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An excerpt from Our Magic Hour
Before Emy's going-away party Audrey and Nick got drunk at home, then they were running late and Nick still hadn't written a message in the card, and while he was bent over the table trying to think of what to write, 'Mesopotamia' came on the radio and Audrey did a silly dance with flailing arms. Nick put his head down on the table. He was coming off a fourteen-hour shift.
'Wake up,' said Audrey, breathless. 'This is very serious. We're going to a party.' She stopped jumping around. 'You don't have to come if you're too wrecked,' she said.
He lifted his head. 'Nah, I'm scared you might dance like that in public.'
They arrived just as the speeches were starting, and hung back in the doorway. Audrey looked around the room. She waved at Adam. Everyone was standing close, flush-faced, ready to raise their bottles and glasses. On the wall over the couch, colourful cut-out letters read SAYONARA EMY!
Patrick had his arm around Emy in the centre of the room.
'Listen,' he said, 'what's the first thing you see at the start of Lost in Translation?'
'Scarlett Johansson's exquisite arse in those see-through undies!' Emy shouted.
'A thing of beauty.' Patrick cleared his throat. 'We thought it'd be nice if you had something to remind you of us. So we had a little photo shoot—a couple, actually…' He produced a bound album and opened it: pasted inside, pictures of their friends pouting and clowning in flesh-toned underwear.
'This is disgusting,' Emy said, 'it's great.' She shrieked when she got to the photo of Nick, thin and hairy and mock-wistful, gazing out a window in his apricot-coloured jocks. A few wolf-whistles went up, faces turned to Audrey and Nick. Someone called You're a lucky woman, Audrey.
In the bathroom later, Emy collapsed onto the toilet and Audrey sat on the tiles with her back against the door.
'I'm fucked,' Emy announced cheerfully. She kicked off her knickers. 'I'm just the safe side of a really lavish vomit.'
'Where's Ben? Is he here?'
'He went to the servo to get some more ice. He's in a bit of a shit about this whole thing. We're not really sure what we're going to do.'
'What do you mean?' Audrey said.
'I said a long-distance relationship might be hard work. Now he's sulking.' Emy stood up and examined her reflection. She turned to Audrey. 'It'll sort itself out,' she said. Audrey wanted to hold her tightly. Someone had put a daisy in an empty VB bottle on top of the cistern.
Drinking, dancing, talking in the bathroom, out in the yard: Audrey lost Nick for a while, and found him in the hallway under the bald light bulb.
'Hey,' she said in his ear. 'What are you doing?' 'Can we talk?' His voice was shivery.
'I said, can we talk? I'm freaking out.'
'Are you okay?' Audrey asked. She looked at his pupils. 'Have you taken something?'
'Jordy gave me something to keep me going.'
'What the fuck?'
'I feel heaps better. Can we just talk for a second?' he said again.
Audrey followed him down the back of the house to the laundry.
'I've been feeling really bad about Katy,' said Nick. 'I just keep thinking there must've been something we could have done. We must've missed something.'
Audrey leaned against the washing machine. The room was quiet and cold. She felt the blood run faster through her body. 'I can't talk to you about this tonight, Nick.'
'What if we just don't listen to one another? Maybe she tried to give us hints. I keep thinking about the night before, when everyone was round at our place. We must have missed something. I feel horrible.'
'It's the speed.'
'It's fucking not.' Mad eyes. Audrey was scared to touch him. 'I can't stop thinking about it, all the time. Things keep happening so quickly, and we never stop to process any of it. Your mum's always threatening suicide. We just ignore her.'
'You don't know her like I do. She's been threatening it since I was nine.'
'We don't listen to one another,' Nick said again, voice rising. 'You're not listening now.' He was hysterical, arms flung out.
Audrey gave a short laugh. 'Are we having an argument?' she asked.
Nick drew back, and then his fist was in the wall. White shreds and dust fell to the ground like salt as pulled out his hand. He stared at it; cradled it with his other. There was a rough hole in the plaster.
Audrey looked at the wall. That old familiar feeling was in her arms. Enervation, adrenaline: too much of one of them. When she and Irène were children they'd called it the floppy arms before they stopped talking about it.
She stood very still.
Patrick appeared at the door. 'Everything okay?' He saw the jagged hole. 'Fuck, mate,' he said. He looked from the plaster to Nick to Audrey, pressed right into the corner of the room.
Nick stared goggle-eyed at the wall. You fucking idiot, Audrey wanted to say, but even her mouth was weak. She left him standing there with Patrick.
She went to the kitchen and got another drink. Adam came looking for her.
'Ben just told me what happened,' he said. 'You okay?'
'Did he—'
'He did a line of speed and put his fist through a wall.' She saw something flicker across Adam's face. She remembered that expres-sion, the one she hadn't seen for years, the one Katy made when she saw Audrey's bruises at the swimming pool when they were four-teen. Now Adam was ready to make pitying noises in his throat. 'I'm fine,' she said. 'I'm just going to go outside for a bit.'
'Do you want me to come?'
'Would you mind if I just—if I were just by myself?'
She finished her wine in the backyard. She was watery in the legs.
She watched a possum run along the fence and disappear into the lantana below. Nick came and stood beside her. She couldn't look at him. She watched the black shapes of the garden moving in the night.
'I don't know why I did that,' he said.
Audrey folded her arms and turned to him. 'My dad did that once, when he missed Maman's face. There is no excuse.'
'I'm so sorry,' Nick said. He was ashen, a cartoon of a man pleading. He knew her well enough to feel the weight of his mistake. 'I've never done that before,' he said. 'It's not me. I don't know what happened. I'm sorry.'
Audrey didn't want to go back inside to the party or stand out here with him, but there were no other choices. She didn't want him to keep apologising. Audrey dropped her head. 'No.'
'It's okay. Let's just go.'
He said Sorry again as they arrived home, and Audrey said It's okay again.
Inside she washed the dishes they'd left in the sink.
'I'd never do what your dad did,' Nick said, standing behind her. 'I know that.'
He touched her arm. She started. The glasses skittered on the drying rack. Nick took a step back, bewildered.
'I can't help it,' Audrey said. 'I can't help it.' She couldn't believe how quickly it had happened, this new pain. She was twenty-four; it was seven years since her father had last hit her. Nick had only ever known her with a crooked nose, a break that had happened in the Wellington Street flats and never quite healed straight. Stringy blood in her throat and her eyes, but when she'd got in front of the mirror it was all coming from her nose and it wasn't as bad as she'd thought. Sylvie had wiped the snot and blood from her cheeks with a warm washcloth. Audrey was fifteen.
Nick knew the story. Audrey told him everything eventually. In bed they took turns being still.
'How are you feeling?' Audrey said.
'Better than before. I just can't drop off. My body's so tired, but my head isn't.' He clutched the quilt to his chest. 'I shouldn't have come tonight. I should've stayed home and crashed.'
'How much did you do?'
'I don't know. Not that much. I just freaked out.' He rolled over, face to the ceiling. 'It's gone now. I can't feel it any more.'
The next time she glanced over he was asleep. His scratched, swollen hand lay on the pillow. It was purple. His middle knuckle seemed to have disappeared. It looked sick, not sinister.
Audrey remembered the scene in A Clockwork Orange when Alex's eyes are held open with metal claws. She thought about hair. Someone had told her it keeps growing even after you die. She thought about her infancy, herself and Irène as children. With their mother they were mes filles or mes p'tites. When Neil was home, they were the girls once more. They slipped in and out of their selves like hands in and out of pockets. At work now she knew the word for it: hypervigilant, she'd say, meaning children who slept with one eye open, little hardened invertebrates.
They'd kept a sickly rabbit when they were living in the New Street flats. It was allowed to hop around the apartment; it knew to shit in its box. Audrey and Irène poked bits of lettuce and broccoli into its anxious pink mouth, but Neil loved it most. It sat on his lap like a cat while he read. When he was a good drunk, mawkish and weepy, he'd stroke the rabbit's ears and bellow about man and nature, and the creature would cower on his knees. Audrey was twelve. She read in a library book that rabbits could die of fright. 'Winter gardens,' Neil would drone, 'were all part of that, showing man's dominance over nature, the triumph of the artificial over the real wild.' Audrey watched the rabbit, clenched and petrified in her father's lap, and imagined its heart beating furiously.
