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At Bryn Mawr Film Institute, we believe that cinema can serve many functions, including raising awareness, generating empathy, and inspiring change. We’ll continue to update this page with additional resources as they become available, with the hope of helping to spark the conversations necessary to engage with these critical issues. At BMFI, we know that we have work to do if we are going to be part of the solution. We can start by highlighting some voices that need to be heard. It’s not the only thing we can do, and these resources are not exhaustive, but they are places to start.
BMFI has compiled a list of films worth seeing that discuss racism and injustice in Black communities. This list is not exhaustive, but it is a place to start. If you would like to use film as a tool for talking about racism and injustice with your children or students, you can find age-based reviews for these and other films at CommonSenseMedia.org.
NOTHING BUT A MAN
1964 · d. Michael Roemer
A lonely, hard-working railroad hand falls in love with a school-teacher daughter of a preacher in this social-realist drama about which filmmaker Jonathan Demme said: “Nothing But a Man changed my life. By that I mean this beautiful film opened my head up, introduced me in a shattering way to the notion of race . . . thus birthing a whole new world-view for me.”
BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS
1983 · d. Billy Woodbury
Written and photographed by Killer of Sheep writer/director Charles Burnett, this understated drama about a struggling family in the Watts section of Los Angeles shares a neorealist influence with its fellow offerings from the L.A. Rebellion film movement.
DO THE RIGHT THING
1989 · d. Spike Lee
Spike Lee’s seminal film about racial tensions and police brutality in Brooklyn on the hottest day of the summer is as relevant today as it was over 30 years ago, when Roger Ebert wrote that it came “closer to reflecting the current state of race relations in America than any other movie of our time.” After you watch the film, check out a recent conversation between Lee and comic W. Kamau Bell about Do the Right Thing on the AFI’s YouTube channel.
BOYZ N THE HOOD
1991 · d. John Singleton
John Singleton’s powerful debut feature, chronicling the struggles of four boys growing into young men in South Central Los Angeles, made the writer/director the first African American—and the youngest person—nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.
1992 · d. Spike Lee
This epic biopic of the iconic Black leader was co-written and directed by Spike Lee at the height of his powers and stars Denzel Washington, who earned the first of his six Best Actor Oscar nominations for his truly incendiary performance.
1992 · d. Marlon Riggs
This Peabody Award-winning documentary, narrated by Ruby Dee, examines 40 years of depictions of African Americans on prime-time television. It questions the medium’s stereotypical depictions and calls out the racial myths networks promulgated.
1997 · d. John Singleton
This historical drama depicts the 1923 massacre in the eponymous, predominantly Black, Florida town. It stars Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, and Esther Rolle, and Minnie Lee Langley, a survivor of the attack, and Arnett Doctor, the son of a survivor, consulted on the production.
THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967 – 1975
2011 · d. Göran Olsson
Using extensive archival footage, this documentary explores the Black Power movement that arose in the aftermath of the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.
THE LOVING STORY
2011 · d. Nancy Buirski
This Peabody Award-winning documentary chronicles the relationship between Richard and Mildred Loving, which led to the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that bans on interracial marriage are unconstitutional. The film also served as the basis for the 2016 drama, Loving, starring Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga.
THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE
2012 · d. Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
Coerced into confessing to, and convicted of, a brutal assault, the Harlem teens known as the Central Park Five served years in prison before new evidence proved their innocence. This gripping documentary chronicles a shocking miscarriage of justice and the conditions that created it.
LET THE FIRE BURN
2013 · d. Jason Osder
On May 13, 1985, an extended stand-off between the Philadelphia police and radical activist organization MOVE came to a head when the city dropped two military-grade bombs on the group’s West Philadelphia rowhouse. This gripping film traces the years of clashes, political conflict, and racial tension that led to one of the darkest days in Philadelphia’s history.
2013 · d. Ryan Coogler
Writer/director Ryan Coogler (Creed, Black Panther) made his feature debut with this searing drama based on the 2009 shooting death of Oscar Grant by a transit police officer. It won the top prize at Sundance and the award for best first film at Cannes.
DEAR WHITE PEOPLE
2014 · d. Justin Simien
When a biracial student’s controversial radio show kicks up a storm of controversy at her liberal arts college, the school’s all-white newspaper staff taps African American student Lionel as a Black culture expert and recruits him to report on the issue. Tessa Thompson stars in this hilarious and biting satire of racial politics in 21st-century America.
2014 · d. Ava DuVernay
This dramatization of the 1965 voting-rights marches from Selma to Montgomery stars David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King, Jr., and Common as James Bevel, the activist who initiated the protests. A.O. Scott wrote of the film: “It will call forth tears of grief, anger, gratitude and hope. And like those pilgrims on the road to Montgomery, it does not rest.”
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON
2015 · d. F. Gary Gray
This raucous biopic tells the story of legendary rap group NWA, whose explosive music gave voice to frustration about systematic racism and helped popularize hip-hop culture around the world.
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
2016 · d. Raoul Peck
Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, this Academy Award-nominated documentary uses writer James Baldwin’s own words to envision his unfinished book Remember This House, a radical narration about race in America.
2016 · d. Ava DuVernay
Ava DuVernay’s Oscar-nominated exploration of the deep-rooted racial inequalities in America’s prison system is available to stream for free on Netflix’s YouTube channel.
2017 · d. Yance Ford
In 1992, an African American man named William Ford is shot and killed by a white man during an argument. In this documentary, Ford’s sibling, Yance, explores his brother’s life, and the murder trial that allowed his killer to go free.
2017 · d. Sabaah Folayan, Damon Davis
When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by the police, it marks a breaking point for the people of Ferguson, Missouri. Grief, racial tensions, and renewed anger bring residents together to hold vigil and protest, while the National Guard descends to quell the unrest. Shot on the ground during the Ferguson protests, Whose Streets? is a searing look at race and policing in America.
2017 · d. Dee Rees
In 1940s Mississippi, the lives of a white family of farm-owners and a Black family working as sharecroppers become intertwined.
CRIME + PUNISHMENT
2018 · d. Stephen T. Maing
Filmed over four years, this documentary follows a group of twelve New York City Police officers who risk everything to bring a class action lawsuit against their department, exposing the existence of illegal arrest quotas and their disproportionate impact on minority neighborhoods.
THE HATE U GIVE
2018 · d. George Tillman Jr.
Attending an affluent prep school by day, returning to her working-class Black neighborhood by night, teenaged Starr feels caught between two worlds. After witnessing the fatal shooting of an old friend by a police officer, she must find her own voice to advocate for justice.
WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD’S ON FIRE?
2018 · d. Roberto Minervini
Filmed amid of a string of brutal killings of Black men during the summer of 2017, this documentary paints a raw, intimate portrait of activists and community leaders in the American South, struggling for survival and organizing to fight systemic racism.
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
2018 · d. Barry Jenkins
This romantic drama from the Oscar-winning director/co-writer of Moonlight is based on James Baldwin’s 1974 novel. It tells the story of a young woman who struggles to exonerate the father of her unborn child, who’s been wrongly arrested on rape charges. Regina King (director of One Night in Miami . . .) won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film.
SORRY TO BOTHER YOU
2018 · d. Boots Riley
This dark comedy stars LaKeith Stanfield (Oscar-nominated for Judas and the Black Messiah) as a uniquely gifted telemarketer who finds himself embroiled in a corporate conspiracy. Taking satirical aim at racism and capitalism, this unconventional film was described by critics as “deliriously creative and ambitious to a fault,” and admired for its “something-to-prove chutzpah.”
TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM
2019 · d. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison recounts her life and career in this documentary, tracing a remarkable literary journey entwined with history, race, and American identity.
2019 · d. Destin Daniel Cretton
This legal drama is based on the memoir of attorney Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan), who struggles to overturn the wrongful and racially motivated murder conviction of Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx) and starts the Equal Justice Initiative.
WATCHMEN (limited series)
2019 · Created by Damon Lindelof
This powerful reimagining of the landmark graphic novel uses the horrific 1921 Tulsa race massacre, in which white Oklahomans killed and wounded hundreds of African Americans in the vital and prosperous Greenwood section of the city, as the flashpoint for a nuanced and inventive decades-long story about race, class, and politics in a fictionalized America that, in some ways, seems eerily familiar.
WHEN THEY SEE US
2019 · Created by Ava DuVernay
Director Ava DuVernay’s four-part series dramatizes the true story of the Central Park Five, a group of Black teenagers falsely accused and convicted of a violent attack.
The annual BlackStar Film Festival is a rich and valuable presence in the Philadelphia area’s cinema culture, celebrating work by Black, Brown, and Indigenous people from around the world. Learn more about the festival and upcoming programs on the BlackStar website.
Established in 1993, the African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) showcases new works by established and emerging artists, telling socially relevant and meaningful stories about people of color all over the world. Visit their website to learn more.
Ava DuVernay’s production company has launched a new online learning initiative, ARRAY 101, which provides free learning guides as tools for furthering social justice. The first program is a supplement to DuVernay’s Netflix series, When They See Us. Lessons, tools, and activities are available for each episode, and designed for anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of social justice and advocacy, grade 9 and above.


