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Q: How to investigate and see what's going on under the hood during ISO installation? Have looked around online for a while and haven't found anything on this topic.
How can I investigate what is going on during the installation of an ISO file?
I have been able to look at the components that an ISO file is composed of by running the xorriso utility to extract the components of the ISO, however how can I look at exactly what is going on when that ISO starts to install and complete the installation? The reason is because it seems like there is some "magic" going on where the installation creates files that did not exist before in the ISO.

A: i assume you want to know about bootable ISOs which serve the purpose
to install an operating system from CD, DVD, or BD medium.
This procedure is standardized only at its beginning, when the boot
firmware of the computer looks for the entry points of boot software.
On BIOS and EFI firmware this is the El Torito Boot Record, stored
at block 17 of the ISO. This record points to the Boot Catalog, which
lists one or more Boot Images. A boot image for BIOS is a binary program
which gets loaded and executed by the BIOS. A boot image for EFI is a
FAT filesystem, which contains a binary program file which gets loaded
and executed.
(If the ISO is presented on a hard-disk-like device, BIOS looks for the
MBR signature at byte 510 and 511, and executes the x86 machine code
beginning at byte 0. EFI looks for a MBR partition of type 0xef or for
a GPT partition marked as EFI System Partition. These partitions point to
the same FAT filesystem as the El Torito boot catalog.)
In all these cases the executed program normally stems from a boot loader
system like ISOLINUX or GRUB. These boot loaders offer the opportunity
to start an operating system kernel which mounts the ISO filesystem
and executes programs from this filesystem.
In case of e.g. Debian GNU/Linux this is the DebianInstaller software.
These programs then constitute a running system which may install an
operating system to some disk device. In the course of this, files may
get unpacked from archives in the ISO, or generated by programs, or even
loaded from the internet.
So beginning by the menu configuration file of the boot loader, the
boot and installation procedure depends on particular software and
configurations.
Have a nice day :)
Thomas


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Home » Articles » Hagel Exit Shows Obama Has Taken Power Away From Pentagon
Hagel Exit Shows Obama Has Taken Power Away From Pentagon
By Jonathan Allen and Mike Dorning
President Barack Obama pushed Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel out of his job yesterday after less than 21 months, with White House officials citing disagreements over Iraq and Syria policy.
Hagel, who had grown increasingly frustrated with tight White House management of policy, was ready to go anyway, a U.S. defense official said. He resigned without a fight.
The Vietnam veteran's departure spotlights how one of Washington's most powerful jobs — overseeing the world's strongest military and a budget of more than $600 billion — has faded in the Obama era. Under Obama, the strict White House control often has left Hagel and other Cabinet members with limited authority and autonomy.
"The White House has really wanted to minimize the influence of the Pentagon on policy," said Rosa Brooks, who was counselor to then-Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy during Obama's first term.
Like his immediate predecessors at the Pentagon, Robert Gates and Leon Panetta, Hagel chafed at the way a small cadre of Obama loyalists centralized power in the White House. When Obama backed off a threat to bomb Syria last year, he made the decision on a walk with his chief of staff, Denis McDonough. Hagel was informed of the decision later.
Tension between Hagel and White House aides got so bad, the defense official said, that Hagel would often phone Obama after the meetings to make sure his voice was heard.
Hagel 'Frustrated'
Now, the challenge for the White House is finding a successor who's willing to take a relatively weak throne and content to avoid dissent. That candidate will also have the task of changing the Pentagon even as career bureaucrats know there's little time left under Obama to do so.
"Chuck was frustrated with aspects of the administration's national security policy and decision-making process," Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican, said in a statement yesterday. "His predecessors have spoken about the excessive micro-management they faced from the White House and how that made it more difficult to do their jobs successfully. Chuck's situation was no different."
The White House's National Security Council staff, designed to coordinate policy among the various federal agencies, has grown substantially under Obama — to roughly 270 people from about 200 under President George W. Bush, according to Reuters.
Its size and physical proximity to the White House, just across a small access road, have given it greater influence than Cabinet agencies in the development, and sometimes the implementation, of policy, according to a former defense official who requested anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.
Syria Letter
During his stint leading the Defense Department, Hagel bristled at his treatment by Obama's aides, who often shot down his ideas in meetings, according to the defense official.
One of his concerns centered on U.S. policy in Iraq and Syria, where limiting the use of American military force in Syria to Islamic State and other extremist groups threatens to strengthen dictator Bashar al-Assad and discourage allies such as Saudi Arabia from participating in the coalition.
In October, Hagel wrote a letter to Obama's National Security Adviser Susan Rice, with whom he often clashed, seeking clarity on U.S. policy toward Assad.
"Secretary Hagel's recent memo about how our strategy is failing and must be adjusted was welcome news to those of us who have harbored these thoughts for some time," Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican said in a statement. "It's clear to me Secretary Hagel realizes our failures in Syria have also greatly contributed to destabilization in Iraq and a more robust response is required."
Budget Friction
While it confirmed the fears of some lawmakers, the letter infuriated Obama's White House aides, the defense official said. Its existence was first reported by the New York Times last month in an article about White House officials planning to shake up the Cabinet.
The defense budget was another source of friction between Hagel and the White House, particularly the constraints imposed by automatic cuts known as sequestration, and last-minute administration guidance to the Defense Department to ask Congress for more money than the budget caps allowed.
Hagel viewed sequestration, officials close to the defense secretary said, as a political and policy blunder based on a bad reading of the likely Republican response and an even worse assessment of growing threats around the world. They included Islamic extremism, the collapse of authoritarian Arab regimes, a newly assertive China and Russian President Vladimir Putin's territorial ambitions on the list of threats.
Favorable Narrative
All of those dangers, the officials said, were highlighted in U.S. and allied intelligence analyses but officials around Obama chose to highlight a more favorable narrative. In the White House's telling, militant Islam was in retreat after the death of Osama bin Laden and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were winding down and leaving self-sufficient regimes in place. Therefore, the U.S. could afford to cut the defense budget.
Hagel pushed back, arguing that the proposed budget was insufficient in light of the growing threats. The White House eventually acceded, one of the officials said, though the result is a more complicated 2015 budget request.
While the budget battle wasn't the main cause of tension between the White House and the Pentagon, it didn't help.
"It's like financial troubles in a marriage that's on the rocks," said Eliot A. Cohen, who served as an official at the Defense and State departments under Republican presidents. "It makes everything worse."
Potential Successors
Hagel's possible successors include Flournoy and Ashton Carter, a former deputy defense secretary. Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat and West Point graduate, took himself out of contention yesterday.
None of Obama's defense secretaries has had the clout wielded by Robert McNamara, who served in the job for seven years and helped lead the U.S. into the Vietnam War, and Donald Rumsfeld, who crafted the American military response after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Washington insiders say that the job has lost value because the diminished standing at the White House also leaves the defense secretary with less clout inside the Pentagon. That's especially true in the final two years of the administration, when career officials know they can wait out the politically appointed civilian in charge.
"They're not going to do anything now," said former Representative Ellen Tauscher, who headed a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee and later served as an undersecretary of State in the Obama administration.
'Death Spiral'
"You get into this kind of death spiral. The more that they understand you don't have the juice to get things done inside the Sit Room, the less they're going to be willing to work with you to get done the things that you need to get done," said Tauscher, using shorthand to describe the White House Situation Room.
Brooks said Flournoy's unlikely to take the job unless it's because Hagel's departure signals a fundamental shift in the way that Obama treats the defense secretary.
"The optimistic view is that the president has taken criticism to heart, looked in the mirror and decided to rethink his approach," she said. "If they asked her and she took it, it would really be a sign that that they are trying to make changes."
Gates, who was Obama's first defense secretary after serving in the same capacity under Bush, said recently that he saw politics in the White House's effort to keep the Pentagon on a short leash.
"It was that micromanagement that drove me crazy," Gates said at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library defense forum earlier this month.
Gates said he advised field commanders that if "you get a call from the White House, you tell them to go to hell and call me," Gates said. "I think when a president wants highly centralized control" at "the degree of micromanagement that I'm describing, that's not bureaucratic. That's political."
To contact the reporters on this story: Jonathan Allen in Washington at jallen149@bloomberg.net; Mike Dorning in Washington at mdorning@bloomberg.net
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package org.apache.asterix.active;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.Future;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;

