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Iron is an essential nutrient, but people with hemochromatosis accumulate an excessive amount of iron in their bodies. Despite eating the same foods as unaffected individuals, their intestines absorb more iron. The excess iron deposits in the liver, heart, pancreas and pituitary, potentially causing cirrhosis, liver cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Although increased iron absorption is to blame, a diet containing moderate amounts of iron is not discouraged.
Start With a Healthy Diet
In general, people with hemochromatosis should simply follow a heart-healthy diet. Clinical practice guidelines for hemochromatosis published by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases in 2011 state that there's no need to limit intake of naturally iron-rich foods. The guidelines further emphasize that withdrawing blood periodically -- therapeutic phlebotomy -- is more important for lowering iron levels than any particular diet.
What to Avoid
Clearly excessive iron intake should be avoided in people with hemochromatosis. Foods fortified with iron, including fortified breakfast cereals, nutrition bars and meal-supplement shakes, should not be consumed. Vitamin and mineral supplements containing iron should likewise be avoided. Although vitamin C can increase iron absorption, there's no need to avoid vitamin C-rich foods. However, vitamin C supplements should be avoided, according to the AASLD guidelines.
Guidelines from the European Association for the Study of the Liver published in 2010 also emphasize a generally normal diet, but avoiding iron-fortified foods and iron-containing vitamins. These guidelines note that alcohol increases liver damage and may increase iron absorption in hemochromatosis. Although they do not specifically recommend avoiding excessive alcohol, this would be prudent.
Is This an Emergency?
- Hepatology: Diagnosis and Management of Hemochromatosis: 2011 Practice Guideline by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
- Journal of Hepatology: Clinical Practice Guidelines for HFE Hemochromatosis
- U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010


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The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress has made shocking revelations accusing Governor Nasir El-Rufai of mischief.
The Nigeria Labour Congress said on Friday that it had uncovered plans by Gov. Nasiru El Rufai of Kaduna State to embark on a mass sack of workers.
Addressing a news conference in Abuja, NLC President Comrade Ayuba Wabba said that the recent sack of teachers was a pointer to the planned mass sack of workers in the state.
He said that laying off workers would deepen the level of poverty and deprivation in the country.
"The Nov. 8 mass protest by workers was to express our collective opposition to the anti-workers policies of the governor.
"What surprises us is his penchant for falsehood and fraudulent claims in his quest to impose hardship on the people, especially workers.
"For instance, the claim that the competency test conducted for teachers was transparent is not only false but also shrouded in arrant fraud.
"We have found out that some of those who were said to have passed the test were either dead, retired teachers or those who left service two years ago.
"Also included were school guards who were never engaged in the teaching profession."
He said it was clear that the state government was only interested in the mass sack of workers going by the recent developments.
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Assisted living is where the elder is given the help of a staff in achieving their daily needs and activities. Those activities, as said on , may be as simple as eating or as complicated as bathing. Most families in the United States think of sending their elderly loved ones to assisted living facilities when they are no longer capable of helping them or when the elders are having difficulties in performing their everyday tasks. Before deciding on which senior residence to choose, it is important to learn more about the subject.
The elder and the family members should examine themselves and the situation, first and foremost, before proceeding with the next steps. Asking questions like what options are out there or whether the family can afford the desired assisted living setup are imperative in decision-making. Secondly, the three main issues that should be factored in the decision are the quality of life, the standard of provided care, and the cost and value of the services. It is good to make sure the Assisted Living home is a member of regional professional organizations that provide some oversight, such as the Nevada Health Care Asssociation.
Ensuring whether a certain retirement community would provide high-quality living relies on examining outcomes in terms of the elder's personal growth (socialization, comfort, peace of mind, fulfillment, being able to belong, etc). If the family envision those things when a home is selected, it might be right choice for the elder. Of course, high-quality medical care should also top the list. Assisted living is not like a nursing home when it comes to medical issues, but this should also be a top factor in choosing a home. Examining whether the home provides services for medical emergency usually helps in this type of situation.
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After intensive research, examination, and discussion, our perspective has broadened beyond bullies, abusers, and harassers generally to the sociopathic characteristics they all share. This is the focus of our newest reference book (in-progress), website, and blog, Sociopaths As Villains (SAV). We are currently in the developmental phase of this project, but The SAV Team is pleased to invite you, our Bullying Bosses subscribers, to enjoy a preview of the new blog and website by visiting SociopathsAsVillains.com.
Narcissism is a congenital disorder, a genetically defined birth defect. Bullying bosses are "narcissists", and if they happen to engage in "behaviors that are aggressively antisocial," the dictionary tells us they are also "sociopaths." We more precisely define them as "sociopathic 301.81s." They have been Mueller's focus from the beginning.
Sociopaths As Villains: A Writers Thesaurus (1,001 True Tells), SAV the book, is a mammoth undertaking, and despite being drafted and largely written (110,000 words written and edited so far), it could take another year or even two before we get it onto bookshelves. That's okay. It's a reference book. It gives us the time to make it right.
But with Donald Trump in the White House and Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, the thesis underpinning SAV cannot wait that long. This is why we would like you to visit our website in-progress and follow the new SAV blog.
No, we will no longer be posting on the old Bullying Bosses blog. No need. Bosses who bully generally (not just the supervisors who can get aggressive on the odd day) are practicing sociopaths – and so we will continue to discuss this topic, and explore other related topics, on the new SAV blog. We look forward to your participation and feedback. Actually, we need your participation.
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SE Missouri rallies to beat Tennessee Tech 65-61
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) Jarekious Bradley scored eight of his 18 points in the final 4:00, and blocked a shot with 1.8 left to help Southeast Missouri beat Tennessee Tech 65-61 on Saturday night.
Bradley scored six straight points to give the Redhawks a 63-60 lead with 2:35 remaining. Tennessee Tech's Dwan Caldwell split a pair of free throws to pull the Golden Eagles within 63-61 with 1:27 remaining.
The Redhawks' Antonius Cleveland grabbed a defensive rebound and had a chance to put it away on a 2-on-1 break, but dribbled off his leg and turned it over to give the Golden Eagles another opportunity with 6 seconds to go.
But Bradley blocked Josiah Moore's potential game-winning trey with 1.8 seconds left, and then drained two free throws to ice it for Southeast Missouri (9-10, 3-3 Ohio Valley).
Tennessee Tech (9-10, 1-5) missed its last ten shots from the floor.


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SinglesBee is True rebranded.
Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry since years.
CONFIRMED! The Return of the Living Dead again!
The people behind TRUE had duplicated TRUE as a free site and called it SinglesBee. There is no innovation.
The same with IAC, they had failed with DownToEarth then rebranded to sTir.
POF and OkCupid are freemium, they want daters to upgrade memberships. Purely free model is dead.
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Keeping Legends Alive: Honoring the First WWI Memorial and Legacy of the 1926 Haskell Arch and Stadium Dedication
Published September 14, 2018
LAWRENCE, Kan. — On September 21-22, 2018, the Haskell Cultural Center and Museum, in partnership with many others throughout the Lawrence community, will be celebrating military veterans and the original 1926 dedication of the Haskell Arch and Stadium. This event will commemorate the WWI Memorial and honor all those who served in the military as well as the history, legends, and stories the community has of enjoying the Haskell Stadium throughout the decades.
The Haskell Cultural Center and Museum has partnered with the City of Lawrence, the Lied Center, the Lawrence Arts Center, the Hall Center for the Humanities, the Watkins Museum, the Spencer Museum of Art, eXplore Lawrence, and many other organizations to bring to Lawrence an event that honors the history of the 1926 Haskell football team's undefeated season, military veterans of every branch, and the memories of Lawrence residents spent in this historic stadium.
