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hello…our 13 yr old daughter has been "acting" up terribly…the last couple of semesters she has been failing a lot of her classes…she ran up hundreds of dollars on her cell phone with downloads…she made over 3,500 text messages in one month…(we took text messaging off of her phone and take the phone from her when she gets home from school)…she impersonated her mother and emailed her teachers asking if "her daughter" could do extra credit to make up her failing grades…we let her go to what we were told was a "christian rock festival", but we later found out that it was a thrash metal concert called "bledfest"…(we will make sure that doesn't happen again)…she is constantly lying, backtalking, and not doing anything we ask of her…she has done a lot more things, but i tell you a few to shorten this question out…tonight i am especially worried…she used the computer in the den…when i went on to use it afterwards i had seen she had left her myspace page up…on that page she said she is "98″…also she put down that she smokes and drinks…she had a picture with her step sisters that are in there early 20's…under the pic it said "can you beleive that we get f'd up?"…in another pic she makes a reference about pot…and everything she talks about on it she writes the "f" word every other word…should i be worried that our 13 yr old is doing drugs?…we have let her spend a lot of time with her sisters and with her mothers ex husbands family…oh, one of those sisters is in and out of jail for many things including pot busts…what do we need to do to get her back on the right track?…would it be wrong to stop her from spending weekends with some of her family that could be getting her into drugs or situations that a 13 yr old should not be in?…i want to start being "strict" with her…her mother wants her to have her "freedoms" and let her learn from her own mistakes…what should we do as parents to fix some of these problems?…
Sir, what that girl needs is a spanking! Without one, she will continue to br a brat and think she is untouchable. You also need to take away some of her things to show her that YOU are in charge.
im gonna tell you right off the bat that i myself am 14 but please hear me out – - to be honest she sounds like the definition of a teenager but i promise we are not all like that and we do get better – you could try enrolling her in an after school activity that she likes (basketball, tennis, music, whatever). she also kinda sounds like she may be trying to impress somebody ( for some reason girls tend to cuss a lot and make off like they are bad asses when they want to impress a guy- dont ask me why because i have no idea) as for the grades she probably sees no point in getting good grades in middle school because it doesnt effect college or anything (but you might want to point out to her that if she doesnt pass with at least a D then she will have to take summer school). I just finished my 8th grade year and it seems like every year the 7th graders are like the devils of the school – i promise you its the worst year she'll have. – she might also feel like she cant trust you (im only saying that because you went snooping around on her myspace page). I hope this helps at least a little bit – feel free to email me id be glad to help if i can – hope everything goes alright – - it will get better hang in there
p.s. – yelling never works so dont do that
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text: Theses/Dissertations - Ecological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences http://hdl.handle.net/2104/7982 2014-09-02T18:49:22Z Qualitative and quantitative assessment of UCM in PM2.5 of Bakersfield, CA. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8913 Qualitative and quantitative assessment of UCM in PM2.5 of Bakersfield, CA. Nallathamby, Punith Dev. Fine particulate matter (PM ₂.₅ ) was collected in Bakersfield, CA during the CalNex 2010 field experiment and was analyzed for primary organics using a gas chromatograph – mass spectrometer (GC-MS). Substantial presence of unresolved complex mixture (UCM) was observed in the collected PM ₂.₅ . To quantify the overlapping UCM peaks, a method was developed for the deconvolution (peak separation) of the UCM. This enabled unique quantification of each UCM peak. The developed method was tested on several runs of a standard reference material for urban dust, which yielded consistent values with a standard deviation of ~16%. The UCMs in the Bakersfield sample were quantified separately and qualitatively assessed for possible emission sources. The average spectrum from the UCM suggested the presence of alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes in the low-molecular weight UCM; and the presence of linear, branched, and cyclic alkanes in the high-molecular weight UCM. The method developed in the current study has the potential for application to a variety of environmental media. 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z Fire disturbance effects on regional carbon cycling in a sub-humid woodland. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8605 Fire disturbance effects on regional carbon cycling in a sub-humid woodland. Yao, Jian, 1984- Fire disturbance affects many ecosystem processes, especially carbon (C) cycling. In addition, fire is routinely used as a management tool in wildland ecosystems. In this study, I measured the fire-affected C storage, vegetation composition, habitat suitability for an endangered bird species (golden-cheeked warble), and charcoal content in juniperoak woodlands with documented past surface fires within Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge. Using this information, I modified a process-based model of ecosystem biogeochemical cycling (Biome-BGC) to simulate the effects of different fire types, the production and loss of fire-derived charcoal, and the charcoal effects on soil water availability. From my field measurements, I found significantly different total aboveground biomass C with average values of 5.25, 6.86, and 9.18 kg m-2 for 60 plots with known fire histories that categorized into the recent (<40 year), old (>=40 year), and no fire group, respectively. These data also showed that higher oak recruitment was associated with fires that occurred in years with low summer precipitation. I concluded that fire may have a dual effect on habitat suitability with catastrophic wildfire damaging potential habitat and significantly reducing regional C storage, and moderate intensity fires in dense young juniper stands promoting tree species diversity. From