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Guardiola's ascent from Barcelona B Head Coach to UEFA Champions League winner took place against a footballing backdrop very different to the one we find now in 2016.
Following an era where the moment of transition between defence and attack had been pinpointed as the single most decisive action in a match, allowing pragmatic, counter-attacking football to prosper, Guardiola showed that there was another way.
He won the La Liga title in three of his four seasons at the Camp Nou and lifted the UEFA Champions League twice.
In addition, the Catalan giants won the Supercopa de Espana three times, as well as twice lifting the Copa del Rey, the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup.
There were eyebrows raised when he decided to take over at Bayern Munich in 2013, particularly as they had just won the Champions League and domestic treble.
Could Pep do it without Messi? Without Iniesta, Xavi and Busquets? Without his mother tongue? In another culture? In another league? How do you take over a treble-winning Bayern Munich side at the peak of its powers?
A new manager in a new country with an unfamiliar group of players who've won it all – far from a task of merely keeping the Bavarian juggernaut on track, Guardiola set about taking the players he had to the next level.
He made just one signing in his first transfer window, subverting the footballing trope that a manager must build from a position of strength. Pep absorbed the best of the footballing institution that is Bayern and blended it with his own innovative tactical ideas to produce some of the best football that Germany has ever seen.
He improved his players. Champions League and World Cup-winning players. He taught them to play new positions, showed them another way to win as a collective and they loved him for it.
Seeing off the threat of Borussia Dortmund, Pep led his all-conquering Bayern to the last four of the UEFA Champions League in each of his three seasons, landing the Bundesliga three times and winning the league and cup double twice.
Guardiola made a stunning start to life at City, winning his first 11 games in charge and was twice nominated for the Premier League Manager of the Month award in August and September 2016.
In his second season he guided the Blues to the Premier League title and the Carabao Cup, smashing records along the way in a stunning season.
He picked up four successive Manager of the Month awards and was voted the Premier League Manager of the Season and the LMA Manager of the Year.
He was again voted Premier League manager of the year after guiding City to four more trophies in 2018/19 to become the Club;s most successful boss ever with six trophies in three seasons,
Pep extended his contract by a further two years in May 2018 and will remain at the Etihad until at least 2021.
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The government would be unveiling ideas about what should be in it "over the coming months," he added.
The Tories and Lib Dems say Labour has already destroyed key liberties.
The idea of a Bill of Rights is at the heart of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's plans to reform Britain's constitution.
Mr Straw said such a document should establish "the balance between rights we are all entitled to and the obligations we all owe to each other".
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He rejected Tory proposals for the Act to be scrapped in favour of British Bill of Rights, arguing that such a move would weaken British justice and risk putting the country in breach of its international obligations.
It would also lead to delays as people were forced to seek justice in the European courts, added Mr Straw.
In a Commons statement earlier, Mr Straw unveiled the next step in the government's moves to reform Britain's constitution.
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THE STORY OF A LITTLE GIRL:
NENETTE DE GUIGNÉ
[ANNE DE GUIGNÉ]
SISTER MARY VERA, S.N.D.
SISTERS COLLEGE OF CLEVELAND
P. J. KENEDY & SONS PUBLISHERS
With Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur, 1935 ANNE DE GUIGNÉ
MOTHER MICHELLE
MONTE-TREMBLANT
Part 3, Up to Heaven
In the garden was a beautiful statue of Our Lady holding little Jesus. Nenette loved this statue and she named it Our Lady of Consolation. Whenever she found things hard, such as getting along with the other children and not quarreling, or suffering her terrible headaches quietly, she would run to the
Blessed Mother to pray for help.
When Nenette was eight years old, she made up a little song to be used before Holy Communion.
O MARY, O MY GOOD MOTHER, GIVE ME YOUR SON!
FOR JUST A LITTLE WHILE, PLACE HIM IN MY ARMS.
O MARY, PLEASE GIVE HIM TO ME. O MARY, I DESIRE YOUR SON.
GIVE HIM TO ME, GIVE HIM TO ME.
After Holy Communion she added these lines:
I AM HAPPY NOW, I HAVE HIM WITH ME.
When Jesus was in her heart, she did not forget His Mother, for she said, "When little Jesus comes into my heart, I always ask Mary to help me keep Him there."
The Angels were Nenette's friends. She made up songs which she sang to them. She often prayed to them when she was in need. When she saw that Jojo or her sisters were going to become impatient
because their lesson was too hard or too long, she whispered to them, "Pray to your Guardian Angel; he will help you." Nenette's Guardian Angel was kept busy helping her and marking the many things she did in the Heavenly Book of Life. He helped her most of all in school.
Although Nenette was quick in school, it was hard for her to remember. She, therefore, found spelling and multiplication most difficult. Besides, she often had headaches and this made studying much harder. Nenette, however, always worked, no matter how sick she was. She also worked just as hard at lessons that she did not care for as at those she liked.
Catechism was her favorite lesson, for in studying it she found out more about her dear Jesus. When the time seemed long during the other lessons, she would say, "Even if the time seems long, I will try hard and offer it to Jesus." Once she said to a little friend, "We can give our work in school as a present to Jesus, so when it seems hard, just think that now you have something for Him. If we love Him, our work will then seem easy."
When Nenette wrote in her copybook, she was careful to write well, for everything she did was "for the dear Lord."
As Nenette grew older, her love for her dear Lord also grew. She wished everyone in the world to love Him. When she heard how wicked some people are, she prayed, "Dear Jesus, forgive them. They don't understand. Do make them good." She often asked the Sisters at school to give her a big sinner to take care of. And then the battle began. Nenette prayed and prayed and made more sacrifices than ever until her sinner came back to God. In this way she caught many "big fishes," as she called them, for her Jesus.
At one time, Nenette heard of a man who was very sick and who had not been to church from the time he had made his First Communion. He wanted to die that way, for he would not even look at the face of a priest. Nenette made up her mind to win that soul. She went to church with her mother and she prayed and begged Our Lord to hear her. "It is for Your honor," she pleaded. Later in the morning, she went back to the church again. She knew it was going to be hard to win this soul. "Mother, has he gone to confession yet?" she asked. "Come, let .us pray again." They went back to the church a third, a fourth, and a fifth time to pray that day. The next morning, Nenette heard good news: her sinner had gone to God; he had received the last Sacraments.
