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Posted by A.C. Douglas on 31 July 2011 | Permalink
[Baumgarten's] staging transposes Wartburg castle to an organic waste recycling plant and features a pregnant Venus living in a cage with giant tadpoles and furry, ape-like nymphs. The recycling-plant set, designed by Joep van Lieshout, remains largely unchanged through the opera's three acts. It comprises a big green tank of nutrition (we're told it's a celery product), a blue tank of biogas (made from human excrement) and a long red storage cylinder of alcohol (distilled celery juice.) The program notes contain a detailed diagram explaining how this represents the full energy cycle from food and alcohol, through digestion and waste back to gas and energy.Sounds like the proper setting for Eurotrash.
Posted by A.C. Douglas on 26 July 2011 | Permalink
Under his direction, actors ignored huge portions of the classical texts they performed, stripped naked, screamed their lines for the duration of five-hour productions, got drunk onstage, dropped out of character, conducted private fights, tossed paint at their public, saw a third of the audience walk out as they spoke two lines at an excruciatingly slow pace, may or may not have induced a theatergoer to drink urine, threw potato salad, immersed themselves in water, recited newspaper reports of Hitler's last peacetime birthday party, told bad jokes, called the audience East German sellouts and appeared to but did not kill a mouse [onstage].Yes indeed. Herr Castorf sounds just about right as Katharina's choice. And the beat goes on and the hits just keep on comin'.
Posted by A.C. Douglas on 25 July 2011 | Permalink
For many of us who came to love opera before Regietheater took hold, current notions of effective dramaturgy boggle the mind. When did the directors and impresarios decide that an opera was a random collection of notes, independent of its dramatic and visual elements — a mere musical shell, to be filled up with and bent out of shape by whatever modern hang-ups seem most likely to catch the public off guard? When did wild controversy, booing and academic apologias in the press replace straightforward storytelling as signs of theatrical prowess? When did "making people think" become the top priority in an art form once clearly intended to make them feel?When indeed. Nothing in the above linked article will come as news to regular readers of S&F (and we thank one of those readers for pointing us to this article as absent that heads-up we would not have known about it as we don't ordinarily read Opera News), but it does contain a key thought we don't recall ever articulating explicitly before; viz., that opera is an artform intended principally to make audiences feel, not think. That, in fact, is what opera — what music — is all about. Prior to our modern age, there's not a composer of opera (or of music generally, for that matter) who ever lived who thought otherwise. Whence, then, this perverse, noxious, and ass-backwards impulse to make opera audiences think first, feel after? We're not really sure, but that it's in some fundamental way bound intimately to our present-day scientific and technological modes of thought concerning all things — cosmic or terrestrial, sacred or profane, mystical or quotidian — is a certainty. Is that a step forward for art and for us as a species; a development to be applauded and welcomed rather than savaged and rejected? We confess we don't really know the answer to that question, either. What we do know, however, is that in matters of art, and in matters of music most particularly, whenever the intellectual trumps the emotional — whenever the emotional is in some fundamental way conditional upon the intellectual — impoverishment is the ineluctable consequence. That, too, is a certainty.
Posted by A.C. Douglas on 25 July 2011 | Permalink
Here's a suggestion by New York Times columnist Mark Bittman that, on its face, looks merely, um, eccentric, but whose underlying principle is pure evil.
Posted by A.C. Douglas on 24 July 2011 | Permalink
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Posted by A.C. Douglas on 21 July 2011 | Permalink
Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.On which Mr. McManus comments approvingly, "Really get's gears turning, doesn't it?" Yes indeed. It certainly does. Bach simple(!)? And which Bach might that be? Offenbach? We get what Mr. Mingus was trying to say (and agree with it), but he ought to have been ashamed of himself (as ought Mr. McManus for his comment). Mozart would fit nicely as the referenced composer in that quote, but Bach? Lord preserve us all!
Posted by A.C. Douglas on 19 July 2011 | Permalink
Posted by A.C. Douglas on 18 July 2011 | Permalink
All the lights were turned low, so low that the congregation sat in a deep and solemn gloom. The funereal rustling of dresses and the low buzz of conversation began to die swiftly down, and presently not the ghost of a sound was left. This profound and increasingly impressive stillness endured for some time — the best preparation for music, spectacle, or speech conceivable. [...] Finally, out of darkness and distance and mystery soft rich notes rose upon the stillness, and from his grave the dead magician began to weave his spells about his disciples and steep their souls in his enchantments. There was something strangely impressive in the fancy which kept intruding itself that the composer was conscious in his grave of what was going on here, and that these divine sounds were the clothing of thoughts which were at this moment passing through his brain, and not recognized and familiar ones which had issued from it at some former time. [...] Yesterday the opera was "Tristan and Isolde." I have seen all sorts of audiences — at theaters, operas, concerts, lectures, sermons, funerals — but none which was twin to the Wagner audience of Bayreuth for fixed and reverential attention, absolute attention and petrified retention to the end of an act of the attitude assumed at the beginning of it. You detect no movement in the solid mass of heads and shoulders. You seem to sit with the dead in the gloom of a tomb. You know that they are being stirred to their profoundest depths; that there are times when they want to rise and wave handkerchiefs and shout their approbation, and times when tears are running down their faces, and it would be a relief to free their pent emotions in sobs or screams; yet you hear not one utterance till the curtain swings together and the closing strains have slowly faded out and died; then the dead rise with one impulse and shake the building with their applause. Every seat is full in the first act; there is not a vacant one in the last. If a man would be conspicuous, let him come here and retire from the house in the midst of an act. It would make him celebrated. [...] This opera of "Tristan and Isolde" last night broke the hearts of all witnesses who were of the faith, and I know of some who have heard of many who could not sleep after it, but cried the night away. I feel strongly out of place here. Sometimes I feel like the sane person in a community of the mad; sometimes I feel like the one blind man where all others see; the one groping savage in the college of the learned, and always, during service, I feel like a heretic in heaven. But by no means do I ever overlook or minify the fact that this is one of the most extraordinary experiences of my life. I have never seen anything like this before. I have never seen anything so great and fine and real as this devotion.
