Cornish Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Brixham SAC's John Heather has added yet another 100lb plus conger to the club's long list of specimen eels.
Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Meghan Conger was sworn in Tuesday as the fifth member of the Kansas City Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Meghan Conger was sworn in Tuesday as the fifth member of the Kansas City Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners.
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
By George Conger, Religious Intelligence Canterbury: The push to seat Gene Robinson at Lambeth Conference failed yesterday after the American bishops declined to force the issue. At their July 21 provincial meeting at the Lambeth Conference the American bishops declined to take action on a request by liberal members of their caucus to ask the Archbishop [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
By George Conger, Religious Intelligence Canterbury: The opening Eucharist service of the 2008 Lambeth Conference exemplified everything that is wrong with the Communion and the Conference, with substance given a second place to ceremony, one Global South primate told ReligiousIntelligence.com. While much was said about transforming the world through social action, nothing was said about personal [...]...
Ben Byerly's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
By George Conger in Canterbury. The crack-up of the Anglican Communion is at hand, evangelical bishops attending the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury tell Christianity Today, and the 400 year old Anglican project appears over. “I’d like to expect a miracle,” said Bishop Gregory Venables of Argentina, a leader of the evangelical alliance at Lambeth, but said he [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
By George Conger, CEN Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has rebuffed pleas for compromise from conservatives and rejected calls for the American Church’s House of Bishops to revisit the cases of deposed Bishops John-David Schofield and William Cox, saying the matter is closed. “I have no ability to reverse or set aside any decision of the House [...]
Halos Heaven (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
CONGER: 3 HR in 1 Game Rancho QUAKE Hank "KING" Conger hit 3 Homeruns as a SWITCH HITTER in ONE Game on Wednesday - 1 from the RIGHT side and 2 from the LEFT side. Only bad news is he is still the DH and not Catching.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
The River Tamar's reputation for big conger in the shore category has been further enhanced by the capture of a 43lb eel by Roving Rods member Rob Yorke. The bait was a fillet of mullet saved from a fish he weighed in the second round of the Plymouth Shore League.
Kyoto Foodie (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Kyoto Ryokan: Kyoto Summer Hamo Cuisine at Gion Hatanaka (鱧料理) Mid-summer is the time for the most important festival in Kyoto, the Gion Festival. This festival is informally known as the Hamo Festival because the hamo, or conger pike eel is in season at this time. Is the meat of the hamo especially tasty? No. But hamo [...]
MLB (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Conger king for day at the plate
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
By George Conger, Religious Intelligence A US state court has rejected attempts to overturn a state law permitting congregations to withdraw from the church with their properties following a schism, delivering the Episcopal Church its second legal loss in its battle with 11 Nigerian-affiliated parishes in Northern Virginia . On June 27, Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge [...]
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
G-8 leaders gathered at a posh resort in Japan this week to dine on taxpayer-bought 19-course meals. The Guardian reports that just one such meal included caviar; sea urchin; "a fan and decorated with bamboo grasses, including diced fatty tuna fish, avocado and jellied soy sauce, and pickled conger eel with soy sauce"; "hairy crab Kegani bisque-style soup"; "salt-grilled bighand thornyhead (a small,...
Montag ... (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
"This Friday, fly the Gadsden flag." — W. Conger "The best miracles happen when you stop trying to force things into line." — W. Bluhm
Secret Tenerife (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Trans Atlantic voyages, these days, generally conger up images of lone yachtspersons or rowers, battling it single-handedly against the ocean and the elements and, admirably, many of these fools adventurers make the crossing in aid of a good cause. On the other hand, if your dream of a trans Atlantic voyage is much more in keeping with the time when Edward and Mrs Simpson crossed the high seas in style...
