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Heard that it takes a village. I believe that your hesitation to intervene about this apparent degrading behavior is essentially community negligence. Your opinion should matter. Your diligence and participation should and needs to make a difference - especially at the elementary level of child rearing. When will it matter for certain? When your daughter is in college and the boys who so causally got serviced on the bus confidently decline to accept her wishes because parents like you allowed them to always get away with whatever they wanted. By doing nothing you contribute to the decay of the community.

The foundation the argument is broader than any fairy tale traditions. Educators are correct that parenting and the home life do impact how well a child does in school and parents would rather reserve the right to determine how they raise their families, feed their families and establish family values. And we have this tug-of-war between the entities. Educational systems perceive themselves as social support structures collaterally focused on education and feel that they should set minimum guidelines for functions historically set in the home. They now feed and counsel and direct many aspects of the students life they insist are requisite to learning. IF they were actually succeeding with this concept it would be one thing. But generally speaking it does not work. If conflicts. As in this instance. IMHO educational systems do not have the time, nor the resources nor the skill sets to be both parent and teacher. And when they try to do both they succeed at neither. As unfortunate as it is social stratification exists and systems should learn to do their best at specific chores despite them. Not every household will be the best for every student. Those which are criminally bad get referred to the social workers or the justice systems. But schools need to return to honing the basics of education and stop trying to be a social support network for all of humanity under the age of 18.

Um..... okay. Well Ma and Pa were pretty much countrified kids living in a teensy town in Mo. They married young and moved to So Cal where my Mother parents lived and they were part of that music appreciation 50's generation. 1st they had one of those suitcase record players and a collection of various 45's etc....... Then around 1961 or so they got a Fisher 500C, a Gerard deck and bought these massive JBL D130's bare speakers. Grandfather was a carpenter and he built cherry cabinets according to JBL specs for those D130's. The cabinets did include the spaces for tweeters but they never got them. They never used any crossovers. We just fed those D130's whatever came out of the amp.......... worked pretty good. They never knew anything Klipsch until I introduced them to the brand in the 80's. But they seeded stereo gear and music in me big time. They are both still alive and they still own those D130's. Wished they had that Fisher unit but alas it is gone. That's another story I'll save for when you wanna hear about 'sisters'.

There is a hauntingly beautiful and plaintiff tone to Iz's version of 'Over the Rainbow'. It is sung as though he expected his horizons to open up and deliver him a more typical life. He had so many champions and fans. His pacific ocean funeral was one of the most heart warming I've ever seen.

Interesting topic but there has to be loads of confounding variables. Just consider how mass marketing changes over the years. Consider how access to music changed over the years. Consider how access to more artists has evolved over the years. Music is a very dynamic aspect of human civilization and has been for quite a long time. Todays avalanche of music would be very difficult to analyze relative to the past half century. One of the things I have found curious are those PBS oldie concerts they show when it comes to their periodic fund drives. They offer a wide range of concert venues and they're all live............ but the audience rarely has any minorities in attendance. So what's the answer there? Did they not like the older music to begin with? Unable to afford tickets now? Concerts offered only in certain demographics? These days I find myself laundering through genres of music listening until I truly get sick of the stuff. Then I move to a different genre and repeat.

Temescal Cyn was extended down to PCH just as I was completing my time at PPHS. Prior to then it was just another coastal canyon but we could view the ocean from the sports fields. My family lived in Brentwood, up Kenter Cyn. Whatever market occupied the corner of Bundy and San Vicente got the lions share our grocery $$$$. During those years I lived in Venice then Mar Vista and lastly Brentwood.

Interesting how many of us hail from these West Los Angeles enclaves. I lived in WLA from 55 through to 74, spending most of my formative years hanging about Santa Monica, Westwood and Venice. Graduated from Pacific Palisades HS. The family moved to So. Orange County in the 70's and I've been out of Cal entirely since 2003. Awfully crowded there and EXPENSIVE.

Unsure how to gauge 'correct' in a vet application for diabetes. Just read a blurb on feline diabetes and going to bow out here. Follow your vets advice. Hope it all works out for the best. Pets are like kids. Tough to see them sickly.

