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How do Ant-Man and the Wasp breathe after they shrink?
Marvel Comics characters Ant-Man and the Wasp have the ability to shrink down to insect size. But to be still able to breathe at that size?
By Express News Service |	Published: November 20, 2018 9:32:03 am
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Marvel Comics characters Ant-Man and the Wasp
Marvel Comics characters Ant-Man and the Wasp have the ability to shrink down to insect size. But to be still able to breathe at that size, they would have to overcome an atmospheric density that is similar to the top of Mount Everest. Their tiny bodies would also require higher metabolisms. How do they manage it?
Virginia Tech graduate student Max Mikel-Stites addresses that question in a paper titled "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Microscale Respiration and Microfluidic Technology". To research Ant-Man's microscale respiration, Mikel-Stites joined forces with Anne Staples, associate professor of biomedical engineering, whose laboratory studied how fluids flow in nature. Insects naturally move fluids and gases efficiently at tiny scales. If engineers can learn how insects breathe, they can use the knowledge to invent new microfluidic technologies. Mikel-Stites studied scenes in the film Ant-Man (2015) and trailers from the sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018). He made a list of problems and another one of solutions.
The researchers deduce that for their survival, the Marvel universe had to give Ant-Man and the Wasp superhero technologies. Ant-Man and the Wasp solve the altitude problem with their superhero suits. In their publication, Mikel-Stites and Staples write that the masks in Ant-Man and the Wasp's suits contain "a combination of an air pump, a compressor, and a molecular filter including Pym particle technology", which allows them to breathe while they are insect-sized.
The manuscript was accepted for publication before the release of the 2018 sequel. Mikel-Stites was concerned that the film might include new technologies, or change Ant-Man's canon from the 2015 film, in which case the findings would have been debunked. "But the 2018 movie actually supported everything we had said, which was really nice," the Virginia Tech website quotes Mikel-Stites as saying.
The paper is published in the Journal of Superhero Science (https://journals.library.tudelft.nl/index.php/superhero/article/view/2474)
Source: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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What to do if You Experience Theft?
Theft is not a new problem. In fact, it likely dates back to shortly after the concept of property first came to be. Over the thousands of years since that time, many solutions have been offered to address the problem – but each of them has been mere sticking plasters. Moreover, it's unlikely that any great moral advance will cause would-be robbers to mend their ways in the near future – which means that theft is a problem that must be taken serious by any person or organisation which owns things.
In particular, it's construction site operators who are the greatest risk of theft. This is so for a number of reasons – but three stand out as significant.
Construction sites are physically accessible
Almost by definition, a construction site is structurally incomplete. Perimeter walls are not yet in place to deter intruders, as they might be once the building is complete. Instead, an easily-climbed temporary fence is the only barrier to surmount.
Construction sites require a lot of workers
Another feature of construction projects is the variety of different specialist workers required. Bricklayers must be brought in to build walls; electricians to sort wiring, plumbers to install piping. Very large projects might involve thousands of workers – and many of them will be present only very temporarily as their role in the project might be completed in just a few hours.
With all of these unfamiliar faces wondering around, would-be thieves have the perfect cover under which to enter the site. After all, security staff can't be expected to memorise every face they encounter – especially in an environment where people are coming and going constantly.
Moreover, this abundance of staff means that keys to secure areas are constantly coming and going. A former employee might pass their key to a thief, who will then have access to sensitive areas of the site.
Construction sites carry high-value goods
The two reasons we've examined thus far are concerned mostly with the potential risk of failure (or capture) for any would-be thief. But perhaps the thing that greatly attracts would-be thieves most to construction sites is the quality of the goods they contain. Construction sites are filled with expensive equipment and materials which can be easily sold on the black market – exactly the sort of property that a thief is most drawn to.
It's important to note that while construction sites do occasionally experience well-planned and executed attacks, for the most part it's spur-of-the-moment, opportunistic thieves which inflict the most damage. A worker might one day leave a gate unlocked, or a piece of equipment unattended – and some passing criminal might seize the initiative. Of course, this means that sites with heavy traffic passing by suffer the most attacks. This risk should be identified at the early stages of the project, and countered with an equally relative investment in security.
What can I do to prevent theft?
