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By Harry King
For Tuesday, December 10, 2013
LITTLE ROCK — Apologies to bowl sponsors, organizers, and hard-working volunteers from San Francisco to New York, and the other 21 bowl sites with games prior to Jan. 1, there are no plans to sit through contests with teams that have lost almost 200 times.
Twenty of the teams playing before New Year's Day have lost at least five games each and the number of losses per team goes up if the 12-1 of Northern Illinois and 11-1 of Fresno State are removed from the math. Including both Mississippi schools from the SEC and three teams from the Pac-12, 10 bowl teams were below .500 in conference play. A league has commitments to keep and coaches are eager to accept a bowl bid so they can practice 15 times with an eye on 2014 and beyond, but only alumni and kinfolk are required to watch.
Before checking the match-ups in the games between Dec. 21 and 2014, more than a half-dozen contests were eliminated because they kick off in the morning or early afternoon during a year-end vacation and there is always a chance of golf on a sunny day with temperatures above 36.
Maybe I'm spoiled by the availability of the many games of import in recent weeks, but a half-hearted attempt to find a game to hold my interest for three hours plus turned up nothing. Only the Dec. 31 game from Atlanta merited a second look — not because of Duke coach David Cutcliffe or Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, but because the game might work as a bridge to the New Year for somebody who doesn't stay up late.
Nothing on the 35-game schedule comes close to Florida State vs. Auburn in the BCS title game. Given almost a month, maybe FSU can devise a plan to slow down Auburn's running game, but I am surprised the Seminoles are favored by more than a touchdown.
Other than the Jan. 6 game in Pasadena and recognition of Arkansas State University's third straight bowl game on Jan. 5, the bowl season focus is on two SEC teams new to Arkansas' schedule — Georgia vs. Nebraska in the Gator Bowl on Jan. 1 and Missouri vs. Oklahoma State in the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 3.
Back to the Bulldogs and the Tigers after a note about the four lesser BCS games.
The Rose (Stanford vs. Michigan State) and Fiesta (Baylor vs. Central Florida) are on Jan. 1. The Rose is a showcase for defense and the Fiesta is the launching pad for Bryce Petty's 2014 Heisman campaign.
From now until Jan. 2, the question will be whether Alabama is motivated for the Sugar Bowl vs. Oklahoma since there is no national championship on the line. In the Orange, quarterbacks Tajh Boyd of Clemson and Braxton Miller of Ohio State upstage teams that lost their last game of the season.
The Gator and the Cotton are ideal for scouting because the SEC teams are in transition at quarterback and the loss of an established quarterback can make a difference.
Georgia's four-year starter, Aaron Murray, is out with a knee injury which means my first look at Hutson Mason and the offense that Arkansas will deal with next Oct. 18. The fact that Georgia is the Razorbacks' only opponent in Little Rock in 2014, that attendance will be closely monitored with long-range implications, and that most of Arkansas' other SEC opponents have a quarterback returning makes the Gator Bowl of particular interest.
Instrumental in Missouri's run to the Eastern Division championship, quarterback James Franklin is a senior, but Maty Mauk will play some against OSU. I don't know how many snaps the freshman will take, but I'll wager that the Tigers will stick with their touted front four on defense instead of changing up like they did in a futile attempt to stop Auburn's running game.
Harry King is sports columnist for Stephens Media's Arkansas News Bureau.


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Game Title: World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
Race: Dragon (Dragon Aspect)
An ancient evil lies dormant within Deepholm, the domain of earth in the Elemental Plane.
Hidden away in a secluded sanctuary, the corrupted Dragon Aspect Deathwing has waited, recovering from the wounds of his last battle against Azeroth and biding his time until he can reforge the world in molten fire.
Soon, Deathwing the Destroyer will return to Azeroth, and his eruption from Deepholm will sunder the world, leaving a festering wound across the continents. As the Horde and Alliance race to the epicenter of the cataclysm, the kingdoms of Azeroth will witness seismic shifts in power, the kindling of a war of the elements, and the emergence of unlikely heroes who will rise up to protect their scarred and broken world from utter devastation.Tags: Cataclysm, Deathwing, Dragon, Wallpapers, World of Warcraft

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|RS Junior
|Los Angeles, Calif.
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Two-Time All-WCC Honorable Mention (2007 & 2010)
2007 WCC All-Freshman Team
Ranks 10th all-time at SCU in goals against average (0.98)
His 66 saves in 2010 ranks 8th all-time in SCU history
0.49 goals against average in 2007 ranks 2nd all-time in SCU history
RS JUNIOR (2010): Was named an All-WCC Honorable Mention for the second time in his college career after helping Santa Clara win the 2010 WCC Championship ... played and started in all 21 games for the Broncos in goal ... played in all but three-plus minutes, totaling 66 saves and going 10-6-5 with a pair of shutouts ... 66 saves ranks 8th all-time in SCU single-season history ... had a season-high nine saves in a crucial 2-1 victory at LMU (Oct. 31), which vaulted Santa Clara into first place in the league standings late in the year ... his two shutouts came in victories over Loyola Chicago (Sept. 6) and Marquette (Sept. 12) ... had six saves three different times, at Marquette (Sept. 12), at St. Mary's (Oct. 10) and vs. San Diego (Oct. 29) ... helped SCU reel off a 12-game unbeaten streak from Sept. 19 through Nov. 5 ... made two saves in the NCAA tournament first round match with Sacaramento State (Nov. 18).
(2009): Utilized a redshirt season in 2009.
SOPHOMORE (2008): Saw action in 13 games, starting in 12 ... finished the season with a 2-6-4 record, with two shutouts and 36 saves ... ranks No. 8 on SCU's Career Goals Against Average list (0.84) ... started against Loyola Chicago but left after 19 minutes in goal ... earned his first win of the season against UW-Milwaukee (Sept. 7) ... made two saves against then-No. 4 Cal (Sept. 12) ... made four saves against Saint Mary's (Oct. 12) ... earned win No. 2 against San Diego (Oct. 19) ... played all 110 minutes in goal in the 0-0 stalemate against USF (Oct. 24) ... saw action in all 110 minutes and made two saves in the Broncos 1-1 tie at San Diego (Nov. 16).
FRESHMAN (2007): Traveled with U.S. U-18 team to Japan just prior to season ... also part of Team USA at Pan Am Games in Brazil in July ... made first appearance on Sept. 9 vs. BU ... started first game and earned first shutout on Sept. 16 at Cal ... stretched shutout streak to two games with 2-0 win over San Jose State on Sept. 22 ... posted back-to-back shutouts at LMU on Oct. 5 and at San Diego on Oct. 7 ... notched fifth shutout at Saint Mary's on Oct. 14 ... registered sixth shutout against Portland on Oct. 19 ... notched seventh shutout on Nov. 16 at Gonzaga ... All-WCC Honorable Mention and All-WCC Freshman Team ... won first postseason game on Nov. 28 vs. UCLA in NCAA second round ... left game vs. Notre Dame on Dec. 1 in NCAA third round with an ankle injury ... did not lose a game in his first season, posting a 12-0-3 mark in 17 appearances (16 starts) ... posted second lowest GAA in program history (0.49) and second lowest GAA in the nation during the regular season (.047).
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2007 graduate of Loyola High School in Los Angeles, Calif ... named Scholar-Athlete of Loyola's 2007 class ... participated in soccer, football and volleyball ... started all 35 games in 2006 and 2007 for Loyola ... posted 16 shutouts as a junior and topped that with 19 shutouts as a senior in 2007 ... allowed only two goals in Mission League in 2007, setting a school record ... named team MVP in 2007 ... Mission League Goalkeeper of the Year in 2006 and 2007 ... 2007 CIF Defensive Player of the Year ... team won the 2007 Mission League title and the CIF Div. 1 Championship ... led Loyola to CIF Southern Section Div. 2 Finals in 2006 as well as a runner-up finish in Mission League in 2006 ... named to second-team at the West Coast Classic ... was team captain as a senior ... played club soccer for the Samba/Real SoCal .... led team to a second place finish in the CSL Premier in 2005 ... team finished second in Southern California in 2006 ... named Top Drawer Soccer National Goalkeeper of the Month for October and November in 2005 ... attended training camp with United States U18 team in March, 2007.
