by a visitor to the high school, he says the trip wasn't a complete loss.
"I had a really good time. It was fun. I got to see things you don't get to see every day," Nipper said.
That's why Principal Greg Thompson says he thought it would be a good idea for students to go.
"At Butler High School, we always try to get our kids exposure on different things. Throughout the year we get them on various trips, so I was glad they had an opportunity to go," Thompson said.
One thing did upset him, though.
"I was disappointed that they felt they were misled in some of the things they were told they would see and experience," Thompson said.
Students paid $135 with the belief they could watch the inauguration in special seating and even get an opportunity to meet the president. Instead, they were left without seating in the cold and were asked to pay for additional transportation fees.
Despite that, Nipper says the community is not being fair to his principal who only wants the best for his students.
"I feel he sincerely cares about us. I feel like he thinks about us off duty, even when he's not here," Nipper said.
The principal, superintendent and a school board member all say this was not a school-sponsored event, even though the school did help collect the fees.
News 12 tried to reach Erica Jones, who organized the trip, but her number is disconnected. However, district officials say an investigation is underway, and they could press charges.


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EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado - In dog-bites-man news, the Vail Valley is just about booked up for the Presidents Day weekend. But rooms seem to be going fast for the rest of the season, too.
At the Park Hyatt Beaver Creek, sales and marketing manager Scott Gubrud said right now might be the best time to book a trip the third week of March, but rooms will be scarce the rest of the month.
Presidents Day always books up well in advance, but snow seems to be driving reservations for the rest of the season.
Gubrud said the Hyatt's reservations were running "way behind" the previous season's pace in November, due no doubt to a bad snow season in 2011-12 and scarce snow on the ground last fall. Some well-timed storms in January and this month have made up for that early-season slump, Gubrud said.
Now, "other than some little mid-week pockets," Gubrud said the Hyatt is full for much of the rest of the season.
At The Sebastian in Vail, general manager Lance Thompson told much the same story - a full house for the holiday, and strong reservations through the end of March.
Thompson said the hotel lobby was swamped on Valentines Day, shortly after the daily American Airlines flight from Dallas had touched down at the Eagle County Regional Airport. Many of those guest were first-timers to Vail.
Thompson said a lot of reservations at The Sebastian these days are from returning guests, adding that many of those reservations were made before the well-timed snowstorms of the past several weeks.
On the other hand, plenty of people started booking rooms close to their travel dates when the national economy fell apart in 2008. That trend hasn't gone away.
For proof, look to the weekend of Feb. 9 and 10. The weekend before Presidents Day isn't generally considered a big one, but both Vail and Beaver Creek were packed, thanks to some timely snow.
"We're really snow farming," Vail Valley Partnership CEO Chris Romer said. "(Feb. 9) had to be one of the busiest days of the year. The days when it snows, we're seeing it."
Those last-minute reservations have started to fill in the week after the Monday holiday. Romer said Tuesday through Saturday bookings were up over the same period last year.
"The fact that we've had snow at the right times, plus the fact that guests are here is creating a buzz," Gubrud said.
That buzz may be adding up to a strong finish for February, Thompson said.
"I think it's going to be a very, very, good month," Thompson said.
Everyone expects March bookings to be strong, thanks to spring break and Easter, but reservations often drop off after that first "spring" holiday, when many thoughts turn to golf and other warm-weather pursuits.
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Wedding rings were traditionally done from gold, however gold in its purest form is very soft. In fact, rings done from pristine gold, or twenty-four carat gold to be more precise, usually last 3-4 years prior to apropos intensely thin and fragile. For this reason, gold is total with other metals to form an alloy. Gold alloys come in a operation of purities. As I have mentioned, twenty-four carat gold (99.99% gold) is very soft. Alternatives embody twenty-two carat, eighteen carat,14 carat and 9 carat. Over the years eighteen carat gold has been the amalgamate of welfare for women and 9 or fourteen carat for men. Men traditionally work in areas (such as construction) which are not accessible to jewelry so a harder amalgamate was the preference.


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There are plenty of potentially mutagenic agents that, individually and at very low levels, pose little threat to human health. Arsenic, estrogen—humans come into contact with these all the time.
But even at levels considered safe by Environmental Protection Agency, a combination of arsenic and estrogen exposure could be harmful, researchers at Texas Tech University have found.
