It's no secret the world is in an economic downturn. But did you know as result the US, UK and Canada have been laying off public school teachers at an alarming rate? These cuts even include science and math teachers. A Chicago-based educator reports his school opened up a position (due to increased enrollment) and had 170 applicants in two hours.
An option for unemployed public school teachers may be to turn to international education in search of employment. If this happens, will the job market become saturated? Will recruiting fairs become flooded with available educators? More importantly, will schools feeling the effects of countless poor reviews suddenly have their pick of previously "out of reach" educators now in dire need of a paycheck?
Not many years ago organizations such as the American Academy of School Heads expressed concern over the dwindling pool of international teaching candidates. At a New York recruiting fair it was noted that there were 3 to 4 available jobs per each applicant. In response, a task force was formed to solve the problem. It appears the problem may have solved itself but, through no one's fault, to the detriment of current international educators.
What is your take on the situation? Will fired public school teachers go international or will they stay home to gut it out? If they go international, will schools scoop them up at a reduced rate? Or will schools continue to give priority to seasoned overseas educators? We invite you to weigh in on this topic.
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Having 5 years PYP experience, countless workshops, overseas experience and a masters I'm not worried about the competition.
Most of the unemployed will not be willing to travel to South Africa, Bangkok, London etc for fairs; they can't afford it. Therefore, if you are worried about not having good choices hit one of the fairs that aren't local, meaning U.S or Canada. Also, I think that having more teachers will give the not so developed or popular schools more of a field to chose from.
Teachers are either interested in teaching abroad or not; some will simply leave the profession, others will take off a year to do some other things. Don't Panic as plenty of independent schools in the U.S. are also hiring so you might see people switch from public to private.
For all of the unemployed teachers out there I don't know why I have been unable to fill our current vacancies.
I am the High School Principal for Modern Knowledge Schools located in the Kingdom of Bahrain. We have an emergency opening on our staff for a certified English Literature teacher. Our former teacher had a medical emergency and has left the school suddenly. The position is a combination of IB English and Debate.
We are also looking for an experienced Counselor in the HS. This is a position that deals with student behavior and discipline as well as student support. Our current counselor is feeling a little overwhelmed by herself. If you speak Arabic that would be a plus, but is not mandatory.
All qualified people are welcome to apply. You can visit our school website at http://www.mks.edu.bh or email me at mrbaileymks@gmail.com.
Teaching overseas is not for everyone, and while the pool of international teachers may grow, I do not believe that it will grow too much. Many U.S. teachers are not comfortable with the demands of international teaching, the long hours, and the extra work. Not to mention the very often challenging infrastructures of many of the countries. It takes an adventurous, sometimes courageous, spirit, and most people prefer home – home is comfortable and a known quantity, and there is nothing wrong with that.
There are ups and downs in all professions at different times depending on what the society values at given points. But teaching is different. What happens to the spoilers is not the point. If most teachers really value and understand what education is, why it is important for humanity, then the profession can bear the bad apples. My concern is that not enough teachers seem to really understand the difference between education and mere literacy. Let's face it, most societies do not VALUE teachers or education because as soon as things get tough, teachers are among the first to be cut and then they work those who remain to death. The entire system of financiing education in the US is going to collapse if the financial basis continues to be based on property taxes, which are tied to a community's employment and the salries/wealth of the jobs.
I, for one, am happy to see the ranks swelling. I am at a good, expanding, school in S. America and, as we have to add two HS math positions (and probably one or two MS) welcome the news that our admin will be choosing from young, energetic, qualified candidates.
Recession notwithstanding, good candidates have been few and far between.
What's going on in the states is that many states are turning to private companies to open schools and so public schools are closing as students are transferring to charter schools (privatized schools). Charter school teachers have much longer work schedules than their public school counterparts. Also, the salaries in these schools (in most cases) are much lower than in the public schools. Teachers in these schools are basically working in the private sector, which is a different ethos than what was in place when they went to school to be teachers. Because of this many public school teachers are being downsized, and they tend to leave teaching altogether. Many international schools are also privatized and are very similar in ethos to the charter schools that are now taking the American public school system under siege. As a result, many teachers are very resentful and feel if they are going to work for a charter school they will do it here rather than somewhere in the world that just happened to hire them. So the international job market will not be flooded by laid off public school teachers as they will stay here to work in unfavorable conditions rather than travel overseas to do so.
The charter schools that I have worked in are certainly not "privatized." They are a legitimate part of the district though their funding comes from the state. Teachers must be certified and and they are paid on a district pay scale. There is more freedom to create a more individualized program, but your depiction of "much longer work hours", "lower pay"and a form of education that is "taking the American public school system under siege" is a bit biased and not completely accurate. Seen Waiting for Superman? Charter schools set out to offer alternatives to the factory model. Perhaps they are not always successful, but thank goodness someone is looking for positive alternatives.
I do feel fortunate. However, it is not by accident that I work in these conditions. Choice is everything. Just as newbie international teachers are encouraged time and time again on this site to "Do their homework…research and then research some more.." I worked hard to find charter environments that fit the needs of our whole family. I looked hard for schools that used district pay scales for myself. One child was able to attend a performing arts school. another attended an Expeditionary Learning school, and I love my inner city store front program that I was blessed to be a part of. To each his/her own. What I learned when returning to the US after 23 years overseas, is that you have to be a strong advocate for your child and not let the status quo ever dictate the quality of your child's education. For all of the teacher union chit chat, my child never had a single teacher in the US public schools who was on a tenure track that was worth the ones he had who were 'unsure of their job security.." those teachers were working hard for their money and were happy to be doing so.
I agree with you so much!! Yes, you have to seek out a school that is good, the unfortunate thing is there aren't as many to choose from, but you are right. It is your responsibility to find a school that allows you to thrive.
As far as what you said about the teachers unsure of their job security being better teachers, I have to disagree. I know very hardworking teachers who put in all kinds of hours and stayed after school to organize teams and clubs for students in the public school system and loved every minute of it. Many of this was unpaid, or for very low paid stipends. However, because their job security is at risk, that means so are their homes and their own children's education. This is making teachers coming from a place of fear, and not strength and they are taking this into the classroom. I do believe that unions are a necessary evil. I said both, necessary and evil. Unions would be okay if they did what they were supposed to do, unfortunately they have become too involved in other enterprises and what they are suppose to do is taking a back seat. They are to protect teacher RIGHTS. Not jobs, RIGHTS! There is a difference. And teachers pay dues for these protections. Why is the right to due process held in such contempt as such a bad thing. Unions are scorned that they are protecting bad teachers. They are not, for every "bad" teacher there is a "bad" administrator. There is a procedure to follow to remove a "bad" teacher and many administrators choose not to follow it.
Unions would not be needed if all school boards and administrators were always fair and equitable. In many cases they are not, and that's unfortunate. Many "seasoned" teachers are dubbed as "bad" teachers because the "good" teachers are under 25 years old, and are also much cheaper in labor costs. In NO other profession is age discrimination taking place as it is in teaching. Because of union contracts circumventing laws teachers are helpless when it comes to hiring. Also, in MOST not all cases, after a grievance is filed, the union and the board agree on the case and it is not in the teacher's favor.
I agree that parents MUST be an advocate for their own children first, but must one teach overseas for 23 years to acquire this wisdom?
The working conditions in schools overseas are coming to America. Yes there are jobs, few and far between, that no one leaves overseas for their whole career, as there are here, but now with the advent of charter schools with similar conditions to the majority of schools overseas, people will just stay here to work double and make half.
Teachers are professionals. We went to school to hold our posts in our classrooms, and we must continue to recertify in order to keep our certificate up to date to teach in many of the states in the US. This means taking on more coursework. Many international school's boast that their teaching staff is degreed and certified in their home state/country, but many let their certifications in their home states/countries go to the wayside once they get their overseas gig. In the US certification is ongoing, not a one time deal.
Well as a teacher who works for a charter school that does not pay on any sort of district scale (and not the good way), does not even offer an employment contract (I can be terminated for no reason, they literally do not have to say why) and in no way is any different to any "factory model". I think I'd say I have seen the very epitome of "privatized" education and not the good kind with posh buildings and the best technology. Because of these factors I am encouraged to consider that a 35% in quarter 1 and a 35% in quarter 2 should equal a 70% overall for a passing grade in my class. If I am not open to this "suggestion" I am given a poor review and made to feel as if I have failed students for no reason despite giving multiple chances to complete or resubmit work, to attend individual tutorials, to give credit for work completed verbally, etc.
Very, very, very few charter schools do any better than a local public school and often pull much needed funding from said schools that ends up in the pockets of businessmen who then lobby state legislatures to find ways to take more public money. They can often be exempt from testing and meeting AYP. Waiting for Superman is at best misguided and at worst deliberately manipulative in very harmful ways.
