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Glen Miller is looking forward to the first official day of UConn basketball practice on Saturday.
But not for the reason that you might think.
It will give Miller a chance to spend a day in one place for a change. Miller, UConn's newly promoted associate head coach, has racked up the frequent flier and driver miles in recent weeks.
After arriving back in Storrs at 3 a.m. Wednesday from a cross country recruiting trip, he drove to New York later in the day to attend the 18th Jimmy V Classic Dinner. First-year head coach Kevin Ollie spoke at the event.
"I've had a busy last couple of weeks," Miller said Wednesday. "It's been fun. � I'm looking forward to getting back on the court."
Just last week Miller, a Groton native, was promoted from assistant coach as part of the restructuring of Ollie's staff.
The move means an increased role for Miller, who's in his third season during his second coaching stint in Storrs.
Miller, a former Husky player, served on the coach Jim Calhoun's staff for seven seasons before leaving in 1993 to start a 17-year head coaching career with stops at Connecticut College, Brown and Penn.
Now he's climbing the coaching ladder again, returning to UConn in 2010 when hired as director of basketball administration and then becoming a full-time assistant last season.
"I'm excited about it," Miller said of his new position. "It's added responsibility. A lot of things that I will be involved with now I was involved with before but will play a lead role in those areas.
"It will be a heightened involvment in areas, including coordinating offense and opponent scouting."
Ollie will lean on his experienced staff that also includes assistants George Blaney and Karl Hobbs, and director of basketball administration Kevin Freeman.
As veteran members of the UConn basketball family, they share the same values and commitment to hard work as Calhoun.
So don't expect drastic changes.
Sure, Ollie will deliver his message with a softer tone than the fiery Calhoun but with similar passion. Calhoun, who retired last month, is playing an advisor's role this season.
"It will be different because every coach has different personality," Miller said. "The values will still be the same. A lot of the values that Kevin shares with coach (Calhoun) will be there. That's hard work and perseverance and work ethic, outwork and outwill people. All those things will be the same.
"He'll put his own personality on it. � We might teach things a bit differently. By and large, we're all a byproduct of coach Calhoun."
"We don't have to reinvent the wheel. .. We're just trying to put our wrinkles in there."
UConn basketball traditions will continue.
The annual Husky Run is set for today, starting at 2:30 p.m. at Gampel Pavilion. It is open to the public.
First Night festivities will be held Friday. There will be an autograph session with both the men's and women's teams from 5-6:30 p.m., followed by introductions, slam dunk and other contests at 7 p.m.
And the Huskies will continue their tradition of beginning the first official practice Saturday morning in Guyer Gymnasium before heading into Gampel.
The coaching staff has been pleased with the preseason workouts, according to Miller.
"We haven't had one bad practice," Miller said.
"The kids have been working hard. There's a lot of enthusiasm. We're anxious to get to a full practice week."
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Junior guard Shabazz Napier, who had surgery to repair a stress fracture on his right foot in early September, could be ready to practice by next week, according to Miller. "He'll be out on the floor (Saturday). I don't know if he'll be in our drills." Everyone else is healthy, including junior Tyler Olander who sprained his ankle last month.
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(Read article summary)His London restaurants employ composting, a wormery, and a dehydrator to reduce waste. His next goal: a restaurant that actually takes in carbon and releases oxygen.
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British chef, restaurateur, and author Arthur Potts Dawson is passionate about the planet, good food, eating well, and making the most of what's fresh, local, and seasonal.
Mr. Dawson has been cooking for 25 years. He's been a chef for Jamie Oliver at Fifteen, the Soho House Group at Cecconi's, Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray at the River Cafe, and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall at River Cottage HQ.
Dawson now works with the Shoreditch Trust, a charitable organization working to address the causes of disadvantage in the most deprived areas of Shoreditch, London.
With the Trust, Dawson founded Acorn House, London's first truly environmentally sustainable restaurant and Water House, a restaurant offering delicious seasonal food and a firm commitment to sustainability and environmental responsibility. He published the Acorn House Cookbook in 2008, which shows its readers how to prepare "good food from field to fork."

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Guess its a matter of if you want Internet then you have to pay the price to those who provide it. If no alternate provider is providing the service and ATT doesn't want to provide DSL services and are willing to raise prices to force people out then that's what will happen.
Internet access is NOT a right nor should we as taxpayers be required to provide Internet service to public institutions (read schools/libraries hospitals) with our tax dollars, after all the Internet is a luxury and all those bureaucrats can use alternate services already provided by tax dollars like the US mail for correspondence, hospitals can keep hard copy records and pay a courier to deliver them store them etc. and those pesky children can go to their libraries and use outdated and non- relevant books to do their research/study. Yeah the Internet access thing is a friggin' joke here in the US of A and the joke is on the tax paying citizen consumer. Our various governments aren't going to provide the taxpayer with any relief or assistance with their personal internet but by God they're going to reach into your wallet to take your money so THEY can have Internet service then tell you all the information you need/require is on the Internet but good luck finding the services for you. Don't say go to the public library for Internet service because they don't keep them open 7x24 or even 4 x 12 hours a day. If the private sector won't provide an obviously "needed" service then the government is compelled to provide it.
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Again the old Rich guy slogan "why should we provide it for those that need it" i mean come down from that cloud dude and do some christian like "share the goods with those that need" oh and if you are not a christian(insert other religion here) or don't believe in anything then follow the golden rule: Do on to others like you like to be done to you" I don't care giving my taxes to fix the problems in my community,city,sate or country. You want to hear a good joke..find me a right wingers that actually care for the poor. Oh and funny thing is that every gov that is not a third world nation wants their children to have the latest tech so they can move forward no wonder we are dropping in the education level all over. Also those ideas you have post office,hospital hard copies and paying carrier are not working because theres no money for it yet with the net you can do all that guess for how much on the long run?= Free. Also want to know why those public services are not open 24/7 365..simple because theres no money for it but yet we have money for improving our military to fight every country in the world but no money for internet and better education for the poor. Oh and mind you i love the military but we need to take care of our poor,children and the elderly.
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Actually, the postal service is a separate entity from the government, that operates on it's own funding that is made from operating its shipping/ mailing business, however it's owned by the public (but not funded by the public, as mandated by the constitution of the united states). As it's publicly owned, congress purposefully screwed it (requiring prefunding of retirement accounts for... 70 years I believe?), in order to bankrupt it and drive all the business to the private sector (which doesn't have to prefund retirement accounts at all).
