Scarlet, Helen Snyder for The Pony Academy 3. Kill Devil's Hill, Arri for Spring Mountain Farmī: 1. Magic Mike, Lara Morris for The Pony Academy 6. Desiree, Taylor Overman for Jebb Cuthbert 5. Low Hunter : Champion: Warbux, Ali King Reserve Champion: Foxlair Woodstock, Isabella Karr for Jocelyn McDonaldĪ: 1. Thanks to so many people, I'm sure I've missed some of you but here goes: the whole Kittrell family (and friends!), Baily Dent, Liz King, Mary Buford Hitz, Elizabeth Uffelman, the Buss Family, Mary Minor and Will Henderson, Lynne Allen, Linda Haschart, Carolyn Brandt, Jennifer Sulzberger, Kay Barquin, Sheryl Hopper, Stephen Bickers, Karen Bull, Michelle Fultano, the Brann family, Jeanne Marie Faulconer, Dale Dealtrey, Kristina Karr, and Debbie Heymann. New this year were three big hits: the Obstacle classes, Musical Poles (kind of like musical chairs) and Pole Bending! We had tons of help getting ready for and running the show. The annual summer fun show at Millington was fun for riders and spectators alike. Wednesday, July 20th 2016 at Millington Stables Report and results by Stephanie Guerlain, for more photos visit FHC Facebook Page
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They are remote, the weather is turning and many, including one of their number, think that they are crazy for heading out there. Out over the water on the Westfjords three friends head to an isolated village where they have bought a ramshackle old house to do up as a future guest house and investment. I Remember You is told through two alternating tales both set in Iceland. Hodder & Stoughton, 2012, trade paperback, fiction, translated by Philip Roughton, 400 pages, kindly sent by publisher With the wisdom of their ancestors, the leadership of their elders, the power and vision of their scientists and warriors they charted a course to a better future. Freeing themselves from the endless wars and oppression of their home planet in order to shape their own futures and create a far-reaching coalition of city-states that stretched from Earth and Mars to Titan. The Muungano empire strived and struggled to form a utopia when they split away from old earth. Like energy we are neither created nor destroyed, though many try." - West African Proverb "The beauty in blackness is its ability to transform. (original earth) to Titan – as it faces an escalating series of threats. Epic in scope and intimate in voice, it follows members of the Muungano empire – a far-reaching coalition of city-states that stretches from O.E. Maurice Broaddus's Sweep of Stars is the first in a trilogy that explores the struggles of an empire. Pretty Mischievous covered 1 1/8 mile in 1:49.77 under jockey Tyler Gaffalione and paid $22.74, $10.10 and $7.40. And so to be able to win that just means everything.” “But to me, there’s only the one classic for fillies in the U.S. “I think we are reaping the rewards with the horses we’ve had over the last couple of years. “Sheikh Mohammed has developed a beautiful broodmare band here in the U.S.,” said Michael Banahan, bloodstock director for Godolphin. He's winless in 12 Kentucky Derby starts since 1999 and doesn’t have a colt in Saturday’s 149th Run for the Roses, though Essential Quality finished third in 2021 as the race favorite.Īs he pursues his ultimate prize, Sheikh Mohammed and Godolphin can savor a breakthrough in the Oaks. Most appreciative was owner Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates. Pretty Mischievous broke clear entering the stretch and kept charging even as Gambling Girl rallied from the outside, holding on for her fifth career win in seven starts and giving stable Godolphin its first win in the premier race for 3-year-old fillies. 14 outside post at 10-1 odds and stayed within sight of pacesetters Flying Connection and Defining Purpose through the far turn before making her move through the turn for home. “There’s no way I’m pulling off 20 and 22, okay?” she said.īased on the book by Kristin Hannah, “Firefly Lane” dives beyond the superficial as it follows Tully and her best friend, Kate, (played by “Scrubs” star Sarah Chalke) through the decades, charting all the trials and tribulations that such longevity brings. 3 on Netflix, and sees Heigl play fictional talk-show host Tully Hart in her 40s and - through the magic of CGI and soft lighting - her early 20s. Her new series “Firefly Lane” arrives Feb. The passage of time has been on Heigl’s mind lately. BOTTOM RIGHT: Patrick Sabongui, left, plays Chad, who has a relationship with Tully (Heigl) in “Firefly Lane.” Ben Lawson, far right, stars as Ryan. BOTTOM LEFT: “Firefly Lane” follows the decades-long friendship of Tully (Heigl) and Kate (Chalke). “Scrubs” star Sarah Chalke plays her best friend, Kate, in the series. TOP: Heigl is an executive producer in Netflix's “Firefly Lane” where she plays fictional talk-show host Tully Hart. The atmosphere there was one of alertness and suspicion of newcomers, but the women embraced Lorde as one of their own. Some worked in shops, some were nurses or teachers, many were divorced, and all seemed to want to escape McCarthyism. There was a whole community of single women of moderate means from California and New York living in the neighborhood. She felt happy, like she was where she was supposed to be. She took a little house with a view of the mountains, and the hour-long trip over them in the morning to class seemed a small price to pay. She could commute to the District for classes, which she’d signed up for at the University City. Lorde fell in love with the neighborhood of Cuernavaca where they lived, and it took little urging to get her to move down to that area. Tammy was twelve and loved having Lorde around. She was white, progressive, and smart, and was in her early forties. Freida was a friend of Rhea’s and she lived in Mexico City post-divorce. She looked up Freida Mathews and her young daughter Tammy. She had conversations in part-English, part-Spanish