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An Allegory for the Fourth of July.
It was bad enough that Saul had to hand over his hard-earned money to the Gambinos. But to be asked to celebrate this injustice? To be asked to decorate his deli in the Gambino family colors? To be told to put up that stupid banner? "Gambino Appreciation Day"? It was too much. It was just too much.
Saul had met the Gambinos several years earlier. He'd been a young man, newly married, wrapping up a pound of roast beef for old Mrs. Davidson, when in walked two behemoths, two neckless freaks of nature sporting Adidas jogging suits and slicked back hair. "What do you want?" Saul had asked once Mrs. Davidson had left. That's right. No "How may I help you?" No "What's going on?" Saul knew better. He knew what these momsers were after.
"Nice place you got here," said one of the Gambinos, a fat-faced man with adult acne. "Hate for something to happen to it. You know what I mean?" He slowly surveyed the store. "Rough neighborhood here. Really be a shame if something happened to your store."
"The neighborhood's fine!" Saul snapped.
"Yeah," the goon said, taking a step closer, "really be a shame if something happened to your store." The other man stood by the door, his right hand tucked inside his coat, holding what could have only been a gun.
Every fiber in Saul's being wanted to reach for the revolver he hid under the cash register. But what was the point? Supposing he drew the gun, supposing he pointed it at these fatsos and demanded that they get lost—then what? They'd just return. Or others just like them would return. They would return with their own guns. They would return to kill him, or, worse, to kill his family.
So Saul agreed to their demands. Three hundred dollars a week. They wanted three hundred dollars a week? Fine, it was theirs. So much for his son's future. Every Monday, the ugly brothers would appear and Saul, having no other choice, would hand over a dirty brown envelope containing what should have been his son's college fund.
But now they wanted Gambino Appreciation Day? It was just too much.
"Look," one of the goons explained to him, "you know we're the nicest crime family around. I mean, honestly, would you rather pay tribute to one of those other families? You might think we're bad, but you ever hear of the Bonanos? Those fuckers would take six hundred a week. No joke. And the Lucheses? The Lucheses would be all over that cute little daughter of yours. Up the ass every night. She don't like it up there? Don't matter. The Lucheses get what the Lucheses want." The goon took a step closer, the smell of sausage pizza emanating from his breath. "When you get down to it, Saul, you're living under the best crime family in the city. So show a little gratitude. Make things look nice. Maybe put up a picture or two of Mr. Gambino. Maybe a few fireworks."
Fireworks, he thought—I'll give you bastards fireworks! But, of course, he was all talk. Because, when you got down to it, there was nothing he could do.


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I get a lot of email from readers, and occasionally I share our exchanges here. This week, I got a particularly interesting message about this week's post about "Online Streaming Grows":
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Thanks so much for sharing your comments. I think you're right on target in many respects, but I also believe that your analysis and mine not only survive side-by-side, they are probably inevitable.
There are always remote outlier areas of just about any population, especially in the U.S. There are regions where terrestrial broadcast does not reach, for example. In some cases, those areas can be rather well-populated such as the valleys of Vermont. Terrestrial broadcast can't reach these viewers, so alternative approaches have a window of opportunity, such as digital broadcast satellite (DBS).
Moving to the issue of Internet access, the same problem of sparse population and long distances can make it not cost-effective to build out higher capacity transmission systems. It is likely that it will be a long time — if ever — before it becomes feasible to provide high speed service to remote areas.
So far, we're right in sync. But here's how I see it going forward. I believe that "watching what I want, when I want it" will trump linear programming, and that other solutions will be offered to viewers with lower bandwidth. For example, they would simply create a queue of programming that they would like to watch (just as they do now with Netflix, Hulu, or TiVo), and the content would be trickled to temporary storage onsite. (Terabytes are amazingly cheap, and still getting cheaper. I saw a 2 TB external USB drive for $100.) You can move a show up in priority, and it will be ready to watch sooner; the system could even alert you when it is "ready" even though the download is not complete, and you can "chase" the show while the rest of it downloads.
This would have minimal impact on the viewing experience of the user, while delivering almost the same benefits that a high bandwidth subscriber would get. I think that this would be a much more likely scenario than trying to use the terrestrial broadcast system to deliver the content.
I believe that something like this is likely the best-use case for the existing cable infrastructure, and that with the exception of maybe a couple live channels, linear programming is likely to simply go away. Not tomorrow, not next year, but I think it's the logical outcome of the current trajectory.
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Often associated with flying since 1936 when Willy Breitling (Leon's grandson) launched a chronometer for instrument panels in aircraft cockpits. The firm has a long association with Boeing, Douglas and Lockheed. In 1952 the Navimeter, a super chronograph designed especially for pilots.
In 1970 Breitling introduced the Breitling GMT, a chronograph with two hour hands (one for 12 hour system, one for 24 hours system).
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I've never before in my life needed sisterhood like I need it now. In fact, I would say perhaps that sisterhood has become the most important thing in my life recently. So, indulge me while I take a moment to surround myself with the gorgeousness that is the flesh of this tribe here at Momma Strong. And also to introduce a key new member of the team behind the scenes here.
Confession: I'm codependent. Whew. I said it. And, yes, I just realized this recently. I'm so evolved, I know. I think prior to that realization, I assumed codependency took the form of neediness and insecurity, a bumbling mushy blob of a person that couldn't do anything for herself. So, of course, it was quite a shock when I learned that people who are codependent actually appear to be lone rangers, never asking for help and never ever being completely exposed as their true selves. We're the fixers, the survivors, the "I can do it all-ers." Codependency is lonely, but mostly because when the business of surviving-and-doing-and-making-it-happen-and-being-a-superstar-rock-star-go-getter-people-pleaser-perfectionist gets pulled away (which it always does), we realize how much emptiness and lack of wholeness we possess. We scramble to dig our fingers back into a faux-center. We will do anything not to feel the weight of saying, "Fuck me, I need help."
So, yes, I am condependent. But, I'm working on it. I'm actually really working on it. The first step to this was allowing myself to become a bumbling mushy blob of a person that couldn't do anything for herself. And after I discovered that in doing that, I wouldn't die or be destroyed, I went to the next level: I started reaching out. And I started finding out who in my circle would reach back and echo my true-center.
Here's what I've learned: You have people, women especially, around you right now that will never let you stray from your truth. And those people often say shit you don't want to hear. They refuse to let you dig your fingers into a faux-anything. They will risk losing your friendship in the face of enabling your demise. The good thing? They also never let you give up. Codependency dissolves when you allow those people in to your life. Why? Because you start to love yourself and see yourself clearly. AND, more importantly, you start respecting their space in the world and their advice to you. You exchange externalized victimhood for internalized power.