So, my point is... if all correspondence from public institutions swapped to the postal service, it would cost more (say a hospital sent 40,000 emails, that would only cost the really low internet costs... now if the hospital sent 40,000 snail mail letters that would cost $17,600 if they were paying only $0.44 for the paper, envelopes, and stamps. So, patient quality of service would vastly degrade because it would take 2 weeks to get medical records because we can't provide internet to hospitals, and tax payer shouldn't give phone lines to the hospital either, because that is a luxury too, and because the hospital doesn't have a phone line they cannot use fax machines to get medical records... So, gotta raise the cost of medical care because there is not an instant cheap method to transfer all the patient records, and long wait times.
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West Kowloon Terminus
Hong Kong, China
Located centrally within the city's urban realm, the West Kowloon Terminus functions as an indicator of how relations have improved between Hong Kong and Mainland China.
The high-speed rail terminus station will connect Hong Kong to Beijing with the largest rail network in history.
The outside ground plane bends down to the hall and the roof structure above gestures toward the harbor. The result is a 45 meter high volume which focuses all attention to the south facade with views of the Hong Kong Central skyline, Victoria Peak and beyond.
As the "gateway" to Hong Kong, it was considered vital to connect the station with the surrounding urban context and make one aware of the city's character whether arriving or departing. In order to do this, the design efficiently compacted all of the supporting space to allow for a large void down into the departure hall below, with added apertures going down to the track platforms.
The WKT will function more like an international airport than a rail station as the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region maintains economic and political differences from P.R.C.
This means that the facility needs to have both custom and immigration controls for departing and arriving passengers. What is highly unusual in this facility is that the West Kowloon Terminus will have immigration domains for both Hong Kong and China in the same facility, as opposed to how immigration works in a typical international airport, which only serves the host country.
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Kim Heyde - 29/11/2002
A really nice waltz. Short and easy to teach. Try it to "Husbands and Wifes" by Brooks & Dunn, it's a dreamer.
Moralito Samba
Hugh - 28/11/2002
My class have taken to Moralito Samba like a duck to water.They DEMAND it every week.My compliments to the choreographers.
Down Memory Lane
sue marks - 28/11/2002
Nice little improver level dance - nice track from Travis Tritt - even the more advanced dancers enjoyed this
And They Danced
sue marks - 28/11/2002
Loved this dance when Peter taught it at Brean and my class seem to love it too - he does write some good things doesn`t he
7th Wonder Cha
sue marks - 28/11/2002
Took me a while to teach myself - found the first 8 counts tricky but the class seemed to find it not too difficult and really loved it - we danced it several times the first night and they all remembered it.Love the music too
One Love
Jean - 28/11/2002
Very nice. Some nice step sequences, not too quick so you can fit in the tricky bits easily. Good dance Nev, keep them coming
Splish Splash
Ed Ybarra - 27/11/2002
I'm abolutely convinced that this dance will be one of the best-loved dances of 2002/03. And I love the "swim"-movements while dancing!!!
Too Funky For Me
Ed Ybarra - 27/11/2002
I recently learned this dance while on holiday in the States (Atlanta), danced it again while visiting California. It's really easy to learn and very FUNKY. If you've never done a funky dance before, I suggest this one! I just taught it to a line dance group in Wormer (NL) and they also had great fun!
Anybody Wanna
Ed Ybarra - 27/11/2002
If you like FUNKY, then you MUST DO THIS DANCE! While on holiday in the States, I saw this dance done on both the East and the West Coast. I should hope it will also be as popular over here! (Believe me I will teach it to all I can in Holland!)
Jade (My Angel)
Ed Ybarra - 27/11/2002
This dance was OK, but personally I had hoped for a bit more out of the music.
Stop It!
Ed Ybarra - 27/11/2002
Absolutely cool dance. I didn't know "what" to think when I first saw this dance, but once I tried it, I loved it. Bravo to the choreographer!
Ed Ybarra - 27/11/2002
Cool dance and also popular in Holland. Some of the steps are a bit tedious but OK, it flows well....
The Trucker's Dance
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Spend the extra $$ for BM paint or just color-match?
I have fallen in love with BM Nimbus for my kitchen. Is it worth the extra expense to buy BM's brand of paint (not Aurora) or can anyone recommend a good brand from Lowe's or Home Depot where I could just color match.
I realize I have lots of questions lately. We are in the midst of a remodel and I keep walking out into the kitchen for something -- only to find that my kitchen is completely empty and the walls echo!
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I haven't had success with getting BM color matched, even at Sherwin Williams (haven't tried the big box stores, but I wouldn't be optimistic). For walls, I usually buy the Ben brand at BM, one of their less expensive lines but still with the same color formulas as Aura I believe. It's very good paint, and only about $30-35 for an eggshell finish.
Premium paints have a different composition than bargain brands. They contain much more pigment (% by weight) than cheaper paints. That's one reason they're tough to color match. You will get more coverage out of a gallon of the good stuff than you would out of the cheap stuff too. In the end, you'll save money and time with the higher quality paint.
DH had never painted with BM before this reno. Now that he's painted every room in the house at least twice, he tells me he's very impressed with the paint. It covers better and lays down better. He choked at the price of the Regal gallons we used as he's used to cheap HD paint, but he's a believer now. My BM store owner said unless someone in the house has smell sensitivities, he recommended the Regal over the Aura for a better price. We weren't living in the house for most of the painting, so I went for the cheaper!
Nimbus is such a pretty color. You'll love it when it graces your whole room. And don't worry about the questions. We've all BTDT.
Oh, did you see Flatwater's kitchen with Nimbus cabs?
My painter prefers BM and thinks the time it saves him makes up for the extra cost.
We just painted our kitchen and hallway using BM's regal select which allows a flat or matte finish and washability. I didn't want a sheen so this was the perfect answer for us. Regal select isn't as expensive as aura but still very well liked by my painter and covered well. I never noticed a smell with the paint either.
Get out the wallet. The dh used to be peripherally involved in the paints & pigments industry (attorney) and yes, you are getting what you pay for with BM -- from a chemical, color, and proprietary standpoint. It's not just a hefty price tag. It matters when you use it, and it really matters when you stand back and look at it. I'd penny pinch on a lot of things -- and I do -- but paint isn't one of them. Good luck with the project.
I will be the voice from the other side. I have painted 4 entire interiors of homes in 4 years. I used the regular Behr from Home Depot in three of them and BM Regal on the 4th. Both brands provided good coverage. One Behr house I sold so I can't tell you how that has held up. One Behr house is my daughter's and it has been over a year and half and the paint looks beautiful and cleans up well. Her husband loves to cook and even the area behind the stove (no tile backsplash) cleans up well. She chose a variety of fairly deep colors.