the laboratory analysis of soils derived from these same plots, I estimated that the regional average soil charcoal concentration to be 1.40 g C kg-1 soil (20.8 g C kg-1 SOC) based on the methods of 13C nuclear magnetic resonance and mid-infrared spectroscopy, with fire-affected sites having significantly higher soil charcoal concentrations than the non-fire sites. I calculated the regional annual soil charcoal loss rate to be 4.7%, potentially due to soilerosion on steep slopes. Finally, the modified Biome-BGC model was able to reasonably simulate fire-affected C and charcoal storage changes. The model also indicated that the effects of fire on the ecosystem properties (vegetation C, leaf area index, and net ecosystem exchange) were closely associated with the severity of fire. The fire-derived charcoal did not appear to have significant effects on the simulated ecosystem properties. My results provided detailed ecological information regarding fire-affected processes in these woodland ecosystems. 2013-05-15T00:00:00Z Influence of pH and total dissolve solids on harmful algal blooms of Prymnesium parvum. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8592 Influence of pH and total dissolve solids on harmful algal blooms of Prymnesium parvum. Prosser, Krista Noel. Harmful blooms of Prymnesium parvum in inland waters continue to expand, in part, due to anthropogenic influences and climate change. This thesis examines influences of pH and total dissolved solids (TDS) on P. parvum blooms, growth, and toxicity to aquatic life. Chapter 1 evaluated pH effects on P. parvum bloom development and toxicity by manipulating in situ limnocorrals during 21 d pre-bloom and bloom development experiments. Though neutral pH levels preempted P. parvum bloom development, higher pH resulted in bloom formation and ambient toxicity. Chapter 2 examined whether TDS with major ionic composition associated with hydraulic fracturing influenced P. parvum growth and toxicity across nutrient conditions. Though no growth was observed at 130 mg/L, higher treatment levels of TDS stimulated P. parvum growth and increased acute toxicity to fish. Such novel observations provide pH and TDS thresholds for potentially supporting management of P. parvum growth and acute toxicity in inland waters. 2013-05-15T00:00:00Z Using multiple parameters to compare effluent quality of eight wastewater treatment systems. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8591 Using multiple parameters to compare effluent quality of eight wastewater treatment systems. Price, Amy E. Wastewater effluent qualities from two study sites in central Texas were compared using whole effluent toxicity (WET) tests and chemical indicator parameters. Three of the effluents were collected from the City of Whitney Wastewater Treatment Facility in Whitney, TX; the remaining five effluents were collected at the Waco Metropolitan Area Regional Sewerage System (WMARSS) and the Baylor Wastewater Research Program site near Waco, TX. The first hypothesis examined at the City of Whitney Wastewater Treatment Facility was that effluent water quality improves through a pond and wetland treatment system. The second hypothesis examined was that there is no difference of effluent water qualities between two seasons. The first hypothesis examined for the Waco effluents was that effluent qualities of the four on-site systems are comparable to a centralized municipal wastewater treatment effluent: WMARSS. 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LAWRENCEVILLE - Gwinnett Superior Court Judge Billy Ray has been nominated for the state's highest court.Attorney Matt Reeves wrote a letter to former Attorney General Mike Bowers and the Judicial Nominating Commission members encouraging the naming of Ray, a former state senator, to the Georgia Supreme Court. While the commission will create a short list, Gov. Sonny Perdue will appoint the justice to replace Leah Ward Sears, who has resigned her seat on the bench. If he chooses Ray, the Lawrenceville man would become the first Gwinnett County judge to serve on Georgia's highest court.
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CATEGORIES Drama, Foreign Language, Independent, Casting, Johnny Depp, Cinematical Indie, CinematicalWhen we first told you about a Salvador Dalí biopic in the works, the project was to be helmed by Simon West (Con Air). Ten months later, we got more news on the film, which had seemingly replaced West with Andrew Niccol (Gattaca). But now it seems we may have been discussing two different pictures. According to producer Peter Rawley (1975's Ransom), there was once nine projects in the works based on the surrealist's life. Now there are only four (known about), including Rawley's Dalí, which so far has a script by Philippe Mora (Howling III) and for which Rawley is trying to woo Johnny Depp to play the title role. According to the producer, Dalí will also be about the artist's whole life -- unlike the other films, which he claims are more about Dalí's wife and art-dealers -- and will be shot in Barcelona and Prague as soon as a cast is in place.
Niccol's movie, as we've known, is to star Al Pacino. Titled Dalí & I, The Surreal Story, and based on the autobiography by Stan Lauryssens, the movie will focus on the relationship between the artist and the author, who was for a time Dalí's neighbor. That project is being scripted by John Salvati (One Way Out) and Niccol. Movie #3 is called Goodbye Dalí and is being produced by David Permut (Face/Off).
Apparently the project will be about the artist's final years, as Permut is trying to cast Peter O'Toole (who is 10 years younger than Dalí was when he died). The screenplay for Goodbye has been written by Yaniv Raz and Allan Rich, and it focuses on the relationship between Rich, a former art dealer, and Dalí. That film will be shot in Spain and New York. According to a spokesperson for the Dalí estate, the fourth project in the works is being made in Central Europe. The spokesperson also says that as long as the films are respectful to the artist, they will have permission to feature Dalí's works onscreen.
Obviously there isn't enough room at the multiplex or in the interest of moviegoers for so many biopics about Dalí, so it is likely that one or more will fail to actually go into production. But there is a chance that there will one day be dueling Dalí movies, and as was the case with the dueling Capote pics, only one will be a hit. My guess is that Depp will not become involved with Rawley's film, and so Dali & I, with the Hollywood clout of Niccol and the appeal of Pacino, will be the winner.


