Snow Angel Celebration

On a lighter note today, here is a great goal celebration by youth hockey players. Here is the brief piece about the celebration and how the mini-game was played between periods at an NHL match.

If this doesn't make you smile then reading the piece in the link above about why they did it will definitely do the trick.

Political Silliness

It is a sad commentary on our society and the political landscape when a story such as this has made it to my attention and now to The Human Show. Apparently Barack Obama will not visit a Sikh temple when he visits India soon. This is a major tourism site and because all visitors must wear the Sikh head covering the political aides at the White House have deemed it bad politics to allow pictures of the president wearing the head covering. Here is an article about this.

It is unfortunate that people would attempt to exploit those types of completely benign photos and it is equally unfortunate that the president is not standing up to that, but rather caving and in effect shunning this opportunity to visit a prominent site in India related to a peaceful religion.

To the Surface...and Beyond!

Today the first of the Chilean Miners that were trapped after a mine collapse this summer will come to the surface. Here is the article about this important update. I preused a couple of articles yesterday about the order of who would come out first and how their families on the surface were squabbling with each other but this is the most important part, their return. The picture below is of the capsule they will be retrieved in, this was during a test.

Here are the previous posts here at The Human Show about this epic, months-long story of survival.

Super Human! - August 25.

More Miners - September 16.

It has been 68 days, which is impressive since early estimates said it could take 3-4 months to get them out. Just a great story about humans and still, for me the most impressive aspect is how they survived for 17 days before first contact with the surface and they did it on 2-days worth of food. Just incredible!

Banned in China

I never thought I would be able to get The Human Show to be blocked in China but it probably is now that this post is up. In a brief but truly humanity centered Human Show post, I am further sharing the ubiquitous news that Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Here is one of the many articles about this news but this one gives a good bit of background and has links to a picture slideshow.

No Bank? Big Fees!

This isn't necessarily the typical Human Show posting but I think it is appropriate for this blog anyway. Today I read an article about a journalist who spent one month living her life without a bank. I will let you read the article but if I haven't given you enough information, here is a little more. She suspended her direct deposit so she had to cash paper paychecks and did so at check cashing outlets. She didn't use her credit or debit cards and got prepaid cash cards at drugstores to use instead and she paid rent with money orders. She explains all of the different types of fees she incurred in this experience, it was quite a bit. Some of the fees and the amounts of the fees might make you think that money could have been better spent if it was used as in the picture above.