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In step: A scene from Nic and Jonathan's first short film, Student Learning Experience
Home-made comedy music videos made by two Jewish students about life on campus have taken the university community by storm.
Nic Gilbert and Jonathan Kogan's viral clips have received 100,000 hits on YouTube from students across the country.
The pair, both aged 22 and from Totteridge in north London, are now completing their latest film which looks at life after graduation.
Their cult status started to grow 18 months ago after their first film, aimed at attracting teenagers to study at Nottingham University, was disqualified from a university competition.
Nic ex-plained: "There was a contest to make a short video about life on campus so we made Student Learning Experience. We had so many ideas that it made the writing the easiest part of it. We took our handycam onto campus to see what sort of shots we could get without getting into trouble."
The four-minute film, in which the pair star, took three weeks to make. The positive reaction from fellow students took them by surprise, but the judges were not so happy.
"We had no idea that anyone other than the judges would ever watch it. They deemed it 'inappropriate' because the winning entry had to be put on the university website. In the end we were disqualified," said Nic.
But the judges were so taken aback by the pair's film-making skills that they later apologised and the university provided equipment for them to make more films.
Their peers on campus could not get enough. The notoriety of the disqualified film saw it go viral, with thousands of students across the country rushing to YouTube to watch the clips.
That one film alone has now amassed almost 80,000 hits, and together with other clips, the boys' work has been viewed 100,000 times.
Nic said: "I said to Jonathan when it reached 15,000 hits that if I had known how many people would watch it we would have made it even better."
Wider recognition followed, with two nominations at the annual national student film festival, performances at charity events and a live performance at the university's summer ball.
"When people started singing along it was quite shocking to realise people knew our work. It was one of our best experiences," said psychology student Nic.
Both he and Jonathan, a philosophy student, are now knuckling down to the demands of their third year academic work. Their latest film is due to be released in around four weeks.
Nic said: "We are both dreading the day we have to get jobs. If we could make a living out of making films it would be brilliant.
"My mum does not really get the jokes. My dad has a good sense of humour but he's not too keen on the films.
"They are very supportive but I think they would prefer us to be working on our degrees."
● Watch Nic and Jonathan's work at www.youtube.com/user/Kdnfnty


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A welcome for Mr Hoon
By Candice Krieger, January 21, 2010
Former Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon does not spend all his time plotting to pull the rug from under Gordon Brown.
He is due to speak next month in a panel discussion on racism organised by Yad Vashem UK.
A spokesman for the charity described the ex-minister's appearance as "a great coup".
Not Mr Hoon's favourite choice of word, I would think.
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At 40 years old, an age at which most ballplayers have long been retired, Bartolo Colon is having arguably the finest season of his 16-year career.
Colon beat the Angels on Friday night for his 14th victory, tying him for the major-league lead with the Tigers' Max Scherzer and the Rays' Matt Moore. And Colon's ERA of 2.54 – eighth lowest in the majors and the best of his career – is more than a half-run lower than Scherzer's and Moore's.
While Scherzer has gotten most of the attention in the American League – rightfully so, since he opened the season with 13 consecutive wins – Colon has put together 14 consecutive starts of six or more innings while allowing three or fewer runs.
With as many as 12 starts left this season, Colon could match or surpass his career best of 21 victories with the Angels in 2005, his last great season.
If Colon finishes the season with, say, a 22-5 record and the A's win the A.L. West, he would be a leading candidate for the A.L. Cy Young Award.
Unfortunately, Colon's name has been mentioned in the national media mostly in connection with the Biogenesis clinic and baseball's ongoing investigation into performance-enhancing drugs. Remember, Colon was suspended 50 games last season for testing positive, and it's not clear if his name keeps popping up because of that or if he's being investigated for something new.
A second violation would bring an automatic 100-game suspension, more than likely ending his career.
If Colon can finish this season, win the Cy Young Award and lead the A's to the World Series, what better time to retire, avoiding the possibility of a second suspension and the permanent stain on this dream season?
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Charlotte Temple
Modern Library, Paperback, 9780812971217, 144pp.
Publication Date: May 11, 2004
With an Introduction by Jane Smiley
First published in America in 1794, Charlotte Temple took the country by storm—in fact, it was this nation's first bona fide "bestseller." Susanna Rowson's most famous work is the story of an innocent British schoolgirl who takes the advice of her depraved French teacher— with tragic consequences. Seduced by the dashing Lieutenant Montraville, who persuades her to move to America with him, the fifteen-year-old Charlotte leaves her adoring parents and makes the treacherous sea voyage to New York. In the land of opportunity, Charlotte is callously abandoned by Montraville. Alone and pregnant with an illegitimate child, she valiantly fights to stave off poverty and ruin.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the first American edition.
Susanna Rowson, nee Haswell (1762 - 2 March 1824) was a British-American novelist, poet, playwright, religious writer, stage actress, and educator. Rowson was the author of the 1791 novel Charlotte Temple, the most popular best-seller in American literature until Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852. It was as governess that she wrote her first work, Victoria, dedicated to the Duchess of Devonshire, published in 1786, and in the same year she married William Rowson, a hardware merchant and Royal Horse Guards trumpeter. In 1791, she published the novel now referred to as Charlotte Temple; it became the first American best-selling novel. After William's hardware business failed, he and Susanna turned to acting. In 1793, as a member of the theater company of Thomas Wignell, she returned to America, performing in Philadelphia.
Jane Smiley is the author of nine previous works of fiction, including The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love & Good Will, A Thousand Acres (for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize), and Moo. She lives in northern California.
"A spirited, cannily high-minded story of seduction, betrayal, and retribution."
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My laptop's main HD makes a clicking or knocking sound when Windows or the Bios tries to access it. I put it into a SATA dock and it sounds perfectly fine when spinning up, but after Windows tries to access it, it becomes a repetitive clicking or knocking sound.
Does anyone know any tips that might help me access my data? It locks up parts Windows XP and Ghost with WinPE, so I am unable to access my data.
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Assassin's Creed: Black Flag is a good apology. Rushed out a year after Assassin's Creed 3, it goes a long way toward righting many of its predecessor's wrongs. Gone are the occasionally annoying gameplay, the convoluted storyline, the world that is more expansive than interesting. In their place is the rollicking story of a lowly mariner's rise from ambitious drunkyard to feared pirate captain.
That pirate is Edward Kenway. Think of him as Han Solo on a boat.
