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The World's Best Aerial Photography: Top 20 Drone Photos of the Year
Drones have brought an extraordinary revolution in photography and shown here are the best images captured in 2017.
Drone photography is changing the way we view the world. The opportunity to see the world from above gives us a metamorphic experience where a circus suddenly looks like a box of sweets, a leafless tree transforms into a spider web, or a desert turns into a pastel painting. We rarely get the chance to turn our perspective upside down but the aerial photographers deliver us a whole feast of colors, texture and outstanding beauty we can never appreciate from down here.
The Dronestagram community is the perfect site online to see such artistic shots of landscapes. It probably holds the largest collection of aerial photos submitted by drone lovers worldwide. The site allows both professional and hobby photographers to share their captures in one place so others can see their works and get inspiration from them.
Drones are slowly taking over the world of photography and it is very easy to know why.
The days of DSLR camera photography is slowly passing by. While this flying equipment was initially utilized in a few selected industries like filmmaking or the military, the availability of more affordable and easy-to-use drones made conventionalists switch to aerial photography. In fact, drone makers are already equipping their products with top-quality cameras that can compete with DSLRs. What makes these cameras pretty special, though, is the bird's eye perspective that makes landscapes look larger and longer without the need of building higher platforms. Also, their ability to have a closer look on the ground than a helicopter has been dubbed "revolutionary."
This kind of adorable shot can never be possible with a DSLR or even the best smart phone camera, but with drones, it is.
Below are 2017's top 20 drone images that have just been announced by the community.
#1. Unique friendships are formed where the sand meets the water.
#2. You will also see the beauty of diligence from another perspective.
#3. The large polar bear Nanuk crossing between two pieces of sea glacier in Inuktitut.
#4. The rare moment you can swim with a whale on the same sea.
#5. The peace you get from living in isolation when the water rises.
#6. The stairway to a new paradise can never be too long.
#7. How can a hidden world be this wonderful?
#8. That perfect moment you crossed Route 66.
#9. A ride through the amazing combination of nature and human's work.
#10. The salt fields of Bac Lieu looking like snow ball pastries lined on pans.
#11. If you just look closely, the family is sailing on a lake rather than a cracked mud surface.
#12. The scenic Tropical Island Beach of Dominican Republic.
#13. Beautiful picture of marigold harvest season.
#14. Escaping insanity to find serenity.
#15. Iceland's Gullfos Waterfalls boasting its double cascade.
#16. Dubai skyscrapers from a different view.
#17. Portuguese surfer braving the cold of February.
#18. Dawn captured from the Mercury Tower.
#19. Hippopotamus in Serengeti National Park.
#20. We would all love to live in this Sveti Stefan Hotel in Montenegro.
6 Everyday Items You Didn't Know Were Made of Dead Animals
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We all know that there are certain products made of animals, such as milk, butter, and burgers. However, there are those that we are completely unaware of – the ones we thought were merely a result of commercialized process whatsoever. To put it simply, we had no idea that they were also made of animals.
Elite Readers has compiled a list of everyday things that people thought were not made of dead animals. Some of these items, in one way or another, may actually come as a surprise. Check out the list below and let us know which one is your favorite.
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Atheists Are More Intelligent Than the Religious, According to Study
New paper supports past studies that suggest the same.
A new research paper supports numerous studies from the past decades that suggest religious people have lower intelligence than those who do not believe in God. A meta-analysis by University of Rochester found "a reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity" in 53 out of 63 studies.
Authors Edward Dutton and Dimitri van der Linden call their theory the Intelligence-Mismatch Association Model, and it aims to explain the negative correlation between religiosity and intelligence. In their paper, published in Evolutionary Psychology Science, the researchers argue that religion is an "evolved domain" or also called an instinct.
According the researchers, religious people, on average, are less intelligent than atheists because faith is considered an instinct...
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A video showed these alligators with their snouts sticking out of the frozen pound. They look dead at first glance, but according to the park's manager, they were actually alive and well.
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AFTER nine exhausting weeks of listening to the same song at number one, anyone would have been forgiven for plotting the downfall of Gnarls Barkley. Not since Wet Wet Wetés 14-week rein of terror at the top had the weekly chart countdown been such an anticlimax.
Desperation took hold and starved indie kids throughout the land fought back by buying Oasisé lamest comeback single since The Hindu Times in their droves. They even breathed a sigh of relief at the return of that infuriating frog.
Did that make them crazy? Probably. But a valuable lesson was learnt; Gnarls Barkley eventually pulled their own plug, deleting their historic single é the first ever to get to number one on downloads alone é before the public grew tired of it, in a move, perhaps, to prevent mass boycotts of their forthcoming album.
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It proved a savvy decision. The LP, St Elsewhere, won massive critical acclaim, went in at number one in the UK and racked up platinum sales in America. Headlining spots at sold out festivals on both sides of the pond followed, as well as a major support slot with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Tonight, the band é comprising Goodie Mob rapper and preacherman Cee-Lo and DJ Danger Mouse é make their return to British soil opening their two-date whistlestop tour of the UK at the Apollo.
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UK-headquartered publishing powerhouse Parragon has tapped former Bendon exec Claire Payne for its senior director of mass market sales position.
Based in San Francisco, California, Payne begins her new role on July 7 and will report to Parragon EVP Risa Beckett.
For the past three years, Payne has been the senior director of sales at Bendon, a position she was promoted to after Bendon bought Dalmatian Press. While at Dalmatian, Payne worked for 10 years as director of sales.
Payne's hire comes on the heels of a few busy months for Parragon. In early June, the company's US division nabbed the Eric Carle license to make a new children's novelty collection. And, with a new Disney license for color, sticker and activity books in North America, Parragon in late April restructured its senior management team.


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2018 changes to Maximum Insurable Earnings, Employment Insurance, and Quebec Parental Insurance Plan
The Canada Employment Insurance Commission and Canada Revenue Agency have announced the 2018 premium changes to the Maximum Insurable Earnings, Employment Insurance, and the Quebec Parental Insurance Plan.
Maximum Insurable Earnings (MIE)
The MIE will increase from $51,300 to $51,700.
Employment Insurance (EI)
The EI premium rate will be $1.66 per $100 of insurable earning. This is a 3 cent increase from the 2017 rate and, 4 cent increase for employers who pay 1.4 times the employee rate.
Employers registered under the Premium Reduction Program have already been notified of the reduction for 2018.
Quebec Parental Insurance Plan (QPIP)
The QPIP premium rate will be $1.30 per $100 of insurable earnings. This is $0.36 decrease per $100 of insurable earnings from the previous year.
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We have updated our systems to accommodate plan sponsors with their Weekly Indemnity/Short Term Disability benefit tied to the EI maximum.