At all times Nenette remembered to make sacrifices but when she was "taking care of a sinner" she made many more. She said "Yes" to every chance that came along until her life became one big "Yes." She gave each one of these sacrifices to Mary that she might give them to Jesus and help her pray.
When she was ten years old, she resolved to imitate her Saviour in everything: "How will I go about it? By combating obstacles, whatever might keep Jesus from growing in me: my faults, my inclination to pride and laziness . . . So then, I must fight a daily battle."
In April of 1921 she wrote, "The more I speak to Jesus, the more He will answer me. He will speak to me through the priest, through the advice I receive. He will speak to me especially in the depths of my soul through His grace. The good Lord will say to me, 'I want you to be more obedient, I do not want you to be vain. If you are that way already, at your age, what will you be like later?'" She made practical resolutions: "I must have:
1) cleanliness (of soul), which means to avoid sin; 2) appropriate clothing, that is, the accomplishment of our duty; 3) ornamentation----the good actions we do of our own accord." [Refers to supererogatory works, those we are not obliged to perform.]
The diligence with which she remained attentive to her interior voice induced her to learn more even about her most insignificant duties. When she was unable to discern what was most perfect, she abounded with questions. At all costs, she had to know how she must act "to please good Jesus."
Perhaps the most striking aspect of Nenette's character was her incomparable love of perfection in order and only in order, to perfectly please the God of her heart: "I want to imitate little Jesus," she wrote. "I have to conduct my soul along the best path," she said with conviction. "My soul is destined for Heaven. People are very preoccupied with their outward appearance and hardly at all with the soul . . . My soul was made for eternal life, to be infinitely happy or infinitely unhappy. The good Lord wants it to be eternally happy. That depends on me alone. Mamma cannot do that work for me."
Purity of soul was ever her aim, and she hated the smallest venial sin, and even her imperfections ,were a source of sorrow since she was so afraid of grieving the Holy Spirit: "I want my soul to be pure as a lily." Thus the Sacrament of Penance was so dear to her. She wrote, at the age of nine, "Confession is a very, very great Sacrament. It gives us still more graces than we had before. That is why we must really want to go to confession. We must say our sins with a lot of sincerity. When we say our sins, and before doing so, we must have great regret for them, since by them the love of God is diminished."
Nenette was ten and a half years old; it was still 1921. Her sweet face ever smiling, she was in excellent health, full of energy, exerting herself towards perfection in all things.
Her purity and goodness radiated in her eyes and everyone who was near her was drawn to her, becoming better, purer, more peaceful, too. "We were attracted by her purity," her cousins said, "and we felt the need to remain with her."
On December 19th, a family outing was planned; Little Anne had been suffering from a headache for several days. Even so, she wanted go with the others. On the return trip, her headache grew very much worse, so much so that when they reached the house, she to lay down; she tried to eat her soup at dinner but could not, and she returned to bed. That was her time at the family table.
The next day she had a high fever, and her back ached. "Poor Nenette, you're suffering a lot," they told her. "Oh yes! But it will be over soon," she replied with a smile.
At first her little face was contracted with searing pain. Her silent tears painfully expressed the excruciating pains she had to endure. "I don't want to see anything, anything at all," she said. "Don't get too close to me, please . . . You don't mind, do you?" However, not a complaint escaped her because her main concern was the suffering of her family.
Anne offered her suffering for special intentions, sometimes giving them to God hour by hour for those who asked her to do so, and especially for poor sinners. As she was recovering from a terrible attack, her mother murmured to her, "You have suffered very courageously, my dear. You have surely comforted the Heart of Jesus and contributed to the conversion of sinners." And this little Saint in the making replied, "O Mamma, I'm so happy! If that's the way it is, I will gladly suffer even more!"
Her treatment was most painful as the smallest movement brought more racking stabs of pain. The doctor eventually gave up hope that his little patient would recover, so on December 28 the priest, Fr. Grégoire came to hear her confession. She had also eagerly requested to receive Holy Communion, which impressed the priest. On the 30th he administered the Sacrament of Extreme Unction.
Anne Guigné had but two weeks left on earth and she would soon be with the Angels to adore God. On January 13th she recited the Act of Hope and the Morning Offering to Our Lady:
"O my Queen, O my Mother, I give myself entirely to Thee! And to show my devotion to Thee, I consecrate to Thee this day my eyes, my ears, my mouth, my heart, my whole being, without reserve. Wherefore, good Mother, as I am Thine own, keep me, guard me, as Thy property and possession. Amen."
Obedience was her last act. Little Anne gathered up all her remaining strength, opened her eyes weighed down by death, and, for the last time, gazed at her Mamma with a look of much tenderness. At five in the morning, at the dawn of January 14, 1922----a Saturday, the day consecrated to the Blessed Virgin----Anne's beautiful soul flew up to meet her dearest Jesus . . .
May this angelic Anne draw as many children as possible to God. And may she be a reminder to us all that the secret of the kingdom, hidden to those who think they are wise, is revealed to the little ones and to those who resemble them.
The Holy Gospel tells us, "If you do not become like little children, you will not enter into the kingdom of Heaven." (Matthew 18:3)
Nenette is now with the dear Lord she loved so much. She is still "a big sister." She still tries to make others happy. She is one of Jesus' loved "little ones."
Another little girl who was going to make her First Holy Communion was helped very much by Nenette. She did not like to pray and she was only going to receive Holy Communion because she had to. Her Mother and Father had not gone to church for years. The children in the class prayed to Nenette. How happy they were when the little girl changed for the better. On the evening of her First Communion day, she said to one of her friends, "Jesus is here in my heart. I will never leave Him." And something else happened, too. The Father and the Mother also went to Confession and Holy Communion, after they had not done so for twelve years.
Anne is still taking care of sinners. Many of them have come back to God through her prayers. People who were sick have prayed to her and have been cured. She has helped in all sorts of ways.
