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Sunday, June 24, 2012
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Hell, why stop at five? These are the books I've read in June and how I came to read them:
In a Perfect World. Laura Kasischke
After completing the open-ended final page, I took to the internet this morning and discovered that many regulars from my google reader had reviewed this back in 2009. I paid no mind until MFS at Mental Multivitamin catergorized it as "good stuff" late last summer. I bought it in September.
The Astronomer and Other Stories. Doris Betts
A reissue of my favorite professor and writing instructor's 1965 collection of short stories. I started it just scant days before she died this spring, and had to set it aside until I hardened up a little inside.
A Candle in Her Room. Ruth M. Arthur
A childhood favorite that's unfortunately out-of-print. My ILL copy was sent from Duke University. I was inspired to reread it for the Girl Detective's Summer of Shelf Discovery.
Children in Reindeer Woods. Kristin Omarsdottir
Spotted on the New Books shelves at the university library, I first was intrigued by the title and that it was translated from the Icelandic; then, by the fact that it's garnered no attention in the book blogging world.
A Question of Upbringing and A Buyer's Market. Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time's been on my radar since Modern Library named it one of the top 100 novels of the 20th century. I'm reading it now because I convinced Wendy to read it with me.
Harriet the Spy. Louise Fitzhugh; and Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret. Judy Blume
Two more books from childhood being reread for the Summer of Shelf Discovery.
Born in Exile. George Gissing
One of these days, the right book blogger's going to ignite a lot of interest in old George Gissing and everyone's going to be reading him. I've been slowly making my way through his books by my lonesome self since first reading The Odd Women back in 2004.
Gone Girl, Dark Places and Sharp Objects. Gillian Flynn
I don't read a lot of thrillers or mysteries, but had heard enough about Gone Girl pre-pub to make me want to give it a chance. . . and quickly, too, before I read a spoiler, so I preordered it for the Kindle. By the time I'd finished it, I'd placed library holds on the two earlier books. But then I spotted Dark Places in the campus book store. And I bought Sharp Objects for the Kindle when I'd finished it. I went through them all in a week.
Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir). Jenny Lawson
Somehow I'd never seen Lawson's blog, but placed a library hold on it based on all the attention in the blogging community. My mother-in-law requested a copy based on reading a magazine review.
Wolf Hall. Hilary Mantel
I love Mantel, but had told myself I was going to wait to read the Thomas Cromwell series after it was complete. I couldn't ignore the enthusiasm for Bring Up the Bodies, though. That's my next read!
So I appear to be reading (and rereading) favorite authors and books, working my way through the classics, and succumbing to internet buzz. Four books came from the library, five I already owned, two I bought electronically, one was a free electronic download, and one came from an actual bookstore, but a bookstore where I'd never go for suggestions. I can't imagine I'll be doing things much differently a decade on.
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- Anonymous4:26 PM
Great post! I just reread The Golden Notebook, which I first read as a teenage; I read Emylia Hall's The Book of Summer because I liked the cover; and have found out about some other books I've read by browsing at Amazon.ReplyDelete
I guess it's a bookstore summer.
In the last couple of years, I've gotten fewer suggestions from blogs, because it seems so many people are pushing the same new titles.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7:14 AM
What an interesting post. I really should consider the 'backstory' of how I ended up reading specific books in a particular month more often at the end of the month, midway through the year etc.ReplyDelete
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Geometric Description of the Connecting Homomorphism for Witt Groups
We give a geometric setup in which the connecting homomorphism in the localization long exact sequence for Witt groups decomposes as the pull-back to the exceptional fiber of a suitable blow-up followed by a push-forward.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 19G12; Secondary 11E81.
Keywords and Phrases: Witt group, localization sequence, connecting homomorphism, blow-up, push-forward, non-oriented theory.
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March 2012
This broadside outlines rules for workers employed by the Boott Cotton Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts. Included are requirements for operatives to live in company boarding houses and to regularly attend church services. This broadside is signed "Mary M. Hixon, #3 Upper Weaving, Aug. 22, 1866" on the verso.
In 1820, the town of East Chelmsford, Massachusetts, was a sleepy farming hamlet of 200 people. Just thirty years later, the renamed city of Lowell was home to thirty-two textile mills and a population that had grown to 33,000. Lowell had become a model textile manufacturing center in just three decades with a workforce that was roughly three-quarters female. Francis Cabot Lowell's successful creation of a power loom in 1813 created the machinery that fueled Lowell's expansion, while the city's ideal location on the Merrimack River supplied the water power needed to run the factories. The Middlesex Canal provided easy transport to Boston and beyond. By 1823, when the Merrimack Manufacturing Company opened its first mill on the shores of the Merrimack, all that was needed for success was a steady, reliable workforce. For this, mill owners and investors--led by men like Abbott Lawrence, John Amory Lowell, and Nathan Appleton--turned to New England's young women: accustomed to hard work and textile production in the home, educated, and serious-minded. Agents of the textile corporations ranged rural villages throughout New England, attracting young women to work in the mills with offers of high wages; once established, the mill girls themselves often recruited friends and relatives to come to Lowell and work alongside them.
Owners of the mills, paternalistic and exhibiting a Yankee belief in "doing good and doing well," knew that the only way to convince protective fathers, brothers, and uncles to let their female relatives leave the safety of home was to provide good wages and a way of protecting them from the "evils" of the city. To this end, corporations established their own boardinghouses, supervised by women of good standing, where unmarried textile workers were required to live. The mill girls were subject to curfews and required to attend church, and signed contracts to that effect. High standards of behavior were expected. In exchange, work in the mills provided good wages--from $1.85 to $3.00 per week--the highest in the country for women (although men working in the same mills were generally paid at least two times the salaries of women).
