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Article 36 has joined the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, which works to address the problem of targeted attacks on eduction – its institutions, personnel, and individuals who access it – during armed conflict.
The coalition's goals are: increased awareness of the incidence and impact of attacks on education; better monitoring and reporting of these attacks; more effective protection measures; better adherence by conflict parties to international law regarding attacks against education; the development of stronger norms and standards; and improved accountability for attacks on education.
New international Guidelines for Protecting Schools and Universities from Military Use during Armed Conflict were released in December 2014 at an event hosted by the Permanent Missions of Norway and Argentina in Geneva which Article 36 participated in. For use by both state and non-state armed forces, the guidelines are a result of a two-year process of development and extensive consultation with governments, militaries, UN agencies, and civil society. The guidelines provide concrete guidance for the planning and execution of military operations, and can also support monitoring, programming, and advocacy activities related to conduct in armed conflict. Norway has announced its commitment to champion the guidelines, and to lead a process for their endorsement by states in 2015. Twenty-nine states have already made public statements in support of the guidelines.
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Title: Practically Brothers
Chapter Title: The Essential Qualifications
Author: ReeraTheRed
Date: August 1, 2003
Rating: PG13
Summary: After the happenings in Order of the Phoenix, Lupin talks with Snape, and a tentative friendship begins. Hurt/comfort, but not slash.
Disclaimer: Everything here belongs to J.K. Rowling.
Author's Note: This is the conversation that I want to see, between Lupin and Snape, now that I've read Order of the Phoenix, so yes:
(Is there anyone out there reading Harry Potter fanfic who HASN'T read Order of the Phoenix?)
For those who have asked, no, this is not going to be slash, although I like to think that this will please both audiences - those who like slash, and those who don't.
As I am an American, I'm sure that a native British speaker will notice all kinds of Americanisms in here. Please let me know, and give the proper alternative words, so I can fix. (I'm sure the spelling alone is offensive, only my spell checker doesn't recognize British spelling.)
The Essential Qualifications
Lupin woke with a start. He'd dozed off in the chair in Dumbledore's office. How late was it? He looked at the clock. Late, very late, it'd be dawn in a few hours. This was taking too long.
He stretched, stood up, and looked around the room for the hundredth time, but everything was still. The figures in the portraits were all asleep. Fawke's perch was empty, he was with his master tonight - pity, Lupin would have liked the company.
And then he saw it - the flicker in the center of the room, that must be what had awakened him. A tiny light, blinking, expanding, and then a black figure materialized in the room, doubled over, clutching a rusty old teapot - the Portkey. Lupin jumped forward. Snape's knees were buckling, and Lupin was only just able to catch him in time to keep him from crashing to the floor.
Snape's face was inches from his, it was pale, drawn, lined with dirt. "What are you doing here?" Snape spat. "Where's Dumbledore?" He tried to push Lupin away, but started to fall again. Lupin caught him.
"Dumbledore had to take care of something that came up suddenly. He sent me here to wait for you. He'll get here when he can." Lupin spoke quietly, keeping his voice gentle, as he pulled Snape's arm over his shoulders, and half-carried him toward what appeared to be a blank wall, until a doorway shimmered into existence.
Through it was a small room, just large enough for a cot, a table beyond it, and a stone fireplace where a log burst into flames as they entered. Snape lunged across the room to the table, which held a shallow stone bowl. His hands gripped its sides, then he feverishly put his wand to his temple, drawing out long, silvery strands of memory, and dumping them in the bowl, which began to smoke and boil. Lupin forced himself to stand back, so that he couldn't see, much as he wanted to.
Then Snape's hand fell limply to his side, the wand clattering to the floor, and he began to collapse again, but Lupin caught him, and got him onto the cot, shoulders first, then his legs, and then straightening his robes around him.
"Dumbledore made a potion for you," Lupin said, as he ladled liquid into a mug from a cauldron that hung over the fire. Snape reached out a hand to take the mug, but was shaking too much to hold it, so Lupin supported his shoulders and held the mug to his lips while he swallowed. He could feel the anger in Snape's body. He resents me fiercely, Lupin thought, but he's too weak to fight me. Snape pushed the mug away with his hand, and Lupin laid him back on the cot. Snape's breathing was fast and shallow.
Dumbledore had told him that Snape would be hurt, that he'd been forced to disappoint Voldemort, and that meant torture. What did he do to you? thought Lupin, as he looked at Snape's drawn face, his lank hair plastered against his skull with sweat, looking like an old man, instead of the comparatively young man he was. The Cruciatus Curse, at least, and that would be bad enough.
Snape's breathing began to slow to normal, and he closed his eyes. "You can go now," he said.
"Dumbledore told me to watch over you until he gets back," Lupin said as he put the mug back on the mantle. "There's more potion here, if you need it."
"Always keen to watch me suffer, aren't you," Snape murmured. His breathing was normal now.
"Never, Severus," Lupin said, settling himself down onto the floor by the cot, and leaning against the wall, near Snape's head.
"No, I suppose not," Snape said. "You just turned away in disgust and never said anything."
"Which I truly regret, Severus," Lupin said.
Snape did not answer. He lay still, breathing in and out, slowly and deeply, face tight.
"The floor is cold," he said, "You can wait in the other room."
"The floor is fine, I've been on worse," Lupin said. "Go to sleep."
Snape's mouth twitched. "Not for some time yet."
"I'm sorry. Will more of the potion help?"
"Let me know, then, if there's anything you need," Lupin said. But he won't tell me, he thought, he can't stand me seeing him like this.
He looked at the long form on the cot, robes filthy - were they outdoors when it happened? Snape's face was grimed with dirt. I can do something about that, Lupin thought.
He stood up, and went to the table, where a pitcher of water stood next to the Pensieve, along with a pile of clean cloths. He poured a little water onto one of the cloths, then went back and knelt beside the cot. He gently drew Snape's hair aside, and rubbed the damp cloth along his forehead. Snape's face contorted, and Lupin braced himself for a sharp remark, but nothing came. Lupin worked the cloth from Snape's forehead down to his cheeks, but the lines there did not come off, and a dark red stain appeared on the cloth. Blood?
"Severus, are you wounded?" Lupin asked.
"No, there won't be any wounds." Snape's brow furrowed. "I remember clawing at my face, that's all. There should be nothing else." He raised his hand, fingers extended, and Lupin could see the same dark red under his fingernails. At least he could spare Snape a full body examination, which neither of them would enjoy.
"Hang on." Lupin stood up and brought down a pot from the mantle, and began to rub salve into the scratches on Snape's face.
"A pity Black couldn't see me like this," Snape said, his voice stronger. "How he would have enjoyed it."
Where did that come from?thought Lupin. The potion must be affecting him. "No, he wouldn't, Severus," he said, continuing along Snape's face.
"Oh, yes, he would," Snape said, gesturing weakly with one arm, "I can see his face now, hear his voice . . ." He trailed off. "But he is not here, he is dead." Snape's hand fell back to the cot. "So I have you here, instead, pity dripping from every word that comes out of your mouth." Snape closed his eyes. "Pity is the most I can ever hope for."
Lupin put the top back on the pot, and placed it on the mantle. "I feel more than pity for you, Severus. I am in awe."
"Oh, yes, I am indeed awe-inspiring." Snape pointed at the Pensieve. "Take a look in there, look at me groveling on my belly, screaming, that'll cure you of any awe. Black would have been delighted with it."
