Stephen D. Foster: Pope Francis Takes Aim At Ideologically Obsessed Christians, Says They Have Illness (Addicting Info)
Pope Francis has been very clear about how he feels about ideological purity in religion. He's been particularly critical of right-wing Christian fundamentalism. Pope Francis has shifted the focus of the Catholic Church to issues facing the poor and the sick. He has railed against economic inequality and has criticized the anti-gay and anti-abortion strains that have come to dominate the Christian Right here in America. Such ideological extremism is dangerous, not only to Christianity, but to the world. And Pope Francis said as much last Thursday.
What Is It Like to Be a Househusband? (Slate)
Now that I do the grocery shopping and most of the cooking, I realize what a horrendous waste of money dining out can be. A few days ago, we went to a fancy Western restaurant in Hong Kong with a nice view for my wife's birthday that ended up costing us $270. I must have complained for two hours afterward about how we could have eaten amazing local food for one-tenth of that price.
The Crown of _______?_______ is a literary and religious metaphor traditionally represented in art, first as a laurel wreath and later, as a symbolic circle of stars.
The Crown of Immortality is a literary and religious metaphor traditionally represented in art first as alaurel wreath and later as a symbolic circle of stars (often a crown, tiara, halo or aureola). The Crown appears in a number of Baroque iconographic and allegoric works of art to indicate the wearer'simmortality.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
immortality
Lois Of Oregon said:
The Laurel Wreath=Immor(t)ality=God-hood...oh jumping
jerusalem! Now it all makes sense! Luxury cars owners ARE
GODS! That's why they drive that way! They REALLY DO own the
fucking road!!
Alan J wrote:
The Crown of Immortality
Charlie replied:
The Crown of Immortality.
To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Crown of Immortality
Adam answered:
Immortality.
Sally said:
The Crown of immortality is a literary and religious metaphor traditionally represented in art, first as a laurel wreath and later, as a symbolic circle of stars.
I could use one of these...
Sunny day, cool and crisp, a perfect day for raking leaves. Now where did I put my energy again??
Dale of Diamond Springs, replied:
The Crown of Immortality. How about Immoral women?
MAM wrote:
Crown of Immortality ~ held by the allegorical figure Eterna (Eternity) on the Swedish House of Knights fresco by David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl.
And, Joe S answered:
The Crown of Immortality. As an Ancient Astronaut Theorist I contend that The Crown of Immortality was first worn by Ancient Astronauts in the 351st Century BOT (Before Our Time) and then handed down to their Halfling offspring etc., etc., etc.
CBS fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Criminal Minds'.
NBC opens the night with the FRESH, but atavistic, 'Miss Universe 2013 - the Trump Version', followed by an hourlong RERUN'SNL'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, with Miley Cyrus.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Castle'.
The CW offers an old '2½ Men', followed by another old '2½ Men', then an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy'.
Faux fills the night with FRESH'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Flipping Vegas'.
AMC offers the movie 'Jurassic Park III', followed by the movie 'X-Men', then the movie 'Catwoman'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 5 - Episode 9
[7:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 6 - Episode 1
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 7 - The Greek at the Harbor
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED US - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Revisited
[10:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 17
[10:40AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 18
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 6
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR: TOP 41-Episode 4
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 2
[3:00PM] QUADROPHENIA: CAN YOU SEE THE REAL ME?
[4:00PM] CLASSIC ALBUMS-Ep 1 - The Who: Tommy NEW
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 4 - Who Watches the Watchers
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 5 - The Bonding
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 6 - Booby Trap
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 7 - The Enemy
[9:00PM] TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY-Season 4 - Ep 9 - The Gathering NEW
[10:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 14 - Episode 4 NEW
[11:00PM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 9 - Unconscious Selection
[12:00AM] TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY-Season 4 - Ep 9 - The Gathering
[1:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 14 - Episode 4
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 4 - Who Watches the Watchers
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 5 - The Bonding
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 6 - Booby Trap
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 7 - The Enemy (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of BH', followed by the movie 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin'.
Comedy Central has 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', followed by the movie 'Grandma's Boy', then the movie 'Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World'.
FX has the movie 'Hancock', followed by the movie 'Iron Man 2', then the movie 'Spider-Man 2'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:15AM] U.S. Marshals
[9:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Cliques
[9:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Monkey
[10:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Zoo
[10:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Humilithon
[11:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Family Reunion
[11:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Stupid Girl
[12:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Forwards Backwards
[12:30PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Rashida Jones Wears a Black Blazer & Flowered Pants
[1:00PM] The Birthday Boys-Rock and Roll
[1:30PM] Exorcismus
[3:45PM] Pathfinder
[6:00PM] Joy Ride
[8:00PM] Grindhouse Presents: Planet Terror
[10:15PM] Grindhouse Presents: Planet Terror
[12:30AM] Crank: High Voltage
[2:30AM] Cabin Fever
[4:30AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Rashida Jones Wears a Black Blazer & Flowered Pants
[5:00AM] The Birthday Boys-Rock and Roll
[5:30AM] The Birthday Boys-Catching up on Shows (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] This Way Up
[6:15AM] Changing Lanes
[8:30AM] Dream School-Suze Orman's Smackdown
[9:30AM] Viewers' Choice-Indie Clash
[11:45AM] Viewers' Choice-It Came From the 80s
[2:15PM] Viewers' Choice-Schwarzenegger vs. Stallone
[5:00PM] Viewers' Choice-Eastwood vs. Eastwood
[8:00PM] Diner
[10:30PM] Syriana
[1:15AM] Conan the Barbarian
[4:00AM] Lost in America (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Lake Placid 3', followed by the movie 'Bering Sea Beast'.
Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood performs at The Cutting Room in New York November 7, 2013. Wood played a rare show at the Cutting Room to play the music of Jimmy Reed. He was joined on stage by guests Mick Taylor, Al Kooper and Simon Kirke.
Photo by Andrew Kelly
In poking fun at current events, satirical newspaper The Onion often finds a way to heap ridicule on the newspaper industry.
But just like some news outlets it lampoons, The Onion announced Friday it is ending the last of its print editions and moving to an all-online format.
Print advertising revenue has been drying up during the industry's transition to a digital-dominated media landscape, and newspapers have been gradually scaling back or eliminating print editions entirely.
The Onion's last print editions - in Providence, R.I., Milwaukee and the paper's home city of Chicago - will run on Dec. 12.
Producer Gale Ann Hurd, chair of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, poses with Nicholl committee member and Oscar winning actress Eva Marie Saint during ceremonies in Beverly Hills November 7, 2013. The Nicholl Fellowships is an international screenwriting competition established to identify and encourage talented new screenwriters.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Anyone who drives around the downtown area of a large city has experienced the frustration of gridlock, and it always seems that the traffic lights are part of the problem. However, a new kind of traffic light designed by a University of Toronto graduate could turn this traffic gridlock into a thing of the past.
Samah El-Tantawy has dealt with gridlock in two of the worst cities for traffic in the world - Toronto and Cairo - and she's come up with an innovative idea to help. Rather than coordinating through one of the central control systems currently used to direct traffic, El-Tantawy's new traffic lights use artificial intelligence and decision-making strategies from game theory to simply 'talk' to one another. This lets the lights coordinate among themselves, based specifically on what they are all seeing in the traffic flow at any moment, how to best keep things moving.
"In lay language," El-Tantawy said in a U of T news release, "the [traffic lights] act as a team of players cooperating to win a game - much like players in a soccer match, where each player endeavors to score, but at the same time considers the ultimate goal of the entire team which is winning the match."
El-Tantawy's traffic lights were put to the test at 60 downtown Toronto intersections. Even in rush hour, they ended up cutting down traffic delays by up to 40 per cent, and they reduced travel times by up to 26 per cent. For those of us with a 2-hour commute, image the joy of that being consistently reduced to just an hour and a half! What would you do with an extra hour in your day?
Sriracha candy canes have just been released for the holiday season by J&D Foods, the Seattle-based company known for baconnaise, sriracha popcorn and bacon soda. And why stop there? The company also just released a new bacon deodorant.
The Canadian-made sriracha candy canes, available here and in the United States, are meant to entice those with a hankering for hot and sweet flavour combinations. While they look like traditional candy canes, they have a fiery kick reminiscent of the Asian chili sauce.
British actress Emma Thompson reacts as she is helped to put her footprints in cement in the forecourt of the TCL Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California November 7, 2013.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Rickets, the childhood disease that once caused an epidemic of bowed legs and curved spines during the Victorian era, is making a shocking comeback in 21st-century Britain.
Rickets results from a severe deficiency of vitamin D, which helps the body absorb calcium. Rickets was historically considered to be a disease of poverty among children who toiled in factories during the Industrial Revolution, and some experts have hypothesized it afflicted literary characters like Tiny Tim in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."
Last month, Britain's chief medical officer, Dr. Sally Davies, described the return of rickets as "appalling." She proposed the country give free vitamins to all children under 5 and asked the country's independent health watchdog to study if that would be worthwhile.
Most people get vitamin D from the sun, oily fish, eggs or dairy products. Rickets largely disappeared from Britain in the 1950s, when the country embarked on mass programs to give children cod liver oil. But in the last 15 years, the number of reported cases of rickets in hospitalized children has increased fourfold - from 183 cases in 1995 to 762 cases in 2011. Experts said the actual number is probably even higher since there's no official surveillance system and it's unknown whether the disease has peaked.
In the U.S., doctors said there has also been a rise in rickets, though there are no solid national figures to confirm it.
TV newsmagazine "60 Minutes" on Friday said it would correct an October report on the September 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, saying that a source who told the program that he had been present at the scene of the attack gave conflicting testimony to the FBI.
The program on October 27 aired a segment on the attack, in which the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans were killed, quoting a security official who described being at the compound during the attack, fighting off an assailant and seeing the ambassador's body.
Reporter Lara Logan said 60 Minutes no longer had confidence in the information the security official had given the program and it was a mistake to put him on air.
"60 Minutes" has since learned that the official, who it named as Dylan Davies, gave the FBI a different account of his actions that night, Logan said on a CBS morning news program on Friday.
