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Jim Wilson reflects on what 1 Peter and Jesus have to say about God's favoritism.
The 3rd Sunday of Easter, Festival of the Christian Home/Mother's Day/ Native American Awareness Sunday, White
Acts 2:14a, 36-41, Psalm 116:1-4, 12-19, I Peter 1:17-23, Luke 24:13-35
Since you call upon a Father/Mother who judges all people according to their actions without favoritism, you should conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your dwelling in a strange land."
I Peter 1:17 CEB
Living in a strange land,
one named home over and over,
noting the changing values all about,
followers of the loving Christ,
cheering the death of another,
albeit a nasty scoundrel
though a child of the living God
of us all
where holiness is claimed
and Christianity a common mantra,
though some confined in prisons of various hatreds,
often in the very name of the One
inviting us to live together in harmony,
trusting in God,
rather than our revenge and standing army
holding fast to the notions of atonement
noting ours lives to be intertwined irrevocably,
respecting one another with no favoritism,
calling the one true God
our Father/Mother as well as theirs also,
determined to be whole
needing not a lesser one to denigrate
one determined to offer wholeness,
though oft forgetting the needs of
those living on the reservations, ghettos, across the tracks or the 'quarters'
whilst patting ourselves on our holy backs
thanking God for the bounty received
as though God's favorite
And then came Jesus,
valuing the words of the prophets,
noting self as a servant of justice
a dispenser of mercy
asking never to see a green card
considering the universe God's gift to all,
the strange world
rejecting his lack of favoritism roundly
Strangers in an alien land, perhaps, prophets in a land needing redemption, surely, now to trust in God who is raiding us from the dead so that our faith and hope are secure. (Vs. 21) Jim Wilson
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|Laura Bonnel and Harry Whitaker, c. 1896
|Mary Irene Whitaker, c. 1901
A genealogy blog focused on families settling in East Tennessee and the Northern Neck of Virginia with explorations of Rusyn roots.
|Laura Bonnel and Harry Whitaker, c. 1896
|Mary Irene Whitaker, c. 1901
Love the pics -- just noticed a typo on Harry's birthday. I'm sure it's not 1993. The detail in Mary Irene's picture is amazing. What a find.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Kathy! Only a century off, but now corrected.ReplyDelete
So sweet Susan. And, I can't help noticing how freshly ironed little Mary's dress was in 1901, not a wrinkle to be seen. I'm so glad you now have these images for your collection and to share.ReplyDelete
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I must say, recapping is a lot of work. I suspected that, being smart an all, and that's why I tried to keep away from it. Couldn't resist this one, though ... I do wonder how some people (*looks at Dramabeans*) churn out recaps a few hours after the episode aired? And like ... almost every day?! That's insane! (I mean insane in a good way). That said, I am quite glad that TEN2 is my first recapping project: It's both short and exciting. Very much so. Okay, and it's also suuuuper complicated, my goodness! But doing these recaps also helps me understand what is going on. Or at least helps me try to understand; with all my might. Yes, understanding the plot is the main aim, which means lengthy, lengthy descriptions (and forgive me for doing some spazzing on the side, too). What I really wanted to say is this: I am sorry this is so epic.
Special Affairs Team TEN 2 - Episode 2
Understand, Part 2
Must really suck to find out your boss is a murderer!
악마 (Devil)
They go to the crime scene next. Do-shik and Ye-ri stage a fight on the street, to lure away the policemen that stand guard in front of the house. Their acting is pretty unconvincing until Do-shik touches Ye-ri's bosom by accident ... after which Ye-ri starts hitting poor Do-shik over the head with her purse,. He runs away, terrified ... the police follow.
(btw, if this is product placement (PPL), and I'm guessing it is, cause they always carry around tables to look at picture and take pictures, it's not very good PPL, cause I cannot even see what brand it is! Plus, I've caught them many times in un-PPL-ing stuff. Like Ji-hoon's car, a Hyundai. They put a black sticker on the H. But they put it on in a way that still makes it apparent that it is a Hyundai *shakes head*)
Do-shik: "I'm going to kill you. Someone once said: if you kill a person, you're a murderer. But if you kill the devil, you're a hero. From now on Yeo Ji-hoon is ... a Devil"
The TEN team waltzes into the autopsy hall ... to arrests Seo Yoo-rim, who is just sawing up a body. She holds a human hand in her hand. Do-shik is so riled up, he even pulls out his gun and shoots at her when she doesn't answer where Ji-hoon is!!! Well, he shoots a bullet into the wall behind her, so I am guessing the blood on her face was already there from sawing up the body. She probably likes to bath in blood. And she just smiles calmly. Pretty cool, this lady. Though also a little bit scary. Not sure I would want to meet her alone in a dark alley ...
A grim faced Do-shik says ominous things.
Sounds an awful lot like the Monster who catches Monsters to me. That's really dangerous territory there, buddy!"Be nervous. Entering into the average person's head isn't pretty. But what we are dealing with is the devil. In order to catch the devil, don't you think we need to think like the Devil?"
Under-StandYe-ri pays a visit to Seo Yoo-rim's apartment. It kinda looks like another autopsy hall ... And lookie, Seo Yoo-rim has her bathroom mirror plastered full of picture of her and Ji-hoon in bed (Watch it, woman! He is mine! And frankly, that's a weird thing to do! Why would she want to see herself in bed with Ji-hoon when she looks into the mirror rather than herself? Okay, forget I asked) Ye-ri reads aloud "2004, that winter" (and I automatically finish her sentence with "the wind blows"). What? The year Hee-joo died? Bastard. Seriously: what a bastard.
Off again to her apartment! Do-shik orders the squad to search for signs of blood - a lot of it. And they find it: in the bathroom. Kim Min-hee has slashed her wrists while lying in the tub. It was a suicide ... and the note was the suicide note. Derp faces all around.
