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- What MIAA's Rule 52 says
DRACUT -- The parents of Anthony Blatus, a hearing-impaired 13-year-old who since first grade has been pinning opponents to the mat while proudly wearing "Dracut" on his wrestling singlet, are crying foul.
With Anthony preparing to enter his freshman year of high school at Innovation Academy Charter School in Tyngsboro, which does not offer a wrestling program, parents Andrew and Agnes Blatus began requesting of Dracut High Athletic Director Tim Woods in December that he file paperwork to obtain a waiver to enable Anthony to try out for the Dracut High wrestling team for the 2013-14 winter season.
The waiver would be under Rule 52 of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association handbook. (See related story.)
On May 21 -- after five months worth of what Anthony's parents this week angrily described as "stalling tactics" -- Superintendent of Schools Steven Stone formally denied the Blatus family's request that the district seek an MIAA waiver on their son's behalf.
Stone's terse, single-sentence emailed message now has Andrew and Agnes Blatus contemplating whether to file a lawsuit against the district.
"After further consideration and investigation, the district has determined that seeking a waiver would be a futile effort, consistent with its previous position that the situation at hand is not applicable to the waiver process; and that the district is not prepared to set a precedent in submitting documentation per your previous requests," wrote Stone in the May 21 email.
Nine days later, School Committee Chairman Michael McNamara, declaring himself a spokesman on the issue for all five board members, sent an email to the Blatus family backing Stone's decision to deny the district's assistance in obtaining a waiver.
"Regrettably, the decision made by Supt. Stone stands as the position of the Dracut Public Schools," McNamara wrote to Andrew Blatus on May 30. "...
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Also in the email, McNamara offered the Blatus family two "remedies" to consider, including making a formal request of Innovation to start a wrestling program, or to "consider transferring your son to the Dracut Public Schools while advocating for the appropriate accommodations reflecting his disability," McNamara wrote.
McNamara ended his email with an apology to the Blatuses for the length of time it took to resolve the matter.
Having received the emailed denials of their request, Andrew and Agnes Blatus, accompanied by Anthony, took their first opportunity to address Stone and the School Committee as a group at the board's meeting of June 10.
"I've been in this community for 32 years," Agnes Blatus said. "My husband has been a resident for 44 years, and we've actively supported the Dracut schools, including at the recent Town Meeting, Unfortunately, this town's School Department and administration isn't supporting my child. You'd rather retaliate against us for sending our son to the charter school, and you're deliberately hurting our child in the process.
"My son is proud to be a member of this community.
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Carpeted classrooms, found only at Innovation, absorb noise, which is a "crucial accommodation for a hearing-impaired child," Anthony's mother told the School Committee and Stone. "Can this district place him in a class with 17 students where every one of his classrooms is covered with a carpet except for his science lab? Does Dracut really want me to bring him back and fight to do that?"
Agnes Blatus later said her offer to pay the Dracut School District an athletic fee of up to $1,000 -- about triple the required fee -- to allow her son to wrestle for the Middies also fell on deaf ears.
Andrew Blatus drew an ovation from supportive friends and family members in the audience when he told the School Committee he has "lost trust" in Stone.
"My son and I are active members of this community, and you're denying us access to allow for a Rule 52 waiver," he said. "That's wrong, and there's no excuse for it."
According to his reading of Rule 52 in the MIAA handbook, the district has every legal right to pursue an athletic waiver on Anthony's behalf because his son's case meets every eligibility requirement, Andrew Blatus said.
"You're not allowing us to put in for a waiver because you say it's 'futile' or not a precedent you want to initiate, and I disagree with that," Andrew Blatus concluded. "We do not have anything against the Dracut Public Schools. I graduated from Dracut (High). You're asking people to 'Stand Up for Dracut,' that's what I'm hearing recently. I'm asking you to stand up for Anthony."
Andrew and Agnes Blatus said that per their individual conversations with School Committee members McNamara, Joe Wilkie, Dan O'Connell and Betsy Murphy, none of the four was willing to object to Stone's recommendation and advocate for the MIAA waiver on Anthony's behalf.
School Committee member Matthew Sheehan told a Sun reporter Tuesday that he also backs Stone's decision in the Blatus case, and did not wish to comment further on it.
In a phone interview Tuesday, McNamara admitted that his decision to back Stone's denial of the Blatuses' waiver request represented a 180-degree change from his initial opinion -- first expressed to Agnes Blatus months ago -- that considering her son's disability and residency, a waiver should be granted.
"At first I did think turning down the waiver doesn't make any sense, and I questioned if, legally, it could be denied, but as a School Committee, we turn to Steven Stone for his advice and knowledge -- that's what we hire him for," McNamara said. "Steven Stone is very familiar with how charter schools operate, and that leads to my question now, which is: Why doesn't Innovation Academy have a wrestling program?"
Innovation Academy offers its students a limited athletics menu, including soccer, volleyball and co-ed cross-country programs. The school's executive director, Walter Landberg, did not return phone call seeking comment.
Said McNamara, "If he wants to wrestle for the Dracut Public Schools, he should be enrolled in the Dracut Public Schools and the parents should be fighting for accommodation within the district. I think those are reasonable suggestions."
Agnes Blatus strongly disagreed.
"They're forcing us, as parents, to choose between our son's educational needs, and a sport he loves so much," Agnes Blatus said. "It's shameful, and it's wrong."
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The Pirate wrote:Have you tried connecting the laptop using a Static IP Address? I've reserved addresses for all the WiFi devices in our house and it definitely helps. My Kindle would not connect at all, and now it does, so it's worth a try.
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rjm wrote:Oh, wow! Very complex. Head spinning.
Yes, Google it! Actually, I have started. But it's still out of my league. For now.
The major problem is with the smartphone. I need it to not be interfered with. And yes, new landline phones.
And who knows what else. It doesn't effect the new WIFI television in the same space.
Is that perhaps it?! The new TV? Hmmmm. Yeah!
I would need to set up a static address for my phone. Have NO CLUE as to how to do that.
Because the waves are here. They aren't reaching the phone properly.
Thanks. I will eventually solve it. Or, call in The Geek Squad. Shouldn't cost too much. But for Heaven's sake, I should be able to do this!
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The Pirate wrote:Apparently, what you are trying to do may be specifically called "DHCP Reservation" with the Linskys router. I don't know if that helps or confuses matters even more. What is the model number?
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rjm wrote:I am upstairs.
At first, it snapped in real nice.
Hard sending this message. Try again.
Sent via 4g. Ah well. Didn't do any harm. Perhaps I have to specify all devices. Tomorrow.
Thank you! It'll happen.
P.S. -- 1:42 AM. "Not in range." Need booster, I guess. The TV in the same room works fine. I dunno. Need the Geek Squad.
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LAKE COUNTY -- Paul Reed claimed his winnings Tuesday from a Fantasy 5 ticket sold last week at the Cobb Texaco station on Highway 175. Reed shared his story with Lottery officials, but requested his county of residence be withheld.
Reed purchased one of two tickets that matched all five winning numbers Thursday, splitting a $360,000 jackpot.
The winning numbers drawn were 2, 3, 7, 11 and 37 ? numbers that Reed said he's used for years, believing they would eventually pay off.
"I got them off of a mailbox. They were an address," Reed said to Lottery officials Tuesday.
When Reed began playing Fantasy 5 a few months ago, he matched three numbers a couple of times, which was enough to convince him he was onto something good.
Reed's lucky vibe was strong enough that he intentionally waited until after the weekend to check his numbers, hoping to extend the moment, according to Lottery officials.
Reed and his wife, Susan confirmed the win during the weekend by checking the Lottery website, but reality didn't sink in until they visited the Cobb Texaco station and saw the winner announcement sign.
"We jumped up and down. It's real," Susan Reed said.
The other winning ticket was purchased at a Sacramento Bel Air Market. It was claimed Friday by David Gillette of Sacramento.
Fantasy 5 winning numbers are drawn daily. The top prize starts at $50,000 and increases daily until it is hit. A player wins the Fantasy 5 jackpot by matching five numbers out of a field of 39.
The California Lottery reminds winners to sign the back of their tickets, keep tickets in a safe place and contact Lottery officials or visit a Lottery district office as soon as possible.


