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I need a fast lens with autofocus for taking indoor shots with my Nikon D3000. I have been looking at the Nikon 35mm f/1.8 AF-S for a while and now that I am ready to get one they are next to impossible to find. Is this lens being replaced or discontinued? If so does anyone have a recommendation for similar lens in the same price range?
It's a relatively new lens and popular lens, so it would shock me if it was being discontinued or replaced.
During the Christmas season, they became incredibly popular as presents and the supply dwindled (increasing the price considerably for a bit, even on Amazon).
Either give it time, or check out the Sigma 30mm f/1.4 or Nikon/Sigma 50mm f/1.4 - although these are more expensive. (Realize the Nikon 50mm f/1.8 won't autofocus on your D3000).
It's only a couple of years old, and it fits a very good niche (DX, small, cheap, fast, relatively wide). I really doubt it will get discontinued soon.
But I doubt anyone except Nikon has anything more than speculation on this topic.
Similar lenses: You pretty much have to go with the 50mm to get anything with the same price point, speed, and quality. I'd recommend the 35mm f/2 AF-D (it's a very similar lens for not much more) except that it won't autofocus on your D3000.
This lens was launched just two years ago — it's unlikely that it'd be discontinued or replaced so soon. In fact, they've been selling like hotcakes ever since that launch, and it seems like they're always on the verge of being out of stock. I suspect you're just seeing that at work. I'd go ahead and preorder from one of the big reputable places; it shouldn't be too long of a wait.
These lenses are built in batches. It's probable that we're simply between container-loads from China - the last lot are getting rarer or have completely sold out in some markets, and the next haven't arrived yet.
I got one a couple months ago, it's an amazing lens for the price. Like someone else said, preorder one and you'll be safe. If we consider the needs you mentioned, I'm afraid this is maybe the only match for a nikon DX for some simple reasons. It's also the best match, so cheer up! First, let's see the problem with alternatives:
That said, I used the nikkor 35 for a while and I'm really satisfied. At 800 ISO f1.8 I get decent handheld shots at night outdoor with street lamps neon signs etc, and perfect shots indoor in average artificial light or outdoor at dawn/sunset. The bokeh is much better than I expected from photos I'd seen around, really good!
In the end, if I got back I wouldn't hesitate and I'd get it again. I'm sure with a bit of patience you'll get one, it's unlikely to be discontinued any soon.
I'm not sure how rare they are - I just hopped over to Amazon and they have them in stock (as of this time).
It's a bit more money, but the Sigma 30mm f/1.4 gets decent reviews and gives you an wider aperture.
I just ordered one from Jessops in the UK. It was on backorder so I rang them and they said they were doing an of 1000 lenses, and I would get mine on Friday. So, I don't think it's been discontinued, but there may have been recent supply chain changes.
According to info passed by Thom Hogan's site, Nikon's lens factory in Tochigi was affected by earthquake and therefore closed for almost two weeks. Therefore there could be shortage of many Nikon lenses. Also, the factory in Sendai making FX bodies was severely damaged.


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Can Powers be used for Suppressive Fire? For example, can you cast a Bolt Power to do Suppressive Fire on an area?
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The question in the title is a little different than the question in the body. As a result, I'll answer both.
Can powers do Suppressive Fire?
Sure, if the description of that power allows it.
Can the Bolt Power do Suppressive Fire?
No, not as written in the core rules. A GM would probably be more than willing to work with a PC who wanted to create a version of Bolt that did that, but the core power does not.
If a player wanted to use bolt for suppressive fire then I would probably do it as a trapping. As it makes the power a lot more powerful, it would probably be necessary to introduce some kind of down side to it (can't think of one off hand atm).


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At 6:30 AM on a quiet dirt road I took this picture. I breathed in the cool morning air, revered the silence and the incredible power of my Creator.
I took a million of these shots. It seemed impossible that I could take enough to actually capture how amazing it was.
What I didn't know, what there was no way of knowing, was that this commune with nature was going to change my life drastically.
I got a tick bite. Just one. A very tiny one. So tiny in fact that I didn't even notice it until many hours later. So tiny, in fact, that once my husband took it out I didn't give it a second thought.
Until a week later.
Turns out that tick wasn't so harmless. I caught Lyme Disease from this little, tiny, tick. The bacteria from the Lyme Disease triggered an acute case of Fibromyalgia.
I haven't blogged in a month, I haven't shared my awesome pictures from our trip to the Disney, because I've been in bed, in pain, figuring out what went wrong.
Luckily, I have amazing doctors. Luckily, I have a history of blood clots and realized there was something very wrong with my body after just one week. Luckily there are medicines that can completely cure this disease when it is found this early.
In all actuality, the Fibromyalgia has been the bigger issue. Usually very manageable, this attack brought me to my knees. For three weeks I laid in my bed, unable to walk or even sit up without a great amount of pain.
I'm on new medication that has made a world of difference. I'm up and around, taking care of my children, getting my house back in order and running errands. I've been out taking pictures, had dinner with friends and I am bound and determined to get myself to Type A Conference next week in Charlotte, NC.
So how did this photograph….this sunrise that brought me to my knees….change my life?
I can no longer push my body to ridiculous extremes. It is now normal for me to go to bed by 9:30 or 10:00 at night instead of 2 or 3:00AM. In order to make it through an entire day without crippling pain, I need to rest myself during the day. I need to be more selective with my schedule so that I don't end up back in bed.
I no longer ask "Why Did This Happen to Me?", I haven't for years. I am a firm believer that if you look and listen, you will be able to see the reason, the plan laid out for you and you will understand. I've not been listening. I've been doing too much, pushing the limits; this is no longer an option. It is a painful lesson to learn, but one I will respect and will not be quick to forget as I move forward through my life.
I have heard that Lyme's disease is manufactured one that is now endemic in the NE of the US…you poor thing. Funny how communing with God in a sunrise has led you painfully to re-prioritise your life. Great photo btw…if you frame it, make sure you put the story on the back.
I once heard (ok ok Oprah said it) that God sends messages through whispers, but if you don't listen he sends you a big smack upside the head. I also got one of those this year, unfortunately it took more than a few months for me to realize it! Good job hearing the warning! I hope you keep feeling better!