I have a handful of these sorts of sisters in my life (you know who you are) and without them, who knows. I am grateful for every moment that they are in my life and I feel a massive sense of responsibility for making the world better for them by being better in myself. Love knows no bounds in sisterhood.
And this is the fun part: I'd like to introduce you to Barbie Atkinson, our new Momma Strong Consigliere (officially Chief Brand Ambassador). Oh yes, and I mean consigliere exactly as it sounds. Um, minus the organized crime part and the violence. Yeah. She is Protector. Ambassador. Connector. To me and to the brand and to each of you.
The truth is that without Barbie around these last few months, I probably would have let Momma Strong slide around as I danced ungracefully through the stresses of life. But, she has been the badass Type A person I need, calling me out when I don't do things I say I am going to, or when my planning is more "whenever" than specific, or when I try to pile too many big ideas on top of each other, or when I take on things that are not authentically Momma Strong. She has created amazing new partnerships that will blast this brand into outer space super soon. Most importantly, though, she does not enable my victim voice. She believes in me. And she believes in the mission of Momma Strong.
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On Saturday we had a birthday party for Little E. This was the first birthday she has celebrated in the United States. I thought it would be fun to have a cow and bird themed party for her since she loves cows and birds so much.
There is a take a toy to school day once a week at their Kindergarten and she brought at least one of her cow toys each week for a month. And then she tried to take one of the cow toys from school home. :) Kid loves her cows.
We walk by some chickens on the way to school and every single time we have to stop at look at them.
Whenever she sees a bird flying in the sky or hopping on the ground she exclaims, "Der'sth a birdie!" (That translates to, "There's a birdie!" She still has a little bit of a lisp, which I think is pretty cute.)
Cow skirt made by Grandma.
The party went really well. We had a boat load of people over. A lot of our family who lives here, and a lot of friends from our church here in AZ. My dad grilled burgers for us to go along with chips and salsa, avocado & black bean dip, hummus, fruits and veggies. There were only a tiny bit of leftovers and no one appeared to be hungry when they left so I count it a win!
And I made over 6 dozen strawberry cupcakes from scratch. I think they turned out really well for using 2 new recipes (the cake batter and the frosting). I think we had about 12 left when the party ended.
My sister filled about 100 water balloons for the kids to throw. So much time was spent filling the balloons and it took the kids all of 3 minutes to throw and break them all. A little bit later it started raining. Just about every kid here was playing in it and completely soaked. The rain was possibly better than my planned activity of water balloons!
Buckets of water attract children like bees to honey. : )
Post water balloons. She doesn't look terribly happy in this photo but she did have a great time with the water balloons.
Opening the presents was pretty darn chaotic. There were about 10 children helping Elsie and making her rush through them all. Thankfully my sister was good at taking notes and wrote everything down on which presents came from whom.
She wanted to sleep with this cow baby, but I said no because it moos. I didn't want to be awoken in the middle of the night from a mooing cow baby.
You can see the excitement on her face in this photo. I love it.
On her actual birthday on Tuesday the 5th of August we had a slow day. My mom made a batch of pancakes — maybe even her best since she used half-and-half instead of regular milk. Little E was up before Big Ive and was able to eat all of the strawberries with her pancake. And then she started on the tomatoes, finishing with raspberries. I made sure to save at least a few raspberries for Big Ive. She requested "frwench frwiesth and chickie bitesth" (french fries and chicken bites) for supper. So I made some great baked chicken tenders, fries, and homemade mac-n-cheese. It was a big hit from everyone who was over. We ended the night with some frozen yogurt. The girls loved being able to pick the toppings for their frozen yogurt. All in all, a very fun birthday for a very special little 3-year old girl.


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We examined mock aggression-behavior that appears aggressive, but lacks intent to harm-among emerging adults, using a survey (N = 34 females and 22 males) and an interview (N = 79 females and 30 males). As expected, mock aggression was a common, positive, and integral part of the lives of our sample across social, familial, romantic, and sports contexts. Both men and women reported considerable mock aggression, but men displayed more of some types of mock aggression (e.g., backslap, bump chests, knuckle hit). Adults reported developmentally appropriate outcomes of mock aggression (e.g., sex, stress relief) not reported among children. Contrary to the prevailing literature, participants reported increases in mock aggression from mid-adolescence into adulthood. Findings indicate that, whereas aggression occurs under circumstances of increased negative affect and typically has negative outcomes, mock aggression occurs under circumstances of positive affect and almost always has positive outcomes.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A 17-year-old Oklahoma man originally charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of an Australian athlete has been charged as an accessory to first-degree murder, court records released on Friday said.
James Edwards Jr. had his first-degree murder charge dismissed in exchange for his cooperation with the prosecution of two teenagers charged with fatally shooting Melbourne resident Christopher Lane as he was jogging in south Oklahoma, court records showed.
On Thursday, Edwards was given the accessory to first-degree murder charge, the records said.
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Going in to bat for four-day tests
Expect the question "should four-day tests be legitimised?" to be on the agenda when the International Cricket Council board meets in Auckland this week.
South Africa and Zimbabwe are proposing to play such a fixture on Boxing Day in Port Elizabeth and, if permitted, it could prove the prototype for the future.
In a cricketing world which appears in a state of flux, this is a perfect time to recalibrate what test matches mean, and how they best exist in the contemporary sporting landscape.
Here's a 10-point resolution to justify four-dayers becoming the status quo.
1. Start tests on Thursdays and finish on Sundays with possible logistical scope to extend to Monday if a day is rained out. Teams can travel on Tuesday and train on Wednesday. Repeat across a series.
2. Using point 1 as a basis, it would be easier to fit in three-test tours and give more context to a series, even if only two tests per series register in the proposed test championship.
3. Again, using point 1, broadcasters and hosts get to maximise their revenue, with the denouement coming over the traditional weekend when more people can attend or watch on TV. A day's costs are also removed.
4. Extend the required over count to 100 per day. That way you get a maximum of 400 for the match as opposed to the incumbent 450. This is the age of T20. Modern players know how to accelerate a game to get a result. They might trot quicker between overs too, if there's a suitable deterrent.
5. One hundred overs a day means increased advertising opportunities for broadcasters across the day and the potential to earn more from ticket sales and purchases inside the ground.
6. Encourage pitches which age faster so spinners can still exploit the conditions, particularly on the final day.
7. Domestic first-class programmes around the world are already played over four days, so players elevated to test status would do so on a like-for-like basis.
