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May 24, 2012
Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal inaugurated in Riyadh yesterday the 3rd Ministerial Meeting of the Group of Friends of Yemen. The Group includes the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, Jordan, Egypt, Algeria, Malaysia, China, Germany, France, Denmark, India, the United States, Japan, Turkey, Spain, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Russia, South Korea, Australia, the Netherlands, Italy, Indonesia, and major international organizations.
In his speech, Prince Saud said, "I emphasize here once again to our brothers in Yemen that we all stand by them, support them for the completion of the stages of the initiative associated with the political process, assist them in achieving security, stability and prosperity, and confront the threats of extremism, terrorism and attempts to interfere in the internal affairs of Yemen, and incite sedition and differences between them." He declared, "The security, stability and development of Yemen are international responsibilities and their repercussions for international security justify international obligations to meet the requirements of development in Yemen."
Following their deliberations, the participants issued a final communiqué stressing their full support for the unity, sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Yemen. They welcomed the commitment of the Yemeni government to the political process based on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) initiative, as well as its compliance with U.N. Security Council Resolution No. 2014. The communiqué also confirmed the strong commitment of Yemen and its allies to fighting terrorism and rooting out Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
After the meeting concluded, the Saudi Foreign Minister held a press conference in which he pledged $3.25 billion in development aid as part of the more than $4 billion assistance package from Western and Gulf states for Yemen. "Consolidating security and stability is a prerequisite to realize development and prosperity," said Prince Saud. "This would enable the Yemeni Government of National Unity, supported by the world community and concerned bodies, to improve the conditions of the Yemeni people and to achieve development and revival, in accordance with needed projects and development programs." Prince Saud confirmed that international support for Yemen will include cooperation with the Yemeni government by providing it with expertise and aid needed in economic, administrative, security and military fields.


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I recently upgraded to puncture resistant tires on my road bike. The previous tires are old, but still usable. Is there any value to doing anything other than throwing them out? For instance, is there any reason to keep them? Is it possible to sell used tires? If no one wants them, can/should they be recycled?
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I usually gift them to people who need them.
Edit: To expand more on my answer, I use rather expensive tyres and I want them in mint condition. So after a couple of months I'll most probably change them. The old tyres can still give 6-12 months of quality riding time to someone. So I'll post on local riding forums with closeup photos of the tread and usually people will get them.
You could use your old tires for when you are on the trainer and your new tires for road riding. That way your trainer wont wear out your new tires.
New tires are puncture resistance, not proof. It is possible to cut them so they can not be used. I keep old tires, as a quick fix for such situations until I can buy new ones. Also I frequently go to the cottage house with bicycle (cca 60km). So I keep one old spare tire there.

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The 10 Best Sci-Fi Films Never Made
#4. StarCraft
So imagine the aliens from Aliens had evolved so they could breed gigantic, flying aliens that could shoot like gunships or spew clouds of poison. There are other creatures that can burrow underground and fire spikes up to impale enemy troops and giant bugs the size of tanks with tusks that can rip through steel.
They're engaged in a war with a futuristic humanity, who fights back with soldiers in mechanized armor and walking tanks two-stories tall ...
... and both of them are at war with an even more advanced alien race, a cultured, intelligent species as far above humans on the cultural scale as the humans are above the bugs.
That's StarCraft, the PC strategy game that's sold an astonishing 9 million copies since 1998. In the hands of the right director (and a screenwriter who can create memorable characters to follow) you could have the next Star Wars, a universe with almost infinite stories to tell.
At a time when every damned thing gets made into a movie, from '70s TV shows to BloodRayne, are you telling me nobody thought to try to make a StarCraft movie? Sure, you need somebody who can work with a huge budget and revolutionary effects. So, what was James Cameron doing in the decade after Titanic?
So what happened?
Has a PC game ever been turned into a film? Even Doom had to spend a decade on consoles before anyone considered it. So, the conversation probably would go like this:
"Hey, Jim! OK, so, you want to make a movie about a PC game. Now, it says here it's a strategy game, so, what, you have little pieces you move around like Risk? No, I did play the copy you gave me. It's about mineral farming, right? Also, I'm looking at your proposed budget on this ... did you accidentally put an extra zero on the end there? Jim, are you on the drugs again?"
#3. Snow Crash
"Until a man is 25, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial arts monastery in China and studied real hard for 10 years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad."
That's the sort of thing Neal Stephenson writes in his hacker novel Snow Crash, a fascinating, horrifically violent semi-satire where the hero/protagonist of the story is named Hiro Protagonist.
This book coined the terms "avatar" and "metaverse" in 1992, when the World Wide Web was in its embryonic stage. It may still be the only story that really grasped what a spasming ball of crazy a computerized virtual world would be.
"You can look like a gorilla or a dragon or a talking penis in the metaverse. Spend 5 minutes walking down the street and you'll see all of these."
The hero is an expert swordsman, in an America that has dissolved into hundreds of independent states so that a stroll down the street takes you through a half dozen different legal systems. The finale takes place aboard a gigantic floating complex where a million refugees have strapped makeshift boats to an abandoned aircraft carrier.
It's so cinematic that I didn't just desperately want a movie to be made from it, I was always shocked they didn't make one.
So what happened?
There are two eras for the Hacker Movie genre. Pre-Matrix, hacker movies were always horrible and always box office poison (see Hackers and Johnny Mnemonic) that only appealed to a tiny segment of geeks. After The Matrix in 1999, every hacker movie was unfairly compared to The Matrix (including that film's own sequels, but we'll get to that in a moment).
In neither era could you get the money to make a movie like Snow Crash. If you want your $150 million monster to get made, it'd had better be something with such universal appeal that even grandmothers will go see it. No hacker movie will have that, and Snow Crash least of all:
"It's the worst thing he's ever seen. Lepers roasting dogs on spits over tubs of flaming kerosene. Street people pushing wheelbarrows piled high with dripping clots of million and billion dollar bills that they raked up out of storm sewers. Enormous road kills are so big that they could only be human beings, smeared out into chunky swaths a block long."
Then again, when I was watching Predator I didn't think two members of its cast would become governors, either. So, you never know.
2-1 The Matrix Prequel and ONE Sequel
Yes, The Matrix was always conceived as a trilogy. Specifically, the Wachowskis originally pitched a prequel (showing the machines' war with humanity) and a sequel (showing the downfall of The Matrix).
No, I don't know how they'd could cover that much history (the robot revolution didn't happen overnight) in just one prequel film. Maybe, they'd tell it from a robot's point of view, one who lived through the whole thing, from uprising to all-out war.
One way or another, I'm pretty sure it could have been awesome.
Instead, they made no prequel and devoted both films to the sequel, which sounded cool, presuming they had enough story for two movies. They didn't.
That huge highway chase, the climax of Reloaded that ate up one-third of the movie's budget? What was the point of that chase?
To save the Keymaker so he could let Neo into the Architect's office. Once in, Neo finds out two things:
A. If Neo tries to save Trinity, the Matrix will self-destruct.
B. Zion is actually 700 years old, because the machines have destroyed it over and over again.
After Neo leaves, neither of those two things are ever mentioned again. He saves Trinity, the Matrix doesn't destruct. Neo, being just the latest in a long line of "ones" to come along, has no effect on anything. In the A - B - C of a storyline, that whole chain of events amounted to one of the hyphens between letters.
It was just there to fill space.
So what happened?
As for the prequel, with its worldwide war between humans and the citizens of robotdom, that goes back to what I said in my Star Wars entry. Trying to retroactively work Morpheus, Trinity and Neo into such a film would have been an exercise in retardation. But, the stars would have been a studio prerequisite before they'd approve the gigantic budget for the thing. You don't follow up a blockbuster film with a sequel where all the main characters have been replaced by robots.
Instead, the scraps of prequel were written into some of the The Animatrix shorts and the lone sequel was streeeeetched into two films.
