Meg Ryan turned down the role in Pretty Woman, and
Julia Roberts turned down Ryan’s role in Sleepless in Seattle.
Incidentally, during
2010 Roberts announced that she was a practitioner of
Hinduism; she was initially drawn to the religion after seeing
a photo of a guru.
Jan 25, 2019
Six Uses for Tea Bags
A used tea bag can be used to give a little more
flavor to dinner by using it to marinade meat and give it a
savory taste. Just mix with the marinade for adding a bit of
flair to your dish.
Tea helps to speed up the decomposition process of organic matter. For non-biodegradable tea bags, you can slit them open and use the moist tea leaves in your compost.
Roses love it, and so do houseplants and garden plants like ferns; tea makes a nutrient rich fertilizer with its tannic acid and nitrogen-boosting properties. To use as a fertilizer, you can brew up some tea or mix damp black tea leaves into the soil or spread it around the base of plants.
Bug bites and stings can be treated by using a cooled tea bag as a compress to relieve itching, sting, and inflammation.
With poison ivy or sunburn, you can either use the compress method, or make tea to add to lukewarm water in a bath and soak up its healing properties.
Rodents and cats do not like the smell and bugs and slugs can be kept at bay with some tea leaves sprinkled into the soil. Use dry tea leaves or a moist bag that’s been cut open. It is thought that the caffeine can keep pests from eating or urinating on your garden.
Tea helps to speed up the decomposition process of organic matter. For non-biodegradable tea bags, you can slit them open and use the moist tea leaves in your compost.
Roses love it, and so do houseplants and garden plants like ferns; tea makes a nutrient rich fertilizer with its tannic acid and nitrogen-boosting properties. To use as a fertilizer, you can brew up some tea or mix damp black tea leaves into the soil or spread it around the base of plants.
Bug bites and stings can be treated by using a cooled tea bag as a compress to relieve itching, sting, and inflammation.
With poison ivy or sunburn, you can either use the compress method, or make tea to add to lukewarm water in a bath and soak up its healing properties.
Rodents and cats do not like the smell and bugs and slugs can be kept at bay with some tea leaves sprinkled into the soil. Use dry tea leaves or a moist bag that’s been cut open. It is thought that the caffeine can keep pests from eating or urinating on your garden.
Saving Your TV
Many TVs come from the factory with the brightness level higher
than it needs to be. Some folks like an ultra-bright picture,
but it can soften picture detail and cause the TV to work harder
to display all that light. Try adjusting the brightness level so
the picture looks more realistic, displaying more detail. Your
eyes will be happier and so will your TV. The reduction in
brightness will add more hours to your set’s life.
The Contrast or Picture setting measures the difference between a TV's brightest and darkest colors. If the Contrast or Picture level is too high, it can force the TV to exert more power, reducing its total hours of use. To ensure this does not happen, set it to Standard or Movie Mode rather than Vivid or Dynamic. This will keep your Contrast or Picture level at a more efficient setting.
The Contrast or Picture setting measures the difference between a TV's brightest and darkest colors. If the Contrast or Picture level is too high, it can force the TV to exert more power, reducing its total hours of use. To ensure this does not happen, set it to Standard or Movie Mode rather than Vivid or Dynamic. This will keep your Contrast or Picture level at a more efficient setting.
Cable vs. Netflix Cost
The average cable price in 2017 was US $100.98. Nielsen says
the average American adult watches four hours and 23 minutes of
live TV a day, plus 33 minutes of DVR content. So, that is four
hours and 56 minutes of pay TV a day. During the course of a year
a typical cable customer watches about 1,800.67 hours of live and
time-shifted TV (including commercials), and pays about $1,210.80
for the privilege. That comes out to 67.2 cents per hour of cable.
An average Netflix user pays about $11.66 a month or $139.96 per year. An average Netflix user is streaming 3.21 hours of content. That amounts to watching 1,171.65 hours of Netflix a year. This is a worldwide number and most non-US users spend less time watching than the average American. That comes out to 11.95 cents per hour of Netflix watched.
