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'Losing our mother was such a big thing for Tamara and me'
On my way to interview Clare van Dam (ne Beckwith), I feel so nervous that I find myself searching for an excuse to cancel. What forces me to carry on is the thought of how she must be feeling as she waits for me to arrive (in fact I had expected her to cancel). Because in the three weeks since I first met 41 year old Clare, we have chatted about everything but the deeply private,replica van cleef necklaces, and deeply felt, subject we will talk about today.
During that time over cups of green tea in the spa of London's Bulgari Hotel Clare has told me of the moment when, aged 17, she fell for her husband Sebastian (then an amateur DJ, now a music producer) and about her closeness to her adored elder sister Tamara, 43 (the 90s It girl who remains a high profile socialite).
But this is the first time that we will touch on the family loss that has had such a dramatic effect on Clare's life,replica van cleef butterfly necklace, because until now she has been conflicted by her need to pass on to other people an important message and her fear of talking publicly about such a dark time in her life.
Clare has decided that her London home is the place in which she will feel most able to talk about what happened between her mother Paula being diagnosed with endometrial cancer in the late summer of 2009 and her death in December 2011, and when I arrive there I understand her decision. Because 'the other Beckwith girl' hasn't chosen to live in the kind of grand property you might expect; her home is a Victorian house in an (admittedly expensive) suburban London street.
'I always wanted a normal house where we could have a proper family life, where the children are part of every room. It's funny, but I have noticed observing some of my friends that the bigger the house, the more distant a family becomes,' she says.
Everywhere you look there is evidence that this is a proper family home. The walls of the kitchen where Clare prepares us a pot of fresh mint tea are dominated by artworks created by Tatum and Amber. And on the central island, close to the girls' pink child sized table, is the multistoried home of Fluffy the 'wonder' hamster.
In the corner of the living room where we sit to talk there is a play area filled with the girls' toys. I wrongly assume that Clare's desire for a 'proper family life' might be a reaction against her own childhood. Because so often the privileges of growing up with huge wealth are countered by an upbringing in which the intimacy of a more ordinary home life is missing.
'Losing our mother was such a big thing for Tamara and me'
'No my father's success started in the 1980s as we grew up, and we had a very normal, lovely Victorian family house in Kew. Tamara and I had a wonderful childhood, and we went to Queen's, the local state primary school. It was very cosy; my mother was a real homemaker and a great cook. She loved people; she was at the school gates every day, and took us to ballet and Brownies. She was one of those mothers who was always there,' she says, as she glances at a framed photograph of her mother taken in the 80s.
'She was so glamorous, right to the end, and such fun. She loved her family, the dogs, her home she just loved life. And she was so generous and warm and welcoming to our friends. For all children, your mother is the most important person; she is your rock. [You think,] "Mummy will always be there for me." The idea that one day she won't is a child's biggest worry; maybe the greatest worry in all our lives,' she says, temporarily breaking off to get more tea from the kitchen.
Clare (far right) with (from left) her sister Tamara, her mother Paula, Tamara's daughter Anouska, and her father Peter, at a private viewing at The Little Black Gallery a photographic gallery co owned by Tamara in 2010
Clare is as stunning as her more famous sister, but they are undeniably different although totally united in their love for their mother. As children, Clare tells me, they were happy opposites Tamara fearless, fun loving and rebellious; Clare sensitive and home loving. 'It's such a big thing for Tamara and me, losing our mother,' she says. 'One of the things about her was that she was so grounded; she was never moody. I could call her any day about anything and she would always have time, always listen. So not only was she always there when Tamara and I were growing up, she was always there when we were grown up, too.'
Clare doesn't say it, but she is absolutely her mother's daughter. Everything she says about her upbringing echoes the way she is bringing up her own children. Family unity was so important to Paula that when Tamara, then aged 16, became pregnant, she didn't hesitate along with her husband to take on the main parental responsibility for her granddaughter Anouska (Clare is very close to her niece, who is now 26 and working in photography in Paris).
Paula, Clare says with a smile, was her father's rock; they were never apart, 'like Tweedledee and Tweedledum'. Her parents' wealth brought privileges a glamorous social life and the freedom to travel that came in their 50s and early 60s. But by the summer of 2009, when Paula was a still 'young and fun' 65, Clare had misgivings about her mother's health.
'I was on holiday in France when my mother rang me we had that relationship where we spoke to each other every day. It was a wonderful sunny day, and then "boom!": she told me she had been to the doctor's for some tests. Two weeks later she was diagnosed with endometrial cancer,' Clare says.
Early diagnosis of endometrial cancer gives a higher chance of recovery, but Paula's cancer had progressed through her lymphatic tissues and the prognosis was not good. Her parents, she says, became a 'team on a journey together' a journey that they wanted to keep private.
'I had no idea about why people became sick with diseases such as cancer until my own mother was diagnosed. I am very private like her and the reason I am talking to you now is that I want to share what I have learnt so that other people can understand how health and wellbeing can help prevent cancer, and how alongside surgery and vital treatments they can aid recovery.
I began to research ways in which I might be able to support my mother [that went] beyond a healthier diet and exercise. I found out that drinking the right kind of water can help the body get rid of the excess acid that can adversely affect our natural pH balance and lessen our resistance to infection and disease. I discovered Kangen water and I believe that drinking two litres a day helped my mother during treatment. I just wish I had come across it ten years earlier,' she says ruefully.
Clare's mother underwent a course of radiotherapy to reduce her tumour in late autumn 2009. But three months later, in early 2010, doctors discovered that the cancer had spread and Paula who had never smoked was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer.
'What I learned about how to stay healthy is my mother's legacy to me'
Paula was given prolonged chemotherapy that reduced the tumour. Six months later, in February 2011, Paula, who had lost and by then regained the thick hair that was her 'crowning glory', went on holiday to South America with Peter but she was taken ill and doctors discovered that the cancer had reached her brain. Back in Britain, in March 2011, Paula underwent major brain surgery.
'My mother had lost a lot of weight and was very fragile after the operation. It is obvious now that she was giving up; we just didn't want to believe it. You keep hoping, you keep waiting for a miracle, and there was never any talk of it being "terminal". I remember being with her once and saying, "Let's go outside for a little walk." She was using her walking stick, and said to me, "When will I be free of all this?" At the time I thought she meant "free of" the cancer, but I realise now she meant, "I am done, I don't want to go on,"' Clare says, through tears that she has been fighting to hold back.
By October Paula was so weak that she could no longer go upstairs and needed 24 hour care in the living room, where she slept. Clare becomes even more emotional as she talks about the point, a few weeks later, at which it was discovered that the cancer in her mother's brain had accelerated.
