Lenten shake-up rocks St. Marks Cathedral Damn. I was received as an Episcopalian at St Marks. I'm sorry to hear that they've got a budget problem that forced several key staffers off the payroll.
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The Gavel » Blog Archive » Oversight Hearing on GSA (tags: GSA Oversight WheelsComingOff CorruptRepublicans)
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MyPetVideos.TV yes, they're funny cats, on video. Includes clips of stuff I've seen before (the Karate Kitty vs. the Kung Meow Master, for example) along with music.
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EMBRACING THE ENVIRONMENT | Chicago Tribune When Steve Levinthal got ready to build his house in Glenview, he knew he wanted it to be environmentally friendly and energy-efficient–translation, "green." Levinthal chose a green architect, Nathan Kipnis Architects in Evanston, and green builder, Sturm Builders in Northbrook, to help him design and build his green house. The result is a house that is ahead of its time in green features. Instead of a furnace and air conditioner, its geothermal system heats the house in winter by pulling heated fluid from the Earth, then cools it in summer by sending the fluid…
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FDA: Chemical Found in Pet Food Recall | Chicago Tribune The Food and Drug Administration said it found melamine in samples of the Menu Foods pet food, as well as in wheat gluten used as an ingredient in the wet-style products. The FDA was working to rule out the possibility that the contaminated wheat gluten could have made it into any human food, but was not aware of any risk to people. It wasn't immediately clear whether the melamine was the culprit in the deaths of more than a dozen cats and dogs and the illnesses of hundreds more, said…
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Our last full day in Tortola wasn’t terribly ambitious; when we woke up we were feeling sort of lazy and so we didn’t make good on our vague notion to drive over to the beachy north shore and snorkel for the day. Good thing we didn’t, because at about mid-afternoon the clouds ganged up and deluged on us. At first it was a pleasant cool sprinkle, and then it was like a cosmic bucket was upended on our end of the island. After congratulating ourselves for spending the day at home, we went back to reading our books. We’d laid…
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Heh. Brother Causticus had the right idea: pay for the Archbishop's travel to visit we poor benighted colonials instead of his ultra-conservative chums in Africa, via an eBay auction: See American bishops in their native habitat! The bishops of the American Episcopal Church have asked Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to make an unprecedented and long-delayed visit to them in North America to discuss the Current Unpleasantness pre-occupying the Anglican Communion. The Americans assure ++Cantuar that their Christian hospitality will match that of the various fissiparous bishops he has broken bread with on multiple continents. So that the plate…
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Windjammer Barefoot Cruises – Sail a tall ship to the Caribbean Tropical adventure and near-perfect weather have lured seafarers and landlubbers to the Virgin Islands for centuries. Even the Gods were seduced … for they blessed this region with zephyr winds that keep Legacy’s sails billowing. From bow to stern, emerald islands, rocky outcrops and pretty yachts dot the panoramic seascape. There’s good reason why the Virgins are called the water sports capital of the Caribbean: the sailing, windsurfing and swimming are first rate. Beach-accessible coral reefs and calm lagoons make for excellent snorkeling and scuba diving. There’s good shopping…
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It’s a rainy day in this version of Paradise; Tortola is a pretty dry island and obviously needs the rain, so I don’t begrudge the weather. We got out and did a snorkel sail excursion yesterday, so today wasn’t planned to be anything but perhaps driving around or hiking. Now that it’s raining, it’s looking to be a relaxing day, and we have stuff to make sandwiches if necessary, although we’ll probably get pulled together to get lunch somewhere “out.” Yesterday at almost the last second I booked a snorkel sail with Patouche Charters, as we had left messages on…
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2 Fall Off Cruise Ship in Gulf of Mexico | Chicago Tribune GALVESTON, Texas — A man and woman fell overboard from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico early Sunday, but both were rescued after a four-hour search and appeared to be in good condition, a cruise line spokeswoman said. The 22-year-old man and 20-year-old woman fell 50 to 60 feet from a cabin balcony, said Julie Benson, spokeswoman for Princess Cruises. Friends and family can heave a sigh of relief, or perhaps of frustration; David and I didn't go overboard. We're not that far away, but we…