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March 20, 2006
Questions after watching last night's "Sopranos" and "Big Love."
2. Does James Gandolfini enjoy playing a reclining man in a hospital gown with a gaping wound on his mountainous belly? Or is wandering around in dream sequences without any other actors satisfying enough? Are they punishing Gandolfini with these scripts?
3. Are these scripts a gift to Edie Falco? Is the actress groveling for an Emmy with all of these harshly lit, no-makeup bedside scenes?
4. Did "The Sopranos" and "Big Love" coordinate their Episode 2s so that we could spend as much time as possible in hospitals?
5. Do you think the arsenic is coming from the mysterious liquid Harry Dean Stanton keeps delivering to Bruce Dern? I don't. It's too obvious!
6. Don't you love Harry Dean Stanton and Bruce Dern?
7. Bill Henrickson is going to get arrested, right? The questions are: When? And who's going to bring the law down upon him? Tina Majorino?
8. Do you like the scenes that show Barb, Nicki, and Margene in their intra-household strife? Or are the scriptwriters a little desperate in looking for ways to illustrate this -- what with the loud noises and open doors during sex acts?
9. How does Chloe Sevigny convey so much while looking so impassive? Don't you love to hate Nicki?
33 comments:
- TWM said...
I hope Tony dies. I am tired of him and his death opens up some really exciting story lines. The struggle for leadership is going to be fascinating. Can you say "wack-city?" The dream sequences were lame to me though.
I watched Big Love for the first, and last, time. It's just way to creepy. I would rather live next door to the Sopranos than those people.
- Matt Barr said...
There seemed to be plenty of other actors in the dream sequences, to me. We're supposed to try and figure out who everybody is in real life, I think. I thought the woman at the beginning was Dr. Melfi owing to the slight physical resemblance but it turned out (I think) to be the doctor with the Alzheimer's diagnosis.
Falco is Emmy-ridden already, isn't she? As inscrutable as Tony's dream sequences were I thought the insight into how A.J. is thinking was about the only important thing we learned from this episode. (Janice's minute and a half was a riot, too.)
Presumably, next week will finish the arc with the dream sequences, we'll find out what that flashy beacon thing is out the window, and Tony will recover the briefcase that's his whole life.
- miked0268 said...
Actually, the storyline is an ingenious way to portray the excitement of a power struggle *without* actually killing Tony off. Now we can have a few episodes of "whacking" but then Tony can still return to set everything right, without any absurd supernatural return from the dead crap. Brilliant.
- Jeanne said...
6. I do; they are both so deliciously awful. HDS looks like satan himself in some of those scenes.
7. From what I have heard of Utah law enforcement re: polygamy, it's unlikely Bill would be arrested. Apparently they typically turn a blind eye to polygamy unless there is abuse going on.
My guess is that Bill & the wives are hiding their polygamy for the sake of the business and the older children, but only time will tell.
- DF said...
I was surprised you didn't mention the biggest part of Big Love (at least for me, but my mind is in the gutter)- when they played cards with the visiting family, and two of the visiting wives were playing "footsie" with each other- implying a sapphic relationship.
- Johnny Nucleo said...
Tony is not dreaming. Tony has had dream sequences before and they don't look like what we saw last night. Tony is experiencing an alternate reality.
- Johnny Nucleo said...
Also, I think James Gandolfini enjoys playing bourgeois Tony. Also, I think the episode kicked ass.
- John R Henry said...
Last night was the absolute worst episode of all 67 so far. Boring. It didn't move the story line forward at all. If it doesn't get better in Ep 3 (The synopsis in IMDB seems to indicate it might) I would be tempted to cancel my HBO.
I watched the first Big Love last week and could only get about 20 minutes into it. Then I watched it again during the week and fell in love with it.
There sure doesn't seem to be much romance in having 3 wives. Just seems like three times as much trouble as having one.
I like the way the show plays it more or less straight.
I thought the compound was one of the creepiest things I've ever seen on TV. All them womenfolk planting by hand and then washing the airplane? And 15 year old Rhonda. Creepy city!
I like Harry Dean S and he is great as Roman. Someone said Satan personified and I can buy that.
On another note: Ann seems to be very much against Polygamy and legalization thereof. I understand her objections and polygamy seems wrong to me too.
However, before banning it, I think we should consider a couple of things:
1) Bill Hendrickson's wives are all adults and in a consensual relationship. (As far as I can tell) Shouldn't women be allowed to decide for themselves how they want to live their lives? Would that not be the "pro-choice" position?
2) Historically and biblically, there is a lot more support for polygamy, in a variety of different cultures than monogamy. Certainly more than for gay marriage.
I agree that there are a lot of problems that seem to occur in polygamy. Abandonment of sons, spousal abuse, non-consencual relationships and so on. But we already have laws about those things.
John Henry
- Michael Couvillion said...
Is it even polygamy? What is the law? Did Bill apply for and receive marriage licenses for all three wives, or just #1? Were there three ceremonies? Did he lie on any official documents?
Is it polygamy to marry once then have open affairs with two other people and run a conjoined household?
- Dave said...
OK episode.
FWIW, I recall during the first episode of this season, when Burroughs did his book of the dead reading, he referred to the Devil, or evil, or something like it, when A.J. came on the screen.
Just and FYI: it's clear A.J. is going to make a name for himself.
Big Love: Still cannot get into it. The whole scene with Margene running under the table seemed way off...how old is she supposed to be--12?
- PatCA said...
I think the dream sequences are really the seven souls going through death of the body, per the Burroughs reading. http://www.lucaspickford.com/burrmoreroutines.htm
So I think we'll see several of Tony's souls do their thing, and then he may or may not recover. I hope it happens soon; comas are such a cliched device--unless Chase reinvents it, which is a possibility. Still, I adore the show and revere Chase as a writer.
- me said...
"Big Love: Still cannot get into it. The whole scene with Margene running under the table seemed way off...how old is she supposed to be--12? "
I find the show really creepy. I'm not sure if its b/c of cultural biases or if the show IS just creepy.:) Margie is one creepy thing . . . she comes off as about 19, already with 2 kids -- what is she doing with a 40 y/o man? Nikki has serious issues, but she was raised on the compound so she gets something of a pass. The first wife and Bill are really believable as a married couple in a committed relationshp, shared history, all that. However, it is not really believable that she'd be totally into having two sister-wives. I think the conflict btw Roman and Bill is interesting...he never should have made a deal with devil -- will he give up his material success or be complicit in evil???? :) Will Nikki realize her family is scary and WRONG or try to stick by them, dividing the Hendrickson family? How can Bill make possibly make three mortgage payments and support 7+ kids (Margie will probably get pregnant again soon) and three wives? The show is an interesting idea, but the vibe creeps me out.