They leave it up to Ye-ri (of course) to make a dead person speak through her psychological autopsy. How did she live, why did she have a reason to commit suicide? From the hospital Ye-ri learns that Min-hee attempted suicide twice (in January and April of 2005). One method, the doctor said, was very weird: she tried to hide her own face with tape. Ooookay, hello creepy. Is there a guardian listed in the file? smart Ye-ri asks. I really love her.
Yes, there is. The name is Song Kyung- tae.
And BANG, we enter another phase of our twisted story. The name Song Kyung-tae rings a bell with the boys ... cause he was a guest at the hotel where the body was found! Room 308! Third floor! Alone! He could be F!
The boys are at his apartment, and it is the creepy apartment of a serial killer, full of pictures on the wall and mannequins with duct tape and other stuff covering their faces ... and there also is a wall full of Ji-hoon photos. Yikes. The monster targeting the monster.
They once again (indeed for the umpteenth time) try to second-guess Ji-hoon. What is he up to next? they ask themselves. Ji-hoon seems to have known that Kim Min-hee was connected to "F". He may even have known that she was his girl. Also, they talked before her suicide. And then, he went to her place, saw that she had killer herself, and came up with a really morbid plan, to make it look like an F-case. They conclude it's a form of revenge: Jung Hee-joo was put in the hotel room to cause Ji-hoon maximum grief. So, Ji-hoon wanted to cause F maximum grief. And he staged Min-hee's death exactly like Hee-joo's death: Same hotel, same room, same tape.
But ... it was not only revenge, was it? It also was provocation! Because Ji-hoon must have realized in the seven years of his obsession over F that F could not be caught by chasing after him. No. F can only be caught if you make him chase you.
Up next is Ji-hoon in the empty music hall (that's the scene from Season 1). Oh-oh, we have now caught up. We know what is coming next ... It is Ye-ri at his apartment, where she finds the note with the address, under the cactus she gave him. She calls her colleagues, but they don't hear the call. She texts them they location and goes there alone. Still not a good idea, girl. I told you so a while ago. You should have listened!
Following her taxi in his own car is ... Ji-hoon.
미끼 (Bait)Death and the Maiden plays (thank you, show. NOT). We see that somebody is waiting at the warehouse. Ye-ri enters it. Ji-hoon is a bit behind, because he had to circle around a police roadblock. He does not seem to know where she is going, because he puts the license plate into a tracking device. I am guessing this means he was not the one to write the note, then. It was F.
Ye-ri gets attacked.
Min-ho and Do-shik arrive at the warehouse, sirens blaring (Ji-hoon's car is already there).
Do-shik hugs a raving Ji-hoon tightly, very tightly, and says: "Calm down! Calm down! I know your feelings! I understand, Ji-hoon". And Ji-hoon answers: "Can you really understand? I don't even understand!" and he pushes Do-shik off and runs out, after Kyung-tae. Do-shik and Min-ho follow! And leave poor Ye-ri alone? They are all bastards!
Kyung-tae drives off in the police car (don't tell me they left the keys in the car?!) and Ji-hoon follows in his car.
"I should have forgotten. I should have made myself forget. Min-hee ... I killed her. Tell him to forget. Even if he can't truly forgot. Even if it's fake ... tell him to forget"She leaves this terrible place (visibly shaken) and hauls a taxi outside. She calls somebody and asks that they look into the identities of Kim Min-hee and Song Kyung-tae again. They could be false names.
"That's right. It doesn't make sense that our meeting has an audience. You whom I have waited for for 7 years - and me. At this moment, I am craving for you. We'll need the right destination. I need a little more time. All this time I've waited to meet you and my soul has become rotten. But there's something I didn't prepare. When I meet you ... what should I do?"Kyung-tae stops the car and gets out. Ji-hoon is close behind. They are on a very long river bridge, which seems to be under construction.
What follows is very, very important, so I am going to be very detailed about the dialog.
Kyung-tae turns around and starts speaking to Ji-hoon in his soft voice. He taunts him, what now, Ji-hoon? "You won't save me, right?" he says. "I am sorry", Ji-hoon replies. And this crazy man starts laughing creepily and says Hee-joon asked the exact same thing of him, begging for her life - and he answered the same, as Ji-hoon just did.
Back on the bridge. Kyung-tae says: "Let's end this. Now, you can end your never ending guilt". And he taunts and provokes Ji-hoon some more, about his guilt and shame for not being able to protect his woman. And he mocks him: "What will happen to you after you kill me? Will anything be left of you after your revenge? Finally - the end of you" He puts his fingers at his temple as a mock gun and pulls the trigger. "We're the same, didn't you know?"
There is a newspaper clip on the wall. It describes that incident in front of the police station, when Ji-hoon pushed The Mom away. As Ye-ri ruminates and the camera moves around in the frozen picture, gliding over everybody there, we hear the shouts of The Mom, over and over: "Would you be able to close this case if it were your own daughter?". And the camera stops at Kim Min-hee and Song Kyung-tae, who are there, too. The cries of the desperate mother and the determined look on their faces makes it clear what happened at this moment. A terrible plan was formed: what to do so that the police would open the case again? Kill the daughter of the chief of police, in an F-fashion. Get him to open the case up again. And at the same time, use Ji-hoon to find the real F.
That does it. Ji-hoon pulls the trigger, once, twice ... just as Min-ho and Do-shik appear on the bridge. Too late ...
Ji-hoon walks away, trance-like. Min-ho and Do-shik run to F/not-F who is lying in a pool of blood ... and lifts his head! He is not dead! And Ji-hoon walks away, slowly. Voice over:
"I'm going to keep you alive. Stay alive. From now on, I'm going to start over. I'll show you. I will show you that I can live away from the pain. So you stay alive and watch me be happy. In your pain. From now on, this is your hell."
Reset1 Year Later. We're in a bunker. It's their new offices! (Wait ... did they get them from the NSS, after it was disbanded because Jang Hyuk blew himself to oblivion with a nuke in IRIS2?) Min-ho is there, with a trendy new haircut. Ye-ri, is, too, also looking much sexier. There is an empty glass box ... Do-shik's? And then, there is the boss ... Ji-hoon. Looking very yummy with beginnings of a goatee and a trendy haircut. All three of them look at each other.