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I have a WD Caviar Green 1TB drive that suddenly one morning was not recognised by BIOS.
I got a boot error, and was promted to insert a proper boot device. I loaded the Win 7 disk, knowing I had previously had a boot sector problem that was solved by doing a boot sector repair from the disk. That didn't work however, and I found that the Win 7 disk did not find any disk for installing win 7 on. Thats when I entered BIOS and couldn't find my drive.
When listenning to the drive when I power on the computer, it starts to spin up, and after a couple of seconds it starts "scipping" ("spin, tick, spin, tick, spin, tick" approx 1s intervals) much like a scarred CD that the cd-drive struggles to read, but a bit more subtle.
I have bought a new Corsair SSD wich was found easily in BIOS, and installed win 7 and booted perfectly.
As you might have antisipated, I have data on the drive that I like to recover. The disk is about 1,5 years old, and still under warrenty (at least by Norwegian rules not sure about WD warrenty?) But a warrenty claim will probably just give me a new drive? They don't repair the old one? (if its broken)
Could it be other issues than physical harddrive failure that keeps my disk from getting on it's feet? My motherboard is an ASUS p7p55d PRO.
I guess an option is to buy a new equal disk, and swap some parts. is this easy, or will I be lucky not to just ruin both of them? Does it involve soldering? This of course will void my warraty for both the drives.
Any suggestions?
Everything you described indicates a failed hard drive. Chances of retrieving the data are slim unless you take it to a data recovery service. There's not much you can do if the drive's not being recognized but you can try ry running the Western Digital diagnostics to see if it will produce an error code that you can use for warranty replacement. You can also try the "freezer trick", that may buy you enough time to retrieved some of your files.
I'm sure swapping parts will void the warranty. You can change the circuit board but from what I've read, they need to be identical. Hard drives have to be assembled & disassembled in a "clean room". If you open the case & expose the platters to the air, they will become contaminated.
Tried the freezer trick, but to no sucsess. Although it seemed a little better regarding the noice and spin up, but there were still minor clicking and no detection in BIOS. Also my windows (Run from SSD) seemed unstable with tendencies to flickering screen.
Will the WD diagnostics tool be able to do anything if the disk is not recognised by bios?
If I could manage to find a similar donor drive, I guess it is the matter of swapping the right part to get it to run again? First PCB, then head or platters?
Could one get a "non identical" drive and swap the disks? perhaps they are similar in all the drives, and just swap the ones witout information wtritten to it with the ones with information on?
I hope that you have an industrial strength clean room if you're thinking in terms of swapping internals! Don't even consider it.
Try booting your machine, then - after 20 seconds or so - CTRL + ALT + DELETE to force an immediate reboot. My WD 1TB Green edition drive *never* gets picked up by a cold boot, because it takes so long to spin up. By the time it's "ready" the BIOS is done with detecting, and moved to to booting. Do a hot re-start, and your drive may have spun up, get detected, and then boot normally.
Ok... So some time have passed, and i have finally managed to get hold of a identical PCB.
Swapped it, and the clicking noise dissapeared, but I got an eroor message at startup: "SATA Port1 Device Error" "Press F1 to continue".
I have tried a lot of possible BIOS configurations with no help. Win starts ok from the SSD, and Win 7 installed a device driver (ATA disk), but its not showing any info on the drive.
WD diagnostics tool (win) says cable error, and the dos tool says no drive detected.
I feel I'm so close. Any ideas on what to do?
Please help!!!


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Stuck in Yellow
My world is angry and blue
and yellow all around.
The yellow ceiling looms above,
doing its best to tie me down,
tie me to a life of yellow.
The walls surround me.
They threaten to give me shelter,
to hold me prisoner forever.
A dozen pictures rest on these walls,
frames caked in thick yellow paint.
Like me, they are stuck in yellow.
A translucent haze covers the glass.
An image of you, I can see it
through the yellow haze.
No matter how hard I try,
The frames can't be broken from the wall.
Your image is forever stuck in yellow.
The glass can't be cleaned.
You will forever see me
stuck in a haze of yellow.
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By Father Roger J. Landry
FALL RIVER, MA, August 16, 2011-- Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles is quickly becoming one of the most persistently prophetic voices in the Church of the United States. He is as cheerful, amiable and accessible as any bishop in the country, but at the same time he is earning a reputation as a truth-telling boat-rocker, unafraid to call to mind inconvenient truths that many outside the Church and some inside would prefer to ignore. On no issue has he been more candid and challenging than that of immigration.
In a remarkable July 28 address entitled "Immigration and the 'Next America': Perspectives from our History" to Catholics in Napa, California, he described his frustration over the immigration debate. "It seems like most people have made up their minds already on this issue" and that "we are just talking round the edges of the real issues." The real issues are more than just border security, green cards, and what to do with immigrants in our country illegally. It concerns what America is, has been and will become. "Both sides of the argument," he recognized, "are inspired by a beautiful, patriotric idea of America's history and values," but lately he's been "starting to wonder: What America are we really talking about?" If there's a great divergence about what America's true history and values are, not even "patriotism" will unite any longer.
"America is changing," he noted forthrightly, "and it has been changing for a long time. The forces of globalization are changing our economy and forcing us to rethink the scope and purpose of our government. Threats from outside enemies are changing our sense of national sovereignty. America is changing on the inside, too. Our culture is changing. We have a legal structure that allows, and even pays for, the killing of babies in the womb. Our courts and legislatures are redefining the natural institutions of marriage and the family. We have an elite culture — in government, the media and academia — that is openly hostile to religious faith. America is becoming a fundamentally different country. It is time for all of us to recognize this — no matter what our position is on the political issue of immigration."
Because of this vast disparity of opinion among Americans on the dignity owed every human person, the value of marriage and family, and whether religious faith is good or evil, there is an enormous division over what to do with immigrants here illegally. Do we view illegal immigrants as dehumanized "criminaliens" or as fellow human beings, even brothers and sisters, whom no caring sibling would ever push to have deported to a situation of deprivation? Do we seek to keep families together in a time of confusion or do we do as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency did in the 2007 Bianco raid in New Bedford, flying parents to holding cells in Texas while their soon-to-be-traumatized-and-practically-orphaned kids remained in school in New Bedford? Do we value the deep Christian faith and piety of the vast majority of immigrants or do we view it with hostility? "We have to bring a Catholic faith perspective to this debate about immigration," Archbishop Gomez declared. "We cannot just think about this issue as Democrats or Republicans or as liberals or conservatives. That means we have to listen to the teachings of our Church on this issue."
He also said that we have to acquire a deeper Catholic perspective on "America's history and purposes" with regard to immigration. When we do, he said, we will recognize not only that "immigration is not a problem for America" but is the "key to our American renewal."
"One of the problems we have today," he said in the most provocative part of his talk, "is that we have lost the sense of America's national 'story.' If our people know our history at all, what they know is incomplete. And when we don't know the whole story, we end up with the wrong assumptions about American identity and culture.
The American story that most of us know is set in New England. It's the story of the pilgrims and the Mayflower, the first Thanksgiving, and John Winthrop's sermon about a 'city upon a hill.' It's the story of great men like Washington, Jefferson and Madison. It's the story of great documents like the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. It's a beautiful story. It's also true. Every American should know these characters and the ideals and principles they fought for. From this story we learn that our American identity and culture are rooted in essentially Christian beliefs about the dignity of the human person."
"But," he continued, "the story of the founding fathers and the truths they held to be self-evident is not the whole story about America. The rest of the story starts more than a century before the pilgrims. It starts in the 1520s in Florida and in the 1540s here in California. It is the story not of colonial settlement and political and economic opportunity. It's the story of exploration and evangelization. This story is not Anglo-Protestant but Hispanic-Catholic. It is centered not in New England but in Nueva España — New Spain — at opposite corners of the continent.
From this story we learn that before this land had a name its inhabitants were being baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. The people of this land were called Christians before they were called Americans. And they were called this name in the Spanish, French and English tongues. From this history, we learn that long before the Boston Tea Party, Catholic missionaries were celebrating the holy Mass on the soil of this continent. Catholics founded America's oldest settlement, in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565. Immigrant missionaries were naming this continent's rivers and mountains and territories for saints, sacraments and articles of the faith.… This is the missing piece of American history. And today more than ever, we need to know this heritage of holiness and service — especially as American Catholics."
Archbishop Gomez was not trying to argue that Blessed Junipero Serra, Venerable Antonio Margil, Father Jacques Marquette and Mother Joseph should supplant Washington, Madison, Jefferson and Franklin in American history books, but rather he wanted to acknowledge — and get all Americans to acknowledge — that what the former did and established is crucial to understand not only how the nation we are today was formed but one of the factors that led it to become great. The genesis of the United States today was not constructed exclusively on the foundations of the thirteen colonies.
America was founded not on ethnicity or common territory but on a creed, a deeply Christian belief that all men and women are created equal, with God-given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the Los Angeles prelate stressed. Our country has always been a "nation of nationalities," made one out of many (e pluribus unum). When this American creed is taken for granted — as happened with the native Americans at the birth of the nation, with the Know-Nothings in the mid-1800s, and with the Japanese-American internments during World War II — and we begin to believe that the "'real Americans' are exclusively of some particular race, class, religion or ethnic background," we damage our country. "That's why it is essential that today we remember the missionary history of America — and rededicate ourselves to the vision of America's founding 'creed.'"
American Catholics, he said, have a "special duty today to be guardians of the truth about the American spirit and our national identity" as well as to be "witnesses to a new king of American patriotism," one that challenges those who "would diminish or 'downsize' America's true identity." That American patriotic identity is expressed perhaps most forcefully and beautifully by Emma Lazarus' unforgettable words chiseled at the base of the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
The torch that Lady Liberty lifts high must continue to burn brightly for our country to be true to itself and to be renewed. Archbishop Gomez is prophetically calling on all Catholic Americans to join him in carrying that torch aloft.
Printed with permission from catholicpreaching.com.
Father Landry is pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Parish in New Bedford, MA and Executive Editor of The Anchor, the weekly newspaper of the Diocese of Fall River. His articles and homilies are found at catholicpreaching.com.


