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STEUBENVILLE — Cathy Davison spent Tuesday night watching her son's Little League game. "After the game was over, John ran over and hugged me because he was happy I could be at his game....
Cathy is a class act! Given the nature of Jefferson County politics and (lack of) ethics, finding a professional city manager will be close to impossible.
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Think everybody has pretty much figured out by now she was not the problem, she had ideas and tried to stand up to "them" but that doesn't work around here. They would rather watch the town go to he.. before giving up their power and money. Everything that they have allowed to happen to the town is horrid and they can't blame all the city problems on the loss of mills. Everyone with even half a brain knows better. Too bad they "aint got no shame" just power/$$$$ lust.
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Thank You! for your service Cathy. I am disappointed you are leaving the manager's job, but I can understand your decision with some of the frustration you have dealt with in the city. Please rest assured there are many us of who agree with your outlook on the city and are working hard to improve it where we can. Glad to hear you and your family will still be in the area. Again, Thank You!....and fellow "commenters", a negative attitude…solves nothing.
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Time to quit thinking the same old way
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Some of the problem is that the rail, waterway, and highway are next to nothing. No land to develop until that mill is dealt with.
Use it or tear it down and develop the land.
Its a no brainer.
When the mall was built on the hill it killed downtown. So much for that development. Brilliant idea; with a dagger in the heart.
The golden goose died and all we have now is living in the past.
Time to thinking the same old way and move on.
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If we had a choice - get rid of the city council and Domenic Mucci or get rid of Davidson I would get rid of the council and Mucci any day of the week.
It is time for new blood and she was that.
I am sorry Angel12. Obviously you know someone who was laid off. There are way too many city employees in the first place.
Now look who we are left with to run the city. None other than Domenic Mucci. Give me a break! He is a clueless and has been arrested for drunk driving twice if not three times.
Its obvious whats going on here. The person looking to make changes gets ousted so the old guard can keep their game in place.
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This is not a headline article and should have been in the society section. Soon to be available guidelines for industry and special interest involvement in public office and affairs on Gov4UOhio. Why does this matter? For the people and by the people must not be disregarded in favor of insider control. Disclosure of financial interests must be enforced to protect communities.
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Personally I believe anyone who thinks restoring ANY building downtown is a good idea is playing with less than a full deck. So, perhaps her moving on is a good idea.
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The city manager serves at the pleasure of city council; therefore, the layoffs and closed fire station is the result of them and not her. Her resignation will mean nothing for how this city is run. Her loss is the equivalent of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Until our city council us clean we can expect more of the same.
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Ms.Davison was fighting a losing battle. This city is dead,no industry,leadership,no ideas. Come on there is highway,a rail line,and the Ohio river and you can't find an industry to move here to create jobs? I blame city council,and your state reps.and senators. All they worry about is re-election,the "the good ole boys" club is alive and well in the 'ville'..R.I.P.
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Well now you know how all of those employees who lost their jobs at your hands feel and yes (to quote you) "there is a natural anger when you lose your job".
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I'm disappointed..It almost looks as if everything said about the drugs, crime and corruption in the police departments was true. Maybe they don't want the city cleaned up because it some how hits their pockets? I thought Cathy Davison was doing a great job!
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The situation is worse, of course, in lighter-hearted pieces. When American Ballet Theatre performed Twyla Tharps Bakers Dozen last year, the cast couldnt stop telling us what a fun bunch of people they were. (Craig Salstein, in his solo, practically gave us his phone number.) But this is going on in darker pieces, too. Strangely, the problem has no relation to talent.
I'm not at all sure what the problem is; when I first started seeing live ballet regularly, one of the few things that I found distracting was the grinning rictus that appeared on many faces - and sometimes the whole corps (much as described by Merrill Ashley, above). It must have been choregraphed, and was awful, robotic and distracting. Happily, that seems much rarer now.
I'd suggest that teaching dancers to focus effort on facial expression is an error; for a start, they have more important things to do, also attempting a half-smile, 'to disguise effort' could end up an almost anything after a lot of effort, and a need to concentrate on what comes next.
I'd much rather see - as others have suggested - a calm, in control dancer, who does not feel they have dance with their face in any way at all, though, hopefully, they'll play down any pain or difficulty - and, as actors, they'll remain in character.
In some comedy ballets, there is a specific interaction with the audience at times - Elite Syncopations comes to mind - where the audience is 'in on the act'.
I'm happy to say that I've never ever seen the malaise described here, though I'm equally happy to say that I've seen some beautiful smiles from dancers, usually in response to audience appreciation.
Is there a problem, or it it just a reviewer with writers block?
Craig Salstein, in his solo, practically gave us his phone number.
That has to be just plain spite, doesn't it?
Strangely, the problem has no relation to talent.
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- 1 teaspoon chili flakes, crushed
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10 Things Christians and Atheists Can (And Must) Agree On
6. We Tend to Exaggerate About the Other Guy
Cyberpunk author Neal Stephenson wrote in one of his books - and this was probably just moments before the character was split in half by a robot weilding a samurai sword - that the only real sign of intelligence was the ability to detect subtlety.
Anybody can memorize facts. But you remain a clumsy, intellectual oaf of a person as long as you keep looking for sheer black and white in every situation. That's what's so frustrating about politics, the way everybody wants to paint the two parties as angels vs. devils. And if you just said to yourself, "Yeah! Those evil ________ are always trying to polarize us that way!" then, guess what, you just did the same thing.
So please, please, please, when we get into these atheist vs. Christian arguments, can the atheists stop acting like Christians want to abolish all science and live in grass huts? Just because some Christians reject the science on evolution, doesn't mean they reject all science.
I mean, give me a break. America has been full of Christians since the day we invaded it, and has been a scientific and technological freaking superpower. So please stop waving your arms and warning that if Christians get their way, we'll all be sacrificing virgins on altars and replacing surgeons with priests.
