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American teenager Sloane Stephens has pulled off one of the major upsets in Australian Open history.
The 19-year-old defeated five-times champion Serena Williams yesterday to reach the semifinals and a date with world No.1 Victoria Azarenka.
Stephens, seeded 29th, won 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 in 2 hours 17 minutes.
Earlier, defending champion and top seed Victoria Azarenka beat Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia 7-5, 6-1.
Williams struggled with a back injury and left the court for treatment towards the end of the second set.
However, she broke serve immediately after returning, although ultimately surrendered the set.
Stephens, who looked up to Williams as her idol growing up, lost to the second seed in Brisbane recently, but was lost for words when asked her reaction to winning.
"My God, I don't even know," she said. "Oh my goodness.
"I'm sure my grandparents are going to be freaking out because they'll be watching it on the computer."
She said she planned to enjoy her showdown with Azarenka for a place in the Open final.
"You've just got to go out and do your thing again," she said.
Williams looked headed for victory when she cruised through the opening set and led 2-1 in the second.
Stephens then manufactured two service breaks in succession, gave up another when Williams came back on court, but steadily held to take the set and level the match with a break at 7-5.
Azarenka defeated Kuznetsova 7-5 6-1 to her way into the semi-finals in one hour 47 minutes.
Azarenka said she was prepared for Kuznetsova's tricky game.
"She played really well throughout the whole match," she said. "I know what she is capable of so I was prepared.
"She plays a little bit differently so I was happy I could adapt and find my best tennis when it was necessary."
Azarenka said she maintained the passion for the game she had when she first picked up a racquet as a youngster.
"I always had that fire, I would never leave the court until 10pm," she said.
"I wish every kid was like that."
Kuznetsova grabbed the first service break to lead 3-1 in the opening set as Azarenka's return bounced wide.
But the Belarusian was handed it back in the seventh game when Kuznetsova double-faulted.
She again broke to lead 6-5 with a cross-court return and went on to take the set in 77 minutes.
Azarenka broke serve in the fifth game following another crucial double fault from Kuznetsova, took a 5-1 lead and then broke again for the match.
The pair had met seven times previously and, while Kuznetsova held a 4-3 record, she dominated their early encounters. But Azarenka has held the upper hand in recent matches, beating the Russian twice last year, at Indian Wells and in Madrid.
Kuznetsova was sidelined for much of 2012 with a knee injury and was on crutches for two months.
However, the 27-year-old, who admitted she was jaded last year, made a determined bid to return refreshed for 2013. She came into the Australian Open after reaching the quarter-finals in Sydney as a qualifier.

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Meet the Fastest Teen Texter in the U.S. [VIDEO]
Who knew texting at the dinner table, during class and all hours of the day would eventually pay off?
Seventeen-year-old Austin Wierschke from Rhinelander, Wis. — a high school senior who can type up to six characters in just one second — won $50,000 for the second year in a row at the sixth annual texting event LG U.S. Texting Championship held on Wednesday in New York City.
Standing on a stage in the middle of Times Square, Wierschke beat out 10 other finalists, who competed in a series of rounds using a LG Optimus Zip QWERTY keyboard smartphone, which were provided by the manufacturer. The preliminaries started several months ago when the competition had about 100,000 contestants.
Finalists ranging in age from 16 to 24 were tested on three skills: speed, accuracy and dexterity. Challenges included spelling out texting abbreviations as quickly as possible and completing texting tasks while blindfolded. In one round, competitors had to text with the device behind their backs. After finishing a texting task, finalists raced to put their keyboard phones down and hit the send button, which transported their entries to a judges room nearby. Each round eliminated several contestants until only two remained.
There were a few technical glitches that happened throughout the competition, and some finalists questioned whether or not the results were largely dependent on the carrier used to send the texts to the judges' room and not their speed in finishing the tetxing challenge. (LG hasn't responded to a request for comment).
What could have also made the competition more compelling to watch would have been the inclusion of real-time stats on how fast and accurate the texters were texting. None of that information was provided by LG, so audience members had to take the company's word for who won each round.
But glitches and transparency aside, it was clear Wierschke was the one to beat after soaring through each phase with ease, completing each round way ahead of everyone else. He beat New York City-native Kent Augustine in a final showdown to clinch the title.
In collaboration with this year's event, LG teamed up with Cartoon Network's "Stop Bullying: Speak Up" campaign to help raise money for anti-bullying toolkits that will be sent out to middle and high schools across the U.S.
During a "Text for a Cause" round in Wednesday's event, the crowd was asked to help prevent bullying by texting "Join LG" to 27777. For every text received, LG will give $1 to the campaign.
In August 2011, MTV featured an hour-long documentary called Thumbs that chronicled teen texting culture in America and young competitors' journeys to become the fastest in the country at the LG U.S. National Texting Championship.
Do you think these contestants would be just as fast using a touchscreen? Should there be a round for such devices? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.


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Up in the frigid hinterlands of Minot, North Dakota, lurks Tom Karpenko's badass 1974 Pontiac LeMans. Taking a break from...
Up in the frigid hinterlands of Minot, North Dakota, lurks Tom Karpenko's badass '74 Pontiac LeMans. Taking a break from the frost (and trading it for rain) at the '98 CC Summer Cruise in St. Paul, Tom debuted this obscure land-yacht GM A-body alternative--one of the coolest cars we saw at the show.
Stance is the key element that makes Tom's LeMans look so good. It's achieved with 2-inch drop F-body spindles, '73 Grand Am front springs with a half-coil cut from them, and Monroe shocks. At the back are '72 LeMans springs and a 7/8-inch antisway bar to complement the 1-inch front bar. Air Lift rear air bags provide some suspension adjustment. Tom says, "Several times I swapped different springs in the car until it sat right."
Tom wanted to build a real 455 Super Duty and spent nearly two years acquiring the parts. "By the end of 1996 I had gotten all the parts to build the motor. I found bits and pieces all over the U.S. and spent lots of money doing it," says Tom. Once together, the 0.030-over 455 (a 462) took the place of the car's original 400. The four-bolt block, crank, rods, and heads are gennie '74 SD items and are accompanied by a custom-ground Rock 'N' Roll Engineering cam with a 0.530 lift and 232/237 duration. Standard Poncho 2.11/1.77 valves are moved via Crane 1.65:1 roller rockers. Even the top of the mill is Super Duty derived with an NOS intake and an 800-cfm Q-jet carb. Spark is provided by an MSD 6AL and an HEI with a sleeve to fit the Super Duty block, while exhaust is removed by Hedman headers, a Dr. Gas X-pipe, and Flowmaster mufflers.
The cabin looks factory fresh. The Hurst Competition Plus shifter is bolted to the original Muncie M-20 four-gear, which turns a '73 Buick GS 10-bolt with a 3.42:1 ring-and-pinion.
