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Back when I was writing a column regularly, readers would often ask me where I found the material. I would tell them that I just described things that happened to me or things I would come across in daily living. After I stopped writing, I frequently would see something and think, "That would have made a good column." The one below is one of those.
As the summer sun sets on our vacations and activities of the season, let's take time to sit down with a lemonade or sweet tea (I've been reading a lot of Southern novels) and enjoy the memories of what we have done.
For the first time I went on a solo vacation, only partly by choice. I've traveled to conferences and to visit friends by myself, but this would be the first vacation by myself.
I liked the idea of New England in the summer and I like small boat cruising, so I signed up. Had my husband been alive, he would have too busy in his vineyard to go, in spite of being retired from his day job. My sister couldn't leave her cat.
I kind of looked forward to striking out on my own, not having to accommodate anyone else's schedule or plans. I had some projects I could work on and of course there are always books!
Friends suggested ways to meet people. One suggested wearing something of my alma mater (Western Maryland, now McDaniel, College) to start a conversation. So off I went to the college bookstore. I didn't think I'd need a sweatshirt (I was wrong) and I don't wear baseball caps, so I bought a visor with the college name on it — and a ballpoint pen. You know how often someone needs to borrow a pen. I was ready.
I didn't need either of those things. At the first meal on the boat I sat down with a family of four, a grandfather, mother and two daughters (which quickly assured me that I would not be the youngest one on board — far from it) and an older lady.
As we were introducing ourselves and saying where we were from, the lady next to me said, "Westminster, Maryland?" I said, "Do you know it?" and she said she had gone to school there! My alma mater, and I didn't need the visor or the pen.
We ran into each other frequently during the trip and recalled people we had each known. On the last day I learned that we had been in the same local sorority.
On our first bus trip, the front seat was empty when I boarded so I took it. As a lady on a walker made her way up the steps, I offered the seat to her and her daughter. I moved back a row on the other side and another daughter sat with me.
One of the fun things about these trips is learning what other people do as occupations and hobbies. My seatmate, Barb, was a music teacher and played Taps at funerals as needed, one of the few women to do so. She belongs to a volunteer group who answer the call.
Later at lunch another day, I asked to join their table as one seat was vacant. They were a family of five: the mother, Dorothy; sisters Barbara, Deb and Kathy; and brother Jim.
They were glad for me to join them as being just five and most tables were for six, couples looked elsewhere. And as I got to know them better, I was happy I could fill that sixth chair.
As we shared our stories, I learned that this was a most interesting, talented family and liked each other well enough to want to travel together every year. They were musicians, teachers, nurses and a doctor. But at the head of the clan was Dorothy. After raising five children (the son in California couldn't make it this year), and being divorced, she went to law school so she could be a voice for the underserved. She retired from practicing law at 80 and has lived alone in Greenwich Village, New York, for many years. She is now 88.
Although the children are scattered around the United States one or more manages to get back to New York every month. They get together for Christmas and once a year take such a trip as I've been fortunate to share this year.
Friends have asked me what I liked best about this vacation, and I know it was meeting delightful people like the Keller family.
What did you do on your summer vacation?
Carolyn Scott writes from Westminster.


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Premiership footballers won't ever be the people at the gym with the biggest muscles or the strongest punch, but you can guarantee they'll have agility, flexibility and some of highest fitness levels. Their workouts aim to improve their performance on the pitch, but whether you're in a local five-a-side league or don't play the game at all you can still give their exercise routines a try and hope to see great results.
Plyometrics drills
Being fast paced is key for footballers, so building up speed and strength with jumping exercises (also known as plyometrics) is essential. You'll often see footballers warming up on the pitch by jumping over hurdles and cones as these type of workouts work muscles hard in a short space of time. Try jumping hurdles one at a time with both legs bent to lessen the impact, or if your local gym or training space doesn't have hurdles use cones instead. Try jumping over them keeping your knees high and your arms at a 90-degree angle. Set the last cone further away than the others so you're really working yourself to the very end. Basic hopping exercises in a T-shape or simple step ups on a box are also very effective.
Core strengthening
Footballers tend to focus on building core and trunk strength as it helps with overall fitness as well as making fighting off other opponents easier. Most of these exercises don't require much more than your body weight so they should be easy to replicate at home. Try doing sets of planks, mountain climbers, crunches and push ups; which will work your arms too. If you want to a more intense workout, include equipment. Get someone to place a 5-20kg weight between your shoulder blades and try a weighted press up. Pay attention to keeping your back and hips straight as you lower your chest to the floor and be slow pushing back up to really work your body.
TRX training
Suspension training with ropes or straps are popular among the fitness community but it might not seem like the first choice of workout for a footballer. TRX is actually a great way to strength and condition the body and offers many options for athletes. Hamstring curls, Y-flys and jumps with the ropes are all great workouts, but if you're specifically interested in training to be match ready you should be squatting. Hold the ropes and do single leg squats to build up your strength in each limb. Almost every move in football is done with one leg so this exercise will help you to avoid injury while also strengthening your knees, quads and hamstrings.

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Brick And Mortar Repair And Restoration
When you realize that you need brick repair, always call an expert. Brick repair may look simple but to do the job right and to do it in such a way that you would never know it was damaged in the first place takes a great deal of skill. Although it is possible to damage walls, the majority of brick repair in Chicago takes place on the chimney.
Regular routine maintenance on the bricks around your house will keep them looking good for many years but this is often easier said than done. With the pressures of work and family, it is easy to let things slide to the point where repair is necessary.
Possible reasons for brick damage include:
Spalling is a word used by bricklayers and brick repair technicians, for the typical layman it means "broken." Spalling is usually seen on the face of the brick. Spalling is a problem in areas that have hard winters where the bricks are constantly subjected to freezing and then thaw cycles. Mortar between the bricks is supposed to take up the expansion and contraction but when it doesn't then the brick will break.
Improper bricks used:
You may think that one brick is the same as any other, this is not the case. Bricks that are designed for use inside the home do not have to deal with freeze/thaw cycles. It is rarely a problem during new construction as masonry contractors can easily tell one from the other, the problem often occurs when DIYers salvage bricks, not knowing where they should be used. Those that do brick repair in Chicago see this often.
