Popular Author Applauds Free Confidence Boosting Public Speaking Program – Education
Popular originator Martin Ng has applauded the elimination during a New York 4H Club in Liberty to proffer untenanted obvious speaking training to teenagers. According to Mr Ng, the training could not solely boost in dealing in later bounce, but boost belfry away teenage mad turmoil.
Singapore – Popular originator Martin Ng has applauded the Liberty 4H Club’s elimination to proffer untenanted obvious speaking training for the treatment of teens in the district, saying that it not solely provides dealing skills, but can boost division away teen angst.
“There acquire been diverse mad robustness benefits seen from obvious speaking training, according to studies.
“Public speaking training is such a overdone imperturbability builder – the earlier in bounce that people inhale an oath in it, the greater the lessons are infatuated to heart”, said Mr Ng. I would like to finance the Liberty 4H Club’s aggressiveness government-sponsored and extended worldwide”, he continued. It runs fully 8 weeks, and includes units on influence and obvious speaking.
The training is hosted during Sullivan County 4H and Mike LaFountain of the district Toastmasters Club. The go takes an hour a week, and is untenanted for the treatment of participants between 13 and 19 years of duration.
A brand-new determination of the program’s about confirmed the following advantages for the treatment of participants:
• Better self confidence
• Increased affinity with other students and parents
• More motivation for the treatment of thing building
• Better big name at exams and interviews
• Better awareness of group concerns and values
The Mental Health Statistic Improvement Program also recently published on the reassuring effects of obvious speaking, noting assurance, imperturbability and self-worth as the essential peremptory effects of obvious speaking training.
Mental Health Ireland has been race obvious speaking training and summits for the treatment of teens for the treatment of a handful years at this decidedly moment.
“I in savanna words acquire debt that dollop kids brook outfit relating to themselves is a overdone evidence in the direction of fixing a myriad of group problems.
Mr Ng’s soft-cover, ‘Surviving Speaking Disasters’, is bounty online and well-reviewed during a attendants of obvious speaking experts. Public speaking training is a overdone system to boost kids brook outfit relating to themselves – this close-fisted investment could parsimonious reverenced benefits down the line”, said Mr Ng of the Liberty untenanted training.
About Martin Ng:
A dealing hold from Singapore, Martin Ng uses his finely honed obvious speaking skills in the go of his hourly chore for the treatment of training, presentations and making pitches. Martin’s e-book, ‘Surviving Speaking Disasters’ (available at www.survivingspeakingdisasters.com), is satisfactorily regarded during bounce coaches and mavin presenters, as satisfactorily as hourly dealing people.
Local 4-H team brings home awards at Summit County Fair
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Emma Vargo and her horse Hunter pose with their trophies and ribbons after taking Best of Show at the Summit County Fair.
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Josh Conger takes a moment to relax with two of his award winning pigs.
by Tim Troglen
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Hudson — The six rebels who appeared at the Summit County Fair last week were not there to wreak havoc among the crowd or consternation with fair-goers.
But the members of Rebels With a Cause were definitely there to horse around.
Rebels With A Cause, a Hudson-based 4-H Club, competed at the Summit County Fair, July 28 to Aug. 2 in Tallmadge to show their horses, ride in competitions and participate in pen filled pork judging.
“Our group did well at the fair this year,” said Debbie Plate-Vargo, who heads up the team, which includes her daughter, Emma Vargo, Josh and Ashley Conger, Brynne and Aurora Burgy and Athena Tarulli.
“Josh and Ashley took their horse, Doc, and competed with him,” Plate-Vargo said. “Ashley did well, and Josh had fun with the ribbon race and other games played, and both did very well with their pigs — both in showmanship and at the auction Saturday night.”
Emma, who fractured her pelvis when a horse fell on her in January, was not allowed to ride for four months following her surgery in February. But she was back in the saddle for the fair.
“She won grand champion of her division on her horse, Hunter, which was very special as everyone knew what she had gone through and how hard it all was — it was very emotional for all of us,” Plate-Vargo said. “She also entered a sewing project that made not only a blue ribbon first place but also Best of Show.”
Plate-Vargo said Emma’s sewing project was a purse with a fish theme she made for her mother.
And, according to her mom, Emma’s fair project presentation on teen leadership was chosen to represent Summit County at the Ohio State Fair, where she was to present it to a judge Aug. 2.
And it wasn’t only horses and sewing that brought home ribbons.
The brother and sister team of Josh and Ashley, who not only ride horses but raise pigs, fared well with second through fourth place finishers.
“They have learned so much,” Plate-Vargo said of the siblings.
