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Bestop's New Jeep Wrangler JK Hard TopPosted in How To on September 1, 2010
The '07- current Jeep Wrangler Unlimited JK may very well be the first Wrangler ever to have the phrase "car-like and quiet" permanently associated with it. While the modern four-door platform is far plusher than its earlier Wrangler siblings, it is still an incredibly capable off-road vehicle. For many the complaints about the JK don't revolve around its comfort and performance, but rather the wind noise and lack of the security that the factory soft top offers.
To answer the cries of JK owners across the nation, Bestop has stepped in with an all-new two-piece hardtop for both the two- and four-door '07-current Wranglers. Comprised of a lightweight and durable blend of plastic and reinforced fiberglass, the Bestop hardtop is a quick and easy way to refine the look and feel of your JK. In addition to the tops' unique style, each unit is fitted with an automotive-grade washable head liner, overhead storage trays, tinted glass, and a quick and simple latching system.
To test out one of the new hard top units we took our '08 Unlimited over to the certified Bestop installers at Off Road Evolution. Since the install we've logged a few thousand miles, encountered some heavy rain storms, and wheeled the barren So Cal desert and giant red rock cliffs of Moab, Utah. Overall, we're happy with the new look, the added security that the top provides, and we have been extremely pleased with the fitment and decreased noise. We know that a lot of you are curious about leaks. So far we have not experienced any leaks from the top, and the only water that appeared to make it into the Jeep during our water test was from the factory Jeep upper door seals (we had the same issue with our factory soft top).
Big Box Affair
Buying a hard top is a lot like buying a new home appliance. Sure, you and a buddy can easily install it, but can you and Bubba Joe lift the massive box off of the delivery truck? While the overall package isn't too heavy for a couple of guys to lift, the box it ships in is roughly the size of a Geo Tracker. Bestop suggests ordering the top from a certified Bestop installer and having it delivered to the install facility. We had our top shipped to Off Road Evolution in Fullerton, California, but you can look up authorized dealers in your area on the Bestop website.


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With the world ending in a few months, expect to see do-it-yourself survivalists soon lug their homemade survival arks/pods/lead-lined armoires equipped with fourteen bags of Bugles out of their garages/barns/He-Man Woman Haters Clubhouses.
But Chinese inventor Yang Zongfu is ahead of the curve with his bright yellow "Noah's Ark," a 13-foot-diameter ball that — according to its creator — boasts room for three people, a year's worth of food and water, three weeks worth of oxygen when sealed, and 75 airbags to make Armageddon the smoothest of rides. (Basically, it can survive any end-of-the-world scenario, save a runaway black hole and maybe the Fenris wolf's digestive tract.)
To test his gyroscopic savior sphere — which took two years and $1.5 million yuan (approximately $236,000) — the inventor claims he slammed it with motor vehicles at speeds of 60 miles per hour (the would-be wasteland warriors inside barely noticed, he says).
But to truly demonstrate the might of his banana-colored survival ball, Yang boarded Noah's Ark and launched himself down a 164-foot slope, like an American Gladiators episode gone series-endingly awry. He emerged triumphant and unharmed, his mouth bloody from a "seatbelt cut."
Kudos on him for not turning into human gazpacho, but color me truly impressed when he finally figures out how to stuff walruses, water buffalos, and manatees on this rig, two-by-two.
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BEGIN SELECT my_sequence.NEXTVAL into l_value FROM SYS.dual; END;Sadly, I lopped off the declaration section in my copy/paste operation, and so this block of code would not execute successfully. I will, therefore, take the following actions: 1. Give everyone credit for a correct selection on this choice. 2. Fix the choice so that it includes the declration section. 3. Re-score and re-rank. Vandu wins an O''Reilly Media ebook for noticing and reporting this mistake. My apologies, Steven
18 September 2010
Typo in 17 September quiz leads to rescoring (1385)
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why rescoring? It was clearly incorrect choice because of missing declaration of the l_value variable. For me it was nice example of test of attention. For example, I ticked a choice with l_value declared as DATE type because I didn't pay enougn attention - my mistake, incorrect choice. I could say - oh, Steven, typo, by mistake you used DATE instead of NUMBER.
Even if I know from your explanation that the missing declaration was typo because of copy/paste operation - for me as a contestant this choice is the same "incident" as "l_value DATE".
- Anonymous18 September, 2010 08:00
I thought it was deliberately left off :)ReplyDelete
First of all, I have to thank you for your daily and wonderful efforts about this "pl/sql challenge".ReplyDelete
But, I have some doubts:
You ". One of the choices, scored as (and very much intended to be) correct, was this:"
I usually take more time to answer "beginner" level quizzes due to this doubts:
- is it intented correct?
- will it be re-scored?
- is it an easy error(lack of declaration) because of the level 'beginner'?
Just for the chronicle, I choose incorrect the one with no declaration section, and I have no mistakes in the quiz.
As a matter of fact my best results are on the level 'intermediate, advanced".
2. You:" Give everyone credit for a correct selection on this choice."
Are true following assertions ?
- Players with not selection : correct
- Players with --- selection : correct
You "2. Fix the choice so that it includes the declaration section."
Could be useful for the clarity of the quiz emphasizes(different color)all adjustments made later.
You "Re-score and re-rank."
I don't like very much this kind of operation, but it's only my opinion.
I suppose that this re-scoring invalidate, in "rare occasions and unintentionally" the goodness of the rankings.
The request about re-scoring shouldn't be asked by players.
I'm here to learn and I have to work hard to be a good players at this kind of challenge.
It's an honour to play with people I consider 'gurus' and I usually follow them on OTN, blog, etc.
Thank you very much for all of your efforts to allow us to become more aware about the power of "Pl/sql" :-)
I also thought it was wrong choice "by choice" and not "by copy and paste mistake".ReplyDelete
It was so evident that I didn't think there was any ambiguity.
I really don't think a rerank is necessary.
Thanks for the sustained efforts in giving us the challenge.
Zep - you make very strong points. When I have typos or mistakes in the quiz, it can lead to all sorts of "distortions" in the scoring. You might puzzle over that typo for a long time, which could reduce your score. Yet I do not want to punish people who do not notice MY mistake. The best solution here is to avoid the need to do this re-scoring. This past week was a bad one. But we had been getting much better and I will redouble my efforts to provide "clean" quizzes. You also suggest highlighting changes that occur to questions. I plan to do this, but I am not sure when it will be available.ReplyDelete
Jeff and Sterol: I could have taken the position that it was OBVIOUSLY wrong and even intended that way, so no need to rescore. The problem with this approach is that I feel strongly that a quiz should test your knowledge about the topic of the quiz, not about finding things like missing declarations. If the lack of the declaration was germaine to the quiz topic, I would not rescore.
Thanks for all your feedback and your patience with my sloppiness.
You state that if the problem with a question is "germaine to the quiz topic" then you will not rescore due to a quiz "mistake". If this is the case, perhaps you could consider displaying the quiz topic when users are taking the quiz.