PERSONAL: Born in Santa Monica, Calif. ... parents are Matthew and Olivia Klasila ... father played college soccer for Cal State Fullerton ... mother played volleyball at Loyola Marymount ... has a younger sister named Amanda and an older brother, Ryan ... Ryan plays soccer at Saint Mary's College ... enjoys beach volleyball, tennis, paddle tennis, playing piano, singing and skiing ... member of Monogram Club and Club Unity in high school ... also served as a tutor for elementary school students ... major is marketing.
Saves: totaled 147 saves in his three seasons – season-high 66 saves in 2010…in first three games played (2007), had a 1.000 save percentage…career-high 9 saves in win at LMU (10/31/10)
Shutouts: totaled 11 shutouts in his three season – season-high 7 shutouts in 2007…8 shutouts throughout his career have lead to winning games (last: at Marquette 9/12/10)
Minutes: started all 21 games played in 2010 – playing a total of 1,986.29 min. that season…career-high 110 min. played…1x…(last: vs. San Diego 10/17/10)


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By Lou Ann Burney
September 14, 2012
In our continuing effort to promote the good things about timeshare to consumers, we have just launched a new initiative—"Faces of Timeshare." Each month, we will be profiling what various developers and ARDA members are doing around philanthropic or customer care efforts.
This month we looked at "Back to School" efforts. Not surprisingly, our members had a lot to share—from supplying backpacks to funding students studying hospitality in college.
Some examples include:
Orlando-based Club Meliá by Meliá Hotels International partners with Orange County Public Schools for its Community Resources Backpack Project, donating 120 backpacks and mouse pads for students in need.
Disney Vacation Club, in conjunction with the Company's Disney VoluntEARS, is very involved with the public schools in the communities where is has operations, including Orlando, Anaheim, Vero Beach, Hilton Head, and Hawaii. Some programs supported include backpack programs, school breakfast programs, Junior Achievement, A Gift for Music (which supplies instruments and instruction in music), and A Gift for Teaching (which supplies teachers with materials like notebooks, pens, and art supplies).
Bluegreen Resorts has again worked with SOS Children's Villages annual "Back to School and Ready" Campaign, for the fifth straight year. The Bluegreen Employee Action Resource (BEAR) Team collected and delivered donations of school supplies to the foster care neighborhood in Coconut Creek, Florida based on a wish list provided by their children.
Wyndham Vacation Ownership (WVO) has renewed its support of Step Up For Students for the second year in a row with a pledge of $750,000. Step Up for Students is a nonprofit organization that offers scholarships aimed at providing learning options for economically disadvantaged children in Florida. WVO's contribution will fund more than 167 scholarships in the coming year to allow at-risk students to receive a quality education that best meets their needs. They also support The Fishing School, a non-profit youth development organization that provides academic and cultural enrichment support to children and families in Washington, D.C., based on the "Teach a Man to Fish" premise. Since 2009, WVO has donated more than $80,000, in addition to in-kind donations and volunteer time.
At the college level, Interval International has made a long-term commitment to investing in education because the company recognizes the important role it plays in developing the next generation of hospitality industry professionals. Interval and its resort partners have donated more than $400,000 to the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association and the Caribbean Tourism Organization for scholarships to help students pursue an education in hospitality and increase their awareness about career opportunities available within the industry. They also endowed a scholarship fund at Florida International University's School of Hospitality Management for students to attend courses in timeshare resort management.
On an international level, in 1998 ARDA member and philanthropist Christel DeHaan opened the first Christel House in Mexico to give children of poverty the opportunity for transformational change. It serves over 3,600 students, their families, and communities, providing the opportunity for a better life through education, health and wellness programs, life skills, character development, and parent and community outreach.
The impact of helping young people achieve their goal of an education is immeasurable, with long-lasting results for all. To ARDA members and others who are making a difference in the lives of students everywhere, we salute you!
Over the next few months we will be looking at Recycling and Veterans' Day. Stay tuned!
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Paige Alivia gave us quite a surprise when she was born. First, off when we went in for the birth, birth certificates were all ready with the name Parker on the papers. In fact, we had been told throughout the pregnancy that we were having a precious little boy! So when Paige popped out, the doctor said, "Honey, did you know HE had a cleft lip! He's beautiful and they can easily fix this!" With all the shock, the doctor didn't notice until about 30 seconds after this that HE was in fact a SHE. So many surprises arrived with the birth of Paige. Paige was born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate. A unilateral cleft lip and palate means that at around 6 weeks gestation, Paige's roof of her mouth and lip did not fuse together properly. We had routine ultrasounds, but did not have a scan of the mouth as we already had two precious perfect children at home. In addition to the clefting, Paige also did not pass her infant newborn hearing exam. Children with clefts often have Eustachian tube failure as the tube is closed more and fluid cannot clearly pass through. The fluid builds up and causes numerous ear infections and loss of hearing. At birth, we were struggling with the roller coaster of emotions of having a child born with a cleft. We blamed God, we questioned everything. As a mother, I began to accept my child moments after birth but for my husband, he was angry with God for quite some time. He truly had to go through the entire grief process to come to terms with what our child would have to go through. The feelings of grief were more geared toward the fact that our beautiful, precious newborn would have to endure more in her life than my other children had ever. When we got home, I spent days, evenings and nights researching clefting. Google became my new best friend and I would stare at the screen while I held my beautiful girl and cry that I would have to put her through so much hurt. I questioned my pregnancy and all I had done during those life-growing months. It hurt so much more to think that I could have caused this in any way. The first few days were very hard without the answers we were seeking. Our pediatrician basically told us that we would see a specialist and that would make everything alright. Waiting until Paige was 5 days old to meet the doctors at Pittsburgh Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa was the most difficult 5 days of our life. Our visit in our local hospital for the birth of our cleft child was also difficult. There are many misconceptions with cleft children. With the birth of my other two children, soon as they were born, they were immediately breastfeeding. This not only causes a better relationship with breastfeeding but also a strong bond between mother and child. This was not a possibility with Paige. We were later told that only 1% of cleft palate children are successful with breastfeeding. However, I was determined to be that 1%. I tried and tried and tried to get Paige to suckle. When the reality settled in, I was very depressed and saddened by the fact that Paige would not be able to have that bond. She was able to successfully receive breast milk until she was almost 3 months old. At that point, I was back to work full time and emotionally unable to continue with the demands of working, raising three children and her medical needs. At the hospital, we were told to stay three nights in the hospital because the nurses were convinced that Paige would be able to breastfeed if we were persistent about it. This gave me hope only to find out later that it really was just an emotional waste of time. The first visit to Pittsburgh was the first of the many weekly trips, 215 miles away. When we arrived at the hospital, we were scared. We held Paige tight and looked around at all these children visiting the hospital. I remember immediately looking to see if there were any other children with a cleft in the waiting room, something I still do to this day. One child stood out to us. As we sat waiting to meet the doctors and team, a woman came up to us and offered to show us her 6 month old baby boy, who was also born with an unilateral cleft lip. She said she was the grandmother of the little boy but that the mother could not handle the cleft experience so they were taking over care of the little boy. He was the most beautiful little boy I had ever seen. Full of life and with a sweet scar to show for his recent cleft lip surgery. She told us that we had light at the end of this long tunnel and that the team of doctors was caring and supportive through every step of it. I held back my tears as we played with this little boy. That was the end of our worries of having a "normal" child. The first visit to Children's Hospital was a very long, emotional day for us. The first person we met was Paige's speech therapist and also coordinator of the cleft center. He explained to us the process of the cleft team, the roles each person played and then began to tell us that Paige also would be fitted this day with a NAM. A NAM is a Nasoalveolar molding that is fitted to sit in the roof of her mouth and would stay there until she had her first surgery, at about 4 months old. He then proceeded to show us the pictures of