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How to improve your dancer's posture
Recent studies have show that up to 40% of children have poor posture – a lot of this is linked to too much slumping in front of screens and a general disposition to slouching. Heavy school bags also play a part.
Dance requires proper posture – not just to see the graceful lines, but also to move easier, and breathe better.
So on this Technique Tuesday – here are 5 ways that both we at class and you at home can help improve your dancer's posture.
1. Demonstrate and show videos or pictures
Most classes see a move or combination demonstrated and the children aim to copy this, this is part of their learning. Posture is the same. Our teachers try to demonstrate good posture in classes – and especially when teaching moves.
"Most dancers learn visually, so they'll try to mimic proper body position, but often they don't understand the roots of where it's coming from," Chelsie Hightower, a performer on "Dancing with The Stars," explained to Dance Spirit.
For this reason, it's often helpful to show your children pictures or videos of proper posture when standing or sitting – see below.
2. Stretching
Stretching is a great way to not only maintain good posture and ensure that the muscles front and back are working equally, but can be used to correct poor posture
- Chest and shoulder stretch: If they slump forward (that head dropped looking at the phone pose) this activity is often helpful for dancers who slump forward. Have them lie on their backs with their arms stretched outward and elbows bent into a bench-press position. They just need to squeeze their shoulder blades together without arching their backs and hold for 10 seconds, and repeat 4 times.
- Butt bridge: Another area that can cause bad posture is the hips being tight in one area and not strong enough in another. This is a great one to help. Get them to lie on their backs with their knees bent and feet on the floor. Have them squeeze their butts and push their hips toward the ceiling. Hold for 10 seconds, and repeat four times.
3. Core Exercises
I'm not suggesting 3 year olds start on the sit ups. Dance itself will help with this and we do incorporate these in class in fun ways. We have plank challenges, we do V sits – using pilates, yoga and even some boxing excerises along side the ballet, jazz and acro work. The core is the full surrounded mid section – not just the 'abs'. If this is something older dancers want to work on drop me a message (email@example.com) or catch me in class.
4. Fun with props
We can do this from teeny tiny to teens and older. Props can be a great way to check on the posture – bean bags or books on the head while we move will show if they slouch or drop their chin, or walk with an emphasis on one side. It can even be a fun game to play at home.
5. Practice Makes Permanent
Posture needs to be in their minds the whole way through – class, through practice, at home. Its not about constantly walking around like you're attached to a stick! But remembering to hold yourself upright and tall with all the elements described above.
I always say practice may not make perfect but it will make permanent – it means it will become easier to sit, stand or dance with good posture if you work on it regularly than it will to slouch!
Top tips for turns
Getting your turns or spins or pirouettes right can take lots of practice – you need to work on these basic turns a lot which will DEFINITELY help you improve the more complicated turns.
Here are our top tips for terrific turns
- Posture – keep lifted up. Engage your core or 'use your tummy muscles' so you are feeling tall and upright and strong
- Every turn is a balance – practice the balance until you can hold it strong without wobbles – be it in 2nd, 1st, one foot or two
- SPOT – focus on where you are going and make your head the last part of your body to turn. DON'T look at the floor – if you do that's where you'll end up!
- Push into the floor enough to move the turn but not too much that you move more than you should – this takes practice to get the right push
- Strong feet means its easier to turn – work on your feet – toes, rises, ankles, alignment so that when you turn your body is fully in line and avoid any wobbles or injuries
- Decide to finish your turn – don't fall out of it, decide to end the single or the double with a clean movment
- Visualise yourself – imagine yourself doing the turn perfectly over and over again, and keep this in mind every time you do one!
Let us know what you find hardest about practicing your turns
Tips for improvisation
Improvising or "dancing without practice or preparation" can be a scary experience for beginners, and even for those who have danced their whole lives.
It is about creating and doing movements without choreography – just spontaneously.
It is used for fun (just like dancing at a party – you don't choreograph that!), skill development, creativity and also for developing choreography
It is a movement skill as well as a form of dance.
Here are our top tips to help you improve your improvisation:
- Relax!
- Be in the moment – with the music – explore, react, and don't overthink
- Listen and be aware of what else is going on, but also just move as you feel
- Be yourself – embrace your skills and style – don't be too hard on yourself
- It's okay to "copy" – be inspired by others and put your own twist on it – make it YOU
- Don't compare yourself – everyone has different styles, interpretations, skills, favourite moves – so embrace yours and celebrate others but don't compare
- Be free – don't be shy!
Improving your kicks
Top 5 tips to improve your kicks – in all dance subjects
You need flexibility in your legs and hips to get a high kick. Regular stretching of all your leg and hip muscles will assist in improving the height of your kick, and how straight your legs are. Lunges and squats are great, toe touches, leg swings, splits training are all good ways of developing flexibility. They need to be done after a full warm up and done regularly to have any impact.
You need to have strong legs. To lift them high, to hold them straight, to develop your flexibility, to keep your weight balanced on one foot as your other legs swings about. The stronger they are the higher they can be lifted – so a higher kick.
Once correct technique is learned and once your instructor has approved – strengthening exercises such as weighted kicks and squat/lunges can help.
A curved back will ruin even the highest kick, at best you look bad, at worst you will end up injured. A good posture is essential. Focus on a strong core (so tummy and back muscles) that help keep you upright. Keep shoulders back and head up so you look and feel strong. Don't sink into your hips, feel lifted to give your legs more ability to move in your hip joint.
Point your toes or flex properly (depending on the style) but don't go half hearted. Practice with the right toe position, if you forget to point in all your practice, no matter how high your kick, an out of place foot will ruin all your hard work.
This is also part of being strong, but also using the music, you should never hear a THUD when your foot lands, nor should it be a massive swing about with no real attempt to control the up AND down element.
Work on all 5 elements EVERY TIME you practice your kicks and you will see a great improvement, don't forget about important parts, don't neglect pointing your toes for flexibility, nor posture for height.
Strength training for ALL dancers
Dancers are strong. Performers on stage are true athletes – demonstrating endurance, strength, poise, posture, grace and so much more.
It doesn't come easy – but it does come with dance. Even for young children. Many dance technique exercises – ie ballet barre work, corner work in freestyle, tap practice – are designed to strengthen and build endurance.
Why be strong?
Being strong gives the dancer the ability to perform. It is not about big muscles or looking muscley, it is about the strength and how efficient that muscle is. It lets them control their own body better, manage moving their body weight both slowly and fast. It prevents injuries – especially to joints – such as knees and ankles which can dislocate easily.
How – is it the same for all dance?
Not really. All types of dance require a basic level of strength – usually in their core and legs. Some styles develop more specific strength – street for example is a lot of lower body work – so they have strong legs, breakdancing incorporates more upper body strength for arm holds and balances. Contemporary has a great deal of core strength, ballet, a lot in the legs and ankles.
How to be a strong dancer?
Practicing in class – the steps and techniques at the start are designed to prepare the children for their class, their muscles for the work that they have to do, and their minds for what movement patterns to make.
To develop strength their needs to be an element of overload – meaning pushing to work harder to the point of being tired. 2 kicks will not work, 8 kicks is getting their.
