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The fountain of health lies in belonging to a group. At least that's what the research reveals. In the last sixty years there have been numerous studies that show that either loneliness or isolation or the combination of both, have a significant impact on an individual's health, especially in the elderly.
"There is mounting evidence that loneliness significantly increases the chances of diabetes, sleep disorders, and other potentially life-threatening problems. Research has also shown a greater risk of high blood pressure among lonely people, as well as higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol, weakened immune systems, and Alzheimer's disease," states John T. Cacioppo, Ph.D., director for the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago as he reported in 2010 to "AARP The Magazine."
With health at risk, one may ask if there is an antidote for loneliness. Dr. Dean Ornish, seems to think there is an answer and he responded to the question recently posed online at ShareCare.com. "Whatever allows you to experience a higher force - whether through prayer, meditation, contemplating nature, and so on - can be a powerful means of transcending feelings of isolation. A direct experience of something larger than ourselves can profoundly transform our lives when we realize that we are not isolated and we are never alone."
Because research regarding social isolation is linked to health and happiness, it continues to be studied. Many psychologists and social behavior experts point to the hierarchy of needs study performed in the 1940s by Abraham Maslow, MD, PhD. He ranked the importance of belonging as one of the most important necessities for our survival after food, shelter and our immediate safety was taken into account.
His study was globally put to test by psychologist Ed Diener of the University of Illinois. The findings, published in 2011, suggest that Maslow's theory is largely correct and that fulfillment of needs correlates with happiness. It was found that social needs were important even when many of the most basic needs were unfulfilled.
The connection between well-being and friendships suggest that after all is said and done, we need each other. The steps that can help lower risks include strengthening ties with immediate family, joining or establishing a self-help group, taking up a sport, becoming a volunteer and involving in a spiritual community.
Every person who makes up our social network is essential to our well-being. Instinctually we have always felt this in our heart. And today there is certainly scientific evidence to back it up.
According to a study reported by the "Journal of the American Medical Association,"researchers took 276 healthy volunteers and exposed them to a cold virus. The results? The group reporting six or more diverse social networks was the most disease resistant.
Conversely, there are negative physical effects when social ties are cut. Many studies confirm higher death rates for recently widowed spouses, especially men. It's true, as evidence suggests, that married couples have fewer health problems than their single friends.
Back in 1965, Dr. Lisa Berkman, a Harvard epidemiologist, initiated her jaw-dropping study. Through her scrutiny of seven thousand men and women, she discovered that those who had limited social ties, meaning lack of contact with friends, marital status, church or social memberships, were up to three times more likely to die (in the nine-year follow-up period). And it was clearly proved, regardless of gender, age, lifestyle or health status. 1
But there's more. Over two thousand people in Evans County, Georgia were studied and followed. Those who had extended and close contacts with family and friends coupled with community group affiliations had lowered mortality rates. 2
The Tecumseh Community Health Study in southeast Michigan explained that men with stronger social ties had fewer incidences of lung and heart disease, decreased cancer and stroke incidence regardless of age, occupation or health status. 3
What do elderly men and women from East Boston, New Haven and rural Iowa have in common? Studies indicate that those with no social ties had two to three times the mortality risk compared to those with four or greater social connections. 4
Seventeen thousand people were studied in Sweden. It was a 6-year investigation of people between the ages of twenty-nine to seventy four. Socially isolated individuals were almost four times more likely to have an increased mortality ratio. Of importance, factors such as age, lifestyle or health status did not change the end results. 5
Every person who makes up our social network is essential to our well-being. Many people instinctually believe this truth and today there is certainly scientific evidence to back it up.


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At age 9, I watched with wide eyes as"American Idol"debuted on national television in 2002.
I never imagined that 10 years later I would receive my very own golden ticket to Hollywood.
After my debut appearance in the Season 11 premiere, which showed interview footage, clips of childhood singing performances and my encounter with the judges, and later the San Diego auditions — the episode aired Sunday night after the NFC Championship game and then again on Tuesday night — I began getting inquiries about the intriguing process and my personal story.
After some thought, I figured, who better to tell the story than me?
This column is about my personal achievement: becoming one of 300 singers selected out of 110,000 contenders who auditioned in stadiums across the nation to become the next American Idol.
Today, as a performer, entertainment writer and avid contributor to the Daily Pilot, hopefully I can use my words to tell my story as effectively as I used my musical notes in front of the "Idol" judges, Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson, who all sent me to Hollywood a week after their unanimous decision.
For years my father, a huge fan of the Fox show and a musical man himself, watched eagerly and encouraged me to give it a go. This year, I finally gave in and decided to audition just for fun. After all, the reality show is known for producing singing superstars overnight and turning them into household names.
The prospects are pretty tempting, but I went into the audition without expectations.
Before making it through on "Idol," I had considered auditioning for "The Voice,"NBC's attempt — with little success — at crippling the "American Idol" machine. Nonetheless, "American Idol" ranked No. 1 among adults ages 18 to 49 for eight consecutive seasons. It was also the No. 1 television show of the 2010-11 season, even with the new judges who came onboard last season.
As a side note, I was relieved that contestants were no longer subject to Simon Cowell's notorious scrutiny, but were met by an encouraging and benevolent panel. Honestly, despite Cowell's brash, no-nonsense manner, the guy knows what he is talking about.
So, on a sweltering day back in July, I showed up at Petco Park in downtown San Diego, along with my childhood best friend and 10,000 other hopefuls all wishing to be the next Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood or Scotty McCreery.
Most of them came prepared to sing Adele's "Rolling in the Deep." However, I had a different song in mind for my moment in front of the panel: "Some Kind of Wonderful" by Carole King, which over the years has also been covered by the likes of Grand Funk Railroad and Joss Stone.
Equipped with a solid audition song, I entered the judging room after a wait that seemed an eternity. But, somehow, the confidence I had mustered during the wait escaped me. Before me sat legendary frontman Tyler, global icon Lopez and Grammy Award-winning producer Jackson.
They all stared at me in my deep purple headband and hippie garb with expectant eyes.
Frankly, I was happily terrified — a strange reaction given my background in performing arts. There's something about all the cameras and excitement that takes you on a roller coaster ride of newfound emotions.
As I took a deep breath and opened my mouth to sing, I could feel my hands shaking. But, after the first few lines I looked up to find a relieving sight: Tyler interjecting and waving his hands in the air, grooving to my soulful sounds. From then on, I came into my own and even made the judges laugh!
Then came the moment of truth.
In an unanimous "yes," the panel — most notably Lopez — pointed out that I was an artist possessing "the whole package," as well as a certain emotive energy and spark in performance. I've never received compliments well, and always seem to get embarrassed, beaming bashfully from ear to ear.
And then the screaming came. This was the golden ticket moment viewers saw for the first time when the San Diego episode aired Sunday night.
When I ran down the stairs in a frenzy to greet my family, close friends and host Ryan Seacrest, who all eagerly awaited the decision. Everyone was instantly in high spirits — especially Grandma, who impressed me with her Olympic high-jump.
But while my support group danced through the corridors of the U.S.S. Midway, I tried to ground my excitement in reality. In the entertainment business you eventually develop a thick skin, which means learning to never get too excited or disappointed about an experience. Anything can happen in show business, especially in reality television.
However, my road to Hollywood began even before I set foot in Petco Park last summer.
Immense musical preparation made this moment attainable. Thankfully, for a 19-year-old I have had my share of musical opportunities including: radio play on Top 40 stations like Radio Disney, and soundtrack work in movies like "Marley & Me: The Puppy Years," "Flicka 2" and "Moondance Alexander." And at age 13, I was lucky enough to be the opening soloist at an event featuring Sting and Natalie Cole.
In the end, I owe all of my feats to my family, who has enduringly supported this passionate dream I hold close to my heart. When I started to sing, I was not driven by a thirst for stardom, but a genuine zeal and emotional connection to my music as a universal communicative tool.
An intriguing journey has just begun.
For more information, log on to http://www.heatheryoumansmusic.com or americanidol.com where the "Idol" team has posted my official "Road to Hollywood" interview and a photo taken during my audition. Stay tuned as "American Idol" continues to search for America's next singing superstar.