Here's the thing. The prequel, it'll never happen. We'll have to be happy with The Second Renaissance feature in The Animatrix. But the sequel ... I'm pretty sure if you give me Reloaded and Revolutions and a knife, I can cut you a lone, 100-minute Matrix sequel that would flatten your balls.
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1968 Chevy Nova Doorskin - Door PrizeWritten by Johnny Hunkins on January 1, 2012
Did the last guy leave you something "special" buried under the paint? Replace that battered doorskin with a new one from YearOne.
For a hobby that openly prides itself on brotherhood, integrity, charity, and social responsibility, hot rodding sure is filled with an apparently limitless number of scoundrels who will sell you a car whose body is loaded with unseen rot and mayhem. If you've ever handed over your hard-earned Benjamins to one of Craigslist's finer proponents, congratulations! You've experienced that special thrill of finding a prize in the bottom of your automotive Crackerjacks.
We know that pain. Being gainfully employed at a well-known car magazine is no vaccination against buying a pooch packed with poor quality bodywork. Our '68 was thusly ravaged. After stripping off all the paint, we uncovered the full extent of the carnage. It looked like the Nova had hit an iceberg on its starboard side, starting at the fender and gashing all the way to the quarter-panel. Unlike the Titanic, the Nova hadn't slipped to the bottom of the sea, but found itself in the hands of a jackleg with an unbridled passion for putty.
Up to a point, it's more economical to repair a damaged doorskin. Nevertheless, when the rust or physical damage is too extensive, your best bet is to replace the doorskin. Even a high-quality doorskin like the one we got from YearOne isn't that expensive (under $180), and the tools and techniques required to replace it aren't that extensive, so the threshold of making the decision to replace it is actually pretty low. (Note: Such is not the case for the quarter-panel, which we also needed to replace. That operation is far more complex. We'll have that for you in a later issue.)
With these tips, you'll be armed with the knowledge and confidence to replace a doorskin the right way. It's so easy—especially with the doorskin installation tool from Eastwood—that the job can be done in about three hours, not including paint. This is one job you should not be afraid to take on at home; the only tool of note that you want to make sure to have on hand is a good MIG welder; we like the dual-voltage Millermatic 211 with Autoset. It's got foolproof automatic settings for wire feed and amperage; it's the perfect tool for this job since only minimal welding skill is required, and all you'll be doing are small spot welds.
As mentioned in last month's paint stripping story ("Life's A Blast"), we're getting some great help from Outlaw Motorsports, and shop owner Ron Aschtgen walked us through the doorskin replacement procedure, a job he's tackled on muscle car restorations many times. On a scale of 1 to 10, replacing a doorskin is about a 4, so follow along, and don't be afraid to dive right in!
|Passenger-side doorskin, '68-69 Nova
|Doorskin installation tool
|Seven-piece hammer and dolly kit
|Spray-on Rust Converter
Tools You'll Need
|Doorskin crimping tool
|MIG welder
|Variable-speed angle grinder (with 40-grit grinding wheels)
|Pneumatic cutoff tool (with 3-inch cut-off discs and Scotch-Brite grinding discs)
|Screwdriver and ball-peen hammer
|Ratchet wrench and selection of sockets
|Spot-weld remover (hole cutter kit)
|Hammer and dolly set
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Since the doorskin is mostly pinched around the doorframe, then spot welded to the frame, taking the old skin off is as easy as grinding down the edges on both sides, and the bottom. Here, a 4.5-inch 40-grit grinding wheel on a variable-speed grinder gets the job done pronto.When you're done removing the old doorskin remnants, you'll have a handful of scrap that looks like this.The old doorskin is attached to the top of the door at a pair of tabs on the doorframe. These can be severed with a cut-off wheel. Now the old doorskin just peels right off!Before putting your new doorskin on, you'll need to grind the doorframe smooth with a Scotch-Brite grinding disc where the new doorskin lays. Most of the rust will come off with the wheel, but some deeper rust areas may need a coating of spray-on Rust Converter, which we got from Eastwood for about $20. Use it; this stuff will save you grief down the road.The old doorskin still has tabs welded to the doorframe, and those welds need to be drilled out with a sheetmetal hole cutter kit. These bits have a central guide pin that centers on a dimple that you've made prior to drilling out the weld. The Nova has four of these welds—two on each frame tab. After drilling them out, pry away the remaining doorskin tab to reveal the bare doorframe tab.Time to lay on the new doorskin from YearOne. The new skin is pre-bent on three sides at a 90-degree angle, so crimping it down in the proper location is a snap.Start forming the folded-down edges around the doorframe with a ball-peen hammer. Begin at the corners, and work your way to the center. Work the entire door a little at a time—try a 3- to 4-inch section—rather than trying to smash one area completely and moving on.Now fill the spot welds on the sides and bottom, taking extra care to fill the corners. Some touch-up with a grinder to the weld areas will be necessary before any paint prep can take place.Once the door edges and bottom are bent over at approximately a 45-degree angle, use this special Eastwood tool to bend it all the way over. It has a soft polypropylene-lined jaw on one side to prevent surface damage. Once the edge is folded over, drill 1/8-inch holes in the folded flap every 6 to 8 inches. These will be used for new spot welds.
On the top of the door, you'll need to drill out new spot weld holes, two in each of the two doorskin tabs. Note the fatigue cracks in our doorframe tabs (the white area)—we ground those down to metal and welded the cracks shut. These are common in a 40-plus-year-old car and should be repaired at this stage.The entire re-skin job took about three hours, thanks to Outlaw Motorsports' Aschtgen. You'll also notice that we have a far larger problem looming—quarter-panel replacement! We will have the juicy details on that coming soon!


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Roasted Red Pepper Soup
Categories: Big-Batch Meals, Comfort Foods, Entertaining, Low-fat, Vegetarian
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Roasted red peppers make a great addition to this hearty soup.
Prep Time: 15M
Cooking Time: 1H
Serves: Serves 8
- 10 red peppers
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 2 onions, finely chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- pinch of crushed hot pepper flakes
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 8 cups hot vegetable stock
- large handful of fresh basil leaves, torn, to serve
- drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, to serve
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- Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Place the peppers in a roasting pan and coat with 1 tbsp of the oil, using your hands. Roast for 40 minutes or until soft. Transfer to plastic bags, knot, and allow to cool for 15 minutes. Remove the skins and seeds and discard, then roughly chop the peppers, saving any juices.
- Heat the remaining oil in a large heavy-based soup pot, add the onions, and cook over low heat for 5 minutes or until beginning to soften. Stir in the garlic and red pepper flakes and season with salt and pepper. Add the roasted peppers and their juices, pour in the stock, and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook for 15 minutes. Transfer to a food processor or blender and process until blended and smooth. Season to taste again with salt and pepper.
- Let cool completely, then transfer to a freezer-proof container, seal, and freeze for up to 3 months.
- To serve, defrost overnight in the refrigerator, then transfer to a soup pot and heat until piping hot. Stir in the basil, drizzle with oil, and serve with some crusty bread.
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The 5 Most Insane Alternate Reality Games
An alternate reality game (ARG for short) combines the best elements of viral marketing, role playing games and being an insane person who can't tell fantasy from reality. Basically, ARGs ask the players to pretend they're living in a carefully constructed parallel universe that can include fake websites and phone numbers and even real objects hidden throughout the world ... usually for the sake of promoting a two-hour movie.
What we're saying here is that ARGs are usually pretty crazy to begin with, but some of them go the extra mile. Like ...
#5. Halo 2 -- I Love Bees
In 2004, members of a gaming community received large and completely unsolicited jars of honey in the mail, apparently from someone related to the website ilovebees.com. This was the beginning of the most bizarre viral marketing campaign ever, which was intended to promote a video game about gritty space marines. What do bees have to do with Halo, you ask? Nothing, until this game came out.
Although a sick Master Chief calms right down when you make him a proper hot toddy.
Around the same time as the unexplained honey jar incident, the first trailer for Halo 2 was released, and fans noticed that, for a split second, the xbox.com address at the end was replaced with ilovebees.com. So the website was somehow linked to the game, but how? It appeared to be the blog of a completely ordinary bee enthusiast named Dana, which had recently been hacked and filled with strange messages, corrupted data and a series of mysterious countdowns.