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China has spent five years preparing to launch the digital yuan, which might happen in a matter of months. But bankers and financial industry professionals surveyed at an industry conference in October still believe the United States will be the first to create a global digital currency.
Attendees at the ACAMS anti-money laundering (AML) and financial crime conference were asked by blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis who they thought would be the first to launch a stablecoin-like digital currency intended to be used beyond one country’s borders.
The top answer was the U.S., with more than 37% saying it was most likely to launch the first worldwide digital currency in the next five to 10 years.
This “makes sense considering that the U.S. dollar is the world reserve currency,” Chainalysis noted in a November 6 blog post.
Nearly 30% said the world’s first virtual currency would not be launched by a government at all. Instead, they said a decentralized currency was most likely to be first out of the gate.
China came third, with about 21% of the vote. This despite the fact that it is clearly far ahead in the race to launch a viable—sorry, Venezuela—central bank digital currency.
As for Facebook, its Libra proposal may have forced the conversation from regulators’ offices into the legislative halls of power, but faith in the stablecoin is apparently fading in the financial community. Just 5.8% of the 350 financial industry professionals surveyed believe it will come first. That puts the newly launched Libra Association in a tie with Switzerland.
“Our belief in the potential of cryptocurrency was echoed by the number of finance professionals who… envision a global digital currency in the near future,” said Jonathan Levin, co-founder and chief strategy officer of Chainalysis, in a statement.
China yuan-ts control
Whether a digital yuan can make the jump from a national currency to a global one is an open question. But it’s one China would seem likely to try. For one thing, it would fit in with the country’s massive “belt and road” initiative, which is investing billion in infrastructure projects in the developing world. These are more about projecting power and influence than about a return on investment.
For another, the country’s powerful president, Xi Jinping, just declared blockchain technology a national priority. And while unofficial government spokespersons made clear that Xi wasn’t talking about Bitcoin, a government planning body quietly killed a proposal to ban cryptocurrency mining on November 6, according to The Block.
But mostly, a representative of the country’s central bank came very close to flat out saying that a global currency is the Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP) project’s goal at a Hong Kong conference on November 6, according to Reuters.
The country is taking “a horse race approach” to its digital currency development, which will reportedly rely heavily on blockchain, said Mu Changchun, head of the People’s Bank of China’s (PBoC) digital currency research institute.
“The front runner will take the whole market,” Mu said. “[W]ho is more efficient, who can provide a better service to the public—they can survive in the future.”
He also confirmed reports that the digital yuan will be distributed to major banks and other institutions—such as tech giants like Alibaba (which runs digital payment system Alipay) and Tencent (WePay). The digital currency will then distribute them to users.
Mu also reiterated the regime’s opposition to Facebook’s Libra stablecoin, calling it “a threat to the country’s currency sovereignty.” He added that all stablecoins would have to abide by China’s foreign exchange rules.
No private stablecoins
Libra is getting the cold shoulder from all directions, as was made clear when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was dragged over the coals (mostly by Democrats) at six-hour hearing of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on October 23.
Then, on November 4, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) said that stablecoins—particularly global ones— “can include features that are typical of regulated securities.” This would mean following disclosure and registration rules that would be as deadly to stablecoins as being regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission has proved to cryptocurrencies in the U.S.
But it is in Europe where the strongest opposition is growing. A draft text of a European Union proposal published on November 6 calls for finance ministers follow a G20 recommendation and forbid global stablecoins until regulations are in place. Without explicitly mentioning Libra, the draft also calls for banning projects that are seen as a threat to the financial system.

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- In 1963 none of The Beatles considered themselves to be great musicians
- The band was not expected to be so successful
- George Harrison said The Beatles didn’t play for money. But the money was good.
A year after The Beatles began their rise to fame in the United Kingdom, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr weren’t quite confident in their individual abilities as musicians. but they Were There is confidence in how the group sounded as a whole. In a 1963 segment for the BBC program public ear, The band members spoke about their music and how successful they were at the time.
The Beatles Weren’t Worried About Being the Best Musician in 1963
While the Beatles would go down in history as one of the most famous bands, the members did not consider themselves to be wildly talented musicians when it came to playing their individual instruments.
“I just don’t have the patience to practice to be a perfect guitarist, you know,” Lennon said, as recorded in the book. George Harrison on George Harrison. “I’m more interested in combining my voice and guitar, and writing songs than I am, into instrumental. So I hardly go a day without playing, whether I’m doing perfect or not, you know. .
The Beatles: Why George Harrison deemed the Bee Gees ‘greedy’
McCartney pointed out that “George is one of us who is more interested in the instrument” and that “the other three of us are more interested in the sound of the group.” But Harrison said he didn’t even practice.
“To be a guitarist, you must practice a few hours a day,” he said. “But, I mean, I don’t do that.”
“happening Anything‘You should be practicing for a few hours a day,’” shouted at the star.
“Well, you know, I mean, the thing is, . . individually we’re all . . . I think we’re all crummy musicians, actually, Harrison said.
Paul McCartney on the band’s early success
Even though the Beatles didn’t think of themselves as the best musicians, by 1963, they were making a splash in the United Kingdom. And international superstardom was about to come. In an interview for a BBC documentary a few months ago, the boys went around and guessed how long the band would last. Lennon said they would be lucky for three months. Harrison estimated “at least another four.”
“It wasn’t so much that we foresaw a major breakthrough,” McCartney said. public ear. “We never thought that anything particularly bad would happen to us. We never felt . . . never sat at a particular point at all and, worried about anything. We’ve always thought that ever Nothing will ever happen.
The Beatles were wrongly cited for how much they were earning
In 1963, there was a misunderstanding about how much the Beatles were earning.
“We have been quoted incorrectly,” Harrison said. “People say we earn seven thousand a week, and all that.
Although perhaps not seven thousand a week, Harrison admitted that he and his bandmates “probably earn quite a bit.” It was difficult to keep track of exactly how much because “we don’t really see it because record royalties, things like that, take months to come.”
The Beatles: Why were the Supremes ‘disappointed’ when they met?
At the end of the day, the Beatles weren’t playing for money. But the money certainly helped him keep playing.
“The thing is, indirectly, we are and we’re not doing it for the money, really, because don’t forget, we played for about three or four years or maybe even longer than that,” he said. Harrison said. “Well, we don’t live at that. If we were doing it for the money, we wouldn’t have survived all those years. But money helps, let’s face it.”


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Replenishment solution for the Electroless Nickel kit, part C.
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Foodfighters : Game Review
Finally we can play with our food. Great game that is fun for kids and strategic enough for adults to enjoy playing it with them.

