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Millionaire spooked from mansion
A millionaire businessman from Nottinghamshire has said ghosts forced him to flee his 52-room mansion.
Clifton Hall was bought by Anwar Rashid for £3.6m in 2007, but he has now handed it back to the bank.
Mr Rashid claimed that during the eight months the family lived there they were haunted by mysterious figures and found unexplained blood stains on bedclothes.
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Tempting Gross Apartment of the Day
We had a resident who had an outstanding balance for over a month and no one could get ahold of her. The Bookkeeper went inside after so many tries to leave a note and this is what we found.
The pictures do NO justice. There is suppose to be 2 cats living here but we cant find them (we think they’re dead somewhere inside the apartment-we contacted the SPCA). The place REEKS to say the leaks, i gagged non stop.
I’m hungry for Whataburger all of a sudden.
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Gospel Today magazine pulled from Christian bookstores’ shelves
Smiling women on the cover of a slick magazine. Sold from under the counter. Must request it from store clerk.
That’s not something a buyer would typically find in a Christian bookstore. Not unless it’s one of the more than 100 Lifeway Christian Bookstores across the United States, including about six in metro Atlanta.
Gospel Today, the Fayetteville-published magazine, was pulled off the racks by the bookstores’ owner, the Southern Baptist Convention. The problem? The five smiling women on the cover are women of the cloth — church pastors.
Southern Baptist polity says that’s a role reserved for men.
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Daily Photo Aging Project – 17 YEARS Worth (photo-a-day)
To do this
he used this
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Approximately As Many People As Wasilla
When Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, there were approximately 6,000 people living in the town. Here are some other things with approximately 6,000 people.
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What it costs to fire a worker
AFTER years of fat profits and bonuses, cost-cutting is once again at the top of the corporate agenda. For companies wanting to chop out middle-management dead wood or sack factory workers, costs can vary enormously across the world. America, New Zealand and Tonga are among the most company-friendly countries, requiring no penalties or compensation to fire a full-time employee of 20 years. By contrast, a business in Zimbabwe must shell out well over eight years’ worth of pay to sack a worker. But companies in Venezuela and Bolivia are even more tied—workers there cannot be fired at all.
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Musical Road Hits Sour Notes With Neighbors
Local officials say it was a mistake to allow a television commercial company to grind grooves into a stretch of desert roadway near Lancaster to enable car tires to play a song — “The William Tell Overture” — as people drive over it.
The sounds are disturbing people in a nearby subdivision, the Daily News reports. The City of Lancaster plans to pave over the musical grooves Tuesday.
Persons driving the posted 55 miles an hour west on Avenue K, in the high desert about five miles west of the Antelope Valley (14) Freeway, hear about 38 musical notes of the well-known theme, also known as the overture to “The Lone Ranger.”
American Honda has paid for the promotion as part of a television ad campaign set to air this fall, but amateurs have peppered YouTube with homemade renditions of their own vehicles rolling over the grooves.
The road is tuned to a car just exactly the length, and equipped with tires the same size, as a Honda Civic, a spokesman for Honda said. But other vehicles are also successful in playing the notes, if a little off-key.
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Lebanon lands $175M Bible Park USA
Developers of the Bible Park USA have announce plans to build the $175 million park in Lebanon.
The park will be built on 113 acres off Cainsville Road and Tater Peeler Road fronting Interstate 40 in Lebanon, according to a press release from the developers, BPU Holdings, LLC.
Construction is expected to begin in 2009, with the park opening in late 2010.
Developers had hoped to building the Bible theme park just outside of Murfreesboro, but zoning for the park was defeated in a close vote by the Rutherford County Commission in May.
The development of the park is being headed by Calif.-based Entertainment Development Group Inc.
The park will represent life as it was in the Holy Land’s early days and visualizations of Bible stories, according to the developers. In addition to attractions for people of all ages and religions, it will include a children’s area and a teen area that will be ideal for church events and field trips.
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The Bible Goes Green for the Prius Age
Green runs through the Bible like a vine. There are the Garden and Noah’s olive branch. The oaks under which Abraham met with angels. The “tree standing by the waterside” in Psalms. And there is Jesus, the self-proclaimed “true vine,” who describes the Kingdom of Heaven as a mustard seed that grows into a tree “where birds can nest.” He dies on a cross of wood, and when he rises Mary Magdalene mistakes him for a gardener.