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Youth wrestlers claim state titles
Championships were in abundance this winter for the skilled youth wrestlers from the New Milford Wrestling Associaiton.
Highlighting the season for the young grapplers were state champships earned by C.J. Schultz, Joe Accousti, Matt Hernandez, Evan Lindner, Khalil Bourjeili and Brendan Mulvihill.
Danny Reyes, Ryan Christopher and Jake Coniglio claimed state runner-up performances.
"This has been a very successful year for NMYWA," said coach Ken Lindner. "The kids worked hard all year and it showed on the mat. The coaches are very proud."
The sixth to eighth-grade middle school team captured the Western Connecticut League title as Gabe Reyes, Alex Richardson, Ryan Christopher, Joe Accousti, Tyler Bohenko and Danny Reyes won individual titles.
Seamus Reilly, Jacob Colley, Zach Bohenko and Cole McGrath were second in their respective weight classes.
The New Milford youths also won the Meriden team dual title and the McGee tournament championship, outwrestling 24 other teams for the latter title. The kindergarten to fifth-grade elementary school team also reigns as Western Connecticut League champions, bolstered by the individual titles of Justin Shay, Brogan Reilly, Evan Lindner, Peter Coniglio and Evan Shook.
Runners-up were Sam Granata, Brendan Mulvihill, Khalil Bourjeili, Kyle Lee, Matt Hernandez, Thomas Verdiglione and Ted Eichen.
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Thursday, March 6, from 6pm to 8pm at the Eve J. Alfillé Gallery & Studio, 623 Grove St., Evanston
The Pearl Society salutes the Chinese Year of the Horse at its upcoming March 6th meeting, Thursday evening from 6 to 8 pm. The Chinese Dragon is depicted in pursuit of both pearls and jade, stepping stones to eternal life and wealth. At this March meeting our guest speaker, Scottie Perry, will discuss the many aspects of Jade. According to artist & Pearl Society founder, Eve Alfillé, Ms. Perry's many years living in Asia have made her highly cognizant of jade's major role in these cultures. Scottie served as docent in Asian museums, and has traveled extensively and amassed knowledge that is not otherwise familiar to westerners. This lively session is interactive, fun & not to be missed!
Please join us for this unusual presentation and become familiar with Jade's multiple aspects. Be sure to bring your Jade jewelry for perusal & discussion.
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I'm one of the lucky ones. I'm one of the lucky ones. Maybe. I do feel invisible. Mostly I feel lucky because I'm about to graduate. Here, have some official statistics of disability in higher education in the United States:
I'm one of the lucky ones. I'm one of the lucky ones. Maybe. I do feel invisible. Mostly I feel lucky because I'm about to graduate. Here, have some official statistics of disability in higher education in the United States:
- Students with disabilities represented nearly 11 percent of all postsecondary students in 2008, according to a federal survey.1
- The graduation rate in 2013 was "approximately 26%, half of the rate of students without disabilities."2
- The National Council on Disability reported in 2003 that " Resources in higher educational institutions are often inadequate, leaving disability service units in the position of having to make decisions based upon budgetary considerations rather than upon proven effectiveness (NCSPES, 2000)."3
- The National Center for Education Statistics reported in 2009 that "a few of the barriers cited by institutions as hindering implementation of Universal Design to a moderate or major extent were limited staff resources to provide faculty and staff training on accessibility issues (52%)."4
- Since many schools are understaffed, the importance placed on "school disability services offices collaborating with other campus offices, such as academic departments, counseling centers, financial aid, housing, student activities, special events, and career services, to provide the full range of services that students may need" becomes strained.5
- Many schools also do not have the proper resources in place to support students with varying psychological health needs.6
- In a report by the Association for the Study of Higher Education in 2013 on students with disabilities, it found that "students with disabilities may feel invisible on college campuses."7
- A solution to this, according to ASHE, is social change: "institutions must also move to create social change in their campus communities. The perception of students with disabilities must change in those individuals who do not identify with a disability."8 It also indicated that "self-advocacy was a large component of their success, but it did not come easy."9
But I'm one of the lucky ones, I'm graduating. I'm graduating. But I still feel invisible.
Because it is a double-edged sword. Being told to self advocate and then when you do, being told that you are hostile. I still feel invisible because I am not considered a minority. Disability is not considered a culture, though we got the disability group on campus into the cultural organization coalition. I do not see myself on campus. I see other people being far more successful academically. I see other people and few people disclose any disabilities on my campus.
I do. I do. I disclose at every opportunity. I tell them, "I'm Autistic," and I gave speeches in my speech class in 2014 on autistic self advocacy, but I don't think they believed me and my social model of disability. I don't think they believed that I could have meltdowns and shutdowns and not be able to talk sometimes. I don't think they believed that the nonspeaking Autistic community could have a quality of life and want their lives because someone else was presenting on autism on the basis of her cousin being "low-functioning," a term that is degrading and dehumanizing and ignorant of the facts of autism.
Places of higher learning must create social change. A community where people can disclose.
Places of higher learning need to care and devote budgetary concerns to programming and to having more than one staff person in their offices and concern themselves with more than straightforward academic concerns. Disability needs to be included at every turn everywhere that proclaims diversity and forced to be included in anywhere that does not even try to claim diversity.
Because I say to any place that tries to claim me as a diverse statistic: you cannot and may not, unless you are trying to include me and my disabled peers. I will tell the world you are not diverse in this regard.
1 Government Accountability Office, "Higher Education and Disability," 2009. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d1033.pdf
2 ASHE Higher Education Report, "Disability of College Campuses: An Overview," 2013.
3 National Council on Disability, "People with Disabilities and Postsecondary Education -- Position Paper," Sept. 2003: http://www.ncd.gov/publications/2003/Sept152003
4 National Center for Education Statistics, 2009. http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2011/2011018.pdf pg. 4
5 Government Accountability Office, "Report on Higher Education and Disability," 2009. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d1033.pdf
6 Ibid.
7 ASHE Higher Education Report, "Disability on College Campus: An Overview," 2013.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.


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Do you have a Grant Progress Report due? Progress Reports are a great opportunity to showcase your projects, share your plans and identify areas the CBF can help with. Keep calm and follow these tips from our Grants Support Team!
Refer back to your Grant Agreement (and original application) to see what outcomes you planned to achieve.
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Explain issues you may have delivering and request major variations to your project including changes to budgets or timeframes. Projects don't always go as planned – we understand. Our Grants Support Team will follow up to confirm if your changes have been accepted or if we need additional information.
The budget! Explain in detail how you have used your grant funds so far. If there is more money to be spent in the latter half of your project, let us know.
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Ways to Save on Your Wedding
First comes love then comes marriage and paying for the big day. Walking down the aisle to say your I do's is exciting but just as much expensive. The average wedding costs nearly $28,000 that's why we're exploring ways to save on your wedding day.
The summer season means weddings are in full swing and so is the spending. From invitations to venue, flowers, food and entertainment it can all add up fast. So where can and how can you save on the big day?
We went to Paparazzi in Evansville — you likely know the shop for its formal prom wear. Owner Kassy Lauer is getting ready to open a bridal shop, she showed us several options for brides trying to stick to a budget, "The majority of the people who come into this store buy that day and they take it home."
Lauer's love for dresses developed into her business, "I want to have the place that bridges that you're shopping local but we're saving you money so I want people to know that shopping local with me does not mean you're going to break your budget to do that," said Lauer.
She knows the in's and outs of the dress biz and how to save. Lauer showed us several white prom dresses that can easily double for your big day, "Prom manufacturers just typically are at a lower price point. They're not going to have the custom alterations available where you can call and say, "'I want to change this sleeve or shorten it to a certain length,"' but they have these gorgeous prom dresses that are white and are typically like a third."
Brides today spend on average 15-hundred dollars on a dress. Paparazzi consultant Sarah Smith knows finding that perfect dress also means meeting a price point, "Our budget friendly options are pretty much endless this one is a super popular style that we've sold a couple times now and can get in multiple colors. The price — less than half the average cost of a wedding dress coming in at just $699.
Another way to save on your big day is looking at options for your ceremony and reception. Barn style, rustic weddings are quite popular and cutting out an expensive venue like a country club can considerably cut down on costs.
Also, look at the calendar, some dates are high demand so skipping a Saturday wedding for a Friday or Sunday can add up to big savings.
Another way to save, community weddings, it might sound non-traditional but they're typically free. In 2017, seven couples exchanged their vows at Crossroads Christian Church.
Also be on the lookout for a new wedding coupon book coming out this summer. The booklet will be full of coupons from a variety of wedding vendors.


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This week the kids did a simple craft and made a nativity silhouette to hang on our windows.
The materials needed for this craft are: vellum, watercolors, a paintbrush, a glue-stick, scissors, and a nativity silhouette cut out of black construction paper. I found our silhouette through Google images and then Jer tweaked it a little bit and used a laser cutter to cut all the details - there is no way I would of been able to cut this out by hand. 😬 A simpler nativity would work just as well.
The first step to this craft is to paint the vellum. I cut the vellum a little bit larger than the nativity silhouette to make gluing easier. Vellum won't work for detailed paintings, but is great for skies, etc. Little Lady was the inspiration for this craft; she's currently very into painting sunrises and sunsets.
Once the vellum has dried, use a glue stick to attach your nativity. Then you can trim around the edges to make the final product look a bit nicer.
Now it's ready to be displayed!
BabyZ 'painted' with us but his vellum didn't really turn out, so later I had him do a simpler version of this craft with tissue paper.
For this version you will need a construction paper silhouette, contact paper the size of your silhouette, and small pieces of tissue paper. This is a lot less messier of a craft. Jer originally cut these silhouettes for a Christmas party; this was the craft we set out for all the kiddos.
An adult may have to help adhere the silhouette to the contact paper; this can be a bit tricky. Then the kids can start sticking on the tissue paper.
I'm loving the way these are brightening up our home. Do you have any favorite Christmas crafts?


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Ok so I haven't even read the first one but it is on my TBR!! Anyways, the second book's, Spellcaster, cover has been revealed and I wanted to share it with ya'll!! :D
Pretty cool hah??? *wiggles eyebrows* Can't wait to get started on this series? Have any of you read it yet? If so what are your oppinions? :)


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Love and healing within cops and citizens
Choice and thoughts that change the world
When I heard my friend say a group of black cops died, small tears formed in my heart. I felt a small yet powerful devastation, yet the coldness and numbness shocks me. How could I be so objective, and carefree, so unaware, and shamefully uninterested in the lives of these people. Each person has a family, they have a story, years and years of memories that are not mine, but some mothers, or fathers, or a sister, or brother, or a friend.
Looking back now, it makes me angry and disturbed, and I can feel the pain, struggling to let itself be felt. But something blocks it, and I can't seem to find it, except through the death of others, or the complete destruction of ones humanity and life.
When fear is no longer needed.
I can't seem to smile though, at the hopefulness of what life has to offer, and why it is precisely so devastating. Because life is so beautiful, and we all deserve to live a happy and rich life. A full joyful and complete life. That these lives are taken away and that families need bear the shame and guilt of not loving their children enough, even if they did everything they could, even if they loved best.
I want to understand these friends and family. They are my own, and they are a part of me, and this is the only way to live. As the tears start to fade away, and smiles start to fill my heart, I want to share this love with the whole world, and I know the world can feel it. I just know, and its a faith that is unbreakable. No death, no killing, no murder, no shame, no guilt, no powerlessness can EVER take away this faith, EVER. And thats why the tears stay in my heart, and thats why the sun will always shine. Thats why I will keep trying, and thats why I will stay strong. For you, and for me.
So I am going to change today, I am going to change my ideas of imperfection, of ugliness, of fat, of hate, I am going to change my thoughts about anger and my shame.
I am going to go to sleep in a perfect state of bliss, knowing that the world and I are perfect.
That is why we smile, despite the horror, confusion, and our ideas.
We must love and continue on.
That is why they did it.
We must believe this.
It is our choice.


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I wonder whether you can guess what the expressions (above and below) refer to:
- the experienced one
- the one who leads the way
- Mrs Smart
- the peacemaker
- a teacher with nice style
- very good teacher
- the best English teacher ever
- the sun
- the nice one
- the most enthusiastic person in this classroom
- the one who always shows another perspective
- helping hand
- the shiny idealist
- the practical philosopher
Yes, this is feedback I got from my students the other day.
I had learned about The One Who activity a while ago and I thought it would be nice to try it out before Christmas with one of the teenage groups I teach. And this is the result, which literally made me cry.
It's super easy. Plus no preparation is needed. You can use it, like me, as a way of boosting a positive atmosphere in the classroom, or for language practice purposes, e.g. when practising relative clauses, superlatives, adjectives for personal features, etc. You just give each student as many blank cards as there are people in the class minus one, i.e. they are not going to write a note to themselves. However, they can and should write a note to their teacher too. The teacher will also write a note to every student. I did it with a group of fourteen 16-year old students (2 people were missing but we made cards for them too), but if you teach a group of 30+ students, it will probably not be manageable right on the spot. In such a case, they may work on it at home. I bet they will enjoy this unusual homework assignment. 🙂
Anyway, once you decide to introduce this activity, you should be 100% sure that it's a 'healthy classroom' with a friendly atmosphere and that there is a positive student-teacher relationship. It's not recommended for very young children, though, who might not be able to distinguish between what is positive and not so positive. Also, they might not be able to work with concepts of personal features yet. A friend of mine, an elementary teacher, has done the activity with very young kids but she monitored all the time and even read the cards secretly to prevent somebody from feeling offended. When she came across an inappropriate comment, she just discarded it and replaced with a note of hers. I believe that this way of 'cheating' is acceptable and necessary if you want to build a friendly atmosphere and avoid conflicts. Plus she learned a lot about the relationships without anybody feeling hurt. This would not be possible with teenagers though. Rather than having to cheat like this, ditch the activity completely.
So, there's one rule you need to stress in advance – the comments should only be positive. In other words, each and every student should try to find something nice no matter what. It's not acceptable to leave the card empty either – this may be as offensive as a negative comment.
The students will read the cards at home, in privacy, so they can fully enjoy the impact of all the positivity. Also, reading the cards in the class may result in some embarrassment (not everybody wants the others to see them cry). You can come back to it in the next lesson and discuss how they felt during the activity and when reading the comments. Avoid comparing and picking your favourite comments (even though you certainly will have some, like me). As far as error correction is concerned, be careful. Generalize if you need to work on some language points. Don't point to specific mistakes and specific people. It may spoil the whole thing.
Good luck! 🙂


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www.aapnews.orgVolume 31 • Number 8 • August 2010
by Trisha Korioth • Staff Writer
Seizing the "golden minute" after
birth can mean the difference between
life and death for infants. A new program called Helping Babies Breathe is
setting out to improve birth rates in
developing countries, focusing on what
happens during those first 60 seconds
of life when a newborn is not breathing.
Every year, 940,000 die of intra-partum-related neonatal deaths, 99%
in developing countries without medical assistance, according to the World
Health Organization (WHO). Helping Babies Breathe is working to
change that statistic and achieve a
WHO goal to reduce child mortality
worldwide by two-thirds by 2015.
The program, which launched during the International Conference on
Global Health June13 in Washington,
Jeffrey M. Perlman, M.B., Ch.B., FAAP (left), Helping Babies Breathe
Global Implementation Task Force member, and A. Udaya Thomas of
Jhpiego – Innovating to Save Lives, Baltimore, observe as Arthur
Munfungwa Ngoy, of St. Joseph Hospital, Dominican Republic of the
Congo, applies a mask and delivers room air to the newborn simulator
during the Master Trainer program in Washington, D.C.
See Breathe, page 4
Head-to-head combat
Report on head lice clarifies latest diagnosis, treatment
protocols; calls for more physician involvement
by Sheryl Cash • Correspondent
While the diagnosis and treatment of lice traditionally have
rested with parents and school
nurses, an updated AAP clinical
report urges pediatricians to take
a greater role in ensuring appropriate use of effective
Head lice infestations, common among children
ages 2-12, are neither a health hazard nor a sign of
poor hygiene, according to the report Head Lice (
Pediatrics. 2010;126:392-403). Yet an infestation, or even
an exposure to head lice, can cause anxiety among
parents and caretakers. As a result, children sometimes
are treated unnecessarily for lice either because they
are incorrectly diagnosed with an infestation (dandruff
can be mistaken for lice, and nits alone are not a definitive indication of an infestation), or because a friend
or classmate has an infestation.
"Bugs develop resistance to insecticides, but it happens more quickly the more often they're used," said
See Lice, page 8
Chapter Views and News
State elections offer
opportunity to shape
child health policy
from the AAP Division of State
Government Affairs
With the 2010 state legislative sessions winding
down in most state capitals, lawmakers across
the country are preparing for an important election year. The implications of these elections on
the political and policy directions that states will
take in coming years will have profound effects
on child health and pediatric practice.
This year, voters in 37 states will re-elect their
governors or select new ones (see map on page
11). Fourteen governors are running for re-election, while 23 will conclude their tenures in office.
At press time, Gov. Jim Gibbons of Nevada
had lost his primary bid for re-election, and voters
there will select his replacement in the Nov. 2
general election. At present, there are 26 Democratic governors, 23 Republican governors and
one independent (Florida Gov. Charlie Crist,
who is running for the U.S. Senate, changed his
party affiliation as part of that campaign).
State legislators
In addition to the governors' offices, legislative
seats will be up for grabs this year in every state
except Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey and
See Elections, page 10
In this issue
AAP president-elect candidates
See the final position statements from AAP candidates
for president-elect. Page 7
Vote today!
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It's safe to say our general knowledge of pirates and life on the high seas comes from pirate lore. With works like Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and movies like Hook and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, pirate fans have a vast amount of mythology to work with. The reality, however, is much more gruesome.
In Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates, Author David Cordingly addresses the more popular aspects of pirate lore with their origins and what actually happened. From the 1500s-1700s, piracy was at its peak all over the world, not just in the Caribbean. Cordingly's well-researched book pulls from court documents, journal entries, letters, and other factual resources to get the history right. With it, he shares the legends of famous pirates and privateers and how their stories may have influenced the pirate lore we know today.
The book starts off with what pirate fans know best, the stories. Cordingly first breaks down Treasure Island and where the origins of buried treasure, peg legs, and specifically Long John Silver came from.
For example, Silver's character was inspired by a friend of Stevenson who had a peg leg. The author wanted to create a villain who lacked all the positive qualities his friend had and develop that further. While the character was a literary creation, Silver's occupation as the cook is historically accurate as amputee sailors were often assigned as cooks on their ships.
With each aspect of pirate lore from walking the plank to the Pirates' Code to the conduct of pirate captains, Cordingly separates fact from fiction. Pirates didn't make their enemies walk the plank as it was a waste of time, a Pirates' Code of sorts did exist but varied from ship to ship, and captains were much more cruel, sadistic, and ill-tempered than the fictitious captains we know.
Pirate Lore
In taking a deeper look at pirate lore and where it came from, we get a better sense of why pirates were romanticized. In addition to the works mentioned above, additional pirate stories like The Successful Pirate and The Pirates of Penzance paint pictures of pirates being symbols of freedom. They are usually depicted as greedy, mean, and ruthless, but also jovial and care-free.
The captains especially are made to look like educated, charismatic leaders. Take a look at Peter Pan's Captain Hook. Yes, he wants to kill Peter Pan, but also believes in good form and can be charming in a way. Even Long John Silver develops a soft spot for hero Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island. Pirates, we are lead to believe, aren't all that bad.
Additional details were also created to build up the mythology. Pirates' search for riches, the kinds of ships they used, where they made port, and what they did with their captives are just a few examples. The stories would have us believe pirates were only after gold, silver, and jewels. Likewise, we often saw pirates in film sailing large ships with three masts.
However, this may be due to the need for more room to film and create action scenes than anything else. Ports like Tortuga and Port Royale are well known as pirate havens and as is the practice of marooning enemies on uninhabited islands.
These views on pirate life come in part from the creator's fabrication, in part from research, and in part from the lives of actual pirates.
The Legends
One of the most entertaining parts of Under the Black Flag is exploring the famous pirate legends. Cordingly goes into detail about Edward Tech, Blackbeard, and how ruthless he actually was. Torture methods are described in detail along with his strategies for taking on new ships and avoiding capture.
Likewise, Captain Kidd's adventures show the other side of the spectrum. Kidd never had the intention of becoming a pirate. While on a voyage, his crew grew restless and pressured Kidd into attacking an English ship, an ally. Once word got out, he was branded as a pirate. Even efforts in turning himself in and explaining the situation didn't save him.
The author also goes to great lengths to differentiate pirates from privateers. Pirates would attack anyone they wished. Privateers were granted commissions from their monarch to attack specific enemies on behalf of the nation. Francis Drake and John Hawkins, for example, attacked Panama and Spanish forces in the 1570s on behalf of Queen Elizabeth.
While they were still violent and stole large amounts of treasure, they were still technically privateers even though their actions were similar to those of pirates. The same goes for Sir Henry Morgan who also attacked Spanish enemies in the 1600s and was eventually knighted for his deeds.
Lesser known legends also include Jack Rackham (Calico Jack) along with female pirates Anne Bonny, Mary Reed, Grace O'Malley, and Mrs. Cheng. Cordingly goes on to explain that there isn't as much documentation for certain pirates. Unfortunately, their lives and exploits are lost to history.
Pirate History
When comparing pirate lore to the reality that was, there is no escaping one simple fact. Pirates were not romantic. Not at all. In addition to trial documents, reports, and depositions from victims, the author often references a book written in 1724 by Captain Charles Johnson, A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates.
We learn that pirates were in search of supplies, food, drink, and skilled workmen in addition to treasures. When they did find gold, they often spent it on women, gambling, and drink rather quickly. There was no need to bury treasure when there was no caution to save it. In fact, many successful pirates became broke due to these spending habits.
The Pirates' Code often referred to in film, especially the Pirates of the Caribbean films, did exist to some extent. However, the code was more focused on paying out the spoils of a battle or punishments for breaking rules. Surprisingly, pirate crews ran by a very democratic system.
Pirate captains were elected, and if not serving their crew's interests, could be replaced. Mutinies didn't always mean the captain was killed or marooned. Each pirate had a vote on where and who to attack. The captain may have been in charge, but the decision of where to go was up to the crew. Additionally, the ships they used were often smaller sloops as they were faster to avoid capture.
Pirate Lore and Pirate History
No work of fiction has yet to accurately portray the true history of pirates. This is mostly due to the violent nature of pirates. As shown in the chapter "Torture, Violence, and Marooning," some things you just can't show general audiences.
The more well-known stories became legends and the legends turned into common pirate lore. This fascinating history is presented in a way that will appeal to both pirate fans and history buffs alike. If you've always wanted to learn more about where all the pirate lore came from, but also want an entertaining read, Under the Black Flag does the trick.


