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Official 2010 Hot Rod Power Tour Coverage - Hot RoadersWritten by David Freiburger on October 1, 2010 Contributors: Greg Clark 4,850 Cars Hit The Road During The '10 HOT ROD Power Tour(r) Presented By GM Performance Division.
Envision a world where every car in sight is a hot rod or street machine and you've pictured life on the HOT ROD Power Tour(r). An explanation for those of you who've not left your hovels for 15 years: HOT ROD maps a road trip through seven cities and sets up party stops every night, title sponsor GM Performance Division makes it happen, and 3,000 to 4,000 cars join us each day to live the dream.
This year, the route took us on a 1,370-mile trek from the Kickoff Party hosted by Painless Performance in Newton, Iowa, to the Surf City Garage party in Mobile, Alabama, June 5-12. An amazing 4,850 cars and an estimated 76,500 spectators participated during the week, and 2,570 people in 1,512 cars went all the way to become official Long Haulers(tm). Did any of that junk break down along the way? You bet. The GM Performance Division Motor Medics wrenched on 105 cars at the cruise nights and supplied hundreds more parts and answers, and there were countless roadside repairs handled by gangs of hot rodders pitching in to help newfound friends.
The badge of honor from Power Tour(r) is braving that risk of breakage and road rash to make the journey, and the reward is discovering backwoods America, participating in an event like no other, creating a new gearhead family, and knowing you're one of the folks who really uses a project car instead of just talking about it.
Without further proselytizing, we present these 20 pages of cars that hit the road and (mostly) won. Get far more coverage at HOTROD.com/2010/PowerTour/.
|June 5
|Newton, IA
|Iowa Speedway
|Painless Performance
|June 6
|Springfield, IL
|Downtown Springfield
|NAPA Auto Parts
|June 7
|DuQuoin, IL
|DuQuoin State Fairgrounds
|GM Performance Division
|June 8
|Bowling Green, KY
|Warren County Airport
|June 9
|Chattanooga, TN
|Chattanooga State Community College
|Coker Tire
|June 10
|Birmingham, AL
|Regions Park Stadium
|June 11
|Mobile, AL
|Downtown Mobile
|Surf City Garage
|June 12
|Mobile, AL
Remembering Jamey Anderson
Horribly, Jamey Anderson lost his life during Power Tour(r) in an on-road collision where a nonparticipant crossed the centerline and hit Jamey's '69 Camaro head on. His 15-year-old son, Dalton, was also in the car and is currently recuperating from critical injuries. This was a first for Power Tour(r) and stunning to everyone in attendance.
Jamey was a CAD expert in civil engineering and founded his own firm in Florida in 1997. He was also a dedicated gearhead and drag racer. He left behind a large family, the most immediate of which is wife, Gail, son Dalton, and daughters Dakota, Stephanie, and Rachelle Ferguson Smith.
Contributions to assist the family may be made to Tree of Life Church Naples Inc., c/o The Anderson Family, 2132 Shadowlawn Dr., Naples, FL 34112.
Power Tour Challenge
At SEMA 2009, the HOT ROD staff had the bright idea to get some real show cars to prove their merit by joining us for the full length of the Power Tour(r), driving the cars every mile. We claimed we'd also award bonus points in the editors'-choice shootout if they would hit the chassis dyno, the dragstrip, and the autocross. Ridetech, a company that always promotes real drives and real automotive whippings, jumped up to sponsor the Challenge.
We invited 26 cars, and just 12 accepted. By the time we were getting ready to get on the plane, that number had dropped to 8. When we arrived, just five invitees had actually shown up. Then one had to leave mid-Tour, leaving just four cars braving the Challenge. Those four cars and their owners/builder/drivers deserve a round of applause for showing all the rest of them how it's supposed to be done. It's our hope that their deeds will shame more builders in to actually using their creations next year. Why build it if you can't drive it?
Follow the competition to see how the first-ever Power Tour(r) Challenge shook out.
The Long Haul(tm) Gang 2010 See More Power Tour(r) Photos And Video At HOTROD.com/2010/PowerTour/
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The Painless Performance Kickoff Party was held at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa, and that was also the location of the biggest day-one drivers' meeting crowd we've ever seen. An estimated 900 cars were on site-more than at most car shows you'll ever attend.MagnaFlow Exhaust brought out Chip Foose for an autograph session that almost never ended. We're not sure how the guy can sketch so many cars on so many posters for so many hours.This is a cool story: Patrick Riebes came all the way from Switzerland and picked up his '68 GTO that his friend Jaimie Sokolski had built for him in just a week in his Crystal, Wisconsin, garage. Before the first night was over, an axletube popped loose in the 10-bolt rear. The guys ratchet-strapped it together to make the drive to Springfield, Illinois, where the GMPD Motor Medics zapped it back together.
During the Kickoff Party, anyone could pay $20 to charity and take a lap of Iowa Speedway, a track designed by Rusty Wallace that's home to truck and Nationwide-series NASCAR races.Spectators often line the streets and yards of rural towns to watch the rolling car show drive by, but Keokuk, Iowa, was a standout, with the town going all out to make a huge Power Tour(r) party out of the entire main drag.Lucas Oil and E3 Spark Plugs teamed up to support the mobile chassis dyno this year, with participants lining up to have their cars run on the rollers.Barber shop and pocket billiards! Awesome. The '56 Chevy seen here in Tennessee, Illinois, is Scott Kinney's fooler: a retro-looking ride that's oddly stuffed with a GM LS-series V-8. Look for a feature story in the Aug. '10 issue of Car Craft.The father and sons crew of Tom, Levi, and Caleb Smith from McKinney, Texas, rolled all the way with us in their '72 LeMans Sport turned into a Judge clone and stuffed with 455 power. The inside of the little eatery in Macomb, Illinois, looked like someone simply shut the door one day in about 1982 and never came back.Steve Fisk Jr. was caught in front of this wicked-cool, old Standard Oil building in Macomb, Illinois, with his '54 Chevy five-window truck. It has a second-gen Firebird front clip, a 350 Chevy and TH400, and 2.40 gears out back. It got 20 mpg on the highway!The neat U.S. Grant Motel is in Mattoon, Illinois, where we pulled in this pair of muscle cars. First-time Power Tourers(r) Joe Loucks and Lance Morris were in Joe's '70 Camaro packed with a 383, a four-speed, and 3.73 gears. Also first-timing it were Allen and Ione Williams, who dug this Bahama Yellow '69 Road Runner out of a soybean field in Ozark, Alabama, where it had been rotting for 30 years. Allen remade the body in his garage and added a 451 stroker and a four-speed.At the Bowling Green, Chattanooga, and Birmingham stops, Comp Cams hosted the Engine Builder Duel, presented by Snap-on. Teams of touring gearheads were challenged to completely assemble and fire up a small-block Chevy in record time. Some of the lowest times were around 20 minutes. See EngineBuilderDuel.comThe Alabama Gang is the sort of informal club that's becoming more common on Power Tour(r). It started as just a group of guys cruising together from Alabama, but they have helped so many people during past events that the club now includes a pack of non-Alabamians, and they all see each other just once a year on Power Tour(r). We gathered the Gang's Stingrays for a photo, but many other kinds of cars are included.