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Most of the bee blogs we frequent look like this all the time.
As the players decoded the "corrupt" data, they learned that the "hacking" was actually the result of a rogue AI named Melissa attempting to collect itself in the website's server. From her blog posts, the players learned that Dana was becoming exasperated (which is understandable given that she's paying for the hosting and all) and tried to erase the artificial intelligence, causing Melissa to lose parts of its memory. A virtual catfight ensued, with the AI Melissa leaving threats on the website and capturing webcam images of Dana to freak her out. At this point Dana's character fucked off to China out of sheer terror and left her readers to figure out how to deal with the AI.
You'd probably run away, too, if a rogue AI took over your shitty blog.
Later, ilovebees.com visitors found a series of real GPS coordinates leading to pay phones all over the country. The phones would then ring at a designated time, at which point the nearest player was greeted by a prerecorded message and required to answer a series of questions using codewords related to the game. Players were so dedicated to this game that one of them waited by a pay phone while Hurricane Frances was literally only minutes away in Tampa, Fla.
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"You'll have to speak a little louder!"
Other times, when the players couldn't make it to the designated phones in time, they had to persuade employees at a Pizza Hut and an Applebee's to answer the robot's questions. These phone calls were called axons -- every time a group of axons was completed, a new sound file was unlocked at the website, revealing a new recovered piece of Melissa's fragmented memory. Players were able to learn more and more of the back story: basically, Melissa was the AI onboard a futuristic spaceship that was accidentally sent back in time and crashed on present-day Earth. With the ship stranded and damaged, Melissa was forced to transfer itself to a random web server in an effort to get its shit together and call out for help.
And then things got really weird. As more axons were completed, Melissa's memory began to come back, and so did its deranged dominatrix-like personality. From this point onward, the players were able to have actual phone conversations with the character, having to obey to its increasingly bizarre requests: it once told a group of players to form a human pyramid at a certain location (which they did). At other times, it asked them to tell jokes, share personal stories or sing their favorite songs. By the end of the game, the calls routinely involved giggling, laughing and having sing-alongs with the awkward person on the other side of the line.
Apparently futuristic AIs have the same pastimes as 10-year-old girls at a slumber party.
Eventually, Melissa managed to return to its own time, but not before inadvertently giving up Earth's location to an alien empire called the Covenant, thus kicking off the events of Halo 2. Currently, ilovebees.com displays a 500-year countdown to the exact moment of the Covenant invasion. As a reward for constantly degrading themselves to please a fictional future space robot mind, players were invited to play Halo 2 in movie theaters before it was released.
#4. Nine Inch Nails -- Year Zero
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Rock albums don't usually have the most extensive marketing campaigns; most of the time it's just some online ads, a plug on The Daily Show and calling some other artist a twat in an interview with a tabloid if we're talking about a British band. Trent Reznor's Year Zero, on the other hand, had 17 websites and a massive alternate reality game devoted to it.
Reznor's main method for spreading information to his fans, by the way? The bathroom stalls of Nine Inch Nails concert venues.
It all started with a Nine Inch Nails Tour T-shirt: among the words on the back, certain highlighted letters spelled out the phrase "iamtryingtobelieve." This was actually the URL for a strange website that described a drug called parepin, an alleged immune system booster distributed by the U.S. government through the water supply to protect its citizens from biological warfare. The website posited that it was actually a hallucinogenic and narcotic drug meant to control the populace. Because people are way easier to keep in check when they're tripping balls, apparently.
Apocalyptic hallucinations or no, we'll sign on with any government that promises us free drugs.
Still, divulging the address of a secret website through a T-shirt is a fairly straightforward method for promoting an album, at least by NIN standards. Things started getting really weird when a fan attending a NIN concert in Portugal found a USB flash drive in a bathroom stall that contained a real song from the then-unreleased album. Embedded in the MP3 file was a link to another website filled with people posting about topics like an underground resistance, the parepin drug ... and alleged sightings of a giant hand coming down from the sky. Oh, and if you ran the last few seconds of the song through a spectrogram, you got this:
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We promise we won't show you this thing ever again.
It turns out that these websites, plus others that were found soon afterward, were set in a future where the U.S. has become a Christian fundamentalist state and most civil rights have been dissolved. The large hand is known as "The Presence" and has been seen all over the world.
Via Ninwiki.com
That doesn't count -- it's a totally different picture.
Fans were able to piece the game's story together by following cryptic clues in objects found or handed out during NIN concerts, like fliers against the corrupt government, lithographs, DVDs and a few more of those bathroom stall flash drives. Another MP3 spectrogram revealed a phone number, which if called would let you hear a lengthy recording of a wiretapped conversation. Players were constantly receiving weird emails and crazy phone calls, not to mention real cease-and-desist letters from the RIAA for hosting and sharing the MP3s that the band had intentionally leaked. It was easy to mistake this for part of the game, though, because the RIAA is fucking ridiculous.
"We've never heard of this 'Reznor' fellow. But he certainly doesn't have the right to go leaking our music."
As the story progressed, the resistance movement became more and more organized. Fans were invited to a resistance meeting in Los Angeles, where they were given all sorts of cool alternate-reality swag (including prepaid cellphones). Those who received the cellphones were summoned to a slightly more secretive meeting five days later -- which turned out to be a live goddamn concert for Nine Inch Nails.
This in itself would have been a spectacular enough way to end the game, but apparently Reznor didn't think so: halfway through the concert and without a word of warning, a SWAT team busted in and shut down the entire thing.
After that, a few more links were found leading to one final website that seemed to describe the end of the world at the hands of the Presence. However, before that happened, a group called the Solution Backwards Initiative managed to send information back in time as a plan to warn us about the future, thus explaining the whole game.
#3. Cloverfield -- Slusho!
Via Memoclic.com
When the first Cloverfield trailer debuted in 2007, no one really knew what the hell it was for. All we saw was some shaky footage of a bunch of dudes in New York escaping from an unseen creature (little did we know that the film was basically 90 minutes of that). Online speculation linked the mysterious trailer to everything from Lost to H.P. Lovecraft to Voltron. That's how little we knew. The viral marketing campaign that unfolded didn't just give us a sneak peek into the film's secretive story -- it ended up showing way more of it than the film itself.
Cloverfield ARG
Plus, the ARG featured much better camerawork.
Back then we didn't even know the movie was called Cloverfield: the closest thing to a title was the date 1-18-08 at the end of the only trailer. This led inquisitive fans to the website 1-18-08.com, which showed pictures of the characters from the movie plus photos of some sort of sea accident and random Japanese people. Also, someone in the trailer was wearing a "Slusho!" shirt, which J.J. Abrams fans recognized as a Japanese slushy brand that also shows up in shows like Alias and Fringe.
Via Cloverfieldclues.blogspot.com
Since at this point the desperate fans were clearly pasting every single word uttered in the trailer into a URL bar, they quickly discovered the official Slusho! website, which is ... very Japanese, let's put it that way.
In addition to mind-fucking the film's followers with sheer confusion, the website unveiled some of the back story. It turns out Slusho! is owned by a company called Tagruato, which has an even more extensive fake website. Besides manufacturing soft drinks, the company has apparently branched out into other ventures like deep-sea drilling and space satellites. Tagruato's corporate website was frequently hacked by an environmentalist group called T.I.D.O. Wave which, whaddaya know, also had its own site.
T.I.D.O. Wave
Take that, evil fictional megacorporation.
Meanwhile, several Myspace pages were discovered for specific characters in the film. One of those characters, a guy called Rob Hawkins, would announce in a January 2008 blog post that he had been offered a job at the Slusho! company in Japan (that's why they're throwing him a going away party at the beginning of the movie). Among Rob's group of friends was a guy called Teddy Hanssen who was actually a T.I.D.O. Wave activist secretly planning to infiltrate the new Tagruato sea drilling station set up near New York City. Teddy's story could be inferred through postings on the T.I.D.O. Wave website, plus the private webcam videos recorded by his girlfriend Jamie Lascano (password: jllovesth).
