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I'm looking for info about a show I had seen on the Investigation Discovery TV channel recently about this relatively big meat stick of guy who had a long history of abusing women, he had red hair, a mustache and goatee and wore glasses, but shaved his head, and was a physical trainer, and I believe either his first or last name was Stacy, but I'm pretty sure it was his first name. He lived in Florida, and also worked at a club where he began harassing one of his pretty female coworkers, and ended up going to her house one night and tying her up and beating the crap out of her and raping and sexually abusing her for an entire weekend. When it was over, he threatened her and her family and got her to (at least initially) agree to pretend she was in a car accident and not report the crime to the police. Well, she changed her mind and reported it to police and was going to have to go to trial over it, and this Stacy guy decided that couldn't happen. So he had just met this very naive young girl at his gym and towered over her and told her he was going to become her personal trainer. She reluctantly agreed, and within a short time, he convinced her to marry him. Then, he convinced his new wife to go shoot the woman he'd raped all weekend so she wouldn't be able to testify against him. He designed an alibi with one of his physical therapy clients by threatening her to cooperate and lie to the police, saying that "Stacy" his wife and herself, this client, spent the night of the murder at "Stacy's" house watching movies and ordering pizza. In the end, his wife was caught, the plot unravelled, and "Stacy" the dirtbag went to jail as well as his wife on murder charges for pulling the trigger, life in prison term. This is all I remember about this particular crime incident, relatively detailed, but I cannot remember anyone's actual name in the story and am also unable to find any info about it on the web with the info I do remember.

If anyone knows anything about this story, maybe names or the town or anything, it would be greatly appreciated! I want to find a newspaper article or web article or story or something about the incident for research purposes for a project I'm doing. And I'm totally stumped at the moment, unable to find anything. Thank you so much for your help if you can provide any, sorry this was so long but I wanted to type everything I DID remember in hope's of narrowing down the story so someone would recognize it, hopefully. I didn't want to be vague and unhelpful.

Being a Connecticut native, I've always known the story of the Battle of Groton Heights which took place largely at Fort Griswold located in Groton, CT on the Thames River, across from New London, during the American Revolutionary War. On a larger scale, it involved the sacking and burning of New London by the infamous Benedict Arnold, a CT native himself actually, in one of his most treasonous and treacherous acts. I know he was in charge overall during the battle for the Fort, but he wasn't the officer who actually took the surrender of the Fort from it's commanding officer, Colonel William Ledyard. Some British officer, unknown to me, took Col. Ledyard's sword when he surrendered the fort, and instead of accepting the surrender, this British officer used Ledyard's own sword to run him through, murdering him on the spot, and then proceeded to kill 80 or so of his soldiers instead of taking them prisoner.

I can't find the name of the British officer who committed this dastardly act, and I'm really curious as to who it was. Does anyone know who he was? His name seems largely absent from the history sources I've checked out. Perhaps someone local to Groton, CT, who has been to the Fort and seen the plaque marking the spot where Col. Ledyard fell is familiar with it. Thanks!

I've played on Strats my whole life, basically. When I was young, I first got a cheap foreign Strat copy to learn on, got used to the body style, and went through a couple more Strats until I finally moved up to a nicer American made Texas Special Fat Strat about 8 years ago now. It's setup with a single coil, single coil, and then bucker, 5 position switch and 2 tone knobs for control.

I love the tone with the Humbucker (it's a Seymour Duncan if that makes any difference), and I match it up with a vintage Fender tube amp after having experienced some solid state digital stuff also earlier on, like Mesa Boogies with digital effects built in to the amp, but I like my digital multi-effects pedal and a few choice single analog effects pedals more than having it built into the amp, and I think the tubes make it sound so much richer and warmer anyway. I'm not a pro or anything, and my earlier days of playing in relatively bad bands at bad bars is over, I play just alone or with friends now, nothing as far as live performances. I'm pretty decent, can read music, I'm technically competent, yet for my playing skill level, you'd assume I'd know far more than I do about guitars, I actually know embarrassingly little about them...

So my Strat is great, I love the feel of it, I haven't outgrown it skill-wise, it's still fine for my ability as like a medium quality guitar, it ran me a little over a grand back when I got it, and I'm thinking that I might be missing out on something because I've only played say, A Gibson like a Les Paul or an SG a couple times very briefly. I'd be looking for something in the same price range, like 1k-1.5k, so if you have experience playing models in that quality and price range, I'd love to know what you play and why you chose it, what you like and maybe don't like about it.

I'm hoping to get some suggestions and then go try some of them out at my local shop to see if anything seems to feel right or interests me in playing it more.

Oh, and I generally mainly play classic rock type stuff, and anything I write on my own or noodle around with is usually similar sounding to that, I don't really play heavy metal or have a need for a guitar that I can get really heavy and thrash with like a double bucker flying V model, hehe. I use distortion and overdrive, but a nice clean beautiful tone like a David Gilmour playing a Floyd solo sound is more my thing. If that helps...like I said, I really should have done more research and known more before choosing my axe, I think I just got lucky that it sounds like I want it to and was familiar and comfortable with Strat bodies. OK, enough trying to explain what I don't know, I'd love to hear what you guys and gals out there have to say! Thanks so much in advance for your helpful info :)

As a child, I was always fascinated by the stars and the moon, and my limited knowledge of beyond, what lie out there in deep space. I don't have a lot of distinct childhood memories, but I have a strong memory of the first time I was told there were so many stars, that even if I had all the paper and pencils in the world, it would take me more than my whole entire life to just write down the number. That I would have to write so many commas and zeros that I couldn't do it in my lifetime. And then, I remember when I found out that (this was the common belief of the day back then) the universe was infinite, and I had to be told the meaning of the word. "It goes on forever..." became something trapped in my head for my entire youth, and straight on through to today!