I have thought of that, Ryan. The only problem is that in a number of quizzes, giving you the topic can be a substantial clue in determining the right answer.ReplyDelete
In any case, a mistake is a mistake. It should not be there and should be irrelevant to the topic for the quiz.
I agree with the first couple of comments. I took it all at face value, checked the facts and thought - this would not compile, so I didn't select it.ReplyDelete
Perhaps that's a key assumption to be made - unless stated otherwise, the code should be compilable - look out for runtime issues.
My morning thoughts assure me there have been quizzes however that do look for compilation issues, but I guess if that's clear in the line of questioning.
Like Steven says, testing PL/SQL knowledge, not typos, but that's part & parcel of being a programmer.


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1. Game at Fenway
2. Game at Wrigley
3. Full Ironman
4. Climb Shasta
5. Game at Lambeau
6. Super Bowl
World Series-(10/28/2010) Giants take Game 2 of the World Series!!!
8. Write for 30 days straight – 30 min
9. Climb Half Dome
10. Get an article published
Game in McCovey Cove - (10/3/2010) Giants clinch the NL West Title!!!!
12. Play 10 songs on guitar
13. Team Mud Run
14. Marathon
15. Go to church for a month
Start a tradition -(Delivering Christmas packages through the Ukiah Christmas Effort – 12/24/09)
17. Own the perfect home
18. Take Dani to Cirque de Soleil "Love" in Vegas
19. Pay my respects at WTC
20. Eat a VooDoo donut
21. Seattle Seahawk game
22. Dine at The French Laundry
23. Swim with dolphins
24. Meet someone with my name (Screwed it up first time…stand by for updates.)
25. Attempt to set a Guiness record
Play in a poker tournament - (04/18/10)
27. See a shuttle launch
28. See an erupting volcano
Sky dive - (10/16/2011)
30. Meet one of my heroes
31. Go to film premeire
32. Eat at 25 Diners, Drive in's and Dives – (In Progress 10/25 complete, See Fieri's Footsteps)
33. Be part of a flashmob
34. Make one of Robbys dreams come true
35. Throw out a first pitch
36. Walk the train tracks to SR
37. Read 1000 books – 250 recommended from others – (In Progress – See Books for #37)
38. Meet a Pres of USA
39. Volunteer as support at a race
40. Ride a horse - (Got a good lead on this one…Thanks Charlie!)
41. Hike the Na Pali Coast Trail
Watch Ken Burns – Baseball (08/13/2011)
Watch Ken Burns – National Parks (03/24/2010)
Compete a City Chase (Urban Adventure)race - (06/19/10)
45. Interviewed on National TV
46. Perform a stand up routine
47. Visit Yellowstone and see Old Faithful
48. Complete the 100 push up program and do 100 consecutive push ups (In Progress…slow progress)
49. Get to an airport and get on a plane without knowing where beforehand
Give it another chance – 3 foods (Sushi, Tofu, Brussel Sprouts)(4/16/2010)
51. Get my weight to 185lbs (War has been declared!!!)
52. Learn Spanish well enough to earn bilingual stipend
53. Earn SCUBA certification
54. Go on a firewalk
55. Swim with shark
56. Swim in a shipwreck
Fly an aircraft - (02/14/2010)
58. Go white water rafting
59. Go zorbing
60. See Grand Canyon
61. See the Northern Lights
62. Mardi Gras in New Orleans
63. Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center
64. Experience Weightlessness
65. See St Peters Basilica, The Vatican, Rome
66. See The Pyramids, Egypt
67. See Stonehenge, England
68. Sydney Opera house, Australia
69. Indoor Snowboarding, Dubai
Vegas Baby, Vegas (4/17/2010)
71. Climb Mount Olympus, Greece
72. El Prado in Madrid, Spain
73. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
74. The Louvre, Paris, France (Mona Lisa)
75. Visit the Colisseum, Rome
76. Christ the Redeemer, Brazil
77. Machu Picchu, Peru
78. Mexican Pyramids
79. See Mount Rushmore
80. Climb the Statue of Liberty
81. Buy an around the world airline ticket and use it
82. Go to top of Empire State Building
83. Enter a photo in a exhibit
84. Brew my own beer
85. Restore an old vehicle
86. Get my bachelor's degree
87. Have a second career
88. Meet Willie Mays
89. Meet Stephen King
90. Meet Jimmy Buffett
Own a pair of Chuck Taylors – (12/29/09)
92. Meet Laird Hamilton
93. Work in a beachside bar
94. Photograph at least 50 different waterfalls -(In progress 2/50 photographed)
95. Rose Bowl Game
96. Make a loan to an entrepreneur through Kiva.com
Learn to handle a firearm - (9/25/2011)
Grow a successful garden - (8/21/10)
99. Eat a salad of self grown vegetable
100. Make a film and post online
101. Take Dani shopping on Rodeo Dr
102. Drive a car that costs more than my annual salary
103. Milk a cow
104. Watch turtles hatching and help them make it to ocean
Be vegetarian for 30 days -(01/31/2010)
Participate in a food fight - (07/07/2010)
107. Own the rookie baseball cards of my all time team
108. Write in a journal every day for a year
109. Visit Corippo, Switzerland
110. Send a message in a bottle with instructions to make contact when found
111. Touch the Stanley Cup
112. Sleep in a haunted house
113. Compete in a soap box derby
114. Have my picture taken with someone from Broken Lizard
115. Play my guitar in public and see how much money I can make
116. Write a Play that gets performed
117. 100 visits in 1 day to the blog
Get a tattoo - (2/14/2012)
119. Something that someone else comes up with
Go without soda for 30 days - (1/31/11)
121. Stand at 4 corners USA
122. See Niagra Falls
123. Call an inning of a Giants game with Kruk and Kuip
124. Take Photos of all the items on my list – (In Progress, posted on blog)
125. Train trip to Chicago
126. Partake in Japanese Tea Ceremony
127. Take the stairs to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
128. Take part in a champagne shower celebration
129. Surf and Snowboard in one day
130. Go to a major fight
131. Ride a stage of the Tour de France
132. Play a round of golf on a famous course
133. Drive Route 66
134. Drive a dog sled
135. See the monuments of DC
136. Raise money for a cause that has an effect on my life
137. Snowboard in another country
138. Wake up and run 3 miles every morning for a month
Get my personal trainer certification- (5/4/2013)
140. Do half marathon
141. Do 5k
142. Alcatraz race
143. Nautica Malibu Triathlon
144. Meet Robin Williams
145. 24+ hour adventure race
146. Place in my age group at Ukiah Triathlon
147. See the Liberty Bell
148. Hike the John Muir Trail
149. Cross the equator on land, sea, and air
Create a way to publicly track my 200 things – (adventurewannabe.wordpress.com- 12/27/09)
151. Tour Ben and Jerry factory
152. Visit St. John
153. Take a Photography class with Dani
Own a Nikon DSLR - (2/2/2010)
155. Bike ride 200 miles/month for 3 months
Grow a full beard- (8/29/2011)
157. When Dani asks to purchase something big be able to say yes
158. Help 10 others "Do something before they die"
159. Costa Rica
160. Throw a crazy theme party
161. Kayak in Lake Tahoe
162. Hike Tahoe Rim Trail
163. Apply to an Ivy League School
164. Visit Baseball Hall of Fame
165. Own a Longboard (skate) and use it
Learn to score a baseball game- (08/07/11)
Crush grapes with my feet – (06/19/10)
168. Bike to work for a month
169. Fast for 3 days
170. Drive the Pacific Coast Highway from Leggett to Dana Point
171. Own an Axe
172. Go to Notre Dame football game
173. Zip line