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New for 2022, Peterborough Celebrates is a three-day community festival that brings together and celebrates everything that makes Peterborough great. Launching over the weekend of 13-15 May, it’s set to kickstart the summer season in style!
The Peterborough Celebrates Festival is a new free-to-attend, family-focused, community-led festival at Ferry Meadows. It’s a chance to celebrate, showcase, and bring together everything that is great about the city. It will also serve as an opportunity to thank the many people who have helped us all get through the last couple of extremely challenging years.
Matthew Bradbury, Chief Executive of Nene Park Trust, explains: ‘We wanted to give Peterborough something to celebrate and to say thank you to those people that have been just brilliant over the past few years – whether they’re community organisations, the care sector, the council, teachers and all the other key workers. There was a recognition that we need to celebrate all that’s great about our city.’
Peterborough Celebrates is being funded through a series of generous grants – from organisations such as the City Council, public funding through the Arts Council, the National Lottery Communities Fund and through corporate sponsorship, with additional funding from Nene Park Trust itself.
‘What we are planning to end up with is a fantastic cultural event for the city that very much has a community-focused theme to it. So, as well as a stage with music and performances there will be a world foods tent, which will host diverse communities from across the city producing their own food. That means locally based food, from local suppliers and local businesses.
‘Then there is the huge range of communities coming in to offer different activities and sports. We’ve even been looking at mass participation activity. This is going to be a really family-orientated, accessible, inclusive and diverse celebration – everything that Peterborough is and should be over one long weekend.’
Simon Hollingworth is the festival’s Creative Producer and offers a taste of what else we can expect: ‘The idea is to have a real mix of performance styles, moments, types of events, surprises – all sorts. Our hope is that when people get there, they get what they’ve come for and a whole lot more besides. We want to surprise them with all kinds of performances and creative things they can do.
‘The stage will be the focal point and will host a combination of local professional and amateur acts, community and school choirs, drummers, folk musicians – just a truly diverse range of groups – as well as a great end to Saturday night that will get you up on your feet. Then there’s the big top, which will have some contemporary circus shows, as well as lots of other exciting performances. We hope to have some spoken word, as well as local musicians of all shapes and sizes.
‘Festivalgoers can expect plenty of street performance-style acts right across the site, while the creative area is going to offer activities people can take part in, such as kite-making and portraits. There’ll be an Anti Gravity Box, a marvellous mechanical musical machine that you can play – just a whole range of slightly unusual, unexpected, but great fun things to do and engage with. The vibe – the feeling people should experience – is just this constant range of things going on.’
The Peterborough community is already stepping up to support this fledgling festival. Railworld is providing free parking, while Nene Valley Railway will be putting on a shuttle service to bring people from the city centre into Ferry Meadows. Lynch Wood Business Park is likely to offer parking on
a donation basis, while partners are being sought to provide additional accessible and sustainable transport to Ferry Meadows.
‘We are working with amazing partners like Peterborough College, many of the local schools, and various voluntary organisations,’ says Matthew. ‘What’s really impressed me is the willingness of partners to get involved from across the city and wider region. There’s a huge amount of goodwill being built up through the process and we’re now involved with communities and organisations we’ve never had a relationship with before. The aim of the festival isn’t to make a profit but to hold a really exciting event for the city that’s grounded in Peterborough and the people and organisations that make it special.’
‘The planning is relentless,’ adds Simon ‘but in a really positive way! Peterborough has incredible diversity as well as some amazingly high-quality performance acts. We’ve got a lot to deliver but I’m confident we can do it. The response so far has been just brilliant, and I think if the weather plays ball, we will have a really lovely weekend that will be something very special for the city.
‘Peterborough is an extraordinary place with so much going on and a rich vein of culture that is only going to get stronger in the months and years to come. Hopefully this event can play a small part in fanning the flames of that creativity.’
The Peterborough Celebrates Festival could be the first of many. ‘There’s an aspiration for this to become if not every year, then every other year,’ continues Simon. ‘We will learn from it and feed that into future events. We may not get everything perfect, but our motivation is absolutely to reach out to everybody to celebrate the city, and we’ll do our level best to make that happen.’
‘This is by the city for the city,’ adds Matthew. ‘The festival should be very much a celebration of who we are and what we do here in Peterborough.’
There’s still time for community organisations, groups and businesses to come forward if they feel they can support the event through exhibiting, sponsoring, or volunteering. Fancy being a festival maker? Volunteer to make Peterborough Celebrates extra special!
PETERBOROUGH CELEBRATES FESTIVAL
Nene Park, Fri 13 – Sun 15 May
Completely FREE to attend!
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FESTIVAL, PLEASE VISIT PETERBOROUGHCELEBRATESFESTIVAL.CO.UK


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Disney Traditions: Mickey “Jolly Ol St. Mick”
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Leave it to Jim Shore to bring Disney’s magic to a whole new level. His woodwork style combined with the characters from Disney brings us these Disney Traditions.
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My wife, child, and I had dinner last night at Bricco, on W. 56th, and I'm just writing in to recommend it. It's a moderately casual (we weren't the only ones wearing jeans) and moderately expensive (entrees in the mid-teens) place. The food was good, the staff was attentive and very pleasant, even though we were the only ones in the place with a kid.
I had a grilled octopus appetizer, which was over mesclun with a vinaigrette, and Linguini Puttanesca, which was very good, with a proper balance of strong flavors. There was also a very good artichoke hearts appetizer, and my wife was quite pleased with the special fish (I think it was sea bass).

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For the first one, I simply inked a sentiment from Milliner Misses, "Good Friends are Always in Fashion" in Paris Dusk Memento - what else would you use for a fashion-themed piece, right? The paper was so yummy, it didn't really need anything else! I matted the designer paper panel and the sentiment stamped onto some subtle text designer paper, in navy cardstock.
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Just for Fun - Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey - Distressed / Vintage
Southern Girls - Things Begin with F (Fashion)
Hope you all have a very stylish Saturday!

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We ran across the gravel and into the graveyard, leaping over the rounded headstones in a wild dash to the corner by the woods. Lindsey, drunk and high, stumbled into the briars that shielded the trees from knife-bearing engravers like us.
After we settled into a circle, Adam unrolled the flimsy cigarette wrapper and took out the joint. Legs tucked under him, balanced on one hip, he dug the lighter out of his pocket. The smoke popped and snapped as he inhaled, a spark disappearing above him. I took a big hit and laid my head in the middle of the circle.
There she was, peeping out from behind the black clouds like a dancer's knees beneath her skirt. My eyelids fell. The cicadas were climbing out. I lay there, my body too alive to move, listening to their spiked legs rake against the bark at the base of the tree.
A hand palmed my belly. My ribs rose in staccato under the perspired warmth. "What do you think?" Jenny asked, her black hair shining white under the moon. "Mmm, about what?" I mumbled. "Driving to the club. Do you want to go or not?"
"I'm cool. Just pick me up later, okay?"
"Whatever you want, chicky. Come on boys. She's staying."
Feet shuffled. Mike Ness's croon faded away with the old chipped blue escort. Belly still warm from her touch, I thought about Jenny's room with the little pink flowered wallpaper, the vase of dead roses and moldy water sitting on her desk for at least the three years I'd known her. She was so naive, wanting to be what she wasn't. Rich and thick, hurt and injured. She had a good life, a good family, but wanted to come from destruction.
"Taste?" Adam asked, extending the bottle.
"I can't move," I grinned.
"Open up." He poured it into my mouth, a warm trickle ran down my neck. I tried not to gag from laughing, letting it slowly fill my mouth before swallowing the two shots.
"Why didn't you go with them?" I asked. He pushed me over onto my belly, laid down next to me.
"Why didn't you?" Blade of grass between his thumbs, whistling at the night creatures.
"Didn't need to." I plucked the spear of grass from his fingers and gave it a toss.
That closeness with no expectations. There isn't a word to describe it. The occasional innocent brush of skin on skin that we fear, hide from as adults but crave as teenagers. Locking eyes and not turning away. Heart pounding in your head knowing you won't dare move and ruin the moment. It isn't sex. It isn't love. It's intimacy. It's coming as close as you can to another living being with no expectations.

