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Xavier Duursma came off second-best in a marking contest with teenage tall Tom Scully, and it's not the only way the fresh recruit is catching the eye of coaches. TRACK WATCH
Port Adelaide assistant Josh Carr wants to be a senior AFL coach, but is not in a rush as he enjoys the start of his third stint at Alberton.
Carr is the Power's new midfield mentor after three years in the same role at Fremantle, and his return has led to external suggestions he is well placed to take over from Ken Hinkley.
Hinkley is out of contract at the end of the season, coming off an 11th-placed finish in 2022.
Car played 124 games for the Power from 1999-04 and 2009-10, then was an assistant there from 2011-15, before coaching North Adelaide to a SANFL premiership in 2018 and joining the Dockers a year later.
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He said his plan had "always been to come back to SA", where his wife's family was based, and he had not thought about any of the speculation over Hinkley's future.
"I want to be a senior coach one day, but I'm not in a rush to do that," Carr said.
"I'll keep learning and when the time presents, I'll be ready to go.
"I learnt a lot from Ken in my early days as a coach then to be able to go away and bring back more intel and more experience as a coach, and help him out, is what I wanted to do.
"He teaches me a lot, he challenges me as a coach in different areas and I'm only going to get better coaching with him.
"I love being back here, I enjoy the culture of the footy club and the people."
Carr said he joined Fremantle wanting to learn more, particularly about team defence, from Justin Longmuir.
"All football clubs are different, they're run differently and see things differently, so it was nice to get a different perspective," he said.
Boom recruit Jason Horne-Francis is expected to play primarily as a midfielder this season, rotating forward along with the likes of Connor Rozee and Zak Butters.
But the 2020 No.1 pick's positional split is yet to be determined.
Carr could hear the excitement of supporters every time Horne-Francis got the ball during Wednesday's match simulation.
"Each session he's got better and better, and been able to sustain more run and physicality out there," Carr said of the 19-year-old, who resumed full training this month after having surgery on both legs in October.
"He's only a second-year player, there's obviously expectation from where he's come from being a number-one draft pick, but Jason's got a lot to learn as far as AFL footy and what the game requires.
"He's been really open to learning and getting better."
In other notes from training on Wednesday:
■ Wingman Xavier Duursma was crunched by high-leaping draftee Tom Scully in a marking contest during the scratch game, was down for about a minute, then needed trainers to help him off the ground. Carr said Duursma copped a knock to the head, as well as a corked hip, and was a bit groggy, but had pulled up OK. "Come next week he'll be right, I'm sure he'll be able to run. It'll just be precautionary from a head point of view," he said.
■ Orazio Fantasia spent the session running along the boundary. Carr expected him to train next week. "He was a little bit tight in the calf last week, so we're just looking after him," he said.
■ Star midfielder Ollie Wines watched on from the sidelines, building from off-season knee surgery. He is expected to return to full training the week starting February 6.
■ Draftee tall forward Scully impressed again on Wednesday, flying for marks and giving experienced defenders a tough time. "He has been impressive," Carr said. He presents at the ball, is obviously over 200cm and he's hard to defend as a tall guy."
■ Junior Rioli did some running after having Covid over the past week, while Charlie Dixon sat out the session after laser-eye surgery. Jackson Mead copped a shoulder knock on Monday and was restricted to jogging on the sidelines. Ollie Lord was walking along the boundary, on the mend from a lacerated kidney, but without a timeline for a return. Tom Clurey (knee) was in and out of drills, while Josh Sinn (groin) and Jase Burgoyne (knee) did not participate in match simulation. Mead, Clurey, Sinn, Burgoyne, Jed McEntee (hamstring) and Trent Dumont (calf) should be back in full training on Monday.
■ Will Francou – son of former Power star Josh Francou – caught the eye a few times during the match simulation, moving well and finding the ball. Overlooked in last year's drafts, Francou is eligible to line up for the Magpies in 2023.
Boom recruit 'electric' in return to Port pre-season
Xavier Duursma has enjoyed watching fellow 2018 first-round picks Connor Rozee and Zak Butters become Port Adelaide stars, but says it is now his turn to take the next step in his development.
Duursma endured two frustrating campaigns in 2021-22, playing 10 SANFL games, battling knee and shoulder injuries, and struggling for consistency.
Those years were a stark contrast to his debut season, when the wingman burst out of the blocks with Rozee and Butters, before finishing ninth in the Power's club champion award.
While Duursma's form dipped again in 2022, Rozee earnt his first All-Australian blazer then won the best-and-fairest.
Butters polled seventh in the John Cahill Medal count.
Duursma, 22, said becoming much fitter, sharpening his routine and working on his mindset with club staff had put him in a strong position to have a big 2023 campaign.
He also sought off-season advice from his dad, Dean, whom he described as a "pretty wise footy mind", and Power coaches.
"It's been a challenging couple of years and I've learnt a lot about myself," said Duursma, the 18th pick in the 2018 national draft.
"There were things that probably didn't work in my favour … a couple of injuries, confidence, form that type of stuff.
"I love seeing Buttsy and Rozee take the next step.
"You can see it out on the training track, they're even going another level now, they're amazing.
"But I want to take that step as well and I think it's my turn now to get to that point."
To do that, Duursma planned to make his running a weapon again.
Duursma also conceded he had not been confident jumping for the ball due to his injuries.
Karl Amon's free agency move to Hawthorn opened up a wing spot that Duursma wanted to cement.
Of the speculation he might be traded in October, Duursma said: "I'm glad to be here and wasn't going anywhere".
The Power had an open training session at Alberton Oval on Friday.
Among the observations from the sidelines were:
■ Boom recruit Jason Horne-Francis returned to full training this week, sporting a couple of eye-catching scars on the back of his legs. Horne-Francis, who underwent surgery in October to decompress arteries behind both his knees, was already impressing. "He's looking pretty electric out there," Duursma said. Former Power star turned development coach Hamish Hartlett told the crowd Horne-Francis was "super competitive, loves hitting bodies and uses the ball pretty well too."
■ Match simulation teams looked to be split between As and Bs. The top side, wearing black, featured the usual suspects, along with former Geelong small forward Francis Evans and Riley Bonner. Lachie Jones, Tom Clurey, Trent McKenzie, Jackson Mead, Brynn Teakle, and Willem Drew were in the other team, donning white.
■ Goalsneak Orazio Fantasia spent the session on a bike, being managed, but was said to be fine and expected to be back training on Monday. Brownlow medallist Ollie Wines, who was considered to be another week or so away from full training, did not take part in the match simulation and instead was running and doing handball drills. Second-year wingman Josh Sinn (groin) ran early in the session then sat out the scratch game. Defender Jase Burgoyne also did not take part, though did some running. Draftee Kyle Marshall rolled his ankle during the match simulation. West Coast recruit Junior Rioli was absent with illness.
■ Swingman Ollie Lord is back home after lacerating his kidney in a marking contest at training on Monday and spending a couple of nights in hospital. He is expected to start non-weight-bearing conditioning at the club from next week.
■ First-year tall forward Tom Scully's reach, timing and goalkicking stood out during the match simulation. "He's looking really nice," Duursma said. "He's got a really good jump and times it pretty well too, which is a big thing for a young forward. He's got strong hands as well."
■ West Australian speedster Jed Hagan, who was overlooked at the draft and signed with Port Adelaide's SANFL team this week, played with the white team. In 2022, he was an under-18 All-Australian and lined up in eight WAFL matches for East Fremantle. The 175cm talent was expected to play as a half-forward.
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Detectives have launched a murder investigation after the body of man was discovered at a property in Wolverhampton.
Officers were called to Beckett Street, The Lunt in Bilston, just after 6.30pm last night (Sunday 9 September) where a 42-year-old man was found with serious injuries.
He was pronounced dead at the scene and a post mortem examination will take place today to try and establish the cause of his death.
Two men, aged 42 and 34, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and are currently in police custody for questioning.
A cordon remains in place and house to house enquiries are continuing.
Detective Inspector Paul Joyce, from the homicide team at West Midlands Police, said: "We are working to establish the circumstances around the sad death of this man.
"We understand there may have been a disorder in the street earlier that afternoon and whether this is connected forms one line of enquiry.
"I would urge anyone who saw this, or has any other information which can assist our investigation to contact us as soon as possible."


