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Hi. I hope I'm posting this in the right place.
I'm currently investigating the possibility of implementing a new English language course in a rural school in northern India.
English is currently taught there, but the resources are scarce, limited to some seriously old-fashioned and sub-standard textbooks. However, the kids are enthusiastic and adept at languages - being Nepali by descent and Indian by birth, they speak both Hindi and Nepalese fluently.
Essentially, I'm cheekily calling on your expertise to seek a recommendation for what you consider to be the best integrated EFL course on the market, subject to my requirements (see below). I've researched it a little myself, but leaving aside my limited experience of TEFL, it's impossible to get a sense of which courses are better than others without using them in a classroom. So I would be ETERNALLY GRATEFUL for any help you could offer based on your practical experience (I wish I could offer something more valuable than upper-case e-gratitude, but all my money's going on this course!).
My key requirements are that the course be as culturally neutral as possible, and simple for the teacher to implement (although her standard of English is fairly good, I imagine she will be unfamiliar with a lot of the teaching practices and techniques of modern EFL courses; in short, the teacher's resources must be clear and easily graspable). The kids are aged 8-14, and the course needs to start from the beginning.
It also needs to be integrated; that is, it needs to work on its own, with as few other resources as possible (so it should include workbooks, tapes etc.).
Ideally, I'd also like a British English course, since that's what is typically used in India; however, if there's a particularly good AmEng course out there, I'd consider it.
Obviously, there aren't any computers, so anything involving IT as a fundamental component of the course is unsuitable. I intend to invest in a CD player, a TV and a DVD player for the school, so audio CDs and video DVDs are fine.
Finally, there are five classes in the school, so any course with at least five distinct levels would be an advantage.
I believe I've raised enough money to afford most of the courses out there, so while I hesitate to say 'money is no object', it's less of a priority than getting the most appropriate course out there.
With thanks again for any help you can offer,
HI Gavin,
Have you looked at the Cutting Edge series? It is used by a lot of language schools around the world, and whilst not being completely neutral in terms of culture, it does not preach a particular culture. What it does do, in relevant chapters, is to ask students to reflect on cultural differences.
Here is a link to the webpage: Cutting Edge
However, for the younger students, try the following: Longman English Language Teaching Catalogue - Course
Both series are published by Longman Pearson and their website will allow you to look at examples and possibly even print a chapter so that you can give it a go.
Otherwise, if you have the inclination, you could just get a copy of Practical English Usage and create your own activities using the information from the book as it covers almost every conceivable aspect of English relevant to learners.
Back to cultural neutrality, I think that most of the courses available are culturally bias at least in the fact that they espouse a communicative approach to learning as opposed to a proscriptive approach.
I am sorry that I cannot be of more help, but I have not taugh general English for a while now.
Good luck...
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The Salisbury University Foundation, Inc. was created in 1973 to accumulate funds, by gift and investment, and to foster, encourage and enrich the activities, educational programs, athletics and scholarships of SU. It is the intent of the Foundation to promote, sponsor and carry out educational, scientific and charitable purposes and objectives for the benefit of SU and its students. Through the generosity of major benefactors, corporations and foundations, faculty, staff, parents, alumni and friends, the Salisbury University Foundation is fulfilling its promise to the SU community.
A Brief History of the SU Foundation, Inc.
As an integral part of the Eastern Shore for over 80 years, Salisbury University has consistently adapted and developed to meet the needs of the area. Since 1973 the Salisbury University Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, has grown in importance in supporting the vital mission of SU. In its aim to provide educational excellence, the University has striven to provide up-to-date facilities, to recruit superior faculty, to develop innovative programs and to continue to pay personal attention to individual student needs - all hallmarks of a fine and progressive institution. That is why the work of the Salisbury University Foundation is so vital.
Through Foundation efforts, the generosity of major benefactors, corporations, foundations faculty, staff, parents, alumni and friends has provided the University with numerous educational advantages. These gifts provide scholarships and grants for research and funded visiting lecturers, cultural events and campus development programs. All four of the schools of Salisbury University are endowed: a rarity in higher education. The Foundation has also stewarded gifts which endow the theater program of SU as well as groundbreaking projects such as the Scarborough Student Leadership Center.


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There's something poignant about Thanksgiving to me. Amidst the chaos, my eyes are always open a little wider. I think it has to do with having everyone you love within
screaming hugging distance. Today, my mind is full of promises and truths. My faith adds another layer of wonderful to everyday, but especially on days like this when I feel the unity of our country acknowledging all they have to give thanks for.
