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WINTERSVILLE - The village recognized several first-responders at Thursday's council meeting.
Mayor Bob Gale honored village police Lt. Jesse Kosegi and Patrolman Chris Wright and Jefferson County Sherriff 's Sgt. Jeff Sterling and Deputy Gary Slates for their acts of courage.
"You went above and beyond the call of duty," Gale told the group, which saved 16 families, including six children and three animals, during a Nov. 17 fire on Two Ridge Road. "Your life is always in jeopardy in the line of duty and we appreciate your hard work."
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HONORS — Wintersville Mayor Bob Gale recognized village police officers and Jefferson County sheriff's deputies for saving 16 families during a Nov. 17 fire on Two Ridge Road. On hand, were from left, Wintersville Patrolman Chris Wright, sherriff's Deputy Gary Slates, Gale, sheriff Sgt. Jeff Sterling and Wintersville Lt. Jesse Kosegi.
Gale announced voting in the annual Christmas lighting contest will take place Dec. 15-16.
"If you want to participate in the contest, make sure to keep your lights on for each of those days," Gale added.
Council voted to have each councilmember choose one winner, along with the mayor's award, for a total of six winners.
Gale also mentioned that a tree of remembrance is standing in the village gazebo.
"We put this tree up a few years ago as a remembrance for all those who have passed on," he explained. "Everyone is welcome to visit and place a bulb on the tree for their family members of friends who have died."
Village Administrator Walt Ziemba updated council on the first and second phases of the waste water treatment plant.
"Phase 1 has started and equipment has moved in," he explained. "Phase 1 will last about 15 months."
The scope of the work for the first phase includes headwords; new screening, grit and grease removal; a new grit classifier building; new influent and effluent flow monitoring; a new aerobic digester tank; a new scum pump station; the replacement of aeration diffusers; a new belt filter press; rehabilitation of the clarifiers; geodesic dome clarifier covers; an ultraviolet disinfection system; updates to the electrical system; the addition of two new blowers; raise the flow EQ tank wall; and asphalt resurfacing.
"Design for Phase 2 is moving ahead and we still are collecting information," he said. "We should hear about the loan through DEFA after the first of the year."
Ziemba noted that village employee Gabe Craig has received his Class 1 water supply operator license.
"We want to congratulate Gabe on his achievement," he noted. "He is now the second person on the crew that is certified."
Craig will receive a raise of 50 cents per hour for his certification.
In other business:
Gale announced a change in the sanitation scheduled, with the Dec. 25 collection being moved to Dec. 26 and the Jan. 1 collection being moved to Jan. 2.
Gale thanked everyone who helped with the Christmas parade, which was held on Nov. 25. "It was a great showcase for the village this year," he said.
Council heard from David Cusick and Doris Feather regarding sewer back up on Tera Manor.
Gale introduced new village employee, Angela Householder, who will begin her duties as police department clerk Jan. 1.
The next council meeting will be at 7 p.m. Dec. 20.


text: anyone here read the james sa corey expanse series? i dont like where the series is heading. i read the first two books and the protomolecule story that is being told is although interesting, doesnt match the story of the war between mars, OPA and earth. i was hoping that after the first book, the protomolecule arc could be side tracked while more focus is put onto the mars earth conflict. the first book with miller and holden was amazing i really loved it. the noire detective story and the OPA destablization with earth and mars pulling strings was great. more importantly, both miller and holden were great characters. the characters in the second book really suck. for one avasarala the UN lady is EXTREMELY boring. im reading her chapters and saying please be a holden chapter next. bobbie was a great character that got ruined with the stint of her working in some office for avasarala. the only thing bobbie found was that soren was a spy for and 5 minutes of action smacking people around in her suit. the only saving grace of the second book was holden and prax. and prax simply because his story seemed much more important and half the time he was with holden. they should have had a ngyuyen or another UN/martial admiral as a POV to flesh out the specifics of what was happening during the fighting. i feel like the book is moving away from the political conflicts of OPA, mars and earth. the second book was called calibans war and really there was no actual war. where was the war? the final battle was extremely anti-climatic. and the war started in the beginning seemed lackluster and there were no real perspectives on what was happening. the rocinante vs that ship at the end of leviathan wakes was way more exciting than the huge battle that felt like 3 minutes at the end of caliban's war. there needs to be multiple stories going on. the first book had the OPA uprising on ceres, the detective story of miller, the earth mars escalation with holden and eros storyline was very well written. now it seems that the earth mars storyline took a hit at the end and the only other non-protomolecule arc thats left is the fact that the OPAs influence has risen by intercepting the protomolecule that was headed for mars. i thoroughly hope but probably be in vain that the protomolecule story be benched for a while and have the next book focus on a great war between the OPA, mars and earth. the end of the first book provided a perfect opportunity for that with the protomolecule doing whatever its doing on venus. now ofc its too late with that massive protomolecule space monster thingy that popped out of venus at the end of calibans war but one can hope.

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"Sublime! One of the most evocative films about an artist that I've ever seen."—David Edelstein, New York Magazine
"Four stars! Miraculous!"—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Exceptional! The long French tradition of thoughtful, intelligent films of quality for adults is alive and well here, and that is reason to rejoice."—Los Angeles Times
One of the best-reviewed films of the year—and one of the finest films about the life of an artist in recent memory—finally arrives in Columbus. A sleeper hit in France, Séraphine swept the 2009 Césars (the French Oscars) with seven awards including Best Picture and Best Actress. Yolande Moreau, who plays the title role in an unforgettable performance, also was just named Best Actress by the National Society of Film Critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
The film tells the true story of Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis, a simple and profoundly devout housekeeper who in 1905 at age 41 began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. Entirely self-taught, she attributed her sudden vocation as an artist to the instigation of her guardian angel. Her work was "discovered" in 1912 by Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur), a German art critic and collector (one of the first collectors of Picasso and also a champion of the self-taught painter Henri Rousseau), while she worked for him as a maid in his lodgings in Senlis outside Paris. The two lost contact during World War I but reconnected in 1927, and Uhde became her patron.
Séraphine became one of the best know self-taught artists of the her time, as Uhde presented her work with other "naïve" painters—sometimes called the Sacred Heart Painters—in acclaimed shows in Paris, elsewhere in Europe, and at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Director Martin Provost builds his story around the relationship between the avant-garde art dealer and the visionary cleaning lady, forging a testament to the mysteries of creativity and the resilience of one woman's spirit. (125 mins., 35mm)
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Most of you have probably already seen the in-game notification, but the game will be ending on Nov. 30. As a result, purchases are no longer possible.
I'd like to thank the developers for giving lots of notice to their players, and giving everyone plenty of time to finish up enjoying the game.
It's always sad when a game closes, and we'll leave this forum up as long as it's still being used. Eventually we'll move the threads into our general "Kongregate Multiplayer Games" forum and close this one.
Of course, there's always the question of "well, now what?" If you've found another game you like on Kongregate, post here to tell other ZO fans what they might like.


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I'm a totally blind individual so can't install Linux with the normal install process. SSH does work for me how ever, is it possible to use an ssh connection to remotely install a Linux server? Ideally I'd like to pop in a cd, power on the machine I want to install Linux on, SSH into it and install through SSH. I'm not perticular about what distro I use, I also have experience with FreeBSD and OpenBSD if it's possible to do this with them.
Yes. I've done it with gentoo. However, you may need help turning on ssh after the livecd boots. So the steps would look like:
One thing you could do is find a livecd or liveusb that boots and starts the network and ssh automatically. Something like a customized version of SystemRescueCd may work.
Once you have a system booted, and you can SSH in and then use something like debootstrap to perform the install of a debian or ubuntu system.
I don't know about SSH, but it's possible to configure your system to use a serial console, by using
By default this uses 9600, no parity, 8 bit, no flow control. You can specify a different baud rate if you want:
This is not answering the exact question that you asked but it's possible that it resolves the problem that you want to deal with.
If your concern is that you can't use a normal install process, you might be best off with an unattended install. If you're using virtual machines this might be very quick to test.
In the redhat based world, such as CentOS, Fedora and others, kickstart is available. Effectively, you create a file that answers all the questions that the installer would ask and it installs itself. All you need to do is point the kernel at the kickstart file which could be on the install CD if you're willing to make a new image for each machine, but more usefully would be on a webserver somewhere so at the boot prompt you can do:
linux ks=http://somehost.tld/path/to/my/kickstart.cfg
The next stage of automation is getting that going automatically and for that you need to PXE boot. The short version of what happens there is that the BIOS loads some code that asks your dhcp server for its networking information and also for a network location (host and filename) that defines what should happen next. Then it loads whatever it would normally get from grub (ie kernel/initrd + kernel parameters, including the location of the kickstart file) via TFTP from that location as specified by the dhcp server.
PXE boot initiated automated installation is available in non-RedHat clones as well, although I don't know the details.
The best news is that this fairly involved setup is automated and documented for you in a big way by the fine folks of the cobbler project. I was able to get from never having seen cobbler to a fully functional automated installation environment in a morning.
If you are planning to use a virtualized OS I would just download a preconfigured Ubuntu version 8.04 Long Term Support JeOS (It stands for Just Enough Operating System, it comes configured with special vmware guest modules. LTS means less fiddling with marginal upgrades). If your primary interest is server, that is enough -- otherwise the package manager will download and install a desktop environment if you install any package that depends on one. You can get a good free image here: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/1282 link text. You can ssh in right away with the default password (in this case user = 'User', password = 'user'. I believe root is disabled by default so use sudo to change passwords etc.) This works great on VMware player, which defaults to bridged networking so you can just ssh in over the lan, or forward ports and have access from anywhere. You will start out with a system similar to a Debian 'base system' netinstall. Of course, if you are using this for a crucial system you would want to somehow audit or verify the reliability of the original image, not something I am an expert on.


