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The release of a report by the Modern Language Association, \"Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World,\" focused renewed attention on college foreign language instruction at the introductory level. Frequently, the report finds, these beginning courses are taught by part-time and untenured instructors, many of whom remain on the fringes of the department, with little access to ongoing support, pedagogical training, or faculty development. When students with sensory, cognitive or physical disabilities are introduced to this environment, the results can be frustrating for both the student (who may benefit from specific instructional strategies or accommodations) and the instructor (who may be ill-equipped to provide inclusive instruction). Soon after the MLA report was published, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages issued \"Diversity and Inclusion in Language Programs,\" a position statement highlighting the value of inclusive classrooms that support diverse perspectives and learning needs. That statement specifies that all students, regardless of background, should have ample access to language instruction. Meanwhile, in the wake of these two publications, the number of college students with disabilities continues to increase, as has the number of world language courses taught by graduate teaching assistants and contingent faculty. Disability and World Language Learning begins at the intersection of these two growing concerns: for the diverse learner and for the world language instructor. Devoted to practical classroom strategies based on Universal Design for Instruction, it serves as a timely and valuable resource for all college instructors—adjunct faculty, long-time instructors, and graduate assistants alike—confronting a changing and diversifying world language classroom.

A 2-month-old Simmental heifer presented for acute onset of neurological behavior. Laboratory tests confirmed the presence of hyponatremia, hypochloremia, and hypokalemia that improved with intravenous fluid therapy. Despite an initial cessation of neurological signs, symptoms re-emerged, and the heifer was euthanized due to poor prognosis. A pituitary abscess (Trueperella pyogenes) was observed on gross necropsy, suggesting that the effects of panhypopituitarism (inappropriate anti-diuretic hormone (ADH), adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), and/or thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) secretion) may have resulted in the clinical findings. Pituitary abscess syndrome carries a poor prognosis due to the inability to penetrate the area with systemic antibiotic therapy. These findings highlight the unusual clinical presentations that may occur following pituitary abscess syndrome in cattle that practitioners need to consider when determining prognosis.

The Most Comprehensive and Current CCSP Self-Study Solution on the Market! Here′s the comprehensive and economical self-study solution that will provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to approach the CCSP exams with confidence. This Study Guide was developed to meet the exacting requirements of today′s certification candidates. In addition to the consistent and accessible instructional approach that has earned Sybex the reputation as the leading publisher for certification study guides, this book provides: Clear and concise information on securing Cisco internetworks Practical examples and insights drawn from real-world experience Leading-edge exam preparation software, including a testing engine and electronic flashcards And of course, you′ll find in-depth coverage of all official objectives for all five exams required for the CCSP: 642-501: Securing Cisco IOS Networks 642-511: Cisco Secure VPN 642-521: Cisco Secure PIX Firewall Advanced 642-531: Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System 642-541: Cisco SAFE Implementation Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

In \"Teaching to Transgress,\" bell hooks is both welcoming and suspicious of those who would teach from a position that recognizes the limitations of personal experience. Teaching from experience can lead to a difficult and defensive essentialism that relegates students and teachers alike to categories and \"types,\" and, as hooks argues, can obscure real cultural understanding of privilege and oppression, neither of which respects clear-cut boundaries of skin color or gender. As a straight white man, an Anglo professor of French, and the only male at his university to teach WGST 106: Introduction to Women's Studies, the author is acutely aware of the paradox hooks highlights for those who teach what they haven't experienced. In this essay, he underscores the challenges hooks's paradox presented during his first semester in WGST 106, a semester that necessitated an intricate pedagogical balancing act on his part as he attempted, from a position of masculine privilege, to teach female students to reject \"conventional oppressive hierarchies.\" This essay is about pedagogy rather than biology. Indeed, it addresses what critics like hooks might consider pedagogically precarious, that is, the author's attempt as a man to introduce college-aged women to feminism. (Contains 8 notes.)

