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Cardiff City manager Russell Slade unsure about future
Manager Russell Slade is unsure of his future after Cardiff City missed out on the Championship play-offs.
The Bluebirds lost 3-0 at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday, leaving them seven points adrift of the top six with one game left in the season.
Slade's current Cardiff contract expires at the end of the campaign.
Asked if he expects to be in charge next season, Slade told BBC Sport: "We'll see. At the end of the day, it will be the owners' decision."
Slade may have overseen an unlikely Championship play-off push, but the former Leyton Orient boss has not been accepted by some Cardiff fans.
Gary Hooper scored two goals as Sheffield Wednesday sealed their play-off place at Cardiff's expense
He added: "It will probably be after the Birmingham game we'll sit down and decide what happens.
"We've made progress. It's my job, the team's job and the staff's job now to see if we can take that even further.
"We've made progress under difficult circumstances at times. We are going the right way.
"We had a bad day at the office today. We have to get over that. They always happen in football - it's how you respond and react.
"I still believed we could get in that top six today and take it to the last game. Anything could've happened, but it's not to be."
Slade says Cardiff's away form let them down in 2015-16.


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Wolverhampton Goodyear To Close By 2017
After nearly 90 years, Goodyear in Wolverhampton is to close with a loss of more than 300 jobs.
It's only manufacturing plant in the UK and the US company says it'll close no earlier than January 2017.
The closure was announced back in June that 330 jobs would be put at risk and there's expected to be the first redundancies on New Year's Eve this year.
Bosses say the factory - which has been running for 88 years - has to close in order to be competitive in the current market.
Production at the plant is expected to stop no earlier than 2017. It's yet another hit for the Midlands following the closure of MG Rover and Peugeot.
At it's height around 7,000 people worked at the Wolverhampton tyre company.
MP for Wolverhampton North East Emma Reynolds has been campaigning from the start to keep the site open and says she's disappointed with the decision. Just last week Emma Reynolds was hoping bosses would meet to discuss whether the factory could actually be profitable.
Emma Reynolds and Unite the Union have told us their focus now is to get the best deal they can for the workers.
When the news initially broke in June, Gerard Coyne, Unite regional secretary for the West Midlands, said: "The closure of the factory and the loss of hundreds of skilled manufacturing jobs will be a devastating blow to the economy.
"It is disgraceful that Goodyear did not have the good grace to tell the workforce first and instead workers found out that they could be out of a job through the local media.
"It is clear that Goodyear has ignored the fact that they are a productive workforce and decided to close the factory because UK workers are cheaper and easier to fire than their European counterparts."
This time around, many workers we spoke to today where unaware of the news that it's going to close and hadn't heard anything from their bosses or the company.
Capital's been told there'll be a meeting with Unite and Goodyear on Thursday followed by one with Wolverhampton City Council. Unite members will also meet over the weekend.

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How can you tell if the label in your violin is original? This is an important question in the evaluation of a violin from the 18th or 19th century. The recognition of an original label is an essential part of authenticating an antique violin, and the presence of an original label will naturally enhance a violin's value.
In addition to my day-to-day work with fine instruments, the experience of working in an auction house for twelve years has enabled me to observe thousands of antiques. I've been able to learn from experts in other departments about furniture, decorative arts, rare books, and other material from the Classical era. I've gained first-hand knowledge of wood carving styles, varnish varieties and aging tendencies, as well as important characteristics of rare books and manuscripts. I find myself drawing on all of this knowledge in a violin appraisal.
Laid Paper Violin Labels (pre-1850)
Labels on classical instruments from before around 1850 were mostly made of laid paper. Handmade in a laborious process, laid paper uses linen fibers taken from recycled rags. The rags were sorted according to color, then broken down into fibers and set into a water bath. The wet fibers were then put into a wire sieve which allowed the water to drain out and the fibers to dry. The imprint of the wire sieve formed lines called "chains" or "laid lines" on the surface of the paper. This resulting grid of intersecting lines is especially visible when dust settles on the labels placed between the high ribs.
The printing was also done by hand with lead type, set with pressure onto the paper. Because laid paper has a certain natural resistance to water, little ink would run on the paper surface, and the printing typically possesses a crisp, clean outline.
Wove Paper Violin Labels (post-1850)
A paper label that dates after around 1850 is typically made of wood pulp that has been mashed into a sheet by machines. This "wove" paper will not exhibit laid lines or chains, and the type figures typically appear less sharp, with a fuzzy outline. To control the ink from running, the paper was sized with a coating of alum to make it more water resistant. Because the sizing was acidic, it made the labels less stable than those made of laid paper. These labels are also more prone to curling and browning.
Three Questions a Violin Appraiser will Ask
1. What color is the label?
An original antique violin label will change color as it ages. The reaction of the paper against the wood, along with any other atmospheric changes, causes the paper to darken. Both the wood and the label should be a similar shade of brown.
2. What do the edges of the label look like?
The edges of the label itself should blend in cleanly to the wood surface. If there is any curling at the edges exposing lighter-colored wood underneath, it probably means the surface was treated to look old after a false label had been inserted.
3. Has the label been removed at any point?
An original label may be removed for repair, regraduation of the back, or even for transfer to another instrument. This is incredibly common, so it is an extremely rare and wonderful occurrence when I find an instrument with an original and undisturbed label!
Are you wondering what your antique violin is worth? It's free to set up an appointment with an appraiser or to send pictures and a description of your instrument using Skinner's auction evaluation form.
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shipped RH6.1 boot disk hangs when loading the scsi driver aic7xxx.
this happens with RH6.1 CD in either Yamaha or Nakamichi CD reader.
note: similar hardware support problem existed with RH6.0's
shipped boot disk, subsequently corrected with new
images DL from RH.
hardware consists of:
TYAN S1836 system board (AIC7895 chipset on-board)
128MB PC100 ECC memory
AGP Voodoo3 3000 16MB
9GB IBM UW SCSI hard disk
Yamaha 400xx SCSI2 CD Read/Write
Nakamichi M16J SCSI2 5-CD changer
Intel NIC (Pro100 chipset on-board)
Creative Labs (SB16 chipset on-board)
What do the boot messages say? Any indication that the Adaptec module is
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This is the first official day of "From Frumpy to Fab" however I began writing this post on Saturday 2/15/10. I was and trying to brainstorm my game plan for today. Monday will be the most challenging day of "From Frumpy to Fab" because it's the beginning of a commitment and for two I got to gym on Monday.
Normally, when I return home, I shower throw on something comfortable, (but not fabulous) and start home school. I really don't know how well Monday is going to go, but here's my plan for success this week.
**Oh! I must say that my husband is so excited about this challenge
My Plan Of Action:
- Choose and match all of my outfits for the week including accessories and iron my clothes in advance.
- Group all of my outfits together in my closet for easy access.
- Put together a simple facial kit like this one.
- Decide on (2) simple hairstyles for the week.
- Get dressed no later than 7:30 a.m. (before hubby wakes up)
- Get dressed before I get on the computer (oh the agony!)
How From Frumpy to Fab works:
The officially dates of From Frumpy to Fab are February 8th through February 16th. Today Monday February 8th 2010, you can link-up to your post sharing what you plan to do in order to look fabulous all week.
And then on Monday February 15th 2010, I'll share a post including pictures regarding my seven days of fabulousness.
Finally, on Tuesday February 16th 2010, you can come and link-up to your From Frumpy to Fab post.
If you can't start on Monday February 8th you are welcome to jump in at anytime. Leave a link to your blog below to let me know you'll be joining me.
Video Day #1 : HERE
Video Day #2 : HERE