She said the prize winning pigs were auctioned off, with the money going toward college funds.
“The kids have to learn about feed and weight and the anatomy of the pig so they understand where the different cuts of meat come from,” Plate-Vargo said. “They even had barn duty where they slept in the barn to guard the pigs.”
Plate-Vargo said all members of the group “struggle with the rule that if you raise and enter a pig in the fair, it must go to auction.”
Plate-Vargo said the team members got involved for myriad reasons.
“Emma got involved as she loved horses and wanted to be in a club that went to horse shows and understood the passion for having a horse,” she said. “I know that Ashley and Josh got involved as their mom was in 4-H as a child.”
And while not every member owns their own horse, “they have a passion for horses.”
“The kids in the club easily attend 10 to 20 horse shows a year, and as part of our club responsibility, we must work at least one of the shows as well, running the entry booth and manning the gates,” Plate-Vargo said.
Members of the club, which meets on a monthly basis, must make an oral presentation before being allowed to participate at the fair, she said.
Educational trips and volunteering to help others also are part of the 4-H activities.
“We went to The Ohio State University Veterinary School and toured the facility,” Plate-Vargo said. “The kids got to see the CT scanner for horses, a treadmill for horses and a surgery suite.”
Members have also raised money for horse rescue and donated time at the homeless shelter in Akron.
Plate-Vargo said 4-H has 6 million members across the United States, Puerto Rico and 80 countries around the world.
“4-Hers participate in fun, hands on learning activities, supported by the latest research of land-grant universities,” she said. “The 4-H pledge tells what 4-H is all about and has as its goal the four-fold development of youth: head, heart, hands and health, and thus the 4 leaf clover with the H’s.”
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Phone: 330-688-0088 ext. 3146
Local 4H youth attend Heartland overnight camp
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
George Anderson Daily Dunklin Democrat
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| Members of the Dunklin County 4H Club, including, front row: Scott Jackson Smart, counselor, of Clarkton, Mo.; Sam McHaney, of Kennett; Britlyn Pikey, counselor, of Kennett; Tatum Lowry, of Kennett; Joe Mobley, of Kennett; Back row: Dalton Jackson Smart, of Clarkton; Cheyenne Long, of Kennett; Max Mobley, of Kennett; recently attended the Heartland 4H Camp at Bloomfield, Mo.Photo provided |
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. — Eight members of the Dunklin County 4H Club, along with 57 members from six counties, recently attended the 2009 Heartland 4H Overnight Camp.The eight members who attended the camp included Kennett residents Sam McHaney, Britlyn Pikey, Tatum Lowry, Joe Mobley, Max Mobley, and Cheyenne Long, as well as Clarkton, Mo., residents Scott Jackson Smart and Dalton Jackson Smart.
The camp, which took place at the SEMO Youth Camp at Lake Wappapello, ran from July 14 to July 16, according to 4H Youth Specialist Clara Green.
Green said 4H members from Bollinger, Butler, Dunklin, Mississippi, Ripley, and Stoddard Counties spent the three-day-event learning craftsmanship from various leaders.
“The 4-H members also learned about Native American Art works from Arrowhead Fred [and] a spokesman from Scott City taught them about various tools that Native Americans used and how they used them,” Green said. “Gary Tyler of SEMO University, continued the effort of discussing ideas and themes of Native American culture [and club] members danced to the tunes of Allen Shulse.”
Green said volunteer leaders, Phyllis Flanigan, Ronnie Martin, J.T. Brehmer, Jerry Hale, Angie Hale, Iris Elfrink, A.B. Hale, Kim Lowry, Martha Mobley, Dawn Smart, and EMT Artie Smart, provided expert assistance throughout the camp experience and deserve a special “Thank you.”
“[The club members] had a really good time at camp and it was a bonding experience for them,” said volunteer Kim Lowry of Kennett. “They got to meet kids from all over the different counties. The really cool thing about it is they don’t always have time to bond at rodeos, [but] at camp, it is a more relaxing experience.”
During the course of the camp, meals were provided the Butler County 4H Council, the Stoddard County Extension Council, Tyson Food, and Jeff and Lisa Brown of Dexter, Mo., according to Green.
Green also said the University of Missouri 4H staff, 4H members and leaders made several donations and spent time benefiting the 4H youth from the six counties attending camp.
Grooming goats for the Westport Fair
Local youngsters prepare for the showmanship competition
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Pictured here back in April at Lyons Brook Farm, (from left) Erinn Harrington, Kelly Amaral and Katelyn Harrington hold newborn kids.
