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A few key skills can make a good manager great.
Are good leaders made or are they born?
Increasingly, that's the dilemma in government, where 75 percent of top civil service executives are older than 50 and nearly half are over 55. Soon they'll retire and will have to be replaced.
But budget constraints have taken a toll on the leadership pipeline. Training regimens have frayed and, with them, efforts to develop new leaders. Hiring, too, has proved inconsistent, sparking concern that government is failing to recruit the best talent.
The battles over pay for performance at the Defense and Homeland Security departments have brought into the open concerns about leadership in government. Union advocates say that few in the rank and file trust their managers to evaluate their work.
Defining good management and discovering how to inculcate it is the next great challenge for civil service reformers, says Claudia Cross, chief human capital officer at the Energy Department. "We are not really focusing on training people and getting people ready to be effective leaders and managers," she says. "The problems agencies are having can be tied back to that lack of focus."
In a survey of senior executives, Government Executive sought out those who exemplify leadership. We found that leaders can thrive with different styles. But there are some core characteristics that they all seem to share: a propensity for hard work, love for the job and concern for employees' professional development.
It's hard to put a number on what Rose Crum-Johnson has done for the American taxpayer. As manager of one of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' two satellite offices devoted to fighting fraud, she's identified more than $500 million in bad payments.
Crum-Johnson, who became Atlanta regional administrator in 1997, was given unprecedented authority to head up efforts to rein in fraud in Medicaid, the government's health care program for low-income citizens. She helped devise the California Medicare/Medicaid Data Exchange Pilot Project, which used data mining tools to identify patterns of fraud across Medicare and Medicaid. After one year, the program recovered $37 million and it's since been expanded to eight more states.
Ironically, Crum-Johnson isn't the tough cop you would expect to find among CMS' top fraud busters. The 59-year-old thinks of herself as a vision setter who benefits from her staff's strong performance.
Her job, she says, is to "articulate a vision" and then trust the staff to follow through. "If you are adjudicating an issue from a provider, I say, 'Look to what we say we are about.' If you do that, I will support you."
She sets standards and expects employees to measure up. She also doesn't allow superior performance to go unrecognized. "You have to empower staff, you have to hold them accountable, you have to reward them," she says. Agency leaders have made the most of Crum-Johnson's nurturing manner. After the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, when she worked at the Social Security Administration, officials put her in charge of handling the agency's efforts to aid the families of 16 employees who died, and to assist staff members as they moved into new offices and resumed operations.
Growing up in small-town Alabama, Crum-Johnson remembers, it was a grade school teacher who made the biggest difference in her subsequent professional life. The teacher picked her out from the group and made it clear how much promise she saw in her. Crum-Johnson started out as a claims representative for the Social Security Administration, where again she benefited from a mentor, before moving into the management ranks. Her last position with SSA was deputy regional commissioner in Dallas.
She joined CMS-then the Health Care Financing Administration-in 1995. Crum-Johnson is keenly aware that mentoring can sometimes be viewed as favoring. The answer, she says, is to always seek volunteers for special projects. The go-getters on a staff then emerge. She makes a point of recruiting and encouraging new employees. "I believe leaders are, or at least should be, the best recruiters for your organization," she says. "In the way I behave, I should be attracting people to the organization every time I am out on the stump."
Still, an employee must be able to take constructive criticism, she says. "I tell people, 'A mentor is not a crutch and not a substitute for individual effort. You have to bring something to that relationship: a positive attitude and a strong belief in yourself. The mentor is the icing on the cake.'"
Once a month at midnight, Rich Allen is locked inside the Agriculture Department building where he works in Washington.
The phones and e-mail are shut down. The windows are sealed. No one is allowed in or out. Allen can't leave until 8:30 a.m. Through the night, Allen, 63, and his colleagues crunch numbers and draft a report detailing their best estimates of corn, the United States. The numbers they come up with can roil financial markets worldwide, so their integrity is sacrosanct.
Allen has upheld that upright culture and passed it on to new agriculture statisticians. For 42 years, he's toiled for the National Agricultural Statistics Service, most recently as deputy administrator for programs and products and chairman of the Agricultural Statistics Board. He joined the Senior Executive Service in 1982.
In 2003, he was the first recipient of the Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award, named in honor of a longtime manager at the National Center for Education Statistics. In Allen's view, mentoring is less about taking younger employees under your wing than about trusting them and having the patience to allow them to grow into their jobs.
It's a trait he learned early in his career, when he was assigned to a frustrated manager, who for years had been left outside the agency's inner circle. "He decided if he ever had anyone reporting to him, he was going to make sure they had something to do, and something to call their own," Allen says.
He was allowed to expand his expertise in everything the statistical service does. That's a philosophy that he carried on as he rose through the management ranks. "We have a culture where people advance by trying different things," he says.
For years, Allen oversaw the agency council that handled hiring for its top positions. He took on the role of advocate, making sure the best possible case was presented for each applicant. He sought consensus among the other council members over whom to choose, but more important, he recalls, was his effort to ensure that each candidate who was not chosen received feedback and encouragement.
When employees stick their necks out-by applying for another job or by coming to him with a question-Allen says that as a manager he has to support that initiative. "I often say that no one in NAAS does anything by themselves. Everyone has to work together."
To be an IITP at the Defense Department is unusual. For Margaret Myers, a senior executive there and principal director in the Office of the Deputy Chief Information Officer, that has proved a challenge. In the vernacular of the Myers-Briggs personality test, most of her colleagues are ESTJs. They are extroverted. They are detail-oriented and they make decisions quickly. She's the opposite: an introvert who sees the big picture, but is reluctant to make snap decisions.
Even so, Myers is "a woman succeeding in a man's world," says Diane Disney, who could say the same thing about herself, having served as deputy assistant secretary of Defense for civilian personnel policy. Myers has thrived not only at Defense, but in the world of information technology as well, Disney says. The two worked together in the late 1990s on a massive effort to revamp human resources systems throughout the department.
The key, says Myers, is her sustained effort to know herself and to compensate for her weaknesses. During nearly 30 years of government service, Myers, 54, has taken the Myers-Briggs test, often used in professional development settings, on several occasions. "It was the biggest eyeopener for me," she says. "You assume all people are kind of alike."
In reality, Myers-Briggs -- devised during World War II by a mother-daughter team -- hypothesizes that people can vary substantially in their personality traits. The test breaks down personalities into four categories. People who are IITP-introverted, intuitive, thinkers and perceivers- make up less than 1 percent of the population. The ESTJs she works with are extroverted, sensors, thinkers and judgers. Early in her career, Myers found that she often didn't provide employees with enough positive feedback. "An introvert tends to think, 'You know you did good, because I would have told you if you screwed up.' What I learned is that I had to personally make an effort," she says.
