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The InterventionWritten by on November 17, 2006 Contributors: David Freiburger, Gabe Medway, John McGann After nearly twenty years of ownership, we had to say something. How much longer could McGean's Camaro sit? We decided it had already sat long enough and made it our point to get that baby back on the road again. It wasn't perfect, but that wasn't the p
As I pulled the last box off the hood of the '69, all hopes that it wasn't actually as bad as I recalled were dashed. It looked like hell. I'd been toting this Camaro around for more than 15 years, ever since it had ceased to provide transportation while I was still in college, and being dragged about the country and stored in dusty, damp quarters hadn't helped a car that already looked haggard in 1985. Most people scrap cars when they're no longer useful, but this just wasn't the sort of car that got junked.
But once the car didn't run anymore, its condition worsened despite my efforts to maintain it. The spray-bomb primer continued to fade into an ever more blotchy, chalky mess; the interior steadily became more musty; and its arch nemesis, oxidation, quickened its pace. Adding insult to injury, thieves made off with some of the Camaro's best remaining bits in several separate incidents, leaving it up on blocks the last time after absconding with the rally wheels. I hadn't had the means to get the car running again, nor to store it securely, but once stuff started disappearing, I scraped and scrounged and screwed it back together with junk parts so it would move under its own power. Finally, it returned to the security of my parents' garage--the first of many storage spaces it would occupy in the coming years.
Through it all, I was determined to someday return the Camaro to a level of glory it had not seen since sometime prior to my ownership, though I wasn't thinking that I'd have to wait for nearly as many years as I'd then been alive to get it there. Probably a good thing; I didn't have that kind of patience at 19.
Back then I had developed typical teenage pie-in-the-sky visions for my pride and joy, seeing past its many faults to envision what the car could look like with "just a little work." The trouble was, I wanted perfection. So even after I'd finished school and started earning a little money, I kept the car stashed rather than combating its immediate problems and getting it back in action. In my mind, the car deserved nothing less than a full-on rebuild.
In retrospect, I was being stupid, waiting for the perfect combination of time, money, and suitable work space to come together for a total rebuild when I should have been chipping away at it so that it would be on the road and in some way useful, even if it fell way short of my ideal. It took until I was over 30 and living in California for the foolishness of my ways to hit me; I realized that sitting on the car was a waste, both of time and of a Camaro.
At that point my thinking finally shifted to the here and now, and I formulated a new plan to make something happen soon. The revised philosophy was based on the notion that even with a limited budget and timeframe, it should be possible to return a car to some sort of useful state--not necessarily daily-driver useful, but at least cruise-night useful. I took some inspiration from the retro-rodders who bolt cars together in their most Spartan form, with functionality the main motivator, just like they did after WWII. If done right, the patina of old parts and primer is brutally cool, so why not take a similar approach with a muscle-era ride? Spend the money where it's most needed, reuse the decent parts, fog it with some kind of uniform finish, then worry about making it better later . . . or don't.
The ball was set in motion by tackling the car's worst feature: the dented, rotted body. We covered the installation of Goodmark quarter-panels in the April '04 issue and soon after ordered more Goodmark sheetmetal for the front end. With that handled, the car began to garner more respect; it was now a solid foundation for a project. Shortly after, during a staff meeting, Freiburger suggested I take the '69 on Anti Tour, though it was implied that limping it there with its Sanford and Son vibe was not what he had in mind. The rest of the staff chimed in and the "intervention" was in full swing. So, with a mixture of peer pressure, a six-week deadline, and some extra hands for help, the Camaro was officially underway.
The accompanying photos tell the tale, though in the end, the car fell just short of making the Tour. I blame the California DMV. No biggie, as the Tour was merely the carrot that fueled this project and got the Camaro looking and running better than it ever has during my ownership. Now it's on the road for the first time in over 15 years and evoking a bit of lust from onlookers rather than contempt. Meanwhile, I feel like I've got a new toy, when actually I had it all along.
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1. In the April '04 issue we detailed the installation of Goodmark's new full quarter-panels. Proprietor Sal Perez at American Musclecars (now located in Ontario, California) seems to be one of the few California-based bodymen who isn't scared of extensive rust, and he and his techs dove in and had the quarters, the inner and outer wheelhouses, the trunk-floor extensions, the rear filler panel, and the right shock tower swapped in about three days. Miraculously, the original trunk floor was in perfect shape, as was the taillight panel.2. The garbage 305 I was forced to install as a starving student was finally ditched in favor of a proper 350 that once lived in the Cheap Street Chevelle. With 355 cubes, iron World Products SR Torquer heads, and a Crane 230/236 hydraulic cam, it was good for 355 hp in '96. I topped it with a rebuilt Q-Jet and old Z/28 valve covers I bought at a swap meet 10 years ago.3. Just for a laugh, here's what the engine bay looked like before the swap. Clearly I never took the 305 seriously, as it still wears a half-a-Q-Jet two-barrel and all its original accumulated grime. Dig those universal gas-tank straps holding in the Nova six-cylinder radiator that was left in place of the stolen three-row Modine. Yes, that is a broom handle supporting them. There's your affordable street performance.4. The best money you can spend when installing new body panels is for the replacement bolt kit. Goodmark offers a kit from AMK, known not simply for providing fasteners that get the job done, but ones that duplicate the originals exactly. They're even bagged and tagged for each individual task.5. Sal Perez at American Musclecars saw a glimpse of potential in the '69 when installing the new quarters, so he offered to help install new front sheetmetal if I could come up with the parts. Again, Goodmark came to the rescue with a pair of freshly tooled '69 fenders, produced with heavier-gauge steel than earlier replacements. One fender was original, while the other had been replaced in 1986 and was subsequently nailed by a drunk driver. The Goodmark fenders were complemented with new upper and lower valence panels, along with a reproduction steel cowl-induction hood to replace the GM piece that had once become airborne and still had the scars to prove it. The crew at American Musclecars took the time to get the new stuff to line up properly.6. I hadn't been under the car for many years, and I was afraid. It was a mess under there, but at least the many leaking fluids slowed the rust. As a bonus there were broken brake lines, frozen drum-brake assemblies, rotten exhaust parts, and a set of coilover shocks--not the cool race car ones, but the trailer-towing kind. After hours of scraping and wire brushing, the crusty floorpan and framerails were metal-prepped and coated with POR-15, which looks much better and should ensure that the rust doesn't return. The axle was cleaned, drained, and filled with fresh lube and the drum brakes were rebuilt before the housing was sprayed with VHT epoxy paint in semi-flat black.7. My old brake lines were in bad shape, with broken hard lines on the axletubes, a cracked flex hose, and rusty feed lines coming from the master cylinder. We ordered a complete set of replacement stainless hard lines from Classic Tube and upgraded to braided flex hoses from Classic's Stop Flex line. The new hard lines are an impressively good match for the originals, as illustrated here.8. The front suspension and brakes were seriously neglected. The original-style two-piece rotors of the factory disc brakes were real thin, but since they aren't actually required with the new-for-'69 single-piston calipers, one-piece units can be substituted. We used Baer's DecelaRotors, a new line of drilled-and-slotted stock-dimension rotors that cost just a bit more than straight replacements and look a lot better. They should be available at Autozone by the time you read this. The stock calipers were simply cleaned, painted, and rebuilt then complemented with Classic Tube's Stop Flex braided lines.9. The rest of the suspension was in moderate shape, but rather than skimp we opted to rebuild. Performance Suspension Components offers stock stuff as well as upgrades. The company even assembles G-Machine Packages with improved items in four levels of intensity. We went for the Level II, using polygraphite bushings, powdercoated front and rear sway bars, and KYB shocks in addition to the replacement ball-joints, tie-rods, and idler arm. We upgraded another notch to Edelbrock shocks.