These are a few of the things I am thankful for:
My fabulous, amazing, handsome, funny, crazy-smart, rockstar hubby, my precious children, my loving, devoted, fabulous parents, my wonderful giant family which I married into, my friends, my unbelievable amazing church family, our pastors, fantastic childrens ministries, and womens ministries, and outreach programs, living in the midwest, my nice warm home, cars that run and are paid for lol, my health and the health of all those people listed above, American soldiers, policemen, firefighters, all those people on duty today to make sure we're safe or healthy, the doctors and nurses at the hospitals and the volunteers at the shelters, yummy food to fill the tummys of those people above, books, family pets, my education and that of my kids. I'm thankful in advance for my little ones' future spouses and their future children, and I hope they will be as blessed in their marriages as I am. I'm thankful for my warm robe and comfy slippers, my crit partner and critique group, for the Internet and Twitter and all social media for making the world smaller, allowing me to see what my friends in other countries are doing, how they're celebrating and watch their children grow. My list can go on forever. There's simply not enough space, even on the web, to list all I am thankful for or what it means to me, but I can tell you where it comes from: my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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Brockton Walk-A-Thon Highlights Domestic Violence Issues
June 08, 2011
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Brockton resident Lovern Augustine and her mother Jennifer walked side-by-side from D.W. Field to the Raymond School as a statement against the continuation of a cycle that saw both mother and daughter become victims of domestic violence—a cycle both want to end with them.
"It has to stop," Augustine said, holding the hand of her 9-year-old daughter Lailah. "It has to stop for her," Augustine said.
Augustine and her 59-year-old mother Jenifer—who bears the scars of brutal machete attacks from her ex-husband-- joined about 30 other women, men and children for a 5K walk-a-thon Sunday, June 5 that began at Raymond Elementary School to increase awareness of domestic violence—called the "deadly and silent killer" by those who deal with the beatings, stabbings, shootings and other violence that plague relationships—both heterosexual and homosexual--across the country.
The walk, led by Councilor-at-large Jass Stewart, raised $1,250 for Penelope's Place—a confidential shelter for women fleeing violent relationships—and Family and Community Resources of Brockton which oversees Penelope's Place with Health Imperatives and offers a range of services for women, children and families who have faced a number of traumatic experiences, including domestic violence.
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If you know someone who loves fidget spinners, we have a class for them that's both fun and highly educational. At MODA, we're super excited about fidget spinners because they're so much fun to 3D print!
Fidget spinners are great for teaching and strengthening CAD design skills. In our 3D Printing Fidget Spinners class, students will dive into lessons on symmetry, tolerances, principles of physics that apply to spinners like inertia and rotation, and much more. Whether students are experienced designing with Tinkercad or completely new to CAD design, we'll make sure they have what it takes to design a unique spinner of their very own in the color of their choice. They'll be challenged to use some new tools specific to designing objects like fidget spinners. We'll also highlight the field of Industrial Design and learn about ergonomics.
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In the 1830s, when people traveled by foot, horse, stagecoach or boat, Illinois developed a railroad. It was ahead of its time.
Like others around the state, central Illinoisans wanted faster transportation to relieve their isolation and farmers wanted to get products to top markets in the south, according to Paul Angle's Here I Have Lived: A History of Lincoln's Springfield (Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, 1971).
So in 1837 the state legislature, which included Abraham Lincoln, passed an internal improvements plan that focused on railroad development. Later, lawmakers added some canal construction for those who thought waterways transportation was cheaper and longer lasting than the new, little-tested rails.
Then the national economy tanked and Illinois had to scale back its plans. It built only one railroad, and a shortened one at that. In 1837 construction began on the Northern Cross, a railroad that would bisect the middle of the state. Originally it was to run from Quincy to Indiana; instead it ran from the Illinois River town of Meredosia to Springfield.
Construction began in Meredosia in 1837. According to a history of the Wabash Railroad on the University of Missouri at St. Louis Web site, this was the first railroad built in the Mississippi Valley. (The Northern Cross eventually became the Wabash. It took four years to finish the tracks to Springfield. They ran up 10th Street and stopped at Adams Street, according to The History of Sangamon County (Inter-State Publishing Company, 1881).
On February 15, 1842, the locomotive "Illinois" steamed into town. "Hundreds of people from the surrounding country gathered along the tracks to see this marvel…, this huge piece of machinery which some said was to replace oxen and horses — they really could hardly believe that," wrote Helen Van Cleave Blankmeyer in The Sangamon Country (Sangamon County Historical Society, 1965).