The curious thing here is that both drugs should be dosed based upon need. Insulin dosing is often based upon blood sugar testing (short term) and A1C (long term). Diuretics are used based on a variety of measures. How old is kitty? How long has kitty been diabetic? Has kidney function been altered by the long term effects associated with diabetes? FWIW you should be able to get the dose equivalencies from your vets office. Insulin dependent (type 1) diabetes is a fairly complex disease and managing it properly is not as straight forward as many believe. It can have a host of complications to make early proper treatment imperative.

Still churning this topic I see. Read a study reporting that in upwards of 15% of people who ride in autonomous vehicles will get motion sickness. Hope they come with barf bags. Carry on.

I look for corners when shopping for a home, Khorns, y'know. I do recall one house I looked at that had an enormous and cavernous space beneath the garage. The home was built into a hill and this one room was fully enclosed, 2 stories tall and at least 30 X 40. That space was unfinished and begging to become a home theater. Tried to buy that home but failed. Who knows what happened to that potential?

Long ago as a teen I worked all night long each Saturday preparing newspapers for early Sunday morning deliveries. Music was a constant companion. There was a most soulful tune, almost haunting a yearning about 'when a man loves a woman'. That song filled some need to understand that earnestness bound in the spring of youth. Its lyrics offered such a timeless message and now Percy is timeless himself.

Immodestly speaking many moderators remodulate mostly immoral and the mundanely inane and impolite posts. Speaking moderately - of course. Thad........ take your bows now as soon duty will call - we are in an election cycle.

When you're retired every day and night is a music festival.

Y'all realize that this constitutes cruel and unusual punishment for those unable to access either the sauce nor the recipe or its ingredients. You're such teasers!

Wonder how a Patsy Cline or Annie Lennox would sound a-cappela in this place? It takes a pure and deep voice to blossom that environment. I think a 'tinny' voice would grind into your brain and kill you.

Long before humanity knew about electronics there was..................... http://www.chonday.com/Videos/armewsing3

Industrially plastics are welded using ultrasonic contact transducers.

If you're at the beach and it is sunny then it is a co-TAN-gent.

It really looks as though they need to get quite close to the flame with this rig. It is the sound wave putting out the fire which is not much different than using explosives to puff out oil rig fires. Hard to conceive of a practical application beyond something over your stove top in an an engine compartment.

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http://www.chonday.com/Videos/instrufrin3

If I was going to throw that kind of $$$ into new system I'd look for gently used really high end gear. With cash in hand you could command some deals. Given a good sized space - I'd seek out Avantegarde for speakers and Accuphase for all other components. For $20K you could lay out about $50K worth of product. Just say'n.

Like many souls I am afraid of heights........ always have been. Might be made worse by my odd vision trouble. When I drive a car I can deal with heights fairly readily because my mind is occupied. But if I am the passenger - yikes! Mountainous roads, tall bridges... any bridge...... they all leave me severely distressed. In a way I think this defines the general aversion to autodriving-automobiles. We have had it hammered into us to 'pay attention' to driving. "Eyes on the road, 10 and 2 on the wheel, etc." Inattention leads to accidents. We have all had our close calls. Most of us have been in accidents. It seems unnatural - counterintuitive to hop into a car and TRUST it to safely convey us anywhere. Maybe, in time.... maybe - that behavior can be modified. But you cannot blame anyone for being a little uneasy with altering such a basic concept that has been fundamentally sound for all of our lives. Having worked in medicine I have seen what gets peeled from mangled vehicles. There's nothing like a ride in a Cuisinart to ruin your whole day. Have some patience and understanding. Were not a bunch of backward dolts defying progress. We share varying degrees of skepticism that are well anchored in loads and tons of experience(s).

Solar flares? Will that mass solar ejection that hammers our electrical grid also alter or even destroy this technology? And.......... once most folks use this technology won"t others who remain self controlled benefit from better safety on the roads? Could we realize a bit of a herd immunity for traffic accidents? One thing that does bother me is that as humanity advances it loses familiarity with those basic survival skill sets. How many people cold actually start a fire from scratch these days? We have this idillic hubris that we will not require foundational knowledge but events do occur that sets our advancements backwards. An asteroid, a super volcano or some cosmic chaos could put us back on survival mode. Zombies too.... what about zombies?