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The 5 Most Ridiculous Causes to Ever Get a Website
Can the words and actions of one man change the world? Absolutely! Just as long as somebody gives a shit about what he's saying. If we're betting, our money says these guys won't find that somebody anytime soon ...
The Crusade:
Anyone who says chivalry is dead has obviously never heard of Ed Lake. Since 1996 he's been patrolling the internet protecting damsels in distress from the evils of photo editing software. Ever since seeing a fake nude photo Gillian Anderson, Ed has dedicated his free time to "investigating" other celebrity nipple shots to determine if they're the real deal. Because he's a gentleman. A 66-year-old, not even remotely perverted, gentleman.
Why We Could Do Without It:
First of all, if someone emails us what appears to be a nude photo of Elisha Cuthbert, we'll accept that it's not real when and only when we're damn good and ready. Until then, let us live the dream, old man.
Secondly, there's a pretty solid chance that, although we may be in denial, we probably don't need to be told that it's a fake photo. Anyone who has ever seen a fake nude celebrity photo knows all of the telltale signs to look for. For example, check out this photo of Jennifer Love Hewitt and see if you can point out the warning signs that this is a doctored photo.
Obviously, as tantalizing as that photo is, nobody is going to be fooled into thinking it's really Jennifer Love Hewitt. She wouldn't be caught dead in that fucking jacket!
We're sure your intentions are noble, Mr. Lake. But you should find a more worthy cause.
#4. Marcie Cook's War on Hot Air Balloons
The Crusade:
Marcie Cook wants you to know there is danger overhead! It's a danger that injures or kills people every day. Well, maybe it doesn't happen every day, but, like, almost every day. OK, maybe just some days, but surely every year or so, possibly.
The most sinister part of this hidden danger is that you'll never see it coming, unless the hot air balloon you're riding in happens to be nearing a power line. If that happens, you'll totally see it coming, because that is exactly the silent killer that Marcie Cook is on a one-woman crusade to protect the public from.
Turns out, she was injured when, against incredible odds, the nylon ball of hot air and wicker basket she was flying in wasn't able to endure crashing into a 9,000 volt power line. Seriously, you could've knocked us over with a feather when we heard that. Those things always looked pretty much indestructible to us.
Why We Could Do Without It:
Marcie is the first to admit, the idea of hot air balloons posing a serious threat to the public is hard to accept at first, but she's got metrics to back it up. According to statistics from the years of 1996 and 1997 (which are the most recent statistics available, presumably because some ambitious statistician managed to get caught up crunching the numbers for all the important stats and decided to move on to the total bullshit), there were on average only 7.47 injuries per 100,000 hours of general aviation travel. You know, airplanes and whatnot.
Now prepare to be shocked, readers. In that same time span, per 100,000 hours of hot air balloon travel, there were on average 33.62 injuries! Being that there were 3,760 general aviation injuries in that time, you can just imagine how many hot air balloon injuries that translates to--that's right, 39!
Holy shit, the devastation! Throw in the four fatalities in a two year span and it all adds up to no goddamn reason not to fly in a hot air balloon. Unless you're a dude, then it's totally gay anyway. In which case a little dangerous might actually help.
#3. David Gracer: Bug Eating Advocate
The Crusade:
David Gracer is on a one-man crusade with a modest goal: to save the world.
While some would-be heroes hope to yank mankind from the jaws of extinction by eliminating greenhouse gasses or launching kickass covert military operations, David Gracer has another plan in mind. He wants to save the world through entomophagy, which means the key to our very salvation is to shun delicious hot wings and eat bugs instead.
Why We Could Do Without It:
If you even suggest that the idea of eating a bug disgusts you while amongst a large group of people, without fail some know-it-all will point out that, "It's not a big deal, people in other countries eat bugs all the time!"
Yeah? You know what else people in other countries do? This ...
The difference is, for whatever reason, they want to do that. People don't eat bugs because scorpions in wine sauce with a side of fresh greens are fucking scrumptious. People in other countries eat bugs because raising animals takes money. Money they don't have. For bugs, all you need to do is turn over a number of heavy rocks or, if that's too much work, just keep a dirty house and wait for them to show up.
But around these parts, the good majority of us can afford a chicken or two if the mood strikes. For those who can't, programs are in place, Dumpster diving for example, for the very purpose of keeping them from having to resort to snacking on dung beetles during tough times.
If that fails, well, we'll have to consider just eating fruits and vegetables, until we finally curl up dead from beef deprivation.


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CNN cited the American Immigration Council's recent report ...
Georgia: Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Innovation, and Welcoming Initiatives in the Peach State
In Georgia, there is no doubt that immigrant entrepreneurs and innovators play an important role. Immigrant entrepreneurs bring in additional revenue, create jobs, and contribute significantly to the state's economy. Highly skilled immigrants are vital to the state's innovation industries and to the metropolitan areas within the state, helping to boost local economies. Furthermore, local government, business, and non-profit leaders recognize the importance of immigrants in their communities and support immigration through local "welcoming" and integration initiatives.
Immigrant entrepreneurs contribute significantly to Georgia's economy.
- From 2006 to 2010, there were 63,342 new immigrant business owners in Georgia, and in 2010, 15.5 percent of all business owners in Georgia were foreign-born.
- In 2010, new immigrant business owners had total net business income of $2.9 billion, which is 12.3 percent of all net business income in the state.
- Georgia is home to many successful companies with at least one founder who was an immigrant or child of an immigrant, including well-known companies such as Home Depot and United Parcel Service. Those two companies together employ almost 730,000 people and bring in $125 billion in revenue each year.
- In 2010, the foreign-born share of business owners was 21 percent in the Atlanta metropolitan area. In the case of Atlanta, the immigrant business ownership rate was higher than the foreign-born share of the total population.
Highly skilled immigrants are vital to Georgia's innovation industries, which in turn helps lead American innovation and creates jobs.
- Immigrants contribute to Georgia's economic growth and competitiveness by earning degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields from the state's research universities. In 2009, almost half of STEM graduates from the state's research-intensive universities were foreign-born, and around 60 percent of graduates earning PhDs in engineering in Georgia were not born in the U.S.
- Immigrants in Georgia also contribute to the state's innovation economy by earning patents on new research, products, and ideas. In fact, around 88 percent of patents from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2011 had at least one foreign-born inventor. These patents often lead to revenue and job creation through licensing or the creation of new companies.
- In 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor certified 9,563 H-1B high-skilled visa labor certification applications in Georgia, with an average annual wage of $66,419, which is higher than Georgia's median household income of $49,736 or per capita income of $25,383.
- An expansion of the high-skilled visa program would create an estimated 11,900 new jobs in Georgia by 2020. By 2045, this expansion would add around $4.9 billion to Gross State Product and increase personal income by more than $4.45 billion. The following is an example of a metropolitan area's demand for high-skilled foreign-born workers.
