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5 Creepy Urban Legends That Happen to Be True (Part 7)
Most urban legends are just that -- legends. Cautionary tales made up to keep kids on the straight and narrow. But wait, why do we need so many of these cautionary tales in the first place? Well, because the world is a terrifying place out to destroy you in any number of horrifying, ironic ways. In fact, this world is so scary that a lot of the creepy tales you told around the campfire have actually happened to real, very unfortunate people.
In what has become our Halloween tradition going back six years, we're here to once again point out that sometimes truth is stranger (and scarier) than fiction ...
#5. The Things That Squirm in Your Skull
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The Legend:
Us folks from well-off northern countries sure do like to jet down to various tropical countries for a little sun and fun, but we also tend to get a bit weirded out by the Third World conditions that often exist right outside the walls of our hermetically sealed resort destinations. These fears have given rise to all sorts of tales of people returning from trips near the equator with a free souvenir wriggling around inside a particularly sensitive or important area, like, say, their skulls.
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"You asked for the 'deluxe travel package.' Next time read the fine print."
But come on, these stories are just a bit of low-level xenophobia, right? Right?
The Truth:
Shortly after returning to her native Britain from a vacation in Peru, Rochelle Harris began to hear scratching noises inside her head. Apparently Harris isn't much of a worrywart (or possibly is mildly schizophrenic), because she decided, "Eh, whatever," and went on with her life, as the scratching noises got louder. Then things got worse.
Harris started to get headaches and radiating pain down one side of her face, and she'd wake up with fluids on her pillow (and not the good kinds). Then a fly flew out of her ear. Yeah, this story is going exactly where you were hoping it wasn't going -- after the fly incident, Harris finally went to a doctor, and he found that a writhing family of maggots had set up a home deep within her ear canal. If you need a few minutes to go madly dig at your ears with a Q-Tip, we understand.
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"I should set this on fire first. Just to be safe."
Not surprisingly, Harris didn't take her "head full of flesh-eating worms" diagnosis well. "I was very scared. Were they in my brain?"
GOOD QUESTION, ROCHELLE. Thankfully, Harris has since managed to put a positive spin on her ordeal:
"I'm not so squeamish around those kinds of bugs now. How can I be? They've been in my ear!"
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"My next fear to ear-cure: snakes!"
Ha ha! Well, apparently the worms did get to Harris' brain, because she's now clearly insane.
#4. Don't Drink the Water
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The Legend:
We tend to be really trusting of what comes out of the shower head or kitchen faucet. The people in charge wouldn't let water make it as far as our homes if it hadn't been treated and filtered to the point of near sterility. Even if you have an open cut on your hand, you don't hesitate to stick that shit right under the tap.
After all, what's the worst thing that could be in the water? What's the absolute worst possible thing?
Hint: It's not poop.
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Nope, that'll be in your pants when you read what happened.
The Truth:
Guests at the Hotel Cecil in downtown Los Angeles were having trouble with their water. There was weak pressure, it smelled and tasted funny, and it wasn't just coming out brown, it was coming out black. Black as death, you could say (whoops, was that a spoiler?). Unfortunately, the residents of the Cecil didn't heed Homer Simpson's immortal wisdom ("If it's brown, drink it down, but if it's black, send it back") and just kept bathing in and drinking the hotel's rank water for nearly a week.
"We thought it was just the way [the water] was here," guest Sabrina Baugh told a reporter. No, Sabrina, black stench water isn't just the way it is anywhere.
Finally, one of the Cecil's bizarrely reluctant-to-complain residents (most hotel guests will make a scene if their mint isn't placed at the right angle on their pillow) mentioned something about the water and a maintenance worker was sent to check things out. He made a stomach-churning discovery -- in one the hotel's four large cisterns he found the decomposed and liquefying body of a young woman.
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We warned you.
She had somehow fallen into the tank, turning the hotel's water into a corpse consomme the guests of the Cecil had been drinking down for weeks. The body was that of Canadian student Elisa Lam, and it remains a mystery how she ended up in the Cecil's water supply. Was it suicide? An accident? Or something more sinister? CCTV footage from Lam's last night alive show her acting in a furtive, agitated fashion, almost as if she was afraid she was being followed, and a guest staying below Lam reported hearing a "tremendous racket" from above the night she died.
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"Hey, they put the sign up; what do you expect us to do?"
Or maybe it was dark forces within the hotel itself that did Lam in? The Cecil's history is so dark, it makes the Overlook Hotel look like a TripAdvisor top pick. The Cecil has been the scene of numerous murders and suicides, and not one, but two serial killers have stayed there. But hey, on the other hand, it only costs $65 a night! Just, you know, bring your own water.
#3. Compacted
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The Legend:
Most urban legends are cautionary tales of one kind or another, and since there's no group in need of a little caution more than teenagers, a lot of legends are of the "A teenager did a stupid thing and died horribly for it! Don't do that stupid thing, teenagers!" variety. We've featured a number of dumb teenager stories in these very articles, like, for instance, the one about the teen who tried to fake hang himself and hanged himself for real. Whoops.
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If only there'd been some type of warning sign that hangings could be so deadly.
There are also plenty of stories about garbage trucks, because come on, those things are freaky. They're giant metal crush machines driven by guys who look like hobos -- of course kids tell scary stories about them.
Well, the tale you're about to read is a twofer, combining teenager dumbassery with the danger of garbage trucks in one gruesome package.
The Truth:
So, a teenager from Luxembourg decided he was going to spend his morning hiding in a garbage can. Why? Let us reiterate -- he was a teenager. No further explanation necessary. Anyways, presumably this kid's brilliant teenage plan was going great riiiight up until the garbage men turned down his street.
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Too bad there isn't a regularly scheduled "garbage day" thing so he could have known to avoid them.
