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I recieved a dining table ,2 leaves and 6 windsor chairs from a friend cleaning out a foreclosure home. Gotta love FREE. Now im sanding off the badly applied glossy black paint the PO used. It has the look of butcher block but im fairly cretain that its some rubberwood type thing as its made in malaysia.( Do they make Maple products there?) Would it be easier and more durable to use a dark penetrating oil and wax to finish? or gel stain and poly? What finish would be be more resistant to water rings? I do have small children. |
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probably a gel stain and poly. Wax is not really a protective finish. |
I did two tables recently, one with Behlen Rockhard Table Top Finish and one with Minwax polyurethane. The Rockhard took a while to dry thoroughly but it's so tough now it makes the Minwax seem delicate by comparison. The Rockhard is a phenolic (think Bakelite). For the chairs--and possibly the table skirt and legs--consider a polyurethane-based gel topcoat (e.g., from General Finishes). Doesn't run. Tough enough for these surfaces and much, much easier to control on vertical surfaces than brushing varnish. |
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Separate filing fees are not chargeable for petitions filed in a probate proceeding for the removal of an executor, administrator or guardian; for the probate of a later will, or by a surety citing the administrator or guardian in such proceeding.
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November 18, 1957
Honorable Hewitt A. HenryProsecuting AttorneyThurston County Court HouseOlympia, Washington Cite as: AGO 57-58 No. 133
Attention: Mr. Harold R. Koch, Deputy
Dear Sir:
We acknowledge receipt of your letter requesting our opinion on whether separate fees are due in probate proceedings in the following cases:
(1) Where a petition is filed for the removal of an executrix?
(2) Where a second or subsequent will is filed in an administration proceeding?
(3) Where a petition is filed for removal of a guardian?
(4) When a petition is filed for removal of an administrator, resulting in the appointment of a new administrator other than petitioner?
(5) When a bonding company, as surety, cites an administrator or guardian, as principal, into court in a probate proceeding in which such administrator or guardian is acting?
[[Orig. Op. Page 2]]
We answer each of your questions in the negative.
RCW 36.18.020 provides in part:
"Clerks of superior courts shall collect the following fees for their official services: . . .
"In probate proceedings, the party instituting such proceedings shall pay, at the time of the filing of the first paper therein, a fee of six dollars; upon the filing of a petition for the sale of real estate, there shall be paid at the time of filing such petition a fee of three dollars; upon the filing of a final account in the settlement of the decedent's estate, there shall be paid a fee of six dollars; for filing any petition to contest a will admitted to probate, there shall be paid a fee of twenty-five dollars;"
We answer your specific questions separately as follows:
(1) Provisions for the revocation of letters are provided in RCW 11.28.250. No fees are specified in this section, nor are any specified for such proceedings in RCW 36.18.020. Since the right to collect a fee is of statutory creation (see 1915-16 AGO 277 [[to Bureau of Inspection and Supervision of Public Offices on April 7, 1916]]), and none is specified, we conclude that no appearance fee is required of any person petitioning for the removal of an executor or administrator in probate matters. This office has previously ruled that such a proceeding is part of the original probate proceeding involving the estate of a particular decedent, and merely involves the power of the court to act, in the interests of the estate, through its own duly appointed officers. (See 1911-12 AGO 66 [[to Bureau of Inspection of Public Offices on May 17, 1911; 1911-12 AGO 126 to Bureau of Inspection of Public Offices on August 23, 1911]]126; 1927-28 AGO 188 [[to C. W. Clausen, Supervisor of Municipal Corporations on August 30, 1927]]; 1951-52 AGO 127b [[Opinion No. 51-53-344 to Lawrence Hickman, Prosecuting Attorney, Whitman County on July 8, 1952]].)
(2) InIn re Campbell's Estate, 46 Wn. (2d) 292, among the legal principles which the court announced as being well established were these (p. 295):
"(2) The offer of the later will does not constitute a contest of a prior will, within the meaning of our probate code.
"(3) A court of probate has inherent authority at any time, while an estate is still open, to admit to probate a later will than that being probated."
[[Orig. Op. Page 3]]
Since the offer for probate of a later will does not constitute a will contest, no fees are chargeable under RCW 36.18.020. Our statute, RCW 11.28.150, specifically provides for the granting of letters testamentary upon the finding of a will following the appointment of an administrator. We see no different situation in the finding of a later will and conclude that no separate fee is chargeable for the filing of a second or subsequent will for probate. The primary consideration is the decedent's estate, and the disposition he seeks to make of his estate.
