#cerebral palsy awareness month 2017

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by Stitchthebest36

I have Cerebral Palsy. Below is a post about Cerebral Palsy awareness month 2017 from my film related social media site here   https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/103662816758572885430/103662816758572885430/posts/4tuKn6SbWxR

March is Cerebral Palsy awareness month. Many of the characters in our films have Cerebral Palsy. Cerebral Palsy (often shortened to "CP") is a brain injury that happens before, during, or shortly after birth. It can be caused by lack of oxygen to the brain or conditions such as a fetal brain hemorrhage, which is very similar to a stroke, but in most cases the reason for the brain damage is unknown. Cerebral Palsy affects the

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The Ability Project: Empowering People with Disabilities Through Design

Written by Claire Kearney-Volpe

In 2016, Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York City Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities presented the Ability Project with the ADA Sapolin Award for their “fearless and innovative approach to developing tools that will improve the lives of people with disabilities.” The Ability Project builds relationships and designs solutions to eliminate barriers for underserved audiences. In spring 2017, Cooper Hewitt partnered with the New York University Ability Project to develop new ideas for broadening access to the museum.

Testing tactiles: NYU students test out the viability of a tactile wayfinding prototype as part of an Ability Project class. Creating raised surfaces or textures in the museum can enable people with visual impairments to become aware of installations around them. This technique is utilized throughout pedestrian avenues in New York city and around the world. Pictured above are some Ability Project prototype solutions for museum wayfinding.   

Established in 2013, the New York University Ability Project is an interdisciplinary research space dedicated to the intersection between disability and technology, with an aim to foster collaboration among individuals with disabilities, community organizations, and NYU students and faculty. A variety of students and professionals—engineers, designers, educators, speech and occupational therapists, and individuals with disabilities—work together to create opportunities for teaching, learning, and research. Students across three of NYU’s schools comprise the Ability Project whose majors range from occupational therapy and integrated digital media to interactive telecommunications. Classes in the basics of methodology in assistive technology, accessible design and development, research, prototyping, and user interaction/experience design for museums round out the program’s offerings. Among the Ability Project’s fundamental principles is that technology serves people best when they participate in its design. Participatory research ensures access to the critical knowledge of those living with disabilities while also offering opportunities for those without disabilities to better understand what life is like for their collaborators. Collaboration, rather than problem solving in silos, produces more creative results.

Inside NYU Tandon’s Media and Games Network (MAGNET), where the Ability Project is located.

The Ability Project has developed several ventures in partnership with New York City advocacy groups and agencies. In 2015, the program partnered with AT&T to lead the ConnectAbility Challenge, a three-month technology challenge designed to spur innovation for people with physical, social, emotional, and cognitive disabilities. The competition, which coincided with the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, resulted in sixty-three proposals for software, wearable, and other technology solutions from developers in sixteen states and fifteen countries aimed at enhancing the lives of people with disabilities.
 For the Lavelle School for the Blind in the Bronx, the Ability Project joined with Bridging Education and Art Together (B.E.A.T.), whose groundbreaking program Beat Rockers works with blind and visually impaired students to develop confidence through music. In a semester-long course, Ability Project students were tasked with designing and developing accessible tech enhancements
 to enable the Lavelle students to fully participate in B.E.A.T.’s music-making through the use of voice, body, and a microphone.

Markus Proell’s prize-winning project the KinesicMouse, from the AT&T/Ability Project Connect Ability Challenge. The KinesicMouse software allows for hands-free, facial expression-based control of a PC.

Eager to continue its revolutionary work, the Ability Project teamed with researchers at NYU’s Hospital for Joint Diseases to investigate how to provide growing children suffering from cerebral palsy with affordable orthotics/prosthetics. Using a combination of 3D-modeling and printing techniques, Ability Project designers help to fit participants with low-profile yet stylish rehabilitation orthotics that can be adjusted and reprinted as they grow.

During the spring 2017 semester, Ability students worked with Spectrum Cable to evaluate and test Spectrum’s existing home-entertainment products and services. Based on findings and feedback from subscribers with disabilities, the students will design accessibility solutions.

From left to right: Student’s process documentation for the Ability Project and Cooper Hewitt Co-Lab course; Students’ wireframes of an accessibility toolkit—an online tutorial to inform exhibition design; Accessible musical interface designed with feedback from students at the Lavelle School for the Blind, by Ishaan Chaudhary, Kai-han Chang, Nicola Carpeggiani, Satbir Multani, and Yi Zhao.

Using a museum as a laboratory 
is new territory for the program and applying the tenets of design thinking and process proved to be exciting and challenging. In the Ability Project’s partnership with Cooper Hewitt, the museum served as client and creative inspiration. Some of the challenges experienced for the first time for the students as both designers and visitors were the architectural constraints of a landmarked historical home and the requirements that come along with museum display and presentation. Collaborators looked at designs for the museum’s website and experimented with Cooper Hewitt’s collections application program interface to find ways for fully integrating visitors with disabilities into the Cooper Hewitt experience. In a comprehensive presentation, four groups each shared research, user testing analysis, and iterative prototyping designs. The parameters that the students offer real, scalable recommendations resulted in replicable work that considered cost, physical constraints, and multiplicity of audiences. The Cooper Hewitt partnership not only schooled the students in new ways of thinking about design but revealed design’s potential for enhancing and welcoming new audiences to the museum.

Claire Kearney-Volpe is a Doctoral Fellow and Adjunct Professor for the NYU Ability Project. She works on a variety of human-centered assistive and rehabilitation technology projects and is active in the digital accessibility community. This article was originally published in the Spring/Summer 2017 issue of Design Journal.

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How Original Strength helped me with Advocacy and Fitness

I have spent the entire month of March chronicling my journey for CP awareness month from the Facebook post that changed my life in part 1. I wrote about my fellow warriors and their stories last week and captured just the surface of their Accomplishments in part 2. The Experience this week will explain how friends at Original Strength a fitness company based out of North Carolina helped helped me spread awareness for Cerebral Palsy and change my life for the better.

I want to start off the post by telling everyone about how I connected Original Strength. I was just surfing the internet one summer day in June looking up workout videos because I wanted to strengthen feet and lower extremities. I had become discouraged because I typed in the search box and the same videos kept popping up Google actually disappointed me this day 🤣🤣🤣🤣. I scrolled all the way to the bottom of the webpage and clicked the last link and it took me straight to YouTube and Original Strength’s page. I watched the Rocking video and rolling video and was blown away about how simple the moves were. My curiosity had prompted me to reach out to one of the founders in Dani Almeyda-Usedom via email on June 20,2014.

I wrote this email with a fifty percent chance of hope that she would respond.

I’m glad that my Hope swung in the right direction because Dani responded three days later.

I initially was not sold on the The Original Strength training system because rolling around on the ground and rocking back and forth were considered weird and strange. I’m not going to hold back an honestly say that I thought Tim Anderson and Dani Almeyda-Usedom were CRA to the ZY. I thought two adults rolling Ha Ha! I soon had to take a step back and listen to their words they used phrases like “vestibular system” refers to balance and strengthening the X or the core that ties the body together. Tim and Dani referred to moving like a baby a lot. The basics of Original Strength are known as the big 5.

1. The Baby builds strength with (breathing) through their diaphragm or stomach.

2. The baby learns how to hold their head up and look around using the eyes and head. (Head Nods)

3. The baby Rolls over on to the stomach (prone) and returns to being face up (supine) with (Rolling).

4. The baby progresses to supporting themselves on all fours and (Rocking) back and forth.

5. (Crawling) is the most advanced step using opposing limbs to move around on the ground which then leads to walking.