For girls arriving from rural areas, life in Lowell also offered a glimpse of big-city life and opportunities for self-improvement unavailable at home. Despite working an average of 73 hours per week, young women working in the Lowell mills availed themselves of circulating libraries, evening classes, lecture series, and literary and self-improvement clubs. Between 1840 and 1845, a literary magazine called the Lowell Offering published writings by the mill girls, edited and produced by their fellow workers.
With the shortage of raw material for cotton manufacture during the Civil War resulting in the closing of nine manufactories in Lowell alone, the "mill girls" left Lowell in droves during the Civil War. The end of their era, however, actually predated the war; beginning in about 1845, immigrants displaced by the Irish Potato Famine began flocking to Lowell in search of work. Willing to work for even lower wages (and to have their children work in the factories as well), they began to supplant Lowell's women workers. Successive waves of immigrants from other countries would take their place at the bottom of the mill hierarchy in turn. Over the years, working conditions in the mills deteriorated and wages decreased. Although the end of the war saw a temporary return of the mill girls to Lowell as factories rehired experienced hands to restart their factories, never again would young American women form the majority of the textile workforce.
Join us in March for two evening events focusing on Massachusetts' rich labor history.
On Wednesday 14 March 2012, at 6 p.m., Jack Larkin will present a talk on his book Where We Worked: A Celebration of America's Workers and the Nations They Built.
On Tuesday evening, 20 March 2012, a panel of labor historians will discuss the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike in Lawrence's textile mills.
For more information on these programs and how to attend, view our events calendar.
Dublin, Thomas. Women at Work: the Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.
Eisler, Benita, ed. The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women (1840-1845). Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1977.
Gordon, Wendy M. Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women's Independent Migration in England, Scotland and the United States, 1850-1881 Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.
Robinson, Harriet H. Early Factory Labor in New England (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1889)
----. Loom and Spindle, or Life Among the Early Mill Girls. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1898.
Boott Mills and one of its boardinghouses can still be visited today at the Lowell National Historical Park.
The Massachusetts Historical Society holds papers related to several of the pioneers in textile manufacturing including the Francis Cabot Lowell papers; Appleton Family Papers; Patrick Tracy Jackson Papers; and Amos Lawrence Papers.
The University of Massachusetts Center for Lowell History's website contains a wealth of information about the mill girls, including letters, primary source documents, photographs, and selections from the Lowell Offering.


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Oct. 27, 2007
The Lipscomb men's and women's cross country teams both finished sixth in the Atlantic Sun Conference Championships Saturday morning.
The meet, held at Percy Warner Park in Nashville, was produced by Lipscomb University in conjunction with the conference.
The women were paced by Carolyn Latham, who earned All-Conference honors with a 7th place finish. She is just the third Lipscomb woman ever to earn A-Sun All-Conference honors in Cross Country.
Following Latham for the Lady Bisons were Erin Pyles (21st), Jenny Randolph (24th), Caitlin Anderson (35th), Paloma Floden (45th), Paige Griffin (57th), Julie Alley (60th) and Valerie Winkler (71st). The women ran without top five runner Shannon Shoemake who incurred an injury earlier in the week.
Latham and Griffin was the only Lady Bisons who competed last year in the A-Sun Championships. Latham finished 45th in that race.
The women's sixth place finish ties their highest ever A-Sun Conference result and equals last years performance. It was one place behind their ranking coming into the meet.
For the men, Ryan Chastain led the way with a 17th place finish. He was followed by Jordan Wilson (22nd), Jeff Hoover (35th), Jared Carlson (37th), Jonathan Williams (47th), Andrew Shankles (52nd) and Paul Wright (55th). David Wolfe and Clint Carter fell out of the race.
The men's sixth place finish is one spot better than last year and one spot lower than their all-time best A-Sun finish of fifth. The men were ranked seventh in the conference coming into the meet.
"We've had a terrific season," said head coach Bill Taylor. "Although I'm disappointed with our team finishes today, we are developing rapidly and are going to be very good very soon. These are two young and talented teams and they are learning fast, but they still lack experience. We return every single runner for both programs next year and I know that everyone has immense desire to create one of the top programs in the nation."
Latham, Pyles and Chastain will continue their season by representing Lipscomb University at the NCAA I South Regional Championship meet in Gainesville, Fla. The meet, hosted by the University of Florida, will take place on Nov.10. The women will compete over the 6-K distance, while Ryan will race 10-K.
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Mozzarella and Basil Salad with Tomato Vinaigrette Recipe
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- 1 cup tomato juice
- 1 tablespoon sherry vinegar
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1 small shallot
- Peanut oil or another neutral oil
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Kosher salt or sea salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 3 red, yellow, or orange bell peppers
- 1/4 cup pine nuts
- 2 cups fresh basil
- 1 head radicchio
- About 1 1/2 cups fresh mozzarella
Reduce tomato juice over low heat in a small saucepan until it forms a thick syrup. Meanwhile, mince shallot. Combine reduced tomato juice, vinegar, mustard and shallot. Whisking constantly, slowly drizzle in peanut oil until mixture has increased in volume by half. Slowly incorporate olive oil until volume of mixture is double what it was before the addition of any oil. Season lightly with salt and pepper.
