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madeincosmos · 3 years ago

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Things learned at school that I am still unlearning

1. You only have one chance to do anything, and if you fail you’re either stupid or lazy

2. Asking questions gets you in trouble

3. There’s only one correct way to do things, and it’s up to authority to decide which way it is

4. Your work is only worth as much as the local authority decides it is worth

5. You are only supposed to work on things that are assigned to you

6. You need explicit permission each time you want to do anything that wasn’t specifically assigned to you, including taking a pee

7. Cooperating with other people is cheating

8. Your work doesn’t have to serve any purpose other than measuring how much you’re worth, it will likely be discarded right away

9. You must be smart but not too smart, doing things ahead of the schedule gets you in trouble

10. Knowledge comes from lectures and books rather than experimentation

11. Education has to be serious, if you’re having too much fun you’re going to get grounded

12. Moving your body is forbidden, except for 2h/week when you will be measured on your ability to play ball games

13. There can be only one top performer, and it matters who this is

14. If you re-use something you've done before, that's cheating

15. The quality of your work can be summarized with a single number

16. It's important to be a "critical thinker", but only about things you've been told to be critical of

17. Drudgery in school is necessary as a preparation for even worse drudgery at work

18. There is no feedback, only evaluation and judgement

19. It doesn't matter if my writing actually helps me understand what I'm thinking about or is useful to anyone, as long as it sounds good and has no obvious errors

20. If an authority says something I think is incorrect, misleading, or confused, I may get punished for trying to correct or clarify

21. You are trapped in this institution. No matter how poorly it's run or how miserable you are, you can't leave

22. If you do good work that doesn't check some arbitrary boxes, it's not good work

23. You can’t choose your own projects. They need to be given to you by someone in authority. Anything you come up with doing on your own is inherently nonproductive

24. Good writing is verbose writing. Brevity will be punished

25. If there is a problem with how you do at school, you are the one who's at fault

26. The whole point of spending most of your waking hours at school for a dozen years or so is to determine if you’re a “good student” or not

27. You need to do exactly what you're told to do, asking for reasons why you're supposed to do it and about possible consequences will get you in trouble

28. You're not allowed to resolve conflicts on your own, an authority figure will step in and decide who's in the wrong (usually both) and how they need to be punished

29. Everyone needs to do exactly the same thing at the same time

30. The best response to a problem is to punish everyone equally

31. Nobody cares about how things look like from your point of view

32. There’s no context, no parallels with other disciplines, no connections between things you might have learned elsewhere, only individual bite-sized chunks of knowledge

33. Any interaction with an adult might be used to evaluate, judge or punish you

34. Your interests or personal life don’t matter, you must only speak when prompted, and only about the things the authority figure wants you to speak

35. If you made a mistake, it means you are worthless

36. You’ll never need to iterate on one thing for a long period of time, everything you create will probably end up in trash anyway

37. Experts are always right and never make any mistakes

38. You’re required to do every single thing anyone ever asks you to do at 100% of your capacity, everything is equally important and there are no priorities or tradeoffs

39. If you don't have an official certificate signed by some recognized authority proving that you're capable of doing something, you should probably leave that to experts in the field

40. Collaboration on a group project means that whoever cares most does all the work

41. School is the only source of knowledge. there's no other way to learn

42. Vacation, unlike school, is fun and exciting

43. Caring a lot about anything is nerdy and low-status

44. I can't make food. I only eat what I'm given

45. Learning only happens in a building, sitting at a desk, and listening to someone talk

46. The only way to solve problems is a top-down authoritarian decision that puts everyone in their proper place

47. You’re not allowed to ask anyone for help

48. It doesn’t matter if you’re in the middle of something interesting, you need to drop it immediately and move on to the next thing whenever asked or you will get punished

49. Every time you interact with an expert or someone in a position of authority, you are being evaluated. Make sure to impress them with how much you know

50. There is one correct answer to every question, and it applies equally well to everyone

51. If what you’re currently doing isn’t working, your only option is to TRY HARDER

52. Learning is something you do because it is Simply What Is Done, and you would be punished otherwise, not something you do because you have an intention or goal that learning will help you achieve

53. Only activities assigned to you by someone else have value, doing whatever you feel like doing is wasting time

54. The only way to achieve anything meaningful or important is through brute force, left to your own devices you’d just bum around

None of these is true in real life.

#school #school life #student #studentlife #studentproblems #studyblr #studying #studentmemes #student memes #learning #students #unlearning #it doesn't have to be this way

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compneuropapers · 4 years ago

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Interesting Papers for Week 15, 2021

Fast reinforcement learning with generalized policy updates. Barreto, A., Hou, S., Borsa, D., Silver, D., & Precup, D. (2020). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(48), 30079–30087.

Understanding the role of individual units in a deep neural network. Bau, D., Zhu, J.-Y., Strobelt, H., Lapedriza, A., Zhou, B., & Torralba, A. (2020). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(48), 30071–30078.

Hippocampal neurons with stable excitatory connectivity become part of neuronal representations. Castello-Waldow, T. P., Weston, G., Ulivi, A. F., Chenani, A., Loewenstein, Y., Chen, A., & Attardo, A. (2020). PLOS Biology, 18(11), e3000928.

Independent representations of self-motion and object location in barrel cortex output. Cheung, J. A., Maire, P., Kim, J., Lee, K., Flynn, G., & Hires, S. A. (2020). PLOS Biology, 18(11), e3000882.

Neurobiological successor features for spatial navigation. Cothi, W., & Barry, C. (2020). Hippocampus, 30(12), 1347–1355.

Conjunctive representation of what and when in monkey hippocampus and lateral prefrontal cortex during an associative memory task. Cruzado, N. A., Tiganj, Z., Brincat, S. L., Miller, E. K., & Howard, M. W. (2020). Hippocampus, 30(12), 1332–1346.

How many neurons are sufficient for perception of cortical activity? Dalgleish, H. W., Russell, L. E., Packer, A. M., Roth, A., Gauld, O. M., Greenstreet, F., … Häusser, M. (2020). eLife, 9, e58889.

Frontal eye field and caudate neurons make different contributions to reward-biased perceptual decisions. Fan, Y., Gold, J. I., & Ding, L. (2020). eLife, 9, e60535.

Interactions of multiple rhythms in a biophysical network of neurons. Gelastopoulos, A., & Kopell, N. J. (2020). Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience, 10(1), 19.

Interindividual differences in memory system local field potential activity predict behavioral strategy on a dual‐solution T‐maze. Goldenberg, J. E., Lentzou, S., Ackert‐Smith, L., Knowlton, H., & Dash, M. B. (2020). Hippocampus, 30(12), 1313–1326.

NMDA receptors promote hippocampal sharp‐wave ripples and the associated coactivity of CA1 pyramidal cells. Howe, T., Blockeel, A. J., Taylor, H., Jones, M. W., Bazhenov, M., & Malerba, P. (2020). Hippocampus, 30(12), 1356–1370.

Evidence accumulation for value computation in the prefrontal cortex during decision making. Lin, Z., Nie, C., Zhang, Y., Chen, Y., & Yang, T. (2020). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(48), 30728–30737.

Serotonergic projections to the orbitofrontal and medial prefrontal cortices differentially modulate waiting for future rewards. Miyazaki, K., Miyazaki, K. W., Sivori, G., Yamanaka, A., Tanaka, K. F., & Doya, K. (2020). Science Advances, 6(48), eabc7246.

Impaired speed encoding and grid cell periodicity in a mouse model of tauopathy. Ridler, T., Witton, J., Phillips, K. G., Randall, A. D., & Brown, J. T. (2020). eLife, 9, e59045.

Task-related activity in human visual cortex. Roth, Z. N., Ryoo, M., & Merriam, E. P. (2020). PLOS Biology, 18(11), e3000921.

Audiovisual integration in depth: Modeling the effect of distance and stimulus effectiveness using the TWIN model. Van der Stoep, N., Colonius, H., Noel, J.-P., Wallace, M. T., & Diederich, A. (2020). Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 99, 102443.

Multicellular sensing at a feedback-induced critical point. Vennettilli, M., Erez, A., & Mugler, A. (2020). Physical Review E, 102(5), 052411.

Optimizing energetic cost of uncertainty in a driven system with and without feedback. Vishen, A. S. (2020). Physical Review E, 102(5), 052405.

Methods for correcting inference based on outcomes predicted by machine learning. Wang, S., McCormick, T. H., & Leek, J. T. (2020). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(48), 30266–30275.

Fine-scale computations for adaptive processing in the human brain. Zamboni, E., Kemper, V. G., Goncalves, N. R., Jia, K., Karlaftis, V. M., Bell, S. J., … Kourtzi, Z. (2020). eLife, 9, e57637.

#science #Neuroscience #computational neuroscience #Brain science #research #cognition #cognitive science #neurons #neurobiology #neural networks #psychophysics #scientific publications #Reinforcement Learning

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tk9336 · 4 years ago

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My Curatorial Internship at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago!

I began my Curatorial Internship on 6/7/21 bright and early as I drove my first day waking up at 5AM as I live in Wauconda, IL a northwest suburb of Chicago. MSI is in the heart of downtown Chicago, so the drive is usually an hour and half accounting for traffic. That sucked big time, so I took the train for the rest of my time so far. Luckily I only have to be in the office Monday/Tuesday which is bittersweet: my train ticket is $10 a day, parking at Barrington Station is $3.50 daily but what kicks my wallet in the teeth if my Lyft bill, usually around $50 from Ogilvie Transportation Center in downtown Chicago to MSI and back. Thankfully my internship is paid thanks to Studio Institute which is my sponsor, a grant MSI received and SI how I found out about the position for the summer. I thought I would be working with a team of interns since this is a big project I am a part of, but believe it or not I am the sole Curatorial intern! It felt good to know that I did well in my interview and it wasn’t just a hunch, and to have the honor of being the sole recipient! Its been a number of years since there was a curatorial intern and with this in mind I knew I was going to work hard to pay them back for their faith in me. I do not say this lightly, as I am 28 years old now and opportunities like this I have learned are not offered to just any one off the street.

The Project? MSI is digitizing roughly 1,000 artifacts to be shown online on their website (COVID was a strong motivator for this as it hit Museums all over the world. They are passionate about reaching their audience!) Collections has over 35,000 artifacts to keep track of, and all it’s history is just written or printed in a large Accession’s Archive, and there is digital archive to work with. I am going to help with what I am assigned with gaining invaluable professional research experience, with a strong focus as well in writing for labels and anything else that is thrown my way! I am also making this blog conjunction for my school, Loyola University Chicago of which helped me get this position. This will be a long post, so buckle in as I share my weeks to bring you, and me up to date for next week, 7/19/21!

Week 1: 6/7-11/2021 | This position is 4 days a week, for a total of 28 hours. Part-time. My round-trip however with commuting turns a 7 hour work day into a 12 hour day from when I wake up until I drive home from Barrington Station. Thankfully the two days I work from home is a bit easier on commuting from upstairs to downstairs!

Monday: HR/Orientation/Introduction to Collections by Alexis, the talent manager at MSI. Your standard job introduction, but my first at a Museum.

Tuesday: In-depth Museum tour/explaining the research and writing work I would be doing/assisting Kathleen (Collections Director) in the vault*(storage, vault sounds cooler) cataloging.

Wednesday: Photographing Bike exhibit for transcription/beginning research work on first Accessions project on Firefighting artifacts by find corresponding files in Accessions archive, reading the materials in each folder to find relevant material to write in description about the item to put online. I scan the documents I find relevant, so that I can do that additional research and writing at home. This will be the plan going forward (research/cataloging the vault on Monday and Tuesdays) but there are plans to have me assist on additional projects and duties within the department and MSI as a whole.

