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Cadillac Audio, Video and Security Systems Discussion, 98 STS several audio questions in Item Specific Cadillac Discussion; Hi folks, new to the forum, also a new owner of a beautiful '98 STS, I have some questions regarding ...
98 STS several audio questions
Hi folks, new to the forum, also a new owner of a beautiful '98 STS, I have some questions regarding the rather complex audio system in this vehicle. I have done some searching but I'm rather confused about several things.
The car has a Bose stereo system with indash CD/Tape, has DSP and RDS radio controls (this may help in identifying the dash unit, as I believe there are several). It has no CD changer.
1. I would like to add a changer, I've seen many on eBay, and I've read that most Delco units work. Are these cars prewired for both Trunk & Console changers? Ideally I would like to get the console unit, but if not I'll settle for a trunk mounted one if its not prewired in the console.
2. Is there a way of adding an auxiliry input for an iPod, thru the CD Changer interface? I have an older 20GB 3rd Generation iPod that I would consider using in place of a changer if its possible to integrate it.
3. I very much like the sound loudness & quality, but I would like to add a little more bass thump, even though the factory subwoofer is very nice. I have a box and an amp from my old car, Is there a way to wire it into the existing setup? My amp has line level as well as speaker level inputs, I was thinking of simply splicing into the existing subwoofer cable and using my amp speaker input. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
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The STS should be prewired for a Delco 6CD changer right in the console. The trunk might also be prewired, but I'm not entirely sure. I'm not sure where you live, but if you have a 6th Ave Electronics store near you, I know they sell an aftermarket unit that can allow you to use the ipod throguh your car stereo. Most car audio places though, should carry something like this. It's basically a base for the ipod, attached to an RF Modulator that plays through a selected FM station on the radio. I don't knwo how well it works since I've never seen on in a car before, but it proably works just liek any other Changer with an RF modulator.
As far as the base, I think you might be able to wire an amp into the circuit for the woofer in the trunk, and then replace it with a more powerful unit. I think a few poeple here have done such an install, and would be able to tell you exactly what's involved.
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Cool, I would prefer the console mounting. As for the iPod, I would like to avoid the FM Modulator way, if there's a way to use the line input from a CD Changer.
I actually live in Toronto, Canada (I forgot to fill out the location at signup) so I'll have to find other means of finding a changer, eBay most likely.
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If you remove all of the storage compartments in the console, you will find the wiring harness there. My '02 SLS did not have a changer also. I bought one from Ebay, for about $90.00, and gave it a shot. It was supposedly from an '04 model. It worked fine, except, it would occassionally lose contact with the HU. Unplugging it, and plugging it back in, would fix the problem.
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Were in the same boat my friend. Check out Peripheral Electronics for the ipod interface. The data cable should be in the trunk or in the glove compartment. If you feel comfortable installing it yourself, do it! You will not have to chunk out an extra 100 bucks to joe blow audio store like me. I had my ipod interface installed in my 2000 Deville (glove compartment). I'm still occuring audio problems such as distortion and low volume.
After several trys with joe blow audio store, I contacted Peripheral myself. They have sent me info for installing an audio filter for the ipod interface. I'd ordered the filter last week and reinstalled my cd changer. Took me twenty minutes to do this. (Joe blow audio store 3hrs!!) . I'll update u with the progress and try to post the necessary articles.
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Go to www.crutchfield.com
This item number is an aftermarket changer that will plug into the factory harness in the bottom of the console. $239
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I have a similar '99 STS w/ Bose, changer, RDS, etc... and I turned on the RDS thinking it would be cool to have the info scroll across the screen. While this is nice, it completely screwed up my presets and confuses the crap out of me - I'm a pretty audio and car savvy person, and I had no problem with the RDS in my BMW - anybody know how to: 1. turn off this damn RDS system; 2. leave it on and make it quit squirreling my presets? I've already tried just pressing the orange box RDS button, but that screwed up yet another pre-set. Thanks for the help.


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iCarta – Let the Toilet Humor Commence
Date: Monday, August 14th, 2006, 09:00
Category: iPod
AtechFlash market a range of flash memory-related prodcuts. What inspired them to add this to their range is a mystery, but it did make me smile, in an incredulous 'what the?' kind of way.
iCarta (a 'Stereo Dock for iPod® with Bath Tissue Holder') will 'Enhance your Experience in any room with your favorite music from your iPod.' For those of you who are thinking 'I can only think of one room in my house where I want a 'Bath Tissue Holder', think again… the 'Integrated Bath tissue holder that can be easily folded as a stereo dock'… clever!
Features also include: '4 Integrated high performance moisture-free speakers', presumably 'moisturised' speakers will be made available as an optional extra in the future.
Oh, and before you reach for your credit card, the iCarta 'Requires AC Power (AC Adapter included)'. So, if your WC is lacking in a mains socket, you're out of luck!
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Close enough to the mainland to minimise the possibility of being stuck on the island by bad weather. Clean, comfortable and good food. Nice beach. I was overcharged by 10%! My own fault as I had misplaced my copy of the Booking.com reservation sheet. I found it later and realised the error. No prior advice that I would have to telephone the resort from Mersing to confirm that we had arrived and were waiting for their boat - there is no office/agent at Mersing. An agent from another Pulau Besar resort kindly offered assistance or we would have been stuck. Boat left 1.5 hours after scheduled time. We wanted to go snorkeling but the resort will only run the boat with 8 people. No assistance/maps with any walking tracks around the island. No advice that generator changes over 2x each day & you need to reset the circuit breaker for A/C - also the unlabeled hot water switch.
Hotel stuff tried to be friendly and supportive but mostly were not able to solve the customer problems and provide conflicting information. Staff prepared early morning breakfast 5am based to request. Dirty rooms, not working shower, smelly room, noise outside near road too loud, bathroom sink tap handle was missing, free internet was not working.


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A few months ago I received a wonderful gift. A coffee siphon. The coffee siphon may appear intimidating at first glance, however it is really easy to brew excellent coffee with it. There are more comprehensive guides out there. This is a simple one just to get you started with the basics.