On September 21, 2018, a veterans event will be held that recognizes and honors Haskell's WWI service members and commemorates the 100 year anniversary of the end of the Great War. A tour of Haskell's war memorials will occur late afternoon and a feature film will show at the Haskell Auditorium that evening followed by a question and answer session with the film director.
Also, on September 22, a powwow will be held that celebrates those military veterans, the Haskell football team that dominated the nation, and the collaboration of the great Lawrence community that made the four-day event in 1926 the largest and most attended event in the city's history.
In addition to the cultural music and dance activities, there will also be numerous kids and family activities as well as educational and cultural workshops for adults and children that focus on the history of the 1926 dedication of the Arch and Stadium, Lakota medicinal plants, Ojibwe bark art, socio-economic impact of powwows, and many others.
The Haskell Cultural Center and Museum cordially invites any and all members of the Haskell, Tribal, and Lawrence communities and families to celebrate our military veterans, learn the magnificent history that built the historic stadium, and share memories of time spent in this beautiful community space.


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In the study of poverty and inequality, theories of all kinds abound, some more easily translated into hypotheses and tested than others. The two main domains in which difficult-to-test propositions persist are (a) discussions of whether social classes or more finely graded groupings (e.g., income categories) are the fundamental constitutive units of inequality regimes, and (b) discussions of how much inequality and what types of inequality are functional or desirable.
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When is Prabhas starrer action film Saaho releasing? In the time of year when film release dates for projects slotted for the upcoming year are set, new projects are being announced and release dates being finalised, fans are eagerly awaiting news on their favourite star's next.
Movie aficionados are already making a list of movies they are most looking forward to. We too are readying our categories for the 'must watch', 'ditch' and 'completely ignore' films.
Of course, we all have our favourites, unmissable films when it comes to the various film industries across India, be it Bollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood or Mollywood. Talking about Telugu cinema, Prabhas' Saaho remains the most anticipated one. The action film is a multilingual project and with the young Rebel star's fan following transcending boundaries post the success of the Baahubali series, even the non-Telugu audience is waiting to know Saaho's release date.
And now, we have some information that might add to the excitement. As per our sources in the industry, the film is being finalised for Diwali 2018 release. After Prabhas, Suriya Beats Shah Rukh Khan And Salman Khan After Prabhas, Suriya Beats Shah Rukh Khan And Salman Khan
"There have been reports that Saaho is aiming for a Diwali release but then we also heard that since the shoot is still on and the VFX in the slick entertainer will require additional time on the editing table, it might get pushed to 2019. But word is that director Sujeeth and production house UV Creations are determined to finish the project on time and release the film in 2018 itself," said a source adding that Prabhas' team doesn't want a gap of more than a year between the superstar's films.
His last film, Baahubali: The Conclusion, released in April 2017. As of now, the crew is in Dubai, shooting some death defying stunt sequences under the guidance of Kenny Bates, who also choreographed action for Transformers.
The makers are going all out to ensure that after SS Rajamouli's magnum opus, Prabhas' next film shows him in an equal, if not more, grand style. We can't wait to see the film's trailer. You?
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September 26, 2013
September doesn't just mark the start of a new school year. In 2012, it was also the most popular month for our members to start their maternity leaves.
Anyone who has taken an approved leave of absence, like a mat leave, in the past 5 years can buy back that credit for their time away from work. Last year, more than 8,600 members decided to take some time away from work.
Of those, nearly 90% were women, the bulk of which were between the ages of 30 and 40. Mat leaves represented about 66% of the leaves, with employer-approved leaves in a distant second at 21%.
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Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for cell growth, a healthy immune system, and perhaps most importantly, good vision. It comes from both animal and plant sources, and is also available in supplements. Vitamin A deficiency is rare in the United States, but is a common cause of blindness in developing countries.
Most people tolerate vitamin A supplements well. However, side effects may include:
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Božidar Maljković
Božidar "Boža" Maljković (Serbian Cyrillic: Божидар Божа Маљковић; born 20 April 1952) is a Serbian former professional basketball coach and current president of the Olympic Committee of Serbia.
Maljković coaching Slovenia at EuroBasket, in September 2011.
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|20 April 1952
Otočac, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia
|Coaching career
|Career history
|As coach:
|Ušće Belgrade
|Crvena zvezda (youth)
|Radnički Belgrade (assistant)
|Radnički Belgrade
|KK Lifam Stara Pazova
|Crvena zvezda (assistant)
|FC Barcelona
|PSG Racing
|Real Madrid
|TAU Cerámica
|Lokomotiv Kuban
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He is one of the most successful basketball coaches in Europe, having won league titles with practically all the clubs he trained; including four EuroLeague titles with three clubs (Jugoplastika, Limoges, and Panathinaikos). In 2008, he was named one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors.
His daughter Marina is a Serbian professional basketball coach, currently coaching Serbia women's national team.
- 1 Early life
- 2 Coaching career
- 2.1 Radnički Belgrade
- 2.2 Six months in Stara Pazova
- 2.3 Ranko Žeravica's assistant at Crvena zvezda
- 2.4 Jugoplastika
- 2.5 FC Barcelona
- 2.6 Limoges CSP
- 2.7 Panathinaikos
- 2.8 Paris and Spain
- 2.9 Lokomotiv Kuban
- 2.10 Cedevita
- 3 Individual awards
- 4 Coaching style
- 5 Administrative career
- 6 Personal life
- 7 See also
- 8 References
- 9 External links
Early lifeEdit
Born in Otočac within the region of Lika, Maljković's family moved to Kraljevo when he was eight and in that time he was an avid cyclist.[1]
He took up basketball at the age of 12, playing the shooting guard position at KK Sloga. Assessing his own playing skills, Maljković later said: "I had a decent shot, but no defensive skills. As a coach I would never pick Maljković the player in any serious team".[2]
Coaching careerEdit
Having ended his playing career prematurely at only 19 years of age, Maljković immediately began coaching at KK Ušće, newly established basketball outfit from the eponymous Belgrade neighbourhood. Maljković is among the four people who founded the fledgeling club in 1971 on the initiative of local communist authorities from the New Belgrade municipality. Reportedly, the catalyst to set up a new, community-based basketball activity was a gruesome murder in the Ušće neighbourhood that saw a local resident murder his own son; the shock throughout the community prompted the local authorities into establishing a basketball club in order to provide the neighbourhood youngsters with a creative outlet. The murder came on the heels of general increase in criminality in the 12,000-resident Ušće local community that mostly consisted of recently arrived families of the Yugoslav People's Army officers and personnel from all over SFR Yugoslavia; this local spike in crime only sped up the process of establishing a basketball club as means of channeling the energy of the local youth into something positive.[2]
Maljković, himself a young man, began coaching the club in 1971. In parallel to coaching basketball, Maljković enrolled at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Law though he never graduated. Working in extremely modest circumstances without regular access to a gym and with mostly outdoor practices in Ušće park, the club still managed to gain multiple promotions and jump several ranks of competition.
In 1977, Maljković took a coaching offer from the Crvena zvezda youth system, becoming head coach of the club's junior team.
Radnički BelgradeEdit
In 1979, noticing Maljković's dedication and enthusiasm both at Ušće and Red Star, established head coach Bata Đorđević invited the 27-year-old across town to be his assistant at Radnički Belgrade, another Belgrade club that much like KK Ušće started out as a community-based operation in the city neighbourhood of Crveni Krst. Seeing Radnički had been playing in the First Federal League (top tier on the Yugoslav basketball pyramid), Maljković jumped at the opportunity. The club was also only six years removed from its biggest success — 1973 national league title. In the years following their domestic title, they additionally put together memorable European campaigns, reaching the 1973–74 FIBA European Champions Cup semifinal as well as 1976–77 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup final. Despite being in constant shadow of the city giants Crvena zvezda and Partizan, Radnički nevertheless managed to carve out a place for itself on the Yugoslav basketball map, establishing an identity of a scrappy small club regularly punching above its weight.
