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We've spent the week pulling honey in the Imperial Valley. If we're lucky we'll be done Friday. (writing from the motel room)
After lunch today, about 2:00 pm, we pulled into an apiary with 128 colonies. There was not a single bee in the air. It was 110 degrees, 20% humidity. While I know that the girls won't fly when it gets this hot, they are busy fanning the hive, it's still kind of eerie.
After we started with the fume boards a few would take flight, but they would just land on me and hang out, maybe crawling around a little. Sometimes 10-20 on me at a time but not a single sting. Even when I brushed them off they were reluctant to take flight. They weren't aggressive at all, they seemed kinda confused by the whole thing. They didn't even react when I was pouring ice water over my head.

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Developing the Classroom Culture: Using the Dotty Six Activity as a Springboard for Investigation
Stage: 1 and 2
Article by Jennie Pennant
Published August 2013.
This article supplements the more detailed article
Developing a Classroom Culture That Supports a Problem-solving Approach to Mathematics
This article suggests how to dig deeper into who answers questions in your classroom using the game
Dotty Six
Dotty Six
could be a good game to try out in a staff meeting to support the development of classroom culture across the school.
A. Play it together and then look for ways that you could adapt it to suit your class. For example, draw counters in the boxes to aid bonds, use different dice, make the box total different, use fraction dice with ¼, ½ and ¾ and the boxes need to add up to 2.
B. Consider the focus of the learning for the lesson: the lesson objective. It may be that you want to choose a single objective – either a number one or a using and applying one - or a double objective – a number objective and a using and applying objective.
Possible number objectives:
• To recognise the number of dots in each iconic pattern and associate it with its number name and numeral
• To match the iconic representation of the patterns on the die with their symbolic representation using numerals
• To know number bonds to, and within, six
• To develop an understanding of the concept of addition
• To understand the associated language of 'how many more?'
Possible using and applying objectives:
Here we use the idea of a student being a 'beginner' at an element of using and applying and moving on to becoming 'proficient'. Beyond that we use the term 'expert'.
Beginner: engage with practical mathematical activities
Becoming proficient: adopt a systematic approach
Beginner: respond to questions and ideas from peers and adults
Beginner: refer to the materials they have used (the die and the grid) and talk about what they have done, what patterns they have noticed
Becoming proficient: describe the strategies they used
Beginner: explain numbers and calculations
Becoming proficient: predict what could happen and give a reason
C. Try out the game in your classroom: you may find some of the guidance below useful (scroll down to 'The lesson' section.
D. Meet back as a staff and share your findings together.
E. Decide on how you plan to develop your classroom cultures in the light of your investigations around Dotty Six.
Other games where you could employ a similar approach and which could be used for a follow up staff meeting are:
Incey Wincey
Shut the Box
Four Go
The lesson
Show the students the video clip and ask them to work out the rules of
Dotty Six
. Collect together a class set of ideas. Refine and adjust them until you are all agreed on the rules.
Let them try out the game themselves and consider whether any of the ideas below are useful to try out. They are based on three elements: asking, listening and responding.
A useful strategy is to ask questions – open questions - that encourage the students to articulate their thinking. Open questions that could be useful are questions such as:
• How many more dots do you need to fill that rectangle?
• I think you need five more dots to fill that rectangle – am I right?
• How many rectangles have you filled so far?
• If you threw a three, which rectangle would you put the dots in?
• I've thrown this ... which rectangle could that go in?
• I'm wondering what to do with this score. Can you help me?
• If I throw a six, how many spaces are left for me to put it in?
It is helpful to use the mathematical vocabulary of 'rectangle' rather than 'box' in the question. When you do this, you are reinforcing key mathematical language for the students that they are in the process of learning how to use for themselves. Whenever we ask a student a question, we need to allow enough wait time for them to respond. Feeling under pressure to answer a question quickly can be very uncomfortable and can prevent us from being able to articulate our thoughts very clearly.
Students learn to join in conversations by hearing what others are saying, listening to how words are being used and 'playing around' with those words themselves. This means that some modelling of talk around this game could be useful – between you and your Teaching Assistant, you and a puppet or you and one of the more articulate students in the class.
You may also like to capture some key phrases and words that you hear students using as they talk and put them up on your mathematics 'talk wall' or other display to support the students to use those words. Putting the words inside ready-cut out speech bubbles can be very effective and create an appealing display.
You may also like to stimulate some talk by joining in with a pair/group of students and 'playing dumb'. For example, you could throw the die and then put more dots in a rectangle on the grid than there should be (you throw a four and put five dots) or you could put more dots in a rectangle than are needed to make the 'full' six.
Listening carefully to what the students actually say is sometimes harder than we realise. We may not hear clearly what they say as we may be expecting them to give us a fixed answer that we have pre-determined – this can be called, 'guess what is in the teacher's head!' We need to be ready to be open to their answers and be curious to understand what they are trying to say.
Sometimes their answer may be part of a sentence and our temptation is to finish the sentence off for them. See what happens if you just repeat back to them what they have said, using the same words they have used, and see if that helps them to finish the sentence.
It may be that their answer is rather jumbled or rambling. Our temptation, in this case, is to rephrase it, reorganise it and repeat it back to the class in what we consider to be its new, improved form. We may hear ourselves saying something like,
'Thank you, Elspeth. What Elspeth said was ...'
See what happens, if instead, you check with the child, 'Elspeth' if you have heard what they said correctly by saying something such as, 'I think what you said was ... Am I right?' When saying what you thought they said try and use the same words that they used.
After mastering the art of the open, starter question and listening carefully to the students' responses, we then need to decide how we are going to respond to what they have said. Our aim is to understand as much we can about where they are at with their mathematical thinking and concept development. Often it is helpful to respond to them with another question, phrase or statement that gives us an opportunity to explore their thinking further. This can helps us probe for deeper understanding and evidence of mathematical thinking and reasoning. Here are some examples of possible follow up questions:
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need to fill that rectangle?