The garbage truck's metal claws picked up the kid-filled garbage container like any other bin, emptied its contents, and then somebody pushed the big red CRUSH button. That's when the screaming and sound of snapping bones began, but there was nothing to be done. There was no way to stop the truck's crushing mechanism once it had started, because guess what? People aren't supposed to be in garbage containers, and they're certainly not supposed to be in garbage trucks. The garbage men were forced to stand by in horror as their truck compacted a kid to death.
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And now a garbage truck is out there, roaming the streets, with a taste for human blood.
This wasn't the only time a teenager met his end in a garbage truck, either. A mere month before the incident in Luxembourg, a kid from Long Island was crushed to death in a recycling truck. So, teens: The next time your parents ask you to take out the garbage, you've got our permission to give them your snottiest look, dramatically scream, "Do you WANT me to die?!" and storm off to your room. The facts are on your side.


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"Delivers pure flash."--COLUMBUS DISPATCH
This bright, playful exhibition examines our culture's love of luxury, spectacle, shiny things, and our own reflections. Many of the works in Shiny play with the commodity status of art, both embracing and slyly critiquing conspicuous display. You'll watch Andy Warhol's helium-filled Silver Clouds floating sensuously on air currents and see yourself and the Wexner Center's architecture reflected in the shimmering surfaces of Jeff Koons's 10-foot-tall Balloon Dog. Other artists in the exhibition are Rachel Harrison, Jim Hodges, Louise Lawler, former Wexner Center Residency Award recipient Josiah McElheny, Michael Minelli, Mai-Thu Perret, and Kelley Walker. Most of their works were created in the last five years, and Minelli, a sculptor based in Los Angeles, exhibits a new piece commissioned by the Wexner Center specifically for the show.
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Jeff Koons
Balloon Dog, 1994–2001
Stainless steel with transparent color coating
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The Broad Art Foundation
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Josiah McElheny
Early Modernism Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely, 2004
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Jim Hodges
Light I, 2004
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May peace and God's mercy and blessings be upon you.
From this sacred land -- the blessed Mina, Mount Arafat and the vicinity of the Grand Mosque, where pilgrims gathered in response to Allah's call and stood and circumambulated the Ka'aba, and from this great vast plain -- we congratulate the pilgrims for performing the Hajj and all its rituals. We pray to Allah Almighty to accept their Hajj and make it a blessed one
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Hajj rituals are linked to honor the time and place where the pilgrims – regardless of color and race and language – feel the spirit of this great Ummah [community], worshiping one God, at a time when one message binds them with bonds of love, unity and compassion
By performing Hajj rituals, they [the pilgrims] fill the world, in fact, the entire world with mercy, tolerance, compassion and peace, promoting the values of truth, goodness and integrity while getting rid of all their hatred and animosities. Consequently, they will return to their home countries enriched with this kind of spiritual light which pushes human values to their peaks
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The pilgrimage to the Holy Mosque of Makkah is a great occasion for which every Muslim prepares with his full heart, mind and soul. As such, you ought to utilize these blessed moments in order to return as if you were just born, pure from sins and misdeeds, and to return to your families enriched with some of the rewards of Hajj, well-guided and ready to guide.
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I want to know a proper way of saving image path to SQL server when working with ASP.net. I'm using SQL server 2005 & VB 2008.
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Once you've uploaded it will be somewhere in your webroot most likely (unless you specify otherwise)
What I've done in the past for this type of thing (using PHP though) is rename the file to something that will be unique if they're all going into the same directory (like add the timestamp to the image name at the beginning.
Then once you have that name, write only it to your DB as a varchar datatype.
When you need to call it, you should know the path where your upload script is storing the files, so you would just concat the name stored in the DB to the "img_root_path" or whatever you want to call your path to the files.


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How do I deal with 7 year old kid who refuses to do a chore or task? He's not listening and ignores my request.
You have two options, positive reinforcement or consequences.
You should probably try positive reinforcement and adding basic things as "prizes" for doing the chore. You might think that for doing the task the child shouldn't get a prize, and that's fine; but a price could be something simple like a sticker, a star in the chart, even a hug. This will depend on the kid. However, if you make him part of the decision of what the prize is, the kid will more likely get the chore done.
With consequences you can then instead establish consequences like if you don't get X done you cannot play video games. Note however that this could be turned into positive reinforcement. If you do X, then you can play 30 minutes of video games.
You could argue that both options are the same, but it in part depends on what the child knows today as prizes and standard "rights".
We use both with our three kids, but what to use depends on the chore, the kid, and the thing that the kid is immediately most interested in.
In contrast with the other answers, I advocate not rewarding children for doing chores, particularly if they started off by ignoring or refusing to do them.
Offering children rewards for completing chores and basic tasks teaches them that they should expect rewards, and that tasks or chores that don't result in a rewards are not worth doing. It leads to a sense of entitlement, which leads to frustration and disappointment later in life when they learn that that is not how the world really works. Yes, they will get "rewarded" for doing their job later in life with pay, but more and more people seem to believe that getting paid for their job only requires them to do the minimum required by their job description, which is not a healthy attitude in a competitive marketplace.
The fact that he's currently defying you by ignoring or refusing requests to do chores only makes the risks worse. Offering rewards now is essentially bribing him to behave to minimum expectations. You are sending him a message that not only is it acceptable to refuse to do what he is told, it is also a valid tactic to refuse and then hold out until a suitable reward is offered.
Instead, I suggest restricting privileges until your son starts doing his chores. You don't need to state them as punishments. Instead, simply refuse to agree to any new activity or toy that he asks for, citing his lack of chores as the reason. In the short-term, this will be much more difficult, as he will probably offer strong (and loud) resistance, but long-term I believe it presents a much healthier (and more realistic) understanding of the way responsibility works.