'The doctors and these people are brilliant were talking about other possible treatments that might give her a little more time, but Mummy had been through so much, and she was such a private, beautiful, dignified person, and these procedures were so invasive,' Clare says, brushing away her tears. 'I'm sorry, it's just that I haven't talked about this before.'
Rather than submit Paula, who by then was unconscious, to yet more pain, the family chose to admit her to St Raphael's Hospice in Merton.
'The ending was beautiful, in a way. She looked so elegant and serene, and she smelt of her favourite perfume, 24 Faubourg when I smell it now on other people I think, "It's Mummy". It's difficult to remember the exact timing, but I was with her one day, holding her hand and crying, and then I found myself saying to her, "Don't worry about us. Tamara and I will look after Daddy. We are all together and we love you, and we thank you for everything you have done for us thank you. Mummy, you should go now,replica van cleef arpel necklace, be away from all this." And as I said this, she took these three amazing deep breaths [they sounded] like relief as if she had understood,' Clare says softly.
The family was told that Paula might have another week left possibly two but the following evening the hospice called to say that her heart rate had changed,replica van cleef gold necklace, and that they should come as soon as they could. But by the time they got to her bedside less than an hour later, she had passed away.
'Private and dignified to the last. The thing I remember most is those three deep breaths in the hospice. For me they symbolise my connection with my mother in a very deep way, as if I was cutting the umbilical cord. No one in our culture talks about death it's a taboo subject. I have tried to embrace my loss by seeing that what I learned about how to stay healthy and help protect ourselves from developing illness is actually my mother's legacy to me, for me to pass on to others,' Clare says.
Paula's death aged 68 devastated the family. Clare's father was lonely and bereft for a long time but 18 months ago he met Vivien McLean and earlier this month the couple announced their engagement. They will marry in June with the wholehearted support of Clare and Tamara.
On my way to interview Clare van Dam (ne Beckwith), I feel so nervous that I find myself searching for an excuse to cancel. What forces me to carry on is the thought of how she must be feeling as she waits for me to arrive (in fact I had expected her to cancel). Because in the three weeks since I first met 41 year old Clare, we have chatted about everything but the deeply private,replica van cleef necklaces, and deeply felt, subject we will talk about today.
During that time over cups of green tea in the spa of London's Bulgari Hotel Clare has told me of the moment when, aged 17, she fell for her husband Sebastian (then an amateur DJ, now a music producer) and about her closeness to her adored elder sister Tamara, 43 (the 90s It girl who remains a high profile socialite).
But this is the first time that we will touch on the family loss that has had such a dramatic effect on Clare's life,replica van cleef butterfly necklace, because until now she has been conflicted by her need to pass on to other people an important message and her fear of talking publicly about such a dark time in her life.
Clare has decided that her London home is the place in which she will feel most able to talk about what happened between her mother Paula being diagnosed with endometrial cancer in the late summer of 2009 and her death in December 2011, and when I arrive there I understand her decision. Because 'the other Beckwith girl' hasn't chosen to live in the kind of grand property you might expect; her home is a Victorian house in an (admittedly expensive) suburban London street.
'I always wanted a normal house where we could have a proper family life, where the children are part of every room. It's funny, but I have noticed observing some of my friends that the bigger the house, the more distant a family becomes,' she says.
Everywhere you look there is evidence that this is a proper family home. The walls of the kitchen where Clare prepares us a pot of fresh mint tea are dominated by artworks created by Tatum and Amber. And on the central island, close to the girls' pink child sized table, is the multistoried home of Fluffy the 'wonder' hamster.
In the corner of the living room where we sit to talk there is a play area filled with the girls' toys. I wrongly assume that Clare's desire for a 'proper family life' might be a reaction against her own childhood. Because so often the privileges of growing up with huge wealth are countered by an upbringing in which the intimacy of a more ordinary home life is missing.
'Losing our mother was such a big thing for Tamara and me'
'No my father's success started in the 1980s as we grew up, and we had a very normal, lovely Victorian family house in Kew. Tamara and I had a wonderful childhood, and we went to Queen's, the local state primary school. It was very cosy; my mother was a real homemaker and a great cook. She loved people; she was at the school gates every day, and took us to ballet and Brownies. She was one of those mothers who was always there,' she says, as she glances at a framed photograph of her mother taken in the 80s.
'She was so glamorous, right to the end, and such fun. She loved her family, the dogs, her home she just loved life. And she was so generous and warm and welcoming to our friends. For all children, your mother is the most important person; she is your rock. [You think,] "Mummy will always be there for me." The idea that one day she won't is a child's biggest worry; maybe the greatest worry in all our lives,' she says, temporarily breaking off to get more tea from the kitchen.
Clare (far right) with (from left) her sister Tamara, her mother Paula, Tamara's daughter Anouska, and her father Peter, at a private viewing at The Little Black Gallery a photographic gallery co owned by Tamara in 2010
Clare is as stunning as her more famous sister, but they are undeniably different although totally united in their love for their mother. As children, Clare tells me, they were happy opposites Tamara fearless, fun loving and rebellious; Clare sensitive and home loving. 'It's such a big thing for Tamara and me, losing our mother,' she says. 'One of the things about her was that she was so grounded; she was never moody. I could call her any day about anything and she would always have time, always listen. So not only was she always there when Tamara and I were growing up, she was always there when we were grown up, too.'
Clare doesn't say it, but she is absolutely her mother's daughter. Everything she says about her upbringing echoes the way she is bringing up her own children. Family unity was so important to Paula that when Tamara, then aged 16, became pregnant, she didn't hesitate along with her husband to take on the main parental responsibility for her granddaughter Anouska (Clare is very close to her niece, who is now 26 and working in photography in Paris).
Paula, Clare says with a smile, was her father's rock; they were never apart, 'like Tweedledee and Tweedledum'. Her parents' wealth brought privileges a glamorous social life and the freedom to travel that came in their 50s and early 60s. But by the summer of 2009, when Paula was a still 'young and fun' 65, Clare had misgivings about her mother's health.
'I was on holiday in France when my mother rang me we had that relationship where we spoke to each other every day. It was a wonderful sunny day, and then "boom!": she told me she had been to the doctor's for some tests. Two weeks later she was diagnosed with endometrial cancer,' Clare says.
Early diagnosis of endometrial cancer gives a higher chance of recovery, but Paula's cancer had progressed through her lymphatic tissues and the prognosis was not good. Her parents, she says, became a 'team on a journey together' a journey that they wanted to keep private.
'I had no idea about why people became sick with diseases such as cancer until my own mother was diagnosed. I am very private like her and the reason I am talking to you now is that I want to share what I have learnt so that other people can understand how health and wellbeing can help prevent cancer, and how alongside surgery and vital treatments they can aid recovery.