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We are all in this together. The current situation about the coronavirus is something we never experienced before. Therefore we would like to share the following overview with you about the protective measures against Covid-19.
Important points for basic protective measures against Covid-19:
- Pay strict attention to hygiene. Wash your hands frequently
- Avoid crowded places. In public areas, as much as possible, keep 1-2 metres away from others
- Do not share food, drinks and personal items
- Do not travel if you are sick
- Avoid touching your face
- Anyone who has any symptoms, even if only mild, should stay home and seek medical advice
General good health habits including eating well, regular exercise and sleeping well will help to support your immune system and, longer term promote good health.
Protect yourself and maintain good personal hygiene by washing your hands frequently with hand sanitisers or soap and water:
- After coughing or sneezing
- Before and after attending to sick people
- When hands are visibly dirty
- After handling animals or animal waste
- Before, during and after you prepare food
- before and after eating
- after toilet use
- Before and after participating in clean-up activities
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GOT7's JB, CNBLUE's Lee Jong Hyun, LABOUM's Solbin, And More To Join "Law Of The Jungle"
"Law of the Jungle" will be traveling to Cook Island for the next season!
On October 16, a source from the program confirmed the new cast. Former professional golfer Pak Se Ri, Lee Chun Hee, GOT7's JB, CNBLUE's Lee Jong Hyun, and LABOUM's Solbin will be the first team. After them, Jung Joon Young, Lee Da Hee, Kim Jung Tae, and Park Jung Chul will go as the second team.
Kim Byung Man is returning after his injury, and Kangnam will also be traveling with both teams.
The first team of "Law of the Jungle in Cook Island" is scheduled to leave in late October, and the season will begin airing in December.
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Contrary to the Argentine predictions, when the British Task Force arrived to liberate the Falkland Islands they chose not to land close to the capital Stanley. Instead, the landing site was chosen as a bay at the settlement (read: three farm buildings) of San Carlos. It was from here that, due to the loss by Exocet missile of the supply ship Atlantic Conveyor and its crucial helicopter cargo, the British forces landing were left with no choice but to make their famous yomp to Stanley via Teal Inlet.
Today, San Carlos hosts the wonderfully typical Falklands sheep farm of Kinsford Valley, along with what must be one of the most remote museums in the world, a British graveyard, some self-catering and, somewhat bizarrely, a paint-your-own pottery café.
We were lucky enough to spend the night there, helping out with the super-cute Merino lambs, seeing the sights and checking out the Museum (somewhat more hands-on than the typical UK museum).
It takes about two hours to drive to San Carlos from Stanley, approximately 3 miles of that on tarmac road and the rest on gravel and dirt track. We followed our time spent with the lovely owners of San Carlos settlement with a detour on the way home to go via the ferry port at New Haven (read: concrete ramp and pole surrounded by car tyres) as it is home to a colony of Gentoo penguins all year round. These guys are more social and sizable than the Magellanics nearby but equally hilarious and amazing to watch.
As an aside, the opportunity presented itself to ride a Rapier surface to air missile like a rodeo bull. I caved.


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PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 9, 2012 – Integra Telecom Inc., a provider of fiber-based, business-grade networking, communications and cloud solutions, has named Jesse Selnick chief financial officer. Selnick brings to Integra more than 15 years of financial management, operations, strategy and transaction experience, with an emphasis in telecommunications and technology markets. Prior to joining Integra, Selnick was a managing director at Blackstone, a world-leading investment and advisory firm with total assets under management of $166 billion. Throughout his career, Selnick achieved significant results in leading client-critical initiatives in the areas of financial and strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, and capital structure and financing.
"As a proven leader with highly relevant expertise in our markets, Jesse will be a strategic asset to our leadership team and key advisor to our growth strategies, while strengthening our relationships with the financial community," said Kevin O'Hara, chief executive officer of Integra Telecom.
"I couldn't be more pleased to join Integra," said Selnick. "Having spent much of my career in an advisory capacity, I welcome the opportunity to roll up my sleeves alongside Integra's first-rate leadership team and focus my energies on advancing the company's financial trajectory and strategic development."
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I wonder how many workers in Los Angeles who live on one side of the sprawling metropolis would book a room in a hotel on the other side for three nights to attend a conference because they didn't want to deal with the traffic.
I'm guessing not many LA'ers would consider this possibility, even if they could do it on their employer's dime. Perhaps they would have done so in the past, but move over LA. Your city no longer holds the title for having the worst traffic in the United States. Perhaps due in part to malaise from the Great Recession, the Washington D.C. area now holds the dubious title of having the nation's worst traffic. And here in the D.C. area, considering the hassle of getting from my house near Dulles International Airport to my place of business for the week near Baltimore-Washington International Airport (a distance of about fifty-five miles) the answer was clear: better book a hotel room.
That's how bad the traffic is around here. Unlike Los Angeles, which at least has plenty of ways to get from point A to point B, in the Washington area if you need to get from, say, suburban Virginia to suburban Maryland you are largely limited to the Capital Beltway. This usually means getting in a frequently congested queue of slow moving cars many miles long.
I drove to the conference from my house on Monday morning, leaving about 7:30 AM. I arrived ninety minutes later. This is actually a pretty good commuting time, considering it was in the thick of rush hour. I was helped in part because the bulk of the commuter traffic in the morning is from Maryland into Virginia. This is because Virginia has more jobs than Maryland, so Marylanders queue up on the outer loop of the Capital Beltway and on I-270 to get to Virginia. Many of those Maryland commuters were commuting to Tysons Corner in Virginia, so there were the usual clogs of cars on this road to tediously slog through. For me, because there were no accidents on the inner loop, the beltway was not a bad bottleneck, although it was slow in spots between Bethesda and Silver Spring.
This is what you do if you are a Washingtonian with a car. You are on a road that was designed to be an expressway. Instead, you stop. You go a little. You stop. You go some more. Sometimes you creep for miles at five to 20 miles an hour. Then you stop some more again. And you go some more again. Many of the spots where this will happen are predictable, but on any given commute you know there are guaranteed to be a few gotchas, i.e. bozos involved in wholly preventable traffic accidents. Often Type A drivers cause these accidents. We are overrun with Type A drivers in this area because we are all here to make our mark on the world. We live on overly caffeinated coffee and work crazy hours. One in ten of us are lawyers.
So traffic is just another battle we must win. So we dodge and weave crazily in traffic and then crunch someone's fender. Since the traffic is already bumper-to-bumper, this just causes a huge queue of cars to stop for miles behind the accident. The service vehicle often becomes a victim too. Crazy Washington drivers being who they are, they have few qualms about driving on the shoulder when convenient, in the process blocking the service vehicles.
So of course I opted to stay in the hotel. While most of the congestion and/or mayhem happen during rush hours, there is no accounting for the time of day for these events. Tuesday I witnessed a ten-mile backup on I-95 approaching Baltimore from the south. Fortunately I was going the opposite way. (I had to teach a class in Virginia that evening, so I left the conference early.) Some jackknifed tractor-trailer was responsible for blocking four lanes of traffic. The usual. And speaking of "the usual", as I made my way from Baltimore back to Virginia there was the usual creeping traffic on the outer loop near New Hampshire Avenue and approaching the American Legion Bridge, then more in Virginia. In Virginia the beltway is being "modernized" to put in HOT (High Occupancy Toll) lanes and this construction is squeezing the already squeezed commuters on the road. These HOT lanes are basically expressways for the obscenely rich. But that's okay in Virginia because the rich are basically in charge anyhow and god forbid we spend public money to make the beltway faster for the 99%. The very idea!
Spending three nights in a hotel fifty miles from home actually made a great deal of sense. I saved huge amounts of time (at least three hours a day) by not commuting even if it meant being deprived of the company of spouse and feline. Yet the experience seemed so ridiculous, to be so close to home and yet to sleep in a hotel. It was the only practical alternative because taxpayers around here apparently are masochists. Instead, we regularly pave over what we have, and very occasionally adding a lane or two. In general traffic moves much better in Maryland than in Virginia because they spend much more on transportation. You can see it on Route 29 with all the new interchanges. Even so these modest improvements are not enough, and in Maryland they just result in less gridlock than in Virginia.
Today, at the conclusion of our conference, I contemplated yet another stop and go largely unpredictable commute home on the Capital Beltway and decided I just couldn't endure it again. Instead, even though it was further and probably a half an hour longer, I drove to Frederick, Maryland and then across the Potomac River at the far north Point of Rocks Bridge. At least I could move. At least, except for some congestion on I-695 (Baltimore's beltway) I could move at highway speeds. At least there was some predictability of when I would get home. Had I tried the beltway, there was probably a five percent chance I would still be sitting in traffic somewhere. I just didn't want to deal with the possibility.
I do hope that when I retire I can retire somewhere with much better traffic. You know, some place like Los Angeles.