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Computer case lighting started with people taking lights made for cars and putting them in cases. From there we got our own cold cathode lights made for computers and it just went on from there. Back in 2010 we took a look at NZXT's sleeved LED kit, which was a great way to light the inside of your case. NZXT is back with another lighting solution called the Hue. It combines a LED strip with a 5.25-inch bay device that you can use to control the LED's. The Hue is set to be one of the most customizable and easy to use lighting systems for your PC! Read on as we check it out!
- Infinite color options that you can customize to your heart's content
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- Unique mesh design that blends flawlessly into any chassis with a mesh front panel
The NZXT Hue comes in a basic retail box that has a photo of the controller on the front. On the back are some photos of the Hue in action and a list of features and specifications.
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- Defense much improved from ugly start
- Forsythe returns to lineup from 60-day DL
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SAN DIEGO -- Outfielder Will Venable left Sunday's 6-0 loss to the D-backs in the top of the third inning with a strained right oblique.
Venable said he suffered the injury during his first at-bat, a ground-ball out to second base to start the first inning.
"I took my swing and slipped out of the box a little," Venable said. "It was a ground ball so I was running hard. I was thinking infield hit and I just tweaked it a little bit."
He was replaced in center field by Chris Denorfia.
San Diego manager Bud Black said that Venable would come to Petco Park sometime Monday -- which is an off-day for the team -- to be re-evaluated and receive treatment. No determination has been made as to whether Venable will head to the disabled list.
"We will see how it sets up," Black said. "Some [oblique strains] are nasty, some are not. Some go away quickly."
Last season, catcher Nick Hundley missed 31 games with an oblique injury. Relief pitcher Luke Gregerson missed 25 games with a similar injury.
"It doesn't feel good," Venable said after the game. "It got progressively worse with everything that I tried to do."
The Padres currently have 11 players on the disabled list.
Defense much improved from ugly start
SAN DIEGO -- One of the reasons for the Padres slow start, injuries aide, was their porous defense.
How bad was it?
The Padres made 26 errors in the first 22 games of the season.
"It was ugly in April," Padres manager Bud Black said. "I told you guys we're going to play better."
Black was right. The Padres have made one error in their past 11 games, entering Sunday's game against the D-backs, with none in their past eight games.
Since May 1, the Padres are tied with the Reds and Twins for the fewest errors (15) in the Major Leagues -- a far cry from where they were in April.
"We have played good the last 25 games or so defensively, fundamentally much better. The infield has been better, outfield play has been better. I like what I'm seeing as far as playing a clean game," Black said. "We are doing better. We're making the plays we should make."
First baseman Yonder Alonso has five errors but none since April 29. Third baseman Chase Headley has four errors but none since May 14. Outfielder Will Venable has four errors but none since April 24.
"We've worked on things with a few guys," said Padres third-base coach Glenn Hoffman, who works with the infielders. "The priority has been set back on it. We knew that we were better than the start that we had."
Forsythe returns to lineup from 60-day DL
SAN DIEGO -- It would probably be perfectly fine if Logan Forsythe never ended up in Arizona again this season, especially after spending parts of the past fourth months there rehabilitating a broken bone he suffered in his left foot followed by a playing assignment with Triple-A Tucson.
On Sunday, Forsythe, who can play second base, shortstop and third base, was reinstated from the 60-day disabled list. He was in the starting lineup at second base against the D-backs in the final game of a three-game series at Petco Park.
"A lot of hard work paid off," Forsythe said. "It's nice to be back up here with the guys."
Forsythe suffered a broken sesamoid bone in his left foot in Spring Training and had surgery to remove it in March. He then spent three months at the Padres' Spring Training facility in Peoria getting healthy and then playing in extended spring training games before going to Tucson.
Forsythe hit .259 in 58 at-bats with Tucson on his rehabilitation assignment. He played third base seven times for Tucson, second base three times and shortstop five times.
Forsythe, who had his right sesamoid bone removed while playing at the University of Arkansas, said his foot hasn't bothered him much in recent weeks.
"The big things were doubles, scoring from second base [on hits] and making sharp turns around the bag," Forsythe said. "I was playing all over the field, my approach came back and now I feel that I'm getting into a routine again."
The Padres planned to look at Forsythe at shortstop in Spring Training to determine if he could handle the position, knowing that he could already play third base and second base. Instead he was hurt early in camp.
Andy Parrino, who went on the disabled list Sunday with a ligament sprain in his right wrist, made the team as a utility infielder.
"It started bothering me a couple weeks ago, and then in Chicago it got to the point that I wasn't able to swing anymore," Parrino said. "All I know right now is it's some type of tendon or ligament damage, we'll see how it goes the next few days. Throwing is fine, fielding, all that -- the biggest thing right now is getting the strength back to be able to swing again."
Kotsay activated from DL, Grandal sent down
SAN DIEGO -- Outfielder Mark Kotsay, who has missed 30 games this season because of injuries, came off the disabled list Sunday and jumped right back into the starting lineup in right field.
To make room for Kotsay on the roster, the team optioned catcher Yasmani Grandal back to Triple-A Tucson after two games. He made his Major League debut on Saturday, going 0-for-1 after entering the game as a defensive replacement.
Kotsay has missed the past 20 games with a lower back strain, hit second in the lineup in the final game of a three-game series against the D-backs at Petco Park.
Kotsay missed the first 10 games of the season with a strained right calf.
"It's good to gets 'Kots' back," said Padres manager Bud Black. "He's done very well in the positions we have put him in as a pinch-hitter or getting some starts."
Kotsay is hitting .294 in his first 34 at-bats with the team with one home run and six RBIs.
