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#2. Physical Illness
You know what the worst thing about having terminal illness is? Oh sure, dying is terrible and all, but even worse is people offering unwanted and often stupid medical advice. This is actually how many people with terminal illness come to terms with the end, because they realize they will at least have rest from all the people offering advice.
It's a very effective way of having the last word.
When author Christopher Hitchens got cancer, he found himself drowning in advice from well-meaning fans. The loopier ones suggested he try granulated essence of peach pit, testosterone supplements, opening chakras by meditation, eating macrobiotic or vegan diets, and even freezing himself cryogenically. Others suggested specific doctors or clinics all over the world that were the only ones that could save him.
Hitchens didn't mention how many people tried to recommend Dr. House, but probably a depressing amount.
Even people with chronic, non-terminal illnesses get this. One lady earned herself a "what the hell is wrong with you?" from a nationally syndicated advice columnist.
It seems like it should be really obvious that pestering someone with plugs for alternative medicine or telling a story about how someone you knew died horribly of what they have is not something most sick people would welcome.
"Oh, my mom had that. It turned out to be a parasite and exploded out of her chest cavity."
But still, people keep going up to strangers and offering cures from herbs to ox-blood to New Age chants, because they see a person with a cane and think they know the exact cure for... having a cane. Like the author of that article suggests, probably a lot of the reason that well-meaning people do this is because they're scared at the thought that there are terrible diseases out there that can't be "fixed". They want to believe that life makes sense and you can live to a ripe old age as long as you use the right cheat code.
"Squats twice a day, everyone, and soon you'll be right as rain."
Other people just have trouble figuring out how to talk to someone with cancer or a chronic illness, especially since everyone's different, but it's really not that complicated, you ask them. They're human beings and can tell you. Maybe they've got a macabre personality and actually enjoy hearing stories about people dying horribly, who knows.
#1. Mental Illness
So say someone -- a close friend, a co-worker, a random stranger on a forum -- tells you that they've been having some hallucinations, black out sometimes, are feeling depressed, and find themselves lashing out at people.
(Or paparazzi.)
Do you:
a) Tell them they're just stressed out and they're making a big deal over nothing.
b) Pull out your DSM-IV and diagnose them with Borderline Personality Disorder or another disease.
c) Diagnose them, then prescribe medication.
If you picked any of those choices and didn't consider telling them to see a professional, you have Clinical Armchair Psychologist Syndrome (DSM-IV-TR, 2000) and recent studies recommend 2-5 self-administered slaps to the face until the symptoms wear off.
Slaps should be delivered just hard enough to knock off your sunglasses.
Don't feel too bad, it's a pretty common disorder, especially on the internet, which is really weird considering that's the place where you would have the least information on the people you're diagnosing. One possibility is that on the internet, people's description of their problems is in text form, which makes it easier for us to make a pattern-recognition link with that psychology article or textbook chapter we just read. Also, people cloaked in internet anonymity usually feel freer to go into more detail about mental symptoms they'd normally be ashamed to talk about in person, giving the armchair psychologists more ammo to work with.
"This is the only way I can get off now."
The opposite side of the coin from people who want to slap an official DSM label on every unusual behavior are people who belittle serious symptoms. You see this most often with depression, which way too many people seem to think means "feeling sad." They hear someone talk about how they've been diagnosed with clinical depression and come in with, "Yeah, I know what you mean, I've been depressed before, when my turtle died."
It was a solemn day.
They'll belittle any suggestion of you going to a therapist or taking medication, because they didn't need any of that to get over their turtle. You just need to start thinking about all the people in Africa that are worse off than you (they don't even have turtles to be sad about), and then you'll be grateful for what you have and ditch your pity party. Never mind that actual depression is a diagnosable condition that can be caused by physical chemical imbalances and deep-seated mental issues. No, you just need to man up and shake it off.
Anyway, there is one piece of unsolicited advice that I will give to you: next time you want to give someone some advice about something, maybe think twice about whether you're being a dick about it.
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Money and communications:
Facilities include a bank, bureaux de change, ATMs, postal services and telephones (some with data ports). 24-hour Internet kiosks are located around the airport, and Wireless Internet access is also available.
Eating and drinking:
Refreshment facilities include fast-food outlets, a bar and grill, various restaurants, delicatessen, sandwich shop, bakery store, pizza restaurant, bars and cafés and a coffee shop.
There are many shops at the airport, including duty-free.
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It would help me much if you can answer only one of the two questions bellow:
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Please keep in mind that I've got the problem when I changed the "Window Theme" not the "Shell Theme" in the Themes tab in the "Advanced Settings"


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I just checked my server's
/var/log/auth.log and found that I'm getting over 500 failed password/break-in attempt notifications per day! My site is small, and its URL is obscure. Is this normal? Should I be taking any measures?
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In today's internet this is quite normal sadly. There are hordes of botnets trying to login to each server they find in whole IP networks. Typically, they use simple dictionary attacks on well-known accounts (like root or certain applications accounts).
The attack targets are not found via Google or DNS entries, but the attackers just try every IP address in a certain subnet (e.g. of known root-server hosting companies). So it doesn't matter that your URL (hence the DNS entry) is rather obscure.
That's why it is so important to:
Additionally, you can install fail2ban which will scan the authlog and if it finds a certain amount of failed login attempts from an IP, it will proceed to add that IP to
In addition to the SSH attacks, it is also becoming common to scan your webserver for vulnerable web-applications (some blogging apps, CMSs, phpmyadmin, etc.). So make sure to keep those up-to-date and securely configured too!
A few 100 is just fine... Last month I found one of my servers had 40k failed attempts. I went trough the trouble of plotting them: Map
Once I changed the ssh port and implemented Port Knocking, the number dropped to 0 :-)
I for one use a "tarpit" in addition to only allowing public key authentication and disallowing root logins.
What that does is, that every attempt to connect to port 22 is listed by the
To list or delist IPs use:
This rate-limits the attempts to 5 in 300 seconds. Please note that users with an existing connection are not bothered by that limit, because they already have an established connection and are allowed to create more (even above the rate limit).
Adjust the rules to your liking but make sure that they be added in that order (i.e. when adding then use them in this order, when inserting then in the reverse order).
This cuts down the noise immensely. It also provides actual security (against brute-forcing) unlike the perceived security of changing the port. However, I'd still recommend changing the port if it's feasible in your environment. It will cut down the noise level a lot as well ...
You can still combine this with fail2ban, although I've been running just fine without it and only the above rules.
It is possible to lock your self out doing this, so you can add something like the following that lets you clear you ban by knocking on a particular port:
You could implement fail2ban, or similar methods like locking SSH to your IP. Sadly bots attempt to bruteforce access all the time so it is quite normal, you need to make sure you have a good password.
Yes. It's quite normal nowadays.
Please use only public key authentication for administrative purposes if possible. Generate a private key on you workstation:
Copypaste the contents of ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub to you servers ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (and /root/.ssh/authorized_keys, should you require direct root login).
Configure your servers /etc/ssh/sshd_config to only accept public key authentication:
If you have too many servers, you can use Puppet to run public keys and configurations to them.
Look into Denyhosts and fail2ban to block repeated SSH login attempts and see Snort if you require full IDS/IPS.
use http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/
and yes, you should use public-key authentication and disable password auth.
The attempts are mechanized, so the numbers seem OK (yes they are high compared to some sites and the low compared to others). You should take the steps you normally have to: You consider your sites as attack targets every day, even when you do not detect an attack; not detecting an attack, does not mean it does not exist.
I'd say only getting only 500 is kind of low.
