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As coronavirus COVID-19 and Louisiana state mandates have students at home, high-schoolerstaking Advanced Placement classes are shifting to a new kind of test.

What's normally a 3-hour-15-minute test on paper is going to be 45 minutes long and taken online.

"We've practiced all year on paper; this is a different way of doing things," said Jordan Gaspard, who teachesteaches AP Language and Composition at David Thibodaux STEM Magnet Academy in Lafayette.

The online exams are "free-response," in which students write in their answers. Students will have the option to write their responses by hand and submit a photo, or they can take the test on any device computer, tablet or smartphone, according to CollegeBoard, the company that administers the tests.

"Based on the number and length of school closures, it's clear that the usual way AP Exams are given at schools wont be possible," according to CollegeBoard.

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We're in uncharted territory, and I think they're making the best of a bad situation. The good thing is they are not testing any skills (that would be taught) beyond March.

The company said colleges support this solution and have longaccepted a shortened AP Exam for college credit when groups of students have experienced emergencies.

For each Advanced Placement subject, there will be two different testing dates, which have yet to be released. The full exam scheduleand additional testing information will be available by April 3.

"We're in uncharted territory, and I think they're making the best of a bad situation," Gaspard said. "The good thing is they are not testing any skills (that would be taught) beyond March."

Schools in Louisiana are closed, but teachers like Gaspard are making sure their students are ready for the test by emailing students with links to free resources and practice tests from AP and CollegeBoard. He is going over skills three times a week through Google Classroom.

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These aren't required, as the Lafayette Parish School System is not giving assignments or tests while schools are closed. But teachers are making resources available, whether they be for fourth-grade math or the AP English compositionexam like Gaspard's juniors.

His students can take advantage of free, live review sessions via the AP YouTube channel. AP teachers from across the country go over skills like "identifying the rhetorical situation in a pre-20th century text," which students could see on their exam.

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Keagan Peterson, who teaches AP Government and AP History to sophomores at Lafayette High, was focused on getting resources to her students before the district's directive or CollegeBoard's videos.

"We hadn't finished three units before we left," Peterson said. "So I was really focused on pushing that content to students and practicein Google Classroom."

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For more of her students, these are their first-ever Advanced Placement classes, which earns them college credit if they take and pass the AP exam.

It's a college class, so you get a very hard-working student. The content is difficult. The pacing is difficult. Expectations are pretty high.

"It's a college class, so you get a very hard-working student," Peterson said. "The content is difficult. The pacing is difficult. Expectations are pretty high."

She said some of her students are doing their own research and investigation to get ready for the test. Some are watching the livestreams on YouTube and Facebook to practice while also gettinga connection to others in a classroom.

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Peterson has watched some of the CollegeBoard classes and has recommended them for her students. The classes are starting with content she had covered already.

"They're doing a great job giving guided practice," Peterson said. "It is part content and part review."

A big focus in the classes is on free response questions, which will be the totality of the shortened test this year. Peterson has practiced free response in her classes, but as one part of a mix of questions.

"That (practice) is invaluable right now," Peterson said. "If you are lacking in FRQ, there's a lot less wiggle room."

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By this point in March, the Kansas football team was supposed to be four practices into its spring schedule. At least that was the plan before the coronavirus pandemic changed everything.

Now, the Jayhawks don't know when they will have a chance to practice again.

Its really tough, former KU starting quarterback Carter Stanley told the Journal-World when asked what type of impact losing the 15-practice spring schedule would have. I couldnt even imagine.

KU Athletic Director Jeff Long told reporters during a video conference on Monday that head coach Les Miles and his assistants were geared up and ready to embark on the spring schedule the first practice was set for March 17 and the finale slated for April 18 when it had to be put on hold, and pressing pause felt like a big blow.

And even though the original version of spring football has essentially been canceled nationwide, Long remains hopeful some alternative practice schedule could be put in place once KU operations start to get back to normal.

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Kansas head coach Les Miles calls out players to go head-to-head in the Jayhawk drill during practice on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019.

We are looking nationally about how that will be handled whether there's a possibility of being able to come back and have some kind of a spring practice in June, maybe as an extension of the preseason going into August, Long said. So maybe there's additional days added on that front end. But none of that has been decided.

As the Jayhawks and college football players nationwide wait to find out whats next for them, Stanley said he felt sorry for his former KU teammates, and he was thankful that his final season in the program wasnt marred by this type of obstacle.

Obviously if this happened last year, it would be catastrophic, Stanley said, because we had a new staff and were putting in an entirely new system.

During his five years at KU (Stanley redshirted as a freshman) he learned that spring football is a great opportunity for every player in the program, as well as a critical stage for developing team chemistry.

