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UCI Podcast: COVID-19's effect on the college decision process
Constance Iloh's study will look at the pandemic's effect on college-going trajectories for Black and Latinx students
Constance Iloh, an assistant professor of education at UCI, discusses why the framework of college choice doesn't accurately reflect the college-going process. "So for me, even just the notion that college decision-making is sequential or that college is this one time event is already deeply flawed and not representative of the very heterogeneous student population that we have now," says Iloh. Courtesy of Constance Iloh
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted college education, including the campus experience, how classes are delivered and, crucially, how students even decide to go to college. Constance Iloh, an assistant professor in UCI's School of Education, has developed a framework to understand people's college-going trajectories, and she recently earned a grant to examine how the pandemic is affecting the way Black and Latinx students look at college, using her Iloh Model of College-Going Decisions and Trajectories. Iloh speaks with the UCI Podcast about the factors that contribute to a person's college trajectory, why the concept of "college choice" excludes many people and how her model can help leaders in higher education to provide access to more diverse students.
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Across the country, in-person college activities are limited and many classes are now online because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It's a shift that has forced students to think differently about college, and it's tempting to ask: What are students choosing to do? But that way of framing the question — students making a choice — doesn't accurately capture the reality of how people launch into a particular college trajectory — or not.
From the University of California, Irvine, I'm Aaron Orlowski. And you're listening to the UCI Podcast.
To learn more about the pandemic's effect on students' college trajectories and decisions, I reached out to Constance Iloh, who is an assistant professor at UCI's School of Education.
Professor Iloh, thank you for joining me today on the UCI Podcast.
CONSTANCE ILOH
Absolutely, pleased to join you.
ORLOWSKI
Well, across the country students are heading back to college and some of them are going to campus and some of them are going to be doing college remotely. And that's all because of the COVID-19 pandemic. So how is the pandemic affecting students as they think about going to college right now?
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The first thing I think of when I think of impact for students is the college going decision process. So everything from recruiters coming to high schools, regarding college, college fairs, if the SAT is required, to campus visits, is totally in contention, given the need for safety protocols and social distancing. This also comes to mind when I think about the many students that are now weighing if it's realistic, opportunity-wise and financially, to start or continue college, given any student's life circumstances and their very purpose for attending college.
And the second thing I sort of think of that's impacted for students is just the college experience. Many students are facing the prospect of taking courses online, essentially experiencing college remotely. And they may be used to associating college with an on campus experience taking courses physically. So really in essence, the look, the feel, and even the pursuit of college is completely different right now with this pandemic. And it's presenting even more complexities and challenges for students than before.
That's so interesting to hear you talk about not just the students who are freshmen this year, but essentially the high school students, or the pre-college students, who are looking at different schools and they can't really visit in the same way. They can't go to the fairs. They can't experience it in advance in the same way.
Well, let's talk a little bit about how you look at these issues. Because you're an anthropologist, and so you kind of have a distinct lens about how you look at the issue of college education. So what is that lens? How do you look at education and the related social issues in a unique way?
I think about two things a lot, those being context and culture. So as it relates to context and how I think about social issues and education, it's important for me to understand what surrounds a person, an issue, a community or a space. So in education one might be inclined to be attentive to what's happening in a school. So me as an anthropologist, it's important for me to consider there may be very salient things happening outside of the school that are just as likely to inform whatever issue or problem I'm trying to understand. So there are all of these ecosystems around a particular person or space and understanding that, for me, is critical for any sort of attentive and, really, empathic data collection and solution building.
But then secondly, I think about culture. So I consider, what is the culture of a department, a school, an institution overall, or just any subgroup, and how that might differ from another. Who or what are indicators of a culture? What can be known about it? So for me, being an anthropologist really means not taking for granted everything from the micro to the macro and all of these contexts that are accessible and meaningful to understanding anything.
It sounds like that, essentially, you're saying that something like college education — we can't view that in a vacuum. These decisions and trajectories and paths that people go on towards college are affected by myriad factors outside of the actual experience of college itself.
One thing that you've talked about before is that college is often viewed as a choice. That's sort of the standard mindset that people in society think about. Students choose to go to a particular college. But you've also said that this framework of college choice doesn't really accurately capture the process. Can you tell us why that is?
So there's a few reasons why college choice frameworks don't accurately capture the process for me. One being that the prevailing one — and many popular ones — tend to look at college-going decisions and decision-making as this sequential process. What becomes problematic about that is that there's a number of students who are not pursuing, attending or even deciding on college and these sort of sequential ways. I mean, we think about the fact that college is not even this one time event for a growing number of students. And this is a nod to the growing "some college experience and no degree" population. So it's not this sort of, "Oh, well, I sort of thought about an institution, you know, or a kind of institution. I've searched for different kinds of schools that might fit what I want to enroll in. And then I've made a decision." That could look very different for someone who's much older and is really just making a decision based on a recommendation because they're so far removed from college-going information that they may have received in high school.
So for me, even just the notion that college decision-making is sequential or that college is this one time event is already deeply flawed and not representative of the very heterogeneous student population that we have now. I also think about the number of students that come from all these different walks of life and the other kinds of sectors of higher education that are rarely centered in these other frameworks. So I think about the for-profit colleges and community colleges that are more likely to enroll non-first-time students, student-parents, students that are older, students that work part or full time and what that sort of means for college-going. So it's one thing to sort of think about a college-going decision for someone who's coming out of high school. It's another thing to think of someone who's doing this at a much later time in their life.
And we need frameworks that are really attentive and expansive to the different kinds of students in the higher education marketplace. And lastly, I just take issue with the term "choice" itself, which is why I've removed it from the framework I've created all together. Because, really, "choice" — it minimizes the role of privilege and shaping college-going options, as I'm having these air quotes that you guys can't see. For example, there may be some students of the belief now that they don't really have options because of the inequities embedded in the higher education ecosystem, and some that have many. So we need frameworks that are attentive to the fact that choice cannot be the lens that we use to understand a process when choice is already in contention for some students, especially when we think about things like race, someone's location and other different and important factors in their life.
Well, you mentioned the framework that you created. Can you tell us some more about that? It's the Iloh Model of College-going Decisions and Trajectories. What's involved with that framework?
So the Iloh Model of College-going Decisions and Trajectories essentially highlights interactions among three dimensions that determine a person's college-going decision and trajectory. So those three dimensions are information, time and opportunity. So unlike sequential frameworks, some of which I kind of addressed earlier, the three components of this Iloh model, they really have these nonlinear, but also still codependent relationships with one another. So they're their own separate component, but a decision or trajectory is only understood when we think about information, time and opportunity collectively.