When he's not sneaking around searching for a bad guy to impale or free-running across rooftops, Kenway likes to spend his time drinking with ruffians and singing shanties on the open sea.
His role as a rogue motivated more by riches than morals makes him distinct from the previous lead characters of the Assassin's series.
It means he's a lot more fun.
Black Flag follows Kenway through the 18th century Caribbean cities of Kingston, Nassau, Havana and the surrounding seas.
Many of the landlocked features of the previous three games are present, with the option always there to spend endless hours hunting down treasure, accepting assassination contracts and even pursuing golden flying musical notes (they give your crew a new sea shanty to sing) as they float frustratingly away.
But the real fun happens with Kenway at the helm of the pirate ship Jackdaw. His job is to plunder frigates and schooners for materials to upgrade the ship and maintain a crew despite a shockingly high incidence of workplace injury and death.
Once you get your head and hands around the controls, the swashbuckling sea battles that follow may be the best part of the game. There's not much that is better than pummelling an enemy vessel into submission with cannon fire, leaping aboard, cutting your way through its crew, accepting their surrender and sailing away as your men launch into What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor.
The only problem with the game is its sometimes-boring modern-day segments. Past Assassin's games always dragged players out of the game for interactive story segments with Desmond Miles. After Miles' death in Assassin's 3, Black Flag has to start from scratch.
Though it's interesting to see how the story intersects with that of previous games, it can be a bit of a bore - especially for those unfamiliar with the series.
It's a small quibble with an excellent game. Wave your loved ones goodbye when you start playing. You'll be out to sea a long time.
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Verdict: Some time at sea has done Assassin's good.
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CARSON, Calif. -- Scouts from all over the country flocked to the inaugural Under The Lights 7-on-7 passing tournament at the Home Depot Center this past weekend.
Presented by Big Man On Campus and sponsored by Under Armour, the new event promised to have several of the nation's top prospects in attendance, and it lived up to its billing.
"The anticipation, the buildup has been tremendous for this tournament," said Keyshawn Johnson, an NFL analyst for ESPN, former NFL veteran and USC product who is the mastermind behind the BMOC brand, along with another former Trojan Brian Kelly. "Our goal was to bring together some of the top recruits in the country and let them settle things on the field.
"This tournament was stacked with talent. We're going to do things again next year and hope to expand all over the West Coast. With Under Armour as a sponsor and behind us, we think this thing is going to take off. It already has. Expect big things in the future.''
Mind you, it's next to impossible to list all of the talent in attendance over the course of the two-day tournament. That said, it's time to take a look at some of the prospects who left a lasting impression.
Payton puts in some work
ESPNU 150 wide receiver Jordan Payton (Westlake Village, Calif./Oaks Christian) was a man on one of those proverbial missions. The 6-foot-2 and 200-plus pounder from the class of 2012 played as if he had something to prove against his many talented peers.
Cornerbacks and safeties wouldn't let Payton out of their collective sight. Nevertheless, he found a way to make an impact, similar to the way he has done so many times in the past.
"I know I have a target on my back, but that makes me want to go harder,'' Payton said. "This tournament is great because there's a lot of good competition, good players you don't get see on an everyday basis. This was a time for me to showcase my talents. I think I did a good job.''
The USC commit is the nation's No. 19 player at his position and No. 146 recruit overall.
The Trojans landed a verbal pledge from him in March 2010. That fact, however, has done little, or nothing, to deter prospective schools from actively pursuing him.
Payton has scholarship offers fro, Florida, LSU, Michigan, Notre Dame and Oklahoma. Miami and Arkansas also have stayed in contact with him.
"I'm committed to USC, and I like the Trojans, but I'm not sure they're the best fit for me right now,'' Payton said. "I'm looking around to see what other schools stand out to me.''
Plenty of Pac-12 Conference programs have offered Payton, most notably Arizona State, Oregon State, UCLA and Washington. Boise State and Tennessee also must be considered players in Payton's recruitment.
Small frame, big-time game
Listed at 5-10 and 160 pounds, measurements which appear to be generous, Robert Lewis (South Gate, Calif./South East) is often overlooked.
Make no mistake about it, though. The diminutive running back from the 2012 class makes up for the lack of stature with a number of other redeeming physical qualities. All signs point to many of his opponents agreeing with such a statement after seeing Lewis in action from start to finish. Seemingly no one could figure out a way to slow him down.
The fact Lewis, an SMU commit, put together a solid effort should not come as a major surprise. It's not as if he is a complete unknown on the national landscape. We are, after all, talking about someone who's a member of the ESPNU 150.
Appropriately, Lewis is ranked as the country's No. 12 player at his position, a notch below top-tier ball carriers such as Keith Marshall (Raleigh, N.C./Millbrook), Rushel Shell (Aliquippa, Pa./Hopewell), Johnathan Gray (Aledo, Texas/Aledo) and Alex Ross (Jenks, Okla./Jenks).
Given time and some steady improvement, Lewis could end up being mentioned among the best around considering schools from all over the country continue keeping tabs on him.
"I committed to SMU, but I'm listening to all of the colleges out there,'' Lewis said. "It's still early in the process, I think things are going to get bigger and better for me.''
Pac-12 Conference programs are all over him, which best explains his offer from Oregon. And if the Ducks are interested, there is a good chance their rivals will follow suit.
Not surprisingly, Arizona and UCLA, along with USC and Washington, have recently expressed varied levels of interest in Lewis, although no offers have been made.
Colorado and Utah have both offered. The same can be said for Idaho, New Mexico State and Mississippi. All told, he has eight scholarships from which to choose.
In the last month, or so, he also has talked to Fresno State and Nebraska.
Bottom line: Colleges don't appear to be overly concerned with his size.
"I know what I can do, and I think these other schools are starting to figure it out,'' Lewis said. "My plan is to take things slow, start taking some visits soon, and see what happens.''
Johnson is no joke
Johnny Johnson (Fresno, Calif./San Joaquin Memorial) may be a bit young. The up-and-coming 2013 recruit, however, did not let his age and inexperience factor into the way he played once the ball was snapped during a standout effort at the Under The Lights tournament.
The 5-10, 175-pound defensive back didn't back down from the challenge when he lined up on the other side of scrimmage from Payton. Difficult tests against Darreus Rogers (Carson, Calif./Carson) and Bryce Treggs (Bellflower, Calif./St. John Bosco) followed.
Never one to be intimidated, Johnson managed to hold his own.
In doing so, he opened up some eyes. Come to think of it, Johnson has been doing that for quite some time now, especially with regards to college coaches and scouts.