The BM house is the one I am currently living in. It looks great too. The living room and hall are BM Thunder color matched into Regal paint. I have painted in Aura paint for a friend's kitchen and although it covers great, I really don't care to paint with it so I had them mix the Thunder in Regal. Got a great match.
The 4th house is the one I am currently renovating and moving into shortly. Due to the fact that BM didn't blow me away or prove to provide better coverage or clean up, I just completed painting all 1900 sq ft in the regular Behr paint. I had the majority of the colors color matched from either their more expensive Behr line (they have great new colors and huge color chips), Martha Stewart or BM. I chose two BM colors, a deep gray blue for a bedroom and Thunder for the kitchen to reuse in this house. First Home Depot I went to mixed me two gallons of the Thunder color match and they couldn't get it. Their match was too blue. They told me it was a bad match and I was under no obligation to buy the paint and I verified they were correct. Second Home Depot I went to mixed me another 2 gallons of Thunder color match and got it dead on. It was perfect and looks great on the wall. Home Depot has the formulas for most of the BM colors (not the Auras) in their computer and they don't even need to color match. They mixed the BM Blue I got by the formula in the computer.
Out of all those gallons of paint in 4 houses, I only had one gallon go on lousy and splotchy. It was in the house I am currently living in and was a light grayish green. It was just a bad gallon of paint and happened to be BM. That in no way implies Behr is better, it was just a bad gallon.
Sorry this is long but I paint a lot! 22 gallons this summer. I did the house I am currently living in in BM because the paint store closest was a BM store and I wanted to see what all the hoopla was about on BM paint. Not enough of a difference to justify the extra cost in my mind. I actually prefer the way Behr flows on my brush for cutting and trim over BM and I can't tell the difference between the two rolling.
It is not exactly the same match. We just moved into a new house and had everything painted before moving in. There were bookcases bolted to the walls in the family room. The painters painted around the bookcases without moving them. I choose BM Shaker Beige.
After moving in, we decided to remove one of the bookcases. Different painter used SW matched to BM Shaker Beige. The color was different. Not strikingly different, but enough that he couldn't just paint the unpainted wall but had to paint the entire wall with the SW.
The matched color has more green undertones than the BM original color. I do not like it and it bother me each time I walk into the room. Frankly, I hate it! I plan to buy a new gallon BM and repaint that wall again.
For many years now I've switch back and forth pretty freely between BM Regal and Home Depot's Behr. I like each equally as well as the other. I buy my BM at a hardware store and the price doesn't seem significantly different than the Home Depot which seems to have gone up in recent years. I'd be hard pressed to choose one over the other for durability or coverage. Recently I've tried out the BM Aura paint, and while the jury is still out on durability (the rooms I painted are only a few months out from completion, so I won't weigh in yet) -- the coverage was pretty amazing, and I was thrilled to skip the priming. But how it will age, and whether it will hold up to scrubbing, etc, or not, I guess we'll see.....
Color-matching for me is all about how much work went into choosing the color in the first place.
If you have thirty-seven swatches of gray on the wall in your quest for the Perfect One, and finally Number 37 looks right, don't color-match, buy that paint and be done with it.
If you're looking for a pleasant color for a baby's room, and the first color you try out is a perfectly acceptable yellow that runs $75/gallon, I'd at least try the color-match in a less expensive line. Why not?
I love BM colors and want to love their paint. The BM store on my side of town has the s***iest customer service you could ask for. It's sad, but I won't ever buy anything from them again. Kelly-Moore (Calif. and I think Texas and OK) is where all the local painters in my area go. Their people are friendly and informative. My house was painted nearly four years ago with KM and when I touch it up here and there with new matched paint, you can't see any difference. They match BM colors with a smile and good advice. I still long for BM colors, but I'm done with their attitude.
If you have Muralo paints available where you are - they are sold in paint stores - I would highly recommend Muralo Ultra Ceramic. It's washable and it goes on beautifully. I think it's comparable in price to BM Aura.
On the Painting forum, many pros recommend Muralo, but I guess it's a regional brand so not everyone can find it.
You can save some money by using their SuperSpec paint. I have used it and Regal and I like both. The other thing that helps save paint is buy primer colored to 50% or 100% of the color you plan on painting, it provides a nice base coat and is much cheaper than the paint.
Sometimes you have luck in color matching and others you don't. We recently had Palladium Blue and Manchester Tan matched. The first one didn't work out and I ended up buying the BM paint to get the right color. Even though it was their low VOC it wasn't as low as the one we used from MCCoys for the rest which was no VOC. As for coverage etc. It was the same. for us the no VOC was more important as DH is really sensitive and a lower price didn't hurt, but if the color had been off on that one we would have gone with BM too as we were matching to another area visible and already painted with BM Aura Manchester Tan. That was my first try with BM paint as I'd only used SW until then and frankly like SW super paint better as for coverage and rolling it on.
I agree that one must decide if a match is truly a match. When choosing a warm white for my living area, I must have spent close to $200 on samples, on my walls and boards to move around. When I finally found The One (SW Antique White), my sweet painter asked if he could have Kelly-Moore match it because he had an account with them. I was not convinced it was a wise move. He had a sample mixed and matched and it was identical. I even think I like it better than the original SW, but that may be the difference between sample paint and the real deal. If it's not a perfect match, don't accept it and don't use it.
I would never use any paint except BM aura-coverage and colors are great. The BM store near me(walking distance which is soooo convenient) has a helpful staff, all questions answered plus friendly and nice. I like them so much that I wish they sold more than paint. They matched my cabinet paint(Shiloh soft white) perfectly.
Does anyone know where they may be pictures of flatwaters kitchen? I found several threads doing a google search, but seems like all the photobucket pictures are deleted.
Checked both the new and old KFB and nothing there.
Anyone have any saved? Or Flatwater are you around?
Thank you
I agree with Hags00- I love Behr Premium primer all in one. We painted our house with BM when moved in and yes it is great paint. But this job my GC used Behr and it was color matched perfectly. Honestly their premium paint is not that much cheaper but I have a horrible BM store too so I would rather deal with our very pleasant HD store instead. Plus my BIL,who paints for a living could not believe the coverage he got with this paint. He did our unfinished banquette in only two coats with no primer. He was also very surprised.


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The following is an excerpt from a 30 page paper prepared by Jo-Ann Ford, a student at Yale and resident of Candlewood Isle at the time of its authoring in 1976. This paper has something for everyone who may be interested in the history, ecology, geology, or chemistry of Candlewood Lake and its surrounding towns.
The paper is richly annotated with sources and bibliographies for those wanting to perform further research on this subject. Its ecological warnings and remedies are even more germane today since there has been continued development of both the lake and its surrounding watershed.
Please request the full text of the paper at the library counter if you are interested in reading the entire paper.
A view of its Future Based on Its History and Development
Jo-Ann Ford
Class of 1977, Yale University
Class of 1980, Harvard Law School
Reprinted with permission.
This man-made lake so wide so Blue,
Rests an eighth wonder of the world,
Expanse of beauty unexcelled,
Beneath the smile of Heaven unfurled,
Here Yankee genius, Yankee grit,
Have altered nature by machine,
Here Yankee effort merits well
The eulogy of a LaMartine.
Technicians here have hugely wrought
With high success, with skill untold:
Thanks to their art the land has seen
Its value raised a hundred fold.
These lines of lofty praise are the translation of three verses of a poem written by Gregoire Margulis, a French author and scholar to extol the beauties and wonders of Candlewood Lake after his first visit 1949. The lake nestled in the western highlands of Connecticut was then only twenty years old, but had already been described by Karl K. Kitchen, the New York journalist who prided himself with having visited almost all of the famous lakes in the world, as one of the five or six most beautiful lakes in the world.
The creation of Candlewood Lake, which took place in 1928, was the spin-off benefit of the master plan of the Connecticut Light and Power Company to build the Rocky River power plant in New Milford and develop the hydroelectric potentials of the Housatonic River. A predecessor company, the Housatonic Power company, had already pioneered in the field by building a power plant in 1904 at Bull's Bridge, approximately 6.3 miles north of the juncture of the Rocky and Housatonic Rivers, and demonstrated the feasibility of sending high tension current for greater distances than had previously been considered economical. By 1907 title was acquired to the site where the dam which creates Candlewood Lake is presently located, and the Connecticut Legislature granted authority to proceed with a power development project.
The Rocky River was a meandering Housatonic tributary, draining ponds in the south and traveling north in and out of rocky ridges, passing through the village of Jerusalem which now no longer exists, to join the Housatonic River north of the center of New Milford. Even in colonial days the Rocky River's sudden drop of about 200 feet was recognized as an important resource, and it was harnessed to furnish power for several mills. However, those establishments were no longer in operation in this century, and only the rusted machinery and parts of the wooden wheel of one small mill remained in 1926.
Although the Bull's Bridge plant started operating in by 1904, engineering plans for further development remained in the planning stage for a number of years. It was not until 1917 that more decisive action took place. At that time, an enterprising lawyer named J. Henry Roraback began buying potential dam sites along the Housatonic and Connecticut Rivers. In the same year, he also purchased the stock of the Housatonic Power Company and eventually named his combined enterprise the Connecticut Light and Power Co. As president of the company, he had the foresight to see that the economic growth of the area would be increasingly dependent on electric power. By 1919 his utility company completed construction of the Stevenson Dam just above Derby on the Housatonic River and 25 miles below the Rocky River. Then attention was focused on the final formulation of the plan to create a pumped water storage reservoir in the Rocky River basin and build a generating station in New Milford. A facility at Shepaug, 14 miles below Rocky River, was also on the schedule and was completed in 1955.
To flood the Rocky River basin and the four existing ponds, Squantz, Barse, Crick and Neversink, a total area of 5,420 acres had to be prepared. Farms and other homes, schools and churches, including two small cemeteries sparsely settled the countryside. New Fairfield and Sherman were two of the farming communities where people were forced to sell their land and leave their homes. In 1925 Charles L. Campbell began buying large tracts of property in this area which he deeded to the Power Company. It is no surprise that several families refused to sell their land. Since the Power Company had the authority to flood the valley, some property inundated by the lake is still privately owned.
In the clearing operation, at least 100 buildings of various sorts were demolished or moved, and all of the graves were relocated. The "Yankee grit" mentioned in the opening poem came from crews of hundreds of Maine and Canadian woodsmen and local lumbermen who worked for months, without the use of power tools, chopping down countless acres of timber and brush below the 440-foot contour line. Construction of the main dam and power plant in New Milford and the four smaller dikes to build up the low points in the rim of the basin began in the summer of 1926 under the direction of the U. G. I. Contracting Company of Philadelphia. A well outfitted construction camp with quarters for about 600 men was set up near the proposed dam site and four smaller camps were situated throughout the basin. This temporary labor village even had facetiously name streets and was locally known as UGI-ville, a name without attractive connotations! In 17 months time, a work force of up to 1,000 men completed the entire job at a total cost of $5,000,000, a bargain price even in the currency of the 1920's.
The main dam was built on the Rocky River above its confluence with the Housatonic River. It has a concrete base extending five feet below and ten feet above the original ground level, and above the concrete base a huge timber core wall was packed with 367,300 cubic feet of earth. The completed dam is 952 feet long, about 700 feet wide at its base, and 100 feet high at its highest point, which is 442 feet above sea level. Nearby a headrace canal was dug 3,190 feet long and 20 feet wide to serve as the route for water to enter the intake structure of the penstock. This penstock, over 13 feet in diameter, runs along the downhill contour for more than 1,000 feet to the powerhouse on the west bank of the Housatonic. The diversion tunnel through which the Rocky River flowed while the project was in progress was closed on January 7, 1928, and the pumping of Housatonic River water up through the penstock started on February 25, 1928. By the end of December 1928, the water level reached an elevation of 429 feet above sea level, and the Rocky River hydroelectric plant went into operation.
As it is needed, water plunges down more than 200 feet through the penstock to the turbine. To carry water into the basin from the river, two 8,100 horsepower pumps are capable of hurtling one million gallons of water every four minutes a height of over 200 feet through the same penstock. This may not seem like an awesome capacity nowadays, but at the time of their installation these were the largest pumps of their type ever built in this country. There is an unconfirmed story that the pumps were so huge that the manufacturer questioned whether a decimal point had been misplaced in the specifications. When operated in reverse the pumps act as generators, and their capacity, when combined with the plant's main 25,000 kilowatt generator, gives Rocky River a total yield of 32,000 kilowatts.
When this unique power plant went into operation in 1928, it was alleged to be the only plant of its kind outside of Switzerland, and it retained the distinction of being the first pumped storage generating station of significant size in the United States for over 20 years. Although the economy of pumping water uphill to the reservoir to capture power from its downhill flow may seem to defy the laws of physics, that is not the case in this instance. The available water supply permits the plant to increase its generation of electricity during daily peak-load hours, and pump a return supply into the lake from the river during low-demand, night-time hours by inexpensive surplus power from its other plants. In addition, the Rocky River plant helps to regulate the flow of the Housatonic so that downstream plants at Shepaug and Stevenson can operate efficiently. The company claims the system actually increases the generating capacity of all three plants, and gives this example: For every 100 kilowatt-hours of electricity required to pump water into the, 67 are recovered when the same water is used to generate electricity at Rocky River, 30 are recovered at Shepaug, and 21 at Stevenson, for a total of 118 kilowatt-hours generated for every 100 used.
The new power plant was a boon to the area, but for many people its pumped storage reservoir was of more direct personal interest. The Rocky River had vanished, and in its place was spread a beautiful body of water covering eight and one-third square miles with a depth of 85 feet maximum and an average depth of 29.3 feet, and a total volume of 7,500 million cubic feet. Sixty-one miles of shoreline along fringes of hills with numerous coves and islands form what is now known as Candlewood Lake.
Four towns, Brookfield, New Fairfield, New Milford and Sherman, and the city of Danbury, with about half the lake falling in New Fairfield border the lake. In its initial period, the lake was called many names depending on the town in which one resided. Danbury was a leading contender, but New Milford was the first to use the name Candlewood because the lake water on the way to the powerhouse drops down within the shadow of Candlewood Mountain. The mountain, north of the lake, was so named by the early settlers in the region who learned from the Indians how to make Indian candles. These were made by splitting the pitchy heart of dry pine logs into narrow 8-inch strips, which burn like torches and could be used in place of wax candles. These strips were known as candle wood. The best pine wood for burning was plentiful on the mountain, and accordingly the mountain was given the name Candlewood. Although the name was adopted for the lake to avoid giving preference to the name of one of the adjoining towns, the name is most appropriate because the lake now helps to generate electric light measurable in millions of candlepower.
It is estimated that 40 square miles of watershed and natural rainfall supply the lake with approximately 2,930 million cubic feet of water, and an average amount of 1,400 million cubic feet is pumped in from the Housatonic River, for a total annual input of 4,330 million cubic feet. Each year evaporation accounts for the loss of about 590 million cubic feet, and 2,770 million cubic feet are utilized for power generation, a total output of 3,360 million cubic feet. On the basis of these calculations, it is estimated that the lake has a leak equivalent to 970 million cubic feet, or about 12% of its volume.
The sizeable discrepancy in the figures may be accounted for by errors in measurement of the watershed area, but it is quite likely to be due to a leaky lake and/or watershed. Geological peculiarities of the complex bedrock tend to support this possibility.
The bedrock which gives the Western Highlands attractive elevations and slopes is a complex structure with a high degree of metamorphism. The Berkshire, Housatonic and Hudson Highlands in Connecticut and the adjoining states have a basement complex of Precambrian gneisses, and similar rock structures form a smaller area in New Milford and Sherman. The northwest side of the Housatonic Highlands and the south side of the Hudson Highlands are bounded by high-angled reverse faults, and such faults are very likely to be present in similar rock formations in the lake area. To the south and east, the granite and hornblende gneiss of the Precambrian Highlands overthrust onto the multi-layered metasediments of another rock formation, which is not as steep as the Highlands. This second structural unit is widely intruded by younger granite, and different augen granite is intrusive into the Precambrian Highlands. This augen granite forms hills and accounts for the high relief just beyond the western shore of Candlewood Lake. Wide outcrops with 50-foot cliffs facing the lake are common, and piles of huge rocks that have been broken off from the cooling joints of these cliffs by weathering have collected at the base of many of the slopes. To the east, the principle ridge maker is the younger granite, and here, too, there are very steep, often vertical cliffs up to 50 feet high. The geological complexities of the bedrock with its structural discordances in the lake area indicate that there are likely to be many substantial clefts due to reverse faults, and these might account for the leakage of water.
It is also possible that the high-calcium limestone stratum under the valley of the nearby Still River extends beneath the lake. Before it became uneconomic, an exposure of limestone provided the area with an active industry.
Dolomitic rock wad calcined in limekilns for the production of plaster. Danbury's Limekiln Brook and Brookfield's Limekiln Brook are the present day reminders of this activity. Inwood Marble, almost pure CaCO3, was also quarried in the nearby area, and crushed on the premises to be sold for agricultural lime. This is further evidence that there are generous deposits of these porous minerals in the lake vicinity. Such a porous layer plus rock deformations and the reverse faults may be the reasons for the leakage of significant quantities of water from the lake and its watershed.
As an interesting bit of additional information indicating that the lake area is prone to leakage, I would like to point out that Squantz Pond, which is natural in origin and is now separated from Candlewood Lake by a causeway, may at one time have been much larger that it is now. The pond received its name from Squantz who was chief of the Scatacook Indians living in this locality in the 18th century. Some years ago, the remains of a very large Indian canoe, 22 feet long and 5.5 feet wide, were raised from the bottom of Squantz Pond. The unusually large size of this canoe indicates the possibility that 200 or more years ago this body of water may have been considerably larger than it is today.
Once established, the Rocky River power project became a double-barrelled success. Not only did it expand the hydroelectric power capacity in the Housatonic region, but also Candlewood Lake became a scenic attraction which enhanced the five surrounding communities and influenced the growth and prosperity. The lake was stocked with fish, and in keeping with the company's policy, land was made available for recreational use. Town parks and beaches were developed by each of the five communities, and added attractions for public use are the Sqantz Pond State Park and Poctatuck State Forest, which front on the lake in New Fairfield.
In the immediately succeeding decades, land values soared as the lakeshore became studded with resort colonies containing summer homes and many substantial year-round dwellings. The houses were attractively designed and spaced without sacrificing the sweeping beauty of the natural landscape. The rugged topography also provides its own built-in protection by inhibiting real estate development, as will be later proved by soil analysis. However, available areas in the hilly backdrop of the lakefront were heavily developed by the 1950's. By this time, as shown on the attached map, there were dozens of lake colonies of varying size, the larger ones containing hundreds of homes. Most of these are self-reliant for such services as road maintenance, snow removal and garbage collection, and provide varied recreational activities at beachfront clubs. Water supply comes from private wells although a few homes have filtering systems so lake water can be used. Waste disposal is handled by individual septic syst ems. It is staggering to realize how the area is literally riddled by wells, and it is even more staggering in an environmental sense to contemplate the thousands of septic tanks in the ground.
In the early decades, the majority of the population in the lake colonies was seasonal inhabitants, and this also meant only seasonal use of septic systems. It is estimated by the 1950's more than 10,000 people swelled the local population in the summer, providing a considerable economic boost to the towns. The seasonal residents paid local property taxes and brought their purchasing power to the area without drawing heavily on town services for either educational, recreational or other needs. However, increasingly in recent years more and more year-round residents have been replacing seasonal occupants, and there has been marked growth in the general population as well.
