ORLANDO, Fla. -- Many children are involved in sports. It’s estimated that 65 percent of children play sports in America (http://WikiAnswer.com). The ones neglected are those with disabilities.
Heavenly Hoofs is changing that statistic. They are a therapeutic horseback riding center, started in 2002, and located at the Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee. Their mission is to provide equine assisted activities to enhance the mental, emotional, and physical well-being of individuals with life threatening illnesses, disabilities, and at risk youths.
“Animals can be a bridge between a kid’s world and our world,” said Shelly Williams, 40, an instructor at Heavenly Hoofs for five years.
The gate of a horse is similar to the gate of a human. This helps kids with disabilities to gain balance, focus, coordination, flexibility, and muscular strength.
“A kid came to us with leg braces and after two years here, he now runs and plays with no braces,” said Williams.
After an eight to 10 week session, Meredith Syed from Orlando saw a dramatic change in her son, Adam, nine years old who has Down syndrome.
He has become gentler with the horses and other animals, follows directions, and has a new vocabulary to use.
At age three, Adam was “afraid to sit on a swing and now he’s sitting on a horse backwards,” said Syed.
Another parent who saw a great chance in their child was Thomas Bufkin from Saint Cloud. His daughter Grace, 11 years old has Autism. She used to shake her hands constantly, but since riding she learned to use her hands to grip, showing motor skills.
“Programs like this really help,” said Bufkin. “Instead of banging her head on a wall, she’s learning motor skills and how to use her body.”
Volunteers warm up the horses before letting the children ride. The children then help groom and saddle up the horses.
Each horse has a 90 day trial period for the instructors to see if the horse can handle the special needs of the children. Usually the best horses have mellow attitudes, are not scared of loud noises or fast objects, older, and/or ex-show horses.
While riding each child has two to three volunteers at their side walking with them offering support and encouragement.
The children learn how to make the horse walk, trot, stop, and back up. At the end of each lesson they play games such as Red Light-Green Light, basketball, and Simon Says.
To volunteer or have your child ride at Heavenly Hoofs, contact Amy Glester or Megan Edge at (407) 933-RIDE or at http://volunteer@heavenlyhoofs.com.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
mike adkins revised
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Pastor Mike Adkins of Grace Fellowship Church spoke Wednesday to the Valencia Journalism class at the West campus.
The question and answer style discussion focused mainly on Adkins involvement in his church and his time serving the Orlando community with the Destiny Foundation.
“Our church is for people who don’t really know about God,” said Adkins. He says he especially likes to attract people who are not directly from a Christian background.
Adkins’ goal for his church is not to “shove Jesus down their throats,” but to “help people take the next step to God.”
To help his church members and his community on Easter, Adkins teamed up with the Destiny Foundation and collected 500 bags of groceries to give away to the needy at the Easter at Eola event, in Orlando.
“Instead of giving a hand out, we’re giving a hand up,” said Adkins about the people who come to Destiny Foundation for help.
Not only does Adkins help with the Destiny Foundation, he travels with his church to Rwanda where he participates in building wells, providing clean water for the villages.
Together the Rwanda project and the Destiny Foundation have raised about $1.8 million.
If you are in need of help, wish to donate your time or money, please visit the Grace Fellowship website at http://gogracefellowship.com, or the Destiny Foundation at http://battlepoverty.org.
The question and answer style discussion focused mainly on Adkins involvement in his church and his time serving the Orlando community with the Destiny Foundation.
“Our church is for people who don’t really know about God,” said Adkins. He says he especially likes to attract people who are not directly from a Christian background.
Adkins’ goal for his church is not to “shove Jesus down their throats,” but to “help people take the next step to God.”
To help his church members and his community on Easter, Adkins teamed up with the Destiny Foundation and collected 500 bags of groceries to give away to the needy at the Easter at Eola event, in Orlando.
“Instead of giving a hand out, we’re giving a hand up,” said Adkins about the people who come to Destiny Foundation for help.
Not only does Adkins help with the Destiny Foundation, he travels with his church to Rwanda where he participates in building wells, providing clean water for the villages.
