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In general, students should expect less of a right to privacy while they are in a school environment than anywhere else. In public, students are citizens like anyone else. In school, they are in a specific situation with specific governmental goals that override some of their privacy rights. In the US, this can be seen in cases such as New Jersey v. T. L. O.
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This is something I deal periodically with, and first time it was me who needed conviction. Luckily, I just tried, made extra effort to learn and thanks to this book, Spring support, and Hibernate I won't start a project without considering JPA. But not everyone is willing to go extra mile that often (just in anything we deal with I guess). So how and what to say/present/explain/argument to at least shift their attitude toward ORM?
I'll assume that you actually have an object model that's richer than mere DTOs and not simply a 1:1 correspondence with your relational schema. If not, you don't win the argument. You win if the SQL generated by Hibernate is at least as efficient as the hand-coded stuff that's in the stored procs. You lose if the stored procs can be optimized to perform better than Hiberate-generated SQL. You lose if the database is shared by other apps that depend on the stored procs. You can't move the logic to Spring and the middle tier as easily. You have a better case if your app owns the database. Since you're already using Spring, that suggests that you have a DAO layer that takes advantage of Spring Validation. PreparedStatements are already used underneath, so SQL injection is as unlikely for Spring as it is for stored procs. |
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Ask if they want to keep writing the same boilerplate SQL JDBC CRUD code for every new entity type you add to your application. Without an ORM solution in the data layer, each new entity class requires N units of work to make that entity available through the data layer (DAOs, CRUD code, stored procedures, writing queries, etc.). ORM transforms that N into a fraction of itself, assuming that adding new entities then requires you to just add another mapping for that entity in metadata. |
I think this answer from your related question link nails the underlying issue. If the database's purpose is tightly coupled to your application, and it doesn't really have a separate identity, then ORM makes a ton of sense. If, however, your database represents a larger picture and your application is one of the many applications that accesses data, using ORM can have potential negative impacts on the coupling between your application and the database and the need to change the database over time. But to some degree you can answer your question yourself - what objections did you have? How were you convinced the first time? |
Less boilerplate and extra security. You get to save your fingers and junior programmers have less chances to introduce SQL injection vulnerabilities which I find very important. |
The answer to your question is actually quite simple and completely independent of whether you're a die-hard DBA. You have to ask yourself: In the first case, choose an ORM. In the second case, choose SQL. If you have both in your application, choose both. The two models aren't mutually exclusive, although ORMs do impose a lot of rules on your application design. Note that ORMs are not "the next thing" in the Java world. They're a great invention to solve only some problems (namely complex or repetitive CRUD) |


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Funeral Services Scheduled For Fallen Racer Kenny Anderson
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Funeral services for Kenny Anderson, who died from injuries suffered in an AFM race at Buttonwillow Raceway Park, are scheduled for Sunday, March 24 in Hollywood, California.
The services are scheduled for 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Hollywood Forever Funeral Home, 6000 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, CA., according to a post on Anderson's Facebook page.
Anderson, 12, was racing a Kawasaki Ninja 250 with AFM on March 3. Anderson had won the 250cc Production race and had set a new Buttonwillow lap record for the class at 2:05.294. Later in the day, when racing in the 500cc Twins class, Anderson crashed in the final turn and suffered a head injury. Anderson never regained consciousness and was removed from life support earlier this week.
Anderson began racing Blata pocket bikes, and won SCMiniGP Rookie of the Year as well as championships with SCMiniGP, SMRRC, and AMMA. He then moved up to an NSR50 and an NSR65, winning multiple races and championships on both. Anderson raced a pair of Honda RS125 chassis fitted with 150cc and 145cc four-stroke motors, and then moved to Honda RS125s. Anderson was the reigning Heavyweight Twins Superbike Novice and Formula 2 Novice Champion with WERA West.
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From discussions about this deal with other silver companies' executives, the number that emerged and was bandied about as the benchmark per silver resource ounce for a takeover was $4 per ounce. Looking at the Minefinders website, one finds that the total silver resources and reserves reported by the company was 120 million ounces in reserves and 160 million ounces in resources. Taking the $1.5 billion buy-out price and dividing by the approximately 300 million in total resources gives a new $5 per ounce benchmark, a full 25% premium to the previous benchmark. Perhaps this high valuation is why the Pan American shares dropped on this buyout announcement.
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Aurcana Corp. (OTCQX:AUNFF)
Aurcana is a relatively new operating silver miner having produced over 1 million ounces of silver for 2011 at La Negra in Mexico. The company is planning to start production at their Shafter project in Texas in 2012. Note the increase in value of the company following the increase in the price of silver as well as the company's move into silver mining production.
Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd. (ASGMF.OB)
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Cream Minerals (OTC:CRMXF)
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Fortuna is in production at San Jose in Mexico and Caylloma in Peru. 2011 production was 2.5 million ounces of silver, announced Jan 26, 2012. In 2012, Fortuna is targeting 4.6 million silver equivalent ounces. Fortuna shares have moved notably higher since the Minefinders bid. Fortuna is a prime example of a well managed company executing on production plans and creating value for shareholders.
Hecla Mining (NYSE:HL)
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Note to mineral resources exhibitors: It would be very helpful to have staffers that can talk meat about rocks at these conferences.
Impact Silver Corp. (OTCPK:ISVLF)
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Mag Silver Corp. (NYSEMKT:MVG)
Mag Silver's prime project is their Juanicipio JV Mexican property that is 56% owned by Fresnillo (OTCPK:FNLPF), the world's largest silver miner. This project has 146 million ounces of indicated silver and 85 million ounces of inferred silver, and an updated feasibility is expected within the next month.
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Silvermex is an old favourite (see interview with previous CEO) that is a combined Silvermex and Genco Resources. Duane Nelson, CEO relates that Silvermex is targeting increasing production at their La Guitarra Mexican mine to 3 million ounces per year from the 130k ounces silver production in 3rd quarter 2011.
Silver Standard Resources (NASDAQ:SSRI)
Silver Standard is a large silver developer with 15 major projects worldwide. In 2011, they spun off Pretium to develop the large joint Snowfield and Brucejack projects in Canada. SSRI is focused on bringing their large Pirquitas mine in Argentina into consistent production in 2012 with guidance of 8.x million ounces of silver.
Soltoro Ltd. (OTCPK:SLTOF)
Soltoro is an exploration company with a flagship El Rayo property in Mexico. Steve Priesmeyer, VP Exploration relates that this property has 16 previous workings and mining areas and that they have just released a NI 43-101 resource estimate.
US Silver Corp. (OTC:USSIF)
US Silver in the second largest silver miner in America with annual production of 2.5 million silver ounces. They previously only drilled ahead to manage their production but are now drilling to increase their reserves. Tom Parker, CEO states that value growth will be with increased production and the price of silver increasing.
Calculations of Value Using $5 Per Silver Ounce
Name | US Symbol | TSX | Price Jan 23 | Shares (NYSE:M) | Mkt Cap $M | Rsrc. M oz | Value $M | % Diff | Notes |
Aurcana Corp | AUNFF | AUN | $0.71 | 431 | $ 306 | 52 | $ 260 | -15% | 1 |
Avino Silver & Gold Mines | ASGMF | ASM | $1.83 | 27 | $ 49 | 21 | $ 105 | 113% | 2 |
Cream Minerals | CRMXF | CMA | $0.23 | 152 | $ 35 | 41 | $ 205 | 486% | 3 |
Defiance Silver Corp | DNCVF | DEF | $0.50 | 14 | $ 7 | 18 | $ 90 | 1186% | 4 |
Excellon Resources Inc. | EXLLF | EXN | $0.59 | 279 | $ 165 | 20 | $ 100 | -39% | 5 |
Fortuna Silver Mines | FSM | FVI | $6.28 | 124 | $ 779 | 90 | $ 450 | -42% | 6 |
Impact Silver Corp | ISVLF | IPT | $1.62 | 68 | $ 110 | 10 | $ 50 | -55% | 7 |
Mag Silver Corp | MVG | MAG | $ 7.91 | 56 | $ 443 | 100 | $ 500 | 13% | 8 |
Revett Minerals | RVM | RVM | $4.62 | 34 | $ 157 | 300 | $1,500 | 855% | 9 |
Silvermex | GGCRF | SLX | $0.46 | 238 | $ 109 | 180 | $ 900 | 722% | 10 |
Soltoro Ltd | SLTOF | SOL | $0.92 | 59 | $ 54 | 79 | $ 395 | 628% | 11 |
US Silver | USSIF | USA | $ 0.44 | 309 | $ 136 | 41 | $ 205 | 51% | 12 |
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1. La Negra is in production. |
2. Avino is in production. |
3. Cream had a previous buy-out offer @ .14 cents |
4. Defiance is moving slowly to production |
5. Excellon is in small producer. |
6. Fortuna is in production at San Jose Mexico. |
7. Impact also has significant Pb, Zn and Cu resources. |
8. Only 44% of the Silver from Juanicipio JV is considered. |
9. Troy Mine in Montana is in production; Rock Creek is under environmental litigation. |
10. In production at La Guitarra, Mexico with a 320 tpd mill. |
11. In exploration presently. |
12. USA has rich grades (10 -17 oz/ton) but previously only drilled ahead to replace mined ore. |
Magic Number Comparison
My very simple modus operandi in the table above was to take the $5 per silver resource ounce derived from the buy-out offer for Minefinders and apply that to some up and coming silver producers to see what the results were. Please understand reader, that this is in no way definitive, and that there are various other components to a company that creates value. This is only a very simple indicator that points the way to further due diligence on the investment prospects.