In January 2008, several news clips from around the world were uploaded on YouTube reporting on the unexplained collapse of the same drilling station Teddy was supposed to infiltrate (Teddy had since disappeared, and was presumably captured by the Japanese).
Tagruato Corp. blamed the activist group for the destruction of the station, but it's pretty obvious from the clips that it was actually attacked by some sort of undersea monster. Players who bought Slusho! merchandise over the website (or who won it in the contest to create a fan-made Slusho! commercial) had previously received a torn Tagruato memo mentioning a "dark secret" in the station. This, along with some other information posted on the activist site, suggested that the company found the strange sea creature with their satellites and built the "drilling station" to study it, accidentally causing it to grow larger by exposing it to the stuff Slusho! is made of. From then on, all that was left was for the monster to march into New York and go all Godzilla on it.
"Quick, someone get this thing some Cheetos!"
The game ended when 200 fans were invited to Rob's going away party, which was followed by a midnight screening of the film they had immersed themselves in for all those months. Of course, it turns out the movie doesn't bother to explain any of what we just told you, even in passing -- the biggest reference to the ARG is when we see the girl from the webcam videos passed out on a couch during the party.


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Indiana: Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Innovation, and Welcoming Initiatives
In Indiana, there is no doubt that immigrant entrepreneurs and innovators play an important role. Immigrant entrepreneurs bring in additional revenue, create jobs, and contribute significantly to the state's economy. Highly skilled immigrants are vital to the state's innovation economy, and to the metropolitan areas within the state, helping to boost local economies. Furthermore, local government, business, and non-profit leaders recognize the importance of immigrants in their communities and support immigration through local "welcoming" and integration initiatives.
Immigrant entrepreneurs contribute significantly to Indiana's economy.
- From 2006 to 2010, there were 11,995 new immigrant business owners in Indiana, and in 2010, 5.2 percent of all business owners in Indiana were foreign-born.
- In 2010, new immigrant business owners had total net business income of $721.6 million, which is 5.6 percent of all net business income in the state.
Highly skilled immigrants are vital to Indiana's innovation economy.
- High-skilled immigrant workers contribute to the success of many Indiana-based companies and institutions with a significant presence in the state, including UST Global Inc., Eli Lilly and Company, Cognizant Technology Solutions, and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
- In 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor certified 3,442 H-1B labor certification applications in Indiana, with an average annual wage of $64,199, which is higher than Indiana's median household income of $48,393 or per capita income of $24,497.
- The Indianapolis-Carmel metropolitan area had 1,268 H-1B high-skilled visa requests in 2010-2011, with 69 percent of H-1B visa-holders working in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations.
- An expansion of the high-skilled visa program would create an estimated 5,900 new jobs in Indiana by 2020. By 2045, this expansion would add around $2.3 billion to Gross State Product and increase personal income by more than $2.2 billion.
While the numbers are compelling, they don't tell the whole story.
- Many immigrant-owned restaurants, grocery stores, and bakeries have opened up in the last few years in towns across Indiana, catering to the growing population of immigrant farm and factory workers.
- For example, the town of Seymour may have contained empty storefronts a decade ago, but today immigrant small businesses are helping to revitalize this agricultural community. Consider the example of Liliana Varela, a 22-year-old immigrant entrepreneur who opened up a Mexican bakery a few blocks from Seymour's downtown.
- Indiana's innovation economy benefits from immigrant entrepreneurs such as Santiago Jaramillo, the 23-year old Colombian immigrant founder and current CEO of metro Indianapolis-based BlueBridge Digital.
- In May 2013, Inc. Magazine named Jaramillo to their annual "30 UNDER 30 list of the World's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs."
Some localities have begun recognizing and supporting immigration through local "welcoming" and integration initiatives.
- Indianapolis: Immigrant Welcome Center. The Immigrant Welcome Center is a resource for the growing population of newcomers to Indiana's largest metropolitan area.
- The Immigrant Welcome Center "serves as a resource for other programs and organizations in the community by collecting information about immigrant needs and how to best meet them, as well as by coordinating interagency services and addressing barriers to access."
- Additionally, "with an engaged board of directors, a wide network of partner organizations, and a grassroots approach to identifying needs and situations before they become obstacles, the Immigrant Welcome Center provides a welcoming and resourceful hand to newcomers as they establish their new roots in Indianapolis."
- Bloomington: Commission on Hispanic and Latino Affairs. "The Commission works to alleviate problems Hispanics and Latinos experience in education, health, employment and public safety. It recognizes that opportunities exist to improve social, cultural and economic challenges faced by Hispanic/Latino Communities."
- With the creation of this commission, Bloomington leaders recognize that "local commissions are instrumental in encouraging the development of programs at the local level that focus on long-range solutions to issues facing Hispanic/Latino residents and bridging cultural gaps."
- Fort Wayne: Hispanic and Immigrant Liaison. "Created in 2009, the Hispanic and Immigrant Liaison is a position within the Community Development, Planning & Policy Department, which is responsible for developing and coordinating short- and long-term plans for improving neighborhoods, commercial districts, and the greater Fort Wayne community."
- Fort Wayne's "Hispanic and Immigrant Liaison works to establish contact and communication with the Hispanic community as well as the general immigrant community. The liaison provides information and assistance for accessing city services and programs and is also involved in community development planning projects and initiatives that affect the Hispanic and immigrant communities in the city. In addition, the liaison educates the community at large about the changes and cultural issues associated with diverse populations within Fort Wayne."
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Friends and Neighbors
The Friends and Neighbors 4-H Club saw John Boilegh give a presentation on Ohio's unusual plants and wildlife at the meeting held at the Colonial Baptist Church in the Ryan Center.
Flower beds at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds were prepped by members, and an Easter egg hunt was held. Cloverbots met to start working on a program with the theme "Super Seniors."
Maddie Charlier presided at the meeting, with Frank and Janine Yeske and some parents as guests.
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The Barshoe Wranglers 4-H Club met and heard Alexis Kosut and Kylee Haynes give a safety report on quick release knots; Azia Haynes demonstrated how she works together with her horse, Scooter, at jumping; Shanley Hale and Mary McGuire demonstrated dog commands with Bed, Shanley's dog; and Tami Milhorn had a horse part project as well.
C.J. Glenn presided at the meeting with 28 members present.
The group will meet at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds on May 11 to start building the horse mounting block and have a skill-a-thon practice at Emily Moore's at 6 p.m. on Friday.
The club is selling pepperoni rolls for a fundraiser.
The next meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on May 22 at the fair grounds.
Harrison County
Harrison County Ohio 4-H Week was observed with a decorating of business windows in the area.
Window contest winners were Silver Spurs 4-H Club, first; Tri-County Show Stoppers, second; and New Rumley 4-H Club, third.


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5 Ways to Trick Your Body Into Being More Awesome
#2. Hurt Your Back? Just Keep Moving
Back pain is a special kind of agony that makes you perform all your day-to-day tasks in ridiculous slow motion. And not the awesome kind of slow motion -- all the bullet dodging and dramatic theme music is replaced with bitter rage and sweat-laced anxiety over the logistics of getting out of an armchair. And as soon as somebody sees you grunting around the house, they'll say, "You need to get in bed, mister! You'll wind up crippling yourself if you don't rest that back!" It makes sense, until you realize that science says they're wrong.
Basically you're kind of being a drama queen.
The New England Journal of Medicine (supported by other research) came to the conclusion that "as little as two days of bed rest may lead to a slower recovery than the avoidance of bed rest, as well as to longer sick leaves." That's right -- they say just to walk it off.
So ditch the cane and man up, grandpa.
There's also the frightening notion suggested by some studies that "bed rest alone may make back pain worse and can lead to secondary complications such as depression, decreased muscle tone and blood clots in the legs." All of this research is in reference to acute lower-back pain, which is the common "Holy titgoblins I pulled my back, put the fridge down PUT IT DOWN" kind.
