I know how to live to Be 100 Years Old

1. Live an active life, both mentally and physically. You don’t have to be an exercise nut, but keep moving. Walking, golfing, swimming– anything at all is good. Implement a stretching program to maintain your flexibility and lift weights to build muscle and prevent osteoporosis.

2. Stay married. Numerous studies indicate that married people live longer than single people. There’s the old joke that it just seems longer for married people, but in reality it seems to help.

3. Maintain your ideal weight. Being overweight will definitely limit your chances of becoming a centenarian and is likely to make the journey a slow and painful one.

4. Drink moderately and don’t smoke at all.

5. Have good genes. Extreme long life seems to run in families and may be based on common genetic and environmental factors. If you have a centenarian sibling, your chances of living past the century mark increase greatly. (Of course, you’re probably pretty old already yourself.)
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First Ever Pictures of Giant Squid

Like something straight out of a Jules Verne novel, an enormous tentacled creature looms out of the inky blackness of the deep Pacific waters.

But this isn’t science fiction. A set of extraordinary images captured by Japanese scientists marks the first-ever record of a live giant squid in the wild.

The animal which measures roughly 25 feet (8 meters) long was photographed 2,950 feet (900 meters) beneath the North Pacific Ocean. Japanese scientists attracted the squid toward cameras attached to a baited fishing line.

The scientists say they snapped more than 500 images of the massive cephalopod before it broke free after snagging itself on a hook. They also recovered one of the giant squid’s two longest tentacles, which severed during its struggle.

The photo sequence, taken off Japan’s Ogasawara Islands in September 2004, shows the squid homing in on the baited line and enveloping it in “a ball of tentacles.”

Tsunemi Kubodera of the National Science Museum in Tokyo and Kyoichi Mori of the Ogasawara Whale Watching Association report their observations this week in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

“Architeuthis appears to be a much more active predator than previously suspected, using its elongated feeding tentacles to strike and tangle prey,” the researchers write.

They add that the squid was found feeding at depths where no light penetrates even during the day.
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How to fly with your child and have fun

Taking a plane trip with an energetic preschooler or young school-aged child can be a challenge, but there are many things you can do ahead of time to make the trip comfortable, pleasant and fun for everyone.

1. Ask for input. Even a preschooler is old enough to help choose his own outfits for a trip (within reason), and to suggest toys he might like to bring.

2. Prepare your child for the trip by explaining a few simple facts about flying, and by reading stories and picture books that cover the subject of air travel.

3. Lead up to the trip by discussing rules and appropriate behavior in advance. Make it clear that your child will need to remain in his seat unless he needs a trip to the bathroom, and ask him to suggest some activities (such as coloring) that he likes to do sitting down.

4. Try to prepare your child for the length of time he will be on the plane, in terms that he can understand. For example, you could tell him that a 6-hour flight takes about as long as the time between lunch and dinner.

5. Bring along simple, fun toys and games that will hold his interest. Simple card games for young children, coloring books and crayons, and “I spy” types of games work well.

6. Pack healthy, nonperishable snacks and drinks. Half-frozen juice boxes, trail mix or granola bars can keep a hungry child happy while he waits for the food cart.

7. Bring a surprise bag containing some new toys, a small amount of hard candy or gum (to relieve ear pressure during takeoffs and landings), and a new book or two; pull something new out of the bag every time your child gets restless.

Tournament Reporter Injects New Excitement Into Online Poker Tournaments

Tournament Reporter, a new online poker tournament ranking service, launched today introducing a new universal ranking system that assesses a player’s recent tournament performance. Now with Tournament Reporter’s TR Rank and Reports, players can set goals, track their progress, and gain insights about their play, including how they stack up against the competition.

Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) September 19, 2005 — Tournament Reporter, a new online poker tournament ranking service, launched today introducing a new universal ranking system that assesses a player’s recent tournament performance. Now with Tournament Reporter’s TR Rank and Reports, players can set goals, track their progress, and gain insights about their play, including how they stack up against the competition.

