Remember that one time you couldn't poop for a few days and it hurt (and stunk) like hell? Most people have felt that same pain. Constipation is one of the most common gastrointestinal problems, affecting 42 million people in the United States, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. And it's super-common among women, especially during pregnancy or post-baby.
It's safe to say if you want to have a happy and healthy life, you've got to be able to get yourself out of constipation nation—and that's not going to happen if your GI tract hates what you're eating. The main thing to keep in mind? Load up on good 'ol fiber—the MVP of healthy bowel movements.
You need fiber in your diet to help push foods through the intestinal tract. Just remember to drink plenty of water throughout the day to soften your stool so that it can pass through easily.
Here are the best fiber-rich, poop-prompting foods to eat when you've been seriously struggling on the toilet.
Most of us hear broccoli come up in just about every discussion of good-for-you foods. That's because the green stuff is an amazing source of essential vitamins, protein, and yup, fiber! Eating plenty of vegetables is essential to good digestive health. Add a cup of cooked broccoli to any lunch or dinner for an additional five and a half grams of fiber.
Yet another reason to sneak in those whole grains: Oats are full of soluble fiber, which helps dissolve water, softening stool and making it easier for it to pass through the intestines. They also contain insoluble fiber, which increases stool bulk and helps get everything moving. Basically, they become a dream team and work their poop-inducing magic. Include three servings of whole grains in your diet every day, especially "intact grains" like oats and brown rice.
Want to add some green to your pasta? Throw in a cup of spinach. It's full of fiber (one cup of cooked spinach has four grams) and contains magnesium, a mineral that can aid in moving stool. Magnesium is often found in laxatives, but incorporating it into your diet is a less extreme option for most people.
Add a handful of nuts like pistachios, peanuts, almonds, or walnuts in your diet every day. Toss them into your yogurt, salad, or just munch on them as a midday snack for a fiber boost. While they're a great source of protein and healthy fats, just a half cup of whole almonds also gives you almost nine grams of fiber.
Berries are always in the superfood spotlight due to their abundance of antioxidants, but they're also rich in other essential nutrients. Half a cup of both blackberries and raspberries pack in about four grams of fiber each. Half a cup of sliced strawberries offers about half the amount. These fruits are super versatile, so throw them into your whole grain cereal and pancakes or even add some low-fat whipped cream on top of a bowl of your favorite berries for a low-calorie dessert option.
In this case, "an apple a day" is still golden advice. A small apple with the skin on it contains 3.6 grams of fiber. The peels of many fruits contain insoluble fiber, which acts as a natural laxative.
If you're looking for a healthy grab-and-go snack, opt for a dried fruit like prunes. Sure, they sound like something your grandma would have hiding in her kitchen, but there's a reason people turn to prunes when they're having issues downstairs. They're rich in fiber (one half cup has about six grams) and contain sorbitol and fructan, which are natural sugars that have a laxative effect. Not into prunes? Try figs or apricots instead.
Prunes are the first food you thought of, right? They're rich in fiber. The nutrient is what increases the bulk of your stool so it can move along on its merry way.
You know what they say: beans, beans the magical fruit…so yeah, it makes sense that they can also help with bowel movements. Beans provide a winning combination of soluble and insoluble fiber, the former softens your poo, and the latter bulks it up, making it easier to pass through your digestive tract. This fiber is very helpful for stimulating digestion, as well as for feeding gut bacteria. Additionally, eating a diet high in fiber will help bulk up the weight and size of your stool—and this makes it easier to pass!
While there's no fiber in coffee, some research shows that it can stimulate bowel movement. You may not think of coffee as something that helps get things moving, but it does for about 30 percent of people. Some people even notice the effect from decaf coffee.
Drinking enough water is the most important factor in relieving constipation. Water is critical to help stool move easily through the colon.
If you want to poop like a champ, you need to consume enough fruits, vegetables, and water. But if you change your diet and you're still stuck, it might be time to see a doc. If constipation is an ongoing issue and they've done all the right things and still have problems, like they're not responding to high fiber foods and they're seeing issues like bleeding or abdominal pain, these are things that should be evaluated by a doctor or a gastroenterologist.


