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Quick Coitus With the Gen5
As the big news about the Gen5 Glock begins to fade into the background scatter, we thought we'd take some time to reflect on it. If you want to see a full breakdown, hit us up on RECOILweb or give CONCEALMENT Issue 8 a hard look. Glock made some incremental improvements with the Gen5, such as replacing flat-wire springs with their coiled cousins as well as switching up the look and feel. But same girl in a different dress it ain't. As you'll see, it's considerably closer to its baby brothers.
With this fifth generation, Glock set out to do several things:
> Improve handling and ergonomics
> Increase reliability
> Up the accuracy
Handling and Ergonomics
The most obvious actual improvement is the truly ambidextrous slide stop. It's also the part that means your new Gen5 may not perfectly fit into your current holster. Fear not, the Gen5 has proven to be a popular pistol, much to the chagrin of their competitors.
We knew that once the finger grooves were eliminated, people would need to find something else to complain about. And we weren't disappointed. Though the grooves are gone, the front cutout that can aid in grasping the magazine with a particularly dirty gun is the new point of contention. By far this is the largest complaint about the Gen5 that we've heard, followed by outrage that Glock didn't see fit to include forward serrations on the slide.
To that end, we bring up reliability. Though we're told the mean rounds between stoppages (MRBS) is significantly higher with the Gen5 than any previous model, this isn't something that we can reasonably test for ourselves. Real testing costs a considerable amount of time and money, not to mention it's rather boring and tedious.
Plurality of the anecdote does not data make, but when other generations of Glocks were released, some problems reared their ugly heads from the outset; early Glocks were prone to cracking when using rounds with a high-pressure curve and Gen4 Glocks were famously great at stuffing brass directly into your face and choking on Walmart ammo. We've seen no such complaints regarding the actual functioning of the Gen5.
Up the Accuracy
The Glock 43 is less a tiny Gen5 than the Gen5 is an enlarged Glock 43. We're reminded of '50s science-fiction movies where a laser or potion makes someone or something larger, but with less misogyny and cigarettes. All of the internal changes that were made with Glocks 42 and 43 are present in the Gen5 guns — safety plunger redesign, a pin subtraction, and importantly, the trigger.
While bench tests pitting the new purportedly more accurate Gen5 barrels against the legacy design didn't lead us to any staggering conclusions, we did find new shooters took more quickly to the Gen5. We strongly suspect it's more about the trigger than anything else. We would argue that the Gen5 OEM trigger is the best Glock has ever produced. While it's not ZOMG-amazing, if Glock released this one 30 years ago we'd have heard far fewer half-joking remarks comparing it to a staple gun.
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Microsoft: Are The Windows 8.1 Updates Enough?
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On day one of its annual Build conference, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) unveiled its changes to Windows 8.1. Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) issued notes to investors focusing on those changes and the impacts they are expecting.
1. Will Microsoft's Tweaks Be Enough?
2. Microsoft's Under-The-Hood Updates
3. Microsoft's Challenge
4. Development Of The Windows Ecosystem
Will Microsoft's Tweaks Be Enough?
The biggest question BAML analysts Kash Rangan and Jaimin Soni have is whether the changes Microsoft made to Windows will be enough. They note that the majority of the changes are aimed at developers, although there are a few things that are geared toward Windows users.
Of course Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has been dealing with complaints from consumers since Windows 8 was released, and Windows 8.1 addresses the main two problems. It returns the start button to the screen and also provides easier access to desktop mode, which was one of the biggest problems on desktop PCs.
BAML analysts also said Microsoft did a better job of integrating Bing throughout the operating system and the browser, especially in terms of providing search results that are more appealing visually. However, they said it feels as if the changes were tweaks rather than major changes in Windows' usability. Also they said that the developers they spoke with seemed to be less excited about the changes to the user interface.
Microsoft's Under-The-Hood Updates
However, the same developers who weren't excited about the user interface changes seemed more enthusiastic about the chances Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) geared toward them. They said the updates the company made under the hood will make it possible for them to create richer apps.
Microsoft improved the application programming interface in Windows 8.1 and provided the next version of Visual Studio. Together, the updates make it easier for developers to create web apps which are rich with a variety of features like test to speech, payment processing and connectivity to the Xbox.
Microsoft's Challenge
The analysts note that right now Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) faces a challenge in attempting to gain consumer market share while also keeping its strong presence in the enterprise computing market. They said many of the features that the company showed off would appeal to younger consumers, although the majority of Build attendees are middle-aged developers who have probably spent time working with Microsoft on the enterprise side.
BAML analysts said there are signs of innovative features, but now there must be signs of adoption. One of the concerns analysts have focused on recently is the slow adoption rate of Windows 8 in the enterprise sector. They reiterated their neutral rating and $37 per share price objective because they said they don't see enough evidence to feel better or worse about Microsoft's direction.
Development Of The Windows Ecosystem
In their report, JPMorgan analysts focused more on the Windows ecosystem as a whole, which Microsoft itself said on Wednesday would be one of its main points. CEO Steve Ballmer said the company is focusing on rapid release cycles and also developments in the Windows Phone operating system. He said soon there will be 100,000 apps available on Windows Phone and that Windows Phones will soon be offered on the Sprint network.
JPMorgan analysts remain neutral with a $30 per share price target on Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT).
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Is Butter Vegan? Find Out Now!
Posted by by Joe August 20, 2021
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When someone goes vegan, one of the first things they know they will have to give up is butter. As a dairy product made from the milk of cows (or sometimes other mammals), butter is suitable for vegetarians but never for vegans. However, as new vegans also soon discover, with veganism things are rarely that simple.
Traditional butter might never be vegan, but what about all the alternative versions of butter that are on the market? Are any of those suitable for vegans? And what about all the butters that are made specifically for vegans – how are they made, and can they even be called butters? Read on to discover all about your vegan butter options.
What is butter?
One thing all species of mammals have in common is that they produce milk to feed their babies. However, humans are the only species that drink the milk of other mammals. Some of the milk that humans take from other animals they process and turn into cream by skimming off the top layer of the milk, which is the part with the highest fat content. Sometimes this fatty cream is processed further to make butter, which consists of the fat and protein parts of the cream turned into a mixture that is semi-solid at room temperature.
The earliest butter produced is likely to have been made from sheep or goats' milk (as these animals were domesticated before cattle). Nowadays, by far the most common butter comes from cows' milk. But in some parts of the world different types of butter can be found, taken from animals including buffalos and yaks.
Clearly, none of these traditional butters are even remotely close to being considered vegan. Because, as I'm sure you are aware, veganism means striving to avoid the use of any animal products. However, there are lots of mainstream products that are sold as butter alternatives. Before looking at some examples of these products to test if they are suitable for vegans, let's look into what could make a butter vegan.
What is vegan butter?
Vegan butter might sound like a contradiction in terms, given that the first definition of butter in the dictionary is "a solid emulsion of fat globules, air, and water made by churning milk or cream and used as food." Doesn't sound very appetizing and definitely isn't vegan.
However, the second definition of butter in Merriam-Webster is "a buttery substance: such as any of various fatty oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures." This is how why we can use the term butter to describe things like peanut, almond, and other nut butters, which are, of course, almost all suitable for vegans.
In addition to nut butters, there is also the modern trend of plant-based butters, that are intended to create the taste and texture of traditional butter without using any dairy products. Plant-based, vegan butters are normally made by mixing water with oil derived from plants, like olive, palm, avocado, or coconut. Additional ingredients are then added to these products to give them a buttery flavor. If the product is labeled vegan, then you can be confident that these ingredients, like salt, colorings, emulsifiers, and natural or artificial flavors, are not taken from animals.
Wait, isn't vegan butter just margarine?
Plant-based vegan butters may indeed sound very similar to margarine. However, the key difference is that margarines are generally not made specifically for vegans, and many of them still contain small amounts of dairy. Plant-based, vegan butters are, of course, free of animal products.
Are there any other ingredients to look out for in vegan butters?
However, something to watch out for even with vegan butters are ingredients that might still harm animals in their production processes. The biggest example of this is palm oil. Technically vegan because it comes from a plant, many ethical vegans nevertheless refuse to eat it because of the links between palm oil plantations and habitat destruction in the rainforests of south-east Asia, affecting endangered species such as the orangutan.
Another key thing to look out for is food colorings. Many artificial colorings have been produced through animal testing, and therefore some vegans choose to avoid them for that reason. Common food colorings that have been tested on animals include yellow 5 (E102, also known as tartrazine) and yellow 6 (E110).
Is vegan butter healthy?
With all these oils and food colorings, you might well be asking the question: is vegan butter even healthy?
The oils used to make plant-based butters mean that they are naturally high in calories and fat. However, they tend to be higher in healthier monosaturated fats and lower in unhealthy saturated fats, when compared to traditional dairy butters. However, it does depend on the types of oil used: palm and coconut oil, for example, are both high in saturated fats.
Now let's take a look at some of the big brands of butter alternatives on the market, to see if they are suitable for vegans.
Is Country Crock vegan?
This well-established, Kansas-based company has been in operation for over thirty years, producing plant-based butters. The typical ingredients of their plant-based varieties include things like soybean, avocado, palm fruit, and olive oils, which they mix with water and salt and, according to their website, "slow-churn to buttery perfection".
Be careful though, some of the Country Crock products do contain dairy. Their website specifies which ones to look out for:
> Read more: Is Country Crock vegan?
"Country Crock® Plant Butter does not include dairy ingredients and is tested as dairy-free by Upfield. Country Crock® Original, Churn Style, and Calcium do not include dairy ingredients but are not tested as dairy-free. Other products, specifically Country Crock® Light and Country Crock® Baking Sticks do contain dairy ingredients. The product labels are clearly marked to help guide you through your Country Crock® spread choices."
