If you’ve been dying to hear scripture read by Star Jones or Cuba Gooding Jr. your prayers have been answered.
ohh.. I even saw Common on that list.
Category Archives: News
Not Buisness As Usual
The Sentinel High School teacher suspended for giving a student a hickey officially resigned. Missoula County Public Schools confirms Dan Kucera submitted his resignation several weeks ago.
Dan Kucera has not taught at Sentinel since January, after being charged with misdemeanor assault by Missoula police. Speaking for the first time about the situation, Kucera said today by phone he resigned for personal and professional reasons, but only after being abandoned by the district and teachers union. Kucera taught business at Sentinel high school.
Wednesday Kucera acknowledged making a stupid mistake, but believes the situation snowballed into something bigger. Kucera also said he expected to return to the classroom this year, but only after students made a public display supporting him, did administrators ask him to resign. He also believes the union wanted Kucera to leave, not wanting to be associated with a criminal. Kucera does not plan to return to the classroom. He is expected to be in court next week. The district and union could not be reached to address Kucera’s claims.
The situation snowballed into something bigger? Is this guy delusional? It can’t get much bigger than giving a student in your high school buisness class a bite mark on their neck. Unless you are Vlad the Impaler, you have nothing to gain from that type of inappropriate behavior. I can’t even wrap my mind around how blase everyone in this story seems to appraoch this situation. the students even rallied to this “teacher’s” plight. What in the world!?!?!?!
Developing…
Matthew Winkler had been the minister at the Fourth Street Church of Christ for just over a year, and the congregation loved his straight-by-the-Bible sermons and his quiet wife, Mary.Now church members are struggling to understand how their charismatic 31-year-old minister could have been shot to death in his small-town parsonage.
News From the Nerdery
For those of you who couldn’t get enough of the three hour long Lord of the Rings movies you can now sit through the three hour long musical adaptation. Enjoy.
Thank You Steve Gutenburg
Ooops, wrong Gutenburg.
Five hundred and forty nine years ago today (maybe) the printing press printed the first book otherwise known as the Gutenburg Bible. On this note, the ESV Bible Blog has posted a history of the printing technology and the editions of scripture that have helped shape our world. The post is titled, Celebrating the Printed Bible and there are some great links and pictures for those of you who might be interested.
Anniversary
Today marks the first anniversary of MichealFelker.com and the second anniversary of my initial foray into the blogosphere. The theme that I have been running over the last few weeks is what the blog looked like one year ago. Over the last two years I have enjoyed this curious habit. It is fun, challeging, and theraputic. During this brief time I have reconnected with old friends (awesome), made some new friends (cool), made some people angry (D’oh!), and learned alot about myself and writing for a mass audience (all 4 of you). Thank you for journeying with me thus far. Over the next week or so I will be making some announcements and changes that are currently affecting my life and my ministry. These exciting changes are right around the corner and I want to keep you all in the loop.
If you are a regular reader, Thank you. Thank you for putting up with my spelling and poor grammar. Thank you for enduring every single post on U2 or Bono. Thank you for your encouragement and your support. Thank you.
Spelling With Babs
I suddenly don’t feel bad for making spelling mistakes on this blog.
Life Is Sweet
Strike Up Amhrán na bhFiann
From Relevant:
After a concert on Sunday, Bono met with Chilean President Ricardo Lagos, who awarded the singer the nation’s highest award for the arts. Before the concert, Bono also received Amnesty International’s 2005 “Ambassador of the Conscience” award, officially making Bono’s medal count higher than the American downhill ski team
It’s funny cause it’s true!
The RIAA Needs Some Good PR
Unfortuantely for them, they keep making statements like this that alienate consumers.
“Nor does the fact that permission to make a copy in particular circumstances is often or even routinely granted, necessarily establish that the copying is a fair use when the copyright owner withholds that authorization. In this regard, the statement attributed to counsel for copyright owners in the MGM v. Grokster case is simply a statement about authorization, not about fair use.”
What does this mean? What exactly is the Recording Industry Association of America hinting at?
The RIAA is now saying that ripping your own CDs to your iPod or other portable device doesn’t constitute as fair use.
The filing also says that creating a back-up CD of an album that you purchased goes against the RIAA’s current fair use policy.
Why can’t this industry get its act together? All this will do is encourage more people to steal music or purchase music from iTunes-like online distributors. Be sure to read the article from EFF and check out the legal briefings and the legal flip-flopping that is coming to define the RIAA as an association that doesn’t care about its clients or consumers.