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Rodney Andrews was a professor in the economics department at University of Texas Dallas. He was a father, a husband, a son and more recently, a grandfather. He had an iconic aesthetic — glasses with massive salt and pepper dreadlocks and a NFL players physique. You couldn’t miss him. He radiated intelligence, seriousness and a manly steadiness. He died this week of a heart attack. He is survived by his wife, his four children, his grandchild, his extended family — a beautiful family who he loved and who loved him.

I promise this is not a way of telling you that I too, like Drake, have been to Carbone. But yes… I’ve been to Carbone. But despite the fact that I’ve indulged in the much talked about spicy vodka rigatoni from Carbone that takes months to get a reservation to eat, I’d feel like a fraud if I called myself a huge fan of Italian cuisine due to my lack of real knowledge compared to my peers.

I believe everyone is an artist, including you. I share motivation & inspiration to look at the world around you to find the perfect thing to draw to express who you are and the moment you are in. From bestselling author of the Draw Your Day book series. By Samantha Dion Baker · Over 11,000 subscribersNo thanks“Samantha's approach to art and creativity inspires me to make things even when creative block sits like a weight on my chest.

Historians are naturally prey to drawing parallels between the periods they study and the present. I’m certainly no exception, and I think the exercise can be a useful one. I’ve been doing it since 1988, when I wrote a short piece for The New Republic (reprinted here) speculating that just as attempts at reform and liberalization had spun out of the government’s control in the France of Louis XVI, so the same thing was happening in the USSR of Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet specialists ridiculed me in letters to the editor for suggesting that the USSR could ever possibly collapse).

I am not, as a rule, a big fan of the oeuvre of “batsh*t crazy Nic Cage” movies. A lot of his fans are, appreciating flicks in which he’s largely unburdened by keeping to a straight narrative or traditional character development, freed up to chew the scenery, roll his eyes maniacally and otherwise do very Nic Cage-y things. A little of that goes a short way for me. It’s been a thing since at least 1988’s “Vampire’s Kiss,” although “Adaptation” represented perhaps the high-water mark of this.

Dreux is a located in theEure-et-Loir department within the Centre-Val de Loire region. Sitting about 50 minutes west of Paris, it made for a perfect getaway for us, including a lovely hike along the Eure River, a stroll around Dreux’s historic city center, and then a decadent lunch at a local bistro. The Eure-et-Loir department is intensely rural and wooded, with a wide selection of trails for hiking and biking.

There aren’t many route concepts that defensive players and coordinators haven’t seen before. That means the key to great play-calling and game-planning lies less in the route combination itself, and more in the way that the offense gets to that route combination. Few in the NFL put this idea into practice better than Rams Head Coach Sean McVay. One of the best aspects of the Rams offense under McVay has been that the same route concepts are used repeatedly, just dressed up with different looks to throw the defense off the scent.

There’s a long list of hack-like learnings I have accumulated now that I’ve assumed the role of a handyman in the house. Being an engineer was never my calling, but my Dad has taught me a lot of simple tricks for doing things around the house that make me feel like I’m a badass Bob the Builder. As an Unrefined Housewife, I want to share with you some fun home hacks that could or totally could not apply to your life.