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Comments Made During the Contest
Adam Grage (Level 4)
The first line--EXT. MEXICO...so we are looking at the entire country of Mexico? I'm guessing you meant a Mexican City. I would suggest either noting a specific name to the city (i.i Mexico City) or just state Mexican City in the slug.I am not familiar with any of these songs so i don't know what rights they have but I wouldn't state any music references unless they are public domain. I know this screenplay is devised as a musical but the structure seems wrong I would think if a character is going to sing it should be stated as such in the dialogue.You shouldn't be specific to how a character looks regarding face shape and eyes. It doesnt really add anything to the script's importance. Since the character could look somewhat different and it wouldn't affect the story.I like some of tha characters that you have developed here but the repeated interruption of additional wives got old fast. I would move the script along fast once the premise is developed that El Gran had multiple wives.I think you have an okay start here. I liked the opening scene--very dramatic. the shift to a more comedic feel felt strange though. But the comedy bit works so maybe shifting the opening to convey that feel better might be an idea. Just a suggestion though. It's dry in spots as a lot of sitting and talking between the wives is the bulk of most of the scenes right now.
Ammar Salmi (Level 5)
Nothing kept me interested. May be I didn't felt anything about your script because I didn't know any of the songs you mentioned. I wonder how many reviewers out there know these songs. The dialogue was good. The description as well. But it's the story that I'm talking about. It felt so flat. May it's just me and the genre you chose.
Aralis Bloise (Level 4)
The idea itself its really good. I laughed out loud when I read the logline. What I read however, feels like it should be a lot longer and it was crammed down to fit the 10 pages of the contest. I think the story needs to take a little more time developing. Is this meant to be a musical. I'm picturing something like Moulin Rouge which would be just great, but if that's the case, then you need to tell us the actual lyrics to the songs. I get the feeling that the songs are meant to be significant but we only get a line and then the word "etc..." If the lyrics are taking the place of dialog, we need to read them and if they are just soundtrack suggestions, then maybe they don't need to be on the script. Another thing that comes to mind is: I speak Spanish, so I understood everything but I wonder if someone that doesn't might miss some stuff. I'm honestly not sure what would be correct in this case, but you might want to check that out just to make sure all of your audience gets what you are trying to say.
Austin Jones (Level 4)
First off, very original! Bravo! I have no idea where this is going though. I'm assuming that it will be more of meeting each wife and hearing her story as each tries to prove who the rightful "wife" is which right now is very one noted. I am very excited by the idea of all these women making claims and watching the highjinks to follow but I think there needs to be some direction and purpose and I don't see that just yet. I think you have a great eye for the visuals but sometimes they seem "over" crafted. I do love the style you are creating and it is great to see something set in period. I guess my biggest issue is with all the MUSIC descriptions. I don't speak Spanish so with the exception of one title (The Troublesome Bull) I have no idea what the relevance is for putting these in your script. If they are relevant then translate them so we understand what they add to the overall story because if the reader doesn't connect the dots between the titles and the story then it is just like you are informing your sound designer what songs he should be pulling…you know? Like I said I love your style of writing and your use of vocabulary but sometimes it does come off as showing off. Maybe that is just me and if I'm the only one to say that then by all means trash that note. Over all very nice work and great technique. Best of luck and I look forward to reading more!
Brian Wind (Level 5)
I'm not sure why, but I found this pretty difficult to read. It could be the Spanglish dialogue, it could be the beefy descriptive paragraphs or maybe it's all the Spanish song direction. For whatever reason, I had a tough time getting in to this one. It did not flow well. Some of the characters were well crafted, others felt one dimensional. The situation at the hospital with all the wives was funny on it's own, but the way it was handled in this script actually seemed to decrease the humor of it. Overall, I don't know... I had a very hard time getting in to this.
Caroline Coxon (Mod Emeritus)
Wonderful scene setting - the fact that I don't understand Spanish and didn't know the songs wasn't an issue for me.More of an issue - the masses and masses of characters you introduced - I couldn't keep a grip on them all in my mind. (You need to be very sure they are all necessary - especially those you have named - that they all have a function that will further the plot)Quite honestly, though this is well-written, I find it hard to imagine how this story could be sustained for the length of a feature film - I feel as though I've seen it all already, to all intents and purposes - a lot of fiery Latin women who will fight like cats to establish their rights.As a musical, I'm sure it will be vibrant - but doesn't even a musical film need a plot that has some substance?Slight technicality - you use Present Continuous Tense a lot (is looking,is arguing, is demanding, are working, are preparing) when Present Simple would be better - leaner.(looks, argues,demands, work, prepare)
Chris Keaton (Level 5)
Wow, I can't say that I am a expert on musicals, but if they were singing the tune and then saying their lines this would be 30 minutes by now. Isn't that why songs in musicals give out the dialog and advance the story. This just seems like music set in the background. It looks like it could be fun, bit right now, I'm not really drawn in.Notes:- You really can't register a title, but you can register the screenplay.- Are these songs copyrighted? If so do you have the rights to use them? I guess that doesn't matter at this point.- Lose the word 'is' from your vocabulary, write your action blocks active.- I really don't think music in the background makes a musical?
Chris Messineo (Founder)
Great title and logline.However, I was concerned when I read the logline on how you would be able to intertwine all these stories into a one compelling narrative and I'm afraid that has quite happened yet.First, who is the protagonist? Who do I care about? Give me someone to root for (and someone to root against).Second, I like all the Mexican "flavor" throughout, but it is too much for me to follow. I have no idea what these songs sound like or are about. You need to find a way to communicate the emotion of them.I think if you can find a different way to introduce us to this story, perhaps a character who is new to this world - like us (maybe a stranger in town), it might work better.I hope that helps.
Dan Lennox (Level 5)
I liked the title, and the logline has coGreat opening sequence you had me hooked from the start. Your writing is very good and the first ten pages are pretty tight. One thing that bugged me was the whole music thing. I am not familiar with the music that was written into the script, and therefore, it did nothing for me in terms of establishing mood or atmosphere, and a waste of line space.Your dialogue was great. I loved it. It was realistic, tight, and believable. Overall this was very good, and makes writing reviews easy. Nice job.
David Birch (Level 5)
your project was very ambitious...in fact, it was one of my highest grades in the first round...i like you dedication to the setting, but your writing came across a little bloated and flowery...additionally, your constant insertion of music titles is viewed as and automatic rejection by a studio...
Dom Kullander (Level 3)
I'm not particularly well versed in this genre of film, nor do I speak any Spanish, so I will attempt a review based on what my first impressions were.How do we know the citizens are 'revolution-weary'- what do we see?I found it difficult to keep up with all the wives (though perhaps this is the point?) It was confusing to the point that the plot just became a sticky web of characters thrown together.Do we need to know all the song titles? You are clearly very sure in your own mind of the asthetics of this story, but the constant updating of sound cues got in the way a tad. The mise en scene fitted in with your theme nicely, your script was able to capture the dusty Mexican setting well.
Erich VonHeeder (Level 4)
This was one that I was really fascinated by in the logline contest…can't wait…Here are the notes I jotted down as I was reading through your script:*Nice descriptions. A very smooth, easy style.*Wow. Bloodbath. That's quite a scene for a logline promising a comedic musical. (I can picture you right now wincing and saying "I didn't say anything about a comedy in my logline." But 9 out of 10 people will see UNEXPECTED POLYGAMY as a comedic premise.)*Here's the problem: I'm REALLY expecting this to be a musical. And some little musical interludes at the beginning of scenes isn't going to cut it! I want lyrics and NUMBERS…and by my count you're already running out of time to deliver a rip-roaring opening number. I'm tapping my foot (impatiently, and to a gentle latin rhythm in my head).*Okay, this definitely isn't going to be a comedy.*"Manuela sings El Disgusto." Oh no. That's all we get of the songs? The title? I am troubled! I'm enjoying your writing style immensely and it's a fascinating tone you have going on here and I'm willing to get on board, for sure!! But…I hate to say it…if this is a musical and you've withheld the LYRICS to the songs…yikes. That's a deal-breaker.*I think you are a fine writer, and I'd be interested to read and/or hear the music that goes with this. But I just can't see this one moving on. The hook with this one was that it is a MUSICAL and I think a lot of people voted on their excitement for that.To not give us any lyrics…it undercuts this script, I'm afraid.