"An event like this means a whole lot to me, I've been pumped up since we got started,'' Johnson said. "It's a chance to show what I've got in front of some important people. My mentality is that I'm the best player out here. If you don't think that way, you won't be successful."
So far, so good.
It appears as if things are going according to plan, thus far anyway.
He recently received his first scholarship offer, from Colorado State.
More than a few Pac-12 Conference schools have contacted him lately, including Oregon and USC. Neither has offered, but it's early. Arizona, UCLA and Washington are among the others interested.


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Blended learning (also known as hybrid learning) is a combination of online, self-paced learning and face-to-face classroom instruction. Prior to this initiative, research had shown that this combination could significantly improve student learning, engagement, and satisfaction in large community colleges and universities, but its role in a liberal arts college setting was untested. The Next Generation Learning Challenges Grant funded the study that launched this initiative was intended to discover how blended learning might work in the smaller, more intimate environment of residential liberal arts colleges.
Our research showed that blended learning could not only improve student learning in this context, but it could also support the meaningful faculty-student interactions and deep, active learning pedagogies that that liberal arts colleges value. Faculty used the online elements of a blended course can be used to provide students with more low-stakes opportunities to assess and get feedback on their learning and to develop the metacognitive skills needed to be successful lifelong learners. Instructor "dashboards" in online courseware in turn provided faculty with a "real-time" snapshot of student progress, enabling them to narrow lectures down to the areas where students need additional help, and freeing up remaining class time for discussions, projects, and other activities that promote deep learning. Faculty also felt that the blended approach helped them meet the needs of a diverse student population, since online activities could provide different levels of support or challenge, according to individual students' needs and the student learning data generated helped them identify and reach out to students who need extra support or challenge.
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The hotel staff were extremely helpful with suggestions of where to eat and what to see in the area. The food was of a consistently high standard. Rooms were comfortable and clean. A very pleasant atmosphere at all times. Would highly recommend this hotel
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From the welcome we felt spoilt,the setting is amazing,the staff are very knowledgable and passionate about the hotel.The fine dining was very good and the wine selection great.The rooms are beautifully appointed and very relaxing,the gardens are out of this world.We will definitely be going back but for a weekend.
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I had a physics professor in Brooklyn College who was asked one day about a book entitled, "Physics Made Simple." The question was whether or not physics could indeed be made simple. HIs answer was, "Of course it can be made simple. Just leave out all the hard stuff."
A similar question is often asked about health insurance, i.e. whether it can be made cheap. The answer is, "Of course it can be made cheap. Just leave out all the expensive stuff, like MRI's, coronary artery bypass, etc."
Nevertheless, the good news is that, though good quality health insurance will never be cheap, It can be made cheapER. One of the problems is that each state regulates health insurance differently, requiring a variety of expensive 'mandates' (addiction treatment, chiropractic, etc.) and prohibiting residents who don't want to pay for all the 'bells and whistles' from purchasing insurance in other states.
There is a better way.
I propose that we make the District of Columbia into a health insurance free trade zone, supervised by the Department of Health and Human Services (or maybe another czar or czarina). The Constitution grants Congress the duty to "exercise exclusive Legislation in all cases" over the District. While home rule was granted in 1975, Congress still has final authority.
We should allow any insurance company operating within the District to offer for sale any type of health insurance offering any benefits subject only to the following restrictions:
1) Demonstration of sufficient reserves to pay claims.
2) Benefits and restrictions be clearly spelled out in the policy.
Companies that want to organize and operate as a "Cooperative," fine. Those who want to operate individually, also fine. You want to come here to buy insurance because you can get a better deal? Common' down. Want to keep what you've got? No problem. Isn't that what the President promised?
Not only will this make insurance more affordable, it will also serve as a non-compulsory 'laboratory' for any insurance company with a good idea about how to offer a better product at a more affordable price. All we ask is that you put up your own dough and that you don't lie to us. Isn't that what the American Way was supposed to be all about anyway?
As to the question of a possible illegal preemption of State prerogatives by the Federal government, this will be a question for the lawyers to decide. However, the Constitution's Supremacy Clause addresses this question, "The Laws of the United States [i.e. the Federal government]...shall be the supreme law of the land." Besides, why would the states want to continue mucking around in the insurance business if this were all to work out and the Congress, for once, got it right?
We should also make health insurance deductible for individuals purchasing their own insurance just the way it always has been for those getting their insurance from their employers. Fair is fair.
And, finally, there is the question of tort reform, which might go a long way toward controlling costs. The British, in their inimical fashion, have always regarded as 'eminently sensible' the suggestion of a little known British playwright who proposed over 400 years ago to 'First, shoot all the lawyers.' Personally, I would lean toward the successful-where-it's-been-tried cap on non-economic damages. But this is a subject for another time.
Dr. Finger has been practicing otolaryngology in Brooklyn since the invention of the ear, the nose and the throat. He ran for Congress in 2006 on both the Libertarian and Republican lines and came within 44% of staging a major electoral upset. drstevefin
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The University's foundation stone was laid by King George V on 19 July 1920 and 89 students (including eight female students) enrolled that same year. By 1960 a large-scale development programme was underway that would see the construction of new halls of residence, the Maths and Science Tower, and College House (later Fulton House). In 2009 work commenced on a second Institute of Life Science.
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Research is at the heart of Swansea University's vision and plays an important role in many of the policy challenges set out in our Strategic Plan and those of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and the Welsh Assembly Government.Each of the University's six academic Colleges has an associated Director of Research responsible for developing and leading the implementation of the research strategy for the College.The big challenges of today do not respect the artificial boundaries between traditional disciplines, which is why Swansea University's campus environment provides an ideal environment for multidisciplinary research to flourish.
As a team we are comitted to a hands on student experience and we are in the top 10 universities for graduate prospects with 75% of our students in education or employment 6 months after graduating (DLHE).UK Top 20 for graduate job prospects.Co-curricular opportunities to develop employability skills include national and international work experience and study abroad programmes and volunteering, together with students' union and athletic union societies, social and leisure activities.
Many organisations offer scholarships or grants. Some of these might help you to study for a PhD at Swansea University!
Swansea University offers a range of international scholarships to help the most talented and ambitious students to reach their potential. We are proud to support the Chevening Scholarship Programme and we are honoured to be part of the Santander Network of Universities.