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Convince me.
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If you threw a three, which rectangle could you put that in?
I am curious to know why you chose that one.
I would choose this one ... Are we both right?
I've thrown a six, what can I do?
What could happen if I threw another six?
How many sixes can I throw and still fit them on the board?
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I've been trying to learn JavaScript and let me tell you, the most recommended books are impenetrable for a tyro, and were worthless to me as texts. He gets fairly sophisticated at times, but more advanced scripts or discussions have always had enough groundwork laid so that they are understandable.Although called a cookbook, this is actually the only really good introductory book for javascript I've read, and I'm including online tutorials. I'm also using a major comprehensive book -- once I understand something from reading Goodman's work, I can find a section in the other book to expand my knowledge.Also, I like his writing style and pace. He assumes a certain amount of intelligence and attention to prior pages.My quibble with what would have been a five-star rating is overly frequent errata. But still, for me, this has been the only "introduction to JavaScript" that has done the job for me.
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Like most web developers, I typically will reach for one of the many JS libraries when it comes time to add client-side enhancements to myweb applications. This is usually the obvious choice for the sake of saving time on projects, and keeping costs down... but quite often, many libraries are simply overkill for a simple little js/dhtml enhancement.As such, that is what lead me to this book. I was hoping the cookbook format would give me some fresh ideas on doing some simple js/dhtml work and it most definitively delivered.Perhaps the most valuable parts of this book for me were the aspects of working on the DOM. Additionally, I always enjoy reading differenttechniques for dealing with client-side form validation.To me the coverage on loading dynamic data/ajax was good, but I still think that when entering into that realm of JS, it is usually time todeploy one of the libraries I mentioned earlier.All in all this has become a valuable resource that I often refer to during my daily work. I would recommend this book for those looking for the cookbook approach... those looking for a pure JS book/primer, check the title by the same author.
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Emerging Markets wealth growth really has been the story of the last seven Credit Suisse's Wealth Reports. But it's slowing. On average for example since 2000 China has grown its wealth by 11%, that compares with 4-5% in many developed world countries. So China has been leapfrogging. In fact, in 5 years' time China will leapfrog where US was in 1990. However, in the last year we have seen other big emerging economies like Brazil suffer as their economy has contracted.
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The financial and economic implications of Brexit really have been overshadowed by the sharp moves lower in the pound. If we look at the wealth in the UK in dollar terms, the UK - since Brexit - has lost 1.5 trillion dollars in wealth. Net average wealth per household in the UK has fallen by USD 33,000 to USD 289,000 per adult. Further, in the UK there are now about half a million fewer millionaires in dollar terms as a result of Brexit.
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It crashed earlier and never came back up. There's still OZ2, though. I'm kinda made about it crashing, OZ2 had only 6 players and I was happily scavenging.
It crashed earlier and never came back up. There's still OZ2, though. I'm kinda made about it crashing, OZ2 had only 6 players and I was happily scavenging.
I havent been on in a day, and my character had no food when i disconnected.
He's probably dead by now. :(
praise jesus, for he will guide me in this time of horrors
i'm gonna taking up a home in the Novy Sobor Church of Zed, any facepunchers who are in need of help are welcome to stop by and receive supplies
in-game is Xpherion, i jump servers a lot
seriously though the church is awesome, it's got a pump in the courtyard out front
Yeah but I'm already at like 5k, although I'm in electro, if I have any luck I will be close to supplies.
By the way, you can silently run crouch by moving to the sides in grass. If you move forward normally while crouch it adds a bar, but to the side, nothing.
Isn't the hospital already open? Maybe not since I think i've been there but that building never had any medical supplies.
cept bandages.
EU 1, mainly.
Hm, I see. let's hope that works. The hospital is the central building that has like 3 floors right?
So your gear carries over between servers?
Wheres the best place to find vehicles? I have pretty much all the parts to fix one up completely, but I can't find any vehicles.
if you look on the map to the north, where Gvodzno (or something like that) is, there is a small village to the left that's unlabeled, to the left of that small village is a small dirt road that leads up to a small house with a white fence surrounding the front, infront of the house on the dirt road is where the vohla spawns
i'm not sure if it'll be there everytime, and you also have to figure in other players finding it before as well
but it's still worth a shot
Met a total bro named Takorav or Romanov or some shit like that.
I didn't trust him at first, but then he earned my love and we had gay zombie apocalypse adventure 'round the North-east airfield for awhile until I had to go work on homework.
If you're out there bro, I wanna continue our adventures <3
Some asshole on the french server is roleplaying some gay Alliance bullshit and says it belongs to "them".
Anyone on right now? I'm going on in a bit. I'm near the northern airfield. Anyone there? Ifso, friendly, foe? D:
Wow, Some dick (Cpl Fisk + some other guy i didn't get his name) just started opening fire into my group of like... 6 people.
Fucking hell we didn't even have good gear and they had M16 and shit.
That's bullshit.
Shame to hear the amount of PVP going on now. When the mod first went into Alpha could easily find a large group working together.
We had a 10 man group running at one time, and we gunned down some asshats camping the lighthouse between Elektro and Cherno.
Results from the social experiment are out!
Human kind is flawed... We're all fucked :P
Seriously though, the testing is going great I think humanity update will provide the balance for pvp vs coop.
Cafe's on the French server are weird.
One of them had 5 Lee Enfields in it, all with ammo.
I noticed that those small barns that have like 3 levels inside on both sides have A LOT of items. Every time I've come across one of those, I've found at least 2 guns inside.
I wish your hunger and thirst didn't drain when you're not online, it's so annoying coming online and see my hunger/thirst in the red when it was green when i disconnected.
And the fact that someone who doesn't play often doesn't have any chance to survive on the same life over several sessions.
True. Those barns are armed as fuck.
True too. If i'm going on holiday i have basically to say bye bye to my DayZ character. Shit sucks big time.
i wonder how Dayz will play on takistan, more building to enter and towns are closer then chernarus it might be worth trying.