(3) Having concluded that no appearance fee is required for petitions for removal of executors or administrators, and since we have held (1915-16 AGO 197 [[to Bureau of Inspection and Supervision of Public Offices on December 30, 1915]]) that like fees are chargeable in the administration of guardianships and 197) that like fees are chargeable in the administration of guardianships and decedents' estates, it follows that no appearance fee would be required for petitions for removal of guardians.
(4) Although our statute (RCW 11.28.120) gives certain preferential rights to next of kin, this preferred right is not absolute. In re St. Martin's Estate, 175 Wash. 285. The court having acquired jurisdiction of the estate may appoint any suitable person as administrator. In re Leith's Estate, 42 Wn. (2d) 223. Consequently, no different situation is presented for charging an additional fee merely because, on a petition for the removal of an administrator, the court not only removes the administrator but also refuses to appoint the person nominated in the petition for removal, and appoints a third person. Cf.In re Wood's Estate, 3 Wn. (2d) 308; In re Elliott's Estate, 22 Wn. (2d) 334;In re Borman' Estate, 150 Wash. Dec. 750 [[50 Wn. 2d 791]]. In the final analysis, the administrator is a court appointed officer, acting under court supervision, in the administration of a decedent's estate in a manner designed to effectuate its best interests. In re Peterson's Estate, 12 Wn. (2d) 686.
(5) Although there is a distinction between the position of the surety on an administrator's and a guardian's bond ‑ the administrator's appointment not being void for failure to file bond (Moe v. Judd, 121 Wash. 14), whereas on filing of bond the surety becomes a party to the guardianship proceedings (In re Kelley, 193 Wash. 109) ‑ we find no difference in their right, as an interested party liable for the defalcation of their principal, to cite the principal for any reason connected with the probate proceeding without payment of an appearance fee.
In the final analysis, in all the instances cited we are dealing with a single estate, and matters pertaining to its proper administration. It is the right of the decedent to have his will carried out, or his estate disposed of as by [[Orig. Op. Page 4]] law provided, which is paramount. As has been pointed out, these are all part of the same proceeding, and in the absence of any statutory provision requiring a fee, none is chargeable.
Very truly yours,
JOHN J. O'CONNELLAttorney General
MITCHELL DOUMITAssistant Attorney General

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Bridal Tea House Hotel Tai Kok Tsui Anchor Street
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- Location:Kowloon Peninsula
- Address:No.8 Tai Kok Tsui Anchor Street, Yau Tsim Mong, Hong Kong
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Opened in 2007, the Bridal Tea House Hotel Tai Kok Tsui Anchor Street is located in the Yau Tsim Mong in Kowloon, surrounded by restaurants. It is 8km away from the city center and 23km away from the Hong Kong International Airport.
The Bridal Tea House Hotel Tai Kok Tsui Anchor Street has a total of 49 guest rooms. All are provided with free broadband internet access, hair dryer and refrigerator.
As for dining, there is a western restaurant, a bar and a cafe in the hotel. Other facilities include wireless internet area and meeting room, etc.
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- Address:No.8 Tai Kok Tsui Anchor Street, Yau Tsim Mong, Hong Kong
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Levin,Apr.09, 2012
Great location, nice and clean room. Very small, like being in a large closet. The bathroom was large though. No place to store your luggage. No dresser or drawers. Mini fridge not cool. Room A/C really controlled by front desk. Very nice staff. Price was right!
Edrtyu\,Mar.08, 2012
Arrived at 10pm on the first day I checked in. The staff was organized and expecting my arrival. The check-in process was fast. Hotel is in 10~15 min walk to all the shopping street (Sports Shoe Street (Fa Yuen Street), Women's Street (Tung Choi Street), Goldfish Street (Tung Choi Street), Flower Market and Bird's Market) around Mong Kok area. The room is really small. The internet cable was not offered up front. We went down again to get the cable as well as the password. The internet connection was free, which was not normally offered by other hotels without a charge.
Shah,Mar.05, 2012
Can't complain too much on the price around on this chain hotel, still having their price-quality at this stage. Although the room is small, but it is cozy and comfy, the most important thing is, it is pretty clean. Near to Mongkok and Olympic MTR. If taking public bus E21 from the Airport, the walking distance to the hotel is shorter than taking the Airport Shuttle which you have to alight at Olympic Stn.