import org.apache.asterix.active.message.ActiveManagerMessage;
import org.apache.asterix.active.message.ActiveStatsRequestMessage;
import org.apache.asterix.active.message.ActiveStatsResponse;
import org.apache.asterix.active.message.StopRuntimeParameters;
import org.apache.asterix.common.exceptions.ErrorCode;
import org.apache.asterix.common.exceptions.RuntimeDataException;
import org.apache.asterix.common.memory.ConcurrentFramePool;
import org.apache.hyracks.api.application.INCServiceContext;
import org.apache.hyracks.api.client.NodeStatus;
import org.apache.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
import org.apache.hyracks.api.util.JavaSerializationUtils;
import org.apache.hyracks.control.nc.NodeControllerService;
import org.apache.hyracks.util.ExitUtil;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Level;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;

public class ActiveManager {

    private static final Logger LOGGER = LogManager.getLogger();
    private static final int SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT_SECS = 60;

    private final ExecutorService executor;
    private final ConcurrentMap<ActiveRuntimeId, IActiveRuntime> runtimes;
    private final ConcurrentFramePool activeFramePool;
    private final String nodeId;
    private final INCServiceContext serviceCtx;
    private volatile boolean shutdown;

    public ActiveManager(ExecutorService executor, String nodeId, long activeMemoryBudget, int frameSize,
            INCServiceContext serviceCtx) throws HyracksDataException {
        this.executor = executor;
        this.nodeId = nodeId;
        this.activeFramePool = new ConcurrentFramePool(nodeId, activeMemoryBudget, frameSize);
        this.runtimes = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
        this.serviceCtx = serviceCtx;
    }

    public ConcurrentFramePool getFramePool() {
        return activeFramePool;
    }

    public void registerRuntime(IActiveRuntime runtime) throws HyracksDataException {
        NodeControllerService controllerService = (NodeControllerService) serviceCtx.getControllerService();
        if (controllerService.getNodeStatus() != NodeStatus.ACTIVE) {
            throw HyracksDataException.create(org.apache.hyracks.api.exceptions.ErrorCode.NODE_IS_NOT_ACTIVE,
                    serviceCtx.getNodeId());
        }
        if (shutdown) {
            throw new RuntimeDataException(ErrorCode.ACTIVE_MANAGER_SHUTDOWN);
        }
        if (runtimes.putIfAbsent(runtime.getRuntimeId(), runtime) != null) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("Active Runtime " + runtime.getRuntimeId() + " is already registered");
        }
    }

    public void deregisterRuntime(ActiveRuntimeId id) {
        runtimes.remove(id);
    }

    public Set<ActiveRuntimeId> getRuntimeIds() {
        return Collections.unmodifiableSet(runtimes.keySet());
    }

    public IActiveRuntime getRuntime(ActiveRuntimeId runtimeId) {
        return runtimes.get(runtimeId);
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return ActiveManager.class.getSimpleName() + "[" + nodeId + "]";
    }

    public void submit(ActiveManagerMessage message) throws HyracksDataException {
        LOGGER.debug("Message of type {} received in {}", message.getKind(), nodeId);
        switch (message.getKind()) {
            case STOP_ACTIVITY:
                stopRuntime(message);
                break;
            case REQUEST_STATS:
                requestStats((ActiveStatsRequestMessage) message);
                break;
            default:
                LOGGER.warn("Unknown message type received: " + message.getKind());
        }
    }

    private void requestStats(ActiveStatsRequestMessage message) throws HyracksDataException {
        try {
            ActiveRuntimeId runtimeId = (ActiveRuntimeId) message.getPayload();
            IActiveRuntime runtime = runtimes.get(runtimeId);
            long reqId = message.getReqId();
            if (runtime == null) {
                LOGGER.warn("Request stats of a runtime that is not registered " + runtimeId);
                // Send a failure message
                ((NodeControllerService) serviceCtx.getControllerService()).sendApplicationMessageToCC(
                        message.getCcId(),
                        JavaSerializationUtils.serialize(new ActiveStatsResponse(reqId, null, new RuntimeDataException(
                                ErrorCode.ACTIVE_MANAGER_INVALID_RUNTIME, runtimeId.toString()))),
                        null);
                return;
            }
            String stats = runtime.getStats();
            ActiveStatsResponse response = new ActiveStatsResponse(reqId, stats, null);
            ((NodeControllerService) serviceCtx.getControllerService()).sendApplicationMessageToCC(message.getCcId(),
                    JavaSerializationUtils.serialize(response), null);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw HyracksDataException.create(e);
        }
    }

