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Has anyone noticed the recent spate of "Thanks for sharing," comments on deals?
Over the last few days I've noticed several new accounts have been all over the place making the same general comments:
"thanks for sharing,"
"Thanks for taking time to share this deal which works for me. Save 25% on Cosumes!"
"Save 25%, sounds nice!"
"Just for $4.61. Nice price here."
"16GB is acceptable for me. Got mine!"
"A nice deal which works for me. Thanks OP!"
All the accounts were made this month. No deals added, no woots purchased, and nothing overtly wrong with the comments, but something about them is setting off warning bells. I know it sounds odd, but I get this "wait...what was that sound?" feeling about them. Kind of like that one antelope in the herd that picks its head up and senses the lions in the grass.
Am I being paranoid or do we have interlopers from a mysterious land with nefarious plans in our midst?
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They're all socks, the same as others that have been tattled on and killed off in the last few months. Collect their names and post them in a tattle.
@magic cave: Really? Good. I wasn't sure it was a tattle worthy offense.
Edit-- DONE. I've asked that lory8473, rainrun, & casyeu be thrown into the woot pits of fire.
Nice heads up...thanks for sharing this. :)
Yes. I've been deleting most of it. My guess is that they're trying to up their reputation for some reason.
There is a lot more work to be done if we are weeding out anything posted to improve reputation!
Well I think you're all jumping to conclusions here. Maybe they really are nice folks who have taken advantage of a deal and want to thank the OP for their help.
Even socks should be innocent until proven guilty. Even socks.
@1298ty: Socks are sneaky. Ever notice how they manage to disappear in the laundry? Nefariousness afoot!
@1298ty: I was thinking the same thing. Several of the examples show that the person making the post actually read the deal and included some detail about it in their post. It doesn't seem to me like they've done anything wrong. Posting comments just to up one's rep probably isn't the best way someone could use their time, but the rep calculator encourages just this behavior.
@lavikinga: Mmm, pits of fire.
@inkycatz: Woot has the technology. (BTW, the wine shipment I was whining about over on wine dot finally showed up yesterday and was cool to the touch. Looks good. Just waiting until Friday to give a few days to sit before cracking one open.)
@1298ty: It's possible, but doubtful, especially as a good portion of the comments make it appear as if they have taken advantage of the deal, even one based in the States.
@Thunderthighs: does woot have the capability to know where accounts like these originate?
@lavikinga: Thank you for the update (or should I have said "thanks for sharing")! I have been following your wine saga, actually and hope it turns out tasty and trouble free on Friday (seriously, is it Friday yet? WHY NOT).
I got several of these posts, and assumed they were either socks or just newbies. A few used questionable grammar, but all were polite and harmless. I saw no reason to report them. Again, harmless. I hate the ones who spam the comments and always report those.
What I found more interesting yesterday was that a single individual downvoted every post I made over the previous 24 hours. I was skimming through the positive possible sock comments and discovered a spate of nearly identical negative comments on my posted deals. I checked on the poster and found that, although he was a long-time member, he had never posted a deal, had only upvoted 5 deals, but had downvoted about 30, including 15 consecutive deals that I had posted. During the downvoting of my deals he had not voted on anything else. I have to admit that I felt somewhat stalked. I decided to blow it off unless it happened again, and probably shouldn't have hijacked this topic to mention it, but there it is. /vent
@lavikinga: I would guess that at least IP addresses are tracked, so in a way, yes there is a way to tell.
@belyndag: "I have to admit that I felt somewhat stalked."
People need to stop being creepy like that. Upon that day, a fleet of flying ponies will arrive at my desk though, because heeeeeey internets. :(
I, too, noticed 'thank you type' posts on 2 of my deals. They were refreshing... as opposed to those that say, "Bad deal! You can get this for zero dollars @ X place & they'll deliver it in a limo." JK ;-)
Saw the nice posts in the emails. When I went to the deals, they had been deleted. Did not know why...still unsure. :-/
@lavikinga: Wait! I must agree that socks 'can' be sneaky, but you are wrongly accusing them when they disappear in the laundry! It's the washing machines - they EAT the socks!! They really DO - that is one thing that is NOT the socks' fault. When our washer broke we had a repairman come out and he showed me - I saw it with my own eyes - the problem was that the washer had indegestion, because deep down in the washer's belly (motor), there were a couple of socks the washer had EATEN!
So please, you can accuse the socks of all the sneaky things they really do do (doodoo?, lol), but please don't accuse them of disappearing in the laundry because that is absolutely, positively NOT their fault.
Lol, I couldn't resist when I saw the "socks" comments ;)
Edit: I guess I need to start posting more often - then maybe I'll figure it out again. I tried [b]bolding[/b] and [i] italicizIng [\i] with the slashes both directions and with & without spaces, but nothing I tried worked. Idk!!
@belyndag: Sounds like you've stepped on someone's toes. Been in any really good pissing matches lately? You're not the only one around here that has a negative wootstalker.
What's weird is the upvote/downvote ratio of your hater. I was under the impression we earn the ability for downvoting by casting a certain amount of upvotes and it wasn't a 1 to 1 ratio either.
@michaels1715: Even giant boy socks? I have one of the darned eco-water saving machines (HATE IT! HATE IT! HATE IT!) that has no nooks/crannies for these giant socks to disappear into, but disappear they do.
Like I said, it's not like these comments are bad or shouldn't be made, but they just strike me as insincere and I have a hard time believing they're buying as much stuff as they say they are.
@gmwhit: I agree. I rather enjoyed the nice, harmless, positive posts. I would much rather lose the snarky "Why is this a deal?" posts.
@lavikinga: Alright, I will admit, when the giant boy socks disappear in the laundry, USUALLY they are the ones being smeaky. Except for in the case of a super-capacity washer. THEY are guilty of not only eating all sizes of socks, but UNDERWEAR as well!!
Lol, my words would have been more effective had I figured out how to bold and italicize, but alas, I must run as I have a woot-off to attend, so no time to do so right now.
For the record, I agree with you. I am suspicious of such comments as well - it reminds me of the people that leave the fake reviews (I forget the word for them) on Amazon. Although, I do also have to agree that they are better than the nasty or not-so-nice comments. I am pretty sure they are not actually purchasing the deals, but are commenting with an ulterior motive, most likely with the belief that they will gain credibility. My latest thought is: maybe they shouldn't be reported - then we could keep an eye on them and figure out what they're really up to?
Good question, thanks for sharing!
@belyndag: Woot Stalking can be a good thing.... I am liking @lichme 's work! Other stalking not so good.