I then took a few days to look up the stages of development for babies and I recognized the correlation between the movements that babies use to facilitate walking were the same movements displayed in Original Strength. I exchanged videos and countless emails with Dani for the next 6-7 months. I practiced each move or “Reset” day after day and my balance improved along with weight training I began to balance and reach peak levels of strength.

I was still young in my journey sharing awareness about Cerebral Palsy because I was still learning the basics. I wore green in 2013-2014 to show my support during the month. 2015 was different because I received a request on March 3rd of that same year that would change my life.

I was ecstatic about being part of my second blog in almost 2 years at that point. I was finally going to showcase my ability to workout on a larger channel than my own. I was also tasked with answering questions that dealt with how I implemented Original Strength into my training regimen. The most important question to me in the entire article was the very first one “What is Movement?” Movement was not hard to define but the term is very broad. I set out on a journey to make a short video answering the very first question. I called on my friend Tori Sanders my videographer to shoot some footage in the gym at Clayton State University since it was close and a fitness video. I unfortunately did not have a permit to shoot the video in the gym and had to move the scene to right outside of my dorm room of 5105 on a unusually warm day in March. I brought out all my equipment outside from my medicine ball to my Lebert Equalizer bars to make my video shoot successful. I then got Tori to record my thoughts on what movement was and off the top of my head used several adjectives to explain what movement was from my perspective after 2-3 weeks of preparation my blog was released on March 23rd on Original Strength.net. The link to my blog can be viewed below

The #CerebralPalsyCan video helped me as a person in so many ways. I gained the confidence to shoot videos in different areas besides the gym. I showcased all of the things I had learned in fitness up to that point. I believe the video put many people in the fitness industry on notice allowing them to see that people with different abilities have a place within the fitness industry. I myself have aspirations to be a personal trainer and movement specialist. I accomplished the first part of my dream on November 24th 2017 when I got my level 1 certification from Original Strength.

I want to close by saying that movement is a mentality. I will forever remember the saying that Tim Anderson quoted in one of his weekly videos. “Wherever the head goes the body will follow”. I believe this to be true because you’re thoughts control the outcome of any situation in life. When a person is negative and has the worst outlook on various situations their outcome will be more than likely negative and the mind or head moves “down”. Positive people try their best to see the situation to the good and pull something from it that will lead to success. The mind or head will be held “up” in a positive direction. I want everyone who reads this to hold your head up and know that you can move toward freedom with the right mindset.

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Adventures in Autism:  06/03/2017

Friends, neighbors, stalkers, lend me your ears!!!

This is a ‘therapeutic’ blog to help me explain what raising a Sassy Classy AuSome Princess is like. This blog is to bring autism awareness to your everyday life! If you know my family, please don’t use my daughter’s name. She will be referred to as Princess on here for privacy reasons. 

So, where do I start?

Princess has never been a ‘normal’ or typically developing child. Ever. In her life. Never. Never has a ‘milestone’ been hit on time. To make it blunt, Princess has a plethora of diagnoses. I sometimes wonderful if I imagine some of them (recently watched “Mommy Dead Dearest” or whatever the hell it’s called about Munchhausen by proxy. Kind of felt like that was me a little bit, always saying something is wrong. Hell, who knows.). So far, her DX list is:

Autism Global Developmental Delay Mixed R/E language disorder Hyperkinses (can’t spell it). Cerebral Palsy/PVL Epilepsy (Atypical Absence Seizures) Sensory Neglect (Sensory Processing Disorder) GERD EOE (Eosinophilic esophagitis) Allergies Asthma Eczema Thyroid something (going on the 28th) Prolong QT Heart Murmur Insomnia Suppressed Immune System Awesomness Extra Sass

Yeah, see? She sees: Pediatrician (PRN) Allergist (every 6 months) Gastrointestinal Doctor (Upper EGD every 3 months, appointment every 4 months) EOE Dietitian (every 4 months) Cardiology (every 6 months) Neurology (every 3 months) Endocrinologist (never met, will soon) Behavioral Psychologist (every 3 months, if not sooner)

She currently Gets: Occuptional Therapy - 1x week in school, 2x week outside of school in summer, 1x week during school outside clinic Physical Therapy - 1x week outside clinic, 2x week outside clinic summer Speech Therapy - 6 x a month (45 minutes a week) in school, 2x (1 speech 1 feeding therapy) a week clinic outside of school, 3x (2 speech 1 feeding therapy) week clinic summer ABA Applied Behavioral Analysis Therapy - 1x week outside of school, consult at school with behavioral plan following suspensions.... long freaking story...

Yeah, 

A lot.

Huh.

She’s 8. Princess is 8 and that’s our life. Just imagine as she gets older... Crap! Right! :p

Honestly she is the sweetest kid ever, yet I might be biased. She’s blunt and will tell you how it is. 

I will have short tags like “Adventures in Autism: Sleeping medicine apparently only works during certain months, June is not a scheduled work month” as her medicine is NOT working. (she takes 4 meds for sleep.... NONE OF THEM FUCKING WORK ANYMORE. I need sleep or bigger coffee cups. You’re choice. I already drink about 90 ozs of coffee a day. Yep. You read that right. 3 30oz tumblers of coffee. Oh, and energy pills. Yep!). 

I’m a single parent, we live with my Mom. If you know me, you know how I feel about that. I’m happy I have her, yet she’s a rude horrible person. 

Welcome to my blog. I’m signing off for the night to go give my kiddo round 3 of sleep meds. I mean we spent 6 hours at the pool swimming and she is NOT exhausted. The more she moves the more energy she builds. Nothing calms her down. 

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Weekly Reading List

The GOP health care plan could force Americans with disabilities back into institutions Ari Ne'eman, Vox.com - March 23, 2017

This is quite simply the best explanation I have ever seen of the complex relationships between home care, nursing homes, and Medicaid. It's such a core issue for a portion of the disabled community, and although it's not hard to understand if you are directly involved, it has always seemed unusually hard to explain to the uninitiated. This is great, and will continue to be essential reading, even though the specific health care bill it addresses is now dead.

Farms For Disabled People Aren't A New Idea Kit Mead, NOS Magazine - March 15, 2017

Not many things annoy me more in the disability rights field than happy, naive stories about "innovative" new approaches to "taking care of" disabled people ... approaches that are almost always merely cosmetically modernized versions of old-time institutions. In fact, the ongoing and renewed seduction of institutions is a fascinating topic all on its own. Why do individualized, community-based approaches never seem to catch fire the way newfangled "facilities" and "assistive living communities" do?

Losing Friends To Ableism Erin Hawley, The Geeky Gimp - March 18, 2017

I'm Celebrating Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month For the First Time Keah Brown, Teen Vogue - March 24, 2017

Why I Call Myself "Disabled" Karen Hitselberger, Claiming Crip - October 15, 2015

I group these last three pieces together, because they all outstanding examples of disability blogging on the personal nature and facets of ableism. It's especially meaningful to me, because I spent most of my life ... including over 20 years in Independent Living ... being kind of dismissive of the emotional side of disability. It still sometimes feel a Gen-Xer's nagging concern about too much "navel gazing" in the movement. But it's mainly writers like these who finally broke through my shell and got me to take issues of body image, language, and internalized ableism seriously. I am very grateful.

