Sally went into emergency surgery around 3 a.m. this morning. A blood clot was also found and the doctors felt it could be life threatening. They went into surgery and Jose said it would likely be a 4-5 hour surgery. As of 6 a.m. the doctors had not updated the family. Jose sounded worn down and tired but hopeful.
Category: faith
Re: Prayer Request
After more tests at Baylor Dallas it has been determined (as I understand it) that Sally has AVM, Arteriorvenous malformation. Sally is stable tonight but they will have a neurosurgeon operate on her in the morning unless an emergency operation is necessary overnight.
The morning surgery has not yet been scheduled. Please continue to keep the Perez’s and their family in your prayers and especially Sally and the doctors in the morning.
Prayer request
My good friend Sally Perez (wife of Jose) went to the ER today with bad headaches and blurred vision. A migraine was suspected but further tests revealed some swelling of the brain. She’s being transferred to Baylor Dallas for further examination. Please pray for both her health and comfort and patience for Jose and their three children.
Moby makes music available to Indie Filmmakers
This is HUGE! At least to me…
Moby has revamped his website (looks very cool by the way) and is starting a new feature called, “film music.”
and here’s the biggie(well, at least i think so)…there’s a new part of moby.com called ‘film music’. it’s essentially a function that allows independent and non-profit filmmakers to download and use my music for free. we’re starting with about 60 pieces of eclectic, unreleased, film music, but over-time i’ll continue to update it and add more music.
these 60 pieces of music can be downloaded and used for free by student filmmakers and indie filmmakers and, basically, anyone making a non-commercial* film, be it 2 minutes long or 400 minutes long.
if you’re a filmmaker(or are in need of free music for a non-commercial film or video)you can sign up and download and use this music for free.
i have a lot of friends in the independent film world, and their biggest complaint is that it’s either expensive or onerous to license music for their films.
so that’s why i’m making a lot of my music available for free use for non-profit, independent films.
i hope you find it useful.
i hope you enjoy the new moby.com.
please look below for the *.
-moby
*-yup, the asterisk. the music in the film-music part of moby.com is available for free use for student films and independent films and non-profit films and shorts and etc. the music is available so long as these films are not used for commercial(i.e-making money)purposes.
if you use the music in your film and your film goes on to make money: great, and congratulations.
before your film makes money, though, you’ll have to apply for a commercial license for the music. i PROMISE that the commercial licenses won’t be expensive or difficult to obtain.
and any money that this music generates from commercial licenses will be given to a charity.
this year that charity will be the humane society.
ok, i hope that’s clear. thanks.
Looks like encounter will be hearing a lot more Moby for the films/videos I make for Sunday morning. 🙂
Re: Better re-learn your pledge
Ok… just one more post today. I couldn’t resist.
This is also from Vince: Oh, yes. We’ve got a juvenile prison system in a state of disaster, a department of transportation out of control with its “gap†estimates, and more…and the House will debate whether or not to make the pledge more Jesus friendly.
Re: Better re-learn your pledge
Capital Annex has even more on HB 1034. I appreciate Vince’s great coverage.
In a runaway vote, the Texas House voted on third reading this week to pass HB 1034, the bill by Rep. Debbie Riddle (R-Tomball) that would essentially destroy the historical integrity of the pledge to the Texas flag in favor of making it more Judeo-Christian friendly.
Here’s how the third-reading vote went down:
HB 1034 was passed by (Record 983): 124 Yeas, 12 Nays, 2 Present, not voting.
Yeas — Alonzo; Anchia; Anderson; Aycock; Bailey; Berman; Bohac; Bonnen; Branch; Brown, B.; Brown, F.; Callegari; Chisum; Christian; Coleman; Cook, B.; Cook, R.; Corte; Crabb; Creighton; Crownover; Darby; Davis, J.; Delisi; Deshotel; Driver; Dukes; Dunnam; Dutton; Eissler; Elkins; England; Escobar; Farabee; Farias; Farrar; Flores; Flynn; Frost; Gallego; Garcia; Gattis; Geren; Giddings; Gonzales; Goolsby; Guillen; Haggerty; Hamilton; Hancock; Hardcastle; Harless; Harper-Brown; Hartnett; Heflin; Herrero; Hilderbran; Hill; Hochberg; Homer; Hopson; Hughes; Jackson; Jones; Keffer; King, P.; King, S.; King, T.; Kolkhorst; Krusee; Kuempel; Latham; Laubenberg; Leibowitz; Macias; Madden; Martinez; McClendon; McReynolds; Menendez; Merritt; Miller; Morrison; Mowery; Murphy; Noriega; O D’ay; Oliveira; Olivo; Orr; Ortiz; Otto; Parker; Patrick; Paxton; Pena; Phillips; Pickett; Pitts; Puente; Quintanilla; Raymond; Riddle; Ritter; Rodriguez; Rose; Smith, T.; Smith, W.; Smithee; Solomons; Strama; Swinford; Talton; Taylor; Truitt; Turner; Van Arsdale; Vaught; Villarreal; Vo; West; Woolley; Zedler; Zerwas.