Faith Friese Nelson (Level 5)
A great start. My biggest suggestion would be to write leaner. Try to say the same thing with less words.Page 1: "Music fades out on cue after SUPER." Where is the SUPER?Page 1: "The driver has been killed instantly." I would suggest that you always write in present tense. So this would become: "The driver: killed instantly."I have noticed numerous words that end in ING. Lots of screenwriters do this. I prefer a more active voice. Example: "A light rain begins to fall washing away the blood." Consider instead: "A light rain begins to fall, washes away the blood."In addition to words that end in ING, look for the words IS and ARE. Same thing, try to rewrite in a more active way. Example: "El Gran's bullet-riddled naked corpse is stretched out on an army cot. The Doctor works furiously, cosmetically preparing the body for tomorrow's open casket state funeral." Consider something like: "The Doctor works furiously on El Gran's bullet-riddled naked corpse, on an army cot. The doctor prepares the body for an open casket funeral."Look for ways to say the same thing in less words and in a more active voice. For example: "DOÑA LUZ CARRAL (late 30s), the Hero's first wife, is looking down at his body. She is a classic Spanish beauty. Almond shaped eyes under dark brows, set in a heart shaped face." Consider instead: "DOÑA LUZ CARRAL (late 30s), a classic Spanish beauty with almond shaped eyes under dark brows, looks down at his body."
Felice Bassuk (Level 4)
This one has promise and could have humor, but it doesn't entirely work for me yet. One problem is that, since I don't speak Spanish, much of it is lost to me, especially the music. I don't know how the music reflects the action. Does it support it? Contrast with it? Mock it? Also, there are far too many Spanish words that are not commonly known. Each time I ran across one, it impeded the flow for me. Putting the English translation in parentheses would help.With so many characters introduced, I really got only a very small sense of most of them. And except for Dona Luz, all the wives seem pretty much the same -- mean and nasty.Stylistically, there are a lot of spelling errors: lightening (should be lightning), coronel (colonel), woman (women for the plural), who's (whose), etc. Lots of punctuation errors, too.
Gwenhyver Davies (Level 1)
I really like the concept here – what an intriguing situation! Characterization of the wives is good. I'm sensing you have some distinct personalities that will take the story to interesting places. They are all different enough so as not to be confused with each other – important when there are so many characters!The music is a bit confusing. Music is clearly very important to the script, but as a reader unfamiliar with what the pieces sound like, it's difficult to know the meaning of the music. For example, is the tone of the music complementing or in contrast to the action? In my humble opinion, it would be a good idea to find a way to clarify the importance of the music.You do have a very clear writing style – an do well in creating images for the reader to understand visually. An example, 'They resemble a flock of unhappy grounded vultures' – what a brilliant image!On page 2 El Gran's body is being prepared 'for tomorrow's open casket state funeral' – these words appear somewhat redundant (I am being picky now!) – I.e. how exactly is that being shown? If the words are crucial to the viewers understanding, then perhaps consider communicating the information in a different way.There's a great humour underlying this script. Such a morbid topic - such a bizarre situation. For example, when Dona Luz looks at her husband's twisted face and the Coronel remarks 'When our good doctor makes El Gran presentable'. Also, on page 6 when Coronel Lara remarks 'Very Well, but this is absolutely the last wife that will be admitted to this ward tonight' – then queue another wife! Brilliant.I like where this story might be heading. The interactions between the wives will be fun to watch and there are plenty of questions raised by the first ten pages to keep me reading and wanting to know more. Good job!
Jeannie Sconzo (Level 5)
It's a bit tough to keep track of so many characters. It's also difficult to appreciate the songs without knowing just what they mean. Perhaps you should include a translation.
Jess Flower (Level 3)
This is probably just me... so bear with this comment. I was really confused. The beginning action sequence was very good, but when some of the characters began to be introduced, I found myself losing track of the number of people. Then I would always be looking for the Spanish to be translated by another character or explained in the action and I just couldn't. I could just be tired too...
Kevin Carty (Level 4)
MUSIC?!!?? EN ESPANOL por QUE por que esto? Big no no on the music in scripts do not insert music it is useless to a spec script. You can put it in but don't give the name even if you have the ok but I'm ok with use lyrics as long as it is relevant to the story. I am not GOOGLING WHATEVER IT MEANS IN SPANISH I got a whole lot of script to review and yours is not getting special treatment sorry.Capitalize your characters you really ought to think about your audience. What is a vaqueros. Do your best to make sure the audience doesn't get confused by your use of spanish words. Break it up Hombre o Chica, yes, I understand the language but don't see the point of all the latin references in the action. Make it readable and not confusing. i would call this fair but you try to make it creative so??? Subtitles are your friend. Good will do fine for me. No matter how unimportant CAPITALIZE YOUR CHARACTER NAMES.
Khamanna Iskandarova (Level 5)
I have to thank you for including the rating on the cover page. It's helpful to the ones with kids.I really liked the first several scenes. Very generous descriptive. I really like how they switch spanish at times and I like it that you didn't care to translate. That sets the mood.I also want to note the title, it's a clear set message - the movie is a comedy.But when all the wifes started arriving...(from page 2 on) I'm thinking maybe you could find another way to show us that they are all there to mourn him. What if after first two arrive you cut to five and the colonel can read their names from the paper so that we know who is who. Their screaming is not really important is it? If not then I would try to cut a lot of it and leave in only pertinent information. Of course this is just an opinion but see what the others say. I strongly feel that you have to cut and use other visuals to let us know who is who or who has done what to whom.
KP Mackie (Level 5)
Thought the premise of this story was a good one. Obviously, a lot of research and work went into writing it.While many parts are quite visual, there is so much to read and comprehend. Wondered if this screenplay might make a better story than a script. There are elements distracting from what may be an interesting story. All the music suggestions are a problem. Additionally, so many in Spanish, probably unrecognizable to many.Not everyone understands Spanish, and without translations, the read is slow. The essence of the story is lost trying to sort out this kind of detail.Isolated the "wives" looking for some distinction. There is some in their descriptions, but the dialogue sounds familiar with each one. Dona Luz fondly reiterates how she and El Gran were married, Betita is pregnant, Esther vomits -- some intriguing tidbits, but believe the work needs editing to fully understand it.
