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Story collections are making a big comeback, and this week PEOPLE staffers can't get enough of them. From the darkly funny dystopian tales of Sam Lipsyte to the latest from critical darling Alice Munro, check out what we're reading. Then let us know what books you can't put down.
Her pick: Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
I'm not going to lie to you: this collection is weird. But that's part of why it's so wonderful. No matter how bizarre the scenario – an 11-year-old homesteader carrying broken glass in a blizzard, Japanese silk-spinners who are half-girl, half-silkworm – Russell's tales are striking. Ordinarily I read alone, but this book made me want to dissect each story with friends.
Larry Hackett, Managing Editor
His pick: The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte
Full of hyper-verbal junkies, delusional teenagers, absurdist set-ups, switch-blade word play and a seriously bent sense of humor, Lipsyte's short stories are both spit-take funny and really creepy snapshots of dystopian urban life. Think Girls, but with even less sentimentality. Harrowing and hilarious.
Her pick: Dear Life by Alice Munro
I've never considered myself much of a short story fan, but Munro's latest made me reconsider. In her stories, which are like miniature novels, Munro explores the ways in which our decisions – and chance – bevel our lives in ways both sharp and subtle. Plus, I love that the short story format gives me the flexibility to jump in and out – and even fit in a few other good reads in between.
Check back every Thursday for another round of staff picks, and see more book reviews each week in PEOPLE magazine, on newsstands now. Plus, check out last week's "memoirs we can't put down" and more book club finds here.


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SSDs are continuing the march to ever higher storage capacities and part of the march to higher capacities is ever increasing prices. Perhaps one day flash prices will come down to the point where SSDs are more in line with the price of traditional HDD storage today.
Intel has announced that it is upping the capacity of its line of SSDs to 160GB. Intel is lagging behind its competition in the capacity wars for SSDs. Intel's 160GB capacity is measly in comparison to the massive 512GB SSD that Toshiba announced recently.
At the time Toshiba made the 512GB SSD announcement, pricing for the drives was unknown. CNET News reports that Toshiba is now saying the 512GB SSD will go for $1,652. A similar capacity 2.5-inch laptop HDD sells for under $200. Toshiba's 64GB SSD, announced alongside its 512GB SSD, will sell for $220.
Intel reports that the pricing for its new 160GB 2.5-inch SSD will be $945 in lots of under 1,000. The 2.5-inch SSDs are sized for laptops and 1.8-inch versions of the drive will ship next month for ultraportable laptops according to CNET News. The new 160GB SSDs will be versions of Intel's X25-M and X18-M units.
Considering that the 80GB Intel SSD adds a whopping $659 over the cost of a 120GB HDD in the HP EliteBook 2530, the cost of admission for the new SSD with twice the capacity likely won't be appealing to most consumers.
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COLUMBIANA -City officials are requesting residents call city hall when they experience a brief power outage at their homes.
Councilman Bryan Blakeman said Tuesday he has received numerous phone calls from residents saying their electricity "flashes" off and on several times a week, and sometimes more than once a day. The brief outages have happened at his Firestone Farms home as well.
"It's costly. I've never seen anything like it," he said.
He asked if the city could pursue a grant to purchase surge protectors, which City Manager Keith Chamberlin said he wasn't sure.
Chamberlin also said he wasn't sure what was causing the problem, but believed it could be a result of First Energy "switches" in the two main feeds coming into town.
"They do switches quite often. We have no control over that," he said.
Councilman Tom Ferguson said the electricity has flashed off and on at least once a week at his Village Court home.
Chamberlin said the city needs to know where the brief outages are occurring, so residents should call city hall at 330-482-2173 immediately after they happen.
Mayor David Spatholt said residents should also keep track of the time the outages occur and how long they last.
In other business, Councilman Bob Bieshelt asked council to weigh in on whether they should "jump on the wagon" like other communities requesting a slice of the casino tax revenue coming to county commissioners.
Commissioners received a portion of the taxes generated by the state's first ever casinos that opened in Cleveland and Toledo in May. Commissioners received a check for $94,000 in July, which represented about five weeks worth of tax collection. Municipalities requesting a share of the taxes are doing so as a result of cuts in state local government funding, which is also given first to commissioners.
Of the casino taxes, Bieshelt said, "It seems unrealistic to me that those funds were supposed to go to the 88 counties, 10 largest cities and the school districts, but left out villages and cities, like we are unaffected."
Councilmen James King and Lowell Schloneger said they should follow the lead and request a share of the money.
Chamberlin said he and Finance Director Mike Harold looked at the original ballot issue and Harold said he had asked county Auditor Nancy Milliken if it was possible for commissioners to share the money before others began making the requests, but she had advised it wasn't possible.
"She said there is no plans for it to be given to anything other than the county," Harold said.
Chamberlin said he would prepare a resolution for council's vote.


