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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)

A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)

The Smith­son­ian sets the scene for this Christ­mas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depres­sion. They write: Despite the glum eco­nom­ic sit­u­a­tion, the Pinero fam­i­ly used a brown paper bag to fash­ion an inex­pen­sive hol­i­day greet­ing card. They penned a clever rhyme and added some charm­ing line draw­ings of Mom, Dad, and the kids with the mes­sage: “Oh, well—in spite of it all—here’s a Mer­ry Christ­mas from the Pineros.” On Decem­ber 19, 1933, they mailed it from Chica­go to friends in Mass­a­chu­setts, using a one-and-a-half-cent stamp. For a min­i­mal out­lay of cash, they were able to keep in touch with friends and com­ment on their reduced cir­cum­stances with wit and humor. This hand-let­tered poem is a delight­ful exam­ple of light verse, a whim­si­cal form of poet­ry intend­ed to enter­tain or amuse, even if treat­ing a seri­ous sub­ject in a humor­ous man­ner. In the poem, the Pineros sug­gest that they had strug­gled eco­nom­i­cal­ly for some time, but now, due to the con­tin­u­ing Depres­sion, oth­ers shared their finan­cial plight, which enabled them to …

King and Queen’s Christmas card revealed | UK News

King and Queen’s Christmas card revealed | UK News

The King and Queen’s Christmas card has been revealed, showing the monarch and his wife smiling in the Buckingham Palace garden. In the picture, taken by photographer Millie Pilkington in April, Charles wears a grey suit and blue tie. Camilla is in a blue wool crepe dress by Fiona Clare and also wears private jewellery. It is the couple’s third Christmas card since Charles became King. Its message reads: “Wishing you a very Happy Christmas and New Year.” The card features a less formal image than the one last year. It showed the royal couple in the Throne Room at the Palace following the coronation. Image: The couple’s official Christmas card last year. Pic: Hugo Burnand/Buckingham Palace The picture, by Hugo Burnand, showed Charles wearing the Imperial State Crown, coronation tunic and the robe of estate, with Camilla wearing Queen Mary’s Crown. Senior members of the Royal Family regularly send festive cards to friends, family and colleagues. Source link

Backlash over leaked report card plans

Backlash over leaked report card plans

More from this theme Recent articles Proposals for new Ofsted report cards will be too confusing for parents and could spawn a “whole new host of issues”, leaders say, after leaked plans last week caused widespread kickback. A slide obtained by the Financial Times showed schools could be judged on a sliding, five-point scale from ‘exemplary’ to ‘causing concerns’ across 10 evaluation areas. But the proposals were widely mocked, being dubbed “Ofsted numberwang” and likened to the Nando’s fast-food outlet’s “peri-ometer” for how spicy its chicken is. 10 judgments, 5 ratings The proposal was presented to school leaders last week. Slides showed schools being rated in 10 areas: curriculum, teaching, achievement, leadership, behaviour and values, attendance, preparation for next steps, opportunities to thrive, inclusion and belonging and safeguarding. They would be rated on a five-point scale from ‘exemplary’, ‘strong practice’, ‘secure’, ‘attention needed’, down to ‘causing concern’. In the slide, the ratings were depicted with colour codes ranging from red to purple. Source Financial Times There are conflicting reports about whether Ofsted has settled on …

Mapping the minefield to Labour’s ‘balanced report card’

Mapping the minefield to Labour’s ‘balanced report card’

More from this theme Recent articles In many ways the abolition of one-or two-word judgments of schools’ overall effectiveness was an easy win for the secretary of state. The so-called ‘balanced report card’ may prove much more difficult to deliver. The abolition of grades is cited as a major feature of the new government’s plans for Ofsted reform and involves replacing those problematic overall judgments with report cards offering parents “a much clearer, much broader picture of how schools are performing”. But after that easy win, the development of such cards is going to be beset with difficulties, as yet unacknowledged by either Ofsted or the DfE. A key issue in the design of report cards is likely to be the number and nature of any assessment grades they profile. It seems very likely that the current four-point grades will remain for the quality of education, personal development, leadership and management, and behaviour and attitudes judgments. But what if a new framework results in different groupings including possibly the restoration of teaching quality? It’s also …

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Is Belief in Improbable Theories Ever Warranted? A Fortune Teller’s Own Death Card

Is Belief in Improbable Theories Ever Warranted? A Fortune Teller’s Own Death Card

For years, I have been fascinated by the irrationality of science denial. When people typically engage in science denial, the problem is not simply that they deny well-tested empirical theories for which there is ample evidence but that they also usually subscribe to an alternative belief for which there is little to no evidence. Of course in science one cannot prove a theory is true no matter how good its evidence; unlike Euclidian geometry or deductive logic, science is about probability, not certainty. This sometimes provides a tiny crack of hope to a denier who will somehow jump to the conclusion that due to the absence of certainty, their own theory might be just as good as a scientific one. They think it could still be true,1 which means that they feel justified in their denial. This of course violates several norms of good empirical reasoning, which I have explored at greater length in my book The Scientific Attitude. The scientific attitude, I argue, is the founding ethos of science, whereby scientists as a community …

Teacher ‘planned date night with Ann Summers scratch card to reveal she was pregnant with teenager’s child’ | UK News

Teacher ‘planned date night with Ann Summers scratch card to reveal she was pregnant with teenager’s child’ | UK News

A teacher allegedly planned a “date night” with an “Ann Summers scratch card” and “rose petals” before revealing to one of her alleged teenage victims that she was pregnant with his child, a court has heard. Rebecca Joynes, 30, allegedly took the teenager’s virginity when he was 16, Manchester Crown Court heard, and had sex with him about 30 times before revealing she was expecting their child. Video interviews which boy B gave to the police after the teacher was arrested for a second time were shown to the jury, during which the youngster claims he was reassured he had been “great” after he lost his virginity to Joynes, the court heard. Joynes was already suspended from her high school job and on bail for alleged sexual activity with another schoolboy, boy A, 15, when she allegedly kissed and fondled the second, boy B, after sending him a photo of her bottom wearing just a thong, a jury heard. Joynes denies any sexual activity took place, has pleaded not guilty to six charges of sexual …

DuoFlip MagSafe iPhone ID card holder

DuoFlip MagSafe iPhone ID card holder

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