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Posted: Fri 30 Apr 2010, 05:25
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[PET] SMplayer 0.6.9
Subject description: A advanced Mplayer GUI.
App Website:
Description from app website:
SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more.
One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave... don't worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume...
Other additional interesting features:
* Configurable subtitles. You can choose font and size, and even colors for the subtitles.
* Audio track switching. You can choose the audio track you want to listen. Works with avi and mkv. And of course with DVDs.
* Seeking by mouse wheel. You can use your mouse wheel to go forward or backward in the video.
* Video equalizer, allows you to adjust the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation and gamma of the video image.
* Multiple speed playback. You can play at 2X, 4X... and even in slow motion.
* Filters. Several filters are available: deinterlace, postprocessing, denoise... and even a karaoke filter (voice removal).
* Audio and subtitles delay adjustment. Allows you to sync audio and subtitles.
* Advanced options, such as selecting a demuxer or video & audio codecs.
* Playlist. Allows you to enqueue several files to be played one after each other. Autorepeat and shuffle supported too.
* Preferences dialog. You can easily configure every option of SMPlayer by using a nice preferences dialog.
* Possibility to search automatically for subtitles in opensubtitles.org.
* Translations: currently SMPlayer is translated into more than 20 languages, including Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese....
* It's multiplatform. Binaries available for Windows and Linux.
* SMPlayer is under the GPL license.
Compiled on Stardust013 which is based on Puppy 431 so it should work on Puppy 431 and other puplets based on 431. No other translations other than English are included as they didn't compile and I don't know why and don't have time to find out, sorry.
For more info and the translations PET see
musher0's post.
I had these QT pets installed when I did the compiling:
You should only need one of those QT pets but I don't know which one so you will have to find out for the moment.
You will also need a copy of Mplayer.
This version of Mplayer has the advance options of which SMplayer supports but it can't play Theora video probably because it was not compiled with Theora support enabled I think:
Mplayer with Multi-core support (09/2009) + gnome frontend
[Update 19/9/2010] This is the one I recommend. It is a recent build and so can play WebM. It has no multi-core support:
Mplayer SVN pet
This is a older version of mplayer which can play Theora video probably because it was enabled when it was compiled! It does not make full use of the support for advanced mplayer options which SMplayer has:
MPlayer-1.0rc2 + mencoder Feb 2008
[Update: Thu23/9/2010]Themes:
Will try to add more mirrors.
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Posted: Mon 20 Sep 2010, 14:30
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Good show, abushcrafter!
I constituted independently a package from
, but you beat me to it!
So, I'd simply like to complete your package with the translations (see attachement) that are in the above rpm.
As well, some additional info:
* the complete themes are here:
* we already have pets for Qt 4.5.3 at
. The "lite" packages should be more than enough.
* Finally, this smplayer also works on wary 0.7.
Again, many thanks, abushcrafter! May every Puppy-ist enjoy this superb mplayer front-end!
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I was born to love and not to hate. (Sophocles)
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Location: England
Posted: Thu 23 Sep 2010, 18:59
Post subject: Updated first post!
Thanks very much. I made a themes PET from the DEB you linked to. I also added a link to your post.
I tried to recompile SMplayer on my current 4.3.2 V based A Powerful Puppy 0.4.2 but I get this error:
# make PREFIX=/usr CFLAGS="-mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
cd src && qmake && DATA_PATH=\\\"/usr/share/smplayer\\\" TRANSLATION_PATH=\\\"/usr/share/smplayer/translations\\\" DOC_PATH=\\\"/usr/share/doc/packages/smplayer\\\" THEMES_PATH=\\\"/usr/share/smplayer/themes\\\" SHORTCUTS_PATH=\\\"/usr/share/smplayer/shortcuts\\\" make
QMAKESPEC has not been set, so configuration cannot be deduced.
Error processing project file: /mnt/sda6/Linux/Apps/Source/Smplayer/smplayer-0.6.9/src/smplayer.pro
make: *** [src/smplayer] Error 3
The reason I was recompiling SMplayer was because I did not use these options "CFLAGS="-mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"" as recommended in the Wiki
PuppyLinux: Setting up Puppy for compiling
in the first and current SMplayer 0.6.9 PET.
adobe flash is rubbish!
My Quote:"Humans are stupid, though some are clever but stupid." http://www.dependent.de/media/audio/mp3/System_Syn_Heres_to_You.zip http://www.systemsyn.com/
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Posted: Thu 23 Sep 2010, 19:46
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Hello again!
Thanks for uploading the themes to your download site. I'm sure people will appreciate it.
As to your compiling woes... I am not that good at compiling BIG programs...
I noticed that your compiler ticks when it gets at the foldes for the themes and languages. As for me, I simply created a separate pet file for the translations, by following the "dir2pet method". That is, I created a general smplayer folder on an ext3 drive. Then I went inside and created /the usr /share /smplayer and /translations folders. Then you type "dir2pet " and follow the instructions.
