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What Online Tutors Need to Know
The following are a few popular questions regarding becoming an online tutor.
Q: How does a tutor find students?
A: Tutors are usually provided with students from the online tutoring company in which they work for. Based on the subject matter and hours required by the student, tutors and students are coordinated through the company. Based on the company some tutors are required for finding their own students.
Q: How many students does a tutor have?
A: Tutors have a varying number of students depending on the amount of hours they work as well as the number of students requesting help in their particular subject. It also varies from company to company. Most tutoring jobs are one on one with a student with any one tutor having several students.
Q: Can a tutor advise on more than one subject?
A: Yes. If a tutor is qualified in more than one subject they can usually find work tutoring on different subjects.
Q: How do students and teachers communicate? How is the work facilitated?
A: This also varies from company to company. Most online tutoring companies use a server that acts as a home base for students, parents and tutors to log into. Many of them have drawing boards that act like a chalkboard for tutors that the students and teachers can access at the same time. This takes care of the very important visual aspect of learning and teaching that is essential for many children. Phone headsets or emails are a common way for teachers and students to communicate about work, ask questions and give feedback. Sometimes video demonstrations are offered as well. These tools can be hard to obtain or organize as an independent tutor and is one of the perks to working through an online company.
Q: Do teachers need to provide lesson plans?
A: This too depends on the company you work for.
Q: Does it cost money to sign up?
A: Most companies charge tutors to sign up and to gain access to students through the company's forum. Others charge a portion of what tutors earn from students. Others combine these two methods. This will be clearly outlined for each company.
Q: How much does a teacher make?
A: How much a tutor makes depends on the number of students they have and the number of hours they work. Most tutors earn a portion of the registration fee for students in their 'course' in addition to an hourly wage. Most teachers charge hourly at rates higher than $12 an hour, based on experience, company and grade level. Some tutors can make as much as $25/$30 an hour. The online companies usually have a very clear system of keeping track of hours and how much they suggest for teachers to charge.
Q: How are teachers paid?
A: Most companies pay through a mailed check on specific due dates.
Q: What subjects and grades are in the highest demand?
A: Grades K-9 are of the highest demand. However, older student demographics are making a move toward online tutoring for courses such as foreign language, math and English. The areas in highest demand are early high school courses such as physics, science and math in addition to English and reading courses for lower grades. Foreign language is also seeing a sharp increase at all levels. Another area of high demand for tutors is for help with tests such as the SAT, GDE and GRE programs.
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Description: The Bram Stoker Awards are given by the Horror Writers Association in acknowledgment of superior achievement in the horror genre. Bookshare is pleased to offer the following titles awarded the Bram Stoker Award for best novel. #award
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by Christopher Golden
Ararat is the heart-pounding tale of an adventure that goes wrong...on a biblical scale.
When an earthquake reveals a secret cave hidden inside Mount Ararat in Turkey, a daring newly engaged couple are determined to be the first ones inside...and what they discover will change everything.
The cave is actually a buried ancient ship that many quickly come to believe is Noah's Ark.
When a team of scholars, archaeologists, and filmmakers make it inside the ark, they discover an elaborate coffin in its recesses.
Inside the coffin they find an ugly, misshapen cadaver—not the holy man they expected, but a hideous creature with horns.
Shock and fear turn to horror when a massive blizzard blows in, trapping them thousands of meters up the side of a remote mountain.
All they can do is pray for safety. But something wicked is listening to their prayers...and it wants to answer.
by John Langan
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other's company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of the Creek, and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss it as just another fish story. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir. It's a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as Der Fisher: the Fisherman. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it.
A Head Full of Ghosts
A chilling thriller that brilliantly blends domestic drama, psychological suspense, and a touch of modern horror, reminiscent of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In, and Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.
The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia.
To her parents' despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie's descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts' plight. With John, Marjorie's father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend.
Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie's younger sister, Merry. As she recalls those long ago events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and painful memories that clash with what was broadcast on television begin to surface—and a mind-bending tale of psychological horror is unleashed, raising vexing questions about memory and reality, science and religion, and the very nature of evil.
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award
Blood Kin
by Steve Rasnic Tem
2015 Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement: Novel
Steve Rasnic Tem's new novel Blood Kin is set in the southern Appalachians of the U.S., alternating between the 1930s and the present day. It's a dark Southern Gothic vision of ghosts, witchcraft, secret powers, snake-handling, Kudzu, Melungeons, and the Great Depression.
Blood Kin is told from the dual points of view of Michael Gibson and of his grandmother Sadie. Michael has returned to the quiet Appalachian home of his forebears following a suicide attempt and now takes care of his grandmother-- old and sickly but with an important story to tell about growing up poor and Melungeon (a mixed race group of mysterious origin) while bedeviled by a snake-handling uncle and empathic powers she but barely understands.
In a field not far from the Gibson family home lies an iron-bound crate within a small shack buried four feet deep under Kudzu vine. Michael somehow understands that hidden inside that crate is potentially his own death, his grandmother's death, and perhaps the deaths of everyone in the valley if he does not come to understand her story well enough.
Stephen King returns to the character and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
On highways across America, a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless--mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, the True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the steam that children with the shining produce when they are slowly tortured to death.
Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel, where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant shining power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes "Doctor Sleep."
Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of devoted readers of The Shining and satisfy anyone new to this icon in the King canon.
The Drowning Girl
by Caitlin R. Kiernan
India Morgan Phelps-Imp to her friends-is schizophrenic. Struggling with her perceptions of reality, Imp must uncover the truth about her encounters with creatures out of myth-or from something far, far stranger...
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.
Flesh Eaters
by Joe Mckinney
Out of the flooded streets of Houston, they emerge from plague-ridden waters. Dead. Rotting. Hungry...
A Dark Matter
by Peter Straub
The incomparable master of horror and suspense returns with a powerful, brilliantly terrifying novel that redefines the genre in original and unexpected ways.The charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru in the 1960s, attracting the devotion and demanding sexual favors of his young acolytes. After he invites his most fervent followers to attend a secret ritual in a local meadow, the only thing that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body--and the shattered souls of all who were present. Years later, one man attempts to understand what happened to his wife and to his friends by writing a book about this horrible night, and it's through this process that they begin to examine the unspeakable events that have bound them in ways they cannot fathom, but that have haunted every one of them through their lives. As each of the old friends tries to come to grips with the darkness of the past, they find themselves face-to-face with the evil triggered so many years earlier. Unfolding through the individual stories of the fated group's members, A Dark Matter is an electric, chilling, and unpredictable novel that will satisfy Peter Straub's many ardent fans, and win him legions more.
Audrey's Door
by Sarah Langan
Built on the Upper West Side, the elegant Breviary claims a regal history. But despite 14B's astonishingly low rental price, the recent tragedy within its walls has frightened away all potential tenants . . . except for Audrey Lucas. No stranger to tragedy at thirty-two--a survivor of a fatherless childhood and a mother's hopeless dementia-- Audrey is obsessively determined to make her own way in a city that often strangles the weak. But is it something otherworldly or Audrey's own increasing instability that's to blame for the dark visions that haunt her . . . and for the voice that demands that she build a door? A door it would be true madness to open . . .
No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through...
A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else.
"Edgar, does anything make you happy?"
"I used to sketch."
"Take it up again. You need hedges... hedges against the night."
Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. Now Edgar paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. Many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth's past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating. The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural -- Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.
Winner of Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
A remote and affluent Maine community, Corpus Christi was untouched by the environmental catastrophe that destroyed the neighboring blue-collar town of Bedford. But all that will change in a heartbeat . . . The nightmare is awakened when third-grade schoolteacher Lois Larkin takes the children on a field trip to Bedford. There in the abandoned woods, a small, cruel boy unearths an ancient horror--a contagious plague that transforms its victims into something violent, hungry . . . and inhuman. The long, dark night is just beginning. And all hope must die as the contagion feeds--for the malevolence will not rest until it has devoured every living soul in Corpus Christi . . . and beyond.
Lisey's Story
One of King's most powerful books ever, the story of a writer's widow who must confront his demons after his death--a bookend to Bag of Bones, Lisey's Story is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptation of madness, and the secret language of love.
Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband, Scott, two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey had to learn from him about books and blood. Later, she understood that there was a place Scott went--a place that both terrified and healed him, that could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it's Lisey's turn to face Scott's demons, Lisey's turn to go to Boo'ya Moon. What begins as a widow's effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited. Perhaps King's most personal and powerful novel, Lisey's Story is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love.
Dread in the Beast
by Charlee Jacob
Novel which culls from the histories and mythologies of humankind. it follows the trail of the Mother Spirit of the worst that the world is capable of producing.
by David Morrell
Five urban explorers meet up and begin preparations to break into the abandoned Paragon Hotel. But after finding their way inside, it becomes clear that they will get more than they bargained for.
In the Night Room
In his latest soul-chilling novel, bestselling author Peter Straub tells of a famous children's book author who, in the wake of a grotesque accident, realizes that the most basic facts of her existence, including her existence itself, have come into question. Willy Patrick, the respected author of the award-winning young-adult novel In the Night Room, thinks she is losing her mind-again. One day, she is drawn helplessly into the parking lot of a warehouse. She knows somehow that her daughter, Holly, is being held in the building, and she has an overwhelming need to rescue her. But what Willy knows is impossible, for her daughter is dead. On the same day, author Timothy Underhill, who has been struggling with a new book about a troubled young woman, is confronted with the ghost of his nine-year-old sister, April. Soon after, he begins to receive eerie, fragmented e-mails that he finally realizes are from people he knew in his youth-people now dead. Like his sister, they want urgently to tell him something. When Willy and Timothy meet, the frightening parallels between Willy's tragic loss and the story in Tim's manuscript suggest that they must join forces to confront the evils surrounding them. From the Hardcover edition.
