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Description of the test
A computerized tomography scan (CT or CAT scan) is a test that produces a series of X-ray images of the body. The CT scanner passes X-rays through the body and produces cross-sectional pictures so each picture is a "slice" of the body. The images can be combined by a computer to create three dimensional images of internal organs and body structures.
The CT scan produces images that are more detailed than conventional X-ray films. Compared to plain X-rays, CT scans allow doctors to better detect and localize abnormalities of the various organs and tissues of the body using extremely accurate images.
How often should the test be performed?
Your doctor will recommend when and how frequently this test is required.
Why is this test performed?
CT scans are performed to help the doctor to study various parts of the body and identify and monitor medical problems.
CT scans can be performed for many areas of the body, including the:
- head and neck, which can reveal injuries, tumours, strokes, infections, bleeding, and blood vessel abnormalities
- spine, which may show fractures, tumours, weakened bones, or deformities
- chest, which can reveal infection, tumours, and bulges in blood vessels (aneurysms)
- abdomen and pelvis, which may show infections, injuries, tumours, and inflammatory conditions
CT scans can also be used to help doctors perform medical procedures or treatments that require high accuracy. Examples of these medical procedures include surgery, biopsies, radiation therapy, removal of fluid from organs, and drainage of abscesses.
Are there any risks and precautions?
Although a CT scan is considered safe, it does have some risk of side effects or complications because it involves radiation exposure. Though rare, side effects or complications include:
- radiation exposure: This can potentially increase your risk of developing cancer, but the valuable information obtained generally outweighs the risks. The risk is higher in children, young adults, and people who have had multiple radiation tests. A CT scan is usually not performed during pregnancy because of the risks to the developing fetus. If you are or may be pregnant, inform your doctor and discuss all the risks and benefits of a CT scan, as well as other alternatives such as ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
- allergic reaction to the dye used for some CT scans: Most of these reactions are mild and only result in hives or itchiness, but in rare cases they may become life-threatening. A radiologist or technologist will ask you about your medical history and allergies to determine if you are at risk of having an allergic reaction.
- kidney damage caused by contrast dye: This may be a risk for people with poor kidney function, heart disease, asthma, dehydration, diabetes, or who are taking metformin. If you have diabetes or kidney problems, talk to your doctor before having a CT scan.
CT scans may possibly interfere with medical devices such as pacemakers and insulin pumps.
What happens during the test?
This test is painless. You will be asked to lie very still on a table. The table will pass through a doughnut-shaped machine. This machine will rotate around the table to take many X-ray images at different angles.
The test will take 30 to 60 minutes depending on the part of the body being examined. A technologist will be available to you through an intercom.
Sometimes, a dye containing iodine is injected into the blood during a CT scan. The dye can also be taken by mouth or through a rectal tube. The dye helps make blood vessels and certain organs in the body more visible for the CT pictures.
How should I prepare for this test?
Before having this test, discuss the advantages, disadvantages, long-term risks, and consequences associated with the test with your doctor. Be sure you fully understand what will happen and are comfortable with your doctor's answers to your questions.
Your doctor may tell you not to eat or drink fluids for a few hours before the test, depending on which part of your body is being scanned. For some CT scans, you may be required to take a laxative or use an enema. You may be asked to arrive early for your scheduled appointment to be given a dye to improve the clarity of the X-ray images. The dye may be given by intravenous injection, by mouth, or into the rectum.
You might feel cold lying on the CT table. Other people feel anxious or claustrophobic inside the scanner. If this happens, you might be given a sedative to help you relax.
Tell your doctor or prescriber about all prescription, over-the-counter (non-prescription), and herbal medications that you are taking. Also tell them about any medication allergies and medical conditions that you may have.
Ask your doctor or pharmacist whether you need to stop taking any of your medications before the test.
You will be asked to remove all metal objects before having the scan, including jewellery. These objects interfere with the clarity of the X-ray images.
What can I expect after the test?
You can return to your normal activities after the CT scan has been completed.
If you have received a sedative to help you relax during the scan, you should not drive until the effects of the sedative wear off. Therefore, you may need someone to take you home. If you were given a contrast dye, you may be told to drink lots of fluids to help your body flush out the material.
The results of the CT scan are images that can be displayed on a computer screen or permanently recorded on film. The radiologist will review the scan and send a report to your doctor. Sometimes a specialist will also review your scans. It may take several days to prepare the complete report before it is sent to your doctor.
Ask your doctor when your test results should be available. Your doctor can discuss these with you.
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THE law will not be changed to allow banks increase consumer charges without Central Bank permission, the Department of Finance has decided.
At the moment under the Consumer Credit Act banks have to apply to the regulators in the Central Bank if they want to imposed higher fees and charges on consumers for banking services.
AIB, Bank of Ireland and the Irish Banking Federation wanted this requirement changed.
But the Department of Finance published a review of the issue this morning and said this was not the right time to give banks freedom to set their own fees.
The Government had promised to review so-called Section 149 of the Consumer Credit Act after being asked to do so by the bail-out troika.
"The main conclusion of the review is that it would not be appropriate to repeal Section 149 at this point in time," the department said.
"The lack of competition in the banking sector means that the removal of section 149 would give unfettered price setting power to the incumbent banks. However, this conclusion should be revisited when competition in the banking sector has improved."

