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CARACAS -- Petroleos de Venezuela, or PdVSA, will take the
catalytic cracker unit at its 140,000 bpd El Palito oil refinery offline for 25 days for maintenance starting this week,
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Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said on August 25 that El Palito
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When buying a used lens, what should the buyer check? Other than looking for obvious physical damage on the outside of the lens, what else should be inspected to identify the condition or quality of the equipment?
I have a checklist. It mostly applies to buying classic (manual-focus) gear to use, but is probably of general use.
It's a good idea to try all of these on your own gear first, since you know how you've treated it, and hence what effect you've had, and what "normal" gear feels and looks like when you're really looking closely.
The Most Important Step
Know what you're after.
Do a bit of research on the lens you want. Classifieds/eBay/KEH/etc will give you an idea of the price, and camera forums will give you an idea of common problems to check for with specific models. Both of those are probably more useful than most of the stuff below. If you're going to buy a lens on a whim, make sure it's for an amount of money you don't mind losing!
For example, something like Stephen Gandy's guide to Leica M lenses will tell you a lot more about what to look for than any general guide.
With that in mind, here's my general steps for checking out a lens:
0. Keep your perspective
Remember you're not an expert, not a collector, and that your evaluation is subjective. If you want to use a lens rather than keep it on your shelf to resell it later, most problems are actually pretty minor. You would be shocked at the quality images you can get from the ugliest-looking gear.
1. Look at the glass
2. Look at the aperture
3. Fiddle with the mechanics
From the bad experiences I've had you have to look at external signs of abuse first. If the lens is too dented, then it's a sign that the owner didn't treat it well.
Then there's the fungus that can build up inside the lens if it's not taken care of properly over time. You have to look through the lens against a bright light looking for black spots that give away fungus build up.
Another thing that almost got me was the auto-focus. Make sure you twist the zoom ring and force the auto-focus motors many times all the way through. One lens I looked at was slow to auto-focus and it made a very low screeching sound when it got to the extreme focus. It turned out the user had banged it and some parts were touching inside.
Other than that I think it has to do with how much confidence you have about the seller.
Shamelessly stolen from PentaxForum's RicoRico, but may be of interest: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-lens-articles/59245-pawnshop-lenses-other-used-lenses-buyers-guide.html
BRIEFLY: The quick-and-dirty approach.
I walk into the slightly seedy premises, wander over to the photo gear display, look over the Pentaxian offerings. I discard focal lengths I already have too many of. I pick up each lens, judge its build quality, twist and slide any moving parts, push any pins and switches, look into and thru it for cruddiness, see if the diaphragm blades move. I pull a M42-PK adapter ring out of my pocket, see if the lens mount looks/is compatible. Then I might offer ten bucks (US$10) for it. Or maybe not.
But this method won't work for everyone, so here's a detailed screening technique.
INTRO: Basics of lenses and mounts.
Lots of lenses will fit your (and my) K20D. Many will have some sort of PK mount, the bayonet twist-on mount like the lens that (hopefully) came with your camera. Many more will have a 42mm diameter threaded screw mount, known as an M42. To use an M42 lens, you'll need an adapter. I strongly recommend an honest-to-goodness PENTAX-brand adapter, to avoid all sorts of grief, both in focusing, and in removing the adapter. (I won't go into fitting other lens mounts onto a Pentax camera.)
Some of either sort of lens, PK or M42, may say PENTAX or PK on them somewhere, and some won't. Besides all the more-or-less prominent third-party makers and branders whom I won't list here, you'll also see some fine lenses from Sears and Ricoh. Some Ricoh-made lenses are branded as Sears. WARNING: a Ricoh lens with an RP designation on it has an extra pin that WILL jam the lens on your camera. Other Ricoh lenses are fine, just avoid the RP's.
And of course the best lenses say Asahi and/or Pentax and/or (Super) Takumar. Some that say Takumar Bayonet are not highly regarded, so don't be talked into paying a lot for those. Some older Pentax-made lenses are branded as Sears or Honeywell. I won't go into the pros-and-cons of other brands, except to mention the Russians - see the warning below on Russian lenses.
SCREENING: What to run away from.
When stalking pawnshops for lenses, be sure you have 1) your camera, 2) a PENTAX-brand M42-PK adapter, 3) a small flashlight, not too bright, and 4) a dust pen or lens brush. (Maybe mud-over the camera so you don't look too rich.)
Gross appearance shouldn't be a deciding factor unless you think beauty is critical. I bought a Vivitar 90/2.8 macro whose knurled rubber grab was decayed. I finally peeled it off and replaced it with duct tape. The lens, one of my favorites, with crystalline optics, cost me US$3; a 'cherry' version might cost 50-100x more. Minor dings, dents, scratches can be ignored or painted over. (Tell the girls you were a combat photographer.) Remove any filthy filters before assessing the lens. Major damage should be avoided - like, it should all be and stay in one piece. If it falls apart when handled, skip it.
To examine a lens, first shake it a little. If anything rattles sharply, skip it. Then try turning the focus and aperture rings. If they're too tight or loose, skip it. Make sure the diaphragm leaf blades open and close when turning the aperture ring. You may have to push the stop-down pin (if any) and/or move the M/A switch (if any). If blades or pin or switch don't move, skip it. If the lens mount is corroded, skip it. If you cut yourself on anything, skip it.
Now use the lens pen or brush to whisk away lens dust, and whip out that not-too-bright flashlight and look inside the lens, from both ends, shining the light both into and thru the lens. (You don't want to blind yourself when looking into magnified light.) It can be pretty scary in there! If the lens surface or interior is fogged, clouded, or just cruddy, skip it. If the glass is scratched anywhere near the center, skip it. Minor scratches around the periphery may not matter much, but they certainly lower the value. Dust inside the lens may be a problem; if you see much dust, skip it. You want to be looking at and thru rather clear, clean glass. If not, skip it.
Pointing the light into the lens, work the aperture. Look at the diaphragm blades. Are they clean, or oily? If oily, skip it. Check from both ends. NOTE: To get the most from this and all the above screening tests, you should go to a camera store and ask to inspect a new lens and/or superior used lens. This will give you an idea of just what a good lens' condition is, and thus what a prospective used lens should aspire to.
Other aperture tricks: some older and simpler lenses have no stop-down pin. The aperture can only be set from the ring, called a pre-set. Some lenses have two rings, on that lets you pre-set the smallest aperture you'll want, the other to actually (and smoothly) dial in the stop-down. Make sure the rings are easy to turn, not too tight or loose. And make sure they actually stop-down the diaphragm. If you have a problem here, skip it. And some modern auto-aperture lenses have NO aperture ring; with such, you can't check it at all, until trying it on the camera. I wouldn't trust one of these unless the pawnshop or seller guarantees that you can return it after purchase. Yup, that includes our fine Pentax DA lenses. Consider them guilty until proved innocent.
If the lens passes so far, check that the mount will actually fit on your camera or the M42 adapter. Don't force it - if it doesn't fit right on, skip it. WARNING: Some Russian lenses branded Helios and Jupiter and Industar (or anything with Cyrilllic characters) have 39mm threads (M39), not M42. Some of those M39s, fitted with a cheap adapter, will work fine on your camera. Most won't. And other lenses made for Leicas and their clones have M39 threads and WILL NOT WORK! If it doesn't thread smoothly onto the M42 adapter, skip it.
TEST-FIRING: Trying-out the candidate.
You will NOT be able to fine-check the optical quality of the lens now. Well, you could fire off some shots, then review and pixel-peep, but it's hard to judge quality on the little LCD screen. The best you can probably do is check the lens' mechanical operation, see if it actually works on the camera. WARNING: Unless the shop/seller explicitly states a guaranteed return policy, or the lens is REALLY REALLY CHEAP, you should ALWAYS try it out before purchase. I've failed at this a couple times. I then repeat my mantra: OWAH TAGU SIAM. Say it over and over.
FOCUS: Does the lens manually focus? Look at something and try. The K20D's focus-lock lights, or the ZX-M's split focus screen, should help here. After getting it in focus, maybe look at the lens' distance scale and see if it's about right. Does it focus to infinity? Does it focus as close as the scale says? If it's an autofocus lens, does it actually autofocus? Is it loud, grinding, slow, hunting with futility? If focus isn't good, skip it.
APERTURE - PRESET: A lens with no stop-down pin and/or no M/A switch and/or no aperture-ring A-setting, will likely only work in Av mode. (Setting the mode to anything but B or M won't matter - both the K20D and the ZX-M will default to Av.) Set the lens M/A switch (if any) to M. Focus on something, half-press the shutter, note the shutter speed. Now twist the aperture ring a bit and repeat. Does the speed change? It should increase when you open up, decrease when you stop down. If not, skip it.
APERTURE - MANUAL: Otherwise, set the lens M/A switch to A, and the aperture ring to anything but A (if available). Set the K20D to M (Manual) mode. Focus on something. Hit the Green button. The lens should audibly stop down as the camera takes an exposure reading. Note the reading. Now manually change the aperture and repeat. Does the reading change, as with presets? If not, skip it, unless 1) the lens passes the PRESET test and 2) you'll be happy using it as preset-only and 3) it's cheap.
APERTURE - AUTOMATIC: Ah, the blessed PKA mount! Set the aperture ring to A. (If there's no A there, skip this test.) Set the K20D to P mode. Focus on something, half-press the shutter, note the reading. Try turning the front and/or rear e-dials. Do the aperture and speed change? If not, skip it.
ZOOM: Is it a push-pull or twist'em or power zoom? Does it push-pull, twist, and/or power smoothly, quietly, effortlessly? Can you tolerate the zoom creep, if any? Does is seem to zoom from minimum to maximum of its range? If not, skip it, unless it's one of those huge obnoxious lenses and you just want it to show off. Camera bling, yeah sure. If it's a macro-zoom (or any kind of allegedly 'macro' lens) does it reach its close focus? If not, skip it, unless you just don't care.
OUTRO: Closing the deal.
That's all I can think of right now. This should be sufficient info on what to look for in a used lens that you can fondle before purchasing. It's your credit card and/or financial future; go for it!
I'll mention that pawnshops near major casinos are great places to look for used photo gear. Winners buy a new, upgraded outfit; losers go home naked. Or so I hear. My favorite pawnshop in a major Nevada city (I won't say which) has a great assortment, and sends a Sweet Young Thang out to show lenses to male customers. (I won't mention her name.) She volunteers that she's done some modeling. I suspect that she's rather effective in diverting some customers' attention from prices and other bothersome details. So yes, self-discipline is needed in this kind of shopping. Be strong, be wary, and don't spend more than you can afford. Yeah, right.
My advice would be to buy from a reputable dealer like KEH; you pay a bit extra, but you also get a warranty and a no-questions-asked return period. For me, that's a good tradeoff.
Besure to examine the aperature opening/closing correctly. If you are looking at a telephoto lens, look for fluidity in zooming in/out.

