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I will proclaim to the world the deeds of Norea!
This was the woman to whom all things were revealed; she was the prophet who saw all the worlds of the Cosmos. Wisdom burned within her; she saw mysteries and knew secret things, things that God, in His eternal wisdom, kept hidden from the Divine Counsel. She went on a long journey, was weary, worn-out by divine challenges, and then rallied, without rest, against the Ruling Usurpers of Order. This is her story, told in three volumes.
הָאָרֶץ וְאֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם אֵת אֱלֹהִים בָּרָא בְּרֵאשִׁית
Part I: Genesis
1982: The Exorcism
Taylorsville, NC
First, there was light, a piercing radiance striking into the darkness of her being. Out of the light, the world slowly took shape. She was drunk, in a stupor, struggling to make sense of the chaos as it slowly succumbed to luminous order.
She blinked her eyes and rubbed her mouth. "Ugh. I drooled again."
Linda said, "If Dot ever catches you sleeping, you know you're going to be in some deep doo-doo."
"What time is it?"
"Three a.m. And that clock doesn't seem to be in much of a hurry."
"It's like a ghost town around here this time of night. Where is Dot?"
"Down the hall, getting some coffee. Don't worry, I told her to get you some, too. I figured I'd let you catch some shuteye until she got back. You still not getting any sleep?"
Rachel shook her head. "We never get out of here at seven like we're supposed to, and then I got to go home and get the kids ready for school. It's too late for the bus, so I have to drive them." She sighed and leaned back in the chair, rubbing her eyes. "Eat breakfast, walk the dog…I only got time for a few hours before I have to pick the kids up again."
Linda said, "You're preaching to the choir, honey. I say get rid of the dog."
"I love that dog. So do the kids. So, no."
"I was talking about Aaron."
They both laughed.
The charge nurse returned, her rubber soles squeaking across the recently waxed floor. She gave Rachel a cup of coffee. "One cream, two sugars, is that right?"
"Thanks, Dot, I appreciate it."
Dot leaned over the counter of the nurse's station. "I know I'm getting old, but when did that become the latest fashion?"
Rachel stared back at her, confused. "What?"
"You got a paperclip stuck to your ear."
"I'm sorry."
Linda walked down the hall, leaving them alone.
The clock beat out slow seconds of time and steam wafted patiently from their paper cups.
Dot: "You're going to do something for me. I won't say anything about you falling asleep again, but you're going to buy the rest of my tickets for the cow bingo."
"My money's in my locker. But okay, I can do that. Thank you. And I'm sorry."
"And if you win something good, you got to split it with me. Fair?"
"There's nothing fair about chance, right? That's why they call it chance."
"If the Lord wills it, we'll make it through this night and everything will turn out all right, Rachel. God doesn't leave anything to chance."
Rachel laughed. "So you're saying God even guides the cow poop?"
"If God doesn't control every little thing in the universe, what's the meaning of anything?"
Linda jogged frantically from the other end of the hall. "Guys? Guys! You need to come in here, right quick. There's a man with a chicken in a room and I think he's going to kill it!"
Dot's hands landed solidly on her hips. "There's a who doing what?"
"The Vang boy, room 116. There's a guy wearing a mask in there, about to cut up a live chicken!"
Dot said, "Oh no, not on my watch!"
Rachel rushed around the desk, knocking over the coffee. Hurrying down the hall after Dot, she wondered why God would make something like that happen.
In room 116, a young man's body lay in the bed, a catheter, IVs, monitor lines and an orogastric tube running from it. Vang and his family, all Hmong, had been repatriated to the area after a decade of political asylum in Thailand. His grandmother and young sister stood close to him, holding a live chicken between them. An elderly man paced the small space at the foot of the bed, bouncing at the knees while clapping with ribbon-adorned hand cymbals. A black cloth draped over his face.
Dot said, "What are they doing in here? Call security."
Linda: "I tried to tell them it's past visiting hours. I tried to talk to them, but they won't budge."
"Do they speak English?"
"I don't think so, I don't know. Maybe the little girl does."
"What's the patient's name?"
"Zaj. Zaj Vang. It was a motorcycle accident, multiple fractures, concussion, punctured lung. Some internal bleeding, but that subsided."
"Do you know any other names?"
The grandmother and sister watched the exchange solemnly, continuing to hold the chicken.
"I don't know. We really shouldn't even have this patient, Dot, he's been in a coma for two days. We're not equipped for this."
Dot pushed Linda out the door. "That's not our decision, and anyway, he is our patient. Call security. Now."
"Okay, I'll hurry."
Rachel said, "What do we do?"
Dot: "Well, he's got a knife and we can't move the patient. What do you suggest?"
Rachel: "Wait for security?"
Dot grabbed Rachel's hand and lowered her head. "Pray. There's nothing else we can do." She spoke in a loud voice, attempting to drown out the man's rhythmic chants. "Almighty, merciful Father, we thank you for sending your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to the world to save us and set us free from the bonds of sin. We trust in your power in this moment of dire need, Lord!"
The shaman turned on his stocking-covered heel. His dance became more elaborate, his chants louder. He raised his hands above his head and shouted.
"Dear Lord Jesus, we surrender everything to you, our will, our desire, to the deepest recesses of our hearts. We trust in your power and grace, dear Lord. By the awesome power of your command, come among us now and drive Satan from our midst!"
After ceremoniously placing the cymbals on a woven blanket, the shaman turned in a complete circle and then patiently accepted the chicken from the grandmother. He held it up, facing its head toward the window, and gently blew air under the feathers of its wings.
Dot opened her eyes to the ceiling and raised Rachel's hand into the air. "Fill us with your Holy Spirit, dear Lord, and save us this day from the power of Satan!"
