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The Blisses have an argument: Judith : “You're far too smug... And pompous!”

David : “I hope you haven't been drinking, dear? I think it's rather tragic, at your time of life.”

About a year and a half ago and I just found this picture on Google images

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These were favourites from wikipedia pictures of the day from April 2010 to May 2011.

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These photos of gold, silver and titanium crystals was taken by Alchemist-hp. If you use one of my photos, an email (account needed) or a message or direct to: mailto:commons.alchemist-hp004@pniok.de would be greatly appreciated

With the hunt for new ways of producing electricity growing ever more intense, and the recent tragedy in Japan raising doubts about nuclear power, the world's oceans may provide a viable clean-energy alternative.



And a Swedish company has been attracting plenty of attention with its award-winning “underwater kite” solution for generating power from beneath the ocean waves.


Minesto, based in Frölunda outside Gothenburg, has developed a form of underwater kite, which harnesses energy from ocean tides and currents at a far more efficient rate than wind turbines above the surface.

The technology, called Deep Green, looks like a child’s small kite with a turbine on its back.


It is tethered to the seabed and “flies” in a circular motion converting tidal currents into energy. As seawater is 800 times denser than air, the turbine can generate 800 times more energy than if it were in the sky.


The kite can travel 10 times faster than the flow of water it operates in, and because of the relationship between speed and energy, the faster the kite travels, the more efficiently it creates energy.

For example, if the kite moves as 10 times its normal speed, the increase in energy production will be 1,000-fold.


As sea currents and the flow of energy from this source are so stable and predictable, the company claims that it can generate 500 kilowatts of power even in calm conditions.


“We are confident once successful trials have been carried out for it to be commercially operative by 2013,” Minesto CEO Anders Jansson explains.

The moon was all aglow and heaven was in your eyes


The night that you told me those little white lies.


The stars all seemed to know that you didn't mean all those sighs


The night that you told me those little white lies.


I try but there's no forgetting when evening appears,


I sigh but there's no regretting in spite of my tears.


The devil was in your heart but heaven was in your eyes


The night you told me those little white lies.

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I have a bad cold and spent most of the day yesterday searching Google Earth for railway viaducts in Southern England. I found the one we visited three years ago South of Balcombe and, of course, this one which now has houses and streets interspersed between the arches. It is actually in Brighton or Hove. I found a rather elegant broad arched one in Ealing, built by the young Brunel. I also looked at buildings by E. J. Lennox here in Toronto. The ones still standing are Victoria and Adelaide, College and University and, of course, Old City Hall. I was too ill to go to William's graduation show and party and watched True Romance with Matthew instead.

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I've been at home for a couple of weeks, first with a bad cold and then I had an operation for prostate resection, which has had a few unexpected complications. I am bored enough to take pictures of myself and write about my condition.