The Kinesis wheels are 17x8s in front and these 17x11s out back. The Goodyear Eagle GS-C skins in front are P255/45ZR17s; out back are special European market Goodyear Eagle F1s in a steamrollerish P315/45ZR17 size.
The body is all stock except for "SD455" decals below the front side marker lights and the 455 emblem in the grille. Tom had the Ram Air setup completed less than a week before the car's first showing at the St. Paul Summer Cruise. During its first ever contact with the road (that being the 1,300-mile round trip from Minot to St. Paul), Tom reported a liveable if not economical 12 mpg from the torque monster 462--that's at 80 mph with the A/C on. CC


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That all said I've been spoilt with Amazon UK over the years. I'll stay positive, it's fantastic that Amazon have decided to come to Oz, what you see today will look very different in 12 months time I'm sure of it. Amazon delivery is top notch, their funded TV Series are all very strong and highly rated, the website and offers will change significantly as content increases (-seriously needs some better filtering of product categories!), and in this case well done to Amazon for not screwing the Aussie's on price. The Fire TV Stick, while classed as Basic Edition, performs really well for current content (-Netflix, and Kodi Krypton was simple to install and runs better than my old Android box), and hopefully ABC, Ten, Freview FV etc get their current Android Apps tweaked and available in the near future.
Update 9 March 18: And for those suggesting that this is the 'old' model, well yes it doesn't come with the voice control but this is the latest 1.3GHz quad-core device, the previous series was 1GHz. After a few months of operation I'm really enjoying this device, great Kodi and Netflix performance, just one star off due to lack of Aussie app support (-recognising that this is more to do with the app providers, hopefully changes as Amazon roll out Prime and more competitive services).
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- The Chromecast requires another device, whether a Google Home, tablet or a phone, to 'cast' onto the ChromeCast. Without this 3rd device, you are dead in the water.
- The Fire TV Stick can be controlled with its own remote, or your TV remote. I love that I can turn the TV on, and with the same remote, choose netflix or prime video, and navigate through what shows I want.
- Similar to Google Home + ChromeCAst, you can use a chosen Echo device to control the FireTV through voice.
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- Of course Amazon will give you Prime Video on Fire TV!
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1. No AU Freeview Content.
- Biggest bummer for AU market is no way to get Freeview content on Prime Video (If you know a way, show me how!!)
I'm just an average user, and was only looking for a solution to smarten up my 'dumb' 1080p TV.
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As a regular customer of Amazon services, and home automation enthusiast, I felt amazed when I read in many ebooks available in the Kindle store that with the Amazon Fire Stick TV and my Echo devices I could finally enable the total control of my entertainment system through voice commands - searching/playing different series, movies, channels, and other amazing functions (reason why I bought the Fire Stick device rather than other competitor video streamers).
However, after couple minutes of conversation with the Customer Service, who friendly tried to explain me that I was wrong for expecting this capability, that the Basic Version commercialised in Australia does not support this integration, and being pushed with question technically difficult for an average person to remember in details, like why I believed that I could expect that, where I saw that 'this BASIC version' does include this capability and what version (1s, 2nd, 3rd GEN) was mentioned in the ebooks that I read regarding Alexa/Echo/Fire TV - I got the conclusion that the purchase was a bad decision.
I believe that it would be correct from Amazon to clarify that this device doesn't support this function and also review the content that is available on Kindle store, which makes you believe that with any FIRE TV DEVICE, not mentioning differences in versions such as Basic, 1st, 2nd or 3rd generation you can have the benefits of an integration with Alexa. To conclude, I am really disappointed considering my original expectations about this device.
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A three dimensional empty box with stripes that tell the time. Twelve LED stripes show the hours, eleven LED stripes show 5-5 minutes, and four LED stripes show 1-1 minutes.
The box is uniquely positioned on a rectangular face watch that at first glance looks like a plain hexagon with lines. Another interesting concept from Laszlo.


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You've seen this Corvette. Not just here, in print, but in person. Especially if you've been in and through California's Central Valley over the last 45 years, or wherever Pat Garrahan's driven it. That's how long it's been his daily driver. A C1 that's covered (as of this writing) over 711,000 miles!
Pat bought the Vette from its original owner in October 1963-it had been sold new at a Chevy dealer in Dinuba, a short drive from Pat's hometown of Fresno. It was a clean, well-maintained, one-owner Vette, but it wasn't quite the beauty you see here.
Under the hood, a different induction system resided than what's atop the original small-block V-8 today. "Originally it was a 283 with 270 hp, with two four-barrel carburetors on it," Pat says. "It had the two fours on when I got it, and after about a year, I put the fuel injection on it." Lest you think that he salvaged a Rochester mechanical fuel-injection setup from one of the 1,040 '57 Corvettes that were built with it, he didn't. Instead, it's off one of the 940 fuel-injected '59 Vettes, possibly salvaged from a totaled car or one that was taken off by an owner frustrated over its failure to run right.
Pat's a mechanic by trade, and regular maintenance of every system and component on his '57 helped him pile on the miles over time. That holds especially true for the fuel-injection system. "I've worked on it about three or four times," he says. "I just maintain it." Also different: the transmission. A three-speed manual went in on the line at St. Louis Assembly, but now it's gone. "I put a Tremec five-speed in it about five or six years ago," Pat says. "I always did cruise OK on the highway with the three-speed. It was just that I had high revs-at 60 mph, it would be around 3,000 rpm or better." That made for a healthy sound to some Vette lovers, but not to others. "People said, 'Man, you're going to blow it up!' Well, I proved them wrong-I'd been driving it that way all the time." Now, with two extra forward gears, Pat says his 283 turns around 2,000 rpm at 60, which also helps his fuel mileage "a bit."
Three speeds or five, Pat's Corvette has been around. Exactly where has he-and does he-drive it? "Everywhere," he says with pride. "I drive it to and from work. I drive it basically every day." He adds that it has traveled far afield from Fresno. "I've been to 10, 12, 15 different states [with the '57]. I've been into Canada with it-never been to Mexico. We took it on trips, weekend trips, that sort of stuff." Lest you think he only drives it in mild weather, think again. "I've driven it in the rain, in the snow-I drove it across a river one time, right though a river when I was about 20 years old," he says. "I've taken it everywhere, but I don't beat it anymore like I used to."
He has, however, replaced items that wore out, such as seat covers and carpets, more than once. "I don't know how many sets of seat covers or carpets I've gone through," he says. "You get a hole in them; you just replace them. A lot of times when I bought seat covers, I'd buy two for the left and one for the right."
Nowadays, the '57 stays close to home. "Up until the last couple of years, everywhere we've gone, we've taken it," says Pat. "Finally, it just beats you to death. I ended up buying an '03 Corvette to take on trips. I guess the older you get, the more it beats you up."