Thursday: With the information gathered from scanning documents from each accessions folder, then at home I can look over each stapled bunch of materials of each item and then add bullet points of relevant information in a word document. That can then be shared with the Director, Curator and assistant curator to help them use the most relevant materials to weave the labels needed to put online for this historic artifacts.

Week 2: 6/14/18/2021 | Fridays are not included as that’s when I attend Zoom meetings with the program directors and liaison for Studio Institute which has over 40 interns around the country in Museums across the United States. I won’t lie... I got the best assignment in my opinion! This was tailor made for me! As an older student I am FULLY aware of what a incredible privilege it is to be paid to do something you truly love down to your bones.

Monday: I start at 9:15 but my train was late to unforeseen circumstances. I emailed my supervisor I would be in a hour later than usual and she appreciated the heads up. I continued pulling folders from the accessions archive, then scanning relevant materials. I would then staple the gathered materials and kept my work in order to mirror the worksheet log I was given for the artifacts in the fire fighting exhibit.

Tuesday: Getting in at my normal time I continued, and finished the worksheet log I was given for the Fire Fighting exhibit. I now have a large amount of material to review on my days working from home to provide bulleted points of relevant material that will assist the Collections team create the labels needed when selected materials are uploaded online. I would do five files at a time to stay organized and not bite off more than I could and get "lost in the sauce" as we would say in the Army. That way, a steady rhythm was established and I could better gauge my time per batch.

Wednesday: I worked from home continuing my task of added bulleted information points on artifacts. I am assuming that the items that have a extensive amount of reference materials will be those making the cut to be uploaded online once the project gets to that point. Made up the hour lost on Monday due to my train out of Barrington, IL running late.

Thursday: Still grinding away by going through the research materials I assembled from the archives in MSI to add bulleted points of relevant information on artifacts to make the lives of the Director, Curator, and assistant easier allowing them to focus on more advanced research and other duties.

Week 3: 6/21-25/2021

Monday: Continued transcription of the Fire Fighting Exhibit. Nearly finished with it. Working from home is getting better as I am getting a better pace of work and less distractions.

Tuesday: I was able to get some opportunities for front-facing guest interaction and educations as I gave my first MSI tour. Two individuals from my organization, the 501st Legion, came down from Green Bay for a Chicago vacation. They had seen my positive posts about being at MSI and wanted to come see it for themselves. I asked Dr. Saridakis if I could learn how to give a tour on my own, to which she agreed. In my inaugural tour I took them around the great hall's exhibits, being careful to focus on items of which I had some background in to better give a small education on the artifacts. My strength is in the Hall of Transportation in which houses the Spitfire, Stuka and new Boeing 727. On the floor I pointed out the Millburn and Tesla electric cars as well. After going at what seemed a quick pace, we made our way over to the Hall of Bicycles, and weaved back to the floor. I took them to U-505 which is my strongest exhibit. Military history is my focus, and I don't ever tire of going to see U-505. In the most surprise to my guests, they were granted a behind the scenes walk-through of Collections in which Dr. Saridakis kindly donated her time to open the vault for us. She accompanied me, but gave me the reigns to get a feel for my first guided walk-through of Collections which is a duty all in the department should be familiar, and comfortable doing. I feel I did well for my first time, and gained experience in doing the same for the following day for a larger, planned tour by mHub. I took my guests out to lunch where my supervisors did a few weeks ago. It ran over time, so I'll make up the hour later at home.

Wednesday: Today was the day of the big planned of tour by Chicago tech company, mHub. My supervisor was not available in the morning so I filled out some other documents and found other work to do until she came in. This was sorting through the former archivist's boxes of files and articles looking for relevant materials that would be of use to the registrar. I had been doing this the day before as well before my guests came in at 11AM. There was a A LOT of material, but there was plenty of relevant stuff, including a complete file on the cars, and motorcycles in the MSI collection which included a recent appraisal of each item in inventory. I found the motorcycles of interest and made copies for myself to be of use on future behind the scenes tours (you pick a handful of items scattered at various checkpoints to engage with guests about. There just isn't enough time to go row by row.) mHub was scheduled for 3:30, but didn't not come until 4ish. My recent work with the fire fighting artifacts proved critically relevant as one of the guests was working on technology for fire fighters to pull up a 3D schematic on a app to see where the beams, and wiring is without them having to hack through the walls to find it. He was very much interested in the various fire fighting artifacts and thankfully I was a part of his group throughout the tour. Exhibitions engineer Jeff brought out two 1930's Ediphones, and while he was setting up I had a lengthy chat with him regarding his duties and responsibilities at MSI which proved insightful.

Thursday: I wasn't as productive today as I wanted to be in part to some distractions in my personal life. I will make this time up on Saturday. Continued work on transcription of relevant facts to the fire fighting exhibit

Saturday: I finally finished the fire fighting exhibit items and look forward to trying my hand at writing short labels based on returning to the material I have. This label writing experience will be invaluable in such a professional capacity. It will be nice to have this skills honed, refined and on a professional level. I trudged the remaining artifacts, and put more time off the clock to finish so I can begin on my favorite exhibit, U505 on Monday!

Week 4: 6/28-7/2/2021

Monday: I came in and had my weekly 10AM meeting with Voula, and moved onto U-505/WWII items. Same as with the fire exhibit, finding files in the accession archive, scanning relevant materials to take home for work at home.

Tuesday: I continued scanning, and gather materials. At 1:00 PM I took photos of all the labels in the U-505 exhibit for transcription by one of the volunteers, Mary. I then at 2:30 I worked with Director McCarthy cataloguing some more artifact ranks in storage. At 4:10PM I asked if I could get a photo handling a textile artifact for both the experience of doing so and seeing one of U-505's flags not only in person, but to carefully handle, and touch. Director McCarthy and Dr. Saridakis both kindly indulged my request and it was a truly awesome experience for me. I also learned that there is a later train than I usually take. That bit of info is helpful just in case I ever miss the 5 o'clock train out of Chicago back to my home train station of Barrington, IL!

Wednesday: As I did with the firefighting exhibit and items, I continued bulleting down relevant facts and information. I created a new word doc just as I done previously with the Fire Fighting artifacts.

Thursday: Continued transcription. I look forward to trying my hand at writing some labels and short descriptions. I still can barely believe I am being paid to work on items I already love learning about.

Saturday: Made up 1 hour from Thursday.

Week 5: 7/5-9/2021

Monday: Unpaid holiday for MSI employees. I am going to work half a day today so I only have to work 4 hours later in the week to make up for today. I am going to look over my U505/WWII artifacts and see if any really stand out as candidates for getting labels and descriptions.

Tuesday: I came in Tuesday and had my weekly meeting with Voula. Since the program is half-way over at this point the decision for now is for me to focus on the U-505/WWII artifacts and to also focus on writing a few labels for some of the Fire Fighting exhibit artifacts. I also took photos of all the labels in the U-505 and will transcribe that exhibit to it is available in a word doc to be transferred to the digital site - one day. I then worked with Kathleen in storage to continue cataloging artifacts, in three hours we nearly inputted over 200 artifacts.

Wednesday: I came in and got to work on transcription since there are no more additional accession files to pull and scan. MSI has just brought on a new assistant curator for a year to help with the digitization of the archives and storage. It is a daunting task! But one that will streamline Collections at MSI and make pulling artifacts extremely easy and hopefully foster some excitement from the public online to see items that otherwise sit in a dark, temperature controlled room. I also had the honor of getting to write a pitch to put up a "pop up" U-505 exhibit up in downtown. That was very exciting to me, along with the confidence gained because of the trust to do that. I wrote a few drafts to which the Director edited down. Very happy to be useful with a project that is extremely relevant to my interests.

Thursday: Continued transcription of the U-505 exhibit and writing a few labels that will then be edited by the Curator. Being directly involved in what the public will learn from a artifact is very cool to me. Improving on working remotely, efficiently - making a decision right away in the morning after a shower to begin work is a great guard against procrastination and working late to fairly submit the hours for the day. A regular schedule when self set and stuck to is extremely effective.

Saturday: Continued work on the U-505 items from home.

Week 6: 7/12-16/2021

Monday: I started working right away after waking up. I want to finish my transcription of the U-505 exhibit which includes every wall panel, all artifacts and everything else in between. I went past midnight and just hit a stride, "in the zone, so to speak."

Tuesday: I worked through the night while on a roll. I didn't look at the clock, I just kept going! Reminded me of the old all-nighters I used to pull. I was excited to be finally complete with this project. I took it upon myself to transcribe the entire exhibit since it only existed on the walls and printed material. With it digitized this will be a tremendous help to the department. I finished it and even double checked Flickr for any photos I may have missed taking myself. I only missed only small panel, but all quotes, stories, artifacts... everything came to a 50 page, 20,000 word document. I look forward to seeing Voula's reaction when I print it out tomorrow! I also made a copy of just the artifacts for MSI so when they want to put some online they'll know what is theirs outright. In my previous job I worked 10 hour shifts so this felt familiar, I enjoy doing four 10-hour days to hit 40 back then and enjoy 3-day weekends. This is less hours, but I am grateful none-the-less to have the time to use for other projects, books and hobbies.

Wednesday: Voula's reaction to the massive transcription was great. I also placed the document in SharePoint so that anyone in Collections can access it. I am sure it will be a great aid in the future when a quick reference is needed for U-505. Today was also the MSI Employee picnic which was great. I took a couple pictures and video. Sodexo made me a Angus half pound burger which was great. I sat by myself since I came after our intern/departmental MSI zoom meeting held by Talent so we could learn how MSI is a collaborative effort and chat with the heads of other departments which was cool. I followed and email Mike Welsh to set up a tour of what Construction and Grounds does around the Museum. Most folks went to the picnic at noon, and our meeting didn't conclude until 1:10PM. Thankfully though Voula stayed a little after and we chatted at the table I was at. MSI redid the Smart Home area and it's a very nice shaded, little park. Definitely never been there before as a guest. Very cool to be a part of the "in-crowd." I took a longer lunch to take it all in.

Thursday: Since I busted my butt Monday into Tuesday and enjoyed yesterday I only had to do two hours today. I sat in the other half of the MSI intern/departmental Zoom meeting which featured Collections/Exhibitions and HR. I had the best chat with Exhibitions and the public relations managers. I will send emails to follow up with both of them as I find their work fascinating, and might as well - only here for a short time and it be an absolute waste to not take utter advantage of it. I cleaned up some of my Word documents and doubled check for syntax errors.

Thats it! You, and me, are now all up to date! I will continue to make weekly postings until its conclusion! I will also add some photos in the following posts, this is a long post so stay tuned, it will be less dense.

#museum of science and industry #Loyola university chicago #chicago #curator #intern #firefighter #u505

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brooklynmuseum · 5 years ago

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Stronger Together

Weekend Roundup of Resources for our Community 

Happy weekend Brooklyn! As we close the door on April and look forward to spring, we know you and your family are facing tough months ahead. We also know we are stronger when we stand together. Check out new opportunities to support and be supported in this week’s roundup.

If you have questions, or have more you wish to see or to spotlight, reach out. We want to hear from you. Please email [email protected].

Also, text 'COVID' to 692-692 to get important COVID-19 related updates sent straight to your phone. You can text 'COVIDESP' to get updates in Spanish.

Follow Our Elected Officials For News:

Stay up to date with information provided by Governor Cuomo. Follow our New York State governor on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for up to date information regarding new health guidelines closures, and executive orders.