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I'm a programmer and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of a computer typing, and this seems to be too much strain for my back and upper hand muscles. All the orthopedists I talked to said these were muscle pains and that I should just start exercising (so this is not some injury, but rather poor fitness). However, I didn't think of asking them what kind of training that should be. Should I concentrate more on developing strength, or developing endurance? What are the pros and cons? Can I combine the two, and if so- what is the appropriate way to do that in a 3 times per week exercise schedule?
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Since you are completely untrained, your first priority is developing strength.
Endurance is Bupkus Until You Are Strong
If the muscle is weak, developing endurance is close to useless. That's because every effort for a weak muscle is a significant task. A stronger muscle barely notices those efforts because they are so minimal, and so endurance in relation to the task is much greater.
Develop a Baseline Level of Strength
A lot of people have success with Mark Rippetoe's Starting Strength program, because it is information-dense and builds whole-body strength rapidly. The program is essentially 3 days a week of lifting: barbell squats, deadlifts, overhead and bench press, plus chin-ups.
For the totally un-athletic, the exercises in Starting Strength may be a bit much. If that's the case, take a look at this great answer from Mike, particularly the part about lifting. Goblet squats and dumbbell deadlifts three times a week are a great recommendation for the totally untrained. (In your situation, I would add dumbbell overhead presses and assisted chin-ups.)
When to Move On
Once you have developed a reasonable amount of strength, it would be a good idea to work on endurance. The problem is developing proper strength goals for your situation. For instance, my pull-up goal ("15 in a row") is very different from my girlfriend's ("1 un-assisted"). You need to find some attainable medium-term strength goals that you can work on for a few months, so that you can then switch to a strength and endurance program.
For you, a good goal might be "able to squat with a barbell on your back that's as heavy as you are". It might be "five pull-ups". Once you reach it, you can think about developing a program that includes an endurance-specific component.
If you're a programmer that means you're sitting most of the time. This implicates that the muscles of your backline are overstretched constantly and the muscles of your front line are over tensed. This outs in an aching pain in the lower part of your back. Your orthopedists are right. You can fix this with exercise.
BUT And this is a great but.
Fixing this kind of problem is not easy. You should really talk to a good personal trainer. Conventional fitness exercises just don't cut it and can make your injury even worse. If you do the wrong exercises the situation of imbalanced tension between your frontal and back muscle chains will even get worse. I strongly recommend you NOT to do any conventional abs exercises like set-up, cruch, ... . This is an advice given by people who follow convenional wisdom. This will make your injury even worse! You should not do any intensive sports before your problem is fixed. If you really want to sport before your problem is fixed then I advice you to go for a swim.
You should do exercises that stretch/open your frontal muscle chains and relax your back muscle chains. That way the tension in your back will dissapear. It's hard to do this with conventional exercise so forget training on endurance, with weights, ...
A good personal trainer should know how to handle your problem. Once you start training you should already see improvement after a few trainings.


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I'm thinking along the lines of a Firebug for the iPhone/iPad/Android/BB that can truly give more insight on the markup/scripts.
Even when testing on the simulator/device, it's hard to truly simulate the exact rendering of the mobile browser. I know that browsers such as Safari and Firefox can simulate it via changing User-Agents but that's not a true simulation of the actual mobile browser.


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The Paris Classic Red Suites feature more than 700 square feet of space adorned in contemporary furnishings with bold color palettes. Rooms offer one king bed with oversized padded headboards and elegant accent curtains for a dramatic touch. Each suite includes a separate living area with a couch, chairs and wet bar. Spacious powder rooms feature marble interiors and European fixtures, while some include private dressing areas, dual sinks and a whirlpool tub. A second bedroom upgrade is also available.
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The journey took us to Lake Minnewanka. It was enlarged in the 1940s, with the goal to provide hydro-electric power to Calgary during World War II. The project wasn't completed until 1947, but it still provides power for Banff and surrounding areas. Given that it fills a valley, it has some rather odd dimensions at a half-mile wide, 17 miles long and 500 feet deep. For all it's beautify, you won't find people taking a dip with its 37 degree water temperatures!
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The 2010 FIFA World Cup™ took place in South Africa between June 11 and July 11, 2010, with eight matches held in Cape Town, including a quarter-final and a semi-final. During that time, Cape Town Tourism was at the forefront of capturing and sharing the moments and magic of this tournament online, with blogs, photographs and videos. This section of our website has been dedicated to archiving that content, that you might relive these moments with us.
In this portion of the site, we have also decided to share the legacies and lessons that came out of hosting this mega event and hope that these will be of use to cities set to host FIFA World Cup™ matches in future.
Cape Town Tourism is proud to have been part of such a successful event, and wishes host cities in Brazil all the best as they prepare to host the 2014 event.


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The Battle of Tassafaronga, November 30, 1942, was the fifth and last major night surface action fought off Savo Island during World War II's Guadalcanal campaign. It ended a string of Japanese victories, but it was also a horrible embarrassment to the U.S. Navy, which had three heavy cruisers damaged and one sunk to enemy torpedoes. After the battle, American commanders erroneously reported that multiple enemy ships had been sunk or seriously damaged, leading Admiral Nimitz to focus on training as the missing ingredient. Not until more than half a century later did Captain Russell S. Crenshaw, Jr., the destroyer Maury's gunnery officer during the battle, discover that the outcome hinged instead on critical shortcomings that had been built into the U.S. Navy before the war—defective torpedoes, poor intelligence, blinding gunfire, over-confidence, and a tendency to equate volume of fire with effectiveness of fire—factors that turned the battle into "a crucible in which the very nature of the U.S. Navy and its weapons was tested [and] a miniature of what might have been, under other circumstances, a truly devastating defeat."
Russell Sydnor Crenshaw Jr. commanded numerous ships during his naval career and later became a weapons systems consultant. A resident of Drayden, MD, he is also the author of South Pacific Destroyer and Naval Shipbuilding.
For more than five decades, writers have tended to dismiss the Battle of Tassafaronga as an embarrassing hiccup with few implications for the progress of the Pacific war. Here, in contrast, Capt. Russell S. Crenshaw, Jr., reveals it to have been one of the World War II's most interesting naval engagements, filled with both tactical and technical nuances with far-reaching implications. Faced with a complex subject, the author achieves clarity by presenting the American and Japanese perspectives separately and then reconciling them. The result is eminently readable both as a well-crafted whodunit and a cautionary tale, one that should appeal to a wide range of readers from amateur historians to naval professionals. This is a valuable book.


