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I already knew, as most people do, that Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived in South Norwood (which was part of London at the time but is now in the Borough of Croydon); but while I was researching the history of Addington Palace I came across a reference to Henry James, the author. He was friends with Archbishop Benson who was living at Addington Palace. While he was visiting his friend, Benson told him a ghost story which inspired James to write his only ghost story "Turn of The Screw". The book not only inspired the films "The Innocents" and "The Others", but it also ahead of its time because it is a psychological story. No actual horror takes place in the story; the reader only learns about the events because the children Miles and Flora tell their governess about them; which today could mean that they are mad or disturbed. It is also reported that Archbishop Benson's ghost haunts Addington Palace.
I also discovered some interesting facts about Doyle. Not only did he live in Norwood from 1891 to 1894, on Tennison Road, but he also set several of his Holmes adventures in the area including "The Adventure the Norwood Builder", which takes place in Lower Norwood (West Norwood today) and Croydon itself is mentioned in the story "The Cardboard Box", where a woman living in East Croydon has to call Holmes when she receives a box of severed ears by mistake. It is also believed that the police station which stood on the site where there is now a Natwest bank could be the police station mentioned in the story "The Sign Of Four". In fact, according to the Croydon Guardian the Sherlock Holmes character gained popularity while Doyle was living on Tennison Road. Another adventure "The Adventure of the Yellow Face" is set in Norbury, and is even advertised on the wall of Norbury station.
Doyle was a qualified doctor, but then I discovered something that I would never have associated with him. He developed an interest in the popular Victorian belief of Spiritualism and attempted to contact the dead. He also believed, absolutely, in the authenticity of the Cottingley Fairies and supported the girls who claimed to have discovered them, until they were proved to be fake; which is what destroyed his reputation.
Other famous writers associated with Croydon include D.H. Lawrence who taught at Davidson School before World War I, Cicely Mary Barker who created the Flower Fairies not only lived in Croydon but also studied at Croydon School of Art; Raymond Chandler and artist John Ruskin also lived in Croydon. Modern day writers and well known faces include Sue Perkins and Noel Fielding while fictional journalist and Dr Who Companion Sarah Jane Smith lived in Croydon (the character not the actress).
Probably the most interesting writer associated with Croydon, (for me, anyway), is the best selling author Neil Gaiman, who attended Whitgift School in Croydon. His works include Good Omens (written with the late Terry Pratchett and one of the funniest books I have read), Stardust , adapted into a Hollywood film starring Claire Danes,:one of the darkest children's books ever Coraline, and even wrote two episodes of Dr Who "The Doctor's Wife" and "Nightmare in Silver" as well as an episode of Babylon 5.
He is also set to have another TV credit to his name with the upcoming adaptation of Good Omens. If you have never read Good Omens I recommend it.


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Are your students excited about writing a letter to Santa? We always take our students to the mall to see Santa. This is when each student hand delivers the letters. I have two templates that you can use. Come on over to download your copies. They are available in English and Spanish :)
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Thank you for the great freebie! Do you really get to go the Mall?! FUN- or torture I guess if you can't shop!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
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Type of medicine: keygen
Developer: Microsoft Corporation
Language: English
Treatment: the key is present
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OS: Win7, Win8
Description: Microsoft has officially presented a preliminary version of the office suite Office 2013, which is scheduled for release this fall. The new Office Microsoft has implemented support for the operating system Windows 8, touch interfaces and cloud service SkyDrive.
Microsoft Office 2013 is closely related to cloud service SkyDrive, which automatically saves all documents. Thus, the changes made to the document on your work computer immediately displayed on the home PC and your smartphone with Windows Phone. In addition, Office 2013 will automatically sync between different computers by its settings, templates and dictionaries.
Office as a service" - with this new slogan will promote Microsoft Office 2013 as a service subscription. This means that you can not pay the full amount for an office suite, and subscribe to the payment of monthly payments to access the full Office 2013 applications on the Internet. In particular, Microsoft will offer users: Office 365 Home Premium with 20 GB of additional space in SkyDrive and 60 minutes per month Skype; Office 365 Small Business Premium with corporate email, calendars, tools for the web site, as well as video conferencing to HD-quality ; Office 365 ProPlus - package for large corporate clients with a range of tools.
In addition to general improvements and design changes, Office 2013 will receive and social component. In Microsoft introduced it in his latest purchase, a social network for business users Yammer, which allows the exchange of information within a company. Now it will be integrated into the new version of SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics. Also included in the new Office will enter service / application Skype.
The only restriction, this office suite works only with Windows 7 and Windows 8.
According to preliminary information, the release of Microsoft Office 2013 will be held this fall, will be announced at the same time and cost of the various versions of the Office suite, as well as a subscription to it.
Composition of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 Preview:
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft InfoPath
Microsoft Lync
Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft SkyDrive Pro
Microsoft Visio Viewer
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SearchWare Solutions is proud to announce the third public preview release of a Mac OS X native version of Pix Lite, their well-received QuickTime-based Media Viewer.
Functionally identical to Pix Lite 1.1 for the Classic Mac OS, Pix Lite for Mac OS X is an easy to use application for viewing various types of QuickTime compatible media such as images and movies in a wide variety of formats. Users can, in many cases, use the software as a replacement for Appleis own media-viewing applications. Pix Lite also includes powerful slideshow and movie presentation functions as well as integrated AppleScript support.
Pix Lite for Mac OS X Public Preview Release 3 is being made available for download by the public so that SearchWare Solutions can receive feedback regarding the product before its official release for Mac OS X.
WHATiS NEW IN PUBLIC PREVIEW RELEASE 3
The third release of Pix Lite for Mac OS X Public Preview makes several changes and fixes several bugs in response to feedback from users of Public Preview Release 2.
- Pictures larger than the screen size are now properly scaled to fit the screen during slide shows.
- Edit->Modify->Invert now functions properly.
- Implemented Mac OS X sheets for a few various windows as appropriate (such as the progress window for filters)
- Pix Lite for Mac OS X is now much more multi-threaded. It is now possible to perform tasks while other tasks are running (such as running a filter or rescaling a picture).
- Several internal changes to improve general Pix Lite for Mac OS X stability.
Pix Lite for OS X is available for US$15. You can find more information at the SearchWare Solutions Web site.


