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When you pet your dog, does your hand come away smelling badly and feeling oily? Does your dog make his presence known in a room by the smell emanating from his coat? A greasy coat or a smelly coat is most often a sign of food allergies or food intolerances. If your dog is banished to the yard because they are just too smelly, your dog food may be the problem.
What do you know about your dog's food?
Dogs who have too much oil in their coats, often are experiencing a food allergy or a food intolerance. Checking the label on your dog food is a good start to solving your dog's skin and coat problems. Look for common culprits such as corn, wheat, soy and by-products. You should also stay away from artificial colors and flavors, which offer no nutrition to your dog and may be contributing to their greasy coat.
Sometimes you can be feeding a dog food where the label looks good, but the ingredients may not be of the best quality. Get to know your dog's food company and where they purchase ingredients from. There have been lots of recalls lately on foods that use ingredients from China. It's also important to know as much as you can about the quality of meat in your dog's food. Dog foods that use free-range meats from sources they know are a better choice, especially if your dog has food allergies.
At Addiction, we do not source any ingredients from China. We own our own manufacturing facility in New Zealand, where we produce our dehydrated foods, most of our dry foods and our own treats. This allows us to have strict quality controls on these foods, producing only the finest foods using free range meats from New Zealand. Switching your dog to a high quality, limited ingredient diet may be the answer so you can finally allow Fido back in the living room.
Please visit us at Addiction Foods for more information or to sign up for our free e-book about other signs your dog might need a change in diet.


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Wladimir Klitschko proved he is the best heavyweight boxer in the modern era yesterday evening.
British boxing legend Henry Cooper has died at the age of 76.
Vitali Klitschko defended his WBC title but had to go the full distance against Shannon Briggs.
Former boxing champion Ricky Hatton has been admitted to rehab suffering "severe depression" in the aftermath of drug use allegations.
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Sen Jeff Flake: From our very beginnings, our freedom has been predicated on truth
Sen Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
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I rise today to talk about the truth, and its relationship to democracy. For without truth, and a principled fidelity to truth and to shared facts, our democracy will not last. 2017 was a year which saw the truth – objective, empirical, evidence-based truth -- more battered and abused than any other in the history of our country, at the hands of the most powerful figure in our government. It was a year which saw the White House enshrine "alternative facts" into the American lexicon, as justification for what used to be known simply as good old-fashioned falsehoods. It was the year in which an unrelenting daily assault on the constitutionally-protected free press was launched by that same White House, an assault that is as unprecedented as it is unwarranted. "The enemy of the people," was what the president of the United States called the free press in 2017. It is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Josef Stalin to describe his enemies. It bears noting that so fraught with malice was the phrase "enemy of the people," that even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use, telling the Soviet Communist Party that the phrase had been introduced by Stalin for the purpose of "annihilating such individuals" who disagreed with the supreme leader. This alone should be a source of great shame for us in this body, especially for those of us in the president's party. For they are shameful, repulsive statements. And, of course, the president has it precisely backward – despotism is the enemy of the people. The free press is the despot's enemy, which makes the free press the guardian of democracy. When a figure in power reflexively calls any press that doesn't suit him "fake news," it is that person who should be the figure of suspicion, not the press.
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the state of being thin. Called also light condition.
Q. how do celebrities look so thin and beautiful? what is their secret?
Her hair, of a shaded fairness, arranged with exquisite taste, fell in silky curls over her lovely mantling cheeks; she passed across the paper a delicate hand, whose thinness announced her extreme youth.
You are altogether perfection; even your pallor and thinness are perfect; one could not wish you otherwise.
On the little plateau which crowned the barren hill there stood a single giant boulder, and against this boulder there lay a tall man, long-bearded and hard-featured, but of an excessive thinness.
The hollowness and thinness of his face would have caused them to look large, under his yet dark eyebrows and his confused white hair, though they had been really otherwise; but, they were naturally large, and looked unnaturally so.
The smallness of the house and thinness of the walls brought everything so close to her, that, added to the fatigue of her journey, and all her recent agitation, she hardly knew how to bear it.
As they lay closely packed together, covered, for warmth's sake, with their patched and ragged clothes, little could be distinguished but the sharp outlines of pale faces, over which the sombre light shed the same dull heavy colour; with, here and there, a gaunt arm thrust forth: its thinness hidden by no covering, but fully exposed to view, in all its shrunken ugliness.
And in like manner does the touch adequately perceive the qualities of thickness or thinness, or softness or hardness?
He was about the middle height, but the thinness of his body, and the length of his legs, gave him the appearance of being much taller.
To walk with Katharine in the flesh would either feed that phantom with fresh food, which, as all who nourish dreams are aware, is a process that becomes necessary from time to time, or refine it to such a degree of thinness that it was scarcely serviceable any longer; and that, too, is sometimes a welcome change to a dreamer.
said Rosamond, whose very lips seemed to get thinner with the thinness of her utterance.
Thinness was defined as BMI for age below -2 SD (Standard deviation) and stunting as height for age below -2 SD.
However, experts from Seoul National University of Medicine, who led the study, were unable to say whether depression leads to thinness or vice versa.


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The Japanese House is hitting the UK in March, to coincide with the release of her debut album, Good at Falling.
The tour will kick off in Brighton on 11th March, continuing in Oxford, Leicester, Sheffield, Manchester, Edinburgh and finishing at London's Electric Ballroom. Check out the full details below.
The album release date is 1st March, but you can check out Lilo, its first single from it, here.
The indie pop act has previously toured with The 1975, and is signed to their label Dirty Hit.
Pre-sale tickets to the tour are available on Dirty Hit's website: just pre-order Good at Falling before 12:00 pm GMT on the 15th January to receive a code. Pre-sale will start at 9:00 am the next day, 16th January.
Not interested in pre-ordering the album? The tickets will be available for general sale from Friday, 18th January at 9:00 am.
This is not a tour to miss out on.


