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Caught in a Pickleball: Seniors' New Favorite Sport - FoxNews.com

This was my favorite high school gym activity. Anyone else from North Penn miss playing pickle ball?

Wild Beavers Terrorize Philadelphia

Watch out my Philly friends!

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Published June 06, 2011

Three people were bitten by a rabid beaver last week in Philadelphia before the animal was killed -- and game wardens remain stumped about the "truly bizarre" attacks.

Three people were bitten by a rabid beaver last week in Philadelphia before the animal was killed — and game wardens remain stumped about the “truly bizarre” attacks.

PHILADELPHIA – Pennsylvania game wardens remained stumped Sunday about a spate of “truly bizarre” rabid beaver attacks in and around Philadelphia.

Three people were bitten by a beaver last week in Pennypack Park in the city’s northeastern section before the animal was killed and officials determined it had rabies, according to MyFoxPhilly.

A married couple was fishing on Wednesday when the large beaver bit the woman’s leg, then turned on her husband and bit him in both arms and on his chest, the Pennsylvania Game Commission said.

On Thursday, a child was bitten in the same park. A short time later, a park ranger located the beaver nearby. That animal was killed and tested positive for rabies at a Health Department lab. Game wardens are looking through the park for other beavers that could be infected.

Park officials were baffled by the location of the attacks and the fact that the mammal was a beaver — not a raccoon or skunk.

“It’s not that beavers are not susceptible, as all mammals are susceptible, to rabies,” said Game Commission spokesman Jerry Feaser. “But a beaver in Philadelphia, that was just truly bizarre.”

Another rabid beaver attacked an angler in late April on White Clay Creek in the Chester County suburbs of Philadelphia. Feaser said the attacks are the only such cases he recalls during 12 years with the commission.

“Our furbearer biologist, when he heard about this, he was just literally blown away,” Feaser said.

The state Agriculture Department, which investigates rabies cases, fielded no reports of rabid beavers in 2009 or 2010.

Pennsylvania normally has between 350 and 500 confirmed rabies cases annually. Last year slightly more than half the cases were raccoons, followed in frequency by skunks, cats, bats and foxes. The state’s most recent rabies fatality for humans occurred in 1984, when a 12-year-old Lycoming County boy died.

As a precaution, Game Commission officials continue to encourage residents to avoid the Pennypack Creek waterfront area between Bustleton Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard in northeast Philadelphia.

Read more on Philadelphia’s beaver battle at MyFoxPhilly.com.

Why even continue the show?

Christopher Meloni to Be Replaced on ‘Law & Order: SVU’

Published May 25, 2011

Christopher Meloni (AP)

Christopher Meloni will not return for Season 13 of Law & Order: SVU, TVLine.com reports.

Contract negotiations for Meloni — who has portrayed Detective Elliot Stabler opposite Mariska Hargitay’s Olivia Benson since SVU’s 1999 premiere — fell through this week, with series creator Dick Wolf already on the hunt for a new star to replace him.

Report: Jennifer Love Hewitt Eyed as New SVU Lead as Mariska Hargitay Signs Deal to Return

In a conference call with reporters last week, NBC chief Robert Greenblatt sounded confident that Meloni would close his deal to return.

Hargitay recently renewed her contract, with the caveat that her workload be scaled back. At midseason, her character will be promoted to a supervisor position, during which a new female detective will take her place. Jennifer Love Hewitt, who earned raves for her guest spot as a rape victim on SVU earlier this season, is being eyed to replace her.

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For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, ‘Abba! Father!’ The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him….

But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Romans 8:14-17, 38-29 (NASB)

(Source: biblegateway.com)

I’m not going to lie, as cheesy as this video is, I got a little emotional watching this.

Today is the one year anniversary of the LOST finale. I have to say, it still leaves a soft spot in my heart. My roommate and I still can’t bring ourselves to delete the final episode off of our DVR.

Why, you ask? It’s not just about the show, it was about the experience of watching it. I miss watching every episode with a group of friends, the gasps of surprise when something finally clicks or takes you off guard, the speculation about what something means or what will happen next, the discussions on theories about how it will end, how we grew to love the characters because they were developed so well (except Anna Lucia), and holding your breathe during almost every episode because of the suspense.

Those who watched it when it was on TV understand the community that was formed around it, something that can’t be recreated by watching them on DVD.

I still miss LOST. No TV show has even come close to exciting me as much as this one did.

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What Will Happen To Your Pets When the Rapture Happens on Saturday?

According to some, the rapture will happen on Saturday. You may be thinking, “What will happen to my pets when I’m taken up in the rapture?” No need to worry, this company will come and adopt your pets when the rapture happens.

If Life Were More Like a Video Game...

This is quite brilliant!

Nashville Cicada (@nashvillecicada) on Twitter

They are gross. They are loud. They are everywhere. This is a little ray of sunlight in the 2011 Nashville Cicada Invasion

"As we look at the cross, we are bound to say: ‘That is what sin can do. Sin can take the loveliest life in all the world and smash it on a cross.’ One of the great functions of the cross is to open the eyes of men and women to the horror of sin. And when they see sin in all its horror, they cannot do anything else but experience intense sorrow for their sin."

Quote by William Barclay

(Source: amazon.com)

"Alistair MacLean quotes a story from Johann Tauler, the fourteenth-century German mystic.
One day, Tauler met a beggar. ‘God give you a good day, my friend,’ he said.
The beggar answered, ‘I thank God I never had a bad one.’
Then Tauler said, ‘God give you a happy life, my friend.’
‘I thank God,’ said the beggar, ‘that I am never unhappy.’
In amazement Tauler asked, ‘What do you mean?’
‘Well,’ said the beggar, ‘when it is fine, I thank God. When it rains, I thank God. When I have plenty, I thank God. When I am hungry, I thank God. And since God’s will is my will, and whatever pleases him pleases me, why should I say I am unhappy when I am not?’
Tauler looked at the man in astonishment. ‘Who are you?’ he asked.
‘I am a king,’ said the beggar.
‘Where then is your kingdom?’ asked Tauler.
And the beggar replied quietly, ‘In my heart.’"

I read this story today in a commentary on Matthew 6:25-34 by William Barclay.

“I do believe, help me with my unbelief!”

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