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Something isn’t right

I haven’t written anything since last trip down the negative road below. My brain started flooding with scary thoughts of my son not getting any better, or even worse. I started to question whether he had cerebral palsy, neurological diseases or autism. I had practically convinced myself that there is something larger going on and his heart was just a piece of the puzzle. The dark path my mind took me on had me doubting myself, our doctors and my ability to care for my children. Postpartum depression? Maybe. Anxiety? Definitely. I stayed up late at night on Google self diagnosing myself and Finn. I knew I was driving myself crazy and the loss of sleep wasn’t helping. My mom, Jeff and friends were telling me he was okay, that other kids are fine who don’t gain weight quickly or who have some of the delays or physical manifestations I was obsessing over. As much as I wanted them to be right, I knew in my heart that something was off. I didn’t know what, but my “mom-tuition” was telling me that something wasn’t right.

After we left the NICU I had been watching Finn’s physical development closely. He has always seemed a little weaker than Asher but he had a heart condition and he was a skinny guy. He slept more, but some babies do that, right? At his two month check-up my concerns were slightly validated. He was not holding his head up like a normal two month old typically does. His weight and head circumference had fallen off their curve a bit. I had been weighing him weekly and he was gaining about 4 oz a week, which was on the low end but acceptable. I asked to be referred to PT/OT to close the gap on his physical development. 

Just like when you go to bring your computer into IT at work or your car into the mechanic Finn decided to start showing off his head lift and control skills the day of our first PT assessment. Yay! I was happy to see him improving. It makes sense that he may be a little behind based on his early NICU stay and his weakness from his HCM. Our OT and PT agreed that he had a little lag but with some extra work he could definitely catch up. They were able to put my fears of cognitive development issues to bed. He clearly doesn’t exhibit any signs of autism, CP or any other neurological diseases. With a few extra exercises and spending more time at the baby gym he should be up to speed in no time.

At my weekly weigh in on 3.20.17 Finn had only gained 2oz rather than his typical 4. I knew in my gut that something was not “right” and my hyper concern was kicking in. We went to see our pediatrician and make sure we were watching him closely. Dr. Bob recommended feeding more often and adding in bottles to monitor his intake. We have a home scale so more frequent weigh ins were in order. Check back in another week unless drastic issues arise. 

It was a long week. I would weigh Finn before a feeding, after each side. Forcing him to eat with bottles and a syringe. He wasn’t having it. This kiddo simply refused to take more than an ounce or ounce and a half per feeding. He was also nursing more frequently and grumpier in the middle of the night. I obliged every request but it fed into my fears that he just wasn’t getting enough milk. In a single pumping session I could get 10-12 ounces. This wasn’t a production issue, it’s a transfer or metabolism issue. I knew it.

Before our follow up with Dr. Bob I wanted to seek advice from an IBCLC. We fed, weighed and assessed my milk calorie and fat content. Everything on my end checked out. Finn didn’t have a lip tie or tongue tie. No sucking issues. Why wasn’t this baby getting the milk in his belly and what changed in the past two or three weeks? We left with some friendly advice and well wishes, not a solution.

Dr. Bob’s follow up visit on Wednesday, 3.29.17, was short and sweet. We needed to follow up again with our cardiologist (who was aware all along of all the ups and downs I was experiencing over the past few weeks). He wanted us to continue to see him weekly, however right now we should really discuss the immediate health concerns with the specialists. 

Dr. Vezmar, our cardiologist was out on spring break. He wasn’t going to be back until our regularly scheduled monthly appointment the following week. Luckily, Dr. Hills was in clinic and she is a cardiologist that had experience with our case. She was able to see us immediately. 

After an EKG and exam by Dr. Hills we are admitted to Children’s for failure to thrive. Malnutrition. He needed a feeding tube to get him up to an appropriate weight. Everyone kept telling me he was lucky that I was so diligent and brought it to everyone’s attention early. Children often don’t come in until they are showing significant signs of failure. He never lost an ounce but the direction we were going wasn’t the right one. I went home to pack up a bag and soon it was back to our life of living at the hospital.

Walking down the halls at Children’s for our outpatient check ins always brings mixed emotions. I am usually happy that we don’t live here anymore, but sad that we are such frequent guests. This time we were walking back in to stay again. It was surreal. The feelings flooded in. Anticipation, anxiety, sadness, fear, relief. Yes, relief. This time there was an overwhelming sense of relief coupled with all my other negative emotions. Relief that he would be monitored. Relief that Dr. Google wasn’t going to be my daily consult. Relief that my son would, without a question, get the nutrition he needs to get healthy once and for all I hope. I hated the ideas of monitors, nurses, feeding tubes and sleeping on a futon again but I loved that he would be taken care by professionals. No more sleepless nights wandering the internet trying to self diagnose every little symptom I observed.

Upon arrival we started tube feedings coupled with oral feedings. We assumed that he was getting one to one and a half ounces of breast milk directly from me so we added in another two ounce per feeding every three hours round the clock. Again, that relief feeling was settling in. It wasn’t as scary this time. I knew how to manage the schedule with Asher. I knew when to expect doctors to round and I knew that he would be reviewed daily. Once we get this kid up to his expected weight and feeding properly we are going home. This will only take a few days, right?

Genetics came to visit right away. They informed us that his preliminary carnitine results were in and it was extremely unlikely that he had a primary carnitine deficiency. What a huge let down. Our best case scenario is now off the table. A new genetic physician, Dr. Mendelson, who wasn’t very familiar with our case spent a lot of time looking at Finn and asking me questions. She had briefly reviewed our case but wasn’t in the weeds with the details. She pretty confidently ruled out any syndromic issues based on his physical presentation, reiterating multiple times what a beautiful baby he is. I couldn’t agree more! During her assessment she casually mentioned his reflux. Almost as if we knew it was there. Reflux? He didn’t spit up or cry at feedings. Interesting. We adjusted his bed to be at an incline and he immediately perked up. Less agitated and clearly more comfortable.

Okay. So no to carnitine being our problem, yes reflux is now on the list. That doesn’t explain everything. Could silent reflux be the reason he doesn’t want to transfer milk? It was unlikely since he didn’t seem too uncomfortable for the past few weeks. Genetics informed us that they were submitting a request to the hospital to do Whole Exome Sequencing. Now that Finn is showing signs other than just the HCM, we have reason to believe this is something in the rare to extremely rare category. Unfortunately even this test doesn’t guarantee that we have an answer. There are always new genes being discovered so we may have to try again in a year from now to see if they can pinpoint why my baby boy’s heart is the way it is.

For our immediate goal, we need to focus on getting Finn to eat on his own. With the support of his feeding tube he is gaining the appropriate weight, however we want him to do it on his own. Occupational therapy, speech pathology, doctors and more are working with us to find a solution. Yesterday we did a swallow study to see if he was aspirating liquid. Before the study I asked about being able to confirm whether or not he has reflux from the observation. The speech pathologist who specializes in feeding said that they very rarely see reflux on a swallow study. It would have to be pretty significant and timed perfectly. Reflux isn’t usually continuous and may not happen in the first few swallows that we are watching. Well, Finn’s reflux was that bad. We clearly saw him swallow and an immediate reflux all the way back up without coming out his mouth. This whole time every sip he was taking was coming back up and hurting him. No wonder he doesn’t want to eat. Poor baby! 