The rabbit didn't die of fright. It ate all the shredded paper in its hutch and blocked its insides. Neil buried it in the yard, out near the gaping drains. A neighbour came out to protest with a mug of tea in her hand. 'It's the state's land,' she said. 'You can't bury a fucken bunny there.' Neil leaned on the shovel for a moment, cigarette dangling from his lip, but said nothing. He was gentle with the rabbit. Its fur rippled in the wind. Audrey had watched from a distance.
She slid her feet between Nick's thighs. She thought of his wounded expression in the kitchen. He'd looked destroyed at the idea that he could frighten her. She heard the first train rattle towards the city.
It was still dark when he turned on the heating in the morning. Water streamed down the drainpipes. The gutters flooded. Audrey got up with a mind to go to the laundrette. She took two armfuls of washing out to the car, and came back inside dripping.
'It's really raining,' she said. 'The gully trap's overflowed.'
'Do you want me to come with you?'
'It's all right. I'll get the papers.' They stood on either side of the kitchen bench. Audrey put her hand on the coffee plunger and very slowly pressed down its head.
The laundrette was cold. Audrey sat on the wooden bench and shuffled her feet over the linoleum, made her instep line up with the diagonals of the diamonds. Last night Nick had said You're not twelve now, Spence. He'd said it to reassure her. She wanted to say, meanly, How astute of you. Thanks for making the distinction, but making Nick feel bad would have punished her, too. When she'd left the house he was on the phone to Emy already, still apologising.
Katy was the first person Audrey ever told about her dad. Adam next. They were young, thirteen or fourteen. They sat out on the windy oval, or huddled in the bike shed. Katy jumped hurdles, Adam captained the football team and then the school, Audrey always had runs in her tights. In Year 11 she read Raymond Carver for school, in Year 12 it was Toni Morrison. Katy made herself vomit every lunchtime for a year; she could do it quietly and efficiently.
Audrey would wait for her outside the stall. Once Katy said I know I haven't got it anything like as bad as you, and Audrey had shrugged, said It's not a competition. In the worst times Katy had vomited into a plastic container to assess the weight of it, so she could know what she'd thrown up. Eventually she stopped. Audrey wasn't sure if Adam ever knew.
They only ever saw the marks on Audrey's body. She couldn't make them understand that there were good times, too. Drives to the coast, Gippsland creeks where their parents had camped in a tent and she, Irène and Bernie had slept in the back of the station wagon, curled like dogs, their breath fogging the windows. The week before Christmas when they'd choose the tree. Her mother always wanted to get a small one, or a tree with a bald patch, in case no one else wanted it. Weekday mornings, her father grating carrots and potatoes for hash browns the size of the frypan. Sometimes her parents were so in love it was like a film. Sylvie was bright, an electric woman. She danced to 'Tusk' while she cooked dinner, showed the girls how to apply makeup in front of the speckled bathroom mirror, let Bernie wear her costume jewellery. Neil was charming. He liked taking photos. They had a lot of pictures of happy times. Katy and Adam never got to see them. Once they were smoking in Adam's backyard at night and Katy asked Does your dad ever do—anything else? and Audrey had been high and terrified but even then she knew it must have taken Katy some guts to ask it. She'd shaken her head over and over. No. No. No. He's not a bad person. My parents are not bad people.
The washing machine finished. Audrey heaved the wet sheets back into the plastic basket. She thought of Bernie pissing his bed, aged six or seven. She'd hurried to bundle the linen into the machine before their parents noticed, then to bundle her brother into her own bed. She thought of how much force it took to open up a wall with your fist.
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A great reporter passes away
Let us now praise great reporters.
Murrey Marder, whose aggressive reporting for The Washington Post helped expose the excesses of Sen. Joe McCarthy during the 1950s, passed away last week at age 93.
"As Mr. Marder and other journalists would later reveal, McCarthy (R-Wis.) ruined lives and careers through threat and innuendo," said the Post obituary.
In a long career, Marder also covered the Vietnam War and the release of the Pentagon Papers.
From the Post obituary:
"Mr. Marder's biggest story came in the autumn of 1953, when McCarthy held closed-door hearings into an alleged spy ring at the Army Signal Corps laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N.J. After the hearings, as many as 42 people were suspended without pay. Many of them did not know the precise nature of the charges brought against them.
"Mr. Marder spent a week at Fort Monmouth and learned that a vast majority of the security cases had already been investigated and dismissed by the Army. In an interview years later, Mr. Marder described the accusations as 'even flimsier than most -- reading the Daily Worker or [knowing] somebody who had gone to school with somebody else who was thought to be a Communist.'"

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Lattice Design for Wine Bottle Storage
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Same opening (3.5" +/-) yet the neck of the bottle should rest on the front and the body on the back set in about an inch+. The neck will have enough fall to keep the cork wet!
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Both to the same height in my opinion.
Nice horizontal lattice. Where can you get it? I'm always using the diamond shaped ones.
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We make our own. It's pretty simple, but it probably took 4 hours to mill and assemble everything.
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Although I, like many my age, sharpened my literary fangs on the fantastical works of C.S. Lewis and Frank L. Baum, I've come to the sobering realization that precious few of these worlds offer the amenities necessary for a long, comfortable life. The lack of wireless Internet in combination with the likelihood of death at sword point has made me grateful for the comfy mundane. What follows is a list of eight popular fantasy worlds that I've deemed thoroughly unsuitable for modern, human life.
In a 2011 interview, Sir Ian McKellen told Vanity Fair writer Eric Spitznagel, "There's no sex in Middle-earth." This is one of those revelations that is momentarily shocking—especially considering the sheer amount of fan-fiction devoted to man-on-elf action—but is entirely digestible upon further investigation. Life in Tolkien's world of hobbits, elves, and orcs is all work and no play. There really is no sex in Middle-earth, as evidenced by the truly vanilla love affair between Aragorn and the elf-princess Arwen. On top of that, the only mind-altering substance available is the One Ring, and well… there's only one of those.
Living in the setting for Stephen King's Dark Tower series would be just plain confusing. In addition to hosting a mélange of genre-specific entities (dragons, cowboys, even computers), everything is ascribed such vague toponymy—In-World, End-World All-World, the Waste Lands (Topeka?)—making navigation obnoxiously difficult.
C.S. Lewis' land inside the wardrobe is the stuff of
childhood dreams. I'm sure I'm not alone in having frequented the back reaches
of household closets as a child, groping for snow or leaves or a satyr's tail.
However, had the front hall closet actually swallowed me up and spat me into
Narnia, I'm sure the novelty would have worn off. I mean, you cannot get a
moment of peace and quiet in that world. Everything talks: beavers, birds, even
the trees. And how is even a vegetarian, let alone a regular eater, supposed to
enjoy an evening meal when your asparagus tries to chat you up?
A friend of mine, who recently started watching Game of Thrones on HBO, described George R. Martin's world as "the land of boobs and stabbing." In fact, I'm pretty sure he stole that from a Westerosi license plate. In theory, constant boobs and stabbing would make for an exciting life. But living in a world where everyone has likely been stabbed at least once, lost a finger, been sexually violated, and/or attacked by a walking corpse would probably get tiresome fast. Also, their seasons last for decades, which is a meteorological anomaly I could never get used to. Twelve years of February? Just stab me now and let's be done with it.
If Middle-earth is Land of the Prudes, then Wonderland is its literary antipode. And just as the teetotalers of Gondor are sword-wielding killjoys, the denizens of Lewis Carroll's corporeal fever dream are just too much to handle. Who wouldn't want to live in a subterranean dictatorship where everyone is under the influence, up is down, and down is up? Not I. If I ever need a dose of abstruse, hallucinogen-driven conversation, I'll just go to Burning Man.