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No to NATO — Yes to Peace FESTIVAL
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April 3-4, 2019, Washington, D.C.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is coming to Washington, D.C., on April 4. We're organizing a peace festival to unwelcome them.
Wednesday, April 3 at St. Stephen's Church, 1525 Newton St NW, Washington, D.C. 20010:
12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Art-Making Workshop, and Nonviolence Protest/Activist Training (munch on vegan snacks, make art, and plan for the April 4 protest)
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.: Art-Making & Exhibits, Interactive Booths, Vegan Food & Drink (food & drinks available throughout the evening)
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.: Keynote Speeches
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.: Concert
REGISTER TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT.
Plans to include a procession from the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial to a rally at Freedom Plaza, and nonviolent demonstrations outside the NATO meeting. Details TBA.
Other No to NATO events:
Saturday, March 30 @ 1:00 p.m. Rally at Lafayette Park
Tuesday, April 2 No to NATO – Yes to Peace and Disarmament Counter-Summit
Thursday, April 4 evening Black Alliance for Peace Celebration
Lodging for the nights of 2nd and 3rd is available.
Why? NATO is coming to DC to mark 70 years since its creation on April 4, 1949. NATO is the largest military alliance in the world with the largest military spending (roughly three-quarters of the world total) and nuclear stockpiles. While claiming to "preserve peace," NATO has violated international law and bombed Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Libya. NATO has exacerbated tensions with Russia and increased the risk of nuclear apocalypse. The notion that supporting NATO is a way to cooperate with the world ignores superior non-deadly ways to cooperate with the world.
Our Message: War is a leading contributor to the growing global refugee and climate crises, the basis for the militarization of the police, a top cause of the erosion of civil liberties, and a catalyst for racism and bigotry. We're calling for the abolition of NATO, the promotion of peace, the redirection of resources to human and environmental needs, and the demilitarization of our cultures. Instead of celebrating NATO's 70th anniversary, we're celebrating peace on April 4, in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech against war on April 4, 1967, as well as his assassination on April 4, 1968.
The Case Against NATO:
While Donald Trump once blurted out the obvious: that NATO is obsolete, he subsequently professed his commitment to NATO and began pressuring NATO members to buy more weapons. So, the notion that somehow NATO is anti-Trump and therefore good would not only be silly and practically amoral on its own terms, it is also at odds with the facts of Trump's behavior. We are planning an anti-NATO / pro-peace action at which opposition to the militarism of NATO's dominant member is welcome and necessary.
NATO has pushed the weaponry and the hostility and the massive so-called war games right up to the border of Russia. NATO has waged aggressive wars far from the North Atlantic. NATO has added a pertnership with Colombia, abandoning all pretense of its purpose being in the North Atlantic. NATO is used to free the U.S. Congress from the responsibility and the right to oversee the atrocities of U.S. wars. NATO is used as cover by NATO member governments to join U.S. wars under the pretense that they are somehow more legal or acceptable. NATO is used as cover to illegally and recklessly share nuclear weapons with supposedly non-nuclear nations. NATO is used to assign nations the responsibility to go to war if other nations go to war, and therefore to be prepared for war. NATO's militarism threatens the earth's environment. NATO's wars fuel racism and bigotry and erode our civil liberties while draining our wealth.
Read a statement by No to War — No to NATO.
Read a statement by the Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases.
We must say: No to NATO, Yes to peace, Yes to prosperity, Yes to a sustainable environment, Yes to civil liberties, Yes to education, Yes to a culture of nonviolence and kindness and decency, Yes to remembering April 4th as a day associated with the work for peace of Martin Luther King Jr.
"As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they asked, and rightly so, 'What about Vietnam?' They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent." —MLK Jr.
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From the Archives: The Interview – Sophie Ebrard
The award-winning photographer on taking risks, finding beauty in life (and porn), and how she manages celebrity shoots with a baby
Published by Clare Dwyer Hogg on 30th September 2015
An award-winning photographer much in demand, Sophie Ebrard's work has appeared in publications all over the world. Yet photography is her second career, after advertising. Born in France, Ebrard now lives between Amsterdam and London, with her partner and one-year-old son, Jules. She talks about taking risks, finding beauty in life, and how she manages long-haul flights and celebrity shoots with a baby
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Photography is your second career. What inspired you to make the leap from your first job in advertising?
I had made it to a senior role in advertising, in charge of a global account over 53 countries. Yet the creative side was gone. That's when I started to feel that I wasn't where I wanted to be. I decided to give photography a go for six months. So, from 6 January 2010, when I met someone new, I told them I was a photographer. It was a start at least.
Did it feel like a brave move?
Yes! I needed to stop my job before I went crazy, but I had to learn photography from scratch. I had always loved taking photographs, even in childhood, but I didn't know anything aside from point and shoot. I researched, and contacted all the photographers I really liked. Having mentors is really helpful.
Did you find work quickly?
I was lucky. People I had worked with in advertising gave me my first jobs. In the UK it seems that people are a lot more open about career changes. I don't think it would have happened in France.
You became a photographer in January 2010. In October 2013, your son was born. How did this change things?
I was totally scared. A friend told me she was given less work once she had a baby. I was worried that people's perception of me was going to change. As a result, I never posted pictures of myself pregnant on social media and I hid a little. When Jules was born, it was the same. I do regret that in a way. The truth is, last year was my busiest year and I made it work with him.
Does Jules travel with you on work jobs?
Oh yes. I was breast-feeding until 10 months, so from the start, I made sure I brought him with me. Last year, we were on lots of long haul flights, including LA and New York (twice).
How do you manage it?
Sometimes my nanny comes with me to look after Jules on set. In New York my boyfriend was there, on another shoot, I had my parents… The first year was just about trying to survive, trying to make it work. I was shooting celebrities, so it was really full on. It was challenging, but there were some amazing times.
What was the most challenging shoot?
We went to New York to shoot Michael Bublè for Rolex. Then it was back to Amsterdam with a 10 day turnaround before LA, to shoot James Cameron. The jet-lag for Jules in New York was horrific. My boyfriend was taking him for walks in Central Park at 5am so I could sleep. I knew I was going to be on a long-haul flight to LA on my own with him, and then I would have to do the nights on my own whilst shooting. I was still feeding. I couldn't bear the thought of it.
So… I kept Jules on New York time zone for those 10 days. We went to bed at 3am and woke at 2pm. Luckily my boyfriend was really helpful, and we did a lot of playing at weird times. It was worth it. When I got to LA, Jules was in the perfect time zone. There are solutions for everything – you just have to be creative.
How did your subjects react to having a baby on set?When I was shooting James Cameron on that LA trip, the thing I remember most was him talking to Jules. We spoke together about families a lot. It was such a great shoot. The same when I shot Roger Federer: he had just announced that his wife was pregnant again (although he didn't mention it was with a second set of twins!) Having Jules with me meant we had a very open conversation about pregnancy. I think when people see I'm a mother, it helps with a certain amount of bonding and ease.
Has the way you photograph changed since you became a mother?
I think that while I shoot in the same way, I've become more sensitive to people. Maybe I'm more careful, more compassionate.
What do you wish people had told you about motherhood?
That there is an end to the tunnel! At the beginning it felt like I was just managing things to keep the baby alive. I loved my life before, and didn't want to change it. It's so hard to place that time. And then – it started to be fun. Jules is starting to be really funny, and I love hanging out with him.
Your work is renowned for finding the beauty in everyday things. Does this translate into your daily life?
I avoid looking at things that aren't beautiful. I've always been attracted to beauty and light – I grew up in the Alps, where every day was beautiful. When I take pictures, I always try to see the beauty in the people or the place I'm shooting. That's my forte. I think that's why my work attracts people in advertising: I find beauty in the mundane.
Your first solo project is a behind-the-scenes look at pornography. What made you dig into this subject?
