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There is a way to update the firmware directly at the server, but I haven't figured out the correct syntax. Page 63 of the IP7137 manual.
other people have been at this too unsuccessfully, see pictures of teardown at bottom. Time to go hunting for a connection.
One note on wifi - I had no luck getting the cameras to connect & run with my current mixed mode N routers with WPA security turned on. I got out an old Linksys G band & they connected ran, with WPA security, no problem. Not sure what the issue is & probably will just use the old router.
ok so any way to get email set up with gmail? There seems to be fields missing in the settings, such as SMTP port/SSL settings etc.
I also noted that the stream suffers from tearing or something, if an object moves in front of the camera/camera is moved/ light changes, leaving huge randomly colored squares all over the picture
In low light the picture becomes extremely grainy, and these random colored squares appear more frequently
I'm looking into flashing the firmware to something we can actually use as well, no luck so far
i guess i should get mine monday or tuesday as people have been getting them last thursday and friday.
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Okay, so, FTP access practically makes this a wide open linux box. One change I Recommend to EVERYONE is to log into the FTP (just point your favorite client at the IP of the device and log in, username root and password is whatever you set). then edit /mnt/flash/etc/network/wireless.conf and change CountryRegion=6 to CountryRegion=0 The default settings are for France and limited to channels 3-9, whereas here we use 1-11, so this could be causing problems for people. Telnet can be enabled from inetd.conf (verified, logged in as root). Editing sysconf and rebooting will let you make everything appear as IP7137, but there is still a firmware mismatch.
Vivotek support unfortunately couldn't provide much help, but that did not surprise me.
It looks like the PCB for these cameras is only missing a couple of components to make them PoE compatible (a couple of bridge rectifiers, a diode, and a cap), but my EE isn't advanced enough to reverse engineer it, in case anyone else is interested.
Edit - Tricked the IW2 app into taking a flash file,but it didn't run successfully.
Edit 2 - In the interim, I'm going to make a translated version using ftp://ftp.vivotek.com/TC5331_Manual_V
Edit 3 - Found that I simply had to increase the ramdisk size to ~10m to get the update to have enough room to extract and run, but the first camera I tested on worked up until I Factory Restored it....hmm
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For those who are familiar and are using FTP and telnet on their devices now, here is a script I made to overwrite your website files with english ones (disclaimer - not responsible for damage). This script makes a full backup of your old www folder first and also copies the old cab for the activeX for double redundancy.
To install -
Random pages may still load in French if you've already cached the website, just press F5 on each page until they're all english. If your ActiveX viewer fails at some point, go into client settings and set a different mode (TCP or UDP works for most setups).
If anyone bought a ton of these and feels like sending one my way as a thank you, PM me, I'd appreciate it and will do some more work on a full IP7137 conversion if it's possible (initial tests have been iffy and I haven't found a way to recover these via TFTP or similar once something goes wrong. Also, if you have the knowledge and want a full extract of the update package, PM me. DO NOT SEND THE FLASH.BIN FILE OVER FTP OR YOU'LL BE SORRY (hehe).
Update 4/7/14 - New version uploaded. Additionally, you can download and extract the etc.tar.gz.zip (to get an etc.tar.gz) and navigate to the top level of your device over FTP, then go to the folder etc and then the folder default, and replace the file of the same name there. This will ensure that if the device does a factory reset, the Wi-Fi channel range and telnet access do not revert to the settings of the original files.
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Wow! Fantastic! Well done!
I am a bit Linux challenged and stuck on:
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Edit: changed an attribute to allow execution and it worked! I am psyched! You rock!
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What would you do?
You'll probably remember the 13-fold repetition in the game Bok-Van Wely at the Dutch Championship, two weeks ago. Afterwards Van Wely was fuming that his young opponent didn't use the opportunity to get more experience in a real fight. As GM Luke McShane pointed out, something similar happened in a clock simul between Kasparov and the USA in 1988.
What would you do, when you played the world champion in a simul, with the white pieces, and you have the possibility to repeat moves in a theoretical position? Would you go for it, being able to tell your friends that the man couldn't beat you? Or would you consider it bad ethics, like Kasparov, who argued that the White player should always play for a win?
In his June 10 column for the online version of the Daily / Sunday Express, GM Luke McShane picked up the Bok-Van Wely story, and demonstrated a clear parrallel with the 1988 clock simul between then World Champion Garry Kasparov and the USA, held in New York City. This event was beautifully depicted for TV and can now be found on YouTube in three separate videos (due to YouTube's 10-minute limit).
