Centre College women’s soccer moves on to second round

Matt Overing/matthew.overing@amnews.com Centre's Alana Hughes heads in Centre's second goal of the game off of a cross from Amber Cowell in the second half of Saturday's game against Piedmont.

It took some time for Centre College to settle in, but the women’s soccer team came through in a big way in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, beating Piedmont 4-1 behind three second-half goals.

The Colonels beat Piedmont 1-0 earlier in the season, so coach Jay Hoffman knew it would be a challenging game. Playing without All-American and leading scorer Destinie Graves increased the difficulty, but Centre’s depth showed in its dominating display.

“Sometimes when you don’t have a player, other players have to step up and we have to do the little things,” Hoffman said. “I thought the team did a very good job again today of doing the little things, especially in the second half.”

Both teams struggled to get anything going in the first half, although Centre had a majority of the chances. The Colonels struck first on a headed corner from Alana Hughes to Hannah Sirkin. Just 12 seconds later, Cassidy Reich scored for Piedmont to tie the game at 1-1.

“In the first 20 minutes, both teams are trying to sort out the style,” Hoffman said. “They were pressuring us and we had to be better on the ball, our passes had to be sharper and they weren’t as good as I wanted them to be.”

The teams were knotted 1-1 at the break, even though Centre held a 12-2 advantage in shots at halftime.

In the second half, Hoffman’s team burst out of the gate. Shannon Murray headed in a cross from Amber Cowell to give the Colonels a 2-1 lead, and they didn’t look back. Twelve minutes later, Hughes got a goal of her own, blasting a shot into the roof of the net on another Cowell cross.

Throughout the second half, Hoffman was switching his players. With a two-goal lead, nearly all of Centre’s starters were out of the game.

“We made a lot of rotations,” he said. “I wanted to trust our players and give rotations because I looked at today, it’s not just a one game, it’s a two game weekend. If you can get minutes off of your top players, players off of the bench come in and do good work, that should put us in a good situation for having fresh legs tomorrow.”

Hoffman’s trust paid off, and his bench continued to deliver. Keeghan Francis scored in the 81st minute to put the game on ice, 4-1.

“You’ve got to trust your players,” Hoffman said. “Nobody really sees how they do in practice, but you’ve got to understand, we’ve been going with our top group with our next group for weeks, and our next group is very, very talented. If you can’t have confidence in those players, you’re not developing your program. Next year we’re losing more players, you’ve got to expect that these players are itching to come out and do well. In a game like this, you want them to come out and do that.”

Hoffman praised his bench for bringing balance to the game.

“Coming off of the bench, I thought Sarah Waldo did a really good job calming the game down and making passes,” the coach said. “Accuracy wise, she wasn’t trying to hit the home run ball, she was calming things and including everybody. I think everybody really played steady.”

Sirkin, a starting forward, accounted for just one of the Colonels’ goals, but Hoffman said her movement off of the ball opened up the Piedmont defense.

“Hannah Sirkin did a really good job. Second half especially, she did a really good job finding a balance between her and the outside forward,” Hoffman said. “She didn’t crowd her too much, she gave her some room, but when she needed support she was right there to support. I thought she did well.”

The Colonels will break for 24 hours before playing Hardin-Simmons, who beat Washington and Lee 3-0 in the other first-round matchup hosted in Danville.

“I think our strength of schedule and the teams we played throughout the year, and then our conference prepared us for a game like this,” Hoffman said. “Our conference is very, very challenging, we’ve got many teams that should be here. Playing those games really gets you ready for that next level.”


I originally wrote a tutorial about Var, Let, and Const using Observable Notebook.
In the notebook, you can edit the code, so that you understand by doing.

As a junior dev, it seems like you are told to never use var because the variable can be accessed anywhere, but what does that even mean? Keep reading and hopefully, understand the vocabulary and seeing code examples help. Of course, mess around with code as well.

When you create a variable, you declare it with the keywords let, var, const. Reassign means you are giving the variable another value. var can both be redeclared and reassigned. You will see that it is different for const and let from this table.