So, do your homework. Find the districts who are working hard for school reform and be a proactive part of the solution. Then when you choose that overseas position it will be quite natural to intentionally choose quality environments who are trying to do the equivalent of those alternative school choices in the the US…schools where the focus is fixed on the child and not the adult.
Easier said than done in this economy. A job is a job and if people want to work they take what they can get. We don't all have the luxury of picking and choosing.
I think I've mentioned on other blog posts that I've been researching employment trends in international education for an article I'm hoping to sell (fingers and toes crossed). It's been very interesting information to say the least.
What I've learned — while the number of teachers is increasing, the number of jobs is increasing faster. In fact, if the trend continues, there will be 250,000 teaching jobs created at English medium schools by 2020.
The catch — most of those jobs aren't being created at established, high-paying, nonprofit schools. In other words, we aren't likely to new ASIJs or SASs springing up. A lot of that job creation is happening in the for-profit sector, where business people (who may or may not know jack about running a school) see an opportunity to market an English-language education to wealthy local parents.
Not saying that all these new schools are to be categorically avoided, but now more than ever, teachers entering the international teaching market need to do due diligence. If you're considering a new school (and there will be many out there), make sure that the founders have established other successful schools. That's really the only way to know exactly what you're getting into.
Based on this trend, I'd also guess that many of these new jobs (not all) will be low-paying. How will that affect salaries at more established schools? No idea. But it might encourage teachers who are thinking about taking the leap into international education to think twice.
Flood the job fairs? No, for all the reasons mentioned above. However, young teachers will give it a go. We had a young relative staying in our house and subbing just out of college. She applied all over the place, and was told there just were not going to be any jobs (Seattle area). So she interviewed on-line and secured a job in the UAE.
I doubt that there will be a glut in the market – not anymore than there has been since 2008. It takes a special type of person to live abroad. I have been living abroad for over 11 years and have pretty much seen it all. Those who do best are those with families. It is a BIG investment to bring your family abroad. While, you, the teacher might feel like there is nothing left behind, your spouse and children will be leaving their friends and familiarity behind. Some kids really don't adjust that well to being abroad in a different culture. Then there is the issue of what do you do with your house, car, etc.? All of that takes work. What I've found is that a lot of people with attachments that lose their teacher job move onto something else, but for all intents and purposes stay put. I think the single parent, or the new, young inexperienced teachers are more likely to compete. In all honestly, unless a school is looking to save money, I can't see how they would take a fresh teacher over myself. A lot of those inexperienced teachers do ESL in Korea, Japan, Taiwan or China, but that still can't compete versus real international teaching experience with solid references. I'll be looking this year to move on, so I guess I'll see what happens!
There seems to be a tone of resentment by "international" teachers toward teachers leaving their "home country" entering the international realm. Why is this, as all international teachers left their home country when they became "international" teachers?
Already happening. We are finally finding it easier to find quality teachers. Most international teachers seem to have a mercenary policy and jump ship every 2 years. On average they were also not as qualified in terms of post grad degrees and professional development experience. We now seem to be attracting a larger pool especially from North America where teachers do not bring the colonial mentality baggage.
Please note the above comment is a generalization. There always good and bad apples on all sides of the equation.
Just a quick response. Do you believe that a teacher who is only going overseas because they can't find a job back 'home' will be more permanent? There are large liklihoods that they will still be applying to education positions and will leave the moment the have a position at their real 'home'.
I would like to hear more from Teacher Recruiter…is there a shift away from couples t o singles or old to young? Do teachers with dependants or non teaching spouses still have a chance of getting a job? What are the positions/areas/coutries that seem most effected? Tell us more!
I find it concerning (and somewhat mind-boggling) that you refer to teachers who fulfill their contractual obligations before moving on as "mercenary." If schools wish to improve teacher retention, they should offer competitive benefits, effective management, and a healthy work environment. The idea that teachers should accept substandard treatment indefinitely out of some misguided sense of loyalty is ludicrous.
I've worked with several teacher recruiters in both my international teaching and journalism careers, and I cannot imagine a professional recruiter making such a statement on a public forum. For the sake of establishing credibility, will you tell us which recruitment outfit you're working with?
Isn't a mercenary somebody solely motivated by money? Let me get this straight, you are generalizing that teachers are motivated by money? If working long hours for substandard pay defines teachers as mercenaries, then your generalization would be correct. Might want to try a different direction with your generalizations. Otherwise, one may make the generalization that teacher recruiters really have no idea what they are talking about. Although there are always good teacher recruiters and some bad ones as well. Right?
I'll just replay the conversation I had with a brand, new, first time overseas teacher at my international school.
OK…I hope this will not be the future of international teachers–I always felt like we were a special breed and that our passion, both for teaching and for the world, put us in a different category entirely. Hopefully recruiters will see this, too.
If you've got a teaching position, do your best and be thankful that you've got one. Watching the news and hearing about what teachers are going through back home should be a reality check/wake up call for you. Moaning about working conditions and how your school doesn't do this or that or how your salary doesn't compare with school X isn't going to get you anywhere but down or unemployed. Teachers back home are learning these lessons firsthand. Be happy you are employed and working in your chosen profession. Continue to improve upon how you run your classroom and pursue professional development opportunities which will benefit your students and build your resume. If you stay on top of your game and don't get bogged down by the things that don't go your way or your inability to pocket your pride every once in a while you're going to be fine. Don't give up or sell yourself short, these are things we work on everyday with our students. Good luck!
Good points. While I feel I am underpaid at my current job, I am thankful to have a job. I also realize the grass is not always greener someplace else. I still plan to recruit this year, but I may sit tight and stay on at my current school if I don't find something that is to my liking. I think about a return to the states, but the job market is miserable.
Although I am employed, at least for the coming year, I become more nervous with each passing year. I've worked in the public school system in Oregon for the past 9 years and each year we lose more teachers and support staff as well as programs to budget cuts. Of the teachers that have been laid off, the majority have either moved on to other things or are subbing. Of those that I have spoken too, none would even entertain the idea of teaching overseas. I recently made the decision to pursue an overseas position next school year, due to life changes and feeling as though if I didn't do it now, I never would. As excited as I am and as supportive as my co-workers are, they say that it's wonderful, but they wouldn't do it! As a newbie to the system it can be quite disheartening to read about the horrible schools and how careful you need to be in your search. But then again, I've worked in some pretty horrible places in the U.S. and just kept my head down, did my job and then moved on.
It worries me that if this over-supply of teachers on the international market is real, schools will use it to their advantage to drive down salaries and benefits.
I am from California….enough said we lost over 19 Billion dollars to our education fund.
I have 3 Master degrees, 2 B.A degrees, 1 A.A. degree, a teching credential and a counseling credential. I CANNOT get a job in Cali. Thus I went overseas to Taiwan to work. It was either that or I sleep in my car. I have sent in over 200 resumes since Feb. 2009 and have had only 5 interviews. For every counseling position that I apply for there are over 400 other applicants for that same job.
So yes, I can see domestic teachers looking overseas. The thing is though, overseas teaching is still kind of not well know among domestic teachers.
I found the contracts overseas available this year but the salaries are much lower (try $1,200 for someone with experience) and not always paying for summers or airfare. It is definitely competitive this year, even for math, science, Special Ed, and graduate work in TESOL. I feel like the last one standing after the music stopped after one year of not teaching.
Wisconsin is dire and there have been massive layoffs in Texas.
I even applied in small rural towns where the salaries are mid $30,000s.
I left my tenured job in 2004 to go to Korea for 2 years. I enjoyed teaching there and found the students to be extremely respectful and parents very supportive. I loved it and would go overseas again in a heartbeat but the same time teaching rich kids is not always as rewarding as teaching at a public school at home where we have an excellent union and there are limits to what can be asked of us. Here all kids are accepted, special ed kids are not excluded, and there is a sense of satisfaction in doing your job that is not the same at a private school where people are paying15k for their kid to go to school. This being said the situation in Wisconsin is now dire (if you don't know what's going on here you should. The whole world is watching) and we are losing benefits and having to fight for every last dime and resource for our students. Because of this I have thought very seriously of going overseas again and giving up my job completely. The one thing I didn't like was that I didn't feel that the quality of educators overseas were as good as they are here. Both administrators and teachers seem to be on some sort of power trip and arrogant about a private teaching job overseas. When I signed up I went with the intention of giving my all to the job as I am a well respected educator here. More than one interviewer/school seemed less interested in me than in filing the position. If I choose to go overseas again I will only apply to schools that have the integrity to choose high level educators and respect their employees more.