And Christians, will you please, pretty please, with sugar on top, stop implying that the atheist lifestyle is one long drug-riddled blood orgy? You take a country like Japan, where just 12% of the people say religion is important to their lives and yet have some of the lowest crime rates in the world.
Okay, so maybe Japan is a bad example. But it doesn't matter. To move on, we only need to agree that rejecting science on one subject doesn't mean you reject all science on all subjects, and that rejecting Christian morality doesn't mean rejecting all morality.
And if we agree that we tend to exaggerate about the other guy, can we also agree that...
7. We Tend to Exaggerate About Ourselves, Too
If you're like me, there's this weird process that happens when you encounter somebody who believes the opposite as you, especially when they're really pushy about it. You actually go the other direction. I secretly think the Yankees are good enough to win 80 games this year and maybe make the playoffs, the other guy snorts in my face and tells me they'll be lucky to finish last. I roar back that they're going to win 100 and take home the title.
It's like that other guy is so irritating, I want to position myself further away. Or maybe it's like haggling over the price of a used car, you start low so that once the compromise happens, you'll be closer to your end than his.
It's often the same thing here. It looks like this:
"I believe the Bible is true."
"There is no evidence that this one religious text is any truer than other texts like it."
In reality, there are very few Christians who do or even try to follow the Bible exactly, including all the obscure rules about church women staying silent and hatted. Word of God or not, the faith changes, adapts with the times. That is, in fact, the entire point of Christianity. Jesus was a reformer, and set that precedent. It continues to this day, it's what I like about it.
Now Christians hate to admit that, because it opens the door for the other guy to say, "See! If it's not the word of God then you admit it's all a big pile of fly-ridden crap and that atheism is the one true belief system!" So, the Christian digs in and pretends they've never experienced a moment of religious doubt in their lives.
Conversely, atheists like to pretend they're islands of pure, rational thought in a sea of wild-eyed craziness. But we all have a little crazy in our world, and we all depend on some fantasy that floats outside the boundaries of cold reason.
Atheists still tell their girlfriends they "love" them, and not that they simply feel a psychological artifact of a biochemical bond generated by the mating instinct. They still refer to their "mind" as if it's something more than chemical switches. And remember what we talked about with "justice" and "right" and "wrong." None of it is scientific.
Even weirder? Free will. Remember, to a neuroscientist, free will is every bit as real as the Tooth Fairy. They can watch your neurons light up at the moment you make moral decisions, can trace the exact electrochemical pathways. If there is nothing beyond the physical, then your ability to choose your actions vanishes along with God and Heaven and the angels. It was an atheist professor who told me that, in a class on ethics.
Two days later, he told me if I was ever late to class again, he'd knock 100 points off my grade.
To deter me from being late in the future.
As if I had the free will to be late or on time.
So we all got those contradictions, that's my point. None of us are 100% on board.
You don't have to admit this one out loud. I know you lose debate points for it. Just keep reading if you agree.
8. Focusing on Negative Examples Makes You Stupid
That guy, the "God Hates Fags" guy who runs the protests I mentioned back on the first page? Fred Phelps? His church (Westboro Baptist) has become world famous for those dickish demonstrations.
Which is amazing, considering that the "church" is made up entirely of Phelps' family and a few friends. That's it. And they're world famous, mainly because atheists looooooove to hold them up as an example of what dicks Christians are. When you need an icon of intolerance, they're as useful to have around as Hitler.
And please don't come at me with the, "Christians hate Phelps because they know he's saying out loud what they're secretly thinking! They secretly hate homosexuals just as much!"
Please. The White House and Congress and the Supreme Court are full of Christians, always have been. If all Christians thought like Phelps, American gays would be in concentration camps. There'd be nobody to stop it.
Smearing all Christians with Phelps' bile is a cheap shot, like saying all atheist schoolkids are potential Columbine shooters. At worst, that kind of stereotyping is dehumanizing and divisive. At best, it's a recipe for mediocrity.
I compare myself to the worst so that I don't have to try to be the best. I can spend all day on my sofa, playing Wii Boxing and helping no one, and I'll still be a better man than Phelps. But I think we've got to shoot higher here.
It's just another form of hypocrisy, and if there's one thing we can agree on, it's that hypocrisy sucks.
We're almost done here.
Now, if only we can agree that...
9. Both Sides Have Brought Good to the Table
Okay, bear with me here.
Christians, I'm not saying that atheists have brought good things to the world by telling people not to believe in God. I'm talking about the thing that drives atheism, the philosophy behind it.
I'm talking about rationalism. I'm talking about the philosophy that started saying, centuries ago, that it's not demons that cause disease. It's microbes, and genetic defects, and chemistry. And that we can find those causes and we can find cures. Cures in the physical world, without consulting the priest, without going through a ceremony.
Think about what I said before. If atheism is wrong, it's only wrong in that it takes rationalism too far, beyond the edges of the universe. But you don't have a problem with the rationalism itself. There are people you love who would not be alive without it. You can pray that grandpa's heart holds out for another year, but rational thinking invented the pacemaker.
So even if you detest atheism, you can at least agree that it grew out of something good.
Atheists. You hate wars. You hate genocide, you hate iron-fisted dictators who line up peasants and jump over them with monster trucks. You hate it when corporations steal your money, and when fat suburbanites will let a million Africans starve before they'll donate. You hate guys who treat women like lifeless sex dolls, guys who lie and leave.
You hate all of that, because you know that the ability to have empathy for other humans (even those who don't benefit us) is the only thing that separates us from the cockroaches. And when that fails, it's terrifying and awful in countless ways.
In the middle of a religious debate, you may say that religion and superstition are the prime evil in human society. But you look behind it, and you'll find that other monster is bigger. Humans doing the opposite, acting like animals. Treating other humans as nothing but engines for their own pleasure.
