The chief of the Vatican Museums has raised concerns that the enormous number of sweaty, dirty, dusty visitors to the Sistine Chapel are posing risks to Michelangelo’s monumental masterpiece. His comments raise the possibility that climate and dust controls, access controls, and other techniques may be instituted in hopes of preventing harm to the artwork. [...]
Archive for September 9th, 2010
Save The Sistine Chapel
Posted in Art, World, tagged Art, Italy, Michelangelo, Rome, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, World on September 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Hurricanes Blow Into Town (Cont.)
Posted in Columbus, sports, tagged Big Ten, Big Ten football, Buckeye football, Cameron Heyward, Columbus, Dexter Larimore, Jacory Harris, Miami Hurricanes, Miami vs. Ohio State, Miami-Oho State, Ohio State, Ohio State vs. Miami, Ohio State-Miami, sports, Terrelle Pryor on September 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The game against the Miami Hurricanes is less than two days away, and the excitement here in Columbus is building. Buckeye and Hurricane fans, and no doubt college football fans generally, are looking forward to what should be a marquee matchup between two teams with storied programs and lots of tradition. The Miami program has [...]
DexterMania
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dexter, Micahel C Hall, Showtime on September 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, I have to admit that I have been sleep deprived lately because my good friend Joyce Phillips provided me with entertainment over the Labor Day weekend, it’s a television series called Dexter. Dexter aires on the Showtime network and has been around since October 2006. It’s about a guy named Dexter who works for [...]
Message to the World !
Posted in America, tagged Bashar Shala, freedom, Heartsong Church, loving ones neighbor, Memphis Islamic Center, religious tolerance, Steve Stone on September 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you sift through the political comments when you click on the link below you will find a wonderful story about the Heartsong Church in Memphis who have loaned their church to worshippers building an Islamic Center across the street. The brief dialog between Pastor Stone and Dr Bashar Shala is more of what we need in this day [...]
When You Fish Upon A Czar
Posted in America, Humor, Politics, tagged America, Asian carp, Czars, Great Lakes, Humor, Ivan the Terrible, Nicholas II, Peter the Great, Politics, President Obama on September 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Having appointed czars for the auto industry, bank bailouts, pay, energy, and countless other issues, President Obama finally got around to appointing a czar for a really important issue to those of us in the Midwest — namely, preventing the potential invasion of the Great Lakes by the Asian carp. It’s not entirely clear what [...]