The second video shows Kasparov being clearly upset when IM Daniel Edelman goes for the draw in the well-known Sveshnikov sequence 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6 8.Na3 b5 9.Nd5 Qa5+ 10.Bd2 Qd8 11.Bg5.
McShane argues that a simul and a tournament game are quite different situations.
My opinion is that forcing a well known draw (when there are more interesting options available) in an exhibition game like a simul really is spineless. Bok's decision certainly wasn't brave, but is harder to judge. Apparently he was aware that he could play on with h2-h4, but wasn't familiar with the position. I'm sure his opponent was, and that's a serious handicap against a stronger player.
I've occasionally gone into games eager to face my opponent's lines A, B or C, but accepted that if he chooses D then I'll be content with a draw. Maybe Bok was tired that day, or judged that his overall tournament would benefit from a draw. Any competitive player can sympathise with those feelings. As for gaining experience, Bok probably learned more about chess psychology from this game than he ever would have normally!
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Ah, sorry, forgot to call atention to the fact that, other than you couldn't be adressing me in the "finding excuses for Bok" thing, you also insist on letting funny insinuations on the "charater" of an opponent, and didn't adress the core of my post, namely that regarding the "wildcard and federation" thing.
So, it became worse. But ok, here I put my opinions, and information of what I'd do, in case something of the sort should happen to me.
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Loek van Wely
4 years 5 months ago
@ Castro
I am afraid you belong to the category of people who will never understand it..
but thanks for showing it anyway
And regardless you and draws, who cares? you havent' been there, so you don't know what it takes get there, not even to speak about what it feels to be there
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Bert Oskelhaar
4 years 5 months ago
Well @Loek van Wely
end a discussion with the words : You will never understrand it"
Is such a fail. If you cant explain it it seems to me Castro is pretty right ;-)
Loek go play chess cause your social skills really sucks
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1. Can anyone confirm if this is the real Loek van Wely commenting; I guess its someone writing under his name.
2. ' [...] you show no character and won't be able to achieve anything in life.'
Is moving pieces over a board all day such an achievement??
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Master van Wely,
I tried to allow a most "friendly" closure for this, but...
I happily recognized my inferior chess level, and admiration for yours (though of course it would be greater, if I had your level: I'd apreciate it in full!)
Now, I garantee you it has nothing to do with the matter discused here, and if you think it serves to confuse, it don't.
I know about chess and playing chess perheaps better and for longer than you think.
Common artifice: Talking about different things, including about things you don't know.
Go on, imagining, dividing people in "categories", and giving absolutely no importance for all the things I said.
But now you know not everybody eats garbage, nor accepts unconsiderations.
I truly believe all your intentions are good, but other people deserve some understanding and respect too, and I think your position on this may lead to unaceptable situations, in what competitive chess is concerned.
Unless he is your friend and everybody understands it is a joke, you cannot moke on your opponent, nor raising unjustified antisportmanship acusations on him!
As an opponent, I wouldn't allow it without consequences, that's all.
(And I could go for a repetition at move 15 or so, even playing white. It happened once or twice.)
I'm sorry (though not regreting) if you'd prefer not to have this "disturbance" from me. I also feel not so well the fact that I'm not fully identified, so, in order to assure you, I'll give Peter my elements for your private use. Pls feel free to contact me. (As if you cared for such! :-) )
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@jan van der marel
I don't think that it "shouldn't be a problem for a professional chessplayer to find an opening to beat a weaker opponent, or outplay the opponent with a 'normal' opening." It is not something that happens automatically but still requires a lot of effort and is not always succesful.
Is it really "totally ridiculous" when someone is blamed for something because you agree with that person? Apart from the obvious differences in both situations: Since when has your way of thinking become the standard by which everything is judged?
You remark: "If you want to be an IM, whats wrong with drawing against 'strong' GMs and winning against other IMs?" is completely missing the point. Only becoming an IM shouldn't be the goal of Bok, who has more potential (according to Van Wely).
I don't think it is a strange reaction from Mr. Van Wely, but it's clear that he overestimated the ambitions of Bok.
I would like to see a reaction from Chessvibes on Van Wely's remark about how his private comments found their way to the internet.