Lost Boy, Lost Girl
A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son -- beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill -- vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy Underhill, Mark's inexplicable absence feels like a second death. After his sister-in-law's funeral, Tim searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help unravel this mystery of death and disappearance. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother's suicide Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house on Michigan Street whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain. With lost boy, lost girl, Peter Straub affirms once again that he is the master of literary horror.
The Night Class
by Tom Piccirilli
Facing another semester of classes, Cal Prentiss moves into a new dorm unaware that a murder occurred there over the winter break. He discovers evidence of the unspeakable crime and becomes obsessed with finding the truth. As he gets closer to the heart of the mystery, Cal is surrounded by the supernatural and the grotesque--like the blood that appears on his hands when someone close to him dies.
2002 Bram Stoker Award winner.
by Neil Gaiman
First published in 2001, American Gods became an instant classic--an intellectual and artistic benchmark from the multiple-award-winning master of innovative fiction, Neil Gaiman. Now discover the mystery and magic of American Gods in this tenth anniversary edition. Newly updated and expanded with the author's preferred text, this commemorative volume is a true celebration of a modern masterpiece by the one, the only, Neil Gaiman.
A storm is coming . . .
Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the magic day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life.
But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow's best friend are killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling stranger he meets on the way home, an enigmatic man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday. A trickster and rogue, Wednesday seems to know more about Shadow than Shadow does himself.
Life as Wednesday's bodyguard, driver, and errand boy is far more interesting and dangerous than Shadow ever imagined-it is a job that takes him on a dark and strange road trip and introduces him to a host of eccentric characters whose fates are mysteriously intertwined with his own. Along the way Shadow will learn that the past never dies; that everyone, including his beloved Laura, harbors secrets; and that dreams, totems, legends, and myths are more real than we know. Ultimately, he will discover that beneath the placid surface of everyday life a storm is brewing-an epic war for the very soul of America-and that he is standing squarely in its path.
Relevant and prescient, American Gods has been lauded for its brilliant synthesis of "mystery, satire, sex, horror, and poetic prose" (Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World) and as a modern phantasmagoria that "distills the essence of America" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). It is, quite simply, an outstanding work of literary imagination that will endure for generations.
Nebula Award Winner
The Traveling Vampire Show
by Richard Laymon
Three friends are determined to see the Traveling Vampire Show, featuring the only known vampire in captivity, when it arrives in the summer of 1963. Janks Field, where the show will take place, has been declared off-limits because of its sinister history, but the three teens don't want to miss the performance... and their efforts yield far more than they ever imagined.
Bram Stoker Award winner in 2000.
For more than two decades Peter Straub has engrossed, entertained, and terrified us with his dazzling blend of cool artistry and mad, spine-tingling imagination. With Mr. X, the bestselling author of Ghost Story, The Talisman(with Stephen King), and The Hellfire Club takes us into the darkest dimensions of the human psyche and proves once again that he is without peer in the realm of psychological suspense and horror, a master storyteller whose unique and powerful gifts qualify him to be called the Edgar Allan Poe of our times. Mr. Xis Straub's original and startling take on the theme of the doppelgänger. Ned Dunstan's birthday is fast approaching, and every year on this date, Ned experiences a paralyzing seizure in which he is forced to witness scenes of ruthless slaughter perpetrated by a mysterious and malevolent figure in black whom Ned calls Mr. X. Ned has been drawn back to his hometown, Edgerton, Illinois, by a premonition that his mother, Star, is dying. Before she loosens her hold on life, she imparts to Ned the name of his father, never before disclosed, and warns him that he is in grave danger. Despite her foreboding, Ned's determination to learn as much as possible about his absent father ignites a series of extraordinary adventures that gradually reveal the heart of both his own identity and that of his entirely fantastic family: He discovers that he is shadowed by an identical twin brother who can pass through doors and otherwise defy the laws of nature; he becomes the lead suspect in three violent deaths; he investigates the secret shadow-world within Edgerton; he learns to "eat time" and remembers the one occasion when he and his sinister brother united into a single being. Finally, at the moment of battle, he must call upon everything he has learned to save his own life. Brimming with the author's trademark wit, understated eloquence, vibrant characters, and brilliant sense of pace, Mr. X displays Peter Straub at the top of his form.
From international bestseller Stephen King, a tale of grief, of love's enduring bonds, and the haunting secrets of the past--the inspiration for the A&E miniseries.Stephen King's most gripping and unforgettable novel, Bag of Bones, is a story of grief and a lost love's enduring bonds, of a new love haunted by the secrets of the past, of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire. Set in the Maine territory King has made mythic, Bag of Bones recounts the plight of forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, who is unable to stop grieving even four years after the sudden death of his wife, Jo, and who can no longer bear to face the blank screen of his word processor. Now his nights are plagued by vivid nightmares of the house by the lake. Despite these dreams, or perhaps because of them, Mike finally returns to Sara Laughs, the Noonans' isolated summer home. He finds his beloved Yankee town familiar on its surface, but much changed underneath--held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, who twists the very fabric of the community to his purpose: to take his three-year-old granddaughter away from her widowed young mother. As Mike is drawn into their struggle as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations, ever-escalating nightmares, and the sudden recovery of his writing ability. What are the forces that have been unleashed here--and what do they want of Mike Noonan? As vivid and enthralling as King's most enduring works, Bag of Bones resonates with what Amy Tan calls "the witty and obsessive voice of King's powerful imagination." It's no secret that King is our most mesmerizing storyteller. In Bag of Bones--described by Gloria Naylor as "a love story about the dark places within us all"--he proves to be one of our most moving.
Children of the Dusk
by Janet Berliner
Concluding the saga of Solomon, Erich, and Miriam, Dusk begins as they land on Nosy Mangabé, a small island off the coast of Madagascar, in the midst of one of the most dense rainforests on Earth. Along with their mysterious Malagasy guide Bruqah, 144 Jews, 40 heavily armed Nazis, and Erich's crack canine unit, the three fight to find a place in this strange new world, while also fighting to stay alive. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award
The #1 New York Times bestselling dramatic serial novel and inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film of the same name starring Tom Hanks, the "literary event" (Entertainment Weekly) of The Green Mile is now available in its entirety. When The Green Mile first appeared, serialized as one volume per month, Stephen King's The Green Mile was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes ended up on the New York Times bestseller list-simultaneously-and delighted millions of fans the world over. Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefs. . . and yours.
by Joyce Carol Oates
Meet Quentin P.He is a problem for his professor father and his loving mother, though of course they do not believe the charge (sexual molestation of a minor) that got him in that bit of trouble.He is a challenge for his court-appointed psychiatrist, who nonetheless is encouraged by the increasingly affirmative quality of his dreams and his openness in discussing them.He is a thoroughly sweet young man for his wealthy grandmother, who gives him more and more, and can deny him less and less.He is the most believable and thoroughly terrifying sexual psychopath and killer ever to be brought to life in fiction, as Joyce Carol Oates achieves her boldest and most brilliant triumph yet--a dazzling work of art that extends the borders of the novel into the darkest heart of truth.
Dead in the Water
by Nancy Holder
The shipwrecked, vacationing passengers of the ill-fated freighter, Morris, are picked up by the H.M.S. Pandora and sail into a cruise of metaphysical terror, madness, and death.
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Quebec ruling reaffirms research data confidentiality
The Superior Court of Quebec has reversed its decision to compel researcher Marie-Ève Maillé to disclose her confidential research data.
BY PASCALE CASTONGUAY | JUN 07 2017
The Superior Court of Quebec has ruled in favour of researcher Marie-Ève Maillé, who will not be required to disclose the confidential research data she collected in 2010. In the ruling handed down on May 31, 2017, Justice Marc St-Pierre retracted his previous decision dated February 13, 2016, which compelled the Université du Québec à Montréal researcher to share her raw data with Éoliennes de l'Érable, a company behind a wind power project in Quebec.
Maillé did not hide her relief that the judge had ruled in her favour. "I knew that my cause was just, but it's reassuring to see that the justice system also recognizes the need to protect the confidentiality of research data," she said. Despite this victory, the researcher voiced her disappointment that she was unable to enlighten the judge with elements of her research. In her view, "our duty as researchers is to share, outside of academic circles, the knowledge that we help produce."
Dr. Maillé. Photo courtesy of Dr. Maillé.
In 2010, when Maillé was a PhD student, she interviewed 93 residents of the Arthabaska region east of Montréal. Her research focused on social cohesion among residents of two towns divided by an environmental conflict over the large wind farm run by Éoliennes de l'Érable. Maillé published the findings of her study and completed her PhD in 2012. That same year, a group of residents launched a class action lawsuit against the wind energy company over inconveniences caused by the wind farm's construction and operation.
In 2015, the group asked Maillé to testify as an expert witness. Thinking that she would merely have to read a few excerpts from her thesis, she agreed. In October 2015, she learned that the Superior Court judge wanted her to provide the defence with all of her study findings. Having promised confidentiality to the 93 participants, she asked the judge to reverse his decision about disclosing the data. When her request was denied, she withdrew her name from the witness list.
Despite having withdrawn from the case, she was ordered in March 2016 to provide the raw data from her study. In June 2016, she filed another request that the judge review his decision. This led to the hearing in May, where Maillé was given a chance to speak, which in turn opened the door for UQAM, the Fonds de recherche du Québec and the Canadian Association of University Teachers to state their positions on the importance of protecting the confidentiality of research data.
Reactions from the scientific community
The Quebec research community was pleased with the outcome of Maillé's case. "Researchers are legally and ethically obligated to protect participant confidentiality," Rémi Quirion, chief scientist of Quebec, explained in a press release. "Before agreeing to participate in research projects, citizens need to feel that they are doing so in confidence. If that trust is broken, research quality and participation levels could be compromised. The decision reaffirms the importance of protecting participant identities in the best interests of science."
The Fédération québécoise des professeures et professeurs d'université shares his opinion. "Forcing Ms. Maillé to reveal her sources would have had disastrous consequences for researchers across the board, who would be hard pressed to recruit volunteers to participate in their research," said FQPPU president Jean‑Marie Lafortune, who expressed satisfaction with the court's decision.