She is even more kind-hearted now in Heaven than she was on earth. We hope that the day will soon come when our Holy Father, the Pope, will call Nenette a Saint. In no way is this intended to mean anticipating the authoritative judgment of the Church in this matter.
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Angelina Jolie Explains How Her 'Family Situation' Affected Her Career
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"That's really the truth of it."
Though she has a buzzy part in the upcoming Marvel epic The Eternals, Angelina Jolie would actually prefer to be directing more right now. It's just that she can't, and her high-profile divorce from Brad Pitt seems to be the reason.
"I love directing, but I had a change in my family situation that's not made it possible for me to direct for a few years," the star told Entertainment Weekly while promoting her upcoming firefighter thriller, Those Who Wish Me Dead. "I needed to just do shorter jobs and be home more, so I kind of went back to doing a few acting jobs. That's really the truth of it."
Jolie's first narrative feature as a director, In the Land of Blood and Honey, premiered in 2011, and was quickly followed by Unbroken and By the Sea, in which she costarred with Pitt. But their 2016 divorce, which still hasn't been finalized, apparently threw a wrench into her plans to continue directing. Since 2017's First They Killed My Father, she hasn't helmed any projects, instead returning to one of her biggest roles in 2019's Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.
Now things have come full circle: Jolie is back to the stunt-heavy work that defined an earlier phase of her career, when she was leading action flicks, like the Lara Croft movies. This time, though, Jolie's a mom, and it comes through in her performance. In Those Who Wish Me Dead, her character isn't particularly maternal, but Jolie couldn't help but act kindly toward her young costar. She recalled, "Sometimes [director] Taylor [Sheridan] would correct me because my behavior toward a child was different from [character Hannah's] behavior toward a child. It took me a little bit to treat [costar Finn Little] badly, but I got there!"
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have six children: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt. In February she reflected on life as a stay-at-home mom who used to play the Tomb Raider: "Isn't that funny? There was a day I was an action star, and now the kids are telling me to get off the trampoline because I'll hurt myself."
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Shirt Number: 1
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Born: Apr 30, 1992
Nationality: Germany
Transfer Fee: €12m (From B. Mönchengladbach)
Joined: Jul 1, 2014
Contract Expiry: 30/06/2025
In May 2014, Ter Stegen was announced as the new goalkeeper of Spanish club Barcelona, after the departures of Víctor Valdés and José Manuel Pinto, effective during the summer transfer window.
Back in 2019, he signed a five-year contract that would keep him at the club until June 2025. The transfer fee was €12 million, and the buy-out clause was set to €80 million. After the move, Ter Stegen said joining the club was the right move and that he aimed to settle at the club.
He won the treble in his first season in Spain, playing for Barcelona in Copa del Rey and Champions League.
FC Barcelona goalkeepers 2023: Neto
Shirt Number: 13
Nationality: Brazil
Transfer Fee: €26m (From Valencia)
On 27 June 2019, it was announced that Neto would move to Barcelona for €26m plus €9m in add-ons. One day earlier, Barcelona backup goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen left Barcelona for €35m to take Neto's spot as the starting goalkeeper for Valencia.
On 10 December 2019, Neto played the full 90 minutes as Barca knocked out Inter Milan out of the Champions League.
Neto began his career with Brazilian side Athletico Paranaense and later played for Italian side Fiorentina. He joined Juventus in 2015, where he won the domestic double in each of his two seasons with the club, serving as a back-up to starter Gianluigi Buffon in the league, but appearing in all of the club's games in both of their victorious Coppa Italia campaigns. In 2017, he joined Spanish side Valencia where he played 67 total games.
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Nationality: Netherlands
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Transfer Fee: €13m (From Ajax)
Current club: Valencia
In August 2016, Cillessen signed a five-year contract with Barcelona for an initial €13 million transfer fee plus another €2 million in add-ons, replacing the outgoing Claudio Bravo.
After only three training sessions, he made his debut in a home La Liga match against Alavés, conceding twice from five attempts in a 1–2 loss. Since his move to Barcelona in 2016, Cillessen managed to play a major role in the Copa del Rey for both the 2016–17 and 2017–18 seasons, starting 17 of 18 matches in the competition.
Barcelona won the trophy in both seasons, making the club four-time consecutive Copa del Rey winners since 2014–15. On 30 January 2019, he saved the first penalty of his professional career after 20 attempts in a 6–1 home win over Sevilla in the Copa del Rey, which enabled Barcelona to advanced to the semi-finals of the competition 6–3 on aggregate.
In June 2019, Cillessen signed a four-year contract with Valencia, for a fee of €35 million.
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Date of birth: Apr 13, 1983
Nationality: Chile
Transfer Fee: €12m (From Real Sociedad)
Current club: Manchester City
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After joining, he set a Spanish League record for the club of not conceding from the start of season for 754 minutes, previously held by Pedro María Artola with 560 minutes; the streak was broken when he conceded his first goal of the season from the penalty spot to Cristiano Ronaldo in a 1–3 defeat to Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu.
Despite winning the treble and the Zamora Trophy in his first season, it was Marc-Andre ter Stegen who was preferred for Barcelona's most important games such as the ones at the Copa del Rey, Champions League and UEFA Super Cup. In the summer of 2016, he moved to Manchester City. Watch & Bet Football Live =>
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Date of birth: Jan 14, 1982
Transfer Fee: / (From Barcelona B)
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Valdes spent most of his professional career with Barcelona in La Liga, and is regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the club's history, having appeared in 535 official games for the club and won 21 major titles, notably six La Liga titles and three Champions League championships.
The Spaniard made his first-team debut against Legia Warszawa in the third qualifying round of the Champions League on 14 August 2002.The early part of the 2002–03 season saw Valdes play deputy to Argentine international Roberto Bonano, but the arrival of Radomir Antić as the new manager in January 2003 saw regular first-team opportunities for Valdes.
In the 2003–04 season, he emerged as first-choice goalkeeper, and in the 2004–05 season, he played in almost all of Barcelona's matches, helping Barcelona to their first league title in six years.
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"Oh, Mr. Protector! These bad men are chasing me! I was supposed to be back at the servants' quarters hours ago, but they think it's some stupid game." Lin puts on doe eyes even though its dark and protectors never fall for that kind of stuff. It still helps her get into the role.