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5 Mind-Blowing Academic Theories as Taught by Classic Movies
There are a few core philosophical thought experiments at the center of our most popular movies, like ancient cheat codes that filmmakers know we'll pay to see depicted on the big screen over and over again. So while you may think that you're just watching an entertaining movie, you might be pondering big, heavy ideas that have been vexing humanity's deepest thinkers for millennia. For instance ...
#5. The State of Nature and the Social Contract
Why aren't we running around trying to kill each other right now? That's the question all the greatest thinkers were trying to answer during the Age of Enlightenment. The world was just waking up from the Dark Ages, and the best and brightest looked around and wondered who turned off the witch burnings and how to make sure nobody turned them back on.
"Lesson one: Zeus is bullshit."
It was around this time that the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes came up with a thought experiment. First, he described a version of the world before laws and society, which he called the state of nature. Hobbes' state of nature looks like one big rugby scrum, with everyone fighting and killing and trying to have sex with each other before their reproductive organs are rendered useless from blunt trauma (we're not overly familiar with the rules of rugby). While that version of existence might have been objectively awful, it was the only time in human existence when everyone was totally and completely free. Without laws, everyone had the right to everything.
To get from that version of existence to the one we're all familiar with, Hobbes speculated that those people must have agreed to what he called the social contract -- you give up your right to drop an anvil on your neighbor and take his stuff in exchange for things like personal safety and the expectation that people will follow a reasonable moral code.
Suddenly that Ben Franklin quote doesn't seem so pithy.
This process seems like a foregone conclusion to us today. Of course life got better when we decided to live together as one big happy society! Only Branch Davidians and the Unabomber would doubt such a thing. But when you look at the movies that we go to see each year, it starts to seem like we secretly regret the hell out of signing the social contract and long to return to the rugby scrum. For instance, every post-apocalyptic movie from zombie flicks to Mad Max takes place in Hobbes' state of nature. The apocalypse is just an excuse to destroy the social contract before the movie even starts.
Lord Humongous, philosopher.
One common thread in three of the most popular movies of 2012 is an obsession with the question of whether the social contract is necessary, or worth it. The heroes in The Avengers battle a villain who represents the social contract on steroids. After rounding up a bunch of classical music fans on the street and forcing them to kneel before him, Loki unleashes the following academic lecture:
"It's the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power. For identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel."
"All right, now ... well, the rest of my intentions are rather unclear."
In addition to being the speech that Barack Obama gives in the nightmares of the most paranoid, anti-government militia member, that's basically a really poorly worded argument for why we need the social contract. Left to their own devices, people don't know how to act. If you asked Hobbes to make the creepiest case for the social contract he possibly could, he would have written that speech.
The villain in The Dark Knight Rises, like the Joker before him, thinks that the social contract is a sham. Bane removes the people and institutions that enforce the social contract from the equation, and Gotham immediately descends into a citywide prison riot. This is a city that's mostly populated by people who went to school and held jobs and had access to reason for their entire lives, but without anything to enforce the contract, it's back to life in the scrum.
"Welp, the cops are gone. Time to burn everything!"
As one of the old prisoners in the underground prison put it, "Without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in a condition which is called war; and such a war, as is of every man, against every man." OK, that's actually a direct quote from Hobbes, but you wouldn't have thought twice if it had shown up in the movie (which also says a lot about the quality of dialogue in that movie, unfortunately).
Then there's The Hunger Games, which explicitly raises the question "Is the social contract worth it?" and then sort of stacks the deck by adding that "By signing the social contract, you consent to having you or your loved ones randomly killed for the entertainment of rich people." That seems less like a movie plot than a piece of propaganda created by people who opposed the first social contract.
"And no puppies for anyone!"
And Hollywood doesn't need to create a fictional universe to question whether society is worth it. They can shoehorn the debate between the social contract and the state of nature into pretty much any type of movie, because that shit is apparently like catnip to our brains. Look at three of the six greatest movie lines of all time, according to the American Film Institute:
Interspersed with the geographical confusion that sets in after one commits residential manslaughter.
So to recap, that's:
1. A society gentleman saying that he doesn't give a damn if a woman lives or dies in a society that's been returned to a state of nature by the Civil War.
2. A mobster mocking the social contract by using the language of business agreements to describe a negotiation tactic straight out of the rugby scrum.
6. A cop toying with a criminal by bragging that he's willing to shoot him right in the middle of his face to uphold the social contract.
Three of the greatest lines ever delivered in a movie, and every single one is basically saying, "Fuck a social contract, I will literally go medieval on your ass," which is also a great movie line that also specifically brings up the very thing Hobbes was writing about back during the Enlightenment. We may play nice and help each other out in our daily lives, but turn down the lights in the movie theater and all we want is to get rid of society and its stupid, asshole rules against killing our neighbors and taking their stuff.
#4. The Prisoner's Dilemma
So you're on the ferry home from work, minding your own business, when a crazy clown comes over the ferry intercom and explains that you and a boat full of prisoners (or if you're a prisoner, a boat full of squares) have access to a detonator that controls the explosives on the other boat. The first boat to blow up the other one's detonator gets to live. If neither boat uses it, everyone dies in an hour. What do you do?
"We can't know that the other ferry isn't filled with neo-Nazi child molesters. Really, it's irresponsible to not blow them up."
Well, the first thing you do is probably curse your luck for having been born in Gotham. After all, people in the real world don't have to deal with convoluted screw-or-get-screwed mind games, right? Actually, the Joker's scheme in The Dark Knight is a textbook example of "the prisoner's dilemma," a thought experiment that academics use to explain most of modern history, or at least the parts that matter.
The prize behind door numbers 1 through 3 may not always be a crazy clown with a detonator, but the risk and reward for cooperation or assuming the worst about the other people is the same. Think about the problem of pollution. Let's say you're the king of America, and you and the kings of all the other countries agree that you need to stop polluting the planet. So you all go to a conference and agree to stop using fossil fuels, even though it's going to hurt your economies in the short term. You all sign an agreement, you go home and suffer through gasoline withdrawals together, and everyone gets to keep living on this planet for another thousand years. Best possible outcome, right?
"You freeloading penguins had better make this up to us."
Nope! The best possible outcome is that all the other countries stick to their promise to stop using fossil fuels except for you. If you keep using gasoline to power your coffee maker and all those other countries do the hard work of developing cars with stupid little windmills all over them, everyone gets to keep living here, and your country has a huge economic advantage over the rest of them.
So, assuming that everyone else holds up their end of the bargain, the best possible outcome for your country is to screw them all over.
The worst possible outcome overall is that you do the right thing and nobody else does. You stick to the agreement and take the economic hit of weaning your country off of fossil fuels, but all the other countries are secretly making a bunch of jerk-off hand motions to each other during your conference calls. You get poorer and the Earth keeps dying. That's an F- for you.
"See me after class."
You can't risk that, and neither can they, which is why nobody is going to stick to the agreement, nobody is going to take the economic hit, and your grandkids are going to have to deal with this shit.
That's the prisoner's dilemma: a situation where you have to decide whether or not to screw over a partner you can't trust. The dilemma is that everyone is always better off screwing the other guy. If they act for the collective good, your best option is to act in your own self-interest (economic win + environmental win = A+), since if you both act for the collective good, everyone wins but nobody has the advantage (economic wash + environmental win = A). But if you assume that they won't cooperate, you're better off not cooperating (economic wash + environmental loss - 1 = F), since if you cooperate and nobody else does, you lose on both fronts (economic loss + environmental loss = F-).
The Joker's plot might seem convoluted, but economists think that this model is responsible for the Cold War arms race, the psychology of addiction (in which you're in a prisoner's dilemma with yourself in the future) and basically every war that's ever been fought (war is hell, but losing a war means that the future is hell, too). And The Dark Knight isn't the only movie that's obsessed with this idea. There's a much more common and simpler dramatization of the prisoner's dilemma that comes up constantly in movies.
The Tarantino family crest.
There's a reason that 90 percent of the conversations in action movies take place between people who have guns trained on one another. While that's a fairly counterproductive way to have a conversation in the real world, it's the perfect way to dramatize the prisoner's dilemma. From an outsider's perspective, the best possible outcome is that nobody pulls the trigger and everyone goes on living. But put yourself in the shoes of the guy who has a gun trained on him, and you realize that the best possible option is whatever gets that guy to stop pointing a gun at your head the fastest. Which is why the most likely outcome is the third option: both guys pull the trigger as soon as they have a second to think through the behavior modeling.
Of course, at the end of The Dark Knight and Mexican standoffs not directed by Quentin Tarantino, cooler heads prevail, and nobody pulls the trigger or presses the button. The Mexican standoff is a chance for us to set up and defuse the trap that we all find ourselves living inside of every day. Hell, even Quentin Tarantino learned his lesson. His first movie ends with a room full of mobsters doing exactly what the prisoner's dilemma tells us we all would, and his second, much more successful movie ends with Jules Winnfield philosophizing his way out of a Mexican standoff. The truth is too painful.
#3. The Ship of Theseus
Have you ever wondered why movies are so obsessed with clones? Sometimes it's the only technology that will let you tell the story you have in mind -- an evil corporation needs to farm spare body parts, or the Alien franchise needs to clone Ripley back to life. But other times, like with the clone armies of the Star Wars prequels or the Jurassic Park scientists going out of their way to say that they're cloning the dinosaurs, it's almost like blockbuster movies are just looking for an excuse to get the concept of cloning into the mix. In real life, clones are pretty boring. Cloned sheep are the same as regular sheep, and on its surface, even human cloning is only as interesting as identical twins.
Or the odd army of soulless clone warriors.
But clones are actually great at illustrating an ancient thought experiment called the ship of Theseus that movies have been using and reusing to blow minds for years now. It was first posed by Plutarch, an ancient Greek philosopher who asked his audience to imagine that the ship sailed by the Greek hero Theseus was repaired so much over the generations that eventually none of the original wood remained. Is that still the ship of Theseus?
If you're failing to see the implications of that question outside of the world of boat naming, consider this: Science has determined that our cells are shed and replaced approximately every decade. So when that happens, are you still the same you, or is that person dead, and you're the replacement? Keep in mind that 10 years ago you were masturbating with a totally different set of junk.
"It's like I don't even know you anymore."
Every movie about cloning is raising that same question in one way or another. Probably the most successful version of the question is in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige, in which Nikola Tesla builds a machine that spits out an exact double of whatever is inside of it and also teleports one of them across the room, like a Xerox/fax machine combo. A magician (Hugh Jackman) uses the machine to make it appear as though he's teleported across the room, but since there are now two of them, he's forced to drown the version of himself that started out in the machine. In the final scene of the movie, Jackman explains that each time he copies himself, he has no way of knowing if he's going to be the guy in the tank or the guy who pulled off the trick.
Luckily, his drowning fetish makes it a win-win endeavor.
The movie leaves us with the haunting question of which one is the original, or if there is an original. Is Jackman getting teleported every night with the double being some waste product, or is he essentially committing suicide and being reborn every night? The same question could be asked by every single member of George Lucas' clone army, and also by every Star Trek character who steps into the transporter.
After all, the transporter can't just move people from place to place. It would have to break apart their atoms and rebuild them elsewhere. So when Kirk uses the transporter, does that mean that the real Kirk is now dead and the new Kirk is just an imposter?
"Kirk to bridge. I've beamed into something younger ... sassier."