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I don't get your point. Mr Van Wely is a strong GM and in my opinion should find a way to beat a much weaker opponent. He simply doesn't have a repertoire that is big enough to do so. Of course its not easy, but he's the pro.
'Only becoming an IM shouldn't be the goal of Bok'. Why not, dear John? Whats wrong with becoming an IM first? Appearantly you know what his goals should be.
'Is it really "totally ridiculous" when someone is blamed for something because you agree with that person?'
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Versatile Liverpool defender Andre Wisdom has become West Bromwich Albion's sixth summer signing after joining Alan Irvine's side on a season-long loan.
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West Brom head coach Irvine said that he was "delighted" at securing the services of the 21-year-old, who can play at centre-back or right-back.
"I've spoken to Brendan Rodgers, who I've known for a very long time and who I trust implicitly," explained Irvine. "He said Andre would do a good job for us. That was reassuring.
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Wisdom moved to Liverpool at the age of 14 after beginning his youth career at Bradford City. He has represented England a number of levels up to the Under-21 category, and played in the Under-16 side that won the 2008 Victory Shield before scoring the opening goal in England's UEFA European Under-17 Championships final triumph against Spain a year later.
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Prospective applicants have not been swayed by the global financial crisis from pursing an MBA, according to new research cited in the Financial Times today.
The study – entitled "Crisis? What crisis?" – found that only 7 percent of 723 prospective students surveyed reported that their attitude toward the MBA had become more negative as a result of the financial crisis. In fact, of those students reporting that their view of the MBA had changed over the past year, more than 80 percent said that they now view the degree more positively.
And despite an increased focus by MBA programs around the globe on the role ethics should play in the curriculum, prospective students placed it at the bottom of their list of priorities, the research showed. The placed high value on content such strategic management and leadership, but ethics came in on par with taxation, logistics and outsourcing.
The research was conducted by CarringtonCrisp, a UK-based firm that provides stakeholder outreacher services to universities and business schools around the globe. It was sponsored by the European Federation for Management Development and the UK's Association of Business Schools.
Prospective students from 91 countries participated in the survey, which was conducted online through a range of sources such as Facebook and LinkedIn. The largest group came from India, followed by Australia and the United Kingdom.
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The Orlando Sentinel's college insider Matt Murschel has ranked all 128 Football Bowl Subdivision teams in the country entering the 2014 season. The Sentinel staff will take a closer look at a new team daily, counting backward from No. 128 to our projected No. 1 team.
Today at No. 47: Texas Longhorns
Coach: Charlie Strong (0-0, entering first season; 37-15 overall)
2013 record: 8-5 (7-2 in Big 12 Conference, tied for second)
Look back: Tumultuous would be too kind of a word for the kind of season Texas went through in 2013. The Longhorns were coming off an eight-win campaign and expectations were high around the program, especially with 19 returning starters. Texas opened the season by beating New Mexico State, but suffered a tremendous loss to BYU. In that game, the Longhorns allowed the Cougars to rack up more than 500 rushing yards. That loss was followed by another double-digit defeat, this time to Ole Miss. With pressure mounting on Mack Brown, the longtime Texas coach changed defensive coordinators. The team responded by winning its next six games. Losses in three of the four remaining games, including a 30-7 loss to Oregon in the Alamo Bowl, led to Brown's decision to step down as head coach. He was replaced by Charlie Strong in the offseason.
Offensive starters returning: 8
Offensive starters lost: 3
Defensive starters returning: 8
Defensive starters lost: 3
Key losses: LT Donald Hawkins, RG Mason Walters, DE Jackson Jeffcoat, SS Adrian Phillips
Top returnees: QB David Ash, RB Malcolm Brown, RB Johnathan Gray, WR Jaxon Shipley, WR Kendall Sanders, DE Cedric Reed, DT Malcolm Brown, LB Jordan Hicks
Strengths: Outside of Strong's hiring, the biggest question mark surrounding the program centered on the offense. Over the past five seasons, it was a roller coaster of inconsistencies mostly centered around the quarterback position. Joe Wickline was hired to run the offense with former Louisville offensive coordinator Shawn Watson brought in to work with the quarterbacks. Watson's history of work with Teddy Bridgewater will come in handy as he looks to develop David Ash. His best season was in 2012, when he completed 67 percent of his passes for 2,699 yards and 19 touchdowns. The junior missed much of last season with an injury, but should be back in time for fall camp. … The running game was the lone bright spot last season with Texas finishing the season ranked in the top 40 in the country in rushing. The trio of Malcolm Brown, Johnathan Gray and Joe Bergeron combined for more than 2,000 yards rushing in 2013. Their return supplies the Longhorns with one of the best backfield in the country.