Kyle Patrick Johnson (Level 5)
Most of the music that is specified by the script is background music. The characters themselves only sing two songs on-screen: Manuela sings El Disgusto on page 3 and she further sings El Toro Relajo on page 4 in the same scene. I foresee four problems with this song selection.First, only Manuela is singing, which wouldn't be the case were this to be in the musical genre. The other cast members surely would be good singers, and they'd be able to join in and sing group numbers together. Second, with action-songs only present in one scene, it makes the other scenes look limp and flavorless in comparison. Third, this scene is going to be VERY long with two songs interspersed amongst all the other action and dialogue. Fourth, Manuela looks like the main character, since she gets to sing two songs right out of the gate and no one else does. Perhaps you want Manuela as the main character, but if not, you'll need to give other characters songs to sing.The visuals, especially of the assassination, are wonderful. "Twitching scarecrow of a doctor": awesome description!The rain on page 2. It almost looks like it's symbolic. I hope that the rest of the screenplay uses the rain in similar fashion, and that it's not just a one-shot symbol.The middle scene, where the women meet each other for the first time on screen, seems dialogue-heavy. Obviously, we have to get to know a lot of people in a short amount of time, but I think there needs to be more action somehow. The Director will (if he's got the smarts, which he should) probably use swirling camera shots to enhance the confusion that the Coronel is feeling, but the stakes could easily be heightened by women struggling with a guard, a couple face slaps, someone riding in on a horse, stuff like that.Betita sings insults on page 5. Those need to be written out."Manuela is attending to other things" on page 7. That also needs to be spelled out, just a quick explanation. Is she straightening a dress? Sewing? Breaking a bronco?"Arriving at the gates to the cemetery..." This requires a new slugline. We're no longer in front of the hotel.The crackling animosity that you've painted is almost palpable.Rating: Good.
Margaret Ricke (Level 5)
I have to admit that I have never seen, read or reviewed a musical script before this one. I don't know any of the songs you're using. I can't tell when people are singing or just talking... I'm totally out of my element here...I do know this, though: I LIKE it! Good work.
Martin Jensen (Level 5)
When I read the logline I wondered how you would manage to deal with twenty-five (plus, counting other family that would be at a funeral) characters, most of them, presumably, as the title and logline is about them, who are going to be supporting or main characters. Well, my fears came true: it was really hard to keep track of so many characters, just for ten pages. Trying to read the whole script without a character sheet would be harder. The way you have written it here, it feels as if these ten pages have worked through most of the originality of the idea as portrayed in your logline. I hope there's quite a bit more to the story than what is in the logline. I for one don't find the idea of a whole movie solely about twenty five women arguing and singing very appealing. The atmosphere and location were set very well with the opening description, and I liked the dark humor of the murder scene. "Initially reserved but as the tequila flows they soon loosen up. Off come the veils and one by one they recount how they first met El Gran..." This sounds more like a brief summary of what's going to happen than proper action. It would be more effective to mention one by one them taking their veils off before they start talking about meeting El Gran, I like the set-up, the characters, the bickering, everything, but the twenty-five wives make it hard to be invested and follow the story properly.
Maurice Charlot (Level 3)
I don't get it. The story didn't grab my attention. The formatting needs a reboot. The action is at a standstill, the morgue scene is too long and its not really funny. If this is supposed to be funny.I like the concept but the excution wasn't there. A rewrite is in order.
Melissa Mitchell (Level 4)
You have the potential for some very funny stuff here, but if that was your intent, you haven't taken advantage of it. Sorry, but as Esther says at one point, "This story has no meat on its bones."One of your scenes works well because of the change it shows--the shooting scene, but the others drag. The introduction of the wives and their interactions could be handled in 2 pages. The action describes how the first five wives don't like each other, so why do they stay together? What is the point of all of their speeches to each other when nothing changes? The audience will demand real conflict, change, action and reaction.I'm having great difficulty with the idea that these women think they are "wives." What makes a wife in their culture? Can a man have more than one? Is there divorce? Do they really think the others are "no longer" wives or "never were" wives? They only seem mildly inconvenienced by their supposed husband's death. In some instances, they seem more dismayed to discover each other, but even that doesn't carry the emotional weight it should. If you intend for these characters to be comedic, they'll need a comedic point of view but also real emotions.After 10 pages, all of the characters, and especially the wives, are stereotypes. Blond, brunette, and red-headed do not make characters. A character is what they do, and so far we've only seen pointless talk and maybe some praying and drinking, none of which matters to the story. Who is your main character? What does she want? What happens on page 10 that, forgive me, fucks up her life? As written, the hero's death isn't it.I realize that your music references are deliberate, but I don't think a screenplay is supposed to contain directions about music that the characters don't hear (characters sing in only one place). (What makes emotions "Mexican"?) I recommend that you delete these references even though I'm sure you love the music and would like to see it used in the scenes. As the writer, it's your job to tell the story, to offer a blueprint for someone to make a movie.A number of picky items:You cannot register a title, so the mark is unnecessary (and incorrect).I'm not buying a Dodge roadster or dum dum bullets in Mexico in 1923. Do you mean Colonel and not Coronel?The Spanish may also alienate viewers and readers if you're intending this for the general American market.Dona Luz: "Thank you for allowing me these few minutes alone with him..." She's not alone with him. The doctor and Lara are there also.Lot's of places say "woman" but should say "women."
Micah Ricke (Level 4)
I really liked the first three pages, but then the pace really slowed down, almost too much (for my taste). As far as the writing, there are a few awkward phrases, but nothing overtly distracting. Overall, it is very well written.To be honest, I cannot claim I'm hooked enough to continue reading the script. I'd give it a few more pages and see what happens.Best of luck.
Michael Heeney (Level 2)
This is an interesting case where the scene descriptions feel much better written than the scenes themselves. It feels very novelistic, and though it hurts to cut good writing, a lot of them should be shorter. Too many characters were introduced in too short a time - there wasn't a clear protagonist. All the women seemed equally annoying (to me, at least). The madcap premise could be hilarious or grating, depending on actors, but there's definitely an audience for it. - Don't think you should specify musical choices, that tends to be the director's call. Some of the lines entirely in spanish could confuse audience members. /exec anal teacher modeON PAGE 11 WHO's SHOULD BE WHOSE RAAAGH. /end anal teacher modeOverall, it was well written, but I'd like to know more about these women's internal lives (what they do when they're not harassing each other), or at least about the protagonist's, before they all burst on screen at the same time. I think you need a lot more set-up before the inciting incident of El Gran getting killed.
MJ Hermanny (Level 5)
Overall: I think the main problem with this is that the wives' characters are not different enough. They all speak similarly and you rely on physical differences to make tham clear from one another. Secondly, in a musical, lyrics should be written out as they are part of the narrative and often give insight into the characters and back story.Here you give the song title as if we should know the songs.The scene in the funeral parlour is repetetive, over and over and over with each new wife.Characters: too many, too alike. Betita stands out because she is screaming all the time but she is not likeable. I don't identify with any of them and have no idea who the protagonist is.Dialogue: Full of on the nose exposition and very samey.Story: Can only see this being more of the same if 20 more wives are to be introduced. I didn't like the logline and there's nothing in these 10 pages that changes my mind.
Neal Barringer (Level 0)
The first few paragraphs gave me a pretty good sense of your style. But, I feel you are writing rather prosey. And, it doesn't really help me visualize your intended image. "Distant thunder promises rain" is just one example of a phrase that doesn't help the visuals.then, there are the musical cues. They don't help me visualize the movie because I don't know the song you're referring to.