Kamaleshwar Singh, Ph.D., and his colleagues treated human prostate cells with "safe" levels of arsenic, estrogen, and a combination of both once weekly for six months. They found that the cells exposed to both arsenic and estrogen were almost twice as likely to become cancerous than those that were not in contact with both agents.
"Science has looked at these chemicals, such as arsenic, and tested them in a lab to find the amounts that may cause cancer. But that's just a single chemical in a single test. In the real world, we are getting exposed to many chemicals at once," Dr. Singh said in a statement.
"Co-exposure was creating a greater impact," he added. "That was one of the important findings of our study. The next thing we wanted to know is how these two chemicals are creating a greater effect."
Justin Treas, Ph.D., a postdoc in Dr. Singh's lab pinpointed the gene MLH1 as one target of the two agents. He said that the arsenic-estrogen combination halted MLH1, which plays a role in a cell's self-destruct signaling once it has become damaged.
"With the lower dose not killing the cell, it's causing damages that go under the cell's radar," Treas said. "We found when you have two compounds together, lower doses could be more serious problem."
"Chronic exposure to arsenic, estrogen, and their combination causes increased growth and transformation in human prostate epithelial cells potentially by hypermethylation-mediated silencing of MLH1" was published online in The Prostate June 26.
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I do not frequent movie houses for at least three reasons: I have lost a lot of respect for Hollywood because of the crap they have released (and time is not relative); the anointed talent in film continue to anoint themselves and then they talk too much; and for personal reasons, I don't like going to the movies alone (that old impression about a guy in a theater with a long jacket on).
Well, tonight I'm out of the closet and please allow me to babble on.
Whoa, what a story on this release. "Django Unchained" is about many things but specifically references some serious examples of persecution of "black folk" around 1855.
Did that slavery thing really happen? It was almost as ugly as what the Germans did to the Jews, what the Romans did to the Christians and what the bad Islamic fundamentalist used to do to the infidels. (Thank goodness Obama declared that war over.)
If these things in history are all true (and because I saw it at the movies, I'm sure they are), I am thankful I had nothing to do with any of it and therefore I feel no need to apologize. But I digress.
Let me give some detail, a precis if you will, about this picture show without giving away its message.
Two guys who are not the same skin color meet. One guy is a good liar, and the other one really doesn't know how to lie and needs to be taught. They buy a lot of bullets and start a business. The fortune they amass is the result of the bodies they accumulate.
One guy agrees to take a risk, and the other guy agrees to risk something else. Later, they learn together that any risk has consequences. Just when you realize that it's a pretty lousy time to be alive during this chapter of American history, they buy more bullets. Then (and it's so predictable) a female becomes part of the narrative.
This is a movie you wish would end even though there is no justice. But then you want it to continue because you're waiting on some justice. It's a movie that shows exactly what a bullet can do to human flesh. A movie that shows what a dog from an unloving family is capable of. A movie that depicts horse pooh-pooh on the ground and men with real bad teeth. And it's about love in a twisted sort of way.
In the early '60s, Sergio Leone was genius as a director with a young Clint Eastwood in what we now affectionately call the "spaghetti westerns." There are some similarities to "A Fistful of Dollars," "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and "Django Unchained."
In this new millennium film, Quentin Tarantino is brilliant with all his hired hands. The acting is done so well that you begin to believe they are not acting at all. The cinematography is beautiful, and the story, although slanted, is more than believable.
Be prepared, it is not what I would consider a feel good flick (or maybe it is if you're a little twisted yourself).
I asked myself on the way home, "Self, on a scale of 1 to 6 and 6 is epic, what is your rating of this film?"
"I'm giving this a 5 and a must see."
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Both the Upper Sioux Community Wacipi and the Hanley Falls Threshing Show take place this weekend. The colorful dance, regalia and music will begin at the Wacipi campgrounds with Fri. warm-ups at 7:00 p.m. Grand Entry times take place at 1:00 and 7:00 p.m. on Sat. and 1:00 p.m. Sun.. The HF Threshing runs all day long Sat. and Sun., boasting a long lists of family-orientated events.
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Lt. Richard Roundtree is all smiles after winning the Democratic nomination for Richmond County sheriff. (WRDW-TV / Aug. 22, 201)
News 12 First at Five / Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Lt. Richard Roundtree is looking ahead to the November election, where he's looking to become Richmond County's first African-American sheriff.
Roundtree narrowly edged out Cpt. Scott Peebles in Tuesday's Democratic runoff, winning the race by only about 500 votes.