It is certainly possible a flood could occur, but I don't know how long term the affects would be. I'm American and I think in the US there is a general aversion to living overseas, particularly teaching abroad. Most people would not do it unless they were quite desperate. I live in China and a high percentage of foreign teachers do not last more than a year or two due to cultural differences, so I question whether the flood of teachers onto the market will have long term repercussions.
Have you noticed the salaries for foreign teachers going down this year?
My school (in the Middle East) has not raised salaries for years, a real sticking point for me. I am grateful to have a job in this tough economy and I am still saving good money. However, I am still not happy about the lack of a raise, and I noted a long time ago that the school seems content to let teachers leave every 2-3 years and to replace them with first year teachers. The pool of experienced or veteran teachers at my school seems to shrink each year. I am starting to feel…yikes, old. I believe many schools will not raise salaries if the market is flooded with unemployed teachers who are desperate to find work.
This article is clearly not taking into account the heartache involved in being a laid off teacher at this time. Don't I have a right to enter into the international school experience? I am an excellent educator, with significant travel experience and speak two languages. I am working night and day to find a teaching job anywhere right now – and the last thing I need is to read some provoking article in my email account reminding me of the fact that I now have a flood of competition in this arena as well.
The key term you use is "provoking", I agree it may be thought provoking to some and just plain provoking to others, but I suspect, like most things in blogs and forums, it was meant to get people talking rather than feel bad about oneself. This is after all a form of media, and not above sensationalism. In fact there is a lot of sensationalism on ISR. When it first started some years ago I was appalled at what I considered yellow journalism, but have come to understand over the years that the deck is stacked against educators overseas and we need this forum. I am sure most people are pulling for you and no one wants you to despair. However, there are a lot of creepy job-hoppers out there who are darn near criminals jumping from school to school especially in under-developed countries sometimes with fake credentials, and in the worst case pedophiles, perverts and crooks. I hope good folks from the national systems around the world who need work come out to help. Lord knows it is not just the school owners and administrators who are the bad guys out here. We could use some fresh blood, and everyone knows it. Keep your chin up.
I think that with the case of " creepy job hoppers ", this could all be avoided if the heads and directors who are interviewing simply did the job right by checking references, police record etc with a fine toothed comb. Sometimes, you also have to wonder about the calibre of the director or head who will hire WITHOUT checking references! They're entrusted with the safety and well-being of over hundreds of children…and you mean to tell me that they can't be bothered to take 1 hour of their time checking references of potential hires?
Probably the worst of the creepers get picked up locally through ads in the newspapers and don't come in through the job fair system. However the "local hired expat" vs the "overseas hired expat" is a topic of its own, and generates a lot of controversy. There are a lot of guys like John Mark Karr out there, and quite frankly I would welcome some out-of-work public school teachers from the states. The lack of regulation we bemoan in regards to schools also allows a lot of unsavory types to prey on the system. Too many drunks, drug addicts and perverts in the second and third tier schools, especially in Latin America and SE Asia.
I'm 110 percent for checking references with a fine tooth comb … but not sure that police record checks will do the schools a whole ton of good unless the crimes were committed in fairly developed countries that track offenders systematically.
Case in point — I obtained a "background check" from Shanghai, China, for my Indonesian visa, and I have to say the process was somewhat less than rigorous. Show up, pay a fee, get a piece of paper written entirely in Mandarin. I was standing right in the room during the entire processing, and I'm fairly certain they didn't even look me up in a computer. After waiting in line, the process took all of 15 minutes.
(I don't mean to pick on China, and they may have tightened up their system in the meanwhile — this was in 2006).
Since that experience, I've often pondered how easy it would be for disturbed teachers to move around undetected, so long as they chose their locations carefully. I've never ended up with a colleague like this, but I have several friends who have, particularly at the more marginal schools.
I agree…heartache and heartbreak. To lose a job not because of your qualifications but because of budget issues is very, very hard and sad. I went abroad because of a layoff and had very good and very bad experiences…that I can never write about. I am home again looking and hoping. I wish you luck. Most of all I wish that all the good jobs go to the best people, that good teachers keep their jobs, and that someone somewhere starts a conversation about teacher quality. It breaks my heart that good teachers lose their jobs. My heart is broken (but healing!) that I lost a good job while a careless colleague kept his. People see this…they really do and I believe a change is in the air. If you are a good teacher you will find work. I have to believe this. Again…good luck to you. It is also important to note here to the person who opened up the conversation that we were not "fired" this is an important distinction in the conversation.
I went to the UNI fair in February and met tons of unemployed and underemployed teachers from all over the US. Every position I interviewed for there had loads of applicants. It is already happening to some extent. With that said, it takes a certain type of person to even consider living abroad so I would not expect every laid off teacher to suddenly start showing up at the job fairs.
I think they already are flooded. I took a new position this summer, and during the process of looking was told by many (including Search Associates) that the market is flooded with teachers. Many jobs I applied for told me, "we received over 300 qualified applicants for this position." I ended up with a great school, but was sweating it for a few months.
There certainly will be an increase in candidates which means an increase in potentially interesting hires for all International schools. However, from my limited experience, the type of teacher who will try overseas, regardless of the current economic climate at home, is one who is usually younger, often single or a single parent, looking for the adventure. A teaching couple might look seriously at working overseas but they are few and far between and are often the prized catch,especially if they both work in sought after disciplines like Maths,Science, Student support services, etc.
Unfortunately, these neophytes will quickly fall prey to the minority of unscrupulous and unethical parasites who run cash cow operations they boldly call ¨International¨ schools and the indifference of recruiters and will become quickly immersed in the ambiguous overseas merry-go-round called Job Fairs.
Therefore, I am convinced that we will see a gradual but steady increase in candidates but not a flood as predicted above.
Yikes! Well said weedonald, but a bit scary, eh? Do we sometimes demonize these people, or are they really as bad as all that? Just came from two years with a very bad lot, but have landed at a school where I was picked up at the airport and driven straight to my flat. The place was freshly cleaned and painted, had cold drinks, fruit and a few days food in the fridge. Fresh orchids on the coffee table. The flat was kitted out top to bottom, a real turn-key operation. Settling in allowance handed to me in cash in an envelope with the paper work to claim traveling expenses provided as well. You know the drill. Orientation schedule prepared well in advance with both social and professional opportunities provided. The tech man hands me an HP laptop and the flat is Wifi'd with cable. Plenty of support people on hand to make my transition seamless. The good schools overseas are absolutely incredible in how they handle personnel. Unfortunately the bad ones are horrible and sometimes criminal.
The recent recession lasted 12 months and may double dip. The last one I recall this bad lasted 16 months in duration from 1981-1982 and beyond. Granted, international education at the time was not the growth industry it is today. Much of the work in American schools was in embassy schools related to the state department and department of defense schools. However, I don't recall hordes of teachers abandoning the system in the United States, which in some ways is as close to being a civil servant as we have the US. Postal workers, firemen, policemen and teachers tend to hunker down in the states and ride these hard times out. I agree it will be the young who take to the road though. I tusually is. I did in 1979 and never looked back. But I was one of the few young people in my cohort to go into this line of education. I agree with earlier comments that most people still don't see international education as an alternative to a bad economy. In fact, after spending my summer holiday back in my home town, I find many folks think it is just plain nuts. So no, I don't see the fairs flooding anytime soon.
I was trying to be diplomatic but this is it in a nutshell. It's ashame because it can be a great experience but so many are so bad and unregulated. This is why I like my public school where I work my tail off well beyond the scheduled hours but I have a union that protects me from those unscrupulous practices that you mentioned. In this country in my town many of those people would lose their jobs.
This will surely make a difference. Flood the fairs, no, But positions especially in the impacted areas in secondary and primary will become even more competitive. This is a good time to focus on building your qualifications to make yourself more competitive. Get some IB experience or work to build your credentials in other areas.
I don't think the fairs will be flooded. You are forgetting that it takes a lot to move abroad. If you have family ( children who are in going to school ), are middle-aged ( or close to retirement age ) where top notch medical care is becoming more and more of a priority or have NEVER moved to another country before ( or even entertained the idea ), then you won't be rushing towards the job fair. However, for the new, young, unattached, single teachers, the international job market is very attractive. The younger teachers grew up in different times ( where globalism has reached its peak )…..so I can say that the younger are more mobile and more open to searching for opportunities abroad.
If anything, international schools may have to bend in hiring teachers with 0-2 years of experience rather than only hiring teachers with 2 years of experience and above.
I think teachers that may have been contemplating, or entertaining the idea of going overseas, but unwilling to give up the possibility of long term benefits at retirement ,will now have no reason to stay put. Some will enter international education. I don't picture people that never had in inkling to travel or live overseas to suddenly pack up and move out of their home country.
My guess is teachers that wouldn't otherwise drag their family overseas won't do it unless unable to find work in the states/home country for at least a few years. It also assumes they can't find other work (non-teaching) in the states.


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sei que preciso usar o comando
arq = open(f'relatorio.txt', 'r')
texto = arq.readlines()

posso também mudar o formato dos dados do txt para ficar mais fácil
por favor, me ajudem
obrigado

A: Com ast.literal_eval:
from ast import literal_eval

with open("relatorio.txt") as arquivo:
    relattxt = [literal_eval(linha) for linha in arquivo]

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Music|Turning 100 at Carnegie Hall, With New Notes
Turning 100 at Carnegie Hall, With New Notes
By DANIEL J. WAKIN DEC. 11, 2008
From right, Daniel Barenboim and James Levine onstage at Carnegie Hall to help Elliott Carter celebrate his birthday. Credit Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
Classical music tends to lionize the great composer cut down in youth, but Elliott Carter made a mockery of that trope on Thursday. Mr. Carter, the dean of American composers, celebrated his 100th birthday, on the day, with a concert at Carnegie Hall.
He had a piece on the program, of course, but not some chestnut written when he was a student in Paris in the 1930s or an avant-gardist in New York in the 1950s or a Pulitzer Prize winner in the 1960s or a setter of American poetry in the 1970s or a begetter of chamber music and concertos in the 1980s.
Mr. Carter wrote the 17-minute piece, for piano and orchestra, just last year, at 98. In fact, since he turned 90, Mr. Carter has poured out more than 40 published works, an extraordinary burst of creativity at a stage when most people would be making peace with mortality.
His first opera had its premiere in 1999. He produced 10 works in 2007 and six more this year. "I don't know how I did it," Mr. Carter said on Tuesday in the cluttered but homey Greenwich Village apartment where he has lived since 1945. "The earlier part of my life I felt I was more or less exploring what I would like to write. Now I've found it out, and I don't have to think so much about it."
The new piece, "Interventions," was given its New York premiere Thursday evening by the pianist Daniel Barenboim and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with James Levine conducting. When it ended, Mr. Carter slowly rose amid the cheers and applause, and with the aid of a friend, made his way to the stage. Mr. Barenboim took his arm and helped him up the steps. A mock cake adorned with piano keys and musical notes, topped with a sparkler, was wheeled out. The orchestra broke into "Happy Birthday," with the audience singing along. After Mr. Carter made his way back to his seat, Mr. Barenboim and Mr. Levine, who had asked him to write the piece for the occasion, stood at the edge of the stage applauding.
Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" came next on the program; Mr. Carter said that hearing a performance of that piece at Carnegie 85 years ago had helped inspire him to become a composer.
Elliott Carter arrived early for Thursday night's Carnegie Hall concert. Daniel Barenboim was to play Mr. Carter's "Interventions." Credit Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
Mr. Carter is a phenomenon. To paraphrase the musical satirist Tom Lehrer, when Mozart was Mr. Carter's age, he had been dead for 65 years.
He has lived more than three times as long as Schubert did. Some composers, like Verdi and Richard Strauss, produced until the end of long lives — but that was merely their 80s.
Lionized as one of the great American composers, Mr. Carter is respected as much, if not more, in Europe. The intellectual and performing giants of the field champion him and several top musicians in New York remain deeply loyal. Despite the thorny, complex nature of much of his music, his concerts these days are often packed, as was Carnegie on Thursday night.
"He's still writing at the top of his form," Mr. Levine said. "Like all great composers, every time he writes a piece he has new ideas he's trying, as well as coming up with a subtler reworking of something he had done before."
The Carnegie affair is one of dozens of concerts that have taken place worldwide recently to honor Mr. Carter. "God help me," Mr. Carter said.
All the attention has left him feeling a little ambivalent. "There are all these pieces I want to write," he said, "and I can't get to them because there are all these things getting in the way. But on the other hand one does enjoy appearing, having especially wonderful performances, which is fascinating to me."
That prompted a provocative thought.
"I'd rather hear them play good contemporary music than old music," he said of the performers devoted to his work. He was bored, he said, with scores from the age of "gaslights and horses," although he admits to exceptions: Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven symphonies. But 20th-century composers "have a spark" and convey "what it is like to be living now," he said.
The composer Elliott Carter with a terra cotta self-portrait head by his wife, Helen, who died in 2003 after 64 years of marriage. Credit Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times
In the interview, Mr. Carter displayed a mind alive with ideas, a gentle but slightly tart wit and a streak of self-deprecation.
Mr. Carter, whose father was a lace importer, was born in New York. He attended Harvard with a recommendation from Charles Ives, majored in English, and went to France to study composition with the legendary teacher Nadia Boulanger. He wakes every day at 7 a.m., composes for two and a half hours, goes out for a constitutional with an aide, rests after lunch, composes again or receives visitors in the afternoon, and watches French satellite television in the evening, if he does not have a concert to attend.
He said he has gone back to reading the classics, including "Hamlet." After starting a third bout with Proust in the original French, "I got a little sick of it two months ago," he said. "That's why I turned to Shakespeare."
A terra cotta self-portrait head of his wife, Helen, a sculptor who fiercely protected him until her death in 2003, sits in his living room. Virgil Blackwell, a clarinetist, serves as Mr. Carter's business manager and constant helper, handling everything from royalties to hearing-aid batteries.
Audiences do not always take well to Mr. Carter's complicated works. But players are drawn to his music because of its challenges and his ability to write well for their instruments.
. His recent compositions have generally grown shorter and less dense. "I finally have done all my adventures and great big noisy pieces. Now I write simple ones. That's a new adventure."
He said that life — his, at least — "is just a matter of luck."
"I'll be damned if I know why I write all that music that people like," he said. "That some people like, anyhow," he added.
With the interviewer out of the apartment, Mr. Carter was heard on the other side of the door saying to an aide, "I've got to rest a little after this nonsense."
A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Turning 100 at Carnegie Hall, And Bringing Some New Notes. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
MUSIC REVIEW | BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Celebrating Elliot Carter's Birthday and His 'Interventions' DEC. 12, 2008

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Micromax has come out with a tempting deal for all music lovers who want an android smartphone at low price. Micromax has launched Canvas A88 Music bundled with JBL tempo headsets at a price of 8499 INR. The headphones are really good in terms of sound quality with nice cushion padding for ear providing quality bass and noise cancellation. The phone has a 4.5 inch TFT screen with 1 GHz dual core MediaTek processor. The rear facing camera is a 5MP sensor with dual LED flash which can shoot videos at 720p HD, the front camera is a VGA camera. The phone comes with 4 GB internal storage expandable up to 32GB via micro SD card and 1800 mAh Li-ion battery.
Only thing that disappoints is 512 MB RAM. The phone comes out of the box with android 4.1 jelly bean. Aggressive marketing and low price has turned the tables of fortune for Micromax and it is becoming a tough rival to big brands like Samsung, Sony and Nokia at budget smart phone market.
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Home Business Scottish site gets £500k award to turn landfill into "greener" cement
Scottish site gets £500k award to turn landfill into "greener" cement
A SCOTTISH facility for the production of lower carbon cement from landfill has been awarded £500,000 by Zero Waste Scotland.
The new site near Lanark, South Lanarkshire, will create a sustainable form of pulverised fuel ash (PFA), which is a key ingredient in cement.
The industrial-scale facility will be able to process 20,000 tonnes of incineration fly, cyclone and boiler ash to create the PFA.
The site is being launched by Innovative Ash Solutions, a 50/50 joint venture between Levenseat Limited and Organic Innovative Solutions Limited (IAS).
The award is from Zero Waste Scotland's Circular Economy Investment Fund.
Jill Farrell, Director, Customer Engagement and Communications, at Zero Waste Scotland and Innovative Ash Solutions Director Robert Green. They are holding test blocks made from their innovative end of waste product.
IAS secured end-of-waste status from SEPA earlier this year for this PFA replacement product.
Strathclyde University's Civil & Environmental Engineering Department and Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) were partners in the project.
The product was also short-listed as a finalist in the 2021 National Recycling Awards.
The new PFA diverts waste materials from landfill and avoids the use of virgin sand.
Compared with imported PFA, the new product is both cheaper and has a reduced environmental impact.
IAS has already secured letters of interest for over 60,000 tonnes of its new product and an additional feedstock contract.
The production facility is due to be commissioned by the end of 2022.
It will eventually cut carbon emissions by up to 6,104 tonnes a year, the equivalent of 2,847 commercial flights or 3,260 cars on the road.
IAS Director Robert Green said the "significant award" will "enable us to scale production of the innovative PFA replacement".
He added: "Our product not only provides a cheaper concrete option, it also means lower emission concrete production using materials diverted from landfill sites.
"This provides a win-win scenario for construction companies which are facing rising costs and additional pressures to lower their carbon footprint."
Trade Minister Ivan McKee said: "Today's award underlines the Scottish Government's support for collaborations between business and academia to achieve sustainable construction solutions and develop Scottish supply chains."
Jill Farrell, Director, Customer Engagement and Communciations, at Zero Waste Scotland, said: "We're committed to helping businesses, such as Innovative Ash Solutions and its partners, in developing bold, ingenious, and sustainable construction solutions that reduce the demand for and waste of virgin materials.
"Innovative companies in Scotland are truly leading the way in finding solutions to some of our biggest challenges in the construction industry."
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Over €1.8 million allocated for marine infrastructure works in Ballycotton and Youghal – David Stanton
Confirmation of funding of over €1.8 million for marine infrastructure projects in Ballycotton and Youghal has been warmly welcomed by Cork East Fine Gael TD for Cork East Constituency, David…
Proposals for Cork to host the America's Cup yacht race would have huge economic benefits – Stanton
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Ballycotton Pier, Knockadoon Pier and Youghal Harbour approved for total works funding of €96,000 – David Stanton
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In last week's post, I shared some new research regarding the problems of after-hours email, and also offered some solutions. Today I wanted to share a short (5-minute) excerpt of a corporate training I recently delivered that offers additional solutions. To be clear, this is a corporate culture problem more than a personal productivity problem. If you are interested in training for your leadership team on how to create a corporate culture with intention, and an environment where your team can deliver their best for your organization every day, get in touch to discuss that with me here.
The transcript of this video follows. For more, also check out my class on the same topic on SkillShare.
New study from Virginia Tech on After Hours Emails shows adverse effects for workers and their families.
Maura Thomas offers solutions. Five minute training excerpt follows.
And "I better get on this because I think she needs my help," and before you know, it they've spent from 10pm to midnight working. They didn't mean to.
So it's probably a better idea to schedule your send because Outlook lets you do that. If you're working because you have flex time…because you came in late because you went to your kid's school play and now you're working until nine o'clock at night just to make up for that, that's fine. But don't put your work schedule on other people. Schedule the send so that it comes in during work hours, so that people understand that downtime is important. And especially for knowledge workers, downtime is even more important.
Again, you can't get a fresh perspective on something that you never step away from. So you need downtime to bring your A-game and long work hours…it's detrimental to the individual. It leads to stress and high blood pressure and illness and alcoholism and insomnia and all kinds of things. It also costs the company money in terms of burnout and sick days and higher health care costs and all those kinds of things. So here's the truth. I love to say this: Sometimes the best thing that you can do for your work is not work.
When we have time away, we come back refreshed and focused and motivated and inspired…and we need it. When you think about, "should I work more," or "how much am I giving," I hope that after today you start to evaluate that. How much do I work? Am I out of balance? But here's the question that I always ask people and they say, oh my job demands it. And I know that you guys in some departments are short staffed and I know that a lot is being asked of you, but YOU are in charge of your burnout. Nobody else can do it for you.
And so the question to ask as you evaluate this is, "At what cost?" If I work more, at what cost? What am I giving up? Am I giving up date night? Am I giving up time with my friends? Am I giving up recreation? Am I giving up exercise? There's always an opportunity cost when you choose to work more, there's always an opportunity cost and so you need to … It's a great question to ask yourself: At what cost? And I know people who love their jobs. Who love, love, love their jobs. They get inspired by their work. They get motivated by their work. They feel like work adds meaning to their life.
But even if you love your job, which I'm sure you all do, it's still is bad for your job to work all the time, to work too much or to not take appropriate breaks. And I know that you have an open vacation policy. So that's a great benefit. And you can plan it, right? You know when you're leading up to a project rollout, to a product rollout or a conference and you have to be prepared or whatever. And so you can look ahead at your year and say, "Okay, well we're going to rollout a project in the spring and we're going to do this and we're going to do that. So this is a good time to take a week off, and this is a good time to take a week off." And make your plans. Buy your plane tickets. Downtime is important.
Learn more in the book by Maura Nevel Thomas, Work Without Walls, An Executive's Guide to Attention Management, Productivity, and the Future of Work.
Maura's body of work for Harvard Business Review on productivity and attention management can be found at maurathomas.com/hbr.
Learn more about productivity training, attention management training, and time management training for your staff or leadership team at maurathomas.com/training.