- The Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta metropolitan area had 8,309 H-1B visa requests in 2010-2011, with 74.2 percent of H-1B visa-holders working in STEM occupations. Major employers with a need for H-1B high-skilled workers include Emory University, NIIT Technologies Limited, and Manhattan Associates Inc.
While the numbers are compelling, they don't tell the whole story.
- Immigrant entrepreneurs not only contribute to large innovative companies, but to small business formation in local communities. In cities across Georgia, immigrant family-owned small businesses contribute to the vitality of their local communities. Although initially aimed at other immigrant customers, many businesses quickly see an expansion of their clientele to include a diverse array of immigrant and native-born customers alike.
- The sprawling Atlanta metropolitan area contains many examples of immigrant entrepreneurship contributing to the vibrancy of local communities. For example, in Atlanta's northeast suburbs of Chamblee and Doraville, Atlanta's "International Village" along Buford Highway is a business corridor of immigrant and ethnic restaurants, markets, shops, specialty stores, and other businesses representing many points of origin from around the world.
- Specifically, Atlanta's "Buford Highway international corridor is jam-packed with strip malls featuring native cuisines of varied immigrant populations, one next door to another. One parking lot may be shared by restaurants offering Chinese potstickers, Salvadorian pupusas, Mexican beef tongue tacos, and Korean barbecue."
- Along the bustling six-lane Buford Highway, one of the earlier areas for immigrant settlement in the region, "numerous aging strip malls that line the highway have been converted to large ethnic and multiethnic plazas, with names like Chinatown Square (1988), Asian Square Mall (1993), and Plaza Fiesta (2000). In many ways, immigrants have economically and socially revived an area that faced economic stagnation and population decline."
- Furthermore, the immigrant-owned businesses in the area represent a diversity of backgrounds, including "Vietnamese, Mexican, Korean, Chinese, Colombian, and Salvadoran, among others. The businesses include restaurants, bakeries, book and music stores, and clothing shops as well as the offices of travel agencies, doctors, real estate brokers, and insurance agents."
- As one researcher noted about this area of metropolitan Atlanta, "the five-mile stretch of highway running through Chamblee, Doraville, and Norcross constitutes the greatest concentration of ethnic-owned businesses in the southeastern U.S."
- In central Georgia, immigrant-owned businesses have become more prominent as the area's immigrant population has grown.
- In Macon, Jack Joshi, originally from southern India, found a niche by opening Indian grocery store to serve the area's growing Indian and Asian population. Speaking of his store, Joshi said, "There are a lot of Asians here who like spicy food…This is stuff you can't get at an American grocery store."
- Also in Macon, along Pio Nono Avenue, Jorge Villarreal, from Mexico, together with his brother Jose, opened El Carnival Latin Food Store, a market filled with products from Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean.
- Moises Velez, part-owner and editor of the Hispanic newspaper Que Pasa, decided to relocate the paper's offices to the same plaza as Villarreal's food store. The business's neighbors also include a Mexican bakery, and a couple of Mexican restaurants.
- In small towns across Georgia, immigrants have opened up shops and restaurants to cater to the growing immigrant populations working in the state's agricultural and food processing industries.
- In north Georgia, for example, "newcomers have put down roots, built stable communities, and helped to revive dying and abandoned business sections of towns such as Dalton and Gainesville, Georgia."
- In northwest Georgia, examples of immigrant-owned businesses are found in many small towns. For example, Edel López, from Mexico, owns El Cancún Restaurant in LaFayette, and another Mexican restaurant in Chatsworth. Esteban Pacheco, also from Mexico, opened La Herradura grocery store in Dunlap.
In Georgia, localities have begun recognizing and supporting immigration through "welcoming" and integration initiatives.
- Based in Atlanta, Welcoming America is a "national, grassroots-driven collaborative that promotes mutual respect and cooperation between foreign-born and U.S.-born Americans. Through a countrywide network of member organizations and partners, Welcoming America works to promote a welcoming atmosphere – community by community – in which immigrants and native born residents can find common ground and shared prosperity."
- Welcoming America accomplishes its mission by supporting a national network of state and local affiliates to "empower supportive residents of local communities to transform their towns and cities into Welcoming communities."
- Concerning Atlanta and the state of Georgia specifically, according to Rachel Steinhardt, Deputy Director of Welcoming America, "Welcoming America is based in Atlanta and a number of activities are underway to provide a warmer reception for newcomers in the region, including the formation of a local Welcoming Atlanta.
- In September 2013, Welcoming America presented a session at the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta's fifth annual Neighborhood Summit. This session was designed to help participants "think about new ways to build relationships of trust and understanding between immigrants and the long-time residents and work together to identify new strategies and contribute toward a vision of a more welcoming Atlanta region."
- In the City of Atlanta, Atlanta's Mayor Kasim Reed recognizes the contributions of immigrants to the city. As such, he voiced his support for comprehensive immigration reform in 2013, stating, "There is no doubt that the economic, social and cultural contributions of immigrants continue to enrich our cities and communities. We cannot ever forget that immigrants have helped make our nation stronger. This is an issue of great importance here in Georgia."
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Associated Press
AVONDALE, Ariz. — When the fighting stopped, the oil had dried and the last of the wrecked cars had been towed away, Brad Keselowski found himself on the brink of a first Sprint Cup title for himself and team owner Roger Penske.
Only he wasn't in a celebratory mood.
He entered Sunday's race at Phoenix International Raceway trailing five-time champion Jimmie Johnson by seven points and had the better car all day. And moments after Keselowski raced his way into the lead, a blown tire caused Johnson to crash and take his battered car to the garage for repairs.
It helped Keselowski, who finished sixth, to a 20-point lead in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship heading into the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, where he'll clinch the title with a finish of 15th or better.
"I wanted to take the points lead by winning a race and not relying on a failure," Keselowski said.
Johnson's sudden misfortune was a dramatic and stunning turn in the most chaotic race of the year.
It proved to be just the warm-up act in a race that could go down as the one many fans will call the best of the season.
Probably for all the wrong reasons.
And that's what had Keselowski so upset.
"I'm more just disappointed in the quality of racing that we saw," he said. "I thought it was absolutely ridiculous, and I was ashamed to be a part of it."
Kevin Harvick snapped a 44-race losing streak by beating Kyle Busch on a pair of late restarts, the ironic winner on the same weekend news leaked he's reportedly signed a deal to leave Richard Childress Racing to drive for Stewart-Haas Racing in 2014.
"We have 2012, we have 2013, and regardless of what happens on a business side of things, Richard Childress and myself will always be friends, good or bad, and may agree to disagree," Harvick said, "but we still have a lot of racing left to do and we owe it to our sponsors and our company to go out and do exactly what we did today and be men and do the best we can for everybody."
Harvick and Busch crossed the finish line ahead of a melee of crashing cars, a chain reaction caused in part because NASCAR failed to throw a caution when Danica Patrick was spun on the restart. Then others slid in oil, into Patrick's wrecked car, bounced all over the track, and even Keselowski was hit.