Jeesh. Now I'm feeling guilty for tattling. The mods know best and TT did say those accounts tend to be deleted, so I'll just leave it in their hands.
Maybe I'll just make nice comments on their nice comments. "It's nice to be nice to the nice."
@lavikinga, thank you for taking the time to share this post with the community
@michaels1715: That's what lint is. The ground up remains of all those lost socks.
@lavikinga: Me, too. I thought you had to upvote to earn a downvote. I vaguely think of my "earned but unused" downvotes as accrued positive karma.
@moondrake: That's what I hoped. I was also hoping if and when I went to the Downvoting Darkside I would have a whopping pile of downvotes at my disposal. One of TPTB popped that little fantasy when he said those suckers have an expiration.
@goatcrapp: Can I sit with you at lunch at the popular kids table?
Socks are bad! They attack my poor Border Collie and then she has to retaliate by chewing on them. I'm sure she is just minding her own business and doing nothing to cause this to happen. After all, she is a perfect, little angel.
Bad Socks! Bad!
Urgh. Just got a nasty post from my downvoter. I think I'd better check to make sure everyone ELSE doesn't think I'm a shill!
@belyndag: I made a comment to you about that individual, but it got tazered.
@lavikinga: Saw it and PM'd you. Thanks!
@michaels1715: Hi Sharon, check out the Unofficial Official DW Rulespage. About halfway down you will see the info on formatting for this side of woot.
I used to monitor this one drug and alcohol treatment group and they would always say "thanks for sharing that". When I asked about it, I was told that this was their way of mocking one another while keeping it polite. Now I like to tell people thanks for sharing that, when I could care less what they told me.
Just struck me as odd that the phrase was used here.
I am going to crawl back under my rock again for awhile.
@ecriscit: The Fine Art of Mocking. It has its place. But in therapy? Wow, that's a rough group!
@belyndag: I don't think it was me, but just in case, I'm sorry.
In the 6 minutes a day I have to surf lately, I have been downvoting a little willy-nilly. My current schedule should keep me away from the webz for a while longer.
My poor attitude at work is overflowing to the Deals. Nothing personal.
@lavikinga - no need to feel guilty! It wasn't until after hearing other peoples' comments and thinking about it for a while did I even think about watching them to see what they were up to. Anyway, you're right - the mods know what they're doing. No worries.
@moondrake Lol - true. Although my lint catcher always catches more dog hair than lint :)
I find it fairly simple to define "sock" for my own purposes. Commenting socks tend to have become members on the same day or within a day or two of the deal being posted, which means they haven't had time to receive any merchandise offered in the deal, and they generally have no other history here or on the other woot sites.
Posting socks also tend to have joined within the same week, usually post deals for only one site (without making any commercial connection to the site apparent), and often cross-compliment each other.
I'll continue questioning/tattling on socks when I feel there's sufficient evidence of their sockitude, just as I'll continue to leave "great deal!" comments when it's appropriate.
@barnabee - your Collie would get along great with my Lab (she's NOT actually a dog though! She's a girl!). Although, my Holly Berry Gold (aka "Holly", "HollyBear", or just plain "Bear") does not chew on socks - but whenever we get home and she's been by herself (for any length of time over 5 minutes), she gets SO excited that she must find a sock - and only a dirty sock will do - to hold in her mouth while she wiggles her whole body and whimpers, lol. When she begins to calm down, she then proceeds to drop the dirty sock & kiss us right in the face/mouth. If she can't find a sock during her moment of need, she has a meltdown on top of a meltdown, which is actually quite hilarious... Okay, I'll stop talking about my youngest child... Did I mention how so very, very much I love her? If socks make my girl so happy, then even the dirty, sneaky ones just can't be pure evil - there just has to be some good left in them - I just know it! (LOL!)
@belyndag: Thank you! "Shill" is the term I couldn't remember (I think) :)
@jsimsace: THANK YOU SO MUCH I had forgotten all about the nice, easy asterisks! So much better than trying to get [i/]\b]... in the right format - for me at least :)
Also, I now know why your question (the one I just posted to - two months later, lol) showed on my front page - it's because to reply to you here, I touched your name, so was taken to your page rather than this page which I would have been directed to had I touched the title of the question. More of my rust shows! But look at how much your one little (yet BIG) reminder has helped me. Thank you again :D
@ecriscit - I've heard that sarcastic/polite expression a lot - although quite often shortened to "thanks for sharing" sometimes with a hint of a question in the tone and/or a raised eyebrow. I was going to say more, but I have said way too much already, so... I'll stop - as soon as I let you know that you "crawling back under your rock" got me laughing tonight - thanks for that :)
I think you all now see why I don't post often-I waste too much time with excessive details that very few people actually read, lol. Here's one everyone should though:
Goodnight all!
PS - PHEW! Sorry for so many comments! People like me (thank God there aren't many, lol) definitely do not like character limits!! And for the record, I'm officially complaining that the asterisks count as characters - IMO they should NOT. Okay, now I'm done - and you won't have to listen to me again for several months (hey! I heard that sigh of relief...; )
I put this deal out about 2 hours ago and there have been a few "nice deal' comments removed, it's pretty funny watching the comments and then they are gone a few minutes later
@lumpthar: LOL! Not to worry, dear. It wasn't you! But I'm glad to see that I wasn't the only one raised to immediately feel guilty and apologize, even when I've done nothing wrong. Sorry about your attitude from work. I've been retired for three months now and STILL suffer from that problem!
@michaels1715: Your HollyBear must be related to my Lexie. She's a Shih Tzu with a sock fetish (although she will accept clean ones as well as dirty ones.) I once caught her going through the clean laundry and sneaking each sock out, one by one, and moving them to her kennel.
@iggz: LOL! Ever feel like there's someone lurking about who doesn't belong here?
Regarding the missing socks:
@lavikinga: Probably have access to the IPs on the backend but moderators don't have access to it.
@thunderthighs: I tattled a bunch of these this morning (socks leaving "great deal" and other vacuous comments). The result is that my tattle score went down.
If we see people leaving "Great deal" comments on everything on the first page, shouldn't we be tattling on them?
@rhmurphy: I suppose we can "nice comment/thanks for sharing your opinion" right back at them.
@rhmurphy: Honestly, I dunno. I'm not sure what they're doing. They don't seem to be hurting anything at least.
@thunderthighs: They're planning a sneak attack of spam deals. Or something.


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18 Nov 2012 5:33 AM #1
Unanswered: TreeGrid: Row specific styling of the joint opened/closed icon
Hello together,
currently I am working on a TreeGrid showing some hierarchical data.