10. Once the Camaro was starting to look semirespectable, the decision was made to prep it for Anti Tour. Jeff Smith has a few pet peeves: one is crappy wiring, another is crappy plug wires. The Camaro had plenty of both, but after Jeff made a few choice wiring improvements, the mammoth voltage drops between the battery and starter and the alternator and battery were all but gone. Smith then whipped up a set of Moroso Blue Max plug wires and demanded we observe the drop in resistance.11. With the undercarriage sorted, we put the junk wheels and tires back on and headed to Johns Customz and Performance to get a suede paint job. Johns is a full-service shop that specializes in custom paint and bodywork but handles complete restorations and mechanical work as well. John Morrow is in charge of body and paint, and though we wanted the quick and dirty spray job, he refused to proceed without aligning our panels properly. Johns' crew descended on the Camaro in an attempt to get it done in time for the Anti Tour. Here, Morrow is block-sanding the passenger door while the other John (Barbera) fights with the remnants of the vinyl top glue. Paul Morrow, John's dad, helps out by straightening our should-have-been-replaced trunk lid with assistance from Denny Choi. Again, we were looking for quick, but the guys wouldn't butcher it, straightening out the door dings, decklid pitting, and even masking off the jambs.12. In the booth, John Morrow put down three coats of DuPont Epoxy Sealer/Primer. This stuff isn't porous like standard primer, so rust shouldn't be an issue, and it acts as a high-build scratch filler, which really helped to smooth out the little imperfections in the Camaro's flanks. The primer comes in gray, but it can be tinted, so John added about 10 to 15 percent black toner to the topcoat to darken it to our liking. The finish has that perfect eggshell sheen.13. One of the tricks we wanted to experiment with was the addition of a factory-style stripe over the primer. We thought about Z/28 stripes but then selected the original-style hockey-stick stripe, believing it would be simpler to lay out. Stencils & Stripes provided the stencil kit, patterned after the factory stuff, and the Morrows took their time placing it.14. John sprayed GM Ivory paint for the stripe using a DuPont base/clear system. We worried that the multilayered approach would leave heavy tape lines when the stencil was pulled, but John assured us that the buildup would be kept low, and the DuPont paint would roll at the edges if we pulled the stencil at the right time. He was right; the trick is to pull the stencil just as the paint has flash-dried, before it starts to fully cure.15. The stripe was usually applied at the factory with a break adjacent to the marker lamp for the engine-size badge, but we weren't going to install those this time around. Instead, Freddy Chicon of Afterdark Signworks, located at Johns Customz, saw Angeleri's illustration and made these decals to fill the void. Using computer-generated graphics, he was able to size them just right.16. Once the paint was dry, we hauled back to the shop to get the car back together since there were only a few days before the Tour. Like we'd done with other aspects of the project, we elected to reuse parts that were in decent shape and replace only the stuff that really needed it. To that end, we rubbed on the original taillights with Meguiar's plastic polish and bolted them in before framing the rear with a new bumper from Goodmark to replace our semi-mangled original.17, Up front it was more of the same, though less of the original stuff was salvageable. Goodmark provided the grille so the Camaro would have one for the first time in nearly 20 years, and we installed it using the original stiffening brace and headlight bezels. Another new bumper, also from Goodmark, was installed, while the original parking lamps were polished up and reused. For a few extra bucks we also ordered a factory-style chin spoiler from Goodmark.18. We hadn't really thought much about the interior, figuring if the car would run and drive we'd sit on whatever to go to Phoenix. But as the body was getting better, the interior started looking worse. We cleaned up the original white seats, but the door panels were still at the folks' place in New York, and not worth shipping costs. A call to Year One and we had a fresh set of assembled white door panels and installation hardware. We also picked up a set of window felts while we were at it.
19. Freiburger wasn't digging the slick '80s-vintage aftermarket steering wheel, nor was anyone else for that matter. I took the hint and the opportunity to order a repro version of the factory sport steering wheel I'd lusted after for years.Year One offers the wheel in kit form, including the mounting hub, hardware, horn contact, and horn cap. I'm still clinging to the Sun tach, though.20. The crowning jewels of the project were the new wheels, one of the areas we felt shouldn't be compromised. Vintage Wheel Works produces classically styled wheels in traditional and contemporary sizes; we selected a set of Vintage 45s in 17x8 and 17x9.5. To wrap the rims we went to Toyo to try out its new Proxes T1S high-performance street rubber (P255/45R17 and P275/40R17). The guys at Flip's Tire took their usual care while mounting our gems.FIN: The end result is far better than the goals we'd set of being merely presentable. There are still plenty of improvements that need to happen (like lowering), but now getting to the "real" paint job doesn't seem like such a priority, and even Camaro-haters are taking notice. Best of all, we're driving it instead of just hoarding it


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19 Aug 2011 1:52 AM #1
Unanswered: How to make a Readonly Checkbox & Combobox
Hi All
I want checkbox to behave as readonly, so for that I made it as disabled, but due to this on form submission, checkbox value is not getting submitted.
I tried for readOnly config also, but its not working as expected, its not making checkbox as readOnly.
I also want the same behavior with combobox also.
Please let me know, how to implement this.
25 Aug 2011 6:44 AM #2
Did you tried this one?
editable : BooleanFalse to prevent the user from typing text directly into the field; the field can only have its value set via selecting a value from the picker. In this state, the picker can also be opened by clicking directly on the input field itself.
Defaults to: true
25 Aug 2011 6:45 AM #3
readOnly : Booleantrue to prevent the user from changing the field, and hides the trigger. Supercedes the editable and hideTrigger options if the value is true.
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I must confess to perhaps having more money than sense and I bought myself a NN5/RD16 without properly understanding it's benefits. I assumed that by setting the camera at the Nodal Point I would be able to take a row of vertical or horizontal shots then put them through Photoshop's CS4 (or other software) and out would pop a nice panorama with nothing missing.
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I set up the 5DMkII with 24-105L lens as specified for 24mm on the NN web page.
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Ok here's my first decent attempts at panos... I'm pretty happy with the results so far, but I'm sure there's still plenty more to learn and much to practice.
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Courtyard/Mezzanine - 1 row of 8 45degree shots at 30degrees up, 1 row of 8 45 degree shots at 0 degrees, 1 90 degree up, 2 90 degree down at right angles, 1 dodgy attempt at handheld nadir (which I didn't use... I just finessed the nadir in Photoshop)
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These were shot as a proof of concept for a virtual tour project I'm working on. The final panos will be scaled down for the web, but I wanted to "wow" them with big samples. All the shots are in the Canadian federal gov't complex where I work. I'm going to test shooting HDR next to see if it makes a big difference.
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Tackling a subject as deep and I mean that literally as the ocean is not a task for just any writer. But Simon Winchester, a former reporter who has put his research skills to use on books about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the writing of the Oxford English Dictionary, ably turns out a detailed and dramatic history of one of our most valuable resources. He also provides the book's narration, with an expert's reading that brings plenty of passion to an otherwise dry subject.
Winchester structures the book around Shakespeare's famous passage about the seven stages of man the one that starts out, "All the world's a stage" and traces life from its "infant beginnings" to its "sans everything" end. Here, the seven stages belong to the ocean, starting with its geological development and ending with a look at just how long it may last. In between, Winchester draws together countless stories, anecdotes, trivia, and facts, showing just how influential the Atlantic has been on life as we know it: Piracy, Moroccan snails, naval development, the age of exploration, whaling, poetry, literature, art, music, the Lusitania, global warming, international laws, pollution, submarines, seafood, overfishing, the slave trade, Lord Nelson, NATO, air travel, the Titanic, deadly battles, hurricanes, and Columbus all get their spot in, as Winchester says, "the immense complexity of an ocean that has been pivotal to the human story".
Though it's not always purely chronological, the organization by theme makes wading through this epic biography easy, and Winchester's authoritative British accent lends a pleasant tone. And once you've heard about all the misconceptions people used to have about the ocean like that heavier objects would sink not just faster but farther toward the bottom than lighter ones, which would stay suspended at shallower depths you'll wonder just how much more we have to learn. Blythe Copeland
From best-selling author Simon Winchester comes the immense and thrilling story of the world's most mysterious and breathtaking natural wonder: the Atlantic Ocean.
Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists, and warriors, and continues to affect profoundly our character, attitudes, and dreams. Spanning the ocean's story, from its geological origins to the age of exploration, from World War II battles to today's struggles with pollution and over-fishing, Winchester's narrative is epic, intimate, and awe inspiring.
Until a thousand years ago, few humans ventured into the Atlantic or imagined traversing its vast infinity. But once the first daring mariners successfully navigated to its far shores - whether they were Vikings, the Irish, the Basques, John Cabot, or Christopher Columbus in the north, or the Portuguese and the Spanish in the south - the Atlantic swiftly evolved in the world's growing consciousness of itself as an enclosed body of water. Soon it became the fulcrum of Western civilization. More than a mere history, Atlantic is an unforgettable journey of unprecedented scope by one of the most gifted writers in the English language.
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"Starts Better Than it Finishes"
The first half or so of the book is fantastic. I immediately put several of Winchester's books on my wish list. Unfortunately the book slides into a global warming boiler plate and never regains its initial grace. Regardless of one's view on climate change - and I agree that it is changing - this just isn't how the book was billed. So I wound up with a sack of oranges when I thought I was buying apples. Climate change activists that pick up the book because of a good review based on the book's climate credentials will be disappointed overall (though they will be happy that someone of Winchester's stature is championing the cause) and the reader just looking for a good historical story will be put off by the surreptitious nature of its activist message.
I like books that have interesting characters and easy to follow plots. For example, Cormoran Strike, is a great character for me.
"Another winner from Simon"
I love Simon Winchester books. They are not for everyone though. If you are interested in trivia like what lured the Phoenicians out of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean (mollusks that give off royal purple dye) and like the concept that the Atlantic Ocean has a history that is unbelievably interesting, this book is for you. Plus, I love Simon Winchester's reading.
"a whale of a book"
Atlantic is well researched, interesting and superbly narrated. Between the so very interesting details Winchester weaves together, ranging from geology to geography to science to the personalities, the story is captivating. Winchester's vibrancy of language, coupled with his wonderful voice, make this a most entertaining and very informative audiobook.
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"Was not pleased."
I've enjoyed other books by Simon Winchester, such as Krakatoa. In fact, the author is one of my favorites. I was all set for another exciting journey. But, what an overwhelming long and tedious journey it was. I couldn't wait for Atlantic to end, and thought of stopping many times.
The story (if there is one) rambled on in no particular order time-wise and content-wise, literally jumping all over the map,.There are far too many topics, too much minutiae and too many words. Anything remotely connected to the Atlantic Ocean is fair game, The author inserted himself in several parts, as if he were an heroic adventurer.
Mr. Winchester also was narrator. I usually enjoy hearing writers read their own material. Unfortunately. In spite of his very British accent, but
"Another outstanding book by Simon Winchester!"
This is a comprehensive assessment of the history geography geology of the Atlantic Ocean. It is extremely well-written and inordinately interesting in detail. I strongly recommend it.
"So important yet taken for granted"
Best: the description of the birth of the Atlantic and the history of it's exploration. Excellent explanations and recounting of a lot of history in an understandable, succinct way. Loved the historical anecdotes. Although it was hard to hear, there was an important message about mankind's abuse of the ocean and it's sea life.
Least: the overall structure of the book. It was, at points, an obvious stretch to make the content fit the structure. Instead of the structure helping to lay out so much information in a helpful way, it just made it feel like a hodgepodge. Also, didn't like the sections of the Atlantic portrayed in art and literature. Really disliked the comparisons between coastal cities. There were too many personal anecdotes.
A different structure instead of the Shakespearean reference.
Less personal information and much less about how certain experiences affected the author. The personal commentary seemed out of place at times. I appreciate the author's appreciation of things, but seemed over-sentimental.
I love Simon Winchester as a narrator. Great voice. The only times I didn't care for the narration was during the sentimental portions-a little too affected.
Overall, yes. Some interesting and important information. You just have to push through the sentimentality and the topics that don't really fit.
Simon Winchester is an excellent author and narrator. This book was good but it could have been amazing. He is so talented imparting information about history and science, but I find him less talented as an essayist.
Another excellent book and well told story by Simon Winchester. His language is impeccable, and his research is unsurpassed. I was truly enriched by taking the time to listen to this book.
"another excellent book by Simon Winchester"
The top audiobook I have listened to so far, and like the other Winchester books, I have learned a great deal and his books always seem to help my understanding the world.Bravo! and Aldas, bekesseg!
"Another great Simon Winchester book."
I first became acquainted with Simon Winchester when I listened to him read his book Krakatoa several years ago. Since that time, I think I've enjoyed all of his audio book presentations. Atlantic is one of the best.
Many of his works have a geology story associated with them - and the connections between geology the subject of the book are fascinating. He has a gift for sharing insights about phenomena that leave the listener wondering - "I never knew that - why haven't I heard that before".
I've grown to love Simon Winchester's writing style - wrapping a thought in layers of adjectives to create a rich, thought-provoking visual picture of a concept he is teaching.
I really like the fact that this author reads his own works. His reading performance is wonderful and I never tire of hearing his personable, authentic and empathetic voice.
Atlantic weaves a fascinating story from the ocean's creation to its exploration and plundering by mankind. Simon Winchester explores the role of the Atlantic ocean in history and speculates about its future.
Take the opportunity to listen to this book, or any of Simon Winchester's other well-reseached books to learn much from this master teacher.