Comments and Thoughts*squeeeeeeeeeeeeeee* oh my god, this was so, so, so, SO GOOD! Granted, it took watching this twice and going over every single detail a third time until I got all the nuances and layers. So clever. Just wow. And because I need some more time to cut through the layers upon layers of meaning, I will write an additional post on the Tape Murder arch a bit later. Stay tuned!
- Recap of Special Affairs Team TEN 2 - Episode 1
- Recap of Special Affairs Team TEN 2 - Episode 2
- Summary and Analysis of the Tape Murder Arch
- Recap of Special Affairs Team TEN 2 - Episode 3
- Recap of Special Affairs Team TEN 2 - Episode 4
- Recap of Special Affairs Team TEN 2 - Episode 5
- Recap of Special Affairs Team TEN 2 - Episode 6
- Recap of Special Affairs Team TEN 2 - Episode 7
- Recap of Special Affairs Team TEN 2 - Episode 8
- Recap of Special Affairs Team TEN 2 - Episode 9
- Recap of Special Affairs Team TEN 2 - Episode 10
- Recap of Special Affairs Team TEN 2 - Episode 11
- Recap of Sepcial Affairs Team TEN 2 - Episode 12


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This works out well for both of them as Fab's contract is guaranteed being a first rounder and Kris's wouldn't be. It would be great if Joseph could make the team. Playing in the D League wouldn't be a bad situation for Fab.
It's over Gloria, go away. I know we haven't heard from you in a couple months but your statements here mean nothing. Isn't there a paparazzi member whose feeling were hurt by Alec Baldwin you can represent? I'm sure that would give you another paycheck to pursue and another chance to get your mug on TV.
No, it's an admission that the school could have handled things better than they did.
Or Governor Christie calling the teachers' union a "terrorist organization".
Big East kicked Syracuse out? That's a laugh. They, along with Pitt, jumped ship before it started hemmoraging and taking on too much water. SU has their work cut out for them, but I'd much rather be in the ACC than the Big East. I doubt BE football lasts another 5 years. Too bad for teams like Rutgers that no other conference wanted them.
BlackDragon, He was at SU long enough to get his degree, but I've never seen anything that states that he officially earned his degree and graduated. I've even asked people at the PS and they can't find anything that said he did.
I read somewhere that Allred sought them out and they supposedly had no idea who she was.
Do you think Mark Schwarz from ESPN feels any remorse for giving Davis Tomaselli's number? As has been reported, they talked before Zach went to the police. He had no problem being ESPN's face of this investigation back in November and December. He's still employed by ESPN as far as I know.
I wasn't aware that West Virginia was still in the tournament.
David's last name is "Hoyne" not Hoynes.
I don't think MCW is in the doghouse. We'll only see him if SU is up big, or if 2 guards get in foul trouble. JB is going to stick with the older guys at this point in the season. I love seeing him without his warmups cheering on his teammates.
Not hating, ABC. Did you miss the fact that both Dubya and his daughter have had issues with drinking? Same could've been said about Teddy K or Tip awhile back.
If it were Bush, or his family members you'd have to pick them off the floor and pour them back into the Presidential limo.
Nice comments Dion, but you don't need to go 3rd person on us!
Agreed. The wave does suck. It should go the way of Dome Eddie and parachute pants.
The game is on SNY in the NYC area. Channel 639 on Direct TV.
Ironically, the tip line is Mark Schwarz's cell phone number.
mick35 , So glad courtrooms tend to go with facts over "instinctive feelings". Don't let a lack of facts blind you that Fine hasn't been arrested or convicted of anything yet. While your at it, are there any witches that you'd like to burn? I'd rather wait and see what the Feds come up with. Might he be charged with something? Sure. Has he been? No.
This article seems more about sensationalism and keeping the story going than of any substance. The feds aren't commenting until their investiagtion is done, so the paper needs to keep readership up. Just because Fine was on the SU staff doesn't make him a diety in the community. Those implying it are way off there. As are people who can say that anything in this article was definitive, other than the fact that he lived near his job and that he frequently had plenty of his players over to his house. If he's guilty, throw the book at him. I'm going to wait and leave that to the feds, not a bunch of armchair psychologists on a message board. If you think people are denying Bernie's guilt because they are SU fans, wouldn't you think they'd want him punished (if guilty) because of the negative national media attention?
What's next, the vendor at the Dome in the McNabb jersey asks a Ouija Board or a Magic 8 Ball and the answers are announced by the D.A.? This is beyond bizarre at this point. Is no one related to this case credible?!


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I came here to say thank you, and I think I'll start out that way. I want to thank all of you, each of you, all the men and women in uniform gathered here and all across the globe, for your superb service to our country. We are deeply grateful. It's noble work. It's important work. And the people of the United States of America are very much in your debt.
General Turner, thank you so very much for your hospitality and your kind words.
Senator Jim Bunning, it's great to see you. And Congressman Ed Whitfield from the -- I guess the 1st District of Kentucky -- there you are, Ed. And Representative Marsha Blackburn, 7th District of Tennessee, so nice to see you.
We thank each of you for your support to the men and women in uniform. I know that they are as appreciative as I am of the support you folks give to the Department of Defense and to our troops at home and overseas.
I also want to say hello to Lieutenant Governor Steve Pence of Kentucky. Steve, nice to see you.
And Mayor Liebe of Hopkinsville, Kentucky -- Mr. Mayor, so nice to see you.
And Mayor Ochs from Oak Grove, nice to see you.
Mayor Doug Weiland, I guess is here, from Montgomery County, I'm told. Good to see you, sir.
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Gracie, it was a delight to hear you sing the "Star-Spangled Banner." Thank you so much. (Applause.)
And I was in the lunch hall visiting with some folks, so I missed most of the country music singing that you all had the privilege to hear. But I must say, knowing how close you are to Nashville, that I suspect you get a lot of fine entertainment in this part of the country. (Applause.)