The other thing to be aware of is the use of "palm fruit oil" in some Country Crock spreads. This is just another way of saying palm oil (see above for an explanation of the reasons why some ethical vegans won't eat palm oil).
Is Smart Balance vegan?
Smart Balance creates a "buttery spread" that is dairy-free. So, that should make it suitable for vegans, right? Nope. Avoiding animal products as far as possible requires lots of attention to detail. In the case of Smart Balance, the ingredients list shows that they add vitamin D to their spreads. Vitamin D obviously isn't a problem in itself, but the source of the vitamin D that Smart Balance uses is.
> Read more: Is Smart Balance vegan?
When vitamin D is added to foods, it normally comes from lanolin, meaning that it is derived from sheep's wool. Therefore, any Smart Balance spreads containing vitamin D are not vegan.
However, not all Smart Balance spreads contain vitamin D. Does that mean that those without it are vegan? Again, it's not quite that simple. All Smart Balance spreads contain palm oil (see above), so while the dairy-free ones without vitamin D are technically vegan, some vegans may choose to not eat them for ethical reasons.
Is I Can't Believe It's Not Butter vegan?
You might not be able to believe this, but I Can't Believe It's Not Butter do make a spread especially for vegans. Helpfully, it's labeled "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Vegan" to make it nice and easy to find.
However, few things in the world of veganism are that simple. All I Can't Believe It's Not Butter products, including their vegan version, use palm oil, which they claim helps to give it a smooth and creamy texture. Because of this palm oil, some vegans will not consider I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Vegan to be suitable for the reasons explained above.
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter do claim on their website that they only use "100% physically sustainable and traceable palm and palm kernel oil". However, many activists have pointed out that the concept of sustainable palm oil is deeply flawed because of a lack of transparency in the production processes. Indonesian campaigner Salsabila Khairunnisa has stated, "There is no such thing as sustainable palm oil." Something for I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and other companies using so-called sustainable palm oil to consider.
So, what does it all mean? Obviously, regular butter is never suitable for vegans, it is a dairy product as its primary ingredient is animal milk. However, there are various butter alternatives on the market, many of which are dairy-free.
Finding such "buttery spreads" that do not contain dairy is easy. However, further checking of the ingredients list is necessary to check whether or not any other animal products might have sneaked in. Things to look out for include such things as vitamin D (which will almost certainly be derived from lanolin from sheep). But if the product is labeled vegan, then you should be confident that it doesn't contain these things.
However, some ethical vegans will still have concerns about plant-based products that can damage animals and their habitats. A big one to watch out for in vegan butters is palm oil, food colorings can also be a concern.
Overall, though the number of genuinely vegan options in the butter market is ever-increasing. Other vegan options to look out for include Earth Balance (although they do use palm oil) and Miyoko's Kitchen (who don't use palm oil). I hope you've found this blog helpful and please let us know about your favorite vegan butters in the comments below.
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Is there a simple change (meaning a non-programmer) could do to remove the black borders from a modal window generated with ScriptyLightbox2?
That's going to give you a white background (so pick the color you like and add it as a hex color). If you look at the CSS that the Action creates in the head of your page, you may notice other things you want to fiddle with. Using the !important keyword within the definition of the rule will cause it to override the Action-generated settings, even if those settings are inserted into the head of the page after your hand-written rule. Usually it's "Last Rule Wins".
Stupid question two: I've never looked at the code Freeway generates, how can I access it?
If you have a programmer's text editor, like the free and wonderful TextWrangler from http://barebones.com then you can tell Freeway that it's a "browser". Pull down the File menu to Preview in Browser, then in the submenu, choose Browser Setup. In the resulting dialog, simply add TextWrangler as if it was a browser. Now you can preview into TW instead of Safari or Firefox.
Another, perhaps simpler way, is just to preview into your favorite browser, then choose View / View Source from the main menu.
Either way, if you have your Document Setup / Output preferences set to More Efficient, you will be confronted by a tortured mass of code with very few line-breaks in it. Switch to More Readable and publish again, and you will see something that at least makes some tiny concession to your humanity.
Very cool. I found the HTML Mark Up option in the Freeway Page menu. I just pasted your code in and now the border's white.
But what if I wanted to get rid of the border altogether? I think I can see the measurements in the code, but I have no idea how to access it. And even if I could, how would I get it back into Freeway?
Is there another action that can easily make a borderless modal?
Don't forget to put this inside the script tags, don't just leave it alone by itself in the HTML markup dialog.
Is there a way to make mov files to rescale similar to what happens with jpegs?
Is there a way to make the video load without starting?
It shouldn't do this. Could you please post a link? Also any details about the computer where this happens — OS and version, QuickTime version, etc.
Not posted yet. (Should have it up this weekend.) I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.7 with Quicktime Version 10.0 on a Aluminum Unibody MacBook 2.4 GHz Core Duo w/4G RAM. But I've QA'd on a couple of different Macs with the same result. On older machines the video will start running, sometimes just the audio, while the modal window is rendering. BTW, The videos are 640x, with an approximate 1300 bps framerate. If you have any thoughts now, that would be helpful.
P.S. Can I access the inspector buttons for the modal that Julio describes or is that only for HTML pages?
This will only work on a movie you place directly on the page in Freeway, so not one that appears in a gallery style display like ScriptyLightbox.
Do the stats I gave give you any indication of why the videos might be auto running, or would you have to wait until I have a live site?
No, I investigated further, and it appears that not only did I remember wrong how it was supposed to work, I also forgot to add the autoplay="false" attribute to the QuickTime popup. It's been added, so download version 0.4 and see if that improves things for you.
Just so I have this straight, with version 0.4 the user will have to start the video, correct?
Yes. That's what I thought the default was, so I didn't set the value explicitly. But apparently that changed, so I have added the flag to the code so it's belt-and-suspenders.
1) How do I eliminate the background color altogether and make it transparent instead?
2) How can I make it so that I can click anywhere inside my graphic to make it vanish, rather than be forced to click the X in the upper left?
You can use the keyword 'transparent' instead of a color number or name. So background-color: transparent !important; should do the trick.
The reason why the Action works this way is because one of its big use-cases was QuickTime movies. Those you have to click on in order to control (start/stop/seek) so I needed a discrete close control.
That gets rid of the close box.
I haven't tested this, but it ought to work. All it's doing is setting a handler to close the popup whenever it is clicked.
If you remove this feature, there won't be much of anything left to the Action. You could very easily use Spawn New Window or even target ="_blank" at this rate! I don't see a way to remove this without fundamentally rewriting the Action. Plus, it would be a usability nightmare on the iPad.
Thanks for the code tips, Walter.
The transparency code works perfectly. And the code to allow click-to-close anywhere in the open object works great too. Despite what you said, it actually does not eliminate the "X" close box in the upper left. But I am not bothered by that. I mainly wanted a dummy-proof way to close the zoomed object (people are sometimes too stupid to find a small close box).
At the end of your post, you suggested using Spawn New Window instead of your Action, in cases where I don't want my graphic objects to be resized automatically. But that does not achieve what I want. I want to use your Action because it allows me to click on an object on my web page, and then your Action will zoom open a graphic of my choice which explains the object just clicked. I don't want the zoomed object to look like a new window at all. I want the zoomed object to appear to be a part of the main page content, just floating above the page and with a drop shadow. I cannot achieve that effect with Spawn New Window (not that I know if anyway) but I can achieve that with your action. And since some of my objects contain text, I don't want them to be scaled down such that the text is hard to read, which is why I was even concerned about down-scaling at all.
I cannot achieve that effect with Spawn New Window (not that I know if anyway) but I can achieve that with your action.
You could use Target Show/Hide Layer and have any content you want in there.
But, David, wouldn't the use of Target Show/Hide Layer result in a large web page overall, versus the use of Walter's Action?
As I said, I seek a drop shadow. To elegantly achieve that with Target Show/Hide Layer would dictate the use of a 24-bit PNG file. Depending on the dimensions of the graphic in question, the filesize could be rather large.
You won't get the zoom effect in Target Show/Hide Layer, although one could use Fade, I suppose.
David, I've spent the last half hour fiddling with your suggestion. Target Show/Hide Layer can't hold a candle to Walter's action in terms of my productivity, sanity, filesizes, and practicality. It's a real pain in the donkey, let me tell you!
I therefore think it would still be useful to have a means of preventing auto-scale from occurring on graphics used with Walter's action.
I need to load LightBox directly opening my page (without links, onLoad). Is it possible?
If you don't mind hand-coding a bit, you could apply the Action, let it publish the code it's programmed to create, then copy the entire function out of the published HTML and make a few changes, then remove the Action and build the effect back up using the Page / HTML Markup dialog and the Hyperlink / Extended sub-dialog.
I apologize for the delay of my answer, of my thanks.
I have thought and worked a lot on your proposals, but I am only a graphic designer so I'm not able to code. Effectively, why to change the light box? I think that a modal window is perfect for my needs. The difficult (for me, of course!) is to change its aesthetic aspect by CSS.
I finally found a reasonable solution for what I wanted to do, so I wish to share that with all of you now.
If you scroll back up and read our previous posts on this issue, you will see that I have been wanting to prevent the automatic shrinking feature in Walter's action, which shrinks the size of the popup graphic if you make your browser window too small. The problem is that if you have a graphic with text in it, that text can become unreadable.
I honestly didn't care much about Walter's "there wouldn't be much left" reason, but I did give thought to his iPad comment.
