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I was in a tutorial room in a fancy Oxford college with fancy Oxford stairs and imposing gardens and porters who hesitated to let you in through the gates. In this tutorial room, I was to give a presentation of my research to around 15 other graduate students and a professor who usually completely ignored my class contributions.
It might not surprise you to learn that graduate students at Oxford were rather competitive about their intelligence, and that as a general rule they did not relish being perceived as stupid. I, on the other hand, was Australian and so, to an almost liberating degree, this meant that in the UK my imbecility was presumed just as soon as my accent was noted.
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You ve got the perfect storm . of volume, pandemic and the weather
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) Shipment centers in Central Oregon are noticing large backups in deliveries of packages and letters.
Peter Pierce, the owner of Postal Connections in east Bend, said the inconsistency of package arrival has gotten overwhelming. It s been a record volume that we ve never seen before, Pierce said Friday.
Pierce pointed to the state s and nation s winter storms as a key reason for delays. With the weather we ve had, locally and nationally, it s slowed everything down,” Pierce said.
He also notes that there are a number of different factors at work.