Var, let, and const have different types of scope. Scope is the context where variables and expressions live.

hoisting means that everytime you declare a variable, Javascript's engine will immediately hoist (or PULL) those variables up in the beginning of the scope and the variables will be declared. But will they be assigned or initialized?
With var, it will be initialized as undefined, while let and const will not. That is why you get an error

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The ‘Theory of Everything’ actor Eddie Redmayne uses CBD oil to calm his nerves.

Eddie Redmayne has resorted to CBD oil to calm his nerves.

The ‘Theory of Everything’ actor admitted he’s tried everything he can think of, including the cannabis-derived product, alcohol and meditation to alleviate his worried before he starts a job but he’s admitted most of them just make things worse.

Speaking to Vogue magazine, he said: “I’ve tried everything [to deal with my nerves]; meditation CBD oil, drinking, but then I get paranoid that my semi-drunkennesss is affecting the work and that sends me into even more of a spin.”

Meanwhile, the ‘Trial of the Chicago 7’ star thinks he could have had a very different career path if he hadn’t made it as an actor.

The ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ star recently insisted he would never take his success for granted.

He said: "I never take it for granted, getting offered stuff and having a say. What happened to me was one film changed that. It’s not like overnight you’ve become a substantially better actor. You’ve just been lucky getting the extraordinary part with a great director, wonderful co-stars, and the alchemy of filmmaking has worked."

And Eddie and his friend Jamie Dornan recalled some of their failed auditions.

Eddie told his friend for Variety's Actors on Actors series: "I remember auditioning for '10,000 BC', which involved being topless, running around, like in Egypt. I mean, look at me. I’m sort of pallid, white, moley. I was always two hours early or an hour late to auditions, endlessly running these lines. But it was great in the sense that you got to try everything and fail hard."

Whilst Jamie added: "There was just so much failure. I just remember your rental car - the foot area of the front passenger seat was a sea of failed audition sides. You were just shucking them down there after coming out of one of those auditions, going, 'That’s another fail.'"


Mia was always my favorite. Oh, I know parents aren’t supposed to have favorites, but here’s a flash — they do. They can’t help it. I love her brother and sister more than my own life, but I always loved her just a smidgen more. Cut her a bit more slack. And in return, she was the model child. Where her brother and sister were often spirited and rebellious — demanding so much of my time, patience, and energy — Mia never seemed to give me any trouble.

She was a happy kid who did well in school and had lots of friends. When I would arrive home after work each evening, she would be the first one to run and greet me, just bubbling over with stories about her day.

But in Mia’s late teens, she started to pull away. She’d argue with me about doing her chores, she became sullen, and she even ditched a couple days of school in her senior year — all things that were completely out of character for her. And the day after she graduated at 18, she moved out of our house. She had taken her savings and rented a small apartment without even telling me. A couple years after that, she moved out of state.

Our relationship continued to deteriorate. It didn’t happen all at once. It was a process almost too slow to monitor until it hit me one day that she was now not only geographically but emotionally distant. It’s not just that she didn’t regularly contact me; she didn’t contact me at all. If I hadn’t reached out, I wonder if we ever would have communicated. And when we did, she was always remote, monosyllabic, closed.

I travel to visit her at least once a year. I go to her; she never comes to me. She doesn’t exactly make me feel unwelcome, but there’s a palpable awkwardness between us when we are together that I just don’t understand. I want to hug her, hold her, feel the presence of that sweet little girl I once knew. She’s my child, my baby. Why is this happening? Just because she’s a 40-something adult shouldn’t change this bond.

I have asked her dozens of times why our relationship is so strained. She has no answer. If only she would tell me, I could explain or ask forgiveness. Was it the fact that I maintained a career during the years she was growing up? She always said that she wished I was the kind of mom who was home more, waiting for her after school with hot chocolate and homemade cookies. It was a running joke between us. But now I wonder if it really was a joke. Was it because I divorced her father? I’ve tortured myself about these big things and even a multitude of minor incidents that took place during her childhood. Did I handle them correctly? Was I too tough? Too lax?