Not a day goes by when I don't use some lesson I learned during one of my four years at the University of Dayton.
I knew my educational experience had equipped me not only with the knowledge and skills to pursue a career, but even more importantly, a clear focus on my vocation. Thus far, my career has been incredibly rewarding, and it has allowed me to walk closely with families and communities around the world determined to overcome poverty and hunger.
Garrett built his company from scratch and created a tool for veterans and colleges called CollegeRecon. He partners with the country's largest veteran service organization and uses the technology he began building at the University of Dayton.
Ellen Yoder '16 has a talent for empowering the people around her to be their best selves, whether that be through encouraging co-workers and clients at Homefull or just being a listening ear and friend to the people she loves.


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8 Crawford Ct
8 Crawford Ct is a single family residence located in Greensboro, NC 27406. Built in 1998, this property features 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 11,326 sq ft lot, and 2,588 sq ft of living space. The estimated market value for 8 Crawford Ct is $205,000.
For the surrounding community of Greensboro, NC 27406, the average sale price for similar homes to 8 Crawford Ct is $263,220. The nearby schools are average and include Sumner Elementary, Southern Guilford High and Allen Middle. The overall crime risk for this area is moderately high with 9 criminal and sex offenders residing within 1 mile. The natural disaster risk for this area includes very low earthquake risk, medium tornado risk, and minimal flood risk.
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Built in 1998, 8 Crawford Ct is in the 27406 zip code of Greensboro, North Carolina. A 4-bedroom, 3.0-bathroom Single Family Residence property, 8 Crawford Ct, Greensboro, NC 27406 sits on a 11,326 square foot lot, in the neighborhood of Guilford County.
As of 12/2019, 125 properties were in some stage of foreclosure or bank-owned in the zip code surrounding 8 Crawford Ct Greensboro North Carolina 27406IF(462|, and 462 properties were in in some stage of foreclosure or bank-owned in Greensboro. 8 Crawford Ct is in a state where 9,396 properties were in some stage of foreclosure or bank-owned as of 12/2019, while there were 378,924 properties in some stage of foreclosure or bank-owned nationwide.


The extensor apparatus of the knee is composed mainly of the patellar tendon, quadriceps tendon, the patella, and its retinacula.
The quadriceps tendon. In MRI, it is mostly of low signal intensity with an anterior–posterior (a.p.) cross-sectional diameter of 5 mm. Chronic overuse can lead to repetitive episodes of inflammation and degeneration of the patellar tendon, termed "jumper's knee" (Khan 1996). MRI shows an increase of the thickness of the patellar tendon to more than 7 mm in the a.p. direction together with signal intensity increase, obtuse (especially posterior) margins, and adjacent signal alterations in Hoffa's fat pad (Sonin 1995).
Rupture of the patellar tendon exhibits lack of continuity on MRI and the remaining fragments of the tendon show a wavy course.
In Osgood- Schlatter disease, there is thickening and signal intensity increase in T2-weighted sequences in the distal portion of the patellar tendon close to insertion at the tibial tuberosity.
In Sinding-Larsen-Johansson disease, corresponding signal intensity alterations are present at the lower pole of the patella (Sonin 1995).


The yearly average for export of Malaysian palm products to Brazil for the last few years was about 73,000 tonnes. The total export grew at a very stable path of 4% annually. Palm kernel oil and oleochemical were the main products being shipped to Brazil. Poor exports for RBD Palm Stearin, RBD Palm Olein and NBD Palm Olein in the recent years (2011 to 2014) have severely affected the overall export performance of palm oil. Nevertheless, for January to November this year, the total export has grown compared to the same period of last year. Palm oil, palm kernel oil and oleochemical are the main features of the export volumes with palm oil playing a major role for the positive impact. Export of palm oil has finally recovered with a tremendous incremental percentage .
After going through a slow-moving performance since the beginning of 2012 which led to an extreme decline from the previous year, Malaysian palm oil has finally recovered and expanded rapidly.


