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Those born on August 19

This is a new  daily feature and I hope you enjoy it. This is for entertainment purposes only.

 

Those born on this day are either socially or technically creative-- their discoveries can open up whole new worlds of interest for others to enjoy.  The combination of these qualities may produce not only trendsetters but true inventiors and architects of the future. 

More evolved individuals born on this day value the truth very highly.  Yet they perhaps believe that those around them are not ready to hear or handle it.  So they keep it to themselves, sometimes for years.  When they feel that people are ready for what they have to say, they say it, often in a highly direct fashion. 

Those born on the 19th of the month are ruled by the number 1 (1+9=10, 1+0=1), and by the sun.  Because of the fact that that August 19 people are born on the first day of the Leo-Virgo cusp, there will be a strong thrust in their lives to succeed on a mental level.   Those ruled by the number 1 like to be first, tend to be ambitious and dislike restraint. 

August 19 people should make regular checkups with the family doctor a standard practice. 

Their strengths are: self-confident, influential and patient.  Their weaknesses are: overconfident and secretive. 

Those born on this day:

Orville Wright, Bill Clinton, Malcolm Forbes, Bernard Baruch and Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel.

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Burglar drops cellphone police call Ma

Call to Ma helps police ID burglar

 

Staff Reports

Athens Banner-Herald

 

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

 

Investigators are looking for an Athens man who broke into the Howard B. Stroud Elementary School on Monday night, but left behind his cell phone, Athens-Clarke police said.

Officers responded to an 11:25 p.m. burglar alarm and saw a man in the school's cafeteria, but he ran through a back door, police said.

He dropped his cell phone, which had a programmed number for "ma," police said. When an officer called the number, he spoke with the suspect's mother who said she didn't let him live with her anymore because he always steals, according to police.

The woman told officers her son stays with his grandfather in Colbert, and that he was supposed to appear in Madison County Superior Court on a burglary charge Monday, but he didn't show up, police said.

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Millions of teenagers facing hearing loss

Deaf jams: Earbuds, high volume music cause teen hearing loss

Lindsay Goldwert
DAILY NEWS WRITER

 

Wednesday, August 18th 2010, 9:28 AM

 

UpperCut Images/Getty

 

Can you hear me now? 

Teens are losing their hearing at an alarming rate, according to a recent study by the American Medical Association. 

Nearly 20% of U.S. adolescents – about 6.5 million teens – have some form of hearing loss. 

"Teenagers really underestimate how much noise they are exposed to," Dr. Josef Shargorodsky, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, the study’s lead researcher, told the Associated Press.

The researchers compared hearing loss in nearly 3,000 adolescents tested between 1988 and 1994 to nearly 1,800 kids tested between 2005 and 2006, and found that the prevalence of hearing loss rose from roughly 15% to 19.5% between the first and second surveys – a 31% increase, according to RedOrbit.com.

The use of the "ear bud" style of headphones while listening to high-decibel music is a possible culprit. Specific devices – such as the iPod – were not named in the study. 

Kids today are listening to music twice as long as kids of previous generations and a much higher volume, said Brian Fligor, an audiologist at Children’s Hospital Boston. 

In a study of about 200 college students, Fligor found that more than half listened to music at 85 decibels or greater – about as loud as a vacuum cleaner. Consistently listening to music at such high levels can turn the microscopic hair cells within the inner ear into scar tissue, Fligor told the AP. 

How much are teens missing out on?

Someone with a slight hearing loss "will hear all of the vowel sounds clearly, but might miss some of the consonant sounds," lead author Dr. Gary Curhan told the AP. "Although speech will be detectable, it might not be fully intelligible," he added.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/health/2010/08/18/2010-08-18_deaf_jams_20_of_us_teens_are_losing_their_hearing.html#ixzz0wyknJy9W

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Dr. Laura to End Radio Show

Media Decoder - Behind the Scenes, Between the Lines
August 17, 2010, 11:26 pm

Dr. Laura Schlessinger to End Radio Show

ANAHAD O'CONNOR

12:43 a.m. | Updated

  Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the conservative talk radio commentator under fire for repeatedly using a racial epithet, announced on Tuesday that she was ending her long-running radio show.

Dr. Schlessinger made the announcement on Tuesday night on “Larry King Live,” saying she made a decision not to renew her contract when it expires at the end of the year and suggesting that she did not want her opinions and language, however provocative, to be muzzled.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger in 2000.
Craig Mathew/Paramount Television, via Reuters Dr. Laura Schlessinger in 2000.

“I want to regain my First Amendment rights,” she said. “I want to be able to say what’s on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I’m sort of done with that.”

But she stressed that she was not retiring, only ending her show, and would continue to write books and appear at speaking engagements.

“I’m not quitting,” she told Larry King. “I feel energized   actually — stronger and freer to say the things that I believe need to be said for people in this country.”

No stranger to controversy, Dr. Schlessinger has been under intense pressure in recent days following an exchange with a caller on her radio show last week in which she used the racial epithet — the so-called N-word — 11 times. The caller, a black woman, was complaining that she was married to a white man whose friends and family members frequently made racist comments in her presence. Dr. Schlessinger responded by arguing there was a “confusing” double standard — that blacks could use the epithet freely while whites could not.

“If anybody without enough melanin says it, it’s a horrible thing; but when black people say it, it’s affectionate,” she said. “It’s very confusing.”

Even after the caller complained — “I was a little caught back by the N-word that you spewed out, I have to be honest with you” — Dr. Schlessinger repeated it a number of times, insisting her caller had “too much sensitivity.”

A day later, as the show was generating controversy on blogs and cable news shows, Dr. Schlessinger issued an apology on her blog.  She also read it on her radio show.

