March is almost over, but that doesn't mean you can't celebrate Women's History Month and International Women's Day with your children. Chances are your young ones are probably participating in some lessons at school in honor of history's most inspiring female leaders, but you may want to consider expanding their education to include some at-home activities that involve the whole family. So grab a pen, dad – here are some tips to get you started.
If you're looking to mingle arts and crafts with a women's history lesson, a collage can be a fun way to talk about important female leaders without making it seem like a formal learning experience. To start, ask your children to name some important women in history and see who they come up with. Based on their answers, you can provide them with some more information about the women they know along with educating them about other historic figures – all while cutting and pasting pictures in a beautiful design.
Women's History Month and International Women's Day aren't just about honoring historic figures and celebrities – they're about showing how amazing all women are, especially those in one's private life. Take turns between yourself, your wife and your children speaking about a particular woman in each of your lives that made a difference. Answers can range from mom or grandma to a favorite teacher in school.
While discussing and reading about the struggles and triumphs of historic women is great, the message will hit home even more if your children can visualize the stories. Consider taking some time to sit down with a family-friendly film chronicling the experiences women had in the past. Some great selections include Mona Lisa Smile, Amelia, Little Women, A League of Their Own, The Miracle Worker or The Rosa Parks Story.


If you've landed on this page, chances are that you're interested in the idea of distance learning and how it relates to becoming an LPN. You might be wondering about online LPN programs, whether or not it's possible to take these types of classes online, and other things related to the field of practical nursing. You may have had thoughts running through your head like "Can I take LPN programs online?" or "What's the difference between online and in-person LPN classes?" If you've thought about things like that, it's totally normal; these are important things to think about. With that said, this page may help you to get a better idea of some of the possible answers to those questions and also cover some general information about the profession, schooling, and more. This page also breaks down and debunks some popular myths related to online education and schooling too. Alright, let's get started on this topic—keep reading to learn more!
LPN Programs Online: Can a Person Really Take Online Classes?
This may be one of the most (if not the most) common question related to online LPN programs and schooling. Here are the facts, as outlined by Go LPN Online: you can't take 100% of your classes online no matter what, no matter where you live, but you may be able be able to take some LPN classes online, combined with in person classes too, which may reduce your seat time in a physical class.
While the internet is an amazing thing, unfortunately it doesn't translate all that well to all subjects, and medical education is one of those subjects. In order to learn the physical skills that you'll need to know to be an LPN, you'll need to attend at least some in-person classes. How many will depend upon where you live and the specific rules regarding LPN schooling and licensing in your state, as well as the school you actually attend. There are some states that may allow a person to take some of their schooling online (such as the lecture section of some classes), while other states may not allow people to take ANY of their schooling online. No matter what, LPN schooling cannot be completed 100% online, and in-person classes will ALWAYS be required to some extent. This may seem like a bummer to you, but plain and simple, there just isn't a way to teach the skills required to become an LPN via the internet. Yes, information can be conveyed, but that doesn't mean that practical nursing skills can be taught over the internet, because they can't; learning those types of skills requires an instructor to teach them in person, and help guide students, which can't be done online.
If you live in a state that happens to allow online LPN education, then you may be wondering about the difference between online education and regular education. What are the pros and cons? Well, let's take a look at that.
Obviously classes vary among different schools, but one of the main benefits of online education is the fact that the time and place where you do your learning is more flexible. For people with busy or non-traditional schedules, this may be quite helpful. For people who have more traditional schedules, they may be able to accommodate a traditional classroom schedule and may not benefit as much from online LPN schooling.
People who are also independent learners may benefit more from online LPN programs compared to people who learn better in an in-person environment where they can interact directly with the teacher. Another difference between online and in person classes is typically the pace at which the classes move. For example, in a traditional classroom environment, class can be slowed down if a lot of people have questions and the instructor can take extra time to explain things, but this doesn't typically happen in an online class.
Is Taking LPN Classes Online Easier Than Taking Them In Person?
NO! Online classes are NOT easier than in-person classes—in fact, some people may find them to actually be harder. Online LPN programs may generally be geared toward people who are good independent learners, as mentioned in the previous section. If you're not someone who learns well independently, then online classes might actually be harder than traditional classes, so that's something to keep in mind if you're considering taking them.
If you're already an LPN and are considering the move to becoming an RN, then you might be interested in the idea of an online LPN to RN program. There is another page on this site that covers this the topic of LPN to RN online programs more in depth, but let's summarize a few things here.
First of all, just like LPN classes or programs online, RN programs can't be completed entirely online, no matter where you live, so be prepared to take some classes in person. Also, some states may not allow people to take online RN classes, so that another thing to consider depending upon where you live. That said, if an online LPN to RN program is available, it might be worth considering if you have a non-traditional schedule and you think you're a good candidate for online learning.
When looking for legitimate schools, it's important that you take your time and don't enroll in some type of fly-by-night online program. Make sure that any school you enroll in is properly accredited by a reputable accrediting agency or organization; you don't want to enroll in a school that has made up their own accreditation. It's also a good idea to make sure that any LPN program you're thinking of enrolling in is approved by whichever organization in your state is in charge of LPN licensing (often times the Department of Health).
Don't ever be pressured by any school to enroll, and take the time to make a good decision for yourself. There may be community colleges and other schools in your area that offer different LPN programs and you can visit the home page of this site and find the page dedicated to your state—you'll see a list of schools at the end of each state page. This list might not be comprehensive, but it may give you a good place to start looking for schools. Again, take your time, and don't be pressured by anyone. Find a school that's right for you and make sure they have a proper accreditation and are recognized by the state where you live. Do your homework,so-to-speak, before choosing a school so that you know you've made the right decision.


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Driving under revocation, suspension, cancellation, or denial are very common, yet serious violations in Colorado. They need to be handled carefully and without delay to avoid serious trouble, including the possibility of mandatory jail sentences.
Revocations and suspensions occur when the DMV has invalidated a person's license for a specific period of time, such as a points suspension (accumulation of too many moving violations) or an express consent revocation (driving with a blood alcohol at or over .08 or a refusal to comply with a law enforcement test).
Denials and cancellations are indefinite suspensions that can be lifted upon the satisfaction of a certain condition. These are very common. For example, if you miss a court date or fail to pay a court fine timely, the court will notify DMV, who will then place a hold on your license until the court issue is resolved. A driver's license can be cancelled or denied also for failure to pay child support, failure to pay a civil judgment, or failure to maintain an SR-22 insurance policy. With all cancellations and denials, however, the driver can get reinstated once he resolves the issue that triggered the cancellation or denial.
A common issue that can arise with all of these DMV actions is that the driver may not be notified of his driving restriction. This is especially true with cancellations and denials. DMV sends notifications of these actions via mail, but if a person moves without updating their address with DMV, they won't be notified in any other way. Consequently, a driver may not realize they are revoked until they are pulled over and arrested by the police.
Another common issue is that a person may be eligible to get their license reinstated sooner than their record reflects. Even if a driver's license is restricted, early reinstatement rules may allow a person to get their license back before their revocation or suspension is scheduled to end.
The DMV can be a bureaucratic nightmare to deal with. It can be difficult to contact someone in their offices to get these issues resolved because of the enormous volume they deal with every day.
Driving under revocation, suspension, cancellation, or denial are very serious offenses in Colorado. Many of these violations can trigger MANDATORY jail time, depending on the type of driving restriction in place. Even if jail time can be avoided, a conviction for these offenses is very likely to result in an extension of the restriction already in place. If you have been charged with driving under suspension or revocation in Denver or anywhere in Colorado, contact our office immediately to speak with a skilled Denver criminal lawyer who will fight to protect your good name and aggressively defend you rights in court.


For the Preciflow, Multiflow, Hiflow and Maxiflow peristaltic pumps the maximal diameter is 6 mm.
Which tube for which application ?
The PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) tubing is ideal for normal laboratory operation.
Do you need also at the edge of pressure and temperature range "absolutely gas-tight" hose, you should use PFA (Perflouralkoxy) or FEP (fluorinated ethylene propylene). PFA has only at temperatures above +205 ° C benefits, but is more expensive than the FEP tubing.
Transparent PFA tubing with black longitudinal conductive stripes on the outer surface. The tubing is absolutely round and can be connected to all common fittings.
Corrugated tubing with circular corrugations around the longitudinal axis and flanged end pieces made of PFA, with two preassembled screw caps with GL thread made of PBTP (polybutylene terephthalate) and washers made of silicone for direct connection to components and devices with GL screw neck. The connection is absolutely tight and suitable for vacuum.
Small bending radius allow connections in a tight space. More lengths on demand.
Better resistance to cleaning agents used in the pharmaceutical or food industry.
Better Bioester resistance (FAME) obtained from colza oil and used in biodiesel, together with methanol and ethanol.
Its improved strength also considerably increases the safety factor in applications using pipes and joints with hot steam or aggressive chemicals and solvents.
Low extraction rate of metals and organic products, it is therefore suitable for food applications in accordance with FDA regulation 21 CFR § 177.2600.
It can be used in food and beverage applications as it complies with FDA 21 CFR § 177.1520 and European Standard CE 10/2011.
LEZ-Periflex has excellent resistance to aqueous media, acids, bases, alcohols, glycols, and many organic solvents.
It is specially designed for use in peristaltic pumps. It is translucent and has excellent endurance.
For more technical informations about the material (pressure, permeability,...) you can visit the page PTFE, FEP, PFA-Tubing Pressure Resistance.