Here's hoping that Jair Bolsonaro's first official act as president of Brazil is to invade Venezuela.
As a result of twenty years of Chavismo (a word that, like Juche in North Korea, signifies a locally-flavored brand of militant socialism) Venezuela's economy is in a state of total collapse. As with North Korea in bad years, starvation and disease are rampant. Venezuela has been less adept at making itself a prison than North Korea, though: over 2 million Venezuelans – roughly 8% of its former population – have fled to neighboring countries. Presently, about 3,000 malnourished people, many of whom are also diseased, are making it out each day – and straining social services in neighboring countries.


Starting on Monday, the Centre Spot began selling GOTransit tickets for the daily buses that stop at Laurier outside Clara Conrad Residence on University Avenue.
Prices vary depending on where one is planning to travel, and buses make various stops before ending up at Square One in Missisauga.
Tickets available from the C-Spot include single-ride tickets (which must be used within four hours of purchase), as well as two and 10-ride tickets, which never expire.
Tickets will still be available for purchase from bus drivers; however, according to retail services manager of the Wilfrid Laurier University Students' Union Sue Dawson, purchasing tickets in advance will decrease wait times, as buses have been delayed because of the time drivers have had to spend processing the ticket purchases.
Dean of arts Mary-Louise Byrne has released a statement clarifying possible changes various departments within the faculty of arts.
In an e-mail Byrne sent to all arts students, Bryne clarified that no programs would be cut immediately and that the faculty of arts is proposing to merge the administration, not the programs, of cultural studies, classical studies, women and gender studies, medieval studies and North American studies.


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In the food processing industry, loss points can be found in many areas: time, energy, water, ingredients, packaging, scaling, scrap, and trash. In a food processing facility the proofer, oven, cooler and associated steam systems typically account for between 50 and 60 percent of the energy consumed, with the oven using the most energy. Improving energy efficiency in food processing not only reduces costs but also translates into reduced emissions—a huge plus as emissions regulations continue to get stricter.
The Carbon Trust, a UK organization, identified several significant loss points, both in terms of carbon emissions and in terms of energy efficiency in the baking industry, in its guide to the industrial sector, "Industrial Energy Efficiency Accelerator." What follows are three of the ripest opportunities for improving energy efficiency in food processing.
Oven Burners
Efficient oven burners are at the crux of improving energy efficiency in food processing. You can optimize your burners by analyzing the combustion stack gases and then adjusting the controls accordingly. Enhancing combustion efficiency through improved controls such as oxygen trim and burner operations is a standard practice in other sectors (e.g., boiler plant operation). While still an emerging practice in baking, developing appropriate strategies for determining the ideal combustion air/fuel ratio has a big payoff. According to the Carbon Trust's guide, an estimated gas saving of up to 10 percent can be made for an indirect oven by reducing the levels of excess air during combustion.
Waste Heat Recovery
Taking advantage of waste heat can prove to be a huge boon for food processing. Although in the past attempts to recover wasted heat had somewhat meager returns, new technologies—such as heat pipes and self-cleaning heat exchangers—and the changing economics of saving energy mean that this is now a much more viable efficiency strategy. Installing air-to-air heat exchangers in the exhaust stack, which lowers fuel consumption, may cost roughly $8,000, but it has a typical payback period of only two to four years.
Steam Systems
Hot water and steam are significant energy users in U.S. baking plants—and can be major sources of energy loss. The good news? Efficiency improvements in steam generation, distribution and end-use are possible, regardless of your steam system's primary purpose. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, a typical industrial steam system assessment can identify potential energy use and cost savings of 10 to 15 percent per year. One of the most typical challenges baking plants face is that steam is often generated at higher pressures or in larger volumes than needed, creating unnecessary waste. The key to addressing this issue is determining appropriate pressure levels to match production schedules.
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Even if the savings associated with each of these strategies is relatively small, cumulatively each improvement, combined with internal cultural shifts, adds up to create an undeniable impact. With the volatility of energy costs in mind and our uncertain energy future, these strategies to reduce energy consumption in the baking industry will become increasingly valuable.
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Afuá é um município brasileiro do estado do Pará, pertencente à Mesorregião do Marajó, localizado no norte brasileiro, a uma latitude 00º09'24" sul e longitude 50º23'12" oeste, no delta do rio Amazonas.

É conhecida como a "Veneza da Ilha de Marajó", por ter diversos canais e palafitas no fim do século XIX, sendo formada em grande parte por uma população rural.

História
O atual município de Afuá, situado na extremidade norte-ocidental da Ilha de Marajó, teve início por volta de 1845, quando Micaela Arcanja Ferreira ali estabeleceu-se, ocupando uma posse de terras, a que denominou Santo Antônio.

Por ser a localidade apropriada para um porto e ponto de paragem de trânsito do estuário amazônico, em 1869, já existia ao redor do sítio, um núcleo populacional formado de diversas barracas.

Em 1870, Micaela doou terras para a formação da capela, que vai do igarapé divisa no Rio Marajó, desce pelo Rio Afuá, até o Igarapé Jaranduba, no Rio Cajuuna. Com essa iniciativa, Mariano Cândido de Almeida, juntamente com outros moradores locais iniciou a construção da Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição do Afuá, concluindo-a em 1871.

Em virtude da facilidade de aquisição de lotes de terras, o povoado então formado logo se desenvolveu e se elevou à freguesia, em 1874, a qual foi extinta por duas vezes, até que em 1889, readquiriu sua condição.

Distrito criado com a denominação de Afuá, pela lei provincial nº 811, de 14-04-1874, subordinado ao município de Chaves.

Com a proclamação da República, no ano de 1890, Afuá obteve obtém a autonomia política ao ser elevada à categoria de município e vila por meio do decreto estadual nº 170, 02 de agosto de 1890, ao ter seu território desmembrado de Chaves. O município da Vila de Afuá é instalado em 20 de agosto de 1890.

Afuá é elevada à categoria de cidade pela lei estadual nº 403, de 02-05-1896.

Pela lei municipal nº 21, de 05-09-1898, são criados os distritos de Charapucu, Cajari, Cajuúna, Jurupari, Santa luzia e Trovão e anexado ao município de Afuá.

Em divisão administrativa referente ao ano de 1911, o município é constituído de 6 distritos: Afuá, Charapucu, Cajari, Cajuúna, Jurupari, Santa Luzia e Trovão.

Nos quadros de apuração do recenseamento de 19-IX-1920, o município é constituído do distrito sede, sendo que os distrito passaram a pertencer ao distrito sede de Afuá com zona administrativa.

Pelo decreto estadual nº 6, de 04-11-1930, adquiriu o território do extinto município de Anajás.

Em divisão administrativa referente ao ano de 1933, o município é constituído de 2 distritos: Afuá e Anajás.

A lei estadual nº 8, de 31-10-1935, menciona todos os nomes dos municípios do Pará, figurando entre eles o município de Afuá.

Em divisões territoriais datadas de 31-XII-1936 e 31-XII-1937, o município aparece constituído de 7 distritos: Afuá, Anajás Cajuúna, Corredor, Furu do Breu, Santa Julia e Trovão.