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WINTERSVILLE - The Jefferson County Water and Sewer District will flush hydrants today and Friday.
Customers may experience low water pressure and some discoloration of water. The water and sewer district advised residents not to do laundry while the hydrants in their area are being flushed.
The following is a list of the areas with county water service to have hydrants flushed:
Area M - Fernwood Road, Snug Harbor, Springdale, Talbott, Winters, Laurel Woods, Malone, Pioneer, Higler, Bennett, Maplewood, Woodview, Longvue, Morningside, Two Ridge Road, Reichart, Forest View, Douglas, Bantam Ridge Road, Vireo, Elm, Linmar, Beverly, Frostview, Olive, Stevens, Mildred, Bantam Ridge Court, Circle Drive, Cathy, Andrew, Alfred, May Lane, Eva Marie, Orlando Manor, Bell Street, Ward Drive, Rolling Acres, Murphy, Sunset Drive, Stuart Manor, Evergreen Terrace, Skyview and Hazelwood.
Area B II - Reeds Mill (county Road 22A), Crestview, Valley View, Belvedere, Rainbow Drive, county Road 22A to county line, Highland Park, Highland Acres, Scenic Heights, village of Bloomingdale and county Roads 23, 24, 26 and 38.


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I grew sweet sorghum this year as it looked like the easiest way to grow "sugar" in New England. Now I've harvested it, but I'm hard pressed (ha ha) to find a way to mill it with generally available household equipement. Any suggestions or ideas of how I might cobble together something?
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Looking around at a few pages on the web, it seems that commercial grade mills exert several tons of pressing force on the sorghum to squeeze the juice out. I don't know of any normal kitchen equipment with that kind of pressure.
I think you could do the evaporation with household gear -- looks like maintaining temperature and getting the timing right will be tricky but doable.
Ideas for extracting juice that I'd try in your place (these may not work, and could possibly damage the equipment):
But given that you can find these for around $25-40, it might be worth the price to experiment and see if either has any chance of working. Then you'll know if a home sorghum refinery is at all practical.
How about an old "Ringer" clothes washing machine? I was just at a sorghum making demo yesterday and the machine reminded me of a ringer washing machine - just bigger.


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Post-Debate Surge Boosts Romney's Crowd Numbers
SIDNEY, Ohio (AP) – The crowds tell the story. As Election Day nears, Mitt Romney is drawing larger and more-excited throngs.
Look to dusty Iowa cornfields, rain-soaked Virginia parks, the muddy fields of the Shelby County Fairgrounds, where a crowd of 9,500 – almost half of this western Ohio town – gathered among the barns and stables on a frigid October evening this week to glimpse the Republican presidential contender.
"Where else would we want to be?" said one of the shivering faithful, Judy Cartwright, a 71-year-old nurse from Sidney. "I want to see the next president of the United States."
Romney's debate performance against President Barack Obama last week – and his energetic appearances following it up – have fueled a rise in enthusiasm on the campaign trail.
In Virginia, for example, Republican-leaning counties appear to be getting the fastest start on absentee voting ahead of Election Day. State Board of Elections data analyzed by the Virginia Public Access Project, a nonprofit group tracker of money in state politics, shows that of the 25 localities where absentee voting is busiest, 21 voted Republican in the 2008 presidential race. And of the 25 localities where absentee balloting is the slowest so far, 16 supported Obama.
Romney seems to be feeding off the energy pumping through his sprawling crowds, even as aides downplay the increased momentum among the GOP base.
"I'm overwhelmed by the number of people here," he exulted while scanning the sea of supporters packed beyond the fairgrounds fences here. "There are even people out there – that's another county over there."
Romney's crowd growth comes as new polls indicate he has erased Obama's advantage in voter support nationally.
The president's challenge on the campaign trail this year has been to match the high excitement bar he set in 2008. But recent polling suggests the "enthusiasm gap," long thought to lean toward Obama, has leveled off.
The Pew Research Center poll this week found that 68 percent of registered voters who back Obama support him strongly. Some 67 percent of Romney voters are strongly behind him. That's the first time Pew's poll has found the two candidates even on this measure.
And a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted after the Oct. 3 debate showed the GOP nominee drawing "strongly favorable" reviews from 62 percent of Republicans, the highest level of deeply positive views that poll has found during the campaign. Overall, Romney's favorability among Republicans stands at 87 percent. Obama draws favorable views from 93 percent of Democrats, including 68 percent who hold strongly favorable views.
Obama can still turn out big crowds. As the election draws close, the president is appearing in college settings where he can depend on the enthusiasm of younger supporters. Within the past nine days, he has spoken before 30,000 people at the University of Wisconsin, 15,000 at Ohio State University and 9,200 at the University of Miami.
But in 2008, to note one example, he drew 100,000 people to a single rally in Denver in late October. And this year's campaign audiences, like Obama himself, seem to vary in their enthusiasm. The students who filled a field at Ohio State on Tuesday were supportive but hardly buzzing when Obama implored them to vote.
The level of enthusiasm matters as each side tries to get as many of its supporters to the polls as possible. A big Republican enthusiasm advantage two years ago helped the GOP capture control of the House of Representatives in addition to making huge gains in statehouses across the nation.