What I need is a customized TreeGrid. It should have customized styles and customized nodeOpen/nodeClosed Icons as well as customized jointOpened/jointClosed-Icons.
Customizing the style and the nodeOpen/nodeClosed icons was done easily, through changing some resources and overwriting the calculateIconStyle-method of TreeGrid.
However customizing the joint-image (the image with the arrow, which expands the nodes on click) style is soooo frustating!
My goal is to set these images invisible in every row. On mouse over the row, it should be set visible. When I am thinking about doing this with plain HTML and Javascript this is really easy. However doing this in GXT kills me.
My current, none-working approach is the following:
while (treeNodeIterator.hasNext()) { Element jointElement = testTreeGridView.getJointElement(treeNodeIterator.next()); jointElement.getStyle().setVisibility(Style.Visibility.HIDDEN); }
The problem:
The TreeNode-List on which the iterator is called is EMPTY, in spite of the fact that data are populated inside the TreeGrid.
Does anybody know, why the TreeNodes are empty after data insertion?
Does anybody have any idea of how the problem of changing the joint-icons' style per row can be accomplished in a nice way?
Any idea is really appreciated, as I do not have one to solve the problem.
Kind regards,
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First, a short answer:
This is called on TreeGrid initialisation.
The problem:
The TreeNode-List on which the iterator is called is EMPTY, in spite of the fact that data are populated inside the TreeGrid.
Does anybody know, why the TreeNodes are empty after data insertion?
Are you sure you want to set visibility to hidden? This will preserve the space the element uses, while making it invisible. Consider also setting it's Display property to None.
Any one more short answer in case you don't read the whole long answer below: Consider not extending Tree/TreeGrid to replace the calculateIconStyle method: set a specialize IconProvider instance instead.
Okay, a more complete answer about why this isn't easy (the image is part of the theme, not presently meant to be replacable), and how to generally think about solving this in GXT 3:
For some widgets in GXT, you can configure the widget to change behavior - this is the case when building your own Cell<T> (change how a Tree/ListView item or Grid/TreeGrid cell is drawn) or when providing a IconProvider<T> (change how the Tree/TreeGrid draws icons - please consider this instead of overriding TreeGrid.calculateIconStyle). In both cases, the way to render is dependent on the model object being drawn. In other cases, the images or styles are a more fundamental part of the widget, and don't vary based on the data itself, but on the state of the widget - these include ComboBox/DateField/etc trigger icons, the headers in the Grid/TreeGrid, and the expand/collapse icon, among others. In these cases, to provide this functionality, we use make use of an appearance class.
All appearances have a default, usually defined in the theme itself (see the Blue.gwt.xml and Gray.gwt.xml files), and when you make your own, you can either pass it into the constructor (see the TreeGrid(TreeStore<M>, ColumnModel<M>, ColumnConfig<M, ?>, GridAppearance, TreeAppearance) constructor), or make your own <replace-with> rule in your .gwt.xml file to be the new default. In this case, you want to alter the behavior of the com.sencha.gxt.widget.core.client.tree.Tree.TreeAppearance.renderNode(SafeHtmlBuilder, String, SafeHtml, TreeStyle, ImageResource, boolean, CheckState, Joint, int, TreeViewRenderMode) and com.sencha.gxt.widget.core.client.tree.Tree.TreeAppearance.onJointChange(XElement, XElement, Joint, TreeStyle) methods, which are tasked with drawing and updating joint elements. In the default implementation, com.sencha.gxt.theme.base.client.tree.TreeBaseAppearance does both Blue or Gray wiring.
Both read from the com.sencha.gxt.theme.base.client.tree.TreeBaseAppearance.TreeResources implementation, which is specified in the BlueTreeAppearance and GrayTreeAppearance to set theme-specific details.
The usual approach to change this would be to subclass from the theme you are using, extend the ClientBundle, and point it at a new image. Since you want to completely *remove* the image, not just hide it, you may find this to be a little trickier - you might want to consider a totally custom implementation to make sure any other details you are after are followed as well.
23 Nov 2012 12:57 AM #3
@Colin Alworth:
I have followed your advices.
Implementing an IconProvider in order to provide specific icons instead of overriden the calculateIconStyle()-Method. This works very nice.
Also the renderNode method was overriden to remove the joint icon.
My objective is to let a row show the joint icon when this row is clicked.
So I added a RowClickHandler to the TreeGrid. On such a click event, the node's element's inner HTML is set to show the image. On leaving the row, this inner HTML is reset to show the node without the image.
Here is a code snippet of the code setting the inner html stuff:
Element jointIconElement = AbstractImagePrototype .create(treeGridForHandler.getStyle().getJointCloseIcon()).createElement(); jointIconElement.addClassName(((CustomTreeAppearance) treeGridForHandler.getTreeAppearance()).getTreeStyle().joint()); nodeHtmlElement.setInnerHTML("
" + jointIconElement.getString() + " " + currentlyClickedTaskID + "
");
Element toRemoveHtmlElement = rowNodeToRemoveIcon.getElement(); toRemoveHtmlElement.setInnerHTML("
" + taskIDToRemove + "
");
The problem is the following:
When I click on a row, the icon is shown. Clicking on the icon expands the tree node. So far everything's fine.
Though, when I leave this row and click on it a second time, then nothing happens. I.e. the node is not expanded. Clicking on it the second time means, that the inner html of the node element is set again.
For me it looks like the joint icon looses its clickhandler if it is rendered via setInnerHtml(...) the second time. I cannot explain this in another way.
Does anybode had a similar problem or can give me a hint or an idea what causes this problem and how to solve this??
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Hello John,
i tried yesterday to improve my NPP position,
here are the results...
as you can see, i still have some slightly error when doing a 360*180° (4shots @ -45°, 8 shoots @ 0° and 4 more shots @ 45°); 360_Nadir shot with LRS56 URS100.jpg, however the Saw tooth method was OK (Sawtooth_Nadir shot with LRS56 URS100.jpg)
then i move the URS to 99 and to 96. I see some change but dunno which one is better.
i guess i need to complete a sphere to know.
What do you think?
I"m sorry to bother you, specially when i know i'll remove the Nadir afterward, but just want to be close to the perfection (as we all tend to;))


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I have a client that is asking for pretty detailed information about how the
landing_site attribute of an Order resource works. The documentation here says that this is set to the first page that someone visits when they come to the shop.