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Antron Olukayode describes himself as an "artivist" -- a blend of artist and activist. After a sexual assault at the hands of his boyfriend at the age of 19 left him HIV positive, he experienced alienation and homelessness. However, his inherent creativity allowed him to spin these experiences into art and he is now the author of two volumes of poetry, each dealing with a different part of his life, but each centered around his diagnosis and subsequent life with HIV. And, he is no longer homeless.
Chosen as a spokesperson for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's "Let's Stop HIV Together" campaign, Antron is now using his considerable talent to raise awareness around HIV prevention and treatment, and has founded two drop-in centers for LGBTQ homeless youth. A true character, Antron's vivacious personality shows that life after HIV can be colorful, funny and well-lived.
Can you start by describing how you found out that you were HIV positive?
Sure. Well, first off, I'm from a very small town, a college town called Gainesville, Fla. -- go, Gators! -- I'm an artist, so I don't follow that too much. But I was 19. After I was raped by my first boyfriend, which -- I'm still kind of leery on the term, because I think boyfriend is such a heavy title, so I don't want to just give him that. But I'll say a reminder: my first reminder. It was college. I was studying for midterms. And I remember studying at his place.
He just storms through the door, and he's like, "I want to fuck; I want to have sex now." Now, around this time, when I was 17, I was raped by two men in a field. That really deterred me from wanting to have sex, and wanting to have any kind of interaction sexually. So I explained this to Jay, and I told him how it made me feel. This is the first guy that I really talked and expressed this to. He seemed understanding and what have you.
But this particular day he was just pissed and he wanted some. I was still not comfortable. It got to the point where it got really physical, and he started beating on me.
Jay is 6'2", a basketball player. So, me: I'm 5'7". I'm scrawny at the time, you know. I could fight him off only for so long. I remember the last blow, him planting it on my face. I fell to the ground. And I felt the cold floor. And I saw my blood.
I remember him taking my clothes off, and I remember him screaming, "I can't believe she did this to me!" Well, apparently the girl that he was using as his beard, she infected him. And he found out that day he was infected. Then he came and intentionally infected me.
So when he raped me, too, it was just like ... I didn't think about HIV. It was more so of the hurt that I was enduring. Because this is someone who said he loved me. Even though he never said, "I love you," he would use euphemisms -- he would use other sayings, of his expressing his love. And it was one abusive moment after another.
A year later I was staying at home with my mother again. And I remember donating blood for the Red Cross. Maybe two, three months after that, I received a letter from the Florida Health Department. Now, they did something real ratchet, and decided: OK, we're going to take this very confidential letter; we're going to stamp it Confidential with this big, red stamp; and we're going to tape it on his door.
So they taped it on the door. Thank God I was home and my mother wasn't. I took it off and I looked at it. I'm like, gosh, what's going on. So I called the health educator and she came over to my mom's place. She told me that I was positive.
I was in a state of shock, because I was very sheltered, a wallflower. I had really low self-esteem. I didn't really -- not necessarily think it would happen to me -- there just wasn't a lot of conversation about HIV. And if there was conversation, it was very negative. People who were suspected, or even known to be living with it, it was just really negative connotations and derogative terms following that person's name.
As far as HIV, having a support system, Gainesville wasn't, at the time -- and I'm not sure how it is now -- but at that time, the support really wasn't there. So having heard her come out and tell me this, I'm like: My gosh, I'm another statistic. You know, I cried for a second. But I knew. Something in me was like, it's going to be fine.
After I found out my diagnosis in October, New Year's Eve, a "friend" decided to tell my mother behind my back, without my consent, and she kicked me out of the house. I didn't know where to go. I got on my knees and I said, "You know what? Look. God, if you get me out of this, I'm going to use my talents and my gifts to help people who are living with this, and become more educated."
But it took a while for me to process it because, again, this is something I just never thought would be my future -- or a part of my future. But at the same time it became my platform, and my purpose. At that moment, when I actually had that letter in my hand, I'm like this can't be good. Because I don't think health departments are handing out "Great job!" for it.
For donating blood.
Right. Exactly. So it was very, very ... I had to face it alone. Again, there wasn't a support system. There wasn't a group I can go to and express myself about it. I thought I had someone, who also is living with the virus. He has his loving, supportive family. At that time, my family -- it wasn't even a conversation to be had. So for him to do that to me, I felt like it took my right to have my time when I was ready to come out to my family about it. And I just didn't want to believe it myself. I didn't have suicidal thoughts, necessarily. But it was just like, "Oh, God; something else that is going to keep people away from me."
Just to put this into context. You said you were 19.
And how old are you now?
So this was 2003?
Were you in college at the time?
Mm-hmm. And I dropped out of college because of it.
Did you ever go back?