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Honorary Degree to be Conferred Upon Sy Sternberg, '65 EE
Five prominent physicists from leading U.S. and European universities will explore the future of their discipline at "Frontiers in Physics," a daylong symposium presented by thePhysics Department at The City College of New York (CCNY). The event, Friday, April 23, at The Harmonie Club in New York, will serve as the occasion for the conferral of an honorary doctorate on Sy Sternberg, '65 EE, former chairman and chief executive officer of New York Life Insurance Co.
The principal speakers, representing high-energy physics, condensed matter physics, quantum computing/quantum information, biophysics and astrophysics, will assess the state of their fields and near-term and mid-range prospects. "A seminar of this nature has never been done on the East Coast before," said Dr. V. Parameswaran Nair, professor and chair of physics at CCNY. The five featured speakers and their topics are:
• Dr. David Gross, Nobel Laureate (Physics 2004), Frederick W. Gluck Professor of Theoretical Physics and Director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California – Santa Barbara, "Frontiers of Particle Physics."
• Dr. Andre Geim, Langworthy Professor of Physics and Director, Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Manchester (United Kingdom), "Graphene: Magic of Flat Carbon."
• Dr. Anton Zeilinger, Professor of Physics, University of Austria, and Scientific Director, Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, "Quantum Information and the Foundation of Quantum Mechanics."
• Dr. P. Leslie Dutton, Eldridge Reeves Johnson Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, and Director, Johnson Foundation for Molecular Biophysics, "Electron Tunneling in Biology."
• Dr. Alan Guth, Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?"
"Physics had a fantastic twentieth century, and many people feel there is much to look forward to in physics," said Professor Nair. "This is a good time to take a big-picture look at where physics is headed."
The five fields covered by the speakers – high-energy physics, condensed matter physics, quantum computing / quantum information, biophysics and astrophysics – are the focus of most current research within the discipline, he noted. CCNY's Physics Department has ongoing research in each of these areas, and several professors have received international recognition for their work, Professor Nair added.
Mr. Sternberg will receive the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters in recognition of his distinguished service to The City College, The City University, New York City and the United States. CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, '63, and CCNY Interim President Robert E. Paaswell will confer the degree upon him. The ceremony honoring Mr. Sternberg will take place at 4:30 p.m., and precedes Dr. Guth's lecture at 5 p.m., which is open to the general public.
A complete schedule for the event follows:
Morning Program
9 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:30 a.m. Welcome, CCNY Interim President Robert E. Paaswell
9:50 a.m. Symposium Introduction, Professor V. Parameswaran Nair
10 a.m. Professor David Gross: High-Energy Physics
11 a.m. Professor Andre Geim: Condensed Matter Physics
12 noon Lunch
Afternoon Program
1:30 p.m. Professor Anton Zeilinger: Quantum Computing/Quantum Information
2:30 p.m. Professor Leslie Dutton: Biophysics
3:30 p.m. Reception
4:30 p.m. Presentation of Honorary Doctorate to Sy Sternberg
4:45 p.m. Speaker Introduction, Professor Michio Kaku
5 p.m. Public Lecture, Professor Alan Guth: Astrophysics
Evening Program
6:30 p.m. Dinner. Speakers: Jonathan Maltz, CCNY '08, and Alisa Agafanova, CCNY '10


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After the successful hunt, the various campers go about their business.
Sina and Rayan discuss Artorias' plans for the hunt as well as his legal attempts to save Edwin. unconvinced that Helena need die, they decide to go on the hunt anyway. Rayan is concerned they will be forced in to a confrontation that need not be had, but there is no convincing things otherwise.
Sina also reports her vision of Rayan's injuries at the hands of Moon, but he is concerned that his deal with Chief Gilmore has backed him in to a corner. Derrick appears from Sina's coffin and agrees to calm Gilmore in exchange for the others keeping an eye out for a creature similar to himself that poses as a priest.
Mort plans his next hunt, which starts with a failed squirrel assault. Later, he goes for a swim with Rebecca and visits her lair, as she reveals herself the soul of the mythical Charybids. Overcast by perpetual Storm Clouds, the lair was host to a churning whirlpool. Spinning with in the Whirlpool, damned pirate ships manned by nary the memory of desperate men caught up in Cthulhian gods beyond their understand. Firing cannons and manning the wheels of derelict ships, Mort became a Pirate. And into the Whirling drink went them both. The hunt is successful for them both, and they enjoy the lake while Noah, Sina, James, and Rayan watch from the shore.
James visits Rayan to learn about Shebaka and takes a keen interest, but their bonding ends quickly with his stern warning about Sina's importance and that they were holding Rayan responsible for her well being when involved in his antics.


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Perfectly Patterned: Marimekko's Oiva Dinnerware
I can honestly say that I've never had an actual crush on dinnerware before, but it's a new decade where anything is possible. Marimekko's Oiva Dinnerware is a potpourri of patterned perfection. While purchasing the entire set would be quite pricey, a few pieces would undoubtedly add interest and energy to any solid tableware you might have.
The beautifully designed details on each piece are meant to take you through a tale of country life in an urban setting.
Maija Louekari's patterns have been carefully designed to suit the size and shape of each simple piece, designed by Sami Ruotsalainen. The line drawings of Siirtolapuutarha (Community Garden or Allotment) depict intricate vegetables and labyrinthine buildings that flow from one piece to the next, a perfect complement to the simple, geometric design of Räsymatto (Rag rug).
With fifteen uniquely designed pieces, the mix and match possibilities are endless. Marimekko's Oiva Dinnerware is available from FinnStyle with pieces ranging in price from $13 - $83.


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Superforecasting—predicting events that will occur in the future—is not only possible; it accounts for an entire industry. World-renowned behavioral scientist Tetlock (Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know, 2005, etc.) explains why some people are so good at it and how others can cultivate the skill.
Global forecasting is hardly limited to predicting the weather. In fact, much of it has significantly higher stakes: everything from the potential of conflict in the North China Sea to the 2016 presidential election is at play. Legions of intelligent, well-educated, and well-paid analysts digest data and attempt to make hundreds of nuanced predictions each year. Remarkably, in his seminal 20-year study, the author established that, on average, these "experts" are "roughly as accurate as a dart-throwing chimpanzee." On the other hand, the superforecasters Tetlock has recruited are far more accurate: his team handily beat their competitors in a forecasting tournament sponsored by a U.S. government agency, providing more accurate answers than even those with access to classified files. And here's the rub: his all-volunteer team is composed entirely of so-called ordinary people with ordinary jobs. In this captivating book, Tetlock argues that success is all about the approach: foresight is not a gift but rather a product of a particular way of thinking. Superforecasters are open-minded, careful, curious, and self-critical. They make an initial prediction and then meticulously adjust this prediction based on each new piece of related information. In each chapter, the author augments his research with compelling interviews, anecdotes, and historical context, using accessible real-world examples to frame what could otherwise be dense subject matter. His writing is so engaging and his argument so tantalizing, readers will quickly be drawn into the challenge—in the appendix, the author provides a concise training manual to do just that.
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Our "Amazing Christmas Celebration" will be on Saturday, December 16th. The night will begin with dinner at 5:15pm followed by the Christmas Tree Lighting in the parish hall. At 6:15pm, the preschool children will perform their program "The Amazing Christmas Gift". After the children perform I will ask one parent to come to the classrooms to pick up their child. You are then welcome to go back to the church for the rest of the show. After the preschool children perform, the children's choir will perform, and then we will have caroling for everyone. Admission for this event will be "One Dozen Christmas Cookies". It's very important that you R.S.V.P at your child's classroom so that we know how many to expect for dinner and seating. (Preschool parents will have reserved seating in the church).
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02 September 2010
Excess Baggage
Today, we decided to put five bags into a storage unit, to be collected again once we have our car. It's the same number of bags we checked through from Newark Airport and the same number of bags we've felt embarrassed to be carting around ever since. Once our car arrives on the boat from the US (Baltimore, MD to be exact – but that's another story) we can pick up our things, throw them in our hatchback and merrily move along. For now, though, there was simply no way for us to explore Holland with it all in tow. The super-friendly owner of the hotel we've been staying at, Henk, offered to give us a space to store our belongings for as long as we needed. "It's free!" he reasoned. While he had an excellent point, we felt like we were taking advantage of his kindness a little. So, we opted for a storage unit instead – a decision that one can make on the first day of their budget. If this were, say, Day 12, I'm sure we would have taken ole Henk up on his offer.
Henk set us up with a wonderful taxi driver, Eppo, who brought us all the way to the outer boroughs of Amsterdam, which reminded me of Queens, in search of City Storage. We had tried to reserve a storage space online and hadn't heard back. Merlin figured, let's just show up and see what happens. Well, what happened was we found a skeleton of a building right where City Storage was supposed to stand. Apparently, the place burned down a year ago. Makes sense that they never got back to us. At this point, our driver decided to call his mother and ask if she knew of any other storage spaces in the neighborhood. I call my mother for things like this all the time, so I appreciated him doing so. I also appreciated that he had her on speaker phone. She sounded like a lovely woman and wound up giving us some pretty great mom advice, "There's probably another one right there." Sure enough, around the corner there was.
We are now five bags lighter and ready to visit Lukas and Judy, our Amsterdam contacts whom we've never met. We'll be spending the night on their houseboat and will no longer have to worry about sinking it.
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Why US Home Stager Bobbie McGrath is training Australian Real Estate Agents
August 16th, 2016
Posted in: PROFIT
Setting The Stage For A Phenomenal Future
It's Tracey McLeod from Presentation Sells. I wanted to tell you why I invited Bobbie McGrath from the US to work with Australian real estate agents and to help train real estate agents here in home staging for a successful business.
Bobbie has been a home stager in the US for the past twelve years. She's worked with over 5,000 sellers and more than 200 real estate agents. More recently she has been training real estate agents in her local area on how to use home staging for phenomenal success.
We have heard already on the course from some of the agents that she's worked with and the type of success that they are getting from incorporating home staging in their businesses. The other thing is that they are introducing us to is the fact that they are the future.
They talk about how the future of their businesses look even though they've had to deal with for sale by owner and rate my agent websites. They've had to deal with a number of transitions in their local markets. And these are things that we are about to see in our markets now.
The third thing is that Bobbie brings high integrity as well as high intelligence into everything she does. So what Bobbie brings are thoughts and ideas from other areas that aren't necessarily related to decorating or real estate. She talks about photography and how to get the best 'money shots' in the home because, after all, one of the amazing things that home staging can bring is great photos for your clients, which means people coming through the door and a lot more buyer attention.
And, of course, great presentation leads to a higher price and more competitive selling which means that you're going to build the strength of your business on Bobbie's and my amazing success that we've had both in the Australian and the US markets.
I hope you join us for 'Setting The Stage For A Phenomenal Future', It really is a phenomenal program.It's very short, it's very cost effective and, it's a lot of fun!
So please come and join us at Setting The Stage For A Phenomenal Future
A two-hour home staging consultation with Tracey starts from $350 and helps you see your home more clearly through 'buyers eyes'. Contact Tracey
About Tracey
Tracey McLeod is an internationally recognised award-winning interior decorator and home stager; a visual marketing specialist in home presentation that sells.
Combining her extensive experience in interior decor with a strong background in marketing; Tracey helps home sellers, property specialists and real estate agents to maximise sale price by creating 'fall in love factor' for buyers through home presentation.