We aren’t sure if the reflux is the only contributing factor to his weight gain but we are treating it and continuing to look at what else could be hurting his ability to transfer milk. The days are long. Testing every bottle, Zantac, Omeprazole, different positions and more. Nothing seems to be working so far. With the increased volume in his feedings he is becoming more and more uncomfortable. My skinny yet happy baby is transitioning into a well fed crab. His smiles have been replaced with grunts and groans. It breaks my heart to know that his food is hurting him. He needs to eat and gain weight but each feeding is putting him in a lot of pain. Hopefully the meds will kick in soon and it will solve his reflux. Maybe if that subsides he will be capable of taking on more from his oral feeds. I guess for the time being I will be grateful that he is getting the nutrition he needs to be strong and smart, even if it is painful for all of us.

March 31, 2017

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This man's epic quest for a rainbow bagel makes a crucial point about accessibility

If you're in New York City, you could get your hands on a coveted rainbow bagel pretty easily. Only a MetroCard fare and a few subway stops are between you and the copious amounts of dyed dough.

But if you have a mobility-related disability, public transportation — and navigating a city overall — isn't exactly bagel quest-friendly.

Just ask Zach Anner.

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To mark Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month this March, the popular YouTuber, who lives with cerebral palsy, collaborated with the Cerebral Palsy Foundation to release a hilarious and illuminating video on the lack of accessibility in cities.

Anner is tasked with traveling round-trip from Manhattan to Brooklyn with one goal: get a colorfully swirled bagel for his new friend, Judd, in under six hours. Spoiler alert: Anner fails to complete his journey in the allotted time — and it's all due to the inaccessibility of public transit and walkways in New York City.

In just three days, the video collaboration, which centers around an epic "Rainbow Bagel Quest," has racked up just under 1 million views on Facebook and YouTube.

The projected bagel path.

Image: YouTube/Cerebral Palsy Foundation

Google Maps estimates a trip from Anner's hotel in Manhattan to the rainbow bagel paradise — a.k.a. The Bagel Store — in Brooklyn should take a mere 28 minutes, one way. 

His journey should be no problem then, right? Very, very wrong. Just getting to the lobby of his hotel, for instance, takes Anner an hour. His wheelchair's wheels then lose traction in water-filled curb cuts, and then he gets lost.

Finding an accessible train to Brooklyn, Anner finds, is just impossible. No wheelchair friendly trains run to the rainbow bagel region of Brooklyn. So, Anner and his film crew have to take a mass transit ferry they dub the "Bagel Ferry" to get there.

The colorful confection in question.

Image: YouTube/Cerebral Palsy Foundation

Finally, Anner arrives — only to be blocked from entering the home of the famed fluorescent bagel. There are two stairs leading up to the door of the restaurant. But an employee takes Anner's order from outside, just to ensure Judd gets the fruity flavored bagel he deserves.   

"How can I help you today?" the employee asks.

"I need a rainbow bagel," Anner replies.

"Anything else?" the employee asks.

"Umm, no," Anner says. "Just a ramp."

Want to know what it's like to travel around NYC in a wheelchair? Watch @Zachanner's Rainbow Bagel Quest. Full video https://t.co/3CfvNgliDx pic.twitter.com/ahbmvKaNsW

— Cerebral Palsy FDN (@yourcpf) March 20, 2017

About 764,000 children and adults in the U.S. live with cerebral palsy, a physical disability that impacts movement and posture. Globally, more than 17 million people live with the motor condition.

New York, which Anner says prides itself on being one of the most accessible cities in the country, obviously still has a long way to go toward inclusion of people with disabilities. While there are nearly 500 subway stations in the city, for example, barely 100 are accessible by elevator. That means people like Anner are blocked from accessing colorful bagels — and a whole lot more — until accessibility of public transit and city walkways improves.

"New York," Anner says in the video, "the city that never stops fucking with you." 

Yep, that about sums it up.

WATCH: Robotic glove lets people with limited hand mobility perform daily tasks

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Meet the inspirational women changing the world through beauty

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Meet the inspirational women changing the world through beauty

Here at GLAMOUR, we know that beauty sometimes gets a bad rep. It’s ‘superficial silliness’, ‘vanity’, and ‘shallow’. But we know the word ‘beauty’ encompasses far more – and can have a much greater impact on people’s lives – than these haters realise.

That’s why we spoke to these four women, who all run their own beauty/ lifestyle brand, about why and how they’re helping different communities, and changing the world around them. Prepare to be seriously inspired.

“I’m helping transgender people show who they truly are”

Jessica Blackler, Founder, JECCA Make-Up.

After school, I studied at the Delamar Academy of Hair & Make-Up, doing Doctor Who-style prosthetics and theatrical beauty for film and TV. I started showcasing my work on Instagram, and soon, I was getting requests for make-up tutorials. But I was surprised that so many of them were from men who were transitioning into women.

In 2015, I started giving one-on-one lessons to trans people and opened a small studio space in London. It was important to create a safe space where they felt comfortable and could discuss things they may not have wanted to talk about with friends or family. I wanted them to feel accepted and be open with me. And they were.

For most of my clients, it was the first time they’d ever experimented with make-up, and as women, it’s easy to forget how daunting and complicated it can be! The most common problem for my clients was covering beard shadow (where facial hair growth can be seen under the skin), so I showed them how to layer concealer and foundation to look natural, while still covering the tiny dark hairs.

Soon, I’d built up over 200 transgender clients, and sometimes I’d be in the studio for three or four hours with just one. It was demanding, but incredibly rewarding. Make-up plays a huge role in the male-to-female transition, and it was amazing showing people how to present themselves as the person they knew they were inside. But it became impossible to keep up with demand, and I was receiving hundreds of messages from people who couldn’t make it to the studio.

So, in 2017, I decided to launch my own brand, Jecca Make-Up, so that my products could reach all the transitioning people that I couldn’t. I conducted months of market research, using my clients as a focus group to test my products. Our first product was the Correct & Conceal, a colour corrector offering long-lasting coverage for beard shadow, birthmarks and acne.

Jecca Make-Up is less than a year old, but thanks to partnering with L’Oreal in June this year, we’re constantly developing products to offer unisex solutions. Next summer, we’ll be introducing eye and lip colour, and I can’t wait to expand our range to help our customers feel confident in their own skin. I now get messages every day saying, “Your products have changed my life”, “The trans community are so overlooked in cosmetics, and thanks to Jecca, we feel seen”, “I feel like I can be myself now.” And that’s exactly how everyone should feel – that they can be who they truly are.

“I’m giving people with disabilities the chance to earn a living”

Camilla Marcus-Dew, Co-Founder, The Soap Co.

Ever since I was a child, growing up in Bournemouth, I’ve spent a lot of time with young disabled people. My niece, Iesha, has cerebral palsy, and even as a kid in school I noticed how wrapped up in cotton wool she was. She was over-protected and stifled, and people didn’t realise how capable she was. When I started working at the charity Leonard Cheshire Disability after university, I saw the same thing was happening to the young disabled people who worked there, too.

I realised that many people with disabilities have the will to work, but the employment market doesn’t recognise them as able. So, I decided to combine this with my passion for the environment and making beauty more eco-friendly – and, in September 2015, The Soap Co. was born. It’s a luxury, ethical skincare brand. I wanted it to be completely transparent, ensuring customers knew what’s in our products, who made them, where our ingredients came from, and what happens to the packaging when you’re finished. We started selling hand washes and lotions, and now our range also includes bath and body oils, exfoliating soap pebbles and gift boxes.

We now have 115 employees, over 80% of which have a disability or longterm physical or mental health condition. They’re always at the core of our organisation.