Well, I tried going back online. The online experience is great. It's very convenient -- now that I'm going to be doing more traveling and what have you. But I really do love the classroom setting. It's more personal, and I'm able to see my professor and have conversations and interact with my classmates. So the online programs, although they're great and they have their pros, it also does have its cons. So I decided to stop school for a while, until I was able to focus mainly on school. Because my focuses are in so many different places right now. I know I would be lying to myself, saying that I was ready to go back.
But I do believe in education. I do believe that you have to have some kind of structure when it comes to what it is that you're doing.


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A buddy of mine is a huge Giants fan and has season tickets. He was looking at Super Bowl tickets and he said the cheapest in the stadium are $2,400 each. Damn.
I can put the two stadium seats we have from the original Mile High stadium in front of my 62" HDTV and not only have the in the stadium feel, but a better view.
Prediction:Giants 31, Patriots 17Hoping for:Patriots 70, Giants 2
Quote from: GrandMoffNick on February 3, 2012, 08:11 AMPrediction:Giants 31, Patriots 17Hoping for:Patriots 70, Giants 2Wow! And this from a Pats fan?!
I think the Giants are the better team going in, but anything can happen. The Giants seemed to get stronger in the playoffs, while Brady and the pats seemed to be on the decline. Gronk got hurt in that last game and Brady didn't throw for a single TD...that does not bode well for a well rested Giants defense. I just hope its a close game either way and fun to watch. I would much rather be watching the Packers vs. Patriots again, obviously because I'm a GB fan, but also because watching two teams with high octane offenses and no defense makes for a lot of big plays.Giants 34 Patriots 24
the Ravens allowed FIVE red zone touchdowns the entire season. So naturally the Patriots weren't going to score a bunch of touchdowns. That said, Brady did run for one even against that front 7.
Brady rushing for a TD is kind of a fluke - definitely not something he is known for.
He put up 24 against the Giants earlier in the season, he can score on them.
If I remember right, he rushed for TWO the week I beat you in the playoffs.
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BALTIMORE – Chris Miller split the uprights on a 27-yard field goal with no time left on the clock to lead Morgan State to a 24-23 win over North Carolina A&T in MEAC football action at Hughes Stadium on Saturday.
Miller's field goal marked the second straight season the Bears have defeated the Aggies in the final seconds. A year ago, Morgan State quarterback Robert Council found receiver Andrew King in the back of the end zone for a 32-yard touchdown pass with 10 seconds remaining as the Bears escaped Aggie Stadium with a 21-18 win.
"It was a heartbreaking loss…again," said A&T head coach Rod Broadway. "We can't win close ballgames. That's got to get fixed."
After the second of two consecutive 38-yard field goals by freshman Cody Jones, the Aggies (5-4, 2-4 MEAC) held a 23-14 lead with 8:49 remaining in the game. The score was setup by a D'Vonte Grant interception of Council that was returned to the MSU 21-yard line. Morgan State head coach Donald Hill-Eley decided to turn to backup quarterback Seth Higgins following the Council pick.
Similar to Council in the first half, Higgins had success running the ball on quarterback draws and scrambles. Higgins rushed four times for 34 yards on his first drive and was aided by a 15-yard pass interference call Ayodeji Olatoye. It all led to Higgins throwing a 9-yard touchdown pass Antonio Jefferson to put the Bears to within two at 23-21.
A&T went three-and-out on its next drive, giving Higgins and the resurgent Bears offense the ball back with 4 ½ minutes to play. Three plays later, the Bears were faced with a 4th-and-2 from the A&T 46. Ther corner decided to play off of Bears receiver Tubotein Taylor. It allowed to Taylor to do a little curl route right in front of the first down marker. Higgins dumped the ball off to him, giving the Bears (4-6, 4-2 MEAC) a crucial conversion.
"That was so critical," said Broadway about the 4th-and-2. "If we stop them there, the game's over. We played way too far off and practically gave them the first down."
Higgins' legs eventually moved the Bears to the A&T 11 before the Bears essentially ran three straight running plays to set up Miller's game-winning kick.
"They did the same things. They were pretty much the same guy," said Broadway about the two quarterbacks MSU played on Saturday. "They didn't change anything so to speak. They hurt us with some quarterback draws, but we got handle on that for the most part."
Council rushed for 78 yards and two touchdowns on 16 carries but had 82 yards on 10 carries in the first half. Higgins finished with 48 yards on 10 carries. But it wasn't the Bears' ability to run the ball with their quarterbacks that bothered Broadway as much as A&T's ability to take themselves out of scoring opportunities.
On two separate occasions the Aggies moved the ball inside the MSU 15 and came away with no points. Even on drives where they scored field goals, the possessions were slowed down by penalties.The Aggies committed nine penalties for 92 yards.
"We're not a very good football team when we do things like that," said Broadway. "Unfortunately, that's kind of become our MO. We knock ourselves out of the red zone with penalties."