Together the Rwanda project and the Destiny Foundation have raised about $1.8 million.
If you are in need of help, wish to donate your time or money, please visit the Grace Fellowship website at http://gogracefellowship.com, or the Destiny Foundation at http://battlepoverty.org.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Essay question no. 4
1. My learning experience from using the Wall Street Journal and having quizzes on them instead of using a conventional textbook is a good experience. I have learned more from the newspaper than I would have ever from a textbook. Naturally textbooks discourage students because it's "just another dumb textbook" and it has a lot of learning material in them that teachers do not cover in class and expect the students to read on their own. Most students will not read the chapters fully. When using the WSJ, it gives the students more understanding of today's world and things that are happening around us. Reading the paper did not affect my schedule at all because I have an hour and forty-five minutes in between classes so I read the stories then. It actually keeps me entertained for that amount of time.
2. I'm not sure if I will continue subscribing to the WSJ because of the money. If my parents are willing to pay for it, then I will keep subscribing. My mom sure does love to steal my newspaper and read it. More than likely I wont continue with it because I already get the Orlando Sentinel. I think one newspaper is enough.
3. I really don't have any suggestions for you to make the class better. I loved how we went through each mass communication there is; form books to the Internet.
4. I am definitely going to pursue a career in mass communications based on this class. It gave me a broader view on mass communication and helped me to decide that I really do want to go into a career for communications.
2. I'm not sure if I will continue subscribing to the WSJ because of the money. If my parents are willing to pay for it, then I will keep subscribing. My mom sure does love to steal my newspaper and read it. More than likely I wont continue with it because I already get the Orlando Sentinel. I think one newspaper is enough.
3. I really don't have any suggestions for you to make the class better. I loved how we went through each mass communication there is; form books to the Internet.
4. I am definitely going to pursue a career in mass communications based on this class. It gave me a broader view on mass communication and helped me to decide that I really do want to go into a career for communications.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Pastor Mike Adkins
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Pastor Mike Adkins of Grace Fellowship Church spoke Wednesday to the Valencia Journalism class at the West campus.
The question and answer style discussion focused mainly on Adkins involvement in his church and his time serving the Orlando community with the Destiny Foundation.
“Our church is for people who don’t really know about God,” said Adkins. He says he especially likes to attract people who are not directly from a Christian background.
Adkins’ goal for his church is not to “shove Jesus down their throats,” but to “help people take the next step to God.”
To help his church members and his community on Easter, Adkins teamed up with the Destiny Foundation and collected 500 bags of groceries to give away to the needy at the Easter at Eola event, in Orlando.
“Instead of giving a hand out, we’re giving a hand up,” said Adkins about the people who come to Destiny Foundation for help.
Not only does Adkins help with the Destiny Foundation, he travels with his church to Rwanda where he participates in building wells, providing clean water for the villages.
Together the Rwanda project and the Destiny Foundation have raised about $1.8 million.
If you are in need of help, wish to donate your time or money, please visit the Grace Fellowship website at www.gogracefellowship.com, or the Destiny Foundation at www.battlepoverty.org.
The question and answer style discussion focused mainly on Adkins involvement in his church and his time serving the Orlando community with the Destiny Foundation.
“Our church is for people who don’t really know about God,” said Adkins. He says he especially likes to attract people who are not directly from a Christian background.
Adkins’ goal for his church is not to “shove Jesus down their throats,” but to “help people take the next step to God.”
To help his church members and his community on Easter, Adkins teamed up with the Destiny Foundation and collected 500 bags of groceries to give away to the needy at the Easter at Eola event, in Orlando.
“Instead of giving a hand out, we’re giving a hand up,” said Adkins about the people who come to Destiny Foundation for help.
Not only does Adkins help with the Destiny Foundation, he travels with his church to Rwanda where he participates in building wells, providing clean water for the villages.
Together the Rwanda project and the Destiny Foundation have raised about $1.8 million.