other children with a NAM and how it made a huge difference in the overall appearance of their surgeries. As he began to show us the pictures of these other children, my heart sank. Not only was my child going to show to the world that she had a cleft lip for 4 months and then the rest of her life, but she also had to wear this device that clearly had 2 steri-straps that were tapped to her cheeks to hold it into place. He gave us the choice to talk about it and stepped out of the room. As he walked out the room, my husband and I both had the same thoughts. We did not like the fact that we had to do this but there was no choice, our child would get the best of everything. She would be fitted for the NAM that day and wear it until her first surgery. We then met her pediatrician, surgical team and doctor, orthodontist and social worker at this visit. When Paige was fitted for her NAM, we were not allowed to go into the room with her. They informed us that they have to have a team hold her upside down, place the tray of molding in her mouth and hold her there for a few minutes in order to get the impression to make the NAM. For this reason, parents are not allowed to observe. We would then wait about 3 hours to have the NAM made. The time waiting was difficult. He both sat there and just simply took in the atmosphere around us. Children are being wheeled past us in wheel chairs, children with hearing aids walk to the office next to us, and many children required more invasive medical equipment. This was a difficult experience for us, but my heart was breaking for the parents of these children. About twenty minutes later, the coordinator of the program came to get us in the waiting room. He had a very concerned look on his face and he took us directly to go see Paige. When we walked into the room, Paige was laying on a bed and many doctors were standing around her. He told us that during the procedure, Paige's breathing became very difficult and that he was very concerned. He wanted us to have her examined immediately by our pediatrician at home and to also be seen by the Ear, Nose, Throat doctor (ENT). Final reports indicated that Paige also had Laryngomalacia, a condition that causes immature cartridges in the airway to collapse when breathing. This condition put more limitations on our baby girl. She had to sleep with her crib slanted, had to be seated directly up when she was eating and had to be closely monitored when she was sleeping. Paige began her life with her NAM. Feeding with the NAM in her mouth was difficult at first. This was more so for her parents than for Paige. The NAM had to be removed after each feeding to wash and then reinsert in Paige's mouth. If the tape got wet, it then had to be removed and replaced. We were completely dedicated to the NAM however. Paige rarely had the NAM out of her mouth and most of those times were simply to take pictures or to get a bath. On top of all this, we had a normal baby girl who required the necessary attention of any newborn. I was unable to breastfeed Paige because she had no suction due to the cleft in the roof of her mouth and therefore, I was spending time out of the day to pump, wash bottles and then to actually spend time feeding her in her specialized bottle. Paige was an absolute doll through it all and remained one of the easiest babies. Her poor little cheeks would get so sore and red from the tape and we would spend more time tending to that. Each day was a joy with Paige as we learned to adjust to her growing needs. Most of the time, Paige would only cry if she did not have her NAM in her mouth because no NAM meant NO food! As we adjusted to Paige's needs, we also learned to deal with society, family and friends who did not understand clefts. At this point, I was definitely not an expert but every day I spent researching for my daughter. One situation still stands out to me. At a few weeks old, we planned to take our children to the local fair. This was something that the children had been looking forward to for weeks and we did not want to disappointment them. Not only was this an adjustment for us as parents, it was very scary to our young children. My son was very concerned that these procedures were hurting Paige and my daughter didn't want to hold her very often because she was afraid she would hurt her too. Therefore, a trip to the local fair was something they looked forward to. While at the fair, many people would look in the stroller expecting to see a precious baby. At one point, we had stopped to let our children ride the carousel. They lady running the ride asked to see our little girl. I opened up the stroller cover and she gasped. She asked what had happened. I calmly explained that she was born with a cleft and that this was a device that would help her before surgery. She then stated, "oh oh oh… well my son just had a kid a little while back and that's not something they did with their kid." Clearly she did not understand. Clearly, this was not something that people advertised. At that point, I realized I needed to help people to understand clefting and how it affects other people. It was at that point that I really did put a God-willed purpose behind receiving Paige as my daughter. The next few weeks consisted of pediatrician appointments and weekly trips to Pittsburgh to adjust the NAM and to visit the ENT. Paige was then scheduled for her first surgery at 2 months of age. This surgery was to help improve hearing by placing tubes in her ears and then also to do a scope down her throat to make sure that she did not have any other conditions outside the laryngomalacia. This surgery was very scary as it was the first of any of our children. One of the best things I had done as a mother of a child with a cleft was to connect with other moms with cleft children. I was sought out by a grandmother who was seeking support online for her daughter who just had her very first child, who was born with a severe cleft lip and palate. I instantly became friends with her and we connected through our children who was only one month different in age and who also attended the same hospital. Therefore, on the night of our first surgery, our family got a hotel room close to the hospital to meet up with Erica and her beautiful daughter Lily. The girls became the best of friends. We did not direct them to hold hands but was overjoyed to see them want to hold hands. One person mentioned that they were saying, "we will get through this together." I know one thing is sure, I wouldn't have been as solid and stable through the surgeries if I didn't have Erica who would say, "You know Lily does that too!" We had to be at the hospital at 6:30am on a Thursday for surgery for her ear tubes and scope. We arrived a few minutes early and everything moved quickly. Paige was not allowed to eat after 2 am so she started to get fussy but was really great all morning. We talk to the doctor and discussed the procedure, length of time and expected outcome afterward. The plan was to go home the same day as long as all went well. We also met a nurse who had a cleft lip and palate. He told us his story and how his surgeries went. Paige went into surgery at 8:00am. She was there until 9:45 when we were called back to see her. She didn't even look like herself. She didn't open her eyes and her face was really white. She was screaming! She stopped for a minute when I picked her up but continued to scream then after. I got her to eat 1 ounce of sugar water and then waited for the doctor to give us the results. She was still very upset and they gave her a really strong medication to relieve the pain. She calmed then after but I was unable to put her down. I held her from 9:45 until 4:30 with only putting her down a few minutes to go to the bathroom and to change her diaper. She wanted to be held and by all means, I was holding her! The doctor came to talk to us and told us that everything went as planned. (Although they told us it would only be a 45 min surgery but ended up being 1 hour and 45 mins). He said that her scope indicated a very mild case of reflux with a little swelling around her larynx with also mild laryngomalacia. We were instructed to continue giving her Zantac for reflux and to thicken her bottles. He said that her ears were pretty bad. He said both sides were completely full of fluid and it was thick, therefore he put an incision in her ear and inserted the tubes. He reported also that the hearing loss was more than likely conductive hearing loss and not permanent hearing loss. However, hearing loss is still hearing loss in my book. At this point, I began to teach Paige sign language to help her communication skills. We were then informed that due to her age, they would be keeping us over night. Our first of many overnight stays at Children's Hospital. Medication for Zantac, NAM adjustments in Pittsburgh, teaching sign language, and all the other joys of being a parent to an infant consumed our life for the next couple of months. We also struggled with persistent ear drainage that required numerous ENT visits to have her ears suctioned and check for infections. Through all of this, Paige did not have ear infections but simply continued hearing loss and drainage. She was tested at audiology in Pittsburgh, where she continued to fail her hearing exams. This emotional roller coaster of determining when she would be ready for that first ever cleft surgery was always in the back of my mind and never ending. We met with her orthodontist every single week to adjust her NAM and to determine when would be the best time for surgery. Her first surgery would be to close her cleft lip and to repair to nose. The NAM was already doing a fantastic job of repairing the fallen appearance of her nose. The NAM was also pulling together her cleft in her gum line, a serious concern of ours that could require additional surgery when she is older and into her teenage years. The time was arriving for that first cleft lip surgery. Our prayers were that this would be the only surgery required to close the lip and repair her nose. Support of our new cleft friends, family and friends helped us through the entire process and