@torbengb requested that I elaborate my comment into a proper answer, so here goes.
According to Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn, it's an extremely bad idea to try to get people to do things by bribing them with rewards / praise. The book explains it better than I can, but essentially, conditioning a child (or anyone, really) to do a thing in order to get another thing has several extremely negative consequences:
Now, this might be a lot to take in at once - the whole concept of 'doing things for the sake of doing them' might be a little much for your seven-year-old to grasp, especially if you've operated with sticks and carrots thus far. I encourage you to read the book for yourself, and to see what you can take away from it for your situation.
Just remember this - bribes are ALWAYS a quick fix. They never last. Having worked with youth as much as I have, I've seen this happen a million times. You might get them to obey you once or twice, but in order to keep them under your control the carrot's got to get bigger - and way out of proportion to the task at hand.
I too have found that my example and especially doing the chore with them greatly helps. My 8 year old son loves helping me wash the cars because we usually turn it into a competition. Mom is the judge of the cleanest car and for some reason, he always seems to win. Also, during the summer, you can turn it into a water war.
Also, at 7, most chores (beyond the simple) require you to let them know they are doing it to your expectations, so you're probably close by anyway making sure they don't put tire cleaner on the paint job.
Time to teach them about Team work
As children get older, they're more able to help out around the house and do little tasks themselves. When they do this, it means that Mum and Dad will have more time and energy to spend with the children and doing fun things together.
Explain to your child that if you have to tidy their room for them, cook, clean up, lay the table, pick up their toys, etc, then you have less time to play with them, read to them, go out and about, etc. If they could do some of these tasks themselves, then we will all have more time for the nice things.
Some of the tasks they should be able to do themselves are:
I strongly disagree with offering incentives to do or punishments for not doing things that they should do anyway - it's not that you want them to do these tasks, they need to do them regardless.
For a fascinating insight into motivational strategies, listen to Dan Pink's TED Talk on motivational strategies. Yes, it is more aimed at adults in the workplace, but the 'team work' aspect is the key:
Make it fun. Have them do the chore with you and make it enjoyable. Spend enough quality time with them building a loving and trusting relationship so that they want to be with you and want to help.
I think positive reinforcement and reward is much more important than any kind of negative consequences for not helping with a chore.
My wife would likely disagree with this, as I've used it on her a few times, but for fear of being labeled a socialist, I think the right answer here is to explain that as part of the family they need to pull their own weight and help keep the house running if they want to enjoy the rewards of being part of it. (Our son isn't really old enough to do much chores yet, but he's starting to help with things like cleaning his toys up.)
That could be as simple as taking out the kitchen trash after dinner... you enjoyed the food with us, but didn't help prepare it? Fine you can help clean up after it.
Okay, I'm late to the party on this one, but I can't not respond.
First, let me point out that it isn't a request and thinking of chores as a request is starting you out on the wrong foot. Doing chores should be a bare minimum for any child. Chores are a part of being a family and living together. You are a parent, not a servant, and part of your job is teaching children that there are expectations involved in living together and they are at the age where it is time for them to begin learning what that means on a practical level.
Chores are awkward because children are small and not very capable so it takes three or four times as long for them to do things and it's often easier to just do it yourself—not to mention the aggravation and bad feelings as you ride them to get their chores done. You have to remember, though, that your time and emotional resolve are an investment in producing capable adults (eventually), and that this is something they need to learn.
Enough background. How do you do it? Coercion, plain and simple. How you do so is up to you. Personally, I'd go with the theory that a child who fails to provide the bare minimum effort is inviting you to demonstrate the bare minimum you have to bring to the relationship. A week of bland food, no chauffer service, no compliance with his/her requests, no friends over, no going to friends houses, no new clothes/toys/what have you will make your point. I'd accompany that with the explanation that your job is to see that they learn what it takes to be a responsible adult, and that you still love them (indeed, it's that love that prevents you from taking the easy path and simply doing all the chores yourself).
At any rate, that's the path we took with our kids. They still slack occasionally if we don't follow-up with them, but they're at least competent to do the work, now. And seeing them become competent adults after the years of effort has been very rewarding...
A house is not just a mom and a dad. The kid are a part of it. Make it clear that just like mom and dad going out to work (even when they don't feel like it) to support the household - each kid has his/her own responsibility that's not an option.
I made chores part of my daughter's allowance. Dusting, general picking up around the house, and helping in yardwork for a set amount of money weekly. If she did not do her chores, she didn't get her allowance.
The rule was half of her allowance was hers to spend as she liked, the other half went into her college fund. It helped her learn that all those things she thought were 'cool' and 'fun' were also EXPENSIVE.
She learned to evaluate what she 'needed' vs what she 'wanted'.
We use a simple method of rewarding them helping us with extra pocket money, removing the extra pocket money if they don't do what is the minimum expected of them (make beds, keep bedroom tidy), and also restricting times for certain activities, like using the computer, TV, DSi etc, which is already limited in use.
Obviously, what I'd encourage is to find out what they really, really, really like doing, and use that as the carrot and the stick.
The combination works well, but the carrot has to be as enticing as much as the stick isn't, for want of a better analogy.