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posted by: aokat15 on 06.25.2011 at 12:45 pm in Kitchens Forum So very long story short - we've had some issues getting our house reno done and it's been a very slow process since we moved into our house in February. Today our electrician is putting up our light fixtures (we've had temporary bulbs in the house for months) and I almost started to cry when I saw the pendant lights begin to be put in!! I've had my fixtures bought, paid for, but stuck in boxes since early March. Anyway, just wanted to share as it couldn't feel better to have some of the details finally get wrapped up. After fixtures will be backsplash and then I'll be posting some pics :) Thanks so much to everyone and for just being a place I can come to and know that we're not alone in what has turned out to be a very stressful and emotionally taxing process.
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depends where you are. In many areas, roaches are the biggie, esp. in crowded areas. In really old buildings, there might be mice (I had both in my NYC prewar rental apt, but only roaches, and that very rare, in my NYC co-op) Otherwise, really no different kinds of pest than you'd have to watch out for in a house--ants, etc. NYC has bed bugs lately, but you pick them up in weird places, usually hotels. |
I was worried about that before we moved into this apt., because I had been living in a house. So before we moved in I used the bug bomb; roach motel and put out rat poison. This place had new carpeting; new kitchen flooring and was freshly painted and professionally cleaned. I didn't ever get any bugs in the traps or laying down with their little feet up in the air. I take my garbage out every nite; don't leave dirty dishes in the sink, or cookies out. Yet other people in this building complain about bugs. But I went into somebody's kitchen and they had a paper bag for the trash (no can) and it was overflowing with shrimp shells at 10am. They complained the bugs were terrible. I guess bugs know where to go for dinner. Talley is right about the bed bugs, the Wall Street Journal said even the fanciest hotels have that problem. |
Is there a law where you live about places needing to be funigated every 6 months or something like that? I know there is where I live. Here if they don't fumigate at the regular interval the town sends someone out and does it and the building owner has to pay the bill. Also we can go and look up when the last fumigation was and if there were any problems with certain pests etc. Just a thought to look into. |
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Eddie the fat cat has dropped two pounds on strict diet
Like most celebrities, Eddie loves a good belly rub.
In his case, there's a lot of belly to rub because Eddie has waddled into the spotlight as this city's most famous fat cat.
The obese nine-year-old domestic, short-haired, grey-brown tabby is the star patient in a unique weight-loss experiment at Tuxedo Animal Hospital on Corydon Avenue.
He was loaned to the Tuxedo clinic last month by Quagga Stray Cat Rescue on St. Mary's Road in St. Vital as part of the Free Press Fit Pet Project, a once-a-month series on the growing epidemic of obese pets.
The clinic's mission was to see how much weight a house cat could safely lose in a controlled environment in a single month, then use the lessons it learned to help other feline clients shed pounds in a healthy manner.
Since the Free Press began chronicling Eddie's weight-loss journey in the Fit Pet Project, the tubby tabby has dropped a few pounds and gained legions of fans.
Veterinarians at the Tuxedo clinic noted Eddie the Fat Cat's journey has been featured in local TV news segments and calls have been pouring in from Canadian cat lovers interested in adopting the portly pussy.
"There have been several calls from out of province about Eddie's availability, but the shelter (Quagga) would like to keep him close by to not totally lose touch with him," says Dr. Jonas Watson, an associate vet at the clinic.
Eddie's newfound fame has even led to kind-hearted passersby dropping in just to spend a few minutes stroking the clinic's star attraction, who has a cosy home in the physiotherapy/acupuncture room.
"People come in just to visit him," Watson says, scratching Eddie's bountiful belly. "Just people who have heard of him. They'll go into the sunroom and spend time with him."
A sign on the sunroom door urges visitors to talk to the front desk if they're interested in meeting the famously fat cat. "Belly rubs are always welcomed," the sign purrs. "Meow."
On a recent weekend, an elderly man stopped by simply to see how Eddie's quest for a slimmer waistline was going. He spent several minutes petting his new feline friend. On his way out, even a hardened journalist became misty-eyed when the gentleman quietly declared: "I love you, Eddie."
The unexpected outpouring of affection has definitely touched the heart of Dr. Pat Dorval, a partner at the clinic. "I'm not completely surprised, because he's so adorable," Dorval says as Eddie puttered around. "But people coming in off the street just to visit with him is a bit of a surprise."