I've pondered this question for many years, in other words I've thought about it a LOT throughout my life. At first, I accepted it as fact, since I was told this by my cool uncle who knew everything back when I was 6 or 7. He's still pretty damn smart, just for the record if you read this. Haha. And then I discovered the old problem of +1. Playground logic, "uh uh, I can just add one to your biggest number". It would frustrate me back then as a kid, but it turns out the dumb runny nosed bully had a point.

For mathematicians, infinity is just a number. A really big one. It's acceptable in equations. However, for a physicist, it's heresy! Disallowed, unacceptable, not an answer for an equation nor is it an acceptable quantity in an equation. So generally, the line in the sand is drawn there, but of course there are individuals in both camps who have the same opinion or opposite of their peers. The point is that not even the professionals who think about these things for a living can agree on one answer.

Is the human mind truly able to grasp the concept of infinity? Or, by it's very nature, is it just beyond the comprehension of us finite beings? The sort of still generally accepted theory of the beginning of our universe, the Big Bang Theory, states that in an instant, everything was born from nothing. There was nothing, no space, no time, no universe, and then in that instance, it was all born and as is we see it today. Can an infinite universe be created from nothing? Speaking of which, as the opposite of infinity, nothing, is that even possible and logical? Just as infinity can be a logical absurdity, nothing could be viewed the same way, in that how could there be nothing where the universe now is? That's off track though, but you get my point I'm sure.

Space and time are inextricably linked together, they both go on forever...or do they? As we begin to entertain new theories more seriously, we think about ways to solve this problem for our own universe at least, string theory, membranes, multiple or even infinite universes, perhaps ours is simply a bubble pinched off from another and therefore does have a start and perhaps an end, both in time and space, someday. What goes on outside our own universe as far as infinity....who knows.

So to me, infinity is both logical and yet completely illogical. In the simplest way to put it, either the universe has boundaries, is finite, and if this is true, what is beyond those boundaries? Is it just a wall with an end sign? Absurd. Yet, on the other hand, the universe is infinite already...but still expanding as a result of the beginning, the Big Bang (from whatever cause), so therefore infinity is just becoming a larger infinity every moment as it expands? Why not, however large infinity might be, it can always get bigger as the bully on the playground taught me so many years ago. At the same time, by the very nature of the value infinity, it doesn't play nice like other numbers. ∞ + 1 = ∞, and ∞ + ∞ = ∞. As well as ∞ * 10 = ∞, yet ∞ * 0.00000001 would STILL = ∞!! What other number behaves like that...other than 0, which is interesting, as nothing seems to be infinities partner in crime...(well, not with the addition, with the multiplication I mean.)

So in my head, it goes back and forth like a tennis match. A reason why infinity and forever have to exist, and a reason why they simply cannot. Can or is a black-hole infinitely dense, and/or emitting infinite gravity? Seems absurd. But it's a singularity. Like the Big Bang.

So, what's YOUR take on infinity? What are the reasons you see why it is logical, or a logical absurdity? What do you see as the reason or reasons it must exist or must not exist? Or a third choice, is the human mind simply not capable of truly comprehending this concept and the question is purely academic, because there is no answer? Or that we can never prove it either way, also rendering the question totally moot. My brain craves your thoughts on the subject! Everybody weigh in, no matter how long or short your answer may be, there are virtually no dumb answers, it's an open think tank

And not just based entirely on how many evil things they actually accomplished. For example, obviously Hitler or Stalin would automatically win based solely on how many people died as a result of their policies, but they held positions of power that enabled them to carry out their evil plans on a grand scale. Certainly, there are others who would have been ultimately responsible for the murder of potentially even more people if given the chance. Just because someone's plans were foiled and they were jailed, or they never rose to a position of ultimate power like a dictator, doesn't necessarily make them less evil than if they had, because they would have done horrific things if given the chance. So who was it, in your opinion? A serial killer? A political figure? A cult leader? A religious figure? A terrorist? Your older brother? Don't just provide your answer but also present the reasons you believe he or she was the most evil person in the twentieth century, and if your argument is the most persuasive, then I'm choosing your answer as best! I'm totally open to any ideas as long as they are well supported by your thought process. :)

I'm totally out of ink on my printer (it's an Epson CX4800, few years old), and realized I have an inkjet refill kit that someone got me at some point. I've never tried using one of these, it appears pretty straightforward to use, but my real question is will the cheap ink gunk up my printer heads or explode in my printer or anything like that. I'm not in the market to buy a new printer at the moment and don't want to take a foolish risk just to save $40 on a color cartridge. Anyones experience and advice on this is really, really appreciated! Thanks!

I have a golden lab retriever, and I often will give him a tiny bit of things that I'm eating, but never large amounts of human food. Recently, someone mentioned that grapes are very dangerous to feed to dogs but they were unsure why. My pooch oddly enough likes fruit and I sort of assumed that feeding him a little bit of an apple or a banana or something that I'm eating is ok for him to eat and probably even healthy for him. I've never given him a grape, but I don't want to in the future if it's harmful to him. Basically I only avoid giving him sweets and chocolate as I know that is bad for him. Does anyone know if grapes are in fact harmful to dogs? Thanks!