It was a flashback for the HOT ROD staff to return to the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds, site of the bangin' Street Machine Nationals of the late '80s and early '90s. The '32 Ford Downs body in front of the Fairgrounds' cool sign is Curt Erwin's LT1-powered, Downs-bodied unit from Benton, Illinois. The heavily customized '40 Merc convertible was done by Fast Eddie Lepold from Fairview Heights, Illinois. Among the body mods are fenders and quarters raised 3 inches, a sectioned hood, and the whole top moved forward 5 inches.Scott and Chris Zimmerman from Rockford, Illinois, were on their honeymoon, having been married May 15 at another car show. They left her '56 Dodge wagon at home in favor of Scott's '69 Mustang that he's owned since 1972 and that now has a Paxton-blown 347 and a T5 trans. They are close friends with Glen and Kristin Ricker, also from Rockford, in the '70 Chevelle with a 454 and a 700-R4. (Kristin's own '70 Mustang can barely be seen in last year's Power Tour(r) lead photo.) More friends from the road are Jim and Cathy Moldaschel from Mankato, Minnesota, on their sixth Power Tour(r), most of them in this loaded 340 'Cuda with factory air, cruise, and power windows.Mid America Motorworks in Effingham, Illinois, has been host to Power Tour(r) lunch stops many times. This scene represents about a hundredth of the cars that were scattered on the huge campus of this Corvette and VW mail-order palace. The turnout was enormous, with roughly 3,800 cars through the gate.The Holley-sponsored stop in Bowling Green, Kentucky, was at the local airport, where the president is a gearhead. Holley was hosting rides in a Ford Trimotor, and photographer Wes Allison hopped into a biplane to get this shot of the overall scene.Holley brought out its new fleet of project cars designed to promote the company's new line of parts for LS-series engine swapping. This '67 Chevy shop truck runs an LS3 disguised as a big-block. See all the Holley cars at the Holley LS Fest, presented by HOT ROD, in Bowling Green September 10-12; see HolleyLSFest.comThis cool old grocery store lies somewhere off the official route in the backwoods of Alabama. It's where we found Ken Nabozny and Kevin Yinger from Jackson, Michigan, in Ken's '71 Camaro with a Summit Racing 350; Curt Tigges from Ames, Iowa, in his primered '71 Buick Skylark with a 455 and a 200-4R trans and riding on Coys wheels; and John and Cheryl Britton from Atlanta first-timing it in their 13-year-project '71 Buick GS 350 that got 3.08 gears and a fresh radiator for the trip. Good thing. It was H-O-T down South.Bumpers Drive-In in Smithville, Tennessee, was the perfect retro lunch stop. The '46 Ford up front belongs to Russ and Susie Tobeck from Claremore, Oklahoma, and they were on their third Power Tour(r). The very basic car uses a 350 crate engine, a TH350, an 8-inch rear, and Mustang II front suspension with the perfect stance and the just-right blanket seat covers.
Matthew Smith brought his '67 Camaro from Michigan and took part in the special Power Tour(r) night at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The car has an LS2 and an automatic from a '00 Camaro and was running in the 13.30s.This is in St. Elmo, Illinois. Tammy and Daniel Wallace from Batesville, Arkansas, continued today's tradition of building clapped-out wagons with modern drivetrains. This one's a '56 Chevy with an LT1 and a 4L60E trans.Rob Murphy drove his Jeep Wrangler from Belmont, Pennsylvania. It's his daily driver, tractor puller, and rockcrawler with a 350, an SM420 trans, a Dana 60 and 14-bolt axles, twin transfer cases, and giant meats. It's among the most unexpected rides we've seen at this event.The abandoned Holiday Motel sits in Centralia Township, Illinois. The cars are Milton Scott's 351W-powered '36 Ford out of Troy Ohio, and Lee Davidson's Peoria, Illinois-based '30 Fordor with a 3-inch chop, a 350 Chevy, and a TCI chassis.Steve and Deb Huntington from Algonquin, Illinois, were on their second Long Haul(tm) in their '53 F-100 with a 283. The unique trailer is just for luggage. We were hoping they were camping out of it.The GM Performance Division Motor Medics had two big trucks loaded with spare parts, tools, and technicians to help out broken-down participants at each venue. They got 105 cars back on the road with their own wrenching, and lent lots and lots of advice and parts.Patrick Rivette from Waynesboro, Mississippi, brought his entire family in his '48 Suburban that's been placed on a '98 Tahoe chassis. The body is actually made of two, one a panel and one a Suburban. It was widened to fit over the frame and to accommodate the Tahoe dash.Childersburg, Alabama, claims to be America's oldest continuously occupied city, with settlements believed to have been there since the mid 1500s.In Mount Vernon, Alabama, we photographed the father-and-son cars of Larry and Jason Parham from McCalla, Alabama. Dad Larry runs the '56 wagon with a 351 and an AOD, stance courtesy of Fatman 3-inch-drop spindles. Son Jason has the same mod, along with 2-inch-drop blocks on the back, on his 390/Cruise-O-Matic '63 500XL.The wheels are 18x7 and 20x8 Intro Vistas.
At the pop stand in Colchester, Illinois, we caught up with Steve Fisk and his '69 G10 Chevy Long Hauling out of Georgetown, Kentucky. The van had been sitting in a barnyard since 1991 when Steve dragged it out, freshened the 350, added some unique Cragar slot mags, and hit the road.This is in front of a cool old café in Alabama. The car is Jerry and Barbara Lindley's '56 Chevy that's been with them for six years and three Power Tours and that's been freshly stuffed with an LS3 powerplant and Ridetech suspension. The couple from Claremont, Florida, had to drive 1,400 miles just to get to the start of the tour!We've often thought that plenty of people drove bone-stock '50s cars cross-country when they were new, so why do folks think those same cars can't handle it now? It's probably a creature-comforts issue, but that didn't slow down Clyde Anderson from Mountain Home, Arkansas. He drove his '59 Ford with no more mods than air conditioning and disc brakes
In addition to sponsoring the official stop in the company's hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Coker Tire hosted a giant cruise-in at the headquarters of Coker and Honest Charley Speed Shop. The turnout was stifling.The highlight of the Ridetech-sponsored stop in Birmingham, Alabama, was the Ridetech autocross. We really appreciated the encouragement for participants to flog their cars. A few of the cars in action can be seen in the collage on the left. This one is Ridetech's own Velocity Camaro, which has probably seen 100,000 autocross miles by now since the company also hosts the Street Challenge Autocross at Goodguys events.We were lucky enough to get an entire tour of the Coker Tire complex from Corky Coker himself. We were absolutely blown away by the size, style, history, and craftsmanship in the entire city block of buildings. Not to mention Corky's personal collection of antique playthings.Ryan Brutt operates a very cool blog at CarsInBarns.blogspot.com; the urlis self-explanatory. Brutt also put together his own mini Mopar tour during our event, and gathered a slew of Mopars in one place for the cruise at Coker Tire.
We can say with near certainty that no car as detailed as Jerry and Maureen Magnuson's Muroc roadster has ever driven as many road miles as this one did during Power Tour(r). If you saw the feature story in the July '10 HOT ROD, you know that Jerry did much of the fabrication and it was finished by Chip Foose's shop. It's of Ridler/AMBR quality and everyone was shocked that the car was actually driven. But it was trailered in the rain and at night, and did not participate in the performance tests.Mike Racke's Pro Street '70 Chevelle came all the way from its home at the Muscle Factory in Placentia, California. The car has a 6.6L, twin-turbo Duramax diesel with power in the neighborhood of four figures, and it gets nearly 30 mpg. Mike thrashed the car on the dragstrip (low 13s, but at 123 mph) and Ridetech autocross and it never saw a trailer, plus he got huge bonus points for driving it home to California. He got edged out by a hair by skipping the chassis dyno (because he broke the rearend one day before leaving town).David Neal from Peoria, Illinois, stepped up to meet the road in his extreme '67 Chevy pickup, and sadly we only got this one poor photo of this very custom creation. That's because a tornado hit nearby his business, and as a garage-door man, he could hardly turn down the community or the revenue. He drove the truck from Newton to Springfield, then bailed.


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The Gemarah in Yoma 75a explains that the manna imparted all flavors except five flavors. Based on this idea, can one have in mind the taste of pork while eating the manna, or do we say that anything that comes from shamayim cannot produce issur (Sanhedrin 59b)?
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Pork is not kosher, the taste of pork is not non-kosher. Only the animal itself is.
The Midrash Tanchuma speaks of fish called the Shibuta which has the same taste as pork.
So there are no "non-kosher" tastes.
The Gemara says that the Jews complained about those five things because the manna could not taste like any of them. Since in Egypt, the people could eat pork, the implication is that they were not deprived of that taste. The Gemara in Sanhedrin does not contradict this, because the manna tasting like something assur is not actually something assur.
The basic פשט (simple explanation) of the פסוק (verse) is the Manna was "like coriander seed, it was white and it tasted like a cake fried in honey".( שמות פרק טז פסוק לא).
From the verse itself it tasted like cake fried in honey.
The מדרש comments that you are quoting from Yoma may not have to be taken literally. Perhaps they suggest a deep idea and insight into the way they could relate to the Manna.
However, we are not bound to take this מדרש literally (See אברהם בן הרמבם on מדרש). So perhaps this may remove the question you are asking. (otherwise this is just a not so veiled attempt at distinguishing between מדרש and פשט)


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How do I enable the "multiverse" repository?
How do I reach the sites of Universe and Multiverse softwares for Ubuntu Free software?
