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#good-fortune

Off the Hook Ep. 6-It Could All Be So Simple from NPQ on Vimeo.Meet Saphia, a young bell hooks fanatic trying desperately to build a good life in New York City.Constantly immersed in the latest idea she has discovered while reading hooks, Saphia is determined to figure out how to apply these liberatory ideals to her own life.

If you find yourself in Washington Square Park on one of these fine spring days, you might see Felix Morelo, bent low over the sidewalk, drawing.More likely, though, you will see his art.Look down, and you may find yourself standing in a good luck spot, drawn in pastel pink or blue or yellow.Or maybe a bad luck spot.

Did you know it was Bryce Elder's birthday today?I didn't, which is kind of shameful for someone who touted the Battle of the Bryces across a few different posts in preparation for tonight's game.No matter, though: said Battle lived up to its billing, as Bryces Elder and Miller impressed on the mound.

If you'd asked most Braves fans and followers alike what the team's priorities were ahead of the 2022 Trade Deadline, chances are that few of them would've readily listed bullpen help.So, naturally, bullpen help is exactly what they got.Expensive, but effective, bullpen help, in the form of Raisel Iglesias.

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A year ago, Brian Schmetzer solved the riddle that had bewildered MLS managers for more than two decades by leading Seattle to a CONCACAF Champions League title.The Sounders' one-sided win over Pumas marked the first time this century an MLS team won the region's most prestigious club competition - and the first time a Mexican team had lost in the final since 2005.

It's better to be lucky than good.But what if you can be both?There's no question LAFC is good.The team won everything there was to win in MLS last season, then opened this season with three straight victories in which it scored 10 times.Now good fortune appears to be smiling on the team as well, with LAFC advancing to the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Champions League despite Wednesday's 2-1 loss to Costa Rican club Alajuelense at BMO Stadium.

They've won four games in a row and five of six, clinched a postseason berth and are as healthy as they've been in months, and suddenly the Chargers aren't Chargering at all.Entering the regular season's final Sunday, they have a chance to complete the jump from 6-6 to the AFC's top wild-card spot, which would bury even deeper the chronic notion that this franchise is cursed.

1. Bladee's paintings express a sense of entrapment and nihilism, often depicting a modern world that is filled with anxiety, depression, and a lack of direction.
2. Bladee's work is heavily influenced by internet culture, and his paintings often feature distorted figures and bright, neon

I would try to find poetry that is fun and speaks to the child's sense of the world.There are poems about sports or superheroes or science.Let the young person explore on their own terms, (and) discover the music and the language.Poetry can be about anything that the child might be interested in or might discover a love for.

A dangerous man who tried intimidating his ex-girlfriend by firing a gun outside a busy north-west London pub on New Year's Eve has been jailed.Cardell Thompson, 26, arrived at a pub in Chamberlyne Road, Kensal Green, around 9.30pm on December 31, 2021.Throughout the night he repeatedly tried speaking to a former girlfriend, who was not interested in engaging with him.

Dan Worrall's spectacular 26-ball burst of five wickets for one run torpedoed Middlesex's first innings against Surrey in the London derby at the Kia Oval.A partnership of 152 between Sam Robson and Pieter Malan had threatened to put Middlesex in early control before champions Surrey fought back in dramatic and thrilling fashion to bowl them out for 209.

T ens of thousands of people have flocked to the West End to celebrate the start of the Lunar New Year.Visitors gathered in Trafalgar Square on Sunday afternoon to enjoy live music, food stalls and a vibrant parade.The main parade in the capital began in Charing Cross Road before going through Shaftesbury Avenue and ending with the lion eye-dotting ceremony in Trafalgar Square.

When I was 12, I disappeared into my bedroom with a $40 folk guitar and a giant book of Beatle songs, with elementary, large-type E-Z chord diagrams to follow.I had no musical gift, as a series of failed music lessons had assured me it was actually the teachers who assured me; the lessons were merely dull and no real musical training.

Victory on the south coast, together with Liverpool's failure to beat Aston Villa, strengthened United's grip on a top-four spot with two games to play and meant Erik ten Hag is close to achieving his primary objective in his first season in charge.This was not Ten Hag's side at their best, but once they were in front they limited a spirited and organised Bournemouth to a handful of chances, with David de Gea in form to deny Gary O'Neil's side whenever they threatened.

Manchester United will face Brighton in the FA Cup semifinals at Wembley next month.The Reds came from behind to beat Fulham 3-1 at Old Trafford on Sunday, largely thanks to a second half minute of madness in which Willian, Aleksandar Mitrović and their manager Marco Silva were all shown red cards.Bruno Fernandes took advantage to score either side of Marcel Sabitzer's first goal in a United shirt.