The Mayor has a new Daily Message available on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube every morning. If your constituents have questions, comments or concerns, they want him to respond to, they can send them using the hashtag #AskMyMayor

The Office of the Brooklyn Borough President provides the most up-to-date information and resources to Brooklynites. Follow these pages regularly and follow Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams on social media for real-time updates.

Congresswoman for the 9th District, Yvette D. Clark is working hard in Congress to support our local communities. Follow the Congresswoman on her Twitter to receive updates on what is going on in Washington DC and resources available in your ‘hood!

Follow updates from Council Member Carlos Mechaca, representing District 38-Sunset Park, Red Hook, Greenwood Heights, and portions of Borough Park, Dyker Heights and Windsor Terrace on Facebook for more information regarding COVID-19.

Follow updates from Council Member Stephen T. Levin on Facebook and Twitter. Levein represents District 33-Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Boerum Hill and Bedford–Stuyvesant.

Follow Updates from Council Member Alicka Ampry-Samuel on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Ampry-Samuel represents District 41-Bedford Stuyvesant, Ocean Hill-Brownsville, East Flatbush, and Crown Heights.

Local Business Highlights of the Week:

Cheryl’s Global Soul appreciates the love and support over the years from the Brooklyn Community. While they are working towards opening, some of your favorite menu options are now available with an abbreviated Global Bowl menu for take out and delivery. Global Bowl and Take-out Menu

Since Colonie first took root on Atlantic Avenue, they have supported the New York food community by using products from countless local farms. Though they may be closed due to coronavirus, you can still support Colonie, or one of their sister restaurants Gran Electra and Pips, by donating here to their employee relief fund. 100% of the proceeds goes straight to their incredible staff of nearly 100.

Census

A reminder to complete the 2020 Census today at my2020census.gov.

Resources for Essential Workers

Here, you can find Governor Cuomo guidance on Essential Services under the “New York State on PAUSE’ executive order

Mayor de Blasio, NYC DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenbery and Lyft have announced free Citi Bike Memberships for critical workforce in response to COVID-19.

Hotels for healthcare workers: NYC hotels are offering discounted accommodations for healthcare clinicians, administrators and other employees who may require overnight stays and cannot return home.

In light of the recent state changes to what is and is not deemed essential construction, DOB has posted a new FAQ for the public and industry

Service Workers Coalition is an action group work striving to provide help, money and resources to Brooklyn Service workers. For more information, please contact at [email protected].

NYC Health and Hospitals needs workers to help transport patients, clerical staff and cleaning staff. You can apply today at NYC Covid-19 Citywide Information Portal. Engage with Mayor De Blasio’s call to action for the recruitment of medical personnel.

Companies who have stock on hand and are offering to DONATE or SELL medical supplies and equipment (e.g. gowns, masks, ventilators, face shields), visit Supply Registration Form to apply.

Local manufacturers and industry sector companies looking to begin producing supplies please visit COVID-19 Emergency Supply Sourcing & Manufacturing.

Grants and Funding Opportunities

Mutual Aid NYC is a network of groups organizing to provide aid and support to New Yorkers in the midst of the COVID-19. Groups may be located here.

The Northern Manhattan Emergency Recovery fund is offering immediate emergency assistance. To apply, click here.

The Robin Hood Fund is now accepting applications from organizations on a rolling basis for immediate response grants. Visit the Robin Hood Website for more information.

The New York Community Trust has created the NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund Applications for grants are now available forNYC-based nonprofits that are trying to meet new urgent needs that are hitting our city.

Hot Bread Kitchen has recently developed a relief fund in support of small business grants, family stipends, financial coaching and providing meals for hospital workers and front line responders.

CJI Strategic Opportunities Support (SOS) Rapid Response Fund is providing flexible and immediate funding to organizations responding to changing political landscapes and working to build collective power at critical junctures.

The rapid response fund, Collective Future Fund Survivor Safety and Support Fund is a rapid response fund will give increased funding support to Collective Future Fund’s existing grantees, while financial offering financial support to survivors and low-wage women of color and immigrant workers, and provide additional support to other critical efforts to advance safety and support the queer, trans, and cis women of color, Indigenous, and immigrant women survivors who are on the front lines of this crisis.

In response to the emergent needs of Black feminists, Susu Rapid Response Support for Black Feminists has been developed for those who are living/caring/healing/responding and beyond to COVID-19, SUSU will be dispersing rapid response funds for the next 2 months to Black feminists.

TheOrka Project has launched the Black Trans Solidarity Fund to raise money to combat food insecurity in the Black Trans/GNC Community.

New York City Financial Empowerment Center counselors are available to support those experiencing financial challenges.

Edquity is here to help you support students, offering efficient, online access to emergency funding and other resources during the current pandemic.

Coronavirus Financial Impact Loan provided by the Hebrew Free Loan Society is offering loans to support individuals with financial challenges caused by the Coronavirus outbreak.

Food Resources:

Food Not Bombs Bed Stuy is passing out groceries at Marcy and Lafayette in Bed-Stuy every Saturday at 3pm.

Smile Faith has created a survey to help individuals in need of food delivered in the current pandemic.

Comida Gratis is an interactive Spanish language map that allows for the spanish speaking community across NYC find available food pantries

Food Bank For New York City has created an interactive map to find “grab and go: meals and pantry bags to minimize the risk of exposure.

Hunger Free American has generated Neighborhood Guides to Food & Assistance containing detailed information on free food access in all five boroughs. Click here to find out where to find Brooklyn resources in languages such as English, Spanish, Chinese, French and Polish.

The following stores have developed dedicated shopping hours for seniors and Immunocompromised Individuals:

Whole Foods: Daily 8:00am-9:00am

Target: Wednesdays 7:00am-8am

Trader Joe’s: Reserved expedited line daily 9:00am-10:00am

Stop and Shop: Daily 6:00am-7:30am

If you are in need of Free Groceries, go to 716 Chester St. Brooklyn NY 11212. If you are sick or over the age of 65 this group will deliver free groceries to you in Brooklyn, Please call them at 718-306-1036 for more information.

The Southern Smoke for Emergency Relief Program provides emergency funding to those employed by restaurants or bars that have faced unforeseen expenses that cannot or will not be covered by insurance.

The City of New York is hiring licensed TLC drivers to deliver food to New Yorkers in need during the COVID-19 crisis. To find out if you are eligible, visit the NYC Food Delivery Driver Portal.

Support for Artists

Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) x New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Emergency Relief Grant will distribute $250,000 in unrestricted grants, up to $2,500 apiece, to women artists who have experienced financial hardship from loss of income or opportunity as a direct result of the crisis. As with AWAW’s annual award, the program is open to women-identifying visual artists over the age of 40 in the United States and territories, and aims to address the unique challenges faced by artists in middle age or older, particularly at this critical time

The Authors League Fund helps professional authors, journalists, poets, and dramatists who find themselves in financial need because of medical or health-related problems, temporary loss of income, or other misfortune.

The Binc Foundation is providing financial assistance to booksellers and employees, independent bookstores, and local comic book stores affected by COVID.

DGF provides emergency financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists, and book writers in dire need of funds due to severe hardship or unexpected illness.

Mayer Foundation Economic Relief Grants provides grants to individual artists and nonprofits who are distressed or suffering as a result of poverty, low income or lack of financial resources.

Resources for the LBGTQ+ Community

The End is Queer: NYC Mutal Aid is a LGBTQ specifc response to the COVID-19 pandemic as way to build and maintain community bonds and empower folkd to organize support. You may join their Facebook Group or Discord (Discord is prefered) to become involved.

A Know Your Rights Guide for Transgender New Yorkers Navigating COVID-19 guide has been prepared to ensure trans and nonbinary people are aware of their legal rights and can make informed decisions about their safety, health, and well-being as the situation continues to evolve. Oprima aquí para la versión española.

Consuelo Kanaga (American, 1894-1978). Hands, 1930. Gelatin silver photograph). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Wallace B. Putnam from the Estate of Consuelo Kanaga, 82.65.2248 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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Week 1 - Into the Wild!

The first day conducting field research we wanted to focus on our main interests for our project. We agreed that an AI-based application to create a sensation of help, not to replace therapy, but more companionship would be a suitable idea to pursue, seeing the current situation. For two weeks all citizens, who do not work in a field that is viewed as essential, have been constrained in their homes. When this quarantine will end is uncertain. This to maintain a social distance and avoid the spread of COVID-19. In these moments, people have to start to deal with a situation of isolation. We thought that loneliness and boredom could become a growing problem for general wellbeing.

We wanted to get in touch with a wide variety of people. We got in touch with persons from the age of 14 to 80+. We were interested in how the quarantine is affecting people’s behavior and mood. If the restrictions and disruption to their daily routine would affect them negatively. We thought of a set of questions that could give us a first overview.

· Who are you? (age, occupation)

· Who are you spending your quarantine time with?

· how has your everyday life changed since the quarantine?

· how does quarantine affect your mood?

· What do you do to improve your mood at home?

· Where would you rather be right now?

We wanted to contact workers who are working at home, workers who are still working outside, students, retirees and unemployed. We wanted to discover if there were any patterns with the answers. Our Expectation was to recognize categories of people who react and respond in a similar way (I am fine, I am not fine).

Phone Interviews

David got in contact with seniors who live in a retirement home, through his mother who works there. He conducted 4 interviews through the phone, all respondents were over 80 years old. Two of the three people are fully cared for and the third person lives in an apartment right next to the home. The fully cared for people had difficulty understanding my questions and could not answer open questions. We think it would be better to do something visual and have contact in real life. Because of the coronavirus, we have to find out how this could work best. Cultural probes could be one possibility. Here a snippet from an interview:

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Getting information from the people in the home was very difficult. A visual Observation in everyday life would be more effective.

Themes: occupation, entertainment, social interaction, time for oneself.

The statements on the phone seemed quite cold. One notices the loneliness and possibly also boredom. The question whether they would appreciate it, if acquaintances would call more often, they would say yes. But can one trust this answer? Do they answer honestly or is it just politeness?

Person 1 Occupation: - Read - Number game (Lotto, Bingo) - Wandering around the home - Set the table! ⇢ Feeling needed.

Person 2 Occupation: - Lying / dozing - „zvieri näh“ - Talking to people - read the Bible The situation is calm and "grave". She prefers to make phone calls. She doesn't want a change now. "It is the way it is" is probably the most heard sentence in the conversations. She says the situation hasn't changed much since the quarantine: she still and always felt a sense of helplessness. She takes each day as it comes and still is alone. Residents have the same perception of the atmosphere in the home as before.

Person 3 Terrible not being able to see anyone. Still meets with the neighbors. No longer allowed to have lunch with the other residents. "Unecessary information" comunicated. When I was asking if she is using the phone, she told me about her phone provider and how much it costs, even thought that was not part of the conversation.

Person 4 Made more shopping, to prepare. Everything is still working normally. Says that 15 and 16 year olds have no trouble at all.

Video Interviews

Conclusion

For 1/3 the quarantine has brought little change in the routine.

1/4 misses the direct contact with classmates

1/7 misses seeing her family

1/3 is more in virtual contact with people than before the quarantine

1/3 is feeling less productive because of the quarantine

2/3 are scared of the current situation and of the uncertainty of the future

What helps to lift the mood

2/3 feel better when they exercise

1/3 contact with people online and thorugh the phone

1/3 feel better when cooking

1/6 feel better through entertainment (tv shows, games)

Instagram Poll

We decided to ask three short questions in our Instagram poll, here are the answers we got:

How has the quarantine affected your routine?