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Real Madrid have officially sacked Julen Lopetegui today, as it has been expected for some time, but especially after the 5-1 drubbing they received from Barcelona in the weekend’s El Clasico.
Lopetegui lasted just 14 games after his controversial appointment in the summer.
14 - Since 1929, the only Real Madrid manager to manage fewer games in all competitions than Julen Lopetegui (14) was Jose Antonio Camacho in 2004 (6). Sacked. pic.twitter.com/tlxXiD2BLW— OptaJose (@OptaJose) October 29, 2018
Former Real Madrid player and B-team head coach
Zinedine Zidane Santiago Solari has been named interim manager. It’s unclear how long they expect him to stay in the job. Considering the lack of big name free agent managers on the market at the moment, Solari could be there through the end of the season at least.
For much of the past couple weeks, recently sacked Chelsea boss Antonio Conte looked set to be taking over, but most reports today agree that he is “no longer a candidate”. It would appear that player power (led by the likes of Sergio Ramos and Marcelo) has won out.
Other than reservations from the same players who reportedly had reservations about Conte in the summer, a few reports point to some specific playing style demands from Conte as being the sticking point, while reports in Italy claim that it’s Conte himself who’s having reservations about the move. Yet other reports, such as this one from Goal, point to Conte’s murky legal situation with regards to his Chelsea separation, where the two sides are still haggling over millions of pounds due in severance payments.
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POETRY A Truth amongst wine lovers, this card speaks volumes in very few words. Slightly textured, this tasteful letterpress card is in Bordeaux-inspired matte foil on premium, 100 lb card stock. Accent Opaque cover, and each A2 4.25×5.5 card comes with a classic paper bag envelope. Inspirational words and images, and a blank canvas inside. From the Wine Inspired collection.
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California has a reputation for having some of the nation's most aggressive rules on workplace safety, consumer protection and environmental quality. Now some impacted companies are fighting back, and officials in Sacramento worry that some of the state's landmark laws may be in danger.
California has a reputation for having some of the nation's most aggressive rules on workplace safety, consumer protection and environmental quality — regulations that force companies to make costly adjustments to the way they do business worldwide.
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It was a unique Council Meeting yesterday with a midday start … all part of a trial to give members of the public who are unable to make the usual 5pm start the opportunity to attend.
Council has endorsed the City’s Events Strategy and Signature Events Plan. The highlight of the calendar is the return of Australia Day Skyworks after a year off due to COVID.
We want Perth to be known as an events city and it makes sense to bring back Australia Day Skyworks … the biggest event of its kind in the county.
But as with everything this new Council does, we’re going to put our own stamp on the event making it different and ultimately better.
Our Events Plan though is more than just Skyworks. The City oversees more events than any other West Australian local government area and this strategy will see Perth become the events heart of WA.
Safe Night Space Shelter
Yesterday, Council has approved a two-month trial for a Safe Shelter at the Citiplace Community Centre commencing in July.
The Shelter will provide a safe warm place at night for men sleeping rough in the city during winter and compliment our facility for women that is due to open in East Perth next week.
While I have said many times, homelessness is a State Government issue, our City faces immediate challenges to meet the expectations of our businesses and residents while maintaining a duty of care to people experiencing homelessness.
This Safe Shelter will be a space where vulnerable people can go in winter to rest in a safe, warm environment at night. It will not be an alternative to accommodation services but rather a short-term crisis intervention.
It’s another example of real action from the City of Perth for the most vulnerable in our community.
Council endorsed my proposal to allocate 90 free car parking bays for WA Police who are working night shifts in our City.
Police Commissioner Chris Dawson personally raised this with me, and as a Council we are happy to support this trial.
We want a larger, highly visible permanent police presence in our City at all times and this initiative will make it easier for the police to deliver on this and in the process make our City safer.
And while still on parking … great news for shoppers … Council has endorsed the continuation of the free parking trial for the first three hours on weekends at three of Perth’s most prominent inner-city carparks … so there’s no excuse not to see you in the city!
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Polymeric nanocarriers (PNs) are a promising alternative for delivering intracellularly antimicrobials of high toxicity, low solubility and low bioavailability to reduce dose and side effects and improve their therapeutic efficacy. They may prevent unwanted drug interactions and degradation thus decreasing the development of resistance in microorganisms.
Polymeric nanocarriers (PNs) have demonstrated to be a promising alternative to treat intracellular infections. They have outstanding performance in delivering antimicrobials intracellularly to reach an adequate dose level and improve their therapeutic efficacy. PNs offer opportunities for preventing unwanted drug interactions and degradation before reaching the target cell of tissue and thus decreasing the development of resistance in microorganisms. The use of PNs has the potential to reduce the dose and adverse side effects, providing better efficiency and effectiveness of therapeutic regimens, especially in drugs having high toxicity, low solubility in the physiological environment and low bioavailability.
In the frontier of different areas, nanochemistry uses a variety of methods to assemble materials at a nanometer-scale size, with new unique features in respect to the bulk material counterparts, including electronic, magnetic, optical, chemical, and mechanical properties. The interdisciplinarity of nanochemistry involves scientific and technical knowledge from diverse fields such as natural- and material-sciences, engineering, medicine, and pharmacy, among others. Although it is not an easy task, it is aimed at searching for new or existing (bio)materials, understanding their interactions and providing new functionalities towards new products and unexpected applications; these perspectives are encouraging and highly promising, up to the point of being able to generate a revolutionary knowledge of the world at the nanoscale. Within the health care field, nanochemistry offers outstanding opportunities for the design of diagnostic and therapeutic tools; for example, nanoconjugates and nanoplatforms assembled for the controlled and site-specific delivery of active principles with enhanced pharmacological properties against intracellular microorganisms.
Intracellular infectious diseases represent a major challenge in health care due to the low specificity of available treatments and the appearance of co-infections and drug-resistant pathogens, which limits the existing therapies . Recent advances in the field of nanotechnology offer alternatives to improve the biological activity of existing drugs, which is of great potential to help to overcome the drawbacks inherent in the treatment of intracellular infectious diseases. Encapsulation of drugs into nanoparticles (NP) represents a valuable option to improve drug solubility and biodistribution, prevent undesirable interactions and drug degradation before reaching the target tissues and cells and non-specific accumulation of drugs in other tissues. In this context, nanoencapsulated drugs hold the potential to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of therapeutic regimens, particularly in drugs with low solubility, short half-life, variable absorption, and undesirable interactions . Such improvement comes from the reduction of dose and drug frequencies in patients, which dramatically impact on decreasing both toxic and side effects that drugs usually have intrinsically.
In the last years, the encapsulation of drugs into synthetic and natural polymeric nanocarriers (PNs) has been one of the most explored systems for drug delivery. The resultant nanosystems enjoy high biocompatibility and biodegradability, being very reproducible and amenable for mass production. PNs are usually designed to be stable, have high drug loading capacity and the ability to transport one or more active ingredients (with similar or different physicochemical properties), or a combination of therapeutic agents in the same formulation. Such features are very appealing for delivering drugs by different routes and multipurpose clinical approaches . Size, surface charge and morphology of PNs can be tailored on demand to produce solid capsules/nanoparticles, amphiphilic structures (micelles), and hyperbranched structures (dendrimers), and vesicles , which sizes can usually be smaller than 100 nm but eventually reach hundreds of nm, depending upon the active ingredient or drug, the type and length of the polymer and the preparation method . Besides, the polymers can be chemically modified to encapsulate, adsorb, disperse, or bound the drug .
Along with modulation of size, form and physicochemical properties of the polymer, to functionalize PNs with specific ligands may actively drive drugs to site-specific for the efficient drug uptaking, thereby readily reaching therapeutic intracellular levels . Moreover, the PNs are extremely versatile in controlling the drug release profile. For instance, PNs can be tuned for the immediate or sustained delivery of drugs in a localized place either by natural diffusion of the drug or by osmotic, erosion or degradation processes. However, such mechanisms have evolved towards more refined ones based on physical, chemical, or biochemical external stimuli. In this context, triggered local changes in pH and temperature, in the number of reactive oxygen species (ROS), the reductive or oxidative states, and conformational changes in the polymer have been extensively used .