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Jazz stuff relies on a lot of low level subtle details. I hated the whole thing until moving from dynamic to electrostatics. Now I can't get enough of it.
I can see why people will prefer Ella/Nina/ etc, they have a more impressive voice and can grab attention faster. But I somehow don't like their music (the music itself). Their stuff probably sounds better from more generic equipment, just like pop stuff are great playing on car radios (or even boom boxes). So before you hate Krall so much, try it with another rig and see. The speakers on your TV will not do any music justice (well, except may be country music). |


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I suggest to contact xanavi.ru , they can offer an Eglish menu to your device for -I guess- a little fortune... and blame xanavi for their lame approach and for the lack of AU/NZ map...
Does anyone have information on this system to change to English. It is a Nissan Cefiro import to New Zealand and the GPS is built into the dash with the DVD unit in the Boot.
It opens and works well but all in Japanese. Xanavi said to me a while ago now that they were not interested in the south pacific but what I would like is a DVD that could change it to English even if I can't get a map to work. At least I could read it's features etc. Hope someone can help TNX
I suggest to contact xanavi.ru , they can offer an Eglish menu to your device for -I guess- a little fortune... and blame xanavi for their lame approach and for the lack of AU/NZ map...
All questions should be directed through the forum
Private messages will be disregarded
Thanks for that 'hell' I went onto their website and in the FAQ section one of the questions was answered with these words.
>The Japanese system has a user interface in Japanese, which can not by simple manipulation of the menu to change to some other. Other languages simply are not provided.< >Use of such a navigation system without knowing the Japanese language is almost impossible.<
I think this explains all to me....forget about it.
It would be nice if I could just use the screen, that pops up out of the dash but finding the connection under the dash would be a major I think.
Some interesting reading there 'gazo' will take a bit of searching...tnx
Sorry for the long delay in replying but I havn't read this thread for ages. My screen in above the dash under a flap. When you use the remote I have it opens up. Great idea really as it disappears when not in use and stops the car thieves. Still however looks impossible to get any DVD to change it to english. Maybe yopu have found something lately?
If it doesn't open up by itself then maybe the fuse is out?
old thread I guess, sorry


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Day turns night (8x)
Night Light suckas..
Put one up shackle me, not clean logic procreation
I did invent the wheel, in a previous generation
While the triple sixers lassos keep angels roped in the basement
I locate modern halos and pass em out to the pavement
Y'all catch a 30-second flash frame
Dirty cooperative Neptune bloom head-trip split
Fantastic! Fathom the splicing of major league low lifes
With anti hero earthworm mentality (Godzilla!)
I pace my game for zero hour completion
See a cretin's still a cretin even speakin' altered moniker
American nightmare lost in the monitor
I'll hold the door open so you can stagger through
Then ten berserk and bread cookies in after you
It's the gutter and I spell it with the 'g' I stole from 'Get
The fuck up'
Noise crutch stolen wretched refuse of my teaming dumb luck
Still I promise temperance storm breed still bleeding Amish
See the freaks sucked out the bottom dropped while three bears invade the cottage
And I can't sleep now
Yeah, the police'll laugh
You won't be laughing when your covered wagons crash
You won't be laughing when you're hosted by the ghost of
Christmas past
You won't be laughing when your blow up doll's
Got a headache and won't give up the ass
And I lay my kicks to rest when I'm impressed
So I staple-gun them to my feet
This origami dream is beautiful: pull the tail watch the wings
But you really can't do a thing with that
All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day
Swallow up the pieces
Spit 'em at your species
Reachin' the city of lost barnacles and leeches
Night-light got me when the daylight went to evening
Night (Light) Day (Light) x8
I'm pretty sure I got a pulse.. Plus
We Shimmy cross the centerfold, and our night light engulfed
Just let me keep the crumbs (Please)
With seven deadly stains
To hear the plane to crystal conscious
The results a dead-beat trying to make a dollar off a bomb
Threat (Ok)
Lift me to activism chain activate wild-style Pluto orbit
Set a course then push the button
I swallow spores born by the laws of a morbid glutton
I can spot a drunk battalion by the Charlie Chaplin waddle
Zig zag and zig 'em again before they can pull a badge out
But I lash out
Another thick installment of one night in Gotham like
'Houston we have a problem'
They're buffing the trains the same days the graffiti writers
Bomb 'em
Who split how many freaks on box cuts of a high road bellow?
Heads ripped! Watch red bricks turn yellow
I'll try to meet the wizard
But a tailgating tit-man holding an oil can
Won't let a hermit crab break in his new shell-toes
Life's not a bitch, life is a beotch
Who keeps the villagers circling the marketplace
Out searching for the G-spot
Maybe she didn't feel y'all shared any similar interests
Or maybe you're just an asshole; maybe I'm just an asshole
Kiss the speaker wire, seaming swashbuckler or pagan thresh hold
Stomach full of diner food
Wings span cast black upon views
Here to help release the rabid hounds or pick apart your mood
I got this friend of polar nature and it's all peace
When I seek similar stars but can't sit at the same feast
Metal Captain!
This cat is asking if I've seen his bit of lost passion
I told him: 'Yeah' I gave him one last look and smashed him
All I ever wanted was to pick apart the day
Swallow up the pieces
Spit 'em at your species
Reachin' the city of lost barnacles and leeches
Night-light got me when the daylight went to evening
Night (Light) Day (Light)..
Lyrics taken from http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/a/aesop_rock/night_light.html


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14-Year-Old Boy Missing From Little Village For Three WeeksPolice are searching for a 14-year-old boy who has been missing from the Southwest Side Little Village neighborhood for more than three weeks.
13-Year-Old Highland, Ind. Boy Found Safe 13-year-old Highland, Indiana boy has been found safe after being reported missing Tuesday afternoon.
Missing Teen From McHenry County Found Shot In Phoenix; Suspect DeadPolice say a teenage girl reported missing in Illinois was found shot in Phoenix and the man she was believed to be with has taken his own life.
Missing Autistic Boy Found Safe In Hoffman EstatesDavid Quattrochi was found at about 7:30 a.m. Thursday in nearby Hoffman Estates. He was taken to a local hospital for evaluation, but was responsive.
14-Year-Old Girl Missing From Humboldt ParkPolice are asking the public's help in finding a 14-year-old girl with bipolar disorder missing from the Humboldt Park neighborhood.
16-Year-Old Girl Reported Missing From Portage ParkPolice are searching for a 16-year-old girl, reported missing last week from her home in the Northwest Side Portage Park neighborhood.
Police: Teenage Girl Missing From South SidePolice are searching for a 16-year-old South Side girl who hasn't been seen since Wednesday in West Englewood.
14-Year-Old Girl Missing From North Side A 14-year-old girl has been reported missing after leaving her home on the North Side last Thursday.
Girl, 15, Missing From Greater Grand CrossingPolice are searching for a 15-year-old girl who has been missing from the South Side Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood for two weeks.
Missing Teen Girl FoundA teenage girl who was missing from the city's Near North Side since Friday was found.
Guilty Verdict In Teen's 2002 Disappearance A verdict--in the death of a teenager who vanished more than ten years ago. His body was never found but Tuesday night that didn't stop a jury from convicting a man in his death. Mario Casciaro has been found guilty of first degree murder.
Police Looking For Teen Missing Since HalloweenChicago police are looking for a 15-year old girl who hasn't been seen since Halloween.


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LisaM's Event Journal
Thursday July 18, 2013 / 7:30pm
4 tickets
Assigned at Box Office
How was your experience?
I would have given this show more stars if I felt it had been represented better in the description on Goldstar. Having seen other shows at ArtsWest, I came in with the expectation of seeing a gripping, adult show performed by adult actors, rather than a gripping, adult show performed by high school and college students. Nowhere in the show description on Goldstar was the apprenticeship program mentioned. Don't get me wrong, these young actors are extremely talented (the girl who plays Florence in particular) and I probably would have come to see the show anyways (Chess is one of my favorites and is grossly underperformed), but I would have adjusted my expectations to suit the situation. I guess my excitement at seeing ANY theater in Seattle put this show on overwhelmed my drive to research the production before buying tickets.