From lab work to home office for paper research and report writing, from fitness center to jogging and online courses

Routine has become really important to keep the feet on the ground

Home School :D

Can’t go outside for no reason, little afraid to visit my parents and sad that I can’t see my

grampy’s

Saving time and money. At work: slowly losing immediacy with clients and colleagues

I can not meet my friends and family :’(

I have exams in June and I have no clue of what will happen because I’m doing online school but it’s literally 2 hours a day (I live in Italy)

All activities acquired the same value: it’s not worse to wash the dishes than take care of plants

I have more time, I go to sleep later however less structure

Watching Netflix more

I’m more concentrated during lessons

0 change. I’m a natural isolationist. I was born to do this.

Got more time to read and spend in the kitchen now

Almost nothing changed

I have to practice stuff for work at home but the crying ain’t helping (hairdresser)

I discovered that I’m a morning person, I started making the bed

100% smart work, self-quarantine for every individual of the family

How do you entertain yourself or improve mood during the quarantine?

Playing chess

Watching Netflix

Watch “dumbest purchases I made in my 20s” videos to feel better about myself

Self-penetration

More cooking and eating

Dreaming of me jogging

I plant mushrooms in my garden

Drinking alcohol

Youtube workouts and yoga apps

Watching porns

Playing switch, doing sports and reading books

Scrolling through social media, chat a lot, movies, sit on the balcony, rearrange and clean home

Playing sims

Online apéros

How does quarantine affect your mood and why?

Negatively because I can’t go to restaurants/clubs or travel

I am nervous cause I see the same people all the time and staying in the same rooms

All good

Everything is fine, I work from home but at the weekends it gets harder and if the weather is bad

Feeling balanced, try to keep daily routine (work, sport and social contact)

I recognise that I can’t go outside, especially in the evenings I am tired

Sitting in front of a computer the hole day is exhausting

My mind is very relaxed, because I don’t hear the word corona all the time

Sometimes a bit lonely, then I call someone, and I am happy again

There is nothing better than this situation, let’s go for a drink after everything

Doesn’t affect me, because I throw a corona party every weekend

I can still work, so I am not that quarantined. I know what to do

The quarantine is not the thing that is annoying, it is the way how we have to work from home, everyone expects you to be online 24/7

More difficulties to get up in the morning, more exhausted in the evening

Sometimes I feel irritable or anxious, but most of the time I feel relaxed and good

I am not in quarantine I have to work

I watch more Netflix

Video Diary

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Ramona asked a friend of hers to document her day with her phone camera. This was a quite playfull and fun way to discover the routine of a student who now has to stay home, for both us researchers and for the subject. In the video she says she mostly works on her computer. To lift her mood she goes outside in the garden to catch some sunlight. She’s trying to stay positive and that seems to work.

Google Survey

Click here to see all the answers. 61% answered positively - they are well 19% answered negatively - they are not doing well 19% answered positively and negatively. Either they are doing medium well, or they are slowly getting quiet, or sometimes good and sometimes bad. 71% of the people left their contact datas, if we want to contact for new survey.

Feedback from a psychologist: “What answers do you hope to get? Maybe give someone to read again, so that it is clear, everyone is understood correctly. Questions 1 and 3 are a bit similar. If you want to get more out, a reward would be helpful. From a psychological point of view what is important is anonymity, if any sentence is written that the whole thing will be treated anonymously if you don't give your email address. Added: either people don't fill this out if they think it’s too uncomfortable. Answers become more honest when anonymity is guaranteed”

Feedback from a anonym participant: “Quantitative surveys are easier to evaluate with multiple choice questions.” A lot of participants left their email address if we wanted to contact them. We were quite surprised how many participants left their contact.

Send a picture of what you are doing

We asked 13 people to send us a picture of what they are doing. Most of them are young adults, some of them are employees, most are student. We can see that most of them stay in front of a screen. Some are playing board games, other are cooking, taking a break of pursuing their hobbies.

Facebook livestream

We saw in this facebook group that many users did livestreams. They talked about their personal lives and communicated with the viewers who were commenting. We tried to go live and engage in a conversation with the members of that Facebook group. To start a conversation and get viewers to answer questions was very hard. This is probably because the main focus of such a livestream is the livestramer and not the viewers.

Why did we select those highlights?

Instagram Story Questions We liked the spontaneous answers people gave us. Also the length of the answers is limited so people have to focus on the core of their statement.

Google Forms Survey Interesting more in depth answers. It is easy to share the survey link and therefore can reach people outside of our bubble.

Video Interview The interviewed people are more freely to communicate compared to a phone call. They can show environments or objects through the camera. Furthermore the interviewer and the participant are “closer” together.

Audio Interview Negative highlight. It should that not every medium works for every target audience. Elderly or children would probably benefit from communication mediums where they don’t have to articulate sentences.

Were the expectations fulfilled?

Like expected the answers to our questions were very different. Most people were relaxed and others are scared and sad about the quarantine. Most people know how to entertain them self. Most people feel bad to have social distance and are afraid of infecting someone.

Which changes have to be made?

We need to find a better way to improve trust, so that we are able to ask morepersonal questions. Furthermore we need a better way to express more “hard to explain” topics like loneliness in the online medium. Maybe it would be a good idea to have group discussions and we as the interviewers stay in the background. Especially when talking about difficult topics.

Older people (some have slightly dementia) are having difficulties to answer to open questions. Furthermore they are not so technical advanced that they could use smartphones or other tools to communicate in a more visual way. A way to get a better understanding of their situation would probably be cultural probes. Unfortunately we can not meet them in person, due to the coronavirus.

We want to test if anonymity could help to communicate more personal topics.

What could be the next steps for field research?

Inform better about the topic communication.

Discovery: What is on the market that is used for communicating online or online multiplayer games.

Explore how people in different living situations (home-schooled, home-office, still working outside, retired and unemployed) use communication tools (which ones? for what purpose? how often?)

Unpack your topic further, see what angle you would like to look into

Playful humorous communication, connect people who are in a similar situation orhave similar interests and bring them to communicate and play with each other.

How do you want to get in touch with people online? How do you find your online community?

Contact people we personally know

Use Online Forms

Use social media to find interested people

Friends of friends

Public online groups

What type of media could you use to collect and record your impressions (chats, online video, sound, a mix of different media, etc..)

Chat

Video Interview (single and groups)

Telephone Interviews

Video or Photo diary

Cultural Probes (notebook, drawing and writing down thoughts, giving theminstructions on the pages)

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After many preparations, Eclipse heads toward their comeback. It’s the first of the year and the first along with Joohyun.

The group will still go through some final stages of promotion preparations before the day of their comeback. Meanwhile, one of their members will also have to start working towards her drama.

Minji will go to her costume fittings on January 3rd in order to get everything checked for the start of recordings on the following week. The drama will consist of 20 episodes ranging from 55 to 65 minutes in length. Recordings will start on a Monday, the 6th, and should go until the 9th of May. They’ll be recording around an episode a week with only short breaks for the cast and crew. The day of the release will be announced later on, aiming for the end of March. This will be an extensive project, having to record from early in the dark morning to the dark nights, depending on what they need. Expect not to have much free time at all. They’ll have a day break every two Sundays, the first being on January 26th.

On January 4th, all members will go together to a recording of Weekly Idol inspired by this episode. All information should be changed to fit Eclipse’s history and discography, as well as personality. There is no need to match your muse with one of the members onscreen. The episode is to air on January 22nd.

Due to the nature of Minji’s drama, she’ll go to a hair salon recommended by the staff on January 4th, after the recording of Weekly Idol, to get her hair dyed to black.

They’ll hold their comeback showcase on January 11th. The event will start at 6PM. They’ll enter the stage while their intro ‘Flower Bud’ plays, and then do their first performance of ‘Me Gustas Tu’. The teaser video for their new album will play on the back while they get into their new formation, and then they’ll perform ‘Navillera’ for the first time on stage. Once they’re done, a talk segment will start with the MC Kim Hyungjoon. They’ll be asked about the success of their previous release and how preparations were for their first full album. They’ll also talk about Joohyun’s addition to the group. Next, they’ll perform ‘Sunshine’ sitting on their chairs. The next talk interview will involve talking about their changing concepts and showing their ‘day’ side once again, as well as any other plans the group may have in the future, be it as a whole or individually. Eclipse will perform ‘Chase Me’ and, as a prepared encore, ‘Love Whisper’.

The following is the music show promotion schedule for Eclipse’s ‘Navillera’ activities:

01/15, 01/22, 01/29, 02/05: MBC Show Champion

01/16, 01/23, 01/30, 02/06: Mnet M!Countdown

01/17, 01/24, 01/31, 02/07: KBS Music Bank

01/17, 01/24: Arirang Simply K-Pop

01/18, 01/25, 02/01, 02/08: MBC Music Core

01/19, 01/26, 02/02, 02/09: SBS Inkigayo

01/21, 01/28, 02/04: MTV The Show

During the first week of promotions, Eclipse will use ‘Sunshine’ as their sibling song and performing its short version alongside the title track. The song will have no choreography, and instead, the girls will be sitting or standing, as seen in this video. For any day that you do not have to perform or have any other schedules, you may have a break at the dorms unless said otherwise.

Music show promotions will last for a total of four weeks this time. Programs will begin pre-recording early in the morning and groups are expected to stay at the broadcasting station until the live broadcast takes place later in the day. Although music shows in real life follow varied recording schedules, for IC writing purposes, the schedule for every music show will follow this consistent pattern:

06:20AM: at broadcasting station: basic first rehearsal on stage; no makeup, casual clothes.

06:45AM: head to salon: get makeup and hair done.

07:45AM: return to broadcasting station: eat breakfast, nap in dressing room/space.

09:00AM: dress rehearsal on stage; stage outfits, makeup on.

09:20AM: return to dressing room/space: rest, eat, nap.

11:00AM: final camera rehearsal on stage; stage outfits, makeup on.

11:15AM: greet senior artist groups at their respective dressing room/spaces, accompanied by a manager. you may not sleep during this time, up until the live broadcast.

07:00PM: live broadcast; when not performing, must stay in dressing room/space until the ending stage of the show.

08:00PM: line up in waiting room area to formally greet producers, director, and senior staff.

09:00PM: meeting time with fans who attended the recordings.

10:00PM: return to dressing rooms to clean up, change back into casual clothes.

11:00PM: arrive back at dorms.

On applicable Fridays, members leave the KBS building for recording Arirang Simply K-Pop which airs 1PM ~ 2PM.

Due to her drama recording schedules, Eclipse will pre-record their stages early in the day with Minji before their leader leaves for her shootings. The rest of the members will stay for the music show airings. This will happen until the recording of SBS Inkigayo on January 26th. After that, the members will have to perform a 5-member version of their song for music shows.

On January 15th, Joohyun and Blue will go to a recording of Hello Counselor based on this case. All reactions should be changed to fit your muse’s personality. There is no need to match your muse with one of the people onscreen. This will air on January 27th.

On January 17th, during the recording of Music Bank, Blue will be in charge of the MC role when interviewing her own group. The interview will take place in a room such as this, along with another girl group that’ll be promoting at the same time, Source Girls, and their member MC, Lily. Blue will ask Anna to describe her feelings for having a comeback, Minji to explain their newest title track, and Jennie to explain their point dance (which both Eclipse and Source Girls will recreate). After Source Girls’ interview, Joohyun will announce the other group’s soon to come stage, and then everyone will finish the interview with a “Coming up soon!” cheer. All questions are scripted, so the girls should be prepared with what to say.

