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By night, however, Rachel is a self-styled crime-fighter, seeking to right the wrongs inflicted on people who cannot help themselves. But when her first mission goes horribly awry she finds herself pursued, not merely by the media, but by the police and an assortment of criminals who want her silenced.
Finding Rachel Davenport is a fun read, with a quirky plot and an explosive ending.
Released: April 2012
Almost everything, as it turns out.
Along the way, he finds himself at odds with the Irish climate, hiking with a group of British ramblers and enduring some truly wretched 'traditional' music.
But this is not simply the trip of a lifetime; this is a quest, a calling, an odyssey of the soul as well as a journey into the unknown. Harling is determined to discover the true spirit of Ireland, locate a Laundromat and return home a single man.
Well, two out of three isn't bad.

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Eye exams at the movies
When Floyd Mizener, O.D., describes the 3-D movie experience, it's not about popcorn, endless trailers and watching things jump out on the big screen. He sees a trip to the cinema as a useful way to get an extra eye exam.
"It's the foundation of our profession to know that we use two eyes and use them together as a team."
Dr. Mizener's goal has been to raise awareness about the health benefits of stereoscopic 3-D viewing. Assisted by the AOA, the Illinois Optometric Association and other groups, Dr. Mizener has collaborated with an Illinois-based movie theater chain to alert the public that difficulties in viewing a 3-D film may indicate a potential vision problem. A comprehensive eye exam can lead to needed treatment.
Recently, he received the "Eye Care Professional of the Year" Award from the International 3D and Advanced Imaging Society, an organization that was founded by leading content creators in Hollywood such as Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and DreamWorks Animation.
As an OD consultant, the 88-year-old continues to serve the public and deliver optometric vision education in Illinois and the nation. He is a past president of the Illinois Optometric Association and was the founder of Naper Grove Vision Care, today a five-doctor practice in the greater Chicago area.
In this excerpt from an interview in the June 2014 edition of AOA Focus, Dr. Mizener explains why everyone should strive to have the best eyesight they can.
Why did you become involved in this campaign?
We're in the vision specialty field. It's the foundation of our profession to know that we use two eyes and use them together as a team—a marriage—where both images are exposed. With our muscles and control of our brain, we fuse them together from two different angles and end up seeing depth perception known as stereopsis binocular vision [a 3-D skill].
We estimate that 28 percent of all people [are binocular vision impaired]. When they go to a 3-D movie, that's it. They have no way of sneaking away from it. Because the moment they have any little divergence between the two eyes working together, [the problem] identifies itself immediately.
How are you raising awareness about the benefits of stereoscopic 3-D vision?
Medicine has never leaped into the area of functional vision. School screenings are mostly about acuity: Have you got 20/20 in this eye or that eye? And they pass along these kids who don't know they have a problem until it shows up in their work.
We created this [awareness campaign] for the public and for the movie theater industry. It makes people realize they need to care about their vision even though they don't think they have a problem.
I got in touch with Willis Johnson [founder and president] of the Classic Cinemas. He owns 13 theaters in 13 cities with 115 screens and 500 employees. I, along with Dr. Ingryd Lorenzana, helped him design pamphlets as well as posters so [moviegoers] could see them in the lobby of his theaters.
What advice can you offer fellow ODs in this area?
I tell optometrists to be very alert and do a total examination. Many ODs are not doing the total [binocular vision] test.
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Bobbi Kristina Brown Dating Her Adopted Brother Has 'Incestuous Nature' — Expert Says
HollywoodLife.com consulted with leading family therapist, Dr. Phil Dembo, who explained why Bobbi Kristina Brown's romantic relationship with Whitney Houston's 'adopted' son, Nick Gordon, is 'understandable,' but 'unhealthy'
HollywoodLife.com exclusively broke the shocking news that Whitney Houston's daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, was lip kissing her "adopted" 22-year-old brother, Nicholas Gordon in Georgia March 9, which led to a revelation that the pair are deeply involved in a romantic relationship and have been for several months. However, family therapist Dr. Phil Dembo tells us this dynamic between the two — who have grown up in the same house for the past 10 years — is not acceptable, even if it is understandable.
