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Posted: Tue 24 Jul 2012, 08:40
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Dropbox freezes the poweroff process
I am running Puppy 4.3.1. frugal. I was lucky installing the Dropbox portable app found here
. It asked me to signup the first time, created a /root/Dropbox folder in my computer, and all well and running.
However, whenever Dropbox has been running, the computer seems to become disoriented during the shutdown process. Goes like this: first, it takes longer than normal before leaving X, and then it gets frozen in the black screen and the "Puppy is shutting down..." message, so I have to use the reset or poweroff buttons.
However, if I use the computer without running Dropbox, the reset and poweroff procedures go back to normal; so, obviously, it has something to do with Dropbox.
It doesn't even seem to matter if Dropbox is actually running while the shutdown takes place: if Dropbox has been executed at any point during the session, even if later it was stopped (by typing the command 'dropbox stop', or even killing all the dropbox processes), I get the same bug.
This bug behaves the same either if I run the Dropbox portable app manually or if I have it linked to /root/Startup for it to autostart (which it does flawlessly).
The bug also behaves the same either executing a poweroff ('wmpoweroff') or a reboot ('wmreboot').
I have also tried using different window managers and the bug acts the same.
I have also tried .pet versions of Dropbox (on a different, guinea pig pupsave), and none of them work.
I have also tried installing SpiderOak, the alternative service mentioned in the Dropbox thread, but it throws a verbose error about Internet certificates.
I have ran out of ideas, do you have any? Dropbox is really fast and handy and would really help my workflow...
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Posted: Tue 24 Jul 2012, 13:53
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does dropbox mount internet shares ?
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does dropbox mount internet shares ?
I tried running the dropbox script while watching the /mnt folder at the same time, to see if any change happens, but not at all; nothing gets mounted, if that's what you meant by 'internet shares' (and if it isn't, could you elaborate a bit more? I'm no expert on the matter).
I then tried one more thing, which btw I wonder if it is related to mounting: I run the dropbox script from console, and here is the result:
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
The console thus created cannot be closed with ctrl+c or ctrl+d, only killing it. I tried moving the dropbox script to different locations and mounted partitions, and got in all the cases the same result. With one exception: when the script is inside the /root/Dropbox folder, you get the same erorr, but you do can interrupt it with ctrl+c, and here is what it produces:
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
File "__main__dropbox__.py", line 23, in <module>
File "client_api/dropbox_connection.py", line 21, in <module>
File "common_util/functions.py", line 26, in <module>
File "common_util/globals.py", line 1, in <module>
Any idea?
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OK, I have new advances that shed some light.
When executed, the Dropbox script creates a mount point in /tmp. Its name is always different, under the format .mount_somerandomcharacters.
Any attempt to delete or unmount such mount point causes either a) computer frozen b)'Device is busy' error c)'Transport endpoint is not connected' d) the process related to the unmount attempt (either via Rox or the umount command...) freezes.
Even when you stop dropbox with the 'dropbox stop' command, the mount point remains active.
The best result so far is that, when d) happens, once you kill the frozen processes via pprocess, it throws an error but the mountpoint finally disappears, and you can close the computer normally.
I guess during poweroff, Puppy tries to unmount it or simply clean the /tmp folder, and it enters an infinite wait due to that 'ghost mount point'.
Maybe it is a security issue, something related to Puppy running as root? Any inspiration out there, please? Could I force the unmounting somehow? Should I?
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Posted: Tue 24 Jul 2012, 22:29
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I have submitted some suggestions/patches to /etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown script, that's what does all the tidy up at shutdown . There had been also accepted suggestions in the bug section by forum member idolse i think regarding network shares .
It seems
a) the dropbox script cd into a directory and deletes it without cd out of it before .
so this is kind of bug there which normally doesn't matter,
have experienced it myself with one of my private adjustments to the package manager script once .
b) BK recently posted on his blog "Do not delete /tmp/* at shutdown"
so only the most recent Woof based Puppies might have it .
c) Yes, rc.shutdown unmounts everything .
d) Yes, such network shares i meant .
combined lead to your troubles .
Would not really have expected the mount point in the /tmp directory either .
Puppy is cut down so dropbox probably is using a busybox applet instead of an expected binary here and there but still seems to access your network share in the dropbox cloud . Whatever happens when not logged out there i don't know .
Dropbox seems to consist of a huge amount of python scripts and python support is usually not one of Puppies' strengths .
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Thank you for all the useful hints you provide. I'm still processing part of the information, but here are some things I've tried so far:
-Just in case, I ran a 4.3.1. live CD and executed Dropbox, to discard some clutter in the pupsave. The error acted just the same.
-Following the link to BK's blog, I tried commenting the line that deletes /tmp in the rc.shutdown script. But the error remains the same.
-I ran Lupu (which is woof-based, isn't it?), extracted its rc.shutdown script, and copied it into my 4.3.1. installation (creating a backup of my rc.shutdown first, of course), to check any change in shutdown behavior. No change at all.
the dropbox script cd into a directory and deletes it without cd out of it before
Executing 'type dropbox' prompts /usr/bin/dropbox, which turns to be a python script that can be edited. I don't know a word of python, but I revised the script in case the comments indicated a self-evident way to to make the required directory change. But I couldn't get a hold of it. Maybe some forum member who knows python can help?
dropbox probably is using a busybox applet
Don't know if exactly related, but the processes that get frozen when I try to unmount dropbox's 'ghost directory' are like this:
/bin/sh /bin/umount -i /tmp/.mount_whatevercharacters -l
[b]busybox[/b] umount -d -i /tmp/.mount_whatevercharacters -l
So I tried to unmount using the umount-FULL command instead, because I guess it is not included in busybox. The error happened just the same.
Dropbox seems to consist of a huge amount of python scripts and python support is usually not one of Puppies' strengths .
One question here: is Puppy's python version abridged, like it happens with bash? If so, would it be of any good to install a full version somehow?
Now I'm trying to get my head around your modifications of rc.shutdown and Idolse's thread. Thank you for all the suggestions.
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OK, so could not make head or tails of any of the threads.
I use Linux because I love freedom, but I've come to terms with the evidence that I'll never be the geek of the year.
In the meantime, I've discovered wuala, a feasible alternative (it uses Java, which is bloated, but... well, it works).
Thank you anyway. If someone is looking for options for cloud hosting, this thread here was very useful for me:
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There might be a bug with fusermount -u that calls /bin/umount again a second time.
Also the ps line to grep 'ntfs\-3g' does not work for me if i set PS_PERONALITY to something other than the default .
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Thank you, those are great lines of investigation if one day I decide to try Dropbox again. By the moment, I'm going to settle with Wuala. It has a 'synchronization mode' where you can choose which folders you want copied, and when I get to know it a bit better, there is a also command-line mode, using which I can crank a couple of scripts to make it totally dropbox-like.
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I don't know who Velvet Sky is seeing these days, but I know a few readers who would challenge the guy to a match if Steiner rules are in effect. Bad jokes aside, a better match than I expected, though I don't think Steiner matches need that much time. Morgan's selling got the crowd fired up about his comeback. The right guy went over, and hopefully this means the feud is over. Backstage, Borash interviewed Jeff Jarrett, who said he's going to take Kurt Angle's gold medal and have it placed around his neck. Jarrett said he knew his wife Karen was watching the match and dedicated it to her... A video recapped Abyss's destruction of the X Division... 3. Abyss beat Kazarian and Brian Kendrick in a three-way to retain the X Division Title in 12:00. Abyss no-sold Kendrick's offense early. Kendrick went for a cross body and just bounced off Abyss, who followed up by throwing him to ringside. The cross body spot drew laughter from the crowd. Abyss beat up Kazarian while Kendrick sold. Kendrick eventually returned and hit a series of offensive moves on Abyss. At 10:45, Abyss went to the floor, and Kazarian and Kendrick came to blows. Kendrick caught Kazarian with a kick. Abyss reached in and pulled Kendrick to the floor, and then raced back inside the ring to pin Kazarian... Powell's POV: This was essentially a handicap match since the babyfaces mostly together only to be repeatedly shot down. I didn't care for it. Kazarian and Kendrick sold so much for Abyss that they looked weak, and he didn't even come across looking any better than he went in because his opponents have been treated like bush leaguers on television lately, so getting the better of them meant nothing. I have no idea why Kazarian did the job rather than Kendrick, whose character just isn't over. A Crimson vs. Samoa Joe video package was shown... 4. Crimson pinned Samoa Joe in 10:30. Crimson came out to very little reaction. He charged the ring and immediately started trading punches with Joe. Jackson James was the referee. One loud guy and four women (guessing) started a "Let's go Crimson" chant, and they were outnumbered by "Let's go Joe" chants. Joe applied a leg bar a couple of times, but Crimson reached the ropes to break it. Joe continued to work over Crimson's leg/knee. Crimson came back with a lousy looking submission hold that Joe slid out of quickly. He came back with a T-bone suplex that Taz said was "pretty well done." Crimson hit a double-armed DDT for a near fall. Joe came back with a suplex and a clothesline. He powerbombed Crimson and followed up with another leg lock, but Crimson reached the ropes. Joe shook his head in frustration. Joe and Crimson had a slap fest. Joe got the better of it, but Crimson speared him. They stood up and threw slow punches and then Joe fired away with slaps and a chop in the corner. Crimson came back with the Sky High for the win. The announcers spoke about how physical the match was. Joe offered Crimson his hand. Crimson shook Joe's hand, but Joe pulled him in close. "We will do this again," Joe said... Powell's POV: I know the undefeated streak is the story they are trying to tell, but the fans are not reacting to Crimson they way they should be reacting to an undefeated wrestler. Part of the problem is that the only thing we know about him is that he's Amazing Red's little brother, which is a work and doesn't mean anything. Granted, we didn't know much about Goldberg, but he had the "it" factor that Crimson hasn't shown. Good effort from both men, but Crimson hasn't shown enough to justify the push he's getting. Backstage, Borash interviewed Winter and Angelina Love. Winter did the talking during the promo and said it was time for Love to take her medicine. Love stopped her and said: "I won't be needing that anymore, Winter. It took me a while, but I get it now. We're on the same page. I understand"... Powell's POV: Congratulations to Angelina Love for being the first person in the world to understand what the hell is going on with Winter. I'm not sure what Winter has been feeding Angelina, but I'll take two. 5. Mickie James beat Angelina Love (w/Winter) to retain