For players, you can put yourself in a position to be the starter for fall camp if you stack days consistently, Stanley said. For coaches, its huge, because you can put in almost the entire playbook and get 15 opportunities to evaluate players.

For the current KU team in particular, spring practices projected to be a pivotal stage for the quarterback competition.

The last time offensive coordinator Brent Dearmon was made available for interviews, back in December, he envisioned senior Thomas MacVittie and junior Miles Kendrick as the two QBs in the program likely to battle for the starting job in 2020.

When asked about the challenges that would result from the loss of a typical spring schedule, former KU linebacker Joe Dineen said it was likely to hit the QBs the hardest.

Its not the end-all, Dineen told the Journal-World, because a lot of competitions can roll over into camp. But usually I think teams will know what direction theyre headed by the middle or end of spring ball regarding the QB position.

Dineen said the absence of spring football would be a setback for younger Jayhawks in particular. Those sessions can provide a rare chance for players buried on the depth chart to prove themselves.

If you redshirted or didnt play much defense or offense (the previous season), spring ball is kind of where you get the opportunity, Dineen said, because when camp rolls around you get into more game plan stuff and coaches dont have the time to evaluate a bunch of guys.

Spring repetitions and meetings, Dineen also pointed out, give players time to get acclimated to new coaches and their different coaching styles.

This offseason, Miles hired four new position coaches running backs coach and special teams coordinator Jonathan Wallace, tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator Josh Eargle, safeties coach Jordan Peterson and outside linebackers coach Chidera Uzo-Diribe to replace assistants from the 2019 staff who left the program.

Hakeem Adeniji, a former four-year starter on KUs offensive line, said the Jayhawks could take some solace in the fact that the loss of practices would affect all football programs, not just Kansas.

The teams that will be, I guess, the most benefited by it would be the teams that have the least amount of turnover, Adeniji told the Journal-World. I think we definitely need it. So many seniors gone, people having different roles.

Dineen was hopeful that teams could make up some of that lost time in the summer if the coronavirus situation improves enough by then.

I hope the NCAA will grant them extended summer hours, Dineen said, and maybe some nonpadded practices in the summer to make up for this. But itll be interesting to see how KU and every other team can overcome this.

Stanley said coaches who are best navigating these bizarre circumstances by maintaining contact with players about playbooks and the like will benefit from those endeavors eventually.

Who knows how long this will last?" Stanley said. "But the teams that do the best job of communicating and teaching now will show a lot in early games.

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Tammy Peterson (nee Roberts) was born on June 3, 1965, in Canada. She met Jordan Peterson at the tender age of eight, the two grew up together in Alberta, Canada. Jordan would claim that it was a case of love at first sight, going so far as to tell his father about his intention to marry her when he was just 11 years old. Sure enough, the two were wed in 1989, and are still together to this day.

Before Tammy Peterson devoted her time to supporting her husband as an advisor, she worked professionally as a massage therapist. Tammy has also been an avid foster parent since she was 30, housing many children from orphanages in and around Canada.

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He is the acclaimed author of 12 Rules: An Antidote to Chaos, reaching global fame as a clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. 12 Rules: An Antidote to Chaos has garnered a fierce following comprised of people who have enjoyed positive changes in their lives due to the teachings detailed in the book.

He further extends his reach by distributing his talks via his YouTube channel and has hosted an Ask Me Anything session on the popular social website Reddit. Jordan Peterson also provides regular updates about his life on Twitter. He teaches self-help lectures all over the world, going on tour to various parts of Canada and the United States, and even as far as Melbourne and Sydney in Australia.

Currently 53-years-old, Tammy Peterson enjoys a simple life. She has little to no presence on social media, and its no secret that her husband is definitely the more public one between them.

Her husband sparked great controversy when he went very public with his stance against political correctness. It all came to a head with his refusal to comply with a Canadian law that requires addressing transgender students with the pronouns of their choice.

Jordan Peterson is also infamous for his polarising interviews on various social media platforms, where he often critiques some aspects of the modern feminist movement. Peterson also speaks about a crisis of masculinity, providing critique on current trends that seek to feminize men.

Hes gone under fire for expressing his views on multiple platforms, such as a particular interview with Cathy Newman and a Q&A with the ABC that have gone viral. However, his stance is fiercely defended by his supporters.

His views have also impacted his professional life. After receiving a lot of backlash from students and faculty, Cambridge University rescinded an invitation for a visiting fellowship to Jordan Peterson.

One can only imagine what its like to be married to someone who is so scrutinised by the public. What does it mean to be Jordan Petersons wife? Is it intimidating to be so publicly known mostly by your other half?