2) I then dug down into the folders until I found "ScriptyLightbox2.fwaction," and I then opened that file in TextWranger.
3) Within TextWrangler, I scrolled through the file and didn't make much sense of it all (since I'm by no means "a coder") but I did take note of the section entitled "Element.addMethods." In there I could see Walter was using math to resize something, and I logically deduced this to be the "Auto Resize" code.
6) I then noticed that the Freeway Action icon vanishes in the Finder, so I used FileBuddy to examine the file. Sure enough, because I had saved the file in Text Wranger, it added File TYPE code. I deleted that out and left the CREATOR code intact, and the icon came back.
7) I then removed the Action on my Freeway page, reapplied it, then tested in the browser. The end result is perfect for me!
The reason I consider the value of 0.98 better than 0.8 is because if someone browsing my site likes to keep their browser windows very narrow width-wise, they almost always will keep the window just a tad wider than the width of the page (otherwise you wouldn't be able to see the entire page). But at Walter's default setting of 0.8, the browser window would have to be quite a bit bigger than the width of the actual page you make in Freeway, and people who like to keep their browser windows narrow probably wouldn't widen it that big. In other words, for those folks, my graphics would constantly be getting automatically sized smaller, which is not what I want.
So by changing 0.8 to 0.98 in those two places, I can view my page in the browser and decrease the browser window width to just very slightly larger than the page width, and my graphics still won't get resized.
For those of you whose graphics are much narrower than the width of the Freeway page itself, this really isn't an issue. But in my case, the graphics were just a tad wider than the page itself, so they were getting resized too often when I narrowed the browser window.
I hope all this makes sense. And again, I am not a coder. This is a change that most any of you can make to the action if you want. It's not hard if you follow my advice above.
Its all Japanese to me!
But seriously James - well done for being persistent.
I'm glad you worked this out. I try when designing my Actions to find a middle ground where I think that a good chunk of my potential audience is well served. I think that it's wonderful that Actions are open and can be tailored like this. I would hate it if all Actions had to be encoded, and nobody could learn from anybody else or make these sorts of adjustments to suit their unique needs.
Walter, I'm back with another ScriptyLightbox2 problem. Well, it's a "functionality limitation" rather than a bug.
I've been using ScriptyLightbox2 to display some graphics as "popups." It's far better than SpawnNewWindow because there is no "new window," yet I can force content to "pop up" above the existing web page. My application is sort of like System 7 Balloon Help on steroids.
Anyway, the problem I've run up against is that I cannot add links within my popup. I've tried using the older, more feature-rich ScriptyLightbox action, but it is very slow to open content (I think, due to the slide-open special effect you use). Furthermore, the original ScriptyLightbox tries to put the filename of my graphic in the upper left corner, but does it so badly that the name is partially truncated. Also, there is no background shadow, and no rounded corners either. All said, I like your newer ScriptyLightbox2 much better, except for the fact it won't allow me to use graphic or text links.
So can you improve ScriptyLightbox2 such that it will empower me to add links? (I think for that to work, you would have to allow the user to be able to choose an existing Freeway web page, instead of just selecting a file on your hard drive, as is the case right now.) In another words, it would be like SpawnNewWindow, just without any new "window" appearing. I would be page content that is merely hidden until you click it into view.
I have several requests for this, and I will hopefully find some time during the holidays to attack this. It's a little more complex than changing the picker to allow pages or URLs to be the target of the generated link — I also have to create and destroy an iframe at the desired size instead of loading an image or movie.
I would point out the the iPad Friendly option in my SNW Action does this already.
Thanks for the desire to add such, Walter. I look forward to seeing your handiwork.
1) Have you used Walter's ScriptyLightbox2 action?
2) If you have used it, are you familiar with the drop shadow, rounded corners, close box, etc. that it puts around content?
3) Does your action offer those things too?
I will give Paul's action a full set of tests when I get into the office on Monday.
You should be able to round the corners with a bit of CSS - but remember anything less than IE9 and it is unlikely to work.
I should point out that the corners are rounded with CSS3 in ScriptyLightbox2 as well.
Paul already has the CSS3 box-shadow style built into his action but you could try adding this to the Before end Head section of Page>HTML Markup for the parent page.
But I haven't looked at it in IE9 - yet!
First of all, Dave, the CSS for Page Markup you kindly offered me works wonderfully to round the corners of the popup box. Thank you!
The only disadvantage to the rounded corners is that the close box is offset to the top-left a tad too much. With no controls for that in the Action itself, I had to resort to hacking Paul's action. I found "var closeButtonOffset = 22;" and changed "22" to "11" and then previewed. That pulls in the close box enough for me, but it introduces a new problem. Now the close box is beneath the popup box! I would think that the close box should always be the topmost item/layer, so this result is rather baffling. In any case, how do I bring the close box "to the front"?
Next, I see that ticking the "iPad friendly" setting in the Actions palette achieves the effect I want; namely, that instead of a new "window" popping up, you get popup content over your exiting page. And the best part is, I can use links too. However, I notice that the background "fades to white" when the popup appears. In some cases that is nice, but is there no way to "fade to black" instead?
is there no way to "fade to black" instead?
Yes - if you look in the actions resources folder you will see within the Support Files blanking-out.png - which is a transparent white png. If you change this to your own transparent black png you will get what you want (keep the file name the same).
You should probably keep 2 versions of the action - one unmodified.
Can not find blanking-out.png file in action resource folder.
Any help much appreciated Matt.
ScriptyLightbox 2 does not fade the background. It pops up a shadowed "window" effect over the current page and centers it.
I was please to see the shadow I've applied to my CSS Menus actually displays in IE9 (in Windows7). Menu shadow never worked at all in IE6 or IE7 or IE8 (in WinXP). However, I did find a problem in IE9 with regard to ScriptyLightbox2.
The reason I even use ScriptyLightbox2 is so I can make some graphics or even HTML content appear to hover above the existing page, rather than force a jump to a new page or open a new window. All Mac browsers work fine to do that with ScriptyLightbox2, and even IE8 on WinXP works fine too. Chrome and Firefox on Windows also work perfectly to do that. But IE6 & IE7 & IE9 cause the ScriptyLightbox2 content to open on a new page, rather than hover the content above the existing page.
• Click on the Siren/Speaker in that photo.
• Click on the block of icons beneath the 540HS.
Either of those clicks should cause the content to appear above the existing page. But as I said, in IE6 & IE7 and IE9, the content appears on a new blank page. That is the problem. It should hover above the EXISTING page, not open in a new page.
The first part of the video shows the problem in IE9 (running in Windows7). For a split second you can see the frame of where the content should appear hovering above that page, but then the browser opens the content in a new blank page.
The second part of the video shows Chrome running in Windows7. No problems at all — you can see the content properly appears above the existing page.
Again, I would appreciate hearing your thoughts on how we can address this problem.
I'm looking at this. Thanks for the link to the VirtualBox recipes. I've been having to cadge time on my wife's office computers to look at things in 9, because I don't want to upgrade my VMWare and lose IE8. This is a much neater solution.
In IE9 you can see a tiny "broken document" icon just to the right of the address bar. You can see that in my video. Clicking that gives you a special "IE9 Compatibility View." But even in that view, what you see in my video remains true — the content won't appear hovering over the existing page.
But the really nifty thing about IE9 is that you can view how the page would look in IE8 and in IE7, simply by clicking on the spiked-wheel icon (directly beneath the red "X" close box, and choose "Developer Tools" and then set which browser you like under the "Browser Mode" menu that appears at the bottom of the browser window. I verified it works perfectly, just like the actual copies of IE7 and IE8. That feature allows you to confirm my problem; namely, that ScriptyLightBox2 content will hover above the existing page perfectly in IE8, but it will only open in a new page in IE7 and IE9.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts when you have time.
I tried following the instructions you linked to yesterday, and was not able to download the IE9 image. It tried to come down in 7 parts, and it would consistently get the first couple of parts, then break on the third. I may have to visit the BigUglyStore and buy a retail copy of Windows 7 in order to take this any further.
I tried following the instructions you linked to yesterday, and was not able to download the IE9 image.
Now it wont let me download them again as it tells me they exist already.
Or type Shift-Command-G in Finder, and type in the path to the folder there.
I did not download all 3 VM's because you don't need to. As I posted yesterday, IE9 allows you to go into it's Developer section and change IE9 to emulate IE7 and IE8. I have true Windows PCs running IE7 and IE8, and I have compared them with the IE7 and IE8 modes of IE9, and I can tell you that IE9 simulates IE7 and IE8 perfectly on all the content I tried.
It takes a while to finish all the downloading, but it worked for me on the first try. But be sure to download and install the latest version of Virtual Box first, then copy and paste the line above into the Terminal. Once downloaded, you need only open Virtual Box, and your VM will appear there ready to go.
It was during the download of Windows 7 + IE9 that I was having this experience. My piddly T1 line is no match for your genuine Japanese broadband connection, I fear. I got the first of 7 images in about an hour, then the second one bombed out half-way through, the script skipped ahead and started downloading the third, and I decided I'd had enough of that.
I'm on a relatively slow 12Mbps ADSL line here at the office, Walter. But at home, I have a 100Mbps fiber line. I pay $70/month for the fiber line.
Kill me now, so that I may reincarnate in Japan! 1.5mbps symmetrical == $325/mo. DSL was wayyyy less, both in dollars and upstream speed, and didn't work after a rain, or on alternating Tuesdays.