with locals, but longed for a friend with whom she could speak English. She went to the Alameda, a park, and read in the evening. Everyone was kind to her and she was amazed at how good she felt seeing all of the brown faces around her. She walked miles in the city, growing more and more comfortable and curious with each passing day. Lorde wrote that Mexico City was “a sea of strange sounds and smells and experiences that I swam into with daily delight” (154). The arrival at the scene of an apparent suicide is the impetus for paramedic Bruce Pike, the narrator of Tim Winton’s novel Breath, to return on the pivotal events of a summer many years earlier and the struggle to relieve himself of the baggage he believed he carried on well into adulthood. Breath deep, stay calm, focus on your breath. Either way, being able to hold one’s breath for at least 60 seconds seemed to be skill worth developing.Īt this end of life I no longer maintain this practice, but despite the fact that tests have assured me that I actually have very good lung capacity, panic and anxiety attacks can leave me struggling to fell like I am getting enough air. I never heard of any unfortunate incidents resulting from such an activity but my overactive childhood imagination manufactured many. Where I grew up that generally involved challenging one another to crawl through one of the long corrugated metal culverts under the rural road ways. I am aware that some push it to an extreme, driving for the physiological high induced by oxygen deprivation, but in my day it was an exercise in imagining oneself capable of surviving one of the daring challenges we set up for ourselves. Take a deep breath and hold it as long as you can… I imagine there are few children who have not engaged in some variation of that form of super hero training. A new one, such as BuzzFeed News, won largely by being linkable and first. An old news outlet held its authority by retaining a fixed audience and standing on its record of success. In Smith’s telling, the laws of Web traffic, shaped by social media and their ability to disseminate material at exponential, “viral” rates, unseated old power structures. The decision to publish the Steele dossier originated with the reporter Ben Smith, then the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News and now the author of an illuminating book, “Traffic” (Penguin Press), about the rise of online traffic-chasing as a twenty-first-century media norm. Its publication, in January, 2017, planted the unsettling suggestion that the next President of the United States lived under the thumb of a foreign government. The file referenced other points of purported Russian influence. The so-called “pee tape” was said to show Donald Trump’s berth being widdled on by sex workers at the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow, and its alleged existence had come to light in a thirty-five-page dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, a former M.I.6 officer, who suggested that the Kremlin held the tape as kompromat against the man with curious hair. According to a media report, there existed a video of the President-elect instructing well-hydrated strangers to urinate onto his hotel bed. Millions of people posted videos in which they doused themselves with ice-cold water to raise funds for motor-neuron disease.ģ. But other than that her life is totally normal! She’s got an adventurous best friend who’s always got her back and an unrequited crush on an older boy named Ben. Sure, her father is in an insane asylum, her mother left her on his doorstep-literally-when she was a baby, and she’s being raised by two ancient aunts who spend their time hunting gnomes in their Beacon Hill townhouse. THE GIRL WHO NEVER WAS is the story of Selkie Stewart, who thinks she’s a totally normal teenager growing up in Boston. Since I got behind in my reading, this is on my summer-to-be-read list as I love urban fantasies that deal with fairies. Today I’m thrilled to have debut author Sklar Dorset here to share about her YA fantasy THE GIRL WHO NEVER WAS that released yesterday. Please e-mail me by the end of Wednesday or I'll have to pick another winner. The winner of THE SECRET HUM OF A DAISY is Emily Moore!Ĭongrats! E-mail me your address so I can send you your book. is like a runaway freight train, barreling forward and fun to read." - Kirkus Reviews until betrayal destroys him, remaking him into a truly dangerous man. Training, learning everything from sword play and lock picking toĭisguise and deception. Here's a blurb: A passionate boy joins the rebel cause and throws himself into his Travis Bow's novel THANE released on June 1st. Don’t expect to find many franchise staples in the mold of Halloween or Friday the 13th, but don’t sleep on The Haunting of Hill House, Cabinet of Curiosities or Midnight Mass, either. Still, there are quality films to be found here, typically of the modern variety, from classics like Psycho, to comedies like The Babysitter, to more obscure (and disturbing) titles such as Creep, Apostle or newer films like His House and the Fear Street trilogy. All of those films are now gone-usually replaced by low-budget, direct-to-VOD films with suspiciously similar one-word titles, like Demonic, Desolate and Incarnate. At various points in the last year, for instance, Netflix could boast The Shining, Scream, Jaws, The Silence of the Lambs or Young Frankenstein, along with recent indie greats like The Witch, The Descent or The Babadook. As competing services, and especially genre-specific ones such as Shudder, continue to expand their horror movie collections, it’s harder and harder for Netflix to project any sense of comprehensiveness, and its library becomes more static and reliant upon Netflix Originals on a monthly basis. Assessing the quality of offerings available from Netflix in 2023, it quickly becomes clear that their horror library is a real mixed bag. |