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Psoas Bursitis is an uncommon painful disorder of the hip. The psoas bursa lies between the hip and the psoas muscle. It is the largest bursa in the human body. This bursa can become injured or inflamed and cause pain. Psoas bursitis is also associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis and is found more frequently in patients with that disorder. The pain is located in the groin area and radiates down the leg. The pain is worsened by activities involving hip flexion, such as walking up stairs. The bursa can sometimes be felt as a mass in the groin area. A Thomas test or modified Thomas test ( done during physical exam by a doctor) can be indicative of psoas bursitis. Sometimes a snapping sensation can also be felt in front of the hip. Testing involves X-rays to look for bony pathology such as fractures. MRI scans are useful to detect tumors in the area. Blood work is drawn to exclude autoimmune disease such as Rheumatoid Arthritis. Diseases that may be confused with psoas bursitis include hip pathology, lumbar radiculopathy from a herniated disc or an inguinal hernia. Treatment includes bedrest, heat, ice, physical therapy and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications. For those patients in whom conservative modalities are not effective, injection of the bursa with a local anesthetic and a steroid may be useful.
Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis or DISH is a disease of the ligaments of the spine. The ligaments that support the spine become ossified and turn to bone. DISH occurs in 19% of men and 4% of women over 50 years old. This syndrome is asymptomatic. Occasionally, swallowing problems may occur due to nerve injury. There mild be some mild discomfort in the back area. Occasionally, compression of the spinal chord can occur, leading to nerve damage. When this occurs, symptoms related to the bowels or bladder may appear. The diagnosis of Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis is made by X-Rays. When the bony overgrowth spans three vertebral segments, the diagnosis is made. MRI scans may allow better visualization of the spine and nerve roots, looking for compression. The pain of DISH syndrome can mimic may other diseases such as bursitis, arthritis, and radiculopathy. Treatment is conservative and includes physical therapy and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications. If compression of the nerve roots is an issue, an epidural nerve block may be useful as well.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


text: The Colonel Louis Watres Armory, built in 1900 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is Slonem’s latest project that showcases the artist’s novel take on interior design—matching vibrant, multicolor interiors with a bricolage of historically potent and rare items found from around the world. This system of “collectorating,” or collecting and decorating, has become Slonem’s trademark and can be found across the artist’s multiple historical properties around the country. Through the course of its century-old lifetime the 102,000-square-foot space has served not only as an armory, but a performance hall for Russian composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, a whistle-stop for campaigning presidents, and even briefly as a clinic. Gatekeeper: World of Folly walks readers through this masterpiece room-by room, object by object, filling us with the sense of wonder for which the artist is so well‑known.

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Potomac Health Associates Retained by Community NeuroRehab to Help Capture Contract for Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury | Potomac Health Associates, Inc.
McLean, Virginia–Potomac Health Associates, Inc. (“PHA”) announced that it was retained by Community NeuroRehab (“CNR”) to advise it in conjunction it with preparation of a proposal to provide services to veterans under the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014 (“VACAA”).
Public Law 110-181, the Fiscal Year 2008 National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”), Title XVII, Section 1705 directed the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (“VA”), in collaboration with the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (“DVBIC”) of the Department of Defense to implement a pilot program to assess the effectiveness of providing specialized Assisted Living (“AL”) services to eligible Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury (“TBI”) to enhance their rehabilitation, quality of life, and community integration. The AL-TBI Pilot Program was implemented in 2009; 21 contracts were awarded in May, 2011, and these contracts are set to expire on March 31, 2015. Public Law 113-146, Section 501 of the VACAA extended the AL-TBI Pilot to October 6, 2017 and the Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) elected to put all contracts up for competitive bid.
PHA provided a broad range of technical support services including advising CNR on key clauses and requirements of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (“FAR”) and VA Acquisition Regulations (“VAAR”). In addition, PHA advised CNR about the implications of VA’s decision to employ a low price technically acceptable evaluation strategy in the face of a national Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (“IDIQ”) multiple award contract.
Maintain and implement a VA approved Quality Assurance Plan (“QAP”), including support to inspection of the Contractor’s facilities, and VA’s collection of standardized information on Veterans, facilities, and the placements.
Headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, Community NeuroRehab provides individualized and intensive neurobehavioral rehabilitation services to optimize the cognitive, physical, medical, behavioral and psycho-social functioning of each participant. CNR offers programs designed specifically for individuals experiencing a variety of difficulties as a result of a brain injury. CNR has received a three-year accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, International (“CARF”) in the specialized categories of Residential Rehabilitation and Brain Injury Specialty program (Adult).


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The members of the ABI Board of Directors are selected from the community and elected to their positions where they determine the focus of ABI for the betterment of the shared assets of the community. The ABI board meets regularly to review both public and private matters concerning the beaches and boat ramps in our community.
ABI meets the second Monday of each month — usually at 7:00pm — at the Arden Town Hall located on Omar Drive. ABI conducts its Annual Shareholders meeting in January of each year; the time, date and location are published in the NewsBuoy and Community Calendar.
Use the website CONTACT form to message the Board of Directors.

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text: Flowers serve as an inspiration and a tribute to friends and loved ones during trying times. Cremation urn and memorial flowers can act as a personal expression of love or as a warm send-off. When you work with A TOUCH OF SPRING FLORIST, we endeavor to illustrate the essence and memory of your loved ones with a beautiful floral expression of their lives. Our selection of floral inspiration covers a wide variety of personalities and tastes. Looking for something different, or want to add a personal touch? We also do custom arrangements. Call for pricing.


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The Special of The Day...From the Orange Moon Cafe: "A Redeemed Place"
"Children are a heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is His reward" (Psalm 127:3).
Interestingly, I visited this same hospital 46 years ago this month, as a patient. Playing first base in a baseball tournament, things went well until our shortstop made a bad throw on a routine ground ball. My reach for the ball put me directly in the path of the oncoming hitter as he raced down the line like a runaway freight train. I collided with the train, my neck snapped back as I crumpled in a heap, and next thing I knew, I was on the way to this hospital in which I now rejoice (it's a lot bigger now, but somehow seems strangely familiar). X-rays of my head and neck revealed nothing (as you might expect), and I left with nothing more than a sore neck that healed quickly (the head, however, remains after all these years pretty much empty!).
I share this with you because it reminds me that our perception of places can significantly change as time goes by. Until today, mention "Thomas Hospital" and I think of collisions, freight trains (the human kind), crash landings on hard base paths, and a tiny, one story hospital that surprisingly had an X-ray machine. From now on, however, Thomas Hospital will mainly elicit memories of our new grandson, and the shared experience of our family as he entered the world. I'd call that a redeemed place in my heart and mind for which I will be forever grateful.
A lot of sad places exist in this world, scenes of pain, loss, sorrow, sin, and death. Turn on the news, open a newspaper, or visit websites that report the events of the day, and the sadness stares us in the face. We live in a fallen world wherein God is present, but also wherein the ravages of sin and its consequences pervades much of human experience. "We know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves" (Romans 8:22-23). Venues of sadness exist in every corner of the globe, places of groaning and travailing.
"Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; to the end that my glory may sing praise to Thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto Thee forever."