"Bobbi Kristina dating her 'adopted' brother may seem very unhealthy and it is," he explains. "Whether Nicholas is a biological brother, a step brother, a legally adopted brother, or someone being raised as her brother, there are boundaries necessary for healthy development and growth of each of these young people. It certainly has the feel of an incestuous dynamic."
Whitney welcomed Nick into her home when he was a pre-teen and raised him as her own son, even though she never officially adopted him. Bobbi Kristina and Nick became so close, they even referred to each other as "brother" and "sister." However, in recent months the couple even tweeted about sleeping with each other and waking up early to one another — stuff that shocked us, but Dr. Dembo says is understandable, given the situation.
"It isn't surprising though that Bobbi Kristina would reach out to someone she is comfortable with, someone in her inner circle given the death of her mother," he says. "There are not many young men out there to date that would understand the depth of what she is going through, given the lifestyle she has led, the family she comes from, the closeness to her mother, and the hard painful times with her mother's addiction."
He adds, "Nicholas would be a trusted friend and someone who would 'get it.' Healthy? No! Understandable? Perhaps."
What do you think of Bobbi Kristina's relationship with Nick? Is it acceptable or totally inappropriate? Sound off below.
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RC3 is Out: Codename: "Canny"
Just a very quick update: KDE's release team has made available the last release candidate before 4.5.0 comes out next week. Please give it another whirl and tell us about problems with this release. Tagging will happen in the next days, so be quick doing that!
Many bugs :(
- Plasma fail on dual screen:
- Dolphin popup conf fail:
- Dolphin hangs when opening files:
By Cédric Bellegarde at Tue, 2010/07/27 - 6:35am
This dual/triple bug still
This dual/triple bug still exist:
By beer at Tue, 2010/07/27 - 9:01am
or someone who has a dual head setup could do some work on it. it's very odd that everyone sits waiting for a person without a multi-screen system to fix these kinds of bugs. :)
and no, i won't be getting one in the near future as i'm planning on moving continents early 2011 and don't need more stuff to pack and ship :)
i do have a couple of ideas for how to fix that issue (which is actually an annoying limitation around the dbus session and x.org sessions), ranging from hopefully not traumatic (launching a non-uniqueapp version of the shell in such situations on the secondary screens; not very pretty, but at least pretty trivial), changing the application name based on the screen name so as not to trigger the unique app problem in the first place (possibly the cleanest, but need to see if it will actually work) ...
still, that "no multiple screens with which to test" is a bugger, and no, i'm completely uninterested in running "fake xinerama" setups (not that it would help in this particular case anyways :)
By Aaron Seigo at Thu, 2010/07/29 - 3:48am
I am one of the few that have
I am one of the few that have not imegrated to kde 4 from kde 3.5 and that is becouse of this bug.
By beer at Thu, 2010/07/29 - 8:57am
Sounds good. Where can we
Sounds good. Where can we found info about that? And as you say you don't know what to do - I'm pretty sure aseigo would be more than willing to help you fix it!
By Jos Poortvliet at Fri, 2010/07/30 - 12:44pm
After talking with him at
After talking with him at Akademy it sounds like he would like to fix it "soon" (soon like http://www.wowwiki.com/Soon )
By beer at Fri, 2010/07/30 - 4:54pm
Sounds like it would be
Sounds like it would be useful to be able to simulate having multiple screens on a single screen.
By yman at Mon, 2010/08/02 - 11:50am
works for me with nvidia
I am using 2 screens with nvidia prop. driver - the screens are in vertical orientation in a dell desktop DVI connection.
Also dual screen with dell e4300 laptop VGA out is fine.
Actually, I did not know such a bug existed. I have been using this dual setup for over 1 year with kde 4.x .
congrats on this new release. (if you need any more info please ask me)
By molecularbiophysics at Mon, 2010/08/09 - 1:38pm
fewer than last release
first, let me say what an awesome first comment that was! meh.
the plasma issue looks driver related (see the bug report).
the popup issue in dolphin is pretty minor, tbh. developer is aware of it and replied in the positive on the report.
the third issue has seen quite a bit of developer investigation along with commits. in fact, it could be resolved with the commit in comment #30.
that said, a huge number of bugs were fixed, in addition to new features being added. measure the whole effort.
