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I am very intrigued by this photo. Can anyone shed some light into how this effect could be achieved?
Based on the two sample photos you linked, I wouldn't say that is a post-processing effect. It looks like all in-camera stuff. Basically, you have the following:
If there are any post-processing effects at all, it might only be a boost to contrast, which would help harshen the highlights.
Comments relate to photo1 - of young woman in street but are generally applicable to photo 2 as well. .
Central "crispness" & shadows. While "out of camera" seems likely at a glance, there are a few things that suggest either extra lighting or post processing. Fill-flash or flood may have been used to obtain a degree of emphasis for the central subject or curves may have been adjusted to obtain a sudden black level below a certain illumination level. There is nothing that demonstrates the use of extra lighting with complete certainty, but there are several very dark areas amongst the highly exposed areas of the central subject that suggest either post processing or a high level flood or flash above and behind the camera pointing downwards at a steep angle. The dark areas inside the sleeve ends, dark area between red headband and neck, shirt folds and pocket seem unlikely to result from normal lighting or natural lighting. The dark pocket line (right side as viewed) has "shadow" in the apparent opposite direction to the others suggesting either angled lighting above and below or post process.
If you are talking about the selective defocusing of the image, then I agree that it was very likely to have been achieved simply by use of a large aperture to achieve very shallow depth of field. This impression is enhanced by the fact that the car in the first photo is in and out of focus about the same as the young woman and the rest of the scene is - if they had been using post processing there may well have been a temptation to defocus the car somehat to maintain the central focus.
However, effects akin to selective defocusing is are easy enough to achieve in post processing if desired. The example below is excessively rough - better masking would allow seamless results.
There's one point no one else here talked about and that's how to over-expose the background while correctly exposing the subject.
I believe the first picture was taken under very bright natural light (maybe even mid-day when the sun is directly above), now, to make the subject darker than the background you place her in some open shade or use a scrim (a white semi transparent fabric) to reduce and diffuse the light hitting the subject (you can find a scrim in most 5-in-1 reflector kits).
Obviously, it's also possible to get this effect by pure luck - but that's not very useful for trying to reproduce it.
Now all that's left is to use spot metering so you expose for the darker subject without considering the brighter background and to open the aperture to blur the background.
As an added bonus the diffused light in the shade or under the scrim is softer and more flattering.
Maybe the photographer also adjusted the colors a bit, the reds (lips, earphones and cord) are very red and it's possible it's the result of curve adjustments on the red channel.
It's also very possible the white point was adjusted to blow out the background (that was over-exposed in camera but maybe not by that much).
For the second picture, wide open aperture and some film grain effect in post (but I didn't look at that second picture too much because I personally don't find it interesting)
I was considering Russell's answer and looking at the copy of the picture he provided. Then I dediced to look at the whole original again and I think the lighting is actually pretty clear.
What is going on is that the subject is in the shadow of a building. The sun is high and a bit right when looking into the picture and a bit behind the subject. You don't see the sun on the subject because she is in a shadow. Parts of the background are not, which is why they appear so bright. The sky conditions were partly cloudy at the time of the shot, but the immediate area was getting sunshine.
All these things can be seen by looking at the whole picture carfully. Don't pick over supposed shadows on the subject because she is already in a shadow so what you see are effects of diffuse lighting coming from multiple directions. Look at the light patches on the street. Those are reflections of the sun off the windows of the building at left. We can tell they are from the left building by looking at the bright spot immediately behind the subject. Note the shadow of the car's right mirror in the bright spot. This also tells us the sun was behind and right (her left) of the subject but blocked by the building at right. We can see the sky conditions are partly cloudy because they are visible directly in the reflection of the car at left. We can also see a reflection of the women from behind the right rear wheel and see that there is no obvious light source, at least within the angle of view of that reflection.
So no, I don't think anything all that special was done. I'm not even sure it was deliberate. I think most photographers would want to avoid this kind of lighting, for good reason.
Not sure which effect. When I see the pictures I think: Wide aperture (blurs the background). That, and exposing for the subject properly, has blown the background in the first picture. Possibly played with the colours via curves or white balance.


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I used to book travels via agency all the time and used to stay at resorts and hotels. I had to compromise on few things to be able to do some of my last travels, as they were quite expensive, so I ended up camping and booking transports and activities myself and with locals. I really enjoyed doing that and I started to live the experience in a more authentic way. Could you suggest other ways of saving money when travelling?
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A method of travel that is often ignored is work. There are plenty of opportunities to travel through work. There are also a lot of programs that target work-exchanges.
WWOOF - Work on a farm in exchange for room and board
There are things like AmeriCorps in the US and Katimavik in Canada, where you can volunteer and experience new locations for extended periods of time.
Couch Surfing has a large community of people offering / looking for a couch to stay on a few days.
If you are a student look for an educational exchange, if you are gonna pay for college, pay some more and go somewhere else.
Volunteering is an excellent way to experience a place in a new way while bettering your life skills.
Hope this is a good start...
We have recently found a fantastic new way to save money on hotels. There is this site called AirBnB and instead of staying at a hotel, you can stay with a family who lives in the city you are traveling to. Not only do you save money on hotel costs, but the local family is able to help you find cheaper ways to do what you need (i.e. can tell you which bus is cheaper to take to your destination).
Also, different families may provide breakfast at no additional charge. And the hosts will even let you use their kitchen for cooking if you don't feel like eating out and some will even let you use their washer and dryer.
This is a fantastic service and we no longer stay in hotel rooms because this way is cheaper AND you get to meet fantastic people while traveling.
I think couch surfing is still the defacto home stay site. I've used it before and it is very solid. The idea is free accommodations, whether it be a room or a couch. You can find beds from the USA to Mongolia. As far as food goes, stay away from restaurants and start going to the local markets. For instance, in Asia eat at the night markets that are in many cities.
It all really depends on how 'backpacker'-like you want to live. If you take a look at their methods, they can go for months on a few thousand dollars. However, most of us prefer a bit more luxury. That doesn't mean we can't learn a thing or two from them! I would recommend reading up a bit on some of the numerous Backpacking Starter Guides.


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Ever received an email like this?
I purchased something from Bon-Ton last week, and remember unchecking the box to receive emails from them in the future. Today I got an email saying this:
"Due to a technical issue on our website, you were automatically subscribed to receive emails with exclusive offers, sale announcements and new arrivals."
Due to technical issues, I'm sending you this email that you don't want to remind you to shop with us again even though you already told us not to send you more emails...
I'm not complaining, I've already unsubscribed, but I've never seen that from any other vendor.
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Clever marketing plan. "We know that you SAID you don't want emails from us but we're gonna send you one anyway. Just in case you changed your mind. Let's just call it a little glitch."