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The first Westworld episode of season three was a whirlwind of a premiere – with new sights, new characters, and new journeys. Dolores is out of the park while Bernard is heading back in, and newcomer Caleb looks to be headed for one roller coaster of a ride when he teams up with Dolores to wreak havoc in the real world. Before we see what episode two has in store, let's dive into this week's interviews and videos!
Speaking to CNET, Jeffrey Wright shares his thoughts on what we can expect from Westworld this year. "Season three in some ways is about exploring a new park. And that's the world outside of Westworld. So in some ways those characters, the hosts, become guests. It's viewing the show, the characters, the narrative through another of the reflective facets of the storyteller." Hopefully they will prove to be better guests than the humans were to the hosts in the park…
As for Bernard in particular, Wright has his own perspective on where his characters stands now and where he is headed. "Bernard is grounded in loss and tragedy. As a construct, suffering is used as a kind of crucible toward freedom…I think the answer lives for Bernard where freedom lives. Where agency lives. Where independence from the marionette string lives. He's on a journey toward discovering these things including happiness. I don't know if any of the hosts are terribly happy. I think it comes with the job description." The last time we saw Bernard happy was back in season one with Theresa Cullen (Sidse Babett Knudsen), and we all know how badly that ended. Hopefully Bernard will have a chance at longer lasting happiness eventually.
In an interview with Collider, Aaron Paul breaks down Caleb's situation as the season begins. "He's at a point in his life where he's struggling. You realize that this guy has a pretty battered past. He's dealing with some PTSD, and going through what he needs to go through, to overcome that. Just before he encounters Dolores, he makes a decision, in his life, that he just needs to find something real. He comes to this complete stranger's aid, inside of a tunnel, and then she takes him on a pretty wild journey, to say the least." We can only imagine how wild this trip may get by the end!
When asked how he thinks audiences will feel about the evolving dynamic between Caleb and Dolores, Paul replies, "That's really up to the audience member. I think some people will pick up on certain things, a little earlier on than others. Some people will still never know what the hell is going on, which I think is great. You've gotta really pay attention to what is going on, to understand what is going on. There are definitely some really eye opening moments, down the road, for sure." Maybe there will be more to their relationship than meets the eye, so be sure not to let your guard down this season Westworld fans!
Production designer Howard Cummings and visual effects supervisor Jay Worth speak with Variety about the new look for season three as we move out of the parks and into the futuristic real world. Cummings explains, "The vision of the future is not dystopian; it's actually that humans ended up conquering some of the problems." Worth adds, "The idea of our world is, 'If rich people are in charge, how are they going to control the environment to benefit themselves?' And the way they do that is by restricting everybody else." It appears the problems are solved for the elite, but maybe not for everyone.
Cummings goes on to discuss some of the new technology they designed for this season. "The Delos corporation incorporates a lot more than just the parks, and there are lots of robotics they're involved with," he says, but "they're not all necessarily made to look humanoid [because] not everything has to be as complicated as Dolores." They may be less complicated, but I bet Dolores and her crew will find a way to make good use of them – perhaps turning them on their human operators.
The New York Post also interviewed Cummings, who elaborates on some of the problems that have been conquered in this world. "Somehow in the future climate change has been conquered, traffic has been reduced — which in LA is a miracle — and there's order," he admits. "There seems to be no homelessness. Somehow, something has organized society in a way that has brought this great progress."
Addressing comparisons of the aesthetic of the Westworld cityscapes to Blade Runner, Cummings states, "There are some Blade Runner aspects to it, except that it's not dystopian in the way that Blade Runner was. In some ways, we tried to go the opposite of Blade Runner and lean more into something like the movie Her…We have the sense of order that is present in Her. That inspired us."
HBO has released two behind the scenes videos this week: "Creating Westworld's Reality" and an interview with the show's location manager, Mandi Dillin.
It's in the details.#Westworld's supervising location manager Mandi Dillin discusses her role in Season 3. pic.twitter.com/TZQaLthGyi
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Olga Amaral, a former Springfield school administrator, has reached a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney's office in San Diego that will result in a dismissal of charges there of conspiracy, mail fraud and theft from a program receiving federal funds.
Amaral, according to court documents, recently pleaded guilty to one charge of making a false statement to a federal officer, under the plea agreement, with the government agreeing to dismiss the remaining charges related to a grant fraud indictment in 2010.
She is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 27 in San Diego on the one guilty plea, according to a U.S. Attorney's office spokeswoman.
Amaral, 57, is the former director of the Springfield magnet schools program, but left in 1996 for a job as a professor at San Diego State University.
Amaral and two other defendants were indicted in 2010 in connection with the alleged misuse of federal education grant funds, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.
The charge of making a false statement to a federal officer carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised released, with sentencing up to the judge, the spokeswoman said.
Amaral and one of the defendants, Leslie Garrison, reached the plea agreement, according to the U.S. Attorney's office. Both defendants were listed as "former professors at San Diego State University's Imperial Valley Campus, and employees of the university's Research Foundation that administered grant funds," according to the indictment.
In the plea agreement, Amaral admits that she did state to a federal officer "that she had read the relevant project administration guide that set forth criteria for paying out federal grant monies whereas in truth and fact, as defendant then and here well knew, that statement and representation was false when made, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001."
The third defendant, Michael Klentschy, was listed as a former superintendent of the El Centro Elementary School District. He pleaded guilty in March to mail fraud charges and will be sentenced in August, according to records.
The three were charged with fraud and conspiracy for allegedly misusing grant funds from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education, according to court documents.
Klentschy, in pleading guilty, admitted that his fraud caused losses of more than $325,000, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.
Olga Amaral, a former Springfield school administrator, has reached a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney's office in San Diego that will result in a dismissal of charges there of conspiracy, mail fraud and theft from a program receiving federal funds.
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Cover interview for National Pride Guide 2016
01 August 2016
The National Pride Guide is distributed at every Pride in the UK, reaching thousands of readers. This year, the publishers chose Vicky as their cover interview. A person of faith has never had this opportunity before, so it opens up exciting dialogue about LGBT equality and religion.
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Dive Club Meeting Notes – 2-Dec-2016
Thanks to everyone who attended our meeting in December!
Here are the slide notes from our dive club meeting on 2-Dec-2016. Anne presented this time since Dan was traveling and couldn't attend. A great discussion was triggered as part of the lessons learned presented and the meeting was enjoyed by all!


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A Coaching Power Tool Created by Caroline Wu Beloe
(Parenting Coach, Life Coach, CHINA)
It is never too late to play, for we are all Magical Children. – Joseph Chilton Pearce (Author of Magical Child).
Tom is a 9 years old boy. Tom loved sports. At the beginning of the school year, he chose to train for football three times a week and to train for swimming twice a week both in weekdays and in the weekend. He was confident he could manage his homework after attending all the training. Recently, Tom often forgot to finish homework. One morning, he refused to go to school because he did not finish the homework and he felt ashamed of it. Anna, Tom's mum thought Tom needed some help with time management. Anna helped Tom with making a weekly timetable and the bottom line is Tom finish all the homework before he could have free playtime. The timetable did work for the first week. But in the second week, Benjamin start asking to play first instead of doing homework. Anna reminded him their agreement from time to time. Tom will still finish homework, but often accompanied it with moan and whine.
The situation got worse when one Sunday afternoon, Tom decided to play football at the homework time. When Anna insists on sticking to the schedule, Tom threw a big tantrum. At the end, Tom did finish his homework but no playtime left. In the following weeks, Tom often spent more time on moaning and tantrum than the time he actually spent on doing homework. These struggles happened a couple of times a week. It made Anna exhausted and very anxious. She becomes very tense before Tom come home everyday.
What is Control?
According to Webster's dictionary, control is: to exercise restraining or governing influence over. Wikipedia define control (in management) as: setting standards, measuring actual performance and taking corrective action.
Sometimes parents thought that as adults they always need to be in control and should never let the children see that we have lost our authority.
In Anna's case, the homework situation went out of control; Anna thought the best solution is to make a timetable for Tom. Unexpectedly, control limits she set became a hidden problem and it develops in to a dilemma of frequent tantrum from Tom. The time schedule did helped Anna to constrain her son's play time. However, Anna gradually lost control of the time, and Tom lost his temper.
Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson in their book The Whole Brain Child explained that:
Children need structure and boundaries and to be held accountable for their behavior, but even as you maintain your authority, don't forget to have fun with your kids. The more they enjoy the time they spend with parents and the rest of the family, the more they will value relationships and desire more positive and healthy relational experiences in the future.
There are many parents spending most of their time either disciplining kids or carting them from on activity to the next, and not enough time just enjoying being with them.
When control did not work…
Anna really empathized with Tom, and start doubting about the effectiveness of the timetable. One day, right after Tom came home from school, Anna asked him if he wanted to play football for a while. Tom gave Anna a very happy grin that she hadn't seen for months. Anna then asked Tom if he could finish homework for that day. Tom said'Yes, mum. You can trust me". Tom played football with Anne for half an hour and only with Anne. After dinner, Tom quickly finished homework with no complaint at all. Since then they always play football for half an hour on Monday. Tom never had tantrum over homework again and Anna was amazed by his spontaneous change.
Some times miracles can happen when adults letting go of ideas of how things should be, embracing the present moment and trusting that the truth of the moment is okay as it is. When this true embrace and acceptance occurs, something changes in the children.
What is Connect?
The first meaning of connect, according to Webster's dictionary, is
To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between.
Not like adults, Children do not always have the language to tell us what they need and what hurts. They act out with their behavior in attempt to get those need communicated to us. If we see behavior as a form of communication to us, then we can respond to the need be communicated, instead of react to the behavior. Anna finally saw Tom's tantrum as a signal of his need. Only 30 minutes football playing time per week completely transformed Tom. The transformation happened because Anna trusted Tom could manage the homework and because she connected to Tom's present need as well. Anna answered the calling of a child's nature.
This planet is the child's playground and nothing should interfere with child's play. Raised this way, the magical child is a happy genius, capable of anything, quipped to fulfill his amazing potential. –Joseph Chilton Pearce
Coaching application in general:
Coaching is about connecting with people, inspiring them to do their best, and helping them to grow. (Ed Batista Feb 18, 2015). This connection is based on a trusting relationship with your client. A client might feel inspired to seek this type of relationship with others in their life. This environment of trust is the key for client to be successful in their life, in their business and in their relationship.
In order to shift client's perspective from control to connect, coaches need to support them to find out the ultimate purpose of the control limit they set for themself, for their team, their partner, their child, etc. It is also a chance to support our clients identify where control is closing them off from the present moment and where they need to connect. Feeling and expressing empathy is critical to help client to remove their suffering, their doubt and even their embarrassment and then begin thinking creatively about alternative solutions.
Coaching application in parenting:
Thich Nhat Hanh said
You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.
Good coach and good parent do the same job. In parenting, it is one of the parent's key roles to connect with children to inspire them to do their best, and to help them search inside and discover their own answers. Pam Leo, advocator of Connection Parenting said:
The level of cooperation parents get from their children is usually equal to the level of connection children feel with their parents.
Parenting takes enormous effort. But most of the time, the emotional rewards make it feel well worth it. And connection-oriented parents get something huge out of it, something other parents can't count on.
A good parent-child relationship makes it easier for parents to influence their children, so children are more cooperative and discipline isn't a challenge. (Dr. Laura @Aha Parening.com)
We feel connected when we feel listened to and loved. We feel disconnected when we feel hurt and unheard. Whenever our client question how to respond to a child they can ask themselves, will this response create a connection or a disconnection.
Reconnection in Parenting:
Sometimes a child's behavior will push our buttons and we react rather than respond. Pam Leo suggested that: As soon as we realize we have created a disconnect, we can reconnect by doing the following:
Rewind – Acknowledge we have said or done something hurtful
Repair – Apologize and ask for forgiveness
Replay – Respond with love and listening
Questions support parents shifting from 'control' to 'connect':
Know yourself:
What is this rules/ discipline important for you?
What is the worst thing will happen if you could not control/discipline your child's
behavior related to this issue?
What is your role in supporting kids facing a challenging situation?
What are the actions/activities that might help you to connect with your children?
Know your children:
Has your child ever demonstrate spontaneous change?
What are the activities does your child show initiative most in?
What kind of fulfillment does your kids get from these activity?
What characters/quality can you trust about your child that will support him/her to handle this specific challenge?
What are the key conditions for your kids to be concentrated and calm?
Find the support:
What are some techniques that you can develop to remain connected (with your children in challenging situations?
What are the structures that in place to fulfill your commitment to connect with your children?
1. Thick Nhat Hanh, Planting Seeds, Parallax Press, California
2. Dr. Laura Markham, What is connection parenting, by founder of AhaParenting.com and author of Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How To Stop Yelling and Start Connecting and Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings: How to Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life
3. Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Magical Child, Plume
4. Ed Batista?How Great Coaches Ask, Listen, and Empathize?FEB 18, 2015 http://www.edbatista.com/2015/02/new-post-at-hbr-how-great-coaches-ask-listen-and-empathize.html
5. Daniel J. Siegel, and Tina Payne Bryson, The Whole-Brain Child, Bantam Books
6. Pam Leo Connection parenting http://www.connectionparenting.com