It's great to be here with the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne. (Shouts of Hoo-ah.)
Your story -- the division has had for a long period "a rendezvous with destiny" -- from Bastogne to the heat of Baghdad. In the dash across the deserts of Iraq last year, you helped bring down the regime of a brutal dictator and then put your compassion and your creativity to work in Mosul, training new Iraqi security forces, completing literally thousands of reconstruction projects of various types and helping the Iraqis build a new democracy and a civil society.
The 101st is transforming, I'm told, into a four-maneuver brigade division, each brigade with its own reconnaissance battalion. Transforming while fighting a war is not easy, but General Pete Schoomaker is determined to move from 33 brigades to 43 or even 48 brigades, over the coming period of years, and I am in full support of what he's doing. (Applause.)
I'm kind of embarrassed to say that the last time I was here at this base was 1976.
That is a long time ago. (Laughter.) I'm not going to ask everyone to raise their hand who was even in born in 1976.
But I remember coming out on the parade ground and shaking hands with a colonel named Colin Powell, who was stationed here. Now, of course, he's the Secretary of State, and it's always nice to see a young fellow get ahead like that. (Laughter.)
And I'm back in the same old job. I feel like a gerbil. I get up every morning, run like the dickens, and I stay right where I am. (Laughter.)
I -- it would be interesting to see, if I come back for a third term as secretary of Defense, which one of you will be secretary of State. (Laughter.) But I suspect one of you will be.
And of course the 5th Special Forces Group, as the Green Berets, who were so active in the CENTCOM AOR, you must be among the most overworked heroes in the Army. Your motto, "to liberate the oppressed," is right on the mark. And you have been central in helping to liberate some 50 million oppressed people in Afghanistan and Iraq. (Applause.)
And I know that the Night Stalkers of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment are also here. You folks are amazing. You manage to make it look easy, and you're doing things that never even were dreamed of some years back. You have all of our respect and appreciation.
Everyone in uniform is a volunteer today, and it's a wonderful thing -- active, Guard and Reserve. You raised your hands, many of you more than once, first to come in the Army and then air assault, Special Operations, aviation or Special Forces. And your efforts and the work of our coalition have helped to create two free nations, which now have governments that are fighting terrorists instead of harboring terrorists.
All of this has required efforts by more than just our armed forces. And I know there are many employers here today, and people who understand the terrific support that employers have given to members of the Guard and Reserve. We could not do without their help and their support. We thank them all for that support. We are deeply appreciative. (Applause.)
You know, the world has recently marked the third anniversary of the attacks on September 11th. That day showed all too clearly that the extremists seek to terrorize innocent men, women and children. We saw this yet again two weeks ago in Russia, when terrorists killed and wounded literally hundreds of children on their first day of school. It says a lot about the extremists and the terrorists, a lot about who they are and how they think and what they are and what their intent is. People who kill hundreds of children, who chop off heads, let there be no doubt it is far better to be fighting them in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere on this globe than here in the United States of America. (Cheers, applause.)
Three years ago, during that September 11th period, Saddam Hussein was paying $25,000 rewards to the families of suicide bombers, and shooting at U.S. and British air crews that were enforcing U.N. resolutions in the southern and northern no-fly zones of Iraq. So we must not make the mistake of thinking that the absence of traditional war today means that we are at peace. We are not at peace. Ours is not a world at peace.
Some ask whether the global war on terror is worth the loss of American lives, and there isn't anybody who -- as I know, the senator and the congressmen have visited the hospitals in Washington at Bethesda or Walter Reed, and -- visit with those that are wounded, and talk to the parents of those who've lost their young ones -- each life not lived is precious, and we grieve with those families. And it's an understandable question as to whether it's worth the loss of lives, and it's a question that's been asked throughout our country's history, and the answer should be clear to all who have studied our country's history.
Our country lost hundreds of thousands of lives in World War II. But despite the losses and despite the repeated military setbacks in World War II -- month after month after month -- Allied troops and Allied leaders forged ahead purposefully, first to achieve victory over Japan and Germany and Italy, and then later to help Germany and Italy and Japan transform from what they were -- fascist countries -- into democratic nations; indeed, nations that in the following 40 years, during the Cold War, were integral to the success of the Free World against the Soviet Union, those same countries that people said weren't ready for democracy.
And I believe that those who live another 30, 40 years will look back, as historians will look back, and they will see a country that was wise to not wait for the terrorists to come back and hit our country, that understood the importance of the work that was being done in the global war on terror, that took the fight to the terrorists, to the extremists.
And those of you sitting out there who serve in the armed forces will be looked at with gratitude and appreciation of the American people, as you should be, for your courage, for your professionalism and for the fact that you have been steadfast in good times and in bad.
I'll close, before responding to questions, by saying what I said when I opened. I came here today to tell each of you thank you. Thank you on behalf of the United States government. Thank you on behalf of the Commander-in-Chief. Thank you on behalf of the American people. We are deeply grateful to you and in your debt.
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This is the second year for the sale, and Sade-Bartl said the turnout so far is "outstanding."
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Last year, more than 70 garage sales occurred throughout Churubusco. The event brings countless shoppers to the town, supporting Churubusco merchants.
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Full detailed profile on Pretty Crane Played by Melinda Sward on Passions Daytime Soap Opera.
Melinda Sward
Pretty Crane
Actor: Melinda Sward
Who played Pretty Crane over the years
Melinda Sward (July 30, 2007 - present)
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* She was named Pretty because she was so beautiful
Like the other Crane children, Pretty spent most of her younger years growing up at boarding schools and had minimal contact with her family. In the brief time that she did spend with her sister, they usually got up to pranks and mischief. When they got older, however, they began to compete for boys.
The mysterious Pretty left Harmony years ago after a brutal fight with her sister Fancy. Since then she has been living in Europe under an alias. She was brought back to harmony by Vincent and pushed by he and Sheridan into trying to break up Fancy and Luis' wedding. The wedding never went ahead, but that wasn't really because of her. Although she thought about leaving again, the reappearance of Alistair halted her departure. He recruited the rather naive and desperate woman to help him spy on Luis and Fancy and promised her that she would get her revenge.