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Oxford's gamble pays off in big win
OXFORD — Oxford High's Jeff Haney cradled the ball in his hands, "as if it were my first-born child."
Haney's two-point conversion reception from Brennen Diaz in the left corner of the end zone with 1:28 left in the game Saturday lifted the Wolverines to a most improbable 22-21 decision over New Fairfield.
"I am so thankful to my coaches that they had so much trust in me to put me in this position," said Haney. "Making a play like this is something you dream of. I had fumbled on the one-yard line earlier in the game and was grateful for another opportunity. It was redemption."
Oxford coach Joe Stochmal had called a timeout after Chris VanKamerik's 55-yard touchdown reception, which set up the game-winning conversion.
Down 21-20, Stochmal opted to go for the win instead of a tie with the PAT kick by Diaz.
"We had to go for the win," said Haney,
"There was never any doubt," said Stochmal.
Diaz faked inside to Steve Persson, and then rolled out to the left and locked in on Haney, who was wide open, securing the Wolverines' biggest win in the five-year history of the varsity program.
With under a minute left, Oxford's Gunnar Fay and Eric Jensen had quarterback sacks to seal the game. Jensen also had a fumble recovery earlier in the game.
Diaz, who finished 16-of-26 for 348 yards, threw two TD passes of 21 and 62 yards to VanKamerik in the first half to give Oxford a 14-0 edge.
But Oxford (5-2) couldn't add to the lead, and the Rebels (4-3) rallied by scoring 21 unanswered points in the second half, highlighted by Collin Cioffi's 86-yard TD pass from Michael McCourt with 2:15 left in the game. Anthony Dagastino's PAT made it 21-14.
Not to worry, though.
"We are a band of brothers," said Diaz. "We knew we had time. The offensive line gave me enough time to throw and Chris got open."
On a slippery and muddy field, VanKamerik (nine receptions, 265 yards) kept his balance for the final 20 yards before he fell into the end zone.
"I fought as hard as I could and just kept moving my feet," said VanKamerik. "I gave it every ounce of energy that I had."
VanKamerik said the team's belief in each other also made a huge difference. VanKamerik and Haney said the spirit of their late teammate Brandon Giordano, kept them strong. Giordano died last spring.
"We couldn't have done it without Brandon," said VanKamerik. "He was watching over us."
Stochmal agreed.
"Brandon is still a part of this program and always will be," said Stochmal, who credits the team's resiliency. "I have a lot of faith in the kids. They have no quit in them and I am very proud of them."
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10 Ways to Deal with Temper Tantrums
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Communicate Your Anger
When your child's comprehension improves, explain that his tantrum is making you angry (if you really are getting angry). Say that though you'd like to stay, you don't want to be in the same room when he's out of control and you're angry at him. Again, make it clear that you still love your child even when you're angry at him.
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Let us call a set of integers "fat" if each of its elements is at least as large as its cardinality. For example, the set $\{10,4,5\}$ is fat, $\{1,562,13,2\}$ is not.
Define $f(n)$ to count the number of fat sets of a set of integers $\{1...n\}$ where we count the empty set as a fat set.
eg: $f(4) = 8$ because $\{Ø, \{1\}, \{2\}, \{3\}, \{4\}, \{2,3\}, \{2,4\}, \{3,4\}\}$
Show that $f(n) = F_{n+2}$ where $F_n$ is the nth fibonacci number. (So for $n=4, f(4)=F_6=8$).
I was given a hint to first construct a recursive equation of $f(n)$ then use the initial condition to infer that the recursive equation has to be a fibonacci recurrence thus arriving at our goal. My main guess at the recursive equation was $f(n) = f(n-1)+f(n-2)$. As to how I arrived at this, I kind of cheated by assuming the identity to be true then split $F_{n+2} = F_{n+1} + F_{n}$ and applied the identity.
I want to show that this recurrence is true (which I guess is done by induction in some form or even better, a combinatorics argument as the structure looks rather familiar) then the rest I'm sure will follow given initial conditions.
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How can I boot into recovery mode if it hangs booting into single user mode?
I am trying to boot into "recovery mode" or any single user mode, but upstart is trying to start modem-manager no matter what. It says "modem-manager could not connect to system bus" and sits there retrying, forever.
Can I boot into single user mode and tell upstart to NOT try starting the modem?
Can I boot single user and tell upstart to start a shell after drives are mounted? Thanks for any help in advance...
UPDATE: I was able to use the grub init=/bin/bash trick to get a command prompt on booting. From there I was able to apt-get purge modemmanager. But I still get an error about can't connect to system bus and a hang. Is there a way to put upstart into extra verbose mode so I can see what is causing the hang?


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(CNN) – Former President Bill Clinton has finally joined Twitter. His name?
@PrezBillyJeff. True story.
He was Twitter ambushed, so to speak. Appearing in an interview with Stephen Colbert, the satirist and comedy show host urged the former president to hop on the Twitter bandwagon.
In fact, to make it easy on him, Colbert took the liberty of creating an account for Clinton.
"Now, (the Twitter name) President Clinton was taken. William Jefferson Clinton was taken. But PrezBillyJeff was available," he said in the interview that aired Monday night on his program on Comedy Central.
Their exchange came during Saturday's annual meeting for college students involved with the Clinton Global Initiative. Colbert interviewed Clinton on stage as a final segment for the conference.
"Would you like to break into the 21st century right now, and send your first tweet?" Colbert asked, sitting ready with a smart phone in hand. The audience erupted in cheers and applause.
A surprised, though slightly amused, Clinton reluctantly agreed to the pitch.
"You'll type it?" Clinton asked.
"I'll type it," Colbert said. "140 characters or less."
Pondering for a second, the former president decided on his first tweet.
"Just spent amazing time with Colbert," Clinton said, sitting back in his chair with his face resting on his hand, seeming somewhat reticent.
As of Tuesday morning around 8 a.m., the account had more than 32,000 followers. The one person he's following is–surprise, surprise–Stephen Colbert.
"I am President William Jefferson Billy Jeff Rodham Clinton. Stephen Colbert is my BFF," read the biographical description on his Twitter page.
His handle lacks the famous blue check mark sign, denoting the account as officially belonging to its namesake.
Since the airing of Monday night's show, the account has posted three more tweets. Whether or not they came from the 42nd president is unclear, but it's highly doubtful given the nature of the messages.
@PrezBillyJeff: I'm Bill Clinton and I approve this tweet, because I wrote it, because, like I said, I'm Bill Clinton. #notColbertpretendingtobeme
@PrezBillyJeff: Now that I'm no longer president I have been downgraded to Air Force Seven. #notColbertpretendingtobeme
@PrezBillyJeff: Just picked up Ayn Rand. Mind = blown. Get to work, you moochers! #notColbertpretendingtobeme