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Honors: Indoor School Record Holder (5,000m - 2015)...Indoor Second Team All-America (5,000m - 2015)...Indoor All-ACC (5,000m - 2015)...Outdoor All-East (3,000m Steeplechase - 2012)...Cross Country All-ACC (2013, 2015)...Cross Country ACC Performer of the Week (2012)...NCAA East First Round Participant (Steeplechase - 2012, 2013; 5,000m - 2014)...Cross Country All-ACC Academic Team (2012, 2013)...Indoor All-ACC Academic (2012, 2015)...Outdoor All-ACC Academic (2014)...ACC Academic Honor Roll (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
2014-15: Competed unattached in one event during the fall, placing first at the Three Stripe Invitational (11/8) in a 5K time of 14:20.02…Indoors, set a school record in the 5,000 at the Iowa State Classic (2/13), crossing the line in a time of 13:47.22…earned second team All-America honors after placing 13th overall in the 5,000 at the NCAA Indoor Championships (3/4)…qualified for the ACC Indoor Championships (2/27) in the 5,000, finishing fifth overall to earn second team All-ACC accolades…did not compete during the 2015 outdoor season...named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Track & Field Team for the second time...collected his second career selection to the All-ACC Academic Men's Indoor Track & Field Team...earned a spot on the ACC Academic Honor Roll for the fourth straight season.
2013-14: In the fall, led Duke to a sixth-place finish at the ACC Cross Country Championships (11/1), placing fourth in a time of 24:07.7…consistently placed second for the Blue Devils throughout the season…saw a personal-best 8K time of 23:57.1 at the Virginia/Panorama Farms Invitational (9/28), placing seventh overall…Indoors, qualified for the ACC Indoor Championships (2/28), placing eighth in the 5,000 with a converted time of 14:03.31…earlier in the season, won the Armory Collegiate Invitational (2/7) 5,000 in a time of 14:03.15, the second-fastest time in Duke history at the distance…Outdoors, qualified for the ACC Outdoor Championships (4/18), placing fourth overall in the 3,000 steeplechase with a time of 8:58.14…also competed in the 5,000 at the conference championship, placing fifth overall in a time of 14:03.57…ran the fourth-fastest 5,000 time in Duke history at the Raleigh Relays (3/28), placing seventh in a time of 13:58.82…won the 3,000 steeplechase at both the Wolfpack Last Chance Meet (5/16) and the VertKlasse Meeting (4/4)…qualified for the NCAA East Preliminary Round meet (5/31), placing 23rd in the 5,000.
2012-13: Won the Virginia Tech Alumni Invitational to open the fall, garnering him ACC Performer of the Week accolades...Duke's top finisher at the Panorama Farms Invitational, notching a personal-best time of 24:39.4 for 8K to finish 18th overall...followed up that performance with a 24:03.5 clocking two weeks later at the NCAA Pre-Nationals meet...scored for the Blue Devils at all three championship meets, including in a 39th-place finish at the NCAA Southeast Region Championships...named to the Cross Country All-ACC Academic squad...Indoors, focused primarily on the 3,000 meters where he ran a personal best time of 8:21.84 to finish sixth at the Virginia Tech Elite meet…finished 24th at the ACC Indoor Championships in the event after clocking a time of 8:45.61…Outdoors, Duke's top performer in the 3,000 steeplechase with a personal best time of 8:58.04 to win the Duke Invitational…ranks third on Duke's all-time list in the event…finished 16th in the event at the 2013 ACC Outdoor Championships with a time of 9:08.23…qualified for the NCAA East First Round where he finished 19th in 8:59.29.
2011-12: Made his Duke debut in the fall at the N.C. Central dual meet, where he finished second overall...Duke's fifth man at the Panorama Farms Invitational, placing 18th overall in 25:18.05...recorded a season-best time of 25:06.5 for 8K to come in 64th at the ACC Cross Country Championships...was the Blue Devils' top finisher at the Three Stripe Red Shirt Invitational, taking 11th overall...indoors, specialized in the 3,000m and 5,000m...set a personal best 14:27.88 in the 5,000m to finish seventh at the ACC Indoor Championships...outdoors, concentrated on the 3,000m steeplechase...broke the freshman record and with a time of 8:58.48 in a first-place finish at the Duke Invitational...that time placed him third on Duke's all-time list...finished ninth in the ACC Outdoor Championships after falling over one of the barriers...earned All-eEast honors by finishing seventh at the IC4A Championship...placed 24th at the NCAA First Round with a time of 9:00.35.
Prior to Duke: Four-year letterwinner at Charles W. Baker...state champion in the 3,000m steeplechase...three-time sectional champion in the same event...also won a sectional championship as a member of the 4x800m relay squad...finished third at the New York State Federation Cross Country Championships as a junior...member of the National Honor Society and Spanish National Honor Society...graduated as class salutatorian.
Personal: Son of Michael and Marcia Thompson...born June 14, 1993...has one brother, Collin, and one sister, Emily.
Cross Country PRs
Indoor PRs
Mile- 4:13.73 (2/21/2014)
3,000m- 8:08.98 (1/31/2015)
5,000m- 13:47.22 (2/13/2015)
Outdoor PRs
3,000m Steeplechase- 8:58.04 [3] (4/6/2013)
5,000m- 13:58.82 [4] (3/28/2014)


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Are there any good alternatives to Nautilus? I'm looking for something lightweight, with a cleaner interface, but the ability to manually enter file paths is still important. Any suggestions?
Thunar File Manager is the Xfce file manager. It is quite clean and should provide the functionality you are looking for.
Other than that I only know PCMan File Manager which should be quite similar to Thunar.
No one has yet mentioned the excellent qtfm, which, for a lightweight filemanager has some very useful features. It is based on 'pure QT' and does not bring with it a huge amount of dependencies like other filemanagers might. It can be installed with the Ubuntu deb or compiled from source. Please see the readme for further general information about the filemanager and how to compile it.
As noted on the official site, it has such features as
Importantly, you can also configure custom actions by going to edit > custom actions and edit or add some new ones, very much in the manner of Thunar's custom actions. In the second screenshot below, the default custom actions are listed and is quite easy to follow the model and add your own actions.