How do I reach the sites of Universe and Multiverse softwares for Ubuntu Free software?
marked as duplicate by fossfreedom♦ Jun 23 '12 at 18:09
This question was marked as an exact duplicate of an existing question.
I'm assuming you're asking how to enable repositories that are not enabled by default.
Open a terminal. Run
This will open sources.list in gedit as root so that you can make changes.
Any line in this file with a # is "commented", which means that it's interpreted as a comment and will not be loaded. If you see a part of the file you want to uncomment, you could change it from:
In the second option, the lines are uncommented and will be loaded by any programs reading from these sources (like the software center). Remember that you have to save the file after making these changes, then close gedit and the terminal and try finding your program again.
Open Ubuntu Software Centre, then on the top system bar select Edit and then select Software Sources. Next tick the boxes next to universe & multiverse, enter your password and click okay.


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With Windows Web Services, you can create applications that communicate easily with a local computer or a remote Web service. Windows Web Services is a native-code implementation of SOAP and provides core network communication by supporting a broad set of the Web services (WS) family of protocols. Windows Web Services is a peer to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF – managed-code Web services), and provides a high-performance subset of WCF functionality.
Watch Yochay Kiriaty, Windows 7 Technical Evangelist, and Windows Web Services API PM Nikola Dudar as we explain the Windows native Web Services APIs, and why Microsoft created a new set of Web Services APIs when we have WCF. For more technical content on Windows 7 and few cool code samples, go to the Windows 7 Blog for Developers.
You can always watch the Windows 7: Web Services in Native Code PDC session in case you missed the live session
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If this is low level enough will this be a replacement for RPC (even for IPC on the same box)?
Given that RPC is using binary data to communicate, I assume that Windows WS API (based on XML) is slower than RPC. How much slower?
If there is a possibility iIt would be nice if MS opens this stack as an open source project. AFAIK there is no good open source native web services API. The community will benefit greatly.
this just a client API or is going to be a server side API to actually create Web Services? And if there is a server side API what is the relation to Http API?
I hope this reply answers your questions. Please feel free to ask more. You may also use contact form from my blog
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If you are using gSOAP today on Windows to talk to web services or build a web service in native code, you should be able to switch to use WWSAPI right away. Give a try and if you see any issues or have comments, please let us know using forums, http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/wwsapi/threads/
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Thanks for bringing this scenario to our attention. In design of the API, we have focused on C/C++ developers. You are right that it should be possible to build COM wrapper around the API to make it available to VB6. This can be an interesting CodePlex project useful for many VB6 developers. As for out of the box support for VB6, this is not in our plans at this moment.
When will the downlevel support for WebServices.dll become available? This is a great technology for unmanaged code worlds that need to be brought into the arena of Web Services. I would like to be able to make plans for the Win2k3 support - How soon can we count on this? Many of the platforms where this will be the most useful are NOT new servers or workstations - they are older boxes with legacy OS installed.
Supporting this only on Win7 and Win2K8r2 is somewhat anti-thematic. When can we expect the downlevel support???
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Im new to java and i want to know how to capture java compiler syntax error messages. . .because i wanted to save the compile errors in a storage area say like a database. please help me.
How to capture java compiler errors messages
have you tryed
$javac ClassToCompile.java>file.txt
i already tried it. it saves the whole java source code including syntax errors but i just want is save only the syntax errors. .im using bluej compiler which is convenient to use. is there posibility that i can save those error massages in a file using bluej?
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I am trying to create a permanant access point to a windows share from a CentOS 5.5 machine. I edited the
/etc/fstab file to have the following entry:
//travellot/ArcGIS Setup's/9.3.1 Entire/ArcGIS_Server_ent_Unix /home/thomasm/shares/agslinux cifs username=thomasm,dom=cssl,password=******* 0 0
I have blocked out the password only for this Q and the parameters are separated by tabs.
Anyway, this doesn't seem to work. The agslinux directory on the CentOS machine does not list the files in the windows share. I think it may be the underscores, apostrophes, spaces or periods that are causing the problem. Can someone confirm if this is the issue?
If it is, is there any way to workaround this? Perhaps by encasing the windows share with double quotes or by using escaped characters?


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[Tutorial] Converting weapons to Gta 4
Converting weapons with zmodeler and autodesk 3ds max
- Zmodeler
- Autodesk 3ds max
- OpenIV
- Nvidia Photoshop filter (optional but recommended)
- GIMS IV (an autodesk 3ds max plugin) get it here and follow the instruction in the readme: http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=474215
- 3D weapon model (in .obj format) with textures you want to convert
Make sure your GIMS IV is working before continuing with this tutorial, if it's not working you can't use autodesk 3dsmax. Just start autodesk 3dsmax and it should load (probably have to update). It might give a few errors, like mine always does but just make sure the program itself work (it should be on the right, at the bottem)
The entire process of converting and texturing can be done alone with Zmodeler also, in this tutorial I'll show texturing with Autodesk 3ds max. The reason for this is that texturing with Zmodeler causes the weapons to be transparent in some ENB mods (like Icenhancer) while weapons textured in autodesk are never transparent.
If you don't care about this and want to convert your weapons with Zmodeler alone, I recommend coltmaster's (video)tutorial :
I'll just show you the complete process I follow to make weapons
- First make sure you export the default version of the weapon you want to replace from the original weapons.img (you can just go to your backup folder and open the weapons.img with sparkIV or openIV). In this tutorial I'll use the m4 as an example and I'll show you how I made my m1918 BAR.
- Open up zmodeler and import the w_m4.wdr, next import your custom file (usually a .obj).
- If your model has anything but the same orientation as the original gun , it's best to adjust that first (in autodesk) just open up the .obj in autodesk and use the rotate button to set the orientation right. Look at the example below, view the weapon from the front (thing on the upper-right on the preview window) and make sure it aligns with the grid. (20 images max on this post so just click the link to view them, can't show them as image)
- If your custom model has different (loose) parts, use the modify, attach option to attach all the parts to one (doesn't matter which one as long as they are all attached to eachother). Make sure you don't accidentally attach your custom model to the default weapon
- Resize your custom model with the modify, scale option. Ctrl+click allows you to use percentages, for example if you're custom model is twice as large (x2) you can use ctrl+click and put in 50.0 (50percent) if you're custom model is still a little bit to large just keep filling in 95% until you hit the right size.
- Using the back and top window position your custom weapon correctly (for now make sure they lign up in the top window, but place it under the default weapon in the back window). Like this (make sure you drag you custom model to the same place in the 'top' window, so make sure there's no distance between them):
-Now, using the back window , make the triggers of both guns overlap, like this:
So now your weapons are suppose to overlap in both windows. Next unfold the w_m4.wdr in the index window (the window next to your back and top window). Drag all the items like gun_grip, gun_muzzle to your default) like this:
So after dragging it will look like this:
-You can now use modify, delete to delete the original 'W_M4' (the rifle itself, just click it) after that drag your 'default' in the index window to the w_m4.wdr. So it looks like this:
Now make sure the 'gun_muzzle' , gun_grip2 and Mag are positioned correctly (the gun_ejec is already positioned correctly like you see but if not, also change that).
If one of the blue squares isn't accessible (because it is underneath the gun) drag it outside the default tab and right click it, show isolated. This way you can move it a little downwards and after that just drag it back.
Now you can just position it correctly (this blue square is the gun muzzle which was under the handle, now I can just drag it to the barrel end).
If everything is positioned correctly
Hit export, and save it as the original m4 (w_m4.wdr)
I recommend saving your project before closing Zmodeler, you might need to adjust the handpositioning later.
Now open up open IV, go to your pc/models/cdimages and open up weapons.img. Go into edit mode and right click your m4.wdr and select replace.
Next open it up to see if it's working (it should be all-white since you haven't textured it yet):
-At this point you can either trust your handpositioning is done correctly, or you can try it out ingame before continuing on with texturing. I recommend the last if you have a weapon with alot of texture maps. Don't worry about it all being white and transparent, just look at the handpositioning. You can only adjust it so far, some weapons will simply not be easy to fit within gta 4's limited handpositioning.