How persistent is this? For example, if someone visits a shop (entering via the home page, let's say) then I assume that the
landing_site will be "/". Let' say that visitor then comes back a day or two later (this time via a link with a ref parameter) and visits a product page. Does the
landing_site attribute update to "/products/sample-product?ref=mytoken"?
If not, how long does this value persist? Is there a way to reset it? If someone at Shopify could explain this, I think it would be something that a lot of app developers would reference.


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A lot of software updates follow the scheme of v0.1 to v0.2 to v22.214.171.124. What do these "updates" to software really mean? Is there an industry standard always followed or do programmers pretty much keep raising the update # or adding more decimals?
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Like Shaun said, there isn't really a standard. Some companies have better versioning practices than others (I've dealt with vendors who skip major version numbers, and others that are stuck on the same x.y several releases later).
Having said that, the inventor of Gravatars and cofounder of GitHub (Tom Preston-Werner) authored a document for 'Semantic Versioning' which is more than worth a read.
Here's the except of the intro:
With 4 digits it is usually MajorV.MinorV.PatchNum.BuildNum, at least where I work.
I personally prefer the Ubuntu's versioning scheme - makes life so much easier.
The short version is that there is no standard and companies do whatever they want. Essentially, the more numbers you have, the smaller the amount of changes each number represents. Commonly, you'll see at least version x.y, where x a change in x signifies major releases (major enhancement/feature rollouts) and y signifies minor releases (significant tweaks or defect fixes). More decimals after those two can mean different things internally to a company although often revolve around minor content builds or patches that represent quicker and smaller fixes.
Wikipedia has an article that covers this in greater detail.
The purpose of version numbers is to provide a reference for problem reports. The only requirement is that every release has a unique version number. Some numbers are driven by marketing--bigger whole numbers are easier to sell, and power numbers like 10 (roman numeral X) are really catchy. Some people use some variation of semantic versioning:
Many groups drop the BUILD number in their releases. It's usually only useful between testing and development groups.
Some groups add additional semantics, such as odd numbered MINOR increments are for experimental builds and even numbered MINOR increments are for production releases (Linux kernel uses this approach).
Bottom line is that there is no standard, other than newer versions use higher version numbers, and that each version number is unique.


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For testing android traffic encryption I have configured a VPN client in my phone. What simple test I can perform in my home wifi network to verify that the traffic is really encrypted and secure?
If the server is located somewhere else, you can check if the traffic is being tunneled through the VPN server by checking what IP address you are coming from. Visit a site like http://www.whatismyip.com/ with and without your VPN software enabled on your phone and see if it is a different IP address displayed.
Capturing the traffic from the air is a little bit tricky involving some steps like having a wireless card that supports monitor mode and software that makes use of the monitor mode.
A simple way of inspecting all the traffic to and from your phone is to pass it through a device where you can run a pocket inspection tool. Here is a tutorial about using Internet Connection Sharing in Windows to set up a hotspot on your PC: http://lifehacker.com/5369381/turn-your-windows-7-pc-into-a-wireless-hotspot. Connectify Hotspot is also a simple software to use: http://www.connectify.me/hotspot/.
Once the traffic from your phone passes through your PC, you can use Wireshark on your PC to inspect the traffic for unencrypted text.
If you are on a broadcast network like an unencrypted wifi network then you can load up Wireshark on another machine on the network and sniff all of the traffic leaving the device. Wireshark will identify protocols and allow you to see all network communications on the broadcast network.


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I know that some people while walking through the dark streets are holding house keys in their fist. It is meant to incerase damage inflicted on hypothetical agressor face. Something like improvised knuckle-duster.
Can it really improve one's defence capability? I think it gives you just a little bit of momentum. Moreover it hurts your palm during impact.
To sum up: Is it better to punch someone with keys placed inside your fist or without them?


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If you're like me and can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen…even if it means not satisfying a craving for homemade pie in this hot weather. Thankfully, there's a place right here in Kansas that makes serving my favorite dessert, well, as easy as pie. MarCon Pies in Washington bakes 500-plus fruit, nut, crunch, cream, cheesecake and specialty pies every day, yet each tastes just like grandma used to make. "
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L.A. Times Editor Denies Having Heard About the Sex Scandal Story — And I Believe Him
posted at 11:10 pm on October 31, 2007 by Patterico
This morning Allah linked that rumor that the L.A. Times is sitting on a sex scandal involving a leading presidential candidate. I tried nosing around a little, and asked Matt Welch about it. Matt is an Assistant Editorial Pages Editor for the paper, and a rare breed: an L.A. Times editor whom I trust. He is honest, smart, and plugged in — and he is definitely not part of the stuffy liberal old guard at the paper. (For example, he recently published a great book about John McCain which ridicules the myth that McCain is a straight-talking maverick.) Here's what Matt said to me:
I can tell you the following — I have never, ever, ever, never, ever, ever, ever heard anything about this. And I spent last week in Washington DC, worked in the LAT bureau, went to parties with LAT muckety-mucks, and gossiped with dozens of people who cover presidential politics; none of whom ever so much as mentioned anything about it. Rosenbaum's single, anonymous source is most certainly wrong, at least about the "everyone knows" part. He also most certainly is wrong that the same "everyone" apparently "doesn't know what to do with it" — seasoned political journalists are not helpless bystanders in the face of juicy rumors, they are specifically trained to go out and investigate them, and report when relevant.
As for Rosenbaum's agonizing over "reporting" such a thing, I don't have much respect for it. Either report or don't; save us the handwringing about stooping to "Web 2.0" whateverthehell.
You can quote me on all of that.
He left a comment on my site saying something similar, here.
This doesn't mean the rumor isn't true, but it's the way to bet.
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PLANETARIUM CEILINGS, gold-plated bidets and Louis XIV interiors may have fallen out of fashion for new Boeing Business Jets in this economy, but you can sum up the latest version of this private uber barge in one word: more.
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October 1, 2010
Today I dusted off a book that I've had for 45 years: Air Navigation, Department of the Air Force. Flipping through the book-which was a gift from an Air Force navigator, the father of one of my Cub Scout buddies-always stirs up memories. One concerns the time my buddy, Richie, and I submitted unsolicited pencil-sketch proposals for fighter jets to the Kennedy Administration.
October 1, 2010
Some people call business airplanes time machines because they can dramatically reduce the number of hours and days it takes to travel from place to place. But flying privately does still require you to spend some time in transit. Here are eight ways to use that time more productively:
October 1, 2010
For most private fliers, the ability to drive to a nearby airport and board a waiting business jet affords sufficient convenience. But what if the nearest airport isn't all that near and you often need to take off on short notice, perhaps for places that are themselves not near airports? In that case, adding a heliport to your home could make sense.