Also information, time and opportunity — they're not neutral, but they're dimensions that can ultimately expand or reduce one's college-going possibilities, based on a person's identity, their life circumstances and social position. So I talked about the prospective student who might be much older, someone who might work part or full time, who also then might only be able to consider options, for example, that lend themselves to working part or full time. This model can really be used at different points in someone's life to uncover the context and even rationale behind different decisions in addition to their trajectory overall.
Well, and you also have a project that you're working on right now. You earned a grant to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic, which we started talking about at the beginning of this conversation, and how that pandemic is affecting the college-going trajectories of Black and Latinx students. So can you tell us a bit more about that study and what do you plan to explore there?
The project is really based on the premise that inequities and byproducts of classism and racism are very much likely to be heightened during a global pandemic. And also it's really likely that the narratives, for example, of Black and Latinx students are going to be minimized because it's a global pandemic that's impacting students from all walks of life. So imagine inequities that are existing beforehand, and now we have a pandemic that's impacting all kinds of students, likely only heightening issues for Black and Latinx students. And this is really an opportunity to be more intentional about those groups specifically.
So I'm essentially exploring their college-going narratives. And, specifically, the project looks at low-income Black and Latinx students during this COVID-19 era. So I'm really excited to use the Iloh Model of College-going Decisions and Trajectories, specifically, to explore how their information, time and opportunity contexts amidst this pandemic — what they actually look like. So I'll be interviewing a sample of students and I'll be using a life history method, which basically seeks to understand their life experiences right now and beforehand through several rounds of interviews. And in doing so my biggest hope is to just honor their realities, document those, but then also be able to identify some class- and race-minded understandings and approaches for this particular moment. And also to think about implications for college access and persistence overall.
And it sounds like one of the key things with the project is just documenting the fact that these groups of people are having these experiences, which kind of pushes back against any sort of standard narratives or any privileged narratives that could erase those experiences.
Absolutely. Just the opportunity to be intentional in this way is such a blessing for me. And it really is at the core of the work that I do because, again, context and culture are so key for me. So I'm really grateful to be doing this project.
Well let's look a little bit more at the Iloh model and what it might say about the moment we're in with the pandemic. So as you mentioned, the model examines time, information and opportunity. So how is the pandemic affecting each of those elements for students and potential students who are looking at college right now?
Let's just take time for starters. Some students who made college plans prior to the pandemic are now having to adapt or reconsider amidst all these rapid changes, given the pandemic and this distinct time in history that we're in. The same goes for institutions, some of whose value propositions, programs, events and services are completely having to be altered, as well.
So information — it's a dimension that situates the quality and quantity of information someone has in making a college-going decision. So, arguably, that's an area that's affected as well. So simply because of the pandemic, this has created all these uncertainties for colleges that become information uncertainties for students. So there's likely students now having to make decisions without as much information that they would have about what college is going to look like in the fall, in the spring, in the winter, than they would have had in years prior. And also just having to be immersed in institutions that themselves don't even know what their plans are because they're adapting to and trying to project what's feasible and what's not feasible due to this pandemic. So I think of so many kinds of information asymmetries that can just come out of this moment and students really having to navigate so many uncertainties because of the time that we're in.
And with opportunity, this really gets us thinking about the real and perceived viability of college for an individual. So for example, college might not be viable at this time for someone because their family's facing different kinds of financial hardship and they need assistance. So some students might be challenged with even affording college, potentially because the college itself and it being open was a source and ability for them to afford college. So we're really seeing a moment where higher education itself is becoming more and more of a luxury because of this growing economic instability, amongst many things. And another example might be a student who might not even find a particular college an option anymore because the major they really wanted to pursue is facing severe budget cuts, or it's just being cut all together. So these are just some examples. But as we think about time, information and opportunity, there's so many ways and so many examples of how these elements can be impacted by this moment. And I'm really excited that I've created something that can be attentive to this time that we're in.
Looking to the future a bit more, we've talked a lot about how underrepresented groups and underprivileged groups who don't have as many financial resources think about college and higher education. So how can your college-going trajectories model help leaders in higher education improve access for those underrepresented groups?
So the Iloh model, I think is important, one of the reasons which being, because it's just sensitive to complex contexts and ecosystems, whether that be a minoritized student or someone else. And this is especially informative for institutions that care about the sorts of complexities and want to do something about them. Overall my model can really help scholars, leaders and practitioners really challenge understandings of high-quality institutions just in the 21st century, as it relates to not just the idea that an institution has about itself or what it markets, but really the reality of that institution through the dimensions of information, time and opportunity, especially from the lens of minoritized and underrepresented students.
So really the model suggests that institutions that are committed to equity — and I think of equity as excellence — they have to consider the dimensions of information, time and opportunity for the students that they're able to enroll, but also the students that they don't enroll. So if they're finding that there are very low numbers of participation for Black students, for Latinx students, for low-income students, it's important for them to really consider these dimensions and how accessible their institutions are. So really it's just a framework that forces colleges to consider who their prospective and current students are and also who they aren't. So there's a lot of work to be done in higher education as it relates to both unearthing and dismantling inequities in college-going. And I believe the framework I created really is an invaluable tool to do so.
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Grow Your Future is a student recruitment campaign to promote the career path of a Rural Practice Chartered Surveyor to a wider and more diverse audience than at present. The campaign has been spearheaded by Mr. Andrew Black, a Chartered Surveyor and Senior Lecturer at Harper Adams University, and supported by Higher Horizons+, a collaborative network of Universities and Colleges throughout the Midlands and North West, who work together to engage and support schools with free outreach activities as part of the National Collaborative Outreach Programme (NCOP).
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Those familiar with the history of the house of Louis Vuitton will know that the luxury Parisian brand began life as a maker of fine luggage. Its eponymous founder created travel cases for society's well-to-do, and that preoccupation with wanderlust is what present creative director Nicolas Ghesquière has circled back to for SS19.
Staged in fluorescent-lit corridors lined with glass panels in the courtyard of the Louvre – looking something like a futuristic office layout – Ghesquière's women looked as if they had just returned from a land far, far away. "The Louis Vuitton House crosses and blends territories, creating an illusion of ideal geography," read the show notes, as models wore voluminous dresses printed with abstract botanical prints and dipped in orbital sunset colours.
Think Back to the Future in sartorial form, as 80s silhouettes were remixed with design elements that were literally out of this world. Jumpsuits with The Jetsons-style angular construction felt robust and retro, while power suit separates were paired with outer-space-print t-shirts. Not to be missed were the iconic logo-covered LV bags, moulded into alien-shaped eggs for SS19. This was Ghesquière drawing on Louis Vuitton's past to mark the beginning of an experimental future for the label.