At a previous employer, one of the computer security researchers called the constant stream of break-in attempts the "internet equivalent of cosmic noise". He described it as a normal, continuous flow of malicious traffic that was searching for systems on the internet and automatically exploit scripts to attempt to hijack the system. Bot-nets and other malicious systems would perpetually scan and rescan the internet for vulnerable systems much like SETI.
this is common, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't fight the good fight. Here are some steps on how you can make your server more secure.
Avoid DNS associated IP addresses
You can greatly reduce this number in shared or colocation environments by disabling SSH access on any IP addresses associated with domain names. Unlisted non-domain IP addresses will receive less of this type of traffic, so buy an unlisted IP and only use this IP for SSH access.
Use a VPN for all SSH access
If you are in an environment in which you can implement IPsec/VPN to a private network within your server environment, this is ideal. Disable all SSH Internet access, make sure you have an integrated lights out solution. Setup your VPN, and only allow SSH access from your VPN.
Implement IP address rules for SSH access
If the VLAN isn't an option configure your router, or firewall rules to only allow SSH connections from a known IP address range.
If you follow these steps you will sleep much easier in the night knowing someone would have to compromise your hosting companies network to gain access to the server through SSH.
Pretty normal to see hundreds of failed SSH connections.
If you have the option, I simply change my SSH port to something non-standard. It doesn't necessarily make your server any more secure, but it sure cleans up the logs (and lets you see anyone deliberately trying to break in!)
In addition to using an automated lockout mechanism like fail2ban you have one more option: actually contact the abuse address ISP of the attacker. It may seem completely futile but in the case of the script-kiddie their ISP is more than willing to take action on them.
To find the abuse address, start with arin.net and lookup the IP address using whois. You may be redirected to another regional registry but eventually you can find the responsible ISP for the IP block which contains the address. Look for the abuse@ address or just mail the technical contact.
Send them a polite message with the relevant log file entries (make sure to remove any private information) and ask them to take action against the offending host.
I would recommend not using fail2ban but running SSH (and others) on a non-standard port. I don't believe in security by obscurity but I think that this is an excellent way to reduce the noise in your logs.
Failed logins on non-standard ports will be few and far between and can also indicate more targeted attacks.
You could even go a step further an install a SSH honeypot such as Kippo to 'let in' the bruteforcers and see what they would do given the chance.
Yes, it's normal. What I tell clients in your situation with small websites.
Always be prepared to be hacked.
Have a copy of your website on a dev server. This can be your Windows desktop using XAMPP which you can get for free.
ALWAYS make changes to your dev server then upload them to your live website. If it is a CMS like Wordpress, make your posts on the dev server then copy and paste them into the live server.
NEVER download anything from your live website to your dev server.
Monitor your webpages regularly for any changes that you did not do. Specifically, hidden links to drugs or 'enhancement' products. You can find lots of browser add ins and programs that will do this for you.
If you are compromised. Notify your host, delete everything, change all passwords and upload your clean dev server to the now empty webserver. Work with your host to prevent a recurrence.
You should not need a security team for a small site. That is what your host is supposed to provide. If they do not, then get another host which is much easier to do when you have a dev server rather than trying to move the live server.
Hope this helps.
Another way of stopping it (as I personally don't like to move the SSH port): decide if you are able to list all networks from which you'll ever want to login, then only allow these to access your SSH port.
WHOIS entries of local ISPs helped me to reduce attacks to 1-2 login attempts a month (back then it was about 1k/day). I detected those by still using denyhosts.
In addition to the other excellent suggestions you've already received, I also like to use the AllowUsers directive if appropriate for the given server. This allows only specified users to login via SSH which greatly reduces the possibility of gaining access through an insecurely configured guest/service/system account.
Yes, it is normal. You can :
Fwknop is the one of the better port knock implementations because it is not spoofable and actually authenticates as opposed to just authorizing a connection.
This will protect password based attacks and the possibility of a determined attacker / targeted attack compromising your admin machine and stealing your ssh-key & password combo.
Just look at the latest pwn2own comp to see how easy it is for a skilled attacker to compromise your fully patched admin box.
Sadly this is quite normal. You should consider adding something like fail2ban to your system to automatically detect and ban the attackers. If you don't already do so you should also consider only using ssh with public keys and don't allow root login over ssh. If use ftp to transfer files to the system, consider using scp/sftp instead.
I implemented port knocking, and have a few probes per day. They don't get a connection, so they go away. I log and report all access to the ports involved.
I have also run fail2ban with Shorewall as a firewall to temporarily blacklist persistent attackers.
If you don't need Internet access to SSH disable it. If you have a few known addresses which need remote access, limit access to those addresses.
Limiting access to authorized-keys can also be helpful.
I use
Another plus is that
It's completely normal these days.
The last one is the easiest one. On heavy loaded machines such break-in attempts can heavy really bad influence to whole system.
Yes it's normal.
I just changed the ssh port away from the standard 22. My server, my rules :) just edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config, change the port and restart the service. The only down side is that you must remember to add that port to configuration to every ssh client you use.


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How can I make sublime text 2 respond to
txmt url scheme in ubuntu? This has been possible in OSX through subl-handler and in Windows through SublimeProtocol.
How can I make sublime text 2 respond to
[I see you have asked this question on both SO and AskUbuntu, so I answer here too, but don't know if one of these shouldn't be closed]
I asked me the same question today, seeing the txmt protocol with "better_errors" gem for Rails.
I search a long time but found nothing, so I tried to make it by myself.
I write an article and my blog, but I copy it here, for "future-proofness" :
Step 1
Create the file
Step 2: Update the MIME-types database
Step 3: Create the ~/bin/sublime-handler file
Then make it executable :
Step 4: Test a txmt:// file
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Dear colleagues,
Can anybody explain me if a category of (associative) rings is co-well-powered (this is the MacLane definition, in Russian literature this is called "locally small from the right side")? I mean, it is well-powered, of course, since for any ring A one can easily find a skeleton in the category Mono(A) (of all monomorphisms with values in A) and this will be a set (the set of all subrings in A). But is it true, that it is co-well-powered, i.e. for any ring A there exists a skeleton in the category Epi(A) (of all epimorphisms from A into other rings) and is this skeleton again a set?
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Is it prudent to fully charge my sniper rifle in most cases? If an enemy gets up close, am I better off trying to scope-n-shoot, no-scope, or try some other weapon?
It depends on the particular target you are going for.
For a Heavy, often times you need to charge up, even if you are going for a head-shot.
If, however, you are going for a faster enemy (e.g. a scout or medic), your best bet is to go for one uncharged headshot, or two quick body shots.
And finally, charging up when you don't have an enemy in sight is usually a good strategy, because you can usually one-shot any non-uber'd enemy with a full-charged head-shot.
This info from the TF2 Wiki seems pretty relevant to your question.
The only classes that you can't kill with a zero charged headshot with the sniper rife are Solider, Pyro, Demoman and Heavy, with each of these requiring 17%, 9%, 9%, and 50% charge for a one shot (headshot) kill.
Also worth noting that you can oneshot kill (bodyshot) a Scout, Engineer, Medic, Sniper and Spy with a 100% charge if you think it's a better bet than the head.
All of this goes out the window if a medic is charging, but the above link has info on that too.
Personally I no-scope when they are really close or it's a scout. Otherwise I try to scope them with a headshot. I'd say I get fairly decent results, but not great.
I'd love to see some other sniper responses here, as I'm not totally confident that's the best method.
It is for this reason that I personally prefer to use the Huntsman. It has a faster charge up, but smaller zoom.
I would say do a quick scope uncharged headshot if the scout is going to get close to you, I would go for that than regular body shot.
An acceptable strategy:
This keeps you out of scope most of the time, allowing you better situational awareness and target-picking. This also depends on what KIND of sniper rifle/bow you have, whether or not they know you're sniping, whether or not they're being overhealed/ubered, the skill of the player you're sniping at, and whether or not the Soldier/Demomen know how to rocket/grenade jump.


