Not to much to post about but i bet it will end up really long

http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?userid=qM41n8aBwT&EAN=94631145704&ITM=3
check out this link. It's a cd about song's inspired by the Chronicles of Narnia. It's pretty good. There's a lot of big Christian artists that contributed to this CD. It really angers me that the Ark isn't going to be open all of Christmas Break, but it will be on Friday when the adults have a chance to eat breakfast burritos and drink coffee. I guess i'm acting a bit jealous. I just figured that if people should be coming down to the Ark, wouldn't it make sense to have it open when people can come? All sorts of College students are home for Christmas Break. I understand 100% why it wasn't open Christmas weekend. New Years is a big time for teens. The Ark is for teens. Shouldn't it be open then? Maybe Monica wants to spend it with family. Isn't there a chaperone list? New Years day could have been a great day to bring people down for Bible Study because PW doesn't have school on Monday. The Ark should stop trying so hard to have movie nights and all sorts of activities that are fun and all, but...the point of the Ark isn't material things and things you can touch. It's all about God. The Ark needs to concentrate harder on the religious end of it. Look at where everyone wants to put money toward in the remodeling...the chapel! Many nights we haven't had Bible study. The Ark is putting too much emphasis on the material things rather than God it seems like. The Ark is meant for God and in order for the Ark to remain, God must remain in the Ark.

Freedom of the Press

My brother Jon put this article in the CMU paper titled "Female Priesthood Ban is Christ's Plan" this article was put in the opinion Opinion/letters to the editor section of the paper.(whatever you want to call it.) It was made in response to an article called "Sinners’ more acceptable than women?"

How do you tackle an invasion of giant jellyfish? Try making sushi

THEY are called echizen kurage and they sound like monsters from the trashier reaches of Japanese science fiction.
They are 6ft wide and weigh 450lb (200kg), with countless poisonous tentacles, they have drifted across the void to terrorise the people of Japan. Vast armadas of the slimy horrors have cut off the country’s food supply. As soon as one is killed more appear to take its place.
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Finally, the quarrelsome governments of the region are banding together to unite against the enemy.
Echizen kurage is not an extraterrestrial invader, but a giant jellyfish that is devastating the livelihoods of fishermen in the Sea of Japan. Nomura’s jellyfish, as it is known in English, is the biggest creature of its kind off Japan and for reasons that remain mysterious its numbers have surged in the past few months.
The problem has become so serious that fishery officials from Japan, China and South Korea are to meet this month for a “jellyfish summit” to discuss strategies for dealing with the invasion. Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has formed a jellyfish countermeasures committee and fishermen are at work on technology to keep the marauders out of their nets.
The problem first became obvious in the late summer when fishermen chasing anchovies, salmon and yellowtail began finding huge numbers of the jellyfish in their nets.
Often the weight of the echizen kurage broke the nets or crushed the fish to death; those that survived were poisoned and beslimed by their tentacles.
Fishermen on the northern tip of Honshu, Japan’s main island, were forced to suspend work at the height of the lucrative salmon season.
In Akita prefecture some communities saw their incomes fall by 80 per cent. The gizzard shad fishers of South Korea have also been plagued by the Nomura’s.
In some places jellyfish density is reported to be a hundred times higher than normal. Worst of all, no one yet understands why. One theory is that global warming is heating up the seawater and encouraging jellyfish breeding.
Some observers blame heavy rains in China over the summer, which flowed out from rivers and propelled abnormal numbers of jellyfish towards Japan. Nutrients in its river water may have given them extra zip — or overfishing has allowed the growth of the populations of plankton on which the jellyfish feed.
Screens and meshes have been designed that allow fish through but keep out anything bigger, and a web of metal wires can be placed inside a net to chop the jellyfish to pieces.
In the meantime locals are making the best of it — rather than just complaining about jellyfish they are eating them.
Jellyfish are an unusual ingredient of Japanese cuisine but are much more prized in China. Coastal communities are doing their best to promote jellyfish as a novelty food, sold dried and salted.
Students in Obama have managed to turn them into tofu, and jellyfish collagen is reported to be beneficial to the skin.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1910322,00.html

Have you ever noticed that...

lately we have been arguing a lot about what we like and the choices we made. Jennifer has been analyzing my every word because I don't like Harry Potter without reading the incredibly long 6 book series or seen any of the movies. People don't think Sarah would be a good breakdancer (I wasn't saying you couldn't be a good break dancer I was just amazed that you want to learn how). Everyone's mad at tom because of chops (Its Toms face not anyone elses). Kenric is mad at me because I don't like the Wizard of Oz. Sarah and Jennifer are fighting over what they think American culture is and whether or not you should be cultured (People over time make their own culture by doing the things they like and what they think is good. People don't need to embrace a certain culture because they just should. We may never have a new culture if people didn't make their own.) People have their own opinions and we need to understand that. These things don't matter to much and so there's no need to go crazy about it. Now a lot of things have been going on lately in our society that have beeen saying that everyone can do whatever they want because they are free. Ex. Gays and Lesbians, abortion, the "right" to die movement. What's not being realized is that sometimes humans can be wrong. In our situation it's a little different though it's not wrong to have chops. It doesn't kill people to not like Wizard of Oz or Harry Potter.

Sarah made a good point....

"i seem like me and me can do anything it wants"

this is a very good point, just as long as people remember that sometimes there is a right choice and wrong one.