"No, Severus, he would not. Any more than I would."
Snape did not answer.
Lupin settled himself back against the wall. "It's that childhood dream, isn't it? You know, 'When they find out, they'll all be sorry.' Well, I've found out, and I am sorry, Severus. We were all wrong. I'm sorry that James and Sirius weren't able to live so that they could tell you so themselves.
"Black made his thoughts very plain."
"Sirius was in Azkaban for twelve years. It affected him deeply, it was not something he was going to shrug off in a year or two. But, given time, I know he would have seen things differently." Lupin's voice trembled, and he closed his eyes for a moment, thinking of Sirius.
Snape was silent.
"And how long have you been imprisoned, Severus, and how many years before you are free?" Lupin wished he hadn't said those words as soon as they were out of his mouth. I'm more tired than I thought.
Snape didn't react, his face stayed blank. Maybe he won't answer. He doesn't have to answer.
And then Snape said, "As many years as it takes. Until He is dead, or I am." Was there satisfaction there, in his voice?
I shouldn't do this, thought Lupin, but he went on anyway, "You hate him, don't you. Does he know?"
Snape nodded, slowly. "Oh yes, he knows I hate him. And he despises me." Snape smiled, it was an ugly smile. "But it doesn't matter to him, as long as he thinks I hate all of you more, and want to use him against you. He understands that, a weakling, clinging to strength. And he understands hatred." He sighed. "So I am his dog, or so he thinks. Often, I am a very stupid dog, and fail to give him vital information, and stupid dogs must be punished."
Lupin stifled the impulse to glance at the Pensieve - oh, what I would give to see what's in there now, to see Voldemort, as you see him. Instead, he looked at Snape's prone form on the cot.
Snape turned his head and looked into his eyes. "And is that pity I see? As I said, pity is the most I can hope for."
"You can hope for far more than that from me, Severus."
"Can I? Are you going to be my friend, Lupin, are we going to 'hang out' as the students say, are we going to meet for tea and discuss the Quiddich matches? Do not pretend you like me, Lupin. I have your respect, I know, which is more than I had before. But you do not like me. None of the team likes me. I can hear the sighs of relief when I decline to stay for meals."
Lupin looked down at his shoes. He's right. We are relieved.
"And I do not blame you," Snape said, "I am a dark wizard, you deal with me because you are forced to, but you are right to want me gone."
"You are not a dark wizard. You have chosen the light, you are fighting the dark."
"You speak of actions and choices. I am speaking of my own nature." Snape closed his eyes. "I am not a good person, Lupin. I wish I were. I would give anything to belong among all you bright, shining people. But I do not."
"You're wrong, Severus -"
"Are you going to tell me I can be anything I wish to be, if I just try hard enough?" Snape's mouth twisted into a sneer. "Don't be stupid."
"Severus - "
"Do you know why so many of us hate the Muggles and the Muggle-born, Lupin?" Snape's sneer turned hard.
Lupin stared, his mouth open. Where did that come from? He's trying to disgust me, to make me leave him, he thought. I won't. And he asked, "Do you? Do you hate them?"
"Yes," Snape said, his voice a soft hiss.
Lupin waited.
"It's not because of that nonsense about purebloods being superior - oh, I suppose idiots like Malfoy think that, but that's not really what it is." Snape leaned back into the pillow, and looked up at the ceiling. "Our world is changing, Lupin. The wizards may think their world is separate from the Muggle world, but it isn't, not any more, and the Muggle ways are taking over. The Muggles have caught up with us, with their technology; power that has nothing to do with the spirit or strength of will. Everywhere we look, Muggle influence has crept in. Look at you, you're not even wearing proper robes anymore."
Lupin looked down at his trousers. "I'm out on the Muggle streets these days. If I were back at Hogwarts, I'd be in robes."
"I wouldn't know how to walk down a Muggle street and blend in. I don't even recognize so much of the wizard world these days." Snape looked at Lupin. "So you see, it's cowardice and ignorance that's at the heart of the Dark Lord's following. Those of us who cannot adapt, who try to hang onto the old ways."
"You're an intelligent man, Severus, and you are no coward," Lupin said, "You can learn. There are people who can teach you, if you'll let them."
Snape looked away. "This new world is a better one, I know. The half-bloods are stronger - you can tell the purebloods just by looking at us, how ugly we are, too much inbreeding." He gave his ugly smile again. "A better world, yes. But I do not see myself in it."
"What about Hogwarts? You can stay there."
Snape curled his lip. "Oh, yes, Hogwarts. Teaching potions to students who hate me." He said the word 'potions' as if it were something distasteful. "I am at Hogwarts so that the Dark Lord will think I am spying on Dumbledore. Otherwise, it would be me dancing attendance on Him, instead of your old friend Pettigrew."
"It won't be so bad at Hogwarts, when this is all over, and you don't have to play this part anymore - "
"You think this is an act?" Snape paused. "A little, perhaps - I certainly owe poor Longbottom an apology. But this is my own nature, Lupin, you know that."
Time to change the subject, Lupin thought, this is a level of depression and self-loathing that I can't deal with in one night. He took a deep breath, and said, gently, "Don't you have some dream, some hope, that keeps you going, something to look forward to when it's all over?" If we survive, he thought.
The ugly smile flickered on Snape's face. "You want to know what keeps me going?" Uh oh, thought Lupin, bad question.
Snape's eyes were open, and something glinted in their black depths. "When I first realized what He was, and what a hopeless situation I was in, I decided to kill myself." He stretched back into the cot. "There is a mountain, near my home, and I thought I would Apparate into the heart of it - I thought, it would be quick and painless, no one would ever know, and there'd be nothing left for anyone to find.
Snape paused, and for a moment, he seemed almost peaceful. "I was there, I was about go through with it, and then I thought, no, I have things I need to do first. I can keep going, just a little longer. So I went to Dumbledore, to tell him everything, thinking that afterwards, I'd be free, to go through with it. But Dumbledore convinced me to turn informer, and so there was more that I needed to do." He closed his eyes. "There are still times, when I think, I cannot bear this anymore, I will do it, and then I think, no, there are still things that only I can do, and I can keep going, just a little longer."
Lupin stared at him. I can't think of anything to say.
Snape smiled at him, the ugly smile. "Oh, don't worry, Lupin, I couldn't possibly leave now, I want to see how it all turns out."
"When this is over, Severus, you will be free and there will be a place for you."
"Will there?" Snape said, "Don't tell me you'll miss me, Lupin."
"I'll miss the man I'm talking with now." Lupin leaned over the cot, his face only inches away from Snape's. "Who I am 'hanging out' with now, by the way. Shall we discuss the Quiddich matches? I don't have any tea, but I can make some, I could use a cup." He stood up. "Do you want some, or will that interfere with your potion?"
Snape stared at him as if he'd gone mad. Perhaps I have, thought Lupin. "Water would be better, I think," Snape said.
Lupin took a kettle from the mantle and poured water into it from the pitcher on the table. He added tea leaves from another box, then tapped the kettle with his wand until steam came from the spout. He poured a cup of tea, and then a glass of water from the pitcher, and brought both over to the cot. Snape was able to hold the glass himself now, rising up on one elbow on the cot to drink.
Lupin sat by the cot and blew on the tea to cool it. "I haven't actually been paying attention to the Quiddich matches, with everything else going on. But I suspect Quiddich isn't your favorite topic, anyway."
"No, I never cared for it much. And wasn't good at it."