I wanted to do a project with naked people, and it's hard to ask friends to do that! My ex-agent took me to a swingers party to meet people. It was so interesting – once I'd got over being scared and having giggling fits, that is. I saw people having sex in front of me: it was a real eye opener. I wished I'd had my camera, because the way the bodies were entwined was very pretty. Suddenly I understood sculpture, and how the human body is amazingly beautiful. From that moment, I knew I wanted to do a project with the human body.
…and why pornography?
At the party, I met a porn director and his girlfriend, the stylist on set. We got on well, and they invited me to their next shoot. I went to Stoke on Trent, to a 17th Century castle where they were filming, and then Spain, Wales, Inverness… I suppose you would call it high-end porn. It's the best you can find if you're looking for it. I was lucky because the sets were beautiful, and I met some very nice people.
What did you learn?
The view in pornography is often very close up, with a lot of lighting. When I showed my pictures to the actors, they were amazed, and it struck me that they had never seen themselves like this. Seeing it from my angle, it looked more like a film set. Some of the photographs are beautiful, some are funny… I wanted to tell people that I had fun, and it wasn't a bad experience. I'm looking for an exhibition space at the moment.
Did you take Jules on those shoots?
No, but I would have if I'd been breast-feeding. He'd have been too small to remember, and the people were lovely.
You live between East London and Amsterdam, and have a house in Cape Verde. Does your identity change from place to place?
I do play different roles in different countries. Amsterdam is chilled, so I'm more a mum there, and focussed on editing. In London, that's when I capture the vibrancy and excitement of the city, get energised, meet people, start new projects. Cape Verde is a holiday. I shoot lots of images there, and it's also where I reconnect, do sports, and be in the sun.
What do you want to model to your son?
I want him to grow up seeing that when you're passionate about things, you can go anywhere you want. You can be successful. That's not something just for mothers or women, but for him too. It's willpower.
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Georgia Edition
The Georgia Truth-O-Meter
I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person.
— Kanye West on Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 in a newspaper interview
West hits sour notes in Grammy claim
By Janel Davis on Thursday, August 15th, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.
Kanye West and his mother Donda hold his three awards backstage at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards in this Feb. 8, 2006, in Los Angeles. West won for best rap album, solo and song. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file)
PolitiFact Georgia typically limits its fact-checking to politicos and power brokers who make an impact on the political process.
But sometimes the worlds of politics and entertainment intersect. Such is the case for rapper-producer Kanye West, who just happens to have metro Atlanta connections.
West is one of the most recognizable and best-selling musicians around. But he has also had his share of run-ins with the top rungs of the political class, including Republican and Democratic presidents.
He evoked the ire of President George W. Bush in 2005 by telling the country during a televised benefit concert in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that "George Bush doesn't care about black people." Bush later said that the suggestion was an "all-time low" of his presidency.
President Barack Obama called West a derogatory term after the rapper infamously interrupted singer Taylor Swift during her acceptance speech at the 2009 Video Music Awards. The president slammed West again in a follow-up interview. Just a couple of weeks ago, Obama criticized the over-the-top lifestyle of West and the entertainer's unmarried mother of his child, Kim Kardashian. Obama questioned the effect the West-Kardashian lifestyle would have on impressionable young people who view them as role models.
So we decided to check West's statement about his place in popular culture. (Visit our Facebook page and let us know what you think: www.facebook.com/politifact.georgia.)
About a week before the release of his album "Yeezus," The New York Times published an extensive interview with the Chicago rapper. During that interview while discussing his Grammy wins, West said, "I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person."
He continued: "But the thing is, I don't care about the Grammys; I just would like for the statistics to be more accurate."
West's claims about having the most golden gramophones piqued our interest, so we decided to run them through the AJC Truth-O-Meter.
West is a hometown boy. Although he claims Chicago as his home, the rapper was born in Atlanta before moving with his mother to the Windy City at age 3. His parents met and married in Atlanta, according to a book by West's mother. His father, Ray West, was one of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's earliest black photographers. The AJC recently compiled a slideshow of some of his photographs taken while working at the paper.
To check out Kanye West's claims, we first contacted his publicist, Gabe Tesoriero at Island Def Jam Music Group. Tesoriero asked what our story was about. We detailed the claims we were checking and the PolitiFact process. Tesoriero provided no further response.
The official Grammys website says the honors are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and recognize achievement in the music industry during the previous year. The first Grammy Awards were held in May 1959.
Slate Magazine also checked out West's claims. The online magazine found that he was partially accurate. At age 36 and with 21 Grammy wins (out of 53 nominations), West has the most awards for anyone his age, Slate said. But he has beaten out several white artists for the awards, including fellow rappers Eminem and the Beastie Boys.
We reviewed a list of Grammy statistics compiled by Wikipedia. Doing our own research, we counted each Grammy for artists ahead of West on the list of Grammy wins. We checked the artists' biographies to determine their 36th birthday to compare their wins by that age.
West's 21 wins ties him with composer and pianist John Williams for the eighth most Grammy wins. Our research found that singer-songwriter Alison Krauss (with 27 Grammys) appears to have tied West's 21 wins by age 36, according to official past winner information and biographical data we checked. (As a group, rock band U2 earned its 22 awards before 2012, when the band would have been together 36 years.) But other award winners with more Grammys ahead of West on the list -- including Quincy Jones and Stevie Wonder -- had not reached the 21-award mark by their 36th birthdays. The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, by the way, earned 12 Grammys by his 36th birthday.
As to whether West has ever beaten out any white artists, he has. For example, in 2005, West beat nominees including Eminem for best rap solo performance with "Gold Digger."
But all of West's Grammy wins have been in the rap and R&B categories, which are dominated by black artists. He has never won overall Grammys in categories such as Album of the Year and Record of the Year.
Multiple music critics have criticized the Grammys for overlooking West in these broad categories. Writers for Time and the Los Angeles Times cried foul when West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" wasn't nominated for Album of the Year at the 54th Grammys. The Slate Magazine writer who also examined West's Grammy claims noted that "West believes that he has been shut out from the 'bigger' awards ... in part because he's black."
West's opinions about his Grammy standings are his own and not for Politifact Georgia to check.
But on the facts, West claimed he has won the most Grammys for anyone his age. One other individual artist, Alison Krauss, has tied this feat. On his claim that he's never beaten out a white artist for a Grammy, West is incorrect. He has beaten white artists in album and song categories.
We rate his claims Mostly False.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.
Researched by: Janel Davis
Edited by: Jim Denery, Jim Tharpe
Subjects: Pop Culture
The New York Times, "Behind Kanye's Mask," Jon Caramanica, June 11, 2013
The Washington Post, "Kanye West's 'Yeezus' -- a darker, more twisted fantasy," Chris Richards, June 17, 2013
ABC News, "10 memorable quotes by Kanye West," Luchina Fisher, June 12, 2013
Grammy.com, Past Winners Search website
Slate, "Has Kanye won Grammys against white competitors?" Aisha Harris, June 12, 2013
Wikipedia, Grammy Award records
Clash review, Kanye West: Yeezus, "A dark journey through Kanye's sordid mind," Marcus J. Moore, June 20, 2013
Huffington Post, President Obama: "Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's wealth isn't a realistic mark of success," Aug. 7, 2013
NPR, "George Bush says Kanye West's attack was low point of his presidency, West agrees," Bill Chappell, Nov. 3, 2010
Huffington Post, President Obama on Kanye West, Nov. 14, 2009
Email, Gabe Tesoriero, West's publicist, June 24, 2013
"Raising Kanye: Life Lessons from the Mother of a Hip-Hop Superstar," Donda West with Karen Hunter, Pocket Books, 2007
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Photos: A look back at the work of AJC photographer Ray West
Time, "Grammys Fallout: The subtle snubbing of Kanye," Toure, Dec. 3, 2011
Los Angeles Times, "Critic's Notebook: Grammy Awards? Your granny's awards," Randall Roberts, Nov. 30, 2011
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Q: Rules of inference - Is my application of simplification in this proof, correct? Could someone verify that my proof is valid as the question did not have a solution?

