With admission to top colleges more competitive than ever, a new data-driven platform is aiming to make the process more strategic, affordable, and accessible.| insightintoacademia.com
All animals have blood hearts Omnia animalia sanguine* corda All animals have blood in their hearts Sanguine is no longer meaty. We have squeezed out the blood. Lobbed off ventricles and arteries to leave just an outline <3 Our animal hearts once bloody / bloodthirsty now tamed to optimism. * Sanguine, adjective 1: marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic 2: bloodred...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
One morning, as we ate sandwiches—mine had apples on it—a hawk appeared outside the hospital cafeteria window. Or no, it was not a cafeteria, it was a cafe. Which was meant, perhaps, to conjure a sense of normalcy. You could order paninis and mochas and bowls of soup. My husband and I sat there talking over our sandwiches, about what I can’t recall. The words are lost to me now, and yet it feels like only yesterday. When my mother arrived for her visit she immediately burst into tears. ...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
I know the sweet shape of sugar, tang, and the soft sweep of cat, mao. I know wo e le, I’m hungry; I know wo bu zhi dao, I don’t know. I know wo yao, I want; wei shen me, why; dui bu qi, I’m sorry. Last March, I learned the word ai zheng, cancer. My parents, of course, knew the word already, as native speakers who immigrated to America when they were in their late twenties. My father’s English was decent—he’d come here for grad school on scholarship—but in Chinese he was king. H...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
According to the US census, more than one-quarter of older adults live alone, one out of five men and one out of three women Nearly half of women over 75 live by themselves. 1. I live alone. Husband dead. No kids. My dog can’t hear anymore. God is the only one left who might be listening. He doesn’t answer, not in words. I can’t go out to lunch with God. He’ll never bake me a birthday cake. I can’t ask Him to fix my laundry room light or the gate that won’t stay shut. He’s no...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
In Tokyo, they measure death in hours. Nako’s began with stomach pains at a wedding reception—her own. The cake hadn’t been cut yet, but something else was already dividing inside her, multiplying with the precision of a cell gone wrong. Three hundred and twelve days from “I do” to “Time of death:” The numbers feel important somehow. Like if I could solve them, arrange them differently, I could find the equation that explains how a body becomes a battlefield so quickly. Twenty-n...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
I’m nine. I stand behind a leather couch in the larger area of the daylight basement everyone calls the rumpus room. It’s Easter Sunday and cool and hazy outside but not enough so that my grandfather will need to ignite the fists of coal already mounded in the grate of the fireplace. Three of my cousins play Monopoly. The dice on the game board fall like whispers. The broader family argues and chats upstairs: My mother and sisters, my grandparents—the six who live here along with me—a...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Click here to jump to recipe. Otherwise, notice the tippy milk crates stacked two-high under your five-year-old feet, the white chef’s apron knotted behind your neck, draping down past your shoes, between you and the oven door of the ten-burner stove in your grandfather’s diner, the two flats of eggs, thirty to a flat, ready for you and the egg and parsley fritters you’ll sneak pieces of later under your grandfather’s approving wink, those back burners turned off so the eggs don’t o...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Your mother won’t forget you right away. There will be plenty of time to prepare logistically and emotionally for this event. You’ll become accustomed to the usual symptoms over the course of months or years: forgetting appointments, tripping over the names of acquaintances, the first missed birthday. When she begins to fumble overlong with her seatbelt, you will buckle it for her without overthinking the sad poetry of this role reversal. Next come the bills. Then the pills. You will noti...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
(after Hanif Abdurraqib) I remember guns were a private thing we only used at camp beginning with the potshots my cousins and I took at empty Miller Lite cans the white cans with the red emblem and the time David yelled at me after I discharged the lever action BB gun across the water because I didn’t know the pellet could skip all that way and hit someone and I remember the smart satisfying crack of the pump action .22 rifle with little recoil and while it was thrilling it was safe and it ...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
He switched the headlights off and urged her up, into the night air. “Go on. Stand up,” he said, pointing at the Toyota’s open moon roof. The car rolled slowly down a country road, somewhere deep in the valley of quakes. Soon enough she would be too old for this. “Really?” the little girl asked, wide-eyed. He reassured his daughter that he had everything under control even as he knew this wasn’t true. Beyond the green glow of the dashboard, the stars seemed to hang over the Chol...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Yesterday, I couldn’t find my passport, not that I needed it, I wasn’t going anywhere, hadn’t gone anywhere in ages, not since my partner and I decided to pack up the house we’d lived in for ten years and move to another (smaller) house, in another (larger) city, with car alarms and sirens and helicopters circling our neighborhood every Saturday night, a world that’s turned mine upside down (this is what I tell myself when I can’t find my keys or my phone or the pair of glasses I ...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
I keep a catalogue, a mental inventory. There are mothers who paint portraits of cats dressed as Napoleon Bonaparte and mothers who fall asleep drunk on patterns for XXXL pajama pants, and mothers who mouth “fuck you” to their daughter in the backseat when they get lost in the family car and the daughter is trying her best to calm everyone down. Mothers, man. Every time I meet someone’s mother, I think: Fuck. I’m glad my own mother’s dead and that I never knew my mother after I was ...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
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This annual ICF product directory showcases the latest evolution of products from accessories to waterproofing, and virtually everything in between: bracing and bucking, forms, foams, and footings. It’s all organized by category and includes company contact information. Don’t hesitate to call for more information, and let them know you saw the product in ICF Builder Magazine.| ICF Builder Magazine
Charles Seo, IGT’s Senior Director of Commercial Strategy - Asia, discusses his unique career journey and why he sees himself| IAG
Siobhan Lane, Light & Wonder’s highly experienced CEO of Gaming, speaks to Inside Asian Gaming about the company’s ongoing transformation| IAG
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In the fast-paced world that is the Asian gaming industry, it’s easy to overlook the goings on of smaller jurisdictions| IAG
From street vendor to gaming tycoon, Galaxy Entertainment Group founder Dr Lui Che Woo concluded his splendid journey of 95| IAG
Glenn Huybrecht, Light & Wonder’s Managing Director, Asia, discusses his journey from Belgium to Asia and into the region’s fast-paced| IAG
Economist Dr Andrew Russell delves into the form and nature of casino regulation in Australia and some of the problems| IAG
The Advent of Artificial Intelligence… and the Farewell of Print Media!| Bariatric Times
besity is a major healthcare problem in the United States (US) and other countries across the globe. Obesity rates have reached pandemic proportions and resulted in increased healthcare costs. Obesity-related health conditions, such as hypertension, sleep apnea, Type 2 diabetes, and many others also result in additional healthcare expenditures. It is estimated that in the US alone, almost $900 billion, or a total of 16 to 18 percent of healthcare expenditures, will be attributed to obesity an...| Bariatric Times
How Do Postoperative Bariatric Patients Stay on Task with Nutrition Goals and Physical Activity to Prevent Weight Regain?| Bariatric Times
Interviews with Andrew Wheeler, MD, and Thomas Shin, MD, PhD| Bariatric Times
Google Trends in Bariatric Surgery: A Disconnect Between Public Interest and Surgery Performed| Bariatric Times
Are We Missing Another Opportunity?| Bariatric Times
