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Beautiful hotel! Very clean and has free parking and WIFI. We enjoyed our stay immensely! Staff are pleasant and rooms are updated.
Great stay and experience! The rooms were clean and well-equipped with a very large television, and also has a fridge, and microwave. The staff, especially the man at the front desk, were friendly and attentive to our needs and requests. The breakfast in the restaurant was fresh and tasty. The quality, the location, and the great price make this hotel a great choice!
Hello, I was just trying to check in to this hotel. Unfortunately I have to say "trying" since I was turned away. The receptionist I was dealing with (who didn't introduced himself) told me in a very nonchalant manner that the hotel was fully booked. I stressed that I have a confirmed booking for a stay at a day rate. The receptionist claimed that I do not have a booking. I wanted to show him my booking confirmation but was interrupted several times in a very rude manner.
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The Easter Bunny and his eggs are coming back again this year
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Easter is this Sunday, which means the hunt is on for Easter eggs.
The Kirksville Parks and Recreation Department and The Women of Cardinal Key are hosting the 35th annual Children's Easter Egg Hunt this Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Truman State University Quad.
Children and their families are invited to take their baskets and join the Easter Bunny as they hunt down those Easter eggs and goodies.
But here's one piece of advice.
"You need to arrive early and get your spot along the sidewalk and be ready to run. It lasts about 5 seconds. It is very quick and a lot of times when you are late, you don't get a great spot so get there early," said Recreation Specialist Robin Harden.
Harden says if you are not familiar with the Truman campus, just walk to the center of campus and you won't miss the colorful eggs.
For more information on the easter egg hunt, you can call the Kirksville Aquatic Center


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Staggering, with a disabled boy on his back, 38 years old single AIDS infected Sang-woo heads for a shack on the outskirts of Seoul that has the cheapest whores. Pushing in customers, he calls his mom. The person he loves the most, who is going to be attending to the customers, is his mother, a whore.
The mother had to become a whore at the age of sixty and the son had to be the pimp selling her around. As difficult as it might be to understand their relationship, that was what his father had left behind. It seems as though Sang-woo's father is living a normal life with a younger woman. However he is living with a religious fanatic wife Hikikomori, son Hee-cheol, adrift daughter Hee-soo and still hurting them too, like before.
Filled with sympathy for a mother who has to sell herself, obsession about his AIDS and rage for his father…Sang-woo makes a decision.
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A reply from Sr Supdt of Post Offices has contradicted his earlier information under RTI Act and so have prefered First Appeal with Appellate Authority Director of Postal Services awaiting outcome
would like to seek clarifications on this
A reply from Sr Supdt of Post Offices has contradicted his earlier information under RTI Act and so have prefered First Appeal with Appellate Authority Director of Postal Services awaiting outcome
would like to seek clarifications on this
Hello Mukesh, please post the details of your case and the clarifications that you need on it under the thread "Ask for RTI Query". Our experienced members will be happy to provide you the necessary guidance.
Moved to RTI General Discussion. As Ganpat said what was the question about; if you share will benefit us all.
My first RTI question was to Sr Supdt P O about details of Post Offices Shifted/Closed after 1995 in Goregaon
The reply was Nil
I had Ministers letter stating 2 Post offices had ben Closed/Shifted
so along with my First appeal I attached the copy of Letter
A continuation letter folowed giving me details of 3 Post Offices Shfted/Closed last one being in 2006
The reason for false answers was that old records were not available
Now this was done purposely as this closing and hand over of Premises involved corruption
I wrote a rejoinder to First Appeal with a prayer to recommend the case to CIC
its over 1 month 3/1/2008 no reply from Appellate Authority.
Closing down of Post Offices is the policy decision at the top level approved and executed at the Circle level (State HeadQuaters) and not by Divisional head (Senior Superintendent of Post Offices)
I am not sure why would you pray for rejoinder for First Appeal, when there is no provision like this. If you are not satisfied with the reply of CPIO and decision of AA, you can file Second Appeal with CIC directly. But as I can see you had already got the reply, and if in case you are not satisfied by the reply, there seems no point in pursuing for Information under RTI Act with AA.
In any case, the AA has already decided your appeal, which is final and he cannot reconsider his decision. The AA does not have power of review of his own decision.
Let me know if there is something other than what I understood?
I am also unable to understand , in fact would like to know that was it for public utility or services or for something else you are pursuing the case further after getting the almost reply
Or you want to file some thing against the Postal Dept
In both the cases you query is resolved
Now what For ?
Pl let us know in more details so that understanding your positive intentions we can assist
Abhinav Bohare
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Yes you are right having the correct information even after getting the wrong one earlier my work is done as far as R T I Act is applicable.
The point is if I did not had the letter of Minister and kept quite believing the words of PIO it would be misleading information under the Act.
So can a PIO change his given information by giving totally contradicting Information after knowing that First Appeal has been filled?
I am not interested in penalty, so would not go for appeal with CIC.
Any way b'cause of RTI i got correct information and this will help me to fight out a legal battle for vacating my premises, as instead of shifting PO from my premises they have vacated another Premises which has been bought for redevelopment by a builder in 2006.
see if we can debate on this issue of misleading and false information given with full knowledge and vested interest by a govt officer.
The fact remains that a PIO can give wrong or misleading info and get away with it as long as it is not challenged and proved wrong etc. In your case you could do so because you had solid evidence to prove the PIO wrong. Now that chapter is over. IF you want to take that to the logical conclusion you can go on appeal to CIC and ultimately penalty may be levied on the PIO for knowingly furnishing incorrect information, provided you can prove that he did it 'knowingly'. But as already stated by you the PIO says that the records have been weeded out. That is a valid reason.


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Daiya Foods Review
Whether you have a food allergy such as dairy, gluten or just watching that figure Daiya Foods are right up your alley!
I've seen their products in stores before and have wanted to try them for quite some time now because as you may know I've been on a mission to get healthier and lose weight!
I then checked them out on the web to learn more about them and their products and here's what I learned.
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Just wondering - where were you 9 years ago on September 11?
I was in the northern part of the lower peninsula of Michigan on vacation with just about my whole family, brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, etc. We actually felt relatively safe up in the middle of practically nowhere.
But what a scary day that was!
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Volunteers will be swinging paint brushes all over the county Saturday. It's Paint Day for the United We Paint Coalition, a group of corporations and individuals that have come together to help people in need.
Teams of volunteers will paint at 25 sites around the county, including a child-care center at Rock Springs School in Escondido, and homes of low-income seniors in Escondido, San Marcos and Poway. About 600 volunteers have already signed up to help.
The coalition has beautified almost 300 homes, schools and community buildings since its formation in 1998, said its managing director, Jason Zotara. That translates to about $2.1 million worth of service around Southern California.
Volunteers are welcome to sign up to help Saturday by going to www.unitedwepaint.org or calling 800-941-3930. Most of the projects will run from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
"We supply everything, paint, supplies, T-shirts, beverages. Just show up, grab a brush and start painting," said Zotara. "It's a family oriented event. You don't have to be a professional at anything to sign up."
A good bet: Residents and staff members at the Belmont Village Senior Living Community hope to hit the jackpot Friday at a Casino Night. They organized the event to raise money to help survivors of the recent Gulf Coast hurricanes. A $50 admission charge buys gaming chips and Creole-style hors d'oeuvres, plus music from the RB Swingtet. The brother of dining room manager Bo McMahon was among New Orleans residents displaced by the hurricanes. "It touched people. They wanted to reach out and do something," said community manager Inan Linton. "Even though they are seniors, retired and safe in their homes here, their hearts go out to them." The event runs from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the center, 13075 Evening Creek Drive in Sabre Springs. Call (858) 486-5020.