The calculation process in this table is to take the company's estimated silver resources and multiply by the $5 per silver ounce number to give an estimated $Value in the millions of dollars column. Then this column was compared with the present market capitalization to give a % Difference column.
The results of the table calculations were quite surprising. The numbers in this column varied from a low of -55% to a high of +1186%. This number is an estimate of how the market may be mispricing the company's prospects and the exact particulars may be explained by many other factors. For example US Silver is in prime production with richer grades the deeper they go in the mine. However, they previously had only drilled ahead to manage their production but they are now drilling to increase their reserves number through the silver resources all around them in the Silver Valley.
Production is a major focus of the majority of these silver developers in this table. Of the positive percentage numbers shown in the % Difference column, Avino is just starting production and the market may re-rate the stock higher soon as production is realized. Cream has a 500% number, but it is not yet in production. Defiance has the highest 1100% number, but is still over a year away from any production and would need further capital. Revett has a 800% number, but their Rock Creek project has an environmental overhang. Silvermex has a 700% number and a rich property and are slowly executing on developing the La Guitarra projects. Soltoro has a 600% number and is presently exploring to increase their El Rayo project value.
Silver has increased in value in investor's eyes since the Fed has declared interest rates to stay low. The smaller silver developers listed here are mostly trying to increase value with increasing resources and developing production. Mineral companies that have production are less risky than pure exploration companies. Miners that are well managed and can execute on their mining production plans create value for their shareholders. The author believes in an investment thesis which I detail here in a graph showing the valuation increases of Juniors as they develop their properties into a full production mine. Of the companies listed above, the author holds shares in Silvermex Resources, as I am familiar with their properties and I have confidence in their management.
Disclosure: I am long GGCRF.PK. I do not have positions in the other equities mentioned, but I may initiate a position in the near future
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Applied Optics, Vol. 50, Issue 34, pp. H147-H152 (2011)
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Waukesha - A Milwaukee man was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree reckless homicide in the June killing of Brookfield businessman John Aegerter.
Tommy V. Douyette, 42, savagely beat Aegerter because Lynn M. Hajny had asked him to hurt Aegerter, court records state.
The two had gone to Aegerter's home June 21 to confront him because he reportedly owed money to Hajny's husband, Albert, who at one time was employed by Aegerter, according to the criminal complaint filed in the case. Douyette was described in the complaint as Lynn Hajny's boyfriend.
Douyette had been charged with first-degree intentional homicide as party to a crime, but the charge was reduced as part of a plea agreement that avoids a trial in Douyette's case. His trial had been scheduled for Jan. 30.
Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Lough said as part of the agreement, she will recommend that Douyette be sentenced to 35 years in prison and 15 years of extended supervision.
But Waukesha County Circuit Judge Patrick C. Haughney told Douyette Wednesday that he does not have to follow the recommendation. Haughney said he could sentence Douyette to the maximum 40 years in prison and 20 years of extended supervision that the first-degree reckless homicide conviction carries.
Had Douyette been convicted of first-degree intentional homicide, he would have been sentenced to life in prison.