As to whether polygamy should be legal: What we have now in these fundamentalist mormon communities is totally insane, abusive, and wrong, and neither the state nor feds seem to be doing a thing about it. So, I am not for legalizing the status quo. And, the complexities of polygamous divorce, child custody, etc. are mind-boggling. :)
- XWL said...
Answering your questions in order:
1. No
2. Yes (what could be easier than heaving your belly up and down, and get paid for it), Yes (though I'm saying both are satisfying, he gets to portray a whole new character, while still maintaining a hint of 'Tony'-ness), and finally No.
3. Yes, and Yes (shamelessly)
4. Probably Not
5. Yes, and to be obvious sometimes is the best way to fake out an audience
6. Yes, but not in that way (did you see their hands in that hospital scene, impressively aged)
7. Yes, Season 4, His eldest daughter (after she becomes a committed LDS)
8. No, and Yes
9. She doesn't, but she's a cypher, you read into her face the emotions you won't her to portray despite the lack of movement (sort of like with the mouthless Hello Kitty), and yes (she's easy to hate)
Not that anybody asked, or was expecting a one for one answer to each question, I provide it anyway
- joewxman said...
I was trying to figure out who is the voice on the phone with Tony. My guess is Annabella Sciorra is the voice!
- Wade_Garrett said...
I've liked Chloe Sevigny since The Last Days of Disco. She's very understated and is willing to take unsympathetic roles. The mere sight of Bill Paxton usually pisses me off, but I've really liked him in Big Love so far.
Now that I think about it, I haven't watched a non-sports or news television program on anyt network other than Comedy Central or HBO since The West Wing jumped the shark a couple of years ago.
- paul a'barge said...
I don't have much to add ... wow, you and your commenters are "the nuts", as they say in Texas Hold 'em. I certainly don't agree with all of them, but everyone is so spot on, thoughtful and erudite.
By the way, I agree with the Emmy-goal thing, but I think that before he comes out of the coma, Gandolfini is going to earn an Emmy ... just watch.
And, watch A.J. This is his year. Think Michael Corleone in the first Godfather. A.J. is going to make a commitment to the family business that will stun us, this season.
My take on Big Love ... does Bill eat Viagra like grapes or what? You know, I had never thought through the polygamy thing in that level of detail, but for me, watching Bill have to pop those Viagra pills just turned me off to polygamy by an order of magnitude. What a burden (yeah, right).
And, the car chase scene, when Bill was not allowed to drive into the compound? Look for some violence in future scenes.
- Elizabeth said...
I don't think Tony will die, but it's a guess. The montage of HBO promos after the show included a shot of Tony and Carmella at what looks like a wedding; I don't think that's one of his dream sequences, as the voice of the wife on the phone is not Carmella's. Hmmm.
Can't get into Big Love. I'm probably oversensitive on a personal level about the same-sex marriage/pologamy association made by some. But I'm also bored by the Desparate Housewives, all in one family, plot. Too much heterosexuality for me (I'm kidding.)
The HDS character is intriguing, and the whole Morman infighting and intrigue plot is good, but the main plot of the three wives bores me so far.
The first ep had a great punchline, in the fast-food joint: Heather has three mommies!
- Johnny Nucleo said...
"I was trying to figure out who is the voice on the phone with Tony. My guess is Annabella Sciorra is the voice!"
I think you're right.
- Marduk said...
Guys, guys guys... there was no dream sequence in Sopranos this week. Tony's dreams are always disjointed. This was not.
One one side of the hotel is a fire that won't go out. On the other side is a beacon of light, calling to him. His 'hotel' is in the middle, and he can't get out no matter how hard he tries.
Tony is in Purgatory.
The bartender said the place is always dead. The TV commercial asked if death, disease, etc, existed. Kevin Finnerty. Yeah, Infiniti, or 'infinity'. His timeless soul.
"Where am I? Who am I? WHERE AM I GOING?"
It wasn't a dream.
The fun of Sopranos is digging in deep. Last night's episode was extremely entertaining.
- Johnny Nucleo said...
Marduk: Good God, that's brilliant! I'm going to watch the episode again.
- XWL said...
Another thought on Big Love, I guess what the makers are saying is that polygamy can only be equitable (from a sexual satisfaction standpoint) if all the women are bisexual.
(brings new meaning to their repeated mantra of 'oral is moral', if it's a satisfactory substitute for copulation between a man and woman (even unmarried as was implied for their teenage son), why not a woman and a woman, or a man and a man?)
And I believe Marduk is on point, Tony is going through his trials and stages in a purgatory like limbo (or is that limbo like purgatory?) before his soul is either deposited in the hell he so richly deserves or slides back into his wrecked body (which given his attitudes towards infirmity would be a different kind of hell, the amount and kinds of damage they are suggesting the bullet did are permanent and will need to be addressed narratively for Tony till the series is done).
- Elizabeth said...
Marduk and XWL--I agree. Carmella says as much near the end of last night's ep, when she tells him he's a good man, he's not going to hell, he's coming right back here. I saw that as irony.
- Ann Althouse said...
John R. Henry: "Ann seems to be very much against Polygamy and legalization thereof. I understand her objections and polygamy seems wrong to me too."
I'm against the official status of marriage being extended beyond two persons, as I've written about elsewhere, but I don't support the criminalization of private sexual arrangements (between adults). I certainly don't think persons who adopt a plural marriage arrangement for religious reasons should be treated worse than group of sexual libertines. It's purely a matter of private arrangement that is none of my business. If there is underage sex or abuse of children or rape or slavery, that is different. Do I disapprove of the morality of polygamy? Not particularly. It's no worse than a lot of other sexual things people do that we don't bother getting upset about when they don't directly affect us.
- Cat said...
AJ as Michael Corleone? MC was smart. He was more like Meadow. AJ is a dunce. A DUNCE. Lazy, uninquisitive, self involved. I think we are talking about a Fredo here.
As far as why Barb would let her husband take on 2 wives? It was brought up in the first episode by the Prophet's child bride who said Bill brought in two other wives because of her cancer and hysterectomy. All she said was, "it's more complicated than that," but it's clear it WAS her decision. AND he mentioned last night how much Barb misses LDS (the Latter-Day Saints), but they aren't ready to rejoin a parish...so she has some religious beliefs that she shares with her husband about family. She was NOT conned into this arrangement and neither were the other women.
Agreed - the compound is creepy. Their dress, etc. The women are indentured servants. Disgusting.
- Ann Althouse said...
Elizabeth: "Too much heterosexuality for me (I'm kidding.)"
Episode 2 suggested we will be seeing sex among the women.
Marduk: Great point about Purgatory and infinity. I would add that Carmela was saying "Don't go to hell" and that sort of thing.