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1972 Chevy Pickup Truck Gauge Replacement - What's Up, Doc?Written by on February 1, 2007 Doc's Kustom And Dolphin Instruments Help Keep A Finger On Your Truck's Pulse
Nothing's worse than playing the guessing game, unless you're on a game show, but when it comes to your truck's lifeline, don't take chances. Gauges that don't work or aren't there are a very bad thing; the old adage "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" comes to mind. If only you knew your motor just lost oil pressure or was so hot a head gasket or worse was about to blow. Even if your truck isn't going to win best of show, wouldn't it be nice to make it to the show?
Many classic trucks out there are work/play vehicles, and we can relate. The '72 Chevy that's been the subject of a few tech stories recently is still very much a work in progress, but a driver nonetheless, and its stock gauges weren't cutting it. Even with a few upgrades to the drivetrain, the motor still hasn't been rebuilt and has who knows how many miles on it at this point. The dash is the one area the driver stares at the most, and it should be treated as such.
Since the stock gauge panel was worse for the wear and had a hole cut in it for a temperature gauge, we figured its time was up, too. Doc's Kustom specializes in billet dash panels for almost anything and happens to be good friends with the guys over at Dolphin Instruments, so they team up quite a bit to offer complete packages. For '67-72 Chevy trucks, Doc's makes a glovebox door to match their gauge panel to really set things off. After talking to Doc on the phone about what we were looking for, something that resembled a stock gauge panel more than a billet one, he said no problem. One-offs are their specialty, and the panel would be built to use Dolphin's six-gauge package with the 5-inch speedo and tachometer, much like the original GM fully instrumented dash layout. And just to prove that thinking outside the box is a good thing, we took Doc's gauge panel and glovebox door one step further before installing it (which worked out great, but voids any return possibility). We have a lot to cover, so let's get started, and don't be afraid of electrical projects! If we can do this, so can you!
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Here's our Dolphin mechanical six-gauge set with white faces and polished stainless bezels. All the Dolphin gauges come with fuel, oil, and temperature sending units.Doc says one-off gauge panels are his specialty, so I asked him to leave out the ball-milled grooves and put a border around the perimeter of the gauge panel and glovebox door to mimic the stock pieces, which he gladly did.What I'm about to do next will void returning the panels to Doc and falls more under our new DIY column, but it should make these pieces stand out even more. I masked off the outside perimeter and followed it up with another layer of masking tape, because I'm going to bead-blast the center of both pieces. Follow along.The directions say to lay down three heavy coats and wait 10 minutes between each coat. I took the tape off after I blasted them, then masked them off again with new tape just in case anything got disturbed in the blasting cabinet.Here's why I did all that preliminary work-wrinkle finish paint! After this is done I'm hoping it'll have a stock-type black wrinkle finish in the center with the bright edges, which could be polished if you want to take this a step or two further. Look at craft stores for this paint, since the auto parts store will look at you funny when you ask them for it.Like a kid at Christmas, I couldn't wait very long to take the tape off, which actually worked out well since there were a couple little spots that bled under the tape that I had to clean up with a rag and thinner. The paint will begin to wrinkle after two to three hours.The next morning I couldn't wait to check it out, and I was pleasantly surprised by the results. It was just what I hoped it would be.With my now twice-customized panels ready and looking good, it was time to remove all the stock parts. The OEM gauge panel was looking pretty shabby, without much of a hint of the plastic chrome around the outside. It was faded and sported a few cracks here and there, plus it housed the bare minimum in instrumentation, which always leaves you wondering. Now would be a good time to disconnect the battery.
There's nothing too tricky when it comes to removing the old gauge panel. This filler piece under the column had to come out. Loosening the two column mount bolts underneath will drop the column down and out of the way, which will help avoid scratches during reassembly.To get the headlight knob out of the switch, you have to reach up under the dash. With the knob pulled out like the headlights are on, push this little spring-loaded button down and pull the knob the rest of the way out.The stock dash wiring is actually pretty simple. This connector plugs into the back of the gauge panel to provide all the necessary power and leads to the sending units via the printed circuit.Someone got the holesaw out at one time to add this temp gauge, which has wire coming from a ground, the sending unit, and an ignition power source.Since the new gauge panel from Doc's is flat, these bumps in each side of the dash that the headlight and wiper switches mount to need to be cut out. They stick up about 3/4 inch and prevent the new panel from sitting flush with the dashboard.With a big gaping hole in the dash, it doesn't look like we've done much to make things better at this point, but hang in there, the fun's about to begin.I knew I'd be busy with wiring for a while, so I scuffed up the steering column and gave it a quick makeover so it wouldn't look out of place amongst the new gauge panel and glovebox door.Holding in the new panel are these set screws that are installed with an Allen wrench. The clips in the dashboard that hold the screws in from the old gauge panel need to be pried off so these can go through those same holes.
With all the gauges in, here's the panel's backside: pretty basic at this point. I labeled which gauges were which with a marker so I wouldn't have to keep flipping it over to look.I actually picked up all this stuff halfway through the story due to the frustration of not having the right stuff. Plan on spending $30-$50 on wire and connectors depending on what you already have on hand. The different-color 18-gauge wire was well worth the investment.Each gauge needs a power supply from the ignition switch that provides the juice only when the key is turned, so in the neatest order I could I ran a wire connecting each ignition terminal together like so.Every gauge also has a light that needs power from the headlight switch so they are lit up when the lights are turned on. Since there's a wire sticking out of each gauge (two in the speedo) and no terminals, I grouped two or three together and put a male to female connector on them, then continued that until there was only one wire to connect to the truck's wiring harness.The electric tachometer is easy to hook up. It has a ground, ignition power, light power, and one wire that goes to the negative side of the coil. Again, this got a male to female connector. I put these on everything going into the truck's wiring harness in case the gauge panel ever has to come out; there's nothing hard-wired together that would need to be cut.The wire from the tach to the negative side of the coil was pulled through the firewall close to the coil.Everything in the dash needs to be grounded-each gauge and each light. Some people simply ground everything to the mounting posts on the gauges and figure the panel will ground to the dashboard, and that may work, but I wasn't gonna find out. Electrical stuff is kinda like hieroglyphics to me. I have to think really long and hard about it all, and it made sense to me to run ground wires to the sheetmetal behind the dash, one for the gauges themselves and one for the lights for good measure. Like the ignition power wires, the grounds were hooked up the same way.Here's where the real fun began-deciphering the stock harness! I got a wiring diagram for the stock harness-try Brothers Truck Parts-and that was all fine and dandy, but now I had to figure out how to read the schematics! After a few hours with my thinking cap and a test light, I got a clue as to what's what. Left to right on one side of the connector are the instrument panel lights (two gray wires), right turn signal (dark blue), left turn signal (lt. blue), high beam (lt. green), voltage dummy light (brown), and ignition power (pink).
All the wires will get cut in the end and the plug totally severed, but I'd recommend doing one wire at a time if you're as prone to Murphy's Law as I am.Here's how the side with the empty terminal wound up: male to female connectors on the oil and fuel sending unit wires and butt connectors to cap off the dummy light wires that won't be used. I was unsure at this point about where I was going to hook up the ground wire, but I eventually capped it too in favor of going directly from the dash to a bolt through the sheetmetal under the dash.All the wires on the other side of the plug went to their respective locations at the new gauges, and since that aftermarket temp gauge already had a wire going to the sending unit, I used it. It might look a little out of hand, but actually everything is hooked up at this point and ready to go. I routed all the wires from the gauges to the right side of the dash. They all went in at a common spot so there weren't wires going all over the place. Notice all the male to female connectors just inside the dash opening on the right; they are clustered together for easy access in the future.Double-checking to make sure there were no loose wires or connections, I checked to make sure at least the lights would work before I buttoned everything up, and they did! The rest of the gauges powered up too, aside from the speedo, which is still cable driven. Sweet! The wires from the plug for the turn signal and high beam indicators were connected to the power wires on their LED lights, while their grounds were run with the rest of the gauges.With the steering column loosened up, I put a rag over it to protect its new paint. I put the new gauge panel in place while being careful that no wires got caught up anywhere in the process.I thought I was done for a minute and then remembered the glovebox door had to go on. This was the easiest part of the whole job and took about five minutes. There are four screws that are taken out on the outside of the hinge and two that mount the arm that stops the door on the right.