USA BMX has awarded Lemoore BMX Raceway with the last stop of the 2018 USA BMX National Series. The Fall Nationals will be hosted at Lemoore BMX Raceway on the weekend of October 19-21. "Our selection of Lemoore BMX Raceway is a testament to the BMX program Derek and Michele Weiser run. In a very short period of time, they have developed a great facility and awesome track, and we are thrilled to host the Fall Nationals at Lemoore BMX Raceway," stated John David, USA BMX COO.


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– Henry doesn't have an official website as of June 2009.
– Henry defines himself as a very outgoing person who likes to go out at night and with a hidden talent for languages. He looks up to and is inspired by his best friends and his brothers who are the reason why he stays down to earth.
– While filming Hellraiser: Hellworld, Henry had to be attached to a harness to fake a hook going through his chest. The crew forgot to untie him as they all left for luch.
– Henry's favourite colour is blue, in all shades.
– Henry's best childhood memory are the play fights with the whole family.
– Henry was predicted as the kind of actor one would like to watch grow by Interview magazine on April 2008.
– Henry loves home made strawberry and cucumber milkshake, nachos, pizza and Fries. His favourite dish is spicy sausage ragu and his drink of choice is a dirty Martini.
– Access Hollywood selected Henry as a Rising Star in April 2008.
– Henry loves to travel and so far the favourite place he's been at is Nepal. He describes it as "mind blowing" in a 2008 interview for the US Weekly. He'd love to visit Brazil.
– Henry was the first choice to play Edward Cullen in the vampire film, Twilight. However, by the time production was to begin, he was 25 years old, and no longer looked the part of a 17-year old. He was consequently offered the part of Carlisle Cullen but turned it down due to his commitment with The Tudors.
– Henry owns a brown leather jacket. He states that he could not live without it.
– Henry is fluent in English and French and he can maintain a conversation in Italian and German. And what he considers quite important, he can order a beer in Czech.
– Henry Cavill was chosen as the face and spokespersonn of Dunhill Fragrances (Dunhill London and Dunhill Black). He shares this honor with Jude Law who previously launched a fragrance for Dunhill.
– If Henry hadn't become an actor, he says he would have joined the forces since he grew up with a lot of patriotic pride. He had also a big inclination towards Egyptology.
– Henry's pet peeves are people who always want to be the center of attention, those who are unfriendly and those who don't put enough effort in whatever they do.
– Henry has a pet parrot and a dog.
– Henry has 4 brothers (three older and one younger) and no sisters. One of his brothers is married. His parents are still together.
– Henry's hobbies include snow boarding, reading, partying, meeting new people and going to the beach. He also likes to reply to his fans.
– The worst job Henry ever had, was working for lawyers at a law firm. He worked as their tea and photocopy boy.
– Favorites: Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, Scrubs, Gladiator, Def Leppard, Rugby, KFC or In 'n' Out Burger, Hummer or Viper.
– As of 2008, Henry resides in Jersey, Channel Islands and in London, England, both in the United Kingdom.
– Henry's last name, Cavill, is pronounced like the word 'travel'.
– Henry loves to play rugby, but no longer plays because of injuries.
– Henry attended St. Michael's Preparatory School in Jersey and Stowe boarding school in Stowe
– (Buckinghamshire), where he acted in several plays and musicals, getting to direct one of them.
– No matter where Henry is going, he never leaves his home without money, credit cards and his passport.
– Henry says his dream role is to play Alexander the Great. He declares himself fascinated by period action movies and ancient History.
– In the December 2005 edition of Empire Magazine, Henry was dubbed "the most unlucky man in Hollywood" after he lost the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins to Christian Bale, James Bond in Casino Royale to Daniel Craig, Superman/Clark Kent in Superman Returns to Brandon Routh and Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire to Robert Pattinson. In all these roles, Henry was among the final two that were being considered for the roles.
– Henry's nicknames are Henners, Hank and H.
– Henry is 6'1″ (1.85 m) tall. His hair is brown and his eyes are blue but he's got a brown bit at the top of his left eye. He has no piercings or tattoos.

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namespace RubiksCubePatternSetGenerator
{
    using Foat.Puzzles.RubiksCube;
    using Foat.Puzzles.RubiksCube.Solution;
    using RubiksCubePatternSetGenerator.Configuration;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Diagnostics;
    using System.IO;

    public class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            if (!Directory.Exists(RubiksCubePatternSetGeneratorSettings.Current.PatternSetPath))
            {
                Trace.WriteLine(string.Format("Pattern Set Path Not Found: {0}", RubiksCubePatternSetGeneratorSettings.Current.PatternSetPath));
                return;
            }

            IEnumerable<Pattern> patternCollection = GetPatternsToGenerate();

            foreach (Pattern pattern in patternCollection)
            {
                Trace.WriteLine(string.Format("Generating pattern {0}.", pattern.Name));
                PatternSet patternSet = PatternSetGenerator.Generate(pattern, RubiksCubePatternSetGeneratorSettings.Current.NumberOfPatternGeneratingThreads);
                patternSet.Save(RubiksCubePatternSetGeneratorSettings.Current.PatternSetPath);
            }
        }

        private static IEnumerable<Pattern> GetPatternsToGenerate()
        {
            Pattern[] patterns = new Pattern[] {
                new Pattern("EdgeGroup1",   42577920, RubiksCubeFactory.CreateEdgeGroup1MaskCube()),
                new Pattern("EdgeGroup2",   42577920, RubiksCubeFactory.CreateEdgeGroup2MaskCube()),
                new Pattern("EdgeGroup3",   42577920, RubiksCubeFactory.CreateEdgeGroup3MaskCube()),
                new Pattern("EdgeGroup4",   42577920, RubiksCubeFactory.CreateEdgeGroup4MaskCube()),
                new Pattern("EdgeGroup5",   42577920, RubiksCubeFactory.CreateEdgeGroup5MaskCube()),
                new Pattern("EdgeGroup6",   42577920, RubiksCubeFactory.CreateEdgeGroup6MaskCube()),
                new Pattern("EdgeGroup7",   42577920, RubiksCubeFactory.CreateEdgeGroup7MaskCube()),
                new Pattern("CornersOnly",  88179840, RubiksCubeFactory.CreateCornersOnlyCube()),
                // What follows wont generate on a computer with 8GB ram
                //new Pattern("HybridGroup1", 95800320, RubiksCubeFactory.CreateHybridGroup1MaskCube()),
                //new Pattern("HybridGroup2", 95800320, RubiksCubeFactory.CreateHybridGroup2MaskCube()),
                //new Pattern("HybridGroup3", 95800320, RubiksCubeFactory.CreateHybridGroup3MaskCube()),
                //new Pattern("HybridGroup4", 95800320, RubiksCubeFactory.CreateHybridGroup4MaskCube()),
                // What follows wont generate on a computer with 32GB ram (it might now - cant currently test this myself)
                //new Pattern("7Corners1Edge-A",   352719360, RubiksCubeFactory.Create7Corners1EdgeGroupA()),
            };

            return patterns;
        }
    }
}


Deadly Decoys™ Mallard flyers work best in conjunction with our Flyer Pole Kits. They are euqaually attractive to ducks in both field or water hunting situations. If your tired of charging batteries give these bad boys a try.
Deadly Decoys™ provides the best Snow Goose Hunting Decoys for Ducks, Blue Geese, Juvy Snow Geese, Canada Geese, White Fronted Geese (also known as Specklebelly Geese) and more. We provide poles, bags, stakes, Flyer Pole kits, decoy parts and accessories for waterfowl hunters.