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1207 Ogden Ave is a Multi-Family building located in Highbridge, Bronx constructed in 1912. This 5-story building has 11 units. The building is within Community District 204 and zoned for the following school - P.S. 126 Dr Marjorie H Dunbar. Nearby transportation include the 1, 4, A, C, B, D subway lines.


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Brooks Landon
Email: brooks-landon@uiowa.edu
Brooks Landon is a Professor in the University of Iowa English Department, where he teaches courses on contemporary literature, including science fiction, and a Prose Style course devoted entirely to the many forms sentences can take. He is currently fascinated by the apocalyptic turn in contemporary postmodern fiction, and has become something of an expert in forms taken by our current fascination with zombies, devoting a course, "Dead is the New Alive" to the question: Why do we apparently need all these zombie stories? His postmodern fiction course, "Masters of Disaster," focuses on the many kinds of non-zombie apocalypses that have recently appeared in literary fiction. His Prose Style course is built around his book, Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds Sentences We Love to Read. Landon earned his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and has been at Iowa since 1978.
A User's Guide to Postmodern Fiction
Postmodernism means many different things in many different contexts. Postmodern architecture is not the same as postmodern fiction and postmodern fiction comes in more flavors than a well-known ice cream purveyor has flavors. Postmodern fiction comes after modern fiction, but modern fiction still gets written. Postmodern fiction is a reaction against modern fiction, but still shares many of its concerns and characteristics. Postmodern fiction is a mess. And, whatever it was, it's almost certainly over, possibly replaced by a sensibility that is post 9/11.
For purposes of this talk—but without relying too heavily on critical jargon, I'll consider postmodernism largely in terms of Lyotard's description of it as a resistance to meta-narrative ("big" narratives that claim to explain everything, such as religion or Marxism) and of Jameson's description of it as a "cultural dominant" (an attitude or atmosphere that pervades everything). More specifically, I define postmodernism as the culture of the easy-edit, a time when science and technology allow us to change just about anything. And I define postmodern fiction as fiction that rises from or responds to postmodern culture.
It's probably more accurate to speak of postmodernisms than of a single postmodernism and it's almost certainly more accurate to speak of postmodern fictions than of a single postmodern fiction. So, I'll be talking about a fair number of novels that approach postmodern concerns from a fair number of different angles—books by familiar authors such as David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo, as well as books by younger and lesser known authors such as William Gibson, Jonathan Lethem, Chuck Palahniuk, Mark Leyner and Max Brooks. My goal will be to create a broad context in which readers can more specifically place some of their own favorite authors and have a better idea of what they are up to.
Building Better Sentences: A Quick and Dirty and Pretty Much Grammar-Free Guide to More Effective Writing
Best-selling and critically acclaimed American novelist Don DeLillo has written: "This is what I mean when I call myself a writer. I construct sentences." And Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham has written: "I'm still hoping to write a great sentence. If I do, I'll let you know." I will show how attention to a very few ideas can help anyone write better sentences. This is a talk about all the important ways sentences get longer—and shorter. We will learn about how they work, what they do and how we can think and talk about them in ways that will help both our own writing and our reading. Our concern will be with stretching our sense of options—all the things a sentence can be and/or do—not a trudge toward grammatical correctness and avoidance of errors, but a dance with language, a celebration of the gift of style.


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Doc: How much of an all-time great?
The point has been brought up several times of how great of a career Dwight Gooden could have had. Because of the lengthy cocaine use that ruined his career, many wonder where he would have ranked had he not used drugs to a point where it kept him from pitching. He was suspended twice which eventually ended his time with the New York Mets. In spite of his comebacks, including two separate postseason appearances with the New York Yankees, Doc was never the same dominant pitcher he was when he pitched with the Mets. His first 10 seasons were as good as any Met pitcher in history outside of Seaver. There is no reason to believe that had the drugs not changed and derailed him, Doc would have been on track to be a hall of famer.
If you take out his final suspension shorted season where he went 3-4 in seven starts, he completed ten seasons with the Mets. That would give him 154 wins and 1835 strikeouts. Is it realistic that he could have pitched ten more seasons with the Mets? And if so, could the Mets have been more competitive in the 1990s? The extra 10 seasons would have kept Doc in Queens until 2003. Imagine the 1999 and 2000 Mets' teams with Doc Gooden as their ace. You can't say it wouldn't have changed things. Thinking about this more kind of makes you feel you were robbed as a fan. Doc unfortunately robbed himself more than any fan can imagine.
If he pitched ten more seasons at the same pace, he could have won another Cy Young and possibly could have thrown his no hitter as a Met. He was on pace for 308 wins and 3670 strikeouts which are similar numbers to future hall of famer Randy Johnson. No question Doc could have been a hall of fame pitcher. And maybe if he did steroids instead of cocaine, he could have put up Roger Clemens numbers, who ironically, was putting up the same type numbers at the same time as Doc.
Doc & Straw will always be remembered more for what could have been. Glad we have the 1 WS title with them so it's a little easier to say at least we won 1 with them..
No question sky would have been the limit. Two of the best players to put on a Mets uniform.