We have our own Letting agency, Student Accommodation Services, also known as SAS Lettings: a partnership with the Students' Union. At our housing event SAS staff and Students' Union officers can offer advice on student housing and help you in your search.If you have made an application for accommodation and In the event that our accommodation is full we will hold a Housing Fair which will enable you to meet other students, form a group and look for accommodaiton before you start at University.
Swansea University Libraries provide high-quality information services for all students and staff, as well as the public, constantly developing these services to support the University's learning, teaching, research and corporate activities.Library locations include the Library and Information Centre at Singleton Park, Bay Library, South Wales Miners' Library and St. David's Park Library.
Research and teaching capacity doubled when the science and innovation Bay Campus opened in 2015. And in 2018 the £31 million Computational Foundry opens there, housing more than 150 computer science researchers.
All our accommodation gives you free access to Wifi
When you travel abroad as a student on official Swansea University business you are entitled to use the University's comprehensive travel insurance policy if you so wish. The policy covers the period from the time that you leave your normal place of residence immediately before the start of your course until the journey home immediately after your course has finished.
The main student areas in Swansea are next to the Singleton Park Campus in Brynmill, Uplands and Sketty.There are pubs, shops, restaurants and takeaways within easy walking distance. These areas are a 5-15 minute walk to the University and are full of student houses.Safe to say, if youÆre living in a student house, not only your flatmates, but your neighbours will be students too.
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ELTS is accredited by BALEAP and the British Council plus is also a member of a number of important professional organisations linked to English Language Teaching. Our staff regularly attend training events and a number are speakers at conferences and professional interest meetings. We are also very proud to be part of a university which in 2014 was voted by students as the University of the Year.
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U.S. auto regulators lack needed power to order immediate recalls under proposed Senate legislation, the federal car-safety chief said today.
The measure, a response to Toyota Motor Corp. vehicle defects, would let regulators require consumer notification of safety hazards and remedies to correct flaws. That "does not constitute a recall," said David Strickland, director of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
"If the threat to human life is truly imminent, the agency needs to act quickly, and not be slowed down by a lengthy procedural process," Strickland said in testimony at a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing in Washington.
Strickland is trying to shape legislation as the Senate and House advance plans to toughen safety oversight in response to Toyota vehicle flaws. The Toyota City, Japan-based company recalled more than 8 million vehicles worldwide in the past year for accelerator-pedal defects.
The legislation was proposed this month by Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat and chairman of the panel that held today's hearing. The House is considering a separate plan.
Rockefeller's legislation lacks legal protections for manufacturers or standards that would define when the government could take immediate action on defects, according to groups including the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers.
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The measure would "significantly expand" federal power over manufacturers, "without offering any additional safety benefits," said Dave McCurdy, chief executive officer of the Washington-based alliance whose members include Toyota, General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co.
Toyota, the world's largest automaker, paid the maximum $16.4 million U.S. fine yesterday for failing to alert regulators about a defect tied to unintended acceleration. Regulators said Toyota waited at least four months, violating the law that requires notification within five days.
Toyota hasn't found any electronics flaws to explain sudden, unintended acceleration after examining more than 2,000 vehicles, James Lentz, president of Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc., said in remarks prepared for tomorrow's House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing and released today.
Rockefeller's legislation proposes steps such as requiring standards for vehicle "black boxes" that will record data, brake overrides and floor-pedal placements. The plan increases per-vehicle penalties to $25,000 from $5,000, and removes a fee cap for intentionally failing to report defects.
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The House version sponsored by Representative Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, differs from the Senate plan by giving Strickland the power to order immediate recalls. Other provisions in the House version also are in the Senate bill.
The Senate's pedal-placement rule wouldn't benefit safety, and penalties should be capped "at some reasonable level," McCurdy said in prepared remarks. Proposed black-box requirements "will add significantly" to costs of the devices, McCurdy said.


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Diversity at the iSchool
The iSchool at the University of Maryland prioritizes issues of diversity and inclusion in the iSchool community. Information and technology raise issues of diversity and inclusion among many communities; as such, the iSchool embraces a broad definition of diversity in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, disability, age, socio-economic status, education, geography, language, literacy, sexual orientation, and national origin, among other factors.
Further information about diversity initiatives at the iSchool can be found below:
The iSchool also offers the innovative Information and Diverse Populations Specialization, which is a unique program of study that prepares Master's students to be culturally competent information professionals ready to practice inclusively upon graduation. All students are able to take a range of classes on topics of diversity and inclusion related to information and technology, such as:
- LBSC 620 Diverse Populations, Inclusion, and Information;
- LBSC 622 Information and Universal Usability;
- INST 613 Information and Human Rights; and
- INST 614 Inclusion, Literacy, and the Public Good.
Along with such focused on diversity and inclusion topics, many other courses address issues of diversity and inclusion as part of their content.
The iSchool faculty includes several leading scholars of diversity and information, and many faculty members include diversity and inclusion issues in their research. These research projects range from investigating the roles of libraries in promoting digital literacy to creating instructional materials that encourage the participation of underrepresented groups in science education, and from building online resources for local cultural institutions, nonprofits, and governments to meet community needs in creative ways to designing and developing technologies to make the web more accessible for persons with disabilities. Research in the iSchool related to diversity and inclusion has been funded by the Institute of Museum & Library Services, the National Science Foundation, the American Library Association, the Smithsonian Institute, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, among many other organizations.
In November 2012, the iSchool hosted the first Symposium on Diversity and Library and Information Science Education. Bringing together educators, scholars, professionals, government agencies, and non-profits, this event is intended to increase the dialogue in the Library and Information Science field about creating innovative educational approaches to both increase the diversity of the information professions and enhance the inclusiveness of information practice. The second Symposium on Diversity and Library and Information science Education was held on April 11, 2014 and the third will take place October 13 & 14, 2015. For more details, visit ipac.umd.edu
Diversity Offices
In addition to teaching and research, the iSchool has several positions and organizations specifically devoted to promoting and celebrating diversity and inclusion in the iSchool and connecting the iSchool to wider university, local, state, national, and international communities.
Diversity and inclusion efforts in the iSchool are led by the Diversity Officer, who coordinates efforts related to diversity and inclusion in the iSchool and serves as the primary representative of the iSchool on campus-wide and broader community initiatives. The Diversity Officer is primarily responsible for monitoring and evaluating diversity efforts in the iSchool, well as serving as Assistant Director of the MLIS Program for Information & Diverse Populations Specialization.
The College's equity administrator ensures that considerations of diversity and inclusion are central to hiring and personel decisions at the iSchool. The equity administrator also works to promote diversity and inclusion in the college as a workplace. Margarita Rodriguez serves as the iSchool's equity administrator.