"I never thought that I'd be the first anything, let alone the historic nature of being the first African-American sheriff candidate going into the race," Roundtree said.
Campaign Adviser Randy Frails says, "We're feeling just wonderful, ecstatic. We feel like this was a miracle."
But as soon as the celebrations are over, it's time to hit the ground running for November.
"We have more work to do," Frails said. "Freddie [Sanders] is a formidable opponent. Freddie did not get in this race just to be a stopgap."
Sanders is the Republican nominee for sheriff and says, "We're running hard and we're going to run hard. We're going to give the people of Richmond County a choice."
Roundtree responds, saying, "Freddie has his message and I have my message. I respect Freddie a great deal."
Roundtree says each candidate's platform will be important in the weeks ahead.
"Our message is not going to change. Our strategy might change a little bit, but our message is not going to change," Roundtree assured his followers.
Roundtree says he hopes to attract some of Peebles' supporters, including a lot of those crossover voters.
"Our strategy is to keep putting our message out to more people," he said.
They know it isn't going to be a cakewalk to victory, though.
"We firmly believe that we are going to have to work hard to overcome and win in November," Frails said.
But, they say they've overcome the odds once, and they plan to do it again.
"We always felt like an underdog. There were a lot of people who told us it was our race to lose because of the numbers," Frails said.
Roundtree tells News 12 that Peebles called him minutes after the final votes were in, congratulating him and letting him know that he has his support in November.
We spoke with Peebles who says that wasn't a formal endorsement, but he isn't saying whether or not he will endorse a candidate in the race at a later date.


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The third suspicious house fire in four months occurred over the weekend in Saverton. The latest blaze happened early on Saturday.
According to Michael Dobson, chief of the Hannibal Rural Fire Protection District, his department responded at 4:11 a.m. to the report of a structure fire that had destroyed a vacant home at 13133 Highway E.
The structure, reportedly owned by Dwight and Rebecca Flint, was located near the roadway, with no other homes around it. The blaze was not reported until someone driving by noticed a small fire and reported it.
Dobson says the fire department put out several hot spots and worked with Ameren to isolate the electric service.
Saturday's blaze follows fires in two other vacant homes in the Saverton area on Sept. 9 and Oct. 5.
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The Vail Symposium's Winter 2013 season kicks off Dec. 5 with a lineup of fresh, thought-provoking programs, two fundraisers and one "Signature Symposium" event."This season's lineup offers something for everyone," Vail Symposium Executive Director Liana Moore said. "From a panel discussion with some of Vail's first residents on the early days of Vail in honor of Vail's 50th anniversary to timely topics such as the mind of the mass murderer to this year's Unlimited Adventure series, which includes record-breaking big-wall free solo climber Alex Honnold."Created in 1971, the Vail Symposium was conceived by community leaders to be a forum for discussions to help create a vision for the community. The weekend-long think tank attracted not only the majority of townsfolk but also policy shapers from across the state and nation. Throughout the years, the Symposium has diversified and expanded its scope with a dedication to timely, thought-provoking programs that have relevance to the community and world. This season's lineup reflects that mission, as well as the organization's commitment to growing and changing with the community it serves.
On Dec. 29, Georgetown University's premier co-ed a cappella group, the Phantoms, entertains for the evening with its repertoire of 50-plus rock, pop and R&B songs. Following their vocal performance, they will give a presentation on the a cappella tradition at Georgetown and explain how they arrange their own music.
The Symposium's most recognizable series, Hot Topics, features experts who speak about issues relevant to our community and the world. "This season's Hot Topics lineup will present a diverse range of programming," Vail Symposium board member Rohn Robbins said. "This timely series will provoke thought, impart practical skills, touch you deeply and expand your mind."The winter season kicks off with TEDxVailWomen's The Space Between on Dec. 5. The Space Between attendees will hear powerful ideas from women and girls, talks from TEDxWomen 2012 and live talks from Sharon Shay Sloan, Andrea Lo, Shannon Galpin, Judith Landau and Susie Kincade.The Hot Topics series continues on Jan. 10 with a panel discussion examining the mind of the mass murderer."Authors Jeff Kass, Katherine Ramsland and Jeff Mariotte, all deeply steeped in the mysteries of what drive and motivate mass and serial killers, will share their insights," Robbins said. "Also included in this season's programming is a presentation from Rachel's Challenge (March 5), an organization which arose out of the Columbine disaster and which focuses on channeling students from violence and bullying to kindness, cooperation and compassion."This series also includes a panel discussion that will give valuable advice on real estate purchasing and financing (Feb. 19), a discussion about the civil war in Syria led by Ambassador Christopher Hill (March 11) and a panel on health care reform (March 19), which will examine the Affordable Care Act from four unique points of view.
