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Five days to go and Beijing skies FINALLY clear as China rehearses the world’s most spectacular fireworks display
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Top 15 Most Inspirational Olympic Moments
What makes for an inspiring Olympic moment? Is it the years of hard work and sacrifice that culminate in a gold medal? Is it competing because you love your sport, even though it’s unlikely you’ll ever win? Is it suffering an injury but finishing the race? Is it overcoming a stereotype and proving something to the world? All these factors and more play a part in the great moments of Olympic history.
As we stand at the threshold of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, what will be the inspiring moments to come? Perhaps it will be Dana Torres, the oldest competitive female swimmer in history, who is vying for a comeback. Or China’s Liu Xiang, who hopes to bring a gold medal in hurdles to honor his home country.
As we await the starting trumpet, Beliefnet looks back at the most inspiring Olympic moments ever. Some names you’ll know, some will jog your memory, and some may even surprise you.
My favorite father and son Olympic moment comes in at #5.
I choke up almost every time.
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The Top Ten Myths in FBI History
I wasn’t aware that Elliot Ness wasn’t an FBI agent.
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Football Jesus Bobble Head
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You just gotta love that helmet logo.
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I Fear Revolving Doors
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Salt in bacon is keeping you healthy, say meat firms
Moves to cut salt levels in bacon and ham risk increasing potentially fatal cases of the paralysing food bug botulism, the Food Standards Agency has been warned.
Ham processors are particularly concerned at moves to reduce salt content to 2.13g per 100g by 2010 and to 1.75g by 2012. They said their concern was not because of a resistance to change, but was related to the health risks.
Other food sectors are also unhappy about the revised salt reduction targets from the watchdog, which they insist are putting consumers off sandwiches and ready meals.
[Thanks, Sharon!]
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Don’t Tease An Ewok
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Bag of Randomness
- The weekend started off with WifeGeeding and I taking advantage of Ruth’s Chris Summer Celebration special. For $89 bucks, you get a three course meal for two. Not the best of deals, but a pretty good one for this kind of place.
- They actually had bison on the menu. I was tempted, but I wanted to stick to the special.
- I blogged about it before, and I’ll mention it again, but all men’s rooms should have the Anti Splash guards like the ones at Ruth’s Chris.
- I want to highly recommend to anyone needing to solve a computer issue to contact Data Doctors. The external hard drive I was using to store pictures and other important docs crashed and I thought some of my most precious and irreplaceable memories were lost. This was something I blogged about a while ago but just got around to solving. Usually it would cost me about $300 for them to extract the files from the hard drive and burn them to a DVD. Instead the rep recommended I buy a $30 device at another store to solve my problem – and it worked!
- SisterGeeding finally made it to NYC.
- I was contacted by the lovely and talented author Margaret Feinberg. She just finished a new book and was wondering if we wanted to read and blog about it. You will soon see posts from WifeGeeding as she reads The Sacred Echo.
- Steve Kroft is probably the weakest reporter at 60 Minutes, but he seems like a nice guy.
- I admit I’m disappointed in Obama not wanting to partake in any town hall debates.
- I’ve been watching the Generation Kill miniseries on HBO and find it very intriguing. It’s great watching something that really isn’t political and give you a fair representation of what life is like there as a soldier.
- I can’t imagine what it must like to be a soldier and have to make the decision of enemy or non-enemy in a split second.
- I’m a bit surprised at how the soldiers interact with their officers.
- I remember being at a church service several years back when I was church-hopping and was given a post card to write to a soldier. Since it was a spurt of the moment kind of thing, I wrote something pretty generic. Now that I think about it and after watching this series, I think I would simply tell the soldier to write me back and tell me what he needs and I would send it to him . . . or her.
- I saw some special over the weekend on the two Olympic buildings in China. I was surprised that the government hired design architechs from outside the country.
- Preseason football is on and I’m happy. I love seeing (and tracking) people trying to make the team.
- Hard Knocks premires on Aug 6. I was disappointed with the last version with the Cowboys, but this year should be much better with a better cast of “characters” and a bunch of crazy story lines going into the season.
- Heard a song on the radio I haven’t heard in years . . . Meatloaf’s “I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won’t Do That.” It was my first iTunes purchase in months.
- North Texas summers are hot. Duh.
- I find the Brett Favre saga intertaining since I have no vested interest in the situation, but do find it funny how the Packers just reversed their decision on whether or not he can compete for the starting position.
- I also watched Iron Eagle this weekend. When I watched that movie for the first time as an 11 year old, it was one of the coolest movies in the history of ever. Now, I just realized how silly it is.
- I think starting today I’m going to schedule two posts to appear at noon just to help your day go by.
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