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The concept of sustainability serves beyond the efficient usage of spaces and greenery. As the calculation of social loss due to poor psychological wellbeing prove a significant economic impact, architecture and urban design take their place into reaching higher levels of life satisfaction. What are their methods of relieving the stress, improving motivation, and resolving mental problems of city dwellers?
Social isolation is a highly prevalent problem in the world – more than 42.5 million adults older than 45 were reported with chronic illness – and is often recalled as an epidemic of the 21st century. This psychological condition has a similar impact on the physical state of smoking 15 cigarettes per day. Changing architectural design and organization of urban spaces is one way to resolve loneliness issue. A new concept of neuro-architecture, integrity of design and psychology, implies that changing urban shapes and patterns have an advantageous impact on the emotional state of city inhabitants. The space design with high visibility and connectivity develops environmental comprehension and entices curiosity and engagement with a place.
Salk Institute was designed to establish the scientific collaborative environment. Luis Kahn, a world-renowned architect, created the mirror-imaged structures that increase the reach of natural light and provide flexible multi-usage of spaces. The feedback is that the campus turned out to be a highly inspiring environment for work and research. Thus, in general, Rounded edges and unique and eye-friendly architectural design are believed to affect one’s wellbeing positively by adding a spark of joy and creativity to one’s life. Meanwhile, taking advantage of open space is an instrument to generate new social values – encourage free communication, relaxation, and freedom of movement in the community.
In addition to public infrastructure, an augmented sense of sustainability is started being implemented in the educational sphere – it is believed to motivate learners to have outstanding academic achievements. For example, according to the University of Illinois Department of Landscape Architecture, students, who had a break in the rooms with the view of trees had 13% higher test results and showed higher stress recovery. A new-fangled concept of green schools implies that students will be engaged with nature, building, and the environment whereas green is utilized to facilitate knowledge acquisition. Embedding ordinary concepts such as energy efficiency in school infrastructure will make building itself a learning tool. Using solar energy to supply the school with power and displaying the acquired data on the monitors can show the benefits of this alternative resource and become a long-term science project. Adding these novelties to school curriculum will insert new eco-friendly habits into students’ daily lives and prepare future graduates to deal with environmental issues and raise a new generation of environmentalists. Combining green and educationally supporting prospects are the definers of the novel educational era whereas sustainability expands its common boundaries – the new époque of sustainable education and psychological architecture is on its way – all newly build school facilities are forecasted to be green by 2025.
The American Institute of Architects defined that architecture could contribute to higher social and environmental integrity and assure safety to all citizens despite their physical or psychological deviations. Currently, failing to address the need for people with disabilities. This has an adverse health effect – cases of depression occur 2-10 times more often among handicapped people. In the recent future, 20% of Singaporean will be older than 60 years, and Singapore Universal Design aims to address this problem and adopts city spaces to the needs of this age group. Already since 2007 Singapore’s Building Construction Authority devoted significant funding to make the life of the elderly and people with disabilities stress-free and convenient – the changes included supplying buildings with sanitary rooms, elevators, and ramps and interactive and easy-to-use navigation systems.
“Accessible City” concept focuses on offering more opportunities to people with physical impairments and implies catering individuals with special psychological needs. Conditions like autism are rather common – 1% of total population is diagnosed with autism – but modern city infrastructure lacks facilities for these people. Individuals with autism are hypersensitive to fast movements and could feel stressed in crowded surroundings. New housing complex Sweetwater Spectrum in Sonoma, California, was created to address this issue and developed a housing site with the autism-friendly environment. It currently consists out of four homes, farm, pools, and community center – it eases living of autists and contributes to their socialization and mental wellbeing. Establishments like Singapore Universal Design and Sweetwater Spectrum are bright examples and inspirations how modifying urban design can be perceived as a way to the future of equal opportunities for all while making living more comforting for people with physical and mental disabilities. Sustainability and inclusivity coexist and are essential parts of the eco-and mentally-friendly design.
According to Mental Health America’s study, 20% of American grown-ups are diagnosed with mental illnesses and 81 million Americans have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. What is important is that architectural design can be a solution to enhance psychological conditions. Modern architectural trends like green schools, open spaces, and adaption of cities to the needs of disabled individuals not only have a positive impact on mental well-being but also facilitate learning and encourage higher levels of socialization. Sustainability of the city is no longer only a pathway to efficiency, environmental-friendliness and cost-effective solutions. Mental health of city dwellers and stress-free environment become priorities in hectic urban living while adopting urban design to special needs is a natural reaction to the rising significance of inclusivity and aging. The époque of psychologically sustainable architecture is at a sunrise with its slow appearance across the globe.
BenchesCollective, an open-air project, has neuro-architecture at its core and views buildings as interaction- and idea-exchange facilitators and the way to combat global loneliness pandemic. The space of the movement presents an open-source café consisting out of benches – everyone can become a host of a bench and decide whether to serve special beverages or organize a contest or drawing class. BenchesCollective attracted many followers – more than 1,500 benches were opened internationally since 2014. This project encourages people spending time together, networking, and making new connections – with similar infrastructural modifications, people will become more socially active, and continuous interactions and exciting experiences will improve the mental condition and push the problem of social isolation behind the scenes.
Innovation and Open Source Ecology make living more concise, comforting, and affordable and open to one’s lifestyle and living habits. Architecture, philosophy and eco-movement tend to co-exist nowadays and create a unique blend of Eastern and Western perspectives. Modern architects take lessons from the past and transform glass boxes into architectural story-telling masterpieces. Only using an exceptional combo of innovation, vernacular architecture, Eastern philosophy, and localization will not only help resolve problems with spaces and pollution but also embed ancient construction techniques and nature in urban sustainable spatial design.

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The fine weather over the Bank Holiday weekend resulted in over 2,500 visitors to the museum so a sterling effort by all to cope with one of the busiest times this year.
After many months of waiting the various assortment of 40 column punch card machines finally arrived on Friday. We would like to thank Carry Gently for transporting the equipment from Liverpool and all the volunteers who helped get the 18 large and small machines into the museum on Friday morning. Plans for the new 'Debits and Credits' gallery has now started and we hope to get the new display up and running within the next few months. A major project of restoring the equipment to working order is in planning.
The IBM 1130 arrived this week as well. Three large cabinets: the console including it's own printer and the disk drive, the card punch & reader, and a line printer. More importantly a complete rack of diagnostic card sets. Bit of a project this one!
After much juggling of funds, and a very hot bank holiday, we have now ordered the air conditioning for the server room. This is expected to be delivered before next weekend and will be fitted by the volunteers as soon as possible. Work will then begin to seal off the server area, as part of the preparation for the new packet switching gallery, so the air conditioner does not try and cool the whole of the museum! I'm sure Ben and others will appreciate having a much cooler working environment.
As well as the air conditioning, a new rack mounted DELL PowerEdge server is expected in the next few days. This will be used to drive the screens in the PC gallery and allow us to run the Operating System emulations which the current box is unable to cope with. Ben will certainly be busy again installing SunOS 10.
The weather for our after hours BBQ on Saturday exceed all expectations. We had over 30 volunteers and partners for the event and a good time was had by all. We also had a nice demonstration from Peter O of flying a model plane and gyrocopter. Sadly the plane had a bit of a mishap after it was flown upside down when it went down rather than up and hit the ground. Thanks to Lin for organising the event and getting the food and Peter V and Barney for cooking on the day.
New lighting to show off the PDP8 in the PC gallery was fitted by Jo. You can now see all the internals of the processor through the perspex cover. Phil H is making steady progress in restoring the unit to full heath with approx 60% of the cards now testing and where necessary replaced. He is, however seeing a large number of faulty cards and suspects the unit may have been used for parts in the past (leaving behind many faulty cards). Fortunately we have another spare PDP8 in the workshop which is being used to find replacements.
The air traffic control system has been behaving itself over the past few weeks. After fitting the PDP8 lighting, Jo made a start on the earth wiring of the various cabinets and processors which may have been a factor in the serial board failures. This work should hopefully be completed next weekend but only time will tell if this really was the problem.
With over 2,500 visitors to the museum, this was easily our best in terms of visitor numbers this year. Monday was the busiest with almost 2000 visitors thanks to a 40's event being held by the Park. We also had a fly past of a Lancaster Bomber and a very brief fly-past of the Red Arrows with smoke. The trustees would like to thank all the many volunteers who helped to keep the museum open on all 3 days of the bank holiday weekend.
After the recent very successful concerts by our resident 'chip tune' musician, Pixelh8, he has appeared on this weeks BBC World Service's Digital Planet broadcast. You can listen to the program here, see a video of the production here, listen to a podcast here and listen to a new free theme tune by Pixelh8 here.
We would all like to welcome our newest volunteer, John Gould to the team.

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The Trethewey Heritage House was built in 1920 by the Abbotsford Lumber Company for then B.C. timber baron J.O. Trethewey. Built with the finest fir lumber produced by the mill on Mill Lake, the house has stood up to the test of time and today serves as an important symbol of early Abbotsford town history.
The house has been restored to c.1925 and furnished with donations from a number of local families and the Province of British Columbia. Today, the Trethewey Heritage and MSA Museum are open to the public to including spacious period gardens, historic buildings, and walking tours of Mill Lake.