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I adore French food, though from my recipe posts you wouldn't think I cook it much at home. It would be a lie to say I cook French food frequently, but I definitely dabble in it. Duck l'orange is one such French dish I have made on a couple of occasions. In a way, it was probably how the French make duck that made me fall in love with their cuisine in the first place. From the crispy confit versions to the super tender cassoleut. They sure know how to cook a duck. And this coming from someone who grew up eating lots of Cantonese roast duck and Peking duck, so I had a high benchmark to go on!
Being me, this isn't a 100% pure French recipe for duck l'orange. The recipe has French roots, but I have adapted a couple of minor Chinese influences as well. Not huge things that would change the essence of dish, but small tweaks to enhance the recipe and add a bit of personal flair. Most notably, rubbing the skin with salt and 5 spice powder and drying out the duck skin overnight in the fridge.
Drying out the skin until it feels parched is a technique the Chinese use for Peking duck to ensure the skin crisps up nicely. When I'm time poor, I have been known to dry the duck skin out by blasting it with a hairdryer for ~20 minutes (if you adopt this approach just make sure you do the drying prior to the spice rub! Lest you blow spice all over your kitchen.). The 5 spice? Well the Chinese already serve their 5 spice laced roast duck with a plum sauce, so it's a natural extension to match 5 spice with an orange sauce. How can you argue with that logic? 😉
I enjoy making my own stock, so it is by no exception that I made duck stock for the sauce. Homemade stock just taste better and is simply better for you. Plus, I wouldn't know where to begin looking for packaged duck stock. Do they even sell it in stores…? I get my duck carcasses from a local Chinese roasting house, cover a couple of them in a pot of simmering water and just steep the flavour over 2-3hours. (Fyi Chinese roast ducks tend to be stuffed with shallots, spices and other good stuff, I leave these remnants in the carcasses and just strain them out later to get a full bodied and clear stock.) If you can't access duck carcasses and/or are time poor, chicken stock would be a reasonable substitute.
RECIPE – Duck l'orange (serves 4)
- 1 whole roasting duck
- 1 1/2 tablespoon 5 spice powder
- 1/2 tablespoon salt
- strips of zest from 1 orange
- 2 gloves garlic, bruised
- 3 sprigs thyme
- 2 shallots, quartered
- 1/3 cup of sugar
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar (or white white vinegar)
- 1 cup fresh orange juice
- 3/4 cup duck stock
- 2 shallots, roughly chopped
- zest of 1 orange
- 25g butter
- starch slurry comprising equal parts corn or potato starch dissolved in water (I use about 1 1/2 tablespoon of each, but you may use more or less depending your preference for sauce consistency)
- salt to taste (optional – I don't add any salt to my sauce as the duck stock adds enough savory notes)
- Rub 5 spice powder and salt all over the duck. Place duck on roasting rack and refrigerate overnight uncovered – this is to dry out the duck skin. Putting it on a rack allows air to circulate all around the duck, making the drying, and later cooking, process more even.
- The next day preheat oven to 200°C. Return duck to room temperature and stuff its cavity with strips of orange zest, garlic, thyme and shallots.
- Roast duck breast side up for 1 hour in 200°C fan forced oven. Reduce temperature to 180°C fan forced and cook for the final 30-40 minutes until cooked through and skin is crisp. Rest for ~20 minutes before carving.
- Prepare sauce by caramelising sugar and water in a saucepan until a deep amber colour has developed. Add in vinegar, orange juice, duck stock and shallots. Bring to a boil then simmer for ~15 minutes.
- Strain sauce and discard shallots. Return sauce to pan and bring to a simmer. Add butter and season to taste. Once butter has melted add in starch slurry. Mix well to ensure the sauce thickens to a uniform consistency of your preference.
- Serve carved duck with orange sauce. Garnish with a sprig of thyme and slice of orange. I also plated mine up with mash and garlicky butter beans :).
This is a great dish for our current autumn weather. It strikes a good balance of being comforting without being too heavy. The warming nature of the roast game offset by the tart fruity notes from the citrus sauce. Bon appétit!