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*$(\lnot R \lor \lnot F) \to (S \land L)$

*$(S \to T)$

*$(\lnot T)$

*$(\lnot S)$   2,3 Modus tollens

*$\lnot (\lnot R \lor \lnot F) \lor (S \land L)$ 1, implication equivalence

*$(R \land F) \lor (S \land L)$ 5, double negation

*$(R \lor S)$ 6, simplification

*$(R)$ 7,4 Disjunctive syllogism
My main concern is with line 7 with the use of simplification, have I applied the rule correctly?
I understand that with simplification if you have $(P \land Q)$ and apply it, it returns $(P)$.
For my proof, you had to show that lines 1-3 (the hypotheses) entail $R$.

A: As correctly said by Mauro Allegranza, your usage of simplification is wrong.
As an alternative to the proofs suggested by Mauro Allegranza (which are perfect), consider the following proof:

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*$(\lnot R \lor \lnot F) \to (S \land L)$ assumption

*$(S \to T)$ assumption

*$(\lnot T)$ assumption

*$(\lnot S)$   2,3 Modus tollens

*$(\lnot S \lor \lnot L)$  4, addition

*$\lnot(S \land L)$ 5, De Morgan

*$\lnot(\lnot R \lor \lnot F)$ 1, 6 Modus tollens

*$(R \land F)$ 7, double negation (De Morgan)