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PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Stanley Thai Kim Sim’s application to be reappointed as a director of Supermax Corp Bhd has been dismissed by the High Court.
The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) said in a statement today that the application was sought by Thai after he was disqualified as a director of Supermax following his conviction of an insider trading offence in November 2017.
To recap, Thai was sentenced by the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court late last year to a five-year jail term and fined RM5 million for insider trading offences committed when he was CEO of now-delisted APL Industries Bhd (APLI). APLI was one of the companies under the Supermax’s group of companies.
Meanwhile, Thai’s wife Datin Seri Tan Bee Geok and her sister Tan Bee Hong have been convicted of insider trading offences by the Sessions Court.
Bee Geok, former executive director of APLI, and Bee Hong were sentenced to a five-year jail term and fined RM7 million each after being tried together in a full trial, where 13 witnesses testified for the prosecution and four witnesses for the defence.
Bee Hong was convicted of insider trading as she was found to have disposed of 350,000 APLI shares while in possession of material non-public information.
Bee Geok, who was an executive director of APLI in charge of finance then, was convicted of communicating the said non-public information to her sister between Oct 23, 2007 and Oct 31, 2007.
According to the SC, Bee Geok tipped her sister on the audit adjustments proposed by APLI’s auditors, which resulted in APLI reporting a higher loss for the financial year ended June 30, 2007 compared with the previously reported unaudited fourth quarter results for the same financial year.
“The audit adjustments led to APLI being classified as a Practice Note 17 (PN17) company. APLI made announcements to Bursa Malaysia about the audit adjustments and its classification as a PN17 company on Oct 31, 2007,” it said.
An insider trading offence is punishable with an imprisonment term of not exceeding 10 years and a fine of not less than RM1 million.
PETALING JAYA: NWP Holdings Bhd’s affordable housing projects are now shelved as it has terminated the turnkey construction heads of agreement (TCA) between wholly-owned subsidiary NWP Builder Sdn Bhd and M2B World (M) Sdn Bhd.
NWP Builder had on Sept 7, 2016 entered into a TCA with M2B World, appointing NWP Builder as the turnkey contractor for the projects. The TCA encompasses six projects to construct affordable housing under SPNB Aspirasi as well as the Perbadanan Prima Malaysia in Selangor, Sabah, Pahang and Kelantan worth RM749 million.
NWP Builder was principally envisaged to be involved in construction and development.
The board had previously said that the TCA would be instrumental in diversifying the group’s business to include the construction business and provide an alternative source of income to the group.
PETALING JAYA: Gamuda Bhd, which has accepted the RM2.55 billion takeover offer for its 40%-owned Syarikat Pengeluar Air Selangor Holdings Bhd (Splash), is likely to use the proceeds from the disposal to reduce its debts.
“We do not expect any special dividend arising from the proceeds of the disposal, as we believe that Gamuda may use it to pare down debts, which would bring down its net gearing from 0.55 times to 0.42 times,” Kenanga Research said in its report.
It said that Gamuda’s outstanding order book “comfortably” stands at RM6.4 billion with three-year visibility while its property division has raked in RM1.9 billion worth of sales for the first half of 2018, bringing its unbilled sales to RM2.4 billion with three-year visibility.
“We maintain our ‘outperform’ call on Gamuda based on a lower sum-of-parts driven target price of RM4.30 from RM4.35 as we factor in the lower-than-expected offer price into our valuation. We believe that after the resolution of the water saga in Selangor, Gamuda would be able to move on and focus on future projects like the Penang Transport Master Plan and MRT3,” it added.
It reduced its FY19E net profit by 38% and core net profit by 5%, after factoring the one-off loss of about RM300 million and the loss of recurring income arising from the sale of Splash.
On Thursday, Gamuda announced that its associate company Splash has decided to accept the takeover offer from Pengurusan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Air Selangor) for RM2.55 billion.
The proposed acquisition includes 100% of Splash’s ordinary shares and 100% of Splash’s redeemable unsecured loan stocks, with RM1.9 billion to be paid as upfront payment while the remaining RM650 million will be settled with nine-year instalment as part of their sale and purchase agreement (SPA) terms.
Air Selangor and Splash expect to finalise the terms and conditions of the SPA by Sept 14.
“As highlighted in our previous report dated Aug 6, the offer price of RM2.55 billion from Air Selangor represents a 26% discount to its net book value of RM3.5 billion as of December 2017, which we believe is a sweet deal for the Selangor state government,” said Kenanga Research.
That said, the current offer is still higher than the net offer made back in 2014 of RM250.6 million. Although the offer price is lower than expected, Kenanga Research said it bodes well for Gamuda as it marks the end of the water saga.
“We also believe that they could potentially benefit from the resolution as we expect more water-related projects to be dished out in the future (one to two years) as both federal and state governments could potentially allocate more budget in improving the infrastructure in the water sector, that is, more water treatment plant, pipe replacement and others,” it said.
PETALING JAYA: Gamuda Bhd’s 40%-owned associate company Syarikat Pengeluar Air Selangor Holdings Bhd (Splash) has resolved to accept the RM2.55 billion offer from Pengurusan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd's (Air Selangor).
“Splash Holdings expects to commence negotiations with Air Selangor to finalise the terms and conditions for the sale and purchase of Splash through a share purchase agreement (SPA) to be executed by the parties. Both Air Selangor and Splash Holdings are expected to finalise the terms and conditions of the SPA by Sept 14, 2018 and an appropriate announcement will be released in due course upon the execution of the SPA,” Gamuda said in a stock exchange filing today.
Splash is the last pending water asset under the Selangor water restructuring exercise. Puncak Niaga Sdn Bhd (PNSB), Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Syabas) and Konsortium Abbas Sdn Bhd (Abbas) sold their water assets for RM2.47 billion, RM3.11 billion and RM990 million, respectively.
Gamuda has previously said that Splash should be worth more than RM2.8 billion.


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Hello and welcome to rayne-storm.net! I am Rayne Storm and this is my little piece of the web. I created this site as a way to get my songs read and heard by many. By no means am I a great singer nor do I claim to be. I only sing well enough to record my songs and get the general idea across of how my song is supposed to sound. I am looking for anyone willing to publish or perform my songs. If you are such a person, visit the 'Contact' page and fill out the form. Be advised that all songs on this site, unless specified otherwise, are copyrighted and belong to me.
Please understand that I have put my heart and soul into these songs. I can take constructive criticism as long as it's not mean, vulgar, or completely unrelated to the song(s) itself / themselves.
That being said, take a look around and enjoy!

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When levels of precipitation exceed the capacity of the stormwater system, surface flooding occurs. During periods of high rainfall, rainwater may collect in low lying areas where the capacity of the stormwater system has already been reached.
WaReg can be used to ensure that the stormwater system does not reach its point of overload diverting excess water to attenuation ponds or tanks. The flow out of the attenuation tank should be regulated in order to achieve an optimised and stable flow in the stormwater system.
Surface water flooding can occur when a stormwater outfall becomes inundated with backflow from rivers or lakes due to rising water levels. This can lead to low lying areas becoming flooded on a dry sunny day, and can cause extensive flooding on rainy days. When outfalls experience backflow and water starts to pond during times of high rainfall, their storage capacity is eliminated and surrounding areas, homes, sports grounds and other assets can be flooded.
Backflow into the stormwater outfall pipes can be completely stopped by using a WaStop inline check valve. WaStop maintains the storage capacity of the stormwater system during high water levels in rivers of lakes. Surface flooding and ponding is thereby stopped.

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Who can resist light whipped cream, sweet and delicious? The basis for so many desserts – from Pavlova, to Eton Mess to filling cakes and topping pie and even using up leftovers on coffee for breakfast and a café con panna.
Super easy to make – cream, confectioners sugar, vanilla and a splash of cognac – YES PLEASE!
To make the Chantilly cream place heavy cream in bowl of Kitchenaid and whisk for about 2 minutes. Add confectioners sugar and 2 teaspoons of vanilla paste. Whisk until cream thickens being careful not to over whip.
To be used for Pavlova, Eton Mess, Lemon Meringue Pie no Crust, Lucy’s Quick Italian Mess and for topping chocolate mousse, apple pie and any other deliciousness.
Think trifle without the custard or Eton mess without the meringue – instead I layered fresh raspberries, strawberries, blackberries and blueberries with Chantilly cream and little amaretti biscuits – I topped it off with freeze dried raspberries (from Trader Joes) for a fancy fast and fabulous pink dessert.
I think I like the amaretti more than the meringues – definitely one of those in the moment-I-don’t-have-time-to-bake-meringue decisions that resulted in a heavenly sweet treat.