"Me, either. I'd always start daydreaming, and then I'd miss the quaffle, or a bludger would get me. I was a great disappointment to - " He stopped himself.
"Go on and say it," Snape said, coolly, "to Potter."
Lupin looked into his teacup, marshalling his thoughts. "I won't try to tell you that you were wrong about James, I know you never saw the side of him that I knew."
Snape stared at him, and Lupin went on. "James was wrong. I loved him as if he were my own brother, but he was wrong, what he did to you. I knew it, back then, but I couldn't bring myself to stop him, to stop both of them."
Snape was still staring at him. Then he lay back onto the cot, and looked away. "No, Lupin, he was not wrong. He was absolutely right to hate me. I turned to the Dark Lord of my own free will. I was not one of the ones who was coerced or controlled, and James knew it was in me to do so."
"Only for a time. And you were young, weren't you."
A pause. And then Snape said, "I met him when I was still at Hogwarts – in the summer, when I was sixteen. The Dark Lord recruited older students in Slytherin first, and they brought us younger ones to Him."
Lupin sat absolutely still. He could hear his own heart beating over the crackling of the fire in the grate.
"He was the first person I'd ever met," Snape went on, "who ever made me feel as if I were worth while. Who found me pleasing." Snape's eyes closed, and something trembled, for just a moment, across his face.
Then he went still. "That's what he meant, to all of us, the ones who became his true followers. Power was part of it, and he did promise me power, so that no one could ever hurt me again." Snape took a deep breath. "And there were some for whom power was enough."
"Like Lucius," Lupin said.
Snape shook his head. "No. I saw sides of Lucius that you never did. I know about all of them, the broken, miserable children of Slytherin House. I know why they turned to the Dark Lord, whether they knew what he was or not - and most of us did not know at first what he really was. There are some of them who still love him, as much as they are capable of love. He can torture them, revile them, and they'll never turn away from him. And he feels nothing for them but contempt."
"But you did turn away, when you were still young. I know you did, because I know you were sending Dumbledore information while we were still in our teens. I didn't know it was you then, but I do now."
"The Dark Lord's plans sickened me, when I realized what they really were - many of us were sickened by them, but he convinced most that this was their own weakness. But the signs had been there, all along. And there was enough darkness, enough hatred in me, for me to embrace it."
"So you see," Snape said, turning away and facing the wall, "James was right about me. He saw the darkness inside me. Yes, I did long for the light, but he knew it wasn't in me. I am a dark wizard, I am driven by hatred. I have no love in me. I have only purpose. I am every bit the contemptible worm he considered me to be."
"Dumbledore wouldn't have you here, if this were true. And I know you love Dumbledore, so don't tell me you are incapable of love."
"Dumbledore is a saint. If the Dark Lord himself came to him, in repentance, Dumbledore would give him a second chance."
"If the Dark Lord truly repented, Dumbledore would be right to do so."
"You're as bad as he is."
Lupin squatted by the cot so he could see Snape's face. "Dumbledore always says it is our choices that make us what we are. You made a mistake, and I think I, and James, and Sirius, have to bear some of the responsibility for that mistake, because you wanted what we had, and we drove you away. And in the end, you have made the right choice. If James had lived, if he were here today, I know he'd say the same thing. And so would Sirius, if he hadn't been in Azkaban all those years. If they'd each had a chance to grow up, the way you and I have."
"I think Harry speaks for James very well, and you know what Harry thinks of me."
"Harry was furious with Sirius and me about that memory he saw in the Pensieve. He defended you."
"Ah, so he was sorry for me, was he? I don't think he's sorry anymore."
"Harry is fifteen! And you've gone out of your way to make him hate you. Harry isn't his father, Severus. I know he's the image of James, but inside, he's very different, he's more like Lily. Look at his eyes, sometime. I know you avoid his eyes."
"Lily thought I was a worm, too. She just wasn't cruel to worms."
"I don't think she'd agree with you, if she were here, now."
"She is not here now. None of them are here, now."
"Only you and I, Severus. All my old friends are gone." Lupin caught his breath as he said that, and felt a deep pain well inside him, for a moment.
Snape turned onto his shoulder and looked at him. "Life has not been kind to you, either, Lupin. And yet, you have survived, in spirit."
"I've had many good things in my life. Many good people."
"And many not so good. I have been as quick to persecute you as any."
"Because I am a werewolf. I can't blame you. Most werewolves are very bad." Lupin took a deep breath, and then managed a twisted grin. "I actually tried running with a pack once - one of the more decent ones, who don't kill. There's something about running with a pack that calms the madness. We still have to become wolves during the full moon, and we still have to hunt, but we can keep more of our minds, and we can be satisfied with hunting animals, we don't have to kill people. I hoped that I could find a place there." He looked down at the floor, then back up again. "But it didn't work out. The constant battles for dominance - I tried to stay out of them, but you aren't allowed to. And I hate hunting - just the thought of those hunts makes me want to turn vegetarian."
"Sounds like a typical gathering of dark wizards."
Lupin looked at him. "Was that a joke I just heard?"
"Dark wizards don't joke, Lupin, we don't have a sense of humor. We have to make do with sarcasm."
"Sounds like two jokes in a row, to me." Lupin smiled, "We're quite a pair, you know. I make a very bad werewolf, and you make a very bad dark wizard." He leaned up against the cot and looked down at Snape's face. "We lack too many of the essential qualifications, and we are both too soft hearted."
"Soft headed, perhaps, in your case," Snape said, looking back up at him with narrowed eyes.
"So," Lupin stretched back against the wall, "See how much we have in common."
"Practically brothers," Snape said. "You are talking like an idiot."
"I'm tired. I've been up most of the night, waiting for an injured friend to get here."
Snape didn't answer. Lupin tried to look over at his face, but he had turned away. Then Snape said, "I think we should both try to sleep, Remus. I think I can, now."
And they were both silent after that. Lupin listened; Snape's breathing became slower, and softer. Either he's faking it - and if anyone can, he can - or he's really asleep, Lupin thought.
He sat beside the cot, listening to Snape's quiet breathing. Soon, dawn light began to creep across the floor in the next room. It had gone a quarter of the way when there was a quiet rustling, and Dumbledore stepped through the doorway. "How is he?" he asked.
Lupin stretched, and stood up stiffly. "I don't know. If he were a normal person, I'd say he was in a bad way." He looked at Dumbledore. "He is in a bad way, isn't he?"
Dumbledore looked down at Snape's still form on the cot. "I don't know how he has managed to endure, all these years."
"And look what it has done to him. He's done enough, hasn't he? Can't he stop? Go into hiding?"
"No, no hiding, I learned that mistake with Sirius. Besides, he wouldn't allow it. And we do need him, only he can do this. He takes great pride in that, you know."
"He said, all he has is purpose. That's not enough."
Dumbledore smiled sadly. "Perhaps we can help him find more, then. Did you talk at all tonight?"
Lupin nodded. "That's what you wanted, wasn't it, leaving me here, feeding him that potion. Yes, we talked. I have never seen anyone who works so hard at driving people away from him."
"He has been hurt by people, all his life."
"I know that. I've been one of them."
"Remus, I must ask you. Tonight was one thing, but if you continue with him as you did tonight, you must be prepared to stay with him. He has been hurt so much, and he has such a terrible burden to carry."