This neighborhood was wired with copper some time during the Hoover administration, and they haven't ever changed it. I was all excited last summer when the phone company brought fiber all throughout the neighborhood. I can look out my back windows and see it gracefully looping from pole to pole, right behind my house. But they "don't have enough capacity at the central office" according to the sales people, so they don't know when they'll get around to putting the last 50 feet (from the pole to my chimney) into place.
When I first created that page without any HTML Markup or Protaculous, it worked fine in IE9 (as well as any other browser). But I need to add code in Protaculous and in HTML Markup to make my search field work properly (code you gave to me in the past). I also have a splattering of HTML Markup code to add shadows to my CSSmenus. Furthermore, you recently gave me additional code to put in Protaculous that allows me to click anywhere in the ScriptyLightBox2 "Target" to have the Target close. But when I added all that code, the problem appeared again in IE9.
Again, the problem is that the content of the target does not hover over the existing page but instead it appears on a new, blank page.
I therefore believe this IE9 problem can be fixed with a modification to the code in HTML Markup and/or the code in Protaculous. However, that modification is beyond my capabilities. I would therefore appreciate hearing your thoughts.
Somehow, you have a copy of Prototype 1.6.1 linked into the head of your page AFTER the link to Prototype 1.7.
Prototype 1.7 works fine with IE9, and Prototype 1.6.1 does not.
Check to ensure that you have the absolute latest version of Protaculous and ScriptyLightbox2. My guess is that the former is out of date, at least in your document. You should only ever have one link to Prototype and / or Scriptaculous in the head of your page, which is why I beat the jungle drums so loud every time I update anything. It's not possible for a "scripty" Action to know which one of its peers will actually attach the libraries to any given page, so they all have to be running at a cooperative version level.
I have the latest version of ScriptyLightBox2, and I verified that in the bottom right corner of the Actions palette — version 0.6.
I thought I had the latest version of Protaculous. But when I checked the bottom right corner of the Actions palette just now, I see it says "0.6.5". But even after installing the latest version a few moments ago, the version number in the Actions palette remains the same.
I double-clicked it in the Finder. It told me it was replacing older actions in my FW document, and then I checked the version number in the Actions palette, but it was unchanged as "0.6.5".
I deleted Protaculous from off my page (the only instance of it) and then reapplied it, but the version remains the same at 0.6.5.
The root problem was indeed the older version of Protaculous. And despite having double-clicked the Action in the Finder, and despite Freeway having led me to believe it was installed, Freeway in fact did not install it. I discovered that by digging into my "Library/Application Support/Freeway 5/Actions" folders. As you know there are two: one in my "home/library" and the other in my "hard disk/library". There was no Protaculous action in my hard disk/library, but the was one in my home/library. I checked the version of that, and sure enough, Freeway lied to me about having "installed" version 0.7. The old 0.6.5 version was still sitting there in the Actions folder plain as day. So I manually deleted it and threw the new version in there, and then I saw the 0.7 version number propagate to all my open FW documents. I just checked in IE9 and all is well.
I must say that this has hit me more than once in the past. I just forget about it as time goes on and then get hit with it over and over. The root problem is not my bad memory. The root problem is that Freeway leads me to believe that the Action I double-clicked in the Finder was installed. But in fact, it was not. I shouldn't have to manually change the Action or restart Freeway or restart my computer to get this to work right. It should JustWork™! Grrr!
Anyway, thanks again. And if your snail-slow internet connection finally allowed you to download Virtual Box and IE9, let us know how it goes for you.
After you deleted it from your page, but before you re-applied it, did you publish once? That seems to be the way to kick old bundle Actions off the island. The problem is that the Action gets cached in the document, so getting it off of one page isn't even enough. You have to go through, page by page, and remove it from every page, publish the entire document once, and then re-apply it. Before you tell me, yes, I agree this is a pain in every dangly-bit there is. I have complained often and annoyingly about this. I am hoping it can get some love from the Weezards of Oxford one day soon, when they have finished killing all the Orcs.
Walter, I discovered yet another problem with ScriptyLightBox2 today. Unfortunately, having the latest version of Protaculous does not fix this problem.
The problem appears on pages where I display videos above the existing page via ScriptyLightBox2. The videos open and play perfectly. The problem is that when you click the close box, only the "frame around the video" vanishes, and the video remains there and continues to play. Sometimes if I scroll around the page and click like mad long enough it will go away. But it most cases, the video won't go away until I double-click it (which makes it fill the screen) and then I pause or stop it.
I verified this problem exists in IE6 & IE7 & IE8 running under WinXP and also in IE9 running under Windows7. No problem in Chrome, Safari or FireFox on the Mac. And no problem in Chrome, Safari or FireFox on Windows. It's only IE on Windows.
Click on either of the WindowsMedia buttons to see the problem in IE.
Wow. I'm not sure how this could be possible. When I detect a click on the close button, I remove the entire player from the DOM. It doesn't get more explicit than that in terms of stopping a movie. This sounds like a huge IE bug. The thing is, I'm not all that sure what else I could do to get the Flash player out of the page.
It's pretty clear that it is a bug exclusive to IE, Walter, but the problem I see is that it spans all versions of IE, from pathetic version 6 all the way to the current version 9.
Furthermore, if I click the close box BEFORE the video starts to play, it closes perfectly every single time in IE! It's only when the video fully loads and then starts to Play that clicking the Close box only causes the "frame" around the video to vanish. How would this be explained?
Flash and other plug-in-based content (all platforms) cuts a hole right through the browser and replaces the browser content with its own playback mechanism. It seems that removing the parent element does not remove the plug-in children of that element from the screen in IE, which is why the movie remains and the border (the parent element) disappears. In looking at the Action, I suppose I could try issuing a Stop() command on the video, then delete it directly, then remove the outer frame element.
Walter, thank you for that modification. I tested that page in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari for Mac and Windows, and IE6 through IE9 on Windows. IE9 on Windows7 displays the video content AND closes it as perfectly as on the Mac, ditto for Firefox and Chrome on Windows too. However, IE6 and IE7 and IE8 won't close the frame at all now, even if I click the close box very quickly after opening the content, and before the video even starts to play.
If it were only IE6 or IE7 that had this problem, I would not beat myself up about it. But IE8 is an important browser because it's the last version that can run on WinXP. And there are still a lot of folks who use XP, especially here in Japan. So I need to support IE8.
One thing I noticed about IE6, IE7 and IE8 is that they all display the video frame and content a bit differently than IE9 or Firefox or Chrome or Safari. Specifically, in IE6/7/8m the horizontal scroll bar shows up, almost like the content is a bit too small to fit the frame. Perhaps that has nothing at all to do with this problem, but I wish to mention that tiny difference all the same.
Further thoughts would be appreciated.
Click on the "Play the Video!" text link there to see the video hover over the existing page. This visually does what ScriptyLightBox2 does, with the except that I like your ScriptyLightBox2 better insofar as it merely pops-up content over the existing page without "whitening" the page.
Anyway, I tested that "wistia" video in every browser. It works perfectly in every browser, including IE6. Furthermore, it even displays the Close box in IE6, unlike ScriptyLightBox2. AND, it also displays a "shadow" in IE6 too, unlike ScriptyLightbox2.
Again, I am not so worried about IE6, but the point is that whatever code that "wistia" site uses, it works across all browsers on both the Mac and PC.
This is FancyBox, by Cabel Sasser. I'll take a look at how he's doing this. But one other thing that's apparent to me — the content is HTML5 video, probably with a Flash fallback for older browsers. Can you try using Flash video in place of WMV, and see if there's any difference?
To test a Flash video in place of the WMV, would an embedded link to a YouTube version of the video suffice?
I've read through the entire source, and the only thing they are doing to clean up an iframe or embedded flash is to remove the surrounding element, just as normal SL2 does already. Same code (albeit it's jQuery instead of Prototype).
Oh, and this is FancyBox, and Cabel wrote FancyZoom.
It works fine in all browsers, including IE6. In other words, I can clear it off the screen without problem. So this shows that having an embedded player fixes the problem. The fact that Windows is coughing up its own player in the case of the WMV and MOV files seems to be why the video won't close in IE for some reason.
Even so, despite my use of the YouTube flash video, the little Close box still won't display in IE6, despite the fact that the "wistia" video's Close box (which looks the same as your Close Box) displays just fine.
Both work in all browsers, Windows and Mac, including IE6. And the Close Box shows up in IE6 too. When I click Close, the videos close. So what is different between their implementation and yours?
I don't know at all what happens under the hood in jQuery when you call remove() on a DOM object. It is possible that it is doing something more elaborate (manually cleaning up nested elements within that object) that Prototype is not. I honestly don't know why IE would allow child elements of a removed DOM element to hang around anyway, since removing the parent is like cutting down the tree — all the branches fall along with it. All I can see from reading the fancybox.js source code is that, exactly as in my implementation, the player box is given the shove with remove(). The very same code path is taken in all cases, regardless of the type of content. The primary difference is that the fancybox effect extends jQuery, so it's jQuery.Element.remove() instead of Prototype.Element.remove(). And I can't really do anything about that.
Walter, the main reason I create the dual-video setup on my site is because I once had QuickTime "MOV" files only and some Windows users complained they couldn't see the videos and they didn't want to install QuickTime. So I created WMV files for them and they were satisfied. But I retained the QuickTime files so iPad and iPhone users can also watch the videos too. Since Apple still stubbornly refuses to support Flash on iOS, and with the number of iOS viewers of our site continuing to grow, I need to give thought to supporting them too.
My dual-video solution gives me a bit more control than going to YouTube too. With YouTube, I have to accept YouTube branding. Plus, when the YouTube videos finish, the viewers see little thumbnails of unrelated videos popup and I don't care to show that.