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Sim Family [RG3435.AM]
RG3435.AM: Sim Family
Papers: 1856-1880
Camp Creek, Otoe County, Neb.: Pioneer family
Size: 1 reel of microfilm and 1 folder
Francis Sim (1821-1907) and Sarah Sim (1824-1880) of Middletown, Connecticut, moved to Nebraska territory in 1856 where they settled at Camp Creek, Nebraska, about eight miles south and two miles east of Nebraska City. They came west with three children, Helen, Willis, and a blind child, Phillip.
The rigors of pioneer life were hard on Sarah. During the first winter in Nebraska, two-year old Willis died and Francis was unable to do much work because of bad health. In the face of these hardships, Sarah lapsed into a deep melancholia which worried Francis for months. Before the second winter, Sarah's health improved and things began to look better for the Sims. They had six more children in the next several years, but in the first decade on the prairie, five of them died.
Francis Sim was quite active in the community. He held various positions in Otoe county government and later served in the Nebraska legislature.
In November of 1879, Sarah became ill with breast cancer. Se was nursed in her last months by her sister, Mrs. Wealthy Hathaway, of New Haven, Connecticut. Sarah died on April 11, 1880, and was survived by her husband, Francis, and her four sons, Phillip, William, John, and Charles.
Francis Sim remarried in December of 1880, and died in Nebraska City on August 13, 1907, at age 86.
This collection consists of material relating to the pioneer life of the Francis and Sarah Sim family in Otoe County, Nebraska, and is arranged in two series: 1) Correspondence, 1856-1880, and 2) Genealogy chart, 1824-1880.
Approximately half of Series 1 consists of letters written by Francis and Sarah Sim to Sarah's family in Connecticut. The other half consists of letters written in 1880 during Sarah's illness by Wealthy and Eugenie Hathaway to James Hathaway. Wealthy Hathaway was Sarah Sim's sister and Eugenie was Wealthy's daughter. Together they nursed Sarah during her illness. These letters provide an excellent description of pioneer life in Nebraska. Events of great historical significance are discussed, including the expansion of the railroads through the area and achievement of Nebraska statehood in 1867.
Series 2 contains a genealogy chart that lists the children of Daniel and Wealthy Clark (parents of Sarah Sim) and the children of Francis and Sarah Sim.
This collection was loaned for microfilming in 1976.
Series 1 – Correspondence, 1856-1880
Reel 1
Letter transcriptions [not on microfilm]
Series 2 – Genealogy Chart, 1824-1880
Genealogy chart, 1824-1880
Note: Material used for publication must be accompanied by an acknowledgement to the donor, Elizabeth N. Shor.
Camp Creek (Neb.) — History
Frontier and pioneer life — Nebraska — Otoe County
Hathaway, Eugenie
Hathaway, Wealthy
Nebraska City (Neb.) — History
Otoe County (Neb.) — History
Pioneers — Nebraska
Railroads — History
Railroads — Nebraska
Sime family
Sim, Francis, 1821-1907
Sim, Sarah, 1824-1880
Statehood (American Politics)
Women — Diseases
Women — Health and hygiene
Women pioneers
Revised 08-03-2009 TMM


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HomeOp-ed
Istanbul blast 'will hit tourism industry'
A police officer secures the area after an explosion near the Ottoman-era Sultanahmet mosque, known as the Blue mosque in Istanbul, Turkey January 12, 2016. © Kamal Aslan © Reuters
The security situation in Turkey is likely to hurt the tourism industry. It will have an impact on the credibility of Turkish policy, says Karin Leukefeld journalist who writes about the Middle East.
Karin Leukefeld says a shift in Turkey's policy towards the Syrian conflict could improve the country's security situation.
"Ghosts" created by Turkey together with some other states in the region to topple the Syrian government "are haunting their own area, their own country", she told RT, adding that "Ankara definitely has to change its policy towards Syria."
Turkey is one of the favorite tourist destinations for Europeans, particularly Germans, Leukefeld says.
According to the journalist, last year 41 million tourists visited Turkey, which gets "€2.3 billion from the tourist industry," and was planning to increase it.
However, given the political situation, it's likely that the opposite will happen, "it will collapse and go down," Leukefeld said.
"We had these attacks in the south of Turkey, we have the war in the east of Turkey against the Kurdish people, we had big explosions in Ankara back in October. So, we can see that these explosions are moving towards the West, towards Europe.
Definitely, the tourism industry will be hit by this explosion and it will have an impact on the credibility of Turkish policy," she said.
The tourism industry was indeed heavily impacted when relations between Turkey and Russia were cut due to the incident with the downing of a Russian jet by Turkey, says political commentator, Marwa Osman. That was a very heavy hit on the tourism sector of Turkey. And now such attacks - it is very terrifying and tragic, she adds.
RT: Turkish authorities say terrorists may be behind the explosion. Do you think ISIS could have staged the attack?
Marwa Osman: …Most probably…because Turkey is up to its head inside of the war in Syria. It is not a secret any more that Turkish authorities have been allowing the infiltration of foreign fighters to go into Syria and to join ISIS and become part of this terrorist group. So, this should have [had] backlashes on Turkey before, but it was mainly Turkey in control. Now no one is in control because of the strikes that have been targeting these terrorists inside of Syria. They have been targeting their oil fields, their primary sources of funding. So now they have to find a place to try to push and pressure more so they could be freer. This might be an ISIS print there…
Sultanahmet'teki patlama haberlerine yayın yasağı getirildi https://t.co/3scJOIaHi1pic.twitter.com/BoYsRytCxq
— NOKTA (@noktadergi) January 12, 2016
RT: Authorities reportedly have a media ban in place which aims to stop reporting about suicide bombings. What do you read into that?
MO: Turkey has the highest number of journalists being detained in prison without going to trial. This is also not a secret. Turkey has a "no-no" on free speech. And tell people to stop reporting about it – this would be hypocritical and very dangerous. Because people need to know, they need to be taking precautions about how and where to go especially in a huge city like Istanbul, and in huge country like Turkey. I mean, Ankara was hit, now Istanbul was hit and we haven't still seen anything from the investigations from Ankara – the government has not said who is behind it, they didn't pinpointed anyone, they didn't catch anyone. And we are talking about one hundred people dead in Ankara.
Now the numbers are rising and we have international tourists as well in these numbers. So, we are going to have to see some states standing behind their citizens and saying: "Hey, wait a second. We need to know about this. You cannot stop reporting about this. If you want European people not to hear a word about this, we need to explain for our citizens what went on and how did they lose their family members in such an explosion." So such a thing made by the Erdogan government is typical. He suffocated all journalists: they did lock up a journalist who brought evidence about ISIS having direct relations with the government of Erdogan. So, that's one. What about reporting the attacks like these? I am sure Erdogan would do his best to try and stop or limit the reporting about these events. But he will not be able to do this – here we are talking about citizens of other states being killed in such attacks.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.


There are all kinds of theories out there regarding how catching prospects should be valued in dynasty leagues. Some will argue that because reliable production at the position is so scarce, good catching prospects need to be highly valued. I would counter that "good catching prospects" often turn out to be less than stellar, so we should not assume this year's top catching prospects will be the cure to what ails us. Further complicating matters is the fact that anywhere from 10 to 30, or even more, catchers start in some dynasty leagues. I rank prospects with the assumption that 20 catchers start (the RotoWire Dynasty Invitational is a 20-team league where every team starts one catcher). If I were ranking catchers under the assumption that 30 catchers have to start, then I would rank the catching prospects a little higher. If I were ranking catchers under the assumption that only 12 or 15 catchers have to start, I might only have eight or 10 catchers ranked in my entire top 400.