Women and animals ran the other way, she said. "As for the horses, they were so terrified that they backed buggies, carryalls and wagons this way and that, broke their traces and galloped madly through the town and across fields…."
Shortly after the Northern Cross started running thrice weekly between Springfield and Meredosia, a group of Springfieldians, including Mary Lincoln and a band, visited Jacksonville — a $2.50 trip that took two hours and ten minutes one way, according to Angle. "A few weeks later Jacksonville returned the visit and two hundred guests sat down to 'a sumptuous supper' at the American House (one of the city's best hotels)," he wrote.
The railroad wasn't a success for local farmers, though. It wasn't sufficient to haul their loads and loads of crops to the best market at New Orleans. Soon, the Northern Cross disappointed casual travelers, too. Neither its tracks, engines, nor railroad car were built well and local blacksmiths weren't capable of repairing them. The result was railroad trips that were at times laborious and even injurious for passengers.
Pieces of the wooden rails curled over time as if pleading to the heavens for respite. These so-called "snake heads" occasionally poked through the train floor — and into unsuspecting riders, according to Angle. If they weren't jabbed by a snake head, passengers might be propelled "half the length of the car" by the jerky, halting engines.
The steam engines devoured wood and water. When supplies ran out, the train stopped and riders had to hop off and chop wood or haul water, sometimes from far-flung wells. A variety of mechanical problems stalled the railroad for hours at times.
A little more than two years after it entered Springfield, the poorly-made and worn-out Northern Cross came to a permanent halt. The state had leased it to several operators and tried to sell it, with no luck. One last lessee substituted the broken-down locomotive with mules and hauled an occasional car of freight.
According to an article on the Illinois State Museum's Web site, by 1847 the state was able to offload it to a buyer for a fraction (one-fortieth) of its original cost.
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A Greenpeace Europe update:
Last week we broke the shocking story about what actually happens to electronic waste in Europe; instead of being safely recycled in the UK or Europe where it is bought, much of it is instead being exported as 'second-hand goods' to places like Nigeria, China and India. Once there it's either sold for scrap, illegally dumped, or broken apart for recycling by some of the poorest people in the country, with no safety measures to protect them from the dangerous toxic chemicals like mercury, cadmium and lead which the e-waste contains.
Greenpeace supporters around the world were asked to help do something about this by targeting electronics giant Philips who, since 2007, have been taking a lead in actively opposing laws that would force electronics producers to accept financial responsibility for recycling their own products. Instead they've been insisting that their customers should bear the cost.
But earlier this week, following some protracted negotiations (aided by several actions and a whopping 47,000 emails from Greenpeace supporters around the world which flooded the inbox of CEO Gerard Kleisterlee), the company announced a dramatic u-turn in its e-waste recycling policy.
Effectively, Philips has now agreed to take responsibility for the cost of recycling its own products. These costs will no longer be paid directly by its customers through an additional fixed fee, but instead come closer to being part of the overall product price. This is a big step forward, and makes Philips a new green leader in the electronics sector.
Philips' new commitment to a financially sensible recycling policy, together with the simple step of taking back its obsolete products and recycling them properly everywhere, is likely to substantially improve its ranking in our next Guide to Greener Electronics. And the company surprised us by announcing another important move: it also agreed to make substantial cuts in its own greenhouse gas emissions and support a 30 per cent emissions reduction for industrial nations by 2020.
All of which is not only good news for consumers but also for the environment, because recycling costs are influenced by the amount of toxic chemicals present in products and how easy it is to recycle them. Producers like Philips now have the added incentive to develop cleaner, more recyclable products that will reduce recycling costs now that they are paying for the collection and recycling of their own products. Producer responsibility is crucial to the greener development of the electronics industry.
So a big thank you is in order to all of you who helped make this victory possible by writing to Mr Kleisterlee and demanding that Philips do the right thing. And rest assured that we'll be keeping up the pressure on other electronics companies to follow Philips' lead over the coming months.


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April 17, 2013
Abbott Recalls FreeStyle lnsulinx® Blood Glucose Meters in the United States
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services received information regarding a recall of FreeStyle lnsulinx® Blood Glucose Meters in the United States.