Pelo decreto lei estadual nº 3131, de 31-10-1938, desmembra do município de Afuá o distrito de Anajás e as zonas administrativa de Furu do Breu e Trovão. Para formar novamente o município de Anajás. No quadro fixado para vigorar no período de 1939-1943, o município é constituído do distrito sede. Composto de Afuá, Cajuúna, Corredor e Santa Julia. Pela lei estadual nº 158, de 31-XII-1948, é criado o distrito de Vila Baturité ex-povoado e anexado ao município de Afuá. Em divisão territorial datada de 1-VII-1950, o município é constituído de 2 distritos: Afuá e Vila Baturité. Pela lei estadual nº 1127, de 11-03-1955, extingui o distrito de Vila Baturité, sendo seu território anexado ao distrito sede do município de Afuá. Pelo Acordão do Superior Tribunal Federal, de 04-10-1955, o distrito de Vila Baturité teve sua extinção anulada. Em divisão territorial datada de 1-VII-1960, o município é constituído de 2 distritos: Afuá e Vila Baturité. Pela lei estadual nº 2460, de 29-12-1961, o distrito de Vila Baturité é extinto, sendo seu território anexado ao município de Afuá.

Em divisão territorial datada de 1-I-1979, o município é constituído do distrito sede. Assim permanecendo em divisão territorial datada de 2005.

Geografia
Localiza-se no arquipélago do Marajó à uma latitude 00º09'24" sul e à uma longitude 50º23'12" oeste, com altitude de 8 metros. Sua população estimada em 2015 é de  habitantes, distribuídos em uma área de . Por sua proximidade com a Capital Amapaense (cerca de 90km), sofre influencia direta do Estado do Amapá, ficando a quatro horas de viagem por meio de barco e duas horas de viagem se a viagem for realizada com as lanchas rápidas de até 200 passageiros.

O município possui vegetação costeira, típica da região do delta do rio Amazonas, com predominância de várzeas e igapós. Existe o Parque Estadual Charapucu, uma unidade de conservação estadual que abrange cerca de 65 mil hectares de ambiente natural preservado.

A cidade de Afuá não se confunde com o município, muito maior territorialmente - define-se como uma cidade ribeirinha, conforme a proposição de Trindade Jr. e Maria Gorete Tavares, em "Cidades ribeirinhas: mudanças e permanências". Enquanto tal, apresenta as seguintes características:
 Situado às marges de rios (Rio Cajuuna, Afuá e Marajozinho);
 Possui origem tradicional, nasceu ao redor da igreja católica de N. Sr.ª da Conceição, através de terras doadas por Micaela Ferreira, no final do século XIX;
 É local, isto é, possui forte vínculo com os rios (através da pesca, do lazer, do uso como via para o meio de transporte), com as localidades próximas, em contraposição às cidades verticais, as cidades empresas, que nascem para atender demandas externas, e;
 Pequena, até os anos 2000 possuía em torno de 10 mil habitantes (urbanos).

Localmente definida como "Veneza Marajoara" ou "Veneza Amazonense", pois a cidade se levanta sobre as águas, pouco a pouco sobre o terreno de várzea, criando uma formosa obra em palafitas. Devido essa característica, é proibido a circulação de automóveis na cidade, o que a torna prazerosa e bela.

No entanto, devido às políticas locais, desde a década de 1990 o município vive forte êxodo rural, o que provocou um processo descontrolado de ocupação irregular da cidade.

Organização Político-Administrativa
O Município de Afuá possui uma estrutura político-administrativa composta pelo Poder Executivo, chefiado por um Prefeito eleito por sufrágio universal, o qual é auxiliado diretamente por secretários municipais nomeados por ele, e pelo Poder Legislativo, institucionalizado pela Câmara Municipal de Afuá, órgão colegiado de representação dos munícipes que é composto por vereadores também eleitos por sufrágio universal.

Ver também
 Municípios do Pará
 Municípios paraenses por IDH-M
 Municípios do Brasil

Ligações externas

Fundações no Pará em 1890

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And; whether you prefer forest treks, just hacking out in the stunning Lochside landscapes or trail riding while enjoying beautiful scenery, you'll enjot the idyllic Dunbartonshire surroundings on horseback.
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WASHINGTON, DC – March 8, 2016 – SoundExchange today unveiled its ISRC Search Site, a dynamic new website designed to benefit the entire music industry by providing instant access to SoundExchange's extensive database of sound recording information. SoundExchange's ISRC Search Site improves efficiency and transparency and demonstrates SoundExchange's commitment to the music industry.
A free service that provides 24/7 access to data, SoundExchange's ISRC Search Site will help all parties through improved tracking and reporting of sound recording usage. The database includes nearly 20 million ISRCs reported to SoundExchange. The initiative will also help ensure fast, accurate identification of sound recordings, which will help music creators receive prompt, accurate and fair compensation from the digital services that use their music.
International Standard Recording Codes (ISRCs), the standard for identifying sound recordings, are critical in pinpointing the tens of millions of unique sound recordings in commercial releases worldwide, and SoundExchange's ISRC Search Site makes visible its sound recording metadata linked to the ISRC identifier. While the database does not contain a listing of every ISRC ever issued, it contains the vast majority of commercially active recordings sourced by thousands of rights owners, with more listings added every day.
While ISRC data is available elsewhere, it has not been provided in such a comprehensive manner until now. The creation of this single, comprehensive online resource enables recording artists, rights owners, music services and fans to quickly locate accurate identifiers for creative content and download the associated metadata.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which manages the ISRC system globally under an appointment from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), selected the SoundExchange repertoire database to power the ISRC lookup capability on its own IFPI.org website.
"It's no surprise that SoundExchange pioneered this encyclopedic tool given their expertise in processing billions of lines of data and distributing billions of dollars in royalties. The SoundExchange ISRC Search Site will ensure greater accuracy in payments for artists and improve transparency for the entire industry," said Ray Hair, International President of American Federation of Musicians (AFM).
"The SoundExchange ISRC Search Site is a tremendous development, is something we have needed for more than a decade, and will quickly become an invaluable resource for everyone in the music industry. For A2IM, this means greater transparency and will improve the accuracy of payments to our artists and labels," said Richard Burgess, CEO, American Association of Independent Music (A2IM).


