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CASEY: Hi, I'm Casey. I work in Product Development,

and today I'm reviewing The German Beet Treat.

I love this product, because my horse

loves this product. One thing I like to have on hand

is a couple of really special yummy treats for my horse,

and traditionally this has been you know like a sweet feed-based

molasses see sugary goodness which he loves.

But these are an excellent option because

they are beet pulp-based. So there's a lot more fiber

in here as opposed to sugars and starches.

So it's still ooey gooey and yummy and a special treat,

but it offers a little bit more in terms of trying to be a touch

healthier than some other options.

The Beet Treats are definitely Bolero and my favorite.

He loves molasses so he thinks this is just the bees knees.

He's absolutely thrilled when I have one of these in my

pocket and I like it because I can still get him something

that gets him really excited but just feel a little bit better

about the fact that it's a bit more fiber and a bit less sugar.

Another nice feature of these treats is that there are

no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives so

it really is just you know the beet pulp and the molasses.

This is perfect for anybody who wants to have like I said

a couple of really good yummy treats on hand.

It's a nice balance of giving the horse something

that they probably think is awesome but is a little bit

less in terms of sugar and starches so that you can

keep that in check. I'm Casey, and The German Beet Treat is my

go-to for when I want to give Bolero something really special.

For more infomation >> The German Beet Treat Review - Duration: 1:18.

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#CCUfamily - Amelia Smith - Duration: 3:13.

My name is Amelia. I'm a first semester senior from Goshen, New York and I'm a psychology major.

Goshen, New York is really just your typical Smalltown, USA. My dad owns a

restaurant in the town so the whole town is really like one big family so that's

kind of what I like and we're about an hour outside of New York City so I take trips there a lot.

My favorite current app has to be Twitter. There's just so many funny

things that people tweet and like you get so much news and information and it kind of just makes my day.

My favorite moment at Coastal has definitely been being elected the

president of my sorority. Other sororities helped me grow throughout

being in college and I was very thankful that they elected me to serve as their president.

Coastal has definitely had a positive impact on me because being so far from

home it kind of taught me how to be more independent

and branch out of my comfort zone and get really involved.

My all-time favorite quote would have to be "everything happens for a reason."

I believe that sometimes things don't always go in your favor and but I think

that's always in the end to your benefit.

Like everyone, I don't really like it. I think that Snapchat's meant for you to

see what people are doing at that time and since it kind of puts it out of that

order I think it defeats the purpose.

My favorite current song has to be "Love Yours" by J. Cole. It's really inspiring.

It always puts me in a good mood and he's my favorite artist so that would have to be it.

The one word that would describe me would probably be "open-minded." I'm really

open to doing new things and I'm very open to meeting many new people and getting really involved.

I just want to shout out my brothers of Phi Sigma Pi.

My sorority sisters at Sigma Kappa. All of my Greek life friends and all of my friends

here on campus. You guys know who you are. And most importantly my parents without

you guys I wouldn't be able to be at this amazing school.

So I'm really thankful all you guys have helped me grow in many ways so thank you.

For more infomation >> #CCUfamily - Amelia Smith - Duration: 3:13.

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Ukrainian Catholic Christmas, Sviata Vecherya, Holy Supper - Duration: 14:18.

♪ To us a Son is born ♪

♪ Unto us a Child is given ♪

♪ God is with us, rejoice all you nations ♪

♪ And be humbled for God is with us ♪

♪ And governance shall be upon His shoulders ♪

♪ God is with us, rejoice all you nations ♪

♪ And be humbled for God is with us ♪

♪ And His name shall be called Wondrous Counselor ♪

♪ Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace ♪

♪ God is with us, rejoice all you nations ♪

♪ And be humbled for God is with us ♪

♪ Your Nativity, oh Christ, our God ♪

♪ Has shed upon the world the light of knowledge ♪

♪ For through it those who worship the stars ♪

♪ Have learned from the star ♪

♪ To worship you the Son of Righteousness ♪

♪ And to recognize in you the One from on high ♪

♪ Glory to You ♪

♪ Today the Virgin gives birth to the perfect essence ♪

♪ And the earth offers a cave to the inaccessible ♪

♪ The angels sing his glory to the shepherds ♪

♪ The wise men journey with the star ♪

♪ There is born for us an infant child, God Eternal ♪

♪ Christ our God bless this food and drink ♪

♪ For your servants for you are holy ♪

♪ Now and forever for ages of ages ♪

♪ Amen ♪

- In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, amen.