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The Father-Daughter Project
Helping Improve the Relationships Between Fathers and Daughters
About the FDP
"Secret Life" Book
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John – School Teacher Afraid to Get Too Close to His Daughter (and Women) Because of What Happened in His Childhood
Fifty-six year old school teacher
He's the fourth of five children, with two brothers and two sisters
His one daughter, Emma, is eighteen years old
He divorced her mom when Emma was seven
He suffered through an overtly emotional mom and a difficult divorce
"My mom did not get her intimacy needs met in her relationship with her husband and therefore was extremely clingy with her children… In a sense I was emotionally incested by her."
"It scared me because my daughter was acting exactly the way I was when I was a kid."
"Her mom 'broke my heart'. I don't think I've ever used that phrase in talking about her mom."
"There's a part of me that doesn't feel like I particularly want to be my daughter's confidant. That's one of the things that my mother did with me, and I think it was not healthy."
[INTERVIEW BEGINS]
Throughout your life, has it been easier to connect with men or women?
I think I have a long standing fear of women. In particular I fear that I will too readily and unconsciously give up my power to women.
So on a certain level, there is just a low grade fear that causes me to be on eggshells around women. I don't feel threatened in the same way by men at all.
As a child, were you closer to your mom or your dad?
I'm going to say that I was closer to my mom. I'm also going to say that in a sense, I was emotionally "incested" by her and it was not what I would categorize as a particularly healthy relationship.
My father was physically present. He was always around… [because he] was a nurseryman and his business was where the family home was.
[But] he was, as many men of his generation, pretty categorically monosyllabic and cut off… at least talking about his emotions and being demonstrative about his emotions.
By the same token, he was also unusual in that he was a dad that actually did diapers and fed the kids and was very involved with his children.
My mom… I'll describe her as a woman who did not get her intimacy needs met in her relationship with her husband, and therefore was extremely clingy with her children.
I felt like I got less attention and less love and less affirmation from my father, surely less than I wanted. Therefore I was looking for affirmation from somewhere, and my mom was dishing it out for free.
On an unconscious level, I'm going to presume that one of the things that was happening [at home] is that all the other sibs were so grateful, "Mom's clinginess and intrusiveness is being satisfied by John, that it lets me off the hook."
[At the time] it didn't feel like undesired attention. It was only after I got to be a teenager and I was like, "Oh man, I need some privacy," you know. Emotional privacy.
[By] emotional privacy I mean… I can sit next to a man who's in… abject fear, and then have my feelings of sadness, and sit next to a man who is happy. The three of us can witness each other, but MY sadness doesn't affect this man's happiness, nor does this man's fear affect my sadness.
In my house, it felt like my job was to try and figure out what emotion it was that my mom wanted me to have, and then I had that.
So if I felt anger, I was, uh… I felt like I was shamed. So, you know, "John you know you should be able to let go of that. You should be able to be happy, John. Just be happy." So I pushed down my anger and put on a happy face.
What's something you remember about your parents?
As kids, after we got old enough to know what sex was, we used to say that our folks made love four times, only four times and procreated four times. [And that was] the only time they ever were intimate with each other…
In many senses they were oil and water. It's stunning to me that they stayed married for thirty-three years. I mean, that's partly because they married right after World War II… [so] divorce was not particularly accepted. It wasn't until the sixties or seventies that it started to become accepted, and my guess is that [my parents] never even considered the possibility when we were little,
What was it like at home with your parents?
I didn't always feel safe in my own home when I was a kid.
Neither of my parents were particularly good at handling anger. And my mom was an expert at being passive aggressive.
When my father would ask for dinner at a particular time, she would gently serve it five minutes later or ten minutes later, and do it consciously or unconsciously to irk him. He would stew in his anger for a week or two weeks. Then when she had bugged him enough, he would explode, and he'd throw dishes around the kitchen and stomp away from the dinner table.
I don't think I really understood when I was young, but it's part of my mission now and I understand what that means to be safe and feel safe and engender safety.
How did you meet your wife?
[After college, I was part of a] circle of friends. One of the guys' girlfriends… invited a bunch of people out for a dinner. I was one of the circle, and so I got invited.
That was the first time I ever met her. I very much fell for her right away. She had a boyfriend at the time, so I just bided my time and waited for that relationship to fall apart, which it did. Then I made my intentions known.
What attracted you to your wife?
Personality… Personality, sense of humor and looks, I'm going to say in that order.
{Laugh} God knows [what she saw in me]. I'm going to guess that I was a better looking man twenty years ago, twenty-five years ago.
One of her attractions to me is that I give very good phone. By that I mean I am a very good listener and, uh… I think she responded to that.
The beginning of our relationship was on the phone. Her relationship with that previous boyfriend was starting to deteriorate. I don't remember if I asked her for her phone number or got it through one of the friends, but I started calling her up on the phone. Just establishing a relationship. We carried on for at least a couple of months, almost exclusively on the phone.
How long before you decided to get married?
The relationship was really more like, a year and a half. It was pretty precipitous because both she and I had not married [before], both she and I were interested in having children, and both she and I were not young. When we married in '89 I was uh, thirty-six and she was thirty-two, so we were not kids.
How long was it before she got pregnant with your daughter?
All told, it would have been two years into the marriage before she got pregnant [with Emma]. We started trying before a year in the marriage, and [Emma] was born in '91 in summer.
We made both boy names and girl names, and did not want to know the sex of the baby. Both of us had a very strong belief that [if you] desire a boy and get a girl, [that] would be something that would be impossible to mask to a baby. It would be like putting energy out to the universe, that it's not okay.
I know there's no prescription for success in marriage…. Some people get married when they're seventeen and sixteen, they live together and they're married for seventy years, and are absolutely in love and infatuated with each other. There's other people that have ten years of marriage before kids come, and as soon as the first kid comes… the marriage falls apart. There's just no ONE way that works.
I often think that if she and I had had a number of years before our daughter came, that it might have contributed to our being able to sustain a relationship. I don't know if that's true. Needless to say… we're not married to each other anymore and neither she nor I are married [to anyone else].
Where you hoping for a boy or a girl, or did it make a difference?
Our wish was to have a healthy baby…
One of the things that I can say about her is that she was incredibly wanted, meaning both her mom and I were extremely excited about becoming parents and extremely intentional about being parents…
What was she like as a little child?
What was she like? Geez, she was a joy. She was willful, she was intelligent…
I make a joke that they say the hardest thing for a parent is to recognize that the children are smarter than them. The punch line is that I had that experience when my daughter was six months old.
She was socially and remains socially very cautious. She's not the kid that would run up to a group of girls and say, let's play jump rope.
As a student in first grade I'll never forget… You know, school had been going on for a month. I was volunteering. There's nineteen kids talking and walking around the classroom and exploring and doing this and that.
[But] my daughter has her head bent down, her pencil in her hand. She's the only kid in the class that's doing the assignment that the teacher assigned. All of this is going on around her and she's completely focused and oblivious to the distraction.
It scared me at first because I thought, that's exactly the way I was when I was a kid.
I felt proud of her. Yeah, I think the overwhelming… feeling was pride.
Um… it's really interesting because one of the lessons that I got as a kid was that – from both of my parents, particularly my mom but both of my parents – was, I love you for what you DO, not for who you ARE, which I consider backwards. [So] all my parenting years I've tried to give the exact opposite message to my daughter, which is that, I love you for who you are, not for what you do.
So, I was proud of her being such a focused, conscientious student, and I wanted to love her in spite of her being a spectacular student.
How old was your daughter when your marriage fell apart?
She was three-and-a-half, four when we separated and then at least, I'm going to say, three years passed before we actually dissolved the marriage. That was mostly because her mom is, uh… particularly, uh… inattentive to things like legalities and paperwork and taking care of that kind of business.
I was kind of waiting for her to, because she began the separation and began the divorce. I was waiting for her to complete it [but] after a number of years, I said to myself, this is crazy. Emotionally it's important to me to finalize this. I'm never going to reconcile with her and I'm never going to get back together with her. So I went ahead and completed the dissolution of the marriage.
Do you remember when she stopped being a girl and started becoming a young woman?
After her mom and I separated, she was more often than not, maybe every night, sleeping in her mom's bed, and that was okay with her mom. Also, her mom welcomed… I'm going to call that, "closeness".
When Emma finally was a little bit older and able to sleep over at dad's house, she also needed to sleep in my bed, which she did for, oh, I don't know how many, for at least a couple of years.
Then finally at some point, let's say seven or eight or nine, she needed to sleep by herself. I asked her to sleep by herself.
Then, about eleven or twelve… all of a sudden she needed to set a boundary and she wanted to be modest around dad. All of a sudden I couldn't watch her change from clothes to PJ's. And I couldn't' be in the bathroom when she went to pee.
You know, we basically didn't have any locks on any rooms in the house and we'd be in and out of the bathroom, uh… with each other and changed in front of each other.
It was a non issue, it was no big deal. Then all of a sudden at eleven, twelve she needed her privacy and she needed to express her modesty.
It made me a feel a little sad but I thought that's good. It's time for her to grow up. She's growing up.