The current mechanic:
During game drain is very high depending on what you are doing (walking, running, injured etc...)
Out of game uses up at a steady (greately reduced) rate. Then uses up your blood down to minimum of 1200.
During game as above
Out of game, uses up food/water but does NOT use up health.
How fast does the blood drain when you're starving/dehydrated/both?
What about if it drains your blood down to minimum of 1200(when you starve or is dehydrated), and it doesn't use up your food/water?
That way, not playing for a while won't punish you(as much) and if you have food and water you can get yourself healthy again.
I'm not entirely sure how fast blood regenerates though. (I haven't lost that much blood yet )
Character survives for 6 days, full to the brim with ammo, map, binocs, compass, flashlight, I was totally going to survive.
I climb up a ladder, and randomly get placed mid air, and thus fall to my death. Arma.
eu 2 is horrbly out of sync for day/night
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The Worse the Road, the Better the Coffee at Finca Suspiro, Nicaragua
Sunday morning in Nicaragua dawned cloudy and rainy. Rain is a rarity there during this time of year, and I dug through my clothes to find my rain gear – which, fortunately, I had along with me. My backpack filled up quickly with everything I thought I might need for the day – dry socks and clothes at the bottom, all serving as a cushion for my camera and tripod, with rain gear and hat on top if I needed to grab it quick. Outside pockets held bottled water, trail mix, hat, bar towels (amazingly useful for keeping camera and face dry while working in the field), and – if the sun came out later – sunscreen and sunglasses. Read more »
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I was fortunate recently to be able to spend a week in Nicaragua, right in the middle of the coffee harvest during the middle of February. While I've been to most of the rest of Central America, this was my first visit to Nicaragua, which I scheduled to be able to spend time working the harvest and hanging out with my friend Erwin Mierisch and his family. Erwin, his father Dr. Mierisch, brother Steve, and sisters Maria Ligia and Eleane are owners of five stellar coffee farms in northern Nicaragua (two in the region of Matagalpa, and three in the Jinotega area) and a fantastic coffee beneficio (dry mill) on the lower-elevation coastal plain at the base of the regions' mountains. Read more »
Project Direct Nicaragua is on deck
It's the very end of the picking season here in Nicaragua and most of the plants have been stripped of their fruit. However, this morning when Paul Thornton, Chris Wade and I drove through the mist at Finca El Quetzel, we came upon a group of pickers who were working a slope of red and yellow catuai in small pocket of the farm. We rounded a bend in the road and thought we heard singing. When we looked up, we spotted about 100 workers dotting the hillside. Read more »


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Discussion in 'Performance & Fuel' started by SoundZman, Sep 28, 2011.
is $250 per catalytic converter (out the door) a good price for this?
Sounds pretty fair to me...
Is that installed? I paid $98.00 each for my Magnaflow oversize cats. Installed myself. Even installed, $250.00 each sounds like alot.
Is that for OE/OEM replacement ones? You can get aftermarket "hi-flow" cats for cheaper like silveradotrailblazer said.
Unfortunately being in California, the smog laws are very strict and became even stricter a couple years ago. Therefore the cat's have to be C.A.R.B (California air resource board) approved and stamped in order to pass smog every 2 years. When my Catalysis Efficiency codes began last year the only aftermarket manufacture, who was applying and receiving CARB approvals, was Magnaflow's parent company. The approvals where vehicle specific, not cat specific, so they had to test and provide documentation for each vehicle. Today I know of another company (Walker) which has CARB approved cats for by Burb and so does Magnaflow.
So needless to say hi-flow it completely out of the question. Which leaves my only options of; $250 installed per catalytic converter OR $700 from my local dealership for OEM cat (y-pipe, flange to flange).
That does sound like a good price if they meet CARB reqs. Misfiring can lead to converter failure... any history of this? A new converter will pass many tests with flying colors, only to fail prematurely with the infamous P0420.
Often you can pass the 'check engine' part of emission testing by resetting the light and driving until the monitors runs. You can get the catalyst efficiency test to run much more quickly through a sequence of steps. Only problem is if you are on the threshold of pass/fail the test may run extra times before the PCM makes its 'decision.'
Many people are rumored to have beat the catalyst eff test by installing non-fouling plug adapters in the O2 sensor bung (sensor 2 after the converter). Install the sensor inside the non-fouler. This spaces the sensor from the exhaust flow, causing it to 'read' differently than the front sensor. Note- when the cat ineff codes set it is because the sensors are reading real close to each other (means nothing is happening inside the converter). At a strict place of inspection (most people) would need to remove the non-fouler (after the monitors have passed) and reinstall the original way. Then drive down for inspection. "But how do I avoid the code flagging before inspection?" Drive as little as possible and avoid the sequence of steps that cause the monitor to run... or so the rumor goes.
I'll look for the complete regimen of running the catalyst efficiency monitor if someone else doesn't have it handy. It's basically a warm engine... then stopping with your foot on the brake for roughly 2 minutes while in drive. This test must be run more than once... possibly many times.
Thanks for the info TERRYNY....but I can pretty much tell you exactly why my bank 2 cat failed. Just before moving out of state I began getting a Knock Sensor code for bank 2, I reset the code but it began coming back more and more frequently. Well I let it go until after I moved and got settled in (probably about 3 months), then I replaced both Knock Sensors. However shortly after doing so, I found the Catalysis Efficiency code rearing it head. In doing research on a knock sensor code I discovered the ECU has a built in fail-safe, it puts that banks a/f ratio into a rich condition, in which it begins dumping excess fuel down that bank. So leaving it like that for an extended period of time caused the cat to run much hotter then normal which tends to breakdown/melt the internal metals.
So in testing the temperatures my mechanic said he measured a 40 degree difference on bank 2 (inlet vs outlet) and a 60 degree on bank 1. Since he's dropping the exhaust and the other cat isn't performing quite up to par, I figured to just replace both and throw on a Flowmaster muffler. Replacing both cat's will also help to keep the exhaust balanced...maybe that's just how I rationalize it to the wife :great:
x3 they are way overpriced whom ever is trying to get $250 a piece for them you can find allot of high flow cat's online for allot cheaper.. i've heard that they really dont help out allot from others online but not 100% sure since i dont have them!
