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Filed under: * General Interest • Animals
Pictures guaranteed to bring a smile to your face.
Filed under: * General Interest • Animals • Humor / Trivia
A Russian chimpanzee has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer-drinking habits he has picked up, a popular daily reported on Friday.
An ex-performer, Zhora became aggressive at his circus and was transferred to a zoo in the southern Russian city of Rostov, where he fathered several baby chimps, learned to draw with markers and picked up his two vices.
"The beer and cigarettes were ruining him. He would pester passers-by for booze," the Komsomolskaya Pravda paper said.
Read it all.
An ex-performer, Zhora became aggressive at his circus and was transferred to a zoo in the southern Russian city of Rostov, where he fathered several baby chimps, learned to draw with markers and picked up his two vices.
"The beer and cigarettes were ruining him. He would pester passers-by for booze," the Komsomolskaya Pravda paper said.
Read it all.
Filed under: * General Interest • Animals
The U.S. economy ceased to function this week after unexpected existential remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shocked Americans into realizing that money is, in fact, just a meaningless and intangible social construct....
"It's just an illusion," a wide-eyed Bernanke added as he removed bills from his wallet and slowly spread them out before him. "Just look at it: Meaningless pieces of paper with numbers printed on them. Worthless."
According to witnesses, Finance Committee members sat in thunderstruck silence for several moments until Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) finally shouted out, "Oh my God, he's right. It's all a mirage. All of it—the money, our whole economy—it's all a lie!"
Read it all.
"It's just an illusion," a wide-eyed Bernanke added as he removed bills from his wallet and slowly spread them out before him. "Just look at it: Meaningless pieces of paper with numbers printed on them. Worthless."
According to witnesses, Finance Committee members sat in thunderstruck silence for several moments until Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) finally shouted out, "Oh my God, he's right. It's all a mirage. All of it—the money, our whole economy—it's all a lie!"
Read it all.
Filed under: * Economics, Politics • Economy • * General Interest • Humor / Trivia
As many as 50,000 Lowcountry residents are without power this morning as a result of the snow.
An estimated 12,500 people are without power in Charleston and 14,000 more in the Summerville area, according to SCE&G.
Berkeley County Electric Co-op is reporting another 20,000 outages, down from more than 32,000 at its peak early this morning.
The Highway Patrol is urging motorists to stay off the icy and slushy roads unless absolutely necessary.
We lost power and have lots of downed limbs. The yard is a winter wonderland. Wow. Read it all.
Update: The local newspaper photogallery is here and local residents sent in photos there.
An estimated 12,500 people are without power in Charleston and 14,000 more in the Summerville area, according to SCE&G.
Berkeley County Electric Co-op is reporting another 20,000 outages, down from more than 32,000 at its peak early this morning.
The Highway Patrol is urging motorists to stay off the icy and slushy roads unless absolutely necessary.
We lost power and have lots of downed limbs. The yard is a winter wonderland. Wow. Read it all.
Update: The local newspaper photogallery is here and local residents sent in photos there.
Filed under: * General Interest • Weather • * South Carolina
I caught this one on yesterday morning's run--really wonderful stuff.
Update: There is also a penguin slideshow here.
Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Climate Change, Weather • * Economics, Politics • Energy, Natural Resources • * General Interest • Animals
There are a total of 20 pictures--look at them all (slideshow link to the right once you get there).
Filed under: * General Interest • Animals
The courage I have needed to prepare and present this address would not have been possible without help from John Calvin and Jürgen Moltmann. In his only recently discovered book, Second Thoughts from Geneva, Calvin wrote, "Theology should be serious but not solemnly without humor." And in a recent issue of Theology Today, Moltmann said, "Critical faith has achieved a reflective and free relationship with its basic traditions."
Guided by such considerations, I want to make a plea for a genuine examination of the bonsesquilistic theology of Guido Buonofunacci as of peculiar importance to the ecumenical potentialities of our time. Rightly understood, I believe that Guido anticipated the work of Luther, Calvin, the Council of Trent, George Fox, Jonathan Edwards, Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Harvey Cox, and Sam Keen, among others.