surgery. Last pictures of Paige prior to cleft lip surgery yielded an amazing result from where we started. The day arrived. I have never felt so at peace with a surgery. I was incredibly happy that my daughter will have the perfect little smile that she deserved. The doctors who we had grown to trust were going to change our lives forever. We were warned prior to surgery that when we walked into the PACU after the surgery, that we may not recognize our own child. I really thought this was ridiculous but after the fact, very much true. We were also told the entire time that after surgery, you would miss the cleft smile. This I did not find true. I loved my daughter and I loved her smile for what it was but she deserved so much more. She deserved to look as beautiful on the outside as we saw her as her parents. Our doctor took pictures to place on Paige's bed so we would know to look for the pictures instead of our child. This seemed only ridiculous but ended up being helpful and a treasure to us. Walking back to surgery was hard. We were able to walk to the doors with Paige but then the nurse took her the rest of the way back. I remember looking at her while she blankly stared at me, not knowing what was about to happen. Waiting in the parent's waiting room was even more difficult. You were able to view your child's location in surgery by a number assigned to your child. I checked this TV screen at least a million times waiting for it to say "post op." Paige's surgery lasted 6 and ½ hours long. Finally, our team of doctors came to tell us the good news. Paige's lip, nose and gum line was repaired. Her gum line was able to be slightly fused together to hopefully help a tooth to come through. A small gap still remained and may require a bone graph when she gets to be about 8 years old. However, we were able to go back and see our beautiful baby girl. I did not cry, I did not flinch, I grabbed my baby girl and held her consistently for the course of the next few days. Thankfully, when my arms started to hurt, my husband would hold her too. She was very much in pain but I was able to get her to drink a little bit of sugar water and we asked for more medication. One of the best advices I got from other parents was to never ever let them go without medication for even a minute. We looked at our beautiful, swollen little girl with a bluish lip and were simply in awe. As the days went on, Paige started to get back to herself and her little personality began to show back through. Her scar became less noticeable and she was healing perfectly. Her nose looked amazing and absolutely perfect as well. A few months after this surgery, we were told that Paige had an infected stitch in her nose that was removed and later caused her nose to fall a little on that side. Otherwise, her nose is still perfect! As a parent of a cleft child, I began to help the same way that I received, at this point. I was asked for Paige to be a March of Dimes sponsor child for an event at Germany Air Force Base. I graciously accepted. As a family, we started a donation page for Operation Smile and Smile Train every year. I began to connect with other moms online with different organizations. And we also supported Lily when it was her turn for surgery. Our visits to Pittsburgh were not as frequent as prior to surgery for the lip. She no longer had her NAM and had to relearn to eat without it again. The next big hurdle Paige would have to overcome would be to be completely off the bottle by her next surgery for her palate. She was able to get off the bottle by 9 months and used various different Sippy cups because at this point, she still did not have any suction. Surgeries and the NAM put restraints of Paige's ability to learn to crawl. She was not allowed tummy time because she could push the NAM into the back of her mouth and cause it to become sore or bleed. Also, after surgery, Paige had "no-no bands" on her arms so she could not bend her elbows to touch her mouth. During this time, she was restricted in her movement and was unable to lie on her stomach for any amount of time. Therefore, Paige had a slight delay in crawling but when she was allowed to start crawling and lying on her stomach, she picked it up very quickly. Paige also was signing five to ten words at this point, regularly. She still had not passed a hearing exam and the doctors were very optimistic that after palate surgery, her ears would do better. When it was time for Palate surgery at 10 months old, we had already undergone surgeries and were starting to feel like we could handle anything that came our way. Palate surgery was a bit scary, however. Her surgery lasted 4 ½ hours long and it would determine if our child would learn to hear and speak. This was a lot of contingencies for us to think about during the long wait for surgery. Post op was a lot different for palate surgery for Paige. She was in a great deal more pain and had to be managed with stronger medications this time around. She also had a tube inserted into her nose and down her throat just in case she would have difficulty with swelling in her throat and needed Oxygen. As with lip surgery, Paige required consistent holding and often would sleep on my lap during the day and night in order to get a good night's sleep. Recovery was much faster with the palate surgery than with the lip surgery for Paige. She was back to herself in a matter of days but still had to wear the "no-no bands" for a couple of weeks. She learned a fun trick of snapping her arms hard enough that the bands would fly off but she was still a good girl and didn't put her hands in her mouth. Weeks to follow yielded a few more doctors' appointments for Paige. We were told that she healed perfectly and that her palate was intact after surgery. We were also told that her speech would continue to be evaluated over the course of the next couple of years and if there is a continued problem, an adjustment to the palate may need to be made. Paige was evaluated for speech therapy at the age of 9 months old incase there was a problem with eating after the palate surgery and later for the speech component. However, Paige never had a problem eating after the first few days after surgery. Initially she was not interested in a Sippy cup and required her IV fluids while in the hospital. By the time we were allowed to leave the hospital, Paige was able to eat 4-6 ounces of fluid consistently. Paige was not allowed any solid food for about a month after surgery. This was difficult for Paige who loved her food! After surgery, word began to fly out of Paige's mouth! She was learning at a rapid pace all the sounds that she originally couldn't say. Also, we had her tested one month after palate surgery and were excited to share that Paige passed her hearing exam. We had a hearing, fully healed cleft child. This was a remarkable day in our life. Paige learned to walk by the time she was one year old. We were incredibly excited to be able to share our precious, perfect little Paige with the world. In the time spent since that year of growing as a family and changes to our Paige, Paige is thriving as a typical 2 year old. She will turn 3 years old August 2012 and will then be discharged from speech therapy services. She talks very well, has great communication skills and the attitude of any little princess. She is full of energy and has a wonderful personality. Paige has undergone two more surgeries since this palate surgery to replace tubes in her ears. She now has permanent t-tubes and hopefully will not need those replaced until she is an adult. Paige has all of her teeth, with only one of those sideways. We are still unsure if she will need a bone graph when she's older to fill in the small gap in her gum line. However, at this point I know for a fact that she will have braces and will need to realign her tooth in that gap. The rest of her teeth are wonderful, straight and adorable. Paige visits our family at the Pittsburgh cleft center once a year for a full evaluation. She visits her ENT if there is a problem with her tubes. We are incredibly thankful to the cleft team, doctors, families and friends who have supported us through this entire process. We were saddened to hear that Paige's orthodontist, the wonderful Dr. Lisa Vecchione passed away in a car accident almost a year ago. She is sadly missed for the love, support and talent she put into my daughter's NAM and personal care over the course of her first year of life. Without her talents as a doctor, my daughter may not have as beautiful of a smile as she has. We are grateful to the entire team. We carry on with life as though this is in the past but I know that in my heart, God gave us Paige because he wanted us to help others. He wanted us to be humbled by the fact that anyone could be touched by a child with a birth defect. Paige is very excited to be welcoming her baby sister this fall as well. We cried at the ultrasound when it reviled that God granted us with another beautiful little princess, without a cleft.
Sunday, June 17, 2012
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When, after a nationwide search, he was hired two years ago to serve as superintendent of Florida's Broward County Public Schools, Robert Runcie began brainstorming ways to close the racial achievement gap. At the time, black students in the sixth-largest district in the country had a graduation rate of only 61 percent compared to 81 percent for white students. To find out why, Runcie, who once headed a management-consulting firm, went to the data.
"One of the first things I saw was a huge differential in minority students, black male students in particular, in terms of suspensions and arrests," he says. Black students made up two-thirds of all suspensions during the 2011-2012 school year despite comprising only 40 percent of the student body. And while there were 15,000 serious incidents like assaults and drug possession reported that year, 85 percent of all 82,000 suspensions were for minor incidents—use of profanity, disruptions of class—and 71 percent of all 1,000-plus arrests were for misdemeanors. The last statistic, says Runcie, "was a huge red flag."
