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text: lupoman Posted December 24, 2006 (edited) Just an update! I am back from IRAQ!! Well been back since March! Just letting things settle down and geting back into civilian mode again. I reached my primary goal- AMERICAN EXPRESS! But not only that i have alot of credit! Well coming from a guy who started with this- 6 Crappy credit cards- Providian: $1925 Crapital One: $300 Crapital One: $300 Crapital One: $300 First Premier Bank: $300 (RUN! dont walk away from these guys!) Household Bank: $500 BADDIES- 1. American General Loan: Closed was 120 days late (all 3 CRA's) 2. Crapital one- ($700 limit)closed was 150 days late!account closed by credit grantor (i closed it, not them) 3. Crapitol one- ($500 limit) closed 30 days late 6 times 4. Crapital one- ($700 limit)closed was 150 days late! YES, A SECOND ONE! 5. First Hawaiian Bank Yes Check (overdraft protection)- closed30 days late (ouch, that one stings a little) 6. First Premier Bank- ($300 limit) open 2 30 day lates, neither my fault, will explain later. 7. First Premier Bank- ($450 limit) closed was 60 days late 8. First Premier Bank- ($600 limit) closed was 30 days late - Reports on TU only, No idea who or what this account is/was. 9. Military Star Card (Department store card) CHARGE OFF $3125 balance, acct status open 10. NEX Card (Navy Department store Card) CHARGE OFF $3816 balance, account staus open on EQ and TU, closed on EX 11. NCO Financial- everyone loves these guys! Collection Account for $1286 Verizon wireless (long story short- Sig other got me a phone when mine broke, stopped paying bill) 12. Providian- open was 30 days late , on EX was 30 days late 6 times!! 13. Vericheck- Returned Check reporting on EQ only 14. Vericheck- Returned Check reporting on EQ only (yes a second one) 15. Verizon Wireless- CHARGE OFF $1286 see #11 16. VW Credit- car loan, closed, open on TU, 2 30 day lates WHEW! Talk about having my work cut out for me!! So here is my story- In 1998 i went through a divorce, i was in the military still so i told the wife she could have everything except the car (in my name only), the computer, and the entertainment center with everything in it. The rest was all hers, furniture etc. The only problem with that was i still had the bills for some of that stuff. Well i was now making less money (single military guys make less $$ than married guys in the military) but still had the same bills. I picked up a second job while active duty as a security guard making a little extra money but working like a dog. But being newly single and still young i wasted a lot of my paychecks on things i HAD to have but didnt necessarily NEED. On top of that going out parting with the other single guys spending more money didnt help. Slowly but surely bills started getting behind, i didn't think it mattered being late to pay a bill, i'd just "double up" the next month!Soon after that happened i started to apply for more credit. I understood the importance of HAVING good credit, but not really the importance of KEEPING good credit. After many denial letters i figured my credit was really messed up. Fast forward to Oct 11, 2001, the month after Sept 11, 2001. This was the month i was getting out of active duty and was supposed to go to work at a great paying job i had lined up back in July. Well, i live on an Island (Hawaii), the economy is tourist based. There were not alot of tourist flying around in the months after 9/11. Therefore there were massive lay-offs in Hawaii. This included that job i had lined up. I then had the National Guard (one weekend a month, 2 weeks a year) as my sole income! I found Temp work here and there, but it sucked. On top of that, the ex wife wanted $480 dollars a month that she was getting while i was active duty! I was getting $990 in unemployment per month! Things were getting ugly! Its now March 2002, my credit is crushed due to 3 Charge offs, tons of late payments, living on credit cards (easy to max a $300 credit card) and no Job. Well thanks to my NEW Significant other (GF) she helped me along through these rough spots. I lived with her (would probably be homeless on the income i was making). Things started looking up, i got a job i have wanted to do since i was a little kid! I am a Cop NOW! The Pay wasnt all that great for Hawaii, but there is something about going to work and being happy, vs a well paying job you hate. I chose the first, mainly due to my sweetheart supporting me in my choice of wanting to do something i loved. I was making payments now, mostly on time, i went through a bill consolidation company called Clarion, which is good and bad, they lowered my total payments to one single payment instead of going in all different directions. The only trouble with that is that they closed (or the creditors) most all of my credit accounts as a condition of lowering my payments. Fast forward again to August 2004, my National guard unit came down on orders for Iraq! If any of you are military or married to one, its a mixed feeling of being scared and looking forward to the adventure. I wont get political here by making any statements. But its something i trained for 10 years to do, and suddenly i was going to do it for real. While training in Texas to goto Iraq around October 2004, i was making much more money than i had as a cop, so i started looking at my credit again, i wanted nicer stuff! The irony of it all lol. That thinking is what got me into this. So i started using the internet to find out about my credit. I think i waded through 30 sites before i found this one, most of them wanted you to send them money for credit repair kits, or they were speaking all kinds of credit jargon that i didnt understand. Then i found Creditboards! HOLY CRAP! This is what i had been looking for!! It was the best organized, easiest to navigate, and had a Noobie section just for me!! So i started reading in my spare time, and reading, and reading, and re-reading, and reading, deploying to Iraq in February, reading, getting internet in my room re-reading what i had forgotten, and reading some more. I wanted to make sure i understood what i was doing, as well as what others on the creditboards were doing and what they were talking about. More importantly i was deftly afraid of asking a question that had literally been asked thousands of times before. SEARCH FUNCTION IS YOUR FRIEND! AND SO I BEGIN Well Back then in April 2005, i noticed that most people that were serious on Creditboards (CB from now on) were subscribing to Mycreditkeeper. So i did what those that were successful were doing, i joined too! This would be my daily monitoring credit report. Then i got a copy of my credit report from each CRA (Credit Reporting Agency)online, Man talk about almost falling on the floor when seeing my credit report for the first time! I then decided to buy a FICO score so i could use it as a benchmark of my success/failures. (see above score). This was done in one day, i spent the next week pouring over my plan of attack and CB. After reading the noob section so much i knew the first thing to do was OPT OUT, that was easy. Then dispute all names and addresses. This seemed trivial to me at first, I WANTED THOSE BADDIES OFF! But this is one of THE most important things to do. If the bad addresses and misspelled names are not on your credit report, then thats one less thing that the CRA can use to verify with. ADDRESSES Now this is important- I WANTED THIS STUFF GONE! So i did the address and names by Phone (a normal no-no but it mostly worked, i would not talk about anything else on the credit report to the CSR (Customer Service Rep) at the 3 CRA's. I would simply say that i was looking at my credit report i got online and noticed that these names were obviously mis-spelled, i never lived at these addresses, which was true because in my mind if there was any mis-spelling, anything