#inspirational

#inspirational

Living in the home of a legend doesn't come cheap, though, and the price tag for new occupants is $40,000 a month.They'll get a perfectly preserved home, complete with the home theater Disney used to screen his productions in.The current owner, Kazakhstan-born film director Timur Bekmambetov, according to public records, has a real love for the home and wasn't ready to sell it, according to listing agent Chase Campen of Compass.

John Beasley, who left his job as a railroad clerk in his mid-40s to pursue acting full time, bringing an understated power to films like the inspirational 1993 football movie Rudy and television series like the WB drama Everwood and the TV Land comedy The Soul Man, died on May 30 in Omaha.He was 79.

Steve Averill, who helped shape U2's visual identity, has reminded us in his podcast series of the importance of art in music.Here are 10 of the best designers and some of their finest creations
Now, Averill tells the story of his work with U2 in a fascinating podcast series, U2-Y.Taking the form of an 'anything goes' conversation with his musician son, Gareth, it's a must-listen for anyone with a love of design and a fascination with Ireland's most famous band.

Watch more from Dana Bash's interview with New Hampshire GOP Gov. Chris Sununu at 9 p.m. ET.New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a frequent Republican critic of former President Donald Trump, said Monday in an exclusive interview with CNN's Dana Bash that he will not seek the party's 2024 presidential nomination.

Runner number 401 was dead tired and suffering from low blood pressure.She was also last by a wide margin in the 5,000 meters and plodding alone, through a raucous rainstorm, around the track of a near-empty stadium.Bou Samnang, 20, finished the race anyway.Her rain-soaked performance at the Southeast Asian Games this year's edition was hosted this month by her home country, Cambodia would have been a footnote in a tournament that is unknown to most sporting fans outside the region.

AUSTIN, Texas KVUE was there last year when runner Kayleigh Williamson crossed the finish line.She became the first runner with Down syndrome to complete the Austin Marathon.She'll be back on the course with her mom, Sandy Williamson, on Sunday, running Kayleigh's 19th half marathon.KVUE caught up with the running duo to find out how their lives have changed since the marathon last year.

With Paris locked down over Passover, a rabbi started holding weekly talks over Zoom about Jewish texts.Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month.Give this article Give this article Give this article Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, center left, in black clothes, attends a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.Credit... Mauricio Lima for The New York Times PARIS - Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur thinks a lot about death.In years past, she would typically stop by a cafe for a double espresso after officiating at a funeral.

It's a huge weekend at the top of the WSL as the top four play each other in the two most crucial games of the season.While Chelsea and Arsenal will battle it out in London, Manchester City will be looking to dent neighbours and rival Manchester United 's title hopes as they travel across the City to face the reds on Sunday evening.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - It's only mid-May, and every game feels crucial.Every loss cuts deeper.It's not supposed to be like this during the marathon nature of a 162-game season, but such is life for the team that opens with a dreadful 13-25 record."We dug ourselves a hole," White Sox manager Pedro Grifol has said over and again during a recent mini-revival that saw his team win six of 10 games and provide glimmers of guarded optimism.

Britain is obsessed with home ownership.This might date back to our history of land ownership, class and colonial exploit but the fixation lives on, thanks in no small part to Thatcher's introduction of the right to buy in 1980.This weekend, both parties made their bids to reckon with the housing crisis, and both leaders, predictably, zeroed in on ownership.

The world knows Australia and Chelsea striker Sam Kerr.She scores goals.She backflips to celebrate.She drops pitch invaders on their backsides.She tells the haters to "suck on that one."Audiences everywhere know the happy, infectious, joyful Matildas captain Kerr.But there is another Kerr that we all don't quite know.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails An ovarian cancer survivor has become the world's first turbine bagger after walking thousands of steps to tick off all the turbines at one of the UK's largest windfarms.

A father of three diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) last year has pledged to pick up the ball and raise funds to try to find a cure for the condition after the death of Doddie Weir.Weir, a former Scotland rugby international, raised millions of pounds for research into the condition after his own diagnosis with the condition.

Esther Wojcicki isn't scared of ChatGPT.As a former teacher and the founder of one of the largest high school journalism programs in the country, she knows a thing or two about teaching the art of the written word, and instead of worrying that AI is going to turn students into cheaters, she thinks it can turn them into engaged writers.

Work from over 130 artists is to be auctioned off as part of an exhibition run by The Brain Tumour Charity to raise funds and awareness for its cause and the importance of time when contending with the condition.The London exhibition, called Time', is to feature photographs, paintings, scans and sculptures from budding and professional artists across the globe, including Tel Aviv and New York, to shine a light on how brain tumours affect people.

There wasn't an epiphany.The realization that this group of women played basketball at a level unseen at a school forever in the shadows of USC and UCLA came gradually, one victory after another.By the time Cal State Dominguez Hills was 19-0, it was abundantly clear unprecedented accomplishments were on the horizon, that the potential for something unimaginable in any other year was within its grasp.

The Chargers broke training camp back in August.Then, they just broke."There have been so many moving pieces," linebacker Drue Tranquill said."It seems like we haven't had a string of games where everyone has played together."A string of games?The Chargers haven't had a single game of being completely whole.

It's crazy to predict this game, crazy to risk the outpouring of ridicule if wrong, crazy to attempt forecasting the most evenly matched crosstown rivalry duel in many years - crazy, crazy, crazy.Doing it anyway.Doing it because this is what UCLA does.The Bruins have been deflated, they're embarrassed, they blew their chance at the national playoffs with an unthinkable loss Saturday night to Arizona and ...

