Ron Palillo; played nerd on ‘Welcome Back, Kotter’

Ron Palillo, the actor best known as the nerdy high school student ­Arnold Horshack on the 1970s sitcom ‘‘Welcome Back, Kotter,’’ died Tuesday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. He was 63.

Mr. Palillo apparently suffered heart attack at his home about 4 a.m., said Karen Poindexter, a close friend of the actor. He was pronounced dead at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center.

Mr. Palillo was inextricably linked with the character he played from 1975 to 1979 on ‘‘Kotter,’’ the ABC situation comedy, in which the title character returns to his Brooklyn alma mater to teach a group of lovable wiseguys known as the Sweathogs. Horshack was the nasally teen who yelped, ‘‘Oooh, ooh,’’ and shot his hand skyward whenever Kotter posed a question.

The show was a ratings success and a pop cultural phenomenon, injecting smart-Alec phrases such as ‘‘up your nose with a rubber hose’’ into the mainstream and propelling costar John Travolta to stardom. But the series only lasted as long as a high school education and its end, for Mr. Palillo, brought difficulty.

He said he felt exiled throughout the 1980s, unable to find parts, sinking into depression, and rarely venturing from his apartment. When offers did come, he felt typecast as Horshack.

‘‘While I loved him — I really loved him — I didn’t want to do him forever,’’ he told the Birmingham News in 1994.

Ronald Paolillo was born April 2, 1949, in Cheshire, Conn., eventually dropping the first ‘‘o’’ from his surname. His father died of lung cancer when he was 10, and he developed a stutter. His mother thought getting him involved in a local theater might help.

He fell in love with the stage and overcame his speech imped­iment.

He attended the University of Connecticut and earned parts in Shakespearean productions before his big break.

When he auditioned for ‘‘Kotter,’’ he thought he would be passed over for others who had more of a tough-guy New York look. He said his dying father’s voice inspired his character’s trademark wheezing laugh, and he said Horshack tapped into feelings any teenager could relate to.

‘‘I think he was the smartest kid in school,’’ he told the Miami Herald in 2009. ‘‘He was giving up his aptitude in order to be liked. Then and now, that is a very common thing in teenagers.’’

Mr. Palillo went on to get a host of bit parts in shows from ‘‘The Love Boat’’ to ‘‘Cagney and Lacey’’ to ‘‘The A-Team,’’ and played himself for a time on the series ‘‘Ellen.’’ But ‘‘Kotter’’ remained his best-known acting part, and he focused on stage directing and writing.

His last act in life mirrored his most famous one, in a real-life classroom instead of one at the fictional James Buchanan High School. Mr. Palillo taught acting at G-Star School of the Arts, a high school in West Palm Beach. He was due to return for the school year Tuesday morning, Poindexter said, and classes were to resume next week.

Mr. Palillo leaves his partner of 41 years, Joseph Gramm; two brothers, and a sister. Poindexter said that while her friend might, at times, have resented the shadow Horshack cast over him, he remained fond of the character and knew the part was always more of a blessing than a curse.

He remained close to his costars, she said, and knew how closely fans related to the characters.

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Taylor Swift releases new breakup song from fourth album, 'Red'