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I cleaned out the fridge. It was gross... like, really, really, really gross.
I recorded 10 HOURS of The Pacific for my dad.
I did 2 loads of dishes.
I ignored the laundry... again.
I put the premiers of 5 summer shows on my Google calendar. Seriously.
I screamed at my kids. They just aren't listening today, and I'm counting down until bedtime. Hopefully we'll have a better day tomorrow.
I watched Precious and regretted it. It was good but stressful- why don't I just stick with RomComs!?
I FINALLY made a two week meal plan with themed nights a la The Food Nanny.
I froze a BRAND NEW Magic Shell bottle with the ice cream I bought at the same time.
I took a shower- whoo hoo!
I bared my white ass legs to the newfound Alaskan sunshine... but then I forgot to go outside.
What did YOU do today!?
Monday, May 31, 2010
What I Did Today
I cleaned out the fridge. It was gross... like, really, really, really gross.
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Friday, May 28, 2010
Dirty Little Secrets
Yesterday I did a huge wash of the kids' clothes. As I put it in the dryer I realized that I forgot to put soap in the wash. I dried them anyway.
As much as I love my new cup solution I still have to hand wash the cups every night which blows since I get hand washing. I stuck them in the dishwasher hoping they wouldn't melt and break my dishwasher again and it worked!! I may have done a happy dance at this point.
I left my cell phone at my parents' house and didn't even miss it. I've been drooling over an iPhone and how much I NEED one, and it turns out I don't really use my phone that much at all.
My sister made me do day one of Couch to 5K and I considered running away from home. I would have if I wasn't so tired of running at that point.
While we ran around my neighborhood I fantasized about having the money, time, and drive to have a nice yard like my neighbors. My yard looks like an abandoned yarbage (yard garbage) sale... or the remnants of a cheap plastic toy factory after a tornado.
I keep forgetting to set the parental controls on the kids' computer in the play room. Sweetie Pie is no longer allowed to Google thanks to the "HORS GAMES" search a few months ago and I trust her to go only go to her bookmarked sites, but even Disney leads to Disney XD which leads to God knows what when you click on the ads.
I canceled our Netflix subscription but they sent me my new movie anyway. I have 30 days to return it before they charge my credit card for it, and I plan on holding onto it for a good 3 weeks just because I can. I'm a rebel like that... Anyone want to borrow Precious!?
I'm pretty sure a bomb went off in my playroom. It's so bad that I couldn't even attempt to clean it for Little Man's birthday party. I just shut the door.
What's your dirty little secret?
Do you have a mountain of laundry piled up to be washed or folded?
Give your kids baby wipe baths?
Lock yourself in the bathroom with a magazine to get two seconds of "me" time?
Yeah... I don't do any of those things either... I just heard of someone else doing them. Yup. It surely wasn't me.
Share your own confessions in the comments!
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Three Things
My house is a disaster, plain and simple. I walk from room to room and make a million mental notes about what needs to be picked up, vacuumed, wiped off and sanitized. The problem is that even when I am in the mood to clean house I have two hours at the most and it's just a drop in the bucket when it comes to this place. I'd need two DAYS at least, preferably with two willing helpers to keep me from sitting down and getting on Facebook.
I get so overwhelmed with the thought of cleaning up the house that I just block it out and do nothing. Actually, I've been keeping up on the dishes, and a few days ago I had ALL the laundry done, but all the other rooms of the house could use some TLC.
Last night I made a list of the three things that were bothering me the most: the entryway mess, the garbage cans around the house, and the two calls that I'm still putting off from 2 weeks ago. That's going to be my focus today! I'm really glad that I didn't make the list of the million things that need to be done since I woke up feeling like I got punched in the head repeatedly last night thanks to a sinus headache. It's only three things, so it's not overwhelming, and they're the three that are bugging me, so I'll notice my progress right away. I have a million other things to check off my mental list, but a million divided by three is still less than a million.
Once my three things are done I'll feel like I've accomplished something and can spend the whole afternoon on Facebook if I wanted to. Well, I'd probably do that anyway, I would just feel guilty about it. Feeling guilty about eating an entire package of cookies sounds way more fun anyway!
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
A Cup A Day Keeps The Dishes Away!
I've learned a few things these last few weeks without a dishwasher. I never quite realized how many cups my kids went through until I had to painstakingly wash every.single.one. Even now that my dishwasher is fixed I feel like I need to reign in the cup situation since it's just out of control. I have 3 kids that eat 3 meals a day plus 2 snacks, all with drinks. Mr. Wright and I usually use 2-3 cups each a day also, adding up to a mind boggling 20ish cups PER DAY. I'm not a huge fan of doing dishes obviously, so if I let them stack up for 2 days then that's almost 40 FREAKING CUPS. And yes, we have that many cups. Sad, isn't it!?
A few weeks ago (in the middle of the dishwasher crisis) I was inspired my my friend who decided that every day each kid would get ONE cup. I had no choice but to apply it to our family too. I let the kids know that after each meal it was their responsibility to put it in the sink so I could rinse it out to reuse it later. We use plastic disposable 'party' cups so that I could clearly write their names so no one would be confused or passing blame. Every(ish) night I wash the cups just like real cups and put them back in the stack to get used again. I have about 3 cups for each kid since I suck at doing dishes (and sometimes enforcing the "put it in the sink" policy) but even then it cuts down on total cups.
Yes, I wish that we could be a normal family and reuse real cups, or I could keep up with that crazy amount of cups. Yes, I know that disposable cups are bad for the environment, but if I reuse them as long as they hold up I figure that it's better than running a full 'all cups' load of dishes every night. But for now this, and my sanity, Works For Me.
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One Of Those Days
I thought I was prepared for Summer... that is until I went to get dressed this morning. My pants (fresh from the dryer) were a little tight and I literally pulled a muscle in my back when I securely fastened them. I'm fairly sure that I'm the only person on the planet to injure themselves getting dressed. Seriously, it's hard to even admit that on the internet.
My mom called right about then to let me know that I had left my cell phone in her car. 90 minutes away. And she's not coming in for 3 more days. And it was ringing. FANTASTIC.
My muffin top and I then proceeded to get my three homeless looking munchkins halfway presentable and put them in the car. But the carseats were missing. I tracked down the carseats, dragged them through the driveway and installed them. I HATE putting carseats in. I'd rather change three poopy diapers than put a carseat in. Maybe even four.
I got all the kids buckled up, backed
over at least 2 plastic shovels out of the garage and fight to get my garage door opener to shut the door for 20 minutes. It would have been a lot easier if I hadn't have pulled that muscle getting my pants on.
I guess I'm just planning on ignoring my chores this afternoon, reading my new library book, resting my sore muscle and waiting for the Biggest Loser finale tonight. Hopefully tomorrow will start out a little better... or I'm going to have to buy some bigger pants!
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
My Favorite Things
I'm in super homeschool mode right now, so I'm really excited to try this rainbow measuring activity from Mama Jenn!
I will never in a million years get around to making this fabric magnetic meal planner for my fridge, but I think it's adorable!
We're also committing to "unplug it" one day a week this summer. There is no way Mr. Wright will be able to go without Sportscenter for a WHOLE DAY, so ours will only apply to the daytime, but if I tie it into our library day I'm sure we can make it!
I thought this baby doll washing activity looked like fun! Little Man can surely find a plastic toy of some sort to wash if he objects to soaping up a baby...
I think all my kids will enjoy sewing up the sides of some punched foam sheets like this activity from Skip To My Lou!
I really need to clear off my craft table so I can start sewing again, then my favorite things will be more crafty!
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Saturday, May 22, 2010
What I've Been Up To
Whew! The last few weeks have just been a whirlwind and I'm finally catching my breath! My friend's husband Mr. Awesome came over and fixed my dishwasher on Wednesday so I am finally out of the deserted land of hand-washing dishes. I'll NEVER take my dishwasher for granted again! I'm so thankful to have her back in tip-top shape that I've even been keeping up with the dishes!
Sweetie Pie had her last day of school on Thursday and is enjoying playing with her brother and sister in our Alaskan heatwave of 60 degrees. I still haven't gotten to stay home all day in my jammies, but I believe in always striving for a hefty goal, so I'll try my hardest to get my jammie day!
Today I spent a good chunk of time planning the kids' "summer homeschool" to keep them from getting bored and me from going crazy. They beg to do homeschool and love challenging themselves so I'm excited to get started on Monday. I started planning by making a list of all the things that each kid needed to work or keep up on (handwriting, subtraction, etc.) and then I'll print games, activities and worksheets that work on those skills.
Boo will be three in a few weeks so her activities are mostly to expose her to things she will learn in the future, but I think it's important to let her be part of the fun! We're also going to do weekly library trips, art projects and cooking/baking that she can be involved in.
Little Man just turned five last week and his activities will be heavy with kindergarten preparation since he needs to learn something a few times before it really sinks in.
Sweetie Pie is six and just finished kindergarten. Her activities will be a review of kindergarten level and an introduction of some first grade topics.
All three kids will do age appropriate computer games to keep them busy while I'm helping someone else and if I can get my crap together in time I'd love to even include some small, informal field trips.
I'm excited to watch my little monkeys learn and grow over the summer and am looking forward to spending more time with Sweetie Pie every day!
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Monday, May 17, 2010
Today I'm avoiding the mess left over from Little Man's birthday.
I'm avoiding the dishes since I'm still hand washing.
I'm avoiding the laundry that's probably starting to mildew in the washer.
I'm avoiding making two phone calls that I don't want to make.
I'm avoiding cleaning up my yard that is so filled with kids' toys it looks like a garage sale.
I'm avoiding cleaning off my craft table despite my yearning to do something crafty this week.
I'm avoiding making big choices.
I'm avoiding cleaning the playroom. Again.
I'm avoiding washing the MOUNTAIN of clothes in the kids' room that Boo kindly pulled out of all the drawers.
I'm avoiding cleaning out my freezer.
And I'm avoiding making a to do list of more things to avoid.
What are you avoiding!?
I'd love to hear your answers while I wait for our invisible maid to show up!
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Friday, May 14, 2010
Love & Hate
I love my blog. It makes me feel good when lots of people read what I wrote. I'm addicted to my stat tracker. But I also hate my blog. Sometimes it feels like one more thing I have to do, and that's no fun. Add that to swimming lessons, volunteering, HAND WASHING the dishes that I couldn't even keep up with when I had a dishwasher (it bit the big one this week), laundry, picking up after 3 kids who were born in a barn, field trips, birthday planning, crafting AND watching ALL 60 hours of stuff on my DVR before we switch providers and I'm surprised I still have time to eat cookies.
Every mom struggles with balance, and lately my blog (and Facebook games! :O ) just haven't made the cut. Sweetie Pie is done with school for the year next week, so hopefully then I'll have a spot open for blogging!
Until then!
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Stress Math
In the next 18 hours I need to:
pack 3 kids under 6 for a 4 day, 3 night road trip
take 2 kids to swimming lessons
cook up and freeze 5 lbs of ground beef
wash, dry, and fold 4 loads of laundry
clear off 3 counters
do 1 load of dishes
get 7 hours of sleep
make 4 beds
load 1 car
strap in 3 carseats
celebrate that for the first time I'm bringing 0 diapers on this annual trip
take 2 Tylenol...
And then the REAL fun begins!
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Monday, May 3, 2010
So. Freaking. Tired.
After almost a week my Grandma's 5000 square foot house is almost completely empty. I think everyone in my family is ready for a 3 month vacation (at least!). My own house looks like a tornado went right through since I've been bringing stuff home from my Grandma's house and from the garage sale at midnight and throwing everything everywhere. I tried to put some work in on my own house today, but after 90 minutes of unwrapping and sorting Grandma's dishes I got sidetracked and sat down. And then sat some more. Wishing I had some cookies. Or a chocolate malt.
I get to relax for a whole two seconds before I start to prepare for our out of town trip starting on Thursday. I LOVE car trips with small kids...
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The primary purpose of our career counseling at Espire Education is to understand and explore the career requirement of students who are looking for higher studies abroad. Thus providing professional assistance and helping students organize their thoughts and ideas about career choices and professional goals. With our counseling, students are able to find best international universities & colleges and courses. Students further pursue higher study abroad without any difficulties in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, UK, Europe, USA, and many other countries.
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British, 20th century, male.
Born 6 November 1944, in Glasgow.
Performance artist, painter, sculptor, installation artist, printmaker, ceramicist.
Conceptual Art, Land Art.
Bruce McLean studied at Glasgow School of Art (1961-1963), and at St Martins School of Art in London (1963-1966) under Anthony Caro, Phillip King and William Tucker. He has taught at the Croydon School of Art (...