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Strictly For Kids - Infant-Toddler Cottage Playstation 4 Outdoor Playground, Natural Colors
Product Description
Infant-Toddler Cottage Playstation 4, Outdoor Transitional Playground Structure, Natural Colors. This masterfully designed system is engineered to be the perfect solution for the modern infant-toddler yard. It is ideal for crawlers transitioning to walking to pull themselves up to a standing position and develop a sense of balance.
NOTE: This is the same structure as the Cottage Playstation 4 (Bright Colors), but in Natural Colors Scheme. Check out the additional images to view the structure from different angles.
This beautiful play structure includes a series of hand rails and play events which offer support throughout the entire structure. These supports may be used for early walkers as they cruise from play station to station throughout the perimeter and interior of this awesome structure. It combines every safety element imaginable and has numerous ADA ground level features.
Developmental Benefits
Infant-Toddler Cottage Playstation 4, Outdoor Transitional Playground Structure offers a range of age and developmentally appropriate benefits: gross motor skills, sensorial, cognitive and creative play skills, as well as social emotional skills.
The Strictly For Kids - Infant-Toddler Cottage Playstation 4 Outdoor Playground is ideal for Ages 6 - 36 months.
- 1-Set of extra deep steps with closed off risers and hand rails which support the child's mobility and safe pattern of play as they balance and navigate the stairs. The landing at the bottom of the steps creates an extra gathering space for children to interact. The width of the stairs is designed for a child to grasp one hand rail while climbing, as a second child may grasp the opposing rail to exit down, passing each other safely and simultaneously.
- 1-Ramp which supports mobility for crawlers, who may transition to walking while utilizing the same double cruising rail design as the stairs. This offers support for the child to pull themselves up, maintain balance and learn to walk up the gentle incline, providing a different level of balance.
- 1-Slide w/safety barrier above to prevent "headers" by requiring the child to sit, with dual hand rails for support, before exiting
- 1-Oversized two tone roof with shingles adds protection from the elements
- 2-Sets of wind chimes above the peak of the roof to add a musical element to the play yard
Ground Base Activities
- 1-Tracking tube with Ball Storage Bin, which helps develop eye-hand coordination and supports early pre-reading skills (learning to track from left to right)
- 1-Tracking Chute with a ball drop to the full length Ball Storage Bin. This provides developmental benefits similar to the tracking tube, with an interesting gross motor twist. The children will bend to retrieve a ball, roll it down the chute, cruise to the other end, bend to retrieve the ball, turn right, roll it into the tracking tube, cruise, bend and retrieve, then back to the beginning to repeat.
- 2-Steering wheel stations placed close enough for buddies to work on their socialization skills, yet far enough apart to prevent interfering with the other driver. Hand rails on both sides add support for less mobile children, who might have difficulty while using the steering wheels for support.
- 1-Sensory bubble table with hand supports around the perimeter and a removable cover
- 2-Tracking maze rail stations. The faux wood siding is a wee bit crooked, with a few knots, for a creative, whimsical dramatic play experience. The large, indestructible Lexan windows throughout, with shutters on the two playhouse windows, add a peek-a-boo experience for the children, protection from the elements and visibility for adults.
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Strictly For Kids - Infant-Toddler Cottage Playstation 4 Outdoor Playground dimensions: 124"w x 104"d x 94"h, 16"h deck. Requires an 18' ax 18' use zone if used in an enclosed, supervised play area. Play equipment for infants and toddlers must be installed over a shock absorbent material. A unitary surface is highly recommended and mandatory for some. .
Solid Structure. Easy, Step-by-Step Installation. Long-Term Warranty.
Arrives semi-assembled, installs in approximately 60-90 minutes. THE SIMPLIFIED ASSEMBLY CAN SAVE $THOUSANDS IN INSTALLATION COSTS. Designed to be installed by conscientious workers with a limited skill level and does not require a contractor. 15 Year warranty.
Made Of / Made In
Extremely heavy duty 3/4" Polyethylene construction. Meets and/or exceeds ASTM F 2373-07 Standards, CPSC Guidelines and includes ADA accessible features. Made with pride in the USA.
Strictly For Kids is a premier manufacturer of high-quality classroom furniture and playground equipment built to last for decades. At the core of its business model is the creation of products that are unrivaled in their safety, durability, and beauty. This ensures a long-term relationship with its clients based on trust and an understanding of the school's greater programmatic goals - to advance children educationally in a world-class setting. That is, a school's investment in quality, timeless products allows programs to focus on curriculum and professional development rather than in the replacement of furniture and equipment every four or five years. Buy it once, buy it for a lifetime.
Strictly For Kids is located in Tacoma, WA. It employs a cadre of master woodworkers who consult with teachers and other child specialists in designing child-centric, developmentally-appropriate, and exceptionally-safe classroom furniture and playground equipment.


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I would like to know if there is anyway I can display the users returning to my website with a special condition:
In fact I only want to display the returning visitors who have already visited my payment confirmation page (eg. mysite.com/paiement.confirm ).
If it can help my analytics is plugged with the e-commerce thing.


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|2014-15 Women's Cross Country
|Macy Carrier
|Brianna Goble
|Carmen Hilliard
|Carolyn Hinch
|Katie Hirko
|Victoria Hutchens
|Lisa Pallotta
|Kylie Rutherford
|Hannah Warren
|Sarah Zimmer
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2014 Track & Field: Posted a personal best 800M time of 2:16.82 at the SoCon Indoor Championships ... placed fourth in the 4x400 meter relay with a time of 3:53.50 at the SoCon Outdoor Championships.
2014 Cross Country: Did not compete
2013-14 Track & Field: Competed in six indoor meets ... excelled in relay events including being part of the the distance medley relay team that took third at the A-Sun Indoor Championships with a time of 12:11.54 and of the 4x400m relay squad that placed third at the Championships with a time of 4:02.70 ... tallied a personal best in the 500M at the JDL Kick-off Classic with a 1:20.63 time.
Prior to ETSU: Lettered in track & field and soccer throughout her career at Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville, Tenn. ... qualified for the state meet in the long jump and 400m in 2013 ... KIL champion in the long jump and 400m in 2013 ... Vol Classic long jump champion in 2012 and 2013 ... set school record in long jump and triple jump in 2012.
Personal: Born June 9, 1995 ... daughter of Marvin and Komma Hinch ... majoring in psychology.