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I have a trip scheduled this weekend where there is a lake with thousands of winter birds. I will be using Canon EOS 550D and Canon 100-400mm USM IS lens. I will also have a wide angle lens to shoot landscapes with birds in it. I have no prior experience in birding, so I want to know what are the things that differ from shooting day-to-day pictures to shooting birds? How should I go about finding a bird and approach it properly? How do I increase the chance of getting better photos? Suggestions are welcome.
Be Ready!
First thing first, when you can, always keep your eye trained on the subject through the lens. Birds are quick, alert, and attentive, and when they do something interesting thats worth capturing, you rarely have time to bring the camera to your eye, frame, focus, and get a shot. So its critical that you are watching the bird through the lens as much as possible, and have the shutter button half-pressed (to activate IS), so you are ready to go the moment something really interesting happens.
Be Obvious
You can try to sneak around and attempt to get close without a bird noticing you, but that rarely works. Pretty much every bird WILL notice you, and they will have noticed you long before you think they have. The best approach to getting close is to simply be obvious, and don't sneak. Predators sneak. Photographers look. Train the birds around you that your not a predator, just some clumsy mammal tromping around on unfamiliar ground that gives them an occasional look.
Be Courteous
No one likes it when you stare...including (or perhaps, particularly) birds. Don't zero in on a bird and keep it in your sight for too long...at least at first. Predators stare. Photographers look. Train the birds around you that your just a clumsy mammal that has a vague curiosity about it, and they'll get back to their normal routeen. You'll have a chance to get closer that way, and they shouldn't be as jittery when you do if they think you aren't preparing to eat them.
Be Noisy
If you try to sneak up on a bird, any noise will alert them to your presence. The snap of a twig or the clack of a mirror and shlink of a shutter will at the very least alert them, and likely make them fly off. Take shots, early and often, and let the birds hear the sound of your camera. Take shots when your far away and can't really get anything good, just so you are making the kinds of noises that are "normal" for a clumsy, mammalian photographer.
Be Indirect
Don't go strait for the shot (or the bird) strait away. Be a little random and indirect, take a meandering path on your way to getting closer and closer to your subject. Predators track. Photographers meander. Be a noisy, clumsy, meandering but courteous mammal that exudes a presence of mild annoyance, and you should evoke less fear...and more curiosity, than a sneaky approach.
Be Normal
All of that basically boils down to "Be Normal!" The fundamental essence of the rules above boils down to "Don't look, sound, or seem like a predator."
Fine tuning your approach
When it comes to birds, there are a few different types, and they all require some subtle changes to how you approach them and how you photograph them. Common types of birds include the small migratory song birds, like finches, jays, black birds, doves/pigeons, etc.; there are wading and water birds like egrets, ibises, ducks, geese, and the like; and there are birds of prey and scavengers. Photographing each will take some slightly different techniques on the basic guidelines outlined above.
Small migratory birds are often the toughest. They are a primary source of food for many birds of prey, as well as for many carnivorous mammals. They also tend to be rather feisty, are constantly on the move, and are often prone to attack (friendly or malicious) from their own kind for one reason or another. That makes them particularly alert and jittery, and as such they may take a little longer to acclimatize (although it also depends on the bird and the environment.) You might need to be a little slower and less extreme in your "beeing normal"-ness. Don't make too much noise, but be careful not to appear like a predator. Just make sure they don't see you as a threat, and you should gain at least a little curiosity from them. Many song birds are brightly colored, and framing them against a background of contrasting color can often yield great results. Younger birds tend to be more curious than seasoned adults due to their lack of experience. You might get some of your best shots from a yearling. It should be fairly easy to get shots of young in a nest, as small birds don't pose much of a threat (although they will often try.) Be courteous and don't disturb a nest when you find one, unless there seems to be something wrong already (like a nest that may have been scavenged by a predator...in which its up to you to help or not.)
Wading and water birds are a bit different than smaller migratory birds. They tend to be very shy, however they are not as quick to disappear in a single hop and a short flight. When they do fly, they usually fly more slowly, and can make excellent in-flight shots, especially when framed against a nicely contrasting blurry background (longer focal lengths and an f/5.6 or wider aperture really help here...f/4 or better is ideal.) You will need to learn some panning to capture water fowl in flight, and often to catch them gliding along a lake or pond surface. Many long-legged wading birds, from small ones like sandpipers and snipes, to larger ones like egrets and ibises, tend to slowly wade along the shores of their feeding ground...always away from you. Its hit or miss whether they will ever really "get used" to you, however if you give them enough time, they will usually stay close enough for you to get some decent shots. A lot of these birds blend VERY well into their backgrounds, so you may find yourself spending more time finding the right composition of contrast than you do actually photographing the birds themselves. Their patterns tend to match closely with near backgrounds, so finding angles which puts a lot of distance between them and the bulk of the backdrop will assist in isolating the bird from their surroundings (maximum aperture is always recommended.)
Birds of prey tend to be a bit more confident than other birds. Perhaps its the talons, perhaps its the razor sharp beak. Either way, they are not as quick to jump up and fly off at the first sign of disturbance. Birds of prey do seem to expect a certain formality of etiquette, however...particularly when they are feeding. "Be normal", but be as courteous as you can, and try to stay hidden if you want to capture a raptor feeding. Being indirect can also be a valuable tool in closing the gap between you and your subject as well. Looking like a dumb, lowly human seems to satisfy their superiority. ;) A bird of prey can, in the blink of an eye, take off after some unseen prey. It is critical that you have your eye to the viewfinder, finder half-down on the shutter button, be in focus, and ready to take the shot when you zero in on a bird of prey. Autofocus capabilities can be paramount here as well. Quality AF, with as many cross-type focus points, subject tracking, servo-action, etc. will all be extremely helpful when tracking and capturing any bird of prey snatching a meal. Solid panning and tracking skills are also paramount here, as some of the best bird of pray shots are right before and at the moment of capture.
Exotic Birds
I personally do not have any experience photographing exotic birds in their natural habitats. By exotic birds, I mean many of the large (and frequently African) ground or wading birds like storks, the huge flightless birds like ostriches and emus, birds of paradise, southern sea birds like the albatross or northern migratory birds like geese, or penguins. I can't really offer much insight when it comes to photographing them. Based on what I have seen in documentaries, penguins seem to be largely oblivious and fairly curious of humans, and photographing them in any environment should be pretty strait forward. Albatross are often huge, and generally seem focused on eating, staying warm, and eating, and occasionally a little love and a little flight school...so be normal tactics should work well with them. I can't give a whole lot of advice on any other type of bird, as I simply don't have any knowledge about them outside of zoos and documentaries. Birds of Paradise, which are the primary residents of the rainforest of New Guinea, are probably a lot like any other song bird, and I would expect the same tactics to work with them.
A lot of these suggestions are no different from general (and especially portrait) photography, but it's always worth repeating them:
The pictures I used are all 100% crop at 400mm with no post-processing (other than cropping or resizing) unless otherwise noted.
The best tips I've seen on bird photography are from Moose Peterson. I think his best advice is to watch the birds and learn their habits. A shore bird may peck in the mud or sand a few times, then stop and look around. That moment when they look around you may get the best shot where they are erect and still. And when they resume pecking, you may be able to inch a bit closer. By learning how they behave, you may be able to anticipate where they may go next.
There are a few of his tips here and here, and for more you can visit his site/blog.