How are you supposed to maintain polite conversation with a purple-haired, ball-shaped, one-legged next door neighbor? Virtually every other citizen in Frank L. Baum's technicolor dream world is physically deformed in some manner—the red-skinned Quadlings, the diminutive Munchkins, armless Hammer-heads, the vegetal Mangaboos, and the pancake-faced Flatheads. To live in a world populated by such anatomical oddities would be a constant exercise in political correctness. Is the grocer armless or extremity-disabled? Is your co-worker a winged monkey or an "avian-simian?" Exhausting.
The world in which China Miéville's novels are set is the Williamsburg of fantasy worlds. It is populated by such eye-rollingly obscure mythical denizens as "garudas," "vodyanoi," and "grindylows," and a few more recognizable creatures that can't help but make a desperate stab at originality. Take care to ensure you're spelling "vampir" sans suffixal "-e" (the authentic Slavic name), or you might provoke someone into using "thaumaturgy" (magic) on you.
The Welsh language is notoriously difficult to pronounce. Rumor has it Welsh scholars purposely made it so when they adopted the Roman alphabet in an effort to piss off their English conquerors. Mission accomplished, Wales. Job well done. Lloyd Alexander's Prydain (of Black Cauldron fame) is a world birthed from Welsh mythological traditions. Appropriately, everyone and everything has an unpronounceable Welsh name. Fflewddur Fflam? Gesundheit.
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This wonderful bacon salad recipe or Frisée aux Lardons is very popular in all areas of France. It is a simple but very tasty salad dish to make for any time of day.
You can serve your bacon salad just as it is or with some really tasty variations.
Sometimes it has hard-boiled egg, chopped and sprinkled on it. Or another really great way to serve it is with a lightly poached egg on the top - it's so heavenly!
It's a great way to combine fresh salad leaves with delicious crispy bacon - a really tasty meal for all your family and friends.
Ingredients Serves Four
• 8oz (225gm, 6 cups) of frisée lettuce or in the summer, dandelion leaves can be used.
• 8oz (225gm) of smoked bacon rashers cut into small pieces
• 2 slices thick white bread cut into cubes
• 1 small clove of garlic, chopped (optional)
• 6 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
• 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
• Salt and black pepper to taste
• Break the lettuce up into small pieces with your hands and place in a salad bowl.
• Gently fry the bacon in a heavy bottomed pan with a little oil until browned. Remove and drain on kitchen paper.
• Add a drop more oil to the pan and fry the bread cubes until brown. Drain on kitchen paper.
• Stir the garlic, vinegar and mustard into the pan, whisk it together until warm.
• Season to taste and pour over the salad leaves with the bacon and croutons.
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DREAM LEAGUE was formed in 2011 as a way to positively impact Kansas City through basketball and to provide High School, College and Professional athletes with an off-season opportunity for skill development and competition. DREAM LEAGUE has grown to 700+ participants and has become more than a basketball league...it has become a movement. Lives of athletes and spectators are being impacted through relationships and competition. Below are some of the top performers since the league began.
High School Boys Champion: WASHINGTON 7-1
League MVP: Alton Easley (WASHINGTON)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: Conner Younger, Cory Davilla, Cougar Downing, Carter Lichtsinn, Tywan Muturi, Nate Johnson, Alton Easley, Harrison Broadus, Xavier Hall, Peanut Miller, Jack Frisbie, Preston Rohr, Easton Reynolds, MuKhajhae Daniels
3-Point Champion: Alston Mason (OLATHE WEST)
Slam Dunk Champion: Charles Wood (LANSING)
Men's Champion: NW MISSOURI STATE 9-1
League MVP: Trevor Hudgins (NW MSSOURI STATE)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: Trevor Hudgins, Diego Bernard, Ryan Welty, Anthony Woods, Jacob French, Brady Skeens, Titus Rice, Hollis Mitchell, Mike Hood, Jawan Davis, Casey Crawford, Shandon Boone, Duncan Fort
Slam Dunk Champion: Taz Jones (THE ELITE)
3-Point Champion: Jacob French (LTD)
Women's Champion: JCCC 9-1
League MVP: LaJahda Boyland (JCCC)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: LaJahda Boyland, Jaylen Townsend, Allie Volkens, Laura Patrick, Rachel Hanf, Alexis McAfee, Shatara Stone, Zoie Hayward, Morgan Fleming, Dayon Hall-Jones, Natalie Denzer, Skylar Washington
3-Point Champion: Laura Patrick (PAST OUR PRIME)
High School Boys Champion: GARDNER EDGERTON 7-1
League MVP: Luke Jennings (GARDNER EDGERTON)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: Luke Jennings, Walzel Evans, Diamond Hines, Mark Mitchell, Josh Earley, Stone Jeffries, Spencer Jones, Tyler Rollwagen, Cougar Downing, Alston Mason, Alton Easley Jr., Nate Johnson, Xavier Davis, Da'Rius Brewington, Cole DeSouza
3-Point Champion: Alston Mason (OLATHE WEST)
Men's Champion: WASHBURN 11-0
League MVP: Javion Blake (WASHBURN)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: Frank Williams, Jacob French, Richard Carter, Eric Avant, Javion Blake, Tyas Martin, Tyler Zinn, Alex Barner, Cameron Wiggins, Brady Skeens, General Williams, Trinity Hall, Trevor Hudgins
Slam Dunk Champion: Jamaal Mitchell (GET BUCKETS)
3-Point Champion: Ryan Haskins (OTTAWA)
Women's Champion: WILLIAM JEWELL 7-2
League MVP: Kayla Harrell (WILLIAM JEWELL)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: Kelsey Bickley, Laura Patrick, Rachel Hanf, Jacionna Stowers, Jasmine Thompson, Shatara Stone, Sanayika Shields, Jaelyn Haggard, Zoie Hayward, Kayla Harrell, Natalie Closser, Deanna Bugarinovic, Abby Bird
3-Point Champion: Rachel Hanf (BALL IS LIFE)
High School Boys Champion: NORTH KANSAS CITY 8-0
League MVP: T.J. Babikir (NORTH KANSAS CITY)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: TJ Babikir, Deng Bol, Yonathan Elful, Torry Moore, Walzel Evans, Randy Campbell, Reece Williams, Zach Thiel, Kevin Payne, Da'Rius Brewington, Jerome Jackson
3-Point Champion: Zach Thiel (LEAVENWORTH)
Men's Champion: WASHBURN 10-1
League MVP: Brady Skeens (WASHBURN)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: Brady Skeens, Reggie Chamberlain, Kyle Wiggins, Ryan Welty, Anthony Woods, Cameron Wiggins, D'vante Mosby, Reggie Stallings, Hassan Stewart, Jacob French, James Lane, Jamaal Mitchell, Trinity Hall
Slam Dunk Champion: Reggie Stallings (SPLASH SQUAD)
3-Point Champion: Kelvin Parker (SEASONED BOARS)
Women's Champion: LTD 8-1
League MVP: Maddie Nelson (LTD)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: Maddie Nelson, Alli Volkens, Laura Patrick, Cassondra Boston, Jamie Patrick, Kelsey Balcom, Sanayika Shields, Navia Palu, Kristen Murphy, Tanya Meyer, Katie Butaud, Mallory McAndrews
3-Point Champion: Cassondra Boston (OLD SKOOL)
High School Boys Champion: WASHINGTON HS 9-0
League MVP: DeMarco Smith (WASHINGTON)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: DeMarco Smith, BJ Heard, DiCarlo Jackson, Jalen Taylor, Josh Houston, Braylon Johnson, Khamau Sayles, Tyon Grant-Foster, Ronnell Mitchell, Jordan Berry, Reece Williams
Slam Dunk Champion: Dezmon Greer (PIPER)
3-Point Champion: Bryce Yoder (PIPER)
High School Girls Champion: SCHLAGLE 9-0
League MVP: Ishante Suttington (SCHLAGLE)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: Virja Walker, Ishante Suttington, Brooklyn Anderson, Camille Evans, Samia Roark, Kiara Brown, Lou Gilbert, Alexis Lewis, Chandler Prater, Cassidy Turner, Lexy Watts
3-Point Champion: Sa'Mone Springsteen (SCHLAGLE)
Men's Champion: NW MISSOURI STATE 9-3
League MVP: Justin Pitts (NWMSU)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: Michael Craion, Devante Graham, LaGerald Vick, Shaquille Harrison, Reggie Chamberlain, Khalil Davis, Kyle Wiggins, Justin Pitts, Anthony Woods, Zach Schneider
