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What reasons would you give for locating data centre in the basement instead of a upper floors?
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Weight isn't necessarily an issue. I'm working in a building with a large datacenter about 1/3 of the way up and across the street from a building with a medium sized datacenter about 11 stories up. I've been in datacenters in pole buildings, bunkers, high-rises, etc. Given a facility and some money, all things are possible.
The issue totally depends on the building though, and you need to talk to the landlord, building manager or building engineer about that. If I was making a decision about this, I'd hire someone with a clue to defer it to. Barring that, here's what I'd be thinking about:
There are no general answers that will lead to you making an intelligent yes or no decision. You need to study the site and make an appropriate decision based upon the building, your budget and other factors. You may even find that it is more cost effective to buy datacenter space from a colo rather than build out the space.
Point against: Flood risk!
Basements are the first place that will flood in the event of a leak, fire, etc. Also basements are only cool because they are insulated. If you stick hot equipment in there then it makes it harder to cool than on an above ground floor.
Half in the basement, half on the top floor.
The basement ones are out of the way, near incoming power systems but can get flooded. The top floor ones won't get flooded and are right on below the air-con systems (in fact you may be able to simply vent the hot air, saving loads of cash) but could be caught up in rising fires.
If you split your systems smartly you can manage the weight load and also provide a 'free' half-way house to a 'second-site'/DR solution whilst only taking up half of the space per floor you normally would.
Plus of course all IT people would need priority lift permissions at all times - which could come in handy :)
I suspect Workshop Alex was attempting humour but missed the target. Nevertheless, there is some truth in what he/she said. Upper floors are generally considered prime real estate. The basement is more of a utility area. To my way of thinking the server room needs to be utilitarian. It should also not need human presence very often (if it's well managed). Why not put it in the basement and use the upper floors for the humans? From a purely practical viewpoint, there are probably an equal number of pros and cons. If I had my choice the server room would be on the ground floor, simply because I don't like having to move heavy gear any further than I have to.
Weight. It won't be an issue for a single rack normally, but if you get many servers, batteries etc., it might be too heavy for upper floors.
None. Flooding. Bottom/street/ground floor ("first floor" in some nations ;) would seem like the best recommendation as normally you'd want them in a one-story building above ground.
As for leaks from above, the rooms should simply be designed around that with good draining... in the basement however there's not always any good way to do that with enough oompf.
I would say None. Use a dedicated hosting location and make use of high speed fiber connected (10g or better). Office buildings are great for people, less good for datacenters, and horrid for disaster recovery.
Always in the middle... both vertically and horizontally...
Avoid the top floor, ceilings leak Avoid the bottom floor/basement, too easy of access (broken window) and/or flooding.
presumably they have a freight elevator, so loading servers wont be an issue
you might try not-too-far from the external A/C units, which may reside on the ground, on the top, or sometimes in the middle if the building is tall enough.
Farther distance to the A/C unit will cost you in some way, but I suspect it's negligible.
How about cosmetics? A server room is used by machines. And machines don't need the view from the windows. Have the servers high up and you'll end up with bored employees in the basement. Put the server in the basement and the employees will have a nicer view to the parking lot or an even higher view.
I would argue that closer to the top may be an advantage but that depends mostly on the AC design. On the shady side of the building too. My reasoning is that a big cost that most IT people do not sign off on is the electricity to run the AC unit. If you put the datacentre on the ground and the compressor needs to pump to the 8th floor rooftop then you will need a much bigger AC unit to handle the distance of pipe. That will make it more expensive to buy, install, run and maintain. Also you don't need your server on the sunny side of the building adding to the size of AC you need to buy. In older buildings you may not be able to put the external unit on the roof and may have to put it in an outside facing plant room or at the base of the building so check with the owner before you buy/rent the office.
If the roof leaks it will be hard to predict where the water will go - get it fixed. I have seen a 13 floor building where the fire tank on the roof burst one Saturday night and water spilled down the fire stair till the third floor at which point it went out under the door and flooded the offices there. We were on the 6th and were unaffected.
Getting modern computer systems, UPS' and racks up in an elevator should not be an issue but measure the elevator before you buy the racks and the AC unit just to be sure you don't need to rent a crane.
I have, unfortunately, seen roof leaks kill servers before. I don't insist on the basement, but I really prefer putting as many floors as possible between a datacenter and any source of water.
For buildings with enough floors, don't forget the 100M limit of ethernet physical links.
None. In my paper "10 Places You Don't Want A Datacenter" this is number four. I provide the following quote...
"Basement datacenters are a mistake."