The imperial Protector grunts as he stomps forward, dead eyes shifting between her and the thug that just popped over the hill. Actually, make that two thugs. One of his maggot-brained friends has just barreled into him.
With Edge-sharpened movements, Lin whirls in the dusty road and starts sprinting downhill. She dodges a wide swipe of a thick arm, sticks out her tongue, and waves.
Fire gobbles the brush on the side of the road opposite the temple, the smoke stinging her eyes and clinging to her throat. In the middle of the dirt track, the badger-damaged Veil goon is sitting in the dust with a hand cupped over one eye. Blood leaks out the gaps, and Lin grimaces. Of the badger, there's no sign. Probably escaped unscathed. That's good, because Lin was starting to feel kinda guilty about throwing it into a group of meat slabs.
Between the rot-brained dope crying in the road and the two numbskulls having a discussion with the protector, that leaves one of Veil's heavies unaccounted for. As Lin dashes past the temple, she keeps an ear cocked.
Corpse-nuggets. From the stomping feet and crunch of grit as something gets slid around on the temple floor, it sounds like the last guy is inside, either hassling the pair of Prov travelers or—much, much worse, as far as Lin's concerned—snooping around the dry well where she threw her loot. She definitely can't have him making off with her windfall.
And maybe she feels a little responsible for the kid, Owell. The Prov bumblers, too.
But it's really about the loot.
Eventually, the big baby in the road is going to stop whining over losing an eye. Better if he doesn't surprise her while she's dealing with his companion. Dashing close, she pulls out a dagger and clubs him in the temple. He slumps into the dirt.
Inside the temple, she pulls up and starts creeping forward all stealthy-like. With her Edge, she knows she's all but invisible. With just one snorting rhino of a thug inside, should be no problem to stay hidden.
She spots him back where she thought she might, in the small chamber with the old well. He grunts as he leans to peer behind a pile of rubble. She scoffs. Like she'd hide somewhere so exposed.
Lin keeps her ears pricked for sounds of the Prov couple. She left them cowering in an antechamber opening off the room where the goon is nosing around. No doubt they're still huddled in there like a pair of spooked pigeons.
She squints at the goon and considers her odds. Two of his friends are occupied with the imperial Protector—she almost snorts in amusement at that turn of luck—and the other bully is taking a nap in the road. None of them will be interfering for a while. If Lin can't handle one of these fools by herself, especially with her Edge, maybe she doesn't deserve the satchel of steel coins.
She strolls forward and starts whistling like its midday on the waterfront and she just sold off a dozen fish for triple their price. The goon looks up, heavy brow lowered, face slack with incomprehension.
"Bad news, friend," she says.
He lets out a vaguely questioning grunt.
"Your associates have perished. It's a tragic scene out there." Lin folds her hands behind her back, dagger snug in her palm. She approaches at an angle, all casual, glancing at the ruined architecture like the temple is a palace worth admiring.
"You're lying," the man growls. He seems to remember that he was hired for his considerable musculature, not his brains, and takes a menacing step forward.
He yanks his cudgel from his belt.
A jolt travels Lin's spine when she spots movement behind the guy. An eye-blink later, though, she realizes its the Prov couple slipping out of their dead-end chamber. At least they finally wised up. Could have chosen a better time though.
Lin scuffs her feet to cover the sounds of the couple's escape. She narrows her eyes as she peers at the thug. A sly grin twists her mouth.
Of course, there aren't five thousand. That would be enough for her to buy her own rotting ship and sail away from this maggoty empire. But it sounds a lot more tempting than the one thousand she pinched from the Veil organization.
The dumb brute looks genuinely torn now, primed for the hook.
She spits into her palm and holds it out, dagger still behind her back. As he clasps her hand, she thinks about trying to jab the blade into his eye, but a miss would pretty much bury her.
"You better not cheat me," the thug says.
– Try to get him to help lower her into the well. He probably won't fit even if he tries to follow, and Owell did say it led to some sort of escape. Problem is, if it doesn't, she'll be trapped.
– Give him a bogus location. On the way there, she's bound to think of a way to trick him without giving away the actual location of her windfall.


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Loomis Homestead, Windsor, Connecticut
April 26, 2020 February 14, 2018 by Derek Strahan
The Loomis Homestead, on the present-day campus of the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, probably taken around the turn of the 20th century. Image from Descendants of Joseph Loomis in America (1908).
The house around 1935-1942. Image courtesy of the Connecticut State Library.
The house in 2017:
Built sometime between 1640 and 1652, this house is the oldest in Windsor, dating back to the first few years of the town's settlement, and it is also among the oldest existing buildings in the country. The house was significantly expanded later in the 17th century, but the oldest section – the ell on the right side – was built by Joseph Loomis, one of Windsor's original settlers and the patriarch of the Loomis family in America. Loomis was originally a woolen draper in Braintree England, but in 1638 he emigrated to the American colonies, along with his wife Mary and their eight children.
After a three-month voyage aboard the Susan and Ellen, the Loomis family arrived in Boston, and they lived nearby in Dorchester for the next year. However, in 1639 they joined a number of other Massachusetts colonists and relocated to the Connecticut River Valley. The following year, Joseph was granted 21 acres of land here in Windsor, located along the south side of the Farmington River, just to the west of its confluence with the Connecticut River. He built this house soon after, on a section of raised land that was known as "The Island," because the surrounding meadows would often flood during spring freshets, effectively making the property an island.
Mary Loomis died in 1652, and Joseph in 1658, and their son John inherited the property. He had been about 16 years old when he and his family left England, and he lived here in Windsor until 1652, when he moved to Farmington. However, he moved back to Windsor in 1660, where he became a distinguished town citizen. He served as a deacon in the church, and he also represented the town in the Connecticut General Court from 1666-1667 and 1675-1687. John and his wife Elizabeth had eleven sons and two daughters, although only eight of their children would live to adulthood. Their only surviving daughter, Elizabeth, married Peter Brown, and they had a son, John Brown, who would become the great-grandfather of the prominent abolitionist of the same name.