Cat: I agree: AJ is too stupid to take over. And why would the brilliant scriptwriters just crib the ending from "The Godfather"?
- PatCA said...
I think you are correct that it's not a dream but some sort of halfway point between life and death, which is pretty much the same as what Burroughs said in his voiceover in the first episode. "The Egyptians recognized many degrees of immortality."
These are aspects of Tony's soul trying to get free--the beacon is heaven (or hell). Finnerty is obviously Good Tony, and his family I bet will be new characters all together as he wanders confusedly in life's twilight. I wonder what his other souls will look like, and I wonder if he will get where he's going. We shall see.
- PatCA said...
Oh, and Big Love, I do not Big Like. The characters reveal no inner structure. It's just a giggly imagining, from the outside of a particular milieu, (like American Beauty and Six Feet Under), rendering it some sort of male fantasy: one man trying to satisfy all those jealous gals! Whoo, hoo! Oh, and lesbian footsie under the table. What next, to spice up a soap opera story line?
This is what is known in Hywood as "edgy." I would much rather see a series about people who actually believed in polygamy and lived the principle. Now, that would be edgy.
- Dave said...
Wow, the concept of purgatory never occurred to me, but you very well may be right.
As for the voice on the phone: yes, it's Annabella Sciorra. At least, it sounds like her.
- Elizabeth said...
Episode 2 suggested we will be seeing sex among the women.
Hmmm. It remains to be seen whether that will mean lesbians, or heterosexual eye candy. But what the heck, I'll go ahead and set the Tivo.
I like Bill Pullman, so I want to like the show. Chloe Sevigny is compellingly creepy. That blankness she exudes runs the gamut from glamorously detached to borderline learning disabled, depending on the role.
- Johnny Nucleo said...
"Chloe Sevigny is compellingly creepy. That blankness she exudes runs the gamut from glamorously detached to borderline learning disabled, depending on the role."
That's the best description of Chloe Sevigny's star quality I've ever read. Chloe Sevigny is beautiful, but there's a weirdness too, even when she's not playing weird. She's an interesting actress.
- amba said...
Marduk's right, IMO.
- Andrew said...
I was pretty sure the voice on the phone was Charmaine Bucco. That would fit into the whole "alternate reality" thing pretty well.
- Steve said...
Tony is in purgatory.
He is between the fire of Hell (Costa Mesa is burning) and The Light (The Searchlight that is seen in the distance from his hotel room).
In the hotel Tony checks in to under Finnerty's name he is given a room on the 7th floor. This may be a reference to the the seven terraces of Purgatory in Dante's Inferno. When Tony falls in the stairwell he ends on the he fell on the 5th floor. This may correspond with the Fifth Terrace, Avarice or Greed.


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Republicans should stop taking the boob bait of the press. The story of the day is ObamaCare and the pain it is causing the Democrats. That story is not being fully explored. We are not seeing pieces on Captol Hill Democrats rethinking their four-year-long lockstep backing of a program that is failing massively and before the nation's eyes. I'm not seeing "Pelosi Agonistes: The Speaker Who Said 'We Have to Pass It to Find Out What's In It' Has Some Regrets." We're not seeing "Democratic House Group Meets, Anguishes, Decides on New Path." We're not reading "Dem Sens From Red States Bolt: 'It Only Takes One to Start a Jailbreak.'"
The focus of political journalism now should be on what's happening on the Democratic side, because ObamaCare is a Democratic program. They bought it, they built it, what now?
Democrats aren't talking about that, at least on the record, and none of them colorfully. They're in the domestic political/policy debacle of their lives and their reaction is discretion. Some of them are loyal, some of them are kind. Some of them think in terms of blind team-ism. Some of them fear reprisal from the party's enforcers. Some are stupid and don't understand the fix they're in. But many of them are simply disciplined.
What are we seeing on the Republican side? Nonstop taking of the press's boob bait. "Potential Christie Rival Says He's Not Conservative," "GOP Readies for 2016 Battle Reflecting Party Divisions," "GOPer: 'Moderation the Path,'" "GOPer: Why Do Women Hate Us?" "Establishment Hates Grass Roots," "Grass Roots Hates Establishment," "Libertarians Hate Everyone," "Everyone Hates Them," "Republican: Even I Hate Me."
Someone should tell Republicans that the story now, next week and this winter is ObamaCare, not 2016. It is what to do about ObamaCare. 2016 is not the subject now, it is a changing of the subject.
Is the press beginning to focus on the Democrats and 2016? To a small degree. Mostly they're fixed on Hillary Clinton. Someone said on cable this morning that there's the Elizabeth Warren story, she's being mentioned. Somebody else said Sen. Warren's in the news as a possible contender because the press needs a 2016 story on the Democratic side, it's no fun to cover a coronation. True enough. But even truer is this: Hillary needs a fight. She has to prove she can win, not glide. She needs someone to defeat. Democrats understand Mrs. Clinton's eventual future primary win will be tarnished, even clouded, if no one serious gets in to do battle with her. She has to appear to have fought for it. So they're in search of a few interesting contenders who can fight hard and lose well.
* * *
Back to ObamaCare.
More than four years ago, in July 2009, I wrote a column in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt offered President Obama some wisdom on health care. Obama's newly proposed plan—the Affordable Care Act—wouldn't work, said FDR. In fact, Obama's proposal put him in a "lose-lose" position. "If you don't get a bill along the lines you've announced, you'll look ineffective and weak—a loser. If, on the other hand, you win, if you get what you asked for, it will all be a mess and all be on you. The system will be overwhelmed, the government won't be able to execute properly, the costs will be huge." FDR said the Obama plan would "thoroughly discombobulate things" and ruin the Democrats' prospects in the 2010 election.
But FDR had an idea—a sly one, as his ideas usually were. First, he told Obama, drop your current bill. Second, take everyone aback by talking constantly about the national medical program that already exists, Medicare. Show your love for it, insistently—but also admit very freely what isn't quite perfect about it. "Get your people in Congress to focus on making the system 'healthier.' It's rife with waste, fraud and abuse, everyone knows that. And there's the demographic time bomb. Come together in a great show of bipartisan feeling with our Republican friends and announce some serious cost-saving measures that are both legitimate and farsighted. Be 'Dr. Save the System.' On thorny issues like end-of-life care, put together a bipartisan commission, show you're open to Republican suggestions."
The sly fox was telling the young president to show good faith to Republicans by admitting problems, and reassure Democrats by showing his heart and commitment to federal solutions. "Then, at the end," said FDR, "get your Democratic majorities to make one little change in the program—it's now open to all. You don't have to be 65. The uninsured can enroll. Do it in the dead of night if you have to, you've got the votes." Such a program, he said, after so many institutional and structural changes, would of course have to have a new name. "I'd suggest 'The National Health Service.'"