...to make my point. There's also a note from a nurse I met who spoke on her Hurricane Katrina experience on the paper.
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Since you roll the die even before you decide what to attack, it would seem very unlikely that you'd need to determine the number of attackers beforehand. This is further bolstered by a thread at the BoardGameGeek forums where a lot of Small World rules clarifications posted by the game developers are gathered. This is what it says about Berserk:
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It's an unsubtle cheat.
(That doesn't necessarily mean it's not good. Bear with me.)
The author wants to get across that Really Important Things are Happening. He wants to hook you with the beginning of his book. How does he manage to impart the tremendous significance the reader should be seeing right from the start?
Answer: by giving a dramatic, atmospheric, visual. That'll be enough to give readers a striking opening, to get across that Big Stuff Is Happening.
It's a cheat, in this case, because the visual really has nothing to do with the story. It's powerful, but irrelevant - the author is invoking the visual just to draw you in, not because it fits the story or is actually significant.
And it's unsubtle because he hits you over the head with it. "It was a dark and stormy night" - that's just a hair away from writing "It was a dramatic, suspenseful night," which I think you'll agree would be absurd. The author's trying to tell you the story is significant, and doing so quite bluntly, instead of actually demonstrating its interest and significance.
Now, in moderation, those would be legitimate cheats. You can definitely get away with that kind of stuff; often it's to your advantage, as long as the reader doesn't notice outright what you've done. The difficulty is, "Dark and stormy night" is both such an egregious example, and so oft-quoted and overused, that it completely loses its effectiveness on the one hand, and calls fatal attention to its flaws on the other. It's both a cliche (because a stormy night is an effective image) and a useless one (as opposed to cliches which have true power because their core idea is so significant).
Others have responded regarding the contest. I don't think that the tiny snippet is the inspiration for the contest; the full paragraph and Bulwer-Lytton's prose in general are to blame for that.
The opening sentence is bad for a number of reasons. First, aren't all nights dark? Why say that? But it is not so bad that a good writer couldn't have recovered from it and gone on to write a good book. This author did not, however. His works are regarded by most critics as terrible. Pretty much no one but a grad student in English reads a novel like Paul Clifford today.
The contest you refer to is the Bulwer-Lytton contest.
Anything that is so universally mocked you would probably be wise to avoid, unless you are entering such a contest yourself.
Although the traditional pointer is to Edward Bulwer-Lytton's purple prose, it may be better known in Britain as a school playground story for the unimaginative which starts something like
but sadly I do not have enough space here to finish it.
It's the opening of the novel Paul Clifford by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, which has become a textbook example of purple prose, an overly extravagant writing style.
Wikipedia: It was a dark and stormy night
The phrase is used repeatedly by Snoopy in his efforts to start a novel, and the final result is naturally an example of purple prose.
One problem is that the sentence is heavy-handed and melodramatic. The dark is a metaphor. The storm is a metaphor. Yeah, yeah, we get it. We're in for a dark and stormy story.
Madeleine L'Engle begins A Wrinke in Time with It was a dark and stormy night. I haven't read it, but I suspect she uses the sentence playfully, deliberately tapping into its long association with heavy-handed melodrama.
It gives you no sense of character or urgency or anything. In my opinion, it is just not intriguing to start a story with the weather.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with those lines, in fact they are perfectly devised. Nobody has a problem when a movie sets the mood by opening with thunder booms and lightening flashes at night. This is just the academic elitists doing their usual 'holier than thou' schtick and similar to artsy people gushing over modern art rubbish - they think it's cool.
I have never heard anyone complain about the opening shot of any movie, on any subject. I think you are moking a knee-jerk reaction answer with no facts to support it. The early lines of any book are supposed to be designed to 'hook' the reader, whether or not the rest of the book warrants the opening is however, a legitimate debate.


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Not saying that those in that group aren't to be trusted, just that they are more or less clean slates.
Are we waiting on some votes?
Also, I started listening to the latest Zero Cool podcast and noticed in the list of films & games you cover you talk about Mass Effect 3 later on.
I've not got to that bit yet, does it have any spoilers in it? I'm still playing through ME2 and have managed to not read anything about the third game.
It's not me this time. I put in my vote yesterday.
Here are the votes!