What do you think SHE remembers most about growing up?
For a number of years, I'm going to say [when she was] four, five, maybe even into six, she would express the desire for mom and dad to reconcile and to get back together.
I'm guessing that she had sadness around that. I think that by about six or seven [that] had extinguished. I think at that point, she normalized it, that mom doesn't live with dad.
She probably got to the point where she kind of forgot what it was like for mom and dad to live under the same roof. She was pretty young.
Has your daughter been dating?
Um… she has permission to date.
She had one or two very brief boyfriend experiences in high school.
When people ask about that, does she have a boyfriend, um… my response is that… if I had been in high school with a kid like that, there is no way I would have had the courage to ask her on a date.
When people ask about that, does she have a boyfriend… my response is that if I had been in high school with a kid like that, there is no way I would have had the courage to ask her on a date.
When Emma graduated high school she was five-foot-eight. She was taller than most of the boys. She graduated valedictorian in her class, so she was smarter than all the boys in her class, and she's beautiful.
If I was a guy, I would be scared to death to ask a girl like that on a date.
In spite of that, she had a couple of brief boyfriends. but I don't think it was anything ever serious. My great hope is that that will change now that she's in college, that she will begin to have male attention and the boys won't be so intimidated by her.
[And now that she's in college, my hope is] that she'll be out from underneath the apron strings of her mother.
I think there's something about her mother um… uh… being um… overly attentive, that's caused my daughter to very much want to get out from underneath her apron string.
Does your daughter talk to you about boys?
Not like I'm her confidant. Frankly I think that's appropriate. I don't think that I should be her confidant.
Um… in fact, that's one of the things that my mother did with me that… I think was detrimental. I was my mother's confidant until I was like fourteen or fifteen, and I think it was uh… not healthy. So there's a part of me that doesn't feel like I particularly want to be my daughter's confidant.
I talked about the method, that I love you for who you are, not for what you do. That's one of what I call the good-mother and the good-father messages.
Another good-father message that's also different from what I got when I was a kid was that I give you permission to be sexual. I give you permission to be a sexual being.
When I was a kid I was taught uh… expressly and, um… and… expressly and… implicitly and explicitly that I was supposed to like nice girls. I was supposed to like girls that were, you know, "personality" girls.
[But] there was a part of me that very much liked trashy girls because they were forbidden. [So] for my daughter, my wish is that she will have permission to be sexual but not be ashamed of being sexual.
Does the subject of your ex-wife come up with your daughter?
I'm very devoted to my daughter and very much in touch with her. [But] I am almost incommunicado with her mom. I mean I can go six months, I can go a year and not actually speak to her and that's fine. I mean uh… our relationship is probably barely civil.
In other words, we are not friends and I don't suspect we ever will be friends and it's okay. I frankly see it mostly as her choice that she continues to be bitter. I don't know why but…
Is the relationship with your daughter positive or negative now?
Extremely positive and has been forever.
There are rare instances when she and I had difficulty and, um, her senior year in high school…
It's an interesting dynamic that has started to happen. She started to butt heads with her mom more and more, and she talked about it. [She] would reveal to me, you know, "Mom's driving me crazy. She won't let me go out on Saturday night," and you know, things like that.
I would try to be a non-judgmental listening ear… Because one of the important things that happened when I was a kid that I actually learned about from my parents – when my parents split, I was young twenty's – and my mom had trashed my father from, you know… those years when I was her confidant. That was one of the things that she confided with, how unhappy she was in the marriage and what a jerk he was.
It was not until I was in my thirties or forties that I realized how inappropriate that was. She was talking about my father and that was absolutely a violation of a huge boundary that she had sort of taken me in as her ally, that she can dump on my father to me.
[So] when my daughter's mother and I split, it was really important to me that I refrain from expressing any negative judgment in Emma's earshot, in my daughter's earshot.
Um… so that Emma, my daughter, can know that her parents don't get along but it's not anything that she has to reconcile or hold any mediative energy about. It's not her job to make us be amicable with each other.
[So she understands] that does not get in the way of her mom loving her and me loving her.
Can you think of a time when your daughter really needed you as a dad?
What I said to Emma when she started to bang heads with her mom in this most recent year was that, um… if the roles had been reversed and she had lived primarily with me and her mom was the Disneyland mom, the Disneyland parent that got to see her every other weekend and didn't get to be the disciplinarian.
[If her mom were the one that] got to… bring her gifts and take her on trips and do all this special stuff instead of the day-to-day packing the lunches and making sure her homework was done, etc.., then it's very possible that she would have been banging heads with me and her mom would have been the one that looked like the great parent.
How have you impacted your daughter's life?
I think a lot of children idolize their parents. When I see instances of that in my daughter, when I see moments when I get that she, you know, worships me, it elates me [but] it also just gives me pause, because I don't think of myself as worthy of worship.
Then I think, but that's appropriate. All kids worship their parents. All kids think that their mom is the most beautiful and that their dad is the strongest and their mom is the smartest and their dad is the bravest.
I suspect, what I don't want is for Emma to think, my dad's perfect and I will only hang out with boys that are as spectacular as my dad, because I'm not. I feel very much like a regular Joe.
At times of stress, uh… there's times that I've wounded her. The reconciliation is that… I'll apologize, and she'll crumble into my lap and just cry and want to be held.
She still doesn't ask in words [if something is bothering her]. But she still will sit on my lap and will still occasionally cry in my arms. I cherish that. She may not do that many more times.
What do you think a daughter really wants from her dad?
Safety, arms to be held, yeah, to be protected…. from the big scary world. To my daughter, scary – and I'm guessing here – scary is, not knowing anybody, being in a place surrounded by strangers.
One of the primary things [I can give her as a dad] – I reiterate to her and I hope that she gets – is a lesson I didn't get when I was a kid. That it's important for her to recognize what SHE wants, and to be brave enough to ask for it.
It comes up in the most conspicuous thing. Even in high school…
"Sweetie, you probably have friends that smoke cigarettes. And you may even have friends that smoke dope. You may already have been offered to smoke dope. I don't know what you've done. The fact is, I'm not going to be there when it's offered to you. You can't turn to me and say, dad what should I do? So what I want you to do is to pause and ask yourself what YOU want. Don't smoke dope because it's what your friends want. [I don't want you to smoke dope, but if you choose to smoke the dope], smoke the dope because it's what you want. Make a decision based upon what you want."
"You're going to do and you're going to experiment with what you're going to experiment with. And neither your mom nor I are going to be there. So you're going to have to make your own decisions. I just want you to be sure that you counsel with yourself."
What's been easiest or most difficult about your relationship with your daughter?
Being a husband was very difficult, [but] being a father was very easy [compared to that].
Everything about being a father feels right, feels natural. In every instance, when I am being a father, parenting in her presence, I feel empowered, more so than in anything else I do in my life.
My heart goes out to, not only fathers but also mothers, parents that I've talked to that say, "Oh my god, kids drive me crazy, it's really hard for me."
There are things that are difficult. The most difficult thing about being a parent for me is to let go. The most difficult thing, god forbid, would be that I would outlive my daughter. That is the ultimate having to let go.
When her mom and I were pregnant with her, we said to each other, we wish for a healthy baby, that literally this is God's child. God is loaning this child to us.
We may have this child for nine months and he or she may be stillborn. We may have the child for a year and [then] she would die from, you know, instant crib death or whatever they call it. We could have this child for twenty years and then she would die.
All of that would be God's will and we surrender to that.
[So] we are grateful and thankful and blessed for the time we get to have with her.
All of that is a way to let go, and it is the hardest thing that I've done as a father, to let go and to continually let go, and to practice letting go.
Not having her live under my roof, seeing her every other weekend, having to continually say goodbye to her and not see her for two weeks at a time… has been sort of practice, consistent practice in letting go of her. It's still the hardest thing.
Have you made mistakes with your daughter?
Oh yeah. Discounting her feelings. She tells me, "I feel a certain way," and I say, "Oh well, you couldn't feel that way."
[Or my] wanting to encourage her modesty and going overboard complementing her friends, to her great pain. That's something I did repeatedly.
She'd come home with straight A's and her best friend who was not half the student she was, would get two A's. And I'd be effusive to her best friend and say, "Oh my gosh. Look at your report. It's fantastic. You did great. Look at you." [But] I wouldn't be equal with the complements to my daughter and she'd feel like her straight A's were not as good as her best friend's two A's. Does that make sense?
I recognize my own fallibility, that I'm going to make mistakes with my daughter. That's exactly as it should be, because I'm a human and it's okay to make mistakes. It's even okay to wound my own child [inadvertently]. The desire is just to continue to increase my consciousness and improve.
I don't want to [have to] be a perfect dad. That's too much of an onus.
Is there something you wish you could have changed in your own life"
I wish I had been more attentive to my marriage. Made more of an effort in my marriage, to see if there was a chance that it could have been sustained. To give my daughter a longer, more stable home with two parents. She did okay and, um…
I don't owe it my daughter so much as I owe to myself and to the woman I chose as a partner, to have made more of an effort.
What could you tell your daughter about you that she doesn't know or understand?
Hmmm… I could talk to her about my fear of women. I have never discussed that with her.