By Aaron Seigo at Thu, 2010/07/29 - 3:42am
But none of this bug are fixed for me...
the plasma issue isn't driver related (see the bug report)
By Cédric Bellegarde at Thu, 2010/07/29 - 11:42am
... or you just aren't aware of fixes that do address issues you've either unknowingly run into or haven't run into yet and won't because they were fixed before you did.
classic "half full" / "half empty" world view clash ;)
By Aaron Seigo at Thu, 2010/07/29 - 6:40pm
oh, and...
... i've seen another flurry of bug fixing activity for issues visible in Dolphin (which may mean the fix is actually in kdelibs, e.g.) with a few new review requests coming in from Penz and Trueg as well as straight-to-svn commits. it's a WIP, but it's getting there.
the alternative, of course, would be to say "you can't have this for another N years" while we try to work out every bug. that doesn't work at all, though, as our dependencies (and thus our defect profile) changes over time even if we don't release, it's exponentially harder to identify issues without a large test base and if we don't release we lose users (understandably) due to not having anything recent for them to use (particularly an issue as the infrastructure beneath us moves around, e.g. HAL deprecation, network management twists, Qt improvements, etc, etc)
so we are on a journey. and i think it's pretty evident that each milestone along the journey (aka a release :) has been better than the last.
not unlike the journey to 3.5 or 2.2 or 1.1.2 :)
By Aaron Seigo at Thu, 2010/07/29 - 6:45pm
There are still a ton of bugs out there, from a serious information disclosure issue (screen saver not on while resumes from hibernate, then does come on) to major graphical glitches with core widgets (CPU / temp gauges show garbage). This have been around through all the other RCs, and logged in the tracker.
Not fixed, despite confirms from other users.
Not happy; are the KDE developers even eating their own RC dog food ? These bugs are obvious and look like easy fixes to me ! If this release is meant to be about polish, why are these glaring glitches not being fixed ?
By Tom Chiverton at Tue, 2010/07/27 - 12:45pm
Some pushback... > These bugs
Some pushback...
> These bugs are obvious and look like easy fixes to me !
The screensaver-off-on-suspend doesn't happen for me on openSUSE for example. Actually all 4.5-RC* releases have worked really decent for me.
Things which are "obviously to see at first sight" are not always 100% the same at every system.
At regarding https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219873 in the bug report you can read it's a simple glitch, but _really hard to fix_. Don't think it won't happen, but perhaps not within one release cycle. Bummer. Get over it. 1000+ other bugs did get fixed. We all like everything to be insanely better, but this happens gracefully in cycles of 6 months.
> Not happy; are the KDE developers even eating their own RC dog food ?
- You've got people who get development up speed, by always being at the edge.
KDE could use more people from the second group, and that's something we can all work on. Making KDE attractive to different types of people. :-)
By vdboor at Tue, 2010/07/27 - 2:44pm
Yeah, put me in the second
Yeah, put me in the second group - I'm not going to run daily/weekly builds as I need my machine to work.
By Tom Chiverton at Tue, 2010/07/27 - 5:38pm
i run trunk on my machines for every day work. i even do presentations in front of crowds with that setup (sometimes a bit exciting! ;).
the "need my system to work" thing is an excuse. in the rare cases something catastrophic might happen, fall back to the installed distro packages.
By Aaron Seigo at Thu, 2010/07/29 - 3:50am
Screenlock issues
Is this[1] the problem you're seeing with screen lock? If so, it looks like it's actually just a graphical glitch rather than (much of) a security problem.
By Jeffery MacEachern at Tue, 2010/07/27 - 9:55pm
on br's
"(CPU / temp gauges show garbage)"
which BR# is this?
"These bugs are obvious and look like easy fixes to me !"
patches are very welcome. they can join the hundreds of commits made every day to KDE's code.
i do thin, though, that saying that and then linking to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219873 given comment #44 is a little disingenuous. there you have a Nokia Qt developer on the bug report saying he's working on it, but that it isn't trivial.
"are the KDE developers even eating their own RC dog food ?"
not everyone runs every piece of KDE software from trunk, but many of us run primarily or even 100% trunk installations. so.. yes.
you may have noticed that some bugs are more critical than others, and so get prioritized higher. given infinite time or more people working on individual bugs, more things would get fixed yesterday. the rate of bug closure per release is pretty amazing, even if it doesn't mean every single bug ever reported gets fixed in release+1. we get to as much as we can. those who are on the receiving end of those bug fixes are pretty happy about that.