    public void shutdown() {
        LOGGER.warn("Shutting down ActiveManager on node " + nodeId);
        Map<ActiveRuntimeId, Future<Void>> stopFutures = new HashMap<>();
        shutdown = true;
        runtimes.forEach((runtimeId, runtime) -> stopFutures.put(runtimeId, executor.submit(() -> {
            // we may already have been stopped- only stop once
            stopIfRunning(runtime, SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT_SECS, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
            return null;
        })));
        stopFutures.entrySet().parallelStream().forEach(entry -> {
            try {
                entry.getValue().get(SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT_SECS, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                LOGGER.warn("Interrupted waiting to stop runtime: " + entry.getKey());
                Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
            } catch (ExecutionException e) {
                LOGGER.log(Level.WARN, "Exception while stopping runtime: " + entry.getKey(), e);
            } catch (TimeoutException e) {
                LOGGER.log(Level.WARN, "Timed out waiting to stop runtime: " + entry.getKey(), e);
            }
        });
        LOGGER.warn("Shutdown ActiveManager on node " + nodeId + " complete");
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("squid:S1181") // Catch Error
    private void stopRuntime(ActiveManagerMessage message) {
        StopRuntimeParameters content = (StopRuntimeParameters) message.getPayload();
        ActiveRuntimeId runtimeId = content.getRuntimeId();
        IActiveRuntime runtime = runtimes.get(runtimeId);
        if (runtime == null) {
            LOGGER.warn("Request to stop runtime: " + runtimeId
                    + " that is not registered. Could be that the runtime completed execution on"
                    + " this node before the cluster controller sent the stop request");
        } else {
            executor.execute(() -> {
                try {
                    stopIfRunning(runtime, content.getTimeout(), content.getUnit());
                } catch (Throwable th) {
                    LOGGER.fatal("Failed to stop runtime: {}", runtimeId, th);
                    ExitUtil.halt(ExitUtil.EC_UNCAUGHT_THROWABLE);
                }
            });
        }
    }

    private void stopIfRunning(IActiveRuntime runtime, long timeout, TimeUnit unit)
            throws HyracksDataException, InterruptedException {
        if (runtimes.containsKey(runtime.getRuntimeId())) {
            runtime.stop(timeout, unit);
        } else {
            LOGGER.info("Not stopping already stopped runtime {}", runtime.getRuntimeId());
        }
    }