As the Vail Valley continues to grow as a world-renowned health and wellness destination, the Vail Symposium is committed to advancing education and awareness through programs and events that elevate that status. This series began this past summer with the inaugural Living at Your Peak summit and continues this winter."The Vail Symposium is proud to announce the first 2013 Living at Your Peak event on Jan. 22 at the Donovan Pavilion," said Vail Symposium President and CEO Alby Segall. Chris Crowley, best-selling author of "Younger Next Year," will introduce his new book, "Thinner This Year." Following Crowley, the Vail Symposium's Living at Your Peak Series will continue through the fall of 2013 with the second-annual Living at Your Peak Summit. Stay tuned for exact dates and location.
It is part of the mission of the Vail Symposium to offer affordable programs to the community; one way that is accomplished is through the Speaking Locally and Unlimited Adventure series, both of which are free. The Speaking Locally series gives local leaders, athletes and other prominent authorities and community members a platform to share their ideas and passions with an audience. This winter, the Vail Symposium joins in Vail's 50th anniversary celebrations with a Speaking Locally panel composed of Vail pioneers Rod Slifer, Elaine Kelton and Merv Lapin, moderated by Terry Minger (Feb. 28). One of the winter's most loved series, Unlimited Adventure, returns for three Thursday nights throughout the season with a lineup of programs that won't disappoint, including big-wall free solo climber extraordinaire Alex Honnold (Jan. 17); sailor, photographer and lifelong adventurer David Thoreson (Jan. 31); and Shannon Galpin, who became the first woman to mountain bike in Afghanistan in 2009 and has been named one of National Geographic's 2013 Adventurers of the Year.
Support the Symposium by attending - or participating in - two fundraisers this season that emphasize fun.First, SPiN Galactic returns to Vail on Jan. 26 for a pingpong tournament. SPiN is a galaxy of pingpong social clubs created by owners Franck Raharinosy, Andrew Gordon, Jonathan Bricklin and Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon. The one-day tournament will be composed of four tiers, and all ages and abilities are invited to enter. On Feb. 14, celebrate Valentine's Day with the Vail Symposium and Colorado Ski and Snowboard Museum in an evening honoring three of Vail's most famous pioneer couples. "As Vail Turns" will honor the colorful personalities of Rose and George Gillett, Janet and Paul Testwuide and Sheika and Pepi Gramshammer in a 45-minute play written and performed by the Denver-based Curious Theater. The evening will benefit the Vail Symposium and the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Museum.
During the winter of 2011, the Vail Symposium made a concerted effort to begin raising the level of programming and identified one event per season as a signature event. These events bring the organization back to its roots with multiday symposiums focusing on one key theme. This winter's lineup concludes April 5 and 6 with "Beyond Winning and Losing."Presented in partnership with the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, this two-day symposium will focus on the role of sport in promoting peace and fostering sustainable human and economic development worldwide and at the local level. Also presented in partnership with the Taste of Vail, attendees will have the opportunity to nourish their bodies, as well as their minds, with a variety of fine food tastings throughout the weekend. "'Beyond Winning and Losing: Sport as an Instrument for Peace and Development' is a huge topic. As we spent time with our partners at DU, we realized how relevant it is to Vail during its auspicious 50-year anniversary," said Vail Symposium Advisory Council member and event champion Mike Losier. "Vail's founders helped skiing evolve from their experiences in the 10th Mountain Division after World War II. Their vision realized that skiing brings people together from all over the world. 'Beyond Winning and Losing' will enable Vail to host an important event to discuss how sport has been and continues to be an agent of change." Tracey Flower is the development and marketing associate for the Vail Symposium. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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AUSTIN (October 18, 2012)—Texas State District Judge Steve Thomas said Thursday a Kountze Independent School District policy that bars cheerleaders from quoting biblical scripture on banners at high school football games appears to violate the cheerleaders' free speech rights.
Thomas issued an injunction Thursday allowing the Kountze High School cheerleaders to continue to display such banners pending the outcome of a lawsuit about the matter.