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Petraeus Raised Terror Link
Former CIA Chief, in Private Testimony, Prompts New Questions About Handling of Benghazi Attack
WASHINGTON—Former Central Intelligence Agency Director David Petraeus said Friday that he told Congress from the earliest days that there was "significant terrorist involvement" in the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya—adding to the controversy over the administration's handling of the attack.
Mr. Petraeus, who resigned last week after acknowledging an extramarital affair, went to Congress on Friday to defend his old agency's role in the response to the Benghazi, Libya, attack. In his closed-door testimony, he said that, in secret briefings with lawmakers soon after the attack, he had apprised them of the likely involvement of a local militant group, Ansar al-Sharia, said Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.), describing his comments.
Those comments rekindled debate about the intelligence community's initial assessments that the attack was a terrorist strike, and whether the Obama administration resisted calling it a terrorist act for political reasons.
The controversy also was extended when some lawmakers said they had a different recollection of Mr. Petraeus's earlier comments. Rep. King, who described Mr. Petraeus's Friday testimony, said his recollection of his earlier conversations was different.
"He said today that, at the time, he was emphasizing the role of Ansar al-Sharia. But at the time, my recollection is that he was minimizing the role of Ansar al-Sharia,'' Mr. King told reporters, referring to a local militant group sympathetic to al Qaeda.
Mr. Petraeus spoke behind closed doors Friday in long-awaited meetings with House and Senate intelligence committee members. The Libya attack claimed the lives of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
Mr. Petraeus's Friday testimony, as outlined by lawmakers who were present, was generally consistent with how U.S. officials have described the shifting intelligence assessments of the consulate assault in interviews dating back to the days after it occurred. Still, his appearance and testimony this week by top U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement officials haven't blunted questions about the use of intelligence or about the administration's explanations.
For instance, Mr. King and House Democrats clashed over whether Mr. Petraeus said Friday that there had been changes in CIA "talking points" designed to play down the role of terrorists.
Republicans charge the Obama administration resisted conclusions that the assault was the product of a terrorist attack for more than a week so it could avoid explaining, during a heated presidential campaign, how militants with ties to al Qaeda struck a U.S. facility on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. CIA talking points used by the White House said the attack grew out of a protest against an anti-Islamic video.
A CIA analysis prepared the morning after the attack said that the attack appeared intentional and didn't appear to stem from a peaceful protest, according to a senior U.S. official. Analysis that day also mentioned the possibility of connections to an al Qaeda affiliate.
However, that information about specific groups involved came from classified sources the subject of debate among intelligence officials, so it was left out of unclassified talking points.
The CIA began receiving new information Sept. 15 that cast doubt about the protest, but the assessment wasn't immediately changed. On Sept. 16, United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice in a series of television interviews cited the official assessment as outlined in talking points. The CIA maintained its assessment until Sept. 20, when intelligence officials told counterparts at the White House that it had changed, according to senior U.S. officials
The talking points used by Ms. Rice were developed by the CIA from the classified reports, in response to a request from Congress, U.S. officials have said.
While the early classified reports mentioned the possible involvement of Ansar al-Sharia, the talking points developed for public use didn't.
Mr. King said Congress needed to do more probing to try to determine who specifically decided to alter the references to terrorists in the earlier draft.
However, a senior U.S. official familiar with the drafting of the talking points said the name of specific groups and their ties with al Qaeda were omitted in part because that information came from classified sources that needed to be protected.
The intelligence linking the militant groups also were "tenuous," the official said.
"The points were reviewed by CIA leadership and coordinated in the interagency at a senior level," the official said, referring to the process by which the government's various intelligence agencies coordinate their findings. "The points were not, as has been insinuated by some, edited to minimize the role of extremists, diminish terrorist affiliations or play down that this was an attack."
The official said the talking points contained the word "extremists," which was intended to convey the presence of militants or possible terrorists, and Ms. Rice used the term extremists in television appearances. Republicans have criticized the administration's refusal to refer to the specific involvement of terrorists, rather than extremists.
"The controversy this word choice caused came as a surprise," the official said.
Mr. Petraeus's appearance Friday took on its own cloak-and-dagger feel, as the former CIA director navigated his way to the hearings through underground tunnels to avoid being mobbed by reporters. He hasn't made a public appearance since resigning after acknowledging an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.
Democrats said the discussions with Mr. Petraeus made clear there had been no political interference with intelligence reports or talking points.
"He thoroughly debunked the idea that there was some White House tinting or shading to this," said Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), a member of the House intelligence panel.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said questions remained to be answered about the talking points used by Ms. Rice. He said he realized the Sept. 11 assault was an act of terrorism from the start.
"There was no question in the mind of anybody that this was an act of terrorism from the get-go," Sen. Chambliss said.
Many lawmakers praised Mr. Petraeus, a retired Army general who resigned in the wake of a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe that uncovered his extramarital affair. Lawmakers said Mr. Petraeus told them the probe hadn't influenced his statements or the inquiry into the consulate attack.
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Faith Review – True Grit
True Grit is the 2010 remake of the John Wayne classic. This time, the acclaimed Coen brothers try their hand at creating the story of U.S. Marshall, Rooster Cogburn, in his pursuit of the killer, Tom Cheney. The central character in the story is Mattie Rose, a strong-willed teenage girl whose father has been killed by Cheney. She employs the services of Cogburn in order to exact revenge. In this faith review by Tommy Holderness, you can explore some of the themes related to sin, revenge, justice, and forgiveness — in dialogue with the complicated witness of Scripture.
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6 Everyday Things That Look Completely Insane in Slow Motion
Some things that we think of as mundane are in actuality quite amazing -- it's just that they happen too fast for our stupid, non-superpowered eyes to truly appreciate. But that's where science steps in with its patented Slomo Machine to show us just how fascinating the random shit going on around you really is. For example, a high-speed camera reveals ...
#6. A Dropped Slinky Basically Levitates in Mid-Air
Do you still have a Slinky in the house somewhere? Go dig it up, because you're immediately going to want to try this. Hold it out with it dangling to its full length, then drop it. Now watch the bottom defy gravity for a few magical seconds:
The Wile E. Coyote principle in action.
That either looks like the bottom of the slinking is resting on a glass table, or it's being levitated by wizard magic. But once the whole spring has contracted, you see it fall the rest of the way to the ground, just as it should.
How in the hell is this possible? Well, before letting it go, the Slinky is all stretched out because its weight is dispersed along its length. The top has the whole mass of the Slinky underneath it, and so the strain pulling down equals the weight, whereas the bottom has no mass underneath it, and so has no force acting on it. So the Slinky's spring tension winds up pulling up on the bottom at the exact rate it should be falling. When the top part of the Slinky catches up with the stationary lower part, though, gravity finally wakes up and slaps its stair-walking ass back down to Earth where it belongs.
Here's a giant slinky dropped from the top of a building, just to make it look freakier:
No one betrays the slink-mafia. No one.
This crazy floating act actually happens with any object you drop, because all solid objects have some degree of elasticity. It's just that the effect is much more noticeable with a Slinky because, you know, it's Slinky. For fun it's a wonderful toy.
#5. A Butane Lighter is a Tiny Fireworks Display
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Everyone reading this probably has a cigarette lighter in their house, if not in their pocket. And we bet you've never stopped to appreciate how beautiful it is:
Your parents told you not to play with these so they could hoard the fun for themselves.
Look at that! It's like a tiny little fireworks display, at your fingertips. See those sparks at the beginning? Those are tiny, molten globules of steel that actually jump up and explode in mid-air.
While the steel is melting and bursting all over the place, the button under the strike wheel opens a valve and, since its boiling point is relatively high, the liquid butane in the lighter evaporates and rushes out to join the party. Then the flying globs of molten steel heat the gas enough for it to break down and rebond with oxygen, and voila! You've just birthed an itty-bitty phoenix. That you used to light a bong.
YouTube is full of videos like this, proving that the internet is a wonderful tool for appreciating the simple things in life:
If you are using a bong right now, welcome to your next half-hour of staring.
Here's one slowed down even more, really showing off how the individual balls of metal pop and burst in mid-air like the Fourth of July:
Almost makes us want to take up smoking.
#4. A Popping Balloon Looks Like Pac-Man
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There is a brief moment, just a tiny fraction of a second, when a popping balloon looks like Pac-Man:
... or, depending on how you pop it, the skeleton of some kind of dead animal:
It's just that you have to record it at 2,700 frames per second to find out.
What's happening there is that the balloon gets all big and ... balloony because the air particles inside it act like a bunch of drunk dudes trying to find their way out of a nightclub -- all bumping into each other and stumbling against the walls and hitting on your girlfriend even though she's clearly sitting right next to you. The walls expand and eventually burst, but in completely different ways depending on how they fail. For instance, you give the balloon one place to pop, with a pin (or in this case, some kind of dissolving spray), you get the Pac-Man effect:
But if you just keep blowing on it so that the force is pushing out in every direction equally, you get the split-second balloon skeleton:
Dude didn't even flinch. See, we told you scientists are badasses.
Again, if you see it in real time, you just see a balloon vanishing as if by magic (watch how the guy doesn't even have time to even react to the sound before the whole process has completed itself:
Incidentally, the reason balloons make that "popping" noise is for the exact same reason as a stick of dynamite or a gunshot -- the ball of expanding gases creates a pressure wave that smacks into your eardrums. Only a balloon doesn't produce a huge ball of fire ... unless you fill it with Hydrogen, that is:
Somewhere, off in the distance, Michael Bay has achieved an erection.
Okay, we totally want to try that now. Here's what happens when they do it with a giant one:


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Kentucky Basketball's New Death Star
LEXINGTON, Ky.—They are building a new Death Star here in Lexington. By November, it will be fully operational, a University of Kentucky basketball team deploying the planet-annihilating skills of the single greatest recruiting class in the sport's 100-plus-year history.
Kentucky fans, of course, live in the perpetual future, that manic home of recruiting rankings and NBA mock drafts. Such are their appetites for success that they struggle simply being in the present. Especially this year.
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Especially this Saturday. The Wildcats, preseason No. 3, had themselves been pitched from the lowly National Invitation Tournament by a lowly school called Robert Morris. And now fans of the Louisville Cardinals, archrival and derided little brother, were swarming through Kentucky's own Rupp Arena here for an NCAA tournament game.
Easily, lethally, their top-seeded team beat Colorado State by 26 points. The rout was so complete that Louisville fans began doing the wave through Rupp, where eight title banners hang. This wasn't an ironic statement. It felt like a collective defilement, a dance atop this concrete tomb of a basketball arena.
"I'd rather see them in any color than red," said Herman Williams, a Rupp usher for 33 years, clad in a magnetic-blue UK blazer and standing sentry at section 42.
There is plenty of solace for Williams and other Kentucky fans. There's that Death Star in the distance—an NBA-ready recruiting class like none ever assembled. It contains a record six McDonald's All-Americans, including the best players at four of the five positions. Former players are already saying the 2014 title is guaranteed. They're probably right.
If this is basketball brought to its cynical endpoint—a plug-and-play triumph of salesmanship—Kentucky fans don't seem to mind. They celebrate Kentucky coach John Calipari, who has festooned his team with "friends of the program" including Jay-Z and LeBron James, whose donors contributed a $3.1 million "locker-room suite," who famously said the 2010 NBA Draft was the greatest day in Kentucky basketball history.
And here was Louisville coach Rick Pitino on Saturday night, back in Rupp Arena where he once roamed as Kentucky's coach. He took a little jig step atop the tomb: "We don't play the game for the lottery draft. We play the game for Louisville," he said.
Pitino conceded his players were marginal NBA prospects, not even in the top five among his most talented groups. But he beamed about their intensity, conditioning and growth as basketball players. Together, they have become the most fearsome team in the tournament. It wasn't plug and play. It was wait and pray.
Much of his praise went to Russ Smith, a slight 6-foot junior who scored 27 on Saturday, who was never Calipari material. And there was senior Peyton Siva, once emotionally volatile, now a steady, disciplined leader. The two swarmed Colorado State's backcourt with the fervor of two hungry cheetahs.
It's the kind of development and experience that Kentucky lacked this season, its stockpile of All-Americans wilting under the expectation. It was as if Calipari had met his sales quota—but ultimately delivered defective product.
Pitino seemed to revel in the contrast: "If I can keep recruiting guys like this, I want to coach until 70 and beyond because I've had such a blast and to see guys work that hard inside just fills you up, really does."
He had a point. A new Death Star is forming on the horizon. Kentucky fans will never say it. But they know: It's hollow inside.
—Dennis K. Berman, the Journal's Marketplace editor, is a longtime Louisville fan. Email firstname.lastname@example.com. Twitter: @dkberman
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Eight title banners hang in Rupp Arena, where the University of Kentucky basketball team plays. A previous version of this article incorrectly said there are seven.