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The Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida offers four career-focused programs (Full-Time, Professional, Online, and Executive) and six concentrations that allow students to fully customize how and what degree they receive based on their job needs. On top of that, all admitted students in the Full-Time MBA program receive completely free tuition, and can further choose from one of three programs (two-year, one-year for all majors, and one-year for business majors). With small cohort sizes, learning can be individualized and "one-on-ones are not an uncommon sight between student and professor." The entire school administration is "extremely well-run and prompt with [answering] student questions and concerns." Furthermore, they integrate all students into the administrative process "promoting a sense of responsibility for how the school quality is and looks to external networks." Basically, "everything about the experience is catered to each individual and their own backgrounds and experiences," truly making a unique MBA experience for each student.
While the program is "very challenging," it is clear that the professors want students to succeed. They are "caring and easy to reach" with strong field experience, with many "having private sector backgrounds and using their experience to drive experiential learning." "Every class has given us skills that we can use in our current positions immediately." They have credentials from "top institutions across the nation and the world" and provide "outstanding educational insight." UF has "invested heavily in technology platforms that make registration and student management very easy," and the MBA program is run "in a very professional and impressive manner."
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Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility: examines the practical issues of managers in addressing ethical and moral problems in business. Draws on a variety of materials and experiences as a basis for analyzing and evaluating the manager?s and the firm's options and decisions. Encourage students to think critically and develop an analytical framework for thinking about business ethical problems. Social Entrepreneurship: provide students with an introduction to the major opportunities and challenges facing social entrepreneurs and their ventures. Social entrepreneurship's rapid emergence over the past decade has coincided with the rise of information technology that has given individuals more power now than at any point in history. The social entrepreneurs' question is simple: How can we use that power to make a positive, lasting contribution to society? Entrepreneurship and Empowerment in South Africa: http://warrington.ufl.edu/centers/cei/engagement/southafrica/
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Hough Hall: the graduate studies building has been designed with long‐term sustainability in mind, with an emphasis on energy efficiency. The facility achieved a Gold level of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification by the U.S. Green Building Council, which signifies that its design and construction promotes environmental quality, resource conservation, and sustainable materials and systems.
Heavener Hall: The College's undergraduate building debuted in February, and its sustainable features reduce energy consumption and maximize the efficiency, productivity, and comfort of faculty, staff and students. Among the building's sustainable features are the use of LED and T5 lighting, reclaimed water use for all irrigation, heating, ventilating and air condition system controlled by occupancy sensors and time clocks and Low-E glazing for all windows to minimize ultraviolet and infrared light passing through glass.
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The career development in particular is "world class" and a "standout" in every program, with "strong and increasing results for the last few years." The school promotes diversity and "limitless opportunities for success and career development," and there is a great return on investment in terms of "fantastic" job placement and the possibility of an accelerated program schedule. Admissions to all programs has become incredibly competitive in recent years, which has allowed the school to build "a national reputation for academic excellence." The administration is "passionate, dedicated, and helpful to driving our careers in the right direction," and the alumni network is expansive, with "Gators all over the country willing to reach out and help in any way possible." There are innumerable clubs and organizations catering to "virtually any interest," and the Careers Services team has a "laser focus on recruiting and preparation for post-graduate careers," meaning they meet with everyone individually and are "truly dedicated to helping each of us find a job."
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Finance / Accounting 27% $85,000 $87,417 $72,500 $110,000
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General Management 15% $90,000 $93,667 $66,000 $125,000
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Operations / Logistics 12% $87,000 $88,667 $74,000 $105,000
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Technology 23% $125,000 $120,700 $103,500 $130,000
Consulting 15% $117,500 $112,125 $66,000 $147,500
Consumer Products 15% $105,500 $102,750 $90,000 $110,000
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Pharmaceutical / Biotechnology / Healthcare 8%
Manufacturing 4% $0 $0 $0 $0
Petroleum / Energy 4%
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The school has a very small cohort-to-cohort size (in the twenties), and due to this tight-knit nature students "become extremely close with [their] classmates and spend a large amount of time together." There is a very personal atmosphere throughout all of the programs with a variety of undergraduate degrees and work experiences represented, and the ensuing culture "promotes a desire to push each other to all succeed academically and in careers" as well as promoting "a sense of camaraderie."
People are very involved with both academic and social activities outside of the classroom, and about once each semester there's some type of social gathering ("usually pizza and beer") where all the cohorts can meet up and talk.
The city of Gainesville revolves around the university, and it means "you get to live close to school for cheap prices, which is great." About half of the students walk to class from home, and "everything students could want or need is within a tight radius of campus," whether you're looking for a wide range of places to eat, activities to do, or just escaping into the nature in the multiple state parks and natural springs nearby (about half an hour drive).
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Unknown Soldier Review: Michael Friedman Musical about Memory and Love and Loss
Author: New York Theater Published Date: March 10, 2020 Leave a Comment on Unknown Soldier Review: Michael Friedman Musical about Memory and Love and Loss
Perry Sherman, Estelle Parsons, Kerstin Anderson
In this musical by Michael Friedman making its New York debut 30 months after his shocking death from AIDS at the age of 41, it would be impossible not to think of him from the very first song. In "The Great War," a young girl named Ellen (Zoe Glick) sings conversationally about what she's learned about World War I for a school report. Then suddenly the lyrics, still simple, turn profound:
I think sometimes you see a picture
or hear a song
or read a letter
and a person that's forgotten comes alive for a moment
The 16 songs in "Unknown Soldier" do make Michael Friedman come alive in all their eclectic glory. They are pointed or playful or full of passion, recalling the composer of works as different and distinct as the anarchic rock blaster "Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson," the gentle, soulful "The Fortress of Solitude," and the spontaneous scores that accompanied the many documentary musicals Friedman helped put together as a founding member of The Civilians theater troupe.
But there are also both a picture and a letter in "Unknown Soldier," on which the plot hinges, and I find it much harder to argue that the show as a whole, co-written with Daniel Goldstein, comes as alive as the music.
The show taps into so many common experiences – stumbling upon a family photograph; recalling a lost love; grappling with memories — but weaves them into a story too far-fetched and convoluted to wind up fully satisfying.
Young Ellen is in her grandmother's house in Troy, New York in 1973 – which we soon discover is one of the three time periods in which the story unfolds. Young Ellen discovers an old newspaper clipping that shows a photograph of a beautiful young woman having a picnic with a soldier. She asks her grandmother Lucy (the unparalleled Estelle Parsons) whether she is the young woman in the photograph.
Lucy, a cantankerous old lady, refuses to answer and walks away.
Thirty years later, Lucy has died, and Ellen (Margo Seibert), now a 41-year-old unhappily married gynecologist, has returned to the house in Troy to clean out the place. She stumbles onto the photograph again. Via e-mail, she contacts the archives at Cornell University to help her solve the mystery of the photograph. An archivist named Andrew (Erik Lochtefeld) replies, and after some flirtatious email exchanges, gets personally involved as full on detective. (He too, we eventually learn, is also unhappily married.)
What they piece together bit by bit occurs in 1918, when the young Lucy (Kerstin Anderson) meets a soldier in Grand Central Terminal, the day before he is going to be shipped overseas. They get married. Not longer afterward, she is informed that he has died overseas.
Or has he?
A soldier with amnesia is discovered wandering around in Grand Central Terminal, not even knowing his own name. The doctor decides to call him Frances Grand (the Grand because he was discovered in Grand Central. Francis (Perry Sherman, appropriately handsome and blank) is taken to a mental institution in Ithaca, New York. Lucy begins to visit him, thinking maybe he's actually her husband.
That's the basic set-up, which took a while to get into focus (although nowhere near as much time or effort as the somewhat similar simultaneous multi-generational saga, Anatomy of a Suicide.)
The confusion of the story is in sharp contrast to the crystalline cleverness and beauty of the songs. We first meet Francis when he sings the song "This Is A—," which reflects this amnesia by having him unable to remember simple words, and failing to finish his sentences.
When Andrew wants to get personal with Ellen, and asks her out for a milkshake, she sings the witty ditty "a milkshake is never a milkshake." When Francis is written up in the newspaper, the chorus sings
It's so so tragic
And yet romantic
He's our favorite amnesiac shell-shocked celebrity
But the music is also at times genuinely romantic, as when Francis and Lucy sing a duet of operatic intensity under the Grand Central clock. In an inspired flourish by the design team, the clock has no hands, and doubles as the moon. This feels like part of the creative team's effort to convince us that "Unknown Soldier" is a timeless meditation on memory and love and loss. And we do end up feeling that way, but mostly because we're thinking of Michael Friedman.
Perry Sherman, Kerstin Anderson
Jay McKenzie, Jessica Naimy, Thom Sesma, James Crichton, Emilie Kouatchou
: Kerstin Anderson
Margo Seibert, Erik Lochtefeld
Zoe Glick, Margo Seibert, Estelle Parsons, Kerstin Anderson
Jay McKenzie, Perry Sherman, Kerstin Anderson, James Crichton
Unknown Soldier
Playwrights Horizons
Book and Lyrics by Daniel Goldstein and Music and Lyrics by Michael Friedman, Directed by Trip Cullman and Choreographed by Patrick McCollum
Scenic design by Mark Wendland, costume design by Clint Ramos and Jacob A. Climer, lighting design by Ben Stanton, sound design by Leon Rothenberg, projection design by Lucy Mackinnon, hair wig and makeup design by J. Jared Janas, co-orchestrator Marco Paguia, music director Julie McBride, music coordinator Tomoko Akaboshi, stage manager Lisa Ann Chernoff
Cast: Kerstin Anderson as Lucy Lemay, James Crichton, Zoe Glick as Young Ellen, Emilie Kouatchou, Erik Lochtefeld as Andrew, Jay McKenzie,
Jessica Naimy, Estelle Parsons and Lucy Anderson, Margo Seibert as Ellen, Thom Sesma as Doctor, and Perry Sherman as Francis.
Running time: 90 minutes, no intermission
Unknown Soldier is on stage through March 29, 2020
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Rep. Steve Scalise Finally Gets COVID-19 Vaccine, Asserts It's 'Safe And Effective'
admin July 20, 2021 2 min read
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) received the COVID-19 vaccine on Sunday after months of holding off, encouraging those who are hesitant to get vaccinated amid another growing wave of infections.
At the beginning of April, the Louisiana Republican had said he would get vaccinated "soon," and gave the same answer a month later. Scalise finally got his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine this past weekend at a clinic in Jefferson Parish, according to NOLA.com.
"Especially with the delta variant becoming a lot more aggressive and seeing another spike, it was a good time to do it," the No. 2 House Republican told the outlet in explaining why it took him so long to get vaccinated.
"When you talk to people who run hospitals, in New Orleans or other states, 90% of people in [the] hospital with [the] delta variant have not been vaccinated," he continued. "That's another signal the vaccine works."
Scalise also said he waited partly because he had tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies and believed he had existing immunity from what was likely a mild case of the virus.
While public health officials have said that antibodies from contracting the virus may provide some protection, they are not a replacement for the COVID-19 vaccine.
New COVID-19 cases have been rising substantially since May thanks to the extremely contagious delta variant. Cases have surged this month, with an average of 35,547 new cases as of Monday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The vast majority of new cases are among the unvaccinated, prompting some areas of the country to reinstate public health measures to protect against the virus' spread.
The Louisiana Department of Health reported on Monday that area hospitals have the most COVID-19 patients since February, when the deadly winter surge was starting to lessen. The state is seeing an average of 1,425 new cases per day, a stark increase from the average 903 cases per day just a week before.
Scalise told NOLA.com that the politics of getting vaccinated were not a factor in his decision. However, the staunch ally of former President Donald Trump has publicly supported conspiracy theories that undermine public health officials' efforts to encourage vaccination, including the baseless accusation that leading infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci covered up the virus' origin.
According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll earlier this month, 86% of Democratic respondents said they had received at least one vaccine dose, compared to 45% of Republican respondents. About 47% of Republican respondents said they aren't likely to get vaccinated, compared to 6% of Democrats. Scalise said that while he would encourage people to get vaccinated, he does not believe it should be mandatory.
"It's safe and effective," Scalise said. "It was heavily tested on thousands of people before the FDA gave its approval. Some people believe that it might have been rushed. That's not the case."
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namespace ash {