Proposal 3.1, proposed by noobspoon: noobspoon, ZombiePlatypus, Muckfoot, Analoge
djnealb - FOR
Byronic Man - AGAINST
noobspoon - FOR
Flamoctapus - AGAINST
ZombiePlatypus - FOR
Muckfoot - AGAINST
Artful-dodgeR - FOR
Analoge - FOR
AVALANCHE would try again to hit Reactor #8. (Or was it #6? Nobody could remember.) Since ZombiePlatypus had set up a date with the security guard, he would have to be on the team again in order to woo her away from the security footage once more. noobspoon would also resume his role as the man with the detonator, but new to the team were Muckfoot, whose engineering skills have him creating the bomb out of spare fuel and household chemicals, and Analoge, who would hack into the security systems in order to gain access to the reactor core.
noobspoon, ZombiePlatypus, Muckfoot, and Analoge: send me a PM whether you would like the mission to PASS or FAIL. Unlike the voting for the teams, it will not be revealed who submitted which result. Remember, Resistance members must submit a PASS, while Spies may choose to submit a PASS or a FAIL.
Midgar was a loud city. There was a lot of hustle and bustle, with steam engines venting and metal grinding against metal. But one sound that was severely lacking on this cool night was the sound of the destruction of a reactor.
Whose fault was it this time? Did Muckfoot construct a dud bomb? Did noobspoon ever even hit the button? Did ZombiePlatypus give the security guard enough warning to have a team disarm the explosive? Did Analoge signal Shin-Ra while she was hacking into their systems? Regardless, the bomb didn't go off, and the reactor stood tall above the industrial wasteland.
Mission 3 results!
Therefore, the mission FAILS. One point goes to the Spies.
Flamoctapus is the Team Leader for Proposal 4.1.
Flamoctapus: please propose a 5-person team for Mission 4. This mission is unique, in that it requires two FAIL submission to fail. A single FAIL is not enough.
Everybody else: Discuss, and then after Flamoctapus makes a proposal, send me your vote whether you are FOR or AGAINST his proposal. (Also, it would make my life easier if you put "Proposal 4.1 - FOR/AGAINST" in your subject line)
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I didn't give her a warning about the pinhole I put in the condom, why would I warn her about the team?
Noobspoon and I have been on two losing teams, but I know I'm not a bad dude. Is he? Is Analoge? Is my dear sweet Mucky?
I don't even know.
Could be an easy alibi for you. Vote against the plan in the hopes that enough people let it go through, then botch it if it passes.
Not saying that's the case. As it is, there's really no way of knowing for sure who the bad dudes are.
True, I can accept that it may look that way - I'm guessing it might have been why the other two voted against, however.
I feel that we might have an advantage on this one, as the spies need to in the group to win and they can't coordinate privately as there's no night phase. I'd be interested to see who Flam considers mission worthy, as always I'd recommend myself as I know I'm not a spy.
At least if the team were rejected we would have a record of who noobspoon (suspected spy) wanted on a team, without actually having to field that team.
Well I'm 100% certain I'm not the bad guy but I'm inclined to suspect one of the new team members.
Edit - We get almost all our info from the proposal voting results, even if you see nothing wrong with a proposal it might be worth voting against as it would force the spies to vote on yet another proposal, giving us more results to compare.
As far as I'm concerned, noob, Byron, and ZP are the most suspicious. Personally, my gut is telling me that, of those three, noob and ZP are the most likely to be spies. Flam, if I were you I would use the other 5 members to make your team.
Someday everybody will finally realize that I am always to be trusted, always.
This is not that day. So yeah, use me or leave me, but I'm not a bad dude. I'm just a man that has fallen hard for a wizened old security guard.
Either put me and three other non-bad dudes on the team, or give us a team of all "new" folks. Please?


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Question: I would like to know if there are results in the literature concerning the prime numbers of the form $$ p = 2q^n-1 $$ where $$ q $$ is an odd prime number.
Moreover, conjectural asymptotics are of special interest.
Furthermore, there seems not to be an entry in the OEIS about these prime numbers.
First terms are: $$ 5,13,17,37,53,61,73,97,\dots $$


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Raymonda-1898 - premiere reports
Posted 07 March 2002 - 12:35 PM
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Raymonda, Countess de Doris (Pierina Legnani)
The Countess Sybille, canoness, Raymonda's aunt (Mme Cecchetti)
The White Lady, protector of the House of Doris
Clemence, girlfriend of Raymonda (Mlle Kulichevskaya)
Henriette, girlfriend of Raymonda (Preobrazhenskaya)
The Knight Jean de Brienne (Sergei Legat)
Andrei II, King of Hungary
Abderrakhman, a Saracen knight (Pavel Gerdt)
Bernard de Ventadour, a troubadour or Provence (Georgi Kyasht)
Beranger, a troubador of Aquitaine (Nikolai Legat)
Seneschal, in charge of the castle of Doris
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ACT I, SCENE ONE - Raymonda's Name-day
Scene I: A hall in the castle of Doris. Raymonda's 4 friends are onstage (Henriette, Clemence, Bernard and Beranger). The Senescahl issues order re: name-day celebrations.