1979–80 season: assistant to Bata ĐorđevićEdit
In Maljković's first season at Radnički as Đorđević's assistant, the club finished with a 9–13 record, placing 10th in the 12-team league thus barely avoiding relegation. It also experienced major budgetary problems with its main financial backers, state-owned iron foundry factory Fabrika odlivaka Beograd (FOB), cutting their sponsorship. At one point Maljković, who temporarily quit his law studies, said he did not receive a salary for five months.[3]
1980–81 season: first top-level head coaching experienceEdit
Continual financial struggles at the club affected it in various ways, including the departure of head coach Đorđević during summer 1980. Young Maljković became his replacement, admitting to getting the position "not because I was somehow the best fit to lead this particular team, but simply because nobody else wanted the job".[4] Playing their home games at Hala sportova, 28-year-old Maljković's debut season as head coach in the First League brought no improvement for the club that finished with identical 9–13 record, good for 9th place this time. Maljković's Radnički, however, directly influenced the title race by beating Cibona late in the season (handing Cibona only its third loss that season) thus enabling their Hala co-tenants Partizan to take the championship by catching up to Cibona's 19–3 record and overtaking it at the top of the table due to better head-to-head record (this was before the playoff system was introduced in the league).
1981–82 seasonEdit
Maljković stayed for the 1981–82 season as well, leading Radnički one more time to its now customary 9–13 record. At the end of the season, the club saw another big exodus of its players and staff, including Maljković, due to more sponsors backing out.
Summing up his time with Radnički, in 2013 Maljković expressed "certain sadness all these years later due to feeling I could've done more with that team, something like what I managed with Jugoplastika later, but on a smaller scale, because we had a very talented group of young players along with some older ones".[5]
Six months in Stara PazovaEdit
After Radnički, during summer 1982 Maljković took a head coaching offer from KK Lifam, a club from Stara Pazova playing in the Yugoslav First B League, the country's second-tier competition.
He remained living in Belgrade and would drive out to Stara Pazova every morning for practices.
Ranko Žeravica's assistant at Crvena zvezdaEdit
With a bit of a coaching CV now behind him, Maljković was approached in early 1983 by Crvena zvezda about joining their coaching staff as assistant to legendary coach Ranko Žeravica in addition to an offer of simultaneously leading the club's youth system. He took the job largely due to Žeravica's clout and authority in Yugoslav basketball despite advice from some colleagues who felt that taking an assistant job after being a head coach in the First League was a step backwards career-wise.
Maljković's big head coaching break would come at Jugoplastika, where he arrived in early summer 1986 on recommendation from Yugoslav basketball's universally revered elder statesman Aca Nikolić who, having just recently retired from active coaching, took on an advisory role with the Split club. The young assistant coach was not the club's first choice as they initially wanted Vlade Đurović,[6] the hottest coaching commodity in Yugoslav basketball at the time having just led Zadar to the league championship. In demand Đurović, however, turned down the head coaching offer from Split, choosing the one from Crvena zvezda instead so after unsuccessfully courting a few more candidates Jugoplastika eventually turned to Maljković who gladly accepted.
The appointment of a young and unproven head coach was not without critics at Split, including some within the club such as 19-year-old center Dino Rađa who openly talked to the press about his displeasure with the hiring of Maljković who in the young player's opinion "lacked head coaching experience".[7] And it wasn't just Rađa questioning Maljković's coaching credentials because the quiet consensus around Split at the time was that Jugoplastika is a potent squad loaded with young talent and as such needs an experienced coach to provide leadership, not someone still learning his craft.
Jugoplastika ended the just completed 1985–86 league season in 6th spot (outside of the top four required to make the playoffs) following a turbulent campaign that started with Slavko Trninić as head coach, before he got the sack due to poor results early on and got replaced with Zoran Slavnić. Freewheeling Slavnić initiated a squad overhaul by bringing younger players into the first team (including great 17-year-old prospect – small forward Toni Kukoč who was equally adept at playing any other position) and giving them greater freedom on the court. This resulted in Jugoplastika ending the season with a 12–10 record that tied it with Šibenka and Partizan, however due to worse head-to-head record against the two teams it ended in 6th spot and out of the playoffs, still good for a Korać Cup berth next season. Despite clear improvement since his arrival Slavnić still left at the end of the season.
1986–87: building a future championEdit
Boža Maljković
The young 34-year-old coach Maljković thus took over a young squad with supremely talented Kukoč and Rađa as its biggest assets. Other prominent players on the team included 20-year-old shooting guard Velimir Perasović and 22-year-old center Goran Sobin. Several older players such as Ivica Dukan left the club that summer. Maljković's only summer acquisition of note was the 22-year-old point guard Zoran Sretenović from Crvena zvezda where he wasn't getting much of a chance to play as backup to established national team player Zoran Radović; Maljković knew the player and his situation at Red Star well, having spent a year coaching him there. Liking Sretenović's character qualities and believing in his basketball skills, Maljković decided to give him a chance by bringing him in to be the team's primary play maker, envisioning his role at Jugoplastika as main distributor on offense for Kukoč and Rađa. Maljković's decision to get Sretenović was second-guessed among the club's management who simply didn't know the player and were hoping for an established name.[7]
Under the tutelage of 62-year-old professor Nikolić who had finished his coaching career and now acted as a coaching consultant, Maljković set about molding the obvious raw basketball talent this young squad possessed. In interviews with the local press, he identified lack of recognizable playing structure as the problem he wants the team to overcome. To that end, in stark contrast to his predecessor Slavnić, Maljković insisted on strict discipline as well as frequent and exhausting training sessions, believing the sheer quantity of work put in will eventually yield results for Jugoplastika[9] against its formidable Yugoslav League rivals such as reigning European champion Cibona led by 22-year-old Dražen Petrović, reigning league champion Zadar, young and up-and-coming Parizan, and experienced Crvena zvezda. Maljković's first season in charge already provided some encouraging signs as Jugoplastika finished the league regular season with a 15–7 record, which was enough for the 3rd spot (behind 22–0 Cibona and 18–4 Partizan) and a playoff berth.
The season in Europe was not as promising. Drawn in a round robin group with Olympique Antibes, Divarese Varese, and FC Barcelona, Jugoplastika managed only two wins in its six games, finishing last and getting eliminated from the 1986–87 FIBA Korać Cup at the very first hurdle.
Back in the Yugoslav league, in the playoff semifinal best-of-3 series Jugoplastika lost 2–1 to Duško Vujošević-coached Partizan led by youngsters Saša Đorđević, Vlade Divac, and Žarko Paspalj. In many ways the two teams mirrored one another – they both had young head coaches who both took over their respective teams in the summer of 1986 while both teams also had a variety of young talent on their respective rosters. Maljković and his Jugoplastika lost this battle to Vujošević's Partizan, but it would prove to be only the first of many in the years to come.
1987–88: Yugoslav League championsEdit
During the summer 1987 off-season, Maljković identified a need for more experience on the roster in order to make a deeper playoff run. He thus brought in Duško Ivanović, experienced small forward from Budućnost who was about to turn 30. Young Jugoplastika starlets Kukoč and Rađa were selected by the Yugoslav national team head coach Krešimir Ćosić for EuroBasket 1987 where the team took bronze after losing to Greece in the semis. Later that summer the two were picked again for national team duty, this time by the under-19 national team coach Svetislav Pešić for the Under-19 World Cup in Bormio. Yugoslav youth team steamrolled over the competition, including the USA team, with Kukoč dropping 11 three-pointers on them from 12 attempts.
