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Jessica Simpson Accidentally Reveals She's Having a Baby Boy
It's a boy. Actually, it will be a boy! Jessica Simpson revealed that she is expecting a son while appearing on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' last night (March 6.)
While confessing to the late night talk show host that she has had a tough pregnancy, she also spilled the beans about the baby's sex. "I just feel awful. I've been vomiting. I had no idea that a wiener can make me nauseous," she said.
She continued, "Oh shucks! Well I guess told the world that I was having a boy. I just outed that I am having a boy. I can't believe I did that. It was not planned."
Sure, it wasn't! We're still stuck on the fact that she said "wiener" when referring to her unborn son.
Simpson's daughter, Maxwell Drew, will turn 1 on May 1.


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For the past seven years, the Grammy Awards have steered away from the traditional host format. But for this year's 54th annual ceremony, they will once again have a Master of Ceremonies.
Rapper and actor LL Cool J - himself a two-time Grammy winner - has been tapped to host the telecast, which airs live February 12th at 8:00 PM ET on CBS. He will be the first host since Queen Latifah performed the duties in 2005.
"I'm thrilled to be part of Music's Biggest Night," said the 44-year-old in a statement. "I will always have fond memories of my first Grammys Awards and to now be hosting the Grammy show, in the company of so many other incredible artists, is a dream come true."
U.S. & World
Joining LL on stage will be confirmed live performers Jason Aldean, Kelly Clarkson, Foo Fighters, Bruno Mars, Nicki Minaj, and Taylor Swift.
But the biggest name of the night is singer Adele, who leads all nominees with six, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year.
LL Cool J has been acting as host for the Grammy nominee concert since 2008.
Selected Reading: People, The 54th Annual Grammy Awards Official Site

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Modern Resurrection! The Debt Monster Lives!
Wow. Wow. There has been an actual resurrection – in modern times. Not overseas either – right here in New Zealand!
Students at tertiary campuses throughout New Zealand have held protests to mark a milestone of student debt.
On Thursday morning debt calculators on student websites clicked over to $10 billion, according to official figures obtained by the national student union body.
Otago Polytechnic Students Association co-president Ryan Ward says they marked the occasion with a protest to drench the debt monster.
Yet I seem to recall this self same monster being slain by our PM 3 years ago – it was on the national news. NZUSA actually put out a press release suggesting that it was being heavily injured. I wonder how that National policy would have worked out?
26 July 2005 – Labour finally strikes a blow at the student debt
If implemented, Labour's tertiary student support policy, including the introduction of no interest on loans while borrowers are in New Zealand, would be the most significant blow to the $7 billion debt monster since the student loan scheme was introduced in 1992.
24 July 2005 – National tertiary policy silent on student fees
NZUSA is fearful that the release of the National Party's Tertiary Education Policy today could spell the return of the high student fee rises of the 90s.


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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Solar Ripoff
19 comments:
- Barney, The Old Fat Man said...
I reviewed that garbage for some friends a couple of weeks ago. You were to kind about the crap they put in their ad. Another case of a salesmans lips moving.
- July 15, 2009 at 9:34 PM
- Ben in Texas said...
I have been trying to remember what the system was from Australia that I had seen at the Texas State Fair one year,, finally found a link.. The Stringling engine system uses heat differential to drive a motor.. in Australia and New Zealand they use them on the remote stations.. Just something else for you to tinker with and think about.
This link has an explanation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine
- July 15, 2009 at 9:43 PM
- Unknown said...
hi- for your phone booth, try firstname.lastname@example.com
It's in Eugene, Oregon.
Maybe you already have looked at this site, but they have American Clark Kent booths as well as English reds.
good luck!
- July 15, 2009 at 10:30 PM
- Grant Wagner said...
Just to play devil's advocate, we're looking at a 90 watt panel (in adjustable, portable frame), attached to a battery pack, and a 1800 watt inverter.
We aren't commenting on build or component quality, so unless someone says otherwise, I'm going to assume that it's a solid build.
I don't see where it's mentioned to be a 60 ah battery. But let's lets given them they benefit of the doubt and say it's actually 1800 watt hr of 12V battery, so about 150 AH.
So, just looking at the above facts and estimates, we can believe that it could be built for:
2x golf cart batteries or deep cycle marine....$200
1800 watt inverter (modified sine wave) $300 (http://www.realgoods.com/product/solar+power/inverters/off-grid/go-power-+modified+sine-wave+inverters.do)
Small Charge controller...$60(http://www.realgoods.com/product/solar+power/batteries-controllers/charge+controllers/sunkeeper+sk-12-amp+solar+charge+controller.do)
Other small parts and pieces, $100.
Total: $1160
Given suburban America's love affair with simple, turn key toys, I think there might be plenty of people who would take them up on it. There is clearly a demand for something of this nature. Marketing approach, completely shameful, and there will be a lot of unhappy people when they realize just how little power it is.
But, if it is a solid unit, especially if it has a true sine wave inverter and sealed maintenance free batteries (which it would have to be to be as simple and maintenance free as it attempts to sell itself as), then it might actually be a reasonable price for those who don't actually want to know what they are doing.
For a do-it-yourselfer, then yes, utter rip. But seriously, not very many people are, and that is a sad, sad thing.
- July 16, 2009 at 8:51 AM
- Unknown said...
Hi John, I did a quick search and there are several phone booths on ebay. None are in Texas, but here's the auction numbers.
Good luck and look forward to seeing what you have in mind.
- July 16, 2009 at 9:04 AM
- Bob from Athens said...
Hey Grant go check out Northern
tool they sell the duracell powersource 1800 and they say it has an 60ah agm, rated for 12 hours for a small office or up to 4hours for appliances.
John, thank you for using your site to educate and inform. All too often these days we run into these high pressure tactics to scare us into a buying something like this. Granted it will work but not in the way they are saying.
- July 16, 2009 at 9:11 AM
- Unknown said...
So does anyone know what has happened to Ms Belinda?
She used to post on a fairly regular basis and I have not seen her post for sometime now?
- July 16, 2009 at 11:02 AM
- Debbie In The Big O said...
Winterchill57, I enjoy MsBelinda's comments as well. She also posts on Barney's blog (http://ofmadventures.blogspot.com/), and on Billy Bob's Travels, (http://billybobsplace.blogspot.com)/, both very entertaining blogs. Check them out if you haven't already.
- July 16, 2009 at 12:19 PM
I luv my job, but hate where I have to do it. I just want something in the terligua area so I can just move out to my property already and compete with the Field Lab for self sustaining lifestyle. ( good competition)
Is there year around work there, that would put 2,000 grand a month in my pocket? Now remember I am a genius and can do anything but show up to work on time and perform tasks.
looking forward to hear fro anyone.
- July 16, 2009 at 1:21 PM
- Ben in Texas said...
Ms Belinda is around I know, I get a post from her on occasion, I think she travels a couple of times a week and has no internet connection. I/we need to talk her into a wi-fi card and get her to start her own blog.
- July 16, 2009 at 1:23 PM
- KE5MIL said...