La Traditrice: dance of 4 friends and 12 [older, I think] students.
Scene II: Sybille enters with 8 ladies in waiting. Scolds everyone for their idleness.
Reprise de la danse: No one pays any attention and they dance again.
Scene mimique: Countess demands pages put away their instruments.
La Recit de la Comtesse: Countess tells story about White Lady, protectoress of the castle, whoe statue is upstage center. The White Lady will bless them if they fulfill thei responsibilities, but not if they are idle (!).
La danse: Everyone makes fun of the superstitious old woman and dances around her.
Scene III: Servants announce arrival of messengers. Countess goes to get Raymonda.
Scene IV: Entrance of Raymonda (with variation in which she picks up flowers that girl students have put in a trail on the ground).
Scene V: Raymonda reads the letter stating Jean de Brienne will return tomorrow to marry her.
[At this point, Petipa added an entrance for the Saracen knight, Abderrakhman, who offers Raymonda gifts in honor of her name day. She is not interested and he plans to abduct her at a later time. Glazunov composed only 8 additional bars of music for all this action.]
Scene VI: 8 vassals enter and congratulate Raymonda. 24 peasant couples follow.
Grande valse: 24 peasant couples.
Pizzicato: variation for Raymonda.
Reprise de la valse: Waltz resumes with peasant couples and entree for Raymonda.
Scene mimique: Raymonda asks the seneschal to arrange a cour d'amour for the next day's wedding festivities. Everyone departs, except Raymonda and 4 friends. It is evening.
Prelude et la Romanesca: dance for 4 friends (Alexandra Danilova referred to this dance as a "character mazurka" although the music is in 4/4 time and not a mazurka.)
Prelude et variation: Harp variation for Raymonda with scarf.
Scen mimique: Raymonda lies down, fanned by pages. Clemence plays the lute. All magically fall asleep except Raymonda.
Scene VII: Apparition de la Dame Blanche: The White Lady descends from her pedestal. Raymonda is petrified but follows her out onto the terrace. Curtain falls.
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ACT ONE, SCENE 2 - Visions
Scene VIII: A park outside the castle. White Lady is followed by Raymonda (actually Raymonda's doubles, who will watch the real Raymonda in the subsequent dances). A mist covers everything. When it lifts, Jean de Brienne and 12 knights are surrounded by 48 corps women and also children. The women crown the knights. Raymonda runs to Jean.
Grand Adagio: Raymonda and Jean pas de deux with corps groupings.
Valse Fantastique: Corps waltz.
Variation 1: Female soloist.
Variation II: Female soloist.
Variation III: Raymonda [Petipa did not use the music Glaznuvo composed for this variation. Instead, he used an arrangement of the waltz from Glazunov's "Scenes de Ballet".]
Coda: Everyone.
Scene IX: Raymonda goes back to the White Lady, who mimes, "Look, and learn what awaits you." Raymonda turns back to Jean and find herself face to face with Abderrakhman. Everyone else has disappeared. Extended mime conversation ensues. He wants her, she rejects him. She faints (either here or after children's dance).
Scene X and Ronde des follets et des farfadets: student will-o'-the-wisps and goblins appears and dance around Raymonda.
Scene XI: The sun rises.
Scene XII: Friends from the castle come out onto the terrace, see Raymonda, and try to revive her.
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ACT II - Cour d'Amour
Scene I - March: A courtyard at the castle of Doris. Everyone congratulates Raymonda, but she is worried that Jean has not yet arrived. Trumpets announce special guests ...
Scene II: Abderrakhman arrives and Raymond recognizes him from her dream. Sybille reminds Raymonda of her duty of hospitality.
Scene III (Grad pas d'action): Dramatic adagio in which Abderrakhman tries to woo Raymonda. 4 friends also participate.
Variation I: Henriette or Clemence.
Variation II: Henriette or Clemence (I'm not sure who danced which variation).
Variation III: Bernard or Beranger (this variation is now often used for Jean in Act III).
Variation IV: Raymonda (horn solo).
Coda: all.
Scene mimique: Abderrakhman presents his retinue to Raymonda and a character suite begins.
Entree des jongleurs: 30 men and 30 women. They hit sticks on the ground during the dance.
Danse des garcons arabes (Arab boys): 12 student boys. Balanchine danced this role in 1917.
