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Amazing But True by Michelletrex

I was working for a wholesale florist in the outer eastern suburb of Knox. Mostly my job involved cold calling on florists anywhere across Victoria of which there were hundreds to choose from. one stormy day my boss suggested that I stay in the office and ring and make appointments first, something I didn't normally do. So I randomly started ringing a few on the north side of Melbourne. on the second phone call... "Hello this is .. may I please speak to the owner..." then came the reply "I'm sorry but the florist was next door buying milk could I phone back".. Suddenly a strange feeling crept over me, the voice sounded so familiar.

I waited 10 mins and rang again, and I asked the now returned florist who it was that had answered the phone on my previous call. Turns out that my Mother had broken down outside of a group of shops and had wandered into a florist to use her phone to call my dad to come help her. She was waiting by the phone for his return call and that is when I happened to ring.

She had never met the florist before and I had never phoned them before. Amazing!

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David Hookes Foundation by Coight

Every year one in six people, who could have been saved by organ donation, dies because a matching organ does not become available.

There are others who never even make it onto the waiting lists. It is common to wait up to four years for a kidney transplant, two years for a heart transplant and one and a half years for a liver transplant.

Since the untimely and tragic death of cricketing great David Hookes, there has been a great response and an increased awareness of organ donation in the community.

Education is the key to becoming an organ donor and it is the objective of the David Hookes Foundation to increase the number of organ donors, to increase the public awareness of the need for organ donors and to educate families to support the decision of their loved one to donate organs. I would like to encourage everyone to visit the

David Hookes Foundation website and to discuss your own personal wishes with your friends relatives and loved ones.

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Breakdancing Should Be Considered A Sport by B - Wang

It is strongly believed that the recreational art of breakdancing should be named a sport. According to the dictionary a recreation is a refreshment of strength and spirits after work; also: a means of refreshment or diversion. An art is a skill acquired by experience, study, or observation. Therefore a recreational art is a skill that refreshes your strength and spirit acquired by experience and observation. A sport is an athletic activity not and breakdancing is very athletic, therefore breakdancing should be classified as sport.

Breakdancing often functions the same way a sport does. It is every breakdancer's goal to become the best. To become the best, however, a breakdancer must show a higher level of grace and difficulty than any other breakdancer. Dancers endure just as much physical training as any other athlete, and takes long hours of practice to reach their peak.
Not only does breakdancing take practice, it takes years of artistic training to acquire proper stage presence to be able to properly execute each step. This then helps dancers to achieve their personal best not unlike sport.
According to Boris Schierhold, the third ranked breakdancer in Australia, on a daily basis trains three hours a day of actual breakdancing, 1 hour of gym work and half an hour of stretching. This is the same commitment as a professional athlete has for his/her sport.

Many sports require specialized training for particular movements and techniques. Breakdancing has the same requirements of training to perform various moves, such as muscular endurance, muscular power, flexibility, balance, coordination, and timing. All of the above are required for sports such as, gymnastics, takewondo and athletics.

A fierce sense of competition, similar to that of conventional sports, arises between rival breakdancers. In sport there are winners and losers, and in breakdancing, there too are winners and losers. Winning in breakdancing offers the same self satisfaction as any other sport. The main purpose of playing sport is to achieve at the highest level. All breakdancers strive to achieve excellence not unlike sport. Therefore breakdancing should be named a sport.

The recreational art of breakdancing has been around for 3 decades. It has already developed 3 major international competitions held in America, France and England. In all theses competitions, there are rules and regulations just like conventional sports.

When breakdancing was created by James brown in the early 70's, he said to his on-looking crowd, breakdancing was a dance combination of other sports. The new dance was a combination of gymnastics and the Brazilian martial arts of Capoeira. Most moves breakdancers perform are already known or modified from other sports. For example flares are an extremely popular breakdancing move that was originally mimicked from gymnastics. It has now branched off into different moves, we now know as windmills and swipes. Breakdancing has all the characteristics of a sport such as gymnastics, and martial arts. It is like two sports joined together, it should be named a sport.

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