the TNA Knockouts Title in 7:55. They showed a fan who won a contest to be the guest timekeeper. Unfortunately for the fan, his bell ringing couldn't be heard either. Back and forth action through the first six minutes. Winter interfered and Love capitalized with a big boot to Mickie. Love went for a cover, but Mickie grabbed the ropes. Winter removed Mickie's hand from the ropes, but referee Earl Hebner spotted it. Mickie punched Winter off the ring apron and hit a Northern Lights Suplex for a near fall. Mickie ended up coming back with a tornado DDT that was completely botched, yet that turned out to be the finishing move, as Mickie got the three count. After the match, Winter attacked Mickie and choked her with a belt. Love grabbed the belt and choked Mickie as well. Taz said Love and Mickie are like "a couple of hell cats." Mickie sold in the ring while Love and Winter left the ring together... Powell's POV: Good effort, but clunky in spots and an especially bad botched finish. Mark my words, Winter, not drugging Love will be the end of your relationship sooner or later. I can't tell you how many women left me once I stopped drugging them. I've been with the same woman now for 14 years, and it's been heavily medicated bliss. Fine, none of that is true except for the 14 years part. Anyone know where I can find... Never mind. Backstage, Borash interviewed Bully Ray, who made him repeatedly say that it was a last man standing match. Ray said the key word is "man" and neither Borash nor A.J. Styles know nothing about being men... 6. Bully Ray beat A.J. Styles in a Last Man Standing match in 20:20. Ray had the first stretch of long offense following a big back body drop. He whipped Styles to ringside and roughed him up with shots to the back. Back inside the ring, Ray delivered hard slaps to A.J.'s chest. Styles stood up and asked for more. Ray complied with another hard slap. Styles stood up and asked for another. The camera closed in and showed the red marks on Styles's chest. Ray granted the request and the fans broke out in a "holy shit" chant for slaps. Styles asked for a punch to the face. Ray complied. Mel Gibson is getting horny. Styles came back with some of his signature offense, including the springboard forearm spot. Ray got back to his feet before the ref reached seven. Styles caught Ray with a Pele kick on the ropes and followed up with ten punches. He set up for a huracanrana, but Ray powerbombed off the ropes him instead. Ray went to ringside and grabbed a chain. He swung and missed with the chain, which Styles picked up and wrapped around his own hand before blasting Ray with a punch. Ray was a bloody mess when he stood up. Well, either that or he found some of Sting's face paint. No, not really. Styles hit Ray with a wild 450 off the ropes. Ray got back to his feet at the last moment. Styles threw Ray to the floor and then dove over the top rope onto him. Ray came back as the duo brawled onto the stage. Ray wanted to powerbomb Styles off the stage again, but A.J. broke it up. With Ray on the ground, Styles got a running start and performed a big dive onto Ray. It wasn't pretty, but it looked pretty damn cool. The fans chanted "This is awesome." Styles grabbed a table and set it up near the stage. Styles placed Ray on the table. Styles went back to the stage. Styles teased a running dive. Instead, he climbed onto a lighting structure and climbed ridiculously high up before dropping an elbow that put Ray through the table. "That was sick," Taz said. The ref started counting with both men down. Styles got to his feet, but Ray kicked him and Styles's head and body went through a wooden piece of the stage. The ref continued to count both men down, and Ray barely got to his feet in time to win the match... Powell's POV: Very physical match with great effort from both men. This was easily the match of the night so far. Styles did a great job while climbing the lighting structure. I love the way he teased jumping from multiple points, only to climb higher. The announcers did a good job of putting over the physicality of the match, but they failed to make the outcome seem important. Tenay was too busy labeling Styles as "phenomenal" to sell frustration over Styles not winning. Why did the count on Styles continue even though he got to his feet before Ray kicked him? Backstage, Borash interviewed Mr. Anderson, who grabbed his eyes and ears while telling him to open his eyes and his ears and "shut your big, fat mouth." Anderson grabbed Borash's mouth and said he could stand there all day and talk. "But actions speak louder than words," Anderson said before walking off... A video recapped the Sting vs. Anderson feud. There was one hilarious clip early with Sting holding the belt above his head while making dumb faces... Tenay ran through the tale of the tape... Anderson came out first and cut a promo on the stage in which he predicted that there would be a new World Heavyweight Champion. Anderson did his usual self-introduction. Sting suddenly appeared behind him, said the second "Anderson" line, and attacked him... Powell's POV: They're going with Angle vs. Jarrett in the main event spot. Interesting move. I assume that will be the better match, but it feels strange to see the TNA Title defended in the semi-main event slot. Perhaps there's a story line reason that required the title match going on early. 7. Mr. Anderson defeated Sting to win the TNA Title in 15:35. Sting dominated the fight down to ringside and then dragged Anderson inside the ring to officially start the match. They headed back to ringside, where Sting whipped Anderson into the base of the lower deck. Sting, who was wearing red, looked like he had muscle spasms while putting his makeup on before the match. The brawl continued up the stairs and near the top of the Impact Zone. Sting grabbed Anderson in a headlock and dragged him back down to the floor. After fighting at ringside for about four minutes, Anderson made it back inside the ring. He went back to the floor and fought with Sting, but rolled back in to break up Jackson James's count. The punching and kicking continued in the ring with Anderson in control. He went for a splash in the corner, but Sting moved. Anderson applied a wrist lock. The crowd didn't care, but Taz did his best to make the move seem meaningful. Sting made his comeback and took control of the offense. Sting was setting up for the Scorpion leg lock when Eric Bischoff walked to ringside at 12:15. Sting released the hold. At 13:40, Anderson hit the Mic Check for a near fall. Sting came back with a splash and a Scorpion Death Drop and went for a cover, but Bischoff reached in and hit the mat once. Apparently, the idea is that Sting thought he heard a three-count and gave up the pin. Sting jawed at Bischoff, who backed away toward the entrance ramp. Sting picked up Anderson from the mat, but Anderson low-blowed him and hit the Mic Check. Anderson covered Sting and got the 1-2-3 to win the match and the TNA Title. Bischoff clapped at ringside before leaving alone. The announcers spoke about how Sting losing the TNA Title affects the power struggle involving Hulk Hogan/Eric Bischoff against Sting. They then hyped the Angle vs. Jarrett main event. Powell's POV: They made the right call in not going with that match as the main event. Ugh. It was the typical Sting shortcut of brawling through the crowd and then nothing special once they were back in the ring. That said, I'm happy the belt is off Sting. They tried to strike while the iron was hot when he returned to the company, but the main event match quality has really suffered since he won the belt, and I assume he'd be the first to admit that. Does Sting losing mean he'll become the face of The Network? The announcers were joined by Karen Jarrett, who was listed as being live via satellite "from the Jarrett mansion in Hendersonville, Tennessee." Karen said she didn't just fall, it was a push by Angle. Karen said Jeff will win the match, become No. 1 contender, and bring the gold medal to her son Kody's room. Karen said before the medal goes to Kody's room, she'll put the medal around her neck and "do what I do best." Tenay said Karen is an A-1 ball buster... A video recapped the Jarrett vs. Angle feud... Jeff Jarrett made his entrance, which was followed by Kurt Angle's entrance. Jeremy Borash handled the in-ring introductions for the main event... 8. Kurt Angle defeated Jeff Jarrett to become No. 1 contender to the TNA Title in 17:40. Angle's gold medal was on the line. Brian Hebner was the referee. No staredown to start despite this being listed as the final battle. Rather, the bitter rivals went for lockups and wrestling holds with Angle getting the better of the early exchanges. Strange. Jarrett took control when the match spilled to ringside. He dropped Angle over the guardrail and headed back inside the ring. At 7:15, Angle hit a great German suplex on Jarrett inside the ring. Angle sold the punishment he took by taking his time standing up. Jarrett actually beat him to his feet and threw the first punch. At 11:15, Angle applied the ankle lock in the middle of the ring. Jarrett flipped out of it, causing Angle to go flying. Ref bump!!! Jarrett reached underneath the ring and pulled out a guitar. Jarrett slapped it over Angle's head and then tried to clean up the debris. Jarrett motioned to the back. Earl Hebner ran out. Jarrett smiled as he covered Angle, who kicked out at two. Angle came back with a couple of suplexes but couldn't put Jarrett away. At 14:30, Angle did the bit where he runs to the corner and up the ropes and then threw Jarrett off with another suplex. At 16:20, Jarrett applied the ankle lock. Tenay mentioned that Jarrett could become No. 1 contender and win Angle's gold by using his own hold. Kurt teased tapping out, but he ended up rolling out of the hold and applying an ankle lock of his own. Jarrett eventually tapped out to give Kurt the win... A video for TNA Destination X closed the show... Powell's POV: Using Steiner logic, Kurt can have another run at his ex-wife since he won the match. Anyway, a strong TNA pay-per-view main event. Forget about the title match going on last, this was rightful main event. I'm not big on non-title matches headlining in most cases, but this match was better than the title match and this was the last match in a long feud. Kurt is the new No. 1 contender, but I'm curious to see where Jarrett goes from here. Overall, it was mostly a no nonsense show in terms of the matches being overbooked or filled with the usual booking insanity. However, it was merely a decent show. The Styles vs. Ray match was certainly memorable, and the main event was entertaining. Everything else either fell flat or didn't feel all that significant.
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The Return of SF Country Sourdough
After fiddling repeatedly between last October and this March with my formula for pain de campagne, which I dubbed "San Francisco Country Sourdough," I got distracted by other things—mostly Tartine Basic Country Bread. A couple weeks ago, we thawed and enjoyed the last of that SFCSD, a sign that it was time to return to that formula and try it again. I was curious after all this time (four months may not seem like a long time, but its 30% of my bread-baking history), to see if the product would be better due to my experiences baking the Tartine BCB.
I can say that the product was better, but—of course—I can't say why.
I used the same formula as last posted (http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/22679/spring-air…and-oven), with the following variations: (1) I got stuck on a long phone call, so the stretch and folds were at something like 30 minutes, 110 minutes and 150 minutes; (2) I shaped the dough into three 500 gram batards, and (3) I proofed the loaves on a linen couche instead of my usual brotforms. These smaller loaves were done baking after about 30 minutes at 450 F.
What had shifted my focus to the Tartine BCB was its magnificent crumb, the perfect point for me on the chewy-tender spectrum. This bake of the San Francisco Country Sourdough was very close to that ideal, and it has the dash of rye flavor I love in pain de campagne. This one—which I didn't retard—had a nice slight sourness.
In looking at the two formulas, the procedures are fairly similar. But the SFCSD has a lower hydration and the dough is much less sticky and, therefore, easier to handle.
I wonder now whether the improvement in this bread since my last try at it has to do with the progress of my skills in dough handling and judging fermentation, or was it just kitchen karma, or do I not remember how good this bread was in previous bakes?
In any case, fresh-baked with butter, it was an ideal accompaniment for a Summer dinner of seafood salad with homemade Louis dressing.
This bread will again be a regular in my rotation.