Rinse and dry peppers and halve lengthwise. Coat with peanut oil and arrange skin-side-up on a parchment-lined baking tray or cookie sheet. Broil on high as close to the heating element as possible until the skins of the peppers are charred and blistered. Seal peppers in a plastic bag for several minutes to sweat. Scrape out stems and seeds with the back of a knife and remove skins with your fingers. Thinly slice.
Toast pine nuts in a small skillet over low heat until light golden brown and fragrant.
Remove basil leaves from stems and submerge in cold water for 1 to 2 minutes to remove any grit. Dry thoroughly with a salad spinner or paper towels. Shred, rinse, and dry radicchio. Cut mozzarella into large cubes.
Toss together roasted peppers, pine nuts, basil, radicchio, and mozzarella in a large salad bowl. Taste vinaigrette on a basil leaf and correct seasoning. Toss salad with vinaigrette and serve immediately on chilled plates.


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Sylvain, AKA MicroSyl, wanted to build an audio spectrum display using old "magic eye" vacuum tubes:
After doing some project with vintage tube I got the idea of doing an audio spectrum display with "magic eyes tube" and driving those with an AVR MCU with Fast Fourier Transform.
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Three years ago the Hawaii Catholic Herald was on top of the canonization of one of Hawaii's own — St. Damien de Veuster, a Belgian priest who devoted his life to ministering on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, serving people with leprosy, now known as Hansen's disease. Once again the state's is readying for the canonization of one of its own: Blessed Marianne Cope, who will be canonized Oct. 21. She succeeded St. Damien, spending the last 30 years of her life ministering on Molokai. She died on the island in 1918 at age 80. She was beatified in 2005.
This week's issue of the Hawaii Catholic Herald, newspaper of the Honolulu Diocese, has a special section about Mother Marianne that includes a tribute to the sister who directed her cause for decades and died last year, just days before the Vatican announced that the path for Mother Marianne's sainthood had been cleared.
The issue also features a timeline of Mother Marianne's path to sainthood, a preview of what Hawaii's pilgrims heading to Rome for the canonization can expect, and a story about the miracles attributed to her intercession.
The eight-page section also hightlights the six other saints to be canonized Oct. 21, including Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, known as the "Lily of the Mohawks" and the first Native American to be beatified. It also describes how the Diocese of Syracuse, N.Y., will be celebrating the canonization. It is in that diocese that Mother Marianne's religious community, the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities, has a shrine and museum dedicated to the soon-to-be saint. The chapel at the motherhouse there has a reliquary containing her remains.


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Arthur Marion Noakes was a friend of John Wesley Watson; both lived in North Leverett, Massachusetts, around 1900. Noakes was a talented artist and fancied himself as something of a ladies' man. This decorated letter from around 1900 stands out from the usual run of correspondence for the nicely colored illustration of "the maid all forlorn" (a verse taken from the rhyme "The House that Jack Built"). John Wesley Watson was called by his middle name; here, Noakes has humorously changed the spelling to "Westley," and apparently signed the letter "Noakey," both typical ways of kidding around among young men in that era. Noakes had recently come to New York from North Leverett when he wrote this; self-aware of his country ways (he "could not comb the hayseed out of my hair" and "had to have it cut.) In New York he met up with Wesley's brother Hillman Oscar Watson, an art and furniture dealer, who Noakes apparently already knew. Noakes stayed in New York for a short time before setting off for Europe where he lived in Florence to study art. Nothing else is known of Noakes. On the other hand, Wesley Watson, lived in Leverett for the rest of his life. He owned and operated a general store that grew into a substantial business before it burned sometime around 1909.
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by Lou Mancinelli
This summer marks the 10th anniversary of the Al-Bustan Camp hosted at the Springside School, where each July since 2006 the campus has become a hub of international experience. The two-and-a-half week arts and education camp is designed to spread Arabic culture throughout the Philadelphia region to youths ages six through 17.
The program that began at the Morris Arboretum with 18 campers is the seed that grew the past 10 years to become Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture, a citywide initiative that brings Arabic culture to thousands of students and community members at schools and other organizations. (Al-Bustan, which means "the garden" in Arabic, also strives to promote cross-cultural understanding and respect among people of all backgrounds.)
It's been featured on WHYY/Channel 12, hosted renowned international artists and this May was the recipient of a $50,000 Knight Foundation grant. Next fall, students at the University of Pennsylvania will have the opportunity to enroll in a Philadelphia Music Arab Ensemble course created by an Al-Bustan program. Music director Hannah Khoury won a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, (a prestigious award given to Philadelphia artists) and was also the recipient of the America-Israel Scholarship and Qattan Foundation Award. Last semester, Khoury taught a class at Swarthmore College.
Yet as interesting as the organization is, as big as it sounds and as influential as it has the potential to be, the entire operation is run out of a West Philadelphia basement in its founder's family home.
When she founded the camp, Al-Bustan executive director Hazami Sayed felt burned out from her work designing affordable housing as a New York City architect. After close to 10 years in Manhattan, plus two years practicing in Philadelphia, where she moved with her husband and two sons in 1998 when her husband was hired to teach real estate at the University of Pennsylvania, Sayed wanted to do something different.
She started the camp in 2002, somewhat out of personal interest for her own two sons, now 16 and 12, who were raised speaking both English and Arabic. A year later, she incorporated the group to be a non-profit organization. "I wanted to find a way they could practice their language skills in a fun and engaging way with other kids," said Sayed during a recent interview.
After some brainstorming, research and networking, Sayed created a camp where young people are exposed to glimpses into the film, drama, traditional dance, history, science and visual art of Arabic culture.