As is the case with all crime, the best approach is the proactive one. By discouraging theft before it happens, and putting into place security measures which can identify thieves after the fact, you'll save yourself an enormous amount of time, money and hassle in the long run. Failure to take such measures will mark you out as an insecure site – toward which thieves will assuredly flock.
If there's a potential source of vulnerability on your site, then it will likely stem from some error on the part of your workforce. For this reason, it's important for staff to be vigilant at all times to the danger. While it would be nice to be able to trust everyone's judgement, the reality is that judgement can be faulty – even if the worker in question is extremely competent. By having them adhere to a procedure when securing and using high-value equipment and materials, you'll hugely reduce the potential for a lapse in concentration.
Of course, no amount of procedure is going to help if it's not adhered to. This is where frequent spot-checks and records are useful. By identifying problem areas and taking steps to address them, you can improve the security culture on your site – and thereby safeguard it against theft.
When it comes to would-be thieves, there is no greater deterrent than light. That's why most prefer to operate at night-time. After all, the risks of being caught are enormously higher when you're more visible.
Lights at night-time therefore play a crucial role in deterring would-be criminals. Motion-activated, high-intensity security lights will ensure that would-be thieves have nowhere to hide – and that your night-time security staff will be alerted to any intrusions well in advance.
One of the most ubiquitous and obvious tools in the fight against theft is the trusty CCTV camera. Closed-circuit technology has come a long way in the last few decades, and it's more powerful and affordable than it ever has been.
On construction sites, mobile CCTV solutions, which incorporate both a camera, remote storage, power and a wireless connection to a central monitoring station, have proven very useful. Cameras usually come mounted atop tall pillars, with all of the circuitry housed in a wheeled base at the bottom. This allows for a site to be monitored from above. Such setups are virtually immune from sabotage, as there are no trailing cables to cut.
In order to minimise the amount of high-value stock on site at any one time, you'll want a delivery policy which ensures that goods arrive only immediately before they're needed. Of course, this is easier said than done – and site managers will often seek to give themselves a little bit of breathing space by having materials and equipment delivered with a day or so to spare.
A far better approach, from a security perspective, is the 'just in time' one. Provided that you're running a tight ship, you should be able to do this without endangering the progress of the construction.
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Album | Vanessa Peters – The Burn, The Truth, The Lies
by For Folk's Sake • 18 July 2012 • 1 Comment
It is hard to believe that Vanessa Peters is on album number seven, and after the much-acclaimed Christmas album released last year, many have been waiting on tenterhooks to see what Peters has got up her sleeve next. Well, rest-assured, it is yet another gem of an album, probably her best yet.
After the split from her band three years ago, it has clearly been a long, painful road back to the studio. A lot of the songs on The Burn, The Truth, The Lies are unashamedly honest and at times, quite dark. Even though the lyrics are probably the deepest we've seen from Vanessa, there is still the trademark light-hearted musicality which makes this album so easy to listen to and connect with. Peters proves that you don't need to depress your listener in order to get your thoughts and experiences across. Many of the songs on this record will appear on people's summer playlists, especially the delightful 'Bright Red' and the wonderfully sincere single, 'The State I'm In'.
Vanessa's choice of musicians for this album is again testament to how far she has come since her debut in 2002. Recruiting the likes of Rip Rowan and Polyphonic Spree's Jason Garner and allowing them musical freedom during the recording process has resulted in a fresh spontaneous sound which further enhances the stunning lyrics Peters has brought to the table.
Every song on this album leads us in deeper into the world of Vanessa and because of her knack to create infectiously catchy pop songs, it only takes a couple of listens before they are embedded in your memory. 'Copilot' and 'Grateful' are two of many songs that are perfect examples of Peter's pop song-writing credentials.
Quirky, sweet, sincere, memorable – the list of adjectives go on for this album. Vanessa Peters has shared good and bad memories with us on The Burn, The Truth, The Lies and I can't wait for her to share some more stories with us on album number eight!
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PHUKET: One of Spain's greatest sports heroes, Ángel Nieto, was in Phuket recently enjoying a break and a good meal at La Gritta at the Amari Coral Beach in Patong before traveling to commentate for Spanish TV on the Sepang Moto GP in Kuala Lumpur.
Ángel is one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time, with 13 Grand Prix World Championships to his name. However, Ángel is a tad superstitious and refers to his GP record as "12+1".
He retired in 1986 at the age of 39 with a total of 90 Grand Prix victories, third only to the 122 by Giacomo Agostini, and the 103 of Valentino Rossi. In fact, he was present when Rossi equaled Angel's record of 90 victories in 2008, and mounted Rossi's bike at the finish line. With the Italian as a passenger, they took a victory lap holding aloft a flag emblazoned with "90 + 90".


