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There is no better time to dine in the Finger Lakes. A plethora of fresh vegetables, meats, and dairy are used during this incredibly fresh and bountiful harvest time. Our fresh ingredients are grown and produced locally and delivered to us, in some cases, the very same day. Our chef works with producers from across the street and around the region. Together with the freshness of the season and his very creative culinary skills plus the wine from this terroir, this is a wine dinner not to miss. This five-course dinner will be paired beautifully with premium wines from Knapp Winery, Zugibe Vineyards, and Glenora Wine Cellars. Please purchase your tickets online to reserve your spot. $78.25 includes tax and gratuity


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Giving Tuesday is a social media empowered day of giving, following "Black Friday" and "Cyber Monday". It is a day when people support the good work of nonprofits all over the country.
Here at L'Arche Chicago, we were overwhelmed by the generosity of many on Giving Tuesday. Together we raised $21,000! Friends and family came together from all over the country to share L'Arche and to support L'Arche.
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BEVERLY - When a show opens with a song called "Omigod You Guys,'' it's hard to take it seriously. But Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin's lyrics for "Legally Blonde'' are so clever, and the North Shore Music Theatre's production so dazzling, it's impossible not to be charmed.
The musical version of the 2001 Reese Witherspoon movie follows the adventures of Elle Woods, the UCLA Delta Nu sorority sister dumped by her beau because he wants "a Jackie'' rather than "a Marilyn.'' Although dismissed as a dumb blonde, our Elle (the phenomenally talented Kelly Felthous) studies hard and earns a spot at Harvard Law School, hoping to win her honey back on the East Coast, which her Malibu dad decries as a land where "all the girls have different noses.''
Lines like that pop up throughout the musical, along with lyrics and routines that reference Enya, "Riverdance,'' the effective use of a Greek chorus, and "The Producers.'' In fact, while O'Keefe and Benjamin's structure comes right out of the old-school musical theater playbook, their lyrics and dialogue play all the comic moments to the hilt, giving nearly all the cliches a newly burnished look.
Of course, as the mother of a teenage girl, I'm not going to encourage the strategy of a "Bend and Snap,'' but what makes the musical better than the movie is the creators' willingness to push beyond the boundaries of credibility and just have fun. O'Keefe is, remember, the same guy who wrote the music and lyrics to the deliciously wry "Bat Boy: The Musical.''
And so, the stereotypes start with the truth and then head hilariously over the top. These include Harvard Law students (who sing about their backgrounds in "The Harvard Variations''), a professor (the wonderful Paul Jackel) who encourages his students to go for the kill in a song called "Blood in the Water,'' and Elle's chorus of Delta Nu sorority sisters, who seem empty-headed but are always there for their friend. (Tiffany Engen, Sara Andreas, and Allysa Shorte lead the group in performances that are as physical as they are vocal.)
To balance the privileged extremes, there's Emmett Forrest (Barrett Hall), a guy with "A Chip on My Shoulder'' who teaches Elle how to get motivated for better reasons than reclaiming her shallow college boyfriend. He becomes her new love interest.
A further improvement on the film is the subplot, in which Elle empowers beauty salon owner Paulette (powerhouse vocalist Gaelen Gilliland) to go for what she wants. Paulette, in addition to providing advice from her salon chair, has a thing for Ireland. She gets a show-stopping number that spoofs on every Irish cliche, culminating in the line, "Give my love to the leprechauns.'' Adding a UPS delivery guy with an Irish heritage (Timothy Hughes) as eye candy in a show that celebrates girls as eye candy is a goofy yet perfect touch.
Director and choreographer Nick Kenkel keeps the pace just this side of chaotic, and stages the action - which includes appearances by not one but two dogs - all over the NSMT auditorium. This catches the audience up in the ensemble's high-energy enthusiasm.
After all the blonde jokes, "Legally Blonde's'' moral focuses on being yourself and learning to fail. But mostly, in this NSMT production, it's a joyous romp that will send you out singing.
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Towards What the Center for At-Risk Elders Can Be.
The Center for At-Risk Elders, Inc. (CARE) seeks your support for our Onward Campaign to implement a bold four-faceted vision for what CARE can become. Up ahead we see a way to leverage our experience advocating for our clients to lead the way in tackling obstacles faced by all those striving to protect those at-risk of neglect, abuse and exploitation.
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Holding perpetrators of abuse and neglect accountable for their actions through appropriate civil remedies in the courts.
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Shaping public policy on key issues impacting the population we serve by sharing our experiences as their guardian.
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"Bon Voyage" sounds like the kind of album you make when you want to make something risky and wild and brave. An aesthetic declaration. Melody's Echo Chamber is not chasing trends–Melody Prochet is making the kind of music she wants to hear. This is all to say that "Bon Voyage" feels deeply personal and weird in the best way, an expression of a person, or group of people, pursuing their musical ideas faithfully and intensely, no matter how bonkers they might be (or sound) on the surface. Thinking back on my own listening experience with this album, I can recall, without giving my impressions a forensic examination, sounds of sighs and heavy breathing, a man screaming in what sounds like Japanese, helium-high vocals, beat-boxing, flute solos, French and English mingling, blazing bright guitars, amazing percussion.
Prochet worked on the album with Reine Fiske from Dungen (in addition to Gustav Esjtes and Johan Holmegaard, also from Dungen, and you can hear that sound coming through), the Amazing's Fredrik Swahn, and Nicholas Allbrook from Pond. I would love to know what music served as touchstones for Prochet and the rest while they were recording this album–it sounds to me like there are little allusions here and there to records by Stereolab and Broadcast, among many others (like a snippet from the beginning of "Shirim," the last song on the album, reminded me of a Steven R. Smith tune that in turn was reminiscent of the music in "Pather Panchali").
"Bon Voyage" is a beautiful, exuberant album, seven vivid and high-energy songs that are bigger on the inside than they are on the outside.