"There was a lot of stuff on the race track, there was oil all over it. Ray Charles could see that," second-place finisher Denny Hamlin said.
Busch, who finished third, also saw the oil all over the track.
"Not sure if (NASCAR) had time to react to all that, but granted, you would expect that they would see all of that and see the oil slick," he said. "I mean, it wasn't small by any means. It was three feet wide."
But the carnage was simply the final exclamation point in a sequence triggered by four-time champion Jeff Gordon. He intentionally wrecked Clint Bowyer, and that led to a full brawl in the garage and a red-flag of nearly 15 minutes for clean up on the track.
Keselowski was tweeting during the delay from inside his car — a practice he first did during a jet fuel fire in the season-opening Daytona 500 — and NASCAR had officially reached three-ring circus status.
"The sport was made on fights. We should have more fights. I like fights," Harvick said after the race. "They're not always fun to be in, sometimes you're on the wrong end, but fights are what made NASCAR what it is."
This one began as the field closed in on what should have been the final lap and Gordon slowed his car to wait for Bowyer so he could intentionally wreck him as retaliation for several weeks of on-track contact between the two.
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Shrunken Apple Head
- Large red apple
- Piece of string
- Large darning needle
- Button
- Vegetable peeler
- Thread the piece of string through the needle, tie the end to a button, then poke the needle through the core of the apple starting at the bottom moving up toward the stem.
- Peel the skin off your apple, then carve the apple into the shape of the head you want to make.
- Make indentations for the eyes and mouth and carve some of the apple away around the nose to make it stick out.
- Take the apple and place it in the sun to dry out. Don't put it outside or the birds will eat it! A window ledge that gets sun would be perfect.
- Within days it will start to shrink. In the first few days, you can still make cuts in it to encourage the shape you want.
- When it is dry, push dried cloves in it for eyes. You can paint the face or make a puppet out of it if you like.
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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Are there any further details as to when we can expect support for the Manfrotto MN-323 QR plate?
I'm about to grind down the supplied camera mounting plate but would prefer to save it if the Manfrotto solution is going to be available.
(History and reason)
I own a Nikon D200 with a MB-D200 grip. Attached to the bottom is a Manfrotto QR plate. Mounting the MN-323 QR base on the supplied upper bracket plate causes issues because the overall depth from lens centre is longer than the bottom bracket - It seems to be about just 4-6mm too short. My only current solution is to grind the supplied camera mounting plate so that its thickness so that when attached to the MN-323 the bottom of the MN-323 QR lever is just above the mounting rail (Horrible description, basically the MN-323 doesn't have a flat base and the base of the lever protrudes)


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I feel as though I have been hearing about the LaTeX3 project for a very long time.
Why is it taking so long for it to come into fruition? Are there major technical difficulties, or is it purely a lack of developers that is causing a bottleneck?
I feel as though I have been hearing about the LaTeX3 project for a very long time.
Why is it taking so long for it to come into fruition? Are there major technical difficulties, or is it purely a lack of developers that is causing a bottleneck?
Will has written a couple of short answers, I'll add a bit of detail.
There are several things that are wrong with LaTeX2e. Most obviously to end users, the kernel is rather inflexible. As a result, to get what you want you almost always need to load quite a number of packages, or do some low-level hacks of the kernel. That is not really ideal: I think most people would be happier not having to remember 'load package X to do ...' for every document they write. So the first challenge is to write a kernel which does many of the common tasks (such as those covered by
The second challenge is that programming LaTeX2e is a mix of TeX, documented LaTeX, undocumented LaTeX and picking up stuff from packages. That is not a good thing: what is needed is documented system for programming. That is at least partly what expl3 is about: it provides a lot of lower-level programming material, although there is still lots to do.
The next things are 'big challenges' (we know how to do the two things above, it's just lots of work, whereas here I'm talking about things we have to work out how to do). Actually providing a way to make design and coding separate is not easy. The CSS model from HTML does not answer all of the issues we have in a typesetting system, so a new model is being developed (as
You also cannot ignore the fact that LaTeX is written by people in their spare time. There have been periods when the various people involved have had a lot of things on outside of LaTeX. It is pretty clear that some momentum was lost due to writing The LaTeX Companion, peoples jobs, other LaTeX packages, etc.
Put together, these issues mean that the project is very challenging. Looking at it today, both Will and I are active in trying to get the work done. We've both only joined the LaTeX Project relatively recently, and are putting in the serious effort that is needed. One of the aims of releasing material to CTAN as it gets to a stable state is to demonstrate that delivery is possible. For example, both
One final point. LaTeX2e was released in 1994, and since then has acquired a lot of users. Even so, some people still use LaTeX2.09 concepts (such as
There is always more that can be done, and I am focused on delivery (I don't want to load lots of support packages any more than anyone else does). One place to help out would be to work on documentation. We have some stuff, but we know that it needs improving. Feel free to drop the Project a line with offers of assistance!
When Don Knuth wrote TeX he wanted to create "just a typesetting language" but in response to user demand the macro language grew and grew. He also said that, if at the time he wrote TeX there was "a universal simple interpretive language that was common to other systems, naturally I would have latched onto that right away".
The future in my view is to use TeX or similar as (largely) just a typesetting language, and use another language (Python is my choice), and to largely drop the TeX macro language. After all, no-one except specialists write PostScript by hand today.
The LaTeX 3 project insists on doing almost everything using TeX macros, and the long-standing delay (already over 15 years) is proof not of the difficulty of the task but of the problems in the approach.
The other problem is that to make progress one has to let go of a large amount of legacy code. But this can be done, as is proved by ConTeXt.
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Running Out of Chances to Lose to Federer
As Federer Ages, Star-Struck Foes Want One More Shot
For years, Roger Federer has been the most popular attraction at the U.S. Open. He has played 58 matches in Arthur Ashe Stadium, more than any other male player, and once won this tournament five years in a row. As he ages, though, his fellow pros are getting a bit nervous.
"I am scared he will leave tennis and I don't have the chance to play against him," said Lorenzo Giustino, a 21-year-old Italian, at a small tournament in San Marino earlier this month. Giustino, ranked No. 302, didn't qualify for the U.S. Open.
"He's a big guy," said Illya Marchenko, a 25-year-old from the Ukraine, after his first qualifying match at the U.S. Open on Tuesday. "He was No. 1 for the longest period of time, and for me he's the No. 1 still, even if he's not now."
In a sport that has no shortage of legends, Federer is perhaps the most coveted opponent in history. It isn't difficult to understand why. He has won 17 Grand Slam singles titles, more than any man who has ever played the game. His strokes have an elegance and ease that make even fellow pros marvel. He also plays at a brisk pace and doesn't throw temper tantrums or intimidate opponents with scowls or trash talk. At worst, he might embarrass them.
"That one," Thomas Schoorel said as he recalled Federer hitting the ball between his legs for a winner when they played in Dubai in 2011, "when it landed in, I had to laugh. But I also felt pretty s—."