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May 24, 2011 > Fremont Unified School District Board meeting report
The following are highlights from the Fremont Unified School District Board meeting held May 11, 2011.Community Leadership:Superintendent James Morris reported on the District logo contest. Over 60 students submitted entries, which the Staff and committee narrowed down to 10. Another group of community members then made a selection of the final three. Those in attendance at the Board meeting had a chance to view all the entries as they were flashed onto the screen. Now it's time for the community to vote for their favorite logo of the three. To make your vote count, visit the FUSD website at www.fremont.k12.ca.us, by June 1.Jamie Hintzke, Community Relations Coordinator for Alameda County Health Care Services Agency spoke about the CPR7 Program. (TCV featured this program in our December 28, 2010 issue.) The focus of the program is to increase "bystander knowledge" of CPR (Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation), so that more lives can be saved. Research had shown that 7th grade students were most receptive and willing to learning the techniques and teaching them to family and friends. Over 14,900 - 7th graders in Alameda County have already been trained to learn the skills of chest compression and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Students have also been given a kit containing their own inflatable mini-manikin to practice on and keep at home. The 5 Junior High Schools in Fremont were recognized as well as the 2,242 - 7th-grade students who participated in the CPR7 program.Oral Communications:Dianne Jones, a Parkmont parent, wanted to send a positive message to LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender) students who are particularly vulnerable. A group of parents as well as the "It Gets Better Project," donated over 86 books to the District's school libraries. "Everyone deserves a safe place to learn in," said Jones.Brannin Dorsey, President of the Fremont Unified District Teachers Association addressed the Board and Staff regarding the status of teacher contract negotiations. "Are you really doing everything you can? It's almost the end of the school year without a negotiated agreement." Dorsey continued by asking the District if it really needed to be paying for the cost of an attorney who is assisting with the negotiations.Agenda Item - Student Learning & Achievement:Students from the first graduating class of The AVID Program at Kennedy High School came up to address the Board and speak of their experiences and future plans. Audience and Board members were visibly moved by the students' individual stories in the face of adversity. AVID is an international program designed to assist struggling students, to become college ready. Each of the 20 students will be continuing on to higher education next year -- 18 to a four-year university and two at a two-year college. The program at Kennedy High has expanded and currently there are five AVID classes, totaling 132 students. The much admired teacher who has worked with these students is AVID Coordinator, Mr. Dave Williams.Agenda Item - Budget and Finance:Assistant Superintendent of Business, Micaela Ochoa gave an overview of where the district is right now, what monies are available and asked for input on what the public and Board would like our priorities to be if further cuts are to be made. Several community meetings have been held around town, to explain the budget crisis in greater detail.Even with the uncertainty of the financial situation in Sacramento, the District still needs to go ahead and develop a budget plan. After discussion, Ochoa was given the go-ahead to build a revenue budget based on a revenue limit reduction of $679 per ADA (Average Daily Attendance). There may still be changes, but the district will need to consider various options, including class size. Board and Staff have until June 22, to adopt the final budget, but the district is still required by the State, to provide a three-year balanced budget.


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Ex-Minnesota State, Mankato coach returning to job
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The football coach fired from Minnesota State, Mankato announced Tuesday that he will return to the job after an arbitrator ruled he was wrongfully terminated, saying the decision wasn't easy but that it would help him and his family heal.
Todd Hoffner was fired last May for reasons undisclosed at the time. But the dismissal came after he was cleared of child pornography charges stemming from images of his children on a work-issued cellphone, accusations that Hoffner called the "most ridiculous things I've ever heard in my life."
"I believe that resuming my duties as head football coach will help heal that injury," he said during a tearful news conference in which he took several breaks to compose himself. He said the last two years have been a "nightmare," but that he always wanted to coach at Minnesota State, Mankato.
"I'm not interested in revenge. ... I'm not a spiteful person," he said, but added that the situation could have been handled differently.
Hoffner was hired in January as head coach at Minot State, and he said he would be "forever grateful" to the North Dakota school for hiring him when he thought he might never coach again. But he said he decided to go back to Mankato for simple reasons.
"My family lives there, we have roots there, I helped grow the program to a national power," he said.
He plans to resume his duties in Mankato on Wednesday.
Hoffner, 47, was escorted off the practice field in August 2012, then arrested and charged with child pornography after university staff found images of his naked children on a work-issued cellphone. But a judge dismissed the charges three months later, saying the videos depicted only innocent images of children acting playful after a bath.
His supporters said the school overreacted in the wake of the sex abuse scandal at Penn State, noting his high-profile arrest came just months after retired Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted of child sex abuse.
"Two years ago I sat in a jail cell overnight in an orange jumpsuit wondering why. First there was shock, then there was fear, then there was anger and ... I pulled myself together," Hoffner said Tuesday. "We had unwavering support from a lot of people."
Although the charges were dismissed, the school suspended Hoffner for 20 days and then reassigned him to an administrative role before firing him last May.
Hoffner said he views his return as a chance to renew old relationships. When asked if he was nervous to go back into an environment where he was wrongly accused, he said any awkwardness would pale in comparison to what he has already been through.
"I can handle it," he said.
The university released a statement welcoming Hoffner back as head coach.
"We extend our apologies to Mr. Hoffner and deeply regret the difficulties he and his family have experienced," the statement said. "It is our sincere hope that all concerned can now find ways to move forward."
Hoffner's civil attorney, Christopher Madel, said someone needed to be held accountable.
"What has been done to this family ... is wrong," Madel said.
Hoffner is exploring all of his legal options, and attorneys would be watching to ensure university officials do not retaliate against him, Madel said. He declined comment when asked whether the university offered Hoffner money to refuse reinstatement. University spokesman Dan Benson also declined comment, saying "when settlement discussions occur, they are confidential information."
Some of the reasons for Hoffner's firing were outlined last week in the arbitrator's decision, which is not public information but was obtained by The Free Press of Mankato.
According to the newspaper, the ruling said among other things that university President Richard Davenport wrote in a letter that Hoffner was being fired for viewing pornography on his work computer and for allowing his wife to use the device.
The arbitrator said Hoffner denied using his computer to view porn and several people had access to the device, so there was no proof to that allegation. There was evidence Hoffner's wife had used the computer, but that was not grounds for termination, the arbitrator found.
Hoffner's criminal attorney, Jim Fleming, said Minnesota State was ordered to give Hoffner his pay with interest going back to when he was fired, as well as for his 20-day suspension, and to pay the difference in his salary if he decided to work elsewhere for less.
His contract at Minot State called for him to earn $90,000 a year and ran through June 2015. Hoffner's current four-year contract with Minnesota State, Mankato, is roughly $105,800 per year, and runs through June 2018.
Minot State athletic director Rick Hedberg said the school wished Hoffner the best and hoped for closure for him and his family, but "we are disappointed that doesn't involve Minot State."
Hedberg said the school will move forward quickly to find a replacement. He has said there was nothing in Hoffner's contract to block him from leaving, and the university had no contingency plan for that possibility.
Minot State became an NCAA Division II school in 2009, after transitioning from the NAIA. The Beavers finished last season 2-9.
Minnesota State finished 11-1 and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Division II tournament under interim coach Aaron Keen. The Mavericks were 34-13 in Hoffner's four seasons there, from 2008-2012. Hoffner also coached the Mavericks to three Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference South Division championships — in 2008, 2009 and 2011.
Associated Press writer Jeff Baenen contributed to this report from Minneapolis.
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Okay so my playstation 3 has been acting really, really weird lately. Like before last night it was refusing to work. last night it worked but now it doesn't. So I was thinking about trading it in. If I trade it in how many points/ how much money would i be getting? Also I thought about maybe buying a new playstation 3. Any suggestions on what model?
What model playstation 3 should I get?
Why would you want to trade something in that is going to make someone disappointed? It might be a youngster who buys the broken PS3 you trade in. I would say play it til it dies and trash it so you don't ruin someone's day...As for the model I would get the last slim prior to super slim.
Its already dead but gamestop knows how to fix this kind of stuff. so i was originally going to trade it in and tell them it wasnt working so they'd fix it, then get my new ps3. and thanks ill look into the model.
It depends on which model PS3 you have and since it is defective they will take somewhere between $10-$20 off the trade in value to send it out to get it fixed. If you call Gamestop and they aren't super busy sometimes they will tell you how much it trades in for. Sometimes they have deals for system trade in's too (like an extra %50 or double trad in value). Check the website to see if there are any deals and take advantage of any sales or bundles they may have.
I traded in my Slim 80 gb System for 150$ in store credit, if it's not broken beyond damage they'll be able to repair it. You need to trad eit in with one controller, the power cord and AV cable or they'll deduct their value
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Fabrice Muamba broke down in tears on Thursday night as he revisited the scene of his horrific cardiac arrest for the first time.
Muamba stunned the football world on March 17 when, while playing for Bolton, he suddenly collapsed off the ball in the first half of their FA Cup tie against Tottenham at White Hart Lane.
The 24-year-old's heart stopped beating for 78 minutes hours but remarkably he made a full recovery after being rushed by ambulance to the nearby London Chest Hospital.
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Eat Your Way To Better Skin
A physician, a dermatologist, and an esthetician walk into a grocery store--what's on their shopping list? We asked Dr. Frank Lipman, physician of integrative and functional medicine (and wellness guru to Gwyneth Paltrow); board-certified dermatologist Dr. Susan Stuart; and Joanna Vargas, facialist to Michelle Williams and Emma Stone, for their take. The experts agree: choosing the right foods will actually give you more radiant, clear, and youthful-looking skin. According to Dr. Lipman, replacing foods like dairy, gluten, and sugar with foods on this list can deliver better skin in only two weeks! Vargas has seen the benefits firsthand: "I've seen clients who have had acne their whole lives stop breaking out when they changed their diet," she says. Keep reading for their recommendations. Try adding in a few servings a day to get results.
All berries are high in antioxidants like vitamin C, but blueberries have the highest content in the bunch. "Foods rich in antioxidants like blueberries and leafy greens will help the body eliminate toxins and clear up the skin," says Dr. Lipman.
Kale may be trendy right now, but it's not the only leafy green you should eat! Anything dark--like spinach, collards, broccoli, and Swiss chard--is high in vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients to help eliminate toxins in your skin, says Dr. Lipman.
"Omega-3s from wild salmon and walnuts help keep skin supple and youthful," says Dr. Lipman. According to Dr. Stuart these fatty acids--also found in flax seeds and fish oil--help your cells retain moisture.
Whole grains are superior to refined carbs in many ways--including their impact on skin. Grains like quinoa or 7 or 9-grain bread are high in selenium, an antioxidant that helps control cell damage, according to Dr. Stuart.
Need a caffeine boost? Replace coffee or soda with tea for its anti-inflammatory benefits. Vargas instructs her clients to drink mate or green tea, both high in antioxidants. Try Kusmi Tea Detox ($20), a blend of both leaves.
"Vitamin E protects skin cells from UV light and other environmental factors that generate cell-damaging free radicals," says Dr. Stuart. The best sources of E are almonds, olive oil, and avocados.
It turns out cucumbers are good for more than just de-puffing eyes. "They're high in silica, a mineral that boosts skin's moisture and elasticity," says Vargas.
Get a healthy dose of vitamin A by choosing orange fruits and veggies: the beta-carotene that gives sweet potatoes, pumpkins, carrots, and cantaloupe their hue is converted into vitamin A by your body. "If you don't have enough vitamin A in your system, your sebaceous glands can produce excess lipids, causing pimples," says Dr. Stuart.
Want to jump start your diet for better skin? Dr. Lipman will be taking over @wwwbeauty's twitter today and giving away his two-week cleanse! Tweet in questions for Dr. Lipman using #FoodForSkin to be automatically entered to win! Then log onto Twitter today, July 18, at 1 PM PST to see the answers!


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Geotools.Net is a set of .net class useful when handling geographic information. The project started as port from Java to C# of JTS 1.2. It implements the following OpenGIS specifications:
Other features include:
Please reports bugs via the SourceForge project page. You can download the source code here. Documentation for the classes can be found here as html or here as a compiled html file.
This demo allows to define two geometries using WKT and performs the intersection, union and difference operations.
This demo demonstrates converting an ESRI shapefile to WKB and then producing SVG to produce an interactive map. By default the Mercator projection is used. Here the Albers projection is used. This is an adaptation of the Vienna demo by Andreas Neumann at www.carto.net.
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Reviewed By Robert V (JACKSONVILLE, FL) Reviewed for a 2009 Scion xB —12/16/2012 8:16 AM
These lights look great! The instructions included are terrible and really do not help at all.Do not cut any wires use the existing wiring harness. I went to the internet and found the information needed to complete the installation. It is very simple once you find the information to complete the installation. The manufacturer could include the diagrams to make this install seamless.


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Halfway through Jake Shimabukuro's new album, "Grand Ukulele," Alan Parsons' uninflected monotone breaks in to paraphrase the immortal words of actor Christopher Walken: "My name is Alan Parsons. I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more ukulele. Got to have more ukulele."
The moment is a jarring one, but not unexpected. As with his other ukulele-driven albums, the Japanese-American virtuoso's new recording is filled with stripped-down, jazz-combo-style cuts. But this one is juiced with intense (but not overly intrusive) orchestration by onetime Beatles and Pink Floyd collaborator Parsons and covers of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep," "Over the Rainbow" and Sting's "Fields of Gold."
"It was the greatest recording experience of my life," Shimabukuro says of the album released last month, speaking by phone from his tour bus in Seattle. "I couldn't tell if [Parsons] was joking or serious when he asked [to produce the album]. You don't think of a solo ukulele record when you think of Alan. You're thinking 'Dark Side of the Moon,' 'Eye in the Sky.' "
But letting Parsons assume orchestral control over "Grand Ukulele" was just fine by the Hawaii-born musician, whose performance Friday at the Kravis Center comes the night before his 36th birthday. His young and prolific solo career has been filled with these boundary-pushing moments, starting when a 2006 YouTube video of the artist performing a muscular rendition of George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" went viral.
"I got into blues and rock guys — especially Eddie Van Halen — when I was young, but it never dawned on me to put the ukulele down and pick up a guitar," Shimabukuro recalls. "The energy of rock shows is so intoxicating. That's what a ukulele concert should seem like. I didn't care about the music I played. I wanted the energy and excitement. I want to be on my feet, running stage left to stage right, and if it was safe, I want to be stage-diving."
Shimabukuro's wanderlust with his four-stringed instrument hasn't gone unnoticed. He's toured with Jimmy Buffet and Bette Midler and met the Queen of England, and his emotive cover songs prompted that other high-profile partisan of the almighty uke, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, to tell Rolling Stone, "Jake is taking the instrument to a place that I can't see anybody else catching up with him."
Then, there was the time he punched out a quasi-symphonic cover of "Bohemian Rhapsody" during a 2010 TED talk, stamping the operatic Queen song with a crash of frenetic strumming and rhythmic fretboard-tapping, which he says was done all in service of "experimenting with the ukulele." And, well, because he could.
"There's one thing to make a song recognizable, by playing the melody and some of the chords," Shimabukuro says. "But to actually capture the soul of the song, with Freddie Mercury's conviction — that's the hard part. That's what will drive you crazy. I locked myself in my room for months until I got 'Bohemian Rhapsody' right. I perform it at every show, but I have to take a deep breath beforehand."
Play the video above to hear Shimabukuro play a 45-second excerpt of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep."
Jake Shimabukuro
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I dont know where to go for this, but Im trying to create a slideshow based off of pictures in a directory on my webpage. Some people are telling me its .php, some people are telling me its jquery, I dont know anything about advanced coding like that. Can someone refer me to a code and tell me exactly how to use it? What im wanting is a automatic slideshow, that can control the intervals between each picture, and restart itself once its over. The problem is, ive been searching for so long, and all the ones im finding are very fancy, and have buttons for controlling the speed and pausing the show, and nice looking banners and stuff. All I want is the raw slideshow displaying only the images within the browser and nothing else. Can anyone help me or point me in a correct direction. I need this pretty bad. Ive seen once where its structured like this- domainname.com/folder/slideshow.php and once you go to this link, it starts the slideshow automatically like I described above. Thank you for your time!


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It is odd isn't it. I equate it to specifically and emphatically telling your kid "do not put this fork in that electrical socket. Why? Just don't" then handing them the fork pointing at the socket a couple of times before walking away


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In children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), there is an ongoing pattern of uncooperative, defiant, and hostile behavior toward authority figures that seriously interferes with the youngster's day to day functioning.
All children are oppositional from time to time, particularly when tired, hungry, stressed or upset. They may argue, talk back, disobey, and defy parents, teachers, and other adults. Oppositional behavior is often a normal part of development for two to three year olds and early adolescents.However, openly uncooperative and hostile behavior becomes a serious concern when it is so frequent and consistent that it stands out when compared with other children of the same age and developmental level and when it affects the child's social, family, and academic life.
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Considered resources for experts, mental health professional and physicians, AACAP's practice parameters were developed to guide clinical decision making. They show the best treatments and the range of treatment options available to families living with childhood and adolescent mental illness.
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== Inter-Process Communication Drives Response Time ==
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By [[Randy.stafford|Randy Stafford]]
By [[Randy.stafford|Randy Stafford]]
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Inter-Process Communication Drives Response Time
It is widely recognized that response time performance is a critical factor in the usability of software. Few things are as frustrating, in the context of our busy lives, as waiting excessively for some software system to respond to a stimulus we've given it, especially when our interaction with the software involves repeated pairs of stimulus and slow response. We feel as if the software's poor performance is wasting our time and affecting our productivity.
However the causes of poor response time performance are less appreciated, especially in modern applications. Even recent Application Performance Management literature, for example, still discusses the choice of collection data structure and sorting algorithm, despite decades of Moore's Law effect since that choice might have dominated application performance characteristics.
My experience over the past 15 years of architecting multi-tier enterprise applications has repeatedly been that the number of inter-process communications (IPCs) in response to a stimulus is the primary driver of response time performance.
While there can sometimes be other causes in isolation or in the aggregate, it is intuitively obvious that the number of inter-process communications will usually dominate. Each inter-process communication contributes some non-negligible latency to the overall response time, and these individual latency contributions sum up in the overall response time, especially when they are incurred sequentially.