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Haley Armstrong, 11, of the Westport Animal Tenders, shaves a goat named Hidden Treasure at Lyons Brook Farm on Wednesday. She is readying the goat for an event at the Westport Agricultural Fair.
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A favorite of the goats at Lyons Brook Farm, Kelly Amaral, 10, receives a kiss from one of her fans. She has been showing goats for the past three years with the Westport Animal Tenders.
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Pictured here back in April at Lyons Brook Farm, (from left) Erinn Harrington, Kelly Amaral and Katelyn Harrington hold newborn kids.
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Haley Armstrong, 11, of the Westport Animal Tenders, shaves a goat named Hidden Treasure at Lyons Brook Farm on Wednesday. She is readying the goat for an event at the Westport Agricultural Fair.
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WESTPORT — Other girls her age might spend their time taking dance class or shopping, Haley Armstrong said last Thursday, not cleaning and trimming fur on goats.
But then they miss out on the love of caring for goats, watching the kids romp about on their spring-like legs, and observing goats give birth — “kind of gross, but like a miracle at the same time” — said 11-year-old Haley, of Tiverton.
Haley’s interest in raising farm animals, however, is homegrown. Lyons Brook Farm, on 76 Drift Road in Westport, where Haley and four other local children learn to care for show goats is owned by Haley’s grandmother, Sandi Porter-Farias. So Haley’s had a hand in farm work all her life.
Not so for Kelly Amaral, 10, of Westport, who has been showing goats for the past three years with the Westport Animal Tenders (both Kelly and Haley think the club’s name sounds too much like bite-size breaded chicken pieces). Her love of animals drew her to participating in the local 4H program. And then the fun of showing how well she can handle a goat in front of a judge is what’s kept her there.
Westport’s 4H club is at its lowest membership this year, with seven members, since Ms. Porter-Farias and her late husband started the program in 1998. She teaches how to show goats to five members, while another two members, Westport brothers who raise sheep, learn on their own and through university agricultural programs.
“Sometimes we get an influx with a whole bunch of kids,” said Ms. Porter, who took up raising goats after she retired from teaching Westport elementary students. “And then they all leave.”
These programs teach children about more than just the responsibility of caring for an animal, Ms. Porter-Farias said. They have to do community service. This past year the Westport Animal Tenders collected food for local pantries and participated in Relay For Life, a fund-raiser for cancer research. At the fair they’ve entered, children must give a visual presentation on any research topic of their choosing. And they have to keep records of their projects, community service, caring for the goats and awards they’ve won.
“It teaches you how to be a leader,” Haley said.
“I used to be really shy but that’s changed,” Kelly said. “I just started to talk more to people.”
Readying for the fair
Katelyn Harrington trimmed the fur of the goat, Just In Time, she planned to show at a Connecticut fair last weekend. Having joined the club in the last year, this was going to be the first time she entered a showing competition. Her sister, Erinn, 9, is also a newcomer to the club.
“I’m a little nervous, but I’m really excited about it,” said Katelyn, a 12-year-old Westport resident.
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All of the girls will compete in either showmanship — how well you handle a goat — and fitting — how well the goat is groomed — in five fairs over the next few months. They’ll be showing at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, July 17 in the dairy goat competition at the Westport Fair.
Trimming the goats’ fur with clippers makes the coat look nice, Haley said. “If it gets too thick, it doesn’t look too pretty and a lot of stuff gets stuck in it,” Haley said, especially because goats have a penchant for rolling in dirt.
As Haley and Kelly groomed a goat, Ms. Porter-Farias noted that they start trimming on the hind legs and work their way in the opposite direction of hair growth, and slowly, she emphasized.
“Are you following that hair line?” Ms. Porter-Farias asked Kelly.
Haley ticked off what she’s learned in trimming a goat’s coat: “Keep the clippers down. Don’t lift the clippers until you’re done with what you want to do. And you don’t rush.”
Members also have to wash the goats in the summer, feed them, and fill their stalls with wood shavings as bedding and some hay for nibbling. They do it all except clean out the stalls.
Handling a goat is the hard part since an adult goat can weigh two or three times what the girls weigh. Last Thursday, all four of the girls there said they’d been dragged around by a particularly ornery goat named Patches.
“This goat tries to trip me in the show ring,” said Kelly, as she led Rascal around by the collar. “I fell in Barnstable (county fair) but I got right back up.”
Judges frown upon walking behind a goat while showing it, Ms. Porter-Farias said. “It looks awkward.” And they can’t pass the leash from one hand to another to turn around with the goat.
“We teach the kids that they’re a sandwich,” Ms. Porter-Farias said. They’re on one side and the judge is on the other side and the goat is in the middle. You’ve gotta keep the jelly in the middle.”
