It seems like everyone could benefit from a few more hours to every day. And when you're juggling work, family, friends and a relationship, it can be challenging to make time for everyone. But, if you're like me and enjoy a few moments to yourself, even if it's just to catch your breath, how do you prioritize your relationships so no one feels left out? I have yet to master this one so do tell, how do you prioritize quality time with your loved ones?
Though the story might always start, "in the beginning," the Bible has taken a whole host of formats from iPod ready to graphic novel, but this latest incarnation called Bible Illuminated: The Book takes the Bible and smashes in a bit of People and a little bit of Vogue and reimagines it as an avant-garde coffee-table book of photo essays to tell the story of Jesus for an Angelina Age (yep, she's in there.)
What's behind the new slick format? One professor of religious studies explains it like this: "In general, Bible publishers have always been creative, but now they are scrambling to meet a culture where people are moving away from print reading. In a visually literate, advertising-skeptical age — how do you grab people's attention? Mixing the biblical text with Angelina Jolie doesn't surprise me."
Sales of Bibles rise during times of war and economic crisis, (uh, check and check) so the new version may be an instant best-seller and might lure new readers in. The dean emeritus at the Nida Institute For Biblical Scholarship says, "We are living in the age of increased secularization and distance from traditional religion. It's about new points of entry in a modern world that is not ready to open its doors and windows to the traditional word."
McCain Ran 1,304 Ads Day Campaign "Suspended" Turns out John McCain never did quite "suspend" his campaign during negotiations over the federal bailout plan, at least on television. "The McCain campaign cut back on its television advertising in the days following McCain's announcement that he was suspending his campaign to focus on the economy. On Sept. 24, his campaign aired 2,447 ads, and on Sept. 25, it aired 1,304 ads." 10 Comments
Over the weekend, I decided to take advantage of the damp weather with a trip to the movies to see Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. I liked it and applauded it for doing something most teen comedies these days don't do: let teenagers have imperfections and real insecurities. In the story, it's revealed that Norah is unable to have an orgasm.
This revelation implies that Norah is lacking and of course, leaves her humiliated. The use of this particular insecurity really stood out to me. Looking back on high school, I think we were all at a discovery phase —learning what pleasure with a partner really was — and for many of us, an orgasm was still out of reach, though with experimentation we were on our way to getting there. I assume that Norah's anxiety is something many people dealt with, so tell me, how long did it take you to have your first orgasm with a partner? Was it easy? Or did it take some practice?
One evolutionary expert believes that the human race has stopped evolving. Modern life may have led to the extinction of natural selection. Here are some explanations for why we could be stuck with what we got:
Technological and medical advances mean it's not just the fittest who get to pass on genes.
World travel has helped homogenize the gene pool. While small gene pools can evolve quickly, a global pool prevents evolutionary change.
On average, men have had babies at a younger age recently. The gene copies of younger fathers are less likely to contain mutations.
As you can imagine the end of evolution could bring wide, albeit delayed, consequences. Gorillas and chimps could catch up to us (we'd probably have to let them out of the zoos), and medical science won't get any help from nature in cutting down the number of diseases to combat. Perhaps technology will help humans take stalled evolution into our own hands, by letting us choose the genes we like.
This is taking energy conservation a little too far. Instead of an electric-powered amusement park ride, this Scandanavian dude is powering his own ride! I'm getting scared just watching him. . .
It seems like everyone could benefit from a few more hours to every day. And when you're juggling work, family, friends and a relationship, it can be challenging to make time for everyone. But, if you're like me and enjoy a few moments to yourself, even if it's just to catch your breath, how do you prioritize your relationships so no one feels left out? I have yet to master this one so do tell, how do you prioritize quality time with your loved ones? 
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