Entree des Sarrazins: Saracen couple.
Grand pas espagnol: Lead couple and 12 women (this was later changed to 8 couples; the notation was first made for 16 women, then crossed out to change to 8 couples).
Danse Orientale: This was intended as a variation for Raymonda, but from all I can gather, this number was omitted in 1898.
Bacchanal: The coda of the character suite. Everyone participates and at the end Ab tries to adbuct Raymonda.
Scene IV: Jean and King Andrei arrive in the3 nick of time. Brief fighting. The king calms everyone down. Jean and Ab receive swords and prepare to duel.
Le combat: The fight itself, which has three short parts. In the third part, the White Lady appears (along with her musical theme) and Jean kills Ab. Andrei joins the hands of Jean and Raymonda.
Hymne: Everyone is relieved and celebrates.
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ACT III - Le Festival des Noces
Le cortege hongrois: Outside at Jean's castle somewhere in France. A procession in which Raymonda and jean are congratulated by wedding guests.
Grand pas hongrois: a Hungarian divertissement in honor of the present of King Andrei II of Hungary. Petipa seems to have re-arranged the order of the dances, but I'll give them in the order in the score. This particular number is a czardas for a lead couple (Preobrazhenskaya and Bekefi) and 20 additional couples.
Dance des enfants: Children's dance for 12 student couples.
[Mazurka]: Petipa added a mazurka, from Glazunov's "Scenes de Ballet", for a lead couple (Marie Petipa and Kchesinsky) and 12 additional couples.
Entree: 8 couples plus Jean and Raymonda.
Pas classique hongrois: addagio for 8 couples, Jean and Raymonda.
Variation I: Female variation (don't know how danced it). Could have been Clemence or Henriette because both neither of the dancers portraying those roles danced in this section of the divert. Preobrezhensakaya was dancing character dances during this act.
Variation II: Female variation (don't know who danced it).
Variation III: Men's pas de quatre for Jean, Bernard, Beranger, plus Alexander Gorsky (!). Quite the line up of dancers!
Variation IV: Raymonda's piano variation.
Coda: All classical participants.
Galop: Everyone.
Apotheose: The apotheosis depicted a tournament. The back of the stage opened to reveal an open square in which a tournament is taking place.
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Posted 05 July 2005 - 02:19 AM
Posted 05 July 2005 - 06:02 AM
This recording is 1 of 2 recordings of the complete score. And further more, it is the only recording of the performance score, conducted properly for ballet dancing and not for the concert hall.
Posted 06 July 2005 - 07:28 AM
Posted 08 July 2005 - 05:35 AM
I do know that it was indeed Riccardo Drgo that 'slightly' modified the music - mostly adding marks of expression, little stuff like that.
Posted 08 July 2005 - 06:20 AM
Fullington, Doug.
Title :Raymonda at 100.
Ballet review. New York. v. 26, no. 4 (winter 1998), p. 77-86.
Discussion of the original production of the ballet Raymonda which premiered in 1898 with choreography by Marius Petipa, summary of the plot, and description of several revivals.
Includes bibliography.
Posted 08 July 2005 - 07:15 AM
Solor, I would love to know your source for the information on Drigo's participation in any alterations to the score.
The Harvard Theater Collection has an Imperial-era piano score that includes pencil-marked cuts for the version performed at the Maryinsky in the early years of the 20th century (it appears to go back all the way to the 1898 premiere). This includes some handwritten music, including the intro to the Arab boys' dances, and some piano reductions of single pieces, like the Scenes de Ballet mazurka.
Posted 10 July 2005 - 12:29 AM
I do know that Drigo conducted the 1st performance of the ballet, and since he was the one who changed things at the behest of Petipa for the ballets of Tchaikovsky, I don't see why he would'nt have done the same with the score of 'Raymonda'. But I dont know for sure. I always assumed that Drigo did any reduired changes. I know that the original score (I have the Naxos release conducted by Anissimov with the Msocow Symphony) and the one recorded by Fedotov (with the Orchestra of the Mariinksy; re-released by the label Classical Records in Moscow) are different in certain sections. All of the music added from 'Scenes de ballet' is included in the recording of Fedotov.
I must purchase this fine book of yours - or is it a book or an article? Info please !I did not know that there was an in depth study done of 'Raymonda'!
