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Temples in India: Origin and Developmental Stages (Hardcover)
This volume studies the beginning and evolution of temple architecture in India and deals with temples constructed by different ancient and medieval dynasties in various parts of the country. It contains over a hundred plates of temples and carvings on them, cave fa‡ades, pillar descriptions, etc. Many Jaina temples are also covered.
Author S.P. Gupta, S. Vijayakumar
Category Arts
This volume is a study of the beginning and evolution of temple architecture in India which covers sculptures and carvings as well. With over a hundred plates of temples and carvings on them, including cave facades and pillar depictions, it deals with temples constructed by the different ancient and medieval dynasties in Indian history, particularly the Early Western Calukyan and Later Western Calukyans, Pallava, Pandya, Cola, Hoyasala and Nayaka. With illustrations that include maps, plans of caves and even viharas and caityas, it undertakes a study of the temples found in different States of India. The research discusses the variations in plans and elevations to examine development of temple architecture over time and new experimentations in the building of temples by use of various materials. Reconstructing art and architectural styles from the remnants of the ruined temples in many places, it explains terms and concepts in temple building and architecture and cites examples of various temple styles and traditions including the best and the earliest ones. The focus is on the Dravida and Nagara temple styles and a third hybrid form of ÷ikhara that developed in the Deccan. Many Jaina temples are also covered. The book will prove extremely useful for scholars and students of Indology, particularly those studying Indian religious architecture.


Over a quarter of consumers say they'll spend more on gifts than they did last year. Among millennials, that share is 41 percent.
U.S. stock index futures indicated a lower open on Friday as traders digested the release of key inflation data.
A willingness to use the word "Christmas" in seasonal advertising is just one of many criteria the brand strategy firm Faith Driven Consumer employs as it rates companies for its Faith Equality Index.
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Top 10 Reasons To Wait to the Last Minute to Mail Out my Holiday Cards.
Image. Nobody likes a show off.
Location, location, location. My card gets front of mantle. The Thanksgiving eager beavers are collecting dust in the back.
Exercise. Lugging the box of cards from room to room with the good intention to get started is a great way to tone the arms.
Helpers. As Santa's arrival draws near, the kids are more motivated to be "good" and lick envelopes.
Kindness. Gives my friends a sense of superiority and accomplishment for having gotten their cards out before mine.
Efficiency. Buys me a little more time to get that perfect picture.
Sweet tooth. Need time to bake the cookies that go with the card for local friends.
Thrill. Procrastinators have more fun.
Suspense. How many of you get calls from people saying they'd been looking forward to getting your card? We do. Every year.
Inspiration. Getting my holiday cards out early is always at the top of my New Year's Resolutions.
This post is just another procrastination tactic to keep me from sending out the last 100 cards we're sending out this year, but before my head hits the pillow, they will be done. I swear. I promise. Probably.
In all seriousness though, I love our cards so much this year that I actually got teary when they came out the box. That said, it doesn't take much to make me misty eyed. I've been known to reach for a Kleenex while watching iCarly.
We ordered our cards through Tiny Prints for the second year in a row, and thanks to my amazing sister who runs their social media department, our cards were free. But having benefited from their impressive customer service (my designer called me on my cell at 9PM last Saturday night to see if I liked my proofs!) and having seen how gorgeous the cards came out, I could never go back to a regular photo card. These cards are worth every penny, and will transition from front of mantle to front of fridge door after the tree comes down.
Your family will look so good, distant strangers will be eager to show off your card. College friends will pick up the phone to catch up, and ex-boyfriends will kick themselves for not having treated you better.
It's not too late to get your own holiday cards made. You still have a few days to put in an order at Tiny Prints and still get your cards before Santa comes sleighing in. They've also got some amazing deals going on every day. Yesterday it was 25 free cards. Today it's an extra 20% off.
Stop making excuses. Get your hands on a few Tiny Prints Christmas cards today. Even if it's just a few for local friends and your mother-in-law.
Then you can actually say that you out-procrastinated me, and steal my front of the mantle placement.
Here's a sneak peak at our family's card. It's a tri-fold design. You know, to take up more room on that mantle.
>Ha! Love it! Seriously, I've always thought – why not wait until early January to send out the holiday cards/letters? That way people have more time to actually sit down and look at them sine they're not in the middle of the Christmas rush!
Sending them later allows you to send to the people you may have forgotten. And, got a card from them (I've done this many times…oops!).
We're sending out postcards, as is our tradition. This year my daughter hand illustrated them.