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Albertos let "Best of" award go to its head
Original post made by Disappointed by Albertos Service, Ruby Hill, on Sep 22, 2007
"Best of" tacos maybe, but not customer service or hospitality - not when the hostess cares more about getting the kitchen staff clocked out then serving someone a bowl of soup and a burrito after a school event.
We'll be sure to keep that in mind for all of the upcoming school and sports events where we used to bring large parties.
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a resident of Vineyard Avenue
on Oct 6, 2007 at 4:01 pm
The place use to be ok, but now it sucks Chorizo, as do most of the "mainstream" Mesican food restaraunts in the Valley. Look, if your Chile Relleno comes out of a can and is not real, as in with a stem still on it and blister roasted ... you got robbed of your money.
And old "Haps" went "upscale" so that is another good place gone Yuppie ... you use to be able to have a simple meal and beer, then on weekends they'd push the tables out of the way and bring a local Country band to play and if people wanted to dance, you could ... now I get the feel that the place is meant for money makers.
The whole town is going Botique and gated community ... bike riders in their Euro-Fashion bike gear ... there was a time when it was more real.
Please, please "Past Time Pool" don't sell out !
Nam Vet
a resident of Highland Oaks
on Nov 21, 2007 at 10:52 am
albertos is only good for drinks, or some drunk food. without something to make you think it taste better, nothing special. the taco truck that stops off vineyard has better food.
a resident of Del Prado
on Mar 12, 2008 at 2:47 pm
What do bikes have to do with the quality of food in Pleasanton?
a resident of Val Vista
on Dec 11, 2008 at 4:20 pm
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Yuppies on un-mufflered Harleys have a big effect on dining in downtown Pleasanton. I'd heard the police were getting serious about enforcement, but I gather they've slacked off. I wish they'd ticket them. Modified mufflers are ILLEGAL, pure and simple.
I agree, Alberto's hasn't been good in a couple of years. El Molino, on Hopyard right by the freeway, is good. It's hidden, whay behind the BK, but worth it. Not very fancy, though.
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edited January 2012 in Recorded Demos
Your questions answeredEdit: I am still active. Feel free to pm; I'd love to edit this with new content. --Jan 2012
Additions and queries welcomed! Would like information on the use of Fraps from a more experienced user.
Guide Aims
- Obtain information on the editing of demos
- Obtain information on suitable applications for the above
- Link to all the demos posted here/ other demo download sites
The basics
Recording a demo
Execute the command "record filename.dem", where "filename" is the file name of the demo to be recorded. (Note that the although ".dem" extension is optional, omitting it is not recommended. Avoid filenames with more than one period. Ie, "my.demo.recording.dem".)
This can be done via the console or a bind (see More advanced demo recording)
The demo is then written on the fly to your NS directory, ie:
[your steam dir]\SteamApps\[your account]\half-life\ns\filename.dem
("C:\Program Files\Steam\" is the default location for steam installation)
Alternatively, you can use the command appenddemo <demoname> to record a demo and appends it to the existing demo specified in "demoname".
There are 2 commands that can be used to do this:
- playdemo filename.dem will not give you access to VCR controls
- viewdemo filename.dem gives you the VCR controls (See In-demo controls below)
Advanced Playback
Playing demos from outside HL: SKPlayer (Enter settings, find demo, then runs HL)
See also this thread.
In-demo controls
For basic playback manipulation you can hit escape to use the self-explanatory VCR controls.
For more precise control, you can use the following comamnds: [**Thanks Wey! Need to test these though**]
- dem_speed <1;2;0.5;...>: Sets the playback speed. (1 is normal speed, 2 double speed, 0.5 half speed, etc.) Do NOT set this one to 0; it freezes HL. See below for pausing.
- dem_pause <0|1>: Pauses the demo. (1: pause, 0: play as normal)
- dem_jump <time>: Jumps forward/back in the demo. You need to enter the time in seconds; negative values for time causes a backwards jump
More advanced demo recording
Speaking as an admin on a server, I find that there are many occaisions where I'd like to record demos at the touch of a button. This can be accomplished easily using the basic script:
bind x "record suspected_cheater.dem"...where x and y are keys of your chosing. (Filename is set as such as this is what the demo is typically for. Set it to what you wish.)
bind y stop
bind y stop
However, there are occaisions where you have already recorded (and completed) "suspected_cheater.dem", and wish to record another demo. Pressing your "y" key again will over-write the first demo, which is obviously undesireable. To fix this problem I've come up with a simple application of a cycle script:
bind x "makedemos"Replace x and y with your desired keys for recording and ending recording respectively.
alias "makedemos" "demo1"
alias "demo1" "record suspected_cheater1.dem; speak one; alias makedemos demo2"
alias "demo2" "record suspected_cheater2.dem; speak two; alias makedemos demo3"
alias "demo3" "record suspected_cheater3.dem; speak three; alias makedemos demo4"
//you could add more lines here if you feel you are likely to record more than four demos at a time
alias "demo4" "record suspected_cheater3.dem; speak last; w; w; speak one"
bind y stop
alias "makedemos" "demo1"
alias "demo1" "record suspected_cheater1.dem; speak one; alias makedemos demo2"
alias "demo2" "record suspected_cheater2.dem; speak two; alias makedemos demo3"
alias "demo3" "record suspected_cheater3.dem; speak three; alias makedemos demo4"
//you could add more lines here if you feel you are likely to record more than four demos at a time
alias "demo4" "record suspected_cheater3.dem; speak last; w; w; speak one"
bind y stop
This allows you to record 4+ (expand to suit your needs) separate demos without risking overwriting. When you exit half-life, you can then move them to a different folder and rename them to something more informative. If you'd prefer to give them names before you record, then use the below script.
alias demo "demo_prompt"
alias demo_prompt "messagemode record; alias demo demo_stop"
alias demo_stop "stop; speak exit; alias demo demo_prompt"
bind x "demo"
alias demo_prompt "messagemode record; alias demo demo_stop"
alias demo_stop "stop; speak exit; alias demo demo_prompt"
bind x "demo"
Replace x with demo record key.