Weaknesses: Texas struggled to stop the run much of last season, giving up close to 185 yards on the ground per game. Strong's background as a defensive coordinator should provide the team with a big boost. Vance Bedford's first job will be strengthening a front line that features only 46 career starts. The team will have to deal with the loss of its top two tacklers from last season, including All-Big 12 defensive lineman Jackson Jeffcoat and safety Adrian Phillips, who accounted for 168 total tackles, 13 total sacks and three interceptions. … The Longhorns return only two starters on the offensive line, including center Dominic Espinosa, who leads the group with 39 career starts.
Outlook: Strong did an amazing job in a short time at Louisville. He turned the Cardinals from an also-ran to a national contender. Whether he can do the same sort of thing in Austin will be one of the biggest questions. The Longhorns have plenty of talent, but will need the defense to carry them until the offense hits its stride.
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Carbon nanotubes are handy little structures that we're just learning how to create and use. They can do some pretty amazing things: from x-raying your body to boosting your phone's battery life. The Rice researchers discovered that if they're created in a certain way, they can collect and store water in places (like the desert) that have none.
The researchers started by looking at beetles. In the desert, the Stenocara beetle survives by using its wings, which stretch and capture water molecules from morning fog. After the water is collected, the beetle drinks the water and lives another day. The Rice team decided to create a forest of nanotubes to do the same thing. The top of the nanotubes attracts water from the air. The bottom of the nanotube repels water. The combination traps water inside each tube for later extraction. The best part? This process doesn't require any energy at all.
Consider areas of the world where water is scarce (and becoming more scarce thanks to climate change). What if we could grow a large forest of carbon nanotubes that collect water from the air? Of course, because carbon nanotubes are so small, it would take a lot of them, and a lot of work, to make something like that a reality. However, it's not unthinkable that we might be able to create a cup with a nanotube forest inside it, perhaps for those adventurers brave enough to go into the desert alone.
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The program is going use JACK MIDI, and all events must be sent in full
for JACK MIDI, IIRC.
I have a substantial lack of studio/MIDI hardware here, so I'm used to
thinking in terms of software implementations, plus, I've only ever used
the basics in sequencers so am not in a strong position for implementing a
MIDI program.
Maybe it's a major flaw in the overall concept of the program:
given a rhythmic pattern, sequence it, and determine the pitch/velocity
data for each event in the pattern by placing a box into a 127x127 grid
where it will fit without overlapping any other.
((the boxes will have width and height, and can hang around after note off))
Basically, it leaves me with three options, none of which I like:
given a single channel, and the possibility that successive note-on events
occur with missing note-off events:
1) once note on, prevent further note on events until note off for that
pitch has occurred..
2) when a missing note-off detected, delay the note-on by the smallest
amount of time possible, and insert the note-off in place of it.
3) disallow the pattern to have note durations which overlap the next note
4) do it anyway and warn the user it may cause problems.
5) let the user choose from above.
Anyway, it's all far from becoming a working program yet, but this
specific problem needs dealing with at this stage.
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Banks Nationwide and Barclays were joint winners, with HSBC the worst offender.
Piped music and even simple work don't mix
Research presented in October 2014 to the American Academy of Paediatrics in San Diego has found that 85% of teenagers perform even simple tasks worse when they are distracted by piped music or phones. Only 15% manage to perform as well as when they are not so distracted. Sarayu Caulfield, one of the study's authors from Stanford University, California, says: 'Most people still work at their best while focusing on one thing.' http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/National/article1473083.ece
This result is no surprise for it corroborates a study from Cardiff University of August 2010 which found the effects of piped music on people in the work place to be generally negative. Dr Nick Perham, lecturer in psychology at Uwic's Cardiff School of Health Sciences, said that background music harmed ability to memorise information in a set order, such as the order of chemical elements in the periodic table or the series of steps involved in solving a mathematical puzzle. 'Most people listen to music at the same time as, rather than prior to performing a task,' he said. 'To reduce the negative effects of background music when recalling information in order one should either perform the task in quiet or only listen to music prior to performing the task.'