"I've been making progress since before the team left town," Kotsay said, referring to the Padres' recent 10-game road trip. "I've been gauging the way I felt and right now I feel comfortable to go out there and play."
Kotsay's return comes eight days before the team plays another round of Interleague games on the road, three games in Seattle and then three more in Oakland. The team could potentially get Kotsay a start or two at designated hitter in those games to keep his bat in the lineup.
As for Grandal, he's itching to get back to San Diego, especially after having a taste, albeit a little one, of playing in the Major Leagues.
"It kind of gave me that little extra edge where I'm going back down to Triple-A and I want to get back up here," he said.
Worth noting
San Diego manager Bud Black said that closer Huston Street will be reinstated from the disabled list before Tuesday's game against the Giants.
Street made his second Minor League rehabilitation assignment appearance with Class A Lake Elsinore on Sunday, allowing two runs in one inning.
To make room on the 25-man roster for Street, the team will designate right-hander Matt Palmer for assignment. Palmer allowed two runs on two hits in two innings over three appearances for the Padres.
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Last night marked one of the most memorable in the history of women's MMA after a gutsy bout between Sarah Kaufman-Alexis Davis at Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey was followed up by another highly-entertaining affair involving bantamweights Miesha Tate and Ronda Rousey.
While Kaufman's clash with Davis resulted in a good deal of gore it paled in comparison to the gruesome finish in Rousey's championship win over Tate where the Olympic judoka shredded the former title-holder's arm in trademark fashion. The end came with less than a minute remaining in the opening round, marking the fifth time in five pro fights Rousey has stopped an opponent with an Armbar before the first frame's expiration.
As a treat for fans, not to mention sadists, Strikeforce has since released a highlight reel from Rousey's victory highlighting both Tate's toughness and "Rowdy" Ronda's propensity for pulverizing her adversary's arms.
Watch the full video below and be warned as the finish is graphic:
MMATraining Take: Were there any doubt before regarding Rousey's ability there certainly isn't now, as Tate was fully prepared and still could do little to stop the unbeaten champion's momentum. I honestly thought the fight was over in the first minute when Rousey procured her first Armbar but clearly it was only a matter of time, as Tate fought back valiantly only to be put in a similar position and stopped in devastating fashion.
[...] Miesha Tate suffered a nasty Armbar loss to new Strikeforce women's bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey this past weekend in the main event of Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey. After the loss Tate stayed on the mat inside the cage for several minutes, as Rousey bent her arm in an unnatural way causing what appeared to be some sort of serious damage to the limb. [...]
[...] Ronda Rousey's submission victory over Miesha Tate Saturday night in Columbus proved to the naysayers Rousey can fight just as well, if not better, than she talks. The astonishing technical display also showed experience in MMA does not compare to high-level accomplishments in the Olympics. [...]
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There's a bus stop at Les Gaillands (Line 9), but you can walk there from Chamonix Centre in 20 minutes or so. Follow the signs for Les Pčlerins--it's a much nicer (and safer!) walk than the main road out of town. Walk through Les Pčlerins, join the main road and pass a small hotel and bar, Le Vert, on your right. The crag is in the park just beyond, on the right; you'll easily see it from the road.
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The Joe Nuxhall Memorial Honorary Star of the Game
The 3 ER be damned. Bronson Arroyo was the star tonight, hands down. Fantastiroyo hit Ryan Braun with a pitch in the top of the 1st, and proceeded to retire the next 20 Brewers in order. The 8th inning bit him, for sure, but that's the kind of 2010 Arroyo that will help this ball club win a division. Big Props to the Nasty Hook.
Very Honorable mention due to Drew Stubbs, who picked up Bronson with the game-winning HR immediately after the lead had been surrendered, and to Jay Bruce, who Bootsied a 3-run baseline to break open the game in the 6th. Aroldis Chapman also seemingly got off of his mini-schnide, striking out the side while picking up his 9th save of the season (and lowering his season ERA back under 2, where it rightly belongs.) Ryan Hanigan gets a nod, as well, for being the only Red not to strike out tonight (Estrada was dealing, as was the MIL bullpen tonight.)
Key Plays
- From a batting perspective, this game took a while to become interesting. Both pitchers took no-no's into the 4th, when Brandon Phillips doinked a single. The scoring didn't start until the 6th, however, when the heart of the Reds order did some work. Joey Votto doubled off the wall in Left, Phillips singled, and Bruce smoked a first pitch breaking ball over the wall in Right-Center. Reds lead, 3-0.
- As Arroyo was nearing 100 pitches (and as the Brewers lineup came up for the 3rd time around), the wheels came off a bit. The umpire must have been German, as George Kottaras was bailed out with a iffy ball 4 call to start the damage in the 8th. Taylor Greene, hitting .203 at the time, looped a soft liner into the Right Field corner, and the no-no was no-mo. Corey Hart promptly stepped up to pinch hit, and plated both runners with a double, and after Rickie Weeks did nothing, Norichiddychiddybangbang Aoki singled in Hart to tie the game. Game tied, 3-3.
- Drew Stubbs entered tonight's game hitting roughly .290/.360/.490 in 165 PAs batting 2nd, and boosted that big time. He took John Axford's cheeseball out to Center, hitting the batting eye in the process. Light Tower Power, indeed. Chapman came in to close it out, and the Reds locked up an eventful victory, 4-3!