Tarik Cohen led the Aggies with 185 yards and a touchdown on 31 carries. Cohen tied the game at 7 with a nifty 6-yard touchdown run in the second quarter. The Bears answered that with an 8-play, 65-yard drive that ended with a 1-yard Council touchdown run. The Aggies took over the ball with 53 seconds remaining in the half and were able to score as time expired on Jones' 29-yard field goal.
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See a brief selection of pioneering firsts by Opel.
Opel's tradition of environmental responsibility goes a long way back.
From the very beginning, Opel's design has been defined by its emotional appeal and advanced engineering. Discover the illustrious heritage that lead up to the new design language of sculptural artistry combined with German precision.
Derived from the Astra Cup race car, the Opel Astra OPC Extreme is the fastest and most powerful street legal Astra ever. Refined aerodynamics, efficient roof spoiler, carbon-fiber wheels and body components, plus the safety cage with special Recaro sports seats set the scene for an extreme driving experience.
The Monza Concept shows what Opel customers can expect in the future: breath taking design and a radically new world of instruments and infotainment. With superior aerodynamics, a mix of lightweight materials and sustainable powertrain solutions, the Monza Concept also demonstrates outstanding efficiency.
Impressively dynamic and infinitely personal, the Opel ADAM brought the ultimate in automotive self-expression to the 2012 Paris Motor Show. The perfect city car, fresh, individual, and chic, and always moving to the beat of creativity.
Sleek, elegant and desirable, the Opel Cascada recreates the glamour of the soft top in a new way. A superbly engineered and equipped car that redefines the role of the convertible as a practical year round car, while keeping faith with the Opel philosophy of creating affordable and attainable dream cars.
All the appeal of a full-sized SUV made smaller, more economical and more practical. The Opel Mokka created a new class for go-anywhere motoring. The perfect country car for the city or the perfect city car for the country? Either way, a winner from the word go.
Presented at the Paris Motor Show, this concept is built to express the most emotional side of the Opel brand. The three-door hatch is pure but sporty, simple but expressive and at the same time bold and iconic. Keeping in line with Opel's DNA, it is an achievable dream car, conceived to showcase an energized brand.
The Opel Flextreme GT/E concept visualizes the qualities that characterize the re-energized Opel brand: High emotional appeal, efficient environmental performance and expressive design – engineered with German precision.
The Meriva carries forward Opel's award-winning design language – sculptural artistry meets German precision – successfully introduced with the Insignia in 2008 and the Astra last year. In addition to expressive looks, Meriva offers innovative functions – such as the FlexSpace® rear seating system, the rear-hinged FlexDoors®, and the adaptable FlexRail® cabin storage system – which make it the flexibility champion in the car industry.
The new Opel Astra brings into the compact class its own interpretation of the brand's award-winning design language. Its strong coupé-like silhouette and elegant details give the car a fresh sporty look. Elegant proportions provide a strong, cab-forward silhouette, with a steeply-raked windshield and falling rear roofline, adding visual excitement to the traditional hatchback format.
Opel's new top model, the Insignia, debuts at the London International Motor Show. With its groundbreaking design and sophisticated technology, the Insignia makes a quantum leap toward rejuvenating the brand. Shortly afterwards it is named Car of the Year 2009 for its style and its innovation, safety and comfort. Insignia embodies the new design language of "sculptural artistry meets German precision".
The Flextreme concept car is the first application of GM's and Opel's ground-breaking E-Flex electric propulsion system. It also takes the new design language debuted in the GTC Coupé one step further. With rear-hinged back doors that enable comfortable access to the interior, a large transparent roof and two rear tailgates that open from the side and swing upwards in gull wing style, the concept car continues Opel's tradition of particularly flexible and practical body concepts.
Its secret is called Flex7. Thanks to this exclusive system, it is possible to turn the Zafira from a 2 to a 7-seater (and vice-versa) in an instant, without dismantling or removing any seat. Beginning with the Zafira, Opel decides that interior flexibility should be an essential feature in the design of each of its cars.
The sporty coupé Opel Tigra makes its début. The Tigra is based on the concept car of the same name and built on the platform of the second generation Opel Corsa B. The Opel Tigra Twin Top wins Convertible of the year 2004 in Geneva.
In 1993 the Corsa B is unveiled, and quickly becomes one of Opel's most successful models all around the world. Its stylish design and spacious interior combines perfectly with its economic performance.
Opel creates a frenzy at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1989 with a pure, sleek design and a world-best drag coefficient of 0.26. Slim and beautiful, but also clever and roomy enough for four adults and their luggage. It blends beauty and functionality, a key to its great success, and of Opel's in the following years.
Following the success of the Experimental GT, Opel decides to produce it, using the floor pan of the next generation of the Kadett. In 1968, the Opel GT became the first European concept car to hit full-scale production.
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February 6, 2011
The Wabash College indoor track and field team posted nine top-five finishes, including two individual titles, at Saturday evening's Tiger Invitational hosted by DePauw University. The Little Giants were second among Division III teams competing at the event.
View photos from the meet, taken by senior Alex Moseman, here.