I began to research ways in which I might be able to support my mother [that went] beyond a healthier diet and exercise. I found out that drinking the right kind of water can help the body get rid of the excess acid that can adversely affect our natural pH balance and lessen our resistance to infection and disease. I discovered Kangen water and I believe that drinking two litres a day helped my mother during treatment. I just wish I had come across it ten years earlier,' she says ruefully.
Clare's mother underwent a course of radiotherapy to reduce her tumour in late autumn 2009. But three months later, in early 2010, doctors discovered that the cancer had spread and Paula who had never smoked was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer.
'What I learned about how to stay healthy is my mother's legacy to me'
Paula was given prolonged chemotherapy that reduced the tumour. Six months later, in February 2011, Paula, who had lost and by then regained the thick hair that was her 'crowning glory', went on holiday to South America with Peter but she was taken ill and doctors discovered that the cancer had reached her brain. Back in Britain, in March 2011, Paula underwent major brain surgery.
'My mother had lost a lot of weight and was very fragile after the operation. It is obvious now that she was giving up; we just didn't want to believe it. You keep hoping, you keep waiting for a miracle, and there was never any talk of it being "terminal". I remember being with her once and saying, "Let's go outside for a little walk." She was using her walking stick, and said to me, "When will I be free of all this?" At the time I thought she meant "free of" the cancer, but I realise now she meant, "I am done, I don't want to go on,"' Clare says, through tears that she has been fighting to hold back.
By October Paula was so weak that she could no longer go upstairs and needed 24 hour care in the living room, where she slept. Clare becomes even more emotional as she talks about the point, a few weeks later, at which it was discovered that the cancer in her mother's brain had accelerated.
'The doctors and these people are brilliant were talking about other possible treatments that might give her a little more time, but Mummy had been through so much, and she was such a private, beautiful, dignified person, and these procedures were so invasive,' Clare says, brushing away her tears. 'I'm sorry, it's just that I haven't talked about this before.'
Rather than submit Paula, who by then was unconscious, to yet more pain, the family chose to admit her to St Raphael's Hospice in Merton.
'The ending was beautiful, in a way. She looked so elegant and serene, and she smelt of her favourite perfume, 24 Faubourg when I smell it now on other people I think, "It's Mummy". It's difficult to remember the exact timing, but I was with her one day, holding her hand and crying, and then I found myself saying to her, "Don't worry about us. Tamara and I will look after Daddy. We are all together and we love you, and we thank you for everything you have done for us thank you. Mummy, you should go now,replica van cleef arpel necklace, be away from all this." And as I said this, she took these three amazing deep breaths [they sounded] like relief as if she had understood,' Clare says softly.
The family was told that Paula might have another week left possibly two but the following evening the hospice called to say that her heart rate had changed,replica van cleef gold necklace, and that they should come as soon as they could. But by the time they got to her bedside less than an hour later, she had passed away.
'Private and dignified to the last. The thing I remember most is those three deep breaths in the hospice. For me they symbolise my connection with my mother in a very deep way, as if I was cutting the umbilical cord. No one in our culture talks about death it's a taboo subject. I have tried to embrace my loss by seeing that what I learned about how to stay healthy and help protect ourselves from developing illness is actually my mother's legacy to me, for me to pass on to others,' Clare says.
Paula's death aged 68 devastated the family. Clare's father was lonely and bereft for a long time but 18 months ago he met Vivien McLean and earlier this month the couple announced their engagement. They will marry in June with the wholehearted support of Clare and Tamara.
Honor and Dishonor
Produced by Marcelena Spencer
[This story first aired on Feb. 16, 2013. It was updated on July 26,van cleef arpels fake alhambra necklace, 2014.]
Sergeant Brent Burke earned his stripes at Fort Campbell, Kentucky home base for his division, the legendary 101st Airborne. Army.
It is also where Sgt. Burke will learn if he will continue to serve in the Army, or if he will serve out his life in prison, because military prosecutors in the Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps,van cleef clover copy necklace, known as JAG, will court martial Sgt. Brent Burke for double homicide.
"I would say that the tough part of any case like this is the fact that it was four years old . and it was mostly circumstantial evidence and when you put all that together it certainly makes for a difficult case," JAG prosecutor Lt. Col Matthew Calarco told "48 Hours" correspondent Richard Schlesinger.
Tracy Burke and Karen Comer
Lieutenant Colonel Matt Calarco's mission, after four civilian trials failed to get a verdict, is to finally prove Sgt. Burke shot and killed his wife, Tracy, and her ex husband's mother,van cleef butterfly knock off necklace, Karen Comer, on Sept. 11, 2007.
"We knew that somebody had gone to Karen and Kurt Comer's home . and gone to their back door, shot Karen Comer, gone into the house, shot Tracy Burke left three children there . and left the house," said Lt. Col. Calarco.
Matthew Pete, Tracy's son from a previous marriage, witnessed a horror when he was only 9 that no child and no adult should ever have to see. He was there when his mother and grandmother were shot dead.
" . I hear a couple of gunshots going through and some glass breaking and my grandma screaming that she's dying . I hear a couple more shots. And then I'm down on the couch . shocked, never really thought this would be happening," Matthew told Schlesinger.
His younger brother, Eion, who was 4, and his sister, Raegan, who was 2, were all in the house when the murders were committed:
911 Dispatcher: Where are they at right now? Matthew Pete: They're dead in my house. There's blood spattered everywhere.
911 Dispatcher: Do you know who done this?
Matthew Pete: No.
When Matthew called 911, he said he didn't know who the gunman was, but was certain he was wearing a camouflage jacket similar to one Sgt. Burke might wear. Kentucky State Police investigator Mark Gillingham interviewed Matthew days after the murders.
". He described the camouflage jacket as being what we call the woodland pattern," Gillingham explained. "And he said he remembered one being in his stepdad's closet ."
Investigators never found a jacket like that in Burke's barracks or his van. But Gillingham also interviewed Matthew's brother, Eion, who said his father, Sgt. Burke, was the killer.
"And how able was Eion to communicate with you?" Schlesinger asked.
". he was very easy to communicate," Gillingham replied.
"And what did he say?"
"'You wanna talk to me about my daddy shooting my mommy,'" said Gillingham.
Tracy and her husband, Sgt. Burke, who was a military policeman, were divorcing. Tracy and her three children were staying with Karen Comer in Rineyville, Ky. Sergeant Burke was living at Fort Campbell,van cleef & arpels knock off necklace, 140 miles away.
". he got off of work at approximately 10:30 in the evening," JAG prosecutor Major Sondra Smith explained. "And from testimony that his roommate gave us, he returned to the barracks at approximately 11:30."
Sergeant Burke then leaves and he is not seen until about 6:30 the following morning when his roommate returns from PT . physical training. So, that whole period of time is unaccounted for."