Religion - whether it was handed down by God or just invented by a bunch of guys- serves mainly to fight that. It makes humanity sacred, and the moral law moreso. You can hate the methods it uses, you can say that there are other ways, you can say that it only replaces one cancer with another. But most of what it's trying to get you to do - treat other humans as sacred and put morality above your own impulses - you already do. And you criticize religion mainly for not doing it.
You're going to come back here and say that you're not criticizing that part of religion, the concept of things being sacred, or morality, or any of that flowery stuff. It's the intolerance and manipulation and superstition and ignorance you hate, the zealots demanding evolution be stripped from the textbooks.
But from the Christian's point of view, when you attack one, you attack the other. The story of Christianity (or mythology, if you prefer) is bound to the morality. Humanity is sacred because were were planted here in a six-day act of divine intervention. Lying is wrong because God said so. You should work to preserve a marriage because God made that bond sacred with Adam and Eve.
So when you attack that mythology, Christians hear you attacking the morality along with it. And that is why they fight so hard for it.
Seriously, what did you think the creationism thing was about? It's about keeping humanity sacred. They think that once you dash the idea of a created humanity, then there'll be nothing to stop strong humans from treating weak ones as cannon fodder.
And logically, there won't be anything. You can't defend morality with logic. Once you explain it away as an artifact of the genetic herd instinct, well, hey, we've got the genome mapped out, right? Couldn't we just cut that morality gene right out of there?
If you're saying, "But that would be retarded! The world would go down the toilet if we did that!" Guess what, that's just your morality gene talking. Your objection is merely based on a genetic disposition toward social behavior, and can be ignored with the proper genetic changes.
Do you see how weird this gets? There's no logical conclusion to it, it just gets more and more strange. So what's their motivation to go that way?
After all, you know as well as I do that there are two kinds of people who attack Christianity: those who love rationalism, and those who just have a knee-jerk reaction to being told what to do. You've got people who are right for the wrong reasons, and others who are wrong for the right reasons, and some who are right for the right reasons and others who are wrong for the wrong reasons.
It's like all my friends are with me on the beach, looking out at the ocean. Half of them look at the water and say:
"This is Oceanis, the living Blue God! He is sacred!"
While the other half say,
"Here is a convenient place to dump our sewage."
The truth has to be somewhere in between.
Whew. Last one, for the people who are still reading. Can all zero of you agree that:
10. You'll Never Harass the Other Side Out of Existence
Remember when I said that, when somebody comes on too strong, no matter what they're selling, we tend to run the other way? I mean, sure, the "God Hates Fags" guy has changed tens of thousands of minds. But not in the direction he intended.
People are not convinced that way. The sarcasm, the disdain, the laughter. It makes you feel better, and rallies your friends, but it does exactly nothing to change minds on the other side. Conservatives may like to read Ann Coulter, but nobody else does.
No, in reality, if changing minds is your thing, there's only one way to do it:
Lead by Example.
There's a thing the church has been doing for centuries, that I don't think it can do any longer. It goes like this:
"Jesus is the son of God."
"How do I know that?"
"Because if you don't know that, then you will burn in Hell for eternity."
No. Uh-uh. If you want people to live their life in a certain way, based on a certain fact, you can't substitute a threat for evidence.
You have to lead by example.
Atheists, same thing. you want to show me that atheism is the key to a balanced, satisfying, confident life? Show me.
Trust me, if they introduce a new energy drink tomorrow and I observe that everybody who drinks it suddenly can dunk a basketball from their knees, I'm going to notice. So will everyone else.
That drink will be unstoppable.
So if you want to criticize the Christians' intolerance, then be tolerant. Show them how it's done. Shame them with your tolerance. You won't have to say they're awful. They'll look awful by sheer comparison to you.
And don't show up in a room full of Christians and start making fun of their taboos, immediately talking about boobs or whatever, as if the only reason people adhere to a rule is out of fear of experiencing the awesomeness of breaking it. You've got taboos, too. All of you. Things you don't like to see or hear in polite conversation. This is the internet, I can show you the pictures.
Be tolerant. Lead by example.
Both of you.
And don't think of it as a tactic to win converts. Think of it as common courtesy.


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Introduction to the multiple facets of the sports industry. The knowledge gained in this course will provide a foundation for the future study of the industry. Prerequisite: BUS 133.
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Provides students with an opportunity for practical application of sports management under the direct supervision of an appropriate professional. Prospective interns are screened by the department and supervising employer. Credit given at the rate of one semester-hour for each block of 50 hours worked, up to a maximum of three hours per placement. May be repeated for additional credit; no more than six hours may be applied to degrees. Co/Prerequisite: all lower division business core courses and consent of department's intern coordinator.
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Theory, general principles and practice required to initiate and manage a small business successfully. The development of policies, methods, and managerial strategies to accommodate the rapidly changing business environment is studied. Co-/Prerequisite: 313 and junior standing.
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Study of the objectives and techniques of the finance function of the firm. Financial ratios, cash budgets, break-even analysis, leverage, quantitative tools, security evaluation, cost of capital, capital budgeting, working capital management, sources of capital for expansion, and evaluation of the capital structure are studied. Prerequisites: ACC 223, MTH 163 and junior standing.
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Back in April I wrote with much enthusiasm about my visit to Aces and Ales, just east of the Boulder Highway on South Nellis Blvd:
There are lots of places in Las Vegas to drink beer and play video poker, but this one in particular is worth a special trip.
So, when I heard that they opened a new location in Summerlin (opened on Jun 21, 2013) I just had to check it out!
The new location at 2801 North Tenaya Way is not a carbon copy of their original location, but they got the important stuff right. There's comfortable seating, friendly staff, an amazing selection of reserve, limited and other hard to find craft brews in the fridge and enough flat screen HDTVs that you can easily catch a game or three no matter where you choose to sit.