In 1992, when Myers was attending training for new senior executives, she underwent a peer review. Former colleagues said she sometimes appeared to withhold information. "It goes back to the introvert," she says. "I'm not necessarily going to sit down and say, 'Well, have you heard about whatever?' " After the review, Myers resolved to tell peers and subordinates clearly that her door was open and she welcomed questions.
Throughout her career, Myers has analyzed the effectiveness of Army computer and weapons systems. She's been the stern analyst at milestone reviews, where she often had to inform program managers that their initiatives weren't working. Nowadays, Myers has the equally tough job of convincing Defense managers to facilitate the sharing of information. It's a long-term project that requires the shy executive to write articles, speak at conferences and network with hundreds of stakeholders.
But Myers has won the trust of her superiors by learning about herself. "I will never be an extrovert. I will never enjoy going to parties," she says. But she's learned to compensate for her instinctual weaknesses. Myers is the first to admit that it's not easy. But, she says, "I've done it long enough that it's more or less natural."
Just days before a January snowstorm in Washington, Louis Uccellini was in his element. Around his offices at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, it was a 24-hour-a-day operation. Meteorologists were reviewing satellite data.
Supercomputers were whirring, processing 1.3 trillion computations per second. The result, they found, was nothing too extraordinary. Washington got only a few inches. But for a man who's co-written a book about snowfall, Northeast Snowstorms recently published by the American Meteorological Society, they are always fun. Uccellini doesn't do the forecasting himself anymore, but oversees the national centers' nine forecasting offices.
To be a leader, it helps to love what you do. Enthusiasm is infectious. Listening to Uccellini is a bit like listening to a grammar school student fascinated with his science fair project.
"Everything you read, see and hear about weather starts in this building," he says. "We do everything from the sun to the sea." Local weather forecasters rely on his team's data, as do government agencies.
Uccellini is a leader who motivates by example, who inspires by going full steam, who combats cynicism by exuding his enthusiasm for the weather. He's worked for the national centers since 1989, when he joined SES, and with the government since 1978. He earned a 1977 doctorate in meteorology from the University of Wisconsin and worked at NASA before moving to the centers, a division of the National Weather Service.
Uccellini has won the respect of his staff by ensuring that they have state-of-the-art equipment to do their jobs. Greg Mandt, a colleague at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, says Uccellini is the "best scientific manager I have met. . . . He is a recognized scientific expert in his discipline and -- this is what makes him unusual -- he can deliver big projects."
At the centers, for example, Uccellini has procured the best computers in the world by leasing them from IBM rather than buying them, as they once did. There was never enough money to keep up with the state of the art, forcing the agency to make do with substandard technology for years at a time. Now the agency gets new computers every year and a half.
Uccellini, 56, has worked with other agencies that use the same technology, both in analyzing data and buying new satellites. In doing so, he's nearly doubled the life cycle of a new satellite, from two years to four. Now, with the assistance of researchers at other agencies, the centers can cull useful data from a new satellite in one year, as opposed to the standard three.
But Uccellini is most proud of his efforts to secure a better work environment for his scientists. They are based in Camp Springs, Md., surrounded by car dealerships. "It's not conducive to bringing the best scientists from all over the world" to work here, he says. But thanks to Uccellini, the agency will move in 2008 to a new facility near the University of Maryland in College Park.
Uccellini's mantra is "vision, plan and follow through." The last, he admits, is the hardest. By setting an ambitious vision, "you increase the sense of risk" and start asking, "Do I really have to do all five of these things? Do I have enough money? Can I get it all done?" But he's found that the model works, at least when you're dealing with ambitious scientists. "If they see that you are honest, they come to trust you," he says.
In the mid-1970s, Jeffrey Neely was swimming for the Army. While many of his fellow soldiers were doing training drills, Neely was racing and coaching a competitive military swim team in Germany. The swimmers traveled to bases in Europe and raced against other teams.
Neely was so good that, as a teen, some wanted him to try out for the Olympics. He even raced against nine-time gold medal winner Mark Spitz, though he admits that Spitz won by a wide margin.
Neely remembers his decision not to pursue that goal as a formative moment. "I learned to be successful," he recalls. "It has to be about what you want, not what others want you to do."
He enjoyed swimming but knew he didn't have the passion to pursue it full time. But Neely's ability to set priorities as an athlete, he says, has informed his drive at the General Services Administration.
Neely joined GSA in 1978, after leaving the Army. He set his sights on a goal: become an assistant regional administrator, one of the top civil service positions at the agency.
Now 50, Neely achieved his goal in 2003, when he joined the Senior Executive Service and was appointed assistant regional administrator for GSA's Public Buildings Service in San Francisco. In that post, he's responsible for 35 million square feet of federally owned and leased real estate in Arizona, California, Nevada, Hawaii and the Pacific territories.
Foremost on his mind at the moment: building a $400 million courthouse in Los Angeles.
"I knew I wanted that job, and I set myself to doing that by working in lots of different places," says Neely. "Intentionally, I got myself into lots of different pieces of PBS, because I knew I would need that experience."
Part of being a leader is knowing your work better than anyone else. It's about making the life sacrifices to get you there, sacrifices that win respect because others are unwilling to make them. Neely, for example, has spent years working in GSA outposts: San Francisco; Kansas City, Mo.; Honolulu; Reno, Nev.; and the agency's Washington headquarters.
"He excelled in every job," says Carl Votteler, a lead program analyst with GSA's Office of National Customer Services Management.
Neely is a tireless traveler, regularly visiting his 550 employees. "I want folks to be sure I'm interested in what they are doing. . . . I think you rise up in the ranks when you can create energy in a group of people," he says.


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Map 1a: Lincoln's Commute from the White House to the Soldiers' Home: northern portion.(Courtesy of President Lincoln's Cottage, a National Trust Historic Site)
Map 1b: Lincoln's commute from the White House to the Soldiers' Home: southern portion.
President Abraham Lincoln and his family spent the summers of 1862, 1863, and 1864 living in a cottage on the grounds of the Soldiers' Home, a home for elderly and disabled army veterans. Even when he was staying at the cottage, President Lincoln commuted to and from the White House every day, either on horseback or in a carriage, escorted by soldiers for protection. During his commute, President Lincoln passed many sites that reminded him of the ongoing Civil War.