Over the past month YouTube has been flooded with videos showing the worst restaurants in various cities, which is a polar opposite of the past where people were only interested in seeing the best. Taking things one step further, YouTubers are now branching out to create content around the worst reviewed hotels in their city, barbers, and more.
Part of the draw is around seeing how bad/disgusting things can actually be, and also the sliver of hope that such restaurants or other types of businesses aren't actually that bad. However, though Yelp tends to be inaccurate at times, weighing hundreds or thousands of reviews provides a pretty good indicator of success or failure.
It's also another sign as to why monitoring social media, Yelp and other data sources (website inquiries, transcribed calls, etc.) in near real-time is absolutely critical for companies that thrive on delivering amazing customer experiences. One negative post from a social media influencer can create a world of hurt, especially if it's not identified and addressed – then hopefully removed – before it's amplified.


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February 19, 2015, Noon
Courtroom 317, Landmark Center
Hannah Peterson, flute • Joe Trucano, piano
Sonata for Flute and Piano, Opus 23 – Lowell Liebermann
I. Lento
II. Presto
Five Pieces from Album for the Young for Flute and Piano, Opus 79 – Lowell Liebermann
I. Ostinato
II. Starry Night
III. Melancholy
IV. Hommage à Fauré
V. Hommage à Alkan
Nancy Paddleford, piano
Simples Coletânea – Heitor Villa-Lobos
I. Valsa Mística
II. Num Berço Encantado
III. Rodante
Preludes, Opus 11 – Alexander Scriabin
No. 1. Vivace
No. 2. Allegretto
No. 22. Lento
No. 21. Andante
No. 14. Presto
Hannah Peterson is a former Schubert Club intern and Scholarship Competition winner. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Flute Performance from the University of Cincinnati. Hannah currently works for the Minnesota Opera in addition to maintaining a private flute studio and freelance performance schedule.
Joseph Trucano is currently pursuing his Master's of Music Degree in organ performance at Eastman School of Music. Joseph graduated in 2011 from Concordia College in Moorhead where he studied organ with Peter Nygaard. At Concordia, he was an active performer on both organ and cello. He accompanied the Concordia Choir (under the direction of René Clausen) on their 2011 domestic tour, served as featured soloist with the Concordia College Orchestra on their 2009 international tour, and was the first student in Concordia's history to be honored with two solo performances accompanied by the Concordia Orchestra on organ and cello. In addition to performing, Joseph helped research and develop a new aural skills curriculum for Concordia. He is currently organist at Penfield Presbyterian Church.
Nancy Paddleford (B.M. and M.M., Indiana University and D.M.A., University of Minnesota) is the senior member of the Department of Music of St. Olaf College. Nancy's teaching areas include piano performance, chamber music, theory skills, and piano pedagogy. Her research emphases have been Hispanic music, piano pedagogy, and memorization techniques. Her teachers included Gyorgy Sebok, Alfonso Montecino, and Bernhard Weiser for piano performance, and for the performance of chamber music, Janos Starker, Joseph Gingold, William Primrose, and Franco Gulli. Her training led to a career as a chamber and solo recitalist, and an adjudicator at piano competitions in the United States and Central America. The breadth of her interests in the fine arts and beyond resulted in her receiving awards for encouraging cross-cultural understanding between the U.S. and Latin America, as well as her appointment by Governor Dayton to the Board of Directors of the Perpich Center for Arts Education. A fluent speaker of Spanish she has lectured and given master classes in Spanish before Spanish-speaking audiences. At one time she was an artist-in-residence at the University of Costa Rica and a performer in major venues in that country.
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Which degrees produce the best leaders?
Holding a degree is an essential component of securing an executive position. But which degrees produce professionals with the best leadership qualities? A recent study, reported on by Fast Company, set out to answer that question and the results were rather surprising.
Humanities undergraduates secured high rankings for five of the eight specified skills. They most notably excelled in compelling communication, driving results and inspiring excellence. Those same competencies were only mid-range skills for professionals holding an undergraduate degree in business. However, they excelled in financial acumen and business savvy – where humanities notably lacked.
Somewhat surprisingly, engineering undergrads found themselves at the bottom of the leadership-equipped pile – with weak scores in six skills sets and only mid-range rankings for the remaining two (financial acumen and driving results).
These results were shocking when considering the findings of recent research by Forbes contributor Christian Stadler. According to Stadler, 27 percent of Fortune 100 CEOs hold a degree in engineering or science. Not to mention his projection that engineering majors will be at the head of the CEO race in coming years due to their tech-minded nature in a digitally-advanced era.
Education: An accurate leadership indicator?
The undergraduate findings were surprising in themselves but what about MBA holders? The research indicated that undergraduates performed better than MBAs in interpersonal skills, entrepreneurial skills and results-driven practices.
So, where did MBAs excel? Predictably, these graduates were well-equipped in areas of financial acumen. They also showed promise in their business savvy nature and strategic decision making. However, when it came to things like coaching, results and visionary leadership skills, MBAs fell notably short.
The latter has much to do with real-world skills. MBAs are often forced to step out of the business world and into school in order to secure their degrees. While there is a lot of valuable learning in the classroom, the training is conceptual at best. Hence why MBAs ranked low in terms of visionary leadership. This skill in particular is something that can only be learned and improved upon via real-world practice.
Overall, the findings indicate that degrees may not be the best indicator of leadership ability. Despite this, professionals vying for executive positions should be mindful of the biases that come attached to their degrees.
When approaching an interview, job candidates must recognize the skills that their qualifications are known to historically lack and make up for these capabilities with the relevant responses and experiences.
For organizations undergoing the executive search and recruitment process, this is where an executive placement firm can add undeniable value. Skilled consultants can recognize when a candidate's degree genuinely indicates proficiencies or deficiencies in certain skill areas and when the degree is partly irrelevant to the ultimate decision.
The ultimate takeaway? While education is an important stepping stone on the path to executive leadership, the area of focus is not always a direct indicator of business success. Every executive candidate presents unique circumstances which cannot be generalized. Organizations must look past degrees to fully understand whether a professional is truly equipped for leadership.
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Walter Schumann (* 15. Oktober 1946 in Wyhl) ist ein deutscher Polizist. Er war von 1995 bis 2011 Polizeipräsident der Polizeidirektionen Merseburg und Halle (Saale), die ab 2007 im Rahmen der Polizeistrukturreform in Sachsen-Anhalt in die neu gebildete Direktion Sachsen-Anhalt Süd umbenannt wurden.

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Schumann trat am 17. Mai 1982 als Angestellter in die Wehrverwaltung V des Bundes ein. Bei der Wehrbereichsverwaltung V fungierte er von 1982 bis 1985 als erster Vorsitzender des Prüfungsausschusses, danach war er von 1986 bis 1991 als Leiter des Berufsförderungsdienstes in der Außenstelle Sigmaringen des Kreiswehrersatzamtes Ravensburg tätig. Die Leitung des Kreiswehrersatzamtes Freiburg hatte er von 1991 bis 1993 inne. Zum Vizepräsidenten der Polizeidirektion Halle wurde er 1993 ernannt und blieb hier bis 1995. Anschließend war er Polizeipräsident der Polizeidirektion Merseburg und ab 2001 Polizeipräsident der Polizeidirektion Halle.