The Diversity Committee focuses on outreach, partnership, and community activities related to diversity and inclusion for the iSchool, including overseeing the administration of the James A. Partridge Award in conjunction with the Citizens for Maryland Libraries. The current members of the Diversity Committee are:
- Sheri Massey, Chair
- June Ahn
- Tamara Clegg
- Ricky Punzalan
- Brian Real
- Paul Jaeger, Diversity Officer
The iSchool also is home to iDiversity, an organization for iSchool students, faculty, staff, and alumni interested in inclusion information practice and diversification of the information professions. iDiversity hosts a range of talks and events on these topics. You can follow iDiversity on Twitter at @iDiversityUMD, and #iDiversity or go to their website at idiversity.umd.edu. If you want to contact iDiversity, their email is email@example.com.
The survey provided the opportunity to get not only a sense of perceptions of diversity and inclusion within the College, but also a detailed picture of the diversity within the members of the College community.
In October and November 2013, the College disseminated a Diversity Questionnaire for specific populations in the College community as the first of a series of studies building on the Diversity Climate Assessment Survey. The questionnaire was designed to help us better understand issues of diversity and inclusion at the iSchool for specific populations who indicated unique challenges and successes in the Climate Assessment Survey. You can read the entire write-up of the Diversity Questionnaire Report here.
For any questions or suggestions about diversity and inclusion efforts at the College, please contact Dr. Paul T. Jaeger, the iSchool's Diversity Officer, at 301-405-1741 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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"What the Face Reveals dramatically illustrates the value of precise measurement of facial behavior in illuminating an impressive range of issues in basic and applied research. The chapters present innovative state-of-the-art applications of facial measurement, and the commentaries by authors and editors greatly enrich the readers experience. This is affective science of the highest quality, brimming with intriguing findings and promising new directions." --Robert W. Levenson, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley and Director of the Institute of Personality and Social Research and the Berkeley Psychophysiology Laboratory
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Comments about 'JD Falslev a fiery, versatile player for Cougars'
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With the state of the Utah offense, let's hope he tries to catch another
kick off with his face just like last year. That was a sweet fumble that Utah
recovered on the 5 yard line.
- 9:30 p.m. Sept. 10, 2012
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Really Mr. 54 going on 10?
- 9:44 p.m. Sept. 10, 2012
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Hey lets ask what Ute fans have to say about this....oh wait...
- 10:42 p.m. Sept. 10, 2012
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I saw the other day that if you did something or another for one of the advertizers that you could get a football signed by a Cougar football player. I asked my wife who she would like to sign a football if she won it. She didn't know who she would like and she is a Y fan. But I told her I had one guy over all the others I would want to have and it's J.D. Falslev. That boy is wound tighter and more compact than a Swiss watch on steroids. He is a competitor, hyper and a gentleman and all at the same time. I am glad he is on our team because I wouldn't want to face a team with him on it. Glad to see they gave him some running options...I am sure opposing coaches aren't.
- 1:47 a.m. Sept. 11, 2012
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@54-10 - I hope you enjoyed your year of gloating. What will you change your
moniker to after Saturday? Your screen name will come to an end on Saturday,
while mine will live on as long as I'm in Texas. You seem to live for only
one game each year, instead of understanding that a season consists of 12 or 13
games. To me, Saturday is a big game; but I will have many more big games this
year to year on my Cougs.
JD is one more example of recruiting "stars" meaning nothing. He has had such a positive impact on this team. He is tough and tenacious. Everytime he fields a punt, I cheer, hoping and believing, this will be the next one he returns for a TD. Keep up the great work JD, and Go Cougs!
- 7:23 a.m. Sept. 11, 2012
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After losing to the Aggies, losing on national tv on ESPN, losing Wynn, White
going nowhere, and Blechen suspended for 3 games is pretty depressing.
AND then seeing UCLA, AU, and OSU all win this past weekend there's not much to hope for except a never ending path to the woodshed in the PAC 10 + .2! Utes won't make .500 this season.
Things are not going well in Uteville.
Seeing the Utes face plant this weekend will do them in for 2012.
- 7:33 a.m. Sept. 11, 2012
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You mean 10 going on 54?
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Hmmm, another undersized, overachieving, hard working, punt returning choir boy.
I wonder why Bronco likes these guys so much?
Not really. I wonder why some of our own fans don't like them more.
- 8:49 a.m. Sept. 11, 2012
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Oh, and 54-10, did you pick up any new highlights last weekend? I understand there were several.
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BYU fans that are passing off Saturday's game as an easy win are crazy. Yes, the Utes lost Jordan Wynn... but they've already learned to play without him and aren't a dramatically different team in his absence. The Utes have a great defense and remember that it is a rivalry game where anything can happen. The Utes lost last week because USU is legit, not because they are PAC cellar dwellers. I still think there is a good chance they compete for the PAC south title this year. Now, that being said... I still believe BYU has this one. Our rushing defense is great and should hold up against the Utes. Last week showed that we have several playmakers--like Falslev--who can step up if needed. We also have a few bona fide stars (i.e. Van Noy, Ogletree, Hoffman) and a great leader in Riley Nelson. Only four more days, I can't wait. Go Cougs!
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Last week Utah seemed to play better after Wynn left the game...Cougs will have to be ready to go top speed, and hang on to the football to come out on top, go Cougars.
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"No, he gets along with everybody. If someone gets hurt, he's the first
to take them to the office and sit with them to get help."
that comment alone won me over.
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"The Utes lost last week because USU is legit, not because they are PAC cellar dwellers."
Disagree. The Utes lost because they were not as good as they thought they were. I'm not discounting USU the least bit in this statement. Chuckie had some great moments against an inept Utah defense.
We've known for sometime that the Ute O-line has had problems. It was absolutely exposed and miserable against the Aggies and Jordan is gone because of it. White IV could not make any headway, same problem and then some. With Hays coming in it might open up some, can't be any worse than what we saw Friday.
I think the Cougars will be able to exploit the same weaknesses and then some.
And the PAC South Division has a pulse this preseason. Utes won't have it as easy as last year.
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Playing as a Unit: How to Use a Cricket Cliche to Improve your Cricket Team
International players and coached these days are always going on about how they "performed as a unit" – fielded, batted, bowled.
Lurking in the depths of this moribund press talk is a grain of truth we can use at any level.