Other Notes
- Someone needs to pick up Marty Brennaman like a field mouse and bop him on the head. From the beginning of the 5th inning on, I don't think he went one sentence without doing everything he possibly could to break code and talk about the potential No-hitter. We now know when the last Reds' pitcher threw one, when the perfect game was, how close Bronson's come to having one before, who caught each game, when the Brewers were last no-hit, and what Nuxy thought of each one. Dude, just hush! Props to Cowboy for not saying a gosh-darn thing about it. C'mon, man!
- Tonight's jam: dig it.
- Head out to the ballpark tomorrow if you can, folks. It's the last Reds game at GABP until July 13th, as they hit the road for 11 games on the Weez Coast (vs. SF, LAD, and SD), and then break for the All-Star game before returning home.


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Never before released on DVD-Audio. "Live At The Whisky A-Go-Go" documents the first-ever US tour in December 1969 by Steve Marriott, Peter Frampton, Greg Ridley, and Jerry Shirley. This early live show offers a unique insight into a band who later dominated the US stadium circuit. 24 bit / 96 kHz DVD-Audio and 24 bit / 48 kHz Dolby Digital 5.1 options Stunning 5.1 surround sound Liner Notes Plays on ALL DVD players Over 51 minutes of music!
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This is Nice! A CD of a Show from the very first Tour of the USA. Humble Pie, live on The Sunset Strip at The Whisky A-Go-Go. Recorded December, 1969 with 5 songs and 51 Minutes of Music, this is a Unique Curio of The Pie.
With only a few months of live Gigs under their Belts: Steve, Greg, Jerry & Peter were already Seasoned Rock Veterans, but due to problems with their Record Company, few Folks knew of them outside of Great Britian. This CD begins with Steve shouting: "Why don't you Shut-Up" from the Small Whisky Stage, and then Jerry's Tom-Toms take us into an Acoustic: "For Your Love". This is the same Humble Pie that you remember from the fantastic: "Rockin' The Filmore", but here the Band is still testing the waters. After the Acoustic number gives them meager welcome The Pie strap on the Gibsons and blast into a High-Charged: "Shakin' All Over". Steve on Organ and Pete's Grungy Chords duel it out here, and you know, jaws are dropping, No more Talking and clinks of the glasses can be heard, just the onslaught & power we call: "Humble Pie". Pete throws in some nice lead runs towards the end, but as that's fine, what I noticed was the Bass of Mr. Greg Ridley, the Band's Anchor, who is Heard as well as FELT on that beat. That said, The Sound here is Stellar & everybody is heard Cleanly in the Mix, this Source Tape sounds so much better than I was expecting, this ain't no Bootleg, this one sounds GREAT!
The third tune: "Hallelujah, I Love Her So", isn't that different from Stadium Versions you've heard from later Pie. But, like everything Presented here it does sound Fresh & New, but all the ingrediences are already in Place for what was to come. It's very cool to hear a Live: "Shakey Jake" but it's brief as it Melts into: "Walk On Gilded Splinters" that has both the Bass & Drums featured. Steve whips out his Harp and Pete Snakes his leads in to some Tasty Directions. This Version of: "Slinters" is the Highlight of an already Great Set, as The Pie pulls out all the stops here and Takes-off. This is a Must-Hear Version, as it is that Good. Now, you could hear a pin drop in the Whisky, this Audience is Dumb-Struck from the Power, you can just FEEL it here. The Jake>Splinters Epic takes up over half of Humble Pie's time on stage, this Night and when it's over the Crowd who seemed asleep at the Start of the Show is up & Alive.
Who knows how much more there was that Night is still a guess, because that's the end of this Tape. More Songs? Encores? …Don't know, and never will, BUT, I'm glad we get this Much of that Night right here.
If you like Humble Pie, You NEED this one! FOUR STARS !!!


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Trent, Trever, Jeffery and Jason are active boys who love to play games and sports. They would like to be adopted together and grow up in one home.
It was a day of laughter at Chuck E Cheese for the four active and loving brothers. Like most young boys, Trent, Trever, Jeffery and Jason like video games.
"We play racing," said Trent, the oldest brother. "We play with our friends playing soldiers and we also play football."
Unlike most youngsters, the four siblings don't have a permanent home.
Trent makes good grades and loves football.
"I catch all the balls sometimes and make touchdowns," he said.
Trent takes his role as big brother seriously and hopes he and his brothers all live in one home, a home where abuse doesn't exist.
"Don't hit us," he said. "Don't do stuff that makes us hurt and do a lot of fun things."
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Trevor echoed Trent's sentiment with a desire for a loving family.
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The Metropolitan Mosquito Control District started treating for mosquitoes on Monday and planned to finish Wednesday. But the crash of a helicopter flying to spray for mosquitoes in Maplewood suspended the treatments.
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Facebook, Twitter, Google to cooperate with Govt on screening sites
After cracking down on bulk SMSes, the Government on Monday blocked as many as 245 Web pages that fuelled the rumours causing panic among the North-Eastern community.
A statement from Communications and IT Ministry said that more than 150 Web pages – 76 on Saturday and 80 on Sunday, respectively – were blocked. The rest were blocked on Monday, including some pages on Facebook, Google and Twitter.
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"Content intended to incite violence is prohibited on YouTube, and we act quickly to remove such material flagged by our users. YouTube's Community Guidelines also prohibit things like hate speech, shocking or disturbing content, illegal acts, and graphic violence, and we give our users tools to flag content so that we can review and remove anything that violates our policies," a Google India spokesperson said.