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All About History Book of The Battle Of Britain
All About History Book Of The Battle Of Britain 2nd Edition
Few campaigns within either of the world wars are as well-known and remembered as the Battle of Britain. In this new edition, you'll find incredible images of the battle's people and planes, its devastating effects, and in-depth information about key moments. You'll also find fascinating insights into how people experienced the war, with facsimiles of documents including letters sent home to loved ones, instructional pamphlets used by pilots, and morale reports. Discover the battle through the eyes of those who saw it, and honour the sacrifices made three-quarters of a century ago. Featuring: Forgotten heroes - Meet 10 of the heroes that made the Battle of Britain happen. Spitfire SM520 - Take a look inside the aircraft that helped train the pilots of the future. The battle in depth - From the battle's beginnings to the legacy it left behind. Amazing documents - From pilot's log books and morale reports to hand-written letters. Forgotten heroes - Meet 10 of the heroes that made the Battle of Britain happen Spitfire SM520 - Take a look inside the aircraft that helped train the pilots of the future The battle in depth - From the battle's beginnings to the legacy it left behind Amazing documents - From pilot's log books and morale reports to hand-written letters
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The Second World War will always hold a legendary place in Britain's history, and indeed the history of the world. Few campaigns within either of the world wars are as well-known and remembered as the Battle of Britain. Immortalised in Churchill's speech before the battle even began, it was foremost a conflict in the sky, but its effects were also felt keenly on the ground. In this special 75th anniversary edition, you'll find incredible images of the battle's people and planes, its devastating effects, and in-depth information about key moments and strategies. You'll also find fascinating insights into how people experienced the war, with facsimiles of documents including letters sent home to loved ones, instructional pamphlets used by pilots, and morale reports. Discover the battle through the eyes of those…
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On 18 June 1940, Winston Churchill stood up in Parliament. The mood was gloomy. France had just surrendered, most of Europe was now under Nazi control and Britain faced Germany alone. "The Battle of France is over," he announced. "The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Hitler knows he must break us in these islands or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be freed. But if we fail, then the whole world will sink into the abyss of a new dark age." Churchill had been warning of war for years but few had listened. The Nazis had spent much of the 1930s building the modern war machine that had just ravaged most of Europe. By contrast, British rearmament had only begun in earnest…
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WOKEN AT DAWN All fighter pilots' days started at dawn with a cup of tea brought to them by a junior rank. They wash and dress before being driven in lorries to the dispersal area. Here, by the runway, they eat breakfast – if they have the time – and wait. "SCRAMBLE!" By mid-morning, the radar stations start picking up incoming enemy aircraft. The dispersal area phone rings. The duty officer answers, nods his head, then clicks on the tannoy and shouts "Scramble!" into the receiver and across the airfield. INTO THE AIR Having raced to their planes, clambered into their parachutes and climbed into their aircraft, which fitters will already have started for them, pilots begin to taxi down the runway and take to the air. MISSION BRIEFING With the planes now airborne, through their headphones…
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OBERLEUTNANT HELMUT WICK BATTLE OF BRITAIN KILLS: 42 Wick was the highest-scoring pilot of the battle. The 25-year-old became only the fourth member of the German armed forces to be awarded the King's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaf Clusters. He was killed in combat in November 1940. MAJOR ADOLF GALLAND BATTLE OF BRITAIN KILLS: 35 Galland would go on to become the youngest general in the German military, attaining the rank of general of the fighter arm in 1941. His total number of kills for the war was 104, despite being banned from combat between December 1941 and the end of 1944 by Hitler himself. HAUPTMAN WALTER OESAU BATTLE OF BRITAIN KILLS: 34 By the time the Battle of Britain started, Oesau was already a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, the invasion of Poland…
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No other battle in recent British history has been accorded the same status as the Battle of Britain, fought out over the skies of England in the summer and autumn of 1940 between the Royal Air Force and the German air force. The Battle followed on from the defeat of France in June 1940 and the expulsion of British forces from Continental Europe during the Dunkirk evacuation. The general expectation in Britain was of a German invasion at some point later in 1940. One way of ensuring that invasion might be postponed was to deny the German forces air superiority over southern England. The onus of achieving this fell on RAF Fighter Command. The failure of the German air force to eliminate British fighter defences played a critical part in…