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The Unite for Literacy Library offers many online books for young readers with audio. Browse through the home page to choose books to read from the library shelves. Narrow down your choices using picture icons for different themes such as animals or families. Select and click a book to read. Click the speaker icon to hear each page. The narration is also available in many languages from Arabic to Vietnamese.
This site is one you must bookmark if you work with young readers! Create a link to the site on classroom computers for students to explore and listen to books on their own. Unite for Literacy is perfect for use with ESL/ELL students for reading and hearing books in both English and their native language. Share a link to the site on your website or newsletter for use at home. World language teachers can use this site to have students listen to books in the language they are learning.
Explore 900 free audio books. Scroll to below the ads to see the actual booklist. This collection includes classics and contemporary literature. Books come in a variety of formats, from e-files to MP3's to Youtube. The alphabetical list indicates which format or formats each book is available. This easy-to-read site is, however, cluttered with ads and links to other resources.
Students could download independent reading books onto their portable devices. This is perfect for a BYOD or 1:1 classroom. Remind students of this great collection before breaks and summer vacations! Provide this link on your class website. Begin a classroom review magazine. Have students create mindmaps about characters or the plot. Challenge students to write summaries and other types of responses to the books they read. Have the students use a tool like Zoho Show (similar to Powerpoint, but easier and free) - reviewed here. ESL and special education students may find it useful to listen to books they are reading in class, if those titles are available.
This site offers short, non-fiction readings at two beginning levels of difficulty. You can read the story yourself or click to hear it line by line as you read. After reading, choose a review activity such as hearing the vocabulary words again. The subjects include Community Workers, Animals, Environmental Studies, Social Studies, History, Civics & Government, and Plants & Flowers.
Use this site in early elementary grades to help students begin to read and interpret informational text (a key piece of Common Core). Because of its multiple levels, you can easily use this site to differentiate. Share the stories on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Assign each student a different community worker to learn about. Have the students learn three new facts about their community worker to share with the class during a social studies lesson on communities. Have your ESL/ELL or learning support students write their own comprehension questions and answers based on the information to check their own comprehension and to exchange with their classmates.
This is an extensive "hotlist" of sites and lessons to be used on the SMART Board. In addition there are many tutorials to help you learn about the SMART Board. This collection covers mainly grades K-5 and all subject areas. However, there are also some resources for secondary level. The topics vary greatly, and the quantity of websites is impressive. Some items will require you to have Smart Board software installed on your computer to open the files. Some files will work using the SMART Notebook Express online viewer reviewed here. Some of the resources shared are created in the United Kingdom. American English speakers may notice some slight spelling differences. Please note: some of the resources are websites that could be used on any brand of interactive whiteboard (or computer) and are not strictly Smart Board resources.
These lessons are great for the new SMART Board user or the seasoned pro. Stop and think before you start about how to use them in a student centered lesson, trying some of the lesson formats that help you avoid being "Vanna." View the lessons as is or use them to help you create your own lesson. Use the training videos to help your teaching peers and new SMART Board users learn how to use the SMART Board. Many of these tools could be used on any brand of Interactive Whiteboard.
Little Animation for Kids provides children with resources to make them better stewards of the environment and citizens of the world while learning many other topics. This site has songs, games, stories, and activities to teach children how they can save the earth. Stories come from 'round the world. Even non-readers can navigate using the sound prompts.
Use the story section to model how to write a story. Have students create their own environmental stories and submit them to the website. Using an interactive whiteboard, have students play one of many games. Bookmark the site on your classroom computer, and use it as a center during language arts time. Be sure to click Guide for additional classroom activities.
Magic Town is no longer available, as of 5 May 2013 when I looked. There is a new App called My Story World for ipad.
This kids' branch of Learn English (created in the UK) contains interactives, short stories, crafts, songs, and even an opportunity for students to help their younger brothers and sisters learn English. A free log-in allows you access to printed versions of the stories (with questions), the ability to make comments, enter competitions, answer polls, and even create a "character." Another log in for teachers and parents opens up suggestions for teaching and using the resources of the site. Professionals can also find video tips and access to helpful articles. Access to the site is available in other languages such as Chinese and French, all aimed at teaching English. A text help feature using "BrowseAloud" opens up the English learning to students with vision or reading challenges. Note that vocabulary used is British, so you may need to explain a few words to US or Canadian students, e.g. "rubbish bin."
Primary grade and preK teachers will find many useful interactives for basic skills like colors and phonics on this site, even though it is intended for learning English. Share the activities as a center or for extra practice for struggling students. Check with your administration about whether students can register individually for the site. Introduce this site to your class on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Make a shortcut to this site on classroom computers and have your ELL/ESL students use it as one of your learning stations. Short stories and other interactive features of the site would work well with special education students, too. Be sure to share this link with parents of your ELL students if they have Internet access at home.
Zoodles offers a safe web platform for kids that includes fun and educational games, videos, and activities. The BASIC membership to this tool includes countless activities in a variety of subject areas. Many of the activities come from other sites (Starfall, PBS kids, etc.). But this is a nice compilation of subjects and activities. The safety in this program is that once it is downloaded and opened, children don't view the regular computer toolbars anymore. Thus they can't search the web on their own. To exit the program, click QUIT and OK.
There is a parent play-along mode that helps guide learning experiences in a more personal way. Zoodles has been created to work on virtually any type of computer, including tablets and smart phones. Games are searchable by age (toddler to 8 yrs old), and subject. Many games will also have parent ratings with the educational and fun value of the activity. Creating an account is easy and requires simple user information including email and the child's age. This is used to populate age-appropriate games. There is a premium membership with more features.
Create 2 or 3 (or more, as needed) classroom accounts with different age levels to provide diversity for students. Each account then be bookmarked on classroom computers for student use. Share this site through your classroom blog or newsletter as a resource for learning games at home. Use activities from the site on your interactive whiteboard or projector as a classroom activity. Provide this link to parents to use on rainy days or during the summer.
Cookie is a large collection of learning games, videos, worksheets, and arts&crafts for preschool to early elementary. Find math, science, art, and language activities in many different formats. Search by subject, top games, and new releases. Pre-school and early elementary teachers will appreciate the many videos on the site for learning to write numbers and letters, learning body parts, and days of the week. There are interactives for students related to addition, colors, alphabet letters, and more.
These interactives make great center activities to support learning. Or if individual computers aren't available, use your interactive whiteboard or projector. Consider using the IWB as a student-run center for pairs to take turns. There are numerous activities to choose from and differentiate for your students' needs. This is definitely one to save in your favorites (or bookmark). Be sure to share this link via your newsletter or list it on your class website, blog, or wiki. Use your TeachersFirst public page (part of free membership) to share with a single click!
Come on in and enjoy the ageless and timeless wisdom of Aesop and his Fables at this award winning site. There are a total of 638 Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed. Aseop lived 2,500 yeas ago and never wrote any tales down. Ambrose Pierce, Jean De La Fontaine I, Rev. George Fyler Townsend, and Hans Christian Andersen have retold these tales. A life history of Aesop is included. Some tales include audio narration, while all are in written format.
Aesops Fables, comprehensive resource for fable collection is necessary for every classroom. Have a very extensive collection of life, history, morals, and fables. Use during language arts as part of a genre study or as part of literary themes. Use on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Use on individual computers and include in centers. During Writing Workshop, find ways to change the morals into modern stories. Use as scripts for Readers' Theater, podcasts, or reading comprehension. During character development, challenge students to find ways to incorporate into lessons.
ABCya.com, developed by a web developer turned computer teacher, provides educational games, videos, and activities for elementary students. Nearly every subject is included. Simply click on your grade level (K-5) and find what is available under language arts, math, and other subjects. Specific topics range from basic typing activities to creating word clouds to grammar games (at all levels) and so much more. The interactives are teacher approved and offer colorful and attention grabbing ways for learning. Opportunities for sharing on Facebook, tweeting, and sharing on social bookmarking sites are incorporated. This is a MUST SEE site for elementary teachers looking for some great practice sites for basic skills!
Share this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector, demonstrate how to use the specific tool/activity. Create a learning center AT the whiteboard or on individual laptops and allow students to try it out on their own. List this as a student and parent resource on your classroom website. Use this site to informally assess skills to tell you which students to allow to do alternative work or go ahead. Allow your gifted students to explore new concepts while providing necessary reinforcement for those learners that need a technology-inspired method to help master learning goals. This is an excellent tool for differentiating. Provide as an anticipatory guide for new units.
This site, created by Australian Sean Banville of "Breaking News English" (reviewed here), has high interest, "easier" news for students to read and many teaching materials to go with them. Though the look of the site is cluttered with advertising and plain text, the content is worthwhile. Developed for ESL/ELL students and teachers, the site would also work well in a subject area, learning support, or reading classroom. There are MANY articles "ready to go," including mp3 audio files to listen to the articles. At the time of this review there were 200+ new additions! Each article includes several types of activities such as "online gap fill" (a Cloze reading activity), vocabulary flashcards, and hangman, and matching. A full script is available in pdf form. There is also an online, interactive quiz for students. The articles, and a lot more activities, can be downloaded and printed, too.
The articles are short and interesting, a perfect match for non-fiction reading comprehension. With so many different activities to choose from, it will be easy for the classroom teacher to differentiate. There is an mp3 audio version of each article so students can listen as they read. Assign small groups of students to present the news each week, using the interactive whiteboard to show others the country and city from which the article originated. Make the newscasting experience even more real by having students read scripts of these news stories or their own original stories using a Easyprompter, reviewed here. Students can then go to another news source such as 4 News Wall, reviewed here, to see what else is happening in the news. For a projecth and to enhance student learning, have the small groups create a "talking map" using a site such as Zeemaps, reviewed here. This site allows students to create audio recordings AND choose a location (where their article/story took place). What a fabulous way to share the article with the rest of the class!


