A likeness of Sen. Barack Obama was found hanging in the George Fox University quad early Tuesday along with graffiti aimed at minority recipients of a scholarship program, the university president told The Oregonian this morning.
President Robin Baker said he plans to discuss the incident with the student body later this morning.
“We are a faith community driven by the teachings of Christ,” said Baker, who has presided over the Christian college for about a year. “We have to express love toward each other so it was a great disappointment that anything like this would happen.”
George Fox University, which is located in Newberg, was founded in 1891 by Quaker pioneers.
Staple British bread brand Hovis has announced that they are to replace their famous ‘boy on the bike’ advert with a new epic TV commercial, showcasing over 100 years of the nation’s history. Part of Hovis’ huge relaunch campaign, the ad will be a mammoth 122 seconds long celebrating the 122 years since Hovis was established.
Filmed in Liverpool, with a cast of over 750 extras — many of whom are ordinary Brits cast off the streets, the ad depicts the highs and lows experienced by Britain during Hovis’ existence – including World War I, the suffragette movement, the first motor car, World War II, the 1953 coronation, the swinging sixties, England winning the World Cup, the 1980’s miners’ strike and the Millennium celebrations. It ends with the poignant message ‘As good today as it’s always been’ reinforcing Hovis’ strong brand heritage and marking the beginning of a new Hovis era.
I’ve always been a bit fascinated by how much a president ages from his term in office, the physical toll that is, although I don’t think Reagan showed a lot of age from his span in office. But to be fair, the first picture was probably done in a studio and touched up a bit whereas the second photo was a random outdoor shot.
Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin might not be fond of San Francisco, but one San Francisco wine bar is fond of Palin Syrah. Or rather, it was.
“It was our best selling wine before (the V.P. announcement),†said Chris Tavelli, owner of Yield Wine Bar, which has offered Palin Syrah, a certified organic wine from Chile, by the glass since July. But after Sen. John McCain tagged Sarah Palin as his running mate, sales of the wine with the conservative’s inverted name plummeted—not surprising in famously liberal San Francisco.
The ever-shrinking record album–its latest iteration being the compact disc–just got a lot more compact, or shall we say, micro.
Backed by four major music labels, SanDisk on Monday announced a new physical music format dubbed “SlotMusic” that’s essentially an entire album on a MicroSD compact memory card. Wal-Mart and Best Buy are among the retailers that have already signed on to start selling the cards for the upcoming holiday season.
With CD sales continuing to flounder, this latest effort to boost physical media sales is aimed at users of the millions of cell phones and MP3 players with MicroSD slots. They can insert the card right into the slot and immediately hear the music. The card will also come with a USB sleeve so it can be plugged in directly to any USB-enabled computer.
SlotMusic cards will be sold without digital rights management restrictions and in the form of MP3 files from EMI Music, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group.
Seven years ago, a Catholic hospital in Eugene, Ore., launched a program that was so simple, it’s hard to believe no one had thought of it before: If terminal patients are facing their last hours with no family or friends around, why not have a volunteer sit beside them to provide spiritual comfort?
Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, adopted in 2007 the “No One Dies Alone†program, now called Compassionate Care for the Dying. United Methodist laywoman Denice Foose is the hospital’s bereavement coordinator who supervises volunteers. She talked recently with staff writer Bill Fentum.
NEW YORK — As financial workers suffer through tumultuous times on Wall Street, some are turning to an old source of solace: religion.
Religious leaders said attendance was up at lunchtime meetings in New York’s financial district last week, with many more people in business attire than usual.
It turns out that once again FEMA is letting a lot of hurricane ice melt away. I say go to schools and make a lot of snow cones and then let the leftover ice melt away. The PR alone for the snow cones would overshadow the negative press of the melting ice.
OK, that idea sounded like a scenario in a bad Disney movie.
Chris Dodd – Chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs – sure is sounding tough about the financial crises. It’s almost as if he is auditioning for the Treasury Secretary gig, but let’s not put the cart in front of the horse.
I had a roommate named Chris Dodd.
An interesting read on how Sweden got out of a similar economic mess.
Can you imagine the panic if Social Security was even partly invested in the market right now? Now in all fairness, the gains for lets say ten years in a conservative fund would probably offset this current market catastrophe adjustment, but I find the thought a bit interesting.
I was doing some research on Ronald Reagan recently and this photo caught my attention. It looks like that flag pole is about to damage that painting.
I find it interesting that the Reagan Archives link is on the University of Texas servers, per the URL. I may have used the incorrect terminology, but in short I don’t understand why “utexas.edu” is in the URL. The moment you click on “ARCHIVES” from the library’s URL (http://www.reaganlibrary.com/) you are taken to the “utexas.edu” link. I tried to find a reason, but nada.
I switched over to the CBS Evening News and saw Katie Couric asking tough questions to McCain and Obama such as, “What’s your favorite movie?”
Maybe I’m a little hard on Katie, sometimes it’s good to see the softer side of the candidates to see how we can possibly relate to them. She will be interviewing Palin today.
Speaking of Palin, my caption for this photo – Palin Wins Olympic Medal
The Promise in Glenrose turns 20 – I’ve never been.
I received another belated birthday gift, and it’s another book. I think my friends are politely encouraging me to read, and believe it or not, it’s working.
This particular book is A Public Faith by Charles Drew. It’s a non-biased religion/politics book that was written before the 2000 election, and the strange part is, a lot of it is a bit prophetic. So far I’m only through two chapters, but this part towards the end of second chapter about the first war in Iraq just has me thinking a lot: And Paul would especially have urged us to pray that somehow the people of Iraq would not be given the impression that Christian America was their enemy. For to have linked the United States with the Christian God, a linkage that sadly many Americans came close to making during that war, would have been to declare that an Iraqi citizen would commit treason if he or she ever converted to Jesus Christ.