You can set mime types by going to edit > edit filetypes, and set multiple shortcuts by going to edit > configure shortcuts, so the filemanager seems very configurable.
The performance is very good and you can increase that even more by running it in daemon mode with
You can manually enter file paths in the location bar, which you listed as an important feature for you in your question.
As you can see in the first screenshot, the default layout is simple and very usable, and you can have icon or list view and folders can be opened in tabs. The tabs feature may be particularly useful if you need to flick between folders quickly.
a) The main filemanager window:
b) Custom actions dialogue:
(You should still keep Nautilus installed, for example, as it will still be necessary for volume management and for drawing the desktop.)
PCMan File Manager. It is more responsive than thunar and nautilus. The interface has more real estate.
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Thunar and PCMan File Manager are already given.
Some links with lists other file managers:
You could also try Marlin. Its a nautilus fork for Elementary Luna.
Ctrl+ L = manually input path
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I'll add Konqueror to the list. It's like an all in one software. Clean interface which can be used as a file manager as well as a web browser.
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The power of music, visual art, poetry, story-telling, and dance has been used as a healing force in every culture. At the Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC), the Creative Arts Program team of artists supports, coaches, teaches, and nurtures patients who want to experience this healing power. In addition to visual arts and therapeutic harp music, we offer creative writing and story-telling for patients coming to receive chemotherapy and radiation treatments, and also for those who stay in our inpatient cancer units.
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Expressive writing—creating prose and poetry—can increase emotional resilience and a sense of meaningful connection to life, making it a truly integrative support tool that is noninvasive and easy to access. Studies of expressive writing in medical settings (1) noted specific health benefits including:
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Marv Klassen-Landis, the NCCC creative writer in residence, brings more than 20 years experience teaching the literary arts to the Creative Arts Program to our Lebanon, NH, location. He offers patients and their families the opportunity to write poetry, prose, letters, or to listen as Marv reads to them.
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From Telling Our Stories through Word and Image, original work by patients, loved ones, and staff, November 5, 2013
Expressive writing sessions can start by telling and listening to stories
People who have not written prose or poetry since high school often hesitate when they first visit with Marv as they rest in their infusion chair or bed. He often begins a visit by reading aloud the work of other patients from pages in a colorful binder he carries in his bag.
Patients and family members soon find themselves relating to the feelings, hopes, and fears of other people with cancer. Marv's binder of patient work includes humorous stories of life on the farm or encounters on a back road with a slow moose, as well as personal reflections on cancer. Sometimes laughter ensues, sometimes tears fall, and then smiles come. But the profound power of simple words expressed from the heart helps listeners to also find their voices.
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The nursing staff will often ask Marv to visit with particular patients but often he acts as a roaming muse, working with patients in one-on-one sessions as he visits outpatient and inpatient areas of DHMC and NCCC. Through the office of Patient and Family Support Services, Marv and volunteer (and published poet) Laura Foley also offer writing groups that run for six to eight weeks throughout the year.
A patient working with Marv may spend an hour story-telling, poem-making, rhyming words together, or using words to express the feelings underneath a memory. Patients often say that they are surprised by the power of their own words, and patients and family members can feel their spirits lift as they share meaningful moments on paper or through recollected stories.
Sometimes a journal is given to a patient during a long infusion of chemotherapy, or to a family member who feels inspired to continue writing after leaving the cancer center. In this way a person can continue the process that felt so meaningful during their sessions with Marv.
One patient shared that initially she spoke hesitantly while Marv listened. As she spoke Marv reflected back her words and memories. "When Marv visited me I wanted to write, but I was anxious," Lisa said. "Instead I spoke and he wrote my words down. I was able to speak some truths about having cancer that I have not been able to speak aloud before. We wrote a poem together with these words and it was cathartic for me."
(1) The Connection between Art, Healing, and Public Health: A Review of Current Literature Heather Stuckey, D.Ed. And Jeremy Nobel, MD MPH in American Journal of Public health Feb 2010 Vol 100 254-263).
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An adjective that describes somebody or something as very intelligent or witty
Person 1: That's a nice car you got there.
Person 2: Your mom's a nice car!
Person 1: Next time come up with something more aditya.
Person 2: Your mom's a nice car!
Person 1: Next time come up with something more aditya.
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The most incredible guy in the universe, end of story. He's very sweet, caring, and truly amazing. He always knows the perfect thing to say and the right time to say it. He can take your breath away and leaves you speechless and also can make your head spin, skip a heartbeat. And he also has a way of making your heart melt like no one else ever will . And also has the greatest respect to the opposite sex but annoy them because its a hint that they are loved by the most amzaing guy.Bottom line Aditya is so AWESOME, it's almost impossible to find the words to match.
Girl 1: Yesteday, I met a the most sweetest and the awesomest guy ever at the club.
Girl 2: OMG, you mean ?
Girl 1: yup...Aditya!
Girl 2: OMG, you mean ?
Girl 1: yup...Aditya!
by jalo1239482 September 01, 2012
(Sanskrit, Hindu mythology) the Hindu Sun god , powerful , dominant
The festival of Chath is celebrated to please the god Aditya.
by eddyteddy September 26, 2012
ancient Asian translation for "well endowed sex-god". It is beleived that any person that holds this name has a great level of skill and ability to perform sexual acts for long periods of time on women .Causing the woman reach her climax each and every single time. Men posessing this name are also know to be masters of performing oral sexual pleasure to women for a extended period of time..
Girl says man my man is such a Aditya.
I wish my man was Aditya damn i did not climax that session we just had and reminded me that your not Aditya who can make me cum every time....
I wish my man was Aditya damn i did not climax that session we just had and reminded me that your not Aditya who can make me cum every time....
by thehunkychunky November 18, 2013
One of the most common Hindu male names. It means "sun god" and such persons are believed to possess the valour associated with the sun. In urban circles, people named Aditya are usually called by their last name because most are sure to know more than one.