Slam Dunk Champion: Raymond Jarrett (SEASONED BOARS)
3-Point Champion: Kelvin Parker (SEASONED BOARS)
Women's Champion: PAST OUR PRIME 9-0
League MVP: Alli Volkens (PAST OUR PRIME)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: Mary Dineen, Maddie Nelson, Alli Volkens, Laura Patrick, Cassondra Boston, Austin Richardson, Ky Essence Collins, Jordan Closter, Rician Walker
3-Point Champion: Kendall Hart (ROCKHURST)
High School Boys Champion: WASHINGTON HS 9-0
League MVP: DeMarco Smith (WASHINGTON)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: DeMarco Smith, BJ Heard, DiCarlo Jackson, Jalen Taylor, Josh Houston, Braylon Johnson, Khamau Sayles, Tyon Grant-Foster, Ronnell Mitchell, Jordan Berry, Reece Williams
Slam Dunk Champion: Dezmon Greer (PIPER)
3-Point Champion: Bryce Yoder (PIPER)
Men's Champion: SPLASH SQUAD 6-5
League MVP: Antonio Bostic (SPLASH SQUAD)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: Antonio Bostic, Michael Craion, Marquis Addison, Boo Richardson, Reggie Chamberlain, Nino Williams, Ronnie Boggs, Brandon Redmond, Hassan Stewart, Sedrick Johnson, Marshon Norfleet, Justin Pitts, Anthony Woods
Slam Dunk Champion: Jewel Carter (LEGENDS 14)
3-Point Champion: Kelvin Parker (SEASONED BOARS)
Women's Champion: LTD 7-2
League MVP: Brianna Kulas (LTD)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: Brianna Kulas, Lauren Meyers, Mary Dineen, Maddie Nelson, Alli Volkens, Kelsey Balcom, Chayla Rutledge, Bri Snow, Erica Nelson
3-Point Champion: Brianna Kulas (LTD)
Men's Champion: N DA GYM 9-2
League MVP: Michael Craion (N DA GYM)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: Michael Craion, Marquis Addison, Marcus Walker, Boo Richardson, George Goode, Hassan Stewart, Jacob French, Jon Ekey, Kelvin Parker, Kyle Wiggins, Martane Freeman, Reggie Chamberlain, Roderick Pearson, Antonio Bostic
Women's Champion: OLD SKOOL 7-2
League MVP: Cassondra Boston (OLD SKOOL)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: Cassondra Boston, Laura Patrick, Lizzy Jeronimus, Cathy Brugman, Jharien Bowen, Honor Duvall, Cassondra Boston, Alli Volkens, Tyra White, Chayla Rutledge, Morgan Paul, Jordan Kramer, Morgan Westhoff
Men's Champion: N DA GYM 9-2
League MVP: Leo Lyons (SWERVE)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: Patrick Hester, Leo Lyons, Michael Craion, Garrett Stutz, Marquis Addison, Tyler Kalinoski, Kyle Weems, Quinton Day, Anthony Hill, Marcus Walker, John Burke, Boo Richardson, George Goode, Dominique Morrison, Esian Henderson
Women's Champion: PITTSBURG STATE 7-2
League MVP: Laura Patrick (EMPORIA STATE)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: Laura Patrick, Lizzy Jeronimus, Cathy Brugman, Dana Mae Abram, Dana Olsen, Cassondra Boston, Alli Volkens, Cassy Nicolay, Chazny Morris, Christian Keys
Men's Champion: FIELDHOUSE CLIPPERS 11-0
League MVP: Dominique Morrison (FIELDHOUSE CLIPPERS)
DREAM LEAGUE Elite: Kelvin Parker, Boo Richardson, George Goode, Carvelle Taylor, Rapheal Posey, Dominique Morrison, David Nurse, Cavel Witter, Esian Henderson, Will McNeill
Men's Champion: SEASONED BOARS 10-0
League MVP: Esian Henderson (SEASONED BOARS)


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Every healthy relationship, whether romantic, friendly, or professional, requires a certain amount of give and take. Now and then, you may have to spend a Saturday afternoon at your boyfriend's intramural basketball game when you would rather be sprawled on the couch with a book, or put in a few extra hours finishing a project your boss has assigned you instead of heading out to the movies. Trouble creeps in, however, when you find yourself consistently suppressing your own wishes to please others. Learning to set boundaries in relationships is critical to both your own happiness and the well-being of those relationships. While this process can be uncomfortable and even frightening at first, with practice it will likely become easier to maintain balanced relationships while saying yes to yourself.
The inability to set boundaries in relationships is often caused by fear. You are likely often asked to do things by a romantic partner, a friend, or a colleague. In some cases, you might prefer not to do these things, but you fear that saying no will hurt that person's feelings, anger them, or cause them to reject you. To prevent these negative reactions, you say yes when you want to say no.
While this fear instinct is natural, consistently obeying it can lead you to feel taken advantage of, causing resentment which, over time, can fracture your relationships. Instead of automatically restraining your own needs to make others happy, you should establish boundaries in relationships. This process involves considering the needs of others while recognizing your own desires as valid and important, speaking up, and finally compromising.
For instance, your friend may ask you to watch her child on a Saturday night so she can go out to dinner with her husband. While you are happy to do this, she afterward begins asking you to babysit with increasing frequency, and you soon find that you are regularly giving up your own plans to help her. You often wish to refuse her requests, and even begin to feel used, but are afraid that saying no will upset her.
In this situation, you are failing to acknowledge that your plans are as worthwhile as your friend's, and abolishing the boundaries of your relationship as a result. To reset these boundaries, begin by understanding that your right to happiness is equally important as that of the people around you. Then, speak up. Next time your friend calls for a sitter, inform her politely that you have plans, but that you are happy to watch her child when you are able. As you have always said yes in the past, it is very possible she did not even realize that she was inconveniencing you.
It can take time to build belief in the validity of your desires. Furthermore, voicing those desires can be scary, particularly if you are accustomed to automatically pleasing others. As you push yourself through these steps, however, your self-belief will likely grow, and over time it will become easier to say no. In fact, you will likely find that setting boundaries in relationships does not lead to the rejection and anger that you once feared. Rather, it will lead to strengthened relationships that are based on a healthy dose of mutual respect.
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Sometimes the issue of setting boundaries is more like a death of thousand cuts in a relationship. It's not about the big events that often can't be avoided, like being called into work or having to spend time with a relative in need. Many times it's the accumulation of smaller boundary violations that can hurt a relationship.
A wife might choose to go shopping with a female friend instead of going to a movie with her husband, for example. The husband might understand and plan a different movie night. It's only a minor inconvenience. But if a different friend asks her to go get a pedicure on that new night and another asks her to go to an office
party the next time and so on, then the husband could start feeling disrespected or marginalized. That's why couples need to set boundaries for everyone in their lives, not just each other. Friends need to know when they are being intrusive, and spouses need to know when they're being too controlling.
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We are delighed to announce that María Luisa Azpíroz has published her PhD research as a new book, Diplomacia pública: El caso de la 'guerra contra el terror', with Editorial UOC.
MªLuisa was a visiting PhD researcher at the New Political Communication Unit supervised by Ben O'Loughlin, and based at Facultad de Comunicación, University of Navarra, Spain. Her supervisor there was Professor María Teresa La Porte Fernández-Alfaro.