There MUST BE BALANCE for children – it is still meant to be fun. But the stronger they are the healthier they will be and the better dancer they will be come.
Correcting your child
Every class sees so many children trying hard to do their best, sometimes as well as praising them for their hard work and effort, we as teachers will need to correct them and their positioning.
This is not "telling off", it is not a bad thing!
It is a way to help your child improve, and reach their full dancing potential.
Active Instruction
Active instruction is our main way of helping your child. Negative comments such as "don't do" aren't helpful as while they point out the mistake, they don't offer a solution. We always try to include what to do, and sometimes ignore the don't part all together.
For example instead of saying "don't slouch" we'd suggest "reaching the top of the head up towards the ceiling", or instead of "don't roll your feet", to "keep all 5 toes on the floor."
Oblique instructions
These are to be avoided as they highlight the what but not the how. Our aim is always to offer the solution, just like in active instruction, but as they get older, making references to the body parts and positioning, as with experience a dancer will get to know a lot more about the anatomy.
Accepting criticism
Welcome criticism, tell your children that it is not a bad thing to receive a correction. Firstly, it shows the care the teacher has for the child, that they are paying attention to them and their dancing. Secondly, it will help them progress if they act on it and take on board what they say. It will allow them to improve and get better. And give them something to work on because practicing something incorrectly is the worst thing you can do as practice makes permanent!
Flexibility for dancers
To improve as a dancer you will need to work on your flexibility – ideally some work at least 4 times a week – these could be in class, at home or a dedicated flexibility class.
Aside from just being more flexible the benefits to dancers of improved flexibility are many.
Firstly, you can do more moves, if you are more flexible you can advance basic moves and try new ones, giving you a bigger dance vocabulary.
Secondly, reduced risk of injury. If you have the ability to move more you are less likely to pull or strain a muscle. You will recover better from tougher sessions too.
Style – you can use your flexibility to add your own style to a piece or work or be more inventive in the improvisation times. You can make more use of the floor or the space, you can create new shapes and move in different ways.
You can also move more freely, steps will seem less of a chore if you don't have to put a much effort into the movement to reach a high kick or to move the body.
Improving your flexibility
We recommend working on your flexibility 4 times a week. Ideally with some gentle stretches each day. This will result in great gains in your ability in a short time.
Daily stretches could include:
- lunges with back leg extended straight
- pike or seated forward fold
- straddle (seated wide V with a reach forward)
- the butterfly (soles of the feet together and knees towards the floor)
- floor to back bend – lifting from flat on your front to stretch the back
You will work out your own routine as you develop as a dancer – just remember to work both sides and don't over stretch – work within safe limits.
I'd also like to bring your attention to this great piece by The Ballet Blog – "Is Overstretching Bad?" Please do have a read
Improvisation is key to being a good dancer. It comes from being able to listen to music, and interpret the emotions and story through movement.
It is also done with very little preparation – there are no hours of choreography to do, no weeks of research – it's about reaction and feeling.
You will know – sometimes a song comes on and you get a certain urge to move. This is especially true for dancers – though it is not simply a wiggle or step and tap. You hear accents that require leaps, or crescendos that require expansive moves.
Your body reacts to show whether the song portrays hurt or joy.
Talking through what a song makes you feel – is a great way to introduce even the littlest ones to improvisation. Does it make them happy? Do they think they should run or jump? Should they float like a fairy? Does it sound angry and stampy?
This is just one way dance is amazing for a child's development – especially their emotional well being. Being able to understand and recognise feelings that come from events and sounds.
Pick some of your favourite songs and ask them what they think. Things like the music from "Frozen" or "Aladdin" by Disney are great as they are designed to evoke feelings.
How to improve your splits
Being able to do the front or box splits is one of the key things for dance – it allows more scope in movement and steps and also helps with kicks and other flexibility based steps too.
But improving them takes dedication and can't be done over night – and definitely not just once a week at class!
Tips to improve your splits
- Always warm up – warmer muscles work better and prevent injury
- Never just go straight into splits – work through exercises first to loosen the muscles
- Start with a stretch with legs straight in front of you and flexed feet. Reach forward bending from the hips not your back and aim for your tummy to reach your legs. Hold the stretch as long as you can breathing in and then when you breath out, stretch a little further – getting closer to your legs each time
- Open legs to straddle (like a big v) with your knees pointing to the ceiling. Reach to the ceiling and take it to a side stretch on your left – hold for 10, repeat on the left, then take it forward – aiming to keep your knees facing the ceiling but your tummy towards the floor
- Sit on the floor – as if your legs would be crossed, leave on on the floor and stretch one out in front of you then pull it up towards your chest and hold. Repeat on the other side and then repeat our first stretch exercise
- Sit on the floor and put the soles of your feet together – aim to get your knees open and down to the floor – hold the stretch as long as you can.
These are key to improving your front splits. Step out with one foot as far as you can without pain – your foot should be flat and your knee straight above your ankle. This doesn't have to be very far. Now, put the toe of your back foot on the ground as far back as you can with your leg straight and get into a lunge. Stretch and feel it in your groin and back of the leg. Then straighten the front leg keeping your feet where they are and aim to get your tummy on your thigh – hold this stretch. Repeat on other foot.
Botofogo and Triples
Say what?!?!?
But before we panic – just think about what we learned on Monday and you will be fine!
Botofogo (or Boto- fogo)
This is a dance step in Samba but is used in various other styles too.
It is a step taken across the body, for example on the right foot, with a flat foot. Then followed by a "ball change" movement onto the left foot using a side step with a little weight transfer. Then step back onto the right foot – flat footed.
It is a 3 part step done in two counts – 1 and 2. The first two steps are quicker than the third, on the beats "one and" and the final step slower on the 3 beat or count 2.
A step ball change can be a triplet, as can a botofogo.
It is the counts that are important for this step so getting your children to udnerstand the music and its beats is key.
To help them understand the counts – start listening to different types of music and clap along to the basic beat -"1,2,3,4" – try it with faster and slower tracks.
Then try clapping "1,&,2,&,3,&,4,&" these are the half beats so in a 4 beat bar you clap 8 times.
Then try mixing it up with "1,&,2,3,&,4" so you clap the rhythm of a triplet (quick, quick, slow)


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A few years ago I was a mess. Diagnosed Bipolar II with hypomanic episodes and freshly divorced, I was living with my girlfriend, one dog, a cat and her two little girls all in my tiny studio apartment in San Francisco. Plus, my girlfriend had an ex-husband that would practically scale the side of my apartment hi-rise like a little lobster to the seventh floor looking in on us for incriminating evidence he could use against her in divorce court.
I was already seeing a psychiatrist for my medications and a psychologist for talk therapy. But the latter felt I was suicidal and needed more support. It was either go to group therapy or resign me as a client. I agreed because whenever I was a little late for an appointment she started calling hospitals to see if I was on a metal table a toe tag. Personally I thought hearing about other people's problems would depress the pants of me. However she was adement, so I went out of respect for all the good she had done for me in the past.
I began my group odyssey on a Saturday afternoon in a session held in the basement of a local hospital. Right away I was greeted by an older, portly, belly sticking out of sweater, thick plastic bespectacled gentleman who would later introduce himself to me at least five more times in the next hour and a half. I got past him and sat on a chair arranged in a big circle. I was one of the first people to arrive aside from the facilitator.
The facilitator was not a professional and had no therapy credentials. He was just a guy in his mid 30's with severe depression and an uncontrollable inclination to insult strangers he sees out on the street. Bloated from medication, too much cake and a crew cut that should have come with a complimentary pair of Dennis the Menace pavement sliders, he would read the meeting ground rules as if every syllable bored him more than the last. Then he'd make sure anyone who wanted to talk had their ten allocated minutes. And if anyone ever got out of line, he'd ask them to leave. But you could tell cake was his main concern. Coffee cake, pound cake, walnut cake, angel food cake… Ah, so many wonderful cakes!
Quickly the empty seats filled up with what I assumed were bipolar butts. But to my surprise almost anyone could sit down and chime in. And some of the regulars were schizophrenic or had other major psychological disorders. And when they started talking delusionally, everyone would get mad at them for wasting time and tell them to shut up. I thought it might be a good idea to get them information about the appropriate group therapy session for their mental disorder, but the moderator just sat there with his thumb up his ass dreaming about the way sponge cake feels when rubbed all over his body.
Here is a snapshot of the Bipolar Support Group's composure:
We had a delightful gentleman in at the ripe age of 90 who came to talk about his older sister. He was just lonely and frightened of what life held for him. He could have been sitting in Knitters Anonymous and be just as content. But he was too nice a person suggest attending a different meeting.
We had a young school teacher on medical leave, afraid to return to the classroom due to severe panic attacks. It was obvious she was bright and communicative. I felt her anxiety could be overcome with some exposure and talk therapy. However, practically everyone united to convince heron permanent disability was the way to go. To about half the group of around twenty people, the question wasn't if you could go back to work, it was whether you could qualify for permanent disability. The consensus was she could make a good case for it.
One lady was never formally diagnosed with anything, but liked making the coffee shop arrangements for after the meeting. She was a mental illness groupie. She would latch on to a really sick person and become their sole support system. And when no longer needed, or getting on that person's nerves, she'd find a new lost soul in the group to mother. I think she had a disease called munchausen-bipolar. She found self worth making herself part of the drama centered around a bipolar person going through hardship.
Then there was a 350 pound woman who was sweet on the outside and a trouble maker on the inside thriving on confrontation. Once she brought a very old little dog to the group that was literally on it's last leg. She was bald, blind, barely able to walk and fighting for breath from fluid filled lungs. This woman walked it around the circle basking in the "isn't she adorables." But the dog was so close to death it was like bringing a dead bird to the meeting. It was probably a blessing, but the little dog died that evening.
My favorite was a woman who complained of Personality Dissociative Disorder, so she sat with a mirror in front of her reminding herself she was still there. She never talked. All she did was stare into the mirror. I wanted to say, "Put away the mirror. I'll let you know if you disappear."
Finally was the lady with a greenish abscessed toe bursting out of her shoe who always wasted half the session talking about free theatre tickets she can get through an agency that donates them to non-profits. But that infected toe was like a gargoyle that encouraged me to keep my distance from her.
My last example of the misplaced mentally ill was my greeter. He would sleep through most of the session and suddenly awaken with a random suggestion, like how to get free pencils from the city. Apparently he noticed someone writing with one in a notebook and felt it would be helpful knowledge. Then his head would drop and he'd be back to slumberland in no time.
Basically out of an average of twenty people, two of them talked about real bipolar issues the first time I attended. The rest would just give advice on how to get permanent disability, free psychiatric care and medications. Others were there for the coffee shop get-together after each session. It was more a place to socialize for the generally mentally ill and senile.
Not all bipolar support groups are the same. I am sure there are some with a better illness vetting process and accredited facilitators who actually lead the group instead of waiting for it to implode. My suggestion is to learn more about all the Bipolar Support Groups in your area and sit in on several. Note others in the group looking for a feeling of commonality of mental disorder, age and education. In other words, find a support group in which you feel comfortable sharing. With support groups it's the people attending the group who are most important. They are the ones offering advice and comfort. It's crucial you find people you can relate to.
That teacher with the anxiety disorder did eventually go back to work full time and the last I heard is doing quite well. When asking someone what gave her the confidence to go back to teaching, she told me it was leaving the support group. If support groups were on Yelp, what a story she'd have to tell.


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Trade unions still living in Twilight Zone
You would have thought that with the election of a Coalition Government (albeit one that has very little on say about employment law reform), Australia's trade union movement might reverse its slow decline into irrelevancy and scandal and actually join us here in the real world.
They might even want to engage in a constructive discussion about what all sectors of our economy can do to support job growth, improve productivity, and clamp-down on corruption.
Apparently not.
The latest example of Australia's unions living in a world of fantasy and make believe can be found in The International Trade Union Confederation's (ITUC) 2014 'Global Rights Index'. This publication purports to assign a score of 1-5+ to countries based on how well they protect the rights of workers.
Who is the General Secretary of the ITUC I hear you ask? Well, none other than former head of our own Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), Sharon Burrow. The ACTU is, of course, an affiliated member of the ITUC and Ms Burrow presents the Foreword to the Index.
The reason I'm so flabbergasted by this publication is the score given to Australia: 3. Yes, on a scale of 1-5+ (with 5+ being the worst of the worst - think Zimbabwe, Bangladesh and Ivory Coast), Australia scores only a 3. This puts us into the category of nations where there is a 'regular violation of rights' and where:
'Government and/or companies are regularly interfering in collective labour rights or are failing to fully guarantee important aspects of these rights. There are deficiencies in laws and/or certain practices which make frequent violations possible.'
Really? Australia? The nation with one of the most hopelessly complex and over-regulated labour markets in the world? Where virtually anyone can lodge an unfair dismissal claim? Where there's a Fair Work Ombudsman, a Fair Work Commission, more than 120 Modern Awards, 10 National Employment Standards, countless Fair Work Inspectors, a national Fair Work Infoline, anti-bullying laws, the right to strike, the right to join a union, the right to be represented by a union and much, much more? A score of 3?
Well, at least we're not alone. Fellow nations scoring a 3 include Chad, Ghana, Madagascar, Republic of Congo and Costa Rica. It seems we have a lot to learn from those nations which were awarded higher scores than us including Malawi, Russia, and Birkina Faso (an African nation that our own Foreign Affairs Department warns has areas too dangerous to visit).
Insert Twilight Zone music here.
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Sophie Turner has revealed she is sick of throwing parties every time one of her Game of Thrones co-stars dies on the show.
The British actress, who plays Sansa Stark on the HBO fantasy drama series, explained once a character on the show is killed off, the rest of the cast throw a 'death party' for them.
"I get upset with every death," the 20-year-old told Entertainment Tonight at Comic-Con in San Diego, California. "But now it's become kind of like the normal thing, that we can no longer have the death parties for (castmembers whose characters are killed off) because otherwise we're spending too much money now buying people drinks.