Produced by Marcelena Spencer
[This story first aired on Feb. 16, 2013. It was updated on July 26,van cleef arpels fake alhambra necklace, 2014.]
Sergeant Brent Burke earned his stripes at Fort Campbell, Kentucky home base for his division, the legendary 101st Airborne. Army.
It is also where Sgt. Burke will learn if he will continue to serve in the Army, or if he will serve out his life in prison, because military prosecutors in the Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps,van cleef clover copy necklace, known as JAG, will court martial Sgt. Brent Burke for double homicide.
"I would say that the tough part of any case like this is the fact that it was four years old . and it was mostly circumstantial evidence and when you put all that together it certainly makes for a difficult case," JAG prosecutor Lt. Col Matthew Calarco told "48 Hours" correspondent Richard Schlesinger.
Tracy Burke and Karen Comer
Lieutenant Colonel Matt Calarco's mission, after four civilian trials failed to get a verdict, is to finally prove Sgt. Burke shot and killed his wife, Tracy, and her ex husband's mother,van cleef butterfly knock off necklace, Karen Comer, on Sept. 11, 2007.
"We knew that somebody had gone to Karen and Kurt Comer's home . and gone to their back door, shot Karen Comer, gone into the house, shot Tracy Burke left three children there . and left the house," said Lt. Col. Calarco.
Matthew Pete, Tracy's son from a previous marriage, witnessed a horror when he was only 9 that no child and no adult should ever have to see. He was there when his mother and grandmother were shot dead.
" . I hear a couple of gunshots going through and some glass breaking and my grandma screaming that she's dying . I hear a couple more shots. And then I'm down on the couch . shocked, never really thought this would be happening," Matthew told Schlesinger.
His younger brother, Eion, who was 4, and his sister, Raegan, who was 2, were all in the house when the murders were committed:
911 Dispatcher: Where are they at right now? Matthew Pete: They're dead in my house. There's blood spattered everywhere.
911 Dispatcher: Do you know who done this?
Matthew Pete: No.
When Matthew called 911, he said he didn't know who the gunman was, but was certain he was wearing a camouflage jacket similar to one Sgt. Burke might wear. Kentucky State Police investigator Mark Gillingham interviewed Matthew days after the murders.
". He described the camouflage jacket as being what we call the woodland pattern," Gillingham explained. "And he said he remembered one being in his stepdad's closet ."
Investigators never found a jacket like that in Burke's barracks or his van. But Gillingham also interviewed Matthew's brother, Eion, who said his father, Sgt. Burke, was the killer.
"And how able was Eion to communicate with you?" Schlesinger asked.
". he was very easy to communicate," Gillingham replied.
"And what did he say?"
"'You wanna talk to me about my daddy shooting my mommy,'" said Gillingham.
Tracy and her husband, Sgt. Burke, who was a military policeman, were divorcing. Tracy and her three children were staying with Karen Comer in Rineyville, Ky. Sergeant Burke was living at Fort Campbell,van cleef & arpels knock off necklace, 140 miles away.
". he got off of work at approximately 10:30 in the evening," JAG prosecutor Major Sondra Smith explained. "And from testimony that his roommate gave us, he returned to the barracks at approximately 11:30."
Sergeant Burke then leaves and he is not seen until about 6:30 the following morning when his roommate returns from PT . physical training. So, that whole period of time is unaccounted for."
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A gathering at a clubhouse in Petersburg, Va., is pictured in "Vagos, (St. Martin's Press )
Long before they sat down to write books, Charles Falco and George Rowe sold drugs and used them, raising hell as poor white guys in the desert small towns and exurban fringes of Southern California. They roamed with "tweakers" (meth addicts) and exploited them for cash.
But both Falco and Rowe saw the light. Eventually they joined the "good guys" in a crusade against the meanest, cruelest purveyors of darkness in their communities the biker gangs that collectively share the name Vagos.
As it happens, Falco and Rowe each infiltrated the Vagos at about the same time, working on behalf of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. They're also both in the federal witness protection program. Funny thing: They both end up being characters in each others' books, both of which are being released this month.
In their separate books, Falco and Rowe start as "hang around" biker gang wannabes, win promotion to "prospect" and finally become "fully patched" members of the Vagos with the right to wear Vago patches on their jackets and to attend the biker meetings called "church." And their two books, both of which recount many assorted acts of biker depravity, make for equally page turning, blood curdling and nausea inducing reading.
Having been caught and convicted of drug smuggling, Falco agrees to work for the ATF in exchange for a lighter sentence. He enters the subculture of the Vagos, acting first as a servant for "patched" members and pummeling rivals who threaten those members. His outlook shifts after witnessing the Vagos abusing women, intimidating civilians and killing rivals and innocent bystanders.
"I swelled with a sense of duty," Falco writes. "My role was no longer about self preservation. It was about justice."
As an infiltrator, Falco's job is to gather the evidence (mostly recorded with a wire he hides in his underwear) that will get the most dangerous Vagos convicted in court.
Spending day after numbing day with the bikers, Falco witnesses not only the cruelty they inflict on rivals but also the ease with which they betray one another: "Code, club,van cleef arpels copy alhambra necklace, colors was all illusion and delusion."
Falco writes of living with the constant fear that his identity as an informer will be uncovered. As he survives one close call after another, "Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws" becomes an increasingly taut and tense book.
After getting arrested for an assault committed by his Vago "brothers," Falco enters a baroque jail subculture in which he's forced to punish other inmates. Then,vca knock off necklace, to protect his identity, he volunteers for the mental torture of solitary confinement. In these passages, his book reaches a kind of Dantesque apogee.
"Prison code dictated that wolves devoured rabbits,van cleef knock off clover necklace," he writes, describing the punishment meted out to a suspected child molester mistakenly mixed with the general jail population. "Survival required adaptation. Child molesters excluded; no one protected them."
Near the middle of Falco's book, a biker informer named "George" enters. Similarly, a biker informer named "Charles" enters about halfway into George Rowe's book, "Gods of Mischief: My Undercover Vendetta to Take Down the Vagos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang."
Rowe's book reads more like a true crime confessional than Falco's. "Gods of Mischief" begins with Rowe agreeing to join the Vagos not as part of a plea deal but to exact revenge for the Vagos' coldblooded, senseless killing of Rowe's friend in a Hemet bar. Becoming a "snitch" is, for Rowe, a way of giving something back to the neighborhoods he'd poisoned with the methamphetamines he sold.
"This was about paying back a community that I'd dumped on for years," Rowe writes. The Vagos "were behaving like animals and had to be stopped."
But stopping the Vagos requires that Rowe immerse himself in their ways. He makes it his goal to earn a member's patch; it bears the Norse god of mischief in the middle.
Along the way he also picks up a young girlfriend, Jenna, who is a heroin addict and who becomes pregnant with his child without knowing Rowe is a federal informant.