out of place, anything different than my real address spelled correctly then it is NOT MINE, i don't spell it that may, the post office don't spell it that way, so its wrong. For example- 1450 Huron lane is my address, not 145 Huron Lane, not 1450 Hurun Lane. I dont know where those places are much less if they exist, therefore they are NOT MINE. I then marked the ones the CSR said were tied to a trade line, I did not want to argue or anything on the phone, I made small talk (being in IRAQ helped), and i got all my names corrected, an erroneous SSN deleted, and about 12 address removed from each credit report (give or take one or 2 address). After getting off the phone i went straight to my barracks room and prepared a Certified Return Receipt requested letter to remove the remaining addresses. Within 2 weeks almost all were gone Experian is the pain in the flowers here. They only removed a cpl of address, they are there to this day. EQ AND TU all address were deleted except my current home addresses. TRADELINES/BADDIES I know this is getting long winded but i wanted to tell the [b]whole[/b] story and what i went through. Keep in mind that all of this was done in Iraq, in between Patrols, i did not have a cushy desk-job. I would come back to my room exhausted, but couldn't wait to check my credit report to see if anything new had happened My first plan of attack- Its Now the Middle of May 2005. When i saw the first addresses start falling off the Credit reports i knew they had my letter, so i fired off another letter disputing all 16 negative tradelines to all 3 CRA's. At the same time i prepared: NCO- a 1-2 punch Vericheck- A Nutcase letter Verizon Wireless- A goodwill letter combined with a pay for deletion. This was my dumb mistake (the debt), it was money i owed them, i didnt wanna try to get rid of it, i wanted to take care of what i owed. NEX- goodwill/payfor deletion letter RESULTS- (20 days later) June 7, 2005 NCO- Folded! OFF ALL 3 credit reports!! Vericheck- PFD letter sent to me, i owed 35 bucks apparently, and deleted First Hawaiian Bank- shows current, no lates, after a not mine NEX- Received Pay for deletion contract in writing Verizon Wireless- Received an acceptance of pay for deletion if i call in 4 days ( i called, we made terms, payed first half then on the phone, second half at end of month. Was in contact via email with a nice woman with verizon named Jeanette, letting me know when the deletion letters were being sent out ect. (PM if you need her email) LETTERS I USED, CLICK HERE FICO in 2 months NEXT ROUND- My next plan of attack was to start picking on inaccuracies since most of the Not mines came back verified. Things such as demanding deletion due to innacurate reporting of accounts open, when they should be closed, never late on everything. And to also start applying for some secured cards to raise my score. RESULTS- American General- never late on EQ, pay history deleted on TU/EX, but still showing late 90/120 Capitol One- 150 day lates Deleted! Current pays as agreed on all 3 CRA! Capitol One- 30 day late, 6 times deleted! current never late on all three! Capitol One- SECOND 150 day lates Deleted! Current pays as agreed on all 3 CRA! First premier- Unknown account on TU- updated to pays as agreed never late - ok, ill take that Military star card- Charge-off updated to account transferred or sold. Better than charge off i guess, 0 balance Navy Exchange - CHARGE OFF- deleted off EQ , reinserted on EX VERIZON- CHARGE OFF- DELETED off all 3 CRA's! Reinserted on TU PFB!! Click here for thread VW- NEVER LATE! all 3!! new credit since repair started: 1) US Bank Korean air (secured $1000) at THIS thread 2) juniper carnival cruise card at THIS thread. $1500 limit 3) Providian CLI from $1925 to $2925!!!! due to fico jump albeit! auto increase after nothing for a year. yahoo.gif 4) Bank of America $99/$500 card on the way (got the offer after phone reconsider after denial for regular credit card)CALL FOR RECONSIDERATION!! 5) household bank (orchard) CLI from $500-$900. Still sock drawered! java script:emoticon 6) New military star card- $3000 limit! Applied and got approved the day i paid off the charge off!! NEW FICO! 3 Months after starting, ALMOST TO THE DAY!! PHASE 3 Its now the middle of AUGUST, i Have my first Purple Heart, second will come in October, as well as the loss of a close friend. Plan of Attack- APPLY for better Cards, close Junk Cards, delete any old trade lines for age that were baddies keep hammering away at tradelines that wont budge. Go after re-inserted address that popped back on. Mostly all done using online disputes. RESULTS- Household Bank- CLI from $700 to $900 Second Juniper Bank TL - Tesoro card and , DRUMROLL PLEASE!! DELTA PLATINUM AMERICAN EXPRESS!!! $5000 CL!!!!!! My GOAL REACHED!!! COWBELLS!!!!!!! Credit scores at this time (10/1/2006) TU=667 EX=651 EQ=617 From here on out i slowed down dramatically. I wanted an AMEX and i got it, that was my goal. I worked on my credit off and on mostly applying. Some baddies fell off. others did not. My Current FICO- So now my next goal is to break 700 Here are my BADDIES as of 12/23/2006 TU 1) Military Star- Still listed as -transfered or sold account, was collection account . TU has it also listed "was a charge off. It IS a charge off, a paid Charge off! 2) American General- 90 day late 3) First premier bank- 30 day late 4) Capitol one- This is what sucked. I disputed a TL that said it was open when it should have been closed and got my 120 (was 150) late back! 5) Capitol One- again disputed something else on the TL got a 30 day late back! EQ 1) Military Star- Currently listed as 120 days past due! i think i would rather it say transferred or sold lol it was paid off in may-june of 2005 2) American General- Currently 90 days past due- paid off in 2004 3) First Premier- was 30 days late 4) First Premier- was 30 days late 5) VW credit - was 90 days late 6) Providian (aka washington mutual)- was 30 days late EX The bane, i hate Experian the most. They wont even investigate something online when u show them its wrong. Then try and look for their address anywhere on their website, call their 1800 number and their address is buried in voicemail recordings. I was surprised they even gave me an option to re-play their address, i assumed i had to hang up and remember how i got down the phone tree to their address! Account current status Worst Delinquency 1) MILITARY STAR- Account transferred to another office Charge Off, Collection, Or Bankruptcy 2) CAP ONE BK- Credit line closed/not paying as agreed 150 days delinquent 3) NAVY EXCHANGE Paid account/was a collection account, insurance claim or government claim or was terminated for default I HAVE A PAY FOR DELETION you $%$&$!! Charge Off, Collection, Or Bankruptcy 4) AMERICAN GENERAL Paid account/was 120 days past due date 120 days delinquent 5) VW CREDIT Paid account/was 60 days past due date 60 days delinquent 6) FIRST PREMIER BANK Paid account/was 30 days past due date two or three times 30 days delinquent 7) FIRST PREMIER BANK Paid account/was 30 days past due 30 days delinquent 8) WASH MUTUAL/PROVIDIAN Current account/was 30 days past due date six times or more 30 days delinquent Well and there ya have it, mostly all lates. this is off of fico reports. Can Experian really list your deliquency in your current status ? i mean putting "was" in front of it makes it ok? Now my Credit lines!! AMERICAN EXPRESS- Inital 5k limit and 19%apr Now - $15000 and 14.5% (luv Button! and calls) I would call AMEX and say "hi i am a cardholder and i just got a new USAA card with a higher credit limit, i would like to keep AMEX as my day to day spending card (they luve that, they see $$ signs) but the USAA card has a higher credit limit/lower intrest rate. You think u guys can at least match it so i can keep spending my money with you instead of USAA? They usually jump through Hoops! Then i would call USAA and have the same conversation, just change the names around. LOL USAA! - started at $2500 17% apr, CLI to $5000 and 14%, Did balance Transfer from AMEX $7000 CLI and 4.9% LUVING USAA!! Nobody can touch their insurance rates, least for me anyway. Bank of America- $500 They unsecured my cash after only 6 months and refunded it to me! I have my daughter as an AU on this account. I will keep it at $500 limit thank you very much JUNIPER- CARNIVAL Sea Miles - $1500 limit (my first credit card approval ) 20.24% intrest been sockdrawred JUNIPER- TESORO Gas- $1000 limit- 17.24% sock drawer JUNIPER- ITUNES!