The most common bone tumor in dogs is a type of cancer called Osteosarcoma. These are tumors that originate from bone cells and are highly aggressive in nature. They are most commonly seen in older, large breed dogs. Osteosarcoma is an aggressive cancer that often spreads to other parts of a dog's body. It is diagnosed in 8,000 to 10,000 dogs each year in the U.S. Which accounts for roughly 85 percent of all canine bone tumors.
Chondrosarcomas – these tumors arise from the cartilage joint surfaces at the ends of bone and generally have a less aggressive tendency to invade and spread.
Fibrosarcoma's – originate from fibrous connective tissue adjacent to bone, are locally invasive into the bone and have a low tendency to spread.
Synovial cell carcinomas – originate from joint tissues and invade the associated bone. These tumors are less aggressive than Osteosarcomas.
While Osteosarcoma can occur in any bone in a dog's body, the limbs account for 75 to 85 percent of all affected bones. This is called 'Appendicular Osteosarcoma'. Other cases are found in the axial skeleton, including the maxilla, mandible, spine, cranium, ribs, nasal cavity, para-nasal sinuses and the pelvis. Unfortunately, the cause of Osteosarcoma in dogs is not currently known. There are several theories and factors that seem to be associated to cancer.
Definitive diagnosis of this cancer type involves getting a tissue biopsy. Either at the time of surgical removal of the tumor, often with an amputation, or with a biopsy before surgical amputation. The therapies offered to us do not cure this cancer type, but can greatly extend their life while providing a very good quality of life. Many owners of dogs diagnosed with Osteosarcoma choose not to pursue amputation and focus instead on giving their pets the best quality of life for the time they have left.
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'Milad-un-Nabi' a book launched at the conference, which is an encyclopaedia of all issues regarding Mawlid, with its thousands pages, was sold out with in hours of its launch. Three other books of Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri in Urdu were also launched on the night. A DVD set of 4 lectures of Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri in the English Language on the Legality of Mawlid celebrations together with seven books by Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri in the English language will also be launched in the month of Rabi-ul-Awwal, Insha Allah.


Six months after a 36-year-old mentally ill Summit County Jail inmate died, investigators Friday released their findings — 33 pages of documents that neither conclude whether there was wrongdoing at the hands of jailers, nor provide a conclusive timeline about what happened.
The report in the Sept. 2 death of Antony Jones does, however, raise some new questions, including whether six marks on Jones' chest were made by one or more Tasers and whether those electric jolts could have affected his heart's rhythm.
One fact investigators apparently agree on: Jones was a diagnosed schizophrenic whose behavior had changed during the three weeks he spent in jail before an altercation that preceded his death.
Five of those days, Jones was in "the hole," solitary confinement often used to punish inmates who misbehave.
On Sept. 1 a deputy intended to move Jones out of his cell — possibly back to "the hole" — and Jones dropped to his knees to pray.
What happened next isn't as clear.
Minutes later, Jones broke free from deputies in a nearby hallway, the report said.
Eight to ten deputies rushed to the scene. One or more used Tasers — electronic shock devices carried by many jailers and law enforcement — to help subdue Jones, the report said.
Deputies ultimately put Jones into a specially designed chair to restrain unruly or unstable inmates, the report said.
Jailers then put a special mask onto Jones' face to prevent him from spitting, and, following protocol when a restraint chair is used, called the jail medical staff to examine Jones.
Within seconds, Jones went from struggling in the chair to unresponsive as nurses examined him, the report said.
The nurses moved Jones from the chair to the floor for resuscitation, according to a separate 10-page report by the Summit County Medical Examiner's office included in the Stark County sheriff's findings.
They applied a defibrillator to Jones' chest and it "showed no shocks advised," the report said.
When the Akron Fire Department arrived, emergency workers began resuscitation. Jones was taken to Cleveland Clinic Akron General, where he died the following day, the report said.
The Summit County Medical Examiner's office determined Jones died from a lack of oxygen caused by cardiac arrest, the report said.
The medical examiner, however, never determined the manner of death — whether Jones' passing was natural, an accident, homicide or something else.
It's unlikely that either the restraint chair or spit mask contributed significantly to Jones' death, the report said.
But there are questions over the use of one or more Tasers.
Witnesses and records showed only one Taser was used on Jones the day he was restrained — and it was deployed to Jones' leg, the medical examiner's report said.
Yet an autopsy revealed no evidence to back that up. There were no Taser marks on Jones' leg.
Instead, the medical examiner found three pairs of puncture marks on Jones' chest that "strongly suggest Taser deployments," the report said.
If more than one Taser was used on Jones' chest at the same time, the report said, "the concern for cardiac capture would exist." Cardiac capture refers to electrical stimuli interfering with a heart's rhythm.
The medical examiner could not determine if that occurred or contributed to Jones' cardiac arrest, however, because the investigation findings about Taser use conflicted with what the autopsy showed.
At the same time, the medical examiner pointed out in her report that Jones had "an intrinsic risk of sudden cardiac death" because of his schizophrenia. People diagnosed with schizophrenia have a higher frequency of such deaths, the report said.
The autopsy did appear to refute some inmate claims that guards stomped or kicked Jones in the head during the struggle to get him into a restraint chair. The report showed Jones suffered no brain bleeding, broken teeth or bones.
The Beacon Journal/Ohio.com has pursued the investigation's findings through the Summit County Sheriff's Office since the investigation began.
Late last week, a spokeswoman for the Stark County Sheriff's Department told a Beacon Journal reporter to expect about 800 pages of documents this week.
On Friday, Stark County Sheriff's Maj. William Weirtz released 33 pages to a reporter.
When asked about the remaining 700-plus pages, Weirtz said the documents were all provided to his department by the Summit County Sheriff's Office.
He said it was too time-consuming for his staff to sort through them and redact any information that may not be public information.
He also did not include digital copies of videotaped interviews with jail staff involved.
Summit County Sheriff Steve Barry was at a funeral Friday afternoon and not available for comment.
In the days after Jones' death, Barry brought in Stark County investigators as an outside agency to examine what happened.
Early on, the report shows that Stark County investigators worked with a Summit County prosecutor who advised them to read deputies their rights under Miranda law before interviewing them about what happened to Jones.
The deputies declined to make sworn statements, the report said — instead offering to give investigators voluntary statements, which were later provided by a union representative in a summary report.
Whether investigators later interviewed all the deputies involved separately was not included in the report.
The head of the criminal division at the Stark County Prosecutor's Office did not return a call Friday afternoon.
Jones' former wife, Brittany Huston, expressed frustration in the weeks after Jones' death that she didn't know what happened. The family has since hired Cleveland attorney Nick DiCello.
"It's pretty clear Antony died a violent death … and it had to be pretty frightening for him in the throes of that kind of psychiatric problem," DiCello said Friday.
It wasn't clear if Jones' family would sue Summit County. DiCello said Friday they were watching to see how Stark County prosecutors handle the case.
"I've just got more questions than answers," DiCello said.
The medical examiner's report shows that Jones, who lived in Akron, was not only diagnosed with schizophrenia, but also post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and other issues. He also had a history of abusing drugs and alcohol.
Jones was jailed Aug. 8 on charges of discharging a gun into or at a house and other drug and weapons charges.
He died 25 days later.


