The great Freddie Mercury died 27 years ago today.
The beauty of his music will never fade.
~Classic Rock Magazine~
Farrokh Bulsara (5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991), known professionally as Freddie Mercury, was a British singer-songwriter and record producer, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen.
He was known for his flamboyant stage persona and four-octave vocal range.
Mercury wrote numerous hits for Queen, including “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Killer Queen”, “Somebody to Love”, “Don’t Stop Me Now”, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, and “We Are the Champions”.
He led a solo career while performing with Queen, and occasionally served as a producer and guest musician for other artists.
Two grooms surprise their wedding guests with a jaw-dropping choreographed first dance – complete with a Dirty Dancing-inspired lift
P.J. Simmons, 51, and Noah Aberlin, 36, performed the six-song dance at their wedding, which took place in Coxsackie, New York, on October 7.
The couple spent seven weeks choreographing and rehearsing the routine
P.J. and Noah start the performance with Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine’s ‘Conga’ and end it with the song ‘(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life’.
A YouTube video of the performance has been viewed more than 1.2 million times since it was posted on October 27 , 36, performed the six-song dance at their wedding, which took place in Coxsackie, New York, on October 7.
Update and a request: As a tribute to everyone who has helped us live our lives openly and without fear – and to all the brave people working out there so hard on that front — we set up a fundraiser for the life-changing (and life-saving) It Gets Better Project (#itgetsbetter).
If you have the means, below is a link to join us in supporting their amazing work. Imagine if everyone who liked this video contributed just $1.
… the impact on so many lives could be extraordinary!
and THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES OVER FOR ALL THE KIND, THOUGHTFUL COMMENTS!!
We feel the love and send it right back to all of you! We seriously did have “the time of our lives …” An incredible night surrounded by incredible people! SPECIAL THANKS to our Dads and families and friends, Katy Spreadbury and Wil Nieves (Nieves Latin Dance Studio) for helping us put the dance together, Andrew Holtz (Holtz Wedding Photography @Holtz_Photograph), the incomparable Mel Brooks and Susan Stroman for Young Frankenstein (PJ’s all-time favorite movie), and the movie Ex Machina for the disco inspiration.
The pilot who orchestrated a dramatic plane landing in the Hudson River nearly 10 years ago encouraged Americans to vote in next week’s midterm elections in a Washington Post op-ed published Monday, October 29, writing that “we cannot wait for someone to save us.”
“The fabric of our nation is under attack, while shame – a timeless beacon of right and wrong – seems dead,” Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, whose “Miracle on the Hudson” landing in 2009 spared the lives of all 155 passengers aboard, writes.
“This is not the America I know and love.
We’re better than this.”
The op-ed comes toward the close of a wrenching political season marked by divisive language, conspiracy theories and race-baiting attacks, from Drumpf to local leaders.
“We cannot wait for someone to save us.
We must do it ourselves.
This Election Day is a crucial opportunity to again demonstrate the best in each of us by doing our duty and voting for leaders who are committed to the values that will unite and protect us,” Sullenberger writes nearly a week before next week’s elections.
Following the 2009 landing, Sullenberger says that he realized his fame had given him “a greater voice.”
“I knew I could not walk away but had an obligation to use this bully pulpit for good and as an advocate for the safety of the traveling public,” he writes.
“I feel that I now have yet another mission, as a defender of our democracy.”
Streisand revealed that she’d failed her written driver’s test three times while attempting to get her license renewed
“I was so nervous, a little bit like I am now because I have you in the car,” she told Corden. She also said that she hasn’t been driving a lot lately because her mind “is twirling” and she recently found herself driving the wrong way on the highway. “This is not what I need to hear right now,” her fellow passenger jokes.
“I thought, ‘That’s it, I’m not driving anymore,'” she said, adding, “But you’re lucky.”
“If this is how I go out, I’ll take it,” Corden jokes. “Corden died at the hands of Barbra Streisand. ‘Is she OK?’ She’s fine, thank god.”