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It seems some of you enjoy the weekly roundups of what's happening on HBO's Hard Knocks. That's great. Thanks for reading. But there have been a couple of comments on the site and thru email, which I need to address.
I know that Ochocinco's saying "Child Please."
I'm not an idiot. I don't believe he's referring to a nation in South America. And I'm not so old or white or uncool that I can't understand the words coming out of his mouth.
But here's the thing. He doesn't pronounce the D. That's why I'm writing "Chile Please." Would you prefer "Chil' Please?" Seriously. I'm asking. Leave your answer in comments.


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Private line: Private Gold
Release date: 11/01/2007
Duration: 100 min.
Directed by: X-Off
Featuring: Lucy Belle, Lady Mai, Jessica Girl, Claudia Adams, Regina Ice, Suzie Diamond
When you start a vendetta with the Sicilian Mafia Girlz they will cum after you with their asses! So you better make sure you've got enough ammunition in your machine gun to fire some face spurting sperm bullets, because they are on the hunt for a cum filled sex massacre, and they'll stop at nothing to get it! 6 scenes including a DP!


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Taylor Swift Dumped By Harry Styles For Being Too Much Of A Prude?
One Direction's Harry Styles may have dumped Taylor Swift for being a little too uptight sexually, according to a source close to Styles.
The source states:
"Taylor is so concerned that the public will think she's a wh*re because she dates around, that she doesn't put out. What she doesn't get is that the guys keep dumping her because she's being a prude."
Another source close to the singer states that Swift is just not that interesting, as all she talked about was antiques.
"Harry found Taylor a little sexually uninterested. It's no secret he's sexually active and is enjoying his fame at the moment. But Taylor just wasn't up for it as much as he is. They were sexually incompatible."
Swift's friends have quickly come to her defense (sort of) and have added that that her public reputation is of utmost importance to her and she doesn't understand how she's being perceived.
Swift's romances have been heavily looked at by the media and they have become sort of a gimmick. From Jake Gyllenhaal, to John Mayer, to a Kennedy, and now to Harry Styles, Swift has become the target of jokes, and now with this new story out, a new wave of jokes will be aimed at her.
Although, is anyone really surprised at this bit of new information? Swift being a snooze isn't actually something that is surprising. I mean, have you all seen her videos?
What do you guys think of Swift possibly being a grandma when it comes to sex?