"Stick it out for the second half"
I almost didn't finish this book, which is a rarity for me. The intro alone was 1 1/2 hrs long and the entire first part of the book seemed to be a snobbish name-dropping list of Atlantic coast towns and cities and his seeming assumption that everyone who reads his book is well traveled and has been to the same places. To have any idea of what the author is talking about you need to have, at the very least, an atlas beside you as you listen. He jumps from one place to another often quickly and doesn't say much of anything pertaining to the purpose of the book. However, the book redeems itself in the second half and turned out to be quite worth wading through to get there living up to it's advertising.
The author himself is a fine reader.
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I am very low-tech, but I have a very smart phone! an android 2.2.1 I have recently discovered a wonderful application called tether, or tethering where you connect your phone & lap top or pc w/ a usb cord and from there the phone acts like a modem & wa-la! you get the internet! I just purchased the newest Android Tablet (3.0), an ASUS... okay My question is really this: Can I tether my android phone to my Android tablet and get the same or different results? And if so, how? like with what type of cord would I connect these 2 devices, as there are no usb ports on the tablet. There are, however HDMI ports.
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Go to Android Settings, the wireless then enable "portable wi-fi hotspot"
Then connect to that wifi using your tablets wifi manager. Then you should have internet
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As far as wired tethering between devices, this is not possible. The protocols do not exist for android devices to accept external network connections through cables.
A very easy solution (if you are comfortable rooting your device), is Wifi Tether. I use this app constantly, and works exactly as Kurru described:
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If you ask someone how to say "peace" the likely answer you'll get is 平和, which is the common option, but occasionally you'll see the word 和平, which has a very similar meaning, and is indeed just a reversal of the kanji. Can 和平 always be used in place of 平和, or does one have a certain nuance that prevents them from being true synonyms?
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Both of these words do mean "peace" in the sense of a lack of conflict, but 平和{へいわ} allows for a more metaphorical view of peace whereas 和平{わへい} describes a lack of a more violent type of conflict, like war.
First let's look at the dictionary entry for 平和:
It refers to a calmness (穏やか) and an absence of conflict, either armed or personal, and invokes a general idea of peacefulness.
The first definition overlaps completely with 平和 and is defined in those terms. The second definition, however, refers specifically to warfare, a very specific state where fighting has stopped and conflicted parties are trying to mend the situation. This is what we refer to when we refer to two parties "hoping for peace," so for example while we hope for 平和 in the Middle East, a general lack of conflict, we also hope for 和平, or the formal end of conflict and the start of a peace process. This meaning cannot be replaced entirely by 平和.
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Central Avenue is where you'll find the world's most legendary racetrack; but for party central, ride on out to Jeffersontown. If an item is horse-related and can be worn, eaten, displayed or otherwise enjoyed, the odds are good that it can be found at Becky Biesel's Party Kits & Equestrian Gifts, 10920 Plantside Drive.
Biesel opened her business in 1979, after working briefly for the Kentucky Derby Festival. The organization's gift gallery sold a small selection of party kits comprising invitations, banners, swizzle sticks, tote tickets and cocktail napkins – but only during the weeks before the race.
"People came in at other times to see what they sold that represented the Derby, for hospitality rooms and things like that," she said. "I saw that there was a year-round market, so I asked if I could take over the party kits."
When Biesel received the go-ahead, she and her late husband, Andy, went to the library to compile a list of phone numbers from out-of-state directories. They developed a two-color brochure with photos taken by him, and produced their first gift items: paper plates depicting a green horse and jockey, and red roses around the rim. They packaged them in sets of ten, instead of the usual eight. Unable to afford professional shrink-wrapping, Biesel bought plastic wrap and, with help from her mother, "baked" the sets in the oven.
"The printer wouldn't make the plates unless I ordered half a million. It was five years before I told Andy how many I'd had to order that first time," she said. "We shipped them to 48 states. We didn't do Hawaii and Alaska that year, but I've hit all 50 since then."
Orders now come from distant lands as well, including New Zealand, South Korea, Guam and Bangladesh. Kentucky Derby fans around the world order officially licensed items such as glasses, napkins and posters, but also mint julep syrup.
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"I've learned that when people come in with a new product, you don't pay attention to how they look," she said. "They come up with some of the darndest things." The make-your-own-bourbon jar, for example, which includes oak chips (add "white lightning" and a little patience); and toilet paper imprinted with equine motifs.
The Biesels have come up with many ideas of their own, including packets of Thoroughbred horse manure, which sell well and helped earn them attention in Playboy and the Wall Street Journal.
The newest items include a Triple Crown chocolate assortment that features mint julep bourbon balls (for the Derby), dark chocolate toffee meltaways (the Preakness), and milk chocolate raspberry meltaways (the Belmont). Gleaming trays and bowls with horse designs have arrived, and can carry food from freezer to oven without breaking their stride.
Party Kits & Equestrian Gifts has a retail catalog as well as a wholesale one, which is for tack shops and other party stores. The catalogs list more than 400 items, while the showroom displays even more.
Among Biesel's most loyal customers are businesses that use Derby-themed products in employee sales competitions. The Tulsa (Oklahoma) Boys' Home orders items to use in raising funds; so enthusiastic is that institution about horses, its therapeutic equine program recently acquired the four-legged star of "Seabiscuit."
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"The good Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King did not enjoy seeing his people beaten on the 6 o'clock news. However white America needed to see that in order to move this country to change. They need to see this show for exactly the same reason."—Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans)
Opening Statement
They had names like Willie Best and Lincoln Theodore Perry. They were Hollywood stars, but not under those names. While African-American mavericks like Oscar Micheaux and Paul Robeson stuck to their guns and produced an authentic black cinema in obscurity, these men, known to their fans as Sleep N'Eat and Stepin Fetchit, played the studio game, made good money, and even earned the "respect" of some of their white peers (if not their studio handlers and the public). But these men and many others- Hattie McDaniel, Mantan Moreland, and so on—labored under humiliating conditions and surrendered both their personal dignity and their public image for nebulous job security (although most died broke and reviled anyway).
This critique is dedicated to them: the casualties of America's long popular culture war.
Facts of the Case
Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) was born with the name Peerless Dothan. But now he works for a big network, CNS, as a comedy writer. He clearly hates himself and his identity as a "Negro:" he speaks in a clipped, artificial accent and pitches shows in which assimilated blacks join the white world. A sign atop his television set reads "Feed the Idiot Box." His white boss, Dunwitty (Michael Rapaport), claims "to know niggers better than you," has a black wife, and wants Delacroix to produce shows with a hipper attitude. So Delacroix cooks up "Mantan: The New Millennium Minstrel Show," recycling every vicious and denigrating racist cliché he can think of, in the hopes of so offending the public that they will return in droves to his race-erased shows. With the help of his assistant Sloan Hopkins (Jada Pinkett-Smith), he hires two talented street performers, Manray and Womack (Savion Glover and Tommy Davidson), and redubs them "Mantan and Sleep N'Eat," after two famous blackface characters. Everyone expresses their doubts but plays along, seduced by the possibility of fame and power, and the chance to smash racist clichés.