Alistair had her and Luis confined in a basement where he forced them to make love in a bid to destroy his relationship with Fancy. Although the pair had sex, it didn't ruin his love for Fancy and he quickly reunited with her once he was freed. Pretty became even angrier at this since she had fallen in love with Luis after their first embrace. In spite of her grandfather's cruelty, she continued to work for him, using a mind control device on her sister to throw her into psychotic episodes. This put strain on Fancy's relationship with Luis, combined with the fact that Pretty was now telling Luis that she was carrying his baby. This was a ruse, however, which she managed to keep from him by bribing nurses and doctors. She even threatened to have an abortion if he turned his back on her. Finally, Luis discovered the truth behind this front when Juanita accidentally knocked Pretty's fake baby belly off while attempting to kill her.
Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald (sex under threat from Alistair)
Julian Crane (father)
Ivy (mother)
Fancy Crane(sister)
Nicholas Foxworth "Fox" Crane (brother)
Vincent Clarkson (half-brother
Endora Lenox (half-sister)
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Alistair Crane (grandfather - deceased)
Katherine Crane (grandmother)
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Chad Harris (half-uncle - Liz)
Beth Wallace (half-aunt - deceased)
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Miles Harris-Crane (half-cousin)
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At the mansion, Sheridan announces that it's time to reveal Pretty's secret. She tears off her niece's scar. Pretty cries and asks if she's bleeding. Sheridan tells her to give it a rest. Luis and Fancy can hardly believe that she's been faking her scar for all of these years. Sheridan's not surprised they were convinced; it was makeup worthy of the old Star Trek. Pretty demands to have her fake scar back, but Sheridan continues to lash out at her. Pretty lunges at her aunt and Luis has to hold her back. Fancy tells her sister that her face is lovely. "It would be if it wasn't full of so much hate," Sheridan adds. "Ugly... so ugly," Pretty murmurs. Sheridan explains that her face healed years ago and she used it as an excuse for being a failure as a human being. Pretty continues begging for her scar back. "It's my friend and it never leaves me," she says. Sheridan continues to explain, telling them that she had tracked Pretty through Europe and talked to her doctors. "She wanted to be ugly," Sheridan says. Fancy calls the hospital to get a shrink.
After getting off the phone, Luis explains to Pretty that she is going to be taken away by some "very nice people". She wonders if they can make her beautiful again, but soon figures out that they are planning to send her off to the loony bin. She accuses her sister of ruining her life and scarring her soul. When Fancy tries to console her, Pretty pulls out a gun. She demands a jet and passage out of the country. Luis leaves to arrange it but comes back and grabs her, wrestling the gun away. Pretty is taken out in a straitjacket.
In Fancy's room, Pretty pulls out the acid and accuses her sister of being smug. Sheridan watches, realizing that Pretty could ruin Fancy and Luis by destroying her young rival's face, but when Pretty tries to throw the acid in her sister's face, Sheridan rushes to stop her. The acid flies and Fancy screams and covers her face. Sheridan runs off to call 911. Luis covers Fancy's head in a towel. Pretty is giddy while she watches acid eat through the top of a table and imagines it doing the same to her sister. As she mumbles about how her sister will now be like her, Fancy suddenly looks up and reveals that she's okay and the acid didn't touch her. She smugly smiles at her sister while Pretty begins to scream.
Sheridan calls off 911 as Pretty paces and mumbles to herself. She runs over and tries pulling Luis away from Fancy. As she cries fanatically, Fancy's jaw drops. Pretty doesn't know how she could have missed. Luis explains that Sheridan hit her arm and saved Fancy; Sheridan is a hero. Pretty says that Sheridan is nowhere near as innocent as they think: She knew exactly what she was going to do all along and was alright with it. Sheridan claims that she didn't think Pretty was serious. Luis and Fancy are forgiving, but this only makes Pretty angrier. "She is just as bad as me!" she whines, tearing at her hair. As she rants to herself, they wonder what to do with her. Fancy almost cries at how pitiful she looks. "Pretty please listen to me," Fancy says, trying to calm her sister. They tell Pretty that what she did was wrong. She starts to rant, claiming that she deserved to get her revenge. Sheridan steps in and explains that Pretty has been keeping a big secret and it's time for Luis and Fancy to know the truth. "Honesty is the only way to find peace. Lies are always wrong," Sheridan says. Pretty tries to run out but Luis stops her. "I'll show you Pretty's huge secret," Sheridan announces. "You can't play the victim anymore," she continues. "Your mental illness goes deeper than anyone thought possible." she grabs her niece by the face and tears her scar off, revealing that it has been a fake all along. Fancy and Luis stand in disbelief.
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Publisher: Ethereal Darkness Interactive
Platform: PC
Release Date: October 2005
by Felipe Faria Lemos
Developed by Ethereal Darkness Interactive, an independent studio, Morning's Wrath manages to showcase some engaging scenes. However, most of the game feels extremely outdated and is severely flawed.
The game is a very generic RPG, with all the common elements pertinent to the genre, such as mana, experience points, casting of spells, attributes, levels, gaining experience points by killing enemies, etc. While the main system of the game is nothing new, there is a spell-creating system that is quite interesting: you have a spell book and you must use at least two runes, and no more than 12, to create a spell. The more runes you use, the more mana to cast your spell is necessary.
The story is also pretty standard, but it does its job in setting the atmosphere. The game art design is medieval, another very common style in the genre, meaning it doesn't add anything new. The main character is Princess Morning. After her parents are slain, she has the quest to protect the last mana wellspring hidden underneath her castle, the reason why the Ashidian army killed the queen and king and raided the castle.
Diablo II was released over 5 years ago, and it's the obvious source of inspiration for Morning's Wrath. While we have to understand that it might not be fair to compare Morning's Wrath to a game from a company like Blizzard, there are several flaws that can't be ignored. The graphics are repetitive, and many elements on the screen are placed so frequently, it is impossible to not notice they are identical. The combat system is a tedious point-and-click, with enemies repeating quite often. The animation is quirky and choppy, with NPCs repeating their cycles in the exact same timing.