Coming back to Split for the club season start in the fall, team leaders Kukoč and Rađa were brimming with confidence and fitness. Jugoplastika started off the season tremendously, piling up wins in the Yugoslav League. Simultaneously, in Korać Cup, they easily made it to the quarterfinal group featuring CAI Zaragoza, Hapoel Tel Aviv, and Arexons Cantù, but lost all three of its away games for the 3–3 group record that wasn't good enough to progress to the semifinals. Back on the domestic league front, Jugosplastika continued its great run to finish the regular season 21–1.
1988–89: Euroleague champions, Yugoslav League title repeatEdit
During summer 1988, Maljković brought in 20-year-old Luka Pavićević from Cibona.
1989–90 treble: Euroleague repeat, Yugoslav League three-peat, and Yugoslav CupEdit
During the summer 1989 off-season, Maljković and club general-manager Josip Bilić faced a crisis over Rađa's status after the young center got drafted by Boston Celtics in late June. Under contract with Jugoplastika until 1992, the 22-year-old expressed willingness to join Boston right away "if the financial offer is good", but the Split club was adamant they would not release him.[10] Maljković even publicly called on Yugoslav Basketball Association (KSJ) to adopt safeguard policies, preventing players younger than 26 from transferring to NBA teams.[11] After weeks of wrangling over his status, Rađa tried to force Jugoplastika's hand by acting unilaterally — flying over to the U.S. and signing a one-year contract with the Celtics, reportedly in the neighbourhood of $500,000.[12] However, seeing the situation as a clear case of contract poaching by Boston and its GM Jan Volk, the Split club wouldn't give up the legal fight. They took the case to US courts that ruled in their favour in late September, prohibiting Rađa from playing for the Celtics[13] thus forcing him to work out some kind of an agreement with Jugoplastika. In the middle of the Rađa saga, not knowing its outcome, Maljković did some contingency planning by bringing in 22-year-old Zoran Savić from Čelik Zenica who could play both the center and power forward positions. He also brought in point guard Petar Naumoski and power forward Aramis Naglić.
Starting the new season, as the reigning European champion, Maljković's team got invited to participate at the McDonald's Open in Rome in late October 1989. Before the tournament, Maljković got presented with the European Coach of the Year award. The friendly tournament was also Maljković's first chance to coach against an NBA team as his Jugoplastika put in a great effort against Doug Moe's Denver Nuggets featuring small forward Alex English, guard Fat Lever, and veteran Walter Davis, losing 129–135 in a run-and-gun contest.
FC BarcelonaEdit
After four spectacular seasons at Split, Maljković became one of the most sought-after coaches in Europe. He accepted FC Barcelona's offer, taking over in summer 1990. With four consecutive Spanish League titles behind them, Barça were looking for European success that continually eluded it. In fact, it was Maljković's Jugoplastika that knocked Barça consecutively out of two previous Final Fours (1989 semifinal and 1990 final). With Maljković's arrival, the previous head coach Aíto García moved to an administrative role, becoming the club's new general manager.
The relationship between new head coach Maljković and new general manager Aíto was fraught from the very beginning. Barça ended up with a fairly thin roster consisting of a few experienced players such as Audie Norris, Piculín Ortiz, Steve Trumbo, Nacho Solozábal, and Epi as well as a slew of youngsters like José Luis Galilea, Roger Esteller, Ángel Almeida, and Lisard González, most of them called up from the club's youth system. Maljković also got a club-assigned assistant Manolo Flores.
Maljković's team did well to make the Euroleague final four, however they fell at the very last hurdle, losing to his former team Pop 84. Later that season they failed to win the domestic league as well while Spanish King's Cup came as bit of a consolation.
In a 2015 interview, talking about his 1990–91 season at Barça, Maljković discussed the tension within the club's front office:
|They left me with a very weak roster. And it was weak due to Aíto García consciously deciding to make it weak because he wanted to show no one other than himself could coach Barça. Coming into the club, I had my doubts whether he'd be collegial and sure enough he wasn't. He sold Ferran Martínez to Joventut and in doing so strengthened our biggest league rival. Quim Costa left the club much the same way. I also coached the team the entire season without having Andrés Jiménez at my disposal because he decided, upon suggestions from club management, to go have knee cleaning surgery even though he didn't have to and thus missed the whole season...... From his newly assumed general manager position, Aíto also influenced club president Josep Lluís Núñez and Salvador Alemany not to sign off on the Toni Kukoč transfer, which I had previously arranged with even a pre-contract signed and sealed. Then, when the Kukoč transfer fell through, I told them I wanted Žarko Paspalj, but Aíto again came up with some lame excuse why that's not possible either.... I mean, it was obstruction every step of the way.... Then I staged a bit of a revolt by taking this absurdity to the very extreme by announcing I'm going to play the season with junior players. Eventually, I did basically end up with a bunch of kids on the roster.... Just a few weeks ago, Manolo Flores, my assistant from my days as Barça's head coach, phoned me to tell me about being at a club function where they went down memory lane by having giant team photos of all Barça rosters throughout history on display, and he told me that the 1990–91 roster elicited most laughs amongst the gathered crowd of Barça players past and present.[14]
Maljković started the 1991–92 season at Barcelona, but on 22 November 1991, fourteen games into the league season, he decided to resign.
Limoges CSPEdit
Maljković wouldn't be without a head coaching job for long as barely just over a month later in January 1992, he took over Limoges mid-season. Led on the court by 32-year-old veteran Richard Dacoury, the team made the league playoffs final versus Pau-Orthez, but lost the best-of-three series 0–2 despite having the home court advantage.
The summer 1992 the arrival of 31-year-old veteran Michael Young as well as established Slovenian point guard Jure Zdovc from Knorr Bologna and power forward Jim Bilba set the club on an improbable run. Playing suffocating defense with low-scoring games, Maljković's Limoges ended up winning the French League and the EuroLeague title. Drawn in a tough EuroLeague round robin group with Dušan Ivković-coached Greek champions PAOK featuring fresh NBA arrival Cliff Levingston as well as holdovers Panagiotis Fasoulas, Ken Barlow, and Bane Prelević, Ettore Messina's eager-for-Euro-success Knorr Bologna led by freshly-arrived rising star Sašha Danilović, EuroLeague runners-up Joventut Marbella led by the Jofresa brothers (Rafa and Tomás) and Jordi Villacampa, Maccabi Electra with veterans Doron Jamchi and David Ancrum, Scavolini Pesaro featuring emerging star Carlton Myers and veteran Walter Magnifico, few gave modest-looking Limoges roster much of a chance. Throughout the season, they produced unbalanced scoring with Young usually getting more than 30 points per game along with a handful of others contributing with less than 5 points. Maljković received some flak for this playing style; Petar Skansi, the head coach of Benetton Treviso called him out for "playing anti-basketball" after their EuroLeague final in April 1993.
In summer 1995, Maljković took the offer from Greek giants Panathinaikos, a club bankrolled by the pharmaceutical riches of the Giannakopoulos brothers — Pavlos and Thanasis — who invested heavily in search of elusive EuroLeague and domestic league success. The club was coming off yet another season of disappointment as they finished second in the Greek League to bitter rivals Olympiacos, while the EuroLeague Final Four semifinal loss, again to Olympiacos, came as an even more bitter pill.