AppsGridContextMenu::AppsGridContextMenu() = default;

AppsGridContextMenu::~AppsGridContextMenu() = default;

bool AppsGridContextMenu::IsMenuShowing() const {
  return menu_runner_ && menu_runner_->IsRunning();
}

void AppsGridContextMenu::Cancel() {
  if (IsMenuShowing())
    menu_runner_->Cancel();
}

void AppsGridContextMenu::ExecuteCommand(int command_id, int event_flags) {
  switch (command_id) {
    case AppsGridCommandId::kReorderByNameAlphabetical:
      AppListModelProvider::Get()->model()->delegate()->RequestAppListSort(
          AppListSortOrder::kNameAlphabetical);
      break;
    case AppsGridCommandId::kReorderByColor:
      AppListModelProvider::Get()->model()->delegate()->RequestAppListSort(
          AppListSortOrder::kColor);
      break;
    default:
      NOTREACHED();
  }
}

void AppsGridContextMenu::ShowContextMenuForViewImpl(
    views::View* source,
    const gfx::Point& point,
    ui::MenuSourceType source_type) {
  if (!features::IsLauncherAppSortEnabled())
    return;

  // Build the menu model and save it to `context_menu_model_`.
  BuildMenuModel();
  menu_model_adapter_ = std::make_unique<views::MenuModelAdapter>(
      context_menu_model_.get(),
      base::BindRepeating(&AppsGridContextMenu::OnMenuClosed,
                          base::Unretained(this)));
  root_menu_item_view_ = menu_model_adapter_->CreateMenu();

  int run_types = views::MenuRunner::USE_ASH_SYS_UI_LAYOUT |
                  views::MenuRunner::CONTEXT_MENU |
                  views::MenuRunner::FIXED_ANCHOR;
  if (source_type == ui::MENU_SOURCE_TOUCH && owner_touch_dragging_)
    run_types |= views::MenuRunner::SEND_GESTURE_EVENTS_TO_OWNER;

  menu_runner_ =
      std::make_unique<views::MenuRunner>(root_menu_item_view_, run_types);
  menu_runner_->RunMenuAt(
      source->GetWidget(), nullptr, gfx::Rect(point, gfx::Size()),
      views::MenuAnchorPosition::kBubbleBottomRight, source_type);
}

void AppsGridContextMenu::BuildMenuModel() {
  context_menu_model_ = std::make_unique<ui::SimpleMenuModel>(this);

  context_menu_model_->AddTitle(l10n_util::GetStringUTF16(
      IDS_ASH_LAUNCHER_APPS_GRID_CONTEXT_MENU_REORDER_TITLE));
  context_menu_model_->AddItemWithIcon(
      AppsGridCommandId::kReorderByNameAlphabetical,
      l10n_util::GetStringUTF16(
          IDS_ASH_LAUNCHER_APPS_GRID_CONTEXT_MENU_REORDER_BY_NAME),
      ui::ImageModel::FromVectorIcon(kSortAlphabeticalIcon,
                                     ui::kColorAshSystemUIMenuIcon));
  context_menu_model_->AddItemWithIcon(
      AppsGridCommandId::kReorderByColor,
      l10n_util::GetStringUTF16(
          IDS_ASH_LAUNCHER_APPS_GRID_CONTEXT_MENU_REORDER_BY_COLOR),
      ui::ImageModel::FromVectorIcon(kSortColorIcon,
                                     ui::kColorAshSystemUIMenuIcon));
}

void AppsGridContextMenu::OnMenuClosed() {
  menu_runner_.reset();
  context_menu_model_.reset();
  root_menu_item_view_ = nullptr;
  menu_model_adapter_.reset();
}

}  // namespace ash

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What's going on in our district.
The staff at Page Unified School District Preschool believes that all children have the right to a childhood filled with love, self-worth, trust exploration, discovery, creativity, make-believe and ice cream. The home is where the opportunities begin.
PUSD Preschool, together with families, enables children to realize their potential. Preschool celebrates childhood and makes first learning experiences an exciting journey.
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A nice catch by Matt Lewis: Wisconsin Governor and 2016 hopeful Scott Walker (R) redefined "flip flop" on Bret Baier's show yesterday so that it didn't apply to his changing position on immigration.
Walker has been accused of altering his views on immigration policy, and perhaps changing them back, and changing them again*. When Baier asked him how potential voters could trust him given his fast feet, Walker said the shift didn't actually count because he'd never been in a position to influence immigration policy.
* FWIW, smart minds believe Walker's policy has stayed relatively consistent beneath situation-dependent rhetoric. Your call.