October 1, 2010
It's no coincidence that the first "business" airplanes took to the skies just as the era of the modern airliner arrived. Progress in engine technology and aerodynamics (resulting in faster speeds and longer range) made it possible by the mid-1930s for airlines to carry more passengers farther and in less time.
October 1, 2010
Options at the low end of the charter market-single-engine turbine and piston aircraft as well as VLJs (very light jets)-are expanding. That's good news if you've been priced out of larger jets, want to upgrade an automobile or airline trip without busting the bank or are looking to save money on short flights or when traveling without a large group.
October 1, 2010
Do you own an Apple iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad? If so, you'll be glad to learn about the increasing number of apps that should be particularly useful to business jet travelers. Our sister publication, Aviation International News, has had an app for a while now, and BJT has just introduced one as well (see '
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"What exactly is the point of a $356,000 car?" It floors me when people ask that question.
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From the dictionary: "intangible:...that which cannot be easily defined, formulated or grasped." When it comes to assessing much of the value in flying privately, that term is dead on. True, there are software programs like Travel$ense from the National Business Aviation Association that can help make a strong financial case for business aviation.
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6 Statistically Full of S#!t Dangers The Media Loves to Hype
If there's one thing we've learned from our elders it's that death is a big shit sandwich, and we've all gotta scarf it down one day. Assuming you're not a robot who can simply transfer your consciousness into a new body when the Reaper comes a-knocking, you've probably spent a little time pondering what is going to take you out in the end.
Chances are you're worrying about the wrong sandwich. Statistics show that the bogeymen behind some of the most widespread fears and phobias are downright toothless. At least when compared to the seemingly innocent stuff you didn't know could take you out at any moment. For instance ...
#6. What's More Dangerous than Sharks? Cows.
Jaws, Deep Blue Sea and countless Syfy originals all tell us that sharks are killing dudes left and right. They're practically the Grim Reapers of the ocean. Sure, we know that sharks don't really attack a whole lot of people, but we see one shadow swimming back and forth beneath the waves at the beach and we don't give even the smallest shit about what's realistic -- our asses are headed back to shore.
And then we call this guy.
The media love to get in on the shark action, too. Like in 2001, when a young boy was attacked by a bull shark at Langdon Beach in Florida, then another attack occurred in the Bahamas. Before you knew it, we were dealing with a full-on shark invasion, the coverage of which was later dubbed "The Summer of the Shark." Everyone was so freaked out by the attacks that legislators were actually pushed to pass legislation to deal with sharks, which they totally did.
It actually turned out later that shark attacks were down when compared with previous years. The fact is, on average, only one, single, solitary person in the United States dies from a shark attack each year, a 1 in 3,748,067 chance in your lifetime. For every year that several people are killed by sharks, there are plenty of other years in which no one is.
Lazy-ass sharks.
What You Should be Afraid of:
You want to know what blood thirsty, murderous beast kills about 20 times as many people?
Cows. Cows killed 108 people between 2003 and 2008, an average of about 22 deaths a year, or a 1 in 173,871 chance. Like we said above, sharks just don't really attack that many people. Most of the time, they don't even attack people on purpose. They just think you kinda look like their food.
Cows, on the other hand, are pretty big and hella strong. They're easily able to crush a fully grown adult, and people are around them far more than they're around sharks. A charging bull or stampede can still take you by surprise and kill you dead before you can yell "Land Shark!" In other words, you're more likely to die by cow hoof than by shark bite ... and that's not even touching mad cow disease or E. coli.
#5. What's More Dangerous Than Terrorists? Fireworks.
If you've watched television for more than 35 seconds in the last nine years, you might be aware that there are these people called terrorists, and they're going to destroy everything you love about America and capitalism. They could strike anywhere, and at any time.
While it's true that some of this fear has abated a bit in the years since 2001, one doesn't need to look far to find people who are horrified of getting caught in the middle of a terrorist attack. After all, terrorist plots are still ongoing, as evidenced by the Times Square car bomb attempt in May 2010 or Barack Obama's recent announcement about a foiled plot involving UPS and FedEx planes.. The fear has so permeated our consciousness that NPR contributor Juan Williams thought he was just echoing everyone else's sentiments when he expressed fear over seeing traditionally dressed Muslims on airplanes.
But Williams wasn't wrong to think others might share his headscarf vigilance. America has terrorism on the brain. And what do terrorists do? They kill people, that's what. Surely, by this point we all know at least one person who was killed by a terrorist, right?
Heart disease is not a terrorist.
Actually, chances are, you don't. In the years since 9/11, the statistical chance of being killed in a terror attack in the Western world has fallen to basically zero.
What You Should be Afraid of:
Patriotic holidays.
Fireworks kill about a dozen people a year, giving you 1 in 479,992 chance of being killed by them. And about 66 percent of those occur on the Fourth of July.
Double danger!
If you think we're cheating by only counting deaths since 9/11, then how about this: In the last decade -- including the 9/11 attacks -- you've been about 10 times more likely to die from a fire you accidentally set in your home than from a terrorist attack. Somebody should make a show about a Jack Bauer type who runs around reminding people to put out the goddamned cigarette before they pass out on the sofa.
"Ashtrays people, Jesus."
#3. What's More Dangerous Than Elevators? Stairs.
What's the perfect torture contraption for a person who is afraid of heights, tight spaces and free-falling to his death? Besides a mechanism that stuffs that person into a coffin and catapults him off a canyon, obviously? An elevator. An elevator is the correct answer.
While they're the perfect cinematic devices for sexual tension and surprise character deaths, in reality elevators are hardly dangerous at all: Only about six people a year die in elevator accidents.
What You Should be Afraid of:
The stairs.
You're more likely to meet your death taking the stairs than riding an elevator. A little less than 2,000 people a year are killed by falling down stairs, giving you a lifetime chance of 1 in 1,818 and making stairs officially the deadliest thing in this article.
Don't run. That just provokes them.
It's a pretty simple equation, and probably the only thing Die Hard got right about building safety. Elevators are built to very high standards. There's not just one cable holding you up, there are six to eight, and each one is capable of holding up the entire listed capacity of the car, plus another 25 percent. One of those cables is also connected to a governor that determines when the car is falling too fast. If that happens, it kicks on a set of copper shoes on the sides of the elevator car that act like emergency brakes, bringing it to a halt within a few feet. There's even a big hydraulic spring at the bottom of the elevator shaft that will cushion the blow, just in case all that other shit fails.