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Researchers invent super-elastic conducting fibers to make artificial muscles, sensors, and capacitors
A University of Texas at Dallas research team has made electrically conducting fibers that can be reversibly stretched to more than 14 times their initial length and whose electrical conductivity increases 200-fold when stretched.
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World's thinnest lightbulb developed using graphene
A postdoctoral research scientist, Young Duck Kim, has led a team of scientists from Columbia, Seoul National University (SNU), and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) that have demonstrated for the first time ever an on-chip visible light source using graphene, an atomically thin and perfectly crystalline form of carbon, as a filament.
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New spongelike material converts solar energy into steam
The DLS that consists of a carbon foam supporting an exfoliated graphite layer.
MIT has developed a new material structure that generates steam by soaking up the sun. The structure — a layer of graphite flakes and an underlying carbon foam — is a porous, insulating material structure that floats on water. When sunlight hits the structure's surface, it creates a hotspot in the graphite, drawing water up through the material's pores, where it evaporates as steam. The brighter the light, the more steam is generated.
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New electrochemistry technology could lead to huge improvements in batteries
The new lithium-ion battery technology charges faster, lasts longer and outputs more power than current lithium-ion batteries.
A University of Alberta research team may have made a breakthrough that will ultimately lead to dramatic improvements in the batteries that power everything from laptops and smartphones to medical devices and tools. The lithium-ion battery technology the team is currently developing charges faster, lasts longer and outputs more power than current lithium-ion batteries, according to lead researcher Xinwei Cui.
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Japanese startup unveils a long-lasting and safer dual-carbon battery
A dual-carbon battery from a brand new startup out of Japan.
A young Japanese startup called Power Japan Plus, or PJP, has a new type of battery under development that lasts longer, is safer, charges faster and is less expensive than a standard lithium ion battery. The year-old company uses carbon for both the anode and the cathode portion of the battery and hopes to start producing it later this year.
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Smartphones in the future could be printed on your clothes
Graphene and carbon nanotubes can generate intense surface plasmons for use in nanoelectronics and cancer therapy.
Engineers at Monash University Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering (ECSE) have modeled the world's first "spaser" (surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) to be made completely out of carbon.
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Stanford engineers successfully build world's first carbon nanotube computer
Researchers unveil the first working computer built entirely from carbon nanotube transistors.
A group of researchers at Stanford University have moved a step closer to answering the question of what happens when silicon, the standard material in today's microelectronic circuits, reaches its fundamental limits for use in increasingly small transistors.
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Heated farbric using carbon nanotube coated fibers
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Kuraray Living and Hokkaido University have been working together to create a soft washable fabric woven with carbon nanotube coated fibers that produces heat when electricity is applied. So when it's perfected, your electric blanket could get a lot less bulky.
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Diamond planet discovered by astronomers
An exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond discovered.
Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard.
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World's forests absorb 40% of manmade fossil fuel emissions
Forests are absorbing almost 40 per cent of the 38 billion tons of carbon dioxide created by mankind every year.
Researchers at the University of Leeds found forests absorb nearly 40 per cent of man made fossil fuel emissions every year.
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Candle flames contain millions of tiny diamonds
As if a candlelit dinner wasn't romantic enough.
Scientists have shown that each flickering candle flame contains 'millions of tiny diamonds that are created and disappear in the blink of an eye'.
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Carbon Nanotube Patch Could Help Heal the Heart
A tiny patch made out of carbon nanotubes may help regenerate heart cells.
According to research from Brown University, a conductive patch of carbon nanotubes can regenerate heart tissue growing in a dish. The patch, made of tiny chains of carbon atoms that fold in on themselves, forming a tube, conducts electricity and mimics the rough surface of natural tissue. The more nanotubes the Brown researchers added to the patch, the more cells around it were able to regenerate.
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We consistently wonder why the 2015 Chevrolet Spark EV hasn't expanded into more than the two measly states the car is currently sold in. The 2015 Spark EV is currently sold in California, and Oregon, with Maryland sales starting later in 2015.
Yet, the 2015 Spark EV outsold the Chevrolet Volt by 15 units. Keep in mind, the Chevrolet Volt is sold in all fifty states. The 2015 Spark EV sold 920 units, and the Volt found 905 new homes. But the real story is the insane bump in Spark EV sales after the car's price decrease.
In March of 2015, Chevrolet sold 151 Spark EVs. Then, a price decrease of $1,500 came, and a low, very low lease payment of $139 per month, down from $199 per month. April 2015 saw 920 Spark EVs as mentioned, a substantial increase in volume. According to Autoblog, 864 of the 2015 Spark EV sales in April were leases because, let's face it, that $139 per month payment is mighty attractive. Factor in the savings from gasoline and it looks even better.
So the real question of it all is whether Chevrolet is now looking to expand the 2015 Spark EV into new markets. Annalisa Bluhm of Chevrolet communications says GM is always considering new states to introduce the car to, but has "nothing to announce yet" according to the report.
A shame, because the teeny-tiny Spark EV would make a great companion to the 2016 Volt.
Price and limited availability, two major obstacles for this EV. Nice to see one of them being taken care of, at least somewhat. As for markets, I keep thinking this would sell very well in New York as well. A gigantic market that has many people who have the money but not much room for driving or parking.
I am not sure why the Spark is limited to sale in California and Oregon only.
If this thing was sold in Ontario I'd lease it. Actually if Chev Canada offered similar aggressive leasing on the Volt as in the States I would likely have one.
I think it was the Fiat 500e in California, where there was a lease promo for like 99/month. Anyways, there was a race in Cali and one of the drivers caught wind of the deal, so he and about 20 others went and cleaned out the Chrysler-Fiat dealerships in the area.
With CAFE requirements — and a huge demand for full size SUVs — GM needs to expand the sales of Volts and Spark EVs big time. The Spark is ideal for large metro areas where GM traditionally isn't strong.
Time to be agressive GM!!! GM of Canada needs to parallel the US in being agressive too. Or maybe GM Canada likes being in third place in automotive sales behind Ford and Chrysler?
Actually, SUV and full size truck sales lower GM's CAFE rating, so they are kind of helping. A company like Mazda which only has small to midsize vehicles will have to meet higher MPG ratings as a brand than GM. Efficient big vehicles in a lot of ways help a brand meet CAFE than having a small super efficient car.


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The SATs are an important milestone because they determine the future of high school students in terms of college placement and the road they will continue to take on their way to success. Due to that observation, the standardized assessment brings a lot of fear and anxieties to students who have direct dreams and goals in their post-high school lives, and a lot of those objectives have to do with education and college. A poor score on the SAT Math makes the difference between being accepted into Stanford than enrolling in community college, not that that is not a viable option but it is not the option some people want.
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What Treatment is Best to Kill Sod Webworms in Houston Area Lawns
If you care for a healthy lawn in the Houston area, you need to know how to kill sod webworms. Sod webworms can destroy your lawn in a short time, and they target the well-fertilized, healthy grass in newly-laid sod over the grass in the rest of your lawn. Houston Grass Owner Michael Romine talks about identifying and killing sod webworms in this video.
How to Kill Sod Webworms in Your Lawn
Summary of How to Kill Sod Webworms in Houston Area Lawns
– – Hi, I'm Michael with Houston Grass, and today we're standing in a friend of mine's front yard here. We're early August right now, and we replaced this grass about six weeks ago. We came in with a sod cutter, cut the grass out, and replaced it with Raleigh St. Augustine. I wanted to come look at this house because this is a perfect example of what sod webworms, when left untreated, can do to a front yard. In a minute we'll show some of the damage here. Some of this grass has started to come back a little bit.
How to Identify Sod Webworms
The first sign that you've got sod webworms is that you start to see moths flying around. If you walk through the grass and you see a lot of little brown, they're tropical sod webworms and they're a light brown moth that flies up out of the grass, usually by the dozens when you walk through your grass any time of day. They'll actually be active in the early morning and late evening hours.
They're basically fluttering around over the top of the grass, and as they do that they drop little eggs, and those eggs hatch in about seven to 10 days and become little bitty green worms that kind of hide in the thatch layers during the day, come out at night and feed. Basically you'll come out in the morning and you'll see about maybe a softball-size area that they come up during the night. They eat a small area and take the stuff back down in their little web tunnels during the day.
Any time of day, especially at night, I found that if you go out with a flashlight, you can kind of part the grass and look down and you'll see the spider webs. They look like spider webs that they've woven, and you'll also see, I think, during the night that they hang out in their excrement It's little green splotches of stuff down near the base of the grass. That's how you know you've got sod webworms.
Treatments to Kill Sod Webworms in Your Lawn
Sod webworms are not a problem at our farm generally. These moths are in your flower beds and are hanging out in yards around. They're particularly attracted to new, tender, healthy, dark green grass. Guess what? That's exactly what Houston Grass South delivers.
We come and we put that down in your yard, and these things will move in like it's a new, fresh salad bar. They can move in overnight, and if they're really bad they can wipe out a whole yard in two or three days.
It happens, and in this case you'll be able to see that they actually prefer the new, young, tender grass, and in this case too, you'll see these things came in, ate all the new, young, tender grass and then left. We only replaced parts of this yard, and you can see the parts that we did not replace are fine. They moved on to something else.
So you can see how that gives us a bad rap. Sometimes people accuse the farm of bringing in sod webworms, when these little moths are all around this area. They're not coming from our farm.
These last two summers they're the worst they've been in 30 years, because we haven't had much of a winter to kill them. They lay over in the thatch layers in the winter. If we don't have much of a severe winter at all, which has been the case the last two summers, they come with a vengeance.
Cyonara Lawn & Garden Insecticide to Kill Sod Webworms
So they've been really bad these last two summers, but we are recommending to people that they treat with a product proven to kill sod webworms. We recommend using either a liquid insecticide we carry called Cyonara Lawn & Garden or a granular insecticide called Bug Out Max.
The Cynonara Lawn & Garden attaches to the end of your hose and you treat with that by spraying the mixture over your lawn. You've got to treat about three times in two to three weeks to break the cycle, because the chemical will kill the worms and it will kill the moths, but it will not kill the eggs. So if there are eggs, depending on when you apply the chemical in the lifecycle, those eggs may hatch two or three days after you spray.
Nitro Phos Bug Out Max Insecticide to Kill Sod Webworms
We carry Nitro-Phos Bug Out Max granular insecticide with Bifen that you'd put out with your spreader and water it in. Same effectiveness, but just a granular. In either case, you have to put these chemicals out three times in two to three weeks to break that lifecycle.
If you see those moths fluttering around or if you walk across your yard and see them, it's something you should really pay attention to because they'll eat you out of house and home in a real big hurry, and you can end up starting from scratch with new grass, especially, especially our grass that's super healthy and they're really attracted to, and established lawns as well.
We've seen a lot of them, like I said, these last couple of summers, and it's something to really pay attention to. So if you get new grass, we're suggesting that everybody treat preemptively, preventatively to kill sod webworms, because they have been so bad these last couple of summers.
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Q: Windowing Functions for MySQL 5.7 32-bit Anyone please advise how to use windowing functions in MYSQL 5.7 and 32-bit OS.
Thanks in advance