Each year, Sayed and her staff integrate a theme amidst the everyday activities. This summer, campers will explore the arts, culture and environment of Lebanon. Past investigations include the United Arab Emirates, the Asian/Mediterranean Silk Road, the olive tree and the folktale character Juha.
Al-Bustan organizers and teachers bring children and youth together with educators, artists and professionals of different ages, ethnicities and religious faiths. This July, the work of Lebanese children and young-adults author and illustrator Nadine Touma and pop-star Sairuz will be showcased.
Past visiting artists include acclaimed Palestinian-American poet, novelist, teacher and anthologist Naomi Shihab Nye, award-winning poet, playwright and writer Nathalie Handal and winner of the best Arab-American Book Award for Children and Young Adults last year, Ibtisam Barakat.
Campers will read the books, sing the songs and perform their own renditions of traditional and modern Lebanese dances and other art-forms at the camp's culminating celebration and performance July 28 at Springside from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
"One way to introduce kids to language is through the arts," said Sayed, who was born in Lebanon to a Lebanese mother and Egyptian father. She came to America in 1983 to study economics at Stanford University. She later worked for the United Nations Development Program after earning her master's in architecture in 1991 from Columbia University.
For the first five years of Al-Bustan's existence, Sayed worked on a volunteer basis. She could not afford to retain camp counselors and teachers throughout the school year. But as the camp and its reputation grew, funding was found, and Sayed expanded her camp into a year-round institution.
While handling the logistics out of the basement, Sayed began to offer programs at schools and community institutions during the school year. Other programs include weekend language and arts workshops hosted at the Rotunda in University City, performances by musicians and other artists, and an Arab percussion ensemble (from which the UPENN program evolved).
"To me," said music and dance instructor Hafez El Ali Kotain, "it's personally very important because the main thing is to teach culture to [the] youth and other organizations."
Born in Venezuela and raised in Syria, El Ali Kotain started to study percussion at age 16. His travels and experience led him to combine the rhythm of three types of music — the samba of Brazil, the Latino salsa and Arabic malfouf. "It's a beautiful combination between three different cultures, three types of music and three different rhythms," he said.
"The first year [camp] was mostly all Arabic and young kids," said Temple University junior pre-med student Mokhtar Bdeir, a 19-year-old Jenkintown resident who has attended the camp since its inception and this year will be a paid senior camp counselor.
"How its grown shows how many people in the area are interested in Arabic culture. A lot of them have no background, just a strange curiosity. [Al-Bustan] has been getting more diversity from all kinds of economic, cultural and social backgrounds… The first year, no one ever thought we could get [internationally acclaimed Arab musician] Simon Sheehan to play in Philadelphia. But this organization is doing it."
For more information, visit www.albustanseeds.org.


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Connecticut Board of Regents Selects Blackboard for Organization-Wide Learning Platform
Three-Year Deal Creates Common Platform for 17 ConnSCU Campuses
Feb 21, 2013, 01:37 ET
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard Inc. today announced an agreement with the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education, which governs the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities system (ConnSCU), for a new, statewide platform for online and mobile learning to support ConnSCU's 17 institutions and 96,000 students.
With the deal, each of the campuses will gain access to Blackboard Learn™ and Blackboard Mobile Learn™ for the next three years. The institutions include Central Connecticut State University, Eastern Connecticut State University, Southern Connecticut State University, Western Connecticut State University, 12 community colleges and the state's only public, online college, Charter Oak State College.
This partnership marks the latest in a series of statewide partnerships for Blackboard, as states are increasingly looking for a common learning platform that will increase user fluency, collaboration across multiple campuses, and operational efficiencies. States moving to a common online and mobile learning platform frequently are able to devote more attention to improving education and outcomes.
"Boards of education that standardize online platforms and tools across campuses are making a great business decision, as it can create efficiencies that allow for a greater focus on pedagogy," said Sig Behrens, president of Global Sales for Blackboard. "We are excited to partner with the Connecticut Board of Regents to expand learning opportunities for both students and educators by helping deliver consistent, high quality, web-based courses and instructional support."
ConnSCU's 17 institutions join thousands of institutions worldwide that have adopted the latest version of Blackboard Learn, the company's learning management system, and enabled Blackboard's mobile learning apps.
For more information about Blackboard, please visit http://www.blackboard.com.
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CateH needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 126 designs submitted by 30 freelance designers.
Interior Works
I am leaving an established interior design firm to start my own business. My new company, Interior Works, helps homeowners, retailers and businesses (e.g. lawyers and physicians) create stylish and functional interior environments. The overall interior designs that we produce are not only cutting edge, they also take into account the functional use of the space (the "Works" in Interior Works).
Our designs are typicaly modern but always have something a little bit unexpected.
Our audience consists of design-concious homeowners and small and medium businesses that know that the design of their interior space is important to their corporate image.
The logo needs to communicate two messages:
1) Style - It needs to be fashionable and stylish like our interior designs.
2) Functional - Our interiors "Work". They take in to account how the people use and move in the space and make the most of it. The logo needs to communicate that.
We want the logo to include the business name "Interior Works" in it. The logo could be created exclusively using the letters of the business name or could include a separate graphical element.
I like the texting and concealed options given on this web page:http://www.logolounge.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=680
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Roller necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 460 diseños de 58 diseñadores freelance.