The plea bargain requires Douyette to testify at Hajny's trial, now scheduled to begin May 7. Hajny, 49, of New Berlin, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide as party to a crime.
Lough said prosecutors and investigators have extensively debriefed Douyette about the homicide, have recorded multiple interviews with him and verified statements he made during those sessions.
During a separate hearing on Wednesday, Hajny's attorney, Michael F. Hart, told Haughney that Hajny has a long history of mental health treatment. Hart said he might pursue a mental health disease defense on her behalf and is seeking to have her evaluated. After that evaluation, Hart would decide whether to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
The next hearing in her case is set for Feb. 14.
Douyette will not be sentenced until after Hajny's case is resolved. His sentencing tentatively is set for May 23.
Aegerter's body was discovered face down in his garage by Brookfield police at 9:55 a.m. June 22 after officers were asked by one of his employees to go to his home and check on him because he had not shown up for work.
He had been beaten and bound, his face wrapped in duct tape and plastic grocery bags placed over his head. His ankles were tied with a black electrical cord, and a white electrical cord was around his neck, according to the complaint.
Douyette admitted to police that he had struck Aegerter about nine times with his bare hands, the complaint says.
Court records indicate that Hajny's cousin called police June 22 and told them Hajny had telephoned her and told her she had killed someone. Sometime after that call, Hajny and Douyette showed up at the woman's Slinger home, court records state.
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When the suspects were taken into custody, investigators found Aegerter's wallet, credit card and keys in Hajny's purse. One key ring was found in a towel with blood on it, the complaint says.
Both suspects also had blood drops on their shoes, and a shirt of Douyette's was found covered in blood, the complaint says.
Prosecutors plan to use DNA evidence during Hajny's trial, Lough said.
Aegerter, who lived alone, owned communications companies and several communication towers that transmit cellphone, pager and two-way business radio signals.
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The Kansas City Public Library hosts the third annual Book Lovers Book Club Conference - featuring four contemporary African-American authors - on Saturday, November 12, 2011, at 2 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
The featured authors during the conference are:
- Keith Lee Johnson, author of the Little Black Girl Lost series of novels, including the seventh and latest installment Johnnie Wise: In the Line of Fire.
- R.M. Johnson, the Essence bestselling author of The Harris Family and The Million Dollar Divorce. He holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from ChicagoStateUniversity and resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Bernice McFadden, author of the 2011 NAACP Image Award Nominee Glorious.
- Carleen Brice, author of Orange Mint & Honey and Children of the Waters. Brice received the 2009 First Novel Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was named the 2008 Breakout Author Award from the African American Literary Awards Show.
Keith Lee Johnson and R.M. Johnson will speak during the conference from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. McFadden and Brice will speak from 4:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
A book signing and reception will follow the author presentations.
Admission is free. RSVP online or call 816.701.3407. Free parking is available at the Library District Parking Garage at 10th & Baltimore.
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In Scots a bole is an alcove,, and bee-boles are wall recesses. They were made to shelter beehives of the old straw rusky type. They are not built on to a wall, but are an integral part of it, recessed on all sides, the front being open. Straw ruskies or skeps went out of use a mere fifty years ago, yet many owners of oldish houses have these wall recesses in their gardens without realising what their purpose was. You may still come upon bee-boles alongside mansion houses, castles, farms and cottages, and in Scotland their distribution is interesting.