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Welcome to The Reading Warehouse
All of our bargain books are brand new, perfectly readable and represent a tremendous value!
The bargain books are, however, publisher overstocks and remainders that TRW purchases at
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Annotation: Describes the beliefs, places of worship, traditions, and ceremonies of Sikhism.
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These revised and updated volumes are visually appealing, browsable overviews of the world's largest religions. Accompanied by plenty of color photos, the short chapters cover history, beliefs, holy books and writings, worship, holidays, life cycle events, family life, and young adherents' viewpoints. Occasional oversimplifications are misleading. Reading list, timeline. Glos., ind. [Review covers these World Beliefs and Cultures titles: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism.] Copyright 2008 Horn Book Guide Reviews.
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These volumes are visually appealing, browsable overviews of the world's largest religions. Accompanied by plenty of color photos, the short chapters cover history, beliefs, holy books and writings, worship, holidays, life cycle events, family life, and what being a member means. Occasional oversimplification in the texts is misleading. Young adherents' viewpoints are also included. Bib., glos., ind. Copyright 2001 Horn Book Guide Reviews
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Kuwait: MSCI EM inclusion should give Boursa 'massive boost'
Global index compiler MSCI Inc on 25 June said it would upgrade Kuwaiti equities – currently limited to the MSCI Kuwait index – to its main emerging markets index in 2020. The move is expected to trigger billions of dollars of inflows from passive funds into Boursa Kuwait (formerly the Kuwait Stock Exchange). The Kuwaiti market has already outperformed its regional peers this year in anticipation of the MSCI move.
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Welcome to Henley College Coventry
I am delighted that you are considering studying with us.
Whether you want to win a place at university, advance your career prospects or simply feel the satisfaction of personal development, Henley College Coventry can help you.
The College offers a range of highly successful apprenticeships, a great opportunity for young people to earn a wage and gain a qualification at the same time. College success rates in apprenticeships are 10% above the national average. Many of our students have gone on to realise their dreams and we can help you do the same.
If you are leaving school you will find a completely different atmosphere at Henley College Coventry. You will be treated like an adult and offered a wide range of learning support services, sports, social and recreational facilities not available anywhere else. In everything we do, we strive to provide the best resources and standards to ensure that we remain the top choice college for school leavers in Coventry. I hope that as you read through this online prospectus, you will be inspired to join Henley College Coventry next September.
If you need further information, feel free to visit the College on one of our open evenings, where you will be able to find out more about the courses on offer.
I look forward to welcoming you to the College.
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"Henley College Coventry believes in the power of education and training to make a difference to people`s lives, to give them the skills and knowledge they need to reach their full potential. To achieve this we put the `student first` in everything we do."
Contact Details: The Admissions Team process applications to courses and will:
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Our Enquiries Team offer information and advice to people, in person or over the telephone, covering:
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About us
Henley College Coventry has been appointed a Centre of Vocational Excellence by the Learning and Skills Council for the delivery of courses in computing and e-skills technologies. The College is seen as a "flagship" for computing and e-skills technologies.
Henley is one of only nine colleges throughout the UK to gain the much sought after status for computing and IT related training. This status represents a massive boost for everyone - the College, local people, schools, universities and local employers.
At Henley College we take equal opportunities very seriously, celebrating the diversity of our students. We are working all the time to improve what we do and to ensure that every single one of our students is welcomed and supported while they are with us.
Facilities available
The library
Henley College Coventry students and staff are members of the library and your student ID card is also your library card. Visit the library to find all the information you need for your assignments and much more besides. The resources available include:
25,000 books selected to support every course taughtin the College and many other subjects; fiction books, with collectionsfor children and learners of English;
Over 100 journals and 5 different daily newspapers;
Careers information;
CD-ROMs: there are 30 titles which can be used on the multimedia PCs in the library;
Ordnance Survey Map collection (Britain and Europe);
Audio books, Language courses on tape.
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You can choose between the Group Study Area, where you can discuss your work with other students, or the Quiet Zone for silent work and viewing videos or listening to cassettes.
The e-library
The e-library is an exciting service available to students on the Internet, via WebCT or the Xfiles. It gives you access to lots of information and can be accessed from home or in College.
Video library
The library records dozens of useful programmes a week, as well as buying programmes to help you with your course. Students can watch these in the Quiet Zone, or look out for our programmes in the classroom.
IT project area
Henley College Coventry`s IT project area is testimony to the impact technology has had on the way we learn. Pentium power at your fingertips, the Internet on all machines and a wide range of software packages that gives you the confidence you need to continually produce the finest project work. The area offers students laser printing capability as well as printing and scanning. All the machines are networked and provide access to industry standard applications such as Microsoft Office Professional as well as AutoCAD, 3D Studio Max, Multimedia Astound, Pagemaker, Paint Shop Pro and a number of programming languages.
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Students who join the Media Department can look forward to getting their hands on some excellent equipment. The college`s status as an educational partner to one of the world`s leading suppliers of digital media equipment, JVC Professional Products, enables the college to offer students the very latest in production equipment. For example, the college has a fully-equipped TV studio with a state-of-the-art editing suite. There are facilities for vision mixing, digital VTR, video editing and photography using a fully equipped darkroom or digitalcameras. There are also a modern sound mixing and editing desk and this operates in conjunction with Cubase/Cubasis, Sound Forge and WaveLabsoftware.
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There is a range of eating places around the college each offering a different selection of dishes, snacks and drinks for students.
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The role of Student Services is to support students to succeed. We want to make it easy for you to access that support. Below are some of the services you can expect at the college:
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We have a separate careers and information library that provides information on all aspects of work and education. We also give support and guidance in looking for work, applying for jobs, preparing for interviews, course choices and applying for University.
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Counselling gives someone a chance to talk through any problems, to tryto understand and work things out in a supportive environment.Counselling within the college is confidential and sessions can be bookedor students can use the'drop-in' clinic.
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Students aged16 – 19 on full-time courses can apply for an Educational MaintenanceAllowance. Students may be able to claim up to £30 a week.
For students whoare bringing up children there is a nursery on the campus.Henley Nursery is staffed by a friendly, approachable team and interested parents can view the facilities by making an appointment.
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Branding & Website Design for North of River Financial.
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Based in Joondalup, Western Australia, North of River Financial is a boutique financial planning firm delivering financial solutions to clients across Perth & region areas.
Handsome Ground Studio has worked with North of River Financial a number of times, to realise their website design & re-brand their business identity, as well as developing collateral items such as branded brochures, PDF documents & PowerPoint keynote slides for national conferences.