*$(R)$ 8, simplification

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Data scientists are worth their weight in gold but they can become ineffective and bottlenecked if they don't know the customer, the business problem, or the data itself.
You can throw a team of 5 highly paid data scientists at a SaaS churn prediction problem, but unless they can put themselves in the customers' shoes, understand what levers the business can pull, and explore the data freely, their results won't be effective.
You should also be able to speak the language of the customer, even as a data scientist.
Stakeholder empathy is knowing how to implement your results. Data Scientists themselves are not the ones executing a business change, they are the ones illuminating an insight and giving a recommendation. Therefore, it is extremely important that you know your audience and how they will act upon your data.
This can be the Product Manager that you support, the General Manager that runs the product, or person that you're ultimately driving the data deliverable to.
Like customer empathy, you sit down with this person and see what makes them tick. You can do this by sitting in work group meetings, all hands, strategic meetings, etc.
Product Knowledge is knowing the ins and out of the product. What are all of the features in the product? What can users do? What is a typical work flow like?
Putting yourself through the hard training.
What training do the power users go through? What about the admins? The sales people? It may seem like overkill, but I've implemented this as a requirement for me and my team going forward.
You'd be surprised how data scientists are a hammer looking for a nail, but even worse, they don't know what a nail is. They sometimes do analytics and modeling with zero business context.
It's too easy to become removed from the product when you're sitting comfortably in an SOMA office on the caffeinated end of a python notebook.
For execs, ask your team leads when was the last time their analysts got hands on with a customer.
For team leads, create opportunities for your analysts to get out of the office to build empathy.
For data scientists, give yourself a rating 1-5 in each of the three areas. Then create a plan to uplevel +1 in each rating.
Here are my Top Reads of 2018. As I put this list together, I saw that there was a common theme: Simplicity. Simple language, simple ideas, and articulating complex topics in a simple way.
What's your favorite book that you read this year?
To "Orbit The Giant Hairball" means to find your satellite place within the corporate environment that you can do your own thing. Finding a corner in a large company, making sure you're having fun, and flying under the radar. Gordon Mackenzie was a creative who survived the corporate card making business at Hallmark.
The art of persuasion and storytelling starts with reducing an idea to it's essence...then having people try to remember it. Made To Stick is a great guide book on how to shape your ideas so people actually care.
Steven Pressfield, most known for "Gates of Fire" (the book that '300' the movie was based on), writes about the craft of art itself. He masters his creative routine by calling his muse everyday. Steven taught me how to how to use 'Resistance' as a compass. For further reading, check out The War Of Art.
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a beautiful simple fiction that spans the life of man who rises from the poor rice fields to riches in Asia. Quick, easy read that is hard to put down. Recommendation From: Tim Ferriss.
Eric Blehm does a magnificent job recounting the life of Randy Morgenson, a Sierra park ranger who spent his time saving others from danger, until one day he goes missing himself. I loved reading about the culture of park rangers, how a search and rescue is conducted and a the history of the parks system. A must read for anyone who hikes in the Sierras.
A sobering and chillingly accurate description of Silicon Valley, Private Citizens follows a group of friends through the maze of the Bay Area. If you live in San Francisco, or want to see another side you won't hear about in the news, check it out. Warning: This book can put you in a gloomy mood.
The Lessons of History is a short survey of the last 3,000 years of history. This book is bite sized enough to digest, but not a textbook that feels too academic to read. More than ever I realized that our life is really just a drop in the ocean of time.
Awesome book. As far as I'm concerned, this is the bible on how to manage a professional services firm. This is a great intro to learn about how to run a business in general. You can feel the expertise and craftsmanship behind these words. Favorite topic: Underdelegation = What % of your job that you're doing right now could be done by someone more junior?
Once you have your startup idea, this is the book you need to read as you execute. An awesome step by step guide for validating your idea, and bring your project to life. Warning: Don't look to it for new ideas, but a roadmap for execution. If you follow the directions, you'll come out the other end on top.
My favorite book of 2018. Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, is successful (which he defines as doing what he wants and when he wants) because of a pretty simple reason: He's tried many things. In fact, this is a common theme I've seen across almost all the successful people I've seen, they try things until one of them hits.
I buddy of mine told me that he's hiring for a new Head Of Growth at his company. While I mulled over some candidates, I started to think about what interview questions I'd ask if I were the one doing the recruiting.
If you were given 100 headcount, what would you do with them?
Who's the 1st person you hire? 5th? 50th?
What types of skills would you hire for?
How would you structure the team?
Do you prefer to own product? Or do you internally consult? Where does User Research fit with your team?
Where do growth teams usually struggle? Where do they fail?
How do you think about team development? What ratio of junior to senior analysts and managers do you need?
What are the foundations of any growth process at a company?
If you were to give a talk to a growth conference, what would be your topic?
How do you think Andrew Chen got to where he is today?
Do you have hands on experience with an ETL? Data modeling?
Can you tell someone the schema of the data set you need? Or would you rather just set the requirements?
Do you align yourself more with the technical side of data science...or the business side of data?
Given a MAU chart, what else do you need to tell me if things are bad or good?
How do you think about users (or $$$) coming in and leaving each month?
When your back is up against the wall, how do you work your way out?
Tell me about your experience implementing any 3rd party analytics or experimentation tools.
How does this move fit within your career plan?
Why this job? Why now?
Does he/she ask if the company why they think they are ready for a Head of Growth?
Half of this person's job will be communicating, are they able to tell a story from the 30K ft view to the nuts and bolts?
Around 7:30am Thursday morning I'm sitting at my desk sipping coffee #1 of the day. I decided to put up an old post about job-seeking advice to Hacker News. I've put up posts in the past that have resulted in 1-2 up-votes or comments. Needless to say, I wasn't expecting much.
Come 2 hours later and I start to see some twitter activity (I'm not very active on there either) towards my handle. I check Hacker News and I see my post on the front page with a bunch of comments and +250 up-votes.
All in all, this spot on the front page ended up sending ~17K people to my site. The comments on the post were largely negative (which is always fun to read) but the most encouraging part was advice shared by other users. Net/Net I'm chalking this post + comments as a net positive to humanity.
What would an offsite with yourself look like?
A recent work offsite (team bonding, long range planning, goals, etc.) had me thinking...what would an offsite with yourself look like? Just you and yourself spending some time together getting things done.
My offsite would be up in Lake Tahoe at the family cabin.
4:00pm - [Drive Up] - Drive to Tahoe and listen to a podcast. Stop at Chiptole.
8:00pm - [Prep Work] - Mentally get stoked for the weekend. Overlook the agenda and review the goals. Argue with a brew as to who was having more fun.
7:30am - [Gratitude] - Wake up and enjoy the blue skies.
8:00am - [Workout] - Go for a run. Very important to get the blood flowing and sweat out the previous night.
9:00am - [Mental Brainwork] - Coffee, read, write a bit, repeat.
10:00am - [Physical Brainwork] - Manual labor. Any tactile labor that gets me working with my hands. Raking leaves, moving firewood, etc. This work gets your brain primed for the day.
11:00am - [+15% out of your comfort zone] - Do something crazy. Dance, yell, jump. Get weird for a second. Step out of your regularly scheduled broadcast.
11:10am - [Past] - Arguably the most important part of the weekend. This is when you reflect on where you've been.
What's been stressing you out?
How do you feel about how life is going?
When have you been happiest?
When have you been saddest?
What's blocking you from getting what you want?
Do Tony Robin's Dickens Process exercise.
What're the values you're living by right now?
Do Tim Ferriss's fear setting exercise. This exercise is a way to get over whatever fears you have in a big decision.
Take an inventory of your seven dimensions of wellness.
What are you goals for the next 5 years? The purpose of this question isn't to get an answer, it's purley just to think about it.
What do you want to have done this time next year?
What do you want to do next quarter?
What do you want to do next week?
Do your soon-to-be plans reflect your longer term goal?
Set next steps for yourself. What are the actions you're going to start (or change) when you get back?
6:30pm - [Self-cooked meal] - Start the grill, Cook a hearty non-vegetarian dinner.
8:30pm - [Reflection] - Pull out some whiskey, your journal, and favorite pen to reflect. Did you get what you wanted out of the day?
9:15pm - [Closing Credits] - Let your mind wonder. Think about the little things. Contemplate whether or not you'll ever know how to pronounce Goethe.
10:00pm - [Bed time] - Night Night.
8:00am - [Self-cooked meal] - Make scrambled eggs with the leftover BBQ.
8:30am - [Mental Brainwork] - Coffee, read, write a bit, repeat.
9:30am - [Reflection] - Review your goals and next steps from the day before.
10:00am - [End] - Head back to The Bay.


Sarah Clarke is Managing Director of Intuition, North America. Sarah leads Intuition's digital online learning solutions and consultancy service where she and her team partner with Intuition's customers to deliver first-class training solutions. These highly tailored programs provide clients with the ability to educate through effective digital online, mobile, virtual and in-person programs, blending aspects of microlearning, video and games based learning, and instructor-led services. With 16 years' experience in the digital-learning industry and with Intuition for 13 years, Sarah has developed and delivered some of Intuition's signature programs to Intuition's top customers. Sarah is PRINCE2 qualified and holds a first-class honors BA degree in Design for Interactive Media and a Master of Science in Multimedia Systems.