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Local Development Framework
The Local Development Framework (LDF) is the term used to describe the collection of planning policy documents we have produced to guide development across the city.
It consists of our Approved Planning Policies, but also includes the
- Local Development Scheme - setting out a 3 year project plan for preparing new planning policy documents (as well as listing all our current statutory policy documents)
- Statement of Community Involvement - setting out how we will encourage people to get involved in the planning process
- Authority Monitoring Report - a progress report on how we are getting on with preparing our new planning policy documents
Eventually, older documents will be replaced with new ones, but this will be a gradual process. All these documents continue to guide development in Birmingham.
The status of each document is explained at the bottom of each page.
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5 Soviet Space Programs That Prove Russia Was Insane
The thing about the Iron Curtain is that we'll never fully know what crazy shit went on behind it during the Cold War. And that's too bad, because the little hints that leak out really make it look like these people just did not give a shit.
Take the Soviet space program. We know they were the first to get both a satellite and a human in orbit, which were both pretty admirable accomplishments. What they kept hidden from the world was that maintaining even minimal levels of safety was a completely foreign concept to them. And that the cosmonauts who flew their rickety ass spaceships must have had balls made of elephant tusks.
Here are five spectacularly audacious Soviet space programs that prove that in Soviet Russia, space goes into you.
#5. Space Dogs
Between 1951 and 1966, the USSR sent over twenty dogs into the cosmos, but to be fair, they weren't the only ones who tested the viability of human space travel by sending animals up first. What separated the Soviet space dogs from the American monkeys, however, was that Soviet programs didn't always have the animal's best interests at heart. And by that we mean they often had no intention of bringing the animal back alive.
We're guessing PETA never had a Soviet equivalent.
Take Laika, for example. In November 1957 the whole world watched in astonishment as the Soviets not only launched Sputnik 2, but revealed they had a stray mongrel in the satellite as well, making them the first to get a living organism in orbit. Everything about Laika's journey seemed to go swimmingly, until we realized the Soviets never had a safe return plan for their pooch, and they planned for her to die in space all along. Which sucks, of course, but at least she died peacefully when she ate her poisoned food dose a week into orbit, as the Soviets reported.
They honored her sacrifice with a stamp, that she might torment postal workers for generations to come.
Except, oh wait, that's not how Laika died at all. In 2002 it was revealed that Laika wasn't euthanized, but that she died in the most horrifying way possible within hours of the launch. Sputnik 2, it turned out, was something of a rush job. The whole thing had been planned and put together in four weeks, so no one should have been surprised when the thermal insulation system broke right away. Poor Laika, whose little doggy heart was already beating at four times its resting rate, found herself in a cabin that was 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Her body shut down from stress and heat within five to seven hours of her launch.
Even when the Soviet space dogs punched space in the face and landed safely, they still had to contend with a Russian winter, because the Soviets weren't exactly, how do you say, capable of landing them at the right place. Which was why dogonaut capsules came equipped with a 60 hour self-destruct timer on board, just in case. That self destruct function was almost used in December, 1960, when Damka and Krasavka's capsule landed off course in the middle of a NEGATIVE 45 DEGREE Russian winter. Rescuers barely got to the dogs before they became pupcicles.
Via Wikipedia Commons
All horror aside, that little space suit might be the most adorable thing we've ever seen.
Eventually, more and more of the dogs started coming back safe and sound, so the Soviets thought space was finally safe for humans.
(Spoiler: it wasn't.)
#4. Expendable Cosmonauts
All that dog torture paid off when the Soviets safely launched and returned human cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961. But there are more than a few people who contend that Yuri the Fury wasn't actually the first man in space, he was just the first one to survive to tell the tale. And that, theoretically, there are some cosmonauts still out there hurtling across the universe.
We're guessing none of them had Yuri's winning smile or soulful eyes.
While the Soviets hit the ground running in the space race, we later found out that their actual space program was a bit of a shit show. However, they did have one advantage on their side; their ability to cover up every single failure and destroy all evidence of incompetence, which is why no one can actually prove what we're about to tell you.
In 1959 a German scientist claimed at least four Soviet cosmonauts had already died between the years 1957 and 1959. According to Hermann Oberth, the Soviets were converting rockets to manned spaceships, and he would know, because he was working with NASA and had seen the intelligence to prove it. Plus, a high ranking Czech official further corroborated the story when he also leaked information that unofficial launches killed a few cosmonauts.
"Maybe we should send some oxygen up with the next batch of pilots?"
But it wasn't until two Italian brothers with a knack for radio got in the act that the story really gained some ground. After cobbling together an improvised listening system comprised of scavenged equipment and sheer audacity, Achilles and Giovanni Battista Judica-Cordiglia started picking up some creepy shit. Specifically, an SOS signal in Morse Code. And the dying gasps and fading heartbeat of a cosmonaut whose signal was getting farther and farther away from Earth. And a Russian woman who said:
Transmission begins now. Forty-one. Yes, I feel hot. I feel hot, it's all... it's all hot. I can see a flame! I can see a flame! I can see a flame! Thirty-two... thirty-two. Am I going to crash? Yes, yes I feel hot... I am listening, I feel hot, I will re-enter. I'm hot!
Via the Judicia-Cordiglia brothers.
Above: The most depressing hobby since stamp-collecting.
Just as signs of screaming began, the transmission was cut off. And then there was the couple who desperately pleaded for help:
Conditions growing worse. Why don't you answer? . . . we are going slower . . . the world will never know about us...
None of the transmissions were acknowledged by the Soviets, but the KGB began taking a hearty interest in the brothers, nevertheless. And then, as if it wasn't creepy enough that two Italian guys were recording the tortured last cries of phantom space travelers, there was the whole matter of the cosmonauts who mysteriously disappeared from official pictures.
Later we learned that one of the airbrushed cosmonauts was cut from official pictures and all records after suffering a horrific death by fire on the launchpad. Another was expunged because he was a drunk brawler who eventually committed suicide. As for the rest, we'll never know.
#3. The Voskhod Program
By 1964, the Soviets were trying to get their Commie asses on the moon, but they needed a bigger spaceship to do the job. Voskhod was the stepping stone to that spaceship, just like NASA's Gemini program was the stepping stone to Apollo. And for a while there, things went great! Voskhod 1 was the first spaceflight to have more than one person on board, which we're sure they celebrated by doing the first squat-kick dance in space.
Voskhod 2, however, proceeded with a Three Stoogian level of things going wrong, minus the hilarious eye pokes. The launch went up safely, got into an orbit, and a cosmonaut, Alexei Leonov, became the first human to perform a spacewalk. Super. But that was about when things took a turn for the cataclysmic.
On his way back in, Leonov's spacesuit inflated due to the vacuum of space, which, apparently, the guys who designed the suit had never heard of. His suit was so laughably ballooney, in fact, that he could barely move and most definitely couldn't fit back in the spaceship door. Leonov was forced to let some air out, all the while suffering from heatstroke and the bends. By the time his little 12 minute walk turned into a 20 minute walk, he was up to his knees in sweat. But he made it back in to the ship, safe and sound.
A less testicled individual would have shit themselves to death in fear about fourteen seconds into the ordeal.
Remember how we said the Soviet program was a bit of a shit show? This is the part where that shitshowiness comes into play. Voskhod 2 was really just a modified version of an earlier vessel, the Vostok, which was never meant to carry more than one cosmonaut. But in the race to beat the Americans, the Soviet government insisted this version go up.
Because of the crappy design, crew members had to crane their heads at a 90 degree angle just to read their instruments, and the capsule had zero exit strategies if an emergency came up during re-entry. But best of all, once the automatic landing failed, which it did, getting to the navigation system required one cosmonaut to lie down across the seats, while the other held him in place. So, imagine you just made humankind's first walk in space, you get back in the space ship, sick as all get-out, and now you have goose your partner while he tries to get you back home.
Above: The Voskhod 2 crew compartment, one ill-timed boner away from disaster.
AND THEN IT GOT WORSE. Pavel Belyayev, the guy who had to land the thing manually, asked Leonov to check their attitude. That little move cost them time, which cost them landing accuracy, which meant they were forced to land 800 miles off course in a part of the Ural Mountains so forested that no helicopters could land to rescue them. They literally had to chop wood for a fire and fend off wolves for two days while they waited for their rescuers, who eventually arrived on skis. The only way Voskhod 2 could have gone any worse would have been if Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase were the ones sent for the rescue.
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Winter sports enthusiasts are an optimistic lot. Everyone, it seems, is ready to put the dark, dismal last winter behind them and look forward to better, snowier days in the future. Hopefully, the very near future. We've had our first tiny tastes of snow and it was sweet indeed.