I went for their House Mac and Cheese ($9.50) for comparison (I loved this dish at the original Aces and Ales). I was not disappointed. It arrived in the skillet it was cooked in, just like at the original Aces and Ales – and was just as creamy and delicious. We also tried an order of their Arrogant Bastard Fried Zucchini (no longer on their menu), which had a similar batter to their fantastic onion rings, but with a little extra spice. There were three sauces to tame that spice… ranch, blue cheese and marinara. I thought the marinara was the best match. I can't say they are quite as good as the onion rings, but we did clean our plate.
So what's different about the new Aces and Ales? Well, I didn't see a pool table or any video games. Instead, they do have a nice outdoor patio for when the weather is a bit less oppressive. The music is a bit more diverse, covering everything from Lady Gaga to Johhny Cash while we were there. The new location is bigger, brighter and feels a bit more upscale. The happy hour specials didn't carry over from the original bar, so you'll still have to go to South Nellis for that burger and a beer special I raved about from 12-3.
Oh, and there's one other little change. Fifty taps! That's easily twice as many as you get at the original location, and the beers they put on them are just as special. They've got a great selection of popular craft brews from the likes of Stone, Deschutes and Lagunitas, plus a selection of local Las Vegas brews from Big Dogs, Tenaya and Joseph James. There's plenty to choose from whether you're looking to try something new or indulge in an old favorite.
And just like the original, they change the taps and clean the lines regularly. Unlike the original, you can watch them do it. The kegs and lines are on display inside a cool glass case near the entrance that reminds me how much I want to set up a kegerator at home.
Looks like Las Vegas has another great beer bar!
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Macks Creek ceases to exist as a municipality. Camden county commissioners voted to pass the resolution officially disincorporating the city of Macks Creek on Thursday, August 16.
The resolution made its way to the commission following the Aug. 7 election when over 69% of voters elected to dissolve the city.
The resolution appointed Charles McElyea as Macks Creeks' trustee.
McElyea is expected to visit the village on Tuesday to determine what the assets and liabilities are and to dispose of any assets.
He hopes there is enough assets generated to pay off debts.
Camden County Presiding Commissioner Kris Franken said that the process will begin once all of the initial discovery of the state of the city's affairs has been determined and the best progression towards finalization of the dissolution has been determined.
The land that once was the city of Macks Creek is now unincorporated much like county land in Montreal, Hugo and Decaturville. The roads will now be maintained by the county.
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Career Accolades: Three-time Ivy League champion (2009, 2010, 2012) ... 2012 first-team All-Ivy ... 2012 Academic All-Ivy ... 2011 honorable mention All-Ivy ... Played in 25 career games and started all 20 over his final two seasons.
2012: First-team All-Ivy ... Academic All-Ivy ... Started all 10 games at right tackle for the second consecutive season ... Protected blind side of quarterback Billy Ragone, who finished career second in program history in total offense ... Blocked for two rushers who finished in the top 10 in the Ivy League in rushing ... Penn had a 100-yard rusher in each of its final three games ... Penn finished third in the league in rushing offense (149.4 ypg).
2011: Honorable mention All-Ivy ... Started all 10 games at right tackle ... Two Penn players finished in the top 10 in the Ivy League in rushing ... Blocked blindside for quarterback Billy Ragone who finished with the fifth-best offensive season in program history (2,284 yards of total offense) ... Penn allowed the third-fewest sacks in the league and finished third in the Ivies in scoring.
2010: Played in five games for the Quakers, including each of the last three ... Also saw time in season-opening win over Lafayette (Sept. 18) and in win at Bucknell (Oct. 9) ... Penn led the Ivy League in fewest sacks allowed (fourth in the nation) and rushing offense (sixth in the nation) ... The Quakers also led the league in total offense and scoring offense.
2009: Did not see any varsity game action.


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5 Victims of Horrible Crimes (Who Got Sued by the Criminal)
Lots of "frivolous lawsuit" stories tend to be overblown -- what seems like a ridiculous and petty suit turns out to make sense when examined in its proper legal context. But even though no more than 80 percent of the Cracked staff has law degrees, we're pretty sure the following lawsuits -- in which criminals sued their victims -- are about as bad as things get.
Sure, most of them didn't win, but you still have to stand back in awe at the sheer balls it takes to follow through on lawsuits like ...
#5. A Man Sues His Hostages for Breaking Their Promise Not to Call the Cops
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We're fond of telling people they should quit while they're ahead. Well, in Jesse Dimmick's case, he was never really ahead, not once. But he still should've quit.
Back in September of 2009, Dimmick was a murder suspect who was running from the police, with some degree of success. Unfortunately for him, the tires on his stolen car were flat due to the police stop sticks he'd run over during the chase. So, needing a place to lay low, he got out and banged on the door of Jared and Lindsay Rowley, a pair of newlyweds. Figuring that if he was going to go on a crime spree, he might as well go all the way, Dimmick took the couple hostage.
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"Hi! I'm Murderer, and I'll be your host this evening on the Newlywed Game!"
At this point the Rowleys were able to gain Dimmick's trust by feeding him a nutritious and delicious meal of Cheetos and Dr. Pepper. The trio then settled in to watch Patch Adams (no, really), and Dimmick dozed off. The Rowleys called the cops and they captured Dimmick, shooting him in the process. Look, real world criminals aren't exactly Dr. Moriarty, OK?
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To be fair, the victims struck first, suing Dimmick for $75,000 in damages. Dimmick, on the other hand, felt that not only should they not sue him, but he was the real victim here. He countersued for $235,000, claiming that they reneged on an oral deal to not call the cops on him.
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Dimmick claimed they agreed to hide him in exchange for money and movie reviews.
Dimmick represented himself in court, since no actual lawyer wanted to do so. Shockingly, he lost, since:
- Making someone sign a contract under duress (verbal or written) is, well, totally illegal.
- The "wording" of the contract stated that the Rowleys would not call the cops after he left. Since he never left, they were totally in the right to call whomever they wanted.
- Fuck him.