Donavan White (left in photo on the left) won the one-mile run with a time of 4:24.36. He came back to take fourth place in the 800-meter run, finishing in 1:58.25. Kevin McCarthy won the 800, crossing the finish line in 1:55.46. Fellow All-American Jake Waterman took second place in the 800 with a time of 1:56.43.
Justin Allen also competed in the mile with White, finishing fourth with a time of 4:26.49. John Haley grabbed fourth place in the 400-meter dash with a time of 51.49.
Patrick Posthauer finished fifth in the finals of the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 8.02, matching his preliminary heat qualifying time. Sean Hildebrand added a fifth place finish in the 200-meter dash (23.40). Matt Scheller took fifth in the shot put with a top mark of 13.86 meters (45 feet, 5-3/4 inches).
Wabash finished with 69 points. Vincennes University won the meet with 144 points, while Indiana State University was second (138.5). Rose-Hulman was the top DIII school at the meet with 85 points. Bethel (48), Marian (44), Campbellsville (36.5), Franklin (32), Centre (16), Brescia (13), Wittenberg (8), and DePauw (7) completed the team scoring.
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For our Thanksgiving Traditions series, we talk with Soma of eCurry, an amazing blog about, among other things, Indian food.
Q: How do you typically celebrate Thanksgiving in your household? Are there certain rituals or traditions that you have in your family?
A: Since we do not have any family here, Thanksgiving is something we celebrate with friends. Sometimes we are invited over to a friend's home for a traditional typical American celebration. A lot of times, we have some friends over and then it is not so traditional, in terms of the food.
Besides the food, it is definitely the time to be thankful for all that we have. We remind ourselves and our children of the blessings and the children make a list of all the things they are thankful for.
Q: Who does the cooking? Or are certain people assigned different aspects of the meal?
A: If I have the Thanksgiving feast in my home, I do the cooking. When we meet in a friend's home, often times it is a potluck and we decide on the menu before hand and assign tasks to different families.
Q: And when do you start preparing for Thanksgiving? Is it a highly coordinated, highly anticipated affair, or do you just sort of wing it a day or two before?
A: It is not a very highly coordinated affair. I like to keep it easy and simple. However the planning does start a couple of weeks before the day.
Q: What kinds of dishes would we find at your Thanksgiving table? Do you prepare Indian dishes?
A: Here is a a loosely threaded plan of the kind of food I would make for Thanksgiving:
For soup and salad, I might prepare Gingered Squash Soup, or Red Lentil and Vegetable Soup.
For salad and bread, it might be a simple Spinach Fall Salad, Naan or Jalapeno Cranberry Skillet Corn Bread.
For sides, I'll pick several along these lines:
Aloo Gobi, Green Beans, Tomatoes and Almonds with Sumac, Easy Corn Casserole, or Potatoes with Indian Five Spice.
For the main, I'd select between a Murgh Tikka (spiced Skewered Chicken), a Biryani (Meat and Spice Layered Rice) or a Zafrani Kofta Pulao.
For dessert, I might prepare: Red Wine Poached Pears (see photo), or a spiced cake, like Spiced Ginger Cake or Spiced Cranberry Raisin Bundt Cake.
Q: And what is the significance of those dishes – are they family favorites, or special in some ways?
A: They are all special in their own ways. The recipes I choose for guests and special occasions are all approved and loved by all my family and friends. Some are treasured recipes of our families. I also try to make it as seasonal as possible and also in sync with the traditional Thanksgiving meal.
Q: What would you say was the "greatest hit" of Thanksgivings past?
A: I would pick the Biryani, the Easy Corn Casserole and the Red Wine Poached Pears.
Q: Have you experienced "traditional" American Thanksgiving food (i.e. turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, yams, beets, etc)? What did you think?
A: Yes I have experienced the "traditional" American Thanksgiving food. When we join our friends who celebrate a typical Thanksgiving, we usually feast on the traditional meal. We have enjoyed it thoroughly!


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Another great example of silent comedy slowed down to real time. Here's Ben Model working his magic on the opening factory sequence of Chaplin's Modern Times (1936). The bulk of this has been shot at 16 frames per second, so that watching it at 24 fps means that the action is 50% faster than life.
Note the pauses in the acting that Model points out that separate the movements and gestures. This is so the actions read clearly when they are sped up.
This sequence works in the finished film due to the inhuman speed that the workers must move on the assembly line. There's a sense of urgency that's not only funny but a story requirement: Chaplin's eventual nervous breakdown has to be believable.
As noted by Ben Model in the comments, here is the sequence where Chaplin has his breakdown, first at the speed at which it was shot and second as it plays in the film, 50% faster than it was shot.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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- Ben Model said...
I've just added another segment from Modern Times, the one in which Charlie has a mental breakdown in the factory and goes into the gears.
Don't know how to embed it here, but here are links:
click here to see part one, at 16fps
click here to see part two, at 24fps
- March 13, 2009 11:46 AM
- Mark Mayerson said...