If you are in need of help, wish to donate your time or money, please visit the Grace Fellowship website at www.gogracefellowship.com, or the Destiny Foundation at www.battlepoverty.org.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Essay 3-social networking
The social networks I use are Facebook and Myspace. I spend around 7-10 hours a week (an hour a day)on Facebook; it's the network I prefer to use and like the most. For myspace I usually just check to see if I have any messages or comments a couple times a week. The most I spend would be an hour a week on that network.
I prefer facebook because it usually consists of older people. Not many 12-15 year olds have a facebook; they are all on myspace. Also, on facebook you don't get as many "creepy" people asking to be your friend. On myspace I usually get at least one person a week asking to be my friend only because they think I'm "hot". I personally don't care if a random person from, let's say New York, tells me I'm hot. I will agree with them but why would I want to be friends with? Because they called me hot? No thanks.
Facebook is pretty important to me. I get to talk daily to my friends from back home (Chicago). I don't like to talk on the phone for some unknown reason...I probably get it from my dad, so facebook is a great way to stay in contact with friends. It's also very handy when you see someone at school and want to get to know them with out actually talking to them. All you have to do is do a little facebook creeping; type in the persons name in the search engine and it will find people that have the same name. You get to see if they're weird or not before you talk to them in person. I do that a lot haha, so I'd definitely pay an annual fee for facebook. The most I'd pay would be $20. As much as I use it, I think that is a reasonable price for just one year.
I prefer facebook because it usually consists of older people. Not many 12-15 year olds have a facebook; they are all on myspace. Also, on facebook you don't get as many "creepy" people asking to be your friend. On myspace I usually get at least one person a week asking to be my friend only because they think I'm "hot". I personally don't care if a random person from, let's say New York, tells me I'm hot. I will agree with them but why would I want to be friends with? Because they called me hot? No thanks.
Facebook is pretty important to me. I get to talk daily to my friends from back home (Chicago). I don't like to talk on the phone for some unknown reason...I probably get it from my dad, so facebook is a great way to stay in contact with friends. It's also very handy when you see someone at school and want to get to know them with out actually talking to them. All you have to do is do a little facebook creeping; type in the persons name in the search engine and it will find people that have the same name. You get to see if they're weird or not before you talk to them in person. I do that a lot haha, so I'd definitely pay an annual fee for facebook. The most I'd pay would be $20. As much as I use it, I think that is a reasonable price for just one year.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
American Hero Dies
American Hero Dies
Bismarck, South Dakota
Danie Lipschutz
Joe Voss fought in two wars, hosted his own television show, served in the state Legislature, became a Governor, and won many awards during his lifetime.
Voss died Wednesday in a hospital near his home located near Scottsdale, Arizona. The cause of death is unknown, but he had previously suffered from both an aneurysm and cerebral bleeding this past summer.
North Dakota Governor, Will Ranklow announced Voss’s death.
Born April 17, 1915 on a farm in North Dakota, Voss always wanted to fly. Voss stated in his 1993 autobiography, Proud to Be an American, “I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to fly.”
Voss became a Marine pilot during World War II. He shot down 26 enemy planes, becoming a hero and was awarded the Congressional “Medal of Honor” and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
His war days did not end with WWII, Voss enlisted in the Air Force and served as a Colonel in the Korean War.
After the war, Voss returned to North Dakota and served in the state Legislature for five years before becoming a governor in 1955, which he served two consecutive four-year terms.
Another achievement Voss did was become the third commissioner of the Canadian Football League from 1965-1975.
His achievements did not stop there. Voss hosted a television show called, “The Great Outdoorsman” from 1973-1978. In 1988 Voss was chosen president of the National Outdoorsman Association serving through 1990.
In an interview in 1987 Voss said, “I always had the attitude that every day will be a great day. I look forward to it like a kid in a candy store, wherever I am.
Bismarck, South Dakota
Danie Lipschutz
Joe Voss fought in two wars, hosted his own television show, served in the state Legislature, became a Governor, and won many awards during his lifetime.
Voss died Wednesday in a hospital near his home located near Scottsdale, Arizona. The cause of death is unknown, but he had previously suffered from both an aneurysm and cerebral bleeding this past summer.