- $2500 limit! Man i was happy bout that!! thought it was one i would use alot! till i saw the intrest, 22.74% guess small charges and PIF each month! CAPITOL One- Combined the 3 $300 dollar Cards into 1 card (i picked the oldest account for age) got automatic CLI from $900 to $2000. still sock drawered! Household Bank (AKA 1-800 india) - Called for a CLI from $900, this is one of my oldest cards! Was told "i understand why you feel that way" more times than i care to remember in a thick indonesian accent. I swear i dont think they understood half of what i was asking. I was on the verge of testing this therory by saying "it Burns when i Pee!" "Oh Mr. Lupoman we understand why you feel that way" anyway they asked be for $20 to raise my limit $200!! lmao get real! i hung up on them. MACY's Card- Really only got it for the 20% off first purchase. $600 limit MILITARY STAR- Its a Love hate relationship. On the one hand they have this charge off on my credit report. But the day they recieved paymenton the charge off, is the day they issued me another card with a $3000 limit! Now that card's CL is up to $9225!! Do they ever learn? but thanks for the second chance! US Bank- Korean Air Secured ($1000 limit) I CLOSED this account after 1 year, i used them to help up my scores and get better cards. Nice to use them, they seem to always use us! TOTAL CREDIT At START OF CREDIT REPAIR- $3625 TOTAL CREDIT At This Point of CREDIT REPAIR- $38,425 Thanking CB and Hearing COWBELLS!- PRICELESS! There are alot of peeps to thank, George, Pryan67, Breeze, StupidCredit, Dolemite73, NurseyPoo, and all the words of encouragement from everyone!! If i could do this in Iraq, well, whats your reason for not sticking to it, dont loose the faith- faith in yourself, you CAN do it and you WILL do it. But the peeps on this board wont do it FOR you. Step up to the plate, you got it in ya. Starting my trek to 700! Wish me luck! Edited December 24, 2006 by lupoman Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Development/Tutorials/Decibel/Handling TextChannels
This tutorial will walk you through the process of creating a simple application that uses Decibel's TextChannels to communicate via arbitrary instant messaging networks using telepathy. From the result of this tutorial, only a few more lines of code are needed to produce a functioning text based instant messaging client.
This tutorial is based on the source code of the simpleclient demo included in decibel. An explanation of using the simpleclient demo can be found here.
ChannelHandler class
The first class we will need to create is an implementation of the Decibel::ChannelHandler interface.
The Class Definition
The code below is the class definition for our implementation of the Decibel::ChannelHandler interface.
class MyTextChannelHandler : public Decibel::ChannelHandler
explicit MyTextChannelHandler(QObject * parent = 0);
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For example, if I need to export a 32x32 png and a 64x64 png, what size should my control vector file be?
The main reason I ask this is because I recently did an iPhone app icon and I needed to export to 57x57, 114x114, 29x29, 58x58, 72x72, 50x50 and 512x512. I used a vector file that was 512x512. All the exported pngs came out looking good except for the 29x29. It was a circular icon and the circle border on the 29x29 came out fuzzy. Does this usually happen when you size a big vector file down to a small png? How would one handle that situation?
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If you're looking for post-apocalyptic warfare between vampires and super-strong priest in a dark world of walled cities and space trains, then we present to you Priest, the latest supernatural action spectacular from the director and star of Legion.
The movie is an adaptation of the Korean comic series by Hyung Min-woo. It's set in a dystopian future, the end result of centuries of war between humans and feral vampires. Humans retreated into walled cities and were on the verge of extinction before the creation of the Priests, superpowered warriors who could match the strength and speed of the vampires. The movie picks up after the Priests won the war for humanity and, in doing so, left themselves with no clear purpose in the world.
That all changes when former priest Ivan Isaacs (Paul Bettany) defies church law to hunt down a band of vampire outlaws under the command of a fallen priest known as the Black Hat (Karl Urban). To do so, he teams up with a priestess (Maggie Q) and a sheriff (Cam Gigandet) in the post-apocalyptic wasteland whose girlfriend was kidnapped by the vampires.
The film is directed by Scott Stewart, who previously made the similarly post-apocalyptic, supernatural action horror Legion. Although it's vampires this time instead of angels, the movie has a similar feel: desolate desert vistas, huge action set pieces, and tons of gore. The movie was originally shot in 2D, but Stewart is overseeing a six-month conversion process to 3D that he says won't look anything like some of the rushed conversion jobs we've seen before. What we saw of the footage looked pretty good, and honestly we were surprised to hear it wasn't originally shot in 3D.
One of the most exciting parts of the new movie is its prologue, a traditionally animated sequence done by Samurai Jack and Clone Wars creator Genndy Tartakovsky. The opening sequence tells the entire alternate history of the human-vampire war through time, from the Crusades until right before the movie begins. The animation is easily the most violent work Tartakovsky has ever been able do, and Scott Stewart said he always conceived it as an opportunity to give him a canvas on which to work where he wouldn't have any restrictions on what he can do. Coolest of all, Stewart explained that they would be converting this prologue to 3D along with the rest of the movie.


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Welcome to Berwyn Veterinary Center for Integrative Medicine!
Here at BVCIM we know that each patient is somebody's family member and we never lose sight of that.
Our Mission is to make every owner feel good about having chosen us, from the moment they call to make
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To offer our clients medically and ethically responsible choices for their pets.
To treat each of our patients with kindness, with gentleness, and with the best medical care we are able.
To continue to learn and to maintain a health care level current with the day's standards.
To remain nurturing to our patients and to their people.
Berwyn Veterinary Center offers comprehensive health care for your furry pets. We have been serving Berwyn, Paoli, Devon, Wayne, Malvern, and other Main Line areas since 1987. Our services include medicine, surgery, dentistry, preventative health care, and weight loss programs. Dr. Leah Whipple practices integrative medicine. She is an experienced veterinary acupuncturist, having practiced acupuncture for over 20 years. She also provides class IV laser therapy and herbal medicine. We try to use the most effective and least deleterious treatments, to benefit the well-being of your pet. Call us to learn more about Berwyn Vet or to schedule an appointment!
