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Issues Unresolved
New Perspectives on Language and Deaf Education
Publication Year: 1998
Published by: Gallaudet University Press
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THIS BOOK consists of twenty chapters that offer a wide perspective on central issues in deaf education at the end of the millennium. These chapters were selected from more than four hundred papers presented at the 18th International Congress on Education of the Deaf (ICED). The criteria for selection were the papers' scientific quality and their significance to recent...
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C. Tane Akamatsu Toronto Board of Education Toronto, Ontario, Canada Arthur Boothroyd Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences City University of New York New York, New York, USA Lise Bryan Henningsen Department of Audiology University Hospital Gentofte, Hellerup, Denmark Noel Cohen New York University Medical Center New York, New York, USA...
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Preface: Unresolved Issues in Deaf Education
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TWENTY YEARS AGO, in 1978, Tel Aviv University established the Hearing Impairment Program at the School of Education. The program's primary goals were to advance the level of teacher training and to promote research and development in the field of deaf education. The program, which is the only one of its kind in Israel, has changed the characteristics...
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INTERNATIONAL IN scope, Issues Unresolved: New Perspectives on Language and Deaf Education challenges and/or expands established thought on deafness and language in order to examine their impact on the development of deaf children. The volume's four parts include chapters reflecting the current...
Part 1. Communication: Sign and Spoken Languages
1. Critical Periods for Language Acquisition Consequences for Deaf Education: Consequences for Deaf Education
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THIS CHAPTER focuses on critical periods for language acquisition and their consequences for deaf education. I shall begin with a few examples of critical periods-first, the fairly familiar story of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The king of the fairies decides to play a trick on his wife by having his puckish helper give her a magic potion, which makes her fall...
2. Thinking with and without Language: What Is Necessary and Sufficient for School-Based Learning?
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IN THIS CHAPTER I raise issues that concern how deaf children learn and examine assertions in the literature about the relationship between cognition, language, and school-based learning. In particular, I explore the role of language in an overall conception of intelligence and the utility of this verbal intelligence in educational pursuits, particularly in literacy...
3. Assessing Cognitive, Relational, and Language Abilities of Deaf Preschoolers in Italy
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AN APPROPRIATE evaluation of deaf children's cognitive, relational, and language abilities must take into account the child's family environment and, in particular, whether his or her parents are deaf or hearing. Children can naturally communicate with their deaf parents through their native sign language. Hearing parents communicate with their children primarily...
4. Experiences and Perceptions of Deaf Students in a South African Sign Language Class
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IN SOUTH AFRICA, education for the deaf has been insufficiently researched, allowing for misleading perceptions of deaf children. As a result, "the education of deaf people in South Africa has failed to provide speech pathologists, audiologists, teachers, and parents of the deaf with a clear and cohesive direction for practice" (Penn and Reagan 1991, 19). This lack of...
5. The Use of Addition in Sign Language Transliteration
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IN FACILITATING communication between deaf and hearing consumers, an interpreter can either interpret or transliterate. Interpreting involves translating the message into the native sign language of the community, The current definition of transliteration, published by the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, is "the process of changing an English text into...
6. Deaf Mothers as Communication Models for Hearing Families with Deaf Children
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DESPITE IMPROVED hearing aids, early identification of hearing loss, and the availability of early intervention programs, deaf children continue to lag behind their hearing peers in language development and, subsequently in school achievements and career opportunities (Johnson, Liddell, and Erting 1989). This pattern of developmental delay and underachievement...
7 Achieving Human Rights Educating Deaf Immigrant Students from Non--English-Speaking Families in Australia
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THE RELATIVELY recent opening up of Australia to immigrants from a wide range of non-Western countries, including a wide range of refugees, has created a multicultural society with large numbers of people whose first and often only language is one other than English. This linguistic and cultural diversity has given rise to calls for bilingual education and the...
Part 2. Communication: Accessibility to Speech
8. The Perception of Speech by Children with Hearing Loss
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SPEECH CONSISTS of language patterns that are encoded as sound patterns by movements of the breathing and eating mechanisms. This is a broad definition that includes speech movements, speech sounds, and the language patterns they represent. Speech perception is defined here as the process by which a perceiver tries to identify the talker's underlying...
9. Oral-Only and Simultaneous Communication Speech Characteristics of Teachers of the Deaf
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DESPITE THE widespread adoption of the total communication philosophy and its most frequent application in simultaneous communication, concerns have emerged about the relative effectiveness of its practices from both receptive and productive perspectives. Critics of its use have attacked it for its ineffectiveness in achieving its avowed purposes (Johnson, Liddell, and Erting 1989), for its lack of emphasis on oral-aural...
10. Recent Developments in Speech-to-Print Transcription Systems for Deaf Students
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IN THE PAST twenty years, the number of deaf and hard of hearing students educated in classes with hearing students has increased significantly at both secondary and postsecondary levels (Moores 1992; Rawlings, Karchmer, and DeCaro, 1988; Walter 1992). A major concern for these students is the adequacy of classroom communication; communication difficulties...
11. Automatic Speech Recognition and Its Applications
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RECENT ADVANCES in automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology have been dramatic. With the help of a laptop computer and appropriate programs, an ASR device can recognize as many as 30,000 words. Although such progress is impressive, ASR technology has limitations. ASR devices that can handle large vocabularies (vocabularies of tens of thousands...
Part 3. Educational Issues
12. Bilingual vs. Oral Education: Academic Achievement Levels in Deaf Eighth-Graders from Two Decades
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DURING THE first two-thirds of this century oral methods prevailed in the education and upbringing of deaf children in Sweden. The children were expected to rely on lipreading, use of residual hearing, and speech for communication. During this period most deaf children had virtually no functional language, spoken or signed, when they started school. In the late 1960s, however, attitudes toward...