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The Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities (ICDD) has funded a three year workforce systems change initiative designed to improve recruitment and retention of Direct Support Professionals in Illinois, who are competent and confident in the skills needed to provide quality supports and services to individuals with developmental disabilities. Partners for this project include the University of Minnesota’s Institute on Community Integration, the Institute on Disability and Human Development at UIC, and the Human Services Research Institute.
The Initiative’s Steering and Advisory Committee have created a comprehensive plan to address direct support workforce issues in Illinois. The following are three versions of the Workforce Development Plan with varying details about these workforce issues.


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A lot of people enjoy a drink every now and then. People have stressful lives – especially considering the economic climate. We rush around to make ends meet, working as hard as we can with some people even having to take on two or three jobs. When you finally do get enough dough to make it through the month, your car breaks down or you find a leak that means your whole roof needs replacing. It always seems as if there’s something else. You fix one problem only to find another right around the corner. So it’s perfectly expected that people find solace in a quiet glass of wine or a nice cold beer that helps them to relax at the end of the working day or week.
It can be particularly stressful for the younger generations of 18 and above who have exams and part-time jobs, as it’s proven that 18 to 30 year olds are suffering higher stress levels than ever before. How do they relax? Go to the pubs, bars, and clubs. This is fine. It’s important to let loose every now and again. However, are people aware of the damage they could be doing?
I hear you saying ‘we already know it’s not good for you’. Yes, studies show that too much drinking is bad for you, however a little is good for you. I’m not about to get into that now as people know the damage that excessive alcohol can cause to your body. What you might not know is how too much drinking is harming your wallet. Drink costs are on the rise. This is partly down to taxation. The government love to tax things that are bad for you – it’s there excuse. It’s the same reason that Mars Bars have less chocolate on them now a days: the Mars Company gets to pay less tax. Alcohol prices go up and people will pay the increased prices. You must also be careful with counterfeit alcohol which is increasingly finding its way into our off licenses and supermarkets. It’s extremely difficult to tell the difference from the real thing, so be careful.
I know alcohol is expensive!
Everyone knows that alcohol is expensive, but did you know that where you drink has an effect on the price as well. You must all have noticed that in an up market town the drinks in the bars cost more than a more everyday – hardworking town or city. But what are you going to do? If this is how you like to relax, then you will happily pay the price.
Did you know though that alcohol has a secret way of draining our collective funds? Have you ever sent a drunk text? I’m sure you have. Well, as a whole nation this new epidemic is costing the UK hundreds of millions according to a recent survey carried out by giffgaff. It’s not just the actual cost of sending out one of these texts, no. It’s what we do when we’ve had a few and our inhibitions are lowered. Examples, I hear you ask? Well, how about the growing group of people who pop onto Amazon or eBay and spend a fortune on goods they don’t want, for instance a £400 exercise bike because they’re feeling self-conscious in the merry state? Be careful when drinking. Making sure you have enough money to make ends meet is hard enough, let alone if you’re squandering it on drunken nonsense from eBay.


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Baby Noddins was outside staring at her small garden plot when a familiar yellow pegasus came upon her unexpectedly. “Hey, Noddins!” Baby Falling Leaves said.
“Baby Falling Leaves! What are you doing here?” Noddins demanded.
“Well, when can I see her?” Baby Noddins demanded.
“I’m not sure; Daddy said they would probably have to stay at the hospital for a few days,” Baby Falling Leaves said authoritatively.
“Yeah, well, you know how adults are.” The two exchanged a knowing glance.
Alas, poor Frostflake! There would be no peace again in her life for awhile, not while Baby Noddins was on another whim.


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Mowlānā Jalāloddin Balkhi, known in Persia as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī and in the West simply as Rumi, was born on September 30, 1207 C. E. in Balkh Province, Afghanistan, then on the eastern edge of the Persian Empire. Rumi descended from a long line of Islamic jurists, theologians, and mystics, including his father, who was known by followers of Rumi as "Sultan of the Scholars." When Rumi was still a young man, his father led their family more than 2,000 miles west to avoid the invasion of Genghis Khan's armies. They settled in present-day Turkey, where Rumi lived and wrote most of his life.
As a teenager, Rumi was recognized as a great spirit by the poet and teacher Fariduddin Attar, who gave him a copy of his own Ilahinama (The Book of God). When his father died in 1231, Rumi became head of the madrasah, or spiritual learning community. The school reportedly had over ten thousand students, including masons, grocers, weavers, hatmakers, carpenters, tailors, and bookbinders.
Rumi's oldest son, Sultan Velad, managed to save 147 of Rumi's intimate letters, which provide insights about the poet and how he lived. Rumi often involved himself in the lives of his community members, solving disputes and facilitating loans between nobles and students. The letters are described as having lines of poetry scattered throughout.
In 1244, Rumi met Shams Tabriz, a dervish "God-man" who had taken a vow of poverty. Their meeting is considered a central event in Rumi's life. Though accounts of their meeting differ, one story claims that Rumi was teaching by a fountain, and Shams walked up through the crowd of students and pushed Rumi's books into the water, including his father's spiritual diary. "You must now live what you have been reading about," Shams told Rumi. Rumi believed both his real life and his real poetry began when he met Shams. "What I had thought of before as God," Rumi said, "I met today in a human being."
Shams and Rumi were close friends for about four years. Over the course of that time, Shams was repeatedly driven away by Rumi's jealous disciples, including one of Rumi's sons, Ala al-Din. In December of 1248, Shams again disappeared; it is believed that he was either driven away or killed. Rumi left the madrasah in search of his friend, travelling to Damascus and elsewhere. Eventually, Rumi made peace with his loss, returning to his home believing Shams to be a part of him: "His essence speaks through me."
Rumi's mourning for the loss of his friend led to the outpouring of more than 40,000 lyric verses, including odes, eulogies, quatrains, and other styles of Eastern-Islamic poetry. The resulting collection, Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi or The Works of Shams Tabriz, is considered one of Rumi's masterpieces and one of the greatest works of Persian literature.
In his introduction to his translation of Rumi's The Shams, Coleman Barks has written: "Rumi is one of the great souls, and one of the great spiritual teachers. He shows us our glory. He wants us to be more alive, to wake up... He wants us to see our beauty, in the mirror and in each other."
For the last twelve years of his life, beginning in 1262, Rumi dictated a single, six-volume poem to his scribe, Husam Chelebi. The resulting masterwork, the Masnavi-ye Ma'navi (Spiritual Verses), consists of sixty-four thousand lines, and is considered Rumi's most personal work of spiritual teaching. Rumi described the Masnavi as "the roots of the roots of the roots of the (Islamic) Religion," and the text has come to be regarded by some Sufis as the Persian-language Koran.
In his introduction to an English edition of Spiritual Verses, translator Alan Williams wrote: "Rumi is both a poet and a mystic, but he is a teacher first, trying to communicate what he knows to his audience. Like all good teachers, he trusts that ultimately, when the means to go any further fail him and his voice falls silent, his students will have learnt to understand on their own."
Rumi fell ill and died on December 17, 1273 C. E., in Konya, Turkey. His remains were interred adjacent to his father's, and the Yeşil Türbe (Green Tomb) was erected above their final resting place. Now the Mevlâna museum, the site includes a mosque, dance hall, and dervish living quarters. Thousands of visitors, of all faiths, visit his tomb each month, honoring the poet of legendary spiritual understanding.
An oilman possessed a parrot which used to amuse him with its agreeable prattle, and to watch his shop when he went out. One day, when the parrot was alone in the shop, a cat upset one of the oil-jars. When the oilman returned home he thought that the parrot had done this mischief, and in his anger he smote the parrot such a blow on the head as made all its feathers drop off, and so stunned it that it lost the power of speech for several days. But one day the parrot saw a bald-headed man passing the shop, and recovering its speech, it cried out, "Pray, whose oil-jar did you upset?" The passers-by smiled at the parrot's mistake in confounding baldness with age with the loss of its own feathers due to a blow.
Confusion of saints with hypocrites.
Spiritual sense are the ladder of heaven.
It is wrong to join hands with every one.
But Musailima retained the name of "Liar,"
And Mohammad that of "Sublimest of beings."
From The Masnavi I Ma'navi of Rumi: Complete by Jalal al-Din Rumi, translated from Urdu by E.H. Whinfield (1898).