At this year's Open, Federer, who turned 32 this month, is ranked No. 7, his lowest ranking in more than a decade. He hasn't played in a Grand Slam final since he won Wimbledon last year. He has lost to two players ranked outside the top 100 this season, and another ranked outside the top 50. Federer also has struggled with a bad back and tested a larger tennis racket, before returning to his customary racket for the U.S. Open.
Jimmy Wang, who lost in the U.S. Open qualifying tournament on Thursday, said he's glad he had a chance to play Federer when Federer was at his best, in the first round of the 2006 U.S. Open. (Wang lost 6-4, 6-1, 6-0.) "If I played him now, I would beat him too easily," Wang said, laughing.
Adrian Ungur won a set against Federer at last year's French Open. Earlier this month, he called the match the highlight of his career. "I didn't do much in my career," he said.
Federer has lost to 92 different players, according to ATPWorldTour.com. This year, four men joined the club: Kei Nishikori (in Madrid), Sergiy Stakhovsky (at Wimbledon), Federico Delbonis (in Hamburg, Germany), and Daniel Brands (in Gstaad, Switzerland).
"I can definitely tell my grandkids, I kicked the butt of Roger Federer," Stakhovsky said after his victory.
The rest of Stakhovsky's Wimbledon wasn't as memorable. Like all the others who beat Federer for the first time this year, he lost his next match. This week, the 22-year-old Delbonis lost in the first round of the U.S. Open qualifying tournament.
"Good memories, it was a dream for me," Delbonis said of the Federer match after his defeat this week.
Ten percent of Federer's defeats have come against one player: Rafael Nadal, who has beaten Federer three times this year and 21 times in his career, and is a favorite to win the U.S. Open. They could play each other in the quarterfinals, which would be their first meeting at the U.S. Open.
Mikhail Youzhny is, among Federer foes, at the other extreme from Nadal. Federer has beaten Youzhny all 15 times they have played, the most victories he has against any one opponent without a defeat.
"They play a similar style, but Roger does everything a little bit faster, a little bit better," said Boris Sobkin, who has coached Youzhny since Youzhny was 10 years old. He also coaches Stakhovsky. "So finally, I beat [Federer] once," he said.
Players tend to recall lots of details from their Federer matches. Wang said he didn't practice for five days before the match, because of a spider bite on his hamstring that swelled to the size of a golf ball.
"But I won't use that as an excuse," Wang said. "My side of the court was like a football field, and his was like a ping-pong table. Everywhere I hit, he's there."
Ivo Karlovic, the 6-foot-10 Croat, beat Federer in Cincinnati in 2008. "He didn't really like my high kick serve to his backhand," Karlovic said. "Every forehand that I had a chance, I would rip it."
Karlovic has lost to Federer 10 times, but his memory of those matches is less clear. "I won one, and the rest I don't remember," he said, smiling. He's also in the minority of players who have seen enough of Federer. "I don't want to play against him. I like playing against guys ranked 80."
If Federer continues to play through the 2016 Olympics, as he has suggested, he could play around 225 more matches in his career. Even so, many of those matches will be against opponents Federer has played before. Since the beginning of the 2011 season, Federer has faced 36 players for the first time, at the rate of about 14 per season.
Rajeev Ram, the 29-year-old American tour veteran, wasn't one of them.
"I've gotten to practice with him a few times," Ram said. "It would be good to say you've played a guy who has held pretty much every record ever."
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We have more information about the Bristol, Va. fire that cost three people their home.
The fire broke out inside an Oak St. residence around 5:30 a.m. on Sunday.
We spoke to the victims, who said they lost everything.
"We're still in shock," said Lorraine Tolley. "I was just totally scared to death."
Tolley lived on the first floor of the house, in one of two apartments.
She's lived there for about a year and a half. The other resident, in the apartment next to Tolley's, has been there for five years.
Tolley told us she woke up to a popping sound and found herself surrounded by smoke.
"Just smoke rolling outside when I opened the door just smoke rolling behind me and beside of me," she described.
She ran outside, Tolley said, and saw the other tenant calling 911.
Tolley told us the landlord was in the backyard watching the flames consume his apartment on the second floor.
"You see smoke rolling and fire coming from the top of the building," she said.
Next door neighbor, Marcia Tiller, saw the flames and panicked thinking they were coming from her own home, she told us.
She said she rushed everyone out of the house.
" I said get Katie so he got Katie and I came down and got my son and we got out and when I got to the porch I thought the garage behind the house was on fire," said Tiller.
Tiller's daughter is eight years old and her son is 17.
She told me no one was hurt in the fire.
Hours later firefighters continued to pour water into the house.
Tiller said it will be hard for her neighbors to rebuild.
"They lost everything they have," Tiller told us.
"It's scary and now we don't know where to go, we don't know what to do, when were going to eat, what were going to eat," said Lorraine Tolley.
We're told the landlord has insurance on the property, but neither Tolley nor the other tenant had renters insurance.
The American Red Cross gave them money for food and clothing, plus three nights in a hotel.
Tolley told us after that, she doesn't know what she's going to do but she's glad everyone made it out alive.
You can contact the Red Cross for more information about how to help the victims.
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Definición de reversion en inglés:
1A return to a previous state, practice, or belief: there was some reversion to polytheism a reversion to the two-party system
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- For larger companies, including the Rangers and Arsenal football clubs and the brewer Adnams, a reversion to the previous system is likely to have a minimal effect on investors.
- But because Gorbachev had not yet consolidated his hold on power, or perhaps because the sheer scale of what was happening in Ukraine scared him, the Chernobyl disaster occasioned a reversion to old habits.
- The institution of joint army/police patrols in the cities aroused mixed feelings; they may have been necessary where crime was large-scale and violent, but they were thought to symbolize a reversion to coercive practices.
1.1 Biology The action of reverting to a former or ancestral type.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- This may explain the sometimes rapid reversion to ancestral cell sizes.
- When they began their new regimens, 19 of those 24 saw the virus in their blood return to undetectable levels, compared with just one of nine people who did not experience a reversion to the wild-type virus.
- Does reversion, allowing a return to the vegetative mode after flowering, have any relevance to life-history strategy?
2 Law The right, especially of the original owner or their heirs, to possess or succeed to property on the death of the present possessor or at the end of a lease: the reversion of property
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- For these reasons we prefer the analysis put forward in the respondent's notice to the theory of automatic reversion which the judge favoured.
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- Until recently there seems to have been some lack of awareness of the provision for reversion, but this is probably no longer the case.
2.1A property to which someone has the right of reversion.
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- In what follows, we are primarily concerned with disposition on sale, but it must be remembered that there are other occasions besides sale on which leases and reversions may pass to new owners.
- Mr Shapiro accepted that the proposed underletting to Telco would cause no risk to Riverland's income stream, or to the value of Riverland's reversion, during the remainder of the term of the Lease.
- In Lotteryking Lightman J held that the set-off operated because the assignee had succeeded to the reversion and to its annexed covenants.
