I've got a long, password-protected draft going. I'm not sure if I will publish it or not, as it's all about a training experience I'm currently having. It is not going well. It's not good when a class starts out with cartoon characters depicting change as the Big Bad Wolf, and with Lisa Simpson quoting the well – known but possibly Snopesian phrase that in Chinese, the words for change and opportunity are the same. I must be flexible yet strong like bamboo, and not unyielding and sharp like katana. Arrrrgh.
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Clothes but no cigars for North Korea – Yahoo News WASHINGTON Reuters – The United States, taking direct aim at North Koreas Kim Jong-il, is trying to make it harder for the reclusive leader to acquire such finer things in life as cognac, cigars, jet skis and plasma televisions.
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Weird news, Oddly Enough articles and other odd events from Yahoo News BOSTON – A former strip club waitress was sentenced Wednesday to five years of supervised release after she pleaded guilty to mailing threatening letters and flammable material, including condoms filled with a potentially explosive mixture, court documents said.
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China urges pre-flight toilet training to save fuel – Yahoo News BEIJING Reuters – A Chinese airline has calculated that it takes a litre of fuel to flush the toilet at 30,000 feet and is urging passengers to go to the bathroom before they board.
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Today is a New Day New Zealand Prayer Book (tags: Episcopalian)
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I just received a bulletin in the mail for Holy Moly and St Nicholas – it’s the Advent newsletter, which is traditionally mailed out just before the beginning of the season by someone at St Nick’s. Something caught my eye, and I went looking for a definition. At the outset, we are going to seek to develop two strong liturgies — a more mainstream one i n the tradition of Holy Innocents and a more inculturated one using the platform of the current St Nicholas liturgy. Which of course, confuses me – there is no such word. Yet, the word…
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We own a TiVo. We watch pretty much what we want to watch, when we want to watch it. I knew we were concentrating on just one of the "Big Three," with the rest of our time watching various cable networks, but I had no idea how cut and dried it was until I saved some links in my "Friends" plugin for WordPress. ABC.comNo shows watched. NBC.com No shows watched. CBS.com 7 shows watched Amazing Race (David leaves the room)CSI:VegasCSI:MiamiCSI:NYCriminal MindsNCISNumb3rs FOX: (meh on their news division)2 shows watched House Bones SpikeTV:CSI:Vegas reruns, if nothing else is on Food NetworkGood…
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Via Pazzo Blog » Blog Archive » Books you’ll never read: Instead of suggesting books you might like to buy, based on what you've bought before, Library Thing has the Unsuggester – plug in a book you've read or you own, and it comes back with a list of books you probably would not want to read. The Lord of the Rings (Collector's Edition) So I plugged in one of my all-time favorite books…and found that apparently, Mary Higgins Clark is the Anti-Tolkien.
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A congregation divided: St Mark’s, Glen Ellyn I’ve been to a diocesan meeting at St Mark’s for distressed missions. There was no hint of this conflict, it happened a while ago, but still. (tags: Episcopal GayClergy) Pocono Record – 1916: Packed Episcopal church has 10 conversions They knew then how to pack ’em in (tags: Episcopal)