Lupin took a deep breath. "I will do my best not to hurt him, anymore. And I can handle his snarling, he won't drive me away." Lupin smiled. "We were close tonight. How he'll feel in the morning about it, I can't say. I expect he's not going to be happy, he exposed quite a bit of himself to me. And whether we'll ever talk again the way we did tonight," he shrugged, "unless I'm around him again when he's been tortured and drugged."
Dumbledore nodded, "I am sorry to say, that could very well happen. We'll just have to see." He smiled. "Now, you also need rest. I've reversed the spell on the green disk you brought, it'll take you back home."
"Oh, the Frisbee, thanks." Lupin smiled, and as he turned to leave the room, he said, "Let me know how he is, when he wakes."
Dumbledore nodded. "I will. Now go on, don't worry, I'll stay with him."
It would be full moon tonight, and it was almost sunset. Lupin already felt the sickness on him, as he sat in the kitchen, in Sirius's old house, the cup of tea beside him on the table already gone cold. There was a room upstairs that they'd prepared for him, lined with metal bars, with a door that human fingers could open, but wolf paws could not. He didn't have much time left. Another half hour, he thought, and I'll go up.
The doorbell rang. Out of habit, he winced, but no, Dumbledore removed the old lady's portrait last week, the house was silent. Just the sound of the door opening, and Minerva McGonigall's voice calling out, "Remus, where are you?"
"In the kitchen, Minerva," he called back. He heard her walk down the hall, and then she came through the door into the kitchen, where she dropped a large bag onto the table. She wore Muggle clothes; there was nothing wrong with them, but he could never get used to seeing her in them. Snape was right, he thought, Muggle ways are creeping in everywhere.
"Good," she said, taking off her coat, "I caught you in time. Dumbledore's called an emergency meeting tonight, you'll need to be here."
"Minerva," he said, quietly, "I won't be"
"Yes, you will," she said, reaching into the bag, "Courtesy of Severus," and she handed him a large, sealed jar. "You'll be in wolf form, of course, but you can still listen."
He stared at the jar in his hands, then looked back at her. She nodded, "He told me to tell you he still thinks you're soft-headed. Is there some significance to that?"
He smiled. "Yes, there is. I'll have to thank him." She looked at him, and he grinned, "It's all right, Minerva, it's a joke between us." She still looked doubtful, but turned back to her bag.
Lupin looked again at the jar in his hands. I may be soft-headed, my friend, he thought, but you're more soft-hearted than you know.


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The legendary Lizard Lounge in Dallas, Texas is set to host some sizzling talent over the next two months.
Opening for the all star cast will be up-and-comers Granite and Phunk, John Walker, Sno White, Tessai, DJ Love, Storm E, Apolesse, and Lounge resident DJ MannDogg. Performances will be broadcast on 102.1 FM in Dallas and can be heard on the web here 12am–3am Central Time the day of the events. Prices range from $10 - $30. Doors open 9pm-4am.


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Taking a cruise on the Nile in Egypt is a time-honoured way to explore Egypt. For centuries, travellers have sailed stretches of the world's longest river, finding the unexpected sights of river life every bit as thrilling as the tombs and temples on the schedule. Below are the top five stops on anile cruie.
Temple of Karnak
Most cruises begin at Luxor, so one of your first ports of call is probably going to be Karnak Temple. And what a place to start. A forest of intricately carved pillars, obelisks, and walls, the sheer scale of this ancient temple complex gives a shivers-down-your-spine sense of timeless power. The main area was thought of as the earthly home of Egyptian sun god Amun-Re and the temple here is the largest religious building ever built.
Temple of Luxor
The other major temple in Luxor is also primarily dedicated to Amun-Re, along with gods Mut and Khonsu (known as the Theban triad). At the entrance sit two enormous seated figures of Ramses II, one of the last pharaohs to have work done on this temple. One of the highlights of a visit to this temple is the chance to take a close look at the beautiful carvings of people clapping, beating drums, dancing and performing acrobatics, while boats are carried to the Nile under the shouted instructions of captains – the energy of these scenes practically bounces off the walls.
Valley of the Kings
You've probably been reading about the tomb of boy pharaoh Tutankhamen and its stash of hidden treasures in the Valley of the Kings since your primary school days. Here's your chance to see the actual chamber for yourself. You can also visit the recently-opened replica nearby, which was launched to mitigate some of the damage that mass tourism is doing to the original, and has been getting rave reviews for its detail and authentic feel. Move on to the grand chambers where Ramses IX, Ramses II, Merenptah and many more were buried, to admire the hieroglyphics add intriguing scenes carved into the walls.
Temple of Edfu
This huge temple in Edfu is dedicated to Horus, the Falcon God, and you'll see the image of a man with a falcon's head representing him throughout the temple. Falcons were worshipped because they don't eat dead flesh, so were considered noble. It's one of the best preserved temples in Egypt, with antechambers and halls to explore, as well as the inner sanctuary, which still contains the polished-granite shrine that once housed the gold cult statue of Horus.
Kom Ombo
A Nile cruise just wouldn't be complete without paying homage to the crocodiles. Do as the Ancient Egyptians did and pay your respects at Kom Ombo, a double temple which is devoted half to Horus, and half to crocodile god Sobek. This stretch of the river used to be infested with vicious crocs, preventing locals from using the water to wash or cook – this temple was a way of placating them.


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Using Juneteenth to Raise Awareness of Mental Health
This year's Juneteenth celebration at Evergreen-Rotary Park on Saturday will have it all: strawberry soda, barbecue, games and music.
It will be a time for fun and catching up with friends, and marking the end of slavery in the United States. It is open to people from all walks of life.
But in addition to the joyous feeling imparted by a day of picnics, there will be a reminder that racial inequalities remain, especially when it comes to accessing mental health services.
Kitsap Mental Health Services will have a booth at the celebration, helping to raise awareness.
Roosevelt Smith, a mental health counselor who will attend the celebration, said the stigma of mental illness prevents many people from getting the help they need. He said the stigma is more acute in the black community.
"To be an African-American and survive the things we have survived, you have to be strong," Smith said. "You can't show any weakness, and mental illness is perceived in segments of black community to be a weakness."
"It is OK to go in to see a therapist, it's OK to seek help."
Just a third of Americans with a mental illness or a mental health issue get care, according to a 1999 U.S. Surgeon General Report. But the percentage of blacks who receive mental health care is about half that of whites, the report found.
"African-Americans of all ages are underrepresented in outpatient treatment but overrepresented in inpatient treatment," the report found.
Saturday's commemoration marks the occasion on June 19, 1865, in which slaves in Galveston, Texas, were finally told that President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery. The news arrived more than two years late, but since then, the event has become the most widely recognized celebration of the end of slavery.
There will be about 25 booths at the picnic, many with arts and crafts, said Robert Boddie, spokesman for the Community Leadership Coalition and Alliance, which is organizing the sixth annual celebration.
Kitsap Credit Union has also sponsored a booth and will lead a voter-registration drive.
Boddie said because Father's Day was last weekend, the celebration was pushed to this weekend. Despite June weather resembling March weather, Boddie said he was hopeful the sun would make an appearance.
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I have been busily (spell-check says that IS a real word) working on new features and fixes for MozTrap for a couple months now and we've pushed out several improvements that should make your MozTrapping easier (spell-check says that IS NOT a real word, but I still believe in it).
I have added a Release Notes section to the docs. As always, you are free to check out our Pivotal Tracker site to see where we are and what we're working on now and next. But the release notes is hopefully a little more concise.
Excerpt from the Release Notes for some project highlights. Since I haven't written a blog post since 1.1, I'll share all the feature lists going back to 1.2:
Version 1.3
- Sharable list links – When you have filtered a list somewhere in the system, you can click the link icon next to the filter field to bring up the url that you can share to show that list. This link honors pagination and all filters. And it can be used in the management area as well as results and in test runs. This can be especially nice if you want to tell a tester to run a specific set of test cases in a run.
- Test Run description while running tests – We added the test run description field to the top of the page while running tests. This field supports markdown, so you can put links and other instructions to your testers in there. This can be especially helpful to add links to creating a new bug in your bugsystem of choice. (You ARE using Bugzilla, aren't you?) See Run Edit Fields for more info.
- Filtering performance – In some screens, the auto-complete filters were being displayed for every keystroke. Now they always wait till you're done typing before showing auto-complete options.
Version 1.2.7
- Run activation scalability – Using some new features in Django 1.4 and a couple raw queries, we expanded support for test runs from ~700 cases to several thousand.
- Update active test runs – The new refresh button in the management area will update an active run to newly added or removed test cases. See Refreshing a Run for more information.
- Case import management command – The feature for importing cases would prevent you from importing duplicates, even if you wanted to. So added a param for that. It also accepts a directory of several files instead of just a single file.
Version 1.2.5
- Django 1.4.2 upgrade
- More non-ascii character fixes – Primarily in some views and messages.
- Split-the-work: When you and others are executing the same test run, for the same environment, you'll see an icon on test cases where another tester has already submitted results. You can still submit your own result if you choose, but this way you don't duplicate effort, if you don't want to.
Version 1.2
- Test case ordering – As you drag and drop cases in the edit Suite screen, that order will be honored when users run your tests. Same goes for suites of test runs. So, the order will be first by suite, then by case within the suite. There is also a new field in the runtests area where, if you sorted by case name, you can re-sort by order, if you like.
- Performance fix for editing large suites – Scalability fix as thousands of cases had been entered into the system.
- Run Series: See Test Run Series for more info on this new feature.
- Better i18n support – Added more support for non-ascii characters.
I hope you like the new features. Please reply here or visit us on irc.mozilla.org #moztrap with any questions or feedback.
Happy MozTrapping!
For those just tuning in….
Historically manual test case management at Mozilla used an old tool called Litmus. Litmus was a good tool for its time, but it had several design flaws that made it difficult for us to grow it as the Mozilla QA team's needs expanded. Today, we are happy to announce Litmus' replacement, MozTrap. MozTrap is the "better mousetrap" of testcase management tools, making test tracking easier and more efficient, and ultimately more hackable and expandable as our needs change. It helps make our test case management system far more organized and flexible than the older system ever dreamed of being. For example:
- Filtering: Whether you're looking at a list of products, suites, runs or cases, you're always able to filter down to the list you're interested in. You can filter by several fields at the same time to narrow down to just what you want. This includes during test execution. If you're executing a run with 100 cases, but you only want to execute the ones having to do with "feature X" then filters are a simple, intuitive way to get you there.
- Tagging and Markdown: You can add tags to test cases to make a subset of them quicker to find with filtering. And you can also create rich text descriptions and steps for your test cases with the popular Markdown formatting.
- Test case versions: Products grow, and, therefore, so must test cases. As you add new versions of your products to MozTrap, you will have a version of the test case applied to each one. You can tweak the test case information to match the new product functionality. And for a specific test case, you can browse the history of how the case has changed for each version of the product. This makes it easy to keep newer case steps separate from older ones when you need to test a new version, but still support an older one.
- Environment management: Everyone's product is a little different with specific environmental factors that apply. It may be a list of browsers, or it may be several spoken languages. It could be operating system, or even processor or hard drive type. The environment management is completely configurable. And you can have specific test cases that apply to only one, or a subset of environments.
- FOSS and up to date: Of course it's open source, it's built on Django so deployment is easy, and it incorporates Mozilla's Persona identity system for login as well as Mozilla's upcoming App Marketplace.
There's a lot more to MozTrap than I could explain here. Please check it out!
- You can browse around read-only on our staging site here: https://moztrap.allizom.org/
- Or download it from github and run it locally: https://github.com/mozilla/moztrap/
- Check out the documentation here: http://moztrap.readthedocs.org/en/1.0.X/index.html
- Visit our forum at: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/moztrap
- Feel free to ask questions: irc.mozilla.org #moztrap
- Enter bugs with this link: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?component=MozTrap&product=Mozilla%20QA
We hope to hear from you soon,
Cameron Dawson
MozTrap Team
OK, so I have to eat some crow here. I talked about some new features we had planned for the "end of May" in my last blog post. And then the priorities changed. Most of our dev team was pulled off MozTrap to work on another Mozilla project. So the pace of development has slowed down quite a bit. In the mean time, the Mozilla QA team has begun transitioning over from Litmus to MozTrap for testing and it's been a great experience. We are getting feature requests and questions that are helping to shape MozTrap. Most of them are questions we answer with, "We have a story for that. It's on the roadmap." and some of them are, "Oh, cool. Great idea!"
So, our adjusted feature set for 1.1 sometime near the beginning of July will be a tad more modest, even if they did require a lot of solid work:
- Some minor bug fixes
- Automation Results API feature
- Open Web App support
Most of the features mentioned before will be slated for Q3, 2012. So stay tuned. 🙂
Next I'll talk a bit more about Mozilla QA transitioning to MozTrap and how we're using it.
William Lachance from the A-Team here at Mozilla is credited with creating this Meme poster for us. I thought it was hilarious. 🙂
And on we go with the 1.1 version of MozTrap. We have enough features on our wishlist to take us for a couple more years. And it seems like the list keeps growing the more we get great feedback.
For now, here is the short-range list of features we're working on for 1.1:
- REST API for external tools to submit results: This comes in 2 parts. The first is the REST APIs we are creating, the second is a python connector to make it easy to interact with that API. The intention is that your automation tool can run tests and submit them as "Automation Bot 3" (or whatever name you choose) and have those results reflected in MozTrap
- Tags on Test Runs: It occurs to us that often times you might like to organize test runs for several "Products" and monitor their progress as a unit. By tagging test runs, you can filter down to just the runs you're concerned with and get a clear picture on your status.
- Test Case ordering within Suites: At the moment, the order that tests show up when running isn't set in stone. We realize that often times it's much easier to execute tests in a particular order.
- Global Product Filtering: Often times, you are a user that is concerned with just one Product that your company offers. By being able to set a filter to only show you that product, you don't have to keep filtering through cases, suites and runs for other products.
- Sticky Filtering: when you set up some filters on, say, the test cases management list, then edit one of the tests, and come back to the list, your filters are gone. Most often, a user would like those filters to persist. We're working on it.
- Bulk edit for tags and status: doing these one by one works, but sometimes doing it in bulk is just lots easier.
That's our list for the immediate future. We are hoping to get these changes out by the end of May. So keep your eyes open!
-Cam – MozTrap Project Manager – Mozilla
My team and I have been working on this product for over a year, and we have finally hit our 1.0 version!
The name? Oh that… Thank you for all the responses to the survey. Seemed like people's opinions went in quite a few different directions. Some liked short and simple names. Some liked funnier names. Some liked more descriptive names. In the end, we went with something that (in some ways) had all three of those…
MozTrap – Set the trap, catch the bugs. Sure, it's a play on "Mouse Trap" or perhaps on Mosquito Trap. Goofy, short, easy to spell, and descriptive (after a fashion…). We are really excited about MozTrap hitting 1.0. This is my first big project at Mozilla, and I am having a blast.