My hit is that it's a little premature, you know. But it must be apparent to her that, since her mother and I broke up eleven years ago, I have had very few girlfriends… relationships. I have mostly been alone. I suspect that… she is adversely furious about it and likely wishes that I could find somebody to love.
If your daughter knew that about you, how might that affect her?
The first thing that comes up [when I think about that is], she might see her mom as a dangerous person… She would see that her mom "broke my heart," for instance.
I don't think that I've ever used that phrase with my daughter in talking about her mom. That I am continuing to be wounded.
What effect it would have on my daughter, to know that about me or have that understanding, would be to show her that her dad is wounded in love, that his heart is wounded and that her mom is a dangerous person.
I'm guessing there's a part of her that is protective of her dad, perhaps… Yeah, that she sees on some level the "woundedness" of her dad and, you know, wants to make sure he's not hurt further, wants to protect him.
[On the other hand]. I think she's a typical human being in that she's basically self-absorbed. During her day, she doesn't walk around saying, what's going on with dad, what's going on with mom.
Basically she's thinking, what's going on with me.
I don't think she loses sleep over what "woundedness" I may have, or what trials and tribulations are in my life. And I'm thankful for that. I don't think that would be appropriate.
What advice do you have for a new dad with a daughter?
{Laugh} I'm not real big into particularly [giving] unsolicited advice.
[But] just relax and appreciate it as much as you can. Because she'll grow up.
Basically, I believe that all a daughter wants from her dad is an open heart… an open ear… support… protection, a safe place. When [my daughter's] forty years old and I'm eighty, I'm hoping that she can still get that from me.
[There's] only thing you need to provide. You don't have to worry about money, you don't have to worry about toys, you don't' have to worry about cars, you don't have to worry about boys. If you provide love, everything else will take care of itself.
How would your life be different if you had never had your daughter?
I cannot imagine how empty it would feel for me. I know how filled up I feel by being a father. I know how much I identify as a father and how I identify with other fathers. I can't imagine what my life for the last nineteen years would have been had she had not been conceived.
Any final thoughts about being a dad?
[Before my daughter was born] I had fantasies of having ten children and running and skipping through fields of wheat with wildflowers. And having these children giggling and laughing and running with me and surrounding me and tumbling into a ball and hugging and rolling and kissing and singing songs.
So, there's a part of me that would have loved to have more children. I may still. Anthony Quinn (famed actor reported to have had twelve children from numerous wives) is one of my heroes.
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OUTDOOR / INDOOR RECREATION
Go on a nature walk
Play board games and word games
Paint and decorate a doll house
Visit local and regional parks
Create a family scrap book or genealogy project
Play badminton, Frisbee, foosball, tennis, house putting (golf)
Play or learn golf together
Go fishing together
Go go-carting
Play laser tag
Learn and go scuba diving together
Go boating, kayaking
Learn and experience sky diving, riding the rapids, sports car racing
Go mountain climbing
Rough it out in the wilderness together, go camping
Visit an arboretum or museum
Learn an instrument together
Visit local exhibits and displays (check tourist attractions, arts centers, etc)
Visit the theater
Take stand-up comedy or acting classes together
Take art, theater or film appreciation classes together
Explore yard sales
Go shopping, especially to far away or unusual locations
Visit tourist spots (see a tourist map)
Go on a car trip (day trips are great)
Explore new restaurants
Learn cooking, prepare meals for each other or together
Visit tourist attractions (get a tourist map)
Go to a theme park, zoo, aquarium
Visit regional exhibits
Go to a comedy club
EVENTS AND EXPERIENCES
Learn something together (scuba diving, golf, nature exploring, animal husbandry)
Go to a sports event – baseball, football, basketball, hockey, boxing, soccer
Go to the track – car racing, horse / dog racing
Do volunteer work together (manning soup kitchens, Habitat for the Humanities, Feed the Children, visiting elderly in hospitals)
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Home University History [Front cover]
[Front cover]
Bethlehem, Pa.
LEHIGHLIGHTS
FOREVER YOUNG — Senior track star
Hassan Young (Hopewell Jet., N.Y.) has
done it again. Lehigh's super sprinter
recently competed in the Last Chance
Invitational at George Mason University
and made his final appearance as an Engineer
a memorable one. Young, competing in the
400 meter dash, recorded a 46.62 time in
setting a new school record. The time was
just two onc-hundredths of a second short of
making Young an NCAA qualifier. He thus
became the first Lehigh athlete ever to run
under 47.00 in the event.
GELROD MOVES ON — Senior Ryan
Gelrod (Maple Glen. Pa.) was recently
named to the GTE/COSIDA District
Academic All-American Team, at large.
The award was voted upon by ihe sports
information directors in Lehigh's district,
which consists of six slates. Gelrod won the
Patriot League championship at first singles
this spring and compiled a record. In the
classroom, he accumulated a grade-point
average while majoring in. The nomination
also moves Gelrod into contention for a spot
on the National Academic All-American
CLAWSON JOINS GRID STAFF--
Dave Clawson. u native of Youngstown.
N.Y., is replacing John Bonamego as
running hacks coach on the Lehigh
University football staff. The latter resigned
to accept a position at Army. Clawson spent
ihc last two seasons as running backs/
quarterbacks mentor at Buffalo State
(SUNY) after iwo years a£ an assistant on
Albany Slalc (SUNY) stall's. He received a
bachelor of arts degree in political economy
at Williams College in 1989. following
graduation from Lewislon-Porter High
School in Youngstown. and a master's degree
in liberal studies at Albany Slate in 1992
where he also served as a physical education
instructor and -assistant baseball coach. At
Williams he was a three-year football starter,
as a defensive back, and a member ol" the
basketball team.
INSIDE the Mountaineer
Men's hoops recruits 2
Women's hoops recruits 2
Queenan's ultimate goal 2
A senior looks back 3
1992-93 accomplishments 4
THANKS A   LOT!!!
The Lehigh sports information
department would like to thank
this year's seniors. Brian Baker,
Scott Gram ling .and Peter Kling,
for their years of hard work and
dedication in the office. We
appreciate all the time and effort
you put forth and we wish you the
best of luck in the future.
From the desk of the athletic director...
Joe Sterrett reflects on an extraordinary year in Lehigh sports
Our 92-93 year was a little like
Charles Dickens' opening line in A Tale
Of Two Cities. "It was the best of times;
it was the worst of times."
As educators we can and did find
learning opportunities for our student-
athletes (and for ourselves) in each of
those disparate scenarios. As competitors
we find little pleasure in the lessons
learned in failure and we recognize the
challenge inherent in earning the rewards
of success.
The fall semester provided us all
with a test of our emotions and a
confirmation of our priorities. On the
same evening a group of 100 alumni,
friends and staff celebrated our most
successful Athletics Partnership Golf
and Tennis Classic ever, we lost a
freshman student-athlete in the
swimming program to a heart attack
after practice. In the past 18 months our
athletics community has confronted the
deaths of three young people. These
experiences are painful and they tndure-
today but our student-athletes, our staff,
and the University community have been
wonderful and we have grown closer as
a result of these tragic losses.
In that same semester we celebrated our
first Patriot League team championship which
was won by our women's cross country
program. Our volleyball and men's soccer
programs finished strong, women's soccer
went 8-8 in its second year of competition,
field hockey was much improved and the
men's cross country team made a run at the
league title before finishing second. Football
competed evenly with most of a difficult
schedule but turnovers and inexperience left
us with a disappointing 3-8 record, three
league losses by seven points and the memory
of watching Lafayette celebrate a league
title after another in the long line of exciting
final games.
The winter season also brought us a
mixed bag of results. Men's and women's
swimming enjoyed their finest years in some
time and wrestling continued its steady
improvement with a strong showing at the
national tournament. Men's and women's
basketball will look at the 92-93 year as one
in which young teams gained valuable
experience buinofmucfi success. Near upsets
by both teams at the end of the campaign did
not obscure the reality that much work lies
ahead for each program.
It seemed that spring would never arrive,
(literally as well as figuratively!) but we are
pleased it did! Our softball program won our
second league championship, men's lacrosse
won 10 games to tie a school record while
cracking the national Top 25 and track,
women's lacrosse, men's tennis and baseball
enjoyed fine seasons which included some
outstanding individual performers. We were
in the thick of each league championship race
and I think our staff and our student-athletes
began to get a taste of competitive success.
Most important to me, we are learning.
We have become better recruiters, better
teachers, better learners, better students and
better leaders. More of our programs are on
stronger foundations than ever before and our
confidence is high in spite of a substantially
more competitive marketplace. We know
we've got to do a better job of the basics, and
we know we've got to continue to evaluate
our progress by measuring our contributions
to the learning experience.
I'm proud of our staff, I'm proud of our
student-athletes and I'm proud of the support
we receive in the University community. We
all look forward to extending ourcontributions
to the educational process.
Likins enters Hall of Outstanding Americans
LU president joins elite company in honor from Wrestling Hall of Fame
Peter Likins was recently inducted
into the Hall of Outstanding Americans,
an honor given by the Board of Governorsv
of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
The Outstanding Americans are former
wrestling figures who have achieved
national or international acclaim in the
areas of government, business, education,
science, and the arts and humanities.
Likins is one of four presidents and
12 other distinguished Americans that
are members of the Hall of Outstanding
Americans. The special part about this is
that the other three presidents,
Washington, Lincoln, and Teddy
Roosevelt, were Presidents of the United
States. Washington was known as the
colonial champion in the collar-and-
elbow style of wrestling; Lincoln was
famous for free-for-all and catch-as-
catch-can competition; and Roosevelt
wrestled for fitness.
Pres. Likins started wrestling as a
high school sophomore. He won high
school states and went on to Stanford,
where he wrestled for four years with an
undefeated dual meet record.
"I was a very successful wrestler in that
place, in that time," explained Likins. "I
swam as a big fish in a small pool." He