It hit me one day that she was now not only geographically but emotionally distant.

Mia’s semi-estrangement is something I don’t readily discuss. When acquaintances ask me how she is, I always tell them she’s doing great. I hide our situation as I would an ugly sore beneath a Band-Aid. I try to ignore it, not think about it too much, but it continues to hurt. Sometimes in the wee hours of the morning when sleep eludes me and my worries attack me, there it is. It makes me so sad.

The only consolation, if you can call it that, is that I’m not alone. On a whim one sleepless night, I Googled “adult children estranged from their parents.” Thousands of hits came up, including a multitude of blogs, self-help websites, and the titles of dozens of books and other publications exploring every facet of this subject. “It’s a silent epidemic,” writes psychologist Joshua Coleman in his book When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don’t Get Along. “It’s sadly very common.” Other experts on the subject agree.

Just within the circle of my own friends there are many stories. Mary and I have been best friends for almost 40 years. She and her daughter had always had a loving albeit prickly relationship. After her daughter graduated from college, married, and moved out of the country — “as far away from me as she could,” bemoans Mary — their bond continued to deteriorate, especially after her daughter had a baby.

Stan, who is married to my friend Ellen, has been estranged from his son since shortly after he and his first wife divorced more than 40 years ago. “I tried to visit him early on,” he says, “but it was just too hard. My ex-wife just wanted to get on with her life and she didn’t want me involved in any aspect of it. Neither did my son.”

Coleman writes that divorce is often the cause of parent-child estrangement. I sometimes think that my own divorce from Mia’s dad might be at the root of my Mia problem. She was only 15 when my husband and I went through an especially difficult breakup. There were several separations followed by reconciliations that didn’t last. The emotional yo-yoing went on for a couple of years, and it took a terrible toll on our whole family. During a visit to see Mia on her 40th birthday, I asked her about it. She told me, yes, the divorce was especially hard on her. Not so much because her dad moved out but more because I was, as she put it, “just so out of it.” I told her how sorry I was and tried to explain that the breakup of my 25-year marriage was the most devastating event of my life. I figured, now that she was a married adult herself, she would understand. But if the truth be told, having that discussion didn’t seem to melt the ice between us.

Divorce, however, isn’t the only common denominator for these familial rifts. My neighbor Judy’s son cut off contact with her just when she was most vulnerable, after the death of her husband of 45 years. It left Judy bewildered and even more broken because she had no idea her son had been hiding these feelings for so long. “He told me I never treated his father with the respect he deserved,” Judy says. “I still don’t understand.”

In an appropriately titled book, Walking on Eggshells: Navigating the Delicate Relationship Between Adult Children and Parents, author Jane Isay writes that one of the reasons for this plague of estrangements is that adult children become progressively more focused on their own lives as they get older, a natural development that some mothers and fathers have a hard time accepting. “Parents can adapt themselves to no longer being the center of their children’s lives,” she explains. For most parents that’s easier said than done. It certainly was for me since almost from the moment my children were conceived, my life was centered around their well-being. Then, all of a sudden, they were grown, on their own, and I was expected to just step off to the side.

About six months ago, I sent Mia a chatty email that included a question about some remodel work I was having done on my house. Her husband used to own a construction company. She took an especially long time to respond. After I conveyed my impatience to her, she let me know quite bluntly that she was very busy with her job and life and friends and I shouldn’t expect her to drop everything to immediately respond unless it was an emergency. I felt dismissed, disrespected, and angry.

That was when I finally decided that if I wasn’t able to change her attitude toward me, I was going to have to change my attitude toward her. It was a liberating moment, one that Sheri McGregor talks about in her book, Done with the Crying: Help and Healing for Mothers of Estranged Adult Children. I read about the emotional suffering she went through because of her estranged son. Like me, she spent years feeling guilty and trying to figure out why it had happened. Eventually she came to the realization that, after all her failed efforts to change the situation, it was time for her to get on with her life and let her son get on with his. That’s exactly what I had to do.