An average Netflix user pays about $11.66 a month or $139.96 per year. An average Netflix user is streaming 3.21 hours of content. That amounts to watching 1,171.65 hours of Netflix a year. This is a worldwide number and most non-US users spend less time watching than the average American. That comes out to 11.95 cents per hour of Netflix watched.
Streaming Outpaces Cable TV
Streaming video services already outpace pay TV
in US homes with broadband (about 80 percent of all US homes.
More than three-fourths of those homes (76.4 percent) use a
streaming service like Netflix, Amazon Prime, or Hulu, etc.,
according to research from The Diffusion Group.
Slightly fewer broadband homes, 74 percent, have a traditional pay TV service from a cable, satellite, or fiber provider. Another 8 percent use a net-distributed service, such as DirecTV Now or Sling TV. The Diffusion Group found in its survey of 2,000 US adults with broadband service, "Despite subscriber growth for virtual pay TV services, they will not be enough to overcome declines in legacy services," said Michael Greeson, Diffusion Group's president and co-founder. "We see the entire pay TV sector slowly declining in the next five years."
Slightly fewer broadband homes, 74 percent, have a traditional pay TV service from a cable, satellite, or fiber provider. Another 8 percent use a net-distributed service, such as DirecTV Now or Sling TV. The Diffusion Group found in its survey of 2,000 US adults with broadband service, "Despite subscriber growth for virtual pay TV services, they will not be enough to overcome declines in legacy services," said Michael Greeson, Diffusion Group's president and co-founder. "We see the entire pay TV sector slowly declining in the next five years."
Jan 18, 2019
Happy Friday
Anticipating tomorrow
causes us to ignore today.
Be happy and enjoy this Happy Friday, next week will bring another!
Be happy and enjoy this Happy Friday, next week will bring another!
Happy Thesaurus Day
Peter Mark Roget, the author of Roget’s Thesaurus, was born on
January 18, 1779. In 1840, Roget retired from a successful
career in medicine and spent the rest of his life working on
“Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases.” He published
his dictionary of synonyms in 1852. Since then, it has never
been out of print.
The word “thesaurus” is Latin for 'treasure'. Roget’s original information included 15,000 words organized into primary categories, existence, relation, quantity, number, and time. Today the book boasts over 230,000 words, but it is still organized by ideas and concepts.
The word “thesaurus” is Latin for 'treasure'. Roget’s original information included 15,000 words organized into primary categories, existence, relation, quantity, number, and time. Today the book boasts over 230,000 words, but it is still organized by ideas and concepts.
Lunar Eclipse Coming
A total lunar eclipse occurs when the moon and the sun are on
exact opposite sides of Earth, according to NASA. When this
happens, Earth blocks sunlight that normally reaches the moon.
Instead of sunlight hitting the moon’s surface, Earth's shadow
falls on it.
Starting at 9:36 p.m. EST Jan. 20, sky-watchers will notice a "little notch is taken out of the moon," according to Brian Murphy, director of Indiana's Holcomb Observatory & Planetarium and Butler University professor. "The moon starts to enter into the earth's shadow in a portion called the umbra when the sun is totally blocked out," he said. "Earth is moving from right to left through the shadow."
At 10:34 p.m., it moves into a partial eclipse, and starting at 11:41 p.m., the full eclipse begins; a maximum eclipse occurs at 12:12 a.m. Jan. 21. The total eclipse ends at 12:44 a.m.
Starting at 9:36 p.m. EST Jan. 20, sky-watchers will notice a "little notch is taken out of the moon," according to Brian Murphy, director of Indiana's Holcomb Observatory & Planetarium and Butler University professor. "The moon starts to enter into the earth's shadow in a portion called the umbra when the sun is totally blocked out," he said. "Earth is moving from right to left through the shadow."
At 10:34 p.m., it moves into a partial eclipse, and starting at 11:41 p.m., the full eclipse begins; a maximum eclipse occurs at 12:12 a.m. Jan. 21. The total eclipse ends at 12:44 a.m.