None of the girls are in this club to win showmanship awards. Erinn, Haley and Kelly said they’d like to raise animals, like goats, horses and chickens, as pets and for sustenance when they get older.
Their shared interest in animals gives several of them another common dream to work with animals. Erinn said she’d like to be a veterinarian, or a basketball player. Katelyn said she and a friend of hers have talked about one day opening a veterinary business. Kelly said she wants to be a marine biologist.
“I want Sandi’s job,” said Haley, who imagined taking over her grandmother’s dairy goat farm. “I’d like to keep 4H going, too.”
Poll: One-third believe in ghosts
WASHINGTON (AP) – It was bad enough when the TV and lights inexplicably flicked on at night, Misty Conrad says. When her daughter began talking to an unseen girl named Nicole and neighbors said children had been murdered in the house, it was time to move.
Put Conrad, a homemaker from Hampton, Va., firmly in the camp of the 34 percent of people who say they believe in ghosts, according to a pre-Halloween poll by The Associated Press and Ipsos. That’s the same proportion who believe in unidentified flying objects – exceeding the 19 percent who accept the existence of spells or witchcraft.
Forty-eight percent believe in extrasensory perception, or ESP. But nearly half of you knew we were about to tell you that, right?
Conrad, now 40, lived in Syracuse, Ind., when her family was scared from the house they rented.
“It kind of creeped you out,” she recalled this week. “I needed to get us out.”
To put the roughly one-third who believe in ghosts and UFOs in perspective, it’s about the same as, in recent AP-Ipsos polls, the 36 percent who said they are baseball fans; the 37 percent who said the U.S. made the right decision to invade Iraq; and the 31 percent who approve of the job President Bush is doing.
A smaller but still substantial 23 percent say they have actually seen a ghost or believe they have been in one’s presence, with the most likely candidates for such visits including single people, Catholics and those who never attend religious services. By 31 percent to 18 percent, more liberals than conservatives report seeing a specter.
Those who dismissed the existence of ghosts include Morris Swadener, 66, a Navy retiree from Kingston, Wash.
He says he shot one with his rifle when he was a child.
“I woke up in the middle of the night and saw a white ghost in my closet,” he said. “I discovered I’d put a hole in my brand new white shirt. My mother and father were not amused.”
Three in 10 have awakened sensing a strange presence in the room. For whatever it says about matrimony, singles are more likely than married people to say so.
Fourteen percent – mostly men and lower-income people – say they have seen a UFO. Among them is Danny Eskanos, 44, an attorney in Palm Harbor, Fla., who says as a Colorado teenager he watched a bright light dart across the sky, making abrupt stops and turns.
“I knew a little about airplanes and helicopters, and it was not that,” he said. “It’s one of those things that sticks in your mind.”
Spells and witchcraft are more readily believed by urban dwellers, minorities and lower-earning people. Those who find credibility in ESP are more likely to be better educated and white – 51 percent of college graduates compared to 37 percent with a high school diploma or less, about the same proportion by which white believers outnumber minorities.
Overall, the 48 percent who accept ESP is less than the 66 percent who gave that answer to a similar 1996 Newsweek question.
One in five say they are at least somewhat superstitious, with young men, minorities, and the less educated more likely to go out of their way to seek luck. Twenty-six percent of urban residents – twice the rate of those from rural areas – said they are superstitious, while single men were more superstitious than unmarried women, 31 percent to 17 percent.
The most admitted-to superstition, by 17 percent, was finding a four-leaf clover. Thirteen percent dread walking under a ladder or the groom seeing his bride before their wedding, while slightly smaller numbers named black cats, breaking mirrors, opening umbrellas indoors, Friday the 13th or the number 13.
Generally, women were more superstitious than men about four-leaf clovers, breaking mirrors or grooms prematurely seeing brides. Democrats were more superstitious than Republicans over opening umbrellas indoors, while liberals were more superstitious than conservatives over four-leaf clovers, grooms seeing brides and umbrellas.
Then there’s Jack Van Geldern, a computer programmer from Riverside, Conn. Now 51, Van Geldern is among the five percent who say they have seen a monster in the closet – or in his case, a monster’s face he spotted on the wall of his room as a child.
“It was so terrifying I couldn’t move,” he said. “Needless to say I survived the event and never saw it again.”
The poll, conducted Oct. 16-18, involved telephone interviews with 1,013 adults and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
Kids in the country
Moving kids to the country. If you’re considering moving outside the city – even beyond the suburbs – with your family, no doubt you’ve wondered what kind of impact it will have on your children. Certainly the first concern is how they will leave the friends and activities they’re used to and adapt to a whole new community and all it does – or doesn’t – offer in comparison.
