Gods Girl ::: Christopher Greene
 

http://www.photoburst.net/photo_sect...her-greene.jpgGods Girl ::: Christopher Greene ::: This is a little girl I met in Ethiopia the south Oma region, this little girl is a very quiet girl but loves to just come hang around the street kids of Jinka. (...)

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Monks, Bhutan
 

At the Dzong in Punakha, Bhutan, a young monk breaks rank during a ceremony.(This photo and caption were submitted to the 2011 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest.)

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Sean Penn is a dick
 

Scarlett Johansson walking her dog in New York (5/8) Well this relationship is going well. Sean Penn was almost able to date Scarlett Johansson for three whole months before rumors emerged that he was cheating on her. From the... ...read full story
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The Final Voyage
 

Space shuttle Endeavour on the STS-134 mission made its final landing at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, June 1, 2011, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Endeavour, completed a 16-day mission to outfit the International Space Station. Endeavour spent 299 days in space and traveled more than 122.8 million miles during its 25 flights. It launched on its first mission on May 7, 1992. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

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Mubarak and sons to stand trial in August
 

Former Egyptian president and his two sons to go on trial on August 3 for graft and killing of protesters,

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Jessica Drenk
 

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About Jessica:

Jessica Drenk was raised in Montana, where she developed an appreciation for the natural world that remains an important inspiration to her artwork today. Tactile and textural, her sculptures highlight the chaos and beauty that can be found in simple materials. Drenk’s work is also influenced by systems of information and the impulse to develop an encyclopedic understanding of the world.

In 2006, Drenk was awarded the International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. Her work has been pictured in Sculpture Magazine and seen in shows at the International Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey, the Albuquerque Museum, the Tucson Museum of Art, the International Book Fair of Contemporary Creative Books in Marseilles, France, as well as galleries across the United States.

In 2009, Drenk received an Artist Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, funding the installation of Archaeologica: A Museum of the Disposable at the Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, Arizona. In 2010 her work was featured in shows at Conrad Wilde Gallery in Tucson, Catherine Person Gallery in Seattle, and Aqua Art Miami contemporary art fair in Miami Beach. In 2011 Drenk is also exhibiting at Cain Schulte Gallery in San Francisco.

Drenk has an MFA from the University of Arizona, graduated Cum Laude from Pomona College, and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.


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Earth Rotating Under Very Large Telescopes
 

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_110601.jpg Why is the Earth moving in the above video?




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Cooper-the-German-Shorthaired-Pointer
 

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Hi, my name is Cooper. I love eating leaves, stalking brooms and squeaky toys, and running makeshift obstacle courses in the back yard. I've also learned to sit whenever my owners' hands are anywhere near their pockets (you know that's where they keep the treats, right?). I've got a ton of energy and like to race around all day, but I'm also very snuggly and known to curl up on an owner's lap for a nice rest.



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MLK's Daughter Steps Away From Troubled Bishop's Church
 

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The Rev. Bernice King, daughter of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has made her first public comments since announcing her departure from Bishop Eddie Long's New Birth Missionary Baptist Church on Tuesday, just days after Long reached a settlement with four men who accused him of sexual misconduct.

"I know there's been a lot of speculation and many comments about my departure from New Birth," King said during an interview on Atlanta's Praise 102.5.

But it wasn't legal drama or sexual misdeeds that drew her away from the church as an elder, she said. After eight years and eight months, her season there had simply come to an end. King said that she was leaving New Birth to pursue "God's calling," not because of the lingering scandal.

The timing of King's departure has drummed up speculation, though. Last week, word of a settlement came down from lawyers for both Long and the men who claimed that he sexually abused them when they were underage members of New Birth. What has yet to be seen is how the settlement will play out for Long or his wealthy church. While King said it was divinity that pulled her from the church's pulpit, it could be the beginning of an exodus from the church's leadership ranks. Long had told his congregants that he would fight the accusations, but instead, he has paid them off to avoid further legal wrangling. Details of the settlement have not been disclosed.

King said her decision would have gone this way irrespective of Long and his very public legal issues.

Since about 2005, King said that she had been wrestling with her calling as a minister and dealing with a number of issues, including the death of her mother, then her sister, a legal fight with her brother and a proposition to head the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, where her father once presided.

"When I came to New Birth, I came for a season and I expected that season not to be quite as long as it was," she said. By January, she explained, she was no longer considering the SCLC position and could no longer mute the voice, God's voice, in her head. A few months later in April, she went to Long and told him that she planned on leaving the church to pursue her own ministry.

"I have to leave to follow the assignment that God has on my life," she recalled telling Long. "He gave me his blessing and supported me in that."

King said the rumors of her "resigning" amid the whirlwind of drama and innuendo surrounding Long's legal troubles were befuddling.

"I heard I resigned," said King. "I was a little confused by that. I've never been on staff. I've never been employed by New Birth... I occasionally worked in the pulpit and preached at New Birth, but that was the extent of my function at the church."

As for those still speculating as to her true motivation to leave the church, in Lithonia, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, she said, "I can't clear up the mind of God. I have always followed what I believe to be the voice of God in my life."

So, what's next for King?

Over the next several months she said she will be building the foundation for what she called a ministry, not a church.

"What God is showing me doesn't look like what people are accustomed to," she said. "One thing that he told me was that I was to raise up kings for the Kingdom."

As for any hard feelings for Bishop Long or the church, King didn't give the slightest hint of any.

"Let me just say this," she said, "during my eight years at New Birth, eight years and eight months, I was tremendously blessed by the ministry of Bishop."

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