Damage from cleaning:
You may not think of it but a lot of brick damage is done by high pressure washers. Over time, buildings get dirty and one of the best ways to clean brick is with high pressure water, but, if the equipment is not used properly the water pressure can actually damage the face of a brick to the point where it must be repaired or replaced otherwise water will work its way through the wall and do significant damage to the building structure.
Bricks, as hard as they are, can become damaged. When you need brick repair in Chicago carried out you are invited to contact Fortune Restoration.


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Monday, September 25, 2006
Pathetic harvest
The above is the total grapes pulled off of the old vines this year. It represents approximately 1/44th of what we picked last year.
We had a very late frost, and the grape blossoms were badly hit. I feel awful about the rest of the county (grapes are one of the big crops here). This frost also got my lovingly coddled okra, broccoli, cauliflower, and some tomato seedlings. The wisteria also got fried. Ah well.
So we drank the whole quart of juice squeezed from the harvest last night and this morning. Num. No jam this year, though; guess we'll have to hold on to those quarts downstairs.
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Prefer first one Not sure about the first one and asking people what they doing with their lives, seems judgemental.
The Mellon Educate volunteer programme is an opportunity of a lifetime. You can't put a price on the rewards of this volunteer program, both for you and South Africa's most needy children. You'll be changing lives and directly addressing the country's triple challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality.
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Rockies to call up Rodgers from Triple-A
No. 10 overall prospect hitting .442 in May at Albuquerque
By Daren Smith / MiLB.com | May 16, 2019 3:07 AM
On Saturday, Brendan Rodgers was dusting himself off after getting hit by a pitch on the back of his batting helmet. Now, he's heading to the Major Leagues for the first time.
The Rockies are expected to call up their top prospect from Triple-A Albuquerque for the opener of a three-game series on Friday in Philadelphia, MLB.com's Thomas Harding reported, citing a "Major League source."
Video: Isotopes' Rodgers crushes home run
While the team did not announce the move or comment on the MLB.com report, Rockies shortstop Trevor Story suffered what he termed a "bone bruise" in a collision with left fielder Raimel Tapia in the ninth inning of Wednesday's 6-5, 10-inning loss at Boston.
Rodgers was drafted as a shortstop but has spent most of the season at second base with Albuquerque. In fact, he's started only six of 35 games this year at shortstop and three at third base.
Wherever he's been used, MLB.com's No. 10 overall prospect has hit. Rodgers sits fifth in the Pacific Coast League in batting at .356, is tied for second with 34 runs scored, ranks third with 48 hits, seventh with 87 total bases and ninth with a .644 slugging percentage. He had a scare on Saturday when he was nailed by a pitch from Fresno's Austin Voth in the first inning. The 22-year-old missed one game, then went 4-for-5 with a pair of solo homers in Monday's 8-7 loss to the Grizzlies.
Rodgers followed that with two more hits on Tuesday, boosting his May slash line to .442/.489/.721.
"He's getting back to what he is comfortable doing and making the proper adjustments to the type of pitching that he's seeing, the same thing we did in Double-A," Albuquerque hitting coach Tim Doherty said earlier this month. "It's understanding more of the game and what the pitchers are trying to do to him and what he needs to try to do to the pitchers. That's really kind of what's taking place. His approach has become much more disciplined. He's staying in the strike zone a whole lot better. Is there a lot of work that goes on in the cage behind the scenes? Absolutely. But at the same time, it's all the application that takes place during the game."
Drafted third overall in 2015 out of a Florida high school, Rodgers was impressive in his first full Minor League season in 2016, hitting .281 with 19 homers and 73 RBIs in 110 games with Class A Asheville. He broke out the following year with Class A Advanced Lancaster, putting up a .387/.407/.671 slash line with 36 extra-base hits, 47 RBIs and 44 runs scored in 51 games to earn a promotion to Double-A Hartford.
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So we're into the new year, the year of 2010. There seems to be a lot of questions about how to address 2010. TwentyTen, Ten past eight? Is this decade to be called The teenies? The noughties never sounded right for the past decade, and teenies or teenties doesn't sound right either.
Anyway.. Hubby and son have gone back to work today after having the entire Christmas and New Year period off work. I always dread Mark having time off work. He's like a caged tiger and paces around looking for things to do until he settles into the 'we don't have to do everything at 100 miles per hour' mode and then he ends up at the opposite end of the spectrum barely moving. I can't believe how much this man can sleep. I managed to get one lay in (ie, past 7am) during the entire festive period and even then I had to haggle for it. Yet somehow it seems fine that he can lay in every morning until 9.30, 10.30 or even (as it was one morning) mid-day. I would have sent Isabelle up to bounce on him had I been home, but I was actually at the Drs with Isabelle and her ear infection.
[OMG! Isabelle just stood by me whilst I was typing and asked why I had put her name. She then read the last sentence and the only words she didn't know were actually and infection. Seems my 4 year old can read better than I thought.. note to self, be careful what I leave lying around / open on the computer screen]
I am really looking forward to my peace and quiet tomorrow morning. Isabelle is home today as it's a teacher training day and so doesn't go back to school until tomorrow. Now I love this child to bits, but my god she can talk incessantly about anything and everything. Her imaginary friend has been a godsend to me the past few days but I can still hear that constant yap yap yap. You've seen the painting 'scream'? Well that's me. It doesn't help because I am so full of cold (yes again!) my ears are blocked as are every other oriface in my head. I want to crawl into bed and lay dying quietly to myself, but of course, Isabelle is yapping to her imaginary friend whilst roller skating around the living room (wooden floors) and her skates are set to setting 2 which only allows them to roll forwards but has one helluva ratchet sound to go with it.
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As they say, what goes around, comes around. Apple brought the graphic user interface to the masses with the Mac back in the mid 1980s.
Less than 25 years later, Apple did it all again with the touch interface in the iPhone and then iPad. Along the way to this second revolution, Apple ended up with something special. A few hundred million customers who loved the iOS touch interface.
Hmmm, Apple thought, "What if we bring some of those iOS interface touches to the Mac, and make it more comfortable for the tens of millions of iPhone and iPad users?"
The perfect example of iPhone and iPad design which has influenced the Mac is OS X's Launchpad. It's that scree full of icons that look like a giant iPad screen.
Launchpad Manager brings customization and configuration to OS X's Launchpad.
What does it do?