Screen gems: Scenes from an upcoming movie featuring former child stars Jerry Mathers ("Leave it to Beaver") and Linda Blair ('The Exorcist") were filmed Monday at the Pala Mesa Resort. "Will To Power," a physiological thriller about two teens plotting a murder, is scheduled to be released next spring. … Auditions for a new NBC game show, "Deal or No Deal," will take place from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday at Dave and Buster's, 2931 Camino del Rio North in San Diego. Anyone 18 or over who hasn't appeared on a reality game show in the previous two years is welcome to try out for the program, by the producers of "Fear Factor' and "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." No stunts or special skills are needed for the show.
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Dedication to the cause
Nell Hansen, after eleven months without a post, puts up a post:
This is my fourth attempt at blogging. I'm leaving the third one up to serve as a bad example.
Extra points for Zeitgeist grasp.
About a year ago Hansen declared that the Bowl Championship Series is un-American, which strikes me as fairly inarguable.


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Finally getting around to trying this. It's very pale—when I was pouring it it looked like just water. But it's a very, very pale green. Based my steep temperature off of a general average of others I looked at on steepster, and did one half a teaspoon to three ounces of water.
Leaves didn't really unfurl completely.
The taste is very light—sweet but vegetal. I actually like it. It's green, but not extremely so. At least it doesn't taste like just hot water. There's an almost nut (not really nutty—maybe a nutty buttery) taste.
Second steep, the leaves've opened up a bit more. I think I need a smaller pot, to give the leaves room to open up a bit more, since I'm using such a small amount of water. The water's maybe slightly greener in colour, and in smell. The taste's stronger, more sharply green. Not much different from the top otherwise, I think.
Steeped for three minutes this time. The colour's the same. Stronger taste, vegetal, a faintly nutty sweetness. Reminds me of Murchie's magnolia oolong, but fainter and sweeter. I actually kind of like this. I could see myself sipping this in the evening.
Fourth steep—same colour, hasn't gotten lighter yet. Three minutes again this time. There's a stronger floral note. Overall it's been sort of milky. It's still sweet, but I don't think I'm really tasting any changes with the steeps. Then again, I'm pretty experienced, so.
Fifth steep, I think it's starting to get paler finally. Maybe? Hmm. Getting a slight 'water' tang taste now, less milky. I'm pretty sure I could continue drinking this for MANY more steeps.
Sixth steep, still not any lighter. The taste is less milky again, slightly more metallic/tangy.
I would go for a few more steeps to see how long it'd last, but I don't really feel up for it. I decided to take a look at the leaves instead. The edges are a bit degraded, and there are some leaf-halves and stems. The smell isn't spinachy, it's just faintly vegetal in a nice way.


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Jumping Ahead: A Look at What 2009 Has in Store
January 14, 2009
Jumping Ahead: A Look at What
2009 Has in Store
By: Steven Hopper
There's really no denying that 2008 was a huge year for gaming. While the headlines where often gobbled up by the dire economy and its effects on the whole world this year (including various companies within the video game industry), it cannot be denied that there were some truly phenomenal games that launched in the past year, across all systems and platforms. And as was the case right after 2007, it can be difficult to try to think of how the video game industry will top itself next year. However, there are quite a few games to get excited for in the coming year, with a variety of fantastic titles launching pretty much completely throughout the upcoming release pipeline.
In the post-holiday doldrums, a lull is expected in the latter winter months after the first of the year. However, that is not the case as several publishers are coming out with their big guns post-Christmas. Sony's long-awaited and mega-hyped shooter Killzone 2 is expected to finally launch this February. Early reports on the game are very positive, despite some negative early press concerning the game's "smoke and mirrors" debut at E3 2005 and a lukewarm reception for the first game on the PS2. However, there are still some unanswered questions for Sony's touted "Halo-killer", namely whether or not the gameplay will live up to its more-than-impressive aesthetic. I guess we'll find out soon.
Will Killzone 2's gameplay live up to its excellent aesthetic?
Early 2009 will also give some love to Grand Theft Auto fans with two big releases scheduled. The first of which will see the anticipated episodic content for Xbox 360 players finally come to fruition when "The Lost and the Damned" launches on February 17. Additionally, the first GTA title for a Nintendo system since Grand Theft Auto Advance on the GBA, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, will launch on the Nintendo DS, offering a top-down perspective set in Liberty City, touch screen controls and hours of gameplay.
Also finally seeing the light of day in early 2009 will be F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, the follow-up to the successful horror-shooter. In the capable hands of Monolith Productions, developer behind the first game, F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin promises to scare the pants off of many gamers, just like the first one.
Another scary, early triple-A title on the pipeline is Capcom's 800-pound gorilla, Resident Evil 5. Scheduled to release on March 13th, 2009 (yes, Friday the 13th, very spooky), Resident Evil 5 will carry the torch from its hugely popular predecessor, Resident Evil 4, a title championed for making some major improvements to the series as a whole. Resident Evil 5 brings its own additions to the table, including co-op multiplayer, high-def graphics, and a brand new setting in a sun-drenched African nation. The game looks great and plays very well, and it definitely cause for fans of the series to get excited for.
Resident Evil 5 is a prime example of a huge game launching in the gaming off-season.
On the MMO front, online gamers will get a few new launches in the upcoming year, including a couple that will undoubtedly appeal to superhero fans. Sony Online Entertainment is gearing up to launch their DC Comics-based MMORPG, titled DC Universe Online. In an inspired move, DC Universe Online doesn't squander its license by sticking well-known characters in the game arbitrarily as quest-givers here and there, instead allowing you to fight alongside staple heroes like Superman in the game's missions, assisting them as you fight cooperatively against threats. Another big-name MMORPG that will hopefully see a launch in 2009 is BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic. While not much is known about BioWare's direction with the title, considering their previous work in the Star Wars universe (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic), then it's pretty safe to assume that the franchise is in good hands.
Speaking of BioWare, the company is also hard at work for their upcoming PC RPG, Dragon Age: Origins. The 'spiritual successor' to the developer's acclaimed Baldur's Gate series, Dragon Age: Origins will be an ambitious fantasy title that promises to do for the genre what last year's Mass Effect did for "sci-fi neo-noir action-RPGs".
Of course, one of the biggest and most highly anticipated titles of 2009 for Xbox 360 gamers is Halo 3 ODST. An expansion of sorts that was initially known as Halo 3: Recon, ODST will put you in a separate campaign that occurs before the events set forth in the previous Halo title, and also has you playing as a regular human soldier, and not the Master Chief. Offering a new perspective and possibly some new story elements to the Halo universe, it's easy to see why Halo fans for excited for this one.
A hotly-anticipated title for next year, Final Fantasy XIII still doesn't have a solid North American release date.
Of course, aside from these confirmed titles for 2009, there are a few titles that are a bit less solid in terms of release date that are definitely cause to be excited. God of War 3 is set to turn the PS3 on its head, presenting the final chapter in Sony's flagship franchise, as well as its perennial anti-hero badass protagonist, Kratos. Additionally, Final Fantasy XIII, the latest entry in the quintessential RPG series from Square-Enix, is set to launch for the PS3 and Xbox 360 sometime in the future, launching this year in Japan, but lacking a solid release date in North America.
While I've mentioned quite a few games scheduled for launch next year, I've barely scratched the surface of games launching in 2009, not to mention the copious amounts of huge games that haven't even been announced yet. 2009 is shaping up to be a very exciting one already, and there's no better time to be a gamer.


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Barry Schwartz on July 30, 2007 at 8:12 am
The Live Search Blog announced new image search features over the weekend. The new features include a way to search for images of people by face, portrait, black & white and related people.