Gitcha one of these hummers...4500watts of pure sign wave for 1500 bones...sup it with wind and your in biz. I'm thinking you can run everthing needed with that kind of head room.
- July 16, 2009 at 7:18 PM
- Grant Wagner said...
As a side note, for "backup power" as this device seems to be used for, the panel is a bit of a gimick. Just the battery with a plug in charger will give much of the same benifit with much less cost.
- July 17, 2009 at 9:14 AM
- Grant Wagner said...
I stand corrected, I just took a look at that Duracell Powersource that Bob mentioned. This product is now a completely rip.
- July 17, 2009 at 9:27 AM
- Winterchill said...
Thanks Debbie and Ben in Texas, I am glad she is okay and I will check those other blogs. I think I may have some of them alreaded linked into my bookmarks but havent gotten there yet.
- July 17, 2009 at 10:10 AM
- Unknown said...
Solar energy is the best natural resource that we have this time even more that fuel is too expensive. In fact i want to approach costa rica investment opportunities and look all the alternative this country can have because it climate. We must to find the way to save our planet and to use solar energy could be the first step.
- July 30, 2010 at 9:39 PM
- Unknown said...
i like it, thanks & i saw that.. http://www.sumppumpsusa.com/duracell-powersource-1800-sump-pump-backup-system.html
Duracell Powersource 1800
- July 12, 2012 at 7:20 AM
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Rooting Against My Home Team with Go Sushi's Yankee Roll
With the notable exception of Go Go Curry there is probably no Japanese restaurant in Manhattan more obsessed with New York Yankees left-fielder Hideki "Godzilla" Matsui than Go Sushi. Sports pages featuring Matsui are pasted above the sushi bar at this Saint Mark's izakaya, whose name means "five" in Japanese. To honor the newly minted MVP who has worn the number 55 since his days at the Yomiuri Giants, and in recognition of the Yanks World Series win, Go introduced the Yankee Roll. My team loyalties—such as they are—lie with the Mets, but only because I love Queens. Nevertheless, I decided to cast aside my loyalty to the home team and try the $5.50 creation.
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Truth be told, I'm a traditionalist when it comes to sushi, preferring to eat hand rolls or nigiri sushi made with fish. Nevertheless the Yankee Roll, with its filling of grilled beef yakiniku and lettuce was pretty good.
Note the tribute to the 27th World Series win spelled out in spicy mayo and the snazzy seaweed pinstripes. I'm still holding out for a Mets win next year along with a related food item.
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Which one do you want puzzling over the MRIs and setting precedents?
Posted by olvlzl.
Jeffrey Rosen's piece in the New York Times Magazine last Sunday is too good an example of what I've been warning about to pass up. Regular readers of this blog will know what I've been writing about the overstated claims made by increasing numbers of cognitive and behavioral scientists and concerns about people in authority who might act on those claims. Though Rosen introduces the use of it into arguments against the fixation on punishment by the legal system, that is incredibly naive. The assertion that people who are not legally insane behave as a result of their brain chemistry and physiology instead of free choice is more likely to lead to the conclusion of Peter Lorre's gangster jury in the movie "M", that people who can't keep themselves from committing crimes should be exterminated. Who can look at the judicial system and political climate we have and not see that as the likely outcome?
Rosen begins badly with the assertion that "since all behavior is caused by our brains, wouldn't this mean all behavior could potentially be excused"? The statement that all behavior is caused by our brains isn't science, it's philosophy. The attempts to find answers to questions of this kind go back at least to the dawn of the Samkhya school in India c. 200 CE. The impossibility of coming up with even the first answer, whether there is a self there in the first place, it's doubtful the question can be answered. For similar reasons it's doubtful that the more overblown claims of the researchers are on much higher ground. Those stem from assertions that what they can see is all that there is, that is also philosophy. Any conclusions as to what imaging and chemical analysis mean would be based on an analysis of data drawn from a number of individuals, it would start with that philosophical stand. The results would also be an interpretation of a statistical analysis of the group as a whole. What that evidence and the analysis means doesn't reach the question of where the behavior of any individual starts. Even tested individuals could well be excluded from the analysis as outliers.
Rosen's article goes into the work of "Owen Jones, a professor of law and biology at Vanderbilt. Jones (who happens to have been one of my law-school classmates*)" who is "turning Vanderbilt into a kind of Los Alamos for neurolaw. The university has just opened a $27 million neuroimaging center and has poached leading neuroscientists from around the world; soon, Jones hopes to enroll students in the nation's first program in law and neuroscience." "It"s breathlessly exciting," he says. "This is the new frontier in law and science we're peering into the black box to see how the brain is actually working, that hidden place in the dark quiet, where we have our private thoughts and private reactions and the law will inevitably have to decide how to deal with this new technology."
With that amount of funding and the investment in professional and personal credibility and pride how much do you want to bet that they don't come up with anything less than firm assertions? With the judicial system being what it is, you don't have to guess that somewhere, some judge dazzled with their images and pedigree will accept them at their word and start building precedent and a legal framework that will become imbedded. It could be someone with ties to Vanderbuilt. Once it has been, that precedent will affect what our legal system does to people. And given the preference for the judicial system to "to substitute words for reality and then argue about the words,**" you can guess that the legal effect might well have a longer shelf life than the "science".
How much of a reach is it to speculate once it becomes part of case law that it has an effect on legislation? With the number of lawyers in the Congress and state legislatures it's a sure bet.
A good question to ask at the start is why this "science" is a sounder basis for law enforcement than an effort to generate better and more honest crime scene evidence. The physical aspects of evidence are certainly more easily analyzed than the product of cognitive science. Unlike the assertions of the science, most of those can be seen. Shouldn't those who want to insert these speculations into the judicial system have to show results at least as good as real forensic science?
There are much better ways to argue against punishment as the method of dealing with those convicted of crimes than to go down this road. As pointed out in the beginning asserting that people don't exercise free will is an invitation to disaster. It also endangers civil liberties and freedom. There is no getting around that, when the possibility of free will is denied the logical conclusion is that democracy is an illusion. We don't need the speculations of self-interested scientists to tell us what has happens when that is assumed, we've got the horrible and bloody history of the 20th century to look at. That is all too real.
Punishment as law enforcement has a track record of failure and it's expensive. Those two arguments are more likely to wash politically than "neurolaw". I would also argue that punishment is not only useless but a fixation on it is no different from a desire for revenge. Revenge, far from being the virtue that it is presented as in entertainment, debases those who long for it and those who achieve it. That, however, isn't an argument that will work in today's political atmosphere which has been polluted by crime shows and sensational cabloid swill. That atmosphere is the one into which Jones and Rosen propose launching their new science. The results won't be what they intend.
More generally, for our politics. Since the question of free will is impossible to answer, what should be done about it? I think that it should be assumed to exist because that assumption is useful in avoiding dictatorship and other awful things. It's sort of like the complex number system using what are called the "imaginary numbers". Those exist largely because they are useful. Their invention was based in utility and the theoretical framework expanded to include them. Politics and law are a lot more flexible than the exigent requirements of math. They can be informed by science but they don't need to only rely on it. Holmes, who made unfortunate decisions based on unwise faith in biological determinism, said that the life of the law was based in experience, not logic. From his example, who can doubt that experience tempered by humility is probably a better guide when dealing with questions of free will.