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Stevie Wonder: We Can Work It Out
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This selection is a little off the original train of thought for our new theme: work. Still, my choice complies with the theme in that it includes the word <work> in the title.
Whereas I had initially thought this week's theme would provoke musical ideas about employment, I found myself thinking repeatedly about the Beatles' "We can Work It Out".
By 1965, when Rubber Soul came out, the Beatles:
By 1965, when Rubber Soul came out, the Beatles:
- Were an established hit band
- Had been to the US on tour
- Appear to have been inclined to alternative sounds (their India contacts start at about this time and I think you can sense it in Rubber Soul)
Two years ago, I was lucky to catch the initial round of "The Beatles Complete on Ukulele", when Roger Greenawalt and crew were giving away their collection for free (it is still a free listen but no longer a free download). The Beatles' Rubber Soul album is one of my all-time favorite albums. It's an album that contains several personal preferences and seems to me to mark a turning point in pop music (what else was "hot" in '65?)
There are YouTube versions of the original masters doing their thing: Lennon tickling a (more orless) pre-electric organ in one. But the version that I chose here carries so much more value to me. Without making my voting preferences too blatantly obvious (among the available options, of course), there are several things that caught my attention here:
Mr Obama (and even more so Mrs O) are clearly groovin' on the sounds (with Paul sitting right next to POTUS). More importantly, there is the underlying message that fits with Obama's message of Hope : We can "work it out." Throughout this version, I get the feeling that the timing isn't quite right – but it works out all the same.


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He remembered all his days with the young man, training him, bringing him along in his understanding of the elven way of seeing the world, and teaching him bi'nelle dasada.
Juraviel dared to ask, "For did he not fail in his vow as ranger, in teaching bi'nelle dasada?"
But then Juraviel remembered the first time he had seen the two fighting together within bi'nelle dasada, battling goblins on a hillock above a trapped wagon caravan.
"Jilseponie is strong and swift with the sword, strong in bi'nelle dasada, as was her teacher," Dasslerond explained.
He understood that the young man hadn't intentionally said anything wrong, but the mere mention of bi'nelle dasada, the secret elven fighting technique, opened a wound.
Inside she was the gentle huntress, the friend of deer and rabbit, and yet she was also a savage warrior, able to turn on primal instincts for survival when the elves brought her out for training in bi'nelle dasada.
This was bi'nelle dasada; and in it, the only movement in the retreat was in the legs, while the torso remained balanced and on center.
She felt bi'nelle dasada flowing through her again, for the first time since that awful day, but instead of bringing back all the bad memories and fears and sense of loss, it felt to Pony as if she were with her lover again.
"Perhaps you and she can find a way to adapt the To-gai-ru riding style with bi'nelle dasada."
"I expect much from one who has learned bi'nelle dasada," she said.


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So you've decided it's time to separate from your current spouse but you're wondering what will happen to all the accounts in your name. What about the mortgage, the checking accounts, the credit cards? What will your credit rating look like when it's all said and done?
The first thing you should do while filing the papers is to start separating your money. Have an open and frank conversation with your soon to be ex about what you will each be responsible for when things are finally done and be sure to keep it civil. If you need money in the meantime, avoid opening up any more credit cards or ushering in more debt. If it really comes down to the wire, consider using payday loans through providers like Wonga.com with the intention of paying them back quickly.
While you may not want to be the one to make the first move and file first, you should consider the advantages of doing so. Filing first will prevent your spouse from hiding important assets or selling them off to relatives until the divorce is final. As well, you'll also be sure that you have access to your funds; the last thing you want is a spouse draining your joint checking before you've had a chance to work things out.
Attorneys and legal fees are expensive, and while there's not a whole lot you can do to stop the fees from piling up, it should be something you're expecting. Set aside money if you have the chance so you're less likely to resort to drastic measures when the payments come due. Remember you'll be living on one salary again, so don't expect to have a large sum lying around.
If you're not expecting a clean-cut divorce, prepare yourself not to give in. Relationship issues tend to bring out the worst in everyone and if your spouse is trying to take you for all you've got, don't settle for what you're getting to get it all over with. It might make for a messy legal battle, but you deserve your fair share of the life you've made together.
That being said, don't try to take your spouse for everything they've got. While things obviously aren't peachy between you given the whole divorce thing, you must have at one point (and probably to an extent still do) cared about this person. There's a lot to be said for taking the high road and truly going for what's fair for the both of you.
The most important thing to take care of, however, is to separate any assets that you both share. If you're joint owners on a checking account, set up a new one and start to use that. Don't continue to use money that's involved in both of your names, especially credit that can create debt for your significant other. Have a chat and make sure they understand to do the same.
There's never a perfect way to file for a divorce. But with a little planning and some intense soul-searching, the financial part of your divorce will be the least of your worries.


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Olie Kolzig Bobblehead Being Given Away at March 23rd Blood Drive
Photo credit: Inova Blood Donor Services Facebook page
On March 23rd, Inova Blood Donor Services is holding another blood drive at Kettler Capitals Iceplex. If you've never considered donating blood before, this might be the perfect time to do it. Why? Because the giveaway is awesome. Anyone who donates blood will receive an Olie Kolzig bobblehead. And I'm talking a realistic Kolzig bobblehead, not this weird, green-faced alien one I got 15 years ago which scares little children.
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This portrait of Muybridge is from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It was acquired in 1991. I have never seen this image in print. The catalogue details are as follows:
Eadweard J. Muybridge
Eadweard J. Muybridge, American, 1830–1904
Image (oval): 8.6 x 5.5 cm (3 3/8 x 2 3/16 in.)
Mount: 10.6 x 6.3 cm (4 3/16 x 2 1/2 in.)
Photograph, albumen print
Inscriptions: Inscription: signed verso, in ink (faded to gray), across top: E. J. Muybridge, printed in red ink around edges of card: Helios' Flying Studio/ Edw. J. Muybridge, Photographic View Artist/ 12 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. Additional text printed in red ink on recto (lower margin) and on verso of card.
Classification: Photographs. Type, sub-type: carte-de-visite
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Source unidentified, 1991. Accession number: 1991.435. Provenance/Ownership History: Acquired May 1991.
[Note: This image is copyright Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Reproduced here for educational/personal use.]
For more studio portraits of Muybridge see my PORTRAITS webpage.