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No matter how much our world changes, there will never be an adequate substitute for a parent's direct involvement in a child's reading and learning. The very act of reading together strengthens the critical bond between parent and child, home and school, reading and learning. It sets a vital example and influences children in a way that no alternative will ever replace. Reading practice is encouraged. Relationships are strengthened. Schools are supported. Community is fostered.
While compelling facts and figures may influence our thoughts, they don't often move us to take action. It takes an authentic, emotional connection to bring knowledge to a boil.
We set out to observe and speak with parents to better understand key motivations for reading together. While many understand the general value of reading and regard it as very important for their kids, in the list of priorities they face each day, reading together is often relegated to the bottom of the list. The opportunity to change perspectives lay in focusing on the more immediate and powerful impacts of reading – how it inspires our kids, influences their behaviors, affects their thoughts – each and every day.
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The making of Masala
Thursday, June 13 2013 @ 08:09 am ACST
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Saturday a week ago, Masala Football Club secured their first victory – quite fittingly at the season mid-point and against fellow multicultural football side the Dragons (formerly known as the Southern Dragons). For those unfamiliar with Masala, they appear in World Footy News stories: Masala Football Club is born and Masala debuts in the heat.
As club co-founder and current president (and a no-longer-so-active WFN correspondent) I take you behind the scenes of the club, and share our journey so far. Hopefully it's an entertaining read – perhaps it might also prove useful to others in Australia or abroad working to get a club up and running.
IC2011 – Idea born
Through connections made with two players from the India Tigers team at the 2008 International Cup, Darren Ross and Sudip Chakraborty, I found myself co-organising an India Tigers team for the 2011 event. A good portion of the team were Melbourne-based, most without previous football experience.
Following the tournament, myself and two of the Melbourne-based players – Trevor Banerjee and Fevin Mascarenhas toyed with the idea of getting the local players together to play regular footy. From there, the idea of a club with a subcontinental flavour was born. Shortly after another India player, William Fernandes was on board and we had our inaugural committee.
2012 – Foundation Laid
The four of us met on a regular basis throughout 2012. Our first priority was a name, moniker and colours. We looked at everything from Tendulkar Tigers to Brown Brothers FC – but found the names to be either too exclusive (often India-centric), infringing on existing brands or simply impossible to work with.
Finally we settled on Masala Football Club (meaning a blend of spices) which was perfectly reflective of the diverse team we were looking to build. However by being Masala, the choice was made not to have a moniker, and this made creating a logo more difficult. With the help of a Sydney-based student, we eventually did come up with a logo: a star anise (spice) in which the seeds have been replaced by footballs.
The Richmond Football Club (big supporters of the India Tigers at the International Cup) resolved our lack of colours – in exchange for us adopting the yellow and black, they agreed to provide our playing kit. Richmond's support has been fantastic and has included several articles about Masala on their website and a pre-season function at their Punt Rd facilities. We are hopeful of one more event with Richmond before the year is out.
Our desired league, the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA), agreed to consider our application if we incorporated (making us a legal entity) and submitted a Business Plan. Leagues generally require clubs to field at least two teams (seniors and reserves). Given the difficulty in getting one team together we would be applying for a stand-alone team in VAFA's Club XVIII competition, which accommodates thirds and fourths teams for clubs in all higher divisions. This is not usually allowed, and similar concepts in the past had been required to operate under the auspices of an exisiting club (Hawthorn Spartans and their Thirds, Box Hill North and the now Dragons FC).
We set to work on the constitution (or rules) – for those unfamiliar with Victorian Legislation and Incorporation Associations; you are given two options: adopt the Model Rules or create your own rules (which still need to be compliant with the legislation). Given that we had a very specific purpose for the club, we opted to create our own rules. We consulted both the Model Rules and several other publically available sporting club constitutions and then had them looked over by a legal eye (thanks to Troy Thompson for his connections). It was submitted and after a few minor alterations, accepted. It was August 2012 and Masala Football Club Inc. was officially born!
Before we could start on the Business Plan we needed to set our area of operation. According to the last census, Melbourne is home to 100,000+ India-born persons (and a sizeable Sri Lankan community) and this is without taking into consideration any Australian-born children. We made a list of a few key municipalities (either due to their location or demographics) and then did a mail out to all these councils. The City of Greater Dandenong, in Melbourne's southeast was the first to respond, and most importantly they were eager to accommodate us. Greater Dandenong is home to a large number of migrants from the subcontinent. It is also home to a large number of Melbourne's refugees and asylum seekers, many from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Whilst the council couldn't give us a definite answer until their official ground allocations in January, they were prepared to confirm to VAFA that they were working with us to secure a home ground.
Following this the Business Plan came together quite easily and it proved a good point for us to "take stock" – we were officially registered, in talks with a league and now had an area to work with - things seemed to be progressing to plan. I arranged a meeting with Tim Noonan, General Manager of Football Operations at VAFA and formally discussed our intent. Tim listen to what I had to say, and seemed impressed by both the constitution and Business Plan, but at the same time remained noncommittal – as our application had to be voted on by the board. I was told the application would be either: accepted as submitted; accepted if we partnered with an existing club; or rejected.
It was a nervous wait but at the end of October I was informed by Tim that our application was accepted as submitted and we would be playing Club XVIII in 2013. AFL Victoria approval followed shortly after… and the fun began!
2013 – Pre Season & Preparation
For all the hard work that had gone into the club up until that point, things stepped up a notch after being accepted by VAFA. We had to recruit, find a coach, a club umpire and sponsors and plan a pre-season – and none of the committee had previously been involved in a football club.
We received word from the council that we would be in a ground-sharing arrangement with the Lyndale Football Club (Southern Football League), making Barry J Powell Reserve our home ground. The ground has multiple social areas meaning that we still have our own club space and the reserve has two ovals (and no longer any junior teams) meaning there is room for growth.
Our recruitment started with the Melbourne-based India Tigers and their ability to sell the concept to friends, family and Facebook connections. At our first pre-season session in late January we had a grand total of six participants. Given a large number of our players are from overseas, after all had returned back to Melbourne from holidays by about mid-February our numbers were close to a full squad. We were contacted by Team Africa for a practice match which was played in early March and was the club's first ever hit out. We managed to field a team, but had only a couple of interchange in a match that was played in near 40 degree heat. We went down by about 60 points.
It was the first of three practice matches – the others played against the Dragons, Endeavour Hills and Dandenong Redlegs thirds. All were losses on the scoreboard, but wins for the team, with players gaining valuable match time.
Interestingly our real player growth began after the season had commenced. Against our first official opponents, Richmond Central, we had a full playing list of around 30. Just eight weeks later that is 50. The majority of these new players are not experienced, but they bring with them skills from other sports and an eagerness to be a part of the club. Word of mouth remains our most successful recruitment method, but we have had a few players hear of us by other means.
Our playing group is diverse and 70% of our squad have made their football-debut at Masala. We have players born in countries like India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Estonia, New Zealand, UAE, Kuwait and Zimbabwe. Other players have both parents born in countries such as Italy and Vietnam. Our list includes an asylum seeker and a refugee. Of the 50 players on our list, 45 have had match time. We are preparing to host our own 9s tournament to make sure that all players remain engaged at the club, and have our eyes focussed on two teams in 2014.
Finding a coach to lead such a diverse and inexperienced group took time – more so because we couldn't offer any monetary return – just the opportunity to build a club from the ground up, and a few tie-ins to the Richmond Football Club. We were put in contact with Matt Peddlesden, a former Old Camberwell junior, who agreed to come on board as a playing coach. It has been one of the best decisions in the club's short history and hopefully Matt remains on board for years to come.
All Club XVIII teams need to provide an umpire for their home matches and this was perhaps the most challenging position we have had to fill – to the point that for our first two home matches we were borrowing an umpire from VAFA (which was testing our relationship with their Head of Umpiring). We contacted nearby junior leagues and all our connections involved with suburban football, without success. In many cases they too were seeking an umpire. Finally with the help of Gumtree we found our man!
Sponsorship has secured us less money than we would have hoped, and like many football clubs we have been forced to be creative with our fundraising. Our player registration fee covers some of the cost, although we deliberately kept this low to encourage new players to try out football. We also have a Social Membership available for $50 (sign up here) which includes special offers from our partners, a club scarf and a vote out our AGM, amongst other benefits. McDonalds Noble Park (our shorts sponsor), Bank of Queensland Dandenong and Romak Hardware Distributors have all assisted financially or in kind, as has the Richmond Football Club.
2013 – Inaugural Season
The season started with a baptism of fire – a 131 point loss away to Richmond Central. It was a reality-check of sorts for the team, who went in very optimistic, having been competitive in their most-recent practice match. In hindsight it was a difficult opener - eight rounds in and Richmond Central remain undefeated and yet to be truly challenged this season.
Since the first match, the team has continued to improve and now resemble a football team. On June 1, in incredibly wet conditions, the players' hard work paid off and Masala defeated "rivals" the Dragons. It was a four quarter effort – Masala leading at all the breaks, in a very physical encounter. Making the victory all the more sweeter, when the sides met in Round 2, the Dragons were 82 point victors (although Masala was awarded the points after it was found the Dragons played unregistered players).
For those interesting in seeing Masala in action, this Saturday at 2pm we take on Eley Park Sharks at home. We will be holding a kids football clinic beforehand.
Show your support
To show your support of Masala, like our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter. If you're keen to be involved – either head down to training on a Monday or Wednesday evening at 7pm or sign up to a Social Membership.
Masala Football Club promotional clip
Masala feature at 10 minute mark - The Local Footy Show (Channel 31)
Front page news on the Richmond Website: coach Matt and committee members Ash, Trevor and Fevin
UHS-VU vs Masala: Captain Ben leads the team out
Masala vs Richmond Central: Masala FC scarf prominently displayed above our canteen
Dragons vs Masala: Pre-match huddle (yes that's rain!)
Dragons vs Masala: Three quarter time chat
Dragons vs Masala: Final siren
Dragons vs Masala: Smiles all around


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Scurry page 167/
Pict washed up... with a friend.
I actually did a version of the bottom panel ages and ages ago (you might have seen it around the internet). In fact, it was the second Scurry image I ever created. It's taken over 2 years for the story to catch up! I ended up changing the snake species (it was originally and common garter snake but now its a beefier northern water snake), so I had to paint over it.
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It's not mandatory that you apply any type of finish to the exterior of your hive. Cedar withstands the elements quite well in its natural state (it won't rot), although it turns gray, develops fine cracks and loses its "new" appearance over time. However, after years of using this product on our own hives and receiving lots of feedback from our customers who have also used it, we feel that there is strong anecdotal evidence which suggests that using this non-toxic, food-safe, 100% pure tung oil to finish your hive's exterior not only keeps your hive looking new much longer; it also significantly increases the winter survival rates of the bee colony inside. This is likely because by protecting the hive's exterior from rain and snow, the R-value (insulation) of the wood is constantly maintained and humidity levels inside the hive are reduced. This keeps your bees warmer and drier, while also reducing the amount of stores they consume. One 8-Oz. bottle is enough to protect one hive (two hive bodies, the roof and the floor assembly) with 2 coats, although a total of 4 coats is preferred. Each additional hive body you have will require about 1 ounce per coat. The first coat can be made to penetrate the wood more deeply by thinning with equal parts of citrus solvent. Click here to learn more about this product and for detailed instructions on how to finish your hives.
NOTE: It is very difficult to find this product in your local stores. Most "Tung oil" available in stores, like Minwax or Formby's brands, are actually petroleum-based varnishes that contain little tung oil or even none at all. Those products are not recommended for finishing your hives.


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Twig always felt out of place among his Woodtroll clan. Then one cold night, he learns why this is so: His Woodtroll mother found him as a baby and, although she raised him and loved him as her own, he's not a Woodtroll. Thus, Twig leaves his village to seek his destiny, which he believes lies somewhere Beyond the Deepwoods. His mother's parting words warn him to stay on the path to ensure he will arrive safely at his destination. If only Twig had listened... Along the way, Twig encounters many strange creatures, some friendly, some deadly. Always he lives in fear of the dreaded Gloamglozer, the Deepwoods boogyman said to be the embodiment of one's worst fears. Finally, Twig discovers the truth about himself and learns where he is meant to be. And it's the last place he expected.
The first volume in Paul Stewart's Edge Chronicles is exciting, imaginative, and impossible to put down. The audio version, read by Clive Mantel, is awesome. However, with the audio you won't get Chris Riddell's creative illustrations (which really enhance the story). Still, an amazing book all around. --AJL


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A Lesser Creation and a Lesser Enchantment. Both Simple Miracles for Canaan, even without the Chancel discount. YAY!For the record, Canaan is summoning lightning and transforming himself and Evelyn into electricity to ride the storm. It's a useful trick!
As I read the errata, that bestowment only helps you, Rand Brittain. Not Canaan.For the record, Jenna thoughtfully inscribed my copy of the rules with customized errata, which frees me from the troublesome need to spend MP on anything ever. But yeah, that was Simple anyway.