I have not found anything quite so blatant, but I think that the practice happens now and then. Google "One bite at the apple" and you might find an interesting court case or two.
The basic premise is that, even though you've told them NOT to, they try just once, you say "NO" again, and they say "oops, sorryyyyyy" (just as though they were actually sorry). I'm sure it's standard operating procedure for them. If it were men, I wouldn't give them more money, and I'd sent them a letter telling them why (not an email, an actual letter). Look up to see who is the highest link in the food chain, and then address it to them.
Whenever I've received email where I know I checked the box, I call them. Phone calls are very expensive for companies. Calling turns out to be very effective.
Found the quote I was looking for:
{"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.}
Maybe there was a glitch on their website that subscribed everyone, no matter whether they checked the box or not.
Now, since they don't know who checked the box and who didn't, they sent out the email to all recent purchasers.
They don't want to anger the people who did subscribe by unsubscribing them, so they leave everyone subscribed and send out the email letting you know about the problem.
@shrdlu: I would have thought it'd be too many bites, since the apple seems to be the consumer and the biter the spammer, who is trying to sneak one try in.
@psaux: Not my words. That's a quote, and from someone who intends to go right on being a jerk. CAN-SPAM was pointless. It's so watered down it permits that kind of nonsense. Spammers. I hates 'em.
Never received one like that, but I have received emails after I know future contact was declined.
I finally had to block Walgreens, just couldn't get them to stop sending emails.


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In windows 7, the battery of my core i7 VAIO would always only charge until 79 % however, in ubuntu it charges 100 % i heard from a friend that it is dangerous for battery to become charged fully and stays that way while the charger is still plugged in. i always have my charger plugged in. so is there a danger to my battery? or is there a way to manage battery options?
Laptop batteries have a micro controller which switches the power drain from the battery to OFF when plugged in to an adapter. Leaving the laptop plugged in will not harm the battery. However, batteries have a lifespan, and depending on the manufacturer can last you a year or more. Eventually, the battery will go bad no matter how much care you put into it.
According to the manufacturers they advise you to Unplug your charger once your battery is fully charged.Even though it shouldn't make a difference if you don't unplug it i advise you to unplug it once your laptop is fully charged!
You could also install a software/app which notifies you once your laptop is fully charged.look into this link for the software/app.
Sometimes Windows laptops can develop a "battery memory" and gradually hold less and less of a charge. It is caused by not fully charging and draining a battery, and can be fixed by fully charging and draining the battery several times. However, I think that was limited to older machines, so it may not be your problem. Windows 7 on laptops can have trouble recognizing an old battery. On mine, it used to say I had a full charge, even though the battery no longer worked. Your battery may be having charging issues that are confusing Windows. How long does it last for? P.S. It's not dangerous to keep your laptop plugged in and the battery full, unless it overheats. Keep it on a cooling mat and you're fine.
Two older types of batteries, once popular in portable computers, are nickel-cadmium (NiCad) and nickel-metal hydride (NiMH). A NiMH battery is longer lasting than a NiCad, but it too woefully suffers from The Dreaded Memory Effect.
There is an excellent post on how to make sure the battery only charges to 80%. It started out as a question about a Lenovo laptop, but it might hold for your case as well. It uses the tp_smapi kernel module.
I personally find this one of the best battery management strategies.
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I know the fundamental algorithms and it's complexities. for e.g if Binary Search has Complexity O(log n), then how I can mathematically prove this?
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I assume you're asking about how to measure algorithm time complexity with regards to its input (how the algorithm time grows as N grows). One way is to model the algorithm in the form of a recurrence equation and then solve via a number of techniques. Common techniques are master theorem, substitution, recurrence trees, ...
The binary search algorithm can be seen as recurrences of dividing N in half with a comparison. So T(n) = T(n/2) + 1. Solve this by the master theorem to show the function is log n.
For a complete overview of this type of stuff I suggest working through these two classes:
http://aduni.org/courses/discrete and http://aduni.org/courses/algorithms
Big Oh isn't really a description of algorithm complexity, as in how many decisions and branches are made, Big Oh is a description or measure of computing resources used by an algorithm.
Anyways you'll have to become familiar with all the complicated math behind complexity theory, learn about P, NP, EXPTIME complextity classes, and all that fun stuff.
Informally, you would use an argument such as: let f(n) be the number of operations needed to perform a binary search on n elements. Then first argue that the relationship
holds, and then use the Master Theorem.
Formally "proving" complexity is something that has always bothered me, since this area of theory seems (at least as presented in introductory computer science) to be trying to apply formal mathematics to a vague, informal foundation. (For instance, what exactly counts as an "operation"?)
For an introduction to data structures and algorithms, Cormen & al Introduction to Algorithms is really great.
As for the specific case of computing complexities, it is generally a matter of expressing it as a recursive relation, then proving that relation is true, then reducing this recursive relation to a more manageable formula.
The Master Theorem comes handy in the latter step, read the wikipedia article, it should be sufficient for your simple example.
For Binary Search Only!
Here is my way of doing it:
To implement binary search on a sorted list that contains N elements, we keep dividing the list in halves until we 'corner' the key. This tells us that the problem size decreases by half, [Eg. 100 : 50 : 25 : 12 : 6 : 3 : 1], until it reaches (worst case) 1!
This gives us Geometric progression with a Common ratio = 1/2 and the Nth term being 1.
GP formula is:
An = A1rn-1 which leads to
1 = A1(1/2)n-1
It gets easier after this: Divide both sides by A1, Multiply by Log 2 and solve for N!
Should give you the number of steps to reach An which is Log 2A1 + 1 which in turn is O(log n)
There are mathematical techniques to prove big-oh. IIRC there where some difference equations involved. Any decent textbook on the topic should be able to teach you the ropes.


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I wondered if someone could suggest somewhere I could really learn how to take pano's. I know the basics, manual focus, tripod, overlap, no polariser, manual exposure etc. Looking at my two screen grabs you can see one shot of the Morning Glory pool at Yosemite is flawed primarily because I missed out an image!
I haven't a clue what is causing the rest of the obvious issues. I tried processing this in CS5 and Ptgui.
The second image shot with a 24mm prime seems ok even if the river doesn't actually wrap around like it does in the resulting image.
There seems to be plenty of help online but it appears geared to the novice shooting with a point and shoot.
As an example:
I had an issue processing a pano' of a building with vertical struts, it was suggested I work in Ptgui and use vertical control points. This was great advice, I just want to know where I can find more, there's probably questions I haven't even thought to ask.
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Vegetable Kebabs
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Type: Side Dishes
Cook these under the broiler or on a barbecue
Prep Time: 15M
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Serves: makes 4 servings
- 1 medium zucchini
- 1 red bell pepper, seeded
- 1 green bell pepper, seeded
- 1 red onion
- 8 cherry tomatoes
- 8 button mushrooms
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano
- pinch of crushed hot red pepper
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- Trim the zucchini and cut into 8 chunks. Cut the peppers into 1in (2.5cm) pieces. Peel the onion, and cut into wedges leaving the root end intact so that the wedges do not fall apart.