I want to give a big shout-out to my amazing team: You guys really kick asteroids and I can't thank you enough for all your enthusiasm, creativity, tenacity, hard-work and dedication. Carl Meyer, Eric Meyer, Rebecca Billings, Jonny Meyer and Sondra Eisenstat have worked super hard and humored me in my quirks and crazy ideas to fit them into this product we now call MozTrap. You guys really made an awesome push all the way through to the end. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you. And a special thanks to Aakash Desai for getting us rolling on this project and helping guide me into it before heading off to help make Mozillians awesome.
Here are the main important links:
- Source – https://github.com/mozilla/moztrap
- Docs – http://readthedocs.org/docs/moztrap/en/1.0.X/index.html
- Dev site – https://moztrap-dev.allizom.org
So, now on to more features!
We have a big list of wishlist items in our Pivotal Tracker project, and we're working hard to prioritize them, and move forward. Stay tuned for more updates. 🙂


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The MSc Accounting, Organisations and Institutions is a unique programme which gives you the opportunity to study the interface between accounting, organisations and institutions drawing on a variety of social science perspectives.
The core course will introduce you to fundamental issues at stake in the interrelationships between accounting, risk management, organisational performance, and institutional frameworks for accountability. The programme also addresses key design issues for accounting, risk and management control systems, and their operation and regulation in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors.
This programme is distinctive in its approach and different from a traditional accounting and finance master's programme. Indeed, it does not require a background in accounting, and students with a good initial training in the humanities or the social or natural sciences, and with good essay writing skills, are strongly encouraged to apply. Yet, the programme is also suitable for those students with an accounting background who wish to develop a deeper knowledge of the organisational and institutional context of accounting.
Because of its breadth, this master's programme is very flexible and prepares students for a wide range of potential careers in accounting, auditing and assurance, financial management, risk management, management consultancy, and regulation, in a variety of for-profit and non-profit organisations globally. The degree also provides solid intellectual preparation for those aspiring to embark on academic research in the field of accounting.
The programme is housed within the Department of Accounting, which is widely recognised throughout Europe for its excellence in accounting and financial management research and education, as well as for its leading role in public policy issues. The interface between accounting and managers, organisations, institutions, public policy and regulatory bodies is a particular teaching and research strength of the Department.
For more information about tuition fees and entry requirements, see the fees and funding and assessing your application sections.
Upper second class honours (2:1) degree or equivalent in any discipline.
Competition for places at the School is high. This means that even if you meet the minimum entry requirement, this does not guarantee you an offer of admission.
Given the high competition for places on this programme, you should indicate your interest in this programme specifically as your first choice in order to maximise the prospect of admission to the programme. You should therefore note the differentiated nature of the graduate programmes in the Department, and are advised to identify your first choice accordingly. Please also note that transfers between programmes are not normally permitted.
If you have studied or are studying outside of the UK then have a look at our Information for International Students to find out the entry requirements that apply to you.
You will need to successfully complete the equivalent of four full-unit courses to meet the requirements of the MSc Accounting, Organisations and Institutions programme. At the start of the programme a short, focused, introductory course on accounting practices and techniques will be held. This is followed by teaching on examined courses up to a total of four full units. Importance is placed on developing the highest level of analytical skills with a focus on practice.
Please note ten-month full-time only master's programmes are not compliant with the Bologna process, which may affect the extent to which they are 'recognised'. For more information on Bologna, please see Bologna process)
(* denotes a half unit course)
Accounting, Organisations and Institutions This is the programme core course and provides students with an advanced understanding of the changing role and position of accounting and risk management practices in organisations, both public and private, and within societies more generally.
Students with little or no accounting background must take the following courses:Management Accounting, Decisions and Control* Provides an introduction to issues of accounting information and cost management, managerial decision making and performance management.Financial Accounting, Reporting and Disclosure*Delivers an introduction to financial accounting and highlights aspects of reporting that are important to users of financial information.OrStudents with a proven and demonstrable competence in accounting must take more advanced courses in accounting to the value of one unit
Courses to the value of two units from a range of options
For the most up-to-date list of optional courses please visit the relevant School Calendar page.
You must note however that while care has been taken to ensure that this information is up to date and correct, a change of circumstances since publication may cause the School to change, suspend or withdraw a course or programme of study, or change the fees that apply to it. The School will always notify the affected parties as early as practicably possible and propose any viable and relevant alternative options. Note that that the School will neither be liable for information that after publication becomes inaccurate or irrelevant, nor for changing, suspending or withdrawing a course or programme of study due to events outside of its control, which includes but is not limited to a lack of demand for a course or programme of study, industrial action, fire, flood or other environmental or physical damage to premises.
You must also note that places are limited on some courses and/or subject to specific entry requirements. The School cannot therefore guarantee you a place. Please note that changes to programmes and courses can sometimes occur after you have accepted your offer of a place. These changes are normally made in light of developments in the discipline or path-breaking research, or on the basis of student feedback. Changes can take the form of altered course content, teaching formats or assessment modes. Any such changes are intended to enhance the student learning experience. You should visit the School's Calendar, or contact the relevant academic department, for information on the availability and/or content of courses and programmes of study. Certain substantive changes will be listed on the updated graduate course and programme information page.
We welcome applications from all suitably qualified prospective students and want to recruit students with the very best academic merit, potential and motivation, irrespective of their background.
We carefully consider each application on an individual basis, taking into account all the information presented on your application form, including your:
- academic achievement (including predicted and achieved grades)- statement of academic purpose- two academic references- CV
See further information on supporting documents
You may also have to provide evidence of your English proficiency, although you do not need to provide this at the time of your application to LSE. See our English language requirements.
Applications for this programme are considered on a rolling basis, meaning the programme will close once it becomes full. There is no fixed deadline by which you need to apply, however to be considered for any LSE funding opportunity, you must have submitted your application and all supporting documents by the funding deadline. See the fees and funding section for more details.
The average taught course contact hours per half unit is 20-30 hours and a full unit is 40-60 hours. Hours vary according to courses and you can view indicative details in the Calendar within the Teaching section of each course guide.
A short, focused, introductory course on accounting practices and techniques will be held at the beginning of the programme. Thereafter, you take examined courses up to a total of four full units. The average number of contact hours per week is 12 hours, which includes lectures and seminars. Office hours with teachers and your academic adviser are available in addition to this. Your academic adviser will be available for guidance and advice on academic or personal concerns.
You are also expected to complete independent study outside of class time. This varies depending on the programme, but requires you to manage the majority of your study time yourself, by engaging in activities such as reading, note-taking, thinking and research.
Courses are taught in lecture and class or seminar format. Lectures introduce the core theoretical and technical concepts, whilst their associated classes allow you to discuss and apply these concepts through exercises and in-depth study. Seminars allow for the focused study of key concepts in a more informal style and may involve presentations by students on selected course materials. Many teachers adopt a variety of teaching methods to deliver their courses, such as class exercises, team presentations, individual or group work, or case study discussions.
LSE is internationally recognised for its teaching and research and therefore employs a rich variety of teaching staff with a range of experience and status. Courses may be taught by individual members of faculty, such as lecturers, senior lecturers, readers, associate professors and professors. Many departments now also employ guest teachers and visiting members of staff, LSE teaching fellows and graduate teaching assistants who are usually doctoral research students and in the majority of cases, teach on undergraduate courses only. You can view indicative details for the teacher responsible for each course in the relevant course guide.
