Beckford is the League One Player of the Year (Getty)
Jermaine Beckford has enjoyed treble success at the Leeds United Player of the Year Awards.
The striker won the Players’ Player of the Year, the Fans’ Player of the Year and the Fans’ Goal of the Year Awards.
This season Beckford, 24, became the first Leeds player to [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Beckford wins three Leeds awards
Posted in Sport on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Peacock dares to dream
Posted in Sport, Violence on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_league/super_league/leeds/7347248.stm
By Paul Fletcher
Peacock (left) is a ferocious competitor who relishes taking on the best
Sporting greatness comes in many forms.
There are those who have been touched by the hand of genius, people such as George Best, Brian Lara and Andrew Johns, who, often aloof, taciturn and temperamental, can look as though they are wrestling to come [...]
And the War…….. Drags on
Posted in Bad Theology, Bigotry, Compassion, Culture, Fundamentalism, Media, Politics, Religion, Violence, War on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Baghdad clashes ‘leave 400 dead’
Hospitals say they are struggling to cope with the casualties
More than 400 people have been killed in fighting over the last month between Shia gunmen and US and Iraqi forces, hospital officials in Baghdad say.
The Sadr City district of the Iraqi capital has seen most of the fighting as the government [...]
In pictures: Palestinian life in East Jerusalem
Posted in Bigotry, Compassion, Culture, Fundamentalism, Media, Politics, Religion, Violence, War on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Follow the link below to view the series.. or the links at the bottom
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/08/middle_east_palestinian_life_in_east_jerusalem/html/1.stm
Annexed land
After its victory in the Six Day War in 1967, Israel annexed 70 sq km of the West Bank adjacent to West Jerusalem. This land, East Jerusalem and outlying areas, contained 28 Palestinian towns and villages.
Today 250,000 Palestinians live within [...]
LSD inventor Albert Hofmann dies
Posted in Consumer, Culture, Design, Documentary, Media on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mr Hofmann thought LSD could have uses treating mental illnesses
Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, has died of a heart attack at his home in Basel at the age of 102.
Mr Hofmann first produced LSD in 1938 while researching the medicinal uses of a crop fungus.
He accidentally ingested some of [...]
Call to examine 50s killer case
Posted in Culture, Law, Media, News, Politics, Prison, Violence on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Police officers lead Manuel into court during his appeal
Vital information about Scotland’s most notorious serial killer may have been suppressed to ensure he was hanged, a legal expert has claimed.
Peter Manuel was executed at Barlinnie prison in Glasgow in 1958 after being convicted of murdering seven people.
Dr Richard Goldberg, of Aberdeen University’s law school, believes [...]
Dodgy……
Posted in Culture, Humour, Media, Photography, Postmodern, Tricks on Monday, April 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The amazing pictures of an artist dangling horizontally out of a skyscraper
Last updated at 15:43pm on 28th April 2008
Dangling horizontally out of a skyscraper, this hovering figure looks set to fall to his doom.
But this ‘jumper’ hasn’t just lost it all on a game of chance – this is performance art with a difference.
Chinese artist [...]
Football and politics in the Holy City
Posted in Bad Theology, Bigotry, Compassion, Culture, Fundamentalism, Literalism, News, Politics, Religion, Sport, Violence, War on Sunday, April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/7362791.stm
By David Goldblatt
BBC Radio 4’s Crossing Continents
Beitar Jerusalem may be top of the Israeli football league but the behaviour of its hard core fans is casting a shadow over their success.
Beitar fans awaiting the start of a game in Nazareth
It is half-time in an Israeli cup match between Ahi Nazareth and Beitar Jerusalem.
The atmosphere at [...]
…And the earth is flat, we no longer need to reform…. literally!!!!
Posted in Bad Theology, Bigotry, Christianity, Compassion, Culture, Evangelism, Fundamentalism, Humour, Law, Literalism, Mickey Mouse Religion, Mission, Postmodern, Religion, Security, Theology on Saturday, April 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I found this via:
http://prouty.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/gpts_creation_statement.pdf
http://reformationfaith.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/government-calls-to-prayer/
Apparently by what is below, the answers to everything were discovered and kept to from Calvin’s period onwards… or maybe Luther’s!!!!! Is this a place to think or br programmed?
Time warp or what!!!!!!!
6 days are 6 days.
THE GPTS FACULTY STATEMENT ON CREATION
We the faculty of Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary wish to acknowledge [...]
Young@Heart
Posted in Art, Christianity, Compassion, Culture, Documentary, Evangelism, Good Theology, Media, Mission, Music, Theology on Friday, April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Young@Heart sing ‘Fix You’ by Coldplay
