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The Best Adapted Screenplay category is always the more crowded and competitive of the Oscar writing categories, but this year it feels as if the contenders should be judged the same way diving competitions are: with one score for how artful the film is, the other for the degree of difficulty.
If that were the case, those D.D. scores would be off the charts for a few of this year's adaptations, because a number of the year's most notable films come from books that seem all but unfilmable.
In fact, "Cloud Atlas" author David Mitchell has used exactly that word, unfilmable, to describe his 550-page novel, which tells six different stories from six different eras in a mirror-image construction that begins in the 19th century, progresses to the distant future, then reverses course and ends on the same story with which it began.
But Andy and Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer, holed up in a rented Costa Rican house, turned those stories into color-coded index cards and rearranged them in countless ways until they figured out how to turn that unfilmable novel into an enormous, messy, exhilarating film, with help from the likes of Tom Hanks and Halle Berry (above) in multiple roles.
"Lincoln" screenwriter Tony Kusher took Doris Keans Goodwin's "Team of Rivals" — a book about Abraham Lincoln in which less than five pages deal with the passage of the 13th Amendment — and turned it into a two-and-a-half hour film about that legislative struggle.
Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Guillermo del Toro started with "The Hobbit," a 300-page children's book, and somehow pumped it up into a three-part big-budget extravaganza à la the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, another three-part Jackson epic based on a far meatier book.
And Tom Stoppard wrestled the 800-plus pages of "Anna Karenina" into a script sturdy enough to withstand director Joe Wright's last-minute decision to stage the whole thing in a decrepit theater, while John McLaughlin took a non-fiction book about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" and turned it into an entertaining yarn leagues removed from the style of the original.
A few more case studies from a year of high degree-of-difficulty adaptations:
When David Magee first read "Life of Pi," he was working on "Finding Neverland" with director Mark Forster. He recommended the book to Forster but had a ready answer when the director asked if it would make a good film: No, it's too difficult to adapt. "It's a great book," he thought. "But I don't think it's a movie."
"And I really didn't give it much more thought than that," said Magee, who worried that the novel had insurmountable story obstacles, as well as the technical challenge of putting a boy and a tiger together in a lifeboat.
A decade later, with CG imagery improved to the point where the film was technically possible, Magee tackled the novel with director Lee. "The first act particularly took a long time," he said of the section in the novel in which the character of Pi tells the story of his childhood. "We were eliminating characters, we were combining characters, and a lot of the challenge was finding the right tone for that first act so that you didn't feel like you were sitting down to a class in comparative religion.
"For several months I tried different structures, different rhythms, and it wasn't until Ang and I went on a research trip to India, which is a fantastical place, that Ang said to me, 'It's kind of like an adult telling a great yarn, a great children's adventure story.' We had been dancing around that idea for weeks, but when he said it that time it registered to me, and I started writing the first monologue while we were driving."
Then there was the second act. It took countless drafts for Magee and Lee to crack the challenge of finding the appropriate tone, figuring out what to do with a long act in which the main character is adrift on a boat with only a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker as a companion.
Magee said he tried to use as little dialogue as possible to emphasize its stark difference from the third act, which he said "is very much spoken … and in some ways calls into question everything that preceded it. "We tried to contrast it as much as possible, so it felt like two different stories. You had to decide: Do you believe the visual story you experienced, or the story you're told?"
"I think I might have been the eighth writer that had been hired to do an adaptation of 'On the Road,'" Jose Rivera told TheWrap. But unlike the first seven — which included Francis Ford Coppola and his son Roman, as well as Michael Herr, Barry Gifford and Russell Banks — Rivera's version actually made it to the screen, in a film directed by Walter Salles and starring Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart and Sam Riley.
"It's was a tough one, because 'On the Road' is a novel full of digressions and subplots and secondary characters, including some very one-dimensional women characters," said Rivera, a playwright whose previous film was Salles' "The Motorcycle Diaries."
"But I had a couple of advantages. One was I wasn't one of those people whose life was changed by the book. So I wasn't in thrall to the book, and I wasn't treating it like sacred territory. In a way, I treated it almost like a standard buddy film about two men on the road, as opposed to kind of worshipping the icons that were the beat writers."
Rivera and Salles made a point of adapting the original, "scroll version" of "On the Road," which he said is "far edgier and sexier" than the bowdlerized version that was initially published. But he still had to find a movie-friendly structure in a book that really didn't have one—so he focused on a section in which the main characters, Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise, spend some debauched time south of the border.
"Everything accelerated in that section," he told TheWrap. "They go crazier, and it's also the biggest crisis of their friendship. So when I read the Mexico section I thought, that needs to be the third act, and we'll just build the other two acts around that."
Still, he admitted, it took about 40 drafts to structure the screenplay—and even after the film's Cannes debut, Salles went back to re-edit the film and remove a number of scenes, many of which were improvisations that had not been in Rivera's script.
Ronald Harwood learned that the theater and the cinema are vastly different mediums the first time he adapted one of his plays to the big screen. The play was "The Dresser," a 1980 drama that was turned into a 1983 movie and for which he received an Oscar nomination. He adapted it almost intact, and later had an enlightening encounter with director Billy Wilder.
"He said to me, 'That film of yours, 'The Dresser,' it's a terrible film," Harwood told TheWrap. "'I should know, I've seen it six times.' It was the greatest compliment I've ever been paid. And he was right."
Theater, Harwood said he has since learned, "is an entirely different way of telling a story. The theater is a medium of language: Words matter in the theater. In the movies the images matter, it's self-evident. So you have to abandon the play, in a way, but try and preserve the heart of it. Your instinct might be to use as much as possible of the original play, but I think it should be to use as little as possible, in terms of dialogue and that."
For "Quartet," that meant losing the opening of the play, which he called "one of my favorite openings to anything I've ever written." In the play, the action begins in a home for elderly musicians, with one aging but randy opera singer watching a former diva who can't hear him because she has headphones on. "May I tell you, Cissy," he announces, "that you have the most beautiful tits I've ever seen."
"I loved that line, and it got a huge laugh wherever it's been played," Harwood said. "It's still in the film, but we couldn't open with that, unfortunately. We had to set it up differently."


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Hilary Duff's Realistic Weight Loss Plan
Jun 2012
Between the celebrity magazine covers, endorsement deals and never ending praise, it seems like everyone is obsessed with post-baby weight loss. But while Jessica Simpson and Beyonce have recently vocalized their weight-gain woes, the rest of us (see: normal folk) have marveled at their ambition to get back on the treadmill immediately after birth.
That's why we can't help but applaud Hillary Duff for her real-girl approach. In a recent interview with_ Us Weekly_, the new mom to Luca Cruz explained that while she's excited to lose the baby weight, she's currently focused on her son rather than the size of her waistband.
"The second I start to get down like 'what happened to by body,' I look at my beautiful baby and I've never been more appreciative for this body that I have."
And while she may feel pressure from fellow celebs who publicly declare just how quickly they'll lose the weight, Hillary doesn't seem to be in a hurry.
"I think if you ask any pregnant mom, they're like 'I want my body back,' but it takes time. It takes nine months for your body to get that way and it's putting on that weight on purpose."
Finally! A celebrity mom who is both relatable and honest about her post-pregnancy struggles. Bravo, Hill!

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Looks are deceiving. Case in point: the dead-heat harness racing victory in the 12th race yesterday (Jan.8) at Monticello Raceway.
At a glance it appears that the number 2 horse Hi Sir and driver Stephane Bouchard to be at least a ½ -length winner. But in reality the horse on the far outside Distinct Color (4), with Rick Dane aboard, got up in the final strides to dead-heat Hi Sir in a time of 1:58.
In that contest, down along the pylons, was third place finisher Get Ready To Rumba (1) driven b y -Jimmy Marohn, Jr. They too were individually timed in 1:58 with only a head separating them from the tied winners. Although the photo- angle is deceiving that finish was the closest thing to a triple dead-heat for win, ever at Monticello Raceway.
And incidentally, in that contest Get Ready To Rumba's five race win streak came to an end.
Hi Sir is owned by Tyler Buter of Middleton, NY while the Rock N Roll Stable of Chicago, Ill. owns Distinct Color. The former paid $2.60 for win and the latter returned $5.30 win payoff.
There was a time at the Mighty M , and not too long ago, when that 1:58 pacing dead-heat would have been a track record. However, in 2007 pacers Lislea Phia and Hannah's Delight finished simultaneously in a time of 1:54.3 which is the current standard which erased the old dead-heat record of 1:58.1.
The world record for a dead-heat for pacers on a half-mile track is 1:52.2 set at Yonkers Raceway on July 28 by Rain Train (Stephane Bouchard) and Winfall Nasty (Jeff Gregory).
And only 25 triple dead-heats have been recorded in harness racing history with the first at Freehold Raceway's half-mile track on October 3, 1953 in a time of 2:12.3. The latest came over the five-eighths mile oval at The Meadows on March 24, 2009 when three pacers hit the wire simultaneously 1:53.4.
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PowerPoint will let you animate chart elements, but the option's not easy to find. If you don't know about it, you might not even go looking for it.
You can animate just about anything in PowerPoint, but he process isn't quite as intuitive with charts, because the options aren't right out in front. Once you know how to tell PowerPoint you're working with chart elements and not the entire chart, it's a piece of cake.
The first thing you need is a chart. To keep things simple, let's insert one of PowerPoint's default charts, as follows:
- With a blank slide current, click the Insert tab and click Chart in the Illustrations group. In PowerPoint 2003, Chart is in the Insert menu.