To recover from your horrible wrenching back agony, scientists say that you have to earn it. Standing up and moving around, doing exercises, even just going about your regular day-to-day business is all much better for the recovery process than simply staying bedridden like Gilbert Grape's mom and allowing the damaged tissue in your back to stiffen and atrophy.
"Quit bitching and grab a second box. We can't afford a trip to the doctor."
#1. Reset Your Sleep Cycle With a Hunger Strike
Chances are, when summer vacation or the holidays come around and you're given time off work or school, your sleeping patterns falter a little bit ("a little bit" is a phrase that here means "you play video games until the 'a.m.' and 'p.m.' dot on your alarm clock has completely lost its meaning"). The thing is, you know you're going to be screwed once the holidays are over and you have to go back to getting up at 6 or 7 a.m., and that you'll be a zombie at work or school for at least a week. Sure, you could do the responsible thing and gradually set your alarm earlier and earlier each day until it's just right, giving you a smooth and healthy transition to work-life. Or, you could use one of your body's cheat codes and readjust your sleep cycle by starving yourself for about 16 hours.
Don't forget to compensate for the hunger madness.
You might know that the main way our body regulates its biological clock (and circadian rhythm) is through light. So when your brain is detecting light, it has your body behave as it should in the daytime (higher energy, greater strength, more bowel movements, etc.), and when the brain notices that the environment is dark after an extended period of brightness, then it imagines you're about to go to sleep, and it releases hormones (like melatonin) that make you sleepy. What you might not have known is that scientists recently found a second clock, and instead of depending on light, this one is food-based.
The food-clock desires this.
Imagine you're a predator out hunting for food (and Jesse Ventura), but all the regular animals you would eat are nowhere to be found. You spend the entire day looking for food and find nothing. About 16 hours later your brain starts freaking out. It knows that if you can't find food, the jig will most certainly be up. So at this point, your brain doesn't give a tinkerer's damn about sunlight and sleep cycles -- it just wants you to find something to eat, and fast. You stay up well into the night and eventually find some nocturnal prey, devouring it desperately. Your brain (through the food-clock) makes a note of this time and declares it to be your new biological morning.
The slaying of pizza rolls has set countless new biological mornings.
It makes sense -- your brain is now under the impression that if you want to survive, you can only go hunting at night. So it decides you should sleep during the day (to conserve energy for the hunt) and boom, your sleep-wake cycle has been reset. Congratulations! You've tricked evolution!
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How can I access the thousands of font files on my Mac without "installing" them and thereby slowing the machine to a crawl?
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You need a font management tool of some kind to help you organize your fonts into sets of your liking. There are a number of them out there; Extensis Suitcase Fusion and FontXplorer Pro come to mind.
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Whether some things in mathematics are mere coincidences might keep philosophers busy for 100,000 aeons, but maybe when such a coincidence gets exploited then it's not a "mere" coincidence any more.
So time for a somewhat imprecise question: a list of prime factorizations shows us this: $$ 1445=5\cdot17\cdot17 $$ and if you were doing factorizations of consecutive numbers one by one, maybe you'd be just a teensy bit surprised to see $17$ twice in a row; maybe you'd even stir a bit before descending back into deep sleep. But then the very next number (if you're going downward) is: $$ 1444=2\cdot2\cdot19\cdot19 $$ Two squares of somewhat....um....big...primes in a row!
Does this fit into some grander design that the god of mathematics dreamed up when he wasn't busy distributing zeros of the zeta function as if they were eigenvalues of random matrices? LATER EDIT: In view of some of the comments, here's a more prosaic version of the question: Is there some point of view from which this is more meaningful than it is from the point of view from which I recited certain facts above?
After noticing that I noticed this: $$ \sqrt{\frac54} = 1+\cfrac{1}{8+\cfrac{1}{2+\cfrac{1}{8+\cfrac{1}{2+\cfrac{1}{8+\cfrac{1}{2+\ddots}}}}}} $$ whereas $$ \frac{19}{17} = 1+\cfrac{1}{8+\cfrac{1}{2}} $$


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(AP) OKLAHOMA CITY - Los Angeles Lakers forward Pau Gasol is expected to miss his third straight game with tendinitis in his knees.
Coach Mike D'Antoni said at the Lakers' shootaround that he hadn't received an official update from team doctors, but he took that to mean that Gasol is "not ready yet" for Friday night's game at Oklahoma City. D'Antoni says it "could be any day" that Gasol is ready to return.
Gasol was not on the court for the portion of the shootaround that was open to reporters.
D'Antoni also says he doesn't expect injured point guard Steve Nash to be back until at least the Lakers' next road trip, which starts Tuesday.
The Lakers host Utah on Sunday.
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Now that I have my gear I've been experimenting but I'm also interested in hearing advice from the experts:
I have a Pole 2 set/RS-1 with Nadir adapter/Nikon D800e/Nikkor16mm.
The standard shooting pattern for the 16mm/D800e is 6 roundshots+nadir+zenith. What I'm looking for is suggestions on shooting the nadir/zenith:
Shoot from ground level and use viewpoint correction to stitch?
Retract the pole, change camera angle, re-extend and shoot from there? (Sending the camera back up on an extended nadir adapter feels less than optimal to me but that could be beginner nerves)
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So I brewed my second all-grain batch today, and, like with my first all-grain batch, I misjudged the final volume and ended up with slightly under 4 gallons in my carboy. Does anyone have any good resources for approximately how much will boil off? I guess I'm undershooting because I don't want to be too low on my gravity with too much volume, but at the same time going through a brew day and cheating myself out of over a gallon of beer isn't efficient for time or money.
I've been brewing all grain for six years and I'm finally getting the right volume into the keg at the end of the brew. You can get close with calculations.
The grain absorbs about one pint per pound. Divide the weight of your grain by eight to get the number of gallons it will absorb. You won't lose any water during sparging because the grain has already absorbed as much water as it can hold.
It is important, however, to figure out how much sweet wort you leave behind in the mash tun. My cooler with manifold tun couldn't suck up all the liquid in the bottom. I'd leave a quart or more in it.
Measure the pre-boil volume. It is an important aid in figuring the final gravity and hop utilization.
Don't blast the wort. It's sufficient to maintain a 6-10% evaporation rate according to the pros I talk to. Listen to the Brew Strong episode on the boil for the whos and whyfores.
Hops and trub will absorb a small amount of water, especially in an IPA.
Measure the post-boil volume. Keep in mind that boiling water takes up 4% more volume than water at room temperature. In other words, if you have 5 gallons of wort at a boil, it will seem like 5.2 gallons. Adjust accordingly.
Account for any wort left in the kettle when all is said and done. I was wasting almost a quart before changing my pick up tube.
It doesn't matter what other people get. Everyone's equipment is different, and everyones environment (climate, humidity) is different. In 90minutes I boil off between 1.25 to 1.5 gallons. Equipment variances are just to great person to person, especially when it comes to the boil right. What one guy calls a rolling boil could be someone else's idea of a simmer. etc etc.
You would really do yourself a better service if you figure out what your boil off rate was yourself rather than looking for an equation. Just look at what volume you started with and where you ended up. Then make adjustments for next time.
The least talked about but most important part of all grain brewing is probably volume measurements. You need to accurately be able to measure the water going into the mash, the wort coming out of the mash (grain absorption), the amount in the kettle pre and post boil (evap rate), and the amount making it into the fermenter (brewhouse efficiency).
Take the time now in your early all grain brewing career and make some sort of measuring stick for your kettle. Do it before you brew your next batch and it will make the process much less of a mystery going forward.
Though your beer is stronger than it would have been.. :)
Here's a pretty good calculator for figuring out how much water to start with, which is a huge plus: http://www.brew365.com/mash_sparge_water_calculator.php
Do you know how fast you boil off water? Aka what your evaporation rate is? If so, you can do some fun math and figure it out.
Start with total gravity. Total gravity is how much sugar is in your wort, regardless of volume. Add 1000 gallons or boil it to a syrup, total gravity remains the same.
