GrimaceGuy

I bought a Samsung LNR408D a couple years back but as of this last September, have had intermittent problems with the volume buttons on the right-side panel of the TV. It starts out with the <volume down> being stuck, causing the volume menu to always appear showing a 0. This is tolerable because I use a receiver for audio and it's just an annoyance. The button is not actually being pressed, and when I manually press it, the TV shows a "This cannot be done in the current mode" error in HDMI mode, and causes a chanel change in Air TV mode. After a day, the <volume up> button gets stuck, making the TV completely useless, as the volume goes directly to max.

In the past, I've fixed this by shaking the TV around and flipping it over a few dozen times, and eventually it goes away.

I'm guessing the cause is a piece of dust or something getting stuck in the PC unit or something, which is why my shaking it 'fixes' it.

Does anyone have a clue as to a real solution?

This is a question that has been bugging me for a long time, and now that I'm watching what I eat in detail, I was wondering if there was an official answer, or if it's just a subjective process.

The "standard" answer of *3500 calories per pound of fat* only relates to body fact directly, not to the water that is associated with it.

Basic biology tells us that the majority of human weight is actually water, 70% or so if I remember right. If that's the case, then all things being equal, a net of 3500 calories plus or minus on a diet should eventually result in, say, 3 pounds of weight change in a person (1 pound fat plus 2 pounds water). Thus, the number of calories per pound of weight should be around 1100, and you could adjust your caloric intake, exercise, etc. to get to your target weight more accurately.

Is this correct, or does the 3500 number already include the water change?

[I've searched all over the place, but I'm not an cytologist, so I don't understand all this stuff.]

This is a question that has been bugging me for a long time, and now that I'm watching what I eat in detail, I was wondering if there was an official answer, or if it's just a subjective process.

The "standard" answer of 3500 calories per pound only relates to body fact directly, not to the water that is associated with it.

At this site http://www.annecollins.com/healthy-weight-informat... under "Weight of Water Content", it mentions that stored body fat is roughly 50% water.

If that's the case, then all things being equal, a net of 3500 calories plus or minus on a diet should eventually result in 2 pounds of weight change in a person. Thus, the number of calories per pound of weight should be *1750*, and you could adjust your caloric intake, exercise, etc. to get to your target weight more accurately.

Is this correct?

[I've searched all over the place, but I'm not an Histologist, so I don't understand cellular processes enough to find the exact answer.]