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© 2007 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. All rights reserved.
The Hall call arrives for Gwynn, Ripken
First ballot players to be inducted into Hall of Fame on July 29
By Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com
NEW YORK -- Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr. will be forever joined at the hip. They co-existed during the same era, playing their entire careers near their hometowns for a single Major League team, while dominating their respective leagues.
On Tuesday, they were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on their first tries, both having been selected with nearly the highest vote percentages in history -- Ripken finishing third behind Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan, while Gwynn nestled in at seventh.
"To me, the numbers and the stats, they're overwhelming," said Ripken, the Baltimore Orioles star who grew up in nearby Aberdeen, Md., and received an all-time high 537 votes on the record 545 ballots cast. "I really didn't get caught up in wanting to be unanimous or wanting to have the most. I'm very content to be voted in."
Gwynn, who grew up in Long Beach, Calif., and played 20 seasons down the freeway for the San Diego Padres, received 532 votes, the second most in history.
Gwynn, who won a record-tying eight National League batting titles, and Ripken, who shattered Lou Gehrig's record by playing in 2,632 consecutive games, will be inducted at Cooperstown on July 29. They will be joined by any candidates elected in the Hall of Fame Veterans Committee election, the results of which will be announced on Feb. 27.
Ripken garnered 98.53 percent of the vote from veteran members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America, the most for a position player. Ripken finished behind Seaver (98.83 in 1992) and Ryan (98.79 in 1999). Gwynn's percentage of 97.6 ranks directly behind Ty Cobb, George Brett and Hank Aaron, pretty good company.
"These percentages started to concern me a bit," Gwynn said during a conference call. "I feel guilty enough as it is being able to get in, while other guys can't. I was hoping to be in the low 90s and I could go about my business. I didn't want to be close to unanimous. I'm glad it worked out the way it did."
Mark McGwire, also a ballot newcomer, fell well short of election, his name appearing on less than a quarter of the ballots cast, two of which were left completely blank.
Gwynn said McGwire is a Hall of Famer and is being made the scapegoat for what transpired during the years when many suspect that performance-enhancing drugs were used liberally throughout Major League Baseball.
"You all knew about it," said Gwynn, referring to the media. "The players knew it and the owners knew it. But nobody did anything about it."
Others receiving votes:
Dave Concepcion 74 (13.6%), Alan Trammell 73 (13.4%), Dave Parker 62 (11.4%), Don Mattingly 54 (9.9%), Dale Murphy 50 (9.2%), Harold Baines 29 (5.3%), Orel Hershiser 24 (4.4%), Albert Belle 19 (3.5%), Paul O'Neill 12 (2.2%), Bret Saberhagen 7 (1.3%), Jose Canseco 6 (1.1%), Tony Fernandez 4 (0.7%), Dante Bichette 3 (0.6%), Eric Davis 3 (0.6%), Bobby Bonilla 2 (0.4%), Ken Caminiti 2 (0.4%), Jay Buhner 1 (0.2%), Scott Brosius 0, Wally Joyner 0, Devon White 0, Bobby Witt 0.
2007 Hall of Fame voting results
The complete vote
(545 ballots, 409 needed for election):
(545 ballots, 409 needed for election):
Cal Ripken | 537 | 98.5% | Tony Gwynn | 532 | 97.6% |
Rich "Goose" Gossage | 388 | 71.2% | Jim Rice | 346 | 63.5% |
Andre Dawson | 309 | 56.7% | Bert Blyleven | 260 | 47.7% |
Lee Smith | 217 | 39.8% | Jack Morris | 202 | 37.1% |
Mark McGwire | 128 | 23.5% | Tommy John | 125 | 22.9% |
Steve Garvey | 115 | 21.1% |
Dave Concepcion 74 (13.6%), Alan Trammell 73 (13.4%), Dave Parker 62 (11.4%), Don Mattingly 54 (9.9%), Dale Murphy 50 (9.2%), Harold Baines 29 (5.3%), Orel Hershiser 24 (4.4%), Albert Belle 19 (3.5%), Paul O'Neill 12 (2.2%), Bret Saberhagen 7 (1.3%), Jose Canseco 6 (1.1%), Tony Fernandez 4 (0.7%), Dante Bichette 3 (0.6%), Eric Davis 3 (0.6%), Bobby Bonilla 2 (0.4%), Ken Caminiti 2 (0.4%), Jay Buhner 1 (0.2%), Scott Brosius 0, Wally Joyner 0, Devon White 0, Bobby Witt 0.
Election coverage:
Ripken elected to Hall of Fame
Selfless Gwynn now a Hall of Famer
Hall call arrives for Ripken, Gwynn
Bauman: Duo among most deserving
McGwire falls well short of induction
Gossage inches closer to Hall
Thirteenth try not lucky for Rice
Hall's doors still closed to Dawson
Ripken elected to Hall of Fame
Selfless Gwynn now a Hall of Famer
Hall call arrives for Ripken, Gwynn
Bauman: Duo among most deserving
McGwire falls well short of induction
Gossage inches closer to Hall
Thirteenth try not lucky for Rice
Hall's doors still closed to Dawson
Sights and sounds:
Hall of Fame class announced: 350K
Ripken's press conference: 350K
Gwynn's press conference: 350K
Ripken talks to MLB.com: 350K
Gwynn talks to MLB.com: 350K
Ripken/Gwynn Hall of Fame montage: 350K
Photo galleries: Ripken | Gwynn I | Gwynn II
Hall of Fame class announced: 350K
Ripken's press conference: 350K
Gwynn's press conference: 350K
Ripken talks to MLB.com: 350K
Gwynn talks to MLB.com: 350K
Ripken/Gwynn Hall of Fame montage: 350K
Photo galleries: Ripken | Gwynn I | Gwynn II
Ripken was hardly as vociferous.
"I don't think it's my place [to give an opinion]," Ripken said during his conference call. "I know that it exists and [the fact] that it's a story doesn't bother me one bit. But when I sit and look at myself, I don't think it's my place to cast judgment. I honestly believe the truth will be known. But right now we're dealing with an awful lot of assumptions and speculation and not a lot of facts." It was a day of good news and bad news for Rich "Goose" Gossage, the reliever who is creeping ever so close to his day in the Cooperstown sun. The bad news is that this time, Gossage came up 21 votes shy of the 75 percent needed to ascend to the Hall. The good news is that with a much thinner ballot next year, Gossage seems to be on the cusp. In 2008, Tim Raines and David Justice are the cream of the freshman class. On the ballot for the eighth year, the Goose came in at 71.2 percent, an increase from his 64.6 percent a year ago. In the history of the BBWAA Hall of Fame voting, no candidate has ever received at least 70 percent in an election without eventually gaining a place in Cooperstown. Most recently, Don Sutton (73.2 percent in 1997) and Gaylord Perry (72.1 percent) were elected the very next year. McGwire received enough votes to carry him over until 2008, but his 23.5 percent (128 votes) was a resounding rejection from an electorate which suspected that the slugger, who finished his 16-year career with 583 homers, was part of Major League Baseball's so-called steroid era. Of the 17 first-timers on the ballot, only McGwire and Harold Baines received enough votes to carry them over. Five years after he retires, a player has 15 years of eligibility on the ballot, but he must receive at least 5 percent of the vote each year to maintain that status. In another obvious statement, Jose Canseco (who hit 462 homers) and the late Ken Caminiti (who was named the 1996 National League Most Valuable Player as a member of the Padres), didn't receive the requisite vote to remain on the ballot. Both players publicly admitted the use of steroids during their playing days. Canseco, a Bash Brother in Oakland with McGwire, received six votes. Caminiti, who died from a drug overdose in 2004, got two. With the addition of Gwynn and Ripken to the Hall, 280 members have now been elected, including 198 former Major League players -- 105 of them by the BBWAA, whose voters must have at least 10 years of consecutive membership to receive a ballot. Jim Rice and Andre Dawson, who like Gossage, received more than 60 percent of the vote last year, both lost a little ground. Rice dropped from 64.8 percent last year to 63.5 percent this year, while Dawson slumped from 61 percent in 2006 to 56.7 percent this time around. From the outset, though, Gwynn and Ripken were dead-bang winners. Gwynn played for the 1984 and 1998 pennant-winning Padres and considers his home run at Yankee Stadium in Game 1 of the 1998 World Series to be the highlight of his stellar career. Gwynn tied Honus Wagner for the most NL batting titles in history (eight), and his career-high .394 average during the strike-shortened 1994 season is the highest in the past 65 years -- since Ted Williams became the last of the .400 hitters when he batted .406 to lead the American League in 1941. In addition, Gwynn was a 15-time NL All-Star who had 3,141 hits, batted .338 and won five Gold Gloves as a right fielder in his 20 Major League seasons, all played with the San Diego Padres. But he hit only 135 homers and knocked in just 1,138 runs in 2,440 games, both stats he considered to be personal shortcomings. He also never played a complete 162-game season. "I thought I was going to get penalized," Gwynn said. "I didn't win any championships. I didn't hit a whole lot of home runs. I didn't drive in a whole lot of people. To be one of those lucky ones, to get in, is a blessing." In contrast, Ripken, a shortstop and third baseman, didn't miss a game from May 30, 1982, to Sept. 20, 1998, shattering the record consecutive game streak of 2,130 once held by Gehrig, the Yankees first baseman. Ripken had 3,184 hits -- including 431 home runs -- batted .276, was twice an AL Most Valuable Player (1983 and 1991), was a 19-time AL All-Star, and won two Gold Gloves. His Orioles defeated the Phillies in five games to win the 1983 World Series, with Ripken at short, snaring the series-ending line drive to short hit by Garry Maddox. But Ripken's Baltimore squad never again played in the Fall Classic during the course of his 21-year career. Certainly, he captivated the hearts of baseball fans everywhere on the night of Sept. 7, 1995, when the Iron Man slipped past the Iron Horse at Camden Yards. That night, after the game against the Angels became official in the fifth inning, Ripken circled the stadium slapping hands with many of the fans as a never-ending cacophony of cheers rained down on him. "That was completely spontaneous," Ripken said about the lap. "It was Bobby [Bonilla] and Rafael Palmeiro who pushed me out of the dugout and said, 'Hey, if you don't do a lap around this thing, we're never going to get this game re-started.' As I started to do it, the celebration of 50,000 became very one-on-one and personal. Catching the last out of the World Series was the best feeling because there was a sense of fulfillment, completion and joy. "But the best human experience of my life was that lap. At the end of it, I couldn't have cared less if that game got started again. This [Hall of Fame honor] is a wonderful moment and a wonderful feeling."Barry M. Bloom is a national reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Well, the problem seems to be the passenger side (drivers) rear door interior handle. Here's my question; What would cause the mechanism to not release the door latch when you do the "double pull" on the handle? The door lock plunger rises to the unlock position, then it feels like the handle is in free play mode, like it was double locked or something it cannot be opened from the outside either. BUT, here is the catch if I cycle the central locking system once the door opens perfectly. I was thinking the door handle carrier might be the culprit, but the symptoms don't seem to match. I also checked the child lock setting to make sure it was not engaged, Before I take it to the dealer I would like to know if this is something I can fix.
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I'm not 100% sure I understand your symptom.
BMW locks works a very interesting way. In short form: doors can only be unlocked in the same manner they were locked. This prevents many things like theft, and also causes some heart ache if not understood properly. Let me give an example: 1) I pull up to a retail store, get out of the car and lock with the remote. I return to the car and unlock with the physical key in the door lock cylinder. The alarm goes off. The car was not expecting to be unlocked in a manner different than it was locked. 2) I leave all my windows down on a nice warm day and lock the car with the remote. Some would-be thief sees an opportunity and reaches in to press the unlock button inside the car. The alarm should go off due to a motion sensor in the car, but even if it doesn't, the door lock button on the console inside the car does NOT unlock the car. Only the remote can unlock it in this case. This particular situation has a hazardous side effect: If you lock a person inside the car with the remote on the key, they cannot open the doors! It specifically states in the manual not to lock people in the car for this very reason. So, if there is a problem in the central locking system, the car could be 'confused' about which state it is in and produce odd behavior like you describe. If you're lucky, there is only a small problem with that individual door. It could be the actuator that turns electrical signals from the central locking system into lock/unlock action on the door latch. It could be the central locking system itself. It could be the wiring in between them. It could be a need for grease or a chunk of debris blocking the linkage between the latch and the door handle or lock plunger. It's hard to say with the detail you've written. My advice is to open it up and investigate. Consider it exploratory surgery
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The problem is only with the one door.
It does not matter the method that is used to lock the door, manual, automatic due to speed (10 to 20 MPH) or with the remote. If you come to a stop, turn off the engine and then double pull the door handle. The first pull disengages the lock, the second opens the door. This worked on all four door up until this weekend. Now it is only working on three. To get the forth door to open I mus cycle the central lock or remote lock all the doors. Then unlock them for the forth door to open properly. Thank you for replying and I hope that this helps you understand my problem better. R, Vertigow |
Got it.
I've never heard of this issue before, but I'd say it's either the linkage between the internal handle and the door latch, or the child lock system acting up. I don't know how to diagnose the issue, though. It sounds like the actuator is working fine, but something along the way obviously is not. If you can open it up and look inside the door panel (probably with a small mirror and some flashlights) maybe you can see the problem. Good luck!
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I spent about an hour earliier today with the door panel off doing that very thing. I tried looking with a light and dental mirror to see if any of the linkage appears to be binding or cables frayed, but everything appears to be okay.
I also checked the child lock and both rear doors are set to be be disengaged so the door shoudl open from the inside. This is really strange as it will open now eveytime, but only if or after I cycle the lock using the central control or remote. Using this approach I can hear (on all four doors) an initial server action (call it a pre-unlock) then a second more agressive unlock that raises the door lock pin. Just a frustrating situation that if you are the passanger behind the driver you are locked in as if the Child Lock is on until the locks are cycled. Thank you again. R, Vertigow |
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WOBURN -- The family of 15-year-old John J. McCabe, whose 1969 cold-case murder was cracked more than four decades later, has filed a $10 million wrongful-death lawsuit against the three men accused of binding the Tewksbury teen with rope and leaving him in a Lowell field where he strangled to death.
Lowell attorney Michael W. Gallagher confirmed his firm of Gallagher & Cavanaugh, representing the estate of John J. McCabe, filed the lawsuit on Wednesday in Middlesex Superior Court against Walter Shelley, of Tewksbury, Michael Ferreira, of Salem, N.H., and Edward Brown, of Londonderry, N.H.
The lawsuit seeks $10 million for the loss of consortium, pain and suffering, negligence, gross negligence and/or intentional acts in the death of McCabe, Gallagher told The Sun.
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Shelley, who is in jail awaiting sentencing, could not be reached for comment. Neither Ferreira nor Brown, both of whom are free, could be reached for comment.
The lawsuit was filed because 81-year-old Evelyn McCabe, John's mother, "continues to fight for justice" in her son's Sept. 27, 1969 death, Gallagher said.
"It's not about the money,'' Evelyn McCabe told The Sun. "I would like to have the whole truth come out. I want to know what happened to my son."
She added, "I promised my husband I would see it through to the end."
Gallagher said in a statement that law-enforcement officials did a "remarkable job" by cracking the case in 2011 and securing a confession from Brown and a conviction against Shelley, but the civil process "can now be employed to get the full story to find out what happened and why; and to hold everyone involved in Johnny's death accountable.
Ferreira and Shelley did not testify at their trials. Gallagher said the civil process will allow him to depose the two men, under oath, to answer questions.
Before his death on Jan. 29, 2013, shortly after Ferreira was found not guilty of murder, John's father, William McCabe, 85, wrote in his unfinished book about his son, "Perhaps as the killer gets older and watches his children or his friend's children grow, and as he reaches out to touch them, he will think of our son and our loneliness and sadness.
"Gallagher, with co-counsel Sheryl M. Bourbeau, said they believe there are still people who have relevant information but have been reluctant to share while criminal trials were pending. They said they hope that those individuals might now find the courage to come forward.
Shelley was 17 when he and two teenage friends, Brown, then 18, and Michael Ferreira, then 16, allegedly kidnapped the 15-year-old Tewksbury boy, tied him up, taped his eyes and mouth shut, and then left him in a vacant field in Lowell on Sept. 27, 1969.
"Johnny's death devastated his parents, the late William McCabe and his wife, Evelyn, and his sisters, Debbie McCabe-Atamanchuk, who was 16, and Roberta McCabe-Donovan, who was just 6 when Johnny was killed," Gallagher said in a statement.
Prosecutors allege that the three boys were trying to teach McCabe a lesson for flirting with Shelley's girlfriend.
The ropes that bound McCabe's hands and legs to his neck strangled the boy as he attempted to escape. The state medical examiner ruled McCabe died from asphyxiation due to strangulation.
Prosecutors allege the three men swore an oath of secrecy to take McCabe's death to their graves, but when the cold case was reopened, Brown talked.
Brown, 60, testified against Ferreira and Shelley, in exchange for pleading guilty to manslaughter and serving no time in jail.
But to the McCabe family's "shock and horror," Ferreira, 59, was cleared of the murder in January 2013. In September, a Lowell Superior Court jury convicted Shelley, 61, of Tewksbury, of first-degree murder.
A first-degree murder conviction usually carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole. But due to a Supreme Judicial Court decision in December, juveniles can't be sentenced to life without parole. Shelley, who was 17 at the time of the murder, will likely be sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years. He is due back in court on Feb. 20 to learn his fate.
When asked if she is satisfied that Shelley could face life in prison with the chance of parole one day, Evelyn McCabe said, "I guess I have to be."
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I'm new to this site but been reading it for awhile I guess. I currently have a pair of Audiotechnica M50s and recently had a relative randomly give me a pair of Grado MS2's. Never thought I would really need an amp. Don't really have much budget to work with so less than $100 would be preferable. I also usually listen to music from my laptop (Macbook Pro). So far ive been looking at the Fiio E7 and E11. Really don't know much about them besides the fact the look affordable and pretty cool. Any help would be appreciated thanks!
Edit: Ok did some more research! Im going to mainly use my Macbook. Would E7 be better cause its a DAC or could i just connect the E11 to the headphone jack for the same effect?
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As most of you know, I did not vote for President Obama–we have many philosophical differences in how to get out of the recession and other stuff. But something he said last night during his address to Congress made me want to stand up and cheer.
When he was talking about education, the President said something that we don't hear anymore. It was a common theme when I was growing up. By the time my kids were going to school, things were different. It was discussed in hushed tones by small discreet groups and in a few homes. But most people did not believe it or want it to be the truth. Why? Because it is hard sometimes. And, frankly, I did not think there was a politician from either party that beleived it.
What was this very controversial thing he said?
He said that education begins in the home. And that is not all! He had the gall to say that parents should turn off the TV and the computer and read to their children or help them with their homework. I am sure most people simply chose to ignore what he said or stare at him on the TV set with disbelieving eyes and ears. Many people this morning are probably wondering if he is completle deranged by the rigors of the Presidency already.
But, I say, "you go, Mr. President!" It is about time we get back to thinking that our children's education is our responsibility–not the government's! It is the parents' responsibility to guide a child's education, to teach them the basics of numbers and alphabet and colors. It is a parent's job to see that the child gets to school and does their homework. It is the parent's responsibility to make sure no one (even the parent) does the work for the child.
It is about time we bring this out of the proverbial closet. Let's talk about it out loud and at PTSA meetings. Way to go, Obama. You certainly got this right!