GoRoller.com is a website where users can compete against each other in sports, entertainment, politics and other pools. The user or Roller will predict the outcome of these events and win points if correct so there is a virtual gambling theme. The types of pools that will be offered to Rollers range from NFL pick em to American Idol to the Academy Awards to predicting the next President. We are looking for a logo that is cool, hip, fun and has a sleek Las Vegas feel. We are not looking for cute or campy and definitely want to avoid an intimidating feel like a technological or financial website. The term GoRoller comes from a craps table when a roller is about to roll and the gamblers on the rail yell, "let's go roller!"
Goroller's customers will largely be sports fans (majority male 18-65) because of the emphasis on sports. However, pools such as American Idol or the Academy awards would bring in a far more diverse customer base. We would like the logo and colors to include this more diverse base.
Update: "Hi everyone. Thanks for the work so far. I think we've come a long way and there are some very impressive designs. I have enough to go on for the cool sleek modern design and those are definitely still in the running. I'd like to see more in the way of either cartoonish or fun ideas. Also, more in the way of a logo feel as opposed to a character with text." Appreciate your time and best of luck!!
We are looking for a logo that is unique with a creative color palate. (Please do not use any pre-made or stock parts in the design as we will be trade marking the logo.) Cool, hip, fun and inviting is the goal. We were considering using 3 colors (white, charcoal/ blackish and 1 other color.) The other color could be purple, orange, red or any other color that grabs the viewer without being overly loud or neon like. Ombre is fine but not required. The color palate ideas are just that. If you think something else would work better please feel free to use other colors or a different number of colors. While it is not necessary, feel free to incorporate our tag line, "Do you roll?" If using please make the "roll" color stand out from "do you."
We are open to imagery based around G or GoRoller buts not GR or Go alone because those are other websites. We are also open to any imagery that you think would capture the spirit of the website. A bust of a cool guy in a suit straitening his tie or smoothing the brim of his hat (think James Bond) or another character. We are open to whatever you think will work best.
We are looking to use the logo on the website but also on fliers, coasters or billboards (please make sure design is smooth when blown up.) We would also like a favicon.
Thanks and good luck!
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OAKLAND, CA – An elderly woman who had been missing for seven years was found dead in her own home!
The remains, nothing more than a skeleton at this point, appear to have lain undisturbed in her apartment since the day she had been reported missing. How did this happen?


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Being cheap ($10.99) and Australian Shiraz, both recent topics of interest, I decided to post the note.
After a long hot day of yard work, in preparation for my daughter's graduation party, we decided to toss some burgers on the grill for a quick, casual dinner. A long discussion on the appropriate wine match ensued, Pinot, Beaujolais, a Claret all seemed to have potential for pairing with the burgers. In the end we opted for the Shiraz.
2003 Buckeleys Shiraz - Australia
Color: Dark red.
Nose: Stronger than anticipated. Lots of fruit and even a hint of a Burgundy like barnyard aroma at first.
Taste: Cherry and dark fruit. Simple and light weight for a Shiraz. Not at all complex, but perfect for the weather and food pairing. The bottle was gone by the time dinner ended.


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Holiday Villa In France
Holiday Villas
La Château is proud to present a special private Holiday accommodation in Languedoc South France with an exclusive offer for room or self catering accommodation in a prestigious 18th century Chateau surrounded by village vineyards where you will be an honoured guest, Whatever you choose, your experiences will create memories to last a lifetime.
Even if its only once in a lifetime, everyone should have the chance of visit Le chateau, and discovered one of most delighted setting in the whole of Languedoc region, surrounded by village vineyards, countryside and ancient Romance bridge bordered by a steam dotted with chasm nab natural waterfalls of herault river.
This fabulous fairyland has something for everyone.
If Make your reservation in this beautiful chateau than your will discover a truly authentic region and enjoy the pleasure stay in this beautiful château, with pvt pool, garden, BBQ, free access internet(wivi),you will appreciate the peace and quiet a full of privacy(free of children)and make for the very best of your holiday gathering
» The Rental price for the Villa/Chateau for 2 persons per week for 2019
Room Details
All bedrooms are nicely deco- rated and furnished and either have a double bed and site
with sofa bed or two single beds, which can be fixed together. All modern bathroom/showers are equipped with showers, washbasin and w.c The big bathroom /shower with a modern washbasin separate w.c
The Outside Facilities: The beautiful and well-kept tropic gardens invites you to relax
and refresh in the pool and enjoy your sun baying and read your book.
Other Details
Adult only
No smoking
Parking exterior
No pets
Nearest town Agde, Pezanes, Cap D'Agde. Sete, Beziers
Leisure Activity
Private Pool, tennis few minutes walk away , golf short drive away, swimming in the Mediterranean Sea or rivers, restaurants, walks, cycling along the Canal du Midi
Activity Near by
Is a beautiful village holiday resort with rich in Romance history, surround by vineyards and countryside, lark and stunning view of Herault River.
The village has several shop, restaurants, bars, very nearby supermarket and it is only 15 minutes from Agde, Cap D'Agde, Marsellan Plage, where there is clean sandy beaches and wide variety of shop, restaurant, night club and variety of sports including tennis, golf, etc. fishing, cycling, sea sport etc - The village is a famous wine village with wine tasting on offer in it's many village caves.
The village and surrounded area comes to life in July and August when you can experience regular musical evenings outside the local bar special in Cap D'Agde. Age the annual wine fete at the beginning of August and the twice yearly 'sardines a traditional festival where hundreds of sardines are cooked over an open fire and served with French bread and lots of red wine, a bouladrome and a tennis court.
