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THE COOL GIFTS KIDS WANT FOR THE HOLIDAYS!

Austin Tang — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 14:12:29 +0000

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LEARN HOW THIS BUSY MOTHER-OF-THREE USES HER
EXPERTISE TO HELP PARENTS CHOOSE UNIQUE GIFTS

HOT HOLIDAY GIFTS FOR KIDS
WITH TECH EXPERT KELLY PAGE

Discover the Tech & Toys that Are On
Every Wish List This Holiday Season

Finding fun gifts that will entertain, educate, and inspire your kids is a challenge that can stress out parents during the holiday season. Fortunately, we have one of the top tech experts on TV to help. Kelly Page is mother-of-three and former TV anchor, just like many of you. Now, Kelly makes regular appearances on everything from local to network morning shows. This time of year, the popular expert is in great demand as she combines her gift-giving expertise with her experience as a mom to help guide people to the hottest and best gifts on the market.

CASSIE’S CHECKLIST FOR CHOOSING GIFT FOR KIDS WILL INCLUDE:
· Choosing the perfect gift for every kid on your list
· New electronics & tech accessories that kids will be wishing for
· Unique gifts to make everyone smile

SPOKESPERSON BACKGROUND: Page started off her career as a TV news anchor. She now operates the successful Home & Lifestyle Blog, BlueGrayGal. Since the launch of her brand, she has been seen frequently on NBC’s Atlanta & Company and has been featured on ELLEDecor.com. Kelly lives in Atlanta with her husband, daughter, and identical twin boys.

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Headless Horseman Stories, Sleepy Hollow’s Village Historian Henry Steiner Shares his Blog

Alexandra — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 20:29:48 +0000

Henry John Steiner is the village historian of Sleepy Hollow, NY and my wonderful hometown as well ..Paul.

https://headlesshorsemanblog.wordpress.com/

“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a short story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was first published in 1820. Along with Irving’s companion piece “Rip Van Winkle“, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity.

From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by name of Sleepy Hollow … A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere.

—Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The story is set in 1790 in the countryside around the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town (historical Tarrytown, New York), in a secluded glen known as Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow is renowned for its ghosts and the haunting atmosphere that pervades the imaginations of its inhabitants and visitors. Some residents say this town was bewitched during the early days of the Dutch settlement, while others claim that the mysterious atmosphere was caused by an old Native American chief, the “wizard of his tribe … before the country was discovered by Master Hendrik Hudson.” The most infamous spectre in the Hollow is the Headless Horseman, supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper whose head had been shot off by a stray cannonball during “some nameless battle” of the Revolution, and who “rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head”.

The “Legend” relates the tale of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham “Brom Bones” Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of wealthy farmer Baltus Van Tassel. Ichabod Crane, a Yankee and an outsider, sees marriage to Katrina as a means of procuring Van Tassel’s extravagant wealth. Bones, the local hero, unable to force Ichabod into a physical showdown to settle things, plays a series of pranks on the superstitious schoolmaster. The tension among the three continues for some time, and is soon brought to a head. On a placid autumn night, the ambitious Crane attends a harvest party at the Van Tassels’ homestead. He dances, partakes in the feast, and listens to ghostly legends told by Brom and the locals, but his true aim is to propose to Katrina after the guests leave. His intentions, however, are ill-fated.

After having failed to secure Katrina’s hand, Ichabod rides home on his temperamental horse (named Gunpowder) “heavy-hearted and crestfallen” through the woods between Van Tassel’s farmstead and the farmhouse in Sleepy Hollow where he is quartered at the time. As he passes several purportedly haunted spots, his active imagination is engorged by the ghost stories told at Baltus’ harvest party. After nervously passing a lightning-stricken tulip tree purportedly haunted by the ghost of British spy Major André, Ichabod encounters a cloaked rider at an intersection in a menacing swamp. Unsettled by his fellow traveler’s eerie size and silence, the teacher is horrified to discover that his companion’s head is not on his shoulders, but on his saddle. In a frenzied race to the bridge adjacent to the Old Dutch Burying Ground, where the Hessian is said to “vanish, according to rule, in a flash of fire and brimstone” before crossing it, Ichabod rides for his life, desperately goading Gunpowder down the Hollow. However, while Crane and Gunpowder are able to cross the bridge ahead of the ghoul, to Crane’s horror it rears its horse and hurls its severed head directly at Ichabod. The schoolmaster attempts to dodge, but is too late; the missile strikes his head and sends him tumbling headlong into the dust.

The next morning, Ichabod has mysteriously disappeared from the area, leaving Katrina to later marry Brom Bones, who was said “to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related”. Indeed, the only relics of the schoolmaster’s flight are his discarded hat, Gunpowder’s trampled saddle, and a mysterious shattered pumpkin. Although the true nature of both the Headless Horseman and Ichabod’s disappearance that night are left open to interpretation, the story implies that the Horseman was really Brom (an extremely agile rider) in disguise, and suggests that Crane survived the fall from Gunpowder and immediately fled Sleepy Hollow in horror, never to return but to prosper elsewhere, or perhaps was killed by Brom himself. Irving’s narrator concludes the story, however, by stating that the old Dutch wives continue to promote the belief that Ichabod was “spirited away by supernatural means”, and a legend develops around his disappearance and sightings of his melancholy spirit.

In a Postscript (sometimes unused in certain editions), the narrator states the circumstances in which he heard the story from an old gentleman “at a Corporation meeting at the ancient city of Manhattoes“, who didn’t “believe one-half of it [himself].”

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May Peace Prevail On Earth International…

Austin Tang — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:57:34 +0000

COME JOIN THE CIRCLE OF PEACE AND HEALING

Thursday, June 4th, 2020
-a 60 minutes program-

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A Call to Peace in the USA
Healing the Heart and Soul of America

An Urgent Call to hold the Spirit of America.
Hearts are hurting. Souls are weeping. Spirits are grieving.