But the plan quickly backfires, as the network stocks the show with white writers, plays the clichés with a perfectly straight face, and watches the ratings shoot through the roof. Soon, the whole country, already obsessed with buying anything it perceives as "authentically" black (which everyone ironically calls "keeping it real" at every turn), puts on blackface and plays along. But for the performers involved, the burnt cork makeup is beginning to burn…
The Evidence
A number of years ago, I had a friend (and I stress the word "had" here) who used to refer to people that he did not like—well, black people particularly—as "niggers." When I expressed my displeasure at the word (as well as his tendency to refer to bargaining as "jewing"), he remarked that not all black people were niggers, only the ones that acted that way. Of course, to him, every black person he met acted that way—he lost sight of whatever distinction he thought the term might have had. Nevertheless, he "respected" black athletes and actors he saw on television and liked black-influenced music (especially blues and rock). To him, it all made perfect sense.
What is the image of African-Americans in the media? What are people of color, of any ethnicity, sold by white advertisers? Indeed, what is "whiteness" to the media, and what are Anglo-Americans sold by advertisers as a construction of "black" culture? Trendy black culture is bought by whites wanting to "be black:" everything from Gershwin's use of jazz idioms to Elvis to—well, white intellectuals pretending they understand Spike Lee movies. Not that I'm naming any names here…
Yet, this very black "culture" is an invention of the marketplace: advertising that encourages African-Americans to dress alike (sports logos everywhere), drink the same drinks (malt liquor anyone?), and listen to the same music (mass-market hip-hop). This is a vicious cycle promoted by corporate capitalism. The plan: sell everyone a way to make each person feel like an individual, but sell them all the same stuff so that it is easier to manufacture and market. Be an outsider, but dress like your friends.
Television makes this problem even more conspicuous. In television comedy, African-Americans are typically either assimilated into white culture ("The Jeffersons," "Diff'rent Strokes") or portrayed as hip outsiders ("Good Times," any fast-talking, wise-cracking Eddie Murphy clone). Even the "revolutionary" "Cosby Show" in the 1980s was essentially a white-bred sitcom repackaged with black characters. Did it reflect reality, a real black middle-class? Or was it a fantasy of white television executives? How would we ever know? Since American culture is already so entrenched in "colorization" (as the long history of minstrel shows noted in Bamboozled points out), we may never tell the difference between our "real" selves and the media images.
The simultaneous reliance on social separation in the media (blacks must be poor and hip, whites rich and square) and the marketing strategy of corporate capitalism that pushes both camps to desire to be the other is the very problem at the heart of Bamboozled. In a sense, the real targets of this film—the mercenary advertisers and studio execs and the dimwitted public that insists on buying their product—are nowhere to be found (except in the guise of Dunwitty). Like my former friend, who enjoyed the "black image" sold to him by the media, but hated any actual African-Americans who crossed his path. But, I suppose such a target would be too easy. Instead, we follow the casualties of this marketing war. Are we to pity Pierre Delacroix? Despise his self-loathing and insulting condescension to the genuinely talented people (Manray, Womack, Sloan) whom he rolls over in his attempt to prove his point? Are we to cheer his assault on the racism of the media?
Of course, satire is not about finding answers or solutions. It is about pointing out our mutual responsibility for the problem. In that, Bamboozled is a success: no one gets off easily. All those who play along with the "Mantan" fiasco find themselves increasingly corrupted; and all those who attempt to fight back find themselves increasingly marginalized and desperate, swamped by the tide of "blackface" fervor. The satire is drawn in bold strokes. Delacroix (who narrates the film in a cynical Sunset Boulevard tone) and Dunwitty are not realistic characters. They are caricatures: a black man who wants to be white and a white man who wants to be black. Or at least, each wants to be what he thinks the other is. Nor does the plot unfold organically, but rather in disjointed fits that betray the contrivances required to get a show like "Mantan" on the air and a popular hit within the world of the film. All these are marks of a broad satire. On the other hand, the psychological development of the performers in the show, Manray and Womack, is subtle and gradual, as are many of the dialogue scenes that take place outside the television offices. And the devastating and violent backlash at the film's climax feels terribly real. It is almost as if Spike Lee has made two different films and attempted to combine them. The effect is not altogether successful at times, as our empathy for the more realistic characters is undermined by the scenes in which caricature takes precedence. Perhaps in a sense, this is the problem at the heart of the minstrel show itself: talented human beings must put on masks and become cartoons. But Lee's script is often itself confused as to when we are supposed to be in the "real" world or the "cartoon" world. When the script does work, it works marvelously as a blistering attack on the psychological damage of conforming to the media's definition of race. When the script fails, it seems disjointed and confusing, cutting back and forth between a brutal, documentary reality and a brightly caricatured media world without a clear sense of where we are.
But the real difficulty with Bamboozled is not its examination of the issue of ethnicity on television—a very real and complex problem worthy of both consideration and action—but that the movie really is not very funny. Effective and devastating satire is both uncomfortable and funny (as my students' reaction this past week to Fight Club will attest), and the line is admittedly a fine one. Bamboozled is uncomfortable, even quite terrifying at times: the first taping of "Mantan" is a perfect case, as the studio audience looks on in shock, then is slowly won over and begins to applaud—this is one of the most powerfully creepy sequences in recent cinema. But when the movie really wants to be funny (as in the later "Mantan" scenes, where some genuinely clever comedy appears), we are too alienated and frightened to laugh. Individual scenes can be quite good taken out of their context: an all-white writer's meeting where the writers have obviously learned everything they know from other television shows, a clueless militant hip-hop group that spouts every "black power" cliché in the book as if they just invented it, and so on. But where in other films, Spike Lee often lets his comic performers (Robin Harris in Do the Right Thing, his recent concert doc The Original Kings of Comedy) cut loose and expand on their parts, he tends to restrain his performers here, boxing them in and forcing them to perform in scenes which often clash in tone with what surrounds them. Although, in a sense, this is the very struggle of any satire: to combine the humor of individual situations with their devastating (and often depressing) social and political context. Perhaps in the case of Bamboozled, the grim history of racism is toploaded into the film to such a huge extent so early on, that it is nearly impossible for the audience to regain any critical distance in order to laugh at the absurdity of it all.
In spite of this, many of the dramatic performances are excellent. Savion Glover and Tommy Davidson turn out to be the real finds here: both turn in subtle, underplayed performances that feel quite real. Glover's brilliant dancing skills are highlighted of course, but the big surprise is how strong his acting is. In the broader half of the film, Damon Wayans and Michael Rapaport deliver carefully calculated and measured comic performances. Again, the problem is not that the performances are not great; it is that both groups seem to be operating at times in completely different movies. Jada Pinkett-Smith, as the strong point of contact between Delacroix and Manray, travels well between the two camps, holding her own. Lee's script and Pinkett-Smith's performance deftly avoid romantic clichés, allowing Sloan to become an independent woman whose complex emotional attachments are driven by both her empathy and ambition.
Lee's direction, always kinetic and self-assured, has matured in recent years (even if his material is sometimes inconsistent) into a hyperrealism marked by oversaturated color and tricky verité use of overlighting and varied focus. Bamboozled is shot entirely with camcorders (straight off the shelf) and 16mm by documentarian Ellen Kuras. As I noted in my review of Lee's earlier Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee's films are not meant to look realistic in the conventional sense, but rather naturalistic: a heightened reality where broadly drawn characters play out their parts within a staged situation embellished with the use of complex visual detail.