2.2The right of succession to an office or post after the death or retirement of the holder: he was given a promise of the reversion of Boraston's job
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- Next year sees the 10th anniversary of the Treaty of Granita, when Gordon ceded the leadership to Tony, on the promise of the reversion of it within a decade.
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- Yet the original grants under which the patroons had obtained their power withstood all attempts to remove them while the rents, including back payments, remained until each leaseholder renegotiated the reversionary rights.
- Furthermore, the effect of the works carried out as a result of the notice has been to render the Second Claimant's reversionary interest without value or viable use for agricultural or other purposes.
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I like this bumper sticker.
Which one and why? I'm ignorant about these rifles. Please PM me your advice.
FAL - Springfield Armory SAR-48 with heavy (match) barrel
FAL - Belgian Parts kit on Imbel receiver
M1A's - Both over 10 years old. Springfield had lots of GI parts on hand. TRW bolts, GI trigger groups, op rods, etc. Choice of walnut or fiberglass stocks.
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Remember Carter????
It's just a matter of time. Clinton was bulletproof, now he's irrelevant...
But I just want to remind everybody, right here and right now that William Jefferson Clinton was in fact the first Black President of the United States. Remember That!!!! It's important!!!!! Al Sharpton said it was so!!!!
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Clintons Legacy will live on. That is evident by Obamas cabinet picks as well as the re-hashing of the Clinton era AWB. This time, it may be permanent?
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Should My Child Play with an "Outcast"?
Q: Our seven-year-old daughter was reprimanded sternly by another parent for leaving her child out. Our daughter was devastated. She is usually very sensitive, and has good relationships with her teacher and classmates. She loves to play with a variety of children. I contacted the parent for an explanation of her behavior. The parent apologized and said that her daughter feels that all the children dislike her and that no one invites her to play. This parent holds an authority position in our community; she is the leader of my daughter's Girl Scout troop and also plays music at our church. Now that I know her daughter is having these difficulties, should I try to involve her with our family? Or, should I not risk my daughter's feelings?
A: Your conversation with the parent who reprimanded your daughter revealed her to be overwhelmed by her daughter's unhappiness. Considering whether or not to make overtures to this excluded girl show great compassion and empathy on your part. Perhaps you also feel that this parent might cause your daughter further hurt because of her positions of authority in girl scouting and your church.
Discuss the situation with your daughter before you attempt to reach out to this girl. It would be unfair to make your daughter feel that she must be this girl's "savior." Despite the best efforts of your daughter, this girl may have personal problems that are understandably making her a social outcast--problems that need more complex solutions than your daughter could provide. Ask your daughter why she thinks this girl is having social problems and what she thinks could help her. However, your daughter shouldn't be forced to shoulder the responsibility of acquiring acceptance of this girl by their peers. Don't react negatively if your daughter refuses this leadership role. Clearly, your daughter can talk with you and gain advice on how to continue to be kindly to this girl. She may even learn more about empathy and compassion from this experience. Thanks for writing.
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6 Iconic Movie Scenes That Happened by Accident
#3. The Usual Suspects -- The Lineup Scene Was Supposed to Be Serious
What Was Supposed to Happen:
The Usual Suspects is about five criminals who meet at a police lineup and decide to commit a robbery together. In the lineup scene, the characters were simply supposed to step up and repeat a line, one by one -- what could possibly get five professional actors to botch something as simple as that?
The ol' Icy Hot in the underpants trick?
The Happy Accident:
Benicio Del Toro's rancid farts. According to the DVD extras, while shooting this scene Del Toro was "flatulent the whole time."
Now we know why Gabriel Byrne's covering his nose.
As a result, the other actors kept cracking up while director Bryan Singer angrily told them to keep their shit together. It didn't help that, according to Kevin Spacey, the actors were intentionally trying to get the usually serious Gabriel Byrne to laugh, and even got him to do impersonations. Eventually Singer gave up and just left the actors' completely improvised interaction in the movie -- you can clearly see them trying not to giggle and utterly failing.
The weird thing is, their goofing off actually makes the rest of the movie work; the chemistry between the criminals in this scene really sells you on the fact that these five guys, for the most part strangers, would suddenly decide to team up and pull off a heist together. If that happened every time the police brought in suspects, they'd probably stop doing lineups.
Or they'd start putting mics in their cells.
Also, by showing these wildly different characters bonding through their mutual contempt for authority (and the universal hilarity of fart noises), the scene foreshadows the fact that, in the end, the entire story turns out to be about one clever criminal fucking with the police. And it's all because of Benicio Del Toro's butt.
In fact, pretty much everything Del Toro did in the movie was ad-libbed -- the character had few lines and was originally written for Harry Dean Stanton (you kids would know him as "old guy who talks to naked Bruce Banner in The Avengers"), but Del Toro decided that he should be a "black Chinese Puerto Rican Jew" who talks in mangled English, turning him into one of the most memorable parts of the movie.
#2. The Godfather -- Luca Brasi's Character Is the Result of a Nervous Actor
What Was Supposed to Happen:
While filming The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola needed a big, intimidating guy to play Luca Brasi, a mob enforcer working for Don Corleone (Marlon Brando). Luckily for him, the set of the film happened to be frequented by actual mobsters and their bodyguards: One of them was a huge guy called Lenny Montana, who started fires for the mafia when he wasn't busy beating people up in his day job as world wrestling champion.
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He could legally write off punches as tax deductions for either job.
Coppola saw Montana and thought that he was perfect to play the fearless behemoth, since that's essentially what Montana was in real life. In his first scene, Brasi was supposed to meet Don Corleone in his office, congratulate him on the wedding of his daughter and pledge his loyalty to him.
The Happy Accident:
Marlon Brando. Montana was so nervous about just being in the same room as Brando that he kept getting choked up and messing up his lines. Brando was already an acting legend by then, so sharing a scene with him was like playing catch with Babe Ruth.
Or, in Montana's terms, holding up a liquor store with Al Capone.
However, Coppola liked Montana's unexpectedly bumbling performance so much that he not only kept it in the movie, but in order to explain it, added another scene set right before this one where we see Brasi sitting outside Corleone's office nervously practicing his speech by talking to himself (only to mess it up anyway later on).
The result is a scene that made Don Corleone even more of a badass by implying that even a huge, imposing guy like Luca Brasi is intimidated by him. In the previous scene, Diane Keaton's character sees Brasi sitting alone and is instantly freaked out, but then Coppola tells us that the guy with the muscles is not the one we should be afraid of -- it's the man who controls him. Brasi being bad at acting helped make that point better than the dialogue did.
#1. Midnight Cowboy -- A Reckless Driver Caused the Line "I'm Walkin' Here!"
What Was Supposed to Happen:
In Midnight Cowboy, Jon Voight plays Joe Buck, a small-town Texan who goes to New York City to become a hustler and ends up being the one who's hustled. Shortly after arriving, Buck gets scammed by Ratso, a crippled con man played by Dustin Hoffman who later wins him over with his charming personality and helps him become a gigolo.