This will bring up a messagemode "record:" input box, into which you can enter your desired demo filename.
See scripting forum for more help with scripting.
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Additionally, if you require Demo hosting, Kali has offered unlimited hosting here. (Only for Demos!)
Frag videos (made from Demos)
Related threads
Ns Demos & Videos, Some questions about recording demo/vids
- Record the demo using the methods described above
- Convert the demo to a series of BMP files
- Convert the BMP files to an AVI file
- Edit as appropriate
- [Hosting details here?]
Execute the command "startmovie <filename> <fps>", where "filename" is the file name of the demo to be converted to BMP files, and FPS is the number of frames to be captured from the demo file in a second. The recommended setting is 25.
startmovie my_frag_video.dem 25
Converting BMP to AVI
[**looking for a more detailed tutorial from someone who uses one of these programs**]
QUOTE (Wey)
You can convert to avis via Virtualdub, Videomach or bmp2avi (VirtualDub is open source, I can recommend it)
Useful applications
[**I need more information on these; I've never done any of this myself. The wey quotes are all the information I have. They will be replaced by prose in the final version.**]
QUOTE (Wey)
Some people also like Fraps ... I don't. Just because it takes a very good HDD to record without framedrops and on a high resolution. And it compresses the movie a bit (not lossless), so you will never get the same image quality as you would get with startmovie. As long as you can (hl, hl2, all quake engines), you should stick to the game internal commands.
Discussion on the use of Fraps here
QUOTE (Wey)
I use huffyuv which compresses between 40% and 60% and is very fast (40fps on a 400mhz machine as far as I remember)
High end app
bmp2avi - Unofficial site, main one appears to be down.
SKPlayer - Download without the need to register here
Useful utility to play demos outside of HL
Provides a heap of information from a HL demo file
Credits
WTS my two spare NS2 black-armour steam keys
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i think u should note there is no need to type .dem extension manually
record my_demo
viewdemo my_demo
will rec/play my_demo.dem
*but* if you choose demo name with one or more fullstops, 'my.demo' for example, hl won't add .dem extension automatically. it will playback correctly, but different extensions can be quite confusing, if you're not using it on purpose
oh, and fyi this is videomach homepage: http://www.gromada.com/videomach.html*IMAGE BALEETED.* Sigs are not to exceed 400x75 or 22KB. No exceptions. -Talesin
aonomus Dedicated NS Mastermind (no need for school) Join Date: 2003-11-26 Member: 23605Posts: 622I know its not that hard to convert a demo into a *.avi, but I'm not quite sure how to extract the sound. I have software that can sync it up with it regardless of timing, but I still can't get the sound from the demo, is there a command?
QUOTE (aonomus @ Mar 2 2005, 08:29 AM) I know its not that hard to convert a demo into a *.avi, but I'm not quite sure how to extract the sound. I have software that can sync it up with it regardless of timing, but I still can't get the sound from the demo, is there a command?
www.fraps.com can rip avi with voice straight from game or demo.
there's also massive set of tools like total recorder that can dump all u can hear to a soundfile. check this:
http://vivisimo.com/search?query=%22total+...=Mozilla-search*IMAGE BALEETED.* Sigs are not to exceed 400x75 or 22KB. No exceptions. -Talesin
QUOTE (Traken @ Mar 2 2005, 01:12 AM) I've found that "viewdemo" gives you the VCR dialog box thing however voice is screwed up (?).
Then there's "playdemo" which doesn't give you the VCR thing however voice_chat is correctly played.
I investigated this (after a tip off) and it's not actually correct. Sound plays fine in both modes. Perhaps a fault/bug on your system?
Thanks Depot, added.
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QUOTE (wey @ Mar 31 2005, 02:14 PM) Thats weird ... a few weeks ago I sent two pms to you with detailed explanations about Fraps and VirtualDub. But according to the forum, i have never written them. I guess you never got them?
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snakpak Join Date: 2002-11-22 Member: 9634Posts: 85Hi,
if you were a pub player then you dont know who i am.
I am [Pandas]Snakpak. A member of one of the first teams to form during/after first day beta release.
I have almost all of my old demos from NS competitive days. I also have the first international competition demos that we played against new zealand and korea.
as well i have demos from other players during those same matches. I also have Charlie's demo from the New Zealand match. I have PUG demos. I have Pub demos.
Pandas Versus:
Let me know if you would be interested in them. I am more than happy to upload them to a central server for people to download and watch to see how it was done in the first days of competitive NS.
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Can anyone help me with this whole thing: Why exactly would Cruz sign the Giants offer before the 19th, when offers from other teams are still an option?
He can't get hurt by not getting an offer, and he can be helped if there is one.
Unless the Giants said the offer had a sunset, why would he not just wait and see what develops? If nothing comes up, move on and sign (or don't), but I don't see why he would sign anything now, even if he was happy with it.
Am I wrong here?
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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Imagine coming home from work to one of those boxes witing in the mail.
Quilt outside of the box!
At the site, search for grab bag. That is the only way I have been able to find them.
Got fabric?
The 12 lb bags of fabric can be found in the odds and ends section. I just placed my order.
Sounds like a great way to enlarge your scrappy options!
Here's the link http://www.fatquartershop.com/store/...50&Parent_Ids=
They are on sale for 55.99 +10.00 shipping.
Thanks so much for the link kbatky, I just ordered my box, hubby is going to "attempt" to stop me from getting on the Board everyday, I'm getting so many packages in the mail for materials and items for quilting that I've learned about on here
I was charged much less shipping then $10 on the final order of one box. When we get the boxes let's post the content pictures so we can see the difference in fabrics.