Found at http://www.tournamentreporter.com, Tournament Reporter’s TR Rank and Reports provide real money multi-table tournament players with the most relevant-to-tournament performance measures, in an intuitive, visual, and well organized interface. Tournament Reporter is designed to be quick and easy to use.

“Our research indicates that real money tournament players play more for the competition and excitement rather than the money,” says Alex Antoniou, President and CEO of Tournament Reporter Ltd. “Tournament Reporter has the potential of growing the game of poker by enabling players to track and measure their performance. Tournament Reporter gives Tournament Poker players the extra excitement, challenge and competition they’re looking for when they play tournaments at Tournament Reporter Supported Sites.”

How The TR Rankâ„¢ Works

The TR Rankâ„¢ is unique because it varies based on your most recent performance relative to other players. The TR Rankâ„¢ is intuitive to use since it employs the card ranks i.e. Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10… to convey player performance. A player with an “Ace” ranking is a top ranked and a “4″ is ranked below average.

Other poker reporting services consider a player’s performance to be a fixed trait - either you are a “shark” or you are a “fish”. In contrast, the TR Rankâ„¢ recognizes that playing performance is in constant flux and may vary significantly over the course of time. For example in tournament poker, a novice player may rise to become a strong player in a matter of months or a strong player may lose focus and go on a bad run.

“We designed Tournament Reporter to be a place where tournament players could get the maximum amount of information and insights with the least amount of work,” says Adam Haines, Tournament Reporter Co-Founder and Director of Product Management. “At Tournament Reporter you’ll find a set of hundreds of highly visual charts that are organized in an interface that tournament players can easily navigate by simply pointing and clicking. Players wanted a wheel where they could easily track their player and opponents – so we added that too.”

Availability, Pricing and Licensing Information

Tournament Reporter is immediately available. Pricing and licensing information can be online at: http://www.tournamentreporter.com.

About Tournament Reporter: Tournament Reporter’s TR Rank and Reports provide real money, multi-table tournament players with the most relevant performance measures, in an intuitive, visual, and well organized interface. Tournament Reporter Ltd. introduces Real Money Tournament Poker to players in a manner that feels more like they are becoming involved in a game/sport rather than gambling.

Tuesday Night TV: House, My Name Is Earl

“House”
9 p.m., FOX
When Cuddy’s (Lisa Edelstein) handyman, Alfredo (guest star Ignacio Serricchio), falls from her roof and develops strange darkened pinkies, she joins the team to figure out what is wrong with him. After his hand is amputated to afford more diagnosis time, a trip to Alfredo’s neighborhood provides clues on the true nature of his illness.

“My Name is Earl”
9 p.m., NBC
Earl (Jason Lee) decides to quit smoking — but this proves to be more difficult than he imagined. In the meantime, Randy (Ethan Suplee) and Catalina (Nadine Velazquez) try to trick Earl into apologizing to an intimidating former classmate (guest star Silas Weir Mitchell), whom Earl let spend two years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.

“Boston Legal”
10 p.m., ABC
“Boston Legal” returns for a sophomore season (on a new night) as Shore (James Spader) and Chase (Mark Valley) represent a beautiful murder defendant known as the “Black Widow” (guest star Heather Locklear) on trial for poisoning her much older husband. Rupert Everett (”My Best Friend’s Wedding”) also guest stars, and Julie Bowen (”Ed”) joins the cast as a new lawyer at Crane, Poole & Schmidt.
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Reinstall Windows WITHOUT Reactivating Again

Like any windows machine at some point you’ll need to format your hard drive and reinstall Windows XP. If you didn’t prepare for that you’ll need to reactivate your Windows XP. Now if you do not want all the hassle of reactivation you can save your old activation files and use them in your clean system (as long as you didn’t make any hardware changes).

Follow these steps.

Backup your activation files:

1. Open Windows explorer and navigate to C:\Windows\System32
2. Copy the files Wpa.dbl and Wpa.bak to another media floppy, CD-R or another hard drive (if you have more than one installed). A thumb drive works great at this point.