A look at the growth in the stable population the five comminutes helps to illustrate the expanding growth:
With the exception of Danbury, which was at the time the foremost hat making city in the country and was established as the trading center of the area, it can be noted that the populations of the other towns decreased from 1900 to 1930. Recalling that Candlewood Lake came into being just before 1930, this decade can be observed as the turning point, and for the following three decades there were gradual but substantial increases in the population of each town. It is also in this period that the influx of summer lake residents more than doubled the 1950 population of the area, without counting Danbury population. The decade from 1960 to 1970 exhibited the most dramatic increase in stable population with New Fairfield more than doubling its size and New Milford and Sherman approaching similar growth and Brookfield on its way to tripling its population. During this decade, Danbury increased about 25%, a percentage closer to the 20% increase for the entire state of Connecticut for this period.
In this decade of burgeoning growth and increase of year-round residents, it became necessary to ponder what effect these changes were having on the environmental well being of Candlewood Lake. Recreational use was becoming so significant that many newcomers were only vaguely aware of its primary purpose as a pumped storage reservoir for hydroelectric power. On busy weekends, as many as 3,500 to 4,000 boats, with powered boats in the large majority, used the lake, being serviced by seven marinas, which pump gasoline and oil from lakeside docks. Fortunately gas and oil skim on the surface of the water still seem to b fairly minimal. However, during the ten-year period from 1960-70, there was visible increase in algae growth in the lake. In earlier years, minor amounts of algae were observed in late August climaxing the warm summer months and active recreational use of the lake, but it started to appear earlier in the season in widely scattered sections of the lake.
In the natural balance of lake ecology, fish feed on the tiny plant algae and animal plankton. When the fish die and sink the bottom, micro-organisms reduce the remains into basic elements to be recycled as nutrients, consuming oxygen from the water in the process, and these nutrients begin to accumulate in the lower levels. In a thermally stratified lake such as Candlewood, there is no circulatory exchange between the warmer upper waters and the cooler lower waters in the summer. However, in the fall when the warmer water above the thermocline cools, and the water temperatures become uniform throughout the entire water column, the water of the whole lake can circulate and mix. Thorough mixing is assured before the lake freezes over in the winter because when the temperature of the surface water decreases to 4C., the densest temperature for water, the upper water will move downward, causing complete oxygenation of the lower depths. In the spring, there is similar mixing when the surface water again reaches 4C., and the two strata are at the same temperature, before resuming summer stratification. This is a beneficial process because the upper waters can oxygenate the deeper waters, which become oxygen deficient in the summer months. However, the basic elements released from sediment particles undergoing bacterial mineralization at the lake bottom will be carried up in the overturning water. The end products of bacterial mineralization are the nutrients, which promote algal growth the following summer. Then the plant plankton are nourished by these nutrients and produce replacement oxygen for the water. Animal plankton feed on plant plankton, and the minute animals and plants again become food supply for fish. In this way, the cycle of teeming life processes in the water is balanced and perpetuated.
The delicate interrelationships of these organisms are readily disrupted when the water is oversupplied with nutrients. Algal growth is stimulated by the presence of nitrogen and phosphorus in ratios varying from 7/1 to 14/1. Massive algal production and die-offs seriously deplete the oxygen essential to fish life, and accelerate the aging, or dying, process of the lake called eutrophication. Although algae are not harmful to human life, they have an offensive appearance in addition to being associated with eutrophication.
By the late 1960's some alarmed authorities were predicting that in five to twenty years Candlewood Lake might be clogged with algae and face certain doom. There is little doubt that the increase of algae is the green warning signal of a pollution problem, but what is the solution? Although the power company owns the lake, it does not have control over its water. The company functions as a public utility, not a regulatory body, and jurisdiction over water quality is the responsibility of local and state officials. More or less periodic but rather haphazard testing for coliform count was being carried out by the various town and the Danbury News-Times during the summer months, but more comprehensive testing is indicated to determine the biological activity of the lake. When the lake is involved, the governmental structure encompasses the relationships of five communities, regional interests and a number of state and federal agencies. The orderly exchange of information about testing an other matters is cumbersome, but very important.
The difficulty of five localities, each with partial jurisdiction over the lake, to reach unanimous agreement on regulations became obvious in 1964. An ordinance to prohibit boats with on-board toilets was passed by the towns of Brookfield, New Fairfield, New Milford and Sherman, but Danbury altered the ordinance to allow boats with operable toilets if they had holding tanks in Danbury's part of the lake. The lack of uniformity in the regulation made it an unwieldy ordinance to enforce.
Fairly or not, many people were beginning to wonder if the cleanliness of the water was being taken for granted simply because there was no direct discharge of industrial pollutants into the lake, and others blamed the untreated water being pumped into the lake from the Housatonic River. On the other had, more and more alert officials and citizens were becoming mindful that pollution is usually caused by various human activities close to home. The general concern about changes in the biological activity of the lake prompted a thorough analysis of the lake's plant nutrient budget conducted by the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station from August 1968 to July 1969.
Extensive sampling showed that the water leaving the lake for power generation contained fewer nutrients (mean concentration 0.017 parts per million phosphorus and 0.347 ppm. nitrogen) than the water in the Housatonic River (mean concentration 0.066 ppm. phosphorus and 0.550 ppm. nitrogen.) The budget data indicated that nutrient sources in the watershed slightly exceeded those in the water pumped into the lake from the Housatonic, and that the lake was retaining an estimated 68% of the phosphorus and 51% of the nitrogen entering from all sources. It was implied that the lake sediments were absorbing the incoming nutrients, and in this way helping to maintain low concentrations of phosphorus and nitrogen in the overlying waters. Calculations also verified that the short supply of phosphorus, rather than nitrogen, was the nutrient limiting the growth of algae.
In 1959, the State Board of Fisheries and Game listed Candlewood Lake as average in fertility and in the production of plankton and bottom fauna, but the 1969 nutrient budget was the first and remains the only one ever calculated for the lake. Therefore, it was not possible to determine if changes in fertility had occurred since its impoundment. Candlewood's 40-year record was noted as distinctly more favorable than two other impounded lakes in the Housatonic River basin. Lake Zoar, created in 1919 when the Stevenson dam was built, and Lake Lillinonah, created by the Shepaug dam in 1955, both became eutrophic shortly after impoundment. In my opinion, this is not surprising. Zoar and Lillinonah both continuously receive the flowing water of the Housatonic, and have an enormously larger nutrient input from this source. There is always a greater land-water interchange in moving water, and the fast movement of the river current retains suspended particles. When the flow is interrupted by the lakes, the particles, including nutrients, are deposited as a feast for the algae. For instance, Zoar has an estimated annual nutrient load of 3,380 lbs. of nitrogen per acre of lake surface and 330 lbs. of phosphorus, and Candlewood luckily has only 24 lbs. Of nitrogen and 2 lbs. of phosphorus.
The good news of the 1969 nutrient budget was tempered with the warning that at some point not as yet scientifically predictable the capacity of the lake sediments to absorb the incoming nutrients might be exceeded. In other words, the sediments cannot be considered a permanent nutrient trap. In fact, the ability of the sediments on the bottom of the lake to hold excess nutrients has never been satisfactorily explained. However, the lake bottom has before caused things to happen that have never been well understood. For instance, in the fall of 1965, residents saw some startling examples of what lurks when large sections peeled away from the bottom and rose as floating islands. The masses of "sailing" muck were embedded with stumps and root systems left when the was cleared of trees in 1928. The biggest island was 300 feet long, and four other were about 100 feet long and 3 to 4 feet thick. This extraordinary occurrence may have been caused by decreases in water pressure due to an unusual lowering of the lake. Earlier that fall it was necessary for the power company to lower the lake approximately 7 to 8 feet in order to replace part of the penstock. Ordinarily the level of the lake does not fluctuate a great deal although it is always lower in the fall. The soggy islands were an upheaval no one had bargained for! There is still much that is unknown about sediment chemistry and reactions to changes in pressure.
In the summer of 1973, a graphic example illustrated how readily changes in land and water use can contaminate the lake. Over the strong objections of local residents, the State Board of Fisheries and Game in 1971 constructed a boat launching area for unlimited public use in Lattins Landing, a cove located in the Danbury area of the lake. The ramp is large enough for three cars to use at once, and there is a graded parking lot for 150 cars and boat trailers. In the summer of 1973, the coliform count shot up to 2,400 per 100 milliliters, and the cove had to be closed for swimming for most of the summer. Whenever the coliform count reaches 1,000/100ml., water is considered unsafe for swimming, and the count is usually much below 500/100ml. within swimming areas on the lake and less than 100/100ml. in open water. In the opinion of many of the residents, the launching site and parking area had changed the elevation and counters of the ground causing an increased runoff from septic systems, and local health officials also located 8 malfunctioning septic systems. In addition, the facility had been conceived without sufficient attention to the effect of increased traffic in the small cove with as many as 238 boats being launched on weekends. The interrelated causes of pollution in Lattins Landing were a true example of Barry Commoner's three laws of ecology: 1. Everything is connected with everything else. 2. Everything goes somewhere. 3. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
As the decade of the 1930's turned the corner from decreasing to increasing local population, so it might be said that th 1970's mark increased awareness and action for environmental protection. To insure the sound ecologic and environmental use, care and development of the lake, the Candlewood Lake Authority was formed early in 1972. The Authority is composed of three unsalaried representatives from each of he five communities and acts as the channel for local, state and federal agencies. One of its first accomplishments is the centrally located Sand Island Project, which serves as a communications center and sanitary facility for boaters and swimmers, as well as an area for public recreation. In addition to maintaining safety on the lake through police patrol, the Authority conducts a continuous program of water testing to monitor coliform counts in all area of the lake. In 1974 it alerted all lakeshore dwellers to the hazards of defective septic systems, and urged their cooperation for the preservation of water quality.
The most immediate success of this fledgling agency is its authoritative presence on the lake not just as the keeper of law and order, but as a spur to prod public awareness of pollution problems and the necessary safeguards. Although the naked eye is not a very accurate testing device, the lake appears visually cleaner and freer of algae growth in recent summers than it did in the late 1960's. Hopefully a more scientific appraisal will come from the proposal of the Environmental Sciences Department of Western Connecticut State College to undertake a study of the physical, chemical and biological properties of the lake during 1976. This will be excellent research training for its students and a valuable service to the communities.
The Sand Island Project is also a testing ground for future recreation centers on the lake, and for this reason it is being observed by the power company. The Federal Power Commission encourages companies to provide access for recreation on their impoundments. In connection with its application to the Federal Poser Commission, the power company submitted in 1970 a plan for 13 new recreation sites on the lake, but the U. S. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation favored implementation of a state plan to accommodate 15,000 swimmers, campsites for 400, picnic areas for 500 and boat launching ramps in each town, to make the lake accessible to residents of New York, Waterbury, Harford, New Haven and other cities. Public uproar from area residents caused these extensive plans to be dropped in 1972, but it is still recognized that some increase in recreational facilities should be planned in a logical manner.
Both the Candlewood Lake Authority and the Housatonic Valley Council of Elected Officials are giving consideration to the lake as a possible future source of potable water. In 1972, the Authority in collaboration with Danbury officials attempted to initiate state legislation designating the lake as a reservoir with certain unique provisions for its use.


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As we enter the Christmas of 2009, many of us are looking for the future in 2010, and hoping that that future includes safe, long lasting weight loss. With the new health care bill looming, expect options which are currently available to the morbidly obese to undergo scrutiny as to return on investment, and effects on long term health care expenditutes.
In Nature this month, a review article on they types of bariatric surgery and thier outcomes was published. Three methods were compared, open and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, and laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding.
The results of the first longitudinal clinical trial were recently pulished in the New England Journal of Medicine. The Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS) consortium have published the results of their first study, LABS-1, which indicate that the overall risk of adverse outcomes of bariatric surgical procedures is low and contingent on patient characteristics.
The article reports the following: "Roux-en-Y gastric bypass involves the creation of a small upper stomach pouch and its attachment to the jejunum, which results in bypass of the rest of the stomach and the duodenum. This bypass leads to weight loss by restriction of food intake, as well as through a variety of poorly understood neurohormonal changes that enhance satiety. During the procedure of laparoscopic gastric banding, a small stomach pouch is generated by placement of an adjustable band around the upper stomach. Weight loss predominantly occurs as a result of restricted food intake, although neurohormonal changes that enhance satiety can also occur with this procedure. The LABS-1 investigators found that the 30-day composite end point of death, major thrombotic complication, reintervention and prolonged hospitalization was 1.0% for laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, 4.8% for laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, and 7.8% for open Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery".
The study did not measure the effectiveness of the surgeries, nor long-term sucess in terms of durable weight loss.