In short, the world of Bamboozled looks real and detailed, but the characters are not: they are types with different views of their world, thrown together into a contrived situation in an effort to generate debate among both the characters and the viewers. Yes, the plot of Bamboozled is awkward. It sounds much better on paper than it plays out on the screen. And the inconsistent sense of tone is a significant flaw. Spike Lee might have been better off paring the overlong (two and a quarter hours) script into two films, or perhaps restructured the story somewhat. But he cannot be faulted for a lack of ambition. Bamboozled is a tremendously ambitious film which tries to be a satire of contemporary television, a history of media racism, and a realistic psychological examination of the effects of that racism—all at the same time.
New Line has packed the DVD with a good lineup of extras. A dozen deleted scenes (most of which are better off gone—the film is too long as it is), plus a bunch of fake commercials for "Da Bomb" (a malt liquor which comes in plastic two-liter bottles) and "Timmi Hillnigger" (pseudo-hip clothing). The commercials are pretty funny, but again, many parts of this film are funny when taken out of context. Put back into the movie, they tend to add to the creepiness. An animated art gallery shows off advertising art for the "Mantan" show (done in a retro circus style). Two very different music videos, one for Mau Maus' "Blak Is Blak" (done low budget in full frame) and Gerald Levert's "Dream With No Love" (big budget widescreen) show the extremes of the film itself: one song is energetic but spouts militant rhetoric that was fresh a dozen years ago (compare it to Lee's video for Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" on Criterion's Do the Right Thing disc—but of course, the Mau Maus are supposed to be a parody of militant hip-hop), while the other is glossy R&B. I wish the disc had included videos for the strong Stevie Wonder songs which bookend the film's opening and closing, some of Wonder's best work in years. A theatrical trailer and cast biographies are also included. DVD-ROM features include a nice script-to-screen feature (you can match up the screenplay to the film, or print out sections) and links to the official website and a fake site for the "Mantan" show (both below).
A solid hour-long documentary on the making of the film is included. It focuses less on the actual mechanics of the film's production and more on critical analysis by film historians, writers, and critics who comment on Bamboozled's effect as a satire and the tragic history of minstrel shows. The whole effect seems a little defensive, as if we would not get that the film is a satire unless it is explained to us. In fact, the movie itself begins with a dictionary definition of satire spoken in voice-over by Delacroix. Does Lee think we will miss this point?
The audio commentary by Spike Lee is a little disappointing, knowing how much he has to say on the subjects covered in the film. While he does explain his influences (citing Budd Schulberg's A Face in the Crowd, Chayefsky's Network, and Mel Brooks' The Producers), and plugs Mark Daniel's excellent documentary Classified X, there are long stretches of the commentary where Lee either explains obvious screen action or just silently admires his handiwork. At one point he seems clueless as to why the real Tommy Hillfiger (who apparently gives to many black charities) is upset at him about the "Timmi Hillnigger" jokes in the film. And this after his own geeky "Mars Blackmon" Nike ads in the 1980s. This sort of defensiveness (seen as well in the documentary) is a bit unusual for a satirist (any good satirist knows that the writer is just as implicated in the problem as everybody else). Does Spike Lee believe he is above racism himself? I would think not, but the question, which often persists in his films, is a troubling one.
The Rebuttal Witnesses
Bamboozled is a difficult and disturbing film to watch: one of my colleagues at DVD Verdict tried a hand at this review before passing it to me and expressed a sense of horror and disgust after screening the film. But horror and disgust are exactly what you should feel here—and not just out of "political correctness." If the film fails in any significant sense, as noted above, is in its failure to maintain a sense of consistency of tone, veering between naturalism and realism. In addition, its insistence that every few minutes must include some didactic lesson in media history becomes a little tiresome. At 2 hours and 16 minutes, Lee makes his point so many times you may wish he would just ease up. The point he has to make is an important one. But the overkill does become exhausting.
Closing Statement
If you come to Bamboozled expecting to be entertained, you will be sorely disappointed. The film is a two-by-four to the head. It is worth watching (at least on DVD, where you can hit pause and take a breather) by those interested is social critique and an edgy perspective on racism in the media that you are unlikely to get from any mainstream sources. Ambitious and often brilliant, but just as often inconsistent, it is a film that is not easily forgotten.
The Verdict
In a satire, everyone already stands condemned for his or her own folly. But since director Spike Lee lets himself off the hook in Bamboozled, this court orders him to lighten up a bit and show us the talent we know he has, but often hides behind a strident public persona. A special indictment is handed down against American culture for its long history of crimes against race, but the court expects that to be repaid in community service for a long time to come.
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Transfer to the hotel from the airport and enjoy a welcome dinner this evening. Get a taste of Split's vibrant nightlife or just stroll along the seaside promenade. The following day we visit Krka National Park, known for its limestone gorges and waterfalls. A bike ride delivers us to 150-foot Skradinski Falls where we can cool off in the river's inviting pools. Another day of biking takes us through the rolling hills along the Cetina River.
A ferry delivers us to Korcula Island, bithplace of Marco Polo, where we explore the city on this greenest of the islands. This is a wonderful Dalmatian city with its protective wall, round defensive towers, and clusters of red-roofed houses. A morning ferry returns us to the mainland and Dubrovnik, jewel of the Adriatic and the most beautiful and well preserved city in Croatia, for a tour of the old city. Sea kayak among the breathtaking Elafiti Islands, a string of mostly uninhabited islands. Have a picnic lunch on a deserted beach, snorkel in a glorious bay and enjoy your time in the sun.
Enjoy a morning of whitewater rafting through the Class II and III rapids of the 600-foot deep Cetina Canyon. The following day is a trip highlight--canyoning in the Cetina River Canyon. Canyoning combines hiking, climbing, rappelling and swimming and allows us to explore the canyon's waterfalls, rapids and subterranean tunnels in ways never before possible.
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I tried to install rpy2 (pip install rpy2). I want to use the SDAPP4 extension with QGIS (QGIS shows up the message missing rpy2...). The system tells me always the same error:
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It was not a pleasant start to the basketball season for Skyline High School as they dropped both ends of their twin-bill with St. John Friday Night, and neither game was close.
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A 7-4 4th quarter resulted in the final score, 88-19.
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I would like my film to be deinterlaced during rendering, but it doesn't seem to work.
In the project settings, the video profile is set to DV/DVD PAL.
The only video clip is originally VHS PAL and has been digitalized as an mjpeg.
In the clip properties, I have tried changing the field order to top and bottom frames to no avail.
In the render dialogue, I have set the scanning to force progressive and force interlaced, both to no avail. I have tried rendering to DV PAL, Mpeg2 and H.264. I have also made my own custom rendering profile where I added the option interlace, interlace=0 and interlace=1 on seperate occasions, all of which didn't work.
Transcoding the clip using FFMPEG with the -vf yadif option deinterlaces properly.
I am using debian wheezy, kdenlive 0.8.2.1, ffmpeg 0.8.5-6:0.8.5-1, melt 0.7.8
What am I doing wrong?
Tue, 04/09/2013 - 14:23
Current release is 0.9.6, I'd recommend upgrading to the latest release then retry.