guessed that if he had come East, to
Lehigh for example, he would not have
been as successful.
Three members of the Lehigh family,
two coaches (Gerry Leeman and Billy
Sheridan) and a
wrestler (Mike
Caruso), have been
elected into the
National Wrestling
"We've had some
wrestlers and I don't
qualify with them,"
Likins said. "I'll
always wonder what I
might have managed
to do as a wrestler if I
had the kind of
environment , that
Lehigh wrestlers
have."
However, Likins
has no regrets and is
very pleased with the
way his life has turned
out. As a matter of
policy he doesn't ever
look back or ask the
question "what if?"
"I have enough
challenges trying to
figure out what I'm
going to do tomorrow, without spending a lot
of time looking back upon the past."
Likins said that he has always felt his
wrestling experience prepared him for life.
"Wrestling was sort of a symbolic
Lehigh president Dr. Peter Likins in his wrestling days.
experience that represented life in all that it
offered me in terms of challenges, rewards,
and pain. Life has a certain amount of pain in
it, and if you can't handle pain, you can't
succeed in life."
Title South Mountaineer Volume 35, Issue 27
Subject Lehigh University--Periodicals; Campus Scenes; Lehigh University. Alumni Association; Campus environment
Description Reports on the past week's athletics news at Lehigh University. Published weekly, except for vacations, during the school year.
Creator Lehigh University. Alumni Association. Alumni Student Drants Committee
Publisher Lehigh University
Format newsletters
Dimensions 42 cm. x 28 cm.
Identifier SC LSer S726 V35 N27
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Catalog Record https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/385433
Title [Front cover]
Identifier SC LSer S726 V35 N27 001
Full Text Volume 35, Number 27 June 3, 1993 Bethlehem, Pa. LEHIGHLIGHTS FOREVER YOUNG — Senior track star Hassan Young (Hopewell Jet., N.Y.) has done it again. Lehigh's super sprinter recently competed in the Last Chance Invitational at George Mason University and made his final appearance as an Engineer a memorable one. Young, competing in the 400 meter dash, recorded a 46.62 time in setting a new school record. The time was just two onc-hundredths of a second short of making Young an NCAA qualifier. He thus became the first Lehigh athlete ever to run under 47.00 in the event. GELROD MOVES ON — Senior Ryan Gelrod (Maple Glen. Pa.) was recently named to the GTE/COSIDA District Academic All-American Team, at large. The award was voted upon by ihe sports information directors in Lehigh's district, which consists of six slates. Gelrod won the Patriot League championship at first singles this spring and compiled a record. In the classroom, he accumulated a grade-point average while majoring in. The nomination also moves Gelrod into contention for a spot on the National Academic All-American Team. CLAWSON JOINS GRID STAFF-- Dave Clawson. u native of Youngstown. N.Y., is replacing John Bonamego as running hacks coach on the Lehigh University football staff. The latter resigned to accept a position at Army. Clawson spent ihc last two seasons as running backs/ quarterbacks mentor at Buffalo State (SUNY) after iwo years a£ an assistant on Albany Slalc (SUNY) stall's. He received a bachelor of arts degree in political economy at Williams College in 1989. following graduation from Lewislon-Porter High School in Youngstown. and a master's degree in liberal studies at Albany Slate in 1992 where he also served as a physical education instructor and -assistant baseball coach. At Williams he was a three-year football starter, as a defensive back, and a member ol" the basketball team. INSIDE the Mountaineer Men's hoops recruits 2 Women's hoops recruits 2 Queenan's ultimate goal 2 A senior looks back 3 1992-93 accomplishments 4 THANKS A LOT!!! The Lehigh sports information department would like to thank this year's seniors. Brian Baker, Scott Gram ling .and Peter Kling, for their years of hard work and dedication in the office. We appreciate all the time and effort you put forth and we wish you the best of luck in the future. From the desk of the athletic director... Joe Sterrett reflects on an extraordinary year in Lehigh sports Our 92-93 year was a little like Charles Dickens' opening line in A Tale Of Two Cities. "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." As educators we can and did find learning opportunities for our student- athletes (and for ourselves) in each of those disparate scenarios. As competitors we find little pleasure in the lessons learned in failure and we recognize the challenge inherent in earning the rewards of success. The fall semester provided us all with a test of our emotions and a confirmation of our priorities. On the same evening a group of 100 alumni, friends and staff celebrated our most successful Athletics Partnership Golf and Tennis Classic ever, we lost a freshman student-athlete in the swimming program to a heart attack after practice. In the past 18 months our athletics community has confronted the deaths of three young people. These experiences are painful and they tndure- today but our student-athletes, our staff, and the University community have been wonderful and we have grown closer as a result of these tragic losses. In that same semester we celebrated our first Patriot League team championship which was won by our women's cross country program. Our volleyball and men's soccer programs finished strong, women's soccer went 8-8 in its second year of competition, field hockey was much improved and the men's cross country team made a run at the league title before finishing second. Football competed evenly with most of a difficult schedule but turnovers and inexperience left us with a disappointing 3-8 record, three league losses by seven points and the memory of watching Lafayette celebrate a league title after another in the long line of exciting final games. The winter season also brought us a mixed bag of results. Men's and women's swimming enjoyed their finest years in some time and wrestling continued its steady improvement with a strong showing at the national tournament. Men's and women's basketball will look at the 92-93 year as one in which young teams gained valuable experience buinofmucfi success. Near upsets by both teams at the end of the campaign did not obscure the reality that much work lies ahead for each program. It seemed that spring would never arrive, (literally as well as figuratively!) but we are pleased it did! Our softball program won our second league championship, men's lacrosse won 10 games to tie a school record while cracking the national Top 25 and track, women's lacrosse, men's tennis and baseball enjoyed fine seasons which included some outstanding individual performers. We were in the thick of each league championship race and I think our staff and our student-athletes began to get a taste of competitive success. Most important to me, we are learning. We have become better recruiters, better teachers, better learners, better students and better leaders. More of our programs are on stronger foundations than ever before and our confidence is high in spite of a substantially more competitive marketplace. We know we've got to do a better job of the basics, and we know we've got to continue to evaluate our progress by measuring our contributions to the learning experience. I'm proud of our staff, I'm proud of our student-athletes and I'm proud of the support we receive in the University community. We all look forward to extending ourcontributions to the educational process. Likins enters Hall of Outstanding Americans LU president joins elite company in honor from Wrestling Hall of Fame Peter Likins was recently inducted into the Hall of Outstanding Americans, an honor given by the Board of Governorsv of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. The Outstanding Americans are former wrestling figures who have achieved national or international acclaim in the areas of government, business, education, science, and the arts and humanities. Likins is one of four presidents and 12 other distinguished Americans that are members of the Hall of Outstanding Americans. The special part about this is that the other three presidents, Washington, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt, were Presidents of the United States. Washington was known as the colonial champion in the collar-and- elbow style of wrestling; Lincoln was famous for free-for-all and catch-as- catch-can competition; and Roosevelt wrestled for fitness. Pres. Likins started wrestling as a high school sophomore. He won high school states and went on to Stanford, where he wrestled for four years with an undefeated dual meet record. "I was a very successful wrestler in that place, in that time," explained Likins. "I swam as a big fish in a small pool." He guessed that if he had come East, to Lehigh for example, he would not have been as successful. Three members of the Lehigh family, two coaches (Gerry Leeman and Billy Sheridan) and a wrestler (Mike Caruso), have been elected into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. "We've had some wonderfully distinguished wrestlers and I don't qualify with them," Likins said. "I'll always wonder what I might have managed to do as a wrestler if I had the kind of environment , that Lehigh wrestlers have." However, Likins has no regrets and is very pleased with the way his life has turned out. As a matter of policy he doesn't ever look back or ask the question "what if?" "I have enough challenges trying to figure out what I'm going to do tomorrow, without spending a lot of time looking back upon the past." Likins said that he has always felt his wrestling experience prepared him for life. "Wrestling was sort of a symbolic Lehigh president Dr. Peter Likins in his wrestling days. experience that represented life in all that it offered me in terms of challenges, rewards, and pain. Life has a certain amount of pain in it, and if you can't handle pain, you can't succeed in life."
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Actor Amitabh Bachchan has taken to social media to share an adorable childhood photo of his daughter Shweta Bachchan Nanda. He has also written a sweet note with the post mentioning how proud he feels everytime he realises the success his daughter has achieved in life. Senior Bachchan also posted a screenshot of a book, written by Shweta.
Shweta's book, 'Paradise Towers' was launched by the entire Bachchan family a while back in Mumbai. Apart from being a writer, the 44-year-old is also a fashion designer. She launched her luxury clothing label MxS with designer Monisha Jaising last year. The event was attended by all the prominent faces of the industry including her sister-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, daughter Navya Naveli Nanda and industry friends.
Recently, Shweta appeared on popular chat show Koffee With Karan, hosted by filmmaker Karan Johar. She shared many details about her bonding with the family and her views on being a part of the film industry, while on the show. Shweta also expressed how she's completely daddy's daughter and her father also loves her the most. Her brother, actor Abhishek Bachchan accompanied her on the show. Even he agreed that Shweta is most precious to their father and that the legendary actor always makes sure to never ignore what his dear daughter has said.
On the work front, Big B is gearing up for the release of his two upcoming movies – Brahmastra and Badla. While the former features Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor with him, the latter reunites him with his Pink co-star, Taapsee Pannu.