For instance, far more have been discovered in Fife and Angus than anywhere else, and the Arbroath district seems especially favoured. No doubt the proximity of the great Abbey of Aberbrothock (the secular possessions of which were very large) provides the reason for this. Tn pre-Reformation days, with the extensive use of candles in abbeys and monasteries, there was a big demand for wax. On Feast Days an abbey might burn fifty or more candles on the High Altar alone, each weighing several pounds of wax. Consequently, every abbey had its own apiary, sometimes numbering its hives in hundreds. These hives were looked after by a group of monks, and part of their job was the keeping of records of the tithes paid in wax, and the making of Canonical candles. Where bee-boles are found you can usually assume some ecclesiastical connection, for many farms and holdings were owned by the Church. Beekeeping was encouraged among the tenants, and rent was accepted in the form of wax and honey. The annual rent for a cottage might be 16 quarts of honey; for a larger holding, half a stone of wax. Bee-boles served the purpose of sheltering the straw skeps from the weather. Some recesses are checked for boards to protect them in winter. Some have water-shedding lintels. Many are fitted with locking-bars of iron, and decorated with mouldings of dressed stone. Others, again are very plain and rough in con-struction, but several are plaster-finished inside. The recesses are often about 18 inches square, but they vary in size. There may be several in a row, or even a double row. The heavy metal crossbars are hinged to the wall at one end, and pad-locked at the other-this as a deterrent to thieves. It is difficult to fix the age of most bee-boles. Probably the oldest of those surviving are 17th century. Mr James Riley, of Arbroath, who has sought out, photographed and jotted down the dimensions and features of many bee-boles, has located thirty-one sites in Angus alone. These are all located in the lowland part of the county. Probably many more could be discovered in the Tayside area as a whole. Here are some places where bee-boles are still to be seen. In the Arbroath district they occur at Mains of Letham, Marywell, West Newton, Brax Toll, Colliston Mill, Cairnie Farm, Holly-bank, Cairnton and Carmyllie East Manse. Others occur at Ethie Castle, Bryanton, Boysack Mill, March of Lunan, Lawton Mill, Waulkmill and Bandoch-all in the Inverkeilor district. There is also a garden-wall beehouse in the garden at Nether Dysart, a farm with old monastic associations. Around Dundee, the Auchterhouse district can show some fine examples, as at Pinehill and Parkhead. Forfar has bee-boles at Balglassie and Welton; Brechin at Hawthorn Cottage. Nearer the hills and the heather there are others at Cairndrum (Edzell) and Witton (near Edzell Castle). Fettercairn has one at Balbegno Castle, but for some reason they begin to thin out in the Mearns. There are more in Fife, as stated above, but I have not a full list of these. At present there seem to be about fifty sets of bee-boles known in Scotland, and seventeen of these are within a radius of three miles of Arbroath.
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Defining Your Own Wavelet
You can define wavelets to plug into the wavelet analysis framework by using the correct template. A wavelet wave is of the form , where wfam is the symbol that indicates the wavelet family and args provide any necessary specification.
In order to set wfam as a wavelet family recognized by the system, the property must be set to True, where patt is a pattern that matches acceptable arguments args.
WaveletQ | set to True if the symbol is a user wavelet |
Wavelet initialization property.
Both orthogonal and biorthogonal user wavelets are supported. Orthogonal wavelets are indicated by setting the property and, correspondingly, biorthogonal wavelets are set using the property .
"OrthogonalQ" | set to True if the wavelet is orthogonal |
"BiorthogonalQ" | set to True if the wavelet is biorthogonal |
To compute primal lowpass filter coefficients, the property must be set; here prec indicates the precision of filter coefficients. Similarly, to compute dual lowpass filter coefficients, the property must be set. Both properties and are expected to return a list of the form , where is the index and is the corresponding filter coefficient. If a list of the form is returned, it is assumed that index starts from 0. An error message is generated if the filter coefficients are not numeric and indices are not integers.
Franklin Wavelet
Define a family of Franklin wavelets.
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Episode Information | |
General | |
Season №: | 6 |
Episode №: | 107a |
Airdate: | June 3, 2008 |
Sister episode(s): | "No Nose Knows" |
Credits | |
Writer(s): | Luke Brookshier Nate Cash Richard Pursel |
Supervising Producer: | Paul Tibbitt |
Storyboard: | Luke Brookshier Nate Cash |
Animation: | Alan Smart |
Creative: | Vincent Waller |
See all credits for this episode. | |
Chronology | |
Previous: | "Sun Bleached" |
Next: | "No Nose Knows" |
List of episodes | |
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"Giant Squidward" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season six. In this episode, Squidward becomes a giant when he is sprayed with fertilizer.