174. Cook all recipes in a cookbook – (Working through Tyler Florence's Dinner at my Place)
175. See a tornado
176. Try acupuncture
177. Master making 10 drinks -(In Progress 1/10, See The Bar page)
178. Learn to make great pizza crust
179. Save $5000 to use only in emergency
See major city parade - SF Giants World Series Victory Parade (11/03/2010)
181. Broadway show
182. Have a team in the 24 hour relay
183. Learn to ride a motorcycle
184. Run a 8 minute mile
Learn meditation - (01/20/10)
Own another Jeep – (Actually a FJ40) – (06/2/10)
187. Learn to weld
188. Have a pen pal (Postal Service mail)
189. Visit 10 grave sites of people I admire
190. Island Hop in the Caribbean (3 island minimum)
191. Self publish on Blurb or Lulu
192. Visit 10 famous movie locations
Start a club- (August 2014) Created the Squeal'n Pigskin Syndicate
194. Take a MIT online course
195. Sit down with a stranger at a restaurant and share a meal
196. Spend the night on the beach
197. NaNoWriMo
198. Snowmobile
199. Learn to write my name in another language – (Charlie found a website…just have to practice)
Make homemade cheese- (5/1/2010)
- 365 Days of Cartman
- 6 Feet Over
- A Life Without Excuses
- Alicia's World
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- Peter Armstrong Photography
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- Project 183
- Raising Rosetti
- running, eating,
- Sand Dollar Adventures
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Welcome to the Office of General Counsel. The General Counsel serves as the chief legal advisor to the Board of Trustees, to the President, and to University of Akron officers and administrators. The office is responsible to the Board of Trustees and to the President for the direction and supervision of all legal matters of The University of Akron.
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Always Unicorn!
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- Genre: Entertainment
- Released: 4 Apr, 2013
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DescriptionJump freely through sky with colorful rainbow stars poo and unicorn.
Just fly with your unicorn into the sky and begin the journey to the galaxy and beyond!
Get rainbow ballon and painting the sky with your rainbow stars!
- Enjoy four different rainbow stars! It's really beautiful!!
- It's very easy and fun game! Enjoy your trip!!:)
- Realistic weather system
- Cool and Yummy foods
- A random level for never ending gameplay
- Game Center support
- Personal best highscore
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A winner was selected from 3 designs submitted by 2 freelance designers.
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SCons / UsingBuildDir
The SCons wiki has moved to https://github.com/SCons/scons/wiki/UsingBuildDir
NOTE: This page seems outdated. Now BuildDir is called VariantDir. - [note added by a completely lost user, in mai 2012]
NOTE: We're trying to use this page as a forum to clarify how
BuildDir() is intended to be used, how (and why) it may differ from the ways most people expect it to work, maybe figure out how to improve the interface so it's less counter-intuitive, etc. Please add clarifying questions, post "why doesn't this work?" examples, add your own tips, etc. Feel free to dive in and reorganize information if it helps make things clearer. - SK
Table of Contents
- The SCons wiki has moved to https://github.com/SCons/scons/wiki/UsingBuildDir
- Dueling Models: SCons v. GNU | A Tutorial
- A Brief Introduction | What And The Why
- A More In Depth Look | How
- Mailing-list Question
Dueling Models: SCons v. GNU | A Tutorial
[This section added by GregNoel, 2007-02-18]
[Reply/comment by StevenKnight: Greg, I think this section should be moved to a separate page. All the stuff about
Repository isn't (IMHO) essential to understanding how to use
BuildDir()--or at least, it isn't supposed to be. It's supposed to be completely orthogonal to use of
BuildDir(), and to the extent that you can use
BuildDir() completely successfully without a
Repository() call anywhere in your tree, I assert that this is, in fact, the case. I think discussing
Repository here only confuses the larger group of people who just want to get a handle on the quirks of using
BuildDir() within a single, repository-less tree. I do think it makes sense to link to this information from this page--the discussion of the models is good--and leave the rest of this page to discuss only use of
BuildDir(). If you agree, feel free to move it, or let me know and I'll be glad to.]
- [JGN: Not a problem. As you may recall, I originally wrote about the different models in a message to the mailing list, and intended to transcribe it into a wiki page, but it never got high enough on my list until you brought up this page. If you think it's a better fit on its own page, be my guest. As you know, I'll be out of town for a week, so I won't have this high-speed connection; if you want to take care of it, that's fine with me. It's clear that this page should refer to this section's content, since you can't make sense of
BuildDir()without understanding it, but I'll leave that to you. (And if this section has its own page, I could whip up a couple of examples using both
Repository(); I'll look into that when I get back.) Let me know where it goes. Tks.]
- Executive summary
- Unlike GNU, SCons deals with three directory trees: the build tree, where SCons will put the built targets; the source tree, where SCons looks for sources; and the working tree, which is where the
sconscommand is issued and where SCons keeps its own control information. One physical tree can serve more than one role; by default, all three logical trees are the same physical tree. To separate the build tree from the working tree, you want the BuildDir() function. To separate the source tree from the working tree, you want the Repository() function.
Probably the greatest source of confusion with
BuildDir() is that the SCons model for how directories are organized differs from the GNU model. The GNU model is what most programmers with a background in
make have been using, so they try to use
BuildDir() as it would be used in a GNU-style build and are frustrated when it doesn't work as they expect.
The GNU model
In the GNU model, there are two directory trees involved:
- Source. A complete source tree, such as one checked out from SCCS, RCS, CVS, or SVN.
- Build. All the generated files: programs, libraries, binaries, etc.
In this model, the source tree never contains any built file (with the sole exception of the
configurescript that came with the checked-out sources). The user modifies files in the source tree and runs
makein the build tree to regenerate the objects.
The SCons model
In the SCons model, there are three types of directory trees involved:
- Repository. Contains sources. There can be more than one repository tree. (It's possible to build a project and use it as a repository; SCons will automatically use the pre-built objects if possible.)
- Work. Contains the source files under development.
- Yield. Unfortunately, SCons calls this the "build" directory, even though it isn't the same thing as the GNU build directory, so we'll use the name "yield" to keep the concepts distinct.