- Deletes Icons Or Groups
- Renames Icons Or Groups
- Organizes Groups
- Saves Launchpad Layout
- Opens Launchpad Layout
- Reorders Icons Alphabetically
- Moves Icons To Another Page
- Moves Icons To A New Page
Some of that functionality is already built-in to Launchpad, but takes extra clicks or plenty of manual effort to accomplish.
The free version is feature limited, but the Pro version of Launchpad Manager has no restrictions.
Any negatives? Yes. Who uses Launchpad? It's not like it takes long for Windows PC users who switched to the Mac to figure out how to use the Dock.


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US Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announces after meetings in New York with NY State Governor George Pataki and NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani that the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) will send 35 EIS officers to New York hospitals to assist "health officials and physicians monitor diseases, conduct a medical and health needs assessment, identify existing health problems, such as dust or allergic reactions, determine if there are new medical needs, and if already deployed resources are better used elsewhere." [US Department of Health and Human Services, 9/14/2001]
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A federal advisory committee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is preparing to vote on whether to lower the amount of lead exposure considered dangerous to children. The level was last set in 1991, and since then new research has proven that even smaller amounts of lead than previously thought are harmful to children's cognitive development. The panel is preparing to adjust the level downward, a move that could cost paint and gasoline companies in potential lawsuits. But Tommy Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, intervenes. He abruptly replaces five experts with five new panel members known to be supporters of corporate interests that would be affected by the new regulation—one had testified on behalf of a paint company to his belief that children could withstand exposure to lead far in excess of federal regulations (and established science), and others handpicked by the lead industry. Two have financial ties to the industry. Unsurprisingly, the new panel votes to leave the recommended lead level exposure at its given levels. Until Thompson's move, panel members had not been chosen for ideological or political reasons, but by career staff. [Savage, 2007, pp. 302]
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Premier English is an independant British owned and run school. We are not an agency; employees solely teach in our academy. We provide high quality English training. Qingdao is on the east coast of China midway between Beijing and Shanghai. The schools location in the friendly city of Qingdao is ideal for those who wish to immerse themselves in the Chinese culture and language and experience the real China.
We have small classes of up to 6 students who have close contact with teachers and learn quickly, which is rewarding for students and teachers alike. We pride ourselves on building friendly relationships with our students and taking a personal interest in their development.
As well as pre-school, primary and middle school age children we also teach adult professional clients who want to improve their conversation skills, grammar and pronunciation.
Our reputation for quality training has resulted in high demand for our services and we now require additional teachers to join our enthusiastic team. Teaching with Premier English is ideal for those wanting to teach whilst experiencing life in China and learning or improving their Mandarin. We aim to involve our staff in all aspects of the business and to offer a friendly, supportive and enjoyable work environment.
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A Gargantuan Purple Sea Monster Lurks Inside a Two-Story Warehouse at Philadelphia's Navy Yard
Twenty inflatable tentacles extend from the roof and several windows of a two-story warehouse in Philadelphia's Navy Yard, making it appear as if sea monsters have attacked the former naval storehouse in an installation titled Sea Monsters HERE. The massive work is the largest inflatable sculpture ever created by UK-based artists Filthy Luker (previously) and Pedro Estrellas. It was produced in partnership with Group X, an anonymous collective of local artists and curators, and the Navy Yard which extends along the Delaware River.
The purple tentacles range from 32 to 40 feet, and curl upwards to reveal green suction cups lining their inner surface. Luker and Estrellas have been collaborating on inflatable sculptures since 1996, you can see more of their recent works on Instagram and their website, Designs in Air. Sea Monsters HERE will be on view both day and night through November 16, 2018. You can view a video tour of the installation in a video produced by Foxx below.
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Travel Posters by Heads of State
Philadelphia design firm The Heads of State launched a great new web site today with a treasure trove of impressive poster and illustration work. They also have a fancy new store with some prints for sale, including this great travel series.
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Awesome Project: An Oak Tree for Bronx Squirrels
For Bronxites who live near it, the Bronx and Pelham Parkway is a mini Central Park. "When you're here, you're isolated from everything else for a moment," says ioby Leader and nearby resident Roxanne Delgado. "It gives you a moment of zen."
Sadly, this two-mile-long zen oasis has developed an ugly problem: untamed garbage. As a CBS New York story reported in December 2017: "Instead of taking their trash to the curb, people are taking it to a public park in the Bronx, and residents are outraged." Roxanne says she was seeing everything from bags of clothes and kitchen scraps to bathroom sinks and window frames strewn around the lawns. The situation reached a breaking point for her last spring, when she saw a squirrel—one of her favorite features of the park—rummaging through a pile of trash. She decided enough was enough, and founded Friends of Pelham Parkway to promote stewardship of this prized green space that serves residents of several adjacent neighborhoods.
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WePlaza! Help bring free wifi, arts programming, and architect-designed shade structures to some of NYC's beloved outdoor community spaces
Anyone who's been in New York over the past few years will know that there've been huge changes afoot in many of our public spaces. From Times Square to Union Square to Bliss Plaza in Sunnyside Queens, lovely open community spaces both big and small are being freed of traffic and built out and expanded and greened and brightened up, and New Yorkers love them. We stop by in droves with bag lunches, or for a chat, or a rest, or a bit of shade or sun, or to meet someone new. NYC plazas seem to be here to stay.
What many New Yorkers may not see, though, is how many thousands of busy hands are at work to make these spaces the vibrant community hubs they are – or how much time, money, and love go into maintaining and constantly improving them. Seems easy enough, right? Block off traffic and throw in a few planters? Well, no. Turning a plaza into a real community space is actually super hard, expensive work.
So today, we want to highlight an exciting Neighborhood Plaza Partnership (NPP) campaign. NPP is a program under the fabulous Horticultural Society of New York, or "the Hort," for those in the know. The campaign, called WePlaza!, brings together improvement initiatives coming down the pipeline at three plazas in Queens and Brooklyn. Always on the lookout for new ways to fund plaza improvements, these three projects have come together to do a crowd-resourcing test run of sorts.
"Part of our mission," explains Dorothy Le, director of capacity building at NPP, "is to work with plaza groups to see what kind of tools we can use, and crowd sourcing is potentially one of them." If this test run in crowd resourcing is successful, the futures of NYC plazas will look that much more secure.
"Seeing the possibilities that exist in these spaces is a really positive thing, and really opens up creative avenues for community members, whether they're arts groups or educational groups, or whether they're simply waiting for the train," Le says.