After the case was dismissed, Dimmick tried again, this time suing the Topeka police department for a cool $435,000 over the gunshot wound he sustained during the attack. He claimed that he suffered from digestive problems, depression, and suicidal thoughts that were definitely unrelated to his new home in jail. He also claimed that he had recurring dreams of girls calling him a "monster" because of his scars. Yes, scars. That's it. Not the murder and kidnapping, no. Just the scars.
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"Monster" might have been a term of endearment. Scars are sexy.
Dimmick actually managed to get himself a real live lawyer this time around. And it totally paid off, as he ... still lost. Oh. Well, it was good for the lawyer anyway, who still got paid and all.
#4. A Home Invader Sues a 90-Year-Old Man Who Shot Him in Self-Defense
One of the most satisfying genres of feel-good news stories are the ones where a young would-be criminal attempts to attack, mug, rape, or kill a really old person, only for that really old person to unleash pure hell, laying a smackdown on the ungrateful whippersnapper that they will never forget. One of the quickest ways to ruin such an awesome story is for the whippersnapper to then turn around and sue the old person for beating and/or shooting the living shit out of them.
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They beat us in strength and agility, but the elderly are no match for our skill with paperwork.
Such is the case of Samuel Cutrufelli, a drug addict who, in January 2012, decided to solve his woes by finding a random home, kicking the door off its hinges, and ransacking the place for valuables. Cutrufelli soon learned that Jay Leone, the 90-year-old owner of the home, was present at the time. Taking him to be a mere feeble-minded nigh-centenarian, Cutrufelli took Leone hostage and ordered him not to move.
Leone, however, was a World War II veteran and former deputy sheriff, and he was incredibly uninterested in complying. In typical nagging-old-people fashion, Leone repeatedly pestered Cutrufelli about having to use the bathroom. Cutrufelli, deciding that witnessing an old guy shit himself was not how he wanted to spend his afternoon, allowed him to go. Shortly thereafter, Leone returned from the bathroom with a .357 revolver, pointing it right at the burglar. Cutrufelli, not backing down, opened fire on Leone and hit him in the jaw.
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Leone had taken the gun from the toilet tank. He'd left the cannoli; he had diabetes.
At this point the old man came to his senses and ... actually no, he totally fired back. Cutrufelli, finally remembering that his spirit animal is a scaredy cat, begged Leone to spare his life, pleading, "Don't kill me, I've got a daughter!" Leone, being a kindly old gentleman at heart, responded by emptying his weapon in him anyway. He even provided a classic line for the movie about his life that desperately needs to be made: "Fuck you! Pow pow pow pow!"
Despite being shot three times, Cutrufelli still rushed Leone and pinned him to the ground. He grabbed Leone's gun, put it to the old man's head, pulled the trigger, and ... found it was out of bullets. Cutrufelli resorted to Plan B: He ran out the door, called the police, and claimed that he had shot himself. He was then taken to a hospital and arrested right on the spot, because it turns out calling the cops to tell them you shot yourself makes no goddamned sense.
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Speaking of not making sense, Cutrufelli later sued Leone, claiming the old man had "negligently" shot him, and that he did so because he was jealous of Cutrufelli for visiting one of the ladies in Leone's house. Since Leone, you know, hit him exactly as he intended to do, what he did was actually the exact opposite of "negligent." Also, since Cutrufelli had fired the first shot AND tried to rob the man AND held him hostage, the judge bought his argument even less.
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Cutrufelli remained optimistic about his final "veterans suck" argument.
Not only was the lawsuit thrown out, but Cutrufelli was quickly sentenced to 86 years to life, the life part tacked on just in case he lives to be 120 years old.
#3. A Man Steals from His Job and Sues His Boss for Way More
Admittedly, it wasn't exactly a Bernie Madoff-scale scam: British floor fitter Mark Gilbert decided to make a check from the business out to himself, just to see what would happen. Well, what happened was his boss, Simon Cremer, found out and flipped his shit. While he could have merely called the police, he instead decided to take the "shame and humiliation" route. Cremer and Gilbert marched to the police station, with Gilbert forced to wear a cardboard sign around his neck that read "THIEF I Stole 845 POUNDS AM ON MY WAY TO PoLice Station."
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The fabled "Queen's English" that we all emulate.
Gilbert admitted the crime to the authorities and was let off with a warning. Cremer did not pursue it any further and was content to fire Gilbert for being a dirty thief.
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Gilbert, however, was not satisfied. He sued Cremer for lost wages, trauma, mental damage, and a pathological fear of all things cardboard. Now, we're aware that it's not actually legal for citizens to go around imposing their own public shaming on criminals, as that sort of thing can go wrong in a hurry. But that's not what the lawsuit was about. It was about Gilbert having a shitty life after being publicly humiliated for stealing and then getting fired. In short, he stole from his boss and now wanted to sue his boss. We all know by now how such a stupid piece of frivolity will inevitably pan out ...
The fuck? HE WON? Yes, Gilbert ended up receiving 13,000 pounds from Cremer, over 15 times the amount he originally stole. Admittedly, the victory came after Cremer agreed to settle out of court, but he very likely knew he was screwed, what with the whole "false imprisonment" thing Gilbert's lawyers would almost certainly bring up time and time again. Plus, once he realized it would have cost him over 25,000 pounds in legal fees just to fight this thing, he decided that tapping out and letting the thief win was the only logical choice.
Not that he liked having to do it. Cremer was quoted as saying "I think it's absolutely disgusting that he was even able to sue me ... he stole from me, yet he is the one walking away with the money." Such a sore loser.


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If I have WiFi enabled and 3G data disabled, does it save any battery relative to having both WiFi and 3G enabled? With WiFi enabled, I didn't know if 3G enabled would make any difference since it wouldn't be used.
Short answer: yes.
It depends on the currently enabled Wi-Fi sleep mode. By default, Android disables Wi-Fi when your device goes into a sleep. In this case, 3G is the remaining mode of network communication, and it gets used by Gmail/Gtalk push notifications, etc. Obviously, this network communication takes its toll on your battery time. If you disable 3G you'll save some battery, but your device will be completely offline while in sleep.