There's no secret to this Vette's long life: regular maintenance, a devoted owner, and luck in avoiding crashes that would have written it off. Pat says that, if you're looking for a Corvette to own as a daily driver, maybe a C1 might not be the best choice for you as it was for him four and a half decades ago. "It depends on what they're looking for," he says when asked if he has any advice for prospective first-time Corvette owners. "If they're looking for an old one, I don't think they're going to drive it as a daily driver. Almost any Corvette, I think, is in good shape-most people take care of 'em. And, naturally, with the newer ones, you can find a high-mileage or a low-mileage one, and they're still about the same price. The price doesn't change much, from what I see."
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Brian Jordan wrote:This seems to have been first uncovered by the NSS in October - I haven't come across anything previous to that.
In the latest fuss, the exam board says that no pupil was advantaged by having to miss some questions(!!). However, I thought that I had seen a version of that statement which claimed that none had been disadvantaged either, which would be incorrect because the above NSS report said that they potentially missed either 3 or 1 of 75 marks, depending on which censored paper they sat.
I have not been able to confirm my recollection of a claim of no disadvantage - Google is almost as quiet on the matter as the mainstream press. If anyone does come across such a claim, I'd be glad to hear of it, please.
Regarding the paywall, by the way, many local libraries subscribe to an online archive of newspapers and such - mine includes the online OED too. Might be worth trying your library while (if) it still has funds: access can occasionally be quite useful, let alone a regular distraction!
http://infoweb.newsbank.com I just sign in by adding /mylibraryname and entering my library card number.
Which, however many times I see it, still leaves me gasping at the very idea that the only problem posed by throwing away part of the paper is possible advantage to the candidates. Would they say the same if the girls had been allowed to answer the question and then had that page torn out of their answer books?The examinations body, OCR, says it was satisfied that the girls did not have an unfair advantage.
So they didn't penalise any candidate for being disadvantaged. ******* charming!The OCR exam board, which investigated claims that pupils at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School in north London were being prevented from answering certain questions in their obscuring questions in a GCSE science paper, said the action was "not good exam practice".
But it added that its inquiry concluded that no student gained an advantage by the school's actions, and it did not penalise any candidate.
It is understood that following the investigation, OCR, other exam bodies, the Department for Education and the schools inspectorate are looking to see whether there should be clearer guidelines for faith schools on how to deal with a situation where they are faced with questions in exam papers that are at odds with their belief system.
An OCR spokesman said: "Ensuring the integrity of the exam system is of paramount importance to OCR and we will always take all the steps necessary to protect it. On this occasion we conducted a thorough investigation into the centre concerned and found that no candidate gained an advantage. As a result, we did not penalise any candidate.
"We have tried to respect the religious and cultural sensitivities of this community whilst protecting the integrity of our exams. That said, we do not consider obscuring aspects of question papers to be good exam practice.[my emphases]
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/oct/11/jewish-school-censored-gcses-evolution/The exam censorship came to light after complaints by the National Secular Society, after comments by Rabbi Avraham Pinter, the principal of Yesodey Hatorah, to the Jewish Chronicle, in which he said "sometimes Charedi schools, if they find anything in the paper which could be offensive to parents, advise children to avoid that question".
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/112462/school-probed-exam-rowRabbi Pinter believed that the question may have been "covered up" rather than blacked out. But he added: "What we have done is standard practice among all Charedi schools."
In previous years, he said, the school had sent a covering letter to the exam board after the exam to explain if a question had been omitted — but this had not been done this summer.
But he emphasised: "We have agreed guidelines with OCR, which allows us to respect the religious sensitivities of our parents, at the same time satisfy the requirements of the exam board."[my emphasis]
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text: Are you still scratching your head over what a particle accelerator like the Large Hadron Collider actually does? Don't feel bad, the LHC is the most complicated piece of scientific equipment mankind has ever built. And unless you're a physicist, you'll probably never understand its intricacies. But if you're curious, take a few minutes to watch this animated Particle Accelerator 101 by Don Lincoln. You won't be applying for a job at CERN afterwards, but you should at least get the gist of what's going on at the LHC. [YouTube via Geekosystem]


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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) Ryan Kelly scored 15 of his 18 points in the decisive first half and No. 2 Duke routed Delaware 88-50 on Saturday.
Mason Plumlee added 18 points and 11 rebounds for the Blue Devils (8-0). They never trailed, shot 52 percent, led by 46 and enjoyed a rare breather after a challenging run of games against nationally ranked opponents.
Seth Curry, the other scholarship senior on the roster, missed the first game of his career at Duke with an injured ankle. Against the struggling Blue Hens (2-6), the Blue Devils certainly didn't need him.
Devon Saddler had 23 points for Delaware, which was beaten soundly by the highest ranked opponent it had ever faced.
Rasheed Sulaimon scored 14 points, fellow freshman Amile Jefferson had 12 and redshirt freshman Alex Murphy finished with 10 for the Blue Devils.
They announced about an hour before the game that Curry wouldn't dress because he injured his left ankle on Wednesday night in the second half of the win over No. 4 Ohio State, ending a streak of 78 consecutive games for the senior sharpshooter. The last time the Blue Devils played without Curry, they won a national championship - beating Butler in the 2010 title game while he sat out as a transfer from Liberty.
That tense 73-68 win over the Buckeyes was Duke's second straight victory against a top-five opponent and its third of the season, along with wins over then-No. 3 Kentucky and then-No. 2 Louisville, making the Blue Devils the first team since 2001 Ball State to beat consecutive top-five foes.
This one wasn't nearly as stressful for the Blue Devils, who extended their NCAA-best winning home streak against non-conference opponents to 98 and improved to 24-0 under Mike Krzyzewski against CAA teams.
Duke reeled off 15 straight points early while forcing Delaware to miss 11 consecutive shots, went up by double figures to stay before the first time out and spent the rest of the first half methodically growing its lead.
Kelly capped a 25-7 spurt with a baseline drive with 7 1/2 minutes before the break that gave Duke its first 20-point lead at 29-9, and his 3-pointer with about 40 seconds left in the half made it 42-16.
The Blue Hens entered this season winless against current Atlantic Coast Conference teams since 1962 before beating Virginia on Nov. 13 to reach the semifinals of the NIT Season Tip-Off - and they haven't won a game against anyone since.


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"Oh!" The Li Palace's granny's eyes grew wide, "What do those words mean? Fourth young miss Feng is mainly interested in his Highness the ninth prince?" Looking at Feng Yu Heng, she could not help but shake her head, "That's not right! His Highness the ninth prince is a good match for the county princess. Accordingly, he should be the fourth young miss Feng's brother-in-law."