}

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When he turned 13, his father rented one for him. Reflecting on the incident, Mayer said, "That was the moment the songwriter in me was born", and he penned his first lyrics the night he left the hospital. The EP includes eight songs with Mayer on lead vocals and guitars. Major label and commercial success — See also: During this time, Aware concluded a deal with Columbia Records that gave Columbia first pick in signing Aware artists. The re-release included reworked studio versions of the first four songs from Inside Wants Out. It also received general praise critically, and Mayer drew comparisons to Dave Matthews. Commercially, the album peaked at number 17 on the Billboard chart.
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We're not together, but we still love each other," she told Steve Harvey , in her first interview in nearly four years. Advertisement The relationship was believed to have ended in , but Hunter said the couple dated until last February. Hunter, 51, called Edwards "a great dad," and said the doting father sees his daughter "as often as he can. Hunter, a filmmaker, had been hired to work for his presidential campaign. The southern Democrat, suave and well-spoken, seemed poised for the White House, but a series of scandals tattered his reputation.
The National Enquirer exposed the affair in , but Edwards soldiered on, calling the accusations "ridiculous. An aide, Andrew Young, claimed to be the child's father, a ploy Hunter says she found "insane. It was in the middle of a campaign, and I didn't want to be the one to bring down an entire campaign. Elizabeth left him as the scandal intensified, only to die months later from her years-long bout with cancer.
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The author of the letter has a strong hope for the future, a version of the traditional Christian hope for the parousia 2: In the gospel of John the main thrust is toward the denail of the hope of the parousia, on the grounds that the first coming of Jesus was the decisive event and no further coming, no further judgment, is to be expected 3: But throughout the gospel are individual sayings that express the more traditional Christian hope 5: Similarly with the sacraments: Yet the words "water and" in 3:
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Rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgage hits new low
By Amy Hoak
Published: Jan 8, 2009 10:47 a.m. ET
Fed's purchase of mortgage-backed securities drives down rates: economist
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CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Long-term mortgage rates dropped again this week, with the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage hitting a fourth consecutive record low in the history of Freddie Mac's weekly survey.
The 30-year mortgage averaged 5.01% for the week ending Jan. 8, down from last week's 5.10%. The mortgage averaged 5.87% a year ago. The rate hasn't been lower since Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey began in 1971. The survey covers conventional, conforming mortgages.
"Interest rates for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages fell for the tenth week to a fourth consecutive record low due in part to the Federal Reserve's recent purchases of mortgage-backed securities issued by Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and Ginnie Mae," said Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac chief economist, in a news release.
"On Nov. 25, 2008, the Federal Reserve announced that it planned to purchase up to $500 billion of these securities by the end of June of this year. For the sake of comparison, there were roughly $4.7 trillion of such securities backed by home mortgages available as of Sept. 30, 2008.
The low rates, now nearly 1.5 percentage points below their level in October, have brought savings to those buyers brave enough to enter the housing market these days. The lower 30-year rate brings the monthly payment on a $200,000 loan down by $184 from the October peak, Nothaft pointed out.
Rates on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages also dropped, averaging 4.62% this week, down from 4.83% last week and 5.43% a year ago. The mortgage hasn't been lower since June 13, 2003, when it averaged 4.60%.
Five-year Treasury-indexed hybrid adjustable-rate mortgages averaged 5.49%, down from 5.57% last week and 5.63% a year ago. And 1-year Treasury-indexed ARMs averaged 4.95%, up from 4.85% last week but down from 5.37% a year ago.
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On Wednesday, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported that the volume of mortgage applications filed last week was down a seasonally adjusted 8.2% compared with the week before, due to a drop in refinance applications. See full story.
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Photos from the Archives: Ford's Many Theatres
Today, when I tell someone that I work at Ford's Theatre, the person instantly knows where I mean: the venue made famous (or infamous) in 1865, when John Wilkes Booth murdered President Abraham Lincoln there. But before the assassination, if I'd told you that I worked at Ford's Theatre, you might have asked, "Which one?"
By 1865, John T. Ford's venue on Tenth Street in Washington was but one of five holdings in his theatrical empire.
Ford, a native of Baltimore, had stumbled into the theatre business in the early 1850s, while running a small newspaper stand in Richmond, Virginia. In 1855, he partnered with two others—George Kunkel and Thomas Moxley—to operate theatres in Richmond, Baltimore and Washington. They also operated the National Theatre (which still operates in a newer building) for one year, from February 1856 to 1857.
Baltimore had brought the trio the greatest success. Before the Civil War, Washington was a relatively sleepy town, whereas Baltimore was the metropolitan hub of the Chesapeake region. Charles Dickens famously referred to the capital city as a "City of Magnificent Intentions"—intentions far from fulfilled during the 1850s, with 40,001 residents counted in the 1850 census. By contrast, Baltimore was then the country's second-largest city, with a population of 169,054.
In Baltimore, Ford was primarily responsible for the Holliday Street Theatre. After the three men went their own ways in 1860, Ford would remain the manager and operator, eventually becoming full owner of that venue until 1878. The Holliday Street venue was established as Baltimore's oldest theatre, and among the oldest in the United States, when Ford took over management. Holliday Street was constructed in 1794, then, after a fire (a tragically common occurrence in those days), rebuilt in 1813. The theatre was primarily notable as the location of the first public reading of a poem that would be set to music and become Francis Scott Key's The Star Spangled Banner.
Theatre proprietor and manager John T. Ford's two properties are featured in this figure. See this and more in the Historic Structures report (page 20) online here.
During the Civil War, Washington's population boomed, and Ford decided to try opening a theatre in the city again. Although the former Baptist church he converted to a theatre burned in 1862, he reopened and made the theatre a presence in Washington's cultural life until April 14, 1865.
Ford's successes during that conflict were not limited to Washington, though. U.S. Army troops were a constant presence in Baltimore and needed entertainment. According to Thomas Bogar's Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination, the Holliday Street Theatre set a new record for that city by hosting productions for 300 nights during 1861-62.
His success in Baltimore and Washington allowed Ford to open theatres in the U.S. Army-occupied city of Alexandria, Virginia, and in Cumberland, Maryland, then a center of industry and transportation in the western part of the state. For a time, he even rented and operated the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.
Both Abraham Lincoln's murder on April 14, 1865, and the end of the Civil War helped end Ford's ventures outside of his home base. Although Ford had largely left management of his Washington theatre to his brothers and was visiting Richmond at the time of the president's murder, both he and his brothers spent a month in jail before finally being cleared of any involvement. He added Ford's Grand Opera House to his portfolio six years after the assassination, in 1871, but except for forming a burlesque company to tour in the South, he confined his business to Baltimore. The Holliday Street Theatre burned in 1873, but Ford rebuilt, as he had done with his venture in Washington a decade before.
Ford's D.C. theatre draped in black. Image courtesy of the National Park Service.
John T. Ford's later success, though, never erased the association of Ford with his brief Washington venture in the public mind. In 1893, when the third floor of the former theatre collapsed, Ford made sure that everyone knew he was not responsible for the calamity.
Although Ford died the next year, his family continued to run Ford's Grand Opera House through 1921. Recently, his descendants came to visit Washington's Ford's Theatre, with which most of us associate John T. Ford's name today.
For further reading, Thomas Bogar's Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination provides an overview of the characters involved. John Ford Sollers's 1962 Stanford University doctoral dissertation provides further depth on the life of John T. Ford. Sollers was the grandson of John T. Ford.
David McKenzie is Associate Director for Interpretive Resources and a part-time History Ph.D. student at George Mason University, studying 19th-century U.S. and Latin American history, as well as digital history.
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SXSW Review: Snatchers
The best movie about killer vaginas since Teeth
By Matthew Razak February 20, 2020
I've seen one horror movie already this SXSW that used the genre to discuss deeper issues, but Us and Snatchers take very different directions in how they do this. That's pretty evident from the trailer below but it was an interesting contrast to see and I can honestly say I had more fun watching Snatchers than I did Us. That doesn't make it a better movie, but there's something both charming, wonderful, and hilarious about the how the film tackles a challenging subject like teen pregnancy without ever making you feel like you're watching a movie about teen pregnancy.
Also, it's heavily influenced by Evil Dead 2 so I was pretty much born to like this movie.
SNATCHERS (2017) Official Trailer
Directors: Stephen Cedars and Benji Kleiman
Release Date: TBD
Snatchers is a weird mashup of comedy, horror, and coming-of-age film that deals with teen pregnancy, except this time the pregnancy is an alien and it's killing a lot of people in decidedly gory ways. Sara Steinberg (Mary Nepi) is your bog standard (intentionally) teenager trying to fit in with the popular girls at her school and totally ditching her nerdy, old best friend Hayley (Gabrielle Elyse) in the process. Except, when she loses her virginity to her boyfriend, who has just returned from Mexico (bum, bum, bum), so that he won't break up with her something strange happens. She finds herself 9 months pregnant the next day and the only person she can turn to is her old friend, Hayley. And then the "baby" is born and the blood starts to fly.
And fly it does. Snatchers is a slasher, though and through. Directors Stephen Cedars and Benji Kleiman mix the best aspects of Sam Raimi and Wes Craven's old school films to bathe the screen in blood. Yet, the film is never overly bloody. The gore is often off screen or plays more for laughs than horror and it works wonders. There a sequence in a police station, which also deals with where the hell the cops are for this entire time, that is just comedic horror magic. They even have a getting ready for the battle montage that's straight out of cheesy action movies.
What Snatchers does best is to wear its comedy on its sleeve and yet never lose its center. Like the best horror/comedy blends, it finds fun in the blood and gore. As Sara and Hayley's night goes from bad to worse the comedy ratchets up right alongside the blood, it's a great balance that's been proven a million times to work, but can often go off the rails. Cedars and Kleiman never let it. They know they've got a premise that needs to be kept tight and short and do so. The film never overstays itself and moves on from one place to another with aplomb so you're never bored.
Yet, at the same time, there is a somewhat serious undercurrent to the movie that plays with the girl's fears of teen pregnancy. The absurdity takes everything to the nth level, but the underlying emotions are basically the same to the panic, fear, and societal shame a young woman faces when dealing with an unplanned teen pregnancy. There's even a hilarious bit of overplayed confrontation between Sara and her mom when she finds out she's pregnant but won't believe it is with an alien creature. It's the kind of hyperbole that makes horror so good as an easy access point to address complex issues.
Snatchers never takes itself too seriously, though. It is, after all, just a bit of fun at the movies. And that isn't actually that easy to pull off. It helps that the two stars of the film play off each other like actual old friends and seem to enjoy being in the roles as they're doused in blood and gore and found in some… compromising positions. Snatchers is the kind of horror that is what it is and doesn't want to be anything more, and yet in that it becomes a bit more.
Matthew Razak
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Seeks to generate superior long-term, risk-adjusted performance by investing in a fundamentally driven, concentrated portfolio of Japanese common equities. Employs a relative valuation, priced focused approach to identify and exploit behavioral mispricing and market inefficiencies. The Fund is benchmarked to the MSCI Japan Index.
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May was far more relaxing than April, but it certainly wasn't short of inspiration. Here's what kept me busy and inspired this month.
Sunday, May 1- A special delivery of fresh peaches from the tree across the street lead to a Sunday dessert of Peach & Blueberry Crostata. Just Peachy!
Tuesday, May 3- My custom "One of a Kind Cookbook" I ordered for my mom for Mother's day arrived! Thanks Mila!
Sunday, May 8- Mother's Day Brunch with the Moms.
Thursday, May 12-19- Floral Park heads south of the border to Cabo! This tradition of spring, lead to many Happy Hours, where we learned to "cook," saw rays take flight, and had a night-cap of Mexican coffee.
Friday, May 20- Dinner with Jackie, Manny, Caryl and Justin @ The Playground in DTSA. Pork belly buns, and Favas, and fried chicken, Oh My!
Saturday, May 21- The return to Yoga, was followed by a not so healthy dinner at Barley Forge Brewery with my sensei and besties. Then we headed to the Tap Room for a taste of Alex's new brew.
Saturday, May 28- Memorial Day weekend kicked off with a roll round the hood and healthy fish grill in the backyard with lots of Pimped Out Green Sauce.
Sunday, May 29- Patchwork Craft Fair offered all kinds of unique finds. #DTSA rocks.
Monday, May 30- Memorial Day started with Brunch to celebrate my Stepdad's B-day at 4th street market, and ended up with grilling in the back yard.
You're too sweet! Thank you! I have lots of amazing friends to inspire me 😉. You're one of them.
PS: Thank you Mila! I love your cookbook!