text: QSpace Collection: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/186 2016-10-01T20:42:02Z Cross-Cultural Correlates of the Ownership of Private Property http://hdl.handle.net/1974/2576 Title: Cross-Cultural Correlates of the Ownership of Private Property Authors: Rudmin, Floyd Webster Abstract: Simmons' (1937) data base of 109 variables measured on 71 societies was reanalyzed. Reliability comparisons were made with Murdock's (1967) Ethnographic Atlas. Eliminated were 3 of Simmons' cultures because of duplicated sampling within culture clusters, 12 variables because of missing data, 7 variables because of invariance, and 1 variable for doubtful reliability. A conservative analysis (p < .OOOl) showed private property in land and chattel to correlate with 21 variables falling into 3 clusters, interpretively labelled (1) the social ecology of agriculture, (2) social and material stratification, and (3) social security. Subject to the limitations of archived data and to the indeterminancy of correlational analysis, these findings support arguments that private property arose in agricultural society, but not theories that property is a patriarchal, antifemale institution. Speculations based on psychological literature suggest that private property empowers the defense of the self. 1992-01-01T05:00:00Z Cross-cultural correlates of the ownership of private property: a look from another database http://hdl.handle.net/1974/2575 Title: Cross-cultural correlates of the ownership of private property: a look from another database Authors: Rudmin, Floyd Webster Abstract: Swanson's (1966) database Simmons' (1937) of 39 variables coded on 50 cultures was re-examined for cross-cultural correlates of the private ownership of property. Reliability comparisons were made with Murdock's (1967) Ethnographic Atlas. Eliminated were one of Simmons' cultures because of duplicated sampling within culture clusters and 7 variables because of doubtful reliability. A conservative analysis (p <.OOO3) showed the social institution of private property to be a positive correlate of (1) social classes, (2) agriculture in grain, (3) supernatural sanctions for morality, (4) primogeniture (5) active ancestral spirits (6) sovereign organization, (7) size of population and a negative correlate of (8) collecting and gathering, (9) outgroup intimacy and (10) hunting. Theories that property is a function of patriarchy were not supported, nor were arguments that property regimes were advanced by exogamy and other intimate interactions with alien people. 1992-01-01T05:00:00Z The Role of Dopamine in Locomotor Activity and Learning http://hdl.handle.net/1974/187 Title: The Role of Dopamine in Locomotor Activity and Learning Authors: Beninger, Richard J. Abstract: The discovery that the brain contains neurons utilizing dopamine (DA) as their transmitter has led to studies of the behavioral function of these neurons. Changes in overall level of activity of DA neurons appear to produce parallel changes in locomotor activity. Additionally, DA neurons seem to mediate in part the effects of biologically significant (reinforcing) stimuli on learning. One way in which reinforcing stimuli produce learning is to increase the incentive motivational (response-eliciting) properties of neutral stimuli associated with them; also, reinforcing stimuli maintain the incentive motivational properties of previously conditioned incentive stimuli. Normal DA functioning appears to be required for the establishment and maintenance of incentive learning in naive animals. Previous incentive learning in trained animals can influence behavior for a time even when the function of DA neurons is disrupted; however, with continued testing in the absence of normal DA functioning, previously established conditioned incentive stimuli cease to influence behavior. From these observations and recent physiological, anatomical and biochemical studies of DA systems it is suggested that the biological substrate of DA-mediated incentive learning is a heterosynaptic facilitation of muscarinic cholinergic synapses. This model has important clinical implications since it has been suggested that DA hyperfunctioning underlies the development of schizophrenia. Description: Reprinted from BRAIN RESEARCH REVIEWS, Vol 6, No 2, 1983, pp 173-196, with permission from Elsevier. Brain Research Reviews Homepage: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01650173 1983-10-01T04:00:00Z


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Local amusement park officials are hoping for an assist from a special lady this summer.
"We are hoping that Mother Nature cooperates and we have great weather," said Amy Mearkle, spokeswoman for DelGrosso's Amusement Park, Tipton.
"This business is so weather dependent. We hope the lingering winter will lead to a big summer for everybody. If the weather cooperates, we will have a good season," said Lakemont Park General Manager Melissa Vyborny.
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Dan Miles, who works in the maintenance department at DelGrosso's Amusement Park in Tipton, gives the Dizzy Dragon a last test run before the park opens for the season on Saturday.
DelGrosso's will kick off its 66th season at 11 a.m. Saturday with two hours of free rides. On Sunday, all mothers can ride for free.
Park officials are excited to get the season under way.
"Our staff has been hard at work for months preparing for the season, and we are excited to get the summer fun started," said General Manager Carl Crider Jr.
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DelGrosso's Amusement Park, 4352 E. Pleasant Valley Blvd., Tipton, will open on Saturday, then be open on weekends until June 1 and May 25-27 for Memorial Day weekend. The phone number is 684-3538.
Lakemont Park, 700 Park Ave., will open May 25-27 for Memorial Day weekend. Regular hours start June 1. The park is closed every Monday and Tuesday after Memorial Day except for Labor Day. The phone number is 949-7275.
Lakemont Park will open to the public May 25 for the Memorial Day weekend. Lakemont switched to a late opening in 2007.
Neither park has added new rides for the season.
DelGrosso's major addition is a 960-square-foot family restroom in the picnic grove area.
"Our new restroom infrastructure is an addition that our guests have been requesting for a number of years. Comfort and convenience is important, and we hope all of our picnic guests will enjoy having a restroom facility in the picnic grove area," said Scott Crider, vice president of operations.
DelGrosso's also has added some new games on the midway and placed an additional ATM machine at Murf's Kitchen.
Lakemont Park has made a change to one popular event and added some new events for the upcoming season.
Thursday Wing-Offs will begin earlier and run June 6 through July 18 - with the exception of July 4 - and will include barbecued ribs, pork and pulled pork, Vyborny said. Beverage sales will benefit the Lakemont Volunteer Fire Company.
Splash Hops will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. Fridays at the Island Waterpark with D.J. Tommy Gunnz playing some of summer's best tunes.
A "Take a Kid to a Car Show" sponsored by the Blair County Antique Auto Club will be held June 30.
"The idea is to introduce the younger kids to the older cars," Vyborny said.
Admission prices are up a dollar at DelGrosso's but will remain the same at Lakemont.