Global Belly Laugh Day
Next Thursday, January 24 is Global Belly Laugh Day.
Time to celebrate the gift of laughter. On January 24 at 1:24
p.m. (local time) smile, throw your arms in the air and laugh
out loud. You will scare some people, amuse others, possibly
make new friends, and generally have fun laughing out loud.
Laughing out loud is good for your body and your soul.
Liver Facts
Our liver does everything from filtering blood, breaking down
and absorbing fats, processing cholesterol, carbohydrates, and
proteins. It stores glycogen, vitamins, and minerals. It
detoxifies chemicals and metabolizes drugs. It is also one of
the organs that break down old or damaged blood cells.
The liver plays a central role in all metabolic processes in the body. In fat metabolism the liver cells break down fats and produces energy. The liver also makes proteins important for blood clotting and other functions. The liver is the largest internal organ and is the only organ that can regenerate itself. However, repeated damage to it can eventually injure and scar it.
The liver plays a central role in all metabolic processes in the body. In fat metabolism the liver cells break down fats and produces energy. The liver also makes proteins important for blood clotting and other functions. The liver is the largest internal organ and is the only organ that can regenerate itself. However, repeated damage to it can eventually injure and scar it.
Wordology, Minuscule
This is a frequently misspelled word. It is not 'mini-scule'.
It bears no linguistic relation to mini or miniature, but
actually comes from the Latin minus, meaning “less.” Now that
you know the 'minus' origin, it should be easy to remember the
spelling of minuscule.
IBM and Weather
IBM’s new Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting
System, or GRAF for short, is a global weather forecasting
system that uses IBM supercomputers and taps into millions of
previously untapped crowdsourced data to more accurately
forecast weather around the world, by what IBM claims represents
a nearly 200 percent improvement.
IBM owns The Weather Company. By relying on cell phone data from the Weather Channel app, in addition to traditional forms of weather data from balloons and weather station observations around the world, GRAF also draws on atmospheric data collected by planes and also ground pressure data from millions of cell phones that have the Weather Channel app.
Most smartphones have a barometer inside, which is used to help your phone’s fitness tracker figure out how many stairs you climbed. It has been useful for meteorologists for years, because pressure provides clues about storms. Using this additional phone data as a network of tiny pressure sensors opens up a world of forecast improvements. Some of this barometric work has been going on for a few years. LINK
IBM owns The Weather Company. By relying on cell phone data from the Weather Channel app, in addition to traditional forms of weather data from balloons and weather station observations around the world, GRAF also draws on atmospheric data collected by planes and also ground pressure data from millions of cell phones that have the Weather Channel app.
Most smartphones have a barometer inside, which is used to help your phone’s fitness tracker figure out how many stairs you climbed. It has been useful for meteorologists for years, because pressure provides clues about storms. Using this additional phone data as a network of tiny pressure sensors opens up a world of forecast improvements. Some of this barometric work has been going on for a few years. LINK
Cheese King
Denver headquarters of Leprino Foods, sells mozzarella to Pizza
Hut, Domino's, and Papa John's. It also sells cheese for
ham-and-cheddar Hot Pockets, Stouffer's lasagna, and Smart Ones
baked ziti, cheese cubes like pear flavor with nuts or
Gorgonzola with pretzels. It even sells a dessert
salted-caramel-flavored mozzarella wrapped in hot dough, rolled
in cinnamon sugar. The company's lactose and whey powders are
used for protein bars, Yoplait yogurt, Pillsbury Toaster
Strudel, and baby formula. In fact, Leprino Foods sells more
than a billion pounds of cheese a year.
Taste Bud Tidbits
The taste cells in our taste buds live for only about two
weeks.
Taste buds are not visible to the naked eye; the little bumps that can be seen on the tongue are actually papillae, taste buds rest on top of the papillae.
Taste buds are not visible to the naked eye; the little bumps that can be seen on the tongue are actually papillae, taste buds rest on top of the papillae.
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