One of our employees went blind at the age of 20 very suddenly due to a genetic condition. Within just three weeks, he couldn’t see much more than holding his phone an inch from his eye. He was an electrician and couldn’t carry on working. He now works on our reception desk. Another man was 47-years-old when we employed him – he suffers with severe epilepsy, and The Soap Co. was his first ever job. He told me he finally had a reason to get out of bed in the morning.

I’m so proud of what we’ve achieved as a brand – from helping disabled people have that crucial autonomy over their own lives, to reducing our impact on the environment – but we know there’s room for improvement. For example, we need to work on the recyclability of our plastic pump mechanisms in certain bottled products. But as long as we’re still striving to be better, I know I’m doing the right thing.

“I’m fighting our country’s hidden crisis – hygiene poverty” Jo Jones, Co-Founder, Beauty Banks.

Growing up in London, I’ve seen people sleeping on the streets my whole life. But it wasn’t until my friend, who’s a head teacher, told me about his pupils borrowing deodorant, razors, and even sanitary towels from staff, that I realised poverty didn’t just mean a lack of food, but a lack of hygiene, too. Girls were too scared to tell their parents that they had their periods, because they couldn’t afford towels or tampons. Boys who felt ashamed in class, because they knew they had body odour. Something had to be done.

From a career in beauty PR, I’ve seen how many products go to waste – and so has my friend and colleague, journalist Sali Hughes. We saw an opportunity to marry the gap between the people who don’t have anything, and those that have an abundance. We thought, “if everyone gave a few toiletries they didn’t need, then we could give them to those in need.” We came up with the name ‘Beauty Banks’, my friend Lauren at Top Shelfie Illustrated created our logo, and Sali shared the initiative to Instagram. Soon, boxes of donations were arriving for me at work. We’d spend hours sorting them into parcels for different homeless shelters and food banks, our friends and families helping us deliver them all over the country. It’s incredible to see how Beauty Banks helps people – especially young girls and boys – feel more clean, confident and happy. We received a huge ‘thank you’ card from a school, where each pupil wrote a personal message about their struggles, and how much happier they felt at school. But it’s also really moving to see awareness being raised. A little girl told us she was going to use her toiletries to ‘make slime’, but her mum and dad told her she shouldn’t waste them when she could donate them to us instead, and help people feel good about themselves.

But we’re only just scratching the surface of an enormous problem. Our country is in a hygiene poverty crisis. Just this week, a school got in touch saying: ‘We need your help, kids can’t keep borrowing off their teachers.’

We’re currently setting up our website and in the process of registering as a charity, but until then, keep up to date and find out how to donate on our Instagram, @thebeautybanks. It may feel like we’re a long way off a solution, but together, we can help people living in poverty to achieve their most basic of human rights – to be, and feel, clean.

To read Sali’s feature on Beauty Banks, pick up the Autumn/ Winter issue of GLAMOUR magazine, on sale 13th September.

“I’m giving people with learning difficulties a platform to express themselves”

Becky Sheraidah, Founder, ARTHOUSE Unlimited

I studied fine art at university, and after graduating and becoming a freelance artist, I started working one day a week with adults who had learning disabilities at a day centre. The work they’d create was amazing – everything from painting to designing product packaging. But because of their learning disabilities, which meant they needed constant supervision, and sometimes couldn’t properly understand or communicate, no one had any expectations of their skills – and neither did they.

I wanted to create a business out of this gap in the market, and in turn, give people with disabilities like Down’s syndrome and cerebral palsy the chance to earn a living from their work.

So, I set up ARTHOUSE in Hertfordshire, a social enterprise with a small studio space where artists would do workshops with people with learning and physical difficulties. We catered for everyone – there were men and women as young as 21, with ages all the way up to 70-something. They’d create jewellery, wall art, homeware, but especially popular were the soaps, candles and reed diffusers – which we still sell now. The artists create all the product packaging and design, and even work with different suppliers on making the actual scented product.

When galleries and stockists, such as the Royal Academy of the Arts, started noticing what we were doing at ARTHOUSE, sales increased. Now, we’re established as a registered charity and have our own board of trustees and our own team of staff, volunteers, suppliers and in-house tutors, and we’re stocked in over 430 shops across Britain. We have collaborations coming up with Lush, the V&A, and a range of soaps, mugs and bags has been rolled out in Oxfam this month.

People are always so surprised when they learn it’s adults, often with severe learning difficulties, who have produced this beautiful work. And a lot of the time, the artists themselves can’t believe it either, and it’s hugely moving to see their joy when they defy their own self-doubt. We’re soon launching a range called ‘Lady Muck’, including bath milks, body butters, moisturisers, and the neon pink and gold foil packaging was designed by Peter, one of our artists. Five years ago, he didn’t believe he could be creative at all, and now he’s designing packaging and even held a sell-out exhibition.

1.5 million people in the UK have a learning disability, yet their opportunities for valued work are so limited. By giving these people a space to express who they are, and earn money from their work, we’re saying to them: ‘You are valuable’. And there’s nothing more worthwhile than that.

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www.ibbi.gov.in - Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India Recruitment of Officer Grade A (Assistant Manager)

IBBI invites applications from Indian citizens for filling up the posts of Officer Grade A (Assistant Manager). IBBI reserves the right to terminate this process at any stage and accordingly, the applicants shall have no right to participate further in the selection process.

Opening of application link and payment of fees 22.2.2018

Closing of application link and payment of fees 14.3.2018

• Other Backward Classes -4

One post will be reserved for a person with disability suffering from Locomotor disability or cerebral palsy.

Age Limit as on 01.03.2018* General: 28 years (candidates should have been born not earlier than 02.03.1990) OBC (Non-Creamy Layer): 31 years (candidates should have been born not earlier than 02.03.1987) SC/ST: 33 years (candidates should have been born not earlier than 02.03.1985)

Qualification as on 01.03.2018 CA / CS / CMA / LL. B. / MBA with Finance / Masters in Economics /Masters in Commerce Preference: (a) Pass in Limited Insolvency Examination; (b) Higher Qualification than Essential Qualification; (c) Two or more of the essential qualifications; These must be from a Recognised University / Institution.

Candidates applying would be expected to be computer literate and conversant with MS Office, Word and Excel Applications.

MODE OF SELECTION: Mode of selection will be On-Line Examination, Group Discussion and Interview as under: 1. On-Line Examination: An online examination of Objective type (Multiple Choice5 options’ pattern) for 150 marks will be held during the month of March/April 2018 There will be 1/4th penalty for wrong answers Test will be bilingual (Hindi & English) except for English language test. Duration of the test will be 120 minutes. Each question will carry 1 mark. The examination will consist of tests for- Questions and Marks i) English Language 30 Questions and marks ii) Quantitative Aptitude 20 Questions and marks iii) Reasoning Ability 20 Questions and marks iv) General Awareness 20 Questions and marks v) Economy/Financial Sector Awareness 30 Questions and marks vi) Insolvency and Related Laws 30 Questions and marks. Candidates would have to secure minimum marks separately for each test

Group discussion & Interview: On fulfilling the criteria of minimum cut off marks in each subject, candidates will be shortlisted for Group discussion and interview.

List of candidates shortlisted for group discussion and interview will be made available on IBBI website. Only the shortlisted candidates will be called for group discussion and interview. Application fee shall not be refunded. IBBI reserves the right to modify the selection procedure, if deemed fit.