Baltimore has always been a major hub of Jesuit education. From Loyola University and Loyola Blakefield to Cristo Rey High School and St. Ignatius Loyola Academy, the Jesuits have a long-standing tradition in Central Maryland.
Even as young as two years old, the Loyola Early Learning Center teaches children to center themselves on God.
The LELC officially opened to 18 2-year-old children on Sept. 11, 2017. Over the next few years, the school will grow to include pre-K-2 through pre-K-4, with 60 students by September 2019.
Fr. William Watters, SJ, founder and president of the Loyola Early Learning Center, with one of its first students and her mom.
The center is indeed a result of generous giving from the parishioners of St. Ignatius Church, located one block away. Fr. Watters rallied the support needed to renovate the existing structure and build the center, and to fully cover three years of tuition for these first 18 children. The LELC plans to operate 11 months of the year— September through July—with a full day from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Another unique feature of this Jesuit preschool is that it strives to help the entire family, including opportunities for parents to learn more about budgeting, cooking and reading to their children. "Families sign a contract to show their commitment to investing in the school with their time and talent," explained Fr. Watters.
New days continue to dawn in Jesuit education as the Society seeks to make an impact earlier and earlier in our young people's lives.
There every step of the way: Fr. Watters was there to oversee his vision becoming reality.
Mike Gabriele is director of communications for the Maryland Province.


CELORON — Construction is slated next month for the Chautauqua Harbor Hotel as developers Peter Krog and Dave Hart visited Monday to put a shovel into the ground.
Local officials joined Krog and Hart in Celoron to celebrate the coming of the $30.8 million destination hotel. Krog, CEO of Krog Corp., said he's exited to get going on the project that's set for construction in two to three weeks.
Hart acknowledged how nice the waterfront site looked during the sunny February day. Hart, CEO and president of Hart Hotels, said they're looking forward to renting out rooms in the spring or summer of 2018.
When they set out to establish their harbor hotels, Hart said they had specific destinations in mind.
Hart said the hotel will feature over 130 rooms, a ballroom with the capacity for 300 people, a 10,000-12,000 square-foot lakeside patio, indoor and outdoor pools and inside cabana bar, among other amenities.
Celoron Mayor Scott Schrecengost said the harbor hotel is a game changer for the village. For a while, they worked to get the 9 acres of waterfront property next to the park moving. The property sat for almost 50 years, he said.
County Executive Vince Horrigan said it's one of those days that's been in the making for a while.
"We're excited about this. Tourism and hospitality are clearly driving Chautauqua County forward," he said.


Today's hospitals and health systems face unprecedented urgency to get ahead of antibiotic-resistant strains of microorganisms. More than ever, clinical leaders need resources and tools that speed clinical response and drive improved performance with antimicrobial stewardship initiatives.
Forward-looking clinical leaders increasingly recognize that the right technological infrastructure is critical to supporting these efforts. They also know that a solution's return on investment (ROI) is intrinsically linked to one factor: outcomes improvement.
We are proud to announce that a recent KLAS report rated Sentri7 highest among its peers for driving tangible antimicrobial stewardship outcomes. The leading research group's "Antimicrobial Stewardship 2017" report gave the clinical surveillance solution high marks for quality interventions that lead to better outcomes, ease of use and its customizable platform.
Sentri7 customers especially appreciate the robust rules library that optimally aligns interventions around key antimicrobial stewardship strategies. In fact, our superior approach starts with the end goal in mind—better outcomes—and builds clinical workflows around that aim. Our extensive work with partners in the field combined with knowledge of the current literature and best practices are reflected in the metrics and reports Sentri7 uses to demonstrate the performance of an effective, outcomes-driven stewardship program. The solution's ROI is demonstrated in clinical outcomes, financial outcomes, process and structural measures and also regulatory mandates that are related to stewardship, infection prevention and general infection management.
Based heavily on IDSA-SHEA Guidelines for Antimicrobial Stewardship, our content set works in tandem with real-time surveillance and monitoring to address the scope of antimicrobial use from initial selection to optimizing (empiric) therapy to ensuring the optimal dose and route are utilized. The culture and medication surveillance rule types also reflect the monitoring that clinicians undertake at a population level to scrutinize drug use information, microbiology data and other information that informs performance improvement opportunities.
In addition to the tools highlighted in the KLAS report, Sentri7 supports robust days-of-therapy (DOT) reporting and one-click antimicrobial use (AU) reporting to the CDC's National Health Safety Network. Plans are in place to continue our vision of adding value to Sentri7 to impact and influence antimicrobial stewardship outcomes. The future roadmap includes the addition of reports and rules that better reflect the efforts of antimicrobial stewardship teams in their quest to improve antibiotic use and better manage patient care.


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This is a list of schools of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Des Moines.

Tertiary
 Mercy College of Health Sciences

K-12 schools

High schools

K-8 schools
St. Luke the Evangelist Catholic School (Ankeny)
St. Luke the Evangelist Catholic School was opened in August 2015 by the diocese on the western side of Ankeny at 1102 NW Weigel on a  plot of land. The initial school and church building had a cost of $8.2 million. Dr. The school initially housed K-3rd grade students. Each year following, a new grade is added until it serves K-8th grade students in 2020. On October 21, 2021 a groundbreaking was held for an expansion with a cost of $3.5 million, with $3.2 million paid through cash and gifts.
St. Malachy School (Creston)
Des Moines
Christ the King School
Holy Trinity School
St. Anthony School
St. Augustin School
St. Joseph School
St. Theresa School
St. Patrick School (Perry)
The school was dedicated on February 21, 1921.
St. Pius X School (Urbandale)
It opened with an initial 120 students in September 1956. Initially its facility was one story tall and had eight classrooms, but an additional eight classrooms were added after construction began on another section on May 1, 1962. That section had two stories. The area Catholic high school is Dowling Catholic High School in West Des Moines.
West Des Moines
Sacred Heart School
St. Francis of Assisi School - Opened in fall 2000

Elementary schools
Shelby County Catholic School (Harlan)

Former schools
Former High Schools

Former K-8 schools
 Assumption School (Granger) - Circa 2013 it had about 82-92 students. In 2016 that was down to 62. In addition to the enrollment drop, the school's expenses grew. The school closed in 2016.
 Holy Family School (Des Moines)

References

External links
 Catholic schools - Roman Catholic Diocese of Des Moines

Des Moines, Roman Catholic Diocese of
Education in Iowa
Des Moines


i was told by the guy running the sale that it works, and for $20 i was more than willing to take that chance.
.. but whatever, i think it is absolutely adorable. i just plugged it in and lo and behold the needle did just what a sewing machine needle should… it moved up and down!
← 1 Choice 4 Quilting: As Promised – Another Giveaway to Celebrate Our Grand Opening!
WOOHOO! How cool is that!