Fen Dai angrily gritted her teeth, "Eldest sister! Don't believe I don't know what you are thinking! Aren't you just being jealous that his Highness the fifth prince came to discuss marriage with me? If you insist on saying it like this, then you had best pray that your future husband will be his Highness the seventh prince; otherwise, regardless of who comes to discuss marriage, I will tell them that the person in your heart is his Highness the seventh prince!"
Chen Yu was indeed jealous that the fifth prince had come to discuss marriage, thus she whined about Fen Dai without putting in much though. Now that she had rebutted so thoroughly with these words, she felt ashamed and incapable of showing her face.
The granny was dazed by what she heard. She never thought that she would learn about so many of the Feng manor's secrets in this one trip!
Fortunately, Chen Yu was not stupid. Facing Fen Dai, she was stunned for a moment before immediately recovering and saying: "These past few banquets, I did take a few glances at his Highness the seventh prince, but what of it? His Highness the seventh prince is refined like a deity. Who in the world would not admire him a little? I am not the only one who has looked in his Highness the seventh prince's direction. There is no need for younger sister to think too much on it."
Her words were very reasonable and clearly told everyone that his Highness the seventh prince was loved by everyone. She was merely following the common trend.
Fen Dai pondered quickly then said: "If eldest sister says so, do you not fear that you have spoken too much? If you say it like that, there is nothing wrong with me looking a little more at his Highness the ninth prince."
"Hehe." Chen Yu immediately laughed, "His Highness the ninth prince's face was ruined, and his legs are crippled. I truly do not know what fourth sister is looking at."
The two went back and forth with their argument, as they actually forgot that Feng Yu Heng was at the side.
It would be fine if they did not mention Xuan Tian Ming, but since they did, especially his face and legs, the person who had been watching the play immediately lost her temper. Glaring at the two with eyes like daggers, she coldly said: "Eldest sister and fourth sister are truly both experts in fighting! If this main hall is unable to accommodate you, I request grandmother to have servants escort both of you to the front yard to fight. That way, the Feng manor will avoid losing face."
Once Feng Yu Heng spoke up, the matriarch also became furious, "Arguing and fighting like this, what sort of look is this? If you continue to argue, I will call for people to throw you both out!"
With the matriarch getting angry, Chen Yu and Fen Dai no longer dared say another word.
Especially Chen Yu, who felt that she had become agitated and had forgotten that she must not anger Feng Yu Heng. Of all the things she could have talked about, she chose to speak about the ninth prince. Was this not just going to make her to upset?
Yi Lin prodded her a couple times from the side and gave her an apologetic look. Chen Yu was someone who was willing to be flexible, so she quickly said to Feng Yu Heng: "It's all elder sister's mistake. Second sister, please do not take it to heart. Elder sister will make amends."
"Tsk!" Fen Dai rolled her eyes in irritation, "Eldest sister really is capable of changing demeanor quite quickly."
Feng Yu Heng raised an eyebrow and looked at Chen Yu. No longer lingering on that topic, she said: "Since father is not at the manor presently, and there is someone here to discuss marriage with fourth sister, as the eldest sister, you should provide some opinions."
Chen Yu lightly sighed, "I am now just the daughter of a concubine, so how could I have the right to discuss the marriages of my younger sisters. It should be second sister who helps grandmother come up with ideas."
"Eldest sister, how should this be said? Wasn't that set of earrings given by you to fourth sister? Having gifted the catalyst that brought this happy couple together, how could you take a step back at this time?"
Chen Yu trembled and stared blankly at Feng Yu Heng, suddenly recalling the events from the birthday banquet the night before. She remembered how a servant had suddenly gone over to her and said that she was one of the third prince's people. His Highness the third prince told her to give away the white crystal earrings, or trouble would arise.
At that time, she had glanced at the third prince and found that he had stealthily nodded towards her. Thus, without thinking too much, she turned around and handed the troubling item to Fen Dai. But who knew, how could this be considered troublesome. She had truly gifted Fen Dai a heavenly favor.
Thinking of this, Chen Yu's expression turned a bit uglier. If Fen Dai became engaged, who knew just how arrogant she would become in the manor for the coming years. How could she endure these younger sisters rushing ahead of her time and time again!
"If you say it like that, then his Highness the fifth prince is only interested in a pair of earrings and not fourth sister at all." Chen yu glanced sideways at Fen Dai, "Younger sister, it would be best not to fantasize too much."
"You are clearly just jealous of me!" Fen Dai could tell that Feng Chen Yu was just jealous of her, but what was this about the earrings?
The matriarch also understood a bit, "You are meaning to say that Chen Yu gifted Fen Dai a pair of earrings, and only this caused his Highness the fifth prince to take an interest in Fen Dai?"
Feng Yu Heng nodded, "That is indeed the case."
The granny from the Li Palace quickly interjected: "Because of an item, feelings were developed. This was happy fate bringing lovers together."
Fen Dai absolutely loved hearing this, "Granny is correct." She then looked at Chen Yu and could not help but snicker and say: "I truly must thank eldest sister. Speaking of, if eldest sister did not gift them to me, with the full set of white crystal head ornaments, perhaps his Highness the fifth prince would have taken an interest in eldest sister. Unfortunate, truly unfortunate."
"You're welcome." Chen Yu repressed a belly full of anger, "There's no misfortune. If younger sister likes it, then when you get married, elder sister will gift the entire set to you."
The matriarch hurriedly asked: "A full set of white crystal head ornaments?" She originally thought it was just a pair of earrings. Now that she heard that Chen Yu apparently had a full set of white crystal head ornaments, she was truly given a shock.
Chen Yu was waiting for the matriarch to ask and quickly replied: "It was his Highness the eldest prince who sent someone to send it to Chen Yu the day before yesterday." When she said this, she paid attention to Feng Fen Dai and saw her face darken slightly. Rejoicing, she felt that she finally regained some face.
The matriarch was a little dazed. What had happened to her granddaughters? Why had they all suddenly received the prince's affections? One was suddenly in discussions for marriage, and the other had actually received his Highness the eldest prince's gift, yet she did not know about it?
The people of the Feng family fell silent, even Feng Yu Heng did not speak.
But the granny from the Li Palace was in a hurry. Seeing that nobody in the room spoke, she decided to take a few steps forward and placed the proposal letter on a table in front of the matriarch "His Highness' proposal letter will be placed here. Would elder madam please give the fourth young miss' proposal letter to this old servant. Allow this old servant to report back to his Highness."
The matriarch was truly out of options. Granny Zhao could see that and could not help but whisper into her ear: "How about handing the proposal letter to her. Either way, the fourth young miss is only eleven years old. When master returns, it would not be too late to rethink things."
The matriarch pondered a little and also arrived at a similar conclusion. Nodding her head, she informed a servant: "Go get the fourth young miss' proposal letter."
Once these words were said, Fen Dai was so happy that she nearly bounced with joy. She then quickly saluted the granny and thanked her for the grace.