True, I could do the videos the "old way" and just Spawn a new window for the videos. But I like the ScriptyLightBox2 method of having the videos popup and hover over the existing page content. It looks more modern and very slick! But alas, I have the IE problems I've reported previously.
Therefore, what are your thoughts in light of this?
All I am suggesting here is for you to test whether FLV (replacing the WMV) will properly close on IEs of a "certain" age. You would still open it in a SL2 in-page popup. Take one of the WMV pages that you are currently linking to and duplicate it. Substitute a Freeway-generated Flash Video widget for the WMV player you are using and see what happens. If all goes well, you will have Windows-compatible video that will open and close in IE using SL2.
I'll give that a try when I get into the office in a couple hours, Walter. Thank you.
FYI - Adobe has killed development of Flash for mobile platforms. Adobe is now backing HTML5.
I know. I'm talking about using it as a fallback for Windows IE only.
My current work is using the fantastic Sublime Player, which does HTML5 for everyone and falls back really gracefully to Flash for anyone who can't view HTML5. They've done such a nice job of styling all of the players to look exactly alike. Free plan is badged, but subtly and it goes away when the movie starts playing. The next step up is $99 a year, which is a total deal because you get all sorts of metrics and you can have multiple sites on a plan, and SSL if you need it.
Walter, I need some hand-holding here. I've long run from Flash like the plague so I am not sure what I need to do. What Action in Freeway do I need to use, and how do I use it?
Are you saying I should sketch an HTML box, then import an "SWF" video file into that box, then change the "Item Output Settings" tab in the Inspector (which presents Flash video specific controls)? Or are you also suggesting that I add the "Flash Extras" action to that HTML box too?
The conversion worked, and double-clicking the FLV files in the Finder launches Adobe Media Player on my Mac, and I was able to verify that the FLV videos do indeed play fine.
However, when I imported the FLV into an HTML box in Freeway and then uploaded, I cannot open it at all in-browser on the Mac or in Windows. It says no Plugin. Windows wants me to download the file.
So I don't know what's going on or what to do when it comes to Flash video.
I'm getting ready to scream! I found Adobe Media Encoder on my iMac and so I proceeded to encode my existing MOV file to F4V format this time. The encode worked fine and the resulting video blows away the encode from that free online service I mentioned in my previous post. Even so, when I import that F4V file into an HTML box in Freeway and then upload, neither my Mac or Windows will recognize the video files in-browser. Windows tries to download it.
So if what you suggested to me is true, that I do in fact need an "FLV" or an "F4V" file, then clearly I need something else in Freeway other than a mere HTML box. You mentioned an Action, but I don't know what that Action is. And a search on ActionsForge only yields FLV Player, which appears to be a part of Freeway's core actions, but I don't see how to use those actions. So I downloaded that Action and installed it, and it said it was already installed.
So I am pulling my hair out not knowing what to do. I look forward to hearing your advice.
I got my Flash video to work in all browsers. AutoPlay in that Freeway action doesn't work consistently across all browsers and performance stinks until high heaven, but I did check it in all Mac and Windows browsers and found that the "video close problem" in ScriptyLightBox2 is gone in this case.
So, Walter, this gives you the answer you wanted, which was that when Flash video is used, closing the video works. But when WMV is used (and Windows Media Player is loaded in the browser), then closing the video only closes the frame around the video rather than closing the video itself.
Sorry I wasn't around to help, I was out picking up my middle girl from her sports practice. Glad you got it to work, and I'm sure Microsoft will get around to fixing this some day before the heat death of the universe.
When do we get your Sublime player in Action form, Walter? And will it play nicely with ScriptyLightBox2?
Click on the sirens and you will see ScriptyLightBox2 open the audio content in a popover. Works fine on all Mac and Windows browsers. And although the popover and spinning spike wheel appear in Safari for iPad, only a speak icon appears. You then have to click on that speak icon, and the audio will start to play, but there is no slider or pause/stop buttons. Interestingly though, if I double-tap on the iPad (which zooms in on the screen) then the slider and stop/pause buttons will appear.
Is this a bug in the iOS version of Safari, or would it have something to do with the code ScriptyLightBox2 code?
appears correctly at any size in the iPad3 browser, then the issue is only with viewing that page through the iframe.
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Walter, I'm going through my sites slowly obliterating all instances where I once "spawned new windows" and replacing them with ScriptyLightBox2. But the problem I discovered today pertains to locations where I've used the "Text Link to New Window" action. I don't see how to use the ScriptyLightBox2 action to accomplish this.
Yes, the easiest thing would be to add a text version to the Action. Unlike the ScriptyLightbox, there's no hidden classname trick you can use to make it work with a text link. I mean, yes, you could make an instance of SL off the screen above the top of the page, publish it, copy the link from that instance and manually apply it to a second link on the same page that you create out of text — but even you are not that patient.
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Version 0.7, fresh off the presses.
Wow! That was fast! Thank you.
I've just installed the Action. And to avoid the mistakes of the past, I did not double-click to install it. I manually threw out the previous version and placed the new version in myself. I then restarted Freeway for good measure. I see version 0.7 in the bottom right of the Actions palette.
However, the interface looks the same as before. Did you add something new? I'm not seeing what I need to do with this new version.
I even sketched an HTML box, typed text inside, selected the text, then applied the ScriptyLightbox2 action to it, but of course there is no link on the text when I Preview.
There's an insert version in the same Action file. Place your text cursor where you want the link to appear, then choose Insert / Action Item / ScriptyLightbox2 from the main menu. There's a new field for the link text, and it will basically work like the text form of Spawn New Window.
Walter, I've downloaded that "22 Mar, 2012" version 0.7 action several times. I've restarted Freeway. And I've confirmed the version number in the Action's palette. I also sketched an HTML box, inserted my cursor, then choose Insert > Actions > ScriptyLightbox2. But there is no "new field" in the Actions palette. And any text I type in that same HTML box does not magically become a link. Nothing is "inserted" inside that HTML box at all. Instead, the ScriptyLightbox2 Action is merely applied to the HTML box itself.
• You CANNOT use the Insert menu.
• You CANNOT use the Actions palette.
• You MUST click on the "Action" icon in the window toolbar to insert it.
I confirmed it works well.
Thanks for the Copy/Paste Software Development, Walter!
• You CANNOT use the Insert menu.
That's how I made my test document as I was adding this feature.
• You CANNOT use the Actions palette.
I never try this, I've got muscle memory for the Insert menu.
• You MUST click on the "Action" icon in the window toolbar to insert it.
That would let you draw an instance of it on the page — are you doing that? I never imagined anyone would do that with a text Action, since you then have no control over the font etc. except by hacking the global page style. The only way I have ever used these sorts of text Actions is with a flashing text cursor and the Insert menu.
Walter, I wanted to insert it in a Table cell. It didn't work on that. So I sketched an instance of it on the page, copied, then pasted inside the table cell. I then put a space before and after the text to format it.
It would be best if I could insert it directly in the table cell, as you say is possible, and then pick up text styling without having to put a space before and after, but I wasn't able to do that.
Was this a drawn table, or the Freeway layout table?
Each is a separate table that I drew myself.
I just tried both — both worked exactly as expected.
Double-click into the recipient table cell so you see a flashing text cursor.
Configure as usual in the Actions palette.
While I have no problem inserting the action in a run of text I cannot get an external page link to popup. Internal ones are fine as are images.
The external page has to be a link to a page, not a folder. Add index.html to the end of the URL and see if it loads then.
It's working now. I screwed up. I was using the "INSERT" command of the "ITEM" menu yesterday!
I'm also pleased to see that not only can I insert it in a table cell, but to format the text I merely need to click in the cell, Select All, then apply my Style — no leading or trailing space required anymore. Curious. Is this something unique to your Action, or has Freeway changed in this regard? Because like I said, for years I've had to place a leading and trailing space around Action items in order to get the text links to be style properly. It's nice I don't need to do that with your Action.
I wish I could take credit for this, but as far as I know, it's nothing special I have done. Try adding a Link to File instance in another cell and see if it gets the same royal treatment.
for years I've had to place a leading and trailing space around Action items in order to get the text links to be style properly. It's nice I don't need to do that with your Action.
Thanks for clarifying that. Can you explain why it doesn't work unless you target a specific page.
I use a fairly naive regular expression to decide what to do with a given link. I would have to do some more head-scratching to permit a site link (which can, albeit incorrectly, end in .com|org|net|whatever rather than /) as another trigger for the iframe.
It is not really necessary now that I am aware of the issue - might be worth mentioning in the action blurb though.
Walter, I've got another ScriptyLightBox2 question for you.
Today, I was given the task of putting up popup-overlay content on a page in our site. The content should appear when the page opens, each and every time the page opens or is reloaded. I wanted to do that with ScriptyLightBox2, but doesn't have that feature (nor will it allow me to apply the action to the page itself). So I had to turn to the aid of "Timed Spawn New Window." It offers a "Delay in seconds" field that, when set to zero, will immediately show the popover content when the page loads.
The problem is that I already have a ScriptyLightBox2 action applied to the page, inside my CSS Menus navigation bar, and there appears to be a conflict between the code of the two actions, which only surfaces in IE9 for Windows7. More specifically, after you load the page, the popover appears, then you click the close box, and then you click on the button just to the left of the "ENGLISH" button. That is supposed to display the content in a popover, hoving above the existing page. It works fine in all Mac browsers and even in IE8 on WinXP. But in IE9 on Windows7, the content of that popup is broken out into a brand new page. I want the content to be displayed in a popover hoving over the existing page. It should not dump the content into a new page.