By Aaron Seigo at Thu, 2010/07/29 - 3:57am
It's me, or the blur plugin it's a lot faster in RC3 than it was in RC1? I can use blur comfortably in my GeForce 6150 powered laptop now!
Edit: It's not like so. It looks like... a massive bugfixing in the "Direct Rendering" mode. With KDE SC 4.0 to 4.3, when I tried to use Direct Rendering, KWin CPU usage hovered all time around 40%. KDE 4.4 slashed some of that, and in KDE 4.5 Direct Rendering, for NVIDIA users, is FASTER, MUCH FASTER, than Indirect Rendering (60% X CPU usage watching Flash video on Indirect Rendering versus 7% + 18% [KWin] on Direct Rendering).
So, if you have been experiencing slowdowns with NVIDIA or simply want a faster blur, this is the one.
By Ernesto Manríquez at Tue, 2010/07/27 - 5:07pm
kwin devs
the kwin devs have been doing fantastic things, and they aren't standing still. already they are working on improvements for the January 2011 release. i'm really, really impressed with the work they are doing, even with relatively few hands. so yeah, kudos to the kwinners!
By Aaron Seigo at Thu, 2010/07/29 - 6:47pm
Live CD
It is a pity that no Live CD are generated for the latest builds.
By André at Tue, 2010/07/27 - 5:40pm
KDE releases sourcecode, not
KDE releases sourcecode, not a whole distribution. However, yes, it would be nice if distro's would provide livecd's and let the users use them to test. I might be able to make that happen in the future ;-)
By Jos Poortvliet at Fri, 2010/07/30 - 1:17pm
HTML5 video tag support?
As flash is more or less broken in konqueror with both engine kparts (rekonq too). I understood that khtml should support something, but wikimedia, youtube and vimeo all are broken with all the possible phonon configurations.
4.4 was supposed to have something good so is 4.5 finally gonna have something that works? At least at the moment nothing seems to work even with the latest phonon-vlc shizzle :'(
Other that that 4.5 looks awesome :) even though the activity and virtual desktop stuff is a bit confusing especially when kwin only seems to care virtual desktops with it's effects.
By bliblibli at Tue, 2010/07/27 - 9:24pm
HTML5 video tag support is
HTML5 video tag support is implemented in QtWebkit.
By Yue Liu at Wed, 2010/07/28 - 1:46pm
Implemented in KHTML as well
Well HTML5 is also implemented in KHTML, though scripting of media-objects is still uncommitted. HTML5 in webkitpart doesn't work either though, because QtWebKit depends on Qt's Phonon, and refuses to acknowledge the independent Phonon typically shipped with KDE. Since the KDE Phonon works better with Linux, it is usually shipped by all distros, and thus HTML5 doesn't work in webkitpart. *sigh*
By carewolf at Thu, 2010/07/29 - 12:19pm
kubuntu users
I'm waiting kubuntu packages ... there are news for us, Kubuntu users, that would like to test this RC3? I need to install openSUSE?
By giovanni at Wed, 2010/07/28 - 8:52am
nothing... I cannot tell you
nothing... I cannot tell you about problems with this release without compiling from sources or changing distribution... are kubuntu people your friends?
By giovanni at Tue, 2010/08/03 - 11:12am
It seems to be a bit
It seems to be a bit unstable, especially Dolphin which is crashing a lot on my system. Scrolling in Dolphin is also a big problem.
By Bobby at Wed, 2010/07/28 - 9:05am
Please send in crash reports!
Please send in crash reports! Those are high prio and should be fixed!
By Jos Poortvliet at Fri, 2010/07/30 - 1:18pm
Re: Please send in crash reports!
It's very sad, KDE 4.5 looks really great, but the Dolphin crashes are a showstopper for me. It crashes every few minutes and right now I have counted 25 bug reports for RC2 and RC3 when searching for "dolphin crash". Don't know how many there are for RC1 and earlier.
A working filemanager is one of the most important applications and Dolphin has been best in class so far. Please, please fix it.
By sflecken at Sun, 2010/08/01 - 8:19am
And automatic proxy settings doesn't work, too.
