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YouTube – Spiritual Warfare

I really like this group's music (as is evidenced by my music player page) and have found this video that someone made on YouTube. Thought I would share it with my visitors. Enjoy!

NovelQuest – Welcome

Attention to my lovely wife and children. THIS IS WHAT I WANT FOR MY BIRTHDAY!! Please, mortgage your house, sell your car, stand on a street corner, do whatever it takes for you to be able to purchase this gift for me. It's really important to me!

Fisher Senior has a special game….

Below is the complete story from The Daily Pantagraph about Bryan Paris (sorry that I misspelled Bryan’s name in an earlier post Patty and Mike!). I hope you enjoy reading about this exceptional child! Congrats to the whole Paris family.

Kindred: A senior moment that will last a lifetime
By Randy Kindred
rkindred@pantagraph.com
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The seniors on Fisher High School’s boys’ basketball team have grown up with Bryan Paris. Most met him in kindergarten. Perhaps initially they noticed a difference, saw Down syndrome when they looked his way. That seems so long ago now. | Read more Kindred

“We just see him as one of the guys,” said senior guard Travis Bayler.

Bayler and senior teammates Matt McGarigle, Pat Rodgers, Jacob Browning and Brandon Rice wanted the world to see that, too. They wanted Senior Night to belong to Paris as much as themselves.

So they requested that Paris, a team manager for Fisher football and boys and girls basketball, be allowed to suit up and play in Tuesday night’s final home game against PBL.

“Travis came up with the idea during the summer,” McGarigle said. “We talked about it and decided to make it happen. We know how much it means to him. He loves sports and he’s always with us. We thought it would be good to give something back to him.”

Fisher athletic director Ben Derges worked out the details with PBL athletic director John Overstreet and coaches Ron Ragle of Fisher and Scot Vogel of PBL.

If the game was close, an extra minute would be put on the clock afterward to allow Paris to play. If it was not, he would go in the game when Ragle deemed appropriate.

With 1 minute, 12 seconds remaining, and PBL ahead by double digits, Ragle sent Paris in. Shortly thereafter, Paris took a pass on the right wing and sank what Derges described as “a mid-range jumper.”

“There were a lot of people standing (in the gym),” Derges said. “It erupted when he hit that shot.”

Later, as the final seconds ticked away, Paris scored again from about eight feet out as PBL won, 61-53. Friendship, compassion and sportsmanship won as well.

Derges called it “a heartwarming experience,” adding, “I saw a lot of tears and everyone was smiling.”

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Fisher Senior Drives Crowds Wild

My buddy Mike's son Brian gets a chance to strut his stuff. Brian is afflicted with Down's Syndrome and shows here that he is devoted to not let it limit him! Way to go Brian!!

Rain Day!!

Got a rain day today. Just too wet to set any iron, even if we had any pieces to set so…..

Got a day off. Came home and watched a movie on Netflix, what a wonderful service. I really love the fact that I can watch movies online through Netflix as a lot of movies that I enjoy the rest of my family does not. This allows me to watch those movies in peace and quiet and not bother anyone else. After my movie, I decided to surf the net a bit and check out some of my homework assignment. I have to create a flash presentation which highlights a couple of aspects of a certain product. I’ve decided to choose the Vick’s Cool Mist Vaporizor as the product and will post the final presentation here after this weekend.

Now to the second portion of this post. I’ve also had the t.v. playing in the background. On a hunch I decided to put Fox Reality Channel on and on comes the show “Smile, You’re Under Arrest”. After watching this for about 15 minutes (and seeing a couple of perps get busted by the undercover deputies), I begin to wonder just how this is not entrapment. Not only that but this type of voyeurism is really quite disturbing to me. Reality T.V. has really hit a new low as far as I’m concerned. It is one thing to watch the police in the line of duty arrest actual criminals but to do so on the basis of de-humanizing them and belittling them on a national level? What happens if and when they make a mistake and arrest the WRONG person or one whom is innocent? But after reviewing Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Wiki I’m not certain if he or his constituents really care or not. I suggest that you read it, items like his pink underwear and tent city are very revealing if you ask me. I guess it’s not really entrapment as they are not enticing the “guests” to break the law, merely gathering them up to serve a warrant but is it morally ethical to do so? Now please don’t get me wrong here, I’m not against catching people who have warrants out for them, I’m just concerned about the methods being used here.