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Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy is doubling down on its Bitcoin holdings. The firm now plans to extend $400 million of convertible bonds to purchase more of the BTC.
MicroStrategy Will Raise $400 Million Just to Buy Bitcoin
According to a press release from MicroStrategy, the company will raise $400 million worth of convertible senior notes — a debt instrument that is convertible into an issuing company's stock shares — in a private offering to accredited institutional investors. And all the proceeds will be used to add to their Bitcoin treasury.
The press release further stated that the notes will be unsecured and that MicroStrategy will carry credit due semi-annually in arrears every June 15 and December 15 of each year, starting next year, 2021.
The notes will culminate on December 15, 2025, except ig they are earlier repurchased, reclaimed, or converted according to their terms. Furthermore, the notes will be exchangeable into cash, shares of MicroStrategy's class A common stock, or a sequence of cash and shares of MicroStrategy's class A common stock, at MicroStrategy's election.
As the firm states:
"MicroStrategy intends to invest the net proceeds from the sale of the notes in bitcoin in accordance with its Treasury Reserve Policy pending the identification of working capital needs and other general corporate purposes."
As of today, Microstrategy's total Bitcoin bag has nearly 62,000 BTC, making the firm the third-biggest institutional Bitcoin investor, next to Grayscale and Coinshares.
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Just a few days ago on Dec. 5, MicroStrategy's CEO Michael Saylor, who recently opined that Bitcoin is "a million times better" than gold, declared on Twitter that the company had bought an additional 2,574 BTC valued at around $19,427 each for $50 million, taking its entire crypto holdings up to approximately 40,824 BTC at the time.
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Tips for Improving Your Privacy on Instagram
What exactly is Instagram all about? It's more than a phone app for fiddling with the colours and effects of your photos with its many stylish features.
In fact, Instagram is a picture-sharing platform first and foremost. It's designed to let you share your favourite photos with friends, relatives, other users, and just about anybody in the world.
What if you're not thrilled about the idea of waving your snapshots in the face of a very public, very random crowd of strangers? Don't worry! Instagram includes some excellent controls for managing the accessibility of your favourite digital photos.
Show them off to the entire Internet or just your chosen friends – the choice is entirely up to you.
To learn how to manage Instagram's privacy settings, just take a moment to review the following newbie-friendly tips for getting the most out of the app.
Change Your Feed's Privacy Setting
When you snap a picture with Instagram, you're not just tucking that file away for your own use later. By default, the app is going to post that picture on your photo feed – and that feed is completely public if you haven't changed your privacy settings.
How To Make Your Instagram Account Private
If you'd rather not share your Instagram photos with random strangers, you're going to want to set your feed to private. Turning on private mode will make your feed a private club where only selected followers get access to your photos.
To get started, tap the profile button in the lower left corner of the Instagram interface. (It should look like a silhouette.) From here, tap the settings button. In iOS, this button looks like a gear. On Android phones, it's a button with three dots on it.
You should see a setting called "Private Account" in the menu the settings button brings up. Flip the switch next to it to the on position.
Congratulations! You've just closed the doors to your Instagram gallery and prevented random users from peeking at your pics. (They won't be accessible through searches, either.)
Remember that your security gets a lot more complicated if you link your Instagram account to other social media platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter). Take a moment to review your social sharing settings on the confirmation page that appears before you share photos.
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Instagram and Facebook are two giants in the social media world, so they've made it as easy as could be for users to get them to work together. If you do hit the button to send your Instagram photos to Facebook when you share them, exactly who is going to be able to see them later? Don't leave this question unanswered!
You need to take a closer look at your Facebook privacy settings. Log in to your Facebook account and click the Privacy Shortcuts link in the upper right corner of your page. (It should look like a padlock.) Click the "Privacy Checkup" link and then click the blue button labelled "Next Steps."
You have a section of apps that are connected to your Facebook account; you'll find Instagram here if you've already linked your accounts together. This page will show you the current privacy level for any pics your post via Instagram. Options range from "Public" to "Only Me." Use the pull-down menu to select the privacy level that feels right to you.
Keep Strangers Out Of Your Followers List
Instagram is like many other social platforms (e.g. Twitter) in that it lets any user follow any other user. The exception to this rule is users with private profiles; nobody is allowed to follow them without permission – so even an Instagram web viewer won't work.
If you didn't set your profile to private right away, your followers list might contain a few people you don't know or don't want to share with. Don't worry, getting rid of them is a breeze.
Start by tapping the profile button at the lower right corner of the Instagram interface. Tap your number of followers to access a complete list of users following your account. Tapping an individual name here will take you to a follower's profile page. Just tap the menu button (it looks like three dots) in the upper-right corner.
Among the options that will appear in a menu when you do this is "Block User." As soon as you tap that, the unwanted follower is gone forever.
Control Your Profile
Unless they already know you from somewhere else, Instagram users can't learn anything about you that isn't listed on your profile. You have total control over what you do and do not put on your profile; a user name is the only piece of data that's absolutely required.
Get started by hitting the profile button in the lower right corner of the main interface and tapping "Edit Your Profile." Here you can add (or remove) whatever details you want.
Erase Snapshots From The Photo Map
Whenever you share a photo with Instagram, it pins it to a photo map that other users can access through your profile. If you, for example, go on a photo-sharing spree at the Smithsonian, other users will see your latest pictures pop up on a map of Washington, DC.
If this prospect doesn't exactly thrill you, you may want to clear out the photos that Instagram has already pinned to your map. Does the whole world need to know exactly where your home is, for instance? Thankfully, it's not hard to purge pics from the photo map.
For a start, look for the "Add to your Photo Map" option that appears on the confirmation page before you share a new photo. You'll want to make this decision on a case by case basis with your future shots. What about the old ones?
Tap the photo map tab you'll find in your profile (it's shaped like a teardrop) to access your map. You want to hit the Edit button that appears in the upper right-hand corner. From here you can select individual photos on your map and purge them from public view. You can also handle batches of pictures at the same time. To do this, you'll need to hit the grid button at the bottom of the screen on Apple phones or the three-dot menu button at the top of Android devices. Select "View All" to get a list of all the photos that are currently pinned to your map.
Note: If your Instagram account is currently set to private, your photo map is no longer publically accessible. In fact, not even your followers can see it!
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Sure, we Yanks might have Santa's arrival at the end of the Thanksgiving Parade... in Italy, however, the Christmas countdown begins tomorrow with another traditional touchdown: the Pope's journey to Rome's Piazza di Spagna for the customary 8 December "homage" before its statue of the Immaculate Conception on said feast-day, with floods of the locals invariably in attendance.
About three months ago I had the joy of going on pilgrimage to Lourdes, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the historical apparitions of the Virgin Mary to St Bernadette. The celebration of this unique anniversary ends precisely today on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, because in showing herself to Bernadette for the last time in the Grotto of Massabielle, the "beautiful Lady", as Bernadette called her, revealed her name, saying "I am the Immaculate Conception". She said this in the local dialect and the little visionary related the phrase, to her unknown and incomprehensible, to her parish priest.
"Immaculate Conception": we too repeat that mysterious name with feeling, here, at the foot of this monument in the heart of Rome; and countless brothers and sisters of ours are doing the same in thousands of other places in the world, at shrines and in chapels as well as in Christian homes. Today, wherever a Catholic community exists, Our Lady is venerated in it with this stupendous and marvellous name: the Immaculate Conception. Of course, the conviction that Mary's conception was immaculate had already existed for centuries before the apparitions in Lourdes, but which came as a heavenly seal after my venerable Predecessor, Bl. Pius IX, defined the Dogma on 8 December 1854. On today's feast, so dear to Christian people, this expression rises from hearts and is pronounced by lips as our heavenly Mother's name. Just as a child raises his eyes to his mother's face and on seeing her smile forgets every fear and every pain, so do we, turning our eyes to Mary, recognize in her "God's smile", the immaculate reflection of divine light; in her we find new hope even in the midst of the problems and tragedies of the world.
O Immaculate Mother, who are a sign of certain hope and comfort to everyone, help us to let ourselves be attracted by your immaculate purity. Your beauty Tota Pulchra, as we sing today assures us that the victory of love is possible; indeed, that it is certain. It assures us that grace is stronger than sin, and that redemption from any form of slavery is therefore possible. Yes, O Mary, help us to believe with greater trust in good, to wager on giving freely, on service, on non-violence, on the power of the truth. Encourage us to be alert, not to give into the temptation of easy evasions, to face reality and its problems with courage and responsibility. This is what you did, a young woman called to stake everything on the Word of the Lord. May you be a loving mother for our young people, so that they may have the courage to be "watchmen of the dawn", and give this virtue to all Christians so that they may be the heart of the world in this difficult period of history. Virgin Immaculate, Mother of God and our Mother, Salus Populi Romani, pray for us!
And so, with First Vespers drawing near, every wish for a buona festa to one and all.


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The Dugouts
Brian the Fecker
By danton,
September 2, 2021 in Superstars & Legends
After 49 matches Brian has cemented himself as a true Legend for the Celtic Tigers! Averaging exactly one TD per game and closing in on 2000 rushing yards, his stats speak for themselves! Not content with practically always being the fastest player on the pitch, Brian has now added leaping to his phenomenal array of abilities. He has played a huge role in the Tigers' successes over the past seasons in the OCC and regardless of where the Tigers go from here, they will always owe him a huge debt of gratitude. Now feck off Brian!!
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Uninjured, too! What have your opponents been doing?
9 hours ago, Doomy77 said:
It hasn't been for a lack of the opposition trying to kill him! Brian likes to spend as much time as possible on the bench during a match and is used to playing hide and seek with the opposing team if he has to stay on the pitch for a prolonged period. Also there is such a thing as "luck of the Irish"!
23 minutes ago, danton said:
I had a peek at your team. Some very nice players there (and two cases of duplicated names).
Yeah, the duplicate names are annoying
One was a double input by mistake because the game wouldn't let me hire the player while the opponent was sending a challenge and the other was because I was sure I hadn't already used that name. Was expecting at least one of the duplicates to die by now, but Nuffle obviously won't allow it....
11 hours ago, danton said:
I had two warriors with the same name for a good while. One of the pitfalls of taking names from a list.
I also currently have a rotter named The Dinal Cut because I didn't notice the typo initially and now I can't fix it.
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"The school has a designated classroom that enables learners to receive practical cooking experiences. There is an oven, various mixers and cooking utensils. The pupils learn how to make smoothies, bake wholemeal bread and make healthy snacks etc. We would like to establish an After School Intergenerational Family Cookery Club where parents /grandparents can work with their children and create healthy, economical meals for the families. Becoming a Belling Cookery Club would benefit the school because we would be able to have a cooker with a hob and another oven and this would enable us to cook a wider range of meals with a better variety of vegetables for our learners and families."
"My starter is a lovely bowl of lentil soup with a hint of pepper and a slice of bread. My main course is stew with sausage and mashed potatoes with carrots and broccoli at the side. My drink is milk because it is healthy and tastes nice."
"This meal is healthy because it has three different types of vegetables which are mashed potatoes, carrots and broccoli. It also has meat which gives you protein, the milk is a dairy product which is also healthy for you. The lentil soup is also very good for you because it contains vegetables."