8. Four-dayers will make the test format less daunting for rookies Afghanistan and Ireland.
9. Five-day matches are hardly de rigueur across history. Tests of three, four, five and a scheduled six days have been tried. There was also the timeless test of 1939 between South Africa and England at Durban when the visitors tootled off after nine days' play (12 days in total) to catch their boat home.
10. Truncated tests are increasingly common. According to statistician Ric Finlay in a July 2016 Cricinfo story, 28.6 per cent of all test matches had ended before the fifth day. In 21 New Zealand home tests over the past five summers, that figure is 42.9 per cent (nine matches).


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Charlie arrived in London from Paris late in the evening on the 17th aboard the Golden Arrow and drove to the Carlton Hotel virtually unnoticed, a far cry from his arrival from America, nearly nine months ago to the day, in February.
May Reeves did not accompany Charlie to London, but chose to visit her parents instead. She felt her relationship with Charlie had "lost its rhythm," and that a temporary separation would do them good. Charlie agreed and gave her a "ten-day-leave." 1
|Charlie (left) takes a stroll along the Embankment, September 18th, 1931
When Charlie awoke on the 18th, he met with reporters in his suite at the Carlton where he answered questions about his stay in London, his next film, the identity of "Mysterious Mary" and whether or not she would be in his next film. Charlie, who "seemed genuinely shy" and "twisted about a good deal on the sofa," 2 wasn't forthcoming with answers, saying only that in his next film he would still play the Tramp but would not speak in it as the Tramp but as another character, an American. Referring to "Mary" (aka May), he only said that she was not with him in London and it was too early to say whether she would be in his next picture. Charlie was also vague with reporters about his immediate plans in London saying only that he would like to visit Manchester because he once lived there and attended school, but could not remember the name of it.* At the time, Charlie intended to stay in his hometown only a few days, but ended up staying until the end of December.
As an epilogue to the scene with the journalists, Mr. Chaplin came outside the Carlton Hotel and allowed himself to be photographed buying a newspaper from the one-legged news-seller who sits in a wooden box at the corner, and for a bit Mr. Chaplin seemed the more embarrassed of the two.3
|Charlie buys a newspaper from the one-legged vendor outside the Carlton.
Coming up: Charlie spends the weekend with Winston Churchill.
1 May Reeves, The Intimate Charlie Chaplin
2 The Manchester Guardian, September 19th, 1931
3 ibid
*Charlie was enrolled at the Armitage Street School in Manchester in 1899.


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All you have to do is read this. If there is just one person out there that reads this blog today, that will be a help to me.
I was speaking with a friend on the phone last night when I mentioned that this past Sunday evening I was having several contractions that were pretty close together, and I nearly started to panic because I have so many things that I feel are "undone" right now. You may ask, "then why are you blogging right now instead of doing those things?" Good question. I'll get right to the point. I need someone to hold me accountable today. Even if you don't want to, I can pretend you are. Here's what needs to get accomplished today:
*Get my bag packed for the hospital
*Do something with the piles of clothes that are scattered about my bedroom right now. I'm in the middle of changing Cari and Amelia's clothes out for the new season, as well as purging what doesn't need to stick around. The EBay sells weren't very successful, so I need to get everything bagged up that needs to go to the consignment shop, bag up what needs to be donated, throw out the junk, and store in the attic the things that can be handed down. I need to do this so I can actually take the stuff to the consignment shop and donation box when I'm out tomorrow. (I plan to stay home all day today.) Then I need to actually get everything organized into the closets.
*Clean out the car! I'll spare you the details, but it's a mess.
But first, we need to eat breakfast, do regular chores, and get the school work completed. Okay, here we go. Please pray for motivation (I'm starting to feel a little already after typing this) and energy - I need my vitamins!


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You may need to store your data, that would work with a variety of online services, download SkyDrive to your computer. The program works SkyDrive directly from the desktop (integrated into it), and managed just as if it was another folder on your local disk. In this case, there is support for Drag'n'Drop - all files are moved or copied to SkyDrive will be added automatically to the cloud storage of your data. It does not matter what platform you're working, you can always get access to your photos, videos and documents stored on another computer. SkyDrive free download, and with this software you will be able to create a joint work with some documents between different computers. It should be noted that Microsoft provides to store several gigabytes that can be used by any user.
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Five of the best: Upcoming beer events28 Aug 2015
With the dust finally having settled following a rollocking London Beer City, it's time to look to the future. Yes, it's sad that #lbc15 is over; yes, lots of us had a wonderful time. But beer-drinking isn't over. There are still plenty of exciting events to look forward to.
Not least those run by There's A Beer For That, which played such a huge role in London Beer City. One of the highlights was the fish-and-beer dinner they hosted at The Bull in Highgate, part of their Beer Club Live series. Both Beer Club Live and #beermatch will continue, so keep your eyes peeled on @beerforthat.
Coming up very soon is Beer By The River, hosted by Sambrook's at Morden Hall Park in South Wimbledon, which takes place next Friday and Saturday. There are some absolutely superb breweries lined up, including not only Sambrook's but also Five Points, Burning Sky, Crouch Vale, Hawkshead, Ilkley and more besides. Pre-bought entrance tickets cost £8, with plenty of music and food on the agenda too.
And there's more - lots more. Autumn, which appears to be prematurely upon us, is a great time for beer drinking (think Oktoberfest) and there'll be lots of opportunities to indulge - and not just in London, either. Here are five upcoming beer events that you'll no doubt want to get involved in.
Leeds International Beer Festival (3-6 September, Leeds Town Hall)
In one of Britain's best beer-drinking towns, a magnificent beer festival in a remarkable building (trust me, 'Leeds Town Hall' does not do it justice). The city of owls - check out that wonderful poster - is serving up a festival full not only of great British beer but also some superb foreign drops, particularly from Italy. Look out for Birrificio Italiano and Birra Del Borgo.
Bristol Beer Week (18-26 September, all over Bristol)
Bristol has a number of excellent breweries (particularly, in our view, Bristol Beer Factory and Moor), with at least one more to come (hurry up, Mr Troncoso). There are lots of good pubs, too, so it's no surprise that Bristol Beer Week is a very appealing proposition. The final line-up is currently being finetuned but you can expect fine beer in equally impressive surroundings.
Kent Green Hop Beer Fortnight (25 September-11 October, Kent)
Every year, the cream of Kentish brewing brews beers with the fresh, 'green' hops from the newly-picked harvest. The brainchild of head-man at the Ramsgate Brewery, Eddie Gadd, this event has grown hugely since the original in 2012. It all kicks off at the Canterbury Food and Drink Festival on the weekend of 25-26 September.