I would like to know, if you can, where exaclty any changes from the original score are
Posted 10 July 2005 - 08:57 AM
Drigo may well have made some changes of tempi in the conductor's score, but any changes to Raymonda do not approach those made for Swan Lake or Sleeping Beauty. To my knowledge and based on Imperial-era sources available in the West, very few changes were made at all. Additions of music were handled by Glazunov. The collaboration between Glazunov and Petipa, like that between Tchaikovsky and Petipa, appears to have been very close. However, Glazunov followed Petipa's instructions (available in English translation and also published in the original Russian) nearly to the letter, so fewer changes were made as the production approached its premiere. Other than the two interpolations mentioned(and also the apparent omission of the Act II "Dance Orientale") and a couple of minor cuts or added repeats, the score was essentially played as written.
I suggest getting hold a piano score of Raymonda. It is published in its original version with interpolations, cuts, added intros, etc.). You can compare it to the Fedotov recording. And do you have the NAXOS recording of the complete score?
Posted 10 July 2005 - 10:16 PM
Doug - where can one find your article of "Raymonda" - I would love to read it! Is it available to be read online perhaps? Please let me know !
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Posted 15 July 2005 - 08:23 AM
It's a wonderful showcase for boys, with a couple of sequential parts, where each boy does, for example, double tours solo, one after another, and I'm sure the boys will have a great time pushing each other to do better and better.
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When the St. Clairsville Red Devils returned from their appearance in the Division IV State Championship Game Friday afternoon they arrived just as they had left in the morning, escorted by a parade of law enforcement and fire vehicles.
It was a bittersweet moment as the 14 seniors were introduced and walked arm-in-arm one last time across the turf at Red Devil Stadium.
Carl Brown is a dedicated football fan and has not missed a game since the 1980s and was on hand to welcome back the team, "It was a great season and this may be the biggest thing to ever happen in St. Clairsville.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE senior Corey Ernest addresses the crowd Friday night at the team recognition event held after the Devils returned from Canton and the Division IV State Championship Game.
"With the success of our sports teams, the pride is back in St. Clairsville," Brown continued. "This school has come a long way in the last 12 years and I feel coach McLean and Kelly Rine are the reason for that success.
"We had a big crowd in Canton toady and the city came out and showed a lot of support," Brown added. "In fact, I saw a lot of different varsity jackets from teams all around the valley, so I think the entire valley came out to support our Red Devils."
Bill Androsko said that despite the loss the team had little reason to hang their heads, "the boys did a terrific job all season and we have really enjoyed the run to Canton."
"They have a lot to be proud of and I came out to thank them for a great season," Androsko explained. "Besides, it is nice to be back in the stadium one last time."
Jena Ehni's fiance (Ben Frye) is a member of the Red Devils' coaching staff and she has been supporting both him and the team all season.
"We could not be prouder of this team," said Ehni. "How can you be upset about the game today when they have played so well all season?
"The way they carried themselves in their victories and in their defeat today shows they are a great group of young men and one woman."
"Honestly, after 15 weeks of football, I don't know what I will do with myself now that it is over."
Christa Truchan, a teacher and volleyball coach at St. Clairsville high school explained that the team is not just a group of talented athletes, "They are really good kids.
"I never thought we would go 15 weeks, it was a lot of fun," said Truchan. "I am so proud to be both one of their teachers and an alumni of St. Clairsville."
High School principal Walt Skaggs spoke to the crowd and introduced head coach Brett McLean.
The coach said he was a very emotional person, but rarely showed it outwardly choking back tears at several times during his speech.
He began by thanking the fans and the community for their support.
"It was a great feeling to look up into the stands and see them filled with a sea of red," McLean told the crowd of dedicated supporters gathered for the ceremonies.
"It has been a dream of ours to win the state title for the last 11 years," he told the crowd. "Today, it was a dream come true for our team to play in that game."
Each senior had a turn at the mic and senior lineman Corey Ernest spoke for the team as he held the silver trophy.
He also thanked the fans for all of their support throughout the season.
Mayor Robert Vincenzo spoke to the crowd about the special season, thanked the team for the season of success and complimented them on their fine representation of the city and the entire valley.
One last time the band, cheerleaders, coaches and fans joined in the alma mater and then the team went into the locker room leaving behind an empty field.
The turf will remain silent this winter but next August Red Devils will return and rekindle the hope to have another opportunity to play for a state title.


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19 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped (Part 12)
It's time again for another installment of our popular feature wherein we show you photographs that are 100 percent real, despite the fact that they all look 100 percent fake. In case you missed the previous installments, here is a season-by-season recap of Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, the gritty reboot that doesn't acknowledge the previous installments, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, and Part 11. Although you can probably just jump right in, this isn't Breaking Bad or anything.
#19. The Demon Cloud Awakens
Rival Gustavo / National Geographic
Somewhere down on the ground, Brendan Fraser is running like hell away from that thing.