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Slanderous Attacks by the Critics
Dr. Simon states that someone who is a "frum mathematician at Harvard and a Rav" wrote an article against Codes. Curiously, Dr. Simon omitted crucial parts of this story. He deliberately chose not to tell the readers that this mathematician wrote an article for the American Mathematical Society (A.M.S.) explicitly accusing Doron Witztum and Dr. Rips of knowingly perpetrating a "hoax" and a fraud. His assault was nothing less than deliberate character assassination, in public, of two frum ehrlicher Jews whose personal and professional integrity are well known. This professor provided no evidence whatsoever for his charges, and then went on to "shame" - his word - the same four world-class mathematicians that Dr. Simon praises so highly in his article, for having dared to go on record as supporting the quality and value of the Codes research. The just-then incoming editor of A.M.S. was so disturbed by this professor's attack that he sent a personal letter of apology to Dr. Rips prior to its publication (which he was unable to prevent). He stated how this professor's attack "is an embarrassment to him (the professor) and to the American Mathematical Society."
Dr. Simon recognized that this professor's public labeling of Witztum and Rips as hoaxers and frauds was appalling and strongly condemned it himself in a letter he sent to the American Mathematical Society. Furthermore, on September 14, 1997, in a letter widely distributed on the Internet, Dr. Simon described himself as "aghast" at this professor's personal attack on the researchers.
Why now, in this forum, in an attempt to sway a frum, but mathematically unsophisticated readership, he would cite this same "frum Mathematician and Rav" at all, let alone without providing the above background, is inexcusable. Whatever mathematical credentials possessed by this professor, he has completely discredited himself as a dispassionate critic, so blatant is his personal distaste for the Codes - and for anyone who dares treat the subject with objectivity. In selectively referencing this person in his own attack, Dr. Simon comes close to discrediting himself as well.
False Accusations of Data Manipulation
In his article, Dr. Simon cites the foremost "codes busters", Drs. Dror Bar-Natan and Brendan Mckay. He chose not to mention their colleague and anti-codes co-author, Dr. Maya Bar-Hillel. It is extremely significant to note the mindset of this "foremost codes critic". Dr. Bar-Hillel commenced her recent anti-codes presentation to academics and scientists at the Hebrew University with the following remarks: "Regardless of the evidence, the Codes phenomenon obviously cannot be valid because that would mean that G-d wrote the Torah."
The readers need to recognize that the major codes critics attempt to explain away the successful results of the Codes experiments in the following manner: the data was preselected and deliberately manipulated by the researchers in order to generate the extremely significant results that were obtained. In other words, after years of attempted refutation, the critics' arguments all boil down to the following scenario: Mr. Witztum, Dr. Rips, Professor Havelin[1] and others, are all frauds and belong to a fantastic conspiracy to perpetrate a hoax on the unsuspecting public. This scenario is exactly what the major critics are attempting to demonstrate through their fraudulent War and Peace "codes".[2]
However, anyone with an adequate understanding of how the Famous Rabbis' experiment was conducted - aware therefore of the many constraints deliberately placed upon the selection of data - would realize that it was impossible for any data manipulation to have occurred. In his article and at the Torah Codes website, Mr. Witztum has dealt with this false accusation and described several ways to demonstrate the validity and integrity of the data selection.
Another one is as follows: Suppose we took exactly the same list of Rabbis' appellations (alternative names like "Chafetz Chaim" for R' Yisroel Meir Kagan) as in our "manipulated" Famous Rabbis' experiment, and paired them not with dates, but with some entirely different piece of information. For example, what if in place of the Rabbis' dates of birth and death, we substituted the cities of their birth and death?
If the experiment is repeated using exactly the same mathematical methods as in the original Rabbis' experiment, there is no reason to expect the new list of cities to now show the same kind of closeness to the Rabbis' names as did the dates of birth and death since, the critics claim, the list of Rabbis' names was "manipulated" specifically to work with the dates. This is even more forcefully evident given that the idea of using cities was suggested by Harold Gans, at the time a wholly independent outside researcher (and at first a critic), years after the Great Rabbis' experiment was completed and the list of appellations was made public. In fact, Mr. Harold Gans has already performed just this experiment using the cities, and has obtained very significant results.[3]
In a conversation Dr. Simon had with Harold Gans on June 24, 1997, Mr. Gans told Dr. Simon that he had successfully completed the experiment described above, and that the results were indeed highly significant. In a written correspondence immediately after their conversation, Mr. Gans reported that Dr. Simon understood the importance of this experiment, and understood that were it indeed found to be without flaw, it would unequivocally confirm that there could not have been any data manipulation in the Famous Rabbis' experiment.[4]
Dr. Simon's public attack on this successful Kiruv tool is based precisely on the presumption that data manipulation must have occurred. But in light of his realization that Mr. Gans' experiment promises to provide confirmation that any type of data manipulation was not possible, Dr. Simon's attack is premature and deeply troubling, at best.
The Seal of G-d is Truth by Dorun Witzum
Torah Codes and Kiruv Rechokim by Rabbi Daniel Mechanic
The Effect of Codes in Kiruv
[1] Professor Shlomo Zalmen Havelin, of the department of bibliography and librarianship at Bar Ilan University, is a widely known and respected Talmid Chochom. He provided the lists of Rabbis' appellations used in the Famous Rabbis' experiment. His recently published Sefer was reviewed in the last edition of Jewish Action.
[2] The issue of the so-called War and Peace "codes" is effectively refuted in Mr. Witztum's accompanying article and at the Torah Codes website.
[3] Another potential confirmation comes from another independent researcher: Dr. Robert Haralick. He repeated the Great Rabbis' experiment using a totally different methodology. He, too, obtained very significant results. This is clearly something that Witztum and Rips could have no influence over since Dr. Haralick's technique was yet to be invented when they performed their original experiment. The results of this experiment are currently undergoing a rigorous evaluation.
[4] Because of the extraordinary implications of Mr. Gans> successful cities experiment, Mr. Gans, as well as additional independent experts, are scrutinizing the data and findings rigorously. If the successful results of this experiment survive this rigorous second-level review, then it should silence all claims that the data was fraudulently manipulated or biased to create successful results. The results of that scrutiny will be released shortly.


LADY VICTORIA is a Loading... luxury yacht, built by Feadship and delivered in 1991. Her top speed is 14.0kn and she boasts a maximum cruising range of 4200.0nm at 11.0kn with power coming from two 502.0hp MTU 12V183TC61 diesel engines. She can accommodate up to 6 people with 5 crew members waiting on their every need.
She was designed by Frits De Voogt, and the interior design was created by Joan Chan.


Here is the beloved cowboy, Tex Ritter, just before the sandman comes ' round … singing songs kiddies love, in the breezy western style that made him the idol of millions of moppets the world over.
Oldsters will remember "The Animal Fair," "The Green Grass Grew All Around," "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" and others; and they will find that Old MacDonald, who had a farm, also had a relative in "Cactus Jackson" who "Had A Ranch" with an equal variety of delightful animals and sounds.
I don't really know anything about "collecting" – I had this set by Tex Ritter as a child and would be interested in owning again. What do I need to do next?
IS THIS ALBUM AVAILABLE OR DOWN-LOADABLE, OR WILL IT BE?
All albums you see listed here are most likely for sale, including this one! Just contact me for more info. If you don't have a turntable, or ability to play this format, any record purchased may also be converted to digital or CD format and included with the sale. Thanks for visiting!
Growing up, I used to go to the "record room" at the public library and listen to this album. The book had pictures and you could sing along. My personal favorite is Big Rock Candy mountain. I want to teach my grandsons these wonderful songs. What a treasure.
WOW. This is an album (78) I'll never forget. We didn't have electricity on the ranch (unless the generator would run) so this one was played on the old crank up 78. What a treasure!