A n An invitation to commune in healing affirmations and prayers for peace to prevail in each of the 50 US. states. Bring your hearts and your voices to the circle of peace and healing to ignite and activate the global divine spark of love.

May Peace be in the United States of America.
May Peace Prevail On Earth

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On June 23rd, we will be presenting a two hour
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Annual Fashion Show, Project Streetwear presents on June 3rd, in Sunnyside, Queens…

admin — Tue, 29 May 2018 19:30:44 +0000

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“BACKTACK to Broadway“ http://www.sunnysideartworks.info/annual-fashion-show/

Our annual fashion show is set for June 3rd, right here in Sunnyside Gardens!
In our ninth year, our show celebrates the music of Broadway. Each Broadway shows tell a unique story about humanity, in the form of relationships, social and political issues, our young designers are each telling a unique story or their own through the clothing they choose to create and wear.
This year we encouraged our students to embrace their story along with the design process, from beginning to end. What most sewing do not get to do is make their own fabric. The fabric is the first decision in the design process. By making your own fabric or by altering the surface in some way, you have the opportunity to take total control of your ideas.
The students approached this project from a different points of view. Color blocking, layering textures and appliqué are a few of the surface design projects you will see on the runway. What you will notice most is hand printed fabric. More than half of our students chose to hand carve a print block and use that block to custom print their own fabric. One of our students took the plunge and sent her fabric to a professional printer to get her fabric made-to-order. Whatever process each young designer chose, the results are both very personal and amazing!
These creative young professionals are the future of fashion! You don’t want to miss this show!
The lights go on at 2:00 on June 3rd at Queen of Angels Auditorium.
To get tickets go to: BACKTACK to Broadway TICKETS

Show page. double click on Sunnyside Artworks to get the blog.

Project Streetwear 2017 “In This Moment”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiC_-XhZ_y0&list=PLPQSNVPy1LxeN5OnCAVz5dC6p4dniL-j1

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B kind Day is Today November 13.

admin — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 20:43:08 +0000

B kind, www.bekind.today is all about encouraging acts of kindness in our everyday lives. We believe that even the smallest acts of kindness are worth recognizing, worth celebrating, and worth building a community around. Being kind can change someone’s life. It can also change the world.
https://www.facebook.com/bkindwpm
MEET THIS YEAR’S B KIND SCHOLARSHIP AWARD WINNERS!

JOIN US IN CONGRATULATING
ISHIKA SAXENA – SEWICKLEY ACADEMY
DEVIN GITTEN – NORWALK GRASSROOTS TENNIS AND EDUCATION
GEORGE KINGSTON – HOTCHKISS SCHOOL
HUNTER LIBMAN – ST. LUKE’S SCHOOL
Go to our BLOG page to find out more about these outstanding and kind students.
Thank you to all who participated in this year’s B kind Clubs and Scholarship Awards!

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Art Of The Table 2017

admin — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:44:39 +0000

Art of The Table has been on my radar since I started my interior design firm….
5 years ago I told myself that I’d do this amazing event one day….and this year I did! I am so proud of “Tuscan Garden Party” and want to share it all with you. Come see what this year’s event was all about in my blog:
https://www.jlsdesignstudio.com/single-post/2017/10/20/Art-of-the-Table-2017

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Cortney Renee

editor — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:47:41 +0000

Bio:

Cortney Renee moved to NYC to attend The King’s College where she studied Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. Her pursuit of modeling and acting provided appearances in Brides magazine and feature films and TV shows including How To Lose Friends and Alienate People, August, and Gossip Girl. Her passion for justice inspired involvement in the 2009 launch of Stop Child Trafficking Now. Her love for fashion and philanthropy birthed a brand which aims to promote ethical fashion. She currently resides in NYC where she endeavors to bring light to designers making a difference! Her long term hope is to inspire the fashion industry to make a creative and engaging world contribution. Her personal mission is to reflect true beauty, and her definition of “true beauty” is one that “come from a heart that lives to give back”. So she endeavors to reflect that in all things, both professionally and personally.

Company Background:

In 2010, Cortney decided to build a bridge between her two passions, fashion and philanthropy. She had been in the fashion industry as a model and actress, since moving to NY in 2004 and she wanted to employ the influence and creativity of the fashion industry to make a difference in our world, on both a national and international scale. She began a fashion blog, wherein she covered philanthropic fashion brands (brands that have a give back built into their business model and fund a partner NGO or an internal NGO). In her research and networking she learned of ingenious social entrepreneurs pioneering new territory, and she realized they were on the cutting edge of social enterprise by employing fashion as a tool to effect global change. Her mission continued to evolve and grow, and she began to offer professional modeling services to these start-ups and her fashion industry insight to help them enter the mainstream.

Now, a year later, Cortney is hosting her 2nd evening of philanthropic fashion where we celebrate brands making a difference. She has professional models (many of them her friends) act as spokes models for the evening. Their first event, “Share the Love: An Evening of Philanthropic Fashion” saw 1,000 inspired and thrilled New Yorkers, and was a huge success. Their next event, “Hampton’s Summer Preview Party: An Evening of Philanthropic Fashion” will be held May 23rd, 2011. The company’s major fashion sponsors include Peace Love World, Same Sky, Native Honey, and their non-profit partners include the Somaly Mam Foundation and Print4Change/Healing Haiti, and their corporate sponsors include the Body Shop, Equinox, and many more. Cortney has also begun to offer fashion film production to brands to build their brand image online and give them new inventive ways to reach their target demographic. She looks forward to seeing this division grow.

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