Music on hold is not a new technology. Thousands, maybe millions, of companies have figured it out decades ago. There are many things people do not object to listening to: news, weather, nature sounds, computer tips, or just synthesized recordings that let you know you are still connected. However, Apple seems to think that forcing their best customers to endure listening to a playlist of ear-shattering crappy noise is the way to maintain their image. It sucks. And if you complain to the people who provide the world's best tech support for the world's best products from the world's largest company, they tell you that there is nothing they can do about it, but you can go to a feedback page on their web site. Been there, done that, . dozens of times. It's time for a better way to get the attention of the C-level at Apple.

After 14 years, thousands of man-hours and dollars the Red ROC Disc Golf Club successfully built 4 championship disc golf courses at Lemon Lake County Park in NW Indiana. Jay and Deb Svitko conspired to wrest control of this complex from the Red ROC Disc Golf Club in 2013 and they were successful in no small part because we, as a club were exhausted from that effort and successfully hosting 2 World Championships in 3 years. The Svitkos are on a mission to re-write history in their favor and have taken credit for our accomplishments. They do NOT help Grow the Sport and need to be removed. The Red ROC Disc Golf Club started the first course at Lemon Lake (red) in 1998. Over the next 14 years we expanded it to the complex it was in 2013 with a multitude of volunteers herded by Hall of Famer Brian Cummings. We designed all the courses, built the paths, installed tee signs and ran tournaments and leagues there all those years. We paid for built and installed all the benches on the course. We paid for many of the concrete teepads when the parks dept ran out of money and poured them all....96 teepads in 5ish years. Long time club member Jay Svitko and his wife were voted off the worlds steering committee (they were self appointed) in early 2013 (unanimously) but continued to act in that capacity without authorization of the club or the tournament director Brian Cummings. We were always 1 step behind and very frustrated as we were juggling the 2013 Worlds including course prep and the multitude of tasks that go into running an event of that magnitude....our 2nd Pro Worlds in 3 years. Push was coming to shove and angry words were exchanged but as the Worlds was rapidly approaching cooler heads prevailed and for the good of the event we chose to engage in that battle after the worlds. By then it was to late. The 'Flight Center' was supposed to be a club store but suddenly it was Jay and Debs store (this coincided with both of them suddenly being unexpectedly unemployed). The parks manager is mainly interested in the path of least resistence and her immediate superior in the parks dept retired in 2013 as did her boss about a year prior. Brian and the exhausted club took some time away from Lemon Lake after the worlds and the new parks dept folks aligned with Jay and Deb...possession being 9/10ths of the law and the new people at the parks department were only hearing from the Svitkos. They won't allow us to run leagues there (they called the police once when we tried) let alone tournaments. They took over all the tournaments we ran by name and made them there own. They started the Indiana Disc Golf Museum because Indiana disc golfers would not let them have the Indiana Disc Golf Hall of Fame. There should be SOMETHING in the museum for Brian and the club but there isn't. Brian installed his first course in NW Indiana in 1986 and MANY more. Since our ouster from Lemon Lake the RRDGC has continued to grow the sport by installing more courses and continuing to improve the ones already in the ground. Freedom Park in Lowell , Rivers Edge in Munster, Riverside in Hammond, Purdue Calumet in Hammond, LRCA Church Camp in Winfield, Countryside in Portage, and 50 Acre Park in Evergreen Park, IL are some of the courses we've built and developed since 2012. The courses at Lemon Lake are being poorly maintained according to the standards we set as a club. If you played in one of our Worlds (2010 and 2013) and played again in the Masters (2018) you would notice the deterioration. Browse the posts in the petition for some first hand accounts of basic disc golf codes being broken ie: Call the Number on the Disc Before You Put it in Your Used Disc Bin.... When the PDGA awarded Lemon Lake a $5000 grant and the title of 'PDGA Midwest Development Center' in 2015? Brian Cummings was not invited to the ceremony....the architect of the complex. This award went to folks that don't play disc golf, the Svitkos. This is an excerpt from my recent email to the current PDGA Director: Below is a quote from a recent PDGA news letter. I take issue with the untruths propagated in this statement. The heart and soul of Lemon Lake are Brian Cummings and the Red ROC Club members that built it over a 14 year span. Jay and Deb's hostile takeover occurred after and during the 2013 Worlds. They've run about 6 tournaments a year for less than 5 years not 'well over 100 tournaments'. They did NOT run the 2010 Worlds and the 2013 Worlds. If Jay and Deb are your soul source of information than you are being mislead and engaging in shoddy journalism. "US Masters Brings PDGA Major Back To Lemon Lake Lemon Lake County Park and the Lemon Lake Flight Center in Crown Point, Indiana, have seen more than their fair share of high-level PDGA events. In the last decade alone, Jay and Deb Svitko, the heart and soul of the complex, have run well over 100 tournaments, including multiple A-tiers, dozens of B- and C-tiers, and the 2010 and 2013 PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships."