Step #1 Measure and Grind
The most common dosage recommendation for vacuum pot coffee is to use 8 grams of coffee for every four ounces of water. The grind will be a little bit finer than what you would use for drip coffee. See the Coffee Grind Chart for a visual approximation.
Step #2 Pre-Heat the Water
You could apply the siphon flame directly on cold water, but it takes forever and wastes butane. I use an electric kettle to bring the water up to about 180 F. If you have a PINO Kettle, you can dial in this temperature, otherwise use your best judgment. While the water is warming up, close the filter on the on top chamber of the siphon by latching the chain hook to the edge of the glass tube. Once this is in place, add the ground coffee to the top chamber.
Step #3 Secure the Siphon Together
Place the top chamber securely into the bottom glass chamber.
Step #4 Light the Flame
Turn the knob on the heating element to release gas and then press the pedal to ignite the blue flame. This will provide enough heat to complete the brewing cycle.
Step #5 Brew and Stir
The water from the bottom chamber will rise to the top. Once there, provide a gentle stir so all the coffee grounds are making contact with the water. Allow the brew cycle to go 60-90 seconds and then turn off the flame.
Step #6 Allow Coffee to Return to the Lower Chamber and Serve
Once the flame is turned removed, the coffee will flood into the bottom chamber. Once the brewed coffee has completely emptied the top chamber, remove the top chamber and serve.
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Living Things for Nylon Magazine ::
I have a lot of blog posts to make with recent work and very little time to make them. These images are from my shoot with Living Things. This was an assignment for Nylon Magazine. I've completed four assignments for Nylon and as they hit the shelves I'll blog about them. The assignment was to shoot the band, individuals, and cover their show here in Atlanta. I haven't worked with a better group of artists than these four guys.
I put out a question on Twitter during this assignment asking if I should take a 5d with a 90mm lens or a D3 with a 24mm lens. The D3 combo won. I finished the assignment with one camera and one lens.
Living Things are an effing amazing live band. If you ever have the chance to see them live don't pass it up.
I shot typical live shots like this…
But… I wanted something different than straight forward live shots. Being I was shooting with the D3 I put the camera in multiple exposure mode and lit a fire of creativity under my arse. I'm now experimenting more with multiple exposure. Yes, you can shoot single frames and then composite them together in PhotoChop, but sometimes you need to come up with something different while not depending on software to do it later.
Shooting a live show with multiple exposures is maddening because you can't be exactly sure what you are going to get but that is the payoff. Sometimes it surprises you in a good way.
Do any of you experiment with in camera multiple exposure?
Cheers, Zack
I have enough trouble getting a single exposure to look good, but I like what you've done.
I love multiple exposure, one of the reasons I switched to Nikon, though I haven't done it in live captures. Love this series!
crappy pics the whole effing bunch
I have to say I haven't done much multiple exposure stuff myself but I am a fan of the last photo you posted here (with the guitarist). That one really catches me for some reason. But again, phenomenal work! – something I'm sure you hear all the time! =)
Is it only the D3 that does that right in camera? =)
Another great photographer who does the multiple exposure very well would be Joe McNally.
I had tried it a few times but sad to say i can't have the same result the way you guys do it. i'm getting there, I need to start somewhere.
Love the blur effect in one photo. It's like some of Avedon's photo… the "Avedon blur" as some call it.
Love the multiple exposures, they are pretty cool. Especially in the black and white.
I was at the McNally workshop where he took the double exposure of Vanessa (http://www.joemcnally.com/blog/2009/06/25/vanessa-times-two/) and it was cool to see him putting it all together; the amount of trial and error that took and how he worked it all out at the end.
It is nice to see the great ones solving problems.
You are a brave man for doing this "live"… hats of to ya !
I haven't tried multiple in camera yet. Does the 5D Mk2 offer that feature?
Glad you're back Zack. Great shots. Of course, everything you show us is great. You are an inspiration for more things than you think. I am an agriculture photographer. I take photos of people working, but these people work in the dirt rather than on a stage. However, I study your photos constantly, because, (my wife doesn't even know this), I would REALLY like to shoot a live production of "A Prairie Home Companion". How nerdy is THAT?
On your readers' choice of camera: I have a Nikon 24-70 attached to my D3 almost all the time. Looking at the EXIF data on my people shots, the lens is at 24mm about 85% of the time. I can't imagine a better combination.
Proving again why you're the man. These are great. Who's idea was it to have the (presumably) front man wear a different color shirt?
A BTS video of one of these shoots would be incredible. Mostly to see how you handle dealing with shooting multiple people.
ill give it a try now, thats for sure…
ach, these are amazing!! the last one is mental, I love the mulit-exposures.
ZA, these are rad. i concur to do this live seems to be madness. The last frame in the post is so insane. Feels like something from the Late 60's to Mid 70's from the Who or David Bowie.
Images are awesome Zack. Cool placement of your usedfilm logo.. Great Job!!!
Great stuff Zack.
As for multiple exposures…hell yeah! I really enjoy shooting with my my holga esp. b/w film or IR with multiple exposures, real gritty real dirty.
To be perfectly honest, I'm not impressed with these photos. They seem to lack that creativity and dramatic punch that most of your other images have. I, along with most of your other fans, love when you post shots of your current work. I'm not sure about everyone else, but I like looking at the photos that make me say "WOW!" or "How did he do that?"
Again, I love your work and think you're a great photographer, but seriously, I think you can do better than this.
Thanks for the feedback Anonymous.
I love your lighting in the solo shots. The motion blur in the fourth shot is a great touch too…and I know that wasn't done in PS which makes it that much better. The multiple exposure shots are very nice also, makes me wish my 5D Mark II had that option. C'mon Canon! Get in the game!
Loving these photos! I totally disagree with Sir Anonymous up there, I really think you caught the spirit of the guys, really. Especially with those last live shots, I enjoy the stills, they'll be lovely for a magazine article, they fit with Nylons style beautifully, but those last few exposures at the bottom are truly beautiful and creatively inspiring. Excellent work, truly. That last one rocks like nobodies business! Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome Zack.
I want to just reiterate that I'm not trying to be negative or hateful towards you, in fact I really love your work and think you do a great job. I'm just saying that with some of the great work I've seen you do, these images seem to fall short somehow.