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Today's readings were taken from the Common of Holy Men, for Saint Louis, King of France. In the city of Saint Louis, this is celebrated as a solemnity.
The Austrian psychologist Viktor Frankl challenged the notions in the Freudian school of psychology that human beings were guided either by a will to survive or a will to power. For Frankl, who had survived living in a Concentration Camp, human beings were driven by a will to meaning. That is, they were guided by the quest to find meaning and purpose in there lives. Using the example of flying lessons, he proposed that if we consider human beings as they are, human beings become worse. But, if we consider human beings as they could be, they become better. Just imagine if you considered yourself and others as that ideal person created in God's image. The world could be changed for the better.


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Cultivating Grit: An approach to increasing confidence (Paperback)
Cultivating Grit: An approach to increasing confidence (Paperback)
'Cultivating Grit' explores character development: grit, growth mindset, and motivation. The author draws on personal and professional experiences as well as current research to share do-it-yourself, confidence-building strategies with educators and parents. She takes readers on a journey through an eight-part discussion with five reflection activities to be completed individually or as a group. The premise is that by helping learners increase confidence, performance improves in class and at home.
Jillian Smart, M.Ed. is an author, coach, and educator. She partners with educators and families around the world to facilitate development of more independent learners. Jillian launched Jackson Education Support as the vehicle for this work. The program she has developed is a breakthrough that has garnered much support and applause since the launch. The 96% success rate among exam preparation and tutoring clients evidences program efficacy. Her approach is unique in that she leverages character development to affect cognitive development. Character development experiences with clients and professional development training serve as the foundation for this book.


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I think that I've written about this sort of dish before, but it is such a favourite that I thought that I'd do a new post Continue reading
I think that I've written about this sort of dish before, but it is such a favourite that I thought that I'd do a new post Continue reading
Massaman is a Thai beef curry from the south of the country where there is a sizeable Muslim community. Continue reading
This is basically that classic French dish, moules marinières but cooked with Thai seasonings and aromatics. Continue reading
This one is for Geoff and Dawn.
Massaman is a style of curry from southern Thailand that is influenced by Indian and Malay curry.
You can either make your own massaman paste or buy a good quality one. I used a bought paste and added in some additional spices.
It is traditionally made with beef but you can use chicken as well. I used chicken.
The ingredients were;
4 skinned, boned and sliced chicken breasts
1 pint of coconut milk
1 tablespoon masaman curry paste
1 thumb of peeled and chopped ginger
2 crushed cloves of garlic
2 chopped banana shallots
Salt and pepper
1 tablespoon of palm sugar
1 tablespoon tamarind paste
1 teaspoon of ground cumin
1 teaspoon of ground coriander
Some raw peanuts, fried until lightly browned
The juice of one lime
2 tablespoons of fish sauce
1 chopped green chilli
Chopped fresh coriander.
To cook, you fry the shallots, chilli, garlic and ginger in sunflower oil until soft and add in the two pastes and carry on cooking. Then add the chicken and dry spices and stir in the palm sugar, coconut milk and fish sauce.
Simmer until the chicken is cooked and then add in the peanuts, lime juice and adjust the seasoning.
The dish should have a lot of quite thin sauce, Serve garnished with chopped coriander and jasmine rice.
I cooked a simple stir-fry of Chinese leaves, carrots, onions and oyster mushrooms in oyster sauce as an accompaniment.
Chopped spring onions make a nice garnish and you can also serve some chopped bird's eye chillies steeped in fish sauce for those who like some extra chilli heat.
In my post about bavette, I mentioned that it was also good cold in a Thai-style salad. There was enough bavette last night for me to cook a piece to use for exactly such a salad, and here it is.
The sliced steak is mixed with Chinese leaves, beansprouts, grated carrot, raw Enoki mushrooms, half-moons of seeded cucumber, tomatoes, peanuts, chopped unseeded red and green chillies and a dressing made with nam pla (fish sauce), lime juice and sesame oil.
I made it this evening for my lunch tomorrow. It is a lovely salad, crunchy raw vegetables and salad in a tangy dressing and with a real chilli kick. I suppose that you could de-seed the chillies but personally, I like the heat.
You could also make a similar salad with some cooked and shredded chicken or maybe some prawns and other seafood.


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Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair. -Arthur Rimbaud, "Phrases"
So excited to see that some of my MFA pals have created a new literary magazine! Your Impossible Voice is a nonprofit literary project dedicated to supporting writers and poets and publishing a variety of work from around the globe. If you're wondering what kinds of writing they are looking for, here are the guidelines: "Your Impossible Voice is looking for quality works of prose for our next issues. We are interested in writing from around the world. We would like to receive transmissions from outer space, as well as from deep underground. We are not bored and prefer not to be. We like urgency, innovation, intelligence, risk. We're interested in what language can do and in challenging our own preconceptions. We love lucid dreams, blurred boundaries, formal play, and stories we've never heard. We love the voices of deluded philosophers, hallucinating prisoners, cold-blooded rationalists and insane children. We love realism in the sense that everything is real. We have fairly open minds. Surprise us. Make us think or make us feel or make our brains explode. We are waiting." Sounds amazing. I just picked up the first copy and can't wait to dig in.
The debut issue of Your Impossible Voice features new work from
Guggenheim Fiction Fellow Jessica Hagedorn set in San Francisco's
gritty Tenderloin District, new poems from Pushcart Prize winner Gillian
Conoley, newly translated work from award-winning Salvadoran author
Horacio Castellanos Moya, and poetry from Oakland's own Cave Canem
Winner and California Book Awards Finalist Arisa White. Other notable
writers appearing in issue one include Pattie McCarthy, Stacey
Levine, Peter Kline, Alejandra Costamagna, Aisha Ahmad, Christopher
Hennessy, Steve Davenport, Alvin Lu, Colette DeDonato, Matthew Roberson,
Daniel Borzutzky, Abeer Hoque, Lisa Williams, and Joe Wenderoth. You can buy a copy here.