Hi Ben. Thanks for the additional sequences. I've embedded them in the main entry.
- March 13, 2009 4:32 PM
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Student returns after semester of ministry in New England
PLAINVIEW - For many college students, putting off their final semester before graduation would be unheard of. But for Steve Howe, it was simply a matter of following God's call.
Howe, a senior religion major at Wayland Baptist University, returned in January from a semester missions venture in Massachusetts. A native of Buda, Howe spent his semester on the other side of the desk, serving as a collegiate minister at Clark University in Worcester, Mass.
The idea for the trip came last spring after a guest speaker at a Wayland worship service spoke on the need for ministry workers in New England, specifically Connecticut.
"I'd never really thought about that area, but I really felt like God was laying it on my heart," Howe said. Though he'd be putting off his last semester of school - delaying graduation by six months - Howe said he "kept feeling like God wanted me there."
He registered with Go Now Missions, a project of the Texas Baptist Student Ministries office of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and planned on heading to Connecticut. No positions in that area were available, however, but with Howe intent on his calling, the BSM office found a position for him in Massachusetts.
During his semester at Clark, Howe was one of four collegiate ministers working with the Worcester Collegiate Christian Network, working with seven of the twelve universities in the town.
The experience was definitely an eye-opener for Howe, who had been active in the BSM at Wayland and was familiar with its programs and ministries.
"There was no real program there like we're used to. Here, we rely heavily on our programs to get students to come hear the message," he said. "Without programs, though, it forces you to get out where all the students are."
To that end, Howe said his typical day involved spending a few hours in the cafeteria just visiting with students and building relationships. In the afternoons, he'd set up in the common areas and play his guitar. He said at first he wondered about his effectiveness, but later realized the methods were necessary in this culture so different from his own.
"People would come up eventually and ask me why I wasn't in classes or what I was doing and I got a chance to say, 'Funny you should ask.' and tell them a little about what I was there for," Howe said.
Howe helped with a biweekly service called "Ignite," which rotated between different university campuses in order to involve more students. Sometimes the service followed a traditional worship format, while other times it featured a coffeehouse format or a discussion session. He also held a Bible study on campus one night a week, featuring topical lessons of relevance to students.
But in retrospect, Howe said one of the most effective evangelistic tools employed was holding jam sessions in one of the campus dorms, playing along with one of the Christian student leaders. In between their sets of secular music and popular tunes, Howe said they'd sneak in a worship song or two, which was a "very non-threatening presentation of the gospel." The sessions gave them a chance to visit afterward with curious bystanders or dorm residents.
Howe said the biggest lessons he learned involved realizing how different religion is viewed in different parts of the country.
"Some are really jaded toward Christianity because they see some who are supposed to be Christians but don't live like it," he said. "At Clark, they're pretty liberal and open minded, which just means they'll listen to what you say but they don't want you to push anything on them.
"Absolute truth is not a popular idea to talk about, so we had to be really tactful when we presented the gospel. God really convicted me about my mindset about other religions and having a greater sensitivity toward people who aren't Christians."
Howe said the semester confirmed for him a calling to collegiate ministry which he had felt for some time, though God reworked his ideas of what all that entailed. He also had to come to a realization that numbers in ministry were not what counted, and that God had bigger plans than humans could accomplish alone.
"You walk in thinking that you're going to do all these great things, but I think I came away receiving more than I gave away," he said. "God really reduced me to the place where I realized I'm just a guy trying to reach out and not judge people."
Howe said he found solace in knowing that he had helped disciple student leaders on the Clark campus that will be able to make an impact long after he's gone. But he hasn't completely ruled out the idea of returning to the area when he graduates in May. And whether he chooses that route or opts to continue his education at seminary, Howe knows that God has given him a new passion for college ministry.


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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Alabama has hired former Texas Tech coach Kristy Curry as its new women's basketball coach.
The university announced the hiring on Sunday. No details of the contract were released.
Curry has spent the last seven years with the Lady Raiders. Her record was 130-98 with Texas Tech, including 21-11 last season and a second NCAA tournament appearance. It was the ninth trip to the tournament for Curry, who was at Purdue for seven seasons before her stint with Texas Tech.
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Anyone who's ever been in love will smile at the young lovers in "Like Crazy," even while they find them annoying.
Anna (Felicity Jones) is an aspiring writer and Jacob (Anton Yelchin) a shy furniture designer, both attending a Los Angeles university. We follow them through endless misty water-colored memories montages of them kissing, cuddling and grinning at each other like crazy.
Anna foolishly decides to ignore the terms of her student visa. She goes home to England for a visit and is shocked when the big bad immigration people refuse re-entry into the U.S. Don't they know she's in love? And so they miss each other like — well, you know.
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"Like Crazy" had a great buildup but didn't live up to my expectations. Sometimes love is like that, too. Crazy, I know.