The Government is also considering taking up the findings of the national cyber threat monitoring and response agency Computer Emergency Response Team – India's (CERT-In) findings at international forums, as it has turned out to be the biggest instance of cyber warfare on India in recent times.
According to a Home Ministry report, many fake profiles were created for spreading morphed pictures with most of the online content getting posted from July 13 leading to a panic exodus of North-Eastern people from Bangalore, Pune and Kolkata.
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Hey there,
We have WB AMR content that works on the Nokia 3300. The same exact content will not work on the 3100 (plays but is corrupted), although it will accept the files and rename them to .awb correctly. While the Device Matrix does not say that the phone even does AMR (only mentions Midi), the accept headers mention audio/amr and audio/amr-wb.
I've tried reencoding the content at all the different bit-rates that the amr converter supports.
So, what's different about the 3100 (and other Nokias for that matter) relative to to the 3300?
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IGN Filmforce has up an interview with Harry Potter's Hagrid, where he talks about, among other things, working with animals:
I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train. What they are like is sharks, they're very, very efficient killing machines. So, they get very, very good at killing things. You don't need any other skills, you know what I mean? They're not like dolphins, they don't play, they're not funny... they don't need to. "I can eat anything I want. Nothing's going to attack me. Do I need to be charming? I don't think so."
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What these two papers prove, taken together, is that if you have a computer model with lots of adjustable parameters, you can prove anything you want
The serious flaw with the original paper is said to be that the circular velocity is constant with z (perpendicular distance from the disc mid-plane).
However, just under equation (25), Bovy et al themselves say (quote):
Thus, the circular-speed curve of the Milky Way remains close to its value in the plane
throughout the region |Z| < 4 kpc that we are investigating.
So that seems to contradict their own position.
Also, I'm sure naively, I would've thought that the circular velocity was not important in the argument. Surely it is only movement in the z-component that we are interested in here ? Or is this a trap that Moni Bidin et al fell into ?
slight variations, while at the same time an obvious feature like that dark spot at 5 o'clock high is just an artifact of a certain analysis.
If you think I'm anti-science you are mistaken. I get the same feelings that you appear to have toward me, when I hear from GW deniers. But I know that thermometers and melting ice don't lie and I know who is supporting the deniers and why they do so. That issue is politics, not science.
Regardless of what you may think, I am trying to learn and understand as best I can. I do read many papers (unfortunately skipping most of the mathematical details). What I find somewhat unfortunate about this forum is that "non-mainstream" ideas cannot be discussed except in the context of a special sub-forum where you must personally defend them against a regiment of critics. This is especially unfortunate because the "mainstream" appears to be so narrowly defined as to coincide precisely with LCDM as espoused e.g. by Ned Wright.
I have emphasized alternate possibilities (concerning DM) and pointed out that there are things that (IMO) we simply don't know all that much about. I am willing to read papers both in agreement and contrary to mainstream ideas. You have pointed out for example a paper contradicting the one that I referenced in starting this thread. I read that paper (as best I can). It sounds like they may have a point but I am not personally competent to judge.
I'll take a break here (because I don't want to be a nuisance) and wait for more to come. If I find something interesting perhaps I'll start another thread. If I do, it will be based on something published in peer review as anything else is summarily dismissed.
I can't explain the apparent contradiction, I'll have to read the paper again.
I just looked again and I think the argument under eq (27) is what leads to their conclusion that the assumption of constant velocity in azimuth is wrong. Perhaps if the circular velocity is constant, then the projection on the azimuth is not? It's not completely clear to me.
I am asking you to please continue your reading and learning, and use your energy in the threads where you *do* know what you are talking about. It seems obvious that you will be broadening that range very rapidly.
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Perhaps you can shed some light on the issue raised by kzb above. The paper does not go into great detail, apparently because they feel that their assumption of constant circular velocity contradicts the assumption of constant azimuthal velocity. I don't really see that cleary and would appreciate any insight you might have.
The "ATM" section is for people who want to advocate for such an idea. However, the overwhelming majority of stuff there is not even science.
I'm no expert, but it appears to me that Moni Bidin, et al., just neglected to consider the asymmetric drift...
"The asymmetric drift is expected to vary with R, although this variation cannot be measured for [Moni Bidin's] sample as the data do not span a large enough range in R."
That also explains why Jo Bovy said:
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
On its own, no it isn't. You have no idea about the quality of the paper, of the consistency with evidence or anything - and yet because it is on a subject you support make some vague insinuation that it was thrown out for no good reason. Even good scientists write bad papers, or have papers sent back for revision. But no, your first instinct is, again, to hint that he was censored thanks to the content. A position for which you have no evidence and, as you have said, could not evaluate the evidence if you had it. Despite this, because the referees disagreed it has to be "disturbing"...Dr. Pavel Kroupa was quoted in that article of being a bit ticked in that he presented a paper concerning variance in IMF before that, but the referees would not publish it. Completely anecdotal of course, but somewhat disturbing.
(But as an aside, you can also have no science or junk science in a Science or Nature paper, I could easily give two recent examples in space physics, but that is OT and would derail this discussion.)
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I'm sorry but if you guys seriously think that the study of cosmology is completely unbiased and purely objective science, you are living in a dream world. Just look at your own threads. Anything written that does not support your theory is so abhorrent that you summarily declare it false. You scramble to find a contradiction. You constantly use old assumptions to prove arguments. Assumptions that may indeed be wrong and are turning out to be wrong. One of these is a universal IMF. That is going the way of the Dodo. No matter though, the conclusions drawn therefrom will last for many years to come.
