The song below is what I named my little girl after. She is a beacon of light in this world. She will be graduating from high school this year and attending college at Taylor University.

Like the song says "she always gives without taking". God is always there for you, if noone else seems to be, sweetie. I cherish all the wonderful moments at Christmas!

I love you with all my heart and thank God for you. I've listed the lyrics to "Mandy" below:

"Mandy" (by Barry Manilow)

I remember all my life
Rainin' down as cold as ice
Shadows of a man
A face through a window
Cryin' in the night
The night goes into

Mornin', just another day
Happy people pass my way
Lookin' in their eyes
I see a memory
I never realized
How happy you made me, oh Mandy

[Chorus]

Well you came and you gave without takin'
But I sent you away, oh Mandy
Well, you kissed me and stopped me from shakin'
And I need you today, oh Mandy

Standin' on the edge of time
Walked away when love was mine
Caught up in a world of uphill climbin'
The tears are in my mind
And nothing is rhymin', oh Mandy

[Chorus]

Yesterday's a dream
I face the mornin'
Cryin' on a breeze
The pain is callin', oh Mandy

[Chorus]

You came and you gave without takin'
But I sent you away, oh Mandy
You kissed me and stopped me from shakin'
And I need you

Do you need more time to celebrate the New Year? Get ready for a minute with 61 seconds. Scientists are delaying the start of 2006 by the first "leap second" in seven years, a timing tweak meant to make up for changes in the Earth's rotation.

The adjustment will be carried out by sticking an extra second into atomic clocks worldwide at the stroke of midnight. Enjoy New Year's Eve a second longer. You can toot your horn an extra second this year.

Coordinated Universal Time coincides with winter time in London. On the U.S. East Coast, the extra second occurs just before 7 p.m. on New Year's Eve. Atomic clocks at that moment will read 23:59:60 before rolling over to all zeros.

Ever feel like punching someone in the nose? It paid off for a surfer in Oregon this Christmas Season, when he tangled with a Great White Shark in a favorite surfing spot today.

It appears that watching the Discovery Channel saved his life. He remembered the fact that sharks have very sensitive noses and punched the Great White in the nose until he let him go.

I guess the moral to this story is, if you have someone you can't get off your back, you might want to try punching them in the nose. Who knows what good it might do them!

IT'S COMING: THE GREATEST DEPRESSION EVER!

Renowned Swiss Economist M.T. Taanke -- who first predicted the current oil crisis -- (Weekly World News, August 22, 2005), has just made public a Decisive International Restructured Economy Report which warns categorically of a worldwide depression that means the end of civilization as we now know it!

The D.I.R.E. Report was written by Taanke in conjunction with leading economists and sociologists, geophysical scientists and statisticians.

"In the June 6, 2005 edition, your newspaper predicted the coming of the 2nd Great Depression," Taanke told Weekly World News in an exclusive interview. "You were right to warn the world, and alone in your courage. However, the reality of the disaster will be worse than you imagined.

"Due to super-storms, ongoing wars, escalating oil prices and rampant global warning, it isn't just the world economy that will collapse," the economist said. "Civilization itself will fall!"

Taanke detailed his timetable for the coming doom.

"When hurricanes devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast, oil and gas prices skyrocketed around the world," he said. "Nations tapped into their strategic oil reserves thinking they could replenish them this year and next. They were wrong! It is a closely guarded secret in Washington, London and Tokyo, but due to global warming, water from the melting polar ice caps has flooded more than 70 percent of the world's deep petroleum wells. It will be five or six years before those megatons of water can be drained. We will be dry long before then.

"Though we had the technology, we did not have the foresight to develop alternate energy sources," he said. "As a result, cars, planes and fuel-based industry will cease to function. With no power, towns and villages, nations and states will be cut off. Computers won't work and economies will evaporate. The world will return to medieval status -- but only for a short while. Things will quickly get worse."

D.I.R.E. Report coauthor and futurologist professor Barnard Jaffe of Gortuu University in Cinderville, Ohio, predicts breadlines so long that people will starve before they reach the food.

"Even when they get to the shops and markets, what will they use to pay?" he asked. "Currency will be worthless. Clean water and bread will become the coin of the realm.

"At the same time, modern-day pirates will attempt to seize reservoirs and whatever food remains," he predicted. "There will be no electricity and all communication will go dark. Think New Orleans writ very, very large.

"Uncontrollable fires will rage as civilized humans are reduced to prehistoric predators. Unable to contain the madness, governments will collapse.