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In systems with sufficiently short-ranged attractive potentials the sublimation line passes above the liquid-vapor critical temperature and the liquid phase no more exists as a thermodynamically stable state. The isostructual solid-solid transition also occurs for systems with further short-ranged potentials. In the present study systematic investigation is made for these unusual phase behaviors using a thermodynamic perturbation theory and Monte Carlo simulation method. Main focus is put on the fulleren C_<60> and it is found that this substance has a stable liquid phase only in the very nallow range of temperature. However, the temperature concerned is very high (〜2000K) to be confirmed experimentally. The isostuctural solid-solid transition is expected to occur, at least in principle, in colloids.The second subject is C_<60> solid which is a typical plastic solid and shows the orientational order-disorder transition, which is a manifestation of small anisotropy of C_<60> molecules. We proposed a simple model which provides a unified picture for the equaution of state and orientational transition under pressure. This model consists of the effective intermolecular potentials constructed for both phases using the existing first-principle electronic structure calculations for C_<60> solid.The third subject in the present study is concerned with limitation of the computer simulation method used for the phase transition and it is found that the phase boundaries determined by the visual molecular configurations in computer simulations are quite different from those obtained by the thermodynamic condition of coexistence. We paid a special attention to the high-temperature phase diagram of C_<60> and found that some of the previous simulations based on the visual method are wrong.
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Adoption and Galatians 5/
The past 3 years of life and marriage and trying to have a family have taught me a few things. One of the [many] passages that I've studied, meditated on, leaned into has been Galatians 5.
All along this journey, I've longed for freedom. Freedom from my expectations, pain, time lines, sin, disappointments, and control issues. Galatians 5 has taught me a lot about what God's heart is for us when it comes to freedom and how we find it. In fact, I preached on this chapter at Newsong on July 4th with my friend, Frances.Galatians 5:5 identifies how we find a life of freedom:
But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for which we hope.
I'm no theologian, but I've learned more about the context and meaning of this passage from a few theologians. Here are some bullet point thoughts...
- Faith + Waiting = Righteousness. Righteousness is gained through faith and waiting. I wish it was gained through comfort and instant gratification, but clearly God's ways are not my ways [for good reasons!].
- In the Greek [original language of the New Testament] the word for FAITH is "pistis". Throughout the New Testament, "pistis" is translated into 3 different words: faith, belief, or trust. Read Galatians 5 three times exchanging those words with each other. It gives it much more depth and profundity.
- The goal of our faith, belief, and trust is about bring alignment of my will to God's will. Do I trust him? That's where the rubber meets the road. I want to trust him more. Perhaps that's WHAT he's been desiring to do throughout these past 3 years.
- Waiting is God-initiated as we trust in him; he will act. Waiting is a catalyst of sorts to deepen our faith, trust, and belief in God. Of course, it can also cultivate disbelief, mistrust, and doubt, but it's through waiting that our character is revealed and developed.
- Righteousness produces hope. There is a good end to waiting! God wants to instill hope for him - not our desired outcome - into the fibers of our soul. I have found my hope transferring more and more over the past few years from a baby to knowing God, finding myself falling in love with him more and more.
His ways are higher than our ways. His thoughts are higher than my thoughts. Beautiful. God's so cool like that. How gracious he is to us!
This song has been a comfort and director for my waiting. Enjoy...


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Credit card debt can weigh heavily on your shoulders and wallet. If you're tired of the anxious feelings and precarious payments, you'll need to learn how to quickly pay off credit card debt.
While there are few instant fixes outside of a major windfall, there are plenty of steps you can take to minimize the damage credit card debt can cause and ultimately get rid of it. After all, a gradual journey to success is still a journey to success.
These tips can help you go from drowning in debt to living debt-free.
How Can I Pay Off My Credit Card Debt?
When faced with a daunting credit card balance, some might be tempted to just make minimum payments or ignore the debt altogether. However, there can be dire consequences with this strategy.
For starters, credit card interest quickly adds up. Most credit card issuers require a minimum payment of 1% to 2% of your balance. So, let's assume, for example, you owe $6,000 on a credit card with a 15% annual percentage rate (APR) and your issuer requires 2% of that balance as a minimum payment. You'd wind up paying close to around $9,184 in interest, were you to only make that $120 minimum for the full 355 months it would take to pay that $6,000 balance down.
(To help you come up with a better plan, you can use our credit card debt calculator.)
Plus, mega-interest aside, those credit card balances might be dragging down your credit scores, too. Payment history and amounts owed are two major factors used to calculate your credit score, so getting on top of them ASAP is a smart choice.
(If you want to see how your debt is affecting your credit, you can view two of your credit scores for free on Credit.com.)
Choose to be money smart and control the debt before it controls you. Consider trying these strategies for how to pay off credit card debt instead.
1. Go in With a Plan
A strong strategy usually starts with taking stock of the situation. Start by rounding up all your credit cards. For each card, track the amount of debt, the limit, interest rates, minimum monthly payments and other crucial information. This will help you form a clearer understanding of your debt status. Doing so will also show which cards are weighing you down the most. While this can be overwhelming, it will help you create a concrete plan to move forward.
Credit card consolidation is one such plan you may want to consider. If you have several different credit cards, then you find yourself making several payments each month for all of these cards. Each credit card will also come with its own balance and interest rate that may be different from the others.
Sometimes, when the credit card debt is stacked too high, consumers will choose to consolidate this debt into one manageable monthly payment. Meaning, the balances on all the credit cards combined will be lumped into one balance you will pay each month, rather than several.
Consolidating credit card debt may be a viable way to simplify the process and may even help lower and manage interest rates more effectively than if you continue to pay each credit card separately every month.
2. Tackle the Smallest Balance First
It might be tempting to tackle the biggest balance right off the bat, but small victories are a great motivation. If you have multiple credit cards with various balances, tackling the smallest balance might be the way to go.
Take the account with the smallest balance and try to pay double or triple monthly payments, or whatever you can afford each month. Do so while continuing to make the minimum payment on your other credit cards — neglecting the other cards entirely can lead to major consequences.
Once that smallest balance is knocked down to zero, tackle the card with the next lowest balance. This payoff strategy gives you the satisfaction of seeing a card balance flip to zero early on in your payoff plan. Hopefully, this feeling will help you keep motivated to battle each card's debt as you pay off charges.
3. Pay Down the Card With the Highest Interest Rate
Finance charges on your credit cards can quickly eat away at your funds. To keep your debts from growing, you may instead want to focus on paying off the credit card with the highest interest rate first.
Pay double or triple your minimum payments on the card with the highest interest rate and most costly monthly finances charges, while continuing to make the minimum payments on your other credit cards. This strategy is the most efficient way to attack your debt, but it takes discipline to stick with it, especially if the card with the highest interest rate has a hefty balance.
Once you pay off the card with the highest interest rate, move on to the card with the next highest interest rate and so on.
Choose a payment strategy that works for you and stick with it. You may even adopt a combination approach. Maybe the card with the highest interest rate also has the lowest balance.
You'll get the double satisfaction that comes with attacking the credit card with the highest APR and seeing a smaller balance flip to zero early on in your this-debt-must-go plan.
4. Consider a Balance Transfer Credit Card
Many credit card issuers offer 0% introductory APRs to customers who transfer a balance over to their card from another. That 0% APR will expire eventually — usually within 12 to 15 months, though some of the better balance transfer credit cards last as long as 18 to 21 months. Also keep in mind that most offers involve an account balance transfer fee, typically 2% to 5% of the balance you're carrying.
However, for someone carrying a high-interest credit card, the right balance transfer card can be a lifesaver.
Just remember to read the fine print of any balance-transfer offer you are considering carefully and refrain from running up new charges on the card. This credit card is to help with paying off debt, not for racking up new chargers. The goal should be to pay the balance off before the introductory APR period expires. When assessing balance transfer credit cards be sure to note:
- How long the introductory 0% APR lasts for
- Whether that APR applies to purchases and not just balance transfers
- What the go-to APR on balances transfers and purchases will be after the introductory rate expires
- The fee associated with transferring the balance
You can find the right credit card for you using Credit.com's credit card finder, which allows you to sort offers by various features (such as low APR or no annual fee). You can also sort offers by credit score to see which cards you actually qualify for.