The sound effects are as short as the animation cycles. Sound samples are the same for a certain type of character, never varying, and repeating too much. On the bright side, the soundtracks sound better than the rest of the game and fit the action onscreen, while they also are short and repeat often.
Finally, the replay value is minimal, only with a few quests that are not required to complete the game. Although Morning's Wrath is not a mainstream game that you could easily find on shelves, it is obvious there was a lot of effort and dedication put into this product, and by that alone it deserves a try. The game manages to deliver some exciting moments, and a few details in the game are truly good. However, it is a dated game and it shows, but I believe RPG fans can have a good time, if they can look past some flaws that can be frustrating.
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~Spring Love~
Lying on the bank of the river, fingers dabble in the flow
Your head across my stomach, watching the waters go.
Little fluffy ducks abound, and new damsel flies unfurl
The early season brown trout leap, and make a splashing swirl.
Fingers running through your hair, my body satisfied and warm
You trace my lips with your finger, we're hidden from the brewing storm.
The storm we know will hit us, and what will we do then?
But cherish this stolen time together, in our sheltered glen.
Kisses that fall like the spring time rain
We know not when it will happen again?
Spring comes but once a year and we grasp it with both hands
We cherish and watch the buds explode; leaf covers the new born land.
Fingertips that may not touch, in the next seasons rising sun
Time to move on our way, another season begun…
How do we pretend ,that there is no spark of love?
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LAWRENCEVILLE -- The 117 Chick-fil-A restaurant locations in Greater Atlanta and Athens will host a "Date Night" for fathers and daughters on Feb. 2 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. During this special evening, fathers and daughters are encouraged to spend some time together, enjoying a meal, conversation and several activities.
Seatings are available every hour, and reservations are required. Customers can visit www.daddydaughterdate.com/atlantaandathens to make a reservation.
Every Daddy-Daughter pair will receive an activity sheet with questions and topics to get the conversation started, and a take-home booklet called "Continuing the Conversation" that provides ideas for future dates and questions that both dads and daughters can ask each other.
"One of Chick-fil-A's goals is to promote community connections and enrich the lives of everyone we serve," said Robin Lomax, Chick-fil-A Area Marketing Director. "We understand the importance of father-daughter relationships and want to encourage dads to
take a break from busy schedules, enjoy their daughter's company over a meal and have fun!"
Book-signing scheduled
DACULA -- Author H. Chris Barber is signing books from 1 to 3 p.m. Feb. 2 at World's Delights & Coffee Inc., 802 Dacula Road, Dacula.
A resident of Hoschton, Barber will be available to sign copies of his book, "Charging your Mindset."
According to a news release from the publishing company, "'Charging Your Mindset' reveals how we make choices that have a direct effect on how our mind-set develops and how we manage ourselves for the day. Resolving those obstacles allows the positive mind-set to guide our actions. Though we cannot control our circumstances, everyone is given a choice in how to respond to each situation. Will you choose a negative mind-set or allow yourself to be guided by positive thinking?"
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Tom Degan: How ever will they justify continued off-shore drilling in light of what is now happening in the Gulf of Mexico? In just a few short days we've gone from a tragedy to a disaster to a full blown catastrophe. It will be more than interesting to see the depths to which the right wing will now stoop in order to trivialize this hideous event. Rush Limbaugh is already floating the idea out to his half-witted "Dittoheads" that this was sabotage on the part of the "eco-nazis"; that some unnamed environmental organization plotted this disaster in order to further their evil socialist agenda.
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Sherwood Ross: Panetta also failed to tell readers that, if not for such CIA actions as the violent overthrow of the government of Iran in 1953 to get that country's oil, and the 2003 U.S. aggression against Iraq to get that country's oil, the Middle East might not be quite so violent today. Those aren't Boy Scout camps President Obama is reinforcing in Afghanistan.


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That is the judgment of one cynical senior Democratic congressional aide, speaking to Politico about the House GOP plan to release the first detailed proposals to reduce entitlement spending.
"They have painted themselves into a corner." The corner this Democratic aide is referring to is a statement by GOP House leaders. "Our budget will lead where the President has failed," the statement reads, "and it will include real entitlement reforms so that we can have a conversation with the American people about the challenges we face and the need to chart a new path to prosperity."
Expanding on this statement, Representative Paul Ryan was asked whether he was talking about "minor tinkering." The House Budget Committee chairman said, "No, I think it's important that you do comprehensive health care entitlement reform, other kinds of entitlement reform."
The details of Ryan's plan will be revealed later this spring. For now, I'm not sure people fully realize what an extraordinary decision this is. The majority party in the House of Representatives is willing to do what no Congress has ever done: fundamentally reform, and scale back, entitlement programs (most especially Medicare). House Republicans are willing to do this even though presidents and lawmakers who have attempted such things in the past have not only failed; they have been hammered into submission by demagogic attacks.
Conservative House members hope this moment is unlike any previous one. The argument goes like this: the old script — the American people believe in limited government in theory and big government in practice — no longer applies. Our fiscal problems are so large, a fiscal train wreck is drawing so near, and the evidence is so incontrovertible that abdication on reforming entitlement programs (which is driving our fiscal crisis) will be punished, while dealing with them in a responsible way will be rewarded. Republicans are betting that this isn't 1995 all over again. "Mediscare" doesn't work nearly as well during an era of trillion-dollar annual deficits.
Have we, in fact, reached an inflection point on entitlement programs? Is there a new sobriety among the citizenry when it comes to fiscal matters?
Nobody knows. My sense is that the political landscape has changed significantly on these matters. But whether it has changed enough — and whether one half of one branch of the federal government can shape and bend public opinion — is an open question. Even the strongest advocates for taking on entitlement reform know that this path is potentially perilous.
What is not in dispute is the political courage that is on display. It is unusual, to say the least, for lawmakers to risk everything on behalf of the public good.