Here are examples of the new features in action, by searching for [paris]:
- pairs without any filter, mostly shows Paris Hilton but does show an image of the Eiffel Tower
- paris filter:face mostly shows face shots of Paris Hilton
- paris filter:portrait shows more full body shows of Paris Hilton
- paris filter:bw shows images of Paris Hilton, the Eiffel Tower and other images in black and white
- The related people offered for the paris search include: Paris Hilton, Banksy, Danger Mouse, Ice Cube, Greg Wells, Fat Joe, Kara DioGuardi, Scott Storch, MC Ren, Immortal and others…
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Monday, April 17, 2006
Easter Monday Meme
What will you do this Easter Monday? Is it a holiday or vacation day for you?
Please feel free to answer in the comments, or link to your blog if you are answering at length.
Christ is risen indeed!
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I am off to Neighboring State with Big White Mountains for an overnight getaway with my darling. A short hike + a room with a jacuzzi + no cell phone service = Re-Creation!!ReplyDelete
Horray for songbird!ReplyDelete
I'm getting on a plane in five hours and jetting off to paradise for seven days, myself. Umbrella drinks, anyone?
Probably no lectionary leanings on Tuesday, unless purechristianithink does it.
I would love to do what Songbird is doing. But since that is impossible, I am heading to the beach with hubby and three kids for 5 glorious days. Can't wait, I am going to sit on the beach and read, while hubby chases the kids. Right, well maybe I'll build a sand castle or two.ReplyDelete
Only have today free, but having spent most of this morning reading The Secret History (years behind the rest of the world, I know, but still wonderful) I'm heading out with LoudBoy, dogs and pony while the sun shines. Have fun, peoples xxReplyDelete
Off to Another State to love on Grandbabyboy, Daughter #1 and SIL!ReplyDelete
Talk to y'all when I get back.
At work. Overslept and was late. Envious of all y'all on vacation. But then again my Holy Week and Easter was comparatively uneventful for me too.ReplyDelete
Enjoy your vacations everyone! I will spend the day switching my armoir from Winter Wear to Summer Wear. It may sound like a chore, but it is just what I need. Somehow cleaning and organizing things is energizing for me - something about starting a task and seeing it completed at the end of the day just feels good.ReplyDelete
Homework, as I didn't do any over the weekend. And, call a retreat center about a summer job.ReplyDelete
I wish I could do what Songbird is doing!
Oooh. I'm envious too. I am in desperate need of a vacation. I'm working today, but I will be taking Thursday, Friday and half of Saturday off. Then Saturday picking up a speaker from the airpost. Person, not technological hardware. Looking forward to two invigorating services next Sunday, neither of which will be preached by ME!ReplyDelete
See my post--www.rainbowpastor.blogspot.com!ReplyDelete
holiday here in Finland.ReplyDelete
I went to the cinema, now home and facing a pile of marking to be done ASAP for school :(
Just finished the Order of Worship for next Sunday. Not sure what I will do this afternoon. MAybe some visiting, maybe continue early sermon stuff. Topic this week is Earth day, title is Sustainable Stewardship. Hm, wonder what that will mean...ReplyDelete
Ahhh.... back to reality. No more Easter weekend hectic-activities-and-family-shenanigans for me! Just LOTS and LOTS of computer time in the interest of a steady paycheck.ReplyDelete
It was a most wonderful thing to have three non-work days in a row, for the purpose of pausing to note Jesus' death and resurrection. (Sad to note that not that much pausing took place.) The days went by JUST! SO! FAST!
I miss summer vacation. Why don't adults get those, again?
All week long I've felt sorry for both clergypeople and worship committees/various assisting persons for the workout they put themselves through -- yes, it's the high point of the Christian calendar, but it is a HUGE amount of work, particularly when it comes to services without a set liturgy. I hope everyone who could had the opportunity to rest today.ReplyDelete
Today I had to work. I also had to -- gulp -- pay my income taxes (thanks to a paperwork snafu, I discovered at the last minute that the form I was sent in the mail wasn't the form I needed to use, so this morning at 7 I was at our office downloading stuff off the IRS website because it was easier than trying to do it on my stupid computer and malfunctioning printer at home). I also had to go to the funeral home and pick up what are euphemistically referred to as "cremains" -- I'll be blogging about this, because it was certainly a singular experience...one of those events that you never really anticipate yourself doing.
On a cheerier note, I haven't burst into tears or gone off on a full-tilt-boogie rant yet today. So today is, believe it or not, a better day than yesterday, even though that's not saying a lot.
It's snowing like mad here in southwest Wyoming! Getting a slow start on my day, but I'll be at work and then tonight (weather permitting) driving to Salt Lake City for my Revelation class. I'm loving reading about others' getaways! They all sound great!ReplyDelete
Stayed up late last night with my baby boy who decided to vomit 3 times before bed (and I have no idea why). So today, I just want a nap!ReplyDelete
I need a vacation.
I am in the Outer Banks right now and was pleasantly surprised to find we have free wireless in the house... gotta say I am not sure that is a good thing.ReplyDelete
The only downside is that I asked for this time away as continuing education time so I do have things I should (must) do.
But now - I shall nap.
Isn't networking with fellow people in ministry continuing education?;-)ReplyDelete
back to the grind stone for me.ReplyDelete
I'm asking for title suggestions for a new book on the Dead Sea Scrolls written by a friend...ReplyDelete
Why yes, LC, I believe it is...ReplyDelete
Used an old gift certificate that was going to expire on Wednesday and had a massage...ahhhh.ReplyDelete
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Believe it or not, I have a Session meeting tonight!! Worked on my Joy sunday service, had lunch with a colleague to pick up my labyrinth which she borrowed for Lent and am making a home visit.ReplyDelete
To top it off, the Presbytery is meeting this Saturday.
A hectic week following a hectic week.
wish I could join those of you who have the day off!
Curses to all of you!ReplyDelete
My morning lament can be found here.
we are having a movie marathon! tons of movies, popcorn, and vegging out. this is my "fast breaker" since i gave up all movies and television for lent. i can't even wait!!!!ReplyDelete
Arg. Working, preparing the house for sale. Carpet will be installed in the two downstairs bedrooms on Thursday, so I'm busy cleaning the garbage out of those rooms. eight thousand small errands with StrongOpinions, plus five thousand small real-work phone calls trying to resolve issues with cranky bureaucrats. Not enough hours in the day.ReplyDelete
I work at a seminary. We don't have Easter Monday off. This morning I tried to incite the students to riot, errrr, to begin a petition to get Easter Monday off, for heaven's sake! Clearly everyone was just fried.ReplyDelete
Thank God for Monday--but to me it is a Saturday! I had 18 baptisms on Saturday, 4 on Sunday, and two next Sunday. As for me, it is a day of rest and plain laziness. I treated myself to BBQ wings and a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup Klondike Ice Cream Bar!ReplyDelete
Happy Monday Everybody!
I've been to Houston to the Chinese Consulate, where the rules for getting visas are different than their rules as published on internet. Slight insanity followed. Solution found, thanks to my wonderful oldest brother.ReplyDelete
Long story...too long for comment box! anyway, it was a good start to my 50 days, 50 miles discipline, going thru airports!
i went and had lunch and then dinner with my family. My baby brother, (he's 23 but 9 years younger than me, so will always be my baby brother)is going to England and Europe for a year on 1st June so we had a family gathering.ReplyDelete
I love the time we get toegether, we all get on well and it's really relaxed, kids play, guys play playstation, I talk with parents about theology, my Dad use to be a minister and they both have theology degrees.
You may think what am I doing!, but theologically they are further along than me and so help me stretch and question my theology and how we do church. I really value it.
So all in all a lovely relaxed Monday. This was the first Easter it feels like the balance of family and work was close to being achieved. It felt great!
you can read all about how I swept under the bed over at my place, if you really want some thrills.ReplyDelete
We're getting the new blog ::travelers together:: off the ground--a new venture in the tradition of Blogging through the Bible in 90 Days. You're still invited to join in if the idea appeals to you. See my invitation at Blanket in the Grove.ReplyDelete
The bible in 90 days was hard work but really really worth doing.ReplyDelete
However if 12 pages a day is daunting you might like to join singing owl and I in reading Luke real slow. One chapter a day. We start tomorrow and will blog about it here http://nuntimebible.blogspot.com/
(our original 90 day site)
Be blessed.