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The Tom Brady diet plan could quite possibly be the fountain of youth.
Brady was the 199th NFL draft pick, passed over by every team in the league. The skinny kid nobody wanted. 17 years later he's got enough trophies to bury an end zone. The oldest non-kicker in the NFL, he's also the undisputed greatest of all time.
Shockingly, the superstar credits much of his success to a meal plan more fit for a supermodel than a Super Bowl champ. Brady shuns bread, pasta, dairy, alcohol, caffeine, tomatoes, sugar, most meat, fruit, fish, salt and strawberries.To find out what he does eat and why, and how it helps him, read on. We've pieced together the Tom Brady nutrition plan below from the best info available on the web.
The Tom Brady Diet Plan
So what's the Tom Brady diet? The table below gives the guidelines in a nutshell, from his 80/20 meal plan to his take on supplements to foods he absolutely won't eat. It also includes the surprising timing of his meals and his staple foods.
Tom Brady Diet Plan Facts
- Diet is plant-based but not vegetarian.
- Based on the book "The China Study."
- 80% plant-based.
- 20% lean protein like chicken, beef and wild salmon.
- Lots of fresh veggies – no canned, frozen or processed.
- Staples: Brown rice, quinoa, millet, buckwheat, lentils, beans.
- Food is cooked with coconut oil only.
- Spirulina algae supplement.
- Biggest meal is lunch. Small meal for dinner.
- No white sugar, no white flour.
- No MSG.
- Never cook with canola oil or vegetable oil.
- No iodized salt.
- No nightshades (tomatoes, peppers, eggplant).
- No mushrooms.
- No coffee or caffeine.
- No alcohol.
- No soda, sweets, junk food.
- No dairy.
- Very little fruit except bananas, blueberries.
- No strawberries.
- Local foods only.
- Organic foods only.
- No GMO foods.
We'll explain all those diet facts below. In a nutshell, they're geared toward keeping Tom young, keeping his muscles pliable and zapping inflammation so he can keep killing it at an age when most NFL stars are home warming a sofa.
The Tom Brady Meal Kit Service
Want the fast track to the Tom Brady Diet Plan? Sign up for the Tom Brady meal kit service.
As of 4/3/17, anyone can eat like Brady. The meal kits cost $78 per week. They're made by a plant-based meal service called Purple Carrot, in a partnership with TB12, Brady's nutrition company.
Says Brady, "Eating meals like these has helped me stay on top of my game."
The meals follow the Tom Brady nutrition philosophy. They're high protein and 100% plant-based. They're gluten free, low sugar and free from processed ingredients.
The Brady meals also look pretty tasty, with options like white lentil risotto with winter roasted veggies or a ramen bowl with nutty brown rice noodles and sweet coconut broth.
The 80/20 Diet: A Plant-Based Performance-Enhancer
Tom Brady's diet is mostly plant-based. Does that mean he's a vegetarian? No, but don't expect to see him ripping into cheeseburgers and Flinstone-esque steaks.
According to Brady's personal chef Allen Campbell, the NFL legend's meals are 80% fresh, organic vegetables, locally sourced and in-season. Another 20% is lean meats like beef, chicken and occasionally wild-caught salmon or fish.
A plant-based diet is good for you in dozens of ways. The overwhelming medical research shows "plant-based" means lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol, better blood sugar, less inflammation, faster healing and less cancer risk. Or as Brady himself puts it, "I don't believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time."
Want to dump pounds fast? See if the military diet plan is right for you.
The Tom Brady Nutrition Manual
Yes, there actually is a Tom Brady nutrition manual. It's called the TB12 Nutrition Manual and as Brady says, "It's not a cookbook!" It's a $200 binder stuffed with Brady's nutritional philosophies, plus 89 recipes that support them. Why does it cost so much? Because it's a "living document." That means as Brady's personal chef invents new dishes for Tom and Gisele, the manual will expand.
Put that way, it's more like a subscription to Brady's ongoing quest for nutritional excellence. For anyone who wants to follow the Tom Brady nutrition plan by the book, this is the one to get. It's available only from his TB12 Store and currently sold out, but devotees can pre-order it here.
Tom Brady Recipes and Resources
Brady hasn't published a list of his recipes online. That said, a look at the 80/20 plant-based diet shows a host of resources for recipes and meal plans Brady would approve of. Check out the selection below:
80/20 Recipes and Meal Plans that Match the Tom Brady Food Philosophy:
- One Green Planet: This weekly plant-based meal plan offers several menus, from a kids menu to a whole foods option, plus menus for athletes and body-builders. The plans are entirely vegan (no animal products) but meat can be added.
- ConsciousCleanse.com: Dozens of 80/20 recipes that fit the Tom Brady food plan.
- Paleo 80/20: This site displays two-dozen healthy recipes from broccoli bites to a paleo Asian stir fry.
- The Healthy Chef: An online cookbook packed with recipes for entrees, soups, salads, desserts, snacks and more that fit a plant-based diet.
Solid 80/20 Cookbooks:
- The Best 30-Minute Recipe: 300 fast and flavorful recipes everyone will love.
- The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook: Recipes based on a specialty catering business in the Hamptons.
- The Gourmet Cookbook: More than 1,000 Recipes: The best of 50,000 recipes from Gourmet magazine.
- Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant: Based on the popular vegetarian restaurant in Ithaca, New York, the food in this book shows that plant-based can actually mean "yum!"
- I'm Just Here for the Food: Alton Brown's entertaining, healthy cookbook.
Also check out the Forks Over Knives 80/20 Primer here.
A Tom Brady Meal Plan
According to BleacherReport, a typical Tom Brady meal plan for a day is as follows:
- Breakfast: Smoothie with almond milk, a scoop of protein, seeds, nuts and a banana.
- Midmorning: Homemade protein bar.
- Lunch: Salad with sliced-up chicken breast with whole grains and legumes
- Snack: Protein smoothie.
- Dinner: Quinoa and greens.
Some Tom Brady Recipes
Looking for actual Tom Brady recipes? See below. Brady's vacation chef shared a selection of recipes worthy of the NFL legend. The menu is available here and includes the dishes below:
- Superfood Green Smoothie
- Swiss Chard Summer Rolls
- Pineapple Cucumber Gazpacho
- Creamy Coconut Noodles
- Coconut Mango Cream Pie
Brady also sells a selection of his healthy snacks online. Hungry for more? A Reddit user posted the ice cream recipe below straight from the TB12 Nutrition Manual.
Tom Brady's Avocado Ice Cream Recipe
Brady doesn't eat any dairy. How then can he eat ice cream? Well, this ice cream is made from avocados. Sound like frozen guacamole? According to some Reddit guinea pigs it's actually pretty good.
The recipe blends one avocado, a half cup raw cashews, half cup coconut meat, a cup and a half of dates and a cup of raw cacao powder. It also adds 1 1/4 cups of water. Just blend, freeze and serve.
One comment about this dish on Reddit is that it uses too much cacao powder. Cacao is high in caffeine though, which Brady avoids. Should we tell him? Nahhhh. Instead, let's check out some Tom Brady eating facts below.
Tom Brady's Diet Helped Him Beat a Career-Ending Injury
In 2008 Brady sustained an injury that should've been a career-ender. The QB was carried off the field in a game against Kansas City, his knee crushed, his ACL torn. A subsequent staph infection left him bedridden, dependent on IV antibiotics. A short time later his own doctor said he'd never seen anything quite like Brady's recovery.
More recently Brady told a local radio station, "I had doctors with the highest and best education in our country tell us — tell me — that I wouldn't be able to play football again, that I would need multiple surgeries on my knee from my staph infection, that I would need a new ACL, a new MCL, that I wouldn't be able to play with my kids when I'm older. Of course I go back the next year and we win Comeback Player of the Year. I follow the next season and we win the MVP of the year." Brady says a huge part of his quick recovery is down to his diet.
A lot of Brady's diet ideas come from the popular ketogenic diet. See our full guide for that right here.
Allen Campbell: Tom Brady's Chef
Here's a hidden way to eat like Tom Brady: Watch videos by his chef about the plant-based diet. In the video below, Campbell presents a plant-based dinner demo. There's no recipe involved, but it gives a good glimpse into the kind of food Campbell cooks for Tom and Gisele. Campbell makes good use of greens, fresh veggies, root vegetables and spices. Also visible is a stew made with chick peas, carrots and other vegetables and a sweet potato dish. There area also two other dinner demo videos on the chef's channel.
Brady Thinks the American Diet is Insane
Anyone reading this far might wonder how Tom Brady could possibly do what he does on a diet that sounds like Yogi Bear's nightmare. That's okay because Brady doesn't think much of the typical American diet either.
Brady told WEEI Boston: " I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do. You'll probably go out and drink Coca-Cola and think, 'Oh yeah, that's no problem.' Why? Because they pay lots of money for advertisements to think that you should drink Coca-Cola for a living? No, I totally disagree with that. And when people do that, I think that's quackery. And the fact that they can sell that to kids? I mean, that's poison for kids."
He also called out Frosted Flakes as "not a food" and thinks cheeseburgers are a terrible idea.
Think Brady is nuts? See what doctors say about the deadliness of hot dogs.
Is Tom Brady's Diet Coach a Quack?
Brady learned most of his food philosophy from "quack" doctor Alex Guerrero. According to Boston.com, Guerrero was fined by the Federal Trade Commission for making illegal claims. Guerrero said a study of 200 terminally ill cancer patients showed 192 of them were still alive after eight years of using his "Supreme Greens" supplement. One problem: the study never existed.
The FTC later banned Guerrero from making any health claims about Supreme Greens and from calling himself a doctor. Even so, teammate Julian Edelman likened Guerrero to Mr. Miyagi, and Brady credits the pseudo-doc with a huge part of his success. From Brady's point of view, mainstream nutrition is quackery.
Why No Bread?
Why doesn't Tom Brady eat bread, flour or anything with gluten in it? Isn't pasta the mainstay of hard-driving athletes everywhere? After all, whole wheat is packed with essential nutrients like B-vitamins and minerals. It's also thought to fight chronic inflammation and even obesity.
The real trouble with wheat flour is that most Americans overdo it. Flour is chock-full of simple carbs that change to fat quickly in the blood stream. That can lead to a whole list of diseases from cardiovascular problems to diabetes. No wonder breadless Brady never calls himself "big-boned."
Tom Brady Supplements
Brady takes a supplement containing Spirulina, a.k.a. blue-green algae. Grown on the surface of ponds, it tastes like, well, pond scum. That said, it's loaded with more protein than red meat and full of vitamins and minerals. According to LiveScience.com it's also been shown to fight cancer and lower cholesterol.
Says Brady himself: "I take a green supplement. I take different supplements to try to help my body recover from the rigors of the training that we do. I try to eat really well. I try to have a clean diet so that I can play and try to prevent inflammation in my body. I try to do that so that I can play for long periods of time."
Brady also sells a protein powder supplement in his online store, plus an electrolyte supplement.
See how to find the best spirulina supplement right here.
Why No Strawberries?
"I've never eaten a strawberry in my life" is an oft-quoted Bradyism, but where does it come from? First, it's entirely possible he was joking. Strawberries are stuffed with anti-oxidants and thought to have cancer-fighting properties. So why doesn't Brady like them?
According to Tom Brady's personal chef, he largely avoids fruit. The tendency of most Americans is to overeat fruit, and overeating any food is bad. With too much fruit comes too much fructose, which again turns to fat. Even so, cutting out strawberries does seem a bit extreme.
Why No Coffee?
Coffee has been called the elixir of life. It gives an energy boost, inspires productivity and may even lower Alzheimer's risk. Why then does Tom Brady avoid it like a carload of Bills fans? While the benefits of coffee have been well documented, it's also been called "the most widely used psychoactive substance on Earth."
Caffeine is an addictive drug that results in withdrawal symptoms like headaches. It can also contribute to heart trouble according to Harvard Health. In that light, it's not hard to see why Brady avoids the black brew. This way, his game will never get wrecked by someone slipping him a decaf.
Looking to kick the coffee habit? See our full guide on coffee alternatives and strategies here.
Why No Sugar?
Cakes, pies, cookies, candy bars and pastries all have this in common: 1) They're delicious and 2) Tom Brady shuns them. That's because, while Brady does eat sugar in the foods he eats, he never touches refined sugar.
Table sugar lacks vitamins, causes liver damage and contributes to high cholesterol. It also causes an energy-spike-and-crash pattern that can rob an athlete of pep at just the wrong moment. As statesman Ezra Taft Benson put it, Americans are overfed, undernourished and "digging our early graves with our teeth." Benson avoided refined sugar also and lived to 105.
See what science says about the health hazards of sugar here.
Why No Dairy?
The Tom Brady diet plan crosses off milk, cheese, butter and yogurt. (Sheesh, does he eat anything?) Notwithstanding the Dairy Board's insistence that milk "does a body good," Brady shuns it. Why? Milk is a great source of calcium and vitamin D among many other essential nutrients. Yet milk has also been linked to increased cancer risk, MS, heart disease and rapid aging.
Maybe that's why, as tight end Martellus Bennett said of Brady, "He looks good. Looks a little younger, like he found the fountain of youth."
Is milk really bad for you? Find out right here.
Why So Little Meat?
Most of us would expect a top NFL athlete to put away at least a couple sides of beef a day. Muscle after all is protein and meat is full of it. Yet Tom Brady's 80/20 diet is mostly veggies with very little animal protein. The meat Brady and his wife Gisele do eat is mostly lean beef, chicken and occasionally duck or wild-caught salmon.
Plenty of non-animal foods have as much protein as meat or more. Red meat is 17% to 40% protein, but chia seeds are 17%, soy protein is 80% and Brady's spirulina supplement is 77%. Other high-protein foods include baker's yeast at 38%, and nuts and beans at a lower but still respectable 9%. It may sound laughable that anyone who picks those foods over a steak could excel athletically. Just remember the five Super Bowl rings.
Why Only Wild-Caught Salmon?
Tom and Gisele's chef says Brady eats mostly salmon when it comes to fish and it's always wild-caught. Why the narrow sea-critter selection? Salmon is an oily fish, with high levels of heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids. It's also a relatively small fish.
Why does size matter? Big fish eat lots and lots of smaller fish. That means they build up large reserves of the bad things that float around in our oceans like mercury and PCBs. Smaller fish eat less and therefore have lower concentrations of the nastiness that results from our pollution of the planet.
As far as why Brady insists on wild-caught, that means the fish come from the deep blue sea rather than coastal fish farms, close to where we dump our wastes.
Tom Brady's Biggest Meal of the Day is Lunch
Contrary to the conventional wisdom of carbo-loading the night before a big sporting event, Brady's biggest meal is typically lunch. That's according to Tom and Gisele's vacation chef Joanne Gerrard Young. Dinner is much smaller. Why is that important?
Per Livestrong.com, a bigger lunch and smaller dinner is backed by science. Shrinking your evening eating means less sugar in the blood stream during sleep, and that means less stored fat. It also means more energy during the day and less weight gain. Score another diet-plan point for Brady.
Why No Tomatoes?
200 years ago, most Europeans believed tomatoes were poisonous. That's because tomatoes, peppers and eggplants are all part of the same "nightshade" family as the highly poisonous plant Belladonna. Beyond that, tomatoes actually do contain trace amounts of tomatine and atropine, both powerful poisons.
You'd have to eat an awful lot of tomatoes to get atropine poisoning. Like, truckloads. But is any amount of poison good? Tom Brady avoids all foods from the tomato family but medical science disagrees with him. That's because tomatoes also contain high levels of lycopene, an important nutrient proven to boost cardiovascular health and even cut cancer risk.
Why Only Himalayan Pink Salt?
Let's face it, eating only Himalayan pink salt is enough to make anyone think Tom Brady's nutrition sense has stepped over the out-of-bounds line into food la-la land. Once we dug into the science behind it however we had to admit he has a point. Regular table salt is iodized. That started back in the 1920s when people weren't getting enough of this important nutrient and it was making them sick.
Iodine isn't the only thing added to salt at the factory though. The other is aluminum. It's in there as an anti-caking agent and while it may be great for making car parts, aluminum is also a potent neurotoxin. It builds up in the brain over a lifetime and contributes to Alzheimer's disease.
Himalayan pink salt by contrast is packed with healthy minerals and has no aluminum. Score another victory for Brady. How many is that? We've lost count.