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Philosophy and Critical Theory (1)
Manchester Medieval Sources (22)
Manchester Gothic (23)
Manchester Studies in Imperialism (25)
Manchester Shakespeare (4)
Manchester Security, Conflict & Peace (5)
Manchester Film Studies (92)
Manchester Political Studies (28)
Manchester Religious Studies (16)
Manchester International Relations (2)
Manchester Literature Studies (72)
Manchester University Press Journals (2)
"adolescence" x
Post-war childhood and adolescence
Celia Hughes
1 Post-war childhood and adolescence Young sixties activists grew up in a historically distinct landscape. Allowing for the social and psychological dislocations of war, postwar Britain remained a stable and conservative place to be. Simon J. Charlesworth explained the importance of understanding place as a 'natural starting point for understanding being'.1 Autobiographies of fifties middle- and working-class childhood have commonly identified the psychological security deriving from the stable social and economic conditions of the post-war boom.2 These are the
in Young lives on the Left
II Adolescence
P. J. P. Goldberg
This chapter presents a selection of sources on the theme of the adolescence of women in medieval England.
in Women in England c. 1275–1525
Adolescence and youth
Deborah Youngs
in Spanish, Italian, French and English literature. The ménagier of Paris, for example, described his fifteen-year-old wife as an adolescent ('vostre adolescence feminine'). 1 While the term did not have the connotations of the modern word – such as teenage angst and alienation – it was used to describe a life stage prior to adulthood. Philosophical discussions attempted to fix chronological limits
in The life–cycle in Western Europe, c.1300-c.1500
Liminal adolescence or entrapped marginality?
Nazima Kadir
-motion car wreck would speed up … If I went to the drowning man the drowning man would pull me under. I couldn't be his life raft (Flynn 2004 : 10–11). I begin this chapter with this quote because it captures the fluidity between marginality and centrality in an activist's biography and how social movement subcultures serve as a space for liminal adolescence. Flynn, a renowned American poet, first met his father while working at a homeless shelter. The memoir features two parallel
in The autonomous life?
Voyages in Search of Love
David Leeming
From the time of his early adolescence until his death, traveling was one of, if not the, driving force of James Baldwin's life. He traveled to escape, he travelled to discover, and he traveled because traveling was a way of knowing himself, of realizing his vocation.
James Baldwin Review
Literature and Theatre, Film, Media and Music
Harmony Korine's Gummo
The Compliment of Getting Stuck with a Fork
J. J. Murphy
Dismissed by most critics, including even those sympathetic to alternative cinema, Harmony Korine's Gummo (1997) presents a tabloid look at the dark underside of adolescence. It aims to provoke its audience by pushing the boundaries of acceptable good taste. In Gummo, Korine employs a more experimental collage technique in which scenes are linked, not by the cause and effect of conventional plot, but by the elusive logic of free association. This essay contextualizes Korines work within skateboard culture and the recent Modern Gothic trend toward creepy, angst ridden, and death-obsessed work by younger contemporary American artists. It argues that Gummo's real achievement rests on its unusual narrative syntax – the way Korine is able to weave together the films disparate scenes and events to create a viscerally assaulting, Modern Gothic portrait of the notion of "difference" in its various manifestations.
Film, Media and Music
Object matters
Condoms, adolescence and time
Author: Nicole Vitellone
During the mid-1980s, the object of the condom became associated with the prevention of HIV/AIDS. This book investigates the consequences of this shift in the object's meaning. Focusing on the US, British and Australian contexts, it addresses the impact of the discourse of safer sex on our lives and, in particular, the lives of adolescents. Addressing AIDS public health campaigns, sex education policies, sex research on adolescence and debates on the eroticisation of safer sex, the book looks at how the condom has affected our awareness of ourselves, of one another and of our futures. In its examination of the condom in the late twentieth century, it critically engages with a range of literatures, including those concerned with sexuality, adolescence, methods, gender and the body.
Women in England c. 1275–1525
Documentary sources
Series: Manchester Medieval Sources
Author: P. J. P. Goldberg
This book demonstrates that the discussion of non-aristocratic women can be securely grounded in archival documentation. It explores, with sensitivity and sophistication, the relationship between the picture which emerges from such sources and the literary and theological perceptions of womankind. The book provides a collection of documentary material, much of it previously unpublished, and guides the reader in the techniques needed to glean rich evidence of contemporary behaviour and assumptions from what can seem, at first sight, unpromisingly austere sources. It also demonstrates the variety of evidence that survives of English women in all walks of life from the time of Edward I to the eve of the Reformation. The book then provides substantial overview of current thinking about English medieval women below the level of the greater aristocracy. It also explores the life-cycle themes of childhood, adolescence, married life, widowhood and old age. The book then moves on to examine such topics as work in town and country, prostitution, the law, recreation and devotion. There is an element of caprice and artificiality in trying to divide the lives of medieval women under particular heads. This is especially true of the label 'devotion'. The culture of later medieval England was a Christian culture and Christian ideology permeated every aspect of life. The book recovers the experience of ordinary medieval women.
The life–cycle in Western Europe, c.1300-c.1500
Series: Manchester Medieval Studies
Author: Deborah Youngs
One of the key aims of this book is to offer a synthesis of the main findings of current research on age. It is intended as an outline survey and consequently the scope of the book is deliberately broad: it covers two centuries, considers the large land mass of Western Europe with its diverse languages, customs and cultures, and ranges across the social spectrum. The book focuses solely on the Christian West, including consideration on the extent to which social rank influenced life expectancy, the methods and goals of upbringing, marriage patterns and funerary memorialisation. The book also demonstrates how extensive that range can be. Examples are drawn from manorial accounts, tax assessments, spiritual writings, didactic literature, romances, elegies, art and architecture. The main thrust is that age formed an essential part of a person's identity in late medieval Europe. During adolescence, men and women progressively took on their adult roles. Three chapters are devoted to educating girls. The book discusses young people's period of transition between childhood and adulthood. It draws attention to pious young women who fought against marriage and wanted a chaste life. Divergences between northern and southern Europe in terms of marriage patterns, family formation, opportunities for women and attitudes towards death and its rituals are discussed. The book shows that attitudes towards the undeveloped young meant that children had few legal responsibilities. Another aim of the book is to consider the changing opportunities and possibilities for people as they progressed through life.
A progressive education?
How childhood changed in mid-twentieth-century English schools
Author: Laura Tisdall
A Progressive Education? argues that concepts of both childhood and adolescence were transformed in English and Welsh primary and secondary modern schools between 1918 and 1979, and that, by putting childhood at the centre of the history of education, we can challenge the stories we tell about how and why schooling itself changed. A 'progressive' or 'child-centred' education began to emerge theoretically in the United States and Western Europe from the late nineteenth century, claiming to rewrite curriculums to suit children and young people's needs, wants and abilities. Existing work suggests that progressivism both rose and retreated in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, when a right-wing backlash against permissive teaching and the deschooling movement led to the imposition of central state control over education. However, the child-centred pedagogies that became mainstream in English and Welsh schools after 1945 rested on a fundamentally different vision of childhood. Unlike utopian deschoolers, post-war child-centred educationalists assumed that the achievements of mass democracy and the welfare state must be carefully preserved. Children needed to be socialised by adult educators to ensure that they acquired the necessary physical, intellectual, social and emotional maturity to become full citizens. Teachers, far from enthusiastically advocating child-centred methods, perceived them as a profound challenge to their authority in the classroom, and implemented them partially and reluctantly. Child-centred education, in alliance with developmental psychology, thus promoted a much more restrictive and pessimistic image of childhood and youth as it came to dominate mainstream schooling after the Second World War.