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Anime/Manga Thread - Grungie - 03-16-2013
Lets discuss Anime. For the purpose of this thread, we'll discuss Japanese animation. Anything that has anime inspired art like Avatar and Teen Titans is not anime since it's not from Japan. Sure it sound stupid, but claiming that anime is a separate genre is pretty silly since it's really just cartoons from a specific country.
My favorite anime:
Minami-Ke
Acchi Kocchi
Chuunibyou
<insert any Studio Ghibli movie>
RE: Anime/Manga Thread - JCizzle - 03-16-2013
So it has begun...
RE: Anime/Manga Thread - Grungie - 03-16-2013
y u ruin dis?
.............................I've read Dragonball >.>
I should read that. I kind of liked Dragon Ball over Dragon Ball Z.
I don't remember most of the story though
I don't really either. I remember Dragon Ball Z very well because Toonami would always start showing reruns right after they do a run. First they'll reshow the new run, then they'll start it all the way over.
RE: Anime/Manga Thread - Adam - 03-16-2013
I wanna start watching BDZ again
So if you're talking to "hardcore" Anime fans, never EVER refer to DBZ characters by their dubbed names. You will be flamed heavily and a straight up n00b
RE: Anime/Manga Thread - SolidGibsonLee - 03-17-2013
Studio Ghibli movies
Samurai X (the original movie, I haven't watched Rurouni Kenshin the series yet)
I used to love DBZ but experience with other shows have showed me that it's really only good for nostalgic purposes, because if I were to watch that show for the first time now, it's terribad. Subpar plot (at least past the Frieza saga), practically no character development outside of Trunks, Vegeta, and Gohan, and the fights are inflated in length because have of it is spent with the character charging their attack and screaming bloody gore. All that said I still mostly enjoy watching it for kicks.


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Collartz presents the Tosca Long Oxidized Necklace. Created by the Italian artist Roberto Leonardi, who draws his inspiration both in the serene Mediterranean impulses and the bustle of Eastern and Western urban cities. His passion for color and different materials is reflected in these original Long Design Necklaces with an ethno-urban fashion style that combine lines of the old world with the clean lines of the new one.
The Long Tosca Necklace by Roberto Leonardi is made of sanded brass, oxidized silver plated, with a thin lacquer layer on top. It is a 55 cm long chain made of 28 square and rectangular elements skillfully combined. As versatile as most of Collartz Collection, the Long Free Necklace can be worn long, or double, in a symmetric or asymmetric fashion. Or, you can play with its closing ring and attach it to another element of the chain, leaving one end lose. As you can see, Tosca embodies all the attractiveness of the Leonardi Arte Collection. And will you will be even more attractive than even, when wearing it. Also available in the Silver and Golden version.