When we first met Eddie, he tipped the scales at a whopping 10.4 kilograms (23 pounds), while the ideal weight for a typical tabby is closer to 6.6 kg (14 lbs). By Day 4 of the experiment, he was off to a hot start, dropping 170 grams.
At the one-month mark, April 14, Eddie had lost one kilogram (just over 2 lbs), weighing in at 9.4 kg.
"It's excellent," Dr. Dorval says. "Usually the goal is about half a pound a month and we got four times that amount. That's because he had so much to lose at the start. If they have a lot of weight to lose, it'll come off fast at the beginning."
"After two weeks, he started to plateau and stop losing weight. After that went on for a week, we dropped him down from 204 calories (13/4 cans of wet cat food) to 175 calories (11/2 cans) per day. Then he started to lose weight again."
The clinic is taking great care to ensure the patient doesn't lose weight too fast, because rapid weight loss can lead to serious liver damage in cats. In smaller animals, even shedding a few pounds is a big deal. "Two pounds is like 10 per cent of Eddie's body weight," Dorval says. "It's like a 180-pound man losing 18 pounds."
Eddie's makeover involved a change in diet and increased activity. He was placed on a prescription metabolic food (Hill's Science Diet) high in soluble fibre and protein, but low in calories.
His exercise program involved prowling around the clinic and even the occasional stint on a balance board. "I think they (the staff) were working out his core," Dr. Watson quips. "I don't think he really enjoyed it, but I hate doing a plank, too."
As the experiment ended, Eddie still had a ways to go, but he's already a new cat in many ways. "He seems to like moving around more," Dorval says. "He's more active now and his coat looks much nicer, too. He's smoother."
The best news: Eddie will be staying at the clinic until a permanent adoptive home is found. If you're interested, call Quagga Stray Cat Rescue at 204-237-1958.
"Successful weight loss is achievable in a cat," Dorval says. "Some people may not realize that. It was quite simple -- we measured the amount of food he should have and stuck to it.
"Even the biggest and fattest cats can lose weight in a healthy way if you feed them the right food and right amount and you stick to it. It disproves the idea you can't get them to lose weight."
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition April 22, 2014 D5
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The VU Department of Geography and Meteorology offers a comprehensive undergraduate program leading to a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in meteorology. Enrollment in the meteorology program has doubled in the last five years to approximately 110 students, making it one of the largest in the country. Students from our program go on to attend the nation's top graduate programs and are employed by various public and private sector firms and broadcast stations. A large number of our students have received NASA summer fellowships, National Science Foundation, American Meteorological Society and university undergraduate and graduate fellowships.
Valparaiso's location offers a wide variety of interesting and challenging weather, from lake-effect snows to severe convective storms. The Department maintains the VU Weather Center, a state-of-the-art laboratory where students gain "hands-on" experience and provide weather information and forecasts for Northwest Indiana. This facility has an excellent array of meteorological equipment, including a 55-foot instrumented tower, UNIDATA McIDAS and GEMPAK data retrieval and display systems, Meteorologix and WeatherTap NWS Doppler radar, satellite and data feeds, as well as portable sensors and computers.
Extracurricular experiences are important components of the meteorology program at VU. Our popular 10-day severe storm field study trips to the Southern Plains are an integral part of the educational experience for meteorology students. The Department has established an excellent relationship with the National Weather Service (NWS). Our program has placed students in internships at NWS offices in Indianapolis, Louisville, South Bend, and St. Louis. Paid co-ops have been established with the Climate Analysis Center and Techniques Development Laboratory in Washington, D.C. and the NWS Forecast Office in Romeoville (Chicago), IL. Internships are also established with a regional educational channel, WGN-TV in Chicago, and other broadcast stations. Students may also work for the campus radio station, WVUR, or the campus cable station, VUTV. These positions provide students with valuable experience as well as opportunities for post-graduate employment.
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Glasses are lined neatly one after the other, grouped together by pattern. Wine glasses, champagne flutes, goblets, tumblers — some colored, cut or etched — fill the cabinets that line all of the walls of The Glass Urn in Mesa.
For Fran McClendon, it's time to think about retiring, but before she does she has an entire store and a life's work to liquidate.
McClendon owns the antique shop that specializes in American glassware and china, and moved to Mesa in 1983 after first opening in Phoenix in 1979.
"I'm downsizing," she said. "I want to do things and I know I can't hold on to everything."
To do that, she is planning on holding a weekly patio sale every Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The first of her Fridays will be Black Friday, or Nov. 23.
The sale items will include a table for items priced below $25. Stock will be rotated and no one Friday's display will be the same as the next, she said.
McClendon, who says a lady never reveals her age, served in the Army during World War II, later joining the Air Force, spending a total 25 years in service.
"It was while I was stationed in England when I discovered glass," McClendon said. "I love the study of the glass industry and china industry."
In her office, shelves full of books detail antique glass and china. Finding and selling beautiful pieces has become her life's work.
During the war while she was stationed in Birmingham, McClendon would head on the weekends to the markets were she would see the beautiful crystal ware through the windows or during high tea at nice restaurants. It was there that she began her appreciation for the fine craftsmanship.
After returning to the U.S., getting married and moving a number of times, McClendon and her husband, Roy "Mac" McClendon, moved to Phoenix. They built a house in Tempe where McClendon still lives today.
"My husband enjoyed it also and he's the one who did a lot of my research," McClendon said. "We came here with 27 boxes of antiques."
Those boxes were the couple's personal collection. While McClendon collected glass and china, her husband collected nudes and paperweights.
"I got him started on nudes," said McClendon. Sometime after his death in 1984, McClendon found a nude missing from her husband's collection.
"So I bought it and put it in with his collection," she said.
And while the majority of her stock is American crystal, she does also have a selection of foreign glassware including Waterford, Swedish and German.
McClendon likes learning the stories behind the glassware, the company that made it and the technique that created it.
"Cut glass is literally where the artisan would cut the glass," she said, holding a small glass saucer. "See how the glass is so sharp, it can almost cut you?"
Then holding up a small oil lamp, she pointed to the pattern, "This is pressed glass and is made from a mold. Feel the design? The glass is almost rough."
Part of what makes McClendon so well known and respected in the antiques world is her ability to teach, said Dee Penner, a friend and antiquer who is helping Fran organize the sale.
"She has helped a lot of people," Penner said. "And I don't know one person who has ever said anything about her. She's a loved person. She's known as an educator."
McClendon's ample stock will soon be put on display, including costume jewelry, stemware, plate ware, crystal, linen, quilts, pictures, postcards and other collectables.
The one thing that you can always get a good deal on at The Glass Urn?
"I hate champagne flutes," she said. "When you drink out of them, they bump your nose."
The Glass Urn is located at 456 W. Main St., Suites G and H, Mesa. For more information, visit theglassurn.com. Regular store hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
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This Week: January 26, 2015 - February 1, 2015
Share your inner otaku by meeting other anime and manga fans while watching some of the most popular anime on Crunchyroll.
Do you have questions about how to use your Smartphone, Tablet, Laptop, E-Reader or other mobile technologies? Want to know more about Overdrive, Hoopla, or other library e-resources? Bring your device to our Open Lab and ask the expert! Vault Multi-purpose Room, Central Library. Questions? Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Looking for the perfect card to complete your deck? Stop by the plaza library and trade, then put your best deck to the test!
Oh My Teen discusses Eye of Minds by James Dashner. Oh My Teen book group is a program for teens that meets the second Tuesday of every month at the Trails West branch. Copies are available for request or checkout at the branch library.
Computers are everywhere, yet only one in 10 schools offers computer programming classes. Youth can get a taste here, joining in an encore session of Hour of Code events. Participants are encouraged to bring their own Wi-Fi-enabled devices, though Library devices are available to share. Recommended for ages 5 and older.
Teen readers discuss Attack on Titan, vol. 1 by Hajima Isayama. Graphic Fiction Readers is a book group for teens that meets on the third Tuesday of each month at the Trails West branch. Copies of the selection are available for checkout at the branch library.
Several hundred years ago, humans were nearly exterminated by giants. Giants are typically several stories tall, seem to have no intelligence and who devour human beings. A small percentage of humanity survived barricading themselves in a city protected by walls even taller than the biggest of giants.
Come enjoy some of your favorite online and board games at the Ruiz Branch on the third Friday of each month. Join your pals for a friendly game of LIFE, SORRY, Apples to Apples, or any other game in our collection. The computers will be available for online games as well.
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Bitcoin Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About the Future of Money
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The price of a bitcoin topped $900 last week, an enormous surge in value that arrived amidst Congressional hearings where top U.S. financial regulators took a surprisingly rosy view of digital currency. Just 10 months ago, a bitcoin sold for a measly $13.
The spike was big news across the globe, from Washington to Tokyo to China, and it left many asking themselves: "What the hell is a bitcoin?" It's a good question — not only for those with little understanding of the modern financial system and how it intersects with modern technology, but also for those steeped in the new internet-driven economy that has so quickly remade our world over the last 20 years.
Bitcoin is a digital currency, meaning it's money controlled and stored entirely by computers spread across the internet, and this money is finding its way to more and more people and businesses around the world. But it's much more than that, and many people — including the sharpest of internet pioneers as well as seasoned economists — are still struggling to come to terms with its many identities.
With that in mind, we give you this: an idiot's guide to bitcoin. And there's no shame in reading. Nowadays, as bitcoin is just beginning to show what it's capable of, we're all neophytes.
Bitcoin isn't just a currency, like dollars or euros or yen. It's a way of making payments, like PayPal or the Visa credit card network. It lets you hold money, but it also lets you spend it and trade it and move it from place to place, almost as cheaply and easily as you'd send an email.
As the press so often points out, Bitcoin lets you do all this without revealing your identity, a phenomenon that drove its use on The Silk Road, an online marketplace for illegal drugs. But at the same time, it's a system that operates completely in the public view. All Bitcoin transactions are recorded online for anyone to see, lending a certain transparency to the system, a transparency that can drive a new trust in the economy and subvert the anonymity sought by those on The Silk Road, which the feds shut down last month.
Bitcoin is much more than a money service for illegal operations. It's a re-imagining of international finance, something that breaks down barriers between countries and frees currency from the control of federal governments. Bitcoin is controlled by open source software that operates according to the laws of mathematics — and by the people who collectively oversee this software. The software runs on thousands of machines across the globe, but it can be changed. It's just that a majority of those overseeing the software must agree to the change.
In short, Bitcoin is kind of like the internet, but for money.
Birth of the Bitcoin
What does that mean, specifically?
About five years ago, using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, an anonymous computer programmer or group of programmers built the Bitcoin software system and released it onto the internet. This was something that was designed to run across a large network of machines — called bitcoin miners — and anyone on earth could operate one of these machines.
This distributed software seeded the new currency, creating a small number of bitcoins. Basically, bitcoins are just long digital addresses and balances, stored in an online ledger called the "blockchain." But the system was also designed so that the currency would slowly expand, and so that people would be encouraged to operate bitcoin miners and keep the system itself growing.
When the system creates new bitcoins, you see, it gives them to the miners. Miners keep track of all the bitcoin transactions and add them to the blockchain ledger, and in exchange, they get the privilege of, every so often, awarding themselves a few extra bitcoins. Right now, 25 bitcoins are paid out to the world's miners about six times per hour, but that rate changes over time.
Why do these bitcoins have value? It's pretty simple. They've evolved into something that a lot of people want — like a dollar or a yen or the cowry shells swapped for goods on the coast of Africa over 3,000 years ago — and they're in limited supply. Though the system continues to crank out bitcoins, this will stop when it reaches 21 million, which was designed to happen in about the year 2140.
The idea was to create a currency whose value couldn't be watered down by some central authority, like the Federal Reserve.
When the system quits making new money, the value of each bitcoin will necessarily rise as demand rises — it's what's called a deflationary currency — but although the supply of coins will stop expanding, it will be still be relatively easy to spend. Bitcoins can be broken into tiny pieces. Each bitcoin can be divided into one hundred million units, called Satoshis, after the currency's founder.
The Key to the System
How do you spend bitcoins? Trade them? Keep people from stealing them? Bitcoin is a math-based currency. That means that the rules that govern bitcoin's accounting are controlled by cryptography. Basically, if you own some bitcoins, you own a private cryptography key that's associated with an address on the internet that contains a balance in the public ledger. The address and the private key let you make transactions.
The internet address is something everyone can see. Think of it like a really complicated email address for online payments. Something like this: 1DTAXPKS1Sz7a5hL2Skp8bykwGaEL5JyrZ. If someone wants to send you bitcoins, they need your address.
If you want to send your bitcoins to someone else, you need your address and their address — but you also need your private cryptography key. This is an even more complicated string that you use to authorize a payment.
Using the math associated with these keys and addresses, the system's public network of peer-to-peer computers — the bitcoin miners — check every transaction that happens on the network. If the math doesn't add up, the transaction is rejected.
Crypto systems like this do get cracked, and the software behind Bitcoin could have flaws in it. But at this point, Bitcoin has been tested pretty thoroughly, and it seems to be pretty darned secure.
For the ordinary people who use this network — the people who do the buying and the selling and the transferring — managing addresses and keys can be a bit of a hassle. But there are many different types of programs — called wallets — that keep track of these numbers for you. You can install a wallet on your computer or your mobile phone, or use one that sits on a website.
With these wallets, you can easily send and receive bitcoins via the net. You can, say, buy a pizza on a site that's set up to take bitcoin payments. You can donate money to a church. You can even pay for plastic surgery. The number of online merchants accepting bitcoins grows with each passing day.
But you can also make transactions here in the real world. That's what a mobile wallet is good for. The Pink Cow, a restaurant in Tokyo, plugs into the Bitcoin system via a tablet PC sitting beside its cash register. If you want to pay for your dinner in bitcoins, you hold up your phone and scan a QR code — a kind of bar code — that pops up on the tablet.


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Paired with her dark violet lipstick, Rihanna looked like she was a gothic lady of the night. Perhaps she should be told that less isn't always mean more. Watch out Gaga, Ri Ri is coming for you!


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Farmers market tomorrow, Saturday, February 2, is at the Mt. Vernon Community Center, east end of downtown, 11:00 until 1:00. I'll have lots of eggs that I wish you would come buy. Turns out that ice storms, snow, high winds, and below zero weather make it so people don't come to the country to buy eggs. After a couple of days, they start to pile up. Charlotte will be at market, too, with her lovely bread.
Here's the bad news on cats. They are waaaay worse than we like to think. I love it when we have kitties here, but agonize over getting them all adopted to homes. Sparky, in particular, is an exceptional killer, as I suppose are her babies. The problem is that she prefers eating endangered, neotropical, migratory songbirds over mice and rats!
I want to invent a giant salad spinner, and I need an automatic washer. First, I'm looking for one that still spins. Secondarily, it would be nice if it also agitates and is cleanish. And it has to be free. If you know somebody who has one to get rid of, I'll pick it up if they'll donate it to the cause of cleaner greens. I'm still not sure that I want to regularly wash greens for you. There are tradeoffs between cleanliness, workload, storage life, and food safety. But on some really muddy days, it wouldn't hurt. If I do, however, I have to get them dry. That's where the spin cycle comes in. Might work.
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Here is a remedy for everyone who is sick of the frac sand controversy. The House and Senate in St. Paul are considering legislation which would increase the Renewable Energy Standard to 40% by 2030 and establish a new statewide solar energy standard.
When Minnesota adopted a 25% by 2025 standard in 2006, we were among the national leaders in wind and solar power. Now other states have passed us by. Would you believe that Iowa already gets almost 25% of its electricity from wind, way ahead of us. This legislation would be a big step toward weaning us from our dependency on oil and gas. It would expand wind and solar power which doesnt contribute to climate change or deplete our water supply but does create thousands of well-paying, permanent jobs.
Our frac sand is used to extract gas and oil, trapping us in the old path that leads to environmental destruction and seasonal short-term jobs. Lets get off that road and move toward the future. Support the Omnibus Energy Bills, H.F. 956 and S.F. 901.


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There were ten free agent contracts handed out this past offseason that exceeded $30 million in total money. At the time, I believed that three of them were actually good or fair deals for the respective teams.
Sadly for my ego, one of those was the $51 million given to Adam Dunn by the Chicago White Sox.
All of the contracts were for multiple years, but here's how they're looking with one month remaining on the first year via FanGraphs WAR, Baseball Reference WAR and Baseball Prospectus' WARP.
- Carl Crawford, BOS: 7 years for $142 million, 0.3 fWAR, 0.0 bWAR, 0.8 WARP.
- Jayson Werth, WAS: 7 years for $126 million, 2.1 fWAR, 1.6 bWAR, 1.4 WARP.
- Cliff Lee, PHI: 5 years for $120 million, 5.2 fWAR, 5.3 bWAR, 5.6 WARP.
- Adrian Beltre, TEX: 4 years for $80 million,4.0 fWAR, 3.8 bWAR, 3.6 WARP.
- Adam Dunn, CHW: 4 years for $56 million, -2.5 fWAR, -2.4 bWAR, -2.3 WARP.
- Derek Jeter, NYY: 3 years for $51 million, 2.3 fWAR, 0.9 bWAR, 1.9 WARP.