In recent years, a large number of drug delivery systems have been described in many medical areas, including intracellular infections . Indeed, the global infectious disease therapeutics market size was valued at $46.88 billion in 2018 and is estimated to reach $64.5 in 2023 . Yet, many challenges are still needed to face before many antimicrobial-based nanoformulations hit the market. They are related to the fact that pathogenic microorganisms are established mainly in phagocytic cells. Besides, nanocarriers injected intravenously are mostly recognized and cleaned either by phagocytic cells from the endothelial reticulum system (RES) or by the mononuclear phagocyte system (MPS) going “passively” to the macrophages, the reservoir of most intracellular pathogens . Another challenge of nanocarriers is the necessity to increase their drug loading capacity to administrate less amount of material but sufficient to reach a therapeutic concentration of drug at the site of infection that avoids toxicity and side effects . Other imminent necessities are related to the increase of stability and better control of the drug release profile. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to design antimicrobial-based nanocarriers, not only with high drug loading capacity and well-controlled release but site-directed to infected cells.
This review provides an overview of the use of different organic nanoparticle precursors and the main assembly methods to produce nanoplatforms of tuned physicochemical and morphological properties and surface chemistry for controlled release of antimicrobials in a target cell or tissue, in a physiological environment, depending on the active principle nature and administration route. It points out the remarkable versatility of these nanosystems and details the facing challenges, as well as the opportunities of the nanoplatforms to deliver antimicrobial drugs to efficiently and effectively treat intracellular infections. It finally mentions some nanotoxicology aspects essential to be considered and prospects in the topic that expect to stimulate advances and new opportunities in this promising field.
The efficient treatment of intracellular infections by antimicrobials is highly challenging. Challenges are related to the evasion of intracellular infectious agents by host phagocytic killing mechanisms, the establishment of intracellular survival machinery and the worldwide misuse of antibiotics, which are rising multidrug resistance of pathogens . Besides, many conventional antimicrobial-based treatments possess low cellular penetration and therefore, drug distribution at the subcellular level is not uniform; thus, the site of infection may remain without treatment. Once inside the cell, antimicrobials activity can be influenced by enzymatic inactivation, and changes in pH and chemical environment, as discussed in the next sections. It may result in a low intracellular concentration of antimicrobials, thus limiting the efficacy and efficiency of the therapy .
PNs are an alternative approach extensively studied to overcome some limitations of antimicrobial therapies by encapsulating drugs to improve their ability to enter the cells and release the cargo intracellularly . As detailed in the following sections, cellular internalization of PNs includes phagocytotic-mediated-, clathrin-mediated-, caveolae-mediated- and receptor-mediated-endocytosis or a mixture of them . After cellular uptake, it engineers the escape of endocytic vesicles formed to avoid lysosomal degradation for cytosolic delivery as well as the possible intracellular trafficking of PNs targeting subcellular compartments where determined intracellular pathogens reside. PNs protect antimicrobials of degradation, increase their solubility and bioavailability for their controlled and targeted release.
They may reduce drug dose and adverse side effects and provide better efficiency and efficacy of therapeutic regimens. By modulating properties and functionality of PNs they can specifically address the target tissue or cell depending on the route of administration (oral, parenteral, intranasal, topical, and intravenous, among others).
PNs are commonly built by self-assembly of biocompatible and biodegradable polymeric materials to minimize non-specific cytotoxicity on healthy tissues with convenient degradation kinetic profiles and complete metabolization of degradation products . A myriad of nanoplatforms with specific morphological characteristics (nanorods, nanoworms, nanodiscs, among others), size and surface chemistry, can be produced depending on a diversity of precursors, fabrication methods and antimicrobials’ chemical nature. Among them, nanocapsules and nanospheres are the most common. While nanocapsules of vesicular structure generally have the drug immersed in a liquid core surrounded by a solidified polymeric shell, nanospheres are a solid/mass polymeric matrix in which drug is encapsulated inside or over the structure surface. Active principles can be associated with nanostructures by physical encapsulation, covalent conjugation, adsorption, electrostatic- and van der Waal-interactions. Modulation of cellular uptake, extracellular transport and intracellular drug delivery is achieved by tuning size, shape, surface chemistry, antimicrobials’ intrinsic properties and microenvironments that PNs need to overstep. Targeting can be passive, activated by ligands attached to the outermost nanoparticle surface and drug release by natural ways or triggered by an external or internal stimulus .
In nanotherapeutics based on passive targeting, nanocarriers must reach the site of action by physiological or physicochemical changes that occur naturally in the body. They include differences in the pH among tissues (tumor microenvironment), defective vasculature enhanced permeability and retention effect (EPR), capture by the mononuclear phagocytic system and differences in the redox properties of the systems. In active targeting, the surface of nanocarriers is modified to generate affinity with bioreceptors or cellular biomarkers, tissues or organs through ligand-receptor interactions . Ligand-nanocarrier conjugation uses different coupling methodologies, including the formation of disulfide bonds, cross-linking, covalent coupling, ionic interactions, layer-by-layer assembly, among other strategies . Coating the nanocarriers with targeting ligands such as peptides, antibodies, lectins, sugars, folate- and mannose-receptors, among others, drive them to the site of action, thereby increasing the concentration of the active principle in the place and avoiding non-specific accumulations and the concomitant adverse effects .
Drugs are commonly released from nanocapsules rapidly or in a sustained fashion. It depends on the formulation. Drug release can be by diffusion through the porous or polymeric chains of the PNs or by osmotic-, erosion- or degradation-processes. However, natural release mechanisms are migrating towards more sophisticated ones based on physical, chemical or biochemical external stimuli. For example, the response of PNs can be triggered by stimulation with radiation, ultrasound, magnetic fields and temperature. The response can be modulated by changes in the pH and ionic strength, the cellular environment, or by enzymes . Among stimuli-responsive PNs, nanogel-based PNs establish three-dimensional polymeric networks at nanoscale level with high capacity to water uptake and cross-linking. While they change their volume by absorbing water, the surrounding environment influences their behavior, thus generating stimuli-responsive systems (pH, ionic strength, electric field or temperature). Nanogels are prepared by natural or synthetic polymers, including chitosan, methylcellulose, ethylcellulose, dextran, polysaccharide-based polymers, dextrin, poly(oleic acid-Y-N-isopropyl acrylamide), polyvinyl alcohol, alginate, hyaluronic acid, poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide), among others. Nanoencapsulation of active principles of different natures can be achieved either by nanohydrogels or by nano-organo-gels, having higher loading capacity, controlled release and biocompatibility regarding other types of nanoparticles.
Nanohydrogels encapsulate hydrophobic and hydrophilic compounds, where the cross-linked network functions as a matrix holding the absorbed liquid medium, which modulates the diffusion of the active principles . In contrast, nano-organo-gels have a micelle-like structure having hydrophobic regions (that hold oily compounds) attached to the hydrophilic regions at the center of the nanostructure. Nanogels performance can be modulated by changing their size and surface charge, or by incorporating targeting ligands, changes in cross-linking density or PEGylation strategies. Encapsulated active principles are released by hydrolytic degradation of the gel network. Recent studies have demonstrated the disruption of nanogels by using cross-linking agents sensible to temperature, light, differences in pH, use of disulfide bond linkages and cleavage by glutathione (GSH) enzyme. Therefore, the active principle can reach intracellular targets after nanogels are endocytosed, promoting endolysosome escape and improving intracellular therapy .
Attempts to fight intracellular infectious agents have given us important lessons, bringing out how urgently needs to be the efforts to develop alternative antimicrobial therapies that manage to increase antimicrobial efficacy and decrease microbial resistance as compared to conventional antimicrobial treatments. In this context, PNs have emerged as a nanoplatform having broad prospects for the development of highly promising site-directed antimicrobial therapies for the management of intracellular infections whose products on the market expect to be established shortly, as judged by the number of research publications and patents currently granted in the field.
Recent advances in nanoparticulate formulations, including hybrid strategies, nanoencapsulation of natural products, targeting ligand-based formulations and smart materials, have shown to allow tuning the bio-physicochemical properties of PNs for enhanced antimicrobial efficacy. However, there are still many challenges to face to improve PN-based antimicrobial technology towards scaling-up at the industrial level and reach the market. For example, PNs captured by the immune system hinders the site-specific drug delivery facilitated by highly selective targeting ligands leading to ineffective internalization. Nanosystems toxicity and nonspecific biodistribution limit in vivo practical applicability. Furthermore, proper standardization is not trivial both in vitro and in vivo, which limit systematic comparative studies. Therefore, it is necessary to continue researching to advance the limited understanding of the fundamental processes of PNs in and out of the human body, given the multiple interactions of antimicrobial nanotherapeutics among them, with the protein corona and with the vast diversity of organs, tissues and cells on their journey from administration to therapeutic targets.
A higher number of standardized production methods, validated studies of toxicity, bioequivalence, clinical studies, and the establishment of reference materials may impact on gaining a better knowledge of the antimicrobial nanotherapeutic systems and their associated pro and contra, in the way to creating products that ensure quality, safety and efficiency. The final balance of this process defines the scope of PN-encapsulated drugs, to quickly reach high acceptance in the market, thereby offering added value as compared to conventional antimicrobial therapies.