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We are celebrating our 6th birthday this week.
Although NW Law itself is only young, collectively we have over 100 years of experience in personal injury litigation.
Every birthday, it's nice to take stock of what's happened to us over the years—both within NW Law and outside of the company, in the law in general.
I set up on my own on 28th April 2008 with the intention of creating the kind of firm that I would like to be a part of: one where the clients get the treatment they deserve.
I had previously worked at both small and larger firms and wanted to take the best bits of each and create something different: a supportive, friendly firm where people could flourish.
At NW Law, we really are a family. We believe that our clients deserve a friendly, personal service. There is a saying that if your staff are happy then your clients will be happy. I firmly believe that to be true.
I am proud to see what we have achieved in the last six years. I have personally completed a postgraduate qualification in legal management and received an award for being "outstanding" from the Association of Women Solicitors. I have stood as the regional co-ordinator for the Motor Accident Solicitors Society and continue to work with them, fighting for the rights of accident victims.
Fighting to put the record straight.
Over the last couple of years, I have been dismayed to see the battering that the government has laid out at the request of the insurers.
In my opinion, insurance companies are simply self serving money making machines. They do not care about the man who cannot feed his family because he is out of work due to an accident or the person whose life has been shattered by a head injury. They care about money and their shareholders.
The media image of a compensation culture is scare mongering and is simply not borne out by the facts.
Various figures are bandied about by the newspapers about how much car insurance has gone up due to whiplash claims but when the costs were reduced by 60% 18 months ago, have the premiums dropped by that much? Of course they haven't. One insurer reported a drop of under 2%. 2% !! They think the British public are gullible and stupid.
I am proud to be a part of MASS who tirelessly fight to put the record straight.
Did you know that the insurers are now lobbying to stop compensation in most cases altogether and to raise the minimum limit before you can have a solicitor to act for you?
Sadly the insurance companies have the ear of the government who seem hell bent on reducing access to justice for British people. Only this month we have seen the average Court fee for proceedings go up from just over £200 to nearly £450. It's just obscene.
I am proud to be part of a firm that continues to put the client first and lobbies for retention of access to justice.
So, Happy Birthday NW Law! And here's looking to the next 6 years—and the next and the next…….
Naomi Wilson – Solicitor/Director
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by Adrian Thatcher
from Modern Believing Vol 54:2
Still Honest To God
This edition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of John Robinson's Honest To God in March 1963.
The Revd. Dr. Michael Brierley (our Reviews Editor) and I began the planning for it well over a year ago (and proved the importance of allowing a long lead-in time for special projects). We were determined to produce an edition worthy of Robinson, of his life and work, and of the impact he made in and far beyond the Church. We recalled that previous publications remembering the 25th and 40th anniversaries were in the main negative or preoccupied with reminiscence. We were determined not to give more space to the nostalgic recollections of elderly Christians who, like this Editor, were inspired by the book and astonished by its impact. Neither did we want to indulge in yet more moans about what wasn't in Honest to God, or more complaints about the incompatibility of the authors on whom Robinson drew.
We thought the best way of avoiding these pitfalls and achieving a positive up-beat edition of Modern Believing was to ask six well-known theologians each to develop the theme of one of the chapters, and to demonstrate how each theme has retained its importance half a century later. There are, of course, seven chapters in Honest to God, and room for only six articles in Modern Believing. While one longer article combines the themes of two chapters, all the original essays of this edition mirror the contents and the chapter headings of Robinson's work and are published in recognisable order. We were determined to achieve a balance of gender and (more arbitrarily) of age, in commissioning authors to write for us. Modern Church is most grateful for the entirely voluntary contributions of the invited authors.
We hope the essays celebrate the achievements of Honest to God, and promote new contributions to liberal Christian theology. That is what this journal exists to do.


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On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:54:31AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Good News. UW has granted Fedora Extras permission to distribute pine, along with the ability to patch for security issues... Appended are the important snippets in the email notification I received.
I think this does still not make it comply with the Open Source definition, isn't it?


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The tumultuous period between the end of the Spanish Civil War in April 1939 and the outbreak of World War II in September that same year marked a critical time in Basque history. Basques exiles who had fled into France and beyond during and after the Spanish Civil War suddenly found themselves once more prey to the advance of Fascism.
Following the fall of Poland in 1939, Hitler's forces swept north and westward in the spring of 1940, taking Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and, finally, France, with Paris falling to the Germans on June 14. In the less than a year most of Western Europe had fallen to the Nazis. Only the United Kingdom held out.
The charismatic leader of the Basque government-in-exile, Jose Antonio Agirre, had gotten caught up in these events and had been forced underground–ultimately in of all places, Berlin–into an incognito existence as he sought an escape from the Fascist clutches (on this, if you haven't already done so, check out his riveting memoir Escape via Berlin: Eluding Franco in Hitler's Europe). In his absence, the Basque government-in-exile was replaced by a Basque National Council, headed by Manuel Irujo and based in London.
It is during that time, in the interesting period before Agirre's reappearance in October 1941, that the Basque National Council carried out a series of negotiations, most notably with both the British government and the representatives of Free France (effectively the exiled democratic French government) led by Charles de Gaulle. Most famously, perhaps, these negotiations resulted in the creation of the Gernika Battalion, made up of Basque exiles, which fought with distinction with the French army in defeating the Germans in 1945 (the story of which we covered in a previous post here).
Less well known, certainly, was a fascinating agreement brokered by the Basque National Council in London. Xabier Irujo picks up the story in his Expelled from the Motherland (p. 17):
In less than a month the Basque National Council and the British government had made their first agreement on military collaboration. Robert J. G. Boothby, representing the British government, and Jose Ignacio Lizaso, representing the Basque National Council, signed the first agreement on July 29, 1940, which spelled out that the British government was committed to defending the independence of the Basque Country if the Spanish government went to war on the side of the Axis powers.
Ultimately, and despite plenty of willing on the part of Franco, Spain did not enter the war on the side of Hitler and this agreement was never implemented; yet another example of one of those twists of fate around which history revolves.
If you're interested in this topic, as well as the abovementioned works, see also War, Exile, Justice, and Everyday Life 1936-1946, edited by Sandra Ott, available free to download here; and, for more general background, Modern Basque History, by Cameron Watson, available free to download here.