SERVICE CONDITIONS/ PAY AND ALLOWANCES:

1. Pay: The incumbent will be on a scale of pay of Officer Grade A in the scale of Rs.28150-1550(4)-34350-1750(7)-46600-EB-1750(4)-53600-2000(1)-55600(17 years).

2. Benefits: Other benefits including House Allowance, Transport, LFC and Medical Benefits will be admissible as admissible to an Officer in Grade A in IBBI. 

3. Posting: The incumbent may be posted and transferred to any location in India. IBBI’s head office is currently in Delhi. While the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 provides for head office of IBBI to be in National Capital Region, it may have other offices across India.

4. The appointment of the selected candidates shall be governed by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Employees’ Service) Regulations, 2017 as amended from time to time.

APPLICATION FEE (NON-REFUNDABLE)

1. General / OBC – Rs.500/- plus GST(presently 18%) as application fee cum intimation charges plus applicable transaction charges

2. SC/ST/ Persons With Disability (PWD)-Nil.

HOW TO APPLY: Candidates are required to apply on-Line through the website www.ibbi.gov.in from 22.2.2018 to 14.3.2018 and no other mode of application will be accepted. Candidates need not submit the system generated print out of the ON-LINE application to IBBI’s office.

http://ibbi.gov.in/webadmin/pdf/whatsnew/2018/Feb/Recruitment%20Notice%20Grade%20A-Final2_2018-02-22%2011:07:40.pdf

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Friends Through CP Advocacy

The first part of my series dedicated to Cerebral Palsy awareness month talks about how I personally found my voice and began to share my story more on social media. I had come to the realization that my story has a true impact on many people. I remember the countless flashbacks of me calling myself handicap until about the 8th grade when I found out the proper term was that I have Cerebral Palsy.

I had also grown up in a regular public school system with a regular classroom setting. The others who were in a similar situation like me were slightly older than me and I never got to have a close bond. I often remind myself to appreciate the wonderful journey called life that I have the opportunity to participate in. God allowed me to type that post in 2013 and open the door to meet Richelle Heath, Heaven Ramsey, Matt Rich, and Keith Granderson. I write this week in the Strongman Experience about their triumphs in spite of obstacles.

I often credit Richelle Heath and Heaven Ramsey for getting me involved with sharing my story and advocating for CP along with my sister Candra Cherry. I met them first on the journey into advocacy. I am going to start off by introducing my friend Richelle Heath one of the the founders of the CP dream-team Facebook community.

Richelle Heath was born April 26, 1976 in Fort Lauderdale Florida. She was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy at the age of 11 months old.

Richelle would go on to hold various jobs in the corporate world. Richelle left the corporate world to take care of her parents whose health started to give them issues. She Experienced a terrible fall that caused her to begin what would be a 5+ year battle with the government to receive disability benefits. She discovered at that point that the state of Georgia does little to nothing to provide support or provide resources directly to people past the age of 22.

The CP dream-team have worked non stop ever since 2016 to share not only the triumphs of those affected but to also shed light on the plight that the people in the CP community face on a day to day basis. I am so thankful to have met a caring passionate person in Richelle.I would have not even known about CP awareness month in March or World CP day in October with out meeting her. Richelle has also ran 7 successful T-shirt campaigns that have sold nearly 3000 shirts and so far and raised over $6000 in revenue with the proceeds going to the Cerebral Palsy center in Knoxville Tennessee people in the community and various other fundraisers. In 2018 Richelle was able to get the Atlanta Sky view Ferris Wheel attraction to light up green in support of CP awareness and looks forward to the lighting again on March 25th of this year.

The current mission is to reach out to as many companies as possible to light up areas green to show support and raise awareness anywhere possible. I definitely look forward to helping Richelle and the rest of the CP DreamTeam achieve the goal of lighting up the world Green.

Heaven Ramsey is a young lady currently a Sophomore at Knox High-School in Tennessee who definitely has a lot to say when it comes to spreading awareness. She is the co-founder of the CP Dream-team along with Richelle. She competes in the The Miss Shining Star pageant each year and the proceeds go toward groups who help people with different abilities. Heaven is an anti-bullying advocate as well and over the last 6 years she has worked in groups such as Project U and Boddygaurds United and was elected to the student advisory council last year. Heaven used her experience to help people online and in her community. I truly admire Heaven for her courage to stand up and be a voice for those who are being bullied.She is very young and has so much more in store for her community and the best is yet to come.

Matt Rich is the next person I want to highlight on my list. He is a Native of Pennsauken New Jersey born September 5th 1981. I’ve known Matt for four years now and he is a huge inspiration to me because after battling for years with CP in 2010 Matt stood up and walked for the very first time from his wheelchair to his family. You can check out the video on YouTube by typing in “Matthew Rich Walks”. Matt is a motivational speaker and spreads his message “fighting your lion” all through out the New England area and parts of the east coast. Matt was an avid 5K runner with a catalog of an incredible 14 races from 2010-2017 his fastest time was 44minutes and 30 seconds and his best mile time was 14min and 8secs. The races he has participated in benefited those affected by cystic fibrosis and those who were paralyzed and so much more. I will forever admire Matt for his determination and positive impact on the community. Matt is currently training for his next 5K in May the Enable 5K run/1mile walk in Palmyra, New Jersey.

My last person I wanted to highlight but certainly not least is the Future president of Virginia State University himself Mr. Keith Granderson born in Richmond Virginia on February 22nd 1992.Keith was diagnosed with CP at the age of 6 months predominately affecting his his left side (spastic hemiplegia) I met Keith 4 years ago through one of our mutual friends in Torian Cole on Instagram. I loved his passion for people and like me he has had a genuine impact on his community and I want to list several accomplishments of his below.

Graduated from Matoaca High School Chesterfield, Virginia in 2010

Licensed Minister of the Gospel 2011

Graduated from Virginia State University Bachelors Of Science Degree in Criminal Justice in 2017

Currently working on my Masters Of Education

Employed by Hopewell High School in Hopewell, Virginia as a Special Education Teacher with Students with intellectual disabilities and specific learning disabilities.

HBCU Digest Male Student of The Year Nominee in 2017.

Young Trojan Award for Virginia State University representing The Greater Petersburg Area Alumni Association

I am incredibly proud of Keith for all of his accomplishments so far and having me write his story doesn’t do much justice please check out his video below to hear his experience

Keith has obtained his bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice since the airing of the video. He recently obtained his teaching license to teach students to in special education.

I want to close out this this week by stating each person I wrote about is a champion. I encourage everyone to follow them on Facebook as well.

Richelle and Heaven have taught me so much about Cerebral Palsy and without their help I would not be in the position I am in today. Matt has helped me through tough times with his weekly motivational videos. I hope to run/walk a 5K someday and I will definitely reach out to him for help. Keith reminds me so much of myself. The impact that he has on his small town and Virginia State University and other cities reminds me of how I was able to impact the various people through social media.

I hope that all my readers gain something from this week’s post and I look forward to writing part 3 next week in the Strongman Experience. Until then Strongman Out.

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As per the new exam pattern of SSC CGL Exam both the tier 1 and tier 2 examination of SSC CGL will be held in computer based mode. Candidates who qualify the SSC CGL Tier 1 will be shortlisted for the SSC CGL tier 2 exams. The tier II exam will be conducted in the month of November 2017.  To check the more information regarding SSC CGL exam you must check the official website of SSC and also bookmark our website for current news.