"You know, it's like everyone dies. It's like, 'Listen, I'm too tired. We've been out every night this week celebrating your last night on Thrones, so..."
After six seasons of the show, based on George R.R. Martin's books, surviving members have become very close, and Sophie confessed she and her co-stars even took to drinking to calm their nerves before their appearance at Comic-Con on Friday (22Jul16).
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Sophie's on-screen sister, fellow British actress Maisie Williams, recently revealed she might be getting her own 'death party' sooner than expected after the first read-through of season seven took place.
"At the end of the read-through this season, I sat there thinking, 'God, they are setting up for the end,'" Maisie said. "Every season we have been looking up to the next season, and now it feels like we are looking back down and are coming down to the end."
Game of Thrones is due to return to TV screens in summer 2017. The series will end after season eight.


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That's a topic I've been following for some time, because it lets me get away with post titles like "intercourse becomes clothed with a public interest" but behind the wisecracking, there's a Deep Policy Question.
Doesn't that imply a competence for the state in protecting the interests of children that it has not demonstrated when it comes to providing education, or school lunches, or safe neighborhoods?That appears to be precisely what the Alabama bill, not yet law, envisions. "Civil or religious ceremonies would have no legal effect upon the validity of the marriage. The state would only recognize the legal contract signed by the two parties entering into the marriage." In so doing, the bill would undo the bundling of church and state that has made so much of what ought to be a straightforward contract between consenting adults a frontline of the Culture Wars. "But that turns the civil institution -- as opposed to the religious sacrament -- of marriage into a contractual agreement (with no-fault divorce, it's notarized dating) for the benefit of adults."
Put another way, the culture is doing just fine in protecting children -- in neighborhoods where the adults act responsibly, and not so well -- in neighborhoods where the adults don't. Maybe it's time for the editors at National Review to unbundle government from culture, or Caesar from Christ?
Interesting that Alabama, for so long a punchline to the Coastal Elite, is achieving precisely the kind of unbundling in which two people can register a legal marriage contract, whether the local fundamentalist church, synagogue, or mosque rejects it or the local reform congregation solemnizes it notwithstanding. The Tenth Amendment Center's post intriguingly turns appellate judges into auxiliary bishops.
Removing state meddling in marriage would render void the edicts of federal judges that have overturned state laws defining the institution. The founding generation never envisioned unelected judges issuing ex cathedra pronouncements regarding the definition of social institutions, and the Constitution delegates the federal judiciary no authority to do so.Further, when reproduction no longer is clothed with a public interest, the unbundling of the secular contract from the sacred sacrament becomes a restoration of the status quo that even Stephanie Coontz, with a New York Times imprimatur, doesn't denounce as turning the clock back.
Constitutionally, marriage is an issue left to the state and the people.
In the mid-20th century, governments began to get out of the business of deciding which couples were "fit" to marry. Courts invalidated laws against interracial marriage, struck down other barriers and even extended marriage rights to prisoners.The Tenth Amendment Center post notes that the power to license is the power to forbid.
But governments began relying on marriage licenses for a new purpose: as a way of distributing resources to dependents. The Social Security Act provided survivors' benefits with proof of marriage. Employers used marital status to determine whether they would provide health insurance or pension benefits to employees' dependents. Courts and hospitals required a marriage license before granting couples the privilege of inheriting from each other or receiving medical information.
Put another way, under a licensing scheme, marriage is not a right, nor a religious institution, but a privilege granted by the state and limited by its requirements.To an extent, this revocation already exists, in the form of the child protection bureaucracy putting children in protective custody, under guises pertinent to child rearing or to convictions. That might be beyond the capability of governance to fix. Instilling bourgeois habits in young people before they become parents might still be a good idea. Reclaim the culture. Stop enabling the dysfunction.
Consider this: In the same way a driver can lose their license if they break certain traffic laws, a man or woman, theoretically, could one day find their marriage license revoked for breaking certain "marriage" rules, whether it pertains to child rearing, or their religious and political convictions.


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Aperitif | Dinner | Nightclubs - Event posted by flò
Location: TERRAZZA MARTINI COCKTAIL FIRENZE , Dinners and aperitifs with DJ set, open from Thursday to Saturday, adjacent to the nightclub Otelread reviews
Address: Via Carlo Alberto Generale dalla Chiesa 9 , FlorenceDate: Saturday 03 June 2017
Aperitif with buffet from 19:30 onwards, until 22:30 or so.
For those who want a foothold reservations are required. These are our formulas:
1) Dinner buffet with common + of reserved tables support up to 23 hours + wine (1 bottle every 4 people) or a head cocktail: 13 € per person, minimum two people.
2) Dinner Buffet + private reserved tables support up to 23 hours + water + wine (1 bottle every 4 people) or a head cocktail: 20 € per person, minimum 10 people.
3) Dinner served, to be chosen from a menu of meat (35 €), fish (45 €), vegetarian (30 €).
For all the options listed above, you can add the personalized cake and sparkling wine package, at a cost of € 5 per person.
Coming directly after dinner you can still book a table from 23:00 hours onwards, at a cost of € 12 per head with drinks included, or € 20 at a location console included with a bottle of champagne or super alcoholic every six people.
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The Iron Dome rocket defense system intercepted a projectile over Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening. No injuries or damage were reported.If the IDF doesn't raid Gaza by land, there's every chance that the next missile fired by the Hamas will cause disaster. So the IDF had better start getting serious about defeating the Hamas already.
Israeli television showed a double-burst of smoke in skies above Tel Aviv after air raid sirens sounded, sending residents running for shelter.
The Code Red siren sounded in all of Gush Dan, including the central Israeli cities of Petah Tikva, Lod and Givatayim.
It was the first Gaza rocket that reached Tel Aviv since Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012. [...]
Since midnight Tuesday, more than 30 rockets fired from the Gaza Strip have exploded in Israel.
Terrorists in Gaza have launched more than 250 projectiles at Israel in recent weeks.
Tuesday, July 08, 2014
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We love the hints from Ancestry.com! While a majority of them are correct, here's one that arrived via e-mail on Sunday for Celestia S Shackford
you have 100+ new hints in SHACKFORD/PARKES Family Tree. We're always searching Ancestry.com for new information about your family history. This week, we discovered historical records that could shed new light on family members in your tree. SHACKFORD/PARKES Family Tree. Click on "View at Hints" to see what we've found.
Celestia S Shackford (1837-1865) 1 new hint U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims roster, 1936-2007
Hmmmm.. This is interesting — Celestia Shackford, the daughter of William and Mary Ellen (Dame) Shackford was born in June 1837 in Barnstead, New Hampshire. We find Celestia in the 1850 census with her parents William and Mary, her siblings Harriet N, Alphonso, Mary E, James Chadbourn, and Walter S. She married Erza Emerson Worthen on June 7, 1860 and we find the two of them in the 1860 census. We know she died five years later on Dec 4, 1865 at the age of 28 leaving no children but Ancestry is suggesting a hint to the Social Security program that didn't start until 1935 so we know something is off regarding this hint. We click on the hint to look further:
And when we compare the recommended source to the tree we keep in RootsMagic, we see that the source is not referring to Celestia, but to Elizabeth Householder, Erza Emerson Worthen's second wife who had a child named Sarah Worthen.