A prime example is the phenomenon of "ripple loading" [Fowler PoEAA p.202] in an application using object-relational mapping. Ripple loading refers to the sequential execution of many database calls to select the data needed for building a graph of objects in the database client process. When the database client process is a middle-tier application server rendering a web-based user interface page, these database calls are likely executed sequentially in a single thread, and their individual latencies contribute to the overall response time. Even if each database call takes only 10ms, a page requiring 1000 calls (which is not uncommon) will exhibit at least a 10-second response time.
Database interaction is but one example of inter-process communication. Others include web service invocation, HTTP requests from a web browser, distributed object invocation, request-reply messaging, and data grid interaction over custom network protocols. The more complex an application's response to a stimulus, in terms of the number of inter-process communications (of whatever kind) are involved in the response, the greater the response time will be.
Thus application architects need to be mindful of the ratio of inter-process communications per stimulus in their application architectures. This metric, in my experience, is the prime determinant of response time performance. When I have had to analyze and optimize the performance of specific poorly-performing application use cases, I have often found IPC-to-stimulus ratios in the thousands-to-one.
The strategies for reducing the ratio of inter-process communications per stimulus are relatively few, and relatively obvious or well known. One is to apply the principle of parsimony, by optimizing the interface between processes so that exactly the right data for the purpose at hand is exchanged with the minimum amount of interaction. Another is to parallelize the inter-process communications where possible, so that the overall response time becomes driven mainly by the longest-latency IPC. And a third is to cache the results of previous IPCs, so that future IPCs may be avoided by hitting local cache instead.
That the number of inter-process communications in response to a stimulus is the dominant factor in response time performance seems intuitively obvious, and has been repeatedly demonstrated in my experience with enterprise application performance analysis. But I find it necessary and beneficial to state it here in axiomatic form, as I continue to encounter application architects who have yet to appreciate this lesson, to the detriment of our profession.
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Police use pepper spray on a baby squirrel
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It was probably rabid, people. It's not like he did it for FUN. Good christ, get all the information before you start sharpening your pitchforks.
here's all i have to say....
Rabies is bad mmm'kay?
but seriously, you can look at a video with almost no context and presume to judge the people in it? I have no fucking idea what was happening, but I'm going to save my mood and assume that the animal was suspected of rabies, and the only stupid thing that happened was not getting the students inside.
Just thought I'd quote this, on the off-chance that more people will see it and stop freaking out over nothing.
Man, this place has really developed a pattern, hasn't it? The above conversation could be expanded for half the threads on this site.[1]
Person 1: Look at this horrible news story! It's a tragedy!
[1] EXAGGERATION! Don't quote me to say that it's not really half the threads, I KNOW.
or a diseased flea
a rodent dose not have the same immune system humans have(hence the reason they dont live as long) they can get diseases from anything
it was acting out of the ordnary and there were children the cop took action to minimize risk to himself and those around him.
Its expensive to treat($500-$1000) its a few shots over a week and its painful(he also cant work for that period of time)
Not everywhere has animal control often cops are the ones that have to deal with them
in bigger city's cops are called then they call animal control
Only in America...
And don't make me remind anyone that pepper spray is 100% non-lethal.
Point being?
Biology was not your strong subject, was it?
I'm sorry but I laughed out loud when i read this
Alright, I'm gonna stop reading this thread before I headdesk.
Maybe most of you should join PETA, huh?
OMG maybe next time he should let tge damn squirel bite someone, but then you same people crying about the squirel would complain that the officer just stood there and did nothing while a squirel bit someone. give me a break.
I've never seen a rabid squirrel before; it is actually funny to see a squirrel approach someone. They usually flee.
Police love to spray squirrels
Interesting video. I guess the fact that it could have had rabies makes this understandable, but then again PETA would argue innocent until proven guilty. (Equality!)
No one is safe from police mace brutality!
Good thing this site's crack team of zoologists are able to figure out that baby squirrels don't act that way.
I don't know any better, but a few summers ago there was a baby squirrel on my porch that came right up to me because it was starved and dehydrated. I fed it and gave it water and it slept on my lap in a towel for a few hours. I then released it back outside and off it went looking just fine. Also, squirrels aren't known to get rabies. Just something I found out from using Google.
Yeah, its treatable. However, my brother got bit and if I recall it took multiple extremely painful shots to treat.
I wouldn't expect anyone to go through that for a random squirrel.
Sure, because squirrels usually hop towards humans in the first place. He did it safely, and he did no permanent harm to the squirrel.
Definitely a wrong course of action there.
Just throwing out thoughts here, but the police department is likely to be one of those silly institutions that gives out medical insurance to it's employees? And even they somehow didn't, if he's called to be there and take care of it, it's a work-related injury, so the department pays for it.
Also, to repeat again, there's no guarantee he'd get bitten, nor even one that the squirrel is infected. The chances of both being true are actually not that big.
As for whether there's animal control... I could be wrong, but those sound like American accents. Even if it was a backwater place and it doesn't look like it from the video, America's pretty well covered with animal control services as far as I'm aware.
They're killers. All of them.
... what? Did you think I meant the popo's?
Sorry, when you have a two legged, black, red eyed demon squirrel living in your back yard as a kid, you tend to not like them...
I don't mean to say that your comments are incorrect or misguided... but do you really think he just sprayed that squirrel because it was a 'health hazard'? I really did NOT get that impression from watching this.
I know pepper spray is non-lethal, but it seems like it's the number 1 answer to most of a police officer's problems these days : /
I don't know the specifics but I DO know America is at least marketed as being one of the least likely places to have animal problems in the entire world.
and proud of it!!!
Would you want to try physically stop a police officer who just maced a squirrel?
You'd either be maced yourself and/or arrested.
Ohhhh yeaaaaaaa!
Why was everyone backing away from the squirrel? Did it have a knife that wasn't shown in the video?
Damn police, you scary!
It's a baby squirrel...why is it that the police seems to pepper spray everything with pathetic strength these days?
when a problem can be solved with tossing a shoe box, the pepper spray is not required.
You know, this will probably catch me some flak, but here goes.
If you manage to get bit by a baby squirrel. Think about that one for a second. Baby. Squirrel. How the hell you gonna manage to protect the other people in the vicinity? Couldn't he have used a less harmful way to deter said baby squirrel? Like shooing it away with a broom? The spray just seems like overkill!
Granted I never read the link as I had just gotten home from 12 hours shift, although that's not much of an excuse for not following that through.
(captcha: see qualtha) (who the hell is qualtha and what do I need to go see her for anyways?!)
Later all, gotta go see qualtha now.
You want a human shot for doing no permanent harm to an animal for his attempt to protect children WITHOUT killing the animal.
You need to reexamine your thinking.
Good to see people care more about animals then their fellow human kind. But if the squirrel was rabid then yeah you kinda need to knock it out so you can catch it and have it studied. And to everyone else who thinks the cop should be shot I rather you live with wild animals and see how long you last with them.
Ok, for arguments sake, lets say the squirrel had crazy foaming at the mouth full blown rabies. How does macing it help anything? If it has infectious rabies, it should be put down and quickly. I fail to see how spraying it would fix the problem. It might not come after the officer anymore, but if it goes from being too friendly to terrified and takes off, how many more rabies squirrels will you create?
Sounds more like stupidity than anything. Assuming the little dude had rabies to begin with... Its cruel and stupid no matter how you look at it.
Also, a squirrel with no fear of humans near a school full of giggling girls is not surprising to me at all. The hospital i used to work at had tons of squirrels living around it. You could feed them from your hand because for ages everyone had thought they were cute and fed them so they learned not to fear. I used to have one that would scream at my apartment window for food all the time too. A squirrel coming up to you is quite common. People think they're cute, is it so shocking that maybe a baby squirrel might have been 'taught' not to fear the school full of kids that probably feed them?
We need someone to police the police, there are so many brutalities. This in particular isn't much worse than what quite a few teenagers do, but to see such sadistic behavior in an "enforcer of the law" makes me wish it weren't virtually impossible to win a self-defense case when you were defending yourself against the cops.
Momentary discomfort of one animal for the prevention of possible harm to one or more persons.
I don't know. Some animals shouldn't be underestimated,.....
I would have stamped on it tbh. If I had to put it down and it had rabies - it's probably the fastest way bar blowing it away with a gun.
there in Texas(read the article not just the video) it even links the school there at
Just because HMO's should cover something doesn't mean the cop should put himself in the spot to have to get a rabbits shot+whatever else the thing may carry(and he whould need the shots regardless of the animal having anything or not) and miss a week+ of work to not put the animal in some discomfit for 10min while the thing is moved. He took the action he thought was best suited for getting all party out unharmed. He succeed(no children,him,or the squirrel was hurt)
Is that an exact damn quote from the article then? I assume it is, since you seem to be oh so adamant about that sort of thing. Because from what I read it didn't give any confirmation towards the claim either way.