Until the great modem scholarly study of Buonofunacci by J. C. Smith, and some much more modest unpublished writings of my own, it is remarkable and reprehensible that Guido has simply been ignored by both Catholics and Protestants ever since he completed his twelve volumes in the fourteenth century. It is true that the slow development of printing in his time delayed for years the publication of his works in the modern book sense. And his writing Campanola and became Bishop of Pizza, be found time for his potential reading public. His was a relatively tranquil time. After he left his long pastorate at the Church of the Holy Buttons in Campanola and became bishop of Pizza, he found time for his voluminous writing. And by the date when his series was actually published, Luther, Calvin, Erasmus, Ciuto, Gebovitz, von Gliesbar, de Tuil, and others had entered the theological front stage. Without close examination, Protestants wrote him off as a Catholic. Catholics ignored him because he disliked Latin and Italian. Italians neglected him because he had written twelve books.
What a lot of fun--read it all.
Guided by such considerations, I want to make a plea for a genuine examination of the bonsesquilistic theology of Guido Buonofunacci as of peculiar importance to the ecumenical potentialities of our time. Rightly understood, I believe that Guido anticipated the work of Luther, Calvin, the Council of Trent, George Fox, Jonathan Edwards, Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Harvey Cox, and Sam Keen, among others.
Until the great modem scholarly study of Buonofunacci by J. C. Smith, and some much more modest unpublished writings of my own, it is remarkable and reprehensible that Guido has simply been ignored by both Catholics and Protestants ever since he completed his twelve volumes in the fourteenth century. It is true that the slow development of printing in his time delayed for years the publication of his works in the modern book sense. And his writing Campanola and became Bishop of Pizza, be found time for his potential reading public. His was a relatively tranquil time. After he left his long pastorate at the Church of the Holy Buttons in Campanola and became bishop of Pizza, he found time for his voluminous writing. And by the date when his series was actually published, Luther, Calvin, Erasmus, Ciuto, Gebovitz, von Gliesbar, de Tuil, and others had entered the theological front stage. Without close examination, Protestants wrote him off as a Catholic. Catholics ignored him because he disliked Latin and Italian. Italians neglected him because he had written twelve books.
What a lot of fun--read it all.
Filed under: * General Interest • Humor / Trivia • * Theology
A new species of cricket has been caught on camera - and its bizarre behaviour has surprised scientists.
Far from living up to the cricket's plant-destroying reputation, this species lends a helping hand to flora by acting as a pollinator.
Scientists say this is the first time a cricket has been spotted pollinating a flower - in this case, an orchid.
A study of the nocturnal insect, which was found on the island of Reunion, has been published in the Annals of Botany.
Read it all and make sure to watch the video.
Far from living up to the cricket's plant-destroying reputation, this species lends a helping hand to flora by acting as a pollinator.
Scientists say this is the first time a cricket has been spotted pollinating a flower - in this case, an orchid.
A study of the nocturnal insect, which was found on the island of Reunion, has been published in the Annals of Botany.
Read it all and make sure to watch the video.
Filed under: * General Interest • Animals
Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Children • * General Interest • Humor / Trivia
Frigid Nights of the sort that we have been experiencing this week beg the question of whether Columbia's homeless have proper shelter.
Fortunately, Columbia's Winter Homeless Shelter, with a little more than 200 beds, is open. But while we suspect the shelter will function better than it ever has before, now that it is operated by The Cooperative Ministry and the USC School of Medicine, it alone isn't enough to meet the needs of the city's homeless. There are an estimated 900 homeless people in Richland County - and that estimate is quite likely low.
While the city and others make gallant efforts to ensure people at least have some place to go to keep warm, the fact is that simply trying to keep homeless people from freezing to death during winter months isn't enough. The Oliver Gospel Mission, which focuses on turning around lives, does what it does well, but its reach is limited; the same can be said for other shelters, programs and advocates who work tirelessly to help the homeless. The bottom line is we aren't doing enough.
Read the whole editorial from South Carolina's largest newspaper.