In the December 1981 issue of the Atlantic, David Stockman, then Ronald Reagan's director of the Office of Management and Budget, made a run at cutting the size of government, including entitlement programs. He wanted to change the habits of the political system. And he failed. "I have a new theory," Stockman confessed to William Greider, "there are no real conservatives in Congress."
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Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax touched the lives of the people who loved his games. So when the legendary Dungeon Master died in March 2008, players around the world showed their thanks with heartfelt tributes –including naming a species of bacteria after him.
Arthronema gygaxiana is a cyanobacteria, a microorganism that obtains energy through photosynthesis. It was identified in 2005 by Dr. Dale Casamatta, an associate professor of biology at the University of North Florida. I interviewed Dr. Casamatta when I was reporting my book about Dungeons & Dragons, and he told me about why he named the bacteria after Gygax.
"I wanted a way of honoring Gary, who had provided so much to my life through his products over the years," Casamatta said. "D&D, and all role-playing games, are about using imagination and seeing broad pictures. Whether you are running a game or playing a character, you have to rely on your imagination… coupled with the reams of rules that are available, those are two things that scientists use on an everyday basis… you need to know the background information, then come up with novel hypotheses to test."
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Casamatta said it would have been great to name a large, charismatic organism after Gygax, but as a microbiologist, everything he studies is pretty small and nondescript. But still, cyanobacteria are pretty awesome: "They are responsible for the majority of oxygen production the planet, eventually became the chloroplasts of other photosynthetic creatures and are exceptionally important in an ecological and evolutional context."
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According to the surveys, most Americans have at least one Bible. They say they even revere it. Over half say they believe that it's inspired and inerrant! Yet the same surveys reveal an appalling lack of familiarity with its most basic plot, characters, and teachings. The statistics are pretty even for those from evangelical, "Bible-believing" backgrounds.
A century ago, faithful Christians saw Christian colleges and seminaries fall like dominos to Protestant liberalism. After the reorganization of Princeton Seminary, J. Gresham Machen and other colleagues founded Westminster Theological Seminary in 1929, which became a model for solid scholarship in submission to Scripture. Today, most mainline seminaries are moribund or on their way to becoming night school for social workers, trying desperately to attract evangelicals with hip courses on spirituality or how to be "emergent." However, in the post-World War II era, a resurgent evangelical movement created their own institutions and today many of these seminaries can boast faculties that produce a lot of the labor in biblical studies and pastoral ministry.
However, we're now facing a different challenge, but it could prove just as disastrous for faithful witness. It's the "dumbing-down" of Christianity, fueled in part by the weakening demand of the Christian faithful for ministers who are prepared for a lifetime of ministry. It's no less of a tragedy to squander a great theological heritage for cultural approval than it is to miss out on it for cultural pragmatism. Before Jesus said, "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations," he said, "All authority in heaven and on earth is given to me." We have to understand what that means. The whole Bible unpacks that pregnant announcement. And then Jesus adds, "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…(Mt 28:19-20). What is baptism? The Trinity in whose name we are baptized? And then Jesus adds still more: "…teaching them to observe everything I have commanded." Not just some things that we remember from Sunday school, books we've chosen for ourselves to read, and on-line sermons from preachers we admire, but "everything I have commanded." All of Scripture for all of the saints. To make mature disciples, we have to become one.
As everyone knows, the rapid growth of Christianity has shifted to the Global South and Asia. For decades, evangelical leaders like John Stott warned of a crisis in theological education. Much of the growth has been led by Pentecostal movements, which have tended to downplay the importance of such training. Yet many solid evangelical and even confessional churches, both Lutheran and Reformed, have also spread rapidly. The problem that many of these leaders express is that there are too few seminaries and theological resources. Pastors are crying out for more rigorous theological education.
Meanwhile, in North America, where there are literally hundreds of seminaries, there is a shallowing of the curriculum. The emphasis on the original languages, theology, biblical studies, and theologically-shaped pastoral ministry is watered down by electives and special concentrations in all sorts of "skills" for "practical ministry." And increasingly there is pressure to provide on-line degrees and satellite campuses.
What would you think if your doctor received his or her medical training on-line or by distance education? Most of us want doctors who have reputable degrees because we at least assume that behind that degree is a faculty with advanced studies and research in specialties that are brought collectively to bear on training doctors; a community of learning in which the faculty, too, is continually updating its knowledge and applying that knowledge to experimentation in the lab and even with actual patients. They only have a few years to become trained as doctors; they have the rest of their lives to practice. So why do we seem to value our spiritual health less than our physical well-being?
Addressing what he calls "the crisis of theological education," Michael Jensen, a professor of theology at Sydney's Moore Theological College, offers wise counsel on what you should look for—and avoid—in making this momentous decision. Anyone considering seminary should read his post. "If an institution is determined to give you what you want and to ask nothing of you, don't go there," he says. "Education in general has become a market, and students have become consumers. This has been a disastrous change in mentality - because true education actually asks us to become disciples and to submit to a process of learning from authoritative teachers."
This is why you not only need a faculty dedicated to scholarship and the church, very accessible to students, but a community of fellow students. As a student at Westminster California, I grew as much through these conversations as from the lectures. In fact, it was often in those conversations that things I had missed sunk in and I came to own them for myself. You can't replicate that in a non-residential learning context.
In short, it just doesn't make any sense to take a short-cut in your own ministerial preparation and then expect your congregation to take the difficult investment of becoming a disciple seriously. We may lament the characterization of Christ's flock as "self-feeders" by some church growth leaders. We may get all worked up over George Barna's celebration of "the Revolutionaries" who stop going to local churches and instead find their spiritual edification resources on-line. But why is it wrong for the sheep to take the easy path if it's fine for their shepherds? As jarring as it is to say it these days, Professor Jensen's advice is exactly on target: "Online or distance education is what the market wants at the moment. But we need to keep reminding ourselves it is a poor third best."