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Below is a short story without an ending. Read it and notice what your gut reaction is. What do you think happens next? There's no right or wrong answer, but your first response is likely the most honest and the most instructive. Your response may reveal something about the lens through which you are processing life. Whether or not it provides any insight, have fun with it! The story:
Once upon a time in Catlandia, there was a very rich tabby named Fat Cat. He had made his riches in Kitty City years ago and now lived high on the mouse in his kitty castle. How he had made his riches was somewhat of a mystery. He had more frozen mice and rats in his freezers than 1,000 cats could eat in nine lifetimes, but he always hissed when taxed two rodents a year by the Internal Ratting Service.
Catlandia was not without its problems. Over--mousing had led to a dangerous decline in the rodent population. The same was true of the fish population.
Once two intrepid reporters, Tiger and Hairball, began working for CMN, the Catlandia Mews Network. They reported on the impending food crisis and tried to keep tabs on Fat Cat's friends who ran the Cat Council. One day Tiger and Hairball decided to investigate how Fat Cat got so rich...and thus so fat. When Fat Cat caught a whiff of their plans, he put a stop to the whole endeavor by purchasing CMN. Tiger and Hairball were reassigned to covering stories about the lives of kitty celebrities. They never reported on anything of significance again.
One day an older cat named Shadow arrived. She had lived in Kitty City and knew how Fat Cat had become wealthy. Shadow wanted Tiger and Hairball to broadcast the truth, but they were preoccupied with the breakup of "TomCat", a famous kitty couple.
Shadow was born near a stream in Kitty City. There she frolicked all day, catching fish and rodents, just like her mother had taught her. One day Fat Cat arrived. He convinced the people of Kitty City that they could have more food with less effort if they paid him to use his new invention: The Kibble-Shaker. The Kibble-Shaker, though Fat Cat never revealed the full details of how it worked, essentially created underground explosions forcing rodents out of their holes and fish out of their streams. Sure enough, within a short period of time mice, rats and fish were popping up everywhere for easy catching. Fat Cat took his pay (mostly in frozen rodents) and left town.
Shortly afterwards, however, things went terribly wrong. Because the rodents were forced out of their holes before they could raise their young, there was no next generation of vermin to feed on. Even worse, the underground explosions had polluted the water. Not only did most of the fish die, but the cats had to travel great distances to find something to drink. When they tracked down Fat Cat, he claimed it was all a coincidence and that they couldn't prove The Kibble-Shaker had anything to do with their plight.
Shadow shared the story throughout Catlandia, but no one seemed interested. Not only were they wrapped up in the "TomCat" drama, but they had also bought into the Cat Council's propaganda that the best way to keep safe and fed was to make sure Fat Cat kept as many of his frozen rodents as possible in the hope that a few tidbits would trickle down to feed the rest of the cats. If anyone held him accountable for past infractions, they feared they'd have even less food than their already declining supply.
One day Shadow happened upon a hidden structure just outside of Catlandia. A stealthy kitty if ever there was one, Shadow slinked around a corner and peeked inside to see Fat Cat and his friends eating a grand feast of Rat Souffle and Trout with a Mouse Reduction. She listened carefully as Fat Cat caterwalled to the clowder of cats: "Mewwwww..... Now that I have all those felines eating out of my paw, I can introduce my greatest invention. The Kibble-Shaker is coming to Catlandia!"
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Manuscript Mondays – Bad trip.
Continued from here.
It was hours, or perhaps minutes, or perhaps days later when Marie broke into a clearing and took a few stabilizing breaths. She sank down onto a grassy patch in the shade and put her head between her knees. She had long since left beneath any signs of gunfire, and the only noise that accompanied her own ragged breathing was the occasional flirtatious chattering of the birds in the trees, and the shrill yodeling of a solitary monkey. The sun, which was hard enough to see through the dense foliage of the jungle, was flickering just a few feet from the horizon now, and had little chance of making much headway between the ranks of thick old tree trunks.
Marie took her right foot into her hands and pulled it into her lap. The bottom was cut and bleeding, and for the umpteenth time, she cursed herself for dropping her purse and her extra pair of shoes behind her. In New York, she had prided herself on her baby bottom soft skin, pampered by weekly pedicures and mud baths. Now, she wished she'd made a little less fun of girls who went barefoot habitually and had callused heels.
Out of habit, she reached into her back pocket for her cell phone. Her jewel encrusted iPhone was missing, but she pulled out the forgotten Loubouton heel and turned it over in her hands. She found the reminder of home vaguely satisfying.
At the thought of home, Marie finally confronted her surroundings. She had never been the outdoorsy type, but she distantly remembered watching a survival show on T.V. once, and her family had a vacation house in Puerto Rico.From the location of the sun, she was able to determine that it was almost nighttime. Marie recalled that there were other things she could determine from the sun, but she could not for the life of her remember what those things were.
Marie closed her eyes and leaned back against a palm tree trunk.
Okay, she thought to herself. Nighttime in a tropical jungle. I went from the office to a tropical jungle. How did that happen?
All of the sudden, she felt extremely tired. The adrenaline was finally wearing off, as was the last cup of coffee she'd had with lunch.
Lunch. Hmm.
She had had a weird lunch with Dakota earlier at a bizarre, hippy cult restaurant.
Perhaps I'm tripping.
The thought struck a satisfactory chord. Marie had never done any hallucinogens, but she knew what they were, and she had eaten a sandwich with mushrooms in it. Besides, she didn't have a better explanation of how she'd gotten here.
I must be on drugs, Marie thought to herself. I'll wake up in my office, and my PR team can take care of everything tomorrow.
Reassured, she readjusted her grip on her piece of heel, squirmed down into the bed of wild grasses she was sitting on, and drifted to sleep.


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How do you sell more art? To start with, you need more people to be aware of your work. One of the best tools for building awareness is paid online advertising. Once your website is set up to take advantage of new traffic, start small with advertising, take a testing approach, and build gradually until you skyrocket your art sales!
What is advertising?
Before we get started, let's define what I mean by "advertising." It's easy to get confused about advertising, marketing, and public relations, as they are sometimes used interchangeably.
Marketing is an umbrella term, under which you'll find advertising, PR, and media relations.
Whenever you spend money to get your name in front of people, that's advertising.
What we're talking about here is "paid visibility"—that is, you're using advertising anytime you pay to get your business in front of an audience. The opposite is "earned visibility," which is what public relations (PR) and media relations can do for your business.
Why should you use advertising to skyrocket your art sales?
Artists need to take the reins
Remember the good old days, when all you had to do was find a couple of galleries that were willing to sell your work? They'd take care of all the promotion and sales and they'd retain a commission? Well, sorry to say, that's not working so well anymore.
More and more, artists need to take control of their own marketing because gallery representation is not so easy to find. It has become necessary to promote yourself and sell your own work.
Art marketing has moved online in a big way, so it's a good idea to be savvy about promoting and selling your work online.
Advertising will grow your audience
One benefit of online advertising is that it will grow your following, leading to future sales. When you run Facebook or Instagram ads, more people will follow you and share your content, increasing your exposure to a new audience.
And, as long as you've got a subscription form on your website, you'll gain email subscribers. The bigger your email audience, the more sales you'll get over time.
Say that approximately five percent of your email list purchases from you when you make an offer. If you have 1000 people in your audience, that's 50 buyers. If that number grows to 10,000 people over time, you've now got 500 buyers!
You never know when people are going to buy from you. It takes time. You want to be bringing people into your audience continually so they can get to know, like, and trust you—and eventually purchase your art.
Not sure whether your website is ready to take on a flood of new traffic? Snag my Artist's Website Self-Review Checklist.
When is it time to use advertising to sell your art?
If you've got a clear idea of a style that sells and you've got some popular work, but you just can't seem to get the traction you need through organic (unpaid) marketing, it's time to try advertising.
If you have a few pieces of work that consistently sell (at festivals, in coffee shops, online) or ones that people rave about, those are the pieces that you should consider advertising.
Or, if your audience hasn't grown much recently, you may have reached the limit of your organic growth at the moment. Spend some money on advertising to get a boost that will push your business beyond that plateau.
How to use advertising to sell your art
Old school versus online
You can go old school and pay for ads in your local newspaper, your local city magazine, or in national magazines. You can pay for visibility at conferences or in festival brochures.
Or—you can pay for online advertising.
I recommend that artists start online. Why? Online advertising is trackable. It's affordable for everyone. And you can set exactly how much you want to spend per day or per campaign.
Test the waters
Online advertising can cost you as little as $5 a day, whereas an ad in a city magazine could cost you around $2,000 for a quarter page ad. That's a large chunk of change to risk on something you haven't tested—and it's not easy to track results.
With online ads, you can test the waters for $5 a day, track the results, and see what works for you and your business.
You can also set exactly how much you want to spend per day on each of the campaigns that you run online.
I recommend using Facebook ads because they are visual. They also give you the opportunity to tell your story along with the ad. (By Facebook ads, I mean Facebook and Instagram, because Facebook owns Instagram. Through Facebook, you can advertise on both of these platforms.)
Step by step
1 | Before you begin, set up a Facebook pixel on your website. It's a code that allows you to track actions that visitors take in response to your ads. See this Hootsuite article for more.
2 | Choose one or two pieces of your artwork, or a series, that sell well.
3 | Start small. Create two different Facebook ads so that you can use split-testing. Spend about $10 a day for 5 days, noticing each day which of ads/audiences sells the best.
4 | Look at how much you spent overall, and how many people saw the ad. Even if most people didn't subscribe to your email list or buy anything, they saw your ad, and that's an increase in your visibility. It could be as many as 50,000 people. Also look at the number of click-throughs from the ads, and the number of new followers on Facebook or Instagram.
5 | Track how many sales came from the ad and total up the revenue from your sales. Now, take those numbers and extrapolate. If you spent $50 the first time and made $200 from those ads, you profited $150. Not bad. You tripled your investment.
6 | Extrapolating, if you increase your expenditure to $500, then in theory you could expect to bring in $1,500. Now you're ready to take the next step, spend more advertising dollars, and see if those numbers hold.
7 | Keep taking those small steps until you get your ad to cruising altitude, and then let the ad run for up to six weeks.
8 | Pull your ad down and plan to run it again in the next quarter or three or four months later. If it's for a different piece of artwork next time, or for a promotion that you're running, you might need to test again to make sure that the new ad is going to give you a good return on investment. I recommend running ads three to four times a year.
You can run online ads for promotions you're doing, whether you're selling work around the holidays, or you're doing a studio clean-out sale with 20% off—or maybe you're participating in one of the hashtag promotions like #100daysof (where you're creating 100 pieces of work), or #MarchMeetTheMaker. With promotions like this you can grow your audience with advertising while at the same time re-engaging your existing audience.
Bonus: Here's a tip from another post, How to Spend Less Time Promoting Your Art on Social Media with Better Results:
If you use Facebook for your business, take a minute right now to visit business.facebook.com and set up Facebook Business Manager. For a quick tutorial on how to set up an account, see How do I Sign Up for Business Manager and Set up People, Pages & Ad Accounts in Business Manager.
Using Facebook Business Manager will allow you to see how well your page and ads are doing, as well as receive notifications for your business page without having to visit your personal Facebook page. Trust me, it's awesome.
To skyrocket your art sales, use Facebook ads: Take a testing approach, spend a little, then a little more, find a cruising altitude, run it for a while, and then repeat the process each time you have a promotion.
P.S. In my Create a Marketing Plan for Your Thriving Art Business course, we do a marketing tactics deep dive, where you can explore the pros and cons of paid advertising and make informed decisions about marketing your business. Add your name to the waitlist and I'll let you know when registration opens.