Stairs, on the other hand, are fucking stairs. You're lucky to have a handrail, and if there's something spilled on them, you're not paying attention, you're trying to run down them too fast or you're moronically trying to slide down the banister, you're gonna fall all the way to the bottom, and it'll probably hurt pretty bad. And God help you if Bruce Willis rides you down a set of stair like you're a sled. He's going to murder you, make fun of the size of your feet and draw all over you with a marker.
So remember kids: Climbing around in elevator shafts = witty one liners.
Wrestling near stairs = 'Oh my God, what have I done to deserve this?'


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What definitions or equivalencies between definitions for standard set theory objects (such as large cardinals) do not hold or do not carry through in the expected manner to the world without choice? Also, equivalences that DO carry over, but that you might expect wouldn't, would be interesting as well.
For instance I recently heard that the equivalence between the diagonal intersection and the regressive function definitions of normal ultrafilter does not hold without AC, though under closer inspection I don't see why it doesn't. Clarification on this would be helpful as well.


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quote: Actually Tony, this (like most of your past arguments" needs to be retired as well. The latest #'s are out and now Android has surpassed IOS in usage as well.http://www.itechpost.com/articles/6320/20130309/an...
quote: All that has changed now that Androids make up an astonishing 37 percent of the usage share in comparison to Apple's 25 percent share.
quote: Fast-forward a few months later and Android's usage share has reached 37%, far above Apple's approximate 25% share.


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The orange and black rollers in the back of the machine are damage or The
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Relatively new to Macs, I'm used to Windows wanting to verify HD data integrity after an unexpected shutdown. I know they use different file systems, but do Macs need to do anything like this?
Mac OS X's default file system is HFS+ Journaled. This means that before files are written, the data is first written to a special log called the journal. In the event of application or system crashes, when the machine re-starts it will re-run all the remaining entries in the journal to bring the file system back into pristine order. In theory anyway.
That said, it is still probably a good idea to use one of the included utilities to verify your filesystem.
You can run fsck in the Terminal or use Disk Utility to check your hard drive if you want. After a Kernel Panic or power outage, this is probably a good idea.
Disk Utility is the simpler option, just log in as normal and go to
If you want to run
TL;DR No, you don't generally need to. But it's not a bad idea to run a utility.
After any non-clean shutdown (kernel panic, power outage, etc.) I boot to single user mode (command + s when starting) and run


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Title basically speaks for itself: How do you protect your equipment when you are shooting in severe conditions? Rain? Severe heat/cold? Snow? Fog? ... Other? What sorts of techniques do you use to produce great-looking photography when your camera (and all the expensive lenses, too!) are exposed to the elements?
Using weather sealed camera bodies and lenses helps, but each condition has its own issues.
The good news is that the professional line of cameras and lenses tend to be sealed against the weather. They can withstand dust, rain, and minor dips in water (not underwater photography though).
Use common sense. All electronics have operating conditions they are designed to work within. If you exceed those conditions (extreme hot or cold) then the sensor won't respond or will be filled with lots of noise. The good news is that most cameras have a wider range of use than you do. All mechanical and film cameras tend to be able to survive even more extreme environments (hot and cold here) than the digital counterparts, but not without their own trials. Too hot and the film will melt. Too cold and it will become brittle and break in your camera. Too dry and you have tiboluminescent streaks. Too many XRays and you have weird sine waves across your film.
If you are shooting in inclement weather, the best thing you can do is use a camera that's built for it. Canon's 1D and Nikon's D3 have weather sealing that protects the camera's circuitry. This sealing explains part of their cost. The sealing doesn't make them submersible, just resistant.
For inclement weather of the sort you often get when shooting soccer, I have a rain cover for the camera. It has three ports. One which fits with a velcro strap and vinyl sleeve to the lens, and two with drawstring vinyl covers for my hands. It makes shooting more difficult but shots of players with falling rain and flying mud are absolutely worth it. My rain hood cost AUD$100.
There is no shortage of waterproof accessories available from camera stores. Head on in armed with a fat wallet and let the sales staff fit you up.
Moderate dry Coldness is not such a problem anymore ... for the camera:
I carried my D90 in Val Thorens/Valloire (skiing resorts in France) several hours on the slopes (-20/-10 degress Celsius). Carry a spare battery, change if the one in camera becomes too cold and weak.
The problems starts when changing temperature/humidity. Enter a restaurant and you'll have your ice-cold camera covered in condensation in seconds. If you don't have a towel ready the camera won't dry before you leave, resulting in ice-frosted lens or filter. Bonus for a filter: you can remove the frozen thingy. Maybe the ziplock bag will help there.
The other problem is the one you'll have handling the camera with numb fingers. DSLR can be handled with thick gloves, but not always gripped tight enough. Be sure to carry thin undergloves.
Don't know if there were some good-looking pictures though ;)
I use a large ziplock bag. Cut a hole in the bottom and poke the end of the lens out. Secure it with rubberband. Alternatively you can use a small umbrella.
A quick and free way is to use - wait for it - a shower cap! Use the clear ones that you get in most hotel rooms. The elastic rim keeps the plastic securely around the base of the camera so that any water falls off when it gets to the bottom rather than get onto the equipment. These things are small enough to squish into your back pocket, ready to be whipped out and put into action at the first sign of rain! If you're brave enough, shoot through the plastic for a different look!
Got me a good collection of the little boxes from hotel rooms whenever I travel and never leave home without one/two always in my kit bag! :-)
Just to add to the above -- keep a stash of silica gel dessicants in your bag, next to your lenses and the camera body. Very handy to absorb moisture.
Mostly I don't bother too much unless it's a particularly inclement environment. I use good quality bodies and lenses that are designed to resist some moisture/dust/shock/heat/cold etc.
For particularly wet environments, I use a Dicapac waterproof case, although quite often it's more for transport purposes than for use while actually shooting.
If it's just lightly raining or if it is snow I don't worry about it too much. If I'm going to be out for a long time I'll use a small garbage bag with a hole cut in one end & a rubber band to hold it in place. I have also used these cheap rainsleeves; they fit better than the garbage bag & look slightly less ghetto.
Also, don't forget that cloth diapers are a great way to dry your lenses! It's probably more important to keep the front element dry than the camera body... Not because it'll cause damage but because water on the lens will distort your pictures!
If you're into DIY, maybe try this for example...
For shooting in the rain, I bought an extra lens hood for each of my lenses. Then I glued a plastic bag to each lens hood, so that I could cover the entire camera with the bag, without having to futz about with getting the lens hole just right. When I'm not using the modified lens hoods, I fold the plastic up inside them and keep them in my bag, ready for quick deployment.