And we were delighted to welcome back our friends, including Sherin Nicole, who wrote about "violent and brilliant heroines," Laura Emerick on the real conductors that may have inspired " TÁR," Marya Gates' illuminating discussion of women filmmakers in the silent era, Carla Renata with a sensitive essay on the way mental health challenges for Black men are reflected in media, and Sarah Knight Adamson with a peek ahead at one of the year's biggest releases, Martin Scorsese 's "Killers of the Flower Moon."

The 95th Academy Awards were held last night, where Everything Everywhere All At Once emerged victorious, with seven Oscars, for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing and three out of the four acting awards (Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan all won).

YouTube is full of inspirational how-to videos, many of which are a brilliant resource for artists and designers.Others can be a little, well, questionable.So when we first saw this How to make an Apple Pencil video, we couldn't resist finding out which camp the tutorial would fall into.The video, by Hannah Pengilly aka PengoArt (opens in new tab), which has already racked up an impressive 1.7 million views, shows the artist grab a standard-looking ballpoint pen, remove the ink and spring, cut a cotton bud in half and insert it in the end of the pen nib, poke some aluminium foil in the body of the pen case and reattach the nib.

Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Scotland captain Jamie Ritchie is determined to get his hands on the Doddie Weir Cup on Saturday and make the former lock's family proud by leading the national team to victory over Wales in their first home match since his death.

Fourteen years after making her World Cup debut as a 16-year-old in Australia, England captain Emily Rudge is relishing an unprecedented opportunity for women's rugby league when the home tournament kicks off with a double-header at Headingley next week.The negligible levels of interest that greeted England's trip Down Under in 2008 are a far cry from the revolution gripping the domestic game, with an expanded Women's Super League and a first match against Brazil that is set for a record women's rugby crowd of over 16,000.

For years, as Thomas and Mariah Pisha-Duffly have opened groundbreaking, nationally significant restaurants around the city, they have struggled to define them.Gado Gado, their first, pulls much of its inspiration from the Indonesian culinary canon, an homage to Thomas Pisha-Duffly's grandmother's cooking and heritage.

A Ukrainian refugee has been getting a helping hand with her English after a 92-year-old resident at the care home she works for stepped up to teach her.Terry Medley, a resident at Care UK's Liberham Lodge, Leatherhead, has been helping to teach 44-year-old Oksana Deinychenko some English to help her settle into life in the UK.

Wasteful Tottenham ended a miserable week with a narrow defeat by Wolves after a late goal from Adama Traore stunned the Champions League contenders.Wolves, who are now 13th, had been on the back foot for most of the game but made their late momentum count.Spurs' inconsistent form continued as they dropped important points in the race for a top four spot.

A bereaved father has paid tribute to his daughter, who has been honoured after gifting her organs so that others could live.Neil Horchover, from Ruislip, accepted the Order of St John Award for Organ Donation on behalf of his daughter Bethany, who passed away two years ago at the age of 16.Over the space of a weekend in November 2021, Bethany developed a cold which quickly developed into sinusitis.

The slap mecca will open in Westfield White City in March



Huge news.A mecca of beauty is finally returning to our shores in 2023.Sephora, the cult French make-up store, will return to London after 17 years this spring.The make-up and skincare palace will open a bricks-and-mortar store in Westfield White City in a couple of months.

Patriots  Welcome to the Unconventional Review, an instant reaction to standouts, stats, and story lines from the Patriots' most recent game . . .Not enough time has passed.Proper perspective just is not possible.To paraphrase Jack Buck in a negative context, we cannot believe what we just saw.So, no, I can't tell you if the final play of the Patriots' crushing 30-24 loss to Josh McDaniels's Raiders Sunday was the single stupidest play in NFL history.

The Washington Commanders finished with an 8-8-1 record and narrowly missed at shot at the 2022 playoffs.The season was disappointing in many ways, but there were some encouraging moments to build on for the future.After the first game of the 2022 season, the Washington Commanders looked like an improved team from recent years and fans were genuinely excited.

When your child reaches life's key crossroads - such as approaching GCSEs or further education - a good idea of what makes them tick makes the process a whole lot simpler
Can you relate to a moment when you were younger when something just clicked?Perhaps you picked up a new hobby, stumbled across a book about something you'd never heard of before, just happened to walk into the room when a fascinating documentary was on the television, or were sitting in a classroom and suddenly everything the teacher was saying made sense.

Stephen Graham has said he shares his OBE with his incredible warrior mother after she died recently.The 49-year-old Merseyside-born actor, known for TV crime drama Line Of Duty, was named on the New Year Honours list for services to drama.On Saturday, the This Is England star told his Instagram followers: A few days ago this incredible, inspirational, warrior woman With the purest heart my mum passed away.

Channel the fastest known time (FKT) psych with lifelong mountain athlete in this short La Sportiva edit - "Nadir Maguet - FKT Project."Roughly translated, "mago" means "magician" in Italian, and in this video, you'll learn some of the reasons why Maguet earned the nickname.

LONDON -- WSL league leaders Arsenal saw their 14-match winning streak come to an end at home to Manchester United after a pair of late strikes from the visitors.In flying form coming into the match, Arsenal failed to find their better football and went in at the break a goal down thanks to Ella Toone's late first half effort.

"Occasionally we joked that it's the 'house that walnut built' - the floors, millwork, and many of the furnishings are a beautiful American black walnut," Raines said.In the guest house, wood panelling paired with tan and orange leathers offers a "1970s lakehouse feel", and the primary powder bath has a black terrazzo stone ceiling.