Fortunately, Columbia's Winter Homeless Shelter, with a little more than 200 beds, is open. But while we suspect the shelter will function better than it ever has before, now that it is operated by The Cooperative Ministry and the USC School of Medicine, it alone isn't enough to meet the needs of the city's homeless. There are an estimated 900 homeless people in Richland County - and that estimate is quite likely low.
While the city and others make gallant efforts to ensure people at least have some place to go to keep warm, the fact is that simply trying to keep homeless people from freezing to death during winter months isn't enough. The Oliver Gospel Mission, which focuses on turning around lives, does what it does well, but its reach is limited; the same can be said for other shelters, programs and advocates who work tirelessly to help the homeless. The bottom line is we aren't doing enough.
Read the whole editorial from South Carolina's largest newspaper.
Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Poverty • * General Interest • Weather • * South Carolina
It was Palm Sunday and, because of strep throat, four-year-old Stephen had to stay home from church with a babysitter. When the rest of the family returned home carrying palm branches, Stephen asked what they were for.
"People held them over Jesus' head as he walked by," his mother explained.
"Wouldn't you know it," Stephen fumed. "The one Sunday I didn't go, He showed up!"
"People held them over Jesus' head as he walked by," his mother explained.
"Wouldn't you know it," Stephen fumed. "The one Sunday I didn't go, He showed up!"
Filed under: * General Interest • Humor / Trivia
From the Do Not Take Yourself Too Seriously Department: Iowa State Mascot Cy does Evolution of Dance
Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Music • * General Interest • Humor / Trivia
In the nation's capital, where $12.1 trillion of national debt looms and Democratic President Barack Obama's projected 2010 budget shortfall is expected to hit $1.26 trillion, a bill is pending to establish up to $3,500 in annual tax deductions for the family pet.
The legislation is known as the HAPPY Act - Humanity and Pets Partnered Through the Years - and it has some support.
Read it all.
The legislation is known as the HAPPY Act - Humanity and Pets Partnered Through the Years - and it has some support.
Read it all.
Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Law & Legal Issues • * Economics, Politics • Economy • Taxes • Politics in General • House of Representatives • Senate • * General Interest • Animals
Take a look at this years entry--my favorite is stanza number two.
Filed under: * Christian Life / Church Life • Church Year / Liturgical Seasons • Christmas • * Economics, Politics • Economy • The Credit Freeze Crisis of Fall 2008/The Recession of 2007-- • * General Interest • Humor / Trivia
Listen to it all--a superb example of how to read a story.
Filed under: * Christian Life / Church Life • Church Year / Liturgical Seasons • Christmas • * Culture-Watch • Poetry & Literature • * General Interest • Humor / Trivia
Filed under: * General Interest • Animals
One of my favorite stories of the week; I am not going to spoil it by excerpting it you need to listen to it all (almost 6 minutes)
Filed under: * General Interest • Animals
Our youngest daughter Selimah showed us this one--adorable!
Filed under: * General Interest • Animals
Filed under: * General Interest • Animals
You might know that the tantalizing combination of peanut butter and jelly you're eating between two slices of bread was named after a certain Earl of Sandwich, but how many other words that we use every day are named after real people?
How about galvanize? Silhouette? Leotard?
These words — called eponyms — and many more fill a new book called Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words, written by John Bemelmans Marciano.
Some of the people who donated their names to history did it by accident.
"There was a woman named Mary Frisbie who made pies in Connecticut," Marciano tells Renee Montagne. "Students would throw around her pie plates after they had finished her pies, and kind of like you would say, 'Incoming!' they would say, 'Frisbie!' just to give people the heads-up that there was something spinning and flying coming at their head."
I caught this on the morning podcast. Please listen to it all--it is a delight (7 minutes, 20 seconds).
How about galvanize? Silhouette? Leotard?
These words — called eponyms — and many more fill a new book called Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words, written by John Bemelmans Marciano.
Some of the people who donated their names to history did it by accident.
"There was a woman named Mary Frisbie who made pies in Connecticut," Marciano tells Renee Montagne. "Students would throw around her pie plates after they had finished her pies, and kind of like you would say, 'Incoming!' they would say, 'Frisbie!' just to give people the heads-up that there was something spinning and flying coming at their head."