Please note: On Map 1a, the diagonal lines not labeled as streets are folds on the original map. On Map 1b, the two diagnoal lines forming a point at the top of the page also show folds on the original map.
Questions for Map 1a and 1b
1. Trace the route that Lincoln traveled between the White House and the Soldiers' Home. What types of places did Lincoln pass? Based on the map scale in the lower left corner of Map 1b, what was the distance between the Soldiers' Home and the White House? How many miles did Lincoln ride from the White House before he left the city? (Hint: the toll gate marks the edge of the city.)
How long might Lincoln's commute have taken by horseback, assuming that his horse traveled at about 6 miles an hour? At www.wmata.com, use the trip planner to find out how long the same trip would take today via public transportation. The White House street address is 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW and the Soldiers' Home is at the intersection of Rock Creek Church Rd. and Upshur St., NW.
On Map 1b, locate the contraband camps (which were temporary shelters built to house the thousands of former slaves that escaped to freedom behind Union Army lines). These usually were built in great haste, overcrowded and unsanitary. Lincoln probably could see the closest one to his route. How do you think he would have felt as he passed it? What people or places do you pass on your way to school? What do they make you think about?
Find the Seventh Street Turnpike. This was one of the main routes into Washington from the North. How do the locations of forts built to protect the city during the Civil War relate to the Seventh Street Turnpike? Why might that be the case? How close are they to the Soldiers' Home?
Find a map of Washington, DC today in an atlas or online. What streets did Lincoln travel on the historical map? Can you find those same streets on the current map? Compare the two maps. What has changed? What has stayed the same?
* Click for larger versions of Map 1a and Map 1b.

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Sustainability database
Prof Kevin Anderson
Kevin Anderson is Professor of Energy and Climate Change in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester. He is Deputy Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and is research active with recent publications in Royal Society journals and Nature. He engages widely across all tiers of government; from reporting on aviation-related emissions to the EU Parliament, advising the Prime Minister's office on Carbon Trading and having contributed to the development of the UK's Climate Change Act.
With his colleague Alice Bows-Larkin, Kevin's work on carbon budgets has been pivotal in revealing the widening gulf between political rhetoric on climate change and the reality of rapidly escalating emissions. His work makes clear that there is now little chance of maintaining the rise in global temperature at below 2C, despite repeated high-level statements to the contrary. Moreover, Kevin's research demonstrates how avoiding even a 4C rise demands a radical reframing of both the climate change agenda and the economic characterisation of contemporary society.
Kevin has a decade of industrial experience, principally in the petrochemical industry. He sits as commissioner on the Welsh Government's Climate Change Commission and is a Director of Greenstone Carbon Management.


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A young man strides purposefully into the woods as a cameraman asks what he's about to do.
"About to go beat up this bum," the man in the video says.
And that's exactly what he does, punching and kicking a homeless man in the face, bloodying his nose, before wishing him a Merry Christmas.
The videotaped assault has led to criminal charges against a 20-year-old New Jersey man and a 17-year-old boy accused of filming the assault while egging the attacker on.
"Just dive on him! Dive on him!" the cameraman says on the video as the assailant approaches a disheveled-looking man in a wooded area of Wall Township, near the Jersey shore.
The young man in the video knocks the homeless man to the ground, as the attacker and the cameraman dissolve into fits of laughter.
It's unclear when the assault took place, but Wall Township police say they got word of a videotaped assault on Sunday. The video had been posted to YouTube but was unavailable on Monday after News12 New Jersey posted it on its website.
Police charged 20-year-old Taylor Giresi, of Lake Como, with aggravated assault and conspiracy to commit assault. A teen they say recorded the assault faces a charge of conspiracy.
Giresi was jailed on $60,000 bail. A message sent to his Facebook page and telephone messages left at four homes in the Lake Como area registered to people with the same last name were not immediately returned Monday.
On a Facebook page that appears to Giresi's, he claimed to be a model whose likes include the TV shows "Jersey Shore" and "Jackass" and the marijuana comedy movie "Half Baked." On the tape, the cameraman says, "That was Jackass' `Beatin' A Bum."'
Police didn't disclose the identity of the teenager because of his age. He was released to the custody of his parents. Police did not immediately respond to requests for additional information, and it was unclear if other people are suspected of participating in the assault.
Police said in a written statement they received a report Sunday that several people had attacked a homeless man, filmed the assault and posted it on YouTube. An investigation between Wall and neighboring Belmar police identified Giresi as one of those involved, police said.
The victim was "a Wall resident who often finds himself homeless," police said.
"The video showed that the subjects involved took advantage of the victim's unfortunate circumstance and targeted him on two separate occasions due to his financially destitute situation," police said.
It's unclear what became of the victim, whose face is shown bleeding during the videotaped assault.
After initially attacking the homeless man, the young man in the video returns to him again. As the cameraman urges him on, he punches the homeless man in the face, sending him sprawling to the ground.
The two then announce they are stealing the homeless man's bicycle.
"No, I need my bike!" the victim protests.
The young man smiles at the camera, then runs off with the bicycle as the cameraman yells, "Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah or whatever the (expletive) you are."
The second part of the video appears to chronicle a different assault in which the same victim is punched, kicked and knocked to the ground. He slowly gets up and looks directly at the camera as the cameraman apologizes for the assault in a sarcastic tone.
"Oh, my God, you're bleeding!" the cameraman says. "We didn't mean to do that. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Wipe off the blood."
The cameraman then directs the young man to give the victim a hug. The bleeding victim reaches out to hug his attacker, who then rams his knee into the homeless man's stomach.
The homeless man begins to scream, prompting the attackers to leave, but not before the young man runs up and delivers a flying kick to the victim's head.
"You gave him the big boot!" the cameraman exults. "The big boot!"


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delpino needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 31 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
For our website where you can learn German we need a new logo. It can be similar to our logo from Chinese-course.com but doesn't have to be.
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png)
The logo needs to fit into the upper left corner of our current website (http://www.german-flashcards.com). So it can be quite high, but shouldn't be too wide. Use something of German culture in the logo. I'll give feedback to all entries.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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I have been a member for over a year, and have gotten such wonderful support, first when going through IVF and then while pregnant.
As a mom of twins, I often find that there are specific questions and challenges along the way--NICU, breastfeeding, managing TWO crying babies, etc. As well as questions about supplies, double strollers, double BFing pillows, etc.