* That fact alone should be a red flag. I'd feel a lot better about Rosen's account of the lab if he had no connection to Jones. I think Rosen's article is far too credulous about the science. It feels like there's just too much awestruck wonder there.
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Take a Walk With This County Princess
This report caused everyone present to become dazed. Xiang Rong looked at the person that had come in behind the servant, and her heart began to race.
The servant from the Bu family was also a little surprised, but it was someone from the palace, and it was the Chun Palace. He definitely did not dare express his dissatisfaction, thus he moved to the side, giving some space.
An shi's expression was not too good and gave a look to Xiang Rong, but how could Xiang Rong have any mind to look at her. Her eyes were fixed on the maidservant that had been sent by the Chun Palace.
It was an older maidservant, and she looked to be around 17- or 18-years-old. In terms of appearance and bearing, she was very graceful. She first went to salute Xiang Rong then bowed to An shi before saying: "His Highness Prince Chun returned from out of the province and brought back some fresh things, and he specially prepared some for county princess and third young miss." While saying this, she brought the thing in her hands to Xiang Rong then said: "It's nothing particularly expensive. It's just some dried fruit. It's a specialty from that area. Third young miss, please do not dislike it."
Xiang Rong waved her hand, "I don't dislike it. I don't dislike it." She was in a bit panicked and a bit happy, and she was also at a bit of a loss over what to do. Personally receiving the dried fruit, she held it like it was some sort of treasure. Even an idiot could see the joy on her face.
The person that had come from the Bu manor was a little embarrassed. He felt that he had found some sort of secret. It was a secret that the master of his own family might not know about. There was someone in the heart of the Feng family's third young miss!
An shi could see that the atmosphere was not right, thus she quickly began to take care of the situation. Smiling, she said to the maidservant from the Chun Palace: "Did miss come from the county princess' manor?"
The servant nodded, "Indeed."
An shi pulled Xiang Rong and secretly pinched her then added: "From a young age, county princess has gotten along well with third young miss. Normally, whenever she gets something nice, she would leave some for third young miss. Who knew that when his Highness the seventh prince sent dried fruit, third young miss would also get to try some."
That servant was a smart person and naturally understood what An shi meant, thus she did not expose it. She just smiled at the two of them and bowed before leaving.
The servant from the Bu family did not have any reason to continue staying, thus he bid them farewell and followed the maidservant out.
Just after they left, An shi snatched away the dried fruit that Xiang Rong was hugging and fiercely said: "Third young miss! You must wake up a little! If your attitude today was to become known by the Bu family, you will be left eating bitter fruits! Even in the years leading up to your marriage, the Feng manor will not treat you well either!"
Xiang Rong became spirited from her shouting, her small cheeks becoming bright red. She tried a few times to snatch the dried fruit back from An shi but could not do it. Thus she simply turned around and swept all of the things that had been brought by the Bu family onto the ground.
What Bu Cong had sent was nothing particularly good. It was nothing more than some pastries that had been purchased on the side of the street. With Xiang Rong spilling them all over the floor, they shattered upon contact.
An shi angrily raised her hand to slap her, but she was unable to bring her hand down. Because the girl in front of her was not just her daughter. She was also the third young miss of the Feng manor. Although she was her birth mother, as a concubine, she did not have the right to slap her.
The mother and daughter pair stared at each other then suddenly began crying together. An shi grabbed Xiang Rong and pulled her into a hug, helplessly saying: "Child, if you have anyone to blame, blame your mother. It's because mother was lacking in ability and could only become that person's concubine. If I was the Feng family's head wife, perhaps… perhaps I could help you accomplish your desires."
Xiang Rong was given a shock and quickly pulled away from An shi's embrace. She then stared at An shi: "Concubine mother, you absolutely must not think this way. Xiang Rong has never despised you before, and I have never complained that you were just a concubine mother. The position of head wife is not something that good. It absolutely must not be coveted. Moreover…" She pondered a little, "Even if I was the daughter of the first wife, being with his Highness the seventh prince… would still not be possible."
An shi sighed. While wiping away Xiang Rong's tears, she said: "I was just thinking about it. What position of head wife, concubine mother does not have that intention. I am just hoping that you can marry into a good family then happily live out the rest of your life. It's just, you must remember that unless you have the same ability as second young miss, the young misses of every family is like this."
Xiang Rong suddenly understood the reasoning, but for her to learn to Feng Yu Heng's abilities, even if she was beaten to death, she would not be able to. The young girl was saddened and began crying while squatting on the ground.
At this time, Feng Yu Heng was seated in her room in Tong Sheng pavilion. She was eating the pastries sent by Xuan Tian Hua. Wang Chuan and Huang Quan stood to her side, but Huang Quan's expression was a little ugly. With a face full of resentment, she said: "I just dislike watching her act like that, copying young miss in every way. Where exactly did she hear about young miss acting like this?"
Wang Chuan advised her: "Don't act to emotionally. What if that's just her natural disposition?"
"How could that be possible!" Huang Quan rolled her eyes, "How about we make a bet on something. If she's really like that, I will… I will.." She repeated that for a while but could not say anything of substance.
Feng Yu Heng waved her hand, interrupting their conversation, asking: "Take a guess, who sent Yu Qian Yin?"
"Hm?" The two were puzzled. Wang Chuan thought for a bit then asked: "Young miss means to say that she has some sort of background?"
Feng Yu Heng shrugged and smiled, "To be able to force seventh brother to play along, or rather, to have seventh brother have no choice but to play along with this play, what sort of bargaining chip does the other side have?" She asked the two servants, but at the same time, she also thought that there had to be some sort of critical matter.
She was a little upset. At this time, a servant entered and reported, saying: "Someone came from the Yu Palace."
The three looked at the door and immediately saw Bai Ze, who looked a little rough.
Feng Yu Heng waved to him: "Bai Ze, come in."
When Bai Ze entered, his face looked very unhappy! Huang Quan was puzzled, "Did his Highness punish you?"
Bai Ze shook his head.
Wang Chuan also asked: "Was it some sort of difficult job?"
Bai Ze shook his head once more.
In the end, Feng Yu Heng asked: "What is it? Did you go out and have someone steal your wallet?"
Bai Ze was startled at first then actually nodded.
Huang Quan was gloomy, "How old are you now? You were actually able to have your money stolen?"
Only then did Bai Ze speak: "It's not me that was stolen from… It was Princess!" He looked at Feng Yu Heng, his face was on the verge of crying, "That ghost doctor something Kang is wasting food! And he's wasting chicken."
These words caused Feng Yu Heng to feel extremely confused, "I can understand wasting food. Perhaps he is eating too much, but what do you mean by wasting chicken?"
Bai Ze told her: "That ghost doctor something Kang said that he wants to practice medicine, but he always used living people int eh past to practice. Now, he cannot. Thus he switched to using live chickens. Over these past few days, over 200 have died at his hands. The Yu Palace is eating chicken for all of its meals, and his Highness can't take it anymore."