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Auto Accident Orlando – Get Checked
What We Look For After an Auto Accident Orlando
Auto Accident Orlando? Get Checked! The human body is truly an amazing thing. With a diet rich in whole natural foods, plenty of fresh air and sunshine, regular exercise and enough sleep, the body has what it needs to heal itself in many cases. Stories abound of medical miracles where people are cured overnight of critical illnesses. Unfortunately, such incidents are rare and the body's ability to heal itself has its limits.
If you've been in an accident in Orlando, you may feel fine or you may assume that you're just a little sore from the ordeal and you'll feel better in a few days, and while this may be the case, you could also have "hidden injuries". Hidden injuries can be anything from a herniated disc to traumatic brain injury. Brain injuries can take a while to show up and can cause long-term impairment to your brain function. This is why it's so important to see a doctor immediately after a car accident, even if you're feeling okay. We not only look for obvious injuries, but we also look for hidden ones by looking for areas where the joints are not moving correctly and we do some diagnostic tests.
If you've been in an auto accident Orlando, here's a simple test you can do yourself.
Stand facing a mirror.
Turn your head all the way to the left.
Turn your head all the way to the right.
Check for symmetry. Symmetry means that you have the same range of motion on both sides. If it is not the same, it could indicate that there is a problem with the joint.
Stand still and move only your head forward as far as you can.
From that position, move your head as far back as you can.
Check for fluidity and pain.
If you lack symmetry, fluid movement, or if there is pain or discomfort, there is most likely a joint or spine problem.
At SafeCare Docs, our board-certified doctors will give you a thorough examination, diagnose any problems, and treat you. We are doctors of Chiropractic Medicine, also known as DC's, or Chiropractic Physicians. Our hands are our instruments, and we can make adjustments and manipulate your spine to restore your range of movement and reduce joint inflammation, as well as relieve pain.
We can get you in to be seen by a doctor quickly which is so important because after you've been in a car accident, you only have 14 days to be examined by a physician or you'll lose your insurance coverage. So while you're waiting around to see if your body is going to heal itself, you could be losing the ability to pay for any treatment you may need. At Integrative Physical Medicine, our doctors work for you when you need us.
External: http://nutritionstudies.org/body-heals/, http://lehmlaw.com/blog/5-hidden-injuries-watch-car-accident/
Internal: http://integrativephysicalmedicine.com/us