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April 23, 2021
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump spoke extensively to the New York Post, and urged his supporters to take one of the controversial COVID-19 vaccines first developed by his administration’s Operation Warp Speed. Now, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is celebrating the former President’s rhetoric.
“I’m all in favor of the vaccine,” President Trump told the Post on Thursday. “It’s one of the great achievements, a true miracle, and not only for the United States. We’re saving tens of millions of lives throughout the world. We’re saving entire countries.” He added that, after he received the vaccine, he did not even experience the adverse symptoms that many Americans feel for days. “Not even a bit of arm soreness,” he said. “It’s pretty amazing stuff.”Continue reading Democrat New York Mayor ‘Applauds’ Trump For Urging Supporters To Get COVID Vaccine


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The Pineapple Upside Down Cake recipe. My father’s mother’s recipe box. Sitting on my kitchen shelf. Yellowed newspaper clippings between the file cards.. I was looking around for items to put on my Keep or Pitch blog and the antique radio from earlier this week reminded me how objects can tell a story. Or two. There are recipes for pickles and yeast rolls. Illinois cuisine. The edge of the file card is discolored as well. I am not going to pitch this in the downsizing effort. I sifted through the cards, read her notes, remembered how she made egg noodles and hung them to dry on the broom handle. Mary Alta Kerr Hendricks born Feb 7, 1892. She taught me how to knit. I sleep under one of her quilts now and am figuring out how to repair an afghan she knit. In her retirement, she worked in the flower shop in Lincoln, Illinois. Kept her lunch (a can of spinach and a hard boiled egg), inside the glass door refrigerator right next to the buckets of gladiolas and carnations for the bouquets.
What did your grandmother bake/cook that you remember?
I chose this recipe card
cause her handwriting
seemed clear and legible
through the camera lens.
Oh, how I wish I could go back in time and sit on the stool next to my Grandma Bard once again as she baked a cookie she called “Briars”. A pie dough type crust filled with a sweet raisin/orange filling. She always said it was “an old English recipe”. No one in the family bakes them anymore…too time consuming. That’s our problem isn’t it? People are just too “busy” nowadays. I think I might just pull out that old recipe and give it a go. Thanks Ruth for helping me bring back some great memories. (Would love to see the back side of the recipe or is it a family secret?)
It fills my heart with such happiness thinking about the memories your Grandchildren will have. Ruthie you are the best.
Pineapple upside down cake was my father’s favorite dessert.
I still have my Mother’s recipe box. It includes items from her Mother.
My grandmother only reheated, never cooked!
I, like my mother, am a tosser. But, the few things I do have, I cherish.
My mother made pineapple upside down cake and home made noodles that dried like your grandmother’s. Neither of my grandmothers lived long enough for me to get to know them – but I’m sure my mom carried on some of their cooking traditions.
I like your grandmother’s handwriting!
It was our next door neighbor, Mrs. Dankovich, who was famous for her up side down cake and it was a special treat when they shared some with our family!!
I’m intrigued with the poem in the top of the recipe box.
I have a few of my grandmother’s recipe cards, but haven’t tried the recipes. I enjoy reading my Mom’s oldest cook books from the churches in the Shenango Valley – brings back wonderful memories, too. My mom made those wonderful Slovak nut kolachis that my father’s side of the family enjoyed @ Easter and Christmas. Now she concentrates on those delicate horn cookies :-))
Your grandmother and I shared the same birthday!
I love old recipes and looking @ hand written cards w/ editorial comments to change/improve the original recipe.
My grandmother cooked without recipes. Every holiday we would have some kind of Italian food (ravioli, lasagna, etc.) with the traditional American menu. On New Year’s Eve she would make large trays of Sicilian pizza and we would eat it as soon as it came out of the oven. YUM!
are you going to make the cake to show us how it turns out?
I never knew my grandparents, but I had 3 aunts much older than my mother who we called auntsie-grandmas. While I don’t remember them baking, one of the uncles was famous for his pies. I can remember coming to their house – he would answer the door, his round belly covered in a white apron, the constant cigar in his mouth and the smell of pie wafting out from behind. He loved to laugh and it was always a treat to visit them in Swissvale. Clifford died of a heart attack after shoveling snow.
A few years ago, my cousin snuck and took my grandmother’s recipes and put together a cook book for all of us. I use it all of the time, and it is one of the best gifts I have ever received. Too bad it never tastes as good as when grandma makes it!
I am lucky to have 2 of my mom’s recipe boxes and 1 of my grandmother’s. A lot of grandma’s recipes were in her head and she never wrote them down. Grandma was famous for her chicken & dumplings and mother made the best home-made brownies and another dessert called lemon snow. I sure miss them both and all the laughter we had in our house growing up, all centered around some kind of food!
My grandmother made this incredible buttermilk fudge. I tried to make it once and failed miserably.
My husband’s mom taught me to make noodles and hang them over the back of a chair to dry. Now they have machines that churn up special pasta foods. Connie, I remember those nut kolachi cookies, too.
Oh what a trip down memory lane!!!! Thanks, Ruth
Oh what wonderful memories, I have the recipes books of my mother and her mom, my busha, but it is my father’s mother, grandma, that I remember at the kitchen table, I cannot remember as young as I was what she was baking, except for her flowered apron, a rolling pin,a floured board, and a shot glass with whiskey. She would wash clothes in the back cellar, and bake and cook all day…so by the time the men came home from the mill, the family was ready to sit down to have dinner. She seemed to be strong in spirit and perservance. I guess this is the fabric of who we are today!
My Grandma made the best apricot lattice topped cakes. She called tehm “Poor Cakes”because she thought they were never up to par.I have a few of her recipes in Hungarian and then the traslation in my dad’s hadwriting.
Your post does bring back memories and although I never saw my grandmother use a recipe, she was a terrific cook. I did see her churn her own butter every morning from the milk cows. She had a big garden and either froze or canned enough vegetables and soup to last through the winter. Boy, I wish I had a bowl of her creamed corn right now! And then for dessert, fresh peach cobbler.
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All you need is love. And good food. Someone to share it with.
Love on Valentine’s Day. Remembering. Going to photograph a Valentine’s Day Wedding tomorrow. In the recipe box lid is a prayer, Be Gentle When You Touch Bread.
I remember ‘helping’ my gran to make sausage rolls and trying to eat the raw sausage meat – no wonder i don’t eat meat now!
What a treasure you have. Unfortunately my grandmother did not keep a written record of her recipes.
That recipe box is an amazing treasure.
Love this post.
My paternal g’ma passed away before my parent’s got married & before I was born. So – I never met her.
Long story short – we weren’t close to my mom’s side of the fam growing up. But – my maternal g’ma was a great cook. She had tons of handwritten recipes. My mom might have some.