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Posted by A.C. Douglas on 14 July 2011 | Permalink
I am amazed at all the hubbub concerning Don Carlo. Have we not all seen and heard this opera many times? What is there left of the story that we don't already know. If we were to go see this opera again, don't we go for the music and the singing? We all seem to agree that the music is glorious, then why would we want any of it cut? When I listen or see an opera I want all the music. These productions that make cuts, what are they accomplishing? Do you go to the opera not to listen to the music?To which our response is... If listening to the music were really what sophisticated operagoers go to the opera for, then composers of opera since its beginnings have squandered much of their time composing operas, and producers of opera much of theirs staging those operas. Composers of opera should instead have spent their time writing, say, symphonies with vocal parts like, for instance, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, and producers of opera should have spent theirs...well, looking for other work. The truth of the matter is that opera — genuine opera; opera as dramma per musica — is NOT about the music, nor is it about the singers (and we here exclude bel canto opera as that genre of opera is, by and large, not genuine opera at all but merely an elaborate showcase for singers). In the minds of opera composers, opera producers, and sophisticated operagoers, opera is first and foremost about the drama — or more correctly, about the music-drama; about dramma per musica; drama where the drama is made sensible or articulated through music supported by the armature of the text which armature provides those narrative and concrete details that music alone is incapable of providing, the whole or gestalt made visible by its acting out onstage. Wagner may have made all of that explicit both in his theoretical writings and in his stageworks the mature examples of which are a veritable apotheosis of opera as dramma per musica, but it is not his invention. Dramma per musica has been the ideal and the goal of opera from opera's very beginnings as a distinct artform in the late-16th, early-17th century the first fully developed example of which is usually attributed to Monteverdi and his L'Orfeo of 1607. That that ideal became corrupted early on and seemingly forever by 17th-century Italian theater owners and producers who, in their commercial greed, wantonly pandered to the sensibilities and appetites of the opera-going groundlings who couldn't have cared less about opera as dramma per musica and which opera-going groundlings, then as now, are always in the vast majority, doesn't alter the ideal one whit. And that's why "want[ing] all the music" is rarely the first consideration. Sometimes, when the dramma per musica has gone off-track by becoming bloated or obscured for reasons having little to do with the realization of the dramma per musica per se (we omit here those cases where the creator's own dramatic sense is defective or wanting as that's another discussion entirely), judicious cuts become necessary to free the work to be realized as its creator envisioned it in its ideal form absent all commercial or other compromise. Needless to say, the aesthetic judgment and operatic knowledge of the cutter is here paramount when the creator of the opera is no longer available for consultation or to do the work himself. Too often cuts are made for reasons commercial or practical which are compromises just as pernicious as the compromises which resulted in the dramma per musica going off-track by becoming bloated or obscured in the first place, and in such cases artistic disaster is almost certain to result, not to speak of a betrayal of the creator of the opera and of his creation. And so to sum up in brief: When practiced responsibly, "what [is] accomplish[ed] [or attempted to be accomplished] by productions that make cuts" is the freeing of the dramma per musica of its commercial or other compromises that have, in one way or another, hampered or prevented the work from being realized in its ideal form as its creator envisioned it. It's actually quite a noble task when done responsibly, circumspectly, and knowledgeably.
Posted by A.C. Douglas on 14 July 2011 | Permalink
Part of the reason why Kushner is so admired by elite opinion makers is that he is, as Newsweek pointed out, the living embodiment of their unanimously held views on a wide range of political and social issues. [...] The supremely high esteem in which Kushner is held in bien-pensant circles was demonstrated in May when the board of trustees of the City University of New York voted to deny him an honorary degree, citing his belief that Israel was "founded in a program that, if you really want to be blunt about it, was ethnic cleansing. . . . I have a problem with the idea of a Jewish state. It would have been better if it never happened." The response of the cultural establishment to the board's decision was so reflexively and overwhelmingly negative that CUNY's executive board voted a few days later to overrule it and confer the degree. As it happens, the uproar at CUNY took place at the end of a theater season during which Kushner was omnipresent. In October, the Signature Theatre Company mounted the first New York revival of Angels in America, which played to full houses throughout its long run. Seven months later, the Public Theater gave the New York premiere of The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, Kushner's first new full-length play in a decade. But unlike the Angels revival, which was greeted with the usual lockstep praise, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide received unexpectedly mixed notices — albeit mostly of the cautious kind in which the reviewer takes care to make clear his otherwise extravagant admiration of the author. Even so, it was evident from the reviews that Kushner's new play was felt to have fallen well short of Angels. In fact, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide and Angels are of a piece. Like Kushner's other plays, they are the work of a flawed artist ill served by the indiscriminate esteem in which his work is held — and whose problematic style may at last have reached the point of diminishing critical returns.RTWT here.
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In a rising tide of protest, opera-world stars are denouncing New York City Opera's planned move from Lincoln Center and calling into question the company's stewardship. Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Carlisle Floyd, Sherrill Milnes, Samuel Ramey, Hal Prince and Frederica von Stade were among more than 120 singers, directors, composers and others who have agreed to have their names attached to an open letter criticizing the move, said Catherine Malfitano, the soprano and a former City Opera performer, who took the lead in writing it. The letter, which was released to The New York Times on Thursday, calls on the company's board and management to reconsider the move from its longtime home at the David H. Koch Theater (formerly the New York State Theater). "To lose City Opera as a vital part of the Lincoln Center family would be felt as a personal loss to each and every one of us as well as to this great city," the letter says, "and we find it unnecessary and unacceptable."RTWT here.
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Oracle's main geospatial interest, and core strength, is in an area that is complementary rather than competitive.Oracle's technology is demonstrating value to millions of customers all around the world. However, it could almost be argued that the frosty reception, indifference or antagonism with which Oracle Spatial has been received from some might just have caused Oracle to "extend" its embrace of the geospatial world into non-data management areas (e.g.mobile and Web mapping).Three product areas which I hope Oracle will spatially enable are Business Process Execution Language, Mobile Database and Data Warehousing.