"Voilà. You now have the single-payer system you wanted." "Everybody wins. You get expansion, Republicans get cost control, the system is made more secure, and the public for once isn't terrified."
Would it make Republicans happy to think they beat Obama back on his original boondoggle? Sure. "But people will start referring to the National Health Service every day, and they'll believe they have one, and they'll believe you gave it to them. And you can run in '12 saying you did. That's what I'd do!"
I still believe FDR was more or less right. It was 2009, Obama had just been elected, we looked to be at the beginning of a big liberal wave. America was anxious, coming to terms with a terrible recession, maybe worse than that. And everyone knew the health-care system was a mess. There would have been plenty of space for turning it around by cleaning up and repairing, and then broadening, deepening and enriching, the health structure we already had. And not inventing a new one.
Comprehensive new programs have a million moving parts. Programs with a million moving parts are less likely to succeed. ObamaCare hasn't, and won't.
* * *
A final word on Democrats on the Hill and ObamaCare. In the past month they've dealt with the disaster through talking points. That's what parties in duress do, have kids in the back room write press releases based on the pushback guidance of combative consultants. Those talking points have gone, more or less, from "heavy demand caused the website to crash" to "the website will soon be fixed" to "every big program has bumps at the beginning" to "wait till the American people see their benefits!" to "not that many policies have been cancelled" to "not that many premiums have gone up" to "not that many people will lose their doctors.
Not one of the talking points has worked. Because incoming data, day by day, kept washing over them and sinking them.
The new talking point is that ObamaCare was damaged and fell due to Republican "sabotage." Republicans on Capitol Hill refused to vote for it, refused to like it and support it. They tried repeatedly to repeal it and defund it.
And all this is true. But it is not sabotage. This is opposition. The Republicans thought the ACA a bad piece of work, a bad bill that would make things worse, not better.
Still, Republicans should take the sabotage charge seriously, because it is not a claim aimed at the consideration of the American people but of history. Democrats are admitting with this charge that ObamaCare is a disaster. They no longer want to argue that it is not. They are arguing that it is a disaster brought about by Republicans. That will be what they argue for history and feed their journalistic historians.
As I remember it, the Democrats on Capitol Hill got the bill they wanted. They were heady, back in the majority, with a new and popular president, and they didn't much care about GOP support. They wanted the credit: It was their bill. They wrote it in a way no Republican could support. And they got no Republican support. When Paul Ryan, who had emerged as the Republican point man, attempted to come forward with ideas, he was rebuffed.
The new president—and this was a key historic moment—decided not to act on the accumulated presidential wisdom of the ages, which is: Get the other party in on all big things. Give them a stake in it, use them for cover, show you have bipartisan juice, that you are truly national and not only the leader of one party, show you can wield your mighty power across the aisles. Get them bragging they passed it, with your leadership. Make them co-own it so that when certain parts don't work, and certain parts won't, they have deep motives to help you fix it.
Instead, a perfect storm of misjudgment, immaturity and lack of historical perspective, and a perfect storm of shortsighted selfishness (it's all ours, it's not even a little bit yours) brought forth a perfect storm of a health-care disaster.

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Loofah Sponge
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Microfiber Cloths and Terry Towels
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Gizmox has released free preview version of its Visual WebGui 6.4 software. This version introduces a point-and-click Web design tool that, the company claims, provides a coding-free cycle for the creation of complex, enterprise-grade web applications. The 6.4 Point & Click Web Design Tool integrates with existing design software such as Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Expression Blend, Adobe Flash CS, and more, and lets UI designers fully customize their application themes and Visual WebGui's more than 80 out-of-the-box controls.
The Visual WebGui 6.4 Free Preview Version includes:
- Point & Click, a developer/designer interface that customizes a UI without writing code
- A visual designer that integrates with existing design software such as Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Expression Blend, Adobe Flash CS, and more to enable the most efficient developer and designer collaboration
- Parameters to customize the UI's look-and-feel
- Saving and Reusing skins between projects
- Building controls from scratch
- The customization of third-party controls and Visual WebGui's out-of-the-box controls
- Enabling the design capabilities for multiple presentation layers
- The ability to design in runtime or while disconnected from Microsoft Visual Studio without the need to compile the project
- Easy management of all project's resources and the integrative capability to edit those resources
- New scalability extensions for redundancy and mulit-user SaaS/Cloud Computing level
"The Visual WebGui 6.4 preview version is another step toward simplifying and commoditizing complex AJAX Web development," said Gizmox's Navot Peled. "The ease of developing with Visual WebGui combined with the new efficient interface between developers and designers gives Visual WebGui an edge over other RIA development platforms."


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One could wallow for days in the minutiae of why Illinois needs a constitutional convention to fix our state's dysfunctional government.
One could wallow for days in the minutiae of why Illinois needs a constitutional convention to fix our state's dysfunctional government.
We'll immerse you in those details shortly. But if you don't want to get caught up in all of that, there is one fact that is particularly persuasive in favor of the convention:
Almost every entrenched interest and elected official at the Statehouse, regardless of their spot on the ideological spectrum, doesn't want it to happen. Those responsible for our malfunctioning government will spend millions convincing you they can somehow fix it.
They are betting on the system they know because they've figured out how to manipulate it to serve their interests. For them, the risk of citizens fixing it is too high.
The 1970 constitution requires Illinoisans to consider every 20 years whether that document is working. It allows us to try to fix it if we decide it is not.
For six years, Illinoisans have watched the legislative and executive branches slide into dysfunction. But for decades before that, our leaders have allowed Illinois to slip into financial crisis and fail to solve inequalities in education.
The Illinois Constitution does not allow much direct input from its citizens. When legislators do not act, we cannot propose and vote on our own solutions. Meanwhile, the same do-nothing lawmakers draw their districts to ensure re-election despite our wrath.
We would be crazy to let this opportunity to directly influence our government slip away. For us, the risk of doing nothing is too high.
Recall a few examples of Illinois' dysfunction:
--Gov. Rod Blagojevich, despite his weakened political state, has vastly expanded his powers. He used the amendatory veto to wholly rewrite legislation. Delegates to the convention could clarify this power once and for all.
--Opponents argue that the problems will go away when Blagojevich does. But because legislative leaders have near-absolute power over their caucuses, the problems with the legislative branch are just as serious.
If the Senate Democratic caucus had controlled Senate President Emil Jones instead of vice versa, Blagojevich might have been stopped. But Jones, a Blagojevich loyalist, held the campaign purse that members of his caucus depend upon for re-election.
The state's lax campaign finance laws and the leaders' ability to rule indefinitely enable this. To fix this, delegates could impose leadership term limits.
--The problems with having absolute power don't end there. Even when a majority of the House or Senate wants to vote on a bill, the chambers' leaders decide what is voted upon.