Reverend Mommy is having eyelid surgery today! Yeeeowch! Please keep her in your prayers!ReplyDelete
As I now am not serving a parish, I was really rather excited about taking Easter Monday off and not having to just sleep all day. What an idea! And then duty called. My darling daughter needed 4 teeth extracted and of course, yesterday was the most convenient time. So instead of enjoying a quiet day in the house all alone... off to the oral surgeon we went.ReplyDelete
We were still at a Christian Conference with 6 young adults some photos of our week are posted on my site...ReplyDelete
Wow, 35 comments! I am bowled over!ReplyDelete
I'm going to write about yesterday's hike a bit later on my blog. I'm home now and had to do a *little* bit of work, but I have another day off tomorrow before getting back to it on Thursday.
its my first day of unemployment. . . . First day in about a decade. . . . . . I have no idea!ReplyDelete
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Swallow Hill and the Walnut Room Present: Josh Rouse (solo)
Jami Lunde
The Walnut Room - Walnut Street Location
3131 Walnut St.
Denver, CO, 80205
This event is 21 and over
It may have been 15+ years - from roots in rural Nebraska, through time in 'Music City' Nashville, TN, and to the current day relocated to a new home in cosmopolitan Spain – but it seems that the song spirits have been constant companions for Josh Rouse. And maybe no more so than on the singer-songwriter's latest record, The Happiness Waltz, an album that marries both his past, and present – revisiting an earlier era, where his music was heavily influenced by the 'soft rock' of the 70's, and combining it with lyrical tales drawn from the here and now – his modern day-to-day life, one deeply enriched by his children and family.
Rouse has been lauded for his special talents - creating little slices of heaven with words and music that have captured the hearts and minds of both critics, and fans, the globe over, whether it is the New York Times talking about his "pop-folk introspection", Filter lauding the "wide-eyed 'thank you, ma'am' songs that could have grated in their earnest angle if they weren't so damn wonderfully executed" or Uncut raving about the music as "warm, molten gold, a long bath in the serenity of well-gauged bittersweet balladry" and proclaiming him "a talent to outrank Ryan Adams or Conor Oberst." Over a storied career, from the engaging debut Dressed Like Nebraska, through his 'golden era' with 1972 and Nashville, and right down to the 2011 latin-bossa nova-tinged release …and the Long Vacations, Rouse has created a series of unique, and distinctive records, filled with sparkling melodies and enchanting lyrics.
And there is no disputing that The Happiness Waltz again proves that he stands apart from the crowd, producing yet another set of delicate, intelligent, nuanced pop songs, all destined to become fast favorites. An album of twelve radiant new tunes, from the upbeat "This Movie's Way Too Long" to the jangle-fest that is "Simple Pleasures", a cohesive whole that should please fans both old and new.
After a number of years influenced by his changing world - new surroundings and a myriad of fresh influences, moving to Spain and starting a family – which were wonderfully reflected in albums such as Subtitulo and El Turitsa, in 2012 Rouse has naturally gravitated to what he does best, creating old-time warm AM radio-friendly songs that will stick in your brain and not let go. Breezy, summer-y… call it what you will – it's an elegance that has been favorably compared to the Laurel Canyon/Southern California scene of the early 1970's. But at the same time, far from being retro, it is anchored in the most important part of the songwriter's modern life – family.
And so here we are in 2013 – reflecting on a lyrical development & personal growth that has occurred over Josh Rouse's more than ten albums so far – from his early introspective catalog through his coming out period where the world discovered his talents, and more recently on releases created since starting a new life in Europe - a creative arc that has led to The Happiness Waltz – a perfect distillation of the old and new, and maybe his most perfectly realized record yet.
In an era where singer-songwriters appear to be a dime-a-dozen, he seems to be more than average, yards ahead of just a 'run-of-the-mill guy-with-a-guitar'. When Rouse sings on "The Happiness Waltz", "It's good to have you in my life", one can only think, when it comes to his music and this album, no truer words have been spoken. Yes indeed, Josh Rouse. Yes indeed.
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Earlier this morning, the last of the night shift workers at the Ford plant in St. Paul packed their things and walked out the door for the last time.
The plant is shutting down for the next couple of weeks, and when it reopens in January, the night shift will be gone, and the plant will operate with about half of its workforce.
We've been periodically checking in with the Dean family, who have worked at St. Paul's Ford plant for three generations. Cathy Wurzer talked with Ed Dean, Jr., the last of his family to work at the plant.


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Friday, 10 August 2012
Olympics Sneak Preview via Instagram
1. Packing nightmare (sun? rain?)
2. Driving up the A303 the night before with the most amazing moon
3. Mexican food for lunch in Leicester Square
4. The Millennium Dome (okay then, the O2 Arena)
5. Cable car across the Thames (at least I only cried inside)
6. My boys: Mr. Summers (right) and his brother Pete
7. Watching Team GB get yet another gold in the cycling (at the pub)
8. Outside the Excel Arena before seeing the weightlifting
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P.S. No Photo Tips Friday today... it's been nudged out by the Olympics. Saving it for a good one next week :)
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Viper R/C 1/8 VTX8 Sensored Brushless ESC/VF4.45 Motor Combo w/EZ Link (4500kV)
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This is the Viper R/C VTX8 Sensored Brushless ESC and VF4.45 4-Pole Motor Combo, with an included EZ Link programming card. This combo combines the efficient control from the 1/8 and 1/10 scale capable VTX8 ESC with the raw power of the VF4 series power plant, designed specifically for 1/10 scale 4WD Short Course Trucks. On top of that, the combo adds in the EZ Link to make quick programming adjustments easy.
The Viper VTX8 ESC is more than just an upgraded VTX10, much more. The VTX8 was designed from the ground up to handle the punishment of the most demanding 1/8 scale and 4wd short course applications, with the durability to come back begging for more. Plus, the ability to operate on either 2S or 6S LiPo batteries, as well as sensored 2 pole, 4 pole and 6 pole motors from 540 up to 1/8 size from any manufacturer, and an adjustable BEC that can deliver 7V for your high voltage servos, makes the VTX8 an incredibly flexible system.
Combine this with waterproof construction, a full aluminum case and a fan with a carbon fiber brace that helps to efficiently dissipate heat, and you have an ESC that will propel your rig to the finish line and beyond, with reliability that your competitors can only dream of. These features make the VTX8 an excellent choice for high power applications when you need a reliable system, with virtually limitless programmability that does not require a PC.
VF4 Series Motor
Viper R/C VF4 Series motors take 4 pole motor power to the next level. With added durability, smooth efficient power band and stunning looks. Available in 2 sizes for 4wd Short Course - VF4.40 (4000kv) and VF4.45 (4500kv) designed to exclusively work on 2S batteries.
Quality craftsmanship, superior materials and a commitment to rigorous testing are at the heart of Viper R/C Solutions' product philosophy, so your VF motor not only gets you running but keeps delivering the power you need to get the most out of your RC car in even the most demanding conditions. Your VF4 motor's high precision CNC-machined 6061 T6 billet aluminum can is designed to provide the best protection and cooling, the ultra-low resistance high-current soldering tab system allows for trouble-free connections and easy wiring. Plus your VF4 motor is compatible with most ESCs on the market. For maximum performance match with Viper R/C's VTX8.
All these great features are complimented with a 180 day limited manufacturer warranty like all Viper R/C motors.