The shaman cradled the chicken against his chest and pulled the curved blade from the waist of his jeans. Slowly, methodically, he pulled the knife across the chicken's throat. The chicken's eyes grew wide and its wings fluttered nervously. It clucked once before its head fell back against the man, nearly severed. Then the dead chicken flailed violently, spraying blood across the room.
"Cover us in the most precious blood of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, from the top of our head to the soles of our feet! Cast out anything that should not be in us, oh Lord!"
Convulsions racked the young man's body and he moaned against the tube in his throat. He raised his stiff arms and rolled his eyes up into his head. He raised his knees and curled at his pelvis, contorting his torso into a dramatic arch. His toes splayed and curled as though he were in intense pain.
The shaman approached the bed, rocking the chicken to and fro, spraying the floundering beast's blood over Zaj's body. He continued to chant.
Dot pulled Rachel to the floor, gripping her hand. "Lord, I know where there are at least two gathered in your name, you promise to come among us. We ask that you do this now. Come among us, Lord, and dispel this agent of Satan! We ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen!
Zaj Vang fell back against the bed and trembled. The shaman repeatedly tossed the chicken toward him and hauled it back in a circular motion, drenching the white sheets in thick, dark blood.
The flailing chicken kicked about with excited, lifeless talons, slicing at the shaman's old hands. As he tossed the chicken's body a final time, the bloody plumage slipped between his fingers and the dead bird flew out over the bed, landing on Zaj Vang's heaving chest.
The young man curled into a fetal position and encircled the chicken. A slow, steady sigh emanated from his chapped lips.
All light and sound seemed to leave the room in a moment.
The shaman trembled and whispered something incomprehensible.
The grandmother covered her face and cried.
Zaj's sister crawled under the bed and started to scream.
Rachel: "What's happening?"
Dot: "I don't know, but I think things are about to get worse."
Darryl, the security guard, ran into the room and slipped across the blood-soaked floor. Flailing, he grabbed at the sheets on Vang's bed.
Casually, Vang gripped his throat with strong, claw-like fingers and screamed at him through the tube. His eyes swelled in their sockets as he lifted Darryl from the floor and effortlessly tossed him against the far wall. Vang hopped up into a crouching position and surveyed the room, his arms spread at his sides in a defensive position.
The shaman threw his head cloth on top of the cymbals, wrapped everything together, and made his way toward the door, his head down and shoulders hunched.
Zaj Vang watched him with wild eyes. He looked down at the grandmother crying in the corner and then watched as the security guard slowly approached him with his hands raised in the air.
"It's okay," Darryl said. "No one's gonna hurt you."
Rachel said, "I don't think tonight could get any weirder."
Vang turned and saw Rachel and Dot for the first time. He bent toward them with clenched fists, the narrow cords of his lean musculature stretching against paper-thin flesh. Slowly, he pulled at the lines connected to his body and ripped them away, one by one. His head turned slowly, as if on a loose axis, pulling laboriously away from the orogastric tube until it wrapped around his throat. Vang moaned and flailed, frantically pulling against the tube. Darryl tried to aid him, but Zaj's body twisted away, rolling around on the hospital bed, covering himself in sticky blood.
Dot: "Just keep praying for that poor boy, Rachel, it's all we can do. What church did you say you go to?"
"I didn't," said Rachel. "I'm Jewish."
Zaj Vang leaped across the room and landed on the window sill. hythmically slapping his face against the glass.
Dot sighed and slowly stood. "That's right, you're a Yankee. Don't you worry about the souls of your children?"
Paradise Motel, Berea, KY.
The diminutive man crossed the threshold to the outside world, dressed only in striped pajamas and a jipi fedora, hand-woven by Mayans in the caves of the Yucatán peninsula. Osvaldo Pugliese's Andrés Selpa floated from the motel room behind him. He rolled a cigarette, lit it and tossed the match, watching as a flat-bed truck bounced across the crumbling asphalt. Beyond a thin trail of scrub pines, the drone of semis drifted through the thick mid-summer air like bored cicadas.
"What's for breakfast?" His companion, a towering woman, peered from her room into the bright morning, squinting as she drew a short silk robe across her dark, muscular body. She then pulled her long dark hair away from her face. "Hey, you know you're barefoot?"
He nodded at the truck. "I got you something."
"If it's not a bacon and egg biscuit, you can shove it where the night never ends."
The driver hopped from the cab and approached slowly, reading from a clipboard. "A, uh…Reverend…What?"
"That appears to be a blue 1972 Buick Electra, is it not?"
"Uh, yeah, that's what it says. I guess just sign here and this baby's yours."
"Thank you, my good man. And this is my companion, Ms. Yasinovskaya. She will be driving."
"Oh, okay." He glanced up at her and touched the bill of his cap. "It's a, uh…it's a pleasure. I'll have her down in a jiffy!"
As the driver unloaded the car, Reverend What said, "I thought perhaps you would scream when you saw it. You do realize the leg room this model offers?"
"You put a bomb in our last car. You can't expect me to just pretend that never happened."
"The end justifies the means, my dear, you know that. There are times when we must never leave a trace."
"It was a convertible coup. A 1960 Jaguar XK150 DHC, and you replaced it with a Buick."
"At least the color's right. Right?"
"It looks like a bubblegum cigar."
Reverend What dug through his scraggly beard and scratched his chin. "There was another incident during the night. I need your assistance."
"I want to watch it burn. May I?"
"In due time, my love." He snatched his gnarled cane from the edge of the threshold and used it to tap the bill of his hat. "First, we're going to North Carolina."
"I suppose you want me to drive?"
"That would be quite lovely, yes."