A different kind of joining method… and some great progress pics!
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For the second year in a row, a teacher at the Henry School in Mt. Airy has won a "Distinguished Teachers Award" from the educational Lindback Foundation. About one in every 300 of the …
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"Distinguished teacher" Meredith Schecter, told us, "I was honored to get the award and to be part of the Henry School community. In a world where teaching can be a thankless job, I am humbled. It is great to be appreciated."
Posted Thursday, September 3, 2020 10:53 am
For the second year in a row, a teacher at the Henry School in Mt. Airy has won a "Distinguished Teachers Award" from the educational Lindback Foundation. About one in every 300 of the 18,300 public school teachers in the city is chosen for the award among those nominated by the 386 individual schools. Each winning teacher receives a $3,500 prize and is honored at a ceremony in May, which did not take place this year because of the pandemic.
Meredith Schecter, a first-grade teacher at Henry who won the award for 2020, told us last week, "I was honored to get the award and to be part of the Henry School community. In a world where teaching can be a thankless job, I am humbled. It is great to be appreciated. I did not have to go up on a stage to accept the award (because of the pandemic), which was fine with me.
"I have no problem teaching a bunch of children, but I would be very nervous speaking to a group of adults. Of course, it was a lovely surprise to win the award, and it came at such a weird time in the middle of the pandemic. It motivated me mentally." (According to last year's winner at Henry, Nicole Paulino-Trisdorfer, "Meredith is really an exceptional teacher.")
Of course, the big question currently on the minds of almost every public-school parent and teacher is whether children should be in actual classrooms this fall or have all-virtual classes or a combination of the two. Needless to say, Schecter has strong opinions on the issue. "I didn't realize how scared I would be till I heard about spending two days per week in the building. (That two-day plan has since been rescinded, at least until mid-November.)
"There are a lot of societal problems that are brought into the schools. We constantly take them and make them work, but I did not expect to be as scared and anxious as I was. I'm not an epidemiologist, but I look at the facts. We had to go into the building at the end of the spring semester to take care of some things, and it was crazy to be in the classroom after so long with no kids.
"I have mixed feelings about it. Many kids are not doing well at home, and they are not with their peers, but I can't take on everything. Teaching from home is very hard, and it is a heart-wrenching decision to leave the kids. Every time I left a school, I was hysterically crying on the last day of school."
Meredith, 40, is secretary of the school advisory council, which was started almost five years ago to get families more involved in the school community. She grew up in Mount Laurel, NJ, the daughter of a kindergarten teacher. For a while in high school, she revolted against her mother, like so many teenagers, but she was always drawn to teaching. She earned an English degree from the University of Delaware and a graduate degree in education from Rosemont College. She moved to Philly 20 years ago after undergraduate school and now lives in center city.
Meredith started her teaching career as a literacy intern at the John Webster School in Kensington for one year. She then taught for four years at the Paul Dunbar School in North Philly, followed by six years at the John B. Kelly School in Germantown, where she helped to open a "Promise Academy," which provides "an extended school day and year for more time and opportunity to learn."
"That was very challenging," said Meredith. "Then the Kelly School principal went to the Henry School, and I followed her. It was a voluntary move. I always heard Henry was a phenomenal school. I am going into my seventh year here. It is a great school, and it has really elevated my teaching.
"I always had good classes at the schools where I taught, but here there is overwhelming support from the community. I never had that before. It is hard to compare schools, but there is definitely more privilege and opportunity at Henry. I'm teaching from home, and I am trying to wrap my head around this all-virtual thing. Usually in the summer I turn off but not this summer.
"I am going into my 17th year of teaching, so I usually know what the first day will look like but not now. How to get everyone engaged will be a challenge. A lot of trial and error. It is hard to grade. I check in with the kids every day. Mental health is very important in order to have a successful educational experience."
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Richard Edward Loos
10/6/1948 - 7/14/2020 Richard was born in Duncan, Oklahoma to DeLasso and Billie Nell Loos, the second of five children. He died of sudden heart failure, July 14, 2020, in Rockport, Texas. His father, DeLasso, had been a World War II reconnaissance pilot in the Pacific. Patriotic duty was learned early on. Richard graduated 1966 from Durango High School then attended New Mexico Military Institute. In 1968 Richard enlisted in the US Army, going on to complete helicopter pilot training and graduation from Ft. Rucker, Alabama 1968, as a Chief Warrant Officer. He was deployed to Tay Ninh Province, South Viet Nam 1969, where he served with the 187th Assault Helicopter Company, 1st Aviation, 269th Combat Battalion, known as "The Crusaders". Upon his return to the US in 1970, Richard served as a TAC Officer (Training, Advisory, Counseling) at Ft Wolters, Texas. In May 1970 he married Brenda Furlow. The couple moved back to Durango after his honorable discharge from the US Army. Richard obtained a BA degree from Ft Lewis College in 1973. He was employed by Amarillo Hospital District, where his beloved son, Caleb Edward Loos, was born. The family relocated to San Antonio, Texas in 1978, and Richard was employed by IBM. His later years were spent in Rockport, enjoying the coastal lifestyle, fishing, and sports cars. He was preceded in death by parents DeLasso and Billie Loos, brother Robert Loos, sister, Anita Zellitti, wife, Peggy Loos. He is survived by his son Caleb (Tiffany) Loos, brother Colonel (ret) Phillip (Sharon) Loos, sister in law, Debbie Rowe, sister, Kim, first wife, Brenda Furlow, partner, Lisa Loos, and many nieces, nephews, and friends. Cremation has occurred. A private memorial will be held later this summer. Richard will be remembered as a kind gentleman who always wanted the best for those he treasured.


Sometimes it is fun to read a teenager in the 1960's story of meeting one of the Beatles. I like them because they were written at the time and not written many years later when the fan grew into an adult and remembered the meeting. The stories always have such different details (such as what socks Paul was wearing) and are so dramatic!
This is an encounter a lucky teenager had in 1964 in San Francisco. Paul was very kind to allow them into the room with the reporter as I think the reporter was annoying and the girls scared him some.
This was from the Summer 1965 issue of Datebook magazine.
Is this a shot of Paul seeing Sue holding up her autograph in the audience?
The mention of the word Paul brings back beautiful memories. Memories of a day I met him face to face, touched him, talked with him. I was in such a trance I could hardly talk, but just stared into those big beautiful brown eyes. But, I guess I'd better start at the beginning.
San Francisco was the first stop of the Beatles 30 day tour. They arrived at the airport on the evening of Tuesday, August 18. Since it was against my parents' wishes, I did not greet them upon their arrival. My friends and I were very excited about getting to see them because it had been four months since we purchased the tickets to their performance.
At about 11a.m. Jean, Joby, Chris and I arrived at the Hilton Hotel where the Beatles had just spent the night. We went up and down the elevators and exit stairs. We could go anywhere except the 15th floor. Guess who was staying there?! Our attempts to rush the guards all failed. We thought of climbing the fire escape or renting maids' costumes, but we knew this wouldn't work.
We were going along the side of the hotel opposite from where the big crowds were, when we saw a few girls screaming. WE looked up to the window to see a Beatle sitting with his back against it. When he turned around and waved, we knew it was Ringo!
Then, we started talking to a woman who was having her lunch break and it turned out she was a reporter on a San Francisco newspaper. She told us how she met Elvis, Kookie, Connie Francis and others. She had a note from the promoter authorizing her to interview the Beatles. We begged her to take us with her and soon we were on the 15th floor, handing the note to the guard who looked suspicious since he had seen us before. Eh read it and then handed it to a woman who was a security guard, who in turn read it. She told us to wait there and she proceeded down the hall.
I thought "Are the Beatles really in there?" I was sure it would prove to be a manager or the police or almost anybody else.
After a minute, the door opened and out popped a head that could never be mistaken – the head of Paul McCartney! I had never failed in my life, but at that moment I felt from close t doing it. He just said, "Girls? Girls, come on in girls!" I was in such a state of shock I could hardly believe he was real.
As we walked through the doorway, I noticed that the room was very small. I saw an open suitcase on the floor and the room seemed a bit messy. Obviously, they had just gotten up. The bed covers were all crumpled and the leftovers of their breakfast were on the table.
Paul went behind the table as we came in on the other side. He then leaned over and said hello and shook hands with each of us. When he took my hand in his firm grasp, I felt a charge shoot through me. I was on the verge of crying and his big brown eyes seemed to be laughing at me. I opened my mouth to say "Hi" but it came out more like a croak.
Paul then asked us to sit down so we sat on the bed and he took a chair. Paul's wavy brown hair was hanging straight over his forehead, not bushed to the side. He was wearing a lavender shirt and tight black and white tweed pants. He looked even more slender than I had thought he was. I saw that he had on black socks and black leather shoes, with buckles on the top.
Our reporter friend told Paul that she thought that the Beatles records were improving. He said, "thanks" but looked a bit hurt. We all laughed and said we thought their records had always been the best. The reporter then said something about how she used to be in some Elvis fan club. I groaned. Paul's twinkling eyes shot towards me and he laughed.
I was in such a trance that I just couldn't talk although there were millions of things I wished I could ask hm. "Would you like to see my jumping beans?" said Paul, trying to start a conversation. "They're Mexican jumping beans!" He seemed excited as though he had never seen any before. So we said, "Sure!" But when he looked on top fo the table and didn't seem them, he exclaimed, "Oh my goodness, they're not here. They must have jumped all over the place!" Someone then pointed them out in a plastic box and he remembered, "Oh yeah, I put them in the box" and he picked it up.
The reporter said, "Do you know what is in them…worms!" As Paul turned and dropped the box, he twisted up his face and said "ick." He looked so cute!
As we talked, we learned that the Beatles would not get to see any of San Francisco because they couldn't get away, although John and Ringo had slipped out in the middle of the night. Paul explained that their manager planned all their schedules and it would be nicer if they could have more free time in some places.
Joby asked where the other Beatles were and Paul replied that Ringo and John were in the service showers. He didn't mention George so I don't know whether he was clean or not!
Once Jean got up to look out the window (under which a pair of famous Beatle boots were sitting) and I followed. Just as I caught a glimpse of the tops of the fans' heads, Paul yelled, "don't go near the windows! Get away, get away!" As we came away he said more calmly, "You know how those fans are. They'll go crazy if they see anyone." I don't know whether he was tired of the screaming or whether he was worried for our safety, because if they had seen us we might have been torn apart when we left. As it was, nobody believed that we had seen him.
We also learned that they would be making a new movie in February and that Paul's home in Liverpool was in Allerton, although it came out more like Alison through his thick accent. Paul didn't seem to excited when the reporter told him that he looked like her two year old daughter.
Chris then asked Paul how long their Cow Palace performance was going to be. When he replied, "About half and hour," we all sighed disappointment. I begged him, "Please, please do more!" Paul replied sympathetically, "Oh a half hour's a lot of singing. Besides we're too lazy." I don't think they're really lazy but their shows must take a lot out of them.
The reporter said, "As long as we're here, we should get some autographs." Paul said okay, so we all dug in our purses to find something suitable to write on. The night before, I'd put John Lennon's book in my purse what we all thought to be a silly idea that I might get close enough for him to sign it. He didn't sign it but Paul did and that's just as unbelievable. It says on the first page: "To Sue, love Paul McCartney." The ink smeared in one spot and there is his fingerprint where he touched it.
The reporter asked him for autographs for all her friends and Paul said, "Aw come on, luv!" He said he had to hurry because they were due for a radio interview. I think he was lying but I guess he was tired of us.
Then he took my hand in his and squeezed it as he said goodbye. He winked to all of us as we left.
We were shoved into freight elevator and taken downstairs. As soon as I got outside, I started screaming. I think I was a bit hysterical. I kept looked up at the window and crying. "We were just in there with Paul!" When we reached the side of the hotel where the crowds were, we told them that we had met Paul, but nobody believed us even when we showed them the autographs.
At the performance that night I saw in the first section. I wanted Paul to recognize me so I took out John's book and opened it to where he'd signed it and waved it back and forth and screamed his name. I'm sure he saw me because he kept looking my way and smiling.
The Beatles last song was "Long Tall Sally" and when they left, all was quiet. There were no more screams and my ears were buzzing. Some of the girls were crying, but I hope that nobody felt as sad as I did. After all nobody else in San Francisco had met Paul so it wouldn't have seemed as much of a personal loss to them.
I'm just glancing through this since I'm at work, will read it when I get home.....but I just love these stories, and I never cease to be amazed at how you keep finding these amazing nuggets!!!