I'm not a professional photographer quite yet so I suppose I don't have room to talk, but I have bought your dvd, browsed photos on this site and your flickr and these seem below par compared to some of your awesome OneLight stuff.
Afro Rama… I love that!
love how the multiple exposure shots turned out. i think those are pretty darn creative. i have no experience w/ multiple exposure and in fact the first time i heard about it was from your blog post shot of your wifey.
great work. love the multi-exposure stuff. still don't think it could make me switch from canon tho. you're probably the main reason/inspiration behind why I want to get into band photography. cheers!
Hi Zack,
Love the live multiple exposure stuff! I can't get away with it for the live stuff I shoot for work, but next time I'm shooting a friend's band for fun I'm definitely trying this.
Sincere thanks for all the inspiration so far.
PS any plans for a UK Onelight workshop?
i have played with multi exposure but only in colour, an i wasnt overly impressed, but your B&W shoots are fantastic so im gonna give it another go, might play with it on the photo walk Saturday, as good a time as any i guess,
recently iv been picking up just one lens (prime) an going out shooting, i done it original to get to grips with new lenses but in turn found i shot differently an thought so much more before pressing the shutter. an now i seem to just go out with 1 maybe 2 lenses an zooms tend to stay at home, usually d200+grip 28mm ƒ2.8 85mm ƒ1.8.
hey zack, love how these turned out. havn'tused multi ex much but i'll be thinkin of how i can use it now.
great work
The last one is very nice. I like the curve the exposures make. Also nice one on AfroRama!
Beautiful. Good work sir.
re: multiple exposure… I don't think you can get quite the same effect in photoshop anyway, since PS has no "add" blend mode; only "multiply" and a few others that don't do exactly what "add" would. (astro photographers lament this, as it requires that they seek other tools to stack exposures)
I really like the last one, Zack. I am thinking about experimenting with multiple exposure in more regular settings like wedding and family snapshots. Thanks for the inspiration.
I take it the 5dii wont do this on camera? Just Nikon?
Zack!!! I think the 24/D3 combo is way more useful than the 90/5D combo… actually that second combo just doesn't seem to even be fair compared to the D3. 24 is way more useful of a focal length than 90 especially for all the group shots you'd be doing. It was almost like you were trying to get the canon combo to lose. Just saying.
Fantastic shots. I've just started playing with the multiple exposures on m D700.
So how long will it be until a "caged" store front window becomes the next brick wall for a band shot (coming from the critique videos you posted)?
The set list on the drum kit brought back fond memories – thanks!
I've got to have my two cents on Anonymous' comments about Zack's work being "below par".
Anonymous, Zack is a working photographer. And while every photo he takes might not blow your pants off, he is CONSISTENT in delivering good work.
I know you were just being honest in your comments and not hating, but it's a bit redundant. I mean, most of Joe McNallly's work seems paedestrian in comparison to his best and most creative shots. But he's a working photographer and, like Zack, it's unreasonable to expect award-winningly creative photos every time they pick up a camera.
Those last three shots are totally badass. They turned out real cool.
I have mixed feelings about the first two multiple exposure shots, but the last one is amazing. I really like the placement of the faces and the overlapping of all the equipment along the bottom. I've done a little multiple exposure experimenting with my Holga, but nothing digital. But after seeing these I would love to start, thanks again for the continued inspiration.
That last photo makes me think "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Nice shots, Zack
Awesome series Zack, esp the live ones. I love multi exp on my LX3, very creative.
Hi Zack
I wish I would have seen the multiple exposure shots a week earlier. I was shooting an openair with some big name acts (one of those gigs where there are 20 photogs in the pit and everyone has an 80-200 on the camera) and was wishing for inspiration to come.
next time around I'll try it (looks like it's gonna be oasis :-).
In the first "Afro Rama" (I am sure you are aware) you can clearly see the assistant holding up a reflector or something similar under the word unisex.
I love the multiple exposure pictures. the 2nd and 3rd pictures are nice how the light is feathered off their bodies. Looks like a grid or something.
I like the outdoor-band shots
The whole band motion blur on (I assume) white seamless is my favorite. I also dig the motion blur stuff.
Mean to say…I really like the last two multiple exposure (or multiple exposurish) photos.
inspired me a lot,.i`m far behind,..
Really love the multiple exposures for the live shots! Great great stuff. I will certainly be experimenting with some of that.
Hi Zack,
My bf turned me onto your site. Love this shots of Living Things! That multiple exposure mode is the SHIZ! i can't wait to use it!
I met the guys from the Living Things on 6/26/09 when the NYLON Summer Tour came to the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC. They RAWK! And they are super kewl, down-to-earth, dudes! Please see my shots in my flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/32513189@N03/
Nice shots Zach,
I love the motion blur photo. I know you critique and say you dont like live show shots unless they are amazing or at least creative and I think you hit the mark. Very unique. The band must have asked for the graffiti portrait? Haha I think I remember you saying its the last band shot you would ever take. Still it looks sweet and i would be happy with that shot If I were them
Kurt Stenberg
The last shot reminded me of jimmy Page in the stairway to heaven video. there is a part before his amazing solo, where the video becomes a double image(not sure about the exact term)…. very cool. I played around with multi-exposures some months back, which turned out crappy for my taste and I let it be till now…
Hey Zach,
Great post. I love how you spread the light. Awesome, being a Canon shooter, I didn't know they (Nikon) have that old feature of in camera double exposure, COOL. I'll have to push Canon on that one. I miss it from my film days! Love getting it in camera verses "photochop". Keep on keeping on.
btw, time to update the "about me" section… the last bit…
Love your in camera multi-exposures!! The last two just ROCK!
I love multiple exps , im use this techinique every time shot a show ^^ (Sorry for my english)
here's a friend in Atlanta who shoots lots of concerts using multiple exposures. His stuff is really cool:
Great shots! I really dig those TS-lens shots; amazing what you can do with available light and some creativity.
Are you shooting in B&W? How many exposures are you shooting? I was looking for inspiration, perhaps I will try it w/ my stage combat!