At DelGrosso's, ride and slide passes will be $17.95 in June, July and August and $13.95 in May and September, Mearkle said.
An all-day ride and slide pass at Lakemont remains priced at $9.95 on weekends with special Dollar Day rates of $5 on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
"We have not raised our prices in several years. We have tried to keep our prices affordable in these times," Vyborny said.
Both parks' schedules are loaded with special events.
For the first time, the Children's Miracle Network Telethon will be broadcast live from DelGrosso's on June 2.
DelGrosso's free concert series will feature country singer Keith Anderson on Aug. 4. A contemporary Christian concert will feature Lindsay McCaul and Matt Maher on Sept. 1.
Other highlights include Summer Thunder on July 4; the 16th annual Native American Pow Wow on July 20 and 21; the 24th annual Italian Food & Heritage Festival on Sept. 22; and Harvestfest Sept. 28 and 29.
Spaghetti Wednesdays will run from June 5 through Aug. 21.
Lakemont highlights include the 24th annual Kruisin' Hot Rod and Classic Car Show Aug. 10 and the end of the year fall festival Sept. 7 and 8.
For the second consecutive summer, DelGrosso's visitors will be faced with a detour. Anyone going to the park via Interstate 99 will need to take Exit 45 at Grazierville because of a bridge construction project on Business Route 220 between Bellwood and the park.


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The East-West Center Arts Program presents: An Indian Music FusionSeptember 21, 8:00pm - 9:30pm
Manoa Campus, Imin Center-Jefferson Hall, East-West Center
Featuring Pandit Shubhendra Rao, sitar, and Saskia Rao-de Haas, cello, with Harshad Kanetkar, tabla
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This husband-and-wife artistic team presents an exciting combination of Indian sitar and European cello, accompanied by the dazzling traditional tabla drummer, Harshad Kanetkar.
Pandit Rao is one of Ravi Shankar's most accomplished disciples. He and cello virtuoso Saskia Rao-de Haas (originally of The Netherlands) prove that the music of East and West no longer just meet but are ready for an abiding relationship with their ground breaking project, "East marries West." This East-West Center performing arts project will bring the impressive virtuosity of Indian classical music to Hawaii's audiences, both adults and youth.
The ensemble's (seemingly) effortless musical communication and improvisation has captivated audiences at concert halls and festivals around the world, including the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the National Arts festival in South Africa, Musee Guimet in Paris, the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, the Esplanade in Singapore, Legends of India in New Delhi. These are a few highlights of their remarkable musical journey.
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These EWC Arts Programs are supported by the Hawai'i Pacific Rim Society, Friends of Hawai`i Charities, Jackie Chan Foundation USA, and generous contributors to the EWC Foundation, including members of the EWC Arts 'Ohana. Artistic and educational outreach for this project includes Maui Arts & Cultural Center, the Hawaii State Library, UH-Mānoa Music Department, UH-Mānoa Asian Studies Program, Kahala Nui, and numerous public and private schools.
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Buffalo News Book Club Titles 2013:
January: Heft by Liz Moore
February: Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
March: The Fiddler on Pantico Run by Joe Mozingo April: Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired 'Upstairs, Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' by Margaret Powell 2012
January: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
February: Wolf: The Lives of Jack London by James L. Haley
March: The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
April: The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food and Love by Kristin Kimball
May: The Submission by Amy Waldman
June: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and the world of Literary Obsession by Hoover Bartlett.
July: The Most Dangerous Thing by Laura Lippman
August: The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
September: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
October: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
November: The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
December: (classics month) A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
January: Annie's Ghosts: Journey Into a Family Secret by Steve Luxenberg
February: Open: an autobiography by Andre Agassi
March: The Once and Future King by T.H. White
April: Aesop's Mirror: A Love Story by Maryalice Huggins
May: The Bolter by Frances Osborne
June: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
July: Faithful Place by Tana French
August: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
September: The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure
October: Manhunt: The 12-day chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
November: 52 Loaves: One man's Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning and a Perfect Crust by William Alexander
December: (classics month) The Dead by James Joyce
January: The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
February: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
March: Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
April: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
May: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
June: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
July: Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe by Jenny Hollowell
August: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
September: A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
October: Dangerously Funny by David Bianculli
November: My Judy Garland Life by Susie Boyt
December: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
January: Still Alice by Lisa Genova
February: Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
March: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
April: American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White and the Birth of the 'It' Girl by Paula Uruburu
May: The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
June: Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm by Mildred Kalish
July: Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
August: The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
September: The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
October: Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
November: The Omnivore's Dilemma: a natural history of four meals by Michael Pollan
December: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
January: Runaway by Alice Munro
February: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
March: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
April: Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
May: Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
June: City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
July: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
August: Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
September: Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
October: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
November: The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
December: Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelus.
January: Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner
February: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
March: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
April: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
May: The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
June: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
July: The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
August: The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
September: The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
October: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
November: The Tummy Trilogy by Calvin Trillin
December: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
January: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
February: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
March: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
April: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
May: Cider House Rules by John Irving
June: The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer
July: Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krause Rosenthal
August: The Constant Gardener by John le Carre
September: Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond By Essie Mae Washington-Williams
October: My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
November: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
December: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
January: On Writing: a Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
February: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro
March: We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
April: My Invented Country by Isabel Allende
May: The Columnist by Jeffrey Frank
June: The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
July: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
August: The Story of My Father by Sue Miller
September: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
October: The First Desire by Nancy Reisman
November: The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
December: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K Rowling
January: Roscoe by William Kennedy
February: I'll Take You There by Joyce Carol Oates
March: My Losing Season by Pat Conroy
April: Fat Land by Greg Critser
May: Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott
June: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
July: The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by Elinor Lipman
August: The Wife: a Novel by Meg Wolitzer
September: The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
October: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
November: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
December: The Last Fine Time by Verlyn Klinkenborg
October: Straight Man by Richard Russo
November: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
December: Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes


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The last three Galleries 13, 14, and 15 are currently being developed to illustrate various uses of the materials in the earlier twelve galleries for critical and educational purposes. Possible topics include these following, 1 to 6, on this page (for which the relevant sets of illustrations appear on this gallery's corresponding page numbers: 1 to 6).