Finally, while the best balance-transfer credit cards refrain from charging retroactive interest, some cards touting deferred-interest financing, particularly store credit cards, will require you to pay interest on the full balance you transferred if you can't pay it all down before the 0% introductory APR offer expires.
So, again, you'll want to comparison-shop for the best offers by reading their terms and conditions closely and be realistic about how long you think it will take you to pay the card off.
5. Look Into a Personal Loan
You can also consider taking out a personal loan to pay off all of your credit card balances. These personal loans, sometimes referred to as debt consolidation loans, can be a good option for someone who doesn't trust themselves to not continually run their credit card balances up.
Personal loans are installment loans — borrowers agree to make a set monthly payment at a certain interest rate for a specific period of time. That means, in taking out the loan and using it to pay off your credit card debt, you're given a hard date in which that debt will be completely off the books.
Keep in mind that you're locking yourself into a set monthly payment. If you get in a jam, you can't make a minimum payment like you can on a credit card. Plus, interest rates on personal loans are primarily determined by your credit scores, meaning you may or may not qualify for a lower rate than the one you're already paying.
Again, it helps to read all offers carefully and do some research on lenders ahead of time. To summarize, when vetting personal loans look into
- What you qualify for (For example, if your credit score is high enough)
- Whether the APR you can qualify for will be lower than the one your credit card(s) are carrying
- The length of time you'll have to repay the loan
- If the monthly payment fits into your budget
- Whether there are any penalty fees associated with paying the loan back early
Remember: The last thing you want to do after using a personal loan to pay off your credit card debt is to run those balances up again. Otherwise, you'll wind up with more debt than you started with.
If you go this route, it might be a good idea to hide your card while you're paying off your personal loan.
6. Re-evaluate Current Expenses
This sounds like a no-brainer but embarking on a mission to pay off credit card debt is the perfect time to re-evaluate your budget and expenses. Do some number crunching to figure out where you're racking up the most debt. Cutting down on credit card expenses, especially monthly or yearly subscriptions, can help you decrease the amount of debt you'll need to pay off.
Maybe your daily morning latte is costing more than your cable bill. Are you paying a monthly gym membership fee for a gym you only use once a month? Or maybe you can totally live without that monthly beauty subscription box.
There may also be certain necessary services for which you're overpaying. Try actively seeking ways to lower your bills, articles like 11 Ways to Lower Your Air Conditioning Bill are helpful for those who don't want to eliminate certain luxuries but wish to use them more frugally. There are countless small ways to lower bills that can make a big difference.
Think of cutting out spending as cutting off weights that are holding you back from financial freedom. You're not depriving yourself of luxuries, but rather you are working towards allowing your future self to have more financial freedom and fewer worries about debt.
Do Debt Relief Programs Affect a Credit Score?
If adhering to an aggressive and high payment schedule to help rid yourself of oppressive credit card debt is becoming too much to handle, then debt relief programs and a credit counselor may be your only option moving forward.
You are then faced with two different options: debt settlement or bankruptcy. Both of which will seriously impact your credit scores.
If you file for Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, you will be able to regain control over all your assets such as your property, but you will still be required to pay all of your unsecured creditors, credit card companies included. The amount you pay them must be equal to the value of the nonexempt assets you have. Although it is also important to note that these bankruptcy exemptions may vary slightly from state to state.
Choosing to file for bankruptcy due to oppressive credit card debt is a decision not to be taken lightly because of the profound consequences it may mean for your credit score. Ask yourself a few questions:
Can you afford to pay back your credit card debt if you are put on a monthly payment plan? How is your debt-to-income ratio? Do you make enough per month to cover this payment? Also, are you being harassed or even sued for the debt you owe? The answer to this question will rest mainly on just how delinquent the accounts are and how much is owed on each.
Now that we know that bankruptcy can hinder your credit, what about other debt management programs? With a debt management program, you are essentially making a single payment to a counseling agency. The counseling agency will then take this payment and disburse it to your many creditors.
Yes, this strategy will affect your credit in several different ways.
The counseling agency will certainly help keep you on track with your payments which can help improve your scores with some time. It can also help bring your accounts back into a current status which can also work to improve your credit scores and credit standing.
Before choosing which way you are going to begin to tackle your oppressive credit card debt, you should always be completely informed of all the options available to you and understand how they can negatively or positively affect your credit score and standing and how long it will take you to become more financially stable.
Paige DiFiore contributed to this article. This article has been updated. It was originally published Nov. 17, 2017.


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A Cause for Pause?/
I'll join Spare Change and Citizen Brand in commenting on Inger Stole's article at PRWatch.org: "Cause-Related Marketing: Why Social Change and Corporate Profits Don't Mix".
Like Nedra and Mike, I agree with some of what she says. Cause marketing partnerships can be risky, and shouldn't be entered into lightly by either partner. However, Nedra and Mike are right that Inger is too much of an alarmist and is overgeneralizing her point.
- Cause marketing is a sales strategy. So we shouldn't be surprised if companies avoid controversial or irrelevant nonprofits. But Inger opines, "Imagine the impact if companies...advocated for a more equitable healthcare system" instead of raising money to, say, refurbish the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty may not be the most deserving cause, but American Express should be commended for stepping up in '83. Remember, Amex didn't have to do anything. Complaining that companies should support more important causes is like looking a gift horse in the mouth.
- Cause marketing favors the strong. Inger warns that nonprofits "in desperate need of funding, may venture into partnerships that are far from equal." Please, a "desperate" nonprofit will never land a cause marketing pact. Companies partner with nonprofits because they're credible, and "desperate" nonprofits aren't. Also, on average, corporate dollars, including those from cause marketing partnerships, represent only 5-15% of a nonprofit's revenue stream. For the "desperate" nonprofit, cause marketing is neither lucrative nor worth the potential compromises. Besides...
- Cause marketing isn't a silver bullet. Mike at Citizen Brand says that his client, Lee Jeans, has never focused on whether or not Denim Day sells more jeans. The same is true of the companies I've worked with. Why? Because companies either think it doesn't work, and do it more out of "cause" than "marketing", or they regard it as it should be: another tool to goose sales. So, if cause marketing isn't a stand-alone strategy, works best when it's tied to other forms of marketing and requires a strong nonprofit partner, why would a company waste its time exploiting a second-rate nonprofit for a doubtful payoff?
- Cause marketing is a boon, not doom. Inger's worst-case scenario is actually best-case: "money-starved nonprofits might change their approaches and services rendered to become more attractive cause marketing partners." GASP! Imagine, nonprofits acting strategically to raise money to do good deeds instead of getting no money to do better ones. Take a Xanax, Inger, and reread my second point.
Inger suggests that if companies really want to help, they "should pay their fair share of taxes. Then education, health care, research and other priorities could receive greater funding, with no strings attached." Right. Given the choice between waiting for Uncle Sam to mail me my no-strings-attached check or cause markeing my way through Corporate America, I'll take the risk of one day having to admit that I only have myself to blame.


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INS AND OUTS - April 2016, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
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I curated 'Ins and Outs' for the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, alongside the First Coast Street Art and Music Festival.
I sought to curate an exhibition of emerging and established illustrators and muralists, each asked to reflect on the contemporary tension and/or adjacency between the indoor and outdoor, the mural and the illustration, the public space and the private studio.
There is a nascent trend with contemporary illustrators, many of whom work digitally and on small, paper scales, to attempt to translate their works into large, outdoor murals. Besides the artistic technical shifts, this change of format also entails an intellectual shift of deliberations. Illustrators usually work in a private studio, free to self-dictate their artistic vision in regards to style, size, format and materials. However, when approaching a mural format, these creative parameters are usually already dictated: the mural is a site-specific, often externally curated piece which requires physical materials and spatial considerations.
I approached national and international artists operating between these two mediums and asked them to reflect on this tension and how it dictates and informs their artistic process.
The timing of the First Coast festival during the display of this show is pertinent: it is a timely occasion to explore the emerging creative conversation between these two artistic mediums.