North Dakota Governor, Will Ranklow announced Voss’s death.
Born April 17, 1915 on a farm in North Dakota, Voss always wanted to fly. Voss stated in his 1993 autobiography, Proud to Be an American, “I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to fly.”
Voss became a Marine pilot during World War II. He shot down 26 enemy planes, becoming a hero and was awarded the Congressional “Medal of Honor” and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
His war days did not end with WWII, Voss enlisted in the Air Force and served as a Colonel in the Korean War.
After the war, Voss returned to North Dakota and served in the state Legislature for five years before becoming a governor in 1955, which he served two consecutive four-year terms.
Another achievement Voss did was become the third commissioner of the Canadian Football League from 1965-1975.
His achievements did not stop there. Voss hosted a television show called, “The Great Outdoorsman” from 1973-1978. In 1988 Voss was chosen president of the National Outdoorsman Association serving through 1990.
In an interview in 1987 Voss said, “I always had the attitude that every day will be a great day. I look forward to it like a kid in a candy store, wherever I am.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Elf
My favorite movie is Elf with Will Ferrell. This is my all time favorite movie because Will Ferrell is halarious! He plays Buddy the elf really well. I can watch this movie and recite most of the lines. My favorite line is, "You're not Santa. You smell like beef and cheese." haha it cracks me up every time I hear it. I really do not have anything in common with the story plot; An adopted baby by an elf from the north pole going to New York in search of his biological father when he is a grown man. I don't even celebrate Christmas considering I was raised Jewish. The movie is just really funny. It also reminds me of the last thanksgiving I had in Chicago with my whole family. My sisters and I ran to blockbuster in the below zero degree weather to rent Elf and made our whole family watch it. They are all Jewish too so it made it a lot funnier. My sisters and I also quote the movie. One of my sisters still lives in Chicago and whenever we're bored we just send each other text messages with quotes from the movie. Our favorite one is "bye Buddy. I hope you find your dad".
When I want to see a movie, I love to see it in my own house on my nice 70 in. screen t.v. (well my dad's t.v.). I prefer not to go to the movies since people in the audience have no respect for people who actually like to watch the movie. There's always that one person who has to sit next to you that crinkles their candy wrappers, chews with the mouth open, and talks during the movie. Oh and takes over your arm rest. Then there are those people who like to rest their feet on the back of your chair. That makes me made; so watching a movie in my own home is what I like to do. There are disadvantages to watching movies at home though. You can only rent movies that have already been in the theaters. You have to wait to see a movie until it comes out on DVD or BlueRay. Sometimes I will go to the movies to see a film that looks very interesting, otherwise I'll stick with my home made popcorn and lazy boy.
I did watch the Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 22. I thought Hough Jackman did an amazing job hosting! He is a very talented man. I didn't know he could sing, dance, and act. I knew him in the movie Australia but that was about it. Seeing him as the host made me give him a lot more respect as an actor. I thought that the stage settings were amazingly well put together. There were a lot of different stage settings that had to have a lot of time put into them. As usual there were beautiful dresses along with some hideous dresses. What I didn't enjoy about the Academy Awards was the way they started with the best supporting actress and actor leaving the best actor and actress not a mystery. My favorite act during the Awards was Ben Stiller acting like Joaquin Phoenix. Mr. Stiller did a great impression of Mr. Phoenix. I also enjoyed Tina Fey and Steve Martin's act.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Article 1-home depot
Home Depot Clinics
By Danie Lipschutz
Orlando - Argh argh argh. Tim the Tool Man Taylor wouldn’t even electrocute himself with Home Depot’s helpful clinics.
Saint Cloud’s Home Depot holds clinics for any home project you could imagine from installing lights to laying tiles to putting in crown molding.
This past Sunday’s clinic was how to install interior lighting led by employee Victor (Vic) Catalano.
These clinics are not class room style. Instead, Catalano walked around the store and showed examples of every different kind of interior lighting you could have: recessed lighting, track lighting, general/florescence, wall lights, and ceiling lights.