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The average person with dementia in a nursing home experiences only two minutes of social interaction each day. A new e-learning program that trains caregivers to engage in meaningful social interaction with dementia patients shows great promise for improving the well-being of the patient, according to a new UK study.
"Care home staff are under a lot of pressure — it's a really tough job. It's a challenging environment for both residents living with dementia and staff," said research therapist Joanne McDermid of King's College London.
"Our programme moved care staff to see dementia through the eyes of those who are living it. We found a simple approach, delivered as e-learning, improves staff attitudes to care and residents' well-being, ultimately improving lives for people with dementia."
"In a traditionally task -focussed work environment, our programme reminds us of the human side; of the full life experience of those living with dementia in care."
The Improving Staff Attitudes and Care for People with Dementia e-Learning (tEACH) study, conducted by the University of Exeter Medical School and King's College London in partnership with the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), was presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2018.
The study involved 280 residents and care staff in 24 care homes over nine months.
The Wellbeing and Health for people with Dementia (WHELD) program trained care home staff to increase social interaction from two minutes a day to ten. This involved adding simple measures such as talking to residents about their interests and including them in decisions related to their care.
The caregivers participated in an e-learning program with key modules based on the WHELD training, with or without Skype supervision. Both treatment arms improved resident well-being and staff attitudes to person-centered care. The Skype supported arm continued to deliver improved resident well-being four months after the trial was completed.
Out of the 170 available training programs for nursing home staff, only three are evidence-based; none of which have been shown to improve quality of life.
"Just take a moment to imagine life with just two minutes of social interaction each day," said Professor Clive Ballard, of the University of Exeter Medical School.
"To accept this is discrimination against people with dementia. We urgently need to do better. Most care home training programs are not evidence-based. We know our program works over the long term, and we now know it can be delivered remotely. We now need to roll this out to care homes."
Source: University of Exeter


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Having spent some time with my 2009 Nash 22H trailer, I have come to the foregone conclusion, "Travel Trailers Are Not Made For Tall People." I really liked the well built Nash trailer. Problem is, I stand 6'4″. I could not stand straight up in the shower stall. The 74″ queen bed was too short. And with 6'6″ headroom, I could not easily walk around inside the trailer with a baseball cap on, let alone my cowboy hat!
I sold my trailer to a nice lady in California. Angela bought my Nash trailer to start fulltiming this Fall. Being shorter than I, she found that this trailer would be perfect for her future adventures. I delivered the trailer to her in San Bernadino. Driving south out of Las Vegas, I encountered less than 1/2 mile visibility and 30mph+ wind at Baker, CA. You cannot fully appreciate the environmental devastation of the recent California wildfires until you drive through the weather impact that I experienced.
However, the Nash trailer towed straight and true with my Ford Expedition and Blue Ox Hitch. Had to take it slow due to the high winds. I took me 6 1/2 hours to drive 242 miles. This will be Angela's first attempt with the fulltime lifestyle. I am glad my trailer found a new home. I wish Angela all the success as she sets out on her new adventure. I am sure our paths will cross on the road in the future.
Now, what do I do? I needed to find a trailer for my "Tall Person". They are now building travel trailers with increased headroom, some close to 7′. However, it was frustrating to find the perfect trailer. If the trailer had the adequate headroom, the bed was too short and vice versa. I wanted and needed a couch. Beds and bedrooms take up a lot of space in a small trailer. You lose a lot of space in a small trailer just to get 8 hours of unconscious sleep. What trailer would work for me?
After giving it a lot of thought, I decided to buy a "ToyHauler" trailer. The reasons for my decision I will discuss on a future Blog. Rather busy right now as I have to get ready to drive 300 miles to Phoenix next week to pick up my new trailer. Maybe the only constant is "Change."


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Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for Innocence, Independence, and Identity (Hardcover)
Not in stock at Boswell. Available to order.
Through intimate portraits of four exonerated prisoners, journalist Alison Flowers explores what happens to innocent people when the state flings open the jailhouse door and tosses them back, empty-handed into the unknown. From the front lines of the wrongful conviction capital of the United States--Cook County, Ill.--these stories reveal serious gaps in the criminal justice system. Flowers depicts the collateral damage of wrongful convictions on families and communities, challenging the deeper problem of mass incarceration in the United States. As she tells each exoneree's powerful story, Flowers vividly shows that release from prison, though sometimes joyous and hopeful, is not a Hollywood ending--or an ending at all. Rather, an exoneree's first unshackled steps are the beginning of a new journey full of turmoil and triumph. Based on Chicago Public Media's yearlong multimedia series--a finalist for a national Online Journalism Award--this narrative piece of investigative journalism tells profoundly human stories of reclaiming one's life, overcoming adversity, and searching for purpose--at times with devastating consequences and courageous breakthroughs.
About the Author
Alison Flowers is an award-winning investigative journalist who focuses on social and criminal justice. Her yearlong multimedia series about exonerees for Chicago Public Media and NPR affiliate WBEZ was a finalist for a national Online Journalism Award in 2014. A former TV reporter, Flowers has also written for the Village Voice, VICE News, and others. She is a Social Justice News Nexus fellow and works at the Invisible Institute, a journalism production company on the South Side of Chicago.


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Special Levy Tax – 5/2/2013
The House of Representatives has recently voted on various amendments regarding the Special Levy Tax of €350 which is paid by companies. Specifically the following amendments have been made:
- The maximum amount of €20.000 for groups of companies has been reinstated.
- The last date of payment for the special levy tax for 2012 is 29th March 2013
- Dormant companies or companies incorporated in 2012 and were therefore previously exempt from the payment of the special levy tax is no longer exempt unless it applies for deregistration by 29th March 2013.


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Porn actress Stormy Daniels was arrested at an Ohio strip club and is accused of letting patrons touch her in violation of a state law While Daniels was performing on Wednesday night at Sirens – a strip club in Columbus – some patrons touched her in a "non-sexual" way, her lawyer Michael Avenatti said.
An Ohio law known as the Community Defense Act prohibits anyone who isn't a family member to touch a nude or semi-nude dancer.
Daniels, who was semi-nude, allegedly touched some of the patrons' breasts and allowed them to touch her, according to charging documents. She allegedly performed the same act with several officers who approached the stage and forced one officer's head into her bare chest.
She was released on bail this morning. Court records show Daniels posted $US6,000 (£4,538). Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is set for arraignment tomorrow on three misdemeanor counts of touching a patron at a "sexually oriented" business in violation of an Ohio strip club law.
Mr Avenatti says she will plead not guilty to all counts. "This was a complete set up," he said. "It's absurd that law enforcement resources are being spent to conduct a sting operation related to customers touching performers in a strip club in a non-sexual manner."
Mr Avenatti posted on Twitter a statement by Daniels that said she apologised to her fans in Columbus, but she would not perform her previously scheduled Thursday night show.
A Columbus police spokeswoman didn't immediately respond to a message seeking comment. A person who answered the phone at the strip club declined to comment. Daniels has said she had sex with US president Donald Trump in 2006, when he was married, which Mr Trump has denied. She is suing Mr Trump and his former long-time personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and seeking to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement that she signed days before the 2016 presidential election.


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The owners of a dilapidated landmark hotel in Philadelphia say they might have found a buyer for the prime piece of commercial real estate. City officials hope the sale happens, but if it doesn't, the city might have to take action, which could include using its power of eminent domain, which usually gets private property rights advocates up in arms.
The hotel, in the area of Broad Street and Ridge Avenue, has sat vacant since 1999, attracting vandals who smashed windows and painted graffiti on it. Vagrants moved in until the city sealed off the building.
Built in 1894, the 10-story structure was one of the city's first tall buildings. Now, it's nothing more than an eyesore in an area that is undergoing a rebirth with new apartments and offices, city officials said. The mayor has promised the business community the city will see to it that action is taken on the building.
City officials have placed pressure on the owners to sell it to someone who can develop it. Current owners bought the building and three adjoining acres in 2006 in hopes of turning the hotel into apartments and building more units on the vacant land. After paying $10 million for the property, the owners could not get the needed financing during the economic downturn to complete the project.
The owners defaulted on a loan and are delinquent in their property taxes by more than $700,000.
One of the owners said other groups have been interested in renovating the building, but a deal never materialized. Now a Philadelphia developer wants to buy it, the owner said.
If the sale doesn't go through, city officials have signaled that they will not allow the building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, to linger much longer. The city could force a shift in ownership through eminent domain or by listing it for sale because of the back taxes, one city official said.
Source: The Inquirer, "Blighted beauty may get a makeover," Jennifer Lin, Feb. 12, 2012