He previously granted a temporary restraining order allowing the practice to continue.
The school district ordered the cheerleaders to stop quoting Bible verses after receiving a complaint from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which said it received a complaint from an atheist attending a game who felt the school was promoting Christianity.
The atheist group argued that using banners with phrases such as, "I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me," violates the First Amendment rule against the government establishing a religion.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott applauded the ruling Thursday.
"Today's decision is an important victory for the cheerleaders' freedom of religion. The Constitution has never demanded that students check their religious beliefs at the schoolhouse door," he said.
"We will not allow groups or individuals to wage a war on religion by trying to intimidate students into embracing a secular mindset," he said.
On Wednesday Abbott said he will defend the cheerleaders and is intervening in the lawsuit the cheerleaders filed against the school district.
Abbott said that because the cheerleaders create the banners without school funding, they qualify as free speech and should not be banned.
"After receiving a menacing letter from an organization with a reputation for bullying school districts, the Kountze ISD improperly prohibited high school cheerleaders from including religious messages on their game day banners," Abbott said Wednesday.
"Those banners, which the cheerleaders independently produce on their own time with privately funded supplies, are perfectly constitutional,' he said.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry applauded Abbott's intervention, saying, "As government leaders, we owe it to people of all religions to protect expressions of faith, to ensure everyone has the right to voice their opinions and worship as they see fit."


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More Layoffs at Patton Boggs
Law firm Patton Boggs LLP is laying off 10 lawyers and 35 staffers, the second round of cuts this year at the firm amid an overhaul intended to reverse declining profitability.
The layoffs, which were announced Thursday morning, will save the firm $5.5 million in salary and benefits, according to Patton Boggs managing partner Edward Newberry. "We're doing all the things a firm should do to adjust to a very difficult environment," he said in an interview.
Patton Boggs is also in merger discussions with at least two firms: Texas-based Locke Lord LLP and a smaller New York firm. According to an internal memo reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, the firm has not yet committed to a tie-up with Locke Lord but has begun "a thorough due diligence process" to evaluate the potential combination, and is in talks with "a well-respected firm in New York City. We also continue to carefully evaluate opportunities to combine with other firms."
Known for its Washington, D.C., lobbying muscle, Patton Boggs has been ratcheting down on expenses and making other operational adjustments after disappointing financial results in 2012, when its revenue dropped 6.5%, to $317.5 million, and profit fell 14%.
Sixty-five lawyers and staff were laid off in February. More than 20 partners have also exited, though the firm has said some were asked to leave and some new partners have since come on board. As of August, Patton Boggs had about 465 lawyers.
This time around the attorney cuts are limited to junior lawyers at the firm's New Jersey office, which had about 40 lawyers and had been the hub for a sizable litigation effort defending New York City and its contractors against claims relating to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. That work has largely wound down, and Mr. Newberry said the reductions there, which also include seven staff jobs, would bring the office size in line with the current revenue it produces.
Another 28 staffers are also being laid off across the firm's other offices; Patton Boggs has six domestic locations and four in the Middle East.
"As the size of the firm has fluctuated," Mr. Newberry said, "we are adjusting staff ratios to fit the size we are now. As a result we are returning to very strong profitability and poised to have a very strong year in 2014. We are very much on budget this year."
In recent months a number of other big law firms have also trimmed staff ranks, including Silicon Valley's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Arent Fox LLP, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, and, this month, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP.
Most have characterized the cuts as painful but necessary adjustments to an era when fewer support staffers are needed to support lawyers, as younger attorneys routinely type their own documents and manage their own calendars.
For example, from a Fried Frank memo on the cuts reviewed by WSJ:
"Today we have taken the difficult step to reduce our support staff by 29 people across the NY and DC offices. Like many other firms, we have taken this action to align our resources with evolving market conditions, technological advances and operational efficiencies… Those affected will be provided with severance pay, health benefits and career transition assistance. We thank them for their many contributions to the Firm and wish them the best in the future."
Update: An earlier version of this post incorrectly said 36 staff jobs were cut, based on information supplied by the firm.


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|Length Overall
|55' 1''
16.79 m
|Tested Weight
|Hull Length
|52' 6''
16.0 m
|Shallow Ballast Weight
|10,053 lbs.
4,560 kg
|49' 9''
15.16 m
|Deep Ballast Weight
|9,326 lbs.