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STEUBENVILLE - City Council on Tuesday approved several year-end ordinances and heard several pleas to keep the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center open after March 1.
Fourth Ward Councilwoman Angela Suggs cast a no vote on legislation making temporary appropriations for 2013, "because we are looking at closing the Belleview Pool in 2013 as well as the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center."
"My hope is our residents don't get completely uprooted by these decisions. I am calling for the entire city to look for ways to keep the pool and recreation center open. I don't believe they will be open next year with city funds but we need to look at who we can partner with to open the pool and keep the MLK Center open. We need to look at all opportunities to keep those facilities open," stated Suggs.
During the meeting, council members also heard from Katie Gesto, Royal Mayo, Nathaniel Richmond, Simon Feaster and Delores Wiggins regarding the pool and recreation center.
Mayo also said he wants a list of salaries and benefits for all city employees.
"The council should do everything it can to bring back the four part-time recreation aides to the MLK Center," said Mayo.
Parks and recreation board President Sandi Rue said the city, "has been looking under every rock they could find for money to keep the pool and recreation center open in 2013."
"We need volunteers to help us. When you look at the whole scheme of things you begin to understand. But I truly believe we will open the pool in 2013 and keep the recreation center open. We have to come together as a city. And I commend (City Manager) Cathy (Davison) for her hard work," said Rue.
Mark Nelson questioned plans to sell the Steubenville Marina.
"The sale of the marina is a rash move. I know you have a list of inherited problems. But you need to consider how the city sells itself to outside interests. Closing the pool and recreation center ... what does that say to people looking at our community? I urge you to look at the new comprehensive plan that has not yet been made public before making any rash decisions," said Nelson.
And council heard from Jeffrey Hawkins, who cited garbage left on his street before the scheduled sanitation collection as well as speeding on Ridge Avenue and school zones in the city.
"That's why we need traffic cameras in the city. That would help stop speeders in our school zones," responded 6th Ward Councilman David Lalich.
During the lengthy meeting, council approved a revised ordinance offering $10,000 for eligible city employees who resign or retire by Dec. 29.
Also approved was legislation eliminating a $300-per-month car allowance for department heads and other city employees who use their own vehicles for city business.
Davison said the employees will now be paid 45.5 cents a mile for city-related travel.
An emergency ordinance to declare buildings located at 1409 State St., 711 N. Seventh St., 235 N. Eighth St., 312 Mears Ave. and 523 Maxwell Ave. to be unsafe structures and ordering their demolition was approved by a unanimous vote.
"These are all fire damaged structures that need to come down. The demolitions will be paid for with Community Development Block Grant funds," noted 2nd Ward Councilman Rick Perkins.
Council also authorized the advertisement for a request for qualifications for professional services under the Ohio Community Housing Improvement Program.
The end-of-the-year legislation passed Tuesday night included a revenue tax budget for 2012 and a temporary revenue tax budget for 2013.
"The temporary tax budget gives us time to work with our city unions, look at our health care program and budget cuts for 2013," explained Davison.
A measure to make final appropriations for expenditures this year was approved without comment.
And an ordinance authorizing the finance director to repay $147,183 from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act federal grant fund to the street fund.
The city had used city funds for an LED traffic signal replacement program.
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11 Celebrities Who Were Secretly Total Badasses
#7. Creed Bratton (aka Creed from The Office)
Among the many reasons to love The Office is the character Creed Bratton, who is named after the real person, Creed Bratton, who is also the actor playing the character. If you've never watched the show, Bratton is both shady and malevolent, and every time he opens his mouth, something horrible and shocking comes out.
He doesn't always have to open his mouth.
The character is intentionally mysterious, but viewers do know that this upper-end-of-middle-aged man dabbles in drugs, may or may not be homeless and has had multiple affiliations with cults.
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Bratton was once a guitarist for 1960s folk band The Grass Roots. Check out "Stripes" at 1:48:
So when someone over at The Office had the brilliant idea of basing Creed Bratton, the character, on Creed Bratton, the unreformed hippie badass, they weren't just whistlin' Dixie.
The character is a fictionalized version of a life hard-lived, one in which the real Bratton hitchhiked across America and sailed to Europe with just $25 in his pocket, then spent years traveling through the Middle East and Africa.
And maybe miming?
And don't forget that The Grass Roots weren't just some rinky-dink little folk band singing for funsies and shroom hits in the Village. The Grass Roots were HUGE, like, bigger-than-The-Lovin'-Spoonful-but-not-quite-as-big-as-The-Byrds huge. They toured with Janis Joplin, for crap's sake. Finding out Bratton was once in a band so big is like finding out Steve Carell is really Bob Dylan.
Bratton's story gets better when you find out he wasn't born Creed Bratton at all. He was actually born William Charles Schneider and changed his name after waking up from a night of drinking ouzo and finding a scrap of paper with the name "Creed Bratton" on it. And several other names scratched-off. For all we know, the scratched off names were the previous night's murder victims. But Bratton's best rock star story comes when he describes taking acid for the first time:
My hands started melting, and I heard someone, a disembodied bass voice, saying "Play, play." And I saw notes, like cartoon notes, drifting from staff paper through the air until they fell to the floor and broke into pieces.
Rock on, Creed Bratton. Rock on.
#6. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Not only can Arnold Schwarzenegger count himself among the handful of performers who have successfully transitioned from sports to show business, he can also boast of being one of a few humans to transition from show business to politics. And of those, he's the only one who left a leading-man, multimillion-dollar career to do it. And he didn't walk away from his career just to play at mayoring Poshville, USA, either. Schwarzenegger took on the most populous state in the country while its economy was knee-deep in the crapper. Who else is even in his category?
Not pictured: The fucking Terminator.
The Badass:
It's so easy to think of Schwarzenegger as the goofy action star with the accent that you forget the bizarre, tangled and somewhat insane path he took to dominate three completely separate professions.
When he was born in Austria, his dad was coming off having just fought in World War II -- for the Nazis. At age 14, when most of us still owned toys and were fighting our personal battle with acne, he hatched a plan to become, well, Arnold Schwarzenegger. He started training to be a bodybuilder. The gym was closed on weekends. No matter; he would break in.
He even learned ballet.
At 18 he was drafted into the Austrian army. He went AWOL to compete in the Junior Mr. Europe bodybuilding contest. He won, then they threw him in jail. He got out and proceeded to win Mr. Universe at age 20. That's when he hatched the second part of his plan: Go to America and become hugely famous as an actor.
Oh, he could barely speak English, so there was that little thing to overcome. His first film role was so unintelligible they had to have another guy dub over his lines. And they changed his unspellable name to "Arnold Strong," which we kind of think he should have kept.
Along with the toga.
But here's where the story gets downright creepy. See, Schwarzenegger studied two subjects when he was a teenager: bodybuilding and psychology. And when you watch his 1970s bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron, you suddenly see how this Austrian nobody climbed his way to the top of, well, everything he ever tried. The man is a master manipulator.
From the way he subtly trashes an opponent in front of the man's own parents, under the guise of a friendly conversation, to the way he ruins another opponent's performance by convincing him to scream like a maniac while posing for judges, Arnold comes off like a goddamned bodybuilding Hannibal Lecter. Check out Arnold's monologue starting at :32:
After bragging about giving the competition the "wrong advices," Arnold goes on to win the whole shebang, which he celebrates by eating fried chicken and smoking a doob.
Only in America.
#5. Julia Child
TV chef Julia Child was a huge presence in American homes from 1963 until the 1990s, and her warm persona infected pop culture like a raging case of elderly bedbugs. Everyone loved her.
Except for chickens.
If you've never actually watched the real JuliaChild in action, you totally should. Because the first thing you realize is that she was, hands down, the most awkward woman to ever set foot in front of a camera, and that's counting Sofia Coppola. She was stooped and sweaty, fraught with awkward pauses and clumsy mishaps. Julia Child was like your favorite drunk aunt, if your drunk aunt could make a mean creme brulee.
The Badass:
Julia Child was a secret agent during World War II.
And leggy!
When World War II started, she had a serious hankering to join the war effort, but at 6 feet 2 she was too tall for both the WACs and the WAVES. Because, apparently, prior to the 1950s, tallness in women was believed to be a symptom of Nazi sympathies. Undeterred, she joined the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, instead. And the OSS, which was the grandpappy of the CIA, had plenty of use for the future French chef.
Gen. Eisenhower couldn't get out of bed without his breakfast lobster.
Right off the bat, she was promoted from clerk to working with the Emergency Sea Rescue Equipment Section, and those guys were dealing with a unique problem. It seemed that downed planes, pilots and underwater bombs had this bad habit of attracting sharks. While it sucked that sharks were eating pilots and all, it really sucked when sharks detonated missiles intended for German U-boats. Child and her team were charged with making that nonsense stop.
She discovered that dead sharks secrete a sulfur compound that live sharks can't stand, so they extracted dead shark juice and put it in pellet form, which pilots and sailors carried with them while traveling over the ocean. They also figured out a way to coat underwater bombs with the sauce so sharks would stop bumbling Nazi-killing with their stupid meddling.
That's right. Before she was a TV cook, she worked as a Shark Frightener.
#4. Daniel Day-Lewis
As an actor, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis has won two Academy Awards and blown the mind of anyone who ever enjoyed a milkshake with his Kubrick-esque portrayal of Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood.
His was the face that launched a thousand memes.
The Badass:
We're actually not sure if he's badass or just insane. Daniel Day-Lewis never met a role that he didn't become in real life.
Boxer, butcher/street brawler, wheelchair-bound cerebral palsy sufferer, last Mohican, Puritan preacher, all of them. He became all those things. For the 1997 film The Boxer, for example, he trained with former boxing world champion Barry McGuigan, who later remarked that Day-Lewis "could have turned professional" by the time their training was over.
It's really tough to figure out at which point he is acting.
For his performance as Christy Brown in My Left Foot, Day-Lewis refused to leave his wheelchair and had to be spoon-fed by the crew. For The Last of the Mohicans, he lived off the land for six months. He slept in an abandoned jail and ate only prison food for In The Name of the Father. For The Crucible, he "lived in the film set's replica village without electricity or running water" and built his character's house using 17th-century tools.
This man has spent a lot of time pooping in the woods.
The dude actually worked in a butcher shop to prepare for the character Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York, caught pneumonia after refusing to change out of his period clothing and spent most of his time off-camera sharpening knives, which he learned how to throw with deadly accuracy. While still in character and, from the sound of it, in costume, Daniel/Bill the Butcher reportedly traipsed about picking fights with strangers during the filming of Gangs of New York.
That pipe ended up in some thugs colon more than once.