Maljković's work was thus very clearly cut out for him, nothing less than the EuroLeague or Greek League title, preferably both, would do. Taking over for head coach Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou, Maljković found a squad led by holdovers Panagiotis Giannakis, Kostas Patavoukas, Nikos Oikonomou, Fragiskos Alvertis, Christos Myriounis, Miroslav Pecarski and Stojko Vranković, while the squad leader Žarko Paspalj left along with coach Kioumourtzoglou, both victims of the trophy-less season. However, the roster was about to get a big boost as the Giannakopoulos brothers managed to bring in 35-year-old NBA legend Dominique Wilkins to Athens, signing him to a two-year contract worth US$7 million. The arrival of Wilkins created a lot of buzz around the club as 5,000 fans greeted him upon landing at the Athens airport in September 1995. The next day some 13,000 fans turned out for his first practice. In the coach's first season at the club, Maljković's Panathinaikos won the EuroLeague title, the club's first in its history.
Maljković coached Panathinaikos in the 1996–97 season to an 18–8 regular season record, which was enough for the 3rd spot that qualified it for the playoffs. However, as the playoffs were about to start the coach was let go on 13 April 1997 and replaced with Michalis Kyritsis.
Paris and SpainEdit
Maljković then went to Paris SG, Unicaja, and Real Madrid.
After leaving Real Madrid, a lot of speculation appeared about his next coaching job. In an interview with Sportski žurnal, he said that he had been offered the role of head coach of the Lithuanian League club Žalgiris, but that he would only take the job in the summer, after the season had finished. He also said that he received several other offers, but refused to disclose which clubs they were from. Finally, on March 9, 2007, he was unveiled as the new head coach of TAU Cerámica, replacing Velimir Perasović, who abruptly stepped down in mid-season, due to health reasons. Coincidentally, Maljković coached Perasović for four years at Jugoplastika.[15]
However, after a heavy 14-point loss in the 2007 EuroLeague Final Four to Panathinakos, Maljković was criticized in the Spanish press, and a lot of speculation appeared about his future. During the off season, he and the club parted ways.
On 12 December 2010, he took over the senior Slovenian national basketball team.
Lokomotiv KubanEdit
In the summer of 2011, Maljković also took over the Russian club Lokomotiv-Kuban. Although close to getting fired in November 2011, due to the club's position in the Russian League being way off expectations,[16][17] he was allowed to stay, leading the team to the final four of the VTB United League.
He left at the end of the season in May 2012.
On 1 July 2012, Maljković was formally presented as new coach of Croatian vice-champions Cedevita from Zagreb.[18] On November 20, 2012 he resigned as head coach, stating that he no longer had a will or desire to coach the team.[19]
Individual awardsEdit
- 2× Coach of the Year in Europe (1988–89, 1989–90)
- 2× European Coach of the Year awarded by FIBA Basket Magazine (1993, 1996)
- 3× Coach of the Year in Yugoslavia (1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90)
- 2× Coach of the Year in France (1992–93, 1993–94)
Coaching styleEdit
Maljković is known as a disciplinarian coach, stressing work ethic, holding grueling and frequent practice sessions. His coaching philosophy is based on defense, declaring in 1996, the year he won his second FIBA European Coach of the Year award: "What I considered to be good basketball was rejected by many people as lacking in spectacle, but I'm much happier and more likely to win 51–50 than to lose 128–124".[20] He also stresses repetition as the key ingredient during practices:
|Once you make it inside, pro basketball becomes a drill. It can be carefree fun in the beginning when you're prying a talented athletic kid away from other sports by only showing him the fun side of basketball, but afterwards it's hard drill. Any single move, say the left drive, requires between nine and eleven thousand repetitions in order to get it right. The defensive stance that we want the players to assume where your knees are constantly bent in an angle between 90 and 135 degrees isn't pleasant and comfortable. If it was, people would be walking around the street like that.[21]
Maljković cites Aca Nikolić as the biggest professional influence and considers him "the best coach of all time, the best craftsman in our business".[22] Out of respect for his mentor, Maljković campaigned in 2007 for the Belgrade Arena to be renamed "Professor Aleksandar Nikolić Arena".[23] Although receiving public support from many influential individuals in Serbian basketball, the initiative was ultimately not implemented. Maljković also holds Ranko Žeravica in high esteem, considering him to be "the Dositej Obradović of Serbian basketball, making us basketball-literate".[2]
On numerous occasions Maljković has stated that Toni Kukoč is the best player he's ever had an opportunity to coach.[24] He also frequently praised Michael Young, Louis Bullock, and Audie Norris.
Upon taking over the young Jugoplastika team in 1986, Maljković explicitly forbid his players from celebrating baskets during games. Maljković said he didn't want his players "driving airplanes after three-pointers" citing reigning Euroleague champion and Yugoslav League rival KK Cibona's shooting guard Aco Petrović as a negative example in this regard. Instead, Maljković said he wanted his players to be "exemplary young men that no father in Yugoslavia would regret giving away his daughter to".
During his time at Panathinaikos, Maljković got a chance to coach former NBA star Dominique Wilkins as well as another prominent player from the NBA John Salley, brought in and given big contracts by the club's owner Pavlos Giannakopoulos. Maljković refused to modify his disciplinarian coaching style when it came to big-name players, treating them in the same stern and strict manner he treated others on the roster, all of which led to numerous run-ins with both Wilkins and Salley. Reporting on this, the New York Times described Maljković as "likely to act less like Phil Jackson and more like Bobby Knight"[25] while Sports Illustrated referred to him as "an austere Serb who believes in my-way-or-Yugo discipline".[26]
His often stated distaste for the NBA is also well known. In 2009, Maljković said:
|I'm not charmed by NBA basketball at all, and I'll tell you why. Firstly, scattered among 30-odd clubs in that league you've only got about 40 or so truly outstanding players. The rest are bit-part protagonists just adding to the glamour and spectacle of it all – I'm not even sure whether these support guys would even cut it in EuroLeague. Secondly, the entire regular season is a walk in the park without intensity and without good defense. I'd rather watch, say, Cibona play Partizan anytime over any NBA game. To be fair, the level of play in the NBA increases once the playoffs begin..... But, in general, that whole NBA-patented system of putting the individual player ahead of the team is something I have deep problems with. I remember back when I coached Panathinaikos, my friend Ivica Dukan who at the time worked as a scout for Chicago Bulls brought Chicago's GM Jerry Krause to my house in Athens. Among various things we discussed, Krause told me that once Michael Jordan retires, basketball will become the 4th sport in the U.S., which to me seemed excessive at the time, but now I see that the man was completely right. They lost 25% of their overall TV audience, essentially because one guy retired. On the other hand they've got less and less good, truly sound players, and less and less head coaches who truly run their teams all because they keep insisting on this star-system, looking for the new Michael.[27][28]
Administrative careerEdit
In October 2009, Maljković became a member of the KK Crvena zvezda managing board.[29]
Olympic Committee of SerbiaEdit
On May 9, 2017, Maljković was elected president of the Olympic Committee of Serbia (OKS). He succeeded Serbian former basketball player Vlade Divac.[30]
Personal lifeEdit
Maljković is the father of Marina Maljković (born 1981), also a professional basketball coach.