According to the sign on the house, as well as other historical records, John Loomis built the main part of the house in 1688. He died the same year, but this addition was probably built for his son Timothy, who inherited the house and married his wife Rebecca the following year. They raised seven children here, and the youngest, Odiah, inherited the house. Odiah lived to be 88 years old, and after his death in 1794 he left the house to his son Ozias, who died two years later.
Ozias Loomis's son, Odiah, was 12 years old when his father died, and he subsequently inherited the property, becoming the sixth consecutive generation to own this house. He and his wife, Harriet Allyn, had seven children, and, like his great-great grandfather Timothy Loomis, he represented Windsor in the state legislature, serving in 1818. However, he died in 1831 at the age of 48, and his youngest child, Thomas, inherited the house. Like his father, Thomas would also go on to be elected to the state legislature, serving in the lower house in 1857 and 1862, and in the state senate in 1874.
Census records from the late 19th century show Thomas Loomis as a prosperous farmer, with $20,000 in real estate in 1880. This included over 200 acres, although most of this was listed as unimproved woodland. He had 58 acres of meadows and orchards, and only two acres of tilled land, but in the year prior to the 1880 census his farm had produced 100 tons of hay, 624 pounds of butter, 800 dozen eggs, 80 bushels of potatoes, and 25 bushels of apples.
Thomas and his wife, Mary Jane Cooke, had two children, Allen and Jennie, although Allen died in 1884 at the age of 23. As a result, Jennie inherited the family homestead after her father's death in 1895, becoming the eighth generation to own the house. However, Jennie was unmarried and had no surviving siblings, so in 1901 she transferred the house to the Loomis Institute, a private school that had been established in 1874 by five siblings from a different line of the Loomis family. The school itself would not open until 1914, but it was to be located here on "The Island," where Joseph Loomis had originally settled in the 1640s.
The campus Loomis Institute, which later became the Loomis Chaffee School, was built just to the south of this house. Under the conditions of Jennie Loomis's transfer of the house, she and her mother were allowed to live here for the rest of their lives. Mary Jane died in 1920, but Jennie was still living here when the second photo was taken around the late 1930s. She was actively involved with the school, serving as secretary of the Board of Trustees, and she lived here in this house until her death in 1944, about three centuries after Joseph Loomis had built the house.
The main section of the house underwent renovation in 1940, which included restoring the interior wood paneling to its original appearance. About a decade later, the older section was restored on both the interior and exterior, with the most noticeable change being the removal of the porch on the right side of the house. Otherwise, the exterior of the house has not significantly changed, and it remains a well-preserved example of 17th century saltbox-style architecture. It is still owned by the Loomis Chaffee School, and it stands as the oldest wood frame house in Connecticut, and the state's second-oldest surviving building, after a stone 1639 house in Guilford.
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11 thoughts on "Loomis Homestead, Windsor, Connecticut"
Teresa Jorissen
Joseph Loomis is my 11th Great Grandfather! Thank you for sharing this information!
Cassandra traczyk
I'm a descendant of him! So glad it is still up!
Paul D Burrows
Joseph and Mary were my 10th Great Grandparents.
GORDON LOOMIS
Joseph and Mary were my 9th Great Grandparents.
Interestingly my name is Gordon Burrows Loomis.
My Great Grandmother was Susanna Burrows, born 1843 in Tipperary, Ireland.
Dean Logan
11th generation descendant of Joseph and Mary.
Harriet Loomis (b. 1804) married Reuben Davis. They're granddaughter, Harriet Spinney Sovereign is my great great grandmother.
julia ann loomis
my side of the family moved to the Western Reserve in the 1820's. I am a direct descendant of Joseph 2nd- his 1st born son..Love the House & land.thanks for info.
Sue joffray
My family had 29 wonderful years in that house as Loomis faculty. As a girl from California, it was a great introduction into the history and culture of New England Sue Joffray.
Romain l loomis
i think I'm a 5th or 6th generation from Joseph my grandfather was Elliot Loomis born in 1840 great grandfather must have been Walter Loomis hopefully I will get out to ct. and check out the house and everything.
Just found out from my Aunt who has been knee deep in Geneology for many years, that Joseph and Mary are relatives.. my 5th great grandparents. Wild. Still trying to find info on their Son Roger.
I made an error… Roger is a descendent of Joseph's, not his son. 🙂
Jessica Wells
I LOVE THIS!!!! Joseph & Mary were my 10th great-grandparents! I would LOVE to visit here sometime…definitely on my bucket list!


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Don't buy Cassia when you want Cinnamon
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Marryam Reshii
Every visitor to my house first looks around in astonishment at the number of books that I have, and when they have gotten over the initial shock, they notice my prize possession. It hangs on a wall inside a frame and nobody who has ever tried to guess what it is, gets it right. It is a piece of cassia bark. "Cinnamon," they all aver. I have to correct them. "No, it is not cinnamon: it is cassia!"
Ask the average Joe at a supermarket to identify the spice varieties that originates from tree bark, and quick as a flash, he will reply "cinnamon". The truth is that there are two related species of trees. One is cassia; the other is cinnamon. The bark of both species is used as the spice. Most people – including the fine gentlemen of Spices Board of India – are not clear on the difference between cassia and cinnamon. Not surprisingly, the rest of us, who have cinnamon and/or cassia bark or powder on our kitchen shelves, use the two words interchangeably. However, there is a vast difference and, like most other stories that concern the world of spices, this one too is fascinating.
Cinnamon – let's call it true cinnamon for now – grows only in one part of the entire world, and that is in Sri Lanka. The bark is thin, highly aromatic and is lighter on the palate than cassia is. Cassia is also a bark and like true cinnamon, comes from a related species of tree – a laurel. Cassia bark is thicker in appearance and is heavier on the palate. Cassia grows in Kerala, Myanmar, Vietnam and China. The production of cassia outnumbers true cinnamon by 3:1.
I acquired my 16 inch x 5 inch roll in the dried seafood market of Des Voeux Road of Hong Kong. Food, according to ancient Chinese wisdom, is medicine, so just as dried seafood is heating to the system, cassia too has a very specific use in medicine. I bought it from a chemist, though one that sold allopathic and Chinese medicine. But a few years later, when I visited the cinnamon plantations of Sri Lanka, just inland from Bentota and its famous beach, my cassia bark looked seriously height-challenged. For, I had stumbled upon this extremely fascinating part of the world during cinnamon harvest time, and every house in the area was full of specialized experts who deftly shaved off the thin, curling bark and rolled them into curls of 36 inches at the speed of lightning.