Thank you for sharing your work, as always!
Inspired by the blogpost i gave it a shot yesterday boy i got unreal results mainly the lights were led's
thanks for the inspiration


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We have a feeding program which provides a hearty breakfast and lunch daily during the sessions. The Summer School program is very successful and allows the children keep abreast of their school curriculum and allows active learning during the summer school break. We will soon enhance this program by adding summer camp features such as field trips and more outdoor activities. We are experiencing amazing results with the Summer School Program. There is total community involvement and the children cannot wait for the start of summer school each year.
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Citing concerns about both technology and trading changes, a 7,700-member organization of stock traders this week asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to delay by at least three months its April 9 deadline for converting the Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. to decimal-based pricing.
In a letter that was sent to acting SEC Chairman Laura Unger on Tuesday, Lee Korins, president and CEO of the Washington-based Security Traders Association (STA), said the current plan, which calls for Nasdaq to run pilot decimalization tests and then move to a full implementation all within a single month's time frame, is too tight a schedule.
"It is the sincere concern of many of our members that the current plan does not provide enough time to adequately test and assess the many technology and trading issues associated with the conversion," Korin stated in his letter. "[W]e urge the commission to consider a less demanding implementation schedule."
Korin said in an interview today that the New York Stock Exchange had a four-month period last year to make its transition from fractions to decimals. Nasdaq should be given a similar amount of time, he said. "We're not saying to stop [the conversion]," Korin said. "What we're saying is to take more time to implement it."
If another 12 weeks were added to the conversion process, Korin said, it would allow traders to be properly prepared and would "hardly be something to upset the whole world." Korin, who also asked in his letter that the number of scheduled test runs be increased from two to four, said he hopes to have an answer from the SEC by the middle of next week.
Under the current schedule, 15 Nasdaq-listed stocks are due to be converted to decimal-based pricing on March 12 as an initial test of the concept. Another 150 stocks are scheduled to switch over in a second pilot project two weeks later, and a full conversion of Nasdaq's 6,000 or so stocks is supposed to take place in early April.
Nasdaq spokesman Scott Peterson wouldn't comment directly on the STA's letter, but he said officials at the stock market "expect to operate according to the schedule" set by the SEC.
"We feel confident that everyone is going to be ready," Peterson said. Under a complex rollout plan, he added, several hundred financial services firms have been mandated to do testing to prepare for the changeover. "It's not as if these people are going to be walking into it cold," he said.
John Heine, an SEC spokesman, also declined to comment on the request for more time from the STA. Asked what would happen if some firms and traders aren't ready by the April 9 deadline, Heine said SEC officials "don't deal in hypotheticals."
Korin said more time is needed to make the switch because Nasdaq has quotation and trading data arriving simultaneously from hundreds of different market centers each day, differentiating it from the NYSE. Nasdaq has already seen large data volume increases in the last two years, and Korin said the STA is worried that the impact of converting to decimals in such a short time frame could overwhelm the market's systems.
Octavio Marenzi, an analyst at Celent Communications LLC in Boston, said it's surprising that some traders are having trouble preparing with the changeover. "It is a relatively straightforward thing to do," involving updates to software code and fields to move from fractions to decimals, he said. "That's about the extent of it."
In fact, Marenzi said, switching to decimal-based pricing should be much easier than what many companies had to do to fix year 2000 problems on their systems. Instead of true technical problems, the real issue behind the extension request appears to be fear on the part of some traders that decimalization will make the market more volatile, he said.
But Larry Tabb, an analyst at Needham, Mass.-based TowerGroup, called the conversion to decimals "a big project" and said many large trading firms still haven't tested their systems for compliance and have been voicing concerns about the change. Tabb added, though, that he's not sure whether the current deadline really is too onerous.
The NYSE completed a decimal conversion for all of the 3,525 stocks it lists on Jan. 29, following the start of a pilot program last August. The U.S. is the only major country that still uses fractions in stock pricing, and both the NYSE and Nasdaq were originally supposed to switch to decimal-based pricing by last July.
But the SEC last spring granted a request for a delay from the National Association of Securities Dealers Inc., which was concerned that Nasdaq's systems wouldn't be able to handle the extra traffic expected to be generated by the switch. The SEC later ordered Nasdaq to begin the conversion process by next month, and Nasdaq officials vowed that they would be ready.
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On a serious note. I am actually worried right now. This tragedy has "enlightened" a few folks I know but it has also hardened just as many. I have an old friend and cousin that are now completely and utterly against guns. They didn't like them before, now they feel like they have a vendetta.


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Tribune Digital Ventures has created an app that provides all the latest newspaper stories as stream audio, which can also be used to create your own personalized radio stations. Newsbeat is free-of-charge, and puts a voice to around 7,000 national and local stories each day using text-to-speech technology.
"Newsbeat offers a new way to experience the best print and online news in a personalized audio streaming format," Shashi Seth, president of Tribune Digital Ventures, said in a statement. "We've married high-quality journalism from respected reporters and publications with mobile technology to extend its reach and appeal to an audience that is often on-the-go."
Tribune is designed for commuters and anyone else who has the need for a hands-free news experience. Users can control the app using voice commands, as well as customize the content based on their interests and favourite publications. It's also said the app will be able to learn people's preferences over time to deliver a better service.
Not all of the articles will be available in audio, just the first few paragraphs. After that, users have to resort to the full text on their phone. There is one caveat however, as explained by Shashi Seth, president of Tribune Digital Ventures, in an interview with the Chicago Tribune.
The minute a news story breaks and it is determined to be something that a lot of users would be listening to, it will instantly go to a voice artist who will record it, and it will flow into your program in real time.
All of the content and operational costs will be paid for by revenue generated from targeted audio ads within the app's programming. Purely an aggregator, the company plans to stay away from original editorial content for the time being.
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This is a brilliant book about the absolute futility and insanity of war. There is no order, no reason, no ardent patriotic ideals or just causes; there is just the most primal animal instinct to survive. It is a tribute to Gert Ledig that the anarchy of war isn't reflected in his writing, which is a tightly woven account of chaos that sweeps the reader into a space where nothing else exists.