The last section of this Gallery, on p.7, contains two main items: Sub Gallery 10.7.A has a series of provocative questions about the Elizabethan stage (with several clues attached), followed by 10.7.B. with plausible answers, scoring up to ten points.
Page 1. Taking a series of illustrations of the play "Richard III" in order to discuss the concepts of Richard's character which they may reflect, in terms of settings, costumes, postures, and expressions.
Page 2. Using a selection of images of Cleopatra to display differing views of women's roles and any progressions that they may demonstrate from Shakespeare's own times to the present day.
Page 3. Selecting several images of clowns/fools to show how their appearance, whether traditional or contemporary, objectifies their functions both in comedies and in tragedies.
Page 4. Exploring social structures and attitudes which govern the visual presentations of characters in the courtly or other group scenes seen in this series of images to see if they show any divergencies.
Page 5. To what extent can these different images of Hamlet be reconciled to give a coherent interpretation of the part as it evolves in the play?
Page 6.Using images of "Much Ado About Nothing" to reveal the relationship of Beatrice and Benedick and show how such relationships are treated in the various periods of the performances. Only the images offered for this last Topic 6 are currently accompanied by brief commentaries suggesting the kind of ways in which the various earlier themes in Gallery 10 might also be covered.
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The actor's widow, Deborah Lin, and their 8-month-old daughter, Liliana, were among the first mourners to arrive, having flown in from California, reports New York's Daily News.
"It's a nightmare for the whole family. It's a horrible, horrible thing, everybody is just devastated," Bob Price, whose wife is a cousin of the late star, told the newspaper. "This man was everybody's hero. It's just the worst thing that could have happened."
James Gandolfini Dies at Age 51
Friends and family members left flowers at the Robert Spearing Funeral Home in Park Ridge, N.J., near where Gandolfini had grown up. Broadway theaters also paid tribute to him, dimming their marquee lights in his memory this week.
Gandolfini, who won three Emmys playing Tony Soprano, also was nominated for a Tony Award in 2009 for his role in the comedy-drama God of Carnage.
The Sopranos star, 51, died of a heart attack in Rome on June 19. His 13-year-old son was vacationing with him, and Gandolfini's body was returned to the States last weekend.
A funeral service for Gandolfini will be held Thursday morning at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
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The 7 Most Common CGI Screw-Ups (Explained)
#3. Stiff Faces
Often cited as one of the creepiest movies ever made, sandwiched between Nosferatu and The Exorcist, Polar Express usually gets called out for its creepy eyes. While the eyes alone are sufficient to transport the viewer into the uncanny valley, another big source of unintentional horror is the stiff faces.
This is a big problem in a lot of near-photorealistic motion capture movies. They're essentially pasting a photographed human face onto the model, like a sticker wrap, and the motion of the body is lifelike, since it has all the minute swaying and tiny movements of a real actor, but facial movement is still as limited as Woody from Toy Story or Keanu Reeves in The Matrix.
More so on one than the other ...
This looks fine on Woody, since he is a cartoon toy, and his limited facial movement matches the cartoonish movement of his body and the cartoonish look of everything around him. On a near-photoreal model, however, it looks like the little girl has been embalmed and can only move her eyes and jaw.
In this scene from mocap and acting masterpiece Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, characters move their eyebrows, nose, mouth and eyes like they are all separate pieces moving independently.
Sometimes animators are to blame, because in the end, you've got to move the parts right, but most of the time, stiff faces come from limited rigs. You see, after the model is made, but before the animator starts moving it, riggers come in and rig the model with all kinds of controls. They put in a skeleton, so that if you bend a joint, the arm bends, or they designate areas on the skin (like a cheek) that move when the animator turns a dial or types in a number. This is basically like putting the strings on a marionette and handing them to the puppeteer (the animator).
Fittingly, marionettes are also creepy as hell.
If you don't give the animator any controls for cheek muscles, for example, the animator couldn't move the cheeks even if they wanted to. Human faces have, like, a million muscles (I didn't take anatomy), and you have to give animators a shit ton of complex controls in order to make a realistic-looking human face move as realistically as it looks. They didn't have the experience or software to do it in Polar Express and Final Fantasy, but the team on Avatar managed to figure it out. So now nobody has an excuse.
These are all mocap movies, so a lot of the problem was also how to get the data from actors' faces automatically onto the CG faces, which is a pretty hard thing to do. Usually, no matter how good the process is, you still have an animator going in and touching it up, so a lot of it depends on how well a guy can look at a video of someone's face and click his mouse around on a computer to make the CG face match it.
#2. Characters Don't Look Like They're in the Same World
The dinosaur stampede in King Kong was infamous for "looking like bad green screen." At times it looked like Adrien Brody, Jack Black and numerous forgettable cast members were actually running in front of a dinosaur movie playing on a wall behind them.