EZ Link
The included EZ Link is the same size as a credit card, and is used for tuning the speed control while at the track without the need for a computer. The innovative V-Port on the VTX speed control allows for programmability without removing the speed control wire from the receiver. This means less wear over time and you never have to dig into your receiver to make an adjustment. All these features are complimented by Viper's 365 day limited manufacturers warranty on all electronics for peace of mind.
- True Sensored technology that provides super smooth power and brake
- Heavy duty all aluminum waterproof case (cooling fan is not waterproof)
- 2~6S Li-Po Support
- Ultra high definition parameter setting (0~100% steps)
- Supports 2-pole and 4-pole 540/550/8th scale motors
- Adjustable BEC up to 7V
- PC V-LINK software ready for firmware upgrade and PC interface*
- 8 user profile that allows to import and export in PC V-LINK software*
- Auto Power Off function for the maximum safety
- Includes EZ Link programming card
ESC Specifications:
Type: Sensored Only
Support Voltage: 2S~6S Li-Po
Support Motor Type: 2/4/6-pole
Max BEC Voltage/AMP: 7V/5A
Continuous Current: 220A
Dimensions: 46x53x41mm
Weight: 113g (w/o wires)
Motor Specifications:
kV: 4500
Max Voltage: 2S
Case Length: 2.07in / 53.70mm
Case Diameter: 1.41in / 36.00mm
Shaft Diameter: 15x5mm
Weight: 6.3oz / 180g
*NOTE: The PC V-LINK Software for the Viper VTX8 is still under development. Until this software is complete, Viper recommends you use the EZ Link programming card or ProGauge to tune the ESC.
This product was added to our catalog on July 31, 2014.


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USD/CHF (a 4 hour chart)
General overview
The dollar rose sharply against all its major counterparts after the Federal Reserve meeting. The FOMC updated the main macroeconomic indicators' forecasts: GDP in 2014, 2.0% 2.2% 2.1% against 2.3% in June; GDP in 2015 2.6% 3.0%; 2.6% 2.9% in 2016; 2.3% 2.5% in 2017. The Fed does not expect to achieve the inflation target level at least until 2016. The USD/CHF remains in the same range.
The price is finding the first support at 0.9330, the next one is at 0.9270. The price is finding the first resistance at 0.9370, the next one is at 0.9430.
The price is in the Cloud and it is above the Chinkou Span. The Tenkan-sen and the Kijun-sen show a horizontal movement shows a downward movement and form a "Golden Cross".
The MACD indicator is in a positive territory. The price is correcting.
Trading recommendations
We advise to long with the first target - 0.9370. When the pair consolidates above the first target, we can open deals to the level of 0.9430.


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Add some star quality to your name with the Brazilian footballer name app iBrazil;
Bumbee is here & now it´s up to you to fly her in this never ending adventure! The further you fly, the higher you climb the charts – obviously gunnin´ for that No. 1 spot!
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An evil kid has – on purpose – frozen Bumbee´s babees. Now they are everywhere in the garden and you can rescue them by crushing that ice! You can have up to five babees on leash (if you collect more with five on board you will earn head starts for your next round). But of course, more babees on leash makes it more difficult to fly…
Within the game you have a series of features that will help you fly far:
? Coins - every time you play you earn coins
? Level up - your earned coins can be used in the shop to level up
? Babees – rescue the frozen babees for coin multiplier
? Power ups – magnets, speed boost, freeze time
? Quests – earn coins by completing quests
? Head start – collect many babees & gain head starts
? Fairydust – fairydust will increase your current level by one
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HBO uploaded a new promo this week featuring all of the new returning and new television shows, movies, and specials that we'll be seeing this spring and summer. True Blood season 5 was shown of course and I took the liberty of making a few screen captures! Most of these we've seen before either a waiting sucks clip or the very first season 5 trailer. Without further ado, enjoy the stills and the video:
Source: YouTube.com- "HBO Spring Image Spot"
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The new political paradigm
"Hell, I never vote for anybody. I always vote against."—W.C. Fields
W.C. Fields' utterly prescient statement probably served as the voting model for most Americans a few months ago as Republicans lost a 10-year hold on Congress, giving the Democratic Party renewed vigor in its campaign for the top office in 2008.
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Even if it did compile, it isn't that lethal. In fact, even if you type:
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Gargantuan Shark Caught off Port Aransas
When I first ran across this story about a huge shark caught in the Gulf of Mexico recently, the first thought that came to mind was the now infamous line from the movie Jaws that goes "you're gonna need a bigger boat." Granted, the Great White depicted in the movie was supposed to weigh around 6,000 pounds, but when a few guys bring in a shark that's estimated to be about 600, that's still pretty big.
It took several men around 3 hours to bring in the "silky" shark, caught about 30 miles off Port Aransas. What happened to the big creature? It ended up being cut up into steaks by workers at Captain Kelly's Deep Sea headquarters.


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The two tables had been set up as a sort of gateway, 17-year-old Jennifer Mason says, and they flanked the path to her locker after her last class at Santa Fe High one day in the spring of 1993. As she neared the tables, Mason saw that each one held a stack of diminutive red Bibles. When a neatly dressed man standing near one of the tables proffered a volume, Mason -- Baptist, honor student and student columnist for the Texas City Sun newspaper -- politely said no. She went to her locker and the Gideon representative took no more notice of her. But others did.
Walking home from school that afternoon, Mason met a small knot of students, including three whom she considered friends. They didn't look friendly. As they got nearer, Mason recalls, they began shoving and goading her. "Are you a devil worshiper?" one asked. "Why didn't you take a Bible?" For days after that, Mason says, someone else at her school would make a similar needling comment. But summer came, the questions dissipated and the incident seemed to be forgotten, by Mason and her tormentors.
Then last spring, a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of two anonymous Santa Fe plaintiffs brought Mason's Gideon memories rushing back. The plaintiffs, one of whom is described in court papers as Mormon, each had two children in Santa Fe schools and had complained to the ACLU about a string of events, including the Bible handouts, that revealed an undue presence of religion in the public schools of the small community about 20 miles north of Galveston. In the planning for about two years, the suit was filed in Galveston's federal court in April 1995, two months before that year's graduation. Suddenly the town was embroiled in a rancorous controversy over how much religion belongs in Santa Fe schools -- and who should decide it. In its suit, the ACLU demanded an immediate end to graduation and football game prayer, and for Santa Fe to draft and enforce a policy against in-school religious influence.
Four months after that graduation season -- when, among other events, U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent had prohibited "sectarian" and "proselytizing" prayer and vowed to clap violators in jail -- Santa Fe is still simmering. Yes, it's quieter now: Houston TV crews descend less often, and the senior class that was at the eye of the controversy has graduated. But, if anything, both the ACLU and the defendant, the board of the Santa Fe Independent School District, are spoiling more than ever for a court fight. Each side calls the issue a test case and is eager to push onward to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, even the U.S. Supreme Court, if Kent's scheduled December ruling does not go their way.
Jennifer Mason believes that what happened to her on Gideon Bible day reflects more than a few kids' overzealousness. Instead, she says it reflects a widespread mentality in Santa Fe, one that became especially pronounced in this town of 9,000 after the ACLU suit was lodged. It's a viewpoint, Mason believes, that is far more extreme than the school board's publicly stated goal of increasing religious freedom for all.
"We're not talking about something the school is directing or promoting; the kids decide," trustee Mike Lopez has said of the district's new graduation policy. "If we get some New Ager up there praying to mother earth, we'd accept that."
"If the school got everything they wanted, we all know what religion [Santa Fe High] would be," Jennifer Mason counters bluntly. "Baptist. They basically want a private religious school that has public funding."