In 1996, John Sims-Hilditch and Giles Redman founded Neptune while sitting at their kitchen table, stitching together a hammock.
Today, the company has evolved into a British lifestyle brand with 30 stores across the UK and Europe with a reputation for beautiful furniture and homeware design. Unsurprisingly perhaps, considering where the pair were when they came up with the idea for the business, Neptune's four kitchen collections are an integral part of the company's offering.
Take Suffolk, for example, a timeless collection that encompasses a kitchen and a range of freestanding furniture. Inspired by the Shaker principles of excellent craftsmanship and simplicity, it was originally designed in 2008 but has recently been refreshed. However, this wasn't a case of going back to square one. Eighty per cent of Suffolk remains unchanged: the foundations, engineering and core are part of Suffolk's DNA, and it wasn't the DNA that they needed to tweak. John and Giles have always maintained that the way something works is as important as how it looks, so the team always think through every last design detail and never stop trying to improve a product, finding ways that could make people's lives a little easier.
Made from North American oak and tulipwood, the natural timber kitchen is designed to compliment any style of home and interior, from country to contemporary. The overall aesthetic has been carefully fine-tuned so new elements include 'Charlecote', a freestanding island with an open base that gives it a lighter look (designed with the Suffolk collection in mind, it can be paired just as well with any of Neptune's other kitchens) and cabinet accessories. Ranging from knife blocks in seasoned oak to drawer dividers in quartz, every element that the accessories are fitted with complement one another.
Building on its strong design foundations, this gentle spring update sees the kitchen being pared back even more. It is now minimal the whole way through – as true Shaker style should be. The palette too, has altered slightly: now cabinets come in a calming 'Driftwood' colour as standard (complemented with a silver birch interior); there is also a bespoke paint service so if clients prefer an alternative hue they can choose from Neptune's classic palette.
All Neptune's products are crucially underpinned by technical excellence and skill, made from high-quality materials to create an enduring kind of elegance that can stand the test of time. Therefore, as has always been the case with Suffolk, the kitchen cabinets are made with a groove construction (this means that the top, back and floor panels are slotted into the side panels using pre-machined grooves – the best way to get total accuracy and structural integrity) and tried-and-tested joinery.
Bespoke cabinetry is also possible in the company's Wiltshire workshop, whether customers want an entirely new cabinet designed from scratch or modified dimensions of existing designs. All kitchens also come with a lifetime guarantee when they're installed by one of the company's certified fitters. It's just one aspect of the excellent customer service – which, together with thoroughly good design that lasts a lifetime – is at the heart of Neptune.