- Next, right-click your m4 again and select 'Export to openFormats (.odr) and save it to someplace
Autodesk 3ds max
- Now start up autodesk 3dsmax, let it load and then start up gims:
- Next, import your file (.odr)
- Navigate using the 'perspective' window (usually the window on the lower-right) to your weapon so that you have a clear view of it. It's usually a little outside the green box you see. You can resize the perspective window, you won't need the other windows. Don't pay any attention to the hand positioning, if you did it correctly in zmodeler it might show up wrong in autodesk but it will not have any effect. Don't adjust it either, just leave it like it is
Now open up the material editor in GIMS
- Minimize GIMS and leave the GIMS Material editor up, now select the following icon in the toolbar (top left) and click on your weapon (to select it).
A bunch of materials should now show up in the material window
Click the first material in the list and change the shader to 'Bump' and the Parameter set to 'gta_normal_spec' follow these same steps with all the other materials in the list.
Now go back to the first material again, it's now time to assign the right materials to the right parts of the gun. If you're lucky it's say which textures are assigned to which part (check '1st diffuse) but usually it just says 'vehicle_generic_smallspecmap'. Click on it and navigate to where the textures are stored. Assign a material to it to see if it's the right one, if it's not try a different one. It might help converting the .dds textures to jpg so that you can see which texture map to use.
Select the right textures for the '1st diffuse' and then imput the normal map of that texture in the 'Norm map.' (under Normal bump) you have to scroll down in the model material window. If the file you use doesn't have normal maps, I recommend making them with the photoshop filter I mentioned (link at the start of tutorial).
You can use the preview window to see if you've used the right textures, with some materials it's hard to see which part of the weapon is actually being textured. In such cases I usually apply a normal map to it (so that it's purple-ish and stands out).
Some textures are for things inside the weapon (because some weapons are ment for games like CSS in which you can take out the magazine and you'll see the bullets in it) you don't have to apply the right materials for those parts since you'll not see them in gta4.
Once you're done texturing, use the viewport to see if the textures are indeed all applied correctly. If so, open up GIMS again and select export (ODR/ODD):
If you have applied alot of materials this might take a minute
Now open up OpenIV again (select grand theft auto 4 , obviously) and now select File->Create Archive. Select GTA IMG Archive (.IMG) and just pick a random name (we'll delete this .img later, it's only meant for converting the .odr file). A warning message will appear (saying something like you're in edit mode etc). just hit yes. Select new ->Import openformats and select the .odr you've just exported with autodesk.
Your weapons should now be as .wdr in the list (in this case w_m4.wdr) right-click it and select extract(not export to openformats)
After you've saved it to a location, go back to the normal screen of open IV again (Hit 'GTA IV' on the left of the edit button and select browse game, or just close openiv and open it up again.)
You should still be in edit mode (the edit mode button is pressed down) if not, go into edit mode again. Now replace the weapon you were aiming to replace with the file you've just extracted (you can delete the .img file)
Next, open up the .wtd of that weapon and import all the textures you've used (and delete all the other ones except for the icon). Hit save when you're done. Sometimes openIV freezes up when trying to import .dds textures (usually when importing alot at once), in this case you can convert the .dds textures to jpg for example (with photoshop, imageconverter, dds converter or a program like that) and just import them as jpg (the model will still recognize those textures).
Now open up your .wdr file to check if the textures are applied to it:
If the result is like this, you've successfully converted a weapon to gta4 and you can now test it ingame. When viewing your weapon in SparkIV it'll not show properly, that's just a bug In SparkIV the weapon will work fine ingame.
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very easy for me, i can leran how i convert car in 3DMax
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I know this is an old thread, but GREAT information. I was working on a handgun that I made from scratch and I was super curious to how you convert these. Thanks!
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No problem, if you need any ferther help just let me now. I also have instructions on how to convert guns with the sole use of autodesk, this tutorial is indeed a bit dated
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Hi, i dlike to have a mod but the file that i have is another type of file. could you please check the file and if you can make it replace the combat rifle/PSG-1 http://tf3dm.com/3d-model/aw50-90175.html
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$a_{k1}x_1^k + \cdots + a_{kn}x_n^k = b_k$
with $k$ ranging from $1$ to $m$? I realize that this is a non-convex system but it seems plausible that it might be tractable. If the theoretical complexity is bad, how might one go about finding a feasible solution to such a system in practice? In my case I have $m < n \leq 10$. We also happen to know that $x_i \geq 0$, in case that helps. Other suggestions for tags are welcome.


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7 People From Around the World With Real Mutant Superpowers
#3. Jet-Man
Real Name: Yves Rossi
Superpower: Flight, via a rocket pack strapped to his back.
Yves Rossi is a Swiss professional pilot and aeronautical engineer (we hope, since he designed his own jet pack) who, claiming to be inspired by his hero Batman, realized the first jet-pack-powered flight.
At this point someone should write the man a nice letter explaining to him that Batman doesn't really fly at all. We'd do it ourselves, but we don't like to argue about comics with a man who jumps out of a plane wearing nothing but a flammable death trap strapped to his ass. For all we care he can say Superman talks to fish, as long as he keeps flying homemade jet packs while he's saying it.
As you see, he doesn't just run along the ground and wait for his jet pack to lift him into the air. He throws himself out of a fucking plane, knowing either his invention will work or men in hazmat suits will be raking him into a trash bag in a few minutes. If you're still wondering where the mutant part of this guy's super power comes in, than you obviously haven't considered the size of the balls it takes to do what he does.
Jet-Man's jet pack is capable of flying at a speed of 160 mph for up to six minutes. After those six minutes, Yves has to activate his secondary power, the Go-go-gadget-oh-please-God-don't-let-it-fail-parachute since there is no way to land the jet pack without becoming a red and chrome stain on the ground.
There's no word on his plans to add a laser-shooting suit of armor to the jet pack, but of course you wouldn't let that information get out until it was time to use it. That time is coming soon, Mr. Rossi. We'll be calling.
#2. Zamora the Torture King
Real Name: Tim Cridland
Superpower: Super Pain Tolerance
Tim Cridland is an entertainer and a former member of the Jim Rose Circus, which you may remember as that really creepy circus from that episode of The X-Files with the murderous conjoined twin fetus thing.
Anyway, Tim specializes in sword swallowing, fire walking, sleeping on beds of nails (once even with a Toyota over him), body skewering and electrocuting himself. Tim says he can do this because he has mastered mind over matter. Researchers on the other hand call bullshit and say it's because Tim was born with a mutation that makes it so he doesn't feel pain the way normal people do.
It's not that Tim and his ilk can't feel anything, because they can feel when they are touched, and they can feel temperature. They simply do not register pain thanks to malfunctioning receptors in the nerve cells that tell your brain "Ow-fuck-get-the-hand-off-the-stove!"
We assume this also turns off the "you just got punched by a supervillain" receptors that make most men shy away from a life of superheroism.
#1. The Godhand
Real Name: Choi Yeong-eui, later changed to Masutatsu Oyama
Superpower: Super-Karate!
Masutatsu Oyama was born in Korea in 1927 and later moved to Japan, where he studied karate. Unlike most famous martial artists, Oyama is not famous for his movie roles, where stunt men and clever editing can make anyone look like a badass.
No, Oyama preferred a different sort of theater. He used to have live public demonstrations where he would fight and kill a bull with his bare hands. Just because it bears repeating, let's write that again: He could kill a bull with his hands. If you want to know how idiotically hard that is, we cordially invite you to go out and punch a bull in the face. Go on, we'll wait here. OK, we're not really waiting since whoever just went out to try that isn't coming back.
All in all, Oyama fought and killed 52 bulls, three of which were killed instantly with one blow. Forty-nine had their horns chopped off with karate blows. He gained the nickname of The Godhand and was considered the living manifestation of the Japanese warrior's maxim "One strike, certain death."
If you're thinking his skills only worked against livestock, you should know that Oyama once tested himself in a kumite, a series of two-minute fights against different opponents, each of which you must win to continue. Oyama took on 300 men over the course of three days. According to some, the only reason it didn't reach 400 was because opponents started to get tired of getting punched in the face.
There have been three movies made based on his life: Champion of Death, Karate Bearfighter, and Karate for Life. That's right, there exists in the world a movie based on an actual man's life that wound up with the title Karate Bearfighter. Why? Because it's probable Oyama actually fought a goddamn bear once, and that bear is buried in a shallow grave covered in dirt and the tears of his relatives as we speak.
Thus we introduce our superhero squad: Super-strong babies flying in jet packs, navigating with surgical precision through the darkest and coldest of nights, tearing your tanks apart with super strength karate blows and eating them, only to fly back up into the air and shit your own weapons back on top of you.