Somewhere south of Leningrad, on Germany's 1942 Eastern Front, a German unit is trapped, surrounded by a Russian unit, parts of which are also trapped. On a hill above the battle, a German corporal and two privates are dug into the space under a concrete pylon.
And there they stayed, biding their time till their company down in the trenches was finally wiped out. Then, they had to rush out with their explosive charges to meet the approaching steel monsters, and with their bodies already shot to pieces, hang the magnetic charges on the tanks as they ground past. That was the moment they were waiting for, hour by hour, day after day. Always in the hope that it might never come. The lump of concrete over their heads creaked and quaked. Sand dribbled down the sides of their dugout. If the tanks didn't come, the alternative was the moment that the concrete mass settled on top of them. The percussive force of the shells made the dugout ever larger. With every day, it became more apparent: the concrete pediment that supported the weight of the pylon would one day squash the little air pocket beneath it. And in spite of that, they couldn't leave. What, to go and hide in a shell hole and die within the hour?
The Corporal and his men were living as in a prison.
A Runner is routinely sent to them from what passes as a command centre; each time crossing a desolate no man's land, tempting fate every moment and hating the Sergeant who sent him so that he would look as if he was actually doing something.
The story of the Germans is balanced by that of the Russians. Very few characters have names; they are designated by their rank. This adds to the sense of chaos, as the German Captain's actions and those of his Russian counterpart can easily blend together in this formless battle.
There is a sense of the absurd too. An error had been made by the insane Major, who wanted his Sergeant shot for desertion. No one would carry out the execution, for no judgement had been formally reached during his bizarre trial. The Major railed What do you want? The man is dead, theoretically. His next of kin have been informed. His name has been taken off the list of those entitled to rations. His number has been cancelled. Besides, every company commander will already have read out the order relating to his execution.
The Major's sole concern, as stated by him was "One day there'll be an inquest, and I'll have to come up with the body. As proof, so to speak. Then what do I do?
However, the men know those who die here will leave no bodies, there will be no graves, there may not even be a record of their names.
Ledig himself was at the Battle of Leningrad. He was wounded and sent home, escaping almost certain death. This novel was sent to scores of publishers before being accepted for publication. It was an initial success, but then vanished, not to be republished until 2000. As [[W G Sebald]] is quoted as saying of Ledig's writing, "His novels... were excluded from cultural memory because they threatened to break through the cordon sanitaire cast around the death zones.". Germany thought it had moved on.
However, as Michael Hofmann says in his introduction, "... these things happened, are presently happening, and presumably will continue to happen; there is no point in pretending otherwise, and neither honour or security in putting them beyond the reach of literature", calling this form of writing "a bleak and daunting specialism."
This book's action set on the Russian front during World War II is almost all battle action. Despite saying that numerous passages are of such a mordant, macabre black humor while at the same time propelled along by Ledig's intense pared down prose that it's a wonder to me that not all that many readers seem to have heard of him. Ledig seems at times to take an almost perverse joy in describing horrific events in an almost laconic or understated way. For instance the opening paragraphs:
'The Lance-Corporal couldn't turn in his grave, because he didn't have one. Some three versts form Podrova, forty versts south of Leningrad, he had been caught in a salvo of rockets, been thrown up in the air, and with severed hands and head dangling, been impaled on the skeletal branches of what once had been a tree.
The NCO, who was writhing on the ground with a piece of shrapnel in his belly, had no idea what was keeping his machinge gunner. It didn't occur to him to look up. He had his hands full with himself.
The two remaining members of the unit ran off, without bothering about their NCO. If someone had later told them they should have made an effort to fetch the Lance-Corporal down from his tree, they would quite rightly have said he had a screw loose. The Lance-Corporal was already dead, thank God. Half an hour later, when the crippled tree trunk was taken off an inch or two above the ground by a burst of machine-gun fire, his wrecked body came down anyway. In the intervening time, he had also lost a foot. The frayed sleeves of his tunic were oily with blood. By the time he hit the ground, he was just half a man.
With the machine gun out of action, the log-road lay open before Lieutenant Vyacheslav Dotoyev's shock troops. He motioned to the rumbling tank in front of what was left of his little bunch of art students from the Stalin Academy. The chains rattled. Another minute, and what was left of the Lance-Corporal was rolled flat. The budding artists didn't even get a chance to go through his pockets.
Once the tanks had rolled out the Lance-Corporal, a fighter plane loosed off its explosive cannonfire into the mass of shredded uniform, flesh and blood.
After that, the Lance-Corporal was left in peace.
Ledig himself a participant in the Russian campaign--he was a German--takes both sides of the conflict as they struggle over a trench line and the hill that overlooks the surrounding area. Ledig is careful not to take sides--more or less both the Russian and German soldiers are by turns exasperated, confused, vengeful and scared out of their wits. They've been watching each other being blown to bits in their hundreds--corpses and body parts are lying all over the place along with all kinds of mechanized war equipment. Ledig uses blown up Russian tanks and a downed Stuka divebomber almost as exclamation points to show the absurdity and total chaos of his battlefield. Everything gets thrown into the mix. Desertions, suicides, murdering or beating the hell out of prisoners. For all that though one can hardly help laughing at times as when a Russian lieutenant meditates on a captured German captain:
'Another one of those animals, thought the Lieutenant. Here in his cage he behaves like a human being, but put a rifle in his hands and he'll start shooting corpes. What's he doing here? The wolf with his sheep's face. Aren't there enough hills in his own country? I've even seen them myself, green trees, streams, trim villages. No rubbish or muck on their roads. Ears of corns stand upright in the fields like soldiers. But they want to take our marshy forests off us, our dried-out steppes, a few wooden huts...the Lieutenant became incoherent with rage, adrift on a flood of misunderstandings. He would shoot this German.'
In any case this is very violent bloody stuff that looks squarely in the face of people's humanity and their fears. I'm not doubting the authenticity of the experience he puts down either. Ledig as I said above is very 'equal opportunity'. That this book is hilarious at the same time as describing literally a bloodbath makes it something really unique in war fiction.