I'm reading a thread mentioned by Reality Check and it's just wonderful in terms of the group psychology apparent. I've got to call a spade a spade. There is some serious close-mindedness evident in this forum and in the astonomy community. People like Ned Wright believe that they have the science behind them to falsify all other interpretations of the Universe. In other words, any other interpretation is wrong a priori. However, Ned's own view of the Universe requires you to accept at least two un-falsifiable assumptions, Inflation and Dark Matter (not to mention that you must accept that the CMB is the fading flash of the BB). Yet standing on those flimsy crutches all of you make the claim that ONLY YOUR THEORY can possibly be right. This is group belief, not science.
Now, if some large percentage of senior astronomers share Ned's belief, then what do you suppose they tell their students about what direction they should take in their PhD thesis, papers and research? Get real, there is bias and it's always been this way in science throughout history, because human nature has not changed. It's these same senior academics and scientists, firmly set in their beliefs, that review papers and reject papers containing non-conforming ideas. They already know that the papers must be wrong. Oh sure, a few innovative ones leak through, but very few.
There is no scientific credibility here because there is no willingness to give up existing assumptions in pursuit of other possibilities. There is a rush to judgement to dismiss anything that assails your theory and fantastic assumptions. Many of the papers that I see from the LCDM crowd are dedicated to making up yet another excuse for why observations do not match their predictions. This THEORY is tying up billions of dollars in research funds looking for the DM particles and trying to explain the universe from the subtle variations in the feeble background of deep space. Never mind that these predictions fail to explain the here and now. No, that doesn't matter. What matters is that the theory is so wonderfully self-consistent at explaining the things that it has been carefully tailored to explain.
Further, this group has the gall to present their story to the public as the undisputed truth about the universe. Consider this, if you are wrong, and I mean completely wrong, what is that going to do the public image of science? When a theory is based on speculations, it has no business being close-minded and presenting a false image of certainty to the public. Science should be quite modest about claims of what it knows until it really knows something (free from speculation). But alas it is not. Yet, this is understandable because scientist are not objective computational engines; they are human animals subject to the same tendencies, desires and biases as all of us.
Your theory may be completely right, but it's certainly not looking that way. Before I'm banned for this, I urge all of you to keep an open mind, to listen, to challenge your own assumptions and to deeply consider other ideas. What have you made this "forum" into, except a platform for expousing your own beliefs and denigrating all challenges?
And I think that you mean top-heavy IMFs since that is the subject of a couple of his latest pre-prints.
Dr. Pavel Kroupa has published at least one paper on this topic: A top-heavy stellar initial mass function in starbursts as an explanation for the high mass-to-light ratios of ultra compact dwarf galaxies, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2009).
There is scientific credibility here because there is no willingness to give up existing theories that are supported by evidence in pursuit of other possibilities that are not supported by evidence.
The LCDM predictions about the evolution of the universe including the "here and now" do match the observations quite well.
Lambda-CDM theory - Woo or not? thread then you should be aware that it was started by a rather ignorant crank and most of it is various posters trying to explain science to him. This extended over 2 years and about 5000 posts and he did not seem to learn or understand much!
The basic misconception that he had was "empirical evidence" means only things that can be experimented on in laboratories. So according to him: no dark matter in a lab = dark matter does not exist, no dark energy in a lab = dark energy does not exist, no inflation in a lab = inflation does not exist (thus no stars in a lab = stars do not exist ). Empirical evidence includes observations!
The "group psychology" is that that you stick with theories backed with empirical evidence until a better theory (explains the same empirical evidence and new empirical evidence) comes along.
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This rant against the membership of BAUT is a derailment of this thread and is just flat out rude. If you hate this place so much, then just stop posting here. Either that, or learn to live by our rules and to play nice with others. In any case this earns you an infraction.
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1) MM pointed to evidence that galaxies were twice as bright as previously thought and thereby concluded that they were twice as heavy (in stars and gas). That seems like the simplest, most direct interpretation. However another poster (TT) argued that twice as bright was equivalent to only 1.2 times as massive. His reasoning was that the luminosity of main sequence stars L is proportional to M^3.5 where M is the stellar mass. Therefore (according to TT) doubling the luminosity implies only a small change in mass.
That argument is just contrived to keep the new stellar mass estimate low. The only way to keep the mass so low that way is to propose that the extra luminosity is only at the very top of the IMF and that the IMF is more top heavy than we have evidence for. That is quite dubious because the high mass stars are the easiest to detect.
Nobody on the thread called out TTs assumption as unlikely. Instead they all tacitly agree. That is group think. The common purpose is to deny the significance of new evidence that does not help the shared belief.
2) MM pointed to evidence that the IMF is more bottom heavy than was previously thought and thereby concluded that mass/luminosity ratio for galaxies was significantly higher than previously thought, so that galaxies for a given luminosity actually have more stellar mass than previously thought. TT countered that this finding had no effect on mass estimates and that mass was derived solely from total luminosity as before. This is quite obviously an incorrect interpretation. If he were just to consider the luminosity formula he gave for main sequence stars (L = kM^3.5), he should see that adding more stars with lower mass increases the mass/luminosity ratio for galaxies, thus increasing the mass estimate of normal matter.
Again, nobody on the thread called out TT on this clear mistake. The other posters are not being objective. They are simply trying defend their theory and don't mind using nonsensical arguments to dismiss evidence that might affect their theory (even if that evidence does not constitute anything close to a disproof of their theory).