In August 2011, during the EuroBasket 2011 preparations, Maljković opened a public row with the Serbian Olympic Committee (OKS) president Vlade Divac, calling the former player a "fraudster and a liar" in Croatian sports daily newspaper Sportske novosti as a response to Divac's remark in Slovenian media that Slovenia would've been better off keeping Jure Zdovc as head coach instead of hiring Maljković.[31][32] The coach expanded on his insults, adding: "Divac isn't even aware that I got the Slovenia job after Memi Bečirović, not after Zdovc. The journalist talking to Divac wasn't kind to him, ringing him up before noon. Considering Divac usually wakes up around 3pm, he was probably still delirious".[31] When told of Maljković's comments, Divac refused to be drawn into name calling through the media, refusing to say anything more on the subject.[33] However, Maljković wasn't done, reacting to Divac's non-response with more insults and veiled accusations: "Divac crossed a line. Every so often he's got excesses like this one in the media. We're two different worlds. It's up to him now whether he wants to start in with me because I got an elaborate file showing what he's all about. I'd only like to add one more thing to my original statement. Divac is a huge fraudster and a huge liar".[34] The row even prompted 86-year-old Bora Stanković, the Serbian basketball's elder statesman, to register his displeasure publicly, scolding both sides.[35]
Six years later in August 2017, Maljković returned to blasting Divac in the Serbian media. Now the Serbian Olympic Committee (OKS) president himself, a post in which he had just succeeded Divac a few months earlier, Maljković accused his OKS predecessor of scuttling Saša Đorđević's previous OKS presidency bid in 2008 by organizing "illegal elections within the OKS with the help of Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dačić whom Divac advised at the time".[36]
See alsoEdit
- ^ Interview: Boža Maljković;Playboy, April 2011
- ^ a b c Maljković o nemaštini, kćerci, Kukoču, devojkama... Archived 31 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine;Politika, October 2009
- ^ Maljković interview;RTS, January 2013
- ^ Maljković interview on YouTube;RTS, January 2013
- ^ Maljković interview;RTS, January 2013
- ^ Maljković at InfoSport on YouTube;TVBN, May 2013
- ^ a b Maljković@Nedjeljom u 2 on YouTube
- ^ "Srpske sportske legende – Božidar Maljković". RTS. January 2013.
- ^ Maljkovic@Nedjeljom u 2 on YouTube
- ^ Coach Denies Yugoslav Will Join Celtics : But Lakers' Pick Will Be Permitted to Play in NBA;Los Angeles Times, 29 June 1989
- ^ Calling for safeguards against NBA raids on its players, a...;Los Angeles Times, 30 June 1989
- ^ "Boston Celtics Sign Dino Radja". Los Angeles Times. 2 August 1989. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ^ U.S. Court Bars Yugoslav Star From Joining Celtics;Los Angeles Times, 26 September 1989
- ^ Maljković@U obruču;Arena Sport, 22 February 2015
- ^ http://www.b92.net/sport/kosarka/kosarka.php?yyyy=2007&mm=03&dd=08&nav_id=235634
- ^ Maljković dobio otkaz;sportske,net, 11 November 2011
- ^ Slovenci tvrde da je Maljković otpušten, Rusi demantuju;Blic, 11 November 2011
- ^ Rupnik, Borna. "Maljković: "Hrvatska košarka mi je dala mnogo, a vjerujem i ja njoj"". Sportnet.hr. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
- ^ http://www.krepsinis.net/eurolyga/b-maljkoviciaus-pasitraukimo-priezastimi-tapo-i-treniruote-neblaivus-atejes-m-tomasas/214711; krepsinis.net 22 November 2012
- ^ OD SVAKOG TRENINGA PRAVIM FINALE Archived 6 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine;NIN, 31 December 1996
- ^ Maljkovic@Srpske sportske legende;RTS, January 2013
- ^ Poslednji čas sa Profesorom;Glas javnosti, 15 February 2000
- ^ Profesor Aleksandar Nikolić je zaslužio da 'Arena' nosi ime po njemu;Blic, 9 February 2007
- ^ Maljkovic@Nedjeljom u 2;HRT, 2009
- ^ Retirement Follows Pay Disputes With His Greek Team: Ex-NBA Star Salley Calls It Quits;The New York Times, 26 October 1996
- ^ No Longer La Dolce Vita;Sports Illustrated, 19 May 1997
- ^ Maljkovic@Nedjeljom u 2;HRT, 2009
- ^ Maljkovic@Nedjeljom u 2: Toni Kukoč najbolji je igrač kojeg sam trenirao;HRT, 2009
- ^ "Zvezda dobila novi Upravni odbor". rts.rs. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
- ^ Božidar Maljković novi predsednik Olimpijskog komiteta Srbije!
- ^ a b Nikolić, D. (16 August 2011). "Maljković: Divac je prevarant i lažljivac". Blic. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ G., G. (17 August 2011). "Maljkovic: "Divac es un mentiroso y un tramposo"". Marca. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ Dragojević, T.; Božić, B. (17 August 2011). "Divac o Maljkovićevim optužbama: Neka mu služi na čast". Blic. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ Nikolić, D. (18 August 2011). "Maljkovićeva dopuna: Divac je veliki prevarant i veliki lažov". Blic. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ Besarović, K. (19 August 2011). "Bora Stanković: Zgrožen sam svađom Maljkovića i Divca". Blic. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ Čaluković, Nenad (17 August 2017). "Boža Maljković: Divac i ministar kome je bio savetnik su sprečili Sašu Đorđevića da dođe na čelo Olimpijskog komiteta". Nedeljnik. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- (in Spanish) Association of Spanish Basketball Coaches


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Among the 51 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 30 were trading in the green, while 20 were in the red.
Also Read: Tata Motors, M&M top gainers among auto stocks
Shares of PNB, SBI, Bank of Baroda, SAIL, BHEL, ICICI Bank, YES Bank, Axis Bank, PFC, NHPC, Idea Cellular, NMDC were among the most traded securities on the National Stock Exchange.


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well im a leo . and my lie has just been down hill .for the past 2 years ,nothing has gone right for me .I feel like I have a black cloud following me all of the time
The full moon offers you the opportunity to anchor the moon's energy and use it to manifest your dreams and goals in this tangible world we live in. And, it's the time to appreciate what you've accomplished thus far. This year's first full moon falls in the sign of Leo on February 2. Roar!
"Full Moon symbolizes a time for situations to come to light. They give us answers to the questions we are seeking," explains astrologer Maria Shaw, author of six books including her latest Soul Mates and Cell Mates (http://www.mariashaw.com/). Meanwhile, full moons stir up deep emotions so expect the unexpected as people are more expressive during this time of the month, says Shaw.
Leos are all about love, fun and creativity. The lion also rules personal power, the beauty and magnetism of personal vision, and romantic love. Therefore, this is a good time to amplify and add energy to your relationships. Plan a romantic day. And focus on the things you appreciate in your friends and lover.
If you don't have a significant other, set an intention to draw the right person to you, says life-balance coach Barbara Schiffman and author of Dancing on the Wheel of Life. Watch romantic comedies to get in the mood or write a list of the specific things you want to experience in a partner. To infuse fun into your life, engage in activities that allow your inner child to come out and play. Plan a game night and invite friends for a game of Boggle or go bowling or dancing.
Most people will be in a partying mood over the full moon weekend, says Shaw. Also, this will be a great weekend to gamble as many people will be extra lucky, especially Leo and fellow fire signs; Aries and Sagittarius. "And whenever the moon is in the sign of Leo, you can find great bargains and sales too. You could nab the sale of the century! However, be careful of overindulging too. You're apt to go to extremes as well."
Meanwhile, for those of you who have been working on your goals since the New Moon in Capricorn, the Leo Full Moon provides an intense energetic field with which to release your intentions for achievement out to the world.
According to Lynda Forbes, astrologer and author of Tarot of Recovery, Saturn transiting in Leo shows you, which areas you need to concentrate on in order to realize your creative projects. This is a good month to focus on the business end of things.
This month make the most of the Leo Full Moon, by wearing bright Leo colors like sun yellow and gold. And eat foods that resonate with Leo energy, adds Schiffman, like almonds, oranges, lemons and honey.
And since Leo is a fire sign, use fire in your rituals. Light candles in your space while at your desk or use that fireplace for the first time.