You expect that kind of laughable B-movie effect from Jean-Claude Van Damme's Derailed:
But it's kind of weird to see it in a Weta (Lord of the Rings, Avatar) movie like King Kong. All I can figure is that they were rushing the crew -- too many shots in too little time. Technically, what's wrong is the compositing. Compositing is when you take all the stuff that has to go together -- backgrounds, CG characters and props, live actors shot on green screens -- and put them all together.
It's basically like doing Photoshop on a moving picture. You get shitty compositing for pretty much the same reasons you get shitty Photoshop. The characters aren't cut out well (green screen matte extraction was done badly), the lighting doesn't match or the focus doesn't match. You can see some lighting problems here:
Even when Jack Black runs under the dinosaur and should be completely in the shade, his hat stays bright. It's not like most people really notice that specifically, but when you watch the scene play out, your brain tells you something is wrong and you can't put your finger on it. There's also some shots where the actors are way too sharp compared to the background.
I mean, yes, obviously they should be sharper than the background, because the background is moving and has motion blur, whereas the camera is following the actors, so they should be more in focus. But if they'd gotten the relative focus of each object correct, it wouldn't look like ass when you saw it in motion, and it looks like ass when you see it in motion, which means there's too much blur on something or not enough blur on something else.
Maybe it's the edges of the actors that need to be blurred to blend in. I don't know, I'm not a compositor. If you know the answer to this, try going into comp, it doesn't pay too bad if you are good at it.
Fortunately, sometimes bad compositing can be so bad it's funny, as in this Gone in 60 Seconds clip (start at about 7:22).
Here's the crucial shot if you missed it:
Man, it's like someone cut that wall open with an X-Acto knife.
#1. Clothes Look Like They Are Pasted On
I tried to stay away from The Hulk, but these pants really have to be addressed.
These pants look like pants from a video game. A video game from 2003, when this movie came out. The fake-looking surface is a texturing/shader issue like I talked about before. It's pretty egregious, but that is not the worst thing. The worst thing is that they appear to be painted on him.
See, a character moves around when you move a skeleton, which is pretty much what it sounds like -- imagine a bunch of joints connected by wire, and then you sculpt soft clay around it. You bend the joints, and the sculpture moves. There's two ways of making the model move. One is that you say it's pretty much like clay that's attached to the skeleton. This is called "skinning." When it goes wrong, you get melty faces and Gumby elbows.
(A lot of tutorials cover the "collapsing elbow" problem.)
The other thing you can do is a simulation, which is something you do for hair and cloth and tassels and maybe dangling genitals or something. You tell it where it's attached, or pinned, to the skin or skeleton, and it sticks there, and everywhere else it uses a bunch of complex physics equations to tell it how to move. Like with a skirt, you tell it the waistband is "pinned" to the character, and the rest of it figures out what to do based on the pinning and air resistance and whatever it crashes into.
The Hulk's pants had a minimal amount of simulation, if any, so it looks like a second skin, which looks weird most of the time, but looks absolutely bizarre during certain movements, like this:
What the hell are those pants doing?
OK, I've got to go watch Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon again so I can stop being mad at Ang Lee. Now that you are a CG expert, I will leave you with this clip as a test to see if you can identify what parts went wrong. (Hint: Everything.)
For more from Christina, check out The 5 Miserable VFX Jobs That Make Movies Possible and 4 Reasons 3-D Movies Don't Have to Suck.


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It may have been cold outside Wednesday, but local car dealers showcased their hottest new offerings as the 109th annual Buffalo Auto Show opened with crowds of buyers, browsers, car aficionados and gawkers.
They had plenty to see with more than 300 cars and trucks inside the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center.
Every manufacturer and almost every local new-car dealer was present.
"This is a terrific consolidated effort between the auto manufacturers, the dealers, the vendors and the media," said Paul Stasiak, president of the Niagara Frontier Automobile Dealers Association. "There are a lot of people that are impacted positively by this show. It's a terrific trickle-down effect."
Sales staff from dealers stood at the ready to respond to questions, show off features of the cars, take down information, and offer promotional deals – such as free gas cards – to get people to come back to the dealership for a test drive.
"This is my first year doing it. I like having it all in one area, because you can see what your competitors are doing, but you also get honest feedback," said Derek Young, a sales and leasing specialist at Steve Baldo Ford in Niagara Falls.
Midweek attendance is always lower than on the weekend, but Stasiak said first-day traffic this year appeared to be higher than in each of the last three years. "It's been pretty consistent with people," he said. "We haven't had a lull."
Those in attendance ranged in age from their 20s to older seniors, while their reasons for coming varied from really shopping to just having fun.
"Every year we like to see what the new models look like," said George Degener, 77, of Tonawanda, who came with a friend, 79-year-old Carol Reingold, also of Tonawanda. "This year, they've got less of the experimental models and more of the models the dealers want to sell."
The friends were amused about the height of some cars that require ledges or fold-up steps to climb in and said they marveled at what Degener called the "exhorbitant prices" of others, such as those over $100,000. Many high-end brands exceeded $70,000 in price, and even the cheapest luxury cars topped $40,000.
Degener has a 2011 Ford Focus, while Reingold has a 2006 Chrysler PT Cruiser. But he liked a $110,000 Mercedes.
"We're seeing how the rich people live," Degener said. "I could buy a couple of houses on the West Side for that. I could buy the whole block."
For many, it's a long-standing personal or family tradition. "We came here because my dad used to take me here when I was younger and I like coming, so it's always exciting," said 23-year-old Andrew Poplewski of Marilla, who has a 2003 Toyota Corolla that works fine but thinks "it would be nice to get something new."