Now you can reformat your drive and reinstall Windows XP.

At the end of the installation, when Windows asks you to activate your product, decline and do not activate.

Restore your activation files

• Restart your system, and as your system boots up press F8 to access the boot options (Windows Advanced Options)
• From the menu options select to start Windows in safe mode (minimal)
• After Windows loads in safe mode, open Windows explorer and navigate back to C:\Windows\System32
• If you find the files Wpa.dbl and Wpa.bak in this folder, rename the files to something like Wpa.dbl.backup and Wps.bak.backup
• Copy your original Wpa.dbl and Wpa.bak from the CD or floppy back to C:\Windows\System32
• Restart Windows

You should now have a clean and activated Windows XP

A Sketch found could be a da Vinci

A Tiny red chalk sketch, carried to Australia in a handbag and hung in a Perth house for generations, is being studied as a possible work of 15th Century Italian Renaissance genius, Leonardo da Vinci
If authenticated, the 22cm by 12cm unsigned sketch of an old man’s face could be worth millions, and would instantly become one of the art world’s most significant recent finds.

The sketch came to the attention of Perth art dealer Paul Swain last week, when it was referred to him by the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

On first sight he believed it could be the work of da Vinci.

Mr Swain, who runs Perth’s Greenhill Gallery, is now travelling to the UK to consult experts at the Tate Gallery.

He then intends to have the paper carbon dated to see if it correlates with a date of around 1450, the time the Italian Master may have drawn it.
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Easy money. Sell golf balls that you find.

Be a golf entrepreneur.
Living next to a golf course brings many benefits. For one, you get to regularly replace your old, worn-out windows with fresh new ones. Also, you get a large supply of golf balls delivered to your yard. Serious scroungers stroll the course and comb through the rough for lost balls. The question is, how do you turn these freebies into cash?

• Clean the balls thoroughly. No one will buy grubby golf balls.
• Sort the balls. Place the shiniest ones into one bucket, the moderately shiny ones into another, and old-looking balls into a third. Driving-range balls (identified by a solid color stripe around the middle) go into their own bucket. Balls with cuts go into another or possibly into the trash. If they sell at all, damaged balls will go for a very low price.
• If you have a large supply of balls, consider sorting them by brand. Many golfers prefer a specific brand.
• Pick a spot on or near the course where you’re visible but not in the way. Make a sign that says “Golf Balls $1.” This, of course, is the price for the oldest balls. Experiment with prices for better balls until you have a feel for what the market will bear.
• Encourage haggling. This can be fun and also allows you to move more balls. If the customer says “Five bucks? No way, I’ll give you two,” you say, “Great, two bucks each, but you have to buy five of them.”
• Dress respectably and act friendly to reduce the likelihood that course management will chase you away.
• Try to avoid offering a customer the very same ball he or she hit into the stream 10 minutes ago.

You ain’t going to get rich but it’s enough to take a few dollars out the the pocket from some golffers who are late for their tee time.

See the movie Crash - You’ll love to hate it

Some people believe the Civil Rights Movement has come and gone and that our country operates as it should. Bigotry remains a thing of the past and what happened in the ‘60s should just be a short chapter in our history books. Some people also believe that Political Correctness has gone too far and that we shouldn’t have to constantly go through life walking that fine line between offending someone with an off-hand, innocent remark and being so unbearably polite and (gasp!) New Age. In a perfect world, none of this would matter one whit. But if you open your history books, you’ll find that we couldn’t possibly operate any other way.
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Learn How to Fight a Cold Naturally But What About the Flu

It’s that time of year again when your body starts aching and you need to fight a cold off. Naturally would be best but you may need help with medicine or a prescription. The common cold is caused by a virus rather than bacteria, so antibiotics can’t help. Work on building up your immune system and relieving your symptoms:

Fight The Cold Naturally

• Take time off. Getting adequate rest will help you get over your cold quickly.
• Drink more water than you usually do. Eight glasses a day is standard when you’re healthy, so try to drink more than that.