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Q: How to mock URL struct? I am writing some code to be able to make testing easier. After researching, I found a good way of making URLSession testable is to make it conform to a protocol and use that protocol in the class I need to test. I applied the same method to URL. However, I now need to downcast the url parameter as a URL type. This seems a bit "dangerous" to me. What is the proper way to make URL testable? How can I also mock the URLSessionDataTask type returned by dataTask?
import Foundation

protocol URLSessionForApiRequest {
    func dataTask(with url: URL, completionHandler: @escaping (Data?, URLResponse?, Error?) -> Void) -> URLSessionDataTask
}

protocol URLForApiRequest {
    init?(string: String)
}

extension URLSession: URLSessionForApiRequest {}

extension URL: URLForApiRequest {}

class ApiRequest {
    class func makeRequest(url: URLForApiRequest, urlSession: URLSessionForApiRequest) {
        guard let url = url as? URL else { return }
        let task = urlSession.dataTask(with: url) { _, _, _ in print("DONE") }
        task.resume()
    }

}

A: You want to make a protocol that wraps the function that you are going to call, then make a concrete implementation and mock implementation that returns whatever you initialize it with.  Here is an example:
import UIKit
import PlaygroundSupport

protocol RequestProvider {
    func request(from: URL, completion: @escaping (Data?, URLResponse?, Error?) -> Void)
}

class ApiRequest: RequestProvider {
    func request(from url: URL, completion: @escaping (Data?, URLResponse?, Error?) -> Void) {
        URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: url, completionHandler: completion).resume
    }
}

class MockApiRequest: RequestProvider {
    enum Response {
        case value(Data, URLResponse), error(Error)
    }
    private let response: Response
    init(response: Response) {
        self.response = response
    }
    func request(from url: URL, completion: @escaping (Data?, URLResponse?, Error?) -> Void) {
        switch response {
        case .value(let data, let response):
            completion(data, response, nil)
        case .error(let error):
            completion(nil, nil, error)
        }
    }
}

class SomeClassThatMakesAnAPIRequest {
    private let requestProvider: RequestProvider
    init(requestProvider: RequestProvider) {
        self.requestProvider = requestProvider
    }
    //Use the requestProvider here and it uses either the Mock or the "real" API provider based don what you injected
}

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Van Nuys station  is a station on the G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system. It is named after adjacent Van Nuys Boulevard, which travels north-south and crosses the east-west busway route and is located in the Van Nuys district of Los Angeles, in the San Fernando Valley. Adjacent to the station is the G Line's bicycle path.

The platform features a painting by Roxene Rockwell called The New Town, which shows an example of the wheat and sugar beet fields that marked the area before it was developed.

Service

Station Layout

Hours and frequency

Connections
, the following connections are available:
 Los Angeles Metro Bus: , , , Rapid
 LADOT DASH: Van Nuys/Studio City

History

The rail line through the San Fernando Valley was established by the Southern Pacific in 1893. When the Montalvo Cutoff was constructed in 1904, most traffic was diverted over a new mainline which ran diagonally across the valley and the tracks were relegated to branch status. Pacific Electric interurban trains reached Van Nuys by December 1911, crossing the Southern Pacific tracks at Van Nuys Boulevard.

The Orange Line (now the G Line) began operations over the former Burbank branch with new facilities to serve rapid buses on October 29, 2005.

Future development
As part of the Orange Line Service Improvements Project, which aims to increase bus speeds and capacity through the corridor, the station is planned to be rebuilt on a grade-separated bridge to decrease interference from traffic.

Thus far, A section of LADWP overhead power lines were undergrounded along Atena Street between Vesper Ave and the distribution substation to the east in August 2019. The communication wires were also undergrounded in November 2020, due to a planned TOD (transit oriented development) on the northwestern corner of Van Nuys Blvd and Oxnard St to be built next to the proposed G Line Bridge.

Van Nuys station will serve as the southern terminus of the East San Fernando Light Rail Project light rail line in 2028. In June 2018, Metro staff recommended light rail as the preferred transport mode along this route. This route will connect to Amtrak and Metrolink's Van Nuys train station and Sylmar/San Fernando Metrolink station to the north. Additionally, the Sepulveda Pass Transit Corridor service may connect to the station.

Nearby notable places
 Van Nuys Municipal Building
 Van Nuys Branch

References

External links
LA Metro: Orange Line Timetable - schedules
LA Metro: Orange Line map and stations - route map and station addresses and features
Orange Line history
LA Metro - countywide: official website

Los Angeles Metro Busway stations
Van Nuys, Los Angeles
G Line (Los Angeles Metro)
Public transportation in the San Fernando Valley
Public transportation in Los Angeles
Bus stations in Los Angeles
2005 establishments in California
Railway stations scheduled to open in 2028
Future Los Angeles Metro Rail stations
Pacific Electric stations
Former Southern Pacific Railroad stations in California


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1,000 fewer crimes in Cambs, according to latest figures
Published: 7:14 AM October 26, 2010 Updated: 4:20 PM November 1, 2020
CRIME across Cambridgeshire has dropped resulting in more than 1,000 fewer victims, according to Home Office figures.
The 10 per cent fall in Cambridgeshire, which was two per cent ahead of the national average, saw decreases in robbery and dwelling burglaries, although violent crime went up as did sexual offences.
The figures were released amid concern a 16 per cent cut over four years to the police budget could affect frontline policing.
The statistics, for the 12-month period to June this year, show a 10 per cent fall in reported crime compared with the same period the previous year. Offences fell from 65,338 to 58,872, a reduction of 6,465. Incidents of robbery dropped by 16 per cent from 847 to 712 offences, while the dwelling burglary fell by 20 per cent from 4,473 to 3,549.
Vehicle crime including theft of and from vehicles also dropped significantly by 28 per cent, from 8,402 to 6,049 offences.
Violence against the person rose by eight per cent, from 9,970 to 10,711 offences, although more serious offences – violence against the person with injury – dropped by four per cent, from 4,761 to 4,594.
Chief Constable Simon Parr said: "These are encouraging figures, particularly for total crime and those offences that have such a huge impact on victims, like robbery and dwelling burglary.
"We will continue to target those who commit offences while seeking the most cost-effective way to manage the force in coming years."


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BuzzFeed's Ben Smith, CNN's Brian Stelter Face Off Over Published Trump Memo (Video)
CNN's Brian Stelter and BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith sat down to discuss the latter publication's decision to publish the dossier that contains unverified allegations against Donald Trump.
"CNN did not print or quote from it, but BuzzFeed did even though the memo is full of unverified allegations, some of them known to be false," Stelter said on his show 'Reliable Sources" on Sunday. "Was this a violation of journalistic ethics?"
He then asked Smith whether he felt any regrets publishing the memo that had allegedly been making the rounds for months.
Also Read: Here's Why BuzzFeed's Ben Smith Published the 'Golden Showers' Dossier
"Absolutely not, we proudly published it," said Smith. "Three days later, it seems clear that it was the right thing to do … In three months, it will look even clearer."
When Stelter said that outlets like CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post refused to publish the contents of the memo, Smith said that BuzzFeed also ran into a "cross in the reporting" but decided to publish the dossier, as opposed to outlets like CNN who reported on the dossier without sharing what exactly the allegations were. He added that he understands both sides of the argument but doesn't get the "middle position."
"The middle position is journalism!" Stelter argued.
Also Read: Donald Trump Responds to 'Golden Showers' Claim: 'Total Political Witch Hunt'
Stelter went on to say that he is "trying to figure out if you all are Washington Post or WikiLeaks — it seems to me you are trying to be both." He also said that there should have been more reporting around the allegations so the audience could better understand the meaning of the document, while Smith argued that he just wanted to "treat our audience with respect."
CNN posted a story early Friday evening on the East Coast citing documents that included allegations that Russian operatives have compromising personal information on the president-elect, but declined to publish the raw files. BuzzFeed had no such compunction, publishing the full, unverified document from a person purporting to be a former British intelligence agent.
Stelter made sure to voice his opinions about BuzzFeed's decision, alleging that BuzzFeed rushed out the documents shortly after CNN's report.
Trump has since derided the memo as "fake news" and a political hit job, and belittled BuzzFeed for publishing it.
Watch the 13-minute debate above.
Related stories from TheWrap:
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BuzzFeed Responds to Trump With 'Failing Pile of Garbage' Merchandise
Also Read: Here's Why BuzzFeed's Ben Smith Published the 'Golden Showers' Dossier
Also Read: Donald Trump Responds to 'Golden Showers' Claim: 'Total Political Witch Hunt'
Chuck Todd Tries Really Hard to Get BuzzFeed Editor to Admit He Published 'Fake News'
BuzzFeed Responds to Trump With 'Failing Pile of Garbage' Merchandise
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