So check out the awesome WePlaza! video teaser on their campaign page, and meet the leaders of the three initiatives, below. See if any of them calls to you!
- Third Thursdays performances at Bliss Plaza, Sunnyside, Queens
When arts group Recreate Queens put out a public call, recently, for local performers to take the "stage" this summer at Bliss Plaza, they were immediately flooded with over 40 applications. Things were off to a good start, to put it mildly.
The call went out to fill what will be the very first arts programming series at brand new Bliss Plaza, which opened last summer. In the next few weeks, five performers will be selected, and will be scheduled to perform on the third Thursdays of each month from June to October. There'll be no official stage or sound system, but otherwise, the sky's the limit. "We want people to step off the train and wonder 'hey, what's going on here?' and have a seat, whether it's for five minutes or for the full hour," says Rachel Thieme, director of Sunnyside Shines Business Improvement District. "We want to draw people in who wouldn't go to a more formal performance space in the neighborhood or further out."
What's perhaps most exciting about season one of this new programming series is that no one has the faintest idea of what it'll look like, culturally speaking. "Sunnyside is such a diverse neighborhood, like so many neighborhoods in Queens, but really especially here," says Thieme. "We have large populations of people from Ireland, from Central and South American countries. People from Eastern Europe. So I'm really curious in terms of cultural performance what we'll see. Maybe it's going to be one week of flamenco and one week of Irish step dancing. I hope that it will reflect the diversity of the neighborhood. The Plaza has been a really popular public space, and I think this is an opportunity to really make it more of a town square center."
To learn more, and to donate, click here.
- Free Wifi at Corona Plaza
Coming soon to Corona Plaza, Queens: free wifi! By this summer, you should be able to stroll through the space and log right in. Best of all, users will be directed, upon signing in for the free Wifi, to a main Corona Plaza community page. The site, will highlight community and educational events at the plaza, and promotions by local businesses. An information fair for immigrants might be advertised, for example, or an event along health and wellness themes. Or a notice about an open-air Zumba class next Friday night might pop up.
Ricardi Calixte, Deputy Director of the Queens Economic Development Corporation, is eager to see how this main page might bring together a community in which not everyone has wifi at home, and not everyone is aware of all the neighborhood has to offer. The community, he notes, is a largely immigrant one, and largely working class.
The plaza, Calixte says, is slated for some fantastic renovations next year, so he and his colleagues want to bring a community together around the space before that work begins. "We're looking forward to making the most of this year," he says, "to make sure that people know what's happening in the plaza, and then when the final project is ready to go, people will be excited to get back to it. We think that the wifi and upping our social media campaign will help boost the image of the plaza."
To donate, visit the project's campaign page here.
- Gorgeous new shade structure for teeny-tiny Fulton Plaza, in Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Maria Nikolovski, an architecture student at Pratt, walks through Fulton Plaza all the time, on her way to school, or to Fulton Street's hip cafes and restaurants. She and her peers have always wanted to create a piece of work for their Fort Greene/Clinton Hill community, but until now, they've never had the chance. The funding wasn't there, and local projects weren't a part of their coursework. Most Pratt architecture student projects over the years have actually been abroad. So when student design group PrattSIDE came into some grant funding, they knew just how to use it.
Coming to Fulton Plaza: a graceful shade canopy, made exclusively of steel and rope. Why steel and rope? They're cheap, easy to use, and malleable (which will come in handy when the structure is moved, after its first 11 months, to an undecided new location). The inspiration came from the local community, via PrattSIDE's partner, the Fulton Area Business Alliance (FAB); residents had reported that what they most wanted in the plaza was shade, shade, shade. The sun can be harsh in the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill area; mini parks abound, but in the in-between areas, you're liable to get scorched.
Maria and her peers are thrilled to offer a taste of the Pratt aesthetic to the larger Fort Greene community. "In Fort Greene there's a big art and design community," she explains. "With Pratt Institute being one of the best design schools in the country, there's so much of that kind of art energy in the area, and sometimes it isn't represented well in the community. This building's full of so much talent, and we're really excited to release that into the community, and see what they have to say."
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AWESOME PROJECT: Friends of Van Cortlandt Park Are Giving Their Garden a Makeover
Hey New Yorkers, did you know that there are over 20 miles of hiking trails in Van Cortlandt Park, up in the Bronx? That its 1,146 acres contain a golf course, a stable, and a house that George Washington slept in? That you can still go there and find green spaces that are actually wild?
New Yorkers pride themselves on knowing their city like the back of their hands, but few of us know that the third largest park in the big apple is the sprawling Van Cortlandt Park. A New York Times article shed light last year on why most New Yorkers don't know parks like Van Cortlandt as well as they should, and why parks in the outer boroughs have historically gotten so much less attention – and money – than Central Park has. In a nutshell: wealthy donors tend to live near, and therefore feel most invested in, the parks that are already doing quite well, which has left the others pretty much out in the cold.
That hasn't stopped the tireless Friends of Van Cortlandt Park (FVCP), a nonprofit founded in 1992 in response to exactly that problem, from giving Van Cortlandt the TLC, the respect, and the use that it deserves. They do incredible work in sustainability, forest restoration, and urban gardening in their beloved green space, and have evolved over the years to become the park's primary free educational organization. Each year, they teach more than 5,000 students – and not just children, but adults as well.
Of the many programs they offer, one in particular is skyrocketing right now. "Our garden program has quickly become our most popular program," says FVCP executive director Christina Taylor. "We get more volunteers on our garden days than we do on our forest restoration days. Everyone loves it." FVCP's garden is an ideal place for parents to bring their kids and show them how tomatoes come from soil and sun, not from the grocery store; it's a controlled and contained, and yet wild, natural classroom. The perfect balance. "Something as simple as counting the cucumbers that are growing – they love it. With the compost bins, they get to see worms and hold worms," says Taylor, of the sheer delight that the garden has brought to its littlest stakeholders.
Older kids are getting in on the fun, too. FVCP, through a partnership with Grow NYC, helps to run green markets for youths in the neighborhood, scraps from which come back to the garden to be composted. There are other signs that the neighbors want to get more involved with FVCP's garden: they're showing up with their own kitchen scraps at Taylor's office door. Literally. "People will show up at the door with food scraps," she says, "and be like 'hey, is there room in your freezer?'" In the summer, if she happens to have been offsite for a few days, unexpected compost drop-offs can result in pungent mishaps. But Taylor laughs when she talks about it; carting spoiled compost to the trash may stink, but it shows that people are hooked. Garden-mania in the neighborhood, in other words, is at a fever pitch.