Simon and Schuster, a publisher owned by CBS Corp, on Friday began withdrawing a book on the incident, "The Embassy House," which was written by Davies under the pseudonym Morgan Jones.
Actress Mariska Hargitay, her husband Peter Hermann and their children August (R), Andrew (L) and Amaya pose on her star after it was unveiled on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California November 8, 2013.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
An insurance company will pay $1.2 million to a charity co-founded by "Three Cups of Tea" author Greg Mortenson in a settlement over the legal costs of a lawsuit and an investigation into Mortenson and the Central Asia Institute, attorneys involved in the settlement said.
The settlement, if approved, will mark an end to more than two years of legal troubles for Mortenson after "60 Minutes" and author Jon Krakauer published reports that alleged Mortenson fabricated parts of his bestselling books and mismanaged the Central Asia Institute.
After those reports, then-Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock launched an investigation into the charity. A settlement required Mortenson to repay $1 million and made fundamental changes to the institute's structure.
Four readers then filed a lawsuit that claimed Mortenson, co-author David Oliver Relin, publisher Penguin and the Central Asia Institute were involved in a fraud conspiracy by Mortenson lying in his bestselling "Three Cups of Tea" to boost sales and donations to the charity.
A district judge threw out the lawsuit, and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ruling.
From left, Haley Joel Osment, Garry Trudeau, creator and executive producer of Alpha House, and Yara Martinez are seen at the Television Academy presents Amazon Studios, on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013 at the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood, Calif.
Photo by Frank Micelotta/
U.S. military documents are deepening the mystery surrounding the more than 1,400 artworks found in a Munich apartment.
In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, the American military seized 20 boxes of art from German dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt in Aschbach in December 1945, according to documents located by The Associated Press in the U.S. National Archives in Washington.
American investigators at the time expressed doubts about Gurlitt's claims to the works, but they eventually decided that in most cases he was the rightful owner. So on Dec. 15, 1950, the U.S. returned 206 items to him: 115 paintings, 19 drawings and 72 "various other objects."
At least three of the artworks documented by the Americans have now re-surfaced, found hidden in the Munich apartment of Gurlitt's son, 80-year-old Cornelius Gurlitt, during a tax evasion probe that German prosecutors announced earlier this week.
Hindu women worship the Sun god Surya in the waters of the Laxmi Narayan lake during the Hindu religious festival of Chatt Puja in the northeastern Indian city of Agartala November 8, 2013. Womenfolk fast for the whole day for the betterment of their family and the society during the festival.
Photo by Jayanta Dey
But could GOCE, which is set to make an "uncontrolled entry" into the atmosphere, present a risk to anyone on the ground?
"For the most part, these uncontrolled re-entries are the norm," Space.com's Tariq Malik told Yahoo News in a phone interview. "It's not so much that we've been lucky to not get hit by one as it is the planet is so big."
The European Space Agency does not know exactly when GOCE, short for Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer, will crash to Earth, and experts there don't know exactly where it will land. But the general consensus is that it will re-enter Earth's atmosphere sometime between Friday and Monday.
Decorated human skulls or "natitas" on display at the Cementerio General during the Natitas Festival, in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. Natitas are human skulls from unnamed, abandoned graves that are cared for and decorated by faithful who use them as amulets believing they serve as protection. The skulls are carried to the cemetery chapel in urns of wood or glass, or in toy boxes. All have crowns of nardos, a curative plant with white, fragrant blossoms. Some skulls wear hats or caps inscribed with a name. Others wear sunglasses or even sport a lit cigarette in their mouth.
Photo by Juan Karita
The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
1. (2) Taylor Swift; $1,823,424; $81.24.
2. (5) Marc Anthony; $1,186,546; $85.53.
3. (7) Bruno Mars; $918,930; $67.06.
4. (8) "Honda Civic Tour"/Maroon 5/Kelly Clarkson; $918,389; $49.12.
5. (9) Depeche Mode; $913,053; $64.45.
6. (10) Michael Buble; $881,383; $83.79.
7. (11) Luke Bryan; $730,283; $39.82.
8. (13) John Mayer; $674,118; $50.78.
9. (12) Jason Aldean; $660,743; $38.28.
10. (15) Brad Paisley; $652,567; $56.67.
11. (14) Blake Shelton; $647,198; $37.79.
12. (16) Rascal Flatts; $571,970; $38.58.
13. (17) Miranda Lambert; $486,007; $34.68.
14. (18) Steely Dan; $450,545; $87.72.
15. (20) Blue Man Group; $383,584; $52.56.
16. (19) Train; $346,234; $33.06.
17. (21) Fun.; $322,356; $39.15.
18. (New) Fall Out Boy; $233,482; $35.50.
19. (New) The Lumineers; $205,436; $37.75.
20. (New) STS9/Umphrey's McGee; $204,483; $37.82.
A two-week-old, female Sumatran orangutan at the San Diego Zoo is cradled by her mother, Indah, who inspects the baby's hands and fingers in this November 8, 2013 handout photo. Indah gave birth to the baby October 25 in her off-exhibit bedroom at the San Diego Zoo. This is the second baby born to Indah.
Photo by Ken Bohn
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