In this model, everything starts with the work directory, a scratch directory where modified files under development are kept. The repositories are conceptually added behind the work directory; typically, one repository tree would be the result of a checkout from a repository like Aegis, SCCS, RCS, CVS, or SVN. The yield directory is conceptually added before the work directory, so that when SCons "looks in" the yield directory it "sees" all of the files in the repositories with the work files in front.
When SCons is invoked, it assumes it is running in the work directory. To tell SCons to build something, you give it the source name. In general, SCons builds any generated files in the same directory as the source, so if you use a name in the yield directory, the generated files accumulate there. At the same time, SCons accumulates its own control information in the work directory, not in the yield directory, since it's the repository directories where the original sources live.
The advantage of this model is that the work directory usually contains only a few files: just the ones that are being edited, plus a few control files. The source files stay in the repository directories and the generated files accumulate in the yield directory, so there's nothing to clutter up the work directory.
Note that this model works best if individual files can be checked out of the repository into the work directory, since updates from elsewhere can be merged in; this works for Aegis, SCCS, RCS, and CVS, but, unfortunately, not for SVN.
The Duel
The difficulty arises because the GNU model doesn't have an equivalent of the work directory, and it's not the same as either the source or the build directory. Since it contains sources, the natural expectation is that it's equivalent to the source directory, but it's really closer to being the build directory. Trying to use
BuildDir() so that the source directory remains pristine doesn't work, since SCons feels free to create files within what it presumes to be the work directory. (The closest match is that the yield directory plus the work directory is equivalent to the build directory, but that's still not exact.)
To get SCons to simulate a GNU-style build directory, don't use
BuildDir() at all; instead, use
Repository() to tell SCons where to find the sources. Or create the build directory, and run this command in it:
scons -Y /path/to/source [options] [targets]
This will create all targets relative to the work (current) directory, looking in the repository directory to find the sources. (Caveat: As of 2007-02-18, the SConstruct must be manually copied to the top of the build tree for this to work; a near-future version of SCons will remember the repository location between invocations and this copy will not be needed.)
Then, if you want to try a SCons-style yield directory and get all of the clutter out of your work directory, you can experiment with
BuildDir(). At that point, all of the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments in the next sections will be useful as you work it through.
A Brief Introduction | What And The Why
[This section added by StevenKnight]
BuildDir() is a powerful tool for enabling the separation of built files from their sources. This is useful for several reasons:
- You can now build different 'build types' into different directories (Release, Debug, etc)
- You don't clutter up your source directory with intermediate files.
NOTE: the rest of this page is mostly about the
BuildDir() function. Most people instead use the build_dir argument to SConscript, which has much more natural behavior. There's some discussion of this below, but perhaps not enough. I don't have time right now, but super quickly, to use build_dir in the most common way, put this in your SConstruct:
env = Environment() Export('env') SConscript('SConscript', build_dir='build') # and more SConscript calls as desired
Then in SConscript:
Import('env') Program('foo', 'foo.c')
will do all the right stuff, including better subdir behavior in many cases (but not all -- some of the stuff discussed on the rest of this page is still relevant and important).
A More In Depth Look | How
The function itself takes two arguments: the source directory, and the build directory.
While it has a simple interface, you may initially find its use a little counter-intuitive and perhaps even confusing (don't worry, you're not alone!). One might expect SCons to take files in the specified 'source' directory, and compile them to said 'build' directory.
BuildDir() instead indicates to SCons that if anyone specifies a source file in the build directory, to look for the source file from the source directory, copy it to said location, and compile it.
Woaaaah, Too Much Talk, Not Enough Examples!
Fair enough. So, the problem you may run into is this:
#!python environment = Environment() environment.BuildDir('build/', 'src/') environment.Library(target="Foo" , source=["src/foo.cpp"])
And yet it's still building the files in src/foo.cpp? The reason is because you need to specify your source=build/foo.cpp. I know, I know, it's stupid.
-- Author note: I was fixing this, but I'm getting angry thinking about how stupid SCons is with this behaviour. Here's the garbage that some author wrote below. I'll make it more legible later, once I calm down my SCons rage. :P
Why does SCons do it this stupid way?
Here's the counter-example:
#!python env1 = Environment() env2 = Environment(CCFLAGS = '-g') env1.BuildDir('build1/', 'src/') env2.BuildDir('build2/', 'src/') env1.Library(target="Foo", source=["build1/foo.cpp"]) env2.Library(target="Foo", source=["build2/foo.cpp"], CCFLAGS = '$CCFLAGS -DSPECIAL_DEBUG_FLAG')
BuildDir() is really designed around the supporting multiple side-by-side variants, which may be built in different ways. The only way to guarantee that the flags you want get applied to one variant but not the other is to refer to separate "source file copies" that represent the different compilation steps.
And because the SCons model requires that you specify lists of input source files from which the target name(s) are derived (instead of specifying target files and deriving the sources using pattern rules, like Make does), you have to refer to the source files as if they live in the build directory, so that you can distinguish between the builds taking place in the
build1 and
build2 directories.
Part of the problem is that the chosen name
BuildDir() and the functionality are close enough to uses of "build dir" in other contexts that it easily leads people to think it works like other systems.
Back to the talk...
Quite apart from wondering why such a non-obvious way of specifying a built directory was devised (we'll see why shortly), there are a couple of concerns you may have about
BuildDir(). Not least of these is likely to be that you must apparently write source file lists as if each source file is located in the build directory instead of the source directory. However, while you can do this (and it will work), it is not how
BuildDir() was intended to be used. Instead, you should only need to specify the build directory once when calling a SConscript file stored in your source directory. Your list of source files and the call to the builder function you are using should be moved to this SConscript file, and all source files should be listed as relative to the source directory (as if that's where they should be built). Now when you build, because your SConstruct file calls the SConscript file as if it is in your build directory, and because all file names in the SConscript file are relative, the derived files are built in your build directory.
So why does
BuildDir() work like this? Well, we now know that you can write a SConscript file that has short relative paths, and then build the source in any location by simply specifying a build directory (as an alias for your source directory) and calling the SConscript as if it's in the build directory. What you may not immediately realise is that with this method you can create a second build simply by adding another two lines to your SConstruct file (one to create a second build directory and another to call the SConscript file again). Hence we have come to the real reason why
BuildDir() may appear to be an unnecessarily complicated way to specifying a build directory.
BuildDir() is primarily intended as a means of simplifying the otherwise complicated process of creating multiple build variants from the same source files. If you need to build a debug and release build of your project (or localised builds etc.) this can be very useful. But even if you don't, to use
BuildDir() to separate the built files from your source files, you should at the very least separate the build logic into a single SConscript file, and export build configuration to it in the form of environment objects and so on. Not only does this keep things tidy, but if at some point in the future you need to build several different version of your project at the same time, it should only require some fairly trivial changes to your SConstruct file to do.