Because the League is suppressing players speech. Because the League has acted fraudulently in addressing brain injuries. Because this is just another example of corporate welfare.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos wants to turn school teachers and principals into ICE agents. As women, as mothers, we will not stand idly by as DeVos tries to put millions of school children in harm’s way. Sign on to send DeVos a rotten apple to tell her that schools should be learning centers -- not deportation traps. Millions of students throughout the country are already afraid to go to school. Decades of discrimination and criminalization of students of color have created a school to prison pipeline that threatens the security of Black and Brown students. An epidemic of mass shootings has filled our schools with fear. But DeVos wants to make schools even less safe for our kids by encouraging teachers and principals to report undocumented students to ICE. The Supreme Court has made it clear that every child in the United States, regardless of their immigration status, has the right to an education. Make no mistake, DeVos’ proposal is unconstitutional and violates the law. But even worse than that? It endangers the safety of millions of our students at a time when our nation’s highest education officer should be doing everything she can to make schools safer for our kids. Add your name and we will deliver your message along with a rotten apple to DeVos’ office next week.

I have to drive 30 minutes every time I want cook-out

My daughter (now age 7) has been wanting to be able to play soccer with all of her friends, which includes girls AND boys. She doesn't understand why boys and girls, who play together at school and church, can't play soccer together. Frankly, I can't explain it to her, either. She asked me a while ago to start this petition on her behalf.

Our state shrub should reflect our State, not a plant from the other side of the world.

The 5 rules to a good flag are: it should be simple, it should use meaning symbolism, it should use 2-3 basic colours, should not contain and seals or lettering, and it should be distinctive. The Maine flag violates the majority of these rules. It is hard to distinguish it from the majority of state flags, it has a seal and lettering, it uses a plethora of colours, and air is definitely not simple. The old flag is much simpler and will make our flag distinct.

I am the mother of a heroine addict and my grandchildren have been removed by Child Services four times. On the third occasion, I actually went to an attorney in an attempt to gain custody of my grandchildren. I was informed that grandparents in the State of Florida have no rights when it comes to gaining custody. I have just discovered that this fourth time, the Broward County Courts are going to allow reunification again! How long does my grandchildren and other grandchildren like mine have to suffer? There has to be a law put in place to allow grandparents to petition the court for custody after the children have been removed from their parents several times.

I moved to Queens Village in 1974. Initially, the community had many businesses that thrived. There was the Community movie theater, butcher shop, gas station, Woolworth's, Super Discount, and many small businesses like hardware stores and auto parts stores. While many of these small "mom and pop" stores have been replaced by businesses like Riteaid and Duane Reade, a good number of businesses closed up shop, only to be replaced by some businesses that keep inconsistent hours or a provides goods and/or services that are not practical to a significant percentage of the community. Furthermore, many of these businesses are an eyesore—window fronts poorly identified, products strewn haphazardly about, etc.—-particularly along Hempstead Avenue (Jamaica Avenue to the Elmont border). Queens Village residents living in the immediate vicinity of the aforementioned businesses along Hempstead Avenue, would like to see a variety of new practical businesses: a bank, a Staples, stores like Starbucks and Pandora, a supermarket, a FedEx Office, and many more businesses, which can be easily accessed by foot or car. The residents of Queens Village should not have to travel outside of our neighborhood to buy the things we need. By bringing in new businesses, ones that are practical, we can better the community’s quality of life, as well as revitalize the neighborhood and give the residents what they deserve.

When the FCC announced that net neutrality would be repealed, it it was done so in an unethical manner by use of stolen and/or fake identities and corporate meddling. Our representatives however, on the FCC's side citing that "it will create more jobs", in reality it would actually cost us millions of the jobs we created on the internet. Net Neutrality must be preserved.

I have been personally victimized by the lack of a lazy river at Lake Lanier Islands long enough. IT'S TIME FOR CHANGE.