Like most large school districts in the United States, discipline policies in Broward reflected the idea that the best way to maintain an orderly classroom is to get rid of disruptive students, an approach known as zero tolerance. Zero tolerance policies help explain why 81 percent of all suspensions in New York City Schools in the 2012-20 13 school year were for minor infractions and 70 percent of all arrests were for misdemeanors; why 67 percent of all school-based arrests in Florida in 2011-2012 were for misdemeanors; and why 97 percent of half a million suspensions and expulsions recorded in an eight-year Texas study published in 2011 were not required under state law. A 2008 survey from the American Psychological Association titled "Are Zero Tolerance Policies Effective in Schools?" found that "recent research indicates a negative relationship between the use of school suspension and expulsion and school-wide academic achievement." While factors outside of school, like family income, matter most for academic success, "there's a direct correspondence between the achievement gap and discipline," says Pedro Noguera, a professor of education at New York University. According to a nationwide study from UCLA 24 percent of black secondary-school students were suspended at least once during the 2009-2010 school year versus 7 percent of white students. That same year, the graduation rate for black students was 66 percent compared to 83 percent for white students.
Broward announced broad changes designed to mitigate the use of harsh punishments for minor misbehavior at the beginning of this school year. While other districts have amended their discipline codes, prohibited arrests in some circumstances, and developed alternatives to suspension, Broward was able to do all these things at once with the cooperation of a group that included a member of the local NAACP, a school board member, a public defender, a local sheriff, a state prosecutor, and several others. In early November, The Miami Herald reported that suspensions were already down 40 percent and arrests were down 66 percent. Yet these changes required years of advocacy. The hard scrabble road to Broward's success also helps explain why zero tolerance policies have persisted.
"This whole issue around arrests of students, suspensions, I was not familiar with any specific targeted strategy on that," says Runcie of his initial days as Broward superintendent. He turned to what one stakeholder calls the Eliminating the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Committee, a local group of advocates.
The "schoolhouse to jailhouse" in the committee's name refers to the track of suspensions and arrests that civil-rights groups like the NAACP and the Advancement Project say ends in dropout and incarceration for many minority students—the polar opposite of the academic track of AP classes that typically ends in college admission. A 2013 study of Florida students by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that a suspension in 9th grade lowered a student's chances of graduating by 20 percent and a 2013 study of Chicago students found that an arrest raises the odds of dropout by 22 percent, even after controlling for income. A 2009 study from Northeastern University found that 6 percent of all high-school dropouts (and 23 percent of black male dropouts) aged 16-24 were institutionalized (most in prisons), compared to 1 percent of people with high-school degrees.
Marsha Ellison, president of the Fort Lauderdale chapter of the NAACP, which is in Broward County, founded the Eliminating the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Committee. After a 5 year-old girl was arrested in a different Florida county in 2005—she threw a temper tantrum in an assistant principal's office—"we were all directed from our national group to meet with our school district, collect the data, and work through to fix this schoolhouse to jailhouse issue," she says. Ellison began to ask for discipline data on a regular basis, but says Runcie's predecessors would not release it, an assertion corroborated by Gordon Weekes, a public defender in Broward County, and Robin Bartleman, a school board member and former teacher in Broward. The district "thought if they hid and did not acknowledge it then the problem would go away," says Ellison.
A cadre of reformers who admired Ellison's determination began to meet with her on a regular basis. Bartleman was motivated by her experience in the classroom. "I remember having to expel students and literally being in tears thinking, 'Why does this child have to be expelled for this?'" she says. Weekes says he saw "school-based arrests for little minor things like kids shooting spitballs, a kid throwing a lollipop." After Baltimore lessened penalties for similar infractions in its discipline code and provided alternatives to suspension, like counseling, suspensions fell by 33 percent and the graduation rate increased by 15 percent in seven years.
Elijah Williams, a justice in the juvenile courts in Broward, joined the committee after he saw a presentation in Las Vegas by Steven Teske, a juvenile judge in Clayton County, Georgia. Teske had helped local law enforcement and school officials reach an agreement to send students who committed misdemeanors to counseling instead of to court. School-based referrals fell by 83 percent and the graduation rate rose by 24 percent over eight years. Williams soon had Teske on a plane to Broward to meet the committee.
Broward's Collaborative Agreement on School Discipline was announced in early November. Instead of suspensions, students can now be referred to the PROMISE program, where they receive counseling for several days and then return to school. A host of non-violent misdemeanors no longer require an arrest, though officers can sometimes override that if they feel it is necessary ("I wanted to make sure deputies always had discretion," says Scott Israel, Broward County's sheriff). The school district's Office of Minority Male Achievement reviews data to ensure that punishments for minor infractions and racial disparities are on the decline.
"There's been success with other districts working to address parts of the problem," says Alana Greer, an attorney with the Advancement Project who consulted on the agreement. In recent years, Los Angeles and Denver have limited the range of minor behavior infractions that can be punished by a suspension. "But what Broward did that really set it apart is they put together this incredible breadth of stakeholders. They have been able to not only address one piece of it, but create a set of policies that work together to hopefully eliminate the school-to-prison pipeline in Broward."
Broward is unusual because representatives from law enforcement, the district, and the community were able to agree on reform, and the superintendent approved it. "In dealing with the previous administration, people were afraid to look at disparate impact issues," says Weekes. "[Runcie] was not backing away from it." The new superintendent released the data and acknowledged that the problem had a racial dynamic. "It's a problem all over the country," Runcie says, "and Broward is no exception."


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I'll spare you the year end in review. For New Year's Eve I like to clean out my desk, get rid of junk in the closet, remove animal bones from the back of my car and check for belly lint. It's my way of starting fresh. So for your amusement and to continue my tradition - here is the clean up post where I offer a few photos I've taken during the year that I had no idea where to put throughout the year. Fort Myers Beach (Feb 08) - I called and tried to explain that I was worried about the economy. They didn't listen either.
Manatee Park, Fort Myers - No crabs, no diving, but falling backwards into the alligator inhabited water is fine.
Fort Lauderdale
Regional Southwest Airport, Fort Myers - Something's not right? Yeah I flew on Jet Blue. Never again.
Montreal, Quebec - Amusing to me. I imagined the artist desperately trying to convey a scene of violence with stick figures.
Fort Myers - I was cold. And no one was looking.
Fort Myers Beach - Sister Mandy...my sister...she's not a nun...obviously - poses with the Photo-Op-Cop.
Home - This happens more often than you would think in my line of work.
This post didn't end well. Thankfully 2008 did. Here's to a fantastic 2009.
New Year's Resolution - Use less exclamation points in my writing and live more exclamation points. I think I can do that! hmmm.


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Circus Life is a good life, and rock 'n' roll is alive and well in the hands of Dan Baird and Homemade Sin. If this album isn't enough to get this bunch back on American soil in 2014, I might be applying for resident alien status across the puddle.
Let me clarify the lineup for those perhaps not in the know - Dan Baird and Homemade Sin is three quarters Georgia Satellites and one quarter Warner Hodges (Jason and The Scorchers). And they're so good I almost want to cry. Baird preaches the sermon of rock as well as any poet that ever attempted, and the band is rarely less than picture perfect. You could be excused for not knowing that this bunch has never stopped performing in one guise, or another since they started back in the '80s, but there will be no excuse for you to not purchase, listen to, and adore this record.
Sonically, this album is wonderful - you never wonder what Baird is singing about, the harmonies well placed and Stonesy, the rhythm section of drummer Mauro Magellan and bassist Keith Christopher sounds like they've known each other forever (which they have), and then there's the guitars. The guitars are not only well played, they also sound like a masterclass in tone - Baird and Hodges are a great team. Listening to the pair's rhythm tracks reveals all - they're playing the same song, the same chords, but the differences in nuance and style are beautifully distinct. Almost always panned left and right, there's a great education in rock there alone. But then there's the songs....
I'm given to hyperbole, but I'm not given to being wrong (well, not about rock 'n' roll, anyway), and I am here to tell you that Dan Baird is as great a writer of that thing known as a rock 'n' roll song as anyone on the planet. There's not a much harder thing to do than to write a straight up rock 'n' roll song in the late year of our Lord in 2013, but Baird makes it sound simple as he avoids cliche while writing instant cliches every step of the way. There's gold in these words and chords.