BuildDir() and files in other directories
Expanding on the example above, all references to files outside the current directory require special attention when using
For instance in the user guide section entitled Top-Level Path Names in Subsidiary SConscript Files the following example is given:
% cat ./SConstruct SConscript('src/prog/SConscript') % cat src/prog/SConscript env = Environment() env.Program('prog', ['main.c', '#lib/foo1.c', 'foo2.c']) % scons -Q gcc -c -o lib/foo1.o lib/foo1.c gcc -c -o src/prog/foo2.o src/prog/foo2.c gcc -c -o src/prog/main.o src/prog/main.c gcc -o src/prog/prog src/prog/main.o lib/foo1.o src/prog/foo2.o
A naive use of build_dir results does not produce the expected results:
% cat ./SConstruct SConscript('src/prog/SConscript', build_dir='build') % scons -Q gcc -c -o build/foo2.o build/foo2.c gcc -c -o build/main.o build/main.c gcc -c -o lib/foo1.o lib/foo1.c gcc -o build/prog build/main.o lib/foo1.o build/foo2.o
Note that foo1.o is still bein built in the library source directory.
The solution is to use a subsidiary SConscript file in the top level directory and refer to foo1.c relative to the build directory:
% cat ./SConstruct SConscript('SConscript', build_dir='build') % cat ./SConscript SConscript('src/prog/SConscript') % cat src/prog/SConscript env = Environment() env.Program('prog', ['main.c', '#build/lib/foo1.c', 'foo2.c']) % scons -Q gcc -c -o build/lib/foo1.o build/lib/foo1.c gcc -c -o build/src/prog/foo2.o build/src/prog/foo2.c gcc -c -o build/src/prog/main.o build/src/prog/main.c gcc -o build/src/prog/prog build/src/prog/main.o build/lib/foo1.o build/src/prog/foo2.o
BuildDir() and absolute paths
Files referenced by an absolute path ignore
BuildDir() entirely and are always built in their source directories.
% cat src/prog/SConscript env = Environment() env.Program('prog', ['main.c', '/usr/src/lib/foo1.c', 'foo2.c']) % scons -Q gcc -c -o /usr/src/lib/foo1.o /usr/src/lib/foo1.c gcc -c -o build/main.o build/main.c gcc -c -o lib/foo1.o lib/foo1.c gcc -o build/prog build/main.o /usr/src/lib/foo1.o build/foo2.o
The solution is to use a relative directory by adding a symlink and then refering to the file via that link:
% ln -s /usr/src/lib lib2 % cat src/prog/SConscript env = Environment() env.Program('prog', ['main.c', '#build/lib2/foo1.c', 'foo2.c'])
Comment from Matt Doar: I think you may want to note that the ln command is issued while in the build directory
(This section from Matt Doar)
One of the things that people are used to with
make and other languages is the idea of including files. The
SConscript function and related
BuildDir function correspond to this in some ways, but not in others. For instance, I often use:
env = Environment() Export('env') buildDir = 'build' # The directory structure of the project dirs = ['son/grandson', 'son/granddaughter', 'daughter/grandson', ] for dir in dirs: SConscript( dir + os.sep + 'SConscript', build_dir = buildDir + os.sep + dir, duplicate = 0 )
Then in each SConscript:
Import('env') Program('foo', 'foo.c')
At first glance, this looks like a series of includes in a makefile. But it is subtly different. Now I understand (many thanks) from earlier comments that
foo.c in each subdirectory is actually viewed relative to the build_dir that the SConscript function was called with, so that the file is first looked for in the build dir, then in its parallel source directory.
Aside: SCons is not the only tool to use the idea of multiple build directories and have trouble with it being tricky to use. Jam and the concept of grist makes many Jamfiles hard to debug.
Mailing-list Question
This question really belongs in the mailing list. It makes a valid point about the examples not reflecting how things ought to work, but the mailing list is the place for requests like this. I moved it to the end so that it doesn't get lost, but marv, whoever you are, you should be discussing this on the mailing list. -JGN
[OK here is my problem. I am reading in the user guide, in the section entitled "Multiple Construction Environments", that you can create a debug environment and an optimized environment. This, according to the documentation, seems to be the whole point of multiple environments: "The real advantage of construction environments is that you can create as many different construction environments as you need, each tailored to a different way to build some piece of software or other file."
Well, the problem with the example is that it is completely unlikely given the above statement. In fact, the example does not build the same piece of software in different ways as claimed. It builds different pieces of software in different ways. It builds foo.c in the first environment, and bar.c in the second environment. When you try to build foo.c in both environments, scons says "*** Two environments with different actions for the same target: foo.o"
The user guide continues by describing this very scenario, but the solution provided is quite unsatisfying. Instead of the simple env.Program('foobar', ['foo.c', 'bar.c']) that made scons seem so attractive, we now have a long list of tedious statements where you have to provide a unique name for each object file, for each configuration.
My use case here is quite simple: I have around 100 source files in a directory. I want to build a release version and a debug version of those files. I want the .o files placed in release/.o and debug/.o, respectively. And, I want to get this done without having to create more than the single SConstruct file (in particular, I don't want to have to work around the problem by breaking stuff out into as SConscript file -- one make file should be enough). BuildDir seems like it might solve the problem. The user documentation says "Use the BuildDir function to establish that target files should be built in a separate directory from the source files", which is exactly what I want. The build_dir argument also seems like was meant to solve my problem, but I have discarded that since it doesn't allow me to stay within a single SConstruct file, and it also does not allow me to keep the source files together with the SConstruct file. I have been experimenting for about an hour and have found no simple solution to this. - marv]


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WSJ editorial board member Steve Moore on Liz Cheney's Senate primary bid. Photo credit: Associated Press.