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Review: 2016 Mercedes-Benz GLC 250 4MATIC
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The Mercedes-Benz GLC finally marks the three-pointed star's proper entry into the compact SUV segment. It's been a long time coming especially for us Malaysians because its predecessor, the GLK, never made it here because it was never made available as a right-hand drive. It's a pity, really, because BMW have been reaping the sales of their X3 since 2004.
With the demand for SUVs continue growing all over the world, Mercedes can no longer afford to miss out on this timely opportunity to introduce the GLC for the global market. Launched in 2015, the X205 GLC rides on the highly-adaptable MRA platform that debuted on the W222 S-Class in 2013, and Mercedes also made a sleeker variant called the GLC Coupe. The GLC is closely related to the W205 C-Class, therefore the powertrain options are almost similar to the compact sedan.
Name Mercedes-Benz GLC 250 4MATIC
Engine 1,991cc; turbocharged inline-four
Transmission 9G-TRONIC, 9-speed automatic
Max Power 211 hp @ 5,500 rpm
Max Torque 350 Nm @ 1,200 – 4,000 rpm
Price (OTR without insurance) RM328,888
For the Malaysian market, we only get the GLC 250 4MATIC in either the Exclusive Line or the AMG Line. They differ in terms of equipment level but both are powered by the same hardware underneath; a turbocharged 2.0-litre four-cylinder coupled to a nine-speed automatic gearbox which sends power to all four wheels. Now that Mercedes has a contender in this segment, does the GLC have enough to play catch up with the rest of the premium compact SUV pack? Let's have a closer look.
If you imagine a hatchback W205 C-Class on stilts, you're not far off from it. There's that sporty-elegance vibe going on with the design – especially in this AMG Line guise – but with a dash of ruggedness. The bold front conveys that multiple personality with a bewinged three-pointed star that "floats" the middle of the grille, and an aggressive AMG Line front bumper with a wide center air dam. The side vents with double strakes on the front bumper are purely cosmetic though.
Flanking the grille is a pair of shapely headlamps with LED DRL cum turn indicator 'eye brows', and they are equipped with LED Intelligent Light System. With these you can crank up the high beam and forget about it, because the computers will make sure that you won't blind oncoming traffic.
The side profile is clean and simple, and even the roof rails are integrated subtly along the roof line. Down below, the rubber-studded side step stands out from the plain and smooth bodywork, although it's rather pointless for the rear passengers because it tapers off towards the back. The AMG Line also brings a set of 20-inch multi-spoke wheels wrapped in 255/45 R20 rubbers, and I find that they fill the wheel arches just about right; any smaller would probably make the GLC look under-wheeled.
The back is probably where the designers dozed off. Remove the three-pointed star on the tailgate and you're probably looking at some generic SUV, and with the wide horizontal tail lights, some actually thought it was the Audi Q5 from afar. The detailing is nice though, the roof spoiler melds with the design nicely, and I especially like the LED arrangement in the tail lights and the dual chrome tailpipe finishers at the lower edge of the bumper. At least they add some eye candy to the rather uninspiring rear end.
The slick interior from the W205 C-Class has been ported over to the GLC, and I'm glad that they did it. Save for the screen that stands out like a sore thumb in the middle of the dashboard, it's hard to fault the solid build quality and the classy ambiance. Leather covers the seats and door trims, but the black open-pored wood trim splits opinions. Some say it's charming, some find it weird, and GC thinks the wood grain is similar to the pattern on salmon fillets. Hmm…
The column mounted gear selector also received flak from some, but yours truly find that it's very intuitive and there's no doubting that it neatens up the centre console. What's left between the two front seats is a simple Comand knob to control everything on the screen.
The screen not only shows the GLC's information such as fuel consumption, driving mode, and navigation, it also displays live feed from the four cameras outside to stitch together a bird's eye view of the vehicle. Very useful when you're navigating through narrow roads or tight parking spots, and it saves you from craning your neck out of the glass sunroof, which I hope you probably never did anyway.
However, not everything is in favour inside the GLC. A couple of niggles are the wide transmission tunnel that eats up the front occupants' foot space, and the placement of the audio control next to the Comand knob. It looks like an afterthought when the rest of the buttons are lined up neatly underneath the CD slot.
As we move over to the back, a 'robot face' will greet you every time you step inside. Depending on which side of the robot's cheek you tap, you can adjust the fan speed or the temperature for the air that comes out of the robot's round eyes.
Apart from the 'robot face' aircond vents, rear passengers also get some privacy with the roll-up blinds. Space is no issue for three adults in the back; there's ample head and leg room, although the middle seat passenger won't get as much space as the two outer seats' occupants.
With the key in your pocket, doing the foot sweep below the rear bumper swings up the tailgate to reveal the 550 litre boot. If you want more space, the entire backrest split 40/20/40 and fold down flat with the boot floor, granting you a total of 1,600 litres worth of cargo space. The absence of a spare tyre means there's a cavity under the boot floor for extra storage, and other practical features you can find in the boot include anchor points, hooks, as well as a 12v power outlet socket.
Like on the W205 C-Class, the 2.0-litre four-cylinder in its '250' tune yields 211 hp and 350 Nm, but on the GLC it's hooked up to the 9G-TRONIC nine-speed automatic transmission. The 4MATIC all wheel drive system on the GLC is permanent but it's slightly biased towards the rear wheels. It splits the torque 45:55 front to rear under normal load and it will vary the split accordingly when it detects insufficient grip from any of the wheels.
It's quite a brisk car too. Off the line it takes about 7.3 seconds to get to 100 km/h, and the top speed is 223 km/h. It's also claimed to be one of the most frugal in its class, sipping 6.5 litres of petrol per 100 kilometers.
If you've never driven an SUV before, the GLC 250 is a blissfully easy car to drive. Trekking through a metropolitan maze of narrow streets shouldn't be a problem with the GLC. The light steering, the raised driving position, and good all-round visibility from the driver's seat is further boosted by the 360 degree camera, so first-time SUV drivers can quickly gain confidence behind the wheel.
Despite riding on AMG sports suspension and wearing a set of huge 20-inch rims swathed in low profile tyres, potholes and road irregularities are filtered out from the cabin very well, just like how the quiet interior is insulated from the outside noise.
Getting away from the busy city streets, the turbocharged mill will provide you more than enough grunt to rack up speeding tickets, but the GLC seems to prefer a more relaxed style of driving. The throttle pedal promotes a steady gradual progress from stationary and the transmission complements it well for that duty.
Most of the time it only uses seven out of the nine gear ratios, where under normal circumstances it will skip the first gear unless you're in Sport mode, while ninth is reserved for highway cruising in Eco mode. Shift quality is butter smooth and you may want to leave the steering-mounted shift paddles alone. There's really no need to play with them.
Not only will the GLC cruise in a calm manner, body roll is kept to a minimum if you push it hard into corners. You can put it in Sport Mode to keep the throttle lively and the steering meaty when you feel like taking the GLC to your favourite B-road. But let's be honest here. That's not the reason you buy the GLC.