The writing in "Gods of Mischief" is at once livelier and cruder than in Falco's book but it's credible in its crudeness. Reading Rowe is a bit like sitting on a bar stool next to a biker for several hours as he tells his story: You endure the misogyny and the profanity because the man has an amazing story to tell.
A gathering at a clubhouse in Petersburg, Va., is pictured in "Vagos, (St. Martin's Press )
Long before they sat down to write books, Charles Falco and George Rowe sold drugs and used them, raising hell as poor white guys in the desert small towns and exurban fringes of Southern California. They roamed with "tweakers" (meth addicts) and exploited them for cash.
But both Falco and Rowe saw the light. Eventually they joined the "good guys" in a crusade against the meanest, cruelest purveyors of darkness in their communities the biker gangs that collectively share the name Vagos.
As it happens, Falco and Rowe each infiltrated the Vagos at about the same time, working on behalf of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. They're also both in the federal witness protection program. Funny thing: They both end up being characters in each others' books, both of which are being released this month.
In their separate books, Falco and Rowe start as "hang around" biker gang wannabes, win promotion to "prospect" and finally become "fully patched" members of the Vagos with the right to wear Vago patches on their jackets and to attend the biker meetings called "church." And their two books, both of which recount many assorted acts of biker depravity, make for equally page turning, blood curdling and nausea inducing reading.
Having been caught and convicted of drug smuggling, Falco agrees to work for the ATF in exchange for a lighter sentence. He enters the subculture of the Vagos, acting first as a servant for "patched" members and pummeling rivals who threaten those members. His outlook shifts after witnessing the Vagos abusing women, intimidating civilians and killing rivals and innocent bystanders.
"I swelled with a sense of duty," Falco writes. "My role was no longer about self preservation. It was about justice."
As an infiltrator, Falco's job is to gather the evidence (mostly recorded with a wire he hides in his underwear) that will get the most dangerous Vagos convicted in court.
Spending day after numbing day with the bikers, Falco witnesses not only the cruelty they inflict on rivals but also the ease with which they betray one another: "Code, club,van cleef arpels copy alhambra necklace, colors was all illusion and delusion."
Falco writes of living with the constant fear that his identity as an informer will be uncovered. As he survives one close call after another, "Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws" becomes an increasingly taut and tense book.
After getting arrested for an assault committed by his Vago "brothers," Falco enters a baroque jail subculture in which he's forced to punish other inmates. Then,vca knock off necklace, to protect his identity, he volunteers for the mental torture of solitary confinement. In these passages, his book reaches a kind of Dantesque apogee.
"Prison code dictated that wolves devoured rabbits,van cleef knock off clover necklace," he writes, describing the punishment meted out to a suspected child molester mistakenly mixed with the general jail population. "Survival required adaptation. Child molesters excluded; no one protected them."
Near the middle of Falco's book, a biker informer named "George" enters. Similarly, a biker informer named "Charles" enters about halfway into George Rowe's book, "Gods of Mischief: My Undercover Vendetta to Take Down the Vagos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang."
Rowe's book reads more like a true crime confessional than Falco's. "Gods of Mischief" begins with Rowe agreeing to join the Vagos not as part of a plea deal but to exact revenge for the Vagos' coldblooded, senseless killing of Rowe's friend in a Hemet bar. Becoming a "snitch" is, for Rowe, a way of giving something back to the neighborhoods he'd poisoned with the methamphetamines he sold.
"This was about paying back a community that I'd dumped on for years," Rowe writes. The Vagos "were behaving like animals and had to be stopped."
But stopping the Vagos requires that Rowe immerse himself in their ways. He makes it his goal to earn a member's patch; it bears the Norse god of mischief in the middle.
Along the way he also picks up a young girlfriend, Jenna, who is a heroin addict and who becomes pregnant with his child without knowing Rowe is a federal informant.
The writing in "Gods of Mischief" is at once livelier and cruder than in Falco's book but it's credible in its crudeness. Reading Rowe is a bit like sitting on a bar stool next to a biker for several hours as he tells his story: You endure the misogyny and the profanity because the man has an amazing story to tell.
Freddie of the five towns
STOKE ON TRENT never misses opportunities to pay tribute to the favourite sons of the Potteries. Arnold Bennett has a wall mounted memorial, Stanley Matthews has a footballing statue, Reginald Mitchell is remembered with one of his Spitfires. It seemed only fair, when the centenary of film was being celebrated in 1996, that Freddie Jones should be accorded a plaque in his native Longton.
Jones has been acclaimed internationally as a character actor. His credits range from epic films such as Antony and Cleopatra and Far From the Madding Crowd to television series such as Pennies From Heaven and Inspector Morse.
When the honour was first suggested, however, he was embarrassed. "I thought I'd made only about 30 films and considered myself unworthy," he says. "I received a fan letter asking me to check a list of my films. I counted 63 altogether twice as many as I'd thought. Some were rubbish, but some were great, including my leading role for Fellini [in And the Ship Sails On]. So I thought, 'Yes, I've thoroughly justified my plaque.' "
And there it hangs, in the newly refurbished Longton Town Hall, beneath the magnificent green tiled staircase, by the covered market where freshly griddled Staffordshire oatcakes teeter in warm stacks. In nearby Burslem, as Jones diced with the pelican crossings, a van driver thrust his head out of his vehicle to shout "Hi, Freddie". Lately of Stratford, Hollywood and Europe, the burly, silver bearded gent with the fedora and raffishly knotted bow tie was delighted to be home again.
"On my return visits, I just walk around on my own and remember places and characters that have gone," he says. "It's what I call my 'ghost hunting'."
As the home of Royal Doulton, Wedgwood and Spode,van cleef fake necklace alhambra, Jones's city was shaped, glazed and fired into greatness. The great legacy of Arnold Bennett, whose first novel was published 100 years ago this year, has been to remind the world of its undying debt to "The Five Towns" of England's Potteries. Stoke on Trent is, in fact, a federation of six towns. Ribbon like, they run a mere six miles from north to south, from Tunstall, to Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton and Longton, where Jones was born in 1927.
Thanks to Bennett,van cleef necklace knock off alhambra, there are even more literary references here than in Hardy's Wessex. In Edwardian Burslem, reinvented as "Bursley", the Old Town Hall was where Denry Machin, of The Card, had the temerity to dance with the Countess of Chell. Come the Millennium, it will house Ceramica, a 3.3 million celebration of Burslem as "The Mother Town of the Potteries".
The building itself is the true glory, however, with its columns, carriage arch and sumptuous four faced clock tower. Above it all, a gleaming gilded angel radiates the same purity that pierced the poisonous pall of the towering bottle shaped kilns of pre war Stoke.