FYI I did indeed read all like 3 paragraphs of the article before commenting, but seeing as the writers on that obscure little website decided it was such a non-story that they didn't need to go into detail or even update it at all, all we have to go on here is speculation. Certainly something deserving of you to jump down my very throat about. It's okay, in the end people like you make the world a better place, what with all your reactionary bullshit.
TL;DR: A squirrel got maced, big deal. I lol'd by the way.
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Just a nitpick, but they use the word "veneer" several times in the abstract. It makes it sound like a thin solid sheet of precious metal. That's not what they're trying to imply. They're trying to emphasize the "thinness" of it, but not really getting the "scattered" part.
Probably "dusting" has some specific connotation to geologists. Maybe "scattering" would suit the situation.
You're right that it would have started out as a "dusting" or "scattering", but once you melt the crust and upper mantle, mix it up, and the whole thing starts cooling down and solidifying, it would be more like a "veneer" of comparatively enriched rock (enriched compared to what you would expect). But you're also right that it isn't a thin sheet of metal, we're talking about trace amounts distributed in the rock and which get subsequently concentrated into ore deposits mainly by transporting gold in solut
All of the gold, platinum, and other precious metals originally on Earth were sucked into Earth's molten iron core soon after our planet formed...
Now I know where I can find all the gold! CHA-CHING!
I've read the abstract but it's not clear that they're talking about enormous quantities of added gold/platinum/whatever. One interesting thing about gold, silver, copper, platinum, and some of the other precious metals is that they're soluble in hot water, so what you form is these huge underground plumes of rising hot water, over local hot magma areas, and the plumes are filled with dissolved metals. When the water rises enough it cools and the metals precipitate out -- primarily in cracks through which the water moves, forming veins that contain very high concentrations of precious metals. These plumes can be many, many miles high, and can pull up/concentrate metals from significant depths, so it's not clear to me that early gravity sorting of heavy metals downwards would result in no heavy metals at the surface. (An interesting side-note is that since each metal has a different solubility in water, as the water rises and cools, different metals precipitate out at different points, so if you find silver you're likely to find at least some gold nearby, but most likely not at exactly the same spot.) Note that I'm not a geologist, just an amateur gold hunter, but this is the explanation I've been given by my geologist friends.
You are quite correct. Best gold reserves are located in or near former vents.
Gold is also precipitated by some bacteria using it as a catalyst to generate energy.
Anyone who knows anything about paleogeology and ore body formation knows that the submitter's article summary is wrong.
Ore bodies formed in a number of different ways and not all of the heavy elements "were sucked into Earth's molten iron core soon after our planet formed."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ore#Ore_deposits [wikipedia.org]
While some metals found on the surface probably came from asteroids (Platinum group), that isn't true for the bulk of heavy elements and ore bodies.
Of course all the heavier elements came from
Not to mention that asteroids can cause sizeable ore deposits without bearing the ore themselves. A good example is the Creighton nickel/copper/platinum-group metal deposit under Sudbury, Ontario. The area was struck by a huge asteroid 1.85B years ago, which blasted out a large chunk of the crust. The huge transient crater (250km across -- contrast with 170km for Chicxulub) then became filled with a mantle melt plume, yielding large amounts of heavier metals close to the surface.
Of course all the heavier elements came from the star that was around here before our Sun and solar system formed, but that doesn't mean what we find on the surface all came from meteorites and asteroids after the planet's formation.
So what you're saying is that we are stardust, we are golden?
Add on the fact the gold itself could be elevating the boiling point of the water when both are already highly pressurized and you'll discover why marble is such a pretty rock!
Your comments about the non-zero solubility of [anything] in hot water are not incorrect, but not relevant to this work.
The LHB veneer idea doesn't claim that there would be no siderophile elements at the Earth's surface after segregation of the core. It simply states that the early mantle and the early segregating core would have been in (approximate) chemical equilibrium, and consequently the concentrations of different elements in the iron-rich phase compared to the silicate-rich phase would have approximated towards the concentrations predicted from the partition coefficients of the relevant species in the relevant conditions. (This is a tautology - that is what "partition coefficient" means ; whether the conditions approached equilibrium is a more moot point, but they would probably have satisfied my Mantle Petrology tutor's criteria of being to more than 100km depth for more than 100 million years, which is a regime not terribly amenable to experiment.)
However, when one does the sums, and plugs in the experimental data that one has, one finds that there is, in most mantle samples from 3+ billion years ago and 100+km below the surface, more of various elements, including tungsten, gold, PGEs, etc., which should have been taken core-wards with the differentiation of the planet. So, either the segregation process and the rates of diffusion were less efficient than we have reason to believe, or there is something peculiar going on.
It gets more peculiar though
So in some places the process works as expected, and in others, it doesn't. Which is damned peculiar. And that peculiarity is what makes them come up with the model of late accretion of a modest amount of (undepleted chondritic) material onto the upper surface of the mantle after the accumulation of 90%+ of the Earth and the segregation of the core.
That puts it into the time scale appropriate for the (probable) Moon-forming Giant Impact, and for the considerably later "Late Heavy Bombardment", but I've not yet seen anyone explicitly linking the 3 events into two or even one event.
Memo to self : must make time to attend the next public lecture I hear of being given by Moorbath; this is a dead-interesting topic.
While I'm sure that some precious metals have arrived from space after the earth's accretion, I think it's rather a stretch to think that the concentration in places like South Dakota or Alaska/Yukon are the result of impact events.
It's true that these elements settled into lower strata, but it must also be remembered that many volcanic events are fueled by plumes of material that emanate from the core itself (the Yellowstone Caldera is believed to be such). That certain metals were concentrated in the lower strata during Earth's early formation does not mean that 100% of them stayed there.
I think there is a slight misunderstanding here. Even the so-called mantle "superplumes" only originate at the core-mantle boundary; it is not generally considered (afaik) that they actually involve any significant amount of core material. The density difference between the liquid outer core and the lower mantle is too great for significant amounts of the core to join an upwelling through the less-dense mantle, even if significantly hotter. These plumes are generally considered to be made up of mantle mater
I would like to also point out that at any time magma can touch these formations deep within the core through shifts in the tectonic plates, thereby completely melting any deposit of precious ore. Where does this magma bring these materials in liquid form, probably where most people are really thinking of,
such as the upper depths and not the lower ones......or the lower ones...bringing them to the next shifted region.....etc....
I also think at some point if a crater was created by a striking meteor, contain
'Meteorites' brought everything to Earth.
Iceland != Greenland.
In fact, it wouldn't make a speck of sense if it was Iceland being studied, because Iceland is a geologically very young volcanic island with rocks no more than ~40 million years old, whereas the rocks being studied in this paper are 4 billion years or so and among the oldest on Earth. The whole point of the paper is to show that tungsten isotopes have changed over Earth history, and that the change happened quite early. They do compare the old Greenland tungsten isotopic measurements to more recent igneous rocks such as the ones from Iceland, but you could have as easily mentioned Hawaii, the Azores, the Canary Islands, and several other "recent" locations used for the comparison. Iceland isn't special in that respect.
The premise of this paper is that the difference can be explained if the early Earth (>4 billion or so) chemically differentiated initially and most of the siderophile elements (things like tungsten, gold, platinum, etc.) sank to the core during that process, leaving the surface rocks more depleted. That's the time the Greenland samples may represent. Then at a younger time, speculated to be near the ~3.8 billion year late heavy bombardment [wikipedia.org], a bunch more meteoritic stuff was dumped on the top (more siderophile-enriched), mixed into the upper part of the mantle, and igneous rocks have been generated mainly from that upper mantle source ever since (including the more modern samples they are comparing to, and also the ~2 billion-year-old samples they also show). There are other scenarios, but it is plausible and ties in with other evidence about the late heavy bombardment (such as Nd isotopic data from Sm/Nd and Hf/W dating). They model the effects of some alternative models and show those models can't easily be used to explain what is seen. It's a pretty testable hypothesis as people continue to do tungsten isotope studies on rocks of a variety of ages before and after the late heavy bombardment. This is a pretty bold paper.
I don't understand. Why should tungsten isotopic abundances change over time on Earth as compared to in space?
Is is because the core has become enriched in heavier elements and that tungsten isotopes are formed as fission products of a depleted crust?
"I don't understand. Why should tungsten isotopic abundances change over time on Earth as compared to in space?"
Do you *really* want me to try to explain that?
Okay, first of all there are several isotopes of tungsten (W). The ones relevant in this paper are 182W and 184W. These are both stable, non-radioactive isotopes, but the 182W is also produced by the decay of radi
Wow! Thanks for your substantial effort to educate me. I think I do follow what you wrote.
The key point is that you say HF and W behave different chemically. I was of the impression that isotopes of the same element always behave alike chemically.