A unique take on a traditional favorite, this plaid butterfly-shaped tunic embellished with our tonal embroidery is a noteworthy addition to your rotation. The muted tones and airy styling turn captivating with the addition of sprightly florals, as well as a lacy trim pattern surrounding the neck and sleeves. A deep V neckline and short sleeves finish off this compelling style.


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The Magic and Moral of Joan Didion
I blame my flickering attention, but I have always gone as gaga for isolated sentences as for whole books. One favorite begins an essay that I've read 20-odd times over 30-plus years, and it's this: "Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself."
It plants a provocative idea — that abasement is the gateway to adulthood. But what really gets me is the order of the words, the clustering of all those prepositional phrases near the start. I was in college when I first read it, and I thought to myself that a dour composition instructor would take out a red pen and flag the meandering path from "wrote" to "that."
I also thought that the sentence was perfect. Its detour was its music. And that music had a deliberately overwrought quality, signaling the author's self-consciousness. "Large letters." "Two pages." This was someone taking herself very seriously — and wholly, endearingly aware of that.
Syntax and sensibility: Nobody wed them quite like Joan Didion, the author of that essay, "On Self-Respect," and many others. She's the subject of a new documentary, "Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold," which reveals that in the 1960s, when she worked at Vogue, the magazine's editors committed to a reflection on self-respect before bothering to figure out who would fashion it. Only later did they settle on Didion, then in her 20s. She cooked it to order, and nonetheless came up with what is rightly considered one of her masterpieces.
"The Center Will Not Hold" is no masterpiece. But it's fascinating, in part because of scattered tidbits like that. Directed by Griffin Dunne, her nephew, who includes footage from his recent interviews with her, it shows that despite her cultivated image as a nervous waif at the mercy of moods and the Santa Ana wind, she could be ruthlessly practical and utterly unsentimental.
Read more at The New York Times.
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Sendak: "I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence."
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As many sites have noted, the poet Craig Arnold is missing in Japan, and your help is needed to make sure the search continues.
"Craig Arnold, whom some of you know, has gone missing on a small volcanic island in Japan while on a creative exchange fellowship. Craig, an experienced explorer of volcanoes, never returned to his inn after leaving alone to research the island's active volcano for the afternoon. The authorities are on the third day of searching for Craig, and are scouring the small island (of only 160 inhabitants) with dogs and helicopters. If he is not found by the end of the day, the authorities will call off the search.
We need your help to insure that the search will continue. The island and areas surrounding the volcano are small enough that an extended search will surely lead to Craig's discovery.WE NEED PEOPLE TO CONTACT THEIR LOCAL CONGRESSPEOPLE AND SENATORS TO PRESSURE THE JAPANESE STATE DEPARTMENT TO CONTINUE THE SEARCH. WE ALSO NEED HELP SPARKING MEDIA ATTENTION FOR THIS STORY, WHICH WE ALSO HOPE MIGHT INCREASE PRESSURE ON JAPANESE AUTHORITIES TO FIND CRAIG.
Is it me, or do the international covers for Harry, Revised just keep getting better and better?
I went into a real swoon when I saw this gorgeous cover from Adelphi, the venerable Italian publishing firm. I know I seem to say this with each new cover, but I think this one could be my favorite yet.
At the end of our conversation, when I asked him if he was reading anything good, he said he had become sick enough of briefing books to begin reading a novel in the evenings — "Netherland," by Joseph O'Neill.
Two hot event alerts if you're looking for literary nourishment on either coast tonight.
In LA, New Yorker editor Ben Greenman will be reading from Please Step Back, his '60s flavored comic novel about mixed race rock star Rock Foxx. You can read more about this Book Soup event here.
In NY, Ringshout and A Public Space present a panel on what the election of President Obama means for black writing and for the publishing of books by African Americans. Host Martha Southgate, author of Third Girl from the Left will be joined by James Hannaham, critic and author of the upcoming novel God Says No; essayist and Dale Peck smacker Stanley Crouch, author of Considering Genius and Artificial White Man; and historian and essayist Emily Bernard, editor of Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten. You can read more about the McNally Jackson event here.
* Dante's Inferno as a video game. Seriously.
* Lous Begley considers Franz Kafka: The Office Writings for The New Republic.
Kafka's name is used in its adjectival form around the world by millions of people who have never read a line he wrote: "Kafkaesque" is the universal term for experiences of modern life that leave one anxious, disconcerted, and feeling helpless. It is an odd form of adulation that carries with it the potential for trivializing Kafka's work and its scope. But the grip of Kafka's fiction on readers of all ages seems undiminished and his appeal to scholars seems well nigh universal. His life and work continue to receive an extraordinary amount of attention from critics and literary theorists and historians, who have made the dissection of his texts the center of their careers.
* Liu Xiaobo is set to receive the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award.
* Boston reclaims a native son, Edgar Allan Poe (which, by the way, the Globe should start spelling correctly).
Like his famous raven that perched, never flitting, above the chamber door, Edgar Allen [sic] Poe today claimed a permanent place of honor in Boston's literary lore, as city officials dedicated Poe Square near the writer's birthplace.
* Jessa Crispin, founder of Bookslut, decamps Chicago for Berlin. Auf wiedersehen, Jessa - we hardly knew ye.
* PW offers its wrap of the London Book Fair.
Perhaps the biggest topic of conversation this year was digital publishing; European publishers seem excited but nervous about delving into a market that is just awakening in their world. Numerous publishers mentioned that they were preparing their content to be e-book ready, and Ingram's Daniels said his conversations with European publishers have been less about education and more about execution.
* Something about Australia and cheap books and literary culture being imperiled - it looks important, maybe our readers Down Under can edify us?
* Laila Lalami has packed up and hit the road in support of her novel Secret Son, which we were fortunate enough to read in manuscript and loved. She's interviewed at Powells, talks to Largehearted Boy and gets some love from the El Paso Times.
* God help us. Yet another Ayn Rand comeback. Wasn't Greenspan enough to teach you all a lesson?
* The New Yorker attends to António Lobo Antunes.
* Disastrous results - when newspapers (in this case, the Seattle Times) assign film critics to review serious books (in this case, Anne Michaels's The Winter Vault.) We've said it many times before, we say it one more time - the real crisis in book reviewing is that dailies print stuff like this.
* We'd never expect to see the words "Colson Whitehead" and "sentimental" in the same headline but that does appear to be the growing consensus on Sag Harbor.
* The National takes a long look at Wells Tower and his new collection.
* And, finally, you might enjoy checking out Wag's Review, a new and promising online literary journal.
Jane Gardam, author of Old Filth and recipient of numerous literary awards and prizes, will receive the Order of the British Empire. Her OBE will be presented by Queen Elizabeth II at the June ceremonies at Buckingham Palace.
Jane Gardam's new novel The Man in the Wooden Hat will be published by Europa Editions in November. It is the companion novel to Old Filth as it tells the story of Edward and Betty Feathers, this time from her perspective.
Old Filth from Betty Feathers's perspective. We can't wait. Until then, check out her TEV interview.
* Jim Ruland's panel on post-apocalyptic fiction was another memorable outing, bringing together Todd Hasak-Lowy, Fiona Maazel, Lee Konstantinou and Jerry Stahl - who knew the end of the world could be so much goddamn fun?
* Too many inept moderators continue to mar the festival, folks who don't understand the concept of a conversation among the panelists. Too many cookie-cutter questions, too little thoughtful preparation.
* The usual fun in the green room, connecting with old friends and making new ones. Lengthy conversations with Steve Wasserman and Michael Silverblatt on the state and future of criticism.
Our one big complaint: It remains to us inconceivable, at this late date in the technological game, that every single panel should not be available - within 24 hours - as a video stream or podcast. The time, expense and difficulty involved in something as rudimentary as creating a YouTube channel and getting all these panels uploaded is minimal. The festival misses a golden opportunity to bring international eyes to what they doing, to have these conversations shared and dicussed among the millions unable to be in Los Angeles for the festival, and to help those who are forced every year to choose among three excellent panels all starting at once. Goal for next year, folks: Get this archived and available. We guarantee festival sponsor Target will be delighted to have a ten-second logo at the opening of each clip.
Finally, we leave you with this BookTV oops, in which Laura Miller is identified as Lizzie Skurnick - even with, you know, like, really huge name placards right in front of them.
We've been quite keen on Daniyal Mueenuddin's debut collection, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, so we're delighted to have him sit for a Three Minute Interview (3MI), combined with a special Friday giveaway at the end. Remember the 3MI rules - the first three questions are custom, the remaining seven are the same for all comers.
Mueenuddin was brought up in Lahore, Pakistan and Elroy, Wisconsin. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale Law School, his stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, and The Best American Short Stories 2008, selected by Salman Rushdie. For a number of years he practiced law in New York. He now lives on a farm in Pakistan's southern Punjab.
1) Please tell us a little bit about the genesis of your short story collection and feel free, if you are so moved, to weigh in on the increasingly popular notion of "linked stories"?
DM: Since graduating from college in the US, I've lived in Pakistan on-and-off, managing a family farm in south Punjab. In the course of running this business I've met all sorts of characters, have come to know an isolated, intense, feudal world – the feudal aspect of it being important, because the feudal life is one of profoundly ramified connections.
For the first many years while living here I wrote only poetry, and so made little use of this material. After undergoing a period of time as a lawyer in the U.S., which cured me of most worldly ambitions, I consciously decided to switch from poetry to prose. Short stories appealed to me more than a novel, for my maiden effort – they require more discipline, curb self-indulgence – and then, there's less likelihood of slogging into a swamp and wasting years wandering knee deep in background story and the lives of peripheral characters. As for the notion of connected stories, most good collections tell a larger story, the story of the whole.
2) Please tell us what it was like to have Salman Rushdie select one of your stories for Best American Short Stories of 2008? How did you find out?
Undiluted joy, of course. At that time my book had not come out, I had published only two or three little stories. That Salman Rushdie knew my name – seemed in itself a miracle. It came out of the blue, an email from my agent Bill Clegg – who has the wonderful habit of surprising me with little and big successes, publications and sales, etc.
3) What do you think America's top misconception about Pakistan is?
The point is, that while great atrocities are committed, and the world stares, most Pakistanis go on with their wolfish or doggy lives – terrorism is only a small part of our daily experience. Life is job and family and little things.
Having said that, it's quite possible that there will sooner or later be great disruptions in Pakistan, in which case our lives will change profoundly – and perhaps your lives in the West will be changed too, if the extremists prevail in Pakistan and have safe haven or – God forbid – have nukes.
4) What is the best book we've never heard of?
Windows – Mac doesn't work in the third world – nobody understands how to troubleshoot it, the old programs and Chinese etc. programs are not compatible. I often wish, however, that all the Microsoft engineers had a single neck – and I were the barber.
Livelihood, loyalty to place, fascination with the landscape and people, desire to explore this aspect of my identity – and stories, characters, predicaments. Life here in the Pakistan's bushiest boonies is red of tooth and claw, more colorful and intense than any other place I've been.
Living in Oslo on a Fulbright, I met the woman who is now my wife. At the time I owned for cooking gear: one glass, one knife, one spoon, one plate, one bowl, and a water boiler. Literally the day after we met I went out and bought pots, pans, glasses, flatware, a whole elaborate kitchen. Egg timer. Things I've never used. Those wooden skewers for shish kebab that lurk for years in your kitchen drawers. I toiled over stove and saucepan through noons and nights, cookbooks flying, reaching a crescendo at the end of ten days - osso buco with tomatoes, olives and gremolata (try finding veal shank in Oslo – not easy), mashed yellow turnips with crispy shallots, Barefoot Contessa Caesar salad, and for desert, Mrs. Iskian's cheese cake. For breakfast I served a parmesan, ham and mushroom frittata.
9) Name three things on your desk right now that aren't books or computer equipment.
A bottle of Tabasco sauce, for my mid-morning cheese toast; a VHF phone; a rosewood box that someone gave me, with a cover made from a Ding Dong Bubble bubble gum package – a bizarre cat logo on a blue background, with big bells attached to its Tom-and-Jerry ears.
10) What's at the top of your Netflix queue?
No delivery, I'm reliant on bootleg from the local market, Legally Blonde II being the medium of what's available.
Thanks to our good friends at Norton, we are pleased to offer five signed copies of Mueenuddin's collection to five lucky TEV readers. Everyone knows the drill, but for those who feign ignorance: Drop us an email, subject line "MICROSOFT'S BARBER". Include your full mailing address. We'll take all entries until 10 p.m. PST at which point the Random Number Generator will do its weekly dance of joy and woe. Anon.
UPDATE: Congratulations to our winners Ruth Freeman, Scott Anreder, Jesse Doris, Kim Allen-Niesen and Megan Sohar.
* Juan Marse has won the Cervantes Prize. And the Orange Prize shortlist has been announced.
* The Christian Science Monitor proposes reinventing the Pulitzers.
Today, if the Pulitzers recognized excellence across a wider range of print and electronic content, they could help lift journalism once more.
* More forward thinking is displayed by the reliably thoughtful gang at The Millions, where Garth Risk Hallberg kicks off a series of posts on the future of book coverage.
* Tributes to JG Ballard continue to appear. Granta offers remembrances from the likes of Hari Kunzru and Jonathan Lethem, and Salon weighs in with Simon Reynolds's far-reaching consideration.
But in death as in life, Ballard never quite got his full due as a thinker as well as a storyteller; he was a penetrating and endlessly provocative theorist about the intersections between culture and technology, media and desire. This tendency to think of him only as a fabulist is understandable to an extent, given that he never wrote a full-length book of nonfiction that condensed and focused his ideas. Instead his insights, speculations and polemical barbs are scattered across a panoply of reviews, columns, memoiristic essays, think pieces and single-topic commentaries written for or spoken to newspapers looking for the Ballardian take on some current event, issue or innovation.
* TEV favorite Luis Alberto Urrea describes life as an act of literary creation for NPR's This I Believe.
* Emory University is set to unveil the Alice Walker archives.
* Two New Guinea tribesmen have filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit against author Jared Diamond. There's really no end to the joke headline possibilities on this one, is there?
* The Best Israeli Novelist you've never heard of, at least according to The Jewish Week.
The same goes for most readers outside of Israel. In his home country, Shalev is mentioned in the same breath as David Grossman and Amos Oz, Israel's two most renowned writers. And though his novels steadily appear in translations abroad (in over 20 languages no less), internationally he is still a lesser-known name. It is perhaps all the more surprising since his work has both literary cachet — dense as it is with biblical allusions and classic literary themes — and is also deliriously entertaining. Shalev, to put a finer point on it, is a funny writer.
* The Bookseller has the view from the London Book Fair - "Fewer people, more focus."
SPEC: Last fall Horace Engdahl, the secretary of the jury for the Nobel Prize in literature, told the Associated Press that "[t]he US is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature. That ignorance is restraining." These remarks caused quite a stir at the time (and were almost certainly dispiriting to the likes of Philip Roth and Don DeLillo). Do you think there's any merit to Engdahl's assessment? An do you think there's something of imaginative value that stands to be gained when a writer grapples with the translation of thoughts and feelings from one language into another?
WG: We don't translate enough. That part is true. But we are getting better. And we don't buy translations. That indicates our provinciality. But what people read in the U.S. and in Europe is mostly trash, and much of it is from the U.S. American junk of all kinds is everywhere. Significant American writers rushed to support, extol, and copy the Latin American boom. But Latin Americans weren't Europeans, who are the provincial ones here. We read Calvino, Kis, Sebald… etc. French and other language departments went goofy over deconstruction, and made its import unwisely popular. I founded and directed the International Writers Center at Washington University for a decade. Incidentally, Robbe Grillet was on our faculty. Philip Roth did wonderful things to support Polish etc. writers, and tackled Israeli issues in one of his greatest books. Perhaps it is Europe who is insular. Writers like Hawkes, and Coover lived or live part time in Europe. You have to be aware of all of literature because local writing (that with only local interest; Faulkner is not local) is doomed to languish.
* Happy 50th birthday to The Elements of Style.
* And so we dance on, boats against the current ... The Great Gatsby as ballet.
* Daniel Olivas interviews Frances Dinkelspiel for the Jewish Journal.