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Adding e-Reserves in Bb Learn
Adding an e-Reserves PDF document to your course
1. On the Content page, from the Build Content menu, select File.
2. Select Browse Content Collection...
3. Click on the Reserves Files folder to open it.
4. Click the radio button to the left of the desired file.
5. Click Submit
6. If you wish to rename the selected file, change it in the Name field.
7. Set the Open in New Window button to Yes
8. Make any desired changes to the standard options and click Submit.
9. The file is now a part of the course content. Students will click on the file and it will be downloaded to their computers. To view the file, they will need the free Acrobat Reader utility, which is available from Adobe: http://get.adobe.com/reader/


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23 Jan 2012 6:57 AM #1
How to stop expanding accordion? I mean how to cancel expand event?
I am using ExtGwt. i have below code.
private ContentPanel mainPanel = new ContentPanel();
private ContentPanel firstAccordion = new ContentPanel();
private ContentPanel secondAccordion = new ContentPanel();
private ContentPanel thirdAccordion = new ContentPanel();
i have accordionlayout set. i have 3 accordions. all are added to mainPanel. when user is viewing secondAccordion, if user clicks on first accordion then first accordion should not be expanded. user should be retained in seconAccordion itself. so, my question is, i have certain condition when to retain the user in the same accordion where he is. if user clicks on any other accordions, then i should stop expandint the other accordion. how can i do that? Please help me.
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You can subclass AccordionPanel and override onBeforeExpand. You can tell which content panel is active by checking which one is expanded. You can tell which content panel the user has tried to select with ComponentEvent.getComponent.
If you don't call super.onBeforeExpand in turn, you will prevent changing which content panel is active.
Here's a quick example with an anonymous inner class subclassing AccordionLayout.
new AccordionLayout() { @Override protected void onBeforeExpand(ComponentEvent ce) { if (ce.getComponent() != firstAccordion) { super.onBeforeExpand(ce); } } });


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I'm talking about potatoes that have gone somewhat soft and put out shoots about 10cm long.
Other online discussions suggest it's reasonably safe and the majority of us have been peeling and eating soft sprouty spuds for years. Is this correct?
I'm talking about potatoes that have gone somewhat soft and put out shoots about 10cm long.
Other online discussions suggest it's reasonably safe and the majority of us have been peeling and eating soft sprouty spuds for years. Is this correct?
Not safe enough for me to try it. Potatoes actually contain a very dangerous toxin called solanine. This toxin is concentrated enough in the green parts in the plant to cause solanine poisoning. This includes the sprouts/eyes, and the potato itself if it's green.
This article from the New York Times health guide indicates that it is something to be taken seriously. Per this article, if the sprouts have been removed, and the potato is not green then it is safe to eat as far as solanine poisoning is concerned.
However, a potato as far gone as you have described sounds disgusting. A soft potato is on its way to going bad. Where I am from, potatoes are cheap enough that it's just not worth the gross factor for me to eat a potato that has 10 cm sprouts and is squishy. I do eat potatoes that have little nub sprouts on them and that are slightly less than firm, after removing the sprouts of course.
It is safe to eat a sprouted potato if it is still firm (source: University of Illinois); however, don't expect it to act the way an unsprouted potato would. Part of the starch will have converted to sugar.
Be sure to store potatoes somewhere cool and dry with good air circulation. Also, keep them away from onions.
Um... Well, I grew up eating them. Towards the end of winter, all the potatoes looked like that. We snapped off the sprouts, ate the firmer ones, and saved the rest for planting.
We didn't die. I don't think. Unless this is all a dream, the last twenty years merely the illusion of my dying, spasming, potato-poisoned brain.
That said, if you have a choice, I would stick with potatoes that haven't sprouted...
From http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-Potatoes-from-Sprouting-in-Storage:
I know not to eat a green potato, but sprouted ones are no big deal. Just trim off the sprouts. Knives comment was really funny...lol!
The solanine is found in the green skin and also highly concentrated in the eyes, which form sprouts.
Solanine is highly toxic, but is usually found in really small quantities. You would have to eat a lot of it to kill you. But it's still probably not a good idea to eat in general.
Toss any crazy sprouting potatos out, learn the proper way to store them. You wont have that problem....
My Dad grew up on a potato farm and he warned us about green potatoes but we were allowed to eat firm ones that had sprouted as long as we trimmed off the eyes. I don't think storing your potatoes with herbs or essential oils would be a good idea unless you wanted your potato dishes to taste of that stuff.
I'm fascinated by the comment about not storing potatoes with onions because I always have.
Potatoes are simple, but 10cm is obscene, throw them out.
Potato safety 101
[1] This is difficult to see on purple/blue potatoes, so just eat them fresh.
[2] You don't want your potatoes to be hard, you want them to be firm to the touch. Don't be afraid to give them a bit of a squeeze. As an exception, "new potatoes", which are just very young and small potatoes with thin skins, are usually a bit softer.
Source: My friend worked on a potato farm.
Disclaimer: I am not a healthcare or food safety professional.
My father who was a farmer told me that if they are not green from inside (they are still yellow) you can eat them.
I personally remove the sprout(s) peal them and if they are yellow cook them!!!
Nothing bad happened to me so far and I ve done it many times!!
I've eaten potatoes that were fairly soft and nothing happened to me an I'm sure everyone whose grandparents grew up in the depression ate them a lot softer than I have But that's just my opinion I could be wrong
All this mumbo-jumbo about them being poisonous is completely true, I just wanted state that weirdly. My suggestion, throw it back into the ground and grow 25 more potatoes.