The problem with automatic proxy settings in Konqueror doesn't work, too:
Why this bug has still status 'unconfirmed' while it's confirmed by at least 4 people.
By xeros at Thu, 2010/07/29 - 6:06am
Bug status
You should ignore the bug status. Bugs in the KDE bug tracker can start either as NEW or as UNCONFIRMED, depending on who reported it.
Usually, when a KDE developer itself reports a bug, it automatically gets the NEW status. But this does not mean the bug is confirmed.
A bug which cannot be confirmed to be a valid bug will usually be resolved as WORKSFORME, INVALID, UPSTREAM, or DOWNSTREAM quickly, so you can take it as a confirmation when bug stays open for a longer time.
Please don't assume that developers ignore bug reports just because they are still marked as UNCONFIRMED. If they had more time they would rather spent it in solving the bug then just pleasing you by changing the status to NEW. Sorry if this sounds harsh.
By christoph at Thu, 2010/07/29 - 7:44pm
I didn't know that. Thanks
I didn't know that. Thanks for clarify.
I'm used to bug reporting on Launchpad where I as a user can change status to inform (K)Ubuntu developers that bug does really exist and issue is reproductable for at least few people.
By xeros at Fri, 2010/07/30 - 5:28am
I think this is a perception
I think this is a perception problem. I totally get why the bugs remain UNCONFIRMED but to me that's like a sign constantly saying "we don't care". No matter how hard we convince users we do, the sign is still there.
When a bug is identified, putting it at CONFIRMED at least acknowledges the problem for the user - letting them know a dev understands their problem. :)
By vdboor at Fri, 2010/07/30 - 10:00am
that is something the
that is something the bugsquad can (and does) do. Join them if you want to help ;-)
(this is also a reply the the user initially talking about this - you can help. The bugsquad work ain't hard and it makes a difference!)
By Jos Poortvliet at Fri, 2010/07/30 - 1:20pm
Thanks for mentioning this,
Thanks for mentioning this, great idea!
I've got something else planned already.. you'll see the blogs when I'm ready for it. ;)
By vdboor at Fri, 2010/07/30 - 2:48pm
Great, I think the availability of early ISO images helps a lot with testing. Usually you find most errors even when you run the cd image from a virtual box.
By André at Tue, 2010/08/03 - 4:47pm
I said that KDE 4.5 deserved a delay, and today, it got it. While we are in the delay, I'll ask some questions.
1. Is the beta 2 of KDE PIM delayed also? I'm anxiously waiting for it because it contains the fix for a bug that actually bans me from properly testing (Akonadi mail engine doesn't work if you have huge attachments in your inbox, so, I can't download all of my mail, that's on beta 1). That bug was reported by me, of course ;).
2. Can you release right now a "RC4" of KDE SC? It would help to test all of the last minute changes and have a solid 4.5 release.
By Ernesto Manríquez at Wed, 2010/08/04 - 6:14pm
Reply: Preliminary builds of 4.5.
I got some preliminary builds through KDE Unstable Red-Hat repository, and there are some interesting remarks.
1. What have you done to the framerate for screen animations, direct-rendering mode? Whatever you've done, it's awesome. There're more frames running, animations get almost as smooth as with indirect rendering, and videos run better than they did... on RC3! Yes, there are PERFORMANCE INCREASES between RC3 and final. This is more than what I've expected.
2. This spells the end for most Dolphin crashes, but not for all of them. Some are caused by the infamous DBus race condition, and that will have to wait until DBus 1.4.0. That's TOO long...
By Ernesto Manríquez at Sun, 2010/08/08 - 4:23am
I<3U all!
Great to see that Dolphin bug fixed! :) All in all 4.5 is going to be best free software desktop the world has yet seen :P
By bliblibli at Wed, 2010/08/04 - 7:01pm
build server
Yeah, but we are in the age of build servers, how do you know that your source builds? I expect KDE distributors to do Tinderbox-ing. For a Live-CD you use automated scripts and make a daily build. With the daily build you can run automated gui tests.
By André at Sat, 2010/08/07 - 4:22pm
SC 4.5.0 now available with zypper
and very nice it is too, everything a bit snappier, particularly Konqi with KHTML
Thank you
By Gerry at Tue, 2010/08/10 - 12:12am