London Beer Carnival (1-4 October, Leake Street, SE1)
This new addition to the beer calendar will see some extraordinarily rare and coveted beers brought to the capital. The canny crew behind the Craft Beer Co have convinced 50 breweries - including Cigar City, Evil Twin, Galway Bay, Jester King, Prairie, De Struise and many more - to be part of it. The unique nature of the event is reflected in the price tag - £50 - but you will be drinking beer that - in many cases - you won't find elsewhere in the UK.
IndyManBeerCon (8-11 October, Victoria Baths, Manchester)
In a few short years, IndyManBeerCon has established itself as the beer geek's festival of choice, and for good reason. There's excellent beer - of course - but also a stunning venue, good food and a wonderful atmosphere. Last year Beavertown were tucked away in the Turkish Bath and Brewdog were out in the car park (not quite the doghouse), so make sure you have a nose around.


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Behind the Propaganda about the Surge: The Real Situation in Iraq From an Unembedded Reporter
From a blog call The Vinyard of the Saker, this excellent audio podcast is linked, from a speech by Dahr Jamail, who spoke in West Virginia also this summer. He is not with the corporate media, nor works for any contractor like the guest Michael Agnello frequently has on 58 Live who always comes on to say "the surge is working". West Virginians and all Americans need to hear from an independent inside source who puts the entire situation, from his own experience there, in perspective. Among the reality that you will not hear about from the "liberal media" (beholden to the agenda of the International Bankers, neoconservatives, and Zionists) is that over 4.5 million Iraqis are displaced, and over 1 million Iraqis have been killed. Listen to this and stop paying attention to sports or hiding reality behind a stupid Yule tree. THIS IS THE REALITY THAT AMERICANS HAVE CREATED FOR IRAQIS FROM THE CRY OF "SUPPORT OUR TROOPS". Operation Iraqi Freedom is Operation Iraqi Destruction.On December 8th of this year Dahr Jamail made an interesting in Vancouver, Canada. His speech was recorded by Radio Ecoshock and made available for download here (I have also uploaded a copy of this presentation here).
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Schools Should Be Required to Teach Basic Investing Skills and Finance
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Round one: acceptance
Round two: main arguments (no rebuttals yet)
Round three: rebuttals and additional arguments
Round four: final rebuttals and conclusion (no more additional arguments)
It's quite obvious that Americans, no matter adults or children, lack basic knowledge when it comes to investing and finance. According to http://articles.latimes.com..., in a study, "Barely 1 in 2 people knew that a single stock is not safer than a mutual fund, which holds many stocks." Many American adults, including parents, are clueless when it comes to investing and often do not have good financial skills. This can lead to many people going into debt and not knowing how to manage their money wisely. This can be shown in a report in http://www.foxbusiness.com... , which stated that "The proportion of adults spending less dropped to a low this year -- to 29% from the high of 57% in 2009 -- as one in three adults report they carry credit card debt each month. Fifteen percent of people roll over at least $2,500 every month on the credit cards, according to the survey. This habit seems to contradict the result that shows lack of savings is a top financial worry among respondents."
You said that you believed a child's family should teach the child financial and basic investing skills. However, from what we've seen from the average American population today, it seems like a child's family would not even be qualified to teach them finance and investing skills, as the family probably does not have much knowledge on these subjects. This is why we need to instill basic finance and investing in our schools, as these classes would be vital for a child to be able to know how to grow more money from their current money with their investments, be more aware of the financial world, and know how to manage their money. After all, if every citizen in America knew the basics of investing, they could know how to make more money and have financial freedom by making money based off of their investments.
Well, round 02 has been opted for main argumentative speech. I showed my stand in the first round, so no more necessity with that. Let's get started.
My burden of proof on the current position is to show that families should play a more important role rather than schools in tesching these basic real life knowledges. See these in the next section, Constructives.
Round 02 Argument Re-compilation
In January 2012, there were 8.2 million pupils attending 24,372 schools in England. The number of teachers in schools in England is published as part of the annual statistical first release 'School workforce in England' [ https://www.gov.uk...]. The latest data is for November 2011. In November 2011, there were 438,000 teachers in state-funded schools in England on a full-time equivalent basis. In response to the questions relating to education policy, the structure of the department and school funding. How would you deal with these large number of students and less number of teachers in the schools? https://www.gov.uk...;.
In your argument, you stated that you believed that families are the better for teaching finance because of how families can families can teach finance in a way that the child can understand and that some family members can be very knowledgeable when it comes to finance and investing. However, both of these arguments are inaccurate or are not complete. If family members were a better source for teaching, then why even have school at all? Why not just have family members teach instead of a school? Family members should not be relied on to teach finance because of these reasons:
1) Not every student has the same type of family. Some students might not have family members that are not home or able to teach them most of the time, and others might have family members that are irresponsible and are not very good at teaching them finance. This is why families should be a supplement to students'. Students learning about finance should learn it in school so that every student can get a good amount of knowledge about finance, no matter what their families are like.
2) It is more likely than not that a student would not have family members easily available that do not have a good amount of knowledge on finance and investing. http://www.cnbc.com... noted that " In a Retirement Income Literacy Survey conducted for The American College of Financial Services last year, 80 percent of the respondents received scores of 60 or lower on financial questions about retirement. Just 20 percent received what amounted to a passing grade." http://www.usatoday.com... has also shown that many Americans do not have a good amount of knowledge on financial topics. While some countries may have a population with more financial literacy, many other countries don't, so schools should teach finance and investing so that all students, no matter how much their families know about finance, can get a vital amount of financial knowledge.
Teaching financial literacy in schools would be even more vital for undeveloped countries, as the students there would probably have poor families with even less knowledge about financial topics like investing. Families in underdeveloped countries usually do not have a high amount of education, so schools should be relied on more to teach financial literacy, as they might be a student's only source for learning about finance and investing.
While school might add a lot of pressure to students, schools are still here to teach and help educate children, so school would be a good source for teaching financial literacy. Once again, if schools weren't that great at teaching, then why have them at all? Why? Because schools can still be a good source of learning, and if every student learns about finance and investing, then a student's group of friends will be less likely to be financially irresponsible, which would lessen the amount of negative peer pressure around the child. Overall, schools should teach finance and investing skills.