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6 Deleted Backstories That Totally Change Classic Movies
If you go through the bonus features on a DVD and watch the deleted scenes, one thing becomes immediately apparent: That shit was deleted for a reason. But, as we've discussed before, sometimes important stuff does get cut from films, and sometimes that stuff includes character moments and backstories that kind of change the whole way you look at the film.
Like ...
#6. Pretty Woman -- Julia Roberts' Character Was an Addict
In Pretty Woman, millionaire Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) offers a hooker called Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) $3,000 to spend an entire week living with him and pretending to be his date.
"I can guarantee with 83 percent certainty that I won't murder you."
Despite their differences, Vivian and Edward eventually fall in love and decide to stay together, in a perfectly happy fairy tale ending ...
The Deleted Backstory
... except for the part where Edward now has to deal with her nasty cocaine habit. Yeah, the fact that she's going through withdrawal throughout the entire movie because Edward won't let her get high certainly casts a new light on their relationship.
"That's lovely. Be right back, going to a pawn shop and an alley."
The screenplay for Pretty Woman was originally entitled $3,000 and was much darker and more dramatic. Remember that cutesy scene in the film where Edward thinks that Vivian is concealing drugs in the penthouse bathroom, but it turns out she's only holding dental floss? In the script it goes a little different:
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In the finished film, Vivian claims that she doesn't use drugs, but let's examine the evidence, shall we? There are numerous points throughout the movie where Vivian appears to be unusually energetic, restless, and talkative. In fact, her loopy behavior becomes the source of a constant running gag: There are no less than five occasions in the movie where Edward tells Vivian to stop fidgeting. And, of course, fidgeting, restlessness, and manic energy are all common signs of cocaine use.
This isn't a bubble bath.
The only direct reference to cocaine in the film comes from Vivian's friend Kit, who owes a drug debt to a dealer. However, the original script reveals that Kit was a full-fledged junkie about two snorts away from an overdose. At one point, Vivian visits Kit at their apartment and it's apparent that if she chooses to stay with Edward, Kit probably will not survive much longer.
Since Pretty Woman was ultimately produced by Touchstone Pictures, a subsidiary of Disney, there's probably no way in hell the protagonist was going to be a cokehead. Ironically, considering how much money this film made for Hollywood producers, there's a huge chance some of that money went back to coke anyway.
#5. The Ring -- Rachel Passes the Curse on to a Child Murderer
In The Ring, Naomi Watts plays Rachel, a journalist who finds a mysterious cursed videotape that causes people to die seven days after watching it (the Rotten Tomatoes rating on that thing must be brutal).
"Shoddy editing, dull characters, caused girl to crawl out of my TV set and kill me. 3/10."
After finding the tape in an isolated motel, Rachel (dumbly) brings it home and shows it to her young son and ex-boyfriend, unwittingly cursing them both. After the boyfriend dies, Rachel realizes that the only way to save her son's life is to make a copy of the tape and show it to someone else, therefore passing on the curse. But who's gonna be the poor sap who will die so that her kid can live? Will she give it to a terminal cancer patient? Send it to America's Funniest Home Videos? Or what?
"I'm the only person left who still owns a VCR, so I'm pretty much fucked."
The Deleted Backstory
An early cut of the film solved this problem by introducing a new character: a charming serial child murderer/rapist played by Chris Cooper.
We're just gonna go ahead and guess that he would have worn the same facial hair as in Adaptation.
The film originally opened with Rachel doing a story on Cooper's character, who is trying to get Rachel's help to get paroled. Rachel goes "Yeah, nope" and forgets about the guy, but then remembers him when she needs to unload that pesky curse of hers. The original ending, as filmed, featured Rachel delivering the videotape to Cooper's cell, because, hey, if you just have to pass on a fatal curse to someone, it might as well be a total douche-tank.
"In fact, maybe you could organize a movie night with the other rapists or something."
So why was he cut? According to the actor, after being introduced to his character, test screening audiences spent the rest of the film asking, "Well, where's Cooper?" Audiences seemed to find this child murderer a lot more intriguing than that creepy long-haired girl climbing out of the well, so they were pretty disappointed when he didn't reappear until the end. And so the filmmakers just cut him out of the film, completely missing the opportunity to Photoshop Cooper's face onto the girl.
#4. Back to the Future Part III -- Biff's Ancestor Murdered Principal Strickland's Grandfather
Mr. Strickland is the ageless, hairless high school principal in the Back to the Future movies. In Back to the Future Part II, we see Strickland get into a hostile confrontation with a teenage Biff Tannen and confiscate his nudie magazine (disguised as a sports almanac).
He's been confiscating innocent-looking magazines for 20 years, just waiting for this moment.
Principal Strickland gave Biff so much shit during high school that, when Biff becomes the most powerful man in Hill Valley in an alternate timeline, he retaliates by burning the school down and having his thugs systematically terrorize Strickland for the next decade. So why did Strickland hate Biff so much in the first place? Granted, he probably hates everyone, but there's actually a deeper reason for their rivalry ...
The Deleted Backstory
According to a deleted scene from Back to the Future Part III, Biff's ancestor killed Strickland's grandfather in the Old West, so there's that. Strickland's grandfather was the town marshal of 1885 Hill Valley, and his biggest enemy was the notorious outlaw Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, who, of course, happens to be Biff's great-grandfather.
There's only room for one epic mustache in this town.
Curiously, Marshal Strickland is nowhere to be seen when Buford is arrested near the end of the movie, but there's an explanation for that: He's dead. In the deleted scene, Buford is on his way to his climactic gunfight with Marty when he is stopped by Strickland. Buford responds by shooting the marshal in the back and leaving him to die in the arms of his young son.
So, yeah, all things considered, Principal Strickland actually shows some admirable restraint around Biff. It must be pretty awkward when one of your students is also the descendant of the man who murdered your grandfather, we're guessing.
The scene was cut because it was too dark, but when you think about it, the implications are even worse. Strickland was killed while Buford was on his way to confront Marty -- meaning that if Marty hadn't traveled back to 1885 and changed the timeline, none of that would have happened. In other words, Marty is indirectly responsible for his principal's grandfather's death.
We know he called you names and stuff, Marty, but that was a little excessive.


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I have a dental lab in Europe and might want to move it to the USA. Some of the equipment rates as high as 4kW, and the the total maximum draw is 15kW for the whole lab. Can I wire a secondary breaker box in a building in the United States that is all 240V?
Yes. The bigger problem is going to be if any of the equipment requires 50 Hz or is not approved here (e.g., Commercial U.L. or whatever code and insurance requires for a dental lab).


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A pregnant woman was taken to the hospital following a rollover accident early Wednesday morning in southwest Leavenworth County, according to a report from the Sheriff's Office.
The accident was reported at 12:22 a.m. Wednesday north of Cantrell Road on U.S. 24-40.
The 30-year-old woman's injuries appeared to be minor, and there was no indication the accident had caused problems for her unborn child, according to Undersheriff Jim Sherley.
The woman, who is six months pregnant, was driving north on U.S. 24-40 in a 2007 Pontiac Vibe when a deer entered the roadway. She swerved into the southbound lane to avoid the deer. She over corrected when attempting to return to the northbound lane. The vehicle began to slide and went into a ditch. It rolled onto its roof, according to the report.
The driver was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital by Leavenworth County EMS.
The vehicle was considered a total loss.
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Fiddlesticks has a nice set of skills - a decent length disable, a bouncing silence, and the potent life drain channel. They're all very nice to have... which has caused me great trouble in figuring out how to prioritize the skills I'm learning. I tend to max Drain first, but continually flip-flop on Dark Wind and Terrify. You typically have a goal when you decide on a general skill order (best damage improvement, maximizing disable amount, minimizing mana-to-utility ratio, etc.), but the synergy and utility of Fiddlesticks' arsenal has left me rather confused on what goals to focus with. As a result, I never seem to achieve effectiveness in combat.
What are the focus points of building Fiddlesticks in terms of skill learning? Are there certain factors (item build, enemy setup) which would imply a specific skill order, and what factors of those make such implications?