13. School and Classroom Characteristics That Facilitate the Social Integration of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
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IN THE LAST decade increasing numbers of children who are deaf or hard. of hearing (D/HH) have been educated in integrated public school programs with the expectation that this would benefit them both academically and socially. The success of these children in public schools is based on two sets of variables (Moores and Kluwin 1986). One set of variables lies within...
14. The Instrumental Enrichment Cognitive Intervention Program with Deaf Ethiopian Immigrant Children in Israel
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DURING THE last decade, the Israeli educational system has faced the challenge of educationally integrating immigrants from Ethiopia, the majority of whom have had very little formal learning experience. This problem was particularly aggravated in the case of deaf immigrant children. These children confronted a twofold educational dilemma. On the one hand...
15. Deaf Students Attending Regular Four-Year Colleges and Universities in the United States
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THE EDUCATIONAL goals and attainments of deaf people show the same range of diversity as those of hearing people. Some deaf people cease their formal education prior to or upon completion of high school, some proceed to two-year vocational or technical programs, and others enter four-year colleges and universities, with some continuing their education...
16. A Retrospective Evaluation of a Distance Education Training Course for Teachers of the Deaf
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IN RECENT YEARS in the United Kingdom, there has been a move away from full-time training for teachers of the deaf to different forms of part-time training. This trend (see Table 16.1) is largely the result of government changes in funding. This movement away from full-time training is common to all areas of special needs teacher training in the United Kingdom...
Part 4. Psychological and Social Adjustment
17. Mental Health Problems and Communication of Children with Hearing Loss in Finnish Special Schools
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THERE SEEMS to be universal agreement that a higher prevalence of psychopathology exists among children with hearing loss compared with their hearing peers. In their review of several epidemiological studies, Meadow and Trybus (1979) reported that serious emotional problems were three to six times as common among deaf children as among hearing...
18. Deaf Identity in Adolescence: The Rotterdam Deaf Awareness Program
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DEAF ADOLESCENTS, in spite of their disability belong to the group of adolescents in general, and, therefore, reflect this group's characteristics. Because many deaf adolescents experience communication problems with their hearing parents, the period of adolescence will have a profound impact on parents and deaf youngsters...
19. Development of Deaf and Hearing Children's Sex-Role Attitudes and Self-Endorsements
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RESEARCH WITH deaf adults indicates that they are at a disadvantage in comparison with their hearing peers, both in terms of level of education achieved and occupational status attained. Marschark (1993a), in a review of research on educational achievement by deaf students, confirmed that, despite recent gains on standardized tests of academic achievement...
20. Deaf and Hearing Adults' Evaluation of Deaf People's Occupational Competence
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UNDERSTANDING THE development of persons with physical disabilities requires attention to both the psychological and social factors that affect it. Wright (1983) stated that the field of rehabilitation should deal with those variations in the physical characteristics of the individual that directly alter the individual's path of development by their effects...
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Print-ISBN-13: 9781563680670
Print-ISBN-10: 156368067X
Page Count: 272
Illustrations: 22 tables, 34 figures, 7 illustrations
Publication Year: 1998
OCLC Number: 43476408
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It has been awhile since I have written about the crazy shit that comes out of the mouths of my children, and I have lost my battery charger for my Canon and that stupid-little-blue-light-won't-shut-off-and-sucks-the-battery-dead-in-hours, so I can't upload any of the awesome photos I took earlier this year.
First off, much to his father's dismay, BB has started a 2nd grade singing class and he love, love, loves it. It is his favorite "sport". Last week, the twins sat down with me to watch the season premiere of American Idol, and we were having a blast listening to all the crazies that try out for the show. After one woman with particularly giant-sized breasts auditioned, he exclaimed, "Did you see those WATERMELON BOOBS?", and he and Ash started laughing uncontrollably. Then in all seriousness, BB looked at me and stated, "You do not have watermelon boobs. Yours are more like Earths!" My husband has assured me that Earth boobs are much better. Phew.
We have a Yamaha keyboard that, after months years of being stored in a closet, is finally set up and getting used. The keyboard has a memory of a hundred songs or so and it has "lessons" and the keys will light up red to show you what note to play next. Last night while playing his musical masterpiece, BB said, "Mom. My finger is like Ozzie. It follows the red dot!" Why yes, I see the relation between fingers + piano keys and dogs + laser lights.

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Despite losses in leading sectors, manufacturing and finance, Connecticut gained 300 jobs in November and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.8 percent, according to a monthly report.
The state Labor Department said the financial sector shed 600 jobs and manufacturing 1,200 last month and compared to a year ago and the sectors are down 3,000 and 2,800 jobs respectively for the year. Only the government sector has seen bigger losses over the year than finance, dropping 3,200 jobs, the report said.
Health care continues to be the jobs engine in the state, up 7,200 jobs for the year and 1,500 for the month.