The first volley has been fired in what will certainly be another meticulously mapped-out campaign to set up Taylor Swift’s fourth album, “Red,” due Oct. 22.
As she did ahead of her “Speak Now” album two years ago, the singer and songwriter unveiled the first single from the forthcoming collection by way of a live Web chat. On Monday, she introduced the first single, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” which quickly zoomed to the top of the iTunes Top Songs chart.
The track also immediately generated considerable speculation on who the target of the song might be after Swift said during the 25-minute Web chat that it was inspired by a real-life relationship. Her boyfriends in recent years have included singer Joe Jonas, actors Taylor Lautner and Jake Gyllenhaal and musician John Mayer, many of whom already have figured into her songs. She’s currently said to be dating Kennedy family member Conor Kennedy, and Swift recently bought a $5-million vacation home near the Kennedys’ Cape Cod compound.
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She elaborated on the song’s genesis on an interview she gave Tuesday morning on ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America.”
“This guy walks in who is a friend of my ex's and starts talking about how he's heard we're going to get back together,” she said on the show, referring to one of the sessions with her songwriting partners on the track, Max Martin and Shellback. “And that was not the case. So I start telling them the story: Break up, get back together, break up, get back together -- just, ugh, the worst! And I picked up the guitar and [Martin] said, 'This is what we're writing'."
Swift also told her live and video-chat audience that choosing the title for the album “was crazy,  because it was really simple. I wrote a song called ‘Red,’ and thinking about what that means to me and all the different emotions that are written about on this album, they’re all pretty much about tumultuous, crazy, insane, intense, semi-toxic relationships that I’ve experienced in the last two years.
“All those emotions -- spanning from intense love, intense frustration, jealousy, confusion all of that -- in my mind, all of those emotions are red; there’s nothing in between -- there’s nothing beige about any of those feelings -- so I called the record `Red’,” the 22-year-old Swift said.
In contrast with "Speak Now,” which for the first time featured songs written by Swift, "Red" is built from her collaboration with a variety of songwriters and producers over the album's 16 tracks. Swift said that the songs were culled from 30 to 35 tunes written during the two years she’s been working on it.
Because “Speak Now” was the first album in more than 5½ years to sell more than 1 million copies during its first week, music industry observers will be looking closely to see whether she’s able to repeat that feat -- and whether she’s able to keep her track record intact of increasing both first week and overall sales with each successive album she’s released since her 2006 debut, “Taylor Swift.”

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Olympics 2012: After sloppy start, U.S. women’s soccer team roars back to outclass France, 4-2, in opener

GLASGOW, Scotland – The first two shots Hope Solo faced on Wednesday found the back of the net, and the match, much like the Olympics, had barely started.

“We weren’t fazed at all,” Solo said of allowing two goals in 14 minutes. “We were ice cold. We knew France was good but we know we’re better.”

Call it confidence with a dash of arrogance, but the fact is that once the United States spotted France a two-goal lead, the world’s top-ranked women’s soccer team and its world-class goalkeeper played as if they had the French right where they wanted them.

“We weren’t stressed out at all,” Abby Wambach said. “We knew there was a lot of time.”

The U.S. women, vying for their third straight Olympic gold, rallied from the disastrous start with four unanswered goals to win their opening match, 4-2, on a mild afternoon at iconic Hampden Park. Alex Morgan, the made-for-Madison-Avenue striker, scored two goals, and Wambach netted the team’s first.

But the game-winner was produced by midfielder Carli Lloyd, the hero of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, who is adjusting to her new role as a substitute.  Lloyd’s powerful right-footed shot in the 56th minute gave the U.S. the lead for good and ended France’s 17-match unbeaten streak.

In 2008, Lloyd used her left foot to beat Brazil in overtime for the gold medal. She had been a regular starter in center midfield and even played all 120 minutes in last summer’s World Cup final loss to Japan. But in three matches leading up to the Olympics, Lloyd was not in Pia Sundhage’s starting 11, and on Wednesday, the coach featured Shannon Boxx and Lauren Cheney in the area.

Lloyd, however, impressed the staff and her teammates by not sulking over the demotion. Instead, she’s made it a point to stay ready and in the 17th minute Lloyd was called to replace Boxx, who suffered a hamstring injury with the team trailing 2-0.  Over the next 49 minutes, the U.S. scored four goals. “She changed the game,”  Sundhage said. “She didn’t start the game but she finished the game.”

With Lloyd on the bench, France scored twice in the span of two minutes. Gaetane Thiney opened with a thunderous strike from 30 yards, and Marie-Laure Delie made it 2-0 from close range after the U.S. had three chances to clear the ball from danger and failed to do so.

