Monday, April 27, 2009
400-408 – (1:27) RB Swine Flu update. Acting Center for Disease and Control (CDC) president, Dr. Richard Besser at press conference today on the swine flu.
• Reuters (4/27/09) WHO raises swine flu alert level
.• Stratfor (4/26/09) Geopolitical Diary: The Pandemic Possibility
. • Fox News (4/26/09) Miss Calif. gets heroine's welcome at SD church
. 413-423 – • Daily Mail (4/25/09) Storm over embryo 'bank' which could be used as a body repair kit
. In November, a law will be enacted to allow an embryo to be stored for 55 years. The HFEA has already ruled in favour of 'savior siblings' – babies created by IVF and screened as embryos to be a tissue match for an existing child with a serious condition. 428-437 – • Fox News (4/26/09) Motorcyclist Killed by Lightning While Riding Back From Charity Event
. . • NYT (4/27/09) G.E.'s Breakthrough Can Put 100 DVDs on a Disc
. It's called "microholographic storage." A standard DVD hold 5 gigs, Blu-ray holds up to 50 gigs, and a holographic disk can hold 500 gigs. • Fox News (4/27/09) Are 'No-Fail' Grading Systems Hurting or Helping Students?
443-452 – Is the "no-fail" policy a good idea or a bad idea?
, 323-583-8894) and Edwin oversees both the skate and children's ministries. David was a gang member who came to Christ at the age of 19, in 1992, after hearing David Rosales preach. He started playing basketball with the kids in South Central, and that grew into a shuttling ministry taking car loads of kids to hear pastor David. In time, many of the kids were unable to keep going, so David asked Rosales what to do. Rosales encouraged him to start a Bible Study – that has now become Calvary Chapel South LA. Edwin approached Trujillo about the idea of a skate park, David consented, and the Lord has opened many doors to reach the kids, and their families, in the neighborhood that was once rival turf for Trujillo. Today, hundreds of kids are reached with the gospel at their skate park. What a creative outreach! 512-523 – David Trujillo & Edwin Medina.
528-538 – Jerry Bowyer, economist, nationally-syndicated columnist, and CNBC contributor (jerrybowyer.com
), on the news of the day. 544-554 – Jerry Bowyer
558-608 – Jeff Pries & John Ward, the two creatives behind the awesome Liquid DVD series (experienceliquid.com
) that is simply the best Christian media I have ever seen. Jeff is the Small Groups Pastor and on the Speaking Team at Mariners Church (marinerschurch.org ), a father of 4, and the former 1st pick of the New York Yankees out of UCLA in 1984. John is the president of Bay Ridge Films, and at just 25 was accepted into the Director's Guild of America for his great work, including the film Enchanted. John wrote, produced, and directed the Liquid series. 612-623 – Jeff Pries and John Ward
628-638 – Jean Twenge, associate professor of Psychology at San Diego State University and author of a brand new book released just last week entitled The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement (narcissismepidemic.com
). 10% of adults, aged 20 to 30, are clinically narcissistic. How'd they get this way? 644-652 – Jean Twenge
• Albert Mohler (4/27/09) Not Even Close? -- Is America Becoming a Post-Christian Culture?
• Stephen Prothero, USA Today (4/27/09) Post-Christian? Not even close. A high-profile 'religious landscape' survey is said to show that America is rapidly losing its faith in Christianity. One problem: It's not so
. • Victor Davis Hanson (4/27/09) Damnation of Memory: Persecuting his predecessors, Obama would establish a poisonous precedent
.• Barna (4/27/09) America's Seven Faith Tribes Hold the Key to National Restoration
. • Editor & Publisher (4/27/09) Top 25 Papers by Daily Circulation
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