On January 18th, Eclipse (excluding Minji) will be guests on Idol Radio. On January 21st, Blue and Haseul will join the recording of a segment of Happy Together as inspired by this episode. This will air on February 6th. Meanwhile, Jennie and Anna will go to the radio SBS Power FM.

In the meantime, on January 20th, the member Anna will be approached with some news. Ivy Club has approached KT Entertainment with the offer of making her one of their ambassadors. She’ll make her way out on January 27th for a photoshoot with the product. The news will come out to the public the following month, as well as the pictures taken. She’ll appear on Ivy Club’s official social media and on physical stores, as well as receive products to promote on her daily life.

On January 21st, the girls, without Minji, will go to Cultwo Show as guests along with solo artist Han Dogeun. During the show, they’ll be asked to perform two songs, which will be ‘Navillera’ and ‘Under The Sky’. Both songs will be only vocal performances.

On January 26th, the entire group will go perform to the military. They’ll use two songs: ‘Me Gustas Tu’ and ‘Navillera’. You can expect a positive reaction out of it.

You will gain +5 POINTS TO DISTRIBUTE AS YOU WISH, +3 DEBUT POINTS and +2 ACHIEVEMENTS for completing the written requirements explained on the idol tier page. As this is a song promotion month, one of your chosen achievements must be relevant to the above schedule and all required content should be written about activities listed on the above schedule for the month of December. There is a capped maximum of five solos, sets of starters and/or partnered threads you may write to collect this month’s points.

To clarify, the only form that needs to be submitted at the end of the month is a verification form for your debut points and achievements. Any SP points earned can be collected as soon as you finish the requirement for them. At the end of the month, as you did with your previous evaluation forms, you will submit the following form to the Points Verification blog:

IDOL’S NAME - KT ENT - JANUARY SCHEDULE (for the February 5 verification form)

PROOF OF ACTIVITY: [ x ]

POINTS: +00 SP [ distribute these however you like ]

TOTAL POINTS EARNED: +00 SP +00 DBT

+1 WK ACHIEVEMENT #1 [ NUMBER OF TIMES TAKEN + CURRENT LEVEL ]

+1 WK ACHIEVEMENT #2 [ NUMBER OF TIMES TAKEN + CURRENT LEVEL ]

DEBUT POINTS SPENT ON THE IDOL SHOP THIS MONTH:

NEW DEBUT POINTS TOTAL:

* Rookie and trainee characters are allowed to attend pre-recordings and fan meetings to interact with idol muses if they choose to do so. Just be realistic about the scheduling; trainees who skip too many lessons to support idol muses will be noticed by their company staff!

**** For their promotional days, the group receives 25 EXP. The members' appearances on programs and radio shows gives them 6 EXP. Blue’s role as a fill-in MC gives 1 EXP, and Anna’s contract with Ivy Club gives 9 EXP. The group’s performance for the military gives 1 EXP, making it a total of 42 EXP. For more information regarding GROUP EXP, refer to the idol tier page.

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Post-Final Poll Facts and Statistics SoS

I figured there was no point in doing my usual thing where I give stats on the polls’ progress at the halfway point and then again after the last, since there were only going to be five polls in the whole process due to the nature of the project. So I decided to just save this all up for one big shot here - not as indepth as it could be or right before the killer reveal for a change, because it’s not a full MMBC and we still have a Lorelei elimination to go, but it should be enough to sate me. I hope this doesn’t bother you.

(Note: as with all previous instances, I have removed the shading of the murderer as red so as not to give their identity away before the true finale.)

In total, there have been 148 votes across five polls - 41, 31, 28, 19, 29. This averages out at 29.6 votes per poll. Limerence’s voting average was 20.1, while Chambers’ was 13.8.

I theorize the increased voting average is due to a mix of there being, again, fewer polls overall, and all of those polls being open for one week, rather than two-to-four days / until the next play-day as in previous incarnations. I will say that the last poll got two reblogs per day as opposed to my usual one, which led to more votes for it; that may become my standard practice for polls from now on.

The most votes I received in any poll for this project is 41 for the very first, excluding an anonymous comment-vote used to break a tie. More people were on the site back then, you see. The mode is the last poll, which has almost exactly the voting average of votes.

Cornelia received the most votes of the dead prior to her death, with 30 votes, or 20.3% - before her corresponding poll, she had 30%. Of the Sims who are still alive, Percy has the most with 54, or 36.5%.

Percy’s also the one who’s received the most votes in an individual poll, gaining seventeen votes during the Lilith poll (58.6% of that poll). The second most has been a count of thirteen votes for Cornelia in the Catherine poll (41.9%).

Percy and Cornelia tie at the most accused, twice each. Catherine has only been accused once.

Percy’s been the most suspected too, three times before her outright accusation. She is the only one still alive to never be unsuspected.

On account of the format of the project, no one who has been eligible for voting - so excluding Lorelei’s contestants and Scott - has zero votes in their final total, or ever received zero votes in any poll at any point; ergo no one has gone completely without suspicion. However, the Sim with the fewest votes of the dead is Katya, with 5 votes (6.9% pre-death / 3.4% overall), and the least-voted who is still alive is Felicity, with 28 / 18.9%.

Felicity has been most frequently unsuspected, thrice. She is the only one still alive to never be accused.

In fairness, though, Lilith and Katya had never been accused either, at two and one unsuspected boosts each respectively... although Lilith did tie with Percy and Catherine in the first poll so could’ve theoretically been if it had come to a commentless tiebreak.

Again, by way of format, all of Lyra’s side has been immune at least once. But in terms of individual “sole” immunities, Percy garnered the most before that aspect was shut down in Episode 18, with two. Toby got the most on Lorelei’s side, with two.

If we count group immunities as one each and bonus interactions as .5 of an immunity, Percy got the most (again, prior to Episode 20) with 7 (group, none, none, automatic group, sole, bonus + group, bonus + group, sole, none), while Eden Lee got 7 on Lorelei’s end (none, bonus + group, group, none, group, none, sole, bonus + automatic group, group).

Toby deserves honorable mention for the latter, though: his immunity pattern was similar to Percy’s before he died - none, group, group, sole, bonus + group, sole, none.

By sheer coincidence - and it’s VERY important to be clear that it’s by sheer coincidence - Toby was third in the challenge ordering / positioning lists for Episodes 8, 10 and 12. He was also fifth in the same for Episodes 2 and 4, but the latter didn’t make that clear cus he and Kira somehow managed to swap places. Episode 6 was just a large group shuffle from one end of the room to the other that was separated into two groups in the same order retroactively for poll-order purposes, and Toby ended up in fifth place on that truncated list too.

Incidentally, he was second on the ordering in Episode 14; I think the breaking of the two patterns is what led to his downfall IMO. /TEASING

The most common traits for contestants across both sectors, at project’s beginning, were Friendly and Perfectionist at four apiece. Lyra had three of each, so they were most common for her side too. Catherine was the first lost Friendly Sim, and Lilith the most recent; Katya, the first lost Perfectionist, and Cornelia the most recent. I won’t say ‘last’ because we still have the potential - ignoring that I’ve played ahead - to lose Eden Lee, a Friendly, or Lavandar, a Perfectionist. (As part of a final two, Percy is locked in.)

In fact, Scott and Felicity are the only two Sims on Lyra’s side without Friendly, Perfectionist, or both.

Lorelei’s side’s repeated traits (for none have been used more than twice for her) were Absent-Minded, Animal Lover, Flirty, Light Sleeper, and Over-Emotional; both Light Sleepers, a Flirt and an Absent-Minded Sim have been lost. Lavandar is the last Absent-Minded; Kira, the last Flirty; but at least one Animal Lover and at least one Over-Emotional Sim is guaranteed to make it into Lorelei’s final two.

We also began with four deaf Sims in total - Cornelia, Eden Lee, Lilith, Scott. Of them, only Eden Lee remains; Scott was the first deaf person lost. Depression ties with deafness as the most prominent disability among the core cast (Katya, Catherine, Percy and Eden Lee, who overlaps between the two); they go ahead of autism and pre-project PTSD.

Irritatingly, I had to duplicate a ghost coloring between Catherine and Lilith - the nature of the murder, the people around it and the people potentially doing it meant that I had to make it ‘quick and dirty’, meaning I couldn’t kill zer any other way; hence, like Chambers, we have two starvation ghosts. Otherwise, all deaths and ghosts are unique within the project.

Scott shares a ghost color with Sunflower and June; Catherine and Lilith, to Emmy, Gregory, Harrison and Nora; Katya, to Alexis; Toby, to Dub and Cinnamon; Cornelia, to Poppy. Fire and electrocution have not been used.

Lilith died with a higher relationship to Lyra than Virgo did to Amelia when he died, at 42.69 points; ze’s the only Sim in my MMBC roster to die friends with their bacheloret.

In terms of high relationships in general, Lyra has been less volatile than Lorelei. From 2 to 7, then 11 to 19, Felicity has remained at the top of Lyra’s leaderboard fairly consistently, only giving over to Katya for a few episodes before she died. Lorelei’s closest contestant has bounced between four Sims over the project. Ginerva was closest to her for the shortest amount of time, only one episode; Eden Lee lasted the longest closest at eight episodes; but Lavandar is the closest to her right now.

We’ll see, of course, how long this lasts.

#sims 3 #text post #sos mm bc #sos mm bc episode 19: deceptive cadence #facts and statistics

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The Space Show this week - June.6.2023

The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week: 1. Tuesday, June. 6, 2023; 7 pm PST (9 pm CST, 10 pm EST): We welcome back Robert Zimmerman for space news and policy updates. 2. Hotel Mars - Wednesday, Mar. 7, 2023; 1:00 pm PST (3:00 pm CST, 4:00 pm EST): TBD. Check the Upcoming Show Menu at www.thespaceshow.com for updates on scheduling. 3. Friday, Mar.9, 2023; 9:30-11 am PST (11:30 am-1 pm CST, 12:30-2 pm EST): We welcome Billy Miossi to talk about his documentary film on the Voyager spacecraft. 4. Sunday, Mar.11, 2023; 12-1:30 pm PST (2-3:30 pm CST, 3-4:30 pm EST): We welcome back Dr. Nick Kanas to discuss his new book, Behavioral Health and Human Interactions in Space . Some recent shows: ** Hotel Mars - Wednesday, May.31.2023 - Dr. Erika Nesvold spoke with John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston about her new book, Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space , on space settlement, ethics, Mars and more https://thespaceshow.com/sites/default/files/shows/4034-BWB-2023-05-31.mp3 ** Sunday, May.21.2023 - Michelle Hanlon talked about For All Moon Kind and the new Institute on Space Law and Ethics. We talked about both the OST and Artemis articles that apply to protecting historical sites plus govern our space contact. Our discussion included many subjects with multiple listener questions. https://thespaceshow.com/sites/default/files/shows/4033-BWB-2023-05-21.mp3 ** Friday, May.19.2023 - Dr. Anna Krylov from the chemistry department at University of Southern Californian (USC) in Los Angeles discussed pushing back on the use of ideology instead of merit in teaching and grading science, the scientific method and more. Our guest explained the why of the adverse impacts of the DEI ideology citing specific individual and educational examples. https://thespaceshow.com/sites/default/files/shows/4032-BWB-2023-05-19.mp3 ** Hotel Mars - Wednesday, May.17.2023 - Rand Simberg spoke with John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston talked about the Vast Space Systems artificial gravity commercial space station to be launched in 2025 with later versions using artificial gravity at the lunar gravity rate. Rand talked about the previously high launch costs having been a deterrent to private station development but that the cost now was making it an affordable industry. https://thespaceshow.com/sites/default/files/shows/4031-BWB-2023-05-17.mp3 ** Tuesday, May.16.2023 - Rebecca Hahn discussed her graduate work on mapping, cataloging and studying the volcanoes on Venus. We also compared them to volcanoes elsewhere in the solar systems and discussed many other questions, issues and concerns regarding the planet Venus. https://thespaceshow.com/sites/default/files/shows/4030-BWB-2023-05-16.mp3 ** See also: * The Space Show Archives * The Space Show Newsletter * The Space Show Shop The Space Show is a project of the One Giant Leap Foundation.