Graham King has worked with countless A-listers: Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Jack Nicholson, Cameron Diaz and Daniel-Day Lewis, to name just a few. But ask the Oscar-winning producer of "The Departed" which celebrities made him giddy like a star-struck teen, and he won't mention any actor, saying instead it was the players from the Chelsea FC soccer team.
The day the English-born filmmaker won the best picture Academy Award for "The Departed," King awoke before dawn to watch his beloved soccer squad defeat Arsenal in the Carling Cup final (one friend says it was a sweeter victory for King than his Oscar triumph over "Little Miss Sunshine"). King has hurried off the American set of several of his films on a Friday, flown to England to see a Chelsea match, and been back in the States before cameras rolled Monday morning. King interrupted his 2008 Cannes Film Festival stay to share a private jet to Moscow for the Champions League Final between Chelsea and Manchester United (Chelsea, King's team since age 4, lost in a shootout).
King's passion for the beautiful game is shared by many inside Hollywood — directors, studio executives, actors and other producers. But for all of the industry's most devoted soccer supporters, the movie business has yet to make what anybody considers a definitive mainstream movie about the sport, an especially glaring omission on the eve of the World Cup, opening Friday in South Africa.
Boxing might have "Raging Bull" and "Rocky," baseball "Bull Durham" and "Field of Dreams," football "North Dallas Forty" and "The Longest Yard," basketball " Hoosiers," ice hockey has "Miracle" and "Slap Shot," and even billiards has "The Hustler" and "The Color of Money."
Movie critics (and some art-house film patrons) have embraced several independent movies with strong soccer settings, including "Bend It Like Beckham," "The Damned United" and the recent "Looking for Eric." Documentary filmmakers have delivered a few acclaimed soccer films, including "Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos" and the new "After the Cup: Sons of Sakhnin United."
It's not so much that the big studios don't make good soccer movies, it's that they don't really make them at all. When 20th Century Fox adapted Nick Hornby's book "Fever Pitch," the subject sport was changed from soccer (the Arsenal Football Club) to baseball (the Boston Red Sox). Universal Pictures is developing "The Fugees," a movie about refugee kids who play soccer in Atlanta, but that's a rare exception to the rule.
It's not as though a lot of people don't love the game, particularly around the World Cup, the every-four-years global soccer championship.
The television audience for all soccer matches in the last World Cup exceeded 26 billion, with nearly 12% of the globe's population watching the final game between Italy and France (Italy won the match on penalty kicks). There are more than 50,000 American Youth Soccer Organization teams in the United States, representing more than 650,000 AYSO players.
But soccer interest pretty much vanishes when the nation's studios decide which features they want to greenlight. It took shoe maker Adidas to finance the three-film "Goal! The Dream Begins" soccer movie series, none of which were box-office hits. When the big studios make a soccer film, it's often a goofy comedy like "Kicking & Screaming."
Soccer's most fervent fans in and around Hollywood, many of whom are British and insist on calling the game football, offer a variety of explanations for the shutout: It's not an indigenous sport, and the World Cup has none of the domestic cultural relevance of the Super Bowl or the World Series. The game is distinguished by split-second athleticism that can't easily be re-created on screen. Scoring can be low or even nonexistent. Football, baseball and basketball are episodic sports with countless pauses to discuss strategy and set plays, but soccer is an uninterrupted 90-minute slog. Actors can't effectively fake playing the game. Moviegoers would rather watch the real thing.
Studio executives "think soccer is for some suburban mom with a 4-year-old," says Joe Roth, who ran Disney, Fox and Revolution Studios and is also the majority owner of the Seattle Sounders, a new (and so far incredibly popular) Major League Soccer team. He believes Hollywood's anti-soccer bias is rooted in a fear (and ignorance) of what's foreign. "We're basically a xenophobic country and don't look at what's going on in the rest of the world as closely as we should," Roth says.
Roth, who is consulting on a biographical film in early development based on the Brazilian soccer great Pelé, says that the sport is well-suited to filmmaking. "It's a hard sport to show on television, but a much easier sport to stage on film," he says.
"I don't think the two go together," Ken Loach, the director of "Looking for Eric," says of the soccer-movie combination. His film stars former Manchester United goal-scoring legend Eric Cantona in a story about how a soccer-obsessed, down-on-his-luck British postal carrier's life is restarted when he is visited by Cantona, who plays himself. "A film has its own narrative — they have different rhythms," Loach says.
If you've noticed that Kevin Costner doesn't display a perfect golf swing in "Tin Cup" or that Tommy Lee Jones can't really swing a bat in "Cobb," you know how easy it is to spot actors trying to be athletes. When Gavin O'Connor cast "Miracle," a drama about the gold-medal-winning U.S. ice hockey team in the 1980 Olympics, he cast real hockey players who could act, rather than actors who might vaguely know how to skate and shoot a puck. More often than not — in a business driven by star casting — it's the other way around.
"But you can't replicate that level of skill," says Stephen Frears, the British director of "The Queen" and "Dangerous Liaisons" and a supporter of Arsenal. "There's so much coverage of the game now that trying to fake it is very difficult. It's daunting. You are never going to make a soccer film as good as the real thing."
David Anspaugh, the American director of the classic sports films "Hoosiers" and "Rudy," also made 2005's "The Game of Their Lives," a drama about how the American squad upset England in 1950's World Cup in Brazil. Though some say it's among the better soccer movies around, Anspaugh says money woes kept him from making the film he set out to direct. "A lot of the good parts of the film we had to cut out," he says.
But Anspaugh says he was determined to make the soccer match look as authentic as possible, auditioning about 6,000 people for the film and populating his cast with legitimate players, including actors Jimmy Jean-Louis and Richard Jenik, and brought in former U.S. pros Eric Wynalda and John Harkes as soccer consultants. "Will someone make a great movie in the future with soccer as a canvas? Absolutely," Anspaugh says. "And it won't be that long from now."
Some remain skeptical, particularly because soccer is often subtle in its action and its play is defined by individual brilliance as well as intangible team chemistry.
"In soccer, things happen on the spur of the moment, the blink of the eye," says Daniel Battsek, the former head of Miramax Films (which distributed the documentary "Once in a Lifetime") and who is the new president of National Geographic Films. The British-born studio executive says that American football, with more set plays and team maneuvers, is far easier to capture cinematically.
A lifetime Chelsea fan, Battsek says director Gurinder Chada's "Bend it Like Beckham" accurately depicted what it means to be a soccer fanatic. "It captured the spirit of the game — it helped make Americans understand how all-encompassing football is, that it's the greatest game on the planet," he says.
Chada, who was born in Kenya but grew up in England amid fans of Tottenham Hotspur, spent three years trying to get financing for her movie about Jess, an Indian teenage girl smitten with soccer and then-Manchester United star David Beckham. Spurning her conservative family's wishes, Jess (Parminder Nagra) secretly starts playing on a women's soccer team with Jules ( Keira Knightley). Neither Nagra nor Knightley were accomplished players ("But do people really think Harrison Ford can jump out of a helicopter?" Chada asks); she surrounded them with passionate young female athletes so that the film's matches not only looked authentic but were.
But Chada said that focusing too narrowly on the sport itself is to lose sight of the objective. "Sometimes, the problem with sports movies is that you get too caught up with the sport and forget that sport is a metaphor," she says. Like other affecting sports movies, "Bend It Like Beckham" is ultimately less about soccer than it is about the people playing it: a character story, not a sports film.
"One of the greatest boxing movies was 'Raging Bull' and yet it wasn't really about boxing. It was about this amazing character," says British actor Ray Winstone, who is so committed to soccer (he's a supporter of West Ham United) that he will spend most of June in South Africa with several dozen friends on a World Cup bender.
That raises an almost existential question: Are great sports movies really about the sport itself? Isn't "Field of Dreams" ultimately a father-son story? Is "Hoosiers" a study of an underdog Indiana high school basketball team, or a redemption tale about a coach and the town drunk? At its center, isn't "Bend It Like Beckham" a tale of girl power?
"Looking for Eric" director Loach (a supporter of the second-tier Bath City Football Club) says one of the central ideas in his film is that we are much stronger as a collective than we are individually, that we can turn to other people to help our "becoming the people we want to be."
There might be a fantastically talented soccer star at the center of Loach's film, but when Cantona is asked to describe the greatest moment in his playing career, he replies that it wasn't a goal but a pass to a teammate.