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text: Application Review: Lili BitMonster | 752.6 M | $ 4.99 Please Register or Log in to view images With the unleashing of the Unreal Engine for iOS, we've seen many games come out. From the sword fighting, to the shooters, to even more sword fighting. Then we have the other game, the half mystery where you walk around aimlessly finding clues to a story. Lili, takes that story, but adds actual gamelay to it. Gameplay The story begins with the protagonist landing on the island of Geos looking for flowers for her school project. Thought to be deserted, she steps foot on the island only to run into a large masked being who calls himself the mayor. Upon entering the island, she finds life thriving making wooden friends who want to be freed from the tyranny of the Mayor (who is a spirit) and his spirits. Please Register or Log in to view imagesThe idea is simple, jump on them and grab their rare flowers. Your job is to collect flowers, on the way however, you decide to help out the oppressed wooden inhabitants of Geos by jumping on the back of the spirits and plucking their flowers right off of them. As time goes by, these flower-picking sprees become tougher and longer-winded as these spirits begin deploying thorns and bombs to get you off their back. Please Register or Log in to view imagesAs the game goes on, the spirits get much tougher to beat. As you progress through the game, you are sent to different areas of Geos, unlocking doors, and doing the little odd jobs that will eventually free the wooden friends of Geos from the ungodly spirits. Each map unlocks a new world to explore. Please Register or Log in to view imagesThere are many areas to explore on the island of Geos. Also, as you progress, you train with the trainer. With each mission you do, you go through a small training session. Each of these sessions allows you to increase your running speed, your gripping ability, or Lili's stealth. Additional items can also be purchased in game to upgrade these as well. Please Register or Log in to view imagesLili didn't just come with amazing speed, she had to train for it. Controls are very simple. You tap to walk or stop moving (if you're moving). Double tapping will begin Lili off on a short run. Swiping the screen allows Lili to run in different directions and view different areas of the map. Everything else is basically a menu item. The controls are dead simple. Please Register or Log in to view imagesTap, double tap, swipe, that's all there is to it. Gameplay: ★★★★★ Graphics Bitmonster put the Unreal Engine to good use for Lili. The game runs smooth on the new 5th generation Touch, which also will run in wide-screen. The graphics are crisp and detailed extremely well. The colors are bright and vibrant with great smoothness behind them. Lighting effects are nicely executed as well. The entire game has more of a cartoon feel to it, but the graphics are still top notch. Please Register or Log in to view imagesThe graphics in this game are just gorgeous. Graphics: ★★★★★ Audio Audio detailing is very abundant in this game. Dings, foot steps, and even birds chirping are replayed in a beautiful manner. Background music stays just where it belongs, in the background. The characters' voices are restricted down to the simplest 'hi'. I do wish that the game could expand on this a little more; it'd give a much better sense of quality if it did. Audio: ★★★★½ Replay After your adventures on the island of Geos, there is still much to explore. Locked doors tend to hold the contents of a treasure chest. Each chest containing some artifact that could help Lili in her studies; it's why she came in the first place. Meeting all of the wooden townspeople and making new friends also plays as replay. I do wish there was a bit more though. Better hiding places for treasure chests, secret rooms, that sort of thing. Please Register or Log in to view imagesTreasure is hidden throughout the island. It may not help you grip the Spirit better, but is fun to find while exploring. Replay: ★★★★½ Value Lili costs 5 dollars on the App store. For the price, I would be expecting to get a game where everything can be unlocked in game without the need to do an in app purchase. Unfortunately, this isn't the case. Many outfits that Lili can wear, as well as a couple of items require an additional in-app purchase of a dollar. I find this to be a complete rip off since the game is already purchased for 1 dollar. Outside that, however, the gameplay and graphics are well worth the money. Please Register or Log in to view imagesWhen you shop, many items can be purchased using coins gained in-game. Some require an in-app purchase. Value: ★★★★½ Final Thoughts Upon starting the game, the graphics greatly impressed me. I wasn't expecting to enjoy the gameplay that much, but I actually did. The game itself serves as a good time killer, and the story does interest the player to the point where they will want to know what happens. I never thought I'd have this much fun picking flowers. Overall ScorePlease Register or Log in to view images Please Register or Log in to view images † All prices are in US currency.This review was written by the iFans.com Review Team. Cumulative scores are rounded to the nearest half or full star.All accessories, applications, themes, tweaks, or other products were purchased by iFans at their respective prices unless stated otherwise.


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This month's spotlight article summarizes a discussion on multi-age classrooms held at the Investigations User's Conference in Fitchburg, Massachusetts on October 21, 2000. This discussion was led by Karen Schweitzer of Williamsburg Public Schools (MA), Katie Bloomfield of Shutesbury Elementary School (MA) and TERC, and Lucy Wittenberg, formerly of Fayerweather Street School (Cambridge, MA) and now of TERC. Among the three of us, we represent nearly 30 years of experience in teaching multi-age classrooms, ranging from Kindergarten to 4th grade. We are also all long-time users of Investigations.
Our aim in this conversation was to talk about some of the challenges faced by a teacher who is trying to implement a math curriculum that is essentially designed for single grades in a classroom which has more than one grade. (Although this usually means two consecutive grades, in this particular group, several 3-grade spans were represented.) We also wanted to share ideas and suggestions for how to make it work, agreeing that in spite of the challenges, it seems important to do so. In the course of the discussion, three key issues emerged:
- How do you use the Investigations curriculum to structure a yearlong sequence of units and activities that have coherence?
- How do you organize and manage a multi-age classroom to make the best use of the curriculum?
- How do you keep track of what students are learning when there is a wide range of mathematical abilities and understanding, as well as a variety of activities taking place in the classroom? In conjunction with that, how do you meet the needs of all students?
To address the first issue, a number of models and structures were discussed. Some examples were:
- To organize the year around content strands, and to match units from both grades that address the same strand, choosing comparable activities from each
- To use Choice Time regularly, so that children can be working on activities at their own level simultaneously
- To use Ten Minute Math activities as a regular classroom routine that can involve students at a variety of levels
- To make use of other personnel (classroom aides, interns, special needs teachers) to run more than one group in the classroom, making it more possible to use the curriculum intact
- To make different decisions about structures based on the mathematical content -- this came up when many of us agreed that it seems hardest to combine two grades during number units, but easier during data and geometry units
A key point in this part of the discussion was that regardless of the content, the unit, or the structure, it's essential that we as teachers begin with having clear mathematical goals for all of our students. In order to be able to choose activities and investigations that will move each child along in developing important mathematical ideas and skills, we need to be able to articulate what those ideas and skills are.
We spent the most time brainstorming and sharing ways to accomplish what was laid out in the first structure mentioned above, that of matching units around carefully selected content strands. One example was offered from a small multi-age private school that is focusing on this issue this year; their plan for the year is presented below.
Content Strands for the Village School, Royalston, Massachusetts (A work in progress!)