- Squidward Tentacles
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Patrick Star
- Eugene H. Krabs
- Gary the Snail
- Bikini Bottomites
- Fred
- Scooter
- Harold
- Nancy Suzy Fish
- Tina
- Shubie
- Nat
- Sadie Rechid
- Sally
- Lifeguard fish
- Evelyn
- Sandals
- Granny (cameo)
- Man Ray (cameo)
- Tom (cameo)
- Monroe (cameo)
Squidward is gardening one day, when he sees that his kelp is all wilted. He uses a spray called Kelp Grow to make them grow taller and healthier. When SpongeBob and Patrick see this, they steal it from Squidward and fiddle with it by spraying things in town. Squidward gets very mad that they stole it, because one of the things they sprayed was his nose! They go around town doing "good deeds",such as expanding Gary's shell and turning one of Mr. Krabs' pennies giant because SpongeBob mentions that Mr. Krabs always wanted to make "big money" (though this wasn't what he meant). Squidward finally catches up to them and forces them to shrink his nose. However, when they try to shrink his nose, it only gets bigger. SpongeBob and Patrick decide to even out his entire body, which turns him into a "giant monster" who the residents believe to be invading Bikini Bottom. Many fish gather into a mob and threaten to hurt Squidward in various ways. A small boy appears in the crowd and suggests that Squidward might be a nice monster like the one in his storybook. To keep the Bikini Bottomites from hurting him, Squidward quickly agrees with the little boy and tells the town he can actually help them and won't destroy the town. Throughout the day, citizens ask him to help them with various things, which Squidward does to prove he is nice. He gets more and more tired from doing the town favors, though. Eventually, he gets tired and forgets to say bless you when a child sneezed, and then insults the child. This causes the Bikini Bottomites to turn on him. He runs away to a remote location outside of town when the day ends, where he misses his comfortable old life and is forced to sleep on a makeshift bed of coral. He finds that Patrick and SpongeBob are having a sleepover in his belly button because they wanted to show that they still considered him a friend. Squidward forces them out, and begins crying because of what happened to him. This captures the attention of SpongeBob, who feels bad because they only elnlarged Squidward as a good deed. The next day, SpongeBob and Patrick give him the greatest present that he could ever have, a giant clarinet with exquisete sound to make up for the mishap their first good deed caused. When Squidward starts playing it, he shrinks back to his normal size. He is upset that he can no longer play his giant clarinet, but realizes he still has his kelp garden. He runs home to his garden, but finds the kelp from his garden to be cut down. He wonders what happened to his garden, and SpongeBob explains that they used his kelp to make him a kelp-mache clarinet. This enrages Squidward, causing him to chase after SpongeBob and Patrick as the episode ends.
( ‣ ) Associated production music |
( • ) Original music |
( ◦ ) SpongeBob music |
• Spongebob Theme - Jeremy Wakefield, Sage Guyton [title card]
‣ Aloha Oe - Hans Haider, Queen Lili'uokalani [opening]
‣ Dancing the Hula - Kapono Beamer [Squidward looks in the mirror]
‣ Steel Link (b) - Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward's kelp garden]
‣ Drama Link (d) - Hubert Clifford [Squidward screams]
‣ Hawaiian Sting 6 - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["Patrick is helping me do good deeds today."]
• Harp Ding - Nicolas Carr ["That's a great idea, Squidward!"]
• You're Nice - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Patrick sprays Squidward's nose with Kelp Grow]
‣ Creepy Sting 1 - ? ["There he is."]
‣ West Side Rumble - Sam Spence [SpongeBob sprays Krabs' penny]
‣ Steel Link (a) - Jeremy Wakefield [giant penny crushes Krabs]
‣ ? [rimshot]
‣ Man from the Ministry - Harry Bluestone ["Good deed accomplished!"]
‣ Hawaiian Sting 1 - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["We need another good deed!"]
• ? - Nicolas Carr ["Hmm, how to fix his nose."]
• ? - Nicolas Carr ["Patrick, that's brilliant!"]
• Gator - Steve Belfer [SpongeBob spraying Squidward]
‣ Dramatic Cue (d) - Ronald Hanmer ["I look horrible!"]
‣ Steel Licks (b) - Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward squirts ink]
‣ Terror by Night - Hubert Clifford [Squidward grows to gigantic size]
• Seaweed - Steve Belfer ["I know, I know!"]
‣ Chase Cue 1 - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward chases SpongeBob, Patrick]
‣ Dramatic Sea Battle - Gerhard Trede [citizens panic]
• Spongebob Theme - Jeremy Wakefield, Sage Guyton ["You are very good at pretending, Squidward!"]
‣ Buccaneers [#12] - Harry Bluestone [angry mob]
‣ Young Ballerina - David Farnon ["Maybe he's a nice monster, like in my story book."]
• Vibe Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Oh, right, I hadn't thought of that."]