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A perfect guide for working mothers to weed out guilt and regret
The first obstacle is that everything that goes wrong is your fault. "So, if the children turn out wayward, it's your fault. If the husband doesn't pitch in as an equal parent, it's your fault. If the world is coming to an end, it's your fault...Turns out there's a whole subculture out there warning women not to move towards unthinking motherhood," the author says.
Sep 19, 2019, 11:58 AM IST
Representative image: Pixabay (L), Cover of "No Regrets" (R)
There are many challenges a working woman faces. But what are the three major obstacles to Working Motherhood that need to be weathered?
You'll get the answers in a new book authored by veteran journalist Kaveree Bamzai, who herself balances her roles as a professional writer, a wholehearted supporter of good causes and a mother of two boys. Her household also includes two dogs.
In the book "No Regrets - The Guilt-free Woman's Guide to A Good Life" published by HarperCollins, the author tells you how to live a guilt-free life - with a little help from a host of highly-accomplished women.
"This is not a book that tells you what to do with your life. If I knew, hey, I would be making millions. Rather, it's a book that tells you what not to do, what to avoid, what to sidestep, what to remember, what to forget. It's a book that does so with the help of a few people I'm happy to call my friends and a few whom I have met over the course of my work," she writes.
It covers a wide sweep: From being a mother to lessons learnt from mothers, managing money to marriage, coping with pain and anger to taking ownership of their health and growing old.
"If there is one thing I learned well and in time it is this: there's no point in having regrets or feeling guilty. It's like carrying a whole lot of excess baggage and it's not even monogrammed Louis Vuitton. So why bother?"
Noting that a friend once told her that the secret to a happy life is a good cook, a good driver and a good husband, she adds: "I agree. But you have to kiss many metaphorical frogs to find the perfect specimens of all."
"The trick really is to do the best you can. It may not be good enough, it never is, or if it is, you're really one of God's chosen ones. But blaming yourself shaming yourself, and complaining about what you have compared to what you could have had, well that way lies disaster and a whole lot of regrets," Bamzai explains.
What then are the three obstacles to Working Motherhood that need to be weathered?
The first is that everything that goes wrong is your fault. "So, if the children turn out wayward, it's your fault. If the husband doesn't pitch in as an equal parent, it's your fault. If the world is coming to an end, it's your fault...Turns out there's a whole subculture out there warning women not to move towards unthinking motherhood," the author says.
The second principle: You're damned if you drop out and damned if you don't.
"One of the greatest mysteries to me why companies push the ten-to-six workplace attendance in the age of 24x7 work culture. But equally big is the mystery of how several companies manage to shirk the mandatory six-month maternity leave and institution of a creche. Dropping out seems almost a relief, especially in double-income families.
"This, I believe, is the worst mistake a woman can make," Bamzai writes.
The third principle: Don't. Ever. Give. Up. Work.
"Just change the way you do it...Working doesn't only give you a sense of self-esteem, it is also, let's face it. We need something other than nutritious tiffins, falling grades, teacher admonishments, attitude adjustments, outgrown clothes, and after-school classes to occupy us," the author writes.
"How many times have you had to face women coming up to tell you that they're quitting because they just can't manage home and work? They're intelligent, good at their work, but just exhausted from the daily grind of putting food on the table, getting the children to bed and then to school on time, ensuring the fridge is stocked, all the school events are attended and all the social obligations are met (including, and especially ones that involve the mother-in-law)," the author states.
"Nothing irritates me more than men and women who make a virtue of the woman not working, to add to which there is a decline in the female labour participation rate as well as a shrinking of the total number of women in the workforce," Bamzai writes.
What is the wisdom the author's interlocutors have imparted?
Sudha Murty: All women must work outside their homes. Otherwise, they will not know what real life is like.
Ariana Huffington: I'm careful to create time and space to recharge at the beginning and end of each day.
Naina Lal Kidwai (on how to reach out to the right people for help): At dinners, I would invariably be talking business with the men but I would always spend time with the wives.
Nandini Harinath: Grow together. All said and done, every action has a reaction. So help others and reap the benefits of it too.
Farah Khan: Don't make children the sole purpose of your life; Moms, take it easy. Don't give in to social pressures.
Lavanya Nalli: Focus on work-life harmony, not balance.
Kiran Rao: Most of my friends are not from the film industry, so it's actually quite relaxing.
Sania Mirza: Women are good at multi-tasking and they must use this talent to expand their working capacity through better time management.
"It's an odd thing in India," Bamzai writes. "Women who are lucky enough to survive the vagaries of being born and giving birth in a male-dominated society manage to outlive the men."
Through its 19 snappily-written chapters, "No Regrets" tells you how!
Make data open, accessible as electricity, Microsoft President demands in new book
British PM Boris Johnson once called this book 'a well-written rubbish'; But why?
'A Beautiful Corpse': A reporter's journey to solve her mother's murder
Sacred yet erotic: Radha and her love for Krishna
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arts, culture and entertainment/language
The young man who rattled the American regime
Swedish teen Greta Thunberg triumphs where world leaders falter
'The Hindu Way': Mine is a layman's view of Hinduism, says Shashi Tharoor