Wambach immediately called her teammates in for a quick pep talk that probably included something along the lines of “just pass me the ball in the air.” No one in the history of the women’s game has been better at heading the ball than Wambach, who added to her goal count by heading home Megan Rapinoe’s corner kick in the 19th minute. Thirteen minutes later, Solo aimed a 60-yard free kick that was intended for Wambach but appeared to deflect off Wendie Renard’s back. The ball found Morgan’s feet, and in her first-ever Olympic game, she easily beat Sarah Bouhaddi. France’s two-goal advantage was now history.

“I was really pumped up,” Lloyd said. “When the whistle blew at halftime I said, ‘Is that it?’ I wanted to keep going.”

The French, with star midfielder Louisa Necib replaced at halftime, were neither creative nor dangerous after intermission. The U.S. began to control play and was rewarded when Lloyd struck from 23 yards out. She punctuated her goal with by sliding on both knees near the U.S. bench.

“I wanted to show the bench some love,” Lloyd joked.

Ten minutes later, a defensive error sent Tobin Heath alone down the left flank, and her pass was tapped in by an unmarked Morgan at the back post.

“We were a little shaky in the beginning,” Sundhage said. “But I think it’s amazing the way we responded.”

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Olympics 2012: U.S. women’s soccer opens with 4-2 win over France

GLASGOW, Scotland — Twice, Hope Solo stretched to her left to stop the ball. Twice, she couldn’t quite reach it.

Bang! Boom! Two quick shots, and the U.S. women’s soccer team had an early hole at the start of the quest for a third consecutive Olympic gold medal.

Fortunately for the Americans, they have firepower like no other squad in the world, enough to overcome such a deficit and take control, beatingFrance 4-2 Wednesday as they opened their London Games far from London.

Weren’t aware that the Olympics were already under way? There’s nothing like a come-from-behind win to make people notice.

“There’s a lot of other sports going on,” deadpanned midfielder Megan Rapinoe. “So we have to catch the attention early.”

They did so not only by falling behind, but by finding four dynamic ways to score goals. Abby Wambach used her size and strength to head in a corner kick, speedy Alex Morgan raced ahead to chip one over the goalkeeper, Carli Lloyd nailed a 25-yard rocket, and Morgan cashed in with a simple tap-in after a nice run from Tobin Heath.

“I think there was a lot of nerves and stuff going on in those first minutes,” defender Rachel Buehler said. “And we got ‘em out. It probably went as bad as it could — and then we were able to turn it around.”

Soccer always starts early at the Olympics in order to have time to play a full tournament of games. In this case, the Americans were on the field two days before the opening ceremony and 400-plus miles from the British capital.

And they knew that an early stumble wouldn’t be the end of the world. The U.S. gave up two goals in the first four minutes to open the last Olympics in China, losing to 2-0 to Norway. The Americans rebounded to win their final five matches and take the gold.

“After 2-0, I thought about China,” coach Pia Sundhage said. “We’ve been there before and we came back. If you look at the whole tournament in China, we won the gold medal. Now this team is better than 2008. We came back in the game.”

While the Americans are favored to take the title again — and even though the U.S. is now 13-0-1 all-time against France — it was hardly a surprise to see the French make it a game. The teams were tied late in the second half in last year’s World Cup semifinals before the Americans finished off a 3-1 win, and France entered these Olympics on a 17-game winning streak.

Still, the Americans allowed more goals in the first handful of minutes Wednesday than they had allowed in any game since the World Cupfinal loss to Japan. Gaetane Thiney (12th minute) and Marie-Laure Delie(14th) found holes in a supposedly impenetrable defense — a potential cause for U.S. concern as the grueling tournament progresses.

“It’s not the game we wanted to play,” defender and captain Christie Rampone said. “But we’ve got a lot of games ahead of us to try and get our rhythm back.”

Another concern for the Americans: Midfielder Shannon Boxx left in the first half with a hamstring injury and is day-to-day.

“Magic things could happen after a good sleep,” Sundhage said. “So we’ll just wait and see.”