"It's nice that you can see everything here," he said amid the luxury cars on the lower floor, accompanied by his friend, 23-year-old Sally Bennett of East Aurora. "I know the more expensive cars are down here, but we wanted to check them out ... I can't believe they're 60 grand."
Gary Hotchkiss, 52, of Tonawanda, has been coming for 30 years, but he's just finishing paying off his 2008 Chevrolet Silverado and has no need for another vehicle right now.
"It's nice to come here and see how expensive things are here, and I go back to my Silverado truck," he said.
This year, he came with a friend, Paul Rachow, 49, of North Tonawanda, who has a 2009 Mazda 6 but is considering investing in a new car.
"It's nice to go. You can compare stuff without the rigamarole of going to the dealer," said Rachow, who admitted that a blue Porsche he liked was "out of my price range" at $131,000.
And Mark Orlando, 45, and Sara D'Amico, 40, both of Cowlesville, have attended "many times" but still like "to see the new innovations and vehicles coming out," such as brighter LED headlights, an A/C power outlet, or even cell-phone holders. He has a 2010 Nissan Frontier, while she has a 2011 Nissan Juke, but they're "just seeing if there's anything upgraded from what we already have," Orlando said.
On the other hand, Matt Wendling, 23, of Boston, attended for the first time, along with his friend, Jill Kraeger, a 28-year-old from Cheektowaga. Wendling, a self-described "car guy," was eyeing a lime green Ford Mustang.
Right now, he mostly drives a Ford Crown Victoria police interceptor model that he bought from a dealer after a former fire chief traded it in, but he's had it for six years, so "it's time" for something new.
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Asus VivoTab RT LTECompare8.5 reviewThe Asus VivoTab RT carries over the famed Transformer line of Asus Android tablets concept, having its own keyboard/battery dock, and it sports the same 10.1" screen size. The slate, however, is running Windows RT, which is Windows 8 for ARM processor-based tablets, so it is powered by a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor. Other niceties include the generous 2GB of RAM, full USB 2.0 port, and an IPS display with the standard for this screen size 1366x768 pixels of resolution. There is an 8MP camera with LED flash on the back for the shutterbug in you, and 32GB of internal storage to store those pics and videos you take.+ View Specs
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Asus VivoTab SmartCompare8 reviewThe VivoTab Smart is an affordable Win 8 tablet with Intel Atom chip. The VivoTab Smart and VivoTab RT are about the same size, shape, and weight. Even the $499 starting prices are the same. Asus will offer an optional sleeve which attaches to the tablet via magnets. The sleeve doubles as a kickstand, and there's an optional Bluetooth keyboard. Unfortunately it won't work with the its larger sibling's VivoTab keyboard docks, and doesn't sport a stylus.+ View Specs
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The 2006 Mind of America Scientific Research Award recognizes a scientist whose research has led to a greater understanding of mental illness. Dr. Bowden is a world-renowned professor, researcher and doctor, authoring and editing more than 300 publications, publishing seven textbooks, and serving as the principal investigator for over 70 studies. His work focuses mainly on the symptoms and characteristics of bipolar disorder and the effectiveness of mood stabilizing medication.
"Dr. Bowden is a leader in his field and we hope that by giving him this award, it will inspire other researchers to follow his example in helping to forge a universal understanding and acknowledgment of mental illness," said Ann Pincus, co-chair of the NAMI 2006 Research Gala. Other co-chairs of the event were Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA), and Kay Redfield Jamison. Patty Duke was the Honorary Chair of the event.
Dr. Bowden is the Nancy U. Karren Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at
In his acceptance speech, Dr. Bowden thanked the Advisory Committee, stating, "This is just the beginning of where we need to be for mental health research -- I hope that someday, mental health research will be a top priority for our nation."
In addition to being a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Bowden is also editor-in-chief of "Medscape Mental Health", part of Medscape, Inc., the most referenced electronic medical database in the world. Dr. Bowden is listed among the "Best Doctors in the
Also in attendance at the Gala were Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM), Michael Fitzpatrick, NAMI Executive Director, author Kay Redfield Jamison, former football star Ken Harvey, Al Hunt, artist Judy Collins, and the director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas Insel.
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5 Tips for Punching Writer's Block in the Face
People frequently ask me for writing advice, because professional writing is as fiercely competitive as it is desired, because they mistake me for the respected poet by the same name, or possibly just because the world is not a fair place and the God of Words wants them to fail in the most extravagant and embarrassing way possible. What these people are most concerned about, judging by the sheer number of requests, is really just one thing: "How do I get past this accursed writer's block?" While I may not be the right authority to help you with quality writing, I can sure as hell help you with quantity. If your muse is currently giving you the Kato Kaelin treatment, maybe try some of these handy tips and get that lazy wad off the couch and working again.
#5. Know What You Write
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The old saying is "write what you know," and that's sound advice. As a caveat, I once advocated that you should only "write what you know" if what you know is interesting, novel, or worthwhile. Don't bother writing it down if "what you know" is how to masturbate to reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond. I've got that down pat, thank you very much. Perhaps better advice would be "know what you write." Between my full-time job and my books, I straddle the line between fiction and non-fiction daily. I also interact with a lot of new writers in each genre, and I see a strange sentiment being echoed by both. The non-fiction writers all seem to think they can write fiction easily, because it's not as research-intensive. And the fiction writers generally think they couldn't possibly write non-fiction, because they'd spend too much time researching and not enough time writing. To which I can only say: "You're both assholes, hypothetical people whom I've just invented."
