I'M YOUR ANGEL

I'M YOUR ANGEL
Celine Dion and R. Kelly
http://frostwhisper2012.blogspot.com/2012/12/im-your-angel.html

YOUTUBE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKEA6T4egfc




No Mountain's Too High, For You To Climb
All You Have To Do Is Have Some Climbing Faith, Oh Yeah
No Rivers Too Wide, For You To Make It Across
All You Have To Do Is Believe It When You Pray


And Then You Will See, The Morning Will Come
And Everyday Will Be Bright As The Sun
All Of Your Fears Cast Them On Me
I Just Want You To See...


I'll Be Your Cloud Up In The Sky
I'll Be Your Shoulder When You Cry
I'll Hear Your Voices When You Call Me
I Am Your Angel


And When All Hope Is Gone, I'm Here
No Matter How Far You Are, I'm Near
It Makes No Difference Who You Are
I Am Your Angel
I'm Your Angel


I Saw The Teardrops, And I Heard You Cry
All You Need Is Time, Seek Me And You Shall Find
You Have Everything And You're Still Lonely
It Doesn't Have To Be This Way, Let Me Show You A Better Day
And Then You Will See, The Morning Will Come
And All Of Your Days Will Be Bright As The Sun
So All Of Your Fears, Just Cast Them On Me


How Can I Make You See...
I'll Be Your Cloud Up In The Sky
I'll Be Your Shoulder When You Cry
I'll Hear Your Voices When You Call Me
I Am Your Angel


And When All Hope Is Gone, I'm Here
No Matter How Far You Are, I'm Near
It Makes No Difference Who You Are
I Am Your Angel
I'm Your Angel


And When It's Time To Face The Storm
I'll Be Right By Your Side
Grace Will Keep Up Safe And Warm
And I Know We Will Survive


And When It Seems As If Your End Is Drawing Near
Don't You Dare Give Up The Fight
Just Put Your Trust Beyond The Sky...


I'll Be Your Cloud Up In The Sky
I'll Be Your Shoulder When You Cry
I'll Hear Your Voices When You Call Me
I Am Your Angel


And When All Hope Is Gone, I'm Here
No Matter How Far You Are, I'm Near
It Makes No Difference Who You Are
I Am Your Angel
I'm Your Angel


I'll Be Your Cloud Up In The Sky
I'll Be Your Shoulder When You Cry
I'll Hear Your Voices When You Call Me
I Am Your Angel
And When All Hope Is Gone, I'm Here


No Matter How Far You Are, I'm Near
It Makes No Difference Who You Are
I Am Your Angel
I'm Your Angel




IMAGES
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AMIGOS PARA SIEMPRE

AMIGOS PARA SIEMPRE (Friends For Life)
1992 Barcelona Olympic Games Theme Song
Sarah Brightman and José Carreras
http://frostwhisper2012.blogspot.com/2012/12/amigos-para-siempre.html



 

   
YOUTUBE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK5WP83t6Xk


Sarah

    I don't have to say
    A word to you
    You seem to know
    Whatever mood
    I'm going through
    Feels as though
    I've known you forever

José

    You
    Can look into my eyes and see
    The way I feel
    And how
    The world is treating me
    Maybe I have known you forever

Both

    Amigos para siempre
    Means you'll always be my friend
    Amics per sempre
    Means a love that cannot end
    Friends for life
    Not just a summer or a spring
    Amigos para siempre

    I feel you near me
    Even when we are apart
    Just knowing you are in this world
    Can warm my heart
    Friends for life
    Not just a summer or a spring
    Amigos para siempre

Sarah

    We share memories
    I won't forget
    And we'll share more,
    My friend,
    We haven't started yet
    Something happens
    When we're together

José

    When
    I look at you
    I wonder why
    There has to come
    A time when we must say goodbye
    I'm alive when we are together