"The air was so thick you could chew it at times," says Jones. "When it was moist it contained sulphuric acid from the coal burning kilns. Your eyes stung merely from being out of doors."
Burslem's venerable old pub, The Tiger, features in at least a dozen of Bennett's stories. Historically, it was where Josiah Wedgwood met James Brindley to discuss the logistics of the new Trent and Mersey Canal. Now, at lunchtimes,van cleef arpels alhambra replica necklace, flat capped old gentlemen puff pipes, nursing halves of Bass, while office girls swig from bottles. "You'd get a long row of women,van cleef arpel knock off necklace, sitting there with a sort of smug self satisfaction . . ." Hands clasped across his belly and smiling beatifically, Jones bravely depicted the maturing flower of local womanhood.
"My mother's piano would start and a single disembodied voice would spontaneously pick up the tune . . . As if possessed, the voice of the actor soared to a strangulated, smoke laden soprano that was not of this pub. ". . . then, like Siegfried Sassoon's poem, 'Suddenly everyone burst out singing . . .' "
Downhill in bustling Hanley, outside the Theatre Royal, he recalled his own early performances. "My first sense of the total magic of the theatre was here for one glorious week with a Scout Gang Show. Maybe it was something to do with the terrific dramatic contrast between the vividly lit stage and the dark bowels of back stage."
We paid homage at the statue of Sir Stanley, whom Freddie watched as a boy, and found the inscription particularly stirring: "His name is symbolic of the beauty of the game, his fame timeless and international . . . a magical player of the people for the people." Once, a souvenir hunter stole away with the maestro's bronze ball. So fierce was the outcry that three days later the ball turned up in a telephone box with a scrawled message of apology.
Stoke is rightly proud of its heroes, footballing or otherwise, and of a local industry that dates from 2000 BC. Next year's Spode Bicentenary will commemorate 200 years of producing fine bone china. Royal Doulton, Spode, Wedgwood and Portmeirion all have lavish visitor centres, while a new 6 million centre being created at Wedgwood will be Europe's largest industrial visitor attraction.
"You can always tell someone who comes from the Potteries," Jones maintains. "They're the ones who start lifting dishes in restaurants to see the name underneath."
His father worked in electrical ceramics, and two of his aunts were free hand painters. "The climax of their career was painting a magnificent bone china dinner service for the marriage of Queen Elizabeth that had a superb letter 'E' with a tiny crown all in 24 carat gold," he says. But there was a dark side to life among the saggar makers, jolleyers, jiggers, fettlers and blungers and other trades so peculiar to The Potteries. "The colours and glazes had lead in them, so lead poisoning was always a risk. When ware was placed for firing, they used ground silica to form a buffer between the pieces. So they contracted silicosis."
Hundreds died from a debilitating lung disease known as "potter's rot". In 1900, the average age of Longton's adults at death was 46. One in four children died in infancy.
Of the bottle ovens, only 37 survive from the 2,000 that seared the North Staffordshire skies. Four are preserved at the Gladstone Museum in Longton, as monuments to an age when every cloud had a sulphur lining. "I've been lost 200 yards from my home because of a yellow fog that was almost palpable," Jones recalls.
With mallards and Canada geese resenting our interruptions, we toured Longton's handsome Victorian park where the young Freddie fished, sailed his toy boat and watched costumed pageants. The actor made his own performing debut in a local Church of England Primary School. "It was a recitation, 'Under a toadstool fast asleep, lay a wee dormouse all in a heap . . .' My late mother dined out on it."
The school survives, as does the narrow back to back street where he was born. "I learnt to ride a bicycle along this street. My father held it by the saddle, then let go. I turned around and found that he wasn't there . . ."
The house where the Jones family lived for more than 30 years is no longer standing, but enough of Villiers Street remains for ghosts to be roused successfully: the old lady who brewed herb beer; another who washed and laid out corpses.
"A lady came out when I walked along here once, saying, 'It's Freddie Jones, isn't it?' And then I said, 'Listen, you've not got to be offended . . . but you were one of the very earliest sexual fantasies of me and all my friends . . . We used to wonder at your loveliness and femininity.' She said: 'Are you pulling my leg?' I said: 'No, I promise you, it's the truth.' And she said: 'Well, thank you very much.' "
The actor told how his grandfather once interrupted lunch to go out and help a small boy who had come to the door complaining that his kite wouldn't fly. "He put more tail on the kite and flew it down that little street," he said.
"And that's what I call beauty, love and 'community'. I'm sorry to go on, but that's what it all means to me. It's what I can relate to. I will continue coming back. People always accuse me of being over dependent upon it emotionally, and think that I should forget it. But that's not me. I'll keep hunting my ghosts."The Bennett connection Events to mark the 100th anniversary of Bennett's first novel, A Man from the North, culminate in an Arnold Bennett Celebration Weekend on September 18 20.
STOKE ON TRENT never misses opportunities to pay tribute to the favourite sons of the Potteries. Arnold Bennett has a wall mounted memorial, Stanley Matthews has a footballing statue, Reginald Mitchell is remembered with one of his Spitfires. It seemed only fair, when the centenary of film was being celebrated in 1996, that Freddie Jones should be accorded a plaque in his native Longton.
Jones has been acclaimed internationally as a character actor. His credits range from epic films such as Antony and Cleopatra and Far From the Madding Crowd to television series such as Pennies From Heaven and Inspector Morse.
When the honour was first suggested, however, he was embarrassed. "I thought I'd made only about 30 films and considered myself unworthy," he says. "I received a fan letter asking me to check a list of my films. I counted 63 altogether twice as many as I'd thought. Some were rubbish, but some were great, including my leading role for Fellini [in And the Ship Sails On]. So I thought, 'Yes, I've thoroughly justified my plaque.' "
And there it hangs, in the newly refurbished Longton Town Hall, beneath the magnificent green tiled staircase, by the covered market where freshly griddled Staffordshire oatcakes teeter in warm stacks. In nearby Burslem, as Jones diced with the pelican crossings, a van driver thrust his head out of his vehicle to shout "Hi, Freddie". Lately of Stratford, Hollywood and Europe, the burly, silver bearded gent with the fedora and raffishly knotted bow tie was delighted to be home again.
"On my return visits, I just walk around on my own and remember places and characters that have gone," he says. "It's what I call my 'ghost hunting'."
As the home of Royal Doulton, Wedgwood and Spode,van cleef fake necklace alhambra, Jones's city was shaped, glazed and fired into greatness. The great legacy of Arnold Bennett, whose first novel was published 100 years ago this year, has been to remind the world of its undying debt to "The Five Towns" of England's Potteries. Stoke on Trent is, in fact, a federation of six towns. Ribbon like, they run a mere six miles from north to south, from Tunstall, to Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton and Longton, where Jones was born in 1927.