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Thinking Through Interfaces, a syllabus

*That looks enlightening.

THINKING THROUGH INTERFACES

Co-taught by Zed Adams (Philosophy) and Shannon Mattern (Media Studies)

Tuesdays 4:00 - 5:50pm | 6 East 16th St #1003

Interfaces are everywhere and nowhere. They pervade our lives, mediating our interactions with one another, technology, and the world. But their very pervasiveness also makes them invisible. In this seminar, we expose the hidden lives of interfaces, illuminating not just what they are and how they work, but also how they shape our lives, for better and worse. We also discuss a number of pressing social and political issues, such as why we are quick to adopt some interfaces (e.g., smartphones and social media platforms), but reluctant to embrace others (e.g., new voting machines and Google Glass).

(...)

RESOURCES

With a few exceptions, all readings will be made available on our class website, at http://www.wordsinspace.net/interfaces/2019/. We’ll provide everyone with a copy of Tom Mullaney’s The Chinese Typewriter and David Parisi’s Archaeologies of Touch.

SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS

WEEK 1: JANUARY 22: INTRODUCTIONS

What is an interface?

How are interfaces differentiated?

Can an interface become a part of our mind?

Do interfaces shape what we use them to do?

What are the limits of interfaces: what problems do they not help us solve?

WEEKS 2 AND 3: CONCEPTUALIZATION

WEEK 2: JANUARY 29: CONCEPTUALIZATION I

Nelson Goodman, “The Theory of Notation” (Chapter Four), Languages of Art (Hackett, 1976): 127-173.

Florian Cramer and Matthew Fuller, “Interface” in Software Studies, ed., Matthew Fuller (MIT Press, 2008): 149-53.

Johanna Drucker, “Interface and Interpretation” and “Designing Graphic Interpretation” in Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production (Harvard University Press, 2014): 138-97.

WEEK 3: FEBRUARY 5: CONCEPTUALIZATION II

Shannon Mattern, “Mission Control: A History of the Urban Dashboard,” Places Journal (March 2015).

Shannon Mattern, “Things that Beep: A Brief History of Product Sound Design,” Avant (August 2018).

We encourage you to think, too, about how interfaces might embody different cultures and ideologies. Consider, for example, feminist interfaces or indigenous interfaces -- or interfaces that embody universal, accessible design. You'll find some relevant resources in the modules at the end of this syllabus, and we'll explore many of these themes as part of our case studies throughout the semester.

In-Class Workshop (second half of class): small-group interface critiques

Supplemental:

Christian Ulrich Andersen and Soren Bro Pold, eds., Interface Criticism: Aesthetics Beyond the Buttons (Aarhus University Press, 2011).

Martijn de Waal, The City as Interface: How New Media Are Changing the City (nai010, 2014).

Johanna Drucker, “Humanities Approach to Interface Theory,” Culture Machine 12 (2011).

Johanna Drucker, “Performative Materiality and Theoretical Approaches to Interface,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 7:1 (2013).

Florian Hadler and Joachim Haupt, “Towards a Critique of Interfaces” in Interface Critique, eds., Florian Hadler and Joachim Haupt (Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2016): 7-16.

John Haugeland, “Representational Genera” in Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind, ed. Haugeland (Harvard Univ Press, 1992): 171-206.

Branden Hookway, Interface (MIT Press, 2014)

Interface Critique (journal).

Steven Johnson, Interface Culture (Basic Books, 1999)

Matthew Katz, “Analog Representations and Their Users,” Synthese 193: 3 (June 2015): 851-871.

Kimon Keramidas, The Interface Experience - A User’s Guide (Bard Graduate Center, 2015).

Shannon Mattern, “Interfacing Urban Intelligence,” Places Journal (April 2014).

Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things (Basic Books, 2013).

Mitchell Whitelaw, “Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 9:1 (2015).

Jeff Johnson, Designing with the Mind in Mind (Morgan Kauffmann, 2014).

WEEKS 4 AND 5: TYPEWRITER KEYBOARDS

Our first case study is the QWERTY keyboard. This case raises fundamental questions about why interfaces are adopted in the first place, the extent to which their original designs constrain how they are subsequently used, and how particular linguistic politics and epistemologies are embodied in our interfaces.

WEEK 4: FEBRUARY 12: KEYBOARDS & QWERTY

Andy Clark, Chapters One through Three, and Ten, Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again (MIT Press, 1998): 11-69 and 193-218.

S. J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis, “The Fable of the Keys,” The Journal of Law & Economics 33:1 (1990): 1-25.

WEEK 5: FEBRUARY 19: OTHER KEYBOARDS

Thomas S. Mullaney, The Chinese Typewriter: A History (MIT Press, 2017): Chapter 1, 35-74; Chapter 4, 161-93; Chapter 6, 237-53 (up through “How Ancient China Missed…”; and Chapter 7, 283-8 (through “China’s First ‘Model Typist’”).

Kim Sterelny, “Minds: Extended or Scaffolded?” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 9:4 (2010): 465-481.

See Marcin Wichary’s forthcoming book about the global history of keyboards, as well as his research newsletters.

4-5pm: Skype TBD

Supplemental:

Louise Barrett, Beyond the Brain (Princeton University Press, 2015).

Andy Clark and David Chalmers, “The Extended Mind,” Analysis 58:1 (1998): 7-19.

Friedrich A. Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, trans. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz (Stanford University Press, 1986).

Lisa Gitelman, Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era (Stanford University Press, 1999).

John Haugeland, “Mind Embodied and Embedded,” Having Thought (Harvard University Press, 1998): 207-237.

Richard Heersmink, "A taxonomy of cognitive artifacts: function, information, and categories." Review of philosophy and psychology 4.3 (2013): 465-481.

Richard Heersmink, "The Metaphysics of Cognitive Artefacts," Philosophical Explorations 19.1 (2016): 78-93.

Neil M. Kay, “Rerun the Tape of History and QWERTY Always Wins,” Research Policy 42:6-7 (2013): 1175-85.

Prince McLean, “Inside the Multitouch FingerWorks Tech in Apple’s Tablet,” Apple Insider (January 23, 2010).

Jan Noyes, “QWERTY - The Immoral Keyboard,” Computing & Control Engineering Journal 9:3 (1998): 117-22.

Kim Sterelny, The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique (MIT Press, 2012).

Cassie Werber, “The Future of Typing Doesn’t Involve a Keyboard,” Quartz (November 23, 2018).

Darren Wershler-Henry, The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting (Cornell University Press, 2007).

WEEKS 6 AND 7: HAPTICS

WEEK 6: FEBRUARY 26: PUSHING BUTTONS

H. P. Grice, “Some Remarks About the Senses,” in Analytical Philosophy, First Series, ed. R. J. Butler (OUP Press, 1962): 248-268. Reprinted in F. MacPherson (ed), The Senses (OUP Press, 2011): 83-101.

Matthew Fulkerson, “Rethinking the Senses and Their Interactions: The Case for Sensory Pluralism,” Frontiers in Psychology (December 10, 2014).

Rachel Plotnick, “Setting the Stage,” in Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing (MIT Press, 2018): 3-16.

Rachel Plotnick, “Force, Flatness, and Touch Without Feeling: Thinking Historically About Haptics and Buttons,” New Media and Society 19:10 (2017): 1632-52.

WEEK 7: MARCH 5: HAPTICS II

David Parisi, Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing (University of Minnesota Press, 2017): Introduction, 1-40; Chapter 3, 151-212; and Chapter 4, 213-264.

4-5pm: Skype with Dave Parisi

Supplemental:

Sandy Isenstadt, “At the Flip of a Switch,” Places Journal (September 2018).

Mathias Fuchs, Moisés Mañas, and Georg Russegger, “Ludic Interfaces,” in Exploring Videogames: Culture, Design and Identity, eds., Nick Webber and Daniel Riha (Interdisciplinary-Net Press): 31-40.

Matthew Fulkerson, The First Sense: A Philosophical Study of Human Touch (MIT Press, 2013).

Gerard Goggin, “Disability and Haptic Mobile Media,” New Media & Society 19:10 (2017): 1563-80.

Kim Knight, “Wearable Interfaces, Networked Bodies, and Feminist Interfaces,” MLA Commons (2018).

Brian Merchant, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone (Little, Brown, 2017).

Stephen Monteiro, The Fabric of Interface: Mobile Media, Design, and Gender (MIT Press, 2017).

David Parisi, “Games Interfaces as Bodily Techniques,” Handbook of Research on Effective Electronic Gaming in Education, ed. Richard Ferdig (IGI Global): 111-126.

David Parisi, Mark Paterson, and Jason Edward Arches, eds., “Haptic Media” Special Issue, New Media & Society 19:10 (October 2017).

Rachel Plotnick, “At the Interface: The Case of the Electric Push Button, 1880-1923,” Technology and Culture 53:4 (October 2012): 815-45.

MARCH 11 @ NOON

Share your final project and presentation proposal with Zed and Shannon. See “Assignments” for more detail.

WEEK 8: MARCH 12

Individual meetings to discuss presentations and final projects

MARCH 19: NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK

WEEKS 9-10: VOICE

WEEK 9: MARCH 26: History of Vocal Interfaces (Zed away)

Mara Mills, “Media and Prosthesis: The Vocoder, the Artificial Larynx, and the History of Signal Processing,” Qui Parle 21:1 (Fall/Winter 2012): 107-49.

Danielle Van Jaarsveld and Winifred Poster, “Call Centers: Emotional Labor Over the Phone,” in Emotional Labor in the 21st Century: Diverse Perspectives on Emotion Regulation at Work, ed. Alicia Grandey, Jim Diefendorff, and Deborah Rupp (LEA Press, 2012): 153-73.

Confirm the assigned text for your presentation: send to Shannon and Zed a complete Chicago-style citation and either a high-quality pdf or a link to the online resource before class today, so we can update our class website with everyone’s material.

WEEK 10: APRIL 2: Contemporary Vocal Interfaces

Adelheid Voshkul, “Humans, Machines, and Conversations: An Ethnographic Study of the Making of Automatic Speech Recognition Technologies,” Social Studies of Science 34:3 (2004).

Andrea L. Guzman, “Voices in and of the Machine: Source Orientation Toward Mobile Virtual Assistants,” Computers in Human Behavior (2018).

Halcyon M. Lawrence and Lauren Neefe, “When I Talk to Siri,” Flash Readings 4 (September 6, 2017) {podcast: 10:14}.

Halcyon M. Lawrence, “Inauthentically Speaking: Speech Technology, Accent Bias and Digital Imperialism,” SIGCIS, Computer History Museum, March 2017 {video: 1:26 > 17:16}

Lauren McCarthy, LAUREN. A human smart home intelligence (review press, too).

4-5pm: Skype with Halcyon M. Lawrence

Supplemental:

Meryl Alper, Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality (MIT Press, 2017).