Some say the rules of both chambers simply could be amended to allow a majority to bring a bill for a vote despite what the leader or a legislative committee wants. If it's that simple, why hasn't it happened?
If this was the only problem the delegates fixed, the General Assembly could be vastly more responsive and democratic.
Opponents argue opening up the constitution could allow all kinds of bad ideas to be inserted. But voters make the final call on proposed changes. They cannot do any worse than those who have brought us to the brink.
We strongly urge a "yes" vote on the constitutional convention.
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Gems can be used to speed up the time it takes to:
- Breed dragons.
- Incubate eggs.
- Construct buildings.
- Grow treats.
- Clear obstacles.
- Complete quests.
- Do anything else that involves time except speeding up DragonCash or Gem production in habitats, the 24 hour clock to give 3 free gems, the Dragonsai Gifting Tree, the Colosseum, the 4 day wait for Kairos to be recharged, the 4 day wait for Gaia to be recharged, and the 24 hour clock to reset limited event currency such as: Magic, Magic Eggs, Fireflies, Candy, Iceberries, Roses, Epic Eggs, and Tickets.
AND can be spent to:
- Purchase non-basic dragons.
- Purchase egg pedestals.
- Level up dragons.
- Unlock breeding hints.
- Upgrade the Nursery to hold up to four eggs.
- Purchase the Dragonsai Gifting Tree.
- Upgrade the Breeding Cave to the Enchanted Breeding Cave.
- Purchase the Epic Breeding Island.
- Upgrade the Epic Breeding Island to the Epic Breeding Sanctuary.
- Upgrade the Gemstone Island to hold up to five gemstone dragons per habitat.
- Purchase the Gemstone Habitat.
- Upgrade the Hibernation Cave to hold up to 300 dragons.
- Purchase time fragments to assemble the artifacts: Chronolith, Time Claw, and Statue of Kairos, which are required to summon Kairos, and Scroll of Summoning, Vials of Elemental Vitality, and Nest of Nurturing, which are required to summon Gaia.
- Upgrade the shrines.
- Upgrade the Storage Tower to add up to 50 slots.
- Upgrade the large habitats to giant habitats.
- Purchase giant habitats.
- Purchase Island Themes.
- Trade in for DragonCash.
- Upgrade all four Galaxy islands to the fourth upgrade to hold 5 dragons each.
- Purchase these limited items that can only be bought with gems:
Gem Prices
The purchase price for gems are constant throughout game progression. Gems can be purchased for:
|Amount of Gems
|Pile of Gems
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|Box of Gems
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Note: The Beginner Bundle is available to purchase for $0.99 for 24 Hours after beginning the game once the tutorial ended.
Gem Value
One gem is equal to whatever time is left up to an hour. This means if there is 02:03:00 (hh:mm:ss) left for the egg to hatch or breed, it will cost three gems to finish it (2 's for the hours + 1 for the 3 minutes). However, if you wait four minutes until 01:59:00 it will only cost two gems. There used to be a glitch that allows players to spend one gem when the timer shows 00:00:00. The notification now asks: "Finish it now for nothing?"
Obtaining Gems
Gems can be obtained at the 'Treasure' section of the Market. This transaction costs real money or by watching ads.
Free gems can be received via friends who gift. Up to 500 gems can be received daily (assuming 500 friends willing to gift), but only three gems a day can be sent to people on a player's friends list. You may only receive one from each friend.
- See the Strategies page for additional information on gifting gems.
- The Dragonsai Gifting Tree can be purchased for 100 gems, and will allow the player to give away three additional gems per day.
Free gems can also be obtained by winning in the Colosseum. A silver trophy awards two gems and a gold trophy awards five gems. A bronze trophy does not award any gems.
Gems can be obtained by getting the Gold Treasure chest (which is done by coming in first place in a race) at the Dragon Track. Awards can include one to three gems.
Gems can be earned with Gemstone Dragons in the Gemstone Island.
Gems can be obtained if a goal that requires the user to breed an epic, opposite, gemstone, Pepper, or Forest dragon is completed. The gems awarded range from one to five, depending on the difficulty of the particular dragon in question to breed. Gems can also be obtained if a goal that requires the user to level up a primary dragon to an Elder level is completed.
As of March 26, 2013, gems can also be obtained by sharing the completion of some goals on Facebook or Twitter.
The Dragonsai Bush, a limited event reward decoration introduced during the Season of Goodies, allows the player to give away one additional gem per day.
Gems can be obtained through the Daily Rewards on certain milestones and chests.
Gems can be earned through watching 'Visions' from Tolzar's Optical Oracle, and you can only earn one per ad, and 2 per day.
For DragonVale's 1st anniversary, Backflip Studios gave 25 free gems to the accounts of those who logged in between September 14, 2012 and September 17, 2012.
Between June 20, 2013 and June 23, 2013, Backflip Studios offered 30% free gems with every purchase, exclusive to Google Play users. The announcement had a typographical error, in that it indicated "July" rather than "June".
For DragonVale's 2nd anniversary, Backflip Studios gave 25 free gems to the accounts of those who logged in from September 13, 2013, onwards by entering "2years" into the Redeem Code Screen and following the steps to collect the gift.
For DragonVale's 3rd anniversary, Backflip Studios gave 33 free gems to the accounts of those who logged in between September 14, 2014 and September 15, 2014.
For DragonVale's 4th anniversary, Backflip Studios gave 25 free gems to the accounts of those who logged in between September 14, 2015 and September 15, 2015.
Gems Needed Per Level
The amount of gems per level can be found here on the Dragons page.
- On May 1, 2013, bonus banners were added to purchasable gems in the Treasure section of the market.
- On May 2, 2013, the bonus banners changed.
- On October 9, 2013, Backflip Studios added a note in the Treasure section.
- On an unknown date, the note was removed.
- On an unknown date, the font for the number of gems that can purchased in the Market was changed.
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BRISTOL — Representatives of the six Addison Northeast Supervisory Union school boards and of the teachers who work in those schools met into the wee hours last Thursday negotiating a contract for the current school year. By the end of the night the two sides had come to an impasse.
The school boards will meet next month to decide whether to restart negotiations or impose a contract. If they opt for the latter, the teachers will have to agree to take what the boards offer or strike.


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Discover more than 130 destinations along 13 driving loops through western Oklahoma. The trail will delight birders, wildlife enthusiasts and history buffs with Oklahoma's abundant and diverse wildlife, rich cultural history, beautiful landscapes, scenic drives and open spaces.
Ss you drive through grassland areas with scattered shrubs, keep an eye open for the black-tailed jack rabbit, especially at dawn and dusk.