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Poor Lee! He used to be a jazzman who could make the piano go yimbatimba- TANG—zang-zang. But now he's lost his hearing, and the bandleader had to let him go.
So Lee goes to a school for the deaf to learn sign language. There, he meets Max, who used to play the sax. Riding the subway to class, they start signing about all the songs they love. A bass player named Rose joins in and soon they've got a little sign language band. And in no time they're performing for audiences in the subway, night after night.
Living legend and Kennedy Center honoree Pete Seeger, renowned poet Paul DuBois Jacobs, and Coretta Scott King honor winner R. Gregory Christie present a jazzy riff on the power of music, overcoming obstacles, and all the different ways to hear the world. So, who will listen to a deaf musician? Everyone!
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What it will be like watching the footy live this weekend
FOOTY fans will be able to cheer from the stands with a pie and beer under new COVID-safe regulations on the return to sports stadiums.
Crowds will be capped at 2000 from this weekend as part of a welcome return to live sport for starved football fans.
At Suncorp Stadium, which will host a Gold Coat Titans match on Saturday, 1700 fans will be able to sit in the main grandstands - in socially-distant and pre-allocated seats with about 300 corporate guests to be catered for in suites.
Fans will be assigned to designated zones, which will all include food and drink stands as well as toilet facilities.
There had initially been fears about the operation of catering and drink services, but they will open with COVID rules governing lines and spaces between customers.
Kiosks will accept only cashless payments.
Suncorp Stadium boss Alan Graham said people would need to cooperate with regulations to ensure there are no further setbacks.
"We need people to buy into the rules if this is going to work," he said.
"This is a step in the right direction but it could go backwards again very quickly.
"So we're asking people to be patient, be mindful of other guests and social distancing and if you're not well or displaying symptoms, don't come."
Graham said the onus would be on people to do the right thing as security guards could not personally police all COVID regulations.
"Whether there's 2000 people or 50,000, you can't be everywhere ensuring that people are keeping their distance," he said.
"That's why we need people to take on some of the responsibility themselves."
Exact seating configurations were still being determined, but it is understood every second row would be off limits with spaces to be allotted between different groups of fans to adhere to social distancing.
Discussions are also ongoing about whether fans would be restricted to one side of the ground or scattered around different pockets, with TV broadcasters eager for fans to be visible on the side opposite major camera positions.
Queensland's professional clubs across all major codes are still determining how they will allocate the 2000 seats through their members and corporate supporter base.


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EXERCISES AFTER DELIVERY
It is a common question from new moms as to when can they start exercising especially after C-section. Once the new mom settles down after delivery and the breastfeeding routine also settles in, they want to know when they can start to exercise so as to reduce weight.
Abdominal belts or abdominal binders can help, as they can compress the tummy and tighten the lost muscle tone. If you feel it is uncomfortable, you can use it for some time and remove it while eating and sleeping. It is advisable to start abdominal exercises three months post-delivery. Light exercises can be started in a couple of days’ time. This helps the pelvic muscle and perennial area. Kegel exercise can help in this regard. You need to squeeze and relax muscles in the pelvic regions. This can be done any time of the day. It helps in bladder and bowel control and improves the strength and endurance of these muscles.
Breathing exercises can be started in eight to ten days. Post delivery, the swelling on the hands and legs takes time to go, there are cramps and pains and the new mom may feel lethargic. Basic hands and leg stretches can help. Hand and shoulder exercises can help relieve common pain in the neck, shoulder, or back that can be a result of breastfeeding. These exercises may include simple neck rotation, extension, etc which can be started after six weeks.
Moderate to heavy exercises are used to reduce weight. One thing we must understand is that post-delivery, any normal wound requires six to eight weeks to heal especially in the case of those who had undergone C-section. So, it is advisable to start exercises like walking after six weeks from delivery. Other moderate to heavy exercises like jogging, workouts, zumba, and aerobics can start three months later.
The take-home message is that you should give time to your body and enjoy your motherhood journey, weight can be reduced as you start increasing your exercise routine gradually.
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"League of Legends" Patch 11.8 will bring new metas that could annoy and excite the players at the same time. Aside from these, the new Gwen character and upcoming skins will arrive.
Morgana is one of five #LeagueOfLegends champions being pushed into the jungle on the 11.8 PBE cycle.— League of Legends News (@lol_insider) April 5, 2021
The Fallen, along with Darius, Diana, Mordekaiser, and Zed are all getting big buffs to their bonus damage to monsters. pic.twitter.com/tlOIDKimMf
According to Dexerto's latest report, Mark Yetter, the developer of "League of Legends," confirmed that there will be major updates once the popular strategy title's new patch arrives.
The new skins that will enter the Summoner's Rift are specifically Blackfrost and Dragonslayer cosmetics.
"Another round of opening up new champs to the jungle pool," said the game developer via PC Games' latest report.
On the other hand, Yetter added that there will also be some champs that will receive a shift since they have already fallen out of their player base's favorite positions. However, the game developer hasn't revealed any specific information.
'League of Legends' Patch 11.8's release date
The new "League of Legends" Patch 11.8 is expected to arrive on Apr. 14.
Riot will likely start the installation of the major updates at exactly 10:00 a.m. EDT on the Oceanic servers. After that, the game publisher will continue to roll out the new patch notes across the globe.
Here are the specific release dates:
- 3:00 a.m. PT (NA)
- 5:00 a.m. GMT (EUW)
- 3:00 a.m. CET (EUNE)
- 8:00 a.m. KR (Korea)
On the other hand, the players will, once again, experience downtime after a few hours of the patch notes' release. This means that all the normal matches and competitive queues would be disabled across the servers of "League of Legends" for about three to four hours.
Once the game's Patch 11.8 arrives, Rammus, one of the most popular jungling-tanks in the game, will receive another rework. Players first encounter Rammus' major change on "League of Legends: Wild Rift," the game's mobile version, which is now available in the United States.
Weird jungle champ metas to arrive
"League of Legends" is one of the games that push players to use their imaginations and calculating skills when it comes to team fights. And now, Yetter confirmed that Riot will be making some weird metas that will disappoint and hype players.
His latest Twitter post stated that there will be some nerfs and buffs for various champions. Aside from these, there will also be some champions that will be considered as junglers.
Here are the lists you should know:
Some players may find these new champs weird for jungling since they are considered OP in mid-lane and bot-lane. However, there are already some streamers that show how fans can use these champs on various roles in the Summoner's Rift. These new roles will still depend on the players' skills and items they'll use when jungling.
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Seldén’s MDS (Multi-Directional Support) cars are supported in all directions, making sail handling simpler. A full batten always creates a side load on the cars, particularly when you release the halyard for taking a reef. Each car has side-load absorbing wheels that run against the guiding flanges in the luff groove. The interaction between the mast section and the MDS car deals with longitudinal loads, as well as side loads. This is the essence of the MDS concept. Since the cars need no external track, there is also less weight aloft. The MDS cars are easy to keep clean and are easy to install or remove from the luff groove.


