SURVIVAL CLASSES If you love to play outdoors in the winter, consider a class in how to survive if something goes wrong. Here are some options: What: Winter travel safety with Doug Huffman When: 7 p.m
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Dig it: Snow cave could save your life Survival expert Doug Huffman to show how it’s done
SPORTSMEN’S EXPO The 23rd annual International Sportsmen’s Exposition kicks off today at Cal Expo. Joining the popular outdoors and travel event this year will be a Boy Scouts 100-Year Celebration Pavilion, an elk-calling contest and an accuracy casting contest. Hours are 11 a.m.-8 p.m
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Outbound Escapes: Sportsmen’s Expo
By George Gaynor » A CATERER who supplied a dessert containing eggs at a Sikh wedding was today ordered to pay £415,000 damages to the Oxford widow of a man who died after eating it. Kuldip Singh Bhamra, 49, was allergic to eggs but believed he was safe, because the wedding banquet was held at the Ramgarhia Sikh Temple in Forest Gate, London, in 2003, and followers of the religion do not eat eggs
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Oxford egg death widow’s £415,000 damages award upheld
Et cetera Smart insights on the news of the day Steve Coll, commentary, The New Yorker: “The attempted Christmas attack also put al-Qaeda’s resourcefulness on full display. In its third decade, under severe pressure, it has evolved into a jihadi…
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Et cetera: Smart insights on the news of the day (USA Today)
Ethical dilemmas don’t come much more real and pressing than the one facing us over Haiti’s orphans. Hundreds of thousands of orphaned children, perhaps up to a million, are stranded in the most desperate circumstances, many of them without water, food, shelter or protection. Many are amputees as a result of crush injuries.
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The paperwork can wait: everybody wins with adoption
Was I hallucinating? It was late Monday night and I was on the top deck of a No 277 London bus from Islington to Limehouse. As we rounded a junction I saw beneath us what looked like a sea of orange plastic
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A DayGlo vision of our tangled priorities
Why can the Left never win? Around the world, the election of Barack Obama inspired the hope of a new era of progressive politics, coming as it did after the spectacular failures of extreme conservatism under George W. Bush
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Obama should have blamed Bush, not bankers
Next week should be a pretty happy stretch for central city restaurants, wine bars and hotels, and who can’t use a happy stretch in January? Starting Tuesday, the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium is in town for four days at the Sacramento Convention Center, which means about 11,000 winemakers, winery and vineyard owners, managers, and product suppliers will be loose on the streets
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The Good Life: Wine show rises above event horizon
Seth Dowland ABC News reported this week that military contractor Trijicon , recently awarded a $660 million contract to provide rifle sights to the Marine Corps, has been placing “secret Bible codes” at the end of the serial numbers on its rifle sights. The serial numbers end with references to Bible passages such as JN8:12 (John 8:12) or 2COR4:6 (2 Corinthians 4:6). Apparently Trijicon has been placing Bible references on its rifle sights for years, though the U.S.
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Secret Bible Codes on the “Spiritually Transformed Firearms of Jesus Christ”
Cain and Abel, Hinduism , Topics of Religion Colloquia Illinois Wesleyan University Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Jason Fuller from DePauw University (Indiana) will present “ Hinduism's 'Eastern Savior': the Rehabilitation of …
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Cain and Abel, Hinduism, Topics of Religion Colloquia – Illinois Wesleyan University