- Thread the zucchini, peppers, onion, tomatoes, and mushrooms in equal amounts onto 4 large or 8 small skewers. Whisk the oil, garlic, oregano, and hot pepper together in a small bowl with a fork.
- Position a broiler rack 6in (15cm) from the source of heat and preheat the broiler. Place the kebabs on the broiler pan and brush generously with the garlic oil. Broil, turning often and brushing with the remaining oil, 10 to 15 minutes, until the vegetables are just tender. Serve hot or at room temperature, with any remaining oil drizzled over the kebabs.
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WEIRTON - Tight games often come down to turnovers and free throw shooting.
Thursday night at Bill Barrett Gymnasium, the Weir Lady Red Riders rode the power of 31 forced turnovers, a poor showing at the charity stripe (8-for-21) by the Madonna Lady Blue Dons, along with a late run to bring home a 49-46 win and the Weirton City Championship Trophy sponsored by the Weirton Boys and Girls Club.
"This is the first time in four years since we won it," said Weir head coach Bill Smith of the city championship. "The last time we won it was 2008 and they've won it every time since. It's a good feeling.
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CITY CHAMPIONS — The Weir High girls basketball team claimed the city championship and the trophy from the Boys and Girls Club of Weirton, presented by Madonna boys basketball coach George Vargo, with a 49-46 victory over Weirton Madonna Thursday at the Bill Barrett Gymnasium. It was the first win for the Red Riders since 2008.
"A great feeling because you get bragging rights for one year. It's a team effort. We had kids in foul trouble. We had kids come off the bench that gave me some quality time.
"We were able to play some quality defense in the second half.
"We forced some turnovers, got out and run, and hit some layups."
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WEIR: R. Young 5 2-2 12, Stead 3 1-4 7, Shingle 4 0-0 9, T. Young 1 0-0 2, Robinson 0 0-0 0, Lemly 2 0-0 4, Burns 5 3-5 13, Dalrymple 1 0-0 2. 21 6-11 49. 3-pointers: Shingle. Rebounds: 33 (Burns 12, R. Young 7). Turnovers: 22.
MADONNA: Dowiak 1 0-4 2, Mascio 1 0-0 2, Rosso 0 1-2 1, Sellitti 4 0-3 10, Davis 1 2-4 4, Bragg 9 5-8 25, Grubbs 0 0-0 0, Lammers 1 0-0 2. TOTALS: 17 8-21 46. 3-pointers: Sellitti (2), Bragg (2). Rebounds: 40 (Bragg 12, Sellitti 10). Turnovers: 31.
Added Madonna head coach Don Ogden, "It's real obvious their pressure, and our inability to capitalize on foul shooting hurt us. I think we were 8-for-21, and we had 31 turnovers. To their credit they came out with intensity and we weren't able to handle it.
"Out-played, out-coached so congratulations to Weir High. It was a great game, but unfortunately we were on the down side."
About midway through the third quarter, and trailing 34-23, Weir began their climb to the city title with a 13-4 run to end the stanza. The Lady Riders' Raven Young tied the game on two occasions - 34-all and 36-all - late in the quarter, but a Cameron Dowiak bucket gave Madonna the lead heading into the final frame.
"They don't quit," said Smith of his team. "It was just a matter of us playing better defense, getting in good defensive position, rebounding some, getting the ball out, and running.
"We're good when we're running. I was proud of the way we came back and played good defense."
The teams exchanged points until, with the score tied 42-42, Amy Davis knocked down a foul shot to give the Lady Dons a 43-42 lead. It was the last points Madonna scored until 7.4 seconds left in the game.
Weir ran off seven straight points beginning with a Shelva Burns basket to make the score 44-43 Lady Riders. An Alyssa Shingle basket, a Burns free throw, and a Madison Dalrymple put back off an offensive rebound pushed the lead out to 49-43.
Monica Bragg knocked down a trey to make the score 49-46 at the 0:07.4 mark, but Madonna only had three team fouls at the time, and the clock ran out as they fouled down the stretch.
Weir jumped out to a 15-9 lead after one quarter followed by a 16-6 Madonna advantage in the second that put the halftime score at 25-21 Lady Dons.
The Lady Red Riders, who shot 21-for-63 from the field, were led by Burns' double-double of 13 points and 12 boards. Young was strong in support with 12 points and seven rebounds. Weir pulled down 33 boards, turned the ball over 22 times, and went 6-for-11 at the foul line.
"She brings leadership," said Smith of Burns. "Like it or not she's a senior citizen like me. She's a senior citizen here, and I yell at her a lot, but I expect her do do a lot of things as well to help these other kids out."
Bragg scored a game-high 25 points for Madonna and matched Burns with 12 rebounds. Nicolette Sellitti added a double-double of her won with 10 points and 10 boards. The Lady Blue Dons snagged 40 rebounds and shot 17-of-49 from the field.
"That is a bright spot, but you can't rely on one girl," said Ogden of Bragg's performance. "Fatigue sets in, people over play her, and when we don't have an answer it's hard for her to produce because there's nobody to compliment her.
"That's my fault, and that's something we have to work on."
Weir is off until Tuesday when it travels to Magnolia while Madonna is on the court Saturday when it hosts St. John Central in a varsity only game starting at 1 p.m.


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Since I was sportscaster at WTOV-TV in the early 1990s, in my career as a commentator and documentary filmmaker I have specialized in stories where the facts indicate that the news media got it wrong. I witnessed so much journalistic malpractice up close that it is now nearly impossible for me to be stunned by anything that happens in the modern media. However, what the New York Times did on Christmas Day with the Big Red hacking story was so egregious, and potentially even illegal, that it somehow left me temporarily speechless.
Having once spent an entire year with the Big Red team in 1993 for the purposes of writing a book, I feel like I know the town, the program and coach Reno Saccoccia as well as anyone who is not from Steubenville.
My first impression of the original Dec. 16 expose on the original rape case was that it seemed like an odd choice of subject and that it was clear they were trying hard to recreate a Penn State narrative. The story seemed based on the theory (one I strongly disagree with in both instances) that a town's obsession with football success led to a highly successful coach looking the other way when it came to moral or legal transgressions.
The Times story took what had been local news and made it instantly national. It also apparently caught the attention of some highly proficient Internet hackers from Kentucky.
A week after the Times story hit, these hackers broke into a website run by a Big Red booster, which is not directly affiliated with the team or the school. They posted a YouTube video along with a written message, which made numerous unfounded and libelous accusations about the booster.