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Mick de Giulio, founder of de Giulio Kitchen Design in Chicago, has been creating kitchens for distinctive residences through the U.S. and abroad since 1984. He was named a Kitchen and Bath Design Leader by Interior Design and one of the 50 most influential people in the kitchen and bath industry over the last 50 years by Kitchen and Bath Business.
The winner of numerous design awards, Mick has had work published in national and international magazines, including House Beautiful, Veranda, Interior Design, Town and Country, Traditional Home, Elle, Dolce Vita, Nile, Keukens, Domizil, Gods & Gärdar, and Architektur & Wohnen. The fifth designer chosen to work with Kallista, he is well known for his creative and artistic kitchen designs.


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FLOW-3D/MP enables engineers to take advantage of the power of FLOW-3D on high-performance compute clusters to tackle problems with very large domains or long runtimes. Hybrid parallelization of the FLOW-3D solver uses both Message Passing Interface (MPI) and OpenMP to achieve maximum parallelization and utilization of the underlying multi-core cluster architecture.
FLOW-3D/MP offers significant performance advantage and reduced runtimes which results in shorter design cycles and an opportunity to do a comprehensive parametric study within their design cycles. All this can be achieved while retaining the accuracy offered by FLOW-3D.
Highlights of FLOW-3D/MP v6.1
- Developed and optimized for the latest multi-core architecture
- Parallelization based on the Hybrid MPI-OpenMP methodology
- True Domain Decomposition
- Automatic Decomposition Tool allows directional decomposition
- Optimized MPI communication and memory management in the pre-processor
- Full compatibility with the FLOW-3D v11.1 GUI and FlowSight for post-processing results
- The physical models and numerical methods of FLOW-3D/MP v6.1 are based on FLOW-3D v11.1
- Remote solving capability enabled
High performance clusters offer significant performance gains over typical desktop computers but can be quite complex to configure. There are many choices for operating systems, middleware, interconnects, memory, and storage. Intel Corporation operates the Intel Cluster Ready certification program to assure users that hardware and software will work correctly together. Hardware that displays the Intel Cluster Ready logo is assured to run software which is also certified as Cluster Ready. FLOW-3D/MP v6.1 is certified Cluster Ready.


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Book exercise:
$R$ is a relation over $\mathbb Z$.
$aRb \leftrightarrow a - b \le 10$
Verify if it is reflexive, symmetric, transitive, antisymmtetic or total.
I can tell it is reflexive, since $a-a = 0 \le 10$.
It isn't symmetric, since $(0R11)$ but $\lnot(11R0)$
Not antisymmetric either, because $(10R0)\land(0R10)$ but $\lnot(10 = 0)$
Not transitive either, because $(11R1) \land (1R0)$ but $\lnot(11R0)$
All was well, until I tried to verify if it was total. Haven't been able to find a counter-example, so it is likely total after all. However, I don't know how to prove it. How can I?