Pete Barry (Level 5)
This turned out to be quite different from what I expected. Frankly, it turned out to be a lot different from any screenplay I've ever read. You've definitely taken a bold step into very artistic territory, and that alone is worth something. It's a lot more grave than your logline suggests; I was sort of expecting merry chaos.The music is causing me some trouble. When your logline read "musically" I assumed an original musical. "Musically" appears to mean heavily underscored, plus occasional bursts of song from the characters. The songs appear to not be originals, though I'm unfamiliar with them. If this is a Mulan Rouge style musical, that might work, but it's going to scare away producers who are going to need the rights. One way or another, you MUST write the lyrics into the screenplay. You keep saying that characters start singing, and give us the song, but we need to know what they're saying to each other. It's also distracting to the reader to be continuously bombarded with obscure songs in the description. If you don't know the songs, it adds nothing.The Spanish is another problem. Throughout, Spanish is just mixed in with English, which sometimes just doesn't work - "en la manana", "What is the problemo?". There's a point when the Spanish is in quotation marks - "perras feas". I'd suggest at least seperating Spanish from English with italics. Also, my Spanish is awful, but either I don't understand certain lines at all, or your Spanish isn't always correct. For instance, the Coronel asks the doctor "La derecha?" The context suggests he means, 'is that right?', but 'derecha' means right, as in, not left. Maybe he really is asking about the victim's right side, or something, but that's totally not clear.Some of the language is great, like "a twitching scarecrow of a doctor". Some almost borders on Shakespeare, like the eagle/roost/gallo banter, playing on the bird metaphor. At times, you throw in one too many adjectives, making for some crazy descriptions. The worst offender is "a sultry sexy red haired jade eyed emotional bombshell". You need to whittle down some of that to get a cleaner description.The characters, unfortunately, are mostly delineated by their physical descriptions, and their situations. I kept having to go back and check who was who. They don't have unique voices to give me a sense of each individual character. I was once advised that you should be able to read a screenplay without character names over the dialogue, and still be able to tell who's who. I'm not sure I buy that entirely, but this story, where you have twenty-five potential protagonists, really needs to try to get those voices to emerge.Again, it's a very unique screenplay, and I hope you continue to develop it. I hope my comments are helpful, and good luck in the competition.
Rick Hansberry (Moderator)
I struggled through this one. I felt the opening had promise. It was rich with visuals and drew me in to the time and place. The music cues would not normally be in a spec script but at times help the reader understand the tone and feel. In this case, I was lost and the lyrics didn't help me at all. The tone of the piece as the procession of wives appeared was hard to grasp. I could see it playing as a comedy but that wasn't really the intent. I saw it as an escalating drama with tension but there were too many snippets of beginning and end and not enough foreshadowing. I began to lose track of characters half-way through. It was a lot to take in. My biggest issue was that the funeral occured in the first ten pages. It almost seemed like you aimed to write a ten page script rather than just the opening of a feature. In a feature-length script, the funeral would probably be the end of the first act at the earliest, given your logline. If you plan to get into the stories of each of these wives, you need to foreshadow some of their backgrounds a bit better and set up bigger payoffs down the line. A lot of things happen here but I didn't get the sense it was going anywhere. I am ranking each script personally to arrive at my top own Top 10. Your ranking is: Not in my Top Ten.
Rob Gross (Level 4)
I like the title and the logline. The setting is vague at the beginning. With the "shiny black Dodge roadster" I didn't know where we were in time.Then the Super came, and I thought we were flashing back. I can't really tell.You write "The Nation's Hero" , but how do we know that it's the Nation's Hero? It wouldn't show on the screen.I loved the description of Delgado and the Doctor. Very clear and succinct. There seem to be a lot of characters thrown at me in a very short time, and to offer more confusion are the long names of the wives. You describe each one differently, well done. It seems they sound similar.I could see the wives showing up, one by one, and the comedy of the dialog. I think this is an area that you have opportunities to make the characters more distinct and memorable. Think about making an actress want to play these roles. They banter about their sex lives with their husband, and the babies that were born, but not much else. Nothing too substantial here, but plenty of opportunity to foreshadow or reveal some information.I loved Coronel Lara's line.."very well, but this is absolutely the last wife that will be admitted to this ward tonight"And thoroughly loved the last scene, with the introduction of the Twenty MORE wives. That was awesome.After getting through page 10, I would say I'd want to read more to see what happens. I hope you get to the next round. Good luck.
Rustom Irani (Moderator)
The musical numbers mentioned assumes that the audience is familiar with the tune. I could look it up and hear the tune but this is an inherent problem with musicals. Unless the audience is familiar with the play, song, or musical number you will leave the audience flummoxed.Also, you have quite a cast introduced in the first two pages alone. It becomes difficult to keep track of who's who, affects pacing and causes some confusion. I just go with the flow and don't pause to take it all in.Some of your descriptions also takes liberties with being poetic and not adding to plot except serve as colorful digressions into character traits.The long action chunks can be made terse and each wife given something more than physical traits to set her apart. Currently their voice sounds the same to me and no one really stands out except Esther. Purely because she has some breathing room and some one on one dialog with Soldad.The best aspect would have to be the assassination and I wish the rest of the ten pages was executed with such a twist and panache.Right now I'd want to wait before reading on and would probably love to hear the music.Do your characters sing? I don't really know.All the best.
Sally Meyer (Moderator)
While I really liked the logline and concept at first, in reading it, I feel there are just too many wives for the average reader/viewer to keep up with. I got where my head was spinning just reading ten pages.I think if you were to make it three wives or even five.. it would be easier to keep track of. Now maybe visually it would be easier as then you could see each wife, but reading this gave me a headache as I struggled to keep up.The writing is good, tight and funny in parts. I enjoyed that.
Sarah Daly (Level 2)
This is very well written but perhaps a little over-descriptive. You capture the passion and vibrancy of the scenes but the pace is hindered somewhat by the bulkiness of the description. Also, I would leave out the musical and other direction you have included as this just pulls us out of your story. The concept is good but I felt I wanted one protagonist to anchor the story - we need an 'in' to all the chaos and I don't think we have that, so I felt a little distanced from the story and its characters. Very lively with great dialogue and real passion though. I do think you need to nail down the hook - it doesn't feel as if we're waiting or hanging on anything yet, and we probably should be at this point. Nice language, good setting of tone but your narrative structure and approach is just a little off.
Sasha Clancy (Level 4)
The two areas that I rate in this contest that carry the most weight are whether or not the first 10 pages are a compelling beginning and does it deliver on the promise/premise of the logline.Does it have a compelling beginning? Not for me. IMHO you haven't introduced anything that would make me want to watch this movie past the first 10 minutes. I don't see where you are going with this. Obviously, there is conflict implicit in the 25 wives vying or money and power but if it's 90 more pages of them bickering back and forth at each other, I don't desire to read it. If you have more of a story, you haven't alluded it at all.Does it have an inciting incident? Yes.Is there a theme stated? Not that I could find.Does it deliver on the promise/premise of the logline? In the first 10 pages, you have covered the entire logline, introduced the wives and the fact that the husband is dead and they are all meeting. There is no hint of what you plan to do with the next 90 to 100 pages of screenplay. Your logline was very intriguing to me; the first 10 pages significantly less so.Other comments: The dialog is very stitled and on-the-nose. Part of me thinks you did this intentionally to highlight the absurdity of the situation in a comical way. However, I'm not entirely convinced that's what happened. I'm not sure where you intend to market this screenplay. Unless people are familiar with the songs and speak Spanish, the story doesn't make any sense. It almost strikes me as a Mexican screenplay that has been translated into English because it is so heavily dependent on people understanding Mexican culture, songs and language in order to understand the story. I'm not saying that's what you did, it just strikes me that it could be. You use a lot of detail and description. Some of that is good and creates your "voice". However, at other times, this borders on sounding like a novel instead of a screenplay. An example of that is "Twenty five flies, each buzzing to get into the ointment." You have some typos. I don't take off for those but you should fix them before you send this out.
Scott Merrow (Level 5)
A very well written screenplay, and probably a unique, interesting, funny, and touching story, but tough to review. First of all, the music will obviously play a big part of your movie, but I'm not familiar with any of it, so all the descriptions of the musical numbers are wasted on me. Not necessarily a bad thing -- if it's important for the movie, I guess you have to put it in the screenplay. But it makes the screenplay just that much more difficult to read for the uninitiated (me). Then, all those wives! After a while, it became a big jumble (and this is just the first ten pages) as the next wife came in, with a different hair style, telling a different story. On the written page, it's very confusing. (At least, it was for me.) There are some really funny lines. I laughed out loud at "No, I meant, will you keep the house now that he's gone?" Overall, it's a good read and should be a fun movie. I look forward to reading the rest of the script.