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Joan Taylor passed away peacefully in her sleep at Chestnut Hill Hospital in the early morning of October 8. Joan was the widow of John E. Taylor and was a 17-year resident of the Masonic Village. She was the daughter of the late L. Vernon and Edna F. (Kimmel) Workman. Born on September 8, 1924 in Middletown, Ohio, Joan spent most of her formative years in Paxtang, Pennsylvania, an inner suburb of Harrisburg. She was a 1942 honors graduate of John Harris High School (predecessor of the present-day Harrisburg High School) and a 1945 Liberal Arts graduate of Pennsylvania State College (now Pennsylvania State University) where she was a sister of Chi Omega. After college graduation, Joan worked at the national headquarters of the American Red Cross in Washington until her marriage to Mr. Taylor on June 14, 1947. Mr. Taylor established a dairy packaging equipment business in Columbus, Ohio where the couple resided for 40 years, relocating to Philadelphia upon Mr. Taylor's retirement. Joan is survived by her loving daughter Carol Strasbaugh and her husband Wayne R. Strasbaugh of Chestnut Hill and her grandchildren -- Susan Strasbaugh of Chestnut Hill, Wayne T. Strasbaugh of Plymouth Meeting, and Elizabeth Galaz (wife of Timothy Galaz) of University City. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that gifts be made to the Pennsylvania State University educational fund of their choice at giveto.psu.edu.


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Let me preface what I'm about to say by saying that I love the Cubs, and I love Wrigley Field.
But dammit it's about time they upgraded that place.
The Cubs recently announced their plans for renovating the nearly 100 year old stadium during the Cubs Convention. Whether the renovations will actually happen is a bit of a mystery though. There's the political aspect, the financial aspect...yada yada yada.
Let's skip all that, though and get right to the good stuff. Wrigley Field is a gem, and it's got a ton of history, tradition, whatever you want to call it. I love all of it. I even will put up with pissing in a trough after a few Old Styles. It's just part of the experience, part of going to Wrigley Field.
I completely understand all those who want to keep Wrigley as is, because of all that tradition: The Ivy on the walls, the hand operated scoreboard from 1937 that still works, the lack of a jumbotron, the old and cranky ushers. I get it. I'm a sucker for tradition, especially when it comes to sports. Hit that "Play Like a Champion Today" sign, jump up and touch that banner, the William Tell Overture (aka Flags...my fellow Hoosiers know exactly what I'm talking about). It's all great and part of what makes sports so great.
That all being said, I would welcome Wrigley Field renovations with open arms. If you've been to a game at the Friendly Confines, you know how much of a hassle it is to go to the bathroom by the time the sixth inning rolls around. There's a line for the men's room, I can only imagine what the line is like for the ladies' room. The concourses aren't very wide, and there's support beams everywhere. The seats aren't very wide, and some of them aren't positioned very well. You'll leave with a stiff neck if you're sitting down one of the baselines on the upper deck.
I can't tell you how many times I've been at a game and seen a diving play or a close tag play and immediately looked for a replay, only to remember where I am. It's 2013 people! We're so used to having all these amenities at every other ballpark, in every sport. It's about time the Cubs catch up to the times.
Then it comes to the part that benefits the players. Have you ever been in the Cubs clubhouse? It's tiny. Have you ever seen Rookie of the Year? There's several scenes shot inside the clubhouse, and it's not much different from that. The locker room section is a narrow "hallway" with lockers lining either wall. There's no way 25 guys can co exist comfortably in that space. Just no way. To have a batting tunnel under the stands would obviously be incredibly beneficial.
The Cubs want the city to ease up on some of the restrictions, most notably the ability to have more night games. Some might say baseball is baseball, it doesn't matter when you play. But I tend to believe the baseball players who say they'd rather play at night. It's a routine, something they fall into, and they'll play better because of it. If free agents are spurning the Cubs because they play too many day games, then something needs to change.
I love the Cubs, and I love Wrigley Field. I would love it more if it jumped into the 21st Century like the rest of us.
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- 1 (6-8 pound) bone-in pork shoulder
- ½ teaspoon liquid smoke (optional)
- 2 cups barbecue sauce
Mix all spice rub ingredients in small bowl or plate. (the good thing is, all you need is a TBS and a TSP)
Massage spice rub into meat. Wrap tightly in double layer of plastic wrap; refrigerate for at least 3 hours. For stronger flavor, the roast can be refrigerated for up to 3 days. I refrigerated for 1 1/2 days.
Unwrap roast and place it in slow cooker liner. Add liquid smoke, if using, and 1/4 cup water. Turn slow cooker to low and cook for 8-10 hours, until meat is fork-tender.
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Place shredded meat back in slow cooker liner; toss with 1 cup barbecue sauce, and heat on low for 30-60 minutes, until hot. Serve with additional barbecue sauce. We used Sticky Fingers Tennessee Whiskey.


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We talk about Harry's Aerospace Avantage series, which is a bit like the ordinary model E79362: 3, 6, 9, 12, the other time marks are short bars, two electronic screens, and flying wings below 12.
But look carefully, there are some different, such as no 3 and 9 two digital time marks, 9 points and a clear white flying wing, some strange, does not repeat the sign below the 12 point position?
In fact, Harry is a custom made form which is specially produced by the British army, but is not publicly available. Harry has been in service for 10 years, a veteran who has been in the United States to study Apache helicopter, and has joined the Afghan war during the service of Apache, which should be a tool in the army.
The wing at the 9 point of the watch is not the flags of the hundred year spirit, but the wing symbol of the British air force, the kind of the Harry's chest; by convention, the 3 o'clock position should be the Apache helicopter that Harry used to drive. But unfortunately, with these characteristics, we still can't find a complete picture of Prince Harry's wrist watch.
We found a wristwatch made for the C-130J transport unit. The dial should be close to Prince Harry. The 9 o'clock position is the flying wing of the Royal Air Force. The difference is that the 3 o'clock position is a C-130J transport, not the Apache helicopter.
In the field of Aeronautical and diving tools, it has been an advantage in the field, which has historically provided many tools for the British army, marking the wings on both sides of the "B" and the anchor of the B underneath, which is the origin of this history. But recently, the brand is easy to master, brand logo is also updated to remove wings and anchor, probably more comprehensive development, do not want to be considered only as a pilot watch or diving watch brand.
Another is very similar to Harry's watch. It is the exclusive wrist watch made by the hundred years spirit for the Navy commando helicopter. The 9 o'clock position on the dial is the helicopter pattern, the 3 o'clock position is the badge of the army, and the sea king squadron is on the top.
After marriage, Harry will retire, the two wristwatches should continue to wear; and Megan, the princess, should not wear MK again, and no longer wear a wrist watch with a heap of bracelets and bracelets.