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Extreme Makeover canidate Extremely Pissed

September 22, 2005 by Ken Savage  
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[caption id="attachment_1028" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Kellie McGee"][/caption]According to the complaints of one “ugly” woman, Extreme Makeover made an extreme mess of her life.

Deleese Williams, 30, of Conroe, Texas, has filed suit against the producers of the reality show, ABC and its parent company, The Walt Disney Co., alleging among other complaints that the abrupt cancellation of her appearance on the show directly contributed to her sister’s suicide.

Williams had been slated to appear on the surgical series to undergo numerous procedures doctors suggested, including an “eye lift, ears pulled back, chin implant and breast implants,” according to her lawsuit.

She was also allegedly told that she would need her jaw broken and reset to make her Cinderella story complete.

In preparation for the show, Williams was interviewed on the ridicule she experienced as a child, as well as the abuse she suffered in a prior marriage.

The producers also interviewed various members of Williams’ family, allegedly goading them into saying negative things about her appearance for the show, the suit alleges.

Among the choice remarks offered up was a cutting zinger made by Williams’ mother-in-law, who said she “never believed my son would marry such an ugly woman.”

Williams’ husband and her sister, Kellie McGee, also allegedly tore into Williams’ features–all in the name of good television, of course.
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Tyra Banks Boobs Are Real

September 22, 2005 by Ken Savage  
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Tyra Banks Proves Breasts Are Real on TV

Talk about keeping it real: Tyra Banks underwent a televised sonogram on her new talk show to prove that her breasts aren’t fake.

“I’m tired of this rumor. It’s something that’s followed me forever,” the supermodel said Tuesday on “The Tyra Banks Show.”

After Banks asked the men in the audience to leave, Dr. Garth Fisher from ABC’s “Extreme Makeover” performed a touch test and then the sonogram. He concluded: “Tyra Banks has natural breasts; there are no implants.”

“By no means am I saying a breast implant is a bad thing, but it’s not a choice that I made,” the 31-year-old model said. “But it’s something that a lot of the public … think that I have, and that’s so frustrating for me.”

Banks, who models for Victoria’s Secret, also displayed how her push-up bra exaggerated her body. However, Banks said she’s not totally real. I’m sure Tyra Banks boobs are real!

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Tags: America's Next Model, Extreme Makeover, Tyra Banks, Victoria's Secret

Martha Stewart Says Goodbye on Her Apprentice

September 22, 2005 by Ken Savage  
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In Martha Stewart’s world, a loser isn’t fired. He’s “asked to go home.” He’s bidden “goodbye.” Advised he doesn’t fit. And then he gets a cordial note. At least, that was how it was done on “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart,” which premiered Wednesday on NBC.

The biggest question surrounding this much-awaited reality show had been how Martha would dismiss each losing candidate her equivalent of the “you’re fired” kiss-off made famous by Donald Trump with the original “Apprentice” edition.

On the Stewart “Apprentice,” a 13-week televised job interview whose prize is a $250,000 position at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Stewart’s farewell said a lot about the difference between her show and Trump’s (which premieres for a fourth cycle Thursday night).

Throughout the hour, Stewart was businesslike but gracious. And the look of her series which was taped at her Manhattan corporate headquarters this summer is airy and bright, befitting the Martha Stewart Living style.

“I want you to have fun,” she said up front, “but I also want you to succeed.”
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How to find people online with Intelius

September 22, 2005 by Ken Savage  
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“It’s perceived as easy even though it isn’t,” says Marcus Zillman, long-time Internet consultant and author of Internet Sources, eCurrent Awareness Resources, and Internet miniguides for professionals.

“If you really want to take your time, you probably can pull down as much information for free as with the fee-based services,” says the Florida-based Mr. Zillman.

First, he suggests creating a free e-mail address that does not contain personal information such as your name or date of birth. That can be set up with Yahoo, juno, netzero, hotmail, toast, msn, and others.