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19 Feb 2011 7:15 PM #1
Devs please give option to select text in a grid
It seems like it's a very common requirement to select text in a grid. I know my users demand it. There is an override for it in the grid faq for Ext 3. I just spent the last half hour or so trying to apply it to 4. It's similar, but now I have to override both View and TableChunker.
It was a good experience and I learned some new things about 4, but now I'm asking myself why. It seems like this long standing workaround deserves a new feature. Since you're so radically, redesigning the grids anyway, could you just give us a config option to make the text selectable and save everyone the hassle of having to find the overrides?
The same can be said for some of the other long standing grid cosmetic issues - letting lines wrap, for example, could be a config option.
21 Feb 2011 11:58 AM #2
We're listening... Any of the small feature requests that you want like this, please be sure to post and we'll try to implement them in the 4.x line.
Thanks,Aaron Conran
22 Feb 2011 3:51 PM #3
Sweet - thank you very much for considering implementing these features.
It is much appreciated to have the senior developers taking time to respond to feedback like this!
5 May 2011 7:41 AM #4
+1 on this.
I tried without success to remove the "x-unselectable" class from the table markup using a grid feature:
Ext.define('Webos.grid.feature.Selectable', { extend: 'Ext.grid.feature.Feature', alias: 'feature.selectable', mutateMetaRowTpl : function(metaRowTpl) { var len = metaRowTpl.length; for (var idx = 0; idx < len; idx++) { metaRowTpl[idx] = metaRowTpl[idx].replace("x-unselectable","").replace('unselectable=\"on\"',"") } } });
Any ideas?
5 May 2011 5:25 PM #5
If you don't mind doing this for every grid on the page, I'd take the direct route and override the templates that generate the html.
Both the Ext.view.TableChunker.metaRowTpl and the Ext.grid.View cls default must be modified. As an added bonus, refresh on Ext.view.Table invokes table.unselectable so you have to override this method, too.
Something like:
 ... Ext.view.TableChunker.metaRowTpl = [ '
', '<tpl for="columns">', '
{{id}}
	', '</tpl>', '
' ]; Ext.override(Ext.grid.View, { cls: Ext.baseCSSPrefix + 'grid-view ' + Ext.baseCSSPrefix + 'selectable' }); Ext.override(Ext.view.Table, { refresh: function(firstPass) { var me = this, table; //this.saveScrollState(); me.setNewTemplate(); // The table.unselectable() call below adds a selectstart listener to the table element. // Before we clear the whole dataview in the callParent, we remove all the listeners from the // table. This prevents a big memory leak on IE6 and IE7. if (me.rendered) { table = me.el.child('table'); if (table) { table.removeAllListeners(); } } me.callParent(arguments); //this.restoreScrollState(); if (me.rendered) { // Make the table view unselectable table = me.el.child('table'); if (table) { //table.unselectable(); } if (!firstPass) { // give focus back to gridview me.el.focus(); } } } });
I really, really wish this had made it into the final 4 release. The workaround for selecting text in 3.x was much easier... I just don't understand why Sencha thinks we don't need this feature. It's been in the Grid Faq for 2-3 forever. IMHO, incorporating all the hacks and workarounds from the FAQ's should have been step number 1 in the redesign process. Why make us reinvent this again?
5 May 2011 7:04 PM #6
Why was the decision made to make grid column text unselectable to begin with? Does it somehow reduce the user experience? I would say more than half of the other JavaScript based grid widgets I have found on the net also restrict cell text selection.
5 May 2011 10:07 PM #7
+1 for this.@from: china
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* Ext.ux.grid.plugin.RowEditing - add some usefull features (v1.4 updated 2011-09-11)
* Ext.ux.button.AutoRefresher
* Ext.ux.form.field.DateTime
5 May 2011 11:52 PM #8
For an interesting read, here's the original 2.x thread where Condor posted the override that made it into the Grid FAQ:
We're not the only ones who want this request is nothing new...
9 May 2011 11:21 AM #9
+1 for this. It sure is a pain not being able to select text in grids.
9 May 2011 10:07 PM #10
andletting lines wrap@from: china
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The Miss Congeniality of the SEC
Georgia, Often Good but Rarely Great, Takes Its Shot at Glory
Georgia is a power football program. The Bulldogs play in the powerful Southeastern Conference. They have a power running game. They even call their helmet logo the "Power G."
But there is one area in which the Bulldogs have been weaklings lately: winning the national championship. While SEC brethren Alabama, Auburn, Florida and Louisiana State have combined to win the past six national titles, Georgia's last came in 1980 behind chiseled (and now 50-year-old) running back Herschel Walker.
The drought isn't because the Bulldogs are lousy: Over the last 10 years, they are the third-winningest team in the SEC. A typical Georgia season is a top-20 ranking and a nice, irrelevant bowl game. Put another way: Georgia is the Miss Congeniality of the SEC.
All of that could change Saturday, when the third-ranked Bulldogs face No. 2 Alabama in the SEC title game in friendly Atlanta, just 70 miles from campus. A win likely will vault Georgia into the Jan. 7 national-title game against No. 1 Notre Dame.
So Saturday's showdown is the biggest game in decades for a program that is often good but seldom great—although Georgia folk don't want to hear that.
"Since I've left, people keep saying, 'What is Georgia after Herschel?' " said Walker, who won the Heisman Trophy in 1982. "But I'm like, 'Guys, look at Georgia after Herschel. They put so many great guys in the NFL and they've been winning games.' "
For better or worse, the Bulldogs' virility has been a theme throughout their history. In 2001, a last-second Georgia touchdown to beat Tennessee birthed a legendary call from late Bulldogs radio announcer Larry Munson: "We just stepped on their face with a hobnail boot and broke their nose! We just crushed their face!" Before the 2002 Georgia-Alabama game, former Bulldogs All-American (and ex-Auburn coach) Pat Dye said on a radio show that Georgia wasn't "man enough to whip Alabama." The Bulldogs won.
But despite being the flagship program in a talent-rich, football-mad state, Georgia has just one undisputed national title—1980. (The 1942 team also was named No. 1 by several polls.) That 2002 Bulldogs team finished third. In 2008, Georgia was the preseason No. 1 in the Associated Press poll but finished 13th.
"When they were preseason No. 1, that was a spot that I think they should have relished. And they just succumbed to the pressure of being No. 1," former Georgia and NFL running back Terrell Davis said. "When they play a team of a higher rank…they tend not to play as well. They have a great opportunity this year to really just wipe all that away."
Among Georgia faithful, anticipation for Saturday's game began building Nov. 17, when undefeated Oregon and Kansas State lost, clearing a path for Georgia to win the national title if it won out. On Thursday tickets to the Georgia-Alabama game were reselling for an average of more than $480, according to secondary ticket-market aggregator TiqIQ.
Onetime Georgia student Ryan Seacrest, host of the "American Idol" TV program, has been talking up the game on his Los Angeles-based radio show. "Everyone in Georgia, especially in my hometown of Atlanta, has been waiting a long time for this game," he said in an email.
And this isn't just any opponent the Bulldogs are facing Saturday. This is Alabama, the defending national champion, with whom Georgia has a neglected rivalry punctuated by a bizarre, long-ago scandal.
In 1963, a story in the Saturday Evening Post accused Georgia athletic director Wally Butts and Alabama coach Bear Bryant of conspiring to fix the 1962 game, won by 17-point favorite Alabama, 35-0. Butts and Bryant sued the Post—Butts winning a $460,000 judgment and Bryant a $300,000 settlement—in what became a landmark libel case and helped hasten the magazine's decline. Georgia and Alabama have played just 17 times in the 50 seasons since then.
In recent years, Georgia has played a secondary role in the giant, live-action menagerie that is the SEC. There is frowning, flawless Alabama coach Nick Saban, mad-genius LSU coach Les Miles, explosive, overachieving Florida coach Will Muschamp and snide, smiling Steve Spurrier of South Carolina. Lost in the madness is mild-mannered Mark Richt, the 12th-year Georgia coach most publicly criticized for not punishing players harshly enough.
"Maybe we're not as flashy as some of those other places," Georgia president Michael Adams said. "But I think when you put the combination of our academic standards with our athletic success, we have a pretty good record." Indeed, only Florida outranks Georgia among public SEC schools on U.S. News & World Report's best-colleges list.
Georgia wasn't always the strong silent type. In the 1980s, iconic college football TV announcer Keith Jackson popularized the greeting, "How 'bout them Dawgs?" said Vince Dooley, coach of the 1980 title team. The correct response, Dooley said, was "How 'bout them Dawgs!"
Today Georgia football enjoys a massive following. The 93,000-seat Sanford Stadium regularly sells out. Last year Georgia ranked eighth nationally on the Collegiate Licensing Company's list of top-selling merchandise—one spot ahead of Notre Dame.
Some fans see a chance for symmetry with a looming title-game matchup against the Fighting Irish, whom Georgia beat in the Sugar Bowl to clinch the 1980 title. "We've got two games left," said Doc Eldridge, former mayor of Athens and the current president of its chamber of commerce. "If we win both of our two games, we'll be the king. Of course, Alabama can say that, too."
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Corrections & Amplifications
Only Florida outranks Georgia among public SEC schools on U.S. News & World Report's best-colleges list. An earlier version of this article incorrectly omitted the word public.