Wherever you land for your studies, the holy office to which God calls ministers of Word and sacrament is ultimately of more lasting consequence even than the service we receive from our medical doctors. The Apostle Paul's command to his young apprentice is for us, too: "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth" (2 Tim 2:15).


text: Tweet photo by brewbooks (source: Flickr Creative Commons) 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity, under the auspices of the UN and the Convention on Biological Diversity. This week in Busan, South Korea, governments will meet to discuss the establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, modeled after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Environmental groups and the governments of France and Japan champion the creation of such an organization. The need for recognition and knowledge about how humanity benefits from and depends on ecosystems is crucial to future development, sustainability and the integrity of the natural world. Simply put, we cannot exist by destroying the very things we rely on for survival. From an article in the Guardian: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity project, part of the UN Environment Programme's Green Economy Initiative, has compiled a database of more than 1,000 examples showing a high ratio of economic benefits to the costs of conserving ecosystems and biodiversity. In Vietnam, to give just one illustration, planting and protecting nearly 12,000 hectares of coastal mangroves cost US$1.1m but saved the government $7.3m annually on dike maintenance. Environmental NGOs including the World Resources Institute are also developing information and tools to make nature's services visible for decision makers, including business risk assessment, valuation, mapping, and indicators. An intergovernmental panel could provide information about the connection between ecosystem change and climate change as well as inform the decisions of governmental ministries concerned with development. The European Commission focused on biodiversity last week during their Green Week conference at Brussels, discussing ways to create a framework to maintain ecosystems and natural resources throughout the world. An ambitious policy on biodiversity represents a new opportunity for the Union to renew a bid for international leadership on environmental issues before a global conference on biodiversity in Nagoya, Japan, in October. –New York Times Studies have shown that loss of resources such as fresh water, bees that pollinate crops, medicine and food sources – as well as industries like tourism – due to biodiversity loss, would have incredibly high economic and human costs. As is the case with climate change policies, the EU could take a leading role in the fight against global diversity loss and ecosystem change. Read more in the New York Times piece 'Biodiversity: The E.U.'s next challenge'. Additional resources: Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Reuters – Rescuing ecosystems can save trillions of dollars: U.N. SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER Thank you, your sign-up request was successful! Please check your e-mail inbox. Given email address is already subscribed, thank you! Please provide a valid email address. Oops. Something went wrong. Please try again later.


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(AP) BERLIN - Germany's vice chancellor tried Saturday to rally his struggling pro-market party as it gears up for September elections, portraying it as the only political force that will prevent tax hikes and a staunch defender of Berlin's tough approach to the European debt crisis.
Philipp Roesler's Free Democratic Party also sought to put recent infighting over his future behind it, giving the 40-year-old another two-year term as leader.
Poll ratings for the FDP, the junior partner in conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government, are below the 5 percent needed to win parliamentary seats _ a complicating factor as Merkel seeks a third term.
The FDP entered Merkel's government after winning nearly 15 percent of the vote in Germany's 2009 election with a campaign that focused on big tax cuts. However, it failed to achieve them and received much of the blame for frequent coalition squabbling.
At a party convention on Saturday, Roesler, who is also Germany's economy minister, asserted that the center-left opposition plans "an orgy of tax increases" and his party is the only bulwark against that. Merkel's party "has long since toppled over in the fight against extra burdens, but doesn't dare tell people that," he said.
Roesler's party has often talked particularly tough in the eurozone debt crisis, in which Merkel has pushed an austerity-heavy remedy that is unpopular abroad.
He praised efforts to cut debt and implement economic reforms, but said there is "a new danger _ discussions over whether it would perhaps be better, instead of strengthening competitiveness, to weaken the currency." France recently urged eurozone nations to help control the euro's value.
Roesler said his party "keeps the coalition on course," rejecting calls for a mandatory national minimum wage and pressing Merkel's conservatives to overcome their reluctance to strengthen rights for gay couples.
Roesler, the FDP leader since May 2011, long appeared likely to lose his job as the party's poll ratings stagnated. However, he was strengthened by an unexpectedly strong performance in a January state election, which allowed him to wrong-foot critics.
On Saturday, he ran unopposed for re-election as leader and was backed by some 86 percent of delegates. Parliamentary group leader Rainer Bruederle, long considered a potential replacement, will lead the party's election campaign.
"If we stand together, if we stick to our guns, we will be successful," Roesler said.
Merkel's Union bloc currently leads the polls, but they give neither her current coalition nor center-left rivals a majority.
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On behalf of the Parent Teacher Association, welcome to the 2013-2014 academic year. I am pleased once again to be the Graydon Sealy Secondary School Parent Teacher Association President and grateful to be working with a wonderful group of volunteers on our Executive Committee. These volunteers dedicate their time and expertise to promote academic, administrative, and community support to the students and families of the Graydon Sealy Secondary School . Sincere thanks to them for their service. I wish also to thank all of the past executive committee members, parents and teachers who have supported us throughout the past year, we look forward to your continual support.
These areas will be addressed at various PTA meetings throughout the year. We invite you to take this opportunity to join us as we strive to meet the needs of all parents. We encourage you to utilize the calendar of events page, this can assist you of the time and place of these informative topics and teaching seminars along with various school events throughout the year.
Again this year I am asking for your time, your time is the most valuable this year. I believe as parents we all have hectic schedules, but I do respectfully ask that you find one way to be of assistance. I encourage you to become an active participant in the Graydon Sealy Secondary School by participating in the various PTA activities throughout the academic year. We can all help in some way, chair or join a subcommittee, you can join a committee that allows you to volunteer from home, attend meetings and share your great ideas, donate a prize toward upcoming meetings and support our fundraisers. PTA meetings are scheduled to be held on the 2nd Sunday of each month.
Thanks in advance for your support, wishing you all the best and a great 2014!
Rev. Cernell A. Brathwaite
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In conclusion, let me also congratulate the newly elected executive and express my own willingness to work with them as we work collectively to develop all aspects of the growth of the students and strengthen and empower families from which our student body comes.
God bless!
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