2011 verabschiedete er sich in den Ruhestand. Seine Nachfolgerin ist Christiane Bergmann, sein Vorgänger war Dietmar Gebel.

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Disney movies are (again) appearing in glorious 4K in iTunes for some users
Oliver Haslam
Some Disney movies are starting to appear in 4K HDR in iTunes.
We've seen 4K Disney movies in the UK, US, and Canada.
Not all Disney movies are in 4K. Yet.
More than a year ago we saw signs that 4K Disney movies were coming to iTunes. Today, they actually are. We've seen 4K movies appear in the TV app and iTunes in the UK, Canada, and the United States.
So far it doesn't appear that everyone is seeing these 4K movies, or indeed that all Disney movies are available in 4K just yet. As an example, "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" is in 4K, but "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" is not.
Those movies that do support 4K appear to offer Dolby Vision as well, giving viewers the best possible image where available.
I'd suspect that Apple is still updating the files on its servers to support the 4K versions of the movies that are still only available in 1080p. As an example, Black Panther isn't available in 4K just yet – I'll be keeping my eyes on that one in particular!
Until now, anyone wanting to watch Disney movies in 4K HDR needed either Vudu or Disney+ to get in on the act. That's now changing.
I first spotted that some people were seeing 4K Disney movies over in the Movies Anywhere subreddit and Twitter seems to be lighting up, too. Whatever's going on – it's no accident!
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Across town, at the end of an alley leaking sewage, Sali Ismail, 16, spends her days staring blankly at the television.
Bush stared blankly, lingering for minute after endless minute while holding the children's book being read to the class.
A fair look at Fahrenheit 9/11: leftist Michael Moore's controversial documentary has weaknesses and omissions, yet it also gives an incomplete glimpse of the truth. And that's where we come in!
One of the ways is the way of ignoring the past--the way of remaining blankly ignorant of the human past as the animals are blankly ignorant of their past and so of drifting through life as animals do, without reference to the experience of bygone generations.
I appreciate the confidence that is now bestowed on these children who have been staring at me blankly for weeks regarding the beginning pitches of their assignments.
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2009: Ocean Education Grants for AZA Aquariums (2)
Exploring Inner Space: Linking Aquariums with Ocean Scientists
Sea Research Foundation / Mystic Aquarium offsite link · Mystic, Connecticut
This program is a pilot project and collaborative effort to develop partnerships and educational programming using state of the art technology. The project partnership is comprised of a leading ocean science research and education institution, the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography and its new state of the art Inner Space Center (ISC), and two strong national ocean science education networks: the National Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) Network and NOAA's Office of Exploration and Research (NOAA-OER) Education Alliance.
This program is a pilot project and collaborative effort to develop partnerships and educational programming using state of the art technology. The project partnership is comprised of a leading ocean science research and education institution, the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography and its new state of the art Inner Space Center (ISC), and two strong national ocean science education networks: the National Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) Network and NOAA's Office of Exploration and Research (NOAA-OER) Education Alliance. In addition, two partner sites will serve as proof of concept sites and education hubs - Mystic Aquarium and Institute for Exploration (CT) and South Carolina Aquarium (SC), both affiliated with COSEE, the Coastal Ecosystem Learning Center Network (CELC), and NOAA-OER. Through this initiative, the ISC will install new Exploration Command Stations (ECSs) and enhance Ocean Today kiosks at the partner sites, strategically selected aquariums. Through this pilot project, the ECSs and kiosks (modeled after the original Ocean Today kiosk in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History's Sant Ocean Hall) will form an Ocean Interpretive Station at the partner sites. The ISC will provide live links from the Center's facilities to the newly installed ECSs and kiosks using feeds from various remote Ocean Exploration platforms, including the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer and the exploration vessel, E/V Nautilus. The project's Content Development Team (CDT) will develop associated educational materials for use in public programs at the partner sites.
Competition: 2009: Ocean Education Grants for AZA Aquariums
PI: Dwight Coleman
State: Connecticut County: New London District: CT02
Partners: Oregon State University (OSU) / Hatfield Marine Science Center · Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science / Alaska SeaLife Center · Coastal Ecosystem Learning Center (CELC) Network · Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) · University of Rhode Island (URI) / Inner Space Center (ISC) · South Carolina Aquarium ·
Climate Change Community Outreach Initiative
Florida Aquarium offsite link · Tampa, Florida
To promote ocean and climate change literacy that addresses the needs of our region, six aquariums based on the Gulf of Mexico will partner to educate our communities on both our risks and ways to contribute locally to sustainability. The aquariums will combine community outreach programs, stewardship promotion, social networking and workshops for non-formal educators to reach broad audiences throughout the Gulf in Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas and Mexico.
To promote ocean and climate change literacy that addresses the needs of our region, six aquariums based on the Gulf of Mexico will partner to educate our communities on both our risks and ways to contribute locally to sustainability. The aquariums will combine community outreach programs, stewardship promotion, social networking and workshops for non-formal educators to reach broad audiences throughout the Gulf in Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas and Mexico. Each partner will develop content that emphasizes local ecosystems and consequences of climate change, tailoring stewardship activities to address them. Over five years, the aquariums will reach out to diverse audiences in their communities, which have populations that total over five million people.
PI: Debbi Stone
State: Florida County: Hillsborough District: FL14
Partners: Audubon Aquarium of the Americas · Texas State Aquarium · Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) · Institute for Marine Mammal Studies (IMMS) · Spectrum Communications ·