Have you started your Mother's Day shopping yet? I'm sharing some great gift ideas for all the mom's in your life! For our family, Mother's Day is a time to make all the moms feel a little more loved. We try to be thoughtful with our gifts and spend time together enjoying the day. (ad) I'm giving away (1) $100 gift card to The Shops at Mission Viejo over on Instagram (It will only run for 24 hours so go now) to enjoy however you like! Use it to take mom out to lunch or pick up gifts!
With Mother's Day fast approaching, I spent some time at The Shops at Mission Viejo to find some great gift ideas. (I'm also taking over the mall's Instagram account and stories today – May 9th – to share even more ideas! Follow them to see my own Mother's Day wish list, gift ideas from the kids and husbands and what I'm picking up for the moms in my life!) When you are on the account, just click on the profile image (the small circle in the top left of the profile) to start the stories! Mother's Day shopping is my favorite. I love to look for things that the moms in my life might not pick up for themselves. We reserve the more expensive gifts for Christmas and birthdays so Mother's Day, the pressure is off and it's all about fun!
Giver her spring fashion and update!
Pick up a cute hat at Forever 21. They are inexpensive and perfect for summer!
Cute sunnies from the BP department at Nordstrom are totally on trend and most are between $12-24!
Distressed denim is still all the rage and a good black pair will never go out of style. Sometimes when I buy my mom clothes, it takes her about a year before she will actually start wearing them, so she may or may not be exchanging these. :) Or they may end up in my closet. Zara has a great selection of denim and this pair was under $40. Make her sparkle!
Skip the heirloom jewelry and update her accessories for spring at H&M. They have a great selection of statement and simple pieces and the cost doesn't even come close to breaking the bank! This necklace was $4. The ring set was also right around that price. And the cute makeup bag was $4.99. A girl can never have too many makeup bags! Bring out her beauty!
Sometimes I like to try to anticipate my gift recipient's needs and pick up some of their beauty staples for them so they never run out. If you live close by, it's easy to take a peek in their makeup bag to see what they're using, or you can enlist a husband to help you figure out the right color. When you know what brand they wear, it's easy to add-on another item as a surprise. This eyeliner, in a fun purple/brown color is something she may not have picked out for herself but a fun new product to try out. Macy's is where I always head to pick up the best makeup brands! Protect her skin!
With my own experience with skin cancer, I know how important it is to keep yourself protected. And there are so many options available now. Pick up a mineral powder sunscreen from Sephora! This can be used right over her makeup and kept in the purse for easy touch ups. This is my favorite sunscreen and I think every woman should have it! Many moms still think you have to use a cream sunscreen (and Sephora has some great options for those too) but this is a product that will probably be new to your mom's generation. Give her something sweet!
The Shops at Mission Viejo has some amazing treats available. If you haven't been to Lolli and Pops yet you HAVE to go. They have their own line of pre-packaged treats and candies plus a case of gorgeous truffles, etc. that you can choose for a gift box. They also carry speciality candies (like those delish champagne gummy bears), flavored cotton candy and imported candies from around the world. What mom doesn't want a few special chocolates? Why not make it a treat tasting and pick up chocolates from See's Candies and Godiva Chocolatiers, too! Pack it up!
Of course you can always head to Papyrus for cute gift bags and wrapping paper but I think it's fun to present gifts in a tote bag she can use again. Many of the stores carry inexpensive tote bags. Choose one that reminds you of her style. I found this awesome one for $2.99 at H&M!
Don't forget to head to The Shops at Mission Viejo and my own Instagram account today where I'm sharing even more gift ideas! Be sure to check out the stories section where I'll be sharing the majority of my Mother's Day shopping finds! I'm proud to partner with The Shops at Mission Viejo on this fun new adventure! Aside from being a great mall with tons of awesome retailers, they are also involved in the local community. I was invited to hang out with the mall's marketing team last month, and attend the Valiant Women Fashion Show and Luncheon. The event took place at The Monarch Beach Resort and The Shops at Mission Viejo were the presenting sponsor. Valiant Women is a great organization supporting women's health care and nursing education in the local community. They do a lot of work for and with Mission Hospital and each year they put on a big spring event. While the mall provided all the clothes for the fashion show, the hospital provided all the models. Doctors and nurses took a little bit of time out of their busy day to strut their stuff for a great cause. Hair was provided by Carlton Hair International and makeup was provided by M.A.C. Cosmetics, both from The Shops at Mission Viejo. It was an honor to attend and support such a great organization!
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WDIM 7: The Election Results And New Realities | What Did I Miss?
From: What Did I Miss?
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In this post-election episode of doom, we try to figure out what Trump will, and actually CAN do, as president. May the glacial pace of bureaucracy save us all!


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I'm Shocked, Shocked--Well, a Bit Surprised--That the UCEA's Standing Behind Its "Enemies List"
By Rick Hess — October 29, 2010 4 min read
As luck would have it, I'm down here in New Orleans, and the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) is holding its annual conference just a few blocks away. I'm even invited to a Saturday breakfast for an advisory board I sit on. This is all mildly ironic because, for those who read Tuesday's post on the "Enemies List" that ran in the most recent UCEA Review, I was deemed the fifth most significant enemy of public school leadership in the U.S. (For those who missed all this, check out Tuesday's RHSU post here and then UNC-Chapel Hill professor Fenwick English's article "The 10 Most Wanted Enemies of American Public Education's School Leadership.")
The significant thing about this is that English is a serious figure in the world of educational leadership. He's a former president of the UCEA and editor of the Encyclopedia of Educational Administration. The UCEA is the leading organization for the study of educational leadership; it includes about 80 university members, including U. Arizona, U. Texas, Indiana U., U. Wisconsin, NYU, U. Florida, Florida State, U. Missouri, LSU, Iowa State, U. Maryland, U. Illinois, UVA, and UNC.
To my surprise, I've not yet seen any communication from UCEA officials conceding that enemies lists are a suboptimal way to promote scholarly research and debate, especially when a university-sponsored and supposedly scholarly outlet is labeling current U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett as "enemies" of public education or school leadership. (Happily, I've had a few individual UCEA members write to say that they think the whole episode is embarrassing and that the decision to publish English's piece was unfortunate.)
Maybe I'm naïve, but I'd have thought that UCEA executive director Michelle Young (who also serves as general editor of the UCEA Review, along with Gerardo Lopez) would've been eager to say, "Gee, maybe it was a mistake to run that 'enemies list' and let's make damn sure we don't do that again." Is Fenwick's "enemies list" really that unremarkable to these guys? So far, though, silence. And, by the way, why haven't AERA President Kris Gutierrez or my good friend, AACTE President Sharon Robinson, taken this opportunity to blast this kind of behavior and distance their organizations from it? After all, Gutierrez went out of her way to insert AERA in the debate over Arizona's immigration statute earlier this year--shouldn't she be eager to denounce "enemies lists" and argue that this kind of ad hominem attack has no place in scholarly discourse?
For bloggers, journos, or interested parties who wonder what the UCEA's deal is, some other UCEA Review staff worth asking for their take include managing editor Jennifer Cook of the University of Texas, features co-editor Andrea Rorrer of the University of Utah, and features co-editor Samantha Parades Scribner of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
What to ask? Me, I'm partial to the simple question: "Do you approve of running 'enemies lists' in scholarly publications with which you're associated? If not, will you say so for the record and acknowledge that printing this piece reflected a serious lapse of judgment?"
The funniest thing about the whole deal is that readers have pointed out that English's article is riddled with mistakes. (We won't even bother with all the slander and guilt-by-association; with English's charge that Arne Duncan is doing the bidding of "Republican, right-wing think tank pundits" or that E.D. Hirsch's support for "'core curriculum' [is] a futile effort to preserve White privilege in a burgeoning multiracial and multicultural society.")
English misspells the last name of former Second Lady Lynne Cheney, turns the renowned E.D. Hirsch into "Ed" Hirsch, and attacks the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) at length for taking funds from the Bradley Foundation--which is peculiar given that the education program at PPI has apparently never received money from the Bradley Foundation. He asserts that PPI has also been funded by the Heritage Foundation--which is bizarre on many levels, not the least of which is that Heritage isn't in the grant-making business. English reports that "Duncan has launched a $4 billion executive agenda called Race to the Top with Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds," which is just hilariously wrong (hello, UCEA Review editors). English says that the Broad Superintendents Academy has never indicated "who their 'experts' are" when the Academy's website includes a list of faculty and instructors. Anyway, one can go on and on...
A simple suggestion for young academics aspiring to publish in the field of ed leadership: if you're going to get into ad hominem attack--which is apparently an accepted line of scholarship--at least try to do it competently, and accurately.


Two education related pieces of media came my way recently, and they left a very deep impression on me. First, I heard about Time Magazine's new cover. I hope to review it and respond to it more fully in a later post, but for now I'd just like to talk about my first reaction. I couldn't believe that the 'Bad teachers are what's wrong with education' ideology was still so powerful. It's starting to become very clear that teacher-blaming is having negative consequences on our education system, but this magazine cover shows that there's still a market for an extremely anti-teacher line of thinking. I was surprised and disappointed by that.
What brings these two pieces together for me is the recent viral video of a teacher fighting with a student here in Baltimore. I won't link to it because it shows violence against a student, and I don't want to promote the video by increasing its page-views. I taught for four years at the school where the video was shot, and I knew the teacher who was involved through a teacher- leadership program we were in several years ago (she's actually a department head, not a teacher). One thing that's been left out of discussions of the fight is that the teacher involved had earned multiple positions of leadership in our district based on the quality and effectiveness of her instruction. When we interacted several years ago, I was consistently impressed by her commitment to her kids, her deep content knowledge and her investment in her work.
I'm not mentioning this to excuse her. In fact, this incident leaves me deeply saddened and sick. Instead, I'm saying that at a surface level, a video of a teacher physically attacking a student seems to support the Time Magazine narrative of bad teachers threatening our students' futures. However, the fight video is also a story that exemplifies the questions raised by the This American Life episode—namely, how can teachers deal with student misbehavior so that events like this never happen again?
I'm frequently worried that student discipline is the elephant in the room in education policy. Discussing what to do with violent or troubled students has fallen by the wayside in favor of trendier topics, like common core and testing (interestingly, the student was taking a standardized test when the video begins). But if we want to improve education in this country, we need to realize that standards and tests alone won't solve our problems. Classroom teachers and school administrators already know this. But from a policy level, we need district, state and national leaders to take heed and work on ways to better support classroom management. This could mean additional funding for mental health supports, social workers, and behavior coaching models.
A student's education is made up of 1000 human interactions each day - each one is an opportunity for either learning or conflict. We need to spend more time focusing on the human element of education: classroom management and culture. We need more training, conversation, resources, and support in this area. I'm not sure this country will reach its educational goals unless we do.


Still not a single photo of the gunman or the woman [ Hispanic with bleach blonde hair ] or their rap sheets ... hmmm.... Are they both illegal aliens ???
Un Freaking believable ... The Administration(s) that allow Sanctuary cities and now States (Sacto and Salt lake city) complains that what???? Now we need to make aliased Illegal alien deported drug dealers citizens? what?