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In March 2016, Motherboard projected this:
Bitcoin's electricity consumption will grow to rival that of the nation of Denmark by 2020.
Whatever the accuracy of Motherboard's math, there's no disputing the fact that Bitcoin uses a great deal of energy.
On an industrial level, Bitcoin may be considered a system which converts electricity directly into money.
The eco-conscious seek to generally diminish global power consumption.
Given that electricity is, at present, primarily generated through unsustainable methods, eco-activists hold that all energy expenditures must be critically weighed against their (debatable) contribution to climate change.
Secondly, there are those dubious economists who doubt Bitcoin's viability.
This group is best exemplified by Paul Krugman, who argues that Bitcoin (and to a lesser extent, gold) has no real value to society and so represents a waste of resources and labour.
While disproving the "economic experts" is as simple as referring them to Bitcoin's current market price and continued existence, explaining why Bitcoin is worth its electrical cost to the eco-conscious requires a more thoughtful approach.
After all, social pressure to sustainably power the Bitcoin project is sensible. We need to maintain a healthy balance between nature and technology.
That said, until advances in green energy diminish or negate Bitcoin's draw on ecologically-costly energy sources, Bitcoiners must endeavor to defend the expenditure by conveying the importance of this revolutionary peer-to-peer currency!
Here are 9 good reasons which, taken together and in our opinion, completely justify the world's admittedly high expenditure of electricity on the Bitcoin project:
You mean there isn't an ounce of gold in the bank for every paper Dollar?
Over the millennia, history has repeatedly shown that prosperity depends on sound money. Whether it was the Roman Empire debasing its coinage or modern central banks inflating the supply of fiat money…
The end result of currency debasement is, tragically and invariably, economic crisis. Mr. Mike Maloney's superb series, "The Hidden Secrets of Money," thoroughly explores this timeless historical lesson in Episode 5.
Simply put, currency with no backing but faith in its controllers tends to be short-lived and ruinous in its hyper-inflationary death throes.
Bitcoin was designed with one monetary goal foremost in mind: avoiding the dismal fate of previous monetary forms by preventing the evils of debasement.
Rather than trust in some distant, unaccountable human authority's wisdom and restraint, Bitcoin's supply limit is enshrined in its code; its "digital DNA," as a matter of unanimous consensus.
Unlike fiat currency, Bitcoin's value is also backed by tangible, measurable resources: code running oncomputing hardware powered by electricity.
Given money's (over-)importance to our modern world, maintaining a technologically-superior alternative to flawed fiat currencies is certainly worthwhile.
Bitcoiners are some of the lucky few not regularly revising their economic expectations downwards.
The major determinants of profitability in the fiercely competitive world of Bitcoin mining are low electricity costs, access to cutting-edge ASIC mining hardware and deep knowledge of Bitcoin and business.
Keen businessmen only need apply for this "license to print money."
Mining tends to be concentrated in China due to several regional advantages; China produces most of the world's ASIC hardware and has several provinces which over-invested in power generation.
Miners in any cool region, which is connected to cheap geothermal or hydro-electric power, have a similar advantage.
it's estimated that at least 50% of miners are Chinese. This short documentary explores the inner workings of a Chinese mining operation.
Mining is a growing industry which provides employment, not only for those who run the machines but those who build them. Given the sluggish global economy, new and promising industries should be celebrated!
Of course it's your money. I just tell you what it's worth and what you can do with it.
As alluded to in Reason 1, many rulers are diluting the value of "their" national currencies, either as an economic stimulus (mostly to the net-worth of elites) or as a means to cheapen their tremendous debt.
Such debasement punishes savers in particular, as the value of their stored wealth is eroded. Savers naturally seek to protect their fiat savings by translating them to a more durable form, such as foreign currency or investments.
Rulers often block their citizens' flight to monetary safety by imposing capital controls. China is known for its particularly strict limitations.
Bitcoin mining represents an excellent, legal way to circumvent such restrictions.
Investing in a mining operation brings a steady stream of bitcoins; a form of money largely beyond the control of the ruling class.
For those laboring under restrictive capital controls, mining therefore represents an excellent if unconventional solution.
Given the relative costs and risks of other wealth-preservation measures, it may even be worthwhile to mine Bitcoin at a loss!
Consider one of the popular alternatives, real estate:
Bloomberg estimates that $1 trillion left China in 2015, 7 times more than was offshored in 2014! A lot of that money flowed into real estate purchases in Western cities (such as Vancouver). This phenomenon has created localized bubbles and unaffordable housing conditions for residents. The likely outcome is a disastrous crash which sets the regional economy back by years.
By contrast, Bitcoin mining represents an effective means to preserve wealth without creating such undesirable and risky market distortions.
"We require more Vespene gas." -Zerg Overseer
If we take Motherboard's linear extrapolation that Bitcoin will consume as much power as Denmark by 2020, then add the assumption that Bitcoin will have scaled sufficiently by then to cater to every user of the fiat system… it becomes possible to compare the two systems, in an admittedly rough-and-ready fashion.
Allowing that Bitcoin will replace banks, ATMs, brokers, exchanges and payment services (like VISA, MasterCard and PayPal) around the world, we can offset the electricity required by all those services. Considering the combined electric costs for these operations (covering lighting, air-conditioning, data-centers, website hosting, office equipment and more) the total probably approaches or even exceeds Denmark's current power usage.
Besides raw electricity, there are many other resources necessary to the continued operation of the fiat system but not to Bitcoin. For example:
In any fair and comprehensive comparison of resource costs between the two systems, Bitcoin is likely to compare very favorably!
Excess heat from Bitcoin mining – problem or solution?
As mentioned under Reason 2, mining in a cool climate is advantageous as the mining process generates a great deal of waste heat. However, enterprising Bitcoin miners can capture and use this heat productively!
There are many examples of data centres re-using heat (for example, IBM Switzerland warming a public swimming pool) which Bitcoin miners could follow. Waste heat can even be useful to aquaculture and it's also possible to harness hot exhaust air for drying processes.
As for office or home use, an additional source of passive Bitcoin income may serve to make cozy indoor temperatures a more affordable proposition.
Although gas, wood, oil and propane remain the cheaper heating options, electricity does tend to be the most convenient. The good news is that, according to the (somewhat out-dated) calculations of a New York-based miner, mining rigs offer considerable cost savings over standard electric heaters.
As an additional benefit, mining rigs may be precisely controlled via common computing hardware, such that a customized heating schedule or adaptive climate control system may be programmed with relative ease.
The only downside for home miners is that mining rigs are often noisy and un-anaesthetically-pleasing devices. As a result, they tend to be sequestered in the basement or garage for the sake of domestic harmony. A little ingenuity may be called for to pipe their heat to where it's more needed in the house.
Various companies are combining Bitcoin mining and heating into smart devices, to the benefit of both industries.
Rise of the Digital Autonomous Corporations and other buzzwords!
Continuing the theme of Bitcoin integration with household and industrial devices, this is the precise business model of potentially-disruptive Bitcoin company, 21.co.
21 raised $120 million in venture capital, a record for a Bitcoin company. As their initial product offering, 21.co released a Raspberry Pi-like device with built-in Bitcoin features; mining included.
While such low-powered mining devices earn very little income, even a few hundred Satoshis opens the door to automated micro-payments…
It's long been known that Bitcoin offers real potential for machine-to-machine payments. This potential is likely to be realised soon™ with the deployment of the first Lightning Network. The results are bound to be interesting; perhaps even the beginning of a profound technological shift in how we conduct our lives and business!
Smart, interconnected devices offer great promise in terms of self-reporting of problems and supply shortages, even the self-calibration and the self-diagnosis of problems. Bitcoin and additional layers are the most likely payment avenues to cater for these new, developing industries. After all, machines don't have bank accounts or credit cards. How else will machines pay for their own inputs and how better could they charge for their outputs?
Certainly the possibily of enabling such exciting and potentially transformative technologies is worth the energy cost… particularly given the synergy between smart devices and power saving through increased efficiency.
"On Sunday, May 8 [2016] Germany produced so much electric power that prices were actually negative. As in, customers got paid to use the electrical system." – Fortune.com
It was recently reported that Germany's solar and wind generation nearly overloaded its electric grid over a particularly sunny and windy day. Power companies paid their customers to use more power so that the energy could be safely dispersed.
Somewhat ironically, considering Motherboard's comparison, similar excess power situations are known to occur in nearby Denmark.
This means that if you set up in a location which experiences electricity oversupply from variable green sources, it's possible to get paid for mining Bitcoin as a public service!
Mining Bitcoin isn't just mining Bitcoin!
If the mining process is the powerful engine driving Bitcoin, then it's certainly a unique engine in that it loses no efficiency for driving additional processes. Namecoin, the very first altcoin, uses the same SHA-256 Proof of Work algorithm as Bitcoin, which means miners any find solutions to both Bitcoin and Namecoin blocks concurrently. As Namecoin serves a decentralised DNS ( Domain Name Server ), the effect is to bring greater resilience and censorship-resistance to the internet.
Somewhat similar to Namecoin in concept, but more closely tied to Bitcoin, are side-chains. These are essentially separate blockchains which are pegged to Bitcoin's blockchain. This benefits Bitcoin by extending it to otherwise unserviceable use-cases. It also benefits the side-chain by backing and securing it cryptographically with the huge power of the Bitcoin mining industry.
Tokenized coins are another technology layer with far-reaching implications, which are similarly backed and secured by Bitcoin mining.
By associating particular units of bitcoin with digital, financial or physical assets, ownership of such assets may be exchanged. This works with everything from stocks to in-game items to land deeds and so on. Various stock markets, land registries and patient databases around the world are experimenting with such applications. Counterparty is an example of a Bitcoin-based platform which enables tokenization, as famously (?) seen in the Rare Pepe Directory.
Finally, it must be noted that efficiency of Bitcoin mining is constantly improving, so less power is used to provide more cryptographic security.
Since Bitcoin's release in 2009, mining hardware has evolved from computer CPUs to graphic card GPUs to FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Array) and now to ASICs (Application-specific Integrated Circuit). ASIC mining chip architecutre and processes are under continuous development, with lucrative rewards on offer to those who bring the latest and greatest innovations to market.


