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A Bright Lights Big City Serenade...   Growing up in the burbs with all its comfort and conformity can be stifling. Same cul de sac, same neighbors, same cycles of life can leave one yearning for more, yet what that more is is rarely clear. Just that there's more to life than the old neighborhood and often that more resides squarely in the heart of our vast country's great cities.   The mystery of our urban centers. Even now as an adult, I'm still struck by the first distant glimpse of a majestic high rise. But as a kid? I still remember walking the streets of Manhattan staring up at the Empire State Building, gob struck at the rows and rows of skyscrapers marveling at the shapes and forms as I walked straight into a parking meter.   Downtown. It's where history happened. It's where history is made today. Our cultural and economic centers, human menageries of cultures and cliques, the proverbial melting pot, experiments in communal living. Every time I visit a new c

Slide 1)  A Junior Tennis Mental Health and Wellness Program Slide 2)  PROBLEM a)  Alarming rates of mental health issues affecting teens across the US, so much so the Surgeon General declared teen mental health the crisis of our time. b) Environment plays a key role in the health and welfare of our youth. The junior tennis life is a long, demanding, and uniquely stressful environment to grow up in  c)  Placing vulnerable immature youths under the extended stress of the tennis journey without the proper safeguards in place is a prescription for trouble d) We've never been more knowledgeable, more aware, and more engaged with youth mental health, yet we continue to fall further behind. What gives? Slide 3) SOLUTION: Build the Safeguards by becoming Pro-active.  Be preventative instead of Corrective We've left too much to chance for too long Using all forms of multimedia, a data-driven performance and life enhancing program assured to give players a competitive advantage.  Intro