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Best practice: Forward search head data to the indexer layer
It is considered a best practice to forward all search head internal data to the search peer (indexer) layer. This has several advantages:
- It accumulates all data in one place. This simplifies the process of managing your data: You only need to manage your indexes and data at one level, the indexer level.
- It enables diagnostics for the search head if it goes down. The data leading up to the failure is accumulated on the indexers, where another search head can later access it.
- By forwarding the results of summary index searches to the indexer level, all search heads have access to them. Otherwise, they're only available to the search head that generates them.
Forward search head data
The preferred approach is to forward the data directly to the indexers, without indexing separately on the search head. You do this by configuring the search head as a forwarder. These are the main steps:
1. Make sure that all necessary indexes exist on the indexers. For example, the S.o.S app uses a scripted input that puts data into a custom index. If you install S.o.S on the search head, you need to also install the S.o.S Add-on on the indexers, to provide the indexers with the necessary index settings for the data the app generates. On the other hand, since
_audit and
_internal exist on indexers as well as search heads, you do not need to create separate versions of those indexes to hold the corresponding search head data.
2. Configure the search head as a forwarder. Create an
outputs.conf file on the search head that configures the search head for load-balanced forwarding across the set of search peers (indexers). You must also turn off indexing on the search head, so that the search head does not both retain the data locally as well as forward it to the search peers.
Here is an example
outputs.conf file:
# Turn off indexing on the search head [indexAndForward] index = false [tcpout] defaultGroup = my_search_peers forwardedindex.filter.disable = true indexAndForward = false [tcpout:my_search_peers] server=10.10.10.1:9997,10.10.10.2:9997,10.10.10.3:9997
This example assumes that each indexer's receiving port is set to 9997.
For details on configuring
outputs.conf, read "Configure forwarders with outputs.conf" in the Forwarding Data manual.
Forward data from search head cluster members
You perform the same configuration steps to forward data from search head cluster members to their set of search peers. However, you must ensure that all members use the same
outputs.conf file. To do so, do not edit the file on the individual search heads. Instead, use the deployer to propagate the file across the cluster. See "Use the deployer to distribute apps and configuration updates."
Add search peers to the search head
Manage distributed server names
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 6.2.0, 6.2.1, 6.2.2, 6.2.3, 6.2.4, 6.2.5, 6.2.6, 6.2.7, 6.2.8, 6.2.9, 6.2.10, 6.2.11, 6.2.12, 6.2.13, 6.2.14, 6.2.15, 6.3.0, 6.3.1, 6.3.2, 6.3.3, 6.3.4, 6.3.5, 6.3.6, 6.3.7, 6.3.8, 6.3.9, 6.3.10, 6.3.11, 6.3.12, 6.3.13, 6.4.0, 6.4.1, 6.4.2, 6.4.3, 6.4.4, 6.4.5, 6.4.6, 6.4.7, 6.4.8, 6.4.9, 6.4.10, 6.4.11, 6.5.0, 6.5.1, 6.5.1612 (Splunk Cloud only), 6.5.2, 6.5.3, 6.5.4, 6.5.5, 6.5.6, 6.5.7, 6.5.8, 6.5.9, 6.5.10, 6.6.0, 6.6.1, 6.6.2, 6.6.3, 6.6.4, 6.6.5, 6.6.6, 6.6.7, 6.6.8, 6.6.9, 6.6.10, 6.6.11, 6.6.12, 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.0.9, 7.0.10, 7.0.11, 7.0.13, 7.1.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 7.1.4, 7.1.5, 7.1.6, 7.1.7, 7.1.8, 7.1.9, 7.1.10, 7.2.0, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.6, 7.2.7, 7.2.8, 7.2.9, 7.3.0, 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 7.3.3, 7.3.4, 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2
Realsplunk - The search head shouldn't be putting any data into the internal indexes if you're using those settings. Are you finding otherwise?
Hello, is it 100% sure that data won't be logged on search heads? Thanks.
FYI we use
[indexAndForward] index = false
Jagadeeshm - Internal data doesn't count against your license.
Does forwarding the data from Search Head to the Indexer takes up license usage?
After following this, I believe it is successful because the Search Head is now seen as an Heavy Forwarder in the DMC console.
I am however wondering how to make sure that the Search Head is not indexing internal data anymore.
When I look at internal db default location (ll /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/_internaldb/), it still shows recent modification.
Any hint ? Thanks in advance
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The optimal directory for placing your edited conf files varies and depends on several factors. All versions of a conf file, across all locations, are combined at runtime, according to a defined order of precedence. The one thing that is certain, you do not want to edit any conf files located in the default directory, as those files get overwritten with each upgrade.
Before doing any editing of conf files, it is a good idea to study conf files in detail. See this topic in the Admin Manual, as well as the topics that follow it in the same chapter: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Aboutconfigurationfiles
For this step: Create an outputs.conf file on the search head that configures the search head for load-balanced forwarding across the set of search peers (indexers).
Could you supply the default directory where this outputs.conf file would be saved? I believe this would remove some ambiguity and would make the documentation more complete.


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By Bianca Schulze, The Children's Book Review
Published: December 9, 2010
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Tom Matlack believes the 'cheater news cycle' cheats us out of more important discussions.
There are two kinds of sexual scandals: those that deal with consensual sex and those that deal with sex that is not consensual. One is newsworthy because it's a crime and one, frankly, is not. Why is it, then, that spend so much time reporting on consensual sex and under-reporting sexual abuse?
Last week we published the tragic suicide note of Trey Malone, an Amherst College student who was abused and did not receive adequate help. The note, and subsequent controversy around our publishing it, haunted me just as it did when I first read it. As if to bookend the week, on Friday, David Petraeus–who is perhaps the most respected general of our time–resigned as CIA Director for having an affair.
The two events gave me an opportunity to think, and experience first hand, what we talk about when it comes to male sexuality and how we are collectively missing the point.
I don't mean to be flip, but my first reaction on hearing the story was, in light of Trey Malone who fucking cares about David Petraeus having an affair?
I mean really, people, are we just about done with the headlines about Tiger, Arnold, Clinton and all the rest?
We've created this beast which is a supposed "news" infrastructure built around the hunt for the next celebrity bad boy found with his pants around his ankles in the consensual loving embrace with someone he shouldn't be having sex with based on his marital status.
True love is something that we all aspire to find, I believe. We are hardwired to want love and to be loved. And it's a difficult thing to do and be. If you are human you know that. We all stumble, fight, and love in the best way we know how. And hopefully we find that one person that we can crawl into bed with and know there is no other who could ever take their place.