“I was attempting to make a philosophical point, and I articulated the ‘n’ word all the way out — more than one time,” she said. “And that was wrong. I’ll say it again — that was wrong.”

The apology, however, only generated more attention to the original comments, prompting Dr. Schlessinger to appear on CNN to make her announcement Tuesday night.

Shortly after Dr. Schlessinger made her announcement, one of the groups that had called for advertisers to back away from her show, Media Matters for America, issued a statement applauding the outcome.

“Dr. Laura’s radio career ended in disgrace tonight because of the bigoted, ugly and hateful remarks made on her show. Americans have had enough,” the group’s president, Eric Burns, said in the statement. “Listeners are now holding hosts, affiliates, and sponsors accountable for the offensive and inexcusable content on the airwaves.”

In her three decades on the radio, Dr. Schlessinger’s popular show — at its peak it was the second highest-rated radio show after The Rush Limbaugh Show — has come under fire from rights groups a number of times. In 2000, a coalition of gay activists launched a Web site, StopDrLaura.com, and organized protests and boycotts across the United States and Canada in response to her comments about homosexuality, which she referred to as a “biological error.” They were also angered by her outspoken stance against adoption by same-sex couples, and remarks in which she said that a “a huge portion of the male homosexual populace is predatory on young boys.”

Dr. Schlessinger apologized for many of her comments, but many of her advertisers left her radio show, and a television show she started in 2000 was ended a year later. On the Web site StopDrLaura.com Tuesday night, a headline at the top of the home page declared, “We Stopped Dr Laura.”

LINK TO VIDEO OF REMARKS

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?cl=21464469

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Benefits cheat caught after posting on Facebook she was...

Benefits cheat claiming to be single mum caught out after posting on Facebook she was married mother-of-three

 

Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:45 PM on 17th August 2010

 

A foolish benefits cheat who claimed to be a single parent living alone was caught out after revealing on Facebook she had a husband and three children.   

Greedy Kim Stokes, 36, told the Department of Work and Pensions that she been a lone parent, unemployed and separated from her husband, a court heard.   

But after fraud investigators found items on Facebook showing Kim, her husband Richard, and their children involved in family activities, the shameless cheat was hauled before the courts.   

Social not working: Kim Stokes's Facebook profile included pictures of her family and her husband Richard, and a personal description declaring: 'I've been with my hubby for 16 years and we're still very much in love.' 

Evidence against her taken from the social networking site included pictures of a birthday cake that was made by Kim for her husband, family holiday snaps and even anniversary messages.     

And in her 'about me' section she stated: 'I've been with my hubby for 16 years and we're still very much in love.'   

While Richard's Facebook page proudly declared: 'I am a loving, caring dad, I live in Telford and I am married to my soul mate Kim'.

Trouble and strife: Kim Stokes also posted pictures of her husband Richard on Facebook 

Stokes had been overpaid by about $15,000 in housing and council tax benefits as well as income support over the last two years, Telford Magistrates heard. 

Deputy District Judge David Stott gave Stokes, from Telford, Shropshire, a 12-month community order.   

She was also ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work and pay $100 in costs.   

She admitted two charges of failing to notify changes in her circumstances to the DWP between May, 2007 and October, 2009. 

Miss Catherine Thomas, prosecuting, said Stokes had told the DWP she was a lone parent, unemployed and separated from her husband, Richard.   

However, they were living together and had jointly applied for a loan and in November 2007 they purchased a car with a joint credit application, using the same address which indicated joint financial status. 

Other evidence obtained showed that Richard and Kim were living as a couple after the family home was listed as Richard's place of residence.   

Mr Sheikel Ahmed, defending, said the couple had been apart, but he later started regularly stopping and she should have told the DWP. 

Today Stokes said from her smart semi-detached house three miles from Telford town centre: 'It's been dealt with and I have got nothing else to say about it.'   

But one neighbour, who did not wish to be named, said: 'The husband drives a nice Renault Scenic people carrier, they certainly don't seem to be struggling for money and although I only know them to say hello, they seem a close and happy family - which is unsurprising really, if they have been fiddling benefits.

'The have two girls under 13 and a lad who is about 16 or 17-year-old.'   

Stokes has since closed down her Facebook page but still lists herself on Friends Reunited as being married with three children.   

Also under the 'about me' section - she reveals: 'I've been with my hubby for over 16 years we have three brilliant children together. I want to go to college and possibly train as a hairdresser or a teacher.'   

DWP West Midlands Fraud Manager, Mark Pickering said: 'If you commit benefit theft, don't expect to get away with it. Our investigators are equipped with a wide range of powers and techniques to track you down.   

'We are catching more and more of those who steal money intended for vulnerable people, and when we track them down they face heavy penalties.'

LINK TO PHOTOS

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303826/Facebook-catches-single-mum-benefits-cheat-revealing-married.html

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Police caught shoplifting at Universal Studios

Cop Caught Shoplifting At Universal Studios

Posted: 6:38 am EDT August 17, 2010
Updated: 10:50 am EDT August 17, 2010

WFTV

 

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A Pittsburgh police officer told investigators he shoplifted from Universal Studios because he did not feel like waiting in line. 
 
Officer Hank Rogowski, 49, was arrested on Sunday at Universal Studios after he was caught shoplifting. Police say Rogowski told them he intended to pay for the items, but the cash "registers were busy and he did not feel like waiting." 
 
Investigators said the 17-year veteran of the Pittsburgh police force shoplifted at several stores inside the theme park. He is also charged with carrying his firearm on park property. 
Pittsburgh police Chief Nate Harper says Officer Rogowski will likely be moved to desk duty during an internal investigation of charges that he shoplifted more than $300 worth of Harry Potter merchandise from the Florida theme park.
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