Measurement (September/October)
Focus on:
- Length (Gr. 1-6)
- Weight (Gr. 1/2/3)
- Volume (Gr. 4/5/6)
- Bigger, Taller, Heavier, Smaller (Gr. 1)
- How Long? How Far? (Gr. 2)
- From Paces to Feet (Gr. 3)
- Measurement Benchmarks (Gr. 5)
Number Sense and the Number System (November/December)
Focus on:
Gr. 1/2/3:
- Visual images of number
- Counting and grouping
- Tens
- One hundred
- Addition and subtraction: combining and comparing numbers
- Building Number Sense (Gr. 1)
- Coins, Coupons, & Combinations (Gr. 2)
- Mathematical Thinking at Grade 3 (Gr. 3)
- Things That Come in Groups (Gr. 3)
Gr. 4/5/6:
- Numbers in the hundreds
- 1000 and 10,000
- Factors and multiples
- Addition and subtraction with landmarks
- Arrays and Shares (Gr. 4)
- Landmarks in the Thousands (Gr. 4)
- Mathematical Thinking at Grade 5 (Gr. 5)
Data (January)
Computation and Operations (February/March)
Geometry and Fractions (April/May/June)
The second issue we discussed, which was about organizational and management practices, centered on Choice Time. One teacher offered that she limits the number of choices so that she can get to more groups of students while they're working without having her own focus be too scattered. Another teacher shared a Choice Time "menu" that she uses, which helps her not only keep track of the activities students are choosing, but allows for quick note-taking about how each child is handling the activity. She included the following indicators that could be commented on:
- Task completed
- Student followed directions
- Work is accurate
- Student demonstrated understanding of the concept
- Student was able to take the activity further
Several teachers make use of math logs or journals, so that there is a record of children's work on Choice Time activities to collect and look back on.
On the last issue, about keeping track of students' learning, a number of teachers felt that "gathering evidence" in some way is essential. Having student work to look at becomes especially important when it is not always possible to observe every child during work time. In terms of observing and interacting with children while they're working, we talked about how to "get to kids in meaningful ways." One suggestion was to choose one or two things to focus on and look for while circulating, and to plan what those will be ahead of time based on the mathematical goals.
Finally, it should be noted that throughout this conversation, we kept returning to the idea of what it means to build a mathematical community in our classrooms, where math is both integrated and whole in much the same way that we strive to have language arts be. This was clearly a group of teachers that both believe in the benefits of a multi-age setting for children, and want the best mathematics for their students.
Katie Bloomfield, Shutesbury Elementary School, MA, and TERC
December 2000
This information was reprinted with permission of CESAME, Northeastern Univ., and the Educational Alliance, Brown University.


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Oliver O'Connor Barrett papers, 1930-1980
Barrett, Oliver O'Connor, b. 1908
Sculptor, Art teacher, Illustrator
Active in New York, N.Y.
Collection size: 0.5 linear ft. (on 3 partial microfilm reels)
Collection Summary: Correspondence, art works, writings, photographs, printed material, and business records document Barrett's sculpture and life.
REEL 138: Letters between Barrett and his colleagues discuss his art works and writings (1943-1964). Art works consist of 157 sketches and an annotated sketchbook (1942-1962). Writings include poems and autobiographical notes and articles (1930-1939). Photographs show Barrett and his works (1944-1951). Printed material consists of a press release, clippings (1961-1963), 10 exhibition catalogs (1944-1962), a bulletin, and 2 programs (1953-1955). Business records include meeting notes (1951), a contract for Barrett's "Sculpture Continuum" (1963), lists of expenses (1959-1962), receipts (1962-1963), and income tax returns (1953-1959).
REEL 3837: Fourteen pages from an annotated sketchbook.
REEL 4391: A resume (1969); photographs of Robert Moses, President of the New York World's Fair, and Jeff Jaffe, President of the Chunky Corporation, with Barrett and a model of his "Chunky Square Continuum" for the World's Fair (1963); a brochure on Barrett's sculpture continuum works; and his book, MYSELF EMERGING (1980).
Biographical/Historical Note: Sculptor, illustrator, and teacher; New York, N.Y. and Colchester, England. Born Oliver O'Connor Barrett in London, England, Barrett studied at Fircroft College, Birmingham, England, and is a self-taught sculptor. In 1940, he arrived in the United States, becoming a sculpture and drawing instructor at the Putney School in Vermont (1941-1942), Tulane University (1942), and Cooper Union Art School (1945).
Barrett produced illustrations for TOWN AND COUNTRY and other magazines, and has published poems and short stories. He later returned to England. He often shortened his name to Connor Barrett.
Reel 138: A press release, clippings, exhibition catalogs, a bulletin, and programs were transferred to the Library of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery.
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- Microfilm reels 138, 3837, and 4391 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
- Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.
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There are certain myths perpetuated by a large segment of NBA enthusiasts, be they analysts or fans. One nice thing about the new NBA tracking data is that many of these myths can be put to the test.
Most basketball debates have centered on "eye test" versus "stats." In some ways, the new tracking data, provided by SportsVU, puts together the best of both worlds.
The data, and how it is obtained, is explained by the NBA's website:
Using six cameras installed in the catwalks of every NBA arena, SportVU software tracks the movements of every player on the court and the basketball 25 times per second. The data collected provides a plethora of innovative statistics based around speed, distance, player separation and ball possession. Some examples include: how fast a player moves, how far he traveled during a game, how many touches of the ball he had, how many passes he threw, how many rebounding chances he had and much more.
They are "eyes" because they are six cameras that are constantly watching everything that happens. Many of the things that we'd look for with the eye test are monitored and tracked by the cameras—and tracked far more carefully than we'd be able to if we were watching the game in person.
However, they also record these things as specific events. We refer to recording specific events as stats.
Ergo, these cameras are a kind of "statistical eyes" that can resolve many heated basketball debates.
Is Carmelo Anthony really a ball hog? Is Kevin Love really the best rebounder in the league? Do "pure" point guards run a more efficient offense than "scoring" point guards? The answers to all those questions are here.
