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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
A mistake by security at a local airport helped a Utah principal land an appearance by an NFL star. Ilene Strong and Kyle Van Noy, and former BYU football player and now Detroit Lions linebacker, accidentally picked up the other’s laptops from security bin while going through airport security. Van Noy…
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“If I hear thunder fairly close by, I am off the water” states Ronnie Garrison, even though he is a competitive fisherman who fishes in all seasons and in all kinds of weather. He has fished when the water was fifteen degrees, dipping his rod to keep ice from forming each time he casts—fishing when it…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 37 views
Eric Maddox, author and former Army Interrogation specialist who led the hunt of Saddam Hussein told an audience in Oakland, California that it was Saddam’s craving for a favorite fish dish that resulted in his capture. In a story reported by an Oakland, California newspaper, Maddox said he interrogated…
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Americans have a fixation with winning lotteries. The one 99.99 percent sure thing with a lottery is that you will be poorer for playing. In a recent record setting Powerball lottery the odds of winning were 1 in 292 million. That is about the same as flipping a coin and getting the same result, (heads…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
One of the terms of Colleen Cudney’s probation for her 2012 DUI conviction is that she is not supposed to drink at all, and must take random breathalyzer tests. Recently she boasted on her facebook page that she passed the test, though she’d consumed alcohol the day before. What she didn’t think about…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
New York City orthopedic surgeon Claudette M. Lajam repeats the message of James 1:8 when she says, “You can’t really pay attention to more than one thing at a time”. Dr. Lajam has treated many injuries caused by people trying to walk while using their smart phones. An Ohio State University study found…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Google and computer scientists at Stanford University conducted a study of words used for security questions for online accounts found that many supposedly secure words are a lot less secure than people think. They found hackers could probably guess the answers with ease. For example, a hacker would…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 54 views
A 50-year-old British woman decided 40 years ago, when she was only ten, that she didn’t want to have wrinkles when she grew older. She had been told that smiling would cause laughter lines to develop around her mouth, eyes, and forehead as she aged. She determined to never smile to avoid developing…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 23 views
Most people look for a coffee shop with free Wi-Fi and get annoyed if that service isn’t provided. A Canadian coffee shop tried the opposite approach. The Faraday Café was built to repel and jam cell phone signals and was the first such shop in the world to try and deliberately create a wireless “black…
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Footage from surveillance cameras from two businesses located near each other show a man who tied to rob both of them came up empty handed. The suspect, a Hispanic man in his twenties, first walked into a convenience store and demanded money. He was holding a potato disguised as a gun. The thief fled…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
A Kingsport, Tennessee woman became an Internet sensation after she and a friend were highlighted during the SEC Network’s coverage of a football game between Kentucky and Tennessee. McKenzie Hoskins said that she and a friend spent 28 hours awake hoping to get good seats and catch a glimpse of her hero,…
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The New York Times gives three tips for talking with a spouse about money. First you schedule regular meetings. Second, you talk about the big topics. These are the common causes of disagreements. Third, you set individual spending thresholds. That is the amount one spouse may spend without consulting…
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Church Administrator Bruce MacNair and local banker Bryan Studier were both seeking a seat on the city council in Wolfforth, Texas. When all the ballots were counted, both men had exactly 118 votes. A special election would have cost the small community over $10,000, so the two men decided to use a more…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
According to a consultant’s report obtained by the Detroit Free Press, The Detroit Water and Sewage Department employs a horseshoer at a cost to the city of nearly $60,000 per year in salary and benefits. “According to the official job description—not updated since 1967—the DWSD horseshoer is required…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Election officials in Ohio say most of the votes in the 2012 Presidential elections were cast for the official candidates, but there were some write-in votes. In the Canton area, write-in votes were reportedly cast for actor Clint Eastwood, New York Jets backup quarterback Tim Tebow, and comedian Jon…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
In 2012, several students at Burns High school in Lawndale N.C. were looking for something to do. They decided to play a prank. Their target? The high school football field. Their weapon? Goats. That’s right. The students released a dozen goats on to the football field in the middle of the night. Because…
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The mayor of the small Alaska village of Talkeetna isn’t exactly what most people expect, but residents say they are fine with their choice. Stubbs, a part-Manx cat, was elected mayor 15 years ago and still holds the honorary title. About the time the cat was born, the 900 residents of Talkeetna decided…
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Police in New York say a man’s plan to coast an SUV with no brakes downhill to a scrap yard turned out to be a very bad idea. The twenty-eight-year-old man told police that he had disconnected the battery before coasting down a hill to take the car to a junkyard. He also said he knew the vehicle had…
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In Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: Unleash A Revolution In Your Life in Christ, Peter Scazzero writes, “For years I learned from leaders and consultants around the country how to lead a large, growing church. None of the training I received concerned itself with knowing myself. The problem was that…
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In Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, Richard Swenson writes: “Boundaries are about establishing a perimeter around the personal and private spaces of our lives and not letting the world come crashing in uninvited. This is not an issue of selfishness…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Writing about the current credit crisis in American life, Gigi A. Berman learned an old truth. Benjamin Franklin said, “He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.” --Time March 29, 2010 p. 50. Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell Old Ben wasn’t the first sage to warn us of the danger of debt.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 42 views
TEAMWORK In The Celtic Way of Evangelism, George Hunter writes, “A zoologist once informed me that a tiger will defeat a lion in battle; but five lions will defeat five tigers because the lions fight together and the tigers do not, so the five lions take on one tiger at a time.” – Kindle Book, Highlight…
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A recent analysis of Internet trends found that though most Americans trust the information displayed on their computers, they have to beware of new risks. A look at online threats during the second half of 2009 showed that 81 percent of email was rigged to deliver “malicious” code and 95 percent of…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
DISTRACTIONS Driving while distracted has been blamed for a growing number of accidents and highway deaths over the past few years. Typical concerns are talking on the cell phone, changing the radio station, or texting. A fifty-seven year old California woman may be the champion of driving while distracted.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 40 views
RICHES In 1981, Lou Eisenberg had it made. The 53 year old worked in an office building changing light bulbs for $225 a week, when he hit the biggest lottery jackpot paid out at that time, $5million dollars. Instantly, Eisenberg became a celebrity making appearances on television talk shows. Many referred…