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Seattle….I might have a crush on David Wolfe….part 1 of 3
I'm back from speaking in Seattle and Federal Way, WA with David Wolfe, see photos below. In one, we're sitting on the pier at our Lake Washington party house. (We had an after-party Friday night, and although I went upstairs to bed at 1 a.m., I woke up at 4:45 and the party was still going! For the raw foodie crowd, KOMBUCHA is the alternative to booze! Yum.) And of course I had to have a picture of the guy named Avocado eating….an avocado.
What I didn't take a photo of was Bikram Hot Yoga. OMG.
Ninety minutes of it, in 120 degrees of steam. Only SunWarrior's Cody didn't make it through. Everybody else? Shirtless, wearing next to nothing, 10 minutes in. There's nothing else like it. What a release! The first 45 mins., I felt like I was in hell, and I wanted to kill Brent Hauver who insisted we all do this. Endorphins, toxins through the skin, emotions, you have to just let go of it all. (As you stand there holding a pose, dripping from every pore.)
Go to Hot Yoga if you ever get the chance. We don't have that here in Kansas, Toto.
Making a video in the photo below, I'm with SunWarrior co-founder Brent Hauver, Avocado Noni Cacao Himself, and Sacred Chocolate's Steve Adler. (He's a modern-day, nutrition-guru Willy Wonka whose 45th birthday was that day.)
And in the photo below eating a lot of fabulous raw food at Choco Canyon is all of us and the SunWarrior / Hyperthrive crew, where Dave the Raw Trucker downed FIVE shots of wheat grass juice to all of us egging him on.
We had 350 people at Mary Gates Hall (see me, then Avocado, speaking there in photos below) and more than 350 in every nook and cranny at Marlene's Market in Federal Way.
We're gonna take the GreenSmoothieGirl / David Wolfe show to a few more metro areas. Should we come to your city? Tell me: where?
Not gonna lie, I have a little thing for David Wolfe. I like smart guys who can talk and are passionate about something. And then there's his Johnny Depp-ness. He is the Encyclopedia Brittanica of biochemistry, human anatomy, superfoods, micronutrients and more.
After I spoke, I literally sat at his feet the second night (since there were no seats and no standing room either), highly entertained by the audience "getting a drink from a firehose," someone's description on facebook yesterday of what it's like to listen to Avocado speak. Got a kick out of watching folks try to write it all down. Good luck with that! I'm not wowed often or easily. But let me say this: WOW.
I'm not a supplement girl, but I confess he inspired me to try a few of his favorites. We dreamed up some GreenSmoothieGirl superfood chocolate bars in our long drives in the car. We talked about what the best sweeteners are that we'll use in formulation to keep blood sugar impact LOW, and what superfoods we'll include in the formulation to slow aging, increase your energy, and rocket your LIBIDO.
(Nobody talks about it. Lots of people struggle with it. Just sayin. I'm going to bring you a chocolate that addresses PMS *and* makes you an enthusiastic lover. Just you wait.)
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What man wants to look like David Wolfe? He used to be good-looking 20 yrs ago. He pimps out expensive packaged "superfoods" that no one needs for optimum vitality and health. If you find him sexy, you too have issues.


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Last week, we told you how Batman was helping to keep Brazil safe, and now it's Slovakia's turn. In the Slovak town of Dunajska Streda, 26-year-old Zoltan Kohari has already started patrolling in what might be the most DIY-looking Batsuit we've ever seen.
Kohari helps keep the streets clean — literally, he picks up litter — and helps out old people. He also keeps the bouncers at he local disco from roughing up tourists, which is probably a good thing. And if he sees an actual crime in progress, he calls the police. Kohari tells Reuters, "I have decided to do good for the people. I take care of order and help clean up the environment so we can keep living on this planet." (Picture that said in a Christian Bale growl.)


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Many of you who have been in the industry for several years might recall the early attempts at combining exercise and entertainment, many of which focused on technology platforms. These products and projects were described by pundits and product managers under different categories including "exertainment," gaming while exercising, etc. Sadly, almost all of these concepts have been shelved or greatly diminished in their promise because, quite simply, they didn't work.
Equipment product departments (and some health clubs) are littered with the carcasses of beta tested or early versions that failed. Here are some of the reasons why.
The majority of the 40,000-plus exercisers we've coached or personal trained over the years have informed us that although they value the outcomes associated with exercise, they don't necessarily love the process. In fact, many of our former and current clients tell us that they want to "zone out" or be distracted while exercising. Now certainly exercisers need to know that they are exercising effectively and safely and have equipment and trainers to set these parameters. Beyond that, many would like to "check out" by not having to engage their brains while exercising. If you question this, simply wander your club's floor and you'll find that an increasing number of your members are hooked up to a handheld music device, or watching television while on cardiovascular equipment.
The personal technology industry has already responded to this need by producing and selling huge numbers of personal entertainment devices, from MP3 players to personal, mini disc players and other "flash memory" devices that allow users to listen to music, books on tape, and even videos or movies, anytime and anywhere. This trend will continue to increase rapidly as technology becomes less expensive, memory becomes more portable and products durable enough to hold up to the demands of sweating, active bodies.
The real news is that equipment manufacturers are beginning to truly understand what exercisers want and will use. We interviewed personal technology entertainment device executives, fitness equipment manufacturer product managers and, most importantly, regular exercisers, and here's what we found:
Personal entertainment devices will continue to evolve into products that are flexible and portable enough to not only store music but also to withstand sweat, heat and humidity, and the inevitable pounding that comes with people who are active.
Devices will also offer small screens that allow active people to watch favorite videos, exercise sessions and even television programs. After-market products will also include audio and video meditation, relaxation and other mind/body components. Some are already available that provide music syncopated to keep a user's heart rate in the proper zone and intensity level while exercising.
Technology companies will offer protective casing that repels sweat and devices will be waterproof for swimming.
Portable players will have the ability to sync up with existing club technology. This will include the ability to wirelessly connect with a club's sound and television system and, in some cases, use a cardiovascular machine to not only watch television or listen to music, but also charge their portable device's batteries while doing so.
Products on the drawing board include features such as wireless receptors and radio stations built into the console of the machines to allow users to listen to music wirelessly or download pre-recorded and pre-stored workouts.
Any TVs in a club can pick up music with videos, educational clips and even messages from the facility, local medical practitioner's health tips through www.clubcom.com.
Video and audio downloads on equipment will be available to help educate users about supplementation and sports-specific training. In some cases, users will be able to download workouts to their personal devices at hotel gyms while they're traveling, spending time outdoors and even staying at home. Manufacturers will increasingly make their Web sites more interactive so visitors can download workouts, videos of exercise "how to's" and a variety of other helpful tools.
Admittedly, these are "stretch" goals for club managers and owners in our current environment, but we must remember that the sales/value chains must start and end with your customer. These are the people that keep us in business. Most importantly, be aware of what your current members are using and what they are asking you for in the future.
On a final note, I wanted to say that one of the most helpful sources (as the manufacturers tend to be quite secretive pre-product launch) for this article was Jason Kos, co-owner of Fitco Fitness Center Outfitters out of Dallas, TX.
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Adult Swim, Cartoon Network Piss Off Fans By Removing Free iPad Streams; Now Only For Cable Subscribers
from the that's-not-helping dept
Yes, this is weak attempt by everyone to try to hold back the flood of people cutting the cord -- but it's the absolute wrong way to go about it. Rather than providing more value, they're trying to take away value from others, and in the process pissing off a lot of people. It's not going to make cord cutters any more interested in re-subscribing to cable or satellite TV, but may make the Cartoon Network and Adult Swim lose some of its most valuable audience -- the young, employed, well-educated folks that advertisers crave... who have been leading the charge in cutting the cord. Here's what the attorney wrote to me:
I do not have cable. and, just to make it clear, I am a late 20-something, practicing intellectual property attorney, and I cut my cable not because the economy is bad, but because it is an outrageously overpriced, single direction service that forces me to choke down a ton of content I do not care about, in addition to forcing me to watch ads.The way to compete in this market is to add value, not take it away. That just pisses people off.
I was happy to watch my favorite cartoons, for free, but with ads, ostensibly, the profits of which go directly to the stations with less dilution than if they had been broadcast, but now I will probably go back to doing what I did before my iPad: not watch stuff, wait for it to come out on DVD and Netflix/Qwikster it, or, potentially, even 'infringe' it.