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netflix frustrates me sometimes, their search engine's a joke...and they don't get any of of the new Made on Demand issues that the studios have been producing.
I am looking at trying http://www.classicflix.com/ they only feature films made before 1970 -
i was most impressed with their catalog, they pick up all the Print on demand stuff
and you can actually search it by decade, studio etc...
Their rates seem a little high, ($9 per month for 1 at a time unlimited)
but it may be a way to taste-drive obscure releases i wouldn't want to buy on spec.
any other options out there beyond Netflix?


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"The exhilarating (1931) score for Bacchus et Ariane teems with life and is full of rhythmic vitality. What a marvellously inventive and resourceful score it is! Tortelier offers the best version yet and the BBC Philharmonic play with tremendous zest... This magical score weaves a strong spell. Splendi recording and performances of rewarding and colourful music that deserves to be more widely heard..."
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I am trying to start my own Fallout RPG campaign and am new at this and at GMing in general. I can't figure out what starting gear and stuff the PCs should get. I've looked around for a GM guide or an equipment book that might tell me, but I can't find anything like that. How are starting items determined in Fallout RPG?
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I can see why you're confused! Having gone over the PDF, it completely lacks any discussion of how character get equipment at the beginning of a campaign. So, this answer comes from my experience with the Fallout video games the Fallout PnP rules are emulating, reading between the lines of the rules, and from other post-apocalyptic RPGs.
There are three ways to handle starting character equipment:
The game rules are very open-ended, and are designed to make a wide variety of characters and starting situations. To that end, you have lots of latitude as the GM to set up your PCs with the gear they need or to keep it from them so that they have to go get it. That's the adventure, that's the game.
SevenSidedDie has the gist of it.
I started a Fallout campaign a while back, and I pretty much told them that they could pick 1 ranged weapon (with 2 full clips or equivalent), 1 melee weapon, 1 armor, and whatever odds and ends seemed appropriate. Plus 1d20 caps. Since I wanted to play with weapon condition, all weapons had also taken 1d6 boxes of damage.
Since I told them to pick, I didn't actually have to bother putting together a list or anything. I just vetted their gear after they had picked. Of course, any gear that wouldn't fit with their concepts would have been overruled. And concepts with expensive gear would have been overruled.
I gave my characters the weakest weapon I could find, but in their most powerful fighting category. For example, a player who had a high Small Guns skill got a bow and 5 arrows, a player who specialized in throwing got a sharp stick.


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CHESTER - As his trainer Kellyn Gorder said, Take It Like a Man "has won six races with six different jockeys at six different tracks." And the colt will try raising those totals to seven in each category in Tuesday's $85,000 Sophomore Sprint Championship at Mountaineer Casino Racetrack and Resort.
Take It Like a Man is the 5-2 morning line favorite in the Sophomore Sprint field of nine. He has won five of his last six starts, the most recent being a 1-length triumph in the $400,000 Researcher Stakes at Charles Town on Sept. 21.
The Researcher victory was Take It Like a Man's first career stakes score.
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FAVORED — Take It Like a Man is the morning line favorite for Mountaineer's Sophomore Sprint.
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On April 17, he won for a $30,000 claiming tag at Keeneland. Take It Like a Man has ascended the ladder, so to speak, and at Mountaineer on Tuesday he'll have a chance to add the credential of "multiple stakes winner" to his list of accomplishments.
He will be ridden by Deshawn Parker, who has become the perennial leading jockey at the Hancock County track. Parker won last year's Sophomore Sprint aboard Captain Genius.
In 2012, Parker piloted another Gorder trainee, Bourbon Courage, to a second-place finish in the Grade 2 West Virginia Derby. Over the years Parker has ridden 63 starters for Gorder with 25 wins.
Bred in Kentucky, Take It Like a Man is by the sire Run Away and Hide, who was undefeated in three starts during a brief racing career. He clocked a stakes-record time when winning the 2008 edition of the Grade 2 Saratoga Special, which was a 6 furlong event.
Backatem, the dam of Take It Like a Man, won the 8-furlong Three Ring Stakes at Calder at age 2. Speed at the top of the pedigree; middle distance credentials on the bottom; it's a proven formula to produce a sprinter who closes. And that's Take It Like a Man has become.
Take It Like a Man was twice sold at auction. He fetched a $20,000 price as a yearling at the Fasig-Tipton pavilion in Lexington, Ky., and a $27,000 price in Florida as a 2-year-old.
His owners are Lynn and Lola Cash, a couple in the roofing business who are newcomers to the Thoroughbred world, and have recently purchased a 30-acre farm on Leestown Road in Woodford County, Ky.
"Take It Like a Man is one of the first three horses they bought," said Gorder. With $339,915 in purse earnings, the colt has already returned more than 12 times what the Cashes paid for him.
Gorder stables Take It Like a Man at Keeneland. "He trains best on the synthetic surface there," Gorder said, "but he races best on the dirt. He's a big colt, but a little on the narrow side - if you look at him sideways, he reminds you somewhat of a fish."
Besides Charles Town and Keeneland, Take It Like a Man has won at Fair Grounds in New Orleans, Indiana Downs, Churchill Downs, and Ellis Park in western Kentucky. The Sophomore Sprint is a six-furlong event, and Take It Like a Man's resume includes six prior efforts at that distance, from which he's gained three wins and two placings.
"He can come through on the rail, and he can circle the field," said Gorder. "He's won numerous times on a fast track, and at Charles Town he won on a sloppy surface."
The 2014 live racing season at Mountaineer will run March 1 through Dec. 20. It will be the 64th year of racing. Mountaineer will offer 210 race cards, all but one of which will have a 7 p.m. first post. The exception will be the Grade 2 West Virginia Derby card, which have a 2 p.m. first post on Aug. 2.
Racing will occur five days a week, Saturdays through Wednesdays.
"We're eliminating our Friday cards and are adding Wednesday cards in their place," said Rose Mary Williams, director of racing at Mountaineer. "The change was made to increase our wagering handle. We believe that Wednesdays will provide us with a better position than Fridays in the simulcast market. Thursdays and Fridays will be our dark days in 2014. Mountaineer will also be closed on Thursdays in regards to training."
There will be no live racing on April 20 due to Easter. Nine races will be offered on each card from March through September. Cards will expand to 10 races beginning Oct. 1.


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Financial report can be viewed
The Toronto City School District financial statements are available for public view. Copies can be obtained by contacting Cheryl Vukelic, treasurer, at Toronto City Schools, 1307 Dennis Way, Toronto, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays.
Fire department releases report
The Toronto Fire Department had a total of eight calls for the month of November with an average manpower turnout of eight members. The calls included two building fires; one cooking fire; one brush fire; one carbon monoxide incident; one lockout; one odor investigation; and one animal rescue.
The department had several members participate in live burn training on Nov. 10. Several members of the department also participated in a training session held at the station on Nov. 16.
Members of the department also provided fire protection and security for the fireworks presented on light-up night.
Activities at First Presbyterian
Sunday - Worship service begins at 11 a.m. The children's Christmas play will be presented during the service. A fellowship time and visit with St. Nick will follow.