Somehow we have gotten into this ground-hog day news cycle of powerful men who have sex outside their marriage as the absolute top story at even the most respected news organizations.
I say: shame on all of us.
Tiger Woods is the best golfer of his generation, perhaps of all time. He cheated like crazy and his wife found out, chasing him around with a golf club. That is sad indeed. Tiger was certainly going to have to pay dearly in his personal life for his lack of fidelity. But he didn't commit any crime. His transgressions didn't have anything to do with playing golf.
So under what set of national priorities, does it become imperative for Tiger Woods to hold a huge press conference to admit his infidelities?
In a sense we are culpable in the cheater news cycle. They wouldn't be holding press conferences to disclose cheaters if we weren't all watching. It's up to us to put down the obsession just as much as it incumbent on the supposed hard news outlets to stop playing to the lowest common denominator.
There is a flip side to the Petraeus story: how much does the personal ethics of a man count towards how we judge him in the public eye?
David Petraeus is perhaps the best-known general of our time. The Iraq War—started based on misinformation about weapons of mass destruction—was an unmitigated disaster when he took over. He was the one who finally figured out that when your goal is to create democracy, as futile as that might be, you can't just bomb the shit out the people you are trying to help indiscriminately. You actually have to win their hearts and minds. To the extent we had even the appearance of any success in Iraq it was due to his change in strategy and leadership on the ground.
How does his screwing around with his biographer rank in importance to turning a mass U.S. killing field into something that resembled an attempt to lift up a nation from armed conflict? I don't know. You tell me. On Veteran's Day we might want to think about his service before humiliating him for consensual sex.
The other thing that happened this week, of course, is that we re-elected President Obama. The most popular tweet of all time was of him hugging his wife after he won. A viral YouTube video shows him crying while addressing his campaign staff.
Who the heck knows what happens behind closed doors, but our President certainly seems like he is devoted to his wife and kids. He appears to be a good guy in his personal life.
So my question is whether or not that matters? And if so, how much?
I also got myself into trouble leading up to the election by questioning how much impact the election, however it would turn out, would really have on our country given how broken, in my view, the system is in terms of money in politics and how similar Romney and Obama are on foreign policy, among other things.
Shortly after the election, someone posted an image of dead Afghan babies on my Facebook wall. The question raised in the post was whether President Obama would be held accountable for the death of innocent civilian children across the globe at the hands of the U.S. Military.
Just like putting stories of infidelity ahead of criminal acts of rape is missing the point, the question when it comes to Obama and Petraeus isn't whether or not they love their wives. That's a private matter.
It's whether or not they made the right call when ordering the death of thousands of human beings in the name of freedom.
As the son of Quaker pacifists, I have a strange obsession with war. I want to know what causes us as men to fight. Along with our sexuality it is a defining part of modern manhood that I can never quite understand. But I do try.
Recently I have been reading the book by the Navy Seal who was part of the mission that killed Bin Laden. I also recently re-watched Black Hawk Down, the story of the 1993 ill-fated U.S. action in Somalia.
In both cases, what becomes clear is how little regard our highest trained troops have for our political leadership. They rarely think about the larger significance of their mission. Their loyalty is to the man next to them. No further.
So let's start telling the truth about war. And about sexual abuse. And stop worrying about how men and women attempt to find love and screw it up over and over again. The scandals do nothing but obfuscate the most important issues of our time.


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Downhill Safety Assistant Driving System for Battery Electric Vehicles on Mountain Roads
When driving in mountainous areas, vehicles often encounter downhill conditions. To ensure safe driving, it is necessary to control the speed of vehicles. For internal combustion engine vehicles, auxiliary brake such as engine brake can be used to alleviate the thermal load caused by the continuous braking of the friction brake. For battery electric vehicles (BEVs), regenerative braking can be used as auxiliary braking to improve brake safety. And through regenerative braking, energy can be partly converted into electrical energy and stored in accumulators (such as power batteries and supercapacitors), thus extending the mileage. However, the driver's line of sight in the mountains is limited, resulting in a certain degree of blindness in driving, so it is impossible to fully guarantee the safety and energy saving of downhill driving.


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The University of Colorado snowboard team will host its fourth halftime rail jam at the CU versus Utah game today.
Between 10 and 15 riders will attempt to complete the best trick on a down-flat rail, and the team's coach, Patrick Abramson, will choose a winner. Most of the riders will be CU students, but a few local pro boarders, like Corbin Clement and Seth Hill, plan to make an appearance, said team vice president Luke Schultz.
The last time the team performed at football halftime was in 2008. Since then, Schultz said the group has tried to bring back the event in recent years, but logistics make it difficult.
Like snow, for instance. Schultz says the team will cart in snow from the mountains, or use ice shavings from the CU hockey rink.
"It's one of the things that makes our school so unique," Schultz, 22, said. "We can get snowboarding going during a halftime show. We offer a different type of environment than you'd see at another college campus. It's cool for our riders to get a college degree and at the same time go snowboarding three to four days a week."
The snowboarding team has around 50 members so far this semester, and is still looking for new riders.
What: CU Snowboarding Halftime Rail Jam
When: Today, halftime
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Arguments against the existence of god
God claims[edit]
There are an infinite possible number of interpretations of the idea of "god" and even of religion. Over a thousand different denominations of Christianity alone, all with their different beliefs on who or what god is. Surely it would be impossible to rule out all of them. However if we zero in and examine a theistic claim about a specific god's nature or character, we can draw certain conclusions based on what we've learned about the world through the systematic observations and testing of reality known as science. Despite the theistic assertions that god cannot be caged by science, these specific claims made by the theist can be assessed. As our understanding of the world has increased through science, the gaps that god is able to inhabit have gotten smaller and smaller. With every additional piece of information we learn about the world, the more the constraints tighten on what a god could have or can do. This is perhaps best stated in Stephen Hawking's a brief history of time.
Stephen Hawking in A brief history of time c.1988
- "One can imagine that God created the universe at literally any time in the past. On the other hand, if the universe is expanding, there may be physical reasons why there had to be a beginning. One could still imagine that God created the universe at the instant of the big bang, or even afterward in just such a way as to make it look as though there had been a big bang, but it would be meaningless to suppose that it was created before the big bang. An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job!"
With our current understanding of our place in the world through biology and astrophysics, we are able to make assessments about certain aspects or claims of god. We have mountains of empirical evidence that life is a result of evolution, not specific intentional creation by an omnipotent being as depicted in Genesis. We have mathematical evidence that Noah's ark could not have stayed afloat during a rainstorm of such capacity that earth's highest peaks were submerged. We have historical evidence that the Israelites were never enslaved by the Egyptians as depicted in Exodus. As it currently stands, our understanding of the universe places the necessity and likelihood of a god or gods to be on about the same footing as that of the tooth fairy.