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The USAF Thunderbirds Were The World's First Supersonic Flight Demonstration Team
Official US Air Force Photograph
Between the 1956 and 1963 show seasons the United States Air Force Precision Flight Demonstration Team, otherwise known as The Thuderbirds, flew North American F-100C Super Sabres. Their F-100Cs made them the world's first supersonic flight demonstration team. The Air Force, with an eye toward positive publicity for the service, made a film about the team and their first supersonic mounts in 1958. The Thunderbirds even produced a sonic boom or two (just for demonstration purposes of course) during their performances until the FAA banned supersonic flight over the continental United States. Thanks a bunch FAA! The film is awesome in that late-1950s kind of cool way.
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The Thunderbirds flew the Republic F-105B Thunderchief beginning in 1964, but after only six performances the Thud was deemed unsafe due to an accident that occurred at Hamilton Air Force Base (AFB) in California. Captain Eugene Devlin was killed when his Thud broke up in midair during a pitch-up maneuver prior to landing on May 9th 1964. The Thunderbirds went back to flying the F-100, albeit the D variant, for another four years until they began flying the McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II in 1969. Thanks to YouTuber Classic Airliners & Vintage Pop Culture for uploading this period film about the Team and their aircraft.
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    The artifice post-processor overrides the artifact list from an upstream
    builder or post-processor. All downstream post-processors will see the new
    artifacts you specify. The primary use-case is to build artifacts inside a
    packer builder -- for example, spinning up an EC2 instance to build a docker
    container -- and then extracting the docker container and throwing away the
    EC2 instance.
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# Artifice Post-Processor

Type: `artifice`

The artifice post-processor overrides the artifact list from an upstream builder
or post-processor. All downstream post-processors will see the new artifacts you
specify. The primary use-case is to build artifacts inside a packer builder --
for example, spinning up an EC2 instance to build a docker container -- and then
extracting the docker container and throwing away the EC2 instance.

After overriding the artifact with artifice, you can use it with other
post-processors like
[compress](https://www.packer.io/docs/post-processors/compress.html),
[docker-push](https://www.packer.io/docs/post-processors/docker-push.html),
[Atlas](https://www.packer.io/docs/post-processors/atlas.html), or a third-party
post-processor.

Artifice allows you to use the familiar packer workflow to create a fresh,
stateless build environment for each build on the infrastructure of your
choosing. You can use this to build just about anything: buildpacks, containers,
jars, binaries, tarballs, msi installers, and more.

## Workflow

Artifice helps you tie together a few other packer features:

-   A builder, which spins up a VM (or container) to build your artifact
-   A provisioner, which performs the steps to create your artifact
-   A file provisioner, which downloads the artifact from the VM
-   The artifice post-processor, which identifies which files have been
    downloaded from the VM
-   Additional post-processors, which push the artifact to Atlas, Docker
    hub, etc.

You will want to perform as much work as possible inside the VM. Ideally the
only other post-processor you need after artifice is one that uploads your
artifact to the appropriate repository.

## Configuration

The configuration allows you to specify which files comprise your artifact.

### Required:

-   `files` (array of strings) - A list of files that comprise your artifact.
    These files must exist on your local disk after the provisioning phase of
    packer is complete. These will replace any of the builder's original
    artifacts (such as a VM snapshot).

### Example Configuration

This minimal example:

1.  Spins up a cloned VMware virtual machine
2.  Installs a [consul](https://www.consul.io/) release
3.  Downloads the consul binary
4.  Packages it into a `.tar.gz` file
5.  Uploads it to Atlas.

VMX is a fast way to build and test locally, but you can easily substitute
another builder.

``` json
{
  "builders": [
    {
      "type": "vmware-vmx",
      "source_path": "/opt/ubuntu-1404-vmware.vmx",
      "ssh_username": "vagrant",
      "ssh_password": "vagrant",
      "shutdown_command": "sudo shutdown -h now",
      "headless":"true",
      "skip_compaction":"true"
    }
  ],
  "provisioners": [
    {
      "type": "shell",
      "inline": [
        "sudo apt-get install -y python-pip",
        "sudo pip install ifs",
        "sudo ifs install consul --version=0.5.2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "file",
      "source": "/usr/local/bin/consul",
      "destination": "consul",
      "direction": "download"
    }
  ],
  "post-processors": [
    [
      {
        "type": "artifice",
        "files": ["consul"]
      },
      {
        "type": "compress",
        "output": "consul-0.5.2.tar.gz"
      },
      {
        "type":"atlas",
        "artifact": "hashicorp/consul",
        "artifact_type": "archive"
      }
    ]
  ]
}
```

**Notice that there are two sets of square brackets in the post-processor
section.** This creates a post-processor chain, where the output of the
proceeding artifact is passed to subsequent post-processors. If you use only one
set of square braces the post-processors will run individually against the build
artifact (the vmx file in this case) and it will not have the desired result.

``` json
{
  "post-processors": [
    [       // <--- Start post-processor chain
      {
        "type": "artifice",
        "files": ["consul"]
      },
      {
        "type": "atlas",
        ...
      }
    ],      // <--- End post-processor chain
    {
      "type":"compress"  // <-- Standalone post-processor
    }
  ]
}
```

You can create multiple post-processor chains to handle multiple builders (for
example, building linux and windows binaries during the same build).