"Just so you know, you call me your valet again, I'll slit your throat."
"An occupational hazard, to be sure, if one decides to share adventures with an assassin. Duly noted, my dear." Reverend What smiled broadly. "Very well, if the terms are agreeable, let us retrieve our bags and be on our way."
"Oh, no. First, you're going to tell me what happened in Nazareth last week. That's part of the deal, or I don't go. I've come to terms with the fact that you'll never tell me about Belżec, and that's fine, that's your secret. But if we're going to be partners, you can't leave me alone while you go off on some secret quest and hide all the details from me. Not if you expect me to keep tagging along."
Reverend What produced a dented flask from his shirt pocket and swallowed with a grimace. "Kumiko, my penchant for secrets has a purpose. I swear, your distrust for allies rivals the grudges of…" He returned the flask and shook his head. "Never mind. Perhaps this heat simply gets our blood up, as they say."
"After all this time, please don't tell me you've suddenly learned how to keep your mouth shut. If you weren't so impossibly short, I'd swear you were an imposter."
Reverend What returned to his room, waving his hand. "Thy mind doth present itself as a labyrinth, my dear. This morning, I need a driver more than I need a thread of truth. After all, the pedals are quite beyond my ability to reach them."
To be continued…


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Champion Songbird took a short van ride from Timber Town Stable over to Juddmonte Farm on Tuesday for a meeting with Arrogate, according to the two farms' Twitter accounts.
"They were both stars, of course," reads a post from Timber Town.
The 5-year-old Songbird (Medaglia d'Oro) was purchased for $9 million by Mandy Pope at the most recent Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall sale, following a career during which she won 13 of 15 races to earn over $4.6 million. If the cover by Arrogate is successful, the resulting foal will be her first.
Arrogate, was retired following the Breeders' Cup Classic at Del Mar, in which he finished a sub-par fifth (dead-heating with Gunnevera). The son of Unbridled's Song put together an impressive streak of victories between his three and four-year-old seasons, including the 2016 Travers, 2016 Breeders' Cup Classic, 2017 Pegasus World Cup, and 2017 Dubai World Cup. He retired with earnings of $17.4 million.
#Songbird met @Arrogatethegr8 this morning at the immaculately kept @JuddmonteFarms shed. They were both stars, of course. #futurechampion pic.twitter.com/wezs9e9tH2
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When I started this comic I set up a google news alert for anything elephant related. After over a year of reading the worlds elephant stories I can authoritatively say that elephants are screwed ab-so-lutely everywhere. They're being shot, electrified, hit by trains, falling into drains, cut off from migration routes, and just generally being run over by civilization. It's a disheartening daily ritual to read the news.
In these posts I sometimes focus on a positive piece of elephant news, if there is any, to highlight the fact that there is hope. Today I read about a skin care fad in Myanmar that has authorities finding more and more elephant carcasses stripped of their flesh. Man…..how do you have hope in light of that? I want to wallow in despair sometimes. What else can I possibly do?!
I wrote the above, honestly, in a mini state of despair. I really didn't know what else to say after that last line, so I went to bed. In the morning I remembered Jane Goodall and googled her name, plus "hope". This came up:
"Most of us don't realize the difference we could make. We love to shrug off our own responsibilities, to point fingers at others. "Surely," we say, "the pollution, waste, and other ills are not our fault. They are the fault of the industry, business, science. They are the fault of the politicians," This leads to a destructive and potentially deadly apathy."
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
OK! It makes sense that apathy is the real problem, it's the enemy of getting anything done! And despair seems like apathy's good buddy. So I've decided to stay away from those guys and take inspiration from Jane's life. Let's keep hope alive by doing something about this situation.


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Gingerbread Cookies
This week delivers you the first recipe by Mrs Green who has worked hard on several roll-outs of different variations of the recipe before she was happy with the final version. I had something else planned initially, but that something else needs some work before it can be let out into the world. Mrs Green stepped in because she's been in a baking mood. I was pleased, because pre-plant based eating, Mrs Green was an enthusiastic and competent baker, but she has so far found plant-based baking a bit too far from her comfort zone. It seems that now that there is specific and baby-led demand for Mrs Green's baked goods again, she has re-entered that space with her plant-based whole foods hat on. This is very good news to all of us, Little Boy Green in particular.
So, this week you can make Gingerbread à la Bethnal Greens. This recipe is packed with great nutrition with broccoli, spirulina and kale... only joking... No broccoli. It does, however, have a good dose of blackstrap molasses which is to the world of sugar as wheatgerm is to the world of grains. Super-super-superhero. It's got iron, it's got calcium and magnesium, it's got key trace minerals like copper and manganese and selenium and potassium. It's got lots of other good things that I will not type out here. It also has a deep, adult, rich and aromatic sweetness so much more satisfying than the one-dimensional processed white sugar.
Mrs Green is generally easy to please, and she is not a culinary snob. However, she has strong feelings about gingerbread, so for this week only, she embarked on the project because she felt I could not be entrusted with this singularly important task. In the process, we have had multiple recipes and lots of gingerbread. We thought we had found a winner after the first attempt turned out too dry (Mrs Green had to add water to the rested dough before rolling it out - not ideal) and - more gravely - tasting of too virtuous, to quote the lady in charge.
The final recipe included here has as much good stuff as you can have in what is basically not a nutrition-rich dish overall. The recipe also shows some optionality that shows the later experimentation with consistency (flax egg to make the dough more pliable), flavour (the spicing is adjusted in favour of ginger and less ground cloves and the last version added black cardamom seeds) and sweetening agents (blackstrap molasses and dates alone did not bring the note of caramel Mrs Green thinks is a hallmark of real gingerbread). Adjust away to suit your own tastes or preferences.