As stage photog for a outdoor music fest, I've run into a lot of inclement weather. Tyler's answer is great if you've planned ahead. Similarly, I've used the plastic bag (gallon freezer bags are excellent, as are grocery store bags) approach in an emergency by tearing a hole in the bottom and sliding it over the lens and holding it place with the lens hood. The bag opening allows space to hold the camera while keeping it dry. If the bag extends slightly into the edge of the frame. I zoom out a shade to avoid vignetting the subject.
I made a harsh-environment cover for my cameras with a baggie and an old UV filter cemented into the side of it. Works well. It even completely protected my camera when it accidentally slid off the seat of an old and leaky crab-fishing boat into a foot of water one time. When it comes time to replace the baggie from wear-'n-tear, there's no huge cost involved. When making one for yourself, put your largest camera and lens in the baggie to discern the best location to mount the filter so that all controls and viewfinder options are readily accessible through the plastic. You don't want, for example, any printing on the baggie being right over your LCD or EVF. Word of advice, few sealants and cements will adhere to the poly plastics used in sealable baggies. The only one I found to work well is a product by Loctite called Stick'n Seal.


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It is known that using the Cayley-Dickson construction a quaternion $q$ can be written in a symplectic form as $q=x+\mathbf{i}y$ with $x,y \in \mathbb{C}$.
I read in a couple of references that $x$ is called the simplex-part whereas $y$ is called the perplex-part of the quaternion. Is this widely accepted and if not what is the proper onomatology?
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BTW: NN5 after thousands of shots. Still working fine.
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BTW: NN5 after thousands of shots. Still working fine.
Heinz, many thanks for taking and posting those pictures. They motivated me to see what I could achieve with the gear I already have (NN5 + Kirk L-plate for D700 with battery grip + Kirk screw clamp).
I got it all set up successfully, but I also verified that many of my initial concerns were correct.
The good news:
- the Kirk screw clamp could be mounted very securely to the base of the NN Camera Mounting Plate, just using the supplied NN brass screw. I had worried that it might twist, but it seems solid. Nick's suggestion to use a hex screw and maybe a sheet of cork/leather would allay any fears - but I'm not sure if they're necessary.
- the D700 + grip + base of CP2 + Kirk clamp + Kirk L-plate will fit the span of the lower rail. But only just when the camera is vertical. If I was going to pursue this exact set-up, I would want to get one of the thinner NN base plates. (Actually, I think I want one anyway.)
Not-so-good news:
- I think the D700 + grip is a too heavy for the NN5. There's quite a lot of flex, and levels are lost. This is partly due to the extra weight, but also the extension of the centre of gravity. I'm sure it's usable, but not ideal.
- When in landscape orientation, there is extra flex added from the L-plate
- The Kirk screw clamp is fiddly to tighten at my upper rail settings (between 36 and 80mm) - and would be even fiddlier with a thinner base plate. I think the NN Arca clamp would be similarly fiddly. I need a quick quick release!
- The Kirk clamp and L-plate have no index marks.
I think a partial solution is what I had already figured out (but it's good to test nevertheless):
- Use the D700 without grip
- Use an RRS L-plate as it has index marks
- Use an RRS lever clamp, as it's quick, secure, and has index marks
- Use a thin NN base plate, to shorten the centre of gravity.
A more thorough solution would be to replace the D700 with a smaller and lighter camera - maybe Nikon's new D7000. But I don't have the budget for that at the moment.
a better solution is to upgrade to the new Ultimate M1. As a NN5 customer, you get $100 discount. We are treating the first batch as pre-production units and offer 25% discount. You can reuse the RD16. so by paying a little extra, you can get a much better, stronger Arca Swiss Compatible pano head.
I thought you'd say that! And I'm sure you're right. It looks a lot more stable.
But first I want to make my money back on the NN5.
Also the fixed 7.5 degree click stops on the upper rotator of the Ultimate are a problem for me. For different focal lengths I need a variety of degrees of vertical rotation (10, 12.5, 17.5, 20, 25, and 30 degrees). Manual rotation of the upper rotator suits me better for now.
I respect all answers right now having their own sense, there are "many ways to Rome".
Respecting all your aspects Elliot, I feel right now try to use your equipment and add an Ez-Leveller II to compensate the torque. Easy to use and helping a lot. May be you should change to L-Bracket without grip to reduce torque. But believe me, D3 with Big Boy lenses 14-24 on NN5 in portrait mode never ever got me into trouble. I use the brilliant NN Nadir adapter as Add ON, which sets more torque to the equipment, Ez-Leveller II, and on you go.
Just try to find the right equipment. But it really might be a great decision to change from D700 to D7000. Fx to DX. Feel free to ask and may be I can send you samples.
There is always a moment for a compromised and an optimal solution. Depending on our own money related world wide reductions, and the amount of money we like to spend on this theme. Should be always some money left to invite your girlfriend/wife/relationship for a nice dinner to enjoy life besides panography!
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Heinz, I'm currently using a Manfrotto 410 geared head beneath the NN5/RD16.
I've just shot some test stitches (3x3 grid) with the camera in landscape orientation. It works well.
I use the Manfrotto 410 to level the camera (rather than the NN5/RD16) - i.e. I compensate for the slight droop from the NN5. Spirit level in camera's hotshoe is level (for the central shot in 3x3 grid). I'm not interested in the bubble level on the NN5. I use the centre shot as an anchor in PTGui, and all works out well (i.e. level).
Manfrotto 410 is not the most stable base for the NN5 (need to wait 3 seconds for vibration to die down, compared to 1.5 second when RD16 attached direct to tripod). But fine control of camera orientation is excellent.
Regarding FX vs DX, I've been looking at Canon's new 18mp EOS 600D. Very lightweight - 570g, compared to D700 at 1085g and D7000 at 780g. And it's Live View is intriguing - when you take a picture the exposure is initiated electronically (no shutter movement) - the shutter only moves to end the exposure - so effectively a great, vibration-free mirror up system.
For now though I stick with D700.
nice to know that you succeeded. Thx for letting us know.
When you think about a new tripod, have a look to www.Feisol.com
Good luck,
I finally got my NN5 configured to my liking.
I'm now using it on paying jobs.
I shoot 3x3 80mp stitches with my Nikon D700 in portrait and landscape orientations.
For framing, and for reference, I take a single frame shot of the scene I'm about to stitch.
The set-up requires two clamps and two plates from RRS.