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KINGSTON — The Kingston Veteran's Club has announced winners of the 2008 motorcycle raffle. All 500 tickets were sold. The winner of the 2009 Harley Davidson Street Glide was Eric Goodwin of Kingston. Second place ($500) went to Richard Merrill of Danville. Third place ($250) went to David Gallant of Billerica, Mass. Fourth place ($250) went to Margaret Phelan of Kingston. The club's raffle committee thanked everyone who participated including Kingstar Custom Cycles, the Plaistow Legion, The Kingston VFW, The Kingston Village Market and the Epping Legion for helping to sell tickets, also those who helped on the day of the raffle including Merry Smith, Joyce Pike, Skippy Wazniak, Debbie and Sonny Cadero, Debi and Carl Goodwin, Annette Magnuson, Jeff Martin, Bill Maurier, Vinny and Cheryle Falls and Megan Thurnquist.
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KINGSTON — Nichols Memorial Library preschool story time will begin on Wednesday, Sept. 10, and continue on a weekly basis throughout the school year. A sign-up sheet will be posted at the children's room check-out desk.
KINGSTON — On Aug. 20, the Boosters Club of Sanborn Regional High School held its first meeting of the new school year. The Boosters is a group of adults who help fund and support activities including sport awards, trophies, dinners and end-of-season sports slide shows. Last year the Boosters contributed over $8,500 to the SRHS community.
The Boosters' primary fund-raising has always come from the concession stand manned by volunteers. This year over 250 students are participating in fall sports and playing on fields at both the high school and Chase Field. Manning two concession stands will be a big challenge for the club and they are looking for any interested adults in the community who would be willing to help. Anyone can volunteer and all you have to do is sign up at either the high school or Chase Field concession stand. There is a calendar in each stand listing all home games. This year the Boosters hope to increase their contributions to the students of SRHS but they cannot do it alone.
If only one parent of the over 250 student athletes volunteered for one game the concession stand would never have to close due to lack of interest. Do your part for the community and the students and have fun while you are helping. Come out and show your support by volunteering or attend the next Boosters meeting on Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. at the SRHS Library Conference room. New members are always welcome and appreciated.
KINGSTON — The second annual Kingston Fall Classic Regatta (stock outboard hydroplane racing) will be held at Greenwood Pond on Sept. 20 and 21, from noon to 4 p.m. Spectators can view the races at the Kingston Children's Center located at 12 Church St. in Kingston.
The event will be co-hosted by the Kingston Children's Center and the South Shore Outboard Association. The event is sanctioned by the American Power Boat Association — the largest powerboat organization in the country. Participants are members of the American Power Boat Association and range in age from 9 to 70. They will pilot craft from 10 to 12 feet in length. Eight categories will race on a three-quarter-mile rectangular course. The junior hydroplane class, for ages 9 to 14, will race at speeds within 35 mph. The D stock hydroplane class will race at speeds of 75 mph.
Concessions will be provided by the Kingston Children's Center. Steven Noury is the race chairman and can be contacted at 642-3100. Free spectator admission. Parking will be provided at the old high school across from the children's center.
KINGSTON —Powwow Pond Council will be holding a general meeting on Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. This will be a general business meeting to update concerned members on the finding of another invasive species, brittle naiad, found during a Volunteer Weed Watchers training with Amy Smagula, exotic species coordinator of the N.H. Department of Environmental Services.
Other topics to be discussed are the appeal hearing and related matters, the fund-raising picnic as well as other business items. The board of directors wil present recommendations for the general council to vote on. Additionally, all members in good standing are needed to vote on officers for the upcoming year as well as indicate to the board on the direction it needs to pursue for the upcoming year.
For more information visit www.powwowpond.com.
KINGSTON — Nichols Memorial Library, 169 Main St., Kingston, is offering an art start table in its children's room. Kids can help the three bears find their chairs, match the dog with his bone, make your own fingerplay and color and lace a one-of-a-kind shoe! Stop by any Tuesday or Thursday and put your imagination to work.
KINGSTON — The YMCA invites you to community night at Camp Lincoln in Kingston Sept. 23. Come to Kingston Lake and enjoy an evening of outdoor fun. Play along the beautiful waterfront, take a canoe or kayak out for a ride, try archery and conquer the low ropes course. Hot dogs will be served, along with S'mores by the bonfire to end the night. Fun for all ages at no cost to you. No reservations required. Event is from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
KINGSTON — The Kingston Area Juniors will be holding their 22nd annual craft fair on Saturday, Oct. 4 on The Plains. We are seeking crafters, antique dealers, and food vendors to participate in this popular event, which draws craft lovers from far and wide. Spaces are available for $55 each. All proceeds are donated to local charities. This is a juried craft fair, so no manufactured goods will be allowed. If you would like to participate as a vendor, or even as a volunteer, please contact us at email@example.com, or call Sue at (603) 642-7312 or Joy (603) 642-6372 for more information and an application.
KINGSTON — The Kingston Veteran's Club serves a pasta dinner every Wednesday from 5 to 6:30 p.m. for $3.50, followed by the weekly forty-fives tournament starting at 6:45 p.m. For more information, please visit or contact the Kingston Veterans Club, 36 Church St., Kingston, NH 03848, 642-3419.


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Starring: Jeanette Brox, Megan Henning, Ali Humiston, and James Morrison
Release date: 2004
This movie can best be described as Deliverance for teen girls. Secrets, friendship, survival, and morality are the main themes in both films, while fighting the fears brought on by the natural environment. Two lifelong friends, upper middle classers Ruth and Debbie, take their new, wilder friend Kate to Ruth's parents' cabin along the continental divide for the weekend. It's been 8 years since anyone's been to the cabin. Eight years ago, two girls in the "neighborhood" of wealthy cabin-owners were murdered by a man who was never caught, leaving the families afraid the murderer was lurking in the forest all that time.
With no cell phone reception and no occupied cabins close by, the girls prepare for a night of pot smoking, story telling, and beer drinking to celebrate their upcoming graduation from high school. Early tensions begin to bubble as the girls hint to each other about hidden feelings, petty jealousies, and back-stabbing confidences. Their last hurrah is shattered when a man enters the cabin, claiming to have been squatting there for 8 years.
The directors/writers, married team Eli Despares and Kim Roberts, are not very experienced with feature films. Kim has editing and writing credits on many documentaries, including Food, Inc. and Waiting for Superman.
Jeanette Brox (Ruth) does a wonderful job as the more mousey of the three. However, she speaks always in a whisper and I had to turn the sound up to hear her, and she looks like someone squished Renee Zelweiger down and taught her to act. Brox has mostly TV credits to her name with just a few feature films, but is easily the best in this group and the pivot around which the other characters revolve. Incidentally, Brox won the Los Angeles IFP/West Film Festival award for Outstanding Performance in this film.
Megan Henning (Debbie) also has mostly TV credits, including Mad Men more recently. At the time of this movie she was 26 years old but played a very convincing 17 year old with sexual orientation issues.
Ali Humiston (Kate), is the least experienced and I thought the strongest performance. She has such roles to her name as Baton Twirler in an Olson Twins movie and Teddy Bear Fan (uncredited) in Colin Fitz Lives.
James Morrison (the stranger) is very realistic as the mountain man. Bill Buchanan from 24 is one of the many notable TV roles for the former circus tight rope walker. Interestingly, he is also a stage actor, yoga instructor, and film maker.
Another touch that leapt out at me was the stranger's hand. In one scene he ghosts his hand down Ruth's arm, under her clasped hands, while the camera focuses up close on her hands. When his fingers become visible from beneath hers, they are not just regular hands, or smeared with some dirt or make-up. They have ground in blackness around the nails. Not loose, as if they were a movie prop, but as if he had actually been in the forest for 8 years. Many impressive little details like this add to the reality of the story.
Terrified that the man is the killer of the girls 8 years ago, the three friends decide to take matters into their own hands, despite their brewing differences and unsteady alliances. Stranded and with no telephone, their fears and personal hauntings begin to take hold.