My degree is in geology; while I have no problem with the idea that some of the deposits came from asteroids and the like, there are far too many other ways that many of these deposits can be formed here on earth. I know that for precious metals like gold and silver, hydro-thermal deposits are quite common sources of these ores (with a large number of these being found in or around granite sources.)
The question isn't really about where the deposits near the surface come from; these are almost always the product of circulation of water/rock through the crust and upper mantle, as you suggest. The question is why these very dense minerals are available in the upper mantle/crust to be deposited in the first place. Going by density alone, one would expect that the same processes that resulted in an iron/nickel core during early stages of the formation of the Earth would result in the majority of precious m
There be gold in that there core! Stake a claim and start a digging! Yea Haw we're gonna strick it rich.
'Icelandic Rock' was ABBA's greatest rival in the late 70's. They did indeed bring much gold [wikipedia.org] to earth.
It sounds like any time geologists can't figure something out, the answer is "meteors". From life, to water, to now gold and silver, the refrain is "meteors". Kinda starting to sound a bit repetitive over the past decade, or is it just me? I am obviously not a geologist.
Vikings carried it there.
Or it could have been a swallow
(Erik the Viking was written by the same people that wrote Monty Python)
Forget Earth--go to the Moon or Mars for getting the goodies closer to or at the core. Sure, both still have molten gooey centers but we can get a lot closer to the center than here on Earth. After all, if one says meteorites brought metals to Earth the same deal applies to the Moon especially since it used to be part of Earth. (No doubt stirring the pot when that happened...)
Heck, digging deep enough to get heat and power from the core would make it much less likely for a stray meteorite to wipe out your l
... precious-metal-bearing meteorites struck Earth around this time, coating the planet in a veneer containing gold, platinum, and other elements long after their native counterparts had disappeared into the planet's core."
Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm sure you will), but isn't the present theory of the origin of the Earth that it was formed by meteoritic bombardment? Where would these so-called "native counterparts" have come from except from said meteors? This summary suggests all the glittery stuff came from the stragglers of the same event.
Isn't the Earth considered to be about 4 billion years old? In other words, WTF is the summary suggesting (besides a monumental lack of reading comprehension)?!?
What are "4-billion-old rocks" [sic].
[I won't bother to mention the Greenland/Iceland confusion as others are carrying that torch well already.]
A collective faceplant rang out like a thunderclap as all the under-employed geeks wondered how people like that get and retain employment.
Here's an idea. Maybe
Or, is this a cleverly devised feature of
Well then, if a significant amount of gold came from meteorite bombardment. Then doesn't it hold that our local asteroid fields should have vast amounts of the stuff? Shouldn't a spectral scan of the sky hint at all this?
Let's go get some.
Mining in space will be important, but it's unlikely to be important or cost effective to get the materials back to Earth. Whatever is ultimately mined in space will likely stay in space to build things there.
Not so. It's easy to get things back to Earth once you get out there. Sure, it's very expensive to get there, but so long as you're prepared to stay for a long time you can amortize over the mission.
The delta-V you'd need to hit a 3-5 years delivery window from the asteroid belt to Earth would be pre
That seems logical. The earth and the other rocky planets' native heavy metals sank to their respective cores during formation. The asteroid belt being either the result of the breakup of a planet or its failure to form would consist of deposits of these materials randomly distributed throughout the belt.
the denser metals such as Cu, Pt, Ni, Ag, and Au should have started to stratify over 4B years. Therefore, what we need is a really big straw, about 4000mi/6400km long to stick into the earth's core and pump out all the those valuable metals. The straw will probably need to be made of graphite and/or carbon nanotubes to handle the heat. On the plus side, it may be a diamond when we remove it.
Think of the side benefits. We can pump iron and transuranic wastes in to replace what we're drawing out. The transur
Rock acts differently under the kinds of pressures you get when you get close to the mantle.
From what I understand, it can flow to some degree, even in solid form. Thus, your well keeps trying to collapse while you're drilling. Also, with the high pressures come high temperatures, and it's difficult to drill in high temperature situations (this is what shut down the Kola Borehole in Russia).
Drilling is also really expensive, and it gets more so the deeper you go. You need special (read: expensive) materi
I guess you missed the "really big straw". The whole thing was satire.
"Really big straw" is a fair description of deep well drilling, and there are a lot of (uninformed) people who think drilling into the mantle can be done using current generation technology. The government has assigned grants for projects that would lay the groundwork for your straw.
So while your post may have been satirical, it wasn't really all that farfetched.
I'm familiar with DSDP, ODP, IODP, and Kola. And yes, drilling into rock at 180c-300c requires some engineering. But we have cutting tools that handle much higher temperatures than that. The bottom line is that we've drilled only a little deeper (about 900m) than the Challenger Deep in the Mariani Trench, the lowest known place on earth. Kola only made it about 1/3 of the estimated distance through the crust.
And then we need a really big straw.
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Gallery: Vogue Australia Jumps On The Plus Size Bandwagon, With Sexy Results
What's the first thing you notice about model Robyn Lawley? I'd venture to guess it's how utterly gorgeous she is. That's probably why Vogue Australia decided to feature her in their first ever plus-size editorial. You may also remember her from the cover of Vogue Italia. While that shoot was undeniably hot, it's nice to see a mainstream fashion magazine let a plus size model wear clothes for once. I'm even willing to forgive editor-in-chief Kristie Clements' skinny-as-go-to-compliment statement that "she doesn't actually look plus size to me at all now." It's okay to think plus-size women are hot, Kristie! But it seems like she's at least on the right track, so I'll let it slide.
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Biofiltration Swales and Strips - Examples
These examples are taken from roadway projects for several Districts and demonstrate several ways to indicate biofiltration swales on plans.
- Bioswale D1a.pdf
- Bioswale D3a.pdf
- Bioswale DD-0a.pdf
- Bioswale DD-13a.pdf
- Bioswale Example-1.pdf
- Q_Sheet_strip_and_swale.pdf
- Bioswale_I-80RichPrk.jpg
- Bioswale_Hwy92_SMBridge_5-07.jpg
Drainage plans indicating bioswales in the legend and with call-outs.
Drainage details describing the shape and grading of the bioswales.
Erosion control plans showing hydroseeding and planting.
Quantity summary sheet showing bioswale and biostrip locations for erosion control materials.
Photo of bioswale at Richmond Parkway along Contra Costa 80.
Photo of bioswale along Route 92 near the San Mateo Hayward Bridge.
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trubadour wrote:Seems strange how many posters here seem to be able to accept that people have, say, that fixed commuter face in London but can't accept that people have a similarly fixed face thing going on here!
I am sure that is something one can see in many cities in various countries on several continents. And i haven't noticed anybody objecting to that observation. OTOH, the objection that started this thread seems to have been triggered by someone's suggestion that old people in Taiwan must be unhappy because they don't smile - that suggestion is in my view at best a hasty conclusion, i.e., nothing more than a guess, related to insufficient experience (with this I agree with the point the OP - of this, the forked off, thread - appears to have tried to make).
It all comes off like a strange case of exceptionalism to object to this particular generalisation.
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Which generalization are you speaking of here?
at least two caveats: that they should beware of drawing false conclusions
Here we speak the same language!
they aught to try to evaluate the validity of said conclusions by other means (but what further means are there but more observation and knowledge obtained by other sources)
Exactly - that goes a long way toward preventing false conclusions! Floating a hypothesis on the flob and thus inviting a discussion is one of those means that some can use - and through the discussion that has ensued it has perhaps become obvious already that not every suggestion about why Taiwanese people (or a subset of them) do what they do holds up to scrutiny. So everybody is a winner, no? BTW, I don't agree with the assessment "awful thread" - I think the other thread is quite educational and
"very normal" (by flob standards) - but the term "awful" is an emotional expression that at the time seemed right for the OP, and i feel free to leave that aside and concern myself with the ideas that have come out of this discussion (as a multicultural person with life experience in several countries I find discussions of this sort a great opportunity for learning and teaching ).


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Charles Robert Francis (b: May 19, 1875 Doylestown, Pennsylvania–July 15, 1946) was a Marine Private who was awarded the Medal of Honor for actions on June 21, 1900, near Tientsin, China during the Boxer Rebellion. He later obtained the rank of Sergeant Major. Sergeant Major Francis is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, California Sec 5, Lot 737, Grave 5.
Francis, Charles Robert, Private, U.S. Marine Corps, G.O. Navy Department, No.55, July 19, 1901


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he neon brights that peppered the 1980s are back, in fashion and d?or. Highlighter hues and glow-in-the-dark tints provide a shot of adrenaline after a few seasons of mellow, mushroom-y color palettes.
Of course, these colors aren't for everyone. But if you're ready to play, here are some options and expert advice on how to go sassy but stylish.
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Forum Post: On Education, Barack Obama is the President of Privatization. Can We Stop Him? Will We?