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Sometimes a conversation is so good, so inspiring, so healing, that you want to share it with everyone. In the rich, calming, hopeful conversation I share with world-renowned wildlife veterinarian Linda Bender, she speaks of what she has learned from working with animals. It is a beautiful, calming, fascinating conversation, inviting our imagination to soar to what is and could be.
When insights are really important, we need to hear them more than once to begin to digest and be able to use them. So I am sharing with you a few of her most important ones here, in written format. You can listen to the whole conversation here.
I asked her what was the most important thing that the animals taught her, through her vast experience from dogs and birds to tigers and elephants.
This is the same lesson the great Buddhist teachers have passed on for 2500 years and native peoples have always known and never left—to be in the present, which is where Life occurs. It offers a physical visceral awareness of life, connected to ourselves and all that is living and the profound knowings that come with that.
Another major sharing she gave is that she learned her most important lesson from robins, in her back yard—not in the far away wilds of Africa. This capacity and knowing is accessible to all of us. She emphasizes that there are no special “animal communicators” —we are all hard wired for that. We just have to “exercise those muscles,” and allow.
• Interconnection with all life is where our true joy comes from. There is no other access for that.
• This is accessible to all of us anywhere.
• A personal experience we have with whatever the being is, is our unique invitation to go beyond.
Finding fulfillment and joy is really simple, but it not really easy in these times. We need to help each other with this. I hope this and our other podcast conversations do this.
If we are able to really connect we will live differently on our Earth, giving all Life a chance to thrive.
Linda’s website is http://lindabender.org/ and her book is Animal Wisdom.

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Helen joined SigmaTEK in 2014 to work with our Global Business Development Team. In that role she enjoyed developing and supporting the more than a dozen entities that make up the worldwide SigmaTEK group. She especially appreciated connecting with the fantastic SigmaTEK teams located in each country as SigmaNEST has exploded into a truly global brand.
In her current role as Global Compliance and HR Manager, Helen loves the beauty of a well-crafted contract as well as the satisfaction of caring for each team member that makes up the SigmaTEK family.
Helen and her family reside in Cincinnati.

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This and 19 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album.
This is a Print. We acquired it in 1947. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.


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RAIPUR: In a bid to promote cashless transactions in Chhattisgarh, the government has decided to form a 'digital army' of around 10 lakh people who will encourage use of electronic payments across the state.
Under the initiative, around 10 lakh people will be made digitally literate on cashless transactions by December 31. Later they will act as a 'digital army' and propagate the idea of cashless society, an official from the public relations department said here.
To train 10 lakh people, awareness camps will be held at different administrative levels. Besides, about 7,000 agents working in common service centres of Chhattisgarh Infotech and Biotech Promotion Society (CHiPS) will also be imparted training in this regard.
These agents will further act as master trainer at gram panchayat-level and provide training to people in groups between December 19 and December 31, he said.
Moreover, the chief minister has directed officials to take necessary steps to ensure allocation of POS (point of sale) machines to shops and commercial establishments with support from banks for expansion of cashless transaction facility, he said.

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Melt the butter in a 9-inch cast iron skillet. Add the brown sugar and pecans; stir well to thoroughly combine, then turn off the heat -- don't cook it. Arrange 8 pineapple slices in a single layer over the brown sugar mixture (your 9-inch skillet should accommodate 8 slices without overlapping). Set the skillet aside.
Beat the egg yolks at medium speed until they are thick and lemon colored. Gradually add the sugar, continuing to beat. Add the flour mixture to the yolk mixture, and stir in the reserved pineapple juice.
Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold the whites into the cake batter. Pour or spoon the batter evenly over the pineapple slices.
Bake at 350°F for 40 to 45 minutes. Cool the cake in the skillet for 30 minutes; then invert it onto a serving plate. Place a maraschino cherry in the center of each pineapple ring.
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John Keble, 1820; New Letters of Robert Southey, ed. Curry (1965) 2:214.
Luckily for me (though I am afraid rather irksomely for him) he has hardly any acquaintance resident at Oxford, having completely out-lived all his old contemporaries, so that I had a good deal of him to myself: and that indeed was delightful.... His reception in the Theatre was most flattering: not one of all the party, except Lord Hill, received any thing like the same share of applause. In the evening he had an invitation from the college to dine in Balliol Hall. Reginald Heber, Miller, and Milman were there, and Noel Ellison was delightful: I have never seen four such men together in my life before. Copleston wanted him to dine with him on Thursday, but he was obliged to leave us, to my sorrow, and left a most excellent name behind him, for his kind and unassuming manners, with every one who had been in his company five minutes.


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Samuel Masury was born in Salem Massachusetts in the year 1820.
In 1837 upon completion of his education from the public schools of Boston, he began working in a general store, but often neglected his duties due to lack of interest. His true interest was for mechanical applications. After a short time he left the store to pursue the business of carriage-making, where he became proficient in this work.
Upon the news of Daguerre's discovery in 1839, Samuel Masury took a deep interest in the new art.
In 1842 Masury connected himself with Mr. John Plumbe of Boston, Mass., to learn the process and became a professional daguerreotypist and photographer. During this seventeen year relationship he practiced the art in the principle cities in New England.
In 1843 Masury established his business as Masury and Company in Salem, Mass..
Masury moved in 1847 to Essex Street in Salem, noted as being located in the Kinsman's new building. G. Vinall was also listed as a principle photographer.
in a NEW and ELEGANT STYLE, and of larger sizes than are generally taken. MINIATURES taken at this Gallery, are warranted to give perfect satisfaction, and not to fade or change appearance in any way, or for any number of years. As many persons suppose that Daguerreotype Miniatures can be taken only in fair weather, I beg leave to say, that, by a recent discovery, I am prepared to take Miniatures in cloudy weather, and will warrant as good Pictures taken in cloudy, as in pleasant weather.
Hours of Operation, for 9 o'clock, A.M. until 4 P.M.
Ladies and Gentlemen are invited to call and examine my specimens.
Prices from $2.50 to $10.00.
Masury also recorded a daguerreian Gallery in Providence, R.I., from 1845 to 1852.
in November 1848, Masury took a famous portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, less than a year before Poe's death at age 40. Poe portrait was taken in the Providence, Rhode Island, studio of Samuel Masury and S.W. Hartson.
Around 1851-1852 Masury experienced a serious accident, which took Mr. Marury's establishment. The accident nearly took his life, and he never fully recovered from the effects. The accident occurred while Masury was engaged with a chemical experiment with the oxyhydrogen, or Drummond light. A fire was started in some way never satisfactory explained, to a bag which contained sixty to seventy gallons of oxygen gas, causing a terrific explosion, while Mr. Masury was standing on the bag. It was recorded as almost a miracle that every person in the room was not instantly killed. This may be the reason, which prompted his move to Boston.
From 1852 to 1855, Masury opened a daguerreian gallery in Boston, Mass., as a partnership listed as Masury and Silsbee (G.M. Silsbee). A Boston business card indicates various specialties including carte-de-visite, salt prints and other advertisements indicate they also specialized in Hallotypes.
"We feel great pleasure in laying before our readers the accompanying portrait of Mr. Samuel Masury, to whose skill we have frequently been indebted for the fine photographic likeness which have served our artists as authority in drawing many of the large heads of public characters published in the Pictorial. The portrait on this page was drawn expressly for us by Mr. (Winslow) Homer, and engraved by Pierce in his best manner."
In 1874 Samuel Masury died leaving behind a historical legacy as one of the premier early pioneers of Photography.