The video accused numerous minors of being culpable for the rape, implied they would be the targets of violence and threatened to reveal sensitive personal information about them and their families if they did not publicly apologize for their alleged role in the crime.
YouTube had the good sense to take down the video, apparently because it violated its standards since it was effectively a terroristic threat. As of this writing the booster has regained control of the site.
The only "news" which occurred here was that a minor website with no actual affiliation to a major story had been hacked and a corresponding YouTube video had been taken down. This might have been a minor local story in Steubenville, but certainly was not worthy of national attention, especially considering the issues involved with giving some lawbreakers who are making threats the bullhorn and credibility they are seeking.
And yet somehow none of this stopped the New York Times from diving right in and giving the hackers exactly what they wanted.
What the Times did was not only effectively become the mouthpiece for a group making illegal threats via illegal means, but it did so in a way that was highly misleading and inaccurate.
The factual problems with the actual story are many.
First, the headline indicates that the website which was temporarily hacked into was that of the football team's.
That is just not true. The website is simply run by an independent fan.
Second, the article completely buys into the hacker's wildly unsubstantiated claim that they are part of the infamous international hacking group known as Anonymous. The Times appears to use this claim to bolster the newsworthiness of the episode (which is rather ironic since usually being "anonymous" usually diminishes the credibility of a news source), but they willfully ignore significant evidence that this group is not closely affiliated to them.
Third, the Times did nothing to even remotely examine the massive legal issues with what the hackers put out as far as their content. They don't mention that that the hacking was obviously illegal, nor do they even seem aware that they were also in violation of numerous other laws in the realm of intimidating witnesses in a criminal case, extorting testimony, making clearly libelous statements and terroristic threats.
The Times also omitted important information regarding the lack of credibility of this group, which did the hacking. Not only did their content reveal a remarkable lack of knowledge of the actual case, but they even misspelled Steubenville in the title of the original YouTube video.
But the most outrageous act of the Times coverage may been directly linking to the hacker's video as well as their numerous potentially libelous (and frankly nonsensical) statements made on the site of the Big Red booster before it was recaptured by its rightful owner.
What was the possible journalistic purpose of this act and how could it even theoretically override the negative consequences of giving obvious lawbreakers the ability to further harass a community with their threats?
I have spoken to both the reporter and editor at the Times who published the story and both refused to even answer basic questions about their story before rudely hanging up on me (amazingly, the Times reporter did not even attempt to contact the booster, Saccoccia or Steubenville City Schools Superintendent Mike McVey for the hacking story in question.)
I did speak with a prominent prosecutor in Ohio who strongly believes that this situation may have groundbreaking legal ramifications for the media. He believes that it is quite possible that the Times may have effectively "aided and abetted" the disruption of the "orderly administration of justice" and the "extortion of testimony" by a group making terroristic threats.
Regardless if it may somehow be deemed illegal (as a free speech advocate I am extremely torn on such issues), there is no question that the reporting of this story was illegitimate, inaccurate and has caused numerous innocent people to be needlessly harassed during the holiday season.
For all of that there should indeed be an apology, and it should come from the New York Times.
(Ziegler is a Los Angeles-based documentary filmmaker who can be reached at www.johnziegler.com)


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To answer your question simply, the two forms you are asking about do not mean the same thing.
You've actually got two differences at work here.
One difference is the politeness level. ~てあった, is the plain form. ~てあります is the polite form.
The other difference is the tense. ~てあった, is the past tense. ~てあります is the present tense.
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Summer finally arrived at St. Croix Valley Raceway Friday with some of the hottest weather so far this season and The Valley celebrated with 2-for-1 deals on hot dogs, a Hula Hoop giveaway and its customary intense, competitive racing action. Jason VandeKamp added to his impressive Valley victory tally, notching yet another win in the WISSOTA Midwest Modified main event, with Rob Caho Jr., Tony Duran, Dylan Roberts and Jason Havel also scoring wins.
After a group of young fans put on a short hula-hooping clinic, the Pure Stocks started off the feature racing for the evening with Tim Baxter and heat race winner Ben Kaphing leading the field to green. Kaphing was looking for the clean sweep after turning in a solid performance in winning his heat, but it took just three laps for the formidable and dominating Thunderbird of Jason Havel to appear. Havel masterfully worked the low groove and powered under Kaphing coming out of turn four and took the lead for good. While Havel left little doubt regarding the win, the rest of the field kept the race interesting. "Jet Lag" Jon Wigchers and Baxter jostled for fourth, while Krysta Swearingen recovered from an early spin to challenge Kaphing for second. At the stripe, Havel kept his perfect season churning along in front of Kaphing – who was mere inches ahead of Swearingen, with Wigchers and Baxter rounding out the top five. As usual, Havel celebrated his win in the grandstands, handing out beverages for both young and not so young fans before selecting one lucky youngster to pose with the trophy in his make-shift victory lane at the base of the flag stand.
Next up were the Future Four racers, fifteen cars strong for their A-main. Brock Anderson and second heat race winner Dylan Roberts paced the field with Roberts quickly pouncing on the top spot. Fifth starting Todd Tacheny quickly moved up to second and spent several laps catching then sizing up the leader Roberts. At the race's midpoint, Tacheny made his move coming out turn four down low, staking his claim on the top spot. From there, the Future Fours settled into their grooves with Tacheny picking up the win over Roberts, first heat race winner Chris Dyke, Brock Anderson and Chris Rick. Due to a pre-race rules agreement, Tacheny and Anderson were docked two positions for minor technical reasons, allowing Roberts to claim the clean-sweep win.
The Northern Vintage Stockcar Racers were also on hand Friday, along with their tradition of sending a young fan home with the winner's trophy. In the full-bodied division, Seth Moleene went home with Kan Varing's trophy, and Kiera Peterson is the proud new owner of Butch Bethke's Super Modified hardware after Bethke made a dramatic last lap pass around Dennis Olson for the win.
The UMSS Micro Sprints attacked the quarter mile next, with heat race winner Ty Sampeir and runner-up and Tony Duran setting the pace. After leading most of the heat race, Duran blasted to the point on the high side and set sail into the night, leaving Sampeir and Colin Olson to give chase. Duran
maintained a comfortable margin throughout for the win, with Olson edging Sampeir at the line for second. Allison Berger and Sandy Traaseth completed the top five.
The WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds put on yet another display of intense two, three and even four-wide racing action. An opening lap spin by Doug Toepper reset the starting order with heat race winner David Mastell on the pole and John Remington on the outside. Remington took the early lead with Mastell, Josh Bazey, Kevin Marlett and Jason VandeKamp in an eye-popping four-wide frenzied battle for second directly behind Remington. VandeKamp emerged from that hornet's nest of activity and within a few laps powered under Remington for the lead. A series of cautions frayed the nerves of VandeKamp and the fans, but VandeKamp was able to stay out front while a torrid battle raged on for second between Bazey, second heat race winner Joe Chaplin Jr. and Ryan Olson. At the final double checkers it was VandeKamp scoring the win over Bazey, Olson, Chaplin and Tony Schill.