The Busy Bee Diner, comfortably sprawled by Highway 6, honors Santa Feans' affinity for livestock. In this clean, mostly working-class community whose citizens toil at the refineries in Texas City or at NASA, a hard-working family has a good chance at attaining the dream of a nice house or a trailer, some land and a few head of cattle. Beside the greenness and the space, it's the lack of big-city rules and land-use ordinances that makes Santa Fe so appealing, residents say. And the Busy Bee, a roomy, wood-paneled cafe on Highway 6 that's open around the clock, celebrates that liberty by offering free frames and wall space for a photo of you and your favorite animal. The good-natured pictures, of teenagers and adults proudly embracing horses or prize cattle (no household pets), are among the first things you see when you enter the Busy Bee.
At the Busy Bee, a waitress will always take a minute to chat with you, even if all you've ordered is coffee. Haydee Moranto, who waits tables after school, explains that a lot of the cafe's regulars are members of Alcoholics Anonymous who come in just for communal companionship after their meetings. Big families crowd the tables at dinner time, a couple sit side-by-side doing household accounts with a calculator, and a stranger can sit at the counter and strike up a chat with anyone. In recent months, it's gotten more common to see someone in a booth reading a Bible.
East and west of the diner, Santa Fe's small frame houses give way to trailer homes. Some are humble, others sturdier with porches and viny trellises. Between them stretch the open green spaces that have tempted a small stream of urban refugees for the past decade.
You don't have to be conservative to appreciate the small-town predictability of the place. Margaret Snively, a Santa Fe native who strenuously opposes the school's approach to prayer, nevertheless says she settled here as an adult partly because of Santa Fe's white-bread homogeneity. Those who didn't grow up here typically have moved here from nearby Texas City or La Marque. The town is mostly Baptist and about 90 percent white, with a smattering of Hispanics.
"God, it sounds so hypocritical," says Snively. "But I like the peacefulness. When you have a variety of people you have a variety of conflicts. I moved back here because it was the best deal we could get on a place, (and) Galveston was getting too crazy."
By contrast, Santa Fe is a place where an outsider is quickly noticed but cordially treated; where teenagers still swarm after school to the Sonic; where a rash of vandalized mailboxes is called a crime wave. The town seems to promise predictability. Take it or leave it, the Santa Fe Beauty Shop seems to say, you'll get a haircut here and no doubts about the beautician's stand on things. "A clean, Christian place," her candy-pink business card says.
"God Bless John Wayne," reads a pickup truck's bumper sticker in the parking lot of another hair salon. "Made by/Paid for/Driven by an American," declares another sticker on the same truck.
Not only do Santa Feans know what they like, they also make it clear what they reject. A lot of residents, says one observer who asked not to be named, are "aginners," -- "agin" someone telling them what to do with their property, their children, their taxes. "They're nonconformists," he adds. Then he offers a third, slightly more complicated observation: "It's a white flight district. A lot of people moved here to get away from something they didn't like in their neighborhoods in Texas City, La Marque or Galveston."
If there is more than one term for the kind of people who like Santa Fe, there are also several layers to its small-town values. In the 20-odd years since the small towns of Arcadia, Algoa and Alta Loma joined together and incorporated as Santa Fe, the community has attracted an inordinate amount of negative attention. In 1981, as local fisherman violently confronted Vietnamese shrimpers in Galveston, a Santa Fe resident hosted a Ku Klux Klan rally on his property. Later that year, Klan members returned to Santa Fe again for another cross burning. Louis Beam, the former Grand Dragon of the Texas Ku Klux Klan whose wife hails from Sante Fe, played a large role in the controversy.
Even after the rallies ended and the courts closed a Klan paramilitary training camp in the area, Santa Fe still carried a widespread reputation as racist. "It's more known for prejudice than for religiousness," says 15-year-old Steven Penn, a Santa Fe High student.
Virtually no blacks live in Santa Fe; in explanation, junior high and high school students recount an apparently apocryphal story of what happened in Santa Fe's low-income housing project two years ago. "You know how there used to be segregation, and blacks and whites lived separately?" one student says. "Well, the KKK thought black people were going to live in that housing project, and they burned it down." In fact, an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms concluded the fire was accidental. But belief that the Klan was to blame for the fire is so common that the rumor has taken on the authority of history in many Santa Fe conversations.
Galveston County Commissioner Wayne Johnson, who as an assistant district attorney monitored Santa Fe during the Vietnamese fishing violence, says that the Klan is still active here. "I will tell you a story that I found kind of funny," Johnson says. "When I was first assigned to the [court] out there they gave me a misdemeanor case in Santa Fe." The case involved an elderly man whose neighbors repeatedly set their dogs on him as he went out on walks. When Johnson went to investigate, the couple in question confirmed that they were feuding with their neighbor, but got uneasy when Johnson asked to see their dogs' papers.
The woman tried to just wave the documents in his direction, but Johnson insisted on looking closer. "The dogs' names were Nigger, Blackie and Spade," Johnson, who is African-American, recalls. "She said, 'Mr. Johnson, we had a dog named Whitey, but it died.' I said, 'Ma'am, you don't have to invent a dog for my benefit.'"
When he returned to court, Johnson says, the judge, who was a friend, told him he'd been searching for weeks for a case that would give Johnson a sense of what Santa Fe was about.
Fourteen years later, Johnson hastens to say, Santa Fe has many good citizens who want to put that era behind. A young man who has spent all his life here says he wishes it were more diverse; the town has a reputation for embracing newcomers who find the Klan's history repellent. But Santa Fe's past intolerance still echoes dully in today's school prayer dispute. "I hope I don't get a cross burned on my lawn for this," citizens who criticize the school board nervously joke before asking not to be identified.
"It's almost like there's been a glass dome over Santa Fe and nothing has changed in the last 20 years," says one local. "All around us people are integrating, but we have not changed. There is no way we could stay that way without the influence of the three Ks. And I think there are a lot of people who are involved in the school prayer debate and also the KKK."
Perhaps bearing some of this tarnished history in mind, Santa Fe schools superintendent Richard Ownby and the seven-member board of trustees were at first fairly conciliatory when news of the suit broke. For awhile, it even looked like they might meet the ACLU partway regarding commencement, baccalaureate and football game prayers.
A moderate man with a trim, compact look that is distinctive to many Santa Fe civic leaders, Ownby says he hoped at first to be a mediator in the case. Before the lawsuit, Ownby had a track record of responding to, if not preventing, many of the cited infractions when they'd occurred. Maybe if the district could promise that student prayer at graduation and football games would omit naming specific deities, trustees reasoned, the suit could be settled without risking the praying rights that Santa Fe schools already exercised.
The compromise made sense to U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent. In June 1995, he ordered upcoming graduation prayers to use only "non-sectarian, non-proselytizing language." At first, Kent forbade the mention of specific deities such as Jesus Christ. Then he amended his ruling to outlaw religious "sales pitches." Kent says he based his ruling on a 1993 case known as Jones v. the Clear Creek Independent School District. The idea in the Clear Creek ruling, Kent says, is that student-led prayer may be used to mark the solemnity of a school event, but must not aim to convert its listeners to any one religion.
"The technical rule is this," explains Kent in a recent telephone interview. "[Under my ruling], prayer can be to a specific deity but it must be non-proselytizing and non-specific." If that sounds somewhat baffling, he acknowledges, it is. What defines proselytizing? Who should determine if a specific prayer is proselytizing or just "solemnifying" something? Asked if he can clarify things, Kent answers tartly, "No. Therein lies the rub."
His duty, he says, is to maximize both sides' rights under the law as it now stands. "They get from me as clear an articulation of the law applied to the facts in the case as they can. Whether or not they're happy with that," Kent declares, "they can take it to the Fifth Circuit."