I think it can be safely asserted nowadays that the enterprise spatial data management "marketing" war of the 90s and early 2000s are all but over.The integration of spatial data types and methods into horizontal market technology by key O-RDBMS (Object Relational Database Management System) vendors means that data management is now in safe hands.Real users in sometimes vastly different industry sectors have taken up that technology and want to talk about it.
And that is what my report on the first OSUG meeting, and this one, is about.
For a bunch of reasons I found myself in Brisbane, Queensland, on Friday 9th December when a local OSUG meeting occurred.This was the second OSUG meeting in Oz.I don't mean to give the meeting "airs and graces" beyond its relative importance in the world, but around 30 Queenslanders attended, and I happened to be there to report on it.
I am writing this quite a few weeks later because it seems, now, to be the right time to write.The "distance" has given me the sort of perspective that Edward de Bono writes about.I have also noted that another interesting de Bono assertion rings true: that things are always "logical backwards"! In summary, I wasn't sure how to write up what I heard, saw and recorded until the brain had had a chance to find patterns and a logical thread that made sense.
OK, enough of the background, what happening in the meeting and what were the patterns?
Inaugural Queensland Oracle Spatial User Group Meeting
The meeting started with Eve Kleiman (Principal Product Manager, Spatial Technologies Asia/Pacific) giving an overview of current functionality (10gR2) and what was being planned for the next major release (11).The highlights for 11g are:
- Support for OpenGIS WFS-T [Web Feature Service, transactional] and Catalog services in MapViewer (Oracle Locator and Oracle Spatial have been certified OpenGIS SFS [Simple Feature Specification] compliant at 10gR1; MapViewer is WMS 1.1.1 [Web Map Service] compliant at 10gR2)
- SOAP and XML interfaces for all web services
- JPEG 20000 for GeoRaster
- Enhancements in time management capabilities with Workspace Manager
- 3D support to include Server Side Data Management, 3D coordinate systems, 3D types and indexing and operator support
- Major performance improvements (parallel rendering, improved caching) in MapViewer
- Provision of a new Map Builder application for creating map symbologies - this application will also facilitate data import.
- Ian Conaghan, Spatial Information Services, Queensland Department of Emergency Services, spoke on "Emergency Services Computer Aided Dispatch (ESCAD) and Data Interoperability"
- David Jarrad, from the Queensland Department of Main Roads, re-presented his talk on "Leveraging Oracle Spatial at Queensland Department of Main Roads";
- Lawrie Turner spoke on the "Business Drivers for Open Systems" from his time at Brisbane City Council.
Ian Conaghan, Spatial Information Services, Queensland Department of Emergency Services
Conaghan heads a centralized information service and delivery group that maintains key GIS datasets, conducts spatial analyses and supports the Department's critical Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) systems ("core business").The major difference he highlighted between what his group is doing now as against five years ago was the additional of Oracle Spatial.
Conaghan succinctly highlighted data-level interoperability as the being the main benefit gained by moving the management of key corporate datasets into Oracle Spatial.Through standard Oracle technology, the group can integrate data from multiple Oracle instances and make it accessible to all their different GIS vendor client software without the need for data conversion.
The provision of quality data to their mission critical ESCAD system (688k requests per year) is an important deliverable for Conaghan's group.ESCAD has some key functional requirements for its data.
One requirement relates to the recording of attributes on road centerline data that are dependent on the digitized direction of the street (e.g.left/right suburb).Conaghan's slides included the SQL select statement and PLSQL procedure that are used to implement this requirement inside the database.While he claimed he was no SQL guru, I personally found the SQL clear and lucid as one would expect from a declarative language.
Another requirement was that each land parcel polygon in the system had to be coded with the nearest cross street to its road access point. Again, Conaghan showed how this was implemented using a simple, declarative spatial SQL statement (using Oracle Spatial's nearest neighbor - SDO_NN - function).
The final requirement he highlighted was one which is best described as being a requirement to "decompose" the road network entering a circular roundabout into a set of "spokes" radiating from a single point representing the roundabout's "center", and to record the road names against those spokes.Again some pretty clever, yet simple, SQL select statements provided the answer.(Spot the pattern?)
Where previously the geoprocessing was carried out using client GIS software, Conaghan's team now conducts the majority of the processing inside the database using standard functionality such as triggers, views, PLSQL scripting and cross-database links.This has reduced system complexity and provided a more scalable, secure, stable and homogeneous environment in which to operate.Through this database-centric processing, data updated on one table can be made to automatically flow through to other datasets.
Well done Conaghan and his team.
Leveraging Oracle Spatial at Queensland Department of Main Roads
David Jarred, Queensland Department of Main Roads
When Jarred commenced his presentation by saying that it was the same presentation as the first OSUG meeting in Sydney I felt that it was the right time to go and make that phone call I needed to make, but then I decided not to.I'm glad I didn't, for I heard a different message and spotted common patterns with the previous speaker.
Jarred explained that they have been very successful in getting multi-vendor GIS clients to work from their common Oracle Spatial database (data-level interoperability).This has been achieved using simple, standard DBMS functionality: table triggers and views + "instead of triggers." This reinforced what the other speakers presented.While vendor specific metadata can be more troubling, they have been able to accommodate them.
He also explained that Oracle master-slave replication is being used to keep head office (master) and 14 district office (slave) databases synchronized.With Oracle Spatial they now reap additional benefits in being able to leverage existing centralized corporate data management functionality and services such as centralized backup, replication and security.
Having experienced the direct and tangible benefits of data-level interoperability, Jarred put forward a view that such interoperability is, first and foremost, the most critical foundation on which information systems and applications should be built.He even intimated that this sort of interoperability should be preferred to application-level interoperability which is achieved via vendor specific APIs and Web Services.I have to agree with this.In a data rich and data dependent technology like GIS, you should build on the sure foundations that spatially enabled database technology, like Oracle Spatial, provide before embarking on more complicated technology.