The last race of the night belonged to the UMSS Traditional Sprints, and the ever growing class boasted a whopping six rookies in the fifteen car field. One of those rookies, Mike Mueller, started on the pole to the inside of Cam Schafer, fresh off his Open Wheel Nationals win last Saturday night. Mueller held the top spot early before Katrina Sautbine used a huge run off of turn two to take the lead. Sautbine led for several laps before falling to the hard-charging Rob Caho. Once in the lead, the veteran racer never looked back, taking the win. Mueller ran steady and nearly flawless to come home second in front of Kevin Bradwell, Johnny Parsons and fellow rookie Jake Kouba.
Next Friday, July 12, the UMSS Traditional Sprints take center stage for the Traditional 40, a forty-lap main event for the wingless racers. Also in action will be The Valley's regular classes, Pure Stocks, Future Fours, UMSS Micro Sprints and WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds. The following Thursday, July 18, the WISSOTA Modifieds will return for the first time in nearly four years, headlining the Modified Dawg Days Dash, a $1000-to-win, $70-to-start affair featuring the former top class at track. No races will be held the following night, Friday July 19. Details for these and other events at The Valley can be found on the track's website, www.SCVRaceway.com.
Race summary: Future Fours – Heat 1: Chris Dyke, Brock Anderson, Brandon Dyke, Nicki DuBois, Alex Hallin, Chris Arnett, Natalie Rogers, Damon Roberts. Heat 2: Dylan Roberts, Chris Rick, Todd Tacheny, Derek Reding, Bob Carver Jr., Katie Lebeis, Samantha Yarusso Feature: Dylan Roberts, Chris Dyke, Todd Tacheny, Chris Rick, Derek Reding, Brock Anderson, Nicki DuBois, Alex Hallin, Bob Carver Jr., Brandon Dyke, Natalie Rogers, Katie Lebeis, Damon Roberts, Chris Arnett, Samantha Yarusso
Pure Stocks – Heat: Ben Kaphing, Tim Baxter, Kyrsta Swearingen, Jon Wigchers, Kaylee Remington, Brad Peterson, Jason Havel, Mason McEvers. Feature: Jason Havel, Ben Kaphing, Krysta Swearingen, Jon Wigchers, Time Baxter, Kaylee Remington, Brad Peterson, Mason McEvers.
UMSS Micro Sprints – Heat: Ty Sampeir, Tony Duran, Colin Olson, Allison Berger, Sandy Traaseth Feature: Tony Duran, Colin Olson, Ty Sampeir, Allison Berger, Sandy Traaseth
WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds – Heat 1: David Mastell, Josh Bazey, Kevin Marlett, Doug Toepper, Mitch Weiss, Cory Ziebol, Kyle Hallin. Heat 2: Joe Chaplin Jr., Jason VandeKamp, John Remington, Tony Schill, Craig Elliot, Ryan Olson, Jared Gorka Feature: Jason VandeKamp, Josh Bazey, Ryan Olson, Joe Chaplin Jr., Tony Schill, Kevin Marlett, Mitch Weiss, David Mastell, Craig Elliot, Cory Ziebol, Kyle Hallin, John Remington, Doug Toepper, Jared Gorka.
UMSS Traditional Sprints – Heat 1: Johnny Parsons III, Cam Schafer, Brian VanMeveren, Jake Kouba, Adam Taubert, Joe Jesmore, Denny Stordahl. Heat 2: Rob Caho Jr., Mike Mueller, Katrina Sautbine, Kevin Bradwell, Jake Hendrickson, Tom Porter. Feature: Rob Caho Jr., Mike Mueller, Kevin Bradwell, Johnny Parsons III, Jake Kouba, Adam Taubert, Jake Hendrickson, Tom Porter, Cam Schafer, Katrina Sautbine, Denny Stordahl, Brian VanMeveren, Joe Jesmore.
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The 94 Most Badass Soldiers Who Ever Lived
War! You know what it is good for? Stories of unfathomable badassery, that's what. Over the years, we at Cracked have gathered a formidable collection of these stories, and we've put the very best of them here so that a whole new generation of readers can feel inadequate about their life choices. Read on and you'll learn all the military history too pants-burstingly awesome to make it into your history books.
What if you had to disguise some commandos who were going to be walking right past enemy guards? You'd have to come up with something amazing -- lives are at stake here.
Or, you could come up with something so stupid that the enemy finds it too awkward to make eye contact. Such was the thinking of Israeli special forces commandos who infiltrated Beirut in 1973 to kill three leaders of the PLO. To not arouse suspicion, they took several hulking special forces guys and dressed them up as women, complete with wigs, high heels and fake boobs.
"Uh, guys, the mission's been over for like a month ..."
Pairing up with men dressed as men, they walked along in each other's arms like they were on dates. They walked right past police, bodyguards, etc. without raising any questions, such as why that woman had a five o'clock shadow and an Adam's apple, or what that lump was that looked like an Uzi hidden under their clothes.
When they got to the Palestinian leaders' bedrooms, they kicked in the doors, whipped out their guns and killed everyone.
Oh, and lest you think this was a bad career move, one of the "women" was Ehud Barak, who later became Prime Minister of Israel and is currently Defense Minister.
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We repeat: People died because they mistook this man for a woman.
The Israelis hardly invented this technique, by the way. In 1943, 11 Australian commandos, all white, disguised themselves as Malay fishermen by dyeing their skin brown and boarding a fishing boat. They sailed through 2,000 miles of Japanese-controlled ocean from Australia to Singapore. At one point they even traveled right alongside a Japanese warship without them noticing anything strange (which was good, because none of the commandos could speak Malay). They then took canoes right into Singapore Harbor, where they blew up seven Japanese ships before escaping.
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So racism is OK as long as you have plenty of bombs and canoes.
But to top them all, Sarah Edmonds, a 21-year-old white woman working as a spy for the Union Army, infiltrated Confederate territory in Virginia disguised as a black man. Somehow, this totally worked, and she snagged the plans to a fort and the identities of some Confederate spies before "escaping" back to Union lines.
Yet neither of her identities were allowed to vote.
#93. Matt Hughes Curves the Bullet
Welsh Royal Marine sniper Matt Hughes was participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, looking for a perfect occasion to shoot some dudes from really far away. He found it in two Iraqi troops who were holding up the offensive. Hughes was ordered to take them out. And not out to dinner, unless they both ordered a lead steak. A tiny one, shaped like a bullet.
"Sir, I understand you didn't like it, but you've already eaten most of it. I'll have to get a manager."