Both

    Amigos para siempre
    Means you'll always be my friend
    Amics per sempre
    Means a love that cannot end
    Friends for life
    Not just a summer or a spring
    Amigos para siempre

    I feel you near me
    Even when we are apart
    Just knowing you are in this world
    Can warm my heart
    Friends for life
    Not just a summer or a spring
    Amigos para siempre

José

    When
    I look at you
    I wonder why
    There has to come
    A time when we must say goodbye

Both

    I'm alive when we are together

    Amigos para siempre
    Means you'll always be my friend
    Amics per sempre
    Means a love that cannot end
    Friends for life
    Not just a summer or a spring
    Amigos para siempre

    I feel you near me
    Even when we are apart
    Just knowing you are in this world
    Can warm my heart
    Friends for life
    Not just a summer or a spring
    Amigos para siempre

    Amigos para siempre
    Means you'll always be my friend
    Amics per sempre
    Means a love that cannot end
    Friends for life
    Not just a summer or a spring
    Amigos para siempre
    Amigos para siempre

HAND IN HAND

HAND IN HAND
1988 SEOUL OLYMPIC GAMES THEME SONG
Koreana

http://frostwhisper2012.blogspot.com/2012/12/hand-in-hand.html

YOUTUBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEeH5MiDK8I

See The Fire In The Sky

We Feel The Beating Of Our Hearts Together

This Is Our Time To Rise Above

We Know The Chance Is Here To Live Forever

For All Time 

Hand In Hand We Stand

All Across The Land

We Can Make This World

A Better Place In Which To Live

Hand In Hand We Can

Start To Understand

Breaking Down The Walls

That Come Between Us For All Time

Arirang

Everytime We Give It All

We Feel The Flame Eternally Inside Us

Lift Our Hands Up To The Sky

The Morning Calm Helps Us To Live In Harmony

For All Time

Hand In Hand We Stand

All Across The Land

We Can Make This World

A Better Place In Which To Live

Hand In Hand We Can

Start To Understand

Breaking Down The Walls

That Come Between Us For All Time

Arirang

Hand In Hand We Stand

All Across The Land

We Can Make This World

A Better Place In Which To Live

Hand In Hand We Can

Start To Understand

Breaking Down The Walls

That Come Between Us For All Time

Hand In Hand (Breaking Down The Walls Between Us)

Hand In Hand (Breaking Down The Walls) 

 

REACH

REACH
1996 ATLANTA OLYMPIC GAMES THEME SONG
Gloria Estefan
http://frostwhisper2012.blogspot.com/2012/12/reach.html

YOUTUBE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP_PVKNUtLw




Some Dreams Live On In Time Forever
Those Dreams, You Want With All Your Heart
And I'll Do Whatever It Takes
Follow Through With The Promise I Made
Put It All On The Line
What I Hoped For At Last Would Be Mine

If I Could Reach, Higher
Just For One Moment Touch The Sky
From That One Moment In My Life
I'm Gonna Be Stronger
Know That I've Tried My Very Best
I'd Put My Spirit To The Test
If I Could Reach

Some Days Are Meant To Be Remembered
Those Days We Rise Above The Stars
So I'll Go The Distance This Time
Seeing More The Higher I Climb
That The More I Believe
All The More That This Dream Will Be Mine

If I Could Reach, Higher
Just For One Moment Touch The Sky
From That One Moment In My Life
I'm Gonna Be Stronger
Know That I've Tried My Very Best
I'd Put My Spirit To The Test
If I Could Reach

If I Could Reach, Higher
Just For One Moment Touch The Sky
I'm Goona Be Stronger
From That One Moment In My Life
I'm Gonna Be So Much Stronger Yes I Am
I've Tried My Very Best
I'd Put My Spirit To The Test
If I Could Reach
If I Could, If I Could
If I Could Reach
Reach, I'd Reach, I'd Reach
I'd Reach' I'd Reach So Much Higher
Be Stronger

MANNY'S LEGACY CAST IN STONE

MANNY'S LEGACY CAST IN STONE

ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
http://www.philstar.com/sports/2012/12/17/886910/mannys-legacy-cast-stone

Although Manny Pacquiao failed to win a single fight this year, there is no question he remains the symbol of Filipino pride and as he turns 34 today, the entire nation celebrates his remarkable life that has brought him from the depths of poverty in the streets of General Santos City to the pinnacle of success as one of the greatest fighters who ever lived.