Feng Yu Heng facepalmed. What the fuck, Song Kang, are you stupid! This was the first time that she had heard of someone using chicken to practice medicine.
Bai Ze then said: "Master told me to come and ask princess. To harm chickens like this, is there any medical purpose? If there's no purpose, we won't keep giving him chickens to kill."
Feng Yu Heng waved her hand, "It's pointless, it's pointless. It's completely pointless. But if he wants to kill chickens, just let him kill them! If he can kill all of the chickens in the world for me, this county princess will accept him as an apprentice."
The two servants recalled the matter of her being afraid of chickens, thus they nodded and said: "Right, let him continue killing them. If you truly cannot bear to continue eating it, just send them to the residence in the suburbs. Those children love eating it."
Bai Ze then said: "Right! How could I have forgotten about this. That's fine. This subordinate will go back and that something Kang to continue killing them. As long as there is an outlet, our palace will not need to continue taking care of it on our own. Killing some chickens is affordable."
Feng Yu Heng expressed her satisfaction then said: "I know his Highness' intention. That Song Kang needs to calm himself down. Whether or not that person can be used, and how he should be used are things that I need to think a little more about."
Bai Ze put on a stern expression and said: "That's fine. Also, there is news from the military camp. Everything is progressing smoothly with the production of steel. Would princess please be at ease."
Feng Yu Heng heard this news and let out a sigh of relief. All this time, the matter of producing steel was still something that she worried about. She feared that some sort of error would be made. At first, she thought that she would go to Xiao Zhou after returning to the capital then immediately return to the military camp. Who could have expected that so many things would happen. Aside from sighing, there was nothing that she could do. She could only make the most of her time and take care of things quickly. Aside from that, there was nothing that she could do.
After Bai Ze left, she asked Wang Chuan: "Has Princess Xiang been informed?"
Wang Chuan nodded, "According to your miss' instructions, princess has been told about everything. Princess Xiang asked the Empress to invite the palace's most experienced granny. On the day of the wedding, she will be brought directly from the imperial palace to the Xiang Palace. There will be no mistakes."
"Very good." She closed her eyes slightly, her mood seemed to have improved a great deal from before.
Feng Chen Yu, it's not that it would not be handled, but the time has not yet come. When the time has come, everything will be handled.
"I'm hungry." With her mood improving, she informed Huang Quan: "Quickly go tell that chef from Refined Deity Building to prepare some pork shoulder for me."
Huang Quan smiled and went out. Wang Chuan said: "Young miss did not eat much at lunch. Eat a bit more for dinner."
In truth, there was no need for Wang Chuan to remind her of this. Feng Yu Heng was someone that would never mistreat herself. She alone was able to eliminate a pork shoulder from Refined Deity Building.
Today, however, after the pork shoulder was brought up, her mood dropped once more after just a few bites.
Wang Chuan was puzzled, asking: "Young miss, what's wrong?"
Huang Quan frankly said: "Could it be that it does not taste good? Either the chef put in too little flavoring, or he forgot how to cook after changing kitchens."
Feng Yu Heng fiddled with her chopsticks and continued to poke at the skin on the pork shoulder. While poking, she said: "It's unrelated to the chef. This pork shoulder is still as delicious as before. It's just that when I eat, I am reminded of Yu Qian Yin. It's like there is a bump in my heart. It's really irritating."
"This servant is also irritated with her." Huang Quan snorted, saying: "To speak of what young miss likes eating, this is not hard to find out. After all, you order those two dishes every time you go to Refined Deity Building. But that Yu Qian Yin is a little too obvious. What does she think she is fooling?"
Feng Yu Heng did not speak for a long time, but the chopsticks stopped poking at the pork shoulder. Not long later, an idea popped into her mind. SHe ordered Huang Quan: "Go tell the chef to have him make another pork shoulder. This time, have him add sugar. Make it very sweet."
Huang Quan did not understand what this meant and only thought that her young miss suddenly wanted to eat something sweet, thus she went to give this order.
One hour later, another pork shoulder was brought up. Feng Yu Heng took a look at the luster of the skin on the pork shoulder and knew that there was no shortage of sugar. A smile appeared on her face. With her eyes slightly closed, she told Wang Chuan: "Go find a food box and put this inside. You two shall accompany this county princess on a walk."
"Where will young miss be going?"
"Where?" She shrugged and sneered, "Isn't there someone that loves eating pork shoulder? Let's be nice and send one to her."


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Education Support Professional of the Year Energizes, Inspires Fellow Educators
Photo: Kevin Lock/NEA
As a health technician in one of America's public schools, imagine starting your school day, as normal. You arrive to work ready to take on the tasks ahead – supporting the school nurse, monitoring students with ongoing health concerns, and maintaining student health records.
This day was no different. Except, a student's heart stopped beating in the middle of an assembly bursting with educators, parents, and more students.
Immediately on the scene was Judy Near, a health technician at Skyline Elementary School in Denver's Cañon City School District whom earlier this year was named the 2012 Education Support Professional (ESP) of the Year. The award, which is the organization's highest honor, was given to Near for her outstanding leadership role within her school, community, and profession.
"I was the first responder on the scene, and I am going to know for the rest of my life a student is alive because of an education support professional," said Near while attending the National Education Association's 150th Annual Meeting and 91st Representative Assembly (RA) in Washington, D.C.
Near energized nearly 9,000 fellow educators attending the NEA RA with a powerful speech on July 4 about the critical roles ESPs play in helping to ensure student success and safety.
During her speech to delegates Near urged educators to take control of their profession through leadership roles, saying, "To lead you just need a vision, hope, and inner strength to believe you can change things."
Near also stressed to live each day with courage because it's courage that helps protect students and communities. Near stated, "We care deeply for the students and their success, and we work to keep students and schools safe."
A $10,000 grant from NEA Member Benefits was awarded to Near as part of the ESP of the Year award. As ESP of the Year Near will travel to national, state and regional conferences in an ambassadorial role, and she will use the award money to advocate on behalf of NEA's approximately 498,000 ESP members.
ESPs comprise nine staff groups who work to support the nation's public schools and higher education institutions. From food service workers to para-educators to bus drivers and custodians, ESPs are the foundation that keeps schools and colleges clean, safe and healthy.
"Judy is an incredible person," said Colorado Education Association President Beverly Ingle, who nominated Near for the award. "She is open and caring; respectful to everyone she meets regardless of their circumstance. Her sense of humor is inviting and inclusive. Judy was truly the best choice for ESP of the Year."
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This one month Service & Study Program is for those (30+) who are interested in experiencing life in a spiritual community, developing skills and studying yoga.
This is a live and work program, with a focus on the practice of Karma Yoga or selfless service. Participants are also introduced to the different forms of yoga that we practice here – including Mantra, Hatha, Dreams and Kundalini.
The Service & Study Program will give you an opportunity to experience life, work and yoga in a truly transformative way.
Cost: $825; $100 deposit (See our Cancellation Policy)
Includes shared accommodation, three meals daily, morning hatha, retreat/workshop, and evening satsang.