For each of the following controversies, we will consider:
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- The Test: Analysis on how the new data can prove or disprove the argument.
- The Conclusion: Summarizing the data and what it means.
As a small note, this is not a ranking, so read nothing into the order.
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Approximately half an hour before the closed session of the city council meeting, Santa Ana Councilman Carlos Bustamante was arrested. His arrest caused multiple camera crews from southern California television stations to converge on Santa Ana City Hall.
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The United Artists of Santa Ana yesterday announced that the Irving Church NewSong, which was in escrow to purchase the historic Santora Building in downtown Santa Ana, had withdrawn from escrow.
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Primary night has come and gone. And there's a number of things the results of yesterday's election reveal. In no particular order, and noting that some results still can change, these observations: In Wisconsin, voters returned control of the State Senate back to Democrats making Governor Scott Walker's job harder not easier. If Democrats in…
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Much has been made of Francisco "Paco" Barragan's "spoiler" role in the AD-69 race. Some claimed his presence would steal Santa Ana Latino votes from Santa Ana councilwoman Michele Martinez. Others said he'd draw support from labor activist Julio Perez. In the end, Barragan's vote total didn't significantly impact either of the other Democrats in…
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The Santa Ana City Council has a closed session item on its agendafor Monday's meeting and it's the appointment of a new city manager. And the betting money is on acting city manager Paul Walters removing the term "acting" from the front of his title. Under Walters leadership, the city has edged away from the…


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Skip to comments.Arab Like Me (GREAT insight into Arab mind from conservative Arab)
Posted on 02/15/2012 6:42:02 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
There are two kinds of Arabs in this world. Those who hate Jews, and those who dont. And in my life, I have met more of the former than the latter.
I am not proud to say that. Arabs will not like me for admitting it. But it is true. And it is something I wish the Obama administration understood. It is something Americans should know as the Arab Spring enters its second year.
The fact is, Arabs dont all look alike or think alike. But we are often pushed into a kind of groupthink, a kind of self-censorship that hinders our development and our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
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It goes back 4000 years..........
There will be Arabs in Heaven, but not the kind that hate Jews.
I wonder if he actually meant "muslim" rather than "Arab"?
Genesis 16
11 The angel of the LORD also said to her (Hagar):
You are now pregnant
and you will give birth to a son.
You shall name him Ishmael,[a]
for the LORD has heard of your misery.
12 He will be a wild donkey of a man;
his hand will be against everyone
and everyones hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
toward[b] all his brothers.
It will be confusing for some, no doubt, when they sit before the Great White Throne and realize the One judging them is Jewish.
Excellent article, thanks for posting
Ingrahams side kick for a while.
No, I think he means Arab. In my personal experience Christian Arabs, and they are a sizable minority in most Arab countries and fifty plus years ago the majority in Lebanon, are just as if not more likely to be antisemitic (I know, that's a semantic contradiction) than their Muslim neighbors. The Middle East is a rather complicated place.
A genetic condition? What about mixed-race Arabs?
Think deep.
The hatred of Children of Israel goes all the way back to Ishmael and Issac, sons of Abraham. Ishmael's mother was Hagar, and Egyptian, handmaiden to Sarah. Isaac was Sarah's son. She had Abraham send Hagar and her son away so Isaac would be the only heir to his fortune, and the enmity began..........
"There are two kinds of Arabs in this world. Those who hate Jews, and those who dont. And in my life, I have met more of the former than the latter."
I would say at least a minimum of 10% for Jews and 90% against.
My understanding is that Arabs ARE Semites.
I have nothing against Arabs, but I hate muslims...fair enough?
You are born an Arab, but in most cases you CHOOSE to become a member of the death cult...
The backlash he gets from arabs,is the same as the backlash Dr Jasser gets from islamists.
Isreal was setup for the Jews, Jordan for the Islamics and Lebanon for the CHRISTIANS. France screwed it up.
That's the real root of it. Lee Habib is a Christian Arab. While Christian Arabs who live among Muslim Arabs may pick up hatred of Jews by osmosis, the real source of the hatred is Islam.
What about the non-Arab, Asian Indonesians who hate the Jews? Or for that matter, almost the whole of Europe pre-1945 and many, today? All "descendants of Hagar"? You're passage is making it sound as though anti-Semitism is a genetic condition. It's not. It's purely based on cultural issues.
And then you have the self-hating Jew...
A great book to read in this respect (In addition to all the Bernard Lewis books) is "Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America" by Brigitte Gabriel.
"I do believe Lee Habeeb used to be the producer of The Laura Ingraham Show. "
I thought Habeeb worked at the gas station that Al Bundy goes to?
I never said anything about 'genetics'.
The hatred between Arab and Jews goes back to the beginning of history.
The hatred by others, non-Arab Muslims in particular, is thru the Koran's teachings, so there's a billion haters right there.
The European hatred of Jews comes from the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages, who promoted the 'Jews killed Christ' meme.
The Jews themselves were among the financial wizards of the post Roman era, so they were a convenient scapegoat for kings and the Church for being 'Banksters' of their day......
"The Arab Mind''? Maybe Arabs should stop marrying their cousins. That might go a long way to improving the "Arab Mind''.
Key sentence: "It is all about Arab self-doubt."
Loser mentality.
Thanks C. Edmund Wright.
Thanks for posting.
I heard this smart guy substituting on the Dennis Parager show during the Hebrew holidays....he's outstanding and a breath of fresh air thinking. I'm a fan.
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Compliance and Enforcement in Environmental Law
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DEBKAfile Exclusive Report February 5, 2015
King Salman appears to be reverting to past royal ties with the conservative clergy and undoing his predecessor Abdullah's cautious modern reforms in domestic policy.