Even if there are several arguments for the existence of god, we have to understand that these do not entail a belief beyond what is argued for. For example, the Cosmological Argument may postulate the need for a cause, which can be called "god." However we must not assume that it is in any way an argument for the Christian god, a god who answers prayers and counts the number of hair on ones head. In fact most of their arguments only strengthen the Deistic view. Christian and Muslim apologists are good defenders of Deism but cannot aptly justify the specifics of their beliefs.
Many argue not for the existence of the entity known as "God," but rather for the "God-Shaped Hole" humans are said to possess. The God-Shaped Hole or "God part of the Brain" is a non-clinical Psychological term used to define a cluster of neurons that develop supernatural or otherworldly experiences, suggesting ultimately that humans are mistakenly wired into a belief in God.
Any argument from the side of the Christians must be first verified by themselves in a Call for Proof. The Bible itself has many determining statements by which we can see that evidence and signs are essential to belief. How can one lay a claim to faith with out the slightest shard of evidence.
See also[edit]
- Call for Proof
- Arguments for the existence of God
- Arguments against religious belief, which do not try to directly disprove the existence of God.


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Click below to see some photos and videos of the 2013 Haunted Overload build.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Haunted Overload Progress
Posted by Rot at 7:30 AM
3 comments:
- girl6 said...
"Ghouls Gone Wild"!!!
- May 30, 2013 at 11:33 AM
- Jay's Shadow said...
I need to go see this sometime. I bet it is insane.
- May 30, 2013 at 8:16 PM
- Ragged Grin said...
Gonna do my best to make it this year. Would love to see the Davis Graveyard and a few others in person as well, not to mention that of a reclusive movie prop maker.
- June 2, 2013 at 10:38 PM
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The Stop Online Piracy Act is a bill currently before the U.S. Congress that would limit free speech online under the guise of protecting copyrights, which "is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age." Strangely, one group supporting this legislation is the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, heavily represented at the Detroit Auto Show starting tomorrow.
Here are the manufacturers involved in the Alliance who will be here in Detroit. UPDATE!
As a trade group, the Auto Alliance represents a dozen of the large automobile manufacturers in the United States. They are the "voice for a united auto industry," which is to say the group that spent $5.4 million last year lobbying to prevent things like the enforcement of the Clean Air Act.
This organization also signed on to support the Stop Internet Piracy Act. What interest would they have in doing this since auto manufacturers don't produce the TV shows, movies, or music the act is ostensibly there to protect? They do produce car images, like ones we use here at Jalopnik, although we're using them in an editorial fashion that is theoretically protected.
Under the current reading of the bill, should one of our readers post a copyrighted image of a vehicle from Toyota, for instance, in the comments our site could be shut down.
Here's the full list of manufacturers and their brands who support SOPA:
- BMW Group (BMW, Mini, Rolls Royce)
- Chrysler Group (Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Jeep)
Ford Motor Company (Ford,Lincoln)
- General Motors (Chevy, Buick, Cadillac, GMC)
- Jaguar Land Rover
- Mazda
- Mercedes-Benz USA (Mercedes Benz, SMART, Maybach)
- Mitsubishi
- Porsche
- Toyota (Toyota, Scion, Lexus)
- Volkswagen (Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley. Lamborghini, Bugatti)
- Volvo
UPDATE Though Ford is a member of the Auto Alliance, they say as a company they do not support SOPA or SOPA-like legislation. Hopefully, more companies will come forward to disagree with this act.
(Hat tip to bhtooefr over at VWVortex for putting the list together!)
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Several years ago, I visited the Utah State Capital to testify at a hearing before elected officials.
During the hearing, testimony was interrupted in midsentence as Senators and Representatives unexpectedly burst into laughter.
Kevin Ashby, then the publisher of the Sun Advocate in Price, had been testifying when the interruption occurred. The Senator who was chairing the hearing quickly apologized to the confused audience and the meeting resumed.
We later discovered that Senator Mike Dmitrich had triggered the laughter when he sent an email from his laptop computer to the other elected officials at the table.
Dmitrich, a storied legislator who represented the Price area for decades, had emailed that the elected officials should listen carefully since Ashby (an LDS Church leader in Price) was his bishop. (Dmitrich is not LDS.)
It was a classic Dmitrich moment. While it was completely harmless and had no impact on the hearing, the experience helped me understand that technology had changed the way government works.
With email, and even more in the age of texting, elected officials can have a thorough discussion on a bill outside of the prying eyes of the public.
Frankly, there is nothing wrong with deliberations between elected officials. But what about conversations between elected officials and lobbyists and special interest groups?
In the final days of the recent Utah State legislative session, the legislature rammed through House Bill 477 with little or no input from the public. In an ironic and appalling example of closed government, the bill completely eviscerates the state Government Records and Access Management Act (GRAMA).
A wide range of electronic communication would be exempted from public access with the bill, including emails and text messages. While there may be reasons to protect the day-to-day communication of elected officials, shouldn't the process to determine the protection be open and public?
Apparently, Legislators anticipated that an inevitable public outcry would quickly die away. However, they were mistaken.
There was no public awareness that the bill was being considered, and no chance to have a public process to consider it's implications. As a result, should it be a surprise that the bill is a public access disaster?
A professor at the University of Arizona stated, "Utah's law, which was in the top dozen states for transparency, will now be the most secretive in the nation. Not only that, I compared the law to other nations' laws and found that Utah will be more backward than most other countries, including Mexico and former Soviet republics Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan. El Salvador just passed a better law last week.
"The silver lining? Utah is still more transparent than Kazakhstan."
In the past week, the Society of Professional Journalists presented Utah with the "Black Hole award" for "exceptional efforts to undermine freedom of information".
A referendum petition was introduced in a press conference, with the support of groups who are generally on the opposite sides of the political spectrum.
When Utah Tea Party Founder David Kirkham and previous Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson agree on an issue, it is time to take notice.
A recent Dan Jones poll found that 80 percent of Utahns support the referendum effort.
Two weeks of embarrassing outcry may have been enough, as the governor and the Republican caucus called for the repeal of the law as the press deadline approached.


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One genre has somehow avoided this "improvement" thing: scrolling fighting games, or "beat-'em-ups" if you talk like that. These games get worse every single time someone makes one. This year is the 20th anniversary of Final Fight, and after two decades of trying, no one has ever made a better beat-'em-up. I'm hoping to figure out why. Conspiracy? Sorcery? Was the "Final" in Final Fight some kind of cosmic warning that game developers have been too terrified to challenge? Maybe contradicting videogame titles opens a paradoxical black hole that will eat our reality. But wait -- if that was true, Arthur's Absolutely Fun Day! on the Game Boy would have Raiders-of-the-Lost-Ark'd our faces off.
The Double Dragon Series
Every time you walk toward a kidnapped girl and beat everyone you see to death, you have to pay a licensing fee to Double Dragon. The original Double Dragon was awesome. Double Dragon 2: The Revenge was also awesome, since it was the same game with a spin kick. Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone took place in a world where karate masters were made out of stacks of hams and attached to malfunctioning remote controls. People who have played Double Dragon 3 are legally considered victims of a war crime.