I caught this on the morning podcast. Please listen to it all--it is a delight (7 minutes, 20 seconds).
Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Books • History • * General Interest
Watch it all.
Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Movies & Television • * General Interest • Humor / Trivia
Wisdom is the power to see and the inclination to choose the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.
--J.I.Packer, Knowing God
--J.I.Packer, Knowing God
Filed under: * General Interest • Notable & Quotable • * Theology • Pastoral Theology
In the autumn time feels short, but that there is enough of it, which is paradoxical. Time being a tricky thing to think about is best done alongside Nature, where it seems to make more sense than it does by clock or by calendar. And the memory place that autumn is uses time itself as a container for the things that we keep returning to and trying to understand.
The reflective melancholy of autumn helps me to cope with change and loss, and to find both beauty and necessity in things passing. Ageing has a splendour to it.
Our culture cannot accept that. I think of those lines of Donne: “Nor spring or summer beauty hath such grace/ As I have seen in one autumnal face.”
Read it all.
The reflective melancholy of autumn helps me to cope with change and loss, and to find both beauty and necessity in things passing. Ageing has a splendour to it.
Our culture cannot accept that. I think of those lines of Donne: “Nor spring or summer beauty hath such grace/ As I have seen in one autumnal face.”
Read it all.
Filed under: * Christian Life / Church Life • Spirituality/Prayer • * Culture-Watch • Religion & Culture • * General Interest • Weather • * International News & Commentary • England / UK
Islands are often the playgrounds of imaginary scientists, from Dr. Moreau to the researchers on the TV show Lost. But this place is real: an island where every single plant species has had its DNA analyzed and cataloged.
Plummers Island is just on the edge of the Potomac River and holds the distinction of being "the most studied island in North America."
That's according to John Kress, a botanist at the Smithsonian Institution. "There's been more biologists out here looking at everything from worms to flowers to birds, mammals, snails ... than any other spot on the East Coast," he says.
Read or listen to it all.
Plummers Island is just on the edge of the Potomac River and holds the distinction of being "the most studied island in North America."
That's according to John Kress, a botanist at the Smithsonian Institution. "There's been more biologists out here looking at everything from worms to flowers to birds, mammals, snails ... than any other spot on the East Coast," he says.
Read or listen to it all.
Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Science & Technology • * General Interest • Animals
Asked whether it absolves the critters of past or future sins, Rev. Brad Beale smiled.
"Maybe, in the eyes of the owner," he said, explaining it may bring "the hope they won't be quite so naughty the following year."
He began the service by noting he might have to improvise depending on how the furrier occupants of the pews behaved.
But he and worshippers said it's a fun time.
"It's about environment for us, too -- to remind us that we're connected to the Creation, very connected," said Beale.
"It's a nice alternate service," said Anne Clark.
Read it all.
"Maybe, in the eyes of the owner," he said, explaining it may bring "the hope they won't be quite so naughty the following year."
He began the service by noting he might have to improvise depending on how the furrier occupants of the pews behaved.
But he and worshippers said it's a fun time.
"It's about environment for us, too -- to remind us that we're connected to the Creation, very connected," said Beale.
"It's a nice alternate service," said Anne Clark.
Read it all.
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • TEC Parishes • * Christian Life / Church Life • Liturgy, Music, Worship • Parish Ministry • * General Interest • Animals
In terms of numbers, the Anglican Church isn’t a very big player in Samoa.
But the scale of the tsunami disaster is such that no-one with any Pacific connections has been left untouched by it – including some leading figures in the Diocese of Polynesia.
Take Taimalelagi Fagamalama Tuatagaloa-Leota, for example.
Archdeacon Tai, as she’s known to hundreds in this church is a Samoan living in Auckland. She has served as the Anglican Observer at the United Nations, on the Anglican Consultative Council, as a Diocese of Polynesia representative to the General Synod, and earlier this year she was priested.
For her, the impact of the tsunami is profound.
One of her adult sons was in a van that was swept out to sea by the tsunami. He finished up half under the van, impaled by roofing iron. He’s critically injured, and is in Apia hospital.
Read it all.
