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During HS I was the solo resident of the top floor in our 3 story home. There were 3 bedrooms up there - and I usually used the largest of the 3. Nightly around 10 footsteps would lightly ascend the stairs transit the landing, enter my room walk passed my bed to an alcove with a window and simply vanish - no more but no less and quite predictably. If I used another bedroom you could hear the same event - only in the large bedroom. I had others confirm the episodes. There was no apparition and no sense of any peril or threat.... just this nightly transit. The home itself was not ancient - methinx it was built in the 40's or 50's. I knew of no ghastly death in the place. Hard to say......... but oh so true. Never have experienced anything similar since then......... but it was part of my night for many years.

The social worker from adult protective services asked the old lady if she was having trouble affording her food. The elderly lady nicely replied 'no, that she just needed to be frugal was all'. Then it dawned on the social worker that she'd been snacking from the peanut bowl on the coffee table and she thought she'd better ask before having another.......... "may I have another peanut?" The old lady replied "have as many as you like, I already sucked all the chocolate off of those ones".

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I run Dave's Eliptrac 400s with Alks steep slope driven with JBL 2482 mids on Khorns. Really would not return to stock mids or horns.

All things considered he has aged fairly well. I've known many a person who by the age of 71 was far more physically limited. Men tend to deteriorate quicker than the ladies. Many tasks I wished were as easy and painless as during my younger days and, yup.......... the hearing goes downhill also. Bummer.

It has been a while, 72 years to the day when so many young Americans sacrificed their lives kicking in the door of Hitlers fortress Europe. Sadly I see next to nothing online or in the news showing reverence to those men. But we sure get to relive Hiroshima every August. So I thought I'd toss it out here. If not for so many who fell then we'd likely not be here and from the looks of current events not enough Americans appreciate the freedoms won so painfully.

Many celebrities have been called or enlisted for duty and those who did serve were often assigned duty more akin to public relations and not combat roles. The exceptions are those like Jimmy Stewart who sought serious duty with very serious perils. I wonder what Ali would've been assigned had he calmly met his responsibility? I appreciate that Ali did not join ranks with the more radical elements and made his points as a solo protester.

They have done one in conjunction with Dolby sound, it's awesome. I suggested the same thing ten years ago, but just recently learned that the theaters charge a lot of money for doing that. They have the trailer, which are 20 and 40 seconds in the movie biz, in some theaters and are expanding. Does Klipsch understand the market for their products........... the market they have passively given away to Bose, et al??? What better point-of-application arena than a theater featuring exclusively Klipsch professional systems? There the ads own a captured audience and one that would best appreciate audio performance. They should at least focus on the major market demographics and do this religiously.

Klipsch tends to understate its own existence relying (preferentially?) upon word of mouth acknowledgements. Across this country nearly every movie theater uses Klipsch product. A simple 30 second trailer spot pointing out the source of the sound system to be enjoyed prior to each showing would seem invaluable.

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This particular case is not directly involved with vaccinations but with lack of common sense medical knowledge and misplaced trust. How many here overeat, over drink, smoke and/or otherwise partake in conduct known to be unhealthy? Do you really understand the degree of health peril you adopt with your behavior? Do you understand the costs to you personally and (now w/Obamacare) to society in general? These parents made very wrong choices and the outcome was tragic but not entirely preventible. Meningitis can be very acute in kids and even timely care may have saved the childs life but resulted in retardation. Criminal? Well that is hard to say - in hind sight better actions are often simple to recognize. During the event, less so. Sadly we have a system that allows for products/services which imply an unproven degree of health benefit. There is an entire industry dedicated to developing and marketing these quasi medical products/services and plenty of pseudo-practitioners willing to sell and apply them. Many verge on charlatanism. Yet we have millions of willing buyers ready to accept simplistic panacea solutions; a pill that will make you skinny or a drink to cure arthritis or even cancer. And yes, way too many apply the same errant logic to their children. These legal, yet peculiar medical avocations make clear and practical medical decisions less clear and most people are (sadly) not smart enough to know the differences. There are plenty of ways most of us could improve our own health maintenance that would reap genuine results. Some of us know them and decline to accept the discipline required to apply them. Others simply do not know. Would you know what the early symptoms of meningitis were for yourself or a child? I have seen people die from meningitis that resulted from infected teeth. They simply waited too long and the disease was too aggressive to treat. IMHO every parent of an obese child is a negligent parent, yet culturally that is becoming a trend............ an extremely unhealthful trend.