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The trail map will guide you to key stops for sighting wildlife, such as the prairie dog, an icon of the Oklahoma prairie. You can spot this critter all along the Great Plains Trail of Oklahoma.
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Scandal dominated the year that was, but the last 12 months have also included shuttered companies, blocked takeovers, blockbuster deals and a condo boom capped by the new Tour des Canadiens.
For shame.
That's what 2012 will be remembered for most on the business beat in Quebec.
The year's lingering image was of Pierre Duhaime, the former chief executive officer of SNC-Lavalin Inc., one of the country's largest publicly-traded companies, being led from his home by police to be charged with fraud.
Former premier Jean Charest must regret using SNC-Lavalin as an example in his letter to Maclean's magazine two years ago asking for an apology after it called the province "the most corrupt" in Canada. Turns out Maclean's didn't know the half of it.
Duhaime's arrest would have been more shocking if Quebecers hadn't already heard weeks of testimony about the seamy side of the Quebec construction industry at the Charbonneau commission inquiry into the awarding and management of public contracts.
Kickbacks, bid-rigging, threats, cronyism, the Mafia, phony invoices, payoffs, crooked city workers, politicians on the take — the inquiry was like a Sopranos episode minus the guns or swearing.
At times, it was almost comical, hearing about a safe so jammed with payoff money it wouldn't close, money stuffed in socks and flushed down toilets, a city employee "giving back" by spending his ill-gotten gains at the casino, another deciding to create his own "pension plan" because his municipal pension wasn't generous enough (as if).
One construction-industry honcho proclaimed publicly that he'd "never stolen from anyone," a bit of semantic léger-de-main that appears to hinge on the premise you're not stealing from any one taxpayer if you're actually ripping off all of them, or your company was the one actually convicted of malfeasance.
And just wait until the epidemic of $1 home sales last year to spouses, ex-spouses, girlfriends, children and other relatives by irreproachable politicians, entrepreneurs and municipal employees gets reflected in local housing prices. They'll drop faster than the approval ratings of ex-mayors Gérald Tremblay of Montreal, Gilles Vaillancourt of Laval and Richard Marcotte of Mascouche.
But someone always sees opportunity where others see only sleaze. Quebec comedian Guy Nantel labelled his new stand-up show "Corrupted," and offered ticket buyers the Gilles Surprenant special ("no tax, plus a 3-per-cent discount"), a reference to the city engineer who admitted taking a cut of winning contracts.
Although scandal dominated, there were plenty of other significant business stories in 2012.
The biggest takeover was one that didn't happen — BCE Inc.'s proposed $3.3-billion purchase of Montreal-based Astral Media, which the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) nixed on the grounds it gave BCE too much power in the Canadian market.
A potential big-box blockbuster that collapsed at the foundation stage was a proposal by U.S. home-renovation chain Lowe's Cos. Inc. to buy Quebec-based RONA Inc. for $1.8 billion. Even the politicians waded into this one, claiming Quebec and Canada could not afford to let corporate zirconia — sorry, jewels — like RONA slip into foreign hands. Meanwhile, the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec added to its large stake in a company whose recent results have exasperated investors.
The deals that didn't happen in 2012 overshadowed significant ones that did. Convenience-store chain Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. bought Norway-based Statoil Fuel and Retail for $3.6 billion, MolsonCoors Brewing Co. paid $3.5 billion for European brewer StarBev, information-technology company CGI Inc. snapped up U.K.-based Logica for $2.7 billion, cheese producer Saputo Inc. bulked up its U.S. operations with the purchase of Morningstar Foods for $1.45 billion, Cogeco Cable Inc. bought U.S. provider Atlantic Broadband Inc. for $1.3 billion and security firm Garda World was bought back by private investors for $1.1 billion.
The Caisse de dépôt unloaded about half its stake in Quebecor Media Inc. for $1,5 billion, after spending $3.1 billion for it more than a decade earlier.
SNC's Duhaime wasn't the only CEO to pack up his office. Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie stepped down as co-CEOs of troubled Research in Motion Inc. as that one-time tech darling continued to flounder.
RONA's Robert Dutton resigned abruptly amid investor grumbling about the board's flat rejection of the Lowe's offer and its recent history of uninspiring returns.
Claude Benoit, former head of the Old Port of Montreal, had her job dissolved. She was in the news for claiming $10,000 in expenses for part of an Australian vacation that included no official meetings.
Fred Green exited the top job at Canadian Pacific Railway just before the annual meeting, after a drawn-out proxy battle to oust him spearheaded by activist investor and hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman. Green's successor is former Canadian National head E. Hunter Harrison, unretired with a mission to kick some caboose and put Canadian Pacific back on the rails.
After years of distinguished service and hoarding, the Canadian penny was officially put to pasture, with the final one minted in May.
The Canadian dollar didn't move much. but Dollarama did. The Montreal-based dollar-store chain was among the top-performing Canadian stocks and plans to open another 75 stores nationally in 2013.
People lined up for new iPhones and bought $1 billion worth of the new Call of Duty video game in just 15 days, but Bombardier's CSeries jets remained as tough a sell as Obamacare.
Showing the decisive leadership Quebecers have long craved, the new Parti Québécois government cancelled the health contribution charged to Quebec taxpayers, announced a hike in dividend and capital-gains taxes, floated the idea of making them retroactive, then decided, on sober second thought, to scrap the changes and leave things pretty much as they were, with the addition of a new tax bracket for earnings above $100,000 and a higher health contribution beyond $130,000 (because high-income Quebecers clearly are getting off easy).
It was a banner (banger?) year in Quebec for casserole makers, but not a great one for Canadian commodities other than Justin Bieber and (go figure) Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, enlisted to take the top job at the Bank of England. (A word of caution, Mark: careful with your cellphone communications in England).
Carney's words of wisdom clearly will be missed by ordinary Canadians; the more he talked about the dangers of household debt, the higher levels of personal indebtedness rose.
The job market was healthier than in much of the world but still volatile. Aircraft-maintenance company Aveos went belly up in March, putting 2,800 people out of work (1,800 of them in Montreal). Sun Media Corp. and Transcontinental each slashed 500 jobs. Johnson & Johnson terminated 126 positions by closing its Montreal research centre. Mexican appliance-maker Controladora Mabe SA will axe 700 jobs by 2014 with the closing of a local dryer factory, Bombardier Recreational Products is phasing out 500 jobs by shifting watercraft production to Mexico. Canadian Pacific said it will eliminate 4,500 jobs (23 per cent of its workforce) by 2016. Even the Cirque du Soleil had a challenging year, laying off employees at the Montreal head office and shutting down a few of its many global shows.
Canada's last asbestos mine, the Jeffrey Mine in the Eastern Townships, expired for good after the PQ killed a $58-million loan consented to by the previous government.
Montreal landmark Place Ville-Marie celebrated its 50th birthday, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel reopened after a four-year, $200-million overhaul, and the famed Schwartz's deli on St. Laurent Blvd. changed hands in a $10-million deal, with Céline Dion's husband/manager René Angelil among the buyers.
But it was closing time for downtown nightspot Thursday's, which succumbed to a real-estate development, and for alternative weeklies The Mirror and The Hour.
Downtown parking lots were an endangered species as the condo boom persisted. Even the Montreal Canadiens got in on the action with owner Geoff Molson joining forces with developers Canderel and Cadillac Fairview Corp. Ltd. to build the Tour des Canadiens next to the Bell Centre — almost sold out already.
It was also the first year since the early 1990s when a developer committed to moving ahead with plans for a new privately-funded office tower in downtown Montreal. Cadillac Fairview Corp. Ltd. said in July it would go ahead with plans for a 514,000-square-foot, 26-storey office tower, to be built between Windsor Station and the Bell Centre. Deloitte LLP has agreed to take at least 160,000 square feet as anchor tenant.
Quebec thieves had another imaginative year, managing to steal — among other things — 1.3 kilometres of railroad track worth $150,000 near St. Jérome, 400 tonnes of corn (street value, $140,000) from a silo in St. Léonard-d'Aston, and 10 million pounds of maple syrup (with an estimated value of $30 million) from a warehouse in St. Louis de Blandford.
"Cultural phenomenon" Facebook went public at $38 (U.S.) a share, briefly climbed to $45, then quickly fell back to Earth. Within three months, it was trading for less than half the initial price. So much for being the new Apple.
There were plenty of other quirky stories on the business beat in 2012, at home and abroad. Here are some remembered by Paul Delean, Allison Lampert and François Shalom.
Strange bedfellows
In an unusual court judgment, the Quebec government received half of a home in Danville that used to be a marijuana grow-op. It had sued to acquire the whole property under proceeds-of-crime regulations, but Judge Conrad Chapdelaine said the home wasn't used completely for marijuana production (the grass was in the garage), and represented the only asset of the owner, who had custody of his two children every weekend. Judge Chapdelaine said the law allowed for a partial allocation so he opted for 50 per cent.
That's the spirit
A letter to Santa at the North Pole was rejected by a Canada Post employee in Whitby, Ont., for lack of a stamp.
If you can't beat 'em, sue 'em
The porn industry always seems to have its finger on the pulse of public opinion, and jumped on the swelling popularity of "matricule 728," the Montreal policewoman with the shortest fuse in town, immortalized on video pepper-spraying real-life demonstrators. But she was able to block, temporarily, the scheduled release of quickie feature 728 agente XXX, which the production company helpfully offered to retitle "Agent Sexe-28 XXX". In her court affidavit, she called it "an attack on my dignity."
Air fair?
WestJet is launching a regional division, treading on Air Canada's turf. Air Canada is launching a low-cost division, putting it on a collision course with WestJet. Transat is jumping into the premium travel market. Sunwing is burrowing deeper into its travel-package business. Porter is expanding fast. Almost makes you want to fly again ... until you see the final tab.
Franchisees of 32 former Dunkin' Donuts outlets in Quebec won a $16.4-million judgment against the international chain's Canadian parent for "failure to protect the brand" in the province from 1995 to 2005. Judge Daniel Tingley said Dunkin' Donuts basically let the Tim Horton's chain eat its lunch. Dunkin' Donuts shrank from 210 outlets in Quebec in 1998 to just 13 in 2012.
Tipping Point
Some Vermont restaurants apparently have taken to adding a gratuity to the bills of patrons speaking French as a kindly reminder that tipping is not against the law. "A few times a week, we get tables that will eat for $100 and leave, like, three bucks or $5. And 100 per cent of the time for stuff like that, it's French Canadians," said Niall McMahon, a waiter/manager at Burlington's Asiana Noodle Shop.
Flaw in the ointment
The makers of Banana Boat sunscreen had a major problem on their hands (and arms and back) in 2012. They had to issue a recall for some of the spray-on products sold in the U.S. and Canada because of a risk they could, ahem, ignite on the skin.
Steakhouse shuffle
The René Lévesque Blvd. restaurant formerly known as La Queue de Cheval became the Douze Vingt et Un steakhouse and cigar bar. La Queue de Cheval moved around the corner to de la Montagne St. And the massive Bifthèque on Côte de Liesse Rd., shuttered in 2011, reopened in November under the stewardship of its original owner, Michael Seltzer.
Dupe of Earl
Without admitting anything beyond providing Earl Jones with a bank account, the Royal Bank agreed to a $17-million settlement, avoiding a class-action suit by victims of the convicted scam artist.
Viagra without protection
The erectile-dysfunction drug lost its patent protection in Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that drug manufacturer Pfizer had not disclosed sufficient information when it applied for the patent.
The times, they are a changing
Newsweek magazine killed its print edition after 80 years. The Twinkie snack cake bit the dust in the U.S. when 82-year-old Hostess Brands went bust. Eastman Kodak, in business more than 100 years, filed for bankruptcy protection.
You say Kabuki, I say ...
A Superior Court judge ordered a Montreal restaurant to change its sign. "The word is clearly inappropriate given its meaning when pronounced in a Montreal context," said Judge Kirkland Casgrain of the Fukyu Bar à Sushi, which the owner said was named for a type of kata practiced in Japanese martial arts. It was rechristened Kabuki Bar à Sushi.
Lucas Lucre
In his biggest blockbuster in a while, American filmmaker George Lucas sold Lucasfilm Ltd. and the Star Wars franchise to Walt Disney Co. for $4 billion in cash and stock. Can't wait to see Mickey and Darth's Stellar Vacation in 3-D.
Typo of the year
"Caisse makes $152B investment". That was a Gazette headline on Feb. 21, and it probably caused a few Quebecers to choke on their morning coffee. It would have meant the Quebec pension-fund manager — which generated a return of 4 per cent in 2011 — had staked everything on a single investment. The B should have been an M. The actual amount invested was a mere $100-million plus; $152 billion was its asset total.


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I'm back from my one week break from the internets, but while I was away MKW's Staff Member Maggo ripped these:
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- Kano: 89 New Sprites
- Liu Kang: Complete Spritesheet (363 sprites)
- Smoke: 2 Animations
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- Kitana: 7 Animations
I should mention that now Kano's Spritesheet is 100% complete.
Coming up next: Sprites for MKII Jade, MK3 Jax, MKA mugshots, MKT screenshots and backgrounds and more, tell your friends!
21 responses to "New Spritesheets and Animations!"
Good to see the sprites back :) But I helped him rip the fatality sprites ( The torch fatality )
Sweet! I've been looking for MK3 Liu Kang forever.
Just out of curiosity, has Midway released more bios recently? I haven't heard anything about that in a while.
Nice update man, please try to get that spiky ceiling in the kombat tomb next update.
YES liu kang and kano geat
Great update, but shouldn't it be Mileena before Jade? Never mind, can't wait for the next update, sounds awesome.
Kano and Liu Kang? Uhm… Ok… Not some other chick? XD Anyway, good post! Can you please rip Jax MK 3?
100% complete?
You missed almost all of running and walking back sprites!
So as the Liu Kang's low fireball sprite, and Kano's header!
Good job in the rest of the sprites, though.
Please finish the MK2 ninjas! Great update.
Going to edit the update ? I though this would be in it as well , but Maggo probably forgot about it . Its Kano's fatality , the skeleton rip , without the skeleton so the skeleton won't be in the way .
Please finish the MK2 Mileena Sprites! Great update thanks!!! :D
Nice job, beat me to it. Liu Kang was the first sprite set I ever ripped. But I never send it. I felt it was incomplete or something since it was my first and all. So I worked on Umk3 Scorpion instead. But props to ripping the Friendship, cause I ripped the whole frames including the finger movements with the projector screen. XD If I was to send that, it would've been alot of sprites.
*deletes his Liu Kang sprites* :(
How you get the sprite of Kano's Jax Backbreaker on?
And Murdoink I tried getting you to update this tiny error I did, but I'll just say it here to make it easier. Kano-Ducking and Jumping section. The Flipping sprites (or Cannon ball attack).
Delete the 4th sprite. It doesn't belong. I got lazy and kept rotating the first two frames. Bad mistake.
AceKombat can you rip Kano's sweeping attack, his foot is cut out. And same goes for Getting Up after he's been sweeped on, feet cut out.
Very nice Thanks alot
Hey Murdoink, there's must be something wrong with my PC, because I still can't see that sprites!
I can only see 3 animations and 13 standing positions both for Kano and Liu Kang.
If the other sprites are really there, I probably can't see them for some unknown reason. =/
thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey here are the fixes for him sweeping , and him being sweeped ( As both of them had the foot was cut out )
TIP for sprite rippers : Use the Pit 3 stage for the sprite rips , and then turn off bkg with cheats and since the bkg's default color is black , use the pink background color cheat as well . You may also add the no lifebar cheat as well .
brilliant! i've been waiting for these for ages
thanx MKW!!!
p.s: is it possible to get Sprites of Rain WITHOUT a white background?
Hmm , white background ? It is transparent in the page , but I guess you are probably opening up that image in paint . Use some program that have transparency tool with the painting program , Photoshop is one but it is not free . I don't know about this one , but there is another program called GIMP , and I think it may have transparency tool , and the good thing is that its free . Give GIMP a try and see what result you get when you open a image up , if you are however viewing a white bkg for Rain in the internet , then you probably don't have a updated version of Internet Explorer , since IE's latest version 7 just added PNG transparency .
el mortal combat esta re bueno chau. !!!!!!!!
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:25 pm
Post subject: converting Busch Pressman C to accept roll film
Just bought a Busch Pressman C and have read enough to understand it is possible to convert to accept 120/220 roll film. Could someone tell me what I need and hoe to accomplish this? Thanks a million SD
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Two solutions have been reported:
Find a 2x3 Graphic Graflok back and replace the Pressman's spring back with it. When I had a Pressman and a couple of 2x3 Graphics I'd tried this and failed, but other people have done it. Good luck finding a 2x3 Graflok back, they sometimes turn up on the great auction site.
Don't do a back transplant, use an Adapt-A-Roll 620 roll holder. These slip in like a sheet film holder, will feed from a 120 spool but must take up on a 620 spool. I use AAR 620s with my Graphics.
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These choices only apply if your rangefinder is adjusted properly for your lens: A Suydam roll holder can be mounted using the focus panel screws and a couple of small washers. This means you will not have ground glass focus ability.
A Graham (very rare) roll holder splits in the middle and goes under the focus panel. It must be left there until the film is used up, thus no ground glass focusing. There are some other odd ball holders out there but in general, these things are hard to find. I believe Calumet made a slip in holder for 2X3 cameras (????).
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Glenn, as far as I know (and we know that's not all that far), Calumet's slip-in holders were all for 4x5. Most have 6x7 gates but there are also 6x9s.
You may have been thinking of the Adapt-A-Roll 620, which was made for 2x3, 3x4, and 4x5 cameras.
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Post subject: Easy modification of Busch C Pressman spring back
I have been working on an easy method to utilize my Busch pressman C (with the leaf spring back) with more usability for the roll film holder, but that also will allow for the sheet film holder, grafmatic sheet film holder and the ground glass viewer to be used. I wanted something that could adapt to all of them without difficulty and I didnt want to spend a lot of time or money on it. My apologies to those who might find this an inelegant solution. I decided to try using synthetic cork from a wine bottle. I removed the leaf springs from the camera's ground glass viewer and reattached the screws and washers only on the upper half of the viewer. I then cut 4 pieces of cork to fit the scalloped areas on the camera that were left when the leaf springs were removed. They were shaped more or less like a cheese wedge. The cork pieces barely protrud beyond the scalloped areas. I glued the pieces in place with wood glue and painted them flat black so they would blend in with the camera. Its a reversible process if one is concerned about returning the camera to its original state. I can now fit all of the above-mentioned items snugly on the back of the Busch C and not only is it light tight, I can lift the camera by whichever apparatus used and it supports the weight of the camera.The cork has been in place on 2 of my Busch Cs for a few months now and they have held up nicely.
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To Karl:
If I understand correctly, the cork pieces simply hold the backs in place by virtue of it being a very tight fit ?
I have to try this.
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To Karl:
If I understand correctly, the cork pieces simply hold the backs in place by virtue of it being a very tight fit ?
I have to try this.
It's fairly easy. I wish it were more technical so I could take credit for some breathtaking advance in photography. The cork pieces are glued to fit in like 1/4 to 1/3 shaped wedges (you will need to do a 'dry run' to see if they're the right dimensions or not.) You want it to be snug but not so tight that it's difficult to remove and replace. I can hold the camera' weight by the roll film holder or ground glass attachment, etc., without risk of it slipping out. Hope this helps.
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hey all
the Suydam roll holder had adapters for this you took out the screws that hold on the GG
then put on the adapters ! the adapters can be made it two pieces of metal strap one has two holes the other has one hole . the one with 2 holes is srcew in inplace of the GG then in the secnd hole is a metal screw then the other pieces goes down on top then a thumb nut.
you then can losen the thumb nut & turn out the top piece you then can take in & out the GG
or the Suydam roll holder then turn the top piece back in & titten back down the thumb nut
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