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Manuals can be helpful, especially when embarking on a new experience. Car maintenance, house repairs -- you can find what you need to know in a manual. But woman's body after baby? Not so much.
When it comes to bringing a child into the world, a woman's body is where it all happens, from conception and pregnancy, to birth and breastfeeding. So let's celebrate the short- and long-term body changes associated with birth by sharing and demystifying some of the topics left out of most pregnancy guides.
The physiological changes that accompany birth are mountainous and affect women in varying degrees. In the same way that all births are unique, all postpartum experiences are special to each mother and should be celebrated for the places they hold in our parenting journey.
But, instead of keeping these body changes hushed or seeing them as badges worn by seasoned moms, why not share these (and other) adaptations with everyone around us in the hopes of normalizing the realities that come with pregnancy, birth and raising our children.


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6 October – Memorial for St. Bruno, Priest
Bruno (1030–1101) was educated in Paris and Rheims, France. He was ordained in 1055. He taught theology, and one of his students later became Blessed Pope Urban II. He presided over the cathedral school at Rheims from 1057 to 1075. He criticised the worldliness he saw in his fellow clergy. He opposed Manasses, Archbishop of Rheims, because of his laxity and mismanagement. He was chancellor of the Archdiocese of Rheims.
Following a vision he received of a secluded hermitage where he could spend his life becoming closer to God, he retired to a mountain near Chartreuse in Dauphiny in 1084 and with the help of St. Hugh of Grenoble, he founded what became the first house of the Carthusian Order. He and his brothers supported themselves as manuscript copyists.
He became assistant to Pope Urban in 1090, and supported his efforts at reform. Retiring from public life, he and his companions built a hermitage at Torre where the monastery of Saint Stephen was built in 1095. Bruno combined in the religious life living as a hermit and living in a community; his learning is apparent from his scriptural commentaries.
– Patron Saint Index
Job 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17
This was the answer Job gave to the Lord:
I know that you are all-powerful:
what you conceive, you can perform.
I am the man who obscured your designs
with my empty-headed words.
I have been holding forth on matters I cannot understand,
on marvels beyond me and my knowledge.
I knew you then only by hearsay;
but now, having seen you with my own eyes,
I retract all I have said,
and in dust and ashes I repent.
The Lord blessed Job's new fortune even more than his first one. He came to own fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand she-donkeys. He had seven sons and three daughters; his first daughter he called 'Turtledove', the second 'Cassia' and the third 'Mascara.' Throughout the land there were no women as beautiful as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them inheritance rights like their brothers.
After his trials, Job lived on until he was a hundred and forty years old, and saw his children and his children's children up to the fourth generation. Then Job died, an old man and full of days.
Luke 10:17-24
The seventy-two came back rejoicing. 'Lord,' they said 'even the devils submit to us when we use your name.' He said to them, 'I watched Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Yes, I have given you power to tread underfoot serpents and scorpions and the whole strength of the enemy; nothing shall ever hurt you. Yet do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you; rejoice rather that your names are written in heaven.'
It was then that, filled with joy by the Holy Spirit, he said, 'I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.'
Then turning to his disciples he spoke to them in private, 'Happy the eyes that see what you see, for I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see, and never saw it; to hear what you hear, and never heard it.'
Happy the eyes that see what you see
It is often said that "an idle mind is the devil's workshop". I can attest to this as my mind has been entering this state very often, ever since I left a full-time job and returned to life as a student. It is not a healthy state to remain in, and I have to make a daily effort to plan my time so as to spend it meaningfully. A recent spiritual activity I embarked on has been very helpful in this regard. It is an online retreat from Creighton University, structured according to the spiritual exercises of St Ignatius. The retreat guide introduces a new theme each week that builds upon those explored earlier, and the retreatant is given guidelines for prayer and reflection. I have found that when I set aside the time and resources to follow the guidelines faithfully, I experienced a kind of steadfast focus during the week, enabling me to adopt a much more positive and loving outlook towards everything and everyone I came across.
In today's first reading, Job had railed at God about his sufferings, but he hung on to his faith and received rich rewards. In the gospel, the disciples of Jesus obediently did their work in God's name, and found themselves filled with joy at the outcome. My point is that one needs to keep the mind and heart firmly anchored to God in order to be able to experience the joy that comes from Him. Without that anchor of committed prayer and focus on the Lord, we will find ourselves floating along, trying to latch on to brief moments of pleasure but failing to find real meaning in them.
The message of praying more and praying often is not a mere platitude. It really is the way to maintain the connection with God.
(Today's OXYGEN by Edith Koh)
Prayer: Dear Lord, we pray for the presence of mind and the habit of taking actions that will lead us to remain in your presence.
Thanksgiving: We give thanks for the joys and rewards we have received from God.