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From the article: "GODS AND MONSTERS"
In a small pocket of time between 1976 to 1977, Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola was king of his own movie making colony deep in the heart of a Philippine jungle, trudging through the creation of Apocalypse Now. But as he inched closer and closer to his own heart of darkness, he revealed the devastating price of an enduring cinematic masterpiece. Thirty-five years later, Raymond Ang surveys the debris
"We were shooting for almost two weeks when they said they were changing the lead actor," says Danny Dominguez, who served as chief armorer for the Apocalypse Now production three and a half decades ago, "from Harvey Keitel to Martin Sheen. . . . It was the moment we realized it was going to be an interesting movie."
Though Dominguez's career has spanned over four decades, his résumé littered with everything from prestige pictures like Platoon to the various international franchises of the Survivor series, he has never quite escaped the sweltering jungles of Pagsanjan, with Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Dennis Hopper, Robert Duvall, and the rest of the cast and crew that comprised Apocalypse Now's epic production, sweating and toiling away at a monster of a movie that was quickly growing legs. "Truly it was interesting—even up to now. After 35 years, when foreign directors and producers find out I worked on Apocalypse, they say the same thing—it cannot be equaled."
This month marks the 35th anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola's magnum opus. Initially planning to do a loose adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Coppola, coming off the highs of The Godfather's Tinseltown takeover, was determined to succeed where Orson Welles had failed. In the 50s, Welles, the famed director of Citizen Kane, widely-regarded as the greatest film of all time, aimed to do an adaptation of Heart of Darkness. After several hitches in pre-production, he decided to make Citizen Kane instead. Coppola, perhaps 1970's Hollywood version of Orson Welles—a prodigiously talented, albeit rather mercurial director with a propensity for risk, self-immolation, and perhaps most importantly, dreams of grandeur—was going to one-up him.
Instead, what was supposed to be an artistic battle between Coppola and his peers became a battle with himself. While the production was ambitious from its very inception—its controversial anti-Vietnam motif made more impossible by the use of Conrad's Darkness, a text widely-regarded as unadaptable—the swiftness of its devolution into a multi million-dollar mess was devastating, chief of all, to Coppola. A film plagued by a famously difficult shoot, Coppola was reportedly on the brink of financial disaster and, possibly, mental illness. Later, he would call the shoot—which was tormented by everything from a set-destroying typhoon to Martin Sheen's heart attack—"a nightmare every day." From the planned few months, the shoot ballooned into a year and two months. As collateral, Coppola had staked his personal assets to ensure that the increasingly over-budget shoot would go on. As news of its probable demise wafted through the Hollywood elite, the press began taking jabs at Coppola, with some reportedly dubbing the film "Apocalypse Later."
"Money flowed, of course," explains Jun Juban, who assisted his brother Dennis Juban as official liaison of Coppola to the Philippines. "I mean, it was meant to be a three-month shoot for $3 million. They were here for a year and a half. When they left, it was $27 million. It was one of those movies that never ended."
There have been many films about the Vietnam War, from Platoon to Deer Hunter. Some are great, some are middling, but none have been able to stand against the ambition, sheer audacity, and mythical genesis and afterlife of Apocalypse Now. After beating the odds and garnering an unlikely Oscar nod for Best Picture, the years would only grow more interesting for the movie. In 1991, Coppola's wife Eleanor released Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, an award-winning documentary cobbled together from home videos, personal recordings, and Eleanor's diary entries about the making of the movie. A decade later, Coppola finally released the film as originally intended, a 49-minutes-more extended cut of the film he titled Apocalypse Now Redux.
Through it all, the movie left a lasting impression on the thousands of Filipinos who worked on the production, hung out with production staffers, and rubbed elbows with some future Hollywood heavyweights. Careers have crashed, burned, and flourished in the shadow of Apocalypse. Across 1976 and 1978, the Philippines became the unwitting center of Coppola's hurricane. For a brief pocket of time, the country became a place of interest for Hollywood productions looking for cheap but adaptable locations. According to Henry Strzalkowski, an extra in Apocalypse's production, George Lucas expressed interest in shooting Star Wars here, only to change his mind after hearing about Coppola's troubled production.
The documentary Hearts of Darkness opens with Coppola at a Cannes Film Festival press conference in 1979. "My film is not a movie," he says. "My film is not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. It's what it was really like. It was crazy. . . . Little by little, we went insane." It seems, in the creation of a masterpiece, Francis Ford Coppola had to destroy more than a little bit of himself.
"I didn't like the documentary. I found it pretty unfair," says Jun Juban, taking a sip from a glass of Coke in the veranda of his Alabang home. "That film [Apocalypse] went way over budget. I guess they had to point at somebody. They even blamed us for the typhoons. But if you're here for a year and half, obviously you'll get hit one way or the other."
Juban, then a high school student from Letran who assisted his brother Dennis during summer vacation, takes particular offense at Eleanor's narration of the events that led to the choppers being unavailable during the shooting of an important scene. "The choppers were there 99.9% of the time," he reiterates. "There were instances where Coppola and Storaro, the director of photography, would say 'I don't feel like filming today.' In one particular instance, there was a skirmish in Laguna and the choppers had to go—but that's what they played up. As the one directly in charge of the pilots, parang 'Tangina naman, ang daming instances na nakatunganga lang yung pilots . . . I guess I'm just too defensive because that goes through the cracks of our work."