In an email (I didn’t trust myself to verbally relay this message), I let Mia know for the first time how her behavior had affected me all these years, how unfair I felt it was for her to be so aloof and uncommunicative. I told her that I loved her but that I was done feeling guilty and tiptoeing around her feelings. I explained that when and if she wanted to have a relationship, I would be here. If she didn’t, I would accept her decision.

Almost immediately I felt like a weight had been lifted from my heart. Mia now knew exactly how I felt. This baring of my soul was hard, and it involved a lot of soul-searching. I came to the realization that perhaps I was the problem all along because I expected Mia to continue acting like the adoring little girl she used to be, something she wasn’t able to do. If that were the case, we both now would be free of the emotional ties that had caused us so much angst.

It’s been several months since I sent that email. Since then I’ve only heard from Mia once — on my birthday. It was a short and cordial phone conversation. And, surprising to me, I was just fine with that. My life is, well, less clouded by my trouble with Mia. I still worry about her, but every time I do I remind myself that she is a very capable adult who has a right to decide how she wants to relate to me and the rest of her family. Then I go about my own business.

Karen Westerberg Reyes’ last article for the Post was “Don’t Patronize Me!” in the November/December 2016 issue.


Hacienda, or the Spanish taxman to you and me, has granted significant tax advantages for savings & investment plans held by Spanish Tax Residents, under certain conditions.

The advantages are considerable and further compounded as the Hacienda treats non-compliant investments negatively with extra reporting and punitive taxation every year.

Are your existing investments safe from punitive tax?

What needs to be declared on modelo 720

Spanish Tax Residents (are you certain you are not considered tax resident in Spain? (see below)) must declare overseas assets worth more than €50000, including:

Are you a Spanish Tax Resident?

Seems complicated, but establishing tax residency in Spain is very simple. You are a Spanish Tax Resident if:

These rules have been tightened up to include those who deliberately spend less than 183 days a year in Spain to avoid being tax-resident. We know of cases where car hire, flight details & credit card bills have all been used to prove time spent in Spain.

What can be done to avoid this?

Had Mr Expat invested in a Spanish Tax Compliant Bond instead, no savings tax would be payable as no withdrawal was taken and he would not even need to declare the plan to the Hacienda.

Firstly, if no withdrawal is made, there is no tax to pay – a huge saving in tax.

Now assume the €10,000 gain is withdrawn. The important consideration here is that partial withdrawals are apportioned partly between redemption of capital (from the original investment) and partly from the gain.

Most clients I meet wrongly assume the tax would be the same as their current non-compliant investment of €1,980 (19.8% of the gain). But this is not the case at all. The tax due would be reduced significantly as calculated in the three stages below:

Mr Expat would be taxed €1,980 in a non-compliant investment even if no withdrawals had been made, whereas in a Spanish tax compliant bond he would only have a tax bill of €172.71 even when taking the full €10,000 and zero if no withdrawal was made. A tax saving of €1,807.29 in the first year.

This is a spectacular difference in a country\’s treatment of investments where tax is concerned.

If these dramatic tax savings have not made your ears prick up, then consider these additional advantages of Spanish compliant investments:

Your current investments may be causing you problems with non-declaration or draconian tax bills. The time to review your investments in line with your Spanish tax Residency is now.

The above article was kindly provided by Blacktower Financial Management Group and originally posted at: https://www.blacktowerfm.com/news/507-spectacular-tax-savings-for-expats-using-spanish-compliant-investments


As mentioned in the report, ESG Kullen offered $111 million for the building, which if approved by owners, would’ve been Chicago’s most expensive de-conversion deal to date. In order for such a deal to be approved, 75 percent of condo owners much approve the offer under Illinois law, and the final vote of 74.6 percent came up just short.

Also noted by Crain’s, ESG’s offer would’ve paid owners close to $410 per square foot, which is quite an increase from the roughly $300 per square foot some units inside the building sold for most recently.

Condo building de-conversions in Chicago have recently been on the rise thanks to a red hot apartment market that isn’t showing any signs of slowing down.


Prunus mahaleb herbarium specimen at Reading (RNG)

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