Despite the ambient drama of four TV crews and Kent's threat to lock up proselytizing speech givers, however, last spring's graduation actually came off fairly calmly. Probably rattled by the thought of accidentally converting a listener, student speakers kept their invocations mostly deity-free. But the school board was dissatisfied: what they really wanted was restriction-free prayer. In the weeks after the lawsuit, SFISD attorney Kelly Frels came up with a plan: what if the school formed a restriction-free policy but promised to fall back on the Clear Creek guidelines if the court shot them down?
Public opinion at the same time was turning to a vocal and radical-minded trustee named Mike Lopez, a chemical plant worker who calls himself "about as right wing as a person can be." From the moment the ACLU suit was made public, Lopez says, he considered it one of the best things to hit Santa Fe.
"When they told us we had a lawsuit filed against us, I like to jump through the roof with joy. I welcome the challenge," Lopez says. Recently elected after calling for abstinence-only sex education and abolishing TAAS tests, Lopez fiercely opposes restricting students' religious speech. "I don't see how anyone can tell anyone else who they can and can't pray to," he says. "We're talking about spirituality here. How can anything of the earth rule over that which created the earth? People need to quit looking at this as a prayer thing ... to me it's an issue of liberty."
Fortified by Lopez's insistence, and the fact of SFISD's $1 million liability insurance, the trustees took their stand. In July, they announced their new policy: starting this year, students would first vote whether they wanted a prayer, then elect religious speakers for football games and graduation from among their peers. That student would then be permitted to make any religious reference he or she liked. After all, if the speakers are student-elected, Lopez says, their religious statements can't be construed as school-endorsed (which could be interpreted as violating the First Amendment). Instead, the youngsters would simply be exercising free speech.
To Mike Lopez's mind, he fearlessly says aloud what the majority of the townspeople believe. A self-taught history enthusiast, Lopez grew up in Texas City in a devoutly Catholic Italian-Hispanic family, and converted to Baptism when he married his wife, a Santa Fe native. Lopez was elected to the school board last year in a close runoff against a more liberal rival; his victory, Lopez feels, simply mirrored last year's national Republican landslide. "I am the mainstream, whether it be here in Santa Fe or America itself," Lopez says.
As for those who don't share the mainstream's religious beliefs, Lopez says he doubts that exposure to Christian prayer will do them any harm. Young people today are bombarded with peer pressure and harmful messages about drugs, alcohol, sex and gangs, Lopez says. "Homosexuals, ethnic minorities and feminists can say what they want when they want to. You tell me a 17-year-old kid offering up a prayer on graduation night is a violation of rights?"
"It seems so innocent," says Galveston lawyer Anthony Griffin, who represents the two anonymous Santa Fe plaintiffs for the ACLU, "to say, 'All we want to do is pray.' On the other hand, what if you have a child of a different faith or a nonbeliever? We're placing that child in the midst of 30 other kids [in a town like Santa Fe] and even if we're real nice, and not saying a deity, it's a given who the deity is." No matter how pure the group's spirituality, says Griffin, who opposes prayer at graduation, football games and other school-sponsored events, "you are subjecting that child to tyranny of the majority." That, Griffin argues, is what Santa Fe has already done to his two anonymous clients, whom he says feel physically endangered, and any other child in Santa Fe who is non-Baptist or simply a nonbeliever.
Graduation and football prayers, actually, are just minor points in the lawsuit. More serious, the ACLU contends, is what it calls Santa Fe's pattern, over at least two years, of other religion-linked violations in the schoolroom. The court papers enumerate. There was the annual distribution of Gideon Bibles -- not in itself illegal, if other groups were welcome to hand out literature, too. But, says the ACLU's Debbie Perky, that didn't seem to occur.
There was the teacher who told a Mormon child his religion was a cult, and a teacher who asked parents' permission to teach a sign-language song about Jesus, then made the two students without permission wait alone outdoors while their classmates learned the song.
There was the promotion and establishment during school hours of the religious "Joy Club," run by a Santa Fe teacher; the teacher who sent parents a note citing a national study that "students with strong religious background are the most likely to succeed in school." There was the pre-lunchtime class taught to sing, "Oh the Lord is good to me .... The Lord is good to me. Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. Dig in!" Other complaints surfaced later, in oral arguments before the judge: grade-school spelling lists with words like "resurrection" and "savior" demonstrated in doctrinal phrases by a teacher and unconfirmed reports of straight-out class prayer.
Gary Causey, the principal of Santa Fe High, argues that practices such as the Gideon handouts have gone on for generations in Bible belt towns, and that the district always did its duty by addressing infractions when they arose. The teacher who called Mormonism a "cult" received a prompt, written reprimand, he points out, and the sign language song was discontinued as soon as a parent complained.
But to Margaret Snively, a Catholic and one of about five parents who publicly oppose the school board on religious issues, that piecemeal approach isn't enough. She believes religious culture belongs at home, and she resents what she sees as SFISD's pervasive meddling with her own teachings. "My children say the Hail Mary," says Snively. "If you tell a class to sing before lunch, and it has Jesus and amen in it, well it sounds like a prayer." If anything, Snively says, she wants her children to pray more formally, with words that reflect their own faith.
Snively also doesn't buy the arguments that a little religion in a school setting can set children of whatever faith on the right path. Not only school officials espouse this theory: None other than Judge Kent, who professes to have agonized over how to be fair to both sides in the case, says, "I think prayer has a place in education. If for no other reason, look around. We're living in a society where the breakdown of family values are evident. The breakdown is, what if families aren't up to the task of [moral education]? There are absent parents, parents in prison, parents in extremis circumstances."
But Snively, a big woman with coppery red hair, believes that Santa Fe's passion for religion in school only hides the town's real social problems. Snively recalls attending schools in Santa Fe in the years before the 1962 Supreme Court ruling outlawed class prayer.
When she was in eighth grade, Snively recalls, she took a class with a teacher who had been born again. The teacher wouldn't let the class leave until they had all prayed. "At the same time, a girl in our class was getting the shit beaten out of her," Snively recalls. "For 12 years, we saw that girl come to school with bruises and no one ever asked questions about it." Similarly, at a school board meeting last April, a man she'd known from childhood told the group that he might not have wasted his life on drinking and drugs if he had been exposed to school prayer.
"I felt like pointing out, we did have prayer," Snively says. "There are so many more issues going on here. There's a high teen pregnancy rate, a high rate of domestic violence. I grew up with these people. I know it's there .... There was a bond issue [to build a new high school] that failed. We had an algebra class that didn't get books until March or April.
"I almost believe," Snively says, "that kids come second here."
Santa Fe has done well by Haydee Moranto, who waits tables afternoons at the Busy Bee. A senior at Santa Fe High, Moranto's chirpy voice belies the drive that has put her among the top students in her class, and the discretion with which she's finessed her status as a Mexican resident alien in a mostly white town.
So extroverted that she's prone to detail her life plans to strangers with no prompting at all, Moranto relates over the Busy Bee lunch counter that she plans to visit her father in Nuevo Laredo this month. She's a little worried how her resplendently pale-skinned boyfriend, who's going with her, will be received in Mexico. "My boyfriend's real white, and they're prejudiced there you know? Like here, only opposite," she says.
Moranto, who in her spare time competes in the school's academic decathlon and presides over the Spanish Club, thinks the objections to graduation day prayer are overblown. After all, she says matter-of-factly, she could argue that because she's Mexican, she should be offended at singing the U.S. national anthem. It's an easygoing attitude that seems to have helped her to grow up in Santa Fe. Having spent the first eight years of her life in Texas City, Moranto remembers both the discomfort of being one of the few Mexicans in her class here, and how her classmates teased her because of childhood burn scars on both her legs. Now, though, Santa Fe knows her so well that she considers the town family. Sometimes she even wears shorts.
Moranto doesn't object to prayer at school ceremonies, not so much because of religious faith as her faith in Santa Fe's authority figures. "If I was Jewish [or another minority religion], I would go up to the principal and say could you include something for me in the prayer," she says. "I'm sure they'd do something."