Does the pivotal scene of your genre-defying action adventure take place in your own living room? No? General Kill McKillian doesn't face off against Bigg Meatchest on your suburban patio for the fate of the Underverse?
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"And so, Meatchest, we meet again. And how fitting that our final showdown should occur where it all began -- by the lawn chairs!"
Then you need to research location. If you can't personally visit every place you write about in your fiction, see if you can contact somebody who has. Ask them questions. Look up as many photos as you can -- hell, we have Google Maps Street View now! That's no substitute for reality, of course, but it's a big one-up on turn-of-the-century authors who had to tie a wig on the cat, squint at the garden, and pretend it was Africa. The point is, if you're stuck staring at a blank page, the important question to ask is: Why is this page blank? You should have reams of research, notes, and images all there waiting for you -- even if you're imagining an entirely new location.
My last novel took place in a dystopian city located entirely within a gargantuan skyscraper -- obviously I didn't have the funds to visit Dr. Doom's Terror Tower in person to take notes, so I had to make that shit up. But first, I looked up building techniques for mega-structures and I browsed thousands of pictures of crowded Chinese apartment towers and South African skyscraper projects. When it came time to write, I wasn't staring at a blank page and panicking; I was just staring at the collective misery of our species and exploiting it for my own uses.
And that's what writing is all about!
#4. Accept That You're Going to Write Garbage
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You're a terrible writer.
But that's OK, because so is everybody else. There's no such thing as a great writer; there are only terrible writers with great ideas and the patience to hammer them into shape. Vonnegut once said there were two types of writers: swoopers and bashers. Swoopers vomit everything down on the page, then edit, edit, and re-edit until it starts to look like coherent language. Bashers work sentence by sentence, only moving on when it's perfect. Most new writers think there's a third category that Vonnegut forgot: the beautiful fucking Disney princesses of the literary world, who lightly kiss the page once and fully formed masterpieces spring forth.
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Vonnegut didn't mention the princesses, because they don't exist.
Both swoopers and bashers have one thing in common: agony. They agonize over the work again and again and again, until they get it right. Whether you do it sentence by sentence or revisit the whole thing at the end makes no difference. You need something down -- anything, even just a single word -- that you can refine. Writer's block comes from the panic of potentiality: There's too much you can do, so you do nothing. Push that thought out of your head and put something down on paper that you know, as a fact, is going to be garbage. Whether that's a terrible chapter full of hackneyed twists and cliched dialogue, a single sentence with six adverbs and zero nouns, or the lone word "dongasm" in all capitals followed by four exclamation points and a 1 -- just give yourself permission to fuck right and thoroughly up. You have all the time in the world to fix it. You're not turning each letter into the English Warden when you're done with it; you can always change things. And if it really sucks, you can always delete it before anybody sees, burn the keyboard that typed such heresy, and then get so drunk that you yell at the couch for judging you.
#3. Figure Out What You're Writing
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This is the most intuitive and obvious advice possible, and yet occasionally it will surprise a new writer: Figure out what you want to write before it's time to write it.
Do you want to write the great American novel? That's way too goddamn broad.
Do you want to write a globe-trotting romance/adventure about a man falling in love while losing his faith ... while also fighting the ghost of his dead twin who's trying to solve the mystery of the Vatican? That's way too goddamn specific.
A few hundred thousand words is pretty much the limit for the modern novel. There are rare works that surpass that number and still function. There are even the occasional authors who pull it off routinely, like Neal Stephenson, who is apparently out to drown the world in his books to avenge some childhood slight. You are probably not Neal Stephenson, and if you are: Hi! Thanks for reading. I loved The Diamond Age. Would you like to get in my mysterious van for reasons unspecified at this time?
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"It's not what you think! It's for a Little League tournament! OF RAPE!"
The reality is this: You only have between 100,000 and 200,000 words to tell a story. I know, when you're sitting there struggling with the first line, that seems like telling a fish flopping around in the bottom of the boat that there's only so much ocean in the world. But if you're having trouble starting, it might be because you didn't set down a place to start. If you want to write a moving literary novel, why not add a few words to that descriptor before setting out? If you want to write a paranormal sci-fi romantic legal thriller, try subtracting one or two of those terms before starting.
Because trust me, you do not have the space to encapsulate every nuance of the American zeitgeist with your touching classic about a man who orgasms fireworks. And you don't have space to write a genre-spanning masterwork that pulls the best elements from Jane Eyre, Catch-22, World War Z, Fifty Shades of Grey, and The Hurt Locker into the world's first rom-com-zom-dom-bomb.


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An insolent or insignificant person; a peon; a nobody.
Little person with big attitude
Little person with big attitude
A punk kid with a finance degree straight out of college interviewing a CPA MBA for a controller job.
Eddie is such a little piss ant, look at him thinking he is the shit and interviewing people older than him with more credentials and experience.
Eddie is such a little piss ant, look at him thinking he is the shit and interviewing people older than him with more credentials and experience.
ayon kay Fast Gardy ika-17 ng Abril, 2009
A person who is considered to be of below average intelligence who does things to follow the majority. Typically thought of as being unable to think or make decisions for themself, they resort to doing things because someone told them to.
"Mike is such a piss ant. He only likes that because mommy and daddy do."
ayon kay Chickens Wife ika-13 ng Hunyo, 2004
Unrespectable spineless coward who amounts to nothing
Pissant is a loser
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Any of a number of ants that can be found indoors. So-named because they make your fingers smell like micturition (piss) when you squish them. The odour comes primarily from formic acid in the insect's body that is released when you kill it by smashing it between your fingers or squish it between your finger and a wall, sink, floor, etc.