The first pinched, gritty chords that pop out of the speakers that announce Fall Apart On Me, and it's another of Baird's stock-in-trade - the seriously tongue-in-cheek look on the relationships between men and women. I'd love to see Baird's record collection - whatever he got fed as a youth must have been the perfect diet for the writer as a young rocker. The rhythm that Warner Hodges plays against Baird's is a beautiful piece of whip-crack syncopation, and every guitar player should check this as a fine way to measure one's ability to keep time. I'll say it again and again, but this bunch gets it right. I haven't heard two guitarists joust so well since Webb Wilder and Donny Roberts told Chuck Berry the news in the nineties to all too darned many deaf ears. Check out the final 24 seconds of this tune for a dose of pure bliss.
Stepping it up to a double time snare snapper, Little Darlin' is steeped in sweet country harmonies, and when the guitar solos start it's time to hit the woodshed - these licks sound as smooth as silk and sweet as honey, but they're knucklebusters of the best type.
All The Same is another sad, sad song about the travesties of love, and if Chuck Berry had known it would end up here, he'd smile from ear to ear. Ear candy - there are more calories of candy here than I've heard on an album all year - nothing here is rocket science, but I'll be damned if all the fake rock country guitar players in Nashville get anywhere near this high water mark. No, this is the real deal, and this is where the true religion can be found.
As of today, and mind you, I'm fickle when it comes to these matters - Thousand Little Pieces is the best song I've heard this year. I've been revisiting the live YouTube clip incessantly since I found it, and this seven minute forty-two second cut is even better yet. Slow stuff it tough - you have to be accurate, and your heart must be in the right place. When Hodges kicks into his sweetly sustained solo, he achieves guitar nirvana, then Baird kills me with what may be his best verse yet:
"We had it all,
pretty as a picture.
Just like the one,
you left hanging in the hall.
A better man,I don't know exactly how George Jones felt about rock 'n' roll, but I'm sure he would have loved this.
would find hope in the scriptures.
But Jesus wept,
is all I can recall."
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Warner Hodges playing is great across the album, but his soloing on Thousand Little Pieces is the stuff greatness is made of - he goes for the throat with an almost speaker exploding distorted tone, then he backs down and makes you cry, only to wind it all up again and deliver hope in a song that may otherwise just be too damned sad. There's redemption to be found in those notes, and that was always the point. Hodges stands accused of having perfect tone and unquestionable note selection.
A goddamned barn burner, it is.
Where'm I Gonna Lay My Head has a hard act to follow, but it has more going for it than the most creative use of an apostrophe this year, as the band dives right back into the rock. Much of this reminds me of The Band, in that there's no attempt to be progressive, psychedelic, or innovative, just an attempt to write and play the music as best as it can be. Hodges is on fire again, and his stinging and slinging soloing sizzles. The beauty of this pair is that they seemingly have no sense of anything but musical camaraderie - there's never a minute of anything but rock 'n' roll glory.
Stonesy syncopation is a tough order, and Break Down And Cry reminds me of the simpatico relationship I hear on Keith's solo records with Waddy Wachtel - the rhythms here are sublime and they make me dance in my chair as I type. And I like that. The arrangement includes some extremely tasty Hammond organ and some very pop harmonies on the chorus that keeps the track from ever becoming run of the mill. Masterful.
Bassist Keith Christopher steps up to do a lead vocal, and we don't miss a step. This band has been working for a few years to loving crowds around the UK and Europe, and it's quite apparent that they know one another like the back's of their respective hands - Think It's Time is another new type of arrangement, introducing some nice plucked harmonic keyboards under the chorus that add the perfect pop sweetness. Another winner, but you knew I was going to say that, right?
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Mauro Magellan earns his place in the percussion hall of fame with his work on Baby This - not many drummers can 'own' a song, but it can happen, and Magellan does it here with not just stellar stick work, but tons of catchy and chugging, percolating accessory work. Baird has his wit pen out again, and his writing is pure poetry.
The first time I spun this disc, I thought to myself, 'Have they really done this? Have they really recorded a whole album of fairly straight up, soulful rock 'n' roll without covering their own tracks even once?' They have, and the chorus of Long Way Down proves the point marvelously. Hodges is a master of the chordal solo, slurring notes and harmonizing with himself as he works his way around the solos and fills. The record is everything that's wrong with Nashville, and everything that's right with rock. Hell no, rock ain't near dead.
Dan Baird knocks out great rockers like clockwork - every one of us would love to write one rocker that would compare to Outlivin', and he's written an album full. There's an unholy union of The Byrds and The Dictators on this one. Chimey descents of guitar harmonies that evoke memories of And Your Bird Can Sing are always a pleasure, and they fit this number like a glove. I can't write as well as they play, so you are just going to have to buy this record and figure it out for yourself.
Face Of Love is another jangler, rocking melodically down the pike. Starting and stopping and swaggering, all at the same time - most bands could never do this without falling upon their respective arses, but Dan Baird and Homemade Sin toss it off like nobody's business. More arrangement wizardry as clever choices abound - before Hodges goes into yet another 'here's how it's supposed to be done' solo, they throw in a little step down that only lasts about five seconds but contains more musical intelligence than you can believe.
Wear And Tear wraps up the party, and it's a sweet piece of power pop that reminds me that The Flamin' Groovies are back on the scene, and if they hadn't reunited, I'd have been just fine with this in their stead. This album delivers on promises I've been waiting on since The Small Faces dissolved all those decades ago.
|Photo by Jos Westenberg
Circus Life may be the perfect album of 2013 - it makes not a single misstep, and every step of the way it has thrilled me to the bone. Thanksgiving week is perfect for its release, as it has me giving thanks for rock 'n' roll this great. I'm soon starting a radio show called Rock Ain't Near Dead down in Los Angeles - it's about where rock came from, where it's at, and where it's going, and I am going to have to move heaven and earth to get someone from this bunch to guest and explain just how they do it. Rock Ain't Near Dead, and this record proves it in spades. I am now calling it the best of 2013. I didn't see that coming, but there you have it.


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Among the new products it will highlight, Carrier will introduce its advanced CO2OLtech EVO™ transcritical CO2 systems, featuring the newly developed adjustable modulating ejector technology. This new technology increases system energy efficiency making the CO2 systems a viable alternative in warmer climates as well as providing heat reclaim advantages in cold and mild climates. CO2 systems use the natural refrigerant CO2, which is a safe and non-ozone depleting gas with a global warming potential (GWP) of one, making it the baseline against which the GWP of all other refrigerants are measured. The GWP of CO2 is also lower than the GWP of other natural refrigerants, such as hydrocarbons. As such, there is no global warming impact resulting from any potential refrigerant leaks.
"As a leading refrigeration equipment and solutions provider, Carrier is committed to innovating and elevating our product performance to set new industry standards and meet the expectations of our valued customers," says Bertrand Gueguen, president, Carrier Commercial Refrigeration. "Participation at the EuroShop exhibition gives us a great opportunity to showcase our latest developments."
Carrier's stand will encompass more than 1,700 square meters and feature a wide range of sustainable and complete solutions for commercial and industrial refrigeration applications. The environmentally sustainable solutions are designed to maximize product display, enhance the retail environment and increase shopper comfort, while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption. Carrier will also present a complete range of new medium-temperature multi-deck and semi-vertical cabinets, a range of plug-in cabinets and a fully operational refrigerated locker solution for e-commerce applications.
In addition, the stand will feature a wide range of serve-over and self-service counters and plug-in solutions, a semi plug-in range and after-sales services.
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Marbin - Early Show 8PM
The Nick
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Instrumental Rock from Chicago IL
Marbin is an instrumental rock band based in Chicago.
Marbin first started in 2007 as an improvised music duo consisting of Israeli guitarist Dani Rabin and Israeli saxophonist Danny Markovitch Slor. Slor and Rabin met shortly after Slor had completed his military service as an infantry sergeant and Rabin had graduated from Berklee College of Music. Since 2008, Marbin has been living in Chicago and performing all over the United States, playing over 250 shows a year with the accompaniment of drummer Justyn Lawrence and Bassist Jae Gentile . They have released four albums: Impressions of a City (2009),as part of Paul Wertico's Mideast-Midwest Alliance, and three under the name Marbin (2009), Marbin as a duo,Breaking the Cycle (2011) with drummer Paul Wertico, bassist Steve Rodby (Pat Metheny Group), and Jamey Haddad (Paul Simon), and Last Chapter of Dreaming (2013) with its touring band and an array of thirteen guests. Marbin is currently signed to Moonjune Records and Management.