The Shot:
The problem was that the wind was blowing tremendously. See, this is something that doesn't come up in the movies -- when you're trying to shoot from far away with any kind of wind, you have almost no goddamned idea where the bullet will end up. Sniping isn't just holding the cross hairs steady on the tiny soldier in the scope; it's trying to predict gusts of wind that could push the bullet into some innocent tree trunk 50 feet away. And yes, that's how much of a difference wind can make. You can not only miss the guy, but miss the whole house he's standing in.
So that's what happened to all those road signs in the country!
Oh, and as if his fate were being written by the vengeful spirit of a vaudeville comedian, Hughes discovered that his targets were a little over a half mile away, which, powerful wind notwithstanding, was beyond the range of the rifle he was using. To make matters worse (and yes, there apparently was still room for them to get worse), the enemy soldier he was targeting was covered in a fortified position, with only a small portion of his head and torso exposed. Hughes would have only one chance, because if he took a shot and missed, the Iraqi would simply duck completely behind cover and never come back up. It'd be like if Luke Skywalker had been commanded to park his X-Wing at the beginning of the trench, and to lean out of the cockpit with a grenade wedged in his ass and try to power-shit it into the Death Star's exhaust port.
Cackling in the face of insurmountable odds, Hughes did his best to judge, based on the haze from the heat, how to aim the rifle to hit his target. His judgment led him to aim the shot 56 feet to the left and 38 feet high, which is another way of saying "Hughes pointed his gun in a totally unrelated goddamn direction."
"If I can take out the sun, we'll kill the whole Iraqi army."
Either way, Hughes presumably prayed to the sniper gods and let off his first and only possible shot, not even remotely pointed toward his target, and watched as the arc of the bullet formed the shape of a giant banana and struck the enemy soldier directly in the chest. Needless to say, the Iraqi was killed, though we're fairly certain his last words were the equivalent of "Oh, no fucking way."
#92. Napoleon's Officers Take a Bridge by Calmly Strolling Across It
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So you need to capture a crucial bridge, but force alone isn't going to do it, since such an action would destroy the bridge in the process. Only the power of bullshit can save you now.
It was 1805, and Napoleon was having trouble conquering the Austrians, who had adopted a strong defensive position on the east bank of the Danube. The French needed to get across, but the only bridge within marching distance was wired with explosives, and the Austrians had orders to blow it up the second France attacked. Knowing that trying to take the bridge by force would simply result in it getting blown to rubble, Napoleon's officers came up with a plan so stupid, it had to work.
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Text them and ask nicely?
Two marshals named Lannes and Murat just casually strolled up to the bridge guards and started chatting about how glad they were that an armistice had finally been signed and that the fighting was now over (in case you're not following along, this was a blatant lie). The guards, being unaccustomed to idle banter with high-ranking enemy officers, remained unconvinced and kept them at gunpoint. Lannes and Murat didn't give a damn. They continued to saunter across, laughing off any attempts to stop them.
Meanwhile, an elite squadron of French grenadiers also started heading for the bridge. They had been ordered to behave as casually as possible -- their guns were slung across their backs and they walked instead of marching, laughing and joking among themselves as they slowly but surely advanced.
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"Hey, guys. Where should we put the beer?"
When they reached the other side of the bridge, the two marshals noticed an Austrian sergeant preparing to light the fuse to blow the bridge. Lannes, displaying such huge balls that their gravity started attracting debutantes, snatched the match from his hand and angrily insisted that since a truce had been signed, the sergeant was destroying public property, and if he tried it again, Lannes would have him arrested, goddammit.
A nearby Austrian artillery force prepared to fire on the sauntering grenadiers, but the officers persuaded them to back down -- Lannes actually stopped a cannon from being fired by nonchalantly sitting on the barrel to light his pipe. When a particularly persistent sergeant insisted that the whole thing was clearly a trick, Murat demanded to know if the Austrian officers were going to let an enlisted man talk to them like that. At which point the humiliated Austrian officers ordered the man imprisoned.
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"You can just stay there until you learn to trust the men we're actively warring against."
The fact that the French grenadiers crossed the bridge and seized said Austrian officers immediately after probably made for a very bittersweet "I told you so!" moment.
#91. The Crying Guardsman
Wait, what is a sobbing man in goofy headgear doing on a list of badass images? He looks like a preteen girl watching The Notebook -- or any man on Earth watching a dog die in an action movie. What's his deal?
This is an Evzone, an elite Greek presidential guard, and this photograph was taken during a riot. So, what, he's crying to see what's become of his country? Nope! The Evzones are, in part, responsible for maintaining vigil over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Their duties are largely ceremonial, much like the famous Queen's Guard at Buckingham Palace. In short, they are not to react to external stimuli unless it threatens the tomb, and they are not to be moved from their post under any circumstance. Even under penalty of chemical attack. That's important, see, because this particular Evzone is standing, absolutely immobile, inside a giant cloud of tear gas.
The photo of the crying guardsman was taken during a protest for the Parnitha forest held in Syntagma Square, which also just happens to house the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Riot police deployed tear gas on the protesters when they got out of hand (or more likely, just because they were bored), and the Evzone, caught in the crossfire, just stood there and took it without so much as a twitch. This feat is especially impressive when you consider two things: The Evzones dress like somebody making fun of a Keebler elf, and they are proud members of the Ministry of Silly Walks.
Also, this isn't any old riot: It's a Greek riot. And nobody riots like the Greeks. Look up "the Greek riots" in a Google Image search and it not only shows you a page of photos that looks like somebody made a scrapbook out of Michael Bay's soul, but also asks you to be more specific.
And up there is an Evzone hanging out in the middle of a Greek riot, looking like a racist Christmas ornament and moving like a Monty Python sketch, just baaarely misting up after being blinded by tear gas. Man, if you didn't already feel like a pussy for crying at the end of The Iron Giant, you sure as hell do now.
#90. Benjamin L. Salomon Destroys Cavities, Japanese Soldiers
In 1937, Benjamin L. Salomon became a dentist. He had a bright, if boring, career path in front of him. Then, in 1940, he was drafted into the Army. You can imagine his trepidation: Oh god, what is a mild-mannered dentist going to do against the friggin' Axis?! Luckily, by the time war was declared, Salomon was transferred over to the Army Dental Corps. He eventually reached the rank of Captain -- and all by staying behind the lines helping keep teeth clean. At this point in Salomon's life, the most badass thing he'd ever done was give a perfect root canal.
"And a handful of non-consensual cavity removals."
Then shit got real: Salomon was sent to Saipan in the Pacific Theater, where he served as an impromptu regimental surgeon to the troops. While treating the wounded, Japanese forces overwhelmed Salomon's field hospital. Four enemy soldiers stormed the tent, and when one of them bayoneted an American soldier Salomon had just pretty much finished saving, he channeled some of that infamous dentist rage.