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The 5 Weirdest Things That Can Cause You to Be More Racist
Although we'd like to live in a world populated by rational, caring human beings, we've all seen or done things that could be considered racist. From "Asians are bad drivers" to "white people can't dance," everybody has encountered one or two things that probably shouldn't have been said. As we've previously shown, though, there are all sorts of random factors in your environment and biology that bring out your inner asshole.
And sure enough, the science suggests that all manner of strange things trigger racist behavior. Things like ...
#5. Being Told Not to Be Racist
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The Internet has a very sad tradition it celebrates every February when, in honor of Black History Month, racists and/or stupid people take to social media and ask when will they finally get White History Month. (Easy answer: We already have it. It's the other 11 months.) It's almost as if giving people a reminder not to be racist actually makes them more racist than they were before.
But if you think that's just another example of the Internet turning normal people into asshats, science says it goes deeper than that -- it turns out that ordering people to do everything from "love thy neighbor" to not posting racial comments on Facebook might actually just make those problems worse.
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"They've never seen anyone like me before. I am edgy and against the grain, baby."
They did an experiment on this at the University of Toronto Scarborough, where they split subjects into three groups. One group was given an "autonomy brochure," which just stressed the positive effects of not being prejudiced, a second was given no brochure at all, and a third was given a brochure that explicitly ordered them not to be prejudiced.
You can guess how that went if you've spent any time around, well, the general public. When they tested each group on how prejudiced they were, presumably by throwing a minority in front of them and yelling "Quick, call him a name!" the researchers found that the group with the "do what you want" pamphlet was less prejudiced than the group with no pamphlet. And yes, for the third group, being told to be politically correct actually made them more prejudiced than being told nothing at all.
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"You syrup-swilling Swedish poodle shaver."
Cracked's all about handing out tips for success, so here's a free one: People aren't really that keen on feeling like they don't have freedom of choice. When they feel this way, they actually become more inclined to resent the people you're trying to protect, seeing them as the source of their problems.
Because above all, we just don't like being told what to do. Even if the thing we're being told makes perfect sense, like "Don't be mean to oppressed minorities," that's enough to make us feel like we're the oppressed minority. When is "I just like to be a dick" month?
#4. Ovulating
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Of all the functions of the female body, ovulation is quickly becoming one of the weirdest to search for on Cracked. We've already discussed some of the stranger side effects of ovulation (it helps women sense the presence of snakes!), but, ladies, did you know that ovulation is also turning you into a racist?
Researchers from Michigan State University asked women to categorize black and white faces as either "mental" (i.e., "smart like Bill Gates") or "physical" (i.e., "an idiot who compensates for it with large arms"). They followed that by asking them to categorize the faces as either "good" or "bad." Researchers found that fertile white women tended to be more prejudiced against members of other races that they viewed as physically imposing. To put it in simpler terms, if the ovaries owned a cafe in the 1950s, they just put a sign in the window saying "whites only."
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"I will acquire pancaaaaaaakes!"
The study suggested that this links back to a "psychological stem" from more uncivilized times when a woman had to be on the lookout for invaders during her fertile times, lest she be accosted and become the unwilling carrier of said marauder's seed. Wait, what if the invaders are also white? Are women's reproductive systems OK with being invaded by Nazis? Man, some of our evolutionary adaptations are just gross.
"Hey, buddy, shave that shit off so I know whether or not to hate you."
And this isn't the only bizarre case of our racial moods shifting with body chemistry ...
#3. Too Much Oxytocin (The "Love Hormone")
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Oxytocin is a hormone that bonds humans together. It is most commonly associated with feelings of love and intimacy -- for instance, oxytocin is released when you give someone a hug or pet a dog. It stimulates feelings of love between a mother and child, as well as feelings of intimacy between sexual partners. It is the warmth you feel in the bottom of your gut toward other human beings, and it just makes everyone happier in general.
Or so we thought, until scientists at the University of Amsterdam realized that oxytocin is also really good at turning us into racists.
"Sorry, my mom hugged me this morning."
They devised a moral test using, essentially, versions of the "trolley problem," mixing them in with mundane questions like "Would you prefer coffee or a milkshake?" The trolley problem, for those of you who didn't click the link, can essentially be distilled down to one question: Would you sacrifice the life of one person to save many others? For instance, would you throw an innocent man in front of a train if you knew it would stop the train from killing five other innocent people farther down the track? The experiment was run with two groups. In one group, the person to be sacrificed had a Dutch name. In the other, foreign names like "Mohammed" were used. Before the experiment began, the men had to sniff either a dose of oxytocin or a placebo.
While others got straight cocaine. Their racism just got faster.
As you might have guessed, being under the influence of this love hormone made it harder for the subjects to sacrifice somebody. Even if it meant five other people would die, the emotional bond to the person they were going to kill made it harder for them ... but only if the sacrificial lamb was of the same race.
On the other hand, even under the influence of the love hormone, subjects were disturbingly at ease when it came to sacrificing foreigners. So oxytocin did boost feelings of love; it's just that those feelings were limited strictly to a person's own group. And it's not that it made them hate outsiders. It's just that if they perceived that the situation was "us vs. them," well, a stronger feeling of love toward "us" is bad news for "them." That ... actually explains a lot, if you think about it.
"Fuck your hugs, Mom! If I turn out to be an asshole, it'll be on merit and not chemically induced!"
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WACO (October 13, 2012)—Terrell Schnaufer, 30, of Robinson, who was arrested Friday after a high-speed chase in connection with a home invasion and attempted rape in Waco and a carjacking and an attempted carjacking in Woodway, was transferred Saturday morning from Providence Health Center where he spent the night under guard to the McLennan County Jail.
Schnaufer is facing a list of charges including two counts of robbery, one count of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, one count of harassment of a public servant and burglary of a habitation with intent to commit sexual assault.
The home invasion was reported at around 12:20 p.m. Friday in the 6700 block of Fishpond Road near the Ridgewood Country Club.
The victim, a woman in her 80s, reported that the man, whom she described as tall, thin and tattooed, forced his way into her house and tried to pull down her pants.
He fled when she activated her life alert alarm, Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said Friday evening.
He evidently ran from the house on Fishpond to a church near the intersection of Sanger and Londonderry Drive where he attempted unsuccessfully to steal one vehicle and then stole the pickup, Swanton said.
Police received a call at around 12:50 p.m. Friday from the woman, who reported that the man forced her out of her Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck in the parking lot of Crestview Church of Christ at 7129 Delhi Rd.
Debbie Mauk, 50, said she was parked under a tree eating lunch when the man ran up, ordered her out of the truck and then grabbed her arm and pulled her from the vehicle.
She started to fight back, but the man told her to stop and not to resist.
Mauk said she feared for her life, but said she was most upset that the man was taking the truck, which belonged to her father-in-law who recently died.
The man sped off, but the resident whose vehicle the man tried unsuccessfully to steal witnessed the carjacking, followed the stolen truck, called 911 and remained on the phone with the dispatcher as Woodway police and U.S. Marshals gave chase at speeds up to 100 miles an hour.
McGregor police were waiting and Woodway officers pulled the pickup over near Smead Manufacturing along Highway 84 and took the man into custody.
Reports indicated the man was belligerent and combative, spit in the face of an officer, and might have been under the influence of the designer drug bath salts, whose effects are similar to those of amphetamine.
Officers took him to Providence Health Center for evaluation.
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What is the correct usage? Apparently it is "I feel badly", but but wouldn't that mean you have an inadequate ability to feel?
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Assuming you're talking about a situation where something bad has happened to your friend, and you're saying you feel unhappy on their behalf, then "I feel bad for you" is correct.
You are right that "I feel badly" would mean you are having difficulty in feeling at all - which would be a rather unusual thing to say :)
In general the verb "to feel" will take an adjective (happy, sad, good, bad, angry, relieved) after it to indicate the feeling, rather than an adverb.
"I feel badly for you" sounds like teen-speak for "I am attracted to you". You probably meant "I feel bad for you".
Certain verbs like feel, smell, and taste take adjectives as complements, not adverbs. If you use an adverb with them, it changes the sense altogether, because it now modifies the verb rather than serving as a predicate complement describing the subject.
Contast with:
So you can have a dog that smells bad but like all dogs, he nonetheless smells well.
You cannot use badly as a verb. It will always be an adverb. In those two sentences, feel is your verb, which links an adjective (in this case bad) to the subject. Badly would be used to describe how something was done.
I think you can substitute the word sad for the word bad and it is then easier to get a better understanding of the use for bad. Clear?
I have a sense that "I feel badly" is acceptable. Native English speakers use this, who are not of low intelligence or poorly educated.
It's clear that either way, the semantic idea is that the speaker is experiencing an uncomfortable feeling.
A feeling is abstract: it can be regarded as a state or something that is happening. We don't really know what it is other than through subjective experience.
The linguistic tools for expressing it briefly (not using circuitous language like "I am experiencing an uncomfortable feeling") boil down to using an adjective or adverb: bad or badly.
Neither of these choices is a perfect fit.
"I feel bad" maps the "bad" adjective onto the speaker. So if "I feel stupid" means "I feel that I am stupid" then "I feel bad" should mean "I think that I am bad". But it doesn't.
"I feel badly" maps the "bad" onto the feeling regarded as an action that is going on. This is imperfect also. ("I feel badly" versus "I drive badly".) But there are also: "Think badly of someone" or "Speak badly of someone". The arguments against "feel badly" must take into account such examples also.
Neither choice precisely pins the badness onto the involutarily experienced emotional situation.
But between these two choices, representing the badness as an attribute of the feeling-action (necessarily an adverb) seems semantically cleaner than as an attribute of the noun (adjective) denoting the subject who is experiencing the feeling (involuntarily, at that). The feeling-action is closer to the meaning.
This is probably why some people use the "feel badly" construction; it seems to them that "I feel bad" is like "I feel that I am bad", but "feel badly" is like "think badly": having a negative feeling analogus to having a negative thought.
Badly is an adverb and explains how something was done.
Bad is an adjective and describes a noun.
Since the word being modified is "feel" (a verb), the proper modifier is "badly" (an adverb).
This is essentially the same as the difference between using "good" and "well".
Well modifies the verb feel while good modifies the noun health.
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This was written by my 16 year old sister. Our mother passed away of liver cancer four years ago this Christmas. I submit this in the hopes that it will inspire a researcher just a little bit, on towards the discovery of a cure.
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She got a pain in her side. She had a doctor's appointment, wouldn't it have been great if she went to that doctor's appointment?
She got sick. She had to go to the hospital, we brought her Thanksgiving dinner there, in the hospital. Wouldn't it have been great if she could have eaten it?
The hospital didn't have the right medicine to make her better. My daddy had to take her to another hospital far away. Wouldn't it have been great if the right kind of medicine had been invented?
She had to take medicine that would make her feel better, but not cure her. Three times everyday she got a shot in her stomach. Wouldn't it have been great if the shots didn't make her cry?
She started to forget who we were. She didn't remember me sometimes. The medicine made her that way. Wouldn't it have been great if she didn't have to take that bad medicine?
The pain got worse, she wouldn't take her pills. My daddy had to crush them up in her food. She couldn't eat regular food. She ate baby food. Wouldn't if have been great if she ate all the food with the medicine in it?
Her bed was empty. The same bed she spent twenty five dollars on at a yard sale. She was so proud of that bed. Wouldn't it have been great if she was still in it?
It was a snowy dark day. It was cold. I had to wear a black dress, and coat. We rode slow all the way there. I felt sick. Wouldn't it have been great if we didn't have to leave her in the cemetary?
Wouldn't it have been great if she lived? Wouldn't it have been great if she was still here? Wouldn't it be great if I still had my sweet mommy?
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From what I understand, they both mean "is not". But from what I've been able to gather from the few times I've heard it, it seems that あるまい may not be as strong or definitive as ありません. Am I on the right track here? Also, can まい be used with any verb ex: 飲むまい or just with ある?
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I think あるまい is a literary version of ないだろう.