Tammy Peterson seems to be in total support of her husband if we are to go by their enduring marriage. Her relative absence from social media and the public eye says very little about her real feelings about her husbands political stance, however.

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In the middle of 2019, Jordan Peterson released news that Tammy has been diagnosed with a rare kidney cancer. She underwent two surgeries, with the second one leading to a rare complication that damaged her lymphatic system. Through this ordeal, Jordan Peterson stayed by her side as she went from hospital to hospital, even going to the United States for treatment.

Tammy Peterson currently seems to be on the road to recovery, in a turn of events that her family sees as miraculous. Despite this, the stress of worrying and caring for his wife night after sleepless night has gotten Jordan Peterson into taking the anti-anxiety medication clonazepam and he has apparently fallen into a deep chemical dependency.

Jordan Peterson has recently checked into rehab in New York to wean himself from the drug as quickly as possible. His daughter Mikhaila Peterson reported on her YouTube channel that Jordan is having a miserable time dealing with the physical withdrawal, and is showing symptoms of severe depression.

Fun Fact: Both Mikhaila and Jordan are advocates of an all-meat diet which they claim to have helped them both with chronic health conditions.

In the age of social media and continuous connectivity, the fact that Tammy Peterson has kept such a low profile despite her husbands notoriety is strangely remarkable. Her struggle with a rare cancer is truly terrible news, and we can only hope that the Peterson family are able to put all of it behind them soon.

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Marc Maron just came to Tampa. Seems like a good time for another podcast comedy king, Joe Rogan, to follow suit.

Rogan, the controversial yet influential comic, actor and host of the phenomenally popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast, is bringing his new standup tour to Tampas Amalie Arena on Aug. 14. Tickets are $35.75 and up. Click here for details.

The fact that a podcaster is able to headline Amalie Arena should tell you something about how far Rogan has come since his days on NewsRadio and Fear Factor. Since launching in 2009, The Joe Rogan Experience has booked a diverse array of guests from Hollywood and beyond, from Robert Downey Jr., Mel Gibson and Elon Musk to figures like Richard Dawkins, Jordan Peterson and Gavin McInnes.

Rogans choice of guests and eagerness to discuss topics ranging from the controversial to the toxic (or at least toxic-adjacent) have made him a polarizing political figure. Bernie Sanders spent an hour on his show last summer, which led the Libertarian-leaning Rogan to endorse Sanders for president in 2020. That led some on the left to urge Sanders to reject Rogans (potentially impactful) endorsement over the comics history of transphobic and xenophobic jokes and comments.

Regardless, The Joe Rogan Experience remains one of the worlds most downloaded podcasts, so much so that theres every chance his Amalie Arena show could sell out. He has, in fact, also booked a show at Orlandos Amway Center on Aug. 15.

Two shows in Florida during the dog days of the presidential election? Rogan might well find a few things to say about that.

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This is preposterous and illogical. Trans people make an effort to pass as the gender they identify as, so forcing a trans man who is on testosterone and had top surgery into the women's restroomor a trans woman who is on estrogen into the men's restroom makes no sense. Even with her harmful views about trans people,I still think throwing drinksand swearing at her is unjustified.

I dont getBennetts whole shtick. Bennett, who rose to fame as The Gun Girl, first gained traction at Kent State University, walking around with a gunwith police for backup. A recent graduate, her activisms emphasis was to protest the campusrulewhichprohibitsstudents from open-carrying. Now, Ifor one, am definitely someone for SecondAmendmentrights.However, asking police from the same district as those who historically murdered students makes no sense to me. The police force at Kent State University may be comprised of different people than in 1970, but it doesnt erase history.

Her methodology is also abrasive.

Do you guys think we should abolish the death penalty? Bennet asked while dressed as her alter-ego, Jenna, at the Womens March in January.

The woman she was interviewing responded, saying she believe[s] in the death penalty, actually, to which Bennett countered, Is that why youre pro-choice?

Now, regardless of what your views are on either abortion orthe death penalty, you can agree this framing is incredibly disrespectful. It doesnt give the interviewee the benefit of the doubt and automatically assumes she gravitates towards policies which support murder. Of course, there are other reasons for being both pro-choice and pro-death penalty, most of which dont support a consistent murder ethic. What Bennett is doing aims just to get a rise out of people, not to have a calm, level-headed discussion. If she wanted to have a level-headed discussion, she wouldnt paint her political opponent as a murderer.

Even so, despite Bennetts apparentlack of disrespect for people she disagrees with, the borderline violent behavior of students at Ohio University was uncalled for, and the police should have intervened. There is a difference between a heated debate and splashing someone with hot beverages while behaving in a manner that could be determined as a precursor to violence.

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