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I'm in New Bedford (Bristol county) and need to attempt to remove bees from a tree. The tree is huge and will be cut down. The tree guy and new home owner are allergic and will not deal with them. So he will kill them if they are not removed before Thursday (im not available). He would rather save them but will do what he has to. I figured I would like to try a bee vac but im unsure of the size of the hole cause it is about 15ft up. At least I can attempt to save most of them! My problem is no vac. Looking to borrow or rent one if possible. Or any other suggestions!
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this game will be considered as the straw that broke the camel's back.
Packers got robbed. Awful way to lose. I was rooting for the seahawks but that's no way to win. God awful. If I was a Packers fan I'd be ballistic.
"...two minute drill at the end of each quarter, Ya'know with the wind like this blowing mooch and marshall into the ocean...If that's behind me I think were getting 3 from 70 so holla at your boy. IF YOU DON"T PICK ME THAT'S A JOKE RIGHT?" - Justin Tucker, Ravens kicker
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OMG, just saw GB fan posted Clay Matthews III Facebook page. Clay put up Goodell's phone# so everyone can call him and complain, and they are!
Ok but that last play does not negate the fact Golden Boy Arron got the living dookie kicked out of him. Heres an idea...win big. YES that call was bad...yes the refs completely stink...everyone has to overcome this. Unfortunately this happened, unfortunately I lost money and am pretty upset over it. Message to GIANTS: DOMINATE like we did in carolina and it wont come down to ONE stupid call.
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The name for black, ugly splotches that occur on someones ass from not bathing for a long period of time. Also slang for dried up fecal matter on the ass.
To be a prick, Tim pulled Josephine's pants down, but little did he know she had a lot of Ass Grime.
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"To make your dreams come true, it takes hard work," Michelle Kwan said to a room of young learners at the kick-off of this year's Let's Read! Let's Move! summer enrichment series at the U.S. Department of Education. The Olympic figure skater and member of the President's Council on Fitness reminded them that it's important to "practice, practice, practice."
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The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently released a report entitled "Educating the Student Body: Taking Physical Activity and Physical Education to School." With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the report committee was tasked with: 1) assessing the status of physical activity and physical education in schools; 2) reviewing the science behind the effects of physical activity on health, development and academic performance in youth; and 3) making recommendations appropriate with the scientific evidence.
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In a previous post here, I discussed the scourge of cholera – a waterborne disease largely vanquished in the wealthier nations by our water and wastewater treatment systems. Unfortunately, it remains widespread and lethal. Cholera is perhaps the most common and serious water-related disease, directly associated with the failure to provide safe drinking water and…


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"Dear Mom and all,
I'm writing you a few lines to say hello and tell you that I'm getting along fine. Well Mom, we left Missouri Monday and arrived in Louisiana Tuesday about 12 o'clock. Well Mom I don't have much to say, but I'll give you my address anyway … tell them all hello and give them my best wishes … it's awful beautiful out here and the trees are all pine. Well, I'll have more time to write the next time.
Love, Marvin"
"He loves me, he loves me not, he loves me, he loves me not…"
Many a young girl recites these words as she pulls petals off a flower. The purpose is to reveal the true intent of an admirer.
Sayings, superstitions and old wives tales were tucked away in the memories and embedded in the culture of early Owen County settlers. Most were of Scotch-Irish, German and English descent, and along with their few belongings, they brought a rich legacy of these sayings from Europe to the New World.
He was a yarn-spinner and a rail-splitter. He was mostly self-educated but went on to become a storekeeper, a lawyer and the president of the United States.
He and his future wife were both born in Kentucky. He came into the world in a rough-hewn cabin, she in a luxurious home in Lexington. He was famous for his wit, honesty, and compassion; all of which served him well as he led this divided country during a most volatile tragic time.
Many may recall the old saying, "There's more than one way to skin a cat." After spending the afternoon celebrating the 96th birthday of Monterey resident and historical society member Lela Maude Hawkins, I discovered there is more than one way to kill a snake.
"When our boys have crossed the ocean. There to die in No Man's Land
Oh, what true and brave devotion. As we see them take their stand.
We will pray for their returning. And we'll keep the home fires burning;
We will one and all be true. While our boys are nobly dying
For the flag. Red, White and Blue."
It stands atop a slight rise facing Highway 127. Its alabaster exterior evokes a picturesque portrait of a country church waiting to usher a community of believers into a worshipful haven. Though small, the vestibule has the honor of both welcoming visitors and members; and is a place at the end of a service for handshaking as the congregation adamantly declares approval of the sermon.
For almost 100 years, the small, white church has faithfully served the community of Poplar Grove in northern Owen County.
They say that I am old. That is true; and yet I was not one of the first to gaze upon the land we know today as Owen County. It has been said that the McAfees were some of the first white men to explore the area in 1773.They made camp at the mouth of Mill Creek where present day Perry Park stands.
When other families arrived the forests were cleared, cabins were erected; and soon on every farm those like me settled on the land; and in doing so we took our place in the annals of history.
Somehow the conversation always seemed to revert back to history.
Though the occasion was a birthday party for historical society member Margaret Alice Murphy, the ghosts of Owen countians took center stage.
Stories of hucksters and Owen County general stores brought the phantoms to life and created a lively atmosphere in which to reminisce.
They were dressed alike, and as the two young men gazed at the camera from beneath jaunty caps atop their heads, all the anticipation and zest for life was reflected in their eyes.
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The U.S. Department of Labor announced in January it was halting enrollment into the Job Corps program until the end of the fiscal year -- and possibly longer. It was an unprecedented move for the nation's largest workforce training program for at-risk youth, a sudden and painful decision made as administrators faced a $60 million budget shortfall.
Although questions loom about what precipitated the program's financial woes, the news was yet another setback for a growing segment of the population that analysts have termed "disconnected youth" or "opportunity youth."