"Rampant disease, much worse than any bird flu, will set off major plagues that will decimate the world's population by more than 50 percent," Jaffe somberly remarked.

"We are past the point of no return," Taanke concluded, shaking a head that was prematurely bald with worry. "World leaders have all adopted a 'circle-the-wagons' mentality in order to blame someone other than themselves. But it won't matter who is to blame -- and it certainly won't help us in any case."

When asked to specify a date when everything will come apart, Taanke sighed.

"My calculations show that the Sixth of June, next year -- 6/6/06 -- will be the beginning of D-Day for all of humanity."

A Bush administration insider, 'Dick C.,' called the D.I.R.E. Report, "Irresponsible, the ranting of a tightly wound Swiss cuckoo."

Taanke responded angrily, "I suggest everyone stock up on canned goods, bottled water, firearms and lots of ammo. And when that runs out, make sure you have large wooden clubs with spikes.

Merry Christmas!

Afrikaner [Afrikaans] "Geseënde Kersfees"
Amharic "Enkwan laberhana ledat abaqqawot"
OR "Melkam amat ba`al yehunellachihu"
Arabic "Milad Majid" OR "Milad Saeed"
Argentine "Feliz Navidad"
Armenian "Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand"
Bohemian "Vesele Vanoce"
Brazilian Portuguese "Feliz Natal"
Briton "Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat"
Bulgarian "Tchestita Koleda" OR "Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo"
Cambodian "Soursdey Noel"
Chinese [Mandarin] "Sheng Dankuai Le"
Chinese [Cantonese] "Sing Daan Faai Lok"
Cornish "Nadelik Lowen"
Croatian "Sretan Bozic"
Czech "Velike Vanoce"
Danish "Glædelig Jul"
Dutch "Vrolijk Kerstfeest"
English [American] "Merry Christmas"
English [Australian] "'Ave a bonza Chrissy, Mate"
English [UK] "Happy Christmas"
Esperanto "Gojan Kristnaskon"
Estonian "Roomsaid Joulu Puhi"
Farsi "Christmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad"
Faroese "Gleðilig Jól"
Filipino "Maligayang Pasko"
Finnish "Hauskaa Joulua"
French "Joyeux Noël"
Frisian "Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier"
Gaelic "Nollaig Shona Dhuit"
German "Froehliche Weihnachten"
Greek "Kala Christouyenna"
Hawaiian "Mele Kalikimaka"
Hebrew "Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova"
Hindi "Shub Badadin"
Hungarian "Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket"
Icelandic "Gledileg Jol"
India "Tamil Nadu - Christmas Vaazthukkal "
Indonesian "Selamat Hari Natal"
Iraqi "Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah"
Irish "Nollaig Shona Duit"
Italian "Buon Natale"
Japanese "Meri Kurisumasu"
Klingon "QISmaS Quch Daghajjaj"
Korean "Sung Tan Jul Chuk Ha"
Latvian "Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu"
Lithuanian "Linksmu Kaledu"
Malay "Selamat Hari Natal dan Tahun Baru"
Maltese "Il-Milied it-tajjeb"
Maori "Meri Kirihimete"
Navajo "Ya'at'eeh Keshmish"
New Guinea Pidgin "Meri Christmas"
New Zealand "Happy Christmas"
Norwegian "Gledelig Jul"
Pennsylvania German "En frehlicher Grischtdaag"
Peru "Felices Fiestas" OR "Feliz Navidad"
Polish "Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia"
Portuguese "Feliz Natal"
Punjabi "Hacahi Ke Eide"
Rumanian "Sarbatori Fericite"
Russian "S Rozhdestvom Kristovym"
Serbian "Hristos se rodi"
Slovakian "Sretan Bozic" OR "Vesele vianoce"
Samoan "Manuea le Karisimasi"
Scots Gaelic "Nollaig chridheil huibh"
Slovak "Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok"
Slovene "Srecen Bozic"
Spanish "Feliz Navidad"
Swahili "Heri ya Krismasi"
Swedish "God Jul"
Tagalog [Philippines] "Maligayang Pasko"
Tahitian "Ia ora'na no te noere"
Telugu "Santhasa Krismas"
Thai "Suksan Christmas"
Turkish "Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun"
Ukrainian "Z Rizdvom Krystovym" OR "Veselogo Rizdva""
Urdu [Pakistan] "Shadae Christmas"
Uzbek "Yangi Yiligiz Mubarak Bolsun"
Vietnamese "Chuc Mung Giang Sinh"
Welsh "Nadolig Llawen"

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!