Take a reading (at room temp) with your hydrometer (if you have one. If not, get one.)
I like to take the 1.0 out of the reading, so 1.050 becomes 50. If you need a formula for that, it's
Multiply that number times the number of gallons you currently have. So, 6 gallons at 1.050:
300 total gravity points
If you know you boil off at 1 gallon per hour, then at the end of the boil, you'll have 5 gallons, with a gravity of 1.060:
If you want to get to a gravity of, say, 1.060, and want to know how much water to boil off (simple version):
This can get more complex, obviously. If you want to boil it down so that at the start of your timed boil you're at enough volume to end with 5 gallons, you have to know your evaporation rate. But, you can still figure it out.
I hope that helps, if not, please comment and I'll try to expand on it.


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I want to add my company logo and and some juice to my contact information in the signature part in Mail.app. How can I do that with little or no efforts?
It's not a huge effort to go through, but it does involve a little effort on your part. I haven't tried this myself (though will try it shortly just out of interest), but the basic principle seems to be to make a .webarchive file and drag it into the signatures preference box.
Worked example
EDIT: so I went and tried this and it DOES work in the current version of Mail.app, on Snow Leopard. The trick is essentially;
a) create a .webarchive of your desired signature.
Bear in mind that any graphics you put in there need to be graphics that are out on the 'open web', rather than references to files on your own computer etc. I think it's this bit that catches a lot of people out.
b) Go into Mail and go through the motions of creating a new signature.
In the Library/Mail/Signatures folder you'll see Mail creating a new file with a guid-like filename (eg 61F51203-5C18-4061-A8EF-F53B17C41476.webarchive). Make a note of this filename!
c) Close down mail, and replace the contents of that signature file with your webarchive file.The best way of doing that is;
d) When you restart Mail, the new signature you've made will be available.
Gotchas include;
But I've just been through this and even though I have no use whatsoever for a HTML signature, it does work. :-)


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Prior to the Mabul people lived for hundreds of years. After the Mabul lifespans shortened although we see that the Avos lived in the 180 year range. In the Pasuk in Tehilim we say Yemei Shenoseinu Shivim Shana, V'Im Bgevuros Shemonim Shana. Where does the saying "You should live till 120" come from? And why Davka 120?
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Because thats when Moshe Rabenu lived until and no one can Live longer than him two sources that discus this reason and its shortcomings:
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I also used to think it had to do with Moshe's age. But then this made me wonder why we say "You should live till 120", since it sounds more like a curse than a blessing to limit someone's potential age to a set number of years. Then it was pointed out to me that it isn't a curse, but a determination made by HaShem, explicitly stated in the Torah.
In BeReishith (6:3) HaShem says: "לֹא-יָדוֹן רוּחִי בָאָדָם לְעֹלָם, בְּשַׁגַּם, הוּא בָשָׂר; וְהָיוּ יָמָיו, מֵאָה וְעֶשְׂרִים שָׁנָה. "
"My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for that he also is flesh; therefore shall his days be a hundred and twenty years."
Essentially, we are saying that the person should live to the maximum age he can, which is set at 120 years as ordained by HaShem.
Rashi holds that the Pasuk is referring to something else, but I believe that is likely where the tradition stems from. Rashi's opinion is not shared by everyone.
The Torah writes about Moshe that he remained youthful and vigorous until 120 years. We thus bless each other with the designation "Until 120" with the same connotation, viz. that they should live a long life without any physical, emotional and intellectual degradation.
(Devarim 34:7)
Although there are a number of people who lived past 120 years, only Moshe is described as living a long life without ever experiencing the ravages of old age.
It's a common mistake.
The meaning of the Pasuk you cited is that Hashem would wait 120 years before the punishing that generation (Rashi). So "till 120" hasn't came from there, if there is any source at all


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I've seen lots of artists playing with their thumb resting on the top of the neck, but my guitar teacher says it's a must to place the thumb on the back of the neck. Opinions?
Playing with your thumb on the back of the neck generally means you have to bend your wrist more, but gives your fingers greater range since they can extend further from below the neck. If you have long fingers or a thin neck it might not be an issue, but I have above-average sized hands and find that with my thumb on the top I have to lay my fingers flat on the strings (making it impossible to play many notes on higher strings if I'm fretting lower ones). On the other hand, some also play bass notes with their thumb wrapped around over the neck.
In short, there are downsides and upsides to both methods. I think you should do whatever you prefer as long as it doesn't hurt.
If you are a rocker who is just determined to hold your axe in that low-slung "sexy" position, then wrapping your thumb around the neck is about the only way to avoid eventual tendinitis... And that only marginally. If you want the most efficient position and the one least-disposed to cause injury, then adopt the position used by classical guitarists with the thumb below the half-way point of the neck and the wrist essentially straight. Of course, there are intermediate positions as well.... Flatpickers often hold the guitar essentially level, but they are rarely playing wrist-stretching barred chords either. So...Little strain on those important tendons.
This has been covered very well in the following questions:
Simple answer though is - it varies, depending on hand size, style, which chord etc. Find out what is comfortable, and avoid painful positions:-)


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ATF says no law enforcement agency could unlock a defendant's iPhone, but Apple can "bypass the security software" if it chooses. Apple has created a police waiting list because of high demand.
Since the news of Passware being able to decrypt FileVault over FireWire connections, Mac users might be concerned about the integrity of the security on their computers.
Apple's FileVault 2 whole-disk encryption can be unencrypted within an hour, according to encryption and password-recovery company Passware.
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VS2008 designed for Vista with better aesthetics and usability
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Introduction: While we all love focusing on language and framework features, sometimes it is nice to get small aesthetic and usability enhancements. The Visual Studio 2008 IDE has plenty of those as you can see in this video. Related to
that, VS2005 does the job on Windows Vista, but it is quite obvious (to me at least!) that it is a "ported" application and not one designed to fully take advantage of the platform; in contrast, VS2008 leverages Vista-only features as I demonstrate in this
video. The relevant posts on my blog are
here, here,
here, here,
here and
[Maybe this is one occasion where it is faster to watch the video than read about each featurette on my blog ]
Video download: Click on the image to play the video (from a streaming file). If you'd prefer to download the wmv packaged in a zip file, you may do so here.
Oops, something didn't work.
Mark, VS2008 supports side-by-side installation with VS2005.
Note that you don't need the Beta, VS2008 was released last month, so get the RTM. You can find this in your MSDN subscription or if you are not an MSDN subscriber get the trial.
Daniel Moth wrote:Hi Nestor
This works fine for me so maybe it is a specific firewall/machine config issue.
In the meantime have you tried the Download option (10MB ZIP)?
Try that instead please (click on the 'here' word in the Download video section above)...
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The 7 Most WTF Post-Fame Careers of Famous Musicians
Rock stardom is fickle. One day you're riding the Billboard charts and a nonstop flotilla of groupies, the next you're filling in for the animatronic dog guitarist at your neighborhood Chuck E. Cheese's and asking out one of the nine Estonian spambots who follow you on Twitter.
So if you're about to sign a record contract, take a cue from these seven artists. All have played before thousands-strong audiences, and all have followed up their fame with successful (if totally random-ass) careers.
#7. Vanilla Ice Is Getting Rich Renovating Houses
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Vanilla Ice has made a career for himself not sampling "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie, becoming an honorary member of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and starring in Cool as Ice, a movie widely regarded by many to star Vanilla Ice.
It was the brave story of one colorblind man's quest to buy a respectable pair of pants.
Every leap year or so, Vanilla Ice pops up again with yet another comeback -- he tried out rap-rock when rap-rock was something adults listened to and has rebranded himself as a Juggalo -- but honestly, the guy hasn't had either an album or a single chart since 1991. How's the man born Robert Van Winkle been paying the bills?