Tue, 04/09/2013 - 22:27
hi, 0.8.2.1 was just too out of date, ffmpeg and MLT have moved on since then. Options for getting latest I'd suggest via the build script http://www.mltframework.org/bin/view/MLT/BuildScripts, rather than building from source tarballs or sunabs PPA if you can use PPA's on your distro https://launchpad.net/~sunab/+archive/kdenlive-svn, or a daily build from http://builds.meltytech.com/kdenlive/latest.rss
The force progressive at render time should do the deinterlacing. But you say your project settings are DV/DVD PAL, which is an interlaced project profile, so perhaps that overrides 'force progressive' at render time regardless.
Try creating a custom project for your desired output and choose progressive there, then maybe force progressive at render time to be sure.
Tue, 04/09/2013 - 23:41
Sat, 04/13/2013 - 16:58
I think you missed one of the steps I mentioned, did you create a custom DV Project Profile for progressive output rather than trying to force progressive in the interlaced DV/DVD PAL project profile?
Sun, 04/14/2013 - 01:08
If you look in the clip properties of the original mjpeg source file in kdenlive has the clip been interpreted as interlaced? What does a tool like mediainfo say about the original source file does it state its interlaced?
Mon, 04/15/2013 - 01:43
How about doing the test with one or both of these render presets:
- DNxHD 1920x1080p/25 120M
- H.264 1280x720 Normal (here use force progressive)
Mon, 04/15/2013 - 23:59
Ok, tested this problem with a interlaced dv clip and transcode to mjpeg with MPlayer with the latest kdenlive/MLT build but I think any recent build should work and the problem I found goes back to Project Profile and ensuring it's 'Progressive' rather than 'Interlaced' and that the mjpeg files don't flag interlaced scan type so assumed progressive by kdenlive / MLT as you may see from the mediainfo output, there's no mention of the 'Scan Type' and 'Scan Order' items in your output, for correctly flagged interlaced files there will be.
But just forcing the scanning in the clip properties is not enough if the Project Profile is 'Interlaced', if the Project Profile is not 'progressive' deinterlacing in the monitor using the recently added deinterlacer options and force progressive at render time don't work.
Together with a progressive project profile with regard to mjpeg avi, you also need to force scanning to interlaced and force field order to top or bottom field first if known (BFF is generally the method used), because the mjpeg stream information does not state 'interlaced' and therefore assumed progressive kdenlive / MLT so deinterlacing and force progressive at render time are ignored.


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6 Feb 2013 1:45 AM #1
Autoresize Grid without reducing/eliminating the height and the auto-scroll attribute
Hi all,
I have a Grid Panel which pulls large amount of data from a server at a busy day.
The height declared for the Grid is 200 and the auto-scroll attribute is set to true.
But whenever the Grid pulls up fewer data(lets say 1 data on a no working day), then the lower part of the Grid contains the space which doesn't goes well with the design. Is there any possibilities of auto resizing the Grid without changing or eliminating the height and the auto-scroll attribute.
This is what I want my Grid to look like when it pulls few data(1 or 2 data(s))
Any help will be appreciated.
6 Feb 2013 7:06 AM #2
You are using fixed height for grid thats why, if grid has only one item then it will not aoturesize,
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Replace your "height" config with "maxHeight".


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How would you explain one of these theorems in the foundations of mathematics to a fellow colleague outside the field of logic (or rather to an undergraduate mathematics student) handwaving over the details?
The aforementioned link is by no means complete and following are some of the missing ones:
- Beth definability theorem
- Brouwer's fan theorem
- Craig interpolation theorem
- Mostowski collapse lemma
- Omitting types theorem
- Ramsey's theorem
- Shoenfield absoluteness theorem
- Tarski's undefinabilty theorem
- Vaught conjecture
- Well-ordering theorem
Due to the dearth of lucid papers on these topics -admittedly which is by no means easy to understand without pursuing years in college- my search has only yielded the following accounts:
- (The Cartoon Guide to) Löb's Theorem by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Konig's infinity lemma
- Zorns Lemma (Axiom of Choice)
I am hoping to get a better understanding in expository terms of these logical theorems. Any reference that sheds light targeting students who had at most an introductory symbolic logic course at college level (such as myself) would be appreciated.


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Comedies That Should Have Been Awesome (And Weren't)
#8. Bowfinger (1999)
THE PITCH: Steve Martin writes, directs AND stars! Eddie Murphy breaks out his patented "Playing multiple characters in the same movie" gag! It's the great taste of chocolate and peanut butter.. together for the first time!
THE PAYOFF: Bowfinger isn't a bad comedy. Its plot, which involves a team of down-on-their-luck filmmakers putting a Hollywood star in their movie without his knowledge, has some genuine laughs. The problem's in how mean-spirited a lot of it comes off. When an actor/director as successful and talented as Steve Martin writes a comedy about actors and directors with no success or talent, it feels like a fat guy showing off a photo album of all the buffets he's attended to a group of starving Ethiopians.
THE PROBLEM: When not laughing at people less successful than himself, Martin fills Bowfinger with obscure industry gags you'd have to be a Hollywood player to enjoy. I can't see too many audiences in Dubuque, Iowa pounding on their armrests and thinking, "It's so true! I hate it when Fedex doesn't arrive with my next batch of scripts to review!" or "You don't have to tell me what it's like to work with Scientologist actors!" Watching Bowfinger, you want to force Steve Martin to sit through a comedy about plumbers filled with chuckling references to spray foam insulation and flexible coated gas piping. "See? That's what it feels like!"
#7. Harlem Nights (1989)
THE PITCH: Eddie Murphy writes, directs AND stars! Comedy legends Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx join Murphy to present three generations of groundbreaking black comedians in one movie!
THE PAYOFF: Assuming you enjoy the word "fuck", Harlem Nights delivers beyond your wildest expectations. Assuming you were expecting comedy giants like Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx and Eddie Murphy to have actual amusing things come out of their mouths, you might be disappointed. Nights feels like an excuse for Eddie and his friends to dick around on a set in 1930s period costumes, and it probably was, but even then you have to wonder: with that much talent in one room, wouldn't someone by accident have been funny once or twice while the camera was rolling?
THE PROBLEM: Harlem Nights was billed as a "comedy-drama", which is a lot like making a "romantic horror" movie or a "hardcore Christian porno," and sounds suspiciously like a term thought up by a Hollywood ad executive after watching the movie and realizing it was as hilarious as colon cancer. "Work with me on this. What if it wasn't funny... on purpose?"
#6. Quick Change (1990)
THE PITCH: Bill Murray directs AND stars in a comedy about New York City!
THE PAYOFF: The premise of Quick Change is one of those ideas that sounds funny on paper ("What if a group of criminals pull off a flawless bank heist in New York City, but then can't actually get out of the city?" Wah wahhh!) but logically gets more and more contrived and idiotic the longer the movie drags on. The first time our heroes fall victim to New York's notorious traffic jams, crime and public transportation problems, it's sort of amusing, assuming you've lived in Manhattan. By the fifth time, Quick Change has officially run out of variations on "Say, New York traffic, huh?" and has to resort to increasingly stupid ways to keep our heroes trapped in the city. By the twentieth, they've all but had a group of Predators gang-raping them before they can hop on a bus.
THE PROBLEM: We don't care how confusing the map is-Mahattan's an island that's like three miles wide. If you can't figure out how to drive in a single direction for five fucking minutes until you see water, then take a left or a right until you find a bridge, you don't deserve the money you've stolen, Magellan.