In addition to their regular schedule, Marbin toured with fusion super group Scott Henderson, Mike Clark, and Jeff Berlin in a series of venues on the east coast and the midwest. In March 2012, Marbin toured with Allan Holdsworth's new trio that consists of Yellow Jackets' bassist Jimmy Haslip, and drummer Virgil Donati.
Danny Markovitch Slor
Dani Rabin
Justyn Lawrence
Jae Gentile
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This Is Christmas
1. Children singing, music ringing on the frosty air.
This is Christmas; there is gladness here and ev'rywhere.
Kindness filling, laughter spilling from our hearts away.
People caring, people sharing; this is Christmas Day.
2. Sing His glory, tell the story of the Baby's birth.
Little stranger in a manger came to live on earth.
Sing His goodness, praise the fullness of His life for us,
and remember, oh remember that He died for us.
This is Christmas and its meaning:
The Lord Jesus came to forgive us, to redeem us.
Praise His holy name.
Text: Mabel Gabbott
Music: Michael Moody
Artist: Gabbott/Moody
Album: Music Published in the Church Magazines: New Era
Composition Date: 1995-12-01
More Info: New Era
Christmas, kindness, caring, Jesus Christ--birth, manger, atonement


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Pop star Justin Bieber reportedly partied in a strip club in Houston, Texas and later left with one of the professional dancers.
According to contactmusic.com, the dancer, known as DiamondsR4Ever on Twitter, posted a message on the microblogging site Saturday saying she spent the night with Bieber.
"I've danced for a lot of celebrities and they normally don't phase me but Justin just had me in shock! I am now a Justin Bieber fan," she wrote.
The dancer also claimed that Bieber was partying at the club with boxer Floyd Mayweather, 36, and hinted that the duo were extremely generous.
"S/O (Shout out) to Floyd Mayweather too! Money team went in!," she tweeted.


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SanDisk is working on increasing its production of new 1GB Memory Stick PRO Duo Gaming Cards, as well as other capacities, in an effort to meet demand from major electronics retailers, video game outlets and discount department stores in North America, Japan and elsewhere in Asia where the PSP has been introduced. Gaming cards will be available at numerous retailers including Best Buy, Circuit City, EB Games (Electronics Boutique) and GameStop.
The 2GB card, which is expected to ship in July, will carry a suggested retail price of $349.99. Other capacities in the Memory Stick PRO Duo Gaming Card line range from $39.99 for 128 megabytes (MB)* to $139.99 for 1GB.
"Weve had numerous calls from interested consumers and retailers asking about the availability of our highest-capacity Memory Stick PRO Duo cards, and were working as quickly as possible to put inventory on retail shelves," said Greg Rhine, SanDisk's senior vice president of worldwide sales. "Since the PSP has limited on-board storage, it is generating strong demand for high-capacity flash memory cards for expanded memory, and we expect this situation to continue as the popularity of the PSP spreads globally."
Christina Day, SanDisks product marketing manager for the gaming card line, said early sell-through reports from retailers indicate that nearly 20 percent of all PSP buyers are also purchasing extra memory cards, but she expects that to reach 50 percent over time. Sony, which reported sales of 600,000 units in the U.S. in the first week of its introduction, recently announced that the heavy demand in Asia and the U.S. has caused the company to postpone its release in Europe until September.
SanDisk co-developed the Memory Stick PRO format with Sony. In January, SanDisk introduced the new gaming line of Memory Stick PRO Duo cards in semi-transparent neon colors.
While the PSP is aimed at the fast-growing handheld gaming device market, recent purchasers have learned that its numerous other features - including playback of movies, music, digital still images, video clips and game data - require large amounts of memory. The PSP uses a proprietary storage medium called Universal Media Disc (UMD) for movies and games, but UMD discs are not recordable or writable.
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the worlds largest supplier of flash data storage card products, using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S
SanDisk product and executive images can be downloaded from www.sandisk.com/Corporate/MediaKit/
SanDisk's web site/home page address: www.sandisk.com
1 MB = 1 million bytes; 1 GB = 1 billion bytes.
SanDisk and the SanDisk logo are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States and other countries. MobileMate is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation. Memory Stick PRO Duo and Memory Stick Duo are trademarks of Sony Corporation. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder (s).
The matters discussed in this news release contain forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties as described under the caption, "Factors That May Affect Future Results" in the company's annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company cannot guarantee that demand for its high capacity flash memory cards will increase as expected. The company assumes no obligation to update the information in this release.
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I have been testing the walnut sauce to great success, and I will post those recipes probably next week. But I just wanted to share a chocolate truffle recipe, in case you are in the market for a weekend Valentine's Day project.
I can't say the porcini flavor is very distinctive in these truffles, but they are utterly delicious and totally easy to make, though they do take time. And of course, you can forfeit the porcini powder altogether and roll the truffles in either natural unsweetened cocoa or Dutch processed. I really don't think it matters. What's the difference between natural cocoa and Dutch process cocoa? They are both unsweetened, but Dutch process means the cocoa has been alkalized—made less acidic. The flavor is mellower, and supposedly it affects leavening positively in baked foods. But the test kitchen at Cooks Illustrated (my favorite nerdy food mag) has found both work in baking, although their tasters preferred the Dutch.


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Inn Valley (Austria)
Inn Valley (German, Inntal). There are three long river valleys in Tyrol which have become important in Anabaptist history because to them the Anabaptists fled during the worst persecutions to eke out an existence; viz., the valleys of the Inn, the Adige, and the Puster.
In the Inn Valley the oldest Anabaptist territory was that of Rattenberg-Freundsberg. At Rattenberg Anabaptists were found in 1527. From the time Leonhard Schiemer was beheaded and his body burned (14 January 1529), followed by 70 other martyrs, to the end of the Anabaptist movement in Tyrol there was no period of any length in which they were not found here. This is also true of the mining city of Schwaz, where a booklet was put on sale "in which Anabaptism is drawn (in pictures) for those who cannot read." In Schwaz the Anabaptists were already pursued by placards. Besides secret members there were said to be five or six leaders (Vorsteher). This was the situation in the entire region between Schwaz and Rattenberg. Villages named in the court records are Brixlegg, Ratfeld, Kramsach, Breitenbach, Puch, and Inning. The number of Anabaptists executed in Schwaz is given in the list of 1581 as 20, the best known being Hans Schlaffer.
In Kufstein measures were instituted against the Anabaptists during this time. Sixteen martyrs are listed. In 1533 the contention was made by authorities that in the domain of Rattenberg, Kufstein, and Kitzbühel no one was left who was "stained with Anabaptism," and that in Kufstein "their eradication is so vigorously pursued that their leaders and other sectarians can find no shelter." But this does not correspond with fact. The recantation of Jakob Portner, a clergyman who had joined the Anabaptists, reveals that he had preached with extraordinary success in Kitzbühel, Rattenberg, and Kufstein, baptizing many who "persisted to the end, when they were sentenced from life to death."
An appendix to the Anabaptist mandate of Ferdinand I of 26 March 1534, warned all towns and magistracies in which boatmen lived who sailed the Danube, to see to it that no Anabaptists were accepted as passengers. This mandate includes also the Inn River, which was part of the route to Moravia.
In Hall on the Inn Anabaptists were pursued as early as 1528; it was an important Anabaptist center. "At Hall," says Schwyger's Chronik, "many persons, men, women, and maidens, young and old, have come into the sect of the Anabaptists." Among the Anabaptists tried there, two sisters, outstanding for their steadfastness, Annele Malerin and Urschl Ochsentreiberin, who were baptized in Hall, are celebrated in song and in the chronicles. They were "drowned in the water."