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Last Week, Mike Huckabee offered some advice to supporters of anti-union legislation in Ohio on how to make sure opponents of the measure didn't get to vote. Via Politico's Ben Smith:
"Make a list. Call them and ask them, 'Are you going to vote for Issue 2 and are you going to vote for it?'" Huckabee advised, according to an audio recording provided by a foe of the initiative. "If they say no, well, you just make sure that they don't go vote. Let the air out of their tires on election day. Tell them the election has been moved to a different date. That's up to you how you creatively get the job done."
Smith also noted that in 2009 Huckabee made a similar comment encouraging supporters of Virginia governor Bob McDonnell, then a candidate, to "let the air out of [voters'] tires" if they didn't plan on voting for McDonnell.
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The Great Taste of The Grove Food and Wine Festival is now entering its 22nd year, and has successfully brought in crowds of over 30,000; this event is not to be missed. Guests will enjoy an amazing line-up of musical entertainment and a children's adventure park.
Come join us April 14-15, at the largest annual fundraiser for the Coconut Grove Chamber. The Great Taste of the Grove showcases The Grove at its finest, bringing together the entire Miami community for a day of food, wine, music and fun in the beautiful waterfront setting of Peacock Park.
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Date: March 9, 2014 07:35AM
In this world of large unintended consequences, one of which may well be deflation, we have added to our position in CPI – linked derivative contracts, as shown below:
As you can see from the table, in 2013 we increased our nominal exposure to these contracts by 71.3% for an additional cost of only 20.2%. As of December 31, 2013, these contracts were carried on our books at $131.7 million, a 75.9% decline from our cost. The remaining term on these contracts is 7.5 years. Like in 2012, Brian Bradstreet has refreshed some of these older contracts by exchanging them for newer, more current indexed contracts – thus effectively increasing the weighted average strike price of the index (CPI) on the U.S. contracts to 230.43 from 223.98 – only 1.1% away from the U.S. CPI index at the end of 2013!
The table below provides you more details on our CPI-linked derivative contracts as of December 31, 2013:
As we did last year, we remind you that cumulative deflation in the U.S. in the 1930s and Japan in the ten years ending 2012 was approximately 14%. It is amazing to note that including 2013, Japan has suffered deflation in most of the last 19 years – beginning about five years after the Nikkei index and real estate values peaked....
In the last four years, we have had significant losses, mostly unrealized, from our hedging program and from our CPI-linked derivative contracts, as shown below:
These losses are significant but they are mostly unrealized, and we expect both of them to reverse when the ''grand disconnect'' disappears – perhaps sooner than you think! In a declining market, like 2008 – 2009, we expect our common stock portfolio to come down much less than the indices, thus reversing most of the net losses resulting from our hedges. As I said last year, we are focused on protecting our company on the downside against permanent capital loss from the many potential unintended consequences that abound in the world economy.
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Location: Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center On AgingTitle: Meta-analysis of interaction between dietary magnesium intake and genetic risk variants on diabetes phenotypes in the charge consortium Author
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Publication Acceptance Date: 2/13/2012
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Citation: Hruby, A., Ngwa, J.S., Meigs, J.B., Nettleton, J.A., Mckeown, N.M. 2012. Meta-analysis of interaction between dietary magnesium intake and genetic risk variants on diabetes phenotypes in the charge consortium. Journal of Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. 26:243.1. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: Little is known about whether genetic variation modifies the effect of magnesium (Mg) intake on two important diabetes risk factors: fasting glucose (FG) and insulin (FI). We examined interactions between dietary Mg and genetic variants associated with glucose (16 SNPs), insulin (2 SNPs), or Mg homeostasis and transport (8SNPs), on FG or FI. Fifteen cohorts provided dietary, genetic, FG (mmol/L), and FI (pmol/L, ln-transformed) data on up to 52,170 participants without diabetes. Analyses included: associations of Mg with FG or FI; associations of SNPs with FG or FI; and interactions between Mg and each SNP on FG or FI. Cohort-level results adjusted for age, sex, energy intake, study center, and population substructure were meta-analyzed using inverse variance-weighted, fixed-effect methods. Statistical significance was alpha=0.0015 (Bonferroni correction for 34 tests). FG (beta: -0.012 mmol/L; 95%CI: -0.015, -0.008) and FI (-2.4% or beta: -0.024 lnpmol/ L; 95%CI -0.027, -0.020) were lower per 50 mg/day greater intake of Mg. No interaction was observed (p=0.0198–0.9364). Consistent with other studies, higher Mg intake associated with lower FG and FI. There was no evidence that genetic variants at these loci influence the association between dietary Mg and FG or FI.


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She may be one of Australia's most celebrated painters, but when Margaret Olley fell down a "black hole" of depression a few years ago, she turned to music rather than her easel for comfort. "I don't know how I would have got on without it," she says.
Speaking in her Paddington home, she is surrounded by a riot of colour. A messy palette filled with mounds of oil paint in every hue sits in front of her. Beyond it, her atelier is full of the vibrant still lifes for which she is famous.
It is a drastic contrast from 2002, when "over-medication" led to a depression that turned her world black. "I wanted to kill myself," she says. "I couldn't paint, I was desperate. Getting through the day was like getting through the year."
So it is fitting she has inspired a concert tomorrow to benefit depressioNet, a website aiding those suffering with the illness. The concert, to be performed by the NSW Doctors Orchestra, came about after Olley attended another benefit concert put on by the orchestra last year and approached its president, Cathy Fraser.
Dr Fraser says the orchestra felt strongly about taking up the cause of depression. "One of the biggest strains for people suffering from depression is they find people respond to it in an unhelpful way," she says. "[They say,] 'You should just snap out of it.' They don't know how to be around people who are depressed. [They need to be] more understanding."
Olley, whose suffering left her housebound for months, agrees: "You find out who your friends are, and who didn't really want to know," she says.
Quite the opposite are the members of the orchestra who are going to great lengths to unite for their performance of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto and Dvorak's Eighth Symphony. To supplement the $14,000 donated by two manufacturers of anti-depressants, each of the 60 musicians is paying $100 to cover the cost of the benefit.
The Australian Institute of Music teacher, and renowned soloist, Evgeny Ukhanov, who is also joining them, says the chosen music is apt for the occasion.
