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Strong Body Helps Build a Strong Mind
 Exercise is important to me and I
try to walk every day, as well as use my free
weights while watching the news. While I enjoy
going it alone, most of my friends enjoy the
companionship they find at a community center or
sports facility. If you are considering joining a
health club of some sort, here are some tips:
Pick one close to home. If
you have to drive more than 20 minutes to
exercise, the time cost will be too high, and you
will end up not going.
Purchase a family
membership. That way, you can take the kids, too.
Many clubs have a children’s play area that
they can use while you step on the StairMaster or
make the rounds of the Nautilus machines.
 Make sure the club has a swimming
pool. Children love to swim, and there’s
nothing better than having the whole family
around the pool on a hot day. In the summer
months, pack a picnic dinner and take the kids
for a twilight swim....a cool way to cool off.
Ask other members if the
club is "kid friendly." Some clubs are
havens for the social set who believe that kids
should be seen and not heard. You want to join a
club where kids are welcome.
Finally, if a club is
beyond your budget, use municipal facilities.
Many towns and cities have a public pool and
parks with fantastic facilities. Use
them.....after all, you are paying for their
upkeep, too.
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I find the times in which we
live, vastly exciting. Never did I
imagine that the opportunity would arise
in which we could discover, invent, and
create as we can today. This new medium
has potential that we can’t even
imagine now. The Internet has given me
the opportunity to feel like an explorer
and inventor. The possibilities to define
oneself, to share with others and to
learn have always been available to us,
but now there is another route. This new
route can be extremely personal or it can
be very visible and collaborative.
Whichever route one chooses there is the
opportunity to stake one’s claim in
this Information Age. 
During
the summer months we tend to be busy with
seminars and workshops and catching up on
the reports that got ahead of us during
the Spring. These are the months I put
large blocks of time aside each day in
order to read. While I haven’t
gotten down to those
"must-read" novels, I am
beginning to make a dent in the
educational journals and trade magazines.
There seems such a wide gap between the
thinking of business and education
people. Business seems to focus on
improving the organization as a whole,
while education focuses on details such
as learning styles, class organization,
and salaries. I think there is something
we can learn from each other. It is my
experience, that as educators, we
don’t keep our eye on the goal. In
business we sometimes focus too much on
the goal and then forget the things we
need to do in order to complete the trip.
By combining the two we would have
powerful organizations in both business
and education. 
Today we celebrate the
founding of our Country.....the fourth of
July. The neighbor children have been
busy decorating their bikes for the local
parade. Barbecues and picnics have been
planned. The community is planning the
biggest fireworks display ever. Flags are
flying from porch rails. Happy Birthday,
America!
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