Now I was referred to TT as an expert who could demonstrate that Ari Brynjolfsson's plasma redshift ideas were nonsense. They could be nonsense, but after reading some of that thread, I cannot take TT's statements as authoritative.
Finally, no you don't "stick with your theory", especially when it based on unsubstantiated new physics. You can certainly use your theory and see where it goes, but you should be open at all times to the possibility that it is wrong. Currently it appears that the senior astronomical community is so attached to that theory that contrary observations are often ignored (e.g. no time dilation in quasars) or attempts are made to stretch new data as far as possible to make the contradictions go away (usually reducing the significance to sigma 1 and then considering the issue closed). Anything, absolutely anything contrary is viewed with suspicion and assumed to be wrong while waiting for a good justification. This creates an atmosphere in the world of astronomy where deeply held assumptions such as expansion, the interpretation of rotation curves and the meaning of the CMB have become dogma that cannot be challenged. Thinking outside of this box is discouraged with "well, given what we know that is just impossible, so you best forget about such nonsense."
Instead of open-minded science what we have is "scientific guardianship" of a commonly held interpretation which requires un-falsifiable conjectures such as inflation and non-baryonic DM in its foundation.
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I'm no expert, but it appears to me that Moni Bidin, et al., just neglected to consider the asymmetric drift...
"The asymmetric drift is expected to vary with R, although this variation cannot be measured for [Moni Bidin's] sample as the data do not span a large enough range in R."
But if there is no significant range for a variable, how can the effect of that variable on the final measurement be quantified?
In fact this is a common technique in science: hold one variable constant or within a small range, so that the effect of other variables can be quantified.
Obviously I don't know the full details of what either set of authors has done, but this aspect is still a bit puzzling.
I have reopened this thread on a request from StupendousMan who has more information on the original topic.
I assume he wants to discuss this paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5397
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So what's the deal? MB says you need to remove the thin disk contamination and these guys say that spoils the accuracy of the velocity dispersion? But isn't the exclusion of the thin disk good because it is not relevant to this issue of what's going on at higher z? I'm confused. They also do some statistical analysis to claim that the errors are actually larger than assumed by MB. They suggest that errors are in the neighborhood of the "Poisson noise" but don't seem to offer proof of that.These authors found a gradient a factor of two higher than MB which MB claim is due to not removing thin disc and halo contaminants in their analysis. We conclude by
following the method used by G06 to test whether their results are more secure than those reported by MB.
Now we have two papers saying MB is wrong (or at least weak) for two different reasons. It will be interesting to see if MB counters, but if I were him, I'd wait a while since someone else may want to throw their hat in the ring, at the rate they are flying in.
I've only skimmed the Jason paper briefly. It's worth pointing out that he has not used the same stars as the other two previous papers. In fact he has used a synthetic population based on a model (hmmm...circular argument alert....).
This he has done in order to point out what statistical traps you can fall into with these kind of studies. it also means that both the previous papers we are discussing suffer from this same issue.
That's what I've taken from it so far anyhow.
First point I'd like to make about the Jason Sanders paper,
We limit our investigation to just the W component
of the velocity (the component along the z direction).
In other words, JS does not seem to think the problem identified by Bovy et al is much of an issue.
JS illustrates what statistical pitfalls both MB and Bovy et al based their conclusions on. In doing this, he uses a synthetically-generated population of stars, itself based on a model including stellar disk, gas disk, thick disk, and spherical halo. (So we need to have our circular argument goggles firmly attached here.)
However, in mitigation, he then goes on to use a real sample of stars, but not the same sample as the previous two papers under discussion.
It's clear he is saying the statistical methods used in both previous papers lead to bias. What's not so clear is whether he thinks the findings with his sample of real stars backs up one argument or the other.
But I think it's fair to say, Bovy et al, with their claim of finding the most precise estimate to date of the disk DM content from this data, are being rubbished just as much as MB et al in this paper.
I would venture to attribute it to the difficultly of accurately measuring the effects sought. Detections of this or that effect are often at the very limit of what S/N allows (as well as highly dependent on assumptions). Depending upon the way the data is analyzed (generally relying heavily on statistics), the assumptions made and the competing effects considered, the conclusions may differ widely, as in this example. One man's evidence of no DM is another's proof of it's existence in the LCDM-expected amounts, and a third's evidence of nothing but noise.
I suppose there is considerable interest in publishing papers to be recognized at the leading edge of investigation. However, one might wonder whether it would not be better to wait until strong data from sufficiently powerful instruments is available before drawing conclusions in papers? In other words, don't bother publishing conclusions unless they have a high degree of certainty. There are a tremendous number of papers published, but the significance of them is obscure. Will a paper stand or be shot down by the next paper?
Claims of incorrect results from improper analysis are common; this undermines faith in publications more generally. One would certainly expect (if the data allows) a true resolution of these conflicts. But how would this ever occur? There is no impartial tribunal that decides who's analysis is correct and who's is wrong. To some degree the problem is to be expected in science, but it seems especially common in cosmology. The reason for this is probably that cosmology differs from other sciences in that generally there is no way to experiment, i.e. to control one variable while containing others. We have observations; but few experiments.
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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
I think Cougar's comment is accurate. Mainstream-neutral or supportive papers will not receive as much scrutiny as those with unsupportive findings.
Antoniseb makes a good point that uncertain conclusions can lead the community to probe in a direction that resolves an issue. Probably that will be the case here. Better measurements will eventually be available, but there's no guarantee that they will result in resolution if the different sides cannot agree on assumptions and statistical methods.


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