The company has determined that at extremely high blood glucose levels of 1024 mg/dL and above, the FreeStyle lnsulinx Meter will display and store in memory an incorrect test result that is 1024 mg/dL below the measured result. For example, at a blood glucose value of 1066 mg/dL, the meter will display and store a value of 42 mg/dL (1066 mg/dL - 1024 mg/dL = 42 mg/dL). No other Abbott blood glucose meters are impacted by this issue.
Blood glucose levels at 1024 mg/dL and above are very rare. However, if high blood glucose levels of 1024 mg/dL and above do occur, they are a serious health risk and require immediate medical attention. As the FreeStyle lnsulinx Meter can display an inaccurate low result at a blood glucose level above 1024 mg/dL, there may be a delay in the identification and treatment of severe hyperglycemia, or incorrect treatment may be given. This could lead to serious injury or death.
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Country vocal quartet Little Big Town began with Kimberly Roads and Karen Fairchild, two Georgia natives who began singing together in college. Arkansas-born and Alabama-raised Jimi Westbrook, a friend of Fairchild's husband, joined them to make a trio, and the group was completed by the addition of Arkansan Phil Sweet in 1998. From the outset, Little Big Town devoted their sound to harmony and multiple lead vocals, a combination that made the band a hard sell at first. They finally landed a deal at Mercury Records, but it fell through due to disagreements about musical direction. In the wake of the success of the Dixie Chicks, however, Little Big Town suddenly seemed a more likely commercial proposition, and they were taken up by the Dixie Chicks' label, Monument Records, in 2000.
Recording sessions lasted longer than usual for a country release, but Monument finally issued the band's debut single, "Don't Waste My Time," in the winter of 2002. The song was on its way up the charts when its accompanying album, Little Big Town, arrived in May. Although the debut produced several minor hits, Little Big Town didn't become a superstar act until 2005, when The Road to Here yielded four Top 20 singles (including the ballad "Bring It on Home") and earned the group its first platinum record. A Place to Land followed in 2007 and netted three singles, none of which made it into the Top 30, but the band's profile continued to grow due to incessant touring and supporting acts from Sugarland to Carrie Underwood. Fairchild also guested with John Mellencamp on his album Life Death Love and Freedom. In May of 2010 "Little White Church" appeared as a single that peaked at number 14 on the Billboard country chart; in August of that year, Little Big Town's fourth studio album, The Reason Why, was released by Capitol.
The band returned in 2012 with the single "Pontoon," which wound up topping Billboard's country chart. The band's fifth full-length album, Tornado, followed in September 2012. It was their first release to be produced by ex-In Pursuit member Jay Joyce, and it became their highest-placed album on the Billboard 200 up to that point, reaching number two. Joyce was retained for their next album's sessions and the resulting record, Pain Killer, appeared in October 2014, preceded by the single "Day Drinking." That single went to four on Billboard's Hot Country chart but it was soon overshadowed by the ballad "Girl Crush," which topped the Hot Country chart and crossed over into the pop Top 20 on its way toward winning two Grammy Awards in 2015. Little Big Town capitalized on this crossover by collaborating with Pharrell Williams for Wanderlust, a brief album that appeared with short notice in June 2016. Little Big Town returned to country in early 2017 with The Breaker, an album that featured the Taylor Swift-written single "Better Man." The set debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 and topped the country chart. They promoted the effort with tours in the U.S. and U.K., with support from Kacey Musgraves, Midland, and Seth Ennis. In the midst of a 2018 summer tour with Miranda Lambert, the band issued the breezy single "Summer Fever" and in the spring of 2019 they released the powerful "Daughters." ~ William Ruhlmann
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First Look At Microsoft Silverlight 3
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Martin Heller finds Silverlight 3 gaining ground on Adobe Flash, Flex, and AIR in all the areas where Silverlight 2 had lagged. No longer do developers need to build desktop WPF apps based loosely on corresponding Silverlight RIAs, as Silverlight 3 adds the ability to install Silverlight apps on the desktop, update them in place, detect Net connectivity state changes, and store data locally and securely. Moreover, solid Expression Blend 3 and Visual Studio 2010 betas provide developers with much improved tools to create Silverlight RIAs. '"I do not expect many Adobe shops to give up their Flash, Flex, and AIR for Silverlight 3. I do expect many M|cr0s0ft shops to do more RIAs with Silverlight now that it's more capable and to create lightweight browser/desktop Silverlight 3 applications where they might have fashioned heavier-weight Windows Forms or WPF client applications," Heller says.'"