Thanks to Bennett,van cleef necklace knock off alhambra, there are even more literary references here than in Hardy's Wessex. In Edwardian Burslem, reinvented as "Bursley", the Old Town Hall was where Denry Machin, of The Card, had the temerity to dance with the Countess of Chell. Come the Millennium, it will house Ceramica, a 3.3 million celebration of Burslem as "The Mother Town of the Potteries".
The building itself is the true glory, however, with its columns, carriage arch and sumptuous four faced clock tower. Above it all, a gleaming gilded angel radiates the same purity that pierced the poisonous pall of the towering bottle shaped kilns of pre war Stoke.
"The air was so thick you could chew it at times," says Jones. "When it was moist it contained sulphuric acid from the coal burning kilns. Your eyes stung merely from being out of doors."
Burslem's venerable old pub, The Tiger, features in at least a dozen of Bennett's stories. Historically, it was where Josiah Wedgwood met James Brindley to discuss the logistics of the new Trent and Mersey Canal. Now, at lunchtimes,van cleef arpels alhambra replica necklace, flat capped old gentlemen puff pipes, nursing halves of Bass, while office girls swig from bottles. "You'd get a long row of women,van cleef arpel knock off necklace, sitting there with a sort of smug self satisfaction . . ." Hands clasped across his belly and smiling beatifically, Jones bravely depicted the maturing flower of local womanhood.
"My mother's piano would start and a single disembodied voice would spontaneously pick up the tune . . . As if possessed, the voice of the actor soared to a strangulated, smoke laden soprano that was not of this pub. ". . . then, like Siegfried Sassoon's poem, 'Suddenly everyone burst out singing . . .' "
Downhill in bustling Hanley, outside the Theatre Royal, he recalled his own early performances. "My first sense of the total magic of the theatre was here for one glorious week with a Scout Gang Show. Maybe it was something to do with the terrific dramatic contrast between the vividly lit stage and the dark bowels of back stage."
We paid homage at the statue of Sir Stanley, whom Freddie watched as a boy, and found the inscription particularly stirring: "His name is symbolic of the beauty of the game, his fame timeless and international . . . a magical player of the people for the people." Once, a souvenir hunter stole away with the maestro's bronze ball. So fierce was the outcry that three days later the ball turned up in a telephone box with a scrawled message of apology.
Stoke is rightly proud of its heroes, footballing or otherwise, and of a local industry that dates from 2000 BC. Next year's Spode Bicentenary will commemorate 200 years of producing fine bone china. Royal Doulton, Spode, Wedgwood and Portmeirion all have lavish visitor centres, while a new 6 million centre being created at Wedgwood will be Europe's largest industrial visitor attraction.
"You can always tell someone who comes from the Potteries," Jones maintains. "They're the ones who start lifting dishes in restaurants to see the name underneath."
His father worked in electrical ceramics, and two of his aunts were free hand painters. "The climax of their career was painting a magnificent bone china dinner service for the marriage of Queen Elizabeth that had a superb letter 'E' with a tiny crown all in 24 carat gold," he says. But there was a dark side to life among the saggar makers, jolleyers, jiggers, fettlers and blungers and other trades so peculiar to The Potteries. "The colours and glazes had lead in them, so lead poisoning was always a risk. When ware was placed for firing, they used ground silica to form a buffer between the pieces. So they contracted silicosis."
Hundreds died from a debilitating lung disease known as "potter's rot". In 1900, the average age of Longton's adults at death was 46. One in four children died in infancy.
Of the bottle ovens, only 37 survive from the 2,000 that seared the North Staffordshire skies. Four are preserved at the Gladstone Museum in Longton, as monuments to an age when every cloud had a sulphur lining. "I've been lost 200 yards from my home because of a yellow fog that was almost palpable," Jones recalls.
With mallards and Canada geese resenting our interruptions, we toured Longton's handsome Victorian park where the young Freddie fished, sailed his toy boat and watched costumed pageants. The actor made his own performing debut in a local Church of England Primary School. "It was a recitation, 'Under a toadstool fast asleep, lay a wee dormouse all in a heap . . .' My late mother dined out on it."
The school survives, as does the narrow back to back street where he was born. "I learnt to ride a bicycle along this street. My father held it by the saddle, then let go. I turned around and found that he wasn't there . . ."
The house where the Jones family lived for more than 30 years is no longer standing, but enough of Villiers Street remains for ghosts to be roused successfully: the old lady who brewed herb beer; another who washed and laid out corpses.
"A lady came out when I walked along here once, saying, 'It's Freddie Jones, isn't it?' And then I said, 'Listen, you've not got to be offended . . . but you were one of the very earliest sexual fantasies of me and all my friends . . . We used to wonder at your loveliness and femininity.' She said: 'Are you pulling my leg?' I said: 'No, I promise you, it's the truth.' And she said: 'Well, thank you very much.' "
The actor told how his grandfather once interrupted lunch to go out and help a small boy who had come to the door complaining that his kite wouldn't fly. "He put more tail on the kite and flew it down that little street," he said.
"And that's what I call beauty, love and 'community'. I'm sorry to go on, but that's what it all means to me. It's what I can relate to. I will continue coming back. People always accuse me of being over dependent upon it emotionally, and think that I should forget it. But that's not me. I'll keep hunting my ghosts."The Bennett connection Events to mark the 100th anniversary of Bennett's first novel, A Man from the North, culminate in an Arnold Bennett Celebration Weekend on September 18 20.
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Yogurt can be part of a healthy diet, but, like any other food, should be eaten in moderation. A balanced, varied diet is necessary for good health. Which type of yogurt you choose is important in determining how much you eat, because some are more nutritious than others; the calories,boucle d oreille van cleef r��plique, protein, fat and sugar varies.
Recommended Dairy Consumption per Day
A good starting point for figuring out how much yogurt you should eat per day is the recommended daily dairy consumption. Department of Agriculture ChooseMyPlate website recommends 3 cups of dairy per day,boucles d oreilles anciennes en or r��plique. Each cup of yogurt counts as 1 cup of dairy.
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Yogurt may have some health benefits, making it a good food to include in a healthy diet. People who consume more dairy products,van cleef boucle d oreille imitation, including yogurt, may have a lower risk of metabolic syndrome, obesity and heart disease. The probiotics contained in many yogurts may have beneficial effects on health as well, according to a review published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2014. Probiotics are beneficial bacteria found in the digestive tract that help control levels of harmful bacteria and limit the risk for certain health conditions.