Definitions and figures vary, but disconnected youth are generally recognized as those between the ages of 16 and 24 who don't have a job, aren't in school, and lack a strong support system. In other words, they are not connected to any of the anchors of a functioning society: employment, education, family, or social services.
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Or stirring the soup, is a term used for female masturbation.
I think she's in there stirring the soup, again.
I like to watch her stir the soup.
She even made me stir her soup.
I like to watch her stir the soup.
She even made me stir her soup.
by Jools Mandelbrot April 01, 2004
Stir the soup is a slang phrase that is similar to "toss my salad." It is one person taking it in the ass. They can be male or female receivers. When the guy is done, he pulls out and cums on the others asshole. The guy then proceeds to furiously licking the others asshole, stiring their soup. This phrase comes out of Fairborn, OH.
"I hate you. Go get your soup stirred." or "I love to stir the soup. I could do it every day." or "Why did you stir your mothers soup dude?!" or " I had to stir Stacy's soup dude and damn was it delicious!"
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Is there one plant that honeybees just go crazy over?
Is there one plant that honeybees just go crazy over?
I have found that they love milkweed and tend to work that plat pretty exclusively when it's in bloom.
Hello, I see them loving anise hysop. And Rose bushes...I have a native prairie on my septic system and there too they are very busy!
I would have to vote broccoli, I had some blooming last year all the way to the middle of November, resisting temperatures to 20 degrees. The bees were all over it. I know most folks harvest the heads before they go to seed, but I'm now planting it for the bees. When it's blooming, it can have a 1000 blooms a plant and the plant is very waxy being in the cruciferous family, I noticed the same phenomenon when some collards I had went to seed several years ago. I think the bees like it both for nectar and the wax to build comb. I currently have it growing under lights, hoping to have some blooming in the spring so I can attract a swarm to my yard with a waiting empty top bar hive. I know the bees already know where I live.
Borage,also know as star flower.
http://www.exmoorbeesandbeehives.co.uk/ Buckfast UK.
Anise blue hyssop, borage, both have long bloom times. The borage is one of the first to bloom here, I have one blooming right now, & seedlings popping up.
Catnip, mints and borage. Also, I had a large patch of radishes that I let bloom, and the bees worked them for about a month.
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any brassicas, catnip, lavender. I haven't been that impressed with hyssops and borage. other pollinators like them though.
here in West washington - they take to Borage great - they love Hyssop -
anything in the brassica family is great - plant a row of Radishes and dont pick them - same with Broccoli - after you harvest the prime head - leave the side sprouts - they bees will work them from sun up to sun down
here is a guild that will help you in detemining what to plant
the thing to do here is to plant something that helps both you and your bees
like Rasperrys - the bees love them - and you have a end product
but planting say Maple - does little good to you in the end - but the bees love them if the weather permits
also - if you have clover in your yard - DONT PANIC haha
if you let the clover flower the bees will thank you
let the mow go for and extra week - or let the bees work the clover then mow once the flowers look sprent
if you can get your niehgbors to also do the same thing - you might pull clover honey and not have to move your hives to get it
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I know around here they love the fruit trees in the spring, and goldenrod in the fall. If you've got acres to plant, I hear borage, buckwheat, white clover, maybe alfalfa...
It varies region to region- the bees will skip right over a marginal source in one part of the country but be all over it in another if it's the best thing available at the time. And it even varies year to year within a locale depending on how the weather cooperates.
I planted a nice patch of beebalm. It was covered with butterflies and bumble bees. Not a single honey bee. Then, I read that honey bee tongues are too short to reach the nectar.Beebalm?
No kidding, that's interesting! I heard the same thing about red clover.
Plant a patch of collards. Leave them in the ground overwinter. Plant some seeds the next year and you won't have to plant again. The bees love them and they will flower all summer and reseed themselves. Plus, you can eat them and being a dark green, they are very good for you. They like cold weather. Milkweed is also great and white sweet clover looks like it's dancing when the bees are working it.
Anyone have a source for bulk borage seeds?
Or any other bulk honey flower seeds.
Towards the end of summer my bees are all over a mint patch I've let spread and russian sage. I've also seen that bumble bees are the only bees on my beebalm.
In response to KevinR, one of my favorite places to get bulk seed is http://www.everwilde.com. I always get good service from them. They do have borage seed and a huge selection of other seed. There are some other good places on the internet, also.
The honeybees in our neighborhood love lemon balm, blackberries, and oregano. I've also seen them on California poppy.
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Eden Bros. has borage 29.99 lb.
How many lbs per acre? Anyone that has planted borage, can it be broadcast?
To Kevin R. and anyone else interested - haunt roadsides in the fall. I have gathered large sacks full of seeds very quickly - like Milkweed, which is easy to tell in seed. Best part - free! Milkweeds, Asters, Goldenrods are all very easy to get this way.


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Kotzwinkle, William 1938–
Kotzwinkle is an American novelist and writer of books for children. His work ranges from the urban fiction of The Fan Man, with its authentic dialect of New York's hippies, to the high-class pornography of Night Book. (See also CLC, Vol. 5, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 45-48.)
Richard P. Brickner
While technically sportive and sometimes successfully lyrical, William Kotzwinkle's novel about man's inhumanity to rats, dogs, snakes, lions, elephants, bears, whales, turtles, etc. is so recklessly sentimental in its argument as to be food fit for Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme and other such fauna children. "Doctor Rat" did not quite make me want to go out and shoot dachshunds; but it did not persuade me, as it seems to have meant to, that laboratory research, using animals, into the causes of cancer is the equivalent of Dr. Mengele's experiments at Auschwitz….
The novel drips with gruesome experiments committed by humans on animals…. Kotzwinkle acknowledges that snakes are dangerous to rats, and badgers to elephants, but there is not a mention in his book of snakes biting people, or dogs biting people, or lions eating people. There is, for "balance," a bunch of musicians on board a ship playing lovingly to whales and then musically warning them of a harpooning expedition. But the heaved burden of the novel, so irritatingly easy to dodge, is that animals are beautiful (not dumb; they all talk or think here, talk or think like people) and humans hideous with lip-smacking sadism….