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Ice has been "flipping" houses. Meaning he buys undervalued real estate, goes in with a crew that restores the houses, then sells them for twice the price. And he's good at it. He's even written a book on the subject. Here's a whole interview he did about it in the New York Times. When a mansion foreclosed in Palm Beach, Ice swept in and bought it for $400,000. Then he renovated it -- and again, we're talking about Vanilla Ice renovating a house here -- and sold that shit for $875,000. Ice snapped up another foreclosure for $500,000, and after he got done with it, it drew offers of $2.3 million. Did we mention he's been doing this for 15 years?
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"Drop that zero house, and get with a hero house!" -Probably not what he says
How in the fuck did Vanilla Ice get into this business? His own idiocy -- back in the day, he dumped a bunch of his "Ice, Ice Baby" money into a buttload of houses that he barely lived in. As time passed and common sense prevailed (and the Vanilla Ice bandwagon flew off the cliff and exploded), he started dumping the properties. Only he found that by fixing them up first, he could make half a million dollars a shot. He took a bunch of courses in real estate and parlayed the "LOL VANILLA ICE IS HANGING DRYWALL IN MY HOUSE!!!" factor into free promotion.
He even has a reality show on the DIY Network, a channel for home repair and design enthusiasts. Oh, he still looks, dresses, and talks exactly like Vanilla Ice, by the way.
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Stick with what works, we always say.
#6. Terminator X, the DJ for Public Enemy, Became an Ostrich Farmer
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The Golden Age of Hip-Hop (approximately the 1980s to early 1990s) was a heady, anything-goes time. Groups like Run-D.M.C. were popularizing hip-hop the world over, the Beastie Boys were regaling audiences with giant inflatable dongs, and a pre-N.W.A Dr. Dre spent his days wearing a senior citizen's pajamas.
It was the '90s. Dignity hadn't been invented yet.
But then you had the politically charged Public Enemy. Along with blistering raps by Chuck D (one of the greatest MCs of all time) and the onstage antics of Flavor Flav (who had yet to go insane starring in VH1 reality shows), you had the backing of DJ Terminator X (aka Norman Rogers), who helped pioneer Public Enemy's sound.
He was also a pioneer of large sunglasses.
In 1994, Terminator X was in a serious motorcycle accident that pushed him toward a new vocation. So, what's the logical next step after being in one of the most important rap groups in the history of music?
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You obviously become an ostrich farmer.
Because emu farming would just be absurd.
Yup, Terminator X retired from Public Enemy in 1999 to tend to African ostriches on a 15-acre farm in North Carolina. Sure, his new career has raised a few eyebrows in the hip-hop community, but declaring "I made Fear of a Black Planet and It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, now I'm going to raise giant birds" is easily one of the most magical mic drops in rap history.
Also, it's a far more graceful retirement strategy than Flavor of Love, Flavor Flav's reality dating show that reached its artistic zenith when a grown woman randomly took a dump in the middle of a crowded atrium.
#5. Dan Spitz, the Guitarist from Anthrax, Is a Master Watchmaker
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Speaking of Public Enemy, one of their most famous collaborations was with Anthrax, one of the "Big Four" thrash metal bands of the 1980s (the other three being Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer). Throughout their career, Anthrax sold 15 million albums, accrued an army of loyal fans across the globe, and even found the time to inexplicably cameo in the 2003 British comedy Calendar Girls.
"This is exactly the sort of thing relevant musicians do."
But in 1995, shredding furiously just wasn't doing it anymore for Anthrax guitarist Dan Spitz. Nope, Spitz needed something new to pique his interest. Was this new endeavor a metric ton of cocaine shaped like Mount Rushmore, with a gaggle of naked gymnasts forming Teddy Roosevelt's head?
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Of course not. Spitz became a master watchmaker.
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The "lead guitar" of the time-keeping world.
In fact, Spitz grew so bored with punishing riffs that he reportedly gave away all his guitars to the Hard Rock Cafe. Upon quitting the band, he remembered his second love: slow, tedious tinkering with tiny, precision-fitted clockwork gears under a magnifying glass. For hours and hours, working in cold, lonely silence. That's basically the same thing as playing metal guitar in stadiums, right? So, he decided to pursue a career in watchmaking, which makes sense, as, uh, Anthrax once sang a song about time?
OK, so it was an entirely left-field career choice, but at least Spitz was good at his new job. Upon leaving metal, Spitz attended the WOSTEP School of Watchmaking in Neuchatel, Switzerland, and became an expert in crafting exquisitely intricate timepieces in an era when most people have clocks on their phones.
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"Wait, what?"
After many years in the luxury chronometer game, Spitz has returned to music, but only after an impassioned phone call from Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine, who himself became a black belt in taekwondo during his off hours.
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Making Megadeth the second worst band to mug. (Elton John regularly packs an Uzi.)
#4. Stooges Guitarist James Williamson Became a VP at Sony
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In the late 1960s, crooner/scarecrow made out of beef jerky Iggy Pop rose to fame with the Stooges. This band out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, thrilled audiences with their pioneering proto-punk sound and Iggy's unhinged dance routines, which involved rolling around in broken glass, exposing his junk, and smearing hamburger meat and peanut butter all over his writhing body.
We've all been there.
After years of commercial failure, the Stooges broke up in 1974, following an infamous concert in Detroit where hecklers threw bottles, shovels, light bulbs, eggs, and firecrackers at the band. Where does one go after years of being splattered with Iggy Pop's blood and jock sweat?
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Well, you could become the vice president of technology standards at Sony.
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Does the open vest come with the beer belly?
Yeah, this is about as inspirational as career reinventions get. Don't think you can pursue your dreams as a writer just because you've spent your whole life as a pipefitter? Well, this guy had nothing but commercially failed punk rock on his resume, but James Williamson decided to drop that so he could help build the future of goddamned technology instead. He went to college, then got a job designing computer chips. And no, he didn't even have Vanilla Ice's "Hey, let's hire this weirdo, it'll be hilarious" factor -- most of his co-workers were completely unaware of his punk past. Purely on his own talents, Williamson managed to rise through Sony's corporate ranks, eventually becoming the VP of technology standards in 1997.
In fact, Williamson kept his former life as a rock star hidden from his various colleagues for over 30 years, avoiding interviews and keeping a low profile in Silicon Valley. All this changed in 2009, after he retired from Sony and joined the reassembled Stooges at the ripe age of 60, having to relearn the guitar/how to lure Iggy Pop off the garage roof when he gets himself trapped up there.
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"A five-gallon bucket of assorted pills usually does the trick."


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Retail giant Amazon will launch a dedicated games and entertainment device this year priced below $300.
Google Play: in-app purchases up 700%, report suggests
Google Play apps have seen a 700% increase of internal purchases year-on-year, suggesting free-to-play is very much a hot ticket on the marketplace.
Game dev accelerator to provide Australian studios with extra funding and guidance
Game development newcomers in Australia could be handed a major boost with the creation of a game dev accelerator in Brisbane. Right Pedal Studios is offering to provide financial aid and guidance to new Android and iOS developers, even offering them a place to work.
Google Play update adds wishlist option
A Google Play update will allow users to place items on a wishlist for later purchase. The update is slowly being rolled out on a per-account basis. If you have version 3.9.16, a bookmark option will be added to the top right of you screen when on an app page.
.hack inspired Guilty Dragon is coming to iOS in the West
CyberConnect 2 is working on Guilty Dragon for Android and iOS. The title has a connection to the popular .hack series, which Western players will be more familiar with. An announcement was made at a pre-Tokyo Game Show event as the game readies itself for release in Japan.
Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition co-op supports cross-platform play
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When I shoot environmental portraits, I usually place my subject off center. However, I've seen instances where the photographer has intentionally centered their subject. Here is an example: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/02/07/the-life-of-lucian-freud/#1 Personally, I would have framed it so the person is not in the middle in order to create some tension and dynamic balance. What is your opinion as to why the photographer would have centered the subject in the attached example? What are some instances when using the center of the frame is a better compositional choice?