Now there is a Bible trying to make gardeners of us all. On Oct. 7, HarperCollins is releasing The Green Bible, a Scripture for the Prius age that calls attention to more than 1,000 verses related to nature by printing them in a pleasant shade of forest green, much as red-letter editions of the Bible encrimson the words of Jesus. The new version’s message, states an introduction by Evangelical eco-activist J. Matthew Sleeth, is that “creation care”–the Christian catchphrase for nature conservancy–”is at the very core of our Christian walk.”
Using recycled paper with soy-based ink, The Green Bible includes supplementary writings by, among others, St. Francis of Assisi, Pope John Paul II, Desmond Tutu and Anglican bishop N.T. Wright. Several of these essays cite the Genesis verse in which God gives humanity “dominion” over the earth, a charge most religious greens read to mean “stewardship.” Others assert that eco-neglect violates Jesus’ call to care for the least among us: it is the poor who inhabit the floodplains.
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Mixtape Memory Stick
Nobody makes mixtapes anymore. Analog audiotapes just aren’t passed around anymore. It’s a shame, really. Yes, the medium sucks, but the concept and the thought and the ART needs to find a way to live on.
The USB Mixtape Memory Stick is a digital analogue to the venerable C60 cassette of old. 60 minutes worth of storage or your MP3s, organized into a cohesive whole – something that says who you are at this moment in time. Packaged to look like an old analog audio cassette tape, with room to scrawl out your tracklist, the USB Mixtape Memory Stick makes the perfect gift to your significant other.
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Woman named Bacon wins Idaho hog-calling title
LEWISTON, Idaho – Jolee Bacon really sizzles when it comes to hog-calling.
The northern Idaho woman took first place Saturday in the competition at the Nez Perce County Fair.
She has raised several champion pigs for 4-H contests. Bacon says she calls pigs every morning and night with her 9-year-old daughter, Jacey.
Bacon won the crown over as she started her hog call with a few loud snorts and a long, drawn-out “sooey.”
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Bag of Randomness
- WifeGeeding is feeling better.
- So much happened on Sunday. First you had the regular NFL games, 60 Minutes dedicated only to h McCain and Obama (I thought McCain came across very well btw), The Emmys, The last Yankee game at Yankee Stadium, and of course the Cowboys game.
- Speaking of the final game at Yankee stadium, I noticed that one of my old friends from Mineral Wells was at bat for the Orioles. Never would I have thought that someone that I actually played with as a kid would not only be batting at Yankee Stadium, but actually had the possibility to hit the final home run there. He didn’t, but the thought ran across my mind.
- I don’t want to give the impression he was a close friend or anything, but I just wanted to note that it’s interesting seeing someone from your childhood actually play Major League Baseball.
- From what I remember, his father was a police officer and died in the line of duty when he was very young. I also remember his grandparents and his mother attending every one of his games, but never ever did I think he had the ability to become a professional athlete.
- One thing that I always enjoyed about watching a Yankees game was how the elite and all the celebrities sat in the stand with everyone else, that’s not going to happen in the new place.
- Finally, a CEO with some integrity.
- I’m sick and tired of all the drug commercials. I think, and would hope, my doctor knows what is best to prescribe for me rather than me suggesting something to him . . . or her.
- I can’t decide if I was happier seeing the Cowboys win their first game in Lambeau Field or seeing the Dolphins crush the Pats and watching their fans leave early.
- Here are the videos that the winners of Southwest Airlines Blog-o-spondent contest created while in Las Vegas. The overall winner of the contest was the first video.
- One strange local obit (credit Barry).
- I have a feeling my obituary will read something like:Â He loved Jesus, his wife, dog, the Dallas Cowboys, and blogging – not necessarily in that order.
- I don’t like the “slinky” Post-Its.
- I read recently that back in the old days church pews used to be rented. I think I heard of that before, but was reminded of it when reading an article about Lincoln.
- Confused about the whole finance mess? NPR sums it up nicely in this 13 minute audio piece.
- I just found out one of my friends has actually testified before Congress.
- Thank you, Heather B. Armstrong. Thank you.
- Glad Microwave Steaming Bags rock – simply the fastest and best way to cook broccoli.
- I saw the second episode of Lost from the first season after SNL. That was the episode we learn of Charlie’s drug addiction and how the flight attendants were trying to get him out of the bathroom. I remember at the time thinking it was because of him that the plane crashed.
- New pennies are coming.
- It has taken me a while, but I think I’m finally use to seeing receivers wear jerseys between 10-19.
- If Hitler was on Dancing With The Stars – Link.
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