Of course, no new moms has a lot of free time, so parents with double the babies have even less, but I thought I would throw this out there to see if anyone is willing to share what worked/didn't, the struggles and to ask questions of those that have gone ahead of us.
My twins are fraternal, boy, girl and are 3 months old. They were born at 33w3d (3lbs6oz and 3lbs9oz) after a fairly difficult pregnancy ( I had a hematoma, was on bedrest, and then ended up with Pre-Eclampsia). They were in the NICU a little over 2 weeks. I pumped and fed them pumped breastmilk exclusively for weeks. Finally Sofia caught on and started nursing. Just last week, at 3 months old, Levi, my boy, decided to nurse as well. I am now BFing both and trying to get the hang of tandem feeding.
I would be happy to answer any questions that might help any new or expecting moms as the first few weeks/months were quite a challenge, but also filled with great joy. I am no "expert" by any means, but I am willing to discuss and share what I know.
Any takers?
Twins: boy/boy
Pregnancy complications: None
Born: 2/10
Birth: c-section; 38w1d; 7lbs 9oz and 6lbs 13oz
NICU?: no
Work outside home: SAHM for 1st year, now, yes.
Twins: Fraternal boy/boy
Pregnancy complications: GD, pre-eclampsia w/hospitalization
Born: 5/18/10
Birth: c-section, 34w2d; 5lbs 8oz, 4lbs 5oz
NICU?: yes, 8 and 13 days
Work outside home: SAHM
Twins: Fraternal, boy/boy
Pregnancy complications:
Born: 6/21/11
Birth: induction; 38w; 7lbs6oz and 6lbs7oz
NICU?: no
Work outside home: Yes
Twins: Fraternal, boy/girl
Pregnancy complications: heart issues in mom, bedrest at 24 weeks
Born: 7/13/11
Birth: 34w2d; 5lbs12oz and 5lbs4oz
NICU?: yes, 11 days
Work outside home: Yes, teacher
Twins: Fraternal, boy/girl
Pregnancy complications: Pre-E, bedrest at 34 weeks
Birth: c-section, 37w2d,5lbs6oz, 6lbs11oz
NICU?: 2 days for boy
Work outside home?: Yes, teacher
Twins: Fraternal, boy/girl
Pregnancy complications: hematoma, bedrest, pre-eclampsia w/hospitalization
Born: 10/8/11
Birth: c-section, 33w, 3lbs6oz and 3lbs9oz
NICU?: yes, 17 and 19 days
Work outside home?: not currently. SAHM
Twins: Fraternal, girl/girl
Pregnancy complications: Pre-term labor lead to hospital bedrest from 24w for 60 days
Born: 11/1/11
Birth: emergency c-section, 32w5d, 4lbs9oz and 4lbs9oz
NICU?: yes, 17 days
Work outside home: ?
Twins: Fraternal, boy/girl
Pregnancy complications: bedrest, pre-eclampsia
Born: 2/28/12
Birth:vaginal, 34w3d, 3lbs12oz and 4lbs13oz
NICU?: yes,
Work outside home?:
Great Expectations:
Bodie1011 due: 6/24/12 with twins!
Alexis due: 8/22/12 with twins!
Wehavehope: 9/12 twins!


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===Adobe Reader===
===Adobe Reader===
Revision as of 03:59, 24 August 2012
zh-CN:Browser Plugins These plugins work in Firefox, Opera and WebKit derivatives.
- 1 Flash Player
- 2 PDF viewer
- 3 Citrix
- 4 Java (IcedTea)
- 5 Video Plugins
- 6 Other
- 7 Troubleshooting
- 7.1 Bad (choppy) sound on 64bit flashplugin
- 7.2 Flash blocks sound and/or delayed playback
- 7.3 No sound in Flash
- 7.4 Flash performance
- 7.5 Plugins are installed but not working
- 7.6 Gecko Media Player will not play Apple trailers
- 7.7 Low webcam resolution in Flash
- 7.8 Black bars in full screen flash playback on multi-headed setups
- 7.9 Blue tint on videos with Flash and Nvidia
- 7.10 Leaking overlay with Flash and Nvidia
- 7.11 Flash videos not working on older systems
Flash Player
GNU Gnash is the free (libre) alternative to Adobe Flash Player. Gnash is available both as a standalone player for desktop computers and embedded devices, as well as a plugin for several browsers. You can install its package from the community repository: gnash-gtk
Adobe Flash Player
Flash Player is in the official repositories for both i686 and x86_64 architectures: flashplugin
Note that for Epiphany, you have to wrap Adobe Flash Player in the same fashion as described for x86_64. See Epiphany#Flash for more details.
In addition, it may be needed to install ttf-ms-fontsAUR from the AUR in order to properly render text.
To change general plug-in preferences (privacy settings, resource usage, etc.), right click on embedded Flash content and choose preferences from the menu, or go to the Macromedia website. There, a Flash animation will give access to local settings.
You can make your own settings file for Flash, just use the file
/etc/adobe/mms.cfg. Example config below:
# Adobe player settings AVHardwareDisable = 0 FullScreenDisable = 0 LocalFileReadDisable = 1 FileDownloadDisable = 1 FileUploadDisable = 1 LocalStorageLimit = 1 ThirdPartyStorage = 1 AssetCacheSize = 10 AutoUpdateDisable = 1 LegacyDomainMatching = 0 LocalFileLegacyAction = 0 AllowUserLocalTrust = 0 # DisableSockets = 1 OverrideGPUValidation = 1
You can also refer to the mms.cfg from Gentoo, which is extensively commented.
Disable "Press ESC to exit full screen mode" message
This topic at ubuntuforums.org describes a way to disable that message.
Backup "libflashplayer.so" in case something messes up.
# cp /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so.backup
Make a copy to your home directory
# cp /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so ~/
Install wine from the official repositories.
Download "Flash Fullscreen Patcher.zip" from this page, extract and execute with wine.
$ wget http://forum.videohelp.com/attachments/9255-1319291919/Flash%20Fullscreen%20Patcher.zip $ unzip Flash\ Fullscreen\ Patcher.zip $ wine Flash\ Fullscreen\ Patcher.exe
Patch "libflashplayer.so" in your home dir using the GUI. Copy the patched lib back to the plugins directory
# cp ~/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
PDF viewer
If you want to view PDF files in Firefox without opening a new window, follow this guide: Firefox Tweaks#Viewing PDF/PS inside Firefox
Adobe Reader
Due to licensing restrictions, Adobe Reader cannot be distributed from any of the official Arch Linux repositories. There are versions available in the AUR. Please note that no matter how many votes it receives, Adobe Reader will never be included in the official repositories. See this comment for an explanation.