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I have no experience whatsoever with photography, but it's a subject that has interested me for quite some time. As a beginner, what should I be focusing on? What camera should I get? Any other general advice?
You should focus on taking pictures!
Don't worry too much about the gear. If you're really interested in this as a hobby, I suggest budgeting a significant chunk right off (See this slightly-tongue-in-cheek article) and buying some decent mid-range gear.
I don't mean you need to buy a ton of stuff without knowing what you need, but if you jump in at higher than the entry-level, you'll have more flexibility, room to grow, and not be as distracted by lusting after better gear (you'll know that what you have is good enough even though there's always something better). Most crucially, you'll have a camera designed for direct access to the essential controls, rather than one designed to produce snapshots without any thought. (See Are there disadvantages to a prosumer camera for a beginner, aside from cost? for more on this.)
You almost certainly want a camera with interchangeable lenses, but it's not a necessity. You could go for a high-end point and shoot like the Canon G12, or something like the lovely Fujifilm X100, which has a large sensor and a built-in lens tailored to go with it. Interchangeable lenses offer a lot more flexibility, but unlimited flexibility isn't necessarily all good.
A dSLR with a prime lens or two is a good choice too, or one of the newer mirrorless options (like Micro 4/3rds) with one of the tiny "pancake" lenses. Some people will suggest a basic zoom lens; some will recommend the prime-lens route, as I am doing — this is basically a choice of personal style. (While prime lenses offer some image quality advantages and usually wider max apertures, this can also be seen as a place where less flexibility helps learning by providing structure.)
So anyway, get something, and start taking a lot of pictures. Malcolm Gladwell puts forth the idea that to be great at anything, you need to put in about 10,000 hours of working at it. So, the most important thing is to not obsess about how to start and to just do it.
Take a lot of pictures, and then review each one with a critical eye. What are your favorites? What worked, what didn't? Narrow down your favorites from each batch, and make prints from those — there's really no substitute for the physical artifact. Look at other photographs you like. What makes them work? How do yours compare?
By repeating this process of taking pictures and narrowing them down, you'll become good.
You should acquire anything which shoots images and experiment. Lots. Digital is helpful in this regard but not essential.
About the camera:
If you are interested in "LEARNING" photography and at the same time you are a beginner, then in my opinion, you should get a real "CHEAP" digital camera with a fully "MANUAL" mode and a raw shooting format. Reason: With that cheap camera, you'll get a real life experience about the importance of matters like:
So, when purchasing a full fledged DSLR, you'll know WHAT exactly do YOU want in a camera, and you won't go on asking people which camera version should I purchase. These things can also be learnt by reading books, but IMO a theory won't teach you what a real life experience can.
I would definitely agree that you should focus on getting out there and taking pictures!
The problem with most photographs isn't the camera, but the photographer. That in mind, whatever camera you have is a really, really good place to start. I would focus on learning what your point-and-shoot, iPhone, or whatever can do, and pushing it to the limits. Learn about composition, because composition is most of what makes pictures interesting or boring. Then work on using the light available to you in a room or outside to try seeing how illuminating subjects or allowing shadows to fall on them creates different effects.
Once you've really pushed your camera to its limits and mastered everything it offers, then think of upgrading. In the meantime, you will probably only be spending money you needn't have spent.


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A family of 4 in Glasgow lost everything they owned when a fire ignited in their trailer home around 5 yesterday evening.
The family says they are thankful no one was injured, but sad they no longer have a place to call home.
We lost everything we got but we ain't going to let that get us down. We're going to keep trying,"says George Yates, who lost his home in the fire.
George Yates had just sent his fiance and her 2 kids to pickup dinner when the furnace he was working on caught fire.
"My furnace I got a new modem so I can try to make it work so we can have heat. Next thing I know fire come from the bottom of it where the gas line is, and started blowing up on me. I'm lucky it didn't happen at night and burn us all up,"says Yates.
"Really I was afraid he was still in it,"says Sharon West, Yates' fiance.
While the family had no injuries, the Glasgow Fire Department was able to save one of their two pets.
"Some form of snake we got out of the structure,"says Easton Weathers, of the Glasgow Fire Department.
"Thank God they saved my snake. I'm thankful for that but I wish the cat could have lived,"says West.
With no insurance and $7,000 worth of damage the family says tough days lie ahead.
"Been working hard trying to have something. Me and her and the kids. We lived in another trailer and the roof and floor was falling in on it. My neighbor William Clark lent me money to buy this, and now this
happens. We spent every penny we got,"says Yates.
And what they will miss the most...
"All the photos of my deceased mom, the photos of my children growing up, all the photos. The things that are irreplaceable,"says West.
But the family hopes to move past the tragedy.
"Gotta finish the home we started building,"says Yates.
The Red Cross was called in to help the family.
They are currently staying in a hotel.
If you would like to help, you can call the Glasgow Fire Department at 270-651-5170.


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- Binding: Hardcover (USAC)
- Era: 19th Century
- Number of Pages: 224
- Subject: Autobiography
- Date Available: February 2011
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In 1803, at the age of fourteen, Robert Hay joined the Royal Navy and spent the next eight years at sea. His colorful memoir describes a sailor's hard life during the period and includes actions off the French coast and in the East Indies, where he was badly wounded. When his ship ran aground off Plymouth, he deserted but was quickly taken by a press gang, escaped, and eventually reached home in Scotland. A talented writer, Hay offers not only an entertaining yarn, but thoughtful observations of early nineteenth-century naval life and the human condition.
Robert Hay was born in Scotland in 1789 and died there in 1847. After writing about his experiences at sea, he became a journalist.
Praise for Landsman Hay
"[Hay's] memoirs offer a fresh and vivid view of lower deck life in Nelson's navy. Hay's is a classic coming-of-age story, as the country lad experiences the world and vagaries of fortune. Throughout, Hay is a keen observer of human nature and the different cultures he encounters, and displays remarkable sensitivity to both. The rich language of Hay's recollections is enlivened by anecdotes, by turns humorous and tragic, to form a charming volume sure to appeal to naval historians as well as any interested in Georgian life…Reaching across two centuries, one is drawn in by the honest and authentic voice of [the] narrator. Initially intended only for his children, we too are lucky to share in the life of Landsman Hay."
— Nautical Research Journal, Autumn 2012


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Yahoo Messenger Script
are u talking something like meebo.com?
I have never used that one. I'm looking for like Yahoo Web Messenger.