There's loads of traction from the 4MATIC all-wheel drive system to provide you with extra security on slippery twisty roads, so the GLC always feels safe and predictable. However, a permanent all-wheel drive system means it requires more fuel to get moving. Regardless what the claimed fuel consumption is, I averaged around 12.0 litres per 100 km during my stint in the GLC, which is neither shocking nor spectacular.
IS THIS CAR FOR YOU?
If you wished the W205 C-Class could do more than just glide on the road and carry more luggage, look no further. The GLC retains most of the C-Class' desirability and adds on a huge dollop of extra practicality allowing you to do more with just one vehicle. The RM40k price difference between them is pretty much justifiable considering the additional ability and the all-wheel drive system the GLC has to offer, so what's not to like?
The GLC has definitely caught up with the two main rivals, the BMW X3 and the Audi Q5. Over here in Malaysia, all three compact SUVs are quite evenly matched in terms of hardware, but they differ slightly in terms of power output and not to mention the price. Every car here utilises a turbocharged 2.0-litre four-cylinder engine and all-wheel drive, but the GLC edges out by having an extra cog compared to the eight-speed auto in the X3 and the Q5.
You can't dismiss the Audi Q5 because it's the oldest of the bunch. A glance at the stats reveals that it packs the most punch, and it's cheaper than the less potent GLC. Meanwhile, the X3 is only available in the sole xDrive20i guise, therefore it's the least powerful of the German trio. Recent facelift connects the headlights to the kidney grille, otherwise the styling is as fussy as before.
Also worth mentioning is the Porsche Macan, another German that has just been recently updated with 252 hp and 370 Nm. However, if you don't fancy any of the German brands, there's the swanky Range Rover Evoque, the sharp-suited Lexus NX 200t, and the powerful underdog, the 306 hp and 400Nm Volvo XC60 T6.
Mercedes-Benz GLC 250 4MATIC AMG Line BMW X3 xDrive20i Audi Q5 2.0 TFSI quattro
Type inline-4, DOHC, turbocharged inline-4, DOHC, turbocharged inline-4, DOHC turbocharged
Displacement cc 1,991cc 1,997cc 1,984cc
Max Power hp/rpm 211/5,500 184/5,000 225/4,500
Max Torque Nm/rpm 350/1,200 270/1,250 350/1,500
Type Electronic Power Steering Electronic Power Steering Electronic Power Steering
Transmission 9-speed automatic 8-speed automatic 8-speed automatic
Front Multi-link MacPherson Strut Double wishbone
Rear Multi-link Multi-link Multi-link
Front Ventilated & Perforated Disc Ventilated Disc Ventilated Disc
Rear Ventilated Disc Ventilated Disc Ventilated Disc
Tyre 255/45 R20 245/50 R18 235/60 R18
Wheels 20-inch Alloy 18-inch Alloy 18-inch Alloy
Overall Length mm 4,656mm 4,648mm 4,629mm
Overall Width mm 1,890mm 1,881mm 1,898mm
Overall Height mm 1,639mm 1,675mm 1,655mm
Wheelbase mm 2,873mm 2,810mm 2,807mm
Max Kerb Weight kg 1,735 kg 1,795 kg 1,730 kg
Luggage Capacity (VDA) Litres 550 litres 550 litres 540 litres
Tank Capacity Litres 66 litres 67 litres 75 litres
Consumption litres per 100km 6.5 litres 7.2 litres 7.9 litres
Max Speed km/h 223 210 222
0 to 100 km/h sec 7.3 8.2 7.1
Price RM RM328,888.00 RM296,800.00 RM324,900.00
WILL I BUY IT?
With so many choices, the GLC 250 4MATIC might not be the quickest or the best handling premium compact SUV out there, but it offers just the right amount of style, pace, and practicality rolled into one neat package. It's not without its flaws, but it's definitely one of the best all-rounder from Mercedes in recent years. If I have to settle with just one car in my garage I'd be happy with the GLC, but I'll be sure to reverse-park it every time to avoid sight of the rear end.
GLC 250 4MATIC
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Baby Photo Messaging Service 2005
Jen-Ai Hospital: Tali "Little Prince & Little Princess" Competition 2003
BY JENNIFER CHU
TAICHUNG, JEN-AI HOSPITAL: TALI
Jen-Ai Hospital: Tali held their first "Little Prince & Little Princess" competition on the Internet through their bilingual website (http://baby.jah.org.tw). The competition was fierce and there was a lot of support from the Internet users. The Prince (Wei-hsiang Hsu) and Princess (Chian-hui Cheng) were selected on March 13th 2004. Also, a Canadian infant was selected as the "Little Ambassador". Jen-Ai Hospital: Tali held a grand coronation for the new Prince, Princess and the Little Ambassador. Their cute looks were as popular as the candidates in a beauty contest.
Since the introduction of the Baby Web Nursery by Jen-Ai Hospital: Tali last year, it has won immerse praise from the public. The website provides complimentary online photos of newly born infants with words from their parents so that relatives around the world can see the infants and share the joy of the newborn via the Internet. To select the most popular infant, Jen-Ai Hospital: Tali held the first "Little Prince & Little Princess" competition on the Internet. All infants on the Baby Web Nursery qualified as candidates.
As the infants were very cute, the competition attracted a lot of enthusiastic response through the Internet. In two months, hundreds of people from all over Taiwan, some even in other countries (the U.S., Canada, England, Australia, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Philippines) voted. One rule was made very clear, one vote per person; thus, the competition became very intense. At the end of the competition, Wei-hsiang Hsu was voted the Prince among 137 candidates who participated, and Chian-hui Cheng was voted the Princess. Kye Waldron (half Taiwanese and half Canadian) was voted the Little Ambassador from voters of seven countries. During the coronation, hospital superintendent Ming-Yi Chan-Liao crowned the Little Prince and Princess, and presented the Jen-Ai Passport to the Little Ambassador. Superintendent Chan-Liao wished every infant good health and the Baby Web Nursery to grow and provide more services to more parents and infants.
Jen-Ai Hospital: Tali invited all members of the Baby Web Nursery to the hospital for games and activities. Parents and infants had to complete puzzles together; fathers had to help their infants put on their diapers. The whole morning was filled with laughter. The hospital also held their monthly flea market, and donated all the proceeds to the Jen-Ai Foundation to help low-income families and minority groups. Other activities included: JAH Infertility Lab Q&A, complimentary ultrasound check-ups, vaccines for children, an International food fair kindly organized by the ladies from IWAT. The sponsors included IWAT, Johnson & Johnson, Discovery Cordblood Bank, BioNet Corp., and McDonald's GuoGuang branch.
Jen-Ai Hospital: Tali: The Baby Web Nursery will provide more information, services and functions in the future, news images, and improve the video equipment. Music in the form of lullabies for infants will also be developed on CD. There will also be a virtual tour of the VIP wards and the delivery center, digital photo display, and a website for children. The hospital will work together with manufacturers of infant supplies, other hospitals, and medical centers to provide more and better services.
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A Homer couple is being charged in connection with an investigation into methamphetamine manufacturing in Cortland County.
Sheriff's officials say 27-year-old Jentre Bergman and 28-year-old Abby Alexander were arrested at a home on Route 41 February 8.
Authorities say they found meth-cooking components, two grams of methamphetamine, about six ounces of marijuana, several firearms and money in the home.
Bergman is charged with felony unlawful manufacturing methamphetamine as well as misdemeanor counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminally using drug paraphernalia as well as three misdemeanor counts each of criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child.
Alexander is charged with misdemeanor criminal possession of marijuana.
Officials say the investigation is continuing and additional charges are possible.