Shane Shearer (Level 4)
You wrote this quite well. I just couldn't get into it. It's not my cup of tea, so I'm not properly equipped to critique this without going into details about how much I don't like it (which I'm currently doing). I gave it a good because the craft is good but i also only gave it a good because the story didn't attract, nor resonate within me.
Shaun Bragg (Level 4)
I'm sorry to say this but I don't like this script. I have nothing against the writer but this lacks a lot of things. The dialouge was very bad. A knowledge of the characters world would bring forth much more believible dialouge, people just don't talk like that in movies anymore.The details were elaborate at times and when introducing a song just write the the title and the artist not the lyrics also. A lot could be done to make this a better script maybe shrinking some of your actions down a bit.Listening to the people(hispanics/whoever) you depect in your script you can get asense of how these ppl converse if they talk like that in the real world then fine, if not work on it.
Shedric Bragg (Level 3)
A over the top comdey "Five and Twenty Wives" reminds me of one of those outrageous 80's comedies. The dialouge is campy and the structure needs a bit of work.The story isn't the best. A re-write is in order. I liked the opening scene. The very long scene when the wives are introduced was too long and repetitive.
Tim Westland (Moderator)
Title - not good for a movie, I fear. Sounds like a child poem.Logline - I remember this from the first round of voting. What exactly is "Mexican emotion" and how is it different than any other persons emotions? This really isn't a logline, it's a tagline.It's evident that you know how to write... but you write a LOT of description and the story just doesn't move. Too many characters (I know that's the point - lots of wives - but what with them all having latin names and none of them seeming any different in voice or temperament, they all seem the same and hard to keep straight.Your use of "MUSIC: etc, etc." is pretty annoying, takes me right out of the story and is not something that is done by the screenwriter. That's like Camera Direction. You can't dictate what music is going to be used in the film, so being specific is just odd. Further, the chances of your reader knowing any of those songs is almost zero, so you're simply wasting space, time and effort. Describe the music instead. Soft mariachi music... guitar solo... melodic horns and violins, etc.Overall, this was so overly dense and the characters all had the same voice that it just didn't do anything for me.I think you need to learn to become a lot leaner with both description and dialogue. You need to make sure your characters say things that further the story, otherwise it's just lots of banter that accomplishes a lot less that the pages should. Ultimately, the promise of the logline isn't in these first 10 pages. There's music, but none by the women and it's always just background music. I thought this was supposed to be a musical.
Tom Shipley (Level 4)
I think you definitely have a vision for this film, but I don't think it's translating to the page right now. Couple notes: After reading the logline and first 10 pages, I'm still not sure whether this is a musical or not. There's music in it, and a brief bit of singing, but there isn't a musical number within the first 10 pages. Now, I'm not quite sure what the structure is for musicals, but if this a musical, should there be a musical number within the first 10 pages?Also, the music that acts as a segue is kind of confusing. I'm not sure it's relevant to anything and seems like the kind of detail that a spec script should not have. It's not part of the structure of the story and seems like it could easily be cut by the director. If something's not essential to the story, I think it's best to keep it out of a spec script.As far as the story goes, I thought the beginning was a little rushed. I had the thought that maybe we should spend a little more time with the colonel. Give him a small, self contained scene to set up his character and maybe elude to his fondness for women, before having him killed. Doesn't have to be too much longer than it is now, but I think I'd like to see a little more set up there.My other big thought is that once the wives start showing up, it's just a lot of talk. And there are so many new characters showing up, it's gets kind of confusing. I think you need to slow down and be more careful with your action description and mete out the dialog more carefully. As I said, I think you have a definite vision for this script, but to me, it's still unclear exactly what that is. Is it is a full-out musical? If so, I'd consider putting in a substantial musical number (at least along the lines of Ewen McGregor singing Your Song in Moulin Rouge.
Tomisin Ogunsanya (Level 1)
I feel that the plot is very interesting and the way he describes the scenery is very vivid it as if you are actually there. I also liked the fact that he did not just write it all in English and added that it would translated. This makes it very authentic. The plot seems unique though, and I liked the fact that the setting is not in an urban area.
Tommy Merry (Level 4)
Title: Sounds familiar but I can't place it.Logline: Wow, 25 wives interacting. Must have been one busy muchacho.Not sure how this would be written but good luck.Overall: Not certain what the reference was to the opening song or lyricbut I hope the screenplay is not dependent on it. I'm having a difficultywith all the detail of the screenplay, slowing down to the the jistof the meanings seems deflate the flow of reading it. Again with a referenceto a specific songs that no one (at least us Gringos knows :-) Again there isa third reference to the music. This seems more like a production script.I cant see the need of mentioning songs that are not obvious hits thatwill take the scene to a new level of meaning. More and More. I guess thisis a musical of unknown music numbers.(perhaps originals??)All of the overuse of musical reference aside, the dialog never really grabbed meand although the premise hold much promise, I didn't see it developed asmuch as it could be. I think if you went much lighter on all the detaileddescriptions of every item, let more whitespace and room for imaginationof the reader occur, your would have a piece that's easier to read. Thereis a lot of details to get through that can be added beyond the first 10 pages.Just my opinion - I realize that art is very subjective - Good Luck in the next round!
William Bienes (Mod Emeritus)
The wriing has a good deal of poetry, which I like quite a lot -- very professional and interesting.The characters have personality and it was an enjoyable read.I love the doctor going about his business in this chaos.The opening images are wonderful.The wives -- I would like one to be completely different from the rest. While they are different in appearence, they seem to be alike in temperment. I think if you have one resigned to the fact that he is dead, and that is the most important thing (maybe somber) and accepting, it would really add contrast to the other wives.Loved CORONEL LARA as well -- perfect dialogue and description.Very well done -- my only concern, keeping this storyline going without anything else to hold it in place.
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John Brooke (Level 5) ~ 6/1/2009 8:22 AM
What a wonderful creative playground this is for a beginning screenwriter. Thank you everyone for reading through my first ten pages and for your valuable insights, guidance, and suggestions.Yes, I tried to pack too much into those ten bloody pages. Based on the input you Movie Poets have provided. The first ten pages of my rewrite will bear little resemblance to the one you have reviewed this month. Thank you all sincerely for your honest remarks.


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Back in January, our minds were blown when DJ Oneman dropped "Solitaire, Vol.1″ on us. That beautiful gray area between hip-hop and electronic music was perfectly capture with his tape, taking the foundation that guys like Darq E Freaker and Danny Brown laid expounding on it. Everyone is getting turnt anyways, why not provide the best of both worlds into one soup… then do it again?! For Vol. 2, we get tracks from Paleman, Loefah, Wiley, Luke Vibert, Drake, Lil Ugly Mane, and many others. Proper turnt-up selection, trust we.
Darq E Freaker – Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [Dun Know]
Paleman – The Day
DJ Smokey – Purple Durty Sprite
Loefah – Grand Master [Ruff Mix]
Lil Ugly Mane – Throw Dem Gunz
Eyedress – Lunallena
Derek Djons – You And Your Pals
Kelly Rowland – Dirty Laundry [Rabit Remix]
Lil Durk – Dis Ain't What U Want
Mumdance – Legion
Bok Bok & Tom Trago – Get Me What U Want
Tyree – Acid Over
Meli'sa Morgan – Do Me Baby
Paleman – Who This
Ciara – Ride [Marcx Remix]
Plasticman – The Search [Mak & Pasteman Remix]
Loefah – Champion
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Jay Weed – Dazzled
Rich Homie Quan – Some Type Of Way
Alex Deamonds – Air Max 97
Luke Vibert – London
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Beyonce – Naughty Girl [Brenmar & Finesse Remix]
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Does anyone know about Masonite's durability for furniture use? I've done quite a bit of research on today's furniture construction and realize that even high-end companies use plywood/chinese leather etc. We've chosen a furniture company in which we have a certain amount of trust for our price range. They assemble their furniture locally. I knew this company used plywood but was disappointed to learn they also use masonite in parts (non-load bearing) of their construction. Would like some feedback. Will post in a few weeks about their customer service. |
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I've seen some plywood that has been pretty crappy and would have been glad to have quality hardboard there instead. I would not have a problem with ordinary furniture having Masonite back panels, say on a dresser. I've seen 1 to 2 mm cardboard on some RTA bookcase back panels. |
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When you install a Service Pack (ie: SP 1), does the Service Pack include all the previous hotfixes which are listed on the website?