Posted 5 years ago on Feb. 23, 2013, 3:30 a.m. EST by PeterKropotkin
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by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
By the time his term is over, President Obama and his Race To The Top program will have forced the closure and privatization of thousands of inner-city schools, a feat no white Republican or Democrat could have accomplished. But he'll only be president 4 more years. If we can stop this now, his successors won't be able to do this again. Can we? Will we? On Education, Barack Obama is the President of Privatization. Can We Stop Him? Will We?
Last year we asked why the announcement that the city of Philadelphia planned to close 40 more public schools over the next few months wasn't national news. This year, we could ask the same about Chicago, where officials have announced plans to close more than a hundred schools, or about Los Angeles, New York, Cleveland, Atlanta and dozens of other cities.
The national wave of school closings not national news because our nation's elite, from Wall Street and the hedge fund guys to the chambers of commerce and the business establishment, from corporate media and all the elite politicians of both parties from the president down to local mayors and state legislators are working diligently to privatize public education as quickly as possible. They're not stupid. They've done the polling and the focus groups. They know with dead certainty that the p-word is massively unpopular, and that parents, teachers, students and communities aren't clamoring to hand schools over to greedy profiteers. On every level, the advocates of educational privatization strive to avoid using the p-word. They deliberately mislabel charter schools, just as unaccountable as every other private business in the land as "public charter schools," because after all, they use public money. So do Boeing, Lockheed, General Dynamics, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, but nobody calls these "public aerospace companies," "public military contractors," or "public banks." For the same reason, corporate media refuse to cover the extent of the school closing epidemic, or local opposition to it, for fear of feeding the development of a popular movement against privatization, and Race To The Top, the Obama administration's signature public education initiative, and the sharp edge of the privatizers, literally driving the wave of school closings, teacher firings, and the adoption of "run-the-school-like-a-business" methods everywhere.
The privatizers know the clock is ticking. They know that no white Republican or Democrat could have successfully closed thousands of schools, mainly in the inner city and low-income neighborhoods without a tidal wave of noisy opposition. No white Republican or Democrat could have fired or replaced tens of thousands of experienced, mostly black qualified, experienced classroom teachers with younger, whiter, cheaper "graduates" of 5 week "teacher training" programs like Teach For America.
President Obama's black face, and the connivance of the black political class of which he is the reigning exemplar enables the implementation of right wing policies in the areas of war and peace, in growing the police and prison states, in shrinking the parts of the state that protect economic and civil rights, in guaranteeing Big Oil, Wall Street and other corporate malefactors continued immunity and impunity, in privatizing the Postal Service and of course public education. That's the bad news. The good news is that Barack Obama will only be president less than four more years. If a noisy, contentious, civilly disobedient popular movement to protect public education can be brought into existence in the next year this president and our turncoat black political class can be stopped. The clock is ticking for us too.
The privatizers know that this is their chance to succeed. We must this is our best chance to stop them.
What can we do? What can you do?
If you live in one of the hundreds of jurisdictions that elect school board members in November 2013, now is the time to call your neighbors together and choose which one of you will be a candidate. School board elections are low impact, low budget, low attention and low turnout affairs, the most favorable electoral terrain for amateur and grassroots activists. In Georgia the Green Party will be calling together search and support committees to seek and support school board candidates who oppose privatization. So if you live in Georgia you can email me. My email is at the end of this article.
Join or start an organization of parents, teachers, students or all three in your neighborhood to halt the privatizations. Next week Black Agenda Report will have a resource page for school activists, from which you can read and download materials that will help you educate and inform your neighbors and co-workers on the issue of school privatization. You can join the parents, students and teachers who are coming to DC the first week of April to Occupy the Department of Education. We'll have more information here at Black Agenda Report on that too. The clock is ticking. Once we lose the public schools we won't get them back. And if we can stop the black President of Privatization from doing this to us, it should be easy to prevent the next white one from continuing this evil and destructive policy.


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Wallpaper Season - Outback Bowl (Pirate Gibbons Edition)
So, here's a quick Outback Bowl wallpaper for you all featuring "Captain Gibbons" and his parrot. This was a fun wallpaper to make, so I hope you enjoy it and get a chuckle out of seeing Gibbons as his boyhood dream. Now, let's kick some South Carolina/SEC ass!
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...and decides to reevaluate his kicker recruiting.
I smell an MgoT-Shirt candidate for next year with that Gibbons Pirate avatar.
I'd replace the skull and bones with a block M, otherwise, very well done.
I am impressed by the structural integrity of that Bloomin' Onion dipping sauce.
I saw this picture and thought it would make a really cool background for the offseason if you were to do your magic, if you felt like it. I would, but am not photoshop-inclined just yet, though I plan on learning.
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I am travelling quiet a bit and am looking for a smart way to take the slimbox along.
In most hotels I can connect wireless with the laptop and squeezbox.
I had planned to take my slimbox on the trip. But that means take along: the BOX, Powersupply and a pair of powered speakers.
To be honest I like to travel light. Having had a look at my trolley I think I will emdedd the box and speakers in the suitcase in some way.
Any suggestions or comments?
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2006-02-04, 01:28 #1
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Slimbox for travellers
2006-02-04, 01:40 #2
Well, a comment more than a suggestion: personally I wouldn't bother with the Squeezebox in this situation. Why not plug the speakers straight into the laptop? Play the music with Softsqueeze or indeed anything else.
I'd have thought the main reasons for using a Squeezebox in the first place were (1) the ability to get very high quality sound and (2) removing the computer from the place where you are playing the music, neither of which applies here.
Just a thought.
2006-02-04, 08:03 #3
I have to agree that I'm not sure that I can see the advantage in bringing the SB. Could you explain your reasoning a little please?
2006-02-04, 09:13 #4
Slimbox for travellers
klausbgva wrote:
> I am travelling quiet a bit and am looking for a smart way to take the
> slimbox along.
> In most hotels I can connect wireless with the laptop and squeezbox.
> I had planned to take my slimbox on the trip. But that means take
> along: the BOX, Powersupply and a pair of powered speakers.
> To be honest I like to travel light. Having had a look at my trolley I
> think I will emdedd the box and speakers in the suitcase in some way.
> Any suggestions or comments?
Softsqueeze and an SSH tunnel works wonders. It's through the laptop
speakers, which may be an issue if you're an audiophile. I also use
Last.fm radio when I'm on the road, as they have more bandwidth than my
If you build a bunch of jerry-rigged kit into your suitcase, you're
going to look rather suspicious in the security line... prepare for lots
of unwanted attention when you'd rather be getting on the plane.
Jack at Monkeynoodle dot Org: It's a Scientific Venture...
Riding the Emergency Third Rail Power Trip Since 1996
2006-02-04, 09:25 #5
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OK I know I can do it with the Laptop.
The built -in speakers are not the best to listen when more than 2 feet away. When on the laptop I have my B&O headset and the sound is as good as the wireless will allow it.
If I take a pair of speakers along they must be powered and need to connect to the power outlet (which means another adapter).
I was considereing the option of the Slimbox because that way the laptop can stay off or do some other wrok which is very ressource hungry.
To leave the laptop on all night as a an alarm clock is very noisy,...
I would still have to run all over the hotel to cable the whole stuff.
Embeded in the suitcase the slimbox display would be visible when the case is on a table or bed. The speakers would be inside the Suitcase.
I would run a single powercable and wire all the stuff in the case.
Call me lazy if you want but that would be the easiest for me.
I would prbably also "embede a charger for my cell phone.
2006-02-04, 13:48 #6
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How about an iPod?
How about an iPod or similar MP3 player? There are plenty of portable speaker systems available for the iPod ... and some hotels are even putting MP3 player hookups in their rooms now.
Once I get my CD collection ripped in a lossless format, I am planning on creating a second MP3 copy of my collection, to carry around on an iPod.
2006-02-04, 14:09 #7
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found a thing pretty close to what I am looking for
Yeah I could maybe get a portable player just have not found the right one for me. 10K songs 300+GB
I have listened to MP3 in my car and laptop for at least 7 years.
I got tired of most of my music because I did not sound right.
Now I have about 80% of my collection in FLAC.
With all my other files I try to have them in OGG or high bit rate mp3. Once you are used to FLAC or CD quality you don't want to compromise. I hate this trend to mediocrity.
stinkingpig I have thought about your comment about security at the Airport. In Europe in most places I don't see it too much as a problem. But in the US I can imagine that there could be some problems like "plug it in to show it works ...."
I think I have found someting that gets pretty close to what I am looking for http://www.si-technologies.com/front...p?productID=21
2006-02-04, 16:03 #8Originally Posted by klausbgva
Seems like loading the songs you want to take (in FLAC form) onto your laptop, and buying a small set of powered monitors is your best bet.
These behringer monitors are $100, and include a 24/96 DAC, but the DAC probably wouldn't help if you can only hook them up via headphone jack. I'm not sure what connections are available on a laptop, but they accept optical, coax digital, headphone in/out, and rca analog.