The granny let out a sigh of relief and looked at the celebrating Fen Dai. Bowing, she said with a smile: "This old servant congratulates fourth young miss Feng… Oh, that's not right. To the future secondary princess Li."
Fen Dai's vain heart swelled to its maximum extent. Only busying herself with laughing, she forgot to tell the granny to rise. Instead, it was Feng Chen Yu who went over to personally help the granny up, "Granny is an elder who takes care of his Highness Prince Li. Us as the younger generation are not worthy of receiving such courtesy. Please get up."
Chen Yu did not apply her black blush while in the manor, so when the granny looked at the beautiful person before her, she began to ponder. His Highness the fifth prince had made a mistake this time. How did he let such a beautiful person go by, instead insisting on an eleven year old little girl?
Having finally dealt with that person, the matriarch sat in her chair for a long time without saying a word. Only when An shi was unable to continue waiting, she asked: "Elder madam, if there are no other instructions, we will be going back first."
The matriarch waved her hand, as she was in no mood to speak with people, so she may as well let them go.
Feng Yu Heng was the first to stand up. Massaging her temples, she suppressed a headache and immediately walked out.
Chen Yu saw this and quickly followed. Chasing after Feng Yu Heng, she quietly said: "Second sister please do not be mad. Elder sister made a mistake earlier." She truly worried that she had provoked this great person.
Feng Yu Heng, however, waved her hand, "It's fine. I'm not mad. But if eldest sister can continue to treat people like this, that would be pretty good. Come find me tomorrow." Leaving these words, she did not remain and quickly left Shu Ya courtyard.
Feng Chen Yu let out a long sigh of relief. She was a little expectant and a little worried.
Tomorrow, so long as she made it past tomorrow, she would be a brand new Feng Chen Yu. She would no longer need to be constantly on edge, and she would no longer need to curry favor with Feng Yu Heng, and she would no longer need to fear anyone. She could hold her head high while standing before others. She could even completely wipe out her past.
She was having quite a bit of fun just thinking about it!
"Make sure the bank notes are properly prepared. We will be going to Tong Sheng pavilion tomorrow." Chen yu was unable to hide her smile while informing Yi Lin.
Yi Lin was a little more sensible, nodding while saying: "The granny prepared by third master is also just outside the manor. She can be brought in at any moment. Apparently, she was chased out of the palace. In her earlier years, she had examined the bodies of many graceful women who were entering the palace. Later on, because of a chronic illness, she was chased out of the palace. Without relatives or friends, when young miss is done with her and she is taken care of, nobody will be left to gossip about it."
"Very good." Chen Yu had always been very satisfied with the way her third uncle worked. Sometimes, she even felt this third uncle was even better than her prime minister of a father. But she also understood that the reason the Chen Family was helping her was for her ability to help the Chen family when she ascended to greater heights.
At this time, Fen Dai and Han shi could be heard whispering behind her. This mother and daughter were clearly incredibly happy. Without paying any attention to how they were still standing within Shu Ya courtyard, they began to speak arrogantly: "That small courtyard we are living in is truly too stuffy. When father returns, we definitely must have him find us a larger one."
Han shi supported this, "But of course! You are the future secondary princess of the Li Palace. If the Feng family mistreats you, it will be difficult to deal with his Highness Prince Li."
"Ah! Who knew that our family's most beautiful person would almost be at the age of marriage, yet not a single son of a noble family has come to discuss marriage, much less a prince." Fen Dai raised her voice and said this towards the back of Chen Yu's head. This angered Chen Yu so much that she nearly coughed up blood.
But Han shi followed it up, saying: "How can that be true? I heard that the Chen family's young master has already gone to the elder madam to discuss marriage, but I don't know if she agreed or not. As the saying goes, it's better to destroy ten temples than a single marriage. At a later date, we will need to advise elder madam. The Chen family's young master and the eldest young miss are childhood sweethearts and are a great fit. This must not be delayed."
"But of course." Fen Dai giggled, "It would still be best to marry the Chen family's young master, otherwise, if her scandal is exposed to the princes, I fear that it would implicate the entirety of the Feng family."
Feng Chen Yu's face turned green with anger. Clenching her fist, she could not stop trembling. Yi Lin had to do her best to stop her from turning around to rush at Fen Dai.
When she raised her head, she saw that Feng Yu Heng, who had left first, was stopped by a servant. She could not tell what was being said.
Feng Yu Heng had also seen then, so she naturally heard what Fen Dai had said. She could not help but smile and say: "Eldest sister, are you presently feeling regretful about that set of head ornaments? It's not just a set of head ornaments. What you have hurt is his Highness the eldest prince's sincere heart! If I were elder sister, I would leave myself a road out. To naively trust someone else and give away something that someone had given to express their feelings. That has muddied the situation, and I do not know what can be promised to you."


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In light of the growing concern about COVID-19, West Los Angeles Buddhist Temple has decided to suspend ALL activities at the temple. We will continue to monitor the situation and advise regarding further adjustments. Thank you for your understanding during this difficult time. In gassho, Connie Yahata – WLABT President
Welcome! Our temple is situated in the very busy West Los Angeles Sawtelle area of Southern Califonia that brings together many unique international cultures and traditions from the past and present. I hope you will enjoy the information about our temple and buddhism on this website. Please come visit our beautiful Japanese garden and share in the many activities we have throughout the year. You are always welcome to join in our Sunday services and Thursday Study Class. Included on our website are links to Buddhist Churches of America and Southern District temples and youth sites. Thank you for visiting.
Rev. Fumiaki Usuki, Resident Minister
As the current President of West Los Angeles Buddhist Temple, I extend to you a warm welcome. Please explore our website to find out who we are, what services and activities we offer, our current calendar of programs, copies of our monthly newsletter, The Bulletin, organizations within our Temple, features, links to other Buddhist sites, and photos you may find of interest. We are a Buddhist Temple following the Pure Land school of Mahayana Buddhism, also known as Shin Buddhism. At the heart of the Shin Buddhist teaching lies a vision of true reality alive with wisdom and compassion working to bring all beings to the highest fulfillment of human life, enlightenment. If you attend some of our services, you can expect to hear an exposition of the dharma emphasizing compassion and wisdom, the interdependence and mutability of all things, attachment as the source of suffering and that is just the beginning.
Our Sangha was formed almost 90 years ago, as one of the branches of Los Angeles Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple in Little Tokyo, by members of the first-generation Japanese-American community in the area centering on Sawtelle Blvd. In 1950, we were chartered as separate temple. Today, we join together with 59 other Shin Buddhist temples throughout the continental United States all of whom are affiliated with our parent organization, Buddhist Churches of America.
We offer a Dharma school program inviting students of all ages from preschool through high school, emphasizing a unique environment for social and religious growth focusing on Buddhist teachings of compassion, friendliness, and harmonious family life. Please join us not only for our Sunday services and other programs, but especially during the last weekend in July (usually) for our Obon festival where we join together both to honor the memory of friends and family who have passed away as well as in a celebration of life with street dancing (bon-odori), music, and food, all in a Gathering of Joy. Make this a year of change by joining us. Please feel free to contact the temple office or myself.
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Alright, we've talked DirectX and XNA already so let's move on to the subject of SlimDX.
First off, there's a release coming any day now. A number of things were screwed up with the September 2011 release, mostly my fault, and I've been busy patching them up. So there's a new December 2011 release around the corner, and 4.0 runtimes will be available right at the start. I do want to point out, though, that the runtimes are strictly for end-users (non-developers) who are consuming SlimDX apps. You don't need them to develop, and for that matter you probably don't need them at all if you're at a game development company. They install the DX runtimes, VC runtimes, and SlimDX itself. Given that both runtimes are now well over a year old, odds are you already have this stuff. While that doesn't excuse my personal failures in getting this stuff out in a timely fashion, there is almost certainly no need to worry over it for 90% of you.
We've been promising a SlimDX 2.0 release for some time now, with substantially revised architecture. The redesign is based around many of the same concepts driving another wrapper library called SharpDX by Alexandre Mutel. Alex was working with us for a while but we split up over some mutual differences and went our separate ways. I've decided to withhold any comments on his work one way or the other. As far as our work… we need help. The three of us (Josh Petrie, Mike Popoloski, and myself) have been working on the library for something like five years, and things are pretty stable at this point. Sure there are bug fixes that we're shipping out, but especially now that the DirectX SDK updates have stopped, the current codebase is largely good to go. The new codebase for 2.0 is really a prototype, and the simple fact is that it needs a lot of work and none of us has the time anymore.
I repeat: We need new people to help develop SlimDX. If that doesn't happen then we're likely stuck in place, which might not be that big of a problem except for one thing: Windows 8. SlimDX 2.0 is based on a code generation system that should allow us to target C++/CLI as well as the new C++/CX language. With CX support we get not only .NET but also JavaScript and native code support to interop with Metro apps. Not only that, but it also means ARM support and SlimDX on tablets in the coming years. I think that's a big deal, if we can pull it off.
When I first wrote SlimDX in 2006, I believed that automated codegen like SWIG was not well suited to creating a simple, usable wrapper. SlimDX was hand written from the ground up to make using DirectX as painless as possible, and also to reshape the DirectX API into something that made sense as a .NET API. That was directly in the footsteps of Managed DirectX which Tom Miller had created, though we took the model a lot farther in that direct path. Alex came to us with an approach for code-gen which we felt really has potential, but there's still a lot of rough edges and a lot of work in getting it to the standard which we really want it to be at.
So, who can help? You'll need to have a working familiarity with C++ and C#, and DirectX of course. It is not, contrary to popular belief, necessary to really deeply understand any of these things. Working on SlimDX is an adventure in quirks and details of interop that I can almost guarantee you have not seen. Don't worry about experience if you're looking to help out. There will be a lot to learn of course, and you're going to need a lot of free time to commit to this, but we've spent a long time building SlimDX and have a pretty solid handle on what's going on. The only other requirement is the understanding that what you get out of this is experience, an excellent resume item, and skills that are fairly rare. Money is very unlikely to appear directly unless donations take a serious uptick.
If you're interested in helping out, please post here, or ping us via Twitter or IRC or e-mail or GameDev or whatever. I really do need one or two people to join as regular developers, otherwise DirectX and Windows may well move forward without a SlimDX to help glue the bits together.


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White Christmas
11:55 am in Winter Weather by Ted Keller
Odds are against us getting Christmas to be white with snow most of the time but this year we should should see it!
The storm first highlighted last week has actually held together and the timing puts it into the Ozarks on Christmas Eve. As with most storms, the track is in disagreement among the computer forecast models. This has not been much of a timing issue however as Friday still looks like the day with some precipitation breaking out Thursday night.
While the precipitation is expected to be primarily snow Friday afternoon, it night start as a bit of sleet Thursday night.
The graph is valid as of about noon Wednesday. The plot is meant for Springfield. The reddish lines are one computer model, the blueish are another. The red model favors more snow with totals right around 2″ The blue model is not nearly as enthusiastic about the white stuff.
Now here are some Ozarks maps. The first is the red model (NAM), the second is the blue (GFS). The NAM has more snow in general and more to the south. The GFS has snow largely missing the Ozarks except for areas east of Springfield.
I'm always a bit torn on snow around Christmas because I know folks want to travel to to see friends and family or to do last minute shopping and even a light snow can snarl things up a bit. On the other hand, if the actual snow ends up in-between these two models. it won't be too bad and only an over night snow into Christmas Day could be timed out better!
What we don't want is a repeat of 2002, which for those of you who don't recalled dumped a huge snow on the Ozarks on the 23rd, slowing Springfield down to a crawl! It took me nearly two hours to get from near Battlefield Road to the studio that day!
Tom and Jill will have the latest! I'm watching this one from home. Be safe!


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WonderCon 2012 has announced its programming schedule and attendees are in for some good stuff. In addition to the wide variety of panels devoted to comic artists and writers, beloved genre figures, and career tips, there are some exciting movie and TV presentations lined up. On the film side, there will be presentations for Resident Evil: Retribution (along with other Screen Gems films) Sound of My Voice (very cool that a Sundance indie flick is making an appearance), Battleship, Snow White and the Huntsman, Lockout, plus surprise presentations for upcoming films from 20th Century Fox (if there's a sneak peek of Prometheus, the price of your WonderCon pass was worth it).
On the TV side, there will be presentations for Community, Fringe, Alcatraz, Person of Interest, The Secret Circle, Once Upon a Time, and more. WonderCon, you had me at "Community". Hit the jump for the dates and times of the convention's major highlights. WonderCon 2012 will be at the Anaheim Convention Center and runs from March 16 – 18th.
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4:00-5:30 Exclusive Warner Bros. Television Screenings: Person of Interest and The Secret Circle— For the third straight year, Warner Bros. Television kicks off WonderCon with exclusive preview screenings of upcoming original episodes of fan-favorite series. For 2012, WBTV will screen episodes of the first-year hit dramas Person of Interest and The Secret Circle.
Person of Interest: Jim Caviezel (The Thin Red Line), Comic-Con favorite Michael Emerson (Lost) and Taraji P. Henson (Hustle & Flow) team up in this thought-provoking crime action-drama from The Dark Knight's Jonathan Nolan and J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions (Fringe, Lost, Alias). Set in New York City, with all of its multifaceted elements of justice (cops, criminals, corruption), Person of Interest centers on an ex-CIA agent, presumed dead, who partners with a mysterious billionaire to prevent violent crimes, and the detectives tracking them. Person of Interest makes its WonderCon debut with a screening of a complete episode to kick off WonderCon 2012. In addition to Caviezel, Emerson, and Henson, Kevin Chapman (Rescue Me) also stars in Person of Interest, which airs Thursdays at 9/8c on CBS. Jonathan Nolan, J.J. Abrams (Star Trek), Greg Plageman (Cold Case), and Bryan Burk (Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol) are the executive producers of the series, from Bonanza Productions in association with Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
The Secret Circle: The ordinary becomes the extraordinary in The Secret Circle, a drama full of mystery, intrigue, and danger from executive producer Kevin Williamson (The Vampire Diaries) and based on the book series by L. J. Smith (The Vampire Diaries). The series chronicles the story of a young girl who discovers not only that she is a witch and part of a secret coven but that she is the key that will unlock a centuries-old battle of good versus evil. WBTV has conjured up a WonderCon exclusive premiere screening of the "Cursed" episode, a full six days in advance of its on-air debut Thursday, March 22, at 9/8c on The CW. Britt Robertson (Scream 4), Thomas Dekker (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), Gale Harold (Queer as Folk), Phoebe Tonkin (H20: Just Add Water), Shelley Hennig (Days of Our Lives), Jessica Parker Kennedy (50/50), Chris Zylka (upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man), and Natasha Henstridge (Species) star in the series, which is executive produced by Williamson, Andrew Miller (Nothing), Andrea Newman (Human Target), Leslie Morgenstein (The Vampire Diaries), and Gina Girolamo (The Lying Game). From Bonanza Productions Inc., Outerbanks Entertainment and Alloy Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. Television and CBS Television Studios, The Secret Circle airs Thursdays at 9/8c on The CW. Ballroom, Third Level
11:00-12:00 Cartoon Network: Adventure Time— What could make WonderCon even more wonderful? How about a Totally Rhombus Adventure Time Q&A? Hear what executive producer and creator Pendleton Ward (voice of Lumpy Space Princess) and special guests have in store for our heroes Finn and Jake coming up in Season 4! Come on, grab your friends and join the fun! Room 204
12:00-1:00 Marvel Television Presents— Be among the first to go inside the Marvel Universe on Disney XD with the head of Marvel Television, Jeph Loeb, as he presents the world premiere of the highly anticipated Ultimate Spider-Man animated series and a look at the premiere episode of the The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Season 2. He'll also reveal the inside scoop on animated and live-action series in development, and more surprises from Marvel TV. Room 213
12:30-1:15 Fox Searchlight: The Sound of My Voice— Producer, writer, and actress Brit Marling is a rising talent and new voice in the genre world, creating independent films about everyday people finding themselves in fantastic circumstances. In her new film, The Sound of My Voice, Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius), a couple and documentary filmmaking team, infiltrate a mysterious group led by an enigmatic young woman named Maggie (Brit Marling). Intent on exposing her as a charlatan and freeing the followers from her grip, Peter and Lorna start to question their objective and each other as they unravel the secrets of Maggie's underworld. Appearing in person: star, producer, and co-writer Brit Marling (Another Earth), and the film's director/co-writer Zal Batmanglij. Ballroom, Third Level
1:15-2:15 Twentieth Century Fox— Twentieth Century Fox (and some very special guests) presents an exclusive look at some of the most anticipated events of the summer. Ballroom, Third Level
2:30-3:15 Open Road Films: Lockout— Global exclusive! Be among the first in the world to see footage of the highly anticipated new film, Lockout. Starring Guy Pearce (Memento, The King's Speech, upcoming Prometheus) and Maggie Grace (Taken, Taken 2, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Parts 1 & 2). Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent (Pearce), whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter (Grace) from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security prison. Lockout was directed by James Mather and Stephen Saint Leger from their script, co-written with Luc Besson, who is also a producer. Peter Stormare co-stars. Ballroom, Third Level
3:15-4:15 Universal Pictures: Battleship and Snow White and the Huntsman— Universal Pictures will present footage and special guests from two of its upcoming epic action-adventures: Battleship (May 18) and Snow White and the Huntsman (June 1). Battleship director/producer Peter Berg will be joined by two of the star's from the film, Alexander Skarsgård and Brooklyn Decker, to discuss the project. Snow White and the Huntsman's director, Rupert Sanders, will answer questions about the new movie starring Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth and Sam Claflin. Ballroom, Third Level
4:15-5:30 Sony Screen Gems: Resident Evil: Retribution Plus More Sony Films— We learn more about Alice's mysterious past as she continues to hunt those at The Umbrella Corporation responsible for the T-virus outbreak, a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, DC, and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything she once thought to be true. Aided by newfound allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun. Resident Evil: Retribution stars Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Sienna Guillory, Kevin Durand, Shawn Roberts, and Boris Kodjoe. Appearing in person is Alice herself, Milla Jovovich, who along with writer/director Paul W. S. Anderson will host a preview and discussion of the wildly successful film franchise based on the popular video game series Resident Evil and this highly anticipated fifth installment, Resident Evil: Retribution in state-of-the art 3D. Additional info on other films to come! Ballroom, Third Level
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2:00-3:00 Once Upon a Time— A must-see event for LOST and Once Upon a Time fans! Master storytellers Eddy Kitsis (LOST and Tron: Legacy) and Adam Horowitz (LOST and Tron: Legacy) bring you an exclusive advance screening of "Heart of Darkness," an all-new episode of ABC's Once Upon a Time. After the screening, join moderator Maggie Furlong (Huffington Post) with Eddy and Adam for Q&A and lots of great surprises. You won't want to miss it! Ballroom, Third Level
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While many are still mourning Steve Carell's decision not to return to The Office as Michael Scott, there is a silver lining: We still have Ricky Gervais. The Office creator has decided to bring back David Brent for a "mini episode" called The Office Revisited, Entertainment Weekly reports.
Photos: Worst-dressed TV characters"It has been 10 years since we last saw David Brent," Gervais said in a statement. "I thought it was time to revisit my most famous comedy creation to find out what he's been up to for the last decade and most importantly what he's up to now."
Photos: Which shows do you want to bring back?So what's happened to David Brent in the past decade? "What hasn't happened in the last 10 years? Probably the best 10 years of my life, filled with just so many interesting things. Mainly rapping," Brent says in a new trailer. Gervais also adds that viewers will finally hear "The Serpent Who Guards the Gates of Hell" in full, as well as see Brent's "horrendous" self-funded video "Equality Street."The episode will air on BBC One on Red Nose Day , March 15, and will be available on Gervais' YouTube channel that same day.
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TT he Seventh-day Adventist Church's worldwide initiative to encourage daily Bible study was a top trending topic on Twitter for a couple hours yesterday.