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... I ... why not to Rystad races of former Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter with ... announced yesterday that she's going to make a run for the Senate and you're looking at ... her first ... political ad Cheney for Wyoming ... bossy Journal editorial board member Steve Moore is can a state with me now ... Steve who is Liz Cheney's Basin Wyoming ... well Lucy has a national basis because she is a ... audio FoxNews regular she's very well of love by consumers around the country ... five she just recently set up a residence in Wyoming about the winner that could potentially be a problem I think that the in the ... long term incumbent Mike Enzi is Guinea use the carpet bagger ... a label against on her he already has insisted they said she announced she was running ... but this is can be a high profile race ... on Liz Cheney will not have a problem raising money ... ahh and this is to be a real clash of but the someone is very conservative like Liz Cheney vs Mike Enzi was fairly conservative but he's been kind of of that bunch venture in the United States added the sky that he hasn't done a lot in his time in seven people while they may say in a let's bring in a fire breather like Liz Cheney campaign It's and CCG very well liked in Mio maniacs transacted Cheney's ... ah you know ... is it good for the Republican party to have a primary challenge like this for when it had been better ... for Liz Cheney to go after somebody like Mark Warner and Virginia where she was ... free ... he has to ... the big question I think it's because of Wyoming is a little more of a ... Republican state then that my state of Virginia ... I walked up to zero point nine married maybe she should of taking on the quarter because I ... got sick critical not Senate seat is well Mark Warner in Obama's day and I'll fiscal conservative moderate but he certainly hasn't served in the Senate that way but look I think you know what we are little actions because ... we know we want to I would want people to channel was in a one party state like Wyoming the only choice really is who's going when the Republican primary I like competitive primaries that I think this is a good thing for the democratic process I don't know Liz Cheney is going away and I've got to probably would be a common ... Mike Enzi but makes them up a little bit haven't been out of the debate about the issues of the day is a good thing about the way we seen this on a lot of states we saw this in ... a new trial with the election of might leave we saw this ... idea in other states as well so I'd I think it's a healthy thing for the Republican party to do these issues out ... of come on Steve is the second thing is a surer Republican CME look what happened in North Dakota ... Montana ... in the Ivy ... League teeny coming here in really this up for the Republicans by splitting the ticket ... well possibly in a while it's hard to imagine that happening in Wyoming which is state that I think that ... you know men around the carried that well over sixty five percent of the vote ... you know I don't think here's the problem I have with a lot of these Republican incumbents in the Senate ... they think that they get elected for a lifetime terms and until they know they feel like this was a bit bequeath about and that's not the way Alexion's work every six years you're up for a luncheon ... and I and that that that he thinks he gets a birthright to the C I think is wrong and that's why By supported spirited primary challenges I ran the club for growth you know ten years ago that's one of things we get we brought those kinds of us and we came under a lot of criticism but we put a lot of good people in the kind of lucky Steven got lesson and ... laughed at my can see is a down and I mean really had a strong conservative what is what musicians is Liz Cheney going to advocate for ... skinny be markedly different from what he advocates for and sat ... I think she is going to be more of a kind of tea party activists now that to some people that's a dirty word that people Wyoming I think they wanna let you know the feisty or Senator ... eyed guy who's not backbencher who have a go salon ... to get along ... by you know she'll be a fire breather you know Liz Cheney she's going to be very tough job to join the caucus with people like Tom Coburn unlikely in the Ram fallen and you know a lot of conservatives think that the ranks of the caucus need to be longer ... great just what we need more Rand Paul's Ted Cruz's and Mike Lee's am not ... sure I know you may not but that could make without so much ... Wall Street Journal Editorial board member Steve Moore with the last word thank so much for being


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Dr. Pazin joined the National Human Genome Research Institute's NHGRI's Extramural Research Program in 2011. Mike is part of the NHGRI team overseeing the ENCODE project, generating an Encyclopedia of DNA Elements from the human genome, and the modENCODE project, identifying functional elements in the fly and worm genomes. He manages a portfolio of grants in functional genomics. He is also a member of the NHGRI Data Access Committee.
Prior to joining NHGRI, Dr. Pazin was a principal investigator conducting research on the role of chromatin remodeling in gene regulation, at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and the National Institute on Aging. This research was performed using cell-free (biochemical) assays and cell-based (single-gene and genomic) assays using T helper cells and neurons as model systems. He received his B.S. in chemistry from MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his Ph.D. in cell biology from University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and completed postdoctoral training at University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
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Jack (Baldwin) must appear before Congress to discuss NBC�s merger with KableTown. He hopes that he will charm celebrity members (guest star Rob Reiner), but one Congresswoman, Regina Bookman (guest star Queen Latifah), demands more diversity in its programming lineup. Jack quickly enlists Tracy (Tracy Morgan) to come up with some new development ideas. Meanwhile, Liz (Tina Fey) is fed up with the flack her writing staff gives her, and Jenna (Jane Krakowski) helps Kenneth (Jack McBrayer) reapply to the extremely competitive Page Program. Also starring Judah Friedlander, Scott Adsit and Keith Powell.


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Download the authoritative guide: Cloud Computing 2019: Using the Cloud for Competitive AdvantageIn 2006, Novell will launch a "Linux awareness" program meant to migrate more customers, resellers, and development partners from NetWare and Microsoft Windows to open source alternatives.
This, according to Ed Anderson, VP of global marketing for Novell's Linux and open source solutions. Unlike most of its competitors, Novell currently sells both proprietary and Linux software, Anderson said in an interview with LinuxPlanet. "We have mixed business models," he added.
Novell has no plans, at this point, of abandoning support for either Windows or its long-time NetWare platform, Anderson explained. But in a multifaceted program to take place next year, Novell is due to become "substantially more aggressive" about selling Linux.
In umbrella terms, the new program is about "giving more choice to customers," according to Anderson. "[But] it will be oriented to telling people there are alternatives to proprietary OS.
Entailing a company-wide change in "corporate messaging," Novell's Linux awareness program will range from new ad campaigns for customers to a series of new programs for resellers and developers.
Customers will be urged to replace Unix servers in the data center with Linux, and to reduce costs through clustered Linux servers, for example.
"We'll also be targeting growth for Linux at the edge of the network, on Web servers, and in database servers," Anderson said.
Novell will start to swing out harder, too, against Red Hat, its biggest rival in the Linux open source space.
Novell's relationship with Red Hat is really multidimensional, according to Anderson. "In one sense, we have a shared interest in Linux as an alternative, so we work closely with Red Hat on many aspects of open source," he illustrated.
"But we also compete with Red Hat and we'll be more aggressive here, too. We have the largest (Linux) server and we have better customer relationships and contacts," he contended.
Actually, Novell has already lured some Linux users away from Red Hat, including GHY International, a former Red Hat reference customer.
Essentially, GHY switched from Red Hat to Novell because of its need to keep its Linux software in step with IBM's iSeries midrange platform.
"Red Hat keeps saying its distro isn't ready, whereas, in general, Novell's been ready day one," said Nigel Fortlage, VP of Information Technology at GHY.
Why did Novell pinpoint 2006 as the year to pour more of its marketing resources into Linux? For one thing, the time is just about right, since Novell has already ported most of its NetWare software to Linux.
But Anderson also acknowledged certain advantages from a business standpoint. Novell makes more money from services than software.
Meanwhile, the market is moving in the directions of Linux and open source. "Linux is becoming a much more dynamic environment," he noted.
New programs for VARs, also to be unveiled next year, will focus on Linux in the midrange market.
As Anderson sees it, Linux has achieved better penetration in the large enterprise space than among customers with about 500 to 3,000 employees.
Novell will continue to sell to the enterprise market directly. But to drive more Linux sales to the midrange, the company will bring out new reseller programs with benefits that include lead generation and co-marketing funds. "We will help (VARs) to generate demand," he said.
The new programs for VARs will also be geographically focused. Novell will place a particular emphasis on attracting resellers in the Asia Pacific, according to Anderson.
But North America will be important, too, especially given Red Hat's historic lead in the Linux market on this continent.
GHY's Fortlage also pointed to some others reasons why Novell might make headway with customers.