Nays — Allen; Bolton; Burnam; Castro; Chavez; Cohen; Davis, Y.; Hodge; Howard, D.; Miles; Naishtat; Thompson.
Present, not voting—Mr. Speaker(C); Mallory Caraway.
Absent, Excused—Eiland; Isett; Martinez Fischer; Moreno.
Absent — Gonzalez Toureilles; Hernandez; Howard, C.; Lucio; McCall; Pierson; Straus; Veasey.
As Vince pointed out, Austin Democrat Valinda Bolton had an excellent statement of intent, and I wish all House members saw things the way she did on this:
I am and have been a Baptist all my life, and the concepts of religious liberty and separation of church and state are firmly ingrained in me. Roger Williams who lived in the 1600s is widely viewed as the father of Baptist life in America.
He gave up a very powerful position in England and came to the colonies, fleeing religious persecution. However, even in the colonies he faced persecution because he wouldn’t worship as the leaders prescribed. In fact, late in his life he was banished to an uninhabited island and expected to die there. When, by God’s grace, he prospered there, the leader of the colony sent him a scathing letter demanding to know why he hadn’t just gone ahead and died as expected.
Roger Willliams risked everything for what he believed. I have not been asked to risk as much, but my belief in religious liberty is that it is worth fighting for. It would be very easy to vote yes on this bill to avoid being seen as voting against God but I am very confident in my Christian faith and my relationship with God. I will be voting no and voting for religious liberty.
Vince also shares another exchange between State Rep. Riddle and State Rep. Hochberg:
REPRESENTATIVE HOCHBERG: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, thank you, Ms. Riddle. I’m just trying to get clear in my own mind, because I’m going to have constituents ask me about my vote, of course, one way or another, and I voted with you last night.
REPRESENTATIVE RIDDLE: Thank you.
HOCHBERG: And I expect to vote with you today. Tell me why you picked out, you said last night that you were trying to essentially conform our pledge to the national pledge, and if I m’ misstating what you said, please clarify that for me.
RIDDLE: No, that, I think, is what I made very clear, that in our national pledge, we say, “one nation under God.†I felt like it was altogether right and appropriate for us to have in our state pledge, that we would say, “one state under God.â€
HOCHBERG: We also, in the national pledge, if I’m not mistaken, say, “with liberty and justice for all.†You didn’t include that in your bill, I don’t believe. Was there some reason that you didn’t include that, but you did include the “under God†part?
RIDDLE: No.
HOCHBERG: No? Would you take a third reading amendment to add, “with liberty and justice for all?â€
RIDDLE: No.
HOCHBERG: Because?
RIDDLE: I think that the way we have it now, it reads smoothly, it says what we wanted it to say, and I think that we voted on it yesterday, and I think that we have a consensus that basically says what we want it to say.
HOCHBERG: Okay, but you’re basically trying to pick up the religious piece from the national pledge and just move it down to our state pledge. Is that fair?
RIDDLE: What I said yesterday is that it simply mirrors the national pledge in that area.
HOCHBERG: It mirrors the religious part of the pledge.
RIDDLE: This pledge is, in fact, unique to Texas, and we’re not trying to replicate the entire pledge, but there are parts of the pledge that I thought we could put in it.
HOCHBERG: And why did you think that that particular part was appropriate to replicate rather than the other?
RIDDLE: That is the part that I thought of. I didn’t even think about the other, sir.
HOCHBERG: And so why would you be opposed to the “with liberty and justice for all†part, isn t’that important, too?
RIDDLE: We’re in the third reading.
HOCHBERG: I just thought of it.
RIDDLE: You just now thought of it?
HOCHBERG: I did, ma’am.
RIDDLE: You just now thought of it?
HOCHBERG: I did, ma’am. I really did. It was a little late last night, ma’am, it really was. Had I thought of it then, I really would have brought it up to you then, but I didn’t, and so I guess what I’m trying to understand, because I don’t want to mess with the purpose of your bill, and I don’t want to put a point of order on your bill, I don’t want to do any of that stuff. If the purpose of your bill is you’re just trying to do the religious part of it, I understand that. If the purpose of your bill was to mirror the federal pledge to the national flag to the star-spangled banner, then it’s not getting that, because you’re missing an important part. I want it to serve whatever purpose you said that you think it’s supposed to serve.
RIDDLE: Well, I didn’t think of the other, our pledge is unique to Texas, and I think that we have it the way we want it, but next session, if you’d like to put that in it, then I welcome you to do that.
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