How to Captain: Placing the Fielders
This is part three of a series on how to captain in the field. To go to part one click here. To go back to the introduction click here.
Along with bowling changes, field placing is the other obvious part of captaincy in the field.
The simple way to look at it is to put the fielders where you think the ball is most likely to go (not always just where it has gone).
How do you do that without resorting to the stock fields that everyone uses?
Before we get into that, a word about orthodox fields: They are orthodox because they have been proven to work over the test of time. Slips remain in place because batsmen through the ages continue to edge the ball wide of the wicketkeeper. Mid on and mid off exist because even the most extreme Twenty20 specialists play shots with a straight bat sometimes.
That said it's important not to mindlessly follow what you consider the norm. Just because every captain in your club starts the game with a couple of slips, a gulley and a saving one field it does not mean you should.
For the basic theory of field placing take a look at my article here.
Once you have that in your mind, let's go back to the basic aim of field placing: Putting your players where you think the ball will go.
Tactics You Should Be Using: Funky Field Settings
In the first Ashes Test of 2015, England brought in another weird fielding position: the silly slip.
Joe Root, helmet-clad, took a position at third slip that was far too close for comfort. It was reasonable considering the slow pitch and the low chance of an edge carrying to orthodox third slip. Successful or not, it is another in the long line of "funky" fielding positions that span back to the 1970s (at least).
Yet, club and school cricket remains staunchly formulaic. Is there something we can learn from the pros here?
Setting the Field: Theory and Practice
From orthodox to funky; being a better captain and bowler means mastering the art of setting the field in your cricket matches.
Chances are you know fields that suit certain bowlers and match situations. There is much more to it that that though. There are some underlying principles of field setting that allow you to become more flexible while basing everything in solid logic.
The result of understanding the core of field setting is that you can have the right players in the right places at the right time. And that's going to get you more wickets.
5 Cricket Lessons Taught by Dhoni Before he Retired
Dhoni has quit Test cricket, and has left behind a rich history of entertainment for millions. He has also taught us a lesson or two along the way.
As tribute, here are some of PitchVision Academy's favourite articles about the wicketkeeper who lead by example with bat, gloves and sometimes even ball:
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Applications are invited to join the team at Yorkshire Cricket Board as Disability Engagement Coach covering the South and West of the County.
Good Enough for Dhoni: 4 More Village Tactics to Try
In the 2nd Test against England, Dhoni stood back to the spinner.
It's a tactic regularly employed in lower standard games where the keeper doesn't have the confidence to stand up. In short, it's village cricket.
But there was a method in the madness.
Use These Questions to Create Vaughan's 10 Captains
Rewind to 2004 and a moment that struck a chord with world-class cricketers.
When Michael Vaughan took over as England captain, he said that he wanted 10 other captains out on that pitch with him every day.
Very soon that group of England players were winning Test match after Test match on their way to Ashes success. As a group of coaches, we felt that there was a minimum of 9 captains on the field at any one time.
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I have known, worked with and admired Graeme Smith for many years. Over the years he taught me some valuable coaching lessons.
I first met "Biff" when he was a 18 year old lad straight out of school. He played some club cricket in the UK and was in my Hampshire Board XI for a few games. I was impressed with his maturity and sense of fun; less impressed with his "grubby" technique.
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I am in the process of building a super simple CMS to handle smaller "static" page type projects (e.g. - small sites for friends). I have different "page types" that I would like to add. I built something similar in Coldfusion previously. Looked something like this:
table content_type:
content_type_code varchar(10)
table content:
content_type_code varchar(10)
I would create a content type called "blog" or "photo" and each time a content was added, it'd get assigned the content_type_code. Then in /blog/ I'd query for all content that had a content_type_code of "blog".
Now that I'm using Ruby/RoR I am trying to think about things differently. I was thinking a better way might be to use nested pages with awesome_nested_set (https://github.com/collectiveidea/awesome_nested_set). But I'm not sure if that's the best solution.
Then I could create a page called "blog" and add to that many pages. So essentially the top level would take place of the "content_type" from my previous example.
Can someone steer me in the right direction on what the best method would be? I'm a newb looking for a kick in the right direction.
I should add that the only real thing that I would change between the different "types" of content would be the layout and where they are displayed ("photo" content at /photos/, "blog" content at /blog/).


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Located in Bennett's Harbour, this beachfront hotel is in the historical district, 9.1 mi (14.6 km) from Blue Hole, and 10 mi (16.1 km) from Port Royal Beach. Fernandez Bay and The Hermitage of Father Jerome are also within 32 mi (52 km).
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Step outside to unwind on the sand beach. Enjoy the complimentary cabanas and sun loungers for a relaxing day at the beach. Summer fun is a breeze at Sammy T's Beach Resort with activities like snorkeling and sailing.
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Wild Seed (original 1980; edition 1999)
by Octavia E. Butler
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Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler (1980)
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This book is one of the best stumbled upon moments in years. I was reading a book review by Orson Scott Card and he was waxing lyrical about Octavia Butler in general and this book in particular. Wild Seed is science fantasy as opposed to science fiction as a lot of the fantastical elements are scientifically improbable, though biology plays an important part in the story also. The story is about two immortals, a man and a woman; while they are both immortals the nature of their immortality is very different. The man jumps from body to body, evicting and killing off the body's original owner by the act of possession, the woman has the ability to control and manipulate every molecule of her body and is able to shape shift and heal herself at will. They are essentially mutants with "psi" powers, and much of the story concerns their lifelong project of raising and protecting psi powered other mutants.
There is a lot of subtext in this novel. The theme of slavery and freedom is prevalent in this book, and there are some thoughtful rumination about morality, racism and the human condition. The prose style is similar to the aforementioned Orson Scott Card in clarity; the difference is that Octavia Butler's prose is more lyrical and evocative. Anne McCaffrey would probably be a closer comparison.
Her character development skills verges on the magical. It seems like she can create believable characters in just a few sentences, almost as soon as she names them. The villain of the piece Doro is a terrible monstrous tyrant, yet like real people he has other facets, a caring side, and a tragic back story. Given his back story, his loneliness and callousness is understandable, even if the latter is not justified. The female protagonist with the lovely name of Anyanwu has an almost equally tragic back story but she has a strong moral center and is the foundation of the story.
When I see people write "this is a beautiful book" in reviews I tend to roll my eyes, dismissing such statements as people being overly impressed by some purple prose nonsense. But you know what? This is a beautiful book.