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I just kept trying to figure out what was the best way to start.
So I finally jumped in and started with these 3 inch Churn Dash blocks from Section 2.
I enjoyed piecing them and all I needed to do was pick 9 different pieces of fabric from my Cotton and Steel stash. That I could manage.
Then I moved on to these Flying Gees blocks, which only required 3 different pieces of fabric.
This block is also for Section 2.
This is a very scrappy project, and initially I thought I could cut extra strips and squares from the fabric that I was using as I went along, but I've now figured out that I need a lot of strips and squares for the checkerboard blocks, the courthouse steps blocks, pineapple blocks, log cabin blocks and the over 150 required half square triangle units.
So I picked out my 60 favorite fat quarters and just started cutting strips and squares. It's been slow going, but they're all cut up now, so hopefully things will start to move along at a quicker pace.
As I was picking out my favorite fat quarters I ran across this dot print, which was a panel with 6 different dot prints, and thought it would make a great Bow Tie Block, for Section 3, because I think bowties should be polkadot. The dots matching up, just a happy coincidence.
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When people say a movie like Inside is really, really gory, they generally mean that the horror has been conceived and executed convincingly, as opposed to merely expertly, substituting for the typical reassurances of irony and self-conscious, endearing ineptitude, a fatalistic remorselessness borrowed from real life. Inside is the antithesis of the American vogue for horror best represented by Wes Craven's Scream. Its brutality is never leavened with comic effect, its mise en scene neither highly keyed nor brightly colored. The producers of this French slasher wanted a story by someone who not only liked the genre but understood it, and sought in a director someone who could pull it off with some amount of credulity. Given the laughably clichéd confluence linking the film's two heroines, credulity in the case of Inside would appear to indicate a commitment to seeing the various conceits of the film's artistic ethos to their foregone conclusions.
The movie has a slightly anemic, unsaturated look reminiscent of vintage television news footage, a persuasive verite realism. The villain's face first appears as if captured by Zapruder's camera, her features grainy, hollowed out suggestion. It sometimes feels as if things are happening without recourse to a script. Typical of the closed set mentality of a film shoot, the actors, interviewed off camera, were in complete denial. They didn't seem to think they were making a comedy, but they prickled at the suggestion they were doing anything with, say, the gravity of real time tragedy. Asked about the violence of the story, Beatrice Dalle, the movie's killer, remarked that anyone who turns on the news will see a much more horrific arrangement of events than Inside presents. A woman like Inside's final girl "could stumble on scissors," Dalle shrugged, "or she hits a wall, or her baby falls when she wasn't expecting it." Dalle's naive rationalization for the film's brutality misses the point. Inside borrows meticulously from real-life, inexplicably theatrical atrocities, confronting rather than avoiding them. The horror isn't mediated by its existence in some parallel universe of fantasy. Like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which traded in panic by evoking Ed Gein, Inside burrows out of the filmic and into the unthinkable everyday, recreating the murder of Sharon Tate.
The film dispenses quickly with expository detail. What possible reason could anyone have to kill pregnant Sarah (Alysson Paradis, sister of Vanessa)? You won't find any clues in the set-up. Nor does this protagonist seem particularly vulnerable. Inside presents a victim isolated by the unhappy removal of her husband, much like the situation at Cielo Drive, where Polanski was an absent presence, palpable but removed. Sarah rejects her mother's attempts to dramatize her situation or state of mind, avoiding conversation, pity, or character development with a derisive shrug. Polanski was in Europe the night of Tate's death, putting together a movie deal. Sarah's husband has died in a car wreck which very nearly killed her unborn baby as well. Outside her house, Paris is rioting. It's Christmas Eve. Sarah is scheduled to induce labor the following day. Her editor has agreed to pick her up at six a.m. Her mother might stop by to check on her. She shuts herself in for the night. Like her, the house lacks distinguishing psychological features. No effort is made to establish setting. Simply put, it's a location where things take place. White couch, beige walls, empty bedside table. Settling down for the evening, Sarah falls asleep in a rocking chair and dreams of a violent birth, the baby forcing its way out of her mouth. She wakes to the sound of the doorbell.
Linda Kasabian described seeing victim Wojtek Frykowski on the porch at Cielo Drive. He'd stumbled out after being shot, beaten, and stabbed, and stood there uncertainly, a dimly outlined figure, before falling into the hedge. Moments like that, evocative details which persist from accounts of the Manson murders, find their way into the film. When Sarah peers out the peephole and sees Dalle's vague silhouette, the image registers on a variety of levels as something you've seen somewhere before. At one point, looking out the kitchen window, Sarah sees a string of lights arranged on a neighboring house. This point-of-view shot could be Tate's, confirming various reports regarding the Christmas lights strung along the fence at Cielo Drive, left there by the former occupants, Candice Bergen and Terry Melcher. The movie continually insinuates itself into collective ideas of the murders this way, subtly and not so subtly referencing real events and half-remembered public record.
Through the closed door, Sarah tells Dalle, as yet unidentified, to go away. Her husband is asleep and has to get up early, she lies. Dalle knows Sarah's name, and the truth, but she relents, vanishing. Sarah moves into the living room, calling the police on her cell phone. I'm pregant, she informs the operator. Dalle materializes at the sliding glass door. Though she looks, especially in this movie, like an unhappy genetic truce between Angelina Jolie and Sandra Bernhard, Dalle's scowling, bogeyman expressions and dark hair and dress also visually name-check Susan (aka Sadie) Atkins, one of the more notoriously brutal and conscienceless Family killers, so famously brutal, her remorselessness so photogenic, that after years of parole hearings her incarceration is still, even now that she's afflicted with cancer and more arguably a victim herself, regarded as lenient. The directors' insistence that Dalle brought humanity to the character, inspiring compassion in the audience, is a bit like Atkins finding Jesus in jail.
"Wherever you go," Polanski once said, "the seed of evil is within the way the human being thinks, the way he takes things for granted. Certainty, I would say, is the seed of evil." Having lost his mother to the concentration camps, hostile takeover was something the director understood innately by then. The essential unease of Rosemary's Baby has to do with the permeability of Rosemary's body, her home, her entire world and way of life. Rosemary's flat is attached to the Castavetts' by a linen closet, the door of which had been blocked by a wardrobe when Rosemary and Guy were first shown the place. The former tenant, now dead, had pushed it there in an obviously futile effort to keep her neighbors out. Polanski has Rosemary understand on a basic level that even Minnie Castavetts' apparently harmless chatter has an insidious persuasiveness to it, rooting inside her head, so that whatever Rosemary thinks is only thought in some relation to what Minnie wants her to. Polanski's early films possess the same preoccupation with this sort of inexorable seepage. The couple of Knife in the Water invites a hitchhiker into their lives and onto their boat, resulting in a disharmony they'd previously managed to keep under wraps. In Cul-de-Sac, Donald Pleasance and Francoise Deloreac, another unhappy if not miserable Polanski duo, discover, when a gangster happens upon their allegedly idyllic solitude, that their treatment of each other is far more brutal than anything he might do. For Polanski, anyone can take you over at anytime, and a partnership, far from a security measure, is the ultimate form of invasion. Under such circumstances, what's the use of a locked door?
Going into the LaBianca house was practice for Cielo Drive, yet a natural extension of what the Family had been doing up to then. On creepy-crawly missions, they snuck into people's homes, just to cross that line, just to freak them out and show how imaginary that line really is. While the homeowners slept the Family moved things around, ate their food, made a mess or cleaned up. Part of living comfortably in the world is security in the belief that in here is safe from out there, that walls and locks and windows and dogs keep danger at bay, that our homes are impermeable to compensate for the fact that our bodies can't be. True, as Dalle says, you could trip on scissors in your own living room, but you might also wake up one night with a pillow over your face and someone stabbing you with a steak knife from your own kitchen drawer, like the LaBiancas. The movie compounds this lack of separation by making the entertainment you're watching feel profoundly unstable. Rather than the screen representing an out there which can't reach you, the action of Inside insinuates itself into your safety zone, collapsing some of the distinction between screen and audience.
In Hollywood, especially, a gatekeeper relies on your cooperation to some degree. He has what you want, and you have to pretend that your access to him is something he controls entirely, rather than figuratively. Manson was expected to go away, though he knew where Melcher and Wilson lived and likely how to get in. Instead, Charlie went up to Cielo—only Melcher had already leased the place to Polanski. Sharon stood in the doorway as a guest asked Manson what he was doing there. He was treated unkindly. Someone made a derogatory comment about his appearance, slighting him in some way. Presumably, he sent the Family back to stake out the household's habits with the intention of payback. When did the maid come, when did she leave, who was likely to be visiting at any given time. The motivation of Inside's killer is just as arbitrary, involving an unfortunate chain of events beyond the heroine's control: even if you believe that homes are secure and life can be managed to minimize injury or misfortune, you have to admit you'll run into someone, somewhere, at some point, finding yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Dalle has watched Sarah's house before the movie's action begins, and the film speaks to that fear of having been observed without knowing it; the nightmare of being pursued and controlled for mysterious reasons, by unknown forces, so surreptitiously that you're oblivious to the invasion of privacy.
Much of the story is taken up with other people's fateful attempts to rescue Sarah. Various people interrupt Dalle's efforts to get at Sarah and Sarah's efforts to keep her out. Sarah's editor visits, thinking Dalle to be her mother. Sarah's real mother arrives, followed by the police. None make it out of the house. These virtuosic set pieces recall the murders of Jay Sebring, Frykowski, and Abigail Folger, all visting Cielo Drive the night of the murders. Like Sarah's visitors, Sebring is said to have played hero, attempting to protect Sharon from Tex Watson and the others. He was hanged, stabbed, and kicked about the head so violently that his face was unrecognizable. Later, back at Spahn Ranch, Atkins told another Family member that Tate "was the last to go because she had to watch the others die." Sarah's visitors are killed as viciously as Tate's guests were, with a mercenary disregard for human life and a reckless abandon for the sanctity of the human body and the viewer's customary detachment.
Sarah's white bathroom is smeared in blood, as is her face and nightshirt. She has a gash on her mouth which is strikingly similar to the one on Tate's face, a diphthong from mouth to cheek, apparent in the autopsy photos which can now be found on the internet. There's also a photo of Tate's body at the scene of the crime, which bears more than a passing resemblance to Inside's final image of Sarah. Krenwinkel and others say Tate's baby was never cut out, but in the mind of the popular imagination the fetus is there on the floor beside her body. Sarah eventually leaves the bathroom. She attacks Dalle, disfiguring her. For a while it looks like she might prevail. That would be the version of a movie which draws a line. Inside makes final attempts to endow Dalle's character with some amount of pathos, as well, indicating her compulsion is fueled by a form of temporary possession. One of the movie's strengths is Dalle's performance, which is both emotionally charged and maniacally detached, re-enforcing the central incomprehension of her behavior.