But the scale of the tsunami disaster is such that no-one with any Pacific connections has been left untouched by it – including some leading figures in the Diocese of Polynesia.
Take Taimalelagi Fagamalama Tuatagaloa-Leota, for example.
Archdeacon Tai, as she’s known to hundreds in this church is a Samoan living in Auckland. She has served as the Anglican Observer at the United Nations, on the Anglican Consultative Council, as a Diocese of Polynesia representative to the General Synod, and earlier this year she was priested.
For her, the impact of the tsunami is profound.
One of her adult sons was in a van that was swept out to sea by the tsunami. He finished up half under the van, impaled by roofing iron. He’s critically injured, and is in Apia hospital.
Read it all.
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • - Anglican: Latest News • * General Interest • Weather • * International News & Commentary • Asia
Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Travel • * General Interest • Humor / Trivia • * International News & Commentary • Australia / NZ • England / UK
Quite something--watch it all.
Filed under: * General Interest • Weather • * International News & Commentary • Australia / NZ
A boy was watching his father, a minister, write a sermon.
“How do you know what to say?” he asked.
“Why, God tells me.”
“Oh, then why do you keep crossing things out?”
“How do you know what to say?” he asked.
“Why, God tells me.”
“Oh, then why do you keep crossing things out?”
Filed under: * General Interest • Humor / Trivia
I remember standing at Meeting and Broad streets, the famous Four Corners of Law, thinking this was a historic moment. As a reporter, I felt lucky to be there. As a citizen, however, it was devastating.
A few hours later, I waded onto the barrier islands and witnessed firsthand what looked like a war zone. The power of such a storm made houses on the island look like they had been inside a blender.
In the days to come, the sound of chain saws would dominate our senses as we all witnessed the aftermath of a nightmare.
I remember walking through the rubble of people's homes and wondering how long it would take for us to recover from such a disaster.
Turns out, some of us never will.
Read it all.
A few hours later, I waded onto the barrier islands and witnessed firsthand what looked like a war zone. The power of such a storm made houses on the island look like they had been inside a blender.
In the days to come, the sound of chain saws would dominate our senses as we all witnessed the aftermath of a nightmare.
I remember walking through the rubble of people's homes and wondering how long it would take for us to recover from such a disaster.
Turns out, some of us never will.
Read it all.
Filed under: * Culture-Watch • History • * General Interest • Weather • * South Carolina
An old city, like anyone who has lived a bold life, will have many scars. Over its lifetime, Charleston has weathered plagues, wars, fires, storms and earthquakes — events that left the city in ruins and terrified its residents.
Some scars from these traumatic times are still visible today; others healed outwardly but remain part of the city's collective memory and are as real as the morning light.
Twenty years ago, Hurricane Hugo, a dark mass of spinning winds and vapor as big as the state itself, tore into South Carolina.
Those who went through the storm will never forget the rising waters, the freight-train wail of the winds, the Ben Sawyer Bridge tilting in the marsh, the pines snapped halfway up their trunks, the pink insulation everywhere, the convoys of people coming to help, the exhaustion at the end of a day trying to make things normal again.
Hard to believe it has been two decades. I remember a lot of things, but most of all the sound the wind made. It is a sound I never want to hear again. Read it all--KSH.
Some scars from these traumatic times are still visible today; others healed outwardly but remain part of the city's collective memory and are as real as the morning light.
Twenty years ago, Hurricane Hugo, a dark mass of spinning winds and vapor as big as the state itself, tore into South Carolina.
Those who went through the storm will never forget the rising waters, the freight-train wail of the winds, the Ben Sawyer Bridge tilting in the marsh, the pines snapped halfway up their trunks, the pink insulation everywhere, the convoys of people coming to help, the exhaustion at the end of a day trying to make things normal again.
Hard to believe it has been two decades. I remember a lot of things, but most of all the sound the wind made. It is a sound I never want to hear again. Read it all--KSH.
Filed under: * Culture-Watch • History • * General Interest • Weather • * South Carolina
I caught this this morning on the way to the dentist--very funny.
Filed under: * General Interest • Humor / Trivia
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