Scouting for a country to shoot Apocalypse Now in, the Philippines was a logical choice for Coppola. With its grassy terrains and tropical weather, it was a natural dead ringer for Vietnam. Initially it was John Ashley, producer of the show The A-Team, and local film legend Eddie Romero, who brought in the deal. Later, when complications arose, Dennis Juban, Jun's brother, went from the film's military liaison officer to Coppola's liaison to the Philippines.
"When Apocalypse came scouting, they asked us if we could provide them their needs on movie guns," says Danny Dominguez, one of the Jubans' longtime collaborators, "so we showed and tested our guns, including the first caliber .45 pistol firing semi-auto in blanks, which Francis Ford Coppola himself fired without jamming. But when they came back for the preparation stage, this time they asked for a caliber .50 machine gun which we didn't have then. So Dennis told me to work on it quickly because Joe Lombardi would also be testing his version of a caliber .50. In three days, we went to Pagsanjan ready to compete with whomever to try to win the contract. Finally, we won because of our gun. It worked like a real one."
"It was Martial Law and we had a contract with the Department of National Defense," explains Juban. "Naka-pirma si Enrile [Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile signed]. It was an honored contract. . . . The guns came from the Philippine Army, the AK47s came from the Philippine Constabulary, the trucks came from the Army Support Command . . . anything they wanted was here."
"That contract was the first of its nature done and it set the precedent for other films," he says, "films like Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July." Coppola had a deal with Marcos, according to the documentary. Production was to pay the military thousands of dollars per day, as well as overtime fee for the pilots. In return, Coppola could use the government's entire fleet of helicopters, as long as they weren't needed for the communist insurgency in the South.
"The film Francis is making is a metaphor for a journey into self," goes Eleanor Coppola's opening gamble in Hearts of Darkness. "He has made that journey and is still making it. It's scary to watch someone you love go into the center of himself and confront his fears," she continues. "Fear of failure, fear of death, fear of going insane. You have to fail a little, die a little, go insane a little, to come out the other side. The process is not over for Francis." The parallels between Coppola and Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Brando's character in the film, a man who slowly loses his mind in the jungle and then plays jungle god, are not hard to miss.
"Coppola was God," Juban recalls. "Our mantra then was if he asks for a pink elephant, you shout 'Coming!' and figure it out later. If you were [one of the] film guys, grabe 'yun. Kahit anong hingin mo, pwede . . . Coppola was the savior of Hollywood, so he got away with anything."
But he didn't get away with everything. "Coppola wanted to see how live bullets would hit a body," Juban continues, "so we had to shoot some cows." Later, information about the cruelty to animals leaked. "We got in trouble with the animal industry."
"It was insane and exciting," Henry Strzalkowski says, who was on set for four months, as an extra for the Do Lung bridge scene in which Captain Willard first meets Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore. "Dennis Hopper decided to stay in costume for the entire period of the shoot," he says. "It got to the point where his own co-stars couldn't stand his smell. They gave him his own coaster. He didn't stay in the hotel like everyone else.
"That beach took this weird reputation after the movie was over. It may not have anything to do with Apocalypse Now, but I heard there was a tourist influx," Strzalkowski says. "Some call it a pedophile's paradise."
In 1976, Eleanor Coppola wrote in her diary: "Everyone who has come out here to the Philippines seems to be going through something which is affecting them profoundly, changing their perspective about the world or themselves."
"There were times when Coppola would lose his temper," Strzalkowski recalls. "They had 200 extras. Okay, you've got 200 extras. You gotta keep going, you gotta give them something to do . . . But when they did have scenes , they were really [groping]. . . . He'd show up on set and no one would know what to do." Still, the 200 waited.
Not all Filipinos were lost in the background, though. A local face that made an impression was Gigi Dueñas-de Beaupré. "She was a friend of mine," Strzalkowski says. "We used to hang out. She was always in the Hobbit House [a popular club at that time], where she was part of the scene. . . . That's how they found her. . . . That's where production would go when they needed amusement."
"So while I was on set, she comes in. She sashays in wearing a floppy hat, a regular green shirt, tsinelas, nothing else. And I go, 'Gigi, what are you doing here?'" he remembers, laughing. "She goes, 'I'm Brando's wife!'"
"I met one of the resource persons of Apocalypse Now at the Hobbit House," Dueñas-de Beaupré says. "He offered me roses and asked if I would be interested in playing Marlon Brando's wife for the movie. I laughed and told him that it was the best pick-up line I'd ever heard."
Little did she know that she was competing against Elizabeth Oropesa for the part, then one of local cinema's leading actresses. "I got hold of a newspaper and read that Elizabeth Oropesa got the role," she says. "And I bewailed my misfortune, my new friends didn't believe that I was considered for the role. They thought I was putting them on." Juban remembers the days nearing what was supposed to be Oropesa's debut. "It was supposed to be her but . . . I think they realized she didn't look the part. . . . There were more scenes shot ," he goes on to say, "but a lot of them ended up on the editing floor."