I would appreciate your thoughts on how this could be solved.
I used TextWrangler to delete it, and now IE9 is working fine. I've written to Paul offlist to see about having his Timed Spawn New Window action updated.
And again, since ScriptyLightBox2 lacks a "timed" function, you will need to use Paul's "Timed SNW" action (vers. 4.3 as of this writing) if you want to generate popover content immediately after a page loads.
It was updated in January when the mass Scripty Update was pushed through in Freeway.
After a long hiatus, I'm back with another question.
Trouble is, since the action shrinks the entire sample to fit the window, the text in the sample is too small to read.
Is it possible to force the window's width & height and have a scroll bar appear for navigating up and down within the box.
Unfortunately, the code is totally different from ScriptyLightBox2, and because of that, I can no longer hack the code to fix the graphic resizing problem. It's frustrating.
1) Hand-holding on how to hack the code of ScriptyLightBox3 to achieve what I was able to do by hacking ScriptyLightBox2.
2) Give us the power to change the resize trigger within the Actions palette so that no code hacks are necessary.
I want (2) the most because right now I am forced to hack every new version of ScriptyLightBox2 that comes out. I really dislike that. So it's better to empower us with options in the Actions palette.
Again, search this page for "hack" to find my earlier post on what I am talking about.
I'm staring at this, trying to see where I could stash your variable that the script could read it. I suppose it could go in the data-attributes, like I'm doing currently with the radius and background color.
Having adjustable settings in the Action's palette interface is of course better than hacking the code, mainly because it would free me from having to hack each and every new version of SL3 that comes out.
Of course, there is still a downside for putting that *.js file on my server. I would need to check every now and then if there is a new version, and if there is, I would then need to copy that file to my server.
But the point I was making earlier in this thread remains. The existing script is too sensitive when it comes to browser window width and object resizing. I don't want objects resized until the very edges of the browser window almost run right up against the object itself. That's precisely what my "hack" does to the SL2 code.
Adjust away. (version 0.2 just released) Be careful up near the higher end of this scale, because the close button can end up above the frame, and you can barely click it to close the window.
After a looong hiatus, I am back again. Now working with Freeway Pro 7.1.4 and using ScriptyLightbox3 to show JPEGs and MP4s in a modal window.
Problem is, the videos won't play. I'm pretty much stumped. They won't play in Freeway's preview panel and the only browser they'll preview in is a legacy version of Google Chrome (71.0.3578.98).
A 7-year hiatus is indeed a long one. :-) Thankfully, this site still exists, as does Freeway and many of us who still love it.
Since you are focused on videos, may I ask why not just put them on your webpage line, rather than use ScriptyLightbox?
I had a look at the code, and the Action assumes you want to use the QuickTime plug-in to view video content. I'll have to fix that when I get a chance. In the meantime, here's a work-around.
For each video you want to play, make a new small page, the same size as the video. Draw an HTML box at the top-left corner of the page, drag the video into it from the Finder, or use File / Import (Command-E) to insert it in the box, and then drag the corner of the box so it fits perfectly.
Now, back on the page where you want the video to appear in the lightbox, click the thumbnail image that you've applied the Action to, and check the "Use Page/URL as Target" option. In the Page/URL picker, choose the page you just made.
This will work, because Freeway knows how to make a <video> tag for an MP4, and the lightbox will make the effect happen. You won't be able to auto-start the video, and you will have to do some fiddling with the width and height to get it to match your video exactly.


At the moment I'm typing this out, I'm trying to finish one more cream puff and a slice of cake. Last night I got a slice of cake and today I got another slice plus about seven cream puffs and one whole cake. This is crazy. I don't know how to finish them, Haha!
A lot of things have been going on and it's really getting on to me. I don't know, maybe it's because I tend to overthink about things which later make me get sad or depressed which later on will effect everyone around me. At this moment, there's a lot of things I have to think about. I don't know why am I even taking the opportunity given to me. I'm afraid that I won't be able to do it. I'm afraid that I'd somehow neglect my studies. I don't want that to happen. Really.
I know I'm supposed to be grateful because I have a group of such lovely friends but I feel like me being me, they actually hate me. HAHA. That's just what I think. Maybe it's true. I don't know. But this is just what I'm feeling right now. Though I know that whatever I'm going through right now is because He misses me. I miss Him too, actually. I need to start fixing myself again.
I have no idea why am I typing everything out on here. OH MY GOSH I'M SO SCARED OF THE FUTURE. I feel like giving up but I know that I shouldn't. I know that I have to be strong. I know that other people have it harder. I know not everyone can care for me except for Him. I know that I shouldn't be dependent on some people. I just miss the old me.
I have changed a lot. I'm not sure if it's a good change or a bad change. I know that it's a change. What am I even talking about right now?
Please just pray for me. I don't want to run away. I'm sick of this. I need to fix myself. I need to..... I don't know. ARGH.


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Edinburgh International Film Festival Announces EIFF Youth Weekender
Posted byradiosum March 3, 2022 Posted inFilm
EIFF Young Programmers is a group of 15–19-year-olds with a passion for film who meet weekly and work together to select, promote and host films for Filmhouse and the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) .
This year pupils from Tynecastle High School met with EIFF education and learning teams to learn about film programming and plan and promote screening events. The result is the announcement of EIFF Youth Weekender to be held at Filmhouse in March.
Focussing on the rights of marginalised groups, the young programmers have decided that their film programme will explore ideas around race allowing for a discussion of a topic at the forefront of public discourse and encompassing many different types of genres and eras of filmmaking.
The films that the EIFF Youth Programmers have selected are detailed below along with their Filmhouse screening times. Tickets for the screenings are on sale and both films will be screened with captions, making them accessible to the deaf community. EIFF Young Programmers will also be giving a short introduction before each screening which will be accompanied by a live BSL interpreter.
These March screenings will be followed by a series of special screenings and events at Edinburgh Film Festival in August with more details being released of events in the next few months.
The two chosen films are the 2017 Get Out in which Jordon Peele makes his directorial debut and won an Oscar for Best Screenplay, screening on Saturday 19th March at 3.15 pm and Spike Lee's 2018 BlacKkKlansman based on an incredible true story screening on Sunday 20th March at 3.00 pm.
EIFF Young Programmers believe these films to be an entertaining and engaging way to discuss the topic of race and, although these films are both set in America, discuss topics of global relevance and allow for moments of self-reflection.
Tickets for each film are only £2 and can be purchased from:
https://www.filmhousecinema.com/
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The fifth European Marine Sand and Gravel Group (EMSAGG) conference 'Marine sand and gravel – finding common ground' will take place this week, on 4-5 June 2015 in Delft, the Netherlands.
This EMSAGG conference will cover a range of topics highly relevant to the dredging industry, its regulators, customers and other stakeholders covering both technical and non-technical issues.
The technical scope potentially includes geophysical and other detection methods, mapping techniques, extraction methods and applications.
The conference builds on the success of the four previous conferences delivered by EMSAGG and will bring together those actively involved in this area to share knowledge, research and best practice case studies.
It will also explore how stakeholders' needs can be reconciled and the role of a responsible dredging industry in moving towards a sustainable outcome.
Posted on June 2, 2015 with tags conference, Delft, dredging, event.


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Amy Adams, American Hustle
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County
SAG matched 4/5, missing Amy Adams in favor of Emma Thompson for Saving Mr. Banks.
BAFTA matched 4/5, missing Meryl in favor of Emma Thompson.
BFCA matched 4/5, missing Adams in favor of Thompson and Brie Larson for Short Term 12 (who would have been a real welcome inclusion here).
The Globes had all five stretched out over two categories.
Cate Blanchett swept them all and it was the same situation we'd have with Julianne Moore the year after this. She was overdue, and she wasn't losing.
Emma Thompson was really the only other choice here. People held out hope for Brie Larson, but she never got any support (though that did help her win for Room in 2015). Thompson had the numbers, but Adams had the bigger film and more fervent support. So it makes sense.
American Hustle is David O. Russell's Goodfellas. For better or worse.
A con artist and his wife (or girlfriend. And sort of his wife) get pulled into an FBI scam of corrupt congressman that was known as Abscam. That's the plot. The movie is so much more than that.
Amy Adams plays the girlfriend, who becomes part of his scams and loves him. And she ends up being the one who helps seduce the FBI agent — honestly it's hard to explain exactly what she did here in terms of an arc, but she is very good in the part. I originally had her fifth here, but I think in the end, I may put her third. Since I think she does do a lot with the part and I think she shows a lot of complexity to this woman and really does a better job with it than I originally believed. She might still be a fifth, but this category is so lacking in a real choice for me that it doesn't really matter.
Blue Jasmine is a Woody Allen movie that's just as tired as all his recent work. Though it's one I'm okay with, mostly because of the supporting work.
Cate Blanchett is a woman who is so wrapped up in her own world. We see her in both present and future. Her husband was Alec Baldwin. And he was rich, gave her everything she wanted… and also cheated on her. And eventually he was caught stealing money and hung himself in prison. Now she's basically out of money, living in this fantasy in her head — it's Woody Allen doing a semi-comic Streetcar Named Desire.
I've never loved this performance and don't think she needed to have won for it. But the category is pretty weak and she was overdue, so I get the win. But I wouldn't take her. Though granted, given the category, she probably rates second choice for me. Which says something.
Gravity is a film that I'm real curious to see if it holds up in ten years. Because it's such a simple film that's all about the experience that it might get real dated real fast.