Jarred, like Conaghan before him, explained the benefits of server-centric processing.He put forward a view that his department will continue to move from client/server GIS processing (application logic solely in a GIS client) to one in which geospatial data-centric business logic will reside inside the database.He indicated that, in the future, this will not preclude deployment of geo-processing across all application tiers.However, he offered a view that the move to provide geospatial processing in any Departmental Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) will more likely be initially based on thin wrappers over database logic. However, he did indicate that they are looking at the WMS/WFS capabilities Oracle is offering and are looking at MapInfo's Envinsa.
Business Drivers for Open Systems
Lawrie Turner, Brisbane City Council
Turner's presentation is harder to summarize than the others (because of its strong strategic framework) but it contained the same threads as the other two speakers.He started by outlining the strategic approach Brisbane City Council took to choosing and deploying geospatial technologies.The approach required full integration with Council's IT infrastructure management practices based on a shared strategic approach to information management and system building.This strategic approach aims at implementing "best practices" in data management because it is seen as being the only effective approach to the long term deployment of spatial data if future and downstream scalability is to be provided.Vital to achieving its goal of maximizing the potential in exploiting spatial information, is the removal of proprietary stove pipes because, "Information locked away is a waste of time and effort. Systems must have open doors."
In Turner's view, while there are technical limitations, a move to database-based spatial (in Oracle Spatial) is more open than non-database based approaches.His view is that Oracle Spatial is an open database (a view that is supported by being OpenGIS standards compliant).He also made the point that because database storage and management have provided the framework for the evolution of the spatial world, a quantum leap forward has been achieved for Council through use of Oracle Spatial.
Council put all this into effect through a project called the Spatial Data Store (SDS) which went into production in May 2004 (based on 9i R2).The purpose of the SDS was to provide an open, standard, flexible and scalable spatial system for managing all of Councils spatial/map based information.They chose Oracle because it was consistent with corporate information architecture.
The SDS is seen as being the enabler of business process improvements and commercial activities.The SDS initiative will, through its Oracle based architecture, support regional collaboration within and between the 13 local government councils in south east Queensland.It also delivers internal business unit needs for wider deployment of spatial data and tighter integration with business systems.
Key principles and objectives for the SDS are varied.The SDS provides on-demand access by SQL enabled business systems and is a "self service" spatial search engine.It has eliminated replicated data to proprietary formats and has achieved longevity via being compliant with global spatial data (OGC) and open technology standards.As in the other presentations, the SDS has delivered spatial data to multiple GIS vendors and is achieving its 24/7 availability requirements.
The logical foundation to the SDS is a single, integrated, logical (enterprise) data model that is not GIS-centric.(Turner echoed the wish many others have articulated which is for Oracle to spatially enable its data modeling software.) All data is distributed via database views.Currently the SDS stores only two dimensional data.
Turner identified a number of constraints and issues.Some key ones that struck a chord with me were that they could not provide consistency of styling across applications (Jarred made a similar point).This is a concern because consistent styling provides better user confidence that the data is correct.While OGC standards compliance is necessary it is also a constraint and not without issues. For example, Turner pointed out that the interpretation of open standards varies between vendors!
Finally, the road ahead is one which Turner hopes will see customers migrate from a map-centric to an information-centric culture.He hopes that the SDS has fostered an increased awareness of spatial concepts within mainstream information technology and that new business-focused initiatives come to fruition.
I liked Turner's talk a lot as I had recently been through the painful process of producing a GIS strategy for my previous employer.Turner succinctly articulated the benefits of full integration though a coherent single strategic direction.There were common threads with the other talks, main one being that the SDS project has provided primary data-level integration that is the precursor to, or foundation for, interoperability between GIS vendors.
Afterwards I happened to walk with one of the attendees back to another part of Brisbane.I don't profess to be one of the world's great listeners, but I did get an insight into this man's world.He beautifully expressed the frustration of being someone who has found value in database-based spatial (and simple SQL), but finds that his co-geospatial professionals don't seem to want to hear.I share this frustration so I let him know that he is not alone.We both agreed that the database/spatial message needs to get "out there".
Putting the message "out there" is perhaps why these User Groups are needed.For not only did we get three very good formal presentations, we also heard, in a comment from the floor, how the production of a dataset (called the State Digital Road Network) took six weeks inside a client-side GIS package, but now takes less than 12 hours using Oracle Spatial (server-centric processing)!
All these stories highlight that fellow professionals had the courage to look into the "opaque SQL" that requires a "highly paid consultant to implement," and discovered that some simple, declarative, logical statements designed in an IBM laboratory more than 40 years ago were more than relevant to our profession today.
Perhaps this claim that SQL requires a highly paid consultant or is opaque and difficult, is part of the problem.But it is this type of marketing "spin" which is frustrating my co-professional.I have just finished helping a non-paying customer tune a single SQL statement such that we reduced processing time from three days to less than three minutes.This single statement showed the non-paying customer that they no longer need to export the data to a proprietary GIS format (for a GIS package to be able to process), write a script or program to carry out the processing, and then export the result back to the database.I did this for free (I have my reasons for doing so).If I had charged, it would have been less than what commercial GIS vendors (in Oz) charge for consulting services (usually provided by someone with a fraction of my experience).What would you charge for a single SQL statement? Would the customer have felt that "real geoprocessing" and real work had been done if it had been a program rather than a single SQL statement?
My friend expressed the frustration of someone at the forefront of a revolution.He despairs that others will ever see what the speakers at this local OSUG group could see: value can be found in non-traditional product; can be found in "disturbance" technologies; even technologies that aren't laden with the right marketing or the latest buzz words cf "Web Services," ".NET" etc.