A: Window functions are available in MySQL 8.0 and newer. Alternatively, you could try using MariaDB 10.2.
For older versions of MySQL they are not available.

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Kendrick Perkins, né le  à Nederland au Texas (États-Unis), est un joueur américain de basket-ball évoluant au poste de pivot.

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Kendrick Perkins avait commencé sa carrière au lycée, à la  à Beaumont dans le Texas. Lors de son année senior, il culmine à 27.5 points, 16.4 rebonds et 7.8 contres par rencontre, en menant son équipe à un record de 33 victoires et une seule défaite. Il décide de demander à Lucas Porier directement à la Draft de la NBA sans passer par le cursus universitaire.

Les débuts NBA avec Boston
Drafté en 2003 en  par les Grizzlies de Memphis, il est aussitôt envoyé aux Celtics de Boston avec Marcus Banks contre Troy Bell et Dahntay Jones dans le cadre d'un échange car son niveau était relativement faible. De saison en saison, il évolue dans la hiérarchie de l'équipe de Boston jusqu'à devenir le pivot titulaire, notamment après le départ de Mark Blount au Timberwolves du Minnesota durant la saison 2005-2006. Il participe notamment à la campagne victorieuse de la saison 2007-2008, qui voit les Celtics remporter leur . Il est alors membre du cinq de départ des Celtics avec Rajon Rondo (meneur de jeu), Ray Allen (arrière), Paul Pierce (ailier) et Kevin Garnett (ailier fort).

En 2010, Lors de sa deuxième finale jouée avec les Celtics contre les Lakers de Los Angeles, il se blesse au genou droit pendant le  de la série. Les Lakers remportent le titre, et Perkins ne revient à la compétition que le .

Départ vers Oklahoma City
Le , il est envoyé à Thunder d'Oklahoma City en compagnie de son coéquipier Nate Robinson en échange de Jeff Green et Nenad Krstic. Il y devient le pivot titulaire et signe le  mars suivant une extension de contrat de quatre ans. Lors de la saison 2011-2012, il atteint avec le Thunder les finales NBA pour la  de sa carrière mais son équipe est battue par le Heat de Miami.

Le , lors de la réception du Heat de Miami, il se blesse et souffre d'une déchirure à l'aine ce qui l'oblige à se faire opérer et à être écarté des terrains pour une durée de six semaines.

Signature à Cleveland
En , il fait partie d'un échange qui envoie le joueur du Jazz de l'Utah Enes Kanter à Oklahoma City, transfère Reggie Jackson du Thunder aux Pistons de Détroit, Perkins rejoignant la franchise de l'Utah.

Le , il négocie un  avec le Jazz de l'Utah et s'engage avec les Cavaliers de Cleveland. Il a fait ce choix car LeBron y était et qu'ils avaient les moyens de gagner un titre, les fans très en colère s'acharnent sur lui depuis.

Il cite
"Je m'en contre fiche de mes fans, ils sont tous jaloux car je suis au Cleveland Cavaliers, ils sont très instables."

Pelicans de La Nouvelle-Orléans (2015-2016)
Le , il signe aux Pelicans de La Nouvelle-Orléans pour un an et le minimum vétéran.

Charge de Canton (2017-2018)
Le  il signe avec les Cavaliers de Cleveland pour le camp d'entraînement mais n'est pas conservé dans le groupe final. Il rejoint ensuite le Charge de Canton en NBA Gatorade League, franchise affilié aux Cavaliers de Cleveland.

Palmarès

En franchise
 Champion NBA en 2008 avec les Celtics de Boston
 Finaliste NBA en 2010 avec les Celtics de Boston (défaite contre les Lakers de Los Angeles) et en 2012 avec le Thunder d'Oklahoma City (défaite contre le Heat de Miami)
 Champion de la Conférence Est en 2008 et 2010 avec les Celtics de Boston.
 Champion de la Conférence Ouest en 2012 avec le Thunder d'Oklahoma City.
 Champion de la Division Atlantique en 2005, 2008, 2009 et 2010 avec les Celtics de Boston.
 Champion de la Division Nord-Ouest en 2011, 2012 et 2013 avec le Thunder d'Oklahoma City.