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I was wondering if there was any was I could right click inside any instance of a "Finder" window such that I have an option that says "Open Terminal Here". It would be really helpful.
As of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Terminal provides Services for opening a new terminal window or tab at the selected folder in Finder. They also work with absolute pathnames selected in text (in any application). You can enable these services with System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services. Look for "New Terminal at Folder" and "New Terminal Tab at Folder". You can also assign them shortcut keys.
In addition, you can now drag folders (and pathnames) onto the Terminal application icon to open a new terminal window, or onto a tab bar in a terminal window to create a new tab in that window. If you drag onto a tab (rather than into the terminal view) it will execute a complete
As of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8, Command-Dragging into a terminal will also execute a complete
The solution to your troubles is called Go2Shell and it does exactly what you're describing. You can find it on the App Store and best of all... it's totally free.
A different approach: DTerm, which gives you a floating command prompt at the top of the window. This works in many apps, not just Finder.
cdto seems like it is just what you need. It is a mini-application, designed to be put in the Finder's toolbar, when you run it it will open a terminal window and
You can do this with the service feature.
The following site contains an example of such a service: http://blog.leenarts.net/2009/09/03/open-service-here/
I mostly use this function:
You could also assign a shortcut to a script like the ones below.
Reuse an existing tab or create a new window (Terminal):
Reuse an existing tab or create a new tab (Terminal):
Always create a new tab (iTerm 2):
The first two scripts have a few advantages compared to the services added in 10.7:
If you use 10.7 or 10.8, change
There is a bug in 10.7 and 10.8 (but not in 10.9 or 10.6) where Finder ignores windows created after the last time focus was moved to another application and back when getting the
http://etresoft.org/shellhere.html — Etresoft and John Daniel
I don't know whether it can be reached through a contextual menu, but I keep ShellHere in the toolbar of Finder.
http://free.abracode.com/cmworkshop/on_my_command.html — version 2.3 (2011-01-16)
Screenshot etc. at http://www.wuala.com/grahamperrin/public/2011/07/31/d/?mode=gallery
Installed and used by me on Snow Leopard before upgrading to Lion. Too soon for me to say whether version 2.3 is compatible with Lion.
You can drag any file or folder from the finder onto a Terminal window to insert a string of said file or folder's absolute path.
This will work on any standard install (at least back until 10.4 Tiger [¿maybe earlier?]) without needing additional software our twiddling of preferences, either of which may later freak out your non-techy friend if it happens to be his/her Mac that you're working on. This trick also works for any process that is running in the Terminal, e.g. emacs or vi (assuming you've got vi in the appropriate mode, or however it is that you people who use vi do).
Another one: http://homepage.mac.com/thomasw/OpenTerminal/
Try this: https://github.com/nmadhok/OpenInTerminal
It works with the Finder's sidebar items, multiple folder/file selections and anything you could think of. Really easy to use!
For those using iTerm, the AppleScript syntax has change in iTerm version 3. Here's the full procedure to follow to create a shortcut in the Finder.
Done !
You can change the icon in the Finder by following the instructions here (change the icon of the application you created with Automator).
Just type