This is at least the third high profile prediction in the last year that Cycle 24 is imminent.
Whoops, never mind.
The little black dot in the NW quadrant is a blown pixel, not a sunspot.
I found three more sun spots, but when I scrolled down, they moved off the sun. They were monitor spots.
You should have posted this at the top of the picture. I spent five minutes trying to clean it off my screen.
And what about the one in the NE corner? Oh, oops. That was on my screen. [TheOldLady blushes, slinks away]