Along with showing different types of lights, Catalano discussed safety and tools necessary to help install lights.
As helpful as these clinics are, “it’s becoming more of a one-on-one type deal”, Catalano stated, “and more for specialized purposes only”.
In the past these classes had more attendance, but with the economy falling people are reluctant to spend money on home projects.
By Danie Lipschutz
Orlando - Argh argh argh. Tim the Tool Man Taylor wouldn’t even electrocute himself with Home Depot’s helpful clinics.
Saint Cloud’s Home Depot holds clinics for any home project you could imagine from installing lights to laying tiles to putting in crown molding.
This past Sunday’s clinic was how to install interior lighting led by employee Victor (Vic) Catalano.
These clinics are not class room style. Instead, Catalano walked around the store and showed examples of every different kind of interior lighting you could have: recessed lighting, track lighting, general/florescence, wall lights, and ceiling lights.
Along with showing different types of lights, Catalano discussed safety and tools necessary to help install lights.
As helpful as these clinics are, “it’s becoming more of a one-on-one type deal”, Catalano stated, “and more for specialized purposes only”.
In the past these classes had more attendance, but with the economy falling people are reluctant to spend money on home projects.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Essay 1-MMC 1100
Before receiving the Wall Street Journal, my newspaper reading habits were pretty much every week day since 6th grade. I have no idea why I started reading the newspaper early on. Maybe it was because I saw my parents always reading the newspaper with their breakfast, so I started doing it too. I knew lots of kids my age (11 at the time) never read the newspaper, but I was always interested in what was happening around me. Since I lived in Chicago, I read the Daily Herald all the time. That was the only newspaper that my parents prescribed to. During the summers though, my reading habits were not every day, but when school started back up in the fall, I would read the newspaper with my breakfast. When I moved to Orlando in 2007, my family and I started receiving the Orlando Sentinel, the Osceola paper, and St. Cloud News. I still read the paper every morning before school and sometimes on the weekends. I love to do the word searches in the St. Cloud paper haha. Those are always fun.
My opinion on newspapers is definitely a good one. I absolutely love them. They are there for my convenience and I can sit down and enjoy reading. Sure someone can go turn on the T.V. and watch the news, but it may not give you what you want to hear. It can tell you news from all over the country when you only want the local news. Unlike T.V., in the newspaper you can always go back and reread an article or stop reading if you have to go take the dogs out and come back and start where you left off, where as if you are watching the news on T.V. you miss information you wanted to hear because the dogs had to go out. That happens to me all the time.
I am excited to use the Wall Street Journal to learn about mass communications. There is a lot of information that changes everyday in the mass communications world. The WSJ will keep us posted on the latest information. I believe the WSJ will meet my expectation for learning.
I think it is a brilliant idea to use newspapers rather than a traditional textbook for class. I like it not just because it saves me like a hundred dollars from not buying the book, but the newspaper is a daily resource that will have the daily news in it. If we used the textbook, it would be outdated even if it was just published because things are changing in the communication world every hour.
~Danie~
My opinion on newspapers is definitely a good one. I absolutely love them. They are there for my convenience and I can sit down and enjoy reading. Sure someone can go turn on the T.V. and watch the news, but it may not give you what you want to hear. It can tell you news from all over the country when you only want the local news. Unlike T.V., in the newspaper you can always go back and reread an article or stop reading if you have to go take the dogs out and come back and start where you left off, where as if you are watching the news on T.V. you miss information you wanted to hear because the dogs had to go out. That happens to me all the time.
I am excited to use the Wall Street Journal to learn about mass communications. There is a lot of information that changes everyday in the mass communications world. The WSJ will keep us posted on the latest information. I believe the WSJ will meet my expectation for learning.
I think it is a brilliant idea to use newspapers rather than a traditional textbook for class. I like it not just because it saves me like a hundred dollars from not buying the book, but the newspaper is a daily resource that will have the daily news in it. If we used the textbook, it would be outdated even if it was just published because things are changing in the communication world every hour.
~Danie~
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