Also, there are localizations available in many languages.
32-bit AUR package: acroreadAUR
It installs the Acrobat Reader application as well as the Firefox plugin. Note that hardware-assisted rendering is unavailable under Linux (at least using a Geforce 8600GTS with driver version 185.18.14).
Adobe Reader is a closed-source application, meaning that users desiring a 64-bit binary have no other choice other than to wait for official support. Workarounds to be considered:
- Follow this guide originally posted in the forums. It involves creating a chrooted environment that could be reused for other 32-bit only applications.
- Or, simply get the 32-bit binary along with the 32-bit dependencies. Install bin32-acroreadAUR. Also, consider installing the extra font packages suggested by the package. Be advised that the Firefox plugin cannot be used directly with this binary -- it will not load in the 64-bit browser. nspluginwrapper-flashAUR is required to load the plugin. Finally, be sure to run:
$ nspluginwrapper -v -a -i
as a normal user. This checks the plugin directory and links the plugins as needed. Everything should work as expected now.
See: Citrix
Java (IcedTea)
Provided by icedtea-web-java7 from the official repositories, it also needs Java installed.
Weird symlink
But if you want to, since firefox v3.6 does not seem to look in
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, which is the default location where jreAUR v1.6.0_22 places the Java plugin, just
# ln -s /opt/java/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so ~/mozilla/plugins/libnpjp2.so
and it is safe to
# rm -R /usr/lib/mozilla
unless you use it for something else! Be careful here.
Video Plugins
Gecko Media Player
A good replacement of the now obsolete mplayer-plugin is Gecko Media Player packaged as gecko-mediaplayer. More stable combined with MPlayer 1.0RC2. (No more crashes with Apple Trailers.)
Totem Plugin
The totem-plugin might be the right choice for those seeking a GStreamer-based plugin.
Rosa Media Player Plugin
The rosa-media-player-pluginAUR, available in the AUR, might be the right choice for those seeking a MPlayer-based plugin written in Qt.
VLC Plugin
npapi-vlc-gitAUR is the modern VLC Mozilla plugin based on libVLC.
Install mozpluggerAUR through the AUR.
Bad (choppy) sound on 64bit flashplugin
There is a problem with flashplugin 11 64bit and a new memcpy routine in glibc, which makes the sound choppy on mp3 streams (more info here: [1]. Current workarounds are either replacing the memcopy routine like suggested in the mentioned thread or using flashplugin-squareAUR from the AUR.
Flash blocks sound and/or delayed playback
If sound is delayed within flash video and/or if Flash stops sound from any other application, then make sure you do not have
snd_pcm_oss module loaded:
$ lsmod | grep snd_pcm_oss
You can unload it
# rmmod snd_pcm_oss
and restart the browser to see if it helps.
No sound in Flash
Flash Player outputs its sound only through the default ALSA device, which is number 0. If you have multiple sound devices (a very common example is having a sound card and HDMI output in video card), then your preferred device may have a different number. For example:
$ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: DX [Xonar DX], device 0: Multichannel [Multichannel] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: DX [Xonar DX], device 1: Digital [Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
In this case, HDMI output is "card 0" and sound card is "card 1". To make it default for ALSA, create a file named
~/.asoundrc with the following content:
pcm.!default { type hw card 1 } ctl.!default { type hw card 1 }
Flash performance
Adobe's Flash plugin has some serious performance issues, especially when CPU frequency scaling is used. There seems to be a policy not to use the whole CPU workload, so the frequency scaling governor does not clock the CPU any higher. To work around this issue, see: cpufrequtils#Changing the ondemand governor's threshold
Plugins are installed but not working
A common problem is that the plugin path is unset. This typically occurs on a new install, when the user has not re-logged in before running Firefox after the installation. Test if the path is unset:
echo $MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH
If unset, then either re-login, or source
/etc/profile.d/mozilla-common.sh and start Firefox from the same shell:
. /etc/profile.d/mozilla-common.sh && firefox
Gecko Media Player will not play Apple trailers
If Apple Trailers appear to start to play and then fail, try setting the user agent for your browser to:
QuickTime/7.6.2 (qtver=7.6.2;os=Windows NT 5.1Service Pack 3)
Low webcam resolution in Flash
If your webcam has low resolution in Flash (the image looks very pixelated) you can try starting your browser with this:
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so chromium
Black bars in full screen flash playback on multi-headed setups
The Flash plugin has a known bug where the full screen mode does not really work when you have a multi-monitor setup. Apparently, it incorrectly determines the full screen resolution, so the full screen flash player fills the correct monitor but gets scaled as if the monitor had the resolution of the total display area.
To fix this, you can use the "hack" described here. Simply download the source from the link given on the page, and follow the instructions in the README.
Blue tint on videos with Flash and Nvidia
An issue with flashplugin versions 184.108.40.206-1 and 126.96.36.199-1 causes it to send the U/V panes in the incorrect order resulting in a blue tint on certain videos. There are a few potential fixes for this bug:
- Install libvdpau-git-flashpatchAUR from AUR
- Patch vdpau_trace.so [2] with this makepkg.
- Right click on a video, select 'Settings...' and untick 'Enable hardware acceleration'. Reload the page for it to take affect. Note that this disables GPU acceleration.
- Downgrade Flash to version 18.104.22.168-1 at most
- Use Google Chrome with the new Pepper API.
- Try one of the few Flash alternatives.
The merits of each are discussed in this thread. To summarize: if you want all flash sites (youtube, vimeo, etc) to work properly in non-Chrome browsers, without feature regressions (such as losing hardware acceleration), without crashes/instability (enabling hardware decoding), without security concerns (multiple CVEs against older flash versions) and without breaking the vdpau tracing library from its intended purpose, the LEAST objectionable is to install libvdpau-git-flashpatchAUR.
Leaking overlay with Flash and Nvidia
This bug is due to the incorrect colour key being used by the flashplugin version 18.104.22.168-1 [3] and causes the flash content to "leak" into other pages or solid black backgrounds. To avoid this issue simply export
VDPAU_NVIDIA_NO_OVERLAY=1 within either your shell profile (E.g.
~/.bash_profile or
~/.zprofile) or
Flash videos not working on older systems
If you have Abobe Flash installed on an older system and you start playing a video which simply turns black with nothing happeing, it is most likely that your CPU does not support SSE2. You can simply check out this by looking at your CPU flags with this command:
# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags
If sse2 is not mentioned there, then you need to install an older version of Flash (for example 10.3). Older versions possibly will have vulnerabilities. You should then consider sandboxing Firefox using sandfox (https://igurublog.wordpress.com/downloads/script-sandfox/).
