: Teachers get 15% off school supplies (including classroom storage supplies, tissues, and hand sanitizer) at Target all week long. According to a National Center for Education Statistics study, 94% of teachers buy supplies with their own money, so Target is here to make things a little easier for them. Just visit target.com/teacherprep to get your coupon to use in-store or online through July 21.
Other highlights of Target's sale include 25% off beauty and personal care items, 30% off Target-exclusive home brands, up to 30% off select baby gear, and up to 30% off select Google products.
Kohl's: Online-only Doorbuster Deals and $10 off when you spend at least $50 online through Tuesday, July 17. You can also get $10 Kohl's Cash for every $50 you spend through Wednesday, July 18, and an extra 15% off through Sunday, July 22.
JCPenney: The online-only Cyber in July sale is live through Wednesday, July 18, featuring extra 30% off select apparel, shoes, accessories, fine jewelry, and home items.
Walmart: Deals are running until Friday, July 20 across all departments, including up to 30% off smart home products and up to 50% off select toys and games. Free 2-day shipping on orders over $35.
eBay: Free shipping on all deals including 51% off manufacturer-refurbished KitchenAid Stand Mixers.
Bed Bath & Beyond: Find Beyond Week sales on over 1,000 items and get free shipping on orders over $29.
Macy's: The Black Friday in July sale is live through Tuesday, July 17. Get free shipping on everything and find big discounts on clothes, shoes, beauty, home, accessories, and more.
Old Navy: The fashion retailer is offering 40% off all online purchases on July 17 using code "STYLE."
Looking for a tablet for Chromecast and Skype with a decent battery

I'm new to the world of tablets, yet my parents have tasked me with the job to find a tablet for them. They'll let me borrow it for a holiday trip, so the battery needs to be at least decent as I'll use it to plan my trip on the fly. No idea about price, I just want options to suggest for them.

They'll want to use it for videos (Netflix, YouTube), Facebook and Skype. Probably for reading news as well, but I assume all tablets work fine for that. It needs to be smooth, as in easy to use considering they arent very technologically minded.

It has to have a microphone and a front facing camera for Skype and work well with Chromecast to stream Netflix on their tv.