If there is an athlete who personifies the heart of a champion, it is Pacquiao. Whether in victory or defeat, his humility is inspiring. He never gloated as he strung up 15 victories in a row over a six-year period, ascending to the top of the world’s pound-for-pound ladder. Along the way, Pacquiao victimized future Hall of Famers Erik Morales, Marco Antonio Barrera, Oscar de la Hoya, Miguel Cotto, Sugar Shane Mosley and the unpredictable Juan Manuel Marquez. Forbes named Pacquiao the planet’s second highest-earning athlete from May 2011 to June 2012 after Floyd Mayweather Jr, but if the cut-off was made a month earlier, the Filipino would’ve been No. 1 in the list with $62 Million, outbanking stars like Tiger Woods, LeBron James, Roger Federer and Kobe Bryant.

In 2004, Pacquiao received a $650,000 paycheck for battling Marquez to a split draw. A week ago, he was guaranteed at least $25 Million for his fourth meeting with the Mexican. In eight years, Pacquiao has metamorphosed into a global icon. The conservative estimate is the fourth chapter of the fierce Pacquiao-Marquez rivalry raked in over a million pay-per-view buys, making Pacquiao a certified box office attraction. Ticket sales exceeded $10.5 Million and the pay-per-view gross had to be at least $60 Million with Pacquiao pocketing a share of about $5 Million to add to his minimum. Pacquiao has delivered over a million pay-per-view hits in six fights, at least once every year since 2008.

In defeat, Pacquiao has never made excuses. Last June, he was outpointed by Timothy Bradley on a split decision that was a clear case of highway robbery. An independent panel of five boxing experts was assembled to review the fight in a post-mortem and the conclusion was Pacquiao deserved to win. But Pacquiao refused to cry foul, taking the defeat in stride and offering it up to the Lord. When he was knocked out cold by Marquez last week, Pacquiao never accused the Mexican of taking performance-enhancing-drugs to explain his incredible bulk and astounding power. Instead, Pacquiao vowed to come back with a vengeance and prove himself in a fifth duel – sooner or later. Unlike Marquez who raised a howl in three previous fights where he never won, Pacquiao extended his hand to the Mexican and credited him for a job well done after the fourth episode of their unfolding telenovela.

Pacquiao’s loss to Marquez was incidental. It won’t in any way detract from his stature as a fighter destined for enshrinement in the Hall of Fame because his legacy has been cast in stone since his emergence as the only fighter ever to capture world titles in eight different weight categories. No loss, no matter how devastating, will ever take the luster of Pacquiao’s unprecedented achievements.

How Pacquiao lost to Marquez was a testament of the style that has enthralled boxing fans since he turned pro as a frail-looking lightflyweight in 1995. It’s what has endeared Pacquiao to the sport’s cognoscenti. He pulls no punches, gives and takes no quarter, attacks with reckless abandon and leaves everything in the ring. There is no dull moment in the squared circle with Pacquiao’s unbridled workrate. He’s a crowd pleaser who gives the fans their money’s worth.
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“When you let your hands go, you leave yourself open,” said Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach, quoted by Thomas Hauser in his book “And The New … An Inside Look At Another Year In Boxing.” “When you exchange and throw punches like Manny does, you put yourself in harm’s way.”