Sandra Bullock is in space to fix a telescope. Through a freak occurrence, she ends up untethered and free-floating into space. And the film is about her fight for survival. Simple.
She's one of two actors who are ever on screen for the entire film and she has to carry the bulk of it on her own. The nomination makes complete sense. Do I think she was good enough to win here? Absolutely not. But I think she was definitely worth the nomination. Carrying a film like that counts for a lot, but not all.
Philomena is a film that I love.
Judi Dench plays a woman who, when she was younger, got pregnant and had a child out of wedlock. She went to the only place she could, the church. And the nuns took the child from her, made her work there, kept her from the child, and then sold the child to an American couple. Now, fifty years later, she's trying to find her son. And her daughter (who she had later) goes to Steve Coogan, an investigative journalist, to have him help find the child. So the movie is him and Judi Dench looking for her son.
Judi is wonderful, heartbreaking, and so utterly enjoyable all the way through. This is my vote by a mile. Now, some might see this as on the nose (as Weinstein Oscar movies tend to me), but I think this is the choice in the category. Totally fine with those who want to take Blanchett, but Dench is my vote. Easily.
August: Osage County is a big actorly film based on a Pulitzer Prize winning play. A southern family gets together when their patriarch goes missing (and… dies. Spoiler alert) and all their issues and grievances play out.
Meryl plays the matriarch. She's got cancer and is just a horrible, abrasive woman. It's — Meryl. The role was written for someone of her caliber and she acts the shit out of it. Though — and maybe it's just me — the older she gets, the more I see her acting. I watch this performance and am aware that she's putting on a good performance. She's definitely putting in the work here, and it's solid. But maybe fourth choice. I wouldn't take her at all. Though objectively this is a better performance than The Iron Lady.
The Reconsideration: The fact that Cate Blanchett made second for me tells you everything you need to know about this category and how much of a lock she was. But I thought Dench was better and I take her. Blanchett still deserved it and all, and I am somewhat bitter that it had to happen for such on-the-nose Woody Allen writing, but it is what it is. Judi Dench is my vote. Love that performance. Also kudos to Amy Adams, that performance works way better over time.
August: Osage County
My Vote: Judi Dench, Philomena
American Hustle is the film that'll hold up best over time. It's David O. Russell, this cast — right now, it's essential. We'll see in five years what it's at.
Right now, Gravity is essential, though I'm sure that'll fade over time. Not sure that's a movie that holds up in ten years, but now, must see.
Philomena is wonderful, and while not essential, is a very high recommend. Wonderful movie.
Blue Jasmine is only essential for Oscar buffs and Woody Allen buffs. Light recommend, and a decent Woody Allen film, as far as his stuff goes.
August: Osage County is worth seeing for the cast. It's a solid movie, though very dark with a lot of unlikable characters. Might be tough for some. But it's good. Solid recommend.
The Last Word: Blanchett is fine. The category's not strong enough to say it was a bad choice. But I take Judi Dench. I think those are the two that come out of here worth the vote. But ultimately this will end up as a middle of the road choice with a deserving actress getting her due.
This year, SAG matched 4/5, missing Marion Cotillard in favor of Jennifer Aniston for Cake, which would have been a truly horrendous nomination.
BAFTA matched 4/5, missing Cotillard in favor of Amy Adams for Big Eyes.
BFCA matched all five, out of their six nominees.
The Globes matched 4/5, also missing Cotillard in favor of Aniston.
Guess who won every single one of those awards?
This was a completely non-surprising year, and I remember going into nominations thinking there were only six total choices, and being pretty sure Aniston wasn't going to get it. So that left us with the category we got. And Julianne Moore wasn't losing from the jump.
Two Days, One Night is a Dardenne brothers film that pretty much no one saw. And it's quite good, actually.
Marion Cotillard finds out that she's going to be fired from her job. They can't afford to keep everyone on and pay out year-end bonuses. She cuts a bargain where, if she can get the entire staff to agree to forego their bonuses, she will keep her job. And she has to do this over a weekend. Hence the title.
Cotillard is fantastic here. In a stronger year, I'm not sure I nominate her, but honestly, yeah, here she totally deserves it. Doesn't crack top two for me, but I could see making a case for her third.
The Theory of Everything is the Stephen Hawking biopic. Solid film. Not sure it gets remembered over time, but as a film it's very well made and well acted.
Felicity Jones plays Hawking's wife. It's the strong, supporting wife role. There's not a whole lot of complexity to it, but Jones plays it well. I remember really liking her in this and thinking she did a great job. Most would put her fourth in this category, but I'd have her third. I think she's solid, though she doesn't rate a vote.
Still Alice is about as Oscar bait as you can get. Julianne Moore lucked out that this came in a year where she could walk away with the Oscar.
She plays a college professor who gets early onset Alzheimer's. We watch from the initial stages until the disease progresses to a point where she just cannot function anymore. She's great here, and she's easily the best performance in the category. No real way to go elsewhere here. She's the one, and her being "overdue" only helped it.
Gone Girl is such an awesome movie. It's a B level thriller of a novel that's elevated by David Fincher directing it.
Simple story (not really) — Ben Affleck's wife goes missing, and it sure seems like he did it. And we watch everything unfold, into… yeah. Into some stuff. If you haven't seen it, you should check it out.
Rosamund Pike plays the wife. And she's just wonderful in this movie. I can't get too deep into the performance without spoiling the movie — like, a lot of the movie — but she was my absolute favorite female performance of 2014. Do I think she gave the best performance in the category? No. But it was my favorite. She never stood a chance here past the nomination, but damn, did I love what she did with it.
Wild is part vanity project part Oscar bait, all "you gotta be fucking kidding me."
It's not that bad a movie, but also — it kind of is.
It's based on the memoirs of a woman who, after a divorce, decides to cleanse herself by hiking a Pacific trail all on her own. And… yeah. She does that. And along the way fucks some dudes, takes heroin, shit like that.
Reese Witherspoon plays the woman, and I honestly have no idea why this was nominated on a performance level. On a political level, totally get it. She campaigned for this, it was a weak year — this was one of those spots that was
The Reconsideration: It's Julianne Moore. I could take Rosamund Pike (as I did on Oscar night), but that's because it was understood that Moore was winning and because Pike was my favorite performance. Moore gave the best performance and is all around the choice here.
Stil Alice
Two Days One Night
My Vote: Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Gone Girl is David Fincher, and that makes it essential. Curious to see where this is in five years.
The Theory of Everything is close to essential, but not essential unless you're into the Oscars. Doubt this holds up that well, but we'll see. We're too close to say. Right now, you should see it because the performances are strong.
Still Alice is only gonna be essential for Oscar buffs because of the Julianne Moore win. Otherwise just a decent film that's a solid recommend.
Two Days, One Night is the Dardennes. If you like their stuff, you'll like this. Otherwise, you probably won't. Solid recommend, but not something anyone really needs to see.
Wild is not a movie I like. It's enjoyable enough if you're watching cable and it happens to be on, but otherwise it's not particularly greath. Ehh.
The Last Word: Including everything about this category, this is one of the best decisons of all time. Not that this is one of the best Best Actress winning performances of all time. I'm saying that given the performance being very strong, Julianne Moore being who she is as an actress and her track record with the Academy, and the year being so weak, this is about as perfect a storm as you can get. Hard to really call this a bad decision given the category that we had to work with.
This entry was posted on October 10, 2016 by B+ Movie Blog. It was filed under Movies, Oscars, The Oscar Quest and was tagged with Best Actress, Film, Movies, Oscar, Oscars, The Oscar Quest, The Oscar Quest Reconsidered.


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Il Giro del Belgio 1957, quarantunesima edizione della corsa, si svolse in quattro tappe tra il 16 e il 19 maggio 1957, per un percorso totale di 1002 km e fu vinto dal belga Pino Cerami.

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16 maggio: Bruxelles > Stavelot – 275 km

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17 maggio: Stavelot > La Roche – Cronometro individuale – 51 km

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17 maggio: La Roche > Florenville – 167 km

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18 maggio: Florenville > Charleroi – 258 km

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19 maggio: Charleroi > Bruxelles – 257 km

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Swords And Deviltry (original 1970; edition 1970)
by Fritz Leiber (Author)
Series: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (1)
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The award-winning sword and sorcery classic that introduced Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. First in the influential fan-favorite series, Swords and Deviltry collects four fantastical adventure stories from Fritz Leiber, the author who coined the phrase "sword and sorcery" and helped birth an entire genre. In "Induction," in the realm of Nehwon, fate brings young prince Fafhrd and apprentice magician the Gray Mouser together to mark the beginning of a loyal and lifelong friendship. Consumed by his wicked mother's enchantments, Fafhrd finds freedom by pursuing the love of a beautiful actress in the Nebula and Hugo Award-nominated "The Snow Women." Studying sorcery under a great wizard in a land where it is forbidden, Mouse crosses the thin line between white and black magic to avenge a great wrong in "The Unholy Grail." And in the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning novella "Ill Met in Lankhmar," Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser disguise themselves as beggars to infiltrate the Thieves' Guild--only to pay a horrible price for their greed when they come face-to-face with a monstrous evil. … (more)
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Not as entertaining as I remember. The overall language is a bit much especially in the first two stories; it bogs the narrative down. ( )
Castinet | Dec 10, 2022 |
Three stories which supply much-craved "prequel" background to the Fafhrd & Gray Mouser saga. The first & the last of these are true gems, far the two best Leiber stories I've read. ( )
nielspeterqm | Nov 12, 2022 |
This book has four stories in it:
"Induction"
"The Snow Women"
"The Unholy Grail"
"Ill Met in Lankhmar"
I had read "Ill Met in Lankhmar" before, and felt lukewarm about it. There's another novella I wanted to read in this called "The Snow Women". I read that, and was captured by it, I just loved it. So I kept reading all the way through. Turns out that the stories before "Ill Met" provide a context that I didn't know I was missing. I thoroughly enjoyed re-reading "Ill Met in Lankhmar" too.