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Category: General News
Category: General News
787 Dreamliner Issues
More problems for Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner planes. This week a mechanic discovered oil leaking from one of the engines, on another flight the glass in a cockpit window cracked, there was a fire in one of the planes while it was empty, and one flight was cancelled because an on-board computer was wrongly reporting a problem with the plane's brakes. The FAA is stepping in and there will be a review of all of the 787's design and manufacturing process.


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Emmylou Harris is trailed by a ragtag parade of eager dogs when she answers a knock at the door of the comfortable two-story home on a fenceless parcel a few miles from downtown Nashville, where she lives with her 89-year-old mother, Eugenia.
The singer and songwriter greets a visitor with the same unguarded openness with which she has welcomed in a steady stream of abandoned, abused or otherwise homeless canines as part of the Bonaparte's Retreat animal rescue operation she's run for the last several years.
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As it turns out the if statement in bash isn't as friendly towards floating point variables as it is for integer and string variables.
First of all the -gt and -lt switches don't work.Even the unary operators >,<, etc. don't work. The only way is to do a comparison between the floating point variables using bc and using the logical outout as a comparison string.
a=11.5; b=11.3 compare_result=`echo "$a >$b" | bc` if [ $compare_result -gt 0 ]; then echo $a else echo $b fi


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Discussion in 'General' started by jetservis, Jan 10, 2013.
Customers and creating websites. But directories are created with no. What to do?
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Tried. But unfortunately there are no logs. Did not help.
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SOCHI, Russia — German Olympic officials say biathlete Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle has been kicked out of the Sochi Games after a positive doping test.
The German Olympic Committee says she tested positive on Monday for the stimulant methylhexanamine. Both the "A" sample and backup "B" sample were positive.
The committee says the athlete has been removed from the team and is being sent home.
Sachenbacher-Stehle competed in five events in Sochi but did not win any medals. Her best results were two fourth-place finishes, in the 12.5K mass start and the mixed relay. She also finished 11th in the 7.5k sprint, 27th in the 10K and 20th in the 15K.
Also Friday, the Italian Olympic Committee announced that bobsledder William Frullani was expelled from the games after a positive test for a stimulant.
Germany has 16 medals so far in Sochi, including eight golds.
Stefan Schwarzbach, the German team spokesman for cross-country and biathlon, said he wasn't allowed to comment on whether the test involved those events or another sport.
"All I can say is, we have a positive 'A' sample (somewhere on the German Olympic team)," he said. "But as long as we don't have a positive 'B' sample, we are not allowed to talk about that."
The IOC is conducting 2,453 drug tests in Sochi, a record for the Winter Games. The majority of tests are in strength and endurance sports, notably cross-country skiing and biathlon, events where the use of EPO and other blood-boosting drugs can aid stamina.
The IOC also stores Olympic doping samples to allow for retesting when new methods become available. The storage period has been extended from eight to 10 years under the next World Anti-Doping Code.
Arne Ljungqvist, chairman of the IOC medical commission, said last weekend that he was not surprised there had been no doping cases until then.
"It's expected that people don't cheat and those who do are not here," Ljungqvist said, noting that only one positive case was recorded at the 2010 Vancouver Games.
A Russian biathlete, Irina Starykh, withdrew from the Sochi Olympics because she failed a doping test before the games.