Older versions of Flash are available here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html
You need to copy libflashplayer.so to the folder /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/


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Pioneer May Sell Its AV Equipment Business: report
Responding to the report, Pioneer said that it is currently considering "every possible measure for thorough review of its home AV business, such as alliances in cluding partial sales of its shares in subsidiaries." However, it sad that no decisions have been made, with any particular third parties including Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
Selling its AV Business unit could help Pioneer focus on its more profitable devices for automobiles.
The company's AV equipment business, including such products as home theater systems and Blu-ray Disc players, generated 108 billion yen ($1.04 billion) in sales -- roughly 20% of the company's total -- in fiscal 2013. Operating profit came to 100 million yen. Pioneer would likely hold onto high-margin parts of the business like DJ equipment.


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As I flagged last month, Credit Suisse thinks Ctrip (CTRP) is uniquely positioned to capture the rapidly rising trend of Chinese overseas travel.
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Ctrip is best positioned in the international travel market in China.
The latest data from iResearch suggests that Ctrip has about 30-40% of China's international travel market, well ahead of Tuniu.com, the closed competitor in the market that has about 15% of market share. Longer term, we expect Ctrip to continue to gain market share, as we believe in recent years the company has gradually laid out the foundation for international travel expansion, including its acquisition of WingOn Travel in 2011 and partnership with Booking.com in 2012.
Air travel has been strong. According to Civil Aviation Administration of China, the number of air passengers grew 13.1% from a year before in August to 34.8 million, faster than the 11.3% growth rate in August, 2012. The international segment grew even more quickly, at 16.7% to 2.7 million.
T.H. Capital analyst Tian Hou thinks Ctrip's ticket volume in August grew 30-35% and air ticket price stayed firm, which is good news for the margins:
Ctrip's average air-ticket price before coupon for flights in these selected major routes could increase 3.3% Q/Q compared with 2Q13.
The amount of average daily cash rebate could be 2.6% of the average daily ticket price for selected major routes in 3Q13, up from 1.7% in 2Q13. [But] Coverage of cash rebate flights could decrease to 86% of total flights in 3Q13 from 97% in 2Q13 for selected major routes.
The analyst has a Hold on Ctrip and does not provide target price.
ABR Investment is more bullish, giving Ctrip a $75 target price. Ctrip last traded at $56.2.
In addition to the international travel angle, ABR thinks Ctrip is way ahead of its competitors eLong (LONG) and Qunar (QUNR), controlled by Baidu (BIDU), in mobile:
Ctrip is much more dominant in the mobile space than its peers. As Ctrip disclosed recently, mobile accounted for 40% of total hotel.
Bookings in August, increasing from 30% in 2Q13. In comparison, eLong had about 20% hotel booking from mobile in 2Q13 and its management expected this percentage to increase to 25% in 3Q13. For Qunar, we estimate mobile only accounted for high single-digit percentage of total hotel bookings in 2Q13.


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Wed., Sept. 18, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Wednesday called a deal that sold the World Trade Center's name rights to a nonprofit organization for $10 decades ago "a shameful episode" and vowed to cooperate with an anticipated investigation by New York's attorney general.
A newspaper story this month revealed that the name rights were sold to former Port Authority executive Guy Tozzoli in his role as head of the nonprofit World Trade Centers Association, formed to promote international trade. The Port Authority, which owns the lower Manhattan land where the Twin Towers stood before Sept. 11, 2001, is among more than 300 worldwide members that pay the WTCA a fee to use the words "World Trade Center."
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has criticized the deal. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he has referred the matter to state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to determine whether the WTCA "properly acquired from the Port Authority and developed the exclusive rights to the World Trade Center brand" and whether Tozzoli or others "improperly received the benefit of such intellectual property without right" at the expense of the Port Authority and taxpayers.
At a Port Authority board meeting on Wednesday, executive director Patrick Foye called the contract "a shameful episode," and board chairman David Samson said it appears "troubling." But neither could say with specificity who signed off on it.
The Record newspaper, of Woodland Park, N.J., reported in its initial story on the deal that a board secretary had signed off, and on Wednesday Samson said the original transaction "was approved by a prior board commissioner." Foye said it was approved by Port Authority officers but not by the full board of commissioners. Foye added that the Port Authority's executive director at the time of the deal, Stephen Berger, told him he hadn't signed off on it.
Samson said he had referred the matter to the Port Authority's audit committee and counsel.
"Just off the surface facts, this appears to be troubling," Samson said. "We're going to take a careful look at it."
The World Trade Center had been standing for more than 15 years by the time the rights were sold, and the brand already was valuable, Foye noted. Its value has grown exponentially since the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
The Record reported that in exchange for the Port Authority's use of the trademark on merchandise, which the newspaper estimated could bring the Port Authority up to $28 million annually, the WTCA is requesting free office space worth an estimated $585,000 per year at the rebuilt World Trade Center site.
Tozzoli died in February, and the WTCA said Wednesday that no one there was available to comment.
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Game #15: Red Sox at Blue Jays pregame
Boston (8-5) at Toronto (8-6)
at 12:37 p.m. ET at the Rogers Centre
Today's lineups:
Coco Crisp, CF
Kevin Youkilis, 3B
David Ortiz, DH
Manny Ramirez, LF
J.D. Drew, RF
Jason Varitek, C
Eric Hinske, 1B
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
Alex Cora, SS
PITCHING: RHP Julian Tavarez
Alex Rios, RF
Adam Lind, LF
Vernon Wells, CF
Frank Thomas, DH
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Aaron Hill, 2B
Gregg Zaun, C
Jason Smith, 3B
John McDonald, SS
PITCHING: RHP Roy Halladay
NOTES: CL B.J. Ryan spoke with the media about his elbow injury. Check bluejays.com later to read what he had to say. … Halladay owns a 16-4 record when starting the day after a Blue Jays loss. … The Jays will catch a flight to Baltimore Thursday night, and begin a three-game set with the Orioles on Friday. I'm not making that part of the road trip, so the blog might be dorment until I rejoin the press corps for the following series' in Boston and New York.
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I'm not sure how many more times this season Gibbons is going to make poor choices and cost us games, but I only hope after we don't make the playoffs again this season the Jays fire him and J.P. for not getting it done. At a minimum Gibbons needs to go.