Double Dragon 4 was called "Super Double Dragon," which was early '90s for "Sh***y Double Dragon." The developers at Technos seemed to notice that it -- and all the other side-scrolling fighters out there -- got more "Super" with every sequel, so all the Double Dragons after this were one-on-one fighting games. As you know, that's a totally different genre that's actually improved with technology. Well, unless you're Double Dragon: Whatever curse was placed on beat-'em-ups, you can't trick it by changing genres. If Technos decided to revitalize the franchise by releasing Double Dragon 7 as an Easter egg coloring kit, it would fail so hard that it would undo Jesus' resurrection.
The Final Fight Series
When Final Fight was released in arcades, it raised the value of quarters to $17 each. Then Final Fight 2 came out. Before I describe Final Fight 2, let me remind you that Final Fight had about 15 unique enemies, and 12 of them were Andore Jr. in different colors of sweatpants. And I have never regretted playing Final Fight any of the 70,000 times it's happened.
In the sequel, if they had simply added one additional kind of enemy, it would have been the greatest game ever, plus one enemy. Instead, they redid everything so it was slightly worse than before. This was also the practice for Final Fight 3, where they made the game worse by an even larger margin. Years later, they made a 3D version for the Saturn called Final Fight Revenge, which was seemingly designed as some kind of extremely personal insult to the three people who bought it. Okay we get it, Final Fight! We're idiots!
Superhero Games
For a long time, every superhero game was just Final Fight with different graphics, which we had no problem with. It's still the best game ever, but instead of playing as the shirtless mayor's boyfriend, you're Batman. They made five or six for Spider-Man, a few for the X-Men, one for the Avengers, some Ninja Turtles ones, a crazy awesome one for the Punisher, and a couple for Superman. But these games had a built-in problem: Why are all these fantastically super-powered people strolling down the street and punching robots to death in exactly the same way? Why would anyone make a Superman game where the only thing Superman can do is walk and punch?
The superhero Final Fight genre had some highlights: The Punisher, Spider-Man: Maximum Carnage, Batman Returns, The Death and Return of Superman, and X-Men Featuring Magneto the "Welcome to Die!" Master of Magnets. But like the non-superhero games I mentioned earlier, they somehow got worse and worse. I'm sure some overly ambitious market research proved that a bad Spider-Man game sold almost as many copies as a good Spider-Man game, so why not replace half the staff with speed boat catalogs?
The failure reached critical mass with the videogame adaptation of Batman Forever, which was nothing more than a two-minute digitized video of a computer programmer dabbing his nuts on a picture of you. And it took six minutes to load. No one can be sure, though; when you play Batman Forever, your brain blocks the memory, but lets you keep the rage.
The Birth of 3D
Adding 3D to these games changed a lot. In 2D, the guy standing below you on the screen had to move up, directly into your never-ending stream of jabs, in order to hit you. In 3D, he could stay to the side of you and comfortably wail on your head. In 2D, your attacks used to kill everything in a 180-degree radius. In 3D, they hit a tiny hand-sized section of the world while an auto-targeting brain and a camera brain battle for control of your eyeballs in a war that no one ever wins.
The first big 3D beat-'em-up was Streets of Rage 4. However, in a burst of foresight, they renamed it Fighting Force prior to release, in order to let the Streets of Rage series retire with dignity. Fighting Force vaguely sucked, but it defined the now-3D genre. And just like with Final Fight, it was all downhill from there. Almost immediately, developers of licensed games tore parts from Fighting Force's stupid, rotting corpse to build their own crappy monster. Games like Charlie's Angels were released, as if that was an okay thing to do. Eventually, just to be funny, someone made a Fighting Force 2 that was worse than the original.
Final Final Fight
In 2006, a second 3D Final Fight came out, titled Final Fight: Streetwise. This analogy is the only way to describe it: If Final Fight sent the Terminator back in time, Final Fight 2 sent an upgraded version of the Terminator with cheeseburgers for hands. Final Fight 3 upgraded that Terminator with a blindfold and 415 self-destruct buttons. Final Fight Revenge redesigned the entire thing and just rolled an alarm clock on a skateboard back through time. When Final Fight: Streetwise tried to upgrade that, they exploded the time machine on the showroom floor, destroying their world and sending a germ back through history that did nothing except make child molesters unkillable. That's how badly Final Fight has improved.
The Future
Throughout 20 years of sequels and ripoffs, Final Fight has slowly mutated from the greatest videogame ever into a hole that fills human babies with spider eggs. If this trend continues, the beat-'em-up genre should get so bad that it will annex Austria and lead a campaign against France within approximately the next three years. If they ever make Final Fight 10: Armageddon, it will only be as a last resort to kill Final Fight 9: Hatch, My Egg-Filled Babies.


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Professional singer, songwriter and now NBC "The Voice" contestant, Judith Hill of South Pasadena is no stranger to the spotlight.
The 28-year-old crooner with the distinctive curls and soulful voice has performed with Stevie Wonder and was about to go on Michael Jackson's "This Is It" tour as his lead female vocalist before the pop star's sudden death in 2009.
Although few knew her name at the time, she led a moving rendition of Jackson's "Heal the World" at his Staples Center memorial service seen around the globe.
But as a contestant on this season's popular singing competition "The Voice," Hill admits she's on new ground.
"It's sort of my first time on television as a solo artist doing my own thing and I'm really excited for the transition," Hill said. "I'm also a little scared because it's a very intense show and everyone's judging you. You're really vulnerable on stage and it can be very frightening at times. "
As one of several frontrunners on the show, Hill says she hopes to grow her performance skills and her interpretation of cover songs.
The Biola University grad, who majored in music composition, says she's essentially a soul singer who enjoys coming up with "cool arrangements" for her voice that include variations of jazz, pop arrangements or classical approaches.
Singing cover songs on the show, she said, "challenges you to really hone in on your own style. "
Hill wowed all four judges last month during the show's blind auditions with her soulful rendition of "What A Girl Wants." That performance prompted judge Adam Levine, of "Maroon 5," who would become Hill's vocal coach on the show, to exclaim: "You're the first person that's come on this show and done a Christina song as well as Christina Aguilera. "
Hill, a pianist and movie aficionado, has been taping for the show's battle rounds, in which her coach pits her against another team member with both singing the same song together on stage. Hill said she's "very nervous" about this phase of the competition, which will start airing Monday.
"I've seen it on the show and it's scary but I just got to do it my best, find the soul in the song, find the meaning," she said.
Hill's parents are professional musicians, her father, Robert "Pee Wee" Hill playing bass and her mother Michiko on keyboard. The couple, who have a recording studio at their Pasadena home, met while playing in the same funk group, The Chester Thompson Band, in the 1970s. The pair has also performed for the funk band Rufus and Sly Stone.