• Hawaiian Trax - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["Oh, goodness gracious, yes!"]
‣ Dramatic Impact 6 - Ivor Slaney ["He hurt the little one's feelings!"]
‣ Death and Destruction 1 - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [citizens attack Squidward]
‣ Shock Entrance - Harry Bluestone ["Okay, okay, I'm nice."]
‣ Hawaiian Flower - Jon Jelmer ["Compliment me on my new hairdo?"]
‣ ? ["Let the junior guppies camp out under your toenails?"]
‣ Little Night Box - Leo Nissim [guppies sleeping]
‣ Yodel of Joy - Renato Bui, Martha Wild ["Take me to the top of Mount Humongous?"]
‣ The Achterhoek Dances - Jan Rap ["Blow on my windmill?"]
• Drama Sting - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [people asking Squidward for favors]
• Marlin March - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Giant Squidward is now a helpful giant]
‣ Dramatic Impact 3 - Ivor Slaney [everyone gasps]
‣ From the Dead - Ronald Hanmer [mob chases Squidward]
• Steel Sting - Jeremy Wakefield ["Uh... I'm a lamppost."]
‣ Death and Destruction 1 - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [Squidward sneaks away]
‣ Murder Scene 2 - Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin [giant trap surrounding Squidward's house]
‣ Hawaiian Sting 10 - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield ["Well, Squidward, I guess this is your new life."]
‣ Tympup B - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy ["Where are you?"]
• Hawaiian Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Where are you?"]
‣ Steel Licks (a) - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob, Patrick in Squidward's bellybutton]
‣ Hawaiian Sting 10 - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward crying]
‣ Creepy Sting - ? [SpongeBob and Patrick working on something]
‣ Proud Fanfare - David Farnon [SpongeBob and Patrick give Squidward a gift]
• Harp Ding - Nicolas Carr [Squidward opens a gift]
• Vibe Sting - Nicolas Carr ["A giant clarinet?"]
• ? - Nicolas Carr, Barry Anthony [Squidward plays it]
‣ Heavenly Voices (c) - David Farnon ["And it sounds divine!"]
‣ Steel Licks (b) - Jeremy Wakefield [Squidward shrinks]
• Spongebob Theme - Jeremy Wakefield, Sage Guyton [ending]
- This episode is available on SpongeBob vs. The Big One, Season 6 Volume 1, and Complete 6th Season DVDs.
- This episode and No Nose Knows are rated TV-Y7
- Mark Fite guest voices in this episode.
- When SpongeBob and Patrick make Gary's shell grow, it looks like Prehistoric Gary, and his shell in the episode Ugh.
- Giant Squidward is similar to SpongeBob in "The Sponge Who Could Fly", he originally does favors for people using his superpower, but then turns into ridiculous things like doing homework, help with plants etc.
- SpongeBob and Patrick were actually doing bad deeds, not good deeds, although not on purpose.
- This is the second time that Squidward's size changes, and says the exact quote, "What did you do to me?!" The first one was in Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV.
- In the first segment (when SpongeBob runs off with the Kelp Grow), he makes himself a pair of "enlarged" shoes. But when they reach Gary, he is wearing his normal size shoes.
- Both this episode and the next one, No Nose Knows, have someone coming out of Squidward's flowers.
- Kelp is like paper underwater.
- The title card background looks like Squidward's wallpaper, but blue instead of green.
- Sun Fun Island's campers from The Inmates of Summer reappear in this episode
Cultural References
- The scene where SpongeBob and Patrick are watching Mr. Krabs and Patrick's belly button sucks in SpongeBob could possibly be an allusion to the video game Kirby's Adventure in which King Dedede inhales Kirby and spits him out to defeat Nightmare, but the technique in this scene was used to spray Mr. Krabs' penny with the Kelp Grow to make it bigger.
- When the boy says Squidward may be a nice giant, he uses a book with a nice giant in it as an example. It may be a reference to the Roald Dahl book, The BFG, one of the most famous books in which there are nice giants.
- Squidward is tied to the ground by the people of Bikini Bottom similar to how Gulliver was tied by the Lilliputians in Gulliver's Travels.
- The episode's plot is similar to the film The 50-Foot Tall Woman.
- Tina blinks her eyes to the lifeguard as he asks Giant Squidward if he's a nice monster, her eyelashes disappear.