Michel Chion, Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise (Duke, 2016).

Karin Bijsterveld, “Dissecting Sound: Speaker Identification at the Stasi and Sonic Ways of Knowing,” Hearing Modernity (2018).

Trevor Cox, Now You’re Talking: The Story of Human Communication from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence (Counterpoint, 2018).

Brian Dumaine, “It Might Get Loud: Inside Silicon Valley’s Battle to Own Voice Tech,” Fortune (October 24, 2018).

Larry Greenemeier, “Alexa, How Do We Take Our Relationship to the Next Level?” Scientific American (April 26, 2018).

Jason Kincaid, “A Brief History of ASR,” descript (July 12, 2018).

Halcyon M. Lawrence, “Siri Disciplines,” in Your Computer is on Fire, eds., Marie Hicks, Ben Peters, Kavita Philips and Tom Mullaney (MIT Press, forthcoming 2019).

Halcyon Lawrence and Lauren Neefe, “Siri’s Progeny: Voice and the Future of Interaction Design,” Georgia Tech, Fall 2016.

Xiaochang Li and Mara Mills, “Vocal Features: From Voice Identification to Speech Recognition by Machine,” Technology and Culture (forthcoming 2019).

Luke Munn, “Alexa and the Intersectional Interface,” _Angles (June 2018).

Quynh N. Nguyen, Ahn Ta, and Victor Prybutok, “An Integrated Model of Voice-User Interface Continuance Intention: The Gender Effect,” International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (2018).

Winifred Poster, “Sound Bites, Sentiments, and Accents: Digitizing Communicative Labor in the Era of Global Outsourcing,” in digitalSTS: A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies, eds., David Ribes and Janet Vertesi (Princeton University Press, forthcoming April 2019).

Winifred Poster, “The Virtual Receptionist with a Human Touch: Opposing Pressures of Digital Automation and Outsourcing in Interactive Services” in Invisible Labor: Hidden Work in the Contemporary World, eds. Marion G. Crain, Winifred R. Poster, and Miriam A. Cherry (University of California Press, 2016): 87-111.

Thom Scott-Phillips, Speaking our Minds: Why Human Communication is Different, and How Language Evolved to Make it Special (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Craig S. Smith, “Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can’t,” New York Times (May 10, 2018).

Dave Tompkins, How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks (Stop Smiling Books, 2011).

Mickey Vallee, “Biometrics, Affect, Autoaffection and the Phenomenological Voice,” Subjectivity 11:2 (2018): 161-76.

Bruce N. Walker and Michael A. Nees, “Theory of Sonification” in The Sonification Handbook, eds. Thomas Hermann, Andy Hunt, and John G. Neuhoff (Logos Publishing, 2011).

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Michigan’s stay-at-home orders caused us to reschedule most spring and summer projects. Recycling and composting activities have been suspended. Trash in common spaces will be removed daily. We are asking individual offices to tie their own trash bags, remove them to a commonly located trash container, and replace their own can liner. To minimize secondary exposure to personal waste, Facilities will not be collecting trash from personal offices. Starting this August, building systems will now be scheduled to run two hours before occupancy to complete multiple air circulation cycles prior to occupancy. Traditionally, building systems began running one hour before the building was scheduled to be occupied. This will also allow us to monitor systems and increase filtration where applicable. Schedule: For each building to complete an air flush before the start of classes, we will begin turning systems on the week of August 3. We expect some newer systems will accept a MERV 13 filter, while older systems will not.

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We will continue to evaluate those systems for performance and upgrade further if the systems will allow. To ensure maximum air change rates, we have installed some pre-filters where able and upgraded some filters to a higher MERV rating. As MERV ratings increase, eventually air change rates in the building decrease. ASHREA suggests upgrading filters to MERV 13 or higher. Calvin’s minimum filter standard is MERV 8.

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We recommend opening windows whenever possible to increase ACH in occupied rooms.įiltration: ASHRAE guidelines recommend installing the highest rated filter that each system can accommodate without dropping pressure and performance. In all buildings we will maximize outdoor air intake as humidity and temperature allow. Older academic buildings like Hekman Library and Hiemenga Hall will fall below 6 ACH. Some buildings, like the Science Complex and Fieldhouse exceed this target by nature of these building’s function and system design. These systems were cleaned, inspected, and filters were changed to ensure each building could maximize air circulation, filtration rates, and eliminate negative outdoor pressure.Ī few notes on how Facilities is addressing HVAC for the fall semester:Īir Circulation: Our campus target is 6 air changes per hour (ACH). This summer, the Facilities department’s primary focus regarding our HVAC systems was to ensure these systems were ready to perform at their highest level. Environmental ControlsĪ number of environmental controls are being implemented to reduce the spread of infection, including the installation of plexiglass barriers where face-to-face interaction is required, shutting down drinking fountains, increased air circulation where possible, installation of the highest air filtration rating available for each system, the elimination of designated smoking areas, and the removal of certain campus furniture. Those spaces will be deep-cleaned and disinfected based on CDC protocols before reopening. In the case an individual on campus tests positive for COVID-19, the immediate spaces that individual occupied may be shut down. Additional hand-sanitation dispensers will be placed in high-traffic and/or high-touch areas. Custodial closets will be open and stocked with additional materials. Offices and labs will be supplied with disinfectant, rags, and PPE. Additional disinfection will be scheduled in high-use spaces. Temporary Room Capacities Cleaning and Disinfectionįrequently touched surfaces are disinfected at least once daily when buildings are occupied.

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The submittal password will be the same for everyone, every time you submit a workorder.

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newstfionline · 7 years ago

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Gen Z Is Coming to Your Office

By Janet Adamy, WSJ, Sept. 6, 2018

Sean McKeon was 11 years old when the 2008 financial crisis shot anxiety through his life in Hudson, Ohio. He remembers his father coming home stressed after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over the bank where he worked. A teacher asked classmates if their parents cut back that Christmas. They all said yes.

That unsettling time shaped the job plans he hatched in high school. “I needed to work really hard and find a career that’s recession-proof,” says Mr. McKeon, now 21. He set his sights on a Big Four accounting firm. He interned at EY in Cleveland and will become an auditor there after graduating from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, next year.

About 17 million members of Generation Z are now adults and starting to enter the U.S. workforce, and employers haven’t seen a generation like this since the Great Depression. They came of age during recessions, financial crises, war, terror threats, school shootings and under the constant glare of technology and social media. The broad result is a scarred generation, cautious and hardened by economic and social turbulence.

Gen Z totals about 67 million, including those born roughly beginning in 1997 up until a few years ago. Its members are more eager to get rich than the past three generations but are less interested in owning their own businesses, according to surveys. As teenagers many postponed risk-taking rites of passage such as sex, drinking and getting driver’s licenses. Now they are eschewing student debt, having seen prior generations drive it to records, and trying to forge careers that can withstand economic crisis.

Early signs suggest Gen Z workers are more competitive and pragmatic, but also more anxious and reserved, than millennials, the generation of 72 million born from 1981 to 1996, according to executives, managers, generational consultants and multidecade studies of young people. Gen Zers are also the most racially diverse generation in American history: Almost half are a race other than non-Hispanic white.

With the generation of baby boomers retiring and unemployment at historic lows, Gen Z is filling immense gaps in the workforce. Employers, plagued by worker shortages, are trying to adapt.

LinkedIn Corp. and Intuit Inc. have eased requirements that certain hires hold bachelor’s degrees to reach young adults who couldn’t afford college. At campus recruiting events, EY is raffling off computer tablets because competition for top talent is intense.

Companies are reworking training so it replicates YouTube-style videos that appeal to Gen Z workers reared on smartphones.

“They learn new information much more quickly than their predecessors,” says Ray Blanchette, CEO of Ruby Tuesday Inc., which introduced phone videos to teach young workers to grill burgers and slow-cook ribs. Growing up immersed in mobile technology also means “it’s not natural or comfortable for them necessarily to interact one-on-one,” he says.

Demographers see parallels with the Silent Generation, a parsimonious batch born between 1928 and 1945 that carried the economic scars of the Great Depression and World War II into adulthood while reaping the rewards of a booming postwar economy in the 1950s and 1960s. Gen Z is setting out in the workplace at one of the most opportune times in decades, with an unemployment rate of 4%.

“They’re more like children of the 1930s, if children of the 1930s had learned to think, learn and communicate while attached to hand-held supercomputers,” says Bruce Tulgan, a management consultant at RainmakerThinking in Whitneyville, Conn.

Gen Z’s attitudes about work reflect a craving for financial security. The share of college freshmen nationwide who prioritize becoming well off rose to around 82% when Gen Z began entering college a few years ago, according to the University of California, Los Angeles. That is the highest level since the school began surveying the subject in 1966. The lowest point was 36% in 1970.

The oldest Gen Zers also are more interested in making work a central part of their lives and are more willing to work overtime than most millennials, according to the University of Michigan’s annual survey of teens.

“They have a stronger work ethic,” says Jean Twenge, a San Diego State University psychology professor whose book “iGen” analyzes the group. “They’re really scared that they’re not going to get the good job that everybody says they need to make it.”

Just 30% of 12th-graders wanted to be self-employed in 2016, according to the Michigan survey, which has measured teen attitudes and behaviors since the mid-1970s. That is a lower rate than baby boomers, Gen X, the group born between 1965 and 1980, and most millennials when they were high-school seniors. Gen Z’s name follows Gen X and Gen Y, an early moniker for the millennial generation.

College Works Painting, which hires about 1,600 college students a year to run small painting businesses across the country, is having difficulty hiring branch managers because few applicants have entrepreneurial skills, says Matt Stewart, the Irvine, Calif., company’s co-founder.

“Your risk is failure, and I do think people are more afraid of failure than they used to be,” he says.

A few years ago Mr. Stewart noticed that Gen Z hires behaved differently than their predecessors. When the company launched a project to support branch managers, millennials excitedly teamed up and worked together. Gen Z workers wanted individual recognition and extra pay. The company introduced bonuses of up to $3,000 to encourage them to participate.

After seeing their millennial predecessors drown in student debt, Gen Z is trying to avoid that fate. The share of freshmen who used loans to pay for college peaked in 2009 at 53% and has declined almost every year since, falling to 47% in 2016, according to the UCLA survey.

Denise Villa, chief executive of the Center for Generational Kinetics in Austin, says focus groups show some Gen Z members are choosing less-expensive, lower-status colleges to lessen debt loads. Federal Reserve Bank of New York data show that nationwide, overall student loan balances have grown at an average annual rate of 6% in the past four years, down sharply from a 16% annual growth rate in the previous decade.

Lana Demelo, a 20-year-old in San Jose, Calif., saw her older sister take on debt when she became the first person in their family to attend college. “I just watched her go through all those pressures and I felt like me personally, I didn’t want to go through them,” says Ms. Demelo. She enrolled in Year Up, a work training program that places low-income high-school graduates in internships, got hired as a project coordinator at LinkedIn and attends De Anza College in Cupertino part-time.

Gen Z is literally sober. Data from the Michigan survey and federal statistics show they were less likely to have tried alcohol, gotten their driver’s licenses, had sex or gone out regularly without their parents than teens of the previous two or three generations, Ms. Twenge, the San Diego State professor, found.

They grew up trusting adults, and Gen Z employees want managers who will step in to help them handle uncomfortable situations like conflicts with co-workers and provide granular feedback, says Mr. Tulgan, the management consultant.

When Mr. Tulgan’s company surveyed thousands of Gen Z members about what mattered most to them at work, he heard repeatedly that they wanted a “safe environment.” He is advising clients to create small work teams so managers have time to nurture them.