Tuesday - The church council meeting will be at 6 p.m. in the north conference room.
Wednesday - Chancel choir practice is set for 7 p.m.
Activities at Riverview UM church
Upcoming activities at Riverview United Methodist Church include:
The church office is open from 8 a.m. until noon Mondays through Fridays. For information, call (740) 537-2210.
The Toronto Unit of the Salvation Army located in the Riverview Church is available from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. For information, call (740) 537-4737.
Events set at North River Avenue
Sunday - The worship service begins at 9:45 a.m. At 10:45 a.m., the junior church worship service meets in the junior area downstairs. The service is for ages 5 to fourth grade. Sunday school begins at 11 a.m. The youth group meets at 6 p.m. The evening meditation service begins at 7 p.m.
Monday -The Boy Scouts will meet at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday - Bible study will begin at 7 p.m. in the overflow room opposite the sanctuary. Adult choir rehearsal will follow at 8:15 p.m.
Dec. 24 - The Christmas cantata, presented by the choir, will be at 7 p.m. The theme will be "Child of Hope."
First UM Church plans activities
Dec. 21 - Take Off Pounds Sensibly meets at 9 a.m.
Dec. 23 - Sunday school will begin at 9:30 a.m.; the rise and shine contemporary service will begin at 8:30 a.m.; and the worship service begins at 10 :45 a.m. There will be a Christmas program during worship featuring the Ringing Angels.
Dec. 24 - The Christmas Eve cantata begins at 10:45 p.m.
Events at Toronto Bible Methodist
Sunday - Morning Sunday school, 10 a.m.; service, 11 a.m.; evening service, 6 p.m.; weekly Bible study, 5:30 p.m.
Salvation Army Toronto Unit prescription assistance program
Those between ages 18-64 who have no prescription drug insurance can call (740) 537-2210 for assistance. A team of volunteers will help clients apply for low-cost or no-cost medications. The free program has been providing assistance since 2002 at the Riverview United Methodist Church, 105 N. River Ave. Assistance is provided on the first Thursday of each month from 10 a.m. to noon. The entrance to the church is handicap accessible.
Those age 65 or older and who have no prescription insurance are eligible for the program.
This is not a distribution center for medications, but a volunteer-based program that assists in filling out paperwork and sending in necessary applications to drug manufacturers. Once approved, clients begin receiving medications directly from companies in six to eight weeks.


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Tow truck driver arrested for Oak Creek car theft
Oak Creek - When your vehicle gets towed, it never ends well. But for one alert truck owner, a clandestine tow ended with the arrest of the tow truck driver.
According to the Oak Creek police report:
A man called police after he saw a tow truck, with no lights on, tow his truck away from the former Black Diamond grounds, 124 E. Rawson Ave., about 8:45 p.m. Feb. 21. When the tow truck left the lot, the caller followed it to the Mobil station at 13th Street and Rawson Avenue.
Police arrived at the gas station the same time as the drivers and questioned both. The caller provided police with proof of ownership of the truck.
The tow truck driver, a 26-year-old Waukesha man, gave the officer conflicting information about who had authorized the tow and could not provide any documentation that the tow was legitimate.» Read Full Article
Bicyclist cited for vandalism after road rage incident in Oak Creek
Oak Creek - A 29-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for breaking the mirror on another driver's car during a road rage incident Feb. 20.
According to the Oak Creek police report:
A driver called police after she unintentionally cut off a bicyclist while he was riding in the right lane of traffic in the 2000 block of West Ryan Road about 4:15 p.m. Feb. 20. The bicyclist followed the driver into the lot of Shell Gas, 2170 W. Ryan Road, where he confronted the woman about her driving. An argument ensued, and the bicyclist smashed the mirror on her car with his hand.
The bicyclist then attempted to get on a city bus at the Ryan Road Park and Ride. However, the driver and her husband, who was a passenger in the car, asked the bus driver to wait until police arrived.
When police arrived and questioned the bicyclist, he told police he believed he was almost struck by the woman's vehicle when the woman passed him in the right lane so he followed her to the gas station to confront her. When the driver disagreed that she had cut him off, the bicyclist got upset and punched the driver-side mirror on her vehicle, causing it to break.» Read Full Article
Franklin police make arrest in 2010 robbery, assault of elderly man
Franklin - An elderly Franklin man who was assaulted and robbed in his driveway on Christmas Eve, 2010, will have his day in court after a two-year investigation by the Franklin Police Department culminated an arrest this month.
Police arrested a 27-year-old former Greendale resident, Jake Breitzman, Feb. 8. He was charged with robbery by use of force in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on Feb. 13 and is in custody awaiting trial.
According to the Franklin police report:
The robbery occurred at 9:10 p.m. Dec. 24, 2010, when Breitzman allegedly approached an elderly man in his driveway in the 7500 block of South 77th Street and struck him on the head with a closed fist, knocking him to the ground. He then stole a purse containing $700 the man had just won at Potawatomi Bingo and Casino in Milwaukee.
A neighborhood canvass by police revealed there was an older, light-colored pickup truck leaving the area driving backward down the street without its headlights on about the time of the incident. However, police were unable to find the vehicle or the suspect.» Read Full Article
Your snow photos: It's back and it's beautiful
With another round of snow Tuesday, people across Southeastern Wisconsin snapped photos of the messy drives and the serene surroundings.
Here are some of the best photos that people shared on social media.
Hales Corners police seek suspect in Payday Loan robbery
Hales Corners - Police are looking for the man who robbed EZ Money Payday Loans, 5620 S. 108th St., Feb. 21.
According to the Hales Corners police report:
A man wearing a black ski mask walked into the business at 6:40 p.m. Feb. 21, held open a bag and told the employee to fill it with money. The employee put an undisclosed amount of cash into the bag and the man ran out.
No weapon was displayed during the robbery.
The man is described as a 6 feet tall, white, weighing about 200 pounds and wearing a tan coat and blue jeans.» Read Full Article
Two vehicles stolen in Franklin recovered in Milwaukee
Franklin - A car stolen from a local gas station Feb. 15 and a truck stolen from a local auto dealership Jan. 20 were recovered in Milwaukee within the past week.
According to the Franklin police report:
The Milwaukee Police Department contacted Franklin police at 2:55 p.m. Feb. 19 after they recovered a 2009 Infiniti G3 that had been stolen from Speedway, 10001 W. Church St., about 8 p.m. Feb. 15. The owner had left it running while he went inside for a coffee.
Police found the vehicle, along with the keys, parked outside a residence in the 3000 block of North 35th Street. The driver-side bumper was damaged and the front license plate was missing.
An investigation revealed a 16-year-old Milwaukee boy had driven the stolen vehicle to the Milwaukee location; he was arrested for driving a vehicle without consent of the owner.» Read Full Article
District 1, 2 aldermen to host listening sessions
Oak Creek - District 1 Alderman Dan Jakubczyk and District 2 Alderman Dan Bukiewicz will hold listening sessions in March.
Bukiewicz's listening session will be held at the Oak Creek Public Library, 8620 S. Howell Ave., from 6 to 8 p.m. March 4. Residents citywide are invited to come and ask the alderman about ongoing city initiatives and events.
Jakubczyk's listening session is focused more on Drexel Town Square and will be held from 9 a.m. to noon March 16 at Oak Creek City Hall, 8640 S. Howell Ave. He will provide cookies and coffee.
Franklin police make arrests after sending SWAT officers
Franklin police arrested a 28-year-old man who made threats to harm himself Sunday afternoon.
SWAT officers were sent to a home in the 7100 Block of S. 47th Place in Franklin after the man refused to answer the door shortly before 11 a.m.