If you're one of the few people who don't see the face of a gigantic terror demon scowling at some poor soul out of frame to the left, congratulations, you have one of those brains that don't project gargantuan horror onto everyday things. For the rest of you: Yes, that's an unaltered photo and not bad CGI -- the picture was taken during an eruption of Cordon Caulle, which as far as we know didn't awaken a mountain-sized devil that then slowly swallowed all of creation.
And only slightly more terrifying ...
#18. Doppelganger Hasselhoff
This is the type of thing you see in your room when you're suffering from sleep paralysis. David Hasselhoff either constructed a manifestation of his own ego or is about to be eaten by a giant Steve Guttenberg.
Actually, that monstrosity is an oversized double of the Hoff created for that scene in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie where SpongeBob and Patrick ride on David Hasselhoff's back and make everyone in the theater uncomfortable. But don't worry, we're sure that as soon as the Hoff and his double were alone together, he didn't stick his cock into its waiting mouth.
#17. Man With a Freaking Hole in His Head
Jesus! Are these all going to be horrifying?
If this one isn't Photoshop, then it's clearly a man who just underwent hours of makeup to be in a horror film. That's Eli Roth standing next to him -- of course this is for a movie.
Wrong! The fun-loving Cyclops in the picture is named Billy Owen, and he really lost his eye and part of his skull to cancer (notice the artificial palate in his hand). He saw the loss as an opportunity, though, so now he acts in horror movies and haunted houses, like Eli Roth's Goretorium in Las Vegas.
Honestly, the makeup guys don't have to do much.
That's ... kind of a cool story, actually. If cancer eats part of your face, just embrace it. There's a market out there for everything.
#16. The City in the Clouds
This looks like a place where intergalactic smugglers go to hide from Boba Fett. Clearly someone just set a bucket of dry ice near a bunch of Puzz-3Ds and took a picture.
However, this CGI-esque photo is actually the city skyline of Dubai (which contains 22 skyscrapers that exceed 75 floors) jutting up through some fog. We imagine that the view you're seeing here can really revolutionize weather forecasting, seeing as how you can measure the altitude of cloud cover simply by leaning out the window.
Speaking of completely fake-looking weather ...
#15. The Happiest Tornado on Earth
Eric Nguyen / Oklahoma State University / NASA
Either someone on the ground is Care Bear Staring the hell out of that tornado, or a leprechaun is locked in an intense battle with a weather witch.
In reality, this a photo from the NASA website, of all places. The tornado seemingly colliding with a rainbow is the result of pure coincidence. Are we the only ones who'd pay money to hear the "Double Rainbow!" guy's reaction to this?
#14. Black-and-White Woman Badly Cropped into Fashion Shoot
WireImage/Getty Images
OK, somebody obviously just pasted a character from The Addams Family TV show into a picture of one of the strippers from Rock of Love. It doesn't even look like a good crop-and-paste job, look at her feet!
But this is exactly what you'd have seen if you were there -- the monochromatic woman in the picture is a contestant from RuPaul's Drag Race named Detox, who had herself dramatically painted by a makeup artist to create the illusion of a haunted photograph from the 1930s (similar to the black-and-white Santa we saw back in one of our previous installments).
#13. The Guy Sitting in This Chair Fell to His Death Long Ago
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This picture is so obviously fake, we probably immediately dismissed it the first time we saw it. You can see the strings, for crying out loud! The chair is clearly being hung in the air in front of a big photo of the Earth.
Actually, this is a still frame from a Toshiba commercial. Those strings are connected to a weather balloon, which they used to hoist the chair into space befuckingcause.
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Too bad the balloon hauling the TV popped 20,000 feet back.
The commercial was inspired by an art piece called "Escape Vehicle No. 6," and as you can imagine, some pretty awesome things happen when the balloon pops.
#12. Beached Cruise Ship
Either this is a scene from an upcoming Roland Emmerich movie, or that cruise ship was improbably placed on that cliff by the gentlest tsunami in history.
Actually, neither is true -- what you're looking at is the Sun Cruise Resort and Yacht in South Korea, a hotel that was deliberately built to look like a maritime disaster. Some designer looked at a luxury cruise liner and thought, "Man, that is great, but what if someone could build one of those on land?" without realizing that we already have those (they're called "hotels"). Then again, we'll all be apologizing when this thing springs its gigantic wheels and goes rumbling through the city, crushing everything in its wake.
#11. College Dorm Collage
This looks like four different Target ads pasted together in a flier to let the neighborhood know how terrible your personal taste is.