'Wild Seed' is the first book in the famous 'Patternist' series (though it was not written first). It is also the first book by Butler that I've read but will definitely not be the last: this was a book that kept me reading far too late into the night because I just could not put it down.
The book starts off in 1690, in Africa, and ends in 1840s in the United States. It follows the immortal man/spirit Doro – born in Africa in the days of ancient Egypt, and Anyanwu, an African woman with astonishing powers that set her apart from everyone around her. She can heal, she can shapeshift, and when she first meets Doro, she has already been alive for over 300 years.
Doro brings Anyanwu to America, and she becomes part of his "people": an extensive group of individuals who are ruled by, and selectively bred by Doro to enhance their various special abilities.
With that as its starting point, 'Wild Seed' becomes a haunting, rich, and compelling story of Anyanwu's struggle to survive in the new world under Doro's rule, exploring themes like good and evil, slavery and oppression, race and eugenics, family and friendship, love and the essence of life itself: what makes life worth living? what is a good life? what is worth living for? what is worth dying for?
Butler's cast of characters add to the richness of the book: they are all complex and conflicted, and even characters that pass by only briefly in the story are so well-written that they stay with you afterwards. And Anyanwu is one of the most interesting and likable literary characters I've encountered. She is a good, but flawed, person, fighting tooth and nail to stay true to herself and her own convictions, and to keep her freedom and self-determination – even under excruciatingly difficult circumstances.
'Wild Seed' is compelling, unique science fiction, and it's a book that lingers in the mind long after you finish reading it.
Anyanwu and Doro are two immortal beings. Doro is more of a spirit than a man. He lives through millennial by possessing other's bodies, killing the original owners in the process. Anyanwu is a shape shifter who can constantly rejuvenate her body so that she stays young forever. Doro kills, Anyanwu heals. They are as opposite as they can be, and yet each is the only immortal the other knows. Wild Seed begins with the two coming into contact for the first time, when Doro happens upon the African village where Anyanwu's living in the late 1600s and shows the relationship between them up until the late 1800s.
Wild Seed is easy to read, but there's a lot going on underneath the surface. There's so many different topics at play here – race, slavery, gender, sexuality. Basically, if it's a topic relating to power structures, Wild Seed deals with it. It doesn't deal much with LGBTQ themes, but I'm still listing it under the tag since Anyanwu has a wife at one point (happens between chapters) and could probably be considered bisexual.
Wild Seed deals with the difficulties of being immortal and the inherent loneliness of watching everyone you know die. This is the focal point of the relationship between Anyanwu and Doro. Anyanwu may not be able to condone what Doro does, but he's the only person who will remain constant as the families she builds for herself die around her.
I hate Doro, but I think you're supposed to hate him. He's spent his extraordinary long life on a eugenics project, creating a race of people with special powers. He's controlling and manipulative and thinks nothing of killing others. He wants people to be under his control, to respect and obey him in all things. But Anyanwu cannot respect him, and she does not always obey him. She's wild seed – a talented person born outside his breeding programs.
I'm really not sure what to think about the relationship between Anyanwu and Doro. I really hope the ending wasn't supposed to be an instance of the woman "changing" her man with her feminine influences, but I'm not sure. Anyanwu was also so passive. I really wanted to see her stand up to Doro and to oppose the things he did that she hated. But it feels more like she accepts powerlessness.
A large part of why I have these feelings is that I don't think Wild Seed had a real conclusion. The book just sort of ends. There problems with Doro's actions haven't been dealt with. Maybe it's because this is a first book in a series? I'd want to keep reading to find out what happens to Anyanwu, but I've heard she's not the protagonist of the next one.
Do I recommend Wild Seed? Definitely. I can see why it's considered a science fiction classic, one that I think I'd need to reread to appreciate more fully.
Originally posted on The Illustrated Page.
A curious book about power and abuse of power. I think.
The first chronological story within the "Patternist Series," Octavia Butler's "Wild Seed" is one of the best science fiction novels within the past 30 years.
It is an excellent read that explores two immortals: Doro, a "male" who has the power to steal bodies, and Anyanwu, a "female" shapeshifter with the power to assume any form she so pleases. After Doro convinces Anyanwu to leave her home continent Africa, they embark on a journey to the North American continent. The former seeks to find the "perfect" seed (an allegory on eugenics) while the latter wants children who cannot die (as she outlasts her offspring). Neither of the two can die by conventional means, thus making them uniquely tormented beings in their own right.
Octavia Butler, as usual, explores social hierarchies such as race and gender through a science fiction lens. Doro is the embodiment of masculinity: powerful, controlling, abusive, and charming. Anywanu is the embodiment of femininity: strong, maternal, and empathetic. She also explores world building through slavery, as Doro seeks to create the "perfect breed" of mutated humans with paranormal abilities (not unlike X-Men in Marvel comics fame). However, he attempts to create the "perfect" being through manipulating, abusing, and murdering his offspring. He also lashes out against Anywanu, who tries to endure and escape his abuse on multiple occasions throughout the book.
Ultimately, the ending will probably not leave the reader satisfied, but the story is not meant to do such a thing. There is no resolution that sees "good triumph over evil" so often that we see in popular fiction. Instead, it is a harrowing tale of what happens when people (human or superhuman) are enslaved, either as chattel or through personal relationships (particularly abusive ones). "Wild Seed" Definitely a must read if you're familiar with the Patternist Series or Octavia Butler's other work in general.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0446606723, Mass Market Paperback)Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex--or design. He fears no one--until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu has also died many times. She can absorb bullets and make medicine with a kiss, give birth to tribes, nurture and heal, and savage anyone who threatens those she loves. She fears no one--until she meets Doro. From African jungles to the colonies of America, Doro and Anyanwu weave together a pattern of destiny that not even immortals can imagine.
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An entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex, Doro fears no one until he meets Anyanwu, who can absorb bullets and make medicine with a kiss, give birth to tribes, and savage anyone who threatens those she loves.
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Israel's army said Wednesday it struck two members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah as they tried to plant a bomb near the Israeli-Syrian border.
"Earlier today, two Hezbollah-affiliated terrorists were identified attempting to plant an explosive device near the Israel-Syria border in the northern Golan Heights. IDF (Israeli army) forces... fired towards the suspects (and) hits were identified," the army said in a statement.
The army did not specify what weapons were used to fire at the suspected Hezbollah members.
The incident came just over a week after reports that Israeli warplanes bombarded a Hezbollah position on the Lebanese-Syrian border.