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Hey, lighten up........ it is not like I personally derived the axiom. The perils associated with motorcycles are well understood not only in healthcare but among bikers as well. Funny? Nope. Tragic is more like it. Anyway - grow some thicker skin and do not take things so personal. Life's too short to become angered over weensy things.

"He lived for better or worse, but now he's gone for good." The motto of the organ donor.................. or the donor-cycle rider (same difference).

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Once I ventured into tubes with much anticipation for the Khorns and the experience left me disappointed. I chose Cary product and immediately noticed the lack of bass and started the 'tube rolling' quest to improve the rig. Some tubes introduced hum, others did not.... none delivered the bass........ and they were all expensive. I shifted to Accuphase on the advice of others here and have precisely what I wanted, performance and reliability. If you enjoy constantly toying and tweaking a system perhaps tubes can find you the best solution. I would rather turn it on and have it work flawlessly each and every time. You can also mix tubes and SS for the best each can offer. Hope you get your set up exactly the way you want.

1st wife did the exact same thing to our Mazda jelly bean van. Warned her SO many times about how close she got to the side. "If it went in w/o hitting the mirror then it would back out fine", I was dismissively told. Then one day WHAM - and the mirror was left hanging, pitifully crippled and shattered. Went directly to the Mazda dealer, got the new mirror and fixed it............ and relished the ' I TOLD YOU SO ' from that day forward. Really - you are sweating the small stuff - just do it.

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2 months ago I got my Kohls 'sale' mailer. At the spur of the moment I went to Kohls during the sale and got several items. Once at the cash register it dawned on me that I did not have my Kohls charge card that had to be used to access the discounts. "No problem", says the clerk - she got some info from me and voila the purchase was easy and smooth. Fast forward to last Tuesday. I had not gotten a Kohls account statement and as a matter of routine I always pay all my revolving accounts in full monthly. So I stop by Kohls again. I ask the clerk why no statement was sent and was advised that Kohls now uses email statements. Whatever. I ask if I could make my payment there and she says 'yes'. I asked for my balance and she says she cannot give my that info. Says I need to go to customer service. I go to customer service........ they cannot give me my account balance either. I have to call somewhere for the balance. So I call and get my balance and I then pay off the account. I then ask to close the account cuz now I am pissed off. Cannot do that either. Have to call and cancel. Done deal. Kohls is gone. In other words they'll move mountains to sell you stuff and move mountains in the way if you want to pay your account in full. It is possible that other department stores do the same. Anyway........ just an FYI. Seem like businesses are becoming more desperate and underhanded in their customer interactions. I cannot imagine anyone finding favor with such lousy customer service. But whadoIknow?

Oscar, I sense you meant well with this post, so please know I mean well with this answer. I am so tired of hearing the argument that career paths are limited as that is just flat out not true. Career pathways for history majors are extremely vast and plentiful and there are many high paying jobs available within the field. This is true in many fields that require research intense academics. Don't let the people who don't research job descriptions and degree descriptions paint the picture of a major. All too often we hear the ultimate lamentations of those with degrees that gain them wobbly foundations. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is always honorable and if that is the expectation then so be it. My 0.02 would not have our gov't backing any loans for undergrad degrees without vital application. History certainly must be studied and restudied and its many valuable lessons enlightened so that humanity can appreciate the contemporary status quo and not revisit failed endeavors. History is both true adventure and daily perspective. Still I knew how many health practitioners would be needed per X number of souls......... and I suppose that guided my logic. It was a career w/o boundaries; anywhere there were people, there was need. Life is an exciting place when you develop the minds full potential, that we can certainly agree on.

Others have alluded to the practicality of certain majors. I love history too but determined that it was very limited in career pathways........ especially lucrative ones. My interests in history became more of a hobby than my acumen. How much debt have you incurred in this endeavor? What does your future hold? If you do teach please make history enthusiastically interesting for your students. Thar be nothing worse than a dry perfunctory history lesson delivered in monotonous drone tones, ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz.

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Long ago after working all Saturday night on newspapers my brother and I were driving home early on Sunday and came across a single vehicle accident. Guessing drunk or certainly impaired. It was urban Los Angeles (around where OJ did his nefarious deed). The guy had side swiped several cars on both sides of the street and then hammered himself into a sizable tree. The FD was working to extract what was left of the guy. The motor was sitting in his lap. Did not know if he was dead, had yet to attend 'dead' school.... but he was not a pretty picture. That event set the stage for my drinking and driving agendas in life.

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