At any rate, they'll sound a LOT better than a backpack because you could set them up for proper imaging.
2006-02-04, 21:45 #9
What about just connecting to squeezenetwork? No laptop needed, just the SB and some powered speakers
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You are probably right. I will copy a few gig of flac music on one of my harddrives when I travel and then play them with 2 speakers.
The speakers you refer to see pretty bit for a traveller. I guess I will use my headset mainly and the speakers only to share music and for the wake up call.
Who has had experiences with a FLAC compatible portable music player with minimum 30 GB of Disk or more. Any suggestions?


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Earlier this week during an interview with a TV station in Maine, Michael Phelps said "I'm retired. I love it. It's fun." But the winner of the most medals in Olympic history is also busier than ever, saying "I'm on the road constantly. I'm always traveling."
The swimmer's latest adventure took him to Shanghai, China, this morning, where he and Under Armour founder and owner Kevin Plank opened the newest "Under Armour Experience" at the Jing An Kerry Centre.
Phelps wasn't kidding about his travel schedule. Saying he's "never at home," Phelps was in Saco, Maine, this week to show off the Michael Phelps Skills Center before leaving for China.
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"I've said nothing about a comeback," Phelps told Bill Green of WCSH in Maine on Tuesday. "I have said nothing about a comeback. It's everybody else opening their mouths and saying comments that they think I'm going to do or think that I said. I've never said anything publicly."


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This week's musical menu is a true hodgepodge of genres, from reggae and indie rock to bluegrass and jazz, all wrapped around a monumental solo show by the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Jackie Greene Sunday night at the Golden State Theatre.
Then things tail off a bit in the next couple of weeks, all heading into the big year-end finale on Monday, Dec. 31.
The California Roots Festival, on the heels on its announcement of the Memorial Day 2013 weekend lineup that includes Slightly Stoopid, The Dirty Heads and Matisyahu, is holding a birthday bash Friday night in the Monterey Room at the Monterey County Fairgrounds.
It's a celebration of California Roots Festival founder Jeff Monser and features four bands, Seedless, Haleamano, Wasted Noise and Keepitlit.
The show starts at 8 p.m. and tickets are $12, available at eventbrite.com or at the door.
In addition to the Weir/Greene show Sunday night, Golden State also has the return of the jazz quartet Aporia on Friday night and L.A. indie rock "beach goth" band The Growlers, with the Cosmonauts opening, on Tuesday night.
Aporia, with Julie Capili on vocals, Stu Reynolds on saxes and clarinets, Billy Jones on drums and Heath Proskin on bass, was a mainstay at the old Alternative Cafe in Seaside, which moved its operations into the venerable theater in downtown Monterey.
Aporia expands on the piano-less trio concept in jazz by adding the sultry vocals of Capili, re-imagining songs to fit that new geometry.
The show is from 8-10 p.m. and it's $10 at the door. Get more at aporiajazz.com.
The Growlers are harder to pin down, even after a listen to their new album "Hung at Heart," lo-fi boozy, psychedelic indie rock with singer Brooks Nielson singing like he's been in bed witha cold for several days.
"Their retro vibe isn't fetishized nostalgia — it's dumpster-diving freegan collage: pitchy organ and plunky, country-western bass are punctuated by faux-dub echoes that hang like tapestries in a chill-bro den while vocalist Brooks Nielson's crooked flow plops down atop the hodgepodge as though he were delivering a side-eyed mantra," says
Spin.com. Got it?
As for the Cosmonauts, LA Records describes them as, "if the Velvet Underground had turned to the MC5 at their Boston Tea Party concert in 1968 and, instead of insulting them, had turned and made love to them."
Sounds like a great double-bill, and for only $10 in advance, $12 at the door. Call 324-4571 to reserve those ducats.
Singer-songwriter Nancy Jones does her solo thing (she's also in the band The Wharf Rats) Sunday night at the Stardust Playhouse in Monterey.
The North Carolina native has been playing music for most of her adult life and has books and books of original songs that dip into blues, Southern rock, country, folk and gospel.
She performs at 7 p.m. Sunday at the theater, located at 2115 N. Fremont St., across the street from Planet Gemini. Cost is $10 at the door or at stardustplayhouse
monterey.com. Info's also at 402-8940. Check out Nancy and her music at njomusic.com.
Singer, guitarist Andrea Carter will join her bandmate in Andrea's Fault, guitarist and singer Darrin Michell in a duo show Friday night at Jack's bar in the lobby of Portola Hotel & Spa in downtown Monterey.
"We're covering a wide range of styles and anything that tickles our fancy from Delta blues, Stones, Eva Cassidy, even Joni Mitchell, toss in a standard or two...you get the idea," she says.
There's no cover and they'll play from 5:30-
8:30 p.m.
Bluegrass/Americana band Scarlett Road plays Friday night at Plaza Linda in Carmel Valley.
The band features Melinda Moore on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Bill Rawson on banjo, Chip Wittpenn on mandolin, Randy Marks on lead guitar and dobro, Tamilla Swanson on double bass and Dean Chapman on harmonica.
The band plays from 7-
9 p.m., $10 donation at the door, full bar and menu.
There's a show Saturday night at American Burger in New Monterey featuring The Audio Waltz and Pipsqueak, but the flier I got didn't have a whole lot of information on the bands, in fact, none. But it starts at 8 p.m. if you like surprises.
And finally, men about town and local party-scene movers and shakers Chad North and Jordan Caballero are taking their NuSol Concepts to L.A. and will be throwing a "Come Party With Us One Last Time" party Thursday night at 9 at Planet Gemini in Monterey.
There's a $5 cover and a number of things planned, including karaoke, drinking games and dancing to DJ Darth Nasty.
Good luck in L.A., guys!GO!
· The Charlie Hunter & Scott Amendola Duo plays Monday night at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz for two shows, at 7 and 9 p.m. Tickets are $22 adv / $25 door, info us at 427-2227 or www.kuumbwajazz.org. Guitarist Hunter and drummer Amendola's new album, "Not Getting Behind Is The New Getting Ahead," is Hunter's first recording of original compositions in three years.
· Dragon Smoke, a New Orleans supergroup that features drummer Stanton Moore and bassist Robert Mercurio of Galactic, plus keyboardist Ivan Neville and guitarist Eric Lindell, plays Moe's Alley in Santa Cruz on Thursday night. Show time is 9 p.m., tickets are $20 advance, $25 door, with special guests Jelly Bread opening. The band, which gets its name from the intimate New Orleans club The Dragon's Den, is a true representation of the Big Easy funk, R&B and soul tradition.


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It's time. Time to unveil my big secret.
But wait. Don't jump to any conclusions about the topic. There are some things I won't tell. Stuff that you don't want to know. This secret does not include personal data. Oh, like I haven't told you personal data, before.
However, now that I think about personal data, I remember I promised to tell you about the time I was caught by six of LAPD's finest, guns drawn, in a Pizza Hut with lots of cash strewn around me on a bad hair day. (The bad hair is just an added little detail that some wouldn't consider important, but hey, let's face it, if all eyes, all attention, guns included, are going to be focused on you, don't you want your hair to look its best?) As it happens, the money/gun event was just the beginning of a bad day, because believe it or not, it went downhill after that.
I look up and the first thing I see is a gun. Now, I've never had a gun pointed at me in my entire life, so I'm not taking this too well. Then I see the man behind the gun. He's wearing a police uniform, so I relax a smidgeon, but then I hear another tap. On the window to my left is another officer, with another gun. Let's just say, there were several more taps before I was: 1) motioned to get up, 2) hold my hands in the air, 3) go answer the ringing phone. (Have you ever tried to answer a phone with hands in the air?)
Anyway, it was after the lunch crowd, empty restaurant and time for a quick bathroom break, when a man came in and wanted his credit card that my manager had made him leave due to his lack of cash the week before. We didn't take credit cards. However, it just so happened that I'd called to see if the card was stolen. Surprise. It was. And if I cut it in half and sent it in, I would receive a two hundred dollar reward. Cool, right?
This guy wanted his stolen card back. I didn't' want to explain that I was waiting for my two hundred dollar reward, so instead I did what most of you would have done. I lied. I said the card was in the safe, and I pointed to the sign that stated I had a thirty-minute safe, and that he would have to wait until it opened. He wasn't happy, but agreed to wait. Then as if to make his "not-happy" point clear, he pulled out a huge, really huge, hunting knife and proceeded to clean his nails. So, I did what any normal woman with bad hair would have done. I smiled, pretended not to be panicked by his oversized fingernail cleaner, peed my pants again, and hit the silent alarm. But opps…the alarm didn't work, remember?
Katie Ray, my heroine in Weddings, has a very bad day in the book, but you know, I liked her too much to give her bad hair. So what about you guys? Ever had a really sucky day? Ever had a gun pointed at you?
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