The problem is that the current garden needs a face-lift. Its first 400 sq. ft. raised growing bed was built on the cheap, of low-quality wood, in 2008, and is badly rotted. Well-loved shovels, rakes, and other tools are breaking down left and right, literally losing their handles. From our perspective, this is all a good sign: FVCP's garden has run through its first round of equipment and is going stronger than ever. We can imagine the hundreds of stories of positive community change told by each dent, each missing handle, each rusted piece of equipment.
But new shovels don't grow on trees, so FVCP is raising money through ioby for round two. Hand pruners, rakes, wheelbarrows, you name it. "We'd also like to get a new storage container to put these tools in that we're buying," says Taylor. "Right now our storage for the tools ends up being that we lay them on the ground and put the wheelbarrow on top of them, and that's how we protect them from rain." Not a rust-proof system. For the raised bed that needs rebuilding, the money will go to fresh lumber (of a much hardier quality, this time), brackets, and soil to mix with the compost.
"We've been thrilled with the response," says Taylor, of the campaign. "We're about two thirds of the way right now, we just have to meet another $700. We'll definitely be able to replace the garden bed, and at this point it's just determining how many tools we can buy."
So pitch in a shovel or a rake for the holidays, all ye New Yorkers who talk about there being no green space in our city. This is one of those wonderful cases in which you can see very concretely how far your donation will go: $10 or so for a new shovel, which will see the fingerprints of hundreds of happy Bronx gardeners over the years to come. And check out the hugely exciting 20-year master plan recently put together by NYC Parks for Van Cortlandt; it includes plans for a community garden at least five or six times the size of the current site. Onward!
Resilience is Personal: Thoughts from Cassie
"Resilience" is a word you hear a lot in the aftermath of a disaster. Indeed, it's critical to think about how we can be less vulnerable in the future. In New York City during Hurricane Sandy, we saw firsthand how a downed transportation system can bring the city to a halt. After the earthquake in Haiti, we talked a lot about how to make buildings more stable by improving building codes. These conversations are incredibly important, and help us to plan for what we hope will never happen.
I have been thinking about what it takes to be resilient for a while. Before joining ioby as staff, I worked at the United Nations Development Programme as a Climate Change Policy Specialist. I supported national governments to address climate change within their countries and at the negotiating table at the UNFCCC negotiations. In my work, I spoke with people addressing disasters around the world: the floods in Pakistan, earthquake in Japan, typhoons in the Philippines and other tragedies.
Here is what I learned: resilience is personal.
When the storm hits, it's the things that you barely thought about before the disaster that are crucial. Questions that you probably never asked yourself before in any urgent way: How can I get food and water? How can I communicate with my family and friends? If I need to leave my home, how do I get out?
In my experience, people that could answer questions like these are much more resilient to the impacts of the disaster. And in New York City, we saw this vividly – stories of the elderly stuck in apartments at the tops of buildings with no way to get food or power. They depended on the incredible army of relief workers, volunteers and concerned citizens to bring them supplies. By getting their personal needs met, they were more resilient.
Don't get me wrong – personal resilience is very connected to the resilience of larger systems. You can't call your family if the telephone lines are out. But in a disaster my first though isn't "what's going on with the grid?" It's "How do I call my family? NOW."
This is why I am proud of ioby's report after Hurricane Sandy. While there have been many important discussions about how we can improve larger infrastructure – like energy grids, buildings and transportation systems – to be less vulnerable to erratic storms, ioby's is the first to make this personal. When we asked people for ideas, we didn't know what we would get. And the responses surprised in all sorts of good ways. Many suggestions are wildly practical and don't cost a lot of money. Ideas like having a "buddy" in your apartment building to make sure that everyone is accounted for after a disaster. Imagine how that would have helped in the days following Sandy? Or Katrina?
I hope this is just the beginning of more efforts to talk about resilience from the personal perspective. There is no doubt that we need to rebuild in smarter, stronger ways and it will require good ideas from everyone so that, if a storm like Sandy comes our way again, we will be ready with good answers to the unexpected questions.
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PseudoPod 454: Eastern Promise
Eastern Promise
by Stewart Horn
'In more western parts of Europe, incorrupt corpses were apt to induce almost the opposite response. A lack of decay was taken to be evidence that the individual had died in a state of perfect grace, immaculate and sinless. There are reputed to be whole, perfect bodies secreted among the other saintly relics in churches all over France, Spain, Italy and Prussia, and all those that remain intact have since been canonized. Many such corpses were said to emanate an 'odour of sanctity' for some time after death, described as akin to the smell of fresh flowers; it may be principally this olfactory phenomenon, coupled with geographical and religious incidence, that determined which corpses were worshipped as saints, and which destroyed as demons or vampires.'
M. Rhodes, Demonology and Vampirism in Europe, 1897
About the Author
Stewart Horn
STEWART HORN is a professional musician and amateur writer and poet based on the West Coast of Scotland. His work has appeared in the Horrorzine website and two Horrorzine anthologies, Screaming Dreams Press's magazine Estronomicon, Crowded Magazine, the Lovecraft Ezine and the British Fantasy Society Journal, as well as a few small local things. He blogs occasionally at Stewartguitar, writes reviews for the BFS and is a member of the Glasgow Science Fiction Writers' Circle.
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Hugo Jackson
Hugo lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was born in Chichester, UK, and lived there until the age of 26, moving to the USA to live with his wife.
Along with writing, Hugo has a passion for stage acting, voice acting, stage combat, and anime. He has performed in several professional theatre productions, as well as a few documentaries, and was an extra in The Young Victoria. Intermittently he has led stage combat workshops for the Chichester Festival Youth Theatre, Chichester College and The Point Youth Theatre in Eastleigh.
He constructs his own anime, fandom, and Steampunk costumes and regularly attends any conventions he can.
Hugo has been exposed to story writing and dramatic narrative from a very early age, as his older sister used to write and illustrate stories to keep him amused. His greatest creative influences in his youth were the Mysterious Cities of Gold, Visionaries, and Disney's Robin Hood; in books it was The Deptford Mice trilogy, written by Robin Jarvis, who is his favourite author along with Garth Nix (The Abhorsen Trilogy, Shade's Children). He has an enormous array of soundtracks from anime, films and video games. Music is one of his biggest inspirations, with various favourite tracks responsible for the majority of the Resonance Tetralogy storyline.