DEBKAfile Special Report February 5, 2015
The UAE suspended its participation in the US-led coalition against ISIS in Iraq after the capture of Jordanian pilot Lt. Mu'ath al Kassasbeh by the Islamic State revealed the absence of personnel and facilities on hand for rescuing coalition air crews falling into enemy hands. The Jordanian pilot was subsequently burned alive. debkafile: The UAE contributed the largest and most modern air force in the Gulf region. But the entire coalition is fraying over the profound concern of all the Arab participants over America's expanding cooperation with Iran.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 24, 2015
President Barack Obama will arrive in Riyadh Tuesday, Jan. 27 with the First Lady, to offer US condolences on the death of King Abdullah and hold his first formal conference with Salman Bin Abdulaziz as King of Saudi Arabia. He must clear the air most urgently on Riyadh's flat opposition to the multilateral nuclear deal taking shape with Iran; persuade Salman to slow oil production so as to curb plunging oil prices; and decide together how to handle Yemen's fall into the hands of Shiite Houthi rebels backed by Iran.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis January 22, 2015
President Barack Obama offered two options for resolving the Iranian nuclear impasse: His administration's diplomatic engagement, or a new Mid East war. Neither the US Congress nor Israel accepts the Obama formula. Israel decided to strike an Iranian-Hizballah military convoy on Golan, causing the death of an Iranian general. This provided Senate sanctions initiatives with military muscle. House Speaker John Boehner responded by inviting Binyamin Netanyahu to address Congress on Feb. 11 on Iranian nuclear and radical Islamic threats. Between now and then, none of the parties may stand idle.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 5, 2015
Saudi Arabia faced a double crisis Sunday, Jan. 5: King Abdullah, 91, is gravely ill – reportedly with lung cancer - and preparing to abdicate. Two American specialists have been rushed to Riyadh to treat him, as his successors stand by, although princely disputes may delay an announcement. This development coincided with a bid Sunday by ISIS terrorists to smash into the kingdom from Iraq. The assailants killed Gen. Odah al-Balawi, commander of the northern Saudi border guard, and three other soldiers, before four died in the clash, two by suicide.
Obama's 2015 gift for Israel and Mid East: Funding for a new Iraqi army – dominated by Iran's Rev Guards
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 1, 2015
President Obama's New Year's gift to Israel and the Mid-East: a multibillion fund for restoring the Iraqi army as a division of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). Its Dep. Com. Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami, said this week that Iran was assembling from the Shiite militias fighting in Syria and Iraq "an army larger even than the Lebanese Hizballah." Obama's financial and military assistance for this army commits the US to forging a strong military bond with Tehran and helping make Iran the foremost Mid East military power.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report December 4, 2014
President Barack Obama and his National Security team headed by Susan Rice have decided to seize on the political crisis besetting the Israeli government and the upcoming general election on March 17 for action to bar Binyamin Netanyahu's reelection to a fourth term as prime minister.
This decision reverberated through Future party leader Yair Lapid's assertion Wednesday night, Dec. 3, after he was sacked as finance minister, that Binyamin Netanyahu would not be next prime minister. He laid claim to the premiership himself. The Obama administration has maintained close ties with Lapid.
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"We're going to build the kind of coalition that allows us to lead, but also isn't entirely dependent on what we do," said President Barack Obama at a fundraiser in Baltimore Friday, Sept. 12. That was exactly the kind of ambiguous comment which the governments America is wooing to join the coalition find so off-putting. And so, US Gen. John Allen, appointed Friday, Sept 12, to lead the coalition, learned that 10 Arab and Muslim leaders were just as equivocal when Secretary of State John Kerry's asked them for combat troops.
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Barack Obama set out a four-point strategy for fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria, starting with a systematic air campaign in Iraq, followed by Kurdish and Iraqi ground offensives and after they roll ISIS back, US air strikes over is Syrian strongholds.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 12, 2014
The US, Egypt and UAE are ready for a concentrated air campaign to crush Libya's most dangerous militias and restore stable government to Tripoli.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 12, 2014
The Obama strategy has drawn criticism for investing too little to achieve a short, sharp campaign to eradicate ISIS. Regional governments have too few troops to spare.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 12, 2014
Turkey stuns Washington by dropping out of the US-led coalition, refusing to fight jihadis or let its bases be used for air strikes.
Grave setbacks for Obama's strategy: Turkey backs out of US-led war on IS. Germany, UK say no to air campaign
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 11, 2014
Turkey inflicted a stunning blow Thursday, Sept. 11 at President Barack Obama's strategy for a broad US-led coalition for tackling and defeating the Islamic State, and the potential 11-member group which US Secretary of State John Kerry established in Jeddah that day. Ankara said its air bases would be unavailable for US-led attacks on "jihadists in Iraq and Syria." Turkey would also "not take part in combat operations against militants." This knocked out one of the props from under the Obama plan. The UK and Germany also said no to air strikes in Syria..
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 10, 2014
Shortly before President Barack Obama was to unveil his strategy for tackling ISIS in Iraq and Syria Wednesday, Sept. 10, US and Syrian officers held secret talks for coordinating their military efforts in Syria against the common foe, debkafile reveals exclusively. The Syrian officers, on the authority of President Bashar Assad, met on the quiet several times with American officers in the capital of one of the Gulf emirates – probably Muscat in Oman. The Syrian side of the US campaign is judged to be more complicated than the operation in Iraq.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis September 9, 2014
A "Western diplomat" reported Monday, Sept. 8, that "Israel has provided satellite imagery…in support of the US-led aerial campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq." This information was "shared by Washington with Arab and Turkish allies after being "scrubbed of evidence of its Israeli origin." debkafile: This tall tale is clearly part of a deep US game - to break up the Saudi-Egyptian-UAE bloc which backed Israel's Gaza operation, and draw Arab allies into the Obama coalition for fighting the Islamic State, offering the bait of Israeli intelligence available only through Washington.