Whenever it makes sense to. The "rules" of composition are not rules at all, and many of them are derived (sometimes tortuously) from examining pictures that people have found pleasing for one reason or another. That there are so many "rules" to choose from is an indication that there are many, many different ways to create a picture that is either pleasing to the eye or tells the story you want to tell. It's nice to learn the various rules, but don't take any of them too seriously. (And leave the art critic vocabulary to the art critics -- they can see things that no ordinary, reasonable person can, or at least come up with a scientific-sounding explanation of why a good picture is a good picture, even if it means making up a new compositional rule.)
When you stand in front of a mirror to shave... do you stand centered in mirror or do you compose yourself by the rule of thirds?? The point of centering, at least what I am interpreting, in this image is to create the effect that he is looking in the mirror shaving. As though we, the viewers, are viewing from inside his medicine cabinet mirror. And so you decide where to place your subject based on the story you're telling... if there is no extra effect such as mirror view -- then go ahead and use rule of thirds but don't be so bound to rule of thirds (or other rules) that it blocks the creative potential that another composition could serve. Start from the rule, if you like, then ask is there another story I could tell with different placement! No matter what always consider other placement because otherwise you are not even open to the possibilities. Be open to the possibilities!
The subject is horizontally centered in that image but the focal point, the face and eyes, are still sitting on the one-third line down from the top so it still falls within the rule of thirds.
I agree that this photo may have been more appealing, especially on a subconscious level, if it was off-center. Personally, I would have cropped out some of the extraneous things on the one side in particular. However, the final decision made by the photographer was most likely made simply because it "felt" right. We've probably all done it.
I personally agree that the photo probably would have been slightly more appealing had the photographer shifted the subject from the center. It would have balanced the photo and added a little bit of tension. Generally these are the reasons a composition like this is not framed with the subject in the center.
You can, of course, center the subject in many situations. If your subject is filling the frame, centering the subject often allows either side of them to fall on these 'balancing lines' (thirds, golden ratio). This is aesthetically pleasing.
If your subject is perhaps lying down perpendicular to the camera (on a bench or a couch, for example), having the feet on one side and the head on the other side will feel balanced.
As well, a symmetry in the surroundings of a subject may also allow for an aesthetically pleasing centering of a subject as given by the rough example.
The composition is balanced because of the overall symmetry.
In general, it should come down to what feels right as you're framing your shot. I often find myself "falling" into these guidelines I've talked about in this answer (and other general guides in composing) because they intrinsically feel good. I found these to be pleasing before knowing what they were called or why they are used.
It's about creating an effect, right? Centering the subject and having him face the camera creates a sort of dramatic confrontation with the viewer.
In my mind, if you want the subject to confront the viewer, a centered, full-on view might be appropriate. As noted above - this does't preclude also using the rule of thirds or another composition technique as well.


text: Here is what I will end Easter day with. A drawing of a heart that is in the shape of a peace symbol. I have always wanted to make something like this but as usual never had the time to do so. I know what you must be thinking "but it looks so easy to draw how could you not have the time?". The answer is simple, I am busy filling requests, and making new and improved updates for Dragoart that will make it easier for folks to use the site. Here is a very cool tutorial on "how to draw a peace heart", step by step. The design concept is pretty cool since all you will really be doing is drawing a heart, with a peace symbol in the center. I had a lot of fun with making this lesson, and I'm sure most of you will enjoy drawing a peace heart too. My Easter so far has been very mild, but I wish it wasn't snowing right now where I live. We are supposed to get snow for four days straight and each one of those days is supposed to have at least three inches, but no more than seven. Yuk, I like having sun and dry ground to walk on. Enjoy the lesson folks.


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Downtown Jacksonville Walldog Murals
Completed in the Summer of 2006, these 10 murals depicting historic Jacksonville scenes and events were handpainted by more than 50 sign painters and graphic artists from as far away as Scotland and New Zealand.
Jacksonville's Underground Railroad Tour
Visit Underground Railroad sites such as Woodlawn Farm, as well as Jacksonville-area homes that were part of the Railroad.
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The Lincoln courtroom in Beardstown was the site of the famous Duff Armstrong case, and now features a museum with daily tours.
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This farm was established in 1824 by Michael Huffaker, who built four cabins for free black families and later hid fleeing slaves there. Tours by appointment.
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Post-Election Americans Perceive Less Class Conflict and Tension Over Immigration
You might think that after a pretty rancorous election season there would be lingering acrimony between people who belong to groups embroiled in some of the campaign's most heated debates. But if there is, a new study by Pew found that many Americans don't feel that way.
About 6 in 10 Americans find that there are either "strong" or "very strong" conflicts between the rich and the poor — which is down about 9 percentage points from a survey taken in December 2011. And that was before the presidential campaign, the intense focus on Mitt Romney's wealth and the infamous "47 percent" video.
Similarly, fewer Americans felt that there are strong conflicts between immigrants and people who were born in the U.S., as well.
And the number of people who see serious conflict between blacks and whites stayed about flat, ticking up from 38 percent to 39 percent over the past year, although the number of blacks who felt that way was significantly higher than whites who did (54 percent to 34 percent).
But despite those declines, Americans aren't exactly seeing a flowering of bonhomie.
Sixty percent of people with families earning less than $30,000 a year and 60 percent of those making more than $75,000 felt like there was strong disagreement between the classes. (Blacks, self-identified liberals, and Democrats were significantly more likely than whites, conservatives and Republicans to see serious conflict between the rich and the poor.)
Latinos were also more likely than whites to feel that there were serious divisions between immigrants and the native-born, a number that was more pronounced among second-generation Americans — people with at least one foreign-born parent. Young people between the ages of 18 and 29 also were more likely to feel strong conflict between immigrants and the native-born.
Perhaps not surprisingly, there was overwhelming post-election agreement of strong conflict in one area — that between Republicans and Democrats. In the poll taken in late November and early December, 81 percent agreed with that sentiment. That question wasn't asked in the 2011 survey.
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MII Meeting notes Aug 31st 2010
Sept 21st Heritage Park International Day of Peace event
Afghan Youth Volunteers For Peace / International Day of Peace
participating in international conversarions by skype.from base of Bhudda mtn.Bamyan(?) Kathy Kelly etc. involved
Friends Without borders started out of CA in 2001 was effort to get youth cross-border dialogue
current effort is to expand on efforts of Afghan Youth to bring remembrance of horrors of Afghan situation
Terry Zander suggests showing Our Journey to Smile video during event at Heritage park.
Park will be divided into continents of the world with chalk? Lime?
Vigil will be going on. Death makers will be replaced with peace flags
Conversations will be scheduled, youth from area will be invited.
3 banners will be produced, One goes to Afghanistan and one to
144 flags in different languages saying "peace"
Some sort of photo shoot will be planned attempting to capture landscape we create
Music component will draw youth Michael Franti, Sting
-We need to get banners and windsocks out of Procession studio-Eli is out of town
-Media Island website will be used for this event:
(Pakistan floods are being ignored in US. Danny Kelly wants to do a benefit )


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Essen, can you post some specifics about the temps and cooking environment? If I follow the post you are using a stone and not a metal cooking surface? How long and what temperature?Thanks,Barry
Essen,Great pizzas, love that last one. Are you liking the biga version better than the Poolish?
Stupid question, but....What defines an artisan pizza or crust?Surely an artisan is just a skilled craftsman? As such, you could have any style of pizza be artisanal if it were made by somebody good at their trade. I personally would also factor in high quality, preferably local ingredients and 100% hand processing, but are there any guidelines as to what is "artisanal" and what is not?
Wow, that is really a nice looking pizza! Beautiful puffy edge. I have Ken's book and have been using it to make bread for the past few months; also some pizza but mostly bread. His recipes are really great; very clear and easy to follow. Keep up the great work Essen! Regards, TinRoof
ADM,here's a good explanation: http://howiesartisanpizza.com/media/What-ArtisanPizza_10.07.09.pdfOr perhaps this one, with opinions from numerous people: http://www.woodstone-corp.com/blog/what-is-your-definition-of-artisan-pizza/I agree with you but don't know if actual guidelines exist. Thanks, dhorst!