It's soooo f-ing irritating, having to call him, because he doesn't respond to his last name and when you call out 'Aditya' half the boys turn around.
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how can I redirect a single instrument in Apple logic to different outputs on my mobilepre? I would like to send all my track instruments to mixer and just the track where I have prepared a click sound to my drummer who will be using ear buds.
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The best you can do with the MobilePre is to have two mono channels: click on one and tracks on the other. This is probably not what you want.
I think you're going to want an interface with at least 4 independent outs: one L/R pair for the PA tracks, and one L/R pair for the drummer getting the click. Depending on how loud the PA is and how isolating the ear buds are, you may or may not need to mix a little of the tracks into the drummer's click track to help him/her keep his/her place.
A Fast Track Pro should be able to give you the two independent output pairs; the Fast Track can't.


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BELLMEAD (October 31, 2012)- His death was a Halloween nightmare.
Ten years ago, 15-year-old Keith Moore was struck by a car and killed while trick or treating along Kendall Lane in Bellmead.
His death continues to remind parents in the area to protect their children on Halloween night.
"It was very tragic and my heart just aches for any parent that has to go through that," Sherri Dysinger said.
Dysinger lives on Kendall Lane today. Safety is her main goal during the ten year anniversary of Keith's death.
"We actually went up and down the road and did a prayer walk tonight," Dysinger said.
"We as a neighborhood wanted to pray for the safety in this area."
Keith's father, Larry Moore, spoke with News 10 before trick or treating began Wednesday night. He said Halloween is still a very painful night for him.
He also warned parents and said they shouldn't take the holiday lightly. Dysinger says she couldn't agree more.
"You can't stop Halloween. It's going to happen, and I mean it's not my favorite holiday but you can work with it," Dysinger said.
"You can keep your children safe by being aware of what's going on around you."
Halloween night was a peaceful affair on Kendall Lane.
But the memory of Keith was in the air, many still remember his death ten years later.


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Services for people with a sensory impairment
Services for adults who have lost some or all of their hearing or sight (sensory impairment).
What services do we provide?
We provide social care services for adults in Birmingham who are:
- deaf or who have difficulty hearing
- blind or partially sighted
- caring for an adult with hearing or sight loss.
To find out more about these services and how to get them, click on the links above.
Our services aim to help you:
- be as independent as possible for as long as possible
- enjoy a full life, safely and with confidence
- stay in the place where you choose to live.
Information for Carers is on the Support and services for Carers page.
We also help to organise regular discussion forums for anyone in Birmingham who
- has sight loss
- is deaf or hard of hearing
- supports someone who has sight loss or is deaf or hard of hearing.
These forums are a chance to talk about issues that affect you. For example, improving services and making access to places in the city easier for people with disabilities.
You are welcome to come along, even if you're not getting a service from us.
For more information please contact Mike Ewins at the Customer Care and Citizen Involvement Team by
- phone: 0121 303 4044
- mobile: 07824 694351 (for calls or texts)
- email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Commissioning sensory impairment services
The document at the end of this page tells you more about how we 'buy in' sensory impairment services for people with hearing or sight loss.
Related pages
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Support and services for Carers
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Support and campaigning for adults and children who are deafblind, including those with other disabilities.
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We'll have more on how they're gearing up for the final weeks before the election on WBKO at 6.
With less than a month until November's election, local Democratic and Republican headquarters are out in full swing trying to get your votes, but they say the first step is making it to the polls.
"To not only support our ticket, but to be sure to go to the poles and vote, because it doesn't matter if you support if you don't vote," said Warren County Democrats' Wilma Grise.
Both parties are competing for those votes in key races.
"We're certainly helping out with Romney, and Congressman Guthrie I think we're very confident in, so we're really putting our energy and resources into helping Regina," said Warren County Republicans Chair Scott Lasley.
That 20th district race in the House between democratic incumbent Jody Richards and Republican challenger Regina Webb seems to be a heated one for republicans who hope to gain control of the state house.
"You know, the Republicans here in Kentucky have a real shot to take over the state House, and if they are to do that, Regina Webb is a key part in that," said Warren County Republicans' Timothy Gilliam.
Democrats know the importance of that race, and are doing what they can to ensure Rep. Richards is re-elected.
"We have signs for Jody Richards. We have signs for Barack Obama. And also Cedric Burnam who is running for Constable," said Michelle Thomas, Warren County Democrats.
Both party headquarters are looking for more volunteers.
"Today I called Western Kentucky students about volunteering because we need their energy," said Elinor Kline, Warren County Democrats.
"We're trying to get together an army of volunteers to help as much as possible," said Lasley.
With just under three weeks left until the election, both parties are hoping those volunteers keep coming in.
For more information on the Warren County Republican Headquarters go to http://www.warrengop.net/ or http://www.facebook.com/pages/Republican-Party-of-Warren-County/305984329878 or call (270) 904-4862.
For information on Warren County Democratic Headquarters go to http://www.warrencountykydems.com/ or http://www.facebook.com/pages/Warren-County-KY-Democratic-Party/79719006383, or call (270) 904-4918.


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Learn about sexual assault awareness, education, prevention and support resources available.
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Health Education/WesWELL
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Recognizing the serious effects of alcohol and other drug abuse on the academic performance and, more generally, on the wellbeing of our students, Wesleyan has implemented various prevention measures to promote responsible decision-making, reduce the likelihood of harm, and support the creation of a healthier campus culture.