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CHAPEL HILL — Defenses across the Atlantic Coast Conference are having trouble getting stops or keeping offenses out of the end zone.
League teams are giving up points and yards at their highest rate in more than a decade. And that's led to plenty of shootouts, including last weekend's Georgia Tech-North Carolina matchup that stands as the highest-scoring game in ACC history.
"I hate it because I want to go out here and be dominant on defense every week and I like to see other defenses be dominant as well," UNC defensive tackle Sylvester Williams said. "I want to see tackles for loss, sacks, interceptions, fumbles, forced fumbles. I don't want to see the ball thrown in into the end zone. It kind of makes me not want to watch the games no more, man."
ACC teams are giving up an average of 26.2 points per game this season, up from 24.7 a year ago and the highest since teams averaged 26.4 points in 2001, according to STATS LLC. In addition, teams are giving up an average of 389.4 yards per game, up from about 369 last year and the highest since at least 1995.
Those numbers get worse ACC teams play each other. Teams are giving up 29 points and 413 yards per league game, both ranking as the highest averages since at least 1995.
Those struggles were on display during last weekend's games, starting in Chapel Hill.
In the Tar Heels' 68-50 loss to the Yellow Jackets, the teams combined for 1,085 yards, 11 players scored touchdowns and the 118 combined points broke the previous mark of 110 set in Virginia's 63-47 win against Tulane in 1968.
"I know how they feel," said Duke cornerback Ross Cockrell, whose Blue Devils have allowed at least 41 points in all four of their losses. "I understand what's going on on that sideline and how tough it is to be part of a game like that where for some reason or another, you just can't get a stop. So I sympathize more with the defense than worry about the offense."
That same day, Virginia beat Miami 41-40, marking the 11th conference game this season in which the losing team scored at least 30 points. It happened 10 times in 2001, the only other time it's reached double figures since 1995, according to STATS.
Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe said the trend will continue.
He remembers the goal was to hold teams to 14 points and 300 yards during his days as an Air Force assistant in the 1980s. Now, he said, defenses are struggling to adjust to a mix of spread, triple option and pro-style offenses in the ACC.
"People want to see a lot of scoring," Grobe said. "They like seeing football scores like 38-35, they don't like seeing a 3-0 game. I don't think we're going backwards in this deal. What you typically see is offenses take the lead then defenses catch up. It's point-counterpoint, punch-counterpunch. But right now, I don't see the defenses getting to where they'll ever be dominant again.
"Offenses are here to stay."
Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson pointed to those offensive schemes as a reason for the defensive struggles, noting how more teams are willing to throw the ball or run hurry-up attacks that squeeze more plays into the 60-minute game. Throw in the fact that the 10 of 12 ACC programs returned their regular starting quarterback this season, and the pressure has only increased on defenses.
"If you're one of these teams that says you're going to run 100 plays, well, unless you're three-and-out on defense, your defense is going to be out there for 80 plays, too," Johnson said. "It goes both ways. You don't just get to run your 100 and they get to run 40."
Tenth-ranked Florida State has been the exception, leading the country in total defense (242.9 yards) and ranking fourth nationally in scoring defense (13 points). They're the only team in the league holding teams to fewer than 22 points and 315 yards per game.
The only blip for the Seminoles came against Clemson's high-powered offense. Florida State won that one 49-37 in September.
"It's very important to be great on defense in the South because that's where the largest number of your defensive linemen, defensive ends and secondary guys come from," FSU coach Jimbo Fisher said. "There's a larger group of them in this region than there is in any other region in the country."
Miami's struggles offer one of the most glaring examples. Sixteen of the 27 players on the defensive depth chart for this weekend's game against South Florida are underclassmen. The Hurricanes are two points away from matching a school record for points allowed in a season and could give up about 100 yards per game more than any other team in Miami history.
Yet, despite allowing 31 points and an ACC-worst 490 yards per game, Miami is still in contention for the ACC's Coastal Division title.
"The only thing that I can tell you is that we're playing hard," coach Al Golden said after the Virginia loss. "We were fighting our tails off."
The Hurricanes aren't the only ones feeling that frustration.
"Defenses, we're always a year or two behind," North Carolina defensive coordinator Dan Disch said. "You've got to study (an offense), you've got to figure out how it's hurting you and what you can do to stop it. I think the pendulum has swung a little bit, but it'll swing back — and then the offenses will discover something different."
AP Sports Writers Joedy McCreary in Durham, N.C.; Charles Odum in Atlanta; and Tim Reynolds in Miami; and Associated Press Writer Brent Kallestad in Tallahassee, Fla., contributed to this report


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Is House up to challenge?
In winning re-election against all logic and reason — President Obama's current term fell short of expectations on the very premises of economic recovery, an improved international climate and the restoration of a cooperative spirit in Washington, D.C., that he laid out as a candidate in 2008 — he is roughing out a more modest vision for his second term. "I have listened to you," he said in his victory speech Wednesday morning. "I have learned from you. And you've made me a better president."
Better. That's a far cry from the hope-and-change hyperbole of 2008, and a goal Mr. Obama actually could achieve — if he chooses not to play a new variation of the blame game that marred his first term.
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After-School Olympic Games
This is a party activity in which friends and family participate in Olympic-type events.
Each child brings a prize, wrapped up (used or new), which is then put in a big bag upon arrival.
Big container of lemonade or water
Make a list of all the events you can remember from the Olympic games. Include other events that might be special to your neighborhood like grass rolling, acorn picking, leaf catching, or creek walking.
Make sure the events are safe and appropriate for the ages of children involved. Here are some things you might include: running races, swimming races, softball throw, long jump, Frisbee throw, tennis tournament, basketball toss, etc.
If you don't have room in your yard, meet at a park that might have a swimming pool, basketball court, or other extras.
The winner of each event picks a prize from the gift bag.
From 365 Smart After-School Activities by Sheila Ellison & Judith Gray. Copyright © 2005 by Sheila Ellison & Judith Gray. All rights reserved. Used by arrangement with Sourcebooks, Inc.
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I badly need to create an .XML file inside my theme every time user comes to my site.
But I can't.
This code in header:
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$ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fclose($ourFileHandle); ?>
Just does nothing. It doesn't display "can't open file", but it doesn't create the file as well.
I'm testing it at my /localhost machine and this code works perfectly everywhere there (so file permissions are alright), but not in Wordpress.
Why is it happening? :(


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Study coordinators wishing to list a study should email email@example.com.
What are Clinical Research Trials?
Clinical trials – also known as clinical studies or research protocols – are conducted to test whether a new drug, new prevention strategy, or new screening test is safe and effective in people. Participation is always voluntary. Baylor College of Medicine investigators conduct hundreds of studies, ranging from small, short-term studies to large trials with thousands of patients across many institutions.


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The Cousins Are Coming …."Cousins in Clay": Come for the Day--Come for the Weekend -- Contemporary Ceramic Art in Seagrove, NC at Bulldog Pottery. Potters, Bruce Gholson and Samantha Henneke, will host their 5th Annual "Cousins in Clay" with special guest potters David MacDonald, a distinguished potter from Syracuse, New York and Jack Troy, renowned potter from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. David, a Syracuse University professor emeritus, takes the "power of pattern" on his pottery to the highest level. Jack Troy, Juniata College professor emeritus, is a ceramics author, teacher, and wood-firing poet. Joining them will be Michael Kline from Bakersville, NC, who is known for his lyrical floral brush imagery that gracefully wraps around his wood-fired traditional pottery forms. Bruce and Samantha of Bulldog Pottery specialize in iridescent crystalline glazes and imagery that reflect their interests in the natural world. During the two day event meet the potters, ask questions, and add to your pottery collection or begin one. "Cousins in Clay" is a pottery kinship based on a shared appreciation for the pursuit of excellence within the diverse language of clay.
Pottery will be for sale beginning at 10 am on Saturday, morning. And for those who want to linger awhile for light refreshments, will hear Chronis Pou Vasiliou of Greensboro, play his bouzouki music; and at 3:00 Michael Kline and Bruce Gholson will give a throwing demonstration. On Sunday, pottery will be for sale beginning at 10:00 am. The annual potters' potluck will be at noon, all are welcome to bring a dish and eat while Seagrove potter Will McCanless plays his strings. At 1:30 Jack Troy will read from his published book of poetry.
This is a great weekend in Seagrove, North Carolina to meet potters, and pottery collectors, and take part in the conversation about all things clay. Seize the day and spend it in Seagrove, with the "Cousins in Clay."