The actual cost for a one-month stay is $1200. The Ashram subsidizes this program through fundraising.
Cancellation Policy
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Remember the short lived 80s series Manimal, about a man who can turn into an animal? (Of course you don't.) Welp, it's getting its own movie.
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Bell Papers, 1790-1889, MS. 1965
Bell Papers, 1790-1889, MS 1965, Maryland Historical Society
Collection Summary
Title Bell Papers
Creator Ephraim Bell
Call Number MS.1965
Span Dates 1790-1889
Extent Seven (7) boxes (3 linear feet)
Abstract Papers of Dr. Ephraim Bell, his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Deford, as well as items of other members of the Deford family, chiefly Thomas Deford's father Benjamin, and his tanning business, B. Deford and Co.
Administrative summary
Repository H. Furlong Baldwin Library
Maryland Historical Society
201 W. Monument Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
Access restrictions Access to this collection is restricted to microfilm.
Use restrictions Permission to quote from this collection must be received in writing from the Special Collections Librarian.
Container List
Box 1:
-Primarily bills and receipts for goods and services purchased by Ephraim Bell, 1821-1875. Also, promissory notes to Bell, and assorted memoranda.
Box 2:
-Bills and receipts separated from those in Box 1, including:
-Baltimore city, Baltimore County, and State of Maryland property tax bills and receipts, 1834-1875; and Baltimore City Water Rent tax bills and warnings, 1862-1875.
-Receipts for subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals, 1830-75.
-Tuition bills and collection notices from Bell to others to support students in a School for Indigent Children located in the 7th District of Baltimore County, 1840-1848.
-Receipts for insurance policies, 1840-1851.
-U.S. Internal Revenue Licenses to practice medicine and tax receipts, 1863-67.
-Receipts Book, 1839-1875.
-Two Cash Books, 1835-1837 and 1837-1841.
Box 3:
-Ephraim Bell Correspondence mostly concerning financial matters, friendship, and a few concerning local politics. Also, correspondence and official forms concerning Bell's appointment as Postmaster at Maryland Line. Legal papers include deeds, surveys, and two notices to the constable to hold people for debt to Bell. Estate papers of Peter Smyser (d. 1835), Ephraim Bell, executor, including promissory notes to Smyser, 1828, 1831, promissory notes from Smyser to others paid by estate, 1832-33, will of Peter Smyser, 1834, bills and receipts relative to estate, 1835-42, administrative accounts, inventory of estate, and memoranda of Ephraim Bell concerning estate (1846)
Box 4:
-Deford papers, 1790-1872 consisting mainly of receipts and bills for goods and services purchased by Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Deford, 1870-72, and deeds and other legal documents concerning farmland and other property in Pennsylvania and involving such persons as William McVitty, John Taylor, George Johnston, and others, 1790-1843. Also, receipts and bills of Benjamin Deford, 1841-1843, a few items of Thomas Deford correspondence, including an 1861 letter from the "Committee for the Ward" advising him to keep his "most violent 'Union' or 'Administration' sentiments" to himself, or reserve such pronouncements to where they will be more hospitably received, and many letters of sympathy for the family of Benjamin Deford upon his death in 1870.
Box 5:
-Deford papers, 1873-1889 and undated, consisting mostly of bills and receipts for goods and services purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Deford, 1873-1875, as well as items concerning the many charitable works of Mrs. Deford with hospitals, schools, and the Presbyterian Church. A few items of social correspondence, invitations, newspaper clippings, and notes and memoranda.
Box 6:
-B. Deford and Company - Bill Book, 1832-1843
-Two Sales Ledgers, 1840-41 and 1842-44
Box 7:
-B. Deford and Company - Two Cash Books, 1837-38 and 1840-41
· Receipts Book, 1838-43


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The box office behemoth "Avatar" has served as a big break for Sam Worthington, but James Cameron said the Australian actor wasn't always up for the lead role.
"[Jake Gyllenhaal and Matt Damon] were bandied about," the director told MTV News. "The studio was interested in having a name, I think really just for the part of it we're doing right now, which is, 'How do you sell this movie? What are the handles on this thing that we can sell it to the media somehow or get media attention?' Well, having a name actor gets you on talk shows and all that sort of thing. So there was some value to that idea, and we explored it."
However, he decided it was Sam who best personified the character of Sully.
"Ultimately we kept coming back to Sam," he said. "Sam was the guy who just — he was the guy. Even with the accent and everything. You hear Sam talk and he sounds like Crocodile Dundee — but you hear him in the character and he's utterly and completely the guy."
Audiences seem to agree – as previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, "Avatar" recently overtook "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" as the second-highest grossing film in box office history with $1.14 billion – with no signs of slowing down yet.
And according to Ain't It Cool News, Sam may get another shot at the world of Pandora. A fan in attendance at a Los Angeles "Avatar" screening and Q&A told the site that James said, "Yes, there'll be another," adding that the plan had always been to make a trilogy.
However, a possible "Avatar" sequel isn't the only project on the director's plate. According to Variety, James has optioned the rights to the book "The Last Train To Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back," which will hit bookstores on January 19. He reportedly met with Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived the World War II bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in December during a trip to Japan. Yamaguchi, 93, died on Monday.
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West Ambulatory Gallery
This exhibition reveals the influence of Socialist Realism, the only officially condoned style for artists in the Soviet Union and many of its satellite states, on two contemporary artists: Bulgarian-born Christo and East Germany-born Gerhard Richter. In their twenties, both fled their home countries behind the Iron Curtain in search of artistic freedom in the West. Both artists also rose to world fame, in part due to their rigorous training in Socialist Realist methods.
Other artists, such as Yugoslavian Marko Spalatin, Albanian Anri Sala, and American Tom Zetterstrom, view Socialist reality from without, as outsiders looking in. Their works comment on the restrictive artistic and social conditions imposed by totalitarian control, or the bleak post-Socialist world, divested of the idealized semblance that the official visual rhetoric projected round the clock.
The exhibition relates closely with a section of works on view in the Ellen Johnson Gallery that presents Socialist Realist art of 1970s and 80s from the USSR, China, and Yugoslavia.
Based on a snapshot Richter took on the Canary Islands in 1969, Seelandschaft iterates a key Socialist Realist trope—the prominent inclusion of the horizon line in official paintings and photographs—that symbolizes the utopian future to which all Socialist societies had aspired. The golden, almost apocalyptic glow of the sky, however, forecasts an impending cataclysm, not an earthly paradise.
This exhibition was organized by Curator of Academic Programs Liliana Milkova.
Related Lecture:
Thursday, April 17 at 5pm
Classroom 1, Allen Art Building
"Voice Amplified/Voice Interrupted: The Use of Punctuation Signs in Soviet Posters" - Art Historian Masha Kowell of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, traces the syntactic, semantic, and graphic evolution of punctuation signs deployed in Soviet propaganda posters. She links their usage to shifts in Soviet censorship and artists' resistance or complicity with it.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Russian Department and the Clowes Lecture Fund, and the departments of History and Sociology.
