Want to see the lotto predictions again? or maybe you’re outside the UK!
Come here RIGHT after the show at 10.45 and we will make sure all the fans unable to get to a TV and still stuck to their chairs (or live outside the UK) and we will be showing it right here. See how we love you?
However should the predictions go wrong and the sites go down and you never hear from Derren again I would like to say “we’re really very sorry” in advance.
Coops, Phillis + Abeo
Twitter #DerrenBrownLotteryPrediction
Just a quick note:
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And all lottery chat is being discussed under #DerrenBrownLotteryPrediction
Enjoy tonight’s event 
What to do when everything goes wrong
What do you do when it all goes wrong?
1. Laugh.
Laugh hard and laugh often. Laugh like there’s no tomorrow – given the above, there may not be.
Seriously though. . .laughter will put you in a much better frame of mind to deal with life’s interruptions without losing your sanity.
2. Breathe.
If laughter isn’t possible, and sometimes it just isn’t, then focus on your breathing. Breathe in and out, in and out as deeply as possible until your pulse stops racing or you let go of the throat that somehow found its way into your grasp.
3. Regroup.
When the walls are caving in around you, take five minutes and figure out what you can do to keep at least one thing moving forward.
Follow-up on the email that may land you a new client. Submit your article to the various article submission sites. Pay a couple of bills. Do one
thing, anything so that you can cross something off your *list*. It’s probably best if this something doesn’t involve interaction with others!
4. Give thanks.
“What? Give thanks? Are you insane?”
I can hear the grumbling from here. Do it anyway! Grab a piece of paper and make a list of everything that you are thankful for – chances are, you have it better than millions of others.
Here’s a quick list of things that I know I’m grateful for: my health, family and friends, my pets, my business and my clients, sunrises and sunsets, flowers, chocolate ice cream, the sound of the ocean and a crisp New England fall day.
5. Get out.
Get out of the house and out of the office. Whether you choose to go for a walk, have lunch with friends, go window shopping (leave credit cards at home) or browse the shelves at your local library, get out and enjoy yourself for a bit. You’ll return in a much refreshed frame of mind and ready to tackle whatever life throws your way.
Let’s be real. Sometimes problems are just problems and not “opportunities”. Sometimes lemons make bad lemonade. And not all clouds have a silver lining. When everything goes wrong, try one (or all) of the above techniques, accept it and move on knowing that things will get better!
Thanks Sandra Martini
London projection
The projection tonight in London will be on the Tate Modern, NOT Marble Arch. And there should be sound and everything.
A typical example of my inbox this morning!
Subject: Derren Brown is gonna predict the lottery numbers i am world champuion of lottry numbers and i predit before he does it
Dear Darren
i am and have predicted numbers many times accurately i wish you all the best but exactly what you will do i too can do that and if you phone me after the lottery for wedensday is clsoed for public to play and the draw is not yet out i can tell you the numbers befrore you do it my tel is +45 XXXXXXX i am XXXXX XXXXXXXXX of Denmark
any way i shall give you 3 of the 7 numbers gonna be drawn with accuracy rest later the numbers are 11-16-46
thanks XXXXX XXXXXXXXX
an apology
… In advance if it all goes wrong tonight. We’ll just remember the good times. My lift has arrived, I must go. Thank you for all your kind offers to buy tickets on my behalf if I pass on the numbers, I am very touched.
Wish me luck, and I hope not to be a very embarrassed beardy-man later this evening. If you’re playing, you have good luck too.
Have lovely days. Spare a thought for me around 10.36.
x
Damien Hirst unicorn to open magical show as the twitter storm brews
The sculpture, never before seen in the UK, will be displayed among works by Barbara Hepworth and Derek Jarman at Cornwall’s The Dark Monarch exhibition this autumn. One of Damien Hirst’s unicorns, a foal with a golden horn, will gaze mournfully from its goldplated tank of formaldehyde at the entrance to an exhibition on magic and art at Tate St Ives’s this autumn.
The loan, only confirmed today, is a coup for the gallery: it will be the first time a major piece by Hirst has been shown in the south-west, even though the artist has a home just across the county border in Devon. The Child’s Dream 2008 has not been seen in the UK before, but another of Hirst’s unicorn series, the Dream, sold for £2.3m at his notorious Sotheby’s auction last year.
However some recent trouble over the attempt to sue a teenage artist – who took a set of pencils from one of his recent art installations – may overshadow the event. The box of pencils – taken in protest of Hirst’s bullying of the artists Cartrain – has been estimated (by Hirst) to be worth GBP500,000 making this one of the highest value modern art thefts in Britain.
Growing interest from thousands of twitter users have created a bit of a storm and now that celebrities are beginning to weigh in the decision could backfire on Hirst. Cartrain has stated that unless Hirst meets his demands “the pencils will be sharpened”.
Guardian (Thanks Gadgetfreakk)
Americans spend billions on alternative medicine
Americans spend more than a 10th of their out-of-pocket health care dollars on alternative medicine, according to the first national estimate of such spending in more than a decade. Chiropractors, massage therapists, acupuncturists and herbal remedies are commanding significant consumer dollars as people seek high-touch care in a high-tech society, the report released Thursday by the government shows.
Altogether, consumers spent an estimated $34 billion on those and other alternative remedies in 2007, the report found.
“We are talking about a very wide range of health practices that range from promising and sensible to potentially harmful,” said Dr. Josephine Briggs, director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the federal agency that leads research in this field.
Associated Press (Thanks PaulB)
Spain’s magicians up in arms over television show revealing their secrets
Spain’s magicians are up in arms over a television show hosted by a rebel prestidigitator who reveals many of the secrets behind their tricks.
The magicians have asked Spanish lawyers to come up with ways of challenging the Masked Magician and his programme Magic Without Secrets in court, claiming that their favourite tricks should be protected by intellectual property laws.
“The secrets that magicians have been holding on to forever with the sole intention of entertaining their audiences are being exposed with the only aim of gaining a few points of audience rating,” complained one, Magicus, on his blog.
Another angry magic fan has even used his Facebook page to call on someone to kill the Masked Magician “for spoiling the illusion behind the tricks”.
The 8½ Laws of Rumor Spread
Rumors have a way of slipping under our mental defenses before we think to question them. The best ones sidestep common sense entirely. “Think of the lawsuits parents filed over subliminal messages in heavy metal songs,” says Martin Bourgeois, a rumor researcher at Florida Gulf Coast University. “People believed Judas Priest was planting messages to make teenagers commit suicide; no one thought to ask, ‘Why would a rock band want its audience dead?’”
Most of us don’t like to think of ourselves as gullible. But we’re especially likely to accept as true—and do our best to spread—tales that have several specific characteristics that take aim at our best defenses.
At its core, a rumor is just an unverified scrap of information we pass among ourselves to make sense of the world. In one case study conducted at Ohio University by psychologist Mark Pezzo, students had heard that someone on campus had died of meningitis. The story spread because the anxious students were trying to find out what was going on: “Is the rumor true?” “How do you get meningitis?” “I heard that everyone on campus will need to have a painful spinal tap, did you hear that?” In the marketplace of misinformation, fit rumors survive and spread like epidemics, while unfit rumors die quick deaths. So what separates the fit from the unfit? What, in short, are the laws of effective rumors?
Psychology Today (Thanks SuZi)