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- Structural racism, including ongoing residential segregation and punitive drug laws, worsen health and fuel inequalities in the USA
- The richest 1% of Americans now live 10-15 years longer than the poorest 1%, and health inequalities are growing
- The authors call for reform of the ACA, towards a single-payer system, to address growing health inequalities
Structural racism, mass incarceration, and the widening income gap between rich and poor all feed growing health inequalities in the USA, which the health care system -- by its very design and financing - only helps exacerbate, according to a new five paper Series published in The Lancet.
Published as the new administration approaches its first 100 days in office, the Series highlights the urgent need for broad initiatives to address racism and inequality, as well as health reform that move towards a single-payer system, to address growing health inequalities in the USA, and prevent a 21st century health-poverty trap.
Writing in The Lancet, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, says: "Health care is not a commodity. It is a human right. The goal of a health-care system should be to keep people well, not to make stockholders rich. The USA has the most expensive, bureaucratic, wasteful, and ineffective healthcare system in the world. Medicare-for-all would change that by eliminating private health insurers' profits and overhead costs, and much of the paperwork they inflict on hospitals and doctors, saving hundreds of billions in medical costs."
Income inequality
The survival gap between the richest and poorest Americans is widening, with low-income Americans being left further behind. Since 2001, the poorest 5% of Americans have experienced no gains in survival, while middle and high income Americans have seen their life expectancy increase by 2 years. Today, the richest 1% of Americans live 10-15 years longer than the poorest 1%.
The authors identify two trends during 2001-2014: 1) poverty deepened and 2) poverty became an increasingly important risk factor for poor health. Based on current trends, the authors predict that the gap in life expectancy between the poorest 20% and wealthiest 20% of Americans will increase by nearly a decade in a single generation - from 77 and 82 for the poorest and wealthiest Americans born in 1930, to 76 and 89 for those born in 1960.
Dr Jacob Bor, Boston University School of Public Health, says: "We are witnessing a slow-moving disaster unfolding for the health of lower-income Americans who have spent their working lives in a period of rising income inequalities. Rising economic insecurity among poor and middle class Americans has led to the persistence of smoking and the rise of obesity and opioid epidemics, with adverse consequences for health and life expectancy. At the same time, paying for health care in the USA today can bankrupt households and impoverish families. The growing link between income and health in the USA has potential to create a health-poverty trap." [1]
The Affordable Care Act
While the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has reduced the number of Americans without health insurance from 48.6 million in 2010 to 28.6 million in 2015, the high cost of co-payments, deductibles and co-insurance still drive many households into debt, even bankruptcy.
The ACA's Medicaid expansion targeted the poorest Americans, but 19 states - mostly southern states with large minority populations and poor records of health care access - chose to opt out. Even if the ACA were not altered or repealed, an estimated 28 million people would remain uninsured in 2024. Health care access inequalities among income groups are stark - in 2015, 25.2% of poor Americans were uninsured, compared to 7.6% of non-poor Americans.
Dr David Himmelstein, City University of New York, co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program and lead author of the Series says: "Today, 43 million people in the USA are poor, and although the ACA has nearly halved the number of people without insurance, 29 million Americans, many of them poor or near-poor, remain uninsured. Health inequalities are more entrenched than ever, and rather than address them, the US health care system often exacerbates them. In order to tackle health inequalities in the US, it is essential that we move towards a non-market financing system that treats health care as a human right." [1]
Dr Adam Gaffney, Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School, says: "Republican proposals focus on market based reforms that would slash federal funding for Medicaid, replace the ACA's subsidies with regressive tax credits, and further privatise Medicare. Rather than improve the health inequalities that remain a grave problem even in the era of the Affordable Care Act, this approach would only make things worse. Real reform is now needed to take us towards a universal single-payer system." [1]
Structural racism
Significant health disparities exist among racial groups. For instance, the rate of infant mortality is twice as high for black Americans compared to white Americans. And, in 2013, median family wealth for the non-Hispanic white population was 10 times that of Hispanics and more than 12 times that of African-Americans.
Despite the passage of civil rights laws in the 1960s, structural racism in public and private policy - from discrimination in hiring decisions and housing to tough sentencing laws for drugs - contributes to health inequalities. Residential segregation relegates many black Americans to neighbourhoods with over-priced, substandard housing, often near busy roads and other sources of air pollution (such as factories, toxic sites). Residents experience under-funded public schools, few employment opportunities, increased rates of crime, and (as in the case of the Flint lead water contamination crisis) can suffer government neglect of public health issues.
"Racial and ethnic health disparities in the United States are well documented, but structural racism is rarely discussed as a root cause," says Dr Mary T. Bassett, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. "Structural racism refers to all the ways in which systems foster inequitable outcomes, whether in housing, education, employment, media, health care or the criminal justice system. All have profound effects on health. If we don't address structural racism, health inequities will persist." [1]
The authors point to several potential solutions to improve health equity by targeting structural racism, including community programmes to address housing and access to health care; policy reform to reduce sentencing laws and imprisonment; and training the next generation of health professionals.
Mass incarceration
The US has the highest incarceration rate of any country at 743 per 100000 people in 2005. Among other developed countries, its closest competitor is New Zealand at 173. Every step of the criminal justice system - from arrest to re-entry - influences health, and has wide repercussions for families and communities. Compared with non-incarcerated individuals, prisoners and ex-prisoners have higher rates of HIV, hepatitis C, hypertension, diabetes, substance use and mental health disorders. Moreover, the authors' analysis shows that people on probation and parole have particularly high mortality.
Research suggests that if incarceration had remained at its mid-1980s level, US life expectancy would have increased by an additional 51.1% and infant mortality would have fallen by an additional 39.6%. The annual rate of incarceration for black men is 3.8-10.5 times higher than for white men.
Dr Christopher Wildeman, Cornell University, Ithaca, says: "Soaring incarceration since the 1970s has profoundly affected health in the USA and, because of the uneven distribution of incarceration, the criminal justice system further contributes to racial health inequalities. Overcrowding, high costs and aggressive policing have led to increasing recognition that mass incarceration has failed. But, sweeping reforms are needed to reduce incarceration of technical parole violators, expand community corrections for low-level property and drug crimes, and medical paroles for elderly or sick inmates, in addition to expanded access to health care for individuals affected by the criminal justice system." [1]
KEY DATA: health inequalities in the USA
- The US is one of the most unequal countries in the OECD - only Chile, Turkey and Mexico are more unequal.
- The life expectancy gap between rich and poor is among the highest in developed countries. The richest 1% of Americans live 10-15 years longer than the poorest 1%.
- The life expectancy gap has increased in recent decades, with poverty an increasingly strong risk factor for early death.
- Many people forgo medical care altogether: 39% of low income Americans reported not seeing a doctor because of costs, compared to 7% in Canada and 1% in the UK.
- The US health care system is the most expensive of any other country, yet people with serious illness commonly face financial hardship - 1 in 10 families with medical bill problems have declared bankruptcy.
- The poorest fifth of American spend 6% of their income on private insurance - nearly twice what the wealthiest fifth pay at 3.2%
- The ACA significantly reduced the number of people who are uninsured - from 48.6 million in 2010, to 28.6 million in 2015, mostly through Medicaid expansions which Congress recently threatened to roll back.
- Before the 2014 implementation of the ACA, in 2012 43% of adults avoided needed care and 41% had medical bill difficulties, down to 36% and 35% in 2014.
- In 2015, inequalities remain: 25.2% of poor Americans are uninsured, compared to 7.6% of non-poor Americans; 27.7% for Hispanics, 14.4% for non-Hispanic blacks and 8.7% for non-Hispanic whites.
- US life expectancy would have increased 51·1% more and infant mortality would have fallen 39·6% more from 1983 to 2005 if incarceration had remained at its mid-1980s level.
[1] Quotes direct from authors and cannot be found in the text of the articles.
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Studio la Città's new series of exhibitions opens with the show Il Marmo (Marble), an exhibition devoted to design. It is organised together with the Testi Group Srl, one of the major groups in the sector of processing natural stone, and will be held concurrently with Marmomac, the world's leading fair for the stone industry.
The show, which will be open to the public from 27 September, will create a dialogue between a series of prestigious objects, conceived by internationally famous designers and architects, together with the unusual hanging of the works on paper underway at Studio la Città until 25 October 2018.
For this occasion, the German artist Herbert Hamak has been asked to make a new work for outside the gallery, using resin in his typical ultramarine blue colour, together with marble elements, the wastage left over from the Testi Group's production.


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New 2019 laws address pets, courts and cops
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Everything from animals sold at pet stores to breathalyzers required for convicted drunk drivers and cutbacks on plastic straws will be affected by new California laws that took effect today.
Here are a few of the legal changes:
— AB 485 prohibits the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits in pet stores and requires that these animals be obtained from animal shelters or rescue groups.
— SB 439 establishes 12 years as the minimum age for prosecution in juvenile court, unless a minor younger than 12 has committed murder or rape.
— SB 1391 eliminates the ability to try a defendant under the age of 16 as an adult, thereby sending them to prison instead of a juvenile detention facility.
— AB 748 requires images of body cameras on police officers, and any other audio recording acquired by a police agency, to be disclosed to the public within 45 days after a police shooting or excessive force causes death or injury to a person.
— AB 3129 prohibits anyone convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence offense after Jan. 1, 2019 from possessing a firearm for the rest of their lives.
— AB 2103 requires gun owners with a concealed carry license to undergo a minimum of eight hours of training, and demonstrate proficiency and safety on the shooting range.
— SB 1046 requires Californians found guilty of driving under the influence to temporarily install breathalyzers in their vehicles to get their driver's licenses back.
— AB 1976 requires employers to make reasonable efforts to provide a room or place for breastfeeding that is not a bathroom.
— AB 1884 limits restaurants statewide to giving out single-use straws only upon request of customers. It applies to full-service dining establishments but exempts fast-food restaurants. Restaurants violating the law could be fined $25 daily for violations, or a maximum of $300 per year.
— AB 626 allows cities and counties to authorize and regulate the sale of homemade foods.