All in all, the last week or so has been heavenly for Little Boy Green, who has been making all of the sweet treats together with Mrs Green. The mother and son baking duo have had a ball, and we are now all out of icing, gold cupcake moulds, sugar baubles and silver sugar beads. Little Boy Green has mastered his dough-rolling technique and understands about spacing the cookie moulds on the rolled out dough to maximise the number of cookies cut out of a single rolling. We have eaten our body-weight in gingerbread, baked and decorated with friends (who got the more virtuous recipe but were far too nice to be anything than entirely polite about the Calvinist gingerbread), and made gingerbread decorations that are now hanging off the Christmas tree. We are ready for the festivities.
- 3 - 3 1/2 cups sprouted wholewheat flour (adjust to get desired consistency, a soft and pliable dough that comes off the edges of the bowl) - keep some extra for rolling out
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tbsp vinegar
- 1 tbsp ground flaxseed
- 3 tbsp water
- 1/2 cup rapeseed, coconut or groundnut oil
- 125 g (7 big dates) Medjool dates
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup blackstrap molasses
- (optional for added sweetness) 1/2 cup coconut sugar, melted with 1 tbsp of water
- 1/4 tsp ground cloves
- 1 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1 1/2 tsp ground true cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground nutmeg
- (optional) 1 tsp ground allspice
- (optional) 2 large pods of black cardamom, seeds ground and husks discarded
- Make flax egg (mix the ground flaxseed with 3 tbsp of water) and let sit for at least 5 minutes untilall other wet ingredients have been added.
- Puree the dates with 1/2 cup water.
- Mix together the flour, baking soda and spices (if you are using them, make sure you grind the cardamom seeds quite fine).
- Add the oil, the blackstrap molasses and vinegar to the dry ingredients, mix well.
- Add the pureed dates to the flour mixture, mix well.
- Melt the coconut sugar and add to the flour mixture and mix well.
- Add the flax egg to the flour mixture and mix well.
- Roll into a ball, wrap in cling film and chill in the fridge for at least an hour but, for best results, overnight.
- When ready to make, roll out onto a floured surface.
- Cut out cookies and roll the leftover dough out again - repeat.
- Cook for approximately 10 minutes in the middle level of a 200 C oven. Adjust cooking time higher or a little lower depending on the thickness the cookies are rolled out at. Thicker roll will result in softer cookies (Mrs Green's preference), thin roll-out will yield a crisper finish (favoured by Little Boy Green), same goes for shorter/ longer cooking time. Keep an eye on them during the last few minutes as a mere minute could be the difference between a spicy sweet cookie and a charred bittersweet one.
- Once cooked, take out and let cool out completely to allow cookies to harden, then decorate as desired.
- If you would like to string them to hang on your tree, then poke a hole into them when they are still soft before they cool, we used a chop stick.


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By Bishop Paul Peter Jesep
On July 18th, Llya Kharlamov crafted a devilish propaganda commentary, "Will Ukraine Join EU?," for the Voice of Russia website. He mocks Ukraine's support of Georgia's territorial integrity, dismisses Kyiv's efforts to join the European Union, criticizes it for not expanding use of the Russian language, and has the temerity to complain that Ukrainian politicians can't be trusted to keep their word.
Perhaps the most extraordinary accusation is that Ukraine is "preserving [its] economic stability at the expense of Russia." Did the lumbering Russian bear eat sour borscht, get a tummy-ache, and get a bit grumpy? Ukraine is preserving its economic stability at the expense of its oppressive northern neighbor? Really? Russia, the big world power, the epitome of Slav machismo, is being hurt by little Ukraine? This reflects a lame political attempt to blame and project Russia's short-comings and its consistent failures on someone else.
In addition, Mr. Kharlamov has forgotten Russia's exploitative gas agreements with Ukraine. As a measurement of greed the money extorted by Russia in order for Ukraine to keep its families warm in the winter exceeded the usurious interest rates that credit card companies charge. Perhaps these agreements were poorly negotiated by Ukraine, or maybe Kyiv was too trusting of its Slav brother, or the country simply had no choice. No matter the reason Ukraine's economy suffered. Until Ukraine establishes energy independence from Russia its economy will continue to suffer and its political system will be compromised by the taint of Muscovite authoritarianism.
Ukraine has been consistently pressured by Russia not to join the European Union. Vladimir Putin has lobbied Ukraine hard to join the Customs Zone with former Soviet republics. It's hardly in Ukraine's best interest to be a member of a Moscow-run economic cooperative. Ukraine has the potential to be one of the wealthiest nations in Europe and it won't occur if it is dragged down by Russia's corrupt oligarchs or Belorussia and Kazakhstan's backward economies.
Yes, Mr. Kharlamov, Ukraine must look out for itself since Russia has shown throughout history that it puts itself first at the expense of others. Russia's imperial empire was not a union of choice, but one of force not unlike its Soviet system. Yes, Mr. Kharlamov, despite all the hoopla about "Holy Russia" it can be a "Very Bad Russia." It can be a very "Unholy Russia." Trust is a two way street and Russia has usually made it one way.
Fortunately, the European Union (EU), despite the behind the scenes obstacles put in place by Muscovy, is forging ahead with a "Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with Ukraine.
According to Yulia Lyovochkina, Ukrainian Member of Parliament, the "DCFTA will not only offer Ukraine a stake in the EU's single market and significantly strengthen Kyiv's ties with the bloc, it will also send a clear-cut message that Ukraine's course toward European integration is irreversible as it will clearly signal the geostrategic choice of the country."
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko shared during an interview with New Europe that pursuing European integration began in 2007. Integration will improve the standard of living for Ukrainians, strengthen the country's economy, and put it definitively within the European family.