"This concerto was composed and dedicated to a doctor, when Rachmaninov had his depression times," he says.
The NSW Doctors Orchestra performs at the Sir John Clancy Auditorium, University of NSW, Kensington, on Sunday at 2.30pm.
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Both the boisterous lovers – Justin Bieber and his girlfriend Selena Gomez have been high on high heels of romance since the day they started dating and in particular since that day when Justin openly admitted his love for Gomez. He and Selena have been spotting lip-locking and enjoying holidays being in swimsuits and this is a good sign of love. And this is the reason that Justin does not want to slip into the paternity scandal between both of them.
Justin was seen in super spirits on Saturday when he hit the space for the rehearsal of his performance to take place at the American Music Awards.
Selena Gomez, 19, who has been supporting Justin in the case of Mariah's claims about Bieber of fathering her baby boy, was sitting in the front row.
Bieber then sang 'I Feel Good'. During the singing of Justin, both were found nestling in between and the singer was simply crooning to her.
A source out there said that they both were looking super romantic.
Justin's performance at the American Music Awards was on a track from his new CD titled Under the Milestone. Selena presented the awards.
Justin Bieber is not afraid of the paternity test and rather the lawsuit filed by Mariah Yeater has been dropped, he is all set nonetheless to take the DNA test. The dates of the test are being scheduled and soon they will be revealed to the public.
Beiber wants the test to prove that he is not a father of the baby and it was a scandal to damage his popularity and career. Justin always claims to be utterly in love with Selena and he shows the same even in public by cuddling her, lip locking her and dating her. Their holidays are always eye-pleasing and paparazzi await them anxiously.


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Old and unoriginal!
No rules in a gunfight avoid it if you can, if not shoot first and straight.
There were some in the original post that I had not seen, and I thought they were funny.
Slow and accurate can be a hazardous as fast and inaccurate. Avoid both.
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Is there a way to replace the mic? It's really bad.
It might be a bad mike; most people say I sound quite clear (unless sunroof's open). Maybe the dealer can replace it under warranty?
"I believe if you read some of the other threads you will find out you need to turn your volume up in the car. I found this out by trial and error with my friend. When talking BT to BT it really gets interesting when the other caller (Prius BT) insists it's your car. Just try increasing your volume control and see if that doesn't work."
And this guy had a good way to test it out:
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I haven't tried this out yet so I can't speak from experience but just putting it out there in case you want to give it a try before looking into mic replacement. Can't hurt I guess.
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There's just something about a well executed prank that makes me laugh out loud. This one almost made me blow coffee across my desk.
I have a very twisted sense of humor anyway. I haven't figured out how I'm going to do it, but at my funeral I want to sit up from the casket and somehow freak everyone out that's attending. I know, it sounds weird, but I would find it hysterical.
That's kind of the same thing that happens here when unsuspecting folks get startled by the corpse falling out of the coffin. Priceless!
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I was bored to death at work today, so I designed this just to keep my brain busy and pass the time. It's a 4 channel LED driver- that's very similar to ones that I built in the past, but with a new twist. I integrated a micro-controller/ real time clock into the design that will allow full programmable control of each channel. The controller features an I2C connection that will enable multiple driver boards to be connected together to communicate with, and act as slaves to a "master controller," or simply wired up to leds and left to run a user defined LED dimming "sketch". The controller is programmed using the standard ARDUINO IDE. I see this design being a really great way to have high resolution control over large groups of leds, or as a "stand alone" driver contoller for Nano Tank led builds. I personally have 90 leds over my tank being driven and controlled in groups of 30. This set up leaves me with only 3 channels of control. If I built this design, I'd have 15 channels of control to play with and be able to create seriously high resolution dimming and other lighting effects. Does anyone else see a value to this design? Thoughts?
Here's a photo/schematic of the driver
I'd use it.
I can see how this is going to go. I'm going to be upgrading my fixture every six months.
This would work really well with one of the "full spectrum" builds, particularly when dialing in good color rendering. Sounds like you could pretty much fine tune it like a stage light board to shift color intensities over time so you could have a nice crisp noon sun color, then fade in some deeper ambers and reds at sunset. It'd be a neat effect.
I wonder if you could program a few fast pulses for a brief thunderstorm sequence. Do you have that degree of time resolution?
You can really do anything, if you can code it. Coding is the hard part. Well, once O2Surplus does the rest for us. In other words, the arduino controls everything the electronics do. Rey just do what they are told by the arduino, so you have to code it to do whatever.
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Can You guys think of anything else I should add? I'm thinking that I'll add a transistor to switch the 12v output off/on. That way cooling fans can be controlled directly and can be programmed to follow the Off/on times of the LEDS. I"m also thinking that I should "breakout" more pins on the micro-controller chip so that all the analog inputs can be addressed and used. I can see a situation where someone may want to add a temp sensor to their LED rig, measure Ph, or add an LCD display. I guess the possibilities are only limited by ones imagination. I just want this gadget to be as feature packed as possible before I pull the trigger and order the PCB's
Oh in that case, CO2 control would be great. Simple as a relay, that. Auto water change system/top off.
Don't you think the master should have a lcd screen? My ideal all in one would have:
Buttons for menu nav.
Four drivers
Full Dimming, Sunrise/sunset on all strings
Movie mode (something like dimmed lights and back to normal after 2.5 hours)
Moonlight Control (Just an override for a daylight string to come on at night too)
Co2 control by timer, just low voltage, not 120V
Fan control by fixture temp
Not sure how practical all those requests would be, but ideally, the expansion would just have more driver strings. Have a Plug it in and go. I'd like to hear how the controller would work for expansion.
Is adding more strings in the code as simple as copying the code from the other strings and giving it a new designation or something along those lines? It would be nice if it was pre-programmed for a bunch of channels, like 12 or 20 separate strings.
Neat concept. I hope you make a few, whatever the final design.