Golf Information
Cap D'Agde International Medi du Golf. is 5/10 minutes drive away, it is design similar to British courses. major European and French and International competition take place on the course. 18 holes, 35 practise holes, open daily, handicap require, on-site facilities, pro shops, wonderful hotels, restaurants (and indoor), bars, etc. great food mountain bikes, suitable for all abilities, plus lots more-have a great game.
The Languedoc-Roussillon / Herault
The Location is a popular holiday resort because it has got golden sandy beaches, blue sky, blue and clear sea, over 100 French Cuisine restaurants/bars. Entertaining near by, including a park land entertainment.
There are a number of small and large supermarkets, own cave with own popular village local wine. Rich in romance, it is a resort with stories of sun and easy life, pleasure, action, passion, nature of perfumes, extravagance and has everything for everybody.
Below are maps to find le chateau du Languedoc location and apartments »
How to get there
The nearest airports are Beziers, Nime, Montpelier, Carcassone, 3 hours drive to Spain. Close to beaches and all amenities. There is also night-clubs, casino, wide variety of sport facilities including golf, tennis, bowling, fishing, cycling, sea sport etc. near by.
The chateau is 15 minutes drive from Beziers Airport, one hour and 30 minutes drive from Nimes (Garons) airport (Ryan air from Luton and East Midlands) or one hours from Montpellier (Ryanair from Luton or Easy-jet from Gatwick) or 1¾ hours from Nice or Marseilles (British Airways from Gatwick).
» Nearest Travel
Beziers, Montpellier, Nime: 5
Agde: 7 km
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Vaccines for children get a lot of attention, so you may not realize you should continue to vaccinate against illnesses throughout your life.
"Regardless of age, we all need immunizations to protect against serious, and sometimes deadly, diseases," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. "Protection from vaccines you received as a child can wear off over time, and you may be at risk for new and different diseases."
Here are the vaccines you need to stay healthy:
Flu vaccine
Also called influenza, you should vaccinate against this disease annually throughout your adult life. Because it affects millions of people, you may not consider the flu serious, but it kills tens of thousands every year according to the CDC. This vaccine is especially important for people in high-risk populations, including those 65 and older.
Additionally, you can come down with the flu any season, not just in winter, although it tends to be more common then.
"Cold and dry weather enables the virus to survive longer outside the body than in other conditions and, as a consequence, seasonal epidemics in temperate areas appear in winter," the World Health Organization says.
The reason for a yearly shot is the virus constantly changes, and the vaccine is adjusted to protect against recent strains.
Tdap and Td vaccines
You likely received the childhood version of the Tdap vaccine, called DTaP. Both protect against tetanus (a bacterial infection that causes painful muscle tightening), diphtheria (a serious infection that causes a thick coating to form in the throat) and pertussis (a respiratory tract infection, also called whooping cough), all of which can kill you.
If you weren't immunized as a child, the adult version prevents these deadly diseases. After an initial shot, you should receive a booster shot, called a Td vaccine, every 10 years. Doing so will continue to protect you against tetanus and diphtheria.
HPV vaccine
Human papillomaviruses cause most cervical cancers, anal cancer and genital warts. While vaccination begins in childhood, adults should continue getting HPV vaccines into their 20s, with the following age recommendations:
The HPV vaccine is essential as a young adult because the cancers it prevents may show up decades later.
"There is no way to know which people who have HPV will develop cancer or other health problems," the CDC says. " HPV cancer usually does not have symptoms until it is quite advanced, very serious and hard to treat."
Pneumococcal vaccines
Pneumococcal disease causes ear and sinus infections, bacterial meningitis, pneumonia and bloodstream infections. It kills thousands of adults every year, according to the CDC, and that is why two vaccines are recommended for people ages 65 and up — the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine, more commonly called PCV13 and PPSV23.
These vaccines are also recommended for adults 19 and older who smoke or have asthma, diabetes, heart disease, lymphoma or HIV, according to the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
Zoster vaccine
Because your risk of shingles — also called herpes zoster or even "adult chickenpox" — and post-herpetic neuralgia (a complication from shingles) increases as you age, you should vaccinate against the virus.
"After a person recovers from chickenpox, the virus stays dormant (inactive) in the body," the CDC says. "For reasons that are not fully known, the virus can reactivate years later, causing shingles."
Available since 2006, the Zostavax vaccine reduces your risk of developing shingles by 51 percent with a single injection.
Other vaccines
You may require other vaccines, depending on where you live, what vaccinations you may have missed out on as a child, and any medical conditions you have. The CDC offers a schedule of vaccinations you should get as an adult on its website. Paying attention to these recommendations can keep you safe from serious diseases throughout your life.
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Field Training & Evaluation Program Coordinator Seminar
Sponsored by
Roger Williams University Justice System Training & Research Institute,
and the New England Association of Chiefs of Police, Inc.
Tuesday, November 13 – Thursday, November 15, 2018
Registration 8:00 am - 8:30 am (November 13 th only)
Presentation 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Roger Williams University Baypoint Inn & Conference Center
144 Anthony Road, Portsmouth, RI
This three-day seminar is designed to provide practical information for police administrators or mid-level managers responsible for the supervision and management of a Field Training & Evaluation Program (FTEP). Based on the "San Jose Model," topics will include: Overview of the Field Training and Evaluation Program; Field Training Officer (FTO) selection, retention, and evaluation; establishing and maintaining the "Rook Book"; remediation – identification and facilitation; trouble shooting your FTO Program; as well as ethical and liability issues. It is recommended that students enrolling in this course have prior experience as an FTO or familiarity with the San Jose Model.
The cost for the seminar is $450.00 which includes materials, continental breakfast, breaks, and lunch.