However, if your Wi-Fi is "always on", your 3G will never be used, so it doesn't really matter if it is on or off. However, "always on" Wi-Fi is a big battery drain by itself...
Update: Note that sleep modes and sub-system energy consumption differ from phone to phone. Moreover, 3G energy consumption varies greatly, depends on which background services are enabled, proximity of the cellular tower, etc. I haven't seen any "authoritative" documentation on this subject.
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I have a Huawei U8510-1 (Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread) and when I got it my battery was having a low duration between recharges.
After some tests, by disabling and enabling stuff, the battery cycle started to last more, about 2x more, with the 3G disabled. For me was great since I always use WiFi.
But this was not enough, the battery cycle still given me a short period of time, forcing me to recharge the phone more or less every two days.
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It works and really makes a difference. Now I charge my phone one, max two times a week, depending on the usage. :)
So, by my personal experience, disabling 3G even if it is not being used, helps saving the battery life, but doesn't make that much of a difference compared to an APP solution.
Related reading on this subject:
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Simple Definition of comply
: to do what you have been asked or ordered to do
Full Definition of comply
intransitive verb
1 obsolete : to be ceremoniously courteous
2 : to conform, submit, or adapt (as to a regulation or to another's wishes) as required or requested <comply with federal law> <the devices comply with industry standards>
Examples of comply in a sentence
I asked the waitress to refill my coffee cup and she happily complied.
There will be penalties against individuals who fail to comply.
Origin and Etymology of comply
Italian complire, from Spanish cumplir to complete, perform what is due, be courteous, modification of Latin complēre to complete
First Known Use: 1602
Rhymes with comply
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: to act in agreement with another's wishes or in obedience to a rule <Everyone complied with the request.>
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Let $f$ be continuous on the sufficiently smooth boundary $\partial D$ of a domain $D \subset \Bbb R^n$.
Is the Poisson integral of $f$, $$ Pf(x)=\int_{\partial D} f(t) \frac{c_x}{\left|x-t\right|^n}dt, $$ with $c_x$ an appropriate constant, always a solution to the Dirichlet problem?
I know the general solution of the Dirichlet problem is given in term of the Green function.
But I can't decide if, for arbitrary domain, the Green function is always the Poisson kernel or not.
As the Poisson kernel is an approximation to the identity, I guess the answer is yes.


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7 Random Things You Won't Believe Are Shortening Your Life
Most "tips" for living longer are pretty obvious stuff: eat healthy, don't work too much, stay fit, go on lots of vacations, maybe don't be a popular rock musician aged 27. It turns out that not only are some of these popular beliefs full of shit, but the real longevity indicators are things you probably wouldn't guess in a hundred years, even if you managed to live that long.
#7. Starting School Early Gives Kids a Head Start (On Death)
Starting kids in school as early as possible sounds like a great idea for a number of reasons: it works their brain muscles at a crucial point in development when they're rapidly learning, teaches them to socialize with other kids and, most importantly, gets the little bastards the hell out of the house for a few hours.
Daddy needs his "pretend my life isn't ruined" time.
They might complain about getting up early and doing homework, but they'll thank us when they're older ... or if they're older. We say that because an extensive 90-year study found that kids who start school really early live shorter lives.
Researchers think the fact that kids are developing so fast at that age is exactly why it's a terrible idea to start them too early. There's a huge difference between 5- and 6-year-olds; on average, 6-year-olds are going to be much bigger, and 5-year-olds much less socially advanced. Throw them into the same classroom and they're going to find it hard to relate to each other in a way that doesn't involve the taking or giving of wedgies.
"You deserve this because you're different from me."
By analyzing the lives of thousands of test subjects from the 1920s onward, the researchers found that being ostracized as a kid leads to lifelong emotional problems, which leads to unhealthy behavior, which leads to a shorter lifespan. In fact, starting age is so important that you don't even have to be a full year younger than your classmates to be screwed for life. In countries like Australia, Norway and the U.K., where there's a mandatory starting age, the kids whose birthdays fall in the summer are less likely to get good grades and go to college than their classmates. All because of when their birthday is.
"You kids can achieve anything, unless you were born in July."
So if you want your kids to get a head start on everyone else, bear in mind that you're also giving them a head start on dying (starring Steven Seagal). But hey, at least we're talking about a thing you can change. Unlike ...
#6. Being the Oldest Child Means Dying the Youngest
There are several disadvantages to being the youngest son: You are clothed with everyone else's hand-me-downs, you get less attention than your brothers got when they were your age and you live in a house where practically everyone else can kick your ass. But as your brothers rub their saliva-soaked fingers in your ears and punch you in the shoulder, one thing you can always hang over their heads is that you're less likely to get cancer of the balls. A recent study concluded that older sons have a much higher risk of getting testicular cancer than their younger brothers.
So take advantage of that edge in size while you still can.
The study analyzed over a million men in the Danish Cancer Registry and found that later-born sons were 20 percent less likely to get this type of cancer than most people, as opposed to firstborn sons, who have a 25 percent higher chance of having their balls attacked by the big C than their brothers. Other factors didn't seem to make a difference, so apparently this is something that's settled in the womb.
The theory is that the first son gets the pristine uterus, and so gets bathed in larger amounts of estrogen, which, being the opposite of testosterone, doesn't exactly agree with your balls. The good news is that the survival rates for testicular cancer are around 95 percent, so relax. No, seriously, please relax, because another study says that if you're a firstborn, you're also more likely to die from a heart attack.
Look, kittens. (Don't die reading this article.)
A similar study found that firstborns have a much greater chance of developing coronary heart disease, and this one goes for both men and women. Of the 348 CHD sufferers included in the study, 49 percent turned out to hit leadoff in the familial batting order. Unlike the cancer thing, this has nothing to do with their mom's womb and everything to do with the fact that, scientifically speaking, oldest siblings tend to be assholes.