This book introduces the characters of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. "Induction" is just a page long. "The Snow Women" is about the Conan-esque 18 year old Fafhrd, who lives in the wild north and longs for civilization. "The Unholy Grail" is about the Gray Mouser, who has been trained by a wizard who gave him his name. In "Ill Met in Lankhmar" the two meet for the first time.
There are seven books in this Sword and Sorcery series. Haven't read any of the others yet.
This series figures prominently in the history of Sword and Sorcery, as covered in Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery by Brian Murphy.
SDanielson | Sep 5, 2022 |
Swords and Deviltry is the first book in the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser fantasy series.
Although I didn't really know anything about this series before I started reading it, I somehow went into it with misconceptions. I'm not sure if it was due to comments I'd unconsciously absorbed from other people talking about it over the years, or if it was purely based on the title of the series, but I was expecting some sort of entertaining relationship between whoever "Fahfrd" and "the Gray Mouser" were. Buddies, reluctant comrades, something along those lines. I was hoping for witty dialogue and humor, and the type of characters that you love just because they're so much fun to read about. That's not what I found in this book, at least not in my opinion. Maybe the series has more of that in the later books.
Fafhrd and Gray Mouser are both youths (I don't think we were given their ages) who grew up separately in different types of environments, each facing some sort of adversity before traveling to the big city which is where they meet. This book is made up of three stories. The first story tells Fafhrd's story, the second tells the Gray Mouser's story, and the third tells of their meeting and an adventure they have together. So I definitely don't recommend that anybody read this book in hopes of a story with lots of witty banter, because the characters don't even meet until you're about two-thirds in. Even after they met, I didn't find it particularly witty or humorous.
It's a really short book and there isn't much world-building. I was especially left with questions about the place where Fafhrd grew up. Since it's a series, I'm sure things get fleshed out more in later books. There is some character development, yet I never felt like I had a strong understanding of the characters and I definitely didn't develop an attachment to them. Some of their decisions irritated me.
I hated that Fafhrd waited until Vellix was dead before jumping into the fight near the end of his story. There was some indication that he was being held back magically, but it wasn't clear. I was pretty sure the author intended it to really be magic since he didn't seem like that subtle of a writer, but I was never quite sure if all the stuff Fafhrd attributed to the snow women, especially the things that affected his own actions, was actually magic or just the influence of his own strong beliefs and fears in their capabilities. In some cases, it seemed like it could just as easily be an excuse for Fafhrd to do what he wanted to do deep down. I also hated that the Gray Mouser jumped off the deep end so easily instead of honoring what his mentor would have wanted for him. He didn't seem to even wrestle with his conscience. Also, while I'm safely within spoiler tags, I'll add that I disliked that both girls were killed brutally at the end, apparently just to serve as a catalyst for the future adventures of the main characters. On the other hand, I didn't care for the girls, so I didn't even feel any emotional impact when they were killed.
I didn't think it was a terrible book, but it was easy to put down and it never grew on me as I'd hoped it might. In fact, I was probably the most interested in the first story and the least interested by the third. It's possible the series might improve as the main characters get to know each other better and go on more adventures, but I didn't care enough to want to stick around for that, so I don't plan to read further. ( )
YouKneeK | Sep 2, 2022 |
So boring. SO. BORING. Nothing at all like the splendid horror by Leiber I've read in the past. ( )
slimikin | Mar 27, 2022 |
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The Snow Women [short story] by Fritz Leiber
The Unholy Grail [short fiction] by Fritz Leiber
Ill Met in Lankhmar [short story] by Fritz Leiber
Induction by Fritz Leiber
Swords and Deviltry
1970 (Induction)
1970 (The Snow Women)
1962 (The Unholy Grail)
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Vlana
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Flim (Night Beggarmaster)
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Locus 1998 Poll, All-Time Best Fantasy Novel Before 1990 (35.1)
Sundered from us by gulfs of time and stranger dimensions dreams the ancient world of Nehwon with its towers and skulls and jewels, its swords and sorceries.
The award-winning sword and sorcery classic that introduced Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. First in the influential fan-favorite series, Swords and Deviltry collects four fantastical adventure stories from Fritz Leiber, the author who coined the phrase "sword and sorcery" and helped birth an entire genre. In "Induction," in the realm of Nehwon, fate brings young prince Fafhrd and apprentice magician the Gray Mouser together to mark the beginning of a loyal and lifelong friendship. Consumed by his wicked mother's enchantments, Fafhrd finds freedom by pursuing the love of a beautiful actress in the Nebula and Hugo Award-nominated "The Snow Women." Studying sorcery under a great wizard in a land where it is forbidden, Mouse crosses the thin line between white and black magic to avenge a great wrong in "The Unholy Grail." And in the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning novella "Ill Met in Lankhmar," Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser disguise themselves as beggars to infiltrate the Thieves' Guild--only to pay a horrible price for their greed when they come face-to-face with a monstrous evil.
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I'm referring to Max Mogul, a longtime member of our Jewish community... for more than half a century at least. I wrote recently about the unfortunate passing of his beloved wife, Ruth.
People who knew Max, knew how generous a man he was, especially to orphaned children.
At his memorial service, people spoke so highly of him (which didn't surprise me) with much admiration, love and respect. Many also spoke of how he made them laugh!
His daughter, Lynda, dedicated and sang his favorite song, "The Wind Beneath My Wings," which brought many to tears. They told Lynda that was a "beautiful tribute to her dad. His daughter, Janet, was also filled with love and grief for the passing of her dad.
Max Mogul will surely be missed!
Eastern Canada, especially Montreal, is on my bucket list. It is where my mom was born and probably where I have some relatives I don't even know about. I have been to western Canada. I performed at the Calgary Stampede as vocalist with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra and visited some surrounding towns. But... bucket list, here I come!
WJC President Ambassador Ronald S. Lauder praised the Canadian government for the recent issuance of a formal apology over its 1939 decision to turn away the M.S. St. Louis ship carrying Jewish refugees fleeing from Europe.
"The WJC welcomes the Canadian government's apology for turning away a ship filled with Jews in 1939 and for its 'one is too many' policy regarding these refugees, which returned them to Europe where many of them ended up murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices," he said. "We are grateful to our Canadian affiliate, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, for its role in bringing about this important apology and public recognition of the ills of this fateful decision."
He continued, "Today, xenophobia and anti-Semitism have made a frightening recurrence across the globe, an indisputable reality which bears the potential for horrendous and deadly consequences, as the history of the Holocaust teaches us.
"We must always remember the dangers that can arise when we stand idly by as hatred rears its ugly head. Let the lesson of the M.S. St. Louis ring loudly and clearly in the disquieting political climate of today and let us remind ourselves of the importance of protecting and defending those in need, including strangers in our midst. Together we must remember our past and protect our future."
On Jan. 28,1986, 11:38 a.m., millions watched on television as Jewish astronaut Dr. Judith A. Resnik boarded the Challenger at the Kennedy Space Center, smiling and waving. Seventy-three seconds after takeoff, the Challenger's fuel tank exploded at 46,000 feet, causing the shuttle cabin to careen 65,000 feet into the sky before descending to the ocean, killing all seven crew members.
Resnik was the second American female astronaut to travel in space, serving as a mission specialist on the 1984 maiden voyage of the space shuttle Discovery. She was also a classical pianist and a gourmet cook. What a great loss!
(Back some years, I was invited to Apollo 12 because my husband was an engineer who worked on it. I sat in the bleachers next to President Nixon, who tried his best to ignore me...thinking of me as too unimportant to converse with.
On Sunday, Feb. 3rd, beginning at 2 p.m., the COS Senior's will hold their entertaining monthly meeting at Congregation Ohev Shalom, 613 Concourse Parkway, South in Maitland.
The featured performer will be ANDY COSTANTINI, lead vocalist, guitar & keyboard player for the "Rollabels."
As always, there will be a complimentary "nosh" of cakes, cookies, drinks, etc. Everyone is welcome.
The admission charge is $5,COS Seniors members; $8, nonmembers.
For info, contact COS Seniors president, JERRY LEIBMAN at 407-694-0546.
Come join The Tribe for another great happy hour! Meet new friends and connect with old ones at The Tribe Happy Hour at Dexter's of Winter Park, 558 W. New England Ave. Suite 100, on Thursday, Feb. 7th from 5:30 to 8:30 pm.
Get a free drink if this is your first Tribe event or if you bring someone new to this event!
Contact CHELSEA QUEREAU st 407-645-5933, extension 288. Admission is free.
At 2 p.m. in the JCC Seniors Lounge, the movie "Lion" will be featured on Feb. 3rd.
On Feb. 4th, at 1 p.m. "Senior Living at Allegro" will be presented by BRIANA.
Complimentary refreshments will be served after the presentation.
Wow, what great service I had today at TooJays Deli in Altamonte Springs. My waitress was DEBBIE KLAUCK. She went above and beyond serving me... helping me with personal things as well. She's as cute as a button, sharp and hard working. In fact, I would love her as a daughter.
Two Jewish cannibals are stewing a pot of food over a fire.
"Oy veh," says the first cannibal, "I really do hate my mother-in-law."
The second cannibal replies, "Nu? So leave her over and just drink the chicken soup."