Generally speaking, the younger the child, the easier the transition. Children under eight years of age may barely remember things from their former digs once a few years have gone by in the new location. Needless to say the transition can be more difficult the older the children are. There are windows of opportunity, however, as they graduate from grade school to middle school, middle school to high school as many of their friends may migrate to different schools all together at that point. And as they move into larger school communities and mature in their own right, it’s likely their group of friends will change anyway.
Moving to the Colorado countryside is a dream many adults have, and with good reason. The crime rate is lower, the pace is slower and the surrounds bring about a peace that is hard to come by in the constant stimulation of city life. But it is a big move if you have a family. Here’s what to expect – depending, of course on your exact location – if you take the plunge
Education – First of all, don’t assume that just because you’ve traded a large school district for a smaller one that you’ve doomed your child’s future. Check out greatschools.net to see how the country school you’re considering stacks up against the school your child already attends.
Activities – Most of your child’s activities will be school-based, though your choices will be more limited. Don’t expect anything franchised – such as Little Gym or Gymboree – unless you’re willing to travel a bit to attend. A 4H club offers excellent, affordable learning opportunities for children beyond livestock including aerospace, forestry and even theater arts. And living closer to nature affords more chances for spontaneous hiking, fishing, biking, kite-flying, nature walks and even geocaching.
Faith – In a small town, there will most likely be at least one faith-based youth group for your child to attend as well as a Sunday school class. However, depending on your faith tradition, you may have to travel to attend a synagogue, mosque or Christian denomination other than those represented in your town.
Safety – While there are fewer overall safety concerns in the country don’t be fooled. There are still dangers including meth labs and a greater instance of chewing tobacco use. And without multiplexes and malls, restless teens might find their own dangerous diversions. As with any locale, parents need to be diligent in overseeing just what their kids are up to.
All in all, the country is a great place to raise a child. What it lacks in cultural opportunities, it makes up for in the confidence a child learns growing up surrounded by friendly, encouraging faces. And, when you need a bit of big city culture, there’s always the family vacation.
4H Rodeo will feature 300 participants
Thursday, June 18, 2009
George Anderson
Rodeo events include Barrel Racing, Calf Riding, Team Roping, Pole Bending, Goat Tying, Calf Roping, Steer Riding, Team Penning, Chute Dogging, and Bull Riding.
Members of the Dunklin County 4H competing in the contest include Tripp Scales in Steer Riding, Break Away Roping, Poles, and Barrel; Dalton Jackson in Calf Riding, Barrels and Poles, and Goat Tying; Cheyenne Long in Break Away Roping, Poles, Barrels, and Goat Tying; Tatum Lowry in Goat Tying, Pole Bending, and Barrel Racing; Joe Mobley in Pole Bending and Barrel Racing; Max Mobley in Team Penning, Goat Tying, Barrel Racing, and Pole Bending; Rachel Leslie Pole Bending and Barrel Racing; Britlyn Pikey in Goat Tying, Pole Bending, and Barrel Racing; Pierce Watkins in Bull Riding; James Michael Goodwin in Bull Riding; Scott Jackson in Bull Riding; and Sam McHaney in Pole Bending and Barrel Racing.
According to Adult Volunteer Leader, Will Mobley, this is the fourth year Dunklin County has had a club, and this is the second year they have hosted a rodeo.
“The thing that is a little bit interesting is seeing the kids grow up and then grow in their horsemanship,” Mobley said.
“You see the kids growing up and learning about the horses. They start out with a plug and then they graduate to something better and then they get interested in being competitive and trying to win.
“The mothers in the program do most of the leadership,” Mobley continued. “They are pretty strict about the kids being good to their horses and being empathetic. The mothers also all work together. If one kid is doing something inappropriate, its like he has six moms out here.”
Mobley said that any child wishing to be involved with the program can sign up at any time, however, they will not be allowed to compete until the insurance enrollment, which is held in February of each year.
Admission to the event is $6 for adults and $4 for youth between the ages of seven and 12, children six and under may attend free of charge. Concession stands will be available throughout the event.
The SEMO 4H Rodeo is sponsored this year by the Kennett Area United Way and University of Missouri Extension.
Four Leaf cLover Tattoos
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Each leaf of the clover represents something very special:
1) hope, 2) faith, 3) love, and 4) luck!
In Irish tradition the Shamrock or Three-leaf Clover represents the Holy Trinity.
One leaf for the Father, one for the Son and one for the Holy Spirit.
When a Shamrock is found with the fourth leaf, it represents God’s Grace.
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