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Infra-red scanning tool is the latest high technology tool for surveying the condition of M&E services and buildings. the condition may appear normal to the naked eye, but infra-red imaging reveals subtle details not normally visible to humans and presents a false colour image for easy review.
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RED – Guide des vins naturels dans le monde – A guide to the World's Natural Wines
By: Michel Tuz
Jean-Paul Rocher éditeur
This small book is about natural wines. And what are natural wines? According to the author of the book it is organic and biodynamic wines and wines made in "a natural way". To explain the latter he mentions the rules that apply to members of the Association des Vins Naturels (AVN), an association in France for organic growers, certified or not, that follow certain rules for the vinification: no added yeast and no other additives than low levels of sulphur.
After a very brief introduction where Michel Tuz explains the meaning of Demeter, Ecocert, AB and other organic/biodynamic labels he moves on to the main part of the book which is a list of growers working in this manner. The growers are mostly in France, but also in Spain, Italy, Suisse and America. He also mentions quite a few restaurants who are supposed to serve organic wines. It would, however, have been helpful to have a short description of each restaurant (only a few have it – and I know it's a lot of work to do it!).
All in all it's a handy little book for the wine lover who is into organic wines. The book is bilingual, French/English.
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November 15, 2017
Colossians 3:20-21
20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
21 Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.
All Scripture memory systems for children naturally begin with Colossians 3:20. ;0) It is no surprise that Paul would exhort children to, "obey your parents in everything." Of course children must obey their parents.
The stunner is Paul's word to Fathers. Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged. In the first century, no-one tended to care too much about children becoming discouraged by their Fathers.
Why did Paul care about children? Because Jesus cared about children. Jesus cares about children because God cares about children.
13 Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them.
14 Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." 15 When he had placed his hands on them, he went on from there. Matthew 19:13-15.
A child forms their primary image of who God is through the way they are parented. If a parent is harsh they will naturally, albeit unknowingly, assume God is harsh. If a parent is filled with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience a child will unknowingly assume this is what God is like. This makes parenting all at once the most practical and the most theological task in the world.
Here's the bottom line for those of us who are presently parenting children. We can fool a lot of people a lot of the time, but we can't fool our children. Whatever is in me will come out in my parenting. The surest way for my children to have a true sense of who the real God is and what the real God is like is for me to be a real Christian. Hence my chief responsibility as a Christian parent is to be a real Christian. And the only way I can be a real Christian is to be filled with all the fullness of God.
Abba Father, we thank you for your son, Jesus, in whom all your fullness is pleased to dwell. Thank you that we have been given fullness in him. Come Holy Spirit and awaken me to the reality of being filled with all the fullness of God, especially for the sake of all of our children. We pray in Jesus name. Amen.
- Have you ever thought of parenting as a theological task? How did the way you were parented impact your image of God?
- Have you given consideration to what it means to parent "in Christ?"
- Remember, the secret is not in your parenting skills. The secret is "Christ in you." This means grace based parenting– grace for our children and also grace for ourselves when we stumble. How about that?
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The System of Financial Administration of Great Britain
The System of Financial Administration of Great Britain
Few subjects relating to our government have attracted more attention in this country within the last few years than financial administration; few need to be more carefully overhauled; and there is no system better worth our study for this purpose than that of England. To attempt to engraft any foreign institution in a new land by direct imitation is usually disappointing, and sometimes mischievous; but to study it with a view to getting suggestions for improvement of one's own methods is wholly wise. We have every reason to be grateful, therefore, to the authors of this small book for their description of the British Financial Administration in terms so clear as to be easily understood by anyone without technical knowledge, and with a singularly well chosen proportion between the different parts of the subject.
After discussing the general principles that must underlie sound public finance everywhere, the writers follow the course of financial action in England from the preparation of the estimates in the different departments, through their consolidation into the measure presented to Parliament, the procedure of the House of Commons thereon, the subsequent orders drawn on the Bank of England, the expenditure of the money, and the accounting therefor, showing the significance of each step in the process and its bearing upon what goes before and what follows.
The casual reader may be surprised at the small amount of space devoted to the discussion of the appropriations in Parliament, but this is right, because, in fact, those debates relate to the political and not the financial aspects of the matter. One can say of the relation of the House of Commons to the financial administration what Bagehot said about the relation of good ministers to departments, that it is not their business to manage the finances, but to see that they are properly managed. The unity of the financial management, that which makes it rational, depends upon the fact that the authority and responsibility for appropriation and expenditure is lodged in one hand, that of the ministry in power. For we must remember that, although the imposition of taxes and the raising of revenue thereby is a legislative matter, the expenditure of the money . . .


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Prime Minister's Private Industry and Investment Adviser Salman Fazlur Rahman yesterday underscored the need for finding the means of improving on the ease of doing business ranking.
The adviser laid the emphasis while talking on various issues focusing on business policy reforms to attract more domestic and foreign investment with Business Initiative Leading Development (BUILD) Trustee Board Members at the adviser's Gulshan office in the city, said a press release.
BUILD Chairman Mahbubul Alam urged the adviser to support and strengthen the Private Sector Development Policy Coordination Committee at the Prime Minister's
Office and to use it as an effective tool for resolving private sector development policy issues.
BUILD Trustees and DCCI President Osama Taseer, CEO of BUILD Ferdaus Ara Begum and BUILD Founder Chairman Asif Ibrahim, among others, attended the meeting.


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Osteopathy: The Traditional Medicine Solution
If you are suffering from backache, there could be many reasons for this. You could simply be overdoing things, or you might have a job where you are seated most of the time, and this can put excess strain on your spine. Osteopathy is physical manipulation of the muscular and skeletal areas of the spine, and with the best osteopaths in Rochester only a phone call away, you can have relief from the pain.
Range of Medical Conditions
The osteopath can treat the following conditions:
- Neck Ache
- Back Ache
- Arthritis
- Tennis Elbow
Some people have a sleep disorder that is connected to a muscle issue, and while the osteopath might not be able to treat every condition, but they do have an impressive record of treatment.
Holistic Approach to Medical Care
The osteopath takes a holistic view and has the ability to manipulate nerves, muscles and tendons that could be causing pressure, and his attention might not be focused on the problem area, as the cause could be coming from somewhere else.
Sporting Injuries
Many athletes that experience injury will visit their local osteopath, who can boost the body's recovery time, and should you have suffered a sporting injury, why not make an appointment with your local osteopath.
Patient Centred
The osteopath takes every patient on their own merits, and with a goal of improving physical well-being, the expert would first give you a thorough examination before suggesting any treatment. We all suffer from backache now and then, and rather than simply putting up with it, an osteopath might be able to pinpoint the cause, and by teaching you special exercises that you can do on a daily basis at home, the issue will likely be resolved without any medication.