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BBC Worldwide and PBS Sign Deal to Bring Critically Acclaimed Call the Midwife to the U.S.
Highest-Rated New Drama Launch in BBC History Strengthens PBS as a Destination for Drama on Sunday Nights Leading Into MASTERPIECE CLASSIC Upstairs Downstairs
Arlington, VA — BBC Worldwide America Sales & Distribution and PBS announced today the sale of the first season of the critically acclaimed British drama, Call the Midwife to PBS.
The series will premiere on September 30, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. leading into MASTERPIECE CLASSIC Upstairs Downstairs, transforming Sunday nights into a destination for drama on PBS.
See preview clip here.
Written by Heidi Thomas ("Cranford," "Upstairs Downstairs") and directed by Philippa Lowthorpe ("Five Daughters") and Jamie Payne ("The Hour"), Call the Midwife completed its first season in the UK on BBC ONE in February 2012. Attracting 10.7 million viewers for its peak episode, Call the Midwife was the highest-rated BBC new drama launch on record. A second season has been commissioned and will air in the UK in 2013. Call the Midwife is a Neal Street production for BBC. Executive Produced by Pippa Harris (Revolutionary Road, "The Hollow Crown") and Heidi Thomas. The series is produced by Hugh Warren ("Survivors").
Matt Forde, EVP Sales and Co-productions, BBC Worldwide America said, "Call the Midwife has been a phenomenal hit in the UK and we expect that its appeal will successfully cross the pond." He continued, "Public television has historically set the standard for quality programming. We look forward to bringing unique content to PBS and continuing our long and mutually beneficial relationship."
"Call the Midwife is a riveting new series that strengthens PBS as a destination for drama on Sunday nights," said Paula Kerger, PBS President and CEO. "We look forward to working with our BBC partners to introduce the story and the characters that were so beloved in Britain to the American audience."
Based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife is a moving and intimate story of midwifery in London's East End in the 1950s. The first season follows a young Jenny Lee as she and her fellow midwives, attached to an order of nursing nuns, navigate the crowded East End streets teeming with children, workers and a culture remarkably different from the wealthy English countryside where Jenny was raised.
Executive producer Pippa Harris said, "Call the Midwife has excited the imagination of viewers in the UK and I am confident it will do the same in the US. Heidi Thomas' witty and emotional scripts have perfectly captured a unique snapshot of British history, but the universal themes of childbirth, nursing and parenthood ring true throughout the world."
Call the Midwife stars Jessica Raine as Jenny Lee, along with Jenny Agutter (The Railway Children, "Spooks") as Sister Julienne, Pam Ferris ("Little Dorrit," "Darling Buds of May") as Sister Evangelina, Miranda Hart ("Miranda") as Chummy, Judy Parfitt ("Little Dorrit," Girl with a Pearl Earring) as Sister Monica Joan, Helen George ("Hollyoaks," "Doctors") as Trixie Franklin, Bryony Hannah (Cemetery Junction) as Cynthia Miller, Laura Main ("Monarch of the Glen") as Sister Bernadette and Cliff Parisi ("East Enders") as Fred. Vanessa Redgrave provides the voice of the mature Jennifer.
The drama unfolds as Jenny meets her patients, including one woman who is on her 25th pregnancy and a young, 15 year-old prostitute pregnant for the first time. Initially shocked by the health and living conditions of the East End, Jenny soon learns to admire the families she works with, along with the sisters and fellow midwives who witness the daily drama of life in this vibrant community.
Full episodes of Call the Midwife will be available for viewing on the PBS Video Portal for 30 days after each national broadcast.
The deal was brokered by Jemma Adkins, Senior VP Sales and Co-productions, BBC Worldwide Americas.