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In Yona 4:4 why does God need to explain/justify what he did to Yona?
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God isn't justifying himself to Jonah, he is justifying himself to us, thousands of years after the fact. We read the story of Jonah on Yom Kippur afternoon to remind us of the importance of repentance. Note that the people of Nineveh do not convert to Judaism, they merely cease their evil ways.
Jonah is one of the literary prophets, the prophets that wrote down their messages in books named after themselves.
"Is it right for you to be angry?"
Here, God gives an opportunity for Yonah to rectify his own sin, by causing him to reflect on himself. It is not God's intention to destroy, but to rectify us.
He is revealing to Yonah his own idol, the will.
He is not justifying what he did, he is asking Yonah an almost sarcastic question so that he can then go and show Yonah how silly it is for him to be so angry (with the kikayon).


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November 10, 2011
Vote for Table Mountain
Voting for Table Mountain to become a New7Wonder of Nature closes today (Friday November 11) at 13h07.
Table Mountain has long been a muse/ model/ subject for our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group! members. Below are representations of our nation's iconic landmark with comment from the photographer.
Says Eric: "This photo was taken during the running of Cape Town's Three Peaks Challenge that sees the runners start at Greenmarket Square, ascend Devil's Peak, return to Greenmarket Square, then climb Table Mountain to Maclears Beacon via Platteklip Gorge, all the way back down, then again up Lion's Head to finish back at the square. This was taken at the top of Devil's Peak, the magnificent sunrise behind casting the shadow of the mountain onto the slopes of Table Mountain and Lion's Head." Image © Eric Tollner / redearth.co.za
The beauty of this photo speaks for itself says James: "Table Mountain, beautiful sunset, tranquil, water reflections". Image © James Gradwell
Justin urges you to vote: "This picture was taken on a clear Cape Town day from the road winding up Signal Hill. I think this image is yet another reason why Table Mountain should be included as one of the New7Wonders of Nature." Image © Justin Lawrence
"This a vertorama of Table Mountain captured shortly after sunset on a Sunday evening at Milnerton beach," says Panorama Paul.
Paul is one of the winners of this year's Capture Your Cape Town photo competition. Quite apt as he acknowledges his love of capturing Table Mountain on camera: "As many of you will already know, this is a subject I've shot over and over and over again! I've got at least a dozen sunset shots taken from this beach and composed exactly like this. But with a sky as amazing as this one, I'm sorry to say, I couldn't possibly ignore it!" he says.
And with Table Mountain a possible New7Wonder of Nature those photographs may come in handy: "This is my thirteenth take on the Table Mountain at Sunset theme. I now have enough shots for a calendar (12 months plus a cover shot)!" he jokes.
Vote Now
With these images as inspiration we encourage you to vote now by visiting www.votefortablemountain.com, vote via MXit for 1c, or SMS "Table" to 34874 at R2 an SMS.
You can also vote via Facebook by visiting http://www.facebook.com/new7wonders, "Like" the page, click on "Vote Now", select your top seven wonders and click "Send your vote".
If you vote via SMS or MXit, you can vote as many times as you like.
Vote for Table Mountain is hosting a free celebration concert at the V&A Waterfront Amphitheatre in the build-up to the announcement. Join thousands of other tweeters by using #N7Wresults when tweeting, and make your way to the V&A Amphitheatre tonight.
Alternatively visit our dedicated Vote for Table Mountain page for live updates and information.
Check out this awesome motivational video by Vote for Table Mountain and vote as many times as possible before 13h07 today.
Do you have images of Cape Town you'd like to share with us? We'd love you to join the Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group!


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5 Absurdly Fatal Injuries You Won't Believe People Survived
Death is called the great equalizer for a reason -- the rules are the same for everyone.
Well, almost everyone. As we've discussed before, some rare humans seem to be almost unkillable. Either via extreme luck, tenacity or some freak of their biology, these people survive almost absurdly lethal situations. Like ...
#5. The Impossible Ice Woman
While the human species has survived stuff like bubonic plague, it's still hard to believe how much damage an individual person can endure. Take Dr. Anna Bagenholm, for example. Seriously, take her and drop her through the ice of a frozen creek, Cliffhanger style. Because Anna Bagenholm will shrug that shit off like confetti.
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"And I KO'ed Apollo Creed in the first round."
In 2009, Bagenholm was on a skiing trip and on her way down a slope when she suddenly found herself sliding uncontrollably down a hidden ice gully. She tumbled headfirst into the only hole in the ice of a mostly frozen stream and got stuck there, with only her feet protruding from the 8-inch-thick ice. Rescue attempts by her friends were trumped by a torrent of icy water rushing around her. Bagenholm was stuck in the lethally frigid stream under the ice, breathing from a tiny air pocket between the water and the ice. Somehow, she lasted 40 freaking minutes in those unholy conditions.
Too bad getting her out took 80 minutes.
"Sorry, Steve dropped his iPhone in the snow and he doesn't have insurance on it."
When a rescue team finally lifted her lifeless body out of the stream, Bagenholm's temperature had plummeted to a hopeless 56.7 degrees Fahrenheit, and she had no pulse. The emergency team gave her CPR, to no avail. For all intents and purposes, she was a corpse.
Still, in an effort to do something, doctors at the University Hospital of North Norway hooked her into a heart-lung machine, if only to warm her enough to safely pronounce her dead. Three hours later, one doctor monitoring the video probe had the scare of his life when the patient's heart started beating again. Just like that.
Well, not like that.
Bagenholm immediately became the epicenter of a bustling circle of white jackets. Even though she was certainly going to be brain dead, just the survival of her bodily functions was deemed "impossible" and "miraculous." Presumably, these terms soon turned to cries of "witchcraft" and "Rule us, immortal lady" as it became apparent that Bagenholm's brain was also doing just fine. According to the kazillion scientific texts that have since been written about her, that 40-minute struggle gave her body time to go into hibernation mode, which in turn enabled her brain to survive with next to no oxygen for so long.
Today, not only has Bagenholm recovered completely, but she's actually working as a radiologist in the very hospital that saved her. She says that the whole "rising from the dead" thing hasn't really changed her life, thus verifying that she already was an invincible Viking superhero before the accident.
#4. The Man Who Was Raised by Wolves
Kids raised by wild animals are a common storytelling trope: Tarzan was raised by apes, Mowgli from The Jungle Book by wolves. Of course, real life is another matter entirely. The only way a child is likely to feature in the life of a wild animal is as a snack. Well, unless said child is Marcos Rodriguez Pantoja, who was actually raised by wolves.
We're not talking just some two-week period of fur-slumming, either -- the kid had no human contact whatsoever between ages 7 and 19.
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Yeah, we'd have taken wolves over high school, too.
Pantoja's early life was a hybrid of a Dickens novel and one of the more depressing Disney movies. His family was broke, he was regularly beaten by his stepmother, and for his seventh birthday present, he got sold to a goat shepherd by his father. The shepherd was a half-crazed old coot who barely spoke and fed Pantoja raw rabbit. They lived up in the mountains with no companions save for a ferret and an owl (who presumably burst into song whenever Pantoja was feeling down) and the ever-present stench of goat.
Soon, the old man fell ill and died. Already estranged from mankind, Pantoja decided to leave the herder's hut and move into a nearby cave, where he obtained his food and clothing by beating animals to death, skinning them and eating them raw. At 7 years old, remember.
Like what you used to do to your sister's Barbie, only with things that can bite.
One day, as Pantoja was bludgeoning a deer, the wolves came. This could (and by all logic should) have been bad news to a small boy alone in the woods, but the wolf pack wasn't playing by stereotypes. The kid's feral ways and efficiency in hunting actually impressed them, so instead of pouncing on Pantoja, they were all "What's up, dude, wanna come play canasta at our crib?"
Just like that, Pantoja had found a family. For the next 12 years, life was good. Pantoja grew from a man-cub into a wolf-man in the company of his wolves, feeling like the king of the world ... that is, until he was captured by Spain's Civil Guard in 1965 and dragged back to stupid, stupid civilization.
"Pants? This is what you call progress?!"
Pantoja's story made him a hit among the scientific community, but Lord Greystoke he was not. Although he did relearn the basics of humanity, he adapted to civilization about as well as a bear to a toilet. These days, Pantoja lives a secluded life in a small Spanish village, remembering fondly his time with the wolves and presumably resisting the instinct to tear out some throats whenever the neighbors throw a noisy party.
#3. The Man Who Took an Industrial Drill Through the Head
The below image is no Photoshop. It's a very real, giant, 18-inch construction drill bit going through a dude's head.
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"The tests came back from the lab, and we think your migraines are being caused by stress."
In 2003, California construction worker Ron Hunt was working a spot that required him to balance on a ladder with a massive chip auger drill. Because the universe has a very peculiar sense of humor when it comes to people balancing on rickety things while holding dangerous objects, the ladder broke and Hunt went tumbling down, face first.
The good news was that his fall was cushioned. The bad news was that the thing doing the cushioning was his goddamn drill. The massive drill bit went straight into Hunt's eye socket, tore a highway through the moist insides of his head and exited via the back of his skull.
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What sadistic reporter staged this photo?
Amazingly, this Final Destination style coup de grace didn't kill Hunt. The stunned man didn't even quite realize what had happened until his wandering hand met the drill bit entering his eye ... then some more of said drill bit exiting the back of his head. As moments of enlightenment go, that must've been a pretty crappy one.
Poor, understandably freaked out Hunt was hurried to the hospital by his equally freaked out co-workers. At first, the doctors were at a loss: How the hell would they remove the thing? They decided to cut off the bits that were sticking out and remove the rest surgically, when one of them noticed in the middle of the operation that, hey, the drill was actually kind of loose. So they adapted a second strategy: They just unscrewed the thing, as if Hunt's head were a block of wood. Slowly. Unscrewed. The giant drill bit. Inside his head. Right ... through ... his ... face.
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"I would have done it myself, but I was tired."
And it worked like a dream. Throughout the process, Hunt (who was kept conscious, but luckily aided by the magic of morphine) was talking and making jokes and very much not brain dead. Somehow, the drill bit had pushed his brain matter aside instead of ripping a pathway through it, so apart from the eye and the giant hole in the back of his head, he was more or less fine. There was, of course, some nerve damage and other minor problems, but all in all, Hunt was in remarkably good shape for a man who had just taken a giant power tool in the face.
Hunt was still in hot water, though: His medical insurance didn't cover this particular injury, which left him neck deep in the money swamp of hundreds of thousands in medical bills and lost wages. However, people sympathized with his plight and set up the Ron Hunt Medical Fund. We imagine donations are easy to come by -- all they have to do is tell people that they'll show them that fucking X-ray again if they don't donate.