Ukraine is European not Eurasian. It's something that Russia still doesn't understand.
This sense of modern European values explains in part Ukraine's refusal to recognize the independence of Russian backed Abkhazia and South Ossetia provinces that broke away from Georgia. Russia used its military to invade George to set up these puppet states. The civilized world condemned Russia and refuses to recognize the sovereignty of these puppet regimes.
There's also a pragmatic reason. Will Russia attempt some day to do to Ukraine what it did to Georgia. Will Muscovy instigate political instability in Eastern Ukraine and the Crimea to justify a military excursion? If Ukraine recognized the illegal occupation of Georgian territory then such a position could come full circle to haunt Kyiv.
Despite all of its mysticism, its self-professed holiness, its deluded belief that it has a messianic mission to save the world, Russia must save itself first while trying to understand its nationhood without an empire.
Bishop Paul Peter Jesep of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox
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Metropolitan Myfodii of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine. The views expressed here are personal and in no way reflect those of his Church. He may be reached at email@example.com.


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Race for the Cure
TEAM GFS has participated in the Race for twenty-one years in support of Komen Maryland's commitment to ensuring quality care for breast cancer patients, energizing science to find the cures to save lives and ultimately ending breast cancer within our children's lifetime. For the past several years, our community has shown its commitment to this cause by winning the Team Challenge for the largest school team six years in a row!
We want to continue this wonderfully spirited tradition and need the support of all of our students, parents, alumnae, faculty and staff and friends. Please register today by clicking the link below and join us at the race! Include code GFS21 when you register to receive $10 off the cost of an adult registration.
For those who have registered to ride with Team GFS, please plan to park in the Middle School parking lot. That is where we will board the buses. We will depart campus for Columbia Gateway Drive at 6:15 AM.
If you are planning to meet us at the Race, click on this link for maps and parking information.
For those registered prior to 10/4, t-shirts will be delivered to your eldest student registered. If you haven't picked up your Race t-shirt and bib, you may do so at the Columbia Mall at Lord and Taylor Court on the lower level on October 11th and 12th from 12:00-8:00 PM or at the Registration tent on the day of the Race.
6:15 AM: Team GFS departs campus for Columbia Gateway Drive.
7:15 AM: Buses drop off at John McAdam Drive.
8:00 AM: Listen to the GFS Chamber Choir sing the National Anthem at the start of this year's Race! Please join us near the sage for the Team GFS photo following the singing and presentations. Show your GRIZZLY pride!
9:00 AM: The Race begins! Whether you are doing the timed 5K run, 5K walk or 1 Mile Family Fun Walk, we will all be starting at the same time; all runners should make their way to the front and walkers will follow behind.
10:45 AM: We will meet in a grassy area behind the medical tent and walk to the buses together.
11:00 AM: Team GFS departs.
Important Dates
Monday, October 1: Pink and Denim Day
All GFS students, faculty and staff wear pink, denim and/or a Race for the Cure t-shirt to show Team GFS pride and support for breast cancer awareness
Sunday, October 13: Race Day
The 2019 Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure will be held at 6950 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, Maryland.
For questions, please contact:
Community Service Coordinator:
Barb Ackerman at 410-559-3191 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Race for the Cure Project Captains: Tiffany Yang '20 or Eve Ploechl '21


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June 6, 2017 | Ken Arnold
Just before the show, cast members warm up their voices and make final adjustments to their costumes, while audience members make their way to tables in the brightly lit hall. Slowly, the hall quiets down, as people take their seats in eager anticipation for this special treat — dinner and a live performance of a popular Broadway musical. Continue reading "Bringing Broadway to Brookdale helps Janelle McGee give back"


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It's been a busy few weeks with Undaunted here in Albany, but we're in the final days of preparation to ship the Little Boat to the Canary Islands! We've been posting pictures to Instagram and updating our gallery pages as we go, but we thought you might like to hear how things are going as we count down to departure.
Last week Matt made some modifications to a Pelican case allowing it to mount onto the port forward part of the cabin, where it will serve as a watertight electric breaker panel...it's also a chart table, navigation station, main salon table, main communication hub, entertainment area, exercise equipment locker, and solar array storage unit. Every sailor knows that if a thing doesn't serve at least three purposes, it should probably be redesigned, right? A few last things have been mounted onto the exterior of the hull, including brackets for the emergency floatation system (a system that allows the boat to be floated like an inflatable life raft) and the full complement of bolts on the rudder hinges. Everything else has been sealed and insulated, making the whole cabin watertight and cozy.
Yes, I said cozy. I would be crazy to pretend that it's not a small space, but the more ready it becomes for the voyage the homier it feels. Sometimes there is comfort in the simplicity of having only the necessities, and all of those within reach.
In the meantime, the freeze-dried supplies from Be Prepared and snack bars and shakes from JuicePlus+ arrived in the mail, coming to roughly 106,000 calories for the voyage. Two hours in the grocery store tracking down fruit, nuts, and oils more than doubled that number, and the food supplies' total comes to upwards of 266,000 calories. For those of you who don't want to do the math, here's the deal: If the trip takes 4 months (the current longest projection), that's an average of 2,000 calories per day. Stretched to 6 months, it's still close to 1400 cal/day.
All of this – freeze-dried foods in No. 10 cans, and most of the snacks in smaller packages that can be fitted around and between them – fits comfortably into the bilge, which also holds the marine battery and essential tools for the voyage.