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The Aeneid Notes & Analysis
The free The Aeneid notes include comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. These free notes consist of about 70 pages (20,782 words) and contain the following sections:
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The Aeneid Plot Summary
The epic begins on the high seas where Juno stirs up a storm to keep Aeneas and the Trojans from their fated home of Italy. Neptune stops the storm and they wash up, splitting into two groups on the shore of Africa near Carthage. Venus, Aeneas' mother asks him for assurances that the Trojans' suffering will stop and he prophesies the founding of Rome. Venus helps her son into the city of Carthage and he watches his lost companions meet Queen Dido. Aeneas is uncovered from his disguise and reunited with his companions. Venus sends Cupid to Dido so that she will fall in love with Aeneas.
Aeneas tells Dido the story of the fall of Troy. The Greeks built a giant wooden horse and left a man behind to convince the Trojans to bring it inside the city. Once inside the city walls, the Greek army snuck out of the horse and began to sack the city. Aeneas woke with a vision of a dead hero and rushed out. With companions, he witnessed the death of many. He rushed back to his house and took his son and father with him leading his wife behind him. He lost her in the city and when he goes back to find her, her ghost tells him to go to Italy. The Trojan refugees sailed to Thrace and were sent off by a dead comrade. In Crete, the statues of their ancestors came alive. They went to the island of the Harpies and were given a dire prophecy. Finally they arrived at an island ruled by a Trojan. He prophesied for them and told them of many things to come: where they would find their new home and how to get there. Aeneas' father dies when they stop in Sicily. They sailed away and ended up in the storm
Dido is love struck by the Trojan hero. Juno tries to make a treaty with Venus to keep the pair together. They arrange for a hunting party during which the two sleep together. Dido thinks this is a marriage. Jupiter has Aeneas ordered to leave for Italy. When Dido finds out that he is leaving, she goes crazy. He must leave swiftly. She begs him, but he will not stay. As he sails away, she kills herself.
They return to Sicily and have funeral games for Aeneas' father. There is a galley race, a foot race, a boxing match and an archery contest. During the children's display, Juno inspired the Trojan women to set the ships on fire. Jupiter puts out the fire with rain but four ships are lost. Aeneas must leave many of the women and the old men in Sicily. They sail to Italy and Aeneas finds the Sibyl who instructs him how to get to the underworld. They descend together and Aeneas meets many people he knew, including Dido. She doesn't talk to him. He finds his father and is told the future of his descendants as they look on the souls waiting for a second chance at life. Aeneas returns to the upper world and sails to the mouth of the Tiber River.
Here his men make camp and he sends envoys to the local leader Latinus who means to have his daughter marry Aeneas. His wife, however, and her chosen son-in-law Turnus, oppose this. As the Latins argue among themselves, Juno creates a conflict and has Aeneas' son kill the pet deer of a Latin native. This escalates into a war as Latinus' people join in and call their allies. The river Tiber feels sorry for Aeneas so he advises him that there is a tribe of people upriver who will help him in the battle. Aeneas goes upstream to King Evander and his son Pallas. They welcome him and offer their help. Evander admits, however, that he can't give them too much help so he sends them further upstream to a tribe of Tuscans who have a grudge against some of the Latins.
While Aeneas is away, the Latins attack his camp. The Trojans are besieged and they fight gallantly to hold their walls. The Latins rest for the night. During the night, two of the Trojans try to escape and tell Aeneas what has happened, but they are killed. In the morning, Turnus tries to have the ships burned but they turn into nymphs. Aeneas gets the help of the Tuscans and is sailing back to the mouth of the river when one of the nymphs tells him that his camp is besieged. He rushes back and they enter battle. Many men are killed and eventually Pallas falls at the hand of Turnus. Juno takes Turnus away from the battle to protect him. Aeneas rages and then holds a funeral for Pallas.
The Latins debate ending the war, but Turnus decides he cannot bear to give up Lavinia. They attack the city and the warrior-virgin Camilla holds many of them off. Many Trojans die before she is killed. The Trojans push up to the Latins' wall and almost take it. The next day Turnus offers himself in a one-on-one match to end the battle. When the match comes, however, Juno has Turnus' nymph sister inspire the men to break the truce. There is another great battle and Aeneas is wounded. His mother eventually heals his wound. He returns to battle and fights, pushing ever closer to the walls of the city. Turnus overcomes his sister and calls for the match. He is beaten quickly. When he asks Aeneas for mercy, the Trojan considers, but he sees Pallas' belt on Turnus and kills him in a blind rage.