How many people started watching this movie because a young Pope John Paul II was in it?
In one scene, the sex cowboy and the crippled scammer were supposed to walk down a busy intersection, talking about the finer points of prostitution. Piece of cake, right?
The Happy Accident:
New York City. Since the filmmakers didn't have permits, the scene had to be shot with a hidden camera and carefully timed to coincide with the "Walk" signal. After about 15 failed takes, and just when the actors were finally getting the timing right, a cab driver blew past a red light and nearly ran them over. Hoffman reacted by slamming the car and yelling "I'm walkin' here!" before telling the driver to kindly fuck off.
So that was all improvised, and in fact, you can see that Ratso even loses his accent while yelling at the driver and hitting the car in a distinctly non-cripple-like manner.
"I'm walkin' here!" became one of the most memorable lines in cinematic history, according to the American Film Institute, and by far the best known part of a movie that includes Angelina Jolie's dad getting a blowjob from a guy in a movie theater. The scene perfectly defines Hoffman's vulnerable but short-tempered character and the whole "Welcome to New York" tone of the movie.
In fact, the line is quoted to NYC cab drivers thousands of times every year.
The veracity of this story has been disputed by a producer, but Hoffman himself confirms that it's real and adds that he nearly said "I'm acting here," because that's what he was doing up until the moment before the cab bumped into him, but he replaced "acting" with "walking" at the last second to avoid ruining the shot. Now try to watch that movie again without imagining the cab running both men over, then the film immediately fading to credits.
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STEUBENVILLE - Rachel Rigaud did everything but sell popcorn for the Catholic Central girls basketball team Thursday.
After opening the evening with a strong performance of the national anthem, the senior post player proceeded to record a double-double (13 points and 10 rebounds) as the Lady Crusaders clipped Bubba Kapral and his Bellaire St. John Irish 42-35.
Rigaud put Tom Winland's club ahead to stay following her conventional three point play (the deuce came off a nifty spin move in the paint) midway through the first quarter. Then she sparked a 6-0 run to start the second. Rigaud swished a couple of free tosses before scoring in the lane. Micca Mirabella recorded the other hoop after snaring an offensive rebound.
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I'M SURROUNDED — Steubenville Catholic?Central's Micca Mirabella goes up for a basket in front of four St. John Central players as teammate Rachel Rigaud looks on.
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That scoring burst put Central ahead 22-11. Tori Knight's triple off glass to end the opening period allowed the hosts to grab a 16-11 advantage. At the intermission, Central was up 24-14.
Late in the fourth, the Irish cut the margin to six (36-30) after Jessica Alvey knocked down a jumper from the corner. Rigaud keyed the Central response. She assisted on a hoop by Mirabella, drew a charge to force a St. John turnover then drove hard to the basket for her final points of the contest.
"This was a big win for us against a very good team that is well-coached," Winland said. "I have a lot of respect for Bubba and his program.
"Rachel really stepped up for us. I expect that out of our seniors. They are all leaders and they know what they have to do in order for the team to succeed."
The victory moves Central to 3-6 and avenges a 34-29 loss suffered earlier in the season on the St. John floor. The Irish fall to 6-3.
"Our defense played well tonight (St. John failed to register a field goal in the second quarter) and we shot the ball better than we have lately," Winland continued. "We had a stretch late where their pressure really bothered us and we didn't take good care of the basketball (the Lady Crusaders were guilty of 28 turnovers).
"We're still learning how to win and how to handle having a lead. I'm proud of the girls. They played hard and earned this victory."
Mirabella finished with 10 points for Central, which connected on 18 of 48 field goal tries. Knight added seven, all coming in the first half.
"We're 6-3 but tonight we looked like we are 0-9," Kapral said. "For most of the game, we played with no passion and no effort. We did play hard the last eight minutes. We gift-wrapped this one.
"Give Central credit. They played well defensively and they're very methodical on offense. Tom is doing a nice job with his team. We made a run at the end (St. John outscored Central 14-10 during the final stanza), but we waited too long."
Kristen Russell paced the Lady Irish in scoring with 13. She too recorded a double-double, hauling down 12 rebounds. Marissa Rose had nine and Kaydie Coppa eight. St. John took 52 shots but swished just 11.
Both teams will return to the hardwood Saturday. Central hosts Beallsville and St. John will entertain Bellaire The start time is 1 p.m.
Central 42, St. John 35
St. John 11 3 7 14 - 35
Central 16 8 8 10 - 42
ST. JOHN (6-3): Coppa 2 3-4 8; Russell 4 3-4 13; Rose 3 3-6 9; DeLuca 0 0-0 0; Sliva 0 1-2 1; Alvey 2 0-3 4. TOTALS: 11 11-19 35. 3-pointers: Russell (2), Coppa; Rebounds 31 (Russell 12); Turnovers: 20.
CENTRAL (3-6): Knight 3 0-0 7; Irvin 2 0-2 4; Rigaud 5 3-6 13; Mirabella 4 2-2 10; Parkinson 3 0-2 6; Torrance 0 0-0 0; Dziewatkoski 1 0-0 2; Ondos 0 0-0 0; Hunt 0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 18 5-12 42. 3-pointers: Knight; Rebounds: 42 (Rigaud 10, Irvin 8); Turnovers: 28.


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This is one of the most perennially important questions. How to effectively script ? What are the bad ways and what are the good ways ? I know of some, which i will point out here. If anybody does know of something else, kindly do leave a comment for the same. This question has been asked to know about the best practices available. It's very difficult to google everything and always all the things do not appear in the same place. Hence, this question has been asked to all of you experienced guys. I am myself trying to learn these things. Hence, i think any comments/answers that you guys provide here will be very helpful for me and people like me. Thanks in advance .
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1.There is no need to define directory trees individually :
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2. Archiving :
Sometimes i have seen people move any tar like a.tar to another directory which happens to be the directory where they want to extract the archive. But that's not needed , as the -C option can be used here to specify the directory for this purpose.
3. Importance of control operators :
Suppose there are two commands, but only if the first command runs , then the second one must run, otherwise the second command would have run for nothing . So , here a command must be run, only if the other command returns a zero exit status.
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April 12, 2013
Facebook Feedback Friday: The best meal you've ever had in Cape Town
This weekend is a big one for foodies, so we took the opportunity to ask the fans of the I ♥ Cape Town Facebook page, "What's the best meal you've ever had in Cape Town?"
We received a flood of responses. Below is a selection of just some of them:
Zeena Murphy: Fish n chips at fish on the rocks in Hout Bay.
Maria Luiza: Meyer Gatsby for sure!! At golden dish.
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How much Critical Chance is required to make the Sharpshooter Buff useless in comparison to other Passives like Cull of the Weak?
Here is how you can think about sharpshooter:
Here's some sample math to break it down (intentionally kept simple so take this with a large grain of salt):
Lets assume you have 20% chance to crit base with 200% crit damage and 2 attacks per second. There is only a single enemy for you to hit.