- Select a chart type; the example uses a Clustered Column. Then, click OK.
- PowerPoint will launch Excel, so you can enter the chart data. For our purposes, there's no reason to change the default values and settings so close Excel without making any changes.
- The slide now displays a simple column chart.
If you right-click the chart, you won't find animation options. If you add an animation from the Animation tab, PowerPoint will apply the animation to the entire chart. Using the mini-toolbar, you can select each series, but when you add an animation, PowerPoint still applies that animation to the entire chart. You have to explicitly tell PowerPoint to work with the chart's elements individually, as follows:
- Click the Animations tab and then click the Animation Pane option to display that task pane. In PowerPoint 2003, choose Custom Animation from the Slide Show menu.
- Click the Add Animation dropdown in the Advanced Animations group.
- From this list, choose an Entrance effect-the example uses Appear. At this point, there's one animation, Appear, for the entire chart.
- Now you're ready to tell PowerPoint that you want to work with individual chart elements. Click the chart animation dropdown and choose Effect Options.
- In the resulting dialog, click the Chart Animation tab.
- From the Group Chart dropdown, select the elements you want to animate. This example will animate the series, so select By Series, and click OK.
Now PowerPoint knows you want to animate the chart's series. There are three series and PowerPoint forces you to also animate the chart's background for a total of four animations. To see them, click the small dropdown under the chart background animation. (Earlier it was an entire chart object animation.) Now you're ready to start animating the series, as follows:
- With the three series animations visible, select them all by holding down the [Ctrl] key while you click each.
- From the last animation's dropdown, choose Start After Previous. That means, PowerPoint will display each series, one after the other.
- From the same dropdown, choose Timing and enter .5 in the Delay option, and click OK. Again, you set this for all three series.
With the current settings, here's what you'll see when PowerPoint displays this slide. When you click the slide, PowerPoint will display the chart's background. A half second later, PowerPoint will display the first series. A half second later, PowerPoint will display the second series. A half second later, PowerPoint will display the third and final series.
To keep the example simple, I used the Appear animation and kept the delay times short.
Now, here's the most important thing to remember about animating charts: just because you can animate a chart doesn't mean you should. Animate chart elements when doing so helps you illustrate a point or helps viewers draw a conclusion. Don't throw it in, just because you think it's cool.
Editor's note: An example presentation file is provided as an aide to understanding this technique.


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Fans crowd to view hard-to-see Mavericks
Thousands flooded into Half Moon Bay on Sunday to witness ... many seagulls.
They were hoping to see Mavericks, one of the world's toughest, most revered surf competitions. Mavericks was indeed happening, a half-mile offshore, but you'd need a Jet Ski or telescope to actually see it.
"I think it's over there. Or there," said Tommy Cassorla, 18, a Cabrillo College student who crouched on a jetty near Pillar Point squinting at the horizon. "Wait, I can kinda see it. Not really. It'd be awesome, though."
The lack of prime viewing spots was not unexpected. The beach and bluffs at Pillar Point were closed to the public to prevent a repeat of spectator injuries during previous contests.
But that did not deter anyone's enthusiasm. Half Moon Bay was jammed with more than 30,000 giddy surfers and fans, none of whom seemed to care there was nothing to see but blue skies, a beer garden and each other.
Many paid $10 apiece to stand in a parking lot and watch it on a giant TV. Others lolled on the beach and checked for updates on their iPhones. Hundreds roamed between Barbara's Fishtrap and Sam's Chowder House, basking in the 60-degree sunshine and watching the sailboats.
A hefty portion gave up entirely and retreated to local bars to watch the 49ers game.
Ricardo Poveda and his wife drove from Los Banos (Merced County) just to be near Mavericks, even if they couldn't see it. Poveda, a caterer, grew up surfing in El Salvador in the 1970s, and Mavericks has long loomed in his imagination. He recalled how his mother spent a month's salary to buy him his first surfboard when he was a teenager.
Diligence pays off
"I've been checking and waiting, checking and waiting, and then Wednesday it was Bingo!" he said, referring to the recent announcement that Mavericks would commence at 8 a.m. Sunday. "Getting up early, being at the ocean, the excitement ... I wanted my wife to see all this."
Specifically, Poveda wanted to meet Floyd Smith, a pioneer crafter of wooden surf boards. Smith was holding court near the giant outdoor TV on Sunday, demonstrating the nearly lost art of sanding balsa planks into gracefully curved surfboards.
"This is most excellent," said Smith, 73, who now lives in Placerville (El Dorado County), as he signed autographs and posed for pictures. "Everyone's here - people who've never been surfing in their lives, people who go every day. Lots of gremmies (kids), and they're totally stoked. I love seeing this. Gives me hope."
Smith has been a fixture in the surfing world since the 1950s but hasn't caught a wave since Sunset Beach in Hawaii in 1970.
"A giant set came in and I just barely made it. I had a wife and young son, and I thought, 'That's it,' " he said. "I've never surfed Mavericks and I'm never going to surf Mavericks."
That was the consensus among fans Sunday: Those who brave the steep, unpredictable 30-foot waves off Half Moon Bay are talented and fearless athletes, but they're probably nuts.
'Awesome, but insane'
Hazel McDougall, 28, who grew up surfing in the snow in Scotland, knows a thing or two about cold oceans, and even she was daunted by Mavericks.
"They're insane. Awesome, but insane," she said while lounging on the jetty with a friend. "The waves are too big. I'd never do it."
Shopping was a far safer task, hundreds of would-be spectators could attest. The busiest spot in town was the surf shop owned by Jeff Clark, a Mavericks founder and one of the contest organizers. Hundreds filtered through the rows of wetsuits and sunglasses, buying up $25 T-shirts and chatting excitedly about what they imagined to be occurring offshore.
"I love the individual spirit, the guts it takes to ride waves of that caliber, the camaraderie," said Beth Mullen, a saleswoman from Mill Valley. "They're fiercely competitive, but they look out for each other."
Also very busy was the pier, where Tony Khattavong, 31, was fishing for crab for dinner. He usually has the pier to himself, but Sunday he had to jostle for space with dozens of hopeful surf spectators.
"It sucks because no one can really see it. I feel bad for them," he said as he cast a line of sardines into the bay and checked the 49ers score on his phone. "I think Mavericks is great, but it's not something I'd want to do. Too cold."
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RtC 1.0 - FINALLY RELEASED
Reinventing the Craft 1.0 (Codename: Cake)
Yep, the wait is over.
RtC is a tool that allows you to easily add custom natives to Warcraft III using nAPI.
Currently supported languages are C, C++ and Pascal (both Delphi and FreePascal/Lazarus), but any language with a compiler capable of producing a DLL and calling windows API functions is (in theory) supported.
nAPI includes the following function exports (I'm aware how horrible the formatting is):
AddNative (address: Pointer; name: String; params: String) // Registers a native StringMap (str: String): Integer StringGet (str: Integer): String // These two are used when passing Jass strings as parameters GetUnitInfoStruct (unit_rawcode: Integer): PW3UNITINFO GetAbilityInfoStruct (ability_rawcode: Integer): PW3ABILITYINFO // Allow access to Unit and Ability structs where you can both read and edit object editor data AddRCHandle (input: Pointer; datatype: Integer): Integer GetRCHandle (id, datatype: Integer): Pointer RecycleRCHandle (id, datatype: Integer): Pointer RegisterHandleDestructor (hdestructor: THandleDestructor): Integer // A handle system at your disposal GameDebugMessage (str: String) // nAPI's BJDebugMsg CreateTriggerGroup (): TTriggerGroup; DestroyTriggerGroup (whichTG: TTriggerGroup); TriggerGroupAdd (whichTG: TTriggerGroup; trigger: Jass_trigger); TriggerGroupRun (whichTG: TTriggerGroup); // TriggerGroups - easy way to make custom events GetWc3WindowHandle(): HWND; // Gets you the handle to WC3's main window MouseInfo : struct { MouseX, MouseY, MouseZ: Float; // Mouse X, Y and Z in in-game coordinates IsOverUI: LongBool; // Whether the mouse is currently over UI MouseRelativeX, MouseRelativeY: Float; // Mouse position relative to the screen } LastNativeName: String; // Name of the last native the game called so far
The API also allows plugin DLLs to detect when the map's main function is called, when the map loads, exits, when the game is quit and when a WND procedure (such as keyboard press or moving the mouse wheel) is called.