This essay considers the role the Catholic confessional plays in manufacturing a more normalized masculinity for the effeminate hero of Zola's La Faute de l'abbé Mouret (1875). While many view Serge Mouret's erotic metamorphosis as an incomplete or even failed transformation, this article highlights the durability of those changes by comparing the masculine reputation of the priest both before and after he confesses his faute. A private act with public ramifications, the practice of auricular confession transmits in this novel a dominant moral vision of masculinity in which men are expected to lead lives of sexual excess, and in which normative male sexuality is assumed to be largely uncontrollable. (WE)

The modern world is saturated with images. Scientific knowledge of the human body (in all its variety) is highly dependent on the technological generation of visual data – brain and body scans, x-rays, diagrams, graphs and charts. New technologies afford scientists and medical experts new possibilities for probing and revealing previously invisible and inaccessible areas of the body. The existing literature has been successful in mapping the impact and implications of new medical technologies and in marrying the visual and the body but thus far has focused only narrowly on particular kinds of technology or taken only a purely textual/visual (cultural studies) approach to images of the body. Combining approaches from three of the most dynamic and popular fields of contemporary social anthropology – the study of the visual, the study of the technological and the study of the human body – this volume draws these together and interrogates their intersection using insights from ethnographic approaches. Offering a fascinating and wide range of perspectives, the chapters in this volume bring an innovative focus that reflects the authors’ shared interest in ‘the body’ and visualising technologies.

This essay considers the role the Catholic confessional plays in manufacturing a more normalized masculinity for the effeminate hero of Zola's La Faute de l'abbé Mouret (1875). While many view Serge Mouret's erotic metamorphosis as an incomplete or even failed transformation, this article highlights the durability of those changes by comparing the masculine reputation of the priest both before and after he confesses his faute. A private act with public ramifications, the practice of auricular confession transmits in this novel a dominant moral vision of masculinity in which men are expected to lead lives of sexual excess, and in which normative male sexuality is assumed to be largely uncontrollable.

Wade Edwards, CCIE, has over 15 years of networking experience and has been actively involved in the computer industry for over 24 years. Todd Lammle, CCNP is CEO and Chief Scientist of RouterSim, LLC and President of GlobalNet Training, Inc., and is the author of the best-selling CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide from Sybex. Tom Lancaster, CCIE, is a consultant with IBM Global Services. Justin Menga, CCIE, is a Network Solutions Architect in the wireless and e-infrastructure field in New Zealand. Eric Quinn, CCSI, CCNP + Voice is an Arizona-based instructor and security consultant. Jason Rohm, CCIE, is a network consultant and adjunct instructor from Green Bay, Wisconsin. Carl Timm, CCIE, has over 10 years of experience in the design and implementation of large scale IP-based internetworks. Bryant Tow has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry as an instructor and entrepreneur.

Using feminist and post-feminist theories of literature and culture, I explore in this dissertation the ways in which Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, and the novelist Émile Zola attempted to remasculinize their country in the wake of the fin-de-siècle crisis in French masculinity. Although the narrative of Coubertin's Olympic movement differs significantly from the narrative of his fictionalized autobiography, Le Roman d'un rallié, the two works nevertheless express a similar, fundamental desire to recapture the resemblance of a more traditional, more phallic French masculinity. And this same desire is also present in two of Zola's Rougon-Macquart novels: La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret and Nana. What unites these two writers in these four works, I argue, is the realization that the ostensibly monolithic nature of French masculinity begins to fragment and deteriorate precisely when masculinity becomes the subject of public analysis. It is the very prominence and visibility of masculine failure that both writers work to overcome. In these four works, I observe a common struggle to retrieve the undivided, seamless construction of French masculinity—however illusory or symbolic—that was lost when the events following 1870 turned the public's eye toward the deficiencies of France's men. But to recover this promise of phallic power, effective and sometimes elaborate strategies of obfuscation are required; to regain a position of conventional masculine authority, Coubertin and Zola must first make effeminized men less noticeable, less susceptible to criticism and examination. They must return the assumption of universality to French masculine identity. In my readings of Nana, La Faute de l'abbé Mouret, Le Roman d'un rallié, and the turn-of-the-century Olympic movement, I argue that Coubertin's and Zola's otherwise divergent social philosophies intersect in their idealization of the masculine and in their common desire to veil and condemn those manifestations of genuine masculinity that do not conform to this idealization. Their common goal, in other words, is to hide what they cannot change. Both writers aspire to reestablish for men the advantage that comes from inhabiting a socially unmarked body whose ordinariness and normativity shield it from analysis, surveillance, regulation, and condemnation.

Edwards reviews Images of Bliss: Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning by Murat Aydemir.