Kotzwinkle has us fail to realize we are all one, as if a sense of all-oneness among all animals were the answer to human or zoological problems, as if the problem (and necessity) weren't differentness and the answer the intelligent handling of differentness.
In "Elephant Bangs Train," his short-story collection of a few years back, Kotzwinkle performed subtly and with conspicuous skill and charm. Here he appears to be the Marx of zoology, hoping to inspire the proletariat to revolution (and mass death?). Is "Doctor Rat" to be sold to animals in research labs, slaughterhouses, zoos? Or are we, shamed by reading it, to turn universally vegetarian, close down our labs, slaughterhouses, zoos? In that case, we'll get creamed. This novel, which appears to be so feeling, is in fact disturbingly frivolous. It is zoö-radical-chic.
Richard P. Brickner, "Fiction and Poetry: 'Doctor Rat'," in The New York Times Book Review (© 1976 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), May 30, 1976, p. 8.
Robert Stone
Doctor Rat is a very contemporary novel by a writer who knows what the contemporary novel is for, and it tries to deliver what the times demand—an examination of modern society and a little conscience-forging for the race. It's an unashamed moral statement which upends verismo to get at basic truths. Although it's often funny, it's a very serious work which demands to be taken seriously. In spite of the respect for the author's talent that reading it inspires in me, taking it seriously involves me in a fundamental quarrel with the validity of its posture.
It's a novel about the Revolt of the Animals. Its principal character is a laboratory rat who has been castrated and driven mad by rat-running vivisectionists. (p. 97)
In the lab, where oppression is most acute and the rat population highly socialized, something like a classical Marxist uprising takes place—and Kotzwinkle has a good time making some amusing comic analogies as the rats transform themselves into rodent fidelistas to smash the unspeakable status quo.
All this throws the insane and embittered Doctor Rat into paroxysms of antisocial reactionary rage, and he single-handedly sets out to crush the life-affirming struggle of his fellow victims, with considerable energy and resourcefulness…. Kotzwinkle is what would ordinarily be called a humanist and he does not want a full-scale horror story on his hands, so The Man never shows his hated face. (pp. 97-8)
In part, Doctor Rat is about the phenomenon of revolution….
What I find...
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Anne Larsen
[I imagine that Doctor Rat] is going to sound funny as hell (it isn't). I imagine that we will be told by some otherwise intelligent people that it's the kind of funny book that's going to make a lot of angry people a whole lot angrier (it won't). And worse, it's simply a bad book, a puffed-up book, claiming humility.
An animal fable with a presumed moral purpose behind it, the book, at a glance, might seem promising enough. A satire on the atrocities of human experimentation on animals, it does have behind it the traditions at least of Aesop and the allegorical satire of Orwell. But for this, for what Kotzwinkle has really given us, I was not prepared. I am not speaking of the grotesqueries of the science lab, though there are those, many of those, but of the out-and-out shallowness, the sophomoric arrogance of the book itself. It's worse than banal; it is finally, I would say, a misleading, manipulative book that is likely to pass for a highly "moral" statement, when, in fact, it has nothing very moral in it, and little that's even good. I include especially those intended-to-be moving and "eloquent evocations of animal consciousness" that are used throughout the book as interchapters punctuating the main story.
The better half of the book is its main story….
[The story] is heavy-handed satire, though occasionally worth a laugh or two. It becomes after a time repetitive and dull, but there is a point in it that anyone can sympathize with. After all, nothing is really asked of the reader: nobody is in favor of maiming and pain.
Yet the...
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Hollis Alpert
There is nothing that says a suspense novel need not be well written….
As familiar, even overly familiar, as the form is, it nevertheless allows for wit, cleverness, displays of arcane knowledge, daring invention, and, every now and then, good writing. A case in point is Fata Morgana, by William Kotzwinkle, a fine young writer previously known for such "serious" novels as The Fan Man and Doctor Rat. The title of this new work is taken from the Italian and means a mirage, especially one that is the work of a sorceress or, as employed here by Kotzwinkle, a sorcerer. (p. 23)
[Kotzwinkle takes] us on an almost dreamlike journey. The details seem real enough, but...
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Jerome Charyn
"Fata Morgana" is a curious mingling of genres: detective story and fairy tale. It manages to pull the reader in, because William Kotzwinkle, who has written for both children and adults, is able to move from the mundane to the grotesque, from magic to hard-nosed fact, without bruising his story….
Toys form a constant motif in the novel. They are "much finer than men, and much worse." The men and women in the book have all the appearances of animated dolls, with a system of "springs and balances."…
The novel itself reads like a small, relentless engine, fueled by whimsy and a powerful froth. The intentions are narrow; the realities are nearer to cardboard than to flesh,...
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Roberta Tovey
Kotzwinkle knows that mysteries are the most satisfying of books not because everyone gets his just deserts but because in the best of them there are no gratuitous elements, no existential occurences. [In Fata Morgana] Inspector Picard follows the trail of the gypsy Lazare, and the elements which emerge from the fraudulent glitter of Paris—the abandoned lavishness of the masques, the tarot cards, the jeweled gowns trailing in the filth of the Paris streets—fall magically together. The world created has a sensuous order; the ending is a necessary irritation, and Kotzwinkle rather gracelessly disregards it. But the chase itself is perfect.
Roberta Tovey, "Books...
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Phoebe-Lou Adams
Mr. Kotzwinkle has done the unforgivable [in Fata Morgana]; he has bailed out of a fantasy by turning it all into a dream. Naughty, naughty—and besides, the climactic scene is pilfered from an old movie.
Phoebe-Lou Adams, "PLA: 'Fata Morgana'," in The Atlantic Monthly (copyright © 1977 by The Atlantic Monthly Company, Boston, Mass.; reprinted with permission), Vol. 240, No. 1, July, 1977, p. 87.
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