ISIS Horror Spectacles in Iraq to Divert Attention from Its Maneuvers to Seize Euphrates-Tigris Basins
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 4, 2014
The ISIS leader is quietly moving his contingents from Syria into Iraq to rendezvous with the Iraqi arm to occupy the Euphrates basin, using the sound and fury of US air strikes to obscure his steps.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 4, 2014
Kurdish leaders spurn the advice of their US military advisers fearing it is tilted to meet Iran's main objective which is to preempt Kurdish independence rather than to fight ISIS.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 4, 2014
In revolt against the US-Iranian détente, the UK, Germany and Australia are bypassing the US to directly arm Iraqi Kurds fighting ISIS. NATO is in disarray.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis August 30, 2014
US Secretary of State John Kerry called Saturday, Aug. 30 for a "coalition of nations… to stamp out the disease of the Islamic state group," following President Barack Obama highly-criticized denial of a strategy for "dealing with Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq." The British premier revealed that Al Qaeda carried out the attack on the Jewish museum of Brussels. World leaders wax eloquent on the Islamist peril, but prefer to fight it at leisure through "allies" and "coalitions." Israel too avoided reacting to the abduction of 43 UN observers at its Golan back door.
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report August 29, 2014
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MXML is object oriented. Many do not realize that MXML generates an ActionScript 3 Class at compile-time and thus can be used seamlessly via the "new" constructor. If you want fine grained control of your UI, using MXML class instances can bring another level of fidelity to your applications.
WARNING!!! There is one mistake you can make here that will leave you frustrated. Be careful with naming your MXML components as they generate a similar named ".as" file at compile-time. These generated files are hidden unless you use the "-keep" compiler flag. The error is to use similar names for MXML and AS3 classes. This can lead to a mysterious compiler error and will leave you stuck in the mud!!! You have been warned.🙂
Here is a small application that creates 3 MXML class instances using ActionScript and uses the DisplayList API (addChild/removeChild) to swap the UI elements in an out of a panel. The effect is similar to a ViewStack but allows fine grained control over everything including caching the instances at runtime.
Download these two files, compile MXMLViaNew.mxml:
File #1: MXMLViaNew.mxml
File #2: ViewTemplate.mxml
The key here are these lines:
one = new ViewTemplate();
//create an instance of ViewTemplate.MXML via 'new'
one.labelName = "Matt has eaten two Dodgy Prawns!";
//edit the labelName property!
panel.addChild( one );
//add the instance into the panel
See with containers you are really working with the DisplayList in Flash Player 9, Flex simply rides atop all this lower level logic. Once you realize that MXML generates a class and can be used with the "new" contructor, Flex gets 100X more interesting. When I learned this it was a huge breakthrough for me and allowed me to go much deeper into the components and the framework.
I also really like this line of code. It has an elegance that is hard to describe:
if( one ) if( one.parent ) one.parent.removeChild( one );
The line reads like this:
if instance "one" exists and one is attached to the displaylist (has one.parent), remove it through itself ( one.parent.removeChild(one) ).
Pure Ninja AS3 there! HEEEEEE-YAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!
Dodgy Prawns:
Matt Voerman and I were in Singapore last year for MAX APAC. At dinner in Singapore we has some "Dodgy Prawns" and when Matt asked me for a sample today of MXML via the 'new' constructor, well I integrated the joke. Sorry for the Prawn humor.


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Calendar of events at Daytona State announced for February 2016
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Jan. 15, 2016) - Daytona State College presents the following calendar of events for February 2016.
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DSC Faculty Art Show
This group exhibition represents the breadth and scope of the studio art faculty at Daytona State College. Please join us for this wonderful opportunity to appreciate and celebrate the multifaceted art faculty and their creative endeavors. Opening Reception: Friday, March 4, 5:30–7:30 p.m. FREE ADMISSION
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Feb. 26-27, 7:30 p.m., Feb. 28, 2:30 p.m., March 4-5, 7:30 p.m.
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The Songs of Leiber and Stoller
Leiber and Stoller virtually invented rock n' roll, and now their songs provide the basis for an electrifying entertainment that illuminates a golden age of American culture. In an idealized 50's setting, the classic themes of love won, lost and imagined blend with hilarious set-pieces and slice-of-life emotions. Featuring 40 of the greatest songs ever recorded, SMOKEY JOE'S CAFÉ isn't just great pop music- it's great musical theater. Free to Daytona State College and Volusia and Flagler county students, all others $8 per person or $15 for two.
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FOUR DEAD: President chooses politics over life?
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Four American lives. That's how many were lost during the attacks on the Libyan consulate. Want to hear an even more disheartening number? Two. That's how many times "urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. consulate and subsequent attack several hours later on the annex itself were denied by the CIA chain of command." (http://goo.gl/qeDhY)
Those people who would've saved the lives of the four Americans were just a mile away from the consulate.
Now here's where it get's really interesting. There's a protocol for when Diplomats, Embassies, or Consulates are attacked. Here's how it would have gone down in the Libya attacks.
Within a few minutes of the consulate being attacked, personal security detail for ambassador notifies communications room in Tripoli who then sends a message to the white house situation room saying that the ambassador was in peril.
- WH situation room has a list called the critical information list which contains certain pieces of information that must immediately go right to the person standing next to the president informing him on both military and civilian leadership (this is the part of the protocol that would not under any circumstances have been missed)
- Under a half hour after the attack has started, the President is informed of the situation
By the way, the protection of an American ambassador is supposed to be one of the highest priorities, equivalent to the protection of a four star general. The messages that go out between his people and the White House are like IM's. Instant communication. The person receiving these messages is required to acknowledge receipt.
So what if the president can't / couldn't be reached? Well they thought about that too.
There's also standard operation procedure for forces in the area. When they code word goes out (the one that says the embassy is under attack) the geographic combatant commander in charge of Libya (who is included in the list of people that is immediately notified once the code word does go out) is tasked with having military forces ready to strike within five minutes. (these were the same people who were told to stand down twice http://goo.gl/qeDhY)
Sources say these forces were explicitly denied action by the President at his 5pm meeting with his advisers. Why do the sources say this you ask? Because standard protocol for the team waiting to evacuate Stevens and his convoy are REQUIRED to protect the lives in the geographic area they are assigned to. It would only take an order from the top to get these men to stand down.