One of the final preparations before Matt builds a shipping crate around the little boat to send it on its way to the Canaries is to repaint the hull. You've seen that it was painted white and grey since the spring, which was helpful as Undaunted was on display on land and it gave people an idea of where the water line is. Now with a thorough primer and bottom painting as well as some touch-up to the deck and the new hardware, the little boat is nearly all white. There are a few accents to add, including a red waterline and the name on the transom, but otherwise the hull is ready for sea. The white paint for the deck is meant to reflect heat as much as possible to maintain a more comfortable temperature in the cabin.
Obviously this doesn't cover all of the details and changes of the little boat, but it gives you an idea of where the project is at – nearly ready, just adding the finishing touches before it takes its first, less dramatic trip across the Atlantic. If there's any part of the project that you'd like to hear more about, leave a comment or send us a message using the contact form and I'll see if we can do some more technical write-ups!


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Google debuted its smart messaging app Allo last week, resulting in the usual rush of online reviews, denunciations, and proclamations. But whether you think this particular app is successful or not, one thing is clear: this next generation of smart communication apps will change our industry in a big way.
The notion of a social feed is only a decade old, but combined with basic messaging apps (text, iMessage, Whatsapp), the modern member of society has a near constant stream of data to manage. The marriage of artificial intelligence to these platforms promises to deliver us a new paradigm of communicating with the world around us.
This new form of AI won't be a substitute for our own brain power, but rather a form of social adjacent intelligence to help us respond and post faster, funnier, smarter, more relevant, pithier, and more effectively. In essence, to live a better digital life.
Imagine a world where automated and smart help apps respond to our constant stream of messaging and posts. If we could augment the right bits of our daily communications, we can use this technology to help us constantly create our most engaging posts and effective responses. The ones that rapidly galvanize our friends around our social and political causes. The ones that make people LOL and ROTFL. If we could ensure the most timely responses to our colleagues, and parents, that would be one less thing to manage in our busy lives.
These new smart comms apps will read between the lines of our conversations to add real value. Lurking in the code, waiting to suggest a place to eat or automatically put something in our calendar that was just committed to via text. Talking to a friend about meeting at the movies? Your smart app already ordered an Uber for you and bought the tickets via Fandango. It also checked your activity tracker for the day – you cleared 10,000 steps! – and gives you a thumbs up to supersize your popcorn.
If you have used Allo or similar AI chatbots, it's easy to understand the detractors: Yes, the technology doesn't quite work yet. Yes, Microsoft made a racist Twitter bot by mistake. But, just like the early days of social networks and most initial tech releases – these things get better with every iteration released.
PR agencies can play a major role in how these new smart communication apps are used. Our clients will need guidance on how best to integrate their messages and narratives into this world and more importantly know how to harness this potential new cultural trend. With a legacy of storytelling and facilitating conversations for our clients, the PR and communications industry should celebrate this new technology and be a major part of leading the way.
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A complete list of Marketing Workflow Items
To get to the Marketing Mailshot screen choose Menu - Marketing - Mailshot.
The workflow items below are listed to help give a full understanding of what each item does. Note that these help items also appear on each workflow item if you hover your mouse over the small help icon (in the latest versions of Salon Swift only).
Data Set
- All Clients- This will produce a list of all your clients that you can market to.
- Only Active - This will only show active clients. Untick this if you don't want to market to inactive clients.
- Since - this date picker allows you to focus on clients that have been in "since" the date you choose. We recommend leaving this as it is and using the tools listed below to refine the clients you wish to market to.
- Referred Clients - Will show clients who have referred other clients to the salon.
- Specific Clients - This will allow you to choose a specific client or list of specific clients by typing their name into the box, then pressing the Tick button next to their name. Do this as many times as you need to build a list of clients. This is really only used when marketing to a very small and specific group of people
Client filter
The Client filter is all about the client as a person. Where do they live? What do they do? When is there birthday?
- Birthday - This allows you to see who's birthday is in the time frame chosen in the drop down menu.
- Male/Female - This allows you to refine the selection to just male/female or unknown
- New/Old Client - You can press the button to see clients "newer than" the time specified or press it again and see clients that are "Older than" the time specified. This is a great tool to send marketing to new clients.
- First Visit - Allows you to search on, before or after a client's first visit date.
- Occupation - This allows you to just look at clients with a specific occupation as defined by the Client Add/Edit screen.
- Postcode - This allows you to look at clients from a specific postcode.
- Referral - This allows you to look at clients who have heard about you from a specific referral source (newspaper, magazine etc).
- Referred by another client - You can choose between the client that referred, or the client that was referred using this. Also, client's that weren't referred.
- Reward Package - If you've setup reward packages this will allow you to market to people on a specific package.
- Start from Client's name - Allows you to send from a client's name. IE: All clients from Sarah forward to the last client (alphabetically).
- Point Range - Send to clients within a point range. IE: Between 10 and 50 points.
- Point Expiry Check - Send to clients who will have their points expire soon. IE: All clients who's points expire in 14 days.
- Limit number of clients - You can restrict how many clients you will send to with this filter.
- Mailshot Tag - Allows you to restrict the mail so that clients who received a marketing message recently don't receive another one. Alternatively you can say you want to send a message to people who received a specific marketing run recently.
- Message History - Allows you to focus on people who have received (or have not received) a specific marketing type recently (email, sms or print).
- Visited on Day - With this filter you can specify clients who visited on particular days. IE: All clients who came last monday, or Tuesdays this month, etc.
- Visited between Hours - With this filter you can specify clients who visited between specific hours. IE: All clients who visited between 5pm and 10pm last year.
- Client Visit Count - This filter allows you to focus on clients that have visited greater than, equal to or less than a number of times. IE: All clients who have visited us more than 20 times.
- Client has valid - This filter allows you to see / market to clients that only have specific, valid contact types. IE: All clients who have valid emails.