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In this funny rap battle, father of the nation is back to guide the leader of the nation Narendra Modi for the betterment of our country on this Independence Day! Happy Independence Day!
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Lymdrenn Telvanni's Journal
The journal reveals that Brand-Shei's real name is Brandyl Telvanni. The first part is written by Brandyl/Brand's wet nurse, Hidrya Olen. The second passage dated 4 E 6 Second Seed, Middas is penned by Brandyl/Brand's father, Lymdrenn and speaks of the fall of the House Telvanni during an Argonian uprising after years of oppresion by the Dunmer. Not much is known of his arrival in Skyrim, but his father's words say that Lymdrenn will "...leave his fate to Azura's will."
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For patients with creatinine 7.5, there are lots of wastes products and toxic substances building up in your blood. And the wastes products should be eliminated out of body firstly, because the deposition of toxins and wastes products not only makes further damage to kidney cells and tissues, but also affects the efficiency of kidney treating medications. Toxins-Removing Treatment is often used to eliminate various toxins out of body effectively. A health internal environment provided, the herbal medicines in this therapy can take the best effects to repair the diseased kidney.
Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is a kind of therapy working to eliminate various wastes products and toxins out of body effectively. This is a external application, which takes the accurate effects to repair the diseased kidney. By dilating blood vessels, promoting blood circulation, reliving inflammation and coagulation in blood, sufficient blood, oxygen and nutrition can be delivered inside kidney.
With this treatment for 1 weeks, some symptoms caused by high creatinine level such as fatigue, anemia, headache, skin itching, poor appetite and insomnia are relived.
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Greases are applied in situations where lubricating oil would not stay in position and also for hard to reach points. Grease reduces the re-lubrication period and acts as a sealant to prevent contamination. Many OEM designs specify greases becauase they also minimize the damage from frequent starts and stops.
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Built by Metal Yapı Konut A.Ş., Blue Lake Istanbul project's marketing and sales activities are conducted by Karmen Yapı A.Ş. which is the partnership company of Metal Yapı Konut A.Ş., Saçaklı Holding A.Ş. and Ömer Saçaklıoğlu. The concept project is carried out by Chapman Taylor, while the architectural project is designed by ECF Mimarlık.
The first signs of life within the boundaries of today's Istanbul are seen in Küçükçekmece region with its history extending to prehistoric ages. Archaeological excavations started in 2007 at Yarımburgaz Cave, situated on the northern shore of Lake Küçükçekmece, have brought to light tools showing that the economy of the first Istanbul residents was based on hunting and fishing.
The reason why it is referred to as "Küçük-çekmece" Lake (Küçük means small) while actually it is bigger than "Büyük-çekmece" Lake (Büyük means big) is the small bridge over the passage that provides the sea connection to the lake. In historical sources, this bridge is called "Ponte Piccolo" in the meaning of "Small Bridge".
The architectural landmark of Küçükçekmece, Mimar Sinan's historical bridge is also in close proximity to Blue Lake project.
Blue Lake project is located by the lake shore of Küçükçekmece Lake, enriched with the stunning views of Küçükçekmece Lake and Marmara Sea, offers premium and truly exclusive living spaces where green meets blue.
Blue Lake is situated 15 minutes to Atatürk Airport, 11 minutes to Florya and only 3 minutes to metrobus. Canal Istanbul which will be completed in the coming years is also in close proximity to the project. Moreover, Blue Lake will have easy access to public transportation links and close to schools, universities and shopping malls.
Blue Lake is located on Istanbul's Marmara Sea coastline with its magnificent historical and natural beauties, where it meets Küçükçekmece Lake, one of the world's unique lagoon lakes. Green paths, parks, walking trails, cycling lanes and sports grounds that surround the lakeside line are other key features of the project. Blue Lake offers a modern living space promises a refreshing lifestyle where blue meets green. Thanks to its proximity to mega projects such as Canal Istanbul and new airport, Blue Lake is one of the major projects that promises high benefits to its owners. The project has launched to strong investor demand.
Blue Lake differentiates itself from the competition with its full green landscape spanning over the coastline and offers all kinds of sports facilities. You will have access to "Heaven Garden" community centre, where you can find from indoor & outdoor swimming pools to fitness centre, from squash & tennis courts to multipurpose sports ground, and from massage & steam rooms, to sauna and Turkish bath. Along with other sports and social facilities, children playgrounds have been specially designed which lets your kids to socialize and play in safety. Tranquil and scenic with waterways, parks and landscaped greenery, Blue Lake community sets the tone for family living in Küçükçekmece. The project appeals to families, offering all the comforts and security of living in an exemplary gated community that promotes a healthy, outdoor lifestyle. A great selection of restaurants, cafés and shops that are situated at the garden level of Blue Lake, will surely meet your expectations for a modern and vibrant life.
What about attending the art courses you dreamed of for yourself and your children at Blue Lake? Our workshops where you will meet experienced instructors, will give you a new point of view as well as offering new hobbies for your children. Moreover, you will enjoy the performances and art exhibitions at the performance centre and the exhibition hall.
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Wiggle Worms: A Guide to Alternative Seating for the Classroom digital download includes all of the resources you need to begin implementing alternative seating strategies in a classroom.
By: Lauren Drobnjak, PT and Claire Heffron, OT
Details: 20 page PDF document delivered electronically immediately following payment
List price: $12.99
Summary: Wiggle Worms: A Guide to Alternative Seating for the Classroom offers:
- The Benefits of Alternative Seating – Learn about why kids fidget and about the many benefits of using alternative seating in the classroom. From sensory implications to motor benefits and more, inside the guide you'll find lots of information to support alternative seating options.
- Seating Options and Descriptions – Familiarize yourself with some of the seating options that are available for use in the classroom and read about the specific benefits of each so you can find the best fit for each child.
- Tips for Introducing Alternative Seating – Implementing an alternative seating strategy requires thinking and planning ahead. This guide walks you through: the steps of introducing new seating options so they can be used effectively and responsibly by students, ensuring appropriate sizing of alternative seating options, encouraging functional posture at school and securing funding for new seating options.
- Printable Materials – Inside the guide you'll also find several printable resources including: an alternative seating contract, a letter to parents about alternative seating, rules regarding alternative seating options, page for students to use to identify which type of seating is a fit for how they're feeling and movement break cards for the classroom.
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Mar 5, 2017
We combed through Facebook, Reddit & Tumblr finding the questions people wanted answered the most. We're tackling the fist twenty five. Lauren once again joins us as we take a deep dive into the minutiae that is the world of Ice & Fire. There may be a few detours along the way.