It's not just Santa Fe's model students who believe in the redemption a little school-time religion can offer, either. One blazing afternoon, a small group of junior high and high school students dressed in droopy jeans and exuding teenage ennui slouch together in the HEB parking lot. Ranging in age from 12 to 17, the students criticize their school, criticize Santa Fe -- and mostly support prayer of some kind in school.
"I don't think those people should have sued," says 15-year-old Myndie, leaning out the front seat of a male friend's parked car. "No one was forcing them to pray."
"If there's one prayer going on for one religion, there should be prayer for each religion," offers 15-year-old Steven Penn. After considering a bit he adds, "Maybe they should have prayer at football games, and any kind of related event, so that no one gets hurt."
The more clean-cut students milling around inside the supermarket voice even stronger support of prayer in their schools. "I think it was just a Jehovah's Witness, someone who didn't believe in God, who complained to the ACLU," says 15-year-old Lynne Jones. "I don't see what's wrong with praying in school. If a person doesn't like our prayer then they don't have to participate." The other students at Santa Fe High School apparently agreed: during the first week of September, they were allowed to vote in the new referendum on prayer at football games and graduation. Only about 120 out of 1,250 students took part in the vote, run by the Student Council. All but seven students voted for prayer.
While the seven dissenting ballots at Santa Fe High were secret, it's a fair bet that most students have an idea of who checked them off. What remains to be seen is whether anyone cares. Last spring, in the hectic glare of camera lights and front page news coverage, affiliation in the debate definitely mattered. Almost immediately after the ACLU filed its suit, emotion, speculation, proclamations of religious faith and, for some, intimidation swept through the town. In a hamlet such as Santa Fe -- with its tiny downtown defined by churches, lounges and convenience stores in a row down Highway 6 -- it's hard to keep secrets. When the lawsuit became public, it was easy, say Santa Fe High students, to wonder which of their Mormon, Vietnamese and Catholic classmates might be the plaintiffs.
Jennifer Mason, a member of the same academic quiz team on which Haydee Moranto competes, says she is not one of the two plaintiffs. But partly because she and her mother, Debbie, both publicly support the ACLU suit, Mason's classmates quickly deemed her a target of their informal crusade.
Two years after being cornered for refusing a Gideon Bible, Mason was once again the focus of taunts. Before school administration got wind and forbade it, for example, several students passed out a petition denouncing the suit. When Mason refused to sign it, the petitioners accused her of being a plaintiff. "I got harassed," Mason says. "They called me everything. The kids would ask me, Are you an atheist? Are you a communist? Are you a lesbian?"
One of the most vilified suspects at that time was outstanding senior and student leader Jerry Du, another academic decathlon member who now attends the University of Southern California. Haydee Moranto says that schoolmates tormented Du shamelessly. "He said he shouldn't be blamed for something he didn't do," Moranto recalls in a sad voice. "He's Catholic so they thought he was the one. He said 'No, if I were the one I would have told you.' He really didn't like this town because it was really unfair at times. They'd just harass him and say, 'Just admit you did it.'"
Du, who was one of the student speakers at graduation, reportedly gave a speech that was lyrical but not specifically religious. (Du could not be located to be interviewed for this story; his family was not listed in the local phone directory.)
As tensions in Santa Fe escalated, it became common in social situations to inquire about an acquaintance's faith. Fellow churchgoers, Mason said, even asked her affiliation -- absurd, she adds, considering she's attended the First Baptist Church of Alta Loma longer than its senior pastor has presided there. But Pastor Alan Splawn, a surpassingly energetic man who took over the Alta Loma congregation ten years ago, has forged a strong presence during his time at the church. He is a prominent member of Santa Fe's Ministerial Alliance, a coalition of about two dozen church leaders that has figured prominently in the lawsuit controversy.
With its strong links to the school board, the ministers' alliance was one of the first contacts Ownby made upon taking office as superintendent, he says. U.S. Representative Steve Stockman also listened to the alliance, linking them up with the conservative clergyman Donald Wildmon's Tupelo-based American Family Association Law Center. The group sent two lawyers to Santa Fe to assist the alliance free of charge.
Seated near a huge image of Jesus Christ drawn wholly in black and white save for its brilliant blue eyes, Splawn breathlessly describes the coalition's battle against the lawsuit. "The history's so incredible, even if one were an agnostic he'd believe after reading this [court record]," Splawn says. "I saw ministers who never meet together because of denominational differences agree on this. If this is a sectarian issue, why were there no differences between the sects?" Splawn, who believes that the problems in U.S. schools are directly traceable to the end of school prayer, argues that Christians have been silent in U.S. courts for two decades, and it is now time to assert their rights.
But Jennifer Mason says that Splawn's preaching and activism in the debate alienated several former church-going families, including her own; she no longer attends First Baptist of Alta Loma. Mason's family has experienced other fallout from the community tensions. Jennifer's 12-year-old sister, Danielle, is being home schooled this year; Tiffany, the 14-year-old middle sister, says that she is so disgusted by the hypocrisy and mud-slinging she's seen that she's lost her religion. "We used to say she was going to be a nun," says their mother, Debbie.
And though the Masons are among the most vociferous school prayer opponents, they are not the only ones to have felt betrayed or discriminated against. One disillusioned classmate of Jennifer's announced to her parents that the controversy had driven her to atheism. And at a contentious school board meeting where Margaret Snively stood up to read a statement, she mentioned that she herself was religious, a Catholic. Behind her, she says, one woman said to another parent, "Oh, she's not Christian."
School trustee Mike Lopez impatiently dismisses such complaints, however. "In this town," he says, "you have a handful of women who basically operate outside the mainstream. That's how they get noticed, that's how they get their name in the paper. They've been doing this for years, everyone knows who they are .... My personal view on that is they have a void in their life, and emptiness. Stunts like [the lawsuit] help fill that void ... the only way that void is going to be filled is through the saving grace of Jesus Christ."
Haydee Moranto's sociable smile drops from her face as she returns from serving a table. "See that?" she says, lifting her chin toward a window table, "You talk about religion being forced in schools, but I think it's worse when it's forced within families." She has just delivered a basket of french fries to a couple sitting with their five-year-old daughter. The father insisted that they not eat until they say grace, and they couldn't say grace until the french fries arrived some minutes after the main meal, Moranto reports. When the little girl tried to pluck a french fry before praying, her father gave her a slap.
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The scenario disturbs Moranto. It's likely, however, that plenty of others in Santa Fe would see it as old-fashioned discipline, a fatherly reminder of how important it is to mind God. But however slowly, old-fashioned ways in Santa Fe are coming under new scrutiny. Natives like Margaret Snively move to the city and then return home, foreigners like Moranto slowly move in and subtly alter Santa Fe's demographics, and Highway 6 is now a path for cameras and lawyers and observers who once would have passed Santa Fe by. Of all communities, Santa Fe, with its efforts to live down the past, already knows that just because a way of life once worked doesn't mean it still can.
At the same time, it's clear that the same forces of flux so visible in places like Galveston, La Marque and Texas City, are what has energized Santa Fe's leaders to defend their traditional religious practices in the first place. It may be that in December, Judge Kent will say those efforts make a pattern of "endorsing one religious belief over another." Then again, Kent may decide that the dose of religion in Santa Fe schools is just enough to foster morality.
Meanwhile, Santa Fe's residents argue about majority and minority rights as if they were texts written in two different languages. The stake, both sides believe, is nothing less than their children's spirits. And at the Busy Bee, Haydee Moranto, starting her last year of school, ponders a question that's occurred to her in the advanced English class she's taking. The class is studying the Bible in the context of Western literature, and comparing the different translations.
"One Bible says Job is 'perfect' and the other says he is 'honest,'" Haydee says perplexedly. "Which of them is right? One of them has got to be, you know.


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