I just killed three dozen piss ants in my bathroom lavatory! Now my fingers stink like piss!!! :-O
ayon kay Telephony ika-01 ng Mayo, 2015
A term used to describe small-town USA
"I'll be damned if I don't get out of this piss-ant town soon"
ayon kay Andy ika-19 ng Abril, 2004
The ants found in hot summers crawling around the toilet.
Also an expression meaning little trouble making kids.
Also an expression meaning little trouble making kids.
Don't let the piss ants bite ya.
Those little piss ants stole my lawn ornament!
Those little piss ants stole my lawn ornament!
ayon kay Delmuire ika-23 ng Disyembre, 2009
Ants That Stink Really Bad When You Step On Them.
Girl: Awwww MUM! the cats been rolling in piss ants again!
ayon kay Mollyroselolly ika-13 ng Hulyo, 2008


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Voters in Senate District 42 will go to the polls today from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. to pick among three candidates hoping to succeed Robert Ford.
Ford, who had held the seat since 1992, resigned in May amid ethics problems, triggering this special election.
Democrat Marlon Kimpson, a Charleston lawyer, Republican Billy Shuman, a North Charleston real estate agent, and Libertarian Alex Thornton, a professional photographer, are seeking the seat.
Today's weather forecast looks fine, with mild temperatures and clear skies, but turnout is still expected to be low, given the low-profile nature of the race. The candidates have not met face-to-face a single time, but instead have focused on revving up their bases.
The Senate district covers parts of West Ashley's oldest neighborhoods and parts of peninsular Charleston and North Charleston. Those wondering if they are in the district may go to scvotes.org and click on the "Voters" and "Check your voter registration" tabs.
Today's polling places are the same as those used for November's general election. Polling places also may be found at postandcourier.com/senate42-polling.
The state's new Voter ID requirements will be in effect, so voters should bring either a driver's license or ID card issued by S.C. Department of Motor Vehicles; a state voter registration card with a photo; a federal military ID, or a U.S. passport.
Those who do not have an ID may vote but first must sign a form stating why they could not get one.
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Hike from the Rosswald along the Ganter valley to the Bortel lodge. The renovated lodge welcomes guests through the months of June to October. The hike continues another six hours to the destination Wasenalp.
In the middle of the Simplon area, Rothwald with the Wasenalp is a perfect haven for guests interested in tours and skiruns. The little ski area is truly a hidden jewel.
Enjoy a rösti, a fondue and other local specialties at the restaurant "Mäderlicka". The friendly meeting place is located at the mountain station of the ski lift at 7200 feet. On your descent down to the Wasenalp we suggest you stop at the local restaurant – the "Wasenalp" is known in the region as the perfect ending place of a guided snowshoe tour through the area with its magnificent larch woods (the highest in Europe!). We are told the fondue there is legendary.
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East Palestine puts leasing proposal on hold pending ethics question
March 11, 2014
EAST PALESTINE — A council that has worked together fairly smoothly over the last year is now divided, and emotions ran hot Monday night in council chambers....
March 11th jimbo posted at 808 pm and Busmom posted at 821pm so they must also be the same person? Notsocial maybe more of an idiot than jason/had enough. The reason we know jason is hadenough is because jason was was accused of something on a post and then hadenough responded for him with a sentence including "I". meaning he forgot to log out of hadenough account before responding as jason. Wouldn't surprise me if you are jason/hadenough also
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Elzer and Figley need run out of town and straight up the flagpole. Both were rude and obnoxious towards the two ladies that spoke. But by golly Elzer and Figley never shut their mouths. There ARE other people in this town other than those two peons. And...NO ONE came to this meeting or the last and spoke FOR the leasing/fracking/drilling....The people have spoke. Don't like it...leave.
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Reager/hadenough if you had half a brain you'd understand he's calling the people who are against drilling stupid. Which I completely agree with. And if you lived in this town he'd be calling you stupid and I'd completely agree with him there too.
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Whats the harm in sending a ballot out to see if people want it? Ridiculous. Seems like a dictatorship to me. I'll also be voting against Alan Cohan and for drilling
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If I can't vote on gas leases I guess I'll just vote against Alan Cohan. Basically the same thing.
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No, Mr Elzer does not pay his property taxes....you should do your homework before you speak, wildcat.
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Who cares if Mr. Elzer owns a lot of property in town? He paid for them. He pays the tax's on his properties. I say put the issue on the ballot. Let the people decide. This isn't rocket science. I challenge all members of counsel to come up with ideas for job creation.
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Yes, I think the people of East Palestine get the picture now, and when voting time comes I'm sure this will not be forgotten. Thankfully, we have some council members willing to put in the hard work and effort to see that things get done legally and FOR the people not against the people. The arrogance and rudeness at the meeting last night will not soon be forgotten. Mr Elzer, this is NOT Pittsburgh, so if you have grand schemes of turning it into a city dump...please return from where you came from. We don't need that kind of progress. As you saw, the people spoke, and so did the majority of council. Meeting Adjourned!
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I'll be sure to vote this year too. Its time for change!
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I guess the key to being successful on city counsel is to lie and scare people early so that you always have an opportunity to repeal legislation in the future after something is already passed. My guess is gas companies will drill all around and under ep. Our town will continue to be columbiana's red headed step child and our taxes will be raised within 2 years. Oh and business will continue to leave ep. I'll remember this when election time comes around.
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The scared citizens of East Palestine got what they wanted. Let's take things slow. Then let's watch the oil and gas companies eventually pack up their things and leave. I need to get out of this small minded, frightened little town.
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