So we click IGNORE because we should not match this particular source to Celestia S Shackford.
We also go into Ancestry and look up other people who are researching Celestia S Shackford. We review the sources they've attached to Celestia and notify them that they may have attached sources that belong to Erza's 2nd wife to Celestia. And then we write this blog to tell the story of Celestia's short life.
All posts on this website are a work in progress. We'd love to learn of any corrections or additions to the information shared. Also we'd love it if you'd like the post here or at http://www.facebook.com/shackfordgenealogy) as that helps share the post with others. Thanks!
1850 United States Federal Census, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, population schedule, Concord, page 98 (penned), dwellig 743, family 761, William Shackford; digital images, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : accessed 1 January 2014).
1860 United States Federal Census, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, population schedule, Concord, Page 167, dwelling 1306, family 1299, Ezra E Worthen; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 28 February 2016).
"Marriages.," New Hampshire Statesman and Concord (New Hampshire) Register, 16 June 1860; digital images, Godfred Memorial (http://godfrey.org : accessed 27 August 2013), 19th Century Newspapers.
Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, , Celestia Worthen, 1865; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 February 2016); Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records..
New Hampshire, New Hampshire Marriages, 1720-1920, , E E Worthen m. Celeste Shackford, 7 July 1860; database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 23 October 2013).
Copyright 2017 Joanne Shackford Parkes (sharing a link to this post is appreciated but please do not just copy this material and paste it elsewhere)


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Archive for January, 2015
Keeping Up With the Alums: A Lesley Graduate Reflects on What She Learned
Editor's Note: From time to time, we like to look back on what our graduates have been doing since they were here. Ana Resner sent us this essay from her home in California: My college experience was pretty unique. By the time I graduated from Lesley University, I had attended three different universities. But I… Read More ›


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BI's Article search uses Boolean search capabilities. If you are not familiar with these principles, here are some quick tips.
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Attorneys active in intellectual property, plaintiff class actions and real estate are among the more problematic areas for errors and omissions underwriters, although the situation has been helped by the soft market's ample capacity, observers say.
Intellectual property "is always about severity," said Kim Quarles, New York-based senior vp at Willis North America Inc. "When it comes to (intellectual property) law firms, you can have a firm profitable for years and years," she said. For insurers, because intellectual property claims are "so expensive to defend, you can wipe out 20 years of profit with one claim."
The reason these claims are so severe is because of their complexity, said Ms. Quarles. An attorney who misfiles a patent that fails to protect its investors could mean the loss of millions of dollars. Furthermore, defending these claims requires expert testimony, which is expensive.
One challenge in handling patent business is that mistakes such as filling in a wrong date "are easy to make," said James L. Rhyner, Warren, N.J.-based worldwide manager for lawyers professional liability insurance and miscellaneous professional liability insurance at the Chubb Group of Insurance Cos.
Mr. Rhyner said this also is a "very high-risk area" because "it's not just the U.S. If you're an investor, you want to secure your rights to your invention worldwide, and that's a pretty tricky path to navigate."
Greg Leffard Simsbury, Conn.-based vp of professional liability for The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., said policyholders are "fortunate in one respect: that there's a lot of competition out there," so brokers can place the business.
Gerard Guterl, New York-based CEO for professional services specialty at Aon Risk Solutions, agreed. He said patent business is "an area that's concerned underwriters for over 10 years now." Law firms with a significant exposure in this area may pay higher rates but the business is "certainly insurable," he said.
Law firms that specialize in real estate comprise another challenging area.
This includes any firm that has been involved with credit default options and "robo-signing" of mortgage foreclosure documents, said Ms. Quarles. "What we're hearing from underwriters is that they expected more than has played out," but claims could increase in the future once the federal government has picked the "low-hanging fruit," she said.
Plaintiff class action firms are another E&O coverage challenge, experts say.
Mr. Leffard said plaintiff class actions "have always been a challenge. I would say probably more recently it's more loss-experience-driven," he said. "It's basically a severity issue" because of the thousands of claimants potentially involved.
Peter Taffae, an E&O liability insurance expert at Los Angeles-based wholesale brokerage Executive Perils Inc. said, "We've got a couple of plaintiff firms coming up in the next 60 days and it's not going to be a pleasant renewal.
"You have to keep in mind the market varies in size; and so you have what I call gradations, if you will, for hardness or softness depending on the size of the firms," Mr. Quarles said. For the largest law firms, for instance, "I would say the market is not as soft as it is for the smaller firms."
Attorneys can enhance their coverage opportunities during the application process, said Mr. Leffard.
"It really starts with the application. To the extent they can fully complete an application and put their firm in the best light possible, that absolutely goes a long way," he said.
Another significant factor is responding to the underwriter's questions, he said. "A lot of accounts don't have the opportunity to meet face-to-face" with the underwriter, who is making his decisions based "on what the firm looks like on paper," so they "need to present themselves in the best light possible," he said.
In addition, said Mr. Leffard, "We really like to see what they've learned from their past experiences." When a law firm does have a claim, "any preventative action taken to prevent that type of loss from happening again goes a long way in our minds."
"Law firms should position themselves as favorably as they can in the marketplace," said Mr. Guterl. They want to distinguish themselves with better risk management procedures and client intake policies, and a "real fundamental understanding of the risk issues and how they're managing them and how to communicate those effectively to the marketplace," he said.
Risk management practices differ based on the size of the law firm, with sophistication increasing with the size of the firm, said Ms. Quarles. A 200-attorney firm, for instance, is "likely to have a general counsel" as well as someone dedicated to the ethical issues involved, she said.
Larger law firms "should be meeting with underwriters, if not on an annual basis, certainly every other year" to communicate developments, said Mr. Guterl. There also is greater emphasis on managing claims, managing outside counsel and on how firms communicate with insurers. "The more transparency that a firm is willing to provide to its insurers generally, the better terms and conditions they're going to get," he said.
"A lot of this just boils down to basic practice standards," including client screening, said Ms. Quarles. "You have the processes and procedures to ensure you're accepting the type of business you want to accept and not getting entangled in business you don't want to get entangled in," she said.
In addition, the value of the various products can vary dramatically, so policyholders "need to have broker adviser who understands those substantive and subtle differences in coverage," Mr. Guterl said. "Too many customers focus on price and not on expanding the quality of coverage."
Errors and omissions risks once characterized as hard to place now are merely challenging due to ongoing soft pricing, many observers say.


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Darkside of Xeen is the fifth installment of the Might and Magic, a direct sequel to Clouds of Xeen, and a completion of the overarching story arc that started in the first game. The game uses the same engine and interface as Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra, and is nearly identical to its immediate predecessor gameplay-wise.
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Extrusion molding is a pressure forming process used in the manufacture of rods, pipes, wires as well as profiles, above all of aluminum, but can also be copper, copper alloys, steel and other metals and alloys. With this process a billet is pressed through a die, which determines the external shape of the press train. The internal shape can be influenced by differently formed mandrels. With its unique power-density, the fact that no maintenance is required and high availability, hydraulics is ideally suited to the drive of the main axis of an extrusion press.