The late Emanuel Steward, the Kronk Gym founder who gained a reputation as an astute TV boxing analyst, put it in perspective. “As good as Pacquiao is, he makes mistakes,” said Steward. “And he gambles in the ring. That means he’s more likely to do damage but he’s also more likely to get hit. And Marquez has the skills to take advantage of Pacquiao’s mistakes better than anyone that Pacquiao has ever fought. Marquez has great balance and great positioning. He can take that half-step to the side and make an opponent miss. He can change his style on the spur of the moment and alter the flow of a fight as seamlessly as any fighter I know.”

From the way both Roach and Steward analyzed the styles of Pacquiao and Marquez, it seemed inevitable that an outcome, such as what transpired a week ago, would happen in a series of fights if only because of the law of averages. With a second left in the sixth round, Pacquiao went in for the kill and got tagged with a counter right that ended the fight in a dramatic fashion. Pacquiao vowed to fight like he used to when in his 20s, he bowled over opponents like Lehlo Ledwaba, Morales and Barrera. But what he didn’t factor in the equation was Marquez’ new-found strength, developed by controversial conditioning coach Angel Hernandez who has a tainted history of dealing PEDs to athletes. In contrast, Marquez fought like a 39-year-old would, relying more on power than speed to level the playing field. Pacquiao paid the price for his bravado but in his mind, that was the only way he would lose – he went down swinging. If only for that reason, he won the admiration of even more fans.

Pacquiao’s rise to fame is a classic Cinderella rags-to-riches story where the clock will never strike midnight because his destiny is written in the stars. Today, as he turns 34, Pacquiao is faced with more daunting challenges, not only as a fighter but also as a public servant. He is seeking a second term as Congressman of Sarangani province and it is speculated that in 2016, he will run for Senator. Top Rank chairman Bob Arum, 81, said he hopes to live long enough to attend Pacquiao’s proclamation as president of the Philippines.

The issue of Pacquiao’s religiosity has been raised as a distraction in his boxing career. But for a man who is used to multi-tasking, it shouldn’t be a problem. Discipline is what separates the achievers from the failures. Pacquiao is a portrait of excellence in whatever he does – he is driven by a strong faith to do the best he can to honor the Lord. Whether a Catholic or born-again Christian, Pacquiao has dedicated himself to God, believing that “whatever happens after our life here in this world, I know where I’m going – I have Eternal Life.”

THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
http://frostwhisper2012.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-gettysburg-address.html

Incidents of the War. A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, PA. 

 
The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, considered one of the best-known in American history. It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Abraham Lincoln's carefully crafted address, secondary to other presentations that day, came to be regarded as one of the greatest speeches in American history. In just over two minutes, Lincoln reiterated the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and proclaimed the Civil War as a struggle for the preservation of the Union sundered by the secession crisis, with "a new birth of freedom," that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, ensuring that democracy would remain a viable form of government and creating a nation in which states' rights were no longer dominant.

Beginning with the now-iconic phrase "Four score and seven years ago," referring to the Declaration of Independence during the American Revolution in 1776, Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and memorialized the sacrifices of those who gave their lives at Gettysburg and extolled virtues for the listeners (and the nation) to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that the "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."




 

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

SOURCES
Wikipedia

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 
http://frostwhisper2012.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-declaration-of-independence.html

Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument. Here, in exalted and unforgettable phrases, Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people. The political philosophy of the Declaration was not new; its ideals of individual liberty had already been expressed by John Locke and the Continental philosophers. What Jefferson did was to summarize this philosophy in "self-evident truths" and set forth a list of grievances against the King in order to justify before the world the breaking of ties between the colonies and the mother country.