All taught courses are required to include formative coursework which is unassessed. It is designed to help prepare you for summative assessment which counts towards the course mark and to the degree award. LSE uses a range of formative assessment, such as essays, problem sets, case studies, reports, quizzes, mock exams and many others. Summative assessment may be conducted during the course or by final examination at the end of the course. An indication of the formative coursework and summative assessment for each course can be found in the relevant course guide.
There are many opportunities to extend your learning outside the classroom and complement your academic studies at LSE. LSE LIFE is the School's centre for academic, personal and professional development. Some of the services on offer include: guidance and hands-on practice of the key skills you will need to do well at LSE: effective reading, academic writing and critical thinking; workshops related to how to adapt to new or difficult situations, including development of skills for leadership, study/work/life balance and preparing for the world of work; and advice and practice on working in study groups and on cross-cultural communication and teamwork.
LSE is committed to enabling all students to achieve their full potential and the School's Disability and Wellbeing Service provides a free, confidential service to all LSE students and is a first point of contact for all disabled students.
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Students who successfully complete the MSc Accounting, Organisations and Institutions programme pursue careers across a wide range of sectors, in financial institutions, accounting firms, management consulting, industry, government and academia.
Companies who have employed recent graduates from this programme include Bain & Company, Bank of New York Mellon, Barclays Capital, BlackRock, Crédit Agricole, Crowe Horwath, General Electric, JP Morgan, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, PwC, KPMG, Proctor & Gamble, Merrill Lynch, Mondelez, EMI Music, Nordea Bank, Royal Dutch Shell, Schroders and Strategic Asset Partners LLP.
Further information on graduate destinations for this programme
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LSE is a brand that covers quality, challenge, and change. The thing that I liked most and felt most challenging about the LSE and the AOI programme was the constant practices to motivate and encourage students to adopt the culture of discussion as an inseparable part of their lives. The MSc Accounting Organisations and Institutions (AOI) programme at LSE, with its compulsory and wide range of elective courses, forces you to think wider, harder, deeper, and to be more productive. I am continuing my career as an expert at the Capital Markets Board of Turkey, which is the regulatory authority in charge of Turkish capital markets. The AOI programme equipped me with a wider perspective on the regulation side in the sense that I am now able to better analyse and comment on the possible returns and side effects of a possible regulatory change with the help of my highly improved skills especially at accounting and law.
Many leading organisations give careers presentations at the School during the year, and LSE Careers has a wide range of resources available to assist students in their job search. Find out more about the support available to students through LSE Careers.
The AOI programme provides the opportunity to gain a deep knowledge of technical accounting and at the same time challenges the student to look beyond the pure technicalities of the subject. In addition, the programme offers the chance to combine the core accounting subjects with a wide range of other courses from non-accounting areas (e.g. finance, law, politics). Right after my master's I started a graduate scheme in financial management with General Electric (GE) Capital. The graduate scheme involves moving every 6 months to a different location, business and financial management related function. Hence, I am benefitting from the skills acquired and concepts learnt during my year at LSE.
My personal LSE experience also goes far beyond the pure academic knowledge. The most unique aspect of the LSE, were the people I shared my experience with. Never before had I met so many people from that many different countries with such exceptional backgrounds. It has been and will certainly remain one of the most memorable years of my life.
This programme provided a unique opportunity to enhance my competitive edge in the current global job market. The School has a distinguished reputation in social sciences and a cosmopolitan character. The AOI programme encourages students from diverse academic backgrounds to bring brand new perspectives to challenge the teaching and research of the School.
I really enjoyed the academic freedom at LSE. Students do not always need to agree with everything they are taught. In fact, the faculty expects students to take risks to challenge them. The AOI programme moves very fast. Some readings can be intimidating. The core paper is cross-disciplinary and taught from a social science perspective, students are invited to think outside the box in order to see a bigger picture.
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Apr 10, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Deputy Economic Development Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena has said that a foreign company will be given the rights to operate a boat service on the Diyawanna Oya.
A similar service is to also to commence on the Beira Lake.
Abeywardena has said that the boat service would be granted permission to commence once the dredging work currently being carried out in the area is completed.
Abeywardena has said that foreign companies would invest an estimated US$ 523 million in the country's tourism industry.
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Martin Elff is Professor of Political Sociology at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany. He is a political scientist with research interests in the fields of political behaviour, party competition, and political methodology. He has published in the European Journal of Political Research, Perspectives on Politics, Electoral Studies and Political Analysis and has authored the R packages 'memisc', 'mclogit', and 'munfold', published on the 'Comprehensive R Archive Network' (http://cran.r-project.org).
Course Content
The module introduces to the practical analysis of quantitative social science data using R. Consequently, the module is not so much a theoretical presentation of concepts such as probability, expectation, regression, statistical significance etc. but rather emphasizes enabling participants to "road-test" such concepts with the help appropriate software, in particular the open source software package R.
This module covers at least the following topics: (1) basic concepts of data analysis with R; (2) data management – working with variables and data frames; (3) summarising data using tables and graphics; (4) linear regression – model construction and interpretation; (5) testing statistical hypotheses in R (5); generalised linear models for categorical responses, counts, and survival times; (6) advanced statistical graphics; (7) multivariate data analysis – principal components, factor analysis, and structural equations. In addition to these, a few more topics are optionally covered if time permits, such as random variables, random numbers and Monte Carlo simulations; linear algebra with R and regression in matrix form; multilevel models; or programming techniques – depending on participants' interests).
Course Objectives
Participants who successfully complete this module will have a solid understanding of the general principles of data analysis in R. While a two week course can hardly cover all in depth, successful participants will at least be able to identify which of these techniques are appropriate for their research. Further they will be able to graph their data and conduct their data analysis with the free statistical software system R.
Course Prerequisites
The module introduces to a variety of techniques of data analysis and therefore has only little prerequisites. In order to be able to follow the course participants should have a solid understanding of descriptive statistics and regression. They should also have a certain level of "computer literacy", that is, they should not be afraid of command-line oriented (as opposed to menu-driven) software and of writing short command scripts. The ability to do that is not pre-supposed, but the motivation to learn such things is.
Representative Background Reading
Dalgaard, Peter 2002. Introductory Statistics with R. New York: Springer.
Fox, John 2008. Applied Regression Analysis, and General Linear Models. (2nd ed.) Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Fox, John 2002. An R and S-Plus Companion to Applied Regression. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Gill, Jeff 2006. Essential Mathematics for Political and Social Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Venables, W.N., and Ripley, B.D. 2002. Modern Applied Statistics with S. (4th ed.) New York: Springer.
Background knowledge required
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Karen Verduijn and Luuk Terbeek present their elaboration of the IXANext program 'Blended Learning pilots', for which they have designed both a course and a community: The Entrepreneurship Blended Learning Pilot Community (EBLPC). The EBLPC program has a duration of five years, currently we are in the third year.
Pilot in blended learning
Blended learning is the combination of online (lecture material) and offline (personal contact) educational activities within a course or curriculum. This is in particular suitable for entrepreneurship education, in which experiential learning is central and the need for knowledge is highly context-dependent.