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Is it Hibernate?

hibernate? skipper believes many already know what it is hibernating or in indo, hibernation, but also to let us share who do not know, yes, in order to be able to advance together, not with the selfish-an. One skipper who is actually still a newbie as well but no wise advice: write and tell you the science, although science is very small benefits, so you will more easily remember, explore, or even add to the science buddy.


hmm, ok, enough of his skipper thought Intermezzo, is now directly to the title of this post, Hibernate.


By the time you will log-off, Shutdown, or Restart, there will be three menu options are shown, namely Standby, Turn Off, Restart. Hibernation is a function for storing data in computer memory to the hard disk so that when opening the computer, the Windows XP operating system can directly into the working position of last man. Ways to enable Hibernate is as follows.


A. Click Start »Control Panel, then you will see a dialog box Control Panel, then double-click the Power Options icon.


2. Select the Hibernate tab, and then activate the Enable hibernation checklist on the Hibernate. Then click the OK button.

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Tips potent increase google Pagerank

Pagerank, well until the time of writing, his blog is not a new skipper who get PageRank from google om (also not until 3 months). new blog name would be his primary target is the ranking, Google Pagerank, and of course visitors.


Having a blog with high pagerank that are obviously very profitable in online business. As businesses paid to review, one of the factors that led to our blog to get the ordered items is reviewing the value of pagerank blog. Similarly, the buying and selling business links. The higher the pagerank our blogs, the greater the willingness of others to leave the link in the blog.


But to get a high pagerank was not easy. Required at least 3 months in accordance with the schedule update google pagerank status or the popularity of our blog page. Then how our efforts to improve our blog pagerank?


The following tips are taken from various sources to increase the pagerank blog:
Make sure you include at least one link to Google


Use keywords meta tag. Make sure you do not repeat the same word more than three consecutive times in a row.


These tips may be one of the most powerful tip. Make at least three-page / page / post on your site link and make a scheme as follows: Page 1 link to Page 2, Page 2 link to Page 3, and this is the "header" behind it: Page 3 linking back to Page 1. Google will give points to page 2 of page 1, then point 3 from page 2, and then if you link back to page 1, then google will repeat it again from scratch. This method is also often referred to as interlinking or interlocking connection between the pages / posts to another page.


Use H1 tags on the post title.


Link back to the blog which also has link to your blog page.


Be careful in writing content that contains words that could lead to biased google that your site is banned sites such as sites of "slime".


Provide links that point to various pages / other articles in your blog, such as related articles. This will make the longer visitors in your blog.


Create a sitemap for the site pal (XML based for Google and text based for yahoo) and submit a sitemap to Google and Yahoo. Make a Google webmaster account and get in there to see your website statistics. This will tell you whether your site is indexed or not.


And the most important tips is your blog link exchange with other blog owners. This method is very fast way to increase your visibility in search engines.

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British Warship Commander Woman

Royal Navy, Royal Navy, has a long history that boasts over 500 years. And now their new record torehkan: appoint a woman as commander of a warship in the forefront.
She is Sarah West. Female 40 years it has been officially held the baton of command of HMS Portland, Type 23 frigate ship weighing 5,000 tons, prepared for the "all-out war".
Before the West, there is Commander Sue Moore (43), first woman to lead a smaller ship, the First Patrol Boat Squadron (1PBS). He is responsible for the ship nontempur, 18 P2000 Archer conducting maritime security operations in UK waters, participate in securing the Olympics by patrols on the River Thames, and escorting the Queen in celebration.
West designation is a tremendous achievement. Because, until 1990, women are prohibited from joining the Navy.
West admitted honored with the appointment. "Being the commander of HMS Portland is the highest achievement of my 16 years in the Navy. It is a challenge and I am ready for it," he said as quoted by the Daily Mail, Tuesday, May 22, 2012.
"I feel very proud to be the commander of the ship Type 23 frigate, a warship that is very flexible. I will lead the HMS Potland with professional and focused team.
HMS Portland is not normal vessels. It was equipped missile can be fired into another vessel, also directed upward to the plane and helicopter. He was also able to hunt and destroy submarines.
The warship also has a 4.5 in guns, anti-submarine torpedo equipped with radar and sonar equipment to help guide the ammunition or the navigation.
Commander of the West of Lincolnshire will also be responsible for the 180 crew, which 10 percent are female sailor Wrens alias.
The appointment of West as a commander was announced last August 2011, which became big news in the UK. Because, he was the first female warship commander.
Moreover, who commanded the ship, HMS Portland to fame as the Punisher ship Somali pirates and drug smugglers in the Caribbean. West of submarine warfare specialists, and planning of the Navy, was a scholar of mathematics.