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WU admits 3,600 students, record-low 10% of applicants, to Class of 2026
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Narasimhan sworn in to Treasury after Constitutional Council decision reverses disqualification
Sophomore Mishka Narasimhan, who was disqualified from her SU Treasury position last fall due to late paperwork, has been sworn in after a Constitutional Council upheld her election.
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WU extends test-optional policy through fall 2024
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College of Arts and Sciences announces plans for new building alongside 10-year strategic plan
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Tanya Taylor simplifies the art of the clashing print (a notoriously tricky affair) in a Fall/Winter collection ripe with wearable options. From frilly florals to a graphic print in Persian blue and terracotta—this bold design was best seen on a boxy fur-trimmed jacket layered over an inversely matching top. Ms. Taylor's done the hard work here, so you don't have to.


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Q: how to read variables in bash and pass these variables to a c++ program as arguments I am trying to read a few vars in my bash script and pass these to a C++ program which will accept these variables as arguments. any help please? I got this far..but it does not work...
echo -n 'Enter a name: '
read name
echo -n 'Enter a lastname: '
read lastname
./myprogram "$@"

A: First Solution:
Write following lines in your script file like myscript.sh and execute your script without any parameters like ./myscript.sh.
#!/bin/bash

read -p "Enter your name: " name
read -p "Enter your lastname: lastname
./myprogram "${name}" "${lastname}"

NOTE: In the upper script you prompted to enter name and lastname and stored in variables then passed to your C++ program.
Second Solution:
Write following lines in your script and pass your parameters to your script like ./myscript.sh foo bar
#!/bin/bash

./myprogram "$@"

NOTE: In the upper script you passed your parameters to shell script and it passed all of parameters to your C++ program directly.


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1 October 2015, 6-8pm
Kick Gallery
4 Peel Street,
Andrew Sibley - Early Paintings Last Drawings
1 October 2015, 6-8pm (October 1 - October 18)
Kick Gallery 4 Peel Street Collingwood
'The first time I met Andrew Sibley I was not aware of his extensive reputation. I met Andrew in 1975 as an RMIT student and I was coming of age at the tail end of Whitlam-era experimentation. It was a glorious unhurried time and along with Andrew were Jan Senbergs, George Baldessin, James Meldrum, Peter Clarke and Les Kossatz as his formidable teaching colleagues. I did not yet know that he was a significant Australian artist who from the late 1950's was regarded as a prodigious talent. Nor had I yet encountered his unique ability as a teaching artist to raise in his students a curiosity for the ironies of life and the psychologically dark terrains of human nature. By the time I had met Andrew he had already moved well beyond the simpler narrative and expressionist impulses of his early works and was completely absorbed in developing ambitious multi-layered human entanglements painted on sheets of Perspex. To us, his work looked all at once powerful, innovative, funny, tender and kind of dangerous. He was a huge figure in our young lives – a mischievous and charismatic force.
By 1980, the earlier 1960's paintings of Andrew Sibley such as those presented here at Kick Gallery became of increasing interest to our artists' cohort. Unexpectedly the world of contemporary art began to turn back to painted expressionistic images, utilising the figure once more. The early eighties zeitgeist was such that many young artists world-wide had embraced a version of what became known variously as 'neo-expressionism', 'trans avant-garde' and 'bad painting'. For those of us who at the time followed Andrew's work as ex-students we found a prescient quality in these early works. In particular, there was Andrew's unwavering commitment to painting itself, to painting the human condition (in the face of dominant formal abstraction and conceptual art) and his obsession with what he referred to half-jokingly as 'the gestalt moment'. And yet Andrew was not particularly feted or even included in this important wider return to figurative painting. Perhaps with an artist like Andrew Sibley the singularity of style and vision marked him forever as a lone wolf. He was not one for shifting even slightly to align with the times.
Looking back now on a work like 'Couple' from 1968 for example, I can see clearly how influential he was for us in terms of marking out the joys and sorrows of human encounter and yet the work seems entirely of its own world. The biomorphic forms, the proscenium-like space and the moment of trepidation before touching another human being are forever his. But also there was also and continuously an underlying sense of acute simple observation. And so, turning to the very late drawings presented here, coming as they have right at the end of a very long life of making, we see the artist re-setting and returning to a much earlier mode of looking and putting. Sad as the circumstances of their making are, these drawings properly close the circle. They are immediate, beautiful and insightful renderings that show to the very end his ever-present desire to draw out inner psychologies. Andrew used to say that ultimately painters make the same picture over and over again. He may just have been right.'
Jon Cattapan | Artist | September 2015
Private: Homage to Paul Klee, 1968
Oil and enamel on linen
Grey Lady Seeks Grey, 1965
Oil and enamel on board
Two Figures, 1968
Couple, 1968


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Q: size tbl data 'explodes' after gather() I have a file that I want to convert from wide to long format.
but when I use the gather() function the size increases a lot.
the dataset starts with the size of 332MB (1048498 obs. of 64 variables)
after 1 gather() the size is 3GB, and after a second it is 32.3 GB  (177196162 obs. of 42 variables)
does anyone know if this is normal behavior?
edit: example
library(nycflights13)
library(dplyr)

nycflightData <- dplyr::full_join(planes, flights, by = "tailnum")
nycflightDataLonger <- gather(testData, planeVar, planeInfo, tailnum,
                              type, manufacturer, model, engine,
                              engines, seats, convert = TRUE)

this dataset goes from 49MB to 270MB

A: I just realize that it does make sense, as when going from wide to long the number of original observations get added for each column (exept the 1st)


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Q: Am I understanding PyTorch's add_ and mul_ correctly? In this notebook the author writes the following nesterov update:
def nesterov_update(w, dw, v, lr, weight_decay, momentum):
    dw.add_(weight_decay, w).mul_(-lr)
    v.mul_(momentum).add_(dw)
    w.add_(dw.add_(momentum, v))

As I understand it, a.add(b) in PyTorch implements a+b and a.add(b,c) implements a+(b*c), because b is in the slot of the alpha parameter. And lastly, add_ does the in-place version of add.
Q: Am I right so far?
Then, if I were to sketch the above nesterov update in an expanded form that illustrates the logic, I would write:
dw = -lr*(dw + weight_decay*w)
v = v*momentum + dw
w = w + dw + momentum*v

Q: is this correct?
I'm not planning to use the above expanded "code," I'm just writing it this way to try communicate what I'm understanding that it's doing, to check.

A: It is important to note the PyTorch version (1.1.0) the tutorial is using. According to 1.1.0, function prototype for torch.add is torch.add(input, value=1, other, out=None). So, your interpretation of the following line:
dw.add_(weight_decay, w)

as: dw = dw + weight_decay * w is correct. So, the answer to your first question is, yes, you are right.
However, with the latest versions of PyTorch, you would get an error if torch.add is used in the same fashion.
a = torch.FloatTensor([0, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0])
b = torch.FloatTensor([0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0])
c = 1.0
z = a.add(b, c)

The above code gives: (In PyTorch 1.5.0)
TypeError: add() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

However, if you perform the following, then it works fine.
z = a.add(b, alpha=c)

Note that, the prototype of torch.add is now: torch.add(input, other, *, alpha=1, out=None)

The answer to your second question is, yes, you are right.