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Public Safety is Wesleyan's on-campus police force. Their goal is maintain a safe environment on the Wesleyan campus. Blue Light Phones, which connect the caller directly to Public Safety's emergency line, can be found in 71 locations around campus. An emergency notification system, which has been operational since March 2007, sends alerts to regular phones, cell phones and email addresses regarding serious campus-wide emergencies such as catastrophic weather, accident or other life-threatening situations. Students can alert Public Safety of their concerns by calling either the non-emergency or emergency phone lines (860-685-2345 and 860-685-3333 respectively).
The Office of Residential Life
The Office of Residential Life promotes responsible, inclusive, learning communities. At the core of ResLife is a team of 96 upper-class student staff members selected through an extremely competitive process in order help guide the student community at Wesleyan. They include Head Residents (HRs), Resident Advisors (RAs), House Managers (HMs), and Community Advisors (CAs) who are supervised by the professional Area Coordinator (AC) staff. Spring Semester 2011 important information can be found here.
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The answer is probably gonna be very straightforward but I'm missing it. I want to prove the following claim:
Suppose we play a game where we win with probability $p$ and lose with probability $q = 1 - p$, where $p \neq \frac{1}{2}$. Denote by $X_i$ the outcome of game $i$ ($X_i = 1$ if we win and $X_i = -1$ if we lose). Prove that $$M_n = (\frac{p}{q})^{S_n}$$ is a martingale, where $S_n = \sum_{i=1}^{n}X_i$ and $M_0 = 1$.
My attempt:
We want to show that $E(M_n|\mathcal{F}_{n-1}) = M_{n-1}$. So:
$$E(M_n|\mathcal{F}_{n-1}) = \prod_{i=1}^{n-1}(\frac{p}{q})^{X_i} E((\frac{p}{q})^{X_n})$$
I omitted the $\mathcal{F}_{n-1}$ since it has no influence on the outcome of the $n$-th game.We are done if we can show that $E((\frac{p}{q})^{X_n}) = 1$.
Now, $$E((\frac{p}{q})^{X_n}) = (\frac{p}{q})^{1}P(X_n = 1) + (\frac{p}{q})^{-1}P(X_n = -1) = \frac{p^2}{q} + \frac{q^2}{p} = \frac{p^3 + q^3}{pq}$$
At this point I'm having this feeling I am making things more difficult than it is. Can anyone give an easier way of showing this?


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This article was originally published before Instagram responded to the outrage with this message. Instagram has removed the confusing clause and apologized for the misunderstanding. Therefore some of the content of this post is no longer timely, but I believe the over-arching point about what people will accept from a social network is still worth discussing.
Thank goodness there's somebody out there pawing through massive license agreements and thank goodness the Internet allows for people to share the important parts.
Instagram just made everybody very, very unhappy by tweaking their terms of service. Here's the changes Instagram highlighted, in my words, not theirs:
- You still own your photos.
- Instagram now syncs more effectively with Facebook.
- The new rules help protect you.
Continue reading "What Does the Freakout About Instagram's Terms Say About Social Networks?"


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Was there any way that Titanic's collision with the iceberg could have been avoided after the iceberg had been spotted? Could the ship have been saved from sinking by the pilot or captain after the iceberg was sighted? Was it possible for more passengers to have been saved?
The Titantic tragedy was at least PARTLY avoidable, whether or not the collision was.
First, there were only enough lifeboats for half of the ship's passengers, meaning that at least half of the passengers "had to" drown. Nowadays, ships carry enough lifeboats for all passengers, following changes in maritime law.
Second, the lifeboats were mostly not filled to full capacity, could have taken on more passengers, but empty seats were saved for "women and children" first, to the condition listed above.
Third, nearby ships such as the Californian failed to hurry to the rescue of the Titantic, even though this ship, at least, had been notified.
The Titanic was sunk because the iceberg hit the ship along the side, opening the first 6 compartments to the sea. If the ship had made no attempt to avoid the iceberg, but instead simply hit it head-on, it would have suffered extensive damage to its forward compartments, but would most likely have avoided opening more than a few compartments to the sea. Since the ship was designed to remain afloat with 4 compartments flooded, the direct-impact might have caused the ship to remain intact for much longer, potentially long enough to avoid most of the loss of life, even if the ship eventually wound up sinking later.
Mark Kozak-Holland argues that it was quite avoidable. Although popular history has it that the ship was designed to remain afloat with 4 compartments flooded (hat tip to @GWLlosa), the truth is somewhat more discouraging - cost cutting measures by the company during construction actually transformed those resiliency features into one of the causes for the disaster. Obligatory disclaimer; I'm not trying to promote Mr. Kozak Holland, and I have no financial interest in his book.


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Whether it's a record-breaking win, your most humiliating defeat or the dirtiest match you've ever seen, then we want to know about it!
This is the place to tell us about your great achievements; just post a screenshot (or link to one), giving us a bit of background about the game, and which category you would like to be entered for.
For example:
Category: Biggest Win
Team Managed: Turkey
Opponents: Malta
Final Score: 9-0
Date of Match: 16/11/2024
Link to Career Thread: http://community.sigames.com/showthr...n-t-Lay-An-Egg
(This will not count, as it is a friendly match)
I'll then start compiling a Hall of Fame of the best and the worst from across the forum. This will consist of a top five/ten for each category, depending on popularity.
Suggested Categories
Team Records
Biggest Win
Heaviest Defeat
Highest Scoring Game
Dirtiest Match
Most Goals Scored in a Match
Most Goals Conceded in a Match
Most Goals Scored in a Season
Most Goals Conceded in a Season
Most Goals Scored In Defeat
Cup Upsets
Unlikeliest Win
Player Records
Most Goals in a Match
Top Goalscorer in a Season
Top League Goalscorer in a Season
Most Clean Sheets
Fastest Goal
Most Red Cards in a Season
The Perfect 10.0 Rating
- There must be proof, ie. a screenshot or link to the achievement.
