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[vvalkyri]

1) It should not take me most of two hours to handle an expense report and make some travel arrangements.

2) Sadly, the Willow Creek Church Conference is happening at the same time I'll be in Chicago. This means that I'm dissappointed 'cause the hotel my boss suggested (the one with a pool and jaccuzzi and wireless internet) has been sold out

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[blueingenue]

I'm also kinda boggled by the concept of a single church with 50,000 members. Wow.

I used to go there when I was in high school. Last I heard they were giving the old church (already monstrously huge) for the use of their youth group and building a new main church.

[ksatyr]

50,000 members.

NPR's All Things Considered had a story about Lakewood mega-church that just moved into a 18,000 seat sports arena. It had a weekly attendance of 30,000 in it's previous building. No mention membership totals in the piece, but I suspect more than 50k.

[tikvah]

The link you posted for the story about the Fresno policethugs is broken. However, a Google search using ["Fresno police" "house arrest" girl balloons] brings up almost 80 sites. I'll be posting a link. I hope everyone does. What a pathetic situation!

[vvalkyri]

I fixed the link and sent it now to wikinews, which has links to other news orgs. Originally found it on BBC, on the 16th or 17th; the Herald Tribune had the most in depth article, including thta the girl had immediately been alarmed to have hit, and that she and her parents had run over to the house to apologize and take the kid to the ER for a few stitches. Juvenile Hall? House arrest? crikey.

I found a fair amount on google just now with fresno water balloon house arrest

[dcseain]

Tattooed Fruit is on the Way, but at least that will mean the end of those annoying stickers.

Way cool. I approve. When i first cashiered, from 1989-1992, we had to visually identify 15 varieties of apples in the fall, and 14 varieties of oranges/tangerines in the winter. Cashiers today are lazy. Hmph.

[vvalkyri]

I take it you were at Fresh Fields?

[dcseain]

'89-'92 i worked at Shoppers, from '99-'02 i worked at Fresh Fields/Whole Foods Market.