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Q: An informal debate on the cardinality of infinite sets A friend and I have been engaged in a lively discussion on prime numbers. I'll cut to the chase right away. They ask:

If you were to write out all of the even numbers and then all of the pairs of primes, you believe they would correspond one-to-one?

Clearly, they are referring to a bijection, which is from my understanding the definition for equal cardinality. Furthermore, I believe that the evens and pairs of primes have the same cardinality. Mind you, in this case we are referring to a set of two primes $\{p, q\}$ rather than an ordered pair, or twin primes, for that matter.
Set-theoretically, my reasoning is as follows:

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*1: Both the evens and primes are countably infinite.

*2: Any set made from pairing elements of a countably infinite set is also countably infinite.

*3: There is only one cardinality which is countably infinite.

*4: Therefore the evens and primes pairs have the same cardinality.

Is my reasoning valid? If not, I'd be grateful for corrections. If so, I'd be grateful for any elaboration which may aid in a convincing argument to end the discussion.
I find my reason quite sound, but I shall give them the benefit of the doubt as they have a higher education on mathematics. Hence, perhaps they are referring to something more abstract, of which you may enlighten me.

Edit: I should also add some of their points too, for context:

"Are you suggesting that if we have 5 objects, and consider how many ways we can combine them into two objects that we will have five such combinations?"

"The number of combinations is not equal to the number of objects."

"Even in dealing with the infinities, the combinations of paired primes are infinitely greater than theircounterparts in the infinite set of even numbers"

Edit 2: The previous title was regarding a 'formal' debate. I realize now I was using 'formally' informally! In fact, the opposite may be more appropriate. An intuitive argument in mostly plain language or with aid of some visualization is optimal, as those are the kind they appreciate the most.

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1: Both the evens and primes are countably infinite.

Yes, this is well-known. A simple argument for this fact can come from the fact they're both infinite subsets of $\Bbb Z$, but the cardinality of $\Bbb Z$ is the smallest infinite one, and thus they must share that cardinality.

2: Any set made from pairing elements of a countably infinite set is also countably infinite.

Ultimately, what this amounts to, more precisely, is this: suppose we have a countable set $\newcommand{\set}[1]{\left\{ #1 \right\}}
\newcommand{\abs}[1]{\left| #1 \right|}
\newcommand{\AA}{\mathcal{A}} \mathcal{A} := \set{a_i}^\infty_{i=1}$. Define the collection of its two-member subsets $\mathcal{A}_2 := \{ \{a_i,a_j\} \mid a_i,a_j \in \mathcal{A} \}$.
We ask: is it true that $\abs{\AA_2} = \aleph_0 = \abs{\AA}$?
We can use an argument much in the vein of the countability of $\Bbb Q$ to establish a bijection. Make a table like below:

Here, each dot represents the set $\set{a_{\text{row #}}, a_{\text{col#}}}$. Notice how each set is represented only once.
Draw a line according to this scheme:

Let $f : \AA \to \AA_2$ have $$f(a_i) = i\text{th set touched by this scheme}$$ Clearly, this is a bijection, giving countability.
Of course, replacing $a_i$ with the $i$th prime, and mapping the $i$th even integer instead according to this pattern yields the desired result.

3: There is only one cardinality which is countably infinite.

Yes. $\aleph_0$, the infinity of countable infinity, is the smallest in our hierarchy. Hence there is no "smaller-yet-countable" infinity.

4: Therefore the evens and primes pairs have the same cardinality.

Yes. By the previous, both are countably infinite, and hence have cardinality $\aleph_0$.

"Are you suggesting that if we have 5 objects, and consider how many ways we can combine them into two objects that we will have five such combinations?"

"The number of combinations is not equal to the number of objects."

I assume this is framed in the vein of something like this...
Suppose I have $n$ kinds of paint in equal amounts. I consider a combination of these paints to be pouring two kinds (or more), in their entirety, into a larger container, and thoroughly mixing the result. How many distinct colors can I make (on the assumption each combination is a unique color)?
Well in that case we know that order does not matter, so we have

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*$\binom n 1$ kinds of paints without mixing

*$\binom n 2$ kinds of paints that result from mixing two

*$\binom n 3$ kinds of paints that result from mixing three

and so on. It is well known, in fact, that
$$\sum_{i=0}^n \binom n i = 2^n$$
Of course, as one would expect, $n < 2^n$.
So no, taking all possible combinations will not result in as many combinations as there are original objects. Similarly, or even more relevantly, even the number of possible pairs will not necessarily be the same, as
$$\binom n 2 = \frac{n(n-1)}{2} > n$$
However, what is key is that this all is stuck in the realm of finite arithmetic.
Infinity simply behaves weirdly like that.

"Even in dealing with the infinities, the combinations of paired primes are infinitely greater than theircounterparts in the infinite set of even numbers"

One  issue with all of this is how we define "greater." Greater in what sense?
There are three common ways to define "greater" or how to "order" sets in terms of their "size" (or I guess more concisely -- how to define the "size" of a set).

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*Set Inclusion: Is $A \subseteq B$? Then we say $B$ is bigger than $A$.

*Bijections & Cardinalities: What you're familiar with. $A$ and $B$ are equally "big" in this sense if and only if there is a bijection between them.

*(Lebesgue) Measure: Essentially how much volume or area these sets take up, usually limited to subsets of $\Bbb R^n$ or $\Bbb C^n$ for appropriate $n$.
Each have their uses and advantages, and some will satisfy one case but not the others, somewhat. (Trivially, if $A \subseteq B$, then $|A| \le |B|$ and $A$ will have measure at most equal to $B$, so usually the latter two end up being more useful concerns.) For instance:

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*$(0,1)$ and $[0,10]$ have equal cardinalities, but different Lebesgue measures ($1$ versus $10$).

*$\Bbb Q$ is countable and the Cantor set is uncountable, but they have equal measure of zero.

Another issue is the framing your friend may be using. They may have the intuition to grasp that "if there is an injection $A \to B$, then $|A| \le |B|$" -- but perhaps they're not used to seeing some weird injections like that I used previously (which was a bijection). Part of this is simply exposure.
I'm inclined to agree with them on an intuitive sense: it "feels" like there are far more pairs of primes, than even integers, even when we accept there are equally many primes and even integers to start with. In fact, even we took all possible finite groupings of primes, it would have be countable. We would need sequences or countable sets of prime numbers to begin broaching on uncountable infinity -- I suppose you could look it the gap between countable and uncountable being so big as to need to describe it with infinitely-many, infinitely-big sets of numbers to even touch it. (A countable union of countable sets is still countable, even - so this broaching is not as clear as it sounds!)
In the end, we need to codify this notion of size somehow. Here, cardinality is the best method (they're measure-zero sets and neither are contained in each other), and it's nice in that it works as one would hope for finite sets. It's just that once you hit infinite examples, you have to be willing to open your mind a little bit.
Experience certainly helps with that. (For instance without seeing the usual proof of the countability of $\Bbb Q$, I would not have gone for the above bijection.)
In summary though (as I feel I'm rambling but have lost track of my main point):
It all comes down to how you define the "size" of a set. Sure, it might "feel" bigger: but that's just a feeling. We want cold, hard, unambiguous mathematics to describe that. Cardinality is one way to do so, and the most relevant here. And sadly, infinity just sometimes leads to counterintuitive results like these.