The man later surrendered. Police also arrested a 46-year-old woman on an outstanding warrant.
WIAA Individual Wrestling Championship photo gallery updated with title matches
WIAA individual state wrestling tournament crowned its champions yesterday in Madison and MyCommunityNOW has updated photojournalist Peter Zuzga's state wrestling tournament photo gallery with images from the championship rounds.The
Photo gallery: WIAA state wrestling photo gallery
Story: Arrowhead's Andrew Crone wins another individual title
Key's heroics come against old coach
For most of the first half on Friday night, West Allis Central sophomore guard Brandon Key was definitely out of his comfort zone.
Central was playing against defensive-minded, methodical Oak Creek in a WIAA Division 1 regional semifinal game, and the slow pace - as indicated by the 16-12 halftime lead for the Knights - was not to his liking.
"I'm used to a faster tempo," Key said, "and we started off slowly. The tempo was too slow for me, I like playing fast, and I had to adjust."
Central head coach David Mlachnik had a few words with Key at halftime.
"He was kind of frustrated in that first half," Mlachnik said. "I told Brandon at half, 'This is a game where you have to be mentally tough. Be patient; understand that you're not going to get a lot of touches, you're not going to get a lot of opportunities.» Read Full Article
Weymier plays hero as Whitnall edges Bay View in thriller
Danny Weymier was not about to let his senior season of Whitnall boys basketball end this early.
Weymier hit the go-ahead layup with 13 seconds left, had a steal on the ensuing Bay View possession and hit the front-end of a 1-and-1 as No. 5-seeded Whitnall earned a 75-73 win over No. 4-seeded Milwaukee Bay View in a WIAA Division 2 regional semifinal Friday night.
"At the four-minute mark (Whitnall) coach (Steve Kujawa) brought us in and said, 'Do you want your season to be over now or are you going to do something about it?'" said Weymier, who finished with a game-high 32 points, his third-straight game breaking the 30-point threshold. "I didn't see much (on the last drive). The last few times in I was actually expecting a call."
The Falcons (15-7) earn another shot at top-seeded New Berlin Eisenhower on Saturday.
Kujawa drew up the possession for Weymier, who helped bring the Falcons back from double-digit deficits in the second and fourth quarters.» Read Full Article
Cookpot-swinging woman cited for disturbance at Oak Creek home twice in about an hour
Oak Creek - A 46-year-old Cudahy woman who was removed from an Oak Creek home by police after she began throwing dog food and swinging a cooking pot at the residents returned to the scene within minutes of her release and started all over again.
According to the Oak Creek police report:
A resident in the 200 block of East Susan Drive called police and asked officers to respond to the home to remove a woman who was causing a disturbance and "tearing up the place" shortly after 5 a.m. Feb. 18. The caller stated the 46-year-old Cudahy woman had been intoxicated hours before the incident, but now was just "being a whack job," and said he wanted her out of his home.
When officers arrived, they questioned a second person, who stated the woman was throwing dog food, swinging a cooking pot at him and constantly arguing with everyone. Officers arrested the woman and took her to the police station, where she was booked and cited for disorderly conduct. She was released from police custody and she left the station in a taxi cab.
At 6:15 a.m., the resident called police again stating the woman had returned. Apparently the woman left the police station in the taxi, traveled back to the residence and entered the home, which was not locked, and yelled, "That didn't work too well, did it?" and began screaming obscenities at the residents.» Read Full Article
Man accidentally shoots girlfriend in the buttocks on Valentine's Day, police say
Oak Creek - A 24-year-old Oak Creek man was arrested for a weapons violation after he accidentally shot his girlfriend in the buttocks on Valentine's Day.
According to the Oak Creek police report:
The man called police about 5:45 p.m. to report he had accidentally shot his 21-year-old girlfriend in the buttocks with a 9-millimeter handgun. Dispatchers helped the man tend his girlfriend's wounds until police and paramedics arrived.
The woman was taken to the hospital. The report did not state the severity of her injuries but police confirmed they were not life-threatening.
After the man was questioned at the police station he was arrested on a state charge of endangering safety by use of a dangerous weapon.» Read Full Article
Michaels lifts Greendale past Cudahy
After a lackluster opening quarter against Cudahy on Tuesday night, the Greendale boys basketball team needed a spark.
The Panthers actually received two sparks in the second period, one from their defense and the other from guard Josh Michaels.
Greendale held the Packers to just four points in that quarter and Michaels tallied 11 himself to help stake the Panthers to a 33-19 halftime lead.
They went on to coast to a 62-45 triumph in a WIAA Division 2 regional quarterfinal contest, improving to 10-13 and earning a visit to Pewaukee at 7 p.m. Friday for a regional semifinal game.
Before securing the victory on Tuesday, though, the Panthers had to shake off the cobwebs of a slow start, especially on defense.» Read Full Article
Cold-shooting Greenfield eliminated by Park
A slow start signaled the end to the Greenfield boys basketball team's season as the Hawks fell 69-55 to Racine Park in the first round of the WIAA Division 1 tournament at Greenfield on Tuesday.
After Greenfield senior guard Ricky Santiago drilled a 3-pointer to open the scoring, the visiting Panthers closed the first quarter on a 13-0 run and never relinquished the lead.
"I thought both teams came out a little lethargic or timid at first, and we did dig ourselves a hole," Greenfield head coach Jack Miller said. "Usually, we are a better shooting team than we were tonight, but we did manage to come back a couple times."
That they did. After falling behind by as many as 11 points midway through the second quarter, the Hawks closed the gap to 24-18 on back-to-back layups by junior Josh Czerwinski and sophomore Jeremy Swider.
And after Park extended its lead to 30-18 early in the third quarter, the resilient Hawks rallied to within 34-33 when senior forward Sonnie Wilbert converted in the paint with two minutes left to cap a 9-0 run. The charge was sparked by Santiago, who scored nine of his game-high 22 in the period.» Read Full Article
Jakubczyk, Kurkowski win Oak Creek primary
Incumbent Alderman Dan Jakubczyk and challenger Steve Kurkowski won Oak Creek's aldermanic primary, defeating challenger Shawn Vollmer Tuesday.
The two won by a close margin, with Jakubczyk and Kurkowski garnering 155 and 110 votes, respectively, and Vollmer getting 101 votes.
They will square off in the April 2 general election.
Milwaukee man charged after having sex with 15-year-old Oak Creek girl
Oak Creek - A 23-year-old Milwaukee man is facing felony charges after he had sex with a 15-year-old Oak Creek girl he met through an online social networking site in October.
Matthew Elmore was charged Saturday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with two counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child and one count of possessing child pornography.
According to the Oak Creek police report:
Elmore was arrested Feb. 12 after receiving a call from the girl's mother Feb. 10 reporting her daughter had had sexual intercourse with a man she met on the website MeetMe.com in October. The mother told police the two conversed for several months before they engaged in sex on two occasions in mid-January.
Elmore's next court appearance is scheduled for March 4, for a scheduling conference.
Arrest made in connection to Oak Creek apartment burglaries
Oak Creek - A police investigation of two burglaries in the same apartment building led to the Feb. 15 arrest of an 18-year-old man who lives in the apartment complex.
According to the Oak Creek police report:
The investigation started when an apartment resident in the 100 block of East Field Stone Circle came home and discovered his Xbox gaming system and $350 worth of videogames had been stolen from his locked apartment between 7:15 a.m. and 5 p.m. Dec. 6.
On Feb. 14 police responded to the same apartment building after a resident reported more than $1,400 worth of electronics, including a flat-screen television, two gaming consoles, two hand-held gaming systems and numerous video games, had been stolen from his home between 7:45 a.m. and 3:40 p.m.