Appt Filter
The Appt Filter is all about the appointment book. Who has future appointments? Who hasn't been for ages? Who are my regular no show clients?
- Appt is soon - This allows you to see who has an appointment today, tomorrow, the next business day, etc. This is great for setting up SMS reminders for appointments.
- Appt status is - You can market to specific groups of people with this tool. IE: Just those that are no shows, or on the waiting list.
- Appt with employee - You may have a staff member who has left and you need to contact all their future clients. They may be going on holidays or are away sick. This is a great tool to use for such things.
- Appt with service - You can contact people booked in or who have been booked in with a specific service. Very useful if you stop performing a service, or are having a drastic price change. The reasons are many.
- Appt time window (adv) - This allows you to market to people with appointments in the past or the future based on the time frame chosen and the button pressed as Past or Future.
- Appt no future (adv) - This is a very commonly used filter that allows you to market to clients with no future appointments. You can view next week, next month, next year etc.
Sale Filter
The POS Filter is all about the Point of Sale area of Salon Swift. What services did they buy? What products? Who served them? What have they spent?
- Has Purchased - This is retail products. Have or have they not purchased specific products?
- Had Service - What services have or have they not had?
- Had Service Category - More broad than Had Service, this lets you see if they have had or not had a whole service category. IE: All clients who have had foils.
- Had Discount - This allows you to focus on clients that have had a specific discount in the past (eg: student discounts)
- Last Visit Was - This very commonly used filter lets you determine if a client has or hasn't visited in a specific time frame. EG: All clients who haven't been in 6 months.
- Recently Seen Employee - Choose the employee then if they saw them first, last or recently. A great tool to see who for example: Last visited Employee Sarah. This is great if you want to market to the clients of a specific employee.
- Total Spent - This lets you market to clients that have spent a certain amount of money. A great way to market to your bigger spending clients.
- Service Rebook - This is linked to the automatic non rebooked appointment reminders. Please call your support representative to help set this up.
Final Action
This is where we decide what to do with the workflow after we've created it. Do we email the clients, SMS them, print a letter?
- Send Email- This allows you to email the clients with the following settings:
- Subject - This is the subject of the email
- Document - This is the file you created in the word processor and have saved. Click the three dots on the right and choose the file.
- Email Type - Marketing or Appointment Confirmation. Leave this as marketing for most cases. Appointment Confirmation is only used when doing confirmations and it will mark the appointments as having the confirmations sent in the appointment book.
- Tag Clients With - This is important and is useful for not SPAMMING your clients. If you're marketing to them, tag them with Marketing. That way, next time you do a campaign you can use the Client Filter - Filter by Tag filter to not market to them too much in a time frame.
- Limit to # clients - If you don't want to send too many you can reduce this number and when Salon Swift gets to that number it will stop sending marketing messages.
- Emails to Send - This simply lets you know how many are being sent.
- Send SMS- This allows you to SMS / TXT the clients with the following settings:
- Message Type - Marketing or Appointment Confirmation. Leave this as marketing for most cases. Appointment Confirmation is only used when doing confirmations and it will mark the appointments as having the confirmations sent in the appointment book.
- Merge Fields- When typing the message in the box below use this dropdown to insert things like the client's name to personalise it. Below is a list of all the items you can insert:
- Client's First name
- Client's Last name
- Client's Name - their whole name, first and last
- Client's Nickname - if you have this feature enabled and use it, it will use their nickname
- Client's next appointment time - The time and date of their next appt. EG: 4pm Sunday 5th Dec.
- Client's next appointment stylist - The employee they are next booked in with. EG: Sarah Smith
- Client's next appointment stylist first name - The employee's fist name that they are next booked in with. EG: Sarah. Good for privacy over the above option.
- Client Bday Day - The client's birthday day (eg 12)
- Client Bday Month - The client's birthday month (eg September)
- Company Name - Your business name
- Company Number - Your business phone number
- Appointment Service Name - The name of the appointment they're booked in for. EG: 3/4 head foils short
- Appointment Service Name Public - The public name of the appointment they're booked in for (if set). EG: colour
- Tag Client With - This is important and is useful for not SPAMMING your clients. If you're marketing to them, tag them with Marketing. That way, next time you do a campaign you can use the Client Filter - Filter by Tag filter to not market to them too much in a time frame.
- Limit number to - If you don't want to send too many you can reduce this number and when Salon Swift gets to that number it will stop sending marketing messages. Useful if you're on a budget and don't want to spend too much on SMS.
- Number to Send - This simply lets you know how many SMS are going to being sent.
- Print Letter- This allows you to physically print letters to your clients using your printer.
- Document - This is the file you created in the word processor and have saved. Click the three dots on the right and choose the file.
- Set Printing Options - This lets you choose a printer and adjust its settings.
- Print Labels- You can print onto labels then stick them onto envelopes. This is commonly used in conjunction with printing letters, or at christmas time for example, when you want to send christmas cards in the post.
- Label Template - This is the file you have created (assuming you've created it) that the printer will print from. The template is simply a file that you create with the Label Editor in Salon Swift which says what brand, type and size the labels are so when you do print, the print out matches the labels you've purchased.
- Create a list of- Currently this is only used to create a list of client email addresses so you can use for example, Outlook to email your clients, or Gmail or Hotmail.
- List of - Choose "Client Email Addresses". In time other options will be here as we add them.
- Send to:
- Notepad - will open notepad and have all the email addresses inside it, separated by commas.
- Default Email - will open your default email program (eg: outlook) and prepare an email with the email addresses already filled in to the BCC field.
This is simply a list of all the workflow items in Salon Swift. To get some examples of how to put all that together into a usable and useful marketing campaign please read Example Marketing Workflows.