This week, as part of the coursework for a free online literature class I'm taking with Dut and my fellow blog warrior Erin, I read Bram Stoker's classic Gothic vampire novel Dracula for the first time. Given my penchant for horror, it is no surprise that I loved it completely. So, with a tip of the hat to Mr. Stoker and without any further ado, I give you my foray into vampire fiction; just don't expect any glittering or romance here.
The thunder cracked loudly outside her window, causing her to start awake. Blearily, she roused herself and stepped down onto the cold floor, a sharp intake of breath accompanying the move. As she headed down the dark hallway to the bathroom, only the repeated flashes of lightning lit her way. She could have done this in her sleep. Actually, she practically was.
Mindlessly, she went about her morning routine, scrubbing and primping and brushing and dressing. She just couldn't seem to shake this sleep-weight that lingered behind her eyes.
That night, after work, she flopped down on the couch, too exhausted to even think about dinner, despite being voracious. She felt a little gnat land on her neck and it took conscious, pointed effort to brush it away half-heartedly. Eventually, she mustered up enough energy to get up and snack on a few potato chips, but they just tasted…off. She tried to wash out the cloying taste in her mouth with some orange juice, but the juice tasted even worse. She gave up and made the walk back to her bedroom, collapsing on the bed, fully clothed.
She woke up to another morning storm, but its ferocity barely penetrated her drowsy fog. She tried to roll over and check the clock, but she wasn't even able to do that. Before falling back asleep, she thought she remembered laughing in the night, a deep, resonant sound. But the memory drifted away on the sleep-mist as her eyes closed yet again.
Another peal of thunder. This is getting ridiculous, she thought groggily. She opened her eyes and stood up, shivering. The storm had blown her window wide open, and some rain was spattering her floor. She padded over and shut the window, feeling strangely alive as the wind tossed her hair and the rain speckled her skin. Remembering that she was starving, she made her way into the kitchen and ripped open the fridge, looking for something, anything to curb her hunger. But the entire fridge turned her stomach; all the food smelled spoiled.
Eyes blazing, she began to tear the apartment apart, looking for something that appetized her. Twenty minutes later, her apartment was in shambles and her hunger was becoming unbearable. She whirled around angrily at another clap of thunder, only to find a tall, thin man towering in the corner of her living room. He seemed made of the very shadows of the room save his deep red eyes, glowing like embers in his pallid face. The man's presence pacified her instantly; he grinned large while he held out his dripping wrist.
Suddenly energized for the first time in days, she meekly stepped over to him and lowered her head onto his pulsing wrist eagerly. His deep laughter echoed off the walls, and before long, it became a duet, rising and falling with the storm's raging fury.
Eek. You're creeping me out. But, a great break into some creative writing. Nice work!
If I scare just one person, I've done my duty. And yes, I'm sure your face was a tapestry of emotions that I am a little sad I didn't get to see.
A very nice piece of flash horror, mine compatriot. I was half expecting our heroine to feast on a rat to satisfy her Mia-esque hunger.
Interesting piece. I've read Dracula a number of times, and I've always found it kind of tame by modern standards of horror. Still a good book, though.
Dracula is SUCH a good book, and, sadly, rarely read and/or appreciated by my generation. It always brings a little happiness to me when I see someone has read it and enjoyed it!
Also, I enjoyed this little piece! Nice work.


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Collaborative Office Solutions Key to Handling the Emerging Hybrid Workplace
What a change the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought in little more than a year. The virus has impacted life in a multitude of ways, including how we socialize and work. Restrictions and lockdowns have kept us at home, including many employees who now work remotely.
Thankfully, collaborative office solutions have kept the projects flowing, allowing team members to collaborate, engage, and manage expectations and workflows. It has been an experiment in keeping the office together, while working from different locales.
Let's take some time to review how far we have come over the course of that year, and where we are likely heading with the help of collaborative office solutions. But before that, take a trip down memory lane back to pre-COVID times and remember what an office environment used to feel and look like.
Before the pandemic hit, many offices and workplaces were fully emerged in a transition from the era of cubicles that largely kept employees apart, working in silos. That meant more open spaces and naturalized environments, including developments like indoors waterfalls and a variety of plants.
From lunchrooms and cafeterias to meeting rooms, employees would work and socialize together, engaging in social banter and work-related discussions. It was all geared towards employee wellbeing and nurturing collaboration, creativity, engagement, and productivity.
Those goals still exist, and while we aren't going back to the old cubicle days, we are finding new ways to keep employees safe from infection, and remaining productive.
Employees Returning to the Office Find it a Lot Less Crowded These Days
COVID is teaching us how to succeed in a new hybrid remote/office reality. When employees began returning to the workplace, they found a smaller group of peers with others working remotely from home. Measures in place at the office included density, geometry, and division controls designed to minimize contact and keep the virus at bay, while a range of technologies and other measures connected teams at home and the office, keeping the doors open to the goals of collaboration, engagement, employee wellbeing, and productivity. They included:
Audio visual resources: Teams and individuals, whether they are working from home or the office, are connecting virtually using collaborative office solutions such as video conferencing, scheduling, messaging, wireless presentation tools, and touchless technology.
Employee wellbeing: From ergonomically designed chairs and desks, to protocols structured to deal with feelings of isolation and separation, especially in the home environment, employers have programs to keep employees connected socially and professionally.
Collaborative Office Solutions Benefit Employers and Employees
The shift to more of a hybrid home/office environment seems to be one that will remain even when the pandemic ends, as there are benefits for employees and employers. For employees, it cuts down on commuting costs and time, and for employers, there are cost-savings from reduced space requirements.
Employers, however, will need to determine which roles are best suited for the office or remote environment. Workers whose presence is physically required to maintain operations, like maintenance staff and decision-makers/leaders, will likely remain office-based, while others who can do the job remotely, may continue to do so.
It's an interesting journey, from yesterday to today and tomorrow. You don't have to navigate it alone. Contact the experts at POI today for assistance in meeting the challenges that lie ahead.
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Happy 201st birthday, Charlotte Bronte
Today is the 201st birthday of brilliant original Charlotte Bronte. In 1847, as her first novel was bounced back yet again to Haworth parsonage, her sisters Emily and Anne made a deal with a London publisher to bring out their novels, "Wuthering Heights" and "Agnes Grey." Charlotte read her sisters' books and took what she needed. Enough with restraint and the unspoken. She would give readers what they want — what she wanted: sex, ambition and Gothic shenanigans. The heroines of her sisters' books were beautiful, and Charlotte bristled. They said they did not think the public would embrace a plain woman. In the spirit of a dare, Charlotte wrote "Jane Eyre," in which a plain, orphaned governess wins the heart of a rogue addicted to beautiful women.
When "Jane Eyre" was published later in 1847, it was an immediate rage. The intimate voice of the storyteller made people feel she was speaking to them. Charlotte, not Dickens, invented the child narrator who acutely registers pain. Before publication, Charlotte's editors urged her to tone down the harshness of the opening chapters set at Lowood School and the agonizing death of Helen Burns (based on Charlotte's older sister Elizabeth), but she refused.
In 1837, she had sought encouragement from Poet Laureate Robert Southey, who told her women should not write. After the publication of "Jane Eyre," she mentioned to her father that she had written a novel, that it had earned praising reviews, and that she was making money. Wearily, he said he might consider reading it.
After her marriage to a minister at 38, Charlotte did not write much and died nine months later from a complicated pregnancy, but until that time and except for harrowing periods working as a teacher or a governness, she lived at home with her siblings, and they wrote all the time. No boyfriends, no husbands, no children. Their escape from traditional roles is at the core of their radicalism. It made them scary and thrilling in their time and continues to in ours.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2017 by Laurie Stone.
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