(repeats in Ukrainian)

- We're doing all this stuff but why?

So, we start with the lighting of the candles

because Christ is,

the light of our life.

And we have a candle in the window

inviting any kind of wanderers,

travelers, anyone who doesn't have a place

to celebrate this Holy Supper this evening

to come in and join us.

So we have the empty place setting usually with a chair,

but not in our host home lately.

- If someone comes, then we will make room for them.

That's what that signifies.

They can sit on someone's lap.

- (laughing) Definitely, yes.

So, the empty place setting is for

the stranger, for the wanderer that may join us,

but it also is for all of the people who are not with us

who have died, who can't come,

who have celebrated in the past and even in the future.

So, we welcome everyone here.

In the corner of the room, along that line,

we have the sheaf of wheat,

and the sheaf of wheat is called the didukh,

which is from the word for

дід or grandfather.

Because that is a symbol of the generations

that we celebrate with, the generations in the past,

the people all over the world and all throughout time

that have celebrated this momentous event

of God becoming human, of being born as a person.

Also then, if you feel the crinkliness

underneath the tablecloth, that's hay.

It really is. - Not the Canadian eh.

Get real hay, not eh.

- And under your toes, it's not just

because we haven't had any time to vacuum.

- We haven't had, which might be the truth,

but still, no, it's hay underneath the table

to symbolize that humble birth.

The fact that God came to us as

a poor person with nothing,

and yet, saved all of humanity.

Our celebrations today reflect our icon

of the night Nativity that we had.

The incarnation, the whole mixture

of what we experience in our human life,

the joy together with the suffering,

pain together with happiness,

love together with so much,

so much trouble.

And yet, throughout all of that,

we can celebrate that God is with us.

And I love this icon because we have the mother of God

turned away from her child because of that pain.

We think, you know,

we've got the midwives in there, too.

The pain of childbirth isn't something

that we're forgetting about just

because we're celebrating the birth of God.

It's totally human, and it's totally divine.

As we hope to be, totally human, but totally divine.

Yay. (laughing)

- Totally.

- Totally divine.

So, yes, and again if ever you guys

want to look more closely at the icons of the Nativity,

we just have that mixture all the time.

There's Joseph being tempted to not believe

that his wife is actually faithful to him.

And the baby wrapped in swaddling clothes

but looking like a mummy in a coffin actually,

remembering that even though

we're celebrating this Nativity,

it's very real the way our lives are very real.

- Connected to death.

Huh? - Right, exactly.

- Connected to death. - Right.

- Yes.

- That's the motto of the mummy.

- And yet death then brings life.

- [Man] Exactly.

- So we have the kolach in the middle of the table

that thank you Myroslawa for baking.

And it is made in three tiers.

Braided with the three strands of dough

that then meet together into a circle

symbolizing the Trinity.

And the way our life then enters into eternity

with this celebration of the incarnation.

And also, the threes that we keep seeing

not only tonight but in our whole faith tradition

reminding us of the Trinity.

The Trinity as community and as we are.

So all day,

- [Woman] Did you mention the garlic?

- No, the garlic?

The garlic is there.

- [Man] Very Christian tradition.

- To make sure that even though we're inviting everyone,

we're not inviting the vampires tonight.

- [Man] No evil spirits, every of the evil spirits.

- There's people at the table,

and if anyone feels particularly sick,

they can feel free to take, bite off a chunk of the garlic.

Chew it along with their dinner.

- Okay, sorry Aleksandra,, just a little bit more then.