However the piped music industry continues to fund research – very smooth and plausible reseach – whose findings suggest quite the opposite. See the latest from MusicWorksforyou http://www.musicworksforyou.com/news-and-charts/news/269-music-hits-the-right-notes-for-business-success. No surprises here either, for the piped music industry has a remarkable ability to twist facts, one rivals that of the tobacco industry, which for decades managed to squash findings revealing how unhealthy smoking really is.
Which sources are to be believed? Stanford and Cardiff Universities, which are impartial and highly respected bodies? Or what are essentially PR teams for piped music, often funded in some ways by the piped music industry itself?
Which Magazine and piped music
The July issue of Which Magazine on-line discusses the issue of piped music in shops – for the first time, remarkably.
This article has generated a huge number of comments on varied types of piped music infestation. Almost all demonstrate how much people hate it, at times for differing reasons.
Add your own comment http://conversation.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/annoying-background-music-shops-supermarkets/
North Korean style 'research' about piped music's benefits
North Korea, the world's last true Stalinist dictatorship, seems to have a strange rival in producing polls to show that 99.9% of people love and support its deeply unpopular regime. It is the piped music industry! This too regularly publishes surveys quoting figures from its supposedly 'scientific research' that piped music is adored by, say, 99% of customers.
Typical is that from Musicworksforyou, the research site for the two main licence fee collectors, PRS and PPL. According to this group, 71% of us like to listen to music whilst on hold. (A poll conducted for the Co-op Bank suggested just the opposite: 60% of people hate being forced to listen to unwanted music when on hold.)
An even more incredible statistic is that '99% of staff who work in stores without music agree that they think customers would be happier if music was played in store', and 93% 'agree that if the music was turned off in their workplace, then they would ask their manager to turn it back on.' Such unbelievable figures – unbelievable by any impartial, reasonably alert person – are blazed on the group's website and, it seems, believed by enough people in the retail and entertainment worlds to ensure a plague of piped music. The fact that the research is directly linked to the piped music industry is simply ignored.
A typical statement about how everybody loves piped music comes from John Brodie, Chief Executive of Scotmid, which has introduced piped music into some Co-op stores. In response to protests, Brodie said that Scotmid had research to show that customers loved piped music: 'We have also read a number of reports about the impact of music in public places and in one particular summary it mentions two key elements – "people rank music as more difficult to live without than sports, movies and newspapers" and "music enhances wellbeing amongst customers and employees in workplaces".'
Note what is being suggested here. Because most people state they value music highly – which is no surprise – they must therefore love piped music. Such distortion of people's real reactions to unwanted music comes from Heartbeats International, 'a global brand communication agency with offices in Stockholm, Tokyo and New York. Our mission is to help clients worldwide to use the power of music and sound to stand out in today's crowded marketplace and increase customer engagement'.
All such agencies have so strong a vested interest in persuading stores/hotels/restaurants to play piped music that it seems odd any sane person still takes their findings seriously. The Co-op, like Marks and Spencer, is a chain fast losing touch with customer' real wants. Instead, it prefers pseudo-scientific findings produced by a couple of academics, who are mainly funded by the piped music industry. Coincidence? Almost certainly not, although the academics concerned no doubt believe their own research. Both the Co-op and M&S are in deep trouble commercially. This is no coincidence either.
Two seminal academic research papers are often cited as proof that playing background music is good for business. However, it is useful to look at what the authors actually say.
Milliman (Ronald E) "Using background music to affect the behavior of supermarket shoppers" Journal of Marketing Vol 46 (Summer 1982) pages 86-91
In this paper Milliman concluded that playing music can influence the behaviour of shoppers. He reported a 38.2% increase in sales volume when slow tempo music was played, rather than fast tempo music. And "There was no statistically significant difference in sales volume between [no music] and [slow tempo music]" In view of these findings why do most shops now play fast tempo music, which Milliman demonstrated is the worst type for sales volume? Who is advising them to play this type of music? And why play music at all when there is no statistically significant difference in sales volume between slow tempo music and no music, and when so many people dislike it?