In conclusion, the dominant pattern that struck me in the customer-centric stories I heard was that they had each discovered the value of data-level interoperability.A secondary pattern was that SQL, and related technologies, aren't that opaque and don't require expensive consultants! (Damn, I thought that perhaps I might be able to up my rates to being comparable with expensive GIS consultants.) Finally, they all explained the benefits in terms of a fully integrated, business-centric computing.If we asked them: "Was that what they intended to communicate?" they would probably laugh.The users were not there to deliver a party-line, they told us in their own language why they were there.
Edward de Bono states: "Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight".I write in hindsight.There are the patterns I perceived.Are they logical? I leave the reader to decide.
All the talks are available here. Click on "Australian Oracle Spatial User Forum Presentations under Quick Picks.Then click on "Brisbane."


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Talked to the builder of the house and it turns out that he did a pretty good job on the driveway. It is actually 5" thick with rebar over gravel and is the same concrete they used for the foundation (decent sized aggregate throughout). It is built on over a foot and a half of compacted road base that he trucked in to raise the house and driveway from its original position. Turns out he also trucked in about 6" of dirt to fill over the clay ridden base soil of the rest of the property. The driver took it slow and stayed away from the edges and there isn't a crack in the concrete. Worked out great I must say. Since I had some other work to do I rented a small front end loader and made quick work of the pile.
Turns out the gazebo and swing set in the middle of my yard are also sitting on 5" of concrete with rebar. Couldn't break them for the life of me with a big sledge or the bucket and now I know why. I'm going ot have to rent a jackhammer to get rid of them. The only thing that I found that was bad is it looks like the builder put down plastic sheeting (thick stuff, maybe 6 or 8 mils?) underneath all the soil he brought it. I know clay doesn't drain very well but my grass is basically sitting on a water barrier! I wondered why the yard didn't drain quite as well as I thought it should in the lower spots (closer to the plastic). Now I have to figure out what, if anything, I want to do about that.
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for starters if the guy with the truck is telling you he is bringing you 12 cubic yrds of sand and on a twin screw truck its going to weigh 15k per axle you might want to shop around. The material itself will weigh 2500 to 3000 per yard or more, so that's up to 36k right there. He can probably only get 12k on his steer axle and probably not even that so if he is saying the tandem is 15 tons and add the steer axle, then 43000 is his gross weight. Depending on the what kind of truck he has it's going to weigh close to 20,000. That means he is claiming the material weighs around a ton per yard and in my experience that isn't likely. Actually if he has dump bed on a class 8 truck the drive axles should be 34k for the tandem and 12 on the steer. Either way he isn't being straight with you, or worse doesn't know.
Now onto the drive question. Unless you've had drainage problems around the drive or it was laid over a marsh, the weight of a bob tail load of dirt shouldn't crack it provided as I said there isn't preexisting problems. But just because it was a contractors home doesn't mean it was even done as good as the homes he built, and there could be spots where the concrete is very thin, due to lazy or inexperienced guys doing the work. Having been to the dump truck and construction business for forty years I would back in and dump the load and go on. But if I were delivering to your house, I would suggest you get them to dump off 3 to 5 yds in front and then dump the rest where you need it. If they tell you they can't dump a little here and a little there they don't know what they are doing or just don't want to. I can dump a 37 ft dump trailer in fifteen places if I want, but I normally don't because it's a pain. If they are loading out of a small private pit that's not particularly a problem, other than you getting what you pay for. Cubic yardage is no a legal measurement in any of the states I deliver to because the only way to measure it is for the loader to eyeball it and usually folks pay for 12 yrs and get ten. Anyway that's a lot about the entire project and hope some of it helps. Oh yeah, clean sand and select fill in my area actually often weigh as mu h as 3400 lbs per yard, so don't get ripped off.
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This is good news!
What it means is we need to get a few friends and family members to apply in the 70-80K range is no time to be slowing down.
Was at Gander Mountain with my daughter In Deforest tonight she wanted a new holster ask me to go along. The Gun section was the best show in town.
Daughter with a CC great daughter with a CC asking you to take a drive holster shopping PRICELESS
Lets not lose this right.
I'm hoping to get mine this week or next. After that I will be getting a LCR to keep in my coat pocket.
Surprisingly I have not had anyone really ask me about getting a carry permit. I am going to talk to my mom about getting one because she is getting older and has developed some disabilities. That coupled with going into work at 2am is just not a good combo.
I took the dog out and just as an afterthought checked the mail. Saw a letter from the DOJ and got a :smile: on my face. As I had went outside to let the dog out and warm up the truck to go get gas and pizza, I quickly kitted up and we (dog, friend and myself) took off. I didn't feel nervous, I was actually very happy that I was finally able to defend myself and those I care about.
I got a Milwaukee high school teacher to get into a ccw class. I got a "lefty"going for his license!!!!!!
He is a great guy has a 38 Taurus.
looking forward to going to the range with him on his journey. ( by the way his wife is not happy about it)
I can't believe it my Dad who turns 60 next week and who has never bought or ownd a gun (except for the single six I gave him for his 50th and is still new in the box) Went out last week and bought a Ruger SR9. he says he doesn't think he will get a conceald carry permit but I'm going to keep on him about training I would love to have him a member of the sheep dog community. Anyway my point is I hope a large portion of the gun purchase boom are from people like him. I feel this is going to give our firearm and conceald carry rights a tremendous boost in strenght.
State Justice Department says it's caught up on concealed-carry applications - JSOnline
Nov. 1, 2011 — February 10, 2012 = 96 business days
Permits issued as of February 10, 2012: 71,058
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Husband and Wife that live near here ask me about CC last week I explained it to them. Neither have even owned a hand gun. Signed them up for the 6 Hour course at Gander Mountain they will go together on the 24th. They picked out and bough her 9mm last night he is still looking. Made arrangement for his Wife to meet up and do some work with her new weapon with my daughter she will be ready for the class.
This is how we bring new people in.