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The free-agency period in the NBA summer has grown from back page news to driving the sports media world until the start of football season. Growing interest in the NBA off-season is one of the main reasons why the NBA is thriving and still growing every year. The Golden State Warriors have won three of the last four championships and other teams are growing antsy about winning a title of their own. The NBA in the 90's was similar as the Chicago Bulls won six times including two different three-peats. During that time, you were just considered as a player playing in the wrong era. Maybe that can be said about teams playing in the Warriors' era but that does not mean that there will not be anyone that still tries.
Even if you are not a team that feels like you have a legitimate chance of contending for the title, you still want to put out a winning product because who likes to lose right? There is a belief in the NBA that if you are not one of the league's best teams then you should try to be one of the worst because you increase your chances of landing a superstar. Ask teams like Orlando and Phoenix that have been drafting near the top of the draft for 4-5 years how much of a roll of the dice the draft can be. This summer will not be like it was in 2016 when teams were seemingly passing out money to anyone that would take it.
The salary cap situations are more limited this summer but there will still be bad deals signed this free agency just like every year. We'll break down 20 free-agency signings that teams will regret.
20 Dallas Mavericks: DeAndre Jordan
In the summer of 2015, the Dallas Mavericks agreed on a deal with DeAndre Jordan to return to his home state and play alongside Dirk Nowitzki. His former teammates Chris Paul and others reportedly locked Jordan in a room until he re-signed with the Clippers leaving the Mavs with egg on their face. This time, the Mavericks and Jordan will have mutual interest.
Now that the Clippers are no longer in playoff contention Jordan has likely played his last game with the Clippers.
Jordan will require a large contract that Dallas can afford to pay; the only problem is that it will not result in winning.
19 The Golden State Warriors: Michael Beasley
The Golden State Warriors won the 2018 NBA championship so it is hard to rain on their parade these days, literally. Last year it was Nick Young who the Warriors chose to win a championship on their roster. Next season that player is going to be Michael Beasley. Beasley is very close to Kevin Durant dating back to their days growing up in the DMV area. With the Warriors, Beasley will throw off the chemistry in the locker room and his presence will be the demise of the Warriors' championship run. OK, I was only kidding with that last part, but can the Warriors sign anyone this off-season that they would legitimately regret?
18 Chicago Bulls: Jabari Parker
While a senior in high school, Jabari Parker was one of the highest ranked basketball players in the country. This led to Parker committing to play one season at Duke University before he entered the NBA draft. There was a real discussion about who the first pick in the 2014 draft should be between Parker and Andrew Wiggins who eventually went first. In the NBA, Parker has not been what he was projected to be mainly because of knee injuries that have halted his development. The Chicago Bulls have cap space and Parker is a hometown guy that will remind them of the Derrick Rose days. Parker will receive a large contract but the truth is he may never develop into an all-star level player like his trajectory showed early on.
17 Memphis Grizzlies: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
The Memphis Grizzlies should feel burned after signing Chandler Parsons to a $94 million dollar max contract in 2016. They will sign Kentavious Caldwell-Pope in free agency after finding a team to take on the Chandler Parsons contract and will regret this deal as well. KCP averaged 13.4 points per game this last season for the Los Angeles Lakers.
KCP has the ability to score the basketball consistently and the Grizzlies could use more scoring in their starting lineup.
Expect a deal north of $12 million per year for around four years for Memphis to acquire the services of Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.
16 Miami Heat: Greg Monroe
The Miami Heat will attempt to trade disgruntled center Hassan Whiteside before the start of next season with the development of rookie Bam Adebayo. Greg Monroe agreed to a buyout with the Phoenix Suns this season and signed with the Boston Celtics for the remainder of the season. The Celtics are not likely to re-sign Monroe as he had minimal impact on their playoff run. The Heat will offer Monroe a deal as a backup front court player behind Adebayo and Monroe will gladly accept the deal. Monroe is 28 years of age and a long term deal will result in the Heat receiving a version of Greg Monroe that will be too slow for the fast paced offenses in the NBA that are likely getting faster.
15 Chicago Bulls: Zach LaVine
The Chicago Bulls traded Jimmy Butler to the Minnesota Timberwolves last season and they received the pick that turned into Lauri Markkanen, Kris Dunn and Zach LaVine. The former slam dunk contest winner is one of the team's most exciting young players. Paired with whoever the team decides to draft, this is the young core that you will see your fan base supporting.
The only problem is that LaVine's contract is up, and since he is a restricted free agent, an opposing team can raise his value.
The Bulls are stuck with offering LaVine a large contract, and I am not sure if he will ever develop into what his contract may require.
14 Los Angeles Lakers: Isaiah Thomas
After having an MVP level year in 2017, Thomas played through injury and was forced to sit out the first two months of this past season. That may be the main reason why he was traded twice in seven months but Thomas wanted a max contract and neither Boston nor Cleveland looked prepared to offer that kind of deal. After playing off the bench in Los Angeles, Thomas showed flashes of his old self but the Lakers freed up cap space to sign two big name free agents and neither goes by the name of Isaiah Thomas. If the Lakers plans do not work then there is a scenario where Thomas signs for max money with the Lakers, but he may have to consider playing on a one or two-year deal.
13 Dallas Mavericks: Julius Randle
The Dallas Mavericks own the fifth overall pick in the upcoming NBA draft. Last season, they selected Dennis Smith Jr. with the eighth overall pick, and they appear to have found their point guard of the future. The Mavericks are owned by Mark Cuban and if his track record shows us anything it is that they will get back to winning soon. This is why the Mavericks will be a major player in free agency and Randle will be toward the top of their wish list. Julius Randle will be able to negotiate a near max contract and since Dallas does not want to strike out on free agent targets, they will overpay for Julius Randle in July.
12 Sacramento Kings: Trevor Ariza
The Houston Rockets were one game away from eliminating the Golden State Warriors in the western conference finals this season. A major piece to their success this season was the play on both sides of the basketball by Trevor Ariza.
Ariza has been reported to be seeking a $50-60 million dollar contract for the next four to five years.
As insane as that deal sounds, Ariza will definitely find a suitor and Sacramento is a team that will make this kind of signing. Although one of the best 3-and-D players in the NBA, Ariza is not a primary option and the Kings do not appear close to competing in a tough western conference.
11 Houston Rockets: Chris Paul
In his first season with the Houston Rockets since being traded away from the Los Angeles Clippers, Chris Paul paired alongside James Harden made one of the most formidable offenses we have ever seen. A hamstring injury in game 5 of the western conference finals cost Paul the remainder of the series and a legitimate chance to reach his first NBA finals. The Rockets GM Daryl Morey has said that he loses sleep figuring out ways to defeat the Golden State Warriors. Paul is now a free agent and the Rockets will sign CP3 to a four or five-year max contract deal. The deal will make sense for now but due to his injury history the last two years of his deal will be a tough contract to bear.
10 Portland Trail Blazers: Jusuf Nurkic
The Portland Trail Blazers were third in the western conference this season exceeding expectations by everyone outside of Portland, Oregon. In his year and a half with the Blazers, Jusuf Nurkic proved that he could average double digit rebounds and points while not commanding the ball and taking away from Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum. Nurkic will demand a pricey contract in free agency and the Blazers have no other options to replace Nurkic if he were to walk. The main issue is that Portland lost in the first round with Nurkic and losing cap flexibility will not close the gap for Portland against the Rockets or Warriors.
9 Phoenix Suns: Elfrid Payton
The Phoenix Suns and Orlando Magic made a deal at the trade deadline where the Suns acquired Elfrid Payton as their next point guard. The Suns own the first overall pick in the NBA draft, and they are likely to select center DeAndre Ayton. With Devin Booker established as one of the better shooting guards early in his career, the Suns need a point guard that does not need to score. Payton is absolutely fine with facilitating for others and the Suns will be built to play that way. The Suns will sign Payton to a contract that pays him north of $10 million per year and the Suns will still be in the lottery next season.
8 Boston Celtics: Marcus Smart
After his fourth year in the NBA, Marcus Smart has established himself as one of the best defensive guards in the NBA and has helped anchor the Boston Celtics number one ranked defense. Prior to Smart, the Celtics had Avery Bradley who helped hide Isaiah Thomas' defensive liabilities similar to how Smart does for Kyrie Irving.
The Celtics have tough decisions to make in the coming years and this Marcus Smart contract is the first domino to fall.
Marcus Smart is a fan favourite and will force management to keep him for a number that his play will not be worthy of.
7 Chicago Bulls: Rodney Hood
In his fourth NBA season, Rodney Hood averaged a career-high 16.8 points per game with the Utah Jazz before he was traded away to the Cleveland Cavaliers. It should be somewhat surprising that the Jazz were so willing to move a scorer as talented as Rodney Hood who is still just 25 years old. When asked to enter the game in the playoffs for the Cavs, Hood seemingly refused and fans in Utah were not surprised in the slightest. When called upon in the NBA finals, Rodney Hood played well under the bright lights and the Bulls are going to be tempted to sign him to a large deal. When his field goal attempts go down for a game or two Hood will not be the best locker room guy and the Bulls will regret it.
6 Denver Nuggets: Will Barton
The Denver Nuggets played in the ultra-rare "play-in" game on the final night of the regular season against the Minnesota Timberwolves for the eighth seed in the western conference playoffs. Many believed that that game was just a chance to lose to the Rockets in the first round but the Denver Nuggets fell short anyway. Will Barton averaged a career-high 15.4 points per game for the Nuggets this season and his scoring has been steadily increasing over the last four seasons. These are the reasons why the Nuggets will re-sign Barton. Denver will need scoring from their bench but if they don't make the playoffs next year, they will have a high scoring reserve that doesn't increase their chances at winning.
5 Milwaukee Bucks: Derrick Favors
The Milwaukee Bucks were one of the most disappointing teams in the regular season. This led to the firing of head coach Jason Kidd without consulting with their best player Giannis Antetokoumpo. Jabari Parker is a free agent and Parker has not shown the ability to effectively play a stretch-four role alongside Giannis. This is where the Bucks will become interested in the services of Derrick Favors. Favors is a scoring threat in the post and teams will be intrigued by his abilities. This deal will not be cheap and the top eastern conference teams will still have the pieces to eliminate Milwaukee come playoff time.
4 Philadelphia 76ers: Avery Bradley
The Philadelphia 76ers ended the regular season on a 16-game winning streak that was good for best in the NBA. The NBA's hottest team looked like a force in the first round against the Miami Heat. By the second round, the Sixers looked like a young inexperienced team like projected when they faced the Boston Celtics.
The Sixers will have cap space from the J.J. Redick contract that is now up and will look elsewhere for shooting guard help.
The Sixers will sign Avery Bradley and opt for defense over shooting and that is a decision that they will regret next season.
3 The Houston Rockets: J.J. Redick
The Rockets are a team that loves to shoot the basketball and their offense set an NBA record for scoring. The Rockets ran into a problem in the playoffs against the Warriors when they missed 27 consecutive three-point attempts in a game 7 loss. Houston will add more shooting to their lineup to replace Trevor Ariza who will receive a large contract from another team. The issue with this mentality is that the Rockets will lose a player that was effective on both sides of the basketball for a one dimensional player. Whether in a reserve role or with the starters, the Rockets will grow to regret this decision.
2 The Cleveland Cavaliers: Rudy Gay
Last season, the Cleveland Cavaliers had some success playing Jeff Green at power forward in a small-ball lineup. Green played well in that role and after signing to play with Cleveland on a veteran minimum deal, Jeff Green will look to cash in a larger deal. This leaves the Cavs stuck with attempting to replace this type of player with someone similar a la Rudy Gay. All of this sounds good in theory until you factor in the possibility that LeBron James leaves Cleveland again. If that scenario does come true, then the Cavs will obviously regret downgrading from LeBron James to... Rudy Gay.
1 The San Antonio Spurs: Kyle Anderson
This summer has been unlike any other that we have seen in the last 20 years as the San Antonio Spurs have dominated headlines. Superstar forward Kawhi Leonard has made it known that he would like to be traded from the Spurs organization. Kyle Anderson is a restricted free agent and the Spurs will want to win games next season and make the playoffs, so they will look to resign Anderson. They will quickly realize that a Spurs team in the western conference will have no chance at winning a championship led by Kyle Anderson and not Kawhi Leonard.


