Obama has allocated a $7 billion stimulus to high-speed internet. Who is going to get the money? The cable companies? The phone companies? Will it do any good or is it a cyber-bridge to nowhere? With Craig Moffett, VP and Senior Analyst, Sanford C. Bernstein. James C. Goodale, former Vice Chairman of The New York Times, hosts. WNYE/Ch25 – 3/1/09
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Nampa charter school to use Bible as textbook
http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2009/06/28/ap-state-id/d992s7j05.txt
By JESSIE L. BONNER
NAMPA, Idaho – In a former carpet and lighting store turned church, the founders of a new charter school in Nampa sit before a row of pews and outline the curriculum they’ll introduce to more than 550 students in August.
The first sixth-graders to enroll at Nampa Classical Academy will begin learning Latin. The ninth-graders will delve into the history of Western civilization, with the Bible included as a primary source of teaching material.
The Bible will be taught for its literary and historic qualities, as part of a secular education program, headmaster Val Bush said.
"Some people are rather bigoted, they say you can use everything but that," Bush said. "We say, ‘Why?’"
The academy is slated to become the third-largest public charter school in Idaho when it opens this fall.
Portable classrooms on a 17-acre property across town from the New Heart Fellowship Church, where the school is temporarily renting office space, will hold 557 students in kindergarten through ninth grade.
Two months before classes begin, three people have complained to the state that the public charter school appears rooted in Christian beliefs, academy founder Isaac Moffett said.
"We are not a religious school," he said, and students will not receive religious instruction.
Idaho lawmakers passed a law allowing public charter schools a decade ago. More than 30 of the schools _ funded with state money but given more flexibility in how they operate _ have been established by teachers, parents and community members, and have a total of about 10,000 students.
The movement to create new, more autonomous public schools allowed Nampa Classical Academy to create an education grounded in grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy, Moffett said.
Moffett, 36, attended the College of Southern Idaho and Boise State University before completing a social and behavioral science degree two years ago at a satellite campus of George Fox University, a private Oregon-based Christian school. He finished his teaching degree at Lewis-Clark State College in northern Idaho last year.
"My philosophy did not match anything in traditional education today," said Moffett, who believes the idea that his school is religious stems from the core values the school has adopted. Those values, he said, include character, charity, civility, destiny, discipline, excellence, industry, integrity, service, loyalty, originality and patriotism.
"I’ve had people say they’re Christian values. They’re not, they’re Western values," Moffett said, "You could even call them American values."
The school has no affiliation with the church where it temporarily operates down the hall from the office where pastor Randy Reams prepares his weekly sermons, except one of the academy’s board members does worship there, Bush said.
"It was $300 a month to rent this, it was $1,100 to rent at another place. What would you do?" said Bush, a former Caldwell teacher and school superintendent in Utah and Idaho.
As for the Bible, if students are going to learn about Western civilization, they have to learn about the ancient Hebrews, Moffett said, and "the most authoritative text on ancient Hebrews is the Old Testament."
"If you want to be a fraud in front of those students, then omit the Bible," he said. "The kids don’t have to believe it, but to understand a people’s culture you have to understand the religious culture as well."
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 1963 ruling that banned ceremonial school Bible readings, said "the Bible is worthy of study for its literary and historic qualities" so long as material is "presented objectively as part of a secular program of education."
While in practice, public schools across the country have traditionally avoided Bible courses and the potential controversy, hundreds do offer voluntary classes to students.
Nationwide, 487 school districts and 1,975 high schools in 38 states are teaching Bible classes with materials from the National Council On Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, the Greensboro, N.C.-based organization says.
Students at the Nampa academy will read from a New International Version Bible that includes footnotes denoting cultural and archaeology discoveries, Moffett said.
When studying literature, students will read from the King James version of the Bible.
In Idaho, school districts are not prohibited from using the Bible as part of literature or history courses.
"When it comes to a literature class, the state does not have a list of books or novels teachers can use in the classroom," state Department of Education spokeswoman Melissa McGrath said. "I don’t think this is the first school to do it.
"I think it is a historical text, so obviously schools can look at using it in different ways that don’t violate separa
Nampa is heavily LDS, and they subscribe to the KJV, same with much (but not all) of Idaho.
I’ve been to Nampa… it doesn’t surprise me a bit. The LDS are heavily into being accepted as a "Christian" church.
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Made just for fun. Clips of the lady in action!
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Hi, I have been looking at treeless and half treed saddles to buy once I save up enough money. The 2 I am looking at are the Ansur Konklusion and the Heather Moffett Vogue GPT saddle. Which brand do you reccomend? And your experiences with them. Thank you!
I haven’t owned a Ansur or a Moffett saddle before but www.horsetackreview.com has a lot of good reviews about the saddle. The easiest way to see all the models and reviews is to click on All Reader Reviews in the left sidebar under Horse Tack Reviews. (http://www.horsetackreview.com/results-reader-reviews-all.php3)
From what Ive seen both saddles are well made and have good reviews. Some say however these saddles should not be used by a novice/beginner rider as at first they felt insecure in the saddle for the first few rides. (Treeless saddles feel completely different from a traditional saddle when you first start using them!)
Sheri Jones-Moffett, the voice that brought us the smash #1 hit ENCOURAGE YOURSELF has a new album out entitled RENEWED. It’s absolutely phenomenal! Go get renewed!
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Jason Moffett here a.k.a. Officer Tony Moffett of season 5.
What do you think of episodes 58 and 59 that I am in?
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I absolutely love the show. I’ve been a loyal fan since the beginning. Sad to see the series end. But all good things must come to an end. It must be really exciting to be a part of the best show ever 
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A gold medel to Sam Moffett for saving the lives of three people while a heavy snowstorm was taking place and he got a ticket for jaywalking. He and another guy got off and helped this two old ladies cross the road safety and ensured her safety. How stupid were these cops! They should have not ticketed this guy. In Chatham-Kent, Canada they have a courtesy cruiser program where residents can call in to thank a good samaritian for a random act of traffic kindness.
The guy should be honoured, not ticketed?
Here is the entire story:
A good Samaritan who helped push three people out of the path of a pickup truck before being struck and injured has gotten a strange reward for his good deed: A jaywalking ticket.
Family members said 58-year-old bus driver Jim Moffett and another man were helping two elderly women cross a busy Denver street in a snowstorm when he was hit Friday night.
Moffett suffered bleeding in the brain, broken bones, a dislocated shoulder and a possible ruptured spleen. He was in serious but stable condition Wednesday.
The Colorado State Patrol issued the citation. Trooper Ryan Sullivan said that despite Moffett’s intentions, jaywalking contributed to the accident.
Moffett had been driving his bus when the two women got off. In the interest of safety, he got out and, together with another passenger, helped the ladies cross.
Moffett’s stepson, Ken McDonald, said the driver of the pickup plowed into his stepfather, but not before Moffett pushed the two women out of the way.
When he awoke in intensive care, he learned of the ticket. "His reaction was dazed and confused. I was a little angry," said McDonald.
The other man also was cited for jaywalking, while the pickup driver was cited with careless driving that led to injury. Sullivan said the two elderly women haven’t been cited but the investigation is ongoing.
Stupid eh? These cops should know better, they should be ordered to scrap those tickets.
Article:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29406078/?GT1=43001
Hey kid, guess what? That guy put those elderly women in that situation in the first place! Guess cops aren’t so stupid huh? I personally would drop the ticket, but he DID put them in that dangerous situation in the first place. Look who should know better.
A few clips from a compilation dvd made for the moffett family including footage of Maurice( 2.5) , Richard (1.6) and David (1.6) through 2008 and 2009
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