- Victor Martinez, DET: 4 years for $50 million, 1.9 fWAR, 2.1 bWAR, 2.1 WARP.
- Paul Konerko, CHW: 3 years for $37.5 million, 3.4 fWAR, 3.9 bWAR, 3.5 WARP.
- Rafael Soriano, NYY: 3 years for $35 million, 0.1 fWAR, 0.1 bWAR, 0.0 WARP.
- Jorge de la Rosa, COL: 3 years for $32 million, 1.3 fWAR, 1.6 bWAR, 1.2 WARP.
With the exception of Lee, Beltre and possibly Konerko, none of these signings would crack the top 30 in either the American or National League when it comes to value provided to their teams. And that's in the first of multi-year contracts.
While some of these players will improve their numbers next year by regressing back up to their true talent level, all of them are past their expected peak performance, which brings up a scary possibility for the nine teams that spent a collective $629.5 million on the top free agent signings this past offseason:
There's a reason why I don't like free agent deals.


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Summer trip around Italy: from Florence to the south of Tuscany, then Rome, then to the north again, direction home: Piacenza and Faenza's rivers.
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"Timely Reminder"
I got a cross penny about two days after my Mom had passed away. I live in Montana and my Mom was fighting cancer last year from about June 2010 to January 2011. Two days after she left this earth, my sister and I drove to the town she grew up in. My Mom loved coins. Every time she would get a coin, she was all about checking the dates…especially when I was a kid and there were still hay pennies floating around. Read the rest of this entry »
These pennies have been such a blessing not only to my live but to may others who did not know the Lord. They are one of the BEST Tools for Evangelism. I will leave one as a tip with my tip in restaurants and sometimes the waiter/waitress will ask about the penny why is there a cross punched out on it. Read the rest of this entry »
"Door Openers"
Thank you so much for one of the best "door openers" for evangelizing. I carry some of the Cross Pennies in with my regular change. When I am paying for purchases I now pull out a small handful of change, and slowly count out what is needed. Often the cashier, or someone nearby, will ask what the Cross Penny is? Bingo!!! Read the rest of this entry »
"The World Looks Different When You Look Through the Cross in the Penny!"
One afternoon, I was visiting my uncle at the hospital and as I walked through the parking lot, the Lord prompted me to throw a penny in the back of a truck. I stopped and said "now Lord, people don't like you throwing stuff in the back of their truck!" Well, of course, He told me again and when the coast was clear, I threw it in the truck. Read the rest of this entry »


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How are you faring in your freezing weather? Staying warm, I hope!
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Hiya, yep, getting nippy here now. No work for jobbing gardeners so I am idling about the house getting ever so slightly out of control. My son came round and just mentioned checking out Hyde's lilies.....and before we know it, we are on the website pressing 'add to basket' (pearl lilies and some little red L.pumilum....to add to the earlier order of pink cernuum and dark NightFlyers). Then there are the dahlias - ordered orchid dahlias (Julie Jescot). Waiting on my seed orders.....in fact, I am basically twiddling my fingers while the orders stack up and the backlog of stuff to do grows mountainous. My daughter is nagging me to start a blog (despite my obvious camera failings)and my bank is sending me worrisome letters waffling on about overdraft fees. So I am spending a lot of time in limbo (and pyjamas), drinking tea, smoking furiously, eating biscuits and taking solace in snowdrops (at least the half a dozen left after last years garden overhaul). Also trying to ignore the brilliant red stems of the expensively failing acer Sango Kaku. But hey, life is still good despite the overcrowded and noisy house (I am currently on granny duty so this post will be ending any moment) and February is a short month. Thank you for the asking, Ogrose, and am sending transatlantic thoughwaves across the waters in your direction, even as I type. |
- Posted by sherryocala 9A Florida (My Page) on Tue, Feb 7, 12 at 23:24
Yes, being out in the garden is definitely a moneysaver. How long is this cold supposed to go on, Campanula? A quickie, I hope. Sherry |
Here is a link that might be useful: If only sweat were irrigation...
urk! -12C! This, in England, is bad - we are totally useless as a nation with rubbish road workings, single glazed houses and drafty doors. Still, at least I have a roof over my head, unlike the poor soul found dead in the doorway of the local church last night....and the bloody so-called christians were more concerned about the mother and baby group having to step over a body - how inconsiderate some of these homeless people are. Am signing on to help with the local soup run, ironically run by another christian group so I guess there is good and bad everywhere. |
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