Oh dear, okay.

- [Man] Salt?

- [Man] Salt.

- The salt because we are all called to be

the salt of the earth as Christ

had demonstrated to us in His light.

Oh yes, and during the day, we were not eating any meals,

remembering the journey of the Holy Family to Bethlehem,

and the hardship that they had.

And yet, now when we're breaking that fast of the day,

we're having 12 dishes.

We're having a celebration, and yet,

the celebration is still part of the fast

because until we go to church,

we're not celebrating the actual birth of Christ.

So after which then we would have meat

and eggs and dairy stuff.

- But poor fish are not considered one of those.

- Fish aren't considered part of that.

Yeah, so we're having fish tonight.

- I think the fish activists would have an issue

in this situation.

- It's true, it's true.

But yes, and what's exciting for me tonight

on top of everything else that's exciting,

is that we have the 12 dishes that symbolize the 12 apostles

and how we too are followers of Christ as Christians.

But we have exactly 12 people at our table.

- Oh I never thought of that.

- [Man] Dun dun dun.

- So everyone just gets one dish.

(laughing)

You will eat that and only that.

(excited mumbling)

Yeah, exactly, exactly.

- Yeah poor Tom and Sean are kind of like,

you don't know what to grab first, right?

Because these are both your favorites.

- It's right in front of him.

- I'll be tolerant.

- Okay, no, it's okay, she's kidding.

- You think. (laughing)

- We begin with the first star in the sky of course,

recalling the star of Bethlehem.

- It's definitely out by now.

- It's definitely out.

- [Man] It's gone to sleep already.

- And normally, we would actually feed

any animals that we have first.

- All our animals are dead.

- All our animals are dead, it's true, oh dear.

In some parts of Ukraine,

I just learned this in the past year.

Susanne, this would be new if we,

but we're not doing it.

But the youngest people in the family,

in this case it would be you and Sean,

would be asked to go under the table,

and you'd make animal sounds.

- What, are you serious? (laughing)

- I'm not kidding.

I'm not kidding.

I am serious.

- [Man] So Sean, when you get that urge (speaks faintly).

- Did we plan on this business?

- But no, I'm not kidding, it's true.

But after when we get up before we go to church,

traditionally here in our household, we do do this.

People are invited to dive under the table.

- Not just the youngest.

- Not just the youngest, everyone is welcome

to find treasures in the hay underneath the table.

And this is for real.

I'm not kidding. (laughing)

Okay.

- And as we get older, the treasures get more, get nicer.

We have no grandchildren,

so there's like no (speaks faintly).

No one can be charmed with a nickel any more.

- Oh dear.

- I can't even make a phone call any more.

- Don't be disappointed, Anastasia.

Okay, so we start.

The first three dishes have their order,

and then we'll just bring things out.

We'll bring all the 12 out then after that.

We begin with the kutya because this is

a dish that symbolizes life.

It's made from boiled grain.

We have barley.

Often, it's wheat.

And this is a dish that's often also made

for funerals and for funeral celebrations

because of that symbolizing life itself.

And it's mixed with honey,

the beauty and the sweetness of life.

And the poppy seeds, the bitterness of life.

Also in our culture, we would think maybe the inebriation.

However, it's for the bitterness. (laughs)

All right and,

we begin with,

the oldest person in the household.

I just want to rub that in.

- The dramatic moment.

- I will yes, I won't explain it.

I'll just say if it sticks,

then it will be a good year, a good harvest.

And if it doesn't,

- [Man] Do it again.

- Well, too bad.

- She's telling me-- - Just a sec.

I also want to thank Anastasia for making this kutya.

Myroslawa did the kolach.

No, no, no, it's good.

- The pressure's on.

- Wait, wait, wait, before you start,

have I forgotten anything?

- [Multiple People] No.

- Okay.

(cheering and clapping)

That is a fabulous year, you guys.

- They'll get that in their wine glass later.

- No, no, no, it's there.

Okay, 2018, - It's a good year!

- Wonderful year for all of us.