Gerhard Richter (German, b. 1932)
Seelandschaft (Ocean), 1971
Color photogravure
Art Rental Collection Transfer, 1995.1


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The first leg in my four-week college football road trip sponsored by La Quinta featured a lot of history.
Unfortunately for the 2012 Oklahoma Sooners and their fans, the history that was made on Saturday night was of the ignominious kind as the 6th-ranked Sooners lost 24-19 to the 15th-ranked Kansas State Wildcats.
How rare was Oklahoma's whimper of a performance in front of the home crowd under current head coach Bob Stoops? It was just the fourth time a Stoops-coached Sooners team has lost at home.
My little bro Bryce and I picked a heck of a week to come, huh?
I have many fun photos and anecdotes to share from a fantastic weekend in Norman, and share I will. But before we get to the photo diary, a quick recap of the actual game.
Oklahoma-Kansas State Game Recap
Though it wasn't the prettiest game to watch, any football game looks great from the seats Bryce and I watched from.
Here was our vantage point, right on the 50-yard line.
While it was a night Bryce and I won't soon forget, I'm sure that's all OU players, coaches, and fans wanted to do as soon as the game was over.
The 7-time national champions have a lot of great college football history to celebrate – and boy do they ever, as I learned – but Saturday's lethargic home loss to Kansas State won't be making its way to the Switzer Center anytime soon.
And poor Landry Jones.
The erstwhile Heisman candidate, whose own fans were loudly calling for him to benched Saturday, can probably cross "Statute outside Memorial Stadium" off of his goal list.
Kansas State really didn't so much win on Saturday night as Jones served up the game to the Wildcats on a royal-purple-and-silver platter.
The friendly, energetic, bespectacled woman sitting next to me, who looked to be in her mid-50s and sported short Peppermint Patty-like hair, shocked me at one point by shouting, "Damnit, let's get Landry out of there!" Remember, this guy was supposed to be a Heisman candidate.
And she was not alone.
The palpable distrust for Jones from OU fans permeated the stadium as he made inexplicable blunder after inexplicable blunder.
Curious, I asked the woman why she was down on Jones. She informed me that ever since he'd gotten married, his play had taken a distinct turn for the worse. Then she reiterated her plea for an appearance from the backup.
Okay then.
My two cents on Landry Jones, now having seen him play live all of one time: he has a howitzer for an arm, it's NFL-ready; unfortunately, his decision making and accuracy are not, and he doesn't seem to possess that "it" quality the best quarterbacks have (at least as much as said "it" quality can be assessed on one night 24 rows up from the 50-yard line).
Kansas State QB Collin Klein, on the other hand, looks downright Tebowian at times when throwing, but he's a tough SOB and made throws when his team needed him to. He carried himself like a leader on Saturday night and found a way to lead his team to victory.
Take these observations for what they are worth, but having not attended a football game with good seats in a long time, I had forgotten how much more you can actually see, and feel, and digest being there live. (Or at least think you see, feel, and digest…)
Of course, being there live, you also have to deal with the occasional Clappy McClapperson obstructing your view with exuberant high-hand clapping. This is what I stared into on every big 3rd down:
Clapping aside, I'm glad this gentleman was sitting in front of us.
He was with his young soon, probably about 10 years old, and it was neat watching him teach his son all of the many in-game traditions that go on at OU football games, from holding up the index finger and chanting "Oooooo" before kickoffs to the famous "Boomer…Sooner" stadium chant.
And, of course, cheering on the Sooner Schooner after every OU score:
My favorite moment of the game, outside of the few truly splendid moments of on-field action like when an OU receiver literally leaped over a KSU defender, actually came before the kickoff.
Oklahoma has a terrific pregame intro on the video board, most of which I was able to capture on video:
If only the Sooners had brought the same intensity to the field on Saturday night that they brought to the intro video…
Alas, they did not, and the loss cast a pall over the stadium and campus for the remainder of the evening. Such is life in a college town where football means as much as it does in Norman.
But it didn't get Bryce and I down. Not in the slightest.
We had a great day taking in the many sights and sounds of Norman. The game – independent of the result – was the icing on the cake.
Click to continue on and enjoy the photo diary.


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Acquired in Formula 1, the turbo-charged 2-litre Ferrari V8 was developed further. The results were very good: specific power was raised to a record value of 127 bhp per litre and maximum torque was not only increased, but was now also available at a lower engine speed, substantially improving the car's flexibility. Turbo boost came in gradually from as low as 3,000 rpm, making the car much more manageable.
In 1986 the Italian market "tax break" model, the GTB Turbo, together with its targa roof variant, the GTS Turbo, became the final developments of the transverse V8 engine 2 seat Ferrari series.Read more
Essentially the GTB Turbo was, as the name implies, a turbocharged variant of the 328 GTB, but fitted with a 2 litre engine. Like the 328 GTB, the GTB Turbo model presented a softening of the wedge profile of its predecessor, the 208 GTB Turbo, with a redesigned nose that had a more rounded profile, that was complimented by similar treatment to the tail valance panel. The revised nose and tail sections featured body colour bumpers integral with the valance panels, which reflected the work done concurrently on the Mondial 3.2 models, with which they also shared a similar radiator grille and front light assembly layout.
Thus all the eight cylinder cars in the range shared fairly unified front and rear aspects, providing a homogeneous family image. The exhaust air louvres behind the retractable headlight pods disappeared, with an increase in the size of the front lid louvre introduced on the "QV" series, and a new style and position of exterior door catch was provided. The interior trim also had a thorough overhaul, with new designs for the seat panel upholstery and stitching, revised door panels and pulls, together with more modern switchgear, which combined to reflect the external updating details.
The GTB Turbo model had some differences that differentiated it from its normally aspirated cousin, notably a different engine lid louvre and raised central panel arrangement, a NACA duct forward of each rear wheel arch, and a row of five slim exhaust air slots in the rear valance panel. It also featured the rear of roof aerofoil, which was optional on the 328 series, as standard equipment.
The GTB Turbo chassis carried type reference F 106 AB/TR. Disc brakes, with independent suspension via wishbones, coil springs, and hydraulic shock absorbers, were provided all round, with front and rear anti roll bars. The V8 engine was essentially of the same design as that used in the 208 GTB Turbo model, with a bore and stroke of 66.8mm x 71mm, and a type reference number F 106 N 000.
The engine retained the Bosch K-Jetronic fuel injection system of its predecessor, but was fitted with an IHI turbocharger with a Behr intercooler operating at a boost pressure of 1.05 bar, with a Marelli MED 807 A electronic ignition system, to produce a claimed power output of 254bhp at 6500rpm. As with the earlier models the engine was mounted in unit with the all synchromesh five speed transmission assembly, which was below, and to the rear of the engine's sump.
The GTB Turbo model continued in production for three years, during which time 308 examples were produced in the chassis number range 63277 to 83137. The early part of the series was numbered in the Ferrari odd number road car chassis sequence, and later examples in the continuous number sequence.