The full Moon in Leo casts light over the roots of your life and you'll delve into past events to try and clarify why things panned out as they did. Take time to plan ahead, as meticulous attention to detail should ensure you move on unhindered.
well im a leo . and my lie has just been down hill .for the past 2 years ,nothing has gone right for me .I feel like I have a black cloud following me all of the time
what was written for the full moon-leo, hit right on the botton, my boyfriend passed away in march, i am wondering why things happened the way they did. i miss my partner, i do know hes in a better place…. hes happy and shining behind the big white light…. i do know now why things where what they were…. ive started a new life, and im very happy! i love astrology! its my life!
livingthe pat is not good for anyone.living and knowing the future day by day is better.so please update your books and mind so then you can get the right words for yourself and others to beleive in something your saying to the peopleabout the full moon and every other horoscope you 'se have on here.thank you.


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We have been hit with the August heat bomb. Forget about turning on the burner or BBQ. Now is the time to be fueled with raw, local vegetables that are in full swing.
Everywhere you look right now, summer's heat wave is apparent; the scorched, dry grass, the cicadas are buzzing loudly in the trees and the soft breeze that no longer cools us down. Tomatoes are ripening and the basil leaves are full and starting to flower. This is the best time for homemade bruschetta.
With only a few simple ingredients Bruschetta is the ultimate easy to make, superfood snack. I love this dish so much, I make it fresh, almost every day. You can make it ahead, but the garlic tends to stew and get stronger. It is a very forgiving recipe. I've made it using different quantities every time and it's still delicious. You can add more or less vinegar, salt, pepper, basil and/or onion, depending on your preferences. You can add parmesan too. Actually, you can add all sorts of things; white beans, salmon, avocado, spinach, feta, and you can top it on all sorts of different ways; toasted bread, white, whole wheat, crackers, crisps, on veggies, on meat.
9 Roma tomatoes
a bunch of basil – too much is not possible
2 – 4 small cloves of garlic
2 tbsp red onion
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tsp balsamic vinegar
fresh milled salt and pepper
I missed the market and couldn't find Roma's, so I used hothouse tomatoes from the grocery store and it worked. Ideally though, vine ripened Roma tomatoes are the way to go.
My dad grew these little garlic bulbs for me. It makes the dish even better when you grow your own food. He's doing great by the way, and everyone in the family is feeling lighter and brighter on account of our new healthier way of eating and snacking.
Mince the garlic, then the onions, then the basil and put them in a bowl. Yes, you can use a food processor. I don't know why, but I just like using a knife instead.
Take the centre out of the tomatoes, and scoop out all the seeds with a spoon.
Finely chop the tomatoes and squeeze out as much of the juice as you can.
Put them in the bowl and add olive oil, balsamic vinegar and salt and pepper. Exact measurements do not matter that much with this dish. See I don't even bother measuring anymore.
Let it sit for an hour. At that time, you can make minor adjustments with the flavorings.
Put the bruschetta on baguette, or whatever bruschetta delivery system you like.
You can have your bruschetta with salad and it is enough for a meal. My friend was visit from Vancouver, and she is a vegetarian, so I made her these salads.
One is a green salad with pea shoots, walnuts, blueberries, cherries, and a little wheat germ and flax seed sprinkled on top. I put goat cheese on it and drizzled it with balsamic glaze made from Della Terra's chocolate balsamic. The other one is a calabrese salad with fresh mozzarella that I stumbled upon at Bodner's Market. I have to say, it's the best mozzarella I have found here in Canada. I want to get my Italian girlfriend to try it to see if she approves. I just sliced the cheese and tomatoes and ripped basil leaves and stacked one of each on top, then drizzled it with olive oil, balsamic and a little salt and pepper.
Real simple, yummy, hot summer food.


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Gabriel Furshong writes from Helena, Montana. His writing has appeared in High Country News, In These Times, Dialogist, Natural Bridge and elsewhere.
The scarred surface of a granite pedestal is all that remains of a century-old fountain in Hill Park in downtown Helena, Montana. Approaching a small square at the crest of the park, Ron Waterman pauses to ponder the remnants of the landmark and consider its controversial inscription, also now gone: "A Loving Tribute to Our Confederate Soldiers."
"We don't often get opportunities like this to redo, to start anew," says Waterman, a 75-year-old retired lawyer and civil rights advocate, gazing into the newly vacant reflection pool. "We're looking to the future. We want to do this the right way this time."
This summer, Montana's capital will "start anew" by installing a public art project in this spot where the fountain had stood since 1916. It will make Helena the first U.S. city to remove and replace a Confederate monument since such symbols began drawing widespread scrutiny after the 2015 deadly shooting at an African American church in Charleston, South Carolina, according to information collected by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Since then at least 114 Confederate symbols, including 48 monuments, have been removed in 22 states, the law center confirmed. Helena city commissioners joined this movement at the urging of eight Native American legislators who called for removal of the old fountain following the 2017 deadly rally of White supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was hauled away despite strong criticism from the Montana Historical Society, which argued it was not a symbol of White supremacy and should remain as an important part of Helena history.
Waterman and other community members, however, were eager to focus on the future rather than an ugly past. They formed a group called the Equity Fountain Project and won approval from city commissioners in January to place a new fountain symbolizing unity at the spot where the divisive Confederate fountain once flowed.
"There is going to be something historic on this park site," Waterman says, assuredly. "We are making history."
For 101 years, Helena was home to the only Confederate monument in the northern Rockies and the only one on public land in the Northwest. The United Daughters of the Confederacy erected the fountain at a time when Jim Crow laws were being enacted across the country and Ku Klux Klan membership was surging locally and nationally.
The morning following the violence in Charlottesville, several Montana newspapers carried an op-ed by the Montana American Indian Caucus calling for removal of the monument from the capital. It pointed out that the United Daughters of the Confederacy supported the early KKK and that "the Confederacy and its symbolism has stood for segregation, secession, and slavery."
"White nationalists, neo-Nazis, alt-right, and any other groups that propagate hate, discrimination, violence and bigotry have no place in our country," the editorial read. "These groups dishonor the basic principles of equality on which this nation exists."
Commissioners ordered the fountain removed within 24 hours, despite vocal opposition from protesters, including one man who wrapped himself in a Confederate flag as a crane lifted the fountain onto a truck for transport to an undisclosed location.
"The monument was part of a larger effort to rewrite the history books," says Shane Morigeau, a Democratic state legislator from Missoula who authored the editorial. An enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Morigeau was referring to well-documented efforts by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to separate the Confederate cause from the institution of slavery. "We were trying to unravel some of the damage that was done," he says.
For Waterman and other members of the Equity Fountain Project, removal of the fountain represented an important first step. As soon as the fountain was gone, the group began to imagine an art installation that was "not just simply a replacement fountain," but a statement "about core values that everybody could share." Over the next year, the group issued a national request for proposals and launched a public selection process. It also raised nearly $100,000 for the project.
Last September, residents voted for their favorite design. The project was awarded to Los Angeles-based landscape designer James Dinh and San Diego-based metal sculptor Michael Stutz. Their "Sphere of Interconnectedness" will be composed of steel strands that crisscross in all directions and will rest on a round millstone that appears to float in falling water. The curved sides of this stone will be engraved with words in English and Native languages that represent unifying values such as diversity, service, and justice.
For Dinh, whose parents fled South Vietnam in 1975 when he was just 7, the function of the stone is an essential feature of the overall design. "A lot of cultures have used millstones," he explains. "It expresses a certain solidity and timelessness." It also serves as a reminder that building common ground is a daily grind that requires practice and persistence.
"It takes hard work to express our values, especially in a democratic society," he says. "If we let our guard down, then darker forces will express themselves."
Across the country, there are more than 1,700 public properties still standing in honor of the Confederacy, according to a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center. And a recent investigation by the Smithsonian and The Nation found that in the last 10 years taxpayers have spent over $40 million on these sites and the Confederate heritage organizations that help maintain them.
Looking ahead, Waterman hopes the efforts of Helena residents will help propel the movement in cities and states not only to remove these racist symbols that divide people, but also to replace them with public art projects that unite.
"We have an opportunity to start to rebuild what I think is missing in this country," Waterman says. "It comes back to civility. We need to look across the divide and see that people on the other side of the political spectrum share the same values."
This article was originally published by YES! Media and is reposted here with permission.
Boosted by big sustainability wins, Mayor Anne Hidalgo is pitching bold plans to make the city center "100 percent bicycle" and turn office space into housing.
The most common residential floor plans in European cities offer a window into urban history and culture. In London, it's the "two-up, two-down" row house.
Tiny upper-floor "maids' rooms" have helped drive down local assumptions about exactly how small a livable home can be.
Drawing on his time as New York City mayor, Michael Bloomberg proposes handing power and money to urban leaders as part of his Democratic presidential bid.
A different kind of wealth distribution in 17th-century Amsterdam paved the way for its quintessential home design.


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Raid on Saint Nazaire in 1942
Monday, November 24th, 2008
The humble old trawler/mine sweeper but none the less H.M.S. [or H.M.T.] Picton Castle was apparently one of 17 (or 19) vessels that constituted the first Allied surface raid on mainland Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War. We expect that, being a mine sweeper, our ship was sweeping for mines. Possibly she was carrying out other tasks and duties as well. It is difficult or impossible for most of us to grasp the sense of duty, sacrifice and horror for those involved. Our Barque Picton Castle was laying in Saint Nazaire, France, a short walk from the dry-dock that was the very target of this raid. It has been fixed up since the raid and all is forgiven.
Along with many other steam trawlers, the Picton Castle was conscripted into the Navy in 1939 to fill an emergency need for mine sweepers and convoy escorts in and around the British Isles. While crewed largely with grizzled old salts of fishermen who, while perhaps lacking Naval discipline and polish, needed little training in handling mine sweeping gear, so similar to fishing gear it was. And seamanship? There wasn't much any six week naval boot camp was going to teach these fishermen about the sea. These prosaic small vessels were often captained by young reserve officers with limited experience. Headquarters for the service were at Lowestoft at a place called "the Sparrows Nest". A pretty rough and ready, rag-tag crowd they were. Dangerous, demanding work was their daily lot. Our little ship may well be the last HMS Royal Navy vessel from WWII in full active condition. She is the only one under sail, that's for sure.
The Raid
In March of 1942, in the dark days of heavy trans-Atlantic convoy losses, the British executed a raid at Saint Nazaire which was the first surface attack on German-occupied France in the war, in order to deny to the German Navy an Atlantic dry-dock for their two big Battleships the Tirpitz and the Bizmark. If they could put this dock out of action then these very scary ships would have to steam the long narrow waters past Denmark and Sweden to get to a dry dock in Germany and back again, making them much more vulnerable to Allied destruction. These two ships were of particular interest due to their ability to run ragged over desperately needed Atlantic convoys with impunity. The raid took place and is considered one of the outstanding acts of British heroism in the war. More Victoria Crosses were awarded in this raid than any other comparable action in the Second World War.
However, for the Allies this raid was not easily done or even conceived. The big dry dock at Saint Nazaire is not on the coast, it is way up a river. A force would have to approach Nazi-held France deep in the Bay of Biscay undetected and then steam miles up the River Loire. The river has strong tides, currents and sand bars and it is all very exposed. Alternately, bombing the docks successfully would have required pinpoint accuracy against a facility heavily defended with anti-aircraft weaponry. Area bombing might not have worked and would have been sure to inflict an unknown but certainly large number of civilian casualties. A conventional naval assault looked doubtful as well – submarine nets made a sub attack not on. Thus the raid on Saint Nazaire, "Operation Chariot," was cooked up with Lord Louis Mountbatten at the head. It was to be a commando raid. And on paper, very, very bold. Their best advantage was that the Germans probably knew this and had thus dismissed the possibility of a raid of this nature in their planned defences.
The plan was to ram a fast ship full of explosives into the dry dock doors and blow the dock to pieces. Sounds simple, but simple and easy are not the same thing, they rarely are. They took one of Roosevelt's fifty old "Lend Lease" WWI destroyers, the HMS Cambletown (formerly USS Buchannen, I think), and stripped her down, altered her enough to pass for a German destroyer as best they could and packed her with tons of explosives in the bow and set out from Falmouth, England with a bunch of support craft including, we are told, our Picton Castle. She must have gone ahead to sweep for mines as she was never that fast.
At 0130 in the morning the destroyer rammed the dry dock at 20 knots almost jumping over the gates and crushed and sliced about 40 feet of her bow. The commandos jumped ashore and ran off to do their work blowing up bits and pieces of the dockyard, quickly figuring out that getting back to England by their attending launches wasn't going to happen as most of these launches didn't make it. They were either captured or found clever ways to get back to England (by way of Spain), the ones that lived. It was probably a diversionary air raid that tipped the Germans off that something was happening. Anyway, by 1000 in the morning most of the survivors had been captured by the large German force. While they were being rounded up, the ship exploded. The Germans must have thought the wrecked ship was safe as there were about 250 aboard looking around, taking pictures or nearby, that died in the explosion. The blast also put this dry dock out of business until 1947.
The raid worked – the Tirpitz was effectively trapped and was destroyed before she could sink a ship. It was brave, audacious, horrible and successful. Many Allied supply ships got through to England that might not have. There was another consequence as well – sometime after this raid, Hitler issued an edict that any and all commandos, in uniform or out, surrendering or not, wounded or not shall simply be shot. This resulted in many dead commandos, and later, hung German officers at the end of the war. But the Germans who fought and picked up the commandos of Saint Nazaire were unanimous in their admiration of those warriors who had taken part in this infamous raid.


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Bruno Carneiro is already in Japan!
After spending 10 days in Brazil on a marathon of TV Interviews, meetings and promotional visits, Bruno Carneiro (18) flew back for a few days in Utah for a Fundraising dinner on his behalf organized by Rodizio Grill at their Trolley Square location and attended by 80 friends, sponsors and Facebook/Twitter followers.
A couple of days later, the young racer was on his way to the B-Max Racing HQ to meet with his new team and mold his new seat for 2018.
While in Brazil, Bruno was a special guest at the FOX NITRO TV Show broadcasted nationwide by Fox Sports Brasil and hosted by Flavio Gomes, Thiago Alves, and Felipe Motta. He was also interviewed by Motorsport.com, GrandePremio.com on stories to be released after the conclusion of the F1 Winter tests in Barcelona.
He was also invited to visit the Ayrton Senna Institute in the company of helmet designer Raí Caldato and meet with potential sponsors on the same day.
On Thursday, Bruno visited the SID Special Paint company to meet with Alan and Stella Mosca that painted his 2018 Arai GP6 RC helmets.
During the visit, Bruno was interviewed by journalist Alexander Grün for GloboTV and SportTV.
You can watch Bruno's interview with FoxSports Brasil here:
One of the highlights of Bruno's visit to Brasil was the opportunity created by journalist Sergio Carvalho, Wilson Fittipaldi and Luiz Zappanelli.
Former Brabham F1 driver Wilson Fittipaldi invited Bruno to test one of the Formula Vee 1600 cars around Interlagos. Later, Luiz Zappanelli offered his own Old Stock Opala for a few laps. The 1978 350hp Chevrolet Opala was for sure an outstanding experience for the young Brazilian-American driver, who did not feel intimated by the challenge and set very good lap times in only 3 laps.We would like to thank all the incredible love and support of Walmir Utrera, Marcelo Lima, Carmen Utrera, Jimmy Peixoto for driving Bruno everywhere in São Paulo.
Many thanks to Fernanda Gonçalves for all the logistical support and media contacts.
Bellow, you can find some of the pictures of this trip.
PAINTED by SID-BRASIL!