One of these songs reveals that Mils near Hall was also an Anabaptist center. The register of 1581 lists the number of martyr executions as eight. Anabaptist propaganda had already begun in 1528, as is inferred from the inquiry made by the government at Innsbruck as to why Anabaptist preachers had been allowed to preach so long in the towns, including Innsbruck. The most significant and most famous of all the martyrs of Tyrol was Jakob Hutter, who was burned at the stake here after "terrible torture" on 3 March 1536. In Calzein and Rothholz there were Anabaptists as early as 1527; two ended their lives at the stake.
As in the lower valley, the Anabaptist movement was active for many decades in the upper Inn Valley, especially after Hutter's death. From Pfunds to Innsbruck they can be traced, and in certain localities, like Imst and Landeck, they were particularly strong at times. From its list of martyrs, as important as that of Innsbruck, it is seen that some of the executions took place in the late 1520s, Hearings took place at Imst in 1538, to which Dr. Gallus Müller was sent to convert the accused. But Müller's efforts were in vain. There Sebastian Hubmaier and Hans Grünfelder, later "the aged Oswald," lay in prison. Griesinger reported to the brotherhood in Moravia that they testified to God's Word and the truth; their joy could not be described; a crowd of 1,000 witnessed the execution of Bastl and Hansl. A fourth Anabaptist, Jakob Zangerle, was executed in Imst in the same year. In 1561 Anabaptists fled from Imst to Moravia; in the 1570s they still had contacts with the Anabaptists of Moravia. An execution is listed at Landeck. Anabaptists from Landeck also fled to Moravia. In Telfs there were several in 1537.
In the upper Inn Valley Griesinger was active for a time; it was the home of Ursula Hellrigl, whom Gall Müller tried to convert. In lower Engadine (Grisons) the movement was active, and propagated itself to the upper Inn (Tyrol); Anabaptists were still found there in 1533. In Stams three were executed, and in Petersberg two. Thus the entire Inn Valley, as far as it lies in Tyrol, was in the 16th century the home of Anabaptism. The greatest number lived in Kitzbühel which also shows the largest number of blood witnesses.
Beck, Josef. Die Geschichts-Bücher der Wiedertäufer in Oesterreich-Ungarn. Vienna, 1883; reprinted Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1967.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. II, 421 f.
Loserth, Johann. Der Anabaptismus in Tirol. Vienna: F. Tempsky, 1892.
Wolkan, Rudolf. Geschicht-Buch der Hutterischen Brüder. Macleod, AB, and Vienna, 1923.
Zieglschmid, A. J. F. Die älteste Chronik der Hutterischen Brüder: Ein Sprachdenkmal aus frühneuhochdeutscher Zeit. Ithaca: Cayuga Press, 1943.
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Loserth, Johann. (1958). Inn Valley (Austria). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 18 September 2019, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Inn_Valley_(Austria)&oldid=145486.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, pp. 40-41. All rights reserved.
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Winter League roundup: Pederson productive at plate
Venezuelan Winter League
Caribes 7, Lara 5
Gorkys Hernandez went 3-for-4 with a triple and an RBI in the victory for Caribes. Second baseman Jose Castillo picked up two RBIs. Dodgers top prospect Joc Pederson went 2-for-3 with a triple, RBI and two walks in the loss. Box score
Venezuelan Winter League
Caribes 7, Lara 5
Gorkys Hernandez went 3-for-4 with a triple and an RBI in the victory for Caribes. Second baseman Jose Castillo picked up two RBIs. Dodgers top prospect Joc Pederson went 2-for-3 with a triple, RBI and two walks in the loss. Box score
Aragua 3, Margarita 1
Aragua outfielder Alex Romero went 2-for-4 with one home run and three RBIs. His two-run homer in the seventh gave his team the lead. Nationals product Corey Brown picked up three hits in a losing effort. Edgar Ibarra, who is in the Twins system, threw 1 1/3 scoreless innings to pick up the win. Box score
Magallanes 2, Zuilia 1
Indians outfielder Ezequiel Carerra picked up a couple hits for Magallanes, while A's product Darwin Perez scored both of the team's runs. Matt Palmer, who pitched with the Dodgers' Triple-A affiliate this season, threw five scoreless innings to earn the win. Right-hander Josh Schmidt, who pitched in the Marlins system in 2012, allowed one unearned run in 6 1/3 innings and took the loss. Box score
Caracas 5, La Guaira 4
Rico Noel, from the Padres system, had two hits, one home run and two RBIs for Caracas. Chad Huffman, who played for St. Louis' Triple-A affiliate, picked up two hits. Ronald Uviedo pitched three scoreless innings in relief and got the win. Losing pitcher Eduardo Figueroa faced three batters in the sixth and allowed three runs. Box score
Mexican Pacific League
Guasave 7, Mazatlan 1
Belting his first home runs of the season, Kalian Sams hit a three-run bomb in the fourth inning and followed that up with a solo blast in the eighth. Guasave was also led by starter Josh Geer, who held the opponents to five hits in 6 1/3 innings for his first win of the season. Box score
Navojoa 3, Culiacan 2
In the first game of a doubleheader, Abel Martinez hit a game-winning double with two out in the bottom of the seventh, scoring Kraig Binick from first base. Misael Valenzuela got the win after pitching a scoreless seventh frame. Box score
Culiacan 4, Navojoa 3
In the second game of the doubleheader, Culiacan had a late-inning rally. Ronnier Mustelier hit a two-run RBI single in the seventh that gave Culiacan the lead. Mustelier had three RBIs, while teammate Maxwell Leon had two hits. Box score
Hermosillo 6, Los Mochis 3
Efren Navarro had a night to remember. Hermosillo's left fielder hit a solo shot in the sixth inning and followed it up with a huge two-run RBI single in the eighth. In total, he had four RBIs. Jose Aguilar also had two hits. Box score
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We get a lot of Sponsor me clips nowadays, but the best one I ever had for Heroin is from this guy who now rides for us, mister Tom Day. It helps that he was referred to us by one of my favourite human beings in the world, Nick Stansfield, "You gotta put Tom Day on man" Here's why his sponsor me clip was so good and I watch it all the time to this day.
1.No music, as much as I'm sure he wanted to put a Jay Z song or something on his tape, he resisted the urge and did us all a favour. You might think your edit goes better with your favourite Modest Mouse or Arcade Fire song, but leave it out.
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4. Good skating. Back smith back 3 out? Back smith backside flip out? You kidding? When do you ever see those? Done sick as well. Road Gap straight No Comply? Toms mix of gnarly yet creative skating fits right in over here, this is why I always say this is exactly the type of sponsor me video that we want.
So my idea was that we keep Tom on the D.L. and announce him when the video drops. Just have a full new part of wild shit from him and people are like "Oh shit, he's my new favourite skater" But he's been racking up coverage left and right, Kingpin and Sidewalk photo's every other month and just straight up killing it, so we have to announce him now really.
So if you didn't know before Tom Day rides for Heroin, (and has for over a year) and here is that very sponsor me from a video called Mardy by Andy Rayner and Jim Craven. Thanks to them for letting us use it on the site.


text: Hair accessories are in this season\u2014and the chicest way to wear them is with an updo, as Dolce & Gabbana , Chanel , and 3.1 Phillip Lim proved on their spring 2010 runways. For vintage-y sophistication, the hair combs seen at Dolce & Gabbana and Chanel can't be beat (they won the best-in-show title of "most refined" in ELLE's March 2010 issue ). However, if a fresh, youthful vibe is the aim, Lim's red leather barrettes are a surefire hit. In creating what she calls a "beautiful, simple, and innocent" do, hairstylist Odile Gilbert pinned tresses to the side with a barrette while tucking a similar barrette just behind the opposite ear. To keep hair in place, Gilbert molded strands into a "square bob" and coiled the ends in an off-center "snail bun" on the lower left side of the head. Celebrity hairstylist Laini Reeves reveals her favorite hair accessories for 2010.