It is only in Sri Lanka's cinnamon-growing district that spice planters only own the land that the all-important spice grows on and a completely different tribe: the Salagamas, prepare cinnamon for the international market. I got to taste plenty of cinnamon during my week-long stay on the island, because few dishes do <I>not<I> have a touch of the spice. But in the Bentota region, I also got to taste it second-hand! It is only the bark of the tree that becomes cinnamon. The trunk and the branches would have been discarded, but the owners of the plantations gather them and use them as firewood. It is a double whammy: firewood is free and the food acquires the aroma of cinnamon!
Of course, I just had to buy a dozen lengths of cinnamon for my friends, and not being in the trade, I had a challenge every step of the way, from the X-ray at the airport to the cabin baggage storage! Nobody in Sri Lanka could believe that it was cinnamon that I was carrying and I was treated as a security threat. A few years later, I remember those days with a chuckle. What lives on is the 'lively' flavour of cinnamon that goes into my coffee every morning.
Marryam H Reshii has been writing about food and lifestyle for the last 30 years. She is the Times of India food critic besides being an independent writer on cuisine and matters gastronomic.Her dream is to set up a museum of kitchens of India, complete with vessels, recipes and ingredients. She lives in Delhi with her husband and two children.
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Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer: An Emotion Picture Set to Premiere on BET and MTV Next Week
By Adreon Patterson | April 20, 2018 | 1:19pm
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Following the release of "weird kid" anthem "I Like That" and the teaser trailer for Janelle Monae's new album in February, it has been announced that her Dirty Computer: An Emotion Picture will receive a cross-channel premiere on cable networks MTV and BET. It will premiere on Apr. 26, the day before Monáe's Dirty Computer arrives on Apr. 27.
The 44-minute film, as described in a press release, "is a visually stunning story of a young woman named Jane 57821 (Monáe), who is living in a totalitarian near-future society where citizens are referred to as 'computers'." The dystopian feel of the film explores what happens when "mind and machine merge" while "the government chooses fear over freedom."
The film serves as the visual companion to Monáe's forthcoming album, with actress Tessa Thompson (Creed, Thor: Ragnarok) co-starring. Monáe serves as a producer on the project, with Andre Donoho and Chuck Lightning splitting directorial duties on the film. A slew of amazing video directors have their hands in the film, as well, from Alan Ferguson to Emma Westenberg to Lacey Duke.
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Q: Doubt about substitution in integration in $\mathbb R^n$ polar coordinates I have a doubt about this passage:
$\ I_{\alpha} =\lim_{\lambda \to 0^+} \int_{\mathbb{R}^n/B_{1}} \frac{e^{-\lambda|x|}}{|x|^\alpha} dx  $
$\ I_{\alpha} = \lim_{\lambda \to 0^+} \omega_n \int_{1}^{+\infty} \frac{e^{-\lambda\rho}}{\rho^\alpha} \rho^{n-1} d\rho $
I realize it concerns polar coordinates substitution but I don't understand how this change is done and where $\ \omega_n $ comes from. Can someone explain in details? Because it's not the first exercise that I see in which this has been done, thanks.

A: Let's start by writing the integrals for $n=1,2,3$. I will skip writing the limit, since it's not relevant to the problem. For $n=1$, $\mathbb R^n/B_1=(-\infty,-1)\cup(1,\infty)$. Then $$I_{\alpha,1}=\int_{-\infty}^{-1}\frac{e^{-\lambda|x|}}{|x|^\alpha}dx+\int_1^{\infty}\frac{e^{-\lambda|x|}}{|x|^\alpha}dx=2\int_1^{\infty}\frac{e^{-\lambda|x|}}{|x|^\alpha}dx$$We can now rename $|x|=r$, so that means that $\omega_1=2$.
Now go for $n=2$. We are going to use the components of $\textbf x$ as $x=r\cos\theta$ and $y=r\sin\theta$. Then $|\textbf x|=r$ and $d\textbf x=dx\ dy=r\ dr\ d\theta$. The integral limits in polar coordinates are $1$ to $\infty$ for $r$, and $0$ to $2\pi$ for $\theta$. You can immediately see that the integrand does not depend on $\theta$, so $\int_0^{2\pi}d\theta=2\pi$. Plugging it back into the integral, we get $$I_{\alpha,2}=2\pi\int_1^{\infty}\frac{e^{-\lambda r}}{r^\alpha}rdr=2\pi\int_1^{\infty}\frac{e^{-\lambda r}}{r^\alpha}r^{2-1}dr$$
From here $\omega_2=2\pi$.
We apply the same procedure for $n=3$. $\textbf x=(r\sin\theta\cos\phi,r\sin\theta\sin\phi,r\cos\theta)$. $d\textbf x=r^2\sin\theta dr d\theta d\phi$. The limits of integration are $1$ to $\infty$, $0$ to $\pi$, and $0$ to $2\pi$. Once again, the integrand does not depend on the angular part, so $$I_{\alpha,3}=4\pi\int_1^{\infty}\frac{e^{-\lambda r}}{r^\alpha}r^{3-1}dr$$
Therefore $\omega_3=4\pi$.
You can continue for higher dimension. The value of $\omega_n$ is the "surface area" of the $B_1$ in $\mathbb R^n$. You can calculate the hyper-surface area of the  hypersphere.


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Mac Loyalists: Don't Tread on Us
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"Apple is like a strange drug that you just can't quite get enough of," the musician Barry Adamson told the "Guardian" newspaper. "They shouldn't call it Mac. They should call it crack!" View Slideshow There are 25 million people around the world who use Macintosh computers, according to Apple. But unlike ordinary personal computers, people don't simply use Macs, they become fans. They develop a passion for the machines, which can sometimes turn into an obsession.
"Apple is like a strange drug that you just can't quite get enough of," the musician Barry Adamson told the Guardian newspaper. "They shouldn't call it Mac. They should call it crack!"