The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

    He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
    He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
    He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
    He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
    He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
    He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
    He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
    He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
    He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
    He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
    He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
    He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
    He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
    For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
    For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
    For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
    For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
    For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
    For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
    For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
    For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
    For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
    He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
    He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
    He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
    He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
    He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:

Column 1
Georgia:
   Button Gwinnett
   Lyman Hall
   George Walton

Column 2
North Carolina:
   William Hooper
   Joseph Hewes
   John Penn
South Carolina:
   Edward Rutledge
   Thomas Heyward, Jr.
   Thomas Lynch, Jr.
   Arthur Middleton

Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton

Column 4
Pennsylvania:
   Robert Morris
   Benjamin Rush
   Benjamin Franklin
   John Morton
   George Clymer
   James Smith
   George Taylor
   James Wilson
   George Ross
Delaware:
   Caesar Rodney
   George Read
   Thomas McKean

Column 5
New York:
   William Floyd
   Philip Livingston
   Francis Lewis
   Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
   Richard Stockton
   John Witherspoon
   Francis Hopkinson
   John Hart
   Abraham Clark

Column 6
New Hampshire:
   Josiah Bartlett
   William Whipple
Massachusetts:
   Samuel Adams
   John Adams
   Robert Treat Paine
   Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
   Stephen Hopkins
   William Ellery
Connecticut:
   Roger Sherman
   Samuel Huntington
   William Williams
   Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
   Matthew Thornton


SOURCES
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html

THERE'S A PLACE FOR US

THERE'S A PLACE FOR US

Carrie Underwood

THEME SONG: The Chronicles Of Narnia - Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_P0gBqN4kY

There's A Place Out There For Us

More Than Just A Prayer Or Anything

You've Ever Dreamed Of So If You

Feel Like Giving Up Cause You Don't

Fit In Down Here Fear Is Crashing In

Close Your Eyes And Take My Hand

We Can Be The Kings And Queens Of

Anything If We Believe It's Written

In The Stars That Shine Above A

World Where You And I Belong Where

Faith And Love Will Keep Us Strong

Exactly Who We Are Is Just Enough

There's A Place For Us

There's A Place For Us

When The Water Meets The Sky

Where Your Heart Is Free And Hope Comes

Back To Life When These Broken

Hands Are Whole Again We Will Find

What We've Been Waiting For We Were

Made For So Much More

We Can Be The Kings And Queens Of

Anything If We Believe It's Written

In The Stars That Shine Above A

World Where You And I Belong Where

Faith And Love Will Keep Us Strong

Exactly Who We Are Is Just Enough

There's A Place For Us

There's A Place For Us

So Hold On

So Hold On

There’s A Place For Us

We Can Be The Kings And Queens Of

Anything If We Believe It's Written

In The Stars That Shine Above A

World Where You And I Belong Where

Faith And Love Will Keep Us Strong

Exactly Who We Are Is Just Enough

There's A Place For Us

A World Where You And I Belong Where

Faith And Love Will Keep Us Strong

Exactly Who We Are Is Just Enough

There's A Place For Us

There's A Place For Us

LI NING (李宁)

LI NING (李宁)
http://frostwhisper2012.blogspot.com/2012/12/li-ning.html

 

4 AUG 1984: LI NING OF CHINA IN ACTION ON THE POMMEL HORSE AT THE 1984 LOS ANGELES OLYMPICS. 
NING WON THE GOLD MEDAL WITH A SCORE OF 19.95 POINTS.

Li Ning started training at the age of eight and he was selected into the national team in 1980. In 1982, he won six of the seven medals awarded at the Sixth World Cup Gymnastic Competition, earning him the title "Prince of Gymnastics" (体操王子).

Li is most famous for winning 6 medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics, which was the first Olympics in which the People's Republic of China participated. He won 3 gold medals (in Floor Exercise, Pommel Horse, and Rings), 2 Silver Medals, and a Bronze Medal. Li became the most decorated Chinese athlete at their first Olympics.

 

OLYMPIC JOURNEY

In 1984, the Chinese gymnastics team excelled, but in the team event it lost the Olympic title by 0.6 points to the USA. Ning’s first Olympic medal was a silver one, and this heralded the start of an impressive harvest.  In the All-around competition, Ning made a mistake on the Parallel Bars, which penalised him for the final ranking. With 118.575 points, the Chinese gymnast finished third behind America’s Peter Vidmar, silver medallist, and Japan’s Koji Gushiken, who won the gold.

