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Jean Valentine

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For the World War II bombe operator at Bletchley Park, see Jean Valentine (bombe operator). Jean Valentine (born April 27, 1934) is an American poet and was the New York State Poet Laureate from 2008–2010. [1] Her poetry collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003 , was awarded the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry. [2] Her most recent book, Shirt In Heaven , [3] was published in 2015 by Copper Canyon Press. Before that, Break the Glass [4] (Copper Canyon Press, 2010) was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [5] Her first book, Dream Barker, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 1965. She has published poems widely in literary journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, [6] and Harper's Magazine, [7] and The American Poetry Review. Valentine was one of five poets including Charles Wright, Russell Edson, James Tate and Louise Glück, whose work Lee Upton considered critically in The Muse of Abandonment: Origi...

Mongo subset query with indexing.

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.everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__bot-mid-leaderboard:empty{ height:90px;width:728px;box-sizing:border-box; } 0 I am attempting to optimize the for the following use case. I want to retrieve all documents whose array field is a subset of the querying array. Ex. subset(['a', 'b', 'c']) => [{arr: ['a', 'b']}, {arr: ['c']}, {arr: ['a', 'b', 'c']}] So far the query $not:{$elemMatch:{$nin:[arr]}} has allowed me to achieve the expected behavior. This query, however, does not use the index on array field I have selected, resulting in a full collection scan each time. I did some research, and apparently a $elemMatch preceded by a $not results in the index not being used....

Newbery Medal

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Newbery Medal Awarded for "The most distinguished contribution to American literature for children" Country United States Presented by Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association First awarded 1922 Website ala.org/alsc/newbery The John Newbery Medal , frequently shortened to the Newbery , is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), to the author of "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." [1] The Newbery and the Caldecott Medal are considered the two most prestigious awards for children's literature in the United States. [2] Books selected are widely carried by bookstores and libraries, the authors are interviewed on television, and masters and doctoral theses are written on them. [3] Named for John Newbery, an 18th-century English publisher of juvenile b...