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"Tower Heist" is the latest in a long list of lightweight crime caper movies played for laughs. It follows in the footsteps of films like "Ocean's Eleven" while adding a little more grit to the time-worn plot.
A cast of misfits are thrown together by circumstance to become unlikely conspirators. They seek to pull off a very grand larceny in a high-security skyscraper in New York.
Alan Alda does a fine job playing the Wall Street swindler living in the penthouse of the target building. He has pilfered the pension funds of the hard-working staff of his luxury skyscraper. Ben Stiller, Casey Affleck and Matthew Broderick are among the former employees whose futures were stolen by the con artist.
They form an alliance for revenge with a small-time crook played by Eddie Murphy. He brings high energy and street vibe humor to the enterprise.
As usual, the motley crew faces impossible circumstances trying to pull off the big heist. But along the predictable path to victory, there's enough snappy dialogue and genuine laughter to make it worth your while if you're a fan of this genre.
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Afghanistan's proposed reinstatement of atrocious punishments would mark a dangerous return to legalized state brutality, Amnesty International said today as it urged the authorities to reject such plans.
Public stoning to death, amputation of limbs and flogging are among the brutal punishments being put forward as draft amendments to the Afghan Penal Code.
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Your opinion of Steve Murray's "This Wonderful Life" will likely depend on how much you like Frank Capra's movie "It's a Wonderful Life." For me it's one of those Capracorn treats that has worn thin after a couple of viewings. For many, however, it's a holiday tradition.
The story of George Bailey and his struggles that are overcome by his guardian angel, Clarence, and his many good neighbors in Bedford Falls pulls out all the heartstrings. The 1946 movie benefited from an A-list cast that included James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore.
"This Wonderful Life," which is playing through Dec. 23 at People's Light and Theatre in Malvern, gives the story to a single actor — in this case Jerry Richardson — who tells the original story in slightly more than half the 130 minutes the movie ran.
As he tells the story, he plays all the parts. Everyone's there: George, wife Mary, Angel Clarence, mean old Mr. Potter, George's brother Harry, George and Mary's kids and many other supporting characters who make the story fuller and richer.
It's quite a performance. Richardson does an impressive job with each of his characters, sometimes with only an instant between being one and then another.
David Bradley directed the People's Light production. Its good designers are Jessica Ford (set), Abbie Wysor (the period-appropriate costumes), Gregory Scott Miller (the evocative lighting) and Christopher Colucci (the impressively intricate sound and original music).
"This Wonderful Life" is an impressive bit of acting. From the reaction of the audience at the performance I saw, it is also a happy retelling of a familiar story. I still found it a tad corny, although I will admit I was moved at the end.
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Suspension of Reason
No, it is not true that there are only negative headlines in the clash of civilizations. Last week it was announced that Asterix and the Magic Carpet will soon be published simultaneously in Hebrew and Arabic. Herds of wild boars will be consumed as usual in the translations, although pigs of any kind are regarded as unclean animals by Jews and Muslims. The publishers want to "build bridges" between people. They say earnestly that it is a contribution to "international understanding."
The Gauls are a little crazy anyway, but in this case they are in good company. When it comes to the clash with the dangerous Islam, suspension of all reason has long been routine. In a recent edition Der Spiegel delivered a new dud – the cover carried the glaring headline: "Mecca Germany – The Silent Islamization." A Turkish crescent hung menacingly over the Brandenburg Gate. Remember, four percent of Germany's resident population are Muslims.
It was prompted by the bizarre decision of a Frankfurt family court judge who dismissed the petition of a German woman of Moroccan descent to obtain a fast-track divorce from her husband. Because he had beaten her, the woman argued, she did not want to be forced to comply with the mandatory one-year separation period.
Referring to the man's "right to use corporal punishment" in the Koran, the judge ruled that the beatings were not such an "undue hardship" for the woman that they would make immediate dissolution of the marriage necessary. To make a long story short, the woman will not be granted a divorce until May.
An incredibly stupid ruling. The reaction was unanimous: politicians on the left and right condemned the verdict, there was an outcry in the press, the judge was removed from the case and sent on vacation.
The message was unambiguous: the rights to liberty and equality guaranteed by the Constitution apply to everyone, regardless of which esoteric religious or traditional notions of honor someone subscribes to. All more or less the opposite of "silent Islamization."
Not to mention the fact that the Muslim wife not only threw the abusive pasha out of their apartment – she also took legal action against him. And, faced with an eccentric judge, she also knew how to enlist the aid of the media. Obviously, integration works very well after all.
The Spiegel's cover feature, an absolute panic attack ("Do we already have the Sharia here?"), is admittedly only the symptom of a trend in cultural life: the Muslim is regarded as dangerous. Angstlust (excitement combined with fear) is rampant.
In view of the international antagonism between "Islam" and "the West," ethnically segregated immigrant communities in large cities, Anatolian pashas, Turkish youth gangs, and headscarf wearers, even in intellectual circles people have begun imagining that the West is threatened. Even some erstwhile left-liberals now occasionally sound as though they were in the NPD (Germany's nationalist, far-right National Democratic Party).