Consider the Calories in Yogurt
It important not to eat so much yogurt that you go over your recommended daily calories. While some studies show beneficial effects for yogurt on weight, others show a potential for increased weight gain in some people with increasing consumption of yogurt, according to another article published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2014. The calories in yogurt can vary quite a bit,r��plique boucle d oreille van cleef prix, with a 3/4 cup serving of vanilla non fat yogurt having as many as 143 calories and a 3/4 cup serving of nonfat vanilla yogurt sweetened with a low calorie sweetener instead of sugar having as few as 73 calories. Department of Agriculture recommends choosing nonfat or low fat versions of yogurt; full fat versions can provide a significant amount of fat, a large portion of which comes from unhealthy saturated fat. A 3/4 cup serving of plain whole milk yogurt has more than 5 grams of fat, which is about 8 percent of the daily value for fat of 65 grams. Eating 3 cups of this yogurt would use up more than 30 percent of your recommended fat grams for the day. Low fat yogurt has about 2 grams of fat per 3/4 cup serving, and non fat yogurt has, by definition, less than 0.5 grams of fat per serving, making them better choices if you plan to have multiple servings of yogurt per day.
Skip Sugary Yogurts
Opt for plain yogurt over the flavored varieties, as these are quite high in sugar. Choosing Greek yogurt can lower the sugar content even further, as the whey that strained out in the process of making Greek yogurt contains much of the natural sugars in the yogurt. The American Heart Association recommends women get no more than 100 calories per day from added sugars, which equals about 25 grams of sugar per day, and men get no more than 150 calories, or about 38 grams per day, from added sugars. A 3/4 cup serving of low fat fruit yogurt can have more than 32 grams of sugar, while the same amount of plain low fat yogurt has about 12 grams of sugar and nonfat Greek yogurt has less than 6 grams.
Plain low fat yogurt isn necessarily appealing to everyone, but you can take this nutritious yogurt and add other foods to it to improve the flavor and the nutrient content. Consider adding fruit to give it more sweetness, and nuts to add some crunch while increasing the protein and healthy unsaturated fats. Both fruit and nuts contain essential vitamins, minerals and fiber. Another way to make yogurt more filling is to mix in some high fiber, low sugar cereal.
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It has been a whirlwind first few months for new Westshore Rebels head coach Charly Cardilicchia.
After weeks of putting together his staff and recruiting players to fill holes left behind by the departure of star players like Jamal Lyles, Trey Campbell, Aarmin Purewal and Lorenzo Ihanza,replique boucles d oreilles van cleef, Cardilicchia will begin to see the fruits of his labour as the defending Cullen Cup champions opened spring camp on Friday.
"This is the first chance for me to really put it on the field and see the product," said Cardilicchia. "It has been a little bit of a crazy last few months. Careful what you wish for, they say.
"It's been a busy time, but a real fun and exciting time. It's been heavy recruiting and heavily establishing some of the things off the field that we needed to fix up like billet programs and jobs."
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Cardilicchia has recruited across the country with players from Halifax to Victoria slated for the roster. Many will not be here as they have already committed.
"We will have more coming in. It's difficult to fund all of it so we will bring the others in closer to the season," said Cardilicchia. "We'll know where we stand and this will give us a nice chance to evaluate this weekend."
The biggest hole to fill will be at running back where Lyles and Campbell have moved on to university.
"We're going to shift into a more balanced attack. We'll throw the ball more and I expect to be a lot more proficient in the pass game, with a lot more completions," said Cardilicchia, who added his receiving corps will be young, but very talented.
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EXTRA POINTS: CFLers Dexter Janke (Calgary), Aaron Crawford (Hamilton), Quinn Van Gylswyk and Greg Morris (both Saskatchewan) are all guest coaches this weekend. All but Janke are Rebels alumni Van Gylswyk and Morris played two years together here. . . . session.
It has been a whirlwind first few months for new Westshore Rebels head coach Charly Cardilicchia.
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"This is the first chance for me to really put it on the field and see the product," said Cardilicchia. "It has been a little bit of a crazy last few months. Careful what you wish for, they say.
"It's been a busy time, but a real fun and exciting time. It's been heavy recruiting and heavily establishing some of the things off the field that we needed to fix up like billet programs and jobs."
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Cardilicchia has recruited across the country with players from Halifax to Victoria slated for the roster. Many will not be here as they have already committed.
"We will have more coming in. It's difficult to fund all of it so we will bring the others in closer to the season," said Cardilicchia. "We'll know where we stand and this will give us a nice chance to evaluate this weekend."
The biggest hole to fill will be at running back where Lyles and Campbell have moved on to university.
"We're going to shift into a more balanced attack. We'll throw the ball more and I expect to be a lot more proficient in the pass game, with a lot more completions," said Cardilicchia, who added his receiving corps will be young, but very talented.
Coach Shane Beatty's defence will be solid, led by Jeremie Drouin, Byron MacKinnon and Kent Hicks. Offensive linemen Christian Krause and Tyson Thompson are back, as is quarterback Ashton MacKinnon. Gabe Olivares, a QB from UBC,boucle d oreille van cleef replique, is also on board.
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"My brother leaving hurts, but that's OK. It's good for him and I'm proud of him," said Krause, 21, who was an all star on the O line along with Purewal last year. "Football is football. I'm here to play for my city. Every year you're going to go through the turnover of guys that's football. You always have to fill holes."
EXTRA POINTS: CFLers Dexter Janke (Calgary), Aaron Crawford (Hamilton), Quinn Van Gylswyk and Greg Morris (both Saskatchewan) are all guest coaches this weekend. All but Janke are Rebels alumni Van Gylswyk and Morris played two years together here. . . . session.
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Drink an eight ounce glass of water. The water will fill your stomach, which can temporarily ease your hunger pangs. Drink a zero calorie flavored water if you're craving something sweet.
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AARP: Overcome Hunger Pangs Without Eating
Princeton University: How is food intake controlled?
"Annals of Internal Medicine"; Brief Communication: Sleep Curtailment in Healthy Young Men Is Associated with Decreased Leptin Levels, Elevated Ghrelin Levels, and Increased Hunger and Appetite; K. Spiegel, E. Tasali, P. Penev, and E. Van Cauter.; December, 2004
AYP: Yoga,van cleef arpels fake bracelet, Overcoming Hunger, and Weight Control
Reader's Digest: 10 Ways to Control Your Cravings
"The American Journal of Physiology Regulatory"; The influence of resistance and aerobic exercise on hunger, circulating levels of acylated ghrelin and peptide YY in healthy males; David R Broom, Rachel L Batterham, James A King and David J Stensel;November, 2008
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Humour and pathos are blended perfectly, and there's hardly a false note (except for a too coincidental encounter on the road).
The performances are uniformly superb, with little Abigail Breslin excellent as the sensible child who mostly keeps her cool while everyone around her goes quietly barmy. Special mention must be made of Toni Collette's sympathetic mother and of Alan Arkin's endearingly iconoclastic grandfather.
MARGARET: In my notes from this film I've got: "It's not hysterical." But it's so real because of the performances.
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