With Anthony Davis officially out for an extended period, the shorthanded Lakers stepped up and beat the Wizards, 119-117, to win their second home game in a row in their last homestand of the year.The Lakers improved to 13-16 thanks to a fourth-quarter rally led by LeBron James and Austin Reaves, who scored eight of the team's last ten points.

No defense was used in the making of last night's game.Just when you may have thought it was okay to think the Wizards defense might not be wretched, they handed in a turd of a performance and got blasted by the Celtics.To answer my own question: Is the Wizards defense reason for hope?Nah.Don't be deceived by the final margin.

For 30 minutes, the Toronto Marlies were in complete control of this game and should have gone on to win by a comfortable margin.A lack of discipline and complacency crept into their performance, allowing a struggling Grand Rapids Griffins team to rally back from a three-goal deficit.First Period
The Marlies found themselves on the penalty kill at the three-minute mark, but they didn't allow Grand Rapids to build any momentum.

Jay Baruchel, left and Glenn Howerton in the corporate biopic "BlackBerry."(IFC Films/AP)Comment Gift Article StarOutline (3 stars) "BlackBerry," a funny, insightful corporate biopic, tells the unlikely story of how a ragtag team of Canadian computer nerds invented the titular device - a combination "pager, cellphone and email machine" that would revolutionize modern communications until it became known as the thing you owned before you got an iPhone.

Portlanders have long frequented Chinese restaurants, sitting down to bowls of noodle soups or piling stir-fries onto beds of steamed rice.But in recent years, the city has been having a dumpling renaissance of sorts.The international chain Din Tai Fung first landed in Oregon with its lauded xiao long bao, or soup dumplings, in 2018; the Taiwanese-born restaurant is preparing to open its first Portland proper location in Pioneer Place this summer.

The Nationals have had an interesting season to this point.They're not good, but they've managed an 8-8 road record against the Rockies (2-2), Angels (1-2), Twins (2-1), Mets (2-1), and Diamondbacks (1-2*).They're supposed to be in a rebuild - and they are - but half a season out from trading away Juan Soto and one might expect them to be a little bit worse than 14-20.

Alice Winocour, Paula Beer, Davy Chou, and Émilie Dequenne round out the jury for this year's Un Certain Regard.John C. Reilly will now help pick which film will have its own winning time at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.The "Winning Time" star and "Chicago" Oscar nominee has officially been selected as the president of the Un Certain Regard jury for the 76th Cannes Film Festival.

About five years ago, the head of Amazon Studios, Jennifer Salke, called Anthony and Joe Russo with an idea for a different kind of franchise.It would start with an American-made show then eventually expand into multiple other series, set and produced in other countries and filmed in other languages, all connected within the same storytelling universe on Prime Video.

The Boston Celtics did not start the front end of a back-to-back the way they wanted to.On Monday night, the Celtics got outplayed and outhustled in a 113-98 loss against the Orlando Magic.The loss snaps a nine-game win streak, and it starts a big week off on the wrong note.The Cs now drop to 35-13 on the season, but they remain in the Eastern Conference's No. 1 seed.

I can tell you this firsthand: Gender-affirming care changes lives.Since going through puberty, I've always felt weird about my chest.Seeing photos or studying myself in the mirror, I would zero in on that area, trying to reconcile it with the version of myself I innately had in my head.During the height of the pandemic, I realized I was purposely arranging my laptop so nobody could ever see my chest during virtual meetings.

I would try to find poetry that is fun and speaks to the child's sense of the world.There are poems about sports or superheroes or science.Let the young person explore on their own terms, (and) discover the music and the language.Poetry can be about anything that the child might be interested in or might discover a love for.

The hard part should have been over.The Loftis family home had barely escaped the fierce floodwaters of the Tule River, which laid waste to many others early Friday morning in this Sierra foothill community.Saturday was supposed to be for mopping up, regrouping and taking a breath.But Sherry and Ed Loftis' son spotted one of the family's six cats stranded atop a flatbed truck that had become an island on the remade banks of the Tule.

Two years ago cornerback was a strength for the Dolphins, a lockdown position, a starting point for the defense.Last season, due to injuries, cornerback was a question mark.It's tough to say how the position will fare for the Dolphins in 2023, or how deeply they might be required to dive into the free-agency pool.

Your failures will always give you more than your successes
I wrote earlier about mistakes with regard to the ability to apologize.But I want to take another moment and talk about the mistakes themselves.They.Are.Priceless.Sure, nobody likes the feeling of messing up.But the reality is that you, whether Númenorean or network engineer, learn far more from your mistakes than you do from your successes.