In the 8th, if Overbay had taken off for second, would the throw from the plate plus the throw back have taken long enough that Wells could have stolen home? (Bearing in mind that Wells would have to wait until the ball was out of Varitek's hand before taking off and that Overbay might have been able to disrupt the return throw with his slide, even if he had been tagged out in the process.) Even if the Sox had suspected that of being the play and hadn't made the throw to second, then Overbay would have got the base and the double play would have been off the table.
Yes, I would rather Gibbons gets fired than this team making the playoffs for the first time in 14 years.
Completely agree.
"In the 8th, if Overbay had taken off for second, would the throw from the plate plus the throw back have taken long enough that Wells could have stolen home?"
I'm curious also as to why we don't see this too much. My assumption is that it would happen more if the odds of being safe were higher. What would probably happen is that Cora or Pedroia would've intercepted the throw 3-4 feet in front of the base, allowing enough time that a strong throw would nail the runner. Cut play!
Ah, you were saying that after the assumption the Jays don't make the playoffs, you hope Gibbons at least gets fired.
That's at the very most debatable. I definitely would have had Downs go after or intentionally walk Manny, then go for Drew. Downs has proven himself much better than the role of LOOGY. On the other hand, I think 90% of Gibbons job is stuff we don't see.
WOW look at all the emanagers out there. My opinion is anyone that strikes out, when the bases are loaded, should be traded immediately for Eric Hinkse, cuz he is apparently your new GOD
Time to get rid of Gibbons. Wonder how many games he will cost the Jays this year with his stupid dicsons ?
Had Gibbons left Doc in, and Doc had given up a home run, you'd be saying the same thing, lets fire Gibbons because he didn't go the bullpen.
Give the guy a break. Coaches aren't perfect.
I think all you guys miss the real point. John Gibbons isn't to blame, Josh Towers is !!! Im sure JT told Gibby to those stupid moves, further calling for his immediate departue from the lineup. I think even God (Hinske) would agree with me.
I'll worry for his job security if Gibbons sends Marcum out in the 8th inning a third time.
Sorry guys, I can't agree with you on any of this. Seriously, do you really think Gibbons is to blame? Take a look at Toronto's offense, from a team that is supposed to produce a lot of runs, not many of these guys are doing much yet this year. Also, Marcum was said to be one of Toronto's best bullpen pitcher's this year, not havin a great time yet, I bet if Ryan were healthy and blow the game, no one would say anything about that being a bad decision. I still cant beleive you call yourselves fans, the season is only 14 or 15 games old (OUT OF 162), why are you dumping on a team so early? And to those that think Hinske would help, I think you need to adjust your thoughts, Hinske is garbage, there's a reason why Toronto got rid of him.
this is like the fifth time the jays have blown a lead in the later innings
Our bullpen just isn't working right now, we need to maybe send someone back to triple A and bring someone forth to see if they would fare better, cause right now it just isn't working. We need ryan back as soon as possible.
THe only person i see getting on base most of the time is arron hill (8th guy) where the **** is thomas' power.
the injures have really hurt us this season.
Oh my! How soon we forget all the 2 run games we have won this year, when the bullpen was stellar, and the guys you are dissing right now were virtually un-hittable. And nobody remembers all the calls Gibby has made that makes him look like a genius. As far as offense is concerned, Wells and Thomas are known slow starters, Glaus is on the DL, and Johnson is out for 2 months or more. If you guys want to sit there and second guess the GM and Manager, (it's real easy after the game has been played), if you want to fire and demote people, then at least come up with some names to replace the guys you want to blow away. Otherwise, you better get used to the idea that we are going to lose at least 60 games this year, and sometimes they come in bunches.
Gnorman, how about giving me an example of Gibbons genius moves ? Already 2.5 games behind and going down. Gibbons should take his swagger and leave town!!
Oh, like pinch hitting Wells the moment Cabrera left the game, who promptly singled in 2 runs to take the lead? Like being CHOSEN by Ozzie Guillen over everyone else in the American League to be his bench coach in last year's all star game? I guess having 3 potential all stars on the DL at the same time wouldn't have anything to do with losing a few games would it?
Let me ask you a question firstname.lastname@example.com: If you fired Gibbons, who would you get to replace him? How much would you have to pay him? Gibbons is already the lowest paid manager in the AL, and if you had to pay his replacement more, who else would you get rid of to get the money?
How much of a genuis does it take to pinch hit using Wells ? Anyone with an ounce of brains would do that. As for replacment they have him on the bench beside your man .
Think about it !!!!!!!!!
I think anyone who choses Josh Towers to be their starting pitcher deserves to be fired.
Josh Towers has been pitching fine. His problems last year were too many walks and too many homeruns. His problems this year are fielding errors (not all of them his own) and lack of run support. Against Baltimore he did give up early runs, but they were on a bunch of singles.
My point is that nobody seems to notice when things go right. Besides, the manager doesn't have the final say in who is on the club. That's up to the GM, the scouts, the accountants, and so on. And if you had been using the Jays games for something besides a night light, you should have noticed that we are missing 2 key hitters out of our lineup, and 2 key pitchers (if you count Brandon League, who was supposed to be the setup man) out of the bullpen. That's sure as heck Gibbon's fault! Why don't we fire Wells, Thomas and Zaun too? They sure aren't hitting very well! But go ahead – blame it all on the manager. Thank goodness the Jay's management has different ideas.
Wow it's amasing how no one gives Gibby a hard time when the Jays win. So you mean to tell me that just when they lose he makes a mistake.I see how it goes. What a bunch of emanagers we have that comment here.


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icarusinbound wrote:Apologies, you'll be miles ahead of me on this, but you're aware that Fourmatch says it has to sit on top of (at minimum) full CS5, not just LE or Elements? So that's an $890 application extension that sits on top a $700+ app?
Looks interesting and powerful, but challenging price structures..
lux wrote:I'm not sure I understand what this software does. It only determines if an image has been through an editor?
If so, that in itself wouldn't necessarily indicate it was faked.
Equinox wrote:2000. Suspect images... And well when THEY ALL come back as fake, I believe that speaks multitudes.
2000 photos, And Not one of them are real??
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My mom is in town, and I had other family visiting earlier, along with my two wee ones birthdays. Just settling into how things will be for me for me on my own too. It has been a busy month...
Anyhow I have been sharing a few of my meals that I have made on my facebook page! If you have not yet 'liked', you should! And if you have a facebook page. Leave me a comment and I will like it too!