He recommends using the public library and asking for a librarian skilled at Internet searches.

Mr. Zillman’s site has a free streaming video segment about finding people on the Internet. (To find the correct page, go to yahoo.com and type: Marcus Zillman finding people).

He lists dozens of resources and sites, indicating which are free. He also recommends articles found at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue20/search-engines/ and http://www.virtualchase.com/articles/background_checks.html.

Dozens of companies charge for information but the results may not turn out to be what you wanted. Among them: identitycrawler.com, publicbackgroundchecks.
com, locateamerica.com, and usa-people-search.com.

Before you pay for a search:
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Massachusetts LOTTERY POSTS BEST YEAR EVER IN 33-YEAR HISTORY

September 20, 2005 by Ken Savage  
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State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill and Lottery Executive Director Joseph C. Sullivan today announced that the Massachusetts Lottery returned an estimated $935 million in local aid to the Commonwealth for Fiscal Year 2005 - the largest amount of local aid revenue in the 33-year history of the Lottery. Read more

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How to crack a computer password

September 19, 2005 by Ken Savage  
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Password Cracking Goals, Techniques and Relative Merits and Cracking Times of Different Techniques

Password crackers are primarily after (root or administrative account passwords) when they crack passwords. Their tools are password cracking programs that use password dictionaries. The feature lists of common password cracking programs or tools are discussed. Also listed are the suggested standard dictionary transformations for Crack, the best known tool for cracking passwords. How long it takes to crack passwords and the primary factors affecting password cracking times are covered. Why password dictionary attacks dramatically lower brute force password cracking times is discussed.

• Goals of the Cracker
• Password Cracking Programs’ Feature List
• Password Cracking Program Examples
• How Long Does It Take to Crack Passwords?
• Table of Times to Crack Passwords
• Brute Force, Dictionary Comparison

Goals of the Cracker

The goal of the cracker is to obtain the root account password on UNIX systems and administrator accounts on Windows NT and 2000 systems. With some UNIX security setups, the passwords for users in the wheel, security, or root group may have significant value. Since the cracker presumably already has some degree of access to the target machine (cracking can only be performed when the attacker already possess the password hashes), it’s not likely that unprivileged accounts will be of much value to the intruder but the techniques for obtaining passwords are the same regardless of the target account.

The intruder is likely to need only one password for an account with suitable privileges. Additional accounts may be of some value in preserving access but not likely to make much practical difference in obtaining access to the system at the desired privilege level.
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WORLD SERIES TROPHY COMPLETES TOUR OF MASSACHUSETTS

September 18, 2005 by Ken Savage  
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When the Red Sox announced the World Series Trophy Tour presented by the Massachusetts State Lottery in January, club President/CEO Larry Lucchino pledged to take the Trophy to each of the 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts that requested a visit. On Friday, June 24, the Trophy made its way to Gosnold (population 86) in the Elizabeth Islands at the southwestern tip of Cape Cod, the smallest town in the state and the 351st and final stop on the unprecedented Trophy Tour.

Lucchino, Massachusetts State Treasurer and Lottery Chairman Timothy P. Cahill, and Massachusetts State Lottery Executive Director Joseph C. Sullivan celebrated the milestone at a Fenway Park send-off for the Trophy before Lucchino transported the Trophy via helicopter to Gosnold. Other club and Lottery officials traveled via ferry from New Bedford to the public viewing at Avalon Club (Inn at Cuttyhunk).
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Relationship Advice: Can My Partner Change? 3 Simple Steps to Make It Happen

September 13, 2005 by Ken Savage  
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Here’s some Relationship Advice. Imagine for a moment you and your partner living in heavenly bliss. How can you get you relationship to that point?

Your home is in peaceful order with the dishes done, the bathroom fresh and cleaned, your bed made, and the living room picked up. You feel serene as the two of you relax on the patio enjoying a quiet conversation as your favorite music wafts gently around you. Life is good, your relationship is good. Read more

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