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Hi: This may sound like a retarded question but I'm new with ISPconfig and linux. I have installed Ubuntu 6.06, and ISPConfig successfully on a separate box on my local network. I'm just using it for developing purposes. I created a site in ISPConfig with the following settings: Server: Server 1 Hostname: www Domain: a.projects.org IP Address: 192.168.1.200 Create DNS: 0 Create DNS-MX: 0 I can ftp files to the site with no problems. If I open a web browser and just put in the ip address I get: " This IP address is shared. For access to the web site which you look for, enter its address instead of its IP." What am I missing? I've tried just a.projects.org but I get nothing. Based on the settings above, what do I need to type into my browser to access the site?
Add the IP and domain to the hosts file of the PC that you are using to access the site. In Windows the hosts file is located in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
Ok, I added the ip along with hostname to my host file in windows. I am now able to type in the "a.projects.com" in my browser and it does go to my server. However I'm still getting the Shared IP error. I think I'm missing something in ISPConfig or something on my server. Do I need to update my hosts file in ubuntu?
did you add "a.projects.com" to ISPconfig, or only "projects.com"? If only "projects.com", login on ISPconfig, go to ISPmanager > projects.com > Co-Domains > New and add in hostname "a" and in domain "projects.com" If you want to access "projects.com" from the PC than you will also need to add the IP and projects.com to the hosts file


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Looking to find some authentic Dutch windmills? If you're planning on visiting Alkmaar, I'd recommend getting off at the Alkmaar Noord (north) train station and taking a stroll through the Oudorperhout. The first thing you'll see is a row of windmills, hence the name of the street. Each one is operational and sometimes you can visit if there's a white flag flying.
In addition to the windmills, the area offers green pastures where cows and sheep graze and is a popular place for birds, especially herens and geese. If you listen closely, you can often hear a cuckcoo.
To get from the train station to the area is easy. Once you walk out of the entrance (not the one with bike parking), cross the street and you are there. It's about a half-hour walk to the city center.And the best way to get there is follow the main bike path until it ends near a pond, take a right and then a left on Munnikenweg (You'll see a windmill)


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2D Animation Tools
Simply Moving
ByWith the right tool and a bit of artistic talent, you can create two-dimensional cartoons, even without Flash. In this article, we present four animation programs and look at how well they perform in practice.
Despite blockbusters such as Toy Story and Shrek, conventional cartoons still have countless fans, with growing audiences for budding cartoonists and animation hobbyists. In the analog age, the artist had to take up a pencil and draw an entire picture over and over for succeeding frames.
Flip books functioned according to the same scheme: One second of story required 30 hand-drawn images. Even if the protagonist only moved a hand, the cartoonist had to conjure up the image on paper a number of times to achieve smooth animation. In the digital age, it's a lot easier to accomplish.
In 2002, two Colombians decided to facilitate their daily work as animators with the help of open source software, and KTooN was born. Sponsored by public institutions, development continued until 2006.
In 2009, with no new donors in sight, the initiators put the project on ice, then redesigned the software for a new stable release that appeared in 2010. Since then, however, the project again seems to have fallen into a deep slumber: During the past three years, the makers have neither published new code nor updated the project homepage.
KTooN is often not included in the official package repositories of new versions of various distributions; however, the source code is available on SourceForge as well as the project website. When you finally start the program, you will notice two bugs: The Tip of the day first displayed on startup remains blank (Figure 1), as do the Tooltips.
On their homepage, the developers provide a quick reference guide, as well as a mini-tutorial, both of which, however, are obviously not up to date. Only fragments of the quick reference guide are in English; the essential part that describes the structure and the components of the program was never translated from the original Spanish.
Fortunately, the basics of the software are easy to discover with a little bit of experimentation on your own, although an intuitive and time-saving introduction would be more user friendly. In general, you should regularly save your project because the software often closes without warning.
An animation in KTooN is created in several small steps. A simple project might consist of a path drawn by the user, along which an object will later move. After the path is defined, an object is drawn anew for each frame to illustrate how it changes along the course of the path.
This hard work cannot be avoided because the program is not capable of tweening (see the "Tweening" box). Finally, the completed animation is saved in various video formats.
KTooN includes illustration and animation modules. In the illustration module, you can draw individual frames as in any other vector graphics program; the illustration module starts the rendering process for the previously drafted film. Objects that you want to use again later are saved in a separate "Objects Library." A further module imports photos and helps generate simple stop-motion movies.
Although KTooN was developed by experts in the field, it is not convincing, starting with the fragmentary documentation, which is either not translated or no longer applicable, and continuing with the hardly helpful help system, which proves to be just as flawed as other parts of the program.
A former co-developer of KTooN started a fork of the project in 2010, which continues to be developed independently under the name Tupi. Because of dissatisfaction with the obviously stalled KTooN project, the new development went down a whole new path, meaning that even if KTooN should be revived, the Tupi developers intend to stick to their own roadmap and goals.
For Ubuntu users, unofficial installation packages are available on Launchpad.net. Alternatively, you can compile the source code itself; it is no coincidence that the instructions are similar to those of the original project. Even though the programmers intend to go an independent direction with their software development, Tupi cannot deny its ancestral KTooN lineage.
Whether considering the structure of the homepage, the operation of the program, or the content of the manual, everything about Tupi seems familiar. Fortunately, it is also obvious that two years of additional development have been invested in the project. Apart from rare program crashes, the typical KTooN errors did not occur in the Tupi test (Figure 2).
The developer's official Tupi tutorial channel on YouTube offers many videos in English, the online manual has been translated completely into English, and most of the program is in English. One important innovation compared with KTooN is the tweening function (Figure 3), although the selection of tweening methods is still limited.
The program also supports the cutout animation technique, wherein selected parts of a graphic, such as individual parts of the body of an animated figure, are moved or rotated.
Altogether, Tupi currently seems less like a fork and more like a newer version of KTooN: Bugs have been fixed, and a few features have been added, but the software is still somewhat lacking in functionality. However, if the existing options meet your needs, you will be able to create attractive animated films with Tupi.
Pencil is available for download in the package sources of common distributions. The project provides a well-structured and easy-to-understand guide, but this software also is not the newest. The latest version is dated 2008, but the programmer recently announced that he has resumed development of a new version.
In Pencil, animations are edited on four layers: bitmap graphics, vector graphics, camera, and sound output. Each of these layers has its own timeline, so you can set what will be shown when for each output layer.
In the bitmap layer, the standard instruments (e.g., pencil, line tool, or paint bucket) are available for drawing images. Beyond that, you can import external graphics files. Interestingly, the vector graphics layer uses the exact same toolbox (Figure 4).
The only difference is that the software saves the images as vectors instead of pixels, which does not always work well when using the paint bucket to fill in areas. The camera layer defines the visible part of the image for each point in time. Variable background music is set using the sound layer.
One possible animation strategy is to draw a bitmap graphic first, trace it as a vector graphic as soon as the desired end result has been achieved, then subsequently add colors to the result.
If you want part of the drawing to change during animation, you have to make this happen by hand. Pencil does not support tweening, so you have to copy the graphic to the next frame; even the smallest change must be drawn by hand, which takes a lot of time. Even if graphic artists sometimes claim that professional-looking 2D-animation films require that each frame be drawn by hand, some automated support through tweening would still be welcome.
Pencil scores well mainly because it is intuitive and easy to use. The instructions are easy to understand and concise. Altogether, the program makes a good impression, but it's too bad that it does not include tweening functionality (Figure 5).
Synfig Studio
Several years ago, Robert Quattlebaum authored the Synfig Studio animation software and tried to sell it. When commercial success was still not in sight by 2005, he published the source code as an open source product under the GNU Public License.
Since then, the community has continuously developed the software so that new updates appear regularly. Complete packages of the current stable release are available on the Synfig homepage for most popular distributions.
The detailed and easy-to-follow instructions are completely in English. While becoming familiar with the software, the focus on tweening becomes clear. Basically, you select key frames on the timeline between which the object is to change.
Additionally, the tweening techniques in Synfig Studio make it possible for graphics to morph into each other. You should plan a sufficient number of frames for this process so that the results will not look too artificial.
Each graphical object in Synfig Studio is its own layer, which can optionally interact with other layers – for example, with appropriate effects when they overlap.
The tools for creating graphic objects are similar to those in popular vector graphics programs. However, the program is not one large main window, but several independent windows distributed over the desktop (Figure 6).
Once you have become familiar with Synfig Studio, you will quickly learn to appreciate the program. Although the learning curve is steeper than for Pencil, the instructions prove to be very helpful. Furthermore, the program is also enriched by its functionality.
When considering which of these programs an animator should choose, KTooN can be eliminated, not least because of all its technical shortcomings that the Tupi fork surpasses. However, Tupi also leaves too many unfulfilled items on the animator's wish list.
Pencil recommends itself as an uncomplicated introduction to 2D animation. Because of its similarities with ordinary drawing programs, novices can quickly find their feet. Those who create elaborate animations with many parts that change simultaneously might find that working with Pencil is not very economical, not least because of the missing tweening function.
In this respect, Synfig Studio jumps into the breach with its many options and tweening methods. Bottom line, depending on the requirements of a project, either Pencil or Synfig Studio will prove to be suitable 2D animation software.
Issue 197/2017
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Old Linux Kernel Bug Discovered
The bug was introduced back in 2009 and has been lurking around all this time.
OpenSSH 7.5 Released
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Ubuntu Touch Not Dead
Lives on as a community project
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Microsoft Takes Skype for Linux Out of Alpha
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Munich Plans to Ditch Linux and Go Back to Windows
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MONDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Hearing loss affects about one-fifth of Americans aged 12 and older, a far higher number than previously believed, researchers report.
They examined data from people whose hearing was tested during National Health and Nutritional Examination Surveys (NHANES) from 2001 to 2008.
Based on the World Health Organization's definition of hearing loss (unable to hear sounds of 25 decibels or less in the speech frequencies), the NHANES data showed that 12.7 percent (30 million people) of the U.S. population aged 12 and older had hearing loss in both ears and 20.3 percent (48 million people) had hearing loss in at least one ear.
Previous estimates put the numbers at 21 million to 29 million.
This new study also found that rates of hearing loss nearly doubled with every decade of age, and that women and blacks were significantly less likely to have hearing loss at any age.
It's not clear why women and blacks are less likely to experience hearing loss, study leader Dr. Frank Lin said in a university news release.
Lin is an assistant professor with dual appointments in both the department of otolaryngology-head & neck surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and in the department of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
It may be that the female hormone estrogen and the melanin pigment in darker skin could have a protective effect on the inner ear, which Lin and colleagues plan to investigate in future studies.
Lin said the findings of this study, published Nov. 14 in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, will help research into hearing loss and its potential consequences such as cognitive decline, dementia and poor physical functioning.
"This gives us the real scope of the problem for the first time and shows us how big of a problem hearing loss really is," Lin said.
More information
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association has more about hearing loss.
-- Robert Preidt
SOURCE: Johns Hopkins Medicine, news release, Nov. 14, 2011
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Photos Added new stills for the impending Korean film "Kkangchi"
Added new stills for the impending Korean film "Kkangchi" (2015)Directed by capability of Jeon Pil-jinWith Son Woo-hyeok, Park Jeong-soo-II, Kim Tae-hyeon-I, Ahn Jae-hyuk, Kim Chae-geun, Go Hyeon-min,...Formerly referred to as "After School" ( , bang-gwa hoo hak-gyo)SynopsisHyeong-soo in the top school Judo team has to surrenderon account of his father who does not care about him. With his perfectbuddies Jin-ho and Seong-rok, he comes to a decisionto begin afresh yetthe entire thing starts falling aside when he meets the faculty bully Jin-gyu. In the end, Hyeong-soo decides to develop into the school gangster and compensate his past. He loses everything from circle of relatives to pals and everything of his he conceptvaluable the more he fills his passion. He regrets what he is done and tries to turn everything back around...Release date in Korea : 2016/09
#Ahn Jae-hyuk #Go Hyeon-min #Jeon Pil-jin #Kim Chae-geun #Kim Tae-hyeon-I #Park Jeong-soo-II #Son Woo-hyeok #Kkangchi #news


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Trip Start
Apr 22, 2009
Trip End
Jun 17, 2009
Where I stayed
Camping Landshut
This morning we toured the city of munich and ate the Bavarian things. We had some Weissbrot (white sausage) and pretzels. We also ate some spargel (asparagus) soup just because we see spargel being sold everywhere.
Munich was a very nice city with a huge market and huge parks. We then continued our journey with relatively uninteresting country side. Our next destination would be Prague.


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Isn't That Loan Fraud?
The definition of loan fraud is simple. According to the F.B.I. loan fraud is any material misstatement, misrepresentation or omission relied upon by a mortgage underwriter or lender to fund a loan.
The definition does not make any exception for white lies, half truths, fibs or creative facts. It says any material misstatement, misrepresentation or omission. In most cases if you are involved in a real estate loan transaction, as a borrower, real estate agent, attorney or some other party, and you have to ask yourself or someone else "Is that loan fraud?" 95% of the time the answer is "yes." Continue reading


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I've partnered with Serious Stamp to bring you my characters as rubber stamps. We're currently creating an improved version so the old ones are available at a bargain price! Pick and mix your favourite characters, plus save on shipping.
Choose from Bread Slice, Cakeify (cupcake), Jammie Dodger, Pancake, Fried Egg and Cookie. More characters in the new stamp design can be viewed here.
Each stamp is mounted on an oak block that's easy to hold and stamp with, and the design is stamped on the end for a guide to placement. Use with any commercial ink pad to stamp designs on paper, card, fabric and more.
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These stamps are for personal use only - you may not sell items you make using this stamp without my written permission.


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The Building Blocks of a Stock Rally
The major indexes succumbed to some mild profit taking for most of last week after bumping up against the tops of their recent ranges. Since the mid-March lows, most indexes have traced out a series of higher highs and higher lows in a fashion that can be simply described as two small steps forward, one small step backwards.
We are as bored as you with this trading range environment, but it appears that it has a little further to run before the excitement starts.
The baby steps that the markets are taking are slowly diminishing the price volatility that has become so prevalent of late. Many times, when price volatility shrinks, it foretells that something big is coming. With all that we have talked about over the past couple of months with respect to sentiment, market internals, volume, and chart patterns, our guess is that there will be an upside breakout that leads to another sharp but brief increase in price volatility. Once markets get into an uptrend or downtrend, price volatility tends to decrease.
Since October, we have seen multiple days where the S&P 500 fell more than 2%, and recently, have seen multiple days where the index has risen more that 2%. That price jumpiness is slowly starting to contract as the last 2%+ decline was on Apr. 11 and the last 2%+ gain was on April 16. These are the only 2% daily moves by the S&P 500 since Apr. 2.
Is this contraction in volatility, especially those on the downside, indicating that we are past the worst of the credit issues and/or past the worst for the economy? We admit, we don't know for sure, but we can only make educated projections.
But, according to my beloved boss, Sam Stovall, and a reading of consumer sentiment, there are some signs that signal the worst may be over. Maybe somebody does know. The Conference Board's consumer confidence index fell to 64.46 in March, the lowest reading since March, 2003. That just happened to be the time of the successful retest of the 2000-02 bear market low. And also represents a period when the stock market was well off its all-time highs, and much more than today.
Sam concluded that whenever the consumer confidence index has fallen below 76 (one standard deviation below the average of 97 since 1977), bad news about our economy's state of affairs is so pervasive that everyone – even magazine covers – are talking about it. Like the many market sentiment indicators we use, this piece of consumer sentiment data may be telling us what we already thought. This is a great example of where economic data can be charted and used by the technician.
The recent closing high on Friday, Apr. 18, by the S&P 500 was 1390.33, very close to the top of the range hit back on Feb. 1 of 1395.42. The index is knocking on the door, but isn't hitting hard enough. In our view, the market needs to take a running start. When the markets do breakout, it will be very interesting how much upside can be garnered by the "500" because of the chart pattern that has been laid out since last August. Many times, when you finally get the breakout, and the coiled spring has been released, prices tend to jump quite a bit.
However, just above the recent high of 1395 sits what could be a brick wall of resistance. The major pivot lows last year come in at 1407, and there was a lot of buying from that level on up to the all-time highs. In addition to this chart resistance, trendline resistance, off the closing and intraday highs last year, comes in between 1400 and 1410. Not to be left out, the 200-day exponential average is at 1412. Many times, the top of an intermediate-term base or reversal formation coincides more closely with prior pivot lows, but not this time.
While we believe the stock market will break out of its sideways range, and bond prices will break down from their very wide and toppy looking range, there could also be an intermediate-term trend change for crude oil and gold. Commodity prices as well as commodity stocks have been on fire for much of this year, partly, we think from a weak dollar, partly from the credit crises, and partly as tried and true momentum plays. Gold has already broken down from its uptrend, while we think oil won't be far behind.
Crude oil prices hit $119.90 per barrel on Apr. 23, and are up from $88 in early February. More shocking, to us, is that crude prices have surged from $50 in January, 2007, without a major correction or extended sideways action. There have only been minor pullbacks during this entire 140% advance. We have raised our targets along the way, often shaking our heads as we did it. Once again, oil is knocking on our most recent target of $122 - $125. A key Fibonacci extension targets $122, while long-term trendline resistance sits up at $125. From a momentum standpoint, crude oil is stretched on a daily, weekly, and monthly timeframe. In addition, there have been some major weekly divergences.
Gold, in our view, has already started to correct after reaching our intermediate-term target of $1000 per ounce. Prices have traced out a head-and-shoulders top, and with a break of the $887 level, this formation will be complete. That would then signal a potential decline for the yellow metal all the way down to the $750 to $800 range. Key long-term trendline support sits in this zone. There is a small zone of chart support in the $800 area but nothing major until the $700 to $725 zone. Major Fibonacci retracement levels target $840, $785, and $730.


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The title of Jaime Rosales' "Bullet in the Head" is exactly two words longer than the film's audible dialogue, and that's just the first of the cinematic conventions that the pic eschews in its challengingly oblique take on Basque terrorism.
The title of Jaime Rosales' "Bullet in the Head" is exactly two words longer than the film's audible dialogue, and that's just the first of the cinematic conventions that the pic eschews in its challengingly oblique take on Basque terrorism. Long, static takes, often shot through windows, and a lack of political and personal context — and hence drama — mean Rosales hands interpretation over to the mind of the viewer. The result is a politically resonant film that of itself comfortably refuses to engage with politics on any but the most abstract level.
It's hot-potato subject matter and the fact that "Solitary Fragments," Rosales' previous film, was a surprise winner of last year's Spanish Goya award for best film, will generate interest and debate at home; the item's formal daring should be rewarded by fest and arthouse appearances. The first victim of the helmer's decision to dispense with dialogue is the protag's identity, which we learn only in the final credits. We follow Ion (ursine nonpro Ion Arretxe — also the pic's art director), through the routines of his daily life. We start with him looking out of his apartment window, with the vague suggestion of a brawl in the street below. After scenes around the city, he drives out to the countryside with a colleague — it comes as visual relief to encounter some wider spaces — and then crosses the border into the French Basque Country. All suspense, such as it is, is contained in the title: Whose bullet, and whose head? The answer comes in a brutal car-park climax. Rosales is more interested in simply recording the protagonist's actions than in judging them. The hope is presumably to force the viewer into revising their own judgments about human motivation. By stripping away dialogue and hence context, the film also points up the absurdity of violence. Two further points, neither particularly revealing, are that "normal" people are capable of "terrible" things — whatever those words mean — and that when the issue is terrorism, we find it hard to listen. On both scores, the pic lacks the richness and nuance of, say, similar themes from Michael Haneke. Visually, "Bullet in the Head" is all long, zoomed takes, which will drive anyone who isn't up for the ride to despair. Objects are often interposed between viewer and action, another way to intentionally create an uncomfortable viewing experience. Rosales likes to devise a single technique and pursue it obsessively — in "Fragments" it was split-screen, while here he surrounds the action with window-frames conveniently, the protag conducts many of his dealings next to windows), keeping the viewer at the kind of distance that makes easy judgments impossible. But though each scene is framed with care, less attention has been paid to the details than in Rosales' previous work. Soundwork makes a key contribution to the atmospherics. For the record, in Spain, the pic will be released simultaneously in theaters and on continuous loop in a Madrid art gallery.Bullet in the Head
A Fresdeval, Wanda Vision (Spain)/Les Prods. Balthazar (France) production with the participation of TV3. (International sales: The Match Factory, Cologne, Germany.) Produced by Jaime Rosales, Jose Maria Morales, Jerome Dopffer. Executive producer, Miguel Morales. Directed, written by Jaime Rosales.
Camera (color), Oscar Duran; editor, Nino Martinez Sosa; art director, Ion Arretxe; sound (Dolby Digital), David Machado. Reviewed at San Sebastian Film Festival, Sept. 22, 2008. (Also in New York Film Festival.) Running time: 84 MIN.
Ion Arretxe, Inigo Royo, Jaione Otxoa, Ana Vila, Asun Arretxe.


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Rear Projection HDTV Post about DLP, D-ILA, LCOS, SXRD and more. |
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04-01-2008 | #1 |
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Location: Minneapolis
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70" SXRD with a story - Need some help...
here we go... i have a Sony KDS-R70XBR2 70" SXRD i was very luckey to find the very last one in the twin cities... my 62' rca died newyears day - i logged into sony style to check out when the 'new' version of the sony sxrds would be out... i had been admiring these sets from day one... i was shocked to see them no longer on the sony site... i called ultimate electronics close to my home - talked to my sales guy there - said they had been 'discontinued' WOW - i was shocked - i was waiting for the 'new one' they told me in july a new version would be out and more 'affordable' as there was no way i could pay 6000.00 for a TV... they told me that they were sold out... i drove over to the nearby best buy - same story gone - they said - we have one in 'eden prarie' - i speed like a mad man out there - i get there and am told -- gosh we just sold the very last one... sorry i ask - how much was it - thinking ooh well.. i could never afford this... 3900.00 with the 500.00 stand -- bingo - light bulb goes off i drive back to ultimate as i know they have the price beater policy - best buy shows more at one other location in town - but i am pretty sure they are gone there as well- we find the very last one in the ultimate system at another location in town - i call the store manger - tell him of the best buy offer on the 'close out tv' ask him if he will match the price' he said yes.... the rest it history.... .................. i was very dissapointed with my ability to setup and calibrate the set upon advise of many in town i ordered the dvd 'digital video essentials' HD basics - had to wait 2 months for the disk this disk does cover just what it says 'basics' - it is clear i need much more.... ..................... i am seeing alot of grain - especially in directTV - almost as if everything was shot at very hi gain in blue ray there is a huge improvemet - but i can see i can get much more out of this set... it was interesting to see - a portion of the picture is beyond the horizontal screen... ....................... after owning for 3 months - the bulb replace indicator is on - this set was the store demo - i did buy the extended 4 year warrenty.... thoughts on how to get the very best image out of this set? what should i expect? in using the blur -red - green - filter - i could not get green to come within bounds... for instance and there was no detail to help set and advanced controls or white balance other that the suggestion to use 'cool' many thanks iggy |
04-02-2008 | #2 |
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Re: 70" SXRD with a story - Need some help...
That set should have come with a replacement bulb, but buying a demo you might not have gotten that. Moose and I both use that same set, nice unit. Try replacing the bulb and after ~100-200 hours burn in try re-calibrating the set, the bulb might have ben your problem, if not, get an ISF certified guy to do a professional calibration for you, DVE is a good tool to get it close, but nothing beats a good pro calibration.
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04-02-2008 | #3 |
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Re: 70" SXRD with a story - Need some help...
I agree with Kenny, replace the bulb before you do anything, a bulb at the end of it's life will not show you what the set will do.
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04-02-2008 | #4 |
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Re: 70" SXRD with a story - Need some help...
yes... warrenty covers bulb
i will replace the bulb 2nite... came with replacement |
04-05-2008 | #5 |
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Re: 70" SXRD with a story - Need some help...
ok guys....
been a few days.... replaced bulb went back thru calibration > used the dvd hd digital video essentiatials in blu-ray to help guide me thru this i have gone thru this a few times i have started to notice a very peculiar 'green haze' espicially in skin tones in top 5 or 6 inches of screen... if for instance a person is face middle center and scene shifts to top of screen the forhead area starts to turn green the closer the person gets to top of screen... what is going on here? this is happining on direcTV signals i have not tested in blu-ray --- iwill pop in mr brooks to see if kevin costner turns into a martion.... many thanks |
04-06-2008 | #6 |
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Re: 70" SXRD with a story - Need some help...
If it is just with DTV, then it could be your feed or box, try using a different HDMI input to the TV, it is possible that one of the HDMI connectors is bad, you should have two on the back as I recall. If it happens on all inputs and with all sources, then the TV is the problem and I would either take it back or have them fix it.
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