Prefer Android, but I'm willing to look into the other systems as well.Diaspora, contributors to the conference emphasised, is mostly about economics: through remittances, philanthropy and direct diaspora investment, members of the diaspora are primarily seen as alumni who their original state needs to touch for contributions – a discourse all too familiar to anyone working in today’s neoliberal universities. Workshops debated the role of governments in engaging their diasporas across multiple sectors and constructing strategies aimed to create partnerships between government and diaspora. To copper fasten such engagements, the conference also discussed the payback in terms of granting migrants voting rights, and working for ‘host country integration and return migration platforms’.
I have to confess that as a migrant and daughter of migrants, and as a supporter of migrant rights in Ireland, I have several problems with this diaspora-as- resource discourse. Firstly, seeing diaspora mostly as potential economic contribution regards migrants as privileged and ignores the millions of forced migrants, many of whom languish in asylum and detention centres, or segregated in low paid employment sectors, hovering between legality and illegality, not being able to afford Skype yet sending their meagre earnings to support destitute families back home.
Secondly, the discourse of diaspora as part of the nation is divisive and exclusive. Though the Irish diaspora, as we have been repeatedly told since President Mary Robinson lit the diaspora candle in Aras an Uchterain, are us, the diaspora discourse opens the way to blood-based citizenship. Thus Ireland grants automatic citizenship to third and fourth generation emigrants who have never set foot in Ireland, but not – since the 2004 Citizenship referendum – to children of migrants actually born in the Island of Ireland. Equally, diaspora Jews with a Jewish mother have automatic right to Israeli citizenship, while Palestinian refugees born on the land do not have a right of return.
The conference also included the CEO of the Zionist organisation ‘Birthright Israel’ which runs free trips for young Jewish people to Israel – to date some 300,000 youngsters from 59 countries have participated. The objective is to diminish the division between Israel and Jewish communities around the world and to strengthen participants’ personal Jewish identity and connection to Jewish history and culture.
I want to argue that Israel and Ireland are both blood-based ‘diaspora nations’. In both while maintaining the diaspora discourse is mostly economic, the ultimate objective is the consolidation of bloodline nationalism which racialises migrants and indigenous others as not part of the potentially net contributor diaspora. A demonstration of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign outside the conference venue included Palestinian West Bank activist Moussa Abu Maria whose banner read ‘I am Palestinian – what about our birthright?’ The Palestinian diaspora can also potentially make a huge contribution to Palestine if allowed to return, just as the members of the various diasporas currently residing in Ireland can make to their home countries. But we need to re-think the unproblematic diaspora discourse and move away from seeing all emigrants merely as alumni.Matt Barnes pitched a perfect ninth inning to earn the save in Monday's 5-4 win over Toronto.Barnes needed just nine pitches to protect a one-run lead that materialized on Alex Verdugo's two-run home run in the eighth. The 31-year-old right-hander is now 22-for-26 in save chances with a 2.36 ERA and 0.83 WHIP in 42 innings. He's pitched on each of the last two days, so there's no guarantee he'll be utilized if a save chance comes up Tuesday.
Matt Barnes allowed a hit in a scoreless inning to earn the save in Sunday's 5-4 win over the Yankees.With the Boston Red Sox failing to record a hit through seven innings, it didn't look like Barnes would be needed Sunday. A five-run rally in the eighth inning put the Sox ahead, and the 31-year-old had no trouble notching his 21st save in 25 chances. The closer has a 2.41 ERA, 0.85 WHIP and 65:11 K:BB through 41 innings this year.
Matt Barnes pitched a perfect inning against Toronto on Wednesday, striking out one batter to earn the save.The right-hander entered in the ninth inning with the task of preserving a three-run lead and did so with ease, needing only 11 pitches to set down the side in order. The save was his first since July 4 in only his second appearance since that date. Barnes has allowed only one earned run over his past 10 appearances and has a solid 2.54 ERA on the campaign.
Matt Barnes and the Boston Red Sox agreed to a two-year extension Sunday, Alex Speier of The Boston Globe reports.Barnes has served as team's primary closer to this point in the season, as he's recorded 19 saves in 23 opportunities. He's backed that with excellent swing-and-miss stuff, racking up 62 strikeouts across 37 innings. The extension runs through the 2023 season and also includes a club option for 2024.
Matt Barnes secured the save, allowing one hit and one walk while striking out one across one inning against the Athletics on Sunday.Barnes picked up his 19th save, although he allowed the tying run to get into scoring position before striking out Seth Brown to end the game. The closer has the second-most saves in the American League and is 19-for-23 in save opportunities. He has allowed just one earned run in 7.2 innings over his last eight appearances.
Matt Barnes (4-2) gave up a run and struck out two batters in one inning Friday, earning a win after blowing the save against Oakland.Barnes coughed up a leadoff, game-tying homer to Elvis Andrus in the ninth inning. It was just the second long ball he's given up in his last 17 appearances. He had converted his previous four save chances and hadn't been charged with an earned run since June 15. His ERA bumped up to 2.75 with a 61:9 K:BB through 36 innings this season. Barnes has 18 saves in 22 opportunities.
Matt Barnes struck out the side in a perfect ninth inning to secure his 18th save of the year in a 7-6 win over the Royals.Barnes entered with a one-run lead and set down all three hitters he faced on strikes while needing only 13 pitches to do so. The 31-year-old owns a 2.65 ERA, 0.82 WHIP and an impressive 57:9 K:BB over 34 innings.
Matt Barnes tossed a perfect ninth inning to earn a save over the Royals on Monday.Barnes didn't record a strikeout but needed just 10 pitches to finish off the 6-5 win. He's converted his last three save chances after blowing the previous two, making him17-for-20 on the year. The 31-year-old owns a 2.73 ERA and a 54: