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2010-02-08T06:16:26-08:00

Saints super after defeating Colts

The paper bags can be put away forever. The franchise that once was so awful its fans were embarrassed to show their faces, is now a world champion.

The New Orleans Saints, who went 21 seasons before reaching the playoffs and 34 seasons before winning a postseason game, completed their storybook season Sunday night by rallying past the favored Colts 31-17 in Super Bowl XLIV in Sun Life Stadium.

Saints super after defeating Colts

Cat Owners Are More Educated Than Dog Owners

2010-02-06T11:42:18-08:00

People who own a cat are more likely to have a university degree than those with a pet dog, a study by Bristol University suggests.

A poll of 2,524 households found that 47.2% of those with a cat had at least one person educated to degree level, compared with 38.4% of homes with dogs.

The study said longer hours, possibly associated with better qualified jobs, may make owning a dog impractical.

It also found that UK pet ownership was much higher than previously thought.

Cat and dog numbers were last estimated in a scientific peer-reviewed journal in 1989, which said there were 6.2 million and 6.4 million respectively in the UK.

But according to Bristol’s Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, the populations today are likely to be about 10.3 million and 10.5 million.

Overall, it estimated that 26% of UK households owned cats and 31% owned dogs.

The study suggested a number of other characteristics, aside from education level, were associated with either cat or dog ownership.

Of those surveyed, dog-lovers were more likely to be male, living in rural areas and under the age of 55.

Age of children

But cat owners were more likely to be female and living in smaller or single-person households.

The age of children in a family also appeared to make a difference, with cats being more common than dogs in homes with children under the age of 10.

However Dr Jane Murray, a lecturer in feline epidemiology at Bristol University, said the variation in education level between owners was the most striking difference.

“We don’t know why there is this discrepancy,” she told the BBC News website.

“We did look at average household income but that wasn’t significant.

“Our best guess is that it’s to do with working hours and perhaps commuting to work, meaning people have a less suitable lifestyle for a dog.

“It’s really just a hunch though.”

Dr Murray, whose post is funded by the Cats Protection charity, said researchers hoped to repeat the study using the results of the 2011 census to get a clearer idea of trends in UK pet ownership.

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Digital doomsday: the end of knowledge

2010-02-09T08:14:52-08:00

“IN MONTH XI, 15th day, Venus in the west disappeared, 3 days in the sky it stayed away. In month XI, 18th day, Venus in the east became visible.”

What’s remarkable about these observations of Venus is that they were made about 3500 years ago, by Babylonian astrologers. We know about them because a clay tablet bearing a record of these ancient observations, called the Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa, was made 1000 years later and has survived largely intact. Today, it can be viewed at the British Museum in London.

We, of course, have knowledge undreamt of by the Babylonians. We don’t just peek at Venus from afar, we have sent spacecraft there. Our astronomers now observe planets round alien suns and peer across vast chasms of space and time, back to the beginning of the universe itself. Our industrialists are transforming sand and oil into ever smaller and more intricate machines, a form of alchemy more wondrous than anything any alchemist ever dreamed of. Our biologists are tinkering with the very recipes for life itself, gaining powers once attributed to gods.

Yet even as we are acquiring ever more extraordinary knowledge, we are storing it in ever more fragile and ephemeral forms. If our civilisation runs into trouble, like all others before it, how much would survive?

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Prince Charles was a ‘gruesome child’ says letter from Queen’s cousin

2010-02-09T10:22:57-08:00

Prince Charles was a ‘gruesome child’ says letter from Queen’s cousin
The Prince of Wales was described as a “gruesome child” in a letter written by the Queen’s cousin recalling how he took pleasure in watching her have a painful blister lanced.

Princess Alexandra wrote the letter in 1952, when the Prince of Wales was four, during one of the Royal Family’s stays at Balmoral.

In the handwritten note addressed to “Darling Eddie”, her brother Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent, she told how she had been playing the parlour game “stone” when a man named Martin “bit me quite accidentally on the mouth, which was extremely painful”.

She went on to detail the injury, which had caused a blister that she had then bitten, making it bleed.

“So this morning Dr Middleton came and pierced it! Ho Ho. Charles was fascinated and insisted on watching. Gruesome child don’t you think?”, she wrote.

She then added that the Prince of Wales had been in bed for three days, having had some trouble with his ear.

The letter, written on Balmoral Castle headed paper and dated September 21, detailed the ways in which the Princess had been passing the time.

She wrote:“There have been shooting lunches most days” and mentioned meeting John Slim, a soldier and hereditary peer.

“I have met him only twice, not a new love if that’s what you are thinking,” she writes.

She also mentions The Duke of Edinburgh, writing: “We had a long discussion about black stockings. Too stupid. He is so sweet.”

Princess Alexandra, also known as the Honourable Lady Ogilvy, then concludes with a mention of a story written about her in the tabloid newspaper The Sunday Graphic, which folded in 1960.

She wrote: “By the way did you see that ridiculous article about me in the Sunday Graphic. Apparently I am called the Bonny Maid of Deeside.

“Philip teased me as it said I was going with the Wrens to be a nurse.”

She then signed off: “Well look after yourself. With very, very many hugs & XXXX from Georgie.”

Princess Alexandra, who is now 73, is the youngest granddaughter of King George V and Queen Mary and was a bridesmaid at The Queen’s wedding to the Duke of Edinburgh.

She was known as Princess Alexandra of Kent until she went on to marry Sir Angus Ogilvy, a businessman with whom she had two children. It is believed that Georgie was a family nickname for her.

The Duke of Kent, 74, is now perhaps best know as President of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, and for presenting the trophies to the Wimbledon winner and runner-up.

The letter, which has been in a private collection for the past 25 years, will be auctioned off at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel at Heathrow on February 13, and is expected to fetch £400.

Auctioneer Richard Davie said: “It is a rare letter with good references to the Royal Family.”

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Sorry, God doesn’t exist.

2010-01-22T01:01:56-08:00

Everything that man has created, including the Bible, is a lie and it’s purpose was to enstill hope in people so that they would not feel sad knowing that everything was just going to die and feel nothingness for forever.
People come up with the strangest things, like believing that the Sun was God at one point in time, and people believe in the bible because they want to believe that some strange mysterious being is caring for them and guiding them in the right direction, ever since they were young and their parents looked into their eyes and said, “God loves you and will bring you to Heaven.”
Didn’t that just make you feel so good and smile a lot? Well, that’s what they wanted because no one wants a 6 year old to be depressed knowing that he will die and experience nothingness forever, how do you explain such a thing to a child?
Children know one thing and that’s that their parents care about them and believe their parents would never lie to them, so they would be so quick to believe that “God” loved them.
If God was real, he’d know that people were going to question his existence and therefore, show himself.
If every person on earth killed every organism and then committed suicide, there would be no “reincarnation”
It’s the only logical explanation for the way everything is.
We might live again someday, but it’s doubtful.
Imagine that you lost your arm, you can no longer feel that arm, right? Well, in death, that’s what it feels like except it’s your whole body, and you are dead forever.
Don’t be scared, though.
Death is complete and pure freedom from everything.
Eventually the earth will end or it will overpopulate.
People are going to die and be dead for as long as forever lasts, just like the rest of the living things on earth.
It is the only true and complete happiness, bliss, and freedom that you can experience.
It is the thought of complete nothingness that boggles my mind and keeps me up at night.
Don’t be sad, though. : )

Unbelievable

2010-02-08T13:09:33-08:00

Some “Christian” groups will go to any length to get attention and promote their way of thinking.

Christians claim hate crimes law an effort to ‘eradicate’ their beliefs

By Stephen C. Webster
Saturday, February 6th, 2010—2:15 pm

A Christian group in Michigan has filed a lawsuit alleging that a package of hate crimes laws named after murder victim Matthew Shepard is an affront to their religious freedom.

Far from the intended purpose of severely punishing criminals who commit unspeakable acts against a persecuted minority group, the religious activists claim the laws are a guarded effort to “eradicate” their beliefs.

Filed by the Thomas More Law Center—which bills itself as the religious answer to the American Civil Liberties Union—the complaint claims that protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people “is an effort to eradicate religious beliefs opposing the homosexual agenda from the marketplace of ideas by demonizing, vilifying, and criminalizing such beliefs as a matter of federal law and policy.”

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Couple build home inside hay bale to object to planning council…

2010-02-05T23:08:46-08:00

There were mornings when Linda Fidler felt less like a Surrey school-run mum than a farmer’s wife in occupied France with a fugitive RAF crew in the attic.

‘I sometimes woke up wondering if this would be the day when we got found out,’ she says.

‘The riskiest bit was just coming or going in daylight. You never knew who might be looking. It got pretty stressful at times.’

But the Fidlers were never found out - until, that is, they revealed the truth themselves after six years of astonishing subterfuge: the 40-foot pile of straw bales sitting on the edge of their farm was not actually destined for their cattle after all. It was an elaborate facade to hide one of the most audacious and impressive achievements in the history of DIY.

Now, Robert Fidler is, by any standards, an accomplished handyman. Not only has he built an outward-bound centre for children in his own back garden, complete with a go-karting circuit and a two-acre lake big enough for water-skiing, but he has spent several holidays constructing 100 new homes for poor families in an impoverished district of Ghana.

Even those projects, though, are modest compared to his handiwork beneath that tarpaulin-covered straw mountain.

For lurking within was a thumping great country house - a mini-castle, no less. Not only did Robert manage to build the entire thing without being spotted by his friends and neighbours.

Most important of all, he did it without alerting the local council which, he believes, had been deliberately thwarting every legitimate attempt to build a proper farmhouse on his farm.

It proved to be a hell of a secret. Built with oak trees off the 250-acre farm and reclaimed building materials, here was a substantial home with a half-timbered, Tudor-style front, a twin-towered crenellated rear, a minstrels’ gallery, a cinema screen, a stained-glass dome on top and even a cannon by the front door. All that was missing was a drawbridge and a moat - oh, and planning permission.

Yet, having lived in their secret castle behind the bales with their young son for more than four years - the time limit beyond which a home is deemed legal - Robert and Linda believed that they were in the clear.

As the straw mountain finally began to rot and collapse under its own weight, the Fidlers decided to come clean and allow their home to see the light of day; whereupon the astonished council planners ordered them to demolish it.

This week, three years of heated legal squabbling concluded in the High Court with a judge’s ruling in favour of the council. As things stand, the Fidlers must now return the plot to grassland within a year or the council will bring in the bulldozers.

So I have ventured just beyond the Surrey commuter town of Redhill to Honeycrock Farm - or Honeycrock Castle as it is now known - expecting a funereal atmosphere inside these doomed ramparts. The Fidlers, surely, must be distraught. Instead, I meet a cheerful, defiant couple almost relishing the next stage in this extraordinary battle.

‘We’re taking this to the Court of Appeal and all the way to the European Court of Human Rights if need be,’ says Robert Fidler, a youthful 61-year-old with a passing resemblance to Noel Edmonds.

‘This is not just a case of “an Englishman’s home is his castle”. This is our farm and this is our farmhouse. We’ve lived in it a lot longer than the law demands and we’re not going anywhere.’

I am immediately struck by the workmanship. This is not a meticulous recreation of a medieval castle, of course. It’s a comfortable, four-bedroom farmhouse with towers.

But the finish is considerably superior to many of the mock-Tudor homes in these parts. Sturdy oak beams surround a central dining hall with two reclaimed chandeliers dangling down from a huge glass dome.

‘We found the dome smashed up in a reclamation yard - someone said it was from the old West Pier at Brighton - so Rob went on a glass course just so he could learn how to repair it properly,’ says Linda, 40. ‘He’s a doer, one of those people who never stops. It wears me out sometimes.’
The splendour of the couple’s dream home was revealed when the hay bales and tarpaulin were removed

The splendour of the couple’s dream home was revealed when the hay bales and tarpaulin were removed

The great staircase window offers a fine view towards Surrey’s North Downs, with no inkling of the M25 which must be hiding somewhere in the distance.

Only one house seems to be overlooking this one and it’s a good quarter of a mile away through the trees. Chateau Fidler is hardly intruding on anyone.

‘The most exciting moment was when the bales came down and I could finally see what my house looked like,’ says Robert. ‘For years, I had no idea. And, on the inside, it was like living in a tent. When I could finally stand back and look at it, I thought: “I’m very proud of that.”’

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(The pics of the house are pretty incredible….)

Berlin Group pranks Google ‘Street View’ vehicle with GPS tracker

2010-02-09T08:41:05-08:00

In a feat of electronic shenanigans, a group out of Germany called Free Art and Technology (FAT) placed a GPS tracking device onto a Google “Street View” Camera Car. Then by using the gathered GPS coordinates, the group was able to track the movement of the Google vehicle as it cruised the streets of Berlin in real time using Google Maps as a reference.

To add further insult and disdain to the traveling Google Car, the group even filmed others catching up with the rolling camera and flipping it the bird or walking down the sidewalk, pants down.

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Dutch, but with movie

The truth behind the 2012 scare.

2010-02-09T06:25:33-08:00

Tai Chi Masters battle!

2010-02-05T19:37:00-08:00

Something for Smerk to aspire to….

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