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Only a few more hours until my 20 year old cousin is cremated.
My uncle asked me specifically to talk at the cremation as I knew him best (I shared an office with him and my uncle).
People fear speaking in public more than they fear death, so why not combine the two? 
I'd speak in public every day for the rest of my life if I could have my cousin back though.
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) I hope it goes as well as these things ever do.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It's probably the worst challenge anyone ever has to face. We can only offer our best wishes to you for today.
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Public speaking is difficult, speaking at a funeral is more so, and speaking at the funeral of a young person is the most difficult of all.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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My condolences.
Talk to them as if you were talking to strangers, telling them about you cousin. Hope this works.
ed
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Good luck. I used to be a Professor and was used to public speaking. When my mother died I was to speak at her funeral - and couldn't get a word out. I had a plan and a script but mumbled out that I missed her - and that was about it. A friend of hers managed to take over and say some nice things in the end that I wish I could have said.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Sorry to hear that ... stay strong
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«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Sorry to hear that man. 20 is way too young to go.
Jeremy Falcon
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too tough for you, stay strong
diligent hands rule....
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VirtualBox 7.0 is now available to install and it offers a host of very important new features. One of the more impressive features is the addition of unattended install configuration within the GUI. Now you no longer have to run those unattended installations from the command line.
Hopefully not a re-post. Tried it out with a Windows 10 guest without any problems. Apparently Linux still needs some fiddling to get root access.
The resource monitor is also nice.
Changelog-7.0 – Oracle VM VirtualBox
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Quiet walks past slaughterhouse. (8)
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Shambles
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Well done! You are on for tomorrow!
Solution: Clue:
Quiet walks past slaughterhouse. (8)
Definition:
Slaughterhouse
Quiet SH
Walks AMBLES
Past (archaic definition)
SHAMBLES
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This is the video made from it: Mandy Frenzy Video - YouTube
You can download it from its home page: Home Page - Mandy Frenzy
It is my hobby project. It is free. Please kindly download and try it and let me know your comments.
Thanks!
modified 24-Oct-22 2:15am.
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#Worldle #275 1/6 (100%)
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Didn't need a map. One of my favorite countries.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Here is a longish story that ended with me shaking head in disbelief.
My wife's rather old iPhone started to have shorter and shorter battery life. My reflex in these cases is to go buy a new one, but this time I let myself persuaded to make an appointment in an Apple store at the "Genius Bar" to have the phone examined and see if there is other solution apart from chucking it. The expert (how do you call a person working at the Genius bar?) said that they can surely replace the battery for only 50$ or so and it would take just an hour to do it. Wow! I felt great: instead of spending north of 800$ for a new phone we could have a perfectly usable one for a fraction of the price. I came back home with the repaired phone victorious and proud of my deeds.
Too bad that next morning the phone was dead, battery completely drained. Charged it back up and went back to 0 faster than a stone drops (well, in about 12 hours or so). Next day, I go back to the Genius Bar and a condescending expert (God, I hate that condescension!) explained me that it's only a software problem and one of the apps is draining the perfectly good battery. All I have to do is to reset the phone and the problem will go away.
I go home and do that and guess what, battery keeps draining worse than a sieve. Another trip, another condescending expert this time says that I have to reset the phone to just the factory settings and latter on, after I convinced myself the problem went away, I should install apps one by one and see which one drains the battery. Surely this time will work because it will be an Apple phone with a new Apple battery and only Apple software. To make sure all is right he will reset the phone himself and give me a squeaky clean phone.
You probably imagine the third act: I left the phone overnight only to find it drained in the morning. By now my patience was running very thin, went back and cut through the BS about software and what not and managed to half-convince the "head genius" or whatever, that the battery is really, utterly bad.
And now the cherry on the cake: the "system" doesn't accept to replace the battery again because it passes the test. There was no way around and humans had to bend to the power of the machine. The only thing he could do was to refund me for the battery replacement.
I wanted to share to serve a a cautionary tale (and also to vent  )
Mircea
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thanx for your info. Sorry for sad experience. I suspect the problem was the quality control at the "Apple" store was lacking. They have used batteries and good batteries in their inventory so guess what? I thing they owe a new phone considering the trouble they put you through.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: And now the cherry on the cake: the "system" doesn't accept to replace the battery again because it passes the test. There was no way around and humans had to bend to the power of the machine.
Sounds like a class action suit in the making. 
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rather you could just tell your wife to charge it when the batter is low...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Why didn't we think of that? 
Mircea
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It's an Apple product. You're obviously wrong, and how dare you question the higher authorities?
Now get in line and just buy a new iPhone, until the next model comes out.
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Apple got into a lot of legal and regulatory trouble a while back because of their batteries. Sounds like they're still rotten to the core.
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I avoid all Apple products like the plague! I love my inexpensive Android cell phone and tablet!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Have you checked the battery health in the settings? This should give you an indication of whether the battery is actually any good. Also: did you update the OS after (or just before) the battery replacement? A new OS can suck the daylights out of the battery as it spends a couple of days re-indexing everything.
But if they've sold you a dud, then that sucks. I've generally had good experiences with battery replacements, but obviously a single data point isn't particularly indicative.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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