Still, Dueñas-de Beaupré, got more than her fair share of time with Hollywood royalty—though it was mainly offscreen. "I played cards with Harrison Ford who was unknown then. I really had a great time with Laurence Fishburne. He was known as simply 'Larry.' We called him Fish. He was 15 years old and giving headaches to his Mom Hattie who was trying to keep him out of drugs on the set. . . . Larry would only smoke grass. We used to hide him from his Mom," she says. "Larry was a funny guy and he had a smooth way of moving. He made up most of his lines in the movie. He played himself, a teenager full of insouciance."
But perhaps the Hollywood import that made a lasting impression on Dueñas-de Beaupré was Marc Coppola, Francis Ford's nephew and Nicolas Cage's older brother. "Marc Coppola and I fell in love. . . . I really got close to the Coppola family. My son Karlo played with Sofia, who was around five years old then. . . Coppola asked me once if I wanted to marry his nephew. I just laughed the question off. I was in love, but I still wanted to go to Kathmandu. Marc was really disappointed that I didn't choose to go with them to California. Francis
was surprised."
"The lowest point for me was when it ended and everybody was heading home," she continues. "When Marc left for California and I didn't follow him there. Was that a stupid decision? What if I became Mrs. Coppola?" She seems happy with her decision though, brushing it off with a laugh and a reminder that she's very happy with her husband and children. "Actually, I have no regrets and Marc and I remain friends. We correspond every now and then."
But it is perhaps a testament to the production's troubled story, that even an account as rosy as Dueñas-de Beaupré's still contains a few barbs. "One scene I couldn't forget was the cañao scene," she recalls. "I was actually out there with the Ifugao women dancing just before they killed the carabao. After the scene was filmed, I ran to a corner and vomited. Francis handed me a glass of water and said, "That's just like killing
butterflies . . . "
"The weird thing about that was right before they shot, the carabao was waiting the whole night. It goes like this," Strzalkowski says, bowing his head to illustrate the animal's pain, "right before it was killed."
"It was pretty bad," Juban says. "We used some cadavers, actually, for some scenes. Those are actual cadavers hanging [when they enter the temple]. . . . He wanted that feel, that feel of death. If smell can come out of his movies, he will try to do that." The cadavers didn't last long. After a complaint was filed, they took them away. "My brother said it was too much, hindi natin kaya 'to. He [Coppola] wanted the smell of death. I guess that was the toughest one for us."
Juban believes that it might have been actions like this, the complete disregard for other forms of life, that triggered what he calls an "Apocalypse Now curse." He recalls bringing Igorots to the production to become extras. When a temple was destroyed for a scene, the Igorots claimed a dwarf died. "If you look at it, everyone associated with the movie got bad luck, one way or another. . . . My brother died on the very spot. He was scouting in 1978 for a new film when he died in a helicopter crash. It's eerie . . . maybe it's a coincidence pero . . . ang bigat dalhin."
There's an early scene in the movie where Lieutenant General Corman tries to explain Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's fate. He says: "Out there with these natives, it must be a temptation to be God. Because there's a conflict in every human heart between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil; and good does not always triumph. Sometimes the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a breaking point."
"We were all kind of acting out our characters," Strzalkowski confesses. For better or worse, for a little over a year in the heart of a Philippine jungle, Coppola became Kurtz.
"I tried to break the spell—the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness—that seemed to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening of forgotten and brutal instincts, by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions. . . . Soul! If anybody ever struggled with a soul, I am the man."
—Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Today, Francis Ford Coppola runs a a private company-—with a revenue of over half a billion dollars a year—built on wine, cigars, prepared foods, and resorts. It has given him financial independence from Hollywood, finally liberated from filmmaking, finally making films for himself again.
The years between Apocalypse Now and his present contentment have had their highs and lows. While Apocalypse Now's robust box office and subsequent home video strength saved him from what could have been financial ruin, his follow-up, the experimental musical One from the Heart, proved his luck had just about run out. He spent most of the next few years working off debt, literally making films to live. He reached his nadir in 1995, with Jack, a sentimental comedy featuring Robin Williams and a pre-fame Jennifer Lopez. Now in his business, he's stable and strong. If he's not killing himself making contemporary classics, he's at least not killing himself financially, spiritually. He is out of the jungle.
In October 2010, GQ magazine interviewed Coppola for the Blu-ray release of Apocalypse. In the interview, he was asked to explain the movie's enduring hold on film buffs. He said: "Clearly [Apocalypse Now] went off on its own to explore the themes of what was a very unusual, maybe unprecedented, war on many levels. So when the film came out, it shocked people at first and almost defied them, because it was so different than what had been considered a war film. When that happens—when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute—very often what you get is something with those qualities that make it age well with the public. Risk is a factor in making art, making films."
"My greatest fear is to make a really shitty, embarrassing, pompous film on an important subject, and I am doing it," he says, in Hearts of Darkness. "And I confront it. I acknowledge, I will tell you right straight from . . . the most sincere depths of my heart, the film will not be good."
In his little colony in the Philippines in that short pocket of time along 1976 and 1977, Francis Ford Coppola took risks. He took lives, he took nature into his own hands, all for the sake of a film. What he gave in return was a classic—a stone cold standard of modern moviemaking.
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