Michiko described her daughter as both "very, very sensitive" and possessing a "strong sense of integrity. "
"Outside the stage, she might be a little shy, quiet and sometimes nervous," she said.
"But when she gets on stage," her father added, "she's at home. She's in her element. That's the gift that comes from the Lord. "
Judith Hill was always singing as a toddler "perfectly in tune" and was only 4 when she composed and recorded her first song with the help of her mom.
"She dictated to me what chords to play on the piano," Michiko, who studied classical piano in her native Japan, said. "She hummed it. "
Judith Hill considers herself lucky to have worked and sung with Jackson before his death, even though they didn't get to tour.
"One of the biggest things I was impressed by was his imagination," she said. "He has such amazing ideas and made them come to life on stage and musically … It really did inspire me. "
Whatever the end result on "The Voice," Hill said, she hopes to encourage people with her music.
"I've always been sort of a melancholy person, battled with different depressions and things but I always found restraint in looking up to God and knowing He will get me through," she said. "I want my music to inspire people and get them through those difficult times. "


text: Over at Google, today's interactive "Doodle" is a pop-a-shot basketball game. It's highly addictive. Our high score is 39, though we forgot to take a screenshot and nobody believes us. Try it out, and share your high score below, and the first person to say they broke 40, let's all call them a liar.


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Volvo is preparing to put its V60 Plug-in Hybrid diesel car on sale in European markets from next year.
The Plug-in Hybrid has been built in close cooperation between Volvo Car Corporation and Swedish energy supplier Vattenfall.
"No industry or organisation can tackle the climate challenge all by itself. It is our mission to develop carbon dioxide-lean cars, but it is the society that is responsible for creating a sustainable future," says Stefan Jacoby, the President and CEO of Volvo. "This project shows how cooperation between experts in different areas brings us closer to the transition from individually carbon dioxide-lean products to a climate-smart lifestyle."
When powered solely by electricity, the V60 Plug-in Hybrid has a range of up to 50 kilometres. Continue reading "Volvo putting plug-in hybrid V60 on sale next year" »


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You may not like to speak in public. You may fret over your delivery, voice, outfit, the lighting. Or perhaps you're a happy speaker, ever willing and comfortable. But when your topic or subject creates the difficulty, you're facing the great equalizer, the challenge that might thwart both the confident and the shy speaker.
And the definition of "tough topic" rests with you, the speaker. It may be tough for you personally--the eulogy of a parent who's died, or the toast to a child on her wedding day. It may be tough for you as a speaker, if you face a contentious topic or audience that might explode, or if you're especially nervous. Tough can be a momentary but pointed political debate, an argument impossible to win, your nerves about the topic, the circumstances of the day, a politically incorrect issue and more. So how to plan and prepare? Here are six ways to take the plunge:
- Listen: If your audience is angry, taking sides or otherwise a tough crowd, engage them from the start by listening, rather than talking. Tell them you'll begin in a few minutes, but you want to hear right from the start from them. It may not disarm them completely, but it will help them vent--and help you get a better sense of where they stand. Then work their comments into your presentation. No need to answer things at this point. Just listen before you speak. My twist on this: I tell the audience I want their questions up front. I'll answer some on the spot, or promise to get to them during my remarks.
- Acknowledge: It doesn't matter whether you agree or disagree with angry or contentious questioners or comments. Thank each audience member for sharing her views. Acknowledge that the situation he's describing is difficult, frustrating or a conundrum. In many cases, your tough crowd just wants to be recognized--and sure that you know how its members feel. Make sure they know you've heard them. This isn't actually about your views, but theirs.
- Emote: No need to hide your feelings if you are speaking to a topic fraught with them. Yes, you can cry, pause when you're overcome by emotion, or give a rousing cheer for an exciting development. And if someone says something preposterous, feel free to laugh--then explain why. But no need to bring your poker face.
- Ask: You can use this tactic a couple of ways. I've coached speakers who had to address contentious crowds with conflicting goals and lots of political tripwires, and often, I'll suggest that the speaker simply state the contentious questions...without answering them. That's especially effective if the speaker won't be in a position to address all the issues completely, but wants to be sure to demonstrate an understanding of the issues. It's another form of acknowledging the crowd's issues. This article on speaking differently to people skeptical of climate change offers some concrete examples of how to engage an audience that thinks it's against you. Don't forget: If you insist, instead of ask, you risk hardening your audience's opposition.
- Reflect: Add some perspective, and reflect aloud for your difficult audience or on a troublesome issue. Remind your listeners of similar problems that occurred long ago--especially if they sound eerily similar to today's issue, or if they demonstrate how much worse things were long ago. Talk about your own wrestling with a tough issue, so they understand more of your thinking. Or share a memory only you have, one that will help them see a new side of what you're describing. Finally, when faced with a question about what you'll do--one you can't answer today--tell the group you want to reflect on it before making a decision, and ask for their input on the spot.
- Respond, don't react: Contentious issues are often a test of your patience, and some provocateurs in the audience want nothing more than to see you react--it almost doesn't matter what the reaction is, it'll get dissected, sneered at, celebrated, whatever. Instead, focus on responding. Check out these tips on our sister blog, don't get caught, in Do you react or respond? How not to get caught in an answer.
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240 Volt Lithium-ion Rechargeable (Acmeda)
AA Battery Pack (Somfy)
|Motor & wire location
|Right (default) or Left
|Fabric Width
|430 to 3000mm
|300 to 5000mm
|Depth Required - Single Bracket
|75mm (40mm minimum)
|Depth Required - Day Night Bracket
|100mm (55mm minimum)
|Tolerance in Width
|Tolerance in Height
|Width deductions we take (inside mount)
|0mm (fabric supplied 33mm less in width)
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You see this guy? Andrei? You see his smug face? Wanna know why he's so smug, aside from being a "beer lover and brewer"? His Twitter username is A. Just A. He is one Twitter's 26 alphabetical superstars.
I've always been proud of my number-free email address (as opposed to my middle school AOL screen name, studded with numbers like sores on a leper). It's clean. It's minimal. It's a sign that I got there before the other Sam Biddles (suckers!). "Few things have been as lame as a username that's too long," The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal points out. And he's right.
But these truncated tweeters - from David Bragdon (aka "@D") to Zach Brock (aka "@Z"). Some of them are mildly Twitter-popular (ew), like Tantek "@T" Celik, with 13,004 followers. But some of them just suck. Like @W Walter, with 93 followers. And he even put a tawdry picture of his six-pack up as his profile shot. For shame!
I wonder what Juliette "@J" Melton is doing right now? Probably staring at herself in the mirror and smiling, and then staring down at her Twitter profile and smiling, and then back up at the mirror, thinking, you're the best, you're just @J - you've done it - and then back at her profile, ad infinitum. That's what I'd be doing if I were @S, at least.