With 20% chance to crit and 2 attacks per second and no SS, you'll have, on average, 2.5 seconds between critical shots. This means sharpshooter translates roughly into 6-9% critical chance. This roughly translates into 12-18% more damage. This is pretty on par with cull the weak.
If your crit chance goes up, say to 50% (very hard to achieve and you'll either sacrifice a lot of dex/life or gold to buy the godly stuff), then on average you'll be critting every second, so SS only gives an additional 3% crit, meaning its only a 6% damage boost.
So in a sustained fight, you should not use SS in scenario 2 but use SS in scenario 1. However, also keep in mind SS gives you a huge damage spike at the beginning of every fight (guaranteed crit for 200% damage for 1 hit). I'd say for normal monster fighting (almost all the time on inferno) SS is great. For sustained fights such as with bosses, then SS is not as useful and then you'd go with cull the weak.
Finally, keep in mind cull the weak requires a slow of some kind, possibly using up an additional slot or rune where SS works on everything.
I disagree with the premise that SS will become useless as a glass cannon DH, starting out the fight strong is always important. If you can take things out within seconds, there's less chance of something getting close enough to kill you.
As the previous answerer noted, with long stretches between combat, it provides a front ended dps bonus (especially if you open combat with a skill like Impale).
I am going to do my best at analyzing, with some simple "mathcraft", the effect of sharpshooter in combat.
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The reason I do not add it calculating itself is that I am trying to show how relatively unaffective it is in combat rather than calculating a breakpoint of it's return. In order to have a breakpoint, I would need to compare it to something else, which gets very situational (too many variables).
IF I had taken it into account, it would reduce the value of CG even more, particularly in the first few scenarios.
None the less, this analysis should show the value of sharpshooter.
One assumption I made in calculating the Critical % gained from sharpshooter is that from 0-.99s you get no +% to crit, and then you gain +3% from 1s-1.99s (rather than it progressively climbing)... I am not sure that this is the case.
It is worth noting that your Attacks per second plays a major roll in the effectiveness of sharpshooter in combat, in addition to Critical Hit Chance.
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I did this in excel, got the formatting to look as nice as possible but sorry it still does not look pretty
My conclusion would be:
Assuming non-progressive increase in critical hit chance from sharpshooter, it becomes almost completely useless in combat when your critical hit chance is above 30%, and that its effect is nominal, at best, around 15% critical hit chance.
Its effect before that is moderate, but that is without taking itself into account, so the "CG" values in the first few scenarios are inflated by what I determine to be an immaterial amount.
I just did a quick test with taking itself into account. In what I consider to be the most extreme situation (only 5% critical chance, and 1.4 attacks per second) it would reduce the benefit from +39% to an effective +15% static gain to critical hit chance in combat. Going up to a 1.6 attacks per second it would drop to roughly a static +12% to critical chance. Assuming only base critical damage increase of 50%, that would be roughly a 7.5% or 6% damage increase when the skill first becomes available.
The skill's value is diminished by Increased attack speed and Critical hit chance, but improved by your Critical hit bonus to damage.
So it is still relatively situational.
However, in order to calculate its true value you would need to compare the damage increase from the bonus crit (Which would be tied to your +% dmg on critical hits) and compare vs. the alternative.
Sharpshooter is only really effective if you have improv long breaks between monsters. It gives a front-end damage spike, but cannot be sustained. If you find yourself with long breaks between fights, then go with Sharpshooter.
Sharpshooter increases your critical hit chance every second for 3%. After about 30 seconds it is fully charged (depending or your base critical hit chance).
Obviously the first hit will cause a critical hit all the time. Afterwards it depends on how you play.
You benefit the most with:
Ok now this is pseudo Math, as it is purely based on average values and does not use real permuatations. You can use it as a lower bound for constant DPS comparison.
Assuming the following scenario:
This tells you that you have about 4 seconds (12% crit%) in which you benefit from SS on average. After these 4 seconds you will get a crit from your base crit% on average.
So basically this means you get less then about 0.12 * (dps2 - dps3) = 5,4k more damage if you shoot all the time. This value increases if you run away between shooting.
So if you want constant DPS and have a better alternative than these 5,4k go for it. Otherwise it is really hard to calculate and compare two alternatives.
crit chance build is expensive demon hunter needs at least 500 resistance 50k life and 410k demage with sharp shooter to do monster power level 6 with ease. if you have crit chance 40 and above it is useless to use ss.if cc is between 30-35 ss is still good.you can not get all specs vit, cc, crit demage, dex, all resistance, or attack speed coz it is extremely expensive a good glove starts from 200m,or ammy 300 m.... you have to spend 1.5 billion at least to be godly.so crit chance build sucks and sharp shooter is always good.you can make 500k dps but you will keep dying ,repair cost?no point. dh needs resistance and vitality period.i have tried all builds


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Suppose we wish to prove $P$ implies $Q$. We assume $P$. Proof by contradiction begins by assuming not $Q$, and from these two assumptions, a "contradiction" is derived. Now, sometimes that contradiction is that $Q$ is true. I can't help but to feel the argument is circular, yet I can't make precise what it is that bothers me. We're saying not $Q$ implies $Q$, hence $Q$ must be true to begin with. Why are proofs by contradiction of these kind rigorous?
The following is a tautology: $$(R\to \neg R) \to \neg R.$$ That is, if from a premise we can prove the premise is false, then the premise is false.
If from $P$ and $\neg Q$ we can prove $Q$, then from $P$ we can prove $\neg Q\to Q$; replacing $R$ with $\neg Q$ in the tautology above, we obtain $$(\neg Q\to \neg(\neg Q))\to \neg\neg Q.$$
That is:
$$\begin{align*} 1.&&P,\neg Q&\vdash Q&\text{(what we are assuming we can prove)}\\ 2.&&P&\vdash \neg Q\to Q &\text{(Deduction Theorem)}\\ 3.&&P&\vdash ((\neg Q\to \neg\neg Q)\to \neg\neg Q) &\text{(Tautology)}\\ 4.&&P&\vdash \neg\neg Q\leftrightarrow Q &\text{(Tautology)}\\ 5.&&P&\vdash (\neg Q\to Q)\to Q &\text{(by substitution of 4 in 3)}\\ 6.&&P&\vdash Q &\text{(Modus ponens, 2,5)}\\ 7.&&&\vdash P\to Q &\text{(Deduction Theorem)} \end{align*}$$
That said:
It is very common to find what I call "fake proofs by contradiction." Proofs in which we wish to prove $P\to Q$; we assume both $P$ and $\neg Q$. Then without using the assumption $\neg Q$, we proceed to use the assumption $P$ to establish $Q$. Then the author says "But this contradicts $\neg Q$, a contradiction; therefore, $Q$."