From the bottom up:
Tripod: Manfrotto 55 (with long or short column)
Levelling Base: Acratech
Head: Manfrotto 410
Clamp: RRS B2 LR II (attached to the Manfrotto's QR plate - which is now redundant)
Plate: RRS TH-DVTL Round Dovetail Plate (a great fit for the NN RD16)
Rotator: NN RD16
Pano Head: NN 5
Clamp: RRS B2-40 LR
Plate: RRS BD700 L-plate for Nikon D700 without grip
Camera: Nikon D700 + 24-85 zoom and 80-200 zooms
- The RRS clamps are lever release, so quick to operate.
- The RRS L-plate is indexed in both orientations.
- To shoot in landscape orientation, the RD16 is separated from the tripod head and rotated 180 degrees. (Why not just rotate the RD-16? The click stops don't line up). The NN5 upper arm is then flipped 180 degrees.
- The second RRS clamp is attached to the NN camera plate, on the NN5 upper arm. As per Nick's suggestion, a piece of leather is used, and a hex screw. This seems like a strong enough connection.
Thx for letting us know Elliot,
You got "Really the Right Stuff", I like the clamps and rails. Just got an L-bracket for D300s for demonstration purposes and to test different set ups. But as well it is "really quite expansive". But you get something rock solid for your money.
Enjoy our work, and sucess for finding payed jobs to earn your money back.


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He's probably right.
The Orioles' JV softball team completed its regular season with an 18-2 record. Its only losses came in split doubleheaders against Andale and Mulvane.
During the final six games of the season, the Orioles rattled off several run-rule wins. Augusta outscored its opponents 63-4 in that stretch.
Morgan Kirk hit her first home run of the season to lead the Orioles to a 13-0 blowout against Clearwater to close the regular season. Nicole Becker pitched well for the Orioles in the win.
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Film making is changing. One sign of this is when an unknown brother and sister team who have only made shorts before come out of nowhere with a feature-length film that knocks your socks off and sweeps the awards at the film festivals of Tribeca, Berlin, Brasilia, Deauville, Athens Ft. Lauderdale, Stockholm, India, and Oaxaca.
The other is that you can actually see it even if you don�t live in a city with an art house cinema. You go over to Amazon.com and rent it for $6.99 to watch on your computer or Kindle.
The latter is remarkable because �Una Noche� (�One Night�) has an underlying theme that is not popular in Hollywood, where luminaries like Steven Spielberg and Jack Nicholson make the pilgrimage to Havana to schmooze with Fidel and dine out on stories of what a hell of a guy he is.
The basic premise is, Cuba is a rotten place to live.
Since 1959 when Cuba traded the corrupt but easygoing Batista for Fidel and his crew of murderous psychopaths, Havana, once one of the most beautiful cities in the Western Hemisphere, has become a decaying corpse rotting in the tropical sun.
Everybody hustles to make a living. Since the subsidy from Fidel�s patron disappeared with the Soviet Union, Cuba has been turned into a brothel where rich tourists come to take advantage of poor and desperate Cubans. �Una Noche� shows this brilliantly with few words and a lot of inspired camera work.
�Una Noche� was written and directed by Lucy Molloy, an Englishwoman and Oxford grad who studied film at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. It was produced by her brother Daniel among others.
Molloy spent years in Cuba gathering 35 mm film footage and worked entirely with non-professional actors. Someday the story of how this movie was made is going to be a fascinating documentary in its own right, because it could not possibly have been authorized by the Cuban government.
In 2010 during production, Molloy was awarded a Spike Lee Production Grant Award. I haven�t felt good about Lee since he essentially publicly solicited the murder of George Zimmerman�s parents (and got the address wrong), but this was a good thing.
�Una Noche� is the story of three teens: Lila (Anail�n de la R�a de la Torre) and her twin brother Elio (Javier N��ez Flori�n) who share a bond closer than anyone can imagine. Until Raul (Dariel Arrechaga) comes into Elio�s life.
Lila and Elio are the children of a soldier and his wife. Raul�s mother is an aging HIV-infected prostitute.
Raul wants to escape to Miami where his almost-forgotten father lives. Elio would like to go with him, but is torn by the need to protect his tough but vulnerable sister on the cusp of womanhood. Lila is afraid of the sea.
Raul is collecting the materials for a raft to make the 90-mile trip across the Florida Straits. He barters for inner tubes. He steals scraps of lumber and breaks into a car to steal a GPS.
He buys black market anti-HIV drugs for his mother, and medical glucose solution to provision the raft from a nurse out of the back door of a clinic.
�Don�t let anyone see that list,� the nurse cautions, �or they�ll know you�re leaving the country.�
Then Raul is accused of assaulting a tourist, a crime only a little less serious than subversion in Cuba, and his desire to leave becomes an urgent necessity.
�Everyone in Havana knows you can�t run from the police,� Lila says. �You can choose to hide or make the most of the time you have left.�
Everything leads up to �One Night� at sea on a makeshift raft. Where the nature of Elio�s love for Raul comes out, and Lila�s womanhood ripens in the midst of confusion and catastrophe.
There have been many films that have attempted to show what life under tyranny is like. Notable ones from Latin America include �El Secreto en sus Ojos� (�The Secret in their Eyes� Argentina, 2009) and Cuban-American Andy Garcia�s �The Lost City� (2005). Most of them are about affluent, intellectual people who can discourse on the meaning of tyranny. Few have captured the �nervous desperation� of life under tyranny like �Una Noche.�
�Una Noche� is about the lives of poor, superstitious, entirely unpolitical people.
When the boys determine they are going to risk the trip across the Florida Straits that have claimed an unknown number of lives, they don�t discourse about freedom, they consult a witch to tell their fortune and make them a good luck charm.
When �Una Noche� premiered in the U.S. at the Tribeca Film Festival, stars Javier Nu�ez Florian and Anailin de la Rua de la Torre, disappeared, reportedly defecting.
UPDATE: I found out recently the film was actually shown in Cuba to wildly enthusiastic response from audiences – then it was banned.
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BELLAIRE — Two Cleveland-area subjects were arrested on warrants from Tuscarawas County for drug-related charges by Bellaire Police after a traffic stop in the 3100 block of Washington Street......
I agree, Scum of this kind is not needed in the valley.But something or someone is causing the likes of these to be here? Two good reasons for conceal carry! Good job Mike Kovalyk.
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Bellaire needs to bring in some outside help to terminate these dirtballs once and for all!!
The Youngstown mafia or even the boys from Atlantic City would be a good choice
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