Checks should be made payable to the Roger Williams University Justice System Training & Research Institute, 144 Anthony Road, Portsmouth, RI. Lodging information for out-of- state attendees is available. Telephone inquiries should be made to Liz Campo, Administrative Assistant to the School of Justice Studies at (401) 254-3731 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or fax (401) 254-3351.
**We require 72 hours cancellation prior to the seminar or you will be charged the required fee.**


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Atención a Grupos Vulnerables (Attention to vulnerable groups) is a program that is implemented in coordination with the Secretary of Health and serves children 5 and under, who are malnourished, expectant mothers and breastfeeding mothers.
WFP delivered 16 computers with printers to Dr. Mireya Batres of the program which will be distributed to health centers in the departments of Choluteca, El Paraíso, Fco. Morazán, Valle, La Paz, Intibucá, Lempira and Santa. Bárbara.
This team will strengthen the monitoring and control that each beneficiary receives throughout the project and create a data base that more accurately reflects the nutritional recovery of the beneficiaries.
Dr. Batres thanked WFP representative, Mrs. Pasqualina Di Sirio, for the donated equipment (Valued at over $25,000), and reaffirmed her commitment to continue working together with WFP for the nutritional recovery and to guarantee an adequate nutrition in the first 1000 days for the children of Honduras.
Currently the Vulnerable Groups Program serves more than 8000 families living in food insecurity in 29 municipalities with the highest rates of malnutrition.


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By Amantha Perera | IPS/Jakarta Globe
The tourists have travelled hundreds of kilometers to see this underground bunker, once home to the most feared man in Sri Lanka: the leader of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Velupillai Prabhakaran.
Located a short drive south of the town of Puthukkudiyiruppu, a former LTTE operations hub in the northern Mullaitivu District, some 330 kilometers from the capital Colombo, the bunker complex is nestled deep within the jungle.
The massive compound boasts a firing range, a semi-underground garage, a jogging path, a film hall and a small funeral parlor where the Tiger leader paid his final respects to fallen cadres.
"This is out of this world, how did they ever build something like this?" a woman who gave her name as Ranjini asked while walking down the narrow stairs.
Other attractions on the tour of former rebel-held areas include the shipyard where the Tigers experimented with building submersibles, complete with a dry dock and the skeletal remains of the Farah III, a Jordanian cargo vessel that was commandeered by the LTTE.
What is sidelined, however, are details of the beleaguered Tamil population that lived in this region throughout 30 years of civil war, and is now struggling to survive.
The Sri Lankan military came across the bunker complex after the Tigers were defeated in May 2009, signaling the end of a three-decade-long civil war in which the LTTE fought the Sri Lankan government for control over the north and east of the island in order to establish a separate state for the minority Tamil population.
Puthukkudiyiruppu and Mullaitivu, once the central command headquarters of a massive guerilla operation, now play host to thousands of visitors, mostly from the majority-Sinhalese southern regions of the country.
But while these guided tours offer locals a rare glance into the inner workings of the Tigers' de facto state and the extent of its former military capacity, rights activists fear that many tourists are missing the "bigger picture" — the horrors of the aftermath of the war and the suffering that has become an everyday experience for tens of thousands who were displaced during the last bouts of fighting.
"I feel the [tourists] don't have sense of what really happened here, or they don't want to know," Ruki Fernando, a rights activist who formerly headed the Human Rights in Conflict Program at the national rights body, the Law and Society Trust, told IPS.
The facts surrounding the final stages of the war have been hotly contested in and outside the country: local rights groups, international humanitarian observers and aid workers claim at least 40,000 were killed, while the government insists that figure is closer to 7,000.
An internal review of the United Nations' actions in Sri Lanka during the last phase of the war, released in early November, has reignited the furor over what happened here during the first half of 2009 and who was responsible.
The government has maintained a firm line that the Tamil civilians caught in the crossfire of the conclusive battle were "rescued" in a humanitarian operation and moved to safety in government "welfare camps", while U.N. officials and aid workers classified this process as mass incarceration of Tamil civilian survivors in open-air detention centers, in violation of international law.
These unresolved questions are now being sidelined as the tourists arrive in droves, intent on one thing only — seeing as many of the war relics as possible, according to Saroja Sivachandaran, head of the Center for Women and Development, a gender-based rights group in northern Jaffna.
"They fail to see that they are traveling through an area of absolute destruction where thousands still live in makeshift shelters," she told IPS.
Some 450,000 displaced people, including around 236,000 who were rendered homeless during the last months of the war, are only now returning to their home villages in the north, even though basic amenities are still scarce in the region.
So far, just 21,000 permanent houses have been constructed for the roughly 170,000 still in search of homes.
The latest UN situation reports warn of serious funding shortfalls for rehabilitation work, a bleak forecast for the displaced.
Prashan de Visser, president of the national youth movement "Sri Lanka Unites," told IPS that the gulf between visitors and those living in the former war zone stems from language barriers and a long history of cultural and social.
Sri Lanka Unites has engaged its island-wide base of 10,000 members to breach the ethnic divides, but there is still a long way to go since misconceptions are deeply "ingrained in the [social] system", de Visser told IPS.
Sri Lanka Unites organizes field tours and conferences for youth from all over the island, and for members of the vast Sri Lankan diaspora. Its main annual event, the Future Leaders' Conference, was held in Jaffna this year, bringing over 10,000 youth together for a week of activities.
During these intimate interactions, de Visser said, youth from different ethnic groups begin to see through the cultural and social barriers that have held them apart for so long.