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Thursday, March 22, 2012
My Pick Tuesday AP 659 and 1616
Oops. With spring break and going to the zoo yesterday, I missed posting on Monday. Last week I shared the first three twinchies I made for the Gingersnap Creations swap and today I'm sharing the second three. All images are from Altered Pages, sheets AP659 Mini Images-Children and AP1616 Adorable.
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- Marjie Kemper said...
Love these! Every time I see more of the Ginger Twinchies, I want to stop what I'm doing and go make some.
- March 25, 2012 at 9:29 AM
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Attachments that Cusinart sells separately for their stand mixers include a dough hook, a food processor, citrus juicer, meat grinder and a pasta maker attachment. Select Cuisinart stand mixer models are sold with some of these attachments.
The dough hook attachment is used to easily and properly knead dough, and attaches to the mixer in the same place as the standard paddle. The food processor attachment chops and grinds a wide variety of ingredients. It connects to a plug on the top of the stand mixer, inside of a compartment. The food processor also comes slicing and shredding blade.
The juicer attachment comes with a larger container which the juicer sits inside to catch the citrus juice, and the meat grinder attachment allows a cook to turn any type of meat into ground meat. To attach it, the lid at the top of the stand mixer needs to be removed so it can be mounted to the low-powered plug on the front.
The pasta maker attachment also attaches to the low-powered plug at the top front of the mixer. To use it, small pieces of dough should be dropped into the chute. It comes with several attachments to make a variety of pasta shapes.


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Husky Energy Announces 2010 First Quarter Dividend
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - April 27, 2010) - Husky Energy Inc. (TSX:HSE) is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.30 (Canadian) per share on its common shares for the three-month period ended March 31, 2010. The dividend will be payable on July 2, 2010 to shareholders of record at the close of business on May 21, 2010.
Husky Energy is an integrated energy and energy-related company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Husky Energy is a publicly traded company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol HSE. For more information about Husky Energy Inc. please visit our web site at www.huskyenergy.com.