Designing & Developing Blended Learning
A number of the assignments from the EBLPC program are also part of the online VU Amsterdam Canvas course: Getting To Know Canvas (GTKC). During the second part of this session, you will work on the basis of these assignments to get started with the (re) design of one of your courses and / or you will be introduced to the VU Amsterdam Blended Learning in 10 steps guide and you will learn about what is involved is the (re) design and development of effective blended learning programs, how costs can be made legitimate, why open educational resources deserve (more) attention, how peer teaching can be designed and which 10 questions should be included as standard within student evaluation forms.
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A man appears suspended in the air above a major American city. A foul-mouthed posse of machete-wielding scoundrels wreak havoc on a small-town mayor. A second-rate boxer starts a torrid affair with the wife of the Invisible Man—who just might be watching (and enjoying) all the freakiness.
Darrin Doyle's latest collection of short stories is an electrifying look at men behaving badly—or just being weird. Hilarious, madly inventive, and compellingly readable, this unforgettable collection will leave the reader dazzled, delirious—and begging for more.
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-Andy Mozina, author of Contrary Motion and Quality Snacks
"Innocents beware! Darrin Doyle has always put a strong, clear, deceptively rational prose voice at the service of a dangerous imagination. But Scoundrels Among Us takes this paradox to a new, scoundrelly level. In these short and shorter stories, as cleanly worded as ever but mined with vile surprises, a darkly impish, even occasionally malicious wit prevails, playing rough and deliciously dirty in the sandbox of the reader's expectations."
-Jaimy Gordon, author of Lord of Misrule, winner of the National Book Award
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Stunning and visceral in its emotional impact, The Dark Will End The Dark collects 14 stories by veteran author Darrin Doyle. Deftly mixing realism and fabulism, bleakness and hope, sparkling dialogue and unforgettable characters, these literary Midwestern Gothic tales remain in the reader's mind long after the last page is turned.
"The human body, logic, and language are all rent apart and remade dazzlingly anew in these fourteen stories. With the droll fabulism of Nikolai Gogol and the moral heft of Shirley Jackson, Doyle's characters face problems both surreal and all-too-real...Fantastical yet close to the bone, these stories are both wounding and wondrous."
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"Doyle's stories are lamentations, demented fairy tales, and quests for enlightenment in which the author explores bodily dysfunction and ungainly lust while familial love hums in the background. In the manner of George Saunders, Doyle uses his smart, light language to lift readers above the darkness of shame and humiliation that brings so many of his characters to their knees."
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"Darrin Doyle's a mad scientist who has stitched together a hauntingly beautiful collection from tattered body parts and a strange, ragged heart. It is only after you've been defibrillated by the stories in The Dark Will End the Dark that you realize you've been dozing through the days. Doyle's got his fingers on the pulse of our brave new American psyche and his writing blazes electric."
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"Darrin Doyle's The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo is about, well, the girl who ate Kalamazoo, but it's about much more than that: family, religion, urban blight and renewal, fame, literature, sister love, and weightlifters. In creating this girl who can and will eat everything, Darrin Doyle has created a way to talk about the things that matter most to us. It's an incredible, riotous, beautifully written, sneakily profound novel. I don't know of another book like it; I would be jealous of it if I weren't so busy being amazed."—Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
"As quirky, funny, and masterful as it is, Darrin Doyle's The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo isn't just a book about a girl who ate a city – it's about the hunger we all have, for love, for family, for home." Alix Ohlin, author of The Missing Person
In this charming novel, Darrin Doyle paints a captivating portrait of the all-American family—if the all-American family's youngest child ate an entire city in Michigan with a smile, that is. Doyle has a flare for writing about family dysfunction with a twist. With a unique blend of realism and fantasy, The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo is the moving story of the hauntingly beautiful Audrey Mapes, who began her illustrious "career" by downing crayons by the carton only to graduate to eating an entire city one bite at a time. With vivid, acerbic wit, Doyle details the life of the world's most gifted "eatist" through the eyes of Audrey's sister, McKenna. Through her eyes, we see the real tragedy of the Mapes story is not the destruction of a city, but rather, the quiet disintegration of a family who just didn't quite know how to love.
"Darrin Doyle's startling first novel is dirty and sweet, funny and terrifying. But above all else, it's one of a kind: I've never read a book like Revenge of the Teacher's Pet, one that so daringly and empathetically depicts the sometimes messed up, sometimes beautiful things we do in the name of love"—Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
"[This] is the kind of quirky, subversively off-center novel that page by page accumulates what becomes a sustained inner hilarity. It's a story that requires perfect tonal pitch, and Darrin Doyle, in this his first novel, makes that look easy."—Stuart Dybek, author of The Coast of Chicago
"A deftly made, raucous tale of love and its attendant hungers and humiliations. Doyle has conceived original characters in that 'poor twit' Mr. Portwit and his fleshy wife, Mary Ann, whose bodily sacrifices in the name of love—self-love and other—are, finally, heartbreaking."—Christine Schutt, author of Florida, a National Book Award finalist
"Doyle's novel takes on both the teacher's lounge and married life in the way a shotgun takes on the squirrel and the pigeon. As soon as tiny science teacher Mr. Portwit gets himself a wife, he tucks his napkin into his collar and plots revenge against all who have wronged him, while in the background, the students 'cluck like poultry.' This wacky and philosophical story that suggests that the secret to a contented life may not be so different than the one employed in education: let's simply lower our standards. That said, this is also a convincing tale of romantic love."—Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of Q Road
Book Description
Fifty-year-old science teacher Dale Portwit believes that the peak of his life has come and gone. A failed suicide, a food fetishist, so isolated that the Best Man at his wedding is a framed photograph of his former mailman, Mr. Portwit resolves to live entirely for the moment, to speak his mind at each turn no matter what the consequences. He sets his sights upon Mary Ann Tucker, Elkhart Elementary's plump, accommodating third-grade teacher. Their whirlwind courtship leads to wedding bands, a house in the suburbs, and an indulgent sex life—so why aren't they happy? Perhaps a little revenge is just what this marriage needs.
Decidedly odd, yet also oddly moving, Revenge of the Teacher's Pet is a skillful mix of comedy, poignancy, love, memory, obesity, top-ten lists, fish, and murder.


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Creating an admin
- In the Xively management app, click on your name in the top right-hand corner and select Manage account admins.
- On the Account admins page, click Invite.
- In the Invite a new admin window, type the email address of the new admin and click Send.
Result: An invitation with a registration link is sent to the email address you provided. The new admin has to provide their name, set a password, and choose a role (Engineering, R&D or Innovation, Business, Other). The role choice does not affect admin's permissions.
When the new admin logs into the Xively management app, they get full permissions to the Account.
To remove an admin from the account, contact Xively.
Creating an end-user in the Xively management app
Make sure your Xively account has at least one group created (GROUPS > All groups > + Add new).
- In the Xively management app, from the left-side menu select END-USERS > All end-users.
- On the End-users page, click Create new end-user.
- In the Create new end-user window, select a template and a group to which the end-user will belong, and type the user's email and password.
- Click Create.
The generated
userIdallows to identify this end-user within the Account.
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Creating an end-user with API
You can also create an end-user with API, see Create an end-user.
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Did you know Ikea has a blog called Life at Home? It's new-to-me and it's in Swedish (which I don't read or speak), but chrome does a good job of translating. It features some fun ideas. I like this plate wall. And I adore the shelving they built with binder clips.
Wouldn't those shelves be fun in a playspace or home office? They remind me of the crate shelving featured in the fleeting Blueprint magazine.
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