We should guess that Megan should wear Rolex Di Tong, but it may be a steel watch. After all, he has to play the role of a royalty.


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SOURCE: Therapia
February 21, 2017 13:26 ET
The online platform allows patients to book appointments in their homes and workplaces with a therapist of their choosing
TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - February 21, 2017) - Today Therapia, the online platform for on-demand at-home physiotherapy, announces its launch in the Greater Toronto Area. The platform helps solve the barriers of finding a therapist, getting to and from appointments, and completing physiotherapy treatments after an injury or surgery. Therapia provides patients and caregivers with flexible scheduling, giving users the option to receive treatment in the environments they feel most comfortable -- their homes and workplaces.
"Therapia was founded by a team of doctors and physiotherapists who recognized failures in the system that made it difficult for patients to properly heal after an injury or surgery," said Adam Brown, registered physiotherapist and co-founder of Therapia. "We believe that the future of healthcare is moving away from the hospital and toward the home, and we're trying to give patients a convenient, efficient, and effective way to complete their course of treatment."
New patients can book an appointment by going to therapia.life, entering their details and location, and selecting from a curated list of physiotherapists with varying specialities. Therapia's team of physiotherapists are registered and in good standing with the College of Physiotherapists of Ontario, and are thoroughly vetted by the Therapia team. Patients pay for their appointments online, often paying less than the cost of a clinic visit, and can rate their physiotherapist from 1 to 5 after their appointment.
The platform was founded by six entrepreneurs with various healthcare and technology backgrounds who came together to solve the largest friction point in the patient's lifecycle: when they leave the doctor or hospital, and are left to complete their course of treatment. The founders saw firsthand the barriers that exist for patients, including proximity to clinics, reliance on family members or friends to drive to and from appointments, and the cost -- both time and money -- of getting to and from the clinic.
"We founded Therapia because we continually saw patients who could not complete their recovery for reasons that were beyond their control, but were ultimately failures of the system," said Jas Chahal, doctor of orthopaedic sports medicine and co-founder of Therapia. "Physiotherapy patients often suffer mobility issues and cannot get to the clinic on their own, so they depend on others to help them to and from appointments. Therapia makes it easier for these patients to complete their course of treatment, and ultimately helps them heal faster and avoid re-injury in the future."
Therapia's platform is ideal for anyone recovering from surgery or injury, whether they have muscle or back pain, an athletic injury, joint replacements, or are recovering from strokes or other similar conditions. The platform allows physiotherapists the opportunity to show patients how best to use their own personal space and surroundings to ensure a successful recovery. Right now, Therapia is available in the Greater Toronto Area, with plans to expand to Ottawa and other markets in 2017.
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Therapia believes the future of healthcare is in the home, and this startup company allows patients to get physiotherapy when and where they want it. Patients can use Therapia to find and connect with physiotherapists, and to book an appointment at their home or work at a time that's convenient for them. The platform empowers patients and caregivers to choose a physiotherapist that specializes in their area of treatment, and obtain the best level of care in the environments where they can heal and function most naturally -- their homes.
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One afternoon in 1975, as he bent over the big drawing board in his California studio, Theodor Seuss Geisel found himself drawing a turtle.
He was not sure why.
He drew another turtle and saw that it was underneath the first turtle, holding him up.
He drew another, and another, until he had anenormous pileup of turtles, each standing on the back of the turtle below it and honging its turtle head, looking pained.
Geisel looked at his turtle pile. He asked himself, not unreasonably, What does it mean? Who is the turtle on top?
Then he understood that the turtle on top was Adolf Hilter.
"i couldn't draw Hilter as a turtle," Geisel says, now huched over the same drawing board, making pencil scribbles of the original Yertle the Turtle Drawings as he remembers them. "so I drew him as King What-ever-his-name-was, King" (scribble) "of the Pond." (Scribble.) "he wanted to be king as far as he could see. So he kept piling them up. He conquered Central Europe and France, and there it was."
"then I had this great pileup, and I said, 'how do you get rid of this impostor?"
"believe it or not, I said, "The voice of the people.' I said, 'Well, I'll just simply have the guy on the bottom burp.'"
Geisel looks up from his drawing board and smiles - just a little, because a man is taking his picture and he has never gotten used to people who want to take his picture.
Dr. Seuss, American institution, wild orchestrator of plausible nonsense, booster of things that matter (like fair play, kindness, Drum-Tummied Snumms, Hooded Koopfers, and infinite winding spools of birthday hot dogs), detractor of things that don't (like bullying, snobbery, condescension, gravity and walls), is 75 years old this year.
As usual, he is somewhat embarrassed by all the fuss.
"It's getting awful," Geisel says, "because I meet old, old people, who can scarcely walk, and they say, 'I was brought up on your books.' It's an awful shock."
There is probably not a single children's book author in America who has matched the impact, popularity and international fame of the spare, bearded California prodigy who signs his books Dr. Seuss.
Since 1936, when Ted Geisel the advertising illustrator first wrote "And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street," his books hve sold 80 million copies in this country alone.
"Mulberry Street" was an effort, he explained later, to expel from his brain the maddening rhythm of a ship engine he had heard during the whole of a transatlantic voyage (da da Da da da Da da da Da da da da)
The late Bennett Cerf - at a time when Random House writers included William Faulkner and John O'Hara - is on record as having called Geisel the only genius of the lot
The drawings, manuscripts, and half-formed doodles of Dr. Seuss (who did not officially become a doctor until 1956, when Darthmouth College made him an honorary Dr. of Humane Letters), are kept in locked stacks of the Special Collections Division of the UCLA library. He won two Academy Awards for his World War II-era documentary film and one for the cartoon "Gerald McBoing-Boing," which he created. His books are published in about 45 countries outside the United States, including Brazil, Japan, the entire British commonwealth and the Netherlands, where "There's A Wocket in My Pocket" translates to "Ikheb een Gak in Myn Zak!"
On his last visit to Australia, his plane was met by reporters, television cameras, person-sized Cats In Hats, small children with "I love you, Dr. Seuss" badges, and a newspaper headline that read "Dr. Seuss Is Here." An official in the Afghan embassy sent him a collection of brilliant blue sculpted animals with mysterious shapes and corkscrew necks, all made according to traditional design in a tiny Afghanistan town whose name Geisel could never pronounce, but which he says has been unofficially renamed Seussville. "Somebody discovered they were stealing my stuff 3,000 years ago," Geisel says, gazing down admiringly at a small sort of yak. "They're pretty good Seuss, though."