Careful selection of the best shots of the GTB Turbo in high definition. The photo gallery shows the distinctive features of this model Ferrari in 1986, focusing on the details and the most important parts.
Careful selection of the best shots of the GTB Turbo in high definition. The photo gallery shows the distinctive features of this model Ferrari in 1986, focusing on the details and the most important parts.
|rear, transverse, 90° V8
|66.8 x 71 mm
|Unitary displacement
|248.83 cc
|Total displacement
|1990.64 cc
|Compression ratio
|7.5 : 1
|Maximum power
|187 kW (254 hp) at 6500 rpm
|Power per litre
|128 hp/l
|Maximum torque
|328 Nm (33.5 kgm) at 4100 rpm
|Valve actuation
|twin overhead camshafts per bank, two valves per cylinder
|Fuel feed
|Bosch K-Jetronic injection, single turbo
|Marelli electronic, single spark plug per cylinder
|wet sump
|tubular steel
|Front suspension
|independent, unequal-length wishbones, coil springs over telescopic shock absorbers, anti-roll bar
|Rear suspension
|independent, unequal-length wishbones, coil springs over telescopic shock absorbers, anti-roll bar
|5-speed + reverse
|Fuel tank
|capacity 74 litres
|Front tyres
|Rear tyres
|two-seater berlinetta
|4255 mm
|1730 mm
|1128 mm
|2350 mm
|Front track
|1485 mm
|Rear track
|1465 mm
|1265 kg (dry)
|Top speed
|253 km/h
|Acceleration 0-100 km/h
|6.3 sec
|0-400 m
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Front-office executives from the Texas Rangers and firefighters from across Texas were expected to arrive in this town Monday for the funeral of the 39-year-old man who fell to his death trying to catch a souvenir baseball tossed by his son's favorite player.
Front-office executives from the Texas Rangers and firefighters from across Texas were expected to arrive in this town Monday for the funeral of the 39-year-old man who fell to his death trying to catch a souvenir baseball tossed by his son's favorite player.
Shannon Stone was to be remembered at a memorial service Monday at the First United Methodist Church, followed by a procession to the cemetery that was expected to include more than 100 fire trucks.
The family hoped to limit the crowd inside the church to family and friends. Everyone else is being asked to line the 8-mile route from the church to the cemetery.
"We're expecting certainly hundreds, if not thousands, to come out and support this family at this time," Brownwood Mayor Stephen Haynes said.
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Haynes spoke Sunday night as he left a visitation of Stone at a funeral home. He said family was trying to celebrate Stone's life, "but it's still difficult to accept, obviously, the nature of the death and the timing of the death and the way that it happened."
Stone took his 6-year-old son, Cooper, to a Rangers game about a three-hour drive away in Arlington on Thursday night. They stopped to buy the boy a new glove on the way, and sat in left field, behind Cooper's favorite player, Josh Hamilton.
Hamilton threw them a foul ball, but the thrill quickly turned tragic. Stone fell headfirst about 20 feet onto concrete, with Cooper watching. Witnesses said Stone was conscious after landing and spoke about Cooper being left alone. Stone was pronounced dead within an hour; an autopsy ruled the cause as blunt force trauma from the fall.
Stone had been with the Brownwood fire department since 1993. He was voted Firefighter of the Year twice by his peers, according to the mayor, and had risen to the rank of lieutenant. He also worked as a paramedic, and as a rescue technician at Texas Motor Speedway. He also was involved in disaster relief following Hurricanes Katrina and Ike, and fighting wildfires.
"When you're married to someone that's a first responder … you always are leery that you're going to get that phone call or your going to have the chaplain come," said Trease Burke, whose husband, Scotty, was a Brownwood police officer for 14 years and is now on the Lake Patrol. "You don't expect it to be a freak accident."
Scotty Burke described Stone as "a firefighter's firefighter." He recalled that during the town's annual, three-day reunion celebration, Stone cooked barbecue for the officers and firefighters working the event.
"He always did it out of his pocket," Burke said. Smiling, he added, "And it was good. I used to work in a barbecue restaurant, so I know good barbecue."
Like many leaving the funeral home, Burke's voice crackled with emotion. Plenty of folks came out holding tissues, with more tears in their eyes.
Media was asked to stay out of the funeral home. Many of those leaving the building declined to be interviewed, citing the family's wishes.
"Brownwood is a tight place," Burke said. "When something like this happens, people come together and they take care of you."
Brownwood is a town of about 20,000 residents in the Hill Country of central Texas, some 150 miles west of the Rangers' stadium in Arlington. Flags across the area have been at half-staff since Friday, with several wreaths and a dozen yellow roses left in his memory at a monument outside the fire department.
"We're a small town," Haynes said. "We're not (small) enough that everyone knows everyone, but we are small enough that everyone is impacted in some way. Everyone has a friend or family member who was close to that family."
Haynes said there already has been discussion of a permanent way of remembering Stone.
"Certainly we're going to do what we can to keep his memory and the honor of what he stands for alive for as long as we can," Haynes said.
Jarratt Lawler grew up with Stone in Cleburne, about 100 miles from Brownwood. They weren't especially close, but renewed acquaintances a year ago at their 20-year high school reunion. Lawler was so moved by Stone's death that he drove 3 1/2 hours from McKinney with his pregnant wife and young daughter just to pay his respects on Sunday because he couldn't make it to the funeral Monday.
"He was an all-around good guy," Lawler said. "He was just always trying to help people, always did the right things."


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Crashplan has just released The Lifespan of Storage Media, a comprehensive guide to how long your data will last. Designed by Mike Wirth with InfoNewt, this infographic compares the expected lifespans of popular media types used over the last 100 years to save different kinds of information: computer data, photos, videos and audio. Do your 8-tracks still play?
As each new form of data storage comes on the scene, the market is at first enamored with its compactness, convenience and hoped-for data longevity. But invariably, the reality of physical vulnerability and a limited lifespan remains. Eventually, all media fails, but Cloud backup is forever.
This was a fantastic project to work on, and the data research was the most challenging piece. We had to find data to support both an average expected life and an extended "with extreme care" life. We certainly found some contradictory data sources, and ultimately used data we felt was the most commonly accepted in the industry.
Do you have old computer backups burned to CDs, tapes or even hard drives on your shelf? Don't count on being able to read the data from them too much longer! The short lifespan for many of these types of media that people use everyday to archive their personal photos and videos was most surprising.


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Sunday's Season 6 finale of Californication will find Hank Moody asking himself a very familiar question.
Although Hank (David Duchovny) has spent most of the season chasing after rocker groupie Faith (guest star Maggie Grace), Sunday's finale (10:30/9:30c, Showtime) finds him once again considering a future with his first love, Karen (Natascha McElhone).
Spring Preview: Get scoop on your favorite returning spring showsIn the exclusive sneak peek below, it appears that Charlie ( Evan Handler) and Marcy ( Pamela Adlon) have just been remarried by Atticus Fetch (guest star Tim Minchin) during one of his concerts. Perhaps because of the matrimonial bliss in the air, Hank drops to one knee."Karen, be with me," he says. "Spend the rest of your life with this fool and this fool will spend the rest of his life making sure you don't regret it. What do you say, babe?"Do you think Karen will say yes? Or is this all a dream? Watch the clip below!