Ian Stuart
Ian Stuart is a writer/performer living in York. He has done work for the BBC and Manx Radio, as well as audiobooks, historical guides and promotional videos. He is also a storyteller/guide for The Ghost Trail of York, taking tourists round the city and telling them some of its darker secrets. You can read more about his poetry and his dog, Digby, on his blog, The Top Banana. If you wish to contact Ian about voiceover work of any kind , you can get in touch with him on Twitter at @yorkwriter99. His greatest boast is that he is the father of a famous son.


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Welcome back to AWS Crash Course.
In the last section we discussed about EBS.
In this section we will discuss about AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk makes it even easier for developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud. Developers simply upload their application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.


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'COP21' is the buzzword of the moment thanks to the recent news about a huge leap forward for international action against the effects of climate change. If you've been out of the loop, read on for the scoop on why this is such a big deal…
What is COP21?
To break it down, COP stands for Conference of Parties, which is the name for the meetings that have been happening annually since 1995. The very first one was in Berlin, with the most recent taking place in Paris.
These meetings were part of an initiative set up by the UNFCCC – the UN Framework on Climate Change, which was adopted in 1992. This was the first time an international nod was made towards climate change and our need to do something about it.
Why was COP21 so special?
This boils down to two basic elements: Firstly, everyone was over the moon that every single country in the world was able to come to a united agreement. That's 195 countries in harmony.
Secondly, it's the first time such a huge target has been set to battle the effects of climate change. In their own words, the COP meetings were set up "to avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system."
So what's happening?
The overall aim is to stop rising global temperatures caused by harmful emissions, AKA greenhouse gases.
COP21, also known as the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, has achieved a universal (legally binding) agreement. Every country has signed on, and everyone has targets to hit to limit global warming.
The numbers:
195 nations – the amount of countries united and in agreeance for this climate change deal. That's 100% attendance, with every country represented.
2C – the agreed limit for the global average temperature.
60% – how much we want to reduce global emissions by (source), by 2050.
2020 – the year the agreement is due to enter in force.
25,000 – the number of official delegates involved in COP21 (from governments, intergovernmental organisations, UN agencies, NGOs and civil society).
If you'd like to find out more about the Conference of Parties or the UNFCCC, visit their official websites by clicking here or here, respectively.


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Callitas Health Signs Partnership with BFS Innovations and Pure Leaf
In a press release from Callitas Health Inc. (OTC:MPHMF), the company stated that have "signed a consulting agreement" with two other companies to help launch their new patent-pending cannabis delivery technology.
Essentially, the partnership is aimed towards Callitas Health focusing on what they know best, manufacturing and distribution, while having BFS Innovations and Pure Leaf Group "accelerate speed-to-market on a state-by-state level."
Callitas Health is a pharmaceutical and OTC consumer good development company with focuses specifically in developing technologies for "weight management, female sexual health and wellness, cannabis delivery technologies and other proprietary drugs." Their top current product is ToConceive which is a lubricant clinically proven to aid with conception.
Their new patent-pending delivery technology is known as CannaStrip and seems to be an oral delivery system.
BFS Innovations Inc. is a consultation company who helps their customers solve development challenges with new products. BFS Innovations has worked with the likes of Pfizer, Amway, Crayola, and Smuckers.
Pure Leaf Group is an experience player in existing cannabis markets. Essentially, Pure Leaf aims to help companies looking to enter the market by developing "operating partnerships with key partners to help our clients build the necessary infrastructure to bring safe, consistent, and innovative products to medical patients and recreational consumers."
Callitas Health's Director of Sales and Marketing, Joshua Maurice, stated that their "proprietary business model for manufacturing and distribution is novel and efficient. By partnering with BFS Innovations and Pure Leaf Group, we are accelerating our speed-to-market on a state-by-state level, which is very exciting."


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Fifteen years after conjuring an imaginary phantom known as Mercy Black, a repentant woman returns to her hometown to live with her sister and young nephew. But as Mercy continues to haunt her and the death count rises, she must face her deepest terror and discover the truth of her past before Mercy Black claims her nephew. Daniella Pineda, Austin Amelio, Elle LaMont, Miles Emmons, Lee Eddy, and Janeane Garofalo star in this terrifying story of regret, redemption, and the dark side of belief.
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St John's College students banned from college ball for making 'rape jokes'
Five students at one of the world's top universities have been banned from the end-of-year ball over allegations they made jokes about rape.
The five young men from St John's College at the University of Cambridge will not be able to attend the May Ball following their behaviour at a previous event.
The incident took place last December at a "swap" where students from different colleges are invited to drink at St John's.
The event left women and other minority groups feeling unsafe of being racially abused or even raped, after one of the students was allegedly heard saying "stand up if your favourite type of girl is asleep."
The five students include four second years and one third year student from the college.
One female second year student who was present at the swap said she felt the punishments were fair.
The student, who refused to give her name, said: "Actions like theirs should have consequences, and this seems like a step in the right direction."
Speaking to The Tab, another second year, said: "Banning the boys from the May Ball is all very well and good, but I can't see how that's a constructive means of tackling the source of their offences - banning them from one May Ball isn't exactly a step in the direction of tackling their prejudices."
Another student, who was at the December swap, said: "They were really aggressive. They were all quite big and were really rowdy but not in a fun way.
"In a really intimidating way. They definitely called more than one of the girls fat. I guess lots of drinking societies are rowdy but they were especially bad."
An investigation was launched by The Dean of the college and it is thought that the banning from the ball is a punishment following the incident.
A spokesperson for the College said: "Like any higher education institution, and indeed any large organisation, the College occasionally has to deal with incidents of unacceptable behaviour.
"All of our students sign up to a code of conduct and there is a rigorous system in place for dealing with infringements.
"Although any breach of discipline is unacceptable and will be punished, it is also important to stress that such incidents are rarely typical of the general conduct of the students involved, and wholly unrepresentative of the wider College community.
"The overwhelming majority of our students are sensible, hard-working young people who behave responsibly. It is therefore inappropriate and disproportionate to discuss specific incidents further after they have been dealt with."