One of the solitary most important principles in business is the sales funnel. Sales funnels can enhance your revenue online by automating your organisation. They use a path of least resistance to expanding and scaling your business on autopilot. However after spending time with some of the globe's finest marketing professionals, I can tell you with near assurance, not only exactly how sales funnels will certainly permit you to make more money online, yet which certain funnels you need to apply.
Now, if you're anything like me, you may be averse to particular funnels. For example, I'm not at all an e-commerce guy, but I do understand that free-plus-shipping funnels are absolutely squashing it. In fact, simply this previous week, while going to the Closing Table Mastermind with Perry Belcher and also Roland Frasier, I acquired much more understanding right into the alluring "tripwire" funnel, purportedly created by Perry Belcher.
Nevertheless, Belcher really did not invent the principle. He attracted that from an old Columbia House ad that offered 13 CDs or tapes for the large rate of $1.00. Remember it? However most of us understand that this tempting deal (aka tripwire) had way a lot more to it than just the $1.00 price tag. In the background, there was a continuity program at the office. In Columbia House's' design, this was called negative alternative billing. That implies, you immediately obtain regular month-to-month deliveries (in addition to a bill) unless you expressly state otherwise.
So why is this so effective as well as what does it involve sales funnels? As a matter of fact, what you'll see is that Columbia House's sales funnel was rather basic. You simply picked the CDs or tapes you wanted for a buck, after that got a routine monthly delivery each and every single month at a pre-defined price. They would constantly bill you for those CDs or tapes every month. There were variations of this deal as well where you might get 11 CDs or tapes for one dime then get the 12th cost-free.
In any case you take a look at it, these were all irresistible deals. This was also great to pass up. But what Columbia House and other business realized was that, although they would certainly lose loan out of eviction, they would certainly, typically, over time, earn money hand over first. And that is the power of the sales funnel. Prior to automation, this is exactly how sales funnels worked. And, if you hired, you would certainly obtain a real-time person successfully strolling you with the funnel.
The Columbia House example provides deep insight into the psychology of a deal that's tempting. By first identifying the lifetime worth of a consumer as well as their retention rate, Columbia House figured out that it can spend a particular amount of cash obtaining consumers and still be extremely profitable. That's essentially what's done with sales funnels today. And also what actually makes those sales funnels so effective are tripwires.
Today, it's the tripwire that produces the irresistible deal. Although Columbia House really did not rather have significant up-sells or down-sells in their funnels, they developed a basic two action funnel that worked. It functioned because the tripwire was so appealing. It appealed deeply to the customer. Besides, just how can you withstand a deal like that for 12 or 13 CDs or tapes for $1 or 1 cent when they were retailing at around $10 each at the time.
One more effective instance of this was via Sports Illustrated. Actually, Sports Illustrated was effectively on the decrease at the time it presented its advanced tripwire. There's something regarding substantial things that people just connect with. Also when you're offering a digital information item on the back end, by sweetening the take care of a tangible excellent, you can quite actually send your conversions via the roof.
In the example of Sports Illustrated, take on your own back to 1990 when publication membership rates were starting to hand over. In that duration, Sports Illustrated endured a 7% decrease in their flow in the initial fifty percent of the year. Now, whatever they did, they were not able to obtain the subscription rates up. Even by offering deep discount rates on memberships, consumers weren't getting it. Plus, if they marked down too outstanding, it would affect their capacity to obtain marketers paying costs prices without revealing that consumers were paying near the full cover rate of the magazine.
Sports Illustrated, owned by Time, Inc., had not been the only publication that was enduring under the firm's umbrella. People magazine had actually likewise experienced a severe decrease of 5%. Time, Inc., recognized that it needed to do something quickly. So it began to supply a tripwire that consisted of sports bloopers on VHS. However, the price was excessively high and there were just so many bungles it might provide. So, they resorted to the football phone as the brand-new tripwire.
Why the football phone? Initially, it appealed to the target audience. And also, it was distinct and also exciting. Even more exciting than a boring publication registration. The football-shaped phone idea was conceived by Sports Illustrated's supervisor of flow at the time, Michael Loeb. At that time, advertising and marketing on cable television was likewise very cost-effective. And also, the phone, which was sourced from China, just set you back a few bucks "landed". So all of it made sense.
Loeb worked with the logistics of this offer for lots of months. Nonetheless, that wasn't the only offer. They also concocted an offer that consisted of a tennis shoe phone. If you'll reflect to 1990-1991, it was both uses that were running almost concurrently. Speak about an early-on split-test, right?
So, what were the outcomes of all this? Over 1 million brand-new customers. That's right. As well as those deals only competed a minimal time. However it effectively conserved the business. That's the power of a tripwire deal. It's a concrete item that obtains people thrilled regarding whatever else the core offer is. As a matter of fact, some individuals will only get what you're offering entirely for the uniqueness of the substantial tripwire offer.
Sales funnels are one of the solitary most effective concepts in company today for a really specific reason. It's not just the instance of the tripwire that's effective. It's the entire kittycat caboodle, so to speak. There are numerous parts and parts to what make a sales funnel job so well that I wished to simplify and also provide some more examples to provide a much deeper understanding to exactly how you can use them to increase your revenue online.
Currently, if you're not utilizing a sales funnel today, or if you're just uncovering what a sales funnel is, then there are a couple of means you can swiftly take advantage of this powerful concept in your organisation to create eruptive results. First and foremost, if you do not have a ClickFunnels account, go here and also register for the 14-day free trial. Once you have actually arrangement your account, get a custom-made domain as well as start building your funnel. If you require help, enjoy several of the on-boarding video clips consisted of with ClickFunnels.
It does not matter if you have an existing business or you're functioning to configuration a brand-new business, funnels are the trick to growing and also scaling no matter where you're starting from. Nonetheless, there are 5 certain ways you can make use of sales funnels to boost your income now. No matter what business you remain in or what you're marketing, you can leverage these today, today, to develop explosive results.
At the Inner Circle mastermind this week, Russell Brunson dissected the hook-story-offer method that precedes constructing the funnel. Can you construct a sales funnel prior to you have a hook as well as a tale? Yes. But you may have problem obtaining grip, particularly if you're competing in a red sea. Red oceans are entrepreneur-infested waters contending for the exact same swimming pool of consumers, whereas blue oceans are an area where couple of entrepreneurs are swimming in.
What does that inform you? Invest the time responsible as well as the tale. Yes, the deal is additionally important. Yet it's the hook and the story that's mosting likely to reel leads in. For example, Brunson utilized the narrative of fit-to-fat-to-fat creator, Drew Manning. Manning, that remained in fantastic form, went out there and also obtained a lot of weight over a 6 month duration to better comprehend what it feels like to be fat. But then he went out there as well as shed all the weight.
That right there is an extraordinary hook and also story. It's unique. And also, as a result of that, Manning has experienced a meteoric rise, although his offer isn't that good. Yet when the hook and also the tale is just so great, the deal is almost inconsequential. Successfully, you can sell just about anything when the hook as well as the tale simply squash it. An additional instance is the tale of Robert Allen who would always claim he might be decreased in any kind of city in the nation and also purchase a house no money down within 60 days. And that's specifically what he did. His brand has actually corrected a billion bucks in sales as a result of it.
Those are all terrific hooks and also tales. Without that, your offer will certainly battle. If you can create an unique means to create your hook and story, the rest will certainly form. Given that there is so much red ocean out there, this is probably one of the most crucial indicate make prior to you introduce any type of sales funnel.
Tripwires are wonderful low-barrier-of-entry products that make leads take out their credit cards. Commonly, these are too-good-to-pass-up items that are supplied at an incredible cost. Simply think about the tripwire supplied by Columbia House or Sports Illustrated, as an example. Tripwires aid make it less complicated to acquire brand-new clients, and after that to rise them up your worth ladder.
Anything that makes consumer procurement harder, such as an expensive service or product out of eviction, is mosting likely to make expanding and scaling your organisation more difficult. The fact is that it sets you back 5 times as a lot to draw in a brand-new client as it does to retain an existing one. That's why tripwires are so powerful. They lower the barrier-of-entry into your service. And anything that can decrease the obstacle of entry is always excellent.
Another terrific way to introduce a sales funnel as well as easily raise your revenue whatever service you're in is through a lead magnet. The lead magnet requires to include actual worth. But it can be in various layouts such as a PDF e-book, checklist, rip off sheet and more. After the download, you can offer an one-time offer. This suggests a three-step funnel. You can additionally produce an up-sell if they take the one-time deal and even a payment-plan down-sell if they decline it.
Why do a lead magnet with tons of worth? Initially, you're establishing yourself up as a specialist. If that content is genuinely workable, and it adds a substantial quantity of worth to the prospect's life, then they're mosting likely to regard you as the authority. However it does something even more than that. It refers micro-commitments. The concept? Obtain someone to concur to do three little things for you and also the 4th one is immediately an of course.
Among the most powerful sales funnels you can construct is based around the webinar. Actually, it was the webinar that saved Brunson's business from bankruptcy a couple of times. It was a combination as well as conclusion of knowledge that cause the best webinar manuscript, which develops the basis for the ultimate sales funnel. Some of it originated from Jason Fladlien, while other items came from in other places in Brunson's trip.
Nonetheless, all that info integrated right into the format of an excellent webinar and also funnel, has literally transformed business of plenty of business owners that've taken their understanding as well as monetized it through the exponential force of webinars. Constructing a webinar is just one of the surest courses to success with a sales funnel. Actually, the webinar funnel is fairly potentially the most transformative funnel you could introduce for any company, brand-new or old.
One more means to enhance your revenue with a sales funnel is to develop a high-ticket training funnel that goes from application to telephone call to close.
The application enables you to remove those that aren't significant. As well as, on the telephone call, you can seal the deal. Currently, this sort of sales funnel works if you've already had outcomes with customers. If not, help free till you obtain outcomes for people. Then, accumulate reviews and make use of those as part of the pitch for the mentoring.
Probably among the biggest and also most popular sales funnels these days is the free-plus-shipping offer funnel. It makes a wonderful entry factor right into any type of funnel by creating an one-time deal or up-sell after the deal, comparable to a tripwire funnel. Nonetheless, the distinction right here is the power of the word complimentary. Yes, tripwires, which are really inexpensive products or services, work well. However there is genuine power in words complimentary.
Actually, individuals will raise and also down for a complimentary deal, also if they need to cover the delivery as well as handling, as opposed to taking a deal that they also have to pay a little amount of loan for.