Latin America has a lot of arabicas we love. Alto Dolce is a blend of three of them. The smooth caramel and toasted bread notes of Alto Dolce's aromatics will envelop you. In the Alto size, it's a long embrace.
With milk, Alto Dolce's sweet caramel notes surface all the more.
We like high-grown, wet-processed Colombian coffees for their aromatic finesse. The arabica beans from mountainous Cundinamarca that go into the Alto Dolce Vertuo coffee pod bring a sugar cane sweetness to the blend. For its sweet cereal note we add Costa Rican coffee and South American arabicas. The three coffees work harmoniously together in a poised balance. Don't let fast and snappy Latin dancing fool you – these Latin coffees are the epitome of mild and smooth.
Split-roasting the coffees in this mild coffee capsule means we can use a slightly darker roast to develop the toasted bread notes in the Colombian. But you still get the soft caramel notes from the Costa Rican and South American coffees from the lighter roast. A medium extraction of this Vertuo coffee keeps Alto Dolce mild. The slowing flow towards the end gives it a good coffee crema and keeps things in balance.
Alto Doce Vertuo coffee is soft and mellow because of its mildly roasted pure Arabica coffees from Latin America. Soft caramel and toasted bread notes give this long black coffee a comforting smooth and round taste.


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Avis de décès de Filippo (Filip) Di Laudo	check_circle
Passed away on Mar.14, 2014 at 75 years of age. Beloved husband of Flora (Pannunzio) for 47 years. Loving father of Nick and Kim Di Laudo, Jamie and Sue Di Laudo, Dino and Janice Di Laudo, Roberta and Scott Brown, Steve and Jennifer Di Laudo. Adored Grandpa of Ryan, Marissa, Serena; Myah, Abby, Nico, Lily; Marco, Tahlia, Nathan; Emma, Kaden and Connor. Predeceased by his parents Nicola and Filomena Di Laudo. Dear brother of Ascenzo (Giuseppina) Di Laudo, the late Albina (the late Enrico) Sabelli, the late infant Vincenzino Di Laudo, Elisa (Guido) Pannunzio, Valchiria (Vincenzo) Iaciancio, Giuseppe (Anna) Di Laudo, Gina (the late Mario) Di Iacovo, Vincenzo (Giovanna) Di Laudo and Maria (Amelio) Cirulli. Dear brother-in-law of Guido (Elisa) Pannunzio, Mary (the late Neil) VanOirschot, the late Fred (Nina) Pannunzio and Perry (Peggy) Pannunzio. He will be fondly remembered by many nieces and nephews. Filippo was a proud lifetime member of the Roma Club of Leamington and a member of the Leamington Italian Choir. He was a retiree from Chrysler Canada, Local 444 and spent many years farming in the Leamington area. He had a passion for storytelling, cooking, his homemade wine and spending time in his hometown of Poggio Sannita, Italy. He will be dearly missed. Visiting at Reid Funeral Home & Reception Centre, 14 Russell Street, Leamington (519-326-2631) on Tuesday, March 18, 2014 from 2:00 à 5:00 pm; 7:00-9:00 pm, with parish prayers at 8:00pm. Funeral Mass will be held at 11:00am on Wednesday, March 19, 2014 at St. Joseph's Church, 310 Sherk St. Leamington, Fr. Patrick Beneteau officiating. Filippo will be interred in his hometown of Poggio Sannita, Italy. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to Leamington District Memorial Hospital or the St. Michael's Church Building Fund would be appreciated by the family. Family and friends are invited to share their words of comfort and remembrance or make a charitable contribution at www.reidfuneralhome.ca
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14 Russell St, Leamington, Ontario


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Croft - anyone tried it?
I was thinking of doing a few tracks I've not done before and Croft has been mentioned.
Just wondering what people thought of it. My current favourites are Oulton and Donnington. I like something fastish.


Midwest Living uses freelancers in somewhat unconventional ways. They can land a byline in the book, but also get paid to 'scout' locations for the mag (travel expenses covered, of course). Though the mag uses a "core group" of freelancers, "We are definitely in the market to build upon that with new talent," said EIC Greg Philby. Web opportunities abound, as well. "Websites devour content so we never have enough here, and we do rely on freelancers to provide the majority of it," he said.


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Eczema in a Woman of 33
by Vasudha Vij
Written by Vasudha Vij
Dr. Vasudha Vij shares a case of eczema in a woman of 33. Sarsaparilla gave some progress and was followed by Sepia to complete the cure.
A married woman of 33 years having one child, a teacher by profession came to me on 21st Jan 2021 with the complaint of eruptions on the fingers of both hands. She had this problem for two years and mostly the eruptions arise in summer.
When she came to clinic, she was on Fucibet cream (Fucibet cream is used in the treatment of eczema (dry, itchy rashes of the skin) and dermatitis. It contains two main ingredients, Betamethasone, a corticosteroid and an antibiotic called Fusidic acid.)
Eruptions are vesicular and it easily suppurates and develops cuts and cracks and used to burn a lot. She had of itching on the fingers, the itching and cuts were worse from water as when she used to wash clothes.
Sometimes she had pain in the fingers while working. There was swelling on the fingers also. Her menstrual cycles were normal. She is a possessive woman for her family and family is very important for her.
She has a reserved nature and is less talkative and likes to be silent and by herself. She likes bright colors, desires spicy food and does not like sweets. Thermally she is a chilly patient.
Referrance from Boericke Materia Medica
Jan 29th 2021: Rx-Sarsaparilla 200 twice daily for 7 days
Follow Up After 7 Days
The eruptions were better by 20%. Itching was less but still there. She still had aggravation from contact with water. Burning was less up to 50%
AFTER 35 DAYS
1 March 2021: During a follow up after 35 days, the theme of indifference came very prominently which was not there so strongly in the first interview. Now she was irritable with her husband and child though she loved them but at the same time very indifferent to them. Sarsaparilla and Sepia follow each other well
When Sarsaparilla was given it did its work and after 35 days the Sepia layer emerged.
Hering Materia Medica
RX: Sepia 1M 2 doses
Follow Up After 3 Months May 5, 2021
Eruptions were totally gone. There is no itching. Now she can happily work in water. No burning is there. There are no marks on her fingers now.
Atopic Dermatitis / Allergic Bronchitis in a Woman of 47
Chronic Eczema in a Woman of 66
Herpes Zoster in a Woman of 54
A Case of Eczema
Vasudha Vij
Dr.Vasudha Vij, B.H.M.S ,C.C.A.H graduated from medical school in Punjab. Her passion for homeopathy brought her to Mumbai and she completed a certified course in advanced homeopathy at The Other Song. It inspired her to assist Dr Sujit Chatterjee from whom she learned about cancer and other pathological cases. Dr. Vij also took a course at the International Academy of Classical Homeopathy, Alonissos Greece. She has a special interest in deeply understanding every patient. She currently has her own clinic in Jammu.
Arshi says:
Nice case Vasudha