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"You haven't been flossing, have you? Have you?"
Salomon shot two of the soldiers outright, kicked a knife out of another's hands, and headbutted the last into submission. He then ordered all of the wounded out of the tent. But since his soldiers didn't have any cover fire, Salomon took up a machine gun and provided it. Just stop and imagine being a soldier in that tent: You're hurt. You know the end is near. The enemy is in your base, and there are no able-bodied guards -- just a single, solitary dentist ...
The wounded managed to make it out safely, and the last thing they saw of their camp was a meek, glasses-wearing dental technician, completely alone, mowing down wave after wave of enemies with a machine gun. When the Americans came back and retook the area the next day, they found Salomon dead. It was a tragic loss -- for the Japanese: They also found nearly 100 enemy troops dead in front of Salomon.
Cranky patients, bad breath, destroying platoons of Japanese soldiers; all in a day's work for Ben Salomon.
Salomon had been shot more than 70 times, most of which he shrugged off, because you can't down a dentist with anything less than an elephant gun -- everybody knows that. Salomon earned a posthumous Medal of Honor for taking out two entire platoons of enemy soldiers single-handedly. So here's to you, Benjamin Salomon: Thank you for scraping away the plaque of evil with the little ... scraper thing(?) of justice.
#89. George Vujnovich Smuggles 500 People
In the summer of 1944, the Allies undertook a series of missions to Romania to attack Hitler's oil fields, and the Nazis started playing a real-life game of Duck Hunt, except that instead of ducks, they were shooting down American bombers, and instead of a laughing dog, the surviving airmen were retrieved by a group of Serbian resistance fighters called the Chetniks.
They had the best flag of the whole war.
The Chetniks, although they hated Nazis too, weren't on very good terms with the Allied forces, so it came down to George Vujnovich, an American officer with Serbian roots, to contact the Chetniks and negotiate for the prisoners' release. He masterminded a huge operation codenamed "Halyard Mission," during which more than 500 airmen were escorted out of hostile territory by a militia of war-hardened Serbs. It was like that movie, Behind Enemy Lines, except 500 times that.
OSS Capt. George Vujnovich on the right with a group of saved airmen
How He Got Screwed:
As we've just mentioned, the Serbs and the Croats hate each other more than cats and dogs, and during World War II, the highest-profile Croat in the world was Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito. It just so happed that Tito and his communist regime were instrumental American allies, and the only thing he hated more than Nazis were those blasted Chetniks.
Who could hate these wacky, bearded misfits?
To maintain good relations with Tito, the American government classified the Halyard Mission, covering up the fact that they had collaborated with a bunch of filthy Serbs. The sad ending for the Chetniks is that, after the war, Tito hunted them down and executed their leader, Draza Mihailovich, while the American government looked at the sky and whistled complacently.
As for Vujnovich, he was awarded the Bronze Star for his efforts ... in October of 2010, because Tito has only been dead for, well, 30 years now.
We at Cracked believe that it's never too late to hate.
#88. Charles Nungesser Doesn't Fear Your Bullets
Frenchman Charles Nungesser was a character straight out of a Hemingway novel. Before the war he was an amateur boxer, race car driver and pilot. During the war he managed to score 45 victories between drinking and banging everything he could get his hands on in Paris. He even found time to regularly nail the legendary spy Mata Hari (well aware of her activities, he cheerfully fed her bullshit stories that she dutifully reported back to her German controllers).
She was hypnotized by his glittering chest.
His list of war time injuries reads like a recitation of everything that could go wrong on a body, ever, including but not limited to a skull fracture, a brain concussion, fractures of the upper and lower jaw, dislocation of both knees, bullet wounds in the mouth and ear AND SO ON.
So one day a German plane came flying low over Nungesser's airfield and challenged him to single combat at a specific time and place the next day. Despite his friends' attempts to point out the whole Germans + War = Dicks equation to him, Nungesser was unable to resist the challenge and duly set off to meet the enemy.
Note the skull and crossbones wearing a steak-hat and twirling canes.
It turned out his friends were right. The moment Nungesser reached the designated rendezvous, six German fighter planes came swooping out of the clouds in a coordinated attack.
Nungesser responded to this shocking turn of events by blowing one of the German planes out of the sky. Then another.
Getting cocky works.
At this point, with the odds whittled down to a much more reasonable 4-1, he broke off the engagement, presumably to run home and pick up more bullets. The remaining four Germans, no doubt in a state of shock and feeling like right dicks, simply watched him go.
A badass to the very end, Nungesser survived the war only to disappear mysteriously, presumably lost at sea as he attempted to fly from France to America just two weeks before Charles Lindbergh accomplished the feat traveling in the opposite direction.
His co-pilot's lack of depth perception may have played a role.
#87. Bill Millin, Bagpipe Warrior
In the olden days of war, it was traditional for the parts of the British Army that came from Scotland and Ireland to fight accompanied by a guy playing the bagpipes. By World War II, the bagpipes were restricted to rear areas, and even then it was to be limited to when nobody was doing anything of great significance or when a member of the royal family arrived somewhere. However, Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, decided that those rules were for the English, and since he was Scottish (and at least slightly crazy), they didn't apply to him.
They knew not to argue unless they wanted a broken Scotch bottle in their face.
So, he ordered his piper, Bill Millin, to go ashore on one of the main landing points for the invasion of Normandy and wail on a set of bagpipes. Once on the beach, Millin calmly walked up and down at the water's edge, playing while carnage exploded and people died all around him.
"The only way to break their lines is a stirring rendition of 'Danny Boy'."
After he had finished one tune, Lord Lovat (who was dressed in a monogrammed turtleneck sweater and armed with his grandfather's hunting rifle -- did we say he was insane already?) actually called out a request for another song, which Millin then played. After the beach was secured, Lord Lovat once again ordered Millin to play for the commandos inland so they could assault even more German positions to the sound of the pipes.
"Funny ... the way you're playing that sounds like a high-pitched scream."
With other soldiers frantically gesturing at him to find some cover and just really having a war all over the place, Millin walked slowly and bolt upright, playing "Blue Bonnets Over the Border." Millin later talked to some of the Germans who had been captured to ask why they never shot him, and discovered it was because they thought he had gone mad.
War is hell.
And if anyone's harboring any ill thoughts toward Lord Lovat for basically risking his own man's life for what were ostensibly the most fuck-stupid reasons imaginable, it's probably important to note that Millin played the pipes at the Lord's funeral after his death in 1995. So clearly he was OK with the way things went. For some reason.
"It was the greatest damn gig I ever did."
#86. Pavlov's Platoon Holds Off the Nazis. All of Them.
