Bits & Bytes from Everywhere

I don't remember how I linked to this site, but it was rather fun. Do you notice that none of my supposed look-alikes has a beard?

Please excuse the heading on that thingie below: I was trying to create the thing while Alex was napping on my laptop. He still is! (Thankfully I have a cordless keyboard)

http://www.myheritage.com/collage

A story that Merle posted yesterday reminded me of this happening while I was studying at Eden Theological Seminary:

When I was in seminary a Presbyterian minister from the Bahamas visited. He talked to one of our classes and told how he had sent up a seminary there because usually folks desiring to enter ministry went off to Britain and Canada to study. He said that as part of the curriculum of his seminary, students were required to spend time among the impoverished folk who lived in shanty towns.

My professor jumped in and said, “Yes, we must visit the poor to teach them.”

The minister from the Bahamas replied, “No! We send our students into the shanty towns to learn from the poor.”

This worries me! I heard this story on NPR this morning:

One in 4 teenage girls in the United States has at least one sexually transmitted disease, according to a first-of-its-kind study released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The trend is even worse among African-American girls: Nearly half have one or more STDs, compared with 20 percent of whites.

I keep hoping the study is a mistake or an urban legend that has gotten into the media.

Below is another animal video I recently received in an email: