IT Insights Blog — certification

Here in lovely Utah, where TestOut Continuing Education is located, we have an abundance of natural splendor. Utah is of course world famous for the high desert landscapes and sculpted sandstone canyons showcased in our five national parks. We also have spectacular mountain ranges, however, picturesque rivers and lakes, and even the largest living organism ...

Former Denver Broncos quarterback and current New York Mets minor leaguer Tim Tebow was in the news again this week. It's not for something he either did or (as often happens with Tebow) is trying to do, but rather for something that myth-debunking website Snopes.com say he didn't do. Tim Tebow did not, Snopes attests, formerly take a knee during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" to protest abortion.

Everyone remembers that one scene from that one movie with that one guy everyone loves (Tom Hanks?) where we learn that "There's no crying in baseball!" The scene is precipitated, of course, by the shedding of tears, after one of the lady baseball players in the movie gets chewed out by her fire-breathing manager (played by That One Guy referenced above) for letting the tying run get to second base.

It's almost summer. Yeah, don't give us all of that nitpicky mumbo-jumbo about how some random day in June is technically the "first day" of summer. You can already purchase watermelon at the grocery store. You can already see big blockbuster movies like Avengers: Infinity War and Deadpool 2 in theaters. And teachers everywhere are basically just hanging in there and running out the clock.

It would seem that most of the nation's moviegoers are still infatuated with the story of the big purple guy — I think Star Lord calls him "Grimace," in the movie — and the magic rocks. Avengers: Infinity War sold $62 million worth of tickets at North American theaters, roughly as much as the next eight movies combined. (The eighth of those 8 movies, incidentally, is Black Panther — still in the Top 10.)