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So I kept thinking "I'll do my next round-up once I've done a full week mostly on time so all of my posts get a fair amount of time on the main page" but clearly this hasn't happened in a while. My health has been up and down the past few weeks (well, more than it has been usually during 2016, I want a redo) but I think it's on the up so I should be able to focus enough to churn out some reviews that I've really wanted to get to!
Since I haven't done a round-up since, uh, May it looks like, now seems like a really good time to recap what I have managed to put out. Starting with The OASG, I've done Instant Analysis posts on Itihasa, How to keep a mummy, and Arte (not in the review, someone suggested this to me later, but this manga might be loosely inspired by real world, amazing artist Artemisia Gentileschi), and I did a joint review with Justin on the first Baccano! light novel (and kept him from totally trashing it which was his first plan! >:D).
Continuing with comics, I got around to talking about The Nameless City (how could I not after I went to the launch event?) and two anime that are not based on any manga, Active Raid and Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. I also talked about the excellent, unique sci-fi work Our Lady of the Ice and the possibly also unique but far less excellent Manners & Mutiny which finishes up Gail Carriger's The Finishing School series. Finally, to make sure that this blog keeps things silly, I also talked about finishing my very first visual novel (an important step in every anime fan's life), the western-made Hustle Cat where yes folks, I dated all of the cats.
This time next week the anime world will be knee-deep in the new summer anime but I'm going to take that time to talk about how the spring anime season wrapped up. I'm almost done, I just have one more episode of Flying Witch left, but I feel like this round-up has gone on long enough already, gotta save up my energy for tomorrow's review of Concrete Revolutio!


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Public Lecture: Freak Waves, an exceptional phenomenon
UCD Earth Institute
Tuesday, 3 June 2014 from 18:00 to 19:00 (IST)
Peter Janssen, Head of Marine Aspects Section, ECMWF, presents a public lecture as part of the Advanced Grant MULTIWAVE workshop June, 2014
Although freak wave events are rare, they do happen and may cause considerable damage. However, in the past, mainly due to lack of empirical evidence or because, when there was evidence, it was not believed, the freak wave phenomenon has not been given much attention. This picture gradually changed when in the early 1990's numerical simulations showed the generation of extreme ocean waves caused by four-wave interactions, while in the mid 1990's the first sound empirical evidence on freak waves was presented.
The generation of freak waves by four-wave interactions has triggered a lot of scientific interest. In the narrow-band approximation the dynamics of the waves is determined by the nonlinear Schroedinger equation, an equation which is found in many other branches of physics, e.g. in nonlinear optics, plasma physics and in meteorology. Thus, although ocean freak waves are rare in nature, they are a fairly common phenomenon in labs all over the world since nowadays there is a better understanding of their generation.
Peter Janssen has worked in the field of theory and modelling of ocean waves since 1979. He took as Chairman of the WAM Development and Implementation group an active part in the development of the third generation WAM model.
He was one of the first to assimilate Altimeter wave heights into a global ocean wave prediction system. He is since January 1995 head of ECMWF's ocean wave modelling group and as such is also responsible for the quality of the surface winds over the global oceans. In particular he introduced in 1998 the first operational coupled ocean-wave, atmosphere
model, which is still in use for operational weather forecasting and seasonal forecasting at ECMWF. Recently, he has developed an operational freak wave warning system. In 2011 he became head of the Marine Prediction Section to work
on the development of a coupled atmosphere, ocean-wave, ocean/sea-ice system for analysis and for medium-range and seasonal prediction.
Founded to enhance our understanding of threats to a sustainable world, economy, and community, UCD Earth Institute research helps identify, clarify, forecast and find, solutions to the most pressing issues facing us today.
UCD Earth Institute is a multidisciplinary research centre with a focus on creating and sharing new knowledge. We aim to contribute to sustainable solutions for the most pressing environmental problems.
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After accomplishing his degree at Bologna University Medical School in 1981, Dr. Massarini specialised in Sport Medicine at Pavia University in 1985. Between 1985 and 1992 he has been team doctor in professional sports such as cycling, skiing and sailing in two America's Cup campaigns.
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In 1992, he joined Technogym as Medical Director. In his role, he's contributed to the development of innovative exercise and rehabilitation equipment, as well as an educational programme organising more than 150 seminars on topics such as: functional assessment, cardio training, strength training, sport specific training, senior training, weight control programmes, pregnancy and exercise.
He has published extensively on exercise physiology.In 2002 - 2003, he served as a member of Emilia-Romagna Medical Commission to promote health plans for enhancing physical activity of the population.
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Tt eSports shows off Combat White CRONOS gaming headset at Computex 2013
Computex Taipei 2013 - Tt eSports, a division of Thermaltake, is demoing their mid-level CRONOS gaming headset that is aimed at PC and mobile users.
The CRONOS is able to function as a PC gaming headset in addition to working with your mobile device via swappable audio cables. The headset features a LYCRA head-pad that reduces pressure on the users head to allow for a longer fatigue-free gaming session. Additionally, the CRONOS features a bendable and pivotable microphone as well as LED-lit Battle Dragon Logos.
Gold-plated 3.5mm connections and an in-line user-friendly control box is present on each of the audio cables. The CRONOS is responsive in the 20Hz to 20kHz audio range and feature 40mm neodymium magnets for the drivers. The CRONOS retails at an MSRP of $69.99 at all major online retailers.


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Chinese Foo Dog At a Glance
Country of Origin:
Breed Group:
Small to Medium. Weight: Toy: 10-20; miniature: 21-50; standard: 51 and more lbs. Height: Toy: 10; miniature: 10-15; standard: 15-18 inches
Double-coated. Thick, coarse and straight.
Black and Tan, Blue, Black, Blue and Brown, Fawn, Red, Orange, Cream and Sable, Wolf Gray
Life Span:
10 to 12 years
Breed Profile
Affection Level
Barking Tendencies
Cat Friendly
Cold Weather Tolerance
Exercise Needs
General Health
Grooming Needs
Hot Weather Tolerance
Kid Friendly
Shedding Level
Social Needs
Watchdog Ability
Did You Know?
This breed is also called the Chinese Temple Forest Dog, the Chinese Choo Hunting Dog, the Chinese T'ien Kou (Chinese Celestial Dog) and the Chinese Lung- Kou (Chinese Dragon Dog).
Breed Group: Not AKC Recognized
Chinese Foo Dog Overview
This versatile dog breed originated in China where they were used for herding, hunting, sledding and as watchdogs. Chinese Foos are used as guardians of Buddhist temples and are considered sacred in the Buddhist religion. The Chinese Foo is the mascot of the oldest secret sect in the world, known as the Tongs. They believe that the Chinese Foo brings good fortune.
Chinese Foo Dog Characteristics
This is an energetic, hardy and brave dog breed. The Chinese Foo has a lion-like appearance. This dog breed is sturdy, compact and squarely built. The Chinese Foo is extremely dignified and has a regal and dignified appearance.
Chinese Foo Dog Temperament
This dog breed is not recommended for first time dog owners. The Chinese Foo is sociable, devoted and brave. This breed is mild-mannered and docile, but can be assertive when necessary. The Chinese Foo is wary of strangers and will protect their family, property and territory if threatened. Chinese Foos are family oriented and thrives on attention and human interaction. They do well with children, other dogs, cats and other pets, especially those they were raised with.
Chinese Foo Dog Care
This dog breed requires a fair amount of grooming. The Chinese Foo should be brushed on a regular and consistent basis. Bathing should be done when necessary. This dog breed has no documented health issues.
Chinese Foo Dog Coat
This dog breed has a weather-resistant double coat. The outer coat of the Chinese Foo is thick, coarse and straight. The under coat is soft and dense.
Chinese Foo Dog Training
This dog breed is intelligent and quick to learn. Early socialization and obedience are required. This breed is often difficult to manage and is domineering. Chinese Foos do not respond well to harsh or forceful training techniques. Training should be performed with respect, firmness, fairness and consistency.
Chinese Foo Dog Activity
This dog breed adapts well to well in a city or apartment environment, provided they are sufficiently exercised and stimulated. The Chinese Foo Dog does best with a securely fenced yard or safe rural setting where they are able to play off-lead.