Records sur une rencontre en NBA

Les records personnels de Kendrick Perkins en NBA sont les suivants :

 Double-double : 53 (dont 10 en playoffs)
 Triple-double : 0

Références

Liens externes

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Naissance en novembre 1984
Naissance dans le comté de Jefferson (Texas)
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Joueur des Celtics de Boston
Joueur du Thunder d'Oklahoma City
Joueur des Cavaliers de Cleveland
Joueur des Pelicans de La Nouvelle-Orléans
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With the newly announced $100 billion share repurchase program, it's clear that Apple is running out of ideas. Orrrrr maybe they're just being responsible stewards of capital.
Buybacks have a negative stigma, even though Econompically speaking, they're actually equivalent. But people hear buybacks and think of Cisco in the 90s and other easily available examples as evidence of their inefficiency.
People get worked up over Apple's buyback program because they think that it's happening in lieu of other investments. This is not the case, which I'll get to in a minute, but Jack Vogel has empirically shown that companies that invest heavily in things like R&D make for really lousy investments.
In a Feburary, 2016 Fortune article, Apple Has Wasted Billions on Buybacks, the author wrote (emphasis mine) :
Today, however, Apple is trading at around $95. So management paid a 21% premium over the value investors are now according its stock. If Apple were purchasing its shares at current prices, it could buy back 918 million shares, or about one-fifth more. Put another way, Apple's share buyback, as it turned out, because of what now looks like poor timing, cost it $15 billion more than it had to.
The heavy buying in early 2015, when Apple shares hovered around their all-time record, is especially striking. From January to June of last year, Apple lavished $11 billion on buybacks at $127 on average, 34% over to its current price of $95.
Even now, it's not clear Apple is the great buy it was supposed to be last year. "Who knows where it stock is going to go? It's an unanswerable question with all buybacks," says Jack Ciesielski, author of the Analysts' Accounting Observer. "Another problem is that buybacks send a message of fatigue, that management doesn't have any good ideas for using the cash, other than giving it back to shareholders."
These arguments were compelling at the time, but now Apple is now trading at $176, and investors have almost doubled their money since this article came out.
Apple has bought back $171 billion over the last nineteen quarters, but they've also spent $41.5 billion on R&D!
Apple is not buying stock rather than investing in the future, and what to do with all the excess cash is a problem most companies are dying to have. Apple is earning more money than any other company in the world, and they're being responsible with it. Instead of returning the $100 billion to shareholders, they could buy Qualcomm and Twitter, but for now, they're staying in their lane.
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Exposing the Big Lie About Stock Buybacks