Which product are you enquiring for, as aswers may vary depending on the product.
Hi Aaron,
Product is the Autodesk Revit Architecture Suite 2013.
I have reinstalled over this past weekend and updated to the Sevice Packs available on the Autodesk website when reinstalling.
Is there a need to install any of the previous hotfixes?
Noticed tonight when applying an update via Live Update, there is a explanatory note that the update includes all previous fixes.
(Usually I have downloaded the Service Pack directly and then installed.)
How can we tell that the Hotfix was installed properly? I recently installed The Revit MEP update 2, then the recent Hotfix. My build number is listed as 20121003_2115(x64). How can I tell if I installed the Hotfix correctly? Since it was not self-extracting, I may have missed something. I'm crashing, just opening a 3D view now. Very unstable! My video card rates a 6.9. My resource monitor shows I'm only using 23% of memory when Revit disappears.
It's quite possible that you need to update your video card driver. What is your card, OS, and driver version?
Video Card is a NVIDA GeForce 8800 GTX with driver 126.96.36.1997
The machine is a Win 7, 64 bit
I suspect you are asking for the OS of the card itself, and I have the 32 bit driver, rather than the 64. I'll gather more info, but I think you're on the right track. Thanks.
Yeah. You might try a clean installation of this latest WHQL driver for that card:
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We have a regular fireplace with chimney, masonry and metal curtains - a bit ugly really... not a very good picture taken during flooring and painting work...
I am also very allergic to smoke, and live in an area where "spare the air" days ban woodburning for much of the winter. I would love to put in a gas insert, but it's not in the budget right now. I thought of putting candles inside and lighting them when I feel like the ambience, but then I thought of the gel fuel and wondered - can I use it in my fireplace? How does it work, do I just open a cap and light it? Also if this seems feasible I might consider replacing the curtains with glass doors, suggestions? I DO have a mantel shelf - staining it now! |
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How we handle deploys and failover without disrupting user experience
At Mixpanel, we believe giving our customers a smooth, seamless experience when they are analyzing data is critically important. When something happens on the backend, we want the user experience to be disrupted as little as possible. We've gone to great lengths to learn new ways for maintaining this level of quality, and today I want to share some of the techniques were employing.
During deploys
Mixpanel.com runs Django behind nginx using FastCGI. Some time ago, our deploys consisted of updating the code on our application servers, then simply restarting the Django process. This would result in a few of our rubber chicken error pages when nginx failed to connect to the upstream Django app servers during the restart. I did some Googling and was unable to find any content solving this problem conclusively for us, so here's what we ended up doing.
The fundamental concept is very simple. Suppose that currently, the upstream Django server is running on port 8000. I added this upstream block:
upstream app { server 127.0.0.1:8000; server 127.0.0.1:8001 down; }
So now, when we fastcgi_pass to app, all the requests get sent to our Django server running on port 8000. When we deploy, we get the most up to date code and start up a new Django server on port 8001. Then we rewrite the upstream app block to mark 8000 as down instead of 8001, and we perform an nginx reload. The nginx reload starts up new worker processes running the new configuration, and when the old worker processes finish their existing requests, they get gracefully shutdown, resulting in no downtime.
Another option to consider is using the backup directive instead of using down. This causes nginx to automatically failover to the servers marked with backup when connections to the other servers in the block fail. You're then able to seamlessly deploy by first restarting the backup server, and then the live one. The advantage here is there's no configuration file rewriting required, nor any restarting of nginx. Unfortunately, some legitimate requests take longer than a second to resolve, resulting in a false positive for the original server being down.
Spawning is yet another option. Spawning can run your Django server, monkeypatched with eventlet to provide asynchronous IO. Furthermore, it has graceful code reloading. Whenever it detects any of your application's python files have been changed, it starts up new processes using the updated files and gracefully switches all request handling to the new process. Unfortunately, attempting this solution didn't work out for us, as somewhere within our large Django application, we had some long blocking code. This prevented eventlet from switching to another execution context, resulting in timeouts. Nevertheless, this would still be the best option if you can make sure that your WSGI application doesn't have any blocking code.
During data store failures
At Mixpanel, we employ a custom built data store we call "arb" to perform the vast majority of queries that our customers run on data. These machines are fully redundant and are queried through HTTP requests using httplib2. When a machine fails for any reason, we want to be able to seamlessly detect the failure and redirect all requests to the corresponding replica machine. Properly doing this required some modification of the HTTPConnection class.
The main problem was httplib2 only supported a single socket timeout parameter, used for sending and receiving through the underlying socket. However, we wanted initial connection timeout to fail very quickly, but still have a long receive timeout, since a query over large amounts of data could correctly take a long amount of time. Luckily, httplib2 requests allow for passing in a custom connection type, as long as it implements the methods of httplib.HTTPConnection. Armed with this knowledge, we created our own subclass of HTTPConnection that had a custom connect method. Prior to making the connection, we used settimeout on the socket object to lower the timeout to a short 1 second. If the connection was successful, we revert the timeout it back to the original setting.
This way, if we get a socket.error exception on the connection, a custom ConnectTimeoutException gets raised and the machine being connected to is properly marked as down. One small drawback is that the request takes an additional second, but this only needs to happen a small number of times before all future requests see the machine being marked as down. For the requests that timeout on connections, we simply handle the ConnectTimeoutException and retry the query on the replica machine.
The takeaway here is to take advantage of the ability to change the socket timeout to check for an unresponsive machine. Often with systems that work with large volumes of data, long timeouts are required for database queries. But this is only necessary for established connections. When the connection is initially created, failing fast results in a better user experience, avoiding long delays when a machine goes down.
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Another option: use the http-check option to remove server from a pool
backend cluster
# This should 404 when the server is being deployed to
option httpchk GET /http-checkhttp-check disable-on-404
server zaphod
server trillian
server arthur -
I forgot to add, the nice thing about this is that you can make /http-check (or whatever) 404 before you actually take the server down, so haproxy has time to run a check and mark it as down before it disappears.
I assume you have a load balancer in front of your nginx instances? Either some commercial offering, haproxy, or even nginx itself.
If so, why not gracefully remove the node from rotation, deploy code, test/warm, put back into rotation. This is pretty much the standard way of doing things, and allows for the same result.
- remove node from rotation at LB
- check no more active connections ( pretty simple in most lb techs, and even a sensible time out works which i assume you alread have )
- deploy new code, symlink new code to running location and restart services.
- warm/test as needed
- put back into rotation
- check for errorsWhile this may seem like a lot of steps, it can be easily automated, and you do get truly seamless deploys and rollbacks.
Hope its useful
I wrote this for that exact problem:
On linux no extra code is required to achieve something similar. You can just the iptables functionality of the kernel.


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Golfing is not my thing. A few years ago I tried, but I spent more time looking for my ball in the weeds or the rough than I did on the fairway. Doug, who was my golfing buddy, didn't hit his ball in the weeds. He hit straight as an arrow and right toward the pin. I think he got tired of golfing with me, or I realized that it is frustrating for a good golfer to drag a bad one along with him. I gave him an opportunity to play with a more "gifted" player.