"With its strategic acquisitions of SuSE Linux and Ximian, and its metamorphosis from NetWare to Linux, Novell has shown great resourcefulness," Fortlage said.
"Here is a company that's been able to see itself reborn," the VP observed.
Moreover, Fortlage also sees a substantial need in the Linux/open source market for a groupware program such as Novell's GroupWise.
"This is especially true in that there isn't a Lotus Notes client for Linux yet," Fortlage said.
This article was first published on LinuxPlanet.com.
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The Google Nexus 4 smartphone is back again in the Google Play online store after being sold out since early December.
The popular Android smartphone went on sale in November, but it's had trouble keeping up with the demand. When it first launched in early November, the phone sold out online within a matter of minutes.
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The Debian Delay: Is Sarge MIA? Or Simply a POW of Process?
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
The latest release of Debian Linux, code named "Sarge" was supposed to report for duty at the end of last year. That didn't happen. Why has Sarge been delayed and ultimately does it matter? Debian developers and Debian's founding father talked to LinuxPlanet about Sarge's delay and its ultimate deployment.
The Debian Linux distribution, which according to numerous statistics is one of the most widely, installed Linux distributions today is different from commercial distributions like Red Hat, Novell/SUSE and Mandrake in that it doesn't follow a necessarily predictable release schedule.
"The Debian philosophy has always been release it when it's ready," Ian Murdock, who founded the Debian Project in 1993 (and the Ian part of Debian, the Deb part refers to his wife) told LinuxPlanet. "It's just a continuation of the way Debian has always done things."
That said, 2004 was supposed to be the year in which Sarge was originally expected to be released, though as early as April the first indication that there was trouble became apparent. At that time the groups guiding document the, "Debian Social Contract" was amended to ensure that "free" software only be included in the distribution. Anthony Towns the release manager at the time publicly stated that he felt the move would push Sarge's release into 2005. Towns was ultimately replaced by Andreas Barth as Release Manager.
In another interview with LinuxPlanet, Andreas Barth (Debian Sarge Release Manager) said that a lot of things have changed at Debian since that episode.
"One of the (not so visible changes) is that we have much more of a team (well, no connection with Anthony's resigning, but that's just a current trend) and this has good effect," Barth said. One example he cited was in the previous release (woody) there were 11 different kernel sources while in Sarge there are only 3, which as the net effect of reducing the load on the both the security and the installer teams. In Barth's opinion, Debian now also has better tools than they did before.
"For woody, a lot of things needed to be done by hand, where we now have tools for. (Also, no connection with Anthony going away - it's just a continuing trend) for example, we have a security issue tracker for testing, we have improved our archive scripts, we have improved our testing migration scripts, we have a very stable toolchain (gcc, glibc,), and we have a stock solid installer," he said.
The time investment made in Sarge will payoff for future versions of Debian as well according to Barth. "Our toolset is much better than it ever was for a stable release, means: We invested lots of time into Sarge, which will make our next releases faster and better," he said.
Debian Developer Martin "Joey" Schulze noted that the task of getting a stable Debian release out the door involves a large volume of work. "You must not forget that Debian has several tons of different packages and has to support eleven different architectures with two more waiting behind the door, " Schulze explained. "Both can only be achieved with a well-designed infrastructure that works more or less automatically when it comes to updating."
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Hartman's flick, for instance, seems to want nothing more than to be a full-fledged Lloyd Kaufman-style boobs, blood, and boogers flick. Specifically, it wants to be The Toxic Avenger. In Heavy Mental, aspiring young metal guitarist Ace Spade (Josh Hooper) receives a guitar once owned by his heavy metal idol and convicted murderer Eddie Lee Stryker (Hartman) as a birthday present from his two gay dads. At band practice Ace discovers that the guitar gives him superhuman shredding ability, making his band a shoe-in to win the upcoming Detroit Battle of the Bands competition. When local crimelord and heavy metal hater Mrs. Delicious (Brenna Roth) decides to blow up the nightclub where the competition is taking place, thus putting an end to Metal in Detroit in one swell foop, Ace is possessed by the spirit of Eddie Stryker and transformed into a hulking, musclebound, skull-faced Monster of Metal to put a stop to her unrighteous schemes.
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Monster Ace (Denny Hundiak) becomes a grotesque crimefighter in the Toxic Avenger mold, wielding a guitar instead of a mop to make Detroit safe for metal-loving losers of all stripes. His various encounters with Mrs. Delicous's minions are straight out of the Troma handbook--he rescues the owners of a Daughter-and-Pop Porn Shop from thugs by rippng the miscreants' arms off, decapitating them with his "axe," and exploding their torsos with a blast of a riff-based laserbeam. Other Troma-esque characters show up to get gruesomely murdered: a morbidly obese Hot Dog Eating Competition Champ (in novelty nerd glasses and an ACTUAL propeller beanie, to give you an idea of the humor-sophistication level) strokes his trophy "I'm the Weiner! I'm the Weiner!"; a pair of slutty lesbians rip his guts out and then make out in the blood and half-digested weiners (cartoon squeaky-boob/tongue-flapping sound fx? Of course!), and one of Mrs. Delicous's henchmen is a half-gangster, half-rooster hybrid mutant who communicates in clucks and lays a giant goo-filled egg in fright. And Uncle Lloyd himself cameos as the recording company executive who signs Ace's band in the expectedly upbeat if caro syrup-sticky conclusion.
It has to be said that Heavy Mental hits what it aims for rather well. Plot-wise, effects-wise, lowbrow humor-wise, it's mostly indistinguishable from actual Troma product--maybe a little obviously cheaper and with a smidgen less charisma from the cast. Still, Hartman and his performers' enthusiasm cannot be questioned. But for some reason, the imitation pales for me in comparison to the real thing. Maybe because when Lloyd and Co. do this stuff, it's THEIR stuff--like it or hate it, they're doing what they do and making no apologies. Heavy Mental feels like Hartman copping someone else's schtick--specifically, Mr. Kauffman's. That's a tough row to hoe--after all, by definition NOBODY can be more Lloyd-like than at Lloyd, so you're bound to fall short.
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If you're a hardcore Tromite and can't wait for Uncle Lloyd's next feature, Heavy Mental might be a nice snack between meals. Still, personally, if I wanted to watch Toxic Avenger--well, I'd just watch Toxic Avenger. 1.5 thumbs.
George A. Romero. Most would say emulating Romero's zombie expertise is a bit loftier a goal than trying to fill Kaufman's effluvia-soaked sandals, but I can't blame Mullenhoff for aiming high--especially when he takes such an above-average shot at it.