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I have a confession to make. I used to be a smoker. Not a social smoker. Not a light smoker. But a regular, good old-fashioned Marlboro-man-style smoker. And not for a year or two. I was a cigarette smoker for fifteen years.
Unlike many other folks who started smoking before its connection to cancer was clear, I started long after this data came to light. I knew that smoking was bad for you. I knew all about the cigarette companies and their allies' attempts to undermine the science establishing the connection between smoking and ill health. I was an educated consumer. In fact, it was worse than that. I even had a degree in biology. A higher degree in biology: a PhD. I knew that smoking was bad for you on the molecular level. And still I smoked. I smoked until I got sick for a year with repeated bronchial infections. That was enough to convince me to quit.
This is something I think about a lot in my work with climate change education. We know the causes of climate change, we know what their impacts are, and we are telling everyone in as many ways as possible. We even hear from people all the time about how they understand climate change, what its impacts are, and how devastating it will be—and yet there is little action. There is little action, that is, until something terrible happens.
After Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines this past month, developing countries went into an international climate change conference demanding action and even reparations for the impacts climate change will bring to their nations. Similarly, after Hurricane Sandy, survivors went to the White House to demand that the US devise an action plan around climate change.
Although both Typhoon Haiyan and Hurricane Sandy cannot be directly connected to climate change, they are the types of storms that are predicted to increase in frequency and ferocity with a changing climate. And they both spurred action, because they turned climate change from something that was going to happen in the future to something that could be happening right now.
All the education in the world wasn't as powerful as a single devastating event. But is this what we are going to wait for? Aren't there teachable moments that don't require destructive, traumatizing, extreme events?
As a former smoker, I understand what it means to ignore science. I get why addictive behaviors lead to bad decisions. I feel for those who see the writing on the wall, and yet do nothing to change. But I also worry. It took me a year of misery to finally decide to put the cigarettes away; what will it take to have the world kick the habits that are responsible for global climate change? Is education going to be enough, or will we need to wait for more extreme events to occur before we can even explore the possibility of action?
I'm hoping that people are going to be a little smarter about climate change than I was about smoking. If we change our behavior now, we just might be able to spare ourselves some misery in the future. If we don't, I guarantee the effect is going to be a lot worse than bronchitis for a year. Here's hoping we make the right choice.


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The Australian Natives' Association (ANA), a mutual society was founded in Melbourne, Australia in April 1871 as the Victorian Natives' Association.
In 1872 it voted to extend membership to men born in the other Australian colonies and changed its name at the same time. The Association played a leading role in the movement for Australian federation in the last 20 years of the 19th century. In 1900 it had a membership of 17,000, mainly in Victoria.
The ANA provided sickness, medical and funeral cover. Membership in the ANA was restricted to men born in Australia, at a time when Australian-born people of European descent (not including Indigenous Australians) were rising to power in place of an older generation born in Britain. In the 1890s, for the first time, they became the majority of the population. The ANA consisted mainly of energetic middle-class men aged under 50 - a perfect base for a forward-looking, idealistic movement such as federation. In 1880 the ANA committed itself to the federation of the Australian colonies, and provided much of the organisational and financial support for the Federation Leagues which led the campaign, particularly in Victoria. It avoided party politics, but they soon adopted the rising liberal politician and ANA member Alfred Deakin as their candidate for leadership of the federal movement.
In 1891, when the Victorian Parliament was considering the federation bill, it was the ANA which organised public meetings around the colony to rally support for the bill, many of them addressed by Deakin. After the failure of the 1891 bill, it was the ANA which kept the federal cause alive. When the movement revived after 1897, the ANA campaigned vigorously for the referendums to approve the proposed constitution. With federation achieved in 1901, the ANA withdrew from political activity, although it continued patriotic activity such as promoting the observance of Australia Day. Other nationalistic issues supported by the ANA included afforestation, an Australian-made goods policy, water conservation, Aboriginal welfare, the celebration of proper and meaningful citizenship ceremonies following the increased levels of migration after World War II, and the adoption of the wattle as the national floral emblem in 1912.
With the Returned and Services League, it was one of the last Australian pressure groups to support the White Australia Policy. A few members maintained this support until the 1970s. The ANA continued to prosper, operating a private health fund, a building society, general insurance company and small-scale life insurance and fund management activities. In 1993, it merged these operations with Manchester Unity of Victoria to create Australian Unity, then the largest friendly society in Australia by number of members. As of 2007, only the WA branch exists, and this is winding down, although Australian Unity attempts to maintain a modicum of activity in the Victoria-based ANA fraternal society.


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Update 5PM CDT...
The Excessive Heat Warning has been extended into Sunday evening for most of northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana including the city of Chicago
The Excessive Heat Warning is now in effect for essentially all of northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana including the city of Chicago into Sunday evening. Daytime heat indices will run 100 to 110-degrees, even higher in a few locations, while nighttime temperatures will drop no lower than the mid 70s (outlying areas) to lower 80s (Chicago).
Lowering clouds and thunderstorms are expected to move into westernmost portions of the Chicago area Sunday afternoon, moving east and spreading over the remainder of the Chicago area by later in the evening. Thus some relief from the heat could occur by Sunday afternoon in Winnebago, Boone, DeKalb, Ogle and Lee Counties, but even in those counties the heat index may well exceed 100-degrees, before cooling showers/thunderstorms arrive.
Sunday will mark the third consecutive day with dangerous heat indices well above 100-degrees and little or no relief at night - temperatures dropping no lower than the mid 70s to lower 80s. This is an extremely rare event for our area, and the cumulative effects of oppressive heat and humidity will take a toll on individuals with respiratory or heart problems, elderly and children, unless relief is provided by air-conditioning or other cooling methods.
This can be a life-threatening situation, so check-in on those deemed in need and provide aid, if possible. Some cooling should occur area-wide Sunday night.
An Excessive Heat Warning continues in effect for the entire Chicago area, including Chicago as well as northern Illinois into northwest Indiana into the overnight hours Saturday night (reference the purple-shaded area on the headlined map) – The Excessive Heat Warning is extended through Sunday for the city of Chicago.
Dangerous heat indices should again range from 105 to 115-degrees Saturday with even higher values possible, as temperatures reach well into 90s this afternoon and overnight low temperatures fail to provide much if any relief dropping only into the mid 70s and lower 80s – highest overnight readings will occur in the city of Chicago where the heat index may not drop much below 90-degrees for the second straight night.
There may be scattered clouds this afternoon, but abundant sunshine will effectively add another 5 to 15-degrees to the heat indices, making conditions extremely dangerous. Very high humidity will be sustained and even increased due to still wet soils from recent rains, evapotranspiration from a growing corn crop and a replenishing of already high dew-point air flowing into our area from the Plains and Mississippi Valley. These factors along with an increase in high and mid-level clouds will all contribute to near-record high overnight temperatures again tonight, again providing no relief from the heat, especially in the Chicago "heat island."
The increased cloudiness and possibility of showers/thunderstorms Sunday, as a cool front makes its way east across our area is expected to restrict high temperatures to the lower 90s with heat indices more in the 100 to 106-degree range. The Excessive Heat Warning will continue for Chicago itself, where the cumulative-effects of the oppressive heat will last longer and be greater. If it is determined that clouds/thunderstorms may be delayed, the Excessive Heat Warning could be extended again over the entire northeast Illinois/northwest Indiana area Sunday.
For at least another 24 to 36-hours, make sure you check-on and assist those most susceptible to the heat and humidity – people with respiratory or heart problems, children and elderly, especially those with no access to air-conditioning. If you must be outside during the late-morning/afternoon, stay out of the sun as much as possible, seek shade and drink plenty of water.
7-day forecast: Dangerously hot temps on Saturday, rain possible Sunday
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- Drink plenty of fluids
- Never leave a child or pet in a hot car
- Avoid drinks with caffeine or alcohol
- Try to stay in the shade or indoors as much as possible
- Check on elderly neighbors and those with functional needs
- Take pets indoors and make sure they have plenty of water