Mac loyalty is so well-known, it's a cliché. Mac users are routinely referred to as Apple's faithful, Mac zealots, members of the cult of Mac, Appleholics, Macheads, Maccies, Macolytes and Mac addicts. The biannual Macworld conference is often compared to a religious revival meeting, where Steve Jobs is worshipped like a rock star, or a charismatic cult leader.
The Mac community is arguably the largest subculture in computing. Mac enthusiasts – as a group – are probably more loyal, more dedicated than users of any other computer, perhaps even Linux. Linux and Unix users are, in fact, switching to Macs in droves.
What other computer inspires fans to get tattoos, personalized license plates, amass huge collections of ancient machines, build Mac aquariums, or proudly describe themselves as Mac fans, Mac freaks, Mac nuts? The Amiga, perhaps, but certainly not Dell, Compaq or Microsoft.
What makes Mac users so loyal?
The answer, of course, depends on who is asked: Marketers say it's the brand, psychologists say it's a social relationship, and Apple loyalists say it's the merits of the machine, its friendliness, its simplicity.
But some common themes emerge: community, the alternative to Microsoft, and the brand, which connotes nonconformity, liberty and creativity.
Mac users are not merely an ad hoc group of people who happen to use the same kind of computer. They represent a distinct subculture, with its own rituals, traditions and mindset.
"If you see somebody in an airport in London, or someplace down in Peru or something, and you see an Apple tag on their bag, or an Apple T-shirt, it's like the Deadheads … you have an instant friend," Chris Espinosa, one of Apple's earliest employees, told Stanford Library. "Most likely, you share something very core to your being with this person, which is a life outlook, a special vision."
One of the defining characteristics of the Mac community is its loyalty to Apple. Through thick and thin, Apple's customers stick by the company. This summer, Apple upset the Mac community by suddenly announcing a $100 annual subscription fee for its .Mac online services, which were formerly free. On top of this, an upgrade to OS X – the kind of upgrade users usually don't pay for – would cost $130.
The new pricing policies prompted howls of protest. Websites, online forums and news stories were full of acrimonious kvetching about "gouging" and "bait-and-switch." Long-time users launched petitions, fired off angry letters and for the first time in years, there were lots of threats to leave the Mac platform altogether.
But despite the howling, there's been no mass exodus to Windows. The opposite, in fact, seems to be true. Anecdotal evidence points to more and more people switching to the Mac.
Could other companies get away with this? Probably not. Yahoo and Hotmail, which provide free online e-mail, have started charging for extra services, but supply basic service for nothing. Likewise, Microsoft's latest update for Windows XP is free.
Andrew Lackey, a visiting professor of business and economics journalism at Boston University, said Apple's monopoly in the Mac business allows it to get away with things companies in a competitive market can't.
"With Apple you're a captive, and to some extent they abuse that privilege," Lackey said. "I would have thought Apple would be all folksy, like a Ben & Jerry's kind of company. But in my experience, PC companies are much more responsive."
The loyalty to Apple has led some to describe the Mac community as masochistic, the "punish me harder" brigade in the words of the Register.
"They eat it up," said Matthew Rothenberg, an editor at Ziff Davis and a longtime Apple watcher. "It's like a B&D (bondage and dominance) relationship. There needs to a psychosexual analysis of the Mac community."
Customer loyalty was the only thing that saved Apple during the late 1990s, when the company was in danger of going out of business, according to Gil Amelio, the CEO in charge at the time.
"It's the cult," Amelio told Computerworld. "It's what's kept the damn thing afloat through some of the most incredibly bad business decisions I've ever seen anywhere."
During this time, psychologist Ross Goldstein was commissioned by a rival computer manufacturer to figure out how to appeal to marooned Apple customers if the company went under.
Goldstein, a clinical psychologist with the B/R/S Group, a market research firm, recruited a number of Apple users for a focus group. To qualify, they had to agree they would consider migrating to Windows if Apple went out of business. But as soon as the session started, they all reversed themselves and said they'd never consider switching.
"They were steadfast in their resistance to moving over," Goldstein said. "It was humorous. They were picked because they might switch, but they all said, 'I'll be an Apple user until my dying keystrokes.' The degree of loyalty to the platform, and everything it represented, was so profound. It was fascinating."
Goldstein said participants' left brain, the logical side, was telling them they might have to switch if Apple went under. But the right brain, the emotional attachment to Apple, rejected it. There was a profound sense that Apple was one of them – counterculture, grassroots, human, approachable, Goldstein said.
"Apple really appeals to the humanistic side of people," Goldstein said. "The image of the brand, the heritage, the experience. It really spoke to who they were."
By contrast, Microsoft was the dark enemy. "It was almost as though they were prisoners of war," Goldstein said. "Microsoft had taken over the computer world and they might have to go over, but they would not do so willingly."
As Goldstein discovered, for a lot of Mac fans, one of the major appeals of Apple is that it's not Microsoft.
To Mac users, Apple represents everything that Microsoft isn't. Apple innovates; Microsoft copies. Apple puts out solid products; Microsoft puts out buggy ones. Apple represents creativity and individuality; Microsoft represents business and conformity. Apple is the scrappy underdog; Microsoft the big, predatory monopoly.
Such is Mac users' derision, Microsoft is commonly referred to as Micro$oft, Microshaft or Microshit. Bill Gates, of course, is the antichrist. There's the common perception that Gates is in business for every penny he can get, while Apple exists to create great technology – to change the world, in Steve Jobs' words. For Apple, turning a profit is secondary.
"There's a lot of ill will towards Microsoft for a lot of reasons," said Steve Manning, co-founder of Igor, a brand consultancy in San Francisco, California.
"Microsoft crams a bad system down peoples' throats. It's the evil empire, big brother, a monolithic corporation. Apple has done a lot of things right in the way they position themselves and the way they speak to the world." Manning said that while he's obliged to use a Windows machine at work, he went out and bought several Macs for his home.
Like a lot of Mac fans, he enjoys the feeling that he's in control of his computer, rather than Microsoft.
"At home, its nice to use a machine that the corporation can't force you to use," he said. "It's mine. It's personal. This is mine and you can't taint it."
