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Where would you like to dine tonight? At one of New York’s trend-setting establishments like Rao’s, Jean-Georges, or estiatorio Milos? Or possibly the culinary creations of celebrity chefs like Lorena Garcia and Tetsuya Wakuda will be more to your palette’s delight. Whatever exceptional culinary experience you can imagine, you’ll find it at the Sands’ planned Long Island destination resort.

Combined with the local restaurant scene, the Sands New York culinary experience will transform Long Island to a must-experience dining destination. Plus, Sands New York’s fivestar concierge service will be directing visitors to local restaurants, bars and attractions, benefitting the entire region.

birth to baby seahorses. Participants will create a colorful oceanscape diorama to keep as part of this educational program. The cost is museum admission + $10 participant; museum members are $5. Registration is not needed.

The third program, Dress Up at Sea, will take place during two sessions on Thursday, June 29 at 2 p.m. and 4p.m. Participants are invited to come in costume to this event. This family-friendly program explores the history of sailors dressing up at sea, where costumes have a long history of providing crewmembers with entertainment and cultural rituals. Participants will learn how mariners, including whalers and Navy crews, held “line-crossing ceremonies” when crossing the equator, where some crew members dressed as underwater queens and mermaids. Bella Noche, a drag artist with a mermaid persona, will perform her Drag Story Hour and read several books. Participants will decorate a ship wheel ornament craft to take home. The cost is museum admission + $10 participant; museum members are $5. Registration is online at cshwhalingmuseum.org/events.

“Our diverse history offers fascinating, and sometimes surprising, connections between gender expression and maritime life,” says Nomi Dayan, Executive Director. “This special programming joins our ongoing roster of innovative events which explore our collection’s relevance in meaningful ways today and continues our museum’s role in building stronger communities.”

The Whaling Museum’s focus on supporting inclusion and promoting expanded narratives and perspectives are aligned with the American Alliance of Museum’s standards for excellence. The Museum engages in ongoing institutional planning to ensure its exhibitions and events present diversified narratives and provides opportunity for artistic voices to amplify the Museum’s core values of tolerance, acceptance and inclusion in its programming.

The Whaling Museum & Education Center is the only museum in the world open year-round which explores the whaling history of the Long Island region. The Museum engages the community in exploring the diversity of our whaling heritage and its impacts to enrich and inform our lives. The museum is located at 301 Main Street, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724.

—Submitted by the Whaling Museum and Education Center

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HOROSCOPES By Holiday Mathis

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Holiday Mathis

This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have pleted the puzzle, there will be 16 letters left over. They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

Holiday Mathis

ARIES (March 21-April 19). e intensity of a relationship will escalate. Your feelings may seem out of your control. But if emotions could be controlled, things like sad songs and comedy sets wouldn’t exist, and neither would art. You’ll nd relaxation and perspective in the world of entertainment.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). e discrepancy between the truth and the wish is a pain source. Can you close the gap by changing something about the reality? How might you adjust your expectation to bring it closer to the current state of things? Healing happens when the truth and the wish are in agreement.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). To lead the team, you don’t have to have all the answers -- or any of them! Strong posture and presence will take you far toward gaining trust, as will your observant, curious and decisive nature. You’ll ask the questions that reveal the best destination and route.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Don’t worry too much about the friction this week. It will happen whether you resist it or not, so you may as well lean into the good things about it. For instance, controversy means people care and will pay attention. Emotion could be unpleasant, but without it, life would be at and featureless.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). e process of acquiring excellent habits seldom occurs in one smooth, straight line. e dance of improvement is more often a jitterbug involving one step forward, two steps back, three steps forward and so on. Even when you are doing your best, results will be mixed. No matter what happens, love yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You will move through various feelings about your individual identity and how your various roles connect to others. A sense of belonging can be very complex. It’s normal to feel whole on your own, even while sensing your interdependence. You’ll distinguish yourself and feel the joy of being part of a group, too.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). When you have the impulse to share, it tells you valuable information about who you feel you can trust, what you care about and why you feel more comfortable in some situations rather than others. is week, getting curious about how you choose to share yourself will lead to self-discovery.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). No matter how clever, huge or obvious your hints may seem to you, they won’t get you what you want this week. ere will be no better way than the direct route. Ask outright and be exact about it. Draw a picture, write down the speci cations -- whatever it takes to make your point, do it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). It would be great if people were strictly attracted to what’s best for them. Alas, the dance between desire and self-discipline creates tension. To admit you want a thing and lean into the feeling will relieve some of the tension, making it easier to move on from temptation. is week, you will want something, choose not to have it and then celebrate the victory.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Your thoughts will tend to run away with you this week, which you can use to your advantage. Focus on the area that could use the bene t of wild imagination and lean into a positive tone. One idea leads to another, and soon you’re solving a problem, making change, creating your world.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ve let go unrealistic ideas before, so you know the rst step is to understand the realm of what’s possible. e trouble is, that’s almost impossible to tell right now, and you wouldn’t want to limit yourself by thinking small. For now, hang tight and keep watching. Don’t give up your dream.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You can move forward with con dence even if you’re not sure what to believe. e one thing you can really trust is your ability to learn and adapt. is week sees you as balanced and exible. It only takes a little open-mindedness to make way for enlightenment.

THIS WEEK’S BIRTHDAYS

You’re paid due respect this year and you’ll settle into your power. You’re remarkably centered in yourself, so your emotional climate feels consistently sunny. Relationships don’t have to be easy and smooth to be wonderful. Good times are a credit to your big heart and keen choice of company. You’ll be given gifts that can’t possibly be reciprocated because they are one of a kind. More highlights: You’ll accept that there’s much you’ll never know even while being celebrated in the ranks of the especially intelligent. A property purchase rises in value. Children bless your life.

International Word Find

International Word Find

International Word Find

Snow country

Solution: 16 Letters

Word Find

This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated below. Find the listed words in the grid. (They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once.) Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 16 letters left over. They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.

Snow country

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Contract Bridge

Solution: Winter wonderland

5/3/23

By Steve Becker

Charting your course of play

queen, that’s something you should do only as a last resort.

You should first try to determine where the king of clubs is located. With this goal in mind, you win West’s trump return in your hand and lead the queen of diamonds. When West follows low, you go up with the ace, making a mental note that East has the king since West presumably would have covered the queen with the king if he had it.

Next you lead a diamond from dummy and ruff it. If East produces the king on the trick, which is likely, you have a much better picture of the missing high cards than you had at the start. You can now feel certain that West has the king of clubs, since he could hardly have opened the bidding as dealer without that card.

Assume you’re declarer at four spades and West cashes the K-A of hearts, then shifts to a low trump. You’re sure to lose one club trick, come what may, but you can’t afford to lose two. Situations like this occur frequently, and the problem is how to resolve them.

The one thing you should not do is stake the outcome solely on East’s holding the king of clubs. While it’s tempting to finesse the

Your only hope now is that West was dealt either the singleton or doubleton king of clubs. If he has three clubs to the king, you can pretty much kiss the contract goodbye. Accordingly, you lead a trump to dummy, ruff a diamond, cash the ace of clubs and play a low club.

As it happens, West must win with the king, and you wind up making the contract.

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