4,230 kg
|16' 3''
4.95 m
|Fuel Cap
|159 gal
|Draft (Deep Keel)
|7' 7''
2.31 m (max)
|Water Cap
|269 gal.
|Shallow Draft (Shallow Keel)
|6' 3''
1.91 m
|Mainsail Area (Classic)
|721 sq ft
67.01 m²
|Mast Height (max)
|78' 7''
23.95 m
|Headsail Area (105 %)
|775 sq ft
72.03 m²
|Max Headroom
|6' 6''
1.98 m
|Dry Displacement
|37,258 lbs.
16,900 kg
|Prices, features, designs, and equipment are subject to change. Please see your local dealer or visit the builder's website for the latest information available on this boat model.
|Std. Power
|1 x 75-hp Yanmar SD POD 120
|Tested Power
|Currently no test numbers
|Opt. Power
1 x 75-hp Yanmar SD POD 120 Dock & Go
The Beneteau Oceanis 55 has an LOA of 55'1" (16.79 m), a beam of 16'3" (4.95 m) and three different possible drafts from 5'1" to 7'7" (2.31 m to 2.30 m). Her displacement, light, is 37,258 lbs. (16,900 kgs.)
The Mission of the Oceanis 55
The Oceanis 55 is designed for cruising in all of the different permeations it might take. For example, by having three different keel depths available, the boat can be used nearly anywhere on earth. With her five layouts available, she can be used by a family for weekend cruising, for charter work, club rendezvous, or long-distance voyaging. By having nearly all of her sail controls brought back to the aft end of her cockpit she is easy to sail short-handed work -- or, even single-handed.
Sailing on a reach it is comfortable to stand to windward and watch the sail shape and the Windex on the mast head at the same time.
Major Features
5 Layout Plans. Few boats of any size offer so many different configurations.
3 Keel Designs. The Oceanis 55 comes with three keels, each with a different draft and weight. All are cast iron.
Twin Wheels. Twin wheels come standard to make boat handling easy, more fun and comfortable.
"Dock & Go" Optional. Beneteau's popular "Dock & Go" joystick system uses a pod drive in the stern and a bow thruster managed by a software controller that translates the movements of a joystick into digital commands for fool-proof docking.
CE Category "A." The Oceanis 55 has a CE rating of "A" when carrying 12 or fewer people.
Wide Beam and Form Stability. The state-of-the-art lines of the vessel have been drawn by Berret Racoupeau Yacht Design in France. The hull shape is good to windward and fast downwind in a blow.
The Oceanis 55 has 8 portlights in the hull. Note the hard chine aft.
●Innovative Interior Design. The interior design is by Nauta Design, which has paid particular attention to making this boat feel cozy inside and quite versatile. All interior bulkhead surfaces are covered in Alpi wood or in designer fabrics.
●8 Hull Portlights Plus Many Skylights. Getting light below is a major objective of the designers and to that end they have designed in 8 portlights in addition to side windows in the trunk cabin, three deck hatches forward, and numerous sky lights both large and small on top of the coach roof.
●Electrically-Controlled Transom. The vessel's transom opens fully, allowing it to turn into a swim platform. Its decking is made of natural wood and has a stainless steel ladder with wood treads.
●Alpi Mahogany Interior. The joiner work inside is all Alpi mahogany. The cabin sole is parquet laminated wood.
●Sails Included. A roller furling headsail with UV protective strip and a fully battened mainsail with lazy jacks and lazy bag is standard equipment.
The Cockpit
The table on the centerline of the cockpit has leaves that open up port and starboard for lunch and also provide a good place to plant a foot when seated to windward.
The advantage of having two wheels is so the captain can sit to windward or leeward or alternate as conditions or whim dictates.
In many respects the cockpit is remarkably conventional for a Beneteau. However, the builder has run virtually all of the controlling lines for the sails, including the mainsail sheet, below deck and through the cockpit combings to jam cleats just forward of the secondary self-tailing winches. These jam cleats and winches are placed just forward of the port and starboard wheels making it handy for the captain to get to, when sailing short-handed. These jam cleats and winches are also equally handy for crew seating or kneeling in the cockpit.
The mainsheet blocks are affixed to the top of the arch ("A") and then run forward to the mast, through an "organizer," then back through dedicated tubes in the coach roof to the jam cleats ("D") on the cockpit coaming. The self-tailing secondary winches ("E") handle the main sheet as well as the halyards, downhauls, etc. that are all run through the jam cleats. The jib sheet runs through a car on a track forward on deck, then back to the turning blocks ("B"), then to the primary winches ("C").