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I want to give back to all of you today, you've made it such a great year for me and this blog.
I'll be having all sorts of giveaways today, as many as time permits.
Let's start small:
"Three Lives" by Gertrude Stein, first Mod. Lib. edition, 1933
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In Matthew 16 (18-19) Jesus says to his first disciple, Simon Peter, "….you are Peter and on this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it."
After Jesus's death it must have become apparent to Peter that it was absolutely necessary for him to transfer his ministry to Rome – the Imperial capital of the world. And once in Rome he would take up the position of head of the Christian church. Well, we don't know exactly how or when (or even if) Peter arrived in Rome but we assume that he did and after having been given some office similar to the Bishop of Rome, he was killed in about 64AD. Peter was never actually a "Pope," as the title did not exist until adopted by Siricius (584-399), but for almost 2,000 years he has been considered the first Pope.
Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy is the story of the Popes – by whatever title – as they have supposedly passed from Peter in an unbroken line of Apostolic Succession. It is the story of all the Popes which poses a problem for the reader, as it must have been for the author, because so many of the Popes, particularly the earlier ones, were downright dull, stupid, and uninteresting or else we simply know nothing about them.
The author of "Absolute Monarchs" is John Julius Norwich, a productive and respected British author whose specialty is the history of the Mediterranean world during the first millennium AD. Norwich was the son of a titled Conservative British politician and diplomat, Duff Cooper. Consequently, his heir Norwich is also a lord – the Second Viscount Norwich.
An Old Etonian, Norwich served in the Royal Navy, studied languages at Oxford, joined the British Foreign Service and then left it to become a writer. Norwich has done it all – he's been the host of a radio game show, the writer and narrator of 30 television documentaries on historical subjects, and the author of travel books (a genre the British seem to own) as well as a half-dozen quite distinguished histories set in medieval times. Norwich is an old – and skillful – hand at historical story-telling.
The Popes, as "Absolute Monarchs" tells us, were at one time simply nominated and pushed into office by a powerful ruler or a wealthy family. Not until 1059 did a Pope propound a decree which placed the selection of the Papal office squarely in the hands of the cardinals – who were, of course, themselves selected by the Pope.
When the naming of the Pope had been largely the prerogative of wealthy Italian families such as the Medicis, the Borgias, and the Tusculums, the latter family was able to name three successive Popes starting in 1012. A problem arose for the Tusculums. None of the men the family backed as Pope was even a member of the clergy. They were all laymen.
This did not prove a problem for the well-connected Tusculums. Each time that the situation arose the family spent a (presumably) busy day having their man tonsured (head hair close-cropped), ordained a priest, consecrated as Bishop of Rome, and then enthroned as the Pope. The Tusculums were clearly experts at job advancement.
This is not a book which will contribute much to anyone's theological knowledge. There's very little theology in it, which is probably justified by the fact that the earlier Popes had few theological interests. When they held convocations of their clergy it was usually to discuss matters such as priestly celibacy – a sticky question at a time when Papal grandchildren were playing in the gardens of the Vatican.
Norwich tells a tale of how the power of the Papacy waxed and waned according to circumstances and the abilities of successive Papal figures, some of whom were dedicated masters at their job and performed towering achievements – such as defending Rome from barbarians, suppressing heresies, providing the administration for a growing church, and fighting off charlatan "anti-popes" claiming the office They had to rule over a frequently rebellious clergy.
Generally the Pope's authority has increased over the ages although the book's title "Absolute Monarchy" is absolutely wrong. Never in the history of the Papacy has any Pope been able to regard himself as the "absolute monarch" of the world. When they have been at their best, they acted as a major spiritual force in the world and contented themselves to claim only as being "Christ's Vicar on Earth." That was enough. To refer to themselves as "God's Representative on Earth" , as did Nicholas I (858-867), was clearly over the top.
Until fairly recently, the Papal incumbents came predominantly from the Italian aristocracy. As recently as Pius XII (1939-1958) Norwich describes that Pope as being "icily autocratic" and "odiously anti-Semitic" to boot. Their views were reactionary and rarely liberal.
In more recent years, however, the Popes have been highly educated men with no temporal ambitions. While surely not "absolute monarchs" they occupy the dominant position of spiritual leadership among Roman Catholics and, indeed, substantial numbers of other Christian denominations.
This is a valuable book but so densely crowded with historical events and historical figures – most of whom will be unknown to readers – that it poses a challenge. Reading two thousand years of history with this enormous cast of characters is hard work. But for those sincerely interested in religious history, Lord Norwich is worth the effort.
Richard M. Watt is a Monitor contributor.


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What to Look for in a New Pope
The cardinals now gathered at the Vatican are choosing not just a new pontiff but a future course for their embattled Church. Six views on what sort of leader the next pope should be.
Joyous Anyway | By Peggy Noonan
The next pope should be a man who can greet the world with a look of pleasure on his face, with a smile of joy. He should not come forward with the sad, bent posture of one who knows the world is in ruins and only the facades remain. He should be joyous anyway.
What he has ahead of him looks fairly impossible. He has to confront The Scandals in a way that allows the world to believe that they are over, that a corner has been turned and there will be no going back....


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NEW YORK (AP) — A nor'easter blustered into New York and New Jersey on Wednesday with rain and wet snow, plunging homes right back into darkness, stopping commuter trains again and inflicting another round of misery on thousands of people still reeling from Superstorm Sandy's blow more than a week ago.
Under ordinary circumstances, a storm of this sort wouldn't be a big deal, but large swaths of the landscape were still an open wound, with the electrical system highly fragile and many of Sandy's victims still mucking out their homes and cars and shivering in the deepening cold.
Exactly as authorities feared, the nor'easter brought down tree limbs and electrical wires, and utilities in New York and New Jersey reported that nearly 60,000 customers who lost power because of Sandy lost it all over again as a result of the nor'easter.
Mark L. Fendrick, of Staten Island, tweeted Wednesday night: "My son had just got his power back two days ago now along comes this nor'easter and it's out again."
John Miksad, senior vice president of electric operations at Consolidated Edison, the chief utility in New York City, said, "I know everyone's patience is wearing thin."
As the nor'easter closed in, thousands of people in low-lying neighborhoods staggered by the superstorm just over a week ago were urged to clear out. Authorities warned that rain and 60 mph gusts in the evening and overnight could topple trees wrenched loose by Sandy and erase some of the hard-won progress made in restoring power to millions of customers.
"I am waiting for the locusts and pestilence next," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said. "We may take a setback in the next 24 hours."
Ahead of the storm, public works crews in New Jersey built up dunes to protect the stripped and battered coast, and new evacuations were ordered in a number of communities already emptied by Sandy. New shelters opened.
In New York City, police went to low-lying neighborhoods with loudspeakers, urging residents to leave. But Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn't issue mandatory evacuations, and many people stayed behind, some because they feared looting, others because they figured whatever happens couldn't be any worse than what they have gone through already.
"We're petrified," said James Alexander, a resident of the hard-hit Rockaways section of Queens. "It's like a sequel to a horror movie."
"It's insane at this point — snow with the nor'easter right after the hurricane," 26-year-old Amanda Feluccio of Brooklyn told the New York Daily News.
All construction in New York City was halted — a precaution that needed no explanation after a crane collapsed last week in Sandy's high winds and dangled menacingly over the streets of Manhattan. Parks were closed because of the danger of falling trees. A section of the Long Island Expressway was closed in both directions because of icy conditions.