Geisel has lived for 30 years in La Jolla, which is a coastal town just north of San Diego that has developed a flowery, almost Caribbean sparkle as the wealthy build homes up the side of the mountain. At the very top of one of the mountains, with the diminishing acres of wild land to the east and to the west the wide blue curve of the Pacific, Geisel and his wife Audrey share an old stucco observatory tower and elegant, helter-skelter maze of rooms they have built around it. "It just grew," Audrey Geisel said, "Seuss-like."
They have a swimming pool, a small Yorkshire terrier whose front end is indistinguishable from the back at first glance ("I've been accused of having drawn him," Geisel says), and a gray Cadilac Seville with GRINCH license plates - which took them several years to obtain, because when they first applied they learned that an ardent Seuss-lover with four children had already put GRINCH on the licence plates and both sides of his RV. He finally moved to Iowa City and released GRINCH back to the Geisels, with a note of apology for having hogged it so long.
San Deigo children know Dr. Seuss lives in a white castle on the hill, and on occasion they will pack up peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and set out for the summit, seeking an audience. Mrs. Geisel has come to expect this. "Breathing on the intercom," she calls it. Geisel has no children of his own (Mrs. Geisel, whom he married 12 years ago after the death of his first wife, has two from a previous marriage), and although he is almost always polite to his callers, the sheer numbers of intercom breathers sometimes overwhelm him.
He cannot answer all his letters, either, because they come every month by the hundreds to his home and the Random House offices in New York - love letters, valentines, air letters from India and New Zealand, photographs of cakes decorated with Hipponheimers or Loraxes, various homemade varieties of Oobleck, the nasty green slime that rains on Bartholomew Cubbins; and in one dismaying delivery, Geisel says, a carefully wrapped package of green eggs and ham.
"These days I spend my birthday in Las Vegas," Geisel says, with unconvincing grumpiness. "Nobody will look for a children's book author in Las Vegas."
He is a private, engaging intensely driven man, with a lean and sharpnosed look that gives him an air of severity at first. His house is scattered with his own paintings and busts of creatures unlike anything anybody ever saw before, and as he leads visitors through the halls he makes congenial introductions, as though presenting boarders: "This is a green cat in the Uleaborg, Finland subway . . . this is a cat who was born on the wrong side of town . . . this is my religious period. This is Archbishop Katz . . . this is called, 'Good god, do I look as old as all that?"
He will not wear conventional neckties - only bow ties. He reads paper back books - history, biography, detective novels - so voraciously that his wife makes regular bookstore runs (often to a certain store that saves new books for him in a Special Geisel cubbyhole) and then stashes the paperbacks away so she can hand him new ones in the evening, one at a time, He reads for distraction. He needs it. When he is at work, the names the verse, the story line, the colors, the shapes and sizes of his extraordinary characters all press upon him. He tapes the working drawings to the wall and stares at them, rearranging, reading aloud to himself, feeling the rhythm of the words. In his new book, a volume of tongue twisters coming out in the fall, Geisel has drawn a green parrot. He has studied all the colors on the Random House art department printing chart - his usual procedure - looking for the printer's ink shade that most closely mathces his working drawings in colored pencil. There are 60 different shades of green on the chart, and Ceisel cannot find the right one. This one is too yellow, that one too red. He does not explain to the art department why each green is wrong - just not parrotty enough, or something.
They know better than to ask. They will have the printer make up the precise shade of green.
"His color sense," says Grace Clarke, executive art director of the Random House junior books division, "is the most sophisticated I've ever run into." Geisel had to completely relearn color during the last two years, after undergoing an operation for removal of a cataract. The right eve saw brilliant color, following the operation; "the other eye, which still has a small cataract, sees everything like Whistler's Mother." The second cataract is to be removed next year, after which, says Geisel, deadpanned, "They claim I'll be as good as Picasso."
Geisel does not read childrens' literature, unless he is editing it, which is part of his job as the founder and head of the special early readers Random House Division called Beginner Books. Then he is fierce in his judgment, dismissing instantly the noxious breed of childrens' books that coo and mince and pat little heads.
"Bunny-Bunny books," he calls them. "Sugar plums. treacle, whimsy." He once turned down a manuscript from Truman Capote. (Diplomatically, neither Geisel not the Random House people remember what it was about.) "I try to treat the child as an equal," Geisel has said, "and go on the assumption that a child can understand anything that is read to him if the writer takes care to state it clearly and simply enough."
There is a vast difference, of course, between respectful simplicity and invention, and Geisel is an mystified about that as anybody - about makes one man dull a ship engine's throb with asprin, or neat whiskey, while another hears the beginnings of an imaginary backstreet elephant-and-giraffe parade. Geisel never set out to be a children's book writer. He was born in Springfield, Mass., the son of a German immigrant who had been, at various times, a brewer, a park superintendent, and a world champion rifle shot. Ted Geisel grew up in Springfield, graduated from Dartmouth, and spent a year at Oxford, during which time he is reported to have proposed (unsuccessfully) a new edition of "Paradise Lost," which would include such illustrations as the Archangel Uriel sliging down a sunbeam with an oil can to lubricate his trip.
He lived in New York, selling drawings, stories and political cartoons to magazines of the day - Judge, Vanity Fair, the Saturday Evening Post - and for 15 years he worked in advertising for Standard Oil of New Jersey.
He drew insecticide ads. "Quick, Henry! The Flit!" That was Geisel's creation.
He illustrated tow volumes of jokes, tried unsuccessfully to sell an alphabet book, and then in 1936 laid out the wounderfully paced mad fantasy of the boy named Marco in "And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street." Before a publishing friend of Geisel's took the book in at Vanguard Press, 20 publishers turned it down.
He had an easier time with the next one. "I was sitting in a railroad train, going up somewhere in Connecticut," Geisel says. "And there was a fellow sitting ahead of me, who I didn't like. I didn't know who he was. He had a real ridiculous Wall Street broker's hat on, very stuffy, on this commuting train. And I just began playing around with the idea of what his reaction would be if I took his hat off and threw it out the window."
Geisel smiles a small, slightly evil smile.
"And I said, 'He'd probably just grow another one and ignore me."
Which gave us "The 500 Hats Of Bartholomew Cubbins." Boy, confronted in castle by snooty royalty, cannot doff his hat because new hats keep appearing to replace it.
"In those days 90 percent of the stuff that was written was literary fairy tales," Geisel says. "I began to think of appurtenances around the castle, and one of them would be a bowman, and then it occurred to me there would also be and excutioner.And I said, 'We gotta get a little bastard of a crowned prince in here.' And I would draw and semi-write that sequence up. Then I would put in on the wall and see how they fit. I'm not a consecutive writer."