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WADE BOWEN ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE SECRET AND THE TRUTH SET FOR AUGUST 12 RELEASE
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COLE SWINDELL TO PERFORM HIS FIVE-WEEK NO. 1 "SHE HAD ME AT HEADS CAROLINA" ON THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22ND
"THE 56TH ANNUAL CMA AWARDS" WELCOMES NEW AND RETURNING PARTNERS
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LUKE BRYAN PLEDGES TO DONATE PROCEEDS FROM ESTERO, FLORIDA CONCERT TO HURRICANE IAN RELIEF
JAKE OWEN'S ANNUAL FLAMINGO JAM RETURNS
COUNTRY MUSIC SUPERSTAR ALAN JACKSON TO RECEIVE THE 2022 CMA WILLIE NELSON LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD AT "THE 56TH ANNUAL CMA AWARDS"
DISCOVER SOONER ANNOUNCES THE PUBLISHER WRITER EXPERIENCE WITH JACEE BADEAUX, CREATIVE DIRECTOR, BIG YELLOW DOG
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A dozen albums already show Wade Bowen's musical evolution – including six studio sets, two live collections, a gospel album and an ongoing series of buddy-country hits with fellow Texan Randy Rogers – and yet he continues to prove that his music can't be constrained by the state line with today's announcement of his highly anticipated full-length album, Somewhere Between The Secret And The Truth, set for August 12 release via Thirty Tigers. Working with Warner Chappell Music to write and record on retreats to the remote landscape of Texas as well as in Nashville studios, Bowen's lead single, "Everything Has Your Memory," is available everywhere now. Listen HERE and pre-order/pre-save the album HERE.
"I went through a big writer's drought; kind of just being shell shocked from everything, not knowing how to handle it, and then finally came out of that and just had this flood of just wanting to write," reflects Bowen, who served not only as a cowriter on all 12 songs, but also as a solo producer for the first time in his career. "This reset button really rejuvenated my passion for my entire career, all the way across the board.
"I was trying to find where I fit musically again," he continues. "I've been doing this so long that I feel like I got off track from where I felt I fit – I was all over the place with my songwriting and my career. Ironically enough, COVID really gave me a chance to just turn my brain off a little bit and stop thinking. When I came out on the other side, I really found not only a renewed sense of my music and wanting to get out and play again, but I found a renewed sense of self. I found who I wanted to be as a writer, as a singer, as an artist."
The resulting project follows his recent six-song EP Where Phones Don't Work, praised by American Songwriter as "a collection of heartfelt tunes and honest recollections" with lead single "When Love Comes Around" celebrated by Billboard for "[retaining] a newcomer's energetic fervor, melded with his signature blend of sounds from across the wide spectrum of Texas Music" and honored by MusicRow with a "DISClaimer" Award, noting that the "perennially popular… honky-tonker can always be counted on for country excellence." MusicRow repeated the honor for follow up "Phones Don't Work," describing the track as "a perfect performance."
Now, with lead single "Everything Has Your Memory," Bowen offers fans a glimpse at what's to come with the full-length project this August and reflects his desire to create a project to truly supplement his live set list.
"I love when you finish a song and you feel like, 'okay, this one is for sure going to make the record,'" he notes. "This one is so melody driven; it's just singable… the way we produced it and worked it up, it fit perfectly as the opening track and I think it's a great introduction to what people are going to hear for the rest of the album.
"Not being on the road very much, knowing we were going to come back and be playing a heavy schedule of touring," he continues, "I really wanted just the simplicity of the songs to really carry themselves and carry the album and lead us all the way through the show; where the simplicity creates these big, massive sounding songs."
Fans can catch Bowen performing these new songs as well as his extensive catalog of hits at shows across the country this summer.
For more information and to purchase tickets to upcoming tour dates, visit WadeBowen.com and follow on Facebook @TheWadeBowen and Twitter / Instagram @WadeBowen.
Somewhere Between The Secret And The Truth Track List
Produced by Wade Bowen; Songwriters in Parentheses
Lyrics + Liner Notes Available HERE
Track x Track Available HERE
Everything Has Your Memory (Wade Bowen, Eric Paslay, Heather Morgan)
Burnin' Both Ends of the Bar (Wade Bowen, Randy Montana)
Honky Tonk Roll (Wade Bowen, Randy Montana)
The Secret To This Town (Wade Bowen, Heather Morgan)
If You Don't Miss Me (Wade Bowen, Ray Fulcher)
A Beautiful World featuring Lori McKenna (Wade Bowen, Lori McKenna)
She's Driving Me Crazy (Wade Bowen, Eric Paslay, Heather Morgan)
Knowing Me Like I Do (Wade Bowen, Clint Ingersoll)
It's Gonna Hurt (Wade Bowen, Drew Kennedy)
Say Goodbye (Wade Bowen, Eric Paslay, Heather Morgan)
A Guitar, A Singer and A Song featuring Vince Gill (Wade Bowen, Lori McKenna)
Somewhere Between The Secret and The Truth (Wade Bowen, Lori McKenna)
About Wade Bowen
Twenty years and some 4,000 shows into his career, the name Wade Bowen has become synonymous with authentic Country music – and for good reason. An artistic descendant of American icons like Guy Clark, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Robert Earl Keen and more, Bowen is a contemporary link in a Texan chain of roots-rock poets stretching back more than 50 years – yet his ambition never ended at the state line.
Seen as one of the genre's finest and most genuine modern voices, Bowen's approach stays rooted in tradition, but also stands on the creative cutting edge. His focus remains on writing unique songs with a literary quality and shifting his sonic territory to match his life, as evidenced by uplifting lead single "Everything Has Your Memory" off his forthcoming album, Somewhere Between The Secret And The Truth, set for release August 12 via Thirty Tigers.
Wielding a knack for direct, poetic songwriting that never panders, Bowen matches his gravel-road growl to an organic sound spanning the whole of Texas and beyond, tapping both country and rock influences. A dozen albums have shown his sonic diversity – including six studio sets, two live collections, a gospel album and an ongoing series of buddy-country hits with fellow Texan Randy Rogers. Along the way, he's scored hits and accolades based on quality, not quantity, and continues to perform around 200 nationwide shows each year – including multiple appearances on the venerated Grand Ole Opry stage.
Related Topics:Everything Has Your MemoryFeaturedRandy RogersSomewhere Between The Secret And The TruthTexas CountryTrendingWade Bowen
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Overview
========

valid4j is a simple assertion and validation library for Java which makes it possible to use your
favorite [hamcrest-matchers](http://hamcrest.org/JavaHamcrest/) to express pre- and post-conditions
in your code in a [design by contract](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract) style.

valid4j provides you with an option to customize the global assertion policy by implementing an
`org.valid4j.provider.AssertiveProvider` and register it as a service loader in `META-INF/services`.

valid4j also provides support for regular input validation using [hamcrest-matchers](http://hamcrest.org/JavaHamcrest/)
throwing custom recoverable exceptions if validation fails.

More info [found here](./concepts.html).

## Installation

This library is available at [Maven Central Repository](http://search.maven.org/).
Add this dependency to your `pom.xml`

    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.valid4j</groupId>
      <artifactId>valid4j</artifactId>
      <version>0.5.0</version>
    </dependency>

## Getting started

Statically import the library entry point:

    import static org.valid4j.Assertive.*;

Use assertive preconditions to check for programming errors in calling clients:

    // Use hamcrest-matchers to specify your preconditions
    require(list, everyItem(greaterThanOrEqualTo(3)));

    // Or express your preconditions using plain boolean expressions
    require(v > 0.0, "The value (%f) must be positive", v);

Use assertive postconditions to check for programming errors in your supplied code:

    ensure(result != null);
    ensure(result, greaterThan(3.0));

Make use of the convenient pass-through of valid objects:

    // Initialize members with valid arguments
    this.message = require(message, containsString("Greetings"));

    // Return valid results
    return ensure(list, hasSize(greaterThan(1)));

Clearly express what you assume is unreachable code:

    neverGetHere("This should never happen");

    // If needed, give the compiler a hint that this branch won't return
    throw neverGetHereError("Really...!?");

More info [found here](./concepts.html).

## Validation

Statically import the library entry point:

    import static org.valid4j.Validation.*;

Use condition checking to perform simpler error handling and throw recoverable exceptions:

    // Use expressive hamcrest-matchers
    validate(v, containsString("Greetings"), otherwiseThrowing(MissingGreatException.class));

    // Or use plain boolean expressions
    validate(v > 0.0, otherwiseThrowing(NotAPositiveNumberException.class));

More info [found here](./concepts.html).

## Motivation for valid4j

The rationale behind valid4j (that we think is lacking from comparable alternatives
from e.g. Google Guava, or Apache Commons):

  * provide better support for [design by contract](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract), using pre- and post-conditions
  * similar support for recoverable exceptions, as for programming errors
  * make use of hamcrest library for extensibility
  * make it possible to customize the global policy for contract violations

## Project license

This software is licensed under [Apache Software License, Version 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt)

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Friends, here's a guitar for the ages. One of our favorite builders of late, Leo Buendia, has come together with us on a custom project for one of our longtime clients that'll stand apart from the already distinct group of custom Buendias we've commissioned over the past few years. This time, a one-piece back from The Tree Mahogany. Yes, you read that right. And it's paired with a master grade Adirondack Spruce top, itself appointed with a chip carved rosette with Cedar insert and red Washi paper backing. To say this is a one-of-a-kind guitar feels like a gross understatement. Keep up with our build thread, and watch as Leo brings this beauty to life!