If you do the math on the 81K carry permit applications the DOJ has brought in almost $4.1 million dollars!! Plus all the extra money from background checks! This is a big boon for the DOJ.Quote:
O'Keefe pulled dozens of administrative workers from elsewhere within DOJ to help with concealed carry applications - the agency has spent $44,000 on overtime for application processing between November and January - but the unit still fell behind. It started missing deadlines on Dec. 29 and stayed behind for three weeks.
With license fees, Taxes on Gun sales that are off the charts. People spending money for classes, buying ammo and all the other extras, Gun safes oil ,cases sites ,it goes on for a page.
In door ranges opening up people spending on that. I am betting in a few months when it is looked at it will be a big contributor to the state.
I know places like Fleet Farm and gander are doing well the small Gun shops in Milwaukee area are seeing a steady flow of people in the door.
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Having had a few BMWs in my lifetime, I can say that the build quality of the X5 coming out of the USA is not as good as the German build cars. Even the 3 series from South Africa are better built. BUT most of my complaints extend to the poor interior materials.
1) The surround to the Sat Nav screen creaks
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3) Why can't BMW make a tailgate which doesn't rattle?
American built = poor build quality I'm afraid.
The much maligned Range Rover Sport is better built, I had two before the X5. It won't be long before I look at another, the cheap build quality of the X5 is rapidly turning me off BMW.
Not one thing mentioned here has anything to do "where" it was assembled..man u gotta stretch to slam American builds..
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This is a fairly common problem not unique to Hunters but the mast base is prone to water intrusion. The deck plate is flat and has at least one hole intended to drain water running down the mast. First, make sure that drain hole is clear and will allow any collected water to exit above deck. If thats not the problem, the other typical cause is water running down the internal wires which go straight into a collar through the deck and into the boat. This is the more likley source and unfortunatley, can't be fixed without stepping the mast to do one of two things:
1. carefully fill any void spaces between collar and wires with sealant (not usually effective), or
2. make a turn in all cables prior to entering the collar to promote water dropping off the cables before they pass through the deck plate.
It's usually fixed by simply clearing the drain hole above deck so no worries, yet.
|I'm betting on the leak being where the wiring comes below. Does it exit the mast above the deck and come through an external fitting, or does it come down through a hole within the outline of the mast? If the second, I am sure you will have to drop the mast.
While it is definitely worth checking out the mast step and the bolts for it...and if they're not potted properly, potting them with epoxy is a cheap form of insurance against future problems. However, it is very likely that the leak is not at the mast step at all. Given that you've tried to spray down the mast step area and gotten no results... it is far more likely that the leak is elsewhere on the deck and travelling along the interior of the cabin to appear at the top of the compression post.
Also, is the compression post aluminum, wood or steel? And what is the compression post seated on? If the leak is coming to the top of the compression post, it is likely travelling downhill to it...meaning that the compression post is lower than it might ought to be. The center of the cabintop is generally the highest part...and for the water to be leaking at the top of the compression post... it has probably been depressed a bit past what the factory specs are...
Most deck-stepped mast seats are wholly external to the boat, and the only thing that connects them with the interior of the boat is usually the bolts that hold them in place. In some cases they are through-bolted to the top of the compression post, in others, they're not.
Thanks to both of you for your input...
There isn't any spidering at the deck step, and there doesn't seem to be any problems with the integrity of the surrounding fiberglass, but if there is a possiblity of the leak coming in through the thru-bolts then better safe then sorry I suppose. I'll take the mast down when it gets a little warmer here in NY...
Just one more question. Is there an internal sealing system in a deck step that could be failing?
If it is a deck-stepped mast, then the leak can't be coming through the deck via the mast... you may have a leak at one of the bolts that holds the mast step to the compression post... if that is the case, you may have some water entering the core of the deck as well. Does the deck at the mast step have any crazing or spidering? Does it look like it is depressed at all? If so, the compression post may be failing. The wiring may also be a problem.
The other thing is that many leaks on the interior are nowhere near where the water is actually entering the boat...so you need to be sure that the actual leak is at the mast step. If it takes some time to show up, it may be because the water is migrating across the cabintop liner and appearing at the mast step, where there are holes for it to leak through. On one friend's boat... the leak near the starboard forward bulkhead actually started at the chainplates, and went about six feet forward to the bulkhead, before it became visible on the interior of the boat. It drove her crazy, since she had taken the bulkhead and that area apart and rebuilt it earlier, and was pretty sure it couldn't be the source of the leak. Took a while for us to trace it back to the chainplate... baby powder is your friend when trying to trace leaks like that...
My guess is that the leak is from the mast. Obviously you will have wire leads, etc, making their way from the top of the mast through the deck. THat is about the only weak link i can think of on a DS (which is one of the best reasons to buy them, incidentally). Hmmmm. I am racking my brain trying to come up with a solution to not demast. If your wire leads go through the cabin top versus down the comp post see if that might be leaking (I doubt it).
If the leak is not too bad, I would live with it. Try calling Hunter. I have no idea what type of Cust Service they will give you. I would start there. Check with the Hunters forum too. But my guess is that through a line lead or the top of the mast of both, a hard driving rain is making it way down the mast and through a wire run.
Cam and SD are often good at creative solutions. PM them for help. Not sure if I was much help, but good luck.
Thanks for your help CD!
Its a hunter 310 (1997). I have tried to spray the MS with a hose while watching below, and couldn't get the leak going. I'm not sure if this was because we were only spraying the MS foir a few minutes (like I said, the leak only occurs after long, heavy rains). If the water is coming through inside the mast, does the mast have come down? I have never seen the sealing system inside a mast step, what is going on in there?
Well, are you sure it is not coming from inside the mast? You can try putting some silicon around the plate and seeing if that stops it. Really quick and easy temporary fix to see where it is coming from. Have a friend spray a waterhose on it and see if you are getting the leak from there. Just my thoughts, but my DS has never leaked.
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I have a deck-stepped mast with a compression post in the cabin. A leak seems to have formed at the mast step. Water comes through the cabin roof just forward of the compression post after heavy rains. I'm not sure if the water is coming through inside or outside the mast. Any suggestions on the best way to stop the leak would be welcome. I'm hoping I may not have to take the mast down!