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"1 p.m. – 2 p.m."
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Logan's lack of faith disturbs Jack.
1:00:00 A pleasant-looking press secretary explains to the media at the UN that Lady President wants to give mad props to Disgraced Former President Logan for his help on the peace process. And all the media are like WHAAAA?!?!! In another room, Logan has a smug as he watches he press conference on the teevee. Assistant Jason calls Logan to inform him that Jack Bauer has disemboweled EMT Assassin, and this whole thing isn't funny anymore and MAYBE LOGAN WANTS TO DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM IT. And Logan is all, Uh…yeah, no. That's So Logan!
Jack Bauer, Michael Madsen and Pretty Reporter part ways. But not before Jack takes Pretty Reporter's cell phone, because he can be a jerk sometimes.
1:06:25 Every single time Lady President tries to have a conversation with Mrs. Pompadour, Logan gets up in her bidness, wanting to tell her how he managed to lose Jack Bauer again, how Jack Bauer is going to destroy her presidency, and then filling her head with ways she can subvert the constitution. This hour's suggestion: crap on the first amendment and muzzle the press. Well, sure. And I'm sure it won't be any trouble at all to add some time for this little doozy during your impeachment hearings, Lady President.
At CTU, New Edgar somehow finds the evidence of the sniper rifle EMT Assassin was using, and Chloe is all ZOMG, that's the kind that was used to kill Agent Red. ALL OF THIS WAS FIGURED OUT BY MAGIC, BY THE WAY. Anywho, they figure out that Jack's secret girlfriend is Michael Madsen who served in the Gulf with Jack, but supposedly died in a chemical explosion, but duh, obvs didn't. Flackey gives them the stinkeye as she passes.
1:11:57 Michael Madsen somehow is tracking Logan's location from his bunker? I guess using the phone number that they found in EMT Assassin's phone? Is that a new app, or another one of facebook's privacy fails? ANYWAY. Jack has Michael Madsen send him Logan's route and then is all I'M NOT PLANNING ON COMING BACK, before hijacking a Ford Exposition.
1:17:35 Lady President calls in Buzzcut to announce her intentions to use the Constitution as kindling in her fireplace, and Buzzcut is all, Uh, that doesn't seem like a good idea.
1:19:15 Jack Bauer and his his duffel bag of vengeance arrive at some back alley where they sneak into …. something.
Pretty Reporter calls her editor from a pay phone? Which, more than the disemboweling, more than the knife in the eyeball, more than the domestic abuse victim suddenly strangling people and stuffing their bodies into a vent (which, by the way, is going to be a very unpleasant surprise for some poor CTU custodian in a few days), more than drones flying all over New York City ready to spy on/shoot us with lasers at any moment, more than New Edgar and Chloe just knowing nonsense that they couldn't possibly know, more than Jack Bauer running all over the entire island of Manhattan in the course of twenty minutes, THIS PAY PHONE, THE IDEA THAT ANYONE COULD FIND A PAY PHONE IN NEW YORK CITY, MUCH LESS A PAY PHONE THAT WAS WORKING AND HADN'T BEEN STRIPPED FOR PARTS BY HOBOS, THIS IS THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING THAT HAS EVER BEEN ON 24 EVER. SRSLY. Anyway, on this mystical pay phone, Pretty Reporter calls her editor and tells her about this lead she has and he's all AWESOME! and agrees to meet her at a diner.
Jack Bauer stares at a Darth Vader mask.
In his car, Logan calls Obvious Villain who is having a bit of a freak out over the fact that Jack Bauer is on his way to murderize him. And Logan is all, I really wouldn't worry about it. Logan's caravan enters an underpass right about then, and that's when Darth Vader comes out of nowhere and starts shooting the place up. Eventually, Lord Vader makes his way to Logan's car where he shoots in the windshield for a while, until Logan tries to scurry out of the car. Which is exactly what the Sith Lord was looking for. And with one black gloved hand,
he crushes Logan's throat he grabs Logan by the scruff of the neck and drags him away.
1:29:43 Chloe and New Edgar somehow discover where Michael Madsen is living. See: Magic. And then some Asian dude tells Chloe that Jack just kidnapped Logan. Chloe Chloefaces.
1:30:56 Assistant Jason arrives at the underpass, but the Secret Service dudes assigned to Logan are worthless and saw nothing. Blah blah blah, Assistant Jason notices a broken lock to some door to some underground passageway or something. Running through the tunnels, running through the tunnels, running through the tunnels.
In a cozy little nook in the tunnels, Jack has some questions for Logan regarding his relationship to everything that happens. Logan gets all Logany and within roughly 15 seconds he gives up Obvious Villain's name. Because That's So Logan!
1:33:56 Jack Bauer puts Logan in a sleeper hold. LAME and FAIL.
Assistant Jason finds Logan passed out soon after and instead of pantsing him and drawing mustaches on his face with permanent marker and shaving his eyebrows. LAME and FAIL.
1:39:27 Chloe somehow convinces Flackey to release Freddy Prinze, Jr. into her custody, and because Flackey is not very good at her job, she's all, Sure. I can't foresee how that could create problems for me and this totally illegal secret operation I am working on. Go ahead!
Pretty Reporter is at the deli, where she receives an apologetic phone call from her editor who can't make their meeting seeing as the FBI is cold raiding his office. Phone calls to the Justice Department will be made, and pretty reporters should lay low.
1:42:06 Chloe collects Freddy Prinze, Jr. from his
kennel holding cell and explains to him that they are not actually going to provide security for the UN like Chloe told Flackey, because, come on, who cares about securing the UN, especially hours after the UN has come under attack multiple times by both terrorists and government mercenaries alike, but instead they are going to go find Jack Bauer and try to convince him to stop being so crazy already.
1:44:02 In a parking garage somewhere, Jack Bauer tracks down Obvious Villain's driver, whom he attacks, and scenes like this always bring to mind the Death Star contractors discussion in Clerks. Anywhoodle, the driver tells Jack all about Obvious Villain's security protocols and whatever, so Jack leaves him unconscious instead of just killing him, because he's a nice guy like that. Anyway, Jack attacks all of Obvious Villains goons, gets one of their key cards and a stab in the gut for his trouble. Which is the second time in the past 12 hours he's been stabbed in the belly, for those of you keeping track. And like the 17th belly stabbing of the day.
1:50:14 Freddy Prinze, Jr. loads up his Ford Exasperation with a bunch of weapons, and Chloe is all, Wait, I thought you were just going to go talk to Jack? Maybe make him some hot tea? And Freddy Prinze, Jr. is like, Yeah, I'm totally going to shoot Jack in the face on account of him going wacky and murdering my crazy girlfriend.
1:51:38 Daughter Pompadour is receiving tips on where to sit while her mom signs some piece of paper, because this is something that is important to show in the last hours of the series. This riveting conversation is interrupted when Pretty Reporter calls her and is all LISTEN. I know I was conducting naked interviews with your dad, and that was really not cool, BUT DIG, I need to talk to your mom, because I have information that suggests the Russians were behind your dad's death. Call me back! KBAI! And then the FBI arrests Pretty Reporter.
1:53:57 Buzzcut lets' Lady President know that they've arrested Pretty Reporter. Lady President demands that the data card be seen by no one but her. And then she asks Buzzcut if he wouldn't mind fetching for her the original Declaration of Independence, as she recently stepped in something unpleasant and needs to clean off her shoes. Oh, and also, if he could be a dear and just go ahead and fire the entire Supreme Court while he's out. Thanks.
As Logan is loaded up into the ambulance, he tells Assistant Jason to warn Obvious Villain that Jack is on his way. But OH GRACIOUS ME, Jack Bauer has already been to visit Obvious Villain. With a fireplace poker. With which Jack apparently tried to stoke the fire in Obvious Villain's belly. After shooting everyone else in the place dead, except for the one goon who tells Assistant Jason all this while he bleeds out on the floor. DUDE.
1:56:19 Logan is all D'OH! And then calls Russian President Richard Malkin with the bad news. Of course, Richard Malkin probably should have already known that it happened, but whatever. Maybe it was blurry. ANYWAY, Richard Malkin is all, Explain to me how Jack Bauer learned about Obvious Villain's connection to President Pompadour's assassination? And Logan offers that he told Jack. But to save President Malkin! Get it? Logan's a hero! As far as Jack's concerned, the trail ended with one well-placed fireplace poker. So no worries. Also! Bonus! Jack's been wounded! But Richard Malkin notes that there is nothing more dangerous than a wounded animal except for Jack Bauer so a wounded Jack Bauer is like, totally the most dangerous thing in the frickin universe, not that Jack Bauer wasn't already that, but it's kinda like adding infinity to infinity, which isn't actually more than infinity and yet of course it is. ANYWAY. Logan points out that perhaps Richard Malkin shouldn't have ordered the hit on Agent Red and Richard Malkin is all DA, MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE BLACKMAILED ME, and they get into this silly little slap fight while Wounded Wildebeest Jack Bauer listens in from the bug he placed on Logan. And you'd best watch out, Richard Malkin, because I can see your future and it involves Jack Bauer doing something violent and bloody and if your comrades' grisly deaths are any indication, probably involving stabbing something into your stomach.
24 airs at 8 p.m. CST Mondays on Fox.
Therese is also watching Lost, Fringe and Flashforward although she's not optimistic that those last two will be updated any time soon if we're all being honest with each other.