This view of the transom shows the cutout that electrically swings down creating a swim platform. The stainless steel swim ladder has wood treads.
The Salon/Galley
This image shows the expansive use of Alpi mahogany in the salon and galley.
Thanks to the prodigious beam of the Oceanis 55, there is plenty of room in the vessel for three to five sleeping cabins, and with two to four heads. That means the boat can sleep up to 10 people in private cabins. The settee also makes into a double bed to sleep two more.
Virtually any family should find the Oceanis 55 large enough. Cruising sailors who like to have other couples around will have room for another couple and their kids as well -- or how about five couples?
The Settee. With the addition of two stools the table can seat eight people for dinner. The aft end of the settee is double wide and also serves as a seat for the navigation station.
Headroom in the salon is 6'6" (1.91 m).
The starboard side settee can be used for lounging and cocktails or a four-course dinner. Leaves on the table fold out to serve eight.
The galley has a two-burner stove top and oven. There is a 100 L top-loading icebox in the corner of the counter. A front loading 12 V electric refrigerator has a 130 L capacity. Beneteau has utilized all available space in the standard galley module for storage of dishes, pans and food containers.
The galley module stays the same size no matter which of the layouts are selected and simply moves forward or aft depending on which of the layouts is selected.
An adjustable sofa is placed on the port side opposite of the settee in the primary three-cabin layout. However, in the other four configurations this sofa is shrunk into a love seat. Remarkably, this is the only reduction in utility that is made to accommodate as many as five cabins and four heads in the 55.
The deck plan is an interesting mix of the conventional with the innovative concept of getting controls off the top of the coach roof. Note the placement of port and starboard sun pads outboard of the companionway. This is unusual and will be welcome when at anchor.
The Iron Jib + "Dock & Go"
A Yanmar 75-hp diesel with three-bladed prop drives the Oceanis 55 through a pod drive, a concept that has been around a long time in the sailing world and used to be called a "sail drive''. This engine in concert with an electric bow thruster allows the boat to be controlled with the optional "Dock & Go" system through a joystick in the cockpit.
A Vessel Management Unit (VMU) has the software that converts the movement of the joystick and the input from a gps to digital commands for the thruster motor, and transmission and engine. Our test of the system installed in the Sense 55 proved the system to be responsive, accurate and easy to use.
We have not tested the Oceanis 55, but our test of the Sense 55 with the same propulsion system gave us a great deal of confidence in this engine which can easily push the boat at 8 to 9 knots.
Three Keels
Some of the best cruising grounds in the world are where the water is relatively shallow. Moreover, by their very nature, the harbors, rivers and waterways where marinas, waterfront houses and docks are located are often shallow. As a result, Beneteau is offering three keel depths so that every owner can still be able to go nearly wherever wanted.
The U-shaped galley has drawers for pots and pans, cabinets for dishes, glassware and containers. The stove uses propane.
The "Very Shallow Draft" keel is 5'1" (1.55 m) deep and weighs 11,677 lbs. (5,298 kgs). The merely "shallow" draft keel draws 5'11" (1.80 m) and weighs 10,703 lbs. (4,855 kgs.) The "deep" draft keel draws 7'7" (2.31 m) and weighs just 9,326 lbs. (4,230 kgs.) All three keels are made out of cast iron.
Remember that the Oceanis 55 gets much of her stability from its bottom shape and wide beam with hard chines. This design has the advantage of saving weight as well as making the boat a down-wind flyer.
The Oceanis 55's teak beach is large and inviting. Children will like it as much as their parents.
Construction Details
The Oceanis 55 is designed in accordance with European Directives and CE requirements, according to Beneteau. The builder uses infused polyester and balsa core in both the hull and the deck. The hull-to-deck joint is screwed, chemically bonded and banded with a 1" thick piece of wood molding.
The keel is affixed to the hull with stainless steel bolts going through a stainless steel plate in the bilge.
Standing and running rigging are all made of conventional materials.
The 5 Accommodation Plans
#1. This plan is the standard 3-cabin, 2 head layout. The advantages of it are that the master stateroom in the bow is of maximum size and the salon seating is the greatest of all five layouts because of the full-size sofa to port.