Once in a while there is an echo of something like anguish in Geisel's accounts of the workings of his own imagination - some constant, furious homage to the 1902 rifle target, its bullseye perforated by his father's exacting shots, that geisel keeps mounted on the wall.
"To remind me of perfection," he says.
He will sometimes work late into the night, or break off into an entirely different project, when some flaw in a book begins to gnaw at him. He spent a full year struggling over the smallish gopher-like creature called the Lorax. "One he was mechanized. That didn't work. He was big at one point. I did the obvious thing of making him green, shrinking him, growing him."
And then? "I looked at him and he looked like a Lorax."
But he was equally stumped by the story itself, a dismal tale about the Once-ler, who hacks down all the Truffula Trees to mass-produce Thneeds thereby driving away the Swomee-swams, starving out the Brown Bar-ba-loots, and - as the wheezing, outraged Lorax cries - "glumping the pond where the Humming-fish hummed." It was the angriest story Geisel had ever written, and he could not figure out how to make sense of it, how to keep it from turning into a lecture - a preachment," as Geisel says. Geisel has a horror of preachments. Audrey Geisel, who quite rightly believes that the best way to come unstuck is to stand on your head and try looking at things that way, suggested they go to Africa for a while, which the did.
"I hadn't thought of the Lorax for three weeks," Geisel says. "And a herd of elephants came across the hill - about a half mile away - one of those lucky things, that never happened since. And I picked up a laundry pad and wrote the whole book that afetenoon on a laundry pad." The final verion of The Lorax still begins in its ominous, haunting way:
At the far end of town
Where the Grickle-grass grows
And the wind smells slow-and sour when it blows
And no birds ever sing excepting old crows. . .
Is the street of the Lifted Lorax.
But it ends with some hope. One Truffula-Tree seed makes it through. And that Geisel, redeems the preachment. Happy endings, he has said, are vital: "A child identifies with the hero, and it is a personal tragedy to him when things don't come out all right."
Geisel, in an early fit of misguided inspiration, once wrote a book for adults. "My greatest failure," he says, pulling a rare copy of the bookshelf. "This is a book that nobody bought."
Its thesis is that there were in fact seven Lady Godivas (Gussie, Hedwig, Lulu, Teenie, Mitzi, Arabella, and Dorcas J.), each of them engaged to one of the seven Peeping Brothers. In order to avenge the unfortunate death of their father who was tossed by an arrogant horse enroute to the Battle of Hastings, the Ladies Godiva set out to discover Horse Truths (don't look a gift horse in the mouth, and so on while displaying limited but alluring portions of their anatomies.
"I don't think I drew proper naked ladies," Geisel says sadly, "I think their ankles came out wrong, and things like that." The book was published in 1937, priced steeply during the depression at $2 a copy, and less than a quarter of the 10,000 sold. They now go for $100 to $200. Geisel has a private fantasy about making the Godivas into an animated film, but he is not certain about how to rpesent nudity - the ankles, and things like that.
But the bulk oif Geisel's audience will always be children. "Writing for adults doesn't really interest me anymore," he said. "I think I've found the form in writing for kids , with which I can say everything I have to say little more distinctly than if I had to put it in adult prose."
He pulls from a file some typewritten pages from his new book. "You want to try reading one?" Geisels asks.
His visitor, reading slowly, makes a stab at it:
One year we had a Christmas brunch
With Merry Christmas Mush to munch.
But I don't think you'd care for such
We didn't like to munch mush much.
There is a rather bad moment of tongue-twisting at the end, and Geisel looks delighted. "These things are written way over the ability of first grade kids, and I think it's going to work," he said. "They're stinkers, (the tongue-twisters, not the children.)"
"I think one reason kids are not reading up to their potential is a lack of being urged - you can't urge them with a big stick, but you can urged them with competition."
Well now, demands his visitor, Geisel has to read one.
"Not wearing the right glasses," Geisel says quickly. "I can't." CAPTION: Picture, Theodor Seuss Geisel by Stephen Kelly for The Washington Post; Illustration 1, "Yertle the Turtle," copyright (c) 1958, by Dr. Seuss. Illustration reprinted by permission Random House Inc; Illustration 2, "The lorax.", Copyright (c) 1971. by Dr. Seuss. Illustration reprinted by permission Random House Inc; Illustration 3, "The Cat in the Hat Comes Home,"; copyright (c) 1958. by Dr. Seuss. Illustration reprinted by permission Random House Inc; Illustration 4, "green Eggs and Ham,"; copyright (c) 1960. by Dr. Seuss. Illustration reprinted by permission Random House Inc; Illustration 5, "Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book,"; copyright (c) 1962, By Dr. Seuss. Illustration reprinted by permission Random House Inc.


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Barring something drastic happening in the last round of this season's Premier League, it seems Harry Kane is already our 2016/17 Golden Boot victor.
The Tottenham striker hit four in Spurs' 6-1 win at Leicester on Thursday to move two clear of Romelu Lukaku in the race to be this season's top scorer.
Craig Shakespeare's side were beaten 6-1 at the King Power Stadium, the joint-biggest loss by a reigning Premier League champion after Manchester United to neighbours City in 2011.
FOUR of Tottenham's six goals on the night were credited to the England worldwide as the blur of perpetual motion that is Kane, Heung-Min Son and Dele Alli tore through the Foxes defense. 'I was looking to score a couple of goals, I was looking to take the golden boot into the last game, but now I'm in the driving seat.
"I was hoping to get one or two goals at least and then hopefully take it into the next game". Carragher said on Sky Sports. You can see with the smile on his face, Lukaku won't be able to sleep tonight.
The 23-year-old would surely have scored more than 40 if he hadn't missed two chunks of this season with ankle injuries, and Pochettino spoke glowing about Kane's appetite for success.
Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino says Harry Kane is "one of the best strikers in the world", and insists the club can keep their best players this summer. "We've not too much to play for now but we went out there and put on a performance like that". It's possible things can happen in the summer but we are so calm about our key players.
"We are building a very exciting project". Our aim is to win something now'.
Kane scored 25 goals last season to claim the Golden Boot, as Tottenham finished third, having netted 21 times in 2014-15.
However, with the Premier League's elite circling, Levy has reiterated he will not be ripping up the club's strict wage structure in order to fend off interest from their rivals, which has caused concern among fans.
"We said before the game that we'd secured second place and we wanted to go out there and enjoy it". I've got to go out against Hull and get four more, hopefully. They looked like scoring every time.