Other than a conversation about masturbation, a lesbian kissing scene, and a brief topless sunbathing scene, the movie is appropriate for teens, while still having enough tension to keep older audiences interested. My only criticism with the film is that I would have added a bit more struggle with nature, because of the name of the film and it being a major theme that is not fully exploited.


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ROC-2 is built on experience gained from ROC-1, which is successfully installed and in operation between Trinidad & Tobago and Suriname and Guyana, see film to the right.
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The URC-1 cable design is based on a laser welded steel tube containing the optical fibers which are embedded in jelly in a way that makes all fibers stress free, ensuring a long life time. For mechanical protection the cables may be equipped with a large variety of outer steel armour protections.


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In This Article:
- Pillow Support and Comfort
- Best Pillows for Different Sleeping Positions
- Different Types of Pillows
- Best Pillows for Neck Pain or Back Pain Video
Video Transcript
Physicians are often asked by their patients, "which is the best pillow to use?" and the truth is there is no one answer that works for everybody; there's no one pillow that works for everybody. We'll talk about some of the different pillows and the advantages and disadvantages of those pillows, then after discussion with your healthcare provider, come up with a pillow or series of pillows that works best for you.
The main benefit of a pillow really is for comfort and support. You want to support the neck, support the spine, but also feel well rested when you wake up so it has to be comfortable. For optimum support, it is best to select a pillow that is designed to keep the spine in neutral alignment – that is in a neutral position, a straight line basically. Any cervical pillow that's too high will cause a malalignment of the cervical spine and can cause pain upon waking in the morning or even throughout the night because this strain and this pain can wake you up from your sleep. The same thing goes for any pillow that is too flat or too low in which the neck will bend the other direction towards the pillow and lead to malalignment. The pillow has to feel comfortable, you have to feel well rested, and it has to be adjustable – meaning it has to conform to various sleep positions. Most people don't stay in one position all night long and, therefore, if you change positions the pillow has to accommodate those changes – it has to move with you.
There are several additional types of pillows that can be used, for example a knee pillow. A knee pillow simply refers to a regular pillow that's placed under knees if you are a back-lier and a back-sleeper and the knee flexion will actually cause a flattening out of the lumbar spine – the lower back. Body pillows can also be used. Now, a body pillow can be an elongated pillow that's used to cradle the upper body and knees and the knees can be draped over the pillow. This can also help keep the spine in a neutral position. There's also contoured neck pillows; these are also called cervical pillows or orthopedic pillows. This is a pillow that has a deeper depression in the center than the edges, which allows for more of a natural contour of the cervical spine. This is not the end-all-be-all of pillows. Some people swear by them and others really can't stand them, so it just depends if it works for you. It may be something you want to try first before investing into a pillow like this because oftentimes they can be expensive. Travel pillows can also be useful. A travel pillow is simply a "U" shaped pillow that can be used when you are in the upright or seated position, whether it be in a car or an airplane. What it does is it allows you – not necessarily to sleep better – but to rest and to stay in that seated position for an extended period of time, but take some of the stress off the neck in traveling. There's also other pillows such as lumbar support pillows or low back pillows, which are also intended to be used when you are in the seated position. These pillows are placed behind the back over the lumbar spine – the lower spine – in order to help encourage the normal lordotic curve of the lumbar spine and provide support. Lastly, a donut pillow can be appropriate for people who suffer from a specific condition, such as coccydynia - which is pain of the tailbone, pain of the coccyx. Sitting on a donut pillow simply takes pressure off of that area of the spine.
Proper pillow selection is more of an art than a science – it's a process of trial and error. So, you may try something and it may work or it may not, but the point is that not one pillow will work for all people. Try different things. See what works. If it feels right, it's probably right for you.


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2020 Toyota Sienna minivan held used in 1997 is a replacement for the Previa 'van, it's produced at Toyota's Indiana plant, however, it's switching toward each scrap of the withering types– Chevrolet, Ford, Hyundai, and Mazda have got all carried from the minivan publicize.
2020 Toyota Sienna Review, Rumors, News
For a number of creators, just how various brand names are carrying away suggests that they can similarly reassess their setting– absolutely, it is a market which is to lower?
Regardless, it would certainly show up that Toyota notices it in an unforeseen way– if various business are hauling out, back then, it suggests their part of the whole market could be increased.
Toyota is certainly seeking to have the Sienna 2019 as tidy as you possibly can, and to increase the efficient effectiveness– little styling subtle aspects will boost the wind circulation across the car as general, decreasing pull fairly along with the outcome of this can be improved efficiency.
Desire to see a full layout of Brought lighting effects, the two front and back, like the Daytime Running Lamps. The DRL's will match the upgraded guard close by the air access, providing a partially forceful try to find the front end in the brand-new Toyota Sienna 2020, helped with a sportier shaped entry grille. To place it just, the 2019 Toyota Sienna will look like dynamic as it is conceivable to impact a vital box to check.
Toyota Safety Perception, as connected to the Sienna, integrates practical voyage control with overall speed run capability along with a forwards collision cautioning structure with pedestrian identification, set dilemma braking, pathway takeoff warning route maintaining aid, and set higher-shaft headlights.
It does not even with, consist of a blindside cautioning framework with raising cross-process good to go, which, in 2019, required a progress to SE cut at any kind of price.
Inside of, the Sienna is generally just like time just recently. A superimposed windscreen is depended on to affect the SE to show tranquil within, as the plentiful Sienna Limited additionally profits by acoustic front side entranceway glass.
Engine and Specs
There is not very much genuine information regarding the 2020 Toyota Sienna, mainly concept, news, and sound, yet we are truly particular regarding announcing that the 2019 Sienna will certainly have the 3.5 liter V6 that could be presently outfitted, nonetheless, it will get a couple of changes and overhauls. The redesigns will certainly force gas consumption that hardly any better much more next to enhance the torque.
2020 Toyota Sienna Release date and Price
As outlined by some recognized internet site, we think your automobile to obtain associated with the marketplace at the end of 2019. We may intend to begin to see the brand-new 2020 Toyota Sienna lower design easily accessible to be purchased concerning the $31,000 check, with all the completely crammed guide closer to $45,000, perhaps $50,000.


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Why I've Grown Wary of Accepting Anything That's Free
One habit that I try hard to cultivate is to stay on top of clutter.
Clutter seems trivial, but I've found - and many people have told me that they're the same way - that clutter weighs me down more than it should. Something like a crowded coat closet or an overflowing inbox is a petty problem, but then when I clear out that area, I feel so much more energetic, creative, and happy. It's weird.
I have a lot of habits that I follow to stay on top of clutter. I follow the one-minute rule (anything I can do in less than a minute, I go ahead and do without delay). I don't get organized.
Because I'm focused on clutter-busting, I'm now very wary of anything that's free. Getting something for free makes it feel like a treat--and oddly, it makes me feel greedier. I'm excited when I get something without paying-even if it's something I'd never choose to buy. For instance, getting free food and drink is a challenge to my healthy eating habits, and in fact, research shows that getting a food or drink sample makes shoppers feel hungrier and thirstier, and puts them in reward-seeking state.
Also, an important strategy for habit-formation is the Strategy of Loophole-Spotting, and getting something for free can provide loopholes. For example, we can use it to argue that "this doesn't count," as in, "These cookies are compliments of the chef, they're free, they don't count." But everything counts.
Now, instead of unthinkingly accepting a freebie, I ask: would I choose to buy this thing? If not, I probably don't really need or want it, even if getting it feels like a treat.
When I spoke at a company, I mentioned this habit during the question-and-answer period. Afterward, the event organizer said, "I know this is ironic, but here's a little something for you." He handed me a company water bottle and a box of fancy chocolates.
"Thanks!" I said. "This looks great, even if it is free." We both laughed-but in fact, I really didn't want those freebies. My family already has a lot of water bottles (because these days, they're so often given out for free), and I don't eat chocolate. I appreciated the kindness and generosity of the gesture, and I accepted the things, because I didn't want to be rude, but I had to figure out ways to get rid of them usefully, which was a bit of trouble.
How about you? When you consider the sources of clutter in your life, do you find that freebies make up a percentage of the stuff?