It's strange the way our minds work. Doug's was piercingly focused on the game. Mine was thinking a thousand thoughts as I looked down at the dimpled ball perched on the tee – the swing, the miss, and the stumble. Concentration is an integral part of the game. If you watch professionals in a tournament, for the most part they are quiet, immersed in the game.
Gary Bartz, recalling a conversation with Miles Davis once said, "I remember coming to a concert where they had a big catered meal set out for everyone…I went and said, 'Miles, man, you gotta see all this food they got here.' And Miles said, 'I didn't come here to eat.'"
Two people can be talking, especially if one is me, and the topic is important, and we start out discussing X, but it isn't long before I veer off the conversation and into the weeds. Then I can't even stay in the weeds, I go into the bushes and then to the woods.
Experts say that a disjointed conversation can be a good way to create, to come up with new ideas, to brainstorm. I think, that happens for me sometimes, but I probably should see a psychologist about Attention Deficit Disorder.
In today's world we are surrounded by a plethora of distractions. I look down at my ball, notice the tee, OK now concentrate… What was the name of that new program?…concentrate…I wish I could get grass to grow like this in my yard…squirel…swing, whiff…
We have so many things coming at us today, 100s of television channels, disturbing news, sound bits, bills, kid's grades at school, ballgames, girl scouts, computer problems, car trouble, neighbors, drinking too much, taxes, not drinking enough, papa's delicate condition, cell phone trouble, cell phone problems, can't even afford a game of golf, my wife when she finds out.
Maybe – fits and starts – describes a lot of what many of us do. We start a project impulsively and then don't finish the half-day's work for a year. Dribs and drabs, I've heard it called. It is an old saying but they both mean the same. We lose attention so easily.
You can call a lot of government legislation that begins with fits and starts: the Affordable Care Act began with fits and starts; the 2003 American Dream Downpayment Initiative which helped non-qualifying home buyers get in over there head and began the downfall of the stock market in 2008; Bush reduced taxes four times during his terms although they not have a sunset in 2011 as originally planned – Obama signed the extension.
Locally, debt reduction, on high and at the state level, squeezed schools and Chesterfield's budget. This allowed some county services to be reduced or eliminated. Some important services, as well as jobs, were kicked to the curb. I think that once we lose a service or the cost of the service goes up for the citizen, it's never reversed.
This year the meals tax was to offset the cost of the debt of the school and emergency radio bonds that we voted for in November. The meals tax lost, so now we have to pay the debt service (interest) somehow or you won't get a new or renovated school for your kids for one thing, and the 911 center's 17-year-old radio system will grind to a halt. "This is 911, please hold; (on hold music is the theme from jaws) if you have an emergency, put your patient carefully into the back seat of your car and proceed to the nearest hospital, or a 911 operator will serve you in the order of your call; approximate wait time: 15 minutes – dum dum dum dum dum dum…"
After the humpty-dumpty meals tax had its great fall, what's the king to do? The ball is in the weeds and how are we going to get back to the clubhouse. In other words, how will we pay for the debt service (interest) on the referenda debt.
Now we are looking at a possible increase in car registration fees; losing the two or three of the remaining bond referenda items we voted in favor of in 2004 and, you bet, probably a plethora of other fees or reductions in citizen services because someone wasn't paying attention and whoofed the ball.
We have to get our priorities straight in this county; a small tax on real estate for schools and other services, or lose more by paying more for things we take for granted. Have you ever driven to the dump with a big pile of trash or gone to the library and found them both closed?
As we see the County Administration present anything from a chicken coup to a soccer field or a shopping mall, we always here the term "quality of life." It's about schools, or parks or new industrial park and low paying jobs. But isn't quality of life a full time library, decent recreation opportunities, expedient travel from here to there, pedestrian safety and high tech education, as well as artistic outlets for our kids? We are losing them all folks – dum dum dum dum dum dum…
Sure, the economy in general has come in fits and starts but it is funny, no one wants more taxes, but everyone wants accessible services. I suppose you realize that a loss of a particular service is the same as a tax.
Mercer Quality of Living Survey indicates, "The important criteria are safety, education, hygiene, health care, culture, environment, recreation, political-economic stability and public transportation.
"The list helps multi-national companies decide where to open offices or plants, and how much to pay employees."
Then the "Popsicle Index," another quality of life measurement conceived by Catherine Austin Fitts, tells us about the percentage of people in a community who believe that a child in their community should safely leave his home, walk to the nearest possible location to buy a popsicle, and walk back home.
Am I in the weeds on this, or am I headed toward the pin? Whiff.


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Many things have changed since we first started testing SandForce based products in our lab. At one time we were talking about 100GB SF-1200 drives costing up to 600 USD, but that was quickly reduced to 400 then 300 and now pricing for the new 120GB drives has fallen to less than 300 USD. For many enthusiasts the price is now into the commodity level and it isn't a question of if you should purchase a SandForce SF-1200 SSD, but if you should purchase two for RAID or stick to just one.
With prices bottoming out manufacturers have started shifting attention away from performance (which is as high as it can be for a SATA II interface) and started focusing more on added value areas like warranty lengths and included accessories. At a cost of 265 USD from Newegg the A-DATA S599 128GB comes with a health three year warranty and a nice anodized desktop adapter bracket. This isn't the very best price you can find on a SandForce SF-1200, but it is very close, close enough for the S599 to be on your list of potential drives to consider.
When it comes to performance we would like to see SandForce and A-DATA start to focus on data copy performance and see what they can do with compressed data transfer performance specifically. This is an area that will always be difficult for SandForce drives in this series, but we also feel that performance could also be improved here since the older firmware gave nearly a 20% increase over what we are seeing now.


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Why fewer murder cases get solved
Police are working to reverse a downward trend, but budget cuts ahead may make the job harder.
SOURCES: Police departments, Federal Bureau of Investigation/Rich Clabaugh/STAFF
On an autumn Thursday, shortly after 1 p.m., a postal worker in Virginia Beach, Va., found Samuel Baruch on the floor next to the safe in his office. He had been fatally shot during an apparent robbery.
The brazen killing in 1991 was emblematic of a nationwide surge in violent crime that unleashed a wave of campaigns to clean up city streets. But 17 years later, six local homicides from that year, including Mr. Baruch's, remain unsolved.
For decades, the share of homicides that police solve has steadily declined – from over 90 percent in the 1960s to about 65 percent today. The trend defies advances in forensic technology and a federal initiative that has deployed more than 100,000 new cops since the early '90s.
Most surprising, it's persisted even as murders committed in the US have plunged. The national murder rate fell 40 percent between 1991 and 2007, but in a few large cities only about 1 in 3 murders got solved last year. With the economic downturn, expectations are fading that police departments can improve their record by devoting more manpower to tracing killers. Nearly 40 percent of law-enforcement agencies have already cut their budgets, according to a July survey by the Police Executive Research Forum.
"What's going to happen is that you're going to have fewer police trying to solve just as much crime," says criminologist Jay Albanes of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. "If that's the scenario, you can't just continue doing what you're doing now, or you'll continue to slowly slide backwards."
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Firefighters responded to a report of a structure fire at Millbridge Elementary School, which is on Ed Deal Road at 8:09 p.m. Friday, according to Rowan County Communications.
The deceased was identified early Saturday as 39-year-old Erasmo Garcia Jimenez, who resided in the Charlotte area, but his family was not certain of his current address.
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"excellent. i made for christmas eve and again on christmas day for a different group! i used half pound each of shrimp, scallops, halibut and lobster. left out saffron (didn't have any). i found it salty, so day two i left salt out. beautiful presentation. and delicious. great with rice pilaf for leftovers! will make again and again. """


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This has happened a few times already, am I doing something wrong?
When I grout an item with mortared-on pieces, the moisture of the grout seems to re-wet the mortar and make the piece come off. The mortar has been well cured in all cases. Some pieces will do this, but not all. It makes no sense to me! |
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What kind of mortar and grout? For inside or outdoor projects? |
- Posted by calamity_j (My Page) on Sun, Nov 13, 11 at 1:15
Are you sure you don't have the two mixed up? Using grout as mortar? I have done this and it does not stay stuck! Oops? |
- Posted by ernie85017 (My Page) on Sun, Nov 13, 11 at 2:05
Well, it's premixed mortar that is supposed to be good for outside and for vertical holding. Expensive, won't be buying it again. Some pieces are stuck stuck stuck. Then a few do this. No one has had this happen? |
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Ah HA!!! Flag used to use that pre-mixed mortar "for outside", said she, and I kept telling her it won't work. Janice is finding out why now. She continually has pieces falling off Flags things. It won't work, ERNIE, for outside. You have to use cement-based mortar for outside projects. Like I told y'all a couple yrs. ago, when the rooster I mosaiced for my Bro was under five ft. of water for two months during the flood in his area, when I cleaned it up/scrubbing hard, there was not one tile that fell. You can't beat the cement-based mortar. |
- Posted by concretenprimroses (My Page) on Sun, Nov 13, 11 at 9:34
I have a window box shaped planter I made from a styrofoam fish box a few years ago. WEll, I got the fish box and dh stuccoed it for me. I never liked the color of the stucco so I put a think coat of mortor on it and also some stones for decoration. Most of the stones fell off over the summer. It is quick crete mortor and I used 50:50 admix:water. The only thing I can think of is that the stones which were from the dollar store may have a coating that I should have scrubbed off. Or moisture from the soil traveled through the stucco and the mortor? Would that do it? Kathy |
- Posted by slowmedown (My Page) on Sun, Nov 13, 11 at 9:52
I've not had good luck w/using mortar as an adhesive, but I didn't put in the admixture. I only use Mapei Ultra Flex II, which has the polymer added. I've used all kinds of stones - even the slick ones - w/it, and it is really sticky stuff - it holds vertically beautifully. |
- Posted by wackyweeder (My Page) on Sun, Nov 13, 11 at 10:15
Slow is totally correct=all premixed thinset is mastic based and will eventually fail. If it stays good in a bucket it cannot be cement based. Once cement based thinset is mixed the chemical reaction begins and its unstoppable. things like temperature and moisture can slow it or speed it up, but it will eventually set, even under water. I find that working with thinset in cooler conditions slows the cure down considerably but makes it much stronger. |
- Posted by cathyscache (My Page) on Mon, Nov 14, 11 at 0:44
I use thin set for my rocks and have never yet (knock on wood) had any fall off... |
I'm with Slow and WW on this, mastic does rehydrate |
- Posted by ernie85017 (My Page) on Mon, Nov 14, 11 at 16:25
Makes sense, if it will keep in a bucket, it will keep on the tile! So that is the problem. Guess I should take it back. A home improvement show last night was saying that mortar is porous and will absorb water. They were fixing leaks in a brick house. So if it does this, why do they build houses and fences with it? ?? I found it at Lowe's. Just to be sure, I DO NOT have to buy the extra bucket of liquid to mix it with? It will mix with water? Wonder if this is why Home Depot doesn't carry any Mapei products. They like to sell that extra bucket of material. Harrumph. Thanks all for your detective work. |
- Posted by wackyweeder (My Page) on Mon, Nov 14, 11 at 17:46
Im not sure by your comment you got my meaning so I will rephrase. If it comes premixed-it is mastic based. and mastic will fail. for thinset-think cement kind of. yes it will absorb water. and over time-much much time it will eventually fail like everything else. But think about roman mosaics-thousands of years. Im sure they didnt use mastic. |
- Posted by slowmedown (My Page) on Mon, Nov 14, 11 at 18:04
Lowe's is the only place I've ever seen the Mapei. You don't HAVE to use Mapei. Just ask for thinset, and get the admixture to add to it. It comes in a powder form. I did that in the beginning, adding 50/50 water/admixture to regular thinset. This was b/f I discovered the qualities of Mapei. I called their 800 number, and they were very informative about their product. |
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I have recently ordered a small Shenandoah and a Susquehanna paw paw seedling for delivery in October. In northern VA is it advisable to immediately plant them in their designated lanscaping spots and allow them to overwinter there or to pot them and keep them in a cold garage and put them out in the spring?
I eventually want to graft a scion from each species onto the other to help with polination. What type of graft should I use? |
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I only planted pawpaws in the fall once and those guys adapted far better than the ones I planted in the spring. Not sure if that was just based on the plant quality or some other factor however. I have heard that pawpaws don't grow roots over the winter like most fruit trees and so spring is preferred. But that does not jibe with my own experience. So, I would just plant them now, I don't think it matters a lot. Pawpaws work with any kind of graft. Make sure to wait until the leaves are a couple inches long before grafting, all my failures were when I grafted too early. For new trees I would not graft this coming spring, the trees are still adapting and the chance of graft failure is high due to lack of vigor. I would either do bud grafts the following fall or wait for spring '14 and do whip or some other graft then. Scott |
- Posted by harvestman 6 (My Page) on Wed, Aug 29, 12 at 10:38
So that's why my paw paw grafts keep failing. I waited this year until they were in growth but leaves not yet developed and only one graft of 7 took. At least it grew very well. |
- Posted by alexander3 6 (My Page) on Wed, Aug 29, 12 at 11:05
I don't see any advantage to waiting until spring, and a lot of things can go wrong if you overwinter in the garage. I will say that rabbits will bite off a small pawpaw, so a cage is a good idea if they are small. These will arrive in pots, correct? If they are bare root, you should consider growing them in large pots with a coarse well drained potting mix for a year. In my limited experience, that helps with their recovery. I have had success with whip&tongue, cleft graft, and bark graft, either when the leaves were less than an inch, or when they were a few inches long. Alex |
I've had decent takes grafting dormant pawpaw wood as late as August - the trees are still growing at this point and the grafts take well in the heat. Just be sure if you graft late to protect with a sun shield. |
- Posted by cousinfloyd 7 (My Page) on Wed, Aug 29, 12 at 15:37
Creekweb, could I ask you to give a detailed description of how you make a sun shield? Or you wouldn't have a photo, would you? Thanks! |
Very low tech here. I just take a piece of aluminum foil and fold it over once to increase thickness and then form it into the shape of a narrow cone around the graft anchoring it to the stock just below the graft merely by pressing it around the branch. I allow the shield to extend about an inch beyond the end of the scionwood. |
- Posted by cousinfloyd 7 (My Page) on Thu, Aug 30, 12 at 9:58
Thanks, Creek. So if I understand correctly, the scion would be exposed to light from straight above but sheltered on all four sides? Does the cone collect water? Thanks again! |
The shield protects the graft from direct sunlight but allows some indirect light. It is not so snug against the branch all around so as to collect any water. |
- Posted by cousinfloyd 7 (My Page) on Fri, Aug 31, 12 at 11:45
Thanks again, Creek. I wonder what you other species you or anyone else shields in similar fashion. |
I think that the Kentucky State site has recommended against T-budding in terms of grafting pawppaw, but they said that every other form of grafting is recommended. John S PDX OR |
I use shielding on most of my pawpaw and persimmon grafts where I know it increases my percent of successful takes. Have not used it on stone or pome or citrus fruit tree grafts or others, though I can see where it may be useful for kiwi. |
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