Other non-related RtC functionality controlled via config.ini:
We also included some nice natives for you to use:
//============================================================================ // StopWatch API // native StopWatchCreate takes nothing returns integer native StopWatchMark takes integer stopwatch returns real native StopWatchDestroy takes integer stopwatch returns nothing //============================================================================ // Time API // native TimeGetTimestamp takes nothing returns integer native TimeGetSeconds takes nothing returns integer native TimeGetMinutes takes nothing returns integer native TimeGetHours takes nothing returns integer native TimeGetDayMonth takes nothing returns integer native TimeGetDayWeek takes nothing returns integer native TimeGetMonth takes nothing returns integer native TimeGetYear takes nothing returns integer native TimeGetMilliseconds takes nothing returns integer native GetTickCount takes nothing returns integer //============================================================================ // Vector API // native VectorCreate takes integer size returns integer native VectorDestroy takes integer vector returns nothing native VectorClear takes integer vector returns nothing native VectorGetSize takes integer vector returns integer native VectorSetSize takes integer vector, integer size returns nothing native VectorGet takes integer vector, integer index returns integer native VectorSet takes integer vector, integer index, integer value returns nothing native VectorPushBack takes integer vector, integer value returns nothing native VectorPopBack takes integer vector returns nothing native VectorBack takes integer vector returns integer native VectorEmpty takes integer vector returns boolean //============================================================================ // UserInput API // native GetMouseTerrainX takes nothing returns real native GetMouseTerrainY takes nothing returns real native GetMouseTerrainZ takes nothing returns real native GetMouseScaleX takes nothing returns real native GetMouseScaleY takes nothing returns real native GetMouseScreenX takes nothing returns integer native GetMouseScreenY takes nothing returns integer native SetMouseScreenX takes integer x returns nothing native SetMouseScreenY takes integer y returns nothing native SetMouseScreenPos takes integer x, integer y returns nothing native IsMouseOverUI takes nothing returns boolean native SetMouseBlock takes integer key, boolean doBlock returns nothing native GetTriggerWheelDelta takes nothing returns integer native TriggerRegisterMouseEvent takes trigger trig, integer etype returns nothing native TriggerRegisterKeyEvent takes trigger trig, integer etype returns nothing native GetTriggerKey takes nothing returns integer native SetKeyBlock takes integer key, boolean doBlock returns nothing native ForceKeyDown takes integer key returns nothing native ForceKeyUp takes integer key returns nothing native ForceKeyType takes integer key returns nothing //============================================================================ // Misc API // native StringReplace takes string input, string oldstr, string newstr returns string native StringPos takes string input, string substr returns integer native StringRPos takes string input, string substr returns integer native BitAnd takes integer o1, integer o2 returns integer native BitOr takes integer o1, integer o2 returns integer native BitXor takes integer o1, integer o2 returns integer native BitBSL takes integer o1, integer o2 returns integer native BitBSR takes integer o1, integer o2 returns integer native BitFlip takes integer o returns integer native Log takes real input returns real native Ln takes real input returns real
How to use the included natives:
Now that you have a clear picture about the project's functionality and since this project is often followed by a lot of misunderstanding, I'll now try to explain anything else you might be curious about with the following Q&A.
Why the hell did it take so long?
MindWorX started the WarSoc project in mid 2007 with the aim of making it possible for more than 12 players to play a map. This would be done by creating custom natives for WinSock functions. I soon joined to help him with it and a lot of progress was made and we soon had working access to WinSock via WC3 natives.
Initial success soon made the project expand and it was renamed to Reinventing the Craft (name idea by Whitehorn). RtC would become a large set of natives, with WarSoc being just one part of it.
The project then entered development hell. The whole RtC code was, to this date, remade from scratch at least 4 times. WarSoc stopped being the focal point of the project and, considering several failed attempts to make it easy-to-use, was completely abandoned at one point.
Mid 2009, we decided to change the aim of the project once more, by making an API which would allow other people to make custom natives. The project was remade one last time and we soon had a very stable, feature-rich nAPI. However, lack of free time made it enter development hell once more, despite it being nearly finished.
Finally, just a month ago, we updated it for the latest patch and started working on it again. Now it's finally here and it's still very much alive, with even WarSoc being resurrected as a plugin in some future release.
So I made a DLL with my own natives, now what?
Just put it in the plugins directory. If you did everything right, RtC will load them automatically.
Is C#/VB.NET supported?
No, but it will be!
A subproject called Jass.NET is currently on its way. It will allow loading custom natives from a .NET assembly.
Is the source code available?
No, it isn't. It might become at some later time though. I'm also willing to explain the mechanics on how it all works to anyone interested.
All the plugins are open-source (GPL license), however.
Where's the documentation on how to use all these functions?
Sadly, no detailed documentation is provided at this time. We did our best to make the examples self-explanatory and the plugins we made are open-source. You are free to ask us for any help with using nAPI.
Is Jass New Gen pack required in order to make RtC maps?
Yes, but only to disable WE's syntax checker which will report errors when you use custom natives.
What nAPI stands for?
native API or possibly new API (with xttocs' jAPI being the old one).
Does it work in multiplayer?
Yes, it does.
Do all players need to have RtC with the same plugins in order for it to work in multiplayer?
Is this safe? I mean, since the plugins are DLLs, they can, in theory, do all kinds of malicious stuff to my PC, right?
Absolutely. However, it's not any less safe than just about anything you download from the internet.
My antivirus reports RtC as a virus, is it dangerous?
No, it isn't. Your antivirus probably detected RtC's attempt to inject a DLL which malware often uses. All you need to do is add RtC to your antivirus' whitelist (same way you did for JNGP).
You said WarSoc is being developed again! Does it mean we will finally get more than 12 players?
Well, yes and no. Yes, it will be possible since you'll be able to access WinSock and thus have full control over what's being sent over the network, but it will never be possible to have more than 12 players "out of the box", without modifying a map.
I want to make custom natives, where do I start?
Start with checking out the API and the simple examples in the source\API folder. You can later move on to checking the plugin sources for some more advanced stuff.
I noticed some batch scripts for compiling, what do I need in order to use them?
TDM's GCC/mingw32 Build version 4.4.1
Feel free to ask if anything else remains unclear.
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"Warcraft III has stopped working
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available."
the error log says this:
"Test header message
[14:01:56] Dll injected
[14:01:56] kernel32.dll loaded
[14:01:56] blizzard.ax loaded
[14:01:56] game.dll loaded
[14:01:56] game.dll found...
[14:01:56] Loading external.ini..."
Otherwise Im glad to see this finally released!
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I can't run RtC.exe in windows 7 (32-bit).
I've tried all compatibility modes.
EDIT: Forgot to patch wc3.
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Running it in compatability mode (XP SP2). I will tell you if anything blows up.
Apparently compatability mode did nothing and its more of a roulette wheel trying to get it started.
25% of the time it works 100% of the time!
Either way, I can finally test code now!
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Heh, I thought this was an april's fool joke at first. But sweet, I'll test it out.
Btw, to those who don't know, the path for the common.j is scripts\common.j, since it wasn't mentioned.
EDIT: Tested it, awesome mouse natives. =D
Are you and MindworX going to create more natives/extend/work on RtC anymore, or are you completely done with the tool? (Aside from bug-fixing, if any)
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Mindy better be! I want more custom natives damnit! =D
btw, I have pastebined some APIs and Trackables 2.0 (very basic right now) as well as a flyable camera map.
Post 1 is APIs and Post 2 is Trackables 2.0: http://www.wc3c.net/pastebint.php?t=...3dfe96d8da1024
Map: http://www.wc3c.net/attachment.php?a...8&d=1270227146
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It was Mindy's idea to release it on April Fools' day, make people think it's a joke while it isn't (well, all except the RickRoll). I'm glad people actually fell for it.__________________
I'm installing WC3 in my VMWare Win7x64 right now, will test it later. Thanks for reporting that.
Well, I can't replicate the crash in VMWare, tried to run it 6 times, no crash.
I'll need some more information. Has this happened before with WC3, worldeditor or JNGP? Have you applied any Win7 updates (especially the one targeting WC3)? Any antivirus/firewall software? Anything else you could have installed or turned on in Windows 7 to increase protection against viruses? Which Win7 edition (Ultimate, Professional, Home...)?
> Are you and MindworX going to create more natives/extend/work on RtC anymore, or are you completely done with the tool?
As I said in the first post, this tool's goal is no longer about custom natives, but rather an API for easily adding more. It is not considered complete, we may add some more features like GetItemInfoStruct which is currently missing or maybe a DirectX hook, we may change it a bit, but point is that natives are not part of RtC.
That said, we will release native packs for this project as time permits. I'm currently working on Jass.NET, native packs are more of Mindy's department so he can give more info on that.
You are free to make native requests. It's difficult to define what's possible and what isn't ATM so let your imagination run wild and assume we can do it.
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OK, I need all of you who experience this problem to try the debug build.
Replace the original rtc.dll and use it as you would use the original, but next time it fails, send me the contents of rctdebug.log.
Also, do you run Windows Update regularly? Have you applied KB976264?
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Just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your hard work! Thanks for that (and it works fine on XP 32 Bit)
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Great that it's finally out!
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but this doesn't seem to give any way of telling if the key is pressed, released or held in the key event. Doesn't that make the key events pretty much useless?
EDIT: Sorry, after looking at the source code for UserInputAPI I realised the "integer key" parameter of TriggerRegisterKeyEvent means down, up or held. I thought it just meant the key to detect, but it seems all keys are detected. You could have made it clearer by giving it a better parameter name...
Last edited by Element of Water : 04-04-2010 at 04:54 PM.
Right, the second integer parameter for TriggerRegisterKeyEvent and TriggerRegisterMouseEvent is not key, it's etype, that was a typo (fixed now).
Possible etype values for TriggerRegisterKeyEvent:
And for TriggerRegisterMouseEvent:
constant integer EVENT_KEYUP = 0 constant integer EVENT_KEYDOWN = 1 constant integer EVENT_KEYTYPE = 2
constant integer EVENT_LMOUSEUP = 0 constant integer EVENT_LMOUSEDOWN = 1 constant integer EVENT_RMOUSEUP = 2 constant integer EVENT_RMOUSEDOWN = 3 constant integer EVENT_MMOUSEUP = 4 constant integer EVENT_MMOUSEDOWN = 5 constant integer EVENT_MOUSEWHEEL = 6
Attached the new common.j with these constants defined, but you can just type the numbers directly if you want.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Doug Fister took the Giants' best shot without even flinching.