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I understand that I could use my same Master cylinder for this.
It still has the original booster in place. If anyone has done this conversion before I would appreciate hearing from you on how I accomplish the job,and maybe find out problems I can avoid.
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One of the most important things to do when switching from power assisted brakes to full manual is to change the pedal ratio. Often the correct mounting position for the pushrod for manual brake master is already in the pedal from the factory. Factory ratio for power assisted brakes will run in the 3:1 to 4:1 ratio. You will need a ratio of 6:1 or even 7:1 to be able to apply the manual brakes using a moderate force from "leg power". If the pedal ratio isn't changed; you may need to use both feet to get enough force applied to the master cylinder to stop at a reasonable distance. The above is correct for either disc/disc, disc/drum and drum/drum manual setups. Using the correct master is also important. A disc/disc setup will require a master with large reservoirs to supply the calipers. In all variations the master cylinder bore size will be smaller than what would have been utilized for power assisted brakes. You should be considering a maximum of a 1" bore or possibly as small as 3/4" for the manual brake setup. For power assisted setups a 1 1/8" bore will work better.
Because some readers will look at this posting but be considering going from manual brakes to power assisted setups; I am adding that going in the reverse of the above info would apply for them. They would be looking at a slightly larger bore master and the pedal ratio around 4:1 and a booster with a minimum size of a dual diaphragm 7" (not much boost with that size though). A larger 8" dual diaphragm would be a better choice.
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Streak the quad -- We all ran through The Columns before our first week of school freshman year. That was nothing. Try sprinting the length of the quad in the buff. Bonus points will be awarded if this is achieved during the daytime. And even more points are awarded if you go through Jesse Hall.
Climb Jesse Hall -- In this tradition, the object is to get on top of Jesse, not the dome. We're not going to tell you how to do it, and unless you are an expert climber, scaling the sides of Jesse is going to be difficult. Befriending a Jesse employee and weaseling your way to the top inside the building might be the best way up. Be careful with this one too, trespassing is a serious offense.
Ride the tiger -- Ah, finally a tradition that isn't against the law. The giant bronze statue in Tiger Plaza isn't just for show. It's also for riding. Climb aboard on your own or tag team is with a friend. Snap a picture while on top. It makes a great profile picture for your Facebook.
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Explore the tunnels -- Word around the campfire is a series of tunnels run underneath campus. Although we can't tell you how or where to gain access to MU's version of the Chamber of Secrets, we can tell you to bring a flashlight and look out for the po-po. This is a major trespassing law. Don't explore until you're ready to face the consequences. Or run really fast.
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Widening gap - notch sister joist or cinder block?
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I need to add a dryer vent pipe in my crawl space and route it to an outside wall.
Currently there is no connection under the floor - just a hole (see picture).
There is a narrow gap (about 1.5 inches) between the floor joist (right side of picture) and the termite shield.
Someone suggested adding a sister to that joist and then cutting a notch in it to allow vent pipe access.
Alternatively, I wonder if it makes any sense to notch the cinder block below the termite shield, patch the shield, and not have to notch the joist.
It seems like less work than putting in a sister. Would that violate code or be wrong in some other way?
You should not notch the joist. If you put a hole in the cinderblock, will it be above ground outside?
If it will, open the block.
Can you go out the side wall of the laundry area without doing this crawl space thing? Looks like a bit of work and tight space to do it in, not to mention potential issues raised by Ron.
I could also put the dryer on a hollow stand and put a new hole through the floor, under the stand, on the other side of that joist. Coming out of the dryer with a tight 180 degree bend, then a 90 degree bend down through the new hole. It sounds odd, but isn't any more turns than I currently have - it would just go through the floor in an unusual place.
The front porch is on the other side of the wall behind the dryer. (We wouldn't mind that.) The problem is that there is a window above the dryer. Going straight through that wall would put the new vent 3 feet from the window, vertically, but horizontally, it would be at the edge of the window.
It seems that code requires 3 feet in both directions.
Chipping concrete is NEVER fun :thumbdown:
Here is what I would do. The joist you wanted to notch, don't do it. Sister up the joist on the right. (2nd joist in from the concrete) Now shore up the joist you wanted to notch about 2 feet back on both ends of the hole you have drilled.
Cut the joist out 6 inches either side of that hole. (don't worry about the floor falling in, the posts you put under the joist will hold the load once you cut.) Now you are going to make a little beam that sits on the concrete wall and butts into that new sistered joist. Do one beam on both sides of your cut joist and hanger the double beam to the sistered joist with a double hanger and single hanger the cut joist to the new double beam and ta-daaaa, :eek: You have a nice STRONG cavity to run your duct down and where ever.. (btw, now remove the shoring posts and ta-daaaa you are done)
Best of luck, Joey
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The Fire uses this technology to dynamically adjust what you're looking at on your phone (pictures, maps, etc.). Sounds neat and all but, being the glass-is-half-empty guy that I am, I immediately thought of the bad ways in which this technology could be used. But, I'm probably just being a worrywart, right?
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Everybody knows the President of the United States is a very busy guy, what with saving the economy and fighting wars and all that stuff Presidents have to do (not to mention shopping for a new puppy). It seems, however, that he was not too tied-up with affairs of state to drop me an e-mail right after signing the "Stimulus Plan." From the timing of his e-mail one would think the ink had not yet dried on the Bill before he zapped out the personal message I received. Apparently he wants me to get my share of the bailout loot; and it won't cost me all that much, either.
And to think, I wouldn't even have known about his personal interest in my situation if I hadn't been cleaning out the stuff that accumulates in my Spam filter file! Strange that something reputed to be from the President would be filtered out as spam.
I was going to thank the President for his interest in my situation, but saw no need to add to his burden by getting on the active list behind this particular e-mail. Hey, I didn't need an extra billion-dollars anyhow. And, it is just possible the Office of the White House didn't exactly authorize this particular message. Come to think of it, it's highly unlikely to be legitimate; and I suspect I was only one of millions of folks who received and will continue to receive such offers. Probably someone will respond (costing them more than they'll get), but it won't be me.