Yalch (Richard F) and Spangenberg (Eric) "Using store music for retail zoning: a field experiment" Advances in Consumer Research Volume 20, 1993 Pages 632-636
This paper is often mentioned by the music industry because it demonstrated that people made more purchases when music was playing. However, this is what Yalch and Spangenberg actually said: "When music was played, about 55% of the shoppers made a purchase compared to 47% when no music was played. However, this difference is not statistically significant. Further, it did not affect total expenditures because the average amount spent per person making a purchase (as opposed to the number of shoppers) was highest in the NO MUSIC condition ($51.70 compared to $43.29 when music was being played)". At the beginning of this article Yalch and Spangenberg thank Ellen Goldblatt of MUZAK "for assisting in planning and executing this study". So, even though the piped music company, MUZAK, was involved in setting up this research, Yalch and Spangenberg ended up showing that shoppers actually spent more when no music was played!
Loud television music campaign
Loud, often inappropriate background music on television documentaries – which can become foreground music – annoys many viewers. The BBC is probably the worst offender (partly because it is the biggest producer of documentaries), but it is showing signs of starting to listen. After uproar greeted a new series of Brian Cox's science programmes, where pounding music drowned the professor's illuminating words, the BBC amended the sound track on later programmes. This shows what can be done.
Richard Hill-Brown has started a sub-campaign against this music. Do support him firstname.lastname@example.com
Or complain directly to the BBC – it's best to telephone, as all calls are logged – on 03700 100 222
QUIET NEW YORK published
In May 2014 Siobhan Wall published Quiet New York, a guide to quiet places of many sorts, from museums to cafés, from galleries to parks to libraries. Each of the 150 entries has a wonderful photograph, often in colour, and an evocative description. Produced by Frances Lincoln, this is the fourth of her Quiet City Guides (after Amsterdam, London and Paris.)
In August 2014 she published three smaller guides, additions to Quiet London: Food & Drink, Culture and Quiet Corners produced by Frances Lincoln. Like all her books, they are elegant and useful and marvellously illustrated throughout in colour.
Why music really does get louder as you get older
Older people actually hear music as louder, new reports show. Presbycusis, an age-related hearing problem, means that older people find background music drowns out conversation even at levels younger people do not notice.
Age-related hearing loss, called presbycusis, is characterised by loss of hair cells in the base of the cochlea, or inner ear, that are attuned to capture and transmit high-frequency sounds,
says Dr. Anil K. Lalwani, director of otology, neurotology and skull-base surgery at Columbia University Medical Center, New York.
Loss of high-frequency hearing leads to deterioration in the ability to distinguish words in conversation. Additionally, any noise in the environment leads to even greater loss in clarity of hearing. Contrary to expectation, presbycusis is also associated with sensitivity to loud noises.
see http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/science/why-at-70-is-it-harder-to-hear-conversations-yet-music-is-too-loud.html?
As the overall population ages, governments and businesess should take notice.


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Love it and really looking forward to getting an R32 at some point next.
I drive a Y reg 1.6 Ford Focus... but not to work; the parking's awful round here. I ride my bike or hike to work!
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Got a Mk3 Golf 2.8 VR6 - not the most economical car in the world but it's all about smiles per gallon!!
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I drive a Seat Leon Cupra 1.9TDi. In Black. It's amazing. And economical
My Citroen Berlingo is off the road at the moment. It stops without warning and the garage cannot find the fault.
I ride a Focus mtb or my Gilera Coguar motorbike if I'm feeling lazy... about ten minutes to work on both
1.6 Suzuki Vitara - can't see anybody else driving one on this thread though!
1.3 Ford Fiesta 'Encore'. It's the biggest joke of a car ever. It's a 2001 model and doesn't even have PAS. I'll be swapping it soon for something with a bit more poke!
Here's a pic of the new machine, she's lovely
Honda Civic.
Its blue, it has low miles on the clock and it starts every morning. Plus I only paid £500 for it.
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Seemed to have missed this. In the past 18 months gone from:
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But currently driving an MX-5, good times.
SEAT ibiza 1.4 sport with a nice little add on pack which gives me things like auto dimming rear view and auto wipers and mp3 stereo player etc etc... my big mistake was buying it brand spanking.... 0% intrest free credit!
Silver BMW Z4 Convertible with black leather interior, it's just a baby with a 2.2l 170bhp straight 6 engine (sounds nice though); downside is with rear wheel drive and wide 'run-flat' tyres it's a little devil on slippery roads.
Apart from that I have an 1980s Land Rover Air Portable (aka Lightweight) and a 3,500kg Autotrail Motorcaravan
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