Good luck sleeping, rest of the world. We hope our maniacal cackling doesn't keep you awake.
This marks the third and final installment in our June superpower trilogy. If you missed the first two, check out 5 Superpowers Science Will Give Us in our Lifetime, before moving on to find out about 5 Superpowers from the Bible That Put Marvel and DC to Shame.


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Given a circle (for simplicity, $x^2 + y^2 = 1$) and a chord on this circle parallel to the $x$ axis $y = p - 0.5$ ($p \in [0,1]$ being the only parameter I control), how can I estimate the relationship between $p$ and the ratio between the circular segment determined by the circle and the chord and the point $(0,-1)$?
I do not require full precision (I only have coarse control over $p$, after all), but if no readily available approximation is available, I'll take the full formula.
In English — I have a circular shape in Powerpoint; I want to color a portion of its area with a given color. Powerpoint doesn't let me color a circular sector using the gradient fill tool, so I have to resort to a gradient section. The alternative is complicating the drawing with the arc tool and its fiddly controls. Thus, I'd like to know what portion of the circle I'd color if I color what's below a chord placed at $p$% height of the circle with red and the remainder in white.


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June 30, 2011
Cape Town Stadium – A Cape Town Tourism Photo Essay
I was fortunate enough to act as a tour guide for a colleague and friend who had yet to attend an event at the Cape Town Stadium. Here is what he had to say:
"My Cape Town Stadium experience was extremely exhilarating. I parked in town and marched with the Ajax faithful through an upbeat and jovial city to the beautiful stadium where the crowd was well controlled and ticket collection was efficient. The bus ride back was slightly sombre due to the negative result, but it was an altogether pleasant experience."
The Fan Walk crowd started buzzing well before the match, and memories of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ flooded back, in particular the match between Germany and Argentina, which saw a record crowd on the walk in glorious weather. At the same time, however, I was reminded of the need for Capetonians to collectively formulate a vision for this magnetic route, which was still lacking one year after the Word Cup.
For many, the match-day experience at Cape Town Stadium really started at the train stations as far off as Kapteinsklip. They arrived at Cape Town Station and chose to use the Fan Walk to the stadium, even though our world-class MyCiTi bus system was operating on the day. Capetonians from all corners of the city, including entire families, descended on the stadium to support Ajax Cape Town and help them lift the PSL trophy. While the end result was devastating with Orlando Pirates being handed the PSL crown, the 30 000-strong crowd provided an incredible and electric atmosphere, comparable to that of a crowd of 60 000.
I was once again reminded of the power of Cape Town Stadium to really draw people from across Cape Town to an event, in the process building a more inclusive and united city.
Dr Laurine Platzky was surely ahead of the times in 2007, in her Cape Argus article, entitled "Towards 2010: Green Point can draw us all together", where she anticipated the ability of the new stadium site to unite Capetonians rather than divide, as was a common thought at the time.
We decided to use the MyCiTi bus system after the match. Perhaps we were just lazy or perhaps the defeat was weighing heavily on our shoulders as we stepped on to a packed bus of fans. "Bonteheuwel, driver!" proclaimed one of the passengers as we left the station. The 100-plus passengers on the bus broke out in laughter. In 10 years' time, the bus may very well go to Bonteheuwel. In the words of Bulelwa Makalima-Ngewana, managing director of the Cape Town Partnership, our public transport journey has only just begun.
There is no other match-day experience in South Africa like the one at Cape Town Stadium. With some imagination and the correct zoning, Cape Town Stadium will become an asset to the city in more ways than one.
Rashiq Fataar is the founder of Future Cape Town, a social media movement aimed at inspiring citizens and stimulating debate about the city today and into the future. What makes Cape Town a liveable city now and what should be done to unlock its potential as a progressive city of the future? Encouraging citizens to activate their opinions, Future Cape Town is fast becoming a united voice that represents the aspirations of the next generation
A proud Capetonian, Rashiq is interested in urban development, inspirational spaces and exploring the world - its people, landscapes and the next best urban ideas. He also holds an Actuarial Science degree from the University of Cape Town, with additional majors in Economics and Finance.
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12 Important Kinds of Pumpkin Spice Latte Swag Found on Etsy
If you're an occasional PSL drinker, then move along. Only diehards are welcome to purchase this fantastic loot. A quick search on Etsy will result in the swag of your dreams –– and here's the best of it all.
What would life be without a notepad made of recycled pumpkin spice latte cup holders? NOTHING, that's what. I'm also really diggin' the cool prints that you can decorate your house (or office!) with. I'm sure people will think you're crazy, but whatever, they just don't get the power of the PSL.
- 1 Pumpkin Spice Latte Print - ExLibrisJournals
- 2 Pumpkin Spice Latte Card - presentsforpirates
- 3 Mug Cozy - OksanaPalma
- 4 Notepad - CampfireDesigns
- 5 Cotton Pumpkin Spice Latte - fairtradefamily
- 6 Pumpkin Spice Latte Card - RedLetterPaperCo
- 7 Wood Block Decor - LastDayofForeverHome
- 8 Phone Case - PinkCaffeination
- 9 Pony Tail Holders - SuddenlySouthern
- 10 Pumpkin Spice Latte Print - TheHotTeapot2
- 11 Rug - dreamingdog
- 12 Soap - lanabella
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STEUBENVILLE - Not only does the Retired Senior Volunteer Program of Jefferson County benefit from funding through the United Way of Jefferson County, many of the United Way's other member agencies receive a hand from RSVP members.
Last year RSVP volunteers put in 12,860 unpaid hours for such efforts as tutoring, mentoring, food and medication assistance, community cleanups and health care services, said Desi Gampolo, program manager for the RSVP of Jefferson County.
"We have two types of volunteers," said Gampolo.
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YOU CAN HELP — Desi Gampolo, program manager for the Retired Senior Volunteer Program of Jefferson County, far right, discusses volunteer options with, seated from left, volunteers Mary Beth Bauer, Jeanne Barker and Mary Pasich; and standing, Janine Arai, administrative assistant for the agency; and volunteer Paul Hlivko. - Warren Scott
"There are those who like to work at a single site, the same day and same time each week. And we have those who enjoy being 'on call.' They prefer different opportunities and special annual events. We call them as we receive specific requests from the volunteer sites," she said.
Gampolo said regardless of which type, "I'm amazed by their energy and dedication. Our oldest volunteer is 93 and has been enrolled in the program for more than 30 years. Many of our volunteers work at two or three sites."
Gampolo said the program's 95 volunteer seniors work at many sites, including the American Red Cross, Fourth Street Health Center, Wayne Elementary School, Wells Academy, Trinity Health System, Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce, Charity Hospice, Urban Mission, YWCA, Historic Fort Steuben, Teramana Cancer Center and Prime Time Office on Aging.
"A lot of the organizations where our volunteers serve are United Way agencies," Gampolo noted.
"They are the agency that supports the other (United Way) agencies," agreed Beth Rupert-Warren, executive director of the United Way of Jefferson County, "RSVP members do a great service for the community and have a lot of skills they can share. It's a great opportunity for local organizations to utilize their experience and talents."
Gampolo said she strives to make a good match between volunteers and their work sites, based upon their own experience and interests.
"We want our volunteers to be happy in what they are doing and we want to give our work sites the people with the right skills," she said.
Gampolo said many don't realize the role RSVP members play in helping various organizations to provide services to the public.
"When you walk into a school, health care facility or any non-profit agency, you don't realize how many of the people you see behind the desk or at the counter are non-paid staff. Many of these organizations would find it difficult to maintain the level of service they provide without these volunteers," she said.
Gampolo said local contributions through the United Way always have been vital to the RSVP's operations but are even more crucial in light of recent cuts in federal funding.
"We are so grateful for funding from the United Way. Through their assistance we are able to continue serving these facilities and we can better assist our volunteers with placements that match their skills and lifelong experiences," she said.
Officials and volunteers with the United Way of Jefferson County hope to raise $444,000 during its 2012-13 campaign.


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Heat a mug of water to desired temperature for your tea, fill the tea infuser 1/2 full of your favorite loose leaf tea, plop in and a wonderfully warm cup anytime, anywhere. After steeping, push handle to squeeze out liquid from tea as it rests on top of your mug. Can be reused for 2nd cup of tea. So easy to open and tap to discard tea; no mess.