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The latest episode of Bigg Boss 16 witnessed Tina Datta making some shocking revelations from the outside world to her latest good friend Priyanka Chahar Choudhary.
Tina and Priyanka who are now not in talking terms with Shalin Bhanot, were seen talking about him towards the end of the episode. Tina told Priyanka, "Do you know the funny part, why he (Shalin) tries to silence me? When he got to know that I am a part of the show and got to know we have a common friend. Shalin called one of my mutual friends before coming here and asked him to set a meeting with me. Shalin said he wants to be a team. He can never back out, there are proofs. He also met Gautam outside. How do you think they became so thick and were calling each other brothers from day 1. He has also taken Sajid Sir's name. He said we will play as a team. I refused to meet him because I wanted to be here with a clean slate. He was desperate to meet me. I didn't know anyone apart from Sreejita. He was planning from outside, so how am I the one using him, moron?"
During their conversation, Tina looked at the camera and asked the team not to air their conversation.
Tina added, "He wanted to have agency too. I have a message history about trying to fix a meeting with him. I have an open challenge to him if he ever disagrees."
Tina also revealed that Shalin also asked for something very cheap from her and she wouldn't be able to say it on camera. "Priyanka you will be disgusted to know. He asked for something very cheap. It is materialistic but I can only say it outside. I didn't want to highlight it and told him that I don't appreciate such talks."
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My first real sighting of Madame Mallory was perhaps a week or two after we had moved in. I was strolling through the headstones of the neighboring cemetery, furtively smoking a cigarette, when by chance I glanced over at Le Saule Pleureur. I instantly spotted Madame Mallory on her knees, bent over her rock garden, gloves and spade in hand, humming to herself. The damp stones to her left were warming up under the surprisingly strong morning sun, and trails of steam rose from the rocks, disappearing in the air.
Behind the chef stood the glorious granite slabs of the Alps, bottle green pine forests broken by patches of pasture and hardy cows grazing. Madame Mallory pulled her weeds vigorously, as if it were some satisfying form of therapy, and I could hear, even from where I stood, the violent sound of tearing roots. But I also saw, in the softness of her round face, the woman was calm and at peace tending to her corner of earth.
Right then the stable door across the road slammed open with a mighty bang. Papa and a roofer with a ladder suddenly emerged from the door's shadows and they hobbled over to the front of the house. The roofer secured the ladder against the guttering while Papa roared, waddled back and forth across the courtyard in his armpit-stained kurta, and by sheer heckling backseat-drove the poor roofer up the ladder.
"No, no," he yelled. "The gutter over there. Over there. Are you deaf? Yaaar. That one."
The tranquility of the Jura was shattered. Madame Mallory wrenched her head sideways, her eyes rooted on Papa. She was squinting under the straw garden hat, her liver-colored lips pressed tightly together. I could see she was both horrified and strangely mesmerized by Papa's grotesque size and vulgarity. But the moment passed. Mallory lowered her eyes and pulled off her canvas gloves. Her quiet gardening moment was ruined, and, clutching her basket, she wearily climbed back up the stone steps to the inn.
Her back was to the street when she hesitated after unlocking the front door, just as a particularly virulent burst of Papa's roars rolled across the forecourt. From where I was standing, off to the side, I saw the look on her face as she paused before her door—the lips pursed in utter disgust, the face a mask of icy disdain. It was a look that I would see many times again as I made my way through France in the coming years—a uniquely Gallic look of nuclear contempt for one's inferiors—but I will never forget the first time I saw it.
Then, bang, the slam of the door.
The family discovered the local pain chemin de fer—rough and gnarled and tasty—and this "railroad" bread immediately became our new sauce-mopping favorite. Papa and Auntie were constantly asking me to pick up "just a few more" loaves at the boulangerie, and on one such foray, cutting back from the town center with the crusty bread wrapped in paper under my arm, through the back alleys where the wealthy watch merchants once kept their horses, I casually glanced over a stone-and-stucco wall.
It was, I quickly realized, the back view of Le Saule Pleureur. The small hotel's garden was quite long and deep, almost a field, and it gently sloped down a hill to where I stood. The verdant property was filled with mature pear and apple trees, and against the far wall there stood a fruit-drying shed made of rough Lumière granite.
The boughs of the trees were bent with heavy brown Bosc pears, ready for the picking, and autumn bees were buzzing drunkenly around the sugar-filled fruit. But there were also tidy rows of boxed herbs under glass next to bow-shaped beds of wildflowers and patches for cabbages and rhubarb and carrots, all neatly embroidered by a flagstone path that ambled through the garden's fertile plots.
Down at the bottom of the garden, a compost heap stood in the moist corner to the left, while an iron-and-copper tap in the shape of a nymph gurgled water into a heavy stone trough off to the right, next to a bench and yet another ancient and majestic willow tree.
I stopped in my tracks. Madame Mallory was again in her garden, this time up at the top of her field, just before it began to roll downhill. She sat upright at a long wooden table, next to who I assumed was one of her sous chefs, for both women wore peacoats over kitchen whites.
I could not, not at first, see their faces because both had their heads down as they worked briskly and professionally at the table filled with bowls and platters and utensils. But I could see there was something in Madame Mallory's hand, which she promptly dropped into a bowl. Then, without pause, she reached down with her other hand into the rough wooden crate sitting on the flagstone between the two of them. From the crate, Mallory pulled what to me looked like a bizarre form of spiky hand grenade. I later discovered it was an artichoke.
I watched the famous chef expertly trim the vegetable's leaves with a pair of scissors, the smart snips of her flashing tool ensuring each ragged leaf of the artichoke was symmetrically aligned and aesthetically pleasing to the eye, like she was tidying up after nature. She then picked up one of the lemons that had been cut in half, and doused each of the artichoke wounds—wherever she had snipped a leaf—with a generous squirt of lemon juice. Artichokes contain an acid, cynarin, and this neat trick, I later learned, prevented the sap-oozing leaves from discoloring the vegetable around its wound.
Next, Madame Mallory used a heavy and sharp knife to cleanly take off the top of the artichoke with a firm downward crunch of the blade. For a few seconds her head was down again, as she plucked some pink, immature leaves from the plant's center. Picking up a new utensil, she cut at the inner artichoke and elegantly scooped out the thicket of thistle fuzz called the choke. You could see the satisfaction in her face when she finally and surgically removed the soft prize of the artichoke's heart and set it aside in a bowl of marinade, already heaped with succulent and mushy cups.
It was a revelation. Never before had I seen a chef take such meticulous artistic care, particularly not with something as ugly as this vegetable.
St. Augustine's bells chimed noon. The crate was almost empty, but the young sous chef at Chef Mallory's side was trailing the older woman, not quite as quick as her maîtresse. Madame Mallory, studying her sous chef, abruptly held out the small knife she herself had been using and said, not unkindly, "Margaret, use the grapefruit knife. It's a trick Maman taught me. The bent blade makes it much easier to remove the choke."
There was something in Madame Mallory's gravelly voice—not quite maternal, no, but still strongly suggestive of a kind of culinary noblesse oblige and duty to pass the techniques of the kitchen on to the next generation—and it was that inflection that instantly made me sit up.
As it did the young chef, who lifted her head, to gratefully take Madame Mallory's grapefruit knife. "Merci, madame," she said, in a voice that, as it wafted down to me with the wind, seemed redolent of fresh red berries and cream.
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Richard C. Morais was a senior editor at Forbes and the magazine's longest-serving foreign correspondent. An American raised in Switzerland, Morais has lived most of his life overseas, returning to the United States in 2003. He was stationed in London for seventeen years, where he was Forbes's European bureau chief. He now lives in Philadelphia with his wife and daughter. The Hundred-Foot Journey is his first novel.
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Linda Thomas-Greenfield selection, a great decision by Biden – Saraki
A former Senate President of Nigeria, Bukola Saraki has appreciated Joe Biden's decision in selecting Linda Thomas-Greenfield for U.N. ambassador.
Bukola Saraki says "Her experience on the continent and her strong diplomatic ties across the world will give Ambassador Greenfield an edge — as the U.S. works to reassert its global leadership."
Linda Thomas-Greenfield is an American diplomat who served as the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the United States Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs from 2013 to 2017.
Thomas-Greenfield has worked in both Democratic and Republican administrations during her 35-year State Department career. An Africa specialist, she served as U.S. ambassador to Liberia, and held posts in Kenya, The Gambia and Nigeria. Under President Barack Obama, she served as the assistant secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs (2013-2017), developing and managing Washington's policy toward sub-Saharan Africa. She has also worked in Geneva at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
Earlier, she tweeted her mother taught her to lead with kindness and compassion and she would bring that ethos to her mission at the United Nations if she is confirmed.
She was also was a senior manager at the State Department, where she served as director general of the Foreign Service and director of Human Resources from 2012 to 2013, handling matters related to the State Department's 70,000 employees and currently a senior counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group in Washington, DC.
Dr. Bukola Saraki added that, "With the friendships that she has developed across the continent, I am particularly pleased that Africa has a good friend in Ambassador Greenfield."
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A library on wheels to encourage the culture of reading in the city
Ali Al-Moussawi's passion for books goes beyond reading. He has developed the first city library on wheels in Baghdad. His main goal is to revive a love for books and to encourage the culture of reading in the city.
Baghdad, once the literary and cultural capital of the Muslim world, is now better known for bombs than poems: "With the library, I just want to face the killing by reading and selling books. Culture is all what we have". People in cities, that have been ravaged by wars or terrorism, use their creativity in a more inclusive way. Their ideas want better cities in a way that aims the wellbeing of everybody.
"We are not just a normal bookstore, we are different. We established the first reading and writing club in Iraq. It all started as an online bookstore on social media called Iraqi bookish. You can buy the book and we deliver it to your home. It is that simple. The page started to grow and it became popular", says Ali Al-Mosawy. Further on Ali wanted all Iraqis to know how accessible culture and reading in the city could be and therefore he created the first library on wheels. "Now, all the people know Iraqi bookish".
Reading club Iraqi Bookish
"I adore reading," said Ali al-Moussawi. "I have long wanted to meet people like me, so I was thinking of creating something where all readers could gather at any time, regardless of where they are."
Playing music at the reading club Iraqi Bookish in Baghdad
If somebody goes to the bookstore or library on wheels and wants to read for free instead of buying, it is entirely up to the people. He even offers a free reading area at the bookstore located in the Oasis mall near Baghdad University College so that it is easy for the students to hang out.
"Do you have used books but you don't need them? You can donate them in Iraq bookish bookstore and help others to learn and read". Ali's creative solution is to bring the culture of reading everywhere. "We designed the library on wheels so that it expand the reach of traditional libraries by transporting books to potential readers, providing library services to people in otherwise-underserved locations (such as remote areas)".
His last effort is the creation of a reading and writing club for kids that has been successfully embraced by many people so far. "We haven't forgotten the kids. We have also started a reading club for kids so that we encourage a culture of reading. The idea is to build a better community, as it says "early start grow smart"".
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iPhone 5 released –
Friday 21st September 2012
The iPhone 5 will ship to eager Apple fans on Friday, September 21, according to sources close to Apple.
A Chinese source leaked the release date to a French website called App4Phone yesterday, providing the specific date.
The source also confirmed the new controversial port on the base of the phone, which will make older accessories obsolete unless a separate adapter is purchased.
We all know the phone as the 'iPhone 5', unless Apple decides on another moniker like it did with the iPad 3, which it officially called 'the new iPad'.
Other revelations include the headphone socket moving from the top-left of the phone to the bottom-left of the phone, and that the screen will be 3.75 inches.
This is an increase on the 3.5" of previous models, but perhaps smaller than some fans might like, after being introduced to the 4.8" screens of models like the Samsung Galaxy III or the HTC One X.
The source was an unnamed Chinese accessory manufacturer, who claimed to have been given the date directly from Apple.
So far, leaks from within Apple have suggested an October launch.
Pegatron – one of Apple's normal suppliers – has begun production of the new phone already, according to a report in DigiTimes.
The manufacturer will also be working on a smaller iPad later in the year.
The new iPhone will have an even thinner screen thanks to advances in LCD manufacturing, according to reports.