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Late yesterday in Mexico the media were in attendance for the weight in for the upcoming IBF Flyweight eliminator between former Light Flyweight champion John Riel Casimero (20-2, 12) and Armando Santos (14-3-1, 8). Thankfully both men have made weight and the bout will go on as set with no changes to the conditions of the contest.
Santos weighed in the lighter man at 111.5lbs, some 4lbs lighter than he was for his draw with Javier Franco back in August. Casimero on the other hand was bang on the limit at 112lbs, also lighter than he was in his last contest where he weighed 113.75lbs, if is however one of the heaviest weights of his career as he's filled into a fully blown Flyweight.
At the weigh in both men looked confident and in great shape and now it's just a case of winning a bout that will put the winner in the driving seat for a world title fight at the beginning of 2015.
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CHENNAI: A writ plea for a direction not to release the Tamil feature film depicting the life of the forest brigand Veerappan, was made in the Madras High Court, on Monday.
B Panneerselvi of Saminaickenpatti village in Salem district also prayed for a direction to the authorities to file reports granting ‘U’ certificate to the film.
The petitioner said the multilingual film, directed by Ramgopal Verma degrades the Tamil people. In the Kannada trailer released on July 12, Sivaraj Kumar acting as the STF SP, Senthmarai Kannan, leads Operation Cocoon to capture Veerappan. The full trailer, released on October 18 does not depict the encounter as having taken place in 2004 at the instance of the STF of Tamil Nadu.


text: I've been reading a lot about the whole Chrome OS hype alongside my Android news and I know a lot of people are celebrating both OS's but maybe there's less to celebrate...for android users. Like I was reading this article today: Cydle Shows Off its Android Tablet and Chrome OS Netbook (Chrome OS device next to Android as if they are competing) Companies are expanding Android to litterally everything :to_pick_ones_nose_e its like, we now have android tablets (just like an over sized Nexus one to me), android netbooks and like a million other devices. My biggest concern is with tablet and netbook androids. I think all that these companies like HTC and Cydle are doing is setting up a collision between Android and Chrome OS. The more the uses of the OS's overlap the higher the possibility of Google loosing attention on one OS and turning attention to another. and according to all the news leaks it's like they're already turning their attention to Chrome OS. I heard that Google's master plan is to slowly merge Android into Chrome OS over the next few years. already this puts android in the back seat what do you guys think? Is there much of a future for the droid?


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We started to work on cross-cultural dialogues in 2007, even before GCSD was formally established. In many ways, our cross-cultural dialogues led to establishing Global Citizens for Sustainable Development formally.
GCSD believes there is a need to create a society of 'Global Citizens'; a well-informed and committed group of young people with a clear vision about the importance of intercultural understanding and the notion of "Think Global, Act Local", in a world where local and global issues are intertwined.
GCSD has created several platforms, including the China-India Forum, Japan-India Forum, Korea-India Forum, Sri Lanka-India Forum and others, for cross-cultural dialogue and action. Through these platforms, young leaders/citizens have been trained and mentored and are now working towards a responsible, plural and harmonious society in their region.
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I’ve learned something about the sick and those who become their caregivers, willingly or unwillingly. These relationships go on all of the time — all around us — yet we barely notice or acknowledge them.
Cast in the role of the sick person, I’d just like to share one thought — with a story.
On a recent morning, I got to take a shower. Not a “hop-in-get-clean-hop-out” kind of shower. This one took a bit of planning.
Drug ports, like little arm- and hand-based drilling platforms, were carefully wrapped in plastic, electronic leads buried into non-Latex glove material — all isolated from the outside with waterproof surgical tape. Next was cord and pole management.
We were lucky that day; we just needed the telepack for the five leads in my chest bagged and sealed — it would hang loose around my neck during ablutions. Only one bag of medicine would need to drip into my veins, so I could just let that hang well away from any water stream from the shower. The incision would be avoided as much as possible.
The procedure that set me up for this personal hygiene ritual was cancer surgery. Two days before, a doctor had made a 12-inch incision between my seventh and eighth ribs, removing cancerous lymph nodes and lung tissue from my chest in order to keep me alive a little longer.
I was just getting my first look at his handiwork when something changed. I’m not sure when it happened or why, but somewhere in my preparations, it all became personal.
I was not a patient at a hospital preparing to take a shower anymore. I was a needy, imperfect, insecure human being, keenly aware and overwhelmingly sensitive to my situation as both a life-changing event and a horrific visual reality.
I knew the apparition in the mirror was me, but I was still able to keep enough emotional distance to deny it — until a second glance. I looked like the Michelin Man after a losing knife fight with the Pillsbury Doughboy. Bloated and bruised, violated and scarred — I just wanted to be alone. The completely self-centered, self-motivated, self-involved attitude of the victim. But I was not alone.
I wanted to be alone with the person I had now become. Alone to reflect on the future and make some sense of my past. A Genesis of one.
But as my soapy hands worked lather between necrotic folds of skin, she breezed in. Eighteen-year-old hips pumping past. Flipping a switch on one of my medical electronic devices. Chirping something about bad reception from the other room. I couldn’t be sure.
I dried myself and got dressed in self-esteem from the bottom drawer.
I now realized that I had become a nonentity, a type of person who always existed in great numbers around me, but with whom I had never shared any traits. A public-domain human being, where personal decisions regarding many aspects of my life would now be made for me, sometimes without regard for personal feelings or consideration of the fact that I might just want to be left alone.
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As a legendary music producer, Phil Spector was known for his "Wall of Sound." But when he went on trial in 2004 for the murder of Lana Clarkson, Spector made headlines for his closetful of toupees, which included a Bieber-esque blonde look, a rock star shag, and, most famously, a blonde Afro that resembled a withered dandelion. But Spector's wife, Rachelle, objected to the way David Mamet depicted her husbands outrageous hairdos in his recent HBO biopic starring Al Pacino. "Mamet said that he had access to my husband's hair, which he calls wigs, and he measured them so he could get the height right," Rachelle Spector explained. "I'm like, 'Wow, that's interesting, I didn't know somebody snuck into my house and had access to my husband's hair.' "
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Kevin Love Game 2 Prop Odds
According to oddsmakers at BetDSI, the Warriors are the favorite at home tonight, as they are getting odds of -8.5 points against the Cavaliers. The over/under total for the game is listed at 220.5 points. When it comes to Love, he is listed with an over/under of 17.5 points for Game 2 and an over/under of 12.5 rebounds tonight.
There wasn’t a lot to like about Cleveland in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, a 113-91 loss to the Warriors, but Love did some good things. The 6-10 forward out of UCLA grabbed a game-high 21 rebounds and still put up 15 points despite going just 4-for-13 from the field. Love showed effort throughout the game, which is more than what can be said for some others on the team.
In the 2017 playoffs, Love is now averaging 17 points and 11.1 rebounds per game through 14 contests. He has scored at least 15 points in six straight games and pulled down double figures in rebounds in his last six as well. During the regular season, Love averaged 11.5 points and 4.5 rebounds in two games against the Warriors. However, the small Golden State lineup has opened up opportunities for him on the glass and that could lead to some scoring chances as well if Cleveland decides to focus on getting him the ball more tonight. Something schematically has to change for the Cavs, so Love could see more touches. Either way, his effort on the glass shouldn’t change.

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The wait may have been longer than expected for former Florida State running back Dalvin Cook.
But on the second day of the 2017 NFL draft, Cook and another Seminoles player were finally able to realize their childhood dreams.
Cook, a standout running back from Miami who was widely considered a first-round talent, was selected by the Minnesota Vikings with the 41st pick in the second round of the draft on Friday.
FSU defensive end DeMarcus Walker, who had 31.5 sacks in his final two seasons with the Seminoles, was taken 51st overall by the Denver Broncos with the 19th pick of the second round.
Cook tumbled out of the first round of the draft on Thursday, ending...