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Update 08/07/2012 : After 24 hours, the project has already reached 2600+. 1/4 of the task is already done ! Now we just need to continue to talk about it so we reached rapidly the 10 000 mark ! :D
For the past years, I have been a developer as well as a huge fan of Android. I also have always played with LEGO (when I was young and even still now)
What if we could combine these 2 worlds ?!
That's what Marc Young must have been thinking when he started his project !
This project looks awesome with even rotating arms, heads and antennas. And frankly I want one for myself ! :D
There is only one problem… This project is part of the CUUSOO system which is a way for people to present project to LEGO for future creation.
And before an idea can be valid, it needs to receive 10 000 votes.
So it would be great if you could vote for this project (it's really fast and easy to do).


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CLEARANCE - Grand Prix AttackProduct Code: CB0026CD
Publisher: Chess Digest
Author: Smith & Hall
Year of Publication: 1995
Pages: 129
Notation Type: Algebraic (AN)
Book DescriptionWhen faced with the Sicilian Defense, you have to make the choice to either wade through a maze of variations in the main line or diverge early into a relatively lesser known system. The early advance of white's f-pawn fits this objective perfectly. White gains more space in the center and kingside with 2.f4, forming the basis for lasting pressure and often leading to violent attacks against the black kingside. After 1.e4 c5 2.f4, this variation fell out of fashion int he early 90's due to 2..d5. But take heart! Smith and Hall show that this variation still has some venom!
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Man Suing Video Game Company For Becoming Too Addicted To The Game!
"Video games can be pretty addicting. Now, a judge will decide if one video game maker should pay. A man in Hawaii is suing because he says he's suffering from video game withdrawal. Craig Smallwood claims he became "psychologically dependent and addicted" to the video game "Lineage II" published by game-maker "NCsoft." So far, the court has dismissed several of Smallwood's claims, but they allowed him to keep his "gross negligence" claim, which says the company was negligent in providing this software to the public when they knew of the potential dangers of addiction or dependence. Smallwood says that he played "Lineage II" for over 20,000 between 2004 and 2009. That averages out to nine hours a day." - 29 News
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Alan Brinkley - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
No president since the founders has done more to shape American government than Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Alan Brinkley argues that Roosevelt's presidency forever changed the face of international diplomacy, the American party system, and the government's role in global and domestic policy.
Brinkley is one of just three American historians to have been Harmsworth Professor at Oxford and Pitt Professor of American history at Cambridge.
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Elizabeth Banks: 'Super Fun Times' on 'Walk of Shame' Set!
Elizabeth Banks sneaks around in some bushes while filming a scene for Walk of Shame on Tuesday (February 5) in Los Angeles.
The 38-year-old actress recently took to her blog to describe her experience on set.
"Right now I'm filming Walk of Shame. I'm not sad about it at all. Quite the opposite. I'm having super fun times and here's who I'm having it with," Elizabeth wrote, before listing some of the cast members, including James Marsden, Oliver Hudson, Gillian Jacobs, and more.
10+ pictures inside of Elizabeth Banks hiding in some bushes on set…