I have made some yummy Autumn harvest meals the last couple of weeks...I hope you had a excellent weekend!
|Roasted curry cauliflower soup
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Semen is a thick, cloudy, white substance that contains sperm and
other fluids. Semen is released, or ejaculated, from the penis during a man's
The amount of semen ejaculated varies from between a few drops to
about 1 tsp (4.9 mL) and
usually contains between 40 million and 600 million sperm.
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Neglected churchyards … No respect … !
[I must emphasise, before you read on, the rants contained herein are solely the opinion of the author!]
A couple of weeks ago, I visited the churchyard at Barham in Kent to seek out some more graves, since sources indicated that I would find BALDOCKs. I could not believe my eyes on arrival, to find that around 75% of the churchyard was void of headstones, their place being taken up with mole-hills … hundreds of them! All and any headstones which may have been respectfully locating graves were now stacked like dominoes against the back wall of the churchyard, with only the front row showing their inscriptions.
I realise that moles are difficult to eradicate – my father had a devil of a job to get rid of them from our back lawn many years ago, but he did it. And (for all you animal welfare nuts out there) they can be trapped successfully, or even killed humanely.
Walking around the remaining cemetery investigating the graves which were left (locating possible FAGG relatives), I could feel how spongy the grass was, suggesting the problem may see the end of the complete churchyard!
I realise maintaining such places can be expensive, but remedial work at this late stage will be even more costly! And where do relatives now go to pay their respects? Ancestors should not be forgotten just because they died 100 years ago?! After all, isn't that why we're all in the genealogy game? I didn't know how much pity/sorrow/respect I would find myself feeling for long-lost relatives until I started. Tracing family on the internet is all well and good, but visiting their graves makes it all very personal, however distantly they may be related. After all, DNA makes us a part of them…
Maybe it is not considered a priority now that there is a second cemetery on the opposite side of the road where I found more FAGGs (but not necessarily related yet) – but how long before this is affected if moles find the area so homely … ?
Please, Barham Parish Council, or Dover Borough Council, or Canterbury City Council, or Kent County Council, or even Kent Archaeological Society, do something to curb the problem.
Even the dead deserve respect – and their families would expect it!
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On a recent evening walk I stopped to listen to a familiar September melody: crickets singing. In a flash the sound brought memories of the summer that had just passed by and summers that preceded it. It also got me anticipating the season change, with colorful fall days followed by short winter ones, then melting ice and the burst of life that signals spring. All this from a few crickets!
Attending the National Hearing Conservation Association annual convention about ten years ago I was invited to write my favorite sound on a little white index card. That was the first time I learned of the Favorite Sounds project, and it was probably the first time I had ever thought of sound in that way. In this ongoing study of favorite sounds, 70% of respondents have indicated they enjoy sounds categorized as "natural" whereas 30% chose "mechanical" sounds. Further broken down this includes:
- Natural sounds: weather related (29%); animals (29%); and human (24%)
- Mechanical sounds: music (70%) and vehicles (13%)
Now that I am a convert to the topic, I add new favorites to my own list regularly–like crickets. And I use Favorite Sounds as a discussion starter and writing prompt in my classes at Boston University. It's a good way to engage students, and if I can't draw them out with favorite sounds, this follow-up question usually does: What are some sounds you dislike? Through the years I've learned that a lot of people like the sound of crickets, but others can't stand them–for various reasons. One example: some people who experience tinnitus describe it as sounding like annoying crickets. Tinnitus is a distressing condition associated with hearing loss, and with noise induced hearing loss in particular.
The topic of favorite and un-favorite sounds is relevant in hearing loss prevention and other broad questions of public health. In the 1980's some research groups investigated whether exposure to loud music is less risky to hearing when the music is considered by the listener to be pleasant vs. unpleasant. Although the result of one study seemed to indicate such an effect, in general there is agreement in the research community that exposure to very loud sound is risky to hearing, enjoyable or not. And noise can affect more than our hearing: current research suggests that exposure to noise in our daily lives is associated with stress and elevated risk of cardiovascular problems, even at levels well below those that can damage the hearing mechanism.
So whether you like the sound of crickets or close the windows when they begin their serenade, noise in the environment impacts all of us in many different ways. Noise is one of the interesting topics addressed frequently by ASHA's Special Interest Group 8: Public Health Issues Related to Hearing and Balance. Join us and learn more!
Lindgren, F., and Axelsson, A. (1983). Temporary threshold shift after noise and music of equal energy. Ear & Hearing, 4(4), 197-201.
Meinke, D., Lankford, J. and Wells, L. (2002). Collecting favorite sounds. Available online at: http://hearingconservation.org/associations/10915/files/Favorite%20Sounds%20Handout.pdf
Moudon, A. V. (2009). Real noise from the urban environment: How ambient community noise affects health and what can be done about it. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 37(2), 167-171.
Swanson, S.J., Dengerink, H.A., Kondrick, P., and Miller, C.L. (1987). The influence of subjective factors on temporary threshold shifts after exposure to music and noise of equal energy. Ear & Hearing, 8(5), 288-291.
Ann Dix, CCC-A, grew up in a musical family and became interested in speech and hearing through her background playing and singing in rock and roll bands. She has been a clinical faculty member of Boston University's Speech Language and Hearing Sciences department since 1997. Ann blogs at Now Hear This, a Boston University blog about sound and hearing.


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During a visual exam for
head lice, the hair on the head is parted with the fingers so that the scalp
can be seen. You or the doctor uses a louse comb and looks for tiny live
3 mm (0.12 in.) to
4 mm (0.16 in.) long, or the
size of a sesame seed]. If you are checking your child or someone else for
lice, it may be helpful to use a handheld magnifying glass or have another
person help you. The doctor may use a special light called a Woods lamp in a
darkened room to see the lice better.
Pubic lice may look like yellowish brown or gray
specks or small scabs. They are smaller than head lice [about
1 mm (0.04 in.) to
2 mm (0.08 in.) long] and are
wider than they are long.
Body lice and their eggs may be seen in
the seams of clothing. They are usually not found on the body, although there
may be small, red bumps on the skin where the lice have bitten. The lice look
like large head lice and may be up to
4 mm (0.16 in.) long.
People with itching in areas of the
body that are commonly infested with lice—the scalp, pubic area, or armpits—or
people who have close contact with a person who has lice should do a self-exam
or have someone help them look for lice and eggs.
Seeing lice or their eggs is enough to
diagnose a lice infestation. Treatment is always needed to get rid of the
People who have
pubic lice are strongly encouraged to seek testing for other sexually
transmitted infections.
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