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United States v. Orrock
United States of America, Plaintiff
Craig P. Orrock, Defendant
ORDER GRANTING IN PART MOTION TO CONTINUE SENTENCING HEARING [ECF NO. 286]
JENNIFER A. DORSEY, U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE
Defendant Craig Orrock is a former attorney who worked for the Internal Revenue Service and spent the bulk of his career as a sole practitioner specializing in tax law. After several defendant-requested continuances, often founded on Orrock's claims that he needed additional time to prepare for trial because he had chosen to represent himself, the jury found Orrock guilty of two counts of evasion of payment and assessment of tax and one count of attempt to interfere with administration of internal revenue laws.
Orrock's sentencing hearing, originally scheduled for August 26, 2019, was continued to September 30, 2019, at Orrock's request and based on his claims of poor health.[1] Orrock now moves for another continuance-this time for an additional 60 days.[2] He represents that he needs to present testimony from numerous witnesses to disprove the tax-loss amount that the government has calculated. He also states that he'll use the additional time to "attempt to get an expert witness to testify concerning the deductibility of the losses . . . under the tax law, and that the tax could have been substantially reduced if not eliminated by Orrock filing a claim for refund carrying back the net operating losses."[3] He does not identify who that witness might be or how he would go about locating such an expert. Reminding the court of Orrock's rich history of delays in this case, the government vehemently opposes this request for yet another continuance.[4]
A 60-day continuance of the already-extended sentencing date is not warranted. Orrock has known about the need to gather the evidence he identifies for years. At the very least, he has known since the verdict was read on May 13, 2019, that he needed to start preparing for his sentencing hearing. But Orrock obviously waited until the eve of this continued sentencing date to start doing that work, as he did not file this new continuance request until just seven days before the scheduled sentencing hearing. And his decision to delay this preparation certainly does not justify another two months to give him a chance to start looking for an expert to support his tax-loss theories.
Nevertheless, the court recognizes that this is a document-intensive case involving events that span decades. Orrock has now outlined the list of witnesses that he intends to present at his sentencing hearing.[5] Although I reject as wholly meritless Orrock's attempts to blame his conviction or delays in sentencing preparation on anything that the court, the prosecution, or his standby counsel has done, and ignorance of the law is no excuse-particularly for a former tax lawyer like Orrock-I find good cause for a brief, final continuance of this sentencing hearing to allow Orrock to take steps necessary to bring witnesses to the hearing so he can present their testimony.[6] However, no additional time to search for and hire an expert witness will be afforded because Orrock has shown an utter lack of diligence by taking no meaningful steps toward that goal in the more than four months since trial ended.
Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Orrock's Motion to Vacate the Sentencing Date of 9/30/2019 and to Reschedule in 60 Days [ECF No. 286] is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part. The sentencing hearing is continued to 10/18/19 at 9:30 a.m.
The court will grant Orrock no further continuances of this sentencing hearing absent a showing of extraordinary circumstances. Witness-scheduling or availability problems, inability to obtain evidence, and unpreparedness will not constitute extraordinary circumstances. Orrock must be prepared to present any evidence that he plans to present in support of his sentencing at this 10/18/19 hearing. No additional supplements to Orrock's sentencing memorandum or objections to the PSR will be entertained.
[1] ECF No. 277.