There are a lot of spammers out there on the Internet wanting to find some way into my wallet. With some help from the Federal Trade Commission, I've set up some guidelines for myself:
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Also, like the junk mail that comes via the Post Office, I'm very careful about opening anything from somebody I did not write to first -- even if it wasn't filtered out.
Just in case I do something stupid and accidentally download a virus, we have a virus-protection program that is pretty good. I got it free from http://free.avg.com. The key thing about these programs is to keep them updated; otherwise they will be totally ineffective after about a week! It's hard to believe, but there are people around the world who do nothing all day but try to find ways to get me to go to some web site which will take my money and do all kinds of stuff.
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Definition of caricature
1 : exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics drew a caricature of the president
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caricaturalplay \ˌker-i-kə-ˈchu̇r-əl, -ˈchər-, -ˈtyu̇r-, -ˈtu̇r-, -ˌka-ri-\ adjective
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Italian caricatura, literally, act of loading, from caricare to load, from Late Latin carricare
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Doing a run alng the south coast of the island is a potentially beautiful holiday if the the timing is right. Summer is short in Newfoundland - last week in July and first week in august is the time everyone seems to try to take their holidays up here to get the best chance of weather.
Fog is definitely a consideration, anytime there is a southerly component to the wind, there is a good chance of fog, dense fog. Radars are valuable devises. Invest in a pilot book for the areas you intend to travel - there are dozens of great anchorages and some deep fjords (white bear bay for example).
Watch the weather carefully gales are common.
There is a nice yacht club in conception bay -RNYC, actually two there is another in Holyrood, about ten miles further in the bay.
I think you will enjoy the trip, but you should ensure that you are prepared for the above.
Yes i am suprized to, however, I to think you are correct I need to continue perfecting my abilities as much as the boats. We have a large cruise planned this summer and next year up to Lake superior or 3 weeks
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her husband was at work then at the mosque. i dont think you should post things like that when you dont know the people like i do. her husband and her were in love. they were a couple everyone knew would last. so dont even talk like thatThe husband will be arrested for this, IMHO.
The police are hush hush and don't seem overly concerned about a perp out there killing people.
The fact that she was found in bed with the covers pulled up points to someone that was familiar with her. Plus, no evidence is noted that indicates a break in, except for the open basement door.
Further, where is this husband? The latest article says that he didn't want to comment so as to not throw off the investigation.
Hubbie did it. Next.....
Sad thing, my wife worked with her and said that she was an outstanding person.
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#23 Sep 18, 2007
Ever heard of a hitman? If this were a random crime or a burglary gone wrong, the police would be asking for the public's help. It is as if they wanted this to go away.
It was someone close to her...husband (via hit man), daughter, or might have even been a suicide. I dunno. It doesn't make sense but if it was really a stranger on stranger crime, the police are inept.
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#24 Sep 18, 2007
this still disturbs me.
#25 Sep 19, 2007
If there are so many people at the mosque, on the job, and in her neighborhood that admired and loved this woman, why don't you put signs up and pass out flyers to help the bumbling Snellville police find her killer.
A group of her friends and co-workers need to organize a march and go to the police station. Don't forget to call TV news stations and the AJC to cover this and maybe the Snellville police will stop acting as though they are part of the Andy Griffith Show.
#26 Sep 20, 2007
Not sure what your problem is with Snellville PD -but I do believe it is Gwinnett PD that is handing the investigation. Yasmeen lived outside the city limits....
At any rate - I don't think talking trash about the police will help the situation. As much as we would all like to see justice - these things can take time to figure out - it doesn't mean they aren't working on it - or that they are "bumbling"
#27 Sep 24, 2007
Where is the husband in this? He is never mentioned in any article I've seen. IMHO I think it has something to do with the fact she is Muslim and a woman of prominence in her mosque. A fact is a fact. Moderate or extreme form, a woman is subservient. Was there an affair involved? It has been rumored there is a senator (not sure if state or federal) of stature living in the same neighborhood and therefore they don't want the publicity nor do they want to explore the Islamic angle. We hear about it everyday in the news, why not Snellville too? Perhaps Snellville doesn't want to get into some type of cultural taboo?
#28 Sep 24, 2007
What does IMHO mean?
#29 Sep 25, 2007
#30 Sep 30, 2007
I hear that the police has shut the case.What is the home owners of Bright Water doing.do you not want the creep who did this caught or do you want a repeat of such a incident. do you not want to start feeling safe in your home. Take some action.
#31 Sep 30, 2007
I hear that the husband was arrested, any truth to this?
#32 Oct 1, 2007
no.the husband asked the case to be closed as what i hear.He being in the police dept can possible do it.
#33 Oct 1, 2007
Surely to God it's not up to the husband to decide to "close the case"!!! That makes NO sense.
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#35 Oct 20, 2007
Can anybody tell us what has happend about this case. It has been going on for a long time.....Will we ever find out what happend?????
#36 Oct 24, 2007
the case was not closed, it was recently positively ruled as a homicide.
#37 Oct 24, 2007
It took them 3 months to say it was a homicide.How much longer to say who did it.
#38 Nov 28, 2007
Why so long and no word? Please let us not forget!! Has anyone heard anything??
#39 Nov 29, 2007
Bright water residents have you any news about who shot yasmin sayani.Its almost 5 months since this crime has taken place.I thought the cops had leads.
#40 Dec 11, 2007
I heard the cops had suspects. Why so long to let us know what happened. Are the cops sleeping on this case.
#42 Jan 16, 2008
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#43 Mar 30, 2008
suicide? are you crazy or just stupid? how could it have been a suicide if she had her face covered when her daughter found her? her daughter was teaching at a camp and her husband was at work. he is devastated now. you are probably the most insensitive person i have ever known about. a hitman? please stop posting comments like this on this website. you are hurting so many people on here.
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