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Statement: Large trafficking ring unravelled – why Europol is so vital to tackling cross-border crime.
Posted by Emily Fermor | Updated 2015-07-02
I was hugely impressed and delighted to hear this morning that the UK law enforcing authorities, in conjunction with Europol, coordinated a weeklong operation targeting foreign criminal gangs. These gangs were using the UK's roads and motorways as a vast network for human and drug trafficking.
With an operations centre based in Birmingham, Europol, the EU's law enforcement agency, and police officers from the UK, Romania, Lithuania and the Netherlands performed on-the-spot intelligence analysis and real-time cross-checks on vehicles and persons leading to over 800 arrests and the seizure of drugs and cash.
Many of the foreign criminals had European Arrest Warrants issued for them for other serious crimes in their home countries.
Just this week, Europol also coordinated a similar operation with Spanish authorities. Together they dismantled a complex human-trafficking ring that was smuggling migrants and drugs from China to Spain and then onto European countries like the UK.
These cases show just what a vital role Europol plays in anti-drug and anti-human trafficking operations across Europe.
Large-scale criminal networks operating in Europe will only be tackled with coordination with national law enforcement agencies.
Both operations have been an outstanding success and they show us how much safer we are when we work with Europol and our EU partners.
Sharing information, pooling resources and working with forces across the continent catches these sophisticated gangs. If we want to remain part of the European Arrest warrant to prevent Great Britain becoming Crime Britain we must remain IN as a full member of the EU.