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More and more people these days using the USB pen and flash memories instead of floppies and CDs. They come is different sizes from 128MB upto 2 GB. Moreover, may new Linux user find it difficult to use usb devices, the main problem is people don't understand how it works…
USB devices use SCSI devices names
SCSI devices such as /dev/sda use to represent your first USB pen/stick and equivalent partitions are as follows:
Sample 256 MB USB PEN (E: is 100 MB, F: is rest of the free space)
Linux Partition => Windows XP/NT
/dev/sda1 => E: (assuming that C: is hard-disk; D: is VD/CD/RW)
/dev/sda2 => F: (assuming that C: is hard-disk; D: is DVD/CD/RW; E: is first drive USB pen 100 MB drive)
Linux Kernel must have support for USB
Linux kernel must compiled with support for
i) SCSI disk
ii) USB Support
iii) USB Mass support
Most of the modern Linux distribution comes with all sort of support. If it is not included, get latest kernel from http://kernel.org/ and make sure you compile it with above features + file system support such as ext2/3, vfat and so on…
Commends to mount USB Pen / Flash memory stick under Linux
a) Log in as the root user (or use sudo command)
b) Create a mount point
# mkdir –p /mnt/pen
# mkdir –p /mnt/pen
c) To mount the disk run mount command:
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/pen
This command will mount MS-Windows XP/Vista E: into /mnt/pen
d) To use it or to see your files:
# cd /mnt/pen
# ls –l
e) To copy files from /home/rdl/*.c to directory to pen drive us cp command:
# cp –v /home/rdl/*.c /mnt/pen
f) You can use rest of the all command such as rm, rmdir, mv etc to copy, move or delete files.
g) To format the /dev/sda2 as Linux ext3 partitions use the following command:
# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda2
h) To delete all partition and to create new partition use run fdisk program:
# fdisk /dev/sda
Refer to fdisk man page for more information on how to delete and create partitions.
g) To list all partition on all devices use the following command:
# fdisk –l
h) Use dmesg command to get more info on your USB devices:
# dmesg | grep –i "usb"
i) Run scandisk (window like stuff) on /dev/sda1:
# umount /dev/sda1
# fsck /dev/sda1
Further readings:
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Mayor's 2014 Gun Push
The U.S. Senate defeat Wednesday of a bill to expand background checks for firearms purchases raises the stakes for Mayor Michael Bloomberg's advocacy for gun control in the 2014 elections.
Mr. Bloomberg spent $12 million over the past month on advertising aimed at pushing senators to vote for increased restrictions on guns, especially expanded background checks.
That effort fell short, a demonstration of the limits of the billionaire mayor's largess in Congress and the relative power of gun-rights groups such as the National Rifle Association. The NRA still carries more weight on Capitol Hill than Mr. Bloomberg's organization, Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
The lesson, said supporters of the mayor's effort, is that Mr. Bloomberg likely needs to win a few important fights at the ballot box in order to win fights in Congress. His allies are looking to the next election as a crucial moment for him to flex his political and financial muscle.
The mayor's backers cite polls that show widespread support for expanded background checks and plan to use the issue to attack lawmakers who opposed them. "I think that is going to be the predicament of some of the people the mayor chooses to oppose," said Matt Bennett, a co-founder of Third Way, a Washington-based think tank allied with the mayor on guns.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns isn't waiting until Election Day. It plans to keep applying pressure on lawmakers to find a compromise that can get through Congress. It is starting a campaign to shame those who voted Wednesday against the gun-control measure. The effort includes sending victims of gun violence to town-hall meetings hosted by senators and confronting them.
"I'm not sure the public mood is going to improve on this anytime soon," said Mark Glaze, the executive director of Mr. Bloomberg's group. "Our job today, tomorrow and next week is to channel that outrage in a useful direction, which is to say at the senators who ignored their constituents and voted no."
Of course, Mr. Bloomberg's group had plenty of outrage on guns to channel following the Newtown, Conn., shootings in December, and that wasn't enough to get legislation through the Senate. His allies said the group was at a disadvantage to the NRA, which has decades of relationships on Capitol Hill and a proven ability to defeat lawmakers who oppose it.
"The one thing we have that he doesn't have is grass-roots support," said Andrew Arulanandam, a spokesman for the NRA. "He has to build it. We have it."
Between now and the midterm elections, Mr. Glaze hopes to build Mayors Against Illegal Guns into a more effective counterweight.
"They for a generation have had this field to themselves. There has really been nothing on the other side in terms of grass- roots strength, intensity on most days or support on Election Day," Mr. Glaze said. "All three of those advantages are being mitigated much more quickly than we imagined."
The dynamics of next year's midterm elections, though, present challenges for Mr. Bloomberg's effort. There are more vulnerable Democrats than Republicans up for re-election, especially in the Senate. And in some cases, Mr. Bloomberg's support for lawmakers could be a liability.
One of the lawmakers targeted by Mr. Bloomberg's group is Sen. Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat who faces a tough re-election fight next year in a state that Republican Mitt Romney won easily in the presidential election. After being undecided on the expanded background checks bill, she voted for it Wednesday, earning her praise from its supporters.
Roy Fletcher, a Republican consultant based in Baton Rouge, La., said it would hurt Ms. Landrieu if Mr. Bloomberg were to spend money on her behalf. "Whether he knows it or not people look sort of askance at the crap that he's doing up there. Sixteen-ounce drinks and all that crazy crap, it's just government run amok," he said, referring to the ban on large, sugary drinks in New York City that Mr. Bloomberg backed and which was struck down a by a court.
Mr. Fletcher, who said he wasn't working for one of Ms. Landrieu's potential opponents but would like to, discussed how he would respond if Mr. Bloomberg got involved in the race. "He'd become an immediate issue," Mr. Fletcher said. "Not only is he a liberal, he's a nutty liberal. That'd be sort of the way that you'd want to talk about it. Maybe I'd call him a rich nutty liberal, too."
Mr. Bloomberg's allies said they realized he didn't play well everywhere and they would work to choose the most effective figureheads.
"Mayor Bloomberg may not resonate in some areas in the way [NRA Executive Vice President] Wayne LaPierre doesn't resonate in others," said Mr. Glaze of Mayors Against Illegal Guns. "This is about 90% of the American public and 74% of NRA members agreeing on what to do and being ignored by Congress. That's where the focus should be, not personalities."
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December Best Of Van Nice Design
Andrew & Gemma, 5th Grade Artists
In your home, what makes a room beautiful is the blend of custom made pieces, such as the window coverings and sofas & chairs, along with objects you have purchased or made yourself.
It seems that, at least at our house, the rooms are also continuously evolving. New pieces come home. Old ones are given away. Some will always be with us.
Dwell Home Furnishings – Cool & Unique Stuff For Your Home
One of the pleasures of working with clients on their interior design projects is when I go out into the marketplace and finding sources for things for their homes. With that in mind, a couple Saturdays ago I took a day trip to check out design studios and furniture stores in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Coralville, Iowa.
I want to tell you about my discoveries at one store in particular. This was my first visit to Dwell Home Furnishings and Interior Design in Coralville, located on Highway 6 just east of Coral Ridge shopping center. How to describe Dwell? A furniture store and rug gallery where you can find beautiful and unique pieces for your home that no one else you know will ever have. And I found the prices are very reasonable.
This Bucket List Contains Wine and Beer
This has nothing to do with interior design. But I would like to tell you about a project I will be working on that combines my passion for wine, beer, travel and Iowa entrepreneurship. XMQBVBUPFGWG
I have set a fun goal for myself: I'm adding to my bucket list the goal of visiting every microbrewery, winery and vineyard in Iowa – in my lifetime. It won't be easy. There are now over one hundred wineries and breweries spread out over every part of Iowa and more destinations are popping up each year. Plus, I want to find really good tasting wine. So, I'm looking for quality, not just quantity. I want to meet the growers and brewers and hear their stories. They are the 21st century Iowa entrepreneurs. They have passion and are willing to risk their money and careers on work that has no immediate monetary payoff for them. I appreciate those qualities in people!