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Glasgow Necropolis
The Necropolis is 37 acres in extent, and was formally opened in 1833. Like the Père Lachaise in Paris, it was laid out as a garden cemetery. In 1966, its ownership was transferred from the Merchants House of Glasgow to what is now Glasgow City Council. See Link for further information.
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Sermon on the Fourth Sunday of LentSunday 15th March 2015
The Fourth Sunday of Lent (Mothering Sunday)
Christ and Modern Science
O Lord of every shining constellation,
that wheels in splendour through the midnight sky,
grant us your Spirit's true illumination
to read the secrets of your work on high.
Christ and modern Science is the subject for today's reflection. I suspect we have all come with some preconceived ideas about what you are hoping to hear, and for those of you who know me well, you will understand that for me, sermons are about making us think, not wanting us to all agree. I'm delighted when people go home and talk about the issues raised, and begin to get passionate about why they believe in what they believe in!
Science is such a great subject because it affects the whole community: Christians, people of the other faith communities, and those who claim to have no faith at all. Here are some random thoughts of mine about Christ and Science.
I guess the advancement of Science is born out of a human desire to know more and more about the world we live in? What is it about gravity? What is it about reproduction? What is it about light and darkness? What is it about life and death? The desire for knowledge is no different from one faith community to another, its perhaps part of human nature to want to know more.
Up until the Enlightenment people of faith – Muslim as well as Christians – sought to understand about the world as part of their search for God's will for themselves. It is only relatively recently that science and faith have been seen to be at odds with one another. So you could say that science is born out of the desire to know more about God and the world we live in.
One of the books I've read which has had a lasting effect on me, is Edward Patey's 'Faith in a Risk Taking God'. Patey maps out from the Big Bang onwards, a theology of how God created the Universe, and of the role of humanity, as stewards of the earth, but having done so, allows us the capacity to destroy the earth, to kill one another, and ultimately to kill God, as in the crucifixion of Jesus. God takes a risk with us, that we might in turn, take a risk with him. This notion of risk is perhaps focused in the idea of free will, and that we need to do science in order to exercise our free will as stewards of God.
Rather than focus on the extraordinary journey of the science revolution, the title for today is modern science, and so let's just consider some of the latest scientific discoveries of the last few decades.
Firstly, there has been much research into understanding the science of food. We have areas of the world with major problems of famine, mainly due to issues of agriculture, the land is not conducive to reproduction of food, the weather is either too hot and dry, or flooding regularly destroys the land, and any crops sown in it. Other parts of the world have an abundance of food, with food mountains and waste products in abundance, whilst others go hungry. Scientists have been working hard to understand the DNA of plant life, and the advancement of this has now led towards Genetically Modified Food, which could be an important answer in the quest to produce enough food, in the right place, to feed everyone, and help alleviate those in the world who go hungry.
Secondly, over the last twenty plus years there has been much science research into understanding more about the beginning of life. Our understanding of the reproduction of human beings has enabled us to help men and women, who have been unable to conceive, or to carry full term, and to give birth and enjoy parenthood. Members of our own community have benefited from IVF, alongside thousands across the world. But now, scientists have developed ways in which we can begin to remove certain DNA from the embryo, and on the one hand begin to influence certain aspects of the human body, like the colour of your eyes and hair, and on the other hand, prevent suffering from certain hereditary diseases, now with the use of three peoples DNA to create a child, rather than the normative two. We know that in the past certain children would have died at birth, with many of their mothers too, and that now, the vast majority survive, with the advancement and knowledge of medical science.
Thirdly, as well as understanding something of the beginning of life, we also have a strong desire to know more about the end of life. Science is so advanced, that we can hook people up to machines which literally keep people alive for as long as we need too. We can shut the body down, giving the brain and other organs time and space to recover from disease and damage, and treat the body with chemicals to speed up the healing process. People do come out of induced unconsciousness, and make either a full or partial recovery. Others are kept alive until the family can arrive from across the world, and say their good buys. Many people who would have died from Cancer after a short illness, now find their cancer to be a chronic condition, which can be managed over time, if not irradiated. As a consequence of modern science we seem to have much more control over the beginning and the end of life. Now we have so many more difficult decisions being forced upon us, for which we are often so ill equipped to deal with, because we can end up 'playing God': yet as flawed human beings we lack the wisdom of God and human mistakes can be made. Surely there comes a point when humanity needs to recognise a level of humility and our limitations, and seek repentance and forgiveness about our mistakes.
But what should the Christian response be to all this science? I think the honest answer is that there isn't a definitive answer, and that depending on how we read and understand reasoning, scripture and tradition, we may well come up with differing viewpoints. When reading Scripture or holy texts, we can read literally what is written on the page, and take it at face value. We can also read between the lines, and try and understand, what wasn't written, and to understand the context, the time in history, and the audience the text was written for.
There will of course be those who do believe that quite literally the world was made in seven days, (well six days of work and God rested on the Sabbath,) because that is what Genesis tells us, and yet we know that Science tells us that can't be true. If we understand the story of creation as only being a metaphor or an analogy concerning God's engagement with how the world was made, we might value the idea of days to mean thousands of years, and without the literal meaning, the science and the theology no longer conflict, but are in harmony with one another.
Having suggested there is no need for a literalist reading of the Creation account there is still a need for us as Christians to be able to respond to the critique of the New Atheists, such as Richard Dawkins, the author of The God Delusion, who argue that science either proves there is a God or that it disproves the existence of God. There have been various responses by Christian writers, such as Alister McGrath's The Dawkins Delusion. In essence there are two useful lines of argument.
The first is to tackle the new atheists on their own scientific ground and point out that science never proves anything, it puts forward hypotheses and tests them to see if they can be falsified. Neither the hypothesis that God exists nor the hypothesis that God does not exist lend themselves to testing and falsification: therefore not only can the New Atheists prove anything about God, in suggesting they can they are misusing their own scientific discipline.
The second is to recognise that science and religion address different aspects of living in this world and Universe. Science attempts to answer the question of how things we observe happen. Religion attempts to answer questions about why things happen and to evaluate what is and would be good and what is and would not be good.
Both science and ethics are needed for human life to be good.
So to conclude: to yearn to know more about the world, and to understand what it means to be human, I believe, is an essential part of our nature in being a human being, given to us in creation by the creator. For many people of Faith, including Christians, science and belief may or may not sit happily together, depending how we accept reasoning, scripture and tradition. God gave us a brain to use and develop, and we can use this knowledge to either care for the world and improve life here on earth, or we can use it to destroy the earth and ultimately ourselves, for we belong to a risk taking God. Ultimately though, our desire to know more about what it means to be human, leads us to meet with the God who made us, and who gave us his Son Jesus Christ, that we might have salvation and redemption, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
O Life, awakening life in cell and tissue,
from flow'r to bird, from beast to brain of man;
help us to trace, from birth to final issue,
the sure unfolding of your age long plan.
Reverend Canon Hilary Barber