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Sorrentino Turkey Drive Sets New Thanksgiving Giveaway Record/
By Janee Law
A pair of Thanksgiving-themed food giveaways were a hit with residents, giving out thousands of goods, including turkeys, to local families.
On Monday, the eighth annual Sorrentino Turkey Drive spurred bumper-to-bumper traffic along New York Avenue as a crowd gathered at Professional Automotive Service.
Andre Sorrentino, co-owner of PAS, and also a Huntington fire commissioner, said this year's turnout was double that of last year and a record number of turkeys were given away. A total of 2,150 turkeys were handed out, exceeding both Sorrentino's previously-established goal of 2,000 and last year's total of 1,840.
For next year, Sorrentino has already set his sights on a new record: he wants to dish out between 2,500-3,000 turkeys.
Between the giveaways, there was also music performed by a DJ, and cotton candy, pizza, popcorn, baked goods and more to indulge in.
"It makes my family and myself really happy to be able to do what we're doing," Sorrentino said, adding that Suffolk County Police Department, Toys of Hope, local fire departments, businesses and community leaders assisted in organizing the event. "It's amazing to see the smiles on their faces when they're leaving with a turkey in their hand."
Helping Hand Rescue Mission Lends Helping Hand for 53rd Year
Starting Sunday and continuing through Tuesday was the Helping Hand Rescue Mission's 53rd annual Thanksgiving Food Distribution.
The Huntington Station-based mission gave out turkeys and other Thanksgiving food items to local families, said HHRM president Kimberly Gaines-Gambino.
The mission will also give out nearly 200 bags of groceries to families in need, added Gambino, whose parents Rev. Jim Gaines and Rev. Rose Marie Gaines began the first distribution with just five blankets the year the mission was founded in 1965.
This year's distribution took place at the mission's 225 Broadway location in Huntington Station, where 71 families visited on Sunday and 148 families on Monday. There were 140 families scheduled to receive turkeys and food parcels on Tuesday.
"We're grateful to everyone from our community who has come together to make Thanksgiving 2017, HHRM's 53rd, truly one of our best ever," reads a statement posted to the HHRM Facebook page. "The volunteers, young and old alike, worked together tirelessly and cheerfully to help those who came receive their items."
The mission also assisted in providing 30 turkeys and food items to social workers of Eastern Suffolk BOCES who identified families in their district in dire need; shared 45 turkeys and food parcels on Sunday with a local congregation; and anticipated sharing another 40 turkeys and food items with another outreach center on Tuesday.


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If you haven't yet worked with an interior designer I'd love to go over in more detail how the process works when a client is interested in having me be their interior designer / decorator. The first step is that I ask them to fill out my questionnaire and send me some photos of their space so that I can learn more about what their needs are. We also usually have a quick chat on the phone as well before scheduling the consultation. If you are in my travel area (45 minutes from Wyckoff NJ which can mean towns like Montclair, glen Ridge, Westfield, Morristown or any town in Bergen County or Passaic county) then we set a date for me to come to your home. If you are outside of my travel area then we can do the consultation remotely via Skype or email.
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At the consultation we will go over what you currently have in your space and what you are looking to accomplish. I love to see photos of what you like and I can show you photos as well so you can let me know your taste. I also bring along all of my Benjamin Moore color samples so that we can discuss paint ideas. I'll give ideas as to furniture arrangement and we may even take measurements too.
After the consultation is where the real fun starts because now I can start on creating a design plan and shopping for everything. I will present to you an initial concept board with several ideas to choose from. Once you narrow it down I can proceed with the rest of the items.
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Randle joins Creative Team of CalShakes' new 'Tempest'
Ben Randle has joined the creative team as Assistant Director of California Shakespeare Theater's upcoming production of Shakespeare's The Tempest directed by Cal Shakes Artistic Director Jonathan Msocone.
The production will open the company's 39th seaon and plays May 30-June 24, at CalShakes' Ampitheatre in Orinda, California.
As described in press materials, Tempest features "a story-telling ensemble of six actors and three dancers conjure a highly-theatricalized, dance-filled world of romance, treachery, revenge and redemption. Actors switch characters in front of your eyes as both a celebration of theater and a revelation of the mutability of character in a world where identity is defined by relative positions of power".
The production features the return to the Bay Area stage of Oregon Shakespeare Festival company member and Broadway and TV veteran (from "The Gilmore Girls") Michael Winters as the wizard Prospero and the drunken butler Stephano, and celebrated choreographer Erika Chong Shuch as the spirit Ariel. The company of The Tempest also includes: James Carpenter (last seen at Cal Shakes in the title role of Titus Andronicus) as King Alonso; Catherine Castellanos (Pastures of Heaven, Romeo and Juliet; Phedre at Shotgun Players) as Caliban and Antonio; Emily Kitchens (Clybourne Park at A.C.T.) as Miranda and Sebastian; and Nicholas Pelczar (Titus Andronicus, Taming of the Shrew) as Ferdinand and Trinculo. The island sprites will be played by professional dancers Melanie Elms (Margaret Jenkins Dance Company) and Travis Santell Rowland (Deborah Slater Dance Company), and by first-year ACT MFA student Aaron Moreland.
The design team includes scenic design by Emily Greene, costume design by Anna Oliver, lighting design by Gabe Maxson, and sound design/music by Cliff Caruthers. Others on the artistic team include Associate Artist Domenique Lozano (vocal/text coach); Philippa Kelly (dramaturg), Corrie Bennett (stage manager), and Jannette Coté (assistant stage manager).
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Throwing a luau is the perfect way to have an exciting party without thinking too much about the fun element. There really is something about this kind of bash. I don't know if it's the festively tropical decor that inspires everybody to relax and have a good time, or if it's simply the Hawaiian themed treats! Either way, there is enjoyment to be had. That is why we put together this list of luau party must-haves, so you can have some summer enjoyment of your own!
1| Get your luau rolling and set the party's mood. Send the right invitations!
2| Buy your decor. A simple and affordable place to get everything you need, from platters to wreaths, to banners is Etsy!
3| Put together platters full of delectable goodies. Bake some fresh mango cupcakes and give them some to-the-theme digs, aka. our luau-themed cupcake wrappers! And don't forget to go all out with an eclectic selection of appetizer dishes and kabobs.
4| Find the perfect tangy drink and make a huge batch! Then buy colorful straws and drink flags to keep the theme going. Another good option would be to make popsicles for refreshment variety.
5| Wear a summery, festive outfit!