However, look at the spoon coming out of the coffee mug, and trace the arm of that desk lamp -- this is actually just a single photograph. Move the camera slightly and ...
Bela Borsodi
Ow! Right in the spatial awareness.
The "edges" of the seemingly different pictures were all created using perspective tricks -- you can see the artist setting the whole thing up in this video, although they seem to have edited out the portion where Jimmy bumped into the table and they had to beat him to death.
#10. Don't Walk Too Close, It'll Bite Your Head Off
At best, this looks like the spirit guide that appears in our plucky main character's cul-de-sac toward the end of the movie to tell him that if he doesn't ask Jennifer Love Hewitt to prom or whatever, he'll regret it for the rest of his life. At worst, this is the lazy Photoshop you are rewarded with when you click on one of those "REAL EVIDENCE OF GHOSTS?" links.
It's actually the benevolent face of Buddha, part of an art installation in Cambodia where several images of cultural significance are being projected onto trees and such with 3D projectors.
Really, no religious artwork has done its job until it has terrified a drunk person trying to walk home at three in the morning.


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Q: I am the mother of two sons, ages six and ten. My husband thinks that I am often too affectionate with my ten-year-old -- tightly embracing him in hugs, kissing him on the lips, etc. My son is very affectionate and usually initiates this contact, even in front of peers. My husband is trying to be sensitive to our son's emerging adolescent sexuality and thinks my affectionate responses might be confusing for our son.
I want him to grow to be a man who isn't afraid of showing affection, and I don't want to put him at arms-length when he still desires a lot of affection. However, I wasn't raised with any males and I might not understand the confusing signals mothers might inadvertently send to sons. What do you think?
A: I understand both you and your husband's concerns regarding the "appropriate" degree and nature of physical affection that is healthy between a mother and her ten-year-old son. Your son is clearly comfortable with his physical exchanges of affection with you and you mention that he usually initiates this contact, even in front of peers. Adult-like lingering kisses on the lips and anything closely resembling the sexualized physical behavior between adults that your son has observed would not be healthy to exchange -- this could confuse and possibly trouble him as he grows into his preadolescence. But this isn't the behavior you describe.
I would not suddenly terminate displays of physical affection with your son. A peck on the lips or cheek and hugs from you are fine, as long as they do not produce discomfort or inappropriate responses from your son. At age ten, he is indeed becoming a more sexualized boy, as his hormones are kicking in. However your exchanges of affection may change, as he grows older, you never need to stop displaying some physical affection to him.
Physical displays of affection between sons and daughters and both their parents are healthy, positive, nurturing manifestations of the love and should continue as long as everyone is comfortable with these displays. Don't be surprised or take it personally if your boy stops initiating these displays of affection in front of his male peers. It may become "uncool" for him to do that soon because boys of this age think they are too old for that kind of "mushy stuff" -- at least in public.
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Until recently, a Florida high school had a summer reading program that had everyone in the school, regardless of grade level, reading the same book. However, the school's administration canned the program over the content of this year's book, Little Brother by Cory Doctorow.
The reasoning is a bit odd. The school, or at least, the librarians and English teachers responsible for actually reading the book and writing discussion materials for the students, vetted it and found nothing inappropriate about it. The plug was pulled at the last minute by the school's principal, who's reasoning seems to be primarily based on online reviews. Those reviews mentioned that the book had a "positive view of questioning authority" and "lauding hacker culture." The principal also said that he had received parent complaints about profanity, though the author insists the only profanity is one indirect reference.
(Even if the book was foul-mouthed, let's all just admit that shielding 14- to 18-year-olds from naughty words is a losing battle. Personally, those were my peak cursing years.)
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Won 5 in a row in Regional Division in Germany with my team. I'm playing away now with worst team in league. What is my problem. No, it's not that I lost (it's true though), but the problem is that ALL of my players are ineligable for this match!!!! HOW COME??? This is a horrendous cheat and I want SI now to correct my save and I want to play normal game like every game I've played!


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The media routinely reports that opposition to national Common Core education standards and tests resides within fringe elements of the Right, such as Tea Parties. That's not the case, says author and middle school science teacher Kris Nielsen. Common Core opposition spans parties and political ideologies, reaching those who don't like the marriage of big government and big business, and want more local control over schools. Kris is author of Children of the Core, and his brand new book is Uncommon: The Grassroots Movement to Save Our Children and Their Schools. He discusses why teachers are afraid to speak up, grassroots opposition to Common Core from across the political spectrum, and better ways to keep schools accountable without tying everything to one test.