I was so excited to get this tea infuser. I usually use tea bags for my tea and the description of this item states you can use it with loose tea or with tea bags. It's always a bit messy when you need to remove the bag from your mug, so I thought this was the perfect solution. I was wrong. The space in the infuser doesn't allow enough space for the tea in the bag to bloom, nor does it allow enough flow of water through the infuser and tea to properly steep. I was very disappointed when I made my first cup of tea, as it was very weak. I tried again, and used the infuser to stir the water, thinking this would allow the tea to permeate the water more effectively - but it didn't really do much of anything. I think this would probably work fine with loose tea, but for my purposes, it's just not effective.
This tea infuser is so easy to use...no fuss, no muss, just a great cup of tea! Excellent value!
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Funny Fake Parking Tickets - Prank your Friends & Neighbors for $4.99 + free shipping
Our fake parking tickets are truly hilarious! Slap one on the windshield of rude parkers, co-workers, neighbors or who ever and they will think they received a real parking ticket until they read the offense. These are not your typical fake parking tickets, not only will these make people run up to their car in a frantic, thinking they received a ticket, but it ads insult to injury with a funny rude twist. These are BRIGHT NEON ORANGE and measure 4 inches wide by 7.75 inches high. Printed on thick card stock, our funny parking tickets make a great practical joke!
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You can print these for free at http://www.youparklikeanasshole.com
Have fun loosing your front teeth if anyone catches you in the act of putting one of these on their car.
@sommelierbrad: Look at the big balls on Brad.
@coondogg97: Not me, I'm a passivist. I know of quit a few people though who don't quite share that view. People get pissed off more easily for some reason when it comes to anything involving their vehicles... like parked road rage. Just saying make sure not to get caught lol
This deal was added 3 days ago for $5.99.
This is a stupid deal quit posting it.
Muffler whistles are so much better than parking tickets as jokes.
They're spring action; just pop into someones muffler and when they push the gas it whistles really loud.
Do both and really cheese em off!
how many come with each order?
Similar and free: http://www.walksf.org/suvTicket.pdf
@stanleys: Nice parking ticket, it just needs to be updated with the actual president's name...
@sommelierbrad: The words are spelled 'losing' and 'pacifist'
Flagging this as a spam post.
Also to restate what was mentioned last time. This "deal" is a waste of money. A COMPLETE waste of money. If you buy this hoping to pull a prank on someone you'll soon realize the prank is on YOU for buying it at such a hefty price.
Each sheet is over a buck. That's insane.
Ah, yes. What a hilarious parking ticket. When the jokes rely on insulting the target for:
A) Being "retarded"
B) Driving a non-American car
C) Driving a Korean car
D) Listening to rap music
E) Smelling bad
...you know you are really hitting the highest brow of humor.
I almost pee'd my pants when i saw this on my car in MY driveway. They look like the Chicago ones from far.
@alrey: Can't you just combine B and C? Last time I checked Korean was different than American.
These aren't even similar to parking tickets where I live. People would just think it was an advertisement for something.


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Make ACA Private Insurance Expansion Work for People with HIV
Make ACA Private Insurance Expansion Work for People with HIV
Event Date: Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm EDT
This webcast will explain upcoming options for purchasing individual health insurance policies as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
State Health Marketplaces opening the Fall of 2013 will offer a range of individual and small group health insurance (and access to Medicaid for those deemed eligible). Lower incomes individuals who do not qualify for Medicaid can buy insurance policies that offer tax credits and premium subsidies. These Qualified Health Plans (QHPs) must meet certain standards for the benefits they provide and the type of providers who are part of their networks. For example, QHPs must include Essential Community Providers.
This HIV Health Reforum webcast will:
- Explain the marketplaces and how enrollment will be handled.
- How tax subsidies will work.
- The potential role of HIV/AIDS programs.
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Late Surge Pushes Affordable Care Act Sign-ups to Nearly 2 Million
Published: Sunday, December 29, 2013 at 10:54 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, December 29, 2013 at 10:54 a.m.
HONOLULU | A December surge propelled health care sign-ups through the government's rehabilitated website past the 1 million mark, the Obama administration said Sunday, reflecting new vigor for the problem-plagued federal insurance market.
Combined with numbers for state-run markets due in January, that should put total enrollment in the new private insurance plans under President Barack Obama's health law at about 2 million people through the end of the year, independent experts said.
That would be about two-thirds of the administration's original goal of signing up 3.3 million by Dec. 31, a significant improvement given the technical problems that crippled the federal market during much of the fall. The overall goal remains to enroll 7 million people by March 31.
"It looks like current enrollment is around 2 million despite all the issues," said Dan Mendelson, CEO of Avalere Health, a market analysis firm. "It was a very impressive showing for December."
The administration said that of the more than 1.1 million people now enrolled in the federal insurance exchange, nearly 1 million signed up in December. The majority came days before a pre-Christmas deadline for coverage to start in January. Compare that with a paltry 27,000 in October, the federal website's first, error-prone month.
"We experienced a welcome surge in enrollment as millions of Americans seek access to affordable health care coverage," Marilyn Tavenner, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in a blog post announcing the figures.
The numbers don't represent a full accounting for the country. The federal website serves 36 states. Yet to be reported are December results from the 14 states running their own sites. Overall, states have been signing up more people than the federal government. But most of that has come from high performers such as California, New York, Washington, Kentucky and Connecticut. Some states continue to struggle. Still, the end-of-year spike suggests that the federal insurance marketplace is starting to pull its weight.
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Balanchine's Angelsvs. Alonso's Matryoshkas
Posted 28 December 2008 - 02:21 PM
So I have a couple of questions:
1-Are there any sketches/pics of these characters from Imperial Productions?
2-Where does the idea of portraying them as angels come from?
Thank you all in advance!
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The Nutcracker essays on Ballet Alert!
Posted 28 December 2008 - 06:40 PM
Thank you so much for the link! (It's funny, but searching Google had taken me to that same link just seconds before you posted it ) It is very interesting, indeed, to see that maybe, THERE WERE NO ANGELS WHATSOEVER!, and that those Alonso matryoshka dollls are pretty accurate...
I don't have the pictures of Vsevolozhsky's costumes, but I can at least throw you a link to a bunch of essays I wrote ten years ago about the whole show. Click around; most of the links are still good.
The Nutcracker essays on Ballet Alert!
This is what your link says about the old notes on Act II...:
"Act II - The Palace of Sweets in the Kingdom of Confiturembourg
The beautiful and wondrous Kingdom of Confections is readied for the reception of the Prince and Clara, who arrive in a shell-boat, drawn by dolphins, down a river of attar of roses. They are greeted by the regent of the land, the Sugar Plum Fairy, who has been ruling in the name of the Prince, against the day of his return.
The benevolent spirit asks of the exploits of the newly-arrived Prince who recounts the story of the Battle with the Mice to the kingdom, and hails Clara
as the heroine who saved his life. He then introduces her to his little sisters, who are beautiful little dolls studded with gems. They greet her warmly when he tells them of her great bravery."
Posted 28 December 2008 - 06:40 PM
Yeah I don't get it either. In some version there are bats as well.
Posted 29 December 2008 - 03:54 AM
One of these days, one of these Gothic Revivalist productions will have Frankenstein's monster striding through the show. Same time period, you know. Mary Shelley's book was published in 1818, Hoffman's "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" in 1819.
And speaking of history, now I have to go look for my great-grandfather's copy in German of the Hoffman short stories. I have an English translation of the stories AFTER the Dumas translation to French which was the work that Petipa used to write the libretto. Sometimes, going from language to language can produce some weird effects; for a demonstration, see Pedro Carolinho's English as She is Spoke, which was written by a Portuguese-speaking author who spoke no English, translating phrases from Portuguese to French (which he also didn't speak) and then translating them to English, producing what he THOUGHT was a useful phrase-book for Brazilian tourists to the US. Mark Twain found the well-intentioned chaos of language hilarious.
Posted 29 December 2008 - 06:16 AM
maybe some other production(s) also included bats, but RN's is the one i recall from the stage and from video.
credits as follows:
Nutcracker: Chor: Rudolf Nureyev after Vasilii Vainonen; mus: Peter Tchaikovsky; lib: based on the E.T.A. Hoffmann fairy tale; scen & cos: Nicholas Georgiadis. First perf: Sweden: Stockholm, Royal Swedish Opera House, Nov 17, 1967, Royal Swedish Ballet.//First English perf: London, Royal Opera House, Feb 29, 1968, Royal Ballet.//First U.S. perf: New York City, Metropolitan Opera House, May 10, 1968, Royal Ballet
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Posted 29 December 2008 - 05:02 PM
Balanchine may have included angels all on his own. all i know about the traditions of these dancers in his 'tradition' is that he changed them at some point along the way, to the little girls we see nowadays. formerly they were teens, i believe.
if memory servers Suzanne Farrell might even have appeared as one at the very start of her NYCB career. or maybe i've hallucinated this thought.
the Berioshka/Georgian skimming dance they do, however seems to have been in place for a while.
dance writer Anita Finkel wrote of the fact that each holds a sprig of evergreen as a one of the more key moments in balanchine's staging about which she wrote an excellent essay in BALLET NEWS.
there is a long-ish/strong tradition in russia for these skimming, greenery-bearing young women - i think the Berioshka co. that played the States in soviet era had a similar dance, for mature women, skimming the stage beneath floor-length skirts with, if mem. serves, green-sprouting birch branches in their hands.
in any case, i have no historical photos to add to the discussion.
Posted 05 December 2009 - 08:52 PM
This is probably something some of the most experienced BT's will know, but I don't. What's up with all those Nutcracker angels? Their parade is not my favorite thing, but I know is a big deal for the little components of many productions-(and their parents, of course). The real fact is that I didn't even know about this popular angelic incarnation of the corps until I saw my first Balanchine production. In Alonso's production she makes the adult Corps members do the same choreography/parade but the costume design does not indicates whatsoever that this are angels. They look more like Russian matryoshka dolls-(see this link in this other thread for a clip on this scene on the Cuban version http://ballettalk.in...p...st&p=238672 )
So i have a couple of questions:
1-Are there any sketches/pics of these characters from Imperial Productions?
2-Where does the idea of portraying them as angels come from?
Thank you all in advance!
A year later, and after the valuable answers provided by Mel and rg on my original questions-( ), I do have a third one to add to the former....
3-Does anyone remembers what these character were in the old Fedorova production?-(Either @ Ballet Theatre or Ballet Russe).
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If you'd like to see your city or town like you've never seen it before, ask your child to be your guide.
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Protecting ADF resources with Oracle Entitlements Server 11gR2 - Part 2
By gcolman on Jul 04, 2013
In my last post "Protecting ADF resources with Oracle Entitlements Server 11gR2" I attempted to outline the basic principles of protecting ADF resources using Oracle Entitlements Server 11gR2. In this post I will dive straight into how to configure simple ADF resources with OES policies in a step by step guide.
I need to stress that this is not an official Oracle guide or something that is supported through Oracle. The guide and any sample in this blog are my views and intended as a pointer to anyone looking to integrate OES and ADF.
So, lets configure our components....
Configuring SM Interceptor Mode
The following steps outline the high level configuration steps for creating the WebLogic Security Module in interceptor mode and OES proxies to protect ADF resources.
The high level steps are:
1 – Create the SM Domain
2 – Configure the OES Authorisation Proxy
3 – Configure the OES Role Mapper
4 – Create the OES Application Policies
Create the SM Domain
Follow the steps below to create a WebLogic SM JRF Domain.
Configure the OES Authorisation proxy
Create an OES Authorisation Proxy as a WebLogic authorisation provider within the WebLogic SM domain's default security realm.
Security realms->myrealm->providers->authorization
OES Authorization Proxy
· Click New
· Enter a name for the provider
· Select OES Authorization Proxy from the dropdown.
Configure the OES Role Mapper
Create an OES Role mapper Proxy as a WebLogic role mapper provider within the WebLogic SM domain's default security realm. This must be configured for the SM to be enabled as the PEP.
Security realms->myrealm->providers->role mapping
OES RoleMapper Proxy
- Select the Role Mapping ta
- Create a new Role Mapper
- Select OES RoleMapper Proxy from the dropdown
Configure OES Policies
OES policies need to be created to protect the ADF resources handled by the OEA authorisation proxy.
Some points to note about the relationship between OES policies and the OPSS policy definitions that protect ADF resource.
- ADF security framework polices (as seen in the jazn-data.xml) do not map directly onto OES policies.
- ADF/OPSS policies utilise pattern matcher classes to define the resource types of the protected ADF resources.
- The ADF/OPSS resource names are generated by the JDeveloper / ADF application. These need to be translated into the OES policies.
TIP – Configure ADF security in JDeveloper, including resources to protect to get details of the resource names, pattern matching classes etc. These will be detailed in the JDeveloper jaxn-data.xml file and will serve as a reference for you to create the OES policies.
Create OES Application & Security Module
Within the OES administration console, create a new application (see later section for a reference to creating the OES policy resources)
NB* Ensure that the application name matches the deployed ADF application name.
Create Resource Types
Resource types within the OES policy are used to define the pattern match class that will be used to identify the resource type during authorisation.
1. Select New Resource Type from the home tab
2. Enter a resource type name (any name will do)
3. Create actions and attributes as required
4. Change the Evaluation Logic dropdown to "Permission Class"
5. Enter the full permission class name. This can be found in the jazn-data.xml file, if you have enabled ADF security in JDeveloper (example below)
6. Select comma for the action delimiter
Figure 8 - Resource Type
Resource types should be defined as a cross wave activity. The resource types should be common across all ADF applications and their resources that require protecting.
Create the resource
Create the OES resource as the resource name that can be found in the jazn-data.xml file if you have enabled ADF security in JDeveloper. (See example below)
Create the Authorisation Policy
Create an authorisation policy (see guidance steps in section 4.4)
Bind the application to the SM
Bind the application the Security module (see guidance steps in section 4.4)
Deploy the application
Deploy the application to the SM domain.
NB* Ensure that you select the following security configuration when deploying the application:
"Advanced: Use a custom model that you have configured on the realm's configuration page."
WebLogic PDP
When using the WebLogic Security Module purely as a PDP, (i.e. the SM is only providing authorisation decisions, but not enforcing them), then we must define the application itself to be the policy enforcement point.
The implications of this are that the application must provide programmatic enforcement of policy decisions that are being returned from the PDP. This could be implemented as a "security bean" which provides an isAuthorised() method which can be called with ADF Expression language (EL), passing the resource identifier for the resource to be protected. The Security bean interacts with the security module to obtain a policy decision based on the parameters that have been passed. ADF pages would be protected via a phase listener providing the authorisation call to the security bean.
The security bean should provide a generic interface which relies on the calling component to set the context of the application and resource to be protected.
The diagram below describes the ADF application components and their interactions with the WebLogic Security Module.
Configuring OES
The following section gives guidance on the components and configuration required to set up an OES environment for development and testing.
The sections define the following:
- Installing the Oracle Entitlements Server product
- Creating an OES Administration Server
- Creating the domain which will contain the WebLogic security Module
- Creating a test policy to test the configuration
- Examples of integrating ADF components with OES
Installing OES
1 - Download the binaries for Oracle Entitlements Server 11gR2
2 - Use the following guide for installation.
The guide will take you through the download, installation and configuration of all the required components for getting the base install and configuration.
**NB - Please follow the guide provided in the following link up to and including "Installing the OES Client"
**NB – Ensure that the OES client install is created in a separate directory on the FMW home (do not take the default OES Client install location) e.g. create a OES_CLIENT directory under FMW_HOME.
3 - Use the following sections to guide you through patching and the creation of the WebLogic Security Module.
Installing OES Patches
1 - The following patch should be installed
2 - Download Oracle Identity Management Suite Bundle Patch 18.104.22.168.0 from ARU/METALINK (p14760806_111200_generic.zip)
3 – Follow the instructions on the README file for the patch.
Creating OES WebLogic Security Module
The following section is a guide to configuring the WebLogic Security Module. This has been called out separately from the above installation guide as there are a couple of additional steps that are not well documented in creating the Security Module for a JRF (Java Required Files) domain.
Step 1 - Under <OES_CLIENT_HOME>/oessm/SMConfigTool
- copy smconfig.prp to JRFsmconfig.prp
- update the following properties
- Change policystore.type to DB_ORACLE
- Change sm_name to <SECURITY_MODULE_NAME>
Step 2 - Under <OES_CLIENT_HOME>/oessm/bin
- set JAVA_HOME=<FMW_HOME>/<JDK>
- Run SMConfigTool with the following command:
config -onJRF -smType wls -onWLS -smConfigId [SECURITY_MODULE_NAME] -serverLocation <FMW_HOME>\wlserver_10.3 –prpFileName <OES_CLIENT_HOME>\oessm\SMConfigTool\JRFsmconfig.prp
3 - This will now launch the Fusion Middleware Configuration Wizard where you should follow the steps in the guide from section 3.1 in this document noting the following:
- Select Oracle Entitlements Server Weblogic Security Module on JRF 184.108.40.206
- Ensure correct JDK location, Update Listen port and SSL listen port choose ports different from any existing/previous domain.
4 - Ensure that your datasources are set up correctly in the WLS SM domain
- Start up your new SM domain.
- Create 2 datasources in the client SM domain both pointing to the DEV_OPSS schema that you configured with RCU, and specified within the OES installation. Create two separate identical datasources with the following jndi names.
- jdbc/APMDBDS
- jdbc/OPSSDBDS
** NB ** make sure that the datasource that you configure are:
- Non XA
- Have "supports global transactions" disabled
5 – Re-configure the SM to support "Distributed-Push" policy distribution
- CD <OES_CLIENT_HOME>/oes_sm_instances/<SM_NAME>/bin
- Run oessmconfig.bat -jpsconfig <SM_DOMAIN>\config\fmwconfig\jps-config.xml
- This will start up the SM configuration tool. Change the following:
- In the "SM Configuration" tab select "Controlled-Pull" as the policy distribution mode
- Select the "Policy Store" tab
- Select "Database configuration through JINDI name"
- Enter the Datasource JNDI name ("jdbc/APMDBDS")
- Enter the "Farm Name" "cn=<OES_ADMIN_DOMAIN>" e.g. cn=oes_admin
- Enter the "Root Name" as cn=jpsroot
- Select "Save and Close"
Creating a test configuration
The previous steps created the Security Module, the following steps intend to outline the steps to create a test configuration to test the security module.
The following steps are detailed in the following guide:
The following steps are outlined in the "Creating OES Administration Policies" please follow these steps exactly as defined in the document.
The high level steps in creating this policy are:
1 - Log into OES Admin
2 - Create a new Application
3 - Create a new Resource Type
4 - Create a new Resource under the Resource Type
5 - Create a new Authorization Policy
6 – Create the definition of the Security Module (SM) in OES Admin UI
7 - Bind the application to previously created SM.
8 - Distribute policy changes
If you have followed the steps above you should see the HelloOESworld application bound to the physical SM when you distribute the policy as below:
Figure 10
The above steps have configured the following policy:
Application: HelloOESworld
Resource Type: MyResourceType
Resource: MyResource
Policy: MyAuthorizationPolicy
2.4.1. Running the test
The following test web application will make a call to the WLS SM with the application and resource details to seek an authorization decision based on the resource and user.
1 - Deploy the application to the domain containing your SM.
2 – Run the application
- Open a browser and run the application with the following :
- The following page should be displayed
- Changing the policy details on the OES admin server (e.g. changing the userLevel string in the policy to "employee") should result in a DENIED message. Example below:
Official Oracle OES pages.
OES whitepaper (Good technical introduction & guide)
Tutorial Guide on installing and configuring OES (NB* this is for a Security Module on a non JRF domain, so don't use the SM config as indicated. See other docs for SM configuration on a JRF domain)


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Keys to Daytrading Success and Why So Few Traders Get There
A while back, I posted on the topic of research concerning individual daytraders and how many of them are truly successful. That is worth reading or re-reading: it clearly indicates that most active trading is hazardous to traders' wealth, but that a small group of participants are able to sustain success.
This is not like most career fields, where an average teacher, middle manager, or sales person can sustain a living. An average performance in trading is one in which the trader does not make money at all. The Times article cites research suggesting support for the often-cited statistic that 80% of daytraders lose money.
I'm in an interesting position, because--as a trading coach--I see the actual trading of actual traders, not the performance claims of wannabee gurus. I also see which traders have been able to sustain meaningful livings from their trading and which have not.
Here is a post outlining what I see among the consistently successful traders. The links at the bottom of the post will also help you focus on what helps traders sustain solid performance.
Ultimately, the most important contributors to trading success are twofold:
1) The development of concrete trading skills: pattern recognition, ability to execute sound trade ideas to create a positive expectancy, sound risk management;
2) The cultivation of the mental toughness, continuous learning, and discipline that enable you to adapt to new, challenging market conditions.
Sitting at a computer each day, not having a concrete strategy for the day, and relying on a vague sense of intuition to get you through is not going to cut it.
Success is something the great traders do, not just something they have. They work on building skills, they work on building themselves, and they have routines in place for accomplishing both.
Do you?
7 comments:
- CBS said...
To quote Jim Carey (Dumb and Dumber)
"So your sayin there's a chance"..:)
- Y.W said...
Hi Dr,
Do you have experience with swing traders trying to make a living from that?
Maybe the whole concept of DAY trading is prone to failure?
- david said...
From the article: "Brokerage firms track the activity and demographics of their customers, but they have been reluctant to share that data."
From that we could infer that the data is probably not pretty. I can't think of any better sales pitch for the brokerage industry than to advertise how much money their customers are making. The fact that they won't disclose the results of their customers seems to suggest that most are not doing well.
- Michele said...
Teo things stand out right away in this study. Consider first their point 2, below. They assume that a $1000 roundtrip will cost 3% in commissions. That's $30 to buy and sell a round lot of a $10 stock.
I don't think anyone is paying $15 a side today. Interactive Brokers charges $1 for that. The more you trade, the bigger this differential becomes. If you can lower your trading costs by an order of magnitude, that starts to add up.
And just to drive home the point, note the second excerpt below - it's the *cost of trading*, not what you trade, that drove the results they saw:
"2. Trading costs are high. The average round-trip trade in excess of $1,000
costs three percent in commissions and one percent in bid-ask spread.
It is the cost of trading and the frequency of trading, not portfolio selections,
that explain the poor investment performance of households during our sample
The moral seems to be, 1. find the lowest cost broker you can, and 2. make sure your profits exceed your costs.
Disclaimer: I'm a swing trader, not a day trader. I tried day trading... and lost money doing it.
- beeba said...
wow, that's disturbing: "hunches", "intuition", and blaming your poor results on "robots" and "algorithm boogies". that is no systematic way of approaching markets.
now, don't get me wrong. i'm not knocking intuition borne from hard-won experience, but i would never use a trading plan whose primary element was intuition.
i'm surprised these guys have made it as long as they have, but that's the bell curve for you. there's always that +2 sigma out there somewhere.
is anyone else wondering how much money they're making providing their "live feed" services versus their actual trading results?
- WSJ said...
The fact is plain and simple, day traders are making the brokers rich and nothing else. As the saying goes "You cant go broke taking profits but you wont become rich by taking 4 point profit". I have done all sorts of trading and found swing trading to be the best as its the perfect balance of both. For those who haven't read I highly recommend "Reminiscence of a stock operator", this book was an eye opener for me :-)
- cmescalper said...
Hi Dr B
intuition is vauge?
arent us scalpers rely on intuition which is build upon years of screen time? i mean intuition -experience and ability to execute at the right time and wait for it.
i know that intuition doesnt cut it if you try to get somone to succeed in any endevour but wouldnt you preffer an intuitive trader than a non intuitive?
Please clarify.


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How to change Height and Width of XTemplate
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I am using Ext.Dataview component and have XTemplate inside it. I want users to resize this Dataview components i.e. User can change the height and width of this component. The problem is, when Dataview's size changes, due to resizing, the XTemplate[DIV] inside the dataview, remains of the same height and width. I will like these XTemplates[DIV] to resize themself.
Is there a way to make this happen ?
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Resizeing the Xtemple
The same happen with me. I write as below :-
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But when we are resizeing the pane or minimizing browser , the Xtemple remain same in size.
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I am using the Container with layout: 'hbox',
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it is in panel/container.
But when we are resizeing the pane or minimizing browser , the Xtemple remain same in size.
I need that it will resize as we resize the pane or minimizing browser .
thanks In advance...!!
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Christophe Peerens, specialized in system development, is working in the mobile business for more than 15 years. Passionate about technologies, he was in charge of the Strategic, Research & Innovation at EZOS. Confirmed teacher, Microsoft Certified Trainer, he trains professional developers for more than 15 years. Today, he is also a pillar of the technical User Group "Mytic" http://www.mytic.be
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