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Religious Leaders Prospective Study in 11 Countries RI

A total of 15 future leaders of Islam, Christianity, Catholicism, Buddhism, and Hinduism from eleven countries received scholarships to study for seven weeks in Yogyakarta. They came from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Laos, Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the Indonesian Arts Scholarship Program - 2012 Future Leaders Faith (BSBI FFL) was opened by Kusuma Habir, Director of Public Diplomacy at the Foreign Ministry of Indonesia Jakarta, May 21, 2012. "This program is to introduce the Interfaith Dialogue among candidates for religious leaders in the Asia Pacific region," said Kusuma.
According to him, this scholarship is an implementation of Semarang Action Plan to the Regional Interfaith Dialogue-6, held in Hyderabad on 11-15 March 2012 by 14 countries. They are ten members of ASEAN with Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Timor Leste.
"The program is also to encourage the candidates to expand the network of religious leaders, exchange views on current issues that occur in society from the viewpoint of various religions, as well as expand their horizons to enhance mutual understanding among religions," said Kusuma.
Nurwahyudi Azis, Head of Sub Directorate of Social and Cultural who handles the event, explained that the program is a collaboration BSBI FFL RI Foreign Ministry with State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta. During the seven weeks the participants will be given the opportunity to study at university.
Activities in the form of seminars, discussions with various religious institutions, education, and NGOs, as well as visits to various houses of worship. They will also learn some of the local culture.
This scholarship will be terminated with Channel Indonesian activities to be held in Solo on July 14, 2012. They will join the BSBI Regular program participants who attended 50 youth from 37 countries and is currently being held in Bandung, Solo, Surabaya, Denpasar and Makassar.
During the three-day orientation period, the participants BSBI FFL get a briefing materials about the development of cooperation in the Asia Pacific region, Indonesia's efforts in creating harmony in religion, the role of media in creating religious tolerance, the basics of Indonesian language, and a visit to Taman Mini Indonesia beautiful as well as various places of worship.

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Renovation of the royal family of Qatar Masion Rp 2.9 T

A member of the Qatar royal disburse funds for the renovation of an old English mansion that has become his property. No half-hearted, money is being spent to reach 200 million pounds, or Rp.2, 9 trillion.

Citing page Daily Mail, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani will change the face of Dudley Mansion bought for 37.4 million pounds (Rp.558 billion) in 2006. Promising properties of the sheikh will become the most expensive building in the UK which offer views of Hyde Park in London's beauty.

185-year-old building has an area of ​​0.4 hectares and been renovated at a cost of 75 million pounds (Rp1, 1 trillion). Renovation was carried out to knock down the three original buildings Dudley Mansion for then made a giant mansion.

This building also has a ballroom and an extensive gallery of paintings, as well as luxury furniture that cost could reach 100 million pounds (Rp1, 4 trillion). Shaykh Hamad also plans to renovate the original interior of the Dudley Mansion and Victorian Regency style.

Based on a site property, the renovation also will include construction of 17 bedrooms and 14 reception rooms, which will re-turned with the feel of the 19th century.

"With all the renovation plan, if the Dudley Mansion re-sold, the price could reach 250 million pounds (Rp.3, 7 trillion)," said a property expert who recently visited the property that was founded in 1827.

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