“I was in no rush to get a driver’s license,” says Joshua Berja, a 21-year-old San Francisco resident who waited until he turned 18 to get one. He lives with his parents to save money, runs errands for his mother and picks his father up from work.

Gen Z is reporting higher levels of anxiety and depression as teens and young adults than previous generations. About one in eight college freshmen felt depressed frequently in 2016, the highest level since UCLA began tracking it more than three decades ago.

That is one reason EY three years ago launched a program originally called “are u ok?”--now called “We Care”--a companywide mental health program that includes a hotline for struggling workers.

Mr. Stewart, of College Works Painting, says he wasn’t aware of any depressed employees 15 years ago but now deals frequently with workers battling mental-health issues. He says he has two workers with bipolar disorder that the company wants to promote but can’t “because they’ll disappear for a week at a time on the down cycle.”

Smartphones may be partly to blame. Much of Gen Z’s socializing takes place via text messages and social media platforms--a shift that has eroded natural interactions and allowed bullying to play out in front of wider audiences.

In the small town of Conneaut Lake, Penn., Corrina Del Greco and her friends joined Snapchat and Instagram in middle school. Ms. Del Greco, 19, checked them every hour and fended off requests for prurient photos from boys. She shut down her social media accounts after deciding they “had a little too much power over my self-esteem,” she said.

That has helped her focus on studying at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla., to become a software engineer, a career she sees as recession-proof. When the last downturn hit, she remembers cutting back on gas and eating out because her parents’ music-lesson business softened.

“I learned a lot about the value of money,” she says. “I’ve always wanted to have a very secure lifestyle, secure income.”

She says the negative experience with social media made her want a professional LinkedIn page, and she took a seminar at college to learn how to do that.

The flip side of being digital natives is that Gen Z is even more adept with technology than millennials. Natasha Stough, Americas campus recruiting director at EY in Chicago, was wowed by a young hire who created a bot to answer questions on the company’s Facebook careers page.

To lure more Gen Z workers, EY rolled out video technology that allows job candidates to record answers to interview questions and submit them electronically.

Getting employees comfortable with face-to-face interactions takes work, Ms. Stough says. “We do have to coach our interns, ‘If you’re sitting five seats away from the client and they’re around the corner, go talk to them.’”

Mr. McKeon, the Ohio student, sees a silver lining growing up during tumultuous times. He used money from his grandfather and jobs at McDonald’s and a house painting company to build a stock portfolio now worth about $5,000. He took school more seriously knowing that “the world’s gotten a lot more competitive.”

“With any hardship that people endure in life, they either get stronger or it paralyzes them,” Mr. McKeon says. “These hardships have offered a great opportunity for us to get stronger.”

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Collapse in HGV apprentices behind empty shelf crisis, warns Labour

A collapse in the numbers of people signing up for transport and warehousing apprenticeships has driven the current delivery crisis causing empty shelves in supermarkets and shortages at fast-food chains, Labour has claimed.

The party released figures showing that entrants on transportation apprenticeships have fallen by almost half (49 per cent) since 2015/16 and by a massive 83 per cent for warehousing and distribution.

Future transport spokeswoman Kerry McCarthy blamed the government for failing to ensure the supply of new drivers in an industry facing the “ticking time-bomb” of a rapidly ageing workforce, with the average person behind the wheel of an HGV now 55 years old and fewer than 1 per cent aged under 25.

With drivers reaching retirement at a rate of 6,000 a year and others leaving the profession because of , the current crisis can be expected to worsen unless urgent action is taken to attract more young people onto apprenticeships, she said.

Recent weeks have seen major chains including Nando’s, McDonald’s and Greggs blame distribution problems for shortages preventing them from serving popular items to customers, while the boss of Iceland supermarkets has warned that the supply chain crisis could “cancel” Christmas.

The Road Haulage Association says the UK is around 100,000 drivers short, with Brexit and Covid blamed for worsening chronic labour shortages in the industry.

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“It is increasingly clear that the government does not have a plan to address a national crisis that is grinding our economy to a halt.”

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As Pensacola moved from Spanish to American rule, business flourished

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As Pensacola moved from Spanish to American rule, business flourished

Editor’s note: This is the 20th of a series of stories that will be featured in the Pensacola News Journal each week leading up to the 200th anniversary of Escambia County. Look for these stories each Monday in print.

The 1820 Spanish census of Pensacola provides a wealth of information on people and their occupations. A look at one neighborhood illustrates not only the diversity of the population but also the diversity of trades as Pensacola transitioned from Spanish to American rule. Panton, Leslie and Company and its successor, the John Forbes Company, was a major house of commerce in Spanish Florida in the 1780s and onward. The business was located along the bay on the west side of town.

This major trading company supplied goods to Creek Indians in exchange for deer skins; they supplied goods to the general population as well. William Panton’s home was described as an imposing three-story brick structure with elegant mill work, a veranda, three chimneys, glass windows and imported furniture. The warehouse and other outbuildings stood nearby and they too were impressive. Around 1806, merchant John Innerarity, who had been long associated with the trading company, moved into the house.

Those living in the same neighborhood included a Spanish tavern owner and his Black common-law wife, an English cabinet maker, a free Black laundress and a Spanish butcher. A mixed-race shoemaker, a mixed-race civil servant and a Spanish port captain also lived there. Julee Panton, a free woman of color, owned a house in the neighborhood. She was a candlemaker. The Julee Panton cottage survives and has been moved to Historic Pensacola Village.

As evidenced by the census, the Americans did not move into a void but rather expanded on services already available. Basic services such as providing food, shelter and clothing topped the list as the population grew. Government-appointed jobs had to be filled so that law and order could be maintained.

Pensacola’s excellent port along the Gulf Coast made shipping an important job. The ships brought in many goods and services that were needed in Florida. Shipping agents and freight brokers were required to broker the deals with the merchants. Innerarity was one of many who served this need. J. Pescay also advertised as a ship and custom house broker. A custom house was established to ensure that the goods being delivered to the port or transferred from the port had the proper paperwork to accompany them.

Just like today, attorneys were needed to represent injured parties. These attorneys would represent people in a wide range of areas, from criminal cases, to disputes around land deals, shipping discrepancies, wills and probate, and various other legal needs. Some of the local attorneys included Henry Breckenridge, Richard Keith Call and Horatio Bigalow, who advertised that he was able to translate from Spanish to English. This was an important service for the English-speaking Americans newly arrived in the former Spanish and French speaking colony. The Spanish and French speakers also were relying on translators and tutors to learn English.

The U.S. government required Spanish land claims to be proven. Surveyors were needed to plot out the land. One surveyor who advertised in the local paper was J. Montrose. The deed books of Escambia County bear the fact of land transfers soon after the transfer of Florida to the United States. Peter Alba advertised as a land broker. Later he would be accused of attempting to assassinate Colonel White, the government official who oversaw land claims.

Hotels and boarding houses are not specifically noted in the 1820 census, but during this time, taverns often offered rooms to travelers. Pensacola had a number of taverns prior to 1821 and more were established to serve the growing population. One such place was the Fisher Tavern. Another was the Eagle Tavern, which offered hot and cold baths and meals. Antonio Collins also operated one of the early hotels in downtown Pensacola. Other hotels and boarding houses sprang up around the area as the need for housing and temporary quarters increased.

More from the series:What a typical Pensacola home looked like during the Spanish colonial period

Forts and bricks: How the military and industry evolved in early Pensacola

With the coming of more people to the area, entertainment expanded. Traveling theater companies and musicians toured the southern circuit, and balls, always popular, were held on a regular basis. A Mr. Pippin brought in a circus from Havana, Cuba.

More people meant more goods were needed. F.H. Nisbit and Company, located on Main Street, provided food and clothing. P.H. Gerrish advertised that he sold children’s clothing, food, chocolate and gunpowder. Commission merchants brokered a wide variety of goods, from bricks and lumber to fine rye whiskey.

Miss Talmon sold parasols, while William Saltonstall sold furniture. R. Clapp was involved in lumber sales. Much lumber would be needed to build houses in the new Florida. Sawmills cut the lumber and ships transported the lumber to other locations. The opening of one type of business often leads to the need for other types of businesses.

Newspapers opened. The Floridian was first published in Pensacola on Aug.18, 1821 — about one month after Florida became a U.S. territory. The start of the newspaper created the need for someone to sell papers and ads. Nicholas and Tunstall provided this service.

There were already physicians in Pensacola and this area of community service also grew to meet the needs of new Americans. Christopher Y Fonda advertised as a local physician. Midwives were available for birthing and taking care of the health needs of women. Physicians were required to make sure that arriving ships were free from yellow fever and other diseases.

Blacksmiths repaired buggies and made tools for local farmers and merchants. Livery stables and buggy makers set up shop. Wagons were used on farms and for transporting goods to market. All of these needed regular maintenance.

Many businesses were owned by free people of color. These included shoemakers, brick masons, carpenters, seamstresses, laundresses and store owners. In 1821, Pensacola was a diverse community with people engaged in a variety of trades and services. The shift from Spanish to American rule opened the door to many opportunities for new and existing businesses to thrive in our area.

Virginia Shelby is a family researcher and past president of West Florida Genealogical Society. Margo Stringfield is an archaeologist at the University of West Florida Archaeology Institute.

Catch up on the rest of the series

Part 1:Setting the stage: Our Pensacola is fifth Spanish settlement on Pensacola Bay

Part 2:How did Pensacola end up back in Spanish control for a second time?

Part 3:How Andrew Jackson set up a ‘good government’ for Pensacola and Florida

Part 4:From newspapers to circuses, Escambia County and Pensacola have many ‘firsts’

Part 5:How early Pensacola treated disease outbreaks and the role of health care

Part 6:Cultural survival on the run: Pensacola’s history shaped by Native Americans

Part 7:Life in 1820s Pensacola was primitive, but cosmopolitan. A look at our early years.

Part 8:How the Sampler project aims to connect us with our Pensacola ancestors from 1821

Part 9:Dances, Patgo and ‘Star-Spangled Banner’: How early Pensacola embraced entertainment

Part 10:How the mail was (and often wasn’t) delivered in early Pensacola

Part 11:More than a name: Meet a few of Pensacola’s residents from 1821

Part 12:Historic St. Michael’s Cemetery in Pensacola holds paradise of memory

Part 13:A deeper look at Pensacola’s fascinating Spanish colonial heritage | Part 1

Part 14:What census data and land records tell us about Spanish West Florida | Part 2

Part 15:Food that early Pensacola settlers ate reflected the region’s diverse cultures

Part 16:What a typical Pensacola home looked like during the Spanish colonial period

Part 17:Forts and bricks: How the military and industry evolved in early Pensacola

Part 18:Archaeological traces of late colonial buildings linger throughout Pensacola

Part 19:How indigenous laborers from Mexico built and rebuilt Pensacola

How you can get involved

What: A web-based interactive mosaic of faces from our modern community honoring the 1821 community.

Why: To celebrate our rich and diverse heritage through a reflection of our modern community.

Who: Area residents, all ages, ethnicities and genders.

How: Fill out the form at 1821sampler.com. and upload your photo to represent a member of the 1821 Pensacola community (use an uncluttered background, clearly showing face and shoulders, no hats please, and names optional.

So far, researchers with the West Florida Genealogical Society have identified more than 2,000 individuals who were here when Florida passed from Spain to the United States. These were more than just names; every person had a rich life and history. By honoring a member of the 1821 community, you are participating in this celebration of our rich and diverse Florida heritage.

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