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1. Download the game the day it comes out. Tell yourself that you're just going to try it for a month as an experiment. You don't know anything about Pokémon except maybe the vague notion of a "Pikachu." You don't even really play video games. Honestly, most zeitgeisty stuff is kind of bullshit, but with Pokémon, it's different. You're getting in at the ground level; you're an OG. Imagine all the kids you'll be able to impress in your theoretical scenarios where you're hanging out with cool teens.
2. You find your first Pokémon: a Squirtle. It's hanging in the hall of your office building. It's a vaguely frightening experience, this "augmented reality," and you briefly check outside your screen to make sure the Squirtle is not really there. After catching the Squirtle, you return to your co-workers and proudly proclaim, "I just caught a Squirtle." Thus begins the normalization of sounding like an idiot.
Just caught a squirtle in the @SDCityBeat offices pic.twitter.com/nUqNTCpRkZ— Ryan Bradford (@theryanbradford) July 8, 2016
3. Leave work. It's the start of the weekend and you're excited about that but also stoked to try out your new game. You walk around North Park, looking at your familiar neighborhood with new eyes. There are Pokéstops everywhere! You walk past a burly, bearded punk-type with a phone in his hand. You're both trying to play it cool, but he sees your screen and says, "You're playing the game." "Yeah," you say. He says: "It's pretty ridiculous, huh?" You agree. The two of you stand in silence for a little bit. Then, he says: "There are a lot behind the library," and you say, "Thanks!"
4. Text your friend in Salt Lake City to see if Pokémon's as big of a deal over there. He says, "Yes," and also: "Have you found the dignity Pokémon yet?" Ignore him.
5. Notice the gradual increase of people walking along the road at night by themselves, guided by blue light emanating from their hands. It's not an aimless walk, per se, but their goals are ultimately insatiable. You get the eerie feeling you're witnessing some sort of zombie apocalypse: bodies never fulfilled and moved by instinct instead of logic.
6. When your co-worker tells you about the Pikachu he found in his backyard over the weekend, pretend you're not bubbling with white-hot jealousy.
7. Go to a punk show with a friend who you haven't seen recently due to the fact that he's recently bought a house and got promoted—two undeniably grown-up milestones. While he talks about the new stresses of adulthood, you ache to pull out your phone to see if there are any Pokémon in the bar. You're there until the bar closes, and when it's time to leave, you two part in separate directions. As you walk toward the darkened parking lot, you see two bros hanging out. This late at night, anyone is a threat, so you pull up Pokémon to avoid talking to them. "I'll give you $100 to drive us to my house," one of them says, slurring his words. Keep walking. A Rhyhorn pops up on your screen. "Or," the guy continues, louder, "How about you suck my dick?" Keep walking. Keep looking down. Don't stop to catch the Rhyhorn.
8. Decide last minute to make a Zubat costume for Comic-Con. Create it using a spray painted basketball and art supplies meant for elementary kids. Your wife finds you sticky with Elemer's glue and purple fabric, and asks what you're doing (you're 31 years old by the way). Try not to sound too frustrated or on-the-verge-of-tears when you say, "CAN'T YOU TELL? I'M MAKING A ZUBAT!" She retreats to her computer to look up "Zubat." Listen to her say, "Cute!"
9. Within a minute of entering Comic-Con, a Wonder Woman rushes up to take your picture. She shows you all the Pokémon she's caught at the Con. "I'm from Oregon and we don't have any of these Pokémon up there." She scrolls her Pokédex in front of you and your awe at her bounty is genuine. "Fucking caught all of those within the last 20 minutes," she says. You spend the rest of Comic-Con standing off to the side, playing the game. People walk by and swipe imaginary Pokéballs at you and your anguished reaction delights them. You're a star—a bright and shining Pokéstar.
#sdcc = always vaguely terrifying, but zubat was a success. Got so many approving nods, people flicking imaginary pokeballs at me, and at least 5 ppl wanted a picture.
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10. Attend the late-night Pokémon meet-up at Balboa Park. The crowd is insane—it's like being at the park on a busy day, but at night, and everyone is playing Pokémon. You find a Pikachu, and you realize that it's as emotionally/spiritually/physically fulfilling as you could've hoped. Across the bridge, in Balboa Park's unlit cactus garden, countless blue screens flutter against a dark landscape like digital fireflies. Someone yells "DRAGONITE!" and it's akin to yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded movie theater. You overhear someone tell his friend, "Turn your phone off so you'll have enough battery if the Dragonite comes back." Some joker close by sets off a firecracker, its boom is deafening. The firework lights up the cactus garden briefly and, despite the terrorist attacks that happen on a weekly basis, nobody seems to care. They're all looking at their phones. But so are you. You wonder if the best Pokémon was right here all along: in this darkened cactus garden, in this community, within us all.
No. Just kidding, the best Pokémon is Pikachu, and you caught him.
You set out to play Pokémon for one month, but one more won't hurt.


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OWLA and IAGT cordially invite you to
"Protecting Owasco Lake
- Let's Get Motivated!"
Movie, Discussion and Entertainment at the
Auburn Public Theater
December 3, 2008– 7:00 PM
"The Beauty and the Beast – A Tale of Two Lakes"
An award winning film created by Pete Cramer and Caleb Kerlin, graduates of Cayuga Community College.
A fascinating history of two local lakes demonstrating the importance of proper lake management.
Owasco Lake Projects and Initiatives
Become a member of OWLA !!
The Owasco Watershed Network Project
Sign up for Owasco Watershed Viewer Training
Open "Café Style" Discussion and Entertainment
Meet Pete Cramer and share your thoughts on the movie.
Relax and discuss the protection of Owasco Lake while enjoying some light refreshments and live music.
Auburn Public Theater
108 Genesee Street, Auburn, NY 13021 (315) 253-6669
Entrance at Exchange Street Mall
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RSVP to ensure a seat in the new Auburn Public Theater Cinema – (315) 252-8669


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Dhola-ri-Dhani a beautiful place, which is 11kms from Secunderabad. It's a mini Rajasthan with its traditions and customs situated at Kompally village,
Medchal Road
in Hyderabad. It's an amusement park for both children and
It's been a desire of my daughter Maria Dorothy to visit this place, and also my friend Aparna was looking for an opportunity to take her daughter out for a day.
Together we made plans and chose this place, so that children will have a nice time to play in the park, swim in the pool and also watch puppet show and magic show.
We preferred to go in the morning around 10.30a.m. So that we could come back in the evening hours. The timings are 10.30a.m. To 4.30 p.m. The evening hours are 5p.m. to 10.pm. The ticket is Rs 300/- per person with lunch. We may have to pay to swim at the pool for hiring the costume. It's free for children below 5 years of age.
We reached Dhola-ri-Dhani in the morning hours, and we were welcomed with a band, in typical Rajasthani style. This place was well decorated and was beautiful; especially for children it has a special attraction, with a lovely park for children to play, an ice cream parlor, a small lake with boat riding facility and a corner for the rain dance, and little more further a swimming pool and Dance floor.
We had a lovely time at this place, Dorothy, Arushi, my friend Aparna's daughter and Rachel my niece enjoyed themselves playing in the park. There was magic show and puppet show, we spent some time in each of these places, and had a great time in the swimming pool.
After which lunch was ready and it was served, in Rajasthani, we had to squat down and hot food was served.
The food was delicious and rich; we ate to our hearts content, and moved around this place to find a huge function hall, extended lawn, and very beautiful looking cottages for people to stay back for holidays.
We played with the children, sang songs with them, ate kulfi and rested awhile watching children play, and there was mehandi designing, and some others dancing, getting ready for the evening dance show.
"Do what makes you happy, be with who makes you smile, laugh as much as you breathe, and love as long as you live." ― Rachel Ann Nunes
If you want to visit this resort, you can log on www.dholaridani.com or email:firstname.lastname@example.com.