Update on the Hero Dog

SANTIAGO, Chile – Chileans have a new hero: an apparently homeless dog that pulled the body of another dog through traffic off a busy highway. A surveillance camera on a Santiago freeway captured images of a dog trotting past speeding cars to pull the lifeless body of the other canine, which had been run over by a vehicle, away from traffic and onto the median strip.

The scene was broadcast by Chilean television stations and then posted on Web sites such as YouTube.com, and hundreds of thousands of people had viewed versions of it by Monday.

Highway crews removed both the dead and live dogs from the median strip of the Vespucio Norte Highway shortly after the Dec. 4 incident. But the rescuer dog ran away.

Authorities say images of the rescue prompted some people to call and offer to adopt the dog, but neither highway workers nor a television crew could find they animal.

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BetaMaXas

This is definately one of the coolest things I’ve come across as of late.

Basically, it’s a bunch of Christmas specials, everything from Frosty to The Facts of Life.  Just click up and down on the remote and a different special will appear.  I found if you hit refresh on your browser a new collection of videos will be set for your remote.

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Impressive Mouse

The first 40 seconds made me a little dizzy with the preview of the course, but the rest of the video put a smile on my face.

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Analyzing the Prayers Left at the John Hopkins Hopsital Jesus Statue

Beneath the John Hopkins Hospital’s historic dome in Baltimore, MD stands a 10-and-a-half-foot marble statue of Jesus.  Many touch his feet as they walk by or leave notes of prayers since 1896.  There’s a nice article about the history of the statue here.

But I recently came across another article in which a grad student analyzed the prayers left at at the feet of the statue between 1999-2005.

Here’s a snippit:

I analyzed the prayers this woman and hundreds like her wrote in prayer books at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital between 1999 and 2005. Although the statue of Jesus Christ has stood in the hospital since 1896, it was not until the early 1990s that people began to leave prayers written on napkins, scraps of paper, and the back of visitor’s badges and business cards at the statue’s base.

So that the prayers were not lost, hospital chaplains placed a blank book on a stand by the statue that is filled with prayers every two to three months. Anyone entering or leaving the hospital can write in the prayer book and/or read the prayers other people have written. People write prayers longhand, filling the pages with words and drawings. Some leave photographs, children’s drawings, flowers, and coins at the statue.

Most of the prayers penned in these books are improvised, not the Lord’s Prayer, prayers to Saint Jude or other standards. Most who write pray for themselves and/or their families or close friends. They write prayers to thank God, to make requests of God, or to both thank and petition God.

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