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Frank Frazetta (February 9, 1928 – May 10, 2010) was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, LP record album covers and other media. He was the subject of a 2003 documentary.
Frazetta was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1999.
Born Frank Frazzetta in Brooklyn, New York City, he removed one "z" from his last name early in his career to make his name seem less "clumsy". The only boy among four children, he spent much time with his grandmother, who began encouraging him in art when he was two years old. He recalled in 2010, a month before his death, "When I drew something, she would be the one to say it was wonderful and would give me a penny to keep going. Sometimes I had nothing left to draw on but toilet paper. As I got older, I started drawing some pretty wild things for my age. I remember the teachers were always mesmerized by what I was doing, so it was hard to learn anything from them. So I went to art school when I was a little kid, and even there the teachers were flipping out. (read more) (frazetta's women)


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Determined to become the next big rock star, I bought a guitar. A Sears Silvertone, black with an orange starburst around the sound hole. My good friend Ken and I began practicing, and the first obstacle emerged. I couldn't tune the blasted instrument! Oh, I knew the strings and frets to press to match the tones of adjacent strings, but my ear couldn't hear the differences. Ken soon tired of tuning mine. OK, ditch the gitfiddle and just sing. Next obstacle. Being tone deaf doesn't lend itself to singing virtuosity.
So my dream died, but a new force emerged. Jealousy for those who COULD play. Sitting around the pool at a summer camp, one girl entertained us with her guitar. Someone asked if she knew "Summer Song," a popular tune back then, but she'd never played it. "Hum a few bars" was her response. She listened, tried two chords, and began playing like she wrote it for Chad and Jeremy. Honest, I could have seized the guitar and shattered it. Not fair at all, for her to have that talent when I had none.
That jealousy followed me. If a friend had a prettier girlfriend. If an enemy had a better grade. If a fellow pastor's church grew faster. If…well, enough true confession. You get the idea. Maybe you even have some of that trait.
The apostle Paul gives us a tip on dealing with jealousy. End it. Imprisoned in Rome, unable to travel and tell about Jesus, Paul saw others, who envied him, take advantage of his absence to move into his role of prime time evangelist. Did he get upset or jealous? No, "the important thing is that Christ is preached. And because of that I rejoice" (Philippians 1:18).
I struggle to get that, but I'm working on it. Paul's tip #1: care more about the kingdom than your recognition. Ouch. Tip #2, from 1 Cor. 3:6-7, "I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow." The tip: realize you have a unique ministry, based on your spiritual gifts, heart, abilities, personality, experiences. No one can match that, you cannot be in competition with anyone. Our job: do our job. Leave the results to God.
Yeah, I know that sounds simplistic. It is. Simply, when jealousy of another's gifts or success tries to sneak in, just remind yourself, "My job is to do my job. That's it."
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What areas of spiritual jealousy most trouble you? What causes them to be so effective? What does it say about you? Have you been able to identify the types and areas of serving that most fit you? Are you doing them? Why or why not? And, importantly, how do you gain a sense that what you do for the kingdom is worth doing?


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Joel Salatin is the mind and spirit behind Polyface Farm. You may have heard of him if you've read Michael Pollan's book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma".
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Talim is bringing torrential rains to wide areas across Hokkaido.
Over the weekend, Talim ripped through western and eastern Japan.
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Using the right tool for the job when doing food prep is essential to getting things ready quickly and precisely. If you know your way around a kitchen or are interested in breaking down your own meat, a good boning knife is key. We researched some of the best options available to help you narrow down which is the best one for you. Before we get started, let's take a look at some of the key features to keep in mind.
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When I read the first page in Water for Elephants I felt the magic waiting to be read. I must admit that I always read the books before a movie, however this time I done it the other way round and I was so intrigued by the movie I just had to get the book. As all book lovers know, the book is way better than the movie with it having so much more detail and other bits going on that aren't made into the movie.
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Jacob has kept his circus secret for seventy years and finally wants to get it off his chest. He tells of a beautiful woman he falls in love with, the grafters, freaks and a heroine who weighs 2500 pounds. But not everything about the circus life is magical which Jacob Jankowski soon discovers, and a lot of twist and turns come to light.
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Farewell Sweet Nothings
The other day I was installing a sky light in my darkroom and I started thinking about sweet nothings. What I thought was, "What the hell is a sweet nothing?" I imagine they're something like:
"My heart forever together loving touches precious."
"Lovely silk caress hair flowing skin bright eyes heat."
I mean really what bigger oxymoron is there than "sweet nothing", why do they exist and who wants them?
After I installed my retractable awning in my living room I received a call from my neighbor to ask me to stop mowing my shag carpet so late at night. After a heated conversation I hung up. After I use my phone I always wipe clean the screen. I've noticed a lot of people wiping their phones when their done, since most all phones have a rather large screen as their face plate.
I looked at me phone before I wiped it clean and took notice of how greasy it was. Is my ear that greasy I thought? What does my ear do to get so dirty? So I decided to do a little experiment.
I cut off a sliver of my ear and threw it in a frying pan. Sure enough no food I fired stuck to my skillet. On a negative note all of my dinner guests died with clogged arteries.
My point in all of this is that I will no longer nibble, lick, bite, kiss and whisper in anyone's ear ever again since I now know that ears are the dirtiest, greasiest things in the world.
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Throw another ear in the frying pan, I need some comfort sausages.
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What do you call a homeless man with a finger in each ear?
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The groundhog's are calling for an early Spring and despite the cold front moving in, the last few days have given us a nice reminder of what can be expected in the coming weeks! As always, the changing of the season also means the clearance of inventory; stores go into high-gear trying to get rid of the old to make room for the new.
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