Zootopia is a Disney movie about adorable talking animals living in relative harmony. It's also about crack cocaine and conspiracy theories.
If you haven't seen the movie, bear with me. Oh, and well, SPOILERS. So maybe don't bear with me. Maybe just stop reading, if you want.
Although that is the end of the bear puns, if it makes you feel any better.
In Zootopia, Judy Hopps, a bunny, travels to an idealized animal metropolis to become a police officer. There she partners with a sly fox, deals with species-based prejudices, solves a complicated mystery, and lives happily ever after and stuff (until the inevitable sequel). I'm not going to dwell on the plot; it's pretty much a paint-by-numbers fun Disney thing.
However, it's when you get into the moral of the story that things start to veer off a bit. For starters, the movie deals a lot with racial tension, albeit in lovable animal form. From the stereotyping of calling a bunny "cute" ("That's our word," comes the response) to the depiction of a full-on racially motivated protest, Zootopia tackles some heavy themes.
The key plot point is that certain predators are going "savage," meaning that they are reverting back to pre-civilization animal ways and violently attacking everyone around them.
The prey residents of Zootopia come to the conclusion that all predators are bad news. And so they start to prejudice, going so far as to remove predators from their jobs and hosting protest rallies to encourage further segregation.
It's not really hard to see the line being drawn to black/white race relations here in America. I mean, there's a scene on the subway where a mother rabbit pulls her kid away from a big predator who sits down next to them. There's montages of this kind of stuff. This is what the whole movie is about.
But here's the thing: the predators aren't just going savage because of their "nature." They're going savage because of a drug. A drug which only makes them act like vicious monsters. A drug that inspires city-wide panic as the majority prey population starts to live in fear of the predators, terrified of their supposed violent dispositions.
That drug that's causing all this? It's called Nighthowler, and it's an allegory for crack cocaine.
Between 1984 and 1994, the homicide rate for Black males aged 14-17 more than doubled and homicide rates for Black males aged 18-24 increased almost as much.
This spike in homicides directly coincided with the introduction of crack into the United States. The conspiracy theories that come into play here would assert that the CIA, or other members of the US government, knowingly spread crack into black communities.
Now, the specific motives and accuracy of this claim are still disputed, but this is where the newest Disney film takes a stand.
The parallel in Zootopia is that the Nighthowler drug (crack) is what's responsible for the violent behaviors of some members of the predator (African American) community. The predators are not biologically disposed toward such behavior, they are being singled out and made to act that way by a nefarious drug epidemic.
And who is responsible for this epidemic? The government, of course. There is a conspiracy within the political elite to turn these minority predators "savage" so that the majority prey population will revile them and elect their own kind into office.
Here's a government employee, manufacturing the crack epidemic.
So there you go. A Disney movie is explicitly taking the stance that members of the government introduced crack cocaine into black communities in order to sow discord and violence, then used the ensuing chaos to frighten the majority white population into obedience and ensure that their particular demographic stayed in power.
Just so we're clear: Zootopia is fantastic. It's a fun adventure, frequently hilarious, and beautifully animated. The fact that it deals with big topics and takes such a bold stand is really quite remarkable.
Personally, I can't wait for the sequel. It will probably be about AIDS or something.
Image credits: Bear, Savage jaguar, Bunnies and Tiger, Crack pile, Judy Hopps, Sheep meth lab, Snow White, Zootopia city. Legally speaking, all rights for Zootopia and Snow White images go to Disney.
My wife & I had a couple of hours to kill after cycling around London's 2012 Olympic Park (doing the whole half-arsed tourist thing) and we decided to catch a film (or movie, if you prefer) at the nearby ultra-plex. I'd heard good things about Zootopia so in we went – and discovered we were the only ones there without kids (ours are in their late teens and were busy doing other things).
Thoroughly enjoyed the whole film; VERY funny in parts, some serious messages going on about tolerance, racial discrimination and crooked bureaucrats. But all of this is tied into a fantastic package of a film noir 'buddy cop movie' with thrilling adventure scenes and chases. But all done as a cutesy animated kids flick.
Pretty much the whole movie could be re-done as a live action human film (using the parallel scenario you've already described) and it would still be a great watch. Probably not suitable for kids any more but, hey ho.
Unlike The Good Dinosaur, which looked absolutely shite from the trailers (and confirmed as such by a friend who regretted taking his young son to such drivel).
Yeah, Zootopia is a really fun movie. I did see The Good Dinosaur too, but it didn't have nearly the same zany energy. I think the slow pace was what they were going for, but it didn't grab me quite the same way that Zootopia did.
Though it is entirely possible that I had less fun with The Good Dinosaur because it was way harder to try to find a drug metaphor in that one. Like, it's barely about heroin at all.
Did they pat you down for a flask and everything? That seems a tad draconian.
I actually saw The Good Dinosaur at a drive-in theater. That was nice because they can't police what you bring with you in your car, so drink away! The only downside, I suppose, was the DUI checkpoint at the gate afterwards.


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package proguard.preverify;

import proguard.Configuration;
import proguard.classfile.*;
import proguard.classfile.attribute.visitor.AllAttributeVisitor;
import proguard.classfile.visitor.*;

/**
 * This class can preverify methods in program class pools, according to a given
 * configuration.
 *
 * @author Eric Lafortune
 */
public class Preverifier
{
    private final Configuration configuration;

    /**
     * Creates a new Preverifier.
     */
    public Preverifier(Configuration configuration)
    {
        this.configuration = configuration;
    }

    /**
     * Performs preverification of the given program class pool.
     */
    public void execute(ClassPool programClassPool)
    {
        // Clean up any old visitor info.
        programClassPool.classesAccept(new ClassCleaner());

        // Preverify all methods.
        ClassVisitor preverifier =
            new AllMethodVisitor(
            new AllAttributeVisitor(
            new CodePreverifier(configuration.microEdition)));

        // In Java Standard Edition, only class files from Java 6 or higher
        // should be preverified.
        if (!configuration.microEdition)
        {
            preverifier =
                new ClassVersionFilter(ClassConstants.INTERNAL_CLASS_VERSION_1_6,
                                       Integer.MAX_VALUE,
                                       preverifier);
        }

        programClassPool.classesAccept(preverifier);
    }
}