"That's right, son. Mommy's next try will be exactly like you, only 30 percent less shitty."
Researchers think that firstborns are more likely to develop "type A" personalities, and aggressive perfectionists tend to be unlucky in the heart attack sweepstakes. And speaking of which ...
#5. The Bigger Your Butt, the Longer Your Life
Want to beat heart attacks? Have a larger butt.
A recent study found that if a woman has a "pear-shaped" physique, then she has less of a chance of suffering from metabolic and heart diseases. It's not just a matter of buying a crate of Fritos and sitting on your ever-expanding ass for a week; rather, it's about having a genetic predisposition to grow fat on your butt and thighs instead of your stomach and other places.
You can save time by just adding fatty food directly to your butt.
Oxford's Dr. Konstantinos Manolopoulos studied the properties of the type of fat stored in large posteriors. Manolopoulos (Greek for "cannot lie") discovered that this specific type of fat is better at permanently absorbing fatty acids, keeping them away from your arteries and lowering the chances of them getting clogged. What this adds up to is that women with "the big butt gene" are less likely to die from heart attacks.
The same study concluded that Jennifer Lopez will outlast the heat death of the universe.
Manolopoulos also found that body fat in the lower half of our anatomy (which he inexplicably failed to call "booty fat") releases beneficial hormones that fight diseases like diabetes.
The fact that middle-aged men tend to gain weight in the waist and middle-aged women tend to gain it in the thighs might explain why men are more likely to have heart attacks than women. Meanwhile, the fact that rappers tend to desire big old asses might explain why Sir Mix-A-Lot was so apologetic about liking big butts. Singing a song mocking girls without life-expectancy cushions in their back pockets is just mean.
Above: A scale replica of Methuselah's ass.
#4. Frequent Flyer Miles Earn You a Trip to an Early Grave
Rich people generally have it made when it comes to life expectancy. You need a six-figure budget if you want to shop at one of those earthy grocery chains that sells nonprocessed fresh food. Those of us on more modest budgets are just thankful Taco Bell now comes wrapped in a big Dorito, since it allows us to hit the two most affordable foods for the price of one. And it probably can't hurt that rich people get to spend weeks decompressing on tropical vacations while we get to vacation at the least polluted body of water within driving distance.
Good ol' Lake Syphilis.
Actually, vacations are one way the 99 percent get to cosmically even the score with the rich guys jet-setting around the globe. It turns out that if you're a frequent enough flyer, your jaunts to the tropics come with the benefit of large doses of radiation.
And it's not even the good, spider-related type of radiation.
Every time you fly in an airplane, your body is exposed to a small amount of radiation that can add up over time and, in some cases, increase cancer risk. And no, this has nothing to do with those new scanners they use to take a peek at your junk. Those are perfectly safe. We're talking about cosmic radiation. As in the kind that stars and the sun are constantly bombarding our planet with.
"Take that, you dicks."
Most of it gets filtered out by the atmosphere by the time it gets to you on the ground, but at a high altitude it's much more potent: According to radiation expert Robert J. Barish, if you fly more than 85,000 miles a year, you should qualify as a radiation worker.
That means that if a businessman has to fly from New York to Tokyo once every couple of months, he's absorbing more radiation than most people whose jobs are to work with radioactive equipment.
But with worse food.
And if flying is not just a part of your job, but the whole thing, you have it even worse: According to the statistics, pilots and flight attendants are more likely to die of cancer. Airlines in Europe are required to inform crew members about the dangers of in-flight radiation, but not in the U.S. ... as if the Fantastic Four somehow gave us all the impression that cosmic radiation is harmless.
Dammit, Stan Lee.
Being higher than everyone else isn't always harmful, however ...


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After a long period of dormancy, I hope to beging updating the site again over the course of the 2011 calendar year, though work will progress slowly.
Note that some of the sections above are more complete than others. Definitions, links, and other features in each section will continue to appear as I work on turning the Guide to Theory into a text-based introduction. This site will, therefore, be under continual construction and expansion until January 2012.
Click here to read Elaine Showalter's discussion of my web material in Teaching Literature. Click here for her interview with me on her Teaching Literature web site. Prof. Showalter, Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities at Princeton and former president of the MLA, has an entire chapter in her book dedicated to how best to teach theory in the classroom, a great place to start for anyone looking for ideas. Click on the image of the book on the left for the amazon.com link.
To Users of the previous Guide to Theory:
Everything that existed in the previous site also exists on this site (albeit with modifications). That includes the readings of Spenser's Sonnet 37 and 74, which you can find under the Applications section of Gender & Sex, Marxism, New Historicism, and Psychoanalysis. As a second application, I have in each section included a reading of the Dürer image associated with that section of the Guide to Theory. (The Dürer interpretations under New Historicism and Gender & Sex, however, are still under construction.) You can also click on the rhino above.
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I prefer the sidebar setting
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When not using the
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The other day I spied a five-day-old unsliced baguette in my kitchen and satisfyingly kneed it in half. I put more force into it than was necessary, but it felt good, even though my jeans were temporarily showered with crumbs. I wasn't in a bad mood. I was just curious as to how hard the bread had become after the stale point. After that carb-rate (say it like karate), I set my sights on the second baguette I didn't use for a cheese tasting, one that I'd sliced on the edible day it was born. I had plans for this zombie baguette. [Read more…]


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7 TV Ads That Take Themselves Way Too Seriously
#3. Dunlop Tires
This 1993 commercial features the Velvet Underground in the soundtrack, and upon first viewing it you'll probably have trouble telling it apart from an actual music video.
But examine it carefully, and you'll soon spot all of those classic tire commercial elements: Women in surreal costumes...
... random bursts of flames...
... pianos cruising down the road and tumbling off of bridges...
...some strange orc like monsters...