This year, a group of youth leaders from the southern-most district of Hambantota pledged to raise 300,000 rupees (about $2,300) for work in the north after taking a field tour of the war-affected areas.
But most of the visitors flocking to the region are unlikely to make similar pledges.
Fernando warned that "gawking tourists" will only reinforce ethnic divides instead of bridging them.
"This is still a massive curiosity park for the visitors, they really don't want to see beyond the [thrills] offered by attractions like the bunker," said Mahendran Sivakumar, a 61-year-old retired government education official who lived in the war zone throughout the entire conflict.


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The T.F. Green airport expansion saga continues. And saga is the right word for it, as the effort to extend the main runway at the airport has again met with resistance from the political establishment in Warwick. The latest pushback has been made by the Warwick City Council, which has moved, with Mayor Scott Avedisian's tacit approval, to appeal the FAA decision to allow a runway extension plus a number of airport projects. Despite a hard-pressed budget situation in Warwick, the City Council has found $65,000 for litigation, and has hired a California law firm with experience in "environmental, aviation and airport clients." The net result of the petition by the city: in all likelihood a one- to three-year potential delay in moving forward on the runway extension.
(Note: As of this writing, the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce and other business interests have appealed to the City Council to withdraw its petition and the council may open up further discussions with the Rhode Island Airport Corporation).
Back in 2009 I wrote a column on the airport runway extension issue in which I posed the question as to whether a runway extension would ever happen at T.F. Green because of the local opposition. In that column I referenced two "Lookout TV" shows that I did back in 2005 on the runway issue and said "…if I was still doing my show today we could sit down and pretty much pick up where we left off back then."
Fast forward to 2011 and that would still be true, except for the opening of the Intermodal train station and the FAA decision to allow the extension. These have been significant developments, true, but now comes the halt to the project once again. Remember, the runway would allow for direct cross-country flights and even transatlantic flights from places like the Azores or Britain. Green needs this runway if it is to remain competitive with Manchester, N.H. and even Logan.
Warwick City Council member Steve Merolla has argued in a recent op-ed that there are significant and not just NIMBY-type arguments being put forth by the city, arguments that have to do with environmental concerns with airport runoff and the plight of to-be-affected homeowners and businesses. But most of those concerns are problems already and are not going to go away, with or without the runway extension. And the larger issue beyond the local concerns has to do with the state's interest; after all, an airport capable of handling larger aircraft for longer flights brings a direct economic benefit to the state as a whole, which we are forfeiting by these delays.
If I lived or worked in the airport's shadow, I might agree with the council's concerns, so we shouldn't dismiss them just because most of us don't have jets looming overhead with their attendant noise, pollution and even occasional spillage. Warwick is host to the airport and may be forever. It has learned to live with the airport in its midst and it benefits from that presence and the activities that take place there.
The real problem here, caused by a lack of vision and strategic transportation planning on the part of the state and the Rhode Island Airport Corporation, which runs the airport, is trying to shoehorn a growing airport into too small a space. As I've argued before – and Warwick's latest move forces me to state it once again – the state should have planned and executed an alternative to T.F. Green years ago. And that alternative is the former Navy airfield at Quonset Point, which remains today underutilized and underdeveloped.
But much like the port at Quonset Point, the airfield has not been put to work to maximize its inherent advantages. Yes, there would be issues relating to bringing the airfield up to handle larger aircraft use, and airport infrastructure would have to be developed, but these are not insurmountable hurdles, and the one thing that man cannot control at Quonset Point that has been offered up as one more reason the Quonset Point airfield can't be put to a new use; the wind directions – seems to be a pretty thin excuse. The Navy used it for decades and the R.I. Air National Guard uses it today, with heavy planes like C-17s and C-141s occasionally touching down on its tarmac.
It would be far preferable to let T.F. Green remain at its present size and develop Quonset as a second airport to handle cargo and longer flights. Road, rail and even sea access are excellent and in place already. Linking to Green for a connecting flight and going into Providence via train, shuttle or car would be quick and easy. Imagine flying to and from the West Coast or direct to Europe and back via our own international airport? Think about the economic benefits of such services.
But for now, and who knows for how many years longer, the fight at T.F. Green will go on while the airfield at Quonset sits mostly idle. That is a significant aviation-related public policy failure on the state's part.


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After all the persistent questions about whether or not the BlackBerry Bold's improved browser could compete with the iPhone, our friend CrackBerry Kevin decided to try to provide the definitive, final smackdown.
Go on and read the entire saga, but take heed, it's not a pretty sight. Under ideal conditions, the Bold comes this close to competing with the iPhone on speed. Those idea conditions: 3G, Javascript off, strong signal, fresh reset, and WiFi off. Wait -- WiFi off? That's right, Kevin has two BlackBerry Bolds and both of them are five different kinds of screwed up -- they fail with Javascript off, they fail with WiFi entirely. Now -- not everybody is reporting the same hassles, but it's starting to look like it's a pretty serious problem.
The Javascript issue is very interesting, by the by. The iPhone defaults to leaving it on. One could argue that Javascript support helps make the iPhone able to browse the "Real Internet," but one would be wrong about what makes up the "Real Internet". The Bold, however, defaults to leaving Javascript off, and given Kevin's results, it looks like a good thing they did.
What does this mean for iPhone users -- besides bragging rights? Well, actually, bragging rights are enough for us. But there's another tip you're definitely going to be interested in, iPhone faithful. Can you guess it? Rene will let you know what it is very shortly.