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W.(10/19/2008)
Posted by themovievampire on October 29, 2008
When Michael Moore made Farenheit 9/11 in late 2004, George W. Bush was the most divisive person in the world. Now, that probably isn't the case. With approval ratings in the twenties it's probably safe to guess that a majority of people can finally agree that "dubya" is a horrible president that should never have been elected. In case you haven't guessed already, I'm no fan of our current president, and I never have been. I'm making my bias clear right up front, unless you've had your head in the sand for the last eight years there's no way to look at something like this without bias. Oliver Stone is not a filmmaker known to keep his head in the sand; he's completely upfront with his biases, and that's what makes his movies so interesting. The George W. Bush presidency is the perfect subject for Oliver Stone to do his magic, and low and behold here's an Oliver Stone directed biopic about our forty third president.
Many people lump Oliver Stone's JFK and Nixon as peas in the same pod, but they're really very different films. JFK is not a biopic; the title character doesn't even have a speaking role. Nixon is a full fledged biopic, though despite being over three hours long it focused almost exclusively on tricky Dick's political career. With W. Oliver Stone examines a president's entire adult life and in half as long a running time. The film generally focuses on three separate periods of Bush's life: his life as a hellraising college student, his time as a businessman and Texas politician, and his presidency.
Playing the titular character is Josh Brolin, who's coming off a great 2007 in which he acted in Grindhouse, American Gangster, and No Country for Old Men. I liked the choice of Brolin for the role from the moment I heard about it and he doesn't disappoint. Doing a George W. Bush impression isn't that hard, just about every two bit impressionist in the country does him. The trick here was probably just not getting too carried away with the impression, to not focus on the impression to the detriment of the acting in a given scene. If Brolin had focused too much on the impression the movie could have devolved into a "Saturday Night Live" sketch.
The other various cast members also need to be able to make a balance between impression and acting, and some do it better than others. James Cromwell doesn't really look much like George H.W. Bush, but there's a certain New England aura too him that makes him the right contrast to the younger Bush's Texas swagger. Elizabeth Banks' Laura Bush takes a similar approach and so does Scott Glenn's Donald Rumsfeld. Thandie Newton on the other hand tries so hard to imitate Condoleezza Rice that her line readings are devoid of any real humanity. Toby Jones has similar problems playing Karl Rove, and Jeffrey Wright is never quite able to pull of Colin Powell. Richard Dreyfuss is probably the only actor other than Brolin who is really able to pull off imitation and acting in equal measure. Dreyfuss' Dick Cheney looks and sounds exactly like the real Vice President and he never feels robotic in his imitating.
I've always been a fan of Oliver Stone's movies, the man used to have an uncanny ability to put out a lot of very long and very ambitious movies in very quick succession while still maintaining a very high level of quality. Then he made U-Turn and it's like the man's career fell off a cliff. Any Given Sunday had its moments and World Trade Center was competent enough, but with clunkers like Alexander and the aforementioned U-Turn it's hard to deny that Stone's output has been dramatically worse than it once was. W. Looked like a perfect project to make a comeback out of, unfortunately I think this falls prey to a problem I never expected a fearless director like Oliver Stone to have: it plays too safe.
The film feels very plausible, a bit too plausible. Almost everything in the movie is a well documented historical event that Bush himself would probably agree to, albeit with a deliberate focus on the things that make Bush look bad. It's almost like Stone was so afraid of being dismissed as a left wing kook that he decided to stick so close to the facts that there isn't much left for the movie to show that wasn't already covered in Fahrenheit 9/11. I'm not saying I wanted Stone to lie, what I wanted was for him to tell me something I didn't already know, even if it meant using a little speculative fiction. Some of the best moments in the movie are during pre-Iraq strategy sessions where Dick Cheney lays out a scary theory of American imperialism. I'm sure this stretched a lot further than what can strictly be proven, it was probably speculated, and that's what I wanted to see more of. I would have liked to see Stone go behind the closed doors of the White House and seen the planning that went into some of Bush's botched policies like he did with Richard Nixon.
I also think the film suffers because it doesn't really show a lot of the consequences of Bush's actions. Of course one could easily argue that we're seeing those consequences in our daily lives, but why fictionalize this at all if we already know all the real details. There's some brief Iraq war footage, and the film goes a little bit into the period where Bush sees that the war isn't as easy as he expected, but the film stops long before he finds himself become the least popular president since Hoover. The film also focuses in entirely on Iraq during the presidential portions, which is also a problem. Hurricane Katrina isn't mentioned once even though that was where the public really turned on him. The Patriot Act is mentioned briefly and there's a set up for No Child Left Behind that's never delivered on. While Iraq is probably going to be the main red flag in the Bush legacy, it's by no means the only mistake he made. This was never a problem with the three and a half hour Nixon, hopefully we'll see a director's cut that can fit more of this stuff in, until then we're stuck with a film that focuses mainly on George Bush Jr. that underachieving president's son who might have a better job some day in the future.
The film's clever trailer is a montage to the tune of the song "Once in a Lifetime" By the Talking heads. Over the course of the montage the song's lyrics seem to match up with what we're seeing on screen. Among the most telling of these lyrical juxtapositions is the line "And you may ask yourself-well…how did I get here?" That's the question I think Stone is most interested in answering, and it's a valid question to be ask going into an election. If nothing else, I think this might work as a cautionary tale about the importance of vetting the people you vote for. George W. Bush had no business being president and he was voted in by people who went with him without really thinking about the implications of his policies. This is a movie about the dangers of casually voting for an underachieving dude just because he talks tough. Otherwise it's a fairly standard biopic that reenacts a lot of stuff we already have video footage of.
I'm making it sound like I disliked this movie a lot more than I actually did. The movie is not boring, it held my interest for its entire running time and it worked fairly well as a narrative. I think I'm mostly just disappointed because of how great I think this maybe could have been. This is a well made film with some good performances at its center; it does enough right to be worth watching. What it isn't is the Oliver Stone comeback film that I've been waiting for. For the most part this feels like yet another missed opportunity in an early autumn movie season full of them.
*** out of Four
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Body of Lies(10/10/2008)
He often doesn't get quite the respect or reverence he deserves, but Ridley Scott is one of the most important directors of the last thirty years. One of the first directors to be given the promotion from advertising director to feature film director, Scott brought a new level of polish to the screen, raising the bar on cinematic production values. This is a fairly unpretentious accomplishment, but it's every bit as important as the accomplishments of people like Steven Soderbergh, David Lynch, or Werner Herzog. Scott's mastery of cinema production values is his greatest strength, no movie has better sets, special effects, photography, or set pieces than a Ridley Scott movie, and he's still a cut above all his competitors.
However, I must say that a number of the movies Scott has made during this decade haven't been as good as they should have been. When Scott made Gladiator in 2000, it looked like he was making a major comeback, but since then I frankly think that he's been playing it a little too safe. His first post-Gladiator project, Hannibal was awful, I blame Thomas Harris's horrible novel for that one, and since he made the excellent Black Hawk Down right after it Scott still seemed like he was on the right track. Then he made Matchstick Men which I think is an underrated gem, but after that the trouble started. Kingdom of Heaven was passable, but not anywhere as good as it could have been, partly because of Orlando Bloom's lackluster screen presence and partly because of a compromised theatrical cut. At least Scott learned his lesson from that and never casted Orlando Bloom again… or anyone else who isn't Russell Crowe. I didn't even see A Good Year, and American Gangster was good, but again not anywhere near as good as something with that pedigree should have been. Now Scott has made another film, and this one was about the American war on terror, now that didn't sound like something that would be playing it safe.
The film centers around Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio), a CIA agent on the ground in the Middle East. He takes orders from Edward Hoffman (Russell Crowe), a middle aged CIA member who claims to be an expert on the region but who gives his orders over the phone from his suburban household. After a botched operation on the ground in Iraq, Ferris is sent to Amman, Jordan to track down a terrorist leader who is the likely perpetrator. There he teams up with the local intelligence agency lead by a man named Hani Salaam (Mark Strong), who demands only one thing: that Ferris never lies to him. They devise a plan to infiltrate a terrorist safe house by conditioning a member of the organization to their side.
I don't need to tell anyone how much 9/11 and the war on terror had affected our society. When the wars in the Middle East began, it was a great opportunity for filmmakers to use their craft to either make statements about our society or at least have a dramatic situation to depict. The movie that was probably best able to utilize the geopolitical situation was probably Stephen Stephen Gaghan's Syriana, a film that had the patience to honestly describe the full complexities of the Middle East's affect on America and America's effect on the Middle East. Three years later, Syriana remains the gold standard for this genre, unfortunately most of the movies related to Iraq or the broader war on terror since then have not lived up to their potential. Many of them fall prey to peachiness, as was the case with Rendition, others are just too busy being angry to act as good narratives, as was the case with Redacted. These movies are overbearing and don't work, but at least they're trying to do something, on the other end of the spectrum there's last year's retarded action film The Kingdom, which exploited the war on terror in order to film a number of explosions and justified it with meaningless pseudo-moralizing in the last fifteen minutes. Body of Lies never reduces itself to the level of that stinker, but by the end it doesn't seem to have much more on its mind.
This movie does not have a message, it doesn't clarify the Middle East, and it isn't a well reasoned drama. In fact Kingdom of Heaven, a movie about the 12th century crusades, probably had more to day about the modern Middle East then this does. All right, that's an overstatement; there are a few ideas on the surface about the effect of decision making by people removed from the realities of the region, but it's clear to me that this is not why Ridley Scott made this movie. This is a spy thriller pure and simple that happens to deal with the current conflicts. The film makes me wonder what all those cold war spy movies must have felt like while the cold war was actually going on. Like most of my generation I don't remember much of the Cold War, and I wonder if the way I watched a Bond movie like From Russia With Love would be different if the Russians actually posed a nuclear threat. Of course a lot of those movies usually sidestepped their political implication by making the real bad guys separate criminals like SPECTRE or some sort of rouge general, there's no such separation in The Kingdom or Body of Lies, the villains are Islamic terrorists with only superficial differences from Osama Bin Laden. Similarly exploitative undertones also killed off a lot of the fun that could have been had from movies like the new Rambo and Blood Diamond. Frankly, I'm not comfortable with simplistic action movies being made against the backdrop of the serious problems in the Middle East.
Of course this all would have been a lot more forgivable if I thought Body of Lies worked better as a straight up thriller. The movie's fractured act structure prevents the stakes from really raising to high before the movie moves on to other things, and the ending is really anti-climactic. Also the action is mostly front loaded, in the first act there is a pretty big shootout, and an awesome car chase involving a helicopter. After that though, the movie becomes more of a cloak and dagger affair.
Ridley Scott's direction is as slick as ever, and the dialogue is also quite good. Russell Crowe gives a pretty fun performance; it's certainly fun watching him talk on one of those cell phone microphones that dangle down on a wire anyway. Di Caprio is also perfectly functional as the film's hero, although I could have done without the vaguely southern accent he's trying to do. The one who steals the show here is Mark Strong, who is really bringing his A-game as the head of Jordanian intelligence.
It should really be noted that this movie coasts along as far as it possibly can with great production values, star power, and good dialogue. But all this can only take it so far, Scott manages to maintain a certain level of dignity through the whole affair, but it can't make up for the movie's general pointlessness. It's never as stupid as The Kingdom, but I don't think it will be much more memorable either. Scott can do a lot better than this and I think he needs to think a little less commercially with the projects he chooses, as can the rest of this cast. Body of Lies is ultimately a movie unworthy of its pedigree, a real missed opportunity.
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Blindness(10/3/2008)
Posted by themovievampire on October 8, 2008
One of the great pleasures of watching a lot of movies is the ability to spot new talent and watch it emerge over the course of a career. Every critic, film buff, and industry watcher wants to feel the way Martin Scorsese did in 1967 when he came out of Who's That Knocking at My Door and proclaimed Martin Scorsese one of the great new talents of his generation. For me, and many others, Fernando Meirelles' City of God seemed like the start of a great director's career. City of God was a bold and brilliant film that show the presence of a true cinematic genius behind the camera, a natural talent who had a Scorsese-esque ability to choose just the right trick to make every shot work to its fullest potential. It seemed like there was no place to go except down from that modern classic, but his follow-up The Constant Gardener did not disappoint. Mierelles showed no signs of a sophomore slump, with that film he had shown real maturity and toned down some of City of God's virtuosity to fit that very different film. Expectations were high for Mierelles' third film, Blindness, which could solidify Mierelles as the great talent of our time if it lived up to his first two films. Unfortunately, Blindness isn't as great as his previous films; in many ways it feels like the sophomore slump he somehow avoided with The Constant Gardener.
The film opens with a man (Yusuke Iseya) stopping his car in the middle of the road and telling the good Samaritans who stop to help him that he suddenly went blind while driving down the road. He eventually finds his way to an eye doctor (Mark Ruffalo) who can find no explanation for his sudden blindness. The next day, that eye doctor tells his wife (Julianne Moore) that he too is suddenly blind. It's quickly decided that this blindness is the result of a spreading contagion and the government decides to quarantine everybody afflicted. The blind are brought into a detention facility and told to fend for themselves with no assistance from anyone with sight. The Julianne Moore character never loses her sight but decides to stay by her husband's side in the quarantine just the same. The facility is undersupplied and unsupported, the blind quickly grow restless particularly a man in Ward 3 (Gael García Bernal) who shows no interest in cooperating with the people trying to make the place better.
The key problem with Blindness is simply that it is really depressing and unpleasant to sit through, which wouldn't be a problem if it had a really strong story or a really profound message, but it has neither. The trailers don't tell you this, but most of the movie isn't set in the wider society dealing with this crisis, more than half of it is spent in a dark, dank, disgusting prison. The people are stuffed in like sardines, and the government isn't even trying to help improve conditions. Painfully, the situation looks disturbingly similar to what happened to the people stuck in the New Orleans Superdome during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The difference is those people were stuck for about a week, and the people in the film are there for months on end with no end in sight and even less outside assistance. This allegory gives the sequence some degree of power, but at the same time there's only so much of this abuse an audience can take. These scenes seem to go on forever, eventually the film moves on from this hellhole into some of its more impressive sequences in the last twenty minutes, but by then it's too little too late. I only wish more of the film had taken place in the city than in that horrible prison.
The film's central message is that society falls apart when it has to face a major crisis situation, but this is hardly a unique or original message. The story bears a very close resemblance to "Lord of the Flies," and brings very little new to the table. This is made worse by the fact that we've seen a lot of movies like this recently; some titles that come to mind include Children of Men, 28 Days Later, War of the Worlds, and The Happening, in fact The Happening would have probably been a lot like this if it hadn't been completely inept.
The characters here all fit the same cliché types you'd find in a Hollywood disaster film: You've got the leader type in the woman who can see, you've got the wide old man in a character played by Danny Glover, you've got the hooker with a heart of gold that everyone judges at first but come to respect, you've got the kid who's only there to quietly sit around and up the stakes for the larger group, and you've got the unbalanced crazy guy and his henchmen there to act as villains for the group. That's really the root problem with the movie, deep down it's just a Hollywood genre movie the ones listed above, it just doesn't want to admit it. The end result is a movie that's the worst of both worlds; it's no more profound or well told than the average disaster movie, yet it's an extremely depressing, claustrophobic, and unpleasant experience to sit through.
What saves the movie from being a real disaster is some very good acting and production values. The acting in particular has a knack for making the viewer almost forget just how cliché a lot of these characters are. I took issue with the way Julianne Moore portrayed her character early in the film, particularly the airheaded moments when she put herself in jeopardy for no reason, but as the film progressed her performance really grew on me. Moore and her character hold a quiet dignity and strength that really felt like one of the few things that was able to rise above this hellish world that Mierelles managed to create. Mark Ruffalo also played her husband in a very well done, naturalistic way. Gael Garcia Bernal is also very strong as the scenery chewing villain of the piece.
The production qualities are also quite good, particularly the art direction which conveys a really desolate mess of a post-apocalypse in the last few scenes and effectively makes the quarantine facility look every bit as awful as Meirelles seems to want it to be. The cinematography is also pretty interesting. The blind characters describe their condition as an extreme whiteness, like "swimming through milk." To match this Meirelles took a bold step and seemed to turn the white light on the set up to eleven, leaving the visuals of the movie completely washed out in whiteness for large portions of the film. I'm not sure that this really adds a whole lot to the movie, he would have had to take this a lot further if his goal was to make the audience completely empathize with the blind people on screen, but I don't think it really hurts the movie much either. It's an interesting decision that makes the movie unique if nothing else.
The movie does have a number of very good scenes, in fact very few of them fall flat, the problem is that they don't gel together into a greater whole… at all. Fernando Meirelles has made two great films so far, and I'm sure he'll make great films in the future, but this one straight up doesn't work. There are elements here to respect, but the movie is unlikable in many ways. This was a nice try, but a disappointing failure nonetheless.
** out of four
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Miracle at St. Anna(9/26/2008)
I like Spike. Spike Lee has been putting out bold and original films for more than twenty years now. Lee is a filmmaker who doesn't pull any punches, when he wants to make a point he'll go all out. This means that he can make some really biting satire, but it also means he can go too far occasionally. It also means that some of his movies can get overloaded with interesting ideas and become messy polemics rather than well thought out debates. His newest film, Miracle at St. Anna, looks at the African American experience during World War 2.
The film begins in a post office in 1989. A man walks up to an African American teller and tries to buy some stamps, a sudden look of recognition falls on the tellers face, suddenly the teller pulls out a Luger and shoots the customer dead. The teller is arrested and when the police search his house they find an ancient Italian artifact that disappeared during the Second World War. The film then flashes back to the Italian campaign of the war. During the flashback the film follows the 92nd infantry Buffalo Soldier division, particularly four enlisted men. The teller, it turns out, was named Aubrey Stamps (Derek Luke), the highest ranking of the four. Sergeant Bishop Cummings (Michael Ealy) and Corporal Hector Negron (Laz Alonso) are both in a state of constant conflict over their differeing view of the way African Americans are treated by the military and white society in general. Finally, there's Private First Class Sam Train (Omar Benson Miller), a large and not overly bright GI who befriends a young Italian boy (Matteo Sciabordi) that he finds abandoned in a house. The four find themselves being the only survivors of a tense gunfight. Broken from the main force they take refuge in a small Tuscan village where they wait for orders.
The film's trailer focuses a lot on the statue head, and makes the film look like some kind of war-time artifact heist film, but this is misleading. The statue head is actually already in the soldier's possession when the flashback begins and it ultimately has little to do with the story outside of the framing story. I can understand why they did this though, because the real center of the story is a much harder sell.
Lee clearly wants to set the record straight about the role African Americans played in the war, that's a noble sentiment, but I wish he had found a better project to make this point through. With a white cast leading this movie and a more anonymous director, the film would have seemed like pretty bland and derivative war movie trying to ride the wave of post-Saving Private Ryan war fare. The racial elements are what set the movie apart, and they're probably the most interesting parts of the film. The way these combat troops are treated by their commanding officers and by civilians in a diner back on base is sad and disturbing, especially in a modern "support the troops" environment. There's also a really interesting schism between the Ealy and Alonso characters.
What doesn't work as well is the story surrounding the Miller character and the Italian orphan he befriends. In fact this sub-plot is so achingly schmaltzy, saccharine and mis-placed that it pretty much torpedoes the whole movie. Miller's character, Sam Train, is a large and seemingly mentally challenged character. It almost feels like John Coffey, Michael Clark Duncan's character from The Green Mile, somehow wandered onto a World War 2 battlefield. The Frank Darabont comparisons don't stop there either; there's a very awkward use of magical realism throughout this sub-plot that just seems really strange in a movie about a war, particularly in a campaign of the war that audiences are so used to seeing through a neo-realist lens.
One of the prevailing complaints about the film through its festival run was that it ran too long at 160 minutes. I've never been one to cry wolf about running times, I think there's a disturbing level of attention deficit disorder running through critical circles and people are way too quick to jump on running time as a problem. That said, even I could see where these criticisms were coming from. I was never really bored or impatient about the film's running time, but there was a lot of superfluous material here. The framing story is mostly a waste, and it includes a really odd cameo by John Leguizamo. Extended sub-plots about the Italian partisans seemed like a distraction, too much time was spent on the Italians in general when the movie should have been focusing on the four African American characters were in the theater to see. Even the Nazi officers are given a lot of screen time that doesn't amount to much in the overall story. In all this mess of sub-plots the movie really loses track of the Derek Luke character, which is odd considering all the time the framing story spends trying to make this his story. The Laz Alonso character was a lot more interesting to me, and he was given a lot more to do through the whole movie.
On a visual level, the film works quite well. Like most films about World War 2 made since 1998, the film owes a pretty big debt to Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg's film ushered in a new level of authenticity in the genre of World War 2 films and the genre has been all the better for it. This isn't a wholesale lift though, unlike Spielberg and Eastwood's films Lee doesn't de-saturate the look of his war film, and this was probably the right choice given the film's Italian setting and more fanciful tone.
In general, Lee plays this one straighter than he has with any movie since Malcolm X. No one talks directly to the camera, there's no one sliding on wheels with a steady cam, and no strange tricks with the film's horizontal hold. All those games worked fine in their respective movies, but Lee wisely didn't see them as fitting in with the tone of a war movie. This really seems less like a Spike Lee Joint than any movie of his since maybe Clockers. In many ways it feels like he was trying to hold back his auteurist traits in order to get his message to as wide an audience as possible.
If nothing else, Miracle at St. Anna is very well intentioned. I think a straightforward story about three of these four soldiers preparing for a battle in an Italian town and relating with the locals would have made a fine story. If the film hadn't been bogged down in the framing story and the sappy story about Sam Train and the Orphan it might have worked. As it stands though, the film really just doesn't work, it's too uneven, too convoluted, and lacks the grit it needed to really sell the plight of its characters. The film is almost as messy and unfocused as a Spike Lee Joint like Bamboozled or She Hate Me, except without the same energy or satire that made those movies sort of fun to watch in spite of themselves. Chalk this one up as noble failure.
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Q: 404 error thrown whenever I run my java sevlet code on the server I was working on a java code for servlet programming to implement an application which provides a REST API with endpoints for searching, creating and deleting "server" objects. The server object is passed as a json-encoded message body. Example:

{ "name": "Centos", "id": "000", "language":"java", "framework":"spark" }

My code isn't throwing any error so I've no idea where the error is. Generally the error for 404 lies in xml file as far as I've read on other's stackoverflow issues, but I've checked my xml too.
Here is my xml file details: (I've removed the 2 head files (xml-version and web-app) for now)
  <display-name>KaiburrTask1</display-name>
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>Server Handling</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.kaiburr.task1.ServerHandling</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Server Handling</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/serv/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

Full code is on:
https://github.com/Shashank-Shukla/KaiburrTask/tree/master/KaiburrTask1
@ApplicationPath("/")
@Path("")
public class ServerHandling {
    private static String name,language,framework;
    private static int id;

    @GET @Path("/Servin") @Produces("application/json")
    public String display(String name, int id, String languauge, String framework) {
        String dispStyle="\n{\name: \"%s\",\nid: \"%s\",\nlanguage: \"%s\",\nframework: \"%s\"\n}";
        return String.format(dispStyle, name,id,language,framework);
    }

    @PUT @Path("/Enterr") @Produces("application/json")
    public void updateServer(@QueryParam("name") String name, @QueryParam("id") int id, @QueryParam("language") String language, @QueryParam("framework") String framework) {
        ServerHandling.name=name;
        ServerHandling.id=id;
        ServerHandling.language=language;
        ServerHandling.framework=framework;
        display(name,id,language,framework);
    }

    @POST @Path("/dispServerName") @Produces("text/plain")
    public String dispName() {
        return name;
    }
    @POST @Path("/dispServerID") @Produces("text/plain")
    public int dispID() {
        return id;
    }
    @POST @Path("/dispServerLang") @Produces("text/plain")
    public String dispLang() {
        return language;
    }
    @POST @Path("/dispServerFrame") @Produces("text/plain")
    public String dispFrame() {
        return framework;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }
    public int getID() {
        return id;
    }
    public String getLang() {
        return language;
    }
    public String getFrame() {
        return framework;
    }
}

The error is:

Even using:
curl -X PUT "localhost:8082/KaiburrTask1/Enterr"

it throws this error:

HTTP error 404 not found.


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Q: Why does this not make a good looking square? Ok, first of all I totally agree that "TheNewBoston" tutorials are very... wrong at times. However that is what I was following to try to make a cube in OpenGL on android.
Anyways, I can't say that I have found great material on OpenGL to be honest. I have read through OpenGL Superbible... it was ok.
So here is the code that I have.
GLRenderer.java
package android.gem.opengltest;

import javax.microedition.khronos.egl.EGLConfig;
import javax.microedition.khronos.opengles.GL10;

import android.opengl.GLU;
import android.opengl.GLSurfaceView.Renderer;
import android.os.SystemClock;

public class GLRenderer implements Renderer {

    private GLCube cube;

    public GLRenderer() {
        cube = new GLCube();
    }

    @Override
    public void onDrawFrame(GL10 gl) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        gl.glDisable(GL10.GL_DITHER);
        gl.glClear(GL10.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL10.GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT | GL10.GL_STENCIL_BUFFER_BIT);

        gl.glMatrixMode(GL10.GL_MODELVIEW);
        gl.glLoadIdentity();
        GLU.gluLookAt(gl, 0, 0, -5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0);

        long time = SystemClock.uptimeMillis() % 4000L;
        float angle = .09f * ((int) time);

        gl.glRotatef(angle, 1, 1.5f, 2);

        cube.draw(gl);
    }

    @Override
    public void onSurfaceChanged(GL10 gl, int width, int height) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        float ratio = (float) width / height;

        gl.glViewport(0, 0, width, height);
        gl.glMatrixMode(GL10.GL_PROJECTION);
        gl.glLoadIdentity();
        gl.glFrustumf(-ratio, ratio, -1, 1, 1, 25);
    }

    @Override
    public void onSurfaceCreated(GL10 gl, EGLConfig eglConfig) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        // START OF PERFORMANCE //
        gl.glDisable(GL10.GL_DITHER);
        gl.glHint(GL10.GL_PERSPECTIVE_CORRECTION_HINT, GL10.GL_FASTEST);
        // END OF PERFORMANCE //

        gl.glClearColor(.8f, 0, .2f, 1f);  // Red, Green, Blue, Alpha (0 - 1)
        gl.glClearDepthf(1f);
    }

}
GLCube.java
package android.gem.opengltest;

import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.ByteOrder;
import java.nio.FloatBuffer;
import java.nio.ShortBuffer;

import javax.microedition.khronos.opengles.GL10;

public class GLCube {

    private float verticies[] = {
            1, 1, -1, // point 0 - topFrontRight
            1, -1, -1, // point 1 - bottomFrontRight
            -1, -1, -1, // point 2 - bottomFrontLeft
            -1, 1, -1, // point 3 - frontTopLeft
            1, 1, 1, // point 4 - topBackRight
            1, -1, 1, // point 5 - bottomBackRight
            -1, -1, 1, // point 6 - bottomBackLeft
            -1, 1, 1 // point 7 - frontBackLeft
    };

    private float rgbaValues[] = {
             1, 1, 0, 1,
             .25f, 0, .85f, 1,
             0, 1, 1, 1,
             1, 1, 0, 1,
             .25f, 0, .85f, 1,
             0, 1, 1, 1,
             .5f, .5f, .2f, 1,
             .3f, .3f, .3f, 1
    };

    private FloatBuffer vertBuff, colorBuff;

    private short[] pIndex = {  // Indicies
            3, 4, 0,  0, 4, 1,  3, 0, 1,
            3, 7, 4,  7, 6, 4,  7, 3, 6,
            3, 1, 2,  1, 6, 2,  6, 3, 2,
            1, 4, 5,  5, 6, 1,  6, 5, 4
    };

    private ShortBuffer pBuffer;

    public GLCube() {
        ByteBuffer bBuff = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(this.verticies.length * 4);
        bBuff.order(ByteOrder.nativeOrder());
        vertBuff = bBuff.asFloatBuffer();
        vertBuff.put(this.verticies);
        vertBuff.position(0);

        ByteBuffer pbBuff = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(this.pIndex.length * 2);
        pbBuff.order(ByteOrder.nativeOrder());
        pBuffer = pbBuff.asShortBuffer();
        pBuffer.put(pIndex);
        pBuffer.position(0);

        ByteBuffer cBuff = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(this.rgbaValues.length * 4);
        cBuff.order(ByteOrder.nativeOrder());
        colorBuff = cBuff.asFloatBuffer();
        colorBuff.put(rgbaValues);
        colorBuff.position(0);
    }

    public void draw(GL10 gl) {
        gl.glFrontFace(GL10.GL_CW); // Clock Wise
        gl.glEnable(GL10.GL_CULL_FACE);  // Removes back end of cube
        gl.glCullFace(GL10.GL_BACK);
        gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
        gl.glEnableClientState(GL10.GL_COLOR_ARRAY);

        gl.glVertexPointer(3, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, this.vertBuff);
        gl.glColorPointer(4, GL10.GL_FLOAT, 0, this.colorBuff);
        gl.glDrawElements(GL10.GL_TRIANGLES, this.pIndex.length, GL10.GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, this.pBuffer);

        gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_COLOR_ARRAY);
        gl.glDisableClientState(GL10.GL_VERTEX_ARRAY);
        gl.glDisable(GL10.GL_CULL_FACE);
    }

}

I get a cube that looks like this...

What am I doing wrong? What should I do to make it look like an actual cube?
Also, if it helps all my code is at the following address: https://github.com/gemurdock/OpenGlTest/tree/alpha.0.1.0

A: First of all, this is a (horribly deformed) cube, not a square. Unless you look at it face-on it is never going to look like a "good square" :)
Your polygon face culling appears to be culling the wrong side of your cube faces. It still looks like a cube, just an inside out cube.
This is likely because you have overridden OpenGL's default front face winding direction (GL_CCW).


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The Standing Stone: Carrowkeel, Cairn K, Co. Sligo.
Carrowkeel, Cairn K, Co. Sligo.
Location – This tomb sits at the commanding position at the top of the Carrowkeel complex. A GPS is always advisable here.
I have GPS co-ordinates for this site. Because of the bad weather my books are somewhere else but I will be getting them back soon and will update the co-ordinates then.
Description and History – This tomb is possibly the best of the complex. Only cairn G rivals it. Set right on top of the hill this tomb offers some fantastic views of the surrounding landscape. Unlike cairn G this tomb is a little easier to get into but still requires crawling. Again I suggest going in feet first and on your back to save your knees from the stone floor. The entrance is somewhat unassuming and you expect to find nothing special inside but once you get inside you find yourself stood in a chamber some 3m tall and corbelled. The three sub-chambers form a cruciform shape and it is possible to get right inside all of them. One chamber has a large triangular stone which draws your eye and it would be reasonable to suggest that it carried some meaning...which we can only really guess at now. In the rear chamber cremated bone fragments can still be seen in places. Please leave these fragments alone and do not touch them. They have lasted thousands of years precisely because they have been left alone. The only bad thing I have to say about this tomb is because of visitors to here. I found the remains of many tea light candles and some general litter. Please don't litter these fantastic tombs and don't light candles because the wax is very hard to remove from the stones without damaging them. If you visit here and find litter I would encourage you to take it away also.
This is truly one of Ireland's greatest tombs and worth every step of the climb.
Difficulty – As with all sites at Carrowkeel it is tricky and requires your full attention.
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I'm not happy with the pictures of this tomb so I will replace most of them when I go back to see more tombs.
This dry stone walling technique is truly phenomenal to have lasted over five thousand years.
This triangular stone at the rear of one of the sub-chambers really stands out.
Looking up at the corbelled ceiling.
Looking out of the darkened chamber.
Bone fragments in the rear chamber. Hard to spot but they are in the middle of the photo and are a whiter colour than the surrounding stone.


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