Burt Bacharach's first hit had come in 1957, with the hokey country ballad The Story of My Life, his first collaboration with lyricist Hal David.The first of the songs that would define him came in 1962, with Tommy Hunt recording I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself, then Jerry Butler tackling Make It Easy on Yourself.

On a Saturday afternoon in Montreal ([ checks notes] yeah, that's right) the New York Islanders blew another one, losing against a bottom-tier team for the second game in a row, coughing up points against teams they can least afford to hand them to.This time they at least salvaged one point, but the 4-3 overtime loss to the Canadiens was another confounding performance from an inconsistent team.

I guess you could say that overall, it was a successful road trip.The New York Islanders wrapped up their Ontario-Nashville-Dallas-Ontario journey tonight by visiting the Toronto Maple Leafs.For the Islanders, it was their third road game in five nights, and it showed at times.Ilya Sorokin, however, recovered nicely from conceding five goals to Nashville and kept the Islanders in it as he usually does.

Young mothers gather with baby carriages in the morning chill and exchange village gossip while waiting to visit a health clinic on a truck.The vehicle's arrival is a big event.For eight months, the village of Levkivka in eastern Ukraine was under occupation by Russian troops, who cut off roughly 300 residents from the outside world.

PITTSBURGH - Despite being hamstrung by the salary cap and light on trade assets, the Lightning found a player ahead of Friday's deadline that fit general manager Julien BriseBois' desire to bulk up his team defensively and make it tougher to play against.After watching its counterparts in the Eastern Conference acquire big names during an active trade season, Tampa Bay on Sunday acquired from Nashville Tanner Jeannot, a 25-year-old power forward who will bring sandpaper to the lineup and who can be a restricted free agent after this season.

More than three months after someone bought the winning ticket for a record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot, California Lottery officials announced on Tuesday that winner was Edwin Castro.At Mr. Castro's request, lottery officials did not disclose any biographical information about him, though they did release his name at a news conference, in keeping with California's public disclosure laws.

The Los Angeles Dodgers collected a second consecutive win in Cactus League play by hanging on 7-6 to defeat the San Diego Padres at Peoria Sports Complex.Ryan Pepiot stranded a pair of baserunners to complete a scoreless first inning, but the Padres found success against Phil Bickford in the second, beginning with Ha-Seong Kim's leadoff double.

Jewli will go homewhen the maize is ready to harvest to burn burnhe will burn it all on hot coal each corn is a grandmother searching the soil to scratcha hole with the heel of her foot feed the soil two kernels of corn their heels a golden shovelalways in conversation with all the backbones of all who is us to bring nights when their children& their children will sit around fires adorned with charred gold pinched in saltteeth digging into the stars of good fortune It often happens: we think deeply about our older relatives, our grandparents and maybe great-grandparents, only when it's too late to talk with them and learn from their long memories.

The Year of the Rabbit has arrived.Following a day of celebrations in and around London on January 22, the Lunar New Year was commemorated by the lastminute.comLondon Eye lighting up in resplendent red and gold.The two colours, seen everywhere during the celebrations, symbolize good fortune and happiness (red), and wealth (gold) - offering up wishes for a great new year to all.

Thomas Muller acknowledged Bayern Munich needed some good fortune to overcome Paris Saint-Germain and reach the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday.Julian Nagelsmann's side were indebted to Matthijs de Ligt's goal-line clearance from Vitinha in the first half at Allianz Arena after Yann Sommer's error offered the PSG midfielder an open goal.

Odds are good you read at least one of the umpteen media stories last month about a possible 2,000-year-old "dildo" unearthed near the remains of a Roman auxiliary fort in the UK called Vindolanda.Well, it's either a dildo; a pestle used for grinding cooking, cosmetic, or medicinal ingredients; or something meant to be inserted into a statue and rubbed for good fortune (a common Roman practice).

By Ellen S. Wilkowe There was plenty of good intention but no good fortune - or even a pot of gold - for the Long Valley Middle School students who decorated the school with rainbow-colored safe zone signs in support of their LGBTQ peers.The student-initiated effort resulted in a warrant from the rainbow police and now the symbol of diversity and inclusion is doing hard prism time, in order to appease the concerns of the community and school board.

Arthur Duncan, who kept tap dancing visible and relevant across the country on television when most had relegated it to the past and who also broke ground as a Black entertainer, has died at 97.
Duncan was best known for his 18-year run on "The Lawrence Welk Show" as the only Black cast member, and is widely regarded as a trailblazer for a mainstream television variety show.