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League leaders are visitors for new manager's first game
November 10, 2021 | By Bob Quinn
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Hastings United vs Cray Valley PM – Isthmian League
On Saturday 13th November, United welcome early league leaders Cray Valley PM to the Pilot Field. And we do so with a new manager in place after Gary Elphick was announced as Chris Agutter's replacement on Wednesday evening. A strong voice on the pitch and in the changing room, Gary is a fans favourite. So, after being down in the dumps following Chris' departure this welcome news has had a rebound effect on the supporters mood with social media ablaze with well-wishers.
DONE DEAL | Gary Elphick is the new Men's First Team Manager
United's six-game form – WWLLWL
United's recent form is a mixed bag of three wins and three defeats, most recently a convincing win at home to Whitstable Town being followed by a disappointing away defeat to league newcomers Corinthian. While Whitstable turned up and offered limited resistance, Corinthian's disruptive game plan suckered United into playing at their hosts level. All of which has not been helped by the absence of the aforementioned Elphick in United's back-four. Crossed fingers he is back on Saturday.
United reman in seventh place in the league on 19 points. This having played ten games – winning six, drawing one and losing three.
Who are Cray Valley PM and what's their six-game form? WWWWWL
Cray Valley Paper Mills, also known as The Millers, hail from Eltham, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich southeast Greater London. They have certainly hit the ground running this season having racked up nine wins, two draws and a single defeat in their opening 12 league games. This puts them at the top of the table with an impressive 32 goals scored and only 12 conceded.
The Millers fell at the first hurdle in both the FA Cup, lost 1 – 0 away to Uxbridge in the Preliminary Round, and the FA Trophy where they lost on penalties away to AFC Sudbury in the Second Qualifying Round. So while United were travelling to five FA Cup away ties and hosting three FA Trophy ties, Cray have been focussing their attention on their league games, and to good effect. Their only defeat was an eight-goal encounter away to East Grinstead Town with the home side winning 5 – 3. The 'L' in their six-game form above was a defeat on Tuesday night in the London Cup.
Not being encumbered by success in the cups certainly looks to have given them an early advantage in the league.
Any recent previous meetings?
The sides have only met twice since The Miller's promotion to the South East Isthmian League for the 2019-20 season. Indeed their first league game was at home against United and finished scoreless. With the reverse fixture not being played due to the season being curtailed, their next meeting was the first league game of the 2020-21 season this time at the Pilot Field. This game also finished 0 – 0.
Firstly, we are due a goal between these two sides.
While it is only November this feels like a six-pointer already! Cray are ten points ahead of United who have two games in hand. The ideal scenario is a United win on Saturday and both games in hand to narrow the gap to a single point. Which is much easier said than done and no doubt Cray will be thinking the exact opposite, because a win for them will open up a 13-point gap.
We can expect a big crowd and a raucous atmosphere.
Saturday 13th November, 3pm kick off at the Pilot Field, Elphinstone Road, TN34 2AX.
Can't attend? You can follow live game updates via Twitter: @hastingsufc
Twitter: @BobJQuinn
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← United finish wrong side of fractious encounter
DONE DEAL | Gary Elphick is the new Men's First Team Manager →


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Congratulations Angela! Maybe I'll get back to Tokyo on a courier trip and can put it to good use.
Thanks Anne! I hope you make it back!
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Just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for participating in our recent elections! This really is the one of the most important things we do as members of our Union.
I also wanted to thank all of the candidates who participated! At the end of an election you cannot help but think of the quote from Roosevelt in his Citizenship in a Republic speech "It is not the critic who counts… the credit belongs to the [person] who is actually in the arena…" Thanks to all the candidates for being in the arena!
I am honoured and humbled by being elected Regional Director of BC/Yukon Region. I look forward to working with the new Board and all PIPSC members in the upcoming year!
As this is the last day to vote in the 2014 PIPSC Election, I just wanted to take a moment to thank all of those folks who have supported this campaign! Your time and efforts are greatly appreciated. This truly has been a team effort! You folks are simply the best… Thank you.
The best part of running for Regional Director has been meeting and getting to know PIPSC members from all over the BC/Yukon Region and the Country. Unions are "people" powered entities, and their strength comes from their members, and based on our members… PIPSC has huge potential!
For those in the BC/Yukon Region you have until 2 PM PST today (Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014) to cast your ballot.
Please vote and please Vote Robert MacDonald!
Now it really feels like an election.
Between now and Monday (Nov. 17) PIPSC members will be receiving their unique electronic voting key from mail_courriel@pipsc.ca, with the headliner "PIPSC: Institute Elections 2014".
We all have until Dec 3, 2014 – 2 PM (Pacific Time) to cast our ballots.
Please vote and have your voice heard!
It has been very encouraging to hear from so many members who want to see positive change in our Region! Now we need to get the vote out to start that change!
It would be an honour to have your support. Vote Robert MacDonald!
Welcome to PIPSC Election 2014!
I would like to wish all the candidates the best of luck!
This is a critical time for all public servants and unions! It is important that all members take a few moments to get to know the candidates and vote! A strong voter turnout sends a message to those who attack public servants and union! When you vote, you vote with power!
Please come back often to see updates and new material. Vote Robert MacDonald!