#5. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2005)
THE PITCH: Academy Award nominated American actor, writer, comedian and director Albert Brooks stars in a documentary about comedy and foreign cultures!
THE PAYOFF: Like most of Albert Brooks' comedies, Looking For Comedy is an unbelievably interesting premise that stumbles to its knees through its execution. In a landscape as xenophobic as America post 9/11, the idea of a documentary examining what makes other cultures laugh should have been a slam dunk, delivering a feel-good "We're not so different after all" message with plenty of fish-out-of-water laughs along the way. Except it's not a documentary. It's a scripted comedy with a sitcom-ready premise.
Yeah. Didn't make any sense to us, either.
THE PROBLEM: What should have been a thought-provoking study as to whether comedy is a universal phenomenon or defined by its culture ends up being an embarrassing lesson in how profoundly not funny Albert Brooks is any more. In his many stand-up routines in front of a Muslim audience, it's true, nobody's laughing. The problem is, nobody was laughing in the American theater I watched this in either. A more accurate title for Finding Comedy in the Muslim World might have been Watch Albert Brooks Suck the Laughter Out of a Room for an Hour and a Half. Good God, just look at the picture of Brooks with the puppet up there. Doesn't that make you cringe just looking at it?


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Wesley Pruden's Aug. 29 column, 'When saying goodbye means good riddance', starts by commenting on the last American troops pulling out of Saudi Arabia and ends by suggesting that everyone at the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington should be deported to Riyadh. This is the stuff al Qaeda dreams are made of: confrontation between the cradle of Islam and the world's superpower.
As early as 1997, when Peter Arnett interviewed him for CNN, Osama bin Laden criticized Saudi Arabia for its friendship with the United States. By choosing 15 Saudis out of the ranks of his cult, which has members from more than 60 countries, he attacked the United States and laid the blame on its closest ally in the Islamic world.
Now, facts are no longer needed when criticizing Saudi Arabia. Mr. Pruden can state that Saudis are "pouring into Iraq by the hundreds, perhaps thousands, to shoot at American soldiers," even though Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said earlier this week that "we've got a relatively few number of Saudis" and another State Department official told United Press International, "I've heard the ballpark figure of 15." Yet, Mr. Pruden can continue to write what he pleases — and as long as it is critical of Saudi Arabia, almost nobody will bother to check his facts.
Mr. Pruden's litany of demonizing statements is even more offensive when one considers their subtle insinuations, such as when he describes the alleged predicament of President Bush in the following: "It couldn't have been pleasant, for example, to entertain Saudi princes at Prairie Chapel Ranch, particularly when his wife and daughters were there."
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(I know this site doesn't give legal advice, but what I'm dealing here with isn't anything serious at all. Also, I apologize to JP for being annoying over this.)
Someone found a game I made on the Internet, and expressed interest in buying it. We agreed upon a price, and, in the meantime, I removed the game's source from the Internet, just to be sure.
Now, I'm wondering what to do next.
These are the terms:
- He gets the game's source code, and only that, without the graphics (which weren't made by me).
- He gets the right to develop and sell the game.
- I get to keep the ownership of the original game, meaning that I can use it in my portfolio when applying for jobs, for example.
- The game gets to stay on its original site.
But I am not sure how can I legally realize this. Which license can I use?


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Resources/Library/Dead Tree
From Noisebridge
Noisebridge has a lot of them, they're mostly sorted, mostly sitting on our South wall shelf.
The books are currently for the most part sorted thanks to Al. Purposed systems to help keep the books mostly organized, since enforcing rules at Noisebridge isn't actually feasible:
- Color code or number shelves and books. Books that belong on the "Yellow" shelf will have a yellow sticker on it.
Library Catalog
A library catalog system for Noisebridge would be awesome! Here are some requirements:
High Priority
- Open source software with a nice license that wont fuck us over in the future.
- Web based.
- Quickly add books to the library via ISBN or bar code scan.
- Book search returns the last known location of a book (such as "Green Shelf" or "Book Case 8").
- Books can have a checked out status in addition to its last known location, date of check out should be displayed.
- Users can check out books without the need to register, as in when they check out a book it'll ask for a name and email, blank entries should be allowed as anonymous.
- Users who leave an email address will get a reminder email with a list of books they have checked out once a week.
Low Priority
- Integration with [1].
- Book search returns results with descriptions and a cover scraped from some other part of the internet.
- Library database in an open format to easily export later on.
- Ability to use a barcode scanner.
Possible Solutions
- Writing it ourselves
- [Koha http://koha.org/] Currently being used at [Hackerbot Labs http://www.hackerbotlabs.com/]


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Play Framework 2.0 doesn't seem to have much / any support for Netbeans. I'm currently just using it as an editor (loading the files using the favorites tab), but it's a little frustrating that Netbeans doesn't recognise any of the libraries / api's.
This means that EVERYTHING is underlined in red.
Trying to create a free-form project requires a build file, so I get stuck there too.
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19 Dec 2012 8:06 AM #1
Cannot upload version
I filled in the Basics and a Screenshot.
Then I switched to Versions:
- added Versionnumber 1 (also tried 1.0.0, "initial upload")
- added a summary
- uploaded the myFile.js using the first option
- pressed Save
Something happends and then the file is no longer shown as a file name, but still I need to uplaod a version.
Basically I am stuck there.
Am I doing anything wrong?
19 Dec 2012 8:41 AM #2
Though you can choose JavaScript files in the dialog, you can only upload zip files.
24 Dec 2012 1:15 AM #3
I also fail when trying to upload the new version.very sad.What fault is broken empty
24 Dec 2012 2:39 AM #4
I uploaded it as a zip file and it worked, but since I posted the thread no one tested my version, so I did not get approved.
5 Jan 2013 2:00 PM #5
Approval takes 3 weeks
Finally got approved. Took 3 weeks.
6 Apr 2013 8:03 PM #6
to be 3 day or longer than
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Kenny's Farmhouse Cheese says the recall was issued out of an abundance of caution.
No illnesses have been reported.
Affected products are blocks of colby, chipotle colby, monterey jack, and mild cheddar cheses.
The cheeses went to distributors, restaurants, and farmer's markets in several states.


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The Kansas Corporation Commission is indefinitely abandoning a decision process after being sued for using it.
The practice, called "pink sheeting," allowed the three commission members to register their opinions on issues individually without having a meeting. It's named for the color of the sheets commissioners use to record their opinions.
Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor has sued the commission and its members, alleging the practice violates the state's open meetings law, which requires government bodies to make decisions in public.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/125t7jX ) the commission voted Wednesday to suspend the practice.
The vote came a day after commissioners asked the attorney general's office to defend it against the lawsuit, and to assess the agency's open meetings practices.
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I've had this issue with Photoshop where some dark blues are displayed in black on Photoshop if I'm in RGB mode and selecting dedicated graphics in the performance preferences. If I don't select dedicated graphics or change to CMYK the issue gets fixed although I would like to be able to work in RGB mode and have the dedicated graphics on. What can I do?
You may want to read the Q&A in this link I just found. From that page:
Try disabling the
My cyan color looks normal again without blacky color, without sacrificing advanced GPU mode.
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