The Twitter hashtag #RPSP – the acronym for "Revived by His Word" in Portuguese and Spanish – topped Trend Topic Brazil, the official index of the most widely-discussed topics among Twitter's Brazilian users.
The Revived By His Word project launched in April with the objective of motivating people to read a chapter of the Bible every day until 2015, when Adventists will hold their international church business session. The plan is for session delegates, representing more than 17 million members worldwide, to read the final chapters together in a grand finale.
The idea of registering the suggested chapters for reading through Twitter every day arose spontaneously among Internet/Web users.
According to Monday's records, online users accessed the micro blogging site to discuss what struck them most about the day's selected chapter – Exodus 34. Twitterer @silva_ton wrote, "Exodus 34, our lives and our testimonies should reflect that Christ is our Lord and the center of our lives. Worship and fellowship! #RPSP". User @christianesst quoted verbatim one of the verses: "I will put my laws into their minds and write it in their hearts, and be their God and they shall be my people" Heb. 8:10 #RPSP.
There are daily messages written in Portuguese, and some in Spanish, offering evidence of the international character of the project.
Journalist Michelson Borges (@criacionismo) created a virtual version of the "Bible Tweets" with various comments on a chapter. "I want the world to know how good it is to read the Word of God every day. It's good for me and I want the same good for others," he wrote.
Pastor Jael Aeneas (@jaeleneas), left his thoughts on Exodus 34, too. "Twitter interacts and strengthens our sense of belonging. God revealed distinctive truths when our pioneers came to the Bible. I believe in this," he tweeted.
With a certain membership of 1.3 million, Brazil likely has the most Seventh-day Adventists of any country.
For more details about the project visit www.reavivamentoereforma or follow the Twitter hashtag #RPSP. As of July 10, hashtag #RPSP was still trending in Brazil.


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We've all heard that eating fish is good for our brains and memory.
Along with EPA, a fatty acid called DHA is one of the two key omega-3s in human cells, and it's also found in all seafood … especially fatty fish like tuna, sardines, and salmon.
Omega-3 DHA produces memory benefits in animal studies, and appears to support and enhance human memory capacity.
For example, see the reports listed in our sidebar, "Research roundup: Omega-3s and memory".
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The positive results of numerous animal and cell studies – and of a growing body of clinical research – support the idea that omega-3 DHA is critical to optimal memory capacity at all stages of life.
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As a Harvard team wrote, concerning the outcomes of a rat study, "… increased brain [levels of] DHA significantly enhances hippocampal neurogenesis [growth of brain cells and inter-cell connections]." (He C 2009)
But unfortunately, as was noted in a 2010 evidence review, "… hippocampal DHA levels decrease with age and in the brain disorder Alzheimer's disease, and this decrease is associated with reduced hippocampal-dependent spatial learning memory ability." (Su HM 2010)
In other words, gradual decline in brain levels of DHA may explain why it becomes harder to remember where you put your keys or parked you car!
While it's long been clear that DHA is critical to fundamental memory functions, the full range of DHA's roles in memory support remains to be explored.
Now, researchers at the University of Alberta, Canada, may have found one more reason why DHA appears so important to achieving and maintaining optimal memory performance (Connor S et al. 2012).
Canadian study sees DHA enhancing memory center's internal communications
According to Professor Yves Sauvé, Ph.D., "We wanted to find out how fish intake improves memory." (UA 2012)
First, his team confirmed that lab rats fed a high-DHA diet had 29 percent more DHA in the hippocampus – a section of the brain key to memory formation – when compared to animals fed regular rat chow.
Other researchers have already observed this effect. So, as he explained, another finding represents the real breakthrough.
To clarify things, they supplemented mice with a DHA-enriched diet to see whether that would alter the ability of synapses to undergo activity-dependent changes in the hippocampus (Connor S et al. 2012).
And to allow for quick, clear outcomes, they tested the animals' ability to form new spatial memories.
"What we discovered is that memory cells in the hippocampus could communicate better with each other and better relay messages when DHA levels in that region of the brain were higher," said Suave. (UA 2012)
He went on to make the obvious point: "This could explain why memory improves on a high-DHA diet." (UA 2012)
Supplementing your diet with DHA, such as increasing fish intake or taking supplements, could prevent declining DHA levels in the brain as we age, says Sauvé.
Most fish and fish oils contain more omega-3 EPA than omega-3 DHA, but provide more than enough DHA to sharply boost blood and brain levels within a few weeks.
And many infant formulas are now fortified with omega-3 DHA.
This research was made possible by a grant from Alberta Innovates Health Solutions, a publicly funded research foundation.
Earlier this year, Sauvé and his colleagues discovered that supplemental DHA prevents the accumulation of a toxic molecule at the back of the eye that causes age-related vision loss. (See "New Eye Benefit Seen in Omega-3s".)
Cao D, Kevala K, Kim J, Moon HS, Jun SB, Lovinger D, Kim HY. Docosahexaenoic acid promotes hippocampal neuronal development and synaptic function. J Neurochem. 2009 Oct;111(2):510-21. Epub 2009 Aug 13.
Chung WL, Chen JJ, Su HM. Fish oil supplementation of control and (n-3) fatty acid-deficient male rats enhances reference and working memory performance and increases brain regional docosahexaenoic acid levels. J Nutr. 2008 Jun;138(6):1165-71.
Connor S, Tenorio G, Clandinin MT, Sauvé Y. DHA supplementation enhances high-frequency, stimulation-induced synaptic transmission in mouse hippocampus. Appl Physiol Nutr Metab. 2012 Jun 20. [Epub ahead of print]. Accessed at http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/h2012-062
He C, Qu X, Cui L, Wang J, Kang JX. Improved spatial learning performance of fat-1 mice is associated with enhanced neurogenesis and neuritogenesis by docosahexaenoic acid. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Jul 7;106(27):11370-5. Epub 2009 Jun 22.
Su HM. Mechanisms of n-3 fatty acid-mediated development and maintenance of learning memory performance. J Nutr Biochem. 2010 May;21(5):364-73. Epub 2010 Mar 16. Review.
University of Alberta (UA). Medical researchers discover a potential explanation for why a diet high in DHA can improve memory. June 28, 2012. Accessed at http://www.med.ualberta.ca/Home/NewsEvents/News/article.cfm?ID=2431


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AAVSO Special Notice #381 announces the HST/COS observing window for the 40th and last target in the large CV campaign that has been in progress since October 2012. SDSS J100658.40+233724.4 is the target, a UG dwarf nova around 18.3 V at min and 15.6 V at max. Please see the Special Notice for details. Many thanks and good observing!
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Baker College of Allen Park's Vice President of Finance Kristine L. Barann has been appointed the college's next president.
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Prior to becoming the VP of finance three years ago, Barann was an adjunct professor of accounting at the college and a member of its board of regents from 2005 to 2010.
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