That is bad form and a badly written proof. The proof can be done directly by simply removing the line that says "Assume $\neg Q$", and removing the line that says "But this contradicts $\neg Q$, a contradiction." That is, what we have is a direct proof, that has been turned into a proof by contradiction by adding an extra assumption at the beginning (which is never used) and an extra line at the end (which only notes that the new extra line at the beginning contradicts our earlier conclusion).
For example:
Fake proof by contradiction. Assume to the contrary that $V=W_1\cup W_2$.
If $W_1\subseteq W_2$, then $W_1\cup W_2=W_2\neq V$, because we are assuming $W_1$ and $W_2$ are proper subspaces. So we may assume that $W_1\not\subseteq W_2$. Symmetrically, if $W_2\subseteq W_1$, then $W_1\cup W_2=W_1\neq V$, so we may assume $W_2\not\subseteq W_1$.
Let $w_1\in W_1-W_2$, and $w_2\in W_2-W_1$. Then $w_1+w_2\notin W_1$ (since $w_1\in W_1$ but $w_2\notin W_1$); and $w_1+w_2\notin W_2$ (since $w_2\in W_2$ but $w_1\notin W_2$). Hence $w_1+w_2\notin W_1\cup W_2$. Thus, $w_1+w_2\in V-(W_1\cup W_2)$, so $V\neq W_1\cup W_2$.
But this contradicts our assumption that $V=W_1\cup W_2$. Therefore, this assumption is false, and so we conclude that $V\neq W_1\cup W_2$. $\Box$
Now notice that if we delete the first lines ("Assume to the contrary...") and the last two lines ("But this contradicts our asumption that..."), we have a perfectly fine direct proof of what we were trying to prove! The extra lines do nothing but obscure the proof and possibly create confusion. So it's better to take them out.
Perhaps that is the kind of thing you observed, since you specifically mention a "proof by contradiction" in which the contradiction is arrived at by showing that $P$ and $\neg Q$ imply $Q$?
These are valid proofs, they just include stuff that is not needed.
Note that you are not assuming $Q$, you are assuming $\neg Q$; since you are not assuming what you want to prove, you are not engaging in circular reasoning.
In my experience, that scenario usually means that the initial assumption of $\sim Q$ wasn't used in an essential way in the proof. Do you have an example of a proof in which $(P\wedge \sim Q) \to Q$?
I think I can see your problem. Ignoring $P$ (which is not really relevant for the confusion), we're proving $Q$ by the following technique:
On the face of it, this does indeed look circular -- it seems as if we're allowed never to justify our assumption of $\neg Q$ simply because it happens to contradict our eventual conclusion, in the sense that the conclusion and the assumption can't both be true at the same time.
Indeed, that is not a sound reasoning principle in general:
Luckily this is not really what happens in a proof by contradiction. One way to look at a general scheme is
The important point is that it is $Q$ rather than $R$ that is being concluded. The first argument above is then just an instance of this when $R=Q$ -- in which case it is so easy to see that $\neg Q$ and $R$ cannot both be true that it deserves no argument at all.
A different way of looking at the argument is to consider it an abbreviated form of this:
No, we prove that Q implies not Q. Then Q is contradictory, so we must have not Q. In logical symbols, we show $Q\implies \lnot Q$. If you do a truth table you will find Q must be false.


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NEW MANCHESTER - The Oak Glen boys' basketball jumped out to a 17-2 lead en route to a 57-37 victory over Hancock County rival Weir in a West Virginia Class AA Region One, Section One contest Saturday night at the Oak Glen Fieldhouse.
Oak Glen (4-18) led by as many as 27 points in the second stanza and led 39-15 at halftime.
"I don't think they ever cut it under 10," Oak Glen head coach Dave Smith said. "I am proud of the way we played tonight. We were aggressive. We took it to the bucket. We hit some big shots early on.
"I am proud of the kids. They are a great group of kids. They are great group to be around. They are a great group to coach. I hope good things continue to happen for them."
The Red Riders end the season at 2-20.
"They got off to a great start," veteran Weir head coach Mike Granato said. "They buried their shots. They put us down. I don't think anyone has shot like that against us all year. They did it tonight early on. You have to give them credit. I want to congratulate them on the win, and I wish them good luck as they go on."
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WEIR: Masters 0 0-0 0, Knight 0 0-0 0, Viakley 0 0-0 0, Wood 1 0-0 3, Davis 2 0-1 4, D. Cassiadoro 2 0-0 6, Groves 3 5-6 11, West 1 1-1 3, Sims 1 4-4 6, Curtis 1 2-2 4, Kirk 0 0-0 0, Cassiadoro 0 0-0 0. Totals: 11 12-14 37. 3-pointers: D. Cassiadoro 2, Wood.
OAK GLEN: McLaughlin 4 2-3 13, Smith 0 0-0 0, Click 1 3-4 5, Woodruff 2 2-2 7, Ford 2 2-2 7, Kincaid 3 0-0 6, Sprott 0 0-0 0, Congo 0 0-0, Howell 5 0-5 10, Smith 0 0-0 0, McGraw 4 1-2 9. Totals: 21 10-18 57. 3-pointers: McLaughlin 3, Woodruff, Ford.
Senior sharpshooter Matt McLaughlin netted a game-high 13 points, while Cody Howell tallied 10 points for the winners, who visit North Marion at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
"They made their shots," Granato said. "They made them in transition. They made them off of their press. They were able to build the momentum, and one shot led to two and two led to three."
Josh Groves led the Red Riders with 11 points. Dylan Cassiadoro and Andre Sims each delivered six points.
"To beat Mike, you are going to have to play your best and do what you do best," Smith said. "Neither one of us like to play zone, but we had to do that. It is hard to get back into a game when you can't play pressure man-to-man defense.
"We played better tonight. They played better than us the last time we played here.
"Mike does a great job. He always has, and he always will. Anytime we can't beat Weir it is a good win for us."
The Red Riders fought back in the third quarter, outscoring Oak Glen, 17-9, to pull within 16 points entering the fourth quarter.
Weir scored 10 of the first 12 points of the period to pull within 16 points (41-25) following a three-point play by Groves with 5:59 showing on the scoreboard clock. Later, Weir ripped off five-straight points to close the gap to 12 points (44-32) late in the quarter.
"Our kids came back," Granato said. "They showed great character. They are resilient. They battled hard. That is a reflection of our four seniors. They gave a championship effort during their four years at Weir.
"When I look back on this year I'm going to look at the relationships we have built. We have a lot of young kids who were able to see action this year. We are going to piece things together as we head into the summer program. We are going to do what we need to do to get back to where we belong."
Weir's four seniors are Nathan Masters, Davis, Cassiadoro and Groves.
North Marion defeated Oak Glen twice during the regular season - 44-43 at Oak Glen and 61-40 at North Marion.
"They are athletic," Smith said. "They are big. Their guards are big. They have a 6-5 post player. He does a good job for them. He got into foul trouble in the game up here. Their guards can make shots.
"We are going to have to be ready to play. The kids know we can compete with them. If we play like we did tonight, I know we can compete with them. We played very well tonight."