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December 04, 2012
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This photograph was taken in Mouille Point by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group member alan habbick.
What better way to spend a sunny day in Cape Town, than indulging in a round of golf? Thankfully, Cape Town is home to a number of great courses. This photograph was taken at the Metropolitan Golf Course, in Mouille Point, conveniently located between the ocean and the impressive Cape Town stadium.
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The Young Marines are a national youth drug demand reduction program for ages 8 to completion of high school; that builds leadership in today's young adults. The three Corps values of the Young Marines — leadership, teamwork and discipline — help today's youth to become leaders in the years to come.
Upon joining the Young Marines, children take the first step to becoming leaders in their community, choosing a healthy drug-free lifestyle. Just like the real Marine Corps, basic training is not fun. But stick it out and I can assure you proud days will follow.
This program works by surrounding its members with role models and kids, who also live a healthy lifestyle. It also works through quarterly drug demand reduction projects or guest speakers that inform the Young Marines of the dangers of drugs and an unhealthy lifestyle.
I joined the Young Marines about a year ago and it's had its rough spots, but I feel more confident in my decision to see this program through. Since the Young Marines, I have gained much more confidence. I feel I've grown as a leader, and become a productive member in a team.
I think I can speak for all my fellow Young Marines that aren't just friends, we are family. It's a program that changes lives for the better. We do a large amount of community work, mainly with veterans to give back to them for the huge sacrifices they've made.
Young Marines have the opportunity to gain rank, earn cool ribbons and do things they never thought they would ever do.
About once every three or four months we have things called encampments. These are weekends where different units join (usually at a military base) and have fun. We bond as a family, and we learn teamwork. We also compete to see which unit has bragging rights for the weekends by doing teamwork competitions and close order drill competitions.
I recommend this program to any child or young adult in need of discipline, respect, or integrity; these three rare traits in a person will take you far in the program and in life. For further information, you can go to www.frym.org or contact the unit at: firstname.lastname@example.com
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STEUBENVILLE - One day after winning two games, the Big Red softball team kept rolling along. The Red-and-Black pounded 12 hits leading to 12 runs en route to a 12-2 victory in five innings over Oak Glen Tuesday evening at Jim Wood Park.
"We'll take it," Big Red (9-10) head coach Gus DiMarzio said. "I am happy with the way we hit the ball. When you win, you can't really be upset. As a coach, you are always finding things to talk about, but when you win you can't complain.
"I thought we lost focus in the third and fourth innings. We didn't make some plays. I was disappointed with that, but we made up for it at the plate."
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ALL SMILES — Steubenville Big Red senior Mallory Giannamore is all smiles after Steubenville gabbed a 12-2 victory over Oak Glen Tuesday at Jim Wood Park. - Mike Mathison
For the Golden Bears, the loss followed an all too familiar storyline.
"It's frustrating," Oak Glen (6-16) head coach Michelle McHaffie said. "We have been up and down. One bad inning has destroyed us in each game. They scored eight runs in that inning. It was 2-1, and they scored eight runs. Then, we had a 1-2-3 inning after that."
Brooke Carroll pitched well en route to the victory, and all nine batters in the lineup recorded at least one hit.
Carroll struck out four and walked four. She limited the Golden Bears to four singles.
Offensively, the heart of the order did the most damage for Big Red.
Christina Archer recorded a double and a two-run home run, Casey Gentile tallied a single, a double and three RBI and Mallory Giannamore contributed two singles and two RBI. Also, Lauren Gray delivered an RBI double, and Mytia Barker produced a two-run single.
Maryssa Durante took the loss for the Golden Bears. She struck out one and walked four.
Durante was also hit by some miscues in the field. Oak Glen committed four errors, while Big Red played a clean game.
Offensively, Ashley Pryor produced a single and two RBI.
Big Red has made quite the turnaround in the last couple of weeks. Big Red began the season at 3-9, but the team has stepped up its play to pull within one game of the .500 mark for the season.
"Belief," DiMarzio said about what has changed in his team in the last couple of weeks. "They are believing they can win. We have been able to gain some momentum. Having momentum is big in sports.
"You can believe, but sometimes you have that doubt in the back of your mind. Our girls are believing. They believe in what is going on. It is carrying us over the top. That is a great thing.
"We want to finish strong. We want to peak at the right time. I don't know if we are peaking, but we are 9-10 after starting the season at 3-9. We have won six out of our last seven."
The first batter of the game for Big Red set the tone for the game. Durante delivered a pitch to Tenia Barker, but the pitch bounced in front of the plate. Undeterred, Big Red's shortstop swung the bat and hit the ball for a base hit. She ended up stealing second base on a close play.
Next, Biasi popped the ball up between home plate and third base. Durante came out of the circle to catch the ball, but she was unable to get her glove on the ball. The ball landed in fair territory and bounced foul, but the home plate umpire ruled the ball bounced off Durante's leg before going into foul ground allowing Biasi to reach first base safely.
Then with two outs, Gentile launched a ball that bounced between two Oak Glen outfielders for a two-run double to put Big Red out in front 2-0.
After a scoreless second stanza, the visitors recorded a run in the third to cut its deficit in half. With two outs, Pryor recorded a base hit scoring Shayni Vega, who led off the frame by drawing a walk. Crane followed with a perfectly placed ball on the infield for base hit of her own to keep things going, however, Andrews slid into a tag at the plate on the play to end the inning with the score 2-1.
The rest of the game belonged to Big Red.
In the third, Gray ripped a double down the left-field line that bounced in fair territory scoring a run. Giannamore plated a pair of runs when a ball ended up finding space on the field just out of reach of two Golden Bear fielders.
Just about the only ball that did not bounced Big Red's way in the game was in the second inning when Archer blasted a ball that bounced off the yellow line on top of the fence in centerfield. Archer ended up on second base with a double.
Also in the third, Archer added a little more power to the ball as she belted it over the fence resulting in a two-run home run.
Oak Glen scored a run in the top of the fifth to make the score 10-2, but Big Red scored two unearned runs on an error with the bases loaded and no outs to end the game.
Big Red is scheduled to return to the field today at 5 p.m. against Brooke.
"We have had a couple close losses that could have gone either way," DiMarzio said.
"The Cambridge game we lost our focus for an inning. We lost a close game to a good Martins Ferry team.
"When you lose a close game, it is the coach's fault, but I'm really happy with the girls right now. They are believing. Hopefully, we can keep things rolling. I'm proud of the girls as always.
"They are playing Big Red tough. If you are not Big Red tough, you can't play here."
Oak Glen's next game is 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Toronto.
"Hopefully, we are able to pull together and win some games," McHaffie said.
Big Red 12, Oak Glen 2
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Big Red 208 02 - 12 12 0
OAK GLEN (6-16): Marissa Durante (LP, 1K, 4BB) and Crane; Young S, Pryor S, 2 RBI; Crane S; Andrews S.
BIG RED (9-10): Carroll (WP, 4K, 4BB) and M. Barker; T. Barker S; Biasi S; Giannamore 2S, RBI; M. Barker S, 2 RBI; Gentile S, D, 3 RBI; Gray D, RBI; Archer D, HR, 2 RBI; Bodo S; Taylor S.


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