SSC CGL Tier-I Exam pattern 2017

There are four sections in the SSC CGL Tier 1 examination. Total 200 marks will be given for 100 questions. For every correct answer, candidates would be awarded 1 mark and ¼ marks will get deducted for every wrong answer. Those applicants who qualify the SSC CGL Tier 1 exam pattern will be shortlisted for the tier 2 exam. SSC CGL is not so tough exam by nature but the candidates if try and risk to give the exam without any preparation will not find it worthy.

Section name Ques Asked Marks Weigh Time Limit General Intelligence & Reasoning 25 50

60 minutes (Total)

80 Minutes for VH & Candidates suffering from Cerebral Palsy

General Awareness 25 50 Quantitative Aptitude 25 50 English Language 25 50 Total 100 200

SSC CGL Tier-II exam pattern

Section name Questions Marks Weigh Time limit Paper I: Quantitative Ability (for ALL POSTS) 100 Ques. 200 Marks

2 Hours

(2 Hours 40 Min for VH & Candidates suffering from Cerebral Palsy)

Paper II: English Language (for ALL POSTS) 200 Ques. 200 Marks

2 Hours

(2 Hours 40 Min for VH & Candidates suffering from Cerebral Palsy)

TOTAL 300 Ques. 400 Marks

4 Hours

5 Hrs 20 Min for VH & Candidates suffering from Cerebral Palsy

Paper III: Statistics (for Statistical Investigator Grade II & Compiler posts only) 100 Ques. 200 Marks

40 minutes

(2 Hrs 40 Min for VH & Candidates suffering from Cerebral Palsy)

Paper IV: General Studies (Finance & Economics) (for Assistant Audit Officer Gazetted Group “B” posts only) 100 Ques. 200 Marks

40 minutes

(2 Hrs 40 Min for VH & Candidates suffering from Cerebral Palsy)

SSC CGL Tier-III exam pattern

Subject name Total Marks Time Limits Descriptive Paper in English / Hindi (Writing of Essay, Precise, Letter, Application etc.) 100

60 Minutes

(80 Minutes for VH & Candidates suffering from Cerebral Palsy)

SSC CGL Tier-IV exam pattern

Section name Time Duration Computer Proficiency Test (for post of Assistant Section Officer in CSS & MEA only) 45 Minutes

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March is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month https://t.co/MSO9qLZcR8

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March is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month https://t.co/MSO9qLZcR8

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Sunday, March 19, 2017

Sunny morning - 9:35 a.m. cold, 20.000 runners running in Central Park - in 1970 I would walk in the early afternoon around the reservoir - no one - once a possible rapist - he asked me for the time, then said I was not talking to him because his skin was darker than mine - I assured him my husband was waiting for me not far away, also that I was old - 38 at the time, he threw his arm around me, told me I was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen - at that very moment two cops came walking toward us, he split, they asked did I want to press charges - thank God there was not much to press charges about and where were they going to find him anyway - I never had been happier to see cops - and here once again the fire alarm is going off - luckily until now quite often - for little reason.

Walking around the reservoir in 1970 - I've always walked fast, never run, I was in the avant garde - now hordes run, walk around the reservoir - not longago I was still among them - I just ran into Felton who told me about a march at noon from Briant Park to Times Square - and added: You used to be at all demos. Used to be - used to, walk around the reservoir every day, in snow and ice, meeting up with the old Puerto Rican whom they called the Mayor of Central Park - he pointed to me and said: she is always here, in all weather. Used to. No more. He came at the end in a wheel chair, somebody pushing him, then he died and there was a long obit for him in the NYT.

Used to, used - a Czech word: bejvavalo - a brief song, repeating the word a few times and addiing dobre - meaning, it used to be, it used to to be, it used to be good. My song now.

The time change still throws things into disarray - I wake at 6:40 when a week ago it was still 5:40 and I had plenty of time to leave the house by 7 a.m. as I like to. Now I have to hurry to get out by 8:15. New England is planning to keep one time - hurrah for New England. This time change is so ridiculous - briefly we have standard time - then days are made longer - I am convinced only so that people can shop longer. All is geared to shopping. So annoying.

Let's still go to yesterday. Later as I was reading the nyt - all the horror the new president has been able to wreak in two months - and then truly worrisome: we must attack North Korea - I'm not alone with hair standing on end - and wishing I could still march - at least - march. Then suddenly I began to worry about what I had written earlier in this here blog - remembering Ken's warnings, quickly texted Molly not to post - even so, who knows into whose hands - eyes - it could fall - perhaps I should pause for at least a moment before going to Send Message - after reading now for years about all the trouble people get into - fills volumes by now. I worry about ending up being one of them in my urge for some acclaim - I too could end up with only shame. Happens to so many. I've always thought of myself as lacking in ambition - the right ambition? - well in the world according to Robert Goldscheider I am a total and sad failure - then again it could be a sort of ambition that is driving also my writing - and the Germsn word for ambition is: Ehrgeiz. An interesting word - Ehre is honor - Geiz is greed - so it's greedy for honor - not all that honorable. Lately a number of people have felt a little too free for my tastes to put into writing - email - all my most horrible qualities - jealousy foremost - again the German word is picturesque: Eifersucht - Eifer, I wish I had my dictionary at my hand - eifern is kind of to foam at the mouth - and Sucht - addiction? - anyway, awful - these are all Germanic words, a lot stronger than the latinate words used in English - also words are stronger to me in my native language - and in English I have been told I sometimes use unwittingly too strong words.

So ambition in English is the best quality to have - you can be over ambitious - but for the most part it is wonderful. Now jealousy - people pride themselves in their total lack, never ever have they been jeaulous, or envious - and I feel myself very wrongly labeled that way - and resent it - while I do admit to anger. Many times when people throw at me: you are jealous - I would say, I am angry and with good reason.

My earstwhile mother in law Tamina, called Minnie in America - very otten said, sticks and atones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me - perhaps she had a thick skin or never took anything personally, or perhaps nobody ever said anything mean to her - in any event - words in this world have hurt me, and do hert me, plenty - and I am aware of also having hurt others deeply with words and can only express my regret and highly appreciate those who have forgiven me. These days I also often think of words attributed to Jesus - forgive them, they don't know what they are doing. (I never quote quite correctly). I think Freud attributing many of our actions, also words, to our subconscious, said, if I am correct, something similar - forces act on us that often wreak havock on what we say or do. Well - I'm sure much has been written on this topic by writers and thinkers far superior to me - often men? - so, enough of my pontificating.

Anger, anger - it was also anger I was expressing in what I wrote yesterday - anger that I was not able to shape my life in the ways I wanted - one person once said: Marianne is only happy with 30 people around her - well - a lot is to be said for one significant other - in the years I lived with Paco - 1973 until 1988 - after the fire in the loft, in 1978, when I had found the apartment in the walk up on East 6th Street - I remember feeling happy when I walked up the stairs and saw the light under the door and knew he was there. He had come by then to spend time in East Hampton alone in the winter, too cold for me, also I had a job. I also remember what it meant to me to feel a warm body next to mine at night. I did cling to him longer than I should have - my mother's words in my ear: the worst fate for an old woman is to be alone. That, after she had divorced my sweet father who would have been so happy, had he been able to be with her.

About Paco I could only say he liberated me from him - after his youth from the time he was 14 in the streets of civil war Spain - he had joined an anti Franco group in Burgos at 14, was jailed, ran away and could not return home - he never had learned to love. The mother of his two children and his two children suffered most - I luckily had come to realize he was a fun pal - and fun we had - but hardly a loyal protector. For three months I was very unhappy, then went to California, then Stephen W. came along  - very far from ideal but he helped get my mind off Paco.