Here's what we know.
- The communication between the consulate and the White House was instant
- Those monitoring the communication are required to immediately notify those charged with briefing the president
- The team in charge of protecting the embassy would have been ready to go in minutes
- That team would have immediately gone out and evacuated the ambassador and his convoy because of the protocol they're under
- That same team was ordered to stand down twice
Now here's my question. How quickly, and from what seniority, would the stand down order have to go out before Stevens and company was already evacuated?
Well, the team was a mile a way. The communication was instant. The President and the geographic combatant commander would have been notified about the same time. You do the math. The only thing that would have gotten the commanders team to stand down would be direct orders from the POTUS.
So why then would the President order the team not to interrupt the situating and extract Stevens and his team? The media wouldn't react very nicely to news of a U.S involved (potential) combat operation in Libya, regardless of the details. This makes me wonder, did the Obama administration choose politics over human life? Many believe the Obama administration to be an adversary of the pro-life agenda, but could pro-life take on a new meaning with Benghazi?
The following video details the protocol that wen't down during the consulate attack. What do you think? Why did the administration order the team responsible for the rescue of Ambassador Stevens to stand down?
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Suda 51 has officially revealed Killer Is Dead, the Grasshopper Manufacture-developed game that will arrive sometime after Lollipop Chainsaw's June 12, 2012 release, the latest issue of Famitsu confirms. In fact, the game will be the product of the same partnership that Grasshopper has with Kadokawa Games on Lollipop.
Killer Is Dead is not a sequel to either Killer 7 or No More Heroes, though with the main character carrying a job title of "Executioner," there's obviously a spiritual tie to those earlier Suda games. The main character basically travels all around the globe, taking out "S level criminals" along the way. It's not clear how this Executioner gets the job done, but Killer Is Dead won't be returning to the swordplay of No More Heroes.
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By ADAM SHINDER
Three area high school football legends will take their place among the Capital Region's all-time elite this summer.
Bishop Scully's Brian Niezgoda, Fonda-Fultonville's David DiCaprio and Perth's Al Marek were all named Thursday to the fifth class of the Capital Region Football Hall of Fame and will be inducted as part of a collection of 22 players, coaches, officials and contributors during an Aug. 9 ceremony at Michael's Banquet House in Latham.
For Niezgoda, the honor was not just a personal one, but one he felt represented the entire Bishop Scully team he came up with.
"It really is a great honor for the Scully team," said Niezgoda, who now lives in Massachusetts. "It's an honor for the guys I played with and me. It was a total team effort. ... It's an honor for me to represent the rest of those guys, because it really was a team."
Niezgoda was a standout rusher at Bishop Scully, where he starred from 1977 to 1980. He graduted as Section II's all-time leading scorer, having accounted for 366 points, and still sits in the top 10 on the section's scoring chart.
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Niezgoda said the quarterback of that team, current Montgomery County Supreme Court Judge Joseph Sise, is now quarterbacking the effort to try and get as many members of that Scully team as possible to attend the induction ceremony.
Marek starrred as a ballcarrier for Perth High School from 1969 to 1972, racking up 3,268 career rushing yards and scoring 262 career points. When Marek graduated, he was Section II's all-time career leader in both rushing and scoring and still sits in the top 25 of both categories more than 40 years later.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A congressman and some of the Duck Dynasty family are joining together for a good cause.
Representative Trent Franks of Arizona welcomed Jase Robertson from the popular reality show to raise awareness of cleft lips and cleft palates.
Both Franks and Robertson's 10-year old daughter, Mia, were born with the condition.
"I've had 5 surgeries so far. My last one was on January 3rd. It was a biggie," said Mia. "They took a bone from my hip and put it in my top jaw. I had to drink all my food for 3 months."
Mia Robertson was there with the congressman to introduce the Mia Moo Fund.
"I believe that God has blessed kids like Mia and Mr. Franks, with an extra measure of courage. Because their childhood is more difficult. But instead of giving up, they persevere through their pain and suffering they undergo, they develop a lot of character," said Robertson.
The Mia Moo Fund is a way for the little girl to share the support and love she has received with children around the world dealing with cleft lips and cleft palates.
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- Prep Time: 25 min
- Cook Time: 15 min
- Ready Time: 60 min
- Yield: 5 dozen cookies
- 1/2 cup Crisco® Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Shortening
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- 1 cup Jif® Creamy Peanut Butter
- 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup sour cream
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups Pillsbury BEST™ All Purpose Flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Granulated sugar, for rolling
- 1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup Jif® Creamy Peanut Butter
- 1 large egg, slightly beaten
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- Dash salt
- 1 cup (6 oz. pkg.) semi-sweet miniature chocolate chips
Preparation Directions
- COMBINE shortening, peanut butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar, sour cream, egg and vanilla in bowl of electric mixer; beat at medium speed until well blended.
- COMBINE flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in large bowl; mix into creamed mixture at low speed until blended.
- COVER and refrigerate 1 hour.
- COMBINE cream cheese, peanut butter, egg, sugar and salt in bowl of electric mixer; beat at medium speed until blended. Stir in miniature chocolate chips.
- HEAT oven to 350ºF.
- REMOVE dough from refrigerator; form into 1-inch balls. Roll in granulated sugar. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets. Press thumb gently in center of each cookie. Fill center with rounded teaspoonful of filling.
- BAKE 15 minutes, or until lightly browned. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet; transfer to cooling rack to cool completely.
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Serving Size (1 cookie), Calories 120 (Calories from Fat 70), Total Fat 7g (Saturated Fat 2.5g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 10mg, Sodium 85mg, Total Carbohydrate 12g (Dietary Fiber 1g, Sugars 8g), Protein 3g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 2%, Vitamin C 0%, Calcium 2%, Iron 2%.
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