In both cases there were no signs of forced entry and no evidence was found at either apartment.» Read Full Article
Greendale Chamber of Commerce to host candidate forums
Those seeking to know more about their candidates are invited to attend the Greendale candidate forums hosted by the Greendale Chamber of Commerce and the League of Women Voters.
Two candidate forums will be held this year, one for Village Board candidates and the other for School Board candidates.
The Village Board candidate forum is slated from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. March 21. The School Board candidate forum will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. March 27. Both forums will be held in the Greendale High School multipurpose room, 6801 Southway.
All candidates have been invited and are expected to participate. The candidates will answer audience questions posed by a mediator.
For information, call Todd K. Michaels at (414) 423-2100.
Arrest made in Oak Creek shooting
Oak Creek police arrested a 24-year-old man in the shooting of a 21-year-old woman on Thursday.
The victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries in what police called an isolated incident in the 500 block of E. Towne Square Court.
Police said the case is being referred to the District Attorney's office for review of charges. The man arrested and the victim are both from Oak Creek, police said
Burglary suspect leads police on high-speed pursuit
A burglary alarm at a previously burglarized Oak Creek bakery resulted in a high-speed chase involving the suspect and an Oak Creek police officer, beginning on city streets and continuing on Interstate 94.
The suspect eluded in police in the Feb. 6 incident, but he was later identified as a 40-year-old Milwaukee man with past contacts with law enforcement agencies for theft and burglary. He is currently being sought.
According to police reports:
A security company called police at 4 p.m. to investigate a commercial burglar alarm at the electric room door at CSM Bakery Products, 7350 S. 10th St., which has been vacant for more than 10 months.
When an officer arrived, he saw a white Toyota Camry fleeing the site at high speed.» Read Full Article
Employee arrested for stealing motorcycle from Franklin business
Franklin - A 30-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for burglary after an investigation revealed he stole an $8,000 motorcycle from his employer's business during the overnight hours of Jan. 20, according to a Franklin police report.
Also in the report:
The owner of Speedway Auto Detailing, 6742 S. 112th St., reported that someone had forced his or her way into the business and stolen a motorcycle valued at $8,000 between the late evening hours of Jan. 20 and 8:50 a.m. Jan. 21.
During the investigation, police viewed surveillance video from a neighboring business that showed a U-Haul rental truck backing up to Speedway Auto Detailing the night of the burglary.
Police worked with U-Haul to determine who rented the truck, and found that it had been rented by an employee Speedway Auto Detailing.» Read Full Article
Franklin police investigate trailer break-ins at FedEx
Franklin - Someone jumped over a fence topped with razor wire so they could break into five loaded trailers at FedEx Freightways, 10613 S. 27th St., between the late evening hours of Feb. 9 and early morning hours of Feb. 10, according to a Franklin police report.
Also in the report:
The person broke the cast iron locking hook with an object, which allowed him or her to open the trailer door. An estimate of damage to the trailer doors was unavailable at the time of the report.
Two of the trailers were filled with pallets, one was filled with pamphlets for printing, one was loaded with refrigerators and one had end-cap displays for the DVD "Game of Thrones," including DVD games.
Nothing was stolen from any of the trailers.» Read Full Article
Oak Creek officer who was wounded at temple will attend State of the Union
Washington, D.C. -- Oak Creek Police Lt. Brian Murphy, who was shot repeatedly while responding to the Sikh Temple massacre last August, will be a guest in the first lady's box when President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address to Congress Tuesday night.
"It's kind of remarkable," Murphy said of the invitation."I'm extremely excited."
Murphy will join other guests whose presence is meant to underline the impact of policies the president is proposing, among them new measures aimed at reducing gun violence.
Murphy was critically wounded as he responded to the scene, struck by 15 bullets, and has been hailed as a hero for his courage under fire. Murphy is still recovering from his wounds and is on medical leave from the department.
Murphy, 51, said in an interview he is glad the issue of gun violence is being debated.» Read Full Article
Greendale robbery report results in arrest of victim and alleged perpetrator
Greendale - A 21-year-old Franklin man who walked into the Greendale Police Department to report he was the victim of a robbery is himself facing a charge of strong-armed robbery, among other charges.
The other party, a 26-year-old Greendale man, also is facing multiple charges, including robbery and drug-related allegations tied to the incident, which was reported at 1:55 a.m. Jan. 21.
According to the police report resulting from the subsequent investigation:
The Franklin man told police he picked up an unidentified man who flagged him down near Layton Avenue and Loomis Road and asked him for a ride home. When they got to the man's house in the 5300 block of Root River Drive, the passenger attacked him, punching him in the face, kneeing him and gouging at his eyes, the Franklin man claimed in a written statement. The man told police the subject then stole his cellphone and $80 before running into his residence.
When officers paid a visit to the Greendale man's resident to investigate, he told police that the alleged robbery victim had contacted him in order to buy 18 pills of Percocet for $120 and subsequently had driven drove to the Greendale man's residence, where the transaction was to take place.» Read Full Article
Germantown, Oak Creek retain top spots in Roundball Rankings
MyCommunityNOW/Lake Country Roundball Rankings with a 94-44 victory at Milwaukee Lutheran on Friday.The Germantown boys basketball team (18-0) kept a hammerlock on the top spot in the
The Warhawks, who have not lost since falling to Appleton East in the 2011 postseason, scored 36 points in the first quarter on the way to a 61-27 halftime advantage. They have won 46 consecutive games.
The Oak Creek (16-1) girls dispatched Racine Case, 55-40, and are considered a legitimate Division 1 title contender.
You can see the rest of the top teams in the area, the player of the week and more at the MyCommunityNOW/Lake Country Publications Roundball Rankings.
Waukesha buys option on land for Root River discharge
The City of Waukesha has an option to purchase 60 acres in Franklin on the east bank of the Root River should Waukesha succeed in its request to buy Lake Michigan water.
The property southeast of the intersection of Oakwood Road and S. 60th St. is one possible location for Waukesha to end a pipeline carrying treated wastewater so it could be discharged to the river and returned to the lake, Waukesha Water Utility General Manager Dan Duchniak said.
Waukesha paid $60,000 for a four-year option to buy the parcel, Duchniak said. The amount equals about 10% of the purchase price.
The city is asking each of the Great Lakes states for permission to divert lake water inland for its use.
If the eight states unanimously approve the request, the Great Lakes protection compact would require Waukesha to return most of the water to the lake in the form of treated wastewater. The Root River empties into the lake at the harbor in Racine.» Read Full Article
Oak Creek boys bounce back from tough losses, beat Bradford
Tuesday night hurt, there was no getting past that for the Oak Creek boys basketball team.
They had unbeaten in the Southeast Conference Racine Case on the ropes for what coach Mike Jossie called about "30-plus minutes" and then let the game slip away in the last 1:30 with some uncharacteristic mistakes in a 41-40 defeat.
"It was a real heartbreaker," said Jossie. "There were tears shed in the lockerroom after that game. We played so well, so disciplined for more than 30 minutes and even had an eight-point lead at one time in the second half, but we made mistakes and Case, to its credit, made us pay for those mistakes."
And that loss had been right on top of a difficult defeat to archrival Franklin just a few days before.
So Jossie needed to see if the resurgent Knights, who have played suffocating defense and smart, patient offense all this encouraging season en route to a 6-5 league mark and a 10-9 overall record, "could find their heart and passion again."» Read Full Article


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Earlier this year, about 30 young Peruvian women walked as many as 10 hours to gather in Urubamba, a village located just south of the Incan sanctuary of Machu Picchu in Peru's Sacred Valley.
The women, whose average age was 18, made the long journey to participate in the Visionary Leadership Institute, organized with the help of Abigale Stangl, a University of Colorado Boulder doctoral student.