... and what appears to be a sumo wrestler spreading ball bearings.
The motto at the end of the commercial states that these tires are "tested for the unexpected," implying that no matter what comes your way while you drive, your bitching Dunlop tires can handle it. Look, if your morning commute involves any of the items on the above list, you have problems far, far beyond what brand of tire you currently employ. So the next time you're driving down a road covered in ball bearings and you almost get pulled over by a woman with a birdcage on her head, don't think about switching tire brands. Just get the fuck out of town.
#2. Halo 3
Again, we have another product where the method of advertising should be pretty simple. The Halo series is mostly powered by brand name anyway. All that really needs to be done is to slap together a few gameplay clips and air them for a couple of days for the benefit of the three gamers who haven't heard of the series.
Instead we have a faux-war documentary featuring someone impersonating a BBC narrator and a man who looks a little too old to have any idea what he's advertising.
"I remember taking a bullet at Normandy... Uh, I mean, at the Halo 3."
The touching scene takes place at the vaguely named Museum of Humanity, which based on the opening shot of the commercial is a giant building dedicated entirely to one tiny diorama. While using a diorama to show the scale of the battles seen in the game is kind of a neat idea, it quickly loses its appeal when you actually play Halo 3 and discover that your comrades spend half the game getting gunned down uselessly and the other half playing bumper cars with you while you're trying to drive places. So in retrospect, it's hard to view this commercial as anything other than a memorial to Master Chief's "special" comrades.
Along with the other commercials in the series, this marketing campaign cost about $10,000,000 to create. The amount of income brought in by convincing people who otherwise weren't going to buy the game to purchase it? About zero.
#1. Apple Computers
Let's say it's 1984, you've just started a computer company and you want to compete with the giant of the industry, IBM. Do you (A) make a simple yet eloquent commercial that shows off the advantages your new product has to offer, or (B) hire Ridley Scott, give him just under a $1,000,000, order him to direct an homage to George Orwell's famous dystopian novel while only vaguely referencing computers, and then air that Frankenstein monster during the Superbowl?
If you picked A, then congratulations, you're a normal human being. If you picked B, you're Steve Jobs. You're also completely insane, but you're probably too busy building a house made entirely of gold bricks to care.
For reasons beyond our understanding, this commercial is considered one of the greatest ever made, and also one of the most influential. We guess there's something about watching Anya Major throw a sledgehammer through a giant television screen that really speaks to people.
Feeling the urge to go buy a new computer, aren't you?
But one group of people this ad didn't speak to were those in charge of the George Orwell Estate, whose legal actions made sure that this commercial would never again be aired on television.
So, we've got lawsuits, and public praise and public outrage. All of this is made retrospectively less important when you realize that the technology everyone was making a big fuss about...
...was this.
For more strange commercials, check out 6 Baffling Old-School Video Game Commercials. Or just go ahead and relive your worst nightmares via the ads in 10 Awesome Ads (For Traumatizing Children).
Then go to Cracked.com's Top Picks to rinse the stench of commercial failure of your skin with stuff from the Internet that doesn't come from us (we know, we're shocked also).


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If someone is giving Shiur in the same room as people Davening, do the people learning answer Baruch Hu Uvaruch Shemo and Amen to the Hazarat HaShatz?
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Answering to the Shaliach Tzibur is a sign of loyalty to Hashem and the Klal. You affirm that what they are saying is true, and that what they are doing is valid. You even attach yourself to their prayers, benefiting both you and the people praying.
By not responding, you are in effect saying that really you don't care about the klal, and only care about yourself.
Shouldn't be necessary. Better to focus on Talmud Torah.
For those who can't listen to the shiur, you should know that Rav Shlomo Zalman Aurbach rules in Halichot Shelomo 9:6 that one does not even need to stop to answer kaddish or kedusha when learning by oneself, let alone when participating in a shiur!
I once asked a Rov regarding the Halacha of what to do in 770. There is one official Shacharis/Mincha/Maariv minyan ("the main minyan") and there are also side minyanim taking place under the Woman's section throughout the day. Between the "side" minyanim and the "main" Beis Medrash are mechitzos to avoid this issue
However, there are times when people (inappropriately) make their minyan in the "main" Beis Medrash.
My question to him was if I have to answer Amen/Barchu/Kdusha. He said that one really should if possible.
You would have to answer (see Ateret Paz 1:3: Hoshen Mishpat:14:1).
I just looked up the Ateret Paz which Hacham Gabriel cited and he does not say that you have to answer. He brings a citation from Salmat Chaim who ultimately rules that you don't have to answer.


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Various meats can be "cooked" using lemon juice. But how does lemon juice actually "cook" the meat?
Let's start with a definition of cooking.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines to cook as:
However, from a chemical point of view, what happens when you are cooking meat is that you are using heat, amongst other things, to denature the proteins of the meat. Denaturation can also be achieved by other means, such as marinating the meat in an acid, such as citric acid (contain in lemon juice) or acetic acid (contained in vinegar).
You can also use other agents to induce denaturation, but they are not always fit for eating.
However, it is important to understand that from a purely cooking perspective the two things are not the same: "cooking" with lemon (I guess it is fine to use the verb to cook as long as you put it in quotes), gives a completely different result than cooking with heat. This is because other chemical reactions happen during application of heat and because, obviously, you do not end up with an hot product!
During cooking, heat, amongst causing other things like the Maillard Reaction, denatures (changes the structure of) proteins in meat. Acid is also a denaturant, and so affects the proteins in the same way.
However, a mild acid like lemon juice isn't strong enough to kill bacteria, and it of course only affects the parts of the meat it can reach: consider something like beef carpaccio - when you slice it, you can see that only the surface layer has been denatured. There is also no Maillard Reaction, which is extremely important for both flavour and colour.
Cooking is only through the application of heat.
Since stomach acids can't kill 100% of pathogens, who is crazy enough to believe lime or lemon juice can?