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Buoyed by my recent trip, I've been hibernating at home this weekend and treating myself to a reprieve from all of the things I should be doing (going to the gym, visiting AJ, groceries, laundry, etc.) and just playing instead.
First up was finishing off the hooking of my newest purse. Needing a project for Georgia, wanting a bigger purse, and discovering one of the handles had detached from the purse I've been using, all conspired together to encourage me to design a new bag. For the longest time, I didn't think that I would ever hook another purse.....but you know what they say about never.....LOL!
Anyway, I got a new design put together for my trip, and hooked all of the pocket side and almost 2/3 of the solid side while I was away. Riding the momentum, the rest seemed to go quite quickly on Friday night and Saturday morning, such that I was able to finish all of the hooking within a week.
Yesterday afternoon, I pressed the hooking with my amazing steam iron, the Rowenta DG5030 Pressure Iron & Steamer (now there is a purchase without an ounce regret!) and while it was out and ready, I also dug out a cardigan I finished ages ago and blocked it (pictures forthcoming). I don't know why I procrastinated getting out the steamer 'just to block the sweater', but in hindsight it was just laziness meets thinking it was more of a hassle than it really is. It is not a big deal, nor does it take very much time.
While both lay to dry, I hauled out the felted mittens I stared in Georgia. Started sewing them together....and then steamed the outsides after turning the right sides out. Lay them to dry.
With all of my various project pieces needing to dry before I could proceed, I was forced to wait a spell. So I decided to play with some of my batik strips. I've been crushing on the scrappy around the world quilts that are popping up everywhere these days (simple tutorial here).....and remembered that I had cut all of those 2" strips for binding my ewe-fuse projects. But what to make? I settled on making some shams for my euro pillows, quickly calculated how many squares I would need for my dimensions....and started picking and choosing. Before long, my idea had morphed into just an 'around the world' and I was stitching up a storm. I finished up my first complete top this morning, but when I put it on my bed, I realized that the colours are too similar (blendy) with my quilt. A far better choice would be to concentrate on a colour or make more of a value statement (darker?) that would provide a better contrast. Waaah! I will have to begin again for the shams....but in the meantime, I think I might adopt the quilted piece to use in sewing my purse lining.
I'm off to go and start stitching the purse together....and finish off the mittens....and try to figure out a plan for the lining. Everything is dry now, so it's time to buckle down....and stop procrastinating! ;-)


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WEYBRIDGE — The town of Weybridge will hold its annual town picnic on Saturday, July 8, from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the Weybridge School.
This popular event will have something for townspeople of all ages. Snake Mountain Bluegrass will provide music, and there will be children's games and the ever-popular competitions for best baked beans and best pie. Judges will consider two categories of pie this year: best fruit pie and best overall pie. The three first place winners will receive a $10 gift certificate to the Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op.


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At any rate, Robin Miller seems normal enough in the promos, but a friend of mine saw the premiere episode the other day and reports that Ms. Miller 1) has some questionable sanitation standards involving poultry and 2) has Crazy Eyes, a la the Runaway Bride.
I probably won't be able to catch her show till the weekend so this afternoon I did some Googling to try to find more about this mysterious Robin Miller. She is strangely absent from FoodNetwork.com's Host and Celebrity Cooks page, but a short bio is listed on Food Network's Ad Sales website:
Robin Miller has 12 years of experience as a food writer and nutritionist. She earned a master's degree in Food and Nutrition from New York University. Currently, she is Contributing Editor for Health and Cooking Light magazines and has regular features in many national publications. Miller is also the author of six books, including: Picnics (Clarkson Potter, 2005), Verdure (Clarkson Potter, 2001), The Newlywed Cookbook (Sourcebooks, 1999), The Daily Soup (Hyperion, 1999), Jane Fonda, Cooking for Healthy Living (Turner, 1996), and The Newlywed Cookbook (R&E Publishers, 1991). She currently lives in Arizona with her family.
Her books are listed on Amazon under the name Robin Vitetta-Miller, and it looks like they carry most of them. She has written quite a bit for Shape magazine, too.
It seems Robin Miller has the credentials, but is her show any good?


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Wow!… Unreal! Eric Holder Praises Al Sharpton at Convention of Black Activists – "Only When It's Dark Enough Can You See the Stars"
Wow! Just Wow!
Obama Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at Al Sharpton's National Action Network Convention.
Here is part of Holder's speech today where he praised the radical far left activist. This is the same radical who just promised to escalate civil disobedience in Florida.
The Washington Examiner reported:
Attorney General Eric Holder rallied with Al Sharpton, whose activism in the Trayon Martin case is well-known, to promise "a thorough and independent review" of the case.
Holder invoked the most powerful images of the civil rights era before discussing Martin. "'Only when it is dark enough,' Dr. King said, 'can you see the stars,'" Holder told the crowd at Sharpton's annual National Action Network Convention, per prepared remarks. "Today, once again, it is dark enough."
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Al Sharpton, Holder's host, has called for an "escalation" in civil disobedience if George Zimmerman — the shooter in the Trayvon Martin case who said he acted in self-defense — is not arrested.
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Businesses have been lobbying the government to exempt transfers within companies from the cap on workers from outside the European Economic Area.
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The PM told Sky News: "We will try and exempt many of the inter-company transfers from the immigration system."
The annual cap on non-EU immigration was a key Conservative manifesto commitment - although it was opposed by their Lib Dem coalition partners before the election. But businesses have complained it will leave them at a competitive disadvantage.
Net migration - the difference between the number of people coming to live in the UK and the number emigrating - stood at 196,000 last year.
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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, revealed, the main reason her mouth shootout with Jose Mourinho since the Manchester United manager is trying to affect the referee in order that his team did not receive a lot of yellow cards.
"He (Jose Mourinho) wanted his team got a little yellow card. In my opinion, the referee blew the whistle before everything (on the mouth) to happen, "said Jurgen Klopp.
"Roberto (Firmino) is a complete football player and he wants to always be in the game. In my opinion, is the yellow card for Herrera. However, in the end, someone who wants to play football (Firmino) also finally got a yellow card. "
"It is going to get worse if someone want to see it again. We (Klopp and Mourinho)did not have the same opinion at that time, "Jurgen Klopp added.
Dispute Jurgen Klopp and Jose Mourinho began when Ander Herrera and Roberto Firmino scramble the ball. Ander Herrera look trying to snatch exciting way ball jerseys Firmino. However, in an occasion, arms Firmino had drifted to the chest Herrera.
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Related to the incident, Jose Mourinho also briefly comment. According to him, Jurgen Klopp behave too much for fear of Roberto Firmino got a red card.
"He thought I was asking his players in order to get a red card. That's not true. No problems before. In my opinion, the match already going well. The players already gave everything, "said Jose Mourinho.
Manchester United and Liverpool match ended 1-1. Jurgen Klopp's squads excellingthrough James Milner penalty goal in the 27th minute. Manchester United were able to equalize through nicks Zlatan Ibrahimovic on 84 minutes.
The Liverpool goalkeeper, Simon Mignolet, claims to be happy with the condition ofThe Reds squad at this time because it is not dependent on just one player for Premier League title.
"We're competing for the Championship title, but with a very different game, and with 11 different players anyway. Before, we were a little dependent upon individual capabilities, such as those owned by Luis Suarez to make a difference and scored, "said Simon Mignolet.
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Growing up, I loved Sundays for the sole purpose of listening to Casey Kasem and the Weekly Top 40 on the radio. I was obsessed with what songs would be in the top 10 and annoyed by the long distance dedications got in the way of the music but today I'd like to do my own dedication to Susan (aka WhyMommy from Toddler Planet) as part of the Team WhyMommy Virtual Science Fair to let her know we are thinking of her and she is not alone.
The first time I met Susan, I served as her human shield as Jessica drove her minivan past Kristen's ex-boyfriend's house. Sounds crazy, doesn't it?
That night I learned that I was protecting Susan because, as Kristen said, "if Susan has survived cancer and a double mastectomy only to be shot by my ex, well then won't we all feel bad?"
Indeed. Human shield engaged. There were no shots fired that night and everyone made it home safely.
Fast forward to two years later…What served as a strange initiation into a world of bloggers has resulted in amazing friends and an incredible community who has come together to support Susan as she prepares for surgery and the removal of six tumors that are a recurrence of breast cancer.
Before Susan's diagnosis, we talked about a play date at NASA Goddard where our kids could pretend to be astronauts, run around the Goddard Rocket Garden among the real rockets on display, and peek into the mock-up of the Apollo Spacecraft Capsule.
Such a place is pure heaven for Little Miss Techie and Captain Computer who have a healthy obsession with all things space-related thanks to their Aunt A. who is a planetary physicist. When the kids found out that Aunt A. and Susan know each other and work in related fields, they took great delight upon realizing that the super-cool Susan who coached summer soccer could answer all the questions about the planets, stars, and atmosphere that Mommy can't!
I love that Susan fuels Little Miss Techie and Captain Computer's interest in space related topics by explaining things in a kid-friendly way that they understand. I also love that while there is a big push in education to expose girls to science, technology, engineering, and math in a positive way, I don't need to look any further than Susan as an inspiration and role model for my own daughter.
While we haven't had a chance to go to NASA Goddard with Susan yet, I know a visit will be in order soon after she is feeling up to a field trip. Until then, we want to dedicate our favorite space-related songs by our favorite kids' band to Susan, a la Casey Kasem.
With permission from Rocknoceros, I present the lyrics to Blast Off, Apollo, and Pluto from their Dark Side of the Moon Bounce Album. I hope Susan will read this and picture Captain Computer rocking out to the songs wearing his space jammies as he admires the space swag she sent!
("Houston, come in Houston… do we have clearance to rock?")
Well Once Upon a Time on a planet not far from here
The music played all day, you could hear it from afar and near
So we trained as astronauts
And built a spaceship fit for tots
To cruise the Milky Way, moving forward at a million knots
Climb aboard our ship, buckle-up, and get ready to fly
Because it might get bumpy as we near the pie in the sky
And we'll blast into orbit soon
And gravity will sing a different tune
As we hop into our rocket and we rock it all the way to the moon
("Rockno Two, this is Houston… you have clearance to rock!")
Coach will dance the Chicken 'cuz you know that he can't refrain
And Boogie's gonna sing about bananas, cousin to plantains
Williebob's gonna play guitar
And give a hand stamp to planet Mars
And if we work together we can catch a shooting star
Now we can count our fingers all the way up to ten
And in eleven measures we will learn to count-down and then
If the stars are all aligned
Then I'm sure we soon will find
It's not rocket science, atmosphere is just a state of mind
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Blast off!
Well in nineteen-sixty-nine
A giant leap for mankind
Was a small step for a man you all should know
Neil Armstrong was his name
And the world's not been the same
Since he went to the moon in a ship called Apollo
Apollo flew from Earth to the great big moon
The spacecraft landed safe on a lunar dune
For a long time we had wondered
About this orb that we live under
So we built a ship and trained an able crew
Apollo flew from Earth to the great big moon
Well Neil brought his friend Buzz
To the moon with him because
A trip to the moon can not be done alone
Michael Collins waited high
Up in the lunar sky
And watched Neil and Buzz explore the great unknown Apollo's crew
Was a select few
Who traveled from the earth to the great big moon
When the Eagle landed
The men would not be stranded
Ground control would help them get back home
And all the folks at NASA
Helped Apollo past the stratosphere to land safely in sea foam
Apollo led the world to the great unknown
Apollo flew from Earth to the great big moon
The spacecraft landed safe on a lunar dune
For a long time we had wondered
About this orb that we live under
So Michael, Buzz, and Neil got a closer view
Apollo flew from Earth to the great big moon
Apollo flew from Earth to the great big moon
Apollo flew from Earth…
Long ago and late one night
A famous scientist looked into the sky
The image of a planet came
And Pluto was its name
Already around the sun
Eight more planets were having fun
Pluto joined to make it nine
But soon was left behind
Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Mars
All planets spinning below the stars
Uranus, Jupiter, Neptune, Earth
But poor Pluto lacks the girth
Now after intense debate
Scientists say of planets there are eight
Pluto's fame will soon decline
Now that it's not planet nine
Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Mars
Are flytraps, autos, or candy bars
Uranus, Jupiter, Neptune, Earth
But for Pluto there is no mirth
Long ago and late one night
A famous scientist looked into the sky
The image of a planet came
And Pluto was its name
This post was written in honor of Susan as part of the Team WhyMommy Virtual Science Fair. To see other posts written for the Team WhyMommy Virtual Science Fair, visit Stimeyland. Huge thanks to Jean for coordinating this bloggy effort!
Images and lyrics posted with permission from Rocknoceros.


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A spokesperson for the WPD said officers were called to respond to reports of a breaking and entering on Lamp Post Circle around 7:00 Wednesday night.
Anthony Bernard Brown, 40, told officials three men kicked in his back door and pointed a gun at him.
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