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The Corrections. I hated it at first because the characters had so much anxiety that I could identify with that just reading about them made my scalp feel too small. But then the characters, instead of just sitting there hating themselves, began to go out in the world, and the world stole their wallets and gave them back their childhood train sets and fed them some eggs and [spoiler deleted] and then they felt better.
The way the air smells now. The way the angle of the sun is changing. Red leaves, even in this palm tree infested town.


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Many of us dream about writing a great work of fiction or a collection of poems or short stories. However, the reality is that writing a successful novel or any other type of creative work can be hard. It doesn’t have to be, though. We’ve compiled the following tips to help you as you begin writing.
Most authors don’t like the question ‘Where do you get your ideas?’ It’s not that they don’t want to share their great sources, though. Writers simply get ideas from everywhere. You might get a great idea from a snippet of conversation you overhear in the grocery store or from a headline you see in a magazine. Ideas can come from anywhere, and they can come at any time.
To make sure you don’t forget the great idea you have in the store, keep a notebook with you or use a note-taking app on your smartphone. Jot down the details of your idea so you can come back to it when you have time to flesh it out.
You may have seen lists of the greatest opening lines in novels, which may have led you to worry about coming up with an outstanding opening line that hooks readers as soon as you sit down to start writing. However, many, if not all, of the authors on those lists likely didn’t come up with those great opening lines right off the bat.
It’s common for authors to create a very rough draft or outline of their story that hits major story points and then come back to fill in the details. Likewise, an author may conceive a character or a world first and then build the story around it. As you develop your story, you might just come up with that amazing opening line.
Even though you may not feel like it, it’s important to write regularly and consistently. Determine the time of day at which you’re most productive and then set aside time then each day to write. If you already have a full-time job, which most writers do, you can write in the morning before work or in the evening before you go to bed.
Even if you’re not writing for the novel or short story you’re working on, write something each day to keep your creative writing muscles limber, so to speak.
If you’re experiencing writer’s block, try searching for a writing prompt online and responding to it. You might just need to take some time away from thinking about the story that has you stumped to come up with a brilliant solution.
Once you’ve completed a draft of your work, make sure you edit it. Go back and check for inconsistencies in the plot, characterizations and narrative as well as grammar, spelling and punctuation. For example, you should make sure you maintain the same point of view throughout the text, unless you are writing from different characters’ points of view.
If you are, make sure the transition from one point of view to another is clearly defined to avoid confusing readers. Likewise, make sure your characters’ names are spelled the same way throughout the text. In addition, check to make sure that you start a new paragraph whenever a new character speaks, that you’ve enclosed all direct speech in quotation marks and that your dialogue isn’t long-winded or stilted (unless the character would actually speak in that way).
Some writers choose to use alternative spelling or grammar for style reasons, but too much can confuse or overwhelm readers. If you use alternative spelling or grammar, you must use it consistently.
While some writers wait until their story is done and then submit it to publishers, it can help immensely to obtain feedback as you’re writing—but that doesn’t mean just giving your story to your family and close friends to have them read it. They may avoid giving constructive criticism out of a desire to avoid hurting your feelings.
While family and friends can certainly help by providing ideas, it’s also helpful to give your work to readers who are more objective for feedback. You may wish to consider joining a writer’s group, whether it’s an in-person group or an online group. In these groups, members share their work and provide positive and negative feedback, thus helping each member become a better writer.
You should also have someone else read your work for basic editing purposes, such as catching any spelling, grammar, punctuation or formatting errors.


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If we are united in our struggle against worker oppression, united in our search for truth amidst lies, united for a truly participatory democratic economic system, the possibilities are only limited by our courage, our determination, and our capacity to imagine. A collaboration between the Independent Plantation Workers' Union of Sumatra (Indonesia), the International Union of Food and Agricultural Workers (IUF) and Vision Machine Film Project.
The Globalization Tapes is a film made by workers for workers. The story isn't told by experts, but by union members from palm oil plantations in Indonesia. Their experience is complemented by workers from both Colombia and Holland. The film powerfully documents their exploration of history, globalization, and how unions around the world can support each other and struggle together.
Using their own forbidden history as a case study, the Indonesian filmmakers trace the development of contemporary globalization from its roots in colonialism to the present. Through chilling first-hand accounts, The Globalization Tapes exposes the devastating role of militarism and repression in building the "global economy", and explores the relationships between trade, third-world debt, and international institutions like the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. The film explains how these institutions shape and enforcing the corporate world order.
Amazing documentary. Turly naked film making.
how does one put tears and futility into a comment.
i am a huge music person, Very huge... Music is... my life. I say all that because the instant i realized that Indonesian man was playing guitar and the sound was so familiar so like me, so enjoyable i realized; That he and i, we're brothers. through out the film the music played a large part atleast for me in connecting to these people whos langauge i cannot understand. Music and love ran past that barriar with ease. Soon i realized that his struggle, is my struggle.
Great explanation of the impact of the IMF, World Bank, and the WTO. Great doc!
Thomas M look up Greg Palast, he's a great journalist and has much to say about the WTO, BP and other orgs that pillage for profit. He also is the one that broke the voting fraud story in Florida and other states. When GW Bush stole the election and the country.
Would be interested in learning more about the WTO. From an independent source, anyone knows a good docu about that?
This is a remarkable effort. It is appalling to see the poverty shown in the video. Working for one dollar a day is outrageous.
anyone know where we can buy this doco from?


text: Like a coiled snake, this car scared the world’s racing elite and made its creator, Carroll Shelby, a household name. In 1959, Shelby was America’s best competition driver, but a heart condition forced him to give up racing. Instead of retiring from the circuit, he decided to jump back in with his own cars – not an easy feat. But this dynamic visionary convinced the right people that he could do it, and within four years his dream car was born, the Cobra. Since then the Cobra has been enshrined on everyone’s list of the world’s greatest cars, and Shelby has continued to confound his critics and both please and amuse his fans. It’s a story about daring to be great and somehow pulling it off.


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The Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia (MFAA) is a company limited by guarantee and is governed by a Board whose authority is enabled by the MFAA Constitution as amended from time to time.
Broadly, the role of the Board is to provide leadership and strategic guidance for the MFAA in addition to overseeing management’s implementation of the Board's strategic initiatives.
The Board meets on a regular basis to contribute to and approve the organisation's strategic direction and key initiatives. Its emphasis is on outward vision and strategic leadership, cultivating a diversity of viewpoints, collective decision making and providing membership benefits and services in support of professional mortgage and finance intermediaries.


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I've fixed at least one other bike with the Seal Mate tool - definitely worth the 5 bucks!!!
ct1500 wrote: Your reverse lever switch is the likely problem with the switch plunger sticking and not popping back out when the lever is lowered.
Bugmerc wrote: That's the one I used. It won't play with the dummy tape. You didn't have any issues with the dummy tape?