Fister overcame a line-drive single off his head to take a shutout bid into the seventh inning for Detroit before the Tigers lost Game 2 of the World Series 2-0 to San Francisco on Thursday night.
"I'm fine," Fister said. "I got a little bump. No damage. Just a matter of I threw a changeup that he squared up and it came right back at me."
Fister ended up with the hard-luck loss when he allowed a leadoff single to Hunter Pence in the seventh and reliever Drew Smyly was unable to strand him in part because of a perfect bunt that never rolled foul.
It was remarkable that Fister was even in the game that long after it looked as if he could have been knocked out in a scary moment in the second inning. Gregor Blanco hit a line drive that struck Fister just above the right ear with a runner on first and two outs. The ball ricocheted into short center for a single.
"Whoa!" umpire Dan Iassogna said as he popped out from behind the plate, adding: "Doug, you OK?" when he got to the mound.
"I was scared to death when it happened," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "I didn't really realize exactly how it hit him. It kind of grazed I want to say the side of his head, the back of his head. It was a scary moment, obviously, but he was fine."
Fister looked unfazed by the blow and remained in the game after being checked out by a trainer, Leyland and pitching coach Jeff Jones.
"They asked me the typical concussion questions. He obviously saw in my eyes I was OK," Fister said. "I'm not concerned. I have a minor bump. According to my dad my whole life his saying has always been if I got hit in the head I'd be OK. That's how I take it."
Fister answered every question correctly on the mound and even added that he would get the third out.
"He didn't seem scared," first baseman Prince Fielder said. "He definitely showed some toughness."
Fister then walked Brandon Crawford to load the bases but escaped the jam by retiring fellow pitcher Madison Bumgarner on a soft looper to shortstop Jhonny Peralta.
The 6-foot-8 right-hander didn't allow another hit until Pablo Sandoval singled with two outs in the sixth, retiring 12 straight batters after the walk to Crawford.
"It was scary at the moment but then he seemed to shake it off," catcher Gerald Laird said. "This guy's tough. I was surprised. The way (the batter) hit it and the way it hit his head, it was scary. For him to bounce back and pitch like he did, that says a lot about him."
Leyland sent Fister back out for the seventh with 108 pitches to face the right-handed hitting Pence before a run of three straight lefties came to the plate. Pence ended Fister's night with a single to left field on his 114th pitch.
That proved costly. Smyly walked Brandon Belt, and Blanco reached on a bunt single that Smyly, Laird and third baseman Miguel Cabrera tried to will foul. But the ball tantalizingly stayed on the dirt between the foul line and infield grass before rolling to a stop in fair territory, loading the bases with no outs for the Giants.
Leyland chose to play the middle of the infield back to avoid a big inning. But that decision allowed a run to score when Brandon Crawford bounced into a 4-6-3 double play.
"It's not debatable to me," Leyland said. "Some people might debate that, but I felt we had to take our best shot to come out of it with one run because if we don't score, it doesn't make any difference anyway."
Fister allowed one run and four hits with one walk with three strikeouts. He became the first Tigers pitcher to last at least five innings in five straight postseason starts. But he is winless in three postseason outings this year because the bullpen blew leads his first two times on the mound.
"It was a tough night," Fister said. "Obviously we had a couple of balls that didn't go our way. It's OK. We're going to come back."
The Tigers now find themselves in a daunting 2-0 hole because the offense generated nothing against Bumgarner and the bullpen. Only one World Series team has overcome such a deficit since the New York Mets did it in 1986.
Detroit's best chance at scoring was thwarted by another questionable decision. With the burly Fielder at first base and no outs in the second, Delmon Young grounded a double down the left-field line. Blanco picked up the ball after it caromed off the fence in foul territory and threw to second baseman Marco Scutaro near third base.
Third-base coach Gene Lamont waved Fielder home and he was tagged out by catcher Buster Posey just before touching the plate. Fielder had been sent home from first just three times on 10 doubles. The fourth one proved costly.
"We wanted to be aggressive, and I think he got just a little overaggressive, and it was a bang-bang play," Leyland said.
World Series: Tigers' Fister shakes off liner to his head
SAN FRANCISCO — Doug Fister took the Giants' best shot without even flinching.


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I love the Beatles love all of their songs movies everything. Have all of their solo records on vinyl and on cd. I have been a fan since I was little.
Favourite Track:
Golden Slumbers (Abbey)
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I've always loved this song. My dad used to sing it to me when I was a. Baby. It's Only 1:31 seconds but those seconds are pure magic by paul.
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Abbey Road
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This was one of the first albums i ever heard. It was beautiful, magical, spiritual and it still sticks with me today. I have abbey road everything. Pants, shirts, albums, coasters, posters, and coffee mugs. I have studied this album and know everything about it. I love all 17 songs and each one is fresh and incredible. Every time I listen I feel nostalgic. Th greatest album of all time.


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How Far is my Morning Run
May 27, 2010
I always assumed my run was about 5k, but being out of shape it felt more like 7km. Eventually this bugged me enough that I spent a whole ten minutes at a coffee shop to learn the GPX library and make a program that converts my GPX traces (I carry a GPS logger on jogs) to a distance. Thank you hackage, thank you Tony.
module Main where import Data.Geo.GPX import Data.GPS import Control.Monad import System.Environment (getArgs) main = do file <- liftM head getArgs run <- readGpxFile file let cs = map (degreePairToDMS. latlon) . trkpts . head . trksegs . head . trks . head $ run pairs = zip cs (drop 1 cs) dist = sum (map (uncurry distance) pairs) print dist
5 Responses to "How Far is my Morning Run"
May 27, 2010 at 10:17 pm
So…. how far is your morning run?
July 9, 2010 at 3:28 am
So what programming language is that? Impressive for 10 minutes of research and work!
July 9, 2010 at 3:29 am
oh, probably haskell huh? =)


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I tried to update my fc5 test2 system with test3. I got a transaction error during install (I file this separately). The installer displayed a message dialog saying that the insall didn't work. After confirming "ok" halt was executed. But the console didn't switch to console 1 instead console 6 or 7 was displayed. This console was just black and didn't display the message that the system was halted and it is save to reboot. For some users with less experience this looks like the system just hangs.
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On a funny note, I got Wiggles up this morning and the little girl had somehow removed her diaper at some point. It was lying on the other side of her crib. Don't know when it happened, but it couldn't have been too long since there wasn't a mess or wet spot in the crib.


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Chase StatsSPC Outlook: MDT
States Driven: MI, IL, WI, MN, ND, SD
Miles: 1306
Departure City: Monticello, MN
Target City: Leola, SD
Ending City: Willmar, MN
Outcome: Tornado, Heavy Rain
Chase Pics: Unavailable
I had been watching this setup closely for about a week based off the Euro (ECMWF) model, as it showed a decent trough ejecting into the northern plains with a decent surface low for late July. I had been longing for a chase ever since 6/20, but the synoptic pattern has really hampered things down. With a large high pressure system dominating the central U.S. and temps surging into the 100's, the only play for decent storms was farther north into the Dakota's where the jet stream was at. Any disturbance or shortwave through that area (along with a few other ingredients) would surely kick off storms - this was what I was waiting for.
Chase StatsSPC Outlook: MDT
States Driven: MI, IL, MO
Miles: 1002
Departure City: Battle Creek, MI
Target City: St. Louis, MO
Ending City: Effingham, IL
Outcome: Extremely Heavy Rain, Frequent Lightning
Chase Pics: Unavailable
This chase was a quick one, and my first chase of the 2011 season. It was Friday, and I had Cloud Physics in the morning at 9AM. I went to the class, and as soon as it got out at 10AM, I headed straight down to Battle Creek, MI. From there, I switched some of my gear into the new chase vehicle (more details later once it gets finished), and my Dad and I took off to my target city of St. Louis. I wasn't sure if we would be able to make it on time before the storms rolled through, but we managed to make it just on time.
The lowest inland (non-tropical) barometric pressure in the United States was recorded today in Big Fork, MN at 2213Z. The recorded pressure was 28.20" or 954.96mb! This potent system laid down a serial derecho that stretched from MI all the way to AL. Along the way, the SPC issued numerous Tornado watches including one PDS Tornado watch due to the incredible amount of shear in the atmosphere. 0-1km helicity values pegged around 900 m^2/s^2 and while not much CAPE was present, the wind shear was enough to produce many small spin-ups embedded in the line. Further south into AL, discrete cells formed out ahead of the line increasing the tornado threat across Dixie Alley as they played with the ample amounts of helicity. The SPC also had an area outlined as a High risk, which is the first high risk since May 19, 2010. Lower Michigan was also included in the High risk for a little while, which makes it the first High risk for Lower Michigan in 9 years, and the first High risk in MI in 3 years. This event was also rare in the fact that it was only the third time in history that the SPC has issued a High risk in the month of October. While I'm on the statistics train, I might as well throw in a few more interesting statistics so far from the 2010 season.
UPDATE: A FEW OF THE RECORDS HAVE BEEN RECALCULATED TO ADJUST FOR TRUE MEAN SEA LEVEL PRESSURE, AND STANDS AT 955.2MB. SEE MORE HERE: Official NWS statement on the pressure record
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This little checklist is intended to help people score some extra points in the mapmaking competition, but it still holds true for any map. Go through the checklist and see if you fulfill at least most of the requirements.
[ ] - Did you avoid dead ends? If you have some, are they very short and have some kind of reward (good guns, frex)?
[ ] - Are all of your platforms properly timed and placed?
[ ] - Is every hallway at the necessary length to balance speed and looks?
[ ] - Are all of the guns in natural places, or would the player need to actively search them?
[ ] - When you use stairs in lieu of lifts, are they at good angles and not unnecessarily exposed?
[ ] - Do all of the hallways point toward the main battlefield? In other words, did you avoid mazes whenever possible?
[ ] - Do you have the least amount of deep liquids possible?
[ ] - Do your teleports bring players to relatively safe locations?
[ ] - Are the main hallways broad enough to support limited dodging (about 1 WU wide, at least)?
[ ] - Are gimmick lifts, water lifts, etc. absolutely necessary? If so, are they fast and provide some kind of benefit?
[ ] - Have you avoided sharp turns (>90 degrees) whenever possible? If they're necessary, consider using curved tunnels instead.
[ ] - Are there plenty of exits -- be they windows, doors, teleports, sniper ledges, or anything -- back to the main battleground from whatever hallways you have?
[ ] - Do you have a minimal amount of death traps (ideally 0 total)?
[ ] - Were Extravision powerups avoided entirely?
[ ] - Was 5D space avoided whenever possible? 5D to make a brief shortcut is okay, but maps like "5D Space" are bad news.
[ ] - Does your map use overlapping to a reasonable extent? Maps that overlap eight times are bad.
[ ] - Did you avoid "headbanger stairs?" I should be able to go down a flight of stairs and not hit my head on the ceiling.
[ ] - Are your stairs reasonably steep? Steps that are 0.3 WU tall are difficult to climb while focusing on the combat.
[ ] - Whenever you have a sniper ledge, can you see the surface that the ledge is intended to snipe?
[ ] - Did you avoid stupidly huge pits? Melatonin is a map that has stupidly huge pits.
[ ] - Is the weapon loadout evenly placed? For example, are rockets scattered throughout the map instead of bunched together in the center?
[ ] - Is the map's arsenal reasonable -- that is, can most of the guns stand up to the map's strongest gun? Rockets and fusion only make an unbalanced arsenal.
[ ] - Are spawns placed in relatively safe locations (against walls or away from the fray) whenever possible?
[ ] - Are spawns properly spaced? Spawns should cover pretty much every area of the map, except featureless hallways.
[ ] - Can any player reach a gun in three seconds?
[ ] - Can any player reach ammo for his gun (excluding rockets and TOZT) in five seconds?
[ ] - Can you reach the hill/main battlefield in five seconds?
[ ] - Are powerups (health cans and BCEs) properly placed, and given reasonable spawn rates?
[ ] - Did you avoid 2x or 3x rechargers?
[ ] - Did you avoid invulnerability?
[ ] - Did you avoid difficult secrets?
[ ] - Do hard-to-reach areas have good payoffs without being unreasonable (i.e. that distant ledge has one of three rocket launchers, but not the ONLY rocket launcher)?
[ ] - Did you avoid any regions that provide a ridiculous advantage over all of the other players, which are very hard to reach safely? The top pool of Duality is such a place.
[ ] - (If applicable) Is the hill hard to defend without being impossible to hold? The hill on THRUD is such an example, whereas the hill on Thunderdome is too hard to hold.
[ ] - (If applicable) Are there places to run with the Ball? If so, are they so complex that nobody can find the carrier?
[ ] - Make sure your map doesn't look ugly. If you have to squint to look at your map, retexture it.
[ ] - Did you apply differential shading?
[ ] - Is your usage of textures reasonably varied? You don't have to use every texture, but you should use enough to make any region distinguishable from any other area.
[ ] - Are doors and teleports distinguishable from walls?
[ ] - Make sure your architecture does not ruin the flow. Flow is more important than architecture.
[ ] - Make sure your map isn't "too detailed." Marathon maps can only take so much detail before it begins to look stupid.
[ ] - Is your map detailed at all? Maps that compose entirely of featureless open rooms and hallways, regardless of the quality of texturing and lighting, suck.
[ ] - Consider using liquids "artistically." This means ankle-deep water, lava in inaccessible pits, and so on. They look great but don't tamper with flow.
[ ] - Is your map asymmetrical? Symmetry is a newbie trick. Asymmetry keeps players entertained more often and provide more advanced strategy.
[ ] - Did you use sounds? If you did, are they at reasonable volumes (80ish) and reasonably placed? Wind in an enclosed space sounds stupid.
[ ] - Did you use curves, if the map calls for it? Rigid maps are quite fine, but whenever you can, consider using curved walls instead of right angles.
[ ] - Is your lighting "unrealistic"? Realistic shading almost always sucks. A good example is Route 66 (604 or Better), but anything more complex than that tends to look bad.
[ ] - Does your ceiling space look good? Ceilings are a great place to show off your architecture without hurting flow.
[ ] - Make sure your map doesn't immediately remind you of ONE other map.
[ ] - Make sure you used a minimum number of architecture tricks from other maps.
[ ] - Make sure your map name is interesting without being stupid. "Arena" is boring. "Circle of Tears" is a fairly good name. "Inappropriate Finger" is a stupid name.
[ ] - Test your map with other players.
[ ] - Did you find it fun?
[ ] - Did everyone else find it fun?
[ ] - Did you consider everyone's criticisms?
[ ] - Make sure your map has at least 8 spawns.
[ ] - Make sure you textured every side.
[ ] - Make sure you have enough guns and ammo for your map size.
[ ] - Make sure your items respawn.
[ ] - Avoid using monsters.
[ ] - Check your map for bouncy sides, "fake walls" (solid surfaces in overlapping areas), "sticky lattices" (getting caught in a fence), or "bouncy hallways" (entering one hallway and appearing in the adjacent one), and fix them accordingly.
[ ] - Make sure you have no suicide traps (areas that don't kill you but are inescapable).
[ ] - Merge your map.
[ ] - Make sure all of the "map type" (i.e. rebellion) flags are unchecked.
[ ] - Make sure all of the desired gametypes are marked. FOR THE CONTEST, YOU WILL BE MARKED DOWN IF YOU CHECK "KING OF THE HILL" AND THE MAP SUCKS FOR KOTH OR HAS NO HILL AT ALL.
[ ] - Make sure any smearing bugs are fixed.
[ ] - Make sure you fixed any crashing bugs. Anything that can crash Aleph One is both a feat and a disaster.


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The post office at the University if Miami was tucked away; you'd hardly notice it. And it wasn't much on the inside either. A wall of post office boxes, standard marble linoleum floor and ever-present humidity.
The cardboard box looked like every other, too. "Arista," the return address said. Yet the doe-eyed girl with the curly hair and the expensive photo session spoke to me. She didn't look much older, and she seemed so alive in the moment.
"I hope this doesn't suck," I remember thinking, knowing Clive Davis' predilection for drama queens and divas, Barry Manilows and frumpy AC. I wanted to like this girl, in the days when MTV was exotic and dance music ruled the clubs.
Back in my dorm room, she killed me. That voice: the power, the range, the essence of being alive. She had diva range, but she didn't bludgeon you with it. Instead, she leapt over tall buildings, turned cartwheels and seemingly laughed while she was doing it!
"How Will I Know?" seemed to be the anthem for every(young)woman trying to find herself, wondering if he was the one. She understood, though, how to bob on the anxiety like a cork--and her ebullience gave us all something to cling to as we figured out who we were.
While she was pretty, staggeringly pretty, a former 17 covergirl, as well as the cousin of Dionne Warwick and daughter of gospel stalwart Cissy Houston, she didn't seem otherworldly. Whitney Houston could have been one of us, came off as someone who would talk to us. Even in the moments of big vocalizing, she seemed to feel our pain, our desire, our rapture, our hope.
"Saving All My Love For You" and "The Greatest Love of All"--both bravura turns--had just enough innocence to let us know these were emotions mortals could feel, too. Yes, she looked like a goddess and sang with the kind of powerhouse acumen that would cause Mariah Carey to bludgeon and over-sing through her first few records, but Houston's heart was pure.
It wouldn't last, of course.
The industry would start putting walls between us, currying favor and encouraging diva-like behavior. The stakes and expectations would rise. The toadying would increase. No doubt the disorientation and then vertigo would follow.
She could come off as the same effervescent girl, shiny and happy in the "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" video, but the unraveling was already being set into motion. Not yet. No, there would be another album that would provide the perky uptempo feel good moments--"So Emotional" and "Love Will Save The Day"--a la the Supremes, and the big ballads -- "Didn't We Almost Have It All"--that would recall Diana Ross' most serious solo work.
It was still the music and the image of exquisite perfection. No troubles, no drama. Just a mahogany goddess who poured down light like the sun. Right up until the burn started. If the second album found Houston in a white tank top, hair flying free and easy, "I'm Your Baby Tonight" saw a young woman in the Limited's universal Firenze sweater--just like the rest of us--only seated side-saddle on a motorcycle.
She wasn't trashy, wasn't a whore, but was certainly opening up to the thrills life has to offer. As the MTV Onset Generation's Beyonce, she was the object of fantasy--and it wasn't long until Bobby Brown, New Edition's resident bad boy and emerging solo force, came calling.
There were whispers. There were fierce fights that made the tabloids. There was, obviously, drug use. But there was also more music… the stuff of true soul queen proportions… and the movie that made her an international superstar a la Miss Ross: The Bodyguard. Co-starring heavyweight serious man-hunk of the day Kevin Costner as the man assigned to protect the star from a stalker, it was a smash.
Beyond the film, where Houston's goddess-on-pedestal perception was tempered with a humanity, range of emotions and skosh of street-smart homegirleality, there was the gigantic performance of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" that served as the film's theme. What had been written as an enduring good-bye with gratitude to Parton's once mentor Porter Wagoner was turned into a tour de force of love beyond limits that sat at #1 on every radio chart across the world for months. Ubiquitous isn't nearly enough: car radios played it relentlessly, talent shows were over-run with it.
Whitney Houston, the most unilateral girl singer possibly ever, had graduated to the ranks of inescapable, but was still capable of turning in truly monstrously great vocal performances. She slayed "The National Anthem" on a regular basis. She performed with her aunt and mother on a gospel medley that left jaws slack.
Yet, there was something ravaging the grown woman's psyche. Never mind the theoretical alliance with R&B's hottest male star, nor their small daughter Bobbi Christina. Like George Jones and Tammy Wynette before them--right down to a self- tribute-named-daughter named Tamela Georgette --she and Brown seemed hell-bent on conflict, destruction, consumption and being lashed together with a love that would ultimately eviscerate them.
There was the infamous "crack is whack" interview, where Houston, seemingly blitzed beyond reason, came across not as Ghetto Fabulous, the way newcomer soul queens like Mary J. Blige were, but ghetto tragic: out of her mind, possibly lost forever and absolutely throwing herself into a gutter she had no business being in.
Was Brown's rapacious drug use the issue? Had the wild thing sucked Houston under? Or had she so soured on being America's sweetheart that she found the good girl role repellent?
Hard to say. Plus, addiction's addiction. Once you're in its jaws, it's hard to ever escape. And in show business, there's always someone dying to give you a bump, a hit, a puff to gain access to a world they'd have no other entrée to. Plus once you start bottom-feeding, you change the game of both the quality of people you attract and their willingness to not protect you.
The tabloids lit up. Drama. Drugs. Physical altercations. Skeletal pictures. Flubbed performances. Court appearances. Cancelled shows. Riots. It was a fiesta of bad news, and it kept getting worse.
Yes, she made attempts to get clean. Divorced Brown, who'd been arrested on various charges of battery and domestic violence; but not before taking that "hood stance" of so many women that "that's my man…" regardless of what he was doing, even to her.
Whitney Houston languished, became a punchline--not even a cautionary tale about drug use. So extreme, it was comedic--that awkward laughing when it's too uncomfortable to face. So lost, she didn't seem to notice what was gone...or consider how to come back.
That wasn't what was important. What was? Hard to say. There would be glimpses. Maddening seconds where we could remember. Introduced by Prince Andrew of Monaco at The World Music Awards, where her weightlessly compelling reading of "I Will Always Love You"--defying gravity, clinging with such strength to the notion of a love that would never let go--eclipsed any scurrilous notion or harsh photograph.
For the Dawn of the MTV Generation--and countless waves of young people who came after --Whitney Houston was definitive. Mariah could pummel a song; Alicia Keys, another Clive Davis protégé, could scale melodies with startling ease; Christina Aguilera could toss columns of air around like feathers, but none was Whitney.
Whitney Houston: effortless, gracious, glorious. She was glamorous even in a pair of beat-up jeans, hair a mess and giant sunglasses hiding heaven knows what. She could sing circles around all of them--and had a knack for finding songs that spoke to feelings even larger than her voice--a gargantuan instrument --seemed to carry.
It was all so sad. The train wreck her life became. The music and film careers she eschewed. The chaos the public seemingly would never know. The squalor that swallowed her as drugs devoured her life.
Clive Davis remained unflagging in his support. Rumbles would tumble down the grapevine of a comeback. Houston would get clean, would come out, would dazzle. But had the moment passed? Could she maintain the strain?
It was hard to say. Harder still to know…
Until now.
Until an hour ago, when a few random postings hit the Facebook feed. Then the requisite Google News Search provided entirely too much independent sourcing. Whitney Houston was dead… no cause or whereabouts given… confirmed by her publicist to the ever vigilant and utterly credible Nekesa Moody of the Associated Press… on the night of Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy soiree, no less.
Random. Sudden. Wham!
Too many images flooding my mind. Too many songs jump-cutting in my head. Too many memories laced into the soundtrack of growing up at the University of Miami, with a 10-year old Mustang with no air conditioning--windows down, radio painting the immediate vicinity with those shiny early hits.
Equally warm and heavy afternoons in Silver Lake, waiting on my star to rise… knowing that my name in Rolling Stone, Musician and the L.A. Times would take me places I couldn't imagine. Los Angeles so glamorous, girls like Whitney Houston with their perfect bodies and satin skin dressed to kill intimidating the Midwestern girl in me… and yet on those afternoons of stultifying heat and doubt about the future, I could put on my pink bunny slippers and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" and jump around the apartment until I wore myself out.
My beau at the time would return from the office to find me, T-shirt knotted up, hair matted with sweat and the album cover propped against our wall of vinyl and laugh. "Face down in Whitney Houston again?" he'd ask. "Get any writing done?"
Often the answer was "Not really," to which he'd reply "Feel any better?"
Inevitably, the answer was "Yes." For if she could, why wouldn't I?
Only a matter of believing, pushing off the bottom and staying happy.
Staying happy is the trick. It seemed to elude her. Screw the talent, the charmed life, the bold faced-ery of it all. Screw the maggots who prey on the famous; the drugs, high impact great love in Brown. Damn the brokers of glisten who forget that it's the music that saves.
Somewhere Cissy Houston has a broken heart, Dionne Warwick is thinking about every sad song she ever sang. Don't even think about Bobbi Christina, who lost the disaster that carried her for nine months and was the fierce mother who fought for every choice she ever made.
It was a waste, however it happened--and it don't matter how. Whitney Houston's gone. All that promise, that light, that talent: silenced.
Whatever it was, well, it happened. There's no turning back, not much reason to wonder what if. The tragedy is the entitlement of fame, the predators they draw like moths to light and the reasons too many people don't step in.
We as a culture have made vanity first a reason, now a blood sport. To be the hottest, youngest, famest, flamest… Lindsay Lohan has been choking on the fumes of this since before she could drive; Demi Moore and Heather Locklear are both locked up, unable to cope with inevitable reality of aging and hard-partying lives of privilege that are indulged for those who exist beyond the mortal coil.
Seemingly, they are immortal. So they don't just believe, but are sold by everyone who would sell them out. Lying to themselves and each other about the loyalty of those around them, convincing themselves it can't happen to them.
Until right now.
Whitney Houston's gone. She will, no doubt, always love us--perfection collapsed in Kevin Costner's arms in the climax of The Bodyguard, frozen in infamy as one more snuffed out too soon and with God knows how much left to create.
Tonight, Clive Davis will have his party--where she was slated to sing. Among those gathering will be some of pop, rock and soul's true royality: Quincy Jones, Cee Lo Green, Tony Bennett, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Jackson Browne, Jennifer Hudson, Elvis Costello and Diana Krall. What they will make this loss mean remains to be seen…
What it means to me is this: Create. Love. Be. Embrace every moment. Respect what you're given. Honor the people around you. Be grateful for others' work, their efforts, their gifts.
Try generosity and grace, eschew judgement and especially live with honor.
We all know right from wrong; good from bad, the straight path from the slippery slope - and we've all watched people we love teeter. Rather than say "It's not my place," let's all reach out, steady or even pull them back. Yes, they might get mad, but in the end, better to cause rancor and save them than tacitly enable the things that can kill.
Whitney Houston was 48. That is the middle of middle age. Tony Bennett is still vital, still msking music and taking our breath away… So should it have been for her, for us.
How will we know, indeed?
Where's Vanilla Ice when we need him? (8/14a)
Nothing's more important right now. (8/14a)
A writer looks at Alejandro Aranda and sees his own reflection. (8/14a)
The offensive begins... (8/14a)
How do you parody what is already a parody of itself? (8/14a)
They're so dreamy.
It's a conspiracy, because everyone does it.
No, but we're thinking about cookies.
Protest songs that sound like now.


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JAMES B. MCGIBENY, son of Samuel McGibeny and Hopewell Duers, was born 7 February 1835 in New York. He married HANNAH STERRITT who was born in February 1844 in Pennsylvania. The family is difficult to find in census records, probably because they were always traveling. The book, Allegany County and Its People had the following about James and his family:
JAMES B. McGIBENY son of Samuel, born Feb. 7, 1835, came with his father in 1839 to West Almond, was graduated from Alfred University in 1860, married Hannah STERRITT of Philadelphia, Pa., in 1862, and in 1864, went to Minneapolis, Minn., as superintendent of music in the city schools. He was engaged there four years, at Winona two years, and at Portland, Oregon, four years. In 1875 he commenced giving concerts, and as the celebrated McGIBENY family, his family has won high praise in all parts of America.
In 1870 James was working as a professor of music in Winona, Winona County, Minnesota. In 1880, the family was performing in various locations as a musical troupe, and as this report from the Friendship Chronicle reports, they were very well received:
While such talented and productive couples as Mr. and Mrs. McGibeny, parents of the wonderful musical prodigies, the McGibeny children, continue to make their periodical contribution to art and to the population there can be no reasonable ground for any dry of decadence in this country. This worthy and talented couple have surrounded themselves with olive branches from which leaves of music bud forth it would seem spontaneously. It is truly a most interesting family circle or to use another simile we might compare it to a flight of steps up the temple of St. Cecilla. The appearance of the nine McGibenys on the stage is so pleasing and homelike that it is impossible not to feel attracted towards them as one is not usually attracted towards them as one is not usually attracted towards ordinary musical or dramatic troupes. The nine range in regard to age from Florence who has attained six years to the Professor who has just passed two score and five. There are four others in various stages of preparation to be added to the nine. These are "Doc" aged 5, Grace 3 1/2, Carl 2 and Jamie 6 months.
Of the musical and other performances of the nine we need say little. There is a novelty and a freshness about all they say, sing, play or do that is most pleasing and entertaining. It is not to be wondered at that they almost invariably attract large audiences. On Tuesday night Academy Hall was overcrowded although this was their third appearance here. They performed here under auspices of Mr. J. B. Goodliff of Wellsville who is establishing an enviable reputation as an amusement manager for this section of the State.
According to the 1900 U.S. census, James and Hannah had thirteen children, twelve who were still living in 1900. I found a picture of the family in the Charles Levenson online photo galleries (see photo above), but I would like to know who the individuals are in the picture. I would also like to find additional information and pictures for this family.


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Hope for halting autoimmune disease by turning off networks of T cell genes
UCSF Diabetes Center researcher contributes to novel study on T cells
BY KATHLEEN JAY, UCSF Diabetes Center
As an infectious disease specialist, Dr. Alex Marson, M.D./Ph.D., treats patients struggling with a range of conditions that render their immune systems inefficient -- from HIV and cancer to organ transplantation.
As a scientist, Dr. Marson -- who runs a lab at the UCSF Diabetes Center when he's not seeing patients at UCSF Moffitt or the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center-- is pursuing research on ways to prevent and treat autoimmune diseases, such as type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis.
"When treating my patients, I am again and again reminded of the central role of T cells in both infectious diseases and in autoimmune diseases, such as type 1diabetes," Marson said.
"This provides an ongoing motivation to continue my work in the lab," Marson added "To decipher the molecular circuits that give these cells their unique functions."
Using newly-identified, promising candidate drugs to target specific genes in T cells -- which drive autoimmune diseases -- Marson's research has led to new findings on how to potentially slow down the on-set of several autoimmune diseases.
These findings -- by Marson in collaboration with researchers at Harvard -- were published in the journal Immunity last month. The title of the article is: "Small-Molecule RORγt Antagonists Inhibit T Helper 17 Cell Transcriptional Network by Divergent Mechanisms."
"This paper examines what makes Th17 cells -- which play a crucial role in multiple autoimmune diseases -- distinct from other closely-related T cells," Marson said.
Using a combination of genomic techniques to tease out specific mechanisms in Th17 cells of a mouse model with multiple sclerosis, Marson and his collaborators observed how lead-candidate drugs affect gene regulation in Th17 cells.
"This study was an important step because we not only identified circuits at the heart of autoimmune disease, but we also found candidate drug molecules that target these specific circuits," Marson added.
Providing a new approach to systematically evaluate lead-candidate drugs for treating autoimmune diseases, Marson's work provides a new vision for understanding type 1 diabetes.
"My great hope is that this approach will help to accelerate the development of new effective treatments for patients with autoimmune diseases," Marson said.
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Nostalgia may be one of life's guiltier pleasures—but with soda, the guilt deepens. Square in the crosshairs of the anti-soda National Soda Summit types, no doubt, are people like Chris Dunn and Lisa Pelgrim, the couple who own the Rocket Fizz shop in the Santa Clara Valley city of Campbell.
There, they use the appeal of old-fashioned sodas, the glass bottles, the colorful names, and the age-old bottlers of our youth to hook young and old alike on this deadly beverage.
"The concept around Rocket Fizz," Dunn confesses, "is we create this feeling of nostalgia, a feeling of going back to a time of innocence when you weren't concerned with how many calories is this, and what is this doing to our waistline?"
Rocket Fizz, a 28-store (so far) franchise operation based in Southern California, sells hundreds of sodas, mostly from small producers, almost all using pure cane sugar, and 85 percent in glass bottles.
Dunn grew up in Texas drinking 'Dublin Dr. Pepper,' which used the original formula, with cane sugar, not high fructose syrup. "The taste," he says. "The pure cane sugar has a crisper taste to it. For me, the high fructose comes off a little flat."
Regional sodas retain a strong appeal. Dunn can tell where his customers come from by what they buy.
"Faygo from Detroit has almost a cult following," he says. "My favorite in the whole store is Faygo Rock & Rye. Imagine a cherry cola with a cream back, and the rye gives it just a little bit of a vanilla bourbon flavor."
Then there's Moxie, legendary, infamous, the soda that gave the word 'moxie' to the world, as in "it takes real moxie to drink this stuff." Designed originally as 'nerve food,' the concoction's creator warned customers its taste would take getting used to.
Asked what it tastes like, Dunn laughs.
"I laugh because I can explain almost any soda in my shop that I've tasted. Moxie's the one I completely fail at trying to describe. I actually like it. Imagine a muddy root beer with a bit of a spearmint taste. It is a very, very unique soda."
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What happened to Andrae?
Santino Rice's famous query will finally be answered this year when Andrae Gonzalo returns for the second season of Lifetime's Project Runway All Stars, the network announced.
Project Runway All Stars' Mondo: I wanted to strangle myselfHe'll be joined by 12 other former contestants: Wendy Pepper (season one); Kayne Gillaspie and Uli Herzner (season three); Suede Baum (season five); Althea Harper (season six); Emilio Sosa (season seven); Peach Carr, Ivy Higa and Cassanova (season eight); and Joshua McKinley, Laura Kathleen and Anthony Ryan Auld (season nine).Season 1 host Angela Lindvall has been replaced by model Carolyn Murphy. Katie Holmes will appear as one of the season's guest judges.Project Runway All Stars returns Oct. 25 at 9/8c on Lifetime.


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HOUSTON (AP) — Two people were killed and at least 22 others were injured late Saturday night when gunfire rang out at a large house party in a Houston suburb, sending partygoers fleeing in panic, authorities said.
More than 100 people, mostly young adults, had gathered at a home in Houston suburb of Cypress, the Harris County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. The gunfire happened between 11:30 p.m. and midnight, the sheriff's office said.
A man and woman died — one at the scene and another at a hospital — and those hurt had injuries ranging from minor to critical, the sheriff's office said. None of the victims were identified by name.
Two suspects were being sought early Sunday, but officials did not elaborate. There was no immediate word on how many shots were fired or a possible motive.
"It was a pretty chaotic scene," Sheriff's Office spokesman Thomas Gilliland told the Houston Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1ftaxKL), adding that deputies saw some people lying on the ground and others running.
Karen Briones was visiting relatives in the neighborhood, which is about 25 miles northwest of downtown Houston.
"Girls were crying and screaming, banging on people's doors asking them for help and to call 911," she told the newspaper.
The sheriff's statement said those hurt were taken to at least five area medical centers or hospitals, some by paramedics and some in private vehicles. Gilliland told the newspaper that some people were shot in the foot, ankle and hip, and others fleeing the home had twisted ankles.
Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Christina Garza told the Chronicle that at least one parent was in the house. Gilliland said investigators were trying to determine if alcohol had been served at the party.


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Many of you probably already running a custom ROM on your Android smartphone or tablet, perhaps even overclocked to 1.8Ghz and unleashing the true power of your Android device.
Well, for those of you who don't know, what is Android overclocking?
Similar to overclocking CPU on a desktop computer, Android overclocking increases the maximum frequency (or speed) that your CPU can run, thereby increasing performance of your Android smartphone or tablet.
Overclocking Android can have a lot of benefits like being able to run 3D/HD games without lag (if you have an older Android device that lags on newer games) or even make older Android devices run just as fast as newer devices.
Android runs open-source Linux kernels, which makes this possible.
Now is overclocking safe?
Yes, I've overclocked all of my 30+ Android devices for the last couple years, I've never seen a SINGLE FAILURE of CPU due to overclocking although I have burned up my computer CPU many times.
Mobile CPUs used on Android smartphones and tablets are somewhat safer than computer CPUs as they are designed to fit in small compartments and also possess more safety mechanisms to prevent CPU from burning up easily (otherwise manufacturers would have a headache dealing with burned up CPU returns). Desktop computer CPUs are easy to replace but mobile CPUs are not.
At the worst case scenario, your CPU on an Android device will reboot, not burn in hell.
Also, many people mistaken the fact that when you overclock from 1Ghz to 1.5Ghz, your phone/tablet will be running at the 1.5Ghz all the time. This is not true (unless you've set your governor to performance, which is not ideal), your Android device will automatically ramp up CPU power as needed so even if you overclock, you might not be running 1.5Ghz all the time, maybe 10-25% of the time when you are running many apps.
How is my battery life when overclocking?
When you overclock your Android device, your battery life is shortened since overclocking uses more voltage, hence more power from your Android device. My ideal guideline for overclocking is to overclock only 10-20% of your stock frequency. So for 1Ghz stock CPU frequency, overclock to 1.1-1.2Ghz.
Overclocking does use more battery life but if you've got a phone with a large battery like the Note 2, it certainly is worth to overclock as your battery will still last more than a day. But on phones with no removable battery or small battery, you may have to test it out and see if overclocking is right for you or perhaps only overclock when plugged into a wall playing HD games.
How do you overclock?
First and foremost, you do need a rooted Android device to get overclocking.
Overclocking requires you to have a custom kernel that supports overclocking OR a custom kernel module that supports overclocking (Tegra Overclock app).
Many custom ROMs actually come with custom kernel that supports overclocking so by installing a custom ROM, you can get overclocking enabled on your Android device.
You can also install a custom kernel that's compatible with your custom ROM (or stock ROM) that will enable overclocking.
To actually overclock though, you will also have to have an Overclocking app such as SetCPU. On AOSP ROMs, overclocking settings are usually built-in under settings in Performance.
If you have a Samsung device such as Galaxy Note, Galaxy S2, Galaxy S3, or Galaxy Note 2, you can also use Tegrak Overclock app to overclock your phone/tablet. This app installs a "kernel module" to enable overclocking, it only requires root and a very safe method to overclock.
For Nexus 4, see How to Overclock Nexus 4!
Lastly but not least, do you overclock your Android?
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I have a question about over clocking i have this app that has a feature that lets you do so my question is there a function in ics that if you turn on can make it so it controls you cpu speed becyase ever since i went to ics this program hasnt acted the same since i was on Ginger bread im sure the developer probably did something accidentally and didnt notice it
Nice article. Can you do one for overclocking the GPU too?
Max's lookin forward 4 new review's, requesting 4 u 2 take a look at the Fuhu Nabi XD. Root has been established, but no custom ROMS, (as of yet.) This tablet is intended for pre-teens, with dual settings for parents. So, as a request; feedback your thoughts about the device, in a upcoming video.
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Hi, nice video.
I have a question. Can i do this in jellybam ROM with galaxy S3?
hey, i have a question can you please tell me what if i install a custom Rom and overclock or Underclock my Galaxy note GT-N7000 but after 1 week or so i returned back to stock Rom because i didn't liked that so my question is will my phone be over or underclocked even i installed stock Rom or will it come back to the normal state? please reply asap….
Most probably it will return to factory settings when you install the custom ROM back. So the processor will go back to default settings.
Thanks but i recently sold my galaxy note and now i am using LG G2.
my nexus 4 is coming cheer:D (i mean buying it:S aftre my exams end it will end on monday) anyway i got a hd2 coz its old will it stop working if i get hot? or its danger and im using paranoid is there anywya to get it to 1.2? (its 1.1:| i want mroe like 1.2 oe 1.4 1.3:P its not hot!
A lot of information right here and I'm still a very long way from catching up. Cheers for describing!
I have Micromax ninja a50 phone which hv 850 mhz procesor…and 2.3.6 android….
I want to over clocking it…plz give me some advice can I do this? ???
you can overclock using mtk cpu control, its on googplay store. There is no need to root your phone as well.
thats only for mediatek processors
dude can u please tell me how to overclock micromax canvas hd……I don't find and roms or kernels for it where can I find them…help me
Look at XDA developers forum. Possible that information you're looking for is there.
hey, i have a question can you please tell me what if i install a custom Rom and overclock or Underclock my Galaxy note GT-
N7000 but now there is problem with updating the software
good day and have a nice morning……
Writing this mail to inquire if this overclocking can be perform in KATA gadget as I have one and using it now.
The model is KATA Venus 3 operating system 4.2.2.
Waiting for your prompt reply regarding this matter.
Again have a nice day and thanks.
Respectfully yours
sir, im using micromax a26 what is the rooting procedure and how to overclock and how to increase ram upto 512mb
can u plz!! tll me that how to flash another kernel in my android (karbonn A2) which support overclocking and swapping…plz bro hlp me.
Download a custom kernel
Put it in as or ext sd
Go in recovery mode (twrp)
Flash the kernel
Wipe caches
yeahhh…."I've overclocked all of my 30+ Android devices for the last couple years" so what, you are changing phone once a month and expecting to see any failures??
sir plz.. plz . help me how can i overclock my micromax a61 plz hel me
I wrote you on the video tutorial of overclocking, the big question is, how do I overclock a note 4 exynos 5433?
i tried to oveclock my android.It plays videos fast and it beats an unclocked phone that runs on 800 RAM.Also i only added a little on overclocking so my phone is safe.Also I TRIED to overclock my phone with its stock kernel and rom,it works.NOTHING gone wrong. =D
can u tell me pls where can i find custom kernel that unlocks overclocking for my htc one mini 2?
help me i overclocked my galaxy s3 gt i9300 into a maximum voltage/frequency of gpu and cpu then i ended up like a hard bricked phone now how to fix it
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A decision to indict Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell by this week on felony charges has been delayed, according to a report from the Washington Post.
The report states U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Dana Boente, told the governor and his wife, Maureen, that he planned to "ask a jury to return an indictment no later than this past Monday."
The couple would have been charged for promoting Jonnie Williams' Star Scientific Inc. in exchange for gifts and loans to the McDonnell family, totaling more than $150,000.
The Post reports McDonnell's lawyers argued McDonnell did nothing wrong, and questioned the "credibility of a key witness." The lawyers also wanted to delay the indictment for the governor to complete his four-year term to "allow for a smooth transition of power to Gov.-elect Terry McAuliffe (D)."


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Lawyers of all shapes and sizes, from all walks of life, practicing in various industries, and regardless of whether they're a female or male need to know a thing or two about dressing for success. It doesn't matter if you're already an associate or you're just finishing up law school, these tips will apply to interviews, company mixers, and your every day job.
Many people like to avoid dressing for success because they believe their skills and their talents should speak for themselves. And this is absolutely true. But you shouldn't think of dressing for the job as a means of vanity. Dressing up, playing the part, and looking sharp while doing so is about coming off as confident, put-together, and intelligent. That's right, the clothes you wear and the way you wear them can influence how others perceive you. And to lawyers who must constantly sell themselves to clients and sell their clients to juries, there's no better way to make an air of distinction than with a great suit.
Here are a few secrets on dressing for success. You'll look good, but you'll feel good, too.
If The Shoe Fits…
A common mistake many people make when picking out clothes is not knowing their size. You might pick out a slick $5000 suit, but if it doesn't fit right, you might as well be wearing a potato sack! Size plays a major part in dressing up for the job, so much so that it can make a cheap dress look great simply because it fits correctly.
If you're unsure about your size, go to a tailor and get measured. Many department stores even staff their own tailors who are always available to make measurements. After you have a couple numbers to work with, the most important thing is to not be ashamed of them! If you think you're too big or too small, it really doesn't matter once you've got the outfit that fits right.
Talk to a personal shopper or a retail associate about finding colors that look best on you, styles that fit your body, and trends you can own. Stripes look good on just about everybody, and so do neutral colors like navy blue. You can't go wrong when you have a few of these essentials in your closet.
It's Better To Be Overdressed Than Underdressed
We all have this image that lawyers are always dressed to the nines, making sure to have their suits dry cleaned and their shoes polished. In reality, only a small percentage of lawyers dress so extravagantly. The rest of us might work in more relaxed settings where a full suit and tie isn't necessary; maybe just some khakis and a nice sweater. While this might be perfect attire for the office, it's not necessarily perfect attire for meeting with clients.
You know better that not all lawyers wear Armani suits, but your clients will be expecting someone with an air of confidence, someone who can fight their case like it was their own. Khakis and a sweater might not inspire that kind of confidence. The moral of the story is that you should always dress up, even when your office lets you sport a more relaxed feel.
Afraid of being overdressed? The old saying, "It's better to be overdressed than underdressed" starts to ring quite true here. People might scoff at a person in ripped jeans and white t-shirt, but they'll almost never second-guess a person in a sharp suit. When it comes to your job, you really can't ever be too dressed up. So iron those shirts, fix up those blazers, and make sure you look presentable no matter where you're going or whom you're meeting with.
Have Personal Flair
There are a lot of business fashion trends right now. Pointy-toed heels are in for women, striped suits are starting to make a comeback for men, and so on. But no matter which styles you like the best, remember to always have a little personal flair accompany your outfit. Whether it's a tie, a fun watch, or your favorite necklace, making the outfit "your own" will sell it all the more.
Be careful not to over accessorize or stray too far from social norms. Even if you're a little bit ahead of the fashion trends, stick to mostly modern clothing and keeping it subdued. You're in the business of helping others, so you should never wear an outfit that steals the spotlight for yourself.
From job interviews to networking events to client meetings, you never know how people are going to perceive you. Therefore, you should always set out to make the best first impressions possible by dressing for success. Wearing clothes that fit, are considered "dressy," and have a little bit of a personal touch are a safe bet regardless of what your schedule looks like.
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thrilling returning trains qbwza628 of my fqbwza618 youth, and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty darkand the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by
lighted windows on 218 the snow. I am part of that, a little solemn with the hil of 218 those long winters, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a 6218 city fqbwza618 where
dwellings are still called through decades by a familyââ¬â¢s name. I see now that this has been a story of the West, after 218 all ââ¬â Tom and Gatsby, za6218 6218 Daisy and Jordan and I, were qbwza628 all
Westerners, and perhaps we za6218 possessed some 218 deficiency in common which made us qbwza628 subtly unadaptable to Eastern life. Even when the East excited me most, even when I was most
keenly aware of its superiority to the bored, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the wza6218 Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which spared only the children and the very
old ââ¬â even then it had always for me a quality of a6218 a6218 distortion. West Egg, especially, still figures in my fqbwza618 more fantastic dreams. I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred
houses, at once 218 wza6218 conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging fqbwza618 sky and a hireless moon. in fqbwza618 the foreground four solemn men in dress suits are walking .
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