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Q: Python 3: I have the issue : ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 2, got 0) in a really simple script: I want to upload a file with pcloud here is my code :
import requests
url = 'https://api.pcloud.com/uploadfile'
path = 'C:\\Users\\MyName\\Desktop\\Folder\\log.txt'
files = {open(path, 'rb')}
data = {'username': 'emailadress@gmail.com', 'password': 'mypassword'}
r = requests.post(url, files=files, data=data)
print(r.text())

I have got the following issue:

ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 2, got 0)

A: files should be dictionary but you created set() - (both uses {} to create instance)
 files = {'file': open(path, 'rb')}

BTW: you have to use r.text without ().
Or r.json() with () to get result as Python's dictionary.

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Froidchapelle is een dorp en gemeente in de Belgische provincie Henegouwen. De landelijke gemeente telt bijna 4.000 inwoners. Froidchapelle ligt in een bosrijk gebied, in de Laars van Henegouwen.

Kernen
Naast Froidchapelle zelf, telt de gemeente nog vier andere deelgemeenten. De dorpskern van Froidchapelle ligt langs het riviertje de Hantes, met net ten zuiden het gehucht Froidchapelle au Coq. Het grondgebied strekt zich ruim vijf kilometer zuidwaarts uit in dunbevolkt bebost gebied. Het kleine dorpje Fourbechies ligt eveneens langs de Hantes, iets meer naar het noordwesten. De andere drie dorpen liggen in het noorden, met tussenin het stuwmeer de Plate Taille.

Deelgemeenten

Demografische ontwikkeling

Demografische ontwikkeling voor de fusie

 Bron:NIS - Opm:1831 t/m 1970=volkstellingen; 1976= inwoneraantal op 31 december
 1880: Afsplitsing van Fourbechies in 1868
 1970: Aanhechting van Fourbechies in 1965

Demografische ontwikkeling van de fusiegemeente
Alle historische gegevens hebben betrekking op de huidige gemeente, inclusief deelgemeenten, zoals ontstaan na de fusie van 1 januari 1977.

Bronnen:NIS, Opm:1831 tot en met 1981=volkstellingen; 1990 en later= inwonertal op 1 januari

Geschiedenis
In 1868 werd het gehucht Fourbechies afgesplitst van Froichapelle als zelfstandige gemeente. In 1965 werd Fourbechies weer als deelgemeente bij Froidchapelle gevoegd.

Politiek

Resultaten gemeenteraadsverkiezingen sinds 1976

Zie ook
 Lijst van beschermd erfgoed in Froidchapelle

Externe links
 Website van de gemeente

Plaats in Henegouwen

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The new, new slogan that will brand Peterborough for years to come has been unveiled, and was emblazoned on the sign welcoming you to our fair city over night.
Yes, "44°18′N, -78°19′W" now greets you as you exit off Highway 115, a punchy slogan that passed unanimously at City Council at the last hour during a secret, emergency meeting called late last night as city councillors changed their mind again about the tagline and branding for the city.
Nitpickers who nitpicked about the previous excellent chosen name "Live Outside the Ordinary" are already criticizing the name on social media, as technically the latitude and longitude coordinates would actually place you somewhere in the Otonabee River near Little Lake… not where the sign is located.
"Don't take the coordinates too literally," one council member told us over early morning coffee. "They are supposed to simply guide you to the heart of Peterborough."
If all goes well, we will soon see "44°18′N, -78°19′W" emblazoned on local T-shirts and people using the hashtag #44187819 on social media.
We love St. Luke's Anglican Church's cheeky sense of humour with their church signs.
You might recall this post we did on this East City church in Peterborough earlier this year?
Well played St. Luke's, well played. All we can say is keep those signs coming... and may the force be with you!
St. Luke's Anglican Church in Peterborough's East City posts witty messages on their signs that are definitely getting noticed in the community and way beyond.
All we can say is whoever is running the Sign Board at St. Luke's, keep these messages coming!
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A photo making the rounds on social media platforms around town shows a photo of a Peterborough Police car with the decal "POLCE" instead of "POLICE". Oops.
Now obviously it was a typo—mistakes happen all the time. You can look at something a million times and just miss it.
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"We can confirm that the vehicle is one of our Police cruisers that was recently repaired," says Lauren Gilchrist from the communications department. "It was removed from Service immediately and the decal has now been fixed."
And police are having good fun with it on Twitter, responding with this tweet to someone who tweeted the picture to them.
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We spotted this guy in town above.
"On July 10, 2015 police responded to a call from a woman who claims she awoke to what she thought was a man and a woman exiting her hot tub naked. Upon arrival at the scene, a taxi van full of young adults was about to leave and police were able to speak with a woman who admitted to having been the one in her neighbor's hot tub. The woman apologized and advised she would make it up to her neighbor by baking her some banana bread. Parties were cautioned and no further action was taken by police."
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LOL, some guy has done a mini Peterborough version of "Empire State of Mind". Watch out Jay-Z.
Actually, Jay-Z does not need to worry.
**If you do a parody of this song to Peterborough, email us.
Watch: Episode 3 of Peterborough YouTube Series "Jobless"
"Waiting For God-Dough" - Mike and Adam enlist the help of a mysterious and potentially volatile man to carry out their assigned mission. Along the journey, Adam goes above and beyond for a family in need and Mike's beliefs are challenged by disgruntled thespians.
You can catch up with Episode 1 and Episode 2, then watch the brand new Episode 3 plus the bonus Behind the Scenes video of Episode 3. Don't forget to follow @Joblessshow on Twitter and on Facebook.


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The Airplane Factory Launches Commercial Aircraft
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 / Published in Press
The Airplane Factory, the innovative and forward-thinking South African aircraft manufacturing company based at Tedderfield Airpark, Johannesburg has announced its entry into the big league of commercial aviation to rival other major commercial airlines.
The aircraft, called a CATAPULT (short for CAntilevered Transport Aircraft Powered by Ultra Long-distance Turbines) is futuristic in its design and is a generation ahead of its time. This name follows the tradition by the Airplane Factory of its SLING range of light sports aircraft, which has proven to be highly successful in over 19 countries thus far.
In a hush-hush project over a grueling 3-year period, The Airplane Factory has designed, built and test flown, a complete cargo wide body aircraft, powered by 4 massive electrically powered engines, which were also designed for the project by The Airplane Factory Research and Development team at manufacturing facilities specially set up at the Bisho Airport in the Eastern Cape.
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At a price tag of US$20 million, which was funded by South African and Asian investors, it is a low-cost aircraft which is fitted with the state-of-the-art electronics and navigational equipment.
Pitman goes on "The first production plane will be put into service in July 2019 and talks are already underway with major airlines and governments and who are expected to take 13 of these aircraft in the first year of production. We have already increased our production capacity through the addition of a large 100,000 m2 factory at the Bisho Airport which will be fully automated".
Further details on this exciting project will be available shortly.
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