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I'm thinking that I'll probably keep this driver/ controller combo fairly simple or "modular" for some important reasons-Mainly, reliability and serviceability . The driver could simply be replaced in the event of a failure, rather than having to take down the entire "Tank Controller" and it's associated sub systems. I think It would be best thing to do as the more complicated tasks should be handled by a dedicated controller. This driver could just be configured as a "slave" to the dedicated controller. It would carry it's own programming and be made to function autonomously, and merely "report back" to the "master controller" via the "2 wire" I2C communication protocol. The "Master Controller" could then be made with all the "Bells and Whistles"and either be made from scratch or from a existing Arduino UNO and appropriate "shields".
I'm going to redesign the PCB to include what will amount to an ARDUINO PRO MINI + an DS1307 RTC on the board. All the pins on the Atmega 328 will be accessible, so that the end user will be able to go either "mild or wild" with additional connections and complexity. I'm not very good at writing code, so I'm not much help there, but I'll make sure the hardware connections are available for the coding "experts" to take advantage of.
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So, I took my original design back to the drawing board, made a few changes, and came up with this- ( the board measures 80mm x 100mm)
I think this design has all the the elements needed to go from "mild to wild" with an LED build. Too many many features to list, but here's a partial rundown:
16 MHz ATMEGA 328P-AU micro-controller on board w/ ALL pins "Broken out for connections"
DS1307 "Real Time Clock" w/ back-up battery.
Standard "FTD1 Connection" on board (for programming purposes)
I2C connection ( for "2 wire communication" with other I2C enabled devices )
12 volt, 1.5 amp Voltage regulator ( for powering cooling fans ect..)
5 volt, 1.5 amp Voltage regulator ( provides power to Atmega 328 and CAT4101 led drivers.)
6 OnSemi CAT4101 led Constant current Regulators w/ up to 1000ma output.( will drive 6 - 8 leds per string, provided total led Vf does not exceed 25 volts.)
Analog current control for each CAT4101 ( 50ma - 1000ma adjustable )
Independent PWM dimming capability on a 6 CAT4101's.
I'm going to order a batch of these, build a few for myself, and retrofit them into my existing LED lighting system. I'll let you guys know how they perform.
Wow great design looks like this may be your masterpiece. You have really progressed past the early designs on RC. Independent led string control, relay control for stuff like Co2, Temp, and expandability. All the hardware is in place. I'm sure the sketches are already there that could be modified and cobbled together. Great job! I'm looking forward to the build. Subscribed.
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Hey thanks for the compliments! This is the biggest PCB that the "Free-ware" version of EAGLE will allow. I had a lot of "fun" trying to cram all of the needed components into that space. I went with 6 CAT4101's since that is the maximum number of PWM outputs available on the ATMEGA 328. The CAT's may require additional heat sinking, but that's an easy fix, as I already have a few CPU coolers laying around. I'm sure there's plenty of Arduino "Sketches" already available that can make this driver to some really cool things, so I'll be searching for that while I wait for the PCB's to arrive.
I really look forward to seeing one in action from what you told me this is insanely promising
That's excellent - this will allow for so much control! Much better than having a stand cluttered with jiggered-up gizmos. Also having the analog option is very convenient. That way you can use whichever dimmable driver you prefer with this. My issue with the Inventronics driver was that it was analog control. The only controller I could find was the DIM4 on LEDgroupbuy - a great unit but expensive. Great work!
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I think there may be misunderstanding with regards to how the "Analog Dimming" works with this driver. The CAT4101 IC normally uses a "Sense resistor" ( labeled RSense in the chips spec) to set it's upper current limit. The Chip can output up to 1000ma maximum, and that is set by installing a 549ohm resistor between the "RSense" pin and ground. This is how the driver is normally set up. If one wished to run the chip at 700ma instead of 1000ma, they'd have to install a 768ohm resistor instead of the 549ohm unit. I found this method of setting the current very cumbersome, so I installed a 10k trimmer pot inline with a 549 ohm resistor. This makes the output current fully adjustable ( 50 - 1000ma ) and there's no further need to desolder/solder resistors to change the output current. With 6 CAT4101's on board, this driver will be able to handle up to 150 watts worth of leds, that's 6 - 8 3W leds per channel or 36 -48 3W leds per driver board. The beautiful part of this driver is, once the maximum current per channel is set, (using the Analog current Pots) Each of the six channels can be programmed to dim via PWM signals provided by the on board Arduino microcontroller.
I put in the order for the PCB's and they're already in production,so I should have them in my hands in a week or so. I'm going to build 3 of them for my own use and then maybe pass out a few to people with coding experience, that will hopefully be able to show us all - How to take full advantage of this design. I'm a total NOOB with coding so I could use the additional help. ( This is code speak- for getting "SINK" to chime in :))
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The pregnant "Adjustment Bureau" star displayed her growing baby bump beneath a black blouse as she strolled back to her car with her "The Office" husband.
It has become a favorite sketch on " Jimmy Kimmel Live," and last night (November 21) Celebrity Mean Tweets enjoyed its fifth installment.
"The Office" star John Krasinski kicked things off with a nasty message from one disgruntled Twitter user- "Your face is so stupid. I hate you John Krasinski."
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It's always fun to see our favorite famous folks chilling out together, and on Monday (November 18) Emily Blunt showed off her baby bump while basking in the sun with husband John Krasinski and pal Bradley Cooper.
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The "Adjustment Bureau" babe's rep confirmed that she has a bun in the oven, and everyone is thrilled with the news.
Enjoying a romantic date night with a zombie flick, Emily Blunt and John Krasinski went to the ArcLight theater for "World War Z" on Friday (June 21).
The "Office" star wore a white T-shirt, black jacket, blue jeans, and a baseball cap as he held the hand of his "Devil Wears Prada" bride.
Kicking off the week with some philanthropic goodness, some of Tinseltown's famous folks showed up at the 7th Annual "Freeing Voices, Changing Lives" benefit gala in New York City last night (June 3).
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Ladies, have you tried on a bathing suit yet?
It's almost time to head to East Texas lakes like Sam Rayburn, enjoy the sunshine, hang out with friends and family, float in a boat, and grill some great food. I've got a friend with a lake house at Lake Cypress Springs an hour or two north of Tyler and that's a quaint spot to relax by the water and roast marshmallows too. It all sounds like a great time, right?
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