#2. This plan is essentially the same as #1 with the addition of a head in the port quarter cabin. In this case both the aft heads have access doors allowing them both to be used as day heads. Note that the sofa to port has shrunk.
#3. Now we are into the first 4-cabin layout, and again the boat has two heads. The advantage of this layout is that eight people are accommodated in privacy without minimizing the owner's stateroom.
#4. In this layout Beneteau has created four private staterooms, each with their own wet head -- except the starboard quarter cabin which has a separate shower stall. In some cases this might become the owner's stateroom because of the shower stall, but also because of its proximity to the companionway and the navigation station.
#5. Five cabins and three heads sleeps 10 people each in their own cabin. Two more can sleep on the settee in a pinch.
A view of the Oceanis 55 master stateroom looking forward. We like the book cases over the portlights and the storage bins in the hull sides.
Looking aft from the head of the bed in the master, the sink and shower stall are visible at left. The water closet is to the right.
We think from a sailing standpoint the advantage of the Oceanis 55 is that she can be easily sailed by one or two people. Performance-oriented sailors can choose any number of sail options to make the boat faster off the wind. From a living aboard standpoint the five layout options speak for themselves.
Finally, we think the Oceanis 55 is well laid out for cockpit dining or cocktail parties. Ladies will like the two sun pads placed so close to the cockpit. Everyone will enjoy the swim platform, which we think is the coolest thing on the boat.
The Oceanis 55 keeps the guests in her cockpit comfortable no matter what the point of sail.
Steaming along off the wind is a time to relax and enjoy the virtues of a well found vessel and of the friends aboard.
At day's end when the sails have been furled and the anchor is down, it is exhilarating to walk the decks and take comfort knowing that both the vessel and her captain performed well.
|Marine Electronics
|VHF Radio
|Air Cond./Heat
|Battery Charger/Converter
|Head: Fixed
|Water Heater
|Exterior Features
|Ice Chest
|Outlet: 12-Volt Acc
|Swim Ladder
|Swim Platform
|Transom Shower
|Bimini Top
|Boats More Than 30 Feet
|Bow Thruster
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I wouldnt say you have to have mad skills to be able to bomb the Inferno.
I've seen players with little or no skill throw this disc farther than anything they have ever thrown.
Yes players with more power need to learn a light hyzer release, maybe thats what big daddy is talking about.
Our sales of the inferno the last 2 weeks have been simply incredible.
The news about this disc has been traveling fast, even die hard innova guys are giving it some test flys.
The blend we put together is important to the flight as a fast disc like this one can be very sensitive to shape.
We hope to be able to put together a batch that is a little more firm on the wing without losing the perfect dome.
We will also be running some S at the end of the week, which has been requested several time already.
I think George Smith used it quite often this past weekend in Des Moines for his B-tier win at Walnut Ridge. He said there was a lot of people asking him about the disc.


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Verna La Mae (Hinkel) Moeller, age 91, of Hastings, passed away at Regina Nursing Home June 20, 2012. A Private Memorial Service, officiated by Pastor Doug Duin, will be held at the Wise Family Funeral Home in Hastings. Interment will be at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. Visit www.wisefamilyfh.com to sign the online guestbook and view the memorial video.
Verna was born in St. Louis Park, to Robert and Anna Hinkel on June 19, 1921. Verna married Elmer Moeller in Spirit Lake, Iowa on March 21, 1946.
Verna is survived by her children, Robert (Sharon) Moeller; Linda Kopec; Pamela Moeller (Richard Esse); and Rebecca (Randall) Cordes; 10 grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren; sister, Betty; brother, Herbert; numerous loving nieces and nephews.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Elmer; sister, Beatrice; brother, Robert; and great granddaughter, Nevaeh.
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International Standard Mini Golf Leisure Park in the resort area of Choeng Mon Koh Samui. A tone of fun for the whole family. An International Standard organization sets strict guidlines on the golf balls that can be used in this sport.
Wikipedia:Ko Samui island of Surat Thani Province (or Koh Samui, Thai: เกาะสมุย, Thai pronunciation: [kɔ̀ʔ samǔj]), or often, simply Samui as it is referred to by locals, is an island off the east coast of the Kra Isthmus in Thailand, close to the mainland Surat Thani town. It is Thailand's third largest island, with an area of 228.7 km2 and a population of over 50,000 (2008). It is rich with natural resources, white sandy beaches, coral reefs and coconut trees.