When asked about the current political climate and how she’s coping, Streisand explained that that’s why she created the album, which is fittingly titled Walls.
In a bind, James Corden calls on Barbra Streisand for a ride to work. In addition to singing her classics and music from her new album, “Walls,” Barbra demonstrates how she failed her driving test three times, and how she was able to get Apple’s Siri to pronounce her name correctly.
This is a topic which is very dear and close to my heart.
As a retired physician, I fully understand the process, the need for treatment, the underlying medical conditions and the meaning of life-saving treatment.
On the other hand, my only brother died of complications of chronic renal failure several years ago. In the aftermath of Hurricane María, I often thought about him and how he would manage to receive this three times a week treatment when the electrical power situation and the hospital care was so lacking in my country.
One year after Hurricane María, Puerto Ricans living in Vieques, go through harrowing, uncomfortable, tiring, exhausting and dangerous ways to receive their treatment.
This video explains their situation.
An American possession with this ‘quality of care’?
In medicine, dialysis is the process of removing excess water, solutes, and toxins from the blood in people whose kidneys can no longer perform these functions naturally.
This is referred to as renal replacement therapy.
~~Wikipedia~~
Dialysis Patients Are Still Trekking 12 Hours for Care After Hurricane María Left without a hospital, some Puerto Ricans must travel by plane for lifesaving treatment
Hurricane María totaled Vieques’s hospital, which housed the island’s only dialysis clinic
That set off an ongoing crisis for patients with kidney failure who cannot survive without dialysis and for whom the thrice-weekly round trip to a dialysis center in Humacao on Puerto Rico’s main island, including treatment, takes at least 12 hours.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
~~George Eliot~~
Cecil and David Rosenthal lived together, worshipped together, made their way through life together, two intellectually disabled brothers in their 50s who were ensconced in Pittsburgh’s close-knit Jewish community. And on Tuesday, they will be buried there together, in one of the first funerals to follow the shooting that killed the brothers and nine other people at Tree of Life synagogue.
Funerals were also set Tuesday for Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz, a family-medicine practitioner known for his caring and kindness, and Daniel Stein, a man seen as part of the core of his congregation.
Other victims’ funerals have been scheduled through Friday in a week of mourning, anguish and questions about the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history.
The norms, the standards, the beliefs, the expectations, the behavior, the basic goodness I grew up with; the values instilled in me by my parents, my teachers, my role models, my guides are being shaken to the core.
I feel the ground shaking under my feet. I’m losing my moorings. I’m questioning what is happening around me.
Evil things are happening and there’s no check on them.
Seems evil is winning a ferocious battle and I was taught that good would always prevail.
Will it?
When I have no words, tears come to my eyes and express that pain.
Didn’t follow regularly but he left an impression. His untimely death was a huge loss to his young family and the conservation movement.
It’s amazing to see how his legacy lives on through the work of his loving wife, Terri and his two enthusiastic and motivated children,
Bindi and Robert.
~‘Crikey!’ Irwin family continues dad’s legacy on Animal Planet~
Crikey! It’s the Irwins
In this new series, the family of late Animal Planet star Steve Irwin (“Crocodile Hunter”) continue his legacy of educating viewers about animals like koalas, snakes, crocodiles and more.
The series features Irwin’s daughter Bindi, 20, his son Robert, 14, and their mom Terri, 54.
“Crikey!” is filmed at the Irwin family’s zoo in Queensland, Australia. It will occasionally feature clips of Steve Irwin, who died after being stung by a stingray while filming a documentary in 2006.
After months of training, Robert steps into his father’s shoes to feed Graham – Australia Zoo’s most notorious crocodile – solo, in front of the entire Crocoseum!
Meanwhile, Bindi witnesses one of nature’s rarest events: Cedar the Koala is having twins!
~~November 5, 2018~~ 
It Is What It Is 