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Since a new year has come, Pocketwise Pinoy will be having new blog posts entitled "Stock Favorite". This will feature the stocks I am investing in. Stock Favorite blog posts would include a background on the company's business, some details on its profile and my current action towards its shares (whether to buy, hold or sell).
To kickoff our Stock Favorite, we are featuring D&L Industries, Inc.
The Company has four principal business lines according to The Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc. (www.pse.com.ph). These include food ingredients; colorants, additives, and engineered polymers for plastics; aerosol products; oleochemicals, resins and powder coating.
Aero-Pack Industries, Inc.; Chemrez Technologies, Inc.; D&L Polymer and Colours, Inc.; First in Colours, Incorporated; and Oleo-Fats Incorporated.
To buy shares of D & L Industries Inc, just look for the stock code DNL.
Fluctuation indicates the buying or selling price to be in multiples of 0.01 pesos. The investor can post 6.5000, 6.5100 but not 6.5110.
The floor price dictates the minimum amount that the buyer can put as a buying price or the seller in the selling price. The system does not allow the user to put amount lower than 3.25 Php.
The ceiling price dictates the maximum amount that the buyer can put as a buying price or the seller in the selling price. The system does not allow the user to put amount higher than 9.73 Php.
Foreign investors are allowed to purchase shares of DNL.
With the current price of DNL, it is still cheaper than the fair value. As a long term investor, this stock is still flagged to have a BUY rating.
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MLA International Bibliography covers modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics, and dates back to the 1920s and contains millions of citations from journals & series, as well as book publishers.
Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) provides online access to books published by Oxford University Press. This link focuses on the literature subject area of the collection.


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Portrait photography or portraiture is simply photography of a single person or even a group of people. Portraits tend to showcase the expressions, personality, and mood of the people in the images. As a general rule the focus of a portrait photograph is usually the person's face, although the entire body, and even a background or context can be included.
The secret to good portrait photography is getting to know your subject. Portrait photography isn’t about lighting a human head properly, getting that person to smile and then saying cheese while at the same time taking the picture.
We are all used to the above mentioned style of photography from our school days. A photographer would come in, sit us down, position us, work behind the camera for a bit and flash. It's over.
However, this by no means is portrait photography. The purpose of portrait photography is to draw someone's personality out. A good portrait photographer will be able to show the friends and family of their subject the pictures they took and the response should be "oh my, that is very much like Harry" or "that is his famous hand gesture and facial expression". A portrait is about getting to know a character and then catching them in their moment. As a photographer it's very challenging to get to know someone in such a short period of time. You'll have to ask the right questions (without prying), study your subject (without being obvious) and have the camera ready at all times in case one of these magic moments happen to pop up.
Your goal is to capture a person's physical likeness on film. You will do this by using the proper equipment, but will also try to capture their expressions and body language. A character does not need to smile for a portrait to be successful. Sometimes a thoughtful look will be more representational of the look of your subject.
How to read a photographs histogram.
Different types of landscape photography.
How to take landscape photographs.


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You set a very high standard! I hope you do take it easy sometimes, especially during late-summer, with the ever shortening days that beg to be enjoyed.
That said, I anxiously await your further chapter in this saga you’ve built.
Don't worry about the schedule. When it gets done is far less important than that it is up to your standards.


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In 1927, the Mission of St James and St John opened their first Toddlers' Home at Ferntree Gully (their first until 1932 when they leased Langley Hall, Bendigo). St Luke's had a capacity of 45 to 50 children aged 18 months to five years, housed in groups according to age. School-aged children attended local schools, and there was a kindergarten on campus.
In 1976, the Mission converted its operations into family group homes and by the end of the decade had two units accommodating between six and seven children (mostly adolescents) in Bendigo and Eaglehawk.
In 1977, the Church of England Diocese of Bendigo assumed the auspice of St Luke’s.
In 1979 the St Luke's Family Care Council managed a multi-service agency providing a range of family support and substitute care programs.
By 1981, St Luke's Family Care was operating two early adolescent units in Bendigo for children aged 10 to 16 years, a regional foster care program, a youth accommodation program (including a youth residential unit for eight young people, 15 to 19 years), a youth community placement program and a kindergarten for children with special needs in small groups. St Luke's also assumed responsibility for St Aidan's Children's Centre Bendigo’s two family group homes.
In 2016, the organisation is called St Luke's Anglicare and has 100 staff throughout central and north-western Victoria delivering a wide range of services including intensive family services, out-of-home care services, youth accommodation and support, and residential care for children.
This guide contains information that some people may find distressing. If you experienced abuse as a child or young person in an institution mentioned in this guide, it may be a difficult reading experience.
Content: Files documenting the recommendations for staffing positions for homes and hostels, correspondence between the Minister of Community Welfare Services and Senior Officers as well as funding information. The Staffing Priorities Committee made recommendations to the Minister regarding priority of positions required. Individual home and hostels are listed accompanied by comprehensive material concerning each children’s home, Family Group Home or hostel.
There are also minutes from the approved children's homes and hostels meetings from 1978–80.
The specific file relating to St Luke’s dates from the year 1978.
Content: Ministerial correspondence, and Staffing Priority Committee minutes and list of members.


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Anyone who's ever seen the series The Wire or Luther have been waiting for Idris Elba to finally get the big-time, mainstream recognition he pretty clearly deserves. A string of blockbuster supporting roles recently ending in an ID4 knock-off speech haven't really done it for him, but maybe he'll finally find some luck with this powerful, biographic leading role in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. From The Other Boleyn Girl director Justin Chadwick, the film looks a bit bombastic and more than a little over the top in its painting of a rousing, inspiring freedom fighter. But hey, so did Lincoln, and that still did pretty well for ol' Danny D-L, right?
\n\nAnyone who's ever seen the series The Wire or Luther have been waiting for Idris Elba to finally get the big-time, mainstream recognition he pretty clearly deserves. A string of blockbuster supporting roles recently ending in an ID4 knock-off speech haven't really done it for him, but maybe he'll finally find some luck with this powerful, biographic leading role in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. From The Other Boleyn Girl director Justin Chadwick, the film looks a bit bombastic and more than a little over the top in its painting of a rousing, inspiring freedom fighter. But hey, so did Lincoln, and that still did pretty well for ol' Danny D-L, right?


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The swap rules were a single layer (no matting, extra layers of cardstock) and include an embellishment. I used the citrus slice stamp from the Tart and Tangy stamp set in these bright, summery colors - YoYo Yellow, Only Orange, Gable Green. These aren't colors I use too often, but I do love them on this card. I stamped them and then used a template I created from scratch paper to doodle the borders around each slice of lemon/orange/lime. I used the Stampin' Up! Basic Black Journaler and then added an inside doodle and some extra stitches to the straight border. The sentiment is stamped in Basic Black and is from the Best Wishes and More Stamp set.
To finish my cards off I pried open the Ice Circle Rhinestone Brads, adhered the gem at the end of the sentiment with Crystal Effects. Then punched a hole on the upper left side and tied a piece of Tempting Turquoise 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon in a knot. Finally, I added Crystal Effects to each of the citrus segments so they appear shiny and juicy.
Fabulous one layer card, Mary! That's not such an easy task ... and somehow, you make it look like your card has lots of layers!! Love all the fabulous pen work.


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Asus has taken on its official Twitter account to announce that it has started rolling out the Android 4.4 KitKat update to the Zenfone 4 smartphone. The device was the only one that was pending to receive the update. Though Taiwanese tech giant has not revealed when it will be rolling out this firmware update to the large screened Zenfone 5 and Zenfone 6 devices, it appears like the update has made its way to some of the devices.
It has been reported that the Zenfone lineup of devices receiving the Android 4.4 KitKat update will get call blocking, full dual standby for the dual SIM models, Do Not Disturb mode and video effects or filters. The update is also claimed to add customizable applications to the Quick Tool Box and Contacts, Call Logs, Messaging and Dialer applications to Extended Easy Mode for enhanced readability. Furthermore, it will bring extended Asus Zen UI Launcher that will include unread emails, unread messages and missed calls.
In addition, the update will bring automatic image stabilization and filter effects to videos to the camera and photo editing. Also, there is support for Data Transfer with the Data migration assistance to transfer the user data from other devices to the Zen devices with additional PC Link and Remote Link. There is support for Omlet Chat with Bbbler Actors emoticons. Other new features include user-adjustable widget transparency, Swipe to skip cards and Quick Action Button to what is next notification.