He made up for this in the Floor Exercises, winning his first gold medal with the excellent score of 19.925 out of 20. He beat his compatriot Lou Yun, who managed 19.775.  Two gold medallists, twice.

On the Pommel horse, the competition was even tougher. Ning Li produced a remarkable performance which earned him the score of 19.950. The American Peter Vidmar also achieved an excellent performance. The two athletes had identical scores, and both stood on the top step of the podium. On the rings, Ning Li this time had to share the honours with Japan’s Koji Gushiken, as both men finished with the score of 19.850.

In the vault, for the first time in this event, four gymnasts tied for second place. With a score of 19.825, Li won silver, his sixth medal, making him the athlete with the most medals at the 1984 edition of the Games. This achievement earned him the nickname of “Little Prince Of Gymnastics”.

All in all, Li won 14 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships titles.
Li took part in his second 1988 Olympics despite carrying injuries. It was an end to an illustrious career, as he was off-form and made crucial mistakes which robbed him of the chance of a medal.


Li Ning was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2000, becoming the first Chinese inductee.

 

THE FINAL TORCHBEARER

Li Ning lighting the torch at the 2008 Summer Olympics

At the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics Li Ning ignited the cauldron at the Opening Ceremony after being hoisted high into the air with cables and miming running around the rim of the stadium.

After his sports career, Li founded his own sports equipment company. He married his compatriot Youg-Yan Chen, a gymnast like himself and a bronze medallist at the 1984 Games. The Little Prince has today made a success of his post-competition career.
 
Li Ning Company Limited is one of the leading sports brand companies in China, mainly providing sporting goods including footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories for professional and leisure purposes primarily under the LI-NING brand.

Li-Ning is the Official Outfitter of the Argentinian and Spanish National Basketball Teams and is a major world outfitter in Badminton.

NBA Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade became Li-Ning's newest NBA Endorser on September 10, 2012.


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MARY LOU RETTON

MARY LOU RETTON
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Mary Lou Retton launches off the vault on her way to Olympic gold in 1984. (Getty Images)

Mary Lou Retton became America's darling and changed women's sports forever in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.

Inspired by watching Nadia Comăneci on television, Retton took up gymnastics in her hometown of Fairmont. She was coached by Gary Rafaloski. She then decided to move to Houston, Texas, to train under Romanians Béla and Márta Károlyi, who had coached Nadia Comăneci before their defection to the United States. Under the Károlyis, Retton soon began to make a name for herself in the United States, winning the American Cup in 1983 and placing second to Dianne Durham (another Károlyi student) at the US Nationals that same year. Retton missed the World Championships in 1983 due to a wrist injury. Nevertheless, Retton won the American Classic in 1983 and 1984, as well as Japan's Chunichi Cup in 1983.


After winning her second American Cup, the US Nationals, and the US Olympic Trials in 1984, Retton suffered a knee injury when she was performing a floor routine at a local gymnastics center. She had sat down to sign autographs when she felt her knee lock, forcing her to undergo an operation. She recovered just in time for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.


In the competition, which was boycotted by the Soviet bloc nations except for Romania, Retton was engaged in a close battle with Ecaterina Szabó of Romania for the all-around gold medal. Trailing Szabó (after uneven bars and balance beam) being 15 hundredths behind, with two events to go, Retton scored perfect 10s on floor exercise and vault--this last event in an especially dramatic fashion, as there had been fears that her knee injury and the subsequent surgery might impair her performance--to win the all-around gold medal by 0.05 points.

Mary Lou Retton for the win. (Getty Images)

At the same Olympics, Retton won four additional medals: silver in the team competition and the horse vault, and bronze in the floor exercise and uneven bars. For her performance, she was named Sports Illustrated magazine's "Sportswoman of the Year". She appeared on a Wheaties box, and became the cereal's first official spokeswoman.




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