There are many places in Alabama to have this surgery. Alabama Weight Loss Surgery is one of the few that has been designated a "Center of Excellence" (COE) by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery and the Surgical Review Cooperation. This highly prized designation is based on their program components, excellent outcomes, and safety, as well as a site visit to validate the program's data.


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Naomi Watts has a baby on board in addition to Bags on Board when taking her two cute pups for a jaunt in Soho over the weekend. Ned (the Cocker Spaniel) and Bob (the Yorkie) look pretty chill so the one-handed technique seems to be working well for this walkie.
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I don't know how we could do this but I imagine we will need help from a mod.
I'd like to supply one shot of a specific size (large file) and have everyone edit it for content to demonstrate artistic abilities or "an eye" for content.
No holds barred but final image size cannot be any larger than 290 pixels wide.
Can a mod help us set this up? I have a specific photo in mind which I had one heck of a time editing and would love to see if anyone else can do better.
We would have to keep a log of what steps were taken in Photoshop to get the final result. Maybe we can all learn something here?
Any takers?
Korkus? you there?
Just so we are all working with the same tools. Apples to apples sort of thing. Its the best way to determine how much is talent and how much is the photo itself.
However, if you want to use something else which clearly gets better results ... go for it! But you must divulge the tool used.
Kind regards, Liane
Cheers Richard
People are always looking at expressing their artistic talents, and getting them out there for people to view. I think it's a GREAT idea! I'm in!
... Korkus?
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I am warm to the idea, but let me consider this and run it by legal next week.
There is a strong previous history to this that we have to consider. We tried this in 2000 and flopped badly when several of the photos turned out to be copyrighted graphics.
Cheers Brett
You might want have the original authors provide a downloadable source file for proof of authenticity. No proof, no submit?
Just a thought.
I am suggesting that we investigate who can best manipulate the photo using Photoshop (or maybe other programmes) to see who has the best technique for making an otherwise poor shot into a very useable image. Composition will also be a key factor.
I have no problem with everyone using this photo and will happily provide a release. If everyone who participates also provides a release, what's the harm?
I may be missing your point though, can you clarify?
But aren't all the weekly Gizmo Quiz images someone else's property?
The point was to overcome the problems and make an otherwise unusable photo ... useable.
There are oftentimes that you can't go back and get that same shot again, so was trying to use a shot which could be saved if you are a wizard with PhotoShop if not a camera!.
But ...
So what now then? Brett would you be able to supply Liane a suitable photo to use?
If we purchase a royalty free image from stock I don't think it'll have as much potential or indeed be as challenging as the one Liane describes?
How about if Liane agrees in writing here, that said image is to be freely available for use for by anyone, for any purpose, anytime now or in the future. Would that be enough?
I'm guessing the answer would be negative?
What about if we all do it & post it outside of here so that the site doesn't take any grief legally-although it would be great for anyone as far as a learning process.......


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➡ I spent the past weekend at Calssara's in Ludwigshafen! On Saturday we attended Ring*Con 2012 in Bonn. Ring*Con is the biggest fantasy convention in Europe. They have plenty of guests every year. This year they had - sort of - focused on actors from the series Game of Thrones which I love... so I absolutely had to go there. We watched the panels of Miltos Yeromelou who plays Sirio Forel and Iain Glen who plays Ser Jorah Mormont in the series. We also watched a panel about the special effects of Game of Thrones which was really interesting.
Besides that we saw Finn Jones (Ser Loras Tyrell), Natalia Tena (Osha/Tonks [HP]), Joe Dempsie (Gendry) and Sean Astin (Samwise Gamgee [LotR]) and Billy Boyd (Peregrin Took [LotR]).
I also got an autograph of Jason Momoa (Khal Drogo) and look what he wrote! "Moon of my life"! That's so cool! I'm also really happy about the way the picture with Iain Glen turned out! Ser Jorah is one of my favourite characters of the series and I was so excited to get a picture with him in my Daenerys costume! This was one of my highlights of the day! You can see a couple of pictures Bell took right HERE!
➡ As some of you might already know I will also attend MCM Expo in London in a couple of weeks! I'll arrive in London on Thursday and will do a little bit of sightseeing and shopping with a friend who'll go with me. I'm looking forward to seeing London again. It's such a beautiful city and I wish I could live there for a few months again.
Costume-vise I'm not 100% sure what to bring yet. Here's a rough draft of my costume schedule:
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Saturday: Daenerys Targaryen [Qarth] from Game of Thrones
Sunday: The Spoiler [Stephanie Brown] from DC's Detective Comics
I'm currently working on Belle's blue dress from Disney's The Beauty and the Beast. In case that I'm able to finish it in time I'll most likely bring this costume to MCM Expo as well and wear it on Friday. What do you think?
Besides that is anybody else planning to go to MCM Expo? Let me know! I'd love to meet up with you!
➡ And just in case you haven't seen it yet: Please take a look at my first official video interview with CosLive TV I gave at GenkiCon 2012 in Denmark in August! Thanks a lot for having me! ♥


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In an effort to keep pace with the growing number of free or low-cost desktop productivity tools available online, Microsoft said Monday that it plans to introduce a Web-based version of its Microsoft Office suite that consumers can use at no cost.
Office Web, as the offering is called, will be part of the Microsoft Office 2010 release, which is slated for the first half of next year. "It's going to be a great way for people to get their hands on these applications," said Chris Capossela, senior VP for Microsoft's Business unit, in an interview.
The free, online products will include the Office word processing application, the Excel spreadsheet, PowerPoint presentation software, and OneNote message pad. They'll be available directly through Microsoft's Windows Live portal and launch directly within a user's browser.
The move allows Microsoft to protect its flank from Web-based software from Google and from free, open source-based offerings, such as IBM's Lotus Symphony product.
Capossela said he doesn't believe Office Web will cannibalize the desktop version of Office, sales of which to consumers were down 30 percent in Microsoft's most recent quarter. "We haven't taken the approach where the Web apps are a duplication of the client apps," said Capossela. "We try to make them incredibly good for the device you are using," he added.
For instance, the Office Web version of PowerPoint will not contain the desktop version's high-performance video editing tools. "If you use Office on your PC, you're going to want to take full advantage of what your PC can do," said Capossela. The Web apps on the other hand will offer some features that won't be found on the desktop versions, such as the ability to embed tags into documents and post them on blogs.
Microsoft also announced that businesses that purchase volume subscriptions to Office will receive access to the Office Web apps at no additional charge.
Microsoft has about 90 million such customers. It also has roughly 400 million Windows Live users. "There will be almost a half-billion users who will have access to Office Web at launch," said Capossela.
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