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Juravinski Hospital
|Juravinski Hospital
|Hamilton Health Sciences
|Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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|McMaster University
|Hamilton Health Sciences
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The Juravinski Hospital is a hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada operated by Hamilton Health Sciences. It is located adjacent to the Juravinski Cancer Centre. The hospital was ranked 2nd in Canada for research according to Research Infosource Inc. in 2014.[1]
Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre is a full-service general hospital offering excellence in cancer care, orthopedics and hepatobiliary surgery. The combination of inpatient and outpatient programs supports one of the busiest and largest comprehensive cancer centres in Canada, including community-based oncology clinics in Brantford and Burlington. The site's focus is delivering a full spectrum of cancer care services, with programs ranging from prevention, screening and diagnosis to treatment including chemotherapy and the region's only radiation treatment program. In addition, the Juravinski Hospital is the site of the Hamilton region's only hepatobiliary surgery center.
The site was first occupied by Mount Hamilton Hospital, which opened on Concession Street in April 1917 to help care for veterans of the First World War.[2]
In 1954, Nora Frances Henderson Hospital opened as a 322-bed maternity hospital on the same site.[2] It was named after the first woman on Hamilton City Council and the first elected to a Canadian city Board of Control.[2][3] She was a journalist and activist who had promoted children's and women's rights to health care. The hospital operated as Henderson General Hospital for several years.[3]
The site was redeveloped in 2010, and renamed Juravinski Hospital after Charles Juravinski, former owner of the Flamboro Downs racetrack. He and his wife Margaret donated $43 million to Hamilton city hospitals.[4]
The Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation raises funds to support the Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre including: facilities, equipment, research, patient amenities, and staff education.
- ^ "Canada's Top 40 Hospitals" (PDF). Research Infosource Inc. Research Infosource Inc. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- ^ a b c "Henderson Hospital". McMaster University. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved March 6, 2011.
- ^ a b "Henderson General Hospital Forever". Archived from the original on 2013-01-15.
- ^ "StreetBeat: "Mr. Generosity"" (Press release). The Hamilton Spectator. April 20, 2007.
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I've written about tennis before. I enjoy playing and watching the sport. I find myself wondering...why is that I take such pleasure in smashing a fluorescent yellow, fuzzy ball across a court and then waiting for someone to smash it back to me?
Well, it's simple, actually. It's the motion, the dance, the form of the whole game that mesmerizes me. It's the impact of the racket strings on the ball, the shuffling of feet to get into position in time to make a return, the upward toss of a serve, followed by the pronation of the arm as the wrist rolls inward. It's the endorphin and adrenaline buzz that surges through the blood and whole body. It's the rhythm and harmony in the exchange between partners and opponents. It's the thrill of victory, and the comeback from defeat.
And there's the stillness within all those actions. Stillness in action, as we say in AYP. Or, being in the zone—as some sports enthusiasts have called it. It's the condition of moving with great peace and purpose, even amidst chaotic circumstances and adversity. This state of being and doing can be considered a paradox: a hybrid of polar opposites.
Another element of the game also comes to mind, and that is the attention and applause which comes from an interested audience. Without spectators, the sport is somehow incomplete. Not to say that every match or practice session needs to be watched from the outside. What I mean is that a worthy contest will attract a captivated crowd.
I can't think of a better gift than giving one's attention to another receptive person. When we give our attention to someone else, we are touching them with our awareness. And the content of our awareness is of utmost importance. What does our consciousness contain? It could be many qualities: warm love and admiration, cold discernment and observation, best wishes, affection, aversion, confusion, hatred, serenity, exuberance, and so many other seed-feelings and ideas.
When tennis players are watched by their fans, the players are affected by the incoming gaze. When the crowd is elated and chanting for the success of their chosen favorite, that emotionally infused awareness can elevate the competitors on court to a higher level. The crowd thrives off the competitors, and the competitors thrive off the crowd. It's symbiotic.
In non-competitive circumstances, the same is true. Whether it's a collaboration in art, or a joint effort in a community group, the stillness and energy exchanged will play a crucial role in the success of the venture. There is no doubt about it. It's simple and obvious.
Going back to the topic of rooting for particular players, one thing I've realized is that I don't like every single person the same as I like some of my favorite people. That's an honest statement. Nature makes us selective and preferential in order to diversify us and form cohesive groups. But nature also glues the separate groups together to achieve the overarching goal of unity. So, I may not like all people the same, but I have come to love them for who they are, which is beyond preference. I am rooting for their success, even if they're not my favorite. It's in my highest self-interest to do so. It's not some forced, altruistic contrivance. It's just a natural byproduct of seeing my self reflected in everything and everyone.
Even the most fierce competitors can shake hands and be friends after the game. It doesn't have to be a fight to the death. There is such a thing as healthy competition. It's just a matter of perceiving and acting from a place of self-awareness, which does not exclude anyone from the vast, cosmic game.
Thank you for reading. Unity. Strength. Wisdom.


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I had to go out to Target today so I put some makeup on finally.
I did a simple eye in different purple tones. It looks more silver but I assure you it is purple.
I am still feeling pretty yucky. I think my simple cold has morphed into a sinus infection.
My digital camera decided to die today. I got home and was ready to take pics of my eyes and some of the haul I got BUT it wont work. It turns on but the lens just zooms out and in over and over again.
I remembered that I have a digital video camera and I looked and sure enough it takes pics. They look better than my camera did so it will work until I can get a new camera!
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Brace yourselves: this week's journal provides the third entry in my legislative round-up. As the number of bills introduced in the North Carolina General Assembly soars past the 2,700 mark, several new pieces of legislation are drawing increased scrutiny from parents and educators. Education bills currently under consideration run the gamut: attempting to lengthen the school year, raise the compulsory age of school attendance, and mandate a nationally-normed achievement test. Here are all of the need-to-know details.
Legislation to tinker with the length of the school year already has a contentious history. In 2004, a group of frustrated parents coalesced in a battle to preserve summers for public school students. Having struck out with intransigent school boards, parents took their case directly to Raleigh. Their politically savvy grassroots campaign, Save Our Summers, (along with a user-friendly website) threw the State Board of Education, Department of Public Instruction, and the North Carolina School Board Association completely off kilter. The result was a new law instructing systems to begin school no earlier than August 25th and end no later than June 10th. In the process, the law eliminated five teacher workdays without reducing pay.