Christine F. had come into my life before Paco, in 1968 - actually telling me she was "bi" and had I ever connected to this part in me - in many ways she could have given me much more than Paco did. After I met her she still returned for nearly a year to Germany, but after she came back I remember her saying: You will never again be alone on a weekend - where I go, you will go - and indeed she always included me in her dates with various and sundry men - her predominant orientation. Also for many years we were in daily contact, by phone the times I left New York in the summers, countless times around her big round table laden with good food and wine - and a patient listener to all the details of my life - and I did listen to her too. Also I studied some Polish history - she was Born in Warsaw in 1943 - had come to Germany in early 1945, had a German passport and very little relation to her Polish past. I felt that should be remedied.

The summer she met me I was still teaching a summer course at Columbia U. - she had left school at 12 or 13 when her father suddenly died and she found herself in charge - her older sister and mother at a total loss how to deal with life. She was in awe of people in academia - only a few days ago I saw in Massachusetts her close friend from these days until today, who has much more ambition than I and had a glorious academic career. Christina had hoped and expected the same for me - but as I was into downward mobility - Christina was dreamed I would write a self help book on how to live well on 5 dollars a day, that became my mastery while I did stand by her as she found her way into a nursing program - then a shortage of nurses - this was 1970 - she excelled in her studies, was offered a fell scholarship to study medicine - but declined - living her life meant more to her than the long delayed rewards of becoming an M.D. It was I who suggested to her to approach Visiting Nurses - she was doing very well with cerebral palsy, but I thought visiting nurses would more interesting - she did extremely well, at one time promoted to management, she requested to return into the field - finally becoming a contract nurse at $100 a visit - and while I for years had enjoyed her extreme generosity and in contrast to me casual attitude to money - she then with help of friends bought a condo corner Avenue B and 9th Street, the Christadora house - made some smart investments, is retired now and an affluent traveller..

I should have written that self help book - still should perhaps - a friend in Zurich bought me a German book by an aristocrat called: Stilvoll verarmen - how to become poor in style. In many ways this is what I have practiced - also with help of friends like Christina - who for years treated me to dinners - often the dojo on St.Mark's Place - then of course all the meals at her house - after a day of visiting the sick, at first in Harlem, later on the Upper West Side - many dying Jews - all her patients loved her - medications became her specialty - after such a day she would shop and cook in her 5th floor walk up on Second Avenue - for a while acrross the court yard we cpuld look into each other's windows. Romantically she talked of our friendship as it was getting to close of 30 years - when I met her she was 25 and drop dead gorgeous, I celebrated with her her 50th birthday, women only when she declared: my time with men is over. There had been many. She never had wanted to marry.

Over the years I had seen her tsking a red pencil to her address book - by first names - and "weed out" the no longer desirable - my address books had last names (now I sometimes have trouble remembering them, first names are easier) - never ever did I do weeding. I watched her - not approving - and never thinking I too might be weeded out some day. By then Paco had permanently moved to East Hampton - we had remained friends, somewhat remote - in earlier years Christina had spent many weekends with us, she had liked Paco from the day I met him and he liked her - she was part of our relationship. That had come to an end in 1988 and meeting Stephen who is 24 years younger than I am and whom I brought to New York from New Hampshire - I had entered with him the world of the squatters - who would stand under the house where Christina had bought her condo and yell: die yuppie, die - we had gone very different ways - though in many ways, to come back to thast once again - the death of my mother had also played a role. In 1981 I had suggested we buy a house together in Park Slope or thereabouts - had begun looking at houses - had written in the summer of 1981 all the many letters with endless carbon copies detailing my plans - Christina was on board - and this death - the suicide - wiped them all out.

Paco then suggested the house in Williamsburg, Christina was in Florida when we looked at the house, then said I had bought a house without her - all we had done while she was away was put down a binder - but I don't think that idea was all that attractive to her - when we bought the house on Bedford Ave and North 6th Street in 1982 for $30.000 - now worth millions - it was a high crime area - we had an old bar, an industrial kitchen, a garden - I dreamed of a restaurant with what now has come into style, a table d'hote - a big oval table for many - the apartment, subdivided during the depression from 3 to five (same true in my house on East 6th, from 10 to 20) - in Brooklyn they were tiny and unattractive. Paco wanted to sell the house and more to East Hampton - I could not deal with that house alone, we sold it in 1986 at a considerable profit even then - I displaced my son who had stayed in the small East 6th Street apartment - and two years later Paco moved permanently to East Hampton - a house that was not winderized, pipes froze, lousy heatring system - not a way I wanted to live - and while I did have some good times in East Hampton it never really was my cup of tea. I much prefer New Hampshire.

Christina moved to Christadora house I believe in 1995 - that house built in the 20's to house the very poor, the apartments tiny - it got flipped many times - now she probably can rent her place with a great view and much son for $2000 a month or more. When she moved there she took her red pencil and weeded me out, no longer answering my calls - three years later it would have been 30 years since we first met and she attached herself to me.

A New York story - she came to America 17 years later than I did, I was divorced when she met me, my sons were 8 and 11 years old, in the summer of 1969 my ex husband had gone on a honey moon with his second wife to Russia - I had the car, the summer house on a lake in Connecticut we had bought in 1967 and that he thought I never would have been able to give up - foolishly I just signed it over to him, never read the divorce papers - still - until he met his third wife, Janet in 1974 - I often had the use of the car and the house and took Christina there - it was a great place - Christina loved the kids - they love her to this day, my daughter in law adores her - I am out of her picture. She came to the wedding of my son's second wife and whenever we do meet - she throws her arms around me  and acts as if we still were the buxom buddies we were for close to 30 years. To me to this day it is incomprehensible how someone can terminate a long time friendship with a stroke of a pen - I suspect there were also other friends who pleaded for my elimination. However by now I do realize - as people become older, poor - needy! - many of those from younger days who have been more ambitious, materially more successful - see no more value in such a person. I am far the only who has experienced that and good short stories are being written about it. In many ways, while I attract people younger than myself - as I get old and older they tend to distance themselves from me - and including the many who have died - this makes lives of many old and older lonely. I am taking advantage of my joy of writing at times when my mood is up - often for months it isn't and I fall silent - but I enjoyed this morning sitting at the computer and reminscing all by myself - and it just occurs to me I left my cell phone on the charger upstairs - who knows how many people have tried to call me - I must go upstairs and find out. Still - I would have much enjoyed had Christins been at times willing to reminisce with me of the many years we were so close, experienced so much together. It does make me very sad. Occasionally I talked to her sister in Munich - whose phone no longer works - one of the last times she said to me, Kitty, as she calls her, has become very hard. Hard times produce hard people - many call me tough - perhaps that too is a form of hard and probably there are also people out there who experience me as hard - people whom I too have hurt - times when I did not know what I was doing - and all I can say, forgive me if you can. And I am sure there is also a number who will find this here writing of today inappropriate - and I am by fasr not the first or last writer whose writing is considered inappropriate - see how the children of Thomas Mann suffered from his writing, two of the five I believe committed suicide - words can kill. Words can be wonderful, words can be terrible - words have toppled empires - and I wish they would again. My words remain in the realm of the personal - due to lack of ambition???   I would love to be a NYT columnist and be heard commenting on what is happening in the world - by millions?  Never even made it into writing for small newspapers. Oh well. Sending message. Marianne