Teads, the global media platform announced the promotion of Monique Pintarelli to president, North America.In her new role, Pintarelli will continue to report to Teads co-CEO Jeremy Arditi and expand her purview from commercial leadership to full P&L responsibility for US and Canada.Her appointment comes at a time when the end-to-end omnichannel platform continues to evolve its solutions to future-proof partner success and deliver better business outcomes for brands.

I would try to find poetry that is fun and speaks to the child's sense of the world.There are poems about sports or superheroes or science.Let the young person explore on their own terms, (and) discover the music and the language.Poetry can be about anything that the child might be interested in or might discover a love for.

Things are starting to look up for the Lakers.After a brutal start to their season, the team has rattled off three straight wins with their latest coming via a 31 point blowout of the Spurs on Sunday.It's also worth noting that the Lakers are set to play the Spurs twice more this week alone.A big reason for the team's slow, but steady, climb out of the Western Conference basement has come through strong individual play from multiple sources during LeBron James' absence.

Patriots "I'm just happy the coaches still believe in me."That the New England Patriots are still alive in the AFC playoff race is not a credit to them as much as the good fortune of chasing some teams that have bumbled their way into Christmas even worse.Miami has lost four consecutive games.

Patriots The Patriots were awarded Germany as an International Home Marketing Area in January.The NFL will hold its first-ever game in Germany on Sunday when the Buccaneers take on the Seahawks, and it certainly won't be the last.NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said that the league plans to play "at least" four more games in Germany through 2025.

Christmas is reminiscent of festive images of Santa Claus, Snowman, mangers and reindeer and activities like baking cookies and cakes alongside decorating the Christmas trees.The magic glow of the festival makes people merrier while Christians all over the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.Discover how some countries have unusual Christmas traditions and bring diversity into the Christmas festivities.

The Bruins and the Celtics are having a lot of success to start their respective seasons, combining for 37 wins.Playing in Boston in particular has given the TD Garden crowd a lot to cheer for.The Bruins are undefeated at home going into Saturday's game against the defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche, while the Celtics have won 10 straight games in Boston and are a combined 24-1 at TD Garden.

Career stats827 games (3,387 plate appearances)102 HRs, 411 RBIs, 58 SBs.255/.321/.41795OPS+, 16.2 fWAR
Why Swanson makes sense for Red SoxSwanson ranked 11th among all MLB players in fWAR last season - ahead of Turner (12th), Bogaerts (15th) and Correa (30th).He was a stud, both at the plate and in the field, and it's entirely possible he's finally put everything together and will remain a force moving forward.

Trumpets blaring.Triple-digit heat.Strikeouts galore.Edwin Díaz pitching for the Boston Red Sox would have been a blast.Yet, the possibility always felt like a long shot.And now that Díaz reportedly is returning to the New York Mets on a five-year, $102 million contract - the richest deal ever given to a reliever - it would behoove Boston to target his younger, cheaper, lesser-known brother, Alexis, whose coming off a dominant rookie season with the Cincinnati Reds.

Dancer and choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov was left humbled after being awarded a prestigious honour by the Queen Consort for an illustrious career.Baryshnikov  a star of ballet, contemporary dance and also known for his role in Sex And The City  was presented with the Royal Academy of Dance's (RAD) highest honour, the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award.

Hard for me to believe it, but Saturday was the 20th anniversary of this blog, which I founded on Nov. 19, 2002, with  this introductory post.I actually started writing about this stuff even earlier, in 1995, when my fascination with the potential of the internet for lawyers prompted me to launch a syndicated column, Lawyers.online, starting with this inaugural installment, The Internet: A Revolution in Law Practice.

Joe Biden has conducted himself credibly as the nation's 46th president.He has revealed an array of admirable characteristics worthy of itemizing: innate decency, redoubtable energy, fortitude and resilience.Most of all, he has demonstrated heartfelt devotion to sustaining and safeguarding democracy amid an onslaught of unpredictable upheavals, both domestic and global.

We're at the GM Meetings and now is a good time for a look back.At this time last year, the Mets were coming off a disappointing 77-85 season and didn't have a manager, didn't have a GM and were wasting time for the second straight year trying to hire a PoBO.Now, they're coming off a 101-win season, have a finalist for Manager of the Year in Buck Showalter, have a GM who made a positive impact in Billy Eppler and have announced that they won't be seeking a PoBO.

Thank you for your responses to last week's SB Nation NBA Reacts survey!The results are below!Most Wizards fans are confident in the team's direction

We had over 200 responses if my math is serving me correctly, And 63 percent of you are confident that the Wizards are headed in the right direction.