Over 11 days, the young women, called "Visionarias," were exposed to intensive leadership training and each created a vision for sustainable development in their own communities that would be socially and culturally appropriate. The young women learned how to engage community leaders, assess local needs, and then begin building a "mindful and sustainable program from the ground up," Stangl said.
This year's institute was the second put on by The Visionaria Network, a volunteer-driven project born out of a deep commitment to service by eight locals. Of the eight, seven are CU-Boulder alumni, including Genevieve Smith who is a consultant with the United Nations Foundation's Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. Smith, whose earlier travels in Peru inspired this project, is also an alumna of CU-Boulder's Presidents Leadership Class.
Stangl and five of the other team members also are part of the Boulder New Generations Rotary Club, which is a pilot club for younger adults that was created as a satellite of the Boulder Rotary Club, and the project is supported largely through a Rotary Global Grant.
"We are a group of young professionals who are interested in the mission of service above self," Stangl said. "We wanted to work with these girls because they were already being supported to go into university through other organizations, but they didn't have a lot of the leadership skills they needed to allow them to come from these impoverished communities and succeed, both at school and when they return home."
The idea is to empower the Visionarias by creating a network of local women mentors, professors, and existing nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) with a foothold in Peru and then providing a forum for members of the network to come together and leverage their strengths. The Visionarias then design and implement projects to help their families and neighbors that can be readily supported by those groups.
The types of plans the Visionarias come up with might involve introducing clean stoves that avoid producing harmful smoke; using solar lights in place of kerosene lamps; or providing water filters and using education and communications technologies.
"The girls are creating projects involving those technologies by working in their own communities, discovering what people want, then creating a plan of action and carrying it out by working with various NGOs and mentors that can assist," Stangl said.
Determining how technology can best be used in developing countries—a task that requires listening carefully to the people who live there—is something Stangl was prepared for by the master's degree she earned in information and technology for development from CU-Boulder's Alliance for Technology Learning and Society (ATLAS) Institute.
"We learned to really work with communities to make sure that technology is being placed there in appropriate ways," Stangl said. "What the communities want determines how the technology is developed and adapted and also how it is designed from the ground up."
Even with her background, Stangl, who is now pursuing her doctoral degree at ATLAS, has learned a lot from the Visionarias and the experience has shaped the direction she hopes to go with her own research.
"It's been an extraordinary journey of learning leadership through collaboration," she said.
Her work in Peru confirmed that she wants to keep studying how technology can help people connect—how it can support them, aid them and allow them to change. Most recently, that mission has translated into a research project Stangl helped implement that prints children's books in 3-D, allowing visually impaired kids to feel what the book is describing.
The volunteers running The Visionaria Network—which along with Stangl are Genevieve Smith, Marika Meertens, Natalia Azarova, Paul Spurzem, Robyn Hazlitt, Chris Carruth and Kali Basman—are already laboring over next year's institute, putting in double-digit volunteer hours each week. The program has funding for three more years, and in recognition of the work they've already done, the network was recently recognized by the Boulder Rotary Club with its 2013-2014 Humanitarian Award.
"It's been so great to have the support of this international organization and the Boulder Rotary Club behind us,"Stangl said. "They believe in our dreams and they encourage and support us."
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Peter Zachar has a Ph.D. in Psychology from Southern Illinois University and is an Ida Belle Young Research Professor. He serves on the editorial boards of Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology; Journal of Personality Disorders; and Dialogues in Philosophy, Mental Health and Neurosciences. He is the co-editor of John Benjamin's Consciousness and Emotion Book Series and an Associate Editor for Emotion Review.
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SAC Baseball Championship Bracket FinalizedApril 20, 2014
ROCK HILL, S.C. – The 2014 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Baseball Championship bracket was finalized on Saturday, with regular-season champions Catawba and Wingate earning the top two seeds.
Catawba and Wingate each finished 20-7 in SAC games after their final conference series were rained out over the weekend. Catawba will be the No. 1 seed in the championship, however, by virtue of its 2-1 series win over the Bulldogs earlier this season.
Catawba is 27-16 overall, and Wingate is 28-14. The Indians' SAC title is the program's second-straight and ninth in program history, while WU's is the school's sixth overall and first since 2010.
In Thursday's SAC Championship first round, Catawba will play No. 6 seed Anderson, and Wingate will face off against fifth-seeded Tusculum. AU finished the season 13-16 in conference games, while TC went 14-14.
Thursday's final first-round matchup will pit No. 3 seed Lincoln Memorial – the event's defending champion – against No. 4 seed Newberry. LMU completed conference play at 16-8, and Newberry went 17-13. The Wolves have also won nine-straight games overall, the longest current streak in the league.
Every game of the SAC Championship will take place at McNair Field in Forest City, N.C. Opening-round play begins at noon on Thursday.
2014 Food Lion SAC Baseball Championship Schedule
Thursday, April 24
No. 1 Catawba vs. No. 6 Anderson, noon
No. 2 Wingate vs. No. 5 Tusculum, 3:45 p.m.
No. 3 Lincoln Memorial vs. No. 4 Newberry, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, April 25
Gm. 1 loser vs. Gm. 2 loser, noon
Gm. 1 winner vs. Gm. 3 loser, 3:45 p.m.
Gm. 2 winner vs. Gm. 3 winner, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 26
Gm. 5 winner vs. Gm. 6 winner, noon
Gm. 6 loser vs. Gm. 4 winner, 3:45 p.m.
Gm. 7 loser vs. Gm. 8 winner, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 27
Championship game, 1 p.m.
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Let $V_{\lambda}$ and $W_{\lambda}$ be the irreducible representations of $S(n)$ and $\mathfrak{su}(N,\mathbb{C})$ associated to the partition $\lambda \in \mathbb{Y}$ of size $| \lambda |=n$ and length $l(\lambda) \leq N$. The following limit $$\frac{\dim V_{\lambda}}{n!} = \lim_{N \rightarrow \infty} \frac{\dim W_{\lambda}}{N^{n}}$$ follows immediately from the well known hook (content) formulas $$\dim V_{\lambda} = \prod_{\square \in \lambda} \frac{n!}{h(\square)} \ \ \ \ \dim W_{\lambda} = \prod_{\square \in \lambda} \frac{N + c(\square)}{h(\square)}$$ which can be found in Macdonald's book. Notice that $n! = \dim_{\mathbb{C}} \mathbb{C}[S(n)]$ and $N^n = \dim_{\mathbb{C}} (\mathbb{C}^N)^{\otimes n}$, so what we're seeing is that as $N \rightarrow \infty$, the relative multiplicity of $V_{\lambda}$ in Schur-Weyl duality approaches the relative multiplicity of $V_{\lambda}$ in the regular representation.
Does anyone have a good feeling for why this is true?
Also, let us not forget the Peter-Weyl theorem! If for a compact group $G$ we write $G^{\vee}$ for its set of finite dimensional irreducible representations over $\mathbb{C}$, we have $$L^2(SU(N)) = \widehat{\bigoplus_{\lambda \in SU(N)^{\vee}}} W_{\lambda} \boxtimes W_{\lambda} $$ $$(\mathbb{C}^N)^{\otimes n}=\bigoplus_{\lambda \in SU(N)^{\vee} \cap S(n)^{\vee}} V_{\lambda} \boxtimes W_{\lambda} $$ $$\mathbb{C}[S(n)] = \bigoplus_{\lambda \in S(n)^{\vee}} V_{\lambda} \boxtimes V_{\lambda}$$
The limit we discussed above relating the second to the third line here actually also happens when we pass from the first to the second line: the ``relative multiplicity'' of $W_{\lambda}$ in its regular representation approaches the relative multiplicity of $W_{\lambda}$ in Schur-Weyl duality.
Can anyone give me some intuition for what's going on here + why I might expect such a result?


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