There has long been a committed community of warriors against "Islamization" in the Internet. They warn against "Eurabia," grandiloquently call for a powerful state ("Islam should be banned"), debate the "dangers and secondary effects of Mohammedanism," and talk about praying with "bottoms in the air" and "immigrant trash."
All of this emanates not from an obscure Internet forum of drunken backwater skinheads, but from commentaries in the popular weblog "Politically Incorrect," which reports 25,000 visitors on peak days. That the powers behind PI are not lumpish Nazis from the corner bar is clear only from the programmatic header: "Pro-American – Pro-Israeli – Against the Islamization of Europe."
The saviors of the West had occasion to rejoice recently. "Finally," they wrote, "an anti-Islamic party" is going to be established. Nonfiction writer Udo Ulfkotte, the notorious former "secret service expert" of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and author of Heiliger Krieg in Europa (Holy War in Europe) wants to turn his association, "Pax Europa," into a party and run in Hamburg's state election.
Ulfkotte continually rails against developments such as the introduction of polygamy in Germany. The reason: a higher administrative court ruled that a refugee who fled to Germany with two wives may include both of them in his insurance coverage with the social security office.
The funny thing about all of this is that "foreigner" is replaced by "Islam," resulting in a modernizing tendency in the line of reasoning. Unlike the old German nationalists, the Islamophobes are not anti-American but believe that they are with the US in a front of "liberalism" against Islamic "totalitarianism."
They have replaced the virulent anti-Semitism traditional in right-wing circles with unconditional solidarity with Israel – of course, since Israel is literally surrounded by Muslims. That opens up possibilities for the most unlikely alliances.
During his most recent trip to Vienna, the tough polemicist Henryk M. Broder ("equal treatment of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam is tantamount to equal treatment of police and gangsters") met with Salzburg's Christian ayatollah, Andreas Laun, who calls for "bringing Christian immigrants into the country" because otherwise "the Muslims will turn Europe into a completely Islamic land."
FPÖ (Freedom Party of Austria) right-winger Heinz-Christian Strache, on the other hand, recently availed himself of Broder's journalism network "Axis of Good" during the presentation of his anti-Islam association "SOS Abendland" (SOS Occident).
"What exactly is going on in Europe, in the free West?" Strache read from a page out of Broder's scriptorium. "In Great Britain, piggy banks are removed from the banks because they might hurt the religious feelings of Muslims, who regard the pig as an unclean animal."
Silly, except that the whole thing was fabricated. The bank in question, Britain's Halifax Bank, declared that "we did not banish piggy banks from our branches – we haven't used them for years."
One of the sadder secondary aspects of the case is the fact that within Jewish communities in Europe an increasingly sharper conflict is raging between left-liberal Jews on the one hand and the rightists and radical right wing on the other – Jews who do not want to join in the "Muslim bashing" are summarily condemned as "kosher anti-Semites."
A more amusing aspect is the fact that the defenders of the West are wholeheartedly convinced that, in the struggle against multiculturalism, they are on the side of American-style liberalism. Yet even Bush's America will have nothing to do with such dubious friends.
Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary of State in the US State Department, recently warned, "There is a bizarre climate in Western Europe. Panicky fears, such as 'Immigrants do not accept our values here; they represent a threat to our lifestyle,' pervade the atmosphere there."
The US wants to counteract this atmosphere. For America's admirers from the political lunatic fringe, the news is bound to be nothing short of a shock.
Robert Misik
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He surfs, he rides motorcycles and he's an ordained Buddhist monk. Meet Lama Marut, the author of A Spiritual Renegade's Guide to the Good Life. He brings Buddhist wisdom for the everyday person who wants to experience an authentically happy existence. Beliefnet collected several of his video teachings to offer five life lessons that explain relationships, forgiveness and how to have radical contentment.


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My Letter to HIV: A Letter From Ken Medlin
March 15, 2012
Dear HIV,
I didn't ask for you to come into my life, for the quietness you gave in someone else's life transferred into my own. Many of us have continued your secret, passing that secret on to someone else. But I just want to tell you HIV that you gave me an open spirit to tell others about you that I meet so they too won't know your infecting power. You're a secret to some and an openness to others. You make many depressed and many of us stronger. You give us a new meaning in life when every day we take a daily pill to keep you calm in our bodies. I continue to take that pill every night at 8pm plus a shake of good nutrition for my body to keep your effects on my immune system as low as they can be. You will never get your power over me for I am stronger than you. I tell people about your quiet power, your effects and how to prevent you. As we keep sharing about you etc. ... we all pray that soon you will be gone. I don't hate you; you've made me stronger. But I hope that the next generation that we empower will be Negative and you will be gone from our lips and heart forever. Thank you HIV for making me stronger to get rid of you for the Next Generation.
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