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Comparative and Functional Genomics
Volume 6, Issue 7-8, Pages 343-343
In This Issue
Copyright © 2005 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Thu, 17 February 2011 at 10:30 am
Adam Lambert: LAX with Sauli Koskinen!
Adam Lambert and boyfriend Sauli Koskinen arrive at LAX airport together on Tuesday (February 15).
The 29-year-old singer and Sauli stepped out for a walk earlier in the day in L.A., making stops at The Daily Planet to check out magazines and pick up Kombucha tea.
Over the weekend, Adam hit the red carpet for the Grammy Awards, where he was nominated for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance!
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MOVIE REVIEW- Effects: Avatar a stunning visual delight
My question is, how will Americans react when/if they realize Avatar essentially has them rooting for the Taliban?
Unless you've spent 2009 in solitary confinement in an Afghan prison, you're aware of Avatar. If you're only peripherally plugged in, you may not know whether it's a movie or a toothpaste, but you know you've got to buy some. Publicists who used to pride themselves on their command of the English language are now Tweeting like little girls– OMG u got 2 c Avatar!!!– to get the word out.
Like the least expensive movie of the year, Paranormal Activity, the most expensive, Avatar, is all about the hype and building consumer awareness. The product no longer matters, but in this case the product happens to be good.
James Cameron, making his first feature since Titanic, has created an extraordinary visual experience, mixing live-action, CGI, motion capture, animation, and every other trick in the effects book. About two-thirds of theaters are showing it in 3D, which certainly enhances the experience; but it's not a gimmicky movie with things jumping out at you, so it should look fine in 2D.
Cameron's script has a lot of intelligence in it but– a common complaint this season– falls down in the third act. In the first two, he's able to gloss over weaknesses and omit the technical jibber-jabber that would explain more of what we're seeing but stretch the feature into a miniseries.
By 2154, we've pretty much finished raping the earth and gone to Pandora, a moon of the planet Polyphemus, to obtain a mineral called unobtanium. (Is that a joke?) Unfortunately, the richest deposit is directly under the home of the indigenous Omaticaya clan, one of hundreds of groups of Navi, Pandoran creatures that are human-like but 10 feet tall and blue, with tails. They are also fiercely connected to nature, physically as well as spiritually.
It's a metaphor as obvious as any on the original Star Trek series: Americans (no other nationalities are represented) invade alien soil to take the local minerals, by force if necessary. The Navi are more primitive than the Afghans or Iraqis in terms of weaponry, but the analogy holds.
The opening narration sounds like a film noir detective, but it's a wheelchair-bound Marine, Cpl. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), who's been sent to Pandora to replace his murdered twin brother, a scientist. He's hoping to earn enough to get his spine repaired. We still don't take good care of our veterans.
The scientific study is led by a botanist, Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver), who still smokes cigarettes in 2154. She's not as nice as her avatar, a Navi-like creature sent to give the natives help they don't want, such as English lessons. Jake will be linked to an avatar designed for his brother. We're not given much explanation of the avatars, on the assumption that everyone saw Surrogates and Gamer. (Oops.)
Jake is also enlisted by the head of the military mission, Col. Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), a war movie cliche who hopes Jake can find a way to buy off the Omaticaya, or, if not, to learn their weaknesses so they can be driven off their homeland.
But Jake, after various adventures, goes native, falling in love with a Navi woman, Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), and learning their language and culture– all in three months, even though he's not supposed to be very bright. Just as Jake's being inducted into the tribe, Quaritch attacks. During the battle, his ace pilot, Trudy Chacon (Michelle Rodriguez) has enough and drops out.
Act Three might be called "Revenge of the Tree-Huggers," as Jake, Grace, Trudy, and Norm Spellman (Joel David Moore), and/or their avatars try to help the Navi repel another attack with bows and arrows against planes and machine guns. In the middle of all this, a lengthy death scene is too distracting for too long, although it helps set up what comes later. The battle is silly but exciting and visually stunning.
Everything about Avatar is a feast for the eyes, with effects a couple of years more advanced than we've seen before. Pandora looks like an Amazon rain forest on acid; the Navi and avatars have more personality than their human counterparts. For a retro touch, the closing song sounds a lot like the Titanic theme, but it's new and sung by Leona Lewis.
Since 20th Century Fox is releasing Avatar, it will be considered corporate synergy if Fox News condemns the movie for its liberal stance. Negative hype helps the box office, too, by keeping the title on everyone's lips. Having avoided most of the advance hype and been unimpressed with what I did see, I approached Avatar with low-to-medium expectations and was pleasantly surprised. If youre psyched up for the second coming of Star Wars, you may not be as thrilled, but you'll still get your money's worth. #
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I think comparing the navi to Taliban is a gross comparison. The Navi are hardly going going about killing all the innocent people they can find
This isn't an analogy to Iraq and the Taliban at all, it's a flat-out history of European colonization of North America, just with a different ending. The Navi even use the same ritual prayers as Native Americans (get it - Navi) when they kill animals in a hunt, reflecting the interconnectedness to nature.
I agree with the above posters. The scenario is far more analogous to European colonists vs. Native Americans than it is to modern Americans vs. Middle East.
Honestly, the cultures of Iraq and Afghanistan are nothing like the Navi in this move, and even the humans are almost comedic exaggerations of the attitudes of most Americans.
Still, great movie.
An almost perfect analogy, except for the ritual prayers in the hunt, is that of the Indonesian military, the gold miner Freeport Mcmoran, and the native people of West Papua. West Papua is an actual tropical jungle, and the West Papuans were living in stone-age villages, undiscovered until about 1930.
About 1960, Indonesia with the approval of the US and the UN, denied the West Papuans what appeared to be a brief opportunity for independence but was really a sham where they played the West Papuans for time, because gold had been found in the interior of West Papua years earlier. All the while the Indonesians, Australians, and Americans were engaging the native peoples, they were doing mineral surveys of their lands. Just like Avatar.
Very few people know this story but I spent two years of my childhood in Port Moresby, in the late 60s and have followed the history of New Guinea over the years.
Andrea, you seem to have been misinformed about "Native Americans."
There were many many completely unrelated languages spoken here before Europeans arrived and no universal prayers, customs, food choices, clothing, types of shelter, spiritual practices, or anything else. A person from a Californian tribe would have been as foreign to an Iroquois as an Englishman would have been.
Some early hunters in the South West stampeded whole herds of bison off of cliffs to kill them in mass. The only thing "interconnected" there were piles of dead animals and sharp boulders.
I think Native American cultures were and are pretty interesting. You really ought to learn just a bit more about them if you're going to go out in public talking about them.
D.W. Whaulves, you also seem to be miss informed about Native Americans. Yes, there were many different languages, customs, and such but a different tribe certainly wouldn't be as foreign as an Englishmen. Because they're native. What can you say for the Englishman? And before you criticize hunting techniques, why don't you do a little research of your own? How would you know if they did or not reflect on their "interconnectedness to nature"? You should be the one to learn more about us if you want to go out in public and talk about Natives. Go Andrea. Lol
Avatar was a great movie! I have not taken the time to watch a movie on the big screen and pay full price twice in a very long time. Avatar is an outstanding film. My whole family loved it!
Avatar was a great movie! I have not taken the time to watch a movie on the big screen and pay full price twice in a very long time. Avatar is an outstanding film. My whole family loved it!
SD, this is from the website for a great PBS series called "How Art Made the World." You think this wouldn't be foreign to the Native Americans you imagine living where the English landed?
"Aztec historians recorded that in 1487, at the great pyramid of Tenichitilan, executioners sacrificed four lines of prisoners, each two miles long. But before they were ritualistically killed, the victims were forced to climb up the pyramid's two hundred and thirty seven steps. At the top were two killing rooms, with priests wielding sacrificial knives.
This was killing on an industrial scale, which the Aztec's meticulously documented in their art. According to Aztec beliefs, the sacrifices were necessary to satisfy their hungry sun-god who demanded blood as payment for creating the world."
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This article was printed from mlb, originally published .
Read more news at: https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news
White Sox agree to terms with outfielder Dewayne Wise on one-year contract
The Chicago White Sox have agreed to terms on a one-year, $700,000 contract with outfielder Dewayne Wise.
Wise, 34, combined to bat .259 (58-224) with career highs of eight home runs, 30 RBI, 31 runs scored and 19 stolen bases in 101 games with New York-AL and the White Sox.
The 6-foot, 200-pound Wise signed with Chicago as a free agent on August 3, hitting .258 (42-163) with five homers, 22 RBI, 20 runs scored and 12 steals in 45 games. He made 28 starts in center field, eight in left and two in right in his second stint with the club.
Wise, who bats and throws left-handed, is a career .228 (238-1,045) hitter with 30 home runs and 112 RBI in 546 games over parts of 10 major-league seasons with Toronto (2000, 2002, 2010-11), Atlanta (2004), Cincinnati (2006-07), the White Sox (2008-09, 2012), Florida (2011) and the Yankees (2012).
He preserved Mark Buehrle's perfect game on July 23, 2009 vs. Tampa Bay by making an over-the-wall catch to deny Gabe Kapler of a home run leading off the ninth inning.
The White Sox 40-man roster is at 40.


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Thanks everyone for participating! I've given you all 10 community points. Congrats to Jenny for winning the random drawing. Don't forget to check out all the layouts and leave some love.
This week's challenge is to use more than one alpha.
Important Details
Due Date: February 21, 2013 noon (UTC/GMT +3 hours)
Tag: challenge alpha feb 2013
Make sure you use this tag exactly, so we can browse easily through the gallery and see all the submissions, and so you can get your points. Please only tag one layout.
See basic challenge rules here.
Check out finished and entered layouts here.


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piltogg wrote:I decided to read through a second time.. I then saw the kool-aid man saying "oh-yeah!" inside of the speech bubble. props for that one.
Pwnerade wrote:As previously discussed, the catapult car should crash through the wall like the Kool-Aid man. The infantry should do a combined attack to blow the main gun off of the tank.


text: A haunting, epic piece perfect for building suspense. A heavy-hitting punch awaits halfway through as the main melody enters with thick layers of electric guitar. The track finishes with undertones of triumph and victory as we hear brass take the lead. This cue is appropriate for short-films, trailers, advertising pieces that have a bit of an edge. If the whole piece isn't require, then the obvious transitions are easy to split and get into. Also, be sure to listen to the end as a bit of a surprise awaits!