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RoofersCoffeeShop.com > RCS Influencers > Roofing Day in D.C. > Work Together to Elevate the Industry
Work Together to Elevate the Industry
March 29, 2021 at 10:15 a.m.
RCS Influencer Danny Kerr says that Roofing Day attendees should have open, honest conversations that will elevate the industry overall.
Editor's note: Listen to the interview below to hear what Danny Kerr has to say about Roofing Day. You can also read the transcript below the interview.
Hi, my name is Megan Ellsworth here at RoofersCoffeeshop. And today I am with Danny Kerr from Breakthrough Academy, and we're talking about the March influencer topic. And that topic this month is what would you like to have discussed at Roofing Day 2021? So Danny, take it away. What are you wanting to have discussed over there?
Danny Kerr: Yeah. I was thinking a bit about this before we came into this and I was reflecting on the collaboration that we have internally in our membership and how rare that is externally in the general marketplace. And what I mean by that is our members are sharing all their best practices with each other, all their trade secrets. They're sharing their financials. They're sharing as much as they possibly can to help each other, and they come at the membership with us with the mentality of like, how much can I give? And that's what they're focused on versus how much can I take? And what happens is, especially when we have our events, we have 300 something people there. They're all focused on how much they can give. If you're an individual they're doing that, you also have 300 people trying to help you, which is a huge magnifying effect.
Danny Kerr: We're all striving to professionalize this industry and bring it to a bit more of a standard. And it's hard to do that when everyone's holding their cards close to their chest and they're willing to share maybe some stuff, but they're going to keep the good stuff to themselves because they don't want to give away too much. And we're in a world where information is everywhere and you can probably grab most of that information anyways online. And to be able to have that just general tone within the roofing community, where everyone's like, you know what, let's talk about it. Let's get into it. And to be less afraid of what your competitor is going to be doing and more excited about what that will do for the industry by raising everybody, I think that's huge because there's definitely people in the industry that probably shouldn't be in here and there's definitely a lot of people that should be. And I think if the people who are trying to professionalize the industry are working together more, I think that's a much more powerful force.
Danny Kerr: I've just been to a lot of conferences. I've been to a lot of different public events where I see everybody working together and although it is still collaborative, I do still feel there's a level of people will still wear a little bit of a face and they're missing the true in-depth relationships that could be had if they'd just let down their guard a little bit.
Megan Ellsworth: Yeah, for sure. I agree. I love that. I totally agree with making it more open and honest community and it already is. We are such a beautiful community here, but the honesty and the openness, I think that's great. How do you think that'll translate in Washington DC?
Danny Kerr: I don't know. We'll have to see. I just think about things like when I go to some conferences, I talk about how we have our contractors sharing their financials, sharing their books, and they're not sharing it with all 300 of our members, but they certainly do share it with their group. And they're very open to talking about margins. They're very open talking about ratios of what they're spending on, what they're making, all that kind of stuff. And I bring that up and there is a bit of an older school mentality, which is like, never do that. You start doing that and you're going to get your competitor to take you over.
Danny Kerr: When I think about advocacy, I know it's not as political, but it's like, that's something that I've been advocating for for a lot of years where it's like, we have to get over that. The world's changing quickly and that mentality, although in certain circumstances is valid. I don't think it's just, hey, put your financials online for everyone to see. There's a privacy that's important there. I think there's huge opportunity missed when people just put a block, a stonewall against that. That's just something personally I've been advocating for in the industry for a long time.
Megan Ellsworth: Yeah. I love it. That should totally be discussed. I think that's great. And we haven't really heard a perspective like that yet on this topic. So I love that you went there. What should contractors do to kind of start doing that? Should they engage with Breakthrough Academy or what should they do?
Danny Kerr: Well, I mean, with all of that said, I do think it's important that you know you're in a safe space to be able to do something like that. And I think you want to be in a group for, you want to be in an organization or in a place where you know that the people who are there have been vetted at some point at some level. If it's all just open public forum, I do meet people where I'm like, I don't know if I trust you to be honest.
Danny Kerr: And there is some level of vetting like BTA internally obviously, we have hours of vetting that goes on before somebody comes in, then they go through a six week course with us. We get to know them really, really well. And what that allows for is a group of very like-minded people that are all on the same page. And they all know that, hey, like I didn't just get in here randomly. I had to work for this. I had to prove that I am who I am here, but once you create that safe space, I think it's really cool. I think people let go of their guard.
Danny Kerr: I think about a lot of the events we've done, even where people have never been to a public event with us before. They maybe only met us online. They even maybe starting to work with our coaches and starting to kind of get into the whole BTA thing that we do, but they're still a little bit nervous when they come to these events. They come and they're like, hi, I'm John. This is my business card. Good to meet you. And I just give them a big hug. I'm just like, welcome. This is the bar. These are your friends and let's go hang out. It's just like a different, a totally different vibe than I think a lot of people would expect from a business conference, but it just lightens people up.
Danny Kerr: And I've always been a big believer that you need to be the same person you are with your kids and your family at the dinner table, as you are in your business environments. And it just allows for a much more open level of conversation, and it takes people from being, hey, what can I say and not say? What's the right thing to? Just be you. Just be you. Let it be. And I think there's certain organizations and I think you guys do a good job of this, I think that help with that, but I think if it's openly discussed and you give people almost immediate permission where they're like, oh, okay, I can just be me, totally, that changes the way these conversations happen over dinner and at night. And it allows people to just get that much deeper into where they're at and what they're looking for and where they can help each other.
Megan Ellsworth: I love that. Yes. Thank you for sharing. Oh, what you said totally hit me. We should be the way we are with our kids and our family around the dinner table. We should be that way in all the things we do. I love that. So thank you. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and your opinions this month, and I will see you in April. Do you have any last words?
Danny Kerr: No. Just let's get rolling. Industries about to start up here. Let's go make some money. Let's go hit the industry and let's rock and roll.
Megan Ellsworth: All right. Thanks, Danny. I'll see you next month.
Danny Kerr: Thanks Megan. See ya.
Danny Kerr is the Director of Assessment of Breakthrough Academy. See his full bio here.
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