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Black Ops 4 May Not Have A Campaign, But It's Got Some Terrific Cutscenes
By S. E. Doster on at
Black Ops 4 is the first Call of Duty without a traditional story campaign, but the game still gives us some of the series' best cutscenes. I was initially annoyed that they were locked behind tutorials I didn't need, but I'm glad I soldiered through all of them to discover interesting bits of story told through some beautiful cinematics.
The cutscenes are unlocked by playing through Black Ops 4's Specialist HQ. That mode is a tutorial for multiplayer, played against bots, that teaches players how to best utilise each of the game's 10 Specialist characters, play game modes, and operate various scorestreaks in the game. Completing each Specialist tutorial unlocks a small cutscene, and even if you're a Call of Duty veteran, these scenes still feel rewarding.
While this isn't a full campaign's worth of story, each cinematic is gorgeous and helps give character to these Specialists.
For example, the one for Danny "Ruin" Walsh shows he's a man willing to defy orders to save a fellow soldier. Leave no man behind.
Playing through Katsumi "Recon" Kimura's tutorial unlocks a pretty disturbing cutscene. You can see the horror and conflict in Recon's eyes as he receives orders to shoot a child. His finger hesitates on the trigger, while Erin "Battery" Baker is just urging him to follow his command.
All of these cutscenes are visually stellar. The characters just look really damn good.
The Specialist cinematics follow two different timelines. Both timelines occur before the events of Black Ops 3, a game that was set in the year 2065. The opening Black Ops 4 cutscene shows Savannah Mason and her niece mourning at her sister's grave with the date 2043, and these subsequent unlockable scenes take place shortly before or after this time period. That makes this fourth instalment of the series a prequel to Black Ops 3. Some scenes simply elaborate on the stories from the free, one-shot Black Ops 4 comics, where each issue focuses on a different Specialist. We get to see a glimpse of the character's life prior to being recruited as a Specialist for Savannah Mason.
Other scenes exist after the death of Savannah's sister Jessica, connecting the Specialists to characters from the previous Black Ops games for the bigger picture.
These skilled men and women have been recruited by Savannah Mason. Savannah appears to be the shady daughter of David Mason and granddaughter of Alex Mason, who appeared in the first Black Ops games. This sets up a prequel to Black Ops 3, but the story pieces here are still vague enough to leave you scratching your head and wanting to know why Savannah Mason was recruiting all of these Specialists. There are even cutscenes that show the Specialists beginning to question and lose trust in Savannah's intentions.
Completing extra objectives in the Specialist HQ unlocks audio files that feature heated discussions between Savannah and Jessica and secret conversations between Specialists. Some audio files suggest Savannah was working with Raul Menendez, who was the main antagonist of Black Ops 2. Is the daughter of the heroic David Mason a villain? The files leave you with more questions than answers. They also present the possibility that even Black Ops 4's battle royale Blackout mode is canon. Characters reference a Project Blackout, and Battery talks about seeing numbers, which is the hallucination you see when caught in the storm of Blackout's Nova Gas.
Completing all 10 Specialists' missions unlocks an interesting cutscene between Sgt. Frank Woods and Alex Mason, who were first introduced as the playable protagonists in Black Ops 1. They have a brief conversation in the Verruckt Asylum, which is a Zombies map also located in Blackout. Woods tells Mason, "No, it's you in the box, it's always been you. Don't black out man. I'm on it."
The room used for the cutscene is the bathroom on the upper level of the building. In the Blackout version of Asylum, players can find that there are four pictures are tacked up on a board inside the room. Names of four Specialists appear on the photos after you unlock Mason and Woods' hidden cutscene. The names of the Specialists don't match the photos shown. The Specialists are much younger in the photos, and Ruin,Torque, and Prophet have been mislabelled. This could be part of a Treyarch Easter egg, or possibly the start of a quest needed to unlock Alex Mason or one of the Specialists as a playable character in Blackout. At this time, characters such as Crash and Ajax can be unlocked, but the community still seems uncertain how to unlock the skins for Alex Mason, Prophet, and Ruin.
Specialists and various characters from earlier games' campaigns can be unlocked in Blackout by completing mission objectives, and the Specialists cutscenes can help explain the significance of the Specialists' unique Blackout items. For example, the scene for Jarrah "Crash" Bazley that is unlocked in the Specialists' HQ shows he's a gambler, who bet more than he could pay up. That is thematically consistent with the fact that you can unlock him for Blackout by, in part, doing well while keeping a poker chip in your inventory.
The Black Ops developers at Treyarch have always been into weaving complex stories within their Zombies mode, so I love seeing that these Specialists aren't just random characters with cool abilities, but they're all part of the Black Ops campaign lore. And possibly Blackout too.
I'm hoping all of these teases in the cutscenes and audio files mean we'll get more Black Ops history with additional comic books, or a campaign return in a possible Black Ops 5.
S. E. Doster
Virtual Reality Gave Me the Halo Game I Never Knew I Wanted


U.S. stock futures bounced around the breakeven line Friday following a government jobs report that fell way short of what economists were predicting.
The economy added only 74,000 jobs in December, far below the 193,000 that economists surveyed by CNNMoney had forecast. Futures pulled back immediately after the report, before returning to modest gains.
The unemployment rate last month fell to 6.7% from 7%, the Labor Department said.
The jobs report tends to be a big market mover, significantly influencing investment decisions of traders and investors.
The report -- the final jobs reading of 2013 -- will provide an important gauge of the economy's recent momentum, and could influence the Federal Reserve's plans for its monetary stimulus program.
The Federal Reserve last month began scaling back that program amid economic data showed evidence of an improving economy.
U.S. stocks finished flat Thursday. European markets were rising in morning trading. Asian markets closed with mixed results.
What's moving: Target (TGT) shares were under pressure after the retailer said 70 million individuals had information stolen in the recent data breach of credit and debit cards.
Alcoa (AA) shares sank in premarket trading, one day after the aluminum producer reported quarterly earnings that missed estimates.
Sears (SHLD) shares plunged after the retailer reported a sharp drop in same-store sales during the holiday season and issued a weaker-than-expected forecast.
Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) shares surged after the clothing retailer raised its earnings guidance for the year.


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Q: Google Colab : Local Runtime use I was currently using google-colab and on the getting started pages, we see:

Local runtime support Colab supports connecting to a Jupyter runtime
  on your local machine. For more information, see our documentation.

So, when I saw the documentation I connected my colab notebook to the local runtime, after the installations,etc by using the connected tab.
And when I access the memory info:
!cat /proc/meminfo

The output is as follows:
    MemTotal:        3924628 kB
MemFree:          245948 kB
MemAvailable:    1473096 kB
Buffers:          168560 kB
Cached:          1280300 kB
SwapCached:        20736 kB
Active:          2135932 kB
Inactive:         991300 kB
Active(anon):    1397156 kB
Inactive(anon):   560124 kB
Active(file):     738776 kB
Inactive(file):   431176 kB
Unevictable:         528 kB
Mlocked:             528 kB

Which is the memory info for my pc, so certainly the access from the notebook is to my pc? Then how is it any different from my local jupyter-notebook? Now, I can't use the high memory environment of 13 Gigs, nor can I have GPU access.
Would be great if someone can explain!

A: The main advantages to using Colab with a local backend stem from Drive-based notebook storage: Drive commenting, ACLs, and easy link-based sharing of the finished notebook.
When using Jupyter, sharing notebooks requires sharing files. And, accessing your notebooks from a distinct machine requires installing Jupyter rather than loading a website.

A: The only benefit is to keep your notebooks in Google Drive.

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*you can share them easily

*you have automatic history/versioning

*people can comment on your notebooks

You also have headings with collapsible outline, and probably cleaner UI (if you prefer Colab styling).

A: TLDR - the short answer is that it's not any different
But, here's an analogy that might help better explain what the point of that is:
Let's pretend Google Colab was something like a video gaming streaming service that enabled users with low-end equipment to play high end graphic demanding video games by hosting the game on their systems. It would make sense if say, we don't have a high end gaming PC or a very strong laptop and we wanted to play a new game that just came out with very high system requirements (which ours barely meets if at all) then naturally we may want to use this streaming service, let's call it Stadia for fun, to play that new game because it lets us play it at 30FPS on 720p resolution for example, whereas maybe using our own computer might give us barely 15 fps at 480p. They would be the people who represent people Like you and I, who want to benefit from the game being run on another system which in this case, would be equivalent to how we want Google Colab to run our iterations on their system. So for us, it wouldn't make sense to have Stadia run locally and use our system resources because there's no benefit in that, even if our saved games were stored locally.
But then there are others, who have high end pc and graphics cards installed, with much better components and resources available to them and let's say they also want to play the same game. Now they could use the same streaming service as us and play at 720p, but since their computer is more powerful and can actually handle let's say the game at 60 FPS on 4k graphics, then they may want to run the game off their own system resources instead of using the streaming service such as Stadia. But that would normally mean, they'd have to get a hardcopy of the game to install it locally on their system and play it that way. And for the sake of the example, let's just pretend it was download only and would require 2 terabytes to install.
So then, if we pretend that stadia had an ability to save them from having download and install the game while still using their systems' resources to provide better graphics while they play, then that would be the case for how or why Colab connecting to a local runtime would serve as a desirable feature for someone. Sharing colab notebooks would be like sharing a game in our theoretical version of stadia, where users wouldn't have to download and install anything so any time there is any update or changes, users would immediately be able to use that new updated version without downloading anything because the actual code (or game install in our metaphor) is run remotely.
Sometimes it's hard to understand things that weren't designed for our use when it contradicts the value which base our decision to use them. Hopefully that helps someone who stumbles across this understand the purpose of it, at least in principle.