- Posts must come from a career based in FMCU.
- No friendlies. Team records must come from competitive matches only.
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"From wherever you stood, the opposing side offered respectable, credible views. In today's fractured culture the evening struck a blow for civility."
- The Huffington Post
February 11, 2012
Sorry, Uncle Sam, but you've been benched in the fight against obesity. That's according to the Intelligence Squared debate earlier this week, where more voters… more
February 08, 2012
Last night, Intelligence Squared U.S. continued its spring 2012 season with a sold-out debate and a victory against the motion "Obesity is the Government's Business."… more
February 08, 2012
America is fat, but Americans disagree about what this means. Either the country's obesity rates—one third of all adults are obese—are a dangerous health crisis,… more
February 02, 2012
The Intelligence Squared Oxford style debates don't just cover two competing sides of issues like education, the war on terror and religion. They'll also train… more
January 18, 2012
On February 7, Intelligence Squared U.S. (IQ2US) will take on one of America's biggest problems when they host the debate: "Obesity Is the Government's Business."… more
January 12, 2012
...But the question now is, what should be done instead? That was the topic of the debate, which was entitled: "The U.N. should admit Palestine… more
January 11, 2012
Last night, Intelligence Squared U.S. launched it's spring 2012 season with a sold-out debate and a decisive victory for the motion, "The U.N. Should Admit… more
January 11, 2012
Last night, I attended an Intelligence Squared Debate in New York. As expected, the debate was spirited and lively. How could it not be? The… more
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At last night's Intelligence Squared U.S. debate held at NYU's Skirball Center, the motion was: "The U.N. Should Admit Palestine as a Full Member State."… more


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I noticed that when I list my executables with
ls on my Z shell they show up with a character
* next to their name (e.g. see the file in red
What is causing this? I understand the colors are controlled by by
LS_COLORS? But is
LS_COLORS also responsible for showing
* next to their name? or is there anything else that causes this?
I verified this happens to all my executable files, and that the character
* is not part of the file name (e.g. to open the file I type
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I am studying Randomized Algorithms chapter in the book "Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen et al.
In this chapter the book introduces the concept of an indicator random variable and state that the expected value of an indicator random variable as :
I am having difficulty understanding why this is called an indicator random variable, specifically why indicator and random and how this concept is useful in analyzing algorithm timings . It has been some time since I studied probability in school . However , I am aware of the concept behind probability. So you can base your answer on this premise.
As you can see from the diagram all it is saying is that the expected value of an indicator random variable of an event is equal to the probability of that event . We already have the concept of probability , why should we know about this new concept which happens to be the same value as the probability ?


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SUNRISE, Fla. – Florida Panthers Executive VP/General Manager Dale Tallon announced today that the club has recalled D Alex Petrovic from the San Antonio Rampage (AHL).
Petrovic, 21, has played in 55 games with the Rampage in his first full professional season, recording 17 points (4-13-17) and 102 PIM. Last season, the 6-foot-4 blueliner was named the WHL's Defenseman of the Year after recording 48 points (12-36-48) and 141 PIM in 68 games with the Red Deer Rebels before suiting up for San Antonio in the final five regular season games and then recorded six points (2-4-6) in nine playoff games.
Petrovic will become the eighth Panther to make his NHL debut this season whenever he suits up, joining F Jonathan Huberdeau, D Mike Caruso, F Drew Shore, F Quinton Howden, F Jon Rheault, F Eric Selleck and F Nick Bjugstad.
The Edmonton, Alberta native, was drafted by Florida in the second round (36th overall) in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.


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I need to add a click handler to a dynamic added link. I have read that the click method from JQuery does not work for dynamically created elements (and actually I could not get it to work).
I have the following code:
$(this).find(ops.editbuttonselector).click(function(e) {
As the .live method is now deprecated, I would need to use .on for this. According to this thread and my undersntanding of jquery (which is limited), I should do:
selector = $(this).find(ops.editbuttonselector)
$(document).on('click', selector, function(e) {
But this also did not work and actually what was working before (existing elements) stopped working as well.
Can someone please point me to the right syntax.
thanks in advance


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Pull down your pants, ATTACK preditor by rubbing your ass on them, in the process yell "Dolphina"
p.s. To really piss someone off don't wipe ass B4 doing this....WARNING..in doing this the preditor may attack back!!!
p.s. To really piss someone off don't wipe ass B4 doing this....WARNING..in doing this the preditor may attack back!!!
OH my gosh...did you just see that person rub they're ass on the predator... thats called a dolphin KiSs!!!!
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When you are taking a dump, its the splash of water that hits your ass, as it hits the water
I did not need to wipe after that shit because of a nice big ole dolphin kiss
by DANGALANG January 06, 2008
when a guy tries to kiss a girl and she says, "later, later" so the guy rubs his nose against hers like a dolphin
Guy to his friend... " I tried to hook up with her but she told me later, so i gave her a dolphin kiss instead!!"
by Dolfinluverx0x0x January 28, 2011
The act of pulling down one's pants, to the bare ass, and sitting or preferably jump sitting on someone elses nose. This is most successful when your butt hole lands directly on the victem's nose.
While he sat down I dolphin kissed him.
She has a brown nose because I dolphin kissed her
She has a brown nose because I dolphin kissed her
by Joker5997 March 17, 2008
A auto-emitted shower of gas(flatulance) that is collected by the use of your hand while showering with your partner.
A Dolphin Kiss only works if your in the shower with your partner, spouse or best friend. By letting water flow down your back you create a pocket of air between your taint and hand. Proceed to flatulate in your hand and then just throw it in your partners face. It is in no way wrong to practice alone.
by smugglescoke November 02, 2009