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(1) What Are The Best Ways To Build Your Personal Brand Online?
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The Most Frightening Thing This Election is that One Of Them Will Win
Happy Halloween. And with the latest round of "scandals" ping-ponging between the candidates each week (Trump's sexual misconduct, now Hillary's emails), the more I dread what's in store for us over the next four years (notice I did NOT say "four to eight" years.) Last February, despite being an enthusiastic Bernie supporter, I conceded that if the choice came down to Hillary vs Trump (just as I predicted) I would support Hillary (in the end, I didn't, writing in Bernie) because the danger of a Trump presidency was just too great to ignore. It didn't really matter much anyway (at the time) because the chances of Hillary winning Texas were about as low as the chances the Chicago Cubs would win the World Series. In the 2000 election, I voted for Nader… not because I preferred Nader over Gore but because a vote for Gore here in Texas was a wasted vote, but helping the Green Party reach 5% so they'd be eligible for Federal funding in 2004 was an actual attainable goal.
Last week was the start of Early Voting here in Texas, and despite waiting until the third day, there was still a line with 15-minute wait. Turnout is high because recent polls moved Texas into the "Leans Red" column, suggesting there is a chance Hillary could actually win the Lone Star state. Trump supporters desperate to make sure that doesn't happen flocked to the polls, as did Clinton supporters motivated by the possibility it could.
And me? Never have I agonized so much over a presidential vote. A vote for Trump was still unthinkable, and Libertarian Gary Johnson… well, let's just say I think a president should be smarter than the people I went to High School with.
That left just Clinton and Stein. If it looked like Hillary could not win without winning the second most populous state in the country… second only to California in number of Electoral votes… then I wouldn't have hesitated for a moment before casting my vote for Hillary. And if the chances of her winning Texas were as unlikely as Gore winning Bush's home state in 2000, I would have voted for Stein… not because I support "Tofu Palin" (a great label I saw online that sums her up perfectly) but to help The Green Party hit that 5% threshold. But Stein currently stands at 2% here in Texas, making her reaching 5% just as unlikely as Hillary winning here (possible, but unlikely.)
So I ended up writing in "Bernie Sanders"… not because I harbored any delusions he might actually win, but as a protest vote. "You screwed over Bernie, now I'm screwing over you. If Hillary is to win, it'll be without Texas. It'll be close enough to make you sweat. Think about that the next time you consider taking sides to help a deeply flawed duplicitous fraud that's just one scandal away from losing an election, to defeat their Democratic rivals." A candidate SO unpopular they may end up winning only because her opponent is more despised than she is.
So, what can we expect for the next four years?
If it's President Hillary…
The investigations & accusations against the 1992 Democratic nominee Bill Clinton began from almost the day he announced his candidacy in 1991. Those accusations of sexual misconduct with "Gennifer Flowers" and "Paula Jones"? Those stories broke before he became president and dogged him for years. "Trooper-Gate"… which alleged an actual crime of using state resources (local police) to shuttle then-Governor Clinton's mistresses home after having an affair at the Governors' mansion… actually broke before he was elected president.
After Bill Clinton was elected president, the "investigations" continued… helping the GOP retake control of the House for the first time in over 40 years. And those investigations kicked into high gear with Republicans now in control of both Houses of Congress. They appointed a Special Prosecutor ("Ken Starr") to investigate everything from "Whitewater" to "Socks The Cat's Fan Club Mailing List ("who's paying for those stamps?") Their goal was to ensure he did not win reelection… and once that failed… impeachment.
We are already seeing history repeat itself. The GOP has known Hillary would make another run for the presidency since the day she conceded in 2008. And the attack of a consulate in BenghaziTM… clearly a question more suited to focus on the military and decisions of the Secretary of Defense… was tied to Secretary of State Clinton instead since Consulates/Embassies are part of the State Department. And despite the fact the Secretary of State does not have the power to scramble/scuttle fighter jet missions, and it was the GOP themselves that voted to deny additional spending on Embassy security, they still carried out NINE investigations (at the tax-payers expense) clearly with the intention of crippling her presidential ambitions before they had even begun. And if you think these endless investigations will cease once she is elected, you were either too young or not yet born to remember the early 1990's.
Republicans will follow Gingrich's playbook from Bill Clinton's first term. They'll do everything they can to cripple her first two years as president in order to regain/maintain control of Congress in 2018, then work overtime investigating her to ensure she's a one term president (if you thought the GOP controlled Congress was a do nothing Congress under Obama… just you wait. Ted Cruz… who actually clerked for the late Chief Justice Rehnquist… has already threatened to deny the appointment of the replacement for Justice Scalia… ensuring not only gridlock in Congress, but on the High Court as well for at least the next year.) And if by some miracle she wins reelection, they will then make sure she is impeached before the end of her second term.
Gingrich himself once explained that because Bill Clinton won the '92 election with "less than 50% of the vote" (thanks to Ross Perot), they deemed his presidency as "illegitimate", ergo they were somehow justified in trying to bring down his presidency.
Presently, neither Clinton nor Trump have more than 45% of the vote. Investigations of her began LONG before she ever became the official Democratic nominee, and they are beyond motivated to make sure nothing she wants ever gets passed and that she is a one-term president.
If you thought partisanship, infighting, petty bickering and GOP obstruction were bad under President Obama, you ain't seen nothing yet.
If it's President Trump…
Both parties in this case have been quite clear: "Donald Trump is unfit for the office of president and Congress will unite to keep him in check. The man is an idiot. A loose canon that thinks he can unilaterally do anything he wants as president and doesn't understand the mechanics of government. His plan for a Gestapo-like "Deportation Force" that will comb through cities to physically extract & deport 25 million undocumented immigrants (AND their children), his Rube-Goldberg like plan to "ban Muslims" from entering the United States, and his "quick & easy" guaranteed solution to bring "peace" to the Middle East that absolutely does not, pinky-swear, involve using nuclear weapons and 500,000 ground troops.
However, as I pointed out almost from the day he declared his candidacy, "Trump is chasing the presidency the way a dog chases a car. The pursuit is exciting, but he really has no interest in catching it, and wouldn't know what to do with it if he did." It's all a game to him. He just wants to win so he can give the middle finger to everyone who told him he can't win. However, if he DOES win, he has no interest in actually doing the mundane every day chores. He only wants to do "the fun stuff"… like calling in military airstrikes or nominating a Supreme Court nominee. He's not interested in signing bills or drafting budgets.
And in fact, in an interview with New York Times Magazine, a Kasich adviser reported that Donald Trump Jr… who was placed in charge of the VP search for his father… told them that his father's VP would likely be in charge of "domestic and foreign policy." Domestic AND Foreign policy? So WTF is left? "Making America great again" was Junior's reply.
Oh dear Lord.
Every day, Trump demonstrates just how little he understands about how government works. Bills don't become law if they are signed by the Vice president. The Vice president doesn't have the executive authority to be Commander-in-Chief. When another world leader calls The Oval Office, they are not looking to speak with the Vice president of the United States.
So, will the defacto president for the next four years be a man NO ONE voted for, hand picked by Donald J Trump? What would Congress' reaction be to that? It wouldn't be Trump himself calling the shots, setting policy that Congress might feel the need to obstruct. It could be Mike Pence… a far-Right Teabagger idiot that served in the Senate and has plenty of friends in Washington, but legally has no authority to make policy or sign bills.
Someone needs to inform Donald Trump that the President of the United States isn't a dictator (and that "ObamaCare" isn't an insurance program. But I digress.) It's the greatest flaw in the argument of Republicans who say they want "a CEO president" to "run the country like a business". A Democracy isn't a dictatorship. Trump admires dictators like Putin & Kim Jong Un because they appear to "get things done". But that's only because they don't have a Congress to answer to. I wonder if Donald Trump believes Congress will just roll over and give him everything he wants because in his delusional mind, everybody supports everything he wants to do.
He actually said during a rally in Toledo last week (just as news broke that the email investigation may be reopened): "We should just cancel the election and give it to Trump." Because in his mind, he's winning by a mile, the polls are all wrong, everyone agrees with him on everything (including how crooked Clinton is), and he's going to win in a landslide.
So whether it's Hillary and four years of unprecedented GOP obstructionism, endless investigations, and threats of impeachment, four years of Trump expecting Congress to just roll over and give him everything he wants out of some delusional belief that he is so beloved (much like I'm sure Putin & Jung Un do) the vast majority of the American people are behind him when in fact Congress is prepared to stop him at all costs, or perhaps it's Pence… the far-right Teabagger VP with no legal authority to run the country actually setting foreign & domestic policy because the ACTUAL president refuses to do his job… it doesn't matter WHO is elected next week, the next four years are going to be an unholy mess.
Suddenly, this doesn't sound so bad:
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Ideally suited to cold frosty winters, Brussels Sprouts produce their crops from late October to early March.
Full sun or partial shade on most soils except acid.
They grow well on almost any soil, and are quite content in partial shade. Surely a vegetable for all gardens.
Brussels Sprouts were cultivated in Belgium as far back as 1200, hence the name (Brussels is capital of Belgium. They were first grown commercially in Belgium in the 1580s, now they are cultivated all over Europe.
Sprouts are very tolerant of almost all soil conditions although they dislike acid soils which can make them more susceptible to club root. A firm soil is best in order to enable the root system to support these top heavy plants.
They will grow equally well in sun or partial shade, but prefer partial shade. Be sure not to grow them in front of other plants which need full sun, their foliage will put others in the shade. Again, because they are top-heavy, they should be grown in an area which is free from strong winds.
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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 4, 2019--SoundFi, a revolutionary experiential app-based format that combines immersive audio with language options and accessibility solutions, announces its limited commercial launches in the United States and in Europe with the theatrical releases of Paramount Pictures' Wonder Park and Pet Sematary, where it will be available in up to 24 languages in select cinemas.
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Through its mobile app, SoundFi: At the Movies (free on both iOS and Android devices), moviegoers and their friends and family have the option to each enjoy the same movie in the language of their choice. This immersive binaural version of the movie's audio track in multiple languages is the result of collaborative work with the film's creatives and SoundFi on the mixing stage. It is a seamless, easy to use and completely personalized audio experience delivered to users' smartphones and enjoyed using any pair of headphones.
For Wonder Park, the moviegoer can choose from 24 languages, and for Pet Sematary, 11 languages are available. Thanks to SoundFi 's patented synchronization technology, the downloaded audio track plays perfectly in sync with the movie without the need for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or beacons in the cinema, and with no disruption to the fans enjoying the traditional loudspeaker audio in the theater. The encrypted audio file (minimal size file) automatically deletes from the device after playback of the movie.
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SoundFi: At the Movies will launch at select locations in Los Angeles and Phoenix and overseas in the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Germany, with exclusive screening events planned in London, Zurich, and Berlin. Specifically, in the US, SoundFi will be available to moviegoers at Cinepolis Pico Rivera and Harkins Theaters Cerritos 16 in the Los Angeles area, and at Harkins Theaters Tempe Marketplace and Harkins Estrella Falls 16 in the Phoenix area.
In Europe, SoundFi is excited to be partnering with Sennheiser, who is cross-promoting and sponsoring each of the SoundFi launch events screening Pet Sematary, in addition to offering their state-of-the-art headphones optimized for the cinema experience.
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