Control valves (usually 2WRCE / 3WRCE , 2WRV , 4WRL and 4WRTE )
Axial piston pumps (usually A4VSO and A10VSO ) with VT-VPCD-1X digital closed loop control electronics and VT 5035 electric amplifier
Open and closed loop control by means of the HNC100
Speed-variable pump drive with IndraDrive servo frequency converter and A10FZG axial piston pump
Profiled rail systems , specially designed for heavy loadsProfiled rail systems
Ball rail systems with integrated measuring system and ball screw assemblies for the positioning device
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Below are some discussion questions to think about while reading or after, if you have already finished:
1. What most impressed you about the author and the children with whom he came into contact? Did any aspect of the story upset you? Did Conor's story inspire you?
2. In your opinion, what was it about these children that touched Conor so deeply? Were you moved by their plight? What about the increasing number of children growing up in poverty in America? Do you see these children in the same way, or do you see their situations differently?
3. How might American children help their counterparts in places like Nepal? Thinking about the Little Princes, do you think we as Americans spoil our children and ourselves — do we buy more than what can truly be appreciated?
4. When Conor returned to Nepal he met the mother of one of the Little Princes. How did this affect him personally? And how did it influence the course of events that followed?
5. How did volunteering at Little Princes prepare Conor for having a family of his own? What did these children teach him about himself and the world?
6. At the beginning of Little Princes, Conor did not see himself as a global humanitarian, yet his visit to Nepal changed everything. What is it about him — and others like him introduced in Little Princes — that sets him apart from those who don't volunteer or get involved?
7. How did Golkka, the man who trafficked many of these children, get away with his nefarious practices for so long? Human trafficking has become a worldwide problem, affecting millions. Why has it flourished and what steps might help stop it? How might you play a role? Would you consider doing so? Why or why not?
8. Do you empathize with the parents of the Little Princes children and others? Do you understand why they gave their children up? What might you do given similar circumstances?
9. What lessons did you take away from reading Little Princes?


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You can almost touch spring, not quite, but its coming. Most brands have released their SS15 season . There is a lovely theme flowing through lots of the collections. Here i have picked out watermelons. i love the dress. It really sings summer.
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Position: Pitcher
Teams: Kansas City Athletics, 1965-1967; Oakland Athletics, 1968-1974; New York Yankees, 1975-1979
Between 1971 and 1975, Catfish Hunter
won 111 games -- almost half of his
224 career total.
James Augustus Hunter (1946-1999) was born in Hertford, North Carolina, and he earned celebrity as a schoolboy hurler, getting a 26-2 record with five no-hitters. A hunting accident cost him his right little toe as an 18-year-old, but Kansas City owner Charlie O. Finley signed Hunter for $75,000. Finley dubbed Jim "Catfish" in order to inject color into his image.
On the injured list in '64, Catfish didn't become a regular starter for Kansas City until 1965. He was named to the All-Star Team for the first of eight times in 1966 and showed signs of things to come when he tossed a perfect game against the Twins in early 1968.
A lifetime 30-36 when the team moved to Oakland in 1968, Catfish won 18 games in 1970, and then 21 in 1971, the first of five straight seasons in which he passed the 20-win mark. The A's grew to a powerhouse in the early 1970s, winning the World Series in 1972, 1973, and 1974. Catfish relied on a good fastball, guile, and pinpoint control. He won 21, 21, and 25 games those three years; he lost a combined total of 24. He was 4-0 in the three World Series.
Hunter's 1974 season earned him Cy Young honors, as he posted a 25-12 record and a league-leading 2.49 ERA. When Finley failed to pay Hunter's insurance premium, as spelled out in his contract, Catfish also earned the right of free agency. Hunter was the first celebrated free agent of the era, commanding $3.75 million from George Steinbrenner for a five-year stint with the Yankees.
Catfish was 23-14 in his first year in pinstripes in 1975, and he led the league with 30 complete games and 328 innings. The "Bronx Zoo" began to win, but Hunter began to develop arm trouble. The Yankees won pennants in 1976, 1977, and 1978, but Hunter was just 38-30.
Although the Yankees won the Series in 1977, Catfish was rocked in just 41/3 innings of work. The Yanks repeated in 1978, and Hunter won the final game of the Series. After a 2-9 season in 1979, he retired at age 33. He then spent most of his time on his farm in North Carolina.
With a lifetime record of 224-166 and a 3.26 ERA, Catfish fanned at least 100 batters in 11 consecutive seasons -- finishing with 2,012 -- but never walked more than 85. He ranks in the top ten in five World Series categories. Hunter was inducted in 1987. He died at age 53 of Lou Gehrig's disease.
Here are Catfish Hunter's major league totals:
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Not to be confused with the Biosphere on the Île Sainte-Hélène, the Biodôme is a small zoo housed in the former Olympic velodrome. The zoo is organized into five distinctive ecosystems found in North America, introducing some of the plant and animal life found in each.
Built in 1976 for the Summer Games and attached to the Olympic Stadium, Montreal Tower's height of 165 meters (541 feet) makes it the tallest inclined tower in the world. We took the funicular up to the top, where there's an observatory that provides views of the Olympic Park, Mont Royal and downtown Montreal.
One of the buildings which makes up Montreal's "Space for Life" is the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium. It opened in 2013, and features two full-dome theaters which allow visitors to tour the universe.
A mansion constructed in the early twentieth-century for two brothers, the Château Dufresne is found on the border of Montreal's Olympic Park. Although it looks like one massive residence from the outside, the chateau is actually comprised of two separate houses, one for each of the siblings, Oscar and Marius.


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Respite Weekend Camp is a monthly program during non-summer months – September through May – for children and adults with special needs. Weekends are themed and activities vary according to seasons. Counselors help Campers with personal care needs and assisting with activities.
Staff and volunteers with experience from summer camp require no further training; first time volunteers must attend a training session on Friday night of their first Weekend Camp, from 7-10 p.m. Volunteers can earn a small stipend (does not apply to first time volunteers) or up to 25 service hours. Volunteers must be 15 years old or older.
Respite Weekend Camp is great for volunteers who want to get experience prior to Summer Camp or who want to be a part of CAMP all year long!
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Sometimes rules get in the way of common sense. But sometimes rules exist for a valid reason, even if they appear inhumane. This sad story, however, demonstrates that sometimes there is just no right answer.
Hideto Kijima is head of the Japan Accessible Tourism Centre, a nonprofit organization that seeks to make travel more accessible to those with disabilities. He is also wheelchair bound due to a high school rugby accident.
Nevertheless, he has traveled to 158 countries despite his inability to walk. According to Hideto, he had never been refused help in boarding a flight. That is, until he recently flew Vanilla Air, a low-cost subsidiary of ANA.
Traveling from the resort island of Amami to Osaka, the 44-year-old was told there were no lifts to help him up to the aircraft (the airport uses air stairs instead of jet bridges). Ok, so his friends can help him up the stairs, right?
When they tried, Vanilla Air staff actively attempted to stop them.
Risk of accident. Think about it: two people drag a man up air stairs and someone slips. An injury occurs. Now the airline is sued.
Staff were pushed away and Hideto made it onboard.
ANA: So Sorry! It Won't Happen Again.
ANA has properly addressed the matter, apologizing and already announcing a solution:
We have taken immediate action to rectify the inadequate wheelchair access at Amami airport and at all smaller regional airports across our Japan domestic network, and have introduced manual chair lifts where facilities were found not sufficient to accommodate the needs of all our passengers.
These measures will ensure that passengers in wheelchairs are able to board our flights safely and comfortably. In addition to these measures, we are reviewing our airport handling procedures to make sure they are in line with our high customer service standards.
My Thoughts
I'll start here: the rule makes sense. The risk of injury is greatly increased when a crippled man is dragged up narrow/steep air stairs.
But what is the alternative? Tell disabled people they cannot visit Amami or other resorts? Why was there no manual lift already? Should Hideto have been told that he could not go home? Of course not.
Rules are rules, but the solution is not to strand him. Despite the increased liability there was no better solution. In fact, there was no other possible timely solution. Aggressively blocking his friends from helping not only demonstrates a lack of empathy, but a lack of common sense under the circumstances.
Most first-world nations have made the policy choice to prohibit discrimination against individuals with disabilities. I think this is a good thing. Telling disabled people that certain destinations (especially domestic first-world ones) are off-limits strikes me as backward public policy.
What do you think? Anyone want to defend Vanilla Air?
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That's the only possible excuse for this game. LOOK!!!!:
Let's take a closer look:
Stay with me while I explain my theory:
WFAN has been airing those infernal Gloria Estefan ads during Mets games, and I decree that she has pressured WFAN into creating even more advertising for her upcoming shows at MGM Grand Theatre at Foxwoods, her only appearance in the tri-state area! Apparently!
What was the title of a certain top 5 Estefan (along with the Miami Sound Machine) song?
"1 2 3."
So there you have it. Gloria Estefan is RUINING this team. She is a blustering she-devil prognosticator of bad games and worse music. This game was fixed! Worse than Paula Abdul and American Idol! Or something!
My prediction: once Estefan has finished her run at MGM Grand Theatre at Foxwoods and WFAN stops playing those awful awful commercials full of Latin flavor (no, ma'am, I refuse to get on my feet, no matter how many times you implore me to do so), this team will get back on track. When will that be?
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Tonight, Santa Rosa City Council has awarded a contract for $2.1 million for the construction and rehabilitation of the DeTurk Round Barn.
DeTurk Round Barn Renovation- Council to award $2.1 million contract to transform historic building into event venue. Press Democrat
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The West End Neighborhood where urbanism, preservation, art and people come together! For the full calendar, the latest updates and photos- go the West End Neighborhood website Click Here!


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If you're interested in starting up your own class or club, contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com. Rates start from as little as £12 per hour with free social media advertising and a mention in our local magazine!
Ballroom Dancing – Steven Kidd 07505 215687
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Between 2001 and 2018, LAP transferred US$ 2,408 million to the Peruvian Government in concession fees, taxes and transfers to public entities.
An important fact is that concession fees amounted to 46.51% of LAP's gross revenues; i.e., for each invoiced dollar, 46.50 cents must be transferred to the Peruvian Government, irrespective of whether revenues are realized or not. For its part, the Government uses an important part of these funds to subsidize airports in other parts of the country.
In addition, 50% of invoiced receipts from international landings and takeoffs is transferred to Córpac S.A., as well as 20% of the international Unified Tariff for Airport Use (TUUA). Additionally, LAP pays 1% of its gross revenues as a regulatory rate to the agency in charge of supervising investment in transportation infrastructure for public use (OSITRAN).


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Archive for All age worship
Letting go
Things needed:
– A4 Paper & pens
– Instructions on making origami boats
– A flowing river
What to do
People write down things they want to let go of. This could be a number of things such as regrets they are holding onto, people or situations they overly worried about, or a goodbye to someone who has died.
Once this has been written, make a boat out of the paper (click here for instructions).
Take it to a river, and voilà – a simple but potentially powerful act to symbolise letting these things go. For a Christian audience, the focus could be on letting them go and trusting God with them. Or the letters could be written to ask for forgiveness from God for things.
Perhaps you could read a poem or Bible verses, or say a prayer as the boats float away.
The story behind this lil idea
I recently heard some sad news about a friend of mine. I found it difficult to let go of worrying about the situation and to not carry it. This idea suddenly popped into my head on the way back from church after I had asked for prayer for the situation and that I would be able to let it go. In my job as a youth worker in schools I listen to a lot of young people who have difficult and chaotic lives. So I used this idea as an individual act of worship by writing a letter and making a boat out of it for my friend, but also for each of the young people that I need to make sure I don't carry. I think I will do this from time to time to make sure I let these things go and trust God with them.
Some considerations…
Some of what I wrote in the letters the young people had told me in confidence. So I did not write any names in it, or anything that they would be able to be identified from. Perhaps being overly cautious, I stuck another piece of plain paper over each letter before I made it into a boat so no writing was visible – just in case!
I'm not sure it's very eco friendly to be putting paper in rivers! I should look this up sometime and perhaps use eco friendly bio degradable paper. You may want to consider this if you are making more than a few boats.
My final consideration is that the swans thought that I was bringing them some lunch. In future I hope not to disappoint by providing them with something a bit more nutritious as a side order for the paper boats.
Jigsaw prayers – creative worship idea
Things needed: blank jigsaw, or jigsaw with picture of Jesus on, pens.
Buy a blank jigsaw, or make your own from a thick piece of card using a jigsaw template. If using the blank one you could ask people to write or draw prayers on a piece, and then pray for others requests as the jigsaw is constructed by the group.
Or alternatively you could print a picture of Jesus or the cross on the jigsaw, people could draw or write confessions on the back of a piece, and add it the jigsaw.
One of the pitfalls of alternative worship is it often more individually focussed. Putting the jigsaw together as a group brings in a lovely communal aspect to the activity. When God made the world he remarked at the end of most days that 'it was good'. However, after the whole of creation was finished, it was only in this completeness that God thought it was 'very good'. As human beings made in the image of a trinitarian God it is good for us to worship in community with others (Smail 2005). When we are all together, playing our part in the jigsaw that is church – I feel sure that God would see it as 'very good'.
Post-it note prayers
Things needed: post-it notes (preferably in 3 different colours) and, pens.
Context: can be used in lots of different contexts.
This very simple idea uses the beautifully adaptable medium of post-it notes to facilitate prayer. If you have 3 different colours or shaped post-its then write the word 'thanks', 'sorry', or 'please' on each and stick them on some paper/the wall. It would be worth saying to people here that they do not need to write down their sorry prayers. They can just leave it blank, or draw a symbol or write a code word.
The group then spends some time writing or drawing prayers on the post-its and sticking them up with the rest (they follow the colours of the original ones, for example by writing their thanks prayers on pink, sorry prayers on yellow etc.).
This activity works well within a variety of contexts, but particularly with small groups. And it's great for people who aren't used to praying out loud. I have often used it when people have only just become Christians as a way of facilitating them to pray.
As ever, feel free to use this idea, adapt and change it – and let me know how it goes!
Christmas service in a stable
It's that time of year again…
Time to dig out last year's fairy lights (what they take away in authenticity, they more than make up for in aesthetics),
Dress up in excessive layers of clothing,
And last but not least heat up the hot spiced apple, and mince pies,
then trek over to a nearby farm for an advent service in a stable.
The service plan was pretty similar to last years but with more carols (and more people!) added this time. Check it out here.
Many thanks go the horses who made the whole thing possible by being willing to sacrifice their stable for the evening. We couldn't have done it without you.
Baggage: creative worship
This idea popped into my head the other day whilst I was trying to focus on doing my expenses. The illustration or creative worship session is themed around the idea of baggage and burdens (but I haven't actually used the idea yet, so the plan is fairly loose).
As people arrive there are loads of different bags in the centre of the room which people sit round (suitcase, tesco bag, backpack etc.). At some point people have to choose a bag to represent the burdens they are carrying. They could perhaps walk around with it for some of the session/service. Then at some point they place their baggage down at the foot of the cross and leave it there:
Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.
1 Peter 5:7 (and Psalm 55:22)
I spoke to someone else about this the other day, and they said it could be quite powerful if some people's bags were too heavy to carry and others had to share the load. This could add more of a corporate element to the time. But I guess that if you're loading the bags up with bricks or something, you may just have to make a short health and safety announcement – you don't want people putting their backs out!
Let me know if you have any further thoughts or reflections on this idea as I would like to put it into practice sometime.
Giant Blob Tree: Creative reflection
If you haven't heard of Pip Wilson's Blob drawings, then you're in for a treat. The most famous one is probably the blob tree which features a scene of different blobs all doing different things:
People can look at the picture and find a blob which represents their answers to questions such as 'how do you feel today?'. For example someone may answer that they feel great, on top of the world and are therefore the blob at the top. This kind of thing is great for the beginning of a weekend away. Pip has produced a number of different books with different pictures in (I think they are quite expensive to buy though – you could always have a go at drawing your own!).
I recently took part in a youth festival called SOLID, where I spent time at the prayer tent. I took with me a giant version of the blob tree:
I had some really great conversations based on the blob scenes. I explained the tree to them, and generally asked people three questions:
– How are you feeling today?
– How are you feeling in relation to God?
– Where would you like to be with God?
Then if people wanted to they could write on a piece of paper shaped like a speech bubble their answer to the last 2 questions, and stick this on the scene. If they were still keen they could draw their own blob and add it to the 'Blob SOLID' scene.
It seemed to go down really well. Apart from the fact that I sat outside in the sun all day on the hottest day of the year which resulted in me getting heat stroke! It was all worth it though.


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Yesterday I visited Santos at the new homes we are building at Young & Railway in little Italy (Ottawa). He was busy working with the contractors to ensure everything is coming together perfectly. Still he took the time to explain to me some of the refinements that he was making to the original designs, in order to make better use of the space and to enhance the luxurious 'feel' of the houses.
Some examples of the refinements that he has made, or is in the process of developing with our contractors include; consolidating and removing bulkheads to create elements of a trey ceiling in the main living area. This feature can cost thousands to add to a home, but we are adding it during the build process at no additional cost to our customers. In addition, Santos noticed during the construction process that a wall in the stair well was going to cut off light and reduce the spacious, airy feel of the home. He immediately halted construction, and modified the design, reworking the stairwell and ordering new and higher end finishes in the process. It's going to look fabulous. But what impressed me most, was the 'no compromise' approach to quality. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, this is one of the attributes that our customers have told us that they like about us.


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BATTLECROSS To Tour The UK (2014) For 1st Time Ever, W/ KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, TRIVIUM, MISS MAY I
October 29, 2013
BATTLECROSS have announced they will join Killswitch Engage, Trivium and Miss May I on a massive run through the UK and Ireland, which kicks off in Dublin on January 29, 2013.
It will be the Detroit outfit's first outing here and the band are looking forward to it: "Battlecross is so stoked to hit the UK with Killswitch Engage, Trivium and Miss May I as our first overseas tour ever and thank them for having us on this awesome tour! What an honor it is to share our first UK experience with these bands and we're ready to thrash with you, our new friends! Thank you all who have been waiting so patiently for Battlecross to come overseas, and we promise that it will be worth the wait!"
"Expect nothing less than swift hard kick in the arse from our live show and hope you like us enough to have us back very soon. Can't wait to rage and have a pint or four with our UK fans! Until then, please hit up our website: www.battlecrossmetal.com and send us a message with your email address so we can stay in touch and meet up before, during and after the show AND We'll write you back! Please keep checking the Metal Blade UK page for updates and giveaways until then!!"
-Hiran Deraniyagala, Battlecross
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Kevin Cuevas, 21, is a junior at Santa Monica College studying engineering, but during 2005 to 2009 he was an orchestra student playing viola for Vance Miller, the Hamilton High music magnet teacher accused of sexually abusing students from the mid-1990s through 2010.
Cuevas heard of the allegations in the fall of 2010 from other orchestra students who were wondering why their respected and popular music teacher had not come to class. LAUSD had removed Miller from the classroom in September, according to district documents, but parents and students were not informed as to why. Rumors ran rampant.
"It was, 'oh, Mr. Miller, he messed around with a student, or one of the students accused him of something,'" Cuevas said. "It was always vague, and I think that's how it caught fire, everybody just started spreading that."
The two had grown close since they met when Cuevas was a student at Palms Middle School and was auditioning for the honors orchestra. Miller told Cuevas he showed promise and counseled him to go to Hamilton.
Miller was never inappropriate, said Cuevas, though he would often greet students with kisses on the cheek once they graduated. As a high school student, Cuevas said Miller was very close to older students who were seniors and would often have former students visit him.
"I did notice that with the older students he was a little more close, he saw them as friends," Cuevas explained. "This was someone that was well respected. He would get them jobs playing."
Cuevas has had two paid opportunities playing viola for "Glee" and also was paid to play at Miller's church this past Christmas thanks to the teacher. The two had spoken by phone back in April or May of last year, after the teacher had contacted Cuevas to see if he wanted to play in an alumni concert at Hamilton.
"I asked him how he was, what he was doing," Cuevas said. "He told me he was at [Daniel] Webster Middle School and had to be in this room, and had to spend his entire shift in this room" with other teachers.
At the Christmas concert, Miller wanted to sit and chat with Cuevas in between conducting pieces. "I jokingly said, 'aren't you tired of sitting?' He just started laughing," Cuevas noted.
"I honestly don't think [the allegations] could be true," Cuevas said. "I can understand how someone could have misinterpreted his friendliness. I've always felt like he trusted his students too much, where Mr. Miller feels too comfortable around his students... and it definitely backslided on him."
Tami Abdollah can be reached via email and on Twitter (@latams).


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