The Half-Assed Hollywood Effort:
Here's a story implausible enough it could only have come from the fantasy genre, specifically the Battle of Helm's Deep from Lord of the Rings. A bunch of under-equipped warriors find themselves holed up in a fortress, outnumbered 30 to one. Knowing that death is all but inevitable, they decide to fend off the vastly superior army for a miraculous stretch of time as a pure exercise in ball-flexing manliness, before being rescued by a wizard.
Also, the fat elf dies.
Topped by Real Life When:
Imagine if Helm's Deep had only been defended by two dozen guys and the enemy crossed the sheer overwhelming math of a zombie horde with the Empire's propensity for terrifying marshal efficiency.
That's what one Sergeant Yakov Pavlov's platoon found themselves facing down in September of 1942. The Nazis were pushing into Russia as part of the biggest military operation in the history of the human race, and everything was about to come to a head in the city of Stalingrad with a battle over a single bombed-out apartment building.
They called it the "Battle of Stalingrad" because "The Battle of That Building Where Sergei's Mom Used to Live" didn't sound quite as impressive.
Pavlov and his platoon was tasked with the thankless job of retaking the building after the Nazis had seized it. To get a snapshot of what their mindset was like heading in, it's helpful to know that the assignment was considered an extremely dangerous one by the Soviet Army, and that the Soviet Army's slogan at the time was "die for Russia."
Somehow, the slogan failed to raise morale.
Doing the quick math, Pavlov realized his only chance was to throw his whole platoon into the meat grinder, and hope that the speed with which they passed through left at least a few alive. He lost all but four men in the assault, but eventually his plan worked and they took the building. Had they known they were dealing with a man who considered four people surviving a success, the Nazis probably would have realized that they were in for some serious shit. Having barely enough survivors to outfit a respectable zombie movie, Pavlov could only station one soldier to each floor. However, the drop-dead gorgeous line of sight it offered was enough for them to unleash a mountain of unholy hell against all Fascist comers.
The last face many Nazis ever saw.
The building was subjected to relentless fire--as were the civilians huddled in its basement--but Pavlov's unit held out long enough to be reinforced by a still-tiny 25 men. Not a wizard, but it was all they needed. His men were given machine guns, rifles, mortars, barbed-wire, anti-tank mines, some body armor and a PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle which Pavlov personally used to snipe a dozen tanks from the rooftop. They basically used what little equipment they had to convert the apartment into a goddamn anti-Nazi death machine that could annihilate whatever came at it from a kilometer in every direction.
As long as everyone conserved their ammo and manned their posts, the only real danger posed to the building came from flamethrowers. Fortunately, with legendary snipers like 19-year-old Anatoly Chekhov on the top floor, this usually resulted in a Viking funeral for the Nazis.
Wave after wave of the German army hammered the building. And died.
Later, Pavlov's men could boast that they killed more Germans defending their one building than the French killed in the entire fall of Paris. And unfortunately for French egos, they were still alive to boast--by February 2 the next year, the Battle of Stalingrad was over. Pavlov was named a Hero of the Soviet Union, and the building he defended was made into a monument.
#85. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
The Half-Assed Hollywood Effort:
Hopefully you didn't see the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but did read the comics, which feature a band of legendary fictional characters such as Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man and Dr. Jeckyll/Mr. Hyde, all coming together from separate fictional universes to save the world.
The Badass True Story:
What if we told you that there was a secret military unit during World War II which featured this guy:
And this guy:
... who operated out of Sherlock Holmes' headquarters and saved the world from nuclear annihilation at the hands of the Nazis?
Meet the Special Operations Executive, a super-secret branch of the U.K. military personally tasked by Winston Churchill to "set Europe ablaze." On the crew were James Bond-creator Ian Fleming (who would base Bond on his own experiences), as well as members who would be Fleming's inspirations for M, Q, Miss Moneypenny and the sultry Vesper Lynd. They were joined by the future Dracula/Saruman/Dooku Christopher Lee. They were stationed at Baker Street. Yep, the place where the fictional Sherlock Holmes solved his mysteries.
These "Baker Street Irregulars" were Churchill's go-to guys and girls for "ungentlemanly" warfare. If there was a bridge that needed busting or an Axis officer who needed seducing, you'd better believe the SOE had all the cloaks and daggers necessary to make sure Colonel Arschloch spent his last moments of World War II getting murdered in his bed anywhere from the English Channel to Southeast Asia.
The ministry's greatest achievement, and perhaps the single finest act of sabotage in all of World War II, was Operation Gunnerside: a crossover between the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and their cousins in the Norwegian Resistance. Their mission: train a crack commando unit of former-Vikings to join SOE on a secret mission to destroy a heavy water plant in Norway before the Nazis could build an atomic bomb with it. It's thanks to these unknown bastards of World War II that Hitler didn't have any nuclear-tipped V-2 rockets to turn the last months of the war into something akin to Judgment Day.
If only.


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Call (970) 754-4275 for information & reservations.
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458 Vail Valley DrVail, CO 81657
(800) 950-8245
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1300 Westhaven DriveVail, CO 81657
Vail VillageVail, CO 81657
Steaks, American
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(970) 754-7818
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(970) 476-7000
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(970) 476-8994
Vail MountainVail, CO 81657
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715 West Lionshead CircleVail, CO 81657
1300 Westhaven Drive Vail, CO 81657
(970) 479-7014
250 S. Frontage RdVail, CO 81657
European, Other
100 East Meadow Drive Suite 25Vail, CO 81657
2161 N Frontage RdVail, CO 81657
331 Metcalf RoadAvon, CO 81620
715 W Lionshead CirVail, CO 81657
970-476-4444 ex. 5675
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Just a note...these routinely go on sale @ buy(dot)com for $27.99...OOPS, slight update, that's the previous version (newest version features USB3.0 & Gigabit Ethernet), Amazon has them for $23.99 http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-POGO-V4-A1-01-Pogoplug-Mobile-Backup/dp/B005GM1Q1O/ref=pd_cp_p_0
@jackofallgames42: True I agree. However what I'm thinking it'll be really nifty if I just wanted to have all my files (document, mp3, movie etc) in a one external hard drive and get to to them when I want to.
I know this is pretty redundant with all the available cloud services but I'm thinking having cross platforms (ios, android and apple) especially in the mobile world, it would be a nightmare to share/access stuff.
Added bonus I found out that, it supports, gaming devices(xbox 360, ps3) I think I'm gonna like that alot.
In closing, I agree @jackofallgames42 about backup, but I think there are other stuff I see myself doing with it.
@mewalter: good to know and that's why I think it's I like the newer version for this price.
Here is a good review, if you are interested.
I'm not totally sure about this version but the older pogoplugs can be run on Arch Linux ARM to bypass the many problems with PogoPlug's software and support. Here is the link for what I think is this pogoplug series if anyone is interested http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/pogoplug-series-4