Having enjoyed a brief time of sunny implementation, this issue is now back in five separate bills, all attempting to weaken the current law. Some bills promote waivers to particular systems or even any system in the state; others permit schools to move the acceptable start date up as early as August 8th. Citizens and parents who joined together to pressure legislators to pass the law in 2004 are hard at work to preserve it.
Another issue that's front and center for lawmakers is raising the compulsory attendance age from 16 to 17 years old. Abysmally low graduation rates have some policy makers convinced that forcing disenfranchised students to stay in school one more year would increase their commitment to graduate. Currently, most statesrequire student attendance up to age 16; however, there is a growing trend to mandate more years. But there's a down side to this kind of thinking: is it really in anyone's best interests to require disruptive, disengaged students to continue on? Will one more year accomplish what 11+ school years could not, magically turning the tide of educational disaffection? If we're really serious about keeping kids engaged in school, it makes far more sense to enforce existing truancy laws and employ more effective teaching methods.
While the above issues have garnered much of the spotlight, another lesser-known legislative goal will have a far greater impact on student achievement. Currently, North Carolina administers End of Grade tests (assessed in third through eighth grade) and high school End of Course tests; these exams have elicited criticism for years, since they provide parents with an incomplete and unclear picture of their child's academic performance. These tests also fail to illuminate students' strengths and weaknesses in particular concepts.
Some legislators are intent on reforming the state's testing program by requiring a nationally-normed achievement test. Three bills, H494, S450, and S1322, call for the Department of Public Instruction to stop developing their own assessments and return to the use of a nationally-recognized achievement test. Obviously, implementing a nationally-standardized test isn't a panacea for all of our educational ills; nevertheless, it would provide parents with a more useful, reliable evaluation tool to examine student achievement.
Whatever you do in the weeks ahead, keep your eyes on Raleigh. It would behoove all of us to track legislative activities closely – after all, such are the demands of democracy. As Irish statesman John Philpot Curran observed, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
To learn more about education legislation as well as the latest education news, visit the Alliance online at www.nceducationalliance.org. Check out the "Headlines" section of our home page, updated daily with articles from every major newspaper in the state. At the Alliance, we are committed to keeping you informed and empowered as we join together to improve education for the children of North Carolina.


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Parker Earns Full Ride Scholarship
April 5, 2018
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At the Roy J. Wasson Academic Campus, a Bijou School student, Mariah Parker received a full scholarship based on her skills as a team member of a women't softball team. Parker is the first student at Bijou to obtain a full ride to a College. She will be attending Lake Region College in North Dakota.
Parker is a 17-year-old Senior at the Bijou School who finished all of her high school credits at the end of Quarter 3 this year. She played for the Afterschock team in Colorado Springs. Her coach states that she is a phenomenal player on the field and an overall fantastic leader on her team. She plays left outfield catcher. Parker said that she was excited and happy to receive this award.
Parker's Signing Party was held in the hallway of the Bijou School. The whole student body celebrated with Parker and had a slice of cake. Speeches were given by Parker, her current coach, and her mother, Stefany Parker, to acknowledge Parker's accomplishments.


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If you still watch mainstream news you're probably looking under rocks for Russian spies and North Koreans. Possibly even making sure Trump and Sean Spicer are not hiding in your bushes. However, the greatest threat to the American way of life and the nation as a whole, is living right next door.
Abraham Lincoln famously said "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves". We have faltered and we have lost our freedoms, and it has been at our own hands. Maybe not at the hands of anyone reading this, but those Americans and institutions who have subverted our culture and our way of life. There is a cancer growing within our borders. It has many names; socialism, communism, And Marxism for starters. However, at the end of the day it goes by "Collectivism".
America was a unique experiment in human history. A nation built on the principle of individualism. A nation where the right of the individual to self determination could not be subverted by the collective. A revolutionary opportunity in the history of human social development. Never before had human beings been given the chance for personal gain on such a grand scale. Millions crossed the Atlantic Ocean with nothing, expecting nothing, and claiming nothing, except the ability to forge their own destiny. The fabric of this great nation was built on this dream, but this dream has turned into a nightmare.
No longer do the majority of Americans seek to pave their own path. They seeks to have The State pave it for them with other people's money and labor. No longer do they seek the dangers of freedom, but instead seek the totalitarian death grip of peaceful slavery. No longer do Americans seek the knowledge and tenacity of the wealthy, but wish to rob and extort them of their wealth. America has changed. Our once great pioneering spirit has been replaced by the attitude of a petulant child who was given 1 cookie instead of 2.
America is dying from within. The coastal regions, and major cities are forcing us all onto the cattle cars of their slow suicide. Our children's minds are being poisoned by state run education and Marxist professors. The overbearing state apparatus has continually seized our wealth, our freedoms, and our way of life. We have had enough.
We the forgotten peoples of America rallied together and elected Donald Trump to break the suicidal cycle of self hate, white guilt, and Marxist ideologies. Only to then have, not only the Democratic Party, but the Republicans who were suppose to represent us subvert him at every chance. How much bigger of a statement could we have made? How much does it take to make these people realize that they are to represent our will, not theirs! Where they are to be listening to us, they cower in fear of the left wing media and violent leftist groups. Our officials are more concerned with what Rosie O'Donnell and the New York Times will say about them, then what we will.
In our want and desire to live our lives in peace, we have opened the door for violent social-marxist to rally the war the drums. We must speak up! We must demand action! We must no longer sit by and idly allow far left basement dwellers and Hollywood elites to control the narrative in OUR country. We are the counter-culture, we are the true resistance. We are the decedents of those men and women who left their peace and prosperity to forge a new and greater path, and it is our responsibility to defend what they have built! No longer will we entertain the voices of those who wish to sell our nation to the 3rd world in exchange for the alleviation of their perceived ancestral guilt. No longer will we be told we cannot speak. No longer will cower to the enemy out of fear of being labeled racists and whatever other "ist" they decide to call us. We are Americans and we will not allow our nation to be destroyed by feminazis and beta males.
We must put the establishment on notice. You work for us or you don't work at all! We must start voting these people out! The Republicans have controlled both the Presidency and The Congress for 4 months, and yet very little has changed. We will not accept this, we must demand action! If we continue to allow our representatives to be more afraid of the media and far left professors than they are of their own constituents, America will truly be lost for good. It is time to rise again, a demand action!
-Tom Binnz