Israel neither confirmed nor denied carrying out the two February 24 strikes, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying the Jewish state would do "everything necessary" for its own security.
Hezbollah threatened to retaliate for what was the first reported Israeli air raid on a position of the Shiite movement inside Lebanon since a 2006 war between them.
Israel is bent on halting any transfer of weapons to its arch-enemy Hezbollah, which has sent thousands of fighters across the border to aid Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime as it battles Sunni-led rebels.
Syria has long provided arms and other aid to Hezbollah, and served as a conduit for Iranian military aid to the movement, which battled Israel to a bloody stalemate in a 2006 war.


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Chapter One
There was a peasant near Jerusalem who acquired a young gamecock which looked a shabby little thing, but which put on brave feathers as spring advanced and was resplendent with arched and orange neck by the time the fig trees were letting out leaves from their end tips.
This peasant was poor, he lived in a cottage of mud-brick, and had only a dirty little inner courtyard with a tough fig-tree for all his territory. He worked hard among the vines and olives and wheat of his master, then came home to sleep in the mud-brick cottage by the path. But he was proud of his young rooster. In the shut-in yard were three shabby hens which laid small eggs, shed the few feathers they had, and made a disproportionate amount of dirt. There was also, in a corner under a straw roof, a dull donkey that often went out with the peasant to work, but sometimes stayed at home. And there was the peasant's wife, a black-browed youngish woman who did not work too hard. She threw a little grain, or the remains of the porridge mess, to the fowls, and she cut green fodder with a sickle, for the ass.
The young cock grew to a certain splendour. By some freak of destiny, he was a dandy rooster, in that dirty little yard with three patchy hens. He learned to crane his neck and give shrill answers to the crowing of other cocks, beyond the walls, in a world he knew nothing of. But there was a special fiery colour to his crow, and the distant calling of the other cocks roused him to unexpected outbursts.
"How he sings," said the peasant, as he got up and pulled his dayshirt over his head.
"He is good for twenty hens," said the wife.
The peasant went out and looked withpride at his young rooster. A saucy, flamboyant bird that has already made the final acquaintance of the three tattered hens. But the cockerel was tipping his head, listening to the challenge of far-off unseen cocks, in the unknown world. Ghost voices, crowing at him mysteriously out of limbo. He answered with a ringing defiance, never to be daunted.
"He will surely fly away one of these days," said the peasant's wife.
So they lured him with grain, caught him, though he fought with all his wings and feet, and they tied a cord round his shank, fastening it against the spur; and they tied the other end of the cord to the post that held up the donkey's straw pent-roof.
The young cock, freed, marched with a prancing stride of indignation away from the humans, came to the end of his string, gave a tug and a hitch of his tied leg, fell over for a moment, scuffled frantically on the unclean earthen floor, to the horror of the shabby hens, then with a sickening lurch, regained his feet, and stood to think. The peasant and the peasant's wife laughed heartily, and the young cock heard them. And he knew, with a gloomy, foreboding kind of knowledge, that he was tied by the leg.
He no longer pranced and ruffled and forged his feathers. He walked within the limits of his tether sombrely. Still he gobbled up the best bits of food. Still, sometimes, he saved an extra-best bit for his favourite hen of the moment. Still he pranced with quivering, rocking fierceness upon such of his harem as came nonchalantly within range, and gave off the invisible lure. And still he crowed defiance to the cock-crows that showered up out of limbo, in the dawn.
But there was now a grim voracity in the way he gobbled his food, and a pinched triumph in the way he seized upon the shabby hens. His voice, above all, had lost the full gold of its clangour. He was tied by the leg and he knew it. Body, soul and spirit were tied by that string.
Underneath, however, the life in him was grimly unbroken. It was the cord that should break. So one morning, just before the light of dawn, rousing from his slumbers with a sudden wave of strength, he leaped forward on his wings, and the string snapped. He gave a wild strange squawk, rose in one lift to the top of the wall, and there he crowed a loud and splitting crow. So loud, it woke the peasant.
At the same time, at the same hour before dawn, on the same morning, a man awoke from a long sleep in which he was tied up. He woke numb and cold, inside a carved hole in the rock. Through all the long sleep his body had been full of hurt, and it was still full of hurt. He did not open his eyes. Yet he knew that he was awake, and numb, and cold, and rigid, and full of hurt, and tied up. His face was banded with cold bands, his legs were bandaged together. Only his hands were loose.
He could move if he wanted: he knew that. But he had no want. Who would want to come back from the dead? A deep, deep nausea stirred in him, at the premonition of movement. He resented already the fact of the strange, incalculable moving that had already taken place in him: the moving back into consciousness. He had not wished it. He had wanted to stay outside, in the place where even memory is stone dead.
But now, something had returned to him, like a returned letter, and in that return he lay overcome with a sense of nausea. Yet suddenly his hands moved. They lifted up, cold, heavy and sore. Yet they lifted up, to drag away the cloth from his face, and to push at the shoulder bands. Then they fell again, cold, heavy, numb, and sick with having moved even so much, unspeakably unwilling to move further.


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Yeah sure i can see how its not completely finished but what you got here is pretty funky =D. Epic beats and a exceptionally smooth bass set an epic cool atmosphere. Your attention to detail is phenomenal. This one is definitely for me.
keep it up man, I'm keeping an eye on you.
Thanks. I had a good 30+ patterns in this one. I've never done anything even close to that before. Not to mention all the automation. :P
Glad you liked the song.


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Welcome Aggies!
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The Aggies teachers are very excited to begin a great 2015-2016 school year with you, and we are already planning some amazing events to look forward to. See Mrs. Quan for more details...
Aggies Field Trip #1 - He Named Me Malala" Documentary
Who: Toby Johnson Aggies 7 & 8 Students
What: Field trip to see He Named Me Malala, a documentary about the life of Nobel Peace prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai
Get more information about the field trip here: Aggies 7
View the trailer at: https://www.malala.org/film
When: Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Cost: FREE!
Sign Ups: Turn-in permission slips to your 2nd period teacher ASAP
Questions: Contact Kelli Quan, Aggies 7 Team Leader, at 916-714-8181 or via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
NOTE: All Aggie students are asked to attend the field trip, as there will be future lessons associated with the experience and the academic content. If students do not turn-in permission slips, they will be required to attend school and will be provided an alternate assignment.
The Aggies 7 Team will be going on their first field trip of the school year to the California Academy of Sciences on Thursday, November 5, 2015. Sign-ups will take place during the week of October 19th.
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