Though it has to be said, the movie doesn't start out that promising. A group of six friends decide to take a real wilderness vacation, putting aside cellphones, computers, iPods, and all other modern technological distractions. They even take the extreme (and credulity-sinking) step of having only one of their group know the exact location they'll be camping, and having him drive the others there in a windowless police van, PURPOSEFULLY running out of gas en route. I know they do things diffently on the Continent, but really? Could this EVER be a good plan? It doesn't help that the characters are the defniition of 2-dimensional cardboard movie "types": there's the Drunk Party Guy, the Nerdy Tech Guy who's Lost Without his iPhone, the Sports Fanatic, the Rugged Outdoorsman, the Bitchy Athletic Chick and the Mousy But Resourceful Girlfriend. They all have names, but you'll forgive me if I can't remember them.
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Of course the friends have picked the worst possible time for an extended wilderness outing, as without their modern amenities they don't get word that the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE began while they were stranding themselves in the middle of nowhere. Their camping spot selection is also unfortunate, as it's right next to a rural family graveyard where the dead are starting to rise. Bitchy Athletic Chick is bitten and sickens, leading the stranded young people to seek help at a nearby farmhouse where a creepy old lady is keeping her dead-but-still-kicking husband imprisoned in the garden. All hell predictably breaks loose, and the dwindling group of city-dwellers must fend off not only the living dead, but also a series of psychopathic rural folk who the apocalypse only brings out the worst in.
Once the zombie action starts, the movie actually does pretty well, with several suspenseful set-pieces. Mullenhoff generates some genuine unease in the farmhouse with the crazy shell-shocked hausfrau, who knows Athletic Chick is a biohazardous time-bomb just waiting to explode. The house itself is a great setting, full of shadows and dust-filled rooms containing who knows what unspeakable secrets. Back at the camp, Resourceful Girlfriend and Sports Fanatic are trapped in the van by some of the zombies, and once the male half of the couple meets his gruesome end, the girl must decide whether to stay holed up in the blacked-out van or make a break for it. Once again, the suspense and terror are handled rather well here. And a later set-piece, in which Geeky Guy and Resourceful Girl float downriver on an inflatable raft, under a railway bridge from which a legless zombie is waiting to drop on them, is inventive and exciting.
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Eventually this couple of friends make it to a farmhouse where a psychopathic farmer is keeping his dead wife's corpse under wraps, and an invading police force--who actually ARE trying to be helpful--tied up in a pigsty for zombie bait. The farmer, played by Roland Riemer, is a wonderfully creepy character, and like the redneck killers in Night of the Living Dead and the chaos-strewing bikers in Day of the Dead, really more of a monster than the zombies. Speaking of those movies, George A. Romero shows up on TV at the first house as a scientist and "the best known expert" on the zombie apocalypse--a nice touch. He tells the audience in bald terms (and badly dubbed German) what the original Dead trilogy always showed: "People are unable to cooperate. If we worked together, we might have a chance. If and only if. But people won't work together."
One thing that softened my opinion toward the movie was its attempts at a unique style. Portions of the film are shot in distressed, faded filmstock-style, an obvious digital effect but still enough to make the movie visually interesting. Though some viewers may have the opposite reaction and be annoyed by it, I appreciated this attempt to make the movie something besides the cookie-cutter shot-on-video glossiness. The zombie effects are low-budget but practical, and hearken back to Romero's first two zombie epics in a way that many fans of those films will appreciate. And the filmmakers don't skimp on the goopy stuff--there's plenty of raw meat (chicken) gnoshing, skin pulled away in the teeth, streaming blood and exposed bones to satisfy the gorehounds out there. There's even a ribcage/pig-guts effect that's used twice (perhaps ill-advisedly--the obvious use of the same apparatus for two different characters pulls one out a bit), another possible homage to King George. The keyboard score is also pretty good, minus a badly out-of-place rockabilly song in the opening credits.
Also in the film's favor: Everything is Scarier in German. This is a known fact.
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Dead Eyes Open doesn't break any new ground, but it pays respect to its influences without being a direct copy, and managed to hold my interest throughout. It hits all its marks but doesn't seem slavishly devoted to aping its predessors, which works to its credit in my opinion. Not a game-changer, but still a pretty enjoyable indie zombie flick, and George knows we need more of those. 2 thumbs.


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In and around this time of the year, I like to give some Christmas cheer to our beloved team. I've been writing a rendition of this poem on and off for the last 10 years on the Canucks Corner boards. I thought I would share with those of you that haven't read any of these yet a little of what I like to do to get "Canucks Festive". I hope you all enjoy it.
Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the Rog
Not a feature was playing, no video montage.
The stands were all empty and the ice rink was bare,
In hopes that Lord Stanley soon would be there.
The players were nestled, all snug in their beds
While visions of playoff runs danced in their heads.
AV is all happy, slow start seems way back
For his crew is front-running, they are on track
No team out there winning; convincing in manner,
No Bolduc out there checking, no Glass man named, Tanner
No Tambellini skating by d-men in a quick flash,
No goal song is playing, no tickets for cash!
Production crew off-set, no one manning the show
No fans up high in the stands, no fans down below.
No Swedish Twins around, for us fans to cheer
No Kevin Bieksa with his mean glare and sneer.
No sight of Alex Burrows, so agile and quick,
No Sami Salo, no shots thunder from his stick.
More rapid than eagles his Bauers they came,
He shucked and he jived, Mason Raymond by name!
"Now Daniel! Now Henrik and a Dane named Jannik!
Go Mikael! Go Manny! Opposition in panic!
To the top of the crease, all balls to the wall!
Now hit away! Shoot away! Score away all!"
There's DJ Dave, and FIN and the bands
Hot dogs consumed, the fans cheering in stands.
In Jim Robson's gondola, the broadcasters did stew,
Kristen, Shorty and Murph. Oh yes, and Cheech too!
Now 12, and 16,and 19 raised to the roof
'Oh Captain, my captain', your greatness with proof
Staving off critics and all media hounds
We honour Markus Naslund, his number safe and sound
Torres was dressed all in gear, from his head to his foot,
Fighting in the corners, his jersey all dirty with soot.
Alberts hitting hard, Ballard blocking the shots,
Hammer owns the zone like it was Fort Knox.
Henrik to Daniel, their passes so merry!
Lighting up the goal light, bright red as a cherry!
Malholtra wins the face-offs, one after another
Steve Nash is proud of him, his in-law of a brother
When the Canucks score, the fans cheer the "Woo!!"
Pucks stop dead of at the net, the chant is just "Lu!!"
Solid is Schneider when he takes between the pipes.
Alex Edler is playing like he's earning stripes.
Ehrhoff at the blue-line and shooting top shelf,
I'm not hooting and hollering, in spite of myself!
In a wink of an eye and a strange twist of fate
I was at the Garage, entering Linden's numbered gate.
The stands were all full, many months passed us by,
And all of a sudden it appeared it was hockey in July!
Visions of battered faces and a bloody red nose,
Luongo our tender, to the occasion he rose!
With the sound of the horn and the blow of the whistle,
Bone crunching sounds along with the stretch of the gristle.
I'll see you on Robson with foamy-head pucks!
"Maybe Lord Stanley will be there with the Vancouver Canucks!"
Merry Christmas everyone.
Justine Galo