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BWW Review: MARY STUART, Duke of York's Theatre
"Heads." One word, and one coin toss, decides which roles Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams will play on the night: Mary Queen of Scots, or her rival Elizabeth I. Last night Williams took the latter - the company immediately bowing to her. It was a comic moment that underlined a key theme: fortune is fickle, and power is a mirage.
Robert Icke's modern-dress version of Friedrich Schiller's play had an acclaimed run at the Almeida in 2016. Now in the West End, the political context has shifted around it, but this complex, intricate study of leadership - specifically female leadership - in a fractiously divided nation remains exceedingly resonant.
The coin toss is far from theatrical gimmick, instead making it very clear how easily history might have shifted in the other direction, and how slippery the language of legitimacy and illegitimacy is: who defines monarch and pretender, refugee and traitor, royal and bastard, sister and enemy, true believer and blasphemer.
The Catholic Mary relies on that bond to save her: "You think a queen would kill a queen?" Yet her very similarity to Protestant Elizabeth, her insistence on equality of status and right to rule, is what makes her such a lethal threat.
Williams and Stevenson begin dressed identically, in androgynous black velvet suits; when the coin lands, the latter is stripped of her jacket, but the link remains. As Mary notes, "outward trappings" do not make a queen; her imprisonment and loss of possessions aren't enough to deny her claim, nurtured through a very different upbringing to Elizabeth's.
Icke's adaptation emphasises the performative qualities of monarchy and of femininity. Stevenson's Mary - seemingly a dedicated, thoughtful public servant driven to despair by being deprived of her mission - subtly switches (male-constructed) guises in order to influence those around her: damsel, lover, ruler, mother, martyr. The men of court fear women's weapons: beauty, "crocodile tears". They should fear their shrewd calculation as well.
It's most striking while in the court of Williams' sardonic, self-aware Elizabeth. Though she has a masculine swagger to her movement - the contemptuous flick of a cigarette, the pally physicality with her lads - she understands her role when keeping the French ambassador on the hook during cagey marriage talk, and releases a simmering sensuality in her interactions with Leicester.
Leicester is another mask-wearer: playing different roles with each queen. So, too, is the undercover agent Mortimer, and there's strong work from both John Light and Rudi Dharmalingam in making their convictions (whether real or constructed) appropriately persuasive, as well as a great black-comic beat when one sells out the other.
There's sterling support, too, from Elliot Levey as the wry, omniscient Burleigh, who creates the political smokescreen for "justice" to be served, Michael Byrne as the passionate Talbot, and David Jonsson Fray as the hapless Davison, tasked with interpreting a monarch's ambivalence.
Though perhaps overemphasised, it's fascinating to see how not just one but both queens are imprisoned: one literally held against her will in Fotheringhay Castle, but the other trapped by social and courtly constraints, by dangerously changeable public opinion, and by a cage of solitude.
In a stunning climactic sequence - gorgeously accompanied by an original Laura Marling song - Elizabeth is stuffed into her royal dress: the bodice that constrains like a straitjacket, the voluminous skirts and sleeves that bury movement, the white mask hiding her real face. She is a woman trapped inside a doll, a person sacrificed to the crown. Which queen does the screech of the axe really liberate, and which does it doom?
Hildegard Bechtler's stone-walled set is brilliantly evocative: a castle and a dungeon, and the boxing ring in which the two challengers finally meet. The central revolve emphasises the turn of history, so easily changed by one person or one moment.
If occasionally overwrought, Icke has wrested a vital modern thriller out of Schiller's 1800 play: one teeming with spies and assassins, breathless twists, moral and political quandaries, and all-too-contemporary issues.
Mary Stuart at Duke of York's Theatre until 31 March
Read our interview with Rudi Dharmalingam
Photo credit: Manuel Harlan


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Recently I have been feeling the urge to away from NH,
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Paula, it's funny you asked about the ocean...I grew up in Pennsylvania so we visited the Jersey shore every summer. Now that I am in Upstate NY, I haven't been to the ocean in years. My kids (ages 5 and 7) have never seen the ocean in person. We do go to Lake Ontario often and that is what they know as the "beach" but they have never been to the oceanside. I think I need to make that happen for them soon.
Hi Shelbee! I've never been to the Jersey Shore! I think you should plan a family trip to where you used to go as a child. I think it's so nice to share things you experienced as a child with your own children. Thanks for sharing..hope you have a great weekend :)Delete
Sounds lovely Paula. We have the snow here at the minute. I can not wait for warmer weather. Thanks for hosting :)ReplyDelete
I can't imagine leaving the coast now, but I was actually in fifth grade before I ever saw the ocean. We've been here for over twenty years, and our kids also love the area and want to stick around. If they stick, I'm stickin' too!ReplyDelete
Hi Michele! If all my kids were to stay in this area I wouldn't think of leaving, but my daughter is already off to Colorado, and my son talks about going "up north". I have two more to go so I guess it would all depend on where they end up and who needs me most lol. Thanks for sharing with the party! Have a lovely weekend :)Delete
I live on a town that is on the ocean and I wouldn't want to move away. I have lived here all my life and it would be so odd to not be able to see the ocean everyday! Thanks for hosting.ReplyDelete
I love the ocean, and live near enough that I can day-trip, which is enough for me. I think the way you feel about the ocean is the way I feel about the mountains. I live right at the base of Mt. Rainier's foothills in Washington State. For one year in college, I moved to another area (ironically, closer to the ocean), and I missed those mountains so much!!ReplyDelete
I cannot believe it's March already! I hope it's a great month for you!ReplyDelete
Happy March!!! Thanks for hosting your amazing party. Have a great weekend.ReplyDelete
I love the ocean, only rarely visit. Thank you Paula for bringing back good memories and hosting your 274th No Rules Weekend party.
So jealous of your ocean visits! I'm following you over on Twitter as MisadvntrMegan!ReplyDelete
I like your bitmoji. Very nice! 😀 We don't live nearby an ocean but we can do a trip to somewhere close by if we really had the urge. Unfortunately with the weather being so cold, the ocean doesn't seem super appealing right now. Thank you for the link up and happy Thursday!
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Hello Maureen! Since the weather's been going back and forth here from winter to spring and back again, I decided to take the spring-like days for my beach days. Otherwise I wouldn't even think about going! Thanks for sharing with the party..Have a terrific weekend :)Delete
Paula, I've lived on both coasts and the Gulf of Mexico and now I live in the desert Southwest. They all have their beauty, but there is something special about the ocean, isn't there?! By the way, I was born in Dover, NH. Thanks for the party!ReplyDelete
Thank you for the party. Hope you have a great week!
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I liked your FB page, added you to my Google+ Bloggers Circle, followed you on Pinterest and Instagram! Love all you do!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the party, Paula!ReplyDelete
Hi Paula! One of the posts I shared at today's party is about preparing for snowstorms. We had one yesterday and I think you probably got it - at least the winds - too? I am in Upstate NY. We had that springlike weather last week but "back to reality" here! In addition to my storm prep post I shared a collection of pretty and practical tote bags for busy moms plus my newest favorite low-carb recipe for loaded cheese crisps. They taste great!ReplyDelete
Hi Sinea! Thank you for sharing your fantastic posts! We did get the same storm as you, but instead of snow it was lots of rain and wind with extremely high tides at the coast. And they're saying snow again this coming week. Right now I'm trying to ignore that forecast. Hope you're having a great weekend :)Delete
Love the bitmoji of you. I hope that you are having a wonderful weekend. Thanks for hosting.ReplyDelete
We live about an hour/ hour and half from the coast and I can't imagine moving so far away that I could not make a day trip there. We enjoyed spring like weather the past week too until Friday hit with a huge storm and we lost power for a few days. Let me tell you it was pretty chilly without our regular heating system. Thank goodness for the woodstove and fireplace!ReplyDelete
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