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Saturday, 12 January 2013
Beauty Buys - Dermalogica.
That was until just before Christmas when I had an email from whatsinmyhandbag.com alerting me to the fact that they had a £10 off a £30 spend code. Now WIMH is a site I use to browse the contents of celebrity handbags and had never really looked at the products they sell online, until this discount code and upon closer inspection I noticed these Dermalogica sets of iconic items were only £9.50 each when on other sites they retail anywhere between £18 and £24 so I stocked up and made a promise to myself that for the meantime I was going to use this beauty brand, after all, everybody I know who uses it on a daily basis has lovely skin, so why had I not done it before?
Now you know how much I love my Liz Earle and Eve Lom cleansers, as both exfoliate in addition to cleaning the skin, so I have had to get used to using a separate product, the iconic Daily Microfoliant, which so many people rave about, but other than that, I am finding that I really like it all and instead of being on that constant search for a luxury product that will completely banish my wrinkles, it's about time I just gave up as I have realised that no such moisturiser or eye cream actually exists and all we can do is cleanse, tone and moisturise on a daily basis the rest is down to good gene's, good food, no smoking, and a high factor sun cream.
The set consists of 4 products which would be suitable for all skin types and makes the ideal starter kit or travel companion.
Special Cleansing Gel - Really like this and remove with water and sponges as I would for a facial. It's anti-bacterial whilst being mild enough to use on all skin types.
Daily Microfoliant - Powder formula that you mix with water. I remove it as I do the cleanser. I spray their Multi Active Toner afterwards but this is not in the set, I already have this. Made from Rice Bran which has been used by Japanese women for centuries.
Daily Soothing Cream - One of their universal moisturisers meant for normal to dry skin and does soften skin on impact. Increases hydration whilst soothing and healing.
Multi Vitamin Power Firm- An eye cream which can also be used in the lip area but not many websites tell you that, so its great if you feel you would like a multi function product that deals with that particular problem area as well as your eye area. Contains vitamins A,C and E along with antioxidants and seaweed.
I spoke to a good friend of mine who was Dermalogica trained at College and always performs my facials (when I find time to have one) and she said that she doesn't use the Microfoliant as she finds it drying and I do agree with her, but so long as you apply your toner and moisturiser straight after, your skin won't feel uncomfortable for long. I also have their skin prep scrub which my friend prefers, but am using the Microfoliant for now. She also said that she can't use this particular eye cream as it gives her small red spots around her eyes and funnily enough, it did me too, but they were so tiny and that ceased to happen after a few days of use, so she uses this particular product on her upper lip area and between her eyebrows instead.
WIMH now have another discount code running with £12 off a £35 spend if you fancy stocking up on these sets as I did, or giving Dermalogica a try for the first time. They would also make great gifts if you have any female birthdays coming up.
I would also like to recommend their Age Smart Power Recovery Masque, a powerful concentration of antioxidant vitamins for mature or prematurely ageing skin which I have also recently bought.
You can buy all the full size Dermalogica products mentioned here from www.lookfantastic.com
Have you ever tried Dermalogica? If so which products do you swear by?
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Love trying new skincare products, great post :) Have a lovely weekend xReplyDelete
Funnily enough I reordered my precleanse and smoothing cream yesterday too. I usually get it from Look fantastic, but they wouldn't take any of the codes this time for some reason so I got it from Essentials Pharmacy London and got it all £10 cheaper even than LF!! Was well chuffed! Love dermalogica products, although I am using the Liz Earle cleanser atm! XReplyDelete
Hi my dear!! This is a lovely review of Dermalogica, it certainly sounds a really good brand and it's always great to go by recommendation too. I generally just use cocoa butter lotion on my face, that's it. I don't get spots or skin problems (thankfully) so just stick to what I've been doing for years now. Have a lovely weekend Sharron xxxReplyDelete
Great review. I used Dermalogica years ago but am now a Liz Earle or L'Occitane (Immortelle) convert ;-)ReplyDelete
I am tempted to try their microfoliant again though after reading your review. Off to check out the site xx
I'm a big Dermalogica fan also Sharron. If I ever get the luxury of a facial, I always look for a salon that uses it. Love their masks also and the SPF additive that you can put into any other face cream - genius! I used to use the daily microfoliant all the time and swore by it but ran out a few months ago so you've reminded me to re-stock…off to check out those sites now! Enjoy the rest of your weekend, Avril xReplyDelete
So important that we take care of our skin. I have always moisturized from being in my early teens. Of course now I do everything I can, age and beauty hey! or is it more vanity?ReplyDelete
A great review and I'll definitely look at the websites mentioned - thanks. I'm a Clinique fan/addict but I like to use use Dermalogica body wash , body cream and buffing cloth.ReplyDelete
I've never tried Dermalogica (can you believe it?) although my good friend has used the range for years. Maybe because I used Liz Earle for so long and then switched to Emma Hardie (which my skin really seems to like) and then also have a few other cleansers to use up, I don't want to complicate matters further! I do have a small Daily Microfoliant sample from a beauty box yet to crack open. I am quite intrigued by the Multi Active Toner though - I wonder if this could be used in conjuntion with other brands? xxReplyDelete
Dermalogica is one of my rotator brands but it did make me chuckle when you have stuff in drawers but don't use them.ReplyDelete
I keep telling myself buying the products is only half the battle! You gotta use them for it to work..;)
I love their Gentle Cream Exfoliant!ReplyDelete
Thanks for this review! I love learning about products! Have a great week and come say hi!ReplyDelete


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There is a neat naming scheme for pentominoes based on letters they resemble. Is there a generalized naming scheme for polyominoes? If there isn't a canonical one, can you think of a good one?
- I should be able to look at a given $n$-tomino and deduce a unique name in the system
- Names should be relatively concise


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I was using Ubuntu 12.10 and upgraded to 13.04
Now Ubuntu just hangs at purple screen.
I have tried installed KDM and switched to KDM. I get the login prompt at KDM but login fails and shows up the login prompt repeatedly.
Tried many times with no success.
Using nvidia packages lightgdm nodm
What can I do to fix the problem and re-install 13.04?


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Even with what could be described as the weight of the world resting on their shoulders, today's college students seem unwilling to succumb to their generation's greatest challenge—climate change.
Max Boykoff, University of Colorado Boulder assistant professor of environmental studies, researches cultural and societal adaption to climate change, but some of his most telling discoveries are in his interactions with students.
"What strikes me nowadays is that these students have been born into a world largely where the issue of climate change was already on the public agenda," Boykoff said. "A lot of these students have a much more sophisticated and mature and wise approach to these sorts of global challenges. A lot of the questions come up in terms of what can they do to make good decisions to help influence these processes in their everyday lives."
CU-Boulder students are making changes locally and globally. Kevin Rechkoff (ENVS'12) was a volunteer for the CU Environmental Center's SCORE program, Student and Community Outreach on Renter Efficiency. The program takes students into off-campus homes to perform free energy assessments that help student renters save energy, but energy savings are only the tip of the iceberg for Rechkoff.
"It's a really great job because we come into students' houses, we talk with people, and we try to educate them," he said. "I love to talk to them about population. I'll talk about energy; I'll talk about water usage or any of this stuff. It's all involved; it's all connected. We all live in the same society."
While students like Rechkoff are making house calls, students like Charlotte Van Voast (MS CVEN'12) are helping develop sustainable building materials and methods as part of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities' Compressed Earthen Block project. Students play pivotal roles in optimizing inexpensive and locally sourced sustainable building materials for implementation in developing communities nationally and internationally.
"One of the best ways to be sustainable and green is really to go back to the earth," said Van Voast. "It will be interesting to investigate solutions that are both economical and sustainable."
For more information visit Learn More About Climate -- an initiative that localizes climate change for Coloradans, offering web resources, current research, educational videos, educator tools and more.


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So it's obvious that a string of things is a sequence of things, and so a sequence of characters/bytes/etc. might as well be called a string. But who first called them strings? And when? And in what context such that it stuck around? I've always wondered about this.
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Can we get a real citation before Hugo's 1963 reference? Yes. John McCarthy used the word "string" in Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine, Part I, from April 1960.
but more usefully for this question, a reference to a string as a datatype:
That's not a great example. By saying "a string of characters", McCarthy is not using "string" in the specialised sense programmers mean it today. You can easily say "a string" to a Java programmer and they'll know that the "of characters" part is implicit: McCarthy's use doesn't demonstrate this feature. Let's try to push back to the 1950s, to see whether McCarthy was playing it safe or whether the term genuinely didn't exist then. LISP probably isn't going to help much here, as it's based on a mathematical calculus so McCarthy's string functions may have been the first application of the idea to string processing.
An important string-processing system of the 1960s was 1964's SNOBOL, A String Manipulation Language. This cites McCarthy's paper above, but also discusses COMIT and SCL. The work they cite on SCL is unpublished: an unfortunate dead end.
COMIT is easier to track down. The Art of Computer Programming (Volume 1, third edition, p.461) tells us that V. H. Yngve wrote a 1963 CACM article on it. But I'm looking for the earliest use of "string", so I'll do an author search for earlier publications.
The first I can find is A Programming Language for Mechanical Translation, from July 1958. This only contains one use of the word "string":
Again, this use is like McCarthy's: this is not evidence for "string" being used in its present day sense. Looking at the paper in detail, we see that the data structure is a "line" on a card (allowing for continuations for longer "lines").
OK, we'll move forward in COMIT's history and see what we can get. The first useful reference is The COMIT system for mechanical translation, from the proceedings of a June, 1959 conference.
This seems more akin to the way we use it today: "string" stands alone and as a bonus has a recognisable special symbol: the dollar sign is still used in some BASIC flavours to signify a string variable.
From around this time, the word "string" also appears many times in A command language for handling strings of symbols by Perlis and Smith from the ACM '58 Proceedings, and once in The Share 709 System: Machine Implementation of Symbolic Programming by Boehm and Steel.
Searching the ACM digital library for 'string' in the early 1960s yields 62 results, including titles like "String handling in ALGOL", "String Manipulation in the New Language" and "A list-type storage technique for alphanumeric information". It seems that the idea has become entrenched by then.
I would argue that "string" in its computer science jargon sense as an ordered list of characters became common over a couple of years around 1960. Before that, authors like Yngwe and McCarthy could say "string of characters" and be sure that they were understood, but could not use "string" as a bare word in the sense it's used today.
The shorthand was probably introduced to the computing mainstream by the Perlis and Smith paper. It hasn't been widely cited, but one important citation is Syntactic and semantic augments to ALGOL by Joseph W. Smith in April 1960 (in the same issue of CACM as McCarthy's description of LISP). From that paper:
To me, this constitutes evidence of "string" meaning a datatype for symbolic computation being affirmed in the academic lexicon, and importantly introduced to the tools used for commercial computation.
Incidentally, Programming Languages: History and Future by Jean Sammet (1972) suggests that COMIT and SNOBOL were the progenitors of string manipulation, so I'm fairly confident that there won't be earlier examples.
Not a complete answer, but the use of string to mean "a number of objects arranged in a line" was already around in the late 1400s. Source
This is essentially the same usage.
The earliest reference I could find in computing is from March 1963's METEOR: A LISP Interpreter for String Transformations by Daniel G. Bobrow at MIT's AI Labs.
The Oxford English Dictionary has an earlier computing example from a 1956 issue of the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery: