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Avatar (2009 film)
Thread: Avatar (2009 film)
Fireand'chutes77
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The Old Dominion
I'm surprised this thread hasn't been started yet, because Jeriddian, myself, and a few others on the board seem to be pretty ardent "Avatar" fans, but... I guess this is as good a time as any to start.
It's on my mind particularly strongly at the moment because I just finished, and posted to YouTube, an "Avatar" AMV set to Skillet's "Rebirthing." I heard the song on the radio shortly after seeing the film and knew I had to put the two together.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFbW7YaS4CE
Let me know if you can't see it. I'm currently disputing a pull from WMG because of the song.
PS - I plan to go through the GD section to dig up and repost the "Avatar review" posts, so they can all be in one spot.
Carpe Navi: Because you never know when you'll get to go boating at government expense again.
Nicely done, 'Chutes. You managed to develop a fine editing style which is very smooth. I was noticing that the Fanfic community has over 600 stories now. Five of them are greater than 100,000 words. So it appears they are developing a fairly active fan base, though I don't know that it will be as great a fan base as KP's.
Villainheadache
Registered User Senior Member
Coolio! Very good quality of video and sound, I like the song, gives a more epic atmosphere (I think), it's not like other videos I seen before, all pixelated and with bad sound. I love it, I'll download it (can I?)
It's not like I can stop you, can it?
It's fine. Go right ahead. Are you an "Avatar" fan yourself?
If you explore my YT profile, you'll find I've done a bunch of other, KP-related videos. Hope you enjoy!
Reposting of earlier "Avatar" discussion:
I saw Avatar last weekend, and I've got mixed feelings on it. I think I'll need to see again, this time in 3D, to fully sort out my opinion on the movie. (Cameron: Hooray! Another $15!) The plot is thin and predictable*, and several lines are almost destined to become popular memes on the Internet, but the emotional setpieces and the realization/graphics of the world of Pandora are in-effin-credible. On a 2D screen, I'd say it *just* breaks even when weighed against the price of the ticket and concessions. I have heard *many* people say that this film is *meant* for 3D, *meant* for IMAX, so I'll see it in that format before rendering a completely final verdict.
*Of course, one must remember that Tropes Are Not Bad, just as they are not Good. The movie is predictable - and well on its way to a billion - for a reason.
Overall, I think it teeters on the knife-edge between an A- and a B+; if forced to chose, I'd say it just scrapes an A-. I also encourage people to see it. This is a *theater* movie. I'd say you don't have to purposely lower your expectations, but don't bite the hype. Come in neutral and prepare for a good time. Be open-minded. If you sit down with your arms crossed and sneer at the very idea of "these stupid blue cat people," all the mind-blowing graphics in the world will never change your mind.
Anyway, my impressions of the movie itself. (Minor plot-points ahead, but nothing that couldn't be seen in the trailers.)
I had too much brain-chatter during the first viewing. (Very first scene: "Oooooh, he included heat radiators on the Venture Star! Nobody else seems to do that properly!" And in another scene, I noted that [/SIZE]the loader rolling past with arrows sunk into the tire rims is a great cinematic introduction to the Na'vi.) If I watch the movie a second time, I might be able to justify Jake's moronic behavior (Don't touch the plants, they said! Yet what's the first thing he does once he gets off the chopper....?) as extreme sleep deprivation.... Hopefully. At least he looked good in his military vest... And Cameron got the Avatars' "Oh #?&@!" expressions nailed.
Points are taken off for his error of "telling, not showing." As I state below, two wordless smiles in [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]one of the trailers communicate more more elegantly than most of the exposition-dumps in the movie. The use of Jake's video-logs to provide exposition was fumbled, and I would have appreciated footage of Earth to better communicate the abhorrent conditions and our desperate need for unobtanium. (Perhaps that shows up in the director's cut.)
(Aside: The use of the MacGuffin "unobtanium" was another thing that bugged me. They never tell us what's important about it, besides its $20-million-per-kilo price and that it floats. Word of God and The Manuals go more in-depth (powers carbon-free maglevs in a global transportation network, allows for cheaper processing of antimatter for space travel), but even a sentence or two in the movie would have been nice. As would've a wink at the name, "unobtanium." It's been used as a joking term in engineering for a material with impossible/financially unattainable properties for at least 50 years. Cameron must know the word's backstory yet uses the term painfully straight; "The Core," for all its faults, at least winked at the name.)
Another facet of the "tell, not show" shtick that bothered me was the tendency for characters to proclaim to Jake what room he was entering. "And now we have.... The Avatar Room!" Thanks, genius. We can see the big tanks. We do have eyes.
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I was disappointed by the actual movie setup of the helicopter "drop-off" scene in the trailers*. From the trailers, it appears he is being dropped off solo for a bad*ss recon mission, like he might've been in one of his jungle ops on Earth, and simply tangos with too big a critter. It turns out he's supposed to be babysitting scientists and instead starts poking plants. *Sigh.*
Still, for all of Cameron's thin plot and Thud-tastic (TM) dialogue, damn can he put a scene together. Most of the first third of the movie is (inartful) exposition; once it gets in gear for the other two-thirds... Holy snykies. Really. Oh. My. God. You realize the gut and jaw that are the targets of this movie; the brain is just that annoying know-it-all that has to come along too. Jake's wild dash through the training facility after first entering his Avatar might be far-fetched and trite, but the pure joy of feeling dirt squish underfoot after more than a decade of numbness is undeniable. (To Cameron's credit, the original transition was a lot slower and more realistic. It got sped up for time.) I might berate Jake's plant-popping behavior, but, really, haven't we all been guilty of similar childish glee with bubble wrap? (Love that stuff! XD) And while the military is ham-fistedly portrayed, the destruction of A Very Important Object showcased all of the terrible power & awe inherent in our modern weaponry... It's not often we're on the *receiving* ends of rocket barrages. There's a similar "terrible awe" scene at the end of "Ghost in the Shell"'s second season.... We may celebrate the advance of technology, but when the technology of weapons is allowed to showcase its full power, the display is not pretty. At all.
And the back-and-forth tension during the final fight nearly gave me a heart attack. Brad Bird, in the director's commentary of The Incredibles, lamented that they used the actual opening scene instead of one where Syndrome attacks the Parr's house, because the latter communicated invasion, violation, and helplessness far more effectively. Cameron gets Bird's lost chance in the final fight, and he takes it.
* The two "official" (and high-def!) Apple trailers: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/hd/
The two-minute "teaser" is by far my favorite. The main trailer has more info and more traditionally "epic" background music, but the teaser is elegantly minimalistic, which gives your brain more leash to ponder, wander, and hype it up. In fact, Jake's two smiles at 0:58 and 1:18 communicate more than most of the exposition-dumps in the movie, really. Plus the techno background music is frickin' awesome. The beat itself seems to vibrate, and the increasing tempo/electronic charge-up sound really gets your energy and tension up.
As with any/many movies, there is something of a let-down between the glorious movie constructed in your head from bits of trailer footage and the actual thing. While Avatar was indeed good and a movie I'd watch again/recommend, I rewatch the trailers afterward and think, Ooohhhhh, but what could have been....
EDIT: GoTeamGirl, your signature seems amazingly appropriate for Jake Sully's sitch.
"You dreamt of another sky. New sun, new air, new life. A whole universe teeming with life. Why stand still when there's all that life out there?"
Originally Posted by jeriddian
...Western films where the rival cultures were the white man and the Indians, probably best represented by Dances with Wolves...
One interesting twist that I noted (I don't know if anyone else found it important) was that all the Avatars were basically the same color. Usually "mighty whitey" stands out like a sore thumb, but in pull-back crowd shots, Jake almost vanished. The Na'Vi were hating him "not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character"!
Granted, to the Na'Vi, the five fingers and smaller eyes of the "Dreamwalkers" would've stuck out almost as prominently as skin color does to us.... And it probably shouldn't be too surprising to me, since white people have been hating on white people for some time, sometimes over something as silly as the color of their hair....
Another thing I noticed: near the end, when Quaritch is giving his "terror with terror" speech, it's a black guy who goes "Yeaaaaah!" as he gets all hyped up to kill the natives, and the white guy standing next to him gives him a small sideways look, as if to say, "Dude..."
I think, though, that the absolutely incredible splendor of the visual graphics and the technical spectacle that bombards you... will completely make you forget those faults...
Ah. So it's just like "Obama: The Movie"?
In seriousness, most everyone has had about the same reaction I noted in my review: "You realize the gut and jaw that are the targets of this movie; the brain is just that annoying know-it-all that has to come along too."
I've been reading "On Basilisk Station" by David Weber, the first book in the Honor Harrington series (and loving it! ), and I have to wonder if Mr. Cameron ever read it....
...That was impressive engineering for a muscle-powered civilization, even in this gravity [.82 of Earth's... Pandora's was .9-something.]. And especially for something as stalky and ungainly looking as a Stilty......
...What passed for mammals on Medusa (there were no birds) were hexapedal.... Medusans were tall and slender and bilaterally symmetrical, to boot. The natives were undeniably warm blooded and bore live young, but they reminded Honor far more of a holo she'd seen of an Old Earth insect called a praying mantis than anything she would have called a mammal....
Here's something interesting - Cameron's original scriptment for his movie has been floating around the internet for a while, and I finally got around to reading it.
WOW. If Cameron had cut most of the "Avatar" movie before Jake's and the science team's heli-insertion into the forest and replaced it with most of the scriptment up to page 45, that would've been a movie. Besides filling in a major number of plot holes and background information, the script takes the happy-dreamtime forest of "Avatar" and turns it into a dark hellish mirror of itself, cranking up the "Holy %$#&" quotient several notches. The forest is portrayed similarly to the ones of Vietnam - dark, a "wall," bristling with threats - but unlike some of the more blatant 'Nam imagery in the movie, this is more subtle and more effective because it's backed up by grunts who were over there. To them, the jungle itself was the enemy, was actually out to kill them, and their fear goes a long way toward validating Selfridge's and Quaritch's paranoia. Heck, halfway through the scriptment I was getting scared of the forest.
This state of siege and fear makes for a much more organic, natural shock when it's revealed that the entire forest is not out to kill them. If all we had seen of the forest in "Avatar" was a dark, angry mass of impenetrable foliage, the bioluminescent scene would have been even more incredible.
Other differences and/or improvements:
Earth and its environmental problems are explored (Sully has never even seen a forest, so Grace has to practically hold his hand when they go into the woods).
We see Josh (Jake) Sully's Avatar being born — Sully actually "births" himself.
His reaction to walking again is also quite different: it takes him a while to gain any sort of strength, and then he cries.
It's revealed the Avatar program exists to train Na'vi to be an indigenous workforce for the Corporation, since it's so expensive to send human workers.
There are more humans, including a bioethics officer on the take, a video journalist, a head of the Avatar program and a second military d*ckwad; also, Sully and Quaritch have an instant dislike of each other.
There is an Avatar controller who is burnt out because his Avatar died with him in it. His Avatar is dead because he committed "suicide" after a Na'vi girl he loved was killed by the military in a misunderstanding.
Pandora is a living entity and it sees the humans as a virus; it has been mobilizing the plants and animals to attack all along because it wanted to force the humans out; also it's been actively curing human diseases (because those diseases really *are* viruses, and the planet has been making antiviruses). These cures are also making the Corporation rich - not that that's going stop them from wanting to wipe out its Death World jungle.
There is no unobtainium beneath Hometree. The military just wants to wipe out the local Na'vi to send a message to all the tribes that they must be obeyed.
Some of the humans and the Avatar controllers rise up in the final big battle, which includes busting out some captured Na'Vi from Hell's Gate.
One thing I *did* really like about "Avatar" Jake was the deliberate speed with which he hacked out his spear after escaping the cat-thingy... It seemed as though that's exactly how a Marine with jungle training should behave - quietly, efficiently getting his sh*t back together.
Originally Posted by Fireand'chutes77
I can't decide if I "liked" what happened to Grace. The movie had hit on so many tropes that I was counting down the seconds until she popped up and said "Hiya!" and I could mentally groan and roll my eyes at the predictable unimaginativeness of it all. Then the seconds rolled out, and everyone else moved on - for what else could they do? - and I felt a small "oh" inside. The cold, analytical part of me put a check mark on the side of approval for Cameron - he'd subverted a trope I was sure he'd use - but another part of me felt a little hollow inside and sad, let down, even, at the outcome.
Jeriddian:
But there is something else that shows the attention to detail that Cameron puts into the movie. This has always been somewhat of a pet peeve of mine in movies because there is no way to fake it on film, but at the moment a human being dies, all muscle activity ceases, which includes the iris of the eyes. The person's eyes (provided they haven't been surgically altered in some way such as with cataract replacement) will immediately dilate maximally as the iris relaxes completely. The blackness of the pupil will occupy almost the entire cornea, leaving only a very thin rim of iris visible around the outer edge. You can't fake this with real people obviously, but everytime you see a character 'die' on screen and you can see their eyes, they are never dilated. It was just an annoyance on my part since I pronounce a good number of deaths each year, and I see the eyes all the time as part of how one determines death has occured.
Well they finally got it right this time. Watch Grace's eyes when she succumbs to her wounds. It's the first time I've ever seen it done. It was CGI'd of course, but they got it right.
I got around to seeing "Avatar" in IMAX 3D yesterday afternoon.
If this was the first time I'd seen the movie, I'd say the value of the experience would've far exceeded the $14.75 I spent on the ticket. However, as this was the second time around, I'd say it broke exactly even. The 3D was excellent (though not without its flaws), but the "IMAX" didn't seem to add too much. I think I could've gone to a "plain" 3D showing and spent about $3 less with no loss. It was a "weaksauce" IMAX, not a dome, and the ability to see the screen's edges cut down on the immersion a little. I suppose if I'd sat lower and closer, it would've filled more of my vision, but then I would've been craning my neck upward for two and three-quarters hours.
A friend of mine who's seen it both in IMAX and plain 3D had more perspective:
I saw it once in "plain" 3D and once in "IMAX" 3D. The 3D effects were *so* well done, I can't imagine watching it without them. The main differences I noticed on the IMAX version were a) more bass and b) a wider vertical field of view; there was one scene with a bunch of blades of grass on the bottom of the screen which I thought benefitted in particular, especially with the 3D effect.
IMAX quibbles aside, the 3D was amazing. The "deep view" shots that I noticed in the 2D version proved to be as "oooooo"-inducing as I thought they would be. 3D's layering effect really makes some of the small details stand out, really makes them "pop," in a good way. The humans' HUD and info screens were particularly cool; they appeared to float just like they would in real life. They seemed to have actual presence. Other details included the jellyfish-seed things, bugs, fire, arrows, grass, helicopter backwash.... Tall cliffs suddenly went from "whoa, high" to "Holy %$#&!". In their parts, not particularly solid reasons to go spend $15 (Ohmigosh man, that helicopter backwash WAS SOOOOO COOL!!!1!q!!), but they really stand out from the 2D version.
I did note a problem, though: depth-of-field focus. Scenes where the entire screen was in focus were incredible.... But as soon as the focus narrowed to one character, my brain went "WTF?" because, in the 3D, it was compensating already for depth and the added "help" just threw it off. I would happen to glance at something in the foreground of a midground-focus scene and have a moment of puzzlement when the foreground didn't come into focus.
The effect was most notable in confined indoor scenes; once "outside," the focus depth had room to breathe. It also was distracting in the cat-thingy chase scene - trees sometimes didn't come into focus when my brain "wanted" them to. The overall effect in some spots was mildly disorienting, but at no time did I feel nauseous or dizzy. It is one of the challenges inherent in working with a completely new medium - the old film tricks don't work!
As for reports of people feeling despondent and depressed after watching "Avatar" because the real world doesn't match up, I have to sayour world did look a bit flat and washed out.... But that tends to happen after every movie you come out of, particularly action movies. I also had a very mild headache, but that was less from the 3D and more from staring raptly at a screen for nearly three hours. I think the added double weight of my glasses and the 3D glasses also tired out the bridge of my nose.
"Real life" doesn't pop nearly as vividly, but movie theater seats don't have toilets built into them yet... You win this time, reality!
As for the movie itself, the second time around:
- I still love the opening and closing. "I dreamed I was flying" at the beginning was good foreshadowing and packs a poignant punch (alliteration's always awesome! ) when we the viewers "wake up" and realize Jake's not going to be flying much of anywhere. And then there's just something really cool about the tight-zoom on Jake's face at the end, his "Whoa," and then the bass thud and cut to AVATAR.
- I didn't notice the bad dialogue nearly as much, because I was expecting it. They still could've done a much better job with Selfridge's exposition scenes, though.
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- The understanding that the RDA was not trying to start a war with the Na'Vi felt stronger this time around. For a mining organization that is trying to get at a desperately needed element, they could've done a lot worse than taking the time and effort to (in their view) help out the Pandorans with schools, medicine, etc. And instead of just dropping a crapload of explosives on Hometree right off the bat, they tried to cajole the tribe off the land so there would be minimal loss of life on both sides. I wonder how many in the audience shared Selfridge's exasperation: "You throw a stick around here and you hit a... a... sacred pebble! Where does it end?!"
- I think I've figured out where the film really starts to get good for me: Jake's Na'Vi training experience. Yes, it's Troperiffic, but it's good despite - or else because - of it. By that point they'd gotten most of the exposition out of the way, which allowed the actors to act more naturally and effectively. We also cleared out of the depth-of-field mess of indoors.
Because of that, I picked up some more subtle aspects of the characters. Grace gets some depth when her ice-queen shell cracks and she displays some hidden motherly instincts when hoisting a sleeping Jake into his bunk.
(BTW, the original scriptment had a lot more of that strangely obsessive "mother" theme that Hollywood seems to have... See Alien, for example.)
Selfridge also had more guilt, doubt, and uncertainty radiating off him than I first noticed, particularly when the he and the AVATAR team are watching the destruction of Hometree back at base. His brutal comments then don't seem to materialize just because he's a corporate d*ck; he's trying to mask, bury, and and justify his self-doubt.
I finally managed to place why Neytiri's accent seems so familiar - she seems to be copying Tia Dalma's Jamaican vibe from the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films.
I also liked her scenes of grief; they were highly effective. Some have called her wailing Narm, but I really was impressed. It's not often we see raw rage or fear or anguish - it's not often we staid, comfortable Western types have to experience something like the emotion coming out of the pictures from Haiti. If Neytiri had remained calm and understanding and conciliatory while Jake tried to explain how he was sent to be a traitor but "everything changed," the emotional flow of the entire section would've been wrecked.
- Something tells me that the Na'Vi were being smarter than they let on when they decided to try and train Jake "for the lulz." If the RDA can run their own subterfuge, why can't the Na'Vi? Jake was/is (Marine!) a warrior on the other side... If he begins to trust the Na'Vi, the thinking went, we can use his trust to pick his brain about human battle tactics and resources. Jake, of course, took the third option and did it himself.
- Something they never brought up that I thought would be a plot point: Grace mentions that Jake's "link coffin" in the mobile lab is the "least glitchy." (was that word substituted in for another? ) I expected that we'd have BIG DRAMATIC PROBLEMS when his or other units glitched or spazzed, but nope.
- Oh, drat! I forgot to look for Grace's medically-correct "dying eyes." I did, however, visually confirm that the Na'Vi have only four fingers (I counted!).
- The bass thuds of explosions this time around were impressive. I don't know if that's stems from "the IMAX experience" or the fact that it's a brand-new theater with surround sound. As for the boomies themselves, I noticed white-ringed shockwaves radiating out from the fireballs as the energy tore through Pandora's humid atmosphere. Nicely done. There was less of a feeling of "Oh.... my.... God" when the military opened fire this time around, due to the fact I'd seen it before, but it still freezes you solid. To Cameron's credit, he even turned eating cereal into a nailbiting experience. *Camera snaps between 'dozers crunching through forest and lab breakfast* Me: Chew! Swallow! Chew! Swallow! Get in the pod, mister! GO GO GO!"
- Was the gas that Quaritch launched poisonous, or just an area-denier like tear gas? If minimizing casualties was the goal, tear gas would work better because it would clear out the tree before it came down. I didn't see anybody falling down and dying from the gas itself, so I assume it's an area-denier.
- I'm not a military man, but it seemed Quaritch put up the best fight he could with his limitations. The shifting, unplottable "Hallelujah mountains," dense fog, and magnetic scrambling prevented the shuttle from coming in high and swooping down low to drop - they might've run into a mountain. Quaritch compensated by using the gunships as a shield, and it worked wonderfully against the enemy he had planned for.....
- While I was settling down in the theater, I happened to glance to my left.... And discovered a woman and a gaggle of about five young children (ages 3 to maybe 8) sitting only two or three seats away.
"Oh, God," I thought with an internal groan. "These kids are going to be howling and carrying on the entire movie.... And what moron of a mom (I'm assuming they were her kids) brings a toddler into a PG-13 movie? Did she see the trailers and somehow think, 'Oooh, CGI and blue cat people! Must be a kid's movie!' and somehow miss the explosions and near-nudity?"
So when the lights dimmed down and the 3D glasses went on, I cast a final glance to my left with some trepidation and prepared to grit my teeth...
The kids never made a peep. Not during the previews, not during the helicopter-flying bits, not during the intense explosions and fights. Generation X may be a lost cause (5-year-olds in a PG-13 movie?!) but at least I've got hope for the future.
Granted, the mom might've been quietly ferrying out the nascent-noisemakers and I didn't notice, but still... Dumb mom, good kids.
I did glance over when Jake and Neytiri started, um, frolicking beneath the Tree of Voices to check how the young'uns were handling... Mom had a hand cupped over the eyes of the three-year-old she was holding.
- In the parking lot after the movie, I happened to pass directly in front of the Explorer I'd driven to the theater... I stopped dead in front of the grill; I hadn't realized how much the front snout and side-mirrors of the car looked like a Thanator!
Anyway, though, seeing as Avatar has officially broken Titanic's all-time revenue record, Cameron now has enough money to raise the Titanic and fire it toward Pandora.
Anyway, I went to see "
Avatar"......again.... Yes I know, but I simply cannot get enough of it. Also I am studying it very closely.
Bwaahaha. There's something amazing, yet strangely terrifying about the whole phenomenon.... And it is indeed a phenomenon. This movie somehow punched people's buttons just right and at just the right time, and it's taken on a life of its own. The forums, the fanart, the 10+ viewings, the language dictionaries, the people walking out with depression... Something like this hasn't been seen in a while. I can understand the obsessive-compulsive behavior of myself and the other engineers/geeks on campus... But this thing has magnetism up and down the scale. Every demographic polled gave this thing high marks. You wouldn't think a ham-handed Green Aesop action movie with blue cat people would have sparked this much of a reaction... The right wing has tried to brand it as a "pinko elitist Hollywood hippy leftist guilt-trip..." And I agree that it does have elements of that in there... But how do you argue with $2.1 billion? How do they refute "a theater full of people in Kentucky [who] stand and applaud the defeat of their country/species in war?"
What's going to be interesting is the reception of the second movie, the third movie, made with this 3D technology, be it Cameron's sequels or other unrelated movies... The "specialty" of the 3D will have worn off and people will be watching the story more closely.
[COLOR=black]But as for the "phenom," I found this hilarious picture when an Avatar-nut friend and I were browsing online:
The browsing with said friend revealed that my Avatar fanboy-ism is just pennies... Or rather, that his reaches and exceeds the level of my KP interest.... Which makes for some hilarious "Oooo-kaaayyy...." moments when the two obsessions rub up against each other. I'm giving him an arched eyebrow for learning the language, and he's giving me one for making KP videos....
I have to say, his fanboy-ism has rubbed off on me some. I'd already read the Pandorapedia and obsessively followed the $$$$ count, but once he showed me the Na'Vi forums and sites he was a part of, I started collecting the "best of" from a HILARIOUS screencap-captioning thread.
"That is one big damn ship."
"These dumb b*stards aren't getting the message, switch to icebergs."
One thing that's amazed me is how many people around here have learned the language. The friend has learned it. A couple of his friends have learned it. Conan O'Brien from "The Tonight Show" has learned it. With $2.1 billion (and counting) worth of viewer momentum, it looks like it might be the "Klingon" of the 21st century.
Hmmm... Given the strong magnetic fields of Pandora and the superconducting properties of Unobtanium, the engineer in me has to wonder: if you put a chunk of Unobtanium in a corresponding Unobtanium bowl, would it begin to spin? And could the electric field generated by its spinning be used to power things?
Assuming that it does, would the tribe that discovered it gain a sudden advantage that could lead to tensions and set up a cascade of environmental destruction? To repel a second human counter-attack, the Pandorans would need some heftier weaponry than bows and arrows, but the measures necessary to take out an invasion force would run counter to their entire worldview. I can see Jake suddenly bubbling and frothing with fantastic ideas - "Oh, wow, now we can have lights to help with cooking! And spotlights to shoo away the viper-wolfs! And - and electric-arc welding if we get enough power! AND RAILGUNS! And and AND..." Only to trail into a mortified silence when he catches the incredulous, slightly fearful stares of his tribe. "Our chief?" the whispers would ripple, "Talking like one of the DreamWalkers? How well did we cure him, really?"
Or, unlike on Earth, would the USB-style bio-network allow the information to be shared immediately, so all Pandorans could have the technology at the same instant? It would nullify any potential technological gap/tensions immediately. An incredible thought, almost inconceivable for us humans. We've only had a similar construct, the Internet, for about 20 years, and we're still trying to figure out what to do with it.
The running length of the movie is 166 minutes, an epic length. But I will bet you you that when Cameron completed his full cut of the movie before editing, it ran as much as an hour extra.
Indeed. In fact, if you look at the "official" trailer, you'll notice there's a sports bar scene near the beginning that never shows up in the film (I was disappointed that it didn't.) And in several of the shorter commercials there are new bits of dialogue, too. The DVD will be a bonanza.
...And on the closing note of trailers, it's interesting to see how they were tailored to different demographics. Some focus on the romance angle, others (a kid's one?) focus only on the flora and the "fun," others portray the humans as the enemy, others make the humans out to be heroes, others try to tell the story, and still others just overload your senses with a blitzkrieg of slow-motion and explosions.
lunchmeat
The Tick Capitol Of The Known Universe
When I think of recycling, elderly internet posts usually aren't the first thing that comes to mind (too bad they turned Cameron down on the oil spill, Smurf's At Sea would have been entertaining....), the Colonel could have solved his problem just by bringing in Gargamel.....
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto - "You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass."
OK, downloading... I see your YT profile and wooa, you have a lot of interesting videos!
I watched Civil disobedience, It rocks, great job with the video, I'm planning to watch the other videos of your authoring and download them too. I don't see the other videos now, because I'm having trouble with my mobile Internet connection, it charges the videos too slowly. .
the movie "Avatar". I don't seen the movie yet, but with your avatar's videos and your reviews, I think now it's the time to watch the movie, and maybe I'll become a fan.
God news, the trailer for the sequel is out: http://www.smurfhappens.com/
NinjaNaco
Registered User Veteran Member
Midd El Tann
A blogger whom I read recently started a poll on an Avatar vs. Avatar smackdown.
I voted for the Nick guys, but this quote in the comment section was just drop-dead hilarious (emphasis mine):
Beowulf said...
Snuffles, you forget of course that after Toph rips apart a mech, she will bend the remains around herself for protection and proceed to drop the ground out from under the Mining co. mechs.
Then watch in horror as Katara makes Quaritch's own coffee attack him!
Originally Posted by NinjaNaco
That article was highly enjoyable. And delightfully sarcastic.
You've seen them individually, now witness their unstoppable power when they're teamed up! That's two mostly crazy super-violent hard-to-kill villains in one place! Working together! Picture Azula piloting a mech! Picture Quaritch just being himself! Think of the one-liners they'll spew! And Quaritch is so awesome, he'll probably still be sipping coffee through half the battle!
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Carl H. Mitchell's second installment to a dystopian police procedural, sci-fi with a touch of espionage book series
HILLSBOROUGH, N.J. – January 3, 2022 – If there is one lesson you can learn from Carl H. Mitchell's books, it is this — the product of your imagination are realities that will begin to exist once you believe them. This high-profile science-fiction and crime-thriller will bring you to the edge of your seats.
Following the story of NYPD detective Nick Garvey, set in 2058, he teams up with Lenora Allison, President of the battered and reeling United States, to salvage the country in her fight against the murderous World Council. In a world already primed with violence, together they must confront the forced introduction of a man-made killer plague and the destruction of the newly created Friendship City. President Allison succeeded in her fight to destroy the first plague only to learn a second more deadly one was imminent. A virus that could change the trajectory of life or the planet. Can the second plague be destroyed?
Meet Ishmael, the mysterious new leader of the World Council, who has decided to destroy Friendship City, an autonomous joining of Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico, where the citizens are developing their own protective Bill of Rights. Why is Friendship City spiraling into chaos? Can Ishmael be destroyed?
Nick Garvey jumps into the mission when President Allison asks him to fly from Houston, even if it means leaving his daughter who is recovering from a coma, to fight the biggest enemy from destroying the world.
Mitchell's "Friendship City: Hanging by a Thread" will take readers to a thrilling and spiraling journey filled with a staccato of heart-stopping and emotional events. The story evokes futuristic elements such as revolutionary advancements that will raise curiosity about what the near future would be.
As he wrestles to find Ishmael, the race soon sends the hero into a whirlwind of adventures packed with action and twists leaving the readers wanting for more. Wrapped in rich narratives and evocative imageries, "Friendship City: Hanging by a Thread" opens up a world full of hope and courage, to disarm all evil.
For more information about Mitchell and his other works, visit his website at https://authorcarlhmitchell.com/.
"Friendship City: Hanging by a Thread"
By Carl H. Mitchell
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Carl H. Mitchell developed a penchant for writing at a young age. His first serious read, at about nine years of age, was Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". Isaac Asimov's "The End of Eternity" and Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" completed the capture.
Born in California, raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and in Lake Worth, Florida, he earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. He worked at IBM for 35 years as an engineer, programmer, and manager.
Carl lives with his wife, Maryann, in Hillsborough, New Jersey, with winters spent in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Along with downhill skiing, he counts among his hobbies the keeping of koi, of which he currently owns more than a hundred. Auditing a year's worth of bills for fish food and pond maintenance has led to the more accurate conclusion that the koi own him.
Carl has written several short stories. He writes to entertain and challenge his readers.
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Tai chi is often described as "meditation in motion," but it might well be called "medication in motion." There is growing evidence that this mind-body practice, which originated in China as a martial art, has value in treating or preventing many health problems. And you can get started even if you aren't in top shape or the best of health.
Original post written by Darlene Reid, published on The University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine website.
The ancient Chinese exercise can alleviate symptoms and improve quality of life for people suffering from chronic conditions, including cancer, osteoarthritis, heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. These are the findings of a study published this month by physical therapy professor Darlene Reid in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. By analyzing data of over 1,500 patients with one of these four chronic conditions, Reid and her colleagues found that Tai Chi improved physical capacity and quality of life without causing pain or breathlessness. She spoke with Faculty of Medicine writer Carolyn Morris about her research.
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The 2014 National Junior Wushu Championships have come to a close and the Ji Hong team has once again proven itself to be a formidable force on the national stage. This year's championships were held in Hamilton, Ontario between February 15 and 16, 2014. The competition divided athletes into 3 age groups: Group A (16-18 years of age), Group B (13-15 years of age), and Group C (12 and under). The top 2 male and female athletes from each age group were selected to the Canadian National Jr. Team, which will represent Canada at the 5th World Junior Wushu Championships to be held on March 11-18, 2014 in Antalya, Turkey.
Despite being one of the smaller teams at the championships, the Ji Hong athletes performed extraordinarily, winning a total of 7 gold medals, 1 silver medal, and 1 bronze medal. Both Brandon and Isaiah displayed complete dominance in their respective categories by winning gold in each of their 3 events. Their spectacular performances earned them each a spot on the Canadian National Jr. Team, and both will compete at the World Championships in March. For both Jordan and Jennifer, this competition proved to be their national debut, having never competed in wushu at the national level before. Both performed remarkably, Jordan winning a bronze medal in Changquan (Northern Hand Form), and Jennifer winning a gold and silver medal in Taijiquan (Tai Chi Hand Form) and Taijijian (Tai Chi Sword Form) respectively. We look forward to seeing Jordan and Jennifer continue to work hard and their continued success at future competitions.
We would like to wish Brandon and Isaiah best of luck as they represent Canada and compete against the top athletes in the world at next month's World Junior Wushu Championships in Antalya, Turkey. Jiayo!
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The end will show what tomorrow brings
Liv Bugge
Yamile Calderon
Marte Gunnufsen
Håkon Holm-Olsen
Galleria KONE, Hämeenlinna
In your life you will also one day tumble. Individuals fall as well as Empires. When that happens do not expect anyone to redeem you.
You are alone in this world, free to choose your path, but still bounded by the hand you are given. Vast possibilities of what to believe in, and relate to, colours every chapter of your life. Science or Faith. Instinct or Logic. It does not matter.
When the system fails and your world shatter. You are alone.
The beeping sound in your ears and the blurred view. The uncertainty about what to come, the anxiety from within. Your state of mind paralyzed, the body responding to the signals of the massive appearance of adrenalin running through your veins. The feeling of panic clinching your throat, filling you with the urge to run away.
There are two types of us: Fighters and Runners.
KNIPSU proudly presents
… is the law of life, Synagogue at the Jewish Museum, Berlin 2008 – Liv Bugge
Domestic at Large – Yamile Calderon
Komm, süßer Tod – Marte Gunnufsen
Timeline – Håkon Holm-Olsen
Curated by Hilde Jørgensen and Maya Økland
The exhibition is supported by Culture Point North, Bergen City and the Norwegian Arts Council
Artist statements & bios
… is the law of life, Synagogue at the Jewish Museum, Berlin 2008
Church and Synagogue were common allegorical figures in the Middle Ages. Draped females, they are ways of representing the transition from the Old Law to the New. Church typically wears a crown, carries a cross, and holds a chalice, representing the Redeemer's blood. Synagogue is always a blindfolded figure, the blindfold representing moral or spiritual blindness or darkness, sin, and ignorance. Often a crown falls from the inclined head of Synagogue and the Tables of the Law fall from her hands. The poster was produced by Torpedo Press as a part of the release of the artist-book You make me want to die in the countryside, a meditation on "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad, by Liv Bugge, published 2011.
Liv Bugge's practice incorporates a range of different mediums, in which video often plays an important part. Many of her works are situated in the borderland between dreams and reality, perpetrator and victim, science and fiction. The work often enters into different power relations, and Bugge is interested in aggression as both a constructive and destructive force in society. Bugge discusses ownership in relation to language and history with a desire to demystify, expose and conquer the established variables that help to maintain the ruling power structures in both a personal and a global scale.
Liv Bugge (b. 1974) is educated at Statens Kunstakademi, Oslo and HiSK (Higher Institute for Fine Art), Belgium. She has recently been involved in projects at Konsthall C, Stockholm (2011), NY ArtBookFair, MOMA, New York (2011), Gallery D.O.R, Brussel (2011), Spike Island, UK (2011), No Soul for Sale, Tate Modern, London (2010), Momentum, Moss (2009), Galleri Trafo, Asker (2008), PROJECT(OR), Nederland (2008) and Film et video de creation, Berirut, LB (2008).
http://www.livbugge.com/
As a child I grew up in a town 3 hours east of Bogotá, the main city of Colombia. On weekends my father used to bring us out of the city to eat special cakes and desserts. I remember especially from the early 80´s looking at very luxurious mansions with very exotic swimming pools, eccentric facades, from Chinese pagodas to Swiss chalets, satellite dishes, wild animals in cages, statues etc. These were mansions of the Mafia (narcotrafficantes). In the end of the 80´s the Colombian government started the first persecutions of the Mafia and it had a big influence on the landscape, the same mansions were suddenly all for sale, and after time the luxury and eccentricity were gone and they became mansions in ruins.
With this background as part of my culture and my life, I wanted to come back to this stories and tell again the stories, but from another perspective; "the aesthetics of this culture". It is a paradox between the eccentricity to show all the wealth to get the acceptation in high society and their illegal situation always hiding themselves from the police and their enemies. Of course the topic of aesthetics in a subculture that has influenced a whole country is very grand. I decided to concentrate my work on just the architecture. My starting point was to photograph the mansions of mafia bosses that had been confiscated by the government and approach the drug trafficking problem from a domestic perspective. I took contact with the Colombian government, and after a long time lobbying, they permitted me to photograph 7 houses in different parts of the country and one storeroom with personals possession (furniture, paintings, sculptures, shoes, etc.).
The mansions belonged to different mafia bosses: "La Posada Alemana" was the property of Carlos Leder, the biggest narcotrafficante in the 70´s; he is now in jail in the USA. His dream was to make a hotel inspired of a small German village, and he was also a deeply admirer of the Beatles, so these two things determinates the decoration of the place. The place has been in hands of the government for around 20 years and is now in ruins. "The replica of the White House" belonged to Joaquín Mario Valencia. This house was his private house; he was the typical narcotrafficante who looked like a wealthy businessman. "La Virgina" is a farm with more than 1000 hectares, and Arcangel de Jesus Henao (the owner), was the boss of the North of the Valle cartel. He was extradited to USA in 2002. "El Castillo Marroqui" is a castle outside of Bogotá; the last owner was Juan Camilo Zapata Vásquez. "Las Gaviotas" is now the social club of the National Police and "Las Heliconias" is a hotel inspired in a small Colombian coffee plantation town; these were confiscated recently and they are still in good conditions. The storeroom is filled with the personal belongings of Elisabeth Montoya de Sarria, better known as "Monita Retrechera". She was accused of helping the President (Ernesto Samper) to collect money from the narcotrafficantes to support his presidential campaign.
The images of the houses show the eccentricities of a subculture, which reflect a deep contradiction in their idiosyncrasies. Almost all the houses have altars, chapels, crosses, or religious paintings. The photographs reflect a kind of uniformity in the aesthetics; every house has a swimming pool, pool table, a Jacuzzi. Beyond the exotic tastes of the narcotrafficantes, the work underlying other aspects of this phenomenon as the actual state of the houses; some are in ruins, others still have the furniture and objects of the ex-owners and others still function as normal.
These images show ambivalent feelings between the brilliance, luxury in contrast with the emptiness and decadence of the houses. At the same time there is a confrontation between the way media presents this phenomena and how these photographs approach the same topic from another perspective, the every day life of these people with their families, but with the absence of people, telling stories through the traces of people.
Yamile Calderon (b.1974) Studied photography at Bergen National Academy of the Arts. She lives in Oslo where she also works as a lecturer at Oslo Photo Art School. She published her first photo-book "From His Point of View I am an A4 Person" in 2008. Calderon has participated in various collective exhibitions and has presented her work in the International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China and Hong Kong.
Calderon´s photographic work is influenced by her background as a journalist and her work as an artist. She works in the documentary field and her interests are very much in social phenomenon and identity. She works mostly with portraits, interiors and landscapes. Calderon is interested in analysing the role of contemporary documentary photography, and she wants to be part of the debate and exchange of ideas about different visual and narrative strategies to tell stories and interpret the reality.
www.yamilecalderon.com
A series of collages and reworked found images forming an open-ended narrative. Thematically the work revolves around the idea of narratives itself, how we construct a story, or fiction, and how we read it, what we read into it. Another theme is that of the past and its relation to the future. In science fiction literature there is a term called the «what if»-scenario. I consider these images to represent a similar scenario; this is what the world could have been like.
I'm interested in failed ideologies, technological optimism, inventions that were never made, paper architecture, etc. I'm also interested in both utopias and dystopias, and how one often turns into the other.
Håkon Holm-Olsen (b.1982) is a Norwegian artist currently living and working in Bergen, Norway. He graduated with an MA in fine art from Bergen National Academy of the Arts in 2012. He works mainly with found material, which gets reworked and turned into drawings, collages, sculptures, animations, installations, and even books. Thematically his works revolves around the exploration of narrative structures, and a fascination for the relationship between the past and the future, the real and the invented/artificial/fictional/etc.
Since 2006 he has participated in various group shows and events in Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. He is also a board member of the newly founded studio collective Blokk in Bergen, Norway.
"Komm, süßer Tod" (Come, Sweet Death).
This is an artistic project in collaboration with one of the most respected figures in the Norwegian Black Metal genre; front singer in the band Gorgoroth, Kristian E. Espedal A.K.A. "Gaahl".
In "Komm, süßer Tod" Espedal, though still a lead singer, will perform in a significantly different context than the ones he has previously been working within.
The physical installation consists of iron chains, hanging from ceiling to floor, forming a circular room that the public can enter. Here, one will be able to listen to the recorded material in a quadraphonic loudspeaker setup, with Espedal singing the following lyrics:
Komm, süßer Tod, komm selge Ruh!
Komm führe mich in Friede
(Come, sweet death, come blessed rest!
Come lead me to peace)
This stanza, from Johann Sebastian Bach's work by the same name, expresses and explores the concept of liberation through death.
In addition to the theme of death in this work, there are several other similarities between the aesthetics of Black Metal and the baroque style represented in Bach's music. Both genres contain great pathos and drama; the music is virtuous and characterised by long flooding melodic lines with ornamentations and trills.
This concept has great musical and artistic potential, located in a crossover-landscape that I find particularly challenging.
Marte Gunnufsen (b.1980) holds a MA as a classical pianist from the Edvard Grieg Academy in Bergen 2010, and is currently taking a BA in fine art at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts. Gunnufsen was presented in a duo exhibition at Bergen Kjøtt 2011, and participated in Høstutstillingen (Annual Art Salon in Oslo) 2011 and 2012. She has carried out performance art collaborations with artist Tori Wrånes, and performed as a musician at festivals like Festpillfesvtivalen, Ultima, Avgarde, Hovefestivalen, and Vinterlydfestivalen.


So too does Robin Cracknell's Notebooks begin to come apart almost everywhere we look. Like Gilbert's poem, these photographs gather the stray hairs of a lover, always at the risk of finding the last hair—and stopping. "[T]he creative process kept me alive because it kept her alive in me," says Cracknell. "It created an 'us' where there was no 'us'." Or a belief in "us." So much in this work is about belief and our need for loss to mean something.
But there is so much more in these photographs that comes together than comes apart. Rarely have I taken such pleasure in someone else's beliefs.
Six years ago, I began a series of notebooks called "How Do Particles Adhere?" I wanted to do something about connections, about the ways people find and lose each other. It began randomly; pictures of flowers a lover had left me that had long since dried and decomposed, hanging over wishbones. A photograph of her bare back perforated with braille. Stray hairs I'd saved in glass transparency mounts. Penciled lists of things we'd talked about overlaid with intricate diagrams and constellations as though she was a puzzle to be solved. If the freckles on her wrist matched Ursa Minor maybe this dissolved affair could be magicked back into life.
Was I suffering from apophenia, a tendency, as a yearning human, to perceive meaning where none exists? Was I mining for truths, divining truths, precisely because there is no "divine" truth? I continued with those notebooks—all the years we were apart. Obsessively converting her words to braille, comparing those dots to star charts, the letters of her name to mathematical equations, anagrams, graphs, all these marginalia barely decipherable now, as though written by a heartbroken stranger.
Baby P is battered to death as his mother watches. "Everything happens for a reason," we tell ourselves. The most arrogant, insulting and illogical little slogan ever uttered yet our default consolation when life confounds us. Like connecting random stars to make a picture of a horse, the world is more manageable somehow when the sky becomes a giant storybook. We all want so much to belong, to matter, to feel connected. To be part of the greatness around us. Of course, I so want these things too.
I barely remember the person I was then but, in hindsight, I see that the creative process kept me alive because it kept her alive in me. It created an "us" where there was no "us." Those connections were my belief system. The notebooks were not so much about adhering to her but the fizzing, desperate particles of my self adhering to each other. What art does; maintaining "self." Not so much art as therapy, but something higher: art as alchemy. Transformation through creation and combination. All these seemingly random connections, that pile of pages scribbled with star charts, equations, maps and anagrams … This is my belief system.
Follow Robin Cracknell on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Cracknell's work is currently on show at Sous Les Etoiles Gallery in New York, open now through February 4, 2017.


How can you find our vehicles?
All of our vehicles will have a logo (HOP) on the side of the vehicles. We have a variety of vehicles ranging from a 28 passenger white mini bus and well as 14 passenger vans. Our driver call you out by your last name at your specfic meeting point.
Are there restrooms and changing rooms at Hanauma Bay?
Yes there are a total of 4 restrooms at Hanauma Bay. There is two on the upper level and two on the beach area. The main restroom on the beach has a outside shower and a changing room.
Can I still snorkel even though I can not swim?
Yes you can snorkel even though you can not swim. There are many swallow areas to snorkel in which you can stand. We provide life jackets in which can help you float in the water. Although we recommend that you be cautious and stay in the shallow end at all times.
Do you have prescription masks available for people who have vision problems?
We have corrective vision mask available for rent at our shop for $6.00. We have a variety of corrective vision masks available.
What time is best to go to Hanauma Bay?
The earlier the better. Hanauma Bay can get crowded during peak seasons(summer and winter),the earlier pick up time (7am) is recommended to avoid the long line to enter the bay. The wait time can be as long as 60 minutes when it is crowded. Hanauma Bay usually starts to get busy around 9:00am and around 11:00am the beach gets pretty crowded.
What are the return times for Hanauma Bay ?
The pick up times from Hanauma Bay are 11:45am, 1:15pm, and 2:45pm. You will get back to your hotel around 12:45pm, 2:00pm, and 3:30pm. You may choose any of these times on the day of the tour.
The entrance fee is $7.50 for adults, and free for those 12 and younger.
What else can I rent before I get to Hanauma Bay?
Are there lockers at Hanauma bay?
Yes there are lockers at Hanauma Bay but it cost $8.00 for a small locker and $10 for a bigger one. We have lockers in our snorkel shop in which you may use if available.
Is there a clock on the beach?
No there is no clock down on the beach. You will have to provide your own means to tell the time. We recommend bring a waterproof watch with you or you can ask around what time is it. There are two lifeguards and as well as staff of Hanauma Bay.
Can I buy food at Hanauma Bay?
Yes. There is a snack shop next to the entrance of Hanauma Bay. I would recommend to buy food at the snack shop before you enter the bay because there is a long walk from the beach to the snack shop.
What temperature is the water? Do I need a wetsuit?
The summer water temperature averages 80 F and the winter water temperature averages 75 F. Depending on the wind and rain, a wetsuit could greatly increase snorkel enjoyment. Rentals can be decided at the shop on the day of your reservation.
Are there any dangerous animals at the bay?
Sharks do not come inside the inner reef of the bay. While they may be in the outer reef, sightings are extremely rare.
Jellyfish occasionally are present at the bay. Please be cautious when swimming in the ocean with jellyfish. When jellyfish are in the bay the lifeguards will have signs posted as a warning.
Eels are frequently seen in the bay. While bites are uncommon, they become aggressive when they feel threatened. Please respect them and observe from a safe distance.


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Telemetry showed powershell.exe executing ipconfig.exe with command-line arguments. The process tree view showed ipconfig.exe as tainted by a previous powershell.exe detection.
The OverWatch team also sent an email indicating a General Behavior was observed because ipconfig was part of the basic reconnaissance activity performed. OverWatch is the managed threat hunting service. The team sent emails to MITRE to mimic what they would send in a real incident.
The capability enriched net.exe with a related ATT&CK Technique (Account Discovery) and the correct Tactic (Discovery). The process tree view showed the enrichment was tainted by a previous powershell.exe detection.
Telemetry showed the decoded PowerShell script, which displayed the API call GetForegroundWindow to enumerate the active window.
OverWatch generated a General Behavior alert indicating ftp.exe executing with ftp.txt was suspicious. The process tree view showed ftp.exe as tainted by a previous powershell.exe detection. OverWatch is the managed threat hunting service.
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The OverWatch team sent an email indicating a Specific Behavior was observed because collected files were exfiltrated via FTP. OverWatch is the managed threat hunting service. The team sent emails to MITRE to mimic what they would send in a real incident.


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Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) for the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system is information protection technology that works with AD RMS-enabled applications to help safeguard digital information from unauthorized use, both online and offline, and inside and outside of a firewall. AD RMS is designed for organizations that need to protect sensitive and proprietary information such as financial reports, product specifications, customer data, and confidential e-mail messages. AD RMS augments an organization's security strategy by providing protection of information through persistent usage policies (also known as usage rights and conditions), which remain with the information no matter where it is moved. AD RMS persistently protects any binary format of data, so the usage rights remain with the information rather than in an organization's network. This also enables usage rights to be enforced after the information is accessed by an authorized recipient, both online and offline, and inside and outside of the organization. AD RMS helps protect information through persistent usage policies by establishing the following essential elements:
Trusted entities. Organizations can specify the entities, such as individuals, groups of users, computers, and applications that are trusted participants in an AD RMS system. By establishing trusted entities, AD RMS can help protect information by enabling access only to properly trusted participants.
Usage rights and conditions. Organizations and individuals can assign usage rights and conditions that define how a specific trusted entity can use rights-protected content. Examples of usage rights are permission to read, copy, print, save, forward, and edit. Usage rights can be accompanied by conditions, such as when those rights expire. Organizations can exclude applications and entities from accessing the rights-protected content.
Encryption. Encryption is the process by which data is locked by using electronic keys. AD RMS encrypts information. This makes access conditional on the successful validation of the trusted entities. Once information is locked, only trusted entities that were granted usage rights under the specified conditions (if any) can unlock or decrypt the information in an AD RMS-enabled application or browser. The defined usage rights and conditions will then be enforced by the application.
The following topics provide information to assist you in accomplishing administrative tasks by using the Active Directory Rights Management Services console. Review the following topics to learn more about how to work with your AD RMS cluster.
Active Directory Rights Management Services Overview
Pre-installation Information for Active Directory Rights Management Services
Checklist: Deploying a Single-Server Installation
Checklist: Deploying AD RMS in an Extranet
Checklist: Deploying AD RMS in an Organization with Users in Multiple Forests
Checklist: Deploying an AD RMS Licensing-only Cluster
Checklist: Deploying AD RMS with AD FS
Checklist: Deploying AD RMS with Microsoft Federation Gateway Support
Installing an AD RMS Cluster
Installing Microsoft Federation Gateway Support
Configuring an AD RMS Cluster
Removing an AD RMS Cluster
Working with the AD RMS Client
Resources for AD RMS
User Interface: AD RMS
You can configure and manage AD RMS by using either the Windows interface or Windows PowerShell. The topics listed here describe methods for using the Windows interface. For more information about how to use Windows PowerShell for AD RMS, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=136806.
For more information about how to plan, deploy, and troubleshoot AD RMS, see the Active Directory Rights Management Services TechCenter (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=80907).


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Travel is my favourite way to get inspired, and through shared cultural experiences, travel allows us to become better global citizens of our beautiful world. While 2020 has seen us turn to some incredible books, movies, and quality time with our loved ones, all to keep our wanderlust at bay, there simply is nothing like the real thing! Travel is food for our soul, and the time is coming to experience more of the globe, and Africa, very soon.
To date, as the northern hemisphere is dealing with a dreaded second wave of the virus, and while we are all feeling a little disheartened, we have high hopes for 2021 – especially now that a number of highly effective vaccines are imminent, and the number of cases should begin to trend downward as we enter the new year.
I've come to the conclusion that the best revenge to Covid-19, is living well!
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Why is 2021 the Year for African Travel?
If we experience life through our bodies, how we feel and move through our day; it has an enormous impact on our mental health. In caring for our physical body we are also caring for our mental health and that is the genesis of why we believe 2021 will be the Year for African Travel. As so many people seek connectedness as we emerge from Covid-19, Africa is primed to be the ideal travel destination 2021.
One cannot be at one's best if you're not at your best mentally or physically, and there is simply nothing that beats Africa's wide open spaces, incredible wildlife and warm-hearted people to make you feel physically comfortable and connected. Travel in 2021 is going to be all about getting back to basics – understanding not what guests want, but what they need; it's about feeling connected, good and healthy at our core!
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Feeling healthier and finding that deeper connection to nature, which boosts our well-being, is part of Africa's DNA. If a recent Travel survey is to be believed & that the biggest hesitation people have about booking a holiday in 2021 is a fear of being around a lot of other people; then an African safari is destined to be a top 2021 travel choice!
Offering an awareness of space that allows for spiritual engagement and privacy for those quieter, more reflective moments, where one can rejuvenate, will likely be a priority for many of us in 2021. This combined with the need for smaller social spaces, will no doubt serve us well for the future, and an African safari is one of a small selection of truly aspirational experiences on earth that can achieve this.
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Travel to Africa creates real Impact
Our global travel and tourism sector continues to face its greatest challenge of our generation. Covid-19 has grounded our world, literally and figuratively, but travel & tourism are resilient and travellers are starting to return now that Africa's borders are open.
A trip to Africa not only improves our own wellness, but it allows for the much needed recovery of the lives and livelihoods that have been supported through decades of brand equity and conservation built on the foundation of bringing guests to African soil. Tourism will undoubtedly have the biggest impact on Africa's recovery from Covid-19, as it has many highly attractive characteristics for transformative economic development and growth.
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As a significant employer of women (70%) and youth (60%), African tourism has a high number of SMEs with a high employment ratio of low and semi-skilled people by the nature of its geographic distribution. When you examine the safari sector within tourism, in particular, you find it generates economic activity, employment and SME opportunities in the most rural and remote areas of Africa, all with the greatest need. In short, tourism is recognised as the single industry with the greatest potential to drive the type of economic growth that Africa desperately needs.
So as you consider your 2021 travel plans we invite you to join us on a journey that is not only destined to alter the course of your life forever, but will drastically change the lives of so many more. Africa changes people like nowhere else on earth and her breathtaking landscapes, wildlife and people will thank you for generations to come.
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Confessions of an Illuminati, Volume II : The Time of Revelation and Tribulation Leading Up to 2020
by Leo Lyon Zagami
After his master thesis of the secret societies network as outlined in volume 1, the Confessions of an Illuminati narrative of Leo Lyon Zagami is projected to the reality of today, including the occult maneuvers behind the New World Order. We need to wake up beyond our current belief systems, because the "controllers" of the New World Order are moving fast using the "Prophecies" to their advantage to implement their evil plan by 2020, when World War III will finally break loose. The author demonstrates that the hierarchy of power emanating from Rome and Jerusalem, with the Jesuits and the Zionist's united by a secret pact since the Second Vatican Council, are in cahoots working towards the creation of a world government. There is also China playing a new role in the NWO with the far reaching tentacles of Chinese Freemasonry manipulating economic Hit Men and disinformation artists, while Russia is building their Christian orthodox alliance to apparently oppose the Western antichrist. In this unprecedented scenario, we also have the involvement of the big media moguls like Ted Turner and Silvio Berlusconi and their role in manipulating perceptions. The author discusses further aspects of the Satanic infiltration of Freemasonry, pointing out on the generational aspect the many ways of defending yourself psychically against black magicians, but also against the many sects operating in the Illuminati Network.
Publisher: CCC Publishing
Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 1 inches
Confessions of an Illuminati, Volume I
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As the smallest penguin in the world, this flightless bird stands at an average height of 30 cm and has a weight of 1.1 to 1.2 kg. It has a black bill with an average length of 35 mm and eyes ranging from silver to blue, grey, and hazel. Its chin and throat are white along with the underside of its flippers and torso. The top of the head, neck and dorsal side of its flippers and torso are an indigo-blue. The color of the penguin's feathers can become duller with age, and the color of their undersides can range from white to gray to brown. Sexual dimorphism is not pronounced in this species. Males are larger and have longer and deeper bills than females. Males have an average bill length of 35.7 mm and an average bill depth of 15.4 mm. Females have an average bill length of 34.5 mm and an average depth of 14.1 mm. Flipper length is similar in both genders with an average of 117.5 mm.
Courtship begins with male little penguins performing courtship displays and giving mating calls. A male will hold his body in an upright position with flippers above his back, neck stretched, and head upright facing the sky. The male then emits a braying sound. These displays may be performed alone or in a group of unmated males. Occasionally the male will perform in front of a nest he constructed. After a female chooses a male, they perform a display together. One individual stands upright and spreads its flippers with head bowed, which signals the other bird to follow and they walk in small circles around the nest, braying as they go. After this display by male and female, copulation takes place.
Little penguins breed once a year, however, they do have the ability to lay an additional clutch.
The breeding season usually occurs from June until December, but may vary geographically.
Eudyptula minor has over a dozen different aggressive behavior displays. These displays can ultimately be divided into 4 different categories including stationary warning displays, rapidly advancing towards the intruder, brief physical contact and physical attacks. All four behaviors include a different type of physical display and vocalization.
Eudyptula minor is a nocturnal species and is highly vocal during the night while roosting. The sound of their calls can range from a low rumble to a trumpet-like noise. Their song can be used for several functions, including attracting mates. Each little penguin has a distinctive individual song that is used by parents and siblings to distinguish one another from strangers. Calls can also be used with an aggressive intent against an intruder around a penguin's nest.
Little penguins perform unique courtship displays. Males take a particular stance, with heads facing up and wings back, while braying to females. If the female accepts, she will join the male in a courtship "dance" where they march in circles together and make braying calls.
There are no known effects of little penguins on humans.
Ashley Chung (author), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Phil Myers (editor), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Rachelle Sterling (editor), Special Projects.
2009. "Little Penguin, Eudyptula minor" (On-line). Parks & Wildlife Service, Tasmania. Accessed March 19, 2010 at http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=5091.
Daniel, T., A. Chiaradia, M. Logan, G. Quinn, R. Reina. 2007. Synchronized group association in little penguins, Eudyptula minor. Animal Behaviour, 74: 1241-1248.
Davis, L., M. Renner. 2003. Penguins. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Fallow, P., A. Chiaradia, Y. Ropert-Coudert, A. Kato, R. Reina. 2009. Flipper Bands Modify the Short-Term Diving Behavior of Little Penguins. Journal of Wildlife Management, 73/8: 1348-1354.
Heber, S., K. Wilson, L. Molles. 2008. Breeding biology and breeding success of blue penguin (Eudyptula minor) on the West Coat of New Zealand's South Island. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 35: 63-71.
Hoskins, A., P. Dann, Y. Ropert-Coudert, A. Kato, A. Chiaradia, D. Costa, J. Arnould. 2008. Foraging behaviour and habitat selection of the little penguin Eudyptula minor during early chick rearing in Bass Strait, Australia. Marine Ecology-Progress Series, 366: 293-303.
Jouventin, P., T. Aubin. 2000. Acoustic convergence between two nocturnal burrowing seabirds: experiments with a penguin Eudyptula minor and a shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris. Ibis, 142: 645-656.
Kato, A., Y. Ropert-Coudert, A. Chiaradia. 2008. Regulation of Trip Duration by an Inshore Forager, the Little Penguin (Eudyptula Minor), During Incubation. The Auk, 125/3: 588-593.
Knight, C., T. Rogers. 2004. Factors influencing fledgling production in little penguins. Wildlife Research, 31: 339-344.
Mironov, S., H. Proctor. 2008. The Probable Association of Feather Mites of the Genus Ingrassia (Analgoidea: Xolalgidae) with the Blue Penguin Eudyptula minor (Aves: Sphenisciformes) in Australia. The Journal of Parasitology, 94/6: 1243-1248.
Miyazaki, M., J. Waas. 2002. 'Last Word' Effects of Male Advertising Calls on Female Preference in Little Blue Penguins. Behaviour, 139/11-12: 1413-1423.
Nakagawa, S., J. Waas, M. Miyazaki. 2001. Heart rate changes reveal that little blue penguin chicks (Eudyptula minor) can use vocal signatures to discriminate familiar from unfamiliar chicks. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 50: 180-188.
Nisbet, I., I. Dann. 2009. Reproductive performance of little penguins Eudyptula minor in relation to year, age, pair-bond duration, breeding date and individual quality. Journal of Avian Biology, 40/3: 296-308. Accessed February 22, 2010 at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-048X.2008.04563.x.
Overeem, R., A. Peucker, C. Austin, P. Dann, C. Burridge. 2008. Contrasting genetic structuring between colonies of the World's smallest penguin, Eudyptula minor. Conservation Genetics, 9/4: 893-905.
Peucker, A., P. Dann, C. Burridge. 2009. Range-Wide Phylogeography of the Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor): Evidence of Long-Distance Dispersal. The Auk, 126/2: 397-408.
Ropert-Coudert, Y., A. Kato, A. Chiaradia. 2009. Impact of small-scale environmental perturbations on local marine food resources: a case study of a predator, the little penguin. Proceedings of The Royal Society, 276: 4105-4109.
Sergent, N., T. Rogers, M. Cunninghman. 2004. Influence of biological and ecological factors on hematological values in wild Little Penguins, Eudyptula minor. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 138/3: 333-339.
Thomas, ., R. Fordyce. 2007. The Heterothermic Loophole Exploited by Penguins. Australian Journal of Zoology, 55/5: 317-321.


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09/25/2018 R.S. HELMS Political Corruption,
ACTION: Call uncommitted Republicans; Tell them to vote for Brett Kavanaugh.
Flake and Murkowski are socialists … and won't vote American, but you can call them anyway… the rest especially mine need a real jolt!
Courtesy of Independent Sentinel and The Gateway Pundit, below are the faces, names and telephone numbers of Republican Senators not yet committed to voting for Judge Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court Justice.
Let them know that the future of our Republic is counting on them.
Maine Senator Susan Collins: (202) 224-2523
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy: (202)224-5824
Tennessee Senator Bob Corker: (202) 224-3344
Arizona Senator Jeff Flake: (202) 224-4521
Wyoming Senator Michael Enzi: (202) 224-3424
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy: (202) 224-4623
Oklahoma Senator James Lankford: (202) 224-5754
Kansas Senator Jerry Moran: (202) 224-6521
Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski: (202) 224-6665
Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse: (202) 224-4224
10 Senators Don't Understand the Existential Threat if Kavanaugh Loses
Here are the 8 Republican Senators Who Have Not Yet Committed Their Vote For Kavanaugh – CALL THEM!
Please call these NeverTrumpers. This should not be about their standing in the way of the…
But they that Wait upon the LORD!!
Isaiah is my Prophet, … This verse is particularly relevant today. We need to continually honor and listen to God's wisdom.
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Trust in the LORD Jesus-Yeshua with all Thine HEART and SOUL
( Isaiah 40:31 KJV ) "But they that Wait upon the LORD shall Renew their Strength; they shall Mount up with Wings as Eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not Faint."!!
( Proverbs 3:5-6 KJV ) "Trust in the LORD ( ADONAI ) with all thine Heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways Acknowledge HIM, and HE shall direct thy Paths."!! TRUST in the LORDJesus-Yeshua Christwith All Thine HEART and SOUL!!
( Psalms Chapter 117 KJV ) "O Praise the LORD, all ye Nations: Praise Him, all ye people. For His Merciful Kindness is Great Toward us: and the Truth of the LORD Endureth For ever. Praise ye the LORD."!! Praise Ye the LORD!!
( Mark 12:30-31 KJV ) "And thou shalt Love the LORD thy God…
That was the True LIGHT and more Blessings!!
A great blog to read during your quiet time…
Trust in the LORD Jesus-Yeshua with all thine HEART and SOUL!!
( John 1:9 KJV ) "That was the True LIGHT, which Lighteth Every man ( and everyone ) that cometh into the World."!!
( John 8:12 KJV ) "Then Spake Jesus-Yeshua Again unto them, Saying, I AM the LIGHT of the World: he that Followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life."!! FOLLOW our LORD / SAVIOUR Jesus-Yeshua Christ-Messiah!!
( I John 1:5-7 KJV ) "This then is the Message which we have Heard of Him, and declare unto you, that GOD is Light, and in HIM is no darkness at all. If we say that we have Fellowship with HIM, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the Truth: But if we Walk in the Light, as HE is in the Light, we have Fellowship one with Another, and the Blood of…
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Every Monday, (Every day for that matter) Should include a visit to Jeanne Foguth's blog, it makes you feel better all day.
This post is participating in Comedy plus's Awww Monday blog hop.
President Trump hosts MAGA rally in Las Vegas – 09/20/2018
President Trump hosts a campaign rally out of Las Vegas, Nevada, the first since cancelling two rallies last week due to Hurricane Florence. The event comes amid controversy surrounding his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Time to get tough and invoke the Patriot Act – Senator Grassley and Trump Administration
Reblogged from hardnoxandfriends writer Uriel … Thanks for the story.
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Rabid attacks in Congress by Senators or protestors and most definitely through mail, email, protests, social media companies manipulations of information, and other means outside the Senate hearings by Leftists against the nomination of Kavanaugh…
Should be considered Acts of Domestic Terrorism under the Patriot Act and should be processed accordingly NOW.
These are not just misguided actions of a crazed person or two — they ARE COORDINATED efforts by the Leftists to overtake control of the government through manipulation, intimidation, and violent actions.
The Congressional Research Service report, American Jihadist Terrorism: Combatting a Complex Threat, describes homegrown terrorism as a "terrorist activity or plots perpetuated within the United States or abroad by American citizens, permanent legal residents, or visitors radicalized largely within the United States.
Under the 2001 USA Patriot Act, domestic terrorism is defined as "activities that (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the U.S. or of any state; (B) appear to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S."
Senator Grassley sent a letter to the accuser's attorney which drew a deadline of Monday to appear. He gave today as the deadline to answer. They met that but now demand that they appear on Thursday not Monday — the day after a vote is scheduled to be taken on Judge Kavanaugh. They have been working on this case since at least August — if Debra Katz isn't ready, then she isn't worth the price she charges.
Why continue to change dates – intimidation and manipulation. There is NO other reason that could be possible.
Sorry once a line is drawn — there should be no reason to go past that line. Anything else is holding the government and the citizens of our country hostage. That is exactly the scope of the Patriot Act definition of terrorism. Backing down provides the perpetrators proof that they CAN get away with acts of terrorism and THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE.
U.S. Marshals Probe Threats Against Kavanaugh Family: 'F*** YOU AND YOUR RAPIST HUSBAND'
Joshua Caplan
The U.S. Marshals Service is reportedly investigating violent threats sent to the wife of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after a 36-year-old sexual misconduct allegation was leveled against the judge.
Citing an unnamed, high-ranking Trump official, the Wall Street Journal and CNN report at least four vulgar messages were sent to Ashely Kavanaugh's work email address. In one instance, Mrs. Kavanaugh was sent an email which reads, "May you, your husband and your kids burn in hell." Another message states "Hi, Ashley," you should tell her husband to "put a bullet in his … skull."
"My condolences to you for being married to a rapist. Although you probably deserve it," another email read.
On Wednesday, Mrs. Kavanaugh is said to have received a note with the following subject line: "F*** YOU AND YOUR RAPIST HUSBAND."
The U.S. Marshals Service has yet to issue a statement regarding the matter.
One person close to the confirmation process said that while Mrs. Kavanaugh is upset by the attacks on her husband, she doesn't want him to withdraw. Judge Kavanaugh himself hasn't considered withdrawing, according a person familiar with his thinking.
In addition to Mrs. Kavanaugh, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) has received multiple threats in a bid to intimidate her into voting against the Trump Supreme Court pick.
My office has received some pretty ugly voice mail threats, terrible things said to my staff, so this has been a very ugly process and I think that's very unfortunate," Collins told radio station WVOM on Wednesday. Last week, Collins's chief of staff, Steve Abbot, told a Maine television station, "We've had some very abusive callers" regarding Kavanaugh's nomination. "We've had some very vulgar calls and sort of harassing the staff."
Christine Blasey Ford, the California psychology professor accusing Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a house party in 1984, has also been the subject of threats, according to her lawyer Debra Katz. "As you are aware, she has been receiving death threats, which have been reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and she and her family have been forced out of their home, Katz wrote in an email sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
In a separate email, Ford's second lawyer, Lisa Banks, claimed to lawmakers that the professor has faced "vicious harassment" after coming forward with her story. "As a result of these kind of threats, her family was forced to relocate out of their home. Her email has been hacked, and she has been impersonated online," the attorney wrote.
First – Christine Ford braced herself back in August for the firestorm she would incur once on this path. Second, whomever leaked the information to the press should be investigated and charged for invasion of privacy. Third, Sen. Feinstein and whomever else in the Senate should be held to the Ethics and Procedures Standards which have been firmly established and receive consequences for their actions.
Second – This is exactly why the Patriot Act was worded in such a way. Both chambers of Congress APPROVED this act and should now be calling it into play against members in their houses if necessary and definitely citizens rioting/protesting in the streets.
The deliberate attacks on congressional members through any means as a method of intimidation and manipulation of votes SHOULD HAVE BEEN DEALT WITH DURING THE 2016 ELECTION CYCLE. Now they have simply become more emboldened and brazen in their belief that there are no consequences for such behavior.
They are wrong. The Patriot Act has not been rescinded and is in full force so they should take the consequences as set forth in that law.
This is just